Of Tarnished Dragons and Golden Angels
By Dickie
Disclaimer: I do not own anything in the digimon card game or anime.
Author notes: Alrighty then. Apologies to all those waiting for an update. Thanks to all who reviewed. And yes I know Davis's behaviour seems a bit off, especially with his speech. It'll explain itself later in the story, along with what happened to him. And I apologise in advance for the apparent crapness of this chapter.
'Thoughts'
"Speech"
One ring.
There was slight movement.
Two rings.
The figure moved again through the tangle of sheets.
Three rings.
The figure shifted once more and made an attempt to drown out the ringing.
Four rings.
Five rings.
His irritance had become the single thought in his mind and let out a frustrated growl.
Six rings.
A hand appeared, fumbling around the bedside table, knocking over books, cd's and the alarm clock. After finally finding the phone, the receiver was haphazardly picked up and yelled into.
"DAMMIT WHAT THE BLOODY HELL IS IT!? I'M TRYING TO GET SOME SLEEP HERE!!"
"Matt, drag your spiky headed ass out of bed cause its already way past noon, and then haul it over to the hospital. Somethings come up."
"Well what is it!?" He was obviously pissed off about being woken up. After all, he did spend the night before skulling it back with his band, before staggering home drunk at four in the morning.
"I don't have the time to explain, this phone card is about to run out of credit. Just get to the bloody hospital within the next hour okay fuck-stick?."
"Bloody bastard," Matt muttered, "You better have an explaination for this Tai."
"I damn well do."
*Click.*Growling to himself, he lifted his head from the pillow. After some moments, he sat up, swinging his legs over the side of his bed. Rubbing his eyes trying to get the sleep out of it, he thought about what Tai had just told him.
'Somethings seriously not right here...'Shrugging it off, he got up out his bed, leaving it in a tangled mass of sheets. After tearing the curtains open, he rummaged through the growing pile of clothing he had only worn once since they had gone through the laundry. After quickly finding some jeans, and a t shirt that were decent enough, he left for the bathroom.
'A bit of cold water should wake me up,' he thought. 10 minutes later, he was out the door of his apartment, his hair its usual perfection, heading for the hospital.
'Don't worry T.K....'
"Davish!!"
Allowing himself a small *almost* smile, Davis welcomed his small Digimon partner as it scampered up his leg and perched smartly onto his shoulder. "How was your day Demiveemon?"
"It was the besht Davish!! Jun took me shopping!!! And we met all her friends!! They were really cool Davish!! And then one of them sat me in their lap which was really warm, and then later I snuggled up to them on their chest!! Those thingsh are really soft!!"
Giggling at her brothers arched eyebrow, Jun replied "I guess Demiveemon is macking it better than you eh Davis?"
"Whatever Jun."
*Sniff*
"Davish whats that smell?"
Before Davis could respond, the small blue and white creature had already managed to find its way into his backpack. After some rummaging around, it emerged, furiously munching away at some fries he had found. Happy with his find, he wolfed down the rest, and then hopped out, a packet of fries held awkwardly in his hands. With surprising grace, the blue Digimon made its way onto the couch and into it's previous seat next Jun, his fries placed beside him.
Walking into the kitchen and pulling the rest of the food from out of his bag, he called out to the occupants in the living room, "The rest of it is on the kitchen bench."
Calling back, Jun replied "So how was your day Davis."
"Nothing special."
She was a bit surprised at his response, which was usually a dismissive grunt.
"Probably put someone in hospital, but thats it."
"Yeah sure Davis."
Davis had already entered his room, shutting the door behind him as she spoke. Jun frowned. She wasn't too sure about what Davis had said, there really was no sarcastic edge to his voice and she was aware of what he could really do. Like he was actually telling the truth. Jun quickly took the remote from Demiveemons possession, ignored his protests and began to flick through the TV channels.
"Don't worry Demiveemon, it won't be long. I'm just checking something..."
After flipping through various channels, she found nothing. As she tossed back the remote to Demiveemon, it bounced on the couch cushion, then flipped off the couch and hit the floor, the batteries popping out.
"Sorry bout that Demiveemon,"Jun said as she got down to pick the items up, "I'll pop 'em back in then it'll be sweet."
The instant the batteries were placed in their correct space, Jun's hands accidently switched the channel over to an image of sizable destruction.
~~Today inside the Odaiba Shopping District, a clash of sizeable force occured, between what were most likely either Digimon or Digidestined, considering the amount of damage caused.~~
Whilst the reporter spoke, several images appeared on screen, displaying the destruction. A rough and jagged trench had been carved into the concrete, the snow around it about a metre away from the edges.
~~Two Digidestined were involved in the incident, and a third who has yet to be identified as either Digidestined or Digimon themselves. Eye witnesses say the one responsible for taking down both Digidestined was provoked into doing so, after an attempt to leave the situation. Our sources state, that the two taken down, were Takeru Takashi and Hikari Kamiya. There are also rumours of the return of Daisuke Motomiya, but this has yet to be confirmed.~~
Upon the screen, was shown an image of a young child skating, obviously someone videoing a family member, but as a bright flash of light was spotted out of the corner of the screen, the camera panned around to see a figure drag someone else from a wall and then drive them into the ground. From there, another bright flash was emitted.
~~But it was it was this act that had caused the damage.~~
Through the shaky camera work, what was seen was a huge sphere of fuschia light, cutting through concrete and the front of the buildings, and what appeared to be a figure of a person settled into some kind of protective stance, a strange golden glow being emitted from him. After the cameraman suffered another bout of shakiness, an outburst of golden light appeared, easily disposing of the pink ball. It was then the footage cut out.
~~Although Police are investigating the matter with the Digital Taskforce, they are reluctant to comment on any thing.~~
"Holy shit..."
"Guess you saw what happened right?" said Taichi, using the remote to turn off the TV, watching the same TV report before returning his attention to Matt.
"How the hell did this start up..?"
"I seriously have no idea."
"Man... what a mess. People were just starting to get used to the fact that some Destined were especially gifted and now this thing happens."
Tai ran his hand through his hair, "Yeah, you're right... could we count on your parents to help play this thing down in the media?"
"Yeah, Mom's already on the story, seeing as both her kids are Digidestined and Dad's got a bit of clout around the TV Station so I don't think he's going to let us be made out as monsters."
"Sweet, then we won't have to worry too much about the media blowing this thing outta perspective. Hell, we even have supporters high up the chain of things so I don't think we have much to worry about."
"Yeah you hope," said Matt as he slumped down onto the couch. "Guess we better call the others here."
Walking at an impressive rate, despite the hindrance of snow and shoppers, a young man with intelligient black eyes and frizzy red hair and a laptop carry bag held tightly in his grip, continued his brisk pace, with his friend trailing him from behind at a small distance. He paused momentarily to let her close the small gap between them. Once she finally was in parallel to himself, he decided to make a little small talk with another like minded person with himself.
"What on earth could have possibly have done that to one of the Digidestined. And to Kari and T.K. no less."
"Beats me...," said Yolei, lost in her own thoughts. Izzy was slightly disappointed that his minor attempt at making some conversation was shot down but continued one walking. He however, despite all his book smarts and computer genius, was not quite so perceptive in the field of such things like feelings and was oblivious to the subtle signs of distress.
"I guess we'll have to find out from T.K. and Kari themselves. C'mon, we're almost there."
Izzy quickened his pace trudging through the snow, with Yolei following behind him. As they entered the hospitals main entrance, they met up with Joe who had just finished his shift there. Now a trio, they all headed up to meet with the rest of the Digidestined who were already gathered there in the hospital. As the three finally entered the room where Kari and Takeru were being kept, the noticed the dark looks upon everyones face.
"Whats with the faces? Did someone die?"
Joe cringed at the angry glares shot at him by Tai and Matt. "Jeese, I try to lighten things up and I get visual death threats."
"That was a bad joke Joe," said Matt, still glaring.
"Sorry Matt."
"Whatever. Just sit your ass down so we can get on with this."
"Okay, okay," said Joe in mock surrender and took up the vacant seat next to Mimi, whereas Izzy and Yolei joined Ken and Cody on the small couch in the room.
"Well, since everyone's here, we might as well get started. I'm sure you guys have the seen news."
Everyone nodded. "Good. Then you've probably figured out that Kari was involved somehow."
"Get on with it Tai," bristled Matt.
"Okay. Here's what happened. Hikari and Takeru were out doing whatever they do at that age, and they encountered someone or something. According to the news reports, the thing was provoked into attacking Kari and T.K, which I find damn hard to believe. The first flashes of light were the attacks that took down T.K., and Kari was the one who created the pink ball of energy, and logic dictates that only a Digimon or Digidestined could be capable of such."
Murmurs of agreement spread throughout the room, although Ken however had an expression of skeptiscm on his face, but he was unsure of mentioning anything. He really didn't want to be the one to bring up such a touchy subject but it had to be done. He owed it to him to say the least.
"You guys," he started and waited momentarily as they turned their attention to him. "You saw that those flashes of light were golden right?"
"What has that got to do with anything?" questioned Mimi.
Izzy paused from typing on his laptop and spoke up. "What Ken is saying is that the colour of those flashes is what is going to lead us to who was responsible for this. Like you guys already know, our gifts are linked to us and the Crests in a number of ways such as colour and element."
Izzy noticed a couple of blank expressions in the room and sighed. He opened up a file on his laptop that he had been working on and then swivelled it around so that the screen was facing towards the rest of the Destined.
At first, there was nothing but a blank screen, but then upon the screen, the title appeared, 'Digidestined 01'. Once it faded out an image of Tai and Agumon came up on screen, text appearing beneath them.
Name: Taichi Kamiya and Agumon
Crest Power: Courage
Primary Element: Fire
"I'll do someone else this time... like Joe," said Izzy who moved the laptop to face him once more and input a few more commands before returning it to the attention of the others.
Name: Joe Kido and Gomamon
Crest Power: Reliability
Primary Element: Water
"I don't mean to sound patronising and I am certainly well aware of your obvious intelligience but is it a little clearer to you guys?"
"Yeah, we got it now Izzy," said Sora, "Do you reckon you could match the colour of those light bursts from what we saw on the news?"
"Of course!!"
Sora smiled. "Good."
Izzy scanned through a number of files available, which was quite a number considering the amount of Digidestined children around the world but he eventually came across the file that best suited what vague information they had on the matter.
"I don't think you guys are going to like this," he said gravely as he spun the laptop around.
Name: Davis Motomiya and Veemon
Primary Crest Power: Miracles
Seconardy Crest Power: Courage and Friendship
Primary Element: Undefined