Hey here is chapter six and Kari's story; it will also tell us the last thing
Tyson changes to start his new life. Let's begin.
Starting Over
Chapter Six
How long had it been since she had last thought of Gatamon, before her
departed cat digimon had always been in her thoughts... for awhile she had
forgotten. She knew it had been many things that had caused this; her getting
sick, going to a new school, her beyblade and Tyson.
So many things had happened in so little time, he life was so different
then the one she had led in Odaiba. Tears came to her eyes as she thought of
Odaiba, the place her family lived and where the Japanese digi-destined lived...
the place Gatomon had been murdered savagely.
The brown haired girl sighed and pushed her plate of food away, with
these depressing thoughts she just wasn't that hungry.
"Kari?" a concerned voice said, startled she looked up to find herself
looking into deep blue eyes.
"Yeah Tyson," she said, the blue haired boy lay a slim hand on her
shoulder.
"Want to talk about it?" he asked softly, she blinked and saw that Ranma
was also there with concerned eyes.
"I don't know," she said, Tyson smiled sadly and sat down beside her.
"I know it hurts Kari... I lost everything, but if you ever want to talk
you can come to either of us," Tyson said, Kari found herself smiling softly
even though tears slipped down her face.
"I think it's time," she said softly, the two males of the trio blinked.
"Time for what?" Tyson asked confused, Kari couldn't help but giggle...
sometimes the two of them could be utterly clueless.
"I think it's time for me to tell you two what happened that day, the
day Gatomon was murdered," she said her laughter gone, the two took her hands
in a comforting manner knowing that the tail she would tell was hard to say.
"It all began on my way home from school," she said, that day she would
remember till her dying day.
***
Kari swore lightly under her breath, she and Gatomon had been at TK's
house. But they had lost track of the time, now it was getting dark out and
she knew her parents would be worried.
"Kari, the light said we can walk across the road now," Gatomon said,
Kari nodded and the two ran across the street.
They ran knowing if they didn't hurry Kari would probably be grounded,
to others it more looked like a brown haired girl was chasing a strange white
cat. Some recognized Gatomon for what she was, a digimon.
Kari looked at her watch and frowned, if they took a short cut through
the park she could get there much faster.
"Let's head through the park, it'll be much faster," she called to her
partner, Gatomon slowed down and nodded. Soon both the destined child of light
and her digimon partner were side by side; together they entered the park.
Since Gatomon had been able to live in the real world full time, both
had played in this park. Here the destined gathered a lot for picnics, neither
thought of the danger of crossing the park at this time.
~Bang~
Kari gave a scream as a small metal projectile (a bullet) slammed into
the ground in front of her, she turned slightly as she saw a bit of light
gleam of some metal.
Her heart shaped faced paled, that metal thing was no other then a gun...
a kind of gun that she had heard about on the news.
Some people were bot so happy about the digimon in the real world, they
thought they should be destroyed along with the digital world. Some of these
people were rich or scientists, and they had discovered a permanent way to
destroy any digimon.
It was called a Data Destroyer, if a digimon was hit it would cause them
to become more then data that could recompile... if killed they were dead for
all. She had seen pictures of dead digimon bodies on the news, there had even
been blood.
"Well well, if it isn't another human on the side of demons," the person
holding the gun sneered, while she couldn't tell what the person looked like
due to a cloak and hood the voice told her it was make.
"Leave us alone, we haven't done anything," Kari cried in the bravest
voice she could, in reality she was terrified... this man had no qualms in
killing Gatomon or herself.
"Ha, you have sided with the demon vermin of this demon digital world,"
the man said gruffly, Kari sweated as she tried to slip backwards... a jerk of
the Data destroyer gun told her he would shoot her if she moved.
"Please, leave us alone," she begged fearfully, the man laughed in a mad
way and the guns safety went off.
"Too bad, you're already dead," the man said, then his finger moved and
the trigger was released.
At that point everything seemed to go in slow motion for Kari, her life
flashed across her mind... she was too young to die.
"Kari," a voice said to the terrified girl. Kari could only scream, she
wasn't dead... but the next worst thing had happened.
Gatomon had leapt in the way of the bullet meant for Kari, as it hit
blood sprayed everywhere... Kari could only give a slight whimpering sound as
blood splattered across her face.
"Gatmon," she screamed eyes wide, the man swore and began readying his
gun to kill Kari.
"Kari run, I'll keep him occupied as long as I can," the weakened cat
digimon cried, the cat digimon climbed to her feet and leapt at the man
ignoring the pain her wound caused her.
"Gatomon," Kari cried, she couldn't let her partner do this... Gatomon
could die.
"Kari please run," Gatomon cried, Kari began to back up... then the man
shot again. Gatomons now lifeless body rolled to the ground blood pooling
around her, Kari was frozen for a moment then seeing the man aiming the gun at
her... ran.
She heard a bullet slam into the ground behind her, lost in a daze of
grief and pain in her heart Kari ran not caring where she went... her partner
was dead.
Kari ran for hours lost in the pain filled daze, and then suddenly... ran
into someone. This shook her out of her daze some, blinking she looked up. She
found herself looking in a face she hadn't seen for years, yet she recognized
it easily.
"Ranma," she cried.
***
"And you know what happened next," Kari whispered, she felt warm as the
two blue eyes males hugged her.
"It won't hurt as much in the future Kari," Ranma whispered, with tear
filled eyes she smiled at her raven-haired cousin.
"I know, it seems telling you two has made it stop hurting so much,"
Kari said softly, Ranma smiled.
"That's good, telling someone can help anyone's soul to start healing,"
Tyson said, Kari smiled... the future was starting to look brighter.
***
Tai sighed; the apartment was just too quiet without Kari in it. Agumon
also noticed this. It was still so strange not to hear the sounds of Kari and
Gatomon chatting.
'I wonder how she is' he thought sadly, he knew his sisters heart had
been shattered by Gatomon's brutal murder. At least that man would be in jail
for life.
"Tai, who's this cousin Ranma Kari's with... I've never met him?" Agumon
asked, Tai sighed and looked into his partners emerald eyes.
"Ranma's mother is my dad's sister, they don't talk often but when we
were younger Ranma would always find a way to visit or at least send a letter
to us. He was a big brother to us and he treated us just right, he gave us
each nicknames... but I don't know Kari's nickname," Tai said with a far off
look in his eyes, it had been far too long since he had heard or seen his
cousin.
"A nickname, what is it?" the digimon asked, Tai gave a small laugh.
"Courage," he whispered gently, it was only after he had gotten his
crest that that nickname had startled him. He had a suspicion that Kari's
nickname had light in it, but he would probably never know.
"I wish I could meet this Ranma, he sounds interesting," Agumon said,
Tai's smile grew.
"I have a feeling you would like him a lot," Tai said.
***
"Hey, what are you doing?" Tyson asked, it had been quite a few hours
since Kari had told what had happened and Ranma was now busy in his room. It
was driving the two children nuts; they wanted to know what the raven-haired
ten was doing.
"Just a sec," they finally heard, there was the sound of someone walking
before the door opened.
"Catch," Ranma said suddenly, with that he tossed something to the blue
haired boy. Startled Tyson reached out and caught it, his eyes widened at what
he saw.
"A beyblade," he said, and on its top was his bitbeast Dragoon.
"Your Beyblade, I built it myself," Ranma said, Tyson stared at it in
awe. Even chief... no Kenny couldn't make a beyblade like this, it was a
masterpiece.
"How, how did you make a great blade like this in so short of time?"
Tyson asked, Ranma gave a slightly nervous laugh.
"To tell the truth I have no idea how I did it. I did it for my own
blade and also Kari's; I only discovered two years ago for beyblades and
anything electronics... even computers, and anyway I thought this one would fit
you," Ranma said, tear in his eyes Tyson leapt forward and hugged the raven
haired teen.
"Thank you," he whispered happily; in him a feeling rose, it was as if
Ranma was the big brother he had always wanted.
"Your welcome Tyson, I saw how much blading meant to you," Ranma said,
finally Tyson pulled away from the brotherly like hug.
"One more thing," Tyson said, Ranma blinked.
"Yeah, what is it?" he asked curious, Kari who had been watching all
this also looked curious to know.
"I want my name to be Takao now," Tyson said, another way to begin over
with almost no connections to his past.
"Are you sure?" Ranma asked, Tyson nodded.
"I'm sure," Tyson said, and it was agreed.
"Hmmm... Takao Kamiya sounds like a good name," Kari said.
TBC
Takao is Tysons actual Japanese name. I got it out of a anime magazine
(Newtype USA), so in future chapters Tyson will be referred to as Takao except
from the bladebreakers who will be looking for Tyson.
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