Ardour - Sequel to Welkin
by: sakuramimato (sakuramimato@hotmail.com)
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon.
Author's Note: -_-; I didn't notice how bad the story was going. I mean, there is no description, you can't even tell what the characters are wearing! No time description, nothing. I will be coming out with an extended version of the first two chapters. I'm not satisfied with their length, nor the quality of the writing. And the end of the chapters serve no purpose and just seem tapered. I need to fix up a lot of damage that I've already done with this fic. Even the characters are a little off.
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Chapter 03
It was nearing four in the afternoon. The sky had a slight vermilion glow upon it as the pale grey coulds hovered about making a whole different world of its own. Children lined the streets, frolicking with friends and pets as the time passed by. Mimi sighed out a breath of relief as a soft gust of wind blew past her, causing her golden brown hair rustle smoothly and fall back into place. She had walked quite a long way to the stadium where Matt's band was practicing and was somewhat lost. Mimi sighed once more, only a little more tense than the first, 'I know where to go, I've lived here before. I just.. don't remember the way back to Sora's apartment.'
She was walking alongside a wall when a round, white object flew her way, hitting her in the arm. Grasping it tightly to sooth the sharp shot of pain, she looked in the direction where the object had come from. Taking only a short glance, she looked down and noticed that the object had bounced off the wall and rested next to her. "A soccer ball?"
Two guys walked over to her to retrieve the ball. Both had brown hair, one had a large head of hair that looked unmanageable, and the other had shorter hair, slightly spiked. The younger guy with shorter hair stepped forward with his hand scratching the back of his head. "Hey, sorry, Miss. My kick was a little off on that one."
"Way off." the older guy added in a sneering voice as he picked up the soccer ball next to her. Rising up, he noticed something familiar about the person his friend hit. 'She seems familiar.. That light brown hair, her amber eyes.'
Noticing that he had been staring at her, she blinked in disbelief. "Taichi?"
The guy that had hit her blew a fleck of brown hair away from his eyes and looked at her in astonishment. Furrowing his brow, he gave a chuckle, "It's you, ne, Mimi-chan?"
She frowned at him for the strange remark. His friend that kicked the ball pushed him out of the way and took her hand in his, a light shade was visible around his cheeks. "Mimi!! It's great you're back! How was America?"
"Give it up, Davis," Tai said in an annoyed tone. He caught the soccer ball he threw at Davis. "So, Mimi. What are you doing back in Odaiba? We haven't heard from you since."
"Oh.. I was here to see.." she started getting a red tint on her face. "I umm..."
A smile of amusement spread across her old friend's face. "Nah, you don't have to finish that sentence. Anyways, I'm guessing you're lost since you do happen to end up that way in most cases --" Mimi glared at him, embarassed by the revolting remark. Tai chuckled, "-- but! if you're looking for Sora's apartment, just go straight for a while until you get to the first stop light. You'll be able to figure out which one is her's."
"O.. kay." Mimi answered. "Well, it was nice speaking to you! Hope to see you around. Before I forget -- do you have Matt's cell phone number?"
"Yeah. Here you go." Tai replied, writing it down on a piece of paper and handing it to her. "I'll see you later on." waving good-bye to her. He took the ball (and Davis) with him.
"Tai, do you think she knows about Matt?" Davis asked him after noticing the short scene that passed by. "Because it seems like she's way overjoyed to be here. I don't think she knows about it."
"Let's hope she does and she's trying really hard not to show that she's disappointed. God, what was Matt thinking the past three years? Don't you think that Mimi would know?" Tai asked mostly to himself, but conversed openly for Davis to respond.
"And what about Sora?" his teammate asked him.
"Let's get on with practice." Tai replied, completely avoiding the question.
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Mimi stopped at the corner of an intersection where a crowd of people were standing, waiting for the cross walk to change. Looking quickly around, before the light changed, she searched for the building that Sora resided in. Once she had spotted it, the light had changed signaling the pedestrians, she was forced to walk forward with the slight crowd pushing her. Noticing that she had survived the throng, she quickly walked to where she saw the building.
The walk through the hall to Sora's apartment proved to be a quiet one, not a single soul had passed her by. Looking at every apartment door's number (making sure to stop in front of the exact one), an apartment door opened in front of her. The figure stopped abruptly at the sight of the girl pacing through the halls only a couple in front of her. His blonde hair flowed freely with suave as a warm summer breeze blew past. She couldn't make out his expression with the pair of sunglasses shading his eyes from her. Quietly taking them off, his deep blue eyes looked at her without emotion. "Mimi, how long have you been out here?"
'Doesn't anyone ask a normal question anymore?' she asked herself slightly taken aback, "I just got here. Did practice end for you recently?"
"No, I just managed to sneak out to get some time away from practice and the repeated lyrics over and over again." he replied. "What have you been up to since you left the auditorium?"
"Oh!" she smiled, a slight child-like glimmer sparked up in her eyes, "Well, I sort of got lost while I was getting back here, but on my way, I got hit by a soccer ball that Davis had badly miscalculated, hitting me in the arm. I also met Taichi and we had a short conversation. I guess he noticed that I was lost because he gave me instructions to get here, which was a little embarassing, but it's better than being lost only a couple of blocks where I'm supposed to be, looking like an idiot. Thanks to Tai, I got here and here I am; talking to you, who.. just.. stepped out of.. Sora's.. apartment."
Noticing the haltering words at the end of her sentence and the confused look in her face, he quickly thought of an answer. "I was just looking for you. Since you and Sora are great friends and all I took to liberty of taking time out of my job to talk to you."
"Oh, that's sweet of you." she replied with a smile. She walked around him and rest her hand on the door knob to Sora's apartment. "I'll see you later on, Yamato-kun. Don't get overworked in your rehearsal."
Waving a weak good-bye, he slapped his palm on his forehead with his hand that wasn't holding his guitar, sighing in frustration.
Inside, Mimi walked over to Sora's room. Leaning against the ajar door, she noticed that her friend was sitting on her bed with her back against the door, next to her bedside drawer. Mimi knocked twice at the door, her friend hastily shoved her bedside drawer closed and turned around to look at the door. "Mimi!"
The long-departed friend embraced with her and the two engaged in a conversation. Mimi sat at the foot of Sora's bed. "Sora, I missed you so much! Odaiba has changed so much since I attended high school with you guys! It's nice to see you again."
"Likewise. You're still the same Mimi I remember from the academy. How have you been?" she asked. "I haven't heard from you in what seems like ages."
"I'm great. I really missed you guys. I especially wanted to see Yamato again. It's nice to see your familiar faces once more." she answered.
Sora paused and a prolonged silence overcame the room. She opened her mouth and began to speak, "You still like Matt?"
Mimi nodded, making the honey-blonde locks of hair bounce wistfully about her head. "Down to the very last fiber of my being."
"Have you heard from him lately?" Sora asked, a rather somber expression befall her face.
"Yes, I watched him and his concert practice a couple of hours earlier. They were really good. We talked about what had happened three years ago. And I just talked to him on his way out of here. I'm still a little bit confused to why he was here. Was he looking for me? He seemed a little strange when he was talking to me, both times." her friend replied.
"I couldn't understand."
"I'll be right back, Sora. I'll be back in a couple of minutes." Mimi excused herself and exited the apartment. She walked over to the rail, looking out at the sun, sinking low behind the horizon in a regal vermillion shade. She took out the sheet of paper Tai had given her that she had placed in her skirt pocket. Taking out her pink cellphone, she dialed the number and waited for an answer.
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A/N: I'll continue soon. School starts back in a couple of days, I don't want to put off this fic like what I did to Moonlight. I hope you enjoyed this rather loong chapter, though. Regardless of the zero-progress that Mimi is going through and that one single day has rolled over into three chapters already and is now arriving to four, I don't know what the outcome of this story will be. Then again, Mimi's first day in Welkin did go on for three chapters, I'll be hoping a lot for the success of this story.
I really hope the damage in the last two short chapters didn't steer you away from the fic yet. I promise that the fic will pick up the desired speed next chapter. I'm pretty much too tired to continue with the length of this chapter and all, so please keep updated as I will be with this fic. Enjoy!
by: sakuramimato (sakuramimato@hotmail.com)
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon.
Author's Note: -_-; I didn't notice how bad the story was going. I mean, there is no description, you can't even tell what the characters are wearing! No time description, nothing. I will be coming out with an extended version of the first two chapters. I'm not satisfied with their length, nor the quality of the writing. And the end of the chapters serve no purpose and just seem tapered. I need to fix up a lot of damage that I've already done with this fic. Even the characters are a little off.
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Chapter 03
It was nearing four in the afternoon. The sky had a slight vermilion glow upon it as the pale grey coulds hovered about making a whole different world of its own. Children lined the streets, frolicking with friends and pets as the time passed by. Mimi sighed out a breath of relief as a soft gust of wind blew past her, causing her golden brown hair rustle smoothly and fall back into place. She had walked quite a long way to the stadium where Matt's band was practicing and was somewhat lost. Mimi sighed once more, only a little more tense than the first, 'I know where to go, I've lived here before. I just.. don't remember the way back to Sora's apartment.'
She was walking alongside a wall when a round, white object flew her way, hitting her in the arm. Grasping it tightly to sooth the sharp shot of pain, she looked in the direction where the object had come from. Taking only a short glance, she looked down and noticed that the object had bounced off the wall and rested next to her. "A soccer ball?"
Two guys walked over to her to retrieve the ball. Both had brown hair, one had a large head of hair that looked unmanageable, and the other had shorter hair, slightly spiked. The younger guy with shorter hair stepped forward with his hand scratching the back of his head. "Hey, sorry, Miss. My kick was a little off on that one."
"Way off." the older guy added in a sneering voice as he picked up the soccer ball next to her. Rising up, he noticed something familiar about the person his friend hit. 'She seems familiar.. That light brown hair, her amber eyes.'
Noticing that he had been staring at her, she blinked in disbelief. "Taichi?"
The guy that had hit her blew a fleck of brown hair away from his eyes and looked at her in astonishment. Furrowing his brow, he gave a chuckle, "It's you, ne, Mimi-chan?"
She frowned at him for the strange remark. His friend that kicked the ball pushed him out of the way and took her hand in his, a light shade was visible around his cheeks. "Mimi!! It's great you're back! How was America?"
"Give it up, Davis," Tai said in an annoyed tone. He caught the soccer ball he threw at Davis. "So, Mimi. What are you doing back in Odaiba? We haven't heard from you since."
"Oh.. I was here to see.." she started getting a red tint on her face. "I umm..."
A smile of amusement spread across her old friend's face. "Nah, you don't have to finish that sentence. Anyways, I'm guessing you're lost since you do happen to end up that way in most cases --" Mimi glared at him, embarassed by the revolting remark. Tai chuckled, "-- but! if you're looking for Sora's apartment, just go straight for a while until you get to the first stop light. You'll be able to figure out which one is her's."
"O.. kay." Mimi answered. "Well, it was nice speaking to you! Hope to see you around. Before I forget -- do you have Matt's cell phone number?"
"Yeah. Here you go." Tai replied, writing it down on a piece of paper and handing it to her. "I'll see you later on." waving good-bye to her. He took the ball (and Davis) with him.
"Tai, do you think she knows about Matt?" Davis asked him after noticing the short scene that passed by. "Because it seems like she's way overjoyed to be here. I don't think she knows about it."
"Let's hope she does and she's trying really hard not to show that she's disappointed. God, what was Matt thinking the past three years? Don't you think that Mimi would know?" Tai asked mostly to himself, but conversed openly for Davis to respond.
"And what about Sora?" his teammate asked him.
"Let's get on with practice." Tai replied, completely avoiding the question.
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Mimi stopped at the corner of an intersection where a crowd of people were standing, waiting for the cross walk to change. Looking quickly around, before the light changed, she searched for the building that Sora resided in. Once she had spotted it, the light had changed signaling the pedestrians, she was forced to walk forward with the slight crowd pushing her. Noticing that she had survived the throng, she quickly walked to where she saw the building.
The walk through the hall to Sora's apartment proved to be a quiet one, not a single soul had passed her by. Looking at every apartment door's number (making sure to stop in front of the exact one), an apartment door opened in front of her. The figure stopped abruptly at the sight of the girl pacing through the halls only a couple in front of her. His blonde hair flowed freely with suave as a warm summer breeze blew past. She couldn't make out his expression with the pair of sunglasses shading his eyes from her. Quietly taking them off, his deep blue eyes looked at her without emotion. "Mimi, how long have you been out here?"
'Doesn't anyone ask a normal question anymore?' she asked herself slightly taken aback, "I just got here. Did practice end for you recently?"
"No, I just managed to sneak out to get some time away from practice and the repeated lyrics over and over again." he replied. "What have you been up to since you left the auditorium?"
"Oh!" she smiled, a slight child-like glimmer sparked up in her eyes, "Well, I sort of got lost while I was getting back here, but on my way, I got hit by a soccer ball that Davis had badly miscalculated, hitting me in the arm. I also met Taichi and we had a short conversation. I guess he noticed that I was lost because he gave me instructions to get here, which was a little embarassing, but it's better than being lost only a couple of blocks where I'm supposed to be, looking like an idiot. Thanks to Tai, I got here and here I am; talking to you, who.. just.. stepped out of.. Sora's.. apartment."
Noticing the haltering words at the end of her sentence and the confused look in her face, he quickly thought of an answer. "I was just looking for you. Since you and Sora are great friends and all I took to liberty of taking time out of my job to talk to you."
"Oh, that's sweet of you." she replied with a smile. She walked around him and rest her hand on the door knob to Sora's apartment. "I'll see you later on, Yamato-kun. Don't get overworked in your rehearsal."
Waving a weak good-bye, he slapped his palm on his forehead with his hand that wasn't holding his guitar, sighing in frustration.
Inside, Mimi walked over to Sora's room. Leaning against the ajar door, she noticed that her friend was sitting on her bed with her back against the door, next to her bedside drawer. Mimi knocked twice at the door, her friend hastily shoved her bedside drawer closed and turned around to look at the door. "Mimi!"
The long-departed friend embraced with her and the two engaged in a conversation. Mimi sat at the foot of Sora's bed. "Sora, I missed you so much! Odaiba has changed so much since I attended high school with you guys! It's nice to see you again."
"Likewise. You're still the same Mimi I remember from the academy. How have you been?" she asked. "I haven't heard from you in what seems like ages."
"I'm great. I really missed you guys. I especially wanted to see Yamato again. It's nice to see your familiar faces once more." she answered.
Sora paused and a prolonged silence overcame the room. She opened her mouth and began to speak, "You still like Matt?"
Mimi nodded, making the honey-blonde locks of hair bounce wistfully about her head. "Down to the very last fiber of my being."
"Have you heard from him lately?" Sora asked, a rather somber expression befall her face.
"Yes, I watched him and his concert practice a couple of hours earlier. They were really good. We talked about what had happened three years ago. And I just talked to him on his way out of here. I'm still a little bit confused to why he was here. Was he looking for me? He seemed a little strange when he was talking to me, both times." her friend replied.
"I couldn't understand."
"I'll be right back, Sora. I'll be back in a couple of minutes." Mimi excused herself and exited the apartment. She walked over to the rail, looking out at the sun, sinking low behind the horizon in a regal vermillion shade. She took out the sheet of paper Tai had given her that she had placed in her skirt pocket. Taking out her pink cellphone, she dialed the number and waited for an answer.
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A/N: I'll continue soon. School starts back in a couple of days, I don't want to put off this fic like what I did to Moonlight. I hope you enjoyed this rather loong chapter, though. Regardless of the zero-progress that Mimi is going through and that one single day has rolled over into three chapters already and is now arriving to four, I don't know what the outcome of this story will be. Then again, Mimi's first day in Welkin did go on for three chapters, I'll be hoping a lot for the success of this story.
I really hope the damage in the last two short chapters didn't steer you away from the fic yet. I promise that the fic will pick up the desired speed next chapter. I'm pretty much too tired to continue with the length of this chapter and all, so please keep updated as I will be with this fic. Enjoy!