Dimensional Dreaming...
Chapter five.
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"So you're not bothered by it?"
Davis crossed his arms. "Nope, not one bit. Kinda put a dent in your plans, didn't I, Brokenheart?"
The girl blanched, then exclaimed "What's the idea of calling me that?? That's not my name!!"
It was his turn to smirk. "Well, I'll explain. Us digidestined have been having dreams reecently, and three kids, with their digimon, seem to keep haunting them."
He looked at her sleeping face, which held somewhat of a fearful expression...
"One was a Goggleboy, obviously like me and Tai. And this other kid, both a brainiac, and a charmer, by Yolei's calculation's."
Then his expression darkened. "But then, we saw a cold-blooded girl, one who enjoyed in killing digimon..."
The girl stiffened.
"She and her partner, were obviously set on becoming the strongest in the world..."
A panicked exspression set upon her face...
"I'm gonna say that the path's been taken, girl. They belive that you're even worse than the Digimon Emperor was..."
She snapped.
"No! It's not true! I'm NOt like that anymore!!" She had begun to toss and turn in her bed. "Help me! Someone, please! Cold, I'm not cold!"
Davis was startled, to say the least. He had aimed to rattle the girl, but he didn't mean to totally turn it into a nightmare for her...
"Woah woah! Calm down, I'm sorry," the goggleboy rushed over to her bed, and kneeled next to her.
"I can't take... I can't take it anymore..." The orange-haired girl was softly telling herself...
"Ummm....Brokenheart?..."
She whirled around, and it was somewhat obvious she was waking up. The reality around him seemed to be fading, as she struggled to open her eyes...
"Why...why do you keep calling me that?...is it because of what I've done?...is it because you don't know my real name?...Why?"
Davis glanced down, not wanting to meet her lidded gaze. "Your actions...that was part of it...We know your name though, in fact, we know all your names...but we don't speak them. Tai said it had something to do with the fundamental whachamacallits of the universe, that something might mess up if we said your names...I think I can get away with saying letters though!" He grinned.
For some reason, amused by the dream-boy's antics, she smiled a little, as her eyelids slowly cracked open. For the first time, Davis saw her violet pupils in person. And unlike the ones he saw in his previous dreams...these were slightly warm...
"You...really know my name?..."
Davis grinned again, as the reality slowly slipped away. "I know your name contains the letters, R, I, K, A,..."
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"So that's why you haven't tried to say our names...it must be kinda hard then"
Tk shrugged from his seat in the floor. "We've managed to make do. We've come up with kinds of 'nicknames' for your team members."
The blue-haired boy raised an eyebrow. "Oh?"
"Yeah, We've been calling the goggleboy, 'ArtBoy', since it seems to be what he's good at."
He snicked softly. "Yeah, that sounds right for him."
The blonde looked back down at the floor. "We've been calling the girl, 'Brokenheart', for obvious reasons..."
He got no response for a bit after that, but then he replied. "I think she's actually changing.."
"Huh?"
He calmly explained. "The reason for how she is was because of how she's grown up. Her Father left her, and she became withdrawn, taking shelter in the card game. Here in our universe, she's won the city tournament in the children's division for three years running. That's why some call her 'The Digimon Queen'..."
Tk shuddered. "Sounds a little too close to 'Digimon Emperor' for my liking..."
"That's what I thought too. When she got her digimon partner though, she at least treated her with more respect than Ken did to Wormmon during that time...Still, she thought that Digimon were nothing more than data, whatever monsters appearing, ripe for the taking..."
The boy in the floor looked back up. "You say she's changing...how?"
"Her main goal was to get her digimon to digivolve. However, we all know that digivolution doesn't happen without a little heart..."
Tk nodded in understandment. "I see...whenever her digimon digivolved, a little more of her icey exterior chips away."
The boy in bed nodded as well. "She's still got her ego and her pride, but she's become much more open to the rest of us..." He said this with a smile.
The other boy smiled back. "If I ever see her, I'll keep that in mind..."
A pause... "Oh great, I've forgotten what we were talking about."
"Nicknames. Oh, by the way, what's my nickname?"
Tk sweatdropped at that. "We're kinda undecided. We've got two that say 'Ken with a haircut', a few that say 'Negotiator', and Yolei with 'The Incredible Hunk.'..."
Blue-hair actually looked panicked. "Yolei??...She finds me attractive???"
Tk snickered this time. "She finds any guy with a good haircut attractive. Ken can tell you alll about it."
"Ummm...couldn't I choose my own nickname?"
"That's actually a good Idea. What do you want to be called?"
He paused for a bit, apparantly deep in thought. it stayed this way for about a minute, before he turned back to him with a small sweatdrop.
"Now I can't decide."
"Greeeeeeat."
He leaned back in his bed again, a soft sigh escaping his lips. "It's all too weird still. I'm kinda wishing you weren't alone."
"Me too." Tk replied. "I'm not the smartest kid in the group. Leave that to Ken or Izzy."
"Yeah. Um, not that, you're bad company or anything..."
He chuckled and leaned back a bit. "It's no problem. I DO kinda wish we had our digimon in on our conversation though."
The blue-haired boy barked a short laugh. "I doubt it. This guy here can put you off green clothing for a week!" he turned his head over, referring to his partner.
As if on Cue, the Terriermon suddenly sneezed...a rather loud and extravagant one, which jarred the sleeping boy awake. His eyes snapped open, as Tk stood up at the abrupt interruption.
He had seen his Grey eyes. In person. But that was the last thing he saw, as the scenery suddenly started to fade to black...
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"MMmmm....this is actually pretty good bread"
"Ya like? My tamer brings me some every day. His parents own a...What, a bay-ker-rey?"
"Sounds about right."
Kari was currently sitting on the floor of the stone shrine, munching away at a small loaf of bread. Her new digimon friend, Guilmon, was sitting on the floor also, seated against the oppisite wall, muching on a loaf of his own.
She sat in thought for a moment, before asking a question. "Guilmon...what do you and your...Tamer...usually do?"
The red digimon looked up from his food. "well, we sometimes play games...sometimes, Terriermon and his tamer come over and play too...there's also Renamon and Impmon, but their ideas of playing is no fun at all..."
She blinked "Renamon?...Impmon?..."
"Impmon doesn't have a tamer. In fact, I think he doesn't like humans at all..." a grimace came over his face. "He keeps trying to tell us how 'repressed' and 'stupid' we are, being partners with humans. He sees us as sort of 'digi-pets'..." A grin appeared back. "I just think he's jealous, 'cause he doesn't have one!"
The girl looked down at her feet, thinking about what the dinosaur had just said. Were there really digimon who disliked being partnered? And what about the way they were being treated? She instantly thought of her own Gatomon...
"Why you look so glum?"
He head snapped back up to face Guilmon. A worried expression covered his reptilian features.
"Oh, sorry...I was just thinking.."
The digimon cocked his head, before he started sniffing the air again. He then got up, and walked over towards Kari, sniffing every bit of the way.
She gasped as his nose ran up against her leg, and stayed still, as he smelled all over her, his hot breath lightly tossing her hair a bit. He distinctly smelled of peanut butter.
He then pulled back, and simply stated "You smell like a digimon's been with you...are you a tamer too?"
She sighed and relaxed a bit, content that he was not going to maul her. "Umm...I'm not what you call a tamer...but yes, I have a digimon partner. What you were saying, made me think about her..."
His ears drooped a bit, as he whined a little. "You must miss her a lot..."
The girl sadly nodded...
"I miss my tamer sometimes, whenever he's not here...but he always comes back...He can bring you back you partner too!" he reassured cheerfully.
Kari couldn't help but giggle once again at the personality of the red dino. "With how you act, I'm wondering if your tamer is anything like you!"
Guilmon cackled. "You'll like him, just you wait!"
"........just What in the heck are you talkin' to, Pinapple-head?"
She whirled her head towards the direction the voice came from, which was the shrine's door. Outside the gate, a shadow could be seen. At first glance, she almost mistook it for Veemon...but it's posture was too straight for it to be the blue dragon...
Guilmon sighed. "Hiya Impmon...you can't find any food again?"
The shadow turned it's head, and as his face was revealed, the girl gasped. She had seen this guy before...also in Davis's drawings...
"Yeash, it's the only reason why I'd ever come to yer dirty hidey-hole in the first place. Now, can ya answer meh first question?" the purple demon spat.
"Oh!" the dino exclaimed. "This here is Kari. She's lost, so she's staying here!" He waved a paw over in Kari's direction, who in turn, waved.
The shadowed digimon looked in her direction...before cocking an eye and looking back at the red digimon. "I think yer brain's finally started to rot. I don't see nuthin' over there."
Guilmon tilted his head in confusion, as the kid got up from her seat and walked into the moonlight. "But I'm right here. Can't you see me?"
"Yeah, can't you see her?" he echoed.
Impmon stared, then shook his head in pity. "I always knew somethin' like tis'd happen to a digi-pet. He's finally lost it..." he sighed, then leaned against the gate. "Ahh well, I didn't come're fer yer mental condition, I came fer the grub. Ya got any?"
"Umm....I gave the last of it to Kari...oh, Kari, you think you can share some of yours?"
She was about to ask why, when a sudden familar sound of a digimon's stomach grumble pronouced itself from the shadow...who in turn, sweatdropped.
"Allright," she said, and began to break her bread.
The demon digimon turned around at the sound...and paled.
If we saw what Impmon was seeing, we would be treated to a sight of a loaf of bread, floating in mid-air...and breaking itself in half.
Kari held the halves in her hands, as she walked forwards toward the gate, and held out one half. The digimon, with wide eyes, held out his gloved hand, and she sat the loaf down in them.
The demon stared at the bread in his hands, not real sure if he was still hungy or not. He glanced back at the dinosaur.
"Are ya sure yer freako tamer didn't give you some super-mental powers when he created you?"
She turned as well. "You know, I don't think he can see me."
Guilmon nodded back at her. "You know, I think you're right."
"Right about what?"
"Kari said that she doesn't think you can see her, and I said 'You know, I think you're right!" he replied, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
Impmon's ear twitched. "This 'Kari' person...she a digimon, or a human?"
"She's a human!" the dino replied happily.
He twitched again. "I've never heard of a human who could turn invisible before...ehh....I guess I should say, thanks?"
The child giggled once more, before looking around for something. She soon found it in the form of a small limestone rock. She picked it up, went over to one of the walls, and started writing on it.
The purple digimon's eyes almost bugged out as he saw a limestone rock hover it's way over to the wall, and start writing 'You're welcome' on the stone.
"Ooooo, didn't know you could do that!" Guilmon cooed.
Impmon was at a state of numbness now, as he waved at the apparently empty space next to the writing. "Ahhh...no prob....ahhh...I think I'll be seeing ya then!"
He then turned around and bolted for the trees, the bread in his hands somewhat forgotten.
The red dinosaur scratched his head with a claw. "I wonder what got him so scared?"
Kari smiled, with a small sweatdrop, before she outright yawned. "AOOOOwn....gosh, I'm tired..."
He nodded, before the contation set in, and he opened his huge maw of a mouth, yawning as well. "I'm sleepy too...we've been up a while..."
"I guess we should get some sleep...but I really don't have anything to sleep on..."
The digi got up, and took her hand. "We can sleep in my hole! It's warm down there, and it's got blankets too!"
She allowed herself to be led down the shaft, before it dead-ended in a large caveren-like place. Even in the limited moonlight that was filtering down the tunnel, she could tell that the place was littered with quilts and sheets.
Guilmon walked over to the middle of the space, and curled up on the pile of cloth there. He then looked up expectantly at his visitor, his face filled with complete innocence.
Kari sighed, before she snagged a quilt and walked over to him. Laying down on the pile of blankets, she rested her head against the red dino's side.
He sighed as well. "I hardly get visitors...especially late at night..."
She raised an eyebrow. "But if you always had visitors in the night, wouldn't that interrupt your sleep?"
He giggled. "I'm not sorry this time, right?"
She was quiet before she smiled again. "Yeah, I guess you're right."
The digimon smiled also, before settling his head down. "G'night Kari..and don't you worry, you'll find your way back...I pro...mi..se......zZZzZzZzZzzzzZZ"
Kari giggled once more, before she laid her own head down.
"Good night Guilmon...and thank you..."
She then closed her eyes, in the home of a digimon, in a dimension not her own... she breathed peacefully as unconciousness claimed her...
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"So...we have a card game?"
Art-boy nodded his head, his eyes still shut. "Yeah! Umm...I have Agumon and his line in my deck..."
Tai grinned. "You have good taste then."
"Thanks," the boy blushed shyly.
The older kid looked back towards the desk, where the digivice and cards were laying.
"So you can use these cards in battle, to give your digimon more power, a special ability, or start their digivolution?"
"Yeah, that's pretty muchly the size of it. Can't get more specific than that...well, maybe someone else could, but not me." he sweatdropped in his sleep.
Tai could only smile. "Seems you're a true goggleboy then."
Art-boy blushed again, and trembled a little. "I'm just been complimented by the one and only Tai Kamiya."
The large-haired boy broke out in a huge grin.
His expression faded for a second, as a question floated through his mind. "Say...what about your digimon? How did you get him?"
There was quiet for a bit, before the other boy answered. "See that drawing over there, on the sketch table?"
He got up and looked towards said table. resting on top, was a simple sketch of the red dinosaur with black markings. One that Tai had gotten to know quite well.
"Yeah? What about it?"
The boy sighed. "One day...before I even got my digivice...I drew my own fan-made digimon in the middle of school. That drawing there?...is the doodle from that day."
Tai's eyes grew wide, as he turned his head back towards the drawing.
"Are you saying...you Made him?..."
Artboy sunk down into his sheets. "I'm not sure Exactly how it happened...but when I Did get my digivice, it scanned my picture...and it made him become real..."
He turned his head back towards the bed.
"You're going to label me Emperor junior, aren't you?"
"No, I won't...it's just a little hard for me, that's all..."
They boy looked down. "I guess...it's hard for anybody, when they find out, they're part of a big plan...that they're destined for something special..."
The older boy nodded. "Truer words were never spoken."
A small silence prevailed for a few moment, before they each saw a sliver of light come creeping in through the sliding window-door on the side of the bedroom.
"Morning's coming." the child in bed thought/spoke.
Tai nodded again. "So I guess this means...I'll be leaving you then..."
He nodded back. "If you ever come back to visit...do you think you can bring Davis with you?"
A large Grin. "No promisies, he's always late."
He laughed in his sleep, but then quieted down, and turned his head towards the window/doors. "Before you go...do you think you could tell me...what you think of our world?"
Tai looked at the door. From inside, you couldn't see much...he got up, and approached the door, pausing before he walked through it...
What he experienced, was like nothing else. A small wind blew in his face, as he looked at the red-tinted sky, the rising sun chasing away the night. His view from on top of a balconey, was of a greatly urbanized area, the smell of fumes and life puncturing the air. Many figures bustled about, going to morning workstations, others getting a head start to school. Further away, he could see huge buildings, many of them apartment-types. One of them stood, stabbing the sky with twin peaks. And a little distance from that, he saw a perfectly cultivated park and neighborhood...the morning sun shining down on it all...
"So?....what do you think?..."
He paused in his answer, at a loss at what to state. This dimension... very gritty...and very alive....
"It's....all.... so real...."
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After a never-ending dream...
A rising Target, there's no way I can lose...
Wanna be the Biggest Dreamer, always running at full speed...
Kimi kana, Daybreak!!
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Chapter five.
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"So you're not bothered by it?"
Davis crossed his arms. "Nope, not one bit. Kinda put a dent in your plans, didn't I, Brokenheart?"
The girl blanched, then exclaimed "What's the idea of calling me that?? That's not my name!!"
It was his turn to smirk. "Well, I'll explain. Us digidestined have been having dreams reecently, and three kids, with their digimon, seem to keep haunting them."
He looked at her sleeping face, which held somewhat of a fearful expression...
"One was a Goggleboy, obviously like me and Tai. And this other kid, both a brainiac, and a charmer, by Yolei's calculation's."
Then his expression darkened. "But then, we saw a cold-blooded girl, one who enjoyed in killing digimon..."
The girl stiffened.
"She and her partner, were obviously set on becoming the strongest in the world..."
A panicked exspression set upon her face...
"I'm gonna say that the path's been taken, girl. They belive that you're even worse than the Digimon Emperor was..."
She snapped.
"No! It's not true! I'm NOt like that anymore!!" She had begun to toss and turn in her bed. "Help me! Someone, please! Cold, I'm not cold!"
Davis was startled, to say the least. He had aimed to rattle the girl, but he didn't mean to totally turn it into a nightmare for her...
"Woah woah! Calm down, I'm sorry," the goggleboy rushed over to her bed, and kneeled next to her.
"I can't take... I can't take it anymore..." The orange-haired girl was softly telling herself...
"Ummm....Brokenheart?..."
She whirled around, and it was somewhat obvious she was waking up. The reality around him seemed to be fading, as she struggled to open her eyes...
"Why...why do you keep calling me that?...is it because of what I've done?...is it because you don't know my real name?...Why?"
Davis glanced down, not wanting to meet her lidded gaze. "Your actions...that was part of it...We know your name though, in fact, we know all your names...but we don't speak them. Tai said it had something to do with the fundamental whachamacallits of the universe, that something might mess up if we said your names...I think I can get away with saying letters though!" He grinned.
For some reason, amused by the dream-boy's antics, she smiled a little, as her eyelids slowly cracked open. For the first time, Davis saw her violet pupils in person. And unlike the ones he saw in his previous dreams...these were slightly warm...
"You...really know my name?..."
Davis grinned again, as the reality slowly slipped away. "I know your name contains the letters, R, I, K, A,..."
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"So that's why you haven't tried to say our names...it must be kinda hard then"
Tk shrugged from his seat in the floor. "We've managed to make do. We've come up with kinds of 'nicknames' for your team members."
The blue-haired boy raised an eyebrow. "Oh?"
"Yeah, We've been calling the goggleboy, 'ArtBoy', since it seems to be what he's good at."
He snicked softly. "Yeah, that sounds right for him."
The blonde looked back down at the floor. "We've been calling the girl, 'Brokenheart', for obvious reasons..."
He got no response for a bit after that, but then he replied. "I think she's actually changing.."
"Huh?"
He calmly explained. "The reason for how she is was because of how she's grown up. Her Father left her, and she became withdrawn, taking shelter in the card game. Here in our universe, she's won the city tournament in the children's division for three years running. That's why some call her 'The Digimon Queen'..."
Tk shuddered. "Sounds a little too close to 'Digimon Emperor' for my liking..."
"That's what I thought too. When she got her digimon partner though, she at least treated her with more respect than Ken did to Wormmon during that time...Still, she thought that Digimon were nothing more than data, whatever monsters appearing, ripe for the taking..."
The boy in the floor looked back up. "You say she's changing...how?"
"Her main goal was to get her digimon to digivolve. However, we all know that digivolution doesn't happen without a little heart..."
Tk nodded in understandment. "I see...whenever her digimon digivolved, a little more of her icey exterior chips away."
The boy in bed nodded as well. "She's still got her ego and her pride, but she's become much more open to the rest of us..." He said this with a smile.
The other boy smiled back. "If I ever see her, I'll keep that in mind..."
A pause... "Oh great, I've forgotten what we were talking about."
"Nicknames. Oh, by the way, what's my nickname?"
Tk sweatdropped at that. "We're kinda undecided. We've got two that say 'Ken with a haircut', a few that say 'Negotiator', and Yolei with 'The Incredible Hunk.'..."
Blue-hair actually looked panicked. "Yolei??...She finds me attractive???"
Tk snickered this time. "She finds any guy with a good haircut attractive. Ken can tell you alll about it."
"Ummm...couldn't I choose my own nickname?"
"That's actually a good Idea. What do you want to be called?"
He paused for a bit, apparantly deep in thought. it stayed this way for about a minute, before he turned back to him with a small sweatdrop.
"Now I can't decide."
"Greeeeeeat."
He leaned back in his bed again, a soft sigh escaping his lips. "It's all too weird still. I'm kinda wishing you weren't alone."
"Me too." Tk replied. "I'm not the smartest kid in the group. Leave that to Ken or Izzy."
"Yeah. Um, not that, you're bad company or anything..."
He chuckled and leaned back a bit. "It's no problem. I DO kinda wish we had our digimon in on our conversation though."
The blue-haired boy barked a short laugh. "I doubt it. This guy here can put you off green clothing for a week!" he turned his head over, referring to his partner.
As if on Cue, the Terriermon suddenly sneezed...a rather loud and extravagant one, which jarred the sleeping boy awake. His eyes snapped open, as Tk stood up at the abrupt interruption.
He had seen his Grey eyes. In person. But that was the last thing he saw, as the scenery suddenly started to fade to black...
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"MMmmm....this is actually pretty good bread"
"Ya like? My tamer brings me some every day. His parents own a...What, a bay-ker-rey?"
"Sounds about right."
Kari was currently sitting on the floor of the stone shrine, munching away at a small loaf of bread. Her new digimon friend, Guilmon, was sitting on the floor also, seated against the oppisite wall, muching on a loaf of his own.
She sat in thought for a moment, before asking a question. "Guilmon...what do you and your...Tamer...usually do?"
The red digimon looked up from his food. "well, we sometimes play games...sometimes, Terriermon and his tamer come over and play too...there's also Renamon and Impmon, but their ideas of playing is no fun at all..."
She blinked "Renamon?...Impmon?..."
"Impmon doesn't have a tamer. In fact, I think he doesn't like humans at all..." a grimace came over his face. "He keeps trying to tell us how 'repressed' and 'stupid' we are, being partners with humans. He sees us as sort of 'digi-pets'..." A grin appeared back. "I just think he's jealous, 'cause he doesn't have one!"
The girl looked down at her feet, thinking about what the dinosaur had just said. Were there really digimon who disliked being partnered? And what about the way they were being treated? She instantly thought of her own Gatomon...
"Why you look so glum?"
He head snapped back up to face Guilmon. A worried expression covered his reptilian features.
"Oh, sorry...I was just thinking.."
The digimon cocked his head, before he started sniffing the air again. He then got up, and walked over towards Kari, sniffing every bit of the way.
She gasped as his nose ran up against her leg, and stayed still, as he smelled all over her, his hot breath lightly tossing her hair a bit. He distinctly smelled of peanut butter.
He then pulled back, and simply stated "You smell like a digimon's been with you...are you a tamer too?"
She sighed and relaxed a bit, content that he was not going to maul her. "Umm...I'm not what you call a tamer...but yes, I have a digimon partner. What you were saying, made me think about her..."
His ears drooped a bit, as he whined a little. "You must miss her a lot..."
The girl sadly nodded...
"I miss my tamer sometimes, whenever he's not here...but he always comes back...He can bring you back you partner too!" he reassured cheerfully.
Kari couldn't help but giggle once again at the personality of the red dino. "With how you act, I'm wondering if your tamer is anything like you!"
Guilmon cackled. "You'll like him, just you wait!"
"........just What in the heck are you talkin' to, Pinapple-head?"
She whirled her head towards the direction the voice came from, which was the shrine's door. Outside the gate, a shadow could be seen. At first glance, she almost mistook it for Veemon...but it's posture was too straight for it to be the blue dragon...
Guilmon sighed. "Hiya Impmon...you can't find any food again?"
The shadow turned it's head, and as his face was revealed, the girl gasped. She had seen this guy before...also in Davis's drawings...
"Yeash, it's the only reason why I'd ever come to yer dirty hidey-hole in the first place. Now, can ya answer meh first question?" the purple demon spat.
"Oh!" the dino exclaimed. "This here is Kari. She's lost, so she's staying here!" He waved a paw over in Kari's direction, who in turn, waved.
The shadowed digimon looked in her direction...before cocking an eye and looking back at the red digimon. "I think yer brain's finally started to rot. I don't see nuthin' over there."
Guilmon tilted his head in confusion, as the kid got up from her seat and walked into the moonlight. "But I'm right here. Can't you see me?"
"Yeah, can't you see her?" he echoed.
Impmon stared, then shook his head in pity. "I always knew somethin' like tis'd happen to a digi-pet. He's finally lost it..." he sighed, then leaned against the gate. "Ahh well, I didn't come're fer yer mental condition, I came fer the grub. Ya got any?"
"Umm....I gave the last of it to Kari...oh, Kari, you think you can share some of yours?"
She was about to ask why, when a sudden familar sound of a digimon's stomach grumble pronouced itself from the shadow...who in turn, sweatdropped.
"Allright," she said, and began to break her bread.
The demon digimon turned around at the sound...and paled.
If we saw what Impmon was seeing, we would be treated to a sight of a loaf of bread, floating in mid-air...and breaking itself in half.
Kari held the halves in her hands, as she walked forwards toward the gate, and held out one half. The digimon, with wide eyes, held out his gloved hand, and she sat the loaf down in them.
The demon stared at the bread in his hands, not real sure if he was still hungy or not. He glanced back at the dinosaur.
"Are ya sure yer freako tamer didn't give you some super-mental powers when he created you?"
She turned as well. "You know, I don't think he can see me."
Guilmon nodded back at her. "You know, I think you're right."
"Right about what?"
"Kari said that she doesn't think you can see her, and I said 'You know, I think you're right!" he replied, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
Impmon's ear twitched. "This 'Kari' person...she a digimon, or a human?"
"She's a human!" the dino replied happily.
He twitched again. "I've never heard of a human who could turn invisible before...ehh....I guess I should say, thanks?"
The child giggled once more, before looking around for something. She soon found it in the form of a small limestone rock. She picked it up, went over to one of the walls, and started writing on it.
The purple digimon's eyes almost bugged out as he saw a limestone rock hover it's way over to the wall, and start writing 'You're welcome' on the stone.
"Ooooo, didn't know you could do that!" Guilmon cooed.
Impmon was at a state of numbness now, as he waved at the apparently empty space next to the writing. "Ahhh...no prob....ahhh...I think I'll be seeing ya then!"
He then turned around and bolted for the trees, the bread in his hands somewhat forgotten.
The red dinosaur scratched his head with a claw. "I wonder what got him so scared?"
Kari smiled, with a small sweatdrop, before she outright yawned. "AOOOOwn....gosh, I'm tired..."
He nodded, before the contation set in, and he opened his huge maw of a mouth, yawning as well. "I'm sleepy too...we've been up a while..."
"I guess we should get some sleep...but I really don't have anything to sleep on..."
The digi got up, and took her hand. "We can sleep in my hole! It's warm down there, and it's got blankets too!"
She allowed herself to be led down the shaft, before it dead-ended in a large caveren-like place. Even in the limited moonlight that was filtering down the tunnel, she could tell that the place was littered with quilts and sheets.
Guilmon walked over to the middle of the space, and curled up on the pile of cloth there. He then looked up expectantly at his visitor, his face filled with complete innocence.
Kari sighed, before she snagged a quilt and walked over to him. Laying down on the pile of blankets, she rested her head against the red dino's side.
He sighed as well. "I hardly get visitors...especially late at night..."
She raised an eyebrow. "But if you always had visitors in the night, wouldn't that interrupt your sleep?"
He giggled. "I'm not sorry this time, right?"
She was quiet before she smiled again. "Yeah, I guess you're right."
The digimon smiled also, before settling his head down. "G'night Kari..and don't you worry, you'll find your way back...I pro...mi..se......zZZzZzZzZzzzzZZ"
Kari giggled once more, before she laid her own head down.
"Good night Guilmon...and thank you..."
She then closed her eyes, in the home of a digimon, in a dimension not her own... she breathed peacefully as unconciousness claimed her...
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"So...we have a card game?"
Art-boy nodded his head, his eyes still shut. "Yeah! Umm...I have Agumon and his line in my deck..."
Tai grinned. "You have good taste then."
"Thanks," the boy blushed shyly.
The older kid looked back towards the desk, where the digivice and cards were laying.
"So you can use these cards in battle, to give your digimon more power, a special ability, or start their digivolution?"
"Yeah, that's pretty muchly the size of it. Can't get more specific than that...well, maybe someone else could, but not me." he sweatdropped in his sleep.
Tai could only smile. "Seems you're a true goggleboy then."
Art-boy blushed again, and trembled a little. "I'm just been complimented by the one and only Tai Kamiya."
The large-haired boy broke out in a huge grin.
His expression faded for a second, as a question floated through his mind. "Say...what about your digimon? How did you get him?"
There was quiet for a bit, before the other boy answered. "See that drawing over there, on the sketch table?"
He got up and looked towards said table. resting on top, was a simple sketch of the red dinosaur with black markings. One that Tai had gotten to know quite well.
"Yeah? What about it?"
The boy sighed. "One day...before I even got my digivice...I drew my own fan-made digimon in the middle of school. That drawing there?...is the doodle from that day."
Tai's eyes grew wide, as he turned his head back towards the drawing.
"Are you saying...you Made him?..."
Artboy sunk down into his sheets. "I'm not sure Exactly how it happened...but when I Did get my digivice, it scanned my picture...and it made him become real..."
He turned his head back towards the bed.
"You're going to label me Emperor junior, aren't you?"
"No, I won't...it's just a little hard for me, that's all..."
They boy looked down. "I guess...it's hard for anybody, when they find out, they're part of a big plan...that they're destined for something special..."
The older boy nodded. "Truer words were never spoken."
A small silence prevailed for a few moment, before they each saw a sliver of light come creeping in through the sliding window-door on the side of the bedroom.
"Morning's coming." the child in bed thought/spoke.
Tai nodded again. "So I guess this means...I'll be leaving you then..."
He nodded back. "If you ever come back to visit...do you think you can bring Davis with you?"
A large Grin. "No promisies, he's always late."
He laughed in his sleep, but then quieted down, and turned his head towards the window/doors. "Before you go...do you think you could tell me...what you think of our world?"
Tai looked at the door. From inside, you couldn't see much...he got up, and approached the door, pausing before he walked through it...
What he experienced, was like nothing else. A small wind blew in his face, as he looked at the red-tinted sky, the rising sun chasing away the night. His view from on top of a balconey, was of a greatly urbanized area, the smell of fumes and life puncturing the air. Many figures bustled about, going to morning workstations, others getting a head start to school. Further away, he could see huge buildings, many of them apartment-types. One of them stood, stabbing the sky with twin peaks. And a little distance from that, he saw a perfectly cultivated park and neighborhood...the morning sun shining down on it all...
"So?....what do you think?..."
He paused in his answer, at a loss at what to state. This dimension... very gritty...and very alive....
"It's....all.... so real...."
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After a never-ending dream...
A rising Target, there's no way I can lose...
Wanna be the Biggest Dreamer, always running at full speed...
Kimi kana, Daybreak!!
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