Memory
Chapter XIII: Memories from Long Ago: Part I: Separation
By Salamon2
Hey guys, yes I will redo the Salamon chat on all chapters in this story, just one thing at a time please! Now here's Salamon to talk about the anticipated chapter of Memory that I'm reluctantly letting come out now.
Okay you've been stopping and starting this chapter for too long… just post it! Oh wait you have… That would explain why they're starring at me. Uhh… long chapter title… hmm… I wonder what part I is like… he hasn't let me read it yet, or tell me what's to come in part II… but I do know that after the next chapter it's really going to speed up and slow down and Kari-
Alright, I'm cutting in… this is getting a little too long, could you just get to the fic?
I will if you would stop prevaricating! And now for the long awaited chapter, Chapter 13: Memories from the Past: Part I: Separation! Salamon2 doesn't own Digimon!
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In the center of the dimly lit chamber was a Gatomon, so old and thin, she looked as though she were half alive. The purple hairs on her ears and tail were gray, and her skin hung off of her, she looked as though she would have been an adorable companion back in her day, but it looked as though had past quite some time ago.
"Mother… I'm back and I brought a visitor…" said Touchi's Gatomon friend to his right. The elderly Gatomon opened her eyes and looked up and saw Touchi, her eyes looked fierce and untamed as she starred at him. She then tried to stand on her four legs but couldn't, she fell down, but she pulled with all her strength towards the Touchi turned Patamon.
"Just what I've been dreading… a mate! Mates may have taken off my other daughters, and my sons may have forgotten and neglected me, but you won't take my last child from me! She's the last I have of him!" croaked the old Gatomon, her voice was thin, fail, weak, but fierce and determined. She had moved about a foot from her original position, but now her energy was giving out on her, and she fainted.
"Mom, don't worry, he's not a mate for me, he's the human friend I told you about… he ate a Digi-berry so he could come through our door" said the young Gatomon.
"Oh… I'm sorry… so you are the boy that she's told me about?" asked the old Gatomon.
"Yes, I'm Prince Touchi de Takaishi…" said Touchi giving a bow that was awkard to do in his body, and he ended up falling forward on his stomach, which made him flush with embarrassment.
"A prince of Takaishi? My… we are honored by your presence… You know once I was young and vigorous like my daughter, but since my age is over eight millennia… why I knew the first Takaishi…" said the old Gatomon.
"You did! What was he like… the legends do not go back that far… and no one else believes Digimon can live for as long as you do… could you tell me about him?" asked Touchi inquisitively.
"Are you sure? The story is sad for both him, and the others involved in it…" said Gatomon trying to persuade him.
"Please…" said Touchi giving the cutest puppy dog look that the Gatomon had loved about her deceased lover.
"Alright… if you want it…" said the Gatomon, settling down, for it would be a very long story, and she would not tire herself standing for the long story to tell. Touchi tried to follow her lead, as his friend laid down next to him, and he tried several positions.
"Try lying on your stomach…" said the Gatomon, and surprisingly Touchi found it the most comfortable of all positions.
"Long ago… humans did not live in the Digital World, they came from another place, what they called the Real World, I've been in both, and to me they're the same to me… except one was crawling with humans, and the other was sparsely populated with Digimon… and it was because we were so sparsely populated that was the problem, evil came into the Digital World, and almost succeeded in taking over the Digital World, until Gennai came along, chose eight children from the Real World and used their information to create Digimon partners, I was one of those Digimon created. I served a girl who was best friends, and who loved your ancestor, but enough about that… when he first came to the Digital World, he was a boy of eight, youngest in a group of seven children… I was on the opposing side to the group of seven, blinded by Darkness, following a Digimon I thought mighty, and Lord of All… Then when that Digimon invaded their home world, my partner was found, and my memory from my birth was restored, and I changed sides. All sixteen of us defeated the evil, and the Digital World was reconfigured. It was finally destroying the evil was when I got to know him, he was an emotional, innocent, friendly, hopeful, loving, caring person, his name was Takeru, but he preferred to be called T.K…." said Gatomon
"So that's why the Capital Province is named Takeru…" said Touchi with awe.
"My partner and your ancestor were very friendly with one another, at one time I even thought they were in love, but that's getting ahead of the next part of the story… When evil returned to the Digital world, T.K. and Kari, my partner, came back with three new kids to defeat the darkness. Then a former evil child became good again, and we had a fourth new person to help us, for he had been brainwashed as I had… and you know what… behind it all was my former master, who had not died, but had just bided his time, but then we finally defeated him… and during this time… T.K. was still a friendly, loving, caring, smart, but now stronger, more independent of everyone even his older brother Yammato, and he was now protective of Kari, this is when I first suspected that he had feelings for her, for I knew she had some for him. He was less emotional and innocent than he had been when he was eight, but of course he was, he was twelve. I had feelings for his partner, which eventually developed into me having 105 litters of baby Digimon, six in each litter, but continuing. T.K. never had a chance to start a relationship with Kari… for what happened was a terrible catastrophe…" said Gatomon
"What happened?" asked Touchi
"Ten of the children, who had saved this world from so much, were trapped here accidentally, their lives in their world… gone forever… and Kari was in their world…" said Gatomon
"How sad…" said Touchi, and the younger Gatomon nodded in agreement.
"Yes, yes indeed, in crushed many of their souls, knowing they would never see their homes again, and that is something about humans, they like having homes to have and call their own, and when they're gone, a lot of things change them like I would never understand if I had not known them long enough…" said Gatomon.
"Can you tell me more about this?" asked Touchi
"Of course… It all began over eight millennia ago… in the month of… April I think it was…" said Gatomon.
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Flashback
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I often go for long walks in the Odaiba Park in the spring time; it's so beautiful this time of year, the Sakuras falling gently in the wind. It had been a complete year since we had found Davis and the others, and so April's calmness was all around me. In a little over half of that time they had fought and defeated evil. I felt wonderful, now that evil had left, and now I could stay in the Human or Digital world at my leisure. From behind some foliage I heard a rustle; instinctively I stopped and got into a pounce position. Then it rustled again, and I attacked.
"MERAM!" I screamed as I leapt through the air.
"Oww!" said Patamon, as I landed right on his stomach. He was so cute, and friendly. He had been my friend ever since Wizardmon had… died.
"Oh it's you Patamon…" I said slightly blushing.
"Yeah… it's me… why did you have to land on my stomach?" Patamon asked rhetorically.
"Sorry… I am… really…" I said still blushing. He then took to the skies and flew above my head as if daring me to grab him.
"You know what… I bet you can't catch me…" said Patamon confidently, he was playing a childish game I admit, but that's what I liked about him, he made even the most simplest of things fun. My face returned to its normal color, I aimed a paw up at him, but he flew up out of my reach. I jumped and still he flew higher, and in the end I was spitting out grass, but that did not stop me from trying again. We played this game until we came upon the very edge of the park, where he finally let down his guard, and I grabbed him and we landed on the ground.
"Would you like to retract that last statement?" I asked jokingly, and we both laughed, carelessly. It was then that I realized how close he was to my body, and that I was hugging him, and him me. My face reddened again, we parted from the hug, and I looked over at the school across the street, to see my partner, Kari, sitting on a bench, with a girl who was talking the day away, but Kari seemed to be lost in her own world.
"Ahh… I see T.K.'s plan is in action…" said Patamon looking at Kari
"What?" I asked
"T.K. wrote a note last night asking Kari to meet him there after school. He wants to tell her that he thinks of her more than a friend…" said Patamon
"You mean he loves her? Well that about is perfect, because Kari's also in love with T.K." said Gatomon
"How do you know that?" asked Patamon
"When she writes two pages in her diary each night on just what he did, and a half page explaining what she did that day, I think she also should have feelings…" said Gatomon
"Ohh…" said Patamon, and then I thought of something that would be puurfect! I could blackmail Kari, and get new catnip toys for the rest of Kari's lifetime, Miko had messed up my old catnip toys a long while ago. I saw that her Digital Camera was not around her neck, but hung loosely on her backpack.
"Come on Patamon I have a plan!" I shouted, and we ran across the road, well he flew, and still Kari was off in her own world.
"…and then that Davis kid had the nerve to… Kari… Kari! Are you listening?" asked the girl, I laughed, when Kari was off in her own world, she rarely returned until the trip was over.
"Fine then, if you're not going to listen…" said the girl angrily, and she left, I came out from behind the tree that Patamon had flown into, and I stole her camera, and just then I heard a noise, and saw T.K. coming, quickly I dashed up the tree before he looked up. By the time he had come she still wasn't out of her fantasy or flashback, or whatever she had been in. T.K. then leaned against the tree Patamon and I were in, and he waited. In the meanwhile I prepared the camera for the pictures, and then Kari woke up from her own world she had been in.
"Hey Kari…" said T.K.
"How long have you been standing there?" asked Kari
"About five minutes… not too long…" said T.K.
"Sorry… I was just thinking on… past times…" said Kari, speaking the last two words slowly, and looking over to watch a Sakura blossom fall from our tree.
"Oh… and what were you thinking about?" asked T.K. curiously
"When I was sick in Machinedramon's city, and you said... that you'd take care of me…" said Kari not looking into his eyes, just watching the Sakura behind him touch the ground.
"Oh…" said T.K. who took off his backpack, and sat down next to her.
"You know… if you ever need me… I'm always here for you…" said T.K.
While the two love birds were getting closer, Patamon moved his wings slightly, causing the branches rustle which paused the discussion. I swore I thought she saw us, but she then starred into T.K.'s eyes.
'Come on Kari, get a little closer… it's good for both you and me!' I thought
Kari just sat there, looking into his eyes; she was caught now… she faded off staring into his Cerulean Blue eyes. And he just happily starred into her Chestnut brown ones, both lost in each other's souls.
"T.K…. what did you want to say?" asked Kari slowly coming out of the lovely trance.
"Kari… for many years now… I have been-" started T.K. but they were both interrupted by beeps from their D-terminals. Both sighed.
"We never have a peaceful moment as Digidestined…" said Kari, and both opened their D-terminals, and started off. Patamon and I bounded down the tree and went after them.
"Rats… they were so close…" said Patamon
"Rats is right! I was this close to having a happy partner and free catnip for the rest of my nine lives!" I said and we picked up their pace to catch up to our partners. They headed into the computer lab.
"Finally you two are here…" said Izzy as both of our humans panted.
"Izzy, you took me out of Tennis practice… this better be good…" said Sora, quite annoyed at the red haired boy.
"Gennai just emailed me today, saying that we were to go to the Digital World with our Digimon… he mentioned that it was necessary for the reprogramming, or cleaning of the Digital World… that all Digimon be there… he's already emailed other international Digidestined, saying that if their Digimon went into the Digital World after it was 'cleaned' they'd be digideleted and reformatted…" said Izzy
"But why do we have to go then?" asked Matt
"Because all of our crests, except one, would do the same, reformat us if we ever entered the Digital World, we'd become Digimon… unless we go in now while it's being cleaned…" said Izzy
"Wait a minute… we gave up our crests to protect the Digital World…" said Joe
"He apparently returned them to us when he gave back Gatomon's tail ring. Now that Oikawa's spirit is protecting the Digital World we can have them back…" said Izzy
"Nice of him to tell us…" said Tai sarcastically.
"Who's the one who won't be affected?" asked Ken
"Kari… she has the only crest that can do this…" said Izzy
"What?!" said Kari, taken aback.
"Yes, now Kari, if you'd like instructions on what to do…" said Izzy, pulling her aside. She looked confused, and it was apparent that she didn't want a long explanation from Izzy, which would be complicated.
"Izzy, please don't start with complicated terms… speak slow and with terms any normal person with an I.Q. below 130 can understand…" said Kari, hoping he would follow her request.
"Alright… Well, first you open program Digi and type in the code: Digi code-94657260476943gateclosedyears0cleanactivate... then when it says that it's done cleaning, open up the portal by putting in the same code except typing in opened where closed is…" said the boy, handing her the info on a piece of paper, the rest of the computer room was getting very bored.
"Can you hurry up Izzy... the clock is ticking!" said Tai
"Alright, you got it Kari?" he asked the girl.
"Yeah..." said Kari nodding. She looked down at me, picked me up, and gave me to T.K. to take to the Digital World for her.
"I'll see you in a little bit Gatomon…" said Kari and I nodded.
"Take care of her T.K…. you here me… if I hear of any mistreatment…" started Kari
"I know… you'll have my head…" said T.K. laughing at the end of it, knowing she wouldn't really have his head, but would be angry. I was in his arms, and Patamon on his head. T.K. looked at Kari, longing to have told her… but it could wait until he returned from the Digital World.
"You know Patamon Gennai gets crazier the younger he gets…" said Gatomon
"You think so?" said Patamon as if he had known it all along.
"Digi-Port OPEN!" shouted Yolei, and eleven children entered, other Digimon were waiting in the Digital World for their partners. I felt the usual rush of power as I returned home to my native world, and we crash landed into a soft grassy hill. Again, in the same day, I found myself spitting out grass.
"Next time, could we try Cody opening the Digi-port…" said Tai
"Why?!" asked Yolei, acting offended.
"For some reason we never crash land when he does it…" said Tai as the others got off of him. Just then a wind blew everyone to the ground as the TV exploded, and a line spread from the TV in every direction. I felt a weird feeling, none of which I had felt before, as though my soul had been searched. I blanked out, and it spread to the horizon.
When I awoke, the line had probably finished its advancement, but I looked around, nothing had really changed at all. Then the others began to awake and rise from their unconsciousness.
"What happened…" moaned Tai
"Hold on a second…" said Izzy, as he saw an outlet where the TV had been hook up to, he plugged his laptop into and information came up faster than any Digimon or Human, well normal at least, could have read. Sora groaned as she pushed herself off of the ground, Yolei was the same way. Slowly the group gathered around Izzy. I ran to the computer and jumped onto Izzy's right shoulder, reading over it.
"Gatomon… get off…" said Izzy as he read Information traveling faster than the speed of light, well not really that fast, but you get the picture. I obeyed him and T.K. invited me back into his arms, Patamon though was still cleaning himself, and dusting himself off. Next I noticed that Izzy had paused to read an email that had arrived for him.
"My gosh…" said Izzy in disbelief as he read. I joined Patamon on top of T.K.'s head, the latter complained saying there was only room for one up there.
The email read as follows:
Dear Digidestined:
I am writing this in hope that you'll read this and realize what has happened before you split up, if you even split up, but knowing you ten, you'd split up. Anyway I must say this Kari must have made a mistake in the programming of the cleaning, because the portal between the Human and Digital Worlds is closed, for three human years. But there is worse news to come. I have found out that the Digital World's time is not in balance with Earth's, frankly, by the time it opens, over eight millennia will have passed here in the Digital World. Still there is worse news, you ten weren't the only ones in the Digital World, I know that five other Digidestined, four of them International Digidestined, are out in the Digital World, somewhere, and I know this, that other is Mimi. Using the tracking device I have, two of them are in a desert, one in the Tundra, another in the Jungle, and the last is on File Island, which is Mimi. All are in different directions of your current position. Good Luck, I will not be able to contact you again…
~Gennai
I, for once was shocked out of my gourd. Kari was locked away on Earth, while I was locked in my native Digital World. Suddenly I felt a sudden pain burst through me, and at that moment I could swear I could see both the Digital World and Human World through my eyes and Kari's. I felt pain beyond pain as I saw fire beginning; it appeared to move in very slow motion, if it moved at all. Then the feeling subsided and I returned to normal. I had dedigivolved to Salamon, and worse yet, I had fallen off of T.K.'s head. My body ached as I rose, I saw all around me, shocked humans, in disbelief, their Digimon partners had shown up to comfort them, but they seemed stuck in their own memories. T.K. was worst of all, he sat against a tree, and had brought his knees to his chest, and hugged them close to his body, and kept his head down, as if blocking the whole world, and refusing to acknowledge anyone or anything. I had a slight vague idea of what he was going through, he was shocked at the fact he would never see his home again, nor any of his non digidestined friends, or tell Kari how he felt. I wept for him, for he seamed beyond tears, though the others were either at the verge or in the middle of tears, and some were silent and others were full of emotion.
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Several hours had passed, and none of the humans had moved, except for Izzy, he was working on his laptop through his pain and emotional suffering, I could not see how he could do this.
"Mimi…" said Izzy as he looked at the dot which was on File island, then he closed the laptop, motioned to Tentomon and left heading to the east, the others didn't move and didn't see him leave. I can't believe that he left; he was the smartest, and the most sensible of all of them, and yet he was the first to do the stupidest act I've ever saw them do, they all went their separate ways. For some reason, they just splintered off into groups, which then splintered off into individuals. I stayed with T.K. and Patamon, they traveled west, unknowingly towards the Tundra. It became so cold at nights, that T.K. would have to hold us close to his bodies to keep us warm, and we had fur coats. T.K. never once complained about the cold, even though I saw it affected him. We walked, and we walked, and we walked for miles and miles and miles, until we could walk no farther. He collapsed in the middle of the Tundra, a blizzard raged all around us, but he did not die, if Patamon had had not enough energy that day, he would of, but T.K. didn't. Angemon brought T.K. and me to a cave, not too far away, he built a fire inside with dry wood he found on the ground, and laid T.K. next to it, he then dedigivolved. Then that's when we noticed that we weren't alone in the cave.
To Be Continued…
Next: Memories of Long Ago: Part II: Survival