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Rebirth of Courage

-Chapter Two-



As I knelt there on the ground wallowing in my grief I began to wonder if coming to the Digital World had been worth it. One of the only kind people in my life had been sacrificed, all because of an infatuation I had with a boy I'd met once for about ten minutes. I began to beat my fists against the ground in frustration and sorrow.

"Why!?" I shouted over and over in despair. With each passing moment, the force of my blows increased, and before long I had open bleeding wounds on my hands, but I did not stop. Brian soon became alarmed and even a little frightened. He tried to place a comforting hand on my shoulder, but I threw it out of the way. He stood there for a moment more as I continued, then walked around in front of me and slapped me soundly across the face. I stopped, motionless in shock that my mellow brother had just slapped me. Then came the outrage.

"Hey, what the hell did you do that for!?" I yelled angrily.

"You were being hysterical," Brian replied calmly.

"So you smacked me!?"

"I was told that that's what you do when people are hysterical."

"You smacked me!" I said again, not really angry anymore, just completely shocked.

"I guess it worked well," Brian said simply, seeing from my expression that I was no longer angry. Realizing he was right, and that I was acting silly, I started to laugh. I'd always been told that I had an infectious laugh, and I guess they were right, because Brian quickly joined in. When I stopped laughing, I thanked whoever made the world that I'd been given such a wonderful brother, and then I looked at my emotions. The grief was still there, but it was no longer the torrent of complete sorrow, I could manage it now. I looked around, it was the same hill and forested valley that I had seen all those years ago (Now if I could just find him)

Brian looked around at the scenery before saying, "I can see why you could never get this place out of your mind, it's beautiful."

"I know."

"Well," he said, "which way do we go?"

"How should I know, he found me last time?"

"What, why did you bring us here if you don't know where anything is?"

"Fine, would you rather have stayed back there where we knew what it was like?"

"No, I guess not."

"Well then, where do you think we should go?"

"I don't know," he stopped to think about it a while, "Well, I'd rather not get lost in any forest, so why don't we just skirt the edge of that one."

I laughed and then threw one arm over my brother's shoulders, "I don't know what I'd do without you, you always think everything out so well."

He smiled at me sheepishly and was about to say something but I wasn't done, "I was thinking, why don't we ask my digimon?"

He stared at me, his eyes wide, "I never thought of that."

I turned to Renamon and Gatomon, "Do you two know anything about the layout of the Digital World?"

They both looked around for a while before replying, "I've never been here before sorry," said Renamon.

"It didn't look anything like this the last time I was here, it's grown quite a bit larger since then."

I looked at the little white cat in wonder, "Gatomon, you two came out of the same egg, how could you have spent time here if she hasn't?"

"A digimon's data can be reintroduced into the system when necessary, so even though this is Renamon's first life, it is not mine."

"Really, that's amazing, who was your original tamer and just how long ago was it?"

"You're not quite ready for that information yet," replied my little friend mysteriously.

I thought about it a second and then decided it would be best if I dropped the subject, "Okay, I guess we should probably go with Brian's idea then."

So we all set off and began to circle around the forest, looking for any significant landmarks that would give us something to go explore in the hopes of finding the mysterious boy. We had been traveling for several hours when the sun began to go down. Brian and I decided that there was no point in continuing in the dark, so we began to search for some water to make camp. Before long we came across a brook just a couple hundred yards into the forest so we set up our tents in a nearby clearing and started a fire. After eating a small meal we both decided to go straight to bed, the day had been very tiring.

It was a little after midnight when I awoke all of a sudden. I could feel something nearby, calling to me. I stood up and quietly got dressed, being careful not to wake Brian or my digimon. I left our camp going due east, following the brook deeper into the forest. It was amazing how bright the full moon was in this world, I could see perfectly, the only differences from day were slightly longer shadows and the fact that it was that cool light only the moon gives off. I began to hear a muffled roaring noise in the distance, I quickly realized that the source of that noise was my destination, but what was it?

After walking for about a half hour, I broke out of the trees and found what I was looking for. It was a twenty foot tall waterfall emptying into a small lake which fed the brook I had been following, and there, on the cliffs above was standing a young man, who's features I could almost make out....

.... "I'm sorry but the only way to get rid of him is to kill myself, that way he has no body to take over," Davis grew silent then, when he the shocked expressions on the other's faces and my look of pure horror.

"No Davis, you can't die, I won't let you..., your child needs a father!" (Child!? I'm...Pregnant?) I yelled while I beat my lover's chest with my fist and tears rolled down my cheeks. I could see that my words hit him very hard, but then his expression became determined and he said, "Kari, don't you see, that's why I have to do this, I can't let this horror be unleashed upon my child, I have no choice."

"That's not true, we'll talk to Gennai, I know he'll figure something out!"

"Kari," I said gently, "Gennai is the one that told me that Fallen enters the body of whoever kills him."

"No...no there must be something we can do!?" I cried, but I knew that this was the only way.

Then he lifted my chin and looked straight at me with his determined eyes, "Kari, this is not the end, we will be together, in this life or the next, I promise you that." ...

... I fell to my knees in a storm of weeping, for I had just lost the one thing that I loved most in all the world. I heard a loud splash somewhere near me, but it was outside my grief and did not matter. That is, until a strong, wet hand reached down and grasped my chin, forcing me to look into a pair of determined brown eyes.

"Why are you crying?" asked the man in a soft voice.

I quickly wiped my eyes and stood up before replying shakily, "I'm sorry you had to see that, I've had a hard day." Then I stopped, stunned as I got my first good look at him. Except for a few differences, he looked exactly like the man from my vision. For one he wasn't wearing a shirt and the sleeves had been torn off his flame-embroidered jacket, leaving ragged edges at the shoulders. He also wasn't wearing a digital camera around his neck, but by far the biggest difference would have to be the sword strapped to his back, with a blade that seemed to be made of glowing blue crystal, and a dragon motif on the hilt and crosspiece.

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As I stared at her under the moonlight, I quickly decided that she was easily the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. Her mid-length brown hair was tastefully highlighted, she wasn't too big or too small in the chest and she had ravishing curves. Her large, expressive eyes appeared to be a shade of red, an unusual color, but for some reason they seemed to draw me in. Then I noticed that she was wearing a small pendant, a pendant that I think I gave her a long time ago, "Marena?" I asked tentatively.

Her eyes doubled in size, "Is that you David!?"

"It is."

She threw her arms around me in an awkward show of emotion, I didn't really know how to react so I just stood still waiting for her to regain her composure. In a few minutes she let go and stood a few minutes back staring at me.

"What are you doing here, Marena?" I asked, a little more angrily then I meant to.

The lowering of her eyes told me that my question and tone had been a mistake. She did answer my question though.

"When I finally was able to escape from Knowledge, I made my way to my family. When I did find them, I thought I was in heaven, but it didn't last long, Knowledge had my parent's killed, but my brother and I managed to escape. After years on the run, I finally got sick of it and told him that I wanted to come back to this world."

As she recounted her tragic tale she began to cry again. I didn't really know what to say since I'd never had a family, but I tried to imagine what it would be like to lose Guilmon, and I think I began to understand her anguish. I slowly put my arm over her shoulders, not really sure what I was supposed to do. She quickly took advantage of my gesture and pressed herself against my chest, pulling my arm around her. After we had stood there, knee deep in the water, for several minutes Guilmon, my little red, wingless dragon, walked up. Guilmon was always curious about new things, and this beautiful crying woman was no exception.

"Why are you leaking?" He asked in that childish voice of his, head cocked to one side.

No one could resist Guilmon's childlike charm, and Marena began to giggle girlishly, which quickly turned into a full throated laugh as Guilmon's expression became more and more confused.

"Why, why are you leaking," he asked again.

"It's called crying, and she was doing it because she was sad," I supplied.

"Oh, that makes sense, I guess," his little face showing just how hard he was trying to understand the concept.

Marena smiled and fondly patted Guilmon on the head before saying, "Yes, I was very sad, but you solved that problem, thank you."

"Okay!" he replied, smiling happily.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!" came a sudden cry from far off in the wilderness.

"Brian!" shouted Marena.

"Brian?" I asked.

"My brother," she said quickly, "we have to help him, please come with me."

I considered it, I was not a hero, and I was not in the practice of helping those in need, but for some reason I could not say no to this young woman, so I nodded my head, "Lead the way."

She smiled and then began to run as fast as she could back into the forest, Guilmon and I followed. We ran for about ten minutes before getting to the clearing. I looked around, gauging the situation. There were a dozen giant, fully developed white, tiger-striped white wolves in the clearing, and in the center a bleeding young man was laying unconscious, with a digimon on each side. Then, all twelve Garurumon began to charge flaming blue light in their massive muzzles, before releasing all twelve attacks straight at the boy and the two digimon in the center,

"Howling Blaster!"



To Be Continued...

Sorry it took so long to get this chapter out, I hope you like it and review. I hope everyone who reads this continues to read my "Rebirth of Courage" into the next chapter and beyond. Thank you!