The Guardian of Courage Chapter Two

Harry and the Guard come to a portal, shaped like a circle quartered by a cross. "Go through there Taichi, leader of the honoured Digidestined. The king already awaits you." Taichi stepped up, and was sucked through.

In the meantime the other Digidestined had calmed down Hikari, and brought her back to her parents. Then they told them what had happened. Mrs. Yagami fainted, and Mr. Yagami was heartbroken. Hikari just broke back into tears.

The ghost looked sadly at what he had never had. He had been an orphan, and the only friend he had ever had, was the King. The favour he had to pay back was his friend fighting against fate, to save him. That way he had gained an extra year of life. He turned away from watching the Yagamis, and went to serve the new person that had come in.

Taichi appeared in front of a castle. He was now wearing middle age clothing. He wore light armour, that he could however feel was enchanted, an enchanted helmet, and his sword. He knocked on the gates. From above came a voice, "What dost thou desire?"

Taichi fell into that dialect easy. "May I have an audience with his majesty? I have journeyed from afar, and now I desire to help the princess."

"Is well, step back noble sir, so the gate might open without hurting thee."

With that they opened the door. Taichi read their minds, and found out that he should wait. They came down to escort him to the king and his two daughters.

The elder of the daughters had married not to long ago. Her husband was now the heir. Her name was Alana. Rhona was sulking, not understanding why her father insisted on her having a protector. She could protect herself! But then she saw Taichi walk in. She thought, 'Hmm, with him as a protector it wouldn't be so bad. He's hot. The way he carries himself, shows that he knows how to fight. He has his sword in the right position to draw it within seconds, he is muscular, strong, good looking, but how strange, I've never seen that colour of hair or eyes before. Wait a minute, I don't need any protectors. I don't want any. But boy, is he handsome.'

Yes, she thought all the thees and thous were stupid.

Taichi walked forward, with confidence. He quickly glanced over to the girl he had seen in his dreams. She was scowling and sulking like there was no tomorrow. He thought, 'She's cute when she does that.'

When their eyes contacted, he saw that her eyes were not as cold as ice, like Yamato's used to be, they were warm and full of feelings. In that brief glance he saw that it just hurt her feelings that her father thought that she couldn't take care of herself. It wasn't anything else. But he knew she would die if he didn't help her. He had seen it in one of his visions of the future. They came more often now, but only while he slept. He never told anyone of them, but he did whatever they told him to do. They had gotten him this far, they probably were telling the truth. The first time they came, they told Taichi to tell Sora, or lose her. That had been the first time and the last time he had ignored them. He was now glad he had taken that road. Two ways were always presented to him. In that case it had been a straight road with Sora, with nothing exciting. The other had been curvy, and had many corners. He hadn't been used to this, but didn't want to believe it, so he wouldn't. But later he saw that his visions had been correct. Then the Digimon thing came up, everything set up for the decision if he should go or not. But this time he could see a vision for both ways. One was her death, the other was them together, happy, but again this road was twisted and turning. He still chose that one. He knew another would come up very soon. Although he had already made the decision.

He knelt in front of the King, and said, "I have journeyed from afar. I have come to answer the summons you have sent, for someone of a different world. I saved two worlds before, and so I hope to save your daughter from the visions granted to me."

She blinked, this one had entered their world, therefor he could use magic. Now he was talking about visions. She thought, 'That probably means that he can also see the future, if what he says is right, then I really might be in trouble. Nah, such thing are impossible.'

"Go, away. I don't need help. I'm quite fine on my own."

"First of all, I will not go away, second of all, you do need help, third of all, your father is doing this out of concern for you, not because he doubts your ability to protect yourself. He loves you and only wants you safe. Don't worry, you won't be stuck with me the rest of your life if you don't want to. You're only under my protection until we get those bastards trying to kill you. Well, I think you should DUCK!"

She did, and he snatched the dart out of the air as it passed him. Then he examined it. "Hmm, poison darts are not nice, assassin, or should I just call you Arin? Your master should have sent a spy ahead, to check everything out. Well, tell your master that someone called Taichi Yagami has come to thwart his planes."

The assassin departed in haste to tell his master. Taichi laughed, "Come on Rhona, we have to get out of here unless you want to get murdered in your sleep. It would be best if you…" He felt a spy present, so he finished it telepathically, 'dress as a boy. Sorry, but there's a spy watching. I'll call you Ronald for now.'

She nodded, and asked, "Could you cast a spell over me?"

He nodded. "Scutum eae praesidere nemum, qui laedere vult, eam videre posse." Well, it was for her safety. So he guessed it was OK. and brown. Over this she strapped the armour and weapons Taichi had seen in the vision of her. Now she was out of all her princess garments, and glad about it. Rhona went down to where Taichi was waiting. So, she went into her room, to change. She just happened to have some boy clothes. She put them on. She cut her hair, so that she had short hair. She now had some clothes on that told nothing of her rank. They were green. He just finished talking to her father. He motioned for her to come, "This way, Rhona." She shook her head, but the gate is that way." "But, we aren't going out that way. Your father told me of a different way. Come now princess."

She fumed at him calling her princess. But they left anyway.

The spy that had been watching them the whole time, was called Fitch. He was muttering about his stupid 'Master'. Well, actually he was calling him all sorts of names. He wanted his counterpart to do this. 'But sadly that jerk, thinks I'm better than Uisdean. Well, I can use the money. After all, the only thing my brothers haven't done, is become a spy and be rich. That jerk just happened to be the first to ask me to work for him. But hey, he doesn't know, that I would betray him if his opponents seem to be winning, without even feeling the least bit guilty. Who cares that I swore to serve him. That Taichi guy does seem nice though… and the princess seems to be nice too, but how do I know that they're going to win! I mean like really! Oh, well I'll decide later. When there's a competition between the two. Then I'll know who's stronger.'

Taichi and Rhona were finally gone from the castle. When far enough away he lifted the spell from her. She was still fuming because he called her princess. After all, it wasn't her fault that she had been born into that position. But, she was also mad that he didn't seem to care.

Koushiro had gotten the program to work again. After all, Taichi was now in a world they didn't know. That meant that they had to change the program a bit. So, now the whole Yagami household, and the Digidestined were watching Taichi. Koushiro had improved it, so that they could hear his thoughts. They were, 'Oh, great! Now they're not only watching me but listening to my thoughts. OK, now I'll give them something. GET OFF THAT COMPUTER YOU F****** B*******! OR I'LL SKIN YOU ALIVE WHEN, OR IF I COME HOME! THIS IS NONE OF YOUR BEESWAX!'

They tuned the thoughts off after that, but still watched him.

Taichi, then quietly turned off his Digivice, and the communication was broken.

Koushiro turned to the others, the communication was broken. "Um, guys, I think Taichi turned off his Digivice."

Hikari broke down into tears again. (A.N.: She's a cry baby. Oh, yes, I don't like her or Sora much. Hikari's far too innocent, and Sora's too sweet.) Takeru comforted her. Then Hikari accused Sora, that it was all her fault. So, Sora broke down in tears also, and Yamato comforted her after shooting Hikari a dirty look. Takeru got mad at his brother for looking at Hikari that way, so he yelled at him. Yamato wouldn't let an insult stand, so he threw one back. Finally almost everyone was arguing, and Joe and the grown ups were trying to get them to stop. But it was hopeless, until Genaii sent an e-mail to Koushiro, who was on the computer, oblivious to everything going on around him. He turned to the others, who were still following their certain occupation, he said, "Guys, I got an e-mail from Genaii. Hey, stop fighting and LISTEN TO ME!" So, they stopped what they were doing, to listen to him. "I got an e-mail from Genaii, he told us to go to his house. Or rather, all the Digidestined that don't have D3s. He figured out how to update them to the same one Taichi has, just that ours will be different weapons. So, will one of you kids open the gate?"

Iori ended up opening the gate. The Digidestined entered, and went to a place Genaii had mentioned in the e-mail, but Koushiro hadn't read out loud. They entered his house, after he had split the water where his steps were. There Genaii was waiting in front of his door. He had a device in his hand, and he was old again. Genaii ushered them into his house. "Here, come in. Sorry, but it'll take me a lot of time to do this. So, please stay the night. Oh, and give me your Digivices. Don't worry, you'll be able to tell them apart afterwards. They'll be the colour of your crests."

Then Sora spoke up, "But Taichi's sword wasn't orange."

"That's because of different factors, first it was upgraded without the help of his crest, second he's your leader, third he's special and fourth he understands all the crests, and knows things inside that even I don't know."

Yamato threw back, "For instance?"

"The secret to the black digivolving with no need of crest or Digivice, or how to use Magic, or he understands the language of magic. He's the only one in the history of the Digidestined to have that capability. Yes, Hikari. Every bearer of the crest of light has had your power. Besides, Taichi is the prophesised seer the first thing he foresaw was rather harmless. That way he knew about his ability. It was whether he should tell Sora that he liked her or not. He came to me after one of the two came to pass. He had had a new vision. The one that lead you guys to loose your respect for him. He knew you guys were going to despise him after that, so he came to me. I told him his first responsibility was to the Digiworld, then came his friends. So I gave him the weapon to do it. It only had to come in contact with the baby to kill it. I was talking to Elekmon when he did it, to make sure that he could do it. He had worn black clothing on that day. In sorrow for what he had to do, besides the fact that it didn't show blood. To spite all these precautions though Iori happened to be near, and saw Taichi do the deed. Iori sent e-mails to everyone even Taichi's little sister. She ended up being the only one to listen to him why he had done it, but she didn't even believe him. She didn't want to believe that her brother could see the future. She didn't want to believe that Taichi had foreseen such a cute little baby Digimon could become like Myotismon. Little did she know that it was Myotismon, although reborn. After all, all Digimon deleted in the Digiworld are reborn, unless killed by one person without anyone else helping. Then their souls would be bound to that person, but only certain people were able to sense them. That way Myotismon taught Taichi some more powerful magic after he tested Taichi's capability to be positive."

When he saw that most of the Digidestined didn't understand, he added, "In other words, Taichi can see the future, he told me, and Myotismon has been teaching him magic, after he found out Taichi could use magic." Everyone understood now, and they gave Genaii their Digivices, to have them upgraded. Then they sent an e-mail home to tell them that they would be gone overnight. They left Genaii alone to do the upgrading, and played 'truth, dare, double dare, promise, or repeat'. They had a lot of fun, then went to bed.

Taichi and Rhona were walking away from the Castle. They were heading for the mountains that surrounded the small country. Rhona was excited. She had never seen anything other than the castle before. Taichi said, "Ronald, you look fantastic in those clothes." She blushed. "Do you really mean that?"

"Yes, they're fantastic on you."

She hid the deepening blush that was creeping up her face. Then she noticed that a picture fell down. She picked it up, and saw with two girls. He looked to be about ten. She asked him, "Who are the two girls in this picture? And who drew it?"

"I drew it while I was still into drawing, and they're my little sister and childhood friend. That was before we found out that we were some of the chosen children. The chosen children are the ones chosen to save the Digiworld, yet another world. There are more worlds out there than you could imagine, more than we can count, more than we even have numbers for. Every star, is a sun, with planets. Some of these planets might carry life. Everywhere new things to discover."

"Could you tell me about your life?"

"If you tell me about yours."

"I'll tell you after you tell me yours." So Taichi began to tell her about the first time he saw Digimon, his adventures in the Digiworld, the incident with Demon, up until that point in time that he was telling from. He did however leave out some of the details. "Why don't you go back to your family? Your sister Hikari is certainly in a terrible condition. Your parents, your friends, why did you leave that all behind? Why don't you go back?"

"Because of you. I was a warrior since me and my sister received that Digiegg so long ago. I was the one chosen for this job, and I must complete it. Besides, I'll only leave when your secure, and decide to come with me."

She looked into his eyes and saw love there. She thought, 'He barely knows me, yet he loves me? She leaned in for a kiss, but then he pulled her to the ground as an arrow flew right over them.

Fitch was glad, he had halted a very mushy seen. Romance just about made him throw up. So, he had shot an arrow right at their heads, sure that Taichi would get out of it's way. He was right. Then cursed silently as Taichi told him to go over there.

Taichi said, "Fitch, come over here."

Fitch slowly walked over, to stand a bit embarrassed. Taichi questioned him, "Why doesn't the spell hide her from you?"

Fitch answered, "I don't know."

"Wait a second, is it possible you just hate romance, and since your 'Master' told you to keep a close watch on us, you were forced to watch, but you interrupted it instead, knowing that I would dodge it. Right?" He nodded. Taichi continued, "Could you tell us what his planes are?"

Fitch answered, "If you can offer me a place better than the one I'm in, yes I could."

"I'm sure I could get you to be checked for the CIA. You could become a spy, a secret agent, or many other things."

"OK, by now Vadin, an other person working for him, has probably gotten the people to follow that idiot Pricha. Rhona, Pricha is some distant relative of yours or something. You have to return right away. They're going to take over the kingdom. Who knows what will happen with your family then."

So then the three set out on the long road back to the palace, where they hoped to find the rest still alive. She wouldn't admit it, but she really was worried about her family. What would happen to them. Would they be in time? Already at such a young age she had worries that many people never had to worry about. Why had they tried to kill her and not her sister? Maybe because she was more likely to fight back with everything she had? Or was there a different reason? She had no idea what was going on. How could Taichi stay so calm? It was her kingdom that was at the line here. How could anyone stay calm?! She was close to panicking and he looked as if this stuff happened everyday! Maybe it did for him, or maybe he was trained to stay calm no matter what happened. How could anyone stay calm though! This was a life and death situation! Then he put his hand on her arm, and sent some cooling energy through the touch, so that she could calm down. After all, it wouldn't help them at all if she panicked. She had become frantic. He knew that soon the next choice would come up. He would be ready for it. He would not join the enemies side. However they might ask him to, and whatever they might offer him. He would stay true to his ideals. They could even offer him to be Pricha's right hand, he would still not join them. He had decided that after he had finished here, he would ask Rhona if she would return to his home with her. He knew, however, that he would have to bring Fitch to the CIA. They would then check him out to get into the spying network. Taichi was sure that they would check him out. Not many knew this, but Mimi's parents had been American spies, until it hadn't been necessary anymore. Taichi only knew it because he had happened to eavesdrop on them while they were talking about it. He had been going to ask Mimi to come over. They had wanted to ask her parents, but then they had overheard the discussion. They had both wondered what the two were talking about, so they had listened. After that they had sworn to each other never to tell a living soul. He was now planing to use his connections to get Fitch to be tested. Who knew if he would be accepted, and if not, Taichi was sure that they would take him in Japan. Since there they had more of a need for agents than in America.

End of Chapter Two