Fordina: *Smiles* Welcome to another chap of 'Desperate Days'!
Soccer Chicka: Why are you so chipper?
Fordina: *Yells* Can't a girl just be happy?!
Soccer Chicka: Oh… *Grins* I know what it is… *Snickers*
Tai: What?
Soccer Chicka: It's because of her…
Fordina: *Places hand over Chicka's mouth* Shut up!
Tai: But I wanna know!
Ken: Why don't you people just leave her alone?
Fordina: *Takes hand of Chicka's mouth* Thank you Ken! You're the only one that understands me!
Soccer Chicka: *Grins wider* Are you sure about that…?
Fordina: *Blushes* …… Maybe……
Ken: Can we just start the fic and stop embarrassing my Ford-chan?
Fordina: *Blushes deeper* Uh… Yeah… Soccer Chicka and I don't own Digimon or Card Captors…
Soccer Chicka: But we do own Jen, Traci, Karen, James, and the rarely mentioned Heather. And I really like this chap! Read it and you'll find out!
Desperate Days
By: Fordina and Soccer_Chicka
Chapter 6
"Hey! Hey guys! Wait for me! Com'n! I said I was sorry!" Zachary cried as he ran up to his angry friends. "Look, how was I supposed to know that Canada was like this! I've never been here!"
"Then why did you tell us lies?" Sakura asked, looking hard at Zachary.
"They were jokes, honest! Jokes!" Zachary yelled.
"Jokes? They weren't very funny…" Rita replied.
"But they were jokes none the less!" Zachary tried to convince them.
Sakura was looking elsewhere. "LI!" She ran up to him and gave him a big hug. "Hey, how are you?"
Li blushed profusely and mumbled. "Sakura get off of me…" Eriol was beside himself with laughter. Then, Madison ran up to Eriol and did the same thing as Sakura did.
"ERIOL!" Madison squealed. Li gave Eriol a smug look.
"Madison, please contain yourself…" Eriol laughed.
"…At least till you guys are alone…" Li coughed.
Eriol shot him a dirty look. He turned back to Madison. "I know you ladies can't keep your hands off me…but at least try!"
Li looked sour. "Cough…LOSER…cough…"
Eriol shot him another dirty look and ignored him. "So what have you been doing today?" He asked the group.
"Trying to get them to believe me! ERIOL! You'll help me, won't you?!" Zachary pleaded.
"Zachary, Zachary…when will you learn?" Eriol said shaking his head.
"Eriol?" Zachary asked quietly. "What's wrong with you?"
"Later Zachary…" He said quietly. Louder he said: "The question is, what's wrong with you?"
Zachary understood. "But Eriol!" He laughed, putting on an act. "But--"
"Uh uh uh! Zachary! Hush now." Eriol turned to the others. "So what have YOU been up to?"
Karen 'ahemed'. "Aren't you gonna introduce me?"
Li sighed. "I wasn't going to, but now I have to. Everyone this is my cousin Karen, my very DISTANT cousin…Karen, this is everyone."
Karen smiled and waved. "Hi!"
Everyone gave a 'Hi' back. "So what side of Li's family are you on?" Sakura asked.
"The bad side…" Li mumbled.
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"So where you guys off to?" James asked Traci as the group started moving again Jen in the lead showing them all the sites of Toronto.
"No where in particular. Just showing these guys around town," Traci told him. James nodded.
"Where are they from?" A voice answered behind him.
"We're from Japan," Ken was lagging behind. Trying his best to stay away from Izzy. Who now has a somewhat clean face, since they couldn't get it all off…. Ken had used permanent marker.
James turned to him. Expecting to be yelled at Ken guarded him self. But, instead James just nodded. "Cool," And turned back to Traci.
"And over there is another building that I don't know what they do in it!" Jen exclaimed. Traci sweatdropped.
"Jen…. That's the CN tower!" Traci told her.
Jen's face faltered, "Oh." James laughed. Quietly. Jen turned around. "Hey! Don't you laugh at me Mr. Antisocial!" Jen yelled. James continued to laugh. Quietly. Now Jen was mad. "Urg! James! Stop laughing!" The others all looked at her.
Tai was the first to speak up first. "Uh… Jen… maybe you wanna… um… calm down?" He said as he put his hand on her shoulder. Preventing her from going anywhere.
Jen was still steaming but turned back around. She 'Hmphed' but continued her tour.
Tai pointed to a large stadium. "What's that?"
"That's um…. Well…" Jen stammered.
"It's the Sky Dome," Traci piped in.
"I was JUST going to say that!" Jen yelled.
"And how long have you lived here?" James asked.
Jen glared at him. "Hey! Just because I don't know what everything is called doesn't mean that I haven't lived here a long time!" Jen thought for a moment... "Damnit! It wasn't supposed to come out like that!"
"It's all right Jen, we know what you mean," Tai told her. Jen smiled.
"Alright! Enough with the mush!" Yolie yelled. "I wanna see more of this place!"
Tai looked at her. "Mush?" Yolie nodded. "It wasn't mush! What are you talking about?!" Tai's voice grew as he finished.
The other's looked at him strangely.
Yolie was taken aback. "Yo dude, I didn't mean anything by it! Just calm down!"
"Tai's flipped," Joe muttered.
"Tai flipped a long time ago, what are you talking about?" Matt asked. Joe sighed.
"Matt!" Kari scolded.
"Whatever."
"Anyways!" Jen exclaimed. "Back to MY tour! Over there is the…. Um…. Well it's a really, really big building!"
"Oh god…" Traci sighed, "This could go on for a bit…"
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"Well, I'm going to bed now!" Jen cried. She walked into her bedroom and hopped into bed. Soon she drifted into a deep, dreamless sleep. Suddenly a loud crash sounded and Jen jumped up out of her bed. Luckily her parents and sister, Heather, were sound sleepers. She looked around her room and saw her lamp turned over on the floor. She stared at it strangely. "How'd you get down there?" She asked herself and went to pick up the lamp. As she got up a flash of yellow caught her eye. "I swear, if the neighbour is taking pictures of me again I'll sue!" The flash appeared again, this time, a bit of orange. "What the…?!" She ran to her bed and covered herself. "I'm seeing things…" She told herself. Then a small yellow star was floating above Jen's head. She stifled a scream and picked up her cordless phone that was beside her bed. She dialed Traci's number and muttered "Be there, be there, be there…"
"H---eeellll----ooo?" A sleepy Traci asked.
"TRACI! You gotta help me! I'm seeing stars!" Jen yelped.
"Jen---*yawn*--you always see stars…" Traci answered.
"Traci, I'm serious this time!" Jen cried. She looked around for the little star. It had disappeared. "It's gone! Traci…Hey Traci! Are you there! Damnit answer me!"
Traci meanwhile had slipped into a deep sleep and was lying on the floor, with the receiver dangling from the table.
Jen swore at the receiver. "Damnit Traci! I'm going to bed…" She fell back into her bed and was sound asleep within a minute.
Traci on the other hand had her rude awakening. All of a sudden, she felt as if someone had dumped ice down her back. (Soccer Chicka: *wink wink* Read my story! Fordina: Shut up! Stop advertising!) She rose and tried to shake the feeling. It wouldn't budge. "What's going on?" She asked herself when she saw two black wings hovering in front of her. She screamed. (Soccer Chicka: MWHAHAHA! Fordina: SHUT UP!) She mentally shook herself. "There's nothing here Traci…" She said shakily. "Nothing to worry bout…" Then a flash of purple whipped past her. "Meh! Ok, I'm convinced! I'm crazy!" She reached for the phone and dialed Jen's number. Jen grabbed the receiver and swore at her.
"OMG! Jen! I need help!" Traci tried to quiet her beating heart.
"Well isn't this interesting…when I needed your help, you fall asleep…I think I'll do the same…"
"NO! Jen…I'm seeing wings and…and purple…help! Jen? Jen?! NO!!!! ANSWER ME!!"
Too late, Jen was asleep. Traci slammed the phone down, and by this time the wings and purple were gone. "There's definitely something freaky going on…" Traci muttered as she climbed back into bed.
"Definitely something freaky…"
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In the morning the Digidestined set out to look around Toronto some more. Except Izzy wouldn't let Ken out of the hotel. So they stayed there.
"Okay! I REALLY need to go look at some Canadian music here!" Matt practically yelled.
"Calm down Matt! We'll get to your stupid music store!" Tai yelled.
"I wouldn't mind checking out the photography shop…." Kari put in quietly.
"Yeah…. I wanted to see what kind of computer equipment they had," Yolie told them.
"Does everyone want to do something different?!" Tai asked. They all nodded. "Then why don't we go off on our own…. I'm sure we won't get lost…." Tai said slowly looking at Davis.
"Hey! That wasn't my fault! That airport is huge!" Davis argued. The other's laughed.
"What ever you say Davis!" Joe said as he slapped his back. Catching Davis as he almost fell over.
"You guys REALLY gotta stop doing that! One time I'm really going to fall!" Davis yelled.
"But Davis!" TK started. "That's the point!"
Just then Traci and Jen came walking up to them.
"Mornin' guys!" Traci said cheerily. Jen just muffled a 'Hi'. "She's not a morning person," Traci informed them. They all nodded.
"That's okay, neither is Tai," Kari told her. They all laughed.
"So?" Jen started waking up a bit, "What are we doing?" Jen asked.
"Well it appears as though everyone wants to do something different. So we decided to split up," Tai told her.
Traci looked wearily at the group, "Are you guys sure that's such a good idea?" They all nodded. "I don't think it is."
Jen looked at her. "And why not?! I'm sure these people can take care of themselves!" Jen exclaimed.
"I'm sure they can too…. But Toronto is a BIG town…. I just don't want any of you to get lost…." Traci told them.
"Traci has a point," TK said. "We should only go in two groups, or three if some of you think that you can go off on your own, one group containing Traci and some of us, the other with Jen and the rest," TK suggested.
Tai immediately put his hand up and said, "I'll go with Jen!"
Jen grinned. "That's fine with me, who else wants to come?"
No one put up there hands. "Come on guys!" Tai yelled. "Just because she doesn't know the names of buildings doesn't mean she doesn't know where everything is!"
Traci nodded. "That's true. Jen's lived here longer then I have, so she'd be the better choice."
Suddenly they saw someone running towards them.
"Ken!" Traci yelled.
"Hey guys," Ken said as he caught up to them.
"So dude, how'd you get away from Izzy?" Davis asked hooking one arm around his friend's shoulder.
Ken grinned. "I have my ways."
"You didn't….?" Davis let the question slip.
"Oh no! I didn't draw on him again." Ken told them.
"Great! So lets get you guys split up!" Jen told them.
"I'll go with Jen," Joe told them.
"Me too," Matt said.
"I'll go with you," Sora said.
"I'll come along too," Kari agreed.
"Great! Then the rest of you are going with Traci! See ya later!!" Jen said as she grabbed Tai's arm and dragged him off. The others trailing behind them.
"Well…. Guess it's just us," Traci said. "Let's get going," And they all went off in a different direction as Jen.
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"And this is the biggest park in Toronto." Jen said gesturing around her. "Isn't it great?"
"You probably only said that because it's got lots of soccer fields!" Joe laughed.
Jen winked. "That's right!"
Matt spoke up from behind them. "Excuse me, but I wanted to go to a music store, not a soccer park."
Sora nodded. "Right, I want to go too."
Jen sighed. "Well I guess you can, there's one down the street we just passed. I was hoping we would all stick together…but if you really want to…"
"Great let's go!" Sora cried, eager to get some time alone with Matt. She dragged him in the direction of the music store.
"Well, ok…" Jen replied a little perturbed. She turned to the others. "So what do you guys want to see?"
"Uhh…Kari and I wanted to see the museum. Is that all right?" Joe asked.
Inside Jen was grinning. That left her and Tai…She shrugged. "If you want to. I really don't want to go to the museum for the millionth time…So I guess I'll hang around with Tai…" She silently laughed to herself. "Unless…Tai you don't want to go to the dumb, boring old museum do you?" She looked at him hard, as if saying; 'you go you die.' Tai laughed.
"Like I would want to go to a museum!" Tai shook his head and added in his mind. "Like I'd go to the stupid museum when I can hang out with her…alone!"
Jen grinned. "That's what I thought. The museum is just down the street."
"Great, let's go Joe." Kari said.
"Joe! Take care of my sis for me!" Tai called as they walked away.
"No problem Tai! See you at the hotel!" Joe called back. Kari rolled her eyes.
"So…" Jen said, suddenly shy. "What do you wanna do?"
"Heh…" Tai wasn't usually so quiet…but he couldn't think of anything to say. "You know, I think a walk in the park would be nice…"
"Sure…" They walked through the green pathway and around the different fields where people were enjoying the warm, nice day. The flowers were blooming their last blooms of the season and it was all around a beautiful day.
They strolled, silently enjoying each other's company. "You know, I could get used to this…" Tai said quietly.
Jen blushed profusely but managed to hide it. "Me too." She answered. He put a hand on her shoulder to stop her from moving. She looked at him questioningly. He was grinning. (Fordina: As usual! Soccer Chicka: That's his best quality!) Then he winked at her.
"I told you I could get used to this…" He leaned in. She felt her heart leap. She closed her eyes…
"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!" She screamed. Tai looked offended.
"What?!" He asked annoyed. She pointed behind him. There was a huge blinking Digimon. "Oh shit," Tai muttered.
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"Alright! Where do you guys wanna go?" Traci asked her group. (ie: Ken, TK, Davis, Yolie, and Cody) They all shrugged. "Come on guys! You gotta help me! I don't know what you like to do!" Traci cried.
"I wanted to head over to a sports store!" Davis yelled.
"God Davis!" Yolie cried. "Did you have to yell in my ear!?"
"I didn't do it on purpose Yolie! Calm down!" Davis yelled back.
"Hey, calm down guys!" TK interrupted. "You don't need to fight!"
"Shut up TK!" They said simultaneously.
"Sorry…" TK backed down.
"Come on you guys! Don't blame this on TK!" Cody yelled.
This argument went on for a while… Traci and Ken tried to stay out of it. After around twenty minutes Ken whispered. "Do you wanna just leave?" Traci nodded and they sneaked away from their yelling friends.
"So Ken, why are you here in Toronto again?" Traci asked as they made their way through the busy streets of Toronto.
"I'm here for the IQ contest," Ken answered.
Traci stopped. "Really?" She asked incredulously.
"Yeah, I thought I told you that," Ken answered.
"Well if you did I don't remember," Traci told him. "But that's so cool!"
"Why?" Ken asked.
"'Cuz I'm in it too!" She told him proudly.
"Really?"
"Yup! James and I signed up together!"
Ken slumped. "Oh? You and James?"
Traci smiled. "Uh huh, he's pretty smart ya know."
"No doubt," Ken hesitated with his next question. "Are…. Are you and James…? Well…"
"Are James and I what?" Traci pushed.
"Are James and you…. To…. Together?" Ken gulped on his own words.
Traci looked at him astounded. "James and I?!" She yelped. Ken nodded, regretting his own words. "No way! He's my best friend!"
Ken sighed relieved. "That's good," He said underneath his breath.
"What was that?" Traci asked, eyeing his suspiciously.
"Nothing," Ken replied quickly. "Just that that's what I thought…." Ken mumbled.
"Oh, okay," Traci said. "So do you….?" She let the question trail.
Ken looked at her. "Oh no… no, no, no…"
Traci looked at him, "Really?" She asked. Ken nodded. "I never would have thought I guy like you would be able to stay single…"
Ken blushed. "Well…."
"Now don't be bashful! We're friends now! You can tell me anything!" Traci told him.
"Well… I have quite a few suitors… but that's just because I'm known as 'Ken Ichijouji boy genius' and 'Pretty boy Ichijouji' They don't like me for who I am," Ken explained.
Traci nodded. "I do."
"What was that?" Ken asked her.
Traci turned red. "Nothing."
"Okay…."
They moved onto a safer subject. "Maybe we should go find the others…." Traci suggested.
"Naw," Ken said. "They know how to get to the hotel."
"Alright… so much for sticking in groups…"
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Jen's mouth opened and closed convulsively. "Wh-what is that?!" She screamed again.
Tai sweatdropped, grabbed Jen's arm and yanked her onto the ground beside him. He looked at her for a second and realized she was shaking. "I'm guessing that you've never seen anything like that before?" He asked, wondering why…because it was all over the news when the Digimon appeared before.
She shook her head. "N-no…" She said, chancing another look at the 'monster'. She paled. "Why exactly is it blinking like that?!" She asked quietly.
Tai snapped to attention. He stood up and looked at the Digimon. She was right! It was black and white and oddly enough it was blinking slowly. Fading in and out of sight, but looking as if it was trying to run…or escape. Tai whipped out his D-Terminal and tossed it to Jen. "Email the others and tell them that there is trouble in the park…" He said sounding very dramatic. "Tell them to bring their Digivices." Jen opened her mouth.
"Their what?" She asked confused. "Digi….mice?"
Tai shuddered. "DigiVICEs…" He said irritated.
She blinked. "And what are you going to do, Mr. Macho? Take on the blinking monster with your hair gel?"
Tai shuddered once more, his temper getting the better of him. " You know what…? Just WRITE THE DAMN EMAILS!" He took a deep breath. "I'm gonna see if I can find out what that thing is doing here."
She blinked once again. "Tai, what are YOU going to do? It's 20 feet tall and it's got teeth! It's looks like a T-Rex! It'll eat you alive!"
Tai grinned. She had a flair for the dramatic…just like him. So, for fun he decided to really ham it up. "I have to go! The world depends on me!" Tai said gallantly, putting on the 'soap opera act'.
She shook her head. " No you can't! You're defenseless! Please don't go!" She cried back, actually serious.
He looked at her with a sad smile. "I must." He walked away.
She almost cried. She thought this was all real and that he was really going into major danger. "Please! Tai, let the army…the navy….the Calvary…the National Guards handle this! You can't go!"
Tai didn't answer right away. Then he turned, gave her his famous grin and said: "Just right the emails, ok? I'll be fine!"
She sighed. She wanted to believe him, she really did, but that monster…looked horrible and gross and everything else bad….and to make matters worse it was blinking! She sat down miserably and typed the emails out to the Digidestined. She searched his address book for their emails. Curiously she opened the bios of the Digidestined. She looked at Matt's and Izzy's and T.K.'s and…Sora's…. "What are those little hearts doin there?!" She cried in her head. "He…He…feels for Sora?! That player!" She scrunched up her nose and then tried to contain her temper. Then she chucked the D-Terminal into her purse and ran after the retreating back of Tai. Her fury was uncontainable. "At absolutely NO time I will NOT be PLAYED!" She thought through her mind like a mantra. She reached Tai and he turned around bewildered.
He had one look at her angry face before she smacked his. "What the HELL do you think YOU are DOING!?" She asked accenting the important words.
He opened his mouth and almost laughed at her. One glare and it silenced him. "Tell me Tai…" suddenly she recalled his last name from his D-Terminal. "TAI KAMIYA! Exactly WHAT is there between YOU and SORA?!"
Tai blinked in surprise. "N-nothing is between me and Sora! We're just friends…"
Jen stuffed his D-Terminal in his face. "WHAT'S this THEN?" She asked thrusting it into his hands. He looked at the screen. Hearts stared back at him. To his displeasure he started to turn red.
Dramatically she turned away. "I KNEW IT! I knew…it was too good….*sniff* to be…true…"
He was torn. "Digimon…Jen….Digimon…Jen…DAMNIT which one do I pick?!" He thought furiously in his head. He glanced at the Digimon. "Well it doesn't seem to be doing any damage…JEN!!!" He turned to face her. Too late. She had turned and ran from him, dramatically crying. He turned to glance at the Digimon once more and it was gone. A look of confusion crossed his face. He thought about the blinking Digimon, shrugged, and tore after Jen.
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"We should probably be getting back to TK and the others…" Traci sighed.
"Yeah… They're probably wondering where we disappeared to…" Ken agreed. The two of them started walking in the direction they came in when Ken decided to ask something. "Um… Traci…" He stopped walking. Noticing this Traci stopped too and looked at him.
"What is it Ken?" She asked gently.
"Well… I was wondering if maybe you would…" Ken was cut off by someone screaming 'Traci!' down the street.
Both of the turned abruptly to see who it was.
Jen was running down the street crying her eyes out. Once she reached them she threw her arms around her friend and cried even harder.
"Jen! What's wrong?!" Traci cried trying to comfort her hysterical friend.
Before she could answer coming from the same direction Ken and Traci heard someone call 'Jen!'. Traci and Ken looked up to find non-other then Tai running at them at full speed.
"Jen! Please listen to me!" Tai pleaded as he got closer to the small group.
When he was close enough Traci glared at him. "What did you do to her?!" She demanded.
Tai looked at her. "I-I didn't do anything!" Tai yelled.
Jen looked up. "Didn't do anything?!" She asked incredulously. "You! You were trying to play me!" She accused.
Ken and Traci looked astonished. "You were what?!" Traci yelled.
"Now I'm sure there's some sort of explanation for all this…" Ken tried to reason. Traci gave him a look and he shut right up. But not before saying, "Or not…"
"Jen! You don't understand! There is NOTHING going on between me and Sora!" Tai tried to tell her.
"Then why were they're hearts beside her name?!" Jen cried.
Tai looked at his feet. "Because I used to love her…" He murmured.
Jen looked at him with disbelief. "Used to…?" She asked quietly letting go of Traci.
Tai nodded. "Yeah… Used to… She kinda… Well lets just say that she never let her feelings for me get as strong as mine did for her…" Tai told Jen looking up slightly. "And now I'm getting over her… After all she is going out with Matt," He spat out his so-called best friend's name.
Jen looked at him with tear filled eyes. "Oh Tai…" She said as she walked over and hugged him, Tai hugged her back, but suddenly pulled away slightly. Jen looked at him in confusion, Tai just grinned. (Soccer Chicka: *Sigh* Fordina: *Groans* Soccer Chicka: Come on! You're the one writing this part! Fordina: Yeah well…) Cupping her cheek Tai brought his face slowly down to Jen's and placed a very soft but very passionate kiss on her lips.
"Come on…" He whispered pulling away. "Let's go…" Still in a slight daze she nodding and they walked off together leaving two very bewildered friends behind.
"Um…" Ken started. "What just happened here?" Ken asked.
Traci shook her head. "I really have no idea…" She said. Then she turned back to Ken when she remembered that before Jen came running up he was about to ask her something. "Ken?"
"Hmm?" He asked looking at her.
"Before Jen came over you were going to ask me something, what was it?" Traci asked.
This simple statement made Ken's face go completely red. "I was going to ask you… Uh…" Ken started. But they were once AGAIN interrupted.
"Ken!" An angry voice yelled. "Ken Ichijouji! How could you have just left us without telling us?!" Yolie yelled as she, Davis, Cody, and TK made there way over to himself and Traci.
"Well…" Ken stuttered.
Once Yolie got closer she looked at Ken properly. "Hey Ken…? Why are you so red?"
Again this simple statement sent him into an even deeper shade of crimson.
"Ken? Ken are you alright?" Yolie said waving a hand in front of his face.
Suddenly a voice said, "Ken's not home right now, please leave a message after the beep. Beep," Then they heard snickering coming from behind Ken.
"Davis!" Yolie yelled.
"Yeah?" Davis asked.
"Davis sometimes you! Urg!" Yolie said exasperated.
"Yolie calm down," Traci piped in.
"Yeah, Davis was just being himself," TK said snickering.
"Shut up TP!"
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Fordina: Ahh… Another chap down… So many more to go…
Soccer Chicka: Well… At least we know where we are going with this fic!
Fordina: I know! I can't wait until…
Ken: *Clamps hand over her mouth before she can give away everything*
Tai: *Wipes brow* Good going Ken… She would have given everything away!
Soccer Chicka: I know! Like when we're…
Tai: *Does the same thing to Soccer Chicka* Oh god! Why can't these girls keep their mouths shut?!
Ken: *Shakes head* I don't know Tai… I just don't know…
Fordina: *Takes Ken's hand off her mouth* REVIEW!!
Ken: *Clamps hand back on* You can never be too careful with these two…