DM: Digital Mutants: Series 02: Part 3
[A/N: Yowza! I killed Grandpa Hida!]
[Disclaimer: I don't own,
and sorry about Grandpa!]
Cody awoke to a warm bed, and sunlight streaming onto his young face. "Cody, gods, are you all right?" a voice asked. Cody sat bolt upright, and looked around.
The
woman in the cloak was sitting beside the bed. Her eyes were worried. "Cody,
are you OK?" she asked again.
Cody
drew up his knees and cried a little. "Grandpa…" he sobbed. The woman
knelt down on the floor from the chair and drew Cody close. "Sh." she urged, "It'll be all right." Cody sobbed and leaned on the woman's
shoulder.
"Wha-what
time is it?" he asked. "It's just about
noon." the woman answered, "You slept for two days." Cody kept crying. "Who
did it?" he asked, "Who did that to Grandpa?" "I… Don't know. Please don't think it's me." she replied.
Cody
cried for a bit longer, and then drew away. He wiped his eyes and sniffed hard. "I'm sorry." he murmured. "No,
you're not." the woman said softly, "I'm sorry for taking you from your
home." Cody stared at the brown-haired,
blue-eyed woman. She really did care
about his safety. "Can you tell me
where I am?" he asked. The woman stood
and held out her hand.
"Follow
me, and I'll show you why I brought you here."
Cody
held onto the woman's hand tightly as she guided him through the halls of the
strange place he was now in.
"My
name is Shinji Shazaki." the woman began, "I run this school for exceptionally
gifted people. You are an exceptionally
gifted child." Cody glanced into a
classroom and spotted a blond man with a strange contraption over his eyes,
teaching science.
"Long
ago, about fourteen years ago, my eight friends and I discovered, under rather
difficult circumstances, that we had special abilities." Shinji continued, "I
have a friend in America by the name of Charles Xavier. He also runs a school like this. I don't suppose you ever heard of the famed
mutant registration riots, have you?" Cody looked back at Shinji, tearing his eyes away from a class being
taught by a pretty brown-haired woman with red eyes.
"I
think Grandpa mentioned it once or twice." he said.
"Well,
those riots were about people like the people in this school." Shinji
explained, "I created this school for protecting young people from being
discriminated against, so they could learn, regardless if they were a mutant or
not."
"Y-you're
a mutant?" Cody asked in shock. "You
are as well." Shinji said shortly, "That's why I helped you that one
night. That's why I wanted you to come
with me that day. You are a very
powerful mutant. With proper training,
you can do things you never dreamed possible." Cody glanced sideways at a class being taught by a large-haired man.
"I
thought that mutants were supposed to be weird-looking." he murmured, "Everyone
here looks normal." Just then, a
somewhat short man with brown, very pointy hair with sideburns turned a hall,
looked at Cody and Shinji, and jogged over to them.
"So
the tiny dweeb is alive after all?" he joked, bending and poking Cody's
forehead forcefully. He was strong, and
Cody fell backwards into the wall. Shinji's arm reached out and tapped the man on the shoulder. He looked up with a small grin.
Then,
Shinji grabbed the man's collar, yanked him to a standing position, and slammed
her fist into the man's face. He flew
about five feet down the hall and landed hard on his back. At that very moment, a bell rang, and the
students all crowded to the doors of the classrooms. Before any of the kids could leave the rooms, the man flipped
onto his feet and threw his fists to his sides. With a sound like a sword being drawn, metal claws shot out from
between his knuckles.
All
the kids froze instantly at the sight. Cody shivered behind Shinji, who didn't appear frightened at all.
"Yes,
very smart, Davis." came a voice from behind the two. Cody looked up to see the blond man with the weird thing over his
eyes. "Attack Shinji." he said
sarcastically, "Learn how painful it is to be hurt by a psychic attack." Cody hardly listened to what the man said,
for he was staring at a strange creature that was resting upon the man's
head. It had large bat wings, white and
orange fur, and large blue eyes.
Davis
growled, and the claws shrunk back into his hands. The kids still were frozen.
"All
right everybody!" Shinji said loud enough for everyone to hear, "The rest of
the classes today are cancelled! Go
back to your dormitories! If I find
anyone sneaking around, there will be a severe punishment!" The children listened, and hurried away.
"TK,
go and gather everyone else." the black-wearing woman said, "Tell them to go to
the courtyard. It's time we introduced
ourselves." She took Cody's hand and
began to lead him towards some other place. TK, the man with the weird thing over his eyes, nodded and dashed off,
the thing on his head holding on tight.
"Wha-what
was the thing on that guy's head?" Cody wondered when he and Shinji had reached
the outside of the school. "One of many
others you'll meet." the woman replied shortly. It seemed the confrontation with that guy called Davis had made
her angry. Cody sat down on the stone
walkway and looked at a small quartz chunk. It glimmered very gently in the afternoon sun.
But
when he heard a tiny grunt of exertion, Cody looked up with his deep green
eyes. Shinji was kneeling at a large
rock, holding her hand over it. It was
misshaped and huge, any person would be unable to even push it an inch. But a soft cracking rang out in the yard,
and Cody stared at the rock. The woman's
hand clenched slightly, and the rock cracked and shattered. Finally, with a huge cracking, the rock
shattered into tiny pieces. But then,
through the shower of the fragments of rock, appeared a perfectly smooth,
rounded stone.
Without
expression, Shinji picked up the palm-sized stone, stood straight, and hurled
the stone into the air. It flew over
the edge of the building, then higher and farther until it was out of
sight. The head of the school let her
hand fall to her side, and remained facing away from Cody. The ten-year-old stared in amazement at the
tiny fragments that had broken away from the stone. What had just happened?
"Yo!"
a voice called from behind the two. Cody turned and saw TK, and nine other people, all with those strange
creatures, all except for Davis anyway. "What's up, little guy?" TK asked, kneeling a bit and holding out his
hand, "The name's TK Takaishi." Cody
blinked a little, but took TK's hand in a strong shake. "And I'm Patamon!" the orange and white
thing on his head laughed. Cody looked
at Patamon with a confused look.
"Oh
c'mon!" a woman giggled from behind TK, "Don't look so scared of them!" A small purple and white cat stood at her
feet and grinned at Cody. "My name is
Kari Kamiya, and this is Gatomon." the red-eyed woman giggled. Cody nodded at the twenty-year-old. A blond man with a dog-like creature stepped
forwards with a friendly smile and hand.
"My
name is Matt Ishida." he said, "The cool one, you know. And the wolf-man over here is Gabumon." After standing from the handshake, a man
with large brown hair leapt onto Matt's back and the blonde blushed
furiously. "Yeah, you're the cool one,
Matt." he laughed. He looked up at Cody
with his brown eyes, and said, "I'm Tai Kamiya!" A little orange dinosaur appeared from behind Matt and smiled.
"I'm
Agumon!" he laughed in a high-pitched voice. "Yeah, my best bud!" Tai grinned. "Enough already!" a red-haired man snapped, shoving Tai off of Matt. He looked for a minute at the groaning Tai
while a red beetle stepped to his side. "Oh, my name is Izzy Izumi." he looked at Cody, "And the bug beside me
is called Tentomon." Tentomon waved a
claw. A red-haired woman walked to
Izzy's side and hugged his shoulder slightly.
"I'm
Sora Takenouchi." she said softly as a pink bird fluttered up to her side, "And
my friend here is Biyomon." Biyomon
nodded her beaked head. A blue-haired
man stepped forwards a little, with a brown-haired woman at his side, and a
seal and a walking plant at his other side. "My name is Joe Kido, this is my fiancée, Mimi Tachikawa, and our
partners, Gomamon and Palmon." he said graciously, with an air of
calmness. He held out a hand to Cody,
and had a gentle shake.
"OK
you lovebirds!" a purple-haired woman laughed, "Enough already!" She held a pink fluffball of feathers and
stepped forwards. "I'm Yolei Inoue."
she said, "And my friend here is Poromon." Poromon waved a feathered wing with a smile.
"And
you already known Mr. Grouch over there." TK said slyly, jerking his thumb over
at Davis. "Shut it, TS!" Davis
growled. "Isn't his name TK?" Cody
asked, "Or did you forget how to spell it?" Immediately, Yolei and Gatomon fell into a fit of hysterics. "Oh, you've got a great sense of humor!"
Gatomon laughed, wiping tears from her eyes.
"Davis,
where's Demiveemon?" Shinji asked suddenly. "I don't know." Davis slurred. There was a collective sigh, and Shinji let out a two-toned whistle, one
low note, and one high note.
Inside
the school, in the young boy's dormitory, a blue cat-like creature stood up
from his tickling and listened hard. His red eyes lit up, and he ran from the room.
There
was silence for a few seconds, and then Cody could hear something shouting
"Candy, candy, candy, candy!!!!" Then a
blue streak shot from the open door to the school and latched onto Davis' pants
leg. "Where's the candy? Can I have some, PLEASE?" it asked a
mile-a-second.
Davis
scowled at the cute creature, and turned away. The cat-like thing looked as if it were about to cry when Shinji let out
a quick whistle. The watery-eyed
creature turned and looked around. His
eyes lit up once more when he saw Shinji, kneeling slightly with some candy in
hand for him. He ran over and literally
leapt into her hands, chowing down on the candy.
"Davis,
why aren't you taking better care of Demiveemon?" Kari asked, hurrying over and
plucking Demiveemon out of Shinji's hands, even as he kept eating. She stroked his blue fur and looked at him
sadly. "That's mean!" she snapped.
Davis's
brown eyes shot open and he turned to Kari. "Geez, I'm real sorry, Demiveemon!" he said, "I won't do it again!" He stared to walk to Kari and Demiveemon,
but Shinji was beside him in a flash, her fist embedded in his thick
skull. "Then why'd it happen twenty
times already?!" she shouted, a pock-mark on her forehead. Davis groaned.
"That's
everyone." the exasperated teacher muttered, "Kari, do me a favor, and show
Cody to his dormitory." She wrenched
her fist free of Davis' skull and started to walk into the school, muttering
something about being late for something. But after rubbing his head, Davis straightened up and scowled.
"Hey,
at least my partner isn't a coward!" he yelled, "He shows himself!" Then, everything froze. There was silence from everything, and
Shinji stopped walking. Even Cody, who
knew nothing of what was going on, sensed that Davis had said one of the
dumbest things he ever had.
As
Davis stood glaring at his superior, there appeared a darkness around only him
and Shinji. The others were blacked
away in the darkness, and Davis still glared. "You know, being idiotic with me when I'm angry…is a very unwise thing."
Shinji's voice bounced inside of Davis' head, "And to make matters worse, I'm
not in a very good mood at the moment. Making me angry makes it worse…"
Then,
shattering the blackness, some force knocked Davis off his feet and drove him
into a wall with the power of a truck. After a short time, the teachers and everyone else began to move again,
Shinji disappearing into the school. "C-c'mon, Cody." Kari whispered, taking Cody's hand in hers. The two walked into the school, Cody staring
over his shoulder at Davis.
"What…what
are you exactly?" Cody asked to Gatomon. Kari giggled slightly, but was still shaking. "I'm what's called a digimon." Gatomon said simply, "It's short
for digital monster." Cody blinked a
little bit and looked up at Kari. Kari
sighed and said, "It's a long way to your dorm, so I'll tell you the story…"
And
when they reached where Cody was to live, the story had finished.