Part 23: Questions Answered!
"Wait!" Taichi said. "What about Gennai! Agumon told me that he was missing."
Koushirou looked over at Taichi. "Gennai-san?"
"He's missing?" Mimi asked.
"My, this is going to take a while. You all should have yourselves a seat."
The kids obeyed and sat down and awaited Angelique to tell her story...
"The prophecy said that only those with the mentality of a child will be able to defeat this enemy," Angelique explained. "That is the reason for all of you being so young."
"But how come I'm not younger too?" Aina asked.
"Probably because you aren't a Chosen Child," Taichi said.
"Yeah, your being brought here was a total accident since you were holding on to Izumi-senpai."
"But like I said before," Eiji started, "there's a mistake with this plan. I'm still thinking like my 11-year-old self."
"Come to think of it, so am I," Yamato said. "I feel the same mind wise, my body is just younger."
The others agreed and nodded.
"I can't quite explain that," Angelique admitted. "That's the only backfire in this plan."
"Well, that explains why we are children," Jou said, "but what about our crests?"
"And Eiji-san?" Iori asked.
"Yeah, that thing she did with the lock was awesome!" Takeru said.
"If Eiji isn't a Digidestined, why was she brought back?" Betamon asked.
"Digidestined?" Eiji asked.
"Chosen Child," Mimi translated. "In America, that is what they are known as."
"Australia too," Jou added.
"Well, it's pretty weird," the girl laughed bashfully.
"She has the qualities of a Chosen Child," Angelique explained.
"Huh?"
"She is one of the few that remembers the encounter your city had two years ago with BelialVamdemon and three years before that with Vamdemon."
"You remember that?" Sora asked in surprise. "I thought that only we remembered that."
"Yep, I sure do," Eiji nodded, "but I'm not sure about the stuff with BelialVamdemon. It's still a blur to me. I just remember being picked up by this mummy looking thing."
"We discovered that she was a dark seed child at one point."
'Strange how we didn't notice her,' Ken pondered. 'All of us Dark Seed carriers were plain. Her hair is so bright and exotic.'
"She was also one of the children at the Convention Center when Vamdemon was in search of the Eighth Child," Angelique continued. "It also seems that she encountered Digimon even earlier in her childhood, before Vamdemon. The more we talked, we discovered this and she remembered."
"Is this true?" Iori asked.
The girl nodded.
"When I was really little, I was walking home from the playground with my mother. I think I was about three. My mother was buying me an ice cream cone and I ended up walking off by myself. I ended up wandering into the street and a car was about to hit me, but something saved me. I don't know what it was. It looked like a big, beautiful golden butterfly. The butterfly looking creature flew down and saved me and put me back on the sidewalk by my mother. Nobody saw the butterfly but me, though. To this day, my mother says that it was a miracle that I wasn't killed. She always mentioned that incident, but I slowly forgot about the butterfly saving me."
"Apparently, she was supposed to have gotten a Digivice then, but for some strange reason, she wasn't given one. She was also supposed to possess some type of a crest, but you children had already been chosen a few years earlier, so instead of her possessing one crest each like all of you, she has a combination of all of you older Japanese Chosen Children's crests, Takeru, Hikari, and Ken included. Only hers is not as powerful like all of yours."
Daisuke scratched his head in confusion. "What?"
"I'm somehow a part of all of you," Eiji said. "I don't understand it either, but it's true. I used my light trait to open the lock, but since my light power isn't as powerful since I have a combination of all of your crests, I had to borrow some from Hikari-san."
"Just when you thought things couldn't get any weirder," Jou muttered.
"I have a question."
"What is it, Iori?" Angelique asked.
"How was Digmon able to evolve?"
"Digmon evolved?" Hawkmon asked in surprise. "I've never witnessed an armor Digimon evolve before."
"How can an armor Digimon evolve?" Patamon asked.
"I don't know. My chest glowed in the crest shapes of sincerity (reliability) and knowledge and it combined to form into one. After that happened, Digmon super evolved while in his armored form."
"What did he evolve to?" Jou asked.
"MegaSeadramon!" Gomamon said.
"Whoa, back that up," Yamato said trying to make sense of the situation. "How can a bug evolve into something that looks like a Sea Serpent?"
"I don't know," Iori shrugged. "How can something that looks like a lemon drop evolve into something that resembles an Armadillo?"
"Good point," Yamato said.
"The same thing happened to me!" Daisuke said, trying to get some attention. "My chest glowed in the crest shapes of friendship and courage and they combined and formed the same shape that was on that Digimental I found that helped V-mon to evolve to Magnamon!"
"Strange, the same thing happened to me. The shape looked like a mix of purity (sincerity) and love. The two crest shapes combined to form one, but that didn't last long. I don't even know what it formed into."
"Hmm, that is odd," Angelique said. "We don't know of what your newly formed crest could be, Miyako, but as for Daisuke and Iori, your newly formed crests are *kiseki and sessou."
"Kiseki?" Daisuke asked.
"Sessou?" Iori asked.
The woman nodded and continued.
"You all possess some type of a crest. All Chosen Children do."
"But how come I don't?" Michael asked.
"You possess a crest, you just haven't shown the trait of your crest to activate it like the others have. For instance, Iori showed that he has true admiration and honor for the Digital World, which activated his crest and allowed Digmon to evolve. Because of the pure thoughts and unselfishness of Mimi and a bit of help from Miyako, Togemon was able to evolve. Because of the realization of the importance of knowledge of Koushirou, as well as the help from Miyako, this allowed Kabuterimon to evolve. Because of the love Sora has for the Digital World, it allowed Birdramon to evolve to Garudamon and if it weren't for Taichi's courage to protect the Digital World, then Greymon wouldn't have evolved to Metal Greymon and because of the strong friendship Yamato has with Taichi, Sora, Jou, and Garurumon, it allowed him to evolve to WereGarurumon."
"This is confusing," Aina muttered while holding his head.
"How did I help Mimi-oneesama and Izumi-senpai?"
"You lent out some of your Purity trait to Mimi," Palmon explained.
"You lent out some of your Knowledge trait too," Tentomon added on.
"But I have the Digimental of Love and the Digimental of Purity, not Knowledge."
"You were originally supposed to get the Digimentals of Knowledge, Love, and Purity since you showed those three traits the most, but it is only possible for a Chosen Child to carry around two Digimentals since your D-Terminal isn't capable of storing that much information."
"But what about Magnamon?" Daisuke asked. "I used a Digimental to help V-mon armor evolve."
"You could use it only that once also," Angelique reminded him. "It was a special circumstance, I guess you could say, since after you used it, it transformed into the physical Crest of Kindness for Ken."
"How was it decided on who got which Digimental?" Iori asked.
"Qinglongmon."
"How come I didn't get the Digimental of Knowledge?"
*"Since you possessed three traits instead of two, Qinglongmon tried to figure out which trait the others possessed more of," the woman explained. "It was a dead give-a-way that you were going to get the Digimental of Purity, but when it came down to Love and Knowledge Qinglongmon looked at all of the other children to see which would be more qualified for them. Neither of them possessed the love trait, not as much as you, which is why you ended up with Love instead of Knowledge. Iori showed to be quite knowledgeable, well, actually, more so wise, but that's why he got it. It was close enough."
"What about me?"
"You, Daisuke, showed to be very courageous, but not as much as you were friendly," Angelique explained. "You possessed the friendship trait more than both Miyako and Iori combined. That is why you received the Digimental of Friendship." She smiled at the young boy. "You would do anything for your friends and you like to befriend others, even if they made mistakes in the past," Angelique finished up, looking towards Iori.
Eiji, when talking with Angelique, mentioned Iori having trouble with forgiving and befriending people. Everyone else knew what Angelique was referring to in reference to Daisuke befriending people; Ken after he stopped being the Digimon Kaiser. Daisuke was the only one who was determined to become friends with Ken and to make him an ally.
"I have a question now," Takeru said.
"Me too," both Ken and Hikari chimed in.
"Sure, go right ahead."
"How come we have regular model Digivices instead of our D-3s and D-Terminals!!" the three of them asked together.
"It is another flaw, I suppose," Angelique assumed. "When you all were brought back, you ended up being the age you were when you were first chosen or when you first encountered Digimon, or whatever the reason. When you all first became Chosen Children, you received regular model Digivices, which is why you have regular Digivices now."
"How come Iori has a D-3?" Armadimon asked, since he had just woke up and missed a lot that had been said.
"When he was first chosen, he was given a D-3, that's why," Angelique said. "The same goes for Miyako and Daisuke."
"This sure is confusing," Palmon said.
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RP: BTW, after Eiji showed up, Tanemon and Motimon got their strength
back and evolved. I failed to mention that earlier. ^^;
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"I hope that all of your questions have been answered. I tried
to answer them as best I could."
"I guess so, but what about Gennai-san?" Hawkmon asked.
"Gennai?" Aina asked. "Does he look very handsome and have dark hair?"
"You have seen Gennai?" Angelique asked the girl.
"I think that's what his name was," Aina said while scratching her head.
"Please tell me, how is he!?!" Angelique demanded politely. "I must know!"
"Well, I was wandering around after I got separated from Izumi-sama and Miyako. I then ended up at this castle. Actually, forced there by these strange looking candle things. After I got to this dark castle, these two monstrous looking things were talking to me and there was a handsome guy there too."
The girl continued her story as everyone listened with lots of interest.
"Are you saying that Gennai's mind doesn't work anymore?" Agumon asked.
Aina nodded. "They threatened to do the same with me if I wouldn't cooperate with them, so I didn't cooperate."
The girl lowered her head, upset over what she had almost done. Koushirou then smiled at her along with Miyako. They nodded at her, which caused the girl to continue. The two knew that Aina was truly sorry for what she had done.
"The armored looking monster said that the man had no control over his mind and they referred to him as 'Gennai.' I knew he wanted to be freed, I could sense it. I could tell that he wanted someone to go and get help."
Before anyone else could say anything, the woman's swan like Digimon flew towards her frowning.
"What is the matter, Swanmon?"
"Swanmon?" Hikari asked.
Digianalyzer On>>
Tailmon: This graceful bird like Digimon is *Swanmon, a Digimon who is a master when it comes to attacks dealing with the sky. She's also pretty strong against Insectoid Digimon and her most powerful attack is Down Tornado, which blows away her competition every time...
Digianalyzer Off>>
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Tentomon: No fair!! I'm supposed to do the Digianalyzer!!
Don't you know what they say about me?
RP: (Sighs) No, I don't. What do they say about you?
Tentomon: I am known as, 'The knowledgeable professor of the Digital World'! It says so on my card, which is why it makes sense to have me do all of the analyzers.
RP: Stop being so greedy! I know that it's true, what you just said, but I have my reasons for having Tailmon do the analyzer. Now shoo and let Swanmon finish giving out her information.
Tentomon: (Huffs) Okay, okay...
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"They are getting ready," Swanmon warned. "Our world, both worlds
as we know it, is about to be taken over!!"
"Then we have no time to lose!" Angelique said, turning to the Chosens. "You all must go and stop them!"
"But how can we stop them? Who are these Digimon anyway?" Sora asked. "We already know of Sorcerymon and I remember him mentioning something about a Zanbamon."
"You will know what to do," Angelique smiled. "Just follow your hearts."
"But what about Aina?" Yamato asked.
"She shall stay with Angelique and the both of them will watch over you," Swanmon explained.
"But how will we know where to go?"
Before Swanmon or Angelique could answer the small, pink bird's question, the sky started to get dark and the winds started to rise like an upcoming storm was coming...
"It is time for you all to go," Swanmon said looking up at the sky. "They are trying to take over both worlds now, which will make both unstable and covered with darkness."
"Eiji-san, are you coming with us?"
Eiji stood by Iori and smiled at him.
"I wouldn't miss it!" She gave him the victory sign. "You know I like adventure. Besides, I'm a part of the team now!"
"Right," Iori nodded at her.
"Iori-kun," Eiji started quietly, "I am glad that you are okay. I was kind of worried about you."
"I'm glad too," Iori said. "I was worried sick about you! I promised to help protect you and I didn't."
Gomamon slid in, interrupting the two and gave Iori a sly smirk.
"He was more frozen than a popsicle and he was still going to go out and look for you!"
"Stop being so rude!" Jou grabbed Gomamon and started shaking him. "Let them talk!"
"I'm only stating a fact," Gomamon muttered.
"Okay Digimon, are you guys ready to fight the biggest battle you've ever fought in your life!" Agumon asked.
All of the Digimon nodded and shouted out, "Yeah!"
"And we are going to get Gennai-san back!" Hawkmon added on.
"And save the home of my Ken-chan!"
"And the Digital World!!" V-mon added.
"And get revenge on Sorcerymon and his henchmon..." Tentomon started.
::Every one groans at RP's attempt at comedy while Gomamon does the rim shot for the bad joke::
"...for destroying my Tree Condo!!"
"Condo?" Koushirou asked. "You have a condo?"
"It's really nice," Betamon complimented. "You guys should visit some time."
"Yes, Tentomon's place is the place to go to partay!!" Gabumon smiled.
"Yeah, we always play card games," Palmon said.
"Like Poker!! It's a fun game."
"Agumon," Taichi said in surprise, "who taught you guys how to play Poker?"
"Tentomon," Armadimon answered.
"How did he learn?" Miyako asked.
"He has a computer with a DSL connection to the internet in your world and he learned through Yahoo Games," Palmon explained.
"He also has Digital Cable and a satellite!!" Wormmon said.
"CARTOONS, CARTOONS, CARTOONS," Armadimon exclaimed. "I LOVE THE CARTOONS!!"
"He has a hot tub too!!" Patamon said.
"I like the bar he has in his place. The drinks are very good."
"Hawkmon, you shouldn't be drinking alcohol," Miyako scolded.
"Just because you are under age, Miyako-san, does not mean that I am," Hawkmon slyly smirked at his human partner.
"I like the massaging machine," Tailmon said. "It is very good for the back."
"I can't wait until Tentomon gets that swimming pool built," Piyomon chirped in awe.
"I still like his big screen TV that can pick up 2000 stations," V-mon said. "All of them from your world and even from America!!"
"Yeah and it's really cool since it has that high quality surround sound and stuff!!" Patamon said. "Oh and let's not forget about his stereo system!"
"Even Taichi wouldn't be able to sleep through the noise if the volume was all the way up and we all know that he can sleep through anything!" Agumon laughed.
"So can Takeru," Patamon laughed.
All of the kids stared at the Digimon in disbelief.
"They can't be serious," Jou said. The look on his face was equivalent to the one he had when Gomamon asked what parents were when he had first met him.
"But Jou, like you've always said..." Gomamon started.
"...anything is possible in the Digital World," everyone else finished up.
"I'm not going to say another word," Jou muttered.
"Hmm, I wonder where Tentomon is getting the power from," Koushirou wondered out aloud. "I also wonder how fast his DSL connection really is. I wonder if it is better than mine."
"Too bad I got knocked out time I got there," Michael muttered. "I didn't get the chance to see all of this stuff they're talking about."
"Um guys, we have some business to take care of," Sora reminded them.
"Yeah," Taichi agreed. "Figure out Tentomon's connection to the net later, Koushirou, we have got to go!"
"But how do we get there and where are we going?" Piyomon asked.
"I don't know," Agumon said, wondering the same thing.
Taichi held his Digivice out obliviously and concentrated; so did Yamato and Daisuke. It was as if something was telling them to do this, the wind rising around them. Their Digivices started to glow - orange for Taichi, blue for Yamato, and golden for Daisuke - and a beam shot out towards the sky towards the darkest part of it...
Jou, Koushirou, and Iori did the same thing and colored beams shot out from their Digivices towards the darkest part of the sky. Iori also held Eiji's hand to make sure nothing would happen to her. The young girl blushed a bit. She knew they were younger now, but she still saw and thought of him as the 11-year-old Hida Iori; one of the nicest and most polite boys she had ever met.
Sora, Mimi, and Miyako did the same thing as the others and beams of light shot out from their Digivices towards the darkest part of the sky.
Next was Michael, Takeru, Hikari, and Ken, who did the same.
As they did this, they felt as if they were being transported, along with their Digimon, who felt fully energized. They entered the dark center in the sky and it closed up on them...
"I hope they do okay," Aina said.
"I have faith in all of them," Angelique said. "I am sure that they will do well."
"Like Angelique said, the Holy Guardians are never wrong," Swanmon added on. "Those children know what they are doing."
"I'm sorry I ever doubted Digimon now," Aina frowned. "I feel like a heel."
"Do not worry, my child," Angelique assured her, giving her a gentle smile. "Now, let us go back to my home so that we can monitor them."
Aina nodded and went along with Angelique and Swanmon...
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Note 1: Kiseki means miracles. I know, I couldn't think of anything else for him. Here's something else, I know it's totally irrelevant, but this is my opinion. I feel that "Miracles" and "Hope" are two of the most important crest traits, or whatever. Why, I don't know. lol. There ya go, my irrelevant statement for the day.
As for "sessou," if you haven't figured it out, it means honor.
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Note 2: I always felt that Miyako deserved the Digimental
of Knowledge more so than Iori because she is more knowledgeable.
Iori is just very wise for his age, like Jou. I know I probably mentioned
this earlier, I don't remember if I did or not, but that's just my opinion
on the entire thing. I really feel that neither of the newer kids
really possessed love too much, but I bet they gave it to her since she
was the new girl of the group.
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Note 3: Swanmon is what Tailmon would evolve to if
she used the Digimental of Love. That's why I had Tailmon do the
analyzer, it's a part of her evolutionary line. ^^