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Chapter 7 - what can I say... on with the story!

Disclaimers: I don't own digimon, or any characters except Shawn Williams.
This is in UK English, not American English.


Chapter 7: The Initiation.

After Randa Zash and Zolimon disposed of Flymon, there wasn't a lot of digimon activity in their area. So we will move back from Alaska and the sixth tamer, and rejoin the rest of the group, getting ready for the regional tournament, which was being re-held the next day.

It had been a couple of days since Drakemon walked out of Kyle Novich's computer, and in those two days, the two learnt a fair bit about each other and became the best of friends.

Joanna Lang Zing was very disturbed about Shawn. For some reason he bugged her, and it wasn't just his cocky personality. Joanna had a feeling that despite being a borderline show off, he kept a lot hidden deep inside him. He said he knew where all the clandestines were which was only given to top ranking members of the official groups, and she thought she knew he wasn't a member of any of the groups. And she thought that on a few occasions she saw a familiar symbol on the underside of Terriermon's ears.

Riku Kakera and Kerry Moniko hadn't been seen since the Meramon incident, which bothered Shawn Williams very much. He thought that all the tamers should stick together. After all, if they had digimon then there had to be a reason, right? Also, Shawn wasn't one hundred percent sure, but he thought he was being followed by a blonde with purple streaks in her hair that he met at the tournament a couple of weeks ago. If only he could remember her name.

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"What is bothering you?" Shonecoolamon asked as the silver fox appeared from thin air behind her tamer.

"A lot." Joanna responded quietly. Staring out of the balcony of her hotel room.

"Lets start with one thing and move on shall we?" The digimon suggested.

"Huh?" Joanna asked, turning round to look at her digimon.

"It helps to share your problems and troubles, so why don't we start with what's bothering you most."

"Williams." Joanna said turning back round to stare at the beautiful blue sky

"What about him?" Shonecoolamon inquired, trying to get her tamer to open up. Joanna just stood looking up into the sky. "Well" she asked again. Joanna turned around.

"He's cocky, to confident, and idiot, he's hiding something, he knows more than he's letting on, his annoying habit of making friends, his wanting to know every little thing I do and he's been a tamer longer than I have." Joanna said, almost in one breath.

"Is that all?" Shonecoolamon sincerely asked. Joanna walked back into her room and collapsed on her bed and sighed.

"He's going to beat me if I face him in the tournament." Joanna finally said.

"Not a chance, he could never beat you." Shonecoolamon said leaning against the opposite wall.

"Shonecoolamon..." Joanna started before sighing. "I've only ever faced him once."

"Go on." Shonecoolamon said, wanting to hear more on why her tamer was being so negative.

"It was about two years ago, I was in the United Kingdom's digimon tournament. A lot of competitors weren't to happy with me entering since I wasn't living in the UK at the time, but because it's not legal, and it happens in almost all the tournaments, I was still allowed to participate."

"So Shawn was one of the people who didn't like you being at the tournament."

"God no, if anything Shawn was happy I was there, he wanted to beat someone like me who was starting to get a well earned reputation."

"So if he was happy, then what's the problem?"

"The tournament wasn't any trouble at all, I had no competition from anybody. Nobody I faced came close to my level of play and it meant that not only was I strong, but I was ready for the world championships. That was till the semi finals."

"What happened there?"

"I came up against Shawn Williams. At the time, he was just another name on the list. But then the match started, and out of nowhere he played some unexpected and unusual combinations. I didn't know what hit me. I managed to keep in the match but only just. I beat him with one life point to spare. When we were going to play again two weeks ago, Shawn said that it was luck that I beat him with, and although I'd never say this to his face, he was right."

"But a win is a win." Shonecoolamon said. "And you have got better since them days, have you not?"

"Yeah. But so has he. A few months after that match he won the world online championships, with that little rat at his side." Joanna said, indicating Terriermon. "Then he got all this attention in the digital presses, became huge..."

"And you're jealous." Shonecoolamon said. Joanna sat up on the bed and looked at her partner. "You're jealous because Shawn became what you wanted to be, a big shot in the card game. Then when you met him again at this tournament, you knew he hadn't been doing anything for the last year, while you became even stronger and bigger, and had became a real digimon tamer."

"Yeah." Joanna admitted. "I thought I had the last laugh, till the match. He is still as strong as he was a few years ago, and I would have lost if it wasn't for the Monochromon, which of course made me find out that he also has a digimon."

"A powerful one at that. After all, didn't it win the world online championships?" Shonecoolamon said. Joanna just sighed. She had only then just realised that she had always seen Shawn as her rival, and a strong one at that.

Shonecoolamon twitched her head towards the window. Joanna stood up and looked at the fox like digimon. "What is it?" She asked

"Trouble"

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Shawn Williams was walking along the centre of town, trying to clear his head before the tournament. He had realised that the last couple of days he seemed to have someone following him. It was the girl he met at the tournament last time, blonde hair, purple streaks, but he couldn't for the life of him remember her name.

He moved to the edge of the street and looked behind him, looking at the traffic seeing if it was safe to cross the road. Well, that's what it looked like. In actuality he was looking to see if she was still there. She was, but the instant she saw him turn around, she darted to look at the window of an antiques store.

'Definitely following me.' Shawn thought as he moved back into the middle of the path. Shawn noticed in the reflection of a parked car that his pursuer had regained walking down the street, darting in and out of people, using them as cover. Shawn decided to end this.

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"You ready?" Kerry Moniko asked leaning his back against a tree.

"Always!" Riku Kakera said, leaning her back against the other side of the tree. Their two digimon sat atop of the braches above them.

"We are the best talent there, it's probably going to be you and me in the final." Kerry mentioned.

"What about those other two tamers, they got to be pretty good to have digimon." Renamon mentioned.

"That's always been how you've seen it Riku." Kerry said. "But since I never played the cards before Semimon, I don't know if we could use that reasoning."

"You're a natural." Riku started. "You didn't need to play the games, you were born good." She said cockily

"What about Williams?" Kerry mentioned.

"What about Williams, he hasn't played in a year, and his digimon is a wimpy little rabbit." Riku said.

"That 'rabbit' won the online championship." Kerry said calmly

"Yeah, a year ago." Riku said before adding "And we only have his word for it."

"That rabbit is powerful." Semimon said. "If it's as good as Kerry told me it was online, then it wouldn't be wise to mess with it."

"We've been tamers for almost a year now, Renamon and I could easily take that puny excuse for a digimon." Riku argued

"I agree with Semimon." Renamon said. Riku stood up straight and looked at the yellow fox. "That Terriermon is much more powerful than he appears, and his tamer sounds like quite the card player. Those two could be as lethal a combination as us four." She said before both her and Semimon twitched their heads in the same direction.

"Trouble?" Kerry asked as the two foxes stood up on the braches, balancing perfectly.

"Oh goody." Riku said as she and Kerry ran in the direction their digimon headed in.

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Kyla Johnston had been following Shawn Williams for the last couple of days now. She knew he had a digimon and, from seeing the Monochromon incident at the tournament two weeks ago, thought he was a tamer. After talking online to her fellow digidestined, she decided to watch the tamers. The only problem was she only knew one of them, so she followed him to see if he could lead her to the others.

Unfortunately this wasn't working. Shawn hadn't met up with any of the other tamers, and he almost spotted her several times. Luckily for her, it didn't seem like Shawn had seen her, so she continued with her surveillance. She had just avoided being spotted again, and continued following Shawn down the main street of the town. She saw Shawn get to the end of the street, and turn left round the corner of some buildings. Kyla ran to the end of the road, stopped at the edge of the building, and peered round the corner.

"Ahh." Kyla screamed in shock as she placed her right hand over her heart.

"You wouldn't be looking for me by any chance would you?" Shawn said, leaning against the corner of the building looking at Kyla.

"God you scared me." Kyla said.

"That's strange, you're the one who's following me!" Shawn said.

"You've seen me huh?" Kyla asked, now having calmed down.

"Purple streaks in blonde hair." Shawn said as he grabbed a strand of purple hair. "Not difficult to miss!" Kyla groaned in defeat. "So you were following me. Why?" Shawn asked as Kyla nervously went through her options, she could lie, or tell him the truth.

"Umm well you see..." She had decided to tell him the truth, but of course it's always harder to explain the truth.

"Wait let me guess." Shawn said and Kyla panicked even more. Did he know about her and the digidestined? "After the tournament you realised exactly who I am, well was! Anyway, you decided that you, like many girls did about a year ago, saw me as a hot shot celebrity and had to try and go out with me! Sorry but I never went for that stuff." Kyla looked extremely puzzled

"Um, no that's not it at all." Kyla explained

"Really?" Shawn said with a bit of disappointment. "Oh thank god. I tell you after I won the online championships, tons of girls were after me like I was in the backstreet boys or somethin'!" Shawn explained in relief. "Which was weird since I was online! So why are you following me?"

"I know." Kyla said bluntly.

"Know what?" Shawn enquired.

"The Monochromon incident." Kyla said very hushed.

"That was just some prank." Shawn said, quoting the official World Digimon Association's assessment.

"I know a Monochromon when I see one, and I defiantly saw one." Kyla said.

"Oh, and when did you see one?" Shawn asked, trying to hide the fact that he knew it was real.

"Fighting what looked like a Terriermon and a silver Renamon. I believe the Terriermon was being commanded by you, and you slashed a card through a D-arc, which makes you a tamer." Kyla said in a quiet tone so that the passers by could not hear.

"You saw that when?" Shawn said, still trying to pass it off as the 14 year old's imagination.

"At the tournament two weeks ago, I was behind the PWDA desk at the time." Kyla said. Shawn mentally slapped himself. After opening his mouth to say something several times, Shawn finally said

"Follow me." And walked away. Kyla started to follow.

"Where are we going?" Kyla inquired as the two crossed a road.

"Somewhere to talk" Shawn answered.

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"Right here will do" Shawn said as he and Kyla arrived at a path over looking an open field. Kyla noticed that it was the same vantage point she used when she saw the four tamers take on a Meramon about a week ago.

"Look, I know what your going to say, don't tell anyone, don't think this is all some game." Kyla started.

"Actually I was going to say that just because you know that digimon really exist don't expect to get one" Shawn sarcastically said.

"I already knew they exist." Kyla said, reaching into her pocket as Shawn looked very confused. "Here" She said as she tossed him a small purple device. Shawn looked at it. It was a mobile phone shaped device, indented on the left side.

"A..." Shawn started looking at it.

"D3, yes. That's what most people know them as." Kyla said. "That one is mine, I'm a digidestined. So you see, I already knew about digimon." Shawn was amazed at the D3 in his hands and never took his eyes off it.

"So who's your digimon?" He asked

"Tiomon. It's not one you'd know it wasn't on the TV show. It's best described as a mini rhinoceros"

"Are there..." Shawn started, still amazed that not only were there Tamers to learn about, but digidestined as well

"More digidestined?" Kyla finished Shawn's question "Yeah, there's thirteen of us in total, seven old digidestined, i.e. series one, and six new."

"Thirteen, shouldn't there be twelve?" Shawn asked, finally handing Kyla's D3 back to her.

"Based on two people from the old digidestined moving to the new. But only one did." Kyla explained.

"So where is your digimon?" Shawn asked "Couldn't you help us in battles?"

"Yeah, if she wasn't in the Digital world. All of our digimon went back there after we defeated Myotismon." Kyla said, a bit sad. "But if you've got digimon, then you have to have them for a reason." Shawn nodded in agreement. "So where is your digimon?" Kyla asked.

"Oh he's..." Shawn then saw a small white blur pass by them. "Running right past us? HEY TERRIERMON, WHERE YOU GOING?"

"THERE'S TROUBLE" Terriermon yelled back. Kyla and Shawn looked at each other and ran after him.

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Kyle Novich and Drakemon were wondering through the park fields, in a quiet place so nobody could see the little dragon digimon.

"So how well are you going to do in this tournament thingy tomorrow." Drakemon asked, playing fetch the ball for some exercise

"Don't know, there's some good talent at the tournament." Kyle said throwing the ball.

"You shouldn't be so negative. You're a good player, otherwise why would you get a real digimon and become a tamer?" Drakemon asked.

"I don't know."

"So you're a tamer huh?" A voice from behind them asked. "Then prepare to fight."

"What" Kyle turned around to see a large, silver star shaped figure. "Who are you?"

"I'm Starmon, it's nice to meet you" The large star said.

"Hm, Starmon, Champion data type." Kyle started to read of his digivice that he got out. "His attacks is Meteor Shower and he's not the nicest star in the sky."

"Well your right there mister tamer, and now I'm going to show you my power." Starmon raised his arms in the air and shouted "METEOR SHOWER" Starmon threw his hands down and small chunks of rock came flying out of the sky towards both tamer and digimon.

"Any ideas?" Kyle yelled towards his partner as he dodged meteor chucks

"Not yet!" Drakemon yelled back "But I'll let you know if I come up with anything!"

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Riku, Kerry, approached a small cliff as they ran up a path following their digimon partners, Renamon and Semimon. As they approached the edge they saw four other figures standing there.

"Wait!" the male said holding out his arm across their path.

"Wait? What do you mean wait?" Riku asked, looking over the cliff. She saw some male guy and a little dragon digimon take on a Starmon. She then looked at four figures accompanying her and her friends on the cliff. There was Shawn and Terriermon along with Joanna and her digimon, Shonecoolamon.

"Down there is Kyle Novich, a new tamer. Let him do this on his own!" Shawn said looking at Riku before turning back towards the fight.

"And why should we do that?" Kerry asked

"Lets put it this way" Shawn started. "After I got Terriermon I took out a Leomon on my own."

"Excuse me!" Terriermon said.

"You know what I mean." Shawn said to the small digimon "Joanna and Shonecoolamon here tell me they took out a Kuwagamon." He then motioned Kerry and Riku.

"Airdramon" Kerry solemnly said

"A Dark Tyrannomon" Riku said.

"See, we all had to fight once on our own." Shawn started and Terriermon coughed to catch Shawn's attention, while the three fox digimon all looked at him intensely. "You know what I mean! I suggest that you let the new guy down there do the same as we all have." Shawn reiterated

"Or?" Riku asked

"Or Terriermon here will take out your digimon, and I ain't talking to dinner." Shawn said, focusing back on the match, which still had Kyle and Drakemon dodging rocks.

"That's your threat? Come on Renamon lets go" Riku said as she started to move. Before she had finished her first step, she realised Renamon wasn't following her, and turned back. "Renamon?"

"I think we should let that Kyle do this on his own." Renamon explained

"Your not scared of that rabbit are you?" Riku asked

"No, but I believe Shawn has a point." Renamon said, and Riku huffed in anger. The four tamers and their digimon watched the fight continue below.

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As Drakemon was dodging his opponents constant barrage of meteors, he was slowly getting closer to Starmon for one reason only.

"DRAKE BITE" Drakemon yelled as he sank his teeth into one of Startmon's legs. "Kyle, I think I'm going to need a bit more power here buddy."

"You got it" Kyle said, searching for the card his digimon partner had indicated.

"Ow, you little vermin, that hurt" Starmon said, hopping backwards to recompose.

"Yeah, well I'm not a vermin I'm a dragon." Drakemon said as he started to glow. Kyle grabbed a card and slashed it through his green D-arc

"Digi-Modify: Power Chip activate."

"And this is going to hurt even more." Drakemon said as the red energy that surrounded his body collected into a ball in his mouth. "DRAKE BLAST" The energy shot forward towards Starmon, and in the air turned into a dragon shape and flew through the air, passing straight through Starmon.

"Damn you tamer, you'll never get away with this." Starmon said as he burst into specks of data.

"Isn't that meant to be our line?" Drakemon said, absorbing the data. Unbeknown to the new tamer pair, the eight figures on the on the cliff dispersed and went their separate ways, and Kyle and Drakemon continued on their way through the park.

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After getting a low vantage point this time, and almost being hit several times with stray meteors, Kyla decided that she should leave the park and go home. She had decided that she shouldn't been seen by the other tamers, so Shawn was going to liaison between them for the time being. She had, however, wanted to see this new tamer for her self, which from her ground view probably wasn't the best idea. She had also arranged to keep Terriermon out of trouble for Shawn during the tournament for two reasons. One to be around digimon again and two, so she could talk more to Shawn about what he knew on the tamers.

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Kyle and Drakemon were walking on their way through the park when Drakemon twitched his head around.

"What?" Kyle asked

"Another Digimon is near by." Drakemon explained. Kyle looked in the direction Drakemon was, and saw a shaded figure underneath a tree. Kyle moved closer to try and recognise the figure, who stepped forward into some light. Kyle then noticed that the figure was a human.

"That's not a digimon that..." Kyle then realised exactly who the figure was. "SHAWN! Err... I can explain, about this I mean" Kyle frantically said, pointing at his digimon and searching for an explanation.

"Explain what." A higher pitched voice said as something dropped down and hung from a tree branch, which was covered in leaves. "What's he got to explain Shawn, I can't see what he needs to explain, do you know what he has to explain?" Shawn held a hand up to the small, white, long eared (which is how it was hanging from the tree) creature to quiet him down.

"What he feels he has to explain," Shawn began "is why he has a digimon out in the open. But what he doesn't realise is that I already know he has a digimon."

"And that you have a digimon as well" The hanging digimon chipped in and Shawn nodded in agreement.

"A Terriermon?" Kyle questioned.

"That's me!" Terriermon said dropping from the tree. "Pleased to meet yah!"

"That means..." Kyle started

"That I'm a tamer as well." Shawn said smiling "Welcome to the club!"

The two tamers stood opposite each other, with Kyle in amazement. But what no tamers realised was that at that point there was a digimon crises going on and, although they're a little out of practice and they are being replaced, there is only one team you can call...



Finally - chapter 7 done! Sorry for the length! But don't worry cause the next chapter should have much more action for it's length - that's Riding a Bike next week, where some of the digidestined get back to doing what they do best - saving the digital world!!!

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