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I do not own digimon.
Author's Note: Now that Davis has been severely electrocuted, his D-3 has managed to warp him out of existence. Actually, he isn't completely out of existence but at the same time, he is. Well, you'll see what I mean…
IN THE DARK
Chapter Two: Amnesia
By: UNKNOWN
"Davis! You'd better wake up or you'll be late for school!"
Davis groaned. "Say what?"
Jun's annoyingly high pitched voiced permeated the room.
"Mom says you'll be late for school if you don't wake up, moron!"
Davis leapt out of bed and yelled back. He looked around his room, surveying the order and cleanliness. What happened yesterday…? Was I actually electrocuted?
Davis felt the back of his head and noticed that no bump was present. He ran over to the closet and threw it open. He froze, mouth hung open.
"What the hell?"
Davis removed a shirt from the hanger and put it against his chest, testing the size. It was a perfect fit, but the shirt was awfully small. He flipped the shirt and looked at the tag inside. It read 'small'. That's odd…I thought my shirts were large. Davis rummaged through his clothes again and found that all were labeled small. Whatever, I'll figure this out later.
He opened his drawer to grab a pair of socks. When he was about to put them on, he realized that his feet had shrunk.
What did that electrocution do to me yesterday…if it even happened yesterday… He stood up, then walked into the restroom, still across the hall from his room. He looked in the mirror and his heart skipped a beat. Davis now looked into the mirror, seeing a younger face, mocking eyes, and very short hair. Before, he could see the mirror perfectly; he was almost capable of touching the restroom ceiling. But now, he could barely see over the sink.
"Davis!" his mother yelled.
"All right! I'm coming!" he roared.
He quickly brushed his teeth and scrubbed his face and ran out the apartment door. He began to run as fast as his little legs could carry him to Odaiba High School. Soon enough, he stopped short. Oh wait…am I supposed to go to Odaiba Elementary? Frustrated, he swiftly changed his direction and headed for the elementary school.
"Davis Motomiya, you're late."
Davis's head hung low. The class was laughing at him. The teacher pushed him along and ordered him to sit in his seat.
So many familiar faces… I haven't seen some of these guys since ninth grade! What grade am I in now? Davis was about to raise his hand, until he realized that he was probably going to make a fool out of himself. Throughout the lesson, the teacher began to drone on about decimals and fractions.
Davis leaned back in his chair. Man, I forgot all about these things. Maybe that's why I was a junior in Algebra. His eyes narrowed bitterly. I was.
After the bell rang, he walked out of the classroom with his light backpack and moved on to his next course. Unfortunately, he didn't remember which class was next, so he would have to take a guess like he did for first period.
Three minutes passed, and Davis explored eight rooms. Finally, he reached the correct class, Language Arts, without being tardy. He took a seat and looked at the seats next to him. Both were empty, but Davis took some time to reminiscence before class started. Then he noticed a calendar. Slowly, he made his way towards it. When he reached it, he flipped the pages until he got to the first one. His heart sank. He was five years in the past. He was an eleven year old in sixth grade.
"Kari Kamiya?"
"Here."
"Davis Motomiya?"
Silence.
"I said, 'Davis Motomiya?'"
The classmates began to look around, trying to determine if it was another one of Davis's sick jokes. Davis, whose seat was normally behind Kari, was now empty. Kari began to worry, as Davis had never been absent before for as long as she could remember.
"He's probably sick," someone yelled out.
Everyone settled down and continued listening to the teacher's dull voice call out names.
At lunch, Kari, T.K., Ken, and Cody gathered at the auditorium outside.
"Have any of you guys seen Davis?" Kari blurted.
Ken's eyes widened slightly. "You mean that he's finally ditched school?"
T.K. stifled a laugh. "Davis would never ditch school, as bad as a student he is."
Kari began to panic. "Well, he has to be somewhere!"
Cody waved his hand almost lazily. "Just call him when you get back from school. Most likely he'll pick up."
Kari picked up her Calculus books and ran off to meet her friends, while T.K. and Ken headed off in another direction. Cody stood at the center of the auditorium until some seniors began to throw trash at him.
"Kari Kamiya?"
"Here."
"Davis Motomiya?"
"Here!"
The teacher gave Davis a stern look that told him to quiet down, then moved on with the attendance. Davis slumped back down into his chair as he picked out his language workbooks from his backpack. Kari sat to his left as some fat kid named Jonathan was at his left.
Davis listened to the teacher drone on and on about nouns and verbs while Jonathan's loud chewing filled his ear. He looked over at Kari. She still looked the same except with shorter hair and a leaner body. Suddenly, an idea made its way to Davis's brain. Say! Maybe I could go to the Digital World after school. I could probably speak to Gennai; he seems to know a lot about alternate dimensions.
Thus, with this thought in mind, Davis's mood was slightly lifted. He felt his pocket for his D-3 and felt a hard plastic object protruding from inside. Satisfied, he returned to his work.
After three more periods of guessing classes and running around the school, Davis was finally free to go to the computer room. He sped towards the computer class, which turned out to also be one of his classes. Strangely enough, the door was unlocked and Davis threw the door open. He locked the door behind him and moved to the closest computer. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his wallet.
Davis stared stupidly at the wallet then began to frantically dig into his pocket. After a few minutes, his pockets were practically torn open and the fabrics hung by his sides. The plastic feeling was from the plastic covering Davis had around the wallet, and the coins inside made it feel like a D-3. I should've taken a look first. I must have dropped it somewhere.
That moment, adult voices began shouting from outside the door.
"Hey! Is somebody in there? I know I saw someone!"
Davis froze. Crap. How do I get out of here?
He began looking around, panicking. Then, he tried his hardest to remember his time in sixth grade and miraculously recalled something.
"I'm coming in!"
The door was forced open as the school janitor came in. His tiny eyes began searching the room, but no one was to be found. Bending down, he picked up a few strands of fiber from the floor. He readjusted his hat, took one more glance around the room, then left the computer room.
Davis jogged quickly back home. He had remembered another doorway out of the room behind the teacher's large leather chair. It was actually well concealed, but Davis had used it once or twice with motives he did not remember.
As he reached home, he quickly slammed the door shut and dashed for his room.
"Davis? Are you hungry?"
"No, it's okay," he replied.
Jun wasn't home; she was probably at one of Matt's concerts.
Davis began to search his room for the elusive D-3. Ten minutes later, he gave up and collapsed onto his bed. A few minutes later, his snoring signified that he had fallen asleep.
Outside of his bedroom, two dark hooded figures stood watch by the doorway. Chains were wrapped about them in a manner that it did not seem possible for them to be capable to walk. They exchanged a few gestures with their hands, then vanished into the shadows of the apartment.
The bright yellow sun rose from behind the mountains and shone its magnificent rays about the city of Odaiba. Davis however, was rendered unaffected by the rays and stayed asleep, snoring as loudly as ever. Crows began to caw and flutter around the branches that formed the giant tree next to Davis's window.
"All right, I'm up!" Davis complained.
He slowly rolled across his bed until he dropped off the edge. He groaned and lay there for almost five minutes, until his father came in and tossed him into the restroom. Lazily, he picked up his toothbrush and began to slowly scrub his teeth.
After, he ate a quick breakfast of an egg and ran out the door. He still couldn't find his D-3; he was going to ask Kari and T.K. to go to the digital world and ask for him. In language arts, he took his normal seat next to Kari and the nuisance Jonathan. Jonathan was so obese that his fat seemed to overflow from the chair he was sitting in and push Davis towards Kari's direction. Davis quickly became annoyed by this and attempted to push Jonathan over. Not only did he fail, but Jonathan had not even noticed Davis's struggle in overthrowing him.
"Hey Kari?"
"Yes, Davis?"
Davis looked around to be sure that no one was eavesdropping on their conversation.
"I lost my D-3, and uh…I was wondering if you could go to the Digital World to ask Gennai something."
Davis waited in silence for Kari to respond. Her face went blank, and Davis was unable to tell what she was thinking. One eyebrow went up and she grinned.
"The Digital World? Where'd you come up with that?"
Davis sighed. "Look, I don't have time to play games. So can you?"
Kari looked at him in bewilderment. "A D-3? Gennai?"
Davis froze, thinking. Is she telling the truth? Does she really not know what the Digital World is? He began to ponder on a word that would definitely help Kari remember the Digital World.
His eyes lit up. "Remember the Dark Ocean?"
Kari's eyes traveled from the teacher to Davis's eager face.
"Is that a video game? Sorry Davis. Remember that time you were at my house- my mom took the SNES away."
Davis slowly nodded, in shock of what he had just heard. How can she not remember any part of the Digital World? Anyways, I guess I'll ask T.K. for his help.
Davis slept throughout the rest of the class without getting caught by the teacher. After the bell rang, he quickly ran off to P.E., which T.K. also had in the same period. He caught up with the familiar hat wearing blond haired boy.
"Hey T.K.! Wait up!" Davis yelled.
T.K. peered over his shoulder. "Davis! What's up?"
Davis panted next to T.K., and then spoke in a heavy voice. "I've got to…ask you…something."
T.K. looked confused. "This isn't about Kari is it?"
Davis grinned. "You know she wants me."
T.K. grinned back, punching Davis in the shoulder. "In your dreams."
Davis brushed his sleeve, then returned to his original topic.
"I wanted for you to go to the Digital World to ask Gennai something."
T.K. looked at Davis for a few seconds then burst out laughing. He was laughing so hard that his backpack had slipped off his shoulders and he was on the verge of tears. Davis felt a sting of annoyance. What's up with these guys?
T.K. stopped laughing and picked himself up. He wiped one eye with his shaking finger. "Sorry, I got a bit carried away."
Davis growled. "You're damn right you did. So…can you?"
T.K. smiled. "Sorry, but I can only access the Digital World if I beat the bonus stage."
Davis stared at T.K., confused. T.K. shook his head and began to laugh uncontrollably. He was still laughing when Davis shoved him into a trash can.
Kari ran over to Davis's apartment immediately after school. As she reached the top of the stairs, she knocked loudly on the door. Behind her trailed T.K. and Cody. Ken was nowhere to be seen.
"Yes? May I help you?" It was Davis's mother.
Kari paused. "Umm… is Davis home?"
His mother cocked her head. "I thought he was at school. He usually runs off without me knowing."
T.K. breathed heavily behind Kari's slim figure. "But…he wasn't at school…today."
Davis's mother gasped. "You mean he's ditched?"
Kari shook her head. "We don't know."
Davis's mother ushered the trio in. "Tell me what happened."
So Kari explained everything that had occurred, from his absence in first period to his absence during lunch."
Davis's mother bit her lip. "Well, I suppose you'll want to look around his room."
Kari turned to glance at her friends. They shrugged. She stepped into the apartment, and beckoned for T.K. and Cody to follow. As he entered Davis's room, the stench of old socks filled her nostrils.
"Let's look around the room. Maybe we'll find something."
T.K. and Cody nodded, then dropped to their knees and began searching.
Kari threw open the closet and looked up to see piles of clothes fall onto her. She hit the floor and cried out in surprise. As T.K. was tweaking with the bed legs, one collapsed and T.K. was crushed under the weight of the mattress. Cody was tweaking with the computer when he scraped his finger on a protruding piece of metal.
"Ow!" he cried as he took a closer look at his bleeding finger.
"This is hopeless!" Kari moaned, as she laid onto Davis's bed.
"Umph!" T.K. groaned. He was still trapped under the bed.
Kari hopped off the bed and together with Cody, lifted the heavy object off T.K.'s sore back.
"Thanks…" he muttered.
Suddenly, Kari caught a flash of bright blue drop off the bed. Scrambling to grab it, she slid across the floor and snatched it with blinding speed.
"What is it?" Cody asked as he placed the bed back to its normal place.
Kari grasped the object and examined it from all side. She took her shirt and rubbed the surface to free it of dirt and other materials. Finally, she held it up so that it was visible to T.K. and Cody. Both of them gaped at the device she was holding.
It was Davis's D-3.
So who were those strange men outside of Davis's bedroom? Do they have some connection to his disappearance? Will Davis ever reach the Digital World? These questions and more will hopefully be answered in the next chapter so I hope that you are there to read it!