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Miracle: (n.) an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs

- Webster dictionary.

For my hero, have I loved thee?

By The Dragon of Courage (D.C.)

Visitor of Hope – Flamedramon Returns: Two Minds, One Body

            Davis sighed and looked out the bus window. It's been four months since Flamedramon was deleted and never returned. Davis waited, still, for his buddy to come back. He became depressed as eggs appeared in the village, and not one of them is Veemon.

            Now, he had been lonely like when there was no Kari for him before he became a digidestined. It's the first day of school and no one was glad or sad. Everyone had to wear uniforms, do homework, and so on.

            Once the bus arrived at the junior high school, he stepped out and breathed a small relief. Davis came to the wall where his classes are. He looked at them and sighed. Algebra, writing, Language: English? Leadership class, P.E, Science, and History.

            Davis didn't bother to look at his friend's classes and headed inside the building to algebra.

            "Class, I would like you to be silence for ten minutes," the teacher said dryly just as the bell rang.

            But, of course, the class except Davis, who was on the corner to the front, was yapping.

            "Class, I would like you to be SILENT!" the teacher yelled. The whole classroom jumped.

            "Okay, that's cool. There is a new student today that I would like you to meet," the teacher said.

            Some students whispered about who it is. One rumor that it was a fat boy. Others were that it is a hot-looking girl. Of course many others thought that it was another soccer player. Davis only thought that it was Veemon. The door opened. In came a young, muscular boy with dark blue, screwed-up hair and fiery red eyes. Although he was wearing a uniform, he wore black fingerless gloves that have the crest of courage on the pair and was engraved in silver.

            Davis looked up and looked at the boy in interest. He seemed quite familiar. I think Tai told me about this boy was a digidestined. Was his name Fladan, Flannel? No, it's Fladra, that's what it is!

            The young boy walked to the front of the teacher's desk and bowed. "Hello, my name is Fladra Rie Nidaiisha (FLAY-drah RI ni-DAI-ee-sha), but my friends call me Fladra. It seemed that some of you have already drooled over me as I walked to school, or vaguely remembered me four months ago."

            Some of the girls giggled at him while Davis dropped his pencil. How did he know about some of us know about him four months ago? Wait a minute, that's the time Veemon was gone!

            Fladra was looking at Davis at another table. He became a bit popular because he was so good looking. The blue-haired boy absent-mindedly bit into his sandwich and thought to himself in an unusual way, "Are you're sure that he's your partner, Flamedramon?"

            Another voice broke up in his mind. It seemed to enjoy the sandwich, "It's gotta be him. I mean the only boy who wears goggles is right in front of your face."

            "But, he's not wearing any."

            Fladra's eyes suddenly adverted to Davis. Then it went to look at the sandwich. "You're right, but I know it's him. I also feel that he's lonely without me. Maybe we should talk to him."

            "Yeah, that's cool, but next time ask me to use my eyes. It kind of hurts."

            Fladra got up and walked over to Davis' table, which was filled with his friends and the digidestined. Several girls looked at him, but then they continued to eat. He reached the table and asked politely, "Excuse me, can I join your table?"

            Some of his friends were discussing about him, but Davis smiled, "Sure, no problem, Fladra."

            Kari kind of looked in Fladra's eyes and then ate her food. There is something very familiar about Fladra. It feels like I have seen him somewhere in the digital world, but where?

            As the blue-haired boy sat down, Davis sighed. Fladra looked worried, so he tried to make a conversation, "So, uh, Davis, are you lonely?"

            There was a nod and chewing sounds.

            "Why?"

            Silence.

            "Oh, I see, well, I'll catch you later at the Digital World someday, Davis. Maybe you can come by my house for some chitchat, if I'm available. Bye! Oh, anyway, I drew this to cheer you up."

            Fladra gave him a folded piece of paper and left towards the cafeteria exit, but Davis ignored it. Finally T.K. took it, unfolded the paper, and gasped. Kari looked at him to see what's wrong and T.K. shoved the paper at her. Her face became wide-eyed and knew that she have seen him in the Digital World. At last she gave the letter to Davis, her hand shaking from shock.

            He looked at the paper and his faced became awed and surprised. On the paper, there was a picture of Veemon and it was drawn beautifully, as if it could come alive. On the right side of Veemon, there was Flamedramon. The left side of Veemon has a Raidramon sketched gorgeously. Above Veemon, there was the famous XVmon and to the south, Magnamon's face was shone. There were word shone between the evolutions and a crest of miracles was drawn near Veemon. The words said:

Hark! The powers of Miracles

Evil shall fall to the light and be level

For Faith and Destiny lies in wait

That the Fire Angel will create

For the ones loved let be,

For my hero,

Have I loved thee?

            Davis stood there dumbfounded and smiled, "Veemon's alive and Fladra knows it."

            He stood up quickly and ran towards the exit, leaving T.K. and Kari in surprise to see their friend smiling first time in four months. They grasped each other's hands and both thought. Man, who does Fladra think he is, an angel?

            "Fladra? Fladra, where are you?" he asked as he looked at the semi-crowded hall. Davis walked about the hall looking for wild blue hair. When the bell rang, he shrugged and thought that he might see him again, but he happily knew that Veemon's safe somewhere in the digital world and he won't give up even though Veemon's right under his nose.

            T.K. followed him and slapped him on the back. Davis smiled again and asked, "What do you want T.K.?"

            "I just want to ask if you're really happy."

            "Of course I'm happy, T.A."

            By the next period, Davis got a detention for talking too much.

            Gatomon just returned from raiding the cafeteria when she noticed a small package in her tree at school. Hmm, that's strange. Who would want a present stuck up my tree? Maybe it's one of those bullies again, but I told them not to do it on my tree. Anyway, they already got freaked out to see a talking cat like me.

            She climbed up it to view the strange parcel, which is a heart-shaped box. The cat looked at it and was surprised to see her name was on it. She opened it quickly and gasped. In her hands was the crystal carved like the crest of love linked by a silver chain. (Yeah, you know whom it is from. If not, reread the fic again.) Gatomon looked around the package for a note. There was one, a very small note. She read it:

            Gatomon,

                        We overcome the dark and spread joy and heart.

                                                                        Someone who is as close as you

            Gatomon sat there dumfounded as the note slipped from her hand. It fell to the ground and she looked at the necklace again. There was an inscription on the back, so she turned it and it was inscribe in Japanese meaning "Love."

            The blue-eyed cat wondered. Who would spend so much money just to give me a priceless procession? Patamon couldn't beat this much. Veemon's gone, but who would have given me this.

            She sat there for a while, not noticing an orange, red feather stuck on a branch.

            A boy with blue hair chuckled at her as he went to the locker's room. "Dude, Flamedramon, you kind had scared her good."

            There was a small scoff in his head and Flamedramon answered, "Yeah, right. Anyway there's soccer for P.E."

            Fladra smiled and thought to him, "Yes! I'm gonna be the goalie!"

            "Aww, man! I want to be the offensive!"

            "Sorry, but you're in my body. Rules say that I make the decisions. If I do something that I have never done, people may suspect that something's wrong with me and my parents would take us to the psychiatrist."

            "But, Fladra, you are in a new school! Isn't okay to bend the rules for a while? I quite missed playing offence with Davis."

            "Oh, alright, but no head butts. The last one you did really hurt."

            "Maybe it's because you're past is always dancing," Flamedramon snorted.

            "How did you know?"

            "I can open your memories, remember, Fladra? You also could do that to me, too. I remember that you were crying when I was kicked to the curb by Gatomon."

            "I did not cry!"  Fladra huffed and went to the locker room.

            "Did too." He undressed himself and looked for his gym clothes.

            "Did not!" He put on his pants.

            "Did too!"

            "Did not! Did not! Did not!" Fladra put on his shirt and walked into the soccer field.

            "Did too! Did too! Did too!"

            "Did – wait a minute! Who's controlling my body?" Fladra walked into a wall and fell down. Some of the boy's were sniggering as he blushed and passed by him onto the field.

            "Great!" Fladra gritted his teeth.

*********After school in a dance studio*******

            "Fladra! Chin up and arms wide open!" yelled a dance teacher.

            Fladra lifted his face and widen his arms. He then slammed his foot as the pop music came to life. The dancer then fell on the ground purposely and did the coffee grinder. (Okay, It kinda hard to explain, so it's quite similar to break dancing, which of course I dance jazz) His right leg ached as he swung it around and around. The music was playing Run Around. Of course, Flamedramon enjoyed the song.

            Flamedramon was fascinated by the moves Fladra did, including the split and the Russian. His arms made arcs and began to spin. Fladra twirled faster and faster until Flamedramon felt nauseated, but as the music died down, he stopped and posed, panting for breath.

            Some of the students in the room clapped, but the teacher's still not satisfied. She just ranted about his spins were not fast enough and his moves weren't sharper than usual. The complaint almost made Flamedramon hurl.

            Fladra just bowed as the Teacher dismissed that class. He went to the boy's bathroom and changed to his favorite turquoise blue shirt and black shorts. He looked at the clock and it was five thirty. It's enough time to get home, eat, homework, and then read the prophecy that Flamedramon explained. The book's is now between them and no one else.

            He hopped on a subway and looked for a seat. As the train moved, he managed to find one seat next to a short boy with a purple turtleneck and khaki shorts. Fladra sighed as he sat down. The short boy looked at him and toyed with his kendo stick. A cotton ball with wings came out of nowhere and sat on Fladra's lap. The boy noticed it and scolded him to do that, but Fladra smiled and petted it. It cooed and the little boy was surprised to see him playing with the digimon. Fladra laughed as it bounced up and down, saying, "I know you! I know you! I know you! You're the new kid, aren't ya? Aren't ya? Fladra? Fladra? Fladra? Fladra?"

            He smiled again and answered, "Yeah, Upamon, it's me."

            The boy gawked at him. How did he? Is he psychic or anything? Maybe this new digidestined's have ability. I got to tell Davis this. Wait a minute, why are we stopping?

            The subway suddenly halted as a few people flew back. Then it grew dark, which left people in confusion. Fladra stood up and tried to calm the people, but he failed. At last Flamedramon took his voice, "SILENCE! ALL OF YOU!"

            The little boy stared at him, trying to recognize that new voice. I heard that voice before, but where?

            The citizens on the subway train grew quiet. Then Fladra heard something. The boy also listened.

            There were voices, dreadful and pleading voices. Fladra scarcely heard something like this, "Help us, Fire Angel. Help us return to our world…"

            Flamedramon made Fladra's body froze. No way…

            The voices grew louder. "Help us! We need you. The fallen angel had risen! You, holder of miracles, guide us back to the digital world!"

            A white mist burst out of nowhere and dark figures appeared. The people didn't panic or move. They were like frozen in time. Only the boy and Fladra could move. Upamon jumped up and bounced towards the digidestined. "May I, Cody?"

            The green-eyed boy nodded at it and held up his yellow digivice, "Lets do it!"

            "Upamon digivoles to…Armadillomon!"

            A blue and yellow creature with a hardback then replaced the little yellow cotton ball. He stood on his hind legs and commanded the ghosts, "Move back, I say, or I'll roll."

            The shadows didn't listen to him and advanced towards Cody and Fladra. They were reaching for Fladra's arms, but Cody tried to swat them away from him, which failed. The dark shadows surrounded him; pleading for help, "Use the miracles to lead us home! Fire angel, Flamedramon, lead us! We'll help you fight the darkness that seeks you!"

            Cody stopped what he is doing and asked his partner, "Is it just me or did the scary looking shadows just said Flamedramon?"

            Armadillomon nodded his head in shock, "Oh, I heard them all right. It just seems that Flamedramon's alive as a chicken. I don't understand Cody, how did he managed to be a human?"

            "That is what I want to know."

            "Uhh, Flamedramon, you didn't tell me about a fire angel?" Fladra asked.

            "Nope, I never new anything about the fire angel. I also never knew how to asslim at all."

            "Oh boy, how are we gonna pull this one off if Cody here knows who we really are."

            "Don't ask me, just do what the scary looking thingy tells you to do, get that crest out."

            Fladra dug into his pockets and found what he is looking for. Cody's eyes widen. The crest of miracles! It gleamed as he opened his palm.

            Suddenly, a shaft of light erupted from his hand and completely engulfed Fladra! The short boy shielded his eyes and the dark shadows pulled back in brightness. The light formed larger and shot up towards the ceiling and out the tunnel. Cody then heard some crunching and ripping noise, so he uncovered his eyes and saw that Fladra was shifting into another body!

            Fladra closed his eyes and his body was turning into a bluish color. His ears transferred from the side of the head to the back and it grew long, blue and pointy as his navy hair melted into red and yellow armor. Fladra's nose widened and grew a bit longer into a white snout. The poor shirt was ripped into shreds as his chest armor showed and something grew out of his back. His gloves turned into flame-like armor and some of the fingers joined together to become claws. The shorts were gone and were replaced by thigh armors. Fladra's feet bulged out and split his shoes so that they could not be worn anymore.

            Fladra's red eyes opened when his large blade grew out of his forehead, but he doubled back as sharp pains ran through his body and around the shoulder blades. He groaned, but his voice grew to a lower tone and Cody could recognize the voice of Flamedramon. On his back grew red feathers with an orange tinge on them and Flamedramon is sprouting…

            "Wings? That's impossible! Flamedramon never had wings!" cried Cody in astonishment and almost sat on Armadillomon. Armadillomon patted the boy's leg, "Easy there, Cody.  I also have the shock, too, as you know."

            As the growing stopped, the cylindrical beam of light vanished and Fladra / Flamedramon made a ring with the crest of miracles. The circle grew bigger and bigger until it is large enough to fit a digimon through it. He told the ghostly spirits, "Here is the portal to the digital world. Now go!"

            All the shadows advanced towards the entrance. One of them looked back at him and asked, "Tell Gatomon that I will be back. Thank you, digimon of miracles, to help us."

            They disappeared in a blink of an eye and the train started moving again. The mist, portal, and the shadows were gone. The people on his train were back from a trance and then gasped at Flamedramon. A commotion occurred, but Cody just told them, "Relax, he's a friend of mine. A digidestined asked me to baby-sit him until he reached his station."

            Many sighed, but one of them yelled back at him, "Well, why can't you just ask the puffy feathered dragon to don't use so much space? It's crowded on the other side!"

            Flamedramon's ears went bright red in embarrassment and tried to fold his wings, which ended a foot bigger than him, so he arranged that some of the feathers would tail him behind. Cody sighed and grabbed his claws, "I guess you have some explaining to do, Flamedramon. Tell us the reason why you ran away from Gatomon's party four months ago."

            "I'm sorry Cody, but I can't."

            "What do you mean you can't?"

            "I just-"

            "Ding-dong! We are now arriving at Shizuoka train station."

            "Got to go! Nice meeting you, Cody, call me some time," he yelled as he waved his claw. "Saved by the bell, eh?" "Oh shut up, Fladra!"

            Flamedramon pushed his way out the sliding doors and ran up the stairs, not noticing a couple. The girl wore a coat and her red hair was cut short, while the blonde man just peeked over her shoulder when they hugged. He blinked a few times and nudge at her, "Is it just me, Sora, or did I just saw Flamedramon with red wings?"

            The girl turned around and looked at the running/gliding digimon, "I don't know Matt. We should have a meeting that some of us are getting delirious."

            "I swear I saw Davis' digimon!"

            "Got to go! Got to go! Got to go, but where?" muttered Flamedramon.

            "Why not try me? This is my home area," snorted Fladra.

            "Really?"

            "Really, really. Didn't you remember the tree over there? That's where we always sit and read the prophecy? My apartment is behind it and the telephone booth is in front of it."

            "Oh, I get it."

            Flamedramon, now controlling his own body, ran towards the booth and picked up the receiver. He put a few coins in it and dialed Fladra's house. Luckily, he still had his backpack with him and had a few hundred yens in it.  It rang a few times and then it was picked up. Flamedramon tried his best to get Fladra's voice in it.

            "Moshi moshi?"

            "Moshi moshi, Rie?"

            "Yeah, that's me."

            "Where are you?"

            "I'm over at a friends house. I'll be sleeping over and then go back, okay?"

            "Can I pack you a bag?"

            "No, it's okay. I'll borrow."

            "Okay, just be careful."

            "Okay, bye."

Flamedramon hung up and sighed while scratching his head. Man, that is one screwed day. He looked around and cautiously exited the phone booth and spread his long, flowing wings. Fladra interrupted, "First, we get the book, and then we go to the image you placed in my head. Is that clear?"

He turned around and found the book dug inside the tree. It was brown leather back book with the crest of courage, reliability, hope, and fate engraved on it. Words appeared in golden letters like this "Will the fire of courage have the responsibility of Hope and Fate?" Gatomon's tail ring was dangled on the chain, which was used for a bookmark. Then, he advanced up in the fly and flew heroically in the moonlight.

*~*~*~Unknown*~*~*~

"Master! Master!" cried an enslaved messenger digimon, "The NDM virus have malfunction!"

"What?!" jumped the Fallen Angel, "Explain this!"

"We've progressed the virus well, but when it was launched to digimon 07, it bursted a golden light."

"The dark had succeed and failed, for Fate changed and hailed the crest of miracles," the Angel muttered to herself, "I don't understand the crest. Why does it have a roll if the crests never functions and were used for destroying the seals of the four guardians? Is there a fifth Guardian and it guards the miracles?"

"I also have some good new and bad news."

"Tell me the good news."

"Digimon 07 is the Fire Angel and Megadramon successfully destroyed him."

"What's the bad news?"

"The virus has taken the digimon to a human host. Which means that he can enable to travel to the Digital World and back. The problem is that the host is unknown."

"It could have gotten worse," thought the master.

"He'll able to influence the digidestined to find the antidote to the virus."

It just got worse. "That's enough," she said, "I'll reward you for your efforts."

"And, what is it?" asked the slave in earnest.

"Your freedom, Good-bye." She aimed a fireball at him and the messenger screeched in terror as he was erased. The fallen angel sighed as she swung her legs from her throne and looked over a black ocean.

*~*~*~*The Kamiya's apartment complex*~*~*~*

            Gatomon felt restless. She was guilty that someone would get her a gift more precious than the dinner with Patamon. She kept thinking that Veemon's gone and the worse was witnessing the departure of Flamedramon.

            At last, she got up and saw Kari smiling. Dreaming about T.K. again. Then, Gatomon heard a tap on the window.

            "Patamon?" she asked as she toddled towards the window. Silence. She opened it and a gust of wind flew into the room. Kari muttered to her, "Shut the window, Gatomon. I'm trying to sleep."

            Tai just groaned and eventually fell asleep. Gatomon looked around the outside to make sure she didn't hear anything. Then she laid her eyes on a shining object near the windowsill. It was her tail ring!

            An idea hit her. "Veemon?" she asked, "Are you alive?"

            "In a way more or likely…"

            "Veemon!" she looked again a saw a shadow over her. The cat did a flip and shut the window. She dashed past a few balconies and arrived on the roof. There, standing in the moonlight stood Flamedramon with fiery wings; the soft wind beat against it. His back is faced towards her and stared out into the moon. Gatomon stepped up and said, "Flamedramon, are you real? I mean, the wings. Are you an angel?"

            He turned and she held her breath. "That is what I'm trying to figure out, Gatomon," Flamedramon answered, "You see, I am an angel, or I am Flamedramon. I don't know ever since I was in a body of a human."

            "The body of a human? So you're in the new kid's body and you gave Davis the picture!"

            "In a way, yes. His conscious is sleeping so he doesn't know about me talking to you."

            "Oh, so why did you called me?"

            "I just want to tell you about that when the digidestined go to the digital world, find a feather like this," he instructed as he plucked a feather and gave it to her, "that means that Davis is under a full guardian angel. Heh, don't mind the pun. Also, don't let Cody tell anyone who I am, okay?"

            "Oh Flamedramon! When are you going to be back to your normal self? I missed you," she cried as she hugged one of his legs. Flamedramon looked down and sat on the sloping roof. He smiled as he patted her head and pried her off his leg. The warrior cradled her in his arms until she sighed and fell asleep. He looked up into the starry night and tears streamed from his fierce eyes.

            "Soon, I'll be back soon enough, but I will get the one who did this to me. Even if I get Fladra or me killed, I must get the truth."

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Will Flamedramon face the truth about himself in front of the digidestined?

Go to Chapter 5: Truth or Fate

Yeah! Going to write chapter 5 soon! And, if you flamers still out there, I've got Growmon right here, as you know. Anyway, you kind have noticed that the fallen angel's a she, not a he, so try to figure out who she is. If you can, I really need to quit my work and go V-Tamer…Anyway, read and review!

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