'ello. Oh sorry I 4got 2 put the year in its 2024 Human Year and 15 Digital Year. K? well I just had 2 put dat in d'ere. Oh n Double AUK (yes that's what im callin u from now on) write more DigiForum n stuff! N thanks 2 TogetherAgain 4 Mrs. Izumi's 1st name (n other things)!



The Crest Of Death

Chapter Two: Welcome To Earth; Your New Home

By: PhoniexChild



Keiko Ichjiouji – I simply stared where the portal had been.

Kyrie just stood there, facing the air where the portal use to be, squeezing her father's goggles.

"Someone pinch me." Aurelia whispered, "I need to wake up."

I looked at her, then Li, who sat down hard. Looking over at Koji, I noticed he still held Lorelai, who was sobbing quietly into his shirt. I felt my eyes begin to water. I turned away, from the others.

"Keiko?" Aurelia put a hand on my shoulder, "C'mere." She pulled me close, hugging me. Something my mother would never do again. Suddenly I heard Aurelia crying.

"Why are you cryin'?" Li asked, like his father, without thinking.

Aurelia looked up at Li, glaring. Before she could answer Kyrie rounded on him.

"Li, she lost her home, too!" Kyrie practically screamed. Now he shrank back, learning why you didn't tick Kyrie Kamiya off.

"Well, she….." Li trailed off as he tried to defend himself.

"Li, just because Aurelia's parents died when she was young doesn't mean she can't mourn with us. She did live with you, remember?" Koji said softly, keeping the fragile peace.

"C'mon." Kyrie turned away from us and began walking.

"Where are you goin'?" Lorelai asked, face still tear-stained.

"To Tokyo." Kyrie answered, still walking.



PhoniexChild – Naoko Izumi, the mother of the infamous DigiDestined Koushiro Izumi, Bearer of the Crest of Knowledge, walked through the open air market. The market was where the old Highen View Terrance once was. The once peaceful apartment building had been partly burned down, which had happened during a surprise attack on the DigiDestined by the Humans. In which Naoko's only child and husband had been killed.

Naoko looked up at the old building, right where she had once lived, when Koushiro had become a DigiDestined. The age-old pain a mother feels for her deceased son, soon brought tears to her eyes. And what made this almost unbearable pain even worse was that Koushiro's wife, Tamiko Kwouk Izumi, was pregnant when he was killed. Since Tamiko wasn't a DigiDestined, making her daughter a Half-Breed, she couldn't enter the Digital World with her child. And sadly, the beautiful woman who had capture Koushiro's heart had passed away several years ago.

Naoko, shook her head slightly, as she passed that old section of painful memories.

The sky above thundered again, though no rain fell. Which was odd, it had always rained when it thundered, except for the last two days. The clouds began to darken again, as the thunder grew closer and louder.

"Why does it keep thunderin'?" a young feminine voice asked.

Naoko couldn't help but look towards the speaker, for the voice had sounded so familiar. Yet when Naoko had caught sight of the speaker and her companions, her breath caught in her throat. She couldn't believe her eyes. It was like seeing ghosts.

Clearing her throat, Naoko walked over to the children. If they were who Naoko thought they were, they wouldn't know what type of danger they were in.

"Hello," She said pleasantly, causing the children to jump and stare at her.

One of the oldest, a chestnut-haired young female teenager, nodded. "Hello." She echoed.

"I don't mean to be rude, but who are you?"

Naoko gasped upon hearing this voice, and nearly fainted when she saw the speaker. It was her granddaughter. She looked so much like Koushiro, more like his female version than another person.

"I am," Naoko began when her voice returned, "your grandmother."



Naoko watched the children as they sipped at the hot chocolate she had made. They looked so much like their parents. Though Naoko's only fear was someone would recognize their inherited features.

Aurelia Izumi walked around her grandmother's apartment, the same one her father had lived in for most of his life. Naoko couldn't believe what these young teens and preteens had told her. The Digital World was destroyed. Two days ago, from their descriptions, the same time the thunder had began. She studied each child, learning from their looks.

The oldest, Kyrie Kamiya, looked just like her father at fifteen. Though her hair was longer, to her waist, and her eyes had a slight amount of ruby around the pupil. That was surely inherited from her mother.

A few months younger than Kyrie was Aurelia Izumi, who, as Kyrie, looked just like her father at fifteen. Only it seemed that Aurelia hadn't inherited anything immediately noticeable from her mother.

Koji Takaishi, being thirteen, was the third oldest. He looked just like Takeru, minus the hat. Though, like his older cousin, Koji's eyes had his mother's color around the pupil. Besides from that he was his father's image reborn.

Li Motomiya, who was twelve, was a pleasant mix between his parents. He had Davis's height and brains. And Mimi Tachikawa's eyes and complexion. Li's hair was maroon, striped with light brown.

Keiko Ichjiouji, the youngest of her family, was eleven. She had her mother's eyes, glasses included, and her father's looks. Keiko's hair was a blue-violet, while her sister's had been slightly lighter, being violet- blue.

Lorelai Takaishi, the youngest of the group, like her father had once been, was ten. She looked purely of her mother. The light brown hair and eyes, light complexion. She was the exact look-a-like of Kari Kamiya Takaishi, even the style and length of her hair.

"What will happen to us?" Lorelai asked, quietly.

Naoko looked up from her thoughts. "Hmm." She thought and concluded that there was only one possible solution. "You shall live here with me."

"Really?" Aurelia now looked excited.

"Yes." Naoko nodded, smiling.

The young teens and preteens exchanged looks and silently agreed.

"Well, go and watch some TV. I have something very important to do." Naoko left the children in the TV room and headed for the kitchen, where the phone was. Dialing in a number that had been drilled into her mind, Naoko hoped that he would be there.

"Hello?" the familiar voice answered.

"Willis," Naoko breathed a sigh of relief, "I have news."

"What?" Willis was now on alert.

Naoko sighed, "The Digital World has been destroyed."

"What!?!"

"Seems the agency actually wasn't bluffing."

Willis remained silent on the other end.

"There's more. Some of the children were able to survive."

"Who?" Willis demanded.

"Kyrie Kamiya, Aurelia Izumi, Li Motomiya, Keiko Ichjiouji, and Koji and Lorelai Takaishi." Naoko spoke quickly, even though she knew the lines weren't tapped.

"That's all?" Willis paused, thinking. "I'll be over as soon as I can. With the rest."

Naoko nodded, then realized Willis couldn't see her. "Sure."

"Okay. Don't let them outta your sight." Willis ordered.

"Of course, Willis. Just be careful."

"As always."

"Okay - " Naoko began.

"Who's that?" Kyrie Kamiya asked from the doorway.

"Kyrie!" Naoko jumped slightly, "Who scared me."

"Sorry. So who ya talking wit?"

Naoko frowned slightly, before answering.

"What?"

"He says 'Welcome to Earth; your new home'."



Well I hoped u enjoyed that. More 2 come soon…I'll try. N thanks again 2 TA 4 da help. Suggestions welcomed. N im sorry if Mimi's last is spelled wrong. We (TA n me) couldn't remember how 2 properly spell it. Some1 tell me n I'll fix it!

Cya!

PhoniexChild