OK, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, SORRY! I'm
SOOOOO sorry (did you catch that yet?) that it's been so long since I've
updated! I was in Canadia, you see. I know, that's no excuse, but I made
this chapter longer and better than the last to try to make up for it. I
promise not to wait so long to update again without leaving a warning
first. Anywho.
Thanks to those who reviewed:
kellyQ- Who knows what he'll do. But, desperate times call for desperate measures!
Crystal y satoshi 4ever love- Hmm, thanks for waiting.
Loner Fox- No!!!!! Please don't sick the herto- Kouichi on me!! AHHHHHH!!! Forget the plz, hand over the cheese!
Splash- Yes, Takouji does rock. Ah, what a wonderful, Takouji-filled world we live in. (
Kouji's Gal- Begging is an excellent way to get what you want. (So are threats, which I find to be more fun!)
Chibi Kitty- Here's more!
RAVENCLAWPUNKg- Yes, but are you ready for this one? (OK, I know that was lame, but I couldn't think of anything else to write.)
"....." is speaking /......./ is Takuya's thoughts
Takuya's POV Digimon does not belong to me.
Taming the Wild
Wicchick
He was dimly aware of the fact that someone was touching him. He groaned. He didn't want to be brought back to reality, to the pain. He had been so happy and carefree where he was before. Wearily, he opened one of his eyes to see whose hands were gripping his shoulders. /Zoe. Of course. The one who cares, but not enough to leave me be!/ He sat up.
"Oh, Takuya, you're alright!" she squealed, and clung to him.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Now get off!" he said, and practically threw her off of him. She looked a little hurt by that gesture, but blew it off, and started with the questions.
"Are you really fine? Why were you lying here? It's been hours! We were all so worried about you. And Koji-"
"What! What about Koji?!!" / Oh no! He didn't tell them did he! Agh!/
She was definitely confused. "Um, Koji just told us that he had seen you in here earlier. That's how I knew where to find you."
"He didn't offer to help? Didn't he want to show you exactly where he'd seen me? It is a big cave, after all." Takuya was sad. Koji didn't even care enough to make sure Zoe found him. He probably never wanted to see him again. Takuya couldn't live with that.
"Well, no," Zoe replied gently. She obviously wasn't sure if that was a good or bad thing, so she made her tone neutral. "I guess he thought it'd be easy to find you. What's going on? You've been acting....I don't know, unusual lately. It's not like you to wander off without telling anyone."
"I told Tommy!" he said defiantly.
"Sure, but you didn't say where you'd be or when you'd be back. Let me guess, came to think again?"
/Why does she have to worry so much! I don't see the others with her. At least they're acting normal and not worrying about me for no reason./ "Uh, yeah. Hey, why didn't anyone else come with you?"
Zoe looked down and blushed. "I - I guess I was the only one who was really worried enough to look for you. When I asked Koji about you and he told me where you were, the others all agreed that it'd be best to leave you alone until you felt better and came back, but-"
"And they were right," Takuya said angrily.
Zoe looked up again and sighed. "I know. I was worried about you, of course, but I mainly wanted to talk with you in private. Something's going on Takuya, I know it is. Tell me, please, and maybe I can help you. You'll feel better if you talk to someone."
The last thing Takuya wanted to do was to admit to someone else his feelings for Koji and tell them that he had been rejected. "How do you know something's wrong? How can you be sure?"
Zoe shrugged. "I'm a girl," she replied, as if that answered everything.
"I'm sorry, Zoe, but at this point, talking to someone about my problems would only make me feel worse. Maybe we can talk later."
She nodded her head and began to rise. "I understand. Whenever you're ready to talk, Takuya, I'm ready to listen. Hey, how about we go back to our camp spot? You must be hungry now, and by the looks of it, you're dead tired."
Takuya compliantly stood and followed her back to the camp that had been neatly set up by Bokomon earlier that morning. He was horrified to find that Koji was there, sitting on a log and eating. Koji determinedly stared at his food as he chewed, not once looking up. Takuya sighed inwardly and grabbed a piece of the cabbage-looking food. He sat besides Zoe who was sitting towards a pre-made fire, her back turned to Koji. The others were just coming back as the two of them sat down.
"Takuya!" shouted J.P. "There you are! Told you he was alright, Zoe!"
"Yeah, yeah," she muttered.
Tommy was with J.P., and Bokomon and Neemon were already there, so together they ate, J.P. and Tommy telling them about where they had gone. Suddenly, everyone's D-Tectors began to glow. Each person held up their own, and listened for instructions. A voice inside of J.P.'s D-Tector spoke to the whole group.
"You have all reached your destination. The reason you have been directed to come here is so that you can gain more power. You all have elemental powers that you must come in tune with. Here is the perfect spot for that. Each day you are here, you will grow stronger, not just from resting after such a long time, but also from the influences of Mother Nature around you. I can't say just how long you will be here, but just that you will be able to leave once your powers become tuned with the natural powers of the Digital World. You will feel a connection to the environment around you once you make that connection. Enjoy your time, but keep an eye out for anything unusual, for evil can lurk anywhere."
"Oh, great, that's inspirational," moaned J.P..
"Well, this should be great! No evil Digimon! Yay!" said Zoe, looking at the lighter side of things.
"For now, anyways," Koji muttered under his breath.
After eating, it was decided that like before, they should each go their separate ways and meet back at the camp just after dark. Before Takuya could leave, Zoe grabbed his arm and spun around to face him.
"Be back just after dark, Takuya! No "thinking" for hours! I don't want to have to come looking for you again!"
/Boy, isn't she the maternal one./ "Fine, fine" He was relieved that he could spend more time away from Koji. Even though it was obvious that Koji hadn't told the others about what had happened, Takuya was still worried. The others were smart, and if he wasn't careful, they'd find out somehow. Zoe already knew something was wrong, even if she couldn't pinpoint it.
/Okay, Takuya, stop worrying about that, and start thinking about what J.P.'s D-Tector said. I have to get in tune with the 'natural powers of the Digital World,' whatever that means./ On he wandered, to no specific location, trying hard to banish all thoughts of Koji. Blindly, he walked into something hard, and fell backwards, landing on his ass. Rubbing his behind as he stood, he was shocked to see what stood before him. It wasn't a tree or cave side, but a Digimon. It was steel-gray colored, and from their brief close contact, Takuya knew that it felt as cold as it looked.
"Uh, hello?"
"I am Kleptomon!"
Name: Kleptomon Attacks: Sticky Claws, Metal Hammer
Appearance: Steel-gray; icy cold to the touch
Other: Has a habit of stealing things
Before Takuya had time to think, or Spirit Evolve, Kleptomon used his sticky claws attack to steal Takuya's D-Tector.
"Hey! Give that back you little thief!"
"I am Kleptomon! Its what I do! Hahaha!"
"I'll show you-" Takuya ran to punch the kleptomaniac, but instead was attacked with the Metal Hammer, and he was knocked out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Huh? Where am I?"
Takuya had woken up, and was extremely confused. He was somewhere cold, dark, and damp. His head was pounding with pain. Moaning, he stood up. He could see a faint light just ahead, and so he walked towards it. When he reached the light, he saw that it was a badly made candle, but picked it up off the ground and held it up to view his surroundings. He was in a cave.
"Man, what is it with me and caves? Oh well, guess I'd better get outta here!" he no sooner said that than he realized he couldn't get out. He was in a deep pit inside of the cave. / Oh great! Now what do I do? Hmm, where'd that Kleptomon dude go?/ "Kleptomon! Where are ya! Come here, right now!" To his surprise, Kleptomon actually came. He was grinning evilly.
"Oh hello. Nice toy you have here," he said, holding up Takuya's D-Tector. "Course, I guess it's MY nice toy, now!"
"Hey, you give that back! Its mine! I bet you don't even know what it does!"
"True, but it's pretty! I like pretty, shiny things. It's mine. Have fun down there; I'm going to go play with my new toy."
"No! Wait!!" Takuya shouted, but Kleptomon had already left. Takuya was now very pissed off. "Aggr!" he began attacking the dirt and rock wall that surrounded the pit he was in. After ten minutes of beating up his surroundings, he finally gave up. /This is no use! I guess I'll just have to wait. But for what? Man, this would be a rotten way to die! Sitting in a deep hole, all alone. This is pathetic! I have to get out of here! But how?/ He didn't know how long he'd been in there, but it must have been a while, because he was starting to feel very tired. /No. Don't sleep. It can't be safe./ The quietness of the cave was interrupted by soft footsteps. /Kleptomon! Maybe I can strike a bargain with him to get me outta here!/ He looked up for Kleptomon, but he didn't see him. Instead, looking down on him was none other that Koji Minomoto. /Why the hell..?/
"Takuya! Is that you?"
"Yeah, its me. I'm stuck down here. Kleptomon stole my D-Tector and knocked me unconscious, and then I guess he brought me here. There's no way out...."
"But up," Koji finished for him. "Here, I'll help you." He lay down on his stomach as close to the edge of the pit as he could, while still making sure he wouldn't fall off, and reached down for Takuya, but there was still some distance between them.
"I can't reach. Is there any rope or something there?"
Koji disappeared for a few minutes, and then came back holding a long tree vine. "There's this." He held onto one end of the vine, and threw down the other end. Takuya grabbed it, and as he climbed, Koji pulled.
"Hurry up, I think I hear someone coming in!"
Takuya finally got out of the pit and reached level ground. "Er....thanks."
Koji waved his hand. "Yeah, no problem."
The awkward silence was broken by a booming voice. "Hey, I don't remember two humans" Kleptomon said. "Oh well, more toys for me!"
"Koji lookout!" Takuya said, and shoved Koji to the side as Kleptomon prepared to use his sticky claws attack to steal his D-Tector.
"That's a nasty habit to get into!" Koji said, and spirit evolved. "Execute Spirit Evolution! Lobomon!"
Lobomon attacked Kleptomon, and totally kicked his ass. He did get hit by Kleptomon's Metal Hammer once, but soon defeated him. "Fractal Code Digitize!" he said once Kleptomon was vulnerable. Breathing hard, he went back to being Koji, and picked up Takuya's D-Tector from the ground where it had been dropped. "That was easy." He handed the D-Tector back to Takuya, who smiled his gratitude and took it.
"Um, Koji..." Takuya badly wanted things to go back to normal. He couldn't stand the awkwardness that he had felt earlier that day at lunch, and even though Koji never talked to him, he still felt like he was getting more of the cold shoulder than before. Even if Koji wouldn't love him, at least he wouldn't totally ignore him. Even if Takuya couldn't have him, at least they could maybe just be friends. As Takuya went over all he wanted to say in his head to make sure it came out right when he spoke, Koji did the unexpected.
He leaned forward and kissed Takuya. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________
Oooooo, I can feel the death stares already! I know you want to kill me for leaving it like that, but I'll write again soon! Hehehe!
Thanks to those who reviewed:
kellyQ- Who knows what he'll do. But, desperate times call for desperate measures!
Crystal y satoshi 4ever love- Hmm, thanks for waiting.
Loner Fox- No!!!!! Please don't sick the herto- Kouichi on me!! AHHHHHH!!! Forget the plz, hand over the cheese!
Splash- Yes, Takouji does rock. Ah, what a wonderful, Takouji-filled world we live in. (
Kouji's Gal- Begging is an excellent way to get what you want. (So are threats, which I find to be more fun!)
Chibi Kitty- Here's more!
RAVENCLAWPUNKg- Yes, but are you ready for this one? (OK, I know that was lame, but I couldn't think of anything else to write.)
"....." is speaking /......./ is Takuya's thoughts
Takuya's POV Digimon does not belong to me.
Taming the Wild
Wicchick
He was dimly aware of the fact that someone was touching him. He groaned. He didn't want to be brought back to reality, to the pain. He had been so happy and carefree where he was before. Wearily, he opened one of his eyes to see whose hands were gripping his shoulders. /Zoe. Of course. The one who cares, but not enough to leave me be!/ He sat up.
"Oh, Takuya, you're alright!" she squealed, and clung to him.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Now get off!" he said, and practically threw her off of him. She looked a little hurt by that gesture, but blew it off, and started with the questions.
"Are you really fine? Why were you lying here? It's been hours! We were all so worried about you. And Koji-"
"What! What about Koji?!!" / Oh no! He didn't tell them did he! Agh!/
She was definitely confused. "Um, Koji just told us that he had seen you in here earlier. That's how I knew where to find you."
"He didn't offer to help? Didn't he want to show you exactly where he'd seen me? It is a big cave, after all." Takuya was sad. Koji didn't even care enough to make sure Zoe found him. He probably never wanted to see him again. Takuya couldn't live with that.
"Well, no," Zoe replied gently. She obviously wasn't sure if that was a good or bad thing, so she made her tone neutral. "I guess he thought it'd be easy to find you. What's going on? You've been acting....I don't know, unusual lately. It's not like you to wander off without telling anyone."
"I told Tommy!" he said defiantly.
"Sure, but you didn't say where you'd be or when you'd be back. Let me guess, came to think again?"
/Why does she have to worry so much! I don't see the others with her. At least they're acting normal and not worrying about me for no reason./ "Uh, yeah. Hey, why didn't anyone else come with you?"
Zoe looked down and blushed. "I - I guess I was the only one who was really worried enough to look for you. When I asked Koji about you and he told me where you were, the others all agreed that it'd be best to leave you alone until you felt better and came back, but-"
"And they were right," Takuya said angrily.
Zoe looked up again and sighed. "I know. I was worried about you, of course, but I mainly wanted to talk with you in private. Something's going on Takuya, I know it is. Tell me, please, and maybe I can help you. You'll feel better if you talk to someone."
The last thing Takuya wanted to do was to admit to someone else his feelings for Koji and tell them that he had been rejected. "How do you know something's wrong? How can you be sure?"
Zoe shrugged. "I'm a girl," she replied, as if that answered everything.
"I'm sorry, Zoe, but at this point, talking to someone about my problems would only make me feel worse. Maybe we can talk later."
She nodded her head and began to rise. "I understand. Whenever you're ready to talk, Takuya, I'm ready to listen. Hey, how about we go back to our camp spot? You must be hungry now, and by the looks of it, you're dead tired."
Takuya compliantly stood and followed her back to the camp that had been neatly set up by Bokomon earlier that morning. He was horrified to find that Koji was there, sitting on a log and eating. Koji determinedly stared at his food as he chewed, not once looking up. Takuya sighed inwardly and grabbed a piece of the cabbage-looking food. He sat besides Zoe who was sitting towards a pre-made fire, her back turned to Koji. The others were just coming back as the two of them sat down.
"Takuya!" shouted J.P. "There you are! Told you he was alright, Zoe!"
"Yeah, yeah," she muttered.
Tommy was with J.P., and Bokomon and Neemon were already there, so together they ate, J.P. and Tommy telling them about where they had gone. Suddenly, everyone's D-Tectors began to glow. Each person held up their own, and listened for instructions. A voice inside of J.P.'s D-Tector spoke to the whole group.
"You have all reached your destination. The reason you have been directed to come here is so that you can gain more power. You all have elemental powers that you must come in tune with. Here is the perfect spot for that. Each day you are here, you will grow stronger, not just from resting after such a long time, but also from the influences of Mother Nature around you. I can't say just how long you will be here, but just that you will be able to leave once your powers become tuned with the natural powers of the Digital World. You will feel a connection to the environment around you once you make that connection. Enjoy your time, but keep an eye out for anything unusual, for evil can lurk anywhere."
"Oh, great, that's inspirational," moaned J.P..
"Well, this should be great! No evil Digimon! Yay!" said Zoe, looking at the lighter side of things.
"For now, anyways," Koji muttered under his breath.
After eating, it was decided that like before, they should each go their separate ways and meet back at the camp just after dark. Before Takuya could leave, Zoe grabbed his arm and spun around to face him.
"Be back just after dark, Takuya! No "thinking" for hours! I don't want to have to come looking for you again!"
/Boy, isn't she the maternal one./ "Fine, fine" He was relieved that he could spend more time away from Koji. Even though it was obvious that Koji hadn't told the others about what had happened, Takuya was still worried. The others were smart, and if he wasn't careful, they'd find out somehow. Zoe already knew something was wrong, even if she couldn't pinpoint it.
/Okay, Takuya, stop worrying about that, and start thinking about what J.P.'s D-Tector said. I have to get in tune with the 'natural powers of the Digital World,' whatever that means./ On he wandered, to no specific location, trying hard to banish all thoughts of Koji. Blindly, he walked into something hard, and fell backwards, landing on his ass. Rubbing his behind as he stood, he was shocked to see what stood before him. It wasn't a tree or cave side, but a Digimon. It was steel-gray colored, and from their brief close contact, Takuya knew that it felt as cold as it looked.
"Uh, hello?"
"I am Kleptomon!"
Name: Kleptomon Attacks: Sticky Claws, Metal Hammer
Appearance: Steel-gray; icy cold to the touch
Other: Has a habit of stealing things
Before Takuya had time to think, or Spirit Evolve, Kleptomon used his sticky claws attack to steal Takuya's D-Tector.
"Hey! Give that back you little thief!"
"I am Kleptomon! Its what I do! Hahaha!"
"I'll show you-" Takuya ran to punch the kleptomaniac, but instead was attacked with the Metal Hammer, and he was knocked out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Huh? Where am I?"
Takuya had woken up, and was extremely confused. He was somewhere cold, dark, and damp. His head was pounding with pain. Moaning, he stood up. He could see a faint light just ahead, and so he walked towards it. When he reached the light, he saw that it was a badly made candle, but picked it up off the ground and held it up to view his surroundings. He was in a cave.
"Man, what is it with me and caves? Oh well, guess I'd better get outta here!" he no sooner said that than he realized he couldn't get out. He was in a deep pit inside of the cave. / Oh great! Now what do I do? Hmm, where'd that Kleptomon dude go?/ "Kleptomon! Where are ya! Come here, right now!" To his surprise, Kleptomon actually came. He was grinning evilly.
"Oh hello. Nice toy you have here," he said, holding up Takuya's D-Tector. "Course, I guess it's MY nice toy, now!"
"Hey, you give that back! Its mine! I bet you don't even know what it does!"
"True, but it's pretty! I like pretty, shiny things. It's mine. Have fun down there; I'm going to go play with my new toy."
"No! Wait!!" Takuya shouted, but Kleptomon had already left. Takuya was now very pissed off. "Aggr!" he began attacking the dirt and rock wall that surrounded the pit he was in. After ten minutes of beating up his surroundings, he finally gave up. /This is no use! I guess I'll just have to wait. But for what? Man, this would be a rotten way to die! Sitting in a deep hole, all alone. This is pathetic! I have to get out of here! But how?/ He didn't know how long he'd been in there, but it must have been a while, because he was starting to feel very tired. /No. Don't sleep. It can't be safe./ The quietness of the cave was interrupted by soft footsteps. /Kleptomon! Maybe I can strike a bargain with him to get me outta here!/ He looked up for Kleptomon, but he didn't see him. Instead, looking down on him was none other that Koji Minomoto. /Why the hell..?/
"Takuya! Is that you?"
"Yeah, its me. I'm stuck down here. Kleptomon stole my D-Tector and knocked me unconscious, and then I guess he brought me here. There's no way out...."
"But up," Koji finished for him. "Here, I'll help you." He lay down on his stomach as close to the edge of the pit as he could, while still making sure he wouldn't fall off, and reached down for Takuya, but there was still some distance between them.
"I can't reach. Is there any rope or something there?"
Koji disappeared for a few minutes, and then came back holding a long tree vine. "There's this." He held onto one end of the vine, and threw down the other end. Takuya grabbed it, and as he climbed, Koji pulled.
"Hurry up, I think I hear someone coming in!"
Takuya finally got out of the pit and reached level ground. "Er....thanks."
Koji waved his hand. "Yeah, no problem."
The awkward silence was broken by a booming voice. "Hey, I don't remember two humans" Kleptomon said. "Oh well, more toys for me!"
"Koji lookout!" Takuya said, and shoved Koji to the side as Kleptomon prepared to use his sticky claws attack to steal his D-Tector.
"That's a nasty habit to get into!" Koji said, and spirit evolved. "Execute Spirit Evolution! Lobomon!"
Lobomon attacked Kleptomon, and totally kicked his ass. He did get hit by Kleptomon's Metal Hammer once, but soon defeated him. "Fractal Code Digitize!" he said once Kleptomon was vulnerable. Breathing hard, he went back to being Koji, and picked up Takuya's D-Tector from the ground where it had been dropped. "That was easy." He handed the D-Tector back to Takuya, who smiled his gratitude and took it.
"Um, Koji..." Takuya badly wanted things to go back to normal. He couldn't stand the awkwardness that he had felt earlier that day at lunch, and even though Koji never talked to him, he still felt like he was getting more of the cold shoulder than before. Even if Koji wouldn't love him, at least he wouldn't totally ignore him. Even if Takuya couldn't have him, at least they could maybe just be friends. As Takuya went over all he wanted to say in his head to make sure it came out right when he spoke, Koji did the unexpected.
He leaned forward and kissed Takuya. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________
Oooooo, I can feel the death stares already! I know you want to kill me for leaving it like that, but I'll write again soon! Hehehe!