Digimon! Digimon! The last two episodes of Digimon have been great haven't they?! ( A Very Digi-Christmas and the one after that.. the title escapes me right now..) I love a show that can surprise me! (Sigh) Anyway, sorry it took so long to bring up the next chapter again. How did you like the last chapter? It was sort of longer than the others, I hope it didn't confuse anyone. (well, not too bad anyway..) Weeellll... It's late (around hm, 1:14 a.m.) and I don't really got that much else to say... so, on with the fic! Enjoy!
Disclaimer: Don't own Digimon yadda, yadda
Notes: "talking" 'thoughts'
Familiar
Part 7
An Interesting Tool
"So, Gennai thinks he can defy me and get away with it hm? What a silly old man,
he should be smart enough to know that he can never defeat me. Protecting those children
is only prolonging this little play Gennai. But, I never really liked short performances
anyway.... hmph hm, I'm coming.. soon, very soon..."
Tai and Matt slowly and stumbly walked through the hallways into the dining
room. Kari, Takeru, Patamon, Gatomon, Agumon, and Gabumon looked up at them as
they entered.
"Geez, you guys really look awful." Agumon said concerned.
"Thanks Agumon, that really makes the headache feel better." Tai replied
sarcastically.
They somehow managed to sit down to the table without falling over. "That
voice.... why do you think it did that to us? Do you think it could be important?" Matt
asked, turning towards Tai.
"All it seems to do to me is make me feel like I have a major hangover.." Tai said
holding up his head by putting a hand to his forehead. "What's with the questions to this
thing anyway Matt?"
"It could be helpful to us, or it could be something that might destroy us... I'm just
trying to figure out which it is,"
"Will you two stop talking like we're not here.." Gatomon broke in. "What's going
on with you two?"
"Something happened in their dreams. I think someone did something to them that
caused those headaches they have right now." Kari explained.
"Their dreams? What did it do?" Gatomon asked in an unusually curious.
"We don't know okay?" Tai said agitated. Takeru understood Tai's tone turned to
Gatomon with a look that said to bothered him no more.
"Well, I see everyone has come to breakfast!" Gennai declared. He entered into the
dining room with his usual grin and scanned around the room at the faces staring up to
greet him. But, stopped as he came to see Tai and Matt. "Hm, you two look like a piano
dropped on you both, what's wrong? Breakfast no good for you boys?" Gennai asked.
"We haven't had any.." Tai said. "Matt and I just had a little painful visitor in our
dreams last night." he groaned.
"Well, then have some breakfast! It's bound to perk you right up!" Gennai said
cheerfully. "After you're all done with that, I have something to show you. Just give me a
little time.. I'll come for all of you in awhile when it's ready." Gennai declared then walked
off.
"What a strange little man," Gatomon mumbled.
"What do you think he wants to show us?" Kari asked.
"Urgh... not so loud.." Tai moaned.
"Maybe it has to do with the other Digidestined." Takeru suggested.
All of their attention suddenly shot up. "You really think?" Matt wondered.
"We'll just have to wait and see won't we?" Kari replied.
"Sigh" Everyone was done with breakfast.
"Well, it seems Gennai's pretty busy, so, I'll clean up!" Kari volunteered.
"Then I'll help clean up too!" Patamon said quickly after.
"I'll help you too Kari," Matt offered.
"Oh, really Matt?" she asked surprised, and a filled with a touch of delight.
"Yeah right man, how can you even think of doing anything when we can barely
walk from these headaches?" Tai reminded.
"Oh right, I guess I won't be much help if I can even walk straight.." Matt realized.
'URGHH!! TAAAAIIII!!!' Kari's mind screamed in frustration. 'But still...'
"I can still help you if you want Kari," Matt replied to her.
She sighed. "No, it's all right. Why don't you and Tai rest and wait until Gennai
tells us the news?" she suggested behind a forced smile to hide her regret.
"That sounds like a good idea," Tai agreed.
"Well, since Tai and Matt can't help you Kari, why don't you let us help you?"
Agumon said, referring to himself and Gabumon.
"Sure. Thanks a lot guys!"
Kari, Patamon, Agumon, and Gabumon all decided to clean up. Takeru had left
breakfast silently and wandered off somewhere. No one bothered following him, except
Gatomon of course, because they all knew he probably preferred to be alone. Tai and Matt
waited eagerly for Gennai's news.
"He sure likes to take his sweet time doesn't he?" Tai remarked, beginning to
become impatient. He laid across a couch in one of the house's rooms, lounging around
for Gennai's appearance. Matt stood nearby, looking out the door windows that laid on
the walls behind the couch Tai laid on.
"Yeah.." Matt replied in a slow tone. 'What's taking him so long anyway?!' he
thought impatiently frustrated.
"Hey, be careful you two!" Kari called after Agumon and Gabumon running off to
put away the dishes. "Hmph hm, maybe you should help them to get those dishes into the
cupboards Patamon." Kari suggested.
"Okay!" he said and followed after them. Kari watched closely, making sure they
didn't drop anything. After assuring herself that there were no crashing dishes, she finished
the last bit of the unclean load and placed them on the drying rack beside her.
"Whew," she dried off her hands with a dishtowel and wiped off her brow. "All
done!"
"Yay!" All of the digimon declared at once.
"Okay, you can all go now, thanks for all your help!" Kari said grateful.
"No problem Kari!" Agumon said.
"We are glad that we could be of some help!" Gabumon replied. With that, they
both ran off to rejoin Tai and Matt.
"Great job Patamon, thanks for your help too!" Kari said to her digimon flying
beside her.
"It was nothing!" Patamon said. "Hey, Kari are you wondering what Gennai has to
show us?" he asked her curiously.
"Yeah, just a little. He didn't really tell us much about it you know." Kari
reminded.
"Should we try to look for him and ask?" Patamon asked, a little excited at the
idea.
"I don't think so Patamon. He said he would meet with us." she said.
"Come on Kari, let's go look for him! There's nothing wrong with asking a
question!" Patamon said eagerly and rushed off to do so.
"Patamon! Wait!" Kari called, running after him.
"Hey Matt, what do you think of that Takeru kid?" Tai asked.
"Hm? Takeru? He doesn't seem that bad. Why do ask anyway Tai?" Matt asked.
"I don't know... There's just something about him I don't trust. I mean, he's just too
quiet you know.."
"You do know that you're talking about the guy who saved Kari's life don't you?"
Matt reminded. "Besides, so what if he's quiet, to him we're practically strangers, he
wouldn't be very talkative to people he doesn't even know would he?"
"Guess not, but that cat and him did give me some attitude when we first met
him." Tai reminded.
"Well, if you call him and Gatomon 'that guy and his cat' I would think they would
get a little offended."
"Sheesh, you sure know how to stand up for this guy. Hey do you wonder why he
looks so much like you Matt? You think he's a long lost relative of yours?" Tai asked.
"He could be.. I don't know. After hearing what Gennai said, I'm not sure what to
believe in anymore.."
"Yeah, I know what you mean Matt." Tai said in a disturbed tone as well. "But we
just have to believe in what we know for now right? We don't really have anything else
just yet. And in my opinion, I think that Takeru guy is just weird! I'm not sure about him
Matt. There's just something I just can't put my finger on about that kid!"
"Hmph, it'll probably come to you later. But for now, I think you should be nice to
him. He is a fellow Digidestined and also Kari's savior you know."
"Yeah, all right."
Patamon was a lot faster than she expected, and she soon lost him to the hallways
of Gennai's house. "Patamon! Hey! Where'd you go? Patamon! Huh?" She soon came by a
small room where she noticed Takeru stood, all she could see was his back. Ever still and silent,
looking through a small square window before him in deep
thought. He reminded her of a cold statue standing alone in the shadows. Kari didn't know
why, but she was curious about him. There was mystery that flowed around his very being
and she wondered about him, what he really could be like. She's never really noticed, but
she didn't really know much about him, yet they shared the same mission. Kari wanted to
know more about him, but she didn't understand what drove her to. There was just this
feeling deep inside of her that made her question about him and it also somehow felt like it knew
who he was.
"Are you all right?" a voice broke in, interrupting her trail of thought. She looked up to face a
Takeru staring back at her from across the dim room.
"Uh, yeah! I'm okay!" Kari replied quickly. "So, um, what are you looking at?" she
asked, approaching closer to see through the window as well.
"Just the lake," he said. He hardly changed his tone as he spoke. His voice seem to
have no hint of emotion what so ever.
"This lake does have a lot of fish to look at." Kari agreed, coming up to stand beside him. "Um, Takeru, I was wondering... uh, why did you decide to join us?" she finally asked. "I mean you barely
know any of us, but what made you decide to help us?"
"I'm not exactly sure myself. But something seem to tell me that being with you
and the other Digidestined was in a way, fate. Destiny." he replied turning to her.
'Fate? Destiny?' Those words seem to ring in her head over and over again as she
looked up into his unfathomable blue eyes. "Is that the only reason Takeru?" she suddenly asked.
"What do you mean?" he asked curiously.
Kari then realized that she had said something and not just thought of it. "Oh,
sorry! I didn't know what I was saying! Don't pay any attention to it!" she replied
embarrassed. 'Why did I even say that?!..'
"Anyway, it's nice to have your help. Thank you for deciding to stay with us." Kari
said grateful. "I know you will do your best to help, and that, I can trust you Takeru."
His eyes widened in surprise at her words. 'I trust you Takeru...?' Those words
were so sincere and gentle... I.. never remembered words spoken to me so warmly and
kind..' He thought, standing stunned before her pure, soft smile.
"Hey! Don't you try anything!" something called out. Gatomon suddenly leapt
from out of no where and came to stand firmly in front of Takeru. "Takeru's my
Digidestined partner and I won't let anyone take him away without a fight got it!?" she
yelled fiercely towards Kari.
"Huh?" Kari blinked surprised and confused at the cat digimon's threat.
"And who said she wanted your Digidestined human anyway?!" another voice
yelled back. Patamon soon appeared hovering before Kari, facing towards Gatomon with
an equally threatening look.
"You better just make sure she doesn't get too close to him!"
"And who said you can tell her what to do!"
(Enter black background with lighting between Patron's and Gatomon's
foreheads) Their looks became more fierce towards each other. Their bodies clenched,
ready for a fight. Things looked like they could turn real ugly, real fast. Kari and Takeru
looked on standing by, both nervous and confused.
A sound of a clap suddenly broke the tension. "Hugh?" They all turned to the entry
way of the room where the sound originated. Standing there smugly was no one other
than Gennai.
"Hmph, well, sorry to disappoint you both but, I'm ready to tell you what I've been
meaning to tell you all now. So, your battle will have to wait and take place outside! No
digimon battle in the house!"
"Uh, yes Gennai." they all replied.
"Good, now let's go find the others and tell them the news hm?"
They all gathered into the dining room again and they all sat next to their digimon
at the low set table. Gennai stood up before them ready, and a little anxiously.
"Everyone all set? All right then," With a sudden swipe, Gennai pulled something
from behind him. All their eyes perked up and to what now laid in his hands. It was a
yellow and white-gray laptop. It was slim and it had a strange yellow pineapple symbol on
the middle of its cover.
"Is that it? That's what you made us wait for?!" Tai yelled in disbelief.
"Now, now it's now just a laptop! It's a very special laptop. This can help you in
your quest." Gennai said.
"Help us in our quest? How?" Matt asked.
"Here." Gennai lifted the top case and turned the computer on. Little yellow
pineapples traveled across the screen and soon the screen turned to the main desktop.
Gennai turned the laptop to face him and typed in some commands. "Have a look see." He
turned it back to face them. A map laid across the screen.
"Hugh? What's this?" Tai asked.
"This, is a map of the Digital World." Gennai explained. "This can help you to find
wherever you are in the Digital World, it can also help in directions that I might happen to
email to you." Gennai explained. He pressed one of the keys and another window came
up. On this window was an email screen. "You can contact me by emailing me and I'll try
to answer any questions you might have." He pressed another key and a window with a
list of files came up. "I retrieved most of these files last night. I'm not exactly sure, but I
know that there's a lot more than this. Some files might even help you find the other
Digidestined. They sure helped me a whole bunch." Gennai said.
"What do you mean Gennai?" Kari asked.
A familiar grin came across his face. He clicked on one of the files and a new
window came up. They all looked on shocked. On the laptop screen was a window that
had Kari's picture. Beside it was a little bio. It stated her name, age, what crest she has and
some information on her statistics like where she lived and bits and pieces of her
personality.
"Wh-What in the heck is that?" Tai asked shocked, and he also sounded a little
offended. Who wouldn't be after finding a personal file on his own little sister on some
stranger's computer. "What little freak did that?!"
"Calm down Tai," Gennai said. "There's files on all of you in here." Gennai said,
quickly clicking to another file. This one was on Tai himself. It stated his full name, what
digimon he had and its digivolutions, what crest he has, and some other statistics on him
as well.
"What the? Is this how you found out who we were Gennai?" Matt asked.
"Well, you all were in my memory in some way, but this helped me to get the full
picture on you and what your digimon were. It sure made it a lot easier to find them."
Gennai explained.
"Hey, howcome where it states my digimon there's nothing there." Kari asked.
"Hm, oh yes, it took me awhile to try to find out that. I looked through your entire
file and came upon one digimon's name." Gennai said pointing to a digimon's name in the
part taking about the relationship with her digimon. It only had scattered words here and
there, but one word stood out. It stated 'Patamon'.
"It was also the same under Takeru's file." Gennai said clicking to Takeru's file.
The Digimon space was empty just as in Kari's and in the relationship section were also
some scattered words and the word Gatomon among them. "You four are the only ones
so far that I have been able to restore files on. There are four other files as well, but they
are all empty except for a scrambled picture and the names of the crest. But I shall leave
the task of completing the rest of them to you once you've found more about the
Digiestined." Gennai said.
"What?!" they all said at the same time in a confused.
"I'm giving this laptop to you to use. This thing can help you to find more about
the Digidestined. You can also receive email from me whenever I find some more
information to help you." Gennai said happily. "And you can be sure I'll do my best to
help you!" Gennai assured.
"Hey, what's that?" Tai asked looking at a blinking icon on the screen. Everyone
else took notice to it and drew closer to get a better look. It was the mailbox icon.
"You've got mail," Kari said. With that, she moved the mouse over by using her
finger on the touchpad and clicked it. There was nothing in the sender box, not even a
return email address. All there was just one sentence: "Watch out!. She's coming for you!"
"Huh?" Suddenly, a thundering explosion rang through the house.
"AAAAHHHH!!" The entire house rumbled and everyone trembled from the great force.
"What is that?!" Tai yelled out.
Matt quickly ran over to a nearby window and looked out to see what was causing
the great explosions that shook the house. Out in the lake's waters was an aquatic army of
Digimon. A school of blue dolphin-looking digimon surrounded the place. They all
looked friendly, to an extent, except for the many scars that were all over their bodies.
"It's an army of Dolphmon!" Gabumon exclaimed beyond the blasts.
"PULSE BLAST!" Rings of energy came from their mouths and collided into the grounds
near the house, spraying up gusts of dust from the underwater floor and rumbling the very
walls of the building.
"URGH!" Matt and everyone else held tight, trying to hold against the force of the attack.
"Huh?"
Another shadowy figure appeared out of the lake's depths. It had an red-orange
snake-like body that was striped in a peachish color. It looked like a ancient Chinese
dragon with a strange golden plate upon its head.
"That's another problem, MegaSedramon." Gabumon also recognized.
"RIVER OF POWER!" it cried out. Bits of light gathered into the nose part of the golden
plate, and soon a beam of white light bursted out and headed right for the house.
"Gasp! Everyone look out!" Matt yelled out through the room. No sooner then he
warned them, a ray of light cut through the part of house behind him. Debri flew up from the blast
as it past through the house, but no water entered. "Huh?"
"This house is shielded by a barrier to hold back the water, don't worry you won't
drown anytime soon!" Gennai assured.
"GENNAI!" a cold voice called out, echoing throughout the waters of the lake.
"That voice..." Gennai gasped.
"What was that voice?" Kari asked.
"That, is darkness itself.." Gennai whispered.
Disclaimer: Don't own Digimon yadda, yadda
Notes: "talking" 'thoughts'
Familiar
Part 7
An Interesting Tool
"So, Gennai thinks he can defy me and get away with it hm? What a silly old man,
he should be smart enough to know that he can never defeat me. Protecting those children
is only prolonging this little play Gennai. But, I never really liked short performances
anyway.... hmph hm, I'm coming.. soon, very soon..."
Tai and Matt slowly and stumbly walked through the hallways into the dining
room. Kari, Takeru, Patamon, Gatomon, Agumon, and Gabumon looked up at them as
they entered.
"Geez, you guys really look awful." Agumon said concerned.
"Thanks Agumon, that really makes the headache feel better." Tai replied
sarcastically.
They somehow managed to sit down to the table without falling over. "That
voice.... why do you think it did that to us? Do you think it could be important?" Matt
asked, turning towards Tai.
"All it seems to do to me is make me feel like I have a major hangover.." Tai said
holding up his head by putting a hand to his forehead. "What's with the questions to this
thing anyway Matt?"
"It could be helpful to us, or it could be something that might destroy us... I'm just
trying to figure out which it is,"
"Will you two stop talking like we're not here.." Gatomon broke in. "What's going
on with you two?"
"Something happened in their dreams. I think someone did something to them that
caused those headaches they have right now." Kari explained.
"Their dreams? What did it do?" Gatomon asked in an unusually curious.
"We don't know okay?" Tai said agitated. Takeru understood Tai's tone turned to
Gatomon with a look that said to bothered him no more.
"Well, I see everyone has come to breakfast!" Gennai declared. He entered into the
dining room with his usual grin and scanned around the room at the faces staring up to
greet him. But, stopped as he came to see Tai and Matt. "Hm, you two look like a piano
dropped on you both, what's wrong? Breakfast no good for you boys?" Gennai asked.
"We haven't had any.." Tai said. "Matt and I just had a little painful visitor in our
dreams last night." he groaned.
"Well, then have some breakfast! It's bound to perk you right up!" Gennai said
cheerfully. "After you're all done with that, I have something to show you. Just give me a
little time.. I'll come for all of you in awhile when it's ready." Gennai declared then walked
off.
"What a strange little man," Gatomon mumbled.
"What do you think he wants to show us?" Kari asked.
"Urgh... not so loud.." Tai moaned.
"Maybe it has to do with the other Digidestined." Takeru suggested.
All of their attention suddenly shot up. "You really think?" Matt wondered.
"We'll just have to wait and see won't we?" Kari replied.
"Sigh" Everyone was done with breakfast.
"Well, it seems Gennai's pretty busy, so, I'll clean up!" Kari volunteered.
"Then I'll help clean up too!" Patamon said quickly after.
"I'll help you too Kari," Matt offered.
"Oh, really Matt?" she asked surprised, and a filled with a touch of delight.
"Yeah right man, how can you even think of doing anything when we can barely
walk from these headaches?" Tai reminded.
"Oh right, I guess I won't be much help if I can even walk straight.." Matt realized.
'URGHH!! TAAAAIIII!!!' Kari's mind screamed in frustration. 'But still...'
"I can still help you if you want Kari," Matt replied to her.
She sighed. "No, it's all right. Why don't you and Tai rest and wait until Gennai
tells us the news?" she suggested behind a forced smile to hide her regret.
"That sounds like a good idea," Tai agreed.
"Well, since Tai and Matt can't help you Kari, why don't you let us help you?"
Agumon said, referring to himself and Gabumon.
"Sure. Thanks a lot guys!"
Kari, Patamon, Agumon, and Gabumon all decided to clean up. Takeru had left
breakfast silently and wandered off somewhere. No one bothered following him, except
Gatomon of course, because they all knew he probably preferred to be alone. Tai and Matt
waited eagerly for Gennai's news.
"He sure likes to take his sweet time doesn't he?" Tai remarked, beginning to
become impatient. He laid across a couch in one of the house's rooms, lounging around
for Gennai's appearance. Matt stood nearby, looking out the door windows that laid on
the walls behind the couch Tai laid on.
"Yeah.." Matt replied in a slow tone. 'What's taking him so long anyway?!' he
thought impatiently frustrated.
"Hey, be careful you two!" Kari called after Agumon and Gabumon running off to
put away the dishes. "Hmph hm, maybe you should help them to get those dishes into the
cupboards Patamon." Kari suggested.
"Okay!" he said and followed after them. Kari watched closely, making sure they
didn't drop anything. After assuring herself that there were no crashing dishes, she finished
the last bit of the unclean load and placed them on the drying rack beside her.
"Whew," she dried off her hands with a dishtowel and wiped off her brow. "All
done!"
"Yay!" All of the digimon declared at once.
"Okay, you can all go now, thanks for all your help!" Kari said grateful.
"No problem Kari!" Agumon said.
"We are glad that we could be of some help!" Gabumon replied. With that, they
both ran off to rejoin Tai and Matt.
"Great job Patamon, thanks for your help too!" Kari said to her digimon flying
beside her.
"It was nothing!" Patamon said. "Hey, Kari are you wondering what Gennai has to
show us?" he asked her curiously.
"Yeah, just a little. He didn't really tell us much about it you know." Kari
reminded.
"Should we try to look for him and ask?" Patamon asked, a little excited at the
idea.
"I don't think so Patamon. He said he would meet with us." she said.
"Come on Kari, let's go look for him! There's nothing wrong with asking a
question!" Patamon said eagerly and rushed off to do so.
"Patamon! Wait!" Kari called, running after him.
"Hey Matt, what do you think of that Takeru kid?" Tai asked.
"Hm? Takeru? He doesn't seem that bad. Why do ask anyway Tai?" Matt asked.
"I don't know... There's just something about him I don't trust. I mean, he's just too
quiet you know.."
"You do know that you're talking about the guy who saved Kari's life don't you?"
Matt reminded. "Besides, so what if he's quiet, to him we're practically strangers, he
wouldn't be very talkative to people he doesn't even know would he?"
"Guess not, but that cat and him did give me some attitude when we first met
him." Tai reminded.
"Well, if you call him and Gatomon 'that guy and his cat' I would think they would
get a little offended."
"Sheesh, you sure know how to stand up for this guy. Hey do you wonder why he
looks so much like you Matt? You think he's a long lost relative of yours?" Tai asked.
"He could be.. I don't know. After hearing what Gennai said, I'm not sure what to
believe in anymore.."
"Yeah, I know what you mean Matt." Tai said in a disturbed tone as well. "But we
just have to believe in what we know for now right? We don't really have anything else
just yet. And in my opinion, I think that Takeru guy is just weird! I'm not sure about him
Matt. There's just something I just can't put my finger on about that kid!"
"Hmph, it'll probably come to you later. But for now, I think you should be nice to
him. He is a fellow Digidestined and also Kari's savior you know."
"Yeah, all right."
Patamon was a lot faster than she expected, and she soon lost him to the hallways
of Gennai's house. "Patamon! Hey! Where'd you go? Patamon! Huh?" She soon came by a
small room where she noticed Takeru stood, all she could see was his back. Ever still and silent,
looking through a small square window before him in deep
thought. He reminded her of a cold statue standing alone in the shadows. Kari didn't know
why, but she was curious about him. There was mystery that flowed around his very being
and she wondered about him, what he really could be like. She's never really noticed, but
she didn't really know much about him, yet they shared the same mission. Kari wanted to
know more about him, but she didn't understand what drove her to. There was just this
feeling deep inside of her that made her question about him and it also somehow felt like it knew
who he was.
"Are you all right?" a voice broke in, interrupting her trail of thought. She looked up to face a
Takeru staring back at her from across the dim room.
"Uh, yeah! I'm okay!" Kari replied quickly. "So, um, what are you looking at?" she
asked, approaching closer to see through the window as well.
"Just the lake," he said. He hardly changed his tone as he spoke. His voice seem to
have no hint of emotion what so ever.
"This lake does have a lot of fish to look at." Kari agreed, coming up to stand beside him. "Um, Takeru, I was wondering... uh, why did you decide to join us?" she finally asked. "I mean you barely
know any of us, but what made you decide to help us?"
"I'm not exactly sure myself. But something seem to tell me that being with you
and the other Digidestined was in a way, fate. Destiny." he replied turning to her.
'Fate? Destiny?' Those words seem to ring in her head over and over again as she
looked up into his unfathomable blue eyes. "Is that the only reason Takeru?" she suddenly asked.
"What do you mean?" he asked curiously.
Kari then realized that she had said something and not just thought of it. "Oh,
sorry! I didn't know what I was saying! Don't pay any attention to it!" she replied
embarrassed. 'Why did I even say that?!..'
"Anyway, it's nice to have your help. Thank you for deciding to stay with us." Kari
said grateful. "I know you will do your best to help, and that, I can trust you Takeru."
His eyes widened in surprise at her words. 'I trust you Takeru...?' Those words
were so sincere and gentle... I.. never remembered words spoken to me so warmly and
kind..' He thought, standing stunned before her pure, soft smile.
"Hey! Don't you try anything!" something called out. Gatomon suddenly leapt
from out of no where and came to stand firmly in front of Takeru. "Takeru's my
Digidestined partner and I won't let anyone take him away without a fight got it!?" she
yelled fiercely towards Kari.
"Huh?" Kari blinked surprised and confused at the cat digimon's threat.
"And who said she wanted your Digidestined human anyway?!" another voice
yelled back. Patamon soon appeared hovering before Kari, facing towards Gatomon with
an equally threatening look.
"You better just make sure she doesn't get too close to him!"
"And who said you can tell her what to do!"
(Enter black background with lighting between Patron's and Gatomon's
foreheads) Their looks became more fierce towards each other. Their bodies clenched,
ready for a fight. Things looked like they could turn real ugly, real fast. Kari and Takeru
looked on standing by, both nervous and confused.
A sound of a clap suddenly broke the tension. "Hugh?" They all turned to the entry
way of the room where the sound originated. Standing there smugly was no one other
than Gennai.
"Hmph, well, sorry to disappoint you both but, I'm ready to tell you what I've been
meaning to tell you all now. So, your battle will have to wait and take place outside! No
digimon battle in the house!"
"Uh, yes Gennai." they all replied.
"Good, now let's go find the others and tell them the news hm?"
They all gathered into the dining room again and they all sat next to their digimon
at the low set table. Gennai stood up before them ready, and a little anxiously.
"Everyone all set? All right then," With a sudden swipe, Gennai pulled something
from behind him. All their eyes perked up and to what now laid in his hands. It was a
yellow and white-gray laptop. It was slim and it had a strange yellow pineapple symbol on
the middle of its cover.
"Is that it? That's what you made us wait for?!" Tai yelled in disbelief.
"Now, now it's now just a laptop! It's a very special laptop. This can help you in
your quest." Gennai said.
"Help us in our quest? How?" Matt asked.
"Here." Gennai lifted the top case and turned the computer on. Little yellow
pineapples traveled across the screen and soon the screen turned to the main desktop.
Gennai turned the laptop to face him and typed in some commands. "Have a look see." He
turned it back to face them. A map laid across the screen.
"Hugh? What's this?" Tai asked.
"This, is a map of the Digital World." Gennai explained. "This can help you to find
wherever you are in the Digital World, it can also help in directions that I might happen to
email to you." Gennai explained. He pressed one of the keys and another window came
up. On this window was an email screen. "You can contact me by emailing me and I'll try
to answer any questions you might have." He pressed another key and a window with a
list of files came up. "I retrieved most of these files last night. I'm not exactly sure, but I
know that there's a lot more than this. Some files might even help you find the other
Digidestined. They sure helped me a whole bunch." Gennai said.
"What do you mean Gennai?" Kari asked.
A familiar grin came across his face. He clicked on one of the files and a new
window came up. They all looked on shocked. On the laptop screen was a window that
had Kari's picture. Beside it was a little bio. It stated her name, age, what crest she has and
some information on her statistics like where she lived and bits and pieces of her
personality.
"Wh-What in the heck is that?" Tai asked shocked, and he also sounded a little
offended. Who wouldn't be after finding a personal file on his own little sister on some
stranger's computer. "What little freak did that?!"
"Calm down Tai," Gennai said. "There's files on all of you in here." Gennai said,
quickly clicking to another file. This one was on Tai himself. It stated his full name, what
digimon he had and its digivolutions, what crest he has, and some other statistics on him
as well.
"What the? Is this how you found out who we were Gennai?" Matt asked.
"Well, you all were in my memory in some way, but this helped me to get the full
picture on you and what your digimon were. It sure made it a lot easier to find them."
Gennai explained.
"Hey, howcome where it states my digimon there's nothing there." Kari asked.
"Hm, oh yes, it took me awhile to try to find out that. I looked through your entire
file and came upon one digimon's name." Gennai said pointing to a digimon's name in the
part taking about the relationship with her digimon. It only had scattered words here and
there, but one word stood out. It stated 'Patamon'.
"It was also the same under Takeru's file." Gennai said clicking to Takeru's file.
The Digimon space was empty just as in Kari's and in the relationship section were also
some scattered words and the word Gatomon among them. "You four are the only ones
so far that I have been able to restore files on. There are four other files as well, but they
are all empty except for a scrambled picture and the names of the crest. But I shall leave
the task of completing the rest of them to you once you've found more about the
Digiestined." Gennai said.
"What?!" they all said at the same time in a confused.
"I'm giving this laptop to you to use. This thing can help you to find more about
the Digidestined. You can also receive email from me whenever I find some more
information to help you." Gennai said happily. "And you can be sure I'll do my best to
help you!" Gennai assured.
"Hey, what's that?" Tai asked looking at a blinking icon on the screen. Everyone
else took notice to it and drew closer to get a better look. It was the mailbox icon.
"You've got mail," Kari said. With that, she moved the mouse over by using her
finger on the touchpad and clicked it. There was nothing in the sender box, not even a
return email address. All there was just one sentence: "Watch out!. She's coming for you!"
"Huh?" Suddenly, a thundering explosion rang through the house.
"AAAAHHHH!!" The entire house rumbled and everyone trembled from the great force.
"What is that?!" Tai yelled out.
Matt quickly ran over to a nearby window and looked out to see what was causing
the great explosions that shook the house. Out in the lake's waters was an aquatic army of
Digimon. A school of blue dolphin-looking digimon surrounded the place. They all
looked friendly, to an extent, except for the many scars that were all over their bodies.
"It's an army of Dolphmon!" Gabumon exclaimed beyond the blasts.
"PULSE BLAST!" Rings of energy came from their mouths and collided into the grounds
near the house, spraying up gusts of dust from the underwater floor and rumbling the very
walls of the building.
"URGH!" Matt and everyone else held tight, trying to hold against the force of the attack.
"Huh?"
Another shadowy figure appeared out of the lake's depths. It had an red-orange
snake-like body that was striped in a peachish color. It looked like a ancient Chinese
dragon with a strange golden plate upon its head.
"That's another problem, MegaSedramon." Gabumon also recognized.
"RIVER OF POWER!" it cried out. Bits of light gathered into the nose part of the golden
plate, and soon a beam of white light bursted out and headed right for the house.
"Gasp! Everyone look out!" Matt yelled out through the room. No sooner then he
warned them, a ray of light cut through the part of house behind him. Debri flew up from the blast
as it past through the house, but no water entered. "Huh?"
"This house is shielded by a barrier to hold back the water, don't worry you won't
drown anytime soon!" Gennai assured.
"GENNAI!" a cold voice called out, echoing throughout the waters of the lake.
"That voice..." Gennai gasped.
"What was that voice?" Kari asked.
"That, is darkness itself.." Gennai whispered.