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Especial Thanks To:
Sorato Fan: I guess you're probably happy since I changed the Michi to TaiMimiIzzy, ne? Peace.
theladyknight: Yeah, I guess Yolei is having a few personal problems, but you'll have to wait to see what's going to happen to her. Oh, and about the new digidestined, well you'll have to read this chapter to find out «hehe». Oh, and sorry for not sending you an e-mail, but I guess I would be happy if you could look over my work. Do you think you can point me the mistakes I do on the chapters from time to time? Anyway, thanks for everyhing!
Ballet Kitty: Happy to know you enjoy this. Thanks for your words.
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Chapter 2: A New Threat
"Don't you find it weird?" Izzy asked as he sat on the white couch, in the middle of Mimi's huge living-room "I mean, how can that girl be a Chosen Child? She looked to be around eighteen which meant she would have to be one of the first DigiDestined."
"I thought about that too, but Kari was the last Chosen Child to join our group." Joe commented as he put his elbows over his knees, and leaned foward on the chair "So, how's it possible for that girl to know about us?"
"You know, Eraiza seemed certain about what she was talking about." Sora commented, as she sat inbetween Mimi and Matt "She even knew our names, and she called Tai 'Bearer of the Courage Crest'."
"You wanna know what I think?" Tai asked suddenly, as he sat in one of the three armchairs "I think we should go meet her again, and make her tell us what she knows."
"And where do you want to go look for her?" Mimi asked, as she turned to the brown haired boy "Honestly Tai, we just saw her once in the pavilion. That does not give us a clue about her life nor about her whereabouts."
"Hum, but who knows? Maybe we can start going ice-skating more often." Kari started, with a chuckle "Then, besides having a good time, we could look for Eraiza."
"How can you be so sure she's not an enemy?" Cody asked suddenly, from his place close to the fireplace "I mean, it's strange how she knew about us. Even though she said she should have met us seven years ago, this is still strange."
"I agree with Cody." TK said suddenly, from his place next to Kari "If she was to met us seven years ago, then why didn't she? And why didn't she looked for us?"
"Hum, good point." Matt muttered, as he tapped a finger against his chin "I wonder who this girl is, and if she's a friend or a foe."
"What I know is that we should go look for her, and find out." Davis said suddenly, from his place next to the fireplace. After taking a deep breath the spikey brown haired boy walked towards the middle of the living-room, and continue "You know how they say, it will do any good if we keep here, waiting for the answers to come to us. We need to go outside, and look for what we need ourselves."
"Wow, that was the first time you spoke well, Davis." Tai joked as he clapped, and the young brown haired boy laughed nervously at same time he blushed
"Well, what do you think we should do then?" Kari asked, as she crossed her arms "Should we start going ice-skating or..."
"That's it!" Izzy shouted suddenly, and everyone turned to him "If she ice-skates that means she can be a member at the pavilion, and I can try to access their computer."
"Then what are we waiting for?"Mimi asked as she stood up "Lets go to my room."
While the group walked out of the living-room Ken, who had silently been looking outside through one of the huge windows, stared one last time at the First Quarter: despite of what was happening, he couldn't help but hope Yolei was ok.
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Yolei felt herself froze when the owner of those stormy grey eyes started approaching her, but Hawkmon continued infront of her with a determined look on his face.
Something was not correct: how could that person be a Chosen Child? And the bearer of the Peace Crest no less! Yolei had never heard of such crest, and that was what was scarrying her the most.
"Wh...what did you said?" Yolei asked as she tried not to look scared, and the person infront of her stopped walking:
"Don't be afraid, I'm not here to hurt you." the same voice said, and suddenly the figure stepped away from the shadows only to reveal a past the shoulder length turquoise haired girl, who was dressed in a pair of combat baggy pants which had a dark green color, a grey t-shirt, and black combat boots. Both her hands were covered with fingerless gloves, which seemed to have the same color as the pants.
"W...who are you?" Yolei asked, and the girl raised a hand:
"I'm Eraiza, the bearer of the Peace Crest." she introduced herself, and Yolei looked down at the girl's extended hand before gluping, and shake her hand:
"Er, I'm Yolei, the bearer of the Love and Sincerity Crest." she said, and Eraiza smiled at same time she lowered her hand:
"I know that." she said, before turning to the dark lake next to them "And that's Okimon, my digimon."
Both Yolei and Hawkmon stared at the lake, and blinked when they saw the black dot Hawkmon had spotted before getting bigger.
Yolei bite her lip as she watched something getting closer to the surface, and before she could react an unknow digimon emmerged from the dark depths of the lake.
It looked like a mermaid, but Yolei started having second thoughts when she noticed the digimon's skin was nothing but scales. Though from the waist up the digimon had creamy er..scales, two white shells covering her chest, two arms, and a head where a smile could be found along with deep red eyes, and a very long ocean-blue hair, Yolei quickly noticed that from the waist down the digimon was like a fish due to her tail.
"Hello." the water digimon complimented with a bow, and Yolei almost failed to hear her since the purple haired girl was trying to find out how the digimon was breathing.
"She has a nose, and gills on both sides of her neck, that way she can breathe in and outside the water." Eraiza explained as if she knew Yolei's thoughts, and the other girl turned to her laughing nervously "And don't worry, it's normal for you to feel curiosed about it."
"So, how old are you? I mean, how could you be a Chosen Child?" Yolei asked in an attempt to change the answer, and Eraiza shook her head:
"I didn't ask you to come here to talk about me." the turquoise haired girl replied, and Yolei blinked in confusion "Tell me Yolei, when did you started feeling alone?"
"W...what?" Yolei blurred out, before she could stop herself "I don't feel alone."
"Your eyes mean something your eyes do not show." Eraiza commented, and Yolei looked down "Look I'm aware you hardly know me, but I have a reason to be here. So, despite the fact I wish to help you, I will not press the matter."
In silence Yolei looked up, and surprised herself when she saw a small smile on Eraiza's face. However, though she had yet to find out why, as soon as she had noticed that smile Yolei had felt a wave of peace run through her body:
"What do you mean?" the purple haired girl asked after a few seconds, and Eraiza chuckled:
"That I'll be around, in case you need to talk." she replied "I know I'm a complete stranger for you, but I'm not the bearer of the Peace Crest for nothing. Well, anyway, it's late so I think we should go back. Goodnight Yolei, it was nice to meet you."
"Wait!" Yolei called out when Eraiza turned her back to her "Where can I find you?"
"Just send me an e-mail." the turquoise haired girl replied over her shoulder, before waving "Bye Yolei, bye Hawkmon."
"Well, that was odd." Hawkmon commented when Eraiza desappeared in the darkness, and Yolei couldn't help but nod at that.
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"Did you find anything, Izzy?" Tai asked as he sat on Mimi's bed, with his arms crossed "We have been here for a long time now, and it's getting late."
"Since when do you care about when you get home?" Matt asked with an eyebrow raised, and Tai chuckled:
"I never did actually, but I know Kari has to get up pretty soon tomorrow." he replied, and Kari turned to him:
"I'm not tired." she replied "Besides it's still 10pm, and I only have school at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning."
"Well tell that to mom, you know she hates when you go to sleep after midnight." Tai replied, and Kari rolled her eyes
"So, how is it going Izzy?" Davis asked, as he walked to the red haired boy's side "Did you found anything?"
After a few seconds Izzy finally sighed, and leaned back on the chair without taking his eyes off the screen:
"Sorry guys, there's no record about Eraiza." he said "I guess she isn't a member at the pavilion, and that takes us back to zero again."
"Did we ever left the zero?" Tai joked, and everyone sent him a glare "Okay, okay, geez I was just trying to enlight the mood."
"So, what do you guys think we should do?" Sora asked as she leaned against the wall, close to the computer "We can't stay here, staring at each others."
"I guess we have to go by Kari's idea, and start going ice-skating more often." TK replied, as he leaned foward on the bed "I mean, Eraiza can be there, specially since it's almost Christmas vacations."
"I'm with TK." Cody said suddenly, as he got up from his chair "We're a week away from the vacations, and once school ends we can start going to the pavilion. Plus, vacations will give us more time to talk with the girl."
"I guess you guys are right." Joe said, as he pushed his glasses back to their place
"What do you think, Ken?" Sora asked suddenly as she turned to the indigo haired boy, who stared at her in silence:
"That's our only chance." he replied, as he crossed his arms "And we should contact Yolei, and inform her of our plans."
"That's right, we completely forgot about Yolei!" Mimi exclaimed suddenly, as she hit on her forehead with her hand "Do you think I should call her?"
"Nah, we'll tell her tomorrow." Davis said, as he waved a hand "Besides, knowing Yolei as I do I bet she's already sleeping."
"Don't be mean, Davis." Kari warned as she sent a glance to the boy "Yolei was looking terrible when I met her at school, and she did said she had to help her mother at the store."
"Yeah, whatever." Davis replied with a shrug, and Ken looked through the window next to him: they may not care about Yolei, but he was worried about the girl.
"Hey, what do you say about going home?" Cody asked, as he looked at his watch "It's pretty late, and I don't want to worry anyone at home."
"I agree with him, lets go home." Sora said, as she walked to Matt's side "Beside, we can meet tomorrow."
"On the park, under the willow right?" Mimi asked, as she winked "At same time?"
"Yup." Tai replied, as he stood next to the pink haired girl "C'mon guys, does anyone need a lift?"
"No that's fine I'll take T.K, Sora, and Izzy with me." Matt replied, as he wrapped an arm around Sora's waist
"And I'll take the others." Joe replied, before turning to Ken "Need a lift?"
"No, I'll just catch a bus." the indigo haired boy said, as he shook his head "Besides, I live on the other side, but thanks anyway."
"It wouldn't be a problem, but you're the only one who can decide." Joe replied with a chuckle, before getting up from his place "Good night everyone."
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Everyone inside the classroom was doing everything execpt paying attention to the teacher. Then again, why would anyone - beside the more crazy ones - pay attention to Classical Culture?
As Tai looked around the classroom he saw half of his classmates already dozzing off on their chairs, with their heads leaned against one of their hands, while the others were either writing something on their book or talking in whispers among them.
As he yawned Tai covered his mouth with a hand, but he quicly froze when his eyes fell on the wooden doors of the classroom, which were now being slowly opened.
Then Tai almost fell of his chair.
From the now opened door appeared non-other than the girl the Digidestined had been so worried to find out: Eraiza.
With narrowed eyes Tai watched the turquoise haired girl walk to the teacher, making him finally stop talking, but Tai's attention quickly dropped to the girl's clothes: Eraiza was dressed in a short black skirt, a dark blue jacket which was over a white chemise. And that could only mean one thing:
"Shit, she's in this university?" Tai asked out-loud, not really noticing some of his classmates had turned to him in confusion "But that means...oh shit!"
"Mr Yagami, watch your mouth!" the teacher shouted suddenly from his place, and Tai chuckled at same time he heard muffled laughs all around him
As he took his eyes off Eraiza and the teacher, Tai took his cell-phone from inside his bagpack, and immediatly started writing a message to Matt:
«Hey man, you won't believe who just walked inside my classroom. It's her, the ice-skating girl.»
As Tai not so paciently waited for a reply he couldn't help but stare at the turquoise haired girl from time to time, until he saw he had recieved a new message:
«Do you really expect me to believe in that? C'mon Taichi I was half way to the dreamyland, and you just had to wake me up with a stupidity.»
'Typical.' Tai thought as he guarded his cell-phone again, before looking up in time to see Eraiza and his professor stop talking.
Then when Eraiza turned to the students, and started making her way towards an empty seat which was two rows behind Tai, the brown haired boy couldn't help but wonder what was happening.
Slowly Tai looked over his shoulder only to see Eraiza sat on a chair, already scribbling something in her book, and acting as if she didn't knew him at all:
'Weird.' Tai thought before turning to his professor again, and seconds later a yawn escaped from his lips.
Hours later, at midday, all the Digidestined were at the park, under a willow, waiting for Tai who was already more than late. All the teenagers were really annoyed - specially since they were really hungry -, but everyone breathed relieved when Tai finally showed up from behind a tree.
"Hey guys, sorry I'm late." the Bearer of the Courage Crest said as soon as he reached his friends, and Mimi put her hands on her hips:
"Do you know what time is it, Taichi?" she asked sounding really annoyed, and the boy chuckled:
"Sorry, but something came up." he explained "You can't imagine who appeared in my class."
"Who?" Kari asked, and Matt rolled his eyes:
"C'mon Tai, you can't possibily be talking about Eraiza again." he started, and everyone looked at him confused "It was funny when you sent me that message, but it's not anymore."
"Eraiza?" Davis repeated confusely, before turning to Tai "You saw her?"
"Yeah, she appeared in my class." Tai replied with a nod "I think she's going to stay around, because she was wearing the uniform of the university."
"You mean she may be our clasmate?" Sora asked, as she raised an eyebrow "I mean, we do have classes alltogether."
"Hum...probably." Joe muttered as he tapped a finger against his chin "But why do I have a feeling we're missing something?"
"Like the real reason why she's here." Cody commented
"Or how she knows about us." TK finished, and Izzy leaned a hand against his chin
Ken, who was leaned against the willow's tree, was about to say something when he looked down, and saw Yolei sat on the ground with her knees against her chest. Her eyes showed the girl was not paying attention to what was happening around her, and before he could stop himself Ken put a hand over Yolei's shoulder.
At the touch the purple haired girl jumped in surprise, and in silence turned to her side only to look straight into a pair of dark blue eyes:
"H...hai?" Yolei asked in a quivered voice, and Ken bent on his knees:
"You look worried about something, do you want to talk about it?" he asked, and Yolei looked down before shaking her head:
"It's nothing." she muttered "Just thinking."
"You know you can trust me, ne Miyako?" Ken asked suddenly, and Yolei turned to him before nodding "Good, so you also know you can talk to me about anything, ne?"
"Hai, arigatou Ken-san." Yolei whispered with a smile, and she saw Ken's lips curling into a tiny smile
"So what do you think we should do?" Matt asked, as he put his hands on his pants' pockets "We just can't stay here, doing nothing but stare at each others."
Tai opened his mouth to reply, but the voice that came out was nothing like his:
"No, you can't. You could very well come talk to me, and ask everything instead of thinking wrong about me."
With confused looks the group of the Digidestined turned to their sides, and froze when they saw Eraiza walking towards them with a small digimon in her arms. The digimon looked like a mix of Poromon and Minomon: it had the form of a ball with a creamy and greenish color fur, with a small mouth, and a small and cute tail. It looked like a miniature whale, with strange colors.
"E...Eraiza!" Davis exclaimed as he stared at the girl with wide eyes "How...how did you know we were here?"
"By asking." the turquoise haired girl replied as she stopped in front of the group "Namimon, these are the Digidestined."
"Nice to meet you." the small digimon complimented with a small bow, and all the teenagers stared at the animal
"I'm sorry, but I need to ask you something." Cody started as he gave a step foward, and Eraiza turned to him "Are you a friend or a foe? And are you really a Chosen Child?"
"I came here to be your friend." the stormy grey eyed girl replied "And yes, I am one of you, I'm the Bearer of the Peace Crest."
"Peace Crest?" Izzy repeated confused "Never heard of it."
"I know, and that's why I brought this." Eraiza trailled off when she reached for her bagpack, and took something from inside it before showing it to the group.
Gasps filled the air at same time wind rustled the leaves and played with everyone's hairs, while every pair of eye was locked with the object Eraiza had in her hand: it was a digi-advice just like Tai's and all the first Digidestined.
"But...but how's that possible?" Joe asked as he approached the turquoise haired girl "That digi-advice it's just like ours, which means you should have been one of us."
"Yes, I know." Eraiza replied as she lowered her hand, though she was still grabbing Namimon with her right arm "But I wasn't able to join you at the time, so I had to wait for today to finally meet you."
"Why didn't you joined us seven years ago?" Izzy asked, and Eraiza turned to him "I mean, why didn't you tried to enter into the Digi-World?"
"I did, but no matter how hard I tried I never managed to enter." the girl replied "However, a few years ago I recieved an e-mail telling me it was time for me to meet the Digital World, and to gain what was mine by right."
"Who sent you the e-mail?" Cody asked, and Eraiza smiled:
"Gennai." she replied, before looking down at the digimon in her arms "And it was him who introduced me to Namimon."
"And why didn't you tried to contact us then?" Sora asked, and the other girl turned to him:
"Because something had come up, and the Digimon Emperor appeared." she replied, before turning to Ken "When you finally managed to defeat evil for ever I was prepared to met you, but..."
When Eraiza trailled off Tai raised an eyebrow, and crossed his arms:
"But what?" he asked, and Eraiza turned to him:
"Something unknown to you appeared, and Gennai asked me to help him to find out what was happening." she replied, before licking her lips "When we found out what was happening I knew...I knew I had to come face you, and tell you what's happening."
"What?" Davis asked, and Eraiza took a deep breath:
"It's about Sentilamon." she started, and everyone looked at her confused "The new threat to both worlds."
To Be Continued
