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Chapter 1: Sink or Swim

The alarm clock was blazing away by the side of Davis's ear, dragging him out of his cold sleep. He had set it to go off at six in the morning last night so that he would be, for once in his life, be in time for school. Unfortunately, the man upstairs was in the mood for an early joke. When Davis finally took a good look at the hands on his clock, he screamed bloody murder and flew out of his bed at break-neck speed, nearly breaking his own neck in the process

When he was finally out off the toilet and into his casual attire, the cold water splashing now his face felt like a thousand needles piecing his skin. Davis checked his watch, he had about fifteen minutes left before the school bell rings. Swallowing down some breakfast, he burst out of the front door and made his way like a bat-out-of-hell. He raced towards the lift with blinding speed, only to be greeted by an 'out of order' sign. Cursing his luck, Davis swiveled around and head for the stairs. Skipping, hopping and jumping every nine steps, he made it to the ground floor in record time. Stopping only for a spilt second to catch his breathe, Davis continued his race against time. Luckily for him, this is when all that years of soccer practice come into use. He sprints down the street, dodging grumpy people, angry dogs and on-coming rush hour traffic.

I am so dead, he thought as he narrowly missed becoming road kill by a 'death-on-wheels' for the eleventh time in the last twelve seconds.

Hell, if the cars don't kill me the teachers will, only difference is that they'll enjoy it more…

As he makes his way across another road, Davis checked his watch, only to see an empty wrist. Crap, must have left it in the bathroom! Of all the lousy times I…!! Five more cars zoomed passed him, honking and 'expressing' their displeasure to Davis. Davis returns the favor and presses on.

After a seemingly endless game of 'push your luck with angry drivers!', the main gates of the school came into view. Surrounding it was several students, most of them are about Davis age, taking their time to stroll into school. Davis spotted his fellow digidestined as they entered the building. He noticed that TK was firting with Kari again, he would later make him pay. Turning his attention back to the road before, Davis realized that hordes of vehicles were being suppressed by the red-light. This however, was not permanent.

Okay, whizz…whizz…, nothing too diffcult now…puff puff…just have too cross this road and I'm safe. Just as long as the.., Davis thoughts were interrupted by the ringing off the school bell. At the same time, the traffic light of that road turn green.

…Davis took less then a second to decide his fate, he ran.

It was the biggest race in his life. It was between him, time and about ten or so vehicles roaring down the road that separates him from his destination

Five seconds left, the vehicles seem to be at a safe distance away, I think I can, I think can, I think I can…

Four seconds remain, the sounds of oncoming traffic becomes louder, Almost there, anytime now…

Three seconds and dropping, the bell had rang for the third time, Un-oh, come on Davis! Work those legs!!!

T-minus two seconds, Davis had cleared most off the danger zone, except for the three meters in front off him, I'm gonna die!!! I can see me whole life flashing before my eyes…wait, I don't remember her..?

One second, Davis jumped. AaaaaaaaaaaaaHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

Time slows to a crawl for Davis, in front of him was the safety of the sidewalks and on the left was the eighteen-wheel coming to end his life. Well, at least I'll die a hero .He close his eyes and waited for the worst.

It never came, what did came was a small blue creature soaring through the air at super-sonic speed.

'DDDDAAAAAVVVVVVIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSsssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' was all he heard before the blue bullet flew right into his butt dead center, giving him the additional boost needed to save his life from a very horrible death. In fact, it was more then needed. So much so to say because not only did Davis made it to the sidewalks, he flew passed it, and pass the main gate, pass the guy about to close it, and smacked right into the welcoming arms of the ever watchful, ever reliable…wall.

Davis was in a world of pain. Good news is he made it to the school on time, hence winning ten bucks from TK, and oh-ya, he was alive. Bad news is his homework could be found scattered around the floor, his nose might be broken but more importantly, he had a demi-veemon impaled into his butt, which is not a very comfortable thing.

"DEMI-VEEMON! What the heck are you doing …Ouch!" said Davis as he 'detach' his friend from him.

"Davish? Is that you?" began demi-veemon who is still disoriented from the whole experience.

Still massaging his bottom, "Yes it's me, how many people you know would have their digimon stuck in their butt at seven-thirty in the morning on a school day?!" ,Davis exclaimed.

"How did I get..erm…there?" Demi-veemon said.

"How should I know?" replied Davis as he picked himself up and began collecting his work, "One moment I was about to be road kill, the next I was shot in the ass by a demi-veemon which resulted in the saving of my life and the cause of my pain right now."

"Which brings me to the question, what are you doing here?" asked Davis.

"But I'm kind of lost myself," answered Demi-veemon "I remember was sleeping, then I remember you picking me up and carrying me around…"

"Wait, I don't remember doing that?" Davis says.

"Huh? Well I assume it was you…Anyway, I remembered being carried around for quite awhile…" continued Demi-veemon, "Then suddenly, I heard voices in my head…something like…'up to yo…rry about ts….' When I open my eyes, I was flying right into your…well, you get the gigs of it"

"Well, I'm still alive and that's what counts," says Davis," but more importantly, what am I going to do about you? You know I'm not supposed to bring digimons to school…"

Which was true. It's been at least three years seen the defeat of their last big, evil digimon, Armageddemon, and the world have already learn of the existent of digimons. Since then, they had no real difficulty, no real challenge at all from the digi-world. There were occasional troublemakers here and there, but nothing serious enough to give him the adrenaline rush he had when fighting Chimeramon, Black Wargreymon, Daemon or even Malo Myotismon. The digimon world just got more boring by the day.

I don't know why we even bother to visit it anymore, thought Davis, nobody had cause us any problem that the rest of the digi-world couldn't handle themseleves.

Which was true, every week they get called to go back to the digi-world to do Manuel labour like collecting fire wood for Numemons in the winter, to building houses for Gotsumons. No trills, no actions, just plain work.The great heroes of the digimon world were reduce to odd jobbers.

It's not like they haven't got bloody hands of their own! Thought Davis angrily. More than once he thought of giving his team mates a piece of his mind, but that never happened as he knows his friends too well to have guessed their reactions. Yolei for one, would began to tease him about being heartless and lazy to help out 'poor and innocent' little digimons. Then she'll go on and on on how much better Ken is compare to him. Which Davis thought was funny since she was the one who was strongly against Ken joining the digidestined in the first place.

Cody, the youngest of the lot but the most serious of them all. Since the death of his father, both his mother and grandfather had permanently printed the words 'honor' and 'justice' into his head. He would have see the work he has been doing as 'in the name of justice for the weak' or something like that and would never even consider that the digimons are just making use of his special abilities.

Then there's TK, his least favorite digidestined but still never the less, a 'friend'. Even though he never admits it, Davis knows for sure that he has his eyes set on Kari. Yolei and Cody had tried several times to convince him otherwise, but Davis wasn't buying it. He had seen the way he looked at her when she had her backs turned. TK is the child of Hope, that means he is one big goody-two shoes, and collecting leaves for a Kiwimon to build it's nest is all part of the job description for him. Davis didn't even bother to talk to him about it. Another thing Davis heard about him was that he was a really big-time opposer against all dark digimon and would go all out to get them.

Considering he was actually singing on the job, Thought Davis, That guy is too good for his own good.

Ken on the other hand was the only one who had ever listened to him. Being an outcast when he first joined the group, the only one who had believe he had change for the better was Davis. Since then, the both of them have been the best of friends. When Davis spoke to him about the matter, he had agreed with him, but because of his dark past as the digimon emperor, he feels that it was a way of redemption for himself and to the digimons that he had abused. Unknowing to Ken, the digimons had never forgive him at all. The scars of his past life still fuel their hatred toward him. This in turn fueled Davis's hatred towards the digimon.

It's not his fault you idiots! It was that freaking dark seed in his head!! Said Davis to the digimons. But they were too blinded by their hate to see the truth.

Haven't he suffered enough already? His brother had died when he was young, his partner died later to save him and he had to endure the accusing eyes of the other digidestined! Why can't they see that he had long redeem himself?! Sadly, not even Ken would agree with him.

And finally, the last and most favorite(in Davis's opinion of course) , Kari was the beautiful 'child of light'. She was his only girl in his mind ever since he first saw her years ago, during that time, he had thought that she would like only him. All that had changed when TK came, suddenly there was competition. Kari is your typical good little girl, she loves digimon the most and never like the idea of hurting them, well at least the good ones anyway. She's basically the opposite of TK, considering both of them to have angel type partners, it's not hard to believe that fact.

Well, at least she looks so much prettier. Smiled Davis. That beats looking at TK any day.

Kari was the another digidestined that Davis had spoke to about this matter, hoping that she would see things his way. Her reply was both short and disappointing to Davis.

" Oh don't be silly Davis!", answered Kari. She then walked off to join the others in repairing a dam for the mushroomons, leaving Davis standing there, speechless.

You know? Sometimes, I don't know why I even bother…Thought Davis as he followed after her.

" Davish? Davish?…"

"Huh? What?" Davis broke his string of thoughts to turn and face his friend. "Yeah what?"

" As I was saying, what are we gonna do about me? " Demi-veemon asked.

Davis stop to think for a minute. Rules says that no pets are allowed on school grounds without proper permission from the discipline master or the principal. By law, digimon are classified under 'pets' , only there is no need for a license. That's problem number one. Problem number two, he wasn't exactly a good pal with either one of the two people of authority in this school. He had a couple of run-ins with both of them and their not too happy about it. Just last year Davis played the biggest and the most serious practical joke of all, with the help of Tai and Matt of course, on the DM's car. Which had cause a school-wide detective search. Davis was never convicted of that crime. Since then, the DM was on a war-path against all students, and Davis was on the top of his list.

That serves him right for wrongful accusing me of stealing, and for all that detention that cause me my world cup match, said Davis when Tai and Matt had asked him about the results of their scheme.

Davis knows all too well that he can't hide Demi-veemon in his bag during class because it would suffocate him and would cause his bag to attract unwanted attention. Seeing that the teachers were already leaving their desk, Davis decided to take a gamble.

Sink or swim. He turned to Demi-veemon, "Okay, here's what we're gonna do. Do you still remember that new PS2 I brought some time ago?"

"Ermmm, oh! You mean that spy game?" replied Demi-veemon.

"Ya, that one. I want you to pretend your playing that game, here in this school." Said Davis, " You cannot be seen or be heard by anyone, Understand? Good."

"But what's my mission?"

"Er?…Okay, your mission is to find out all you can about this school." Answered Davis " by the end of my lessons I want to know everything there is to know about the teachers. From where they hide their answers to tests, to what brand of coffee they drink, Understand? And oh, u need these to take notes."

Davis hands him a small fresh notebook and one off his new pens.

" Okay Davish! You can count now me!", and he went running off.

Davis watch as his little blue friend ran off to his big adventure. I know I shouldn't leave him by himself, but I got no other choice! He says to himself.

Finally noticing the time, Davis ran like he did a few minutes back on the road. Sink or Swim…

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Author's notes: that was the end of my first chapter, this is my first attempt in writering a fanfic, please review!!