To all those who have been waiting, here's Chapter 34(29). Just as a warning, this chapter has a very soft lime in it, but nothing that you don't see on cable or something, so the rating continues to stay as PG-13.
Before I let you read, I've got to do this, I don't own Digimon, but I've already said that...well alot, so this was pretty much pointless, oh well at least I keep those lawyers happy. Now you can read.
Chapter 29: Home Again
Kris
It took a couple hours for Armyleomon and I to get back, home. Personally I had assumed much worse, the attacks had been over exaggerated, both by the media and by Metalseadramon. I had expected to get to my hometown and find it swarming with Digimon finding massive destruction. But I found it in almost the same condition that I had left it, aside from one or two damaged buildings everything was the same, and I didn't spot one stray Digimon, visual or on the radar of the D3. So we landed, on the beach and waited another hour or so for the others to arrive.
When they finally did we discussed what we were going to do, and based on the fact that neither Evamon or his minions the Dark Masters we decided to split up and wait for some sign of either of them to show up, like we had done with Diaboromon it wasn't like we had any other choice. Unfortunately we couldn't provide them with very much places to stay. Jenn and I couldn't because we hadn't told our parents where we were going, and we didn't expect to be able to have friends over for a long time. All the others were smart enough to think up an alibi so they wouldn't get in trouble, and Will had thought up some excuse so he could come home a day earlier than expected, Jenn and I were the only ones not covered. But luckily we'd given them enough places to stay.
However that wasn't what I was concerned about right now, I was about to face something that made me wish I was back fighting Diaboromon again. My girlfriend's father.
"You know you don't have to do this," Jenn said as we stood in front of her house. "I mean you've got to deal with your parents too, you don't have to deal with mine too."
"I know," I said. "But I want to, you were with me when I returned from being Emily's prisoner. It only seems fair that I'm there to see you return."
"I know but, you know what your parents think we're sleeping together, and they got that idea from my parents so…."
"Yeah I'm aware of that," I sighed. "And I'm not going to lie to you I'm not looking forward to that, but we haven't done anything, so we just have to tell the truth and hope that they trust us."
"Yeah, any idea what we're going to tell them?"
"Nope, none, I tried to think of something the entire way here, I've got nothing."
"Well we might as well just face the music." She said taking my hand.
"Yeah," I said smiling and we made our way to the front door.
Penguinmon snuck along back, while Elecmon hid in some nearby bushes.
Jenn sighed as she turned the doorknob and stepped into the house.
"Hi! I'm home!" she yelled into the house as if she was just coming home from school.
There was a thunder of footsteps from the floor above us as we heard Jenn's parents ran down the stairs and into the entryway where we now stood.
"Jenn!" They both yelled happily as they both ran up to Jenn and hugged her.
I guess this is how it was going to start, happiness that she was back, then anger about why she was gone in the first place. They released their hug, and the expression on their face changed.
"Where the hell have you been?" Jenn's mother said calmly, probably not half as calm as my mother was going to be.
Jenn smiled nervously. Trying to think up an excuse. "Well - I- uh-"
Suddenly all eyes fell on me, great I was dreading this, and I really didn't like the death stare that Jenn's father was giving me.
"You!" he yelled approaching me. "What did you do to my daughter?"
"Nothing nothing!" I said quickly not able to think up anything else to say.
"How dare you!" he yelled. "How dare you take my little girl's innocence away!"
"Dad!" Jenn yelled at her father grabbing his arm and pulling him away from me. "We didn't do anything! And even if we did, you shouldn't just be yelled at Kris."
"Really? Then what were you doing when you were gone this past week?"
Jenn's head fell. "I can't tell you, just trust me that we didn't do anything wrong."
"You can't tell me!" Jenn's father yelled. "You mean-"
"Dave!" Jenn's mother interrupted. "Jenn says she didn't do anything wrong, she's never done anything before that would give us a reason not to trust her, nor has Kris, and if they said they haven't done anything I trust them."
I breathed a sigh of relief; at least the confrontation with Jenn's parents was over.
"Kris," Jenn's mother said to me. "You better get home, I'm sure your parents are worried sick about you."
I nodded, gave Jenn a quick smile, and left, great now all I had to do was deal with my parents. I made my way up to the bushes by the curb.
"So how'd it go," Elecmon said, then jumping out of the bushes and into my arms.
"Better than I thought." I said. "I just hope it goes that well with my parents."
"I can't believe you didn't make up some sort of story," Elecmon laughed.
"Sorry, I just wasn't thinking at the time. I was too concerned about my life and the lives of all Digimon and humans."
My Digimon laughed. "We all make mistakes."
I made my way back home, very slowly, why did it have to be morning? In Japan it was nighttime, then I could just go to sleep and not worry about it for the rest of the day. I'd just helped save Japan! Why was I about to be punished? After about fifteen minutes, which should have been five, I reached home, finding myself staring at it, very reluctant to go in.
I was so dead! I should be happy to be home, but I wasn't I just kept thinking about how angry my parents were going to be.
"Good luck," Elecmon said jumping out of my arms and running around back where the window to my room was located.
I slowly made my way to the door, sighed as I turned the knob and stepped inside the house, making sure to be quiet as possible. I didn't want them to hear me right away. I made my way to the living room, to find my parents sitting on the couch, worried looks on their faces, they still hadn't heard me yet. Here goes.
"Hi," I said.
Their heads shot up to look in my direction.
"Kris!" my father yelled.
"Oh God you're okay!" my mother yelled.
They did just what Jenn's parents had, running up to me both trapping me in a hug, I also felt two smaller arms wrapped around my leg, my little brother Cam.
"You had no idea how worried we were," my mother said.
"I could take a guess," I said. "I'm sorry I just left like that. I wish I could have told you where I was going."
They both broke the hug at the same time, and took a step away, here it comes the happy and easy part was over, now came the anger.
"Cam, can you go to your room for a while we need to talk to your brother for a while."
"Aw," my little brother whined. "Do I have to, I want to know where Kris went."
"Yes you do," my father said sternly. "Now go."
"Okay," Cam said pouting, as he sadly trudged off to his room.
My father waited for my brother to be out of earshot before he spoke up. "So how was your week, have a good time fooling around with your best friend?"
"Honey, before we start throwing accusations at him I think we should hear him out." My mother's eyes met mine. "So Kris where were you?"
"I - uh," I stuttered, my forehead began to sweat, and the fact that they kept staring at me didn't exactly help. "I'm sorry, I can't tell you, not without lying to you."
"You don't have to keep it from us Kris!" my father yelled. "We know what you and Jenn have been doing. Is that also why you disappeared for those few days?"
"Look, I know it seems like Jenn and I have been sleeping together, but we haven't."
"Really? Then where exactly have you been this past week?"
"I told you!" I yelled. "I can't tell you, I'm sorry I wish I could but you have to trust me."
"How?" my father said raising his voice even more. "How can we trust you after all that's happened?"
"Kris," my mother said as her voice also began to rise. "We just want to know where you've been how hard is it to tell us?"
"Mom I don't want to drag you and Dad into this! This is my responsibility. Not yours. I just can't."
"Kris if something's going on in your life them maybe we can help, but we can't unless you tell us."
"Look, you can't help, this is something that only Jenn and I can deal with. It's not your responsibility."
My father sighed. "You got Jenn pregnant didn't you."
"No!" I screamed. "I told you! Jenn and I are not having sex!"
"Then what!" my mother yelled, I've never heard her yell this loud before. "Then where did the two of you go, where were you?"
"I ca-"
"Don't you dare tell us you can't!" my mother yelled. I didn't think she could ever get this angry. "I want to know!"
I clenched my fists, this wasn't working, I don't think I was going to get away from them without telling them the truth.
"Fine," I said as my head sunk. "I'll tell you. I'm sure your aware of the monster attack in Japan, I mean it was world wide news, and the recent ones here. Well those monsters are known as Digimon, or Digital Monsters. They come from another world called the Digital World. They're not all bad just the ones that have attacked. They're leader is a powerful force called Evamon who released his minions into our world in attempt to conquer both our world and the Digital World. Jenn and I along with eighteen other kids belong to a group called the Digidestined, we're a resistance group trying to stop Evamon and his minions, we defeated the ones in Japan and now they've started to attack here. I didn't want to tell you because I didn't want to drag you into this fight, it's my responsibility not yours."
"I-I can't believe this," my mother said shock filling her voice as she sat down on the couch.
"I know," I said. "I didn't really believe it at first either-"
"I can't believe you would lie like this!" she yelled standing up from the couch.
"Mom! I'm not lying. You asked me to tell the truth and I did."
"You expect me to believe all that? Kris if you were going to lie you could of at least kept it in the realm of reality! But what really hurts, is that you'd use the tragedy in Japan to try and get out of trouble. People died during those attacks you know! Do you have any idea how disrespectful that is?"
"I know!" I yelled. "I was there Mom, I saw it happen, and I swear I'm not lying."
"Stop it! I - I can't stand you lying like this."
"It's not a lie," I pleaded. "Look I can prove it to you, if you just-"
"Kris stop, I don't want to hear it! Just go, go to your room, and come out when you're ready to admit the truth."
"Mom please I know you'll believe me if I can just-"
"You heard your mother!" my father yelled.
"Please just let me-"
"Go!"
I sighed, once again I found myself in a position when I couldn't do much but do what they said. They weren't going to let me get a word in. I might as well just do what they say and try to prove to them that I wasn't lying when they'd calmed down a bit.
"Fine," I said making my way to the stairs. "Don't listen to me, but I don't know what you expect to hear. I've told you the truth, there's not much else I can say."
I walked up the stairs into my room not looking back, feeling incredibly angry. Not because they hadn't believed me, my story did sound a little farfetched. I was mad because they refused to hear me out, all I needed to do to prove that I was telling the truth was show them Elecmon, but they refused. Fine, they wanted to be stubborn then let them, I'd show them when Digimon was attacking our town and I was the one to stop them.
I slammed the door to my room and lay down at my bed. I took a quick glance around my room, everything was exactly the way I had left it, even the dirty dishes I had left in here remained. Despite the fact my parents had just given me a real hard time I really did miss the place.
"So how'd it go?" Elecmon asked jumping up from under the bed.
"Horrible," I answered. "Just as I expected, and what was worse is that I actually had to tell them everything."
"Everything? You mean about Digimon?"
I nodded. "Yeah."
"That's great!" my partner said happily. "That means I don't have to be so paranoid anymore, I don't have to hide."
"Actually you do, they didn't believe me."
"So, you just show me to them, and they will."
"No," I said angrily. "They refuse to hear me out why should I even bother."
"Kris," Elecmon said softly. "You don't mean that."
I only looked away, of course I didn't mean that, but I wasn't about to admit it right away. From the other side of my room I began to hear the door slowly creak open. I shot Elecmon a look, and knowing what he meant he allowed his body to go limp pretending to be a stuffed animal.
"What?" I said bitterly at the door.
"Hi," a small innocent voice said peaking his head in the door. It was my little brother.
"Oh hey Cam," I said with a slightly more cheerful voice than before. "Come on in."
He smiled, as he energetically entered the room, and sat down on the bed next to me.
"I heard yelling," my seven year old said. "Did you get in trouble?"
"Yeah sure did," I said ruffling my little brother's raven black hair.
"Oh, I'm sorry." He said, then suddenly for no apparent reason just hugged me, wrapping his small arms around me. "Please don't leave. You've done it two times, and it scares me when you do, I'm scared that if you leave again you might not come back."
I patted him on the head. "Don't worry, I don't plan on going anywhere for a long time. A warm smile grew on his face. "Good, I don't want you to leave like that, never ever again. If you do then who's going to teach me how to swim?"
That's right, I'd almost completely forgotten about that promise I'd made to Cam two months ago before school started. He had been teased by some of his friends because he couldn't swim, and I'd promised him that I'd teach him by next summer so he could swim with his friends. That was less than a week before my Digivice had changed into a D3, and with all the fighting and worrying about staying alive I'd completely forgot.
"Don't worry," I said. "Like I said, I'm not going anywhere, I promise you'll be a great swimmer by summertime."
"Great! But Kris…?" he said questioningly.
"Yeah what is it little guy?" I said. "You know you can ask me anything."
"What's sex?"
I practically feel off the bed from surprise as he said that. The only reason I didn't was because Elecmon managed to grab me before I did.
"What? Why do you - I uh - Why do you ask?"
He just looked at me with an innocent and curious look in his eye. "Mommy and Daddy kept saying something about that while you were gone. They kept saying that's probably why you and Jenn were gone, because that's what you were doing."
"No no no! Mom and Dad are just misunderstanding the situation! Jenn and I are not having-" I froze in mid sentence, I don't think I've ever felt so uncomfortable. How did I end up talking about sex with my seven-year-old brother? "We're not doing that."
"Okay - but what is it?"
"I - uh - well," I stuttered trying to think up a decent explanation. Not only that but one that he would actually understand. "You should ask Mom and Dad, they'd be able to explain it better than me."
"Okay," Cam said fully accepting my answer. Good, I was glad it was so easy to fool a seven year old.
"Then where did ya' go?"
I looked down at my brother as he gave me that cute innocent face, how could I tell him? Better yet should I tell him? I really didn't want to scare him, I mean Cam got scared of stray socks under the bed in the middle of the night, what was he going to think when I told him that there were monsters threatening his very existence?
"Well," I said hesitantly. "I'm not sure I should, I mean it's pretty intense."
"Come on please!" he begged. "I'm tired of being left out just because I'm the youngest, I know a lot more than people think. I can get it."
"Okay, but don't say I didn't warn you."
Cam nodded, and I turned and picked up Elecmon who was still hanging limp pretending to be a stuffed animal.
"I'd like you to meet a good friend of mine, his name's Elecmon."
"But it's just a stuffed animal," Cam said. "I've seen it before."
"I must be a good actor," Elecmon said stopping the act. "I really had you convinced huh."
"Wow!" Cam said as a huge smile grew on his face. "It's alive isn't it? This is so cool, what is it?"
"Excuse me, but I'm not an it!" Elecmon yelled.
I smiled and patted my Digimon on the head. "He's a Digimon, see there's another world out there besides our own. It's called the Digital World, and it's filled with Digimon like Elecmon here, and they're like people some of them are good and some of them are bad. Elecmon is one of the good ones, and the bad ones are here and are trying to take over our world. Elecmon and I are part of a team who are trying to stop them from doing that. I'm sure you know that there were monsters attacking Japan, those were the bad Digimon, Elecmon and I were in Japan the last week trying to stop them, and now those Digimon are back here, attacking our town and we're going to try and stop them."
I looked inquisitively into my brother's face, expecting for him to break out in tears, he usually did when he was scared, and I knew he would be, I know I was, but he didn't he actually started to smile as a look of excitement formed on his face.
"Wow this is so cool! There's evil monsters attacking our town, and you're fighting them! You're like - like a superhero or somthun', I can't wait to tell my friends that my brother is a superhero."
"Whoa!" I yelled. "Cam, you can't go telling your friends about this. You have to keep it a secret okay."
"Oh - okay," he said continuing to smile. "I guess you need to keep your identity a secret like all the superheroes on TV."
I couldn't help but laugh and ruffled my little brother's hair. It was nice to have someone look up to you the way he did, he didn't even question me, he believed me right away, of course I had showed him Elecmon, but then again after I had told him he hadn't gotten scared like I had expected, usually just at the thought of monsters he'd come crying to me or one of my parents, but here there were real monsters and he wasn't scared at all, he liked it especially since I was the one fighting them, he must really look up to me to have so much confidence in me that he knew that I was going to succeed, I only wish I had that much confidence in myself.
"You better get back to your room," I said. "I'm not supposed to be doing anything, you might get in trouble if Mom and Dad see you in here."
"Okay, I know you'll beat those bad monsters."
I smiled as he got up and left the room, closing the door tightly behind him.
"At least that's one person I don't have worry about hiding from," Elecmon said.
"Yeah, I only wish my parents would believe me too. I hate that they're so mad at me; they think I made the whole thing up."
"Don't worry about that, if the battle escalates as much as it did in Japan they'll eventually believe you."
"I sure hope so," I said sighing and lying down on my bed.
The rest of the day seemed to go by slower than I ever thought possible. I don't think I ever took one step out of my room the entire day, like I had a choice. If my door so much as opened a crack my parents would yell telling me I couldn't come out until I told them the truth. So I basically stayed in my room all day, there was a point where I actually hoped for Evamon to attack to end the boredom and prove to my parents that I was telling the truth. It was night now, about ten 'o' clock but I couldn't sleep, too much anxiety I guess. Elecmon however was a different story, he was sleeping soundly at the edge of the bed. Now all I could do was sit here in my room waiting for Evamon to do something and free me from the prison that was my own home.
Though my boredom soon ended as I heard a rapping on my window. I shot up immediately. Finally! I looked to my window to see Jenn at the window. Perfect, just the person I wanted to see. I ran up to the window and slid it open.
"Hey," she said jumping through the window into my room. "You didn't come by tonight. You have every night since we got together."
"Sorry, I would have liked to but my parents have me under pretty tight lock and key. They were pretty mad, not understanding like yours."
"Yeah that's funny," Jenn said sarcastically. "My parents yelled at me too, they just didn't show it in front of you. They were really mad; especially after I refused to tell them were we went."
"You didn't tell them about us did you?" I asked.
She shook her head. "No, but I'm sure they're standing by the theory that we're sleeping together. Did you tell your parents?"
"No, and it's the same with my parents, though they're more mad about what I did tell them instead of what I didn't tell them."
"You mean - you told them about the Digimon?"
"Yeah, but it doesn't matter, they didn't believe me, and now they're really mad because they think I'm lying."
"Well they were mad anyway - I guess there wasn't much you could do."
I sighed. "Yeah."
"So - what do you want to do tonight?" she said looking up at me smiling.
I could feel all my worries fade away as she smiled. It was really nice that a simple smile could make me so happy.
"I'm not really sure I mean-mmmm."
I was cut off in mid-sentence as she suddenly wrapped her arms around my neck and brought our lips together passionately.
The kiss more than surprised me, I felt my knees buckle as a result of the surprise and I fell backwards onto the bed, Jenn who had been relying on me for support also fell onto the bed on top of me.
"Kris, I thought you weren't ready for that yet." She said with a seductive grin on her face.
"No!" I said nervously. "I really didn't mean to do that! You just kind of surprised me and I fell over."
Jenn laughed. "I know, I was just messin' with you, but…." The tone of her voice changed to seductive. > "…as long as we're down here."
"Jenn - I'm don't think we should." I said nervously. "I know it seems likes it's been longer, but we have only been dating a week."
Jenn just laughed again. "Don't worry, I'm not ready to go all the way either - but…"
"But…"
"But we can take our relationship to the next level without actually having sex."
I must have been about two dozen shades of red right now. Was she actually saying that? Jenn was always forward and honest with me, but despite that fact I was still a little nervous.
"Like…?" I said.
She kept the same seductive grin on her face. "Come on Kris you're a guy, use that dirty mind of yours."
I snickered. "You think I have a dirty mind?"
"Well not really," she said. "But I know that you've like any guy you've had to have some sort of impure thought."
I could feel my face go even redder if that was at all possible. She was right. "You're still going to have to help me out, because I still have no idea what you want to do. Taking it a step further could mean a lot of things."
She laughed. "I think you know what I'm talking about, but I'll show you anyway."
Honestly I had no idea what she was talking about, but I would find out soon. The seductive smile on her face grew as she grabbed my hands, making sure to draw it out, she slowly brought my hands up to her chest and on her breasts.
"That's what I had in mind." She said.
"I - uh -wuh," I stuttered trying to say something anything but nothing came out. Jenn giggled as she drew closer to me. "You're so cute when you're nervous."
Our lips met once again, drawing us into a passionate kiss, as our tongues intertwined into each other's mouth, and Jenn's hands moved from my own and roamed over my body. As the passion grew I began to get less nervous and began to move my hands as well, beginning to rub her breasts in a circular motion, causing her to moan in pleasure into my mouth. My hormones were going nuts at this point, my body begging me to take it further, but I had to control them and think with the head on my shoulders, and not with the one between my legs. I couldn't let this go too far, but that sure didn't mean I was going to stop what was happening right now. We'd both gotten really into this, and completely zoned out what was going on around us. Just like we had several times before, of course before now all we had to worry about was Yolei, Hawkmon or one of our Digimon walking in. We both probably should have been paying more attention to our surroundings, maybe then we would have noticed my door slowly creak open. It wasn't until we heard that tiny voice.
"Ewww gross!"
Both our heads snapped from each other's and looked towards the door, where we saw my little brother standing at the door.
"Jenn, excuse me for a second while I kill my brother!"
"Ah!" Cam screamed as he disappeared from the door into the hallway.
I slid out from under Jenn in pursuit of my brother, making my why out of my room into the hall. Cam didn't even get halfway down the hallway before I managed to tackle him to the ground, it was a good thing I was seven years older than him.
"Ah let me go! You kissed a girl! That is so gross! You're going to give me your cooties."
"I'll show you cooties," I said as an evil grin grew on my face.
I began tickling him; it was always a way for me to get what I wanted from him.
"Stop it!" Cam yelled, as he laughed incredibly hard. "You know how ticklish I am."
"Tell you what," I said continuing to tickle my little brother. "I'll stop if you promise not to tell Mom and Dad what you just saw."
Cam continued to laugh as he spoke. "Okay okay, I promise I won't tell mom and Dad."
"Tell us what?"
Oh no… please don't let that familiar voice be what I think it was. I slowly got off of my brother, and turned around to see my mother standing over both of us with her hand sat her hips.
"Mom, what are you doing up this late."
"I heard all the noise, it woke me up, what are you two doing up so late?"
"Nothing, nothing. Just talking."
My mother looked at us suspiciously. "Well you're obviously not going to tell me Kris. Cam what doesn't your brother want you to tell me?"
Cam didn't stay a word; he just looked down at the hall floor with an ashamed look on his face, which filled my heart with guilt. I was the cause of that look.
"Cam!" my mother said firmly. "What doesn't Kris want you to tell me?"
"I can't, I promised I wouldn't, and you always say not to break a promise."
"This time is different, tell me!"
"But Kris-"
"Cam!" my mother yelled. "Tell me."
This was it, he was breaking, and there was nothing I could do to stop it either, to a kid Cam's age his parents were the Ultimate authority, he couldn't defy her, not for another couple of years anyway.
"Kris and Jenn were kissing on Kris's bed." Cam said as fast as he could.
"Excuse me?" my mother said as she glared at me. Man if looks could kill.
This was definitely not looking good for my case against the fact that Jenn and I were sleeping together.
"Cam, go back to bed."
"But I want to see-"
"Go back to bed!" my mother yelled.
Cam didn't hesitate to listen he was up and in his room, in a second. Our mother rarely ever yelled, but when she did you don't want to have to face of the consequences if you didn't listen.
"Mom, I know this looks bad but-"
"Is Jenn still here?" she yelled
"Yeah she is," I said weakly. "In my room."
"Let's go," she said walking towards my room.
I sighed, getting up following her to my room. We stepped into my room at the same time.
"So how'd -" Jenn began to say but stopped when she saw my mother walk into the room. "Oh hi. Been a while huh."
My mother gave Jenn a death stare. "Jenn I suggest you head home, I need to talk to my son, and tell your parents to expect a call from me tomorrow."
Jenn only nodded and sighed as she got up from her seat on my bed, only making eye contact with me, mouthing out the words 'Good Luck', then left the room, and leaving me alone to deal with the wrath of my mother.
"So," she said keeping an angry look on her face. "Now that you've been caught in the act are you going to tell me why you really left?"
"Mom, I already told you the truth."
My mother held her head and sighed. "I can't believe you're still going on about that monster story. Not only are you lying to us but also you're being very disrespectful to the people who were killed in those attacks in Japan. Why can't you just admit that you and Jenn are sleeping together?"
"Mom we're not. I swear!"
"Kris you were just caught in bed with her, what more evidence do I need to show you before you stop denying it."
"Okay, I admit it does look like we are but I can assure you we aren't. Yes we are dating, and yes we've done more than just kiss, but we haven't had sex."
"Really? So how far exactly have you gone?"
"You actually expect me to talk about that with you!" I yelled. "I'm not about to talk about my sex life with my mother!"
"Your what?!" she yelled louder than I've ever heard her yell.
Whoops, bad choice of words, definitely a bad choice of words.
"Kris you're fourteen! You're too young to have a sex life!"
"Sorry, sorry, I just made a mistake in my words there, look I'm still a virgin if that helps, Jenn and I haven't gone that far. I swear."
"Yes, and that's why you felt it was necessary to run away together for a week? Just so you could kiss."
"I told you why we left!" I yelled. "I know you don't believe me, but it's true."
"Kris I don't want to here about this again, if you're not going to tell me the truth, I don't even know why I'm talking to you!"
She angrily sat up and started leaving the room.
"Mom please!" I yelled. "I can-"
"Kris stop!" she yelled holding her hand in front of her face. "I don't want to hear you lie to me anymore. Just don't say anything! I'll talk to you about it in the morning when I have the energy. Good night!" She grabbed my doorknob and slammed the door shut.
Now this was just perfect wasn't it? Now on top of worrying about Evamon I had to worry about my mother too, and during all of this Elecmon had slept through the whole thing, good now he couldn't tease me about it later. I lay down on my bed, and pulled the covers over me, for once I was actually feeling tired, and it wasn't long before I fell asleep.
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I woke up earlier than I would have like to, and my parents still hadn't calmed down in the slightest, and I still wasn't able to exit my room, unless it was for school. Unfortunately for me it was Sunday, so it looked like I was going to be trapped in my room for another day. My mother had confronted me again this morning, and it hadn't gone any better than last night, just more yelling, and even more yelling because she had heard that I told Cam that I was fighting evil monsters, she didn't like the fact that I was "lying" to him too. I actually could have left my room half an hour ago, my Dad was at work, and my Mom and my brother had gone off to the grocery store, but I really didn't feel like it, where else would I go? I didn't feel like doing anything but lying on my bed and thinking anyway.
"Hey you know this thing has longer range." Elecmon said.
"What?" I said sitting up from my spot on my bed, to see Elecmon examining my Digivice.
"Your D3, the radar mode has a long range mode, haven't you noticed."
"I guess not," I said approaching my Digimon. "Let's see."
Elecmon showed me my Digimon and entered a combination of buttons, as the radar screen suddenly became more spread out, and revealed about a dozen new green dots on the screen.
"Looks like we got a couple extra Digimon on our hands." Elecmon said.
"Evamon's attacking!" I yelled as some slight relief, at least now I could prove to my parents I was telling the truth.
"The question is where." Elecmon said.
I took a better look at the Digivice. "Well they all seem to be gathered in one location that's a good thing, somewhere in the eastern section of town, I'd say judging by the scale about two or three kilometers away."
"Y-you're right," Elecmon stuttered.
"What's wrong," I said, but then realized why he was so worried the second those words came out of my mouth. That was exactly where the grocery store was. "Let's go now!"
I was at my desk drawer in a second where I was hiding my D-Terminal, and popped it open. Elecmon was hurrying just as much as I was; he was already at the now open window. I held out my D-Terminal.
"Digi-Armor energize!"
"Elecmon Armor Digivolved to………………Armyleomon! The artillery of Compassion!"
I was in the dome on Armyleomon's back the second he had Digivolved, and he closed the dome was in the air flying towards the grocery store even quicker.
"You know we should contact the others," Armyleomon said.
"No time!" I yelled. "We have to get there, and we'll worry about the others later!"
"Okay…"
No other words were spoken not like they we could have, with Armyleomon's amazing speed we reached the grocery store within minutes, seeing the Safeway's 'S' logo, and unfortunately our suspicions were correct. One side of the store had been completely knocked over, and there were a few red Vegetable like Digimon outside of the grocery store.
As much as I wanted to storm in there with missiles flying, but I knew that one of the Dark Masters was going to be in there, and from the information that Tai had given me about them they were all Megas, and Armyleomon was only a Champion, I had to think with a leaders mind, as much as I wanted to save my brother and mother it wouldn't help them if I rushed in there and got killed.
"Armyleomon land behind those bushes by the whole in the side of the building, and dedigivolve" I instructed.
"On it," Armyleomon said.
He veered off to the right, and like I instructed landed behind the bushes, allowing me to jump out of the dome before he became Elecmon again.
"So what now?" he asked. "Do you want me to go Mega and take care of the Digimon inside."
"No," I said shaking my head. "Not yet, we got to get in there first without letting whichever Dark Master is in there know that we're here, and that'll be easier to do if you're at the rookie stage."
"How do we get in - with those Redveggiemon guarding the big hole in the wall?"
"We need a distraction, got any ideas?"
"I've got an attack similar to Apemon's Bone glare."
I smiled and nodded. "That'll do."
He gave me thumbs up. "I'm on it." Elecmon parted the bush just enough so he could fire his attack but not too much so that the Redveggiemon could see him. "I'd close your eyes, unlike Apemon's attack this doesn't just blind Digimon." I did what he said and closed my eyes. "Sparking Flare!"
I didn't see what happened next because of course my eyes were closed, I just heard the Redveggiemon screaming that they couldn't see.
"Okay let's go!" Elecmon said. "The effect won't last long."
I opened my eyes, already seeing Elecmon jumping through the bushes towards the huge hole in the wall. I was following him immediately jumping through the hole in the bushes catching up to him as we ran through the giant hole in the wall past the blinded Redveggiemon. We immediately noticed a crowd of Digimon at the front-end tills, almost all of them Redveggiemon, with the exception of one which looked like a Digimon version of Pinocchio. Elecmon pulled me into one of the aisles, where we could no longer be seen.
"You said you didn't want to be seen didn't you!" Elecmon yelled. "Well maybe you shouldn't stand out in the open!"
"Sorry," I said. "I was just trying to find my Mom and brother."
"You can still look, just try and be more discrete about it."
I nodded, and began to peek around the corner. Needless to say I didn't like what I saw. People were being herded towards the tills, where the puppet like Digimon was sitting.
"Have you found them yet?" the puppet like Digimon yelled at a Redveggiemon that was approaching him.
"We may have lord Puppetmon," Redveggiemon said nervously.
That last remark seemed to have angered the Digimon known as Puppetmon. He grabbed the large hammer strapped to his head and hit Redveggiemon on the head with it.
"May have?" Puppetmon yelled. "I don't want to hear that you may have! I want to hear that you definitely have!"
"Yes, Puppetmon. We can almost guarantee we that we've found them."
"Almost!"
Redveggiemon covered his head preparing for another hit on the head.
"I guess that is enough for now, bring them to me."
Redveggiemon only nodded this time probably because he was afraid of being hit on the head again. A few moments later two more Redveggiemon, dragged two more people towards people to Puppetmon. No! This was exactly what I was afraid of; the people that the Redveggiemon were holding were my brother and mother! I clenched my fists angrily; I was going to kill that little puppet. No one treats my family like this!
Puppetmon jumped down from the till he was standing on as to look my mother and brother in the face.
"Yep, this is then. You guys got lucky, these are exactly who I'm looking for."
"What do you want with us!" my mother yelled. "We haven't done anything. And there's not much we could do for you."
"Oh I don't want to play with you, that wouldn't be very much fun. I just need you to lure someone out."
"You made a big mistake!" Cam yelled. "When my brother finds out what you're doing he's going to come here and kick your butt!"
Puppetmon laughed. "That's exactly the point kid!"
"What do you want with my son?"
"Your son along with nineteen other children have a very high price on their heads. They've become a nuisance to my mater Evamon. Defeating and destroying his minions, it's beginning to annoy him, and he's ordered all of us to take care of them. Of course unlike everyone else who's attacked them who just straight out attack, I'm using my head and going after you. You're son will surrender right away as soon as he sees our in danger."
My mother looked totally shocked as those words came from Puppetmon's mouth. This should have been a moment of triumph, I'd just proved my mother wrong, that rarely every happened, but all I could concentrate on was happening to my family. I had to stop it now, before it went any further. I readied my Digivice and crest.
"Elecmon, it's time to Digivolve!"
"Finally," he said. "I was getting tired of just sitting here."
"Elecmon Digivolved to………….Leomon!"
"Leomon Digivolved to…………..Saberleomon!"
"Stay back here for a second, I'll hit the distress button on my D3 when I need you. I want to try and catch them off guard."
"You're sure? It could be dangerous."
"I'll be okay, besides you'll be here the whole time don't worry about it. If I can face Diaboromon and come out of it safely dealing with this termite snack shouldn't be too hard. Just get ready to attack when I give you the signal."
I took a step up, and ran out of the aisle into the open. "Looking for me Puppetmon!"
The puppet Digimon smiled as he saw me step out. "That was fast."
"Let my family go you pile of toothpicks!" I yelled.
"Sure I will, if you're willing to take their place, and surrender yourself to me, so I can collect my reward form Evamon."
"Never!" I said. ""You're such a coward!"
"Me! Coward! How dare you! I'm just as brave as anyone else you've fought."
"Yeah right, at least they were willing to take me and my comrades on you're so much of a coward you have to pick on helpless women and children. You sure look like a coward to me."
"I'm no coward! Now give up unless you want something very bad to happen to your family!"
Now was the time, I knew very well that he wasn't bluffing, I pushed the distress signal button on my Digivice, sending off the signal into Saberleomon's head. He followed my instructions immediately, emerging from the aisle and taking a step behind me.
"Kris!" my mother yelled. "Look out, one of them is behind you!"
Saberleomon stepped up beside me, and I patted him on the head. "Oh don't worry about him Mom. This is just Saberleomon, he's my best friend."
I jumped up onto my Digimon's back, as he readied to jump into action.
He soared into the air soaring over a couple of Redveggiemon's head, and landing next to my parents throwing the Redveggiemon that held them aside. I extended my hand to my hands to my brother and mother.
"Get on!"
They didn't need to be told twice I helped my brother up onto Saberleomon's back as my mother climbed on.
"Hey you can't do that! I worked hard to get those hostages! Puppet Pummel!"
Puppetmon held out his hammer and fired dozens of energy balls from it straight at us. Saberleomon jumped out of the way managed to dodge all of the tiny but powerful balls of energy that had been thrown at us, and getting a safe distance from Puppetmon. I jumped off Saberleomon's back helped Cam and my mother off then jumped right back on again.
"Kris, I'm sorry I didn't believe you. I-"
"No time for that now, I've got some business to attend to. I'll say I told you so later."
"How dare you! You little - you little - well you're a little something! Just for that I'm going to have to destroy you! Redveggiemon get him!"
Every Redveggiemon that was in the store moved from whatever position he was in and jumped at Saberleomon and I, that was their biggest mistake, they'd all gotten into one spot at the same time.
"Howling Crusher!" Saberleomon yelled firing his trademark white energy beam from his mouth.
It was much larger than usual this time and engulfed every single Redveggiemon, when the attack cleared they were all gone, their Data reconfigured basically they were dead.
"Was that all you've got Puppetmon, I really expected more, the way Tai described you and the other Dark Masters I thought I was actually in for a challenge."
"Those were just my minions, they weren't that strong anyway, it's no big loss, you and your kitty haven't fought me yet. I'll show you what a real Digimon can do! Puppet Pummel!"
"Twin Fang!"
The balls of energy and the razor sharp needles collided and cancelled each other out, which is what Saberleomon had intended them to do. Both Digimon charged at each other. Puppetmon swung his hammer; Saberleomon dodged, and then swung one of his massive paws hitting Puppetmon in the head, sending the puppet like Digimon flying, but he did a back flip landing on his feet and recovered easily. Jumping into the air just above Saberleomon and I and begun to slam his hammer down on Saberleomon's head, Saberleomon would have been able to dodge it but it was a fake out and Puppetmon switched and hit Saberleomon on his side, sending the two of us crashing into a stand of oranges.
"You okay Kris?" Saberleomon said getting up.
"Fine, let's just take this Pinocchio wannabe out."
"As much fun as this fight is, I think it's time to end it."
Puppetmon found himself charging at us once again. Once he was within reach Saberleomon took a swing at him with both paws, but Puppetmon had expected that and managed to dodge and began to slam his hammer down, but it wasn't at Saberleomon, it was at me!
I slid out of the way just in time, and the hammer missed me and slammed onto Saberleomon's back, but what surprised me was that it didn't seem to hurt Saberleomon in fact it had gotten him angry.
"You attacked my partner!" my Digimon yelled. "Raaaar!"
In one lightning quick motion Saberleomon slammed his front paws together with Puppetmon's midsection between the two of them, causing the puppet Dark Master to snap in half!
"Aaaaah!" Puppetmon screamed as his upper half fell to the ground and rolled away while his lower half limply fell to the ground. "You - you broke me in half!"
"You're observant." Saberleomon said taking a step towards Puppetmon's upper half and crunching his lower half with his lower half under his massive paw. "No one attacks a Digimon's partner. You have to pay for that."
"You can't destroy me!" Puppetmon yelled in a panic. "You're your Saberleomon, the most noblest Digimon in the Digital World you don't kill even if it is an evil Digimon like me."
"That was before I gained a partner, now I'm willing to protect him even if it means killing. Besides my data has been modified since then, I'm kind of a different Mon."
"You can't!"
"Howling Crusher!"
"Aaaaah!" Puppetmon screamed as the attack hit him shattering his body immediately, what was left of his lower body also disappeared.
"Yeah!" Cam yelled in triumph. "You two were so cool! I knew you could do it!"
"Kris-" was all my Mom managed to say.
I couldn't help but notice the several eyes locked onto us.
"I'll talk to you at home Mom," I said. "Let's go buddy."
Saberleomon turned and out of the main entrance to the store, running through the automatic door through the parking lot and continued to run home.
Thanks to Saberleomon's amazing speed we got home a few minutes later, and found myself once again lying down on my bed, I didn't feel like doing much else. I'd been home about half an hour when I heard the door open, and my mother and brother's voice filled the house. Followed by footsteps coming up the stairs towards my room. The door slowly creaked open and my mother peaked her head in.
"Hi," she said shyly.
"Come in." I told her.
She walked in and sat down on the bed next to me.
"Kris," she said sighing. "I'm really sorry that I didn't believe you…. is this were you say I told you so?"
I laughed. "Probably not. I have to admit that it is really hard to believe, and there was a lot of evidence towards the fact that Jenn and I were sleeping together. Which by the way were not. Yes we're dating we have been for about a week, but we haven't slept together, but if I'd be lying if I said I hadn't thought about it."
"Actually that's understandable, you're a hormone driven teenager, and it's something all teenagers think about." I laughed at that last remark. "So, where did you hide that tiger you were with?"
"Excuse me!" Elecmon yelled stopping his charade as a stuffed animal. "But I was a lion not a tiger!"
I picked up Elecmon and placed him on my lap. "This is he."
"Wasn't he a little bigger before?"
"Yeah he was, but he needs the power within me to get bigger, he can't fight without me and I can't fight without him."
"Sure.." Elecmon said jokingly. "That's the way it works."
"I have a feeling there's a lot more you haven't told me."
I nodded. "Yeah there sure is."
"Care to tell me."
"Do I have a choice?"
She shook her head, and thus I began my long drawn out explanation., of the past two months events. After which we continued to talk, about certain things it's been along time since we did that, before I hit that awkward teenage phase at least. I guess that's what the chance of death brings out the best in some people. At least one good thing was coming out of this fight.
-------------- Well that's it, unfortunately I wouldn't expect the next chapter up for a bit, I've got to start doing some chapters in another project I'm working on. I know I've said that before but I really mean it this time....really I do! I do! Fine don't believe me...okay I better shut up now before everyone reading this thinks I'm some kind of nut.
Before I let you read, I've got to do this, I don't own Digimon, but I've already said that...well alot, so this was pretty much pointless, oh well at least I keep those lawyers happy. Now you can read.
Chapter 29: Home Again
Kris
It took a couple hours for Armyleomon and I to get back, home. Personally I had assumed much worse, the attacks had been over exaggerated, both by the media and by Metalseadramon. I had expected to get to my hometown and find it swarming with Digimon finding massive destruction. But I found it in almost the same condition that I had left it, aside from one or two damaged buildings everything was the same, and I didn't spot one stray Digimon, visual or on the radar of the D3. So we landed, on the beach and waited another hour or so for the others to arrive.
When they finally did we discussed what we were going to do, and based on the fact that neither Evamon or his minions the Dark Masters we decided to split up and wait for some sign of either of them to show up, like we had done with Diaboromon it wasn't like we had any other choice. Unfortunately we couldn't provide them with very much places to stay. Jenn and I couldn't because we hadn't told our parents where we were going, and we didn't expect to be able to have friends over for a long time. All the others were smart enough to think up an alibi so they wouldn't get in trouble, and Will had thought up some excuse so he could come home a day earlier than expected, Jenn and I were the only ones not covered. But luckily we'd given them enough places to stay.
However that wasn't what I was concerned about right now, I was about to face something that made me wish I was back fighting Diaboromon again. My girlfriend's father.
"You know you don't have to do this," Jenn said as we stood in front of her house. "I mean you've got to deal with your parents too, you don't have to deal with mine too."
"I know," I said. "But I want to, you were with me when I returned from being Emily's prisoner. It only seems fair that I'm there to see you return."
"I know but, you know what your parents think we're sleeping together, and they got that idea from my parents so…."
"Yeah I'm aware of that," I sighed. "And I'm not going to lie to you I'm not looking forward to that, but we haven't done anything, so we just have to tell the truth and hope that they trust us."
"Yeah, any idea what we're going to tell them?"
"Nope, none, I tried to think of something the entire way here, I've got nothing."
"Well we might as well just face the music." She said taking my hand.
"Yeah," I said smiling and we made our way to the front door.
Penguinmon snuck along back, while Elecmon hid in some nearby bushes.
Jenn sighed as she turned the doorknob and stepped into the house.
"Hi! I'm home!" she yelled into the house as if she was just coming home from school.
There was a thunder of footsteps from the floor above us as we heard Jenn's parents ran down the stairs and into the entryway where we now stood.
"Jenn!" They both yelled happily as they both ran up to Jenn and hugged her.
I guess this is how it was going to start, happiness that she was back, then anger about why she was gone in the first place. They released their hug, and the expression on their face changed.
"Where the hell have you been?" Jenn's mother said calmly, probably not half as calm as my mother was going to be.
Jenn smiled nervously. Trying to think up an excuse. "Well - I- uh-"
Suddenly all eyes fell on me, great I was dreading this, and I really didn't like the death stare that Jenn's father was giving me.
"You!" he yelled approaching me. "What did you do to my daughter?"
"Nothing nothing!" I said quickly not able to think up anything else to say.
"How dare you!" he yelled. "How dare you take my little girl's innocence away!"
"Dad!" Jenn yelled at her father grabbing his arm and pulling him away from me. "We didn't do anything! And even if we did, you shouldn't just be yelled at Kris."
"Really? Then what were you doing when you were gone this past week?"
Jenn's head fell. "I can't tell you, just trust me that we didn't do anything wrong."
"You can't tell me!" Jenn's father yelled. "You mean-"
"Dave!" Jenn's mother interrupted. "Jenn says she didn't do anything wrong, she's never done anything before that would give us a reason not to trust her, nor has Kris, and if they said they haven't done anything I trust them."
I breathed a sigh of relief; at least the confrontation with Jenn's parents was over.
"Kris," Jenn's mother said to me. "You better get home, I'm sure your parents are worried sick about you."
I nodded, gave Jenn a quick smile, and left, great now all I had to do was deal with my parents. I made my way up to the bushes by the curb.
"So how'd it go," Elecmon said, then jumping out of the bushes and into my arms.
"Better than I thought." I said. "I just hope it goes that well with my parents."
"I can't believe you didn't make up some sort of story," Elecmon laughed.
"Sorry, I just wasn't thinking at the time. I was too concerned about my life and the lives of all Digimon and humans."
My Digimon laughed. "We all make mistakes."
I made my way back home, very slowly, why did it have to be morning? In Japan it was nighttime, then I could just go to sleep and not worry about it for the rest of the day. I'd just helped save Japan! Why was I about to be punished? After about fifteen minutes, which should have been five, I reached home, finding myself staring at it, very reluctant to go in.
I was so dead! I should be happy to be home, but I wasn't I just kept thinking about how angry my parents were going to be.
"Good luck," Elecmon said jumping out of my arms and running around back where the window to my room was located.
I slowly made my way to the door, sighed as I turned the knob and stepped inside the house, making sure to be quiet as possible. I didn't want them to hear me right away. I made my way to the living room, to find my parents sitting on the couch, worried looks on their faces, they still hadn't heard me yet. Here goes.
"Hi," I said.
Their heads shot up to look in my direction.
"Kris!" my father yelled.
"Oh God you're okay!" my mother yelled.
They did just what Jenn's parents had, running up to me both trapping me in a hug, I also felt two smaller arms wrapped around my leg, my little brother Cam.
"You had no idea how worried we were," my mother said.
"I could take a guess," I said. "I'm sorry I just left like that. I wish I could have told you where I was going."
They both broke the hug at the same time, and took a step away, here it comes the happy and easy part was over, now came the anger.
"Cam, can you go to your room for a while we need to talk to your brother for a while."
"Aw," my little brother whined. "Do I have to, I want to know where Kris went."
"Yes you do," my father said sternly. "Now go."
"Okay," Cam said pouting, as he sadly trudged off to his room.
My father waited for my brother to be out of earshot before he spoke up. "So how was your week, have a good time fooling around with your best friend?"
"Honey, before we start throwing accusations at him I think we should hear him out." My mother's eyes met mine. "So Kris where were you?"
"I - uh," I stuttered, my forehead began to sweat, and the fact that they kept staring at me didn't exactly help. "I'm sorry, I can't tell you, not without lying to you."
"You don't have to keep it from us Kris!" my father yelled. "We know what you and Jenn have been doing. Is that also why you disappeared for those few days?"
"Look, I know it seems like Jenn and I have been sleeping together, but we haven't."
"Really? Then where exactly have you been this past week?"
"I told you!" I yelled. "I can't tell you, I'm sorry I wish I could but you have to trust me."
"How?" my father said raising his voice even more. "How can we trust you after all that's happened?"
"Kris," my mother said as her voice also began to rise. "We just want to know where you've been how hard is it to tell us?"
"Mom I don't want to drag you and Dad into this! This is my responsibility. Not yours. I just can't."
"Kris if something's going on in your life them maybe we can help, but we can't unless you tell us."
"Look, you can't help, this is something that only Jenn and I can deal with. It's not your responsibility."
My father sighed. "You got Jenn pregnant didn't you."
"No!" I screamed. "I told you! Jenn and I are not having sex!"
"Then what!" my mother yelled, I've never heard her yell this loud before. "Then where did the two of you go, where were you?"
"I ca-"
"Don't you dare tell us you can't!" my mother yelled. I didn't think she could ever get this angry. "I want to know!"
I clenched my fists, this wasn't working, I don't think I was going to get away from them without telling them the truth.
"Fine," I said as my head sunk. "I'll tell you. I'm sure your aware of the monster attack in Japan, I mean it was world wide news, and the recent ones here. Well those monsters are known as Digimon, or Digital Monsters. They come from another world called the Digital World. They're not all bad just the ones that have attacked. They're leader is a powerful force called Evamon who released his minions into our world in attempt to conquer both our world and the Digital World. Jenn and I along with eighteen other kids belong to a group called the Digidestined, we're a resistance group trying to stop Evamon and his minions, we defeated the ones in Japan and now they've started to attack here. I didn't want to tell you because I didn't want to drag you into this fight, it's my responsibility not yours."
"I-I can't believe this," my mother said shock filling her voice as she sat down on the couch.
"I know," I said. "I didn't really believe it at first either-"
"I can't believe you would lie like this!" she yelled standing up from the couch.
"Mom! I'm not lying. You asked me to tell the truth and I did."
"You expect me to believe all that? Kris if you were going to lie you could of at least kept it in the realm of reality! But what really hurts, is that you'd use the tragedy in Japan to try and get out of trouble. People died during those attacks you know! Do you have any idea how disrespectful that is?"
"I know!" I yelled. "I was there Mom, I saw it happen, and I swear I'm not lying."
"Stop it! I - I can't stand you lying like this."
"It's not a lie," I pleaded. "Look I can prove it to you, if you just-"
"Kris stop, I don't want to hear it! Just go, go to your room, and come out when you're ready to admit the truth."
"Mom please I know you'll believe me if I can just-"
"You heard your mother!" my father yelled.
"Please just let me-"
"Go!"
I sighed, once again I found myself in a position when I couldn't do much but do what they said. They weren't going to let me get a word in. I might as well just do what they say and try to prove to them that I wasn't lying when they'd calmed down a bit.
"Fine," I said making my way to the stairs. "Don't listen to me, but I don't know what you expect to hear. I've told you the truth, there's not much else I can say."
I walked up the stairs into my room not looking back, feeling incredibly angry. Not because they hadn't believed me, my story did sound a little farfetched. I was mad because they refused to hear me out, all I needed to do to prove that I was telling the truth was show them Elecmon, but they refused. Fine, they wanted to be stubborn then let them, I'd show them when Digimon was attacking our town and I was the one to stop them.
I slammed the door to my room and lay down at my bed. I took a quick glance around my room, everything was exactly the way I had left it, even the dirty dishes I had left in here remained. Despite the fact my parents had just given me a real hard time I really did miss the place.
"So how'd it go?" Elecmon asked jumping up from under the bed.
"Horrible," I answered. "Just as I expected, and what was worse is that I actually had to tell them everything."
"Everything? You mean about Digimon?"
I nodded. "Yeah."
"That's great!" my partner said happily. "That means I don't have to be so paranoid anymore, I don't have to hide."
"Actually you do, they didn't believe me."
"So, you just show me to them, and they will."
"No," I said angrily. "They refuse to hear me out why should I even bother."
"Kris," Elecmon said softly. "You don't mean that."
I only looked away, of course I didn't mean that, but I wasn't about to admit it right away. From the other side of my room I began to hear the door slowly creak open. I shot Elecmon a look, and knowing what he meant he allowed his body to go limp pretending to be a stuffed animal.
"What?" I said bitterly at the door.
"Hi," a small innocent voice said peaking his head in the door. It was my little brother.
"Oh hey Cam," I said with a slightly more cheerful voice than before. "Come on in."
He smiled, as he energetically entered the room, and sat down on the bed next to me.
"I heard yelling," my seven year old said. "Did you get in trouble?"
"Yeah sure did," I said ruffling my little brother's raven black hair.
"Oh, I'm sorry." He said, then suddenly for no apparent reason just hugged me, wrapping his small arms around me. "Please don't leave. You've done it two times, and it scares me when you do, I'm scared that if you leave again you might not come back."
I patted him on the head. "Don't worry, I don't plan on going anywhere for a long time. A warm smile grew on his face. "Good, I don't want you to leave like that, never ever again. If you do then who's going to teach me how to swim?"
That's right, I'd almost completely forgotten about that promise I'd made to Cam two months ago before school started. He had been teased by some of his friends because he couldn't swim, and I'd promised him that I'd teach him by next summer so he could swim with his friends. That was less than a week before my Digivice had changed into a D3, and with all the fighting and worrying about staying alive I'd completely forgot.
"Don't worry," I said. "Like I said, I'm not going anywhere, I promise you'll be a great swimmer by summertime."
"Great! But Kris…?" he said questioningly.
"Yeah what is it little guy?" I said. "You know you can ask me anything."
"What's sex?"
I practically feel off the bed from surprise as he said that. The only reason I didn't was because Elecmon managed to grab me before I did.
"What? Why do you - I uh - Why do you ask?"
He just looked at me with an innocent and curious look in his eye. "Mommy and Daddy kept saying something about that while you were gone. They kept saying that's probably why you and Jenn were gone, because that's what you were doing."
"No no no! Mom and Dad are just misunderstanding the situation! Jenn and I are not having-" I froze in mid sentence, I don't think I've ever felt so uncomfortable. How did I end up talking about sex with my seven-year-old brother? "We're not doing that."
"Okay - but what is it?"
"I - uh - well," I stuttered trying to think up a decent explanation. Not only that but one that he would actually understand. "You should ask Mom and Dad, they'd be able to explain it better than me."
"Okay," Cam said fully accepting my answer. Good, I was glad it was so easy to fool a seven year old.
"Then where did ya' go?"
I looked down at my brother as he gave me that cute innocent face, how could I tell him? Better yet should I tell him? I really didn't want to scare him, I mean Cam got scared of stray socks under the bed in the middle of the night, what was he going to think when I told him that there were monsters threatening his very existence?
"Well," I said hesitantly. "I'm not sure I should, I mean it's pretty intense."
"Come on please!" he begged. "I'm tired of being left out just because I'm the youngest, I know a lot more than people think. I can get it."
"Okay, but don't say I didn't warn you."
Cam nodded, and I turned and picked up Elecmon who was still hanging limp pretending to be a stuffed animal.
"I'd like you to meet a good friend of mine, his name's Elecmon."
"But it's just a stuffed animal," Cam said. "I've seen it before."
"I must be a good actor," Elecmon said stopping the act. "I really had you convinced huh."
"Wow!" Cam said as a huge smile grew on his face. "It's alive isn't it? This is so cool, what is it?"
"Excuse me, but I'm not an it!" Elecmon yelled.
I smiled and patted my Digimon on the head. "He's a Digimon, see there's another world out there besides our own. It's called the Digital World, and it's filled with Digimon like Elecmon here, and they're like people some of them are good and some of them are bad. Elecmon is one of the good ones, and the bad ones are here and are trying to take over our world. Elecmon and I are part of a team who are trying to stop them from doing that. I'm sure you know that there were monsters attacking Japan, those were the bad Digimon, Elecmon and I were in Japan the last week trying to stop them, and now those Digimon are back here, attacking our town and we're going to try and stop them."
I looked inquisitively into my brother's face, expecting for him to break out in tears, he usually did when he was scared, and I knew he would be, I know I was, but he didn't he actually started to smile as a look of excitement formed on his face.
"Wow this is so cool! There's evil monsters attacking our town, and you're fighting them! You're like - like a superhero or somthun', I can't wait to tell my friends that my brother is a superhero."
"Whoa!" I yelled. "Cam, you can't go telling your friends about this. You have to keep it a secret okay."
"Oh - okay," he said continuing to smile. "I guess you need to keep your identity a secret like all the superheroes on TV."
I couldn't help but laugh and ruffled my little brother's hair. It was nice to have someone look up to you the way he did, he didn't even question me, he believed me right away, of course I had showed him Elecmon, but then again after I had told him he hadn't gotten scared like I had expected, usually just at the thought of monsters he'd come crying to me or one of my parents, but here there were real monsters and he wasn't scared at all, he liked it especially since I was the one fighting them, he must really look up to me to have so much confidence in me that he knew that I was going to succeed, I only wish I had that much confidence in myself.
"You better get back to your room," I said. "I'm not supposed to be doing anything, you might get in trouble if Mom and Dad see you in here."
"Okay, I know you'll beat those bad monsters."
I smiled as he got up and left the room, closing the door tightly behind him.
"At least that's one person I don't have worry about hiding from," Elecmon said.
"Yeah, I only wish my parents would believe me too. I hate that they're so mad at me; they think I made the whole thing up."
"Don't worry about that, if the battle escalates as much as it did in Japan they'll eventually believe you."
"I sure hope so," I said sighing and lying down on my bed.
The rest of the day seemed to go by slower than I ever thought possible. I don't think I ever took one step out of my room the entire day, like I had a choice. If my door so much as opened a crack my parents would yell telling me I couldn't come out until I told them the truth. So I basically stayed in my room all day, there was a point where I actually hoped for Evamon to attack to end the boredom and prove to my parents that I was telling the truth. It was night now, about ten 'o' clock but I couldn't sleep, too much anxiety I guess. Elecmon however was a different story, he was sleeping soundly at the edge of the bed. Now all I could do was sit here in my room waiting for Evamon to do something and free me from the prison that was my own home.
Though my boredom soon ended as I heard a rapping on my window. I shot up immediately. Finally! I looked to my window to see Jenn at the window. Perfect, just the person I wanted to see. I ran up to the window and slid it open.
"Hey," she said jumping through the window into my room. "You didn't come by tonight. You have every night since we got together."
"Sorry, I would have liked to but my parents have me under pretty tight lock and key. They were pretty mad, not understanding like yours."
"Yeah that's funny," Jenn said sarcastically. "My parents yelled at me too, they just didn't show it in front of you. They were really mad; especially after I refused to tell them were we went."
"You didn't tell them about us did you?" I asked.
She shook her head. "No, but I'm sure they're standing by the theory that we're sleeping together. Did you tell your parents?"
"No, and it's the same with my parents, though they're more mad about what I did tell them instead of what I didn't tell them."
"You mean - you told them about the Digimon?"
"Yeah, but it doesn't matter, they didn't believe me, and now they're really mad because they think I'm lying."
"Well they were mad anyway - I guess there wasn't much you could do."
I sighed. "Yeah."
"So - what do you want to do tonight?" she said looking up at me smiling.
I could feel all my worries fade away as she smiled. It was really nice that a simple smile could make me so happy.
"I'm not really sure I mean-mmmm."
I was cut off in mid-sentence as she suddenly wrapped her arms around my neck and brought our lips together passionately.
The kiss more than surprised me, I felt my knees buckle as a result of the surprise and I fell backwards onto the bed, Jenn who had been relying on me for support also fell onto the bed on top of me.
"Kris, I thought you weren't ready for that yet." She said with a seductive grin on her face.
"No!" I said nervously. "I really didn't mean to do that! You just kind of surprised me and I fell over."
Jenn laughed. "I know, I was just messin' with you, but…." The tone of her voice changed to seductive. > "…as long as we're down here."
"Jenn - I'm don't think we should." I said nervously. "I know it seems likes it's been longer, but we have only been dating a week."
Jenn just laughed again. "Don't worry, I'm not ready to go all the way either - but…"
"But…"
"But we can take our relationship to the next level without actually having sex."
I must have been about two dozen shades of red right now. Was she actually saying that? Jenn was always forward and honest with me, but despite that fact I was still a little nervous.
"Like…?" I said.
She kept the same seductive grin on her face. "Come on Kris you're a guy, use that dirty mind of yours."
I snickered. "You think I have a dirty mind?"
"Well not really," she said. "But I know that you've like any guy you've had to have some sort of impure thought."
I could feel my face go even redder if that was at all possible. She was right. "You're still going to have to help me out, because I still have no idea what you want to do. Taking it a step further could mean a lot of things."
She laughed. "I think you know what I'm talking about, but I'll show you anyway."
Honestly I had no idea what she was talking about, but I would find out soon. The seductive smile on her face grew as she grabbed my hands, making sure to draw it out, she slowly brought my hands up to her chest and on her breasts.
"That's what I had in mind." She said.
"I - uh -wuh," I stuttered trying to say something anything but nothing came out. Jenn giggled as she drew closer to me. "You're so cute when you're nervous."
Our lips met once again, drawing us into a passionate kiss, as our tongues intertwined into each other's mouth, and Jenn's hands moved from my own and roamed over my body. As the passion grew I began to get less nervous and began to move my hands as well, beginning to rub her breasts in a circular motion, causing her to moan in pleasure into my mouth. My hormones were going nuts at this point, my body begging me to take it further, but I had to control them and think with the head on my shoulders, and not with the one between my legs. I couldn't let this go too far, but that sure didn't mean I was going to stop what was happening right now. We'd both gotten really into this, and completely zoned out what was going on around us. Just like we had several times before, of course before now all we had to worry about was Yolei, Hawkmon or one of our Digimon walking in. We both probably should have been paying more attention to our surroundings, maybe then we would have noticed my door slowly creak open. It wasn't until we heard that tiny voice.
"Ewww gross!"
Both our heads snapped from each other's and looked towards the door, where we saw my little brother standing at the door.
"Jenn, excuse me for a second while I kill my brother!"
"Ah!" Cam screamed as he disappeared from the door into the hallway.
I slid out from under Jenn in pursuit of my brother, making my why out of my room into the hall. Cam didn't even get halfway down the hallway before I managed to tackle him to the ground, it was a good thing I was seven years older than him.
"Ah let me go! You kissed a girl! That is so gross! You're going to give me your cooties."
"I'll show you cooties," I said as an evil grin grew on my face.
I began tickling him; it was always a way for me to get what I wanted from him.
"Stop it!" Cam yelled, as he laughed incredibly hard. "You know how ticklish I am."
"Tell you what," I said continuing to tickle my little brother. "I'll stop if you promise not to tell Mom and Dad what you just saw."
Cam continued to laugh as he spoke. "Okay okay, I promise I won't tell mom and Dad."
"Tell us what?"
Oh no… please don't let that familiar voice be what I think it was. I slowly got off of my brother, and turned around to see my mother standing over both of us with her hand sat her hips.
"Mom, what are you doing up this late."
"I heard all the noise, it woke me up, what are you two doing up so late?"
"Nothing, nothing. Just talking."
My mother looked at us suspiciously. "Well you're obviously not going to tell me Kris. Cam what doesn't your brother want you to tell me?"
Cam didn't stay a word; he just looked down at the hall floor with an ashamed look on his face, which filled my heart with guilt. I was the cause of that look.
"Cam!" my mother said firmly. "What doesn't Kris want you to tell me?"
"I can't, I promised I wouldn't, and you always say not to break a promise."
"This time is different, tell me!"
"But Kris-"
"Cam!" my mother yelled. "Tell me."
This was it, he was breaking, and there was nothing I could do to stop it either, to a kid Cam's age his parents were the Ultimate authority, he couldn't defy her, not for another couple of years anyway.
"Kris and Jenn were kissing on Kris's bed." Cam said as fast as he could.
"Excuse me?" my mother said as she glared at me. Man if looks could kill.
This was definitely not looking good for my case against the fact that Jenn and I were sleeping together.
"Cam, go back to bed."
"But I want to see-"
"Go back to bed!" my mother yelled.
Cam didn't hesitate to listen he was up and in his room, in a second. Our mother rarely ever yelled, but when she did you don't want to have to face of the consequences if you didn't listen.
"Mom, I know this looks bad but-"
"Is Jenn still here?" she yelled
"Yeah she is," I said weakly. "In my room."
"Let's go," she said walking towards my room.
I sighed, getting up following her to my room. We stepped into my room at the same time.
"So how'd -" Jenn began to say but stopped when she saw my mother walk into the room. "Oh hi. Been a while huh."
My mother gave Jenn a death stare. "Jenn I suggest you head home, I need to talk to my son, and tell your parents to expect a call from me tomorrow."
Jenn only nodded and sighed as she got up from her seat on my bed, only making eye contact with me, mouthing out the words 'Good Luck', then left the room, and leaving me alone to deal with the wrath of my mother.
"So," she said keeping an angry look on her face. "Now that you've been caught in the act are you going to tell me why you really left?"
"Mom, I already told you the truth."
My mother held her head and sighed. "I can't believe you're still going on about that monster story. Not only are you lying to us but also you're being very disrespectful to the people who were killed in those attacks in Japan. Why can't you just admit that you and Jenn are sleeping together?"
"Mom we're not. I swear!"
"Kris you were just caught in bed with her, what more evidence do I need to show you before you stop denying it."
"Okay, I admit it does look like we are but I can assure you we aren't. Yes we are dating, and yes we've done more than just kiss, but we haven't had sex."
"Really? So how far exactly have you gone?"
"You actually expect me to talk about that with you!" I yelled. "I'm not about to talk about my sex life with my mother!"
"Your what?!" she yelled louder than I've ever heard her yell.
Whoops, bad choice of words, definitely a bad choice of words.
"Kris you're fourteen! You're too young to have a sex life!"
"Sorry, sorry, I just made a mistake in my words there, look I'm still a virgin if that helps, Jenn and I haven't gone that far. I swear."
"Yes, and that's why you felt it was necessary to run away together for a week? Just so you could kiss."
"I told you why we left!" I yelled. "I know you don't believe me, but it's true."
"Kris I don't want to here about this again, if you're not going to tell me the truth, I don't even know why I'm talking to you!"
She angrily sat up and started leaving the room.
"Mom please!" I yelled. "I can-"
"Kris stop!" she yelled holding her hand in front of her face. "I don't want to hear you lie to me anymore. Just don't say anything! I'll talk to you about it in the morning when I have the energy. Good night!" She grabbed my doorknob and slammed the door shut.
Now this was just perfect wasn't it? Now on top of worrying about Evamon I had to worry about my mother too, and during all of this Elecmon had slept through the whole thing, good now he couldn't tease me about it later. I lay down on my bed, and pulled the covers over me, for once I was actually feeling tired, and it wasn't long before I fell asleep.
* * *
I woke up earlier than I would have like to, and my parents still hadn't calmed down in the slightest, and I still wasn't able to exit my room, unless it was for school. Unfortunately for me it was Sunday, so it looked like I was going to be trapped in my room for another day. My mother had confronted me again this morning, and it hadn't gone any better than last night, just more yelling, and even more yelling because she had heard that I told Cam that I was fighting evil monsters, she didn't like the fact that I was "lying" to him too. I actually could have left my room half an hour ago, my Dad was at work, and my Mom and my brother had gone off to the grocery store, but I really didn't feel like it, where else would I go? I didn't feel like doing anything but lying on my bed and thinking anyway.
"Hey you know this thing has longer range." Elecmon said.
"What?" I said sitting up from my spot on my bed, to see Elecmon examining my Digivice.
"Your D3, the radar mode has a long range mode, haven't you noticed."
"I guess not," I said approaching my Digimon. "Let's see."
Elecmon showed me my Digimon and entered a combination of buttons, as the radar screen suddenly became more spread out, and revealed about a dozen new green dots on the screen.
"Looks like we got a couple extra Digimon on our hands." Elecmon said.
"Evamon's attacking!" I yelled as some slight relief, at least now I could prove to my parents I was telling the truth.
"The question is where." Elecmon said.
I took a better look at the Digivice. "Well they all seem to be gathered in one location that's a good thing, somewhere in the eastern section of town, I'd say judging by the scale about two or three kilometers away."
"Y-you're right," Elecmon stuttered.
"What's wrong," I said, but then realized why he was so worried the second those words came out of my mouth. That was exactly where the grocery store was. "Let's go now!"
I was at my desk drawer in a second where I was hiding my D-Terminal, and popped it open. Elecmon was hurrying just as much as I was; he was already at the now open window. I held out my D-Terminal.
"Digi-Armor energize!"
"Elecmon Armor Digivolved to………………Armyleomon! The artillery of Compassion!"
I was in the dome on Armyleomon's back the second he had Digivolved, and he closed the dome was in the air flying towards the grocery store even quicker.
"You know we should contact the others," Armyleomon said.
"No time!" I yelled. "We have to get there, and we'll worry about the others later!"
"Okay…"
No other words were spoken not like they we could have, with Armyleomon's amazing speed we reached the grocery store within minutes, seeing the Safeway's 'S' logo, and unfortunately our suspicions were correct. One side of the store had been completely knocked over, and there were a few red Vegetable like Digimon outside of the grocery store.
As much as I wanted to storm in there with missiles flying, but I knew that one of the Dark Masters was going to be in there, and from the information that Tai had given me about them they were all Megas, and Armyleomon was only a Champion, I had to think with a leaders mind, as much as I wanted to save my brother and mother it wouldn't help them if I rushed in there and got killed.
"Armyleomon land behind those bushes by the whole in the side of the building, and dedigivolve" I instructed.
"On it," Armyleomon said.
He veered off to the right, and like I instructed landed behind the bushes, allowing me to jump out of the dome before he became Elecmon again.
"So what now?" he asked. "Do you want me to go Mega and take care of the Digimon inside."
"No," I said shaking my head. "Not yet, we got to get in there first without letting whichever Dark Master is in there know that we're here, and that'll be easier to do if you're at the rookie stage."
"How do we get in - with those Redveggiemon guarding the big hole in the wall?"
"We need a distraction, got any ideas?"
"I've got an attack similar to Apemon's Bone glare."
I smiled and nodded. "That'll do."
He gave me thumbs up. "I'm on it." Elecmon parted the bush just enough so he could fire his attack but not too much so that the Redveggiemon could see him. "I'd close your eyes, unlike Apemon's attack this doesn't just blind Digimon." I did what he said and closed my eyes. "Sparking Flare!"
I didn't see what happened next because of course my eyes were closed, I just heard the Redveggiemon screaming that they couldn't see.
"Okay let's go!" Elecmon said. "The effect won't last long."
I opened my eyes, already seeing Elecmon jumping through the bushes towards the huge hole in the wall. I was following him immediately jumping through the hole in the bushes catching up to him as we ran through the giant hole in the wall past the blinded Redveggiemon. We immediately noticed a crowd of Digimon at the front-end tills, almost all of them Redveggiemon, with the exception of one which looked like a Digimon version of Pinocchio. Elecmon pulled me into one of the aisles, where we could no longer be seen.
"You said you didn't want to be seen didn't you!" Elecmon yelled. "Well maybe you shouldn't stand out in the open!"
"Sorry," I said. "I was just trying to find my Mom and brother."
"You can still look, just try and be more discrete about it."
I nodded, and began to peek around the corner. Needless to say I didn't like what I saw. People were being herded towards the tills, where the puppet like Digimon was sitting.
"Have you found them yet?" the puppet like Digimon yelled at a Redveggiemon that was approaching him.
"We may have lord Puppetmon," Redveggiemon said nervously.
That last remark seemed to have angered the Digimon known as Puppetmon. He grabbed the large hammer strapped to his head and hit Redveggiemon on the head with it.
"May have?" Puppetmon yelled. "I don't want to hear that you may have! I want to hear that you definitely have!"
"Yes, Puppetmon. We can almost guarantee we that we've found them."
"Almost!"
Redveggiemon covered his head preparing for another hit on the head.
"I guess that is enough for now, bring them to me."
Redveggiemon only nodded this time probably because he was afraid of being hit on the head again. A few moments later two more Redveggiemon, dragged two more people towards people to Puppetmon. No! This was exactly what I was afraid of; the people that the Redveggiemon were holding were my brother and mother! I clenched my fists angrily; I was going to kill that little puppet. No one treats my family like this!
Puppetmon jumped down from the till he was standing on as to look my mother and brother in the face.
"Yep, this is then. You guys got lucky, these are exactly who I'm looking for."
"What do you want with us!" my mother yelled. "We haven't done anything. And there's not much we could do for you."
"Oh I don't want to play with you, that wouldn't be very much fun. I just need you to lure someone out."
"You made a big mistake!" Cam yelled. "When my brother finds out what you're doing he's going to come here and kick your butt!"
Puppetmon laughed. "That's exactly the point kid!"
"What do you want with my son?"
"Your son along with nineteen other children have a very high price on their heads. They've become a nuisance to my mater Evamon. Defeating and destroying his minions, it's beginning to annoy him, and he's ordered all of us to take care of them. Of course unlike everyone else who's attacked them who just straight out attack, I'm using my head and going after you. You're son will surrender right away as soon as he sees our in danger."
My mother looked totally shocked as those words came from Puppetmon's mouth. This should have been a moment of triumph, I'd just proved my mother wrong, that rarely every happened, but all I could concentrate on was happening to my family. I had to stop it now, before it went any further. I readied my Digivice and crest.
"Elecmon, it's time to Digivolve!"
"Finally," he said. "I was getting tired of just sitting here."
"Elecmon Digivolved to………….Leomon!"
"Leomon Digivolved to…………..Saberleomon!"
"Stay back here for a second, I'll hit the distress button on my D3 when I need you. I want to try and catch them off guard."
"You're sure? It could be dangerous."
"I'll be okay, besides you'll be here the whole time don't worry about it. If I can face Diaboromon and come out of it safely dealing with this termite snack shouldn't be too hard. Just get ready to attack when I give you the signal."
I took a step up, and ran out of the aisle into the open. "Looking for me Puppetmon!"
The puppet Digimon smiled as he saw me step out. "That was fast."
"Let my family go you pile of toothpicks!" I yelled.
"Sure I will, if you're willing to take their place, and surrender yourself to me, so I can collect my reward form Evamon."
"Never!" I said. ""You're such a coward!"
"Me! Coward! How dare you! I'm just as brave as anyone else you've fought."
"Yeah right, at least they were willing to take me and my comrades on you're so much of a coward you have to pick on helpless women and children. You sure look like a coward to me."
"I'm no coward! Now give up unless you want something very bad to happen to your family!"
Now was the time, I knew very well that he wasn't bluffing, I pushed the distress signal button on my Digivice, sending off the signal into Saberleomon's head. He followed my instructions immediately, emerging from the aisle and taking a step behind me.
"Kris!" my mother yelled. "Look out, one of them is behind you!"
Saberleomon stepped up beside me, and I patted him on the head. "Oh don't worry about him Mom. This is just Saberleomon, he's my best friend."
I jumped up onto my Digimon's back, as he readied to jump into action.
He soared into the air soaring over a couple of Redveggiemon's head, and landing next to my parents throwing the Redveggiemon that held them aside. I extended my hand to my hands to my brother and mother.
"Get on!"
They didn't need to be told twice I helped my brother up onto Saberleomon's back as my mother climbed on.
"Hey you can't do that! I worked hard to get those hostages! Puppet Pummel!"
Puppetmon held out his hammer and fired dozens of energy balls from it straight at us. Saberleomon jumped out of the way managed to dodge all of the tiny but powerful balls of energy that had been thrown at us, and getting a safe distance from Puppetmon. I jumped off Saberleomon's back helped Cam and my mother off then jumped right back on again.
"Kris, I'm sorry I didn't believe you. I-"
"No time for that now, I've got some business to attend to. I'll say I told you so later."
"How dare you! You little - you little - well you're a little something! Just for that I'm going to have to destroy you! Redveggiemon get him!"
Every Redveggiemon that was in the store moved from whatever position he was in and jumped at Saberleomon and I, that was their biggest mistake, they'd all gotten into one spot at the same time.
"Howling Crusher!" Saberleomon yelled firing his trademark white energy beam from his mouth.
It was much larger than usual this time and engulfed every single Redveggiemon, when the attack cleared they were all gone, their Data reconfigured basically they were dead.
"Was that all you've got Puppetmon, I really expected more, the way Tai described you and the other Dark Masters I thought I was actually in for a challenge."
"Those were just my minions, they weren't that strong anyway, it's no big loss, you and your kitty haven't fought me yet. I'll show you what a real Digimon can do! Puppet Pummel!"
"Twin Fang!"
The balls of energy and the razor sharp needles collided and cancelled each other out, which is what Saberleomon had intended them to do. Both Digimon charged at each other. Puppetmon swung his hammer; Saberleomon dodged, and then swung one of his massive paws hitting Puppetmon in the head, sending the puppet like Digimon flying, but he did a back flip landing on his feet and recovered easily. Jumping into the air just above Saberleomon and I and begun to slam his hammer down on Saberleomon's head, Saberleomon would have been able to dodge it but it was a fake out and Puppetmon switched and hit Saberleomon on his side, sending the two of us crashing into a stand of oranges.
"You okay Kris?" Saberleomon said getting up.
"Fine, let's just take this Pinocchio wannabe out."
"As much fun as this fight is, I think it's time to end it."
Puppetmon found himself charging at us once again. Once he was within reach Saberleomon took a swing at him with both paws, but Puppetmon had expected that and managed to dodge and began to slam his hammer down, but it wasn't at Saberleomon, it was at me!
I slid out of the way just in time, and the hammer missed me and slammed onto Saberleomon's back, but what surprised me was that it didn't seem to hurt Saberleomon in fact it had gotten him angry.
"You attacked my partner!" my Digimon yelled. "Raaaar!"
In one lightning quick motion Saberleomon slammed his front paws together with Puppetmon's midsection between the two of them, causing the puppet Dark Master to snap in half!
"Aaaaah!" Puppetmon screamed as his upper half fell to the ground and rolled away while his lower half limply fell to the ground. "You - you broke me in half!"
"You're observant." Saberleomon said taking a step towards Puppetmon's upper half and crunching his lower half with his lower half under his massive paw. "No one attacks a Digimon's partner. You have to pay for that."
"You can't destroy me!" Puppetmon yelled in a panic. "You're your Saberleomon, the most noblest Digimon in the Digital World you don't kill even if it is an evil Digimon like me."
"That was before I gained a partner, now I'm willing to protect him even if it means killing. Besides my data has been modified since then, I'm kind of a different Mon."
"You can't!"
"Howling Crusher!"
"Aaaaah!" Puppetmon screamed as the attack hit him shattering his body immediately, what was left of his lower body also disappeared.
"Yeah!" Cam yelled in triumph. "You two were so cool! I knew you could do it!"
"Kris-" was all my Mom managed to say.
I couldn't help but notice the several eyes locked onto us.
"I'll talk to you at home Mom," I said. "Let's go buddy."
Saberleomon turned and out of the main entrance to the store, running through the automatic door through the parking lot and continued to run home.
Thanks to Saberleomon's amazing speed we got home a few minutes later, and found myself once again lying down on my bed, I didn't feel like doing much else. I'd been home about half an hour when I heard the door open, and my mother and brother's voice filled the house. Followed by footsteps coming up the stairs towards my room. The door slowly creaked open and my mother peaked her head in.
"Hi," she said shyly.
"Come in." I told her.
She walked in and sat down on the bed next to me.
"Kris," she said sighing. "I'm really sorry that I didn't believe you…. is this were you say I told you so?"
I laughed. "Probably not. I have to admit that it is really hard to believe, and there was a lot of evidence towards the fact that Jenn and I were sleeping together. Which by the way were not. Yes we're dating we have been for about a week, but we haven't slept together, but if I'd be lying if I said I hadn't thought about it."
"Actually that's understandable, you're a hormone driven teenager, and it's something all teenagers think about." I laughed at that last remark. "So, where did you hide that tiger you were with?"
"Excuse me!" Elecmon yelled stopping his charade as a stuffed animal. "But I was a lion not a tiger!"
I picked up Elecmon and placed him on my lap. "This is he."
"Wasn't he a little bigger before?"
"Yeah he was, but he needs the power within me to get bigger, he can't fight without me and I can't fight without him."
"Sure.." Elecmon said jokingly. "That's the way it works."
"I have a feeling there's a lot more you haven't told me."
I nodded. "Yeah there sure is."
"Care to tell me."
"Do I have a choice?"
She shook her head, and thus I began my long drawn out explanation., of the past two months events. After which we continued to talk, about certain things it's been along time since we did that, before I hit that awkward teenage phase at least. I guess that's what the chance of death brings out the best in some people. At least one good thing was coming out of this fight.
-------------- Well that's it, unfortunately I wouldn't expect the next chapter up for a bit, I've got to start doing some chapters in another project I'm working on. I know I've said that before but I really mean it this time....really I do! I do! Fine don't believe me...okay I better shut up now before everyone reading this thinks I'm some kind of nut.