Starting Point_
Part 3
Falling! Takato no Hatsukoi!
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JC: And here's part 3! It's gonna get a little shounen-ai-ish in this part. If you don't like it, don't read it. Now on with the show!
Solo: Same disclaimers as before, JC doesn't own anything.
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Fear…
"RUN!"
It's coming…
"I can't… TAKATO!"
You can't do anything…
"I… love you…"
Except run…
"GGAAHHH!!!" Takato woke up in cold sweat. His hands clutched the bed sheets tightly, his breathing hard. It was that horrible dream again, the same dream that he'd started having ever since Ruki disappeared. It scared him, almost to the point that when he woke up, he was sure he had wet the bed.
"Takato, is everything all right?" His mother poked her head through the door.
"I'm… fine Mom." Takato replied shakily before the door shut and he was alone in the dark. He whispered…
"Lee-kun…"
Ruki had been missing for a week. There was no trace of her or Renamon. That and Shuichon's constant nagging was getting on Lee's nerves. And to make matters worse, Takato had started to be less enthusiastic.
"Jen-nii-chan!" Shuichon cried out.
"Do you wanna play doctor with me and Terriermon?"
"Uh… no thanks. Maybe later." Lee reached for his digimon but Shuichon wouldn't let go.
"Shuichon!"
"But Jen-nii-chan!" Shuichon protested as Lee left with Terriermon. The door slammed in her face.
"WWHHHHHAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!"
Outside the apartment, Lee sighed.
'I'm sorry Shuichon.'
"Ne, Jen." Terriermon leaned over.
"Hm?"
"MOMENTAI!" Terriermon cried. Lee smiled.
"Those silly little children have no idea what's in store for them!"
"Did you feel that?" Takato asked Guilmon.
"Feel what?" Guilmon asked.
"That cold… feeling." Takato replied and shivered.
"I don't… grrrrrrr…" The dinosaur digimon suddenly crouched down and bared his fangs.
"The girl has already left the gate open a crack… now, if another child were to travel through it, the gate will surely open and free me!"
"Takato… something's coming!" Guilmon growled. Takato nodded.
Meanwhile, outside the park…
"Jen! A digimon is coming!" Terriermon warned.
"There's something different about this one!" Lee gasped as the cold mist of the Digital Field wrapped around them.
"Momentai! I'll take it down." Terriermon jumped off his tamer's shoulders and got ready to fight.
"Let's see." Lee glanced at his D-ARC. The digimon's data suddenly appeared.
"Hangyomon. Perfect level. Special attack, 'Strike Fishing' and 'Hell Dive'."
"Raging fire!" Terriermon blasted the Hangyomon, only to have it vanish into the fog.
"Where'd he go?"
As Lee scanned the area, he felt a sudden tug at his leg. To his horror, his legs were disappearing into the fog. Someone… or something was dragging him down below the ground. The cold feeling from when Hangyomon first appeared returned, stronger than ever. It made him weak, insecure, and scared.
'Takato… where are you… I need you… help…'
"TERRIERMON!"
"Jen!" The bunny digimon rushed to his partner only to be knocked away by the Hangyomon's spear.
"Lee-kun!" Takato and Guilmon burst through the mist.
"Oh no! Card Slash! High Offense Plug-in A!"
"FIREBALL!" Guilmon attacked the Hangyomon, destroying it.
"LEE!" Takato dove to grab Lee's hand but missed it by millimeters and crashed onto the ground.
"TAKATO!" Lee cried out in fear as the mist swallowed him up completely and he vanished. The fog then blew away and dispersed, leaving things the way they were.
"Lee-kun! Lee-kun!" Takato cried and slammed his fist into the ground.
"K'so! K'so! K'so! Why Lee? Why?"
Guilmon approached his partner and hugged him.
"Lee… I love you…"
Chosen Children's Universe:
A week. A whole week. Ruki was still not used to the life she was now living. The girl, Hikari had invited her to stay with her family. That wasn't so bad. The thing that made Ruki sad was, she couldn't go home. At all. Her mother, her grandmother, even her house, it was as if they never existed in this world. Luckily, she still had Renamon. Both knew that they had to get back somehow, but for now…
"RUKI-SAN!" Hikari called.
"Coming!" Ruki replied and headed towards the park where Hikari and Tailmon were waiting with the rest of the Japan Chosen Children. She had gotten to know some of them by now. Taichi, Hikari's older brother and the 'leader'. Yamato, Taichi's boyfriend and singer. Miyako, Hikari's loud and irritating 'jogress partner'… whatever that was. And Koushiro, the brainy boy. The others she didn't know yet. But their digimon, she was amazed that evolution was so… simple here. Evolution could just happen just like snapping your fingers, unlike the tamer method, using cards.
"Come on, everyone's waiting for us." Renamon said, breaking Ruki out of her train of thought.
"Oh… right." Ruki sped her pace up.
To Be Continued…
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JC: Oh no! Lee's disappeared!
Takato: This is terrible! And to make matters worse, Demon is ready to unleash his army once again! What's gonna happen to us? Lee, I'm so worried about you!
Ruki: Jiikai, Digimon Tamers Starting Point, 'Demon Invasion! Ruki and Takato's Tough Fight!'