Okay, okay, eheheheh...finished this Chapter. Soooo here ya go. Enjoy^_~
Chapter Two...
Most of the gang were already at the park when Tai got there. They looked up to see the three friends running toward them, and laughed, Matt adding the appropriate comment, "Dude, you're gonna be late to your own funeral, you know that?"
"Only if I can help it," Tai answered, looking around to discover that everyone was there but the mysterious girl. "Oh, of course," he grumbled, "That witch wouldn't be here yet." He'd already decided that she was all enemy, and didn't trust her at all.
"Why, thank you, Tai," a familiar voice cut in above them. Eight surprised eyes raised to the tree beside them, and the highest limb held the violet-eyed girl. She continued her short tirade in a tone of repugnance, "But I prefer not to be called a witch, and I was here long before any of you. If you hadn't succeeded in your little task of gathering the rest of the group, I'd just have you disconnected from the Digital World now." She front-flipped and landed directly in front of them, much to the shock of each of them.
"So I was right about you!" Tai exclaimed, "You don't get affected by weather, and you can do unnatural things like jump thirty feet to the ground. You gotta be a digimon!"
The girl just sighed with agitation, and rolled her eyes, "No, you idiot, I'm not a digimon. Much less am I unnatural. I am purely human. I just got trained by a lot of senseis, if you will."
"Oh...right then..."
"Anyway, I'm sure all of you want to know why you're here, and who I am, so I'll humor you and explain it," she said, motioning them to sit down on a few benches nearby. They did, and she leaned against the tree, "All right then. I am Destiny Sakai, your Digital Guardian." Sora raised an eye brow, and was about to ask a question, when Destiny interrupted her, "I know, my name's a bit of a pun and you have no clue what a Digital Guardian is. Well, in my family, there has been a Guardian for the Digidestined ever since the first group of children travelled to the Digital World. My mother, being a prophet, foresaw that I would be the next, and named me Destiny as a sort of joke. Being your Guardian, and obviously no older than most of you, I have the responsibility of making sure you stay alive, as well as protecting all the digimon in the digital world...well, all the good ones, anyway. So basically, I'm here as a safeguard, if I let one of you die...well...I do." For a moment, the group was speechless, then Izzy came up with a question.
"So why didn't we hear about you before?"
"Because I asked Uncle Jeni not to tell you. At the time you were in the Digital World, I was in this one...I...had recently suffered the loss of my aunt here..." As she said this, Destiny's eyes, for the first time, showed emotion, and she looked away.
"Uncle Jeni?" Sora asked. "You're related to Jeni?"
"Yes, I am. He is my great granduncle. A bit old, though, isn't he?" Destiny asked, her eyes going cold and hard again. "The reason I came here is to request your presence in the Digital World once more. My uncle...he's sick. And he wished to see you before he...well..." Destiny nodded what she meant, and finished off her speech, "So, are you coming, or aren't you?"
The group all looked at one another, then to their alleged leader. Tai glanced around at the answers in their eyes, looked at Destiny, and nodded once.
"Fine then, be at the camp where you first went to the Digital World tonight at seven. Oh, and this time, you may want to prepare yourselves for a trip...clothes, tools, supplies, anything that you find defined as a necessity. Understood?"
"Whatever," everyone agreed.
~
Six hours later, everyone sat huddled up, watching Destiny as she sat waiting on a fence nearby. Waiting for what, none of them knew. One of her legs was resting slightly higher than the other, her arms were crossed, and her eyes were fixed on the horizon as the wind blew her hair. It was freezing outside, as it usually was this time of year at the camp, but as Tai had noticed before, she was the only one who didn't seem to care. Everyone else was wrapped in heavy coats, ear muffs, gloves, and scarves, despite the fashionable coolness they risked losing. Kari and T. K. were curled up on his lap, inevitably cold and shivering. Destiny glanced over at them once or twice with pity in her eyes, and had even given them a blanket that she had tucked away in her bag for such occasions. 'So,' Tai thought begrudgingly, 'she does have a heart.'
Suddenly, the sun slivered away fully behind the mountain, and Destiny made the first movement she'd made for an hour, hopping off the fence and cracking her knuckles. "It's time."
"Time for what?" Kari asked, sniffling to reawaken her frozen nose. Destiny went to the smaller children, and the frown on her face was etched with concern.
"You've been ill before, haven't you?" she asked Kari, who in turn nodded hesitantly. "I'm sorry, I seem to forget that not everyone is immune to the weather as I...Here," she said, taking off the black overcoat and wrapping it around both Kari and T. K. Tai raised an eye brow with dissapointment; his 'witch' was turning out not to be so evil after all. Wait...did he just think that? His witch?! What on Earth-?! "Wait here just a moment. I promise as soon as we get there I'll make you a nice pot of cocoa, all of you." She offered them a very, very small smile, and turned away to stand near the edge of the cliff. Raising her hands in the air, she murmered a few words, and a violet stream of energy left her body, and surrounded a section of the air on the cliff. There, it spun around in a vortex until it slowly turned into some sort of portal. As the portal was finished, Destiny lowered her arms, and seemed to slump a bit as she looked back at the group. "Well, come on, let's get going!" she said grumpily, looking uncomfortable and physically weary. Everyone glanced at each other, then followed her orders, hurrying through the portal. Tai went last, naturally, and paused beside her.
"Are...you okay?" he asked, watching her rub her arms with some concern.
"Yes, yes, I'm fine," she grumbled, pushing him into the portal.
"Hmph, just askin'," he said back, then looked around. They were in the Digital World again. "Whoa..." was all Tai could mutter as he surveyed the beauty of it all. A fresh layer of snow covered the ground and tree-tops, and they stood beside a softly iced over lake, one that looked quite familiar, as a matter of fact.
"We're at Jeni's place!" Kari and T. K. cheered together, looking at Destiny with bright eyes as she closed the portal.
"Mm hm..." she nodded, walking past them and stepping onto the ice of the lake. "You remember the way you got here? With the stairs and everything?"
"Yeah, Jeni split the water up," Sora answered.
"Well, we can't exactly do that with the ice here and all...cracked ice would alert virus digimon to our whereabouts. So if you'll just follow me..." She stopped approximately in front of Jeni's house, and waited until everyone had gathered around her before tapping on the ice three times with her foot. Matt and Joe jumped as the ice right behind their feet cracked, and a circle of ice began to lower into the lake. Expecting to get a very cold bath, Tai picked up Kari and held T. K.'s hand tightly, but surprisingly enough, as they lowered into the water, a bubble of air formed around them. Lower and lower they went, until finally they stopped, and Destiny stepped off of the ice circle with the others close behind. They walked up the steps of Jeni's home, pausing briefly to watch the ice begin to rise again, then went inside. The air bubble stayed behind at the door.
"Okay, we're here...it's late, so you may not be able to see Jeni until morning..." Destiny said, looking up the stairs with a bit of a worried face. "Um...would you like me to show you to your rooms?"
"No, that's okay," Tai spoke up for everyone. "We remember...but...Destiny, when can we see Agumon and the others?"
Destiny turned around with a raised eye brow and a confused expression, and explained, "Most likely tomorrow afternoon. If you'd like, you can bring them back..."
"Destiny, is that you?" a weak voice called from a room upstairs.
"Coming, Uncle Jeni!" she called back, then said politely, "The cocoa is on in the kitchen, if you'd like som. If you'll excuse me..." She went up the stairs, and into Jeni's room. Tai looked worriedly after her, noting the weakness of Jeni's voice, then followed his friends into the kitchen. The cocoa was already in eight cups, each of them having the owner's name and favorite color on it. Tai stirred the marshmallows around in his for a bit before Sora noticed.
"Something wrong, Tai?" she asked, rousing the attention of the others, who were happily chattering about how excited they were to see the digimon again.
"Just worried about Jeni..." Tai answered distantly, finally taking a sip of his cocoa. "Hey, guys, do you think they changed much?"
"Nope, I bet Gatomon's still the same old smart aleck!"
"And Tentamon's still witty, I'm sure."
"Not as witty as Gabumon. He saved my life!"
"Gomamon's still the best swimmer."
"And Patamon's the cutest."
"No, Palmon is." This went on late into the night, before the digidestined finally went to their rooms, dreaming of their friends...and worrying about Jeni. And, in Tai's case, smiling at the thought of their new might-be friend, Destiny Sakai.
There, that chap's done too. ^__^ So what do you think? Could Tai and Destiny possibly be the *cough cough* outcome of this li'l fiesta of mine? And did you notice that Destiny seems to be surrounded by death??? Questions, comments, suggestions?
G2g, byes!!
Chapter Two...
Most of the gang were already at the park when Tai got there. They looked up to see the three friends running toward them, and laughed, Matt adding the appropriate comment, "Dude, you're gonna be late to your own funeral, you know that?"
"Only if I can help it," Tai answered, looking around to discover that everyone was there but the mysterious girl. "Oh, of course," he grumbled, "That witch wouldn't be here yet." He'd already decided that she was all enemy, and didn't trust her at all.
"Why, thank you, Tai," a familiar voice cut in above them. Eight surprised eyes raised to the tree beside them, and the highest limb held the violet-eyed girl. She continued her short tirade in a tone of repugnance, "But I prefer not to be called a witch, and I was here long before any of you. If you hadn't succeeded in your little task of gathering the rest of the group, I'd just have you disconnected from the Digital World now." She front-flipped and landed directly in front of them, much to the shock of each of them.
"So I was right about you!" Tai exclaimed, "You don't get affected by weather, and you can do unnatural things like jump thirty feet to the ground. You gotta be a digimon!"
The girl just sighed with agitation, and rolled her eyes, "No, you idiot, I'm not a digimon. Much less am I unnatural. I am purely human. I just got trained by a lot of senseis, if you will."
"Oh...right then..."
"Anyway, I'm sure all of you want to know why you're here, and who I am, so I'll humor you and explain it," she said, motioning them to sit down on a few benches nearby. They did, and she leaned against the tree, "All right then. I am Destiny Sakai, your Digital Guardian." Sora raised an eye brow, and was about to ask a question, when Destiny interrupted her, "I know, my name's a bit of a pun and you have no clue what a Digital Guardian is. Well, in my family, there has been a Guardian for the Digidestined ever since the first group of children travelled to the Digital World. My mother, being a prophet, foresaw that I would be the next, and named me Destiny as a sort of joke. Being your Guardian, and obviously no older than most of you, I have the responsibility of making sure you stay alive, as well as protecting all the digimon in the digital world...well, all the good ones, anyway. So basically, I'm here as a safeguard, if I let one of you die...well...I do." For a moment, the group was speechless, then Izzy came up with a question.
"So why didn't we hear about you before?"
"Because I asked Uncle Jeni not to tell you. At the time you were in the Digital World, I was in this one...I...had recently suffered the loss of my aunt here..." As she said this, Destiny's eyes, for the first time, showed emotion, and she looked away.
"Uncle Jeni?" Sora asked. "You're related to Jeni?"
"Yes, I am. He is my great granduncle. A bit old, though, isn't he?" Destiny asked, her eyes going cold and hard again. "The reason I came here is to request your presence in the Digital World once more. My uncle...he's sick. And he wished to see you before he...well..." Destiny nodded what she meant, and finished off her speech, "So, are you coming, or aren't you?"
The group all looked at one another, then to their alleged leader. Tai glanced around at the answers in their eyes, looked at Destiny, and nodded once.
"Fine then, be at the camp where you first went to the Digital World tonight at seven. Oh, and this time, you may want to prepare yourselves for a trip...clothes, tools, supplies, anything that you find defined as a necessity. Understood?"
"Whatever," everyone agreed.
~
Six hours later, everyone sat huddled up, watching Destiny as she sat waiting on a fence nearby. Waiting for what, none of them knew. One of her legs was resting slightly higher than the other, her arms were crossed, and her eyes were fixed on the horizon as the wind blew her hair. It was freezing outside, as it usually was this time of year at the camp, but as Tai had noticed before, she was the only one who didn't seem to care. Everyone else was wrapped in heavy coats, ear muffs, gloves, and scarves, despite the fashionable coolness they risked losing. Kari and T. K. were curled up on his lap, inevitably cold and shivering. Destiny glanced over at them once or twice with pity in her eyes, and had even given them a blanket that she had tucked away in her bag for such occasions. 'So,' Tai thought begrudgingly, 'she does have a heart.'
Suddenly, the sun slivered away fully behind the mountain, and Destiny made the first movement she'd made for an hour, hopping off the fence and cracking her knuckles. "It's time."
"Time for what?" Kari asked, sniffling to reawaken her frozen nose. Destiny went to the smaller children, and the frown on her face was etched with concern.
"You've been ill before, haven't you?" she asked Kari, who in turn nodded hesitantly. "I'm sorry, I seem to forget that not everyone is immune to the weather as I...Here," she said, taking off the black overcoat and wrapping it around both Kari and T. K. Tai raised an eye brow with dissapointment; his 'witch' was turning out not to be so evil after all. Wait...did he just think that? His witch?! What on Earth-?! "Wait here just a moment. I promise as soon as we get there I'll make you a nice pot of cocoa, all of you." She offered them a very, very small smile, and turned away to stand near the edge of the cliff. Raising her hands in the air, she murmered a few words, and a violet stream of energy left her body, and surrounded a section of the air on the cliff. There, it spun around in a vortex until it slowly turned into some sort of portal. As the portal was finished, Destiny lowered her arms, and seemed to slump a bit as she looked back at the group. "Well, come on, let's get going!" she said grumpily, looking uncomfortable and physically weary. Everyone glanced at each other, then followed her orders, hurrying through the portal. Tai went last, naturally, and paused beside her.
"Are...you okay?" he asked, watching her rub her arms with some concern.
"Yes, yes, I'm fine," she grumbled, pushing him into the portal.
"Hmph, just askin'," he said back, then looked around. They were in the Digital World again. "Whoa..." was all Tai could mutter as he surveyed the beauty of it all. A fresh layer of snow covered the ground and tree-tops, and they stood beside a softly iced over lake, one that looked quite familiar, as a matter of fact.
"We're at Jeni's place!" Kari and T. K. cheered together, looking at Destiny with bright eyes as she closed the portal.
"Mm hm..." she nodded, walking past them and stepping onto the ice of the lake. "You remember the way you got here? With the stairs and everything?"
"Yeah, Jeni split the water up," Sora answered.
"Well, we can't exactly do that with the ice here and all...cracked ice would alert virus digimon to our whereabouts. So if you'll just follow me..." She stopped approximately in front of Jeni's house, and waited until everyone had gathered around her before tapping on the ice three times with her foot. Matt and Joe jumped as the ice right behind their feet cracked, and a circle of ice began to lower into the lake. Expecting to get a very cold bath, Tai picked up Kari and held T. K.'s hand tightly, but surprisingly enough, as they lowered into the water, a bubble of air formed around them. Lower and lower they went, until finally they stopped, and Destiny stepped off of the ice circle with the others close behind. They walked up the steps of Jeni's home, pausing briefly to watch the ice begin to rise again, then went inside. The air bubble stayed behind at the door.
"Okay, we're here...it's late, so you may not be able to see Jeni until morning..." Destiny said, looking up the stairs with a bit of a worried face. "Um...would you like me to show you to your rooms?"
"No, that's okay," Tai spoke up for everyone. "We remember...but...Destiny, when can we see Agumon and the others?"
Destiny turned around with a raised eye brow and a confused expression, and explained, "Most likely tomorrow afternoon. If you'd like, you can bring them back..."
"Destiny, is that you?" a weak voice called from a room upstairs.
"Coming, Uncle Jeni!" she called back, then said politely, "The cocoa is on in the kitchen, if you'd like som. If you'll excuse me..." She went up the stairs, and into Jeni's room. Tai looked worriedly after her, noting the weakness of Jeni's voice, then followed his friends into the kitchen. The cocoa was already in eight cups, each of them having the owner's name and favorite color on it. Tai stirred the marshmallows around in his for a bit before Sora noticed.
"Something wrong, Tai?" she asked, rousing the attention of the others, who were happily chattering about how excited they were to see the digimon again.
"Just worried about Jeni..." Tai answered distantly, finally taking a sip of his cocoa. "Hey, guys, do you think they changed much?"
"Nope, I bet Gatomon's still the same old smart aleck!"
"And Tentamon's still witty, I'm sure."
"Not as witty as Gabumon. He saved my life!"
"Gomamon's still the best swimmer."
"And Patamon's the cutest."
"No, Palmon is." This went on late into the night, before the digidestined finally went to their rooms, dreaming of their friends...and worrying about Jeni. And, in Tai's case, smiling at the thought of their new might-be friend, Destiny Sakai.
There, that chap's done too. ^__^ So what do you think? Could Tai and Destiny possibly be the *cough cough* outcome of this li'l fiesta of mine? And did you notice that Destiny seems to be surrounded by death??? Questions, comments, suggestions?
G2g, byes!!
