***Sunlight***
Part III: Truth
NB: 1) I forgot this in the last two parts. I don't own Digimon. What? Oh. I do own ONE cute little Digimon, but that's only 'cos she wants to stay with me for now.
2) This bit and especially the next switch viewpoint a bit, through flashbacks and general confusion. Try to stay with me, people and creatures.
3) Thanks to a reviewer who's got me in a dilemma over whether I should 'credit' the same person twice.
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Daydreamer: OK. If you're all right now...
Bi: Give it your best shot.
..........
There's tears running down my cheeks. Bi... Oh, Bi! And I feel there's worse to come. But I must remember. It's the only way to unlock the secrets of my mind.
-
Sora had carried the tiny Digimon into the cave. She poked at the dying embers of the fire until it flared into life, and found a bottle of water by Joe's side. With a sigh she looked out at the landscape. It had turned cold that night. "I wouldn't send Demidevimon out on a night like this," she mused. Then she poured out water into the lid of the bottle and placed it in front of her visitor.
"You're just like she said," whispered the little one, lapping the water like a puppy.
"Like WHO said?" Sora was suddenly wide awake, alert.
"The pink bird. What was her name... Biyomon..."
*flashback**
"Shh now. You're all right."
He opened his eyes, squinting at the little light there was. His tail hurt...a lot. But there was a bird looking down on him, sympathy in her huge black eyes. Oh, yes. Now he remembered. She was the new worker Digimon here, Biyomon.
She had bandaged his tail. "Don't say a word," she whispered. "Neither of us are meant to be here. Can you walk?"
He nodded, getting to his feet. He remembered now. Bi was the Digimon lured here by Demidevimon. But everyone knew her as the pretty bird who sang as she worked, and told the little Digimon stories about a wonderful human called Sora Takenouchi.
He'd been sent on a mission. A lot of them had. It had been important; they'd depended on him. And he'd failed. They'd taken him back to the headquarters.
The throneroom. His master raising a talon without a word. Eyes jammed shut not to see the flash of light... Then a flutter of wings. Biyomon flying across the room, snatching him up by one dangling paw. A jet of light catching his tail. Unable to think clearly...darkness.
Bi was talking to him now. "Listen... There's a gap in the wall just about there." She gestured with one wing. "It's tiny, but YOU'RE tiny. You can scoot, quick, before he finds where I've taken you. 'Cos I think we were lucky back there, and I don't know if it'll happen again. So go."
"What...I mean, what'll you..."
"I'll sort something out. See you sometime. Go!"
He couldn't fight her. He clambered through the gap and out into the open air of the night.
As he ran, he thought he heard noise behind him. Some kind of a fight.
-Oh, no!-
He turned, but the sounds had faded already.
-Thanks, Bi...-
*end flashback*
Sora had gone outside again. After all, the others had probably had enough of her crying.
The little Digimon said nothing. He understood what was in her mind, or at least, the part he could guess.
Suddenly she sat bolt upright. "When was it that you ran away?"
"Yesterday," he said. "In the early morning."
"I don't mean to give myself false hope...but Myotismon's always been a drama-lover..."
She looked into his eyes. "Bi could still be all right!"
A few minutes later, everything was quiet once more. No sign was to be seen that anything had happened, excepting the scuffed sand by the cave entrance and a few scratches made hurriedly in the dust.
GONE TO SAVE BI- NO TIME TO WAKE YOU
TRY TO CATCH ME UP
SORA
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Daydreamer: How am I doing?
Bi [looks out of window] Do you realise it's ten o'clock at night?
Daydreamer [mock firmly] Little birds should be asleep.
Bi: Don't do that to me, Dream. [Laughs] At least I'm not in tears now.
Daydreamer [ominously] You might be.
Bi: But it's got to work out right.
Daydreamer: You know me, Bi.
Part III: Truth
NB: 1) I forgot this in the last two parts. I don't own Digimon. What? Oh. I do own ONE cute little Digimon, but that's only 'cos she wants to stay with me for now.
2) This bit and especially the next switch viewpoint a bit, through flashbacks and general confusion. Try to stay with me, people and creatures.
3) Thanks to a reviewer who's got me in a dilemma over whether I should 'credit' the same person twice.
....
Daydreamer: OK. If you're all right now...
Bi: Give it your best shot.
..........
There's tears running down my cheeks. Bi... Oh, Bi! And I feel there's worse to come. But I must remember. It's the only way to unlock the secrets of my mind.
-
Sora had carried the tiny Digimon into the cave. She poked at the dying embers of the fire until it flared into life, and found a bottle of water by Joe's side. With a sigh she looked out at the landscape. It had turned cold that night. "I wouldn't send Demidevimon out on a night like this," she mused. Then she poured out water into the lid of the bottle and placed it in front of her visitor.
"You're just like she said," whispered the little one, lapping the water like a puppy.
"Like WHO said?" Sora was suddenly wide awake, alert.
"The pink bird. What was her name... Biyomon..."
*flashback**
"Shh now. You're all right."
He opened his eyes, squinting at the little light there was. His tail hurt...a lot. But there was a bird looking down on him, sympathy in her huge black eyes. Oh, yes. Now he remembered. She was the new worker Digimon here, Biyomon.
She had bandaged his tail. "Don't say a word," she whispered. "Neither of us are meant to be here. Can you walk?"
He nodded, getting to his feet. He remembered now. Bi was the Digimon lured here by Demidevimon. But everyone knew her as the pretty bird who sang as she worked, and told the little Digimon stories about a wonderful human called Sora Takenouchi.
He'd been sent on a mission. A lot of them had. It had been important; they'd depended on him. And he'd failed. They'd taken him back to the headquarters.
The throneroom. His master raising a talon without a word. Eyes jammed shut not to see the flash of light... Then a flutter of wings. Biyomon flying across the room, snatching him up by one dangling paw. A jet of light catching his tail. Unable to think clearly...darkness.
Bi was talking to him now. "Listen... There's a gap in the wall just about there." She gestured with one wing. "It's tiny, but YOU'RE tiny. You can scoot, quick, before he finds where I've taken you. 'Cos I think we were lucky back there, and I don't know if it'll happen again. So go."
"What...I mean, what'll you..."
"I'll sort something out. See you sometime. Go!"
He couldn't fight her. He clambered through the gap and out into the open air of the night.
As he ran, he thought he heard noise behind him. Some kind of a fight.
-Oh, no!-
He turned, but the sounds had faded already.
-Thanks, Bi...-
*end flashback*
Sora had gone outside again. After all, the others had probably had enough of her crying.
The little Digimon said nothing. He understood what was in her mind, or at least, the part he could guess.
Suddenly she sat bolt upright. "When was it that you ran away?"
"Yesterday," he said. "In the early morning."
"I don't mean to give myself false hope...but Myotismon's always been a drama-lover..."
She looked into his eyes. "Bi could still be all right!"
A few minutes later, everything was quiet once more. No sign was to be seen that anything had happened, excepting the scuffed sand by the cave entrance and a few scratches made hurriedly in the dust.
GONE TO SAVE BI- NO TIME TO WAKE YOU
TRY TO CATCH ME UP
SORA
....................
Daydreamer: How am I doing?
Bi [looks out of window] Do you realise it's ten o'clock at night?
Daydreamer [mock firmly] Little birds should be asleep.
Bi: Don't do that to me, Dream. [Laughs] At least I'm not in tears now.
Daydreamer [ominously] You might be.
Bi: But it's got to work out right.
Daydreamer: You know me, Bi.