Dimensional Dreaming...
Chapter four
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Davis was getting rather flusterated by now. He couldn't find a way out of the house, and he hadn't discovered his 'ghosting' ability yet.
He finally sighed in defeat, and looked back at the rooms behind him. If he couldn't get out...he'd have to stay for the night then.
He walked up to one of the covered hallways of the mansion, and looked at his selection of doors. Finding one, he made his way over, and was about to knock...
when a sound issued from the room.
Now curious, the spiky-haired boy made as to put his ear up against the wall...but as soon as his hands touched the door, they fell right through, taking the rest of Davis with them.
*Whump!*
This sound, to him at least, seemed loud enough to wake the dead. However though, no yells or lights happened, and the house slept on.
He heard a sound though, and at first, he thought it was himself sighing in relief...
But it issued again, the soft breathing of someone asleep.
He looked up. A figure was lying in a futon on the floor, obviously in dreamland...
But as he got to his feet, he discovered other things. One, the sleeping figure was a girl, about his age. Two, she was sleeping faceing up, allowing him to see her features. And three...
She had orange hair.
His heart starting to pound, ever so slightly, he looked around the room. It was sparsely furnished, a chest here, shelves there, and a kneeling table near the foot of her bed...
resting apon the table, was a leather belt, and a blue digivice... the same kind that he had drawn...
(My gawd.) Davis Motomiya nearly exclaimed. (I've fallen into Brokenheart's bedroom.)
"hmmm.......who's there?"
He froze as he heard the words. They seemed to be everywere at once, but he and the brokenhearted girl were the only ones in the room...
The eyebrows on the sleeping girl's face furrowed. "What?...I'm being visited by an anime character?"
Now he was confused, and spoke. "Woah...anime character?"
There was silence, as her eyebrow raised. "Why are you here? Why am I even Dreaming you in the first place??"
Now he recognized the voice as being the girl's own, and he replied. "Who's dreaming who? I thought I was the one dreaming here!"
She frowned. "Hey, don't go yelling at me in my sleep, 'kay?! I have enough trouble with Gogglehead in real life as it is, I don't need a second one in my dreams! So go away, Davis!"
He gawked. "You...know my name?..."
A pause, and then "You...don't know?"
"Know what?"
There was more silence, before the girl's face broke into a grin.
"Oooh, this is gonna be fuun..."
He was getting creeped out. "Stop holding out! You know something."
"Oh, indeed I do Davis Motomiya." the orange-haired girl replied, with an undertone smirk. "I've seen everything you've done in the entire series. I know a number of things...you got your goggles from Tai, you have a crush on Kari Kamiya, you hold the digimentals of Couage and Friendship, and Veemon can be a pain in the neck sometimes."
Davis's jaw dropped, before she added "Oh, and your sister chases Matt."
"Allright allright!" he yelled, not caring if he woke anybody up or not. "Now, how do you know all this??"
She made a shrugging motion in her bed. "I would guess it's a dimensional thing, because here, where I live, Digimon is a widely liked anime and card game. I've seen all your antics. You're all fiction, goggleboy. Nothing more than ink on paper. Not that I'd expect a dream-kid to understand..."
The boy took a minute to think about that, while the brokenhearted girl kept the smirk on her face...
"An Anime?" He questioned.
She was caught off-guard. "Um..yeah?"
"And you've seen the series?..."
If her eyelids were open, you would have seen them roll. "Ye-ah. Said that. What about it?"
The goggled kid clapsed his hands together. "Do Kari and I finally get together??"
She actually brought her hand up and hit herself in the face, in her sleep. "Agh! I look for a good ego-crushing, and he turns it upside down! Only a gogglehead could do that..."
-
"Tk Takashi is in my room...this is one weird dream..."
"You're telling me. You know my name."
Tk had finally found the right bedroom, after several misfires. The fact that clued him in on this room was the Terriermon curled up on the bed.
He looked at the digimon. "Should I be worried about him?"
The dog-rabbit rolled over on his side, muttering 'Momantai' in his sleep...
The blue-haired kid, in the bed lying next to the Terriermon, was asleep. Yet he smiled. "I don't think so. He's a pretty calm little guy...but then again, you have one of your own, right?"
Tk nodded nervously. "You seem to know a lot about us..."
The boy in bed was silent for a second, before replying "If this was a dream...I've had digimon dreams before, and none of them were like this..."
"I've had plenty of them myself...though probably not like what you have..."
His face, relaxed as it was, grinned a bit. "I'll bet. Hmm...I wonder..."
The blonde looked at him. "Wonder what?"
"This is the first time I've had a dream like this...Tell me, what's going on in the digital world right now?"
That took him off-guard. "Umm...We've been trying to clean it up, but these two digimon keep trying to stop us-"
Blue-hair's eyebrows furrowed a bit. "Arukenimon and Mummymon."
Tk gasped. "How did you know-?"
"Never mind how I know...wait a minute, in fact that tells me something right there..." He turned his head a little to his right, giving Tk the impression that he was looking Right at him. "If you were just a dream image, then you woundn't have asked just how I know, because...well, I know!"
The digidestined kid blinked, before what was just said fully registed with him.
"Woah...so that means, to you, I'm Not a dream, but-"
"A vision!..." the blue-haired kid's eyebrows shot up. "Does this mean...there really ARe other dimensions out there besides the digital world?"
"Y'know, I think Izzy would have liked you." Tk commented dryly. "Now, I need to tell you Our side of dream-weirdness..."
-
"W--w, what's the matter kid?"
Tai was standing in the middle of the room, which was filled with more digimon merchandise than he could choke an elephant with. There were even little digivolving figures of his Agumon, and if he looked closely, he could see the lines that could reearange into WarGreymon.
What really had his attention though, was the pile of cards on the dresser nearby. Sitting next to the cards was a familier object...a white digivice with red trim.
Besides that, the only other thing in the room was the kid that was laying in the bed next to him. He was asleep, yet, it looked like he was looking right at him...he was trembling too...
Glancing to the corner, he saw the yellow goggles looped around one of the bedposts...
(This is him...) Tai thought to himself. (This is the art boy...the goggle boy...)
"This has got to be...the most coolest...dream in my life..."
The older boy sweatdropped "You? Dreaming? Uuuhh...actually, last time I checked, I was the one dreaming..."
The tan-haired boy gave him a puzzled look.
The Kamiya kid rubbed the back of his head, as he explained. "You see...some of the other Digidestined and I have been having these weird dreams lately...not like anything else we've seen before..."
Art-boy nodded for him to go on.
"These dreams...they kept getting more and more real...they were about these...three kids..."
The boy in bed looked like he had just suffered a heart attack. "Three...kids? Me a-and-"
"Don't say a word." Tai warned. "Lemme finish. As we had these dreams, Davis drew out who he saw...and What he saw...and those were definitely in there." He finished, pointed towards the digivice on the dresser.
The poor kid in bed was in total shock. "You...the digidestined...dreamed of me and the other Tamers?..."
He looked up. "So that IS what you call yourselves. I had my doubts when Davis told me it was that, but now I know..."
The younger goggleboy laid back a bit in his pillow, sighing. "This is nuts. Doctor Freud would have a field day with this....you're saying you really Are real?"
Tai looked around at the heavily themed bedroom. "Well...last time I checked. Though I get the feeling that here, we're really not..."
Artboy nodded. "It's real crazy that this is happening...I never imagined that not only were digimon real, but that the digi-Destined are real too..."
"I'm not real sure about that. After seeing all of this, it can wreck a guy's nerves...finding out your reality is something of a fake..."
The tan-haired boy quickly sat up a little. "I don't think that's true. There's gotta be an explination about that somewhere...kinda reminds me of that Darkwing Duck episode..."
The elder kid paused for a bit, as he remembred the show as well. "You mean the one where D-W found out that he was a popular kid's show in the real world, and that the producer had tapped into his universe and recored and animated all his adventures??"
He grinned. "That's the one!!"
-
Kari blinked as she sat up on her knees off the ground.
"Whoa...where am I?"
She had found herself on a walkway, somewhere in a park. What part it was, she wasn't sure...
At least, untill she looked towards the skyline.
Towering over the park was one of the tallest structures in Japan. While it seemed like two towers, it was really one whole building.
She had seen many pictures of it, but had never seen it in person...she DId know where it was located though...
"How...how did I end up all the way in West Shinjuku?"
She stared at the tower for another minute, before she began to sense a forboding, looking at it...
She shook her head. "At anyrate, I've gotta make it back home!"
The young girl procceded to pick herself up, rather bothered by the fact that she was still wearing her P-jays...no telling what kind of hoodlum out at night would like to get their hands on her...
She forced those thoughts violently out of her mind, and set off down the path. She was sure that all park trails led to an exit...her current plan was to find that exit, find a bus station...or maybe even call the authorities. After all, someone could have kidnapped her and put her here...
As Kari strolled along, she got caught up by the fact that it was nighttime, and that many of the local insects had come out to do their moonlight chorus. She looked around as she listened to the crickets chirping, taking in the was the moon reflected off the leaves, grass, and-
What was that?
Off to her right, a flash of moonlight refecting off a metal surface had caught her eye. There were stone steps leading up to it too...
It could be just a meter, she reasoned to herself...yet, she somehow felt uniqely drawn to it...
The child of Light walked off the parkway path, and onto the stone stairway. As she got closer, something loomed in her vision...and then she saw it.
She gasped.
Standing before her was a small stone shrine with a metal gate...the very same one she had seen in her dream...
And a soft breathing could be heard from inside of it...
Kari took small steps towards the building, anticipation and dread filling her heart...she was about to meet one of those dream kid's digimon... yet she had no idea what he could be like in real life...
She silently stood at the mouth of the structure. The gate was hanging open, so she slipped inside easily.
The floor was covered in dirt, and...footprints. A lot of sneakers and runner shoeprints...and a few odd little prints too...and yes, she couldn't miss the large, three-clawed reptile prints eithier.
She slowly looked up, towards where a Huge hole had been dug in the back of the shrine...the hole was edged with claw marks too...and it was from withen, that the noises were coming from...
She gulped.
"Umm...Hello? Anybody here?"
She held her breath as she heard something snort...and then get up...and start slowly trotting it's way up to the top of the hole...
In what little Moonlight that was coming in through the door, Kari saw a red-skinned, fin-eared, Large-pawed reptile digimon climb out of the hole before her...and walked over to her.
(My GOsh he's huge!!) was the first thought out of Kari's mind. (This thing makes Agumon look like the Munchkin king! Is he a champion level?...or if not, then how big IS his champion??...)
The digimon looked at her with sleepy yellow eyes, half-closed, half- opened. He reared up a bit and stood at neck-level with the girl. He then closed his eyes, and sniffed at her...
Kari flushed. She'd only had horses do that to her, but not a digimon! Not even Pegusesmon did that!
The dino stopped sniffing, and half-opened it's sleepy eyes again.
"Looks like Jeri...but don't smell like Jeri..." he spoke in a twangy voice.
She blinked. "Jeri?...uhh, I don't know who you're talking about...I'm new around here, and I'm lost."
The digimon blinked as well, before opening his eyes in realization. "Sayy...why you not scared?"
She blinked again, before she smiled a little. "I know a digimon when I see one."
His eyes fully opened up, as he awakened fully, his red tail wagging. "You know us digimon? Yay! I was wondering who else there might be!"
The digi then paused, then put an oversized paw on his head. "Aww, you said you were lost?"
She nodded.
"Hmm..." His ears seemed to lean back as he started thinking. They stood straight up when he found an answer though. "You can stay here for tonight! My friend can help you get Un-lost in the morning. That sound 'kay?"
Kari couldn't help but giggle at the antics of the rather large digimon. "Yeah, that sounds great."
"Whoopee! I got visitors!" The dino then pranced about in place, bouncing with joy. He stopped in his tracks when a thought crossed his mind.
"You must be hungry! Stay right here, I'll get some bread." He then walked over to one side of the rock structure, and started digging away the dirt there.
He paused as he looked back at his visitor, giving a toothy grin. "Oh, by the way, my name is Guilmon."
She'd rather had soon not have heard that name, as she knew very well knew what it meant. This was the goggleboy's digimon...
Sitting on the ground oppisite of him, she smiled too. "Nice to meet you. I'm Kari Kamiya."
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Chapter four
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Davis was getting rather flusterated by now. He couldn't find a way out of the house, and he hadn't discovered his 'ghosting' ability yet.
He finally sighed in defeat, and looked back at the rooms behind him. If he couldn't get out...he'd have to stay for the night then.
He walked up to one of the covered hallways of the mansion, and looked at his selection of doors. Finding one, he made his way over, and was about to knock...
when a sound issued from the room.
Now curious, the spiky-haired boy made as to put his ear up against the wall...but as soon as his hands touched the door, they fell right through, taking the rest of Davis with them.
*Whump!*
This sound, to him at least, seemed loud enough to wake the dead. However though, no yells or lights happened, and the house slept on.
He heard a sound though, and at first, he thought it was himself sighing in relief...
But it issued again, the soft breathing of someone asleep.
He looked up. A figure was lying in a futon on the floor, obviously in dreamland...
But as he got to his feet, he discovered other things. One, the sleeping figure was a girl, about his age. Two, she was sleeping faceing up, allowing him to see her features. And three...
She had orange hair.
His heart starting to pound, ever so slightly, he looked around the room. It was sparsely furnished, a chest here, shelves there, and a kneeling table near the foot of her bed...
resting apon the table, was a leather belt, and a blue digivice... the same kind that he had drawn...
(My gawd.) Davis Motomiya nearly exclaimed. (I've fallen into Brokenheart's bedroom.)
"hmmm.......who's there?"
He froze as he heard the words. They seemed to be everywere at once, but he and the brokenhearted girl were the only ones in the room...
The eyebrows on the sleeping girl's face furrowed. "What?...I'm being visited by an anime character?"
Now he was confused, and spoke. "Woah...anime character?"
There was silence, as her eyebrow raised. "Why are you here? Why am I even Dreaming you in the first place??"
Now he recognized the voice as being the girl's own, and he replied. "Who's dreaming who? I thought I was the one dreaming here!"
She frowned. "Hey, don't go yelling at me in my sleep, 'kay?! I have enough trouble with Gogglehead in real life as it is, I don't need a second one in my dreams! So go away, Davis!"
He gawked. "You...know my name?..."
A pause, and then "You...don't know?"
"Know what?"
There was more silence, before the girl's face broke into a grin.
"Oooh, this is gonna be fuun..."
He was getting creeped out. "Stop holding out! You know something."
"Oh, indeed I do Davis Motomiya." the orange-haired girl replied, with an undertone smirk. "I've seen everything you've done in the entire series. I know a number of things...you got your goggles from Tai, you have a crush on Kari Kamiya, you hold the digimentals of Couage and Friendship, and Veemon can be a pain in the neck sometimes."
Davis's jaw dropped, before she added "Oh, and your sister chases Matt."
"Allright allright!" he yelled, not caring if he woke anybody up or not. "Now, how do you know all this??"
She made a shrugging motion in her bed. "I would guess it's a dimensional thing, because here, where I live, Digimon is a widely liked anime and card game. I've seen all your antics. You're all fiction, goggleboy. Nothing more than ink on paper. Not that I'd expect a dream-kid to understand..."
The boy took a minute to think about that, while the brokenhearted girl kept the smirk on her face...
"An Anime?" He questioned.
She was caught off-guard. "Um..yeah?"
"And you've seen the series?..."
If her eyelids were open, you would have seen them roll. "Ye-ah. Said that. What about it?"
The goggled kid clapsed his hands together. "Do Kari and I finally get together??"
She actually brought her hand up and hit herself in the face, in her sleep. "Agh! I look for a good ego-crushing, and he turns it upside down! Only a gogglehead could do that..."
-
"Tk Takashi is in my room...this is one weird dream..."
"You're telling me. You know my name."
Tk had finally found the right bedroom, after several misfires. The fact that clued him in on this room was the Terriermon curled up on the bed.
He looked at the digimon. "Should I be worried about him?"
The dog-rabbit rolled over on his side, muttering 'Momantai' in his sleep...
The blue-haired kid, in the bed lying next to the Terriermon, was asleep. Yet he smiled. "I don't think so. He's a pretty calm little guy...but then again, you have one of your own, right?"
Tk nodded nervously. "You seem to know a lot about us..."
The boy in bed was silent for a second, before replying "If this was a dream...I've had digimon dreams before, and none of them were like this..."
"I've had plenty of them myself...though probably not like what you have..."
His face, relaxed as it was, grinned a bit. "I'll bet. Hmm...I wonder..."
The blonde looked at him. "Wonder what?"
"This is the first time I've had a dream like this...Tell me, what's going on in the digital world right now?"
That took him off-guard. "Umm...We've been trying to clean it up, but these two digimon keep trying to stop us-"
Blue-hair's eyebrows furrowed a bit. "Arukenimon and Mummymon."
Tk gasped. "How did you know-?"
"Never mind how I know...wait a minute, in fact that tells me something right there..." He turned his head a little to his right, giving Tk the impression that he was looking Right at him. "If you were just a dream image, then you woundn't have asked just how I know, because...well, I know!"
The digidestined kid blinked, before what was just said fully registed with him.
"Woah...so that means, to you, I'm Not a dream, but-"
"A vision!..." the blue-haired kid's eyebrows shot up. "Does this mean...there really ARe other dimensions out there besides the digital world?"
"Y'know, I think Izzy would have liked you." Tk commented dryly. "Now, I need to tell you Our side of dream-weirdness..."
-
"W--w, what's the matter kid?"
Tai was standing in the middle of the room, which was filled with more digimon merchandise than he could choke an elephant with. There were even little digivolving figures of his Agumon, and if he looked closely, he could see the lines that could reearange into WarGreymon.
What really had his attention though, was the pile of cards on the dresser nearby. Sitting next to the cards was a familier object...a white digivice with red trim.
Besides that, the only other thing in the room was the kid that was laying in the bed next to him. He was asleep, yet, it looked like he was looking right at him...he was trembling too...
Glancing to the corner, he saw the yellow goggles looped around one of the bedposts...
(This is him...) Tai thought to himself. (This is the art boy...the goggle boy...)
"This has got to be...the most coolest...dream in my life..."
The older boy sweatdropped "You? Dreaming? Uuuhh...actually, last time I checked, I was the one dreaming..."
The tan-haired boy gave him a puzzled look.
The Kamiya kid rubbed the back of his head, as he explained. "You see...some of the other Digidestined and I have been having these weird dreams lately...not like anything else we've seen before..."
Art-boy nodded for him to go on.
"These dreams...they kept getting more and more real...they were about these...three kids..."
The boy in bed looked like he had just suffered a heart attack. "Three...kids? Me a-and-"
"Don't say a word." Tai warned. "Lemme finish. As we had these dreams, Davis drew out who he saw...and What he saw...and those were definitely in there." He finished, pointed towards the digivice on the dresser.
The poor kid in bed was in total shock. "You...the digidestined...dreamed of me and the other Tamers?..."
He looked up. "So that IS what you call yourselves. I had my doubts when Davis told me it was that, but now I know..."
The younger goggleboy laid back a bit in his pillow, sighing. "This is nuts. Doctor Freud would have a field day with this....you're saying you really Are real?"
Tai looked around at the heavily themed bedroom. "Well...last time I checked. Though I get the feeling that here, we're really not..."
Artboy nodded. "It's real crazy that this is happening...I never imagined that not only were digimon real, but that the digi-Destined are real too..."
"I'm not real sure about that. After seeing all of this, it can wreck a guy's nerves...finding out your reality is something of a fake..."
The tan-haired boy quickly sat up a little. "I don't think that's true. There's gotta be an explination about that somewhere...kinda reminds me of that Darkwing Duck episode..."
The elder kid paused for a bit, as he remembred the show as well. "You mean the one where D-W found out that he was a popular kid's show in the real world, and that the producer had tapped into his universe and recored and animated all his adventures??"
He grinned. "That's the one!!"
-
Kari blinked as she sat up on her knees off the ground.
"Whoa...where am I?"
She had found herself on a walkway, somewhere in a park. What part it was, she wasn't sure...
At least, untill she looked towards the skyline.
Towering over the park was one of the tallest structures in Japan. While it seemed like two towers, it was really one whole building.
She had seen many pictures of it, but had never seen it in person...she DId know where it was located though...
"How...how did I end up all the way in West Shinjuku?"
She stared at the tower for another minute, before she began to sense a forboding, looking at it...
She shook her head. "At anyrate, I've gotta make it back home!"
The young girl procceded to pick herself up, rather bothered by the fact that she was still wearing her P-jays...no telling what kind of hoodlum out at night would like to get their hands on her...
She forced those thoughts violently out of her mind, and set off down the path. She was sure that all park trails led to an exit...her current plan was to find that exit, find a bus station...or maybe even call the authorities. After all, someone could have kidnapped her and put her here...
As Kari strolled along, she got caught up by the fact that it was nighttime, and that many of the local insects had come out to do their moonlight chorus. She looked around as she listened to the crickets chirping, taking in the was the moon reflected off the leaves, grass, and-
What was that?
Off to her right, a flash of moonlight refecting off a metal surface had caught her eye. There were stone steps leading up to it too...
It could be just a meter, she reasoned to herself...yet, she somehow felt uniqely drawn to it...
The child of Light walked off the parkway path, and onto the stone stairway. As she got closer, something loomed in her vision...and then she saw it.
She gasped.
Standing before her was a small stone shrine with a metal gate...the very same one she had seen in her dream...
And a soft breathing could be heard from inside of it...
Kari took small steps towards the building, anticipation and dread filling her heart...she was about to meet one of those dream kid's digimon... yet she had no idea what he could be like in real life...
She silently stood at the mouth of the structure. The gate was hanging open, so she slipped inside easily.
The floor was covered in dirt, and...footprints. A lot of sneakers and runner shoeprints...and a few odd little prints too...and yes, she couldn't miss the large, three-clawed reptile prints eithier.
She slowly looked up, towards where a Huge hole had been dug in the back of the shrine...the hole was edged with claw marks too...and it was from withen, that the noises were coming from...
She gulped.
"Umm...Hello? Anybody here?"
She held her breath as she heard something snort...and then get up...and start slowly trotting it's way up to the top of the hole...
In what little Moonlight that was coming in through the door, Kari saw a red-skinned, fin-eared, Large-pawed reptile digimon climb out of the hole before her...and walked over to her.
(My GOsh he's huge!!) was the first thought out of Kari's mind. (This thing makes Agumon look like the Munchkin king! Is he a champion level?...or if not, then how big IS his champion??...)
The digimon looked at her with sleepy yellow eyes, half-closed, half- opened. He reared up a bit and stood at neck-level with the girl. He then closed his eyes, and sniffed at her...
Kari flushed. She'd only had horses do that to her, but not a digimon! Not even Pegusesmon did that!
The dino stopped sniffing, and half-opened it's sleepy eyes again.
"Looks like Jeri...but don't smell like Jeri..." he spoke in a twangy voice.
She blinked. "Jeri?...uhh, I don't know who you're talking about...I'm new around here, and I'm lost."
The digimon blinked as well, before opening his eyes in realization. "Sayy...why you not scared?"
She blinked again, before she smiled a little. "I know a digimon when I see one."
His eyes fully opened up, as he awakened fully, his red tail wagging. "You know us digimon? Yay! I was wondering who else there might be!"
The digi then paused, then put an oversized paw on his head. "Aww, you said you were lost?"
She nodded.
"Hmm..." His ears seemed to lean back as he started thinking. They stood straight up when he found an answer though. "You can stay here for tonight! My friend can help you get Un-lost in the morning. That sound 'kay?"
Kari couldn't help but giggle at the antics of the rather large digimon. "Yeah, that sounds great."
"Whoopee! I got visitors!" The dino then pranced about in place, bouncing with joy. He stopped in his tracks when a thought crossed his mind.
"You must be hungry! Stay right here, I'll get some bread." He then walked over to one side of the rock structure, and started digging away the dirt there.
He paused as he looked back at his visitor, giving a toothy grin. "Oh, by the way, my name is Guilmon."
She'd rather had soon not have heard that name, as she knew very well knew what it meant. This was the goggleboy's digimon...
Sitting on the ground oppisite of him, she smiled too. "Nice to meet you. I'm Kari Kamiya."
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