Tamers: Stuck in Paradise - Season 3
Part 15
by Christian "Sid" Lang
"Hi, Isis. Veemon speaking." he sighs into the receiver.
Hey Veemon! How are you? the girl instantly cheers.
"Well... Aquaveemon's here... there has been an accident..."
A WHAT?
"Nonono! Nothing fatal! She has been covered with paint!" Veemon quickly corrects.
When he hears the young DigiDestined sigh, he continues.
"But we had to use a lot of paint remover here, and now she's unconscious."
Oh, I see... Well, Mom's not here... So I'm kinda stuck.
"No problem. I'll bring her to you. Just wanted to make sure you'll be there."
I will be. Thanks, Veemon.
"Hey, no problem. See you then!"
From his position on the rooftop of another house, Hawkmon sees Veemon leave and smiles.
Although it hurts to see Aquaveemon in Veemon's arms, Hawkmon knows that it won't last.
"Well then. Let Phase One begin." he mutters and jumps off the rooftop.
He glides to Davis' window and opens it with one of his feathers.
Davis is at the Kamiya's, Veemon just left. Hawkmon sighs and jumps into Davis' room.
"Okay... Now to find all the stuff..." he mutters and goes to work.
"Uhhhhhhhh..."
"Finally..." a female voice whispers.
"Yeah. I started to worry about her health, too." a male voice adds.
Aquaveemon groans and opens her eyes. She looks up and sees Isis and Veemon.
Then she notices that she is lying in the filled bathtub.
"Ohhh... This feels good..." she whispers and moves a bit in the tub.
The young Digimon frowns when Isis suddenly hugs her.
"Isis? Everything all right?" she asks, giving Veemon a questioning glance.
"We've been worried. You've been unconscious for some hours." Veemon explains.
Hours? Must've been the paint remover... has been like poison for me...
Aquaveemon can feel that Isis is crying and gulps. She hugs her partner back and tries to smile.
"Hey... I'm okay... Veemon has been a great help..." she whispers.
"Pah. No problem. But I must go now... Davis might miss me." Veemon answers and shrugs.
"But... we're at your place..." Aquaveemon starts, but Veemon shakes his head.
"I brought you here some hours ago so that Isis can be there for you."
"Thanks, no wonder everybody likes you so much..."
Oh Veemon... Why can't I just tell you that I love you? Aquaveemon thinks and sighs.
Hawkmon nods. It had taken some time to set this up, but he loves perfection.
Besides, I risk dying in a horrible way if I forget one detail... he reminds himself.
He quickly checks his equipment to make sure he didn't forget anything.
There is no real need to do so. During the last hour, he checked the equipment a hundred times.
But it's better to check it often than to risk an ugly death.
"Blowgun? Intact and... cleaned." he mumbles after inspecting the slim weapon.
"Tranquilizer Darts?" he asks himself and looks at the box filled with small darts.
"Check. Oh... and the key element of this plan..." he whispers and smiles.
He holds up the small electric device and briefly switches it on.
"Oh... yeah..."
"I missed you!" Ruki shouts as soon as the Motomiya front door is being opened.
"Well, thanks. But you know I like boys more."
Ruki blinks. When she sees who has opened the door, she blushes and coughs.
"Errrrr... hi Jun..." the Tamer stammers.
Davis' sister smirks and pats Ruki's shoulder.
"He's in his room. Most likely daydreaming of you..." the Motomiya girl tells her.
Let's hope so... Ruki thinks and nods, not telling Jun of her fear of losing Davis.
Either she wouldn't understand me, or she would laugh at me. she guesses.
So she simply walks to Davis' room and opens the door.
"Ruki! You're here!" Davis instantly cheers and hugs her.
Ruki smiles and eagerly returns the hug. Then she frowns.
"Did you forget to shave yourself again?" she asks politely.
"You know, Renamon... things aren't really that bad." Gatomon shouts.
The feline Digimon grabs the plate with their snacks and smiles.
"I mean... Ruki's at Davis' place... Kari is dating T.K...." she purrs.
Gatomon walks into the living room, looking forward to a lovely evening.
"So only you and me are left... And we have the entire apart-"
She stops dead in her tracks when she sees Renamon lying on the floor near the open window.
"Is that your way of saying that you're not in the mood?"
The cat blinks. When Renamon doesn't show any kind of reaction, she curses.
Her plate with food hits the floor as Gatomon is dashing to her beloved.
"Renamon! Speak to me! What hap-"
She stops and winces when she feels a sharp pain in her leg.
When she looks down, she sees that a small dart has hit her.
Tranq... dart... she thinks when the world starts spinning.
Another dart hits her, but Gatomon doesn't even have the strength to wince anymore.
Hawkmon sighs. The tranq dart should have been enough for a big elephant.
Still Gatomon had been standing for a good while. But the second dart finished her.
"It's not too late yet." a familiar voice mutters.
Hawkmon gives his angelic self a stare and shakes his head. The little hawk looks sad.
"He's right! Now's your chance to really finish her off!"
He doesn't even turn around to face the evil hawk standing behind him.
"No. I'll proceed as planned. No killing, but also no retreat." he whispers.
He carefully places Davis' blowgun on the ground and picks up the shaver.
Yolei's partner swiftly sails over to the open window and into the apartment.
Five minutes later, he admires his work and nods. No bad surprises this time.
He is about to go when a new idea makes him grin.
Carefully he removes Gatomon's Holy Ring.
The first thing Renamon notices is that the world is shaking.
She blinks and realizes that the world itself is standing still, but somebody shakes her.
"DAMMIT WAKE UP ALREADY!" Gatomon yells, tightening her grip.
Renamon yelps when she realizes that her beloved is holding her up by her precious chest fur.
"COME ON!" the cat Digimon yells, sounding extremely furious.
"Lemme go, you're hurt-" Renamon shouts, looking at Gatomon for the first time today.
"Oh my God..." she whispers when she sees the reason for Gatomon's anger.
"STOP STARING AT ME LIKE THAT!" Gatomon yells, tears flowing down her face.
The cat has been shaven. Renamon is reminded of modern art when she sees her beloved like this.
Random strips of fur are missing, making Gatomon look like a walking roadmap of an insane town.
Before Gatomon can yell anything else, Renamon hugs her and also starts to cry.
And while watching the sunrise, she silently vows that somebody would pay for this.
Veemon enjoys having the bed all for himself. He stretches and yawns.
Davis left him a note saying that he'd spend the night outside with Ruki.
Whatever that meant. Veemon doesn't really care. All he knows that he slept well.
Now he watches the morning sky, thinking of Aquaveemon. Somehow he can't get her out of his head.
"What if I really love her? I wonder if I should tell her..." he whispers.
But then things go wrong again. I just know it. But... is it better this way?
He knows how much one-sided love can hurt. And he doesn't want to get hurt again.
Veemon sighs and wraps his arms around himself, as if hugging a non-existent beloved.
"Courage and Friendship... only friendship... and no love..." he mumbles.
He looks up to make sure that he really is alone.
When he sees that the door is closed he allows himself to cry.
Renamon finally stops snarling and stretches her blood-covered arms.
With a disgusted grunt she turns away from Veemon's mutilated corpse.
Gatomon slowly nods and continues to polish her Holy Ring.
They killed him. Just like that... Hawkmon thinks, watching the scene with morbid fascination.
Finally he looks away, knowing that he has doomed his best friend himself.
When he looks up again, he sees... her. Aquaveemon is on her knees, crying like a little girl.
Hawkmon approaches the young Digimon to hug her. He'd be there for her no matter what-
"Murderer!"
He stops and blinks. Aquaveemon looks up at him, and he can see anger and hatred in her eyes.
"Murderer!" she shouts again.
"B-But Aqua... I did it for us... so we can be together..." he whispers.
"Do you think I could ever love somebody who betrayed his best friend?"
Aquaveemon slowly walks to him, and Hawkmon finds himself retreating.
"I don't love you, Hawkmon... I don't love... a murderer!"
"Murderer... murderer... am no murderer... sorry..."
Yolei Inoue shakes her head. Hawkmon is lying next to her, still mumbling in his sleep.
First she thought that he's just having a nightmare. But he didn't wake up.
She finally shakes her partner, trying to wake him up.
"Hawkmon! Hawkmon! Wake up! Come on!" she shouts.
The bird's eyes suddenly fly open and Yolei is pushed away by his sudden wing movements.
"No! NO! Please believe me!" he cries, stumbling out of the bed.
"Hawkmon... it has been a nightmare..." Yolei whispers, avoiding sudden movements.
Her partner crawls into a corner of the room. Yolei can hear him weep softly and sighs.
She carefully approaches him and kneels next to the shivering pile of feathers.
"It has just been a dream, Hawkmon..." she whispers again.
"Oh Yolei... Yolei..." he cries, hugging her desperately.
Yolei gently strokes his back, trying to ignore the fact that his talons are scratching her legs.
"Yolei... it hasn't been a dream... it has been a vision..." he suddenly whispers.
"Oh Veemon..."
Isis chuckles quietly. She isn't too surprised to hear this.
Aquaveemon hugs Isis' arm and gently nuzzles it in her sleep.
"I love you, Veemon..." the young Rookie sighs.
And I bet he loves you, too. I've seen it in his eyes. The way he watches over you...
"Veemon... I..." Aquaveemon yawns, slowly opening her eyes.
The Digimon yelps in surprise when she realizes who she is hugging.
"ISIS! Th-This isn't wh-what you-" Aquaveemon stammers, letting the arm go.
Isis smiles and hugs her partner. After a short moment, Aquaveemon relaxes and returns the hug.
"You love him, right?" Isis asks, although she knows the answer.
"That's the problem... yes..." Aquaveemon sighs and frowns.
"What's wrong?"
"Come on... He's totally famous and I... I'm nobody..."
The girl sighs and strokes her partner's back.
"I think he likes you, too. Maybe he even loves you..." she whispers.
Aquaveemon looks up and blinks. Then she cocks her head.
"Trust me... I've seen the looks he is giving you..." Isis whispers and smiles.
Gatomon looks at the shaver lying on the floor. She recognizes it instantly.
Veemon! That dirty lizard! WHY? I tried to HELP that moron!
"He'll pay." Renamon whispers.
She looks at her vulpine beloved and nods. No matter why he did it, he would suffer for it.
"This time he will die." Renamon suddenly adds, still staring at the shaver.
"He will suffer." Gatomon whispers, trying to suggest a less drastic solution.
"Veemon will die." Renamon insists and snarls at the shaver.
"Renamon, I-"
"I'll crush his windpipe. It'll be over in a flash..." Renamon hisses.
"Renamon-"
"Or I could make it a slow and painful death..."
"RENAMON!" Gatomon shouts, clawing the fox's leg.
The golden-furred Digimon yelps and holds her leg, looking at Gatomon like a scolded dog.
"Leave Veemon to me. I'll deal with him. My way." Gatomon tells her.
"B-But... without your Holy Ring..." Renamon stammers.
"I'm still a Champion Digimon." Gatomon reminds her and Renamon finally nods.
"Isis?" Aquaveemon timidly asks.
The girl looks up from her breakfast and smiles when she sees her Digimon blush.
"I guess I know what's on your mind..." she answers and smiles.
"Heh... yeah... Of course... And I've made decision."
Isis cocks her head when she hears this. Aquaveemon sounds eerily determined.
"What kind of decision?" she finally asks.
"I'll tell Veemon that I love him." Aquaveemon whispers.
The DigiDestined smiles and nods. She is proud of her friend's inner strength.
"I'm so happy for you... I think moving to Tokyo has been a good choice."
Aquaveemon nods merrily and rushes to the door, eager to visit her love.
Part 15
by Christian "Sid" Lang
"Hi, Isis. Veemon speaking." he sighs into the receiver.
Hey Veemon! How are you? the girl instantly cheers.
"Well... Aquaveemon's here... there has been an accident..."
A WHAT?
"Nonono! Nothing fatal! She has been covered with paint!" Veemon quickly corrects.
When he hears the young DigiDestined sigh, he continues.
"But we had to use a lot of paint remover here, and now she's unconscious."
Oh, I see... Well, Mom's not here... So I'm kinda stuck.
"No problem. I'll bring her to you. Just wanted to make sure you'll be there."
I will be. Thanks, Veemon.
"Hey, no problem. See you then!"
From his position on the rooftop of another house, Hawkmon sees Veemon leave and smiles.
Although it hurts to see Aquaveemon in Veemon's arms, Hawkmon knows that it won't last.
"Well then. Let Phase One begin." he mutters and jumps off the rooftop.
He glides to Davis' window and opens it with one of his feathers.
Davis is at the Kamiya's, Veemon just left. Hawkmon sighs and jumps into Davis' room.
"Okay... Now to find all the stuff..." he mutters and goes to work.
"Uhhhhhhhh..."
"Finally..." a female voice whispers.
"Yeah. I started to worry about her health, too." a male voice adds.
Aquaveemon groans and opens her eyes. She looks up and sees Isis and Veemon.
Then she notices that she is lying in the filled bathtub.
"Ohhh... This feels good..." she whispers and moves a bit in the tub.
The young Digimon frowns when Isis suddenly hugs her.
"Isis? Everything all right?" she asks, giving Veemon a questioning glance.
"We've been worried. You've been unconscious for some hours." Veemon explains.
Hours? Must've been the paint remover... has been like poison for me...
Aquaveemon can feel that Isis is crying and gulps. She hugs her partner back and tries to smile.
"Hey... I'm okay... Veemon has been a great help..." she whispers.
"Pah. No problem. But I must go now... Davis might miss me." Veemon answers and shrugs.
"But... we're at your place..." Aquaveemon starts, but Veemon shakes his head.
"I brought you here some hours ago so that Isis can be there for you."
"Thanks, no wonder everybody likes you so much..."
Oh Veemon... Why can't I just tell you that I love you? Aquaveemon thinks and sighs.
Hawkmon nods. It had taken some time to set this up, but he loves perfection.
Besides, I risk dying in a horrible way if I forget one detail... he reminds himself.
He quickly checks his equipment to make sure he didn't forget anything.
There is no real need to do so. During the last hour, he checked the equipment a hundred times.
But it's better to check it often than to risk an ugly death.
"Blowgun? Intact and... cleaned." he mumbles after inspecting the slim weapon.
"Tranquilizer Darts?" he asks himself and looks at the box filled with small darts.
"Check. Oh... and the key element of this plan..." he whispers and smiles.
He holds up the small electric device and briefly switches it on.
"Oh... yeah..."
"I missed you!" Ruki shouts as soon as the Motomiya front door is being opened.
"Well, thanks. But you know I like boys more."
Ruki blinks. When she sees who has opened the door, she blushes and coughs.
"Errrrr... hi Jun..." the Tamer stammers.
Davis' sister smirks and pats Ruki's shoulder.
"He's in his room. Most likely daydreaming of you..." the Motomiya girl tells her.
Let's hope so... Ruki thinks and nods, not telling Jun of her fear of losing Davis.
Either she wouldn't understand me, or she would laugh at me. she guesses.
So she simply walks to Davis' room and opens the door.
"Ruki! You're here!" Davis instantly cheers and hugs her.
Ruki smiles and eagerly returns the hug. Then she frowns.
"Did you forget to shave yourself again?" she asks politely.
"You know, Renamon... things aren't really that bad." Gatomon shouts.
The feline Digimon grabs the plate with their snacks and smiles.
"I mean... Ruki's at Davis' place... Kari is dating T.K...." she purrs.
Gatomon walks into the living room, looking forward to a lovely evening.
"So only you and me are left... And we have the entire apart-"
She stops dead in her tracks when she sees Renamon lying on the floor near the open window.
"Is that your way of saying that you're not in the mood?"
The cat blinks. When Renamon doesn't show any kind of reaction, she curses.
Her plate with food hits the floor as Gatomon is dashing to her beloved.
"Renamon! Speak to me! What hap-"
She stops and winces when she feels a sharp pain in her leg.
When she looks down, she sees that a small dart has hit her.
Tranq... dart... she thinks when the world starts spinning.
Another dart hits her, but Gatomon doesn't even have the strength to wince anymore.
Hawkmon sighs. The tranq dart should have been enough for a big elephant.
Still Gatomon had been standing for a good while. But the second dart finished her.
"It's not too late yet." a familiar voice mutters.
Hawkmon gives his angelic self a stare and shakes his head. The little hawk looks sad.
"He's right! Now's your chance to really finish her off!"
He doesn't even turn around to face the evil hawk standing behind him.
"No. I'll proceed as planned. No killing, but also no retreat." he whispers.
He carefully places Davis' blowgun on the ground and picks up the shaver.
Yolei's partner swiftly sails over to the open window and into the apartment.
Five minutes later, he admires his work and nods. No bad surprises this time.
He is about to go when a new idea makes him grin.
Carefully he removes Gatomon's Holy Ring.
The first thing Renamon notices is that the world is shaking.
She blinks and realizes that the world itself is standing still, but somebody shakes her.
"DAMMIT WAKE UP ALREADY!" Gatomon yells, tightening her grip.
Renamon yelps when she realizes that her beloved is holding her up by her precious chest fur.
"COME ON!" the cat Digimon yells, sounding extremely furious.
"Lemme go, you're hurt-" Renamon shouts, looking at Gatomon for the first time today.
"Oh my God..." she whispers when she sees the reason for Gatomon's anger.
"STOP STARING AT ME LIKE THAT!" Gatomon yells, tears flowing down her face.
The cat has been shaven. Renamon is reminded of modern art when she sees her beloved like this.
Random strips of fur are missing, making Gatomon look like a walking roadmap of an insane town.
Before Gatomon can yell anything else, Renamon hugs her and also starts to cry.
And while watching the sunrise, she silently vows that somebody would pay for this.
Veemon enjoys having the bed all for himself. He stretches and yawns.
Davis left him a note saying that he'd spend the night outside with Ruki.
Whatever that meant. Veemon doesn't really care. All he knows that he slept well.
Now he watches the morning sky, thinking of Aquaveemon. Somehow he can't get her out of his head.
"What if I really love her? I wonder if I should tell her..." he whispers.
But then things go wrong again. I just know it. But... is it better this way?
He knows how much one-sided love can hurt. And he doesn't want to get hurt again.
Veemon sighs and wraps his arms around himself, as if hugging a non-existent beloved.
"Courage and Friendship... only friendship... and no love..." he mumbles.
He looks up to make sure that he really is alone.
When he sees that the door is closed he allows himself to cry.
Renamon finally stops snarling and stretches her blood-covered arms.
With a disgusted grunt she turns away from Veemon's mutilated corpse.
Gatomon slowly nods and continues to polish her Holy Ring.
They killed him. Just like that... Hawkmon thinks, watching the scene with morbid fascination.
Finally he looks away, knowing that he has doomed his best friend himself.
When he looks up again, he sees... her. Aquaveemon is on her knees, crying like a little girl.
Hawkmon approaches the young Digimon to hug her. He'd be there for her no matter what-
"Murderer!"
He stops and blinks. Aquaveemon looks up at him, and he can see anger and hatred in her eyes.
"Murderer!" she shouts again.
"B-But Aqua... I did it for us... so we can be together..." he whispers.
"Do you think I could ever love somebody who betrayed his best friend?"
Aquaveemon slowly walks to him, and Hawkmon finds himself retreating.
"I don't love you, Hawkmon... I don't love... a murderer!"
"Murderer... murderer... am no murderer... sorry..."
Yolei Inoue shakes her head. Hawkmon is lying next to her, still mumbling in his sleep.
First she thought that he's just having a nightmare. But he didn't wake up.
She finally shakes her partner, trying to wake him up.
"Hawkmon! Hawkmon! Wake up! Come on!" she shouts.
The bird's eyes suddenly fly open and Yolei is pushed away by his sudden wing movements.
"No! NO! Please believe me!" he cries, stumbling out of the bed.
"Hawkmon... it has been a nightmare..." Yolei whispers, avoiding sudden movements.
Her partner crawls into a corner of the room. Yolei can hear him weep softly and sighs.
She carefully approaches him and kneels next to the shivering pile of feathers.
"It has just been a dream, Hawkmon..." she whispers again.
"Oh Yolei... Yolei..." he cries, hugging her desperately.
Yolei gently strokes his back, trying to ignore the fact that his talons are scratching her legs.
"Yolei... it hasn't been a dream... it has been a vision..." he suddenly whispers.
"Oh Veemon..."
Isis chuckles quietly. She isn't too surprised to hear this.
Aquaveemon hugs Isis' arm and gently nuzzles it in her sleep.
"I love you, Veemon..." the young Rookie sighs.
And I bet he loves you, too. I've seen it in his eyes. The way he watches over you...
"Veemon... I..." Aquaveemon yawns, slowly opening her eyes.
The Digimon yelps in surprise when she realizes who she is hugging.
"ISIS! Th-This isn't wh-what you-" Aquaveemon stammers, letting the arm go.
Isis smiles and hugs her partner. After a short moment, Aquaveemon relaxes and returns the hug.
"You love him, right?" Isis asks, although she knows the answer.
"That's the problem... yes..." Aquaveemon sighs and frowns.
"What's wrong?"
"Come on... He's totally famous and I... I'm nobody..."
The girl sighs and strokes her partner's back.
"I think he likes you, too. Maybe he even loves you..." she whispers.
Aquaveemon looks up and blinks. Then she cocks her head.
"Trust me... I've seen the looks he is giving you..." Isis whispers and smiles.
Gatomon looks at the shaver lying on the floor. She recognizes it instantly.
Veemon! That dirty lizard! WHY? I tried to HELP that moron!
"He'll pay." Renamon whispers.
She looks at her vulpine beloved and nods. No matter why he did it, he would suffer for it.
"This time he will die." Renamon suddenly adds, still staring at the shaver.
"He will suffer." Gatomon whispers, trying to suggest a less drastic solution.
"Veemon will die." Renamon insists and snarls at the shaver.
"Renamon, I-"
"I'll crush his windpipe. It'll be over in a flash..." Renamon hisses.
"Renamon-"
"Or I could make it a slow and painful death..."
"RENAMON!" Gatomon shouts, clawing the fox's leg.
The golden-furred Digimon yelps and holds her leg, looking at Gatomon like a scolded dog.
"Leave Veemon to me. I'll deal with him. My way." Gatomon tells her.
"B-But... without your Holy Ring..." Renamon stammers.
"I'm still a Champion Digimon." Gatomon reminds her and Renamon finally nods.
"Isis?" Aquaveemon timidly asks.
The girl looks up from her breakfast and smiles when she sees her Digimon blush.
"I guess I know what's on your mind..." she answers and smiles.
"Heh... yeah... Of course... And I've made decision."
Isis cocks her head when she hears this. Aquaveemon sounds eerily determined.
"What kind of decision?" she finally asks.
"I'll tell Veemon that I love him." Aquaveemon whispers.
The DigiDestined smiles and nods. She is proud of her friend's inner strength.
"I'm so happy for you... I think moving to Tokyo has been a good choice."
Aquaveemon nods merrily and rushes to the door, eager to visit her love.
