Part Five
In the beginning of the Summer, Gabumon had finally opened up and shared his pain with Yume one emotional day. At last, he was back to his good old self again. The black sunglasses were gone, and he could now do anything for her and was a new mon that Summer.
Once again, Autumn came around. Had it already been two years since I first handed Osamu that D-Arc and showed him his repentence?
Yume had grown so much. Still adjusting to the attacks, she had to deal with more of the Second Chancers.
Vamdemon would be the first. He wasn't evil anymore, but Yume was sad because he didn't want to join our side actively in saving the digital and dream worlds.
Yume argued that the digital world belonged to all digimon -- even the bad ones, and that they should all stand and fight for it.
By the end of September, she had unexpectantly fallen in love with him. This was fate, I thought, and exactly what Vamdemon had needed.
He was very charming, so it was easy for them to like eachother, and that led to it being easy for him to learn to be a good digimon. She helped him find out who he really was.
They made a wonderful pair, really. She helped him forget all the terrible things he had done in the past, convincing him that he had no control. Soon, he became caring, intelligent leader-like in his qualities.
That Halloween was sad, though. Yume wanted to do something wonderful for Fudge's "first birthday", but couldn't go out because she was too sick and her family didn't take it too well.
She just wanted to be alone, too ashamed to let Vamdemon or Fudge or anyone else see her. That night, she stayed in her room, crying, wearing a ghost costume.
Yume had no idea, but I was there with her. It had hurt me that she was so sad. That "crying ghost" had somehow reminded me of myself. I had done so much in my afterlife, but I was so sad. But why? What was missing? I stayed with her, looking through the window, until her friends rejoined her. Then I left. I had some more mini-missions, escorting Second Chancers and the like.
That winter, all of the Second Chancers were rounded up and purged. The last one was Picodevimon, who was delivered in a box to Vamdemon. A gift idea conjured up by who else but the thoughtful Yume.
With every digimon safe, all there was left to worry about was Devimon, possessed by Vamdemon's old evil spirit's power and his assistant, Dark Pinocchimon.
Both of them had been molesting Yume and her group for a long time. Gabumon, who had kept his form of BlackMetalGarurumon, had constantly been chasing particularly Dark Pinocchimon away.
It went on for a long time, but at last it ended when Devimon was freed somehow by his host (who had bigger plans) and when Dark Pinocchimon chose to delete himself. This was a mystery for a while because everyone had thought that Dark Pinocchimon was just an evil spirit, but we later on learned that he was really a clone of Fudge that Piemon had made back in the days when he was under Vamdemon's control. Such a good deed had turned him back into a Digitama and sent back to Primary Village.
Meanwhile, I was keeping an even closer eye on Yume. Patamon, V-mon and Fudge's recessive gene digimon, was with me, as Baronmon, her Armor evolution from the video game she and V-mon were born in.
She accompanied me as I tried to do something I thought was crazy, but something I needed to do -- show myself to her.
I knew she could help me. That missing thing -- it was something that had to do with her! She reminded me of Tailmon.
Why didn't I just go see Tailmon? First off, I was extremely busy with Yume, and second of all, I couldn't do it. I was too afraid to be in pain again, or worse, cause her pain.
"Even in death I know he's still watching over me."
She was right. I was still watching her. But I couldn't make myself appear to ease her pain because I was frightened I'd just cause her even more.
But Yume could help me. I saw what she did to the others, like Pinocchimon, Vamdemon, and the like.
So Baronmon helped me get past any obstacles that required the defeat using physical force.
A few times, I noted, Yume had caught a glimpse of me in the garden gate, then again, looking throught a kitchen window. I tried to remain hidden, but if I wasn't careful, her sensitivity could detect me.
Vamdemon knew it too and felt insecure. I sensed that he wondered why I was coming back like this.
But not only was I coming back for my own reasons, but primarily because of the new evil to come.
I knew that I would be the only left to be with Yume very soon.
In the beginning of the Summer, Gabumon had finally opened up and shared his pain with Yume one emotional day. At last, he was back to his good old self again. The black sunglasses were gone, and he could now do anything for her and was a new mon that Summer.
Once again, Autumn came around. Had it already been two years since I first handed Osamu that D-Arc and showed him his repentence?
Yume had grown so much. Still adjusting to the attacks, she had to deal with more of the Second Chancers.
Vamdemon would be the first. He wasn't evil anymore, but Yume was sad because he didn't want to join our side actively in saving the digital and dream worlds.
Yume argued that the digital world belonged to all digimon -- even the bad ones, and that they should all stand and fight for it.
By the end of September, she had unexpectantly fallen in love with him. This was fate, I thought, and exactly what Vamdemon had needed.
He was very charming, so it was easy for them to like eachother, and that led to it being easy for him to learn to be a good digimon. She helped him find out who he really was.
They made a wonderful pair, really. She helped him forget all the terrible things he had done in the past, convincing him that he had no control. Soon, he became caring, intelligent leader-like in his qualities.
That Halloween was sad, though. Yume wanted to do something wonderful for Fudge's "first birthday", but couldn't go out because she was too sick and her family didn't take it too well.
She just wanted to be alone, too ashamed to let Vamdemon or Fudge or anyone else see her. That night, she stayed in her room, crying, wearing a ghost costume.
Yume had no idea, but I was there with her. It had hurt me that she was so sad. That "crying ghost" had somehow reminded me of myself. I had done so much in my afterlife, but I was so sad. But why? What was missing? I stayed with her, looking through the window, until her friends rejoined her. Then I left. I had some more mini-missions, escorting Second Chancers and the like.
That winter, all of the Second Chancers were rounded up and purged. The last one was Picodevimon, who was delivered in a box to Vamdemon. A gift idea conjured up by who else but the thoughtful Yume.
With every digimon safe, all there was left to worry about was Devimon, possessed by Vamdemon's old evil spirit's power and his assistant, Dark Pinocchimon.
Both of them had been molesting Yume and her group for a long time. Gabumon, who had kept his form of BlackMetalGarurumon, had constantly been chasing particularly Dark Pinocchimon away.
It went on for a long time, but at last it ended when Devimon was freed somehow by his host (who had bigger plans) and when Dark Pinocchimon chose to delete himself. This was a mystery for a while because everyone had thought that Dark Pinocchimon was just an evil spirit, but we later on learned that he was really a clone of Fudge that Piemon had made back in the days when he was under Vamdemon's control. Such a good deed had turned him back into a Digitama and sent back to Primary Village.
Meanwhile, I was keeping an even closer eye on Yume. Patamon, V-mon and Fudge's recessive gene digimon, was with me, as Baronmon, her Armor evolution from the video game she and V-mon were born in.
She accompanied me as I tried to do something I thought was crazy, but something I needed to do -- show myself to her.
I knew she could help me. That missing thing -- it was something that had to do with her! She reminded me of Tailmon.
Why didn't I just go see Tailmon? First off, I was extremely busy with Yume, and second of all, I couldn't do it. I was too afraid to be in pain again, or worse, cause her pain.
"Even in death I know he's still watching over me."
She was right. I was still watching her. But I couldn't make myself appear to ease her pain because I was frightened I'd just cause her even more.
But Yume could help me. I saw what she did to the others, like Pinocchimon, Vamdemon, and the like.
So Baronmon helped me get past any obstacles that required the defeat using physical force.
A few times, I noted, Yume had caught a glimpse of me in the garden gate, then again, looking throught a kitchen window. I tried to remain hidden, but if I wasn't careful, her sensitivity could detect me.
Vamdemon knew it too and felt insecure. I sensed that he wondered why I was coming back like this.
But not only was I coming back for my own reasons, but primarily because of the new evil to come.
I knew that I would be the only left to be with Yume very soon.