The Crest of The Heavens
By ArchangelUK

I do not own Digimon, nor do I own anything with interest free credit or 0% APR...

Gatomon: Twist my tail, things are really getting confusing here; first of all some new ultimate digi bad guy called Nemisomon shows up, then the 'Thirteenth DigiDestined' who happens to be a guy named Jarret from the future. He has a crest as well, the 'Crest of the Heavens' which Gennai was pretty shocked and surprised by and disappeared just as quickly as he arrived to go and get Azulongmon. Jarret seems nice enough, but he seems a bit wary of some of the other DigiDestined, even Patamon! Yet for some reason he seems to want to look out for me which is nice enough, but after an incident with me and Veemon, a big bust up and some pretty childish behaviour Jarret snapped and threw Veemon in a river! Now if only I can figure out what it is that's seemingly tormenting him, get Mimi to stop staring at him and defeat Nemisomon everything will be fine... but at this rate it'll take most of my nine lves to do it!

Chapter 4: My Past, Your Future

"On the day there is 13 a choice is made, a path is taken, and that path shall lead 13 to light and 1 to shadow."
- The Prophecy of The Thirteenth DigiDestined

Jarret looked up at the shimmering blue light that filled the sky, he squinted against it until he could make out the long tail of a digimon. The light reduced in intensity so he could make out the image before him, Jarret swallowed, his answers were about to arrive.

"Jarret..." Gatomon began, he looked down at her seeing her concern and gave her a half smile.

"It's OK, I know who it is."

"Do you know who I am?" The voice boomed, making the ground tremble slightly beneath their feet

Yes... Jarret answered, then realising he had only thought this spoke up "Yes. You are Azulogmon, guardian digimon of the east." Jarret paused, the wind blew through his hair, he looked Azulogmon in the eye. "Do you know who I am, Azulogmon?"

"Yes." The great dragon said sadly, "And I know why you are here."

"I have but one question, great guardian."

"I know the question you will ask Jarret, the path you choose to follow, if you indeed are the fabled thirteenth digidestined will lead you all to victory. But be wary of such prophecies for they are mearly that and they can be changed or altered from what we would perceive them to be and still remain correct."

"Yes Azulongmon, I have already I beleived solved the mystery of the prophecy but there is one thing I must know, w-with...with my..."

"With his what?" Davis impatiently whispered into Yolei's ear, she shrugged. Jarret continued having regained his composure,

"Will all be changed and those I care for be safe."

"If what you believe is true, then it will be I can help you no more for that is all I know. Good luck Jarret, may your path lie straight and true, farewell digidestined, farewell." Azulongmon vanished as abruptly as he appeared.

"What was that about Jarret?" Kari asked,

"He answered my question, that was all."

Yolei stepped forward, "But Jarret, what did he mean about your 'path'." Jarret refused to answer and walked off in the direction of the forest. At least, he thought, I now know what to do.

The digimon sat on a log, not really wanting to do anything, Gatomon played with her tail at a loss for something to do. Hawkmon fidgited with a feather on his arm that was somehow annoying him. Armadillomon just sat staring into space, whilst Veemon kicked at a stone that he was trying to visualise as a football.

"He could have at least acknowledged the rest of us where there." Veemon said as he looked up. "Azulogmon could have at least said hello."

"It was odd, that he only spoke to Jarret." Hawkmon replied, pulling the feather out and discarding it.

"What was even odder was that it was he who summoned a mega digimon to answer a question. I know I couldn't do that." Wormon's voice came from a pile of leaves, what he was doing in there no one seamed to know. Armadillomon looked over to the leaf pile and nodded,

"There's something goin' on here that we don't know about." Gatomon continued to flick the end of her tail, oblivious to the conversation going on around her.

"Gatomon?" Her ears pricked up as she heard her name being called, she came fully back to reality as an orange digimon landed next to her. Patamon who had been flying around the group in a circle until this point reached out with his paw and held Gatomons for a moment. "Gatomon, what's the matter, you seem very distant." She looked at him, his eyes full of concern - he could always tell when she needed to talk about something or needed some reassurance, just like TK always could with Kari.

"It's something Jarret said to me." The white cat-digimon whispered, "It was last night around the campfire when everyone else was asleep."

"What was it about?" Veemon interjected, glancing at Patamon's paw which still clung on to Gatomon's. Gatomon sighed, she saw Veemon's glance but decided this was not the time.

"It was about us, you must have noticed he's been rather protective of me since he arrived." Gatomon noted Veemon's shiver when she mentioned that, it hadn't been all that long since Jarret hurled him into a river, right after he had inadvertantly knocked her in. He seems so concerned and somewhat distant himself mostly, but when he's with me, I don't know, It's like there is some sort of bond. So I asked him."

"What did he say...Gatomon?" Patamon saw tears welling up in his friend's eyes, he instinctively put his wing around her shoulders, with only the token growl from Veemon as protest. "What did he say?"

"I can't tell you, Gatomon."

"Why not?"

"Because."

"Because what?"

"BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO!"

Gatomon almost stepped backwards at the force of Jarret's reply, she couldn't see where all that pain and anger had come from and she wanted to know. She knew it was there and that he hid it well, but she could see it and when it was unleashed it was frightening to him and to her. Jarret looked down at his feet and so Gatomon glanced over at the sleeping digidestined, they hadn't been woken by Jarret's outburst. He meanwhile had sat down by the fire and held his head in his hands, Gatomon walked back over to Kari and snuggled against her.

"It was nine years ago."

"What was?" Gatomon said sleepily.

"When it happened." Jarret said, Gatomon opened her eyes,

"Tell me."

Jarret looked at Terrimon, who looked back at him - Terrimon's face was emotionless, then the music started. It was beautiful, so delicate and yet so meaningful, his uncles, aunts and his parents friends carried the wooden boxes in and delicately placed them on stands. The service began.

Gatomon cleared her throat and wiped her eyes, they wanted to know and Jarret had said the others would eventually find out. "It had all begun so wonderfully, It was his brother's birthday, there was a party in the afternoon. Jarret had arranged it as a surprise for his younger brother, who lapped up all the attention that the others could give him." Gatomon closed her eyes, it had all seemed so vivid when Jarret told her, but now she was having dificulty remembering the details.

"The celebration became a double one after his digimon, a Salamon, questioned what a birthday was. Finding he had no birthday, Jarret's mum and dad decided that today would be a celebration of Salamon's birthday as well. Terrimon had looked up at Jarret, seemingly disgruntled that salamon could have a birthday and he could not. Jarret said they would share his birthday instead. It was decided that later on that day the family would go out for a meal. Terrimon stayed behind, Jarret said he'd mentioned something about 'a date' with another Terrimon, so it was just Jarret, his brother, his parents the Salamon and his...parents' d-digimon." Gatomon appeared to be stumbling over the words now, torn between getting it all out in the open and concentrating on the details.

"They were on a motorway and then the breaks failed..."

"What happened to them." Veemon asked.

"Jarret was in hospital for about two months, mostly in a coma, his parents both died on impact."

"What about the brother and the digimon." The voice was Ken's, Gatomon looked around to see that more or less everyone was awake and listening to her. TK and Kari were still asleep, drained after the recent events - perhaps Gatomon thought, for the best.

"Jarret's brother died about two weeks later of liver failure, his salamon died around the same time. The other digimon were badly hurt but survived."

Yolei clutched at Hawkmon hugging him to her, she was close to crying.

"So Jarret was orphaned..." Wormon managed to say. Gatomon nodded,

"There was only one thing that puzzled me, he mentioned something happening six years later."

Jarret blinked back the tears that threatened to blur his vision, he turned towards Gatomon.
"I made a promise to protect both of the digimon, and I promised one of them I would protect the other above themselves. I failed that day."

"Who were they? What happened to you Jarret?" Gatomon walked over to Jarret and put her head on his knee. "What happened?"

"I..I.." Jarret mouth formed words yet there was no voice to speak them, it was about five minutes until he was able to barely whisper. "I...failed you."

"You failed me? What do you mean you failed me?" Jarret took no notice looking over towards an orange digimon, sleeping on top of a crinkled blanket.

"He never forgave me..."

When she had finished, the others looked from Gatomon, lost in their own personal thoughts, head down, silent.

The coffins were ornate mahogany wood, on top of each was a D3, one was green, one was pink and one green and gold in colour. They were carried out towards the patch of land designated to them, buried under a large statuette of two angels, one female, one male holding between them an interlinked symbol. One was a shooting star with trail lines, which was made of pure gold, the other an eight-pointed star of pure silver. Jarret looked on, he reassuringly stroked the digimon in his arms, whilst the digimon perched on his shoulder wept silently.

That means that...then they're...they can't be no...dead???? So the parents are revealed, will they find out that Jarret is their son. Where has Nemisomon gone? What is the truth behind what happened those six years later? Find out in the next chapters of Crest of The Heavens!!! But finally I just want to put forward a TAKARI theory, from now on to be known as "ArchangelUK's Takari Theory" - so no one steals it. Ok, here goes. "His Master's Voice" we assume by that it is the Scubamon's quote Dark Undersea Master unquote, I don't think so...I think that is a reference to Kari calling (in the Japanese version) to TK and the portal forming. Kari is TK's master (in a sort of twisted way) she calls him, he hears her, he follows more or less blindly. Anyway, that's a new take on it and I'd be interested in your ideas. Takari Forever. R+R!

AAUK 0:-)

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