Disclaimer: There are voices inside my head and they don't like you. They
also like to see me suffer, so they force me to put up this disclaimer: I
don't own Digimon or it's characters.
Meanwhile somewhere where no one is looking:
Andrew: Howdy doo, thanks to everyone (If anyone) who is reading my fic
John: *walks in* hey Andrew look at this. No one has reviewed your fanfiction yet
Andrew: Huh *scans report* hey you're right. All you people, please review my fic. It can't get better if I get no input.
John: Thanks to anyone who's reading his fic. It's his first.
Chapter 5:
Departure
The next morning Mimi woke up into a blaze of sunlight shining through her window. Her pink robes shimmered in the light. She got up and yawned. First her eyes darted down to the large pot of dirt that still held a flower sticking out of it, indicating that Palmon was in there.
Next her eyes darted to the mirror on the far side of the wall, and saw her hair completely messed up. She walked over wondering if there was a comb in the cabinet. To her surprise, there was an assortment of hair sprays, combs, and hairbrushes. There was even a packet of stars for decorating her hair with. She began to brush her strawberry blonde hair.
Then she sprayed it so it would stay in the same place. Finally she finished with some stars in her hair. When Mimi finished she went back into her wardrobe to get her robes from the other day. She supposed she would have to wash them somehow.
Mimi opened the wardrobe and saw, to her astonishment, many dresses and gowns in an assortment of colors. She stared at the dresses.
"Oh, I get it." She said thoughtfully. "It's designed to give whatever I'm thinking." A whicker shape on the wardrobe rearranged itself to make the word "Bingo". Mimi smiled.
"Cool." She said. Then she closed it and asked it politely for some nice looking robes, as she had liked the fashion statement Andrew had come up with. There was a shuffling sound from inside and then the doors swung open. Mimi had been thinking of what a nice robe would be like, but she still gasped at what the wardrobe made. They were robes, of course in different materials and colors, but they were embodied with gold, or gems. They shone brightly and she noticed that the matching slippers at the bottom were also jewel studded. There were even tiaras at the top. Mimi chose pink robes and slippers studded with sapphires and blue diamonds. She also chose a gold tiara that had a single emerald in the center.
Mimi was just shutting the wardrobe when suddenly a voice spoke from behind her. "Dear me, you're looking lovely today." Mimi spun around and saw Andrew's head in the mirror. He smiled at her and said, "good morning, would you like to take a bath? Lexx, Jennifer, Sammie, Sora, and Kari are already taking one. And no, I just showed up." Mimi had been looking slightly suspicious, but at his last words she smiled.
"Good morning to you too Andrew, and yes I would like a bath thanks." Andrew nodded still smiling and said, "good, just say 'Andrew, room please' when you're done." Then he jerked his head.
Mimi suddenly felt herself disappear and her clothes disappear also. She rematerialized above a large pool of water. It was actually quite beautiful, 50 ft by 50 ft with marble outsides, and a fountain of an angel spraying water out all over the place in the middle. She fell into the water with an almighty splash and a yelp of surprise. There was laughter from behind her. Mimi, who was under the water and saw it was about ten feet deep, kicked up to the top. He head broke the water and she turned around to see Sora, Sammie, Lexx, Jennifer, and Kari all in the water also. All around the pool of water there were little statues of all kinds of Capricorns with little knobs on them.
"Hi Mimi," said Kari. "Nice entrance." Mimi ignored that last comment and said "Hello, isn't this a little deep for a bathing pool?"
Lexx smiled, "Yes but the water near the bottom is denser, so it feels like you're standing on something hard." Mimi just noticed this and closed her mouth.
"It must be enchanted," said Sammie. You wouldn't expect anything else in Andrew's house would you?" "Yeah." Agreed Sora and Mimi.
Mimi began looking around for some kind of soap to wash her. Then she took a better look at the horns on the outside. She swam over to one with a strawberry carved into the horn and turned on one of the taps. At once a pinkish red liquid sprayed out of the horn. Mimi caught a splash of it and smelled it. It had a strawberry smell to it.
"That's shampoo." Said Jennifer. "The ones on the left are shampoo, and the right ones are body soap."
"How do you know that?" Asked Mimi as she washed her hair. Jennifer pointed towards a sign on the wall as she began with her own hair. It kept flashing different messages across it.
Please no diving, Right tap, Soap, Left tap, shampoo, Ask the birds for anything else.
Were just a few of it's messages. Mimi scowled at the third message.
"What does it mean, 'Ask the birds'?" She asked. Suddenly a voice spoke.
"Me!" it said. They all looked up past the walkway outside the pool. There were many fruit trees and palm trees. In the trees there were many multicolored birds. One of them was looking down at them.
"Me!" It repeated. "If you want anything just ask me! Would you like some fresh fruit?" It picked up a grape vine and held it out for anyone.
The female Digidestined continued washing themselves, while talking, and occasionally being fed fruit from the multicolored birds. Kari, who had obviously came first, finished first, said goodbye, and then called "Andrew, room please." She suddenly disappeared. Sammie scowled.
"Ya know I wonder if he's watching us?" She thought out loud. "Oh well, Andrew, room please." She also disappeared. One by one they disappeared until finally Mimi was the only one left. She asked for one more fresh strawberry from a bird, caught it in her mouth and said, "Andrew, room please."
Mimi materialized back in her room with a towel around her. She dried herself off, fixed her hair again, and changed back into her attire she had chosen before Andrew had teleported her into the bath. That's when she noticed a note on the wall. Mimi looked at it intently. It read, "Mimi, to get anywhere you want to go in my house, just stand under that rope, say where you want to go, and pull. Andrew. P.S. Breakfast is at10:30." Mimi glanced at the clock. It was 9:30 now. She decided to go to Andrew's living room. She stood under the rope, said "Living room." And pulled.
She wished Andrew had warned her about what would happen if she did. The floor disappeared under her. She fell through down right into the middle of Andrew's living room. She stood stunned there for a minute, then she looked up at the ceiling. It was just a ceiling. Then Mimi looked back around the room. It was exactly how she remembered it. There was a small table on one side of the room next to the wall they had come out of before, but the rest of it was covered in chairs and couches. They had been too surprised to actually sit down in the chairs the time they had come. There was only one occupant in one of those chairs. It was Serra. She smiled at Mimi and said,
"Have a seat, dear. By the way, you're looking splendid in those robes." Mimi also smiled and sat down.
Neither of them spoke for a while, until finally Serra said, "Would you like something to entertain you until breakfast?" Mimi was about to reply yes, when suddenly a thought struck her.
"No," she replied. "I'd like to learn how you teleport me from place to place so I can do it myself." Serra smiled.
"So you want to learn magic eh? Well I suppose I could teach you how to do a simple spell or two in one hour. But first I'd like to know what kind of magic you'd like to learn." Mimi looked surprised. There were different kinds of magics? Well, she really didn't want to learn destruction magic. She cast her mind about for a magic Andrew had mentioned and she suddenly remembered something.
"How about healing first?" She asked. The others smile broadened and she nodded. Mimi felt her body disappear and reappear outside next to the fields of wheat. She scowled. "Then that."
Serra laughed her sweet laugh.
"Okay, first we'll start with wheat-magic. It'll be a while before you can draw the power from inside of yourself." She then took a knife out of her pocket and cut herself on the top of her hand. A little trickle of blood poured out of it. Then she took a piece of wheat-magic and threw it on her hand.
"Concentrate hard on the cut disappearing and the cut healing as hard as you can." Serra instructed. The golden magic flew down onto the cut, which suddenly disappeared. There was still a little drizzle of blood on her hand though.
Serra cut herself again while saying, "You try." Mimi looked at the cut on Serra's hand then took a piece of magic. It suddenly became warm and buttery in her hands. Mimi closed her eyes and concentrated on the cut healing. Then she hastily threw it onto Serra's hand. Nothing happened.
"Don't worry about the cut for right now. Sometime in the future you may need to go speedily, but now just take your time." Serra told her. Mimi took another piece of magic and concentrated hard. She took about a minute of focusing harder then she ever had before in her life on the wound recovering, then slowly the dropped it onto Serra's hand. The wound mostly disappeared. There was only a small scab left. It was actually smaller then the original cut.
Serra smiled at her and said "good job. You Digidestined catch on quickly." Mimi looked very happy.
"Now," Serra suddenly sat down and motioned Mimi to do the same on a tablecloth that had appeared out of nowhere. "It is time to learn about magic's intricate design." Mimi sat down on the tablecloth and look interestedly at Serra.
"What you must do is sit and mediate. This will take about twenty minutes to do. You must clear your mind of other thoughts and just focus on the power of magic. You felt that power in you hands when you felt the magic?" Mimi nodded.
"If you are lucky, you may feel the true power of magic." With that Serra shut her eyes, took a deep breath, and began to meditate. Mimi looked at Serra for a moment, then followed suit. She relaxed for about five minutes, then suddenly realized she was trying to concentrate too hard on relaxing. Mimi again began to try to clear her mind. She pushed all of the thoughts to the outside of her mind and just focused on magic. She focused on magic with all of her mind. After about fifteen minutes however, she felt something. A flash of power, of energy. She realized that it was the energy that was called magic. She focused again. There it was again, the flash of magic. Mimi focused one more time and felt the magic again, but this time she tried to hold onto it. When she tried this, something miraculous happened.
Mimi felt as if she had just been plunged into a grid of golden light. There were lines all around her of golden color that crossed, and connected each other into a pattern of golden light. Mimi saw how to move the pattern just slightly so that the golden light would flow through her too. With even trying to, she did it. The golden energy flowed through her, and into her very being. She felt as though a great balloon was swelling up inside her heart. She suddenly became warm. Her eyes snapped open, and saw that she was engulfed in an egg of the wheat magic.
"Serra?" Serra opened her eyes and looked at Mimi.
"Impressive." She said. "You have actually learned how to channel the magic to flow through yourself instead of pulling it out of the world around you. If you don't become too blocked off from the world, you should be able to channel magic at will. I believe you are actually the first person who has ever done that his or her first day. Congratulations."
Mimi looked as the golden light around her faded into her body. Suddenly a ball of light flew out towards them. There was a voice from in front of them, as if it spoke from the ball of light. Mimi recognized the voice as that of the person called John.
"We got trouble." He said.
Mimi and Serra appeared in a room that they had not been in before. There was nothing there, just white painted walls. So far the only ones there were the two that had just appeared, Andrew, and John. Mimi looked at the black haired boy, and was slightly surprised to see him floating in mid- air as though he were on a chair. He looked as if he were pushing buttons on a computer. Every time his fingers would strike a key, a different colored light would appear. In front of him, there was a screen that kept lighting up and flashing. Only where the glass part was visible though.
"Would you like a chair Mimi?" Asked Serra. She didn't even bother to wait for an answer, she just pointed near the wall with two fingers, and then dragged her fingers to point under Mimi. Suddenly Mimi felt herself being forced into the air. Then she was settled hovering a few feet above the ground. Serra floated over towards John and stood floating in air just like Andrew.
Meanwhile, John was talking very fast to Andrew. "About an hour ago I monitored a temporal shift in the cosmosis barrier that we set up. There was an incredible flare of dark magic. I've been trying to locate the source of the energy. So far I've been unsuccessful. Right now I'm brining up a map of the surrounding area and from there I'll attempt to find the enemy." Andrew stared hard at the map that had appeared.
"It's masking itself very well from our scanners if we haven't found it yet. Bring up a sensor reading of any life forms in the area." Mimi, who was still floating was trying very hard to ignore what they were saying as so she wouldn't be confused. Instead, she concentrated on trying to move the chair. Suddenly, it went forward about a foot. Mimi concentrated again and again until she got the hang of moving the invisible chair. Then she moved up to the map. The sensor scan had finally finished. There must have been about one thousand little dots on that screen.
"How do we identify it?" Andrew asked.
"I'm working on that." Said John. He looked thoughtful, and then he said, "We may have to manually search these things. But that might take too long if I'm correct in thinking what they're after."
Serra nodded and said, "The Digidestined." Mimi looked nothing short of petrified.
"Don't worry, as long as you're with us, you're safe." Explained Serra. Mimi looked slightly less pale. Right then John said, "Wait, I'm getting something." They all looked intently at the map. There was a rapidly growing black blotch on the screen. It seemed to be about fifty feet away from the house. John was suddenly tapping keys like mad. He hit a button that was probably "Enter". Suddenly in the middle of the room, there was a flicker of light.
The, what seemed to be screen, flickered and blinked. Then something appeared in the middle of it. A black figure mounted on a black horse, and about ten people surrounding him. They all had black hair, blood red eyes and wicked looking swords. Mimi could just see bows on their backs.
"Shit." Said John. It was the first time he had ever swore in front of Mimi. "It's the same crowd of seekers and the champion again.
"Shit." Muttered Andrew and Serra. "Can you pinpoint their location?" John began to madly tap keys again. "Forty feat from the house and closing fast." Andrew suddenly turned around towards Mimi.
"Could you gather the other Digidestined and meet us outside. There you'll be able to escape if you need to get away quickly." Mimi nodded but asked, "How should I get to them. I don't know where they are and your house is big enough." Andrew was checking to see if he had everything.
"Do the thing I told you to do earlier, but say their name." Andrew explained. She nodded, walked over to a rope lever that had been hidden in a dark corner. She stood under it, said, "Tai." And pulled.
Five minutes later the Digidestined and their Digimon materialized right out front of Andrew's house. Immediately they saw the three owners of the house standing about twenty feet in front of them. Andrew was just wrenching his sword out of one of the little ones stomach. Serra was stabbing at the guy on the horse with a lance that glowed silver. John was reloading his crossbow, but Mimi saw that about half of the ones down had crossbow bolts sticking out of them. The Digimon saw at once what was happening and digivolved to their Ultimate of Mega forms.
"Agumon warp digivolve to. WARGREYMON!"
"Gabumon warp digivolve to. METALGARURUMON!"
"Tentomon digivolve to. KABUTERIMON! Kabuterimon Digivolve to. MEGAKABUTERIMON!" And so on until finally,
"Foximon digivolve to. GLORYMON! Glorymon digivolve to. POLARGLORYMON!"
"Cunomon digivolve to. SARTOMON! Sartomon digivolve to DRACOSARTOMON!"
"Foxmon digivolve to. VIXINMON! Vixinmon digivolve to. FIREVIXINMON!" Then they charged forward and attacked. There were only four of the black haired ones left, and then there was the man on the horse who was currently warding of blows from all the humans. At first it seemed as if the Digimon would have no problems beating the smaller ones. But that was because they were surprised to see them. By the time the first one was killed the Digimon, including the Megas were already tired. Their opponents didn't seem to be getting tired though. It took about fifteen more minutes before only the Megas and the final human was there. Then, what they had heard Andrew call a 'Dark Seeker' take out a potion. He drank the potion in one gulp but seemed to be waiting for something.
The Digimon took this time to recover. Suddenly the Dark Seeker held out his hand and blasted a huge fireball at them. They were too tired to dodge out of the way in time. The Digimon were knocked back and reverted to their in-training states. Tai and Matt ran up to their partners.
"Hang in there Koromon." Assured Tai.
"I'll get him for this Tsunomon." Matt told his Digimon. The Dark Seeker was slightly bent over. There was some electricity swirling around him, but then his muscles grew and expanded. He roared evilly.
"He grew stronger because he defeated our Digimon, how is that possible?" Asked Izzy. The dark seeker looked up, fixing Izzy with his red eyes. "When you die, you'll find out." He snarled. Mimi saw Matt stand up abruptly. He unsheathed his sword, the Frost Bitten Blade. Mimi knew that he had been working on his swordsmanship all day, before he had taken a bath. He was pretty good, but Mimi seriously doubted that he could take this super- concentrated freak.
"Bring it on." Matt yelled at him.
"Matt, don't do it." Cried Jennifer. "He'll kill you."
"I can handle this." Matt reassured her. Then he charged at the dark seeker, sword upraised.
The man was smiling a very nasty smile. When Matt brought his sword swishing down he parried it. Then he raised his own sword and brought in down in a chop aimed at Matt's head. Matt brought his sword quickly up to block it. When both swords connected, Matt was smashed backwards about five feet. The man's smile widened even more nastily. His strength was increased ten fold. Then he charged and went into a frenzy of blows, most of which were blocked or parried by Matt. Once or twice however, a cut got through his defense and a splatter of blood would spray on the ground. Right now there was a cut on his face, arms, legs, and even his chest. Matt was breathing very hard.
"MATT, GET OUT OF THERE, HE'S KILLING YOU!!!" Screamed Jennifer in the middle of tears. Mimi meanwhile, was looking at some wheat magic. She knew what she must do. Now if the time was any, to use her newfound power. She wasn't sure if she could control it. She took one last look at Andrew, Serra, and John, who were still fighting the mounted figure (all of them, even the Champion of Torm were looking winded), and then took a piece of wheat magic. She felt a reaction to the magic inside of her now. She held the stuff close to her heart, closed her eyes, and began to concentrate with all her might on healing Matt, completely, even his stamina. She focused so hard that she somehow felt herself begin to glow.
"Mimi, what the." She heard Tai say in a confused sort of way. She couldn't let this distract her. When she was sure beyond sure that the Magic had taken the form she had wanted it to, she opened her eyes. Matt was standing a foot away from the dark figure, completely winded. The Dark Seeker was standing tall and mighty over him, about to finish him off. Mimi hurled the piece of magic at Matt. She didn't even see it go, it just was suddenly around Matt. The Dark Seeker moved back a couple feet in surprise.
"What the?" He exclaimed. Suddenly there was a blue light inside Matt. He stood tall and the light disappeared.
"Get him Matt!" Everyone yelled. He grinned and raised his sword over his head. Then he plunged it into the earth in front of him.
"What's he doing?" Asked TK. Everyone stared at Matt. Suddenly the ground in front of Matt froze. It looked as if the ice was going right under the Dark Seeker. When it was under him it suddenly shot up, freezing him up to the waist. He screamed. Matt wrenched his sword out of the ground, took one last step towards the man, and slashed him across the chest. There was an instant of blood spurting, and then his cut became ice. The Dark Seeker was dead. Everyone stared at Matt then screamed in happiness.
"You did it!" Yelled Jennifer as she ran at him with tears running down her face. "You beat that bastard!" Matt caught her up in his arms and embraced her. They hugged for about a minute, but then when they let go, Matt said, "It was because of Mimi. She used magic to heal me." He turned towards her.
"How did you do that?" He asked her. Mimi smiled and just muttered, "Just a little something that Serra taught me." Then she held her hands to her heart. This time she reached inside herself for the power she had managed to channel earlier. She began to glow with a soft golden light.
"Oh my." She heard Kari gasp. Mimi let the light fade. Then she looked up and glanced back to Andrew, Serra, and John. They were of course, still fighting. John and Serra seemed to be hanging back and resting. Andrew was floating in the air, darting out of the way of attacks. The sky had turned darker for some reason. Mimi didn't yell to them, she just ran up to them.
"What's going on?" She asked Serra. Serra had blood all over her she looked a real mess. One of her eyes seemed to be jammed shut. There was one long cut up from her leg to her chin. She was still holding the lance in her hands, but it was almost limp.
"What does it look like, we're fighting. Well, Andrew still is anyway." She answered. Right then Andrew dodged a swipe at him with a spear in midair, and slashed at his attackers' open belly. The Champion of Torm screamed as the sword rammed into his gut. Black blood spilled out of him. He felt himself and let out a fresh howl. White power was running up the blade of Andrews' sword. He let out a smirk, and then slashed at him. He was too far away to actually hit him, but then a white blast shot out of his sword. It smacked into the side of his opponents horse. There was suddenly a huge explosion. When the smoke had cleared, there was nothing left, nothing. Not even his armor or even his spear was left. Andrew let out a sigh of relief. He turned back to the others and muttered in an exasperated kind of way, "Breakfast anyone?" Everyone looked amazed. But they slowly nodded. Andrew snapped his fingers.
Mimi materialized in her room after breakfast. She looked in the cabinet that the hair stuff had been in, wondering if there were any toothbrushes she missed. To her (little) surprise, there was an assortment of toothbrushes, toothpastes, and dental flosses in there this time. She shrugged and figured she should've known better. When she closed it and turned around, there was a sink right in front of her. I love this room! She thought.
When she had finished brushing her teeth she took the trapdoor express (that's what Mimi called the rope that was used to teleport all over Andrews' house.) into Andrews' living room. Andrew must not be ready yet because he wasn't there. He had told them to meet him there. There was only one occupant of those chairs. It was Serra. She smiled at Mimi and told her, "Take a seat dear, and by the way you're looking splendid in those robes." Mimi laughed out loud. She did take a seat. Serra began the conversation. "So, I heard you saved one of your friends by healing him. You used the spell I taught you." Mimi nodded, and Serra gave her a look. The look plainly said, "Good job, I'm proud of you!"
"But, I have a feeling inside of me. I've rarely felt this feeling ever before. What is it?" Asked Mimi. Serra smiled again, and explained, "You have this feeling because you did something. You saved your friend in order for him to defeat a powerful evil. You achieved an ability that few have the skills cut to do. You did it by yourself. That gains you a feeling that feels like a happy balloon inside of you. Do you know what this feeling is?" Mimi shook her head. She for some reason expected her to say love, but it was, "Pride." Mimi stared and was just about to say something when Matt materialized in the middle of the room and ended their conversation.
Matt strode over to the seats they were occupying and plopped down. He leaned in towards Mimi and muttered, "Thanks." Mimi felt herself blushing. Right then Tai appeared in the middle of the room. He looked a bit dazed.
"Isn't there any other way to get around your house? Does this place even have doors?" He asked Serra.
"Not besides the two. And they automatically close after you walk through them. So you have to use the rope." Replied Serra. "And you might want to get out of the way."
"Why?" He asked as he stepped away from the middle of the room. He wasn't quick enough. Sora had obviously taken the trapdoor express to get there right then. There was a crash then a yelp of pain.
"Oops." Muttered Serra. "I wasn't quick enough." Mimi and Matt laughed as Sora and Tai tried to disentangle themselves. It didn't work, so Sora began to bellow herself horse at Tai, which made Matt and Mimi laugh even more. To add to the confusion, there was a pop and suddenly Lexx was standing on top of the wriggling Sora and Tai. She didn't even lose her balance as Tai gave a yelp of surprise and tried to buck her off. She just hopped off, looked behind her, and sighed, "Get a room you two. seriously." Lexx got down and helped disentangle the two. When they got up, Lexx said, "Honestly, we're about to embark of a journey to save our people, and you two are worried about your sex life! For crying out loud!" Sora looked like she was ready to explode. Matt quickly attempted to change the subject.
"So are we leaving now?" He asked Lexx.
Lexx walked away from the couple and towards Serra.
"Yes, at least that's what Andrew said. As soon as everyone is together, we'll go." She sat down in a seat that had pulled itself into existence by Serra's will at that very moment. Sora and Tai walked over and stood next to each other. They were about to sit on the floor, when a chair appeared behind them too. They both sat down, but Tai was quicker. Sora ended up on his lap. He went brick red and Sora got annoyed. She was probably about to freak out on Tai again when the seat suddenly lengthened itself into a love seat. Tai moved Sora next to him, and put his arm around her. She looked awkward, but then smiled, and let her head rest on Tai's shoulder.
"I love you Tai." Sora muttered.
"I love you too Sora, no matter what." He replied. Her smile deepened. Mimi looked at Serra. "Do you know about love? Have you ever been in love? But I suppose you're a bit young to have had a love." Mimi muttered looking at her young preference. She had to be only thirteen. Serra scowled at Mimi, but then smiled.
"Oh of course. No, you think I'm thirteen years old, when in fact I'm closer to thirteen hundred years old. I could find out exactly how old I am, but that would take a while." Mimi stared. "But how could you survive, you look like you're thirteen." Serra smiled and said, "Our magic has changed our appearance as sort of a side affect. And our age, hmmm, I won't tell you, no offense, but someday you'll understand." Mimi nodded but was still confused.
"Besides," chimed in Matt. "You cannot love someone for who they look like. You must love someone for who they are on the inside." "Here, here." Whispered a voice. Everyone looked at the center of the room, including Sora and Tai, and saw Jennifer. She walked over towards Matt in the chair that had suddenly become a love seat. She sat down beside Matt, who smiled at her. She looked at Serra, and mouthed,
"You're really good." Then she stared into Matt's eyes. He stared back. She suddenly pulled him into a tight kiss. Mimi looked away, not wanting to be rude, but the grin on her face was set. Instead she began the conversation she had had with Serra. "So have you ever loved anyone?" She asked. Serra looked thoughtful. "Yes." She finally admitted. "There was a person. His name was Lucas. He had to have been the kindest, most generous person I've ever met. He was so handsome."
"What happened to him?" Inquired Mimi.
"Nothing." She replied.
"So, he's still alive?"
"Sort of. He's in stasis. That's what I mean by nothing. Torm took him and froze him, so all of his bodily functions had suddenly been frozen as so he would never be free, but still alive. It's a kind of torture." Her face hardened. "You have no love Mimi, at the moment anyway. Let me give you one piece of advice. When you give your heart to someone, know whom you're giving your heart to. I knew what I was doing. But Torm interfered. I've lost the one I love. You have no idea what it's like to lose a person you loved with all your heart. It's terrible." It took a moment for Mimi to notice that Serra was chocking back tears.
"I'm sorry for bringing up painful memories Serra." Mimi apologized. "Nonsense, you had no idea. But you can see how bad it must be." Mimi nodded, and Serra suddenly became her usual, cheerful self. Mimi took a moment to see if anyone was watching them. Both couples were too lip locked to notice the conversation that had just gone on. Lexx had been listening in, but she just winked at Mimi and turned away.
Slowly the room filled as Digidestined and eventually their Digimon appeared in the middle of the room. When Izzy showed up, the chair Lexx had been sitting in became a couch. Mimi had the strangest idea that Serra could read minds. Lexx asked Izzy to sit down next to her. He looked surprised but didn't get a chance to answer as Lexx had suddenly pulled him down next to him and put his arm around her. Then she had an excuse to put her head on his shoulder. He was looking very awkward, but he didn't seem to mind at all.
Last to appear was Andrew. Serra and Mimi had been talking about badgers and their strange ways ("The whole lot of them are paranoid I tell ya!" Said Serra) when he suddenly was in the middle of the room. John who had appeared only an instant earlier had to dodge out of the way. Everyone fell silent as he stepped towards the Digidestined. He waved and suddenly a map appeared in the middle of the room. The windows were suddenly blackened as so they could see. The map was of a very thick continent that eventually narrowed up into a peninsula. There were a couple islands here and there, and in the middle of the continent was a green dot. On the end of the peninsula was a red dot.
"We are here." Explained Andrew, pointing towards the green dot.
"This is our destination." Continued John, gesturing towards the red dot.
"To get there, we are going to take the shortest route possible, a straight line, towards the temple." Andrew told them. His finger went from some fields, to a lake, on towards a large mountain surrounded by a desert, through a forest, to an even bigger mountain, and finally onto the peninsula. Between these landscapes was obviously just grass or fields. "The distance," John grinned. "Three hundred and forty two miles." Everyone stared at him. They had learned conversions between miles and kilometers in school, and they knew that that was one long distance they had to walk. "Therefore," Andrew said into the silence, "We'll be getting something to ride on before we go." Mimi prepared herself and Andrew raised his fingers and snapped them.
They suddenly materialized in a paddock full of creatures. The first thing Mimi noticed was that her clothes had changed from her elegant robes and tiara, to traveling clothes. In the paddock was an assortment of creatures.
Horses of course, but there were also other things. Horse like creatures that were pure white and long antlers sticking out of their heads. There was giant rats, giant warthogs, goats, dinosaur looking things, and even a giant snake or two. Andrew walked around; he seemed to be looking for something. Andrew told them, " Pick one." Mimi looked around. There wasn't much in here that she would really want to ride. There was another paddock about fifty feet away, and Mimi could see Unicorns, and Bicorn, but there was a sign hung on the fence that said, "Untamable".
Mimi turned back around and saw Andrew hop onto one of the horse-like creatures with antlers. He whispered in its ear. It snorted and said in a deep voice, "I could run the Canyon of Fallout and come out without a bead of sweat." Everyone stared and Andrew replied, "I know." Then he noticed everyone staring at him. "This is a Stag." He told them. "A powerful magical beast that can speak English. Cool huh?" Everyone still stared.
Fifteen minutes later everyone had something to ride. Andrew was of course riding the Stag. He called it Eldar the White. Tai was riding a horse, Matt a dinosaur looking thing called an Uryasaur, Izzy a horse, Sora had a horse, Mimi was a Uryasaur, TK a Stag, Kari a Stag, Jennifer a horse, Sammie a Stag, and Lexx a horse. They all rode off to begin their adventure. They didn't have food or extra clothing, but John had assured them that there was enough food in the wild for all twenty-five of them, including the Digimon. Their clothes were enchanted ("I should've known." Said Kari") as so they would self-wash themselves of fix minor tears. The Digimon had all reverted back to in-training and were riding their respective partners horse, Stag, or Uryasaur. Mimi looked around.
They were going to save the world, again, but right now it felt like they were just camping. If it was such a tough task, why weren't they flying there? Or perhaps they could just teleport with Andrew's magic. She sped up to talk with him.
"Why are we taking a ground path? I saw some griffins in one of those paddocks of yours. Couldn't we just fly to the temple? Or teleport?" She demanded. Andrew gave a wry smile.
"Because our enemies don't underestimate us. Getting there on a land route will be hard enough. Getting there on an air route is impossible. Torm's followers are guarding the skies like wrathful eagles. And to be able to teleport there is near impossible. There happens to be a magic ward. A magic ward will push anyone who tries to teleport within one hundred miles of the temple, who is trying to get to the temple back. To break that magic ward would take more power than you can begin to imagine, and more than I can hope to harness." He replied. Mimi looked surprised. But she recovered herself to say,
"Well why not teleport right outside those miles, and then we could take the land path." Now there was no trace of a smile on his face. He answered in a serious voice, "Because that's what our enemies expect of us." And so they rode off, into the brink. Full of strange creatures and twisted destines in order the save the human race.
Meanwhile somewhere where no one is looking:
Andrew: Howdy doo, thanks to everyone (If anyone) who is reading my fic
John: *walks in* hey Andrew look at this. No one has reviewed your fanfiction yet
Andrew: Huh *scans report* hey you're right. All you people, please review my fic. It can't get better if I get no input.
John: Thanks to anyone who's reading his fic. It's his first.
Chapter 5:
Departure
The next morning Mimi woke up into a blaze of sunlight shining through her window. Her pink robes shimmered in the light. She got up and yawned. First her eyes darted down to the large pot of dirt that still held a flower sticking out of it, indicating that Palmon was in there.
Next her eyes darted to the mirror on the far side of the wall, and saw her hair completely messed up. She walked over wondering if there was a comb in the cabinet. To her surprise, there was an assortment of hair sprays, combs, and hairbrushes. There was even a packet of stars for decorating her hair with. She began to brush her strawberry blonde hair.
Then she sprayed it so it would stay in the same place. Finally she finished with some stars in her hair. When Mimi finished she went back into her wardrobe to get her robes from the other day. She supposed she would have to wash them somehow.
Mimi opened the wardrobe and saw, to her astonishment, many dresses and gowns in an assortment of colors. She stared at the dresses.
"Oh, I get it." She said thoughtfully. "It's designed to give whatever I'm thinking." A whicker shape on the wardrobe rearranged itself to make the word "Bingo". Mimi smiled.
"Cool." She said. Then she closed it and asked it politely for some nice looking robes, as she had liked the fashion statement Andrew had come up with. There was a shuffling sound from inside and then the doors swung open. Mimi had been thinking of what a nice robe would be like, but she still gasped at what the wardrobe made. They were robes, of course in different materials and colors, but they were embodied with gold, or gems. They shone brightly and she noticed that the matching slippers at the bottom were also jewel studded. There were even tiaras at the top. Mimi chose pink robes and slippers studded with sapphires and blue diamonds. She also chose a gold tiara that had a single emerald in the center.
Mimi was just shutting the wardrobe when suddenly a voice spoke from behind her. "Dear me, you're looking lovely today." Mimi spun around and saw Andrew's head in the mirror. He smiled at her and said, "good morning, would you like to take a bath? Lexx, Jennifer, Sammie, Sora, and Kari are already taking one. And no, I just showed up." Mimi had been looking slightly suspicious, but at his last words she smiled.
"Good morning to you too Andrew, and yes I would like a bath thanks." Andrew nodded still smiling and said, "good, just say 'Andrew, room please' when you're done." Then he jerked his head.
Mimi suddenly felt herself disappear and her clothes disappear also. She rematerialized above a large pool of water. It was actually quite beautiful, 50 ft by 50 ft with marble outsides, and a fountain of an angel spraying water out all over the place in the middle. She fell into the water with an almighty splash and a yelp of surprise. There was laughter from behind her. Mimi, who was under the water and saw it was about ten feet deep, kicked up to the top. He head broke the water and she turned around to see Sora, Sammie, Lexx, Jennifer, and Kari all in the water also. All around the pool of water there were little statues of all kinds of Capricorns with little knobs on them.
"Hi Mimi," said Kari. "Nice entrance." Mimi ignored that last comment and said "Hello, isn't this a little deep for a bathing pool?"
Lexx smiled, "Yes but the water near the bottom is denser, so it feels like you're standing on something hard." Mimi just noticed this and closed her mouth.
"It must be enchanted," said Sammie. You wouldn't expect anything else in Andrew's house would you?" "Yeah." Agreed Sora and Mimi.
Mimi began looking around for some kind of soap to wash her. Then she took a better look at the horns on the outside. She swam over to one with a strawberry carved into the horn and turned on one of the taps. At once a pinkish red liquid sprayed out of the horn. Mimi caught a splash of it and smelled it. It had a strawberry smell to it.
"That's shampoo." Said Jennifer. "The ones on the left are shampoo, and the right ones are body soap."
"How do you know that?" Asked Mimi as she washed her hair. Jennifer pointed towards a sign on the wall as she began with her own hair. It kept flashing different messages across it.
Please no diving, Right tap, Soap, Left tap, shampoo, Ask the birds for anything else.
Were just a few of it's messages. Mimi scowled at the third message.
"What does it mean, 'Ask the birds'?" She asked. Suddenly a voice spoke.
"Me!" it said. They all looked up past the walkway outside the pool. There were many fruit trees and palm trees. In the trees there were many multicolored birds. One of them was looking down at them.
"Me!" It repeated. "If you want anything just ask me! Would you like some fresh fruit?" It picked up a grape vine and held it out for anyone.
The female Digidestined continued washing themselves, while talking, and occasionally being fed fruit from the multicolored birds. Kari, who had obviously came first, finished first, said goodbye, and then called "Andrew, room please." She suddenly disappeared. Sammie scowled.
"Ya know I wonder if he's watching us?" She thought out loud. "Oh well, Andrew, room please." She also disappeared. One by one they disappeared until finally Mimi was the only one left. She asked for one more fresh strawberry from a bird, caught it in her mouth and said, "Andrew, room please."
Mimi materialized back in her room with a towel around her. She dried herself off, fixed her hair again, and changed back into her attire she had chosen before Andrew had teleported her into the bath. That's when she noticed a note on the wall. Mimi looked at it intently. It read, "Mimi, to get anywhere you want to go in my house, just stand under that rope, say where you want to go, and pull. Andrew. P.S. Breakfast is at10:30." Mimi glanced at the clock. It was 9:30 now. She decided to go to Andrew's living room. She stood under the rope, said "Living room." And pulled.
She wished Andrew had warned her about what would happen if she did. The floor disappeared under her. She fell through down right into the middle of Andrew's living room. She stood stunned there for a minute, then she looked up at the ceiling. It was just a ceiling. Then Mimi looked back around the room. It was exactly how she remembered it. There was a small table on one side of the room next to the wall they had come out of before, but the rest of it was covered in chairs and couches. They had been too surprised to actually sit down in the chairs the time they had come. There was only one occupant in one of those chairs. It was Serra. She smiled at Mimi and said,
"Have a seat, dear. By the way, you're looking splendid in those robes." Mimi also smiled and sat down.
Neither of them spoke for a while, until finally Serra said, "Would you like something to entertain you until breakfast?" Mimi was about to reply yes, when suddenly a thought struck her.
"No," she replied. "I'd like to learn how you teleport me from place to place so I can do it myself." Serra smiled.
"So you want to learn magic eh? Well I suppose I could teach you how to do a simple spell or two in one hour. But first I'd like to know what kind of magic you'd like to learn." Mimi looked surprised. There were different kinds of magics? Well, she really didn't want to learn destruction magic. She cast her mind about for a magic Andrew had mentioned and she suddenly remembered something.
"How about healing first?" She asked. The others smile broadened and she nodded. Mimi felt her body disappear and reappear outside next to the fields of wheat. She scowled. "Then that."
Serra laughed her sweet laugh.
"Okay, first we'll start with wheat-magic. It'll be a while before you can draw the power from inside of yourself." She then took a knife out of her pocket and cut herself on the top of her hand. A little trickle of blood poured out of it. Then she took a piece of wheat-magic and threw it on her hand.
"Concentrate hard on the cut disappearing and the cut healing as hard as you can." Serra instructed. The golden magic flew down onto the cut, which suddenly disappeared. There was still a little drizzle of blood on her hand though.
Serra cut herself again while saying, "You try." Mimi looked at the cut on Serra's hand then took a piece of magic. It suddenly became warm and buttery in her hands. Mimi closed her eyes and concentrated on the cut healing. Then she hastily threw it onto Serra's hand. Nothing happened.
"Don't worry about the cut for right now. Sometime in the future you may need to go speedily, but now just take your time." Serra told her. Mimi took another piece of magic and concentrated hard. She took about a minute of focusing harder then she ever had before in her life on the wound recovering, then slowly the dropped it onto Serra's hand. The wound mostly disappeared. There was only a small scab left. It was actually smaller then the original cut.
Serra smiled at her and said "good job. You Digidestined catch on quickly." Mimi looked very happy.
"Now," Serra suddenly sat down and motioned Mimi to do the same on a tablecloth that had appeared out of nowhere. "It is time to learn about magic's intricate design." Mimi sat down on the tablecloth and look interestedly at Serra.
"What you must do is sit and mediate. This will take about twenty minutes to do. You must clear your mind of other thoughts and just focus on the power of magic. You felt that power in you hands when you felt the magic?" Mimi nodded.
"If you are lucky, you may feel the true power of magic." With that Serra shut her eyes, took a deep breath, and began to meditate. Mimi looked at Serra for a moment, then followed suit. She relaxed for about five minutes, then suddenly realized she was trying to concentrate too hard on relaxing. Mimi again began to try to clear her mind. She pushed all of the thoughts to the outside of her mind and just focused on magic. She focused on magic with all of her mind. After about fifteen minutes however, she felt something. A flash of power, of energy. She realized that it was the energy that was called magic. She focused again. There it was again, the flash of magic. Mimi focused one more time and felt the magic again, but this time she tried to hold onto it. When she tried this, something miraculous happened.
Mimi felt as if she had just been plunged into a grid of golden light. There were lines all around her of golden color that crossed, and connected each other into a pattern of golden light. Mimi saw how to move the pattern just slightly so that the golden light would flow through her too. With even trying to, she did it. The golden energy flowed through her, and into her very being. She felt as though a great balloon was swelling up inside her heart. She suddenly became warm. Her eyes snapped open, and saw that she was engulfed in an egg of the wheat magic.
"Serra?" Serra opened her eyes and looked at Mimi.
"Impressive." She said. "You have actually learned how to channel the magic to flow through yourself instead of pulling it out of the world around you. If you don't become too blocked off from the world, you should be able to channel magic at will. I believe you are actually the first person who has ever done that his or her first day. Congratulations."
Mimi looked as the golden light around her faded into her body. Suddenly a ball of light flew out towards them. There was a voice from in front of them, as if it spoke from the ball of light. Mimi recognized the voice as that of the person called John.
"We got trouble." He said.
Mimi and Serra appeared in a room that they had not been in before. There was nothing there, just white painted walls. So far the only ones there were the two that had just appeared, Andrew, and John. Mimi looked at the black haired boy, and was slightly surprised to see him floating in mid- air as though he were on a chair. He looked as if he were pushing buttons on a computer. Every time his fingers would strike a key, a different colored light would appear. In front of him, there was a screen that kept lighting up and flashing. Only where the glass part was visible though.
"Would you like a chair Mimi?" Asked Serra. She didn't even bother to wait for an answer, she just pointed near the wall with two fingers, and then dragged her fingers to point under Mimi. Suddenly Mimi felt herself being forced into the air. Then she was settled hovering a few feet above the ground. Serra floated over towards John and stood floating in air just like Andrew.
Meanwhile, John was talking very fast to Andrew. "About an hour ago I monitored a temporal shift in the cosmosis barrier that we set up. There was an incredible flare of dark magic. I've been trying to locate the source of the energy. So far I've been unsuccessful. Right now I'm brining up a map of the surrounding area and from there I'll attempt to find the enemy." Andrew stared hard at the map that had appeared.
"It's masking itself very well from our scanners if we haven't found it yet. Bring up a sensor reading of any life forms in the area." Mimi, who was still floating was trying very hard to ignore what they were saying as so she wouldn't be confused. Instead, she concentrated on trying to move the chair. Suddenly, it went forward about a foot. Mimi concentrated again and again until she got the hang of moving the invisible chair. Then she moved up to the map. The sensor scan had finally finished. There must have been about one thousand little dots on that screen.
"How do we identify it?" Andrew asked.
"I'm working on that." Said John. He looked thoughtful, and then he said, "We may have to manually search these things. But that might take too long if I'm correct in thinking what they're after."
Serra nodded and said, "The Digidestined." Mimi looked nothing short of petrified.
"Don't worry, as long as you're with us, you're safe." Explained Serra. Mimi looked slightly less pale. Right then John said, "Wait, I'm getting something." They all looked intently at the map. There was a rapidly growing black blotch on the screen. It seemed to be about fifty feet away from the house. John was suddenly tapping keys like mad. He hit a button that was probably "Enter". Suddenly in the middle of the room, there was a flicker of light.
The, what seemed to be screen, flickered and blinked. Then something appeared in the middle of it. A black figure mounted on a black horse, and about ten people surrounding him. They all had black hair, blood red eyes and wicked looking swords. Mimi could just see bows on their backs.
"Shit." Said John. It was the first time he had ever swore in front of Mimi. "It's the same crowd of seekers and the champion again.
"Shit." Muttered Andrew and Serra. "Can you pinpoint their location?" John began to madly tap keys again. "Forty feat from the house and closing fast." Andrew suddenly turned around towards Mimi.
"Could you gather the other Digidestined and meet us outside. There you'll be able to escape if you need to get away quickly." Mimi nodded but asked, "How should I get to them. I don't know where they are and your house is big enough." Andrew was checking to see if he had everything.
"Do the thing I told you to do earlier, but say their name." Andrew explained. She nodded, walked over to a rope lever that had been hidden in a dark corner. She stood under it, said, "Tai." And pulled.
Five minutes later the Digidestined and their Digimon materialized right out front of Andrew's house. Immediately they saw the three owners of the house standing about twenty feet in front of them. Andrew was just wrenching his sword out of one of the little ones stomach. Serra was stabbing at the guy on the horse with a lance that glowed silver. John was reloading his crossbow, but Mimi saw that about half of the ones down had crossbow bolts sticking out of them. The Digimon saw at once what was happening and digivolved to their Ultimate of Mega forms.
"Agumon warp digivolve to. WARGREYMON!"
"Gabumon warp digivolve to. METALGARURUMON!"
"Tentomon digivolve to. KABUTERIMON! Kabuterimon Digivolve to. MEGAKABUTERIMON!" And so on until finally,
"Foximon digivolve to. GLORYMON! Glorymon digivolve to. POLARGLORYMON!"
"Cunomon digivolve to. SARTOMON! Sartomon digivolve to DRACOSARTOMON!"
"Foxmon digivolve to. VIXINMON! Vixinmon digivolve to. FIREVIXINMON!" Then they charged forward and attacked. There were only four of the black haired ones left, and then there was the man on the horse who was currently warding of blows from all the humans. At first it seemed as if the Digimon would have no problems beating the smaller ones. But that was because they were surprised to see them. By the time the first one was killed the Digimon, including the Megas were already tired. Their opponents didn't seem to be getting tired though. It took about fifteen more minutes before only the Megas and the final human was there. Then, what they had heard Andrew call a 'Dark Seeker' take out a potion. He drank the potion in one gulp but seemed to be waiting for something.
The Digimon took this time to recover. Suddenly the Dark Seeker held out his hand and blasted a huge fireball at them. They were too tired to dodge out of the way in time. The Digimon were knocked back and reverted to their in-training states. Tai and Matt ran up to their partners.
"Hang in there Koromon." Assured Tai.
"I'll get him for this Tsunomon." Matt told his Digimon. The Dark Seeker was slightly bent over. There was some electricity swirling around him, but then his muscles grew and expanded. He roared evilly.
"He grew stronger because he defeated our Digimon, how is that possible?" Asked Izzy. The dark seeker looked up, fixing Izzy with his red eyes. "When you die, you'll find out." He snarled. Mimi saw Matt stand up abruptly. He unsheathed his sword, the Frost Bitten Blade. Mimi knew that he had been working on his swordsmanship all day, before he had taken a bath. He was pretty good, but Mimi seriously doubted that he could take this super- concentrated freak.
"Bring it on." Matt yelled at him.
"Matt, don't do it." Cried Jennifer. "He'll kill you."
"I can handle this." Matt reassured her. Then he charged at the dark seeker, sword upraised.
The man was smiling a very nasty smile. When Matt brought his sword swishing down he parried it. Then he raised his own sword and brought in down in a chop aimed at Matt's head. Matt brought his sword quickly up to block it. When both swords connected, Matt was smashed backwards about five feet. The man's smile widened even more nastily. His strength was increased ten fold. Then he charged and went into a frenzy of blows, most of which were blocked or parried by Matt. Once or twice however, a cut got through his defense and a splatter of blood would spray on the ground. Right now there was a cut on his face, arms, legs, and even his chest. Matt was breathing very hard.
"MATT, GET OUT OF THERE, HE'S KILLING YOU!!!" Screamed Jennifer in the middle of tears. Mimi meanwhile, was looking at some wheat magic. She knew what she must do. Now if the time was any, to use her newfound power. She wasn't sure if she could control it. She took one last look at Andrew, Serra, and John, who were still fighting the mounted figure (all of them, even the Champion of Torm were looking winded), and then took a piece of wheat magic. She felt a reaction to the magic inside of her now. She held the stuff close to her heart, closed her eyes, and began to concentrate with all her might on healing Matt, completely, even his stamina. She focused so hard that she somehow felt herself begin to glow.
"Mimi, what the." She heard Tai say in a confused sort of way. She couldn't let this distract her. When she was sure beyond sure that the Magic had taken the form she had wanted it to, she opened her eyes. Matt was standing a foot away from the dark figure, completely winded. The Dark Seeker was standing tall and mighty over him, about to finish him off. Mimi hurled the piece of magic at Matt. She didn't even see it go, it just was suddenly around Matt. The Dark Seeker moved back a couple feet in surprise.
"What the?" He exclaimed. Suddenly there was a blue light inside Matt. He stood tall and the light disappeared.
"Get him Matt!" Everyone yelled. He grinned and raised his sword over his head. Then he plunged it into the earth in front of him.
"What's he doing?" Asked TK. Everyone stared at Matt. Suddenly the ground in front of Matt froze. It looked as if the ice was going right under the Dark Seeker. When it was under him it suddenly shot up, freezing him up to the waist. He screamed. Matt wrenched his sword out of the ground, took one last step towards the man, and slashed him across the chest. There was an instant of blood spurting, and then his cut became ice. The Dark Seeker was dead. Everyone stared at Matt then screamed in happiness.
"You did it!" Yelled Jennifer as she ran at him with tears running down her face. "You beat that bastard!" Matt caught her up in his arms and embraced her. They hugged for about a minute, but then when they let go, Matt said, "It was because of Mimi. She used magic to heal me." He turned towards her.
"How did you do that?" He asked her. Mimi smiled and just muttered, "Just a little something that Serra taught me." Then she held her hands to her heart. This time she reached inside herself for the power she had managed to channel earlier. She began to glow with a soft golden light.
"Oh my." She heard Kari gasp. Mimi let the light fade. Then she looked up and glanced back to Andrew, Serra, and John. They were of course, still fighting. John and Serra seemed to be hanging back and resting. Andrew was floating in the air, darting out of the way of attacks. The sky had turned darker for some reason. Mimi didn't yell to them, she just ran up to them.
"What's going on?" She asked Serra. Serra had blood all over her she looked a real mess. One of her eyes seemed to be jammed shut. There was one long cut up from her leg to her chin. She was still holding the lance in her hands, but it was almost limp.
"What does it look like, we're fighting. Well, Andrew still is anyway." She answered. Right then Andrew dodged a swipe at him with a spear in midair, and slashed at his attackers' open belly. The Champion of Torm screamed as the sword rammed into his gut. Black blood spilled out of him. He felt himself and let out a fresh howl. White power was running up the blade of Andrews' sword. He let out a smirk, and then slashed at him. He was too far away to actually hit him, but then a white blast shot out of his sword. It smacked into the side of his opponents horse. There was suddenly a huge explosion. When the smoke had cleared, there was nothing left, nothing. Not even his armor or even his spear was left. Andrew let out a sigh of relief. He turned back to the others and muttered in an exasperated kind of way, "Breakfast anyone?" Everyone looked amazed. But they slowly nodded. Andrew snapped his fingers.
Mimi materialized in her room after breakfast. She looked in the cabinet that the hair stuff had been in, wondering if there were any toothbrushes she missed. To her (little) surprise, there was an assortment of toothbrushes, toothpastes, and dental flosses in there this time. She shrugged and figured she should've known better. When she closed it and turned around, there was a sink right in front of her. I love this room! She thought.
When she had finished brushing her teeth she took the trapdoor express (that's what Mimi called the rope that was used to teleport all over Andrews' house.) into Andrews' living room. Andrew must not be ready yet because he wasn't there. He had told them to meet him there. There was only one occupant of those chairs. It was Serra. She smiled at Mimi and told her, "Take a seat dear, and by the way you're looking splendid in those robes." Mimi laughed out loud. She did take a seat. Serra began the conversation. "So, I heard you saved one of your friends by healing him. You used the spell I taught you." Mimi nodded, and Serra gave her a look. The look plainly said, "Good job, I'm proud of you!"
"But, I have a feeling inside of me. I've rarely felt this feeling ever before. What is it?" Asked Mimi. Serra smiled again, and explained, "You have this feeling because you did something. You saved your friend in order for him to defeat a powerful evil. You achieved an ability that few have the skills cut to do. You did it by yourself. That gains you a feeling that feels like a happy balloon inside of you. Do you know what this feeling is?" Mimi shook her head. She for some reason expected her to say love, but it was, "Pride." Mimi stared and was just about to say something when Matt materialized in the middle of the room and ended their conversation.
Matt strode over to the seats they were occupying and plopped down. He leaned in towards Mimi and muttered, "Thanks." Mimi felt herself blushing. Right then Tai appeared in the middle of the room. He looked a bit dazed.
"Isn't there any other way to get around your house? Does this place even have doors?" He asked Serra.
"Not besides the two. And they automatically close after you walk through them. So you have to use the rope." Replied Serra. "And you might want to get out of the way."
"Why?" He asked as he stepped away from the middle of the room. He wasn't quick enough. Sora had obviously taken the trapdoor express to get there right then. There was a crash then a yelp of pain.
"Oops." Muttered Serra. "I wasn't quick enough." Mimi and Matt laughed as Sora and Tai tried to disentangle themselves. It didn't work, so Sora began to bellow herself horse at Tai, which made Matt and Mimi laugh even more. To add to the confusion, there was a pop and suddenly Lexx was standing on top of the wriggling Sora and Tai. She didn't even lose her balance as Tai gave a yelp of surprise and tried to buck her off. She just hopped off, looked behind her, and sighed, "Get a room you two. seriously." Lexx got down and helped disentangle the two. When they got up, Lexx said, "Honestly, we're about to embark of a journey to save our people, and you two are worried about your sex life! For crying out loud!" Sora looked like she was ready to explode. Matt quickly attempted to change the subject.
"So are we leaving now?" He asked Lexx.
Lexx walked away from the couple and towards Serra.
"Yes, at least that's what Andrew said. As soon as everyone is together, we'll go." She sat down in a seat that had pulled itself into existence by Serra's will at that very moment. Sora and Tai walked over and stood next to each other. They were about to sit on the floor, when a chair appeared behind them too. They both sat down, but Tai was quicker. Sora ended up on his lap. He went brick red and Sora got annoyed. She was probably about to freak out on Tai again when the seat suddenly lengthened itself into a love seat. Tai moved Sora next to him, and put his arm around her. She looked awkward, but then smiled, and let her head rest on Tai's shoulder.
"I love you Tai." Sora muttered.
"I love you too Sora, no matter what." He replied. Her smile deepened. Mimi looked at Serra. "Do you know about love? Have you ever been in love? But I suppose you're a bit young to have had a love." Mimi muttered looking at her young preference. She had to be only thirteen. Serra scowled at Mimi, but then smiled.
"Oh of course. No, you think I'm thirteen years old, when in fact I'm closer to thirteen hundred years old. I could find out exactly how old I am, but that would take a while." Mimi stared. "But how could you survive, you look like you're thirteen." Serra smiled and said, "Our magic has changed our appearance as sort of a side affect. And our age, hmmm, I won't tell you, no offense, but someday you'll understand." Mimi nodded but was still confused.
"Besides," chimed in Matt. "You cannot love someone for who they look like. You must love someone for who they are on the inside." "Here, here." Whispered a voice. Everyone looked at the center of the room, including Sora and Tai, and saw Jennifer. She walked over towards Matt in the chair that had suddenly become a love seat. She sat down beside Matt, who smiled at her. She looked at Serra, and mouthed,
"You're really good." Then she stared into Matt's eyes. He stared back. She suddenly pulled him into a tight kiss. Mimi looked away, not wanting to be rude, but the grin on her face was set. Instead she began the conversation she had had with Serra. "So have you ever loved anyone?" She asked. Serra looked thoughtful. "Yes." She finally admitted. "There was a person. His name was Lucas. He had to have been the kindest, most generous person I've ever met. He was so handsome."
"What happened to him?" Inquired Mimi.
"Nothing." She replied.
"So, he's still alive?"
"Sort of. He's in stasis. That's what I mean by nothing. Torm took him and froze him, so all of his bodily functions had suddenly been frozen as so he would never be free, but still alive. It's a kind of torture." Her face hardened. "You have no love Mimi, at the moment anyway. Let me give you one piece of advice. When you give your heart to someone, know whom you're giving your heart to. I knew what I was doing. But Torm interfered. I've lost the one I love. You have no idea what it's like to lose a person you loved with all your heart. It's terrible." It took a moment for Mimi to notice that Serra was chocking back tears.
"I'm sorry for bringing up painful memories Serra." Mimi apologized. "Nonsense, you had no idea. But you can see how bad it must be." Mimi nodded, and Serra suddenly became her usual, cheerful self. Mimi took a moment to see if anyone was watching them. Both couples were too lip locked to notice the conversation that had just gone on. Lexx had been listening in, but she just winked at Mimi and turned away.
Slowly the room filled as Digidestined and eventually their Digimon appeared in the middle of the room. When Izzy showed up, the chair Lexx had been sitting in became a couch. Mimi had the strangest idea that Serra could read minds. Lexx asked Izzy to sit down next to her. He looked surprised but didn't get a chance to answer as Lexx had suddenly pulled him down next to him and put his arm around her. Then she had an excuse to put her head on his shoulder. He was looking very awkward, but he didn't seem to mind at all.
Last to appear was Andrew. Serra and Mimi had been talking about badgers and their strange ways ("The whole lot of them are paranoid I tell ya!" Said Serra) when he suddenly was in the middle of the room. John who had appeared only an instant earlier had to dodge out of the way. Everyone fell silent as he stepped towards the Digidestined. He waved and suddenly a map appeared in the middle of the room. The windows were suddenly blackened as so they could see. The map was of a very thick continent that eventually narrowed up into a peninsula. There were a couple islands here and there, and in the middle of the continent was a green dot. On the end of the peninsula was a red dot.
"We are here." Explained Andrew, pointing towards the green dot.
"This is our destination." Continued John, gesturing towards the red dot.
"To get there, we are going to take the shortest route possible, a straight line, towards the temple." Andrew told them. His finger went from some fields, to a lake, on towards a large mountain surrounded by a desert, through a forest, to an even bigger mountain, and finally onto the peninsula. Between these landscapes was obviously just grass or fields. "The distance," John grinned. "Three hundred and forty two miles." Everyone stared at him. They had learned conversions between miles and kilometers in school, and they knew that that was one long distance they had to walk. "Therefore," Andrew said into the silence, "We'll be getting something to ride on before we go." Mimi prepared herself and Andrew raised his fingers and snapped them.
They suddenly materialized in a paddock full of creatures. The first thing Mimi noticed was that her clothes had changed from her elegant robes and tiara, to traveling clothes. In the paddock was an assortment of creatures.
Horses of course, but there were also other things. Horse like creatures that were pure white and long antlers sticking out of their heads. There was giant rats, giant warthogs, goats, dinosaur looking things, and even a giant snake or two. Andrew walked around; he seemed to be looking for something. Andrew told them, " Pick one." Mimi looked around. There wasn't much in here that she would really want to ride. There was another paddock about fifty feet away, and Mimi could see Unicorns, and Bicorn, but there was a sign hung on the fence that said, "Untamable".
Mimi turned back around and saw Andrew hop onto one of the horse-like creatures with antlers. He whispered in its ear. It snorted and said in a deep voice, "I could run the Canyon of Fallout and come out without a bead of sweat." Everyone stared and Andrew replied, "I know." Then he noticed everyone staring at him. "This is a Stag." He told them. "A powerful magical beast that can speak English. Cool huh?" Everyone still stared.
Fifteen minutes later everyone had something to ride. Andrew was of course riding the Stag. He called it Eldar the White. Tai was riding a horse, Matt a dinosaur looking thing called an Uryasaur, Izzy a horse, Sora had a horse, Mimi was a Uryasaur, TK a Stag, Kari a Stag, Jennifer a horse, Sammie a Stag, and Lexx a horse. They all rode off to begin their adventure. They didn't have food or extra clothing, but John had assured them that there was enough food in the wild for all twenty-five of them, including the Digimon. Their clothes were enchanted ("I should've known." Said Kari") as so they would self-wash themselves of fix minor tears. The Digimon had all reverted back to in-training and were riding their respective partners horse, Stag, or Uryasaur. Mimi looked around.
They were going to save the world, again, but right now it felt like they were just camping. If it was such a tough task, why weren't they flying there? Or perhaps they could just teleport with Andrew's magic. She sped up to talk with him.
"Why are we taking a ground path? I saw some griffins in one of those paddocks of yours. Couldn't we just fly to the temple? Or teleport?" She demanded. Andrew gave a wry smile.
"Because our enemies don't underestimate us. Getting there on a land route will be hard enough. Getting there on an air route is impossible. Torm's followers are guarding the skies like wrathful eagles. And to be able to teleport there is near impossible. There happens to be a magic ward. A magic ward will push anyone who tries to teleport within one hundred miles of the temple, who is trying to get to the temple back. To break that magic ward would take more power than you can begin to imagine, and more than I can hope to harness." He replied. Mimi looked surprised. But she recovered herself to say,
"Well why not teleport right outside those miles, and then we could take the land path." Now there was no trace of a smile on his face. He answered in a serious voice, "Because that's what our enemies expect of us." And so they rode off, into the brink. Full of strange creatures and twisted destines in order the save the human race.