Yes, it's been ages, I know.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Digimon or any of the characters (Vay is mine). Please don't sue me, I'm actually a vagrant.
Last time the digi-destined all gathered to ask Vay some questions. What will they find out?
Last time:
"Hey Joe, Matt," she said, waving, "I'm Vay, this is Kitmon," she said as she pointed at the small cat digimon. Joe nodded and Matt waved back.
"So," Kari said, "question time."
"That's right, now, I'll answer all that I can," Vay said as she sat on the remaining seat of the sofa.
Answers
Vay regarded the gathered digi-destined. They were all looking at her with unchecked curiosity.
"Guys… questions," she prompted as she tugged on the ends of her hair.
"Yeah," Tai said, "I'll start then, with the most obvious question. How did you get sucked into the digital world, what happened?"
Vay opened her mouth to answer when Matt cut in.
"That's funny," he said casually as everyone looked at him, "I would have thought the most obvious question was what is her last name, but whatever."
Everyone looked at him incredulously except Vay, who snorted with laughter and shook her head.
"All right, first things first, my last name is Juishi. I'm not sure why that's important but whatever."
"It'll help us find your family," Izzy said matter-of-factly.
"Ah," Vay said as she sweatdropped, "right… I always knew I was an idiot."
Everyone chuckled.
"As to the other question, get comfortable, I'm not sure how long this will take to explain," she said as she tugged on the ends of her hair nervously. Everyone leant in closer, eager to hear her story.
"It happened so long ago that sometimes I think it was a dream. I sometimes think that the time I spent in the real world was a dream, as I don't really remember much from way back when," she laced her fingers together and looked at her hands.
"I was five, yeah that I know, and it was the evening after my first day at elementary, I remember that. That's why none of you guys remember me," she said as she glanced at Tai then Matt, "I was gone the day after, and when you're so young it's hard to keep a lasting impression of someone when you've only met them once."
Matt frowned at this and Tai gasped, "I remember you! Yeah, you were the tiny girl, and you had hair down to your waist. I remember thinking that that was crazy," he said in a rush, the light of recognition shining in his eyes, "I'd forgotten."
Vay laughed out loud, "Oh yeah, you were the kid with the tall hair, I thought you looked silly, but anyway, I digress," she said as Matt raised an eyebrow at her.
"No," Matt said quickly, "I just remembered, you lived in my building, my mom knew your mom. We walked to school together on that first day. I remember where you'd gone to when we didn't do it again the next day, but when I asked my mom she told me that you'd moved or something."
Vay nodded, "I expect my rents wanted to cover up the fact that I'd gone missing, or maybe it was just too painful for them to talk about."
"You were saying?" Sora urged gently, eager to hear the rest of the tale.
"Well, I came home that evening, to the usual questions from the rents, you know, how was your first day? Did you make any friends? What did you do? The usual. I answered with all the enthusiasm a cynical five year old can and then went to my room to draw, or play or rearrange my knives or something," she said as she absent-mindedly scratched Kitmon behind the ears.
"Rearrange your knives?" Joe said as his jaw dropped to the floor. Vay looked at him, amused.
"I was joking," she said reassuringly. Joe heaved a huge sigh and Tai laughed.
"I was doing my thing in my room, when I heard stuff, banging and noise. I got up and climbed on my desk, and pressed myself against the window. What I saw was the stuff of nightmares, the things you see in your dreams that you don't think can live in the light."
She glanced up at her audience who were all listening to her, enraptured.
"Two monsters outside, on the street, fighting, they were huge… but no one was paying them any attention, people were just walking past and I remember thinking it was weird. So, me being the way that I am, I went outside, without telling my parents. I ran all the way across the street to where they were. They didn't even notice me, so I yelled up at them to stop it. One of them glanced down at me, but only for a second and then carried on the fight."
"Who was it?" Izzy asked, "Which digimon were fighting?"
She looked at him, "I know now that they were Garurumon and Devimon, but at the time they were a scary vampire and a big wolf."
Matt's eyes widened, "Garurumon?" he asked quietly.
"Yeah, but not your Garurumon," she added quickly, "this was another one."
Matt nodded at this information and shifted a bit so that he could listen more closely.
"I yelled at them to stop, then I yelled for help, but no one heard me."
"Why though?" T.K asked, "surely people would have seen you?"
"No, it was foggy, I was in a digital field but I didn't know that, the people couldn't see through the layers of data. I shouldn't have been able to see the monsters, but I could. I shouldn't have been able to get into the digital field, but I did."
Tai nodded, "It was like you were destined to see the fight."
Vay nodded, "Eventually I got their attention by screaming so loudly and at such a high pitch that they couldn't ignore me anymore," she looked contemplative for a moment, "I think that's why my voice is fairly deep and husky now, I think I damaged my vocal chords doing that."
Tai snorted with laughter as the rest chuckled. Vay grinned and continued with her story.
"They looked at me like I was crazy. Garurumon stared at me and said, 'You can see us?' to which I answered, 'duh!'"
Everyone laughed.
"I stared at them like the petulant child that I was and told them to stop fighting because all the noise they were making was disrupting my playtime. Garurumon was looking at me like I was gold or something; he said 'Can she be the one, the one that's destined to help us all?'"
Vay looked up from her hands and looked at them all, "I had no idea what he meant, obviously, I was five. Then Devimon looked at me and said, 'If she is, then I must destroy her, or else all will fail.'"
"Harsh," Yolei said with frightened eyes.
"Yeah," Vay answered with a nod, "He reached towards me but Garurumon knocked him away from me and told me to run, to get away. I said that I couldn't go because I didn't know which way was out and besides, they were still fighting. The battle raged on before my eyes, it's something I don't think I should have seen, so much violence; so much pain."
The digi-destined all nodded, they knew this kind of pain.
"I just wanted the fighting to stop; I didn't realize that me wanting it to stop would be what stopped it. I ran in-between the two of them, lifted my arms up between them and screamed for them to stop the fighting. Then there was a blinding flash of white light and then… nothing."
Everyone stared at her quietly, not knowing whether this was the end or not.
"When I woke up, I wasn't in the real world anymore and I had this little black thing sat on my chest staring at me," she said as she lifted Kitmon into her lap.
"Wow, that's just… wow," Davis said as he scratched his head.
"And I thought we had it rough being dragged out of camp," Tai said as he shook his head.
"And you've been there ever since?" Kari asked.
"Yep," Vay said as she leant back against the sofa and sighed.
"How did you survive?" Cody asked quietly.
"Well at first Kitmon helped me out, she showed me around and found me food and stuff, but I was lucky because I found Gennai," she answered, "He gave me a place to stay, he gave me information and he told me about my magic."
"I'm sorry, you're what?" Joe asked.
"My magic, the reason I was able to see the monsters, the reason I could transport them back to the digital world, because that's what I had done. I wanted them to stop fighting and to go back to where they came from, and I made it happen," she said firmly, as she crossed her legs, displacing Kitmon slightly.
"I don't really understand," Sora said as she frowned.
"Join the club," Davis said as he scratched his head again.
"Well, I have a sort of innate power, something inside me that links me to the digital world. That's all I really know, Gennai couldn't tell me much about it as he didn't really understand either."
"What can your power do?" Yolei asked.
"I don't use it so much, I could show you I suppose," she said thoughtfully. There were murmurs of assent.
"This'll be harder for me to do, I don't have my staff, the Kaiser took it from me when he captured me," she said, frowning at the memory.
"You're staff?" Tai asked in interest.
"It helps me concentrate my powers, it makes them easier to use," she answered with a smile.
"Let's see this demonstration then," Izzy said interestedly.
"Ok," Vay said nodding, "You all left your digimon in the digital world didn't you?" she asked, addressing the older digi-destined.
"Yeah, we can't support them in the real world anymore," Izzy answered as he glanced at his friends.
"All right," Vay said nodding. She closed her eyes and placed her hands in front of her with her palms facing each other. Her face twisted into a mask of concentration as she muttered under her breath.
"Ah, there you are," she whispered. She fell silent again.
"Gabumon!" she yelled suddenly as her hands glowed. Everyone jumped at the sudden noise. They jumped again when Gabumon materialized in Tai's living room.
"What?" Gabumon asked, "What is it?"
"Nothing," Vay said reassuringly as she placed her hand on his head, "I was just showing your friends my magic."
"Oh," Gabumon said as he looked at them all, "Hi Matt," he said waving as he saw his partner.
"Uh… yeah… hi…" Matt said in shock.
"You can go back now," Vay said with a smile, her hands glowed again and Gabumon began to fade away.
"Bye everyone," Gabumon said before he faded out completely.
"That could come in handy," Tai said, unable to take his eyes off the spot where Gabumon had been.
"Yeah, but it is difficult, and it drains me," Vay said as she leant back tiredly, "especially when I don't have my staff," she said as she shut her eyes and rubbed her temples.
"Are you all right?" Joe asked, concerned.
"Just a headache, happens a lot when I use my power," Vay said as she opened one eye and smiled.
"Did you know she could do that?" Davis asked the other digimon who had been temporarily forgotten about.
"Yep," Demi-Veemon said.
"You've got to wonder why they never told us," T.K said as he regarded Patamon.
"Strict orders from Gennai," Patamon responded, "If you knew about it you'd want to find her and use her power, which could hurt her."
"I see," Kari said, "well that's fair enough."
"Well, what now?" Sora asked.
"We should probably try and find Vay's family," Joe said as he looked at the girl, who was still rubbing her temples.
"Yeah," she said quietly, "I wonder where they went."
"Matt, you said your mom and her mom were good friends," Tai said.
"Yeah," Matt answered with a nod.
"Couldn't we ask your mom if she knows anything about it?" Tai asked as he glanced at T.K.
"Yeah, she might know, it's worth a try," T.K said as he stood up.
"Should we all go?" Yolei asked hesitantly as she rose to her knees.
"Yeah, let's all go, besides, we may need to all be there to restrain my mother when she has kittens because a girl that's been missing for ten years has shown up all of a sudden," Matt said as he hung his head at the spectacle he knew his mother was going to make. T.K sighed as the rest all sweat-dropped at the idea.
"Well, let's get moving," Tai said. He was just turning the handle when Vay cut in.
"Um, guys?" she said as they all turned to look at her, "I don't have any shoes," she said as she pointed at her bare feet. Everyone face-vaulted.
Vay has explained her amazing story of how she came to be in the digital world. Will they be able to find her family? Will they still be in Odaiba? Did Matt's band carry on the rehearsal without him? Find out next time on Digimon, Digital Monsters.
And that's where I'm going to end it. Yes it's been eons of time, but I finally wrote a bit more. This is what happens when I'm trying to avoid revision.
Ja-Bai-bai!