Always Left Out

Chapter 4 & 5: The Corp Returns & Moonlight Festival

By Salamon2

Salamon2: For those of you asking for some action in this story... here's where it really begins... that last chapter for shadowed this chapter, but this is where things truly begin, and it goes Dark.  I have a pretty good idea of how to end the story at this point.

Salamon: Are we winding down yet?

Salamon2: As you can tell she can't wait for this story to be over with... no, but I believe I will end it in another three or four chapters.

Salamon: Anyway, to quicken the pace and to end the story... Salamon2 doesn't own Digimon.

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            "Kari, you what!" shouted Matt, who had shown up in the middle of Davis and Kari's explanation.

            "I admit it, I knew it was wrong, yet I still read... he said he would act as if nothing would happen, and wouldn't take action now..." said Kari

            "If I had known this sooner... Kari, he's no longer at the apartment... he's probably in the Digital World, but the question is where!" said Matt

            "I'll check..." said Izzy, opening his laptop.  The girls, all called for their Digimon partners to come, and soon Izzy opened the gate.

            "Okay, now, for some reason the detection use on here isn't working so we're going to have to cover the Digital World by foot...  split up into groups of two... and then we can go and cover more ground..." said Izzy and everyone spilt up into the groups, the newer ones going by DNA partners, Cody going with Kari and Yolei, and the older guys split up into their groups (Matt & Sora, Mimi & Izzy, Tai & Joe)  the only reason Tai and Joe paired up was because Matt and Sora had left, and so had Mimi and Izzy.

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            "Hello young one..." said SkullSatanmon to T.K. and a soaked Patamon.

            "What do you want..." said Patamon dangerously.

            "We see your friend here has a trouble, please could you tell us your problem, maybe we can help..." said LadyDevimon

            "Why would a group of Virus Digimon want to help me?" asked T.K.

            "Since MaloMyotismon has been defeated, no Virus type has done any evil..." said MarineDevimon

            "And we want to help you, seeing that you've helped the Digital World..." said LadyDevimon

            T.K. then explained his problem.

            "That is indeed a problem worth crying over... here have a Kleenex..." said Skull Satanmon handing T.K. one.  And T.K. wiped off his face, his eyes red and puffy from crying.

            "Come with us, we can't help you, but a friend of ours might be able to..." said Lady Devimon

            "I don't trust them T.K... it all seems a little suspicious..." said Patamon

            "Patamon, they haven't done anything bad in the past, and they clearly have stated that they want to help, maybe we should trust them..." said T.K.

            "If you trust them, then I'll trust them, until they prove to be not worthy of my trust..." said Patamon, and so the two followed the three Digimon.

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            "T.K.!" cried out Kari at the edge of a desert, from a dense jungle, she then ran into the hot desert, Gatomon following her, Yolei and Cody, not to far behind.  Kari looked down at her D3 and saw a yellow dot disappear, she immediately ran towards it, but it never again came on screen.  The yellow point had just vanished.

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            "What happened?" asked T.K. as he fell to the ground in front of a cave.

            "It'd take too long to explain... for right now, just wait while I tell our master about your situation..." said the Skull Satanmon, disappearing into the black depths of the cavern.  T.K. just sat there staring into the cave, and then Skull Satanmon returned, this time he smiled again at T.K.

            "My master says he will be able to immediately help you..." said the Skull Digimon and T.K. started getting up, in anxiousness to see their master, and he was curious to see how their master might solve his problem.

            "... but, you must agree that what we do here is something that which you can tell no one... Do you understand?" asked Skull Satanmon and T.K. nodded in response.

            "AND if you do tell anyone about this... certain circumstances can be put into effect to make your live uncomfortable for as long as you live..." said Skull Satanmon

            "I agree..." said T.K. and with that a weird light came from the cave and the Digimon smiled, suddenly T.K. fell to the ground, weaker than normal and in pain as he felt his bones fell as though they were imploding.  His hat soon covered his eyes, and soon after that he lost consciousness from the pain his bones, joints, and muscles felt.  But by the time T.K. had fallen asleep the light intensified upon the small body that laid in the sand, and his clothes shrunk suddenly, and changed into different clothes, tan overall shorts, green short sleeved shirt, and his hat vanished, his shoes became smaller to fit his body.  And then the light intensified so much Patamon had to squint to see what was not occurring, but now the light over came him and Patamon fainted.  And finally, after several minutes, the weird white light stopped, and LadyDevimon scooped up the four-year-old and Patamon in the sand, and took off, flying eastward.

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Chapter 5

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            "Just great, we're stuck on some stupid little island, in the stupid little sea... where no one can possibly be, and with the only TV for two weeks of sailing destroyed!" shouted Davis to Ken, not specifically taking his emotions out on his DNA Partner.

            "It could be worse..." said Ken

            "How could it be worse Ken... tell me how!" said Davis a little perturbed

            "We could've landed in the middle of the ocean..." said Ken, expecting Davis to laugh at it, but strangely found Davis mumbling you're right, in a very serious tone of manner.  After several moments of silence, which seemed to last forever, Davis broke the silence.

            "It's all, my fault... if I hadn't suggested that stupid game we wouldn't be in this mess..." he said almost depressed like.

            "How were you to know it was going to get out of hand... besides, I'm sure T.K. will forgive you when we've all had a chance to sit down and talk" said Ken

            "No, he won't... if anything he'd probably think less of us and won't want anything to do with us... not that he doesn't already have those feelings..." said Davis more serious than he had ever been in his life.

            "Okay, who are you and what have you done with Davis?" asked Ken in shock that Davis seemed to be number one, taking all the guilt, and number two, Davis had lasted this long in a serious attitude.

            "Look... I can't just sit around... I've got to fix things... like I've said before, it's all my fault... I have to be the one that fixes this" said Davis getting up from his sitting position, and running to the beach.  As he entered the waves, he felt his socks soak as he walked into the waves.

            "Wait!  Davis!" shouted Ken, following him, Wormmon in his arms, and Veemon following his partner as well.

            "What?" asked Davis

            "If you're going to get off this lone island, I reckon you'll need help... right?" asked Ken

            "Maybe we can DNA digivolve to Imperialdramon!  Then we could fly there" said Wormmon

            "Yeah!" said Veemon

            "No... T.K. could see us a long way off... and he'd avoid us even more!  Also, do you have enough energy to do it?" said Ken

            "Enough for Champion... But I'm ready and willing to make a raft!" said Veemon

            "Let me at those trees!  I'll tear 'em down soon enough!" said Wormmon showing his full support of his partner and Davis.

            "I don't know what I'd do without you Ken..." said Davis smirking

            "You better had not of thought of trying to swim to there..." said Ken

            "Dang!  Caught in action!" said Davis jokingly and the four set to work on making a raft.

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            "This is the last time I use this stream!" said Elecmon dragging his large bag of fish to Primary Village.  Elecmon's calm attitude changed when his eye caught something, an orange wing.  Elecmon immediately dropped his bag and went to investigate.  "My Gosh!" said Elecmon looking at a four year old and a Patamon lying in the grass, just outside of Primary Village.

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            "I think the raft's done..." said Davis, just as ExVeemon finished tying the boards together, both Digimon Dedigivolved back into their Rookie forms.

            "We'll head out tomorrow..." said Ken, and Davis agreed they needed the day of rest after making that raft.  And the two found themselves after dinner found themselves, very tired, and tried to go to sleep, and almost succeeded until suddenly out from the weeds sprang voices, who did not bother to whisper, not knowing of Ken and Davis' camp being so near.

            "Well that's what Elecmon said... but I can't believe it, I mean I saw him with my own eyes, he was probably just a bit bigger than a Patamon, and in fact the human had a Patamon with him!" said a first voice.

            "What did he look like!" said another voice.

            "Blonde hair, blue eyes... that's all I can remember... he was sleeping when I came, so I only got a brief glimpse..." said the first voice.

            "Is Elecmon going to raise him like a Digi-Baby or an In-Training?" asked the second voice

            "Yes... he says that the human isn't going anywhere until he is old enough to walk properly without falling every now an then... Elecmon even made a special place in Primary Village, just for them..." said the first voice, and with that Ken cautiously approached the weeds and cleared his throat.

            "Excuse me, I couldn't help but over hear your conversation... could you please tell me what is at Primary Village?" asked Ken to the weeds, and out popped a Nyaromon and a Tokomon.

            "Well, a human, like yourself has appeared at Primary Village... are you in search of a young human, younger than yourself?" asked the Nyaromon

            "Yeah, we seek a human like us, only he'd be the same age as us... but other than that your description sounds awfully close to our friend..." said Davis

            "Could you take us to Primary Village in the morning?" asked Ken

            "We can take you there now if you'd like... the Moonlight festival is about to begin anyway..." said Tokomon

            "Moonlight Festival?" asked Davis curiously.

            "I've been in the Digital World for a long time and I don't recall anything about a 'Moonlight Festival'" said Veemon

            "And neither have I" said Wormmon suspiciously.

            "Well, it's an old tradition, that's held at the full moon in the month of June, and only Digimon from this Island are invited to it..." said the Nyaromon hopping down the path to the Village, Davis, Ken, Wormmon, and Veemon, following the two, the Tokomon using his little legs to walk, which was much slower than Nyaromon's hopping, about nine times she had to stop and wait for Tokomon to catch up.

            "Need help?" asked Davis, noticing the tired out Tokomon

            "Yes... thank you!" said Tokomon, as Davis picked up the tired creature and the party continued to walk.  They soon heard music and dancing and saw Japanese lanterns along their pathway, and not too far off in the distance was Primary Village.  When Davis and company first came into the festival, they saw some Digi-Babies rotating in circles and performing a sort of dance.  Some In-Training Digimon also had formed a circle, only their dance was more complicated, Davis thought he saw a Koromon twice fall over from the difficulty of the moves.  And there were several more Digimon of both levels inter mixing between the two circles, talking, eating, drinking, and having a great time.  But this image only lasted for a few seconds cause after that period of time, every Digimon seemed to stop and stare at the group.  Under intense peer pressure, the two In-Training Digimon, Nyaromon and Tokomon, removed themselves from the presence of the four.  And then feeling as though they were about to be ambushed, the four slowly backed off.  Just then Elecmon came into view.

            "Ahh... welcome visitors... welcome!  Come and join in the festivities!  Tonight is a night worth celebrating!" said Elecmon, and with that said, all Digimon resumed what they had been doing.  Davis, Ken and their Digimon then walked towards the Elecmon.

            "It's been a long time since humans have visited our Village..." said Elecmon as they came closer.

            "Umm... you see Elecmon, we came here because we heard of a rumor that another human, like us has taken lodging here" said Ken

            "Yes the rumors are true, and he is only a young child that can barely walk, let alone talk.  I estimate his age to be about the age of four. Why do you ask if these rumors are true, you aren't looking for a child are you?" asked Elecmon protectively, and he stopped walking with them, and faced them, sternly.

            "Yes we are looking for another human, but he'd be around our age..." said Ken

            "His name is T.K." said Davis

            "T.K.!" cried out Elecmon as though he knew the name quite well.

(I know there are those of you thinking, but Davis and the New Digidestined have been to the Primary Village!  However in this story, there is a Primary Village on each continent)

            "You know T.K.!" said Davis with much surprise

            "Yes I do... and it's strange that you mentioned him, because this young lad looks similar to T.K., only at a younger age... And there was a Patamon with him..." said Elecmon

            "Can you take us to him?" asked Ken

            "Yes... certainly!" said Elecmon and he led them to a quiet, secluded, part of the Village, and showed them a tower, that looked newly built.  The group climbed the stairs to the top floor or third floor and there saw what could be taken as a bed room, with a bed, and night stand, and a balcony over looking the Village.

            "He has not awakened yet... nor has the Patamon... but I did find this strange device on him..." said Elecmon handing Ken and Davis a green D3.

            "Yeah this is T.K.'s alright..." said Ken nodding

            "Then what is this child doing with it?" asked Elecmon

            "Hold on... we run into a kid that looks similar to T.K., only younger, he has a Patamon, and T.K.'s D3... can't this be T.K.?" asked Davis

            "No, you can't change a person's age or appearance that much..." said Ken

            "I don't know... I've seen some pretty strange stuff in the Digital World... it wouldn't surprise me, if one Digimon could do it out there..." said Elecmon, and at that moment, the four-year-old stirred and his eyes fluttered.  And the four-year-old yawned and sat up.

            "Where am I?" asked the four-year-old calmly but curiously.

            "Umm... well..." started Ken

            "Oh yeah, this place..." said the four-year-old looking around and out the balcony.

            "You've been here before?" asked Davis

            "Sure, it's where I met Patamon... Where is he... what!  TOKOMON!  WHAT DID YOU DO TO HIM!" shouted the child as he picked up his sleeping Digimon.

            "Umm... we didn't do anything to him... and could you please tell us your name?" asked Ken

            "Oh, sorry... I'm Takai, but you can call me Kai" said Kai

            "Wait, you've said you've been here before, but yet I've never seen you before!" said Elecmon

            "I did come here!" said Kai firmly, and you could tell Kai was a person who was extremely stubborn.

            "Look, umm... why don't we go enjoy the festivities of the Moonlight Festival..." said Ken at which the mention of the Tokomon awoke, and Kai seemed excited about the idea, and ran down the stairs.  As he ran towards the crowd of Digimon, Elecmon tailing him, Davis and Ken caught their breath in the door way of the first floor of the tower, after going down a spiral stair case really quickly.

            "Did we ever have that much energy as a kid?" asked Davis

            "Probably more..." said Ken and they ran towards the Festival.

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            "It was an excellent idea master... possessing another boy and encouraging the critiquing of that boy... how did you know that he'd hear it?" asked MarineDevimon to a floating Black orb, surrounded by many spheres, and in the center of the orb was the picture of a grey ocean and beach.  And a voice responded from the orb, as though it were talking from the depths of the ocean.

            "I could sense it... so then I pressed his name forward through the other boy's body, having creating the game they played... and he heard, now he is exactly how I need him... now if only I can get her... then I'd be able to comeback from this wretched world and conquer this one and Earth!" said the orb.

            "We'll get her in the end sire... and then you'll comeback... and even Azulongmon won't be able to stop you..." said LadyDevimon

            "I know... I know... my faithful corps, now that they are divided, they should be easy to divide and conquer..." said the Orb

            "Bye the way where did you put the boy?" asked the Orb

            "File Island..." said LadyDevimon

            "You fool; you just put this whole plan in jeopardy!  There are two Digidestined on the Isle right now!" said the Orb, and LadyDevimon's eyes bulged in fear of the possibilities that could occur.

            "Get the boy, we might be able to use him in our plan on getting the girl..." said the Orb and LadyDevimon nodded and left the cave.

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            Takai and Tokomon played with the Digimon, while Elecmon talked with Ken, and Davis, their Digimon playing with other, younger Digimon.

            "The whole purpose of the Moonlight Festival, is to celebrate certain chosen In-Training Digimon that will become Rookies and leave the camp, and certain Digi-Babies who become In-Training, each year, on this night, when the moon is directly over head then is the moment... oh my, it's about to begin!" said Elecmon and with that said a light shone down on the little Village, and Digimon here and there Digivolved, in fact the Tokomon who had led them here had digivolved into a Patamon, but his friend, the Nyaromon had not.

            "Congratulations..." said the Nyaromon to her friend, and she couldn't help but feel jealous, happy, and sad at the same time.  She was, happy for her friend, sad that he'd be leaving her behind, and jealous that she couldn't go with him.

            "Come on Nyaromon, it doesn't mean that you don't have to come..." said the Patamon to the crying Nyaromon

            "Yes it does, according to Village law, I can't Digivolve at any other time to Rookie unless it is at this time... you've got a year... go and have fun... remember me when you get old... please..." said the Nyaromon who then hopped away, crying her eyes out.

            "This is the night usually when great Friendships are broken, here is the stage when the separation between Data, Vaccine, and Virus is really apparent... when they're babies they love one another... but as they grow older... class boundaries separate them... and sometimes friends accepted this year wait until their friends can come with them and become Consular... which I pray for each year..." said Elecmon who sighed happily and then said "I really need help bringing back fish... OH NO!  THE FISH!" cried Elecmon now remembering he had left the fish behind, and they were nearly out of party food, he quickly dashed into the forest.

            Takai laughed as the Digi-Babies tackled him and tickled him, knowing that he was extremely ticklish in certain places, like behind the neck, under his arms, and they did remove his shoes and socks to tickle his feet, at which point Takai laughed so hard, that if he laughed any harder his rib cage would have opened up.

            Watching this scene was a pair of eyes, which the owner of laughed evilly in the brush.  She would soon have her chance to redeem herself in front of her master.

To Be Continued...