Fordina: Wow… I think we're on a roll.
Soccer Chicka: All because of me of course.
Fordina: -_-** Sure.
Soccer Chicka: ^_^
Ken: Why the sudden change in pace?
Fordina: :: shrugs :: I dunno. Just happened.
Soccer Chicka: No kidding, it's really weird…
Tai: *nods*
Fordina: But we should probably get to the next chap. Who's doing the disclaimer?
Ken: I will.
Fordina: Good.
Ken: Fordina and Soccer Chicka do not own Digimon or Card Captor Sakura.
Tai: OR KITKAT!
Ken: -_-** Or kitkat… But we own Jen, Traci, James and Karen.
Fordina and Soccer Chicka: ENJOY!
Desperate Days
By: Fordina and Soccer_Chicka
Chapter 10
Sakura smiled as she walked down the street, her hand gripping Li's firmly. Madison was to her side, her hand in Eriol's. The girls smiled and giggled with each other. The two boys just looked at them confused.
"What's so funny?" Eriol asked, a perplexed look on his face.
The girls looked at each other knowingly, but said nothing to the boys. Eriol sighed.
"Better to just give up. We'll never understand them," Li pointed out, Eriol nodded in agreement, the girls just giggled again.
"Sakura! Madison!" The two called turned at the voice. They smiled when they saw Chelsea, Zachary, Rita and Nikki running towards them.
"Hey guys!" Sakura greeted.
"Guess who has another date…!" Nikki dragged.
"No!" Both Madison and Sakura gasped.
"Yep!" Chelsea yelled, "Our little Rita is growing up!" she wiped at her eyes, as if there were tears.
"You guys…" Rita said embarrassed.
"Whose the lucky guy?" Eriol asked.
"Who is he?" Rita asked, he nodded, "His name… his name… his name is—" she stopped suddenly and smiled, "Davis…"
"Davis huh?" Zachary said, "Did you know that that name originally came from the Latin word Davisto, meaning bravery and strength?"
Chelsea sighed, "Isn't that Bravisto? Or something?"
Zachary shook his head, "No. It's Davisto."
"Sure…"
Rita didn't hear any of this, "Davis!" She yelled running past, as her friends looked on after her.
Nikki smiled, "Oh, he's over there."
"Who is?" Sakura asked.
"Davis," Nikki said smiling.
Rita ran up to him, "Hey."
Davis blinked, "Rita? Hey!" He cried cheerfully, deciding in his head whether it would be too much to hug her. He decided to take a chance and brought her into his arms. To his surprise she hugged back.
Yolei looked at him, "Davis? Who is that?"
Davis pulled away smiling at Rita, "This is Rita, Rita these are my friends, four eyes over here is Yolei, hat boy is TK, the shrimp is Cody, and the cute girl in pink is Kari," He grinned.
"Nice to meet you," she greeted them shyly.
"Rita!" She heard Chelsea yell.
"Those are my friends," she turned when they were all behind her and pointed, "This here is Chelsea, and her boyfriend Zachary. You've already meet Nikki."
He smiled, "Hi again."
Rita continued, "The two pairs of love birds are Madison and Eriol, and Sakura and Li. Eriol and Li are the friends that are in the IQ contest."
"Oh cool, it's nice to meet all of you. Rita's told me tons about you all."
"All good things I hope," Madison smiled.
"Ahem…" came an annoyed cough.
Davis turned, "Do we have to?" Yolei nodded. He sighed, "I got to get going Rita… these guys want to hit the movies before we go back to the hotel."
She frowned lightly, "That's okay. We were heading back to our hotel too. I guess I'll see you around then."
Davis smiled, "Yeah, I guess you will," daring it he kissed her cheek lightly, "Bye Rita," he turned and walked away with his friends.
Rita stood there dumbfounded and blushing, she smiled slowly, "Bye…" a hand moved to her cheek.
"Oh Rita! You go girl!" Chelsea cheered.
"Whoo! Rita!" Her friends all cheered.
"Yeah…" Rita said smiling as she watched Davis and his friends walk off.
"Where'd you meet him Rita?" Madison asked as she moved beside her.
"We met him in the park. Two of his friends our in the IQ contest too," Nikki answered.
"Yeah, Izzy and Ken. Eriol, Li you probably know who they are."
Eriol nodded slowly; "I think so. The names are familiar."
"Yeah, I think I know who they are too," Li told them. He was about to say something else when he felt something, his eyes narrowed and he turned slightly.
Sakura looked at him, "Li? What is it?"
He shook his head, "I'm not sure…"
"Ah!"
Both Sakura and Li turned their heads at once, "Chelsea?!" Sakura yelled.
"Ew! Get this thing off me!" Chelsea yelled.
Zachary, Eriol, Nikki, and Rita all backed away from Chelsea.
"I'm not going near that thing…" Zachary declared.
"Some boyfriend you are ZACHARY!" She yelled. Chelsea wined as the green blob crawled up her leg. "Ew…!" She screamed again.
Li was about to do something when Sakura held him back, "They'll see…" she hissed. Li sighed and let his onyx slide from his hand.
Instead he walked over to Chelsea and moved to grab the green blob off of her. Closing his eyes her reached out to her leg to grab it but he couldn't grasp it, all he got a hold of was Chelsea's leg…
"What the…" Li asked perplexed. "This isn't making any sense…" He looked to where the green blob had been and blinked. "It's gone…"
Chelsea squinted one eye open, "It's gone?" she asked timidly.
Li nodded, "Yeah. It's gone…"
Chelsea let out a breath, "Oh thank god! That was… that was… well… I couldn't really feel it… so I guess I can't say disgusting?"
Sakura looked at her, "You couldn't feel it?" Chelsea shook her head. "Odd…"
"Very," Li nodded.
"Ah guys…" Zachary said quietly, "We should probably get back to the hotel and tell someone about all this… I think Mr. Terada would want to know…"
Eriol shook his head, "We shouldn't tell anyone. Who in their right mind would believe us anyway?" The others agreed.
"We'll try and figure out what this is thing was on our own," Li announced.
"Like our own little mystery! Oh, this'll be so much fun!" Nikki squealed. The rest sweatdropped.
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"Tai, we should gather the others now." Izzy stated as he broke his bought of pacing. "We need to figure this out we need to…"
"Have a plan?" Tai answered for him. "Yes, Iz, that's what you always say…"
Izzy frowned at him, "Well, for some things, rushing in blindly just doesn't work Tai…."
"Why not? It always worked before!" Tai stated as he got up out of the computer chair.
"Tai…just for once…can you listen?!" Izzy yelled. "You're so incorrigible!"
"Come again?" Tai asked blinking repeatedly. "Incorrigible? It sounds like a medicine…"
Izzy shook his head. "Let's just find the others, please?"
Tai sighed heavily. "Oh…alright…I suppose we could find the others…"
Izzy gave him a half smile. "That's more like it…"
They walked out of the hotel room and down a flight of stairs. They walked across a long hallway and knocked on one of the many doors.
"You're sure Matt's in this one?" Tai asked Izzy.
"Well….No…." Izzy answered sheepishly. "I didn't write down the room numbers…but I know he's on this floor…"
Tai glanced at the hundreds of doors. "Yes Izzy…because we have all the time in the world to knock on all these doors. What's behind door number 374?"
A grumpy lady with wet hair and a towel answered their knock. Tai and Izzy backed up uncertainly.
"What the hell are you guys doing? I don't even know you!" The lady screamed pulling up her towel.
Tai grinned. "Ahhh…Room service?"
The lady glared at him and slammed the door locking it tightly. Izzy stared at Tai. "Room Service?"
Tai shrugged. "Well I wasn't the one who didn't know Matt's room number."
"Shut up Tai…It's one of these…" Izzy walked across the hall and knocked on another door.
Tai mumbled beneath his breath. "What's behind door number 375…? We could be at this for awhile…" To Tai's surprise a bed –crumpled Matt opened the door. "What the hell do you guys want?"
Tai glared at Matt. "To talk to you."
Matt glared back. "Have you ever heard of sleep?"
Izzy looked at his watch. "Matt…it's three o'clock…."
Matt turned his ocean blue eyes to Izzy. "I don't care! I had a rough night last night…"
Izzy laughed and smirked. (Soccer Chicka: A rare thing for Izzy… Fordina: Let him have his fun!) "Ahh…Sora over last night?"
Tai smacked Izzy on the shoulder. "Shut up Izzy!"
Matt smirked. (Soccer Chicka: Not such a rare thing for Matt…. Fordina: Enough!) "Actually.. ahh…"
Tai held his ears. "I DON'T WANT TO KNOW! I CAN'T HEAR YOU! LA LA LA!!!" Tai screamed.
Izzy looked at Tai in surprise. "Tai! Calm down!" Tai continued to 'La La La' because he couldn't hear Izzy. Matt smacked Tai over the head.
"Shut up!" Matt sighed. "Ahh…Look what you made me do…I'm not tired anymore!"
Tai rubbed his head. "You wanna go Matt?"
Matt yawned. " Back to bed…maybe…yeah."
Izzy intervened. "Look, Matt we need to gather up everyone. We have some serious discussion to do!"
Matt blinked at Izzy. "Why didn't you say so?"
"Izzy? Did you call me an idiot?!" Tai glared.
Izzy sweatdropped. "What?"
"You called me incorrigible!" Tai yelled. "Does that mean idiot?!"
Mat smirked. "No Tai, it means smart."
Tai shrugged. "Oh…Ok…"
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Kari poked him in the side, "Well… come on Davis! Who is she?!" She asked excitedly.
Davis blushed, "Just a girl I met… been out with a few times…"
"Ooo! Davis has a giiiirlfriiiend!" Yolei dragged out.
"I do not!" Davis yelled.
"It's nothing to be ashamed of Davis, I'm happy that you found someone…" Kari told him.
Davis nodded, "And besides, this means you'll lay off Kari," TK put an arm around her shoulder and smirked.
"Gee, thanks TP…"
"That's TK Davis…" TK groaned. "Will you ever learn?"
Davis shook his head, "Probably not… doubtful indeed," he grinned.
"So where'd you meet her?" Cody asked, speaking up for the first time.
"Well… we met at that IQ contest thingie… she's here for some of her friends too, Eriol and Li? Either way… and then I ran into her and one of her friends, ah… Nikki I think it was, at the park a little while ago... and we've seen each other a few times after that…" he blushed.
"Aw, Davis!" Yolei yelled, "That is so adorable!" she squealed, as she pinched his cheeks.
Davis flinched, "Hey! Yolei! Back off!" he said running away from her.
"Ah!"
All five of them turned to where they heard the scream. Turning quickly on their heels they all ran towards the sound, hoping they could help whomever it was that screamed.
When they got there, Davis stopped as he saw Rita and all her friends, one of them was yelling her head off, and the others were all backing up. Davis looked down to see what it was that could have caused her to become to panicked. His eyes went wide when he saw a numemon.
"Guys… what the hell is a numemon doing out here…?" He whispered. The others shook their heads.
"No idea…" TK whispered back. "But we should go and help…"
Davis nodded and was about to go out there and be the hero, when he stopped and saw one of her friends walk towards her to help her.
Pouting a little he stayed behind, waiting to go out there at the crucial moment. He blinked as the Digimon disappeared.
"That was odd…" Yolei muttered.
"Very," TK agreed.
"We should go find Tai… he should know about this…" Davis suggested. The others nodded and they all headed back to their hotel.
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"Com'n Joe! We have to go!" Tai cried as he pounded on Joe's hotel room door.
"Tai…Look…I have some very important things to do right now. Could you bug me later?" Joe answered opening the door so that the latch hook caught.
"Joe, what could me important than this?!" Tai asked loudly as he tried to undo the latch from outside.
"Joe? Is that Tai?" A high-pitched squealy female voice answered.
Matt's eyebrows disappeared into his blonde hair. "Joe?! Hiding a girl?! I think you've been hanging around me too long…"
"WHAT?!" Sora cried glaring at Matt.
Matt shrugged. "Just a joke."
Joe blushed a deep shade of crimson. "Girl…? What girl?! Girls give me hives…"
"Joe…that girl knew my name…" Tai stated. "Who is it?!"
A brunette appeared below Joe's head. "Hi guys!"
"MIMI?!"
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"MIMI!" Yolei yelled as she ran away from the others.
They all blinked, "Mimi?" Davis asked, "What would she be doing here?"
TK shrugged, "Same thing as us?" and ran ahead of them.
"Hey! TY! Wait up!"
"That's TK Davis!" TK yelled back.
"Whatever!"
They met up with the rest of group, "Mimi what are you doing here?!" Yolei squealed.
"I came to see the two smartest people in the world win something! …right?" She looked to Izzy, "Isn't Ken supposed to be with you?"
Izzy sweatdropped, "Ken? I… I haven't seen him all day… I have no idea where he is actually…"
"Neither do we…" Kari told them.
"Great, we lost Ken?! This is what happens when you guys don't have me to lead you!" Davis cried. Tai sighed.
"I'm sure he's fine. He can take care of himself," Sora offered.
"Either way, we need to talk to you guys," Tai stated.
"Yeah! So do we!"
"Well, we'll go first."
"No, we will."
"Davis…"
"Tai…"
Matt sighed, "My god…"
Tai looked over to Matt, "Matt, I never knew you thought of me on such a high level," his eyes went all soft.
Matt cocked an eye brow, "Ah… no…"
Tai pouted, "You suck."
"We saw a Digimon."
Both Tai and Matt turned to TK, "You what?!" they both asked.
"We saw a Digimon. Although… it wasn't really real… well it was… but it wasn't…" Yolei told them confused.
"Ah…"
"Was it like Tai's blinking monster?" Izzy asked.
"Tai's blinking monster?" The others questioned.
"Oh… I guess you guys don't know about all that…" Tai guessed.
"Know about what?" Cody asked.
"Ah… everything that's happened since we got here?"
"Which would be…?" Kari probed.
In which, Tai, well, mostly Izzy, told them everything that happened with Jen and Traci, all the sightings and the mysterious D-Terminals.
"How the heck could you let something like this slip Tai?!" Kari demanded.
Tai twitched; "By accident?" she sighed.
"Look, I didn't do it on purpose okay? Give me a break already!"
"Oh, Tai here!" Mimi handed him a KitKat, "You can have mine," she smiled.
Tai looked at her oddly, "What…?" she just continued to smile and eat her own KitKat.
Tai looked down at the chocolate in his hand, shrugging, and thinking, 'It's chocolate, eat it dumbass', and ate it.
"Damn Mimi! This is good! What the hell is it?"
"It's a KitKat, don't you watch TV? It's their slogan! Give me a break, give me a break! Break me off a piece of that KitKat bar!" She sung.
The others sweatdropped, "Ah Mimi… that's great, but we need to figure out how to fix this right now…" Izzy told her.
"Okay," she smiled.
"Now," Izzy started, "What are we going to do about—"
"Jen!" Tai cut in.
"Yeah, and Traci too."
"No, JEN! HI!"
The others looked behind themselves to where Tai was looking. They saw a girl walking up to them, Ken by her side. Although they didn't seem to notice them.
"It's okay Ken, I'm sure she didn't mean anything by it…" Jen told him.
"Perhaps you're right…" He said sadly.
Tai blinked, "Why is she with… Ken…?"
Matt stepped in beside him, "Oh… do I hear a hint of… jealously?" Matt said as he poked Tai in the side.
"Bugger off Matt…" Tai pouted. "I am NOT jealous… certainly not of Ken… just asking a question that should be answered…" his voice went deep and dark, "Now…"
Matt blinked, "O—kay…"
Ken looked up to find all the Digidestined standing in front of him, "Um… guys…?"
Tai walked up to him, "Ken…" he paused, "Where were you…? And why ahem," he looked to Jen, "…are you with Jen?"
Ken blinked, "Because she found me…?"
"What do you mean she found you?!"
"I mean—"
"Hello?! I'm standing RIGHT HERE! I can ANSWER FOR MYSELF!" Jen yelled.
Tai blinked, "Oh. I guess you can. Well then… why are you with Ken?!"
"I was comforting him?!" Jen cried.
"…Why?" Tai asked.
"Because Tra—"
"No reason Tai…" Ken cut in, looking at Jen, "No reason at all."
Jen blinked, "What he said…" she said slowly, looking at him oddly.
Tai seemed satisfied with that answer, "Good. Okay, now, back to the matter at hand…" He stopped, "Ah, Jen?"
She looked at him, "Yeah Tai?"
"Could you ah… leave…?" Tai asked.
"Leave?" She asked, "Why?"
"Um…" he paused thinking of something to say, "Because… I asked you to…?" He tried.
Jen shook her head; "I won't leave until I get a reasonable answer."
Tai sighed, "We're talking about you…"
Jen raised an eyebrow, or at least tried, "Oh? What about?"
Tai looked at her, "You know…" he pushed.
"Nope, afraid I don't. You'll have to fill me in," she smirked.
He sighed again; Izzy jumped in, "Actually Jen, you maybe able to help us. You should probably stay," Tai glared at him. Izzy shrugged, "She'll be of some help."
Jen smiled, "I'll do all I can to help, as long as it proves that I'm a Digidestined."
Tai grumbled, "And I'll prove that you really aren't."
She frowned, "Why are you so set on me not being apart of your life?"
"Ah…" He stuttered.
"Way to go Tai…" Matt whispered from behind.
"That's not it at all… you just don't know all the hard work that needs to go into it…"
"And I don't know what it's like to have to work hard?!" She practically cried.
Tai cringed, "I didn't mean it that way…"
"You know what Tai? Forget it!" She took her bag off her back and opened it, fishing around, "You take your stupid D-Terminal and shove it up you know where," She took it out and handed it to him, "I'm leaving," she turned on her heels and walked off. Leaving Tai, as well as the rest of the Destined all to stare after her, dumbfounded.
"Maybe you should go after her…" Izzy suggested.
"I don't think so Izzy, when women get like this it's best just to leave them be," Matt put in.
Tai nodded, "I'll fix this later."
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Jen stormed off towards her neighbourhood. She brushed her hair out of her face and scrunched up her nose in anger. While she was preoccupied, she bumped into another figure. "Mm…Sorry…" Jen went on to mutter a bunch of other incoherent words that sounded oddly like curses.
"Jen…? What the heck are doing?" Traci cried as she stepped back.
Jen glared up at her. "Walking?!….Mother…f…."
Traci narrowed her eyes. "What's your problem?"
"Stupid ass Tai…thinks ….ERRRR!" Jen yelled. "He makes me so mad! I hate him! I hate him!"
Traci was shocked. "Why?"
"I hate him more then James!"
Traci shook her head. "Wow….That's pretty heavy hate there. And could I ask again…Why?!"
Jen crossed her arms and scrunched up her nose again. "He's a bastard…that's why…"
Traci shook Jen in frustration. "WHAT HAPPENED?!"
"Ok! Stop shaking me and I'll tell you!" (Soccer Chicka: Don't shake your baby! Fordina: That's right!)
"Tell me and I'll stop shaking you!" Traci cried back. It must have been a sight. One girl shaking the other, and the other so mad she could hardly contain herself.
"Ok…All I did was talk to Ken…For reasons…"
"You talked to Ken….for reasons?" Traci repeated.
"Don't you start with me too." Jen shook a finger at her. "Let me finish! I was talking to Ken…" With a look at Traci. "For Reasons…and we stumbled upon the whole group of them."
"The whole group?"
"Will you stop repeating everything I say?!" Jen cried breaking Traci's hold on her. "Geez, can't you listen?"
"I'm sorry, did you say something?!" Traci answered smirking.
Jen twqitched with now supressed rage. "Stop it….!"
"Ok…On with your story…"
"Now where was I…Oh yes! The group was there and Tai came up to Ken and started questioning him."
"About what?" Traci asked with a curious tilt of her head.
Jen glared. "About me…right in front of me! Like I wasn't even there! How do you like that? And I was like 'Excuse me…I'm right here!'…Ok so I wasn't that polite…but anyways, Tai looks at me all stupid like and I answered his questions. Then he tells me to leave! I just get there and he says 'Jen…could you ahh leave?' Just like that! No, 'Hey Jen, glad to see you' or 'My Jen, looking good today.' Just 'Leave Jen!' I think I deserve just a little more respect from that bastard."
"He told you to leave? But why?!" Traci asked worried.
"Because they were talking about me…ok you too…but mostly me. So I said 'Why?' And at least Izzy wanted me to stay, I mean what a great guy, I think I'll take him out for lunch."
"Jen…back to the topic?" Traci prodded.
"Yes…Yes…But Tai was like 'No…she has to leave…' And I said 'No I'll stay as long as it proves I'm a Digidestined.' And Tai freaked out! He's like 'And I'll prove you wrong!' What the hell is he thinking?! I totally burned him! I said 'Why don't you want me in your life Tai?' That flustered him and I knew he was making a big mistake! So to make him look even more like an idiot I gave him my D-Terminal!" Jen smiled proudly.
Traci stared open-mouthed. "You gave him your D-Terminal?!" She squeaked.
"Yeah…it was really good! I mean you should have seen his—SHIT!" Jen yelled smacking her head.
"Way to go Einstien. Smart move." Traci said sarcastically as she turned around.
"Traci! Seriously! It seemed like a good idea at the time!" Jen cried after her. "Traci? TRACI?! Wait up!" Jen ran after her.
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