Digimon Adventures: V-Tamer 02
Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon or even the Digimon Adventures: V-Tamer 01
Manga.
Okaasan – Mother
Otousan – Father
Note: in my previous chapter Hikari calls Taichi, Oniisan… I was wrong… It was suppose to be Oniichan… I'm going back to fix it later.
The first half of it was hard for me to write… Brace yourself.
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Chapter 4 (side story)
No longer see myself
Hikari story
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I am Yagami Hikari. I was a little girl who do as she's told, or a child who worries about everyone else besides herself. I'm also the one who's known as the one who loves her older brother. That's not true… not anymore… It started over half a year ago.
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It was just a few days before summer vacation started with the schools being out on August 1st.
There I was sitting on the desk in the room I've shared with Taichi, thinking about how I should I tell my parents about the pamphlet I've found for a summer camp as our cat, Miko, was playing with the whistle that I was holding while it swings slowly around her. 'It's close by home so, it should be that far. I should also let Oniichan see this.'
"No you can't go."
My ears perks as I hear Mom said that. I quickly look at the door… She wasn't there.
I got off the chair and open a small crack on the door to see what was going on.
"But Mom, this rarely comes." Oniichan plead.
"And it had to be on August 1st. don't you remember that we're going over to your grandparents place?" Mom asked.
I remember about our grandparents, they wouldn't mind if neither my brother nor I come. They kept on telling us to live our lives… although I don't really know what that meant.
"Yeah but…"
Mom looks at him closely and asks, "Do you really want to go to this 'Digimon' tournament?"
"Yeah, I'm hoping to get in this one." My brother joked.
Okaasan sight in defeat. "Alright you can go. I guess it's just Me, Hikari, and your father that is going then."
"Thanks Mom."
I close the door. Oniichan have something to do at that time… I didn't want to change his plan just because I wanted to go somewhere else. I crumple up the pamphlet and toss it in the trash can.
I could have gone myself but… not without my brother.
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A few days had already passed and it's August 1st.
I was feeling fine that day and I was about to go with our parents to our grandparents house.
Mom was speaking with Oniichan, "Remember the rules Taichi…"
Oniichan interrupt, "I know, I know, No friends over, feed Miko, and be home by 8PM to answer the phone."
"Good luck on the Tournament, Oniichan." I said to him as we were walking out the door.
"I'll win it for you then." He said with a thumb up.
"Hey… Let's get going now." Dad said before he starts closing the door. "We'll see you in a few days."
"Good bye, Taichi…" I said just before the door close.
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That night… Mom called home but there wasn't any answer… She panics a lot and made us go home. When we arrived nothing in the house had change. There wasn't any indication that he was there. The bed was made and Miko's bowl hasn't been filled yet.
Mom instantly called the police about this…
The last place that they manage to track down Oniichan was at the mall where the Digimon convention was held.
They had learned that he was disqualified from being in the Tournament because of his V-pet.
Then it hit me.
"I'll win it for you then."
He couldn't win it and he couldn't stand to face me if… He ran away…. It was my fault.
IT'S MY FAULT!
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The entire month had ended and school started back up again. I realize that this was the first time I'm going to school without my brother.
"Sorry that I couldn't take you to school," my mom apologies. She had been working very hard to find Oniichan. She refused to change the calendar as it still said August 1st, the day we last see Oniichan.
"I'll be fine," I told her as I left the door.
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It was lunch time and I am sitting with my friends in the classroom with our desks facing each other. The three of them looks just like your average Japanese elementary school students. We all are short, brown hair, girls.
One of my friends starts the conversation by asking me. "How are you handling it?"
"Huh?"
She continues, "About your brother being gone."
One of my other friends looks worry. "Wabiru-chan, you shouldn't be asking her about that."
"Don't worry Kinko." I told her, "I don't mind."
I took a breath and took a bite off the sandwich that I have. "It's just been different…"
Wabiru asks on. "How so?"
"Well… I've been… doing stuff by myself. Okaasan and Otousan is very busy everyday."
Another one of my friends asks. "Hikari-san… are you sad?"
"Yeah… a little… Konmei… just a little."
Then the teacher came into the room and lunch is over.
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It felt like school went by really quickly. Everybody rush out of the building as the bell rung. They were so used to the summer brake that it was hard for them to go back to school. But not us, we were slowly walking away. Both Wabiru and Kinko walk in front of me while Konmei was walking behind me.
Wabiru look back to me and said, "Hikari… Sorry for bringing it up."
I told her, "Don't mention it… I'll be fine."
Kinko look back and smiles. "It's best to forgive and forget."
It was nice of them to be saying those but it just felt wrong. We manage to reach the gates when it happens. I felt a huge pain exploded in the back of my head. "Uhg…"
I heard Konmei cry out my name. "HIKARI!!!"
I fell down to the ground.
I could only hear cries of my friends as my vision turn black. "HIKARI!!!"
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I later woke up with that pain still on the back of my head. The first thing I saw is the ceiling of some room.
I heard someone speak, but I don't know whom. "Hikari, you're awake."
I have no clue why my head hurts so much… I brought my hand to my head. I felt that there's bandages wrap around my head. I look around the room while I was lying down on the bed. I recognized that this place is the school's clinic; I've often come here when I get sick from time to time. With me are my friends and the school's nurse, Furiidamu-san.
"What… What happened?" I asked.
Furiidamu-san checks the bandage that was wrapping around my head. "You were hit by a rock… It seems like someone thrown it at you."
Konmei walk up to me sobbing. "Are you okay? Hikari!"
Kinko patted Konmei on her head. "We didn't see who threw that rock. There were too many people around."
Wabiru look angry. "Now, why would anyone throw a rock at you?"
I didn't know the answer to that myself.
"Hikari," Furiidamu-san started talking. "Your parents haven't known about this. Would you want me to call them now?"
I think about this. "No… I can tell them myself."
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However I couldn't tell them, they were too busy in their search for Oniichan to be bothered. Sooner or later I'd forget about it…
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Another month had passed and Oniichan is still missing. The thought of one day Oniichan would come back keep me going through my life.
"Is your brother back yet?"
Wabiru bluntly asked during lunch period. All four of us are there.
Kinko just look on… "Wabiru…."
"I missed him, okay!!!" Wabiru shouted out like she was about to cry. "He was the coolest."
All I can say is, "he'll be back…"
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I left at the end of school. Just calmly walking through the city streets by myself.
It was a nice day…
Until someone grabs be from behind covering my mouth.
That person tosses me into the alleyway.
On the cold concrete ground I look up to see my attacker.
It was a boy who look like he was older then Oniichan… He's wearing blue jeans with a black shirt…
"Yagami Hikari…" The boy said with a grin on his face. "Yagami Taichi's sister…"
That person knows me, and Oniichan. I though. Although I don't know what's going on.
That boy smiles.
"Why are you doing this?" I asked with a scared tone.
The boy just step on my stomach and start grinding it.
"I've heard your brother ran away…" He stops grinding on my stomach. "That coward…"
"What?" I manage to say as I grab my stomach in pain.
He cracks his knuckles. "Guess the only person left for me to beat up is you."
"Why? Why me?" That was the first time that I ask that question.
"You're brother humiliated me months ago… He's not here for me to beat up. And guess who is." He laughs as he cracks the rest of his knuckles, it's very scary. "I wasn't sure at that he would come back or not. I even waited for a month to make sure when I threw that rock at you."
I was in shock. This person hates Oniichan. He wanted to hurt me instead.
"Hahahahaha"
Blow by blow… Though by though…. Pain by pain…
He won't stop… He keeps on hitting me… He keeps on kicking me… It keeps going… It won't end… It hurts...
Oniichan… He'll come help me. I could only look at the entrance to the alleyway… Help me… Oniichan…
"HELP!"
My cry of help didn't last long as he place his hands around my neck and start squeezing it hard. I felt like my eyes were going to sleep without closing them. This catches the attention of my attacker.
He let go of my neck. "You should learn to shut up."
My entire body hurts as I was breathing heavily with my back on the ground.
"Don't waste air…" He then looks at the object next to my head. "Especially on THIS!"
My whistle! His shoe dove at it. I could only watch as it got shattered into many pieces.
He then turn and walk away. "Glad to meet you… I'll be seeing you again real soon… Yagami Hikari."
"Hahahahah."
I lay there. Staring at what left of my whistle, nothing more then a string with a small piece of metal, as tears won't stop coming from my eyes.
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I open the door to my apartment and step inside. I really need to tell Okaasan about that boy. I immediately go to the computer room where Okaasan had been working to find Oniichan.
"Okaasan."
She was asleep with her head rested on the keyboard. She has been trying her best to find Oniichan. She shouldn't be dealing with my problem… I close the door.
Our cat Miko crawled up to me, and rubs on my legs. "Meow…"
I pick up Miko and hug her. "Help would come… Right? Why? Why did it happen?"
That night I cried to myself. "Help would come."
But none did.
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Day by day after school I ran… everyday hoping that I won't be caught by him… I can't run away from him. I tried… but my legs aren't fast enough. If only I was older.
There are days when he won't show up… and there are days that he did… and it's always the same if he did... all that pain…
What is this I'm feeling every time I go home… is it fear?
I never did told Okaasan or Otousan about it. They were too busy to deal with my problem. I never told anyone about him…
I wish I knew who he is or what Oniichan did to him… I don't even think if he even goes to the same school that Oniichan and I go to.
One month had passed and nothing changed.
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I didn't tell my friends about this person… I didn't want them to be involved… but… that isn't how it going to be…
I was running home from school one day… Hoping that boy didn't show up and hurt me again…
I hate to admit it but the running help me kept warm from the cold weather.
My feet stop as I saw him right in front of me exiting an ally… He looks at me… He smiles… And he walks off in the opposite direction.
He didn't chase after me and beat me up… Why?
I walk toward the ally and look inside… And to my shock.
"KONMEI!!!"
She was lying on the ground faced down. I ran over to her and pick her up… but I felt something wet on my hands… It's Konmei's blood…
She didn't have anything to do with this. Why did she get hurt?
Was it because I was your friend that did this? It was because of me, isn't it? SOMEBODY ANSERW ME!!!
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I called the ambulance and they took her to the hospital. I came along to make sure she's fine.
In the hospital. I watch as Konmei's parents started crying as they were worrying about her health.
It reminded me of the time when I was in the hospital because I got hurt while playing soccer with Oniichan.
Did my parents also act this worry at that time?
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The sky had already darkened as I was returning home from the hospital. I wasn't walking fast or anything. He has to be satisfied that he beat up Konmei.
"Konochiwa… Hikari…"
My thought was wrong…
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My back was in pain as my body crashed into the trash can that was left out in the alleyway…
"Hahahaha… I feel so much better…" He said as he dust off some snow that landed on his jacket. "I'm definitely going to enjoy the holidays this year."
"Why? Why did you hurt Konmei?" I said while lying down on the ground face first.
"That's what happens when you are late to a beating," he said. "I recognize her as the one that called out your name when I threw that rock."
He then looks ups… "Aw man… it's snowing now…
As soon as he said that snow flakes started touching me.
"Don't want to catch a cold. I'll see you again sometime." He left with a smile.
I couldn't feel much pain on my body thanks to the cold day that already made my body num. I tried to get up, but my legs are not strong enough to stand. Maybe if I just rest lying down for a little bit…
The alleyway was quite… there weren't any sound at all… but then I started hearing a low sound of beeping.
I tried to find where it was coming from. It was from the trash can that I've knock over. Lying there was a small key chain… I recognized what it was. It was one of those Digimon key chains that I saw Oniichan carried on him all the time.
I tried to ignore it; it reminded me of the time Oniichan disappeared. But for some reason I can't. I picked up the Key chains and look at it.
"Were you… Were you also abandoned too?" I asked… Funny, I'm talking to a game.
It looks like it was hungry, so I press the button to feed it. It smiles and jumps around happily… I couldn't help it and smile as well.
"Say… What's your name?"
On the screen it printed out a name… Anya.
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Every since that day I've been with Anya all the time when I was home. I kept her around my neck on that string that had my whistle broken on it.
I couldn't take it to school though. That boy would break it like my whistle.
As for my other friends… Konmei awoken in the hospital and she didn't knew what happened, or who did that to her. The Doctors decided to keep her there for the time being until she gets better, but she manage to got out within a few weeks. I avoided talking with Konmei, Wabiru, and Kinko. That boy might see me with them and start hurting them instead just like Konmei…
Because they were my only real friends, I was left alone… However I made friend with Anya… My Digimon…
We spent through Christmas and the New Millennium together along with my cat, Miko. Two months had quickly passed.
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It was already February, I had another run in with him again and I was kicked to the ground.
"You know… maybe I should break your arms… or your legs…" The boy said while thinking. "And I don't have to worry about your brother ever coming back to stop me."
I can feel something burning inside me. "What did you say?"
He looks at me strangely. "I said he's not coming back."
I whispered, "Liar."
"What did you call me?" He walks up to me and pulls on my shirt.
I wasn't even bother by that. "I called you a liar."
"Listen here Yagami," he was angry, "your brother hasn't shown up for months now. And there is no way that he'll show up again! Your brother mind as well be dead!"
"LIAR!"
I don't know what came over me… As hard as I bite one of his hands as hard as I can.
"AHHH!!!" The boy scream in pain and he punch me off with the other hand. "YOU BITCH!!!" He then walk up to me and keep on stomping me.
While still hurting me he yells, "I have enough of being nice to you! For doing that I'm not going to let you off any day like I used too."
He stops and starts walking away. "I'll see you tomorrow, Yagami."
I watch him walk away as I try to get up… one thought came to my mind, 'why did I do that?"
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Later that night at home…
"Anya?" I asked while looking at my Digimon while lying down on the top bank of my room. "You have changed?"
My Digimon look a lot different from the last time I've seen her, even if the screen is only in dots… Before she look like a small animal… Now she looks like a grown lady.
I remember something similar had happen with Oniichan's Digimon.
"You've evolved!" I cried out loud happily as I toss her into the air like she just accomplishes something that can't be done.
However I just stop and start thinking seriously while looking to the ceiling…
"Could I do that too?" I asked myself. "Can I change too?"
I thought about what happened today. "I'll see you tomorrow, Yagami."
"I have to do something…" I told myself.
It's gotten dark outside, but that didn't stop me from getting off my bed and snick out of my apartment, with Anya around my neck.
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The next day. I could have leaded the bully into any alleyway. But there were one that I wanted the bully to be at, and I led him there. He had me cornered with him blocking the entrance.
"I guess you're really in a hurry then." He said as he cracked his knuckles, "Ready for your beating?"
I stared at him without showing any feelings. "Before we begin, I have a question I want to ask you."
I can tell that he look interested, "What?"
"What would you do if something bad happened to you because of me?"
He laughs like he doesn't believe that would happen.
"Would you go tell on me? Or avoid me?"
He starts having a serious look in his face.
"If you tell on me, what would that make you? A coward? A weakling? Pathetic? I am after all eight years old and I am a girl."
He was really getting mad. "I just have enough about your questions!"
He jumps at me, but I quickly grab the rope that I had put there last night and yank on it.
The other end of the rope is attached to a top of a wooden board that was stand up in between two different types of bricks… One's that is the actual the wall of the alleyway and a fake wall that I made last night.
The boy scream in horror as all of the bricks starts falling. "Ahhh!!!"
I ran towards him and dive at his knees making him fall on me.
The bricks rain down on us pounding on him as I used him a shield.
It ended as quickly as it began as I dig myself out of the pile of bricks and look at the fallen body.
There wasn't any serious injury to him but he was unconscious. I guess some of the bricks hit him in the head.
Looking at him like that makes me happy… I'm surprised that I didn't felt guilty because of it.
I was about to leave when I just remember something… I took out a piece of paper and slipped it into his pocket.
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Later that night. I was watching the news on TV.
The female reported starts talking. "Earlier today, a young boy, identify as twelve year old Fuyougaisha Kougi, who was found unconscious in an alleyway at a nearby school. Investigators believe that bricks fall on him as he was playing with them. He was taken to a hospital downtown and he had yet to regain consciousness. However, he is wanted for questioning for the beating of a young girl in the same alleyway that had taken place a few months back. While being treated in the hospital the picture of that young girl was found in his right hand pocket. The name of the young girl will not be release to the public…"
I instantly turn off the TV and pulled out my Digimon keychain from beneath my shirt.
"Guess what, Anya?" I said with a smile on my face. "It's over now."
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A few days later there was a gossip that been going around at school.
"Hey guys!" I happily said as I sat right by my old friends. It was the end of the school and there are still kids hanging around after school to chat with their friends.
"Hikari?" Wabiru said with narrow eyes. "Why are you talking to us all the sudden?"
Konmei shyly spoke, "I… haven't… talk to you… since that time… I'm in the hospital…"
I apologized to them. "Well… I'm sorry about that. I was going threw some trouble…"
Wabiru wasn't going to take that as an answer. "What sort of trouble?"
"Just problem with Oniichan gone." I told her… Wait… did I just lied? It felt like I'm telling the truth.
Wabiru backs down on this. "Oh… I see."
"How are you feeling now?" Kinko asked me.
"Much better." I said with a smile on my face.
"Have you heard?" Wabiru said as she had her arm around Konmei. "They caught that guy who hurt her the other day. He's in a coma in the hospital."
"Yeah… I know about that." My smile grew bigger… too bad they don't know who put him there.
Wabiru smiles. "He had it coming… I heard from the other student that he was trouble from the other school."
Kinko looks at Wabiru; her face just never seems to change. "We can't be sure on that one."
Wabiru took her arm off Konmei and look at me. "So, anything new happen to you?"
"Well… Not really…"
Then all the sudden a beeping sound came from my pocket… I panic as I took it out… It fell to the floor…
Wabiru looks at it. "Hey… What's this?"
Konmei with wide eyes says, "Isn't that one of those Digimon games!?!"
I nervously answered. "Uh… Yeah…"
"I didn't know you have one of these." Wabiru said.
Konmei picks it up and looks at it. "It looks like one of the original V-pets!"
Kinko look at Konmei. "You seem to know about these."
"I always wanted one of these!" Konmei happily replied…
I'd just notice this… Konmei almost never talk about anything… This is just odd.
"I beg my parents to buy one of these for me!" Konmei gave me back my V-pet. "But they never did."
Another voice enters the conversation, a boy's voice. "That's because you wanted it after I got it."
We turn to see the boy, whom just walks through the classroom door. He looks like an average short hair boy within the same age as Oniichan.
Konmei called out… "Jin-niichan."
Oh… he's Konmei's older brother…
"Are you ready to go home yet?" Jin asked as he walks up to us.
Konmei replied, "Not yet…"
"Alright…"
I haven't met him before… why is he here now?
Kinko then said, "Because of what happened a few months ago with Konmei, their parents wanted Jin to take her home everyday…"
I replied, "Oh…"
"It should be safe now with that person being caught, but we want to make sure, just in case," Jin reply as he sit on the chair and took something out of his pocket, it was his Digimon V-pet. "How about a battle?"
"Sure." I replied… This is going to be my first time battling…
We attach our Digimon V-pet together, and start battling.
Ten seconds later…
Jin looks at his V-pet in shock… "I lost already?"
That was more of a surprise for me then it was for him… "What?"
"You already won…" Jin said as we disconnect our V-pets. "Wow… I thought there were only one other person that could beat me that fast."
Out of curiosity I asked. "Oh? Who else was it?"
"It was by your brother, Taichi…" Jin sadly said. "You're just like him… since you are his sister."
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"You're just like him…since you are his sister."
Those words stuck on my head throughout the entire day.
I'm just like Oniichan? That wasn't right…
I also think about being Oniichan's sister.
Because I was Oniichan's sister that Kougi decided to beat me up regularly.
Come to think of it, it was Oniichan's fault that it happened…
I stop myself there… I was blaming Oniichan?
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For the next two months I lived without Oniichan. I felt greet… I don't have to worry about me getting hurt by anyone else, especially from Kougi, who's still in a coma. Also my grades in school, which have suffered a lot because of Kougi, have been improved enough to go to the next grade level. I have my friends back, and made a new one, even thought she is a toy game.
I like what's going on.
It was already April and the school was about to hit spring break.
One day I was lying on the couch and watching news on the TV.
"Earlier Today… A giant ring appeared in the sky that looked like a portal to another world…"
I was about fall asleep as I heard the front door open.
I thought it was Otousan or Okaasan… but wait… Okaasan's in the computer room and Otousan don't come home this early from work.
I sat up from the couch and I instantly knew who came through the door. "O..nii..chan..."
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Oniichan didn't change… He is still the same… He is happy… It's like he didn't even disappeared… As if time has frozen for him…
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A few days later.
I was sitting at the desk in the room I shared with Oniichan, just watching my Digimon keychain. I heard that there was another D-1 Tournament is being held. I wanted to go with Anya...
"Hey Hikari!"
"Oniichan!" He surprised me as he came through the door. I quickly hid my Digimon in my pocket.
Oniichan just stared at me confusingly for a bit. He just smiles, "Hey there's another D-1 Tournament and I'm planning on enter it with Zero. Do you want to come too? I'll introduce you to my friends."
I then remember something, last time he went to the D-1 Tournament he disappeared, I tries to smile at him. "No thanks."
"Oh… Okay then." He said as he got down and get in the pose of someone who's about to run nonstop. "Here I go!"
He dash quickly out of the room and out the front door. Just in time for Okaasan to yell, "TAICHI!!! GET BACK HERE!!!"
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A few days have passed and it was already spring break. Oniichan wanted to go meet his friends and Okaasan didn't want him to go along, so she sent me to go with him…
"Oniichan, who is he?" I asked about the older kid about fourteen years old, who just asked about me. He had a lot of hair, although not as much as Oniichan and he is wearing a middle school uniform.
Oniichan answers, "Oh this is a friend of mine."
I have a very good memory… and I know that they were not friends before that time in summer.
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We later are inside a house own by some rich people.
I met all of them…
The school kid, Hideto.
The teenage boy with silver hair, Neo.
The Blond hair teenage girl, Mari.
The long hair boy in Chinese clothing, Sigma.
And last but not lease, the girl in wheelchair, Rei…
She and Oniichan have been getting along very well. Just what is it between her and Oniichan?
She saw me looking at her. "Hey who's that?"
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The next day… Oniichan went back to that house again. I told him that I didn't want to go, and I lied to Okaasan that I was sick. But deep down inside me I felt sick.
All I could do to stay in my PJ and lying down on the top bed that I shared with Oniichan. Just thinking about what happen during the past months.
"Oniichan did run away," I said to my Digimon keychain as I was hugging it, "those people I've met, he ran away with them… I'm sure of it. It was not my fault that he did that. It was his… Why didn't I see it then?"
"I've been lonely ever since… Okaasan and Otousan have been too busy looking for Oniichan…"
"Then there was Kougi… The one who been hurting me and making my friends leaves. All because he hate Oniichan. " I felt something burning inside of me again… something painful… "Well… I hate Kougi… and I made him paid. My friends came back and everyone was happy because of it…"
I try to say with a smile, "My life has been great ever since…" but the smile faded, "Then Oniichan came back. When he came back… I felt like… I felt like I was back to the ways things were… But I don't like it anymore."
I can feel water in my eyes. "I don't want to go back, Anya. I don't want to go back into being a weak person... Anya… You showed me that I could be stronger… I don't want to go back… I don't want to…"
My eyes waters outs… "Oniichan… Why didn't you disappear again when you went last time? Why? Why? Why?"
I hold my Digimon keychain and I cried out, "IF YOU DON'T WANT TO DISAPPEAR THEN I DO!!!"
All the sudden my Digimon keychain started glowing brightly. I was taken by surprise as it grew bright enough to blind me… I didn't know what happened next.
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I woken up, I didn't know how long I've been out. I tried to adjust my eyes so that I can see where I am, but I can see light that are far away. However I saw someone next to me. "Where am I?"
Judging by the voice it was a girl. "Oh you're in the Digital world..."
"Digital world?" I have no clue what she is talking about, "Just who are you?"
"Oh... I'm just a LadyDevimon..." My eyes are now fully adjusted. I can see that I am in a cave of some sort, and that person with a smirk on her face… She has detailed stuff on her to make her look like my Digimon, Anya.
I couldn't help it but to laugh out loud. "Hahahahaha!!!"
That lady could only stare in shock. "HEY!"
"That's a really nice cosplay…" I said to her as I tried to stop laughing. "If a LadyDevimon was real then it would look like you."
"I am a LadyDevimon!" she insisted.
"Right… right…" I still wasn't calming down… "And the next thing you'll say is that you're my Digimon."
"But that's true," she said, "It's me, Anya!"
I fall silence right there, I'm not sure if I heard correctly. "What?"
"It's me, Anya." She repeated.
I didn't heard wrong. I start to panic and started to push back to get away from her. "B. bu.. but…"
I could not see were I was going. I fall off of something and landed hard on the ground just a feet below of where I was.
"Hikari! Are you alright?!" The person who clams to be Anya cried out.
"Anya?!" I was too shocked… My Digimon is right in front of me… Not as a toy, but in flesh and blood!
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We talk a lot after that meeting and soon before we knew it, the sun had already set. It was hard for me to talk to Anya. Normally in the real world, I was the one who does all the talking. We were sitting down next to the camp fire that Anya had made inside the cave.
"So even you don't know why I'm here." I said.
"Nope." Anya replied, "I was surprises that you came."
"So… What's it like being here in the Digital world?" I asked.
She then put both her hands by the fire to warm them, "Oh, not much different when I am with you back in the real world. Although there was a war that just ended here in Folder."
This sounded interesting, "A war?"
"Yeah… it was between two different armies lead by two different Digimon. One of them, Demon, was trying to rule the world, and the other one, HolyAngemon, wanted to protect the world from him. Don't know much about it though. All I know is that HolyAngemon won." Her claws accidentally got caught on fire as she was too close to the fire. "Oww! Hot! Hot!"
"Are you okay?"
Anya starts blowing on her hands… "Yeah." She ended up sitting away from the fire.
"I'm going to sleep now." She said as she lay down on the floor. "Goodnight."
"Goodnight, Anya."
However I didn't go to sleep just yet. I left the cave to stare at the moon and stars of the digital world. It was the first time I've been to a new world.
"Pretty…"
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The next day Anya and I left the cave. We don't know where to go to next… Well at least I don't. Anya thinks that I should go meet other Digimon, and decided that we should go to a nearby town named Devil's Gate… Oddly enough, when we reach there it was different then I have thought it would be. It looks like such a peaceful town.
There were a lot of Digimon there some that I could recognize and those I can't. There were Devimon, Orgemon, Evilmon, Bakemon, and a bunch of other Digimon. Almost all of them were dark type like Anya. All of them are out walking, talking, and having a good day like how humans are when they are out in the town.
I felt out of place here… I'm the only human around… What's even worst, I'm getting stares from these Digimon. I can hear them whisper to each other as they kept their distant
"What's a human doing here?"
"Is she a tamer from the Holy Angel Castle?"
"They are recruiting humans that young now?"
"Don't see any Digivice on her."
"Doesn't seem like she's causing trouble."
I was about to shout, leaved me alone, at them but then I felt something bump into me from the side.
I turn to look and see a small bat looking Digimon, whom fell after bumping into me.
"Huh… a PicoDevimon?" Anya identifies the Digimon.
I knee down to him. "Are you alright?"
The PicoDevimon look up at me and Anya in shock. "A Tamer!"
He then flew at me and starts crying, "You gotta help me! You gotta help me! You gotta help me! You gotta help me!"
"Hey! Slow down!" I said confusingly. "What's the matter?"
"My friend is being attacked, help!" He cried.
At first I didn't have any intention of helping anyone when I first got here, but I just can't let something like this go…
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The PicoDevimon lead us, and all of those around us, to the outskirt of the town. There are also three Digimon was there.
"Come on… Tell me where they are!"
"I told you… I don't know what you're talking about."
"Lies!"
Two of the Digimon looks the same. They were shape like a human in a suit of armors. And there is a small, purple Digimon who is on four legs and his ears looked like wings.
"I really don't know what you are talking about." Said the small one.
One of the armored Digimon shouts, "Stop lying! It's insulting that you felled disguising yourself as a Patamon!"
"You are already caught!" The other one said.
The little one begs, "This is who I really am!"
To my shock I see one of them hold up a big sword. "STOP LYING!"
"Anya! Stop him!"
The sword swing downward but it was soon got caught by Anya's left hand claws.
"You guys really shouldn't torture him." Anya told the Digimon whom sword was caught by her. She pushes the sword back upwards and making that Digimon fall back.
The other Digimon in armor took out his sword. "Don't interfere… wait a minute… you're one of them as well!"
Anya look at him strangely, "What are you talking about? Just who the heck are you guys?"
"We are the Knightmon squad of Holy Angel Castle." He said.
I notice that other Knightmon have gotten back up.
Anya asks, "When did the Holy Angel army start picking on child Digimon? Why are you doing this?"
The Knightmon in front of Anya said, "Rebels like you shouldn't be asking questions! Rebels should die!"
Rebels?! I thought… What's going on?
Then I saw that the Knightmon behind Anya ran up to her with his sword over his head. "Anya! Look out!"
Anya moves out of the way on time right before that Knightmon's sword hit her.
"What are you doing?" Anya punches that Knightmon in the face.
The other one also charge at Anya and she was prepared. The Knightmon swing his sword from the left to the right. Anya jump out of the way by put her right hand on the sword while it was swinging and follow it up by a kick to the head. That was cool.
The two Knightmon ran at Anya from both sides. Anya first punch the Right Knightmon's face with her right hand, then kick him with the right leg to the stomach, then straight up his chin with her left leg, and the Knightmon flip backward once and landed on his face.
Then I notice that the other Knightmon is about throw his sword down at Anya. "Behind you!"
Anya knee down and brought her claw on her left hand up and block the sword as it was going down on her. While the sword was on her left hand she spun her left leg around and sweeps the Knightmon off his feet. And before the Knightmon can land on the ground Anya kick with her right leg and sent him flying away. The other Knightmon had gotten back up, and Anya rushed at him with punches and kicks.
After a while I notice that the Knightmon that Anya knocked away is approaching the small little Digimon that we are trying to save.
Anya duck below a swing from the Knightmon and threw a kick to his face knocking him away.
I cried out to her. "Anya! The Digimon!"
The Knightmon, who's over the small Digimon, have his sword overhead preparing to strike.
"DARKNESS WAVE!!!"
I see a lot of small fire that shapes like bats flew at the Knightmon by the thousands. After all the fire bats flew by, the Knightmon still in that position. However I see cracks in his body… He then fell down to his back and start disappearing…
The other Knightmon stared in shock, "NOOO!!! You… You killed him…" He then looks at me. "A tamer… so that's why…"
Anya just stood… she just stare at where that Knightmon was before he was killed.
The Knightmon look mad, "I will avenge him one day… Just you wait…" He ran away…
There was silence for a while… and then there are cheers from all those Digimon around me!
"YAY!!!"
"ALRIGHT!!!"
"THEY WON!!!"
I was really confused…
One of those Digimon walk up to me, however it's one that I don't know.
He's the only Digimon who look like a human beside Anya… He has blond hair and a pale face with his eyes covered with a mask. He's wearing an old blue suit that him look like a vampire from one of the story, and a red and black color cape. "I'm impressed at your Digimon's strength…"
I reply, "Oh… It's nothing…"
Anya walks up to us with the small Digimon. "Sorry that the two of you have to see that… Sorry… Hikari."
"I don't feel bad that you have to… Kill that Digimon…" I heard that someone would feel bad if they were responsible for someone's death… but… I don't feel anything…
The manlike Digimon started talking, "If you don't mind, there's something I would like to discuss with you."
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We ended up talking inside one of the stone buildings… However everyone who witnesses our fight was just outside looking in through the door, or windows.
"Sorry for not introducing myself earlier." The manlike Digimon bow. "I am a Vamdemon, by the name of Vamp, and I am the mayor of this town."
A three Bakemon brought out a chair each made of wood and set them at the stone table for each of us to sit on.
"Thank you for saving Link," said the Vamp, who's already sat down on the chair on the other side of the table, we were already sitting down. "He's always being either being picked on by other child Digimon, or get attack by members of the Holy Angel Army for mistaken for a Patamon."
"Just what kind of Digimon is Link?" Anya asked, "He does look like a Patamon with a different color."
I've never seen a Patamon before so I wouldn't know what it look like.
"Link is a new kind of Digimon, a Tsukaimon." Vamp replied.
"I see…"
"However that is not what I want to talk to you about." Vamp said.
"Then what is it?" I asked.
"Did you know about the war that has that just ended?"
The two of us knows.
"In the war there were Digimon that can't participate," Vamp explains, "Demon knew about these Digimon and created this place for them, Devil's gate. And we are those Digimon."
Anya says, "That's kind of nice of him… Even though he did tried to take over the Digital world."
"Yeah… We didn't want to be involved in the war anyway." Vamp continues, "But now the war is over and members of the Holy Angel Army started attacking every dark Digimon in sight and calling us leftovers of the Demon army."
I begin to get mad. "That's mean."
Anya replied after, "Yes it is…"
"Some of us banded together and form a rebellion against them," Vamp explained, "and I am their leader."
He's the leader of a band of Digimon?
"What I'm asking is, please join our fight!"
This didn't shock me or Anya. I think we'd know he'll be asking you.
Anya quickly replied, "No…"
I felt angry when Anya quickly answers before me. "Anya…"
"Hikari… You are too young to be risking your life in war…" Anya told me back.
I told her, "I don't need you to decided, Anya… I'll decide for myself."
I believe that he saw that fight we just had with the two Knightmon. Since one of them ran away... This might cause problem for them. I think about this a little… Should I join in on this fight? These Digimon are being bullied… like I was… Or should I just leave them and just find a way home… but then again… I don't like home…
"Hikari?" Anya asked.
"Okay." I answered, "We'll fight."
I think I just imagined this, but… I saw that Anya was sad…
"YAH!!!"
Anya and I were surprised by the cheers from the Digimon who were watching from the outside especially from the Tsukaimon we just saved, and his PicoDevimon friend.
Vamp bow and say, "Thank you for accepting. And bringing hope for our future. Bakemon!"
A ghost looking Digimon, Bakemon, came up to Vamp all happy. "Yes?"
"Please escort our guess to their room."
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It wasn't a room… just one of the small stone buildings with a wooden door on it.
The Bakemon go over what was in the room. "Oh… here's the window… Here's the bed… Here's the chair… Here's the closet… and here's the curtains for changing."
The last part really sounded strange since I don't think that any Digimon ever change clothes … "Why would you have that?"
The Bakemon think to itself, "Gee, I don't know." It left the building with that question as thought.
I let out some air, "Really?"
Anya answers, "I bet there are other Tamers that travel around could use it."
"Huh? There are other humans besides me?"
Anya sat down on the chair… "Yeah! I heard that there were some that participated in the last war on both sides as well."
"I see…" I went towards the closet. "Let's see if I can change… I don't like walking around outside in my pajama."
I open the closet to see a bunch of clothing all hang up. "Wow… There's so many…"
It took me a while to find which clothing I should wear… However there was one which stands out then the rest.
It is a gray t-shirt with a purple leather jacket with brown sleeves, and purple skirt.
"I'm going to try this one!" I quickly went into the curtains and change.
"Well? What do you think?" I ask Anya as I left the curtains.
She gave me a thumb up with her right hand. "Looking good!"
Then I heard a crash coming from the window. I turn my attention to it.
"I told you to be careful!"
It was that Tsukaimon we saved earlier and his PicoDevimon friend whom had fallen to the floor.
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"So, what do you want to talk about?" I asked as we were taking a walk outside of Devil's gate.
The Tsukaimon named Link says, "I want to thanks you for saving me back there."
"You're welcome," I replied. "But you really should thank your friend here, uh…"
The PicoDevimon answers, "Name's Mix, nice to meet ya."
"Okay Mix…" I smiles, "it's good to have friends like you."
He also smiles, "I Know."
We walk for a little bit more. However there is something I wanted to know, "Vamp doesn't fight, does he?"
"No…" Link said, "He never likes fighting."
"And there is something happen during the last war." Mix added.
"His brother went to war, but he didn't make it." Said Link.
So he lost his brother, that's sad… "What happened?"
Mix adds on, "Poor guy… He got blasted away with one shot by the V-Tamer's Digimon."
"The V-Tamer?" I asked. Having a title like that sounded like he's someone important.
"Didn't they say that he's the best in HolyAngel Castle?" Anya asked.
Link said, "Yeah. He and his Digimon took out an army of Demon as well. Vamp is scared that he would fight us."
Anya asks, "Wasn't there are tamers on Demon's side as well?"
"Yeah there was," Mix said cheerfully, "The Alias 3, and the Great Saiba Neo, the strongest of all tamers!"
Neo, that name sounded like Oniichan's friends. The silver hair one. Nah… It couldn't be.
"So where are you taking us?" Anya asked.
Link answered, "Vamp wanted us to take you to get a Digivice at where Demon castle was."
"Digivice?" Never heard of it before, "What's that?"
"It's a tool that Tamers use to help their Digimon, but I really don't know how. I think Devimon would know."
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Link and Mix lead us to an old broken castle that looked like something big had broken out of it.
I see a rock with five necklaces all in different colors stick in it. "What is that?"
Link explains, "It was something that belongs to the V-Tamer that helps him get inside this castle."
Mix just laughs, "You can tell because he has his name on that thing!"
I look closer to read the name that was on it… unfortunately, I'm not good in English. "Uee kaaa eeee aaahhh eiii? Guys can you read this?"
The two little Digimon reply, "Nope… can't read English!"
Anya look at it a bit, "Me neither."
Then we heard a male voice call out, "Who's there?!"
Link and Mix call back, "Hey Devimon! It's us!"
The Digimon that came out, Devimon, look like I had expected a male version of Anya, just without hair.
"Haven't I told you two that it's dangerous out here?" He asked.
Link flew up to him." Danger is no problem!"
Mix smiles, "We got us a tamer to help us!"
"A… A TAMER?!" The Devimon came towards me, "THIS LITTLE GIRL?!?"
I felt something was burning inside me when he said that, "Don't underestimate me!"
The Devimon apologized. "Uh… sorry… I didn't know that there were tamers as young as you in this world."
Mix just tells him. "Hey can you give her the Digivice!"
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The Devimon show us a cave nearby.
"What is this cave?" Anya asked.
The Devimon just walk into the cave and we follows. "This is the place where our tamer, Neo, experiment in Digimon. He often leaves unnecessary stuff here."
Link realized something, "Hey I think this is the first time I've been here!"
Mix follows, "Me too!"
We happen to reach the end of the cave. The inside of it seems so different with many computer panels with a very large screen, making it look like it's in the future.
Devimon walk to one of the computers. He press one of the buttons and a hidden panel open. "Here it is."
He took something out of the opening and showed it to me. It doesn't look like much to me… It was as small, white, round, and shape like a bracelet. It has a small screen and a stick on it.
Devimon hand it to me. "Even though this is Neo's last Digivice, I don't think he'll mind since he never uses this one."
"Why do I need this?" I asked while putting it on my left wrist. "What does it do?"
Devimon explains, "It reads data off of anything in the Digital world. Digimon too."
I instantly scan Anya with the Digivice and look on the screen. "That's a large number."
Anya asked, "Is that good?"
"Very." Devimon answered.
"HEY! Devimon! What's this?" Link cried out while looking at three huge glass tubes, near the far end of the room. The bottom and the top of it touch the floor and ceiling.
Mix cried out. "I think there's something in there!"
"Devimon, what is this?" I asked.
"Those are Synthetic Digimon named NeoDevimon." Devimon answered, "Our tamer, Neo, created these Digimon, however he gave them too much power and they won't move since the power is not made of dark energy like they were."
"How powerful are these?" I said as I scan one of them. "Hey… the numbers are higher then Anya's."
"What energy do they have?" She asked.
"From Neo's Digimon, Arcademon… A mutant Digimon created by Demon in which his power was only rivaled by the V-Tamer's. That Arcademon was deleted in battle." Devimon answered.
I notice that Anya was walking up to it. "What's going on?"
"They are just infused with the wrong energy, right?" Anya asked, "And it needs to be dark energy."
"Yeah?"
"I have an attack that can turn someone's energy into dark energy." Anya explains, "Can I try?"
"Um… can she?" I asked Devimon.
Devimon told us, "Go right ahead."
Link and Mix moves away from her.
Anya put her claws up to the glass. "Puwazon!"
Then all the tubes exploded.
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Those three NeoDevimon, that Anya had awoke, do what we say to them... It seems like they only knew and think that we were the one created them.
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The next day… I heard about the V-Tamer heading in the direction close to Devil's Gate. I wanted to see how powerful this tamer is since he was called the strongest of Holy angel castle. We are in an area surrounded with many mountains… This is a good place to ambush him… The fight is going to be up in the air and I will be down here watching the fight.
"They're here," Anya said while looking up…
I also look up and see a big, blue, Digimon flying by with two others on him. He was going so slow that I can scan him from how far away I was.
I look at my digivice. "That low? The NeoDevimon would kill him…"
"Don't underestimate him, Hikari." Anya told me, and before I can say anything, "I was told that Vamp's brother and everyone else who did the same lost."
"Who told you that?" I asked.
"From just about everyone…"
"Well no one told me." I said as I look back to the flying Digimon. "We are just going to see how strong he is anyway."
The three NeoDevimon appears out of nowhere.
"Go," I told them.
The three left.
Anya just looks at me… "Well. I'll be taking a closer look then… later." She flew up to the sky.
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The fight was going well… but however I couldn't see any weakness in the V-Tamer's Digimon…
I was in shock as I see one of the NeoDevimon was about to attack the human on top of the mountain. I didn't tell them not to attack the tamer!
"TAICHI!!!"
What? That's the name of the V-Tamer? That's Oniichan's name! I watch as he fall from the top and out of sight. I ran towards where he'd fallen.
I watch the V-Tamer as he got up and dust himself. He looks up from where he fell from.
It was him… The one I've been trying to get away from, the one that leave me behind… Oniichan.
"You… You're the V-Tamer?"
He looks up in surprise… He didn't say anything… He just stood there…
"O... Oniichan..." I whisper quietly. "So... you were here?"
"Hikari! It is you!" He hugs me. "I'm glad you're safe! Hikari!"
I didn't hug back, it's all make since now. He ran away to here… His friends, he met them here… And now, he found me here… I don't want you to find me, Oniichan!!!
"DON'T TOUCH ME!!!"
I push him off of me. He had fallen down. He looks at me confusingly. I don't want to call him Oniichan anymore.
"You're... here too... Taichi..." I close my fist hard. "Why?"
"I... I came to take you home..." Is all he can say.
I close my eyes and think about it. Home… that place where I was ignored for a long time… I don't want to call it home anymore. "No... I'm not going..."
"What? Why?" He asked.
"I'm so tired of it... all of it..." It was true...
"But what about our mom... and dad?"
Those two ignored me for so long so that they can look for him… Couldn't help me when I needed it. "I don't care about them, not anymore..."
"Come on, you don't mean that..."
"Of course, I meant it!" I shouted. "They don't know what I've been through ever since you've ran away that time."
He step back, "Ran away? It's nothing like that."
"Shut up! I know you ran away! Don't pretend that I didn't know... You ran away with those new friends of yours! And I bet it was to be here in this world, away from home."
"Hold on, that's not..."
"SHUT UP!!!" This conversation is making me remember all the bad things that had happened to me when he was gone, the pain, the fear, the loneness. "Because of what you put me through... I HATE YOU!!!"
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I felt good after telling him that… all the problem that he had created, it was his fault. I hope that I'd never see him again… but I'm just wishing the impossible.
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I was outside standing at the grass field by myself.... It was already night time. I was staring at the moon in the sky... Just thinking about what to say to Vamp...
"Is there something wrong?" Speak of the devil... He walks up to me from behind.
"Do you know?" I asked him...
"Know what?" He cerously asked.
"That I'm related to the one who killed your brother." I told him without looking at him.
"I know… I just don't mind actually."
I was confused, "What?"
"I don't mind." Vamp just said then continues, "It was war… We know what might happen to him."
"Why did he fight? He could have just stayed with you…"
"I know… even with Demon trying to rule the Digital World, my brother wanted to fight so that we can have a better way of life."
"A better way of life?"
"Have you notice that there are only dark type Digimon here, or why Link was treated badly by those Knightmon?"
I simply nodded.
"The other types of Digimon are afraid of us. It was always like that before the first war started. Because that we were born like this we were treated as a threat to the entire Digital world. Not all of us wanted wars or anything…"
Vamp inhale and exhale after that long talk. "I've done talking about why my brother fought… How about yours?"
"Huh?"
"Why did your brother, The V-Tamer, fought in this war? This world didn't belong to him, yet he still fought. I heard he was the first, and the youngest tamer in the war."
"Why did he fight?" I think about that question… Why? Why did he decide to be here instead of being with me when I needed him? "I don't know."
"I see..." Vamp look to the stars. "There is something else I want to ask…"
"Now what?" I was beginning to hate talking about my brother.
"If her were to fight us… would you protect us?"
Because I already knew this answer I said quickly, "Yes."
"Thank you."
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The next day, I was told that two Digimon happens to catch a human roaming around nearby… I bet it was Taichi. I didn't want to talk to him, but thanks to some certain Digimon.
"YOU MEAN NO ONE'S WATCHING HIM!!!" I shouted to a Bakemon... "That's what a jailer does…"
"Sorry… But she wanted to meet with you." The bakemon told me, however there is a word in that sentence that didn't make since.
"She?" I asked. "As in a girl?"
"Yes."
"How did we have captured her?" I asked.
"Well, I was told that she was by the mountain and her Digimon ran away…"
It has to be one of Taichi's friends. I think it's that idiot blond girl that hugs me to death the other day…
I decided to have him lead me to this girl prisoner. After he led me into the prison, I was surprised to see who it was. It was the other girl, the redhead in the wheelchair. She was sitting down on the hay staring at me.
"You? What are you doing here?" I asked in surprised… I know that the Digital world is dangerous but this is a girl that can't even walk!
Or maybe she's not her! She just got up and jump to the bars!
She has a smile on her face. "Hikari! I've finally met you!"
I was still unsure if this is the girl. "Huh?"
"It's me, Rei! You met me back home remember? I'm one of your brother's friends."
"But… but… I thought you can't walk!"
She scratches the back of her head in embarrassment. "Well… funny thing is… I can in the Digital world!"
I have a feeling that the conversation we are about to have is going to take a while.
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The two of us sat across from each other… we wasn't really saying anything. I wasn't in the mood to talk to her.
"I heard that you joined up with the Rebels… Why?" She started.
"Why? Shouldn't you know, before you came?" I asked her.
"No not really…"
I was surprise as how determined this girl want to talk to me without knowing everything.
"The Rebel wasn't the one that started this war." I told her, "It was the Holy Angel Army."
From what I can see, she did not believe it.
"They have been treating Dark type Digimon horribly, the Digimon here wanted peace then war, but no… Holy Angel Army decided to cause this war."
After she heard that she didn't say anything for a while.
"Hikari…" She said, but it looks like she's afraid. "Yesterday… Why did you hurt your brother like that?"
"Hurt him?" I thought about it for a short while. "Well, it's because he deserved it."
"That's not true!" She quickly said. "He was really worried about you when you disappeared."
"Stop lying…" I told her. "If he was then he wouldn't have left me for all that time."
"Did you even know what he did? How he help this world, and ours?" She asked.
However I didn't know.
"Let me tell you about the adventure that we had." She said.
She told me about the time she was in the Digital world. When she first met with Taichi and his Digimon friends, how she learn that her brother is fighting with mine, how Taichi had fought with his friends, how he befriended with them, and how they manage to destroy Demon.
She also told me about the fight between Taichi's Digimon, Zero, fought Demon…
"A hole in the sky?" I asked to make sure.
"Yep." Rei answered.
The day when the TV reported about something like that… That was the day Oniichan came back…
So… he saves the world that day… Didn't change the fact that he left me alone for a long time.
"Well… can you forgive him?" She asks me.
I flatly said, "No."
She look at me surprised, "What? Why not?"
I ask her, "How can someone forgive someone else for abandoning them? I'm surprised that you said that after what your Digimon did."
"My Digimon?" She thought for a sec. "Oh… you mean Pal and Pul! I don't have a Digimon to tame or anything. They are my friends!"
"What?" I said in disbelief. This girl is not even a tamer? "Anyway. Just feel bad that left you by yourself."
"Well to tell you the truth. Even though they left me behind..." Rei then smiles while looking at me, "I know that, Help would come."
I realized what she just said and look away from her. It can't be!!! Those words she said!
Help would come.
The other girl said those words too… When I look at Rei, I can see her!
That little girl from back then… the one who has my face!
THE ONE WHO COULDN'T DO ANYTHING!!!
Help would come, she told me.
"THEY ARE NOT GOING TO HELP!" I shout at her. "WHEN YOU ARE BY YOURSELF THOSE WORDS ARE USELESS!!!"
I calm myself down for a bit… I could feel pain in my throat. After I took a few breaths… I look at Rei…
She had a strange look in her face… It looks like she's staring at nothing.
"Um… Rei-san?" I asked as she was still staring, without blinking.
"Huh?" Rei look around, "I'm sorry… Were you saying something?"
I stare at her in shock… "I don't believe this!" She didn't hear me screamed!!!
"What happen that made you hate your brother so much?" she asked with a sad look.
Fine, so she wants answers. Mind as well gives her some. "Kougi…"
"What?" she looks at me confused.
"Fuyougaisha Kougi happened… just ask Taichi… he'll understand." This is all I want to tell her. I stood up and was about to leave the cell.
"Wait!" she called out to me.
"What now?"
She stood up. "You're going to fight Taichi… Aren't you?"
I almost laugh. "Well of course."
She took something from around her neck and handed to me. She looked sad.
"What's this?" The object was the side of my palm and it was round.
"It would help you…"
All I did was left with it.
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That girl reminded me of who I used to be a lot. The way she talks. The way she relied on her friends. The care she has for Taichi. Even that necklace she gave me reminded me of the whistle I used to wear. She's like another version of my old self. I hate her for that.
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That night I witness the power that Taichi's Digimon processed. All three of the NeoDevimon was destroyed in a single blast. How am I supposed to fight someone that powerful?
I was a fool to believe that Saiba Neo would help… He was after all Rei's brother. At lease he helps me escape and told me what Rei's necklace does.
After the attack led by Taichi, I have no choose but to get Vamp and the others to move to what's left of Demon's castle.
I guess that Rei was right that help did come for her…
Those Digimon she said she been friends with… I wish I had friends like that.
Even if they have nicer bed then the ones at Devil's Gate. I still have a nightmare…
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I was in my current clothing and I was walking around in nothing. No color. No sound. Nothing…
But then all the sudden I see a room in front of me that is bright.
While that room is filled with light… The room I'm in filled with darkness.
I heard a very familiar voice coming from the room filled with light. "Why do you hate Oniichan?"
It was her! The one who couldn't help me. Standing over there in the room filled with light. She looked the same as I last saw her. Her yellow sleeveless shirt, her pink shorts, and a lighter pink scarf. Heck she even still has the whistle that got destroyed.
"Why do you hate Oniichan?"
"Why?" I teeth starts crushing each other. "HE ABANDONS! ME THAT'S WHY!!!"
"Really? Is that what you think?"
"Yes! It is!" I screamed. "If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't have suffered!"
"Why do you hurt people too?"
She reminded me of the time, the torture, from Kougi. "I've got no choose! He was planning on killing me!"
"Why won't you accept Oniichan back after he came home?"
"Because… I don't want to be weak again… I don't want to be useless… I don't want to be hurt!"
"Maybe you shouldn't have met Anya… She has been making you do bad things."
"No she didn't!" I shout back at her. "She has nothing to do with this!"
"Did you remember when she first evolved?"
I did… after Anya did evolved. I set a trap for Kougi and sent him into a coma.
"You hurt Oniichan's feelings too."
I did… After telling him that I hate him… I saw him crying… Crying?... I think this is the first time… The first time I saw him cry.
"You didn't mean that… do you?"
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I had woken up from that dream…
I've tried to go back to sleep but I couldn't. I keep on thinking about that dream.
I took a walk around the halls of this place trying to get my mind off it. I was in my pajama, I left my digital world cloths in my room. The interior of this place is like from a sci-fi movie. The walls are made of metal and have flat lines turning around on it. The doors are like the ones that slides out of the way when you push a button. However it didn't stop me in thinking about what had happen in the digital world and from the dream I just had.
"Hikari?"
The voice was from my Digimon, she called me from behind. "Anya."
"Why aren't you asleep?" She asked in a tired voice.
I basically told her about my dream.
"I see." Anya answered. "I really don't know how you were before I met you… but…"
"But?" I asked.
"But… I know that you are a kind person right now."
"Me? Kind?" I think about what my younger self had said about hurting people. "I'm not kind…"
Anya shook her head and smile in reply. "Yes you are. When you were dealing with your problem with that guy, you kind of adopted me when I needed help."
I smile as well, but there was something that I wanted to know. "How did you end up in that trash can?"
Anya had a disgusted look on her face. "It was because of those new Digimon Pandemonium game. Because of those shaking toys, my last owner tosses me out right after he got it."
I apologies for bringing it up, it must be hard on her. "I'm sorry."
"No need. If it didn't happen then I wouldn't have met you." Unexpectedly she hugs me.
"Anya…"
"What ever you do from here on, I'll follow you." Anya told me. "Because you save me…"
"Is it only because I save you?" I asked sadly.
"No… It's because I want to help you. You really care about me. My last tamer didn't."
I smile.
She lets go of me and she also smiles. "What ever you decided, I'll follow you because you are my friend."
I can feel something powerful burning inside me. "Let's show the V-Tamer and Holy Angle Army, how much troubles we can cause them!"
She nodded slowly in respond.
Then I felt something cold press on my chest. I took it out. It was the pendent that Rei gave me. A dark cloud was coming out of it and starts surrounding Anya. "Wha… What's going on?"
She looks at that dark cloud on surrounding her hands and looks up with a kind smile. "I think… I'm evolving."
I smile as I watch her evolve… I wanted to change too the last time she evolved…
Maybe, I will…
To be continued…
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That's it… I'm finish with this chapter!!!
There's a reason why Hikari didn't get sick on August 1st, 1999 like she did in 01. It will be explain in a future chapter why… just to let you know… It had nothing to do with the Digital World or Digimon.
There were a bunch of changes in this fanfic that took it longer to finish, here are some of those changes that I made after my first version of the story.
-I first made Hikari have one friend, in which I named
'Ami', instead of the three girls that was in this chapter. I disliked that
character, due to the fact that she contributes nothing to the storyline.
-she didn't get beat up, her
attitude was like a person that wasn't there, and she's just… there for no
reason.
-the scene with Konmei getting beat up wasn't in there to begin with, before that was Ami saying that her parents forbid her and Hikari from seeing each other.
It's going to be harder to write fanfic now since I'm going through some complication at home right now… In which involves me with having less time with the computer.
Well, be seeing you next chapter.