Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon.
Summery: AU.
Quick note. I know that Gatomon and Tailmon are the same digimon, but to avoid confusion on the readers behalf, and mine I'm calling Tai's Gatomon Tailmon and using a male pronunciation for it, while Kari's will be called Gatomon and be referred to as a female. This was decided after advice from a friend, but at the time I got it, most of the last chapter was already written, so there may have been a few slips ups as I tried to go over the chapter and fix them. Thanks for reading this and I hope you don't give me to much bad response for it.
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A lone digi destined
Part II
Recall to adventure
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Staring long and hard out over the wide spread yellow and brown colored savanna before him, Taichi Yagami's eyes wandered to the one thing that didn't belong in that place, the one thing that he had grown to loath more then anything else, well maybe not as much as a certain birdman digimon but close enough to it, in the simple two weeks he had spent entering in the digital world already, towering up tall and proud, a control tower shattered the beauty of the place he was in. "You ready?"
The shuffling at his feet told him everything he needed to know as the digimon moved forward and looked at the same thing as him, the blue eyes having turned cold and hard as the towering thing loomed up over them, while they had been seeing things like those far to many times for her liking, it was still a reminder that they were at war. "Yes."
Snapping the familiar goggles around his neck onto their place around his head, Tai smiled and pulled out his D3 and D-terminal, looking up at the sky, he smiled and held out both objects at his digimon, it was time to fight again. "Digi Armor Energize."
A bright orange glare of light filled the area as the feline digimon did a small flip in the air. "Tailmon digivolve too... Lynxmon, the flames of courage." The towering fire covered cat moved into a better firing position and aimed at the tall thing as a small grin filled his face. "Thermal Mane!" The fire rushed out and impacted the black thing, melting part of it and causing a loud groaning sound to the fill the place. "Thermal Mane!"
The second attack melted away more of the Control tower, and both human and digimon cheered as the tower tumbled over and crashed into the ground, a small earthquake forming as it did. In the area around them, they could see the countless dark ringed digimons in the area shake their heads and look around the place confused as they were freed from enslavement.
Lynxmon grinned and glowed orange as he shrunk down into Tailmon again. Then he jumped up to sit on Tai's shoulder, his blue eyes scanning the whole area they were in. "Well, I don't mind destroying control towers and freeing digimons." Looking at his partners face, as it grew darker, Tailmon carefully worded his next sentence. "But, we need to find Karatenmon to stop the poison from killing you, or at least a cure for it."
Eyes taking on a distant look as he though about it, Tai lifted a hand up to Tailmon and pattered the feline digimon on the head, while the other reached up for the small scar that was left on his chest, the welt had long since faded away and only a small tender red spot showed that something had hit him there. But nothing showed the slow working poison in his blood and flesh, the strength of it growing day by day until it killed him. "I know, but for now, we'll have to try and get stronger, remember, Karatenmon wasn't even winded by our attacks on him."
Tailmon stiffed and nodded as his blue eyes wandered across the savanna, over them, the sun was beating down with the force of a full-blown fireplace and making his fur damp with sweat and all sticky. "Think we can find some shade now?" The question had all the feeling of a plea as both of them had been complaining about the heat most of the time. "My fur really needs to be cleaned."
Nodding, Tai turned to try and see if he could spot any shade for them to rest in for a short time, finding none nearby, he stared up at the sky and shook his head at the brightness of it. "Maybe we should stick to the more northern pats huh." at the words, he felt Tailmon nodded from his place on the shoulder, then the brown haired boy returned to his scouting, the grass moving in the wind around him as he stared walking away from the wreck behind him. "Geez, you'd think that this Kaiser would at least protect his Control Towers."
Tailmon grinned at the ease they had had with destroying the Control Towers that they had encountered in the southern parts of Server, so far all they had to do was Armor digivolve and destroy the black thing, then walk off in search of either confused digimons coming out of their slavery and trance, or looking for clues as to the where about of Karatenmon or his servants. Speaking of servants, it had been a while since they had last seen the one in charge of finding and destroying them. "Hey Tai, what do think happened to Gorillamon?"
Not stopping his walk at the question, Tai grinned and careful shook his head at the thoughts running through his mind at the sudden idea that maybe the fact that the strange servant of his main enemy had fallen into his own trap, or somehow he had been prevented from carrying it out, still, it was nice to have a slow day, but there wasn't time for that. "Maybe next time?"
Shrugging his shoulders at the words, Tailmon began to clean his paws and gloves with his tongue, his eyes staring up into the blue sky just like his partner was, dropping his eyes down a bit, he stared at the small TV screen they were approaching. "Back to the human world already Tai?" Trying to avoid sounding a bit sad, Tailmon opted to ask in a flat tone.
Reaching up and pulling his digimon partner down from his shoulder, Tai lifted up his digivice with the other hand and stared at the TV screen with a trouble look on his face, the thought of leaving a place with this much trouble in it for something as boring as school wasn't really something he liked, but for his mothers and Sisters sake, he had to go back, there was no way he would cause them to become concerned for him, no matter how much they were drifting apart. "Well..." Turning his head a bit, he looked down at his digimon partner, his eyes taking on a small maniacal glint. "Wanna come along."
Smiling as much as he could, Tailmon jumped down onto the ground and looked up at his partner, his eyes shimmering with happiness, and then a rather trouble look filled them as something became clear to him, something that was very important to all digimons. "Uh... As long as you don't give me anymore of your mother food okay! I need strength to fight Karatenmon, not a sick day."
Laughing at the comment, Tai pushed his digivice over to the screen, although it was a bit hard to keep it steady enough to open the gate and return home, the image of a sick Tailmon running through his mind mixed with the very livid memory of Tailmon's first time trying the sample of food he had brought with him. "Promise, I'll smuggle in some cheese okay?"
Every single hair on Tailmon stood up at the words from his partner, his face taking on a green color at the idea of eating that cross stuff, it was an insult just to think about it, a cat, eating cheese. "No way, I hate that stuff."
Laughing even harder at the insulted tone from his digimon, Tai finally managed to open the digital gate, a bright white light filling the area as both the small cat and himself was dragged into the TV screen, and back into the quiet bedroom he had left an hour ago and to a the hopefully still sleeping little sister.
Walking out of the bushes as the light died down, a large white gorilla like digimon with a metal arm and cannon instead of the lower part of the left arm stopped and cursed loudly, his eyes staring from the TV screen down to the black object around the upper part of his right arm. There was no way that Karatenmon was going to know that he had gotten dark ringed by a human brat, crushing the object with his hand at the last dark thought, the digimon turned around to leave. He had failed his mission this time, but it would be a much different result the next time they met.
Hammering into the bedroom floor with a loud bump, Tai cursed the person who had come up with such a stupid gate program, sure it was nice being able to go to the digital world, and even better to have his own digimon partner and friend to talk too from time from time, but someone really had to do something about those stupid landings.
Pushing himself off the floor, he stared through the dark room and down at the angelic face of his sleeping little sister, her hair spread out on the pillow around her. Looking at her like that, it was hard to understand how they had gotten so distant in the last few years and even harder to understand how it had happened. Reaching down, Tai grabbed her blanket and pulled it a bit higher up, smiling down at her the whole time. "Sleep well Kari and... I'm sorry."
On the floor, one grumpy Salamon struggled to his feet and stared up at the image of his partner smiling down at his sister, a sad look in his eyes as he turned away from the bunk bed. Jumping up onto the swirl chair, the small puppy digimon jumped from there up onto the desk and stared at the image of the digital gate on the computer screen. "Aren't you afraid she'll wake up and see what you're doing at night?"
Smiling at his partner digimon as he reached over to close down the program, Tai shrugged his shoulder at the question, if Kari found out, she found out. It hadn't been that many years ago that they could trust each other to keep a secret no matter what, before they began to drift apart and he turned bitter at her for the loss of Sora's friendship.
Lifting up his digivice, he slipped it in under his pillow and dropped back down onto to get some last minutes sleep, his eyes shooting down to see Salamon look up at him from his chosen sleeping spot, right next to the brown haired boy's pillow, the blue eyes glowing in the darkness of the room in a eerie way before they closed. Rolling over to stare up at the ceiling, Tai cursed as he felt a small sting of pain run through his chest to remind him off what was at stake, then he finally managed to relax enough to get some sleep.
"Wake up Sleepyhead!!"
Sitting up straight at the cry, Tai screamed out loud and smacked his pillow down on the object of the noise in one swift movement, the sight of feathers floating through the room followed by a cry of anger from his sister as she tore the pillow out of his hands and smacked it right back into his face. "Uh... Sorry." The words were muffled as the pillow hadn't fallen completely down from his face yet, and his eyes were staring around the room in a confused manner.
Jumping down from the ladder, Kari rubbed a hand over the part of her head where she had been hit, it didn't hurt that much, but it had been enough of a shock to be hit with something, shooting a look up at her yawning big brother, she sighed loudly and walked over to the bed room door. "Mom says you have to get up now, you only have one hour to get ready." Closing the door behind her, she failed to see the half hurt look shot at her back.
Waiting until the door was closed and his sister had walked away, Tai slipped out of the bed and down onto the floor, his eyes half closed the whole time as he fumbled around for something to wear to school. Pulling out a simple blue t-shirt and his trusted brown khaki shorts from the bottom of his drawer, he stared at both items, sure he had almost worn them everyday, but they were his favorite. Looking at the alarm clock, he swore and rushed out the door, yelling a good morning to his mother and father as he passed by the kitchen on his way to the bathroom and a quick shower before facing the day.
Stepping out from the bathroom a whole 15 minutes later, freshly showered, dressed and with his standard mob of brown hair, he felt more then ready to face the coming day with his usual go happy attitude. Pulling the toothbrush from his mouth as he stepped into his bedroom again, he stared out the window and into the blue sky above the city. "Looks like it going to be another great day for soccer, too bad I have to spend it in a math class with the teacher from hell.
"What's a math class?"
Screaming at the sudden intrusion on his one moment of the day to relax and enjoy the fading summer days, Tai whipped his head around to see one overeager and happy Salamon sitting on the lower bunk bed, the big blue eyes staring at him in such a cute way that made it hard for him to think straight. "Gah, stop that." Reaching down and picking up his trusted Digimon partner, Tai stared at the pink colored digimon and placed him on the desk in front of him. 2Okay, you've been avoiding this subject every time we try and talk about, so spill it, how come you're not Agumon anymore?"
Coughing a bit at the question the blue eyes of the small puppy type digimon turned a bit distant as several old memories rushed though his mind, each one either a good or a bad one. Then he smiled and sat back down again, maybe he did owe his human prater the full story about his change, and the reason it had happened. "It all started with the last battle we had with an evil time warping digimon called Milleniummon, we won the battle, but not without problems, you had several cuts and bruise and a mild concussion, not life treating but saver anyway, Ken had fallen ill and was delirious for a few days after it and Ryo, he just sort of drew away from you two." Taking a deep breath, he looked up at Tai with a dead serious look in his eyes. "I think he blamed himself for both of you getting hurt in the battle, Ken because he took a hit meant for Ryo and you because he didn't keep a sharp enough eye on you in the battle."
Tai blinked and felt a faint tingle in the back of his mind as several strange and rather livid memories of pain and blood came back to haunt him, the look in the older boy's face every time he looked at them, and the feeling of a great loss that wouldn't go away, as if he had lost more then a few days unharmed. "You, something happened to you didn't there?"
Sitting down and looking out the window, Salamon sighed and began to try and find a way to put just what had been the outcome of the battle into the best and most positive ways. "I digivolved into Metalgreymon to battle Millenniummon, but even with Cyberdramon and Jewelbeemon to help me, the battle wasn't very easy to win, I had been hurt to much by the dark digimon and was deleted shortly afterwards from my injuries." Seeing the pain filled look on Tai's face, the puppy type digimon jumped over to run his head against his hand to give at least some comfort. "When Digimon dies, we go to Primary Village and are reformatted, but something changed while I was there, I didn't come out as a Botamon like I did the last time, but as a Snowbotamon instead."
"Taichi Yagami, are you going to spend the whole day in there, you still need to eat breakfast before going to school, and if you don't hurry, you'll be late for both things."
Looking at his alarm clock in a panic, Tai felt like screaming when he spotted just how much he was running behind, jumping up and grabbing his school bag, he reached out one hand and showed his books and homework into the school bag, failing to notice one very ticked off Salamon getting crushed under several books and a pencil case. "Sorry Salamon, gotta run see you later." Waving goodbye to an empty room, the messy haired boy rushed out into the hallway and into the kitchen, dropping down in his chair and assaulting the breakfast
Staring at her brother across a spoonful of the breakfast she was finishing, Kari narrowed her eyes in suspicion, something was up, her brother wasn't distant anymore, and he was actually talking to their parents about the day. This didn't fit in with the image her brother had gotten in the last three years, ever since the downfall of his and Sora's friendship, and the way she herself had become to busy with the digi destined and their meeting and general hangouts with the others, he had drifted away from them, finally ending with the fact that they only talked when something important was up.
Watching as her brother dumped his plate in the sink, she grimaced as he picked up his schoolbag while yawning loudly. Geez, didn't he get any sleep at all, he was constantly either half asleep or bouncing in his seat like a small kid recently. Dropping her own plate in the sink, she grabbed her own schoolbag and left to follow her brother. It was her duty as his little sister to find out what was up; it wasn't like her brother to just change overnight. Maybe he had gotten a girlfriend. Stopping at the thought, Kari shook her head and snuck out the door after her brother. "She was getting to the bottom of this, right now."
Stepping out of the elevator and into the front hallway of the apartment complex they lived in, she walked over and pushed the door open, stepping out into the busy morning streets of Odaiba, and the many other kids headed towards the local schools. "Where is he?" Looking down the road towards the school, she failed to spot the messy brown hair or the rest of her brother for that matter as she began to walk to school herself.
"Where's who?"
Stopping, Kari stared back and smiled at the person who had asked the question, standing there was the familiar face of her best friend Sora, and the rest of the both young and older digi destined, Davis and TK glaring holes into one another like usual. Staring at both of the boys, she shook her head and fell into place next to the red haired girl. "My brother, I wanted to talk with him, but he's already gone."
Sora nodded as she adjusted her shirk while damning the person who had decided that she needed to wear one to school to hell, she hated skirts, she may be more feminine now then when she was younger, but that didn't mean that she had to put up with the damn thing in the first place. "So, what were you going to ask him about?"
Shrugging her shoulders, Kari returned her stare to the path ahead of them, her hair moving gently in the sudden wind blowing down the street, behind the two girls Davis and Tk had broken their glare contest to stare at her. "I don't really know, he's changed lately, he's not as closed up or angry anymore."
Sora smiled as she reached out a hand to pat the younger girl on the shoulder, her big sister feeling making her smiled at new, it had hurt her to watch them grow apart, knowing that she had been partly the reason for it, her sudden breaking of meetings with the messy haired boy in order to meet with the other digi destined. "Don't be so down about it Kari, maybe he'll stop moping about all the time."
Behind them, a pink haired girl snorted as she remembered her first meeting with the messy haired boy, every bit of her going out in support to the brown haired girl for her ability to put up with a jerk like that. Personally, she was just glad if he didn't get within a hundred meters of her again.
"Mimi?"
Looking up at the cry, she blinked when she noticed that she had fallen somewhat behind the others in the group as she had been thinking. Shaking her head to clear it off the strange thoughts, she held her school bag a bit tighter and rushed to gain up to them again, her pink hair trailing behind her from the speed she was moving at.
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Each screen flicker in the dark room, the image on one screen showing the same as all the other ones, but from a different angle, the control tower breaking in half as the fire melted through the black material. Then they shifted to show a brown haired boy staring at the damage him and his digimon had done. "How?"
Hammering a fist down on the arm rest of his chair, the digimon Kaiser looked up at the map of the digital world flashing on each screen in the room as his eyes wandered from each of them to the other. And each of them showed what he had grown angry over, another part of his rightful world had just been taken from him. "How can he do it, who is he?" The hand smacked into the armrest again as the Kaiser once again cursed the boy who just destroyed another control tower. "Seven times in two weeks, how can he do it?"
"Master?"
Ignoring the one who dared to interrupt his thinking for the moment, the boy stared as each image shifted to show five other kids breaking his Control Towers and freeing the Dark ringed digimons time and time again, each of them cheering as he lost to them, the spiky reddish brown haired boy, the brat girl with the glasses, the small silent brat with all his nonsense about honor were really starting to get on is nerves.
The sound of feet moving across the floor didn't pull him out of his dark thoughts just as the words hadn't, but the sudden hug on the lower part of his knees did, snapping open his eyes, he stared down at the digimon on the floor, the small green body showing nothing but weakness as it stared up at him with a look of kindness in it's eyes. "Get off me!" The look of kindness vanished as he sent it flying with a kick. "And I told you, call me the Digimon Kaiser."
Getting back up on his feet, the larva like digimon stared up at the human with a hurt look in his eyes as he walked closer to the digimon Kaiser, the eyes moving from the angry face to stare at the screens around the room. "Master, maybe you should relax a bit, you can always try again later, maybe that boy will have given up stopping you by then."
Turning around with cold eyes at the words, ken pulled off his glasses and stared hard at the digimon as he walked over to look down at the green larva staring back at him with love. "Shut up Wormmon." The kick wasn't as hard this time, but it was enough to send the digimon onto it's back again. Moving past the digimon on the floor, he stopped in the doorway and clenched his hand as his anger rose up higher then before. "Wormmon, look after things while I'm gone, and when I get back, I'll have come up with a plan to deal with whoever destroyed that Control Tower." Laughter filled the room as the boy moved out of the door and into the hallway beyond it.
Still on the back, Wormmon stared at the door and shook his head in a sad way as he tried to stay true to his promise of always protecting and helping his partner, even if it meant enslaving the digimons and conquering the digital worlds to do it. "Ken!" Where was the sweet and kind boy he had met all those years ago in the dessert? "Ken."
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Storming into his class room, Tai breathed out hard as he stared at the mostly empty room, the only pother students shooting a strange look at him as he took in a few deep breaths of air, then he pushed himself up and moved over to his desk the old demonic teacher drawing still on the desk, despite several protest and detention warnings from his teacher.
Dropping his head forward to rest on his hands, he closed his eyes and relaxed in the knowledge age that he had time for a quick nap before the teacher walked into the classroom, maybe destroying Control towers and hunting Karatenmon at night was too much, but it was the only time he could do it without Kari or his parents finding out. And there were the few narrow escapes to the digital world doing school time, but they were getting more and more difficult now that the other kids were using the computer most of the time.
"Morning sleepy head!"
Glaring up at the smiling brown haired girl dropping into the chair next to him, he felt like groaning out loud and faking some sickness, anything to get away from the bubbly person next to him. Pushing himself up into a sitting position, he stared at her as he narrowed his eyes at her. "What are you so happy about Motomiya?"
Smiling in a too sweet manner Jun she pulled out the poster from her school bag and held it up for Tai to see, well most of the class could see it as she had stood up to open it enough for the brown haired boy to see it completely. "Aren't they cool, and they are going to play this Saturday down at the gym!"
Shooting a rather bothered stare at the poster, Tai stared briefly at the blond haired teen shown with a mike in his left hand, the right moving out to look like he was asking someone to hold it. "The Teenage Wolves." Staring from the blond haired boy to the name of the newest rock band in Odaiba. "Yamato Ishida, hey, that's the guy Kari's hanging around with sometimes."
"Really, that's cool, think you get some tickets for the front row!"
Turning his head to look at the new voice that had suddenly interrupted him, Tai blinked as he stared into deep blue eyes and mop of blond hair almost similar to the boy on the poster, but then he blinked and noticed that it had been a mistake, whoever this kid was, he was the same as the one on the poster, heck, they didn't look alike. "Nah, my sister knows him, I don't."
Sitting back down after rolling the poster up and plopping it back into the round container she had brought it along with, Jun stared from the puzzled look on Tai's face to the blond haired kid, then she shook her head and reached out a hand. "Tai, that Michael, the student from America, you know."
Still puzzled, Tai turned around to look at Jun, his brown eyes half closed in confusion as he tried to remember when they had gotten a new student in the class, and why he hadn't heard about it before. "Uh, so, when did he show up?"
Smacking a hand onto her face, Jun growled at the display of complete clueless ness by the wild hair boy, turning tired and annoyed eyes back to Tai, she reached out a hand and pulled Michael closer to them. "He was introduced on the first day, didn't you even pay attention to what the teacher said to us?"
Looking a bit sheepish, Tai looked from the angry girl to the puzzled look blond haired kid, the eyes showing a bit of confusion at what they were arguing about. "Uh, sorry about the confusion before." Sitting up a bit more and giving the blond haired boy more of his attention, Tai reached out a hand and shook the one the blond haired kid held out to him. "I'm Taichi Yagami, but you can call me Tai."
Grinning in response to the words, Michael, aka the blond haired boy shook the hand offered to him before giving a curious look at the drawing on Tai's table. "Michael, by the way, you don't like our teacher do you?" The rest was added as all three of them looked down at the drawing on the table.
Blushing a bit at the attention of his rather crude demon drawing of their teacher, Tai quickly placed himself over it, leaning over his desk in a hurried manner. "Um, well, let's just say I have a small problem with him okay." Grinning a bit stressed at the last words, Tai looked from both the blond haired boy to the messy haired girl in a way that showed he wasn't up to anymore talk, the brown haired boy sighed and returned to his sleeping.
Blinking at the rather strange behavior from Tai, Jun shook her head and turned to look at Michael with a rather starry eyes look on her face, her hands calmly placed on the table before her. "So Michael, enjoying your stay here, despite some classmates rude behavior?"
Looking up from his arms, Tai shot a dark look at Jun, the comment cutting a bit to close for his liking, so what if he was a bit rude to other people, it wasn't his fault he couldn't remember the blond haired boy from the first day, he had been too wrapped up in the matter with Karatenmon, and the poison. Not to mention his digimon partner, should he show him to Kari, prove that he really was a Digi Destined, or continued to keep it secret.
Speaking of Digimon partner, shooting a quick look down at his school bag, Tai felt like cursing as he saw a pair of blue eyes look back at him from the inside of it, the eyes showing that Salamon really didn't want to be in the school bag at all, leaning down and pretending to be looking for something, Tai stared at his digimon partner curled up inside the bag. "Stay there, I'll let you out in the lunch break."
Blue eyes closing as the puppy head nodded at him, Tai gave a quick smile and sat back up in his chair, wanting to grab a few more minutes of sleep, but seeing most of the other students starting to file into the room, his eyes moving around the room to see just who else had decide to make an early showing. Over there was the usual group of giggling girls and their boring gossip, the soccer team were gathered around the door talking animatedly with one another, some of them shooting questioning glances at him, clearly wondering why he had missed soccer practices in the last few days.
And walking into the classroom with no hurry, a familiar brown haired girl turned around and headed right towards the group of girls talking loudly in the corner, her pink hair stood out clearly and had him gritting his teeth as he could clearly remember her from the first school day, the one he had hit with the water bucker in the hallway. "Brat."
"Excuse me."
Tai grinned as he turned to see Jun's angry frown across from him as she stopped talking with Michael, it was rather funny now that he thought about it. With the way they had constantly argued with one another ever since getting stuck in the same class, they were acting more like brothers and sister then he did with Kari. Shaking the thought away, he ducked out of Jun's way as she tried to hit him on the head. "It wasn't you I talked about Motomiya."
Stopping her other hand movement, she blinked and then followed the brown haired boy's eyes as he shifted his attention from her to a place behind her, and right towards one pink haired girl. Smirking as she readjusted herself in her chair, she turned back to stare at Tai, her eyes glinting with the sudden amusement she was feeling. "So tell me Tai, do you have a thing for Tachikawa?"
"What!!"
Smirking at the very shocked and angry look on the brown haired boy's face, Jun leaned back in her seat and shot him a look of pure superiority. "Well, you've been staring at her constantly for the last two minutes, you insult her even if you two have barely talked, sounds like a case of hopeless love if you ask me."
His left eye getting a very bad case of the tick at the words, Tai felt his anger take off a warp seven, taking his brain along with it as the next few seconds were going to prove in all their glory. "I do not have any feelings for that bratty, pink loving, bubbled brained Tachikawa, Got it!!!"
Silence fell over the room as everyone turned around in slow-motion to stare at the towering Tai pointing a finger at a smirking Jun, the very pink haired girl that he had just insulted in public. A nice death glare getting sent from her as her hand reached out and grabbed the first thing it got in contact with. "You jerk!!" Then everything speeded back up as a large textbook smacked into the messy haired boys face.
Leaning forward to look down at the downed boy, Jun slowly turned her head to see a very angry Tachikawa sanding in the throwing position breathing heavily. Then she turned back around and returned her stare to the messy haired boy on the ground, probing him in the side with her foot. "Nice going Yagami, real nice."
Opening the door, Futabaki took a single step into the room and stopped, his eyes moving across the room in the way only a highly professional and experienced teacher could, the pink haired girl, Tachikawa was her family name, was still breathing heavily, a clear sign that something had happened involving her. "Explain."
Lifting up her head and returning to a normal way of standing, Mimi blushed as she noticed the very calm and highly trouble stare she was getting from Futabaki, and if she was not wrong, he was also highly annoyed as well. "Ahh, you see, it was all Yagami's fault, he insulted me and..." The hand wave from the teacher stopped her rambling before it really got started. "I'm sorry for disrupting the class Sir."
Moving his cold and non-caring eyes away from the pink haired girl, Futabaki settled for staring at the still downed Yagami with the same look he had given Tachikawa. "I see, well miss Tachikawa, since you were partly responsible for this mess." Looking up at her shocked and angry look, he held up a hand to stop her protest. "You knocked him out correct, therefore you are also a reason for my class not starting on time." Stepping up behind his desk, he opened a small book and began to turn the pages. "So you and..." Looking, up he stared at Jun and Michael with a frown. "Motomiya, think you can help him, if not Mr. Smith will take him down to the school nurse."
Looking up from probing Tai with her foot, Jun blinked at the question, then she looked down at the boy and shook her head. "Eh, sure, I'll take him down there." Standing up and removing the book from the messy haired boys face, she chuckled at the large red mark on his face and the drunken look in his eyes. "Hey Yagami, you in there?" Pulling the boy up with a small grunt as she asked, she looked over at Tachikawa before she began to half drag; half carry the brown haired boy with her out of the room. "Well, come on goggle head, at least do your part as well."
Slowly taking a step and trying to stand up without help, Tai turned and shot the messy haired girl a death glare, failing completely as a headache smashed through it his skull. "Just, Shut up Motomiya."
Walking slightly before them, Mimi grumbled as she found herself forced to step back and help support the jerk boy with the messy hairstyle. "This is all your fault you know." Not getting an answer, she continued to give as little support to him as she could while they walked down the corridor.
While the support he got from her as he stumbled down the corridor wasn't much, it was still enough to get him to work around his headache and focus on the words she had mumbled under her breath. {My fault, my fault...} Shaking his head as a memory flashed into his head, Tai shakily tried to walk more on his own, then depending on Motomiya and Tachikawa's help to do it. {I... I didn't mean too...} He wasn't really sure he tried to mentally apologize too Mimi or the one in his memory.
The door closed behind Jun as she gave a small wave before slipping back out into the corridor. Inside the room, Tai settled for staring up at the white tiled ceiling above him as he sank back down into the standard and rather hard bed in the room, Tai groaned as he felt the headache fade away, it had been a relief when he had been able to focus enough to walk on his own, or as Tachikawa had put it. "No longer being a..." Well the rest of the sentence hadn't been that flattering. When he got out of this place, he would have to at least give her an apology, but one thing at a time, first he had to live through the waiting period in this place, but thankfully having been used to it thanks to the accidents on the soccer fields, he had already learned how to pass the time while waiting for the nurse on duty to show up.
The sound of the door opening drew his attention away from counting the specks of dirt on the window after having counted all the discolored tiles on the ceiling, and towards the elder woman holding a clip board, a sigh passed from her as she looked at the messy haired boy before her. "Well, if it isn't one of my more frequent visitors, sow hat wrong this time Yagami, another bad tackle, or did you start another fight."
Sitting up from the bed and his quiet thinking, Tai stared at the floor to hide his amusement over the whole situation and the way she was talking to him. "Well, I kind of got smacked in the head with a book, teach thought it best if I had you look at it."
The nurse nodded and stepped over to him, putting down her clipboard on a small table next to the bed. Lifting up the messy haired boy's head, she grinned as she flicked on a light and shone it into his eyes. "So, who hit you with the book Yagami, look to the left a bit will you."
Turning his eyes in the directions he had been asked too, Tai chuckled at the memory of the few seconds he had felt moving in slow motion as the pink loving girl had hurled the book into his face. "Well, let's just say it was a case of open mouth insert foot syndrome okay."
Nodding to the statement, the nurse flicked off the light and instead prodded the red mark on his head where the book had hit him, nodding to herself and writing something down on the clipboard as she felt the messy haired boy flinch back from the touch. "You know, there are other ways to talk to a girl then insulting her." Stepping back from the bed, she turned around and walked over to a small cabinet. "It's also less likely to hurt." unlocking the cabinet, she pulled out a small bottle and returned to the bed, shaking out two small pills into her hand. "Now, as far as I can see, all you'll be getting is a bump, but just to be sure, I want you to take these two pills for now, but if you can still feel a headache tomorrow or later on, I want you to tell me." Stepping back to the cabinet, she placed the bottle back into it and close the small door, locking it when she did. "Now get out of here, and stay out of trouble."
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"Report!"
White puffy summer clouds moved across the dark blue sky in a rapid pace, almost as if they didn't want to be over that part of the digital world, and indeed the action was justified, for towering up from the ground, a series of black and red hills filled the landscape below with a image of death, each of them showing just how harsh the area was.
On the tallest of the hills, an old time Japanese castle rose into the sky and clashing with the background as a towering black fortress or tower would have looked better in the same place, but to the owner of the castle, the rest of the worlds view on it didn't matter, for at the moment, he was drumming one finger on the side of his throne and glaring at the digimons covering in the room before him. "The boy still hasn't been found! Why?"
Covering before the raised platform with the throne on it, a white gorilla like digimon bowed his head and spread out his hands, the left one glinting in the dim light of the room as the well polished metal reflected it back out into the room. "I'm sorry Lord Karatenmon, but once again he managed to escape my trap."
Slamming his hand into the black colored metal of his throne, Karatenmon eyes glowed with anger as he briefly considered shooting the digimon before him into so much digital dust, then he forced himself to calm down before he did something rash again. "That's not good enough Gorillamon." Putting his hands together and forming a triangle with them, Karatenmon closed his eyes as he settled back in his throne. "Tell me my Gorillamon, didn't you lure him into the Kaiser's area?"
Nodding at the words, Gorillamon still kept his eyes and head downcast to hide his fear and shame at having failed once more in capturing the elusive digi brat that his lord had request him to find and kill. "Yes, and the plan worked fine, the other human brat sent a digimon to fight him, and as the boy and Lynxmon was busy fighting him, I sent in my own forces to over power the boy." Gorillamon gulped as he came to the bad parts of his report. "What I hadn't expected, was the Kaiser sending out a shower of dark rings, he captured my soldiers and nearly got me as well, I had no other choice but to flee."
A sharp hiss of air escaped from his beak as Karatenmon pressed his fingers against each other with more force at the words, the slight pain as the thing bones began to bed from the force helping him to keep focused on the tale and not just kill the digi fool before him out right. "Then try again, I want him destroyed before he becomes too powerful."
Looking up from where he was kneeling, Gorillamon nodded and rose up, his eyes hard and full of anger at the human boy and that pet digimon who had dared to humiliate a proud member of Karatenmon's honor Guard. "I shall not fail you this time my lord." Turning around, the huge white digimon lumbered out of the room, his next move already playing out in his mind.
In the dark room, Karatenmon stared at the retreating figure, his eyes narrowed in cold contempt and displeasure, one hand fingering the hilt of his swords absently. "Trust me Gorillamon, failure will not be accepted." Standing up from his throne, the bird digimon shot a look out into the room and right into each of his servants hiding in the shadows around him. "Go, I wish to be alone."
Shuffling filled the room after his order and it didn't take long before the main room was completely empty, the only sight that anyone had been there were the many traces of dirty footprints and stench of the more trusted digimons that served under him. Cursing the stupidity of his servants, Karatenmon walked around to the back of his throne, his hands moving away from his swords and up to pull aside the heavy wall cloth and exposing a narrow hallway behind it. "That boy, he doesn't feel like the chosen one, something is missing from him."
Stepping out of the hallway, Karatenmon stared straight ahead at the small alter placed in the center of the small chamber he had stepped into. Completely different from the rest of his castle, this one had dark gray brick walls and a black colored stone floor, the center of it turning into a bright crimson colored stone circle, a small fire burning right in the center of the crimson circle. Stopping a single meter away from the circle, the bird digimon lowered down onto one knee and stared right into the fire. "Master, the destined one, are you sure it's that boy?"
The flames slowly rose higher into the air, the tip of them nearly reaching the ceiling in the small room, the they spread out to form a large thing wall of flames, the red, yellow and orange colored fire flickered and turning into a dark color in the center of them, slowly, a blurred and very out of focus image formed. "Are you having doubts, Karatenmon?"
Bowing deeply to the image before him, Karatenmon coughed a bit and tried to hide hoe nervous he was at talking to this hidden digimon, the fear at what would happened if he failed clearly running through his mind. "No, yes... I mean, he can't even handle Gorillamon, he fights him, and then runs away again, I'm starting to think he might not be the one." The doubt was clear in his voice, and clearly showed just how much he didn't trust the legends.
Humming a bit at the words, the shadow inside the fire blurred out even more and the refocused again as the one on the other side sighed loudly. Moving a hand up, the blurred image shifted and several lines of text spread out instead of the figure. "Yes, the legends claims the one with a Tailmon and the crest of Courage will defeat us." a long silence followed as the figure gave the impression of thinking about something. "Clearly, the legend is just starting, and Karatenmon, I trust you to prevent it from coming true."
The birdman digimon bowed even lower at the order and cursed Gorillamon once more for failing to complete the task already, then his thoughts wandered to a different subject, something that was even more vital to the completion of their plan. "Master, we are looking for the temples you told us about, but so far, all we've found are ruins."
The text faded away and the blurred outline returned instead, the shadows cast over the fire clearly showing the anger of whoever was on the other side of it at the bad news, then they relaxed and reopened as a very cold feeling spread through out the entire room. "Well, try harder, the four seals must be broken, only then can I return and reclaim the Server Islands."
Gulping loudly at the level of displeasure from his master, Karatenmon once again bowed deeply and then began to relax as the fire seemed to dim down, the heat inside the room rising again as the presence in the fire faded away. Sitting still for a few more seconds after the flames had returned to normal, Karatenmon finally rose from his place on the floor. "Yes master."
Returning to his main chamber, the birdman digimon fingered his sword in a nervous way, the cold and hard mental shell he normally wore to hide his true feelings were still not fully restored, and it wouldn't do to summon a servant until he had gotten all of his nerves calmed down enough.
Dropping into his throne as he felt relaxed enough at last, the yellow eyes filled with cold contempt and anger as he lifted his hand up and snapped his fingers loudly, the sound of it reverting around the room for several seconds after he had done it. Even as the sound began to die away, the almost completely silent footsteps began to fill the place again. "I wish to speak with Fugamon and Hyogamon at once."
The room filled with hurried footsteps as several servants left to find the two digimons their master had ordered them to find and bring to the throne room, it might not have sounded like an order, but every single one of them knew the sound of a death threat when they heard it. Breaking up the small group, each of them headed down a different corridor inside the castle and searched on.
Drumming his fingers on the metal armrest on his elegant throne, Karatenmon eyes narrowed in restlessness and anger over how long it was taking those bumbling servants to find two digimons in his humble castle. Shooting a few concerns as to the whereabouts of the brown haired boy that was prophecies to kill him, he snorted at the memory of the only battle he had had with the boy and that pet digimon so far, it hadn't even been a challenge to him.
Looking up at the sound of feet hitting the floor, he gave a smile as he noticed the two top fighters in his service and the ones in charge of his lower ranking army. Both of them rather ugly by digimon status and somewhat dimwitted and rash, they were still the best at training and leading his grunt forces to glory. "Fugamon, Hyogamon." Watching as they both saluted him, he smiled and stood up. "Gather our army, it's time to begin the grand play, and we start it, by invading the Forest Island."
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Landing nicely on the digital ground, the new team of digi destined looked up at the digital sky above them, their eyes moving across the countless stars shinning down at them from above night sky, and then the saw the usual dark tower breaking the beautiful scene just like it usually did, a constant reminder that they there not there to relax, but to fight.
Stepping up in front, a blond haired boy wearing a hat like the famous Gilligan from the TV show had. Turning to face the control tower, he lifted up his hand and pointed at the tower. "Okay, let's get that thing down, but stay alert, and Davis, don't do anything stupid you hear."
Davis, dressed in his digital world outfit mumbled something under his breath as he began to follow after the blond haired boy, his hands showed into the pocket on his bomber jacket. 2Don't do anything stupid, who does TM think he is anyway, arrogant jerk."
Behind him, a girl with long purple hair shook her head at the sentence and walked a bit faster, aiming to catch up with the other female member of their group. "So, Kari, what's on your mind, still thinking off your brother?" Smiling in a friendly as she asked, the girl pushed up her glasses as they began to slide down.
Looking up from her thinking, Kari turned to smiled at the girl beside her, a small nervous smile as she adjusted her backpack to a better position. "Yeah, I heard he got into some trouble today, I can't help but wonder what's wrong with him." Sighing, she slowed down a bit and stopped to look at something off to the side. "I mean ever since this whole thing with the digital world began, we have kind of been drifting apart."
Behind them, the group of digimon's partnered to the kids walked as well, with the exception of Gatomon and Hawkmon who stopped as their human partners did.
Turning to stare at the white feline digimon besides him, Hawkmon rubbed a wing over his in confusion at the subject the two girls were talking. "What are they talking about? What's a brother?"
Sighing at the clueless ness of these new digimons, Gatomon slowly pulled him away so her partner wouldn't hear them talking about her brother. "I'm not sure, but it seems Kari's brother Tai, had some trouble adjusting to the fact that she's a digi destined, something with her changing and spending less time with him as a result of the experience and amount of growing up she did here."
Nodding in understand, Hawkmon turned to stare at the female kids as they laughed about something. "So, she's worried that they she might lose him, like I sometime worry about losing Miyako?" Forming a sentence for the way he had understood the words of the feline digimon in the best way he could, Hawkmon looked to Gatomon for confirmation that he had gotten it right.
Nodding to show that it was, Gatomon edge a bit closer to the other digimon, her eyes looking up at Kari in a sad manner as she began to whisper. "Right, but remember when they brought us to the real world a few days back?" Watching as Hawkmon nodded, she continued her conversation. Well, I took a small trip around the place, and I could smell a digimon in the place, one that had been there recently."
Eyes growing a bit wide, Hawkmon move closer to the feline digimon and whispered to her as well. "Think, he could be the Digimon Kaiser?"
Gatomon shook her head as she shoot a quick look at the group of the two girls. "No, there's a big difference between the Kaiser and Tai." Her eyes taking on a distant look, she sighed. "I think the place was visited by a digimon alright, but I can't tell if it's a spy sent by the Kaiser or something else."
Hawkmon eyes narrowed as he rubbed a wing over his chin. "But, you have told Kari this right?"
"No." Gatomon replied as she once again shook her head. "I don't want to trouble her, and I might still be wrong about the whole thing, and I don't want to trouble her."
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A great deal of distance away from the new team of digi destined, a huge flying rock slowly moved across the dessert, a line of Control towers following right behind it, showing just where it had come from. On top of the cliff, a huge metal dome glinted in the hot sun, sending shivers down the spine of the few digimons living in the desert zone.
Staring at the screen inside his base, the Digimon Kaiser glowed with anger as he spotted the other brats that had started showing up in the digital world lately. Clenching his hand at the memory of the beating his last plan and servant had gotten at the hands of the other human boy in the digital world, he narrowed his eyes in anger as he stood up and pressed a few buttons on his control board. "Send out Tyrannomon to keep them busy." Staring down over his shoulder at the worm like digimon behind him, he snarled as he stepped away from the chair and digimon his steps carrying him towards the door. "I won't let anyone else interfere with my plans, not again, this world is mine, and they are not welcome."
Moving rapidly through his base, the boy smiled as he thought of how much joy he would be getting from putting his dark rings on every single one of their digimons, the terrible look in their eyes as they own partners turned on them and forced them to leave the digital world forever. "Soon, those brats will cover before me, the perfect human." Laughing in a sinister manner, the young boy continued to watch as a rain of dark rings fell on the helpless digimons below.
{Ken} Staring in despair as he watched his partner, Wormmon felt his heart clench in despair. Could this really be what the warm and kind boy ha wished for all his life, to enslave and control a world of digimon's? {No... I'll never give up, I know he still the same kind child I met in the desert so long ago.} Moving forward to be closer to his friend, the worm like digimon rubbed his side against the leg. "Ken."
Pulling his leg away and shooting a dark look down on the digimon below him, the eyes of the human boy showed his anger towards the creature before him. "I told you a hundred time already, call me master you worthless fool, not Ken." Watching the hurt expression in Wormmon's eyes, he snorted and sat back up in his chair returning to the task of enslaving as many digimons in the area as he could before dinnertime.
Watching the screen showing just how land he controlled, his eyes stopped as they landed on a single white square near the center of the digital world map. It looked the same as all the other ones, but not to him, that one had a very special memory attached to it.
Lifting a hand triumphantly into the air, the Digimon Kaiser turned to stare at the digimon flying in the air next to him with a sick grin on his face. "I grow tired of this, Flymon. Finish them." Turning to stare at the shocked kids under him, he smiled as he let his hand drop down in a wide arch. "Just wait until you see him... Spontaneously Self combust!" The disbelieving scream came as the evil boy watched the Flymon scream out in pain as fire rushed over it from somewhere behind them. Turning around in rage, the spiky haired boy stared in the direction the attack had come from with anger in his eyes. "How dare you? Show yourself!"
On the ground, Kari, Tk, Miyako, Davis and Cody smiled at the un expected help, then looked at the their digimon partners with a confident look on their faces. "Do it!" The mixed shout drew the Digimon Kaiser out of his thoughts and had him turning around in time to see several Armor digimons rushing towards him.
Flicking his whip in a rapid motion to, he felt the Airdramon pick up speed as it moved away. "Damn them." Staring back over his shoulder, he blinked as a red glow lit up in the direction of his control tower, followed by a loud crash and several trees tumbling over and snapping as the tower fell down on them before landing on the ground. "No!"
Behind him, Pegasusmon stopped flying as he deemed himself close enough to knock out the Airdramon without hurting it or the boy on the back, no matter how much he wanted to hurt the boy, only to blink as the boy turned around and smirked. "Airdramon now." Then the tail of the still controlled digimon cracked through the air like a whip and knocked him out of his course, sending him flying towards the ground in a rapid dive. "Goodbye Digi destined, until we meet again." Nearly crashing into the ground, Pegasusmon pulled back up into the sky and unleashed his attack, crying out in frustration as it flew into a group of nearby bushes thanks to a expertly carried out turn from the digimon Kaiser's Airdramon.
Looking back over his shoulder, Ken sneered as he grabbed a bit harder on his whip, his other hand moving up into a mocking salute to the rapidly fading digi destined and digimons behind him. "Farwell for now, the next time we meet will be the last." Seeing that they were out of hearing range, he shrugged and returned to staring into the distance. "Wormmon, did you see who it was that attacked us?"
The small wormlike digimon looked up from where it was holding on to him with a curious look. "No master, but the attack, it was the same as the one that the brown haired boy's digimon uses."
Nodding to himself as he half listen to the worthless digimon's words, he stared down at the ground below them, his control tower were gone, and it had happened while his prime targets had been losing, victory had been so close, only to be taken from him by this wild card of boy. "I wish to know more about him Wormmon, like why he isn't working with the rest of the brats."
Wormmon nodded as he felt the confusion in his partner, a small glimmer of joy in his heart over seeing his partner fail, the more damage those other kids did to Ken's empire, the bigger the chance that he would one day pay attention to his digimon partner, and listen to reason, but that also meant helping him no matter what. "Shall I send out a digimon search party to look for him when we get back?"
"No." Looking up from his place, a sinister smile had found it way onto the Kaiser face, a dark plan already forming in his mind, and when it had been perfected, he would either have a new enemy to deal with, or an ally against the other brats, even if he wasn't a perfect being like himself, but all great movement required a few sacrifices. "I wish to deal with this matter personally."
Standing up, Ken smirked as he went over the plan in his head one more time, he only need to find the perfect place to spring his trap, and then he would be rid of one torn in his side, one way or the other, but first. "I'm going home."
Turning around and walking out of the room, the last thing Wormmon heard form the boy was. "How I hate dinnertime, why must I always be trouble by lesser beings and their worthless needs."
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Moving slowly down the hallway as soon as the last class ended, Taichi Yagami clutched his gym bag close as he peeked around the next corner, his eyes locking onto the door leading into the one room in the entire school that he had never thought he would be so eager to enter. Seeing none beside him there, he slipped around the corner and move swiftly towards the door, stopping to open it just a little bit to check in anyone was inside of the room.
"Izzy, are you sure we that we should have left the room?"
"Yes I'm sure Mimi, beside, we both needed something to drink, as you were the one to point out remember, but if you so concerned, you go back and watch them."
Blinking at the voices coming closer to him, Tai panicked and opened the door he had intended to just peek in through, moving into the barely illuminated room and letting out a breath of air he didn't even know he had been holding. "That was too close." Looking up, Tai felt like cursing when he remembered that this was the only room that students could spends some time in after school had let out. "I need to open the gate and get out of here."
Staring around the computer room, Tai grinned when he noticed that there wasn't anyone in there at the moment, at least none that were using a computer. Moving further in, he blinked as he noticed that the computer right in front of him was turned on, and a very familiar program was running on it. "Guess the other kids are in the digital world. Still, it makes it a bit easier for me." Lifting up his D3, he stared as the gate program reacted to it. "Digi port open!" With a bright glow of light, he was sucked back into the digital world once more.
Opening the door, Mimi stared around the computer room with a look on confusion, her eyes moving over the rows of empty desk and chairs in it. Hadn't she just seen someone enter the room just a minute ago, Moving in closer, she frowned as the digi port switched from open to closed before her, then her eyes moved to the small screen, her eyes widening as a familiar figure rose to his feet, a Gatomon look alike standing at his feet. "Who is he, he looks so familiar." Watching more closely, she felt something stop inside of her as the boy turned around and showed his face. "It's him?!?"
Looking up from where he had landed in the digital world, Tai shook the confusion and cobwebs from his head and shot a quick look around the area, the sun was shinning brightly in the sky above him, and the grass was moving in a gentle breeze moving through it. In the distance several towering trees offered shade from the heat and a place to scout out for any trouble.
Taking a first step towards them, Tai stopped as he noticed Tailmon tense up besides him, the tail of the digimon puffing up in size and the blue eyes narrowing to slits as he slid into a battle position. "Something up?"
Moving his head slowly to the side, Tailmon stared into the distance, his eyes focusing on a small red shape sitting in the biggest tree several feet off the ground. "Someone's watching us from that tree over there."
Turning to face the tree's again, Tai narrow his eyes as he tried to make out the one his partner had spoken about, nearly giving up as he could see was a normal green leaved tree, he stopped when one of them suddenly moved as a red insect type digimon moved a bit out on a branch. "That's him?"
Tailmon nodded and began to walk closer to his partner, eyes never leaving the digimon as he did so. "He was just watching us, don't know if he's one of Karatenmon's goons or a dark ringed one."
Tai nodded slowly as he moved a hand down towards his D3 and D-terminal, several weeks of getting hunted by Gorillamon and his cronies had given him a good deal of mistrust towards all digimon's he didn't know. "Think you should armor digivolve buddy?"
Still staring at the digimon, Tailmon suddenly relaxed, as he looked closer at it. "No need, it's a Tentomon." Sitting down to clean his glowed paw, Tailmon looked up at his partner. "Relax, he doesn't have a dark ring, and Tentomons are friendly and curious digimon's, I'm sure he just wants to know who we are."
Landing on the ground before them, the Tentomon looked from one of them to the other one, a good deal of confusion in the green eyes as it stared at Tai. "Say, you look like the one I saw four years ago." Stepping closer, it looked up and down the brown haired boy with confusion on its face. "I didn't know you were a digi destined."
Eyes showing his own confusion, Tai stepped closer to stare at the bug like digimon before him, his eyes growing big as he suddenly remembered where he had seen it before. "You were with my sister and her friends back then."
Tentomon nodded as he took off from the ground, hovering in the air before the boy. "Yup, Izzy mentioned you a few times, something about you two being friends." Flying in a circle around the boy, the bug like digimon looked down at the cat like digimon at Tai's feet. "So, you have a Gatomon for a partner?"
Eyes nearly bugging out of his head at the words, Tailmon lifted up his glove and smacked it out after the insect type digimon. "Hey, I'm a Tailmon, not a freaking Gatomon." Tail twitching, the cat digimon turned to stare up at his partner. "Let's go Tai, we need to find Karatenmon."
Stopping his flying, Tentomon turned around to stare at them as he landed on the ground once more. "You're looking for Karatenmon?" One hand scratched his head as he looked at the feline digimon. "But, why are you looking for him here?"
Tailmon stopped walking away and turned his head to look back at the flying bug digimon with a look of disbelief on his face. "Why do you think, we have to defeat him." Tail twitching as he turned fully around, he looked up at his partner. "That's why we were called back into service, we have to defeat him, to save Tai and the digital world from him."
Tentomon buzzed a bit around in the air as he processed the information he had gotten. "Strange, I thought all human's in the digital world was here to fight the Digimon Kaiser." Hovering over to Taichi, the bug digimon looked at him again. "So, why do you need to be saved from Karatemmon?"
Tai coughed a bit at the question and stepped back, his hand moving away from the digivice and towards the goggles around his head to make sure they were still in place. Well, it was just an excuse to have something to do while he tried to come up with an answer, he hadn't really expected to run into a chosen digimon so fast, he wasn't ready to face any other kids about his mission. "I... I just need to defeat him that's all."
Tentomon scratched his head in confusion again before coughing a bit himself. "Well, in any chase, you're looking in the wrong place if it's Karatenmon you're seeking." Flying up into the air again, he hovered a bit above them as he spoke. "He's a major figure on the Server Islands from what I've heard."
Both Tai and Tailmon had a puzzled look on their face as they stared at the digimon flying above them. "Server Islands?"
Tentomon pointed a claw in a southward direction as he stared at the human and digimon below him. "Yeah, it's a series of smaller and bigger Island to the south of Server. The place isn't that well know, but several digimon's has their homes there." Tentomon buzzed a bit as he turned to head back to the tree. "I don't really know how to get there, but I bet someone else does, if you will excuse me, I have to report to Izzy on the information I got on the Kaiser current plans."
Tai took a step after the bug like digimon as he began to fly away. "Hey, got any idea who we could ask about the place?" Yelling out the words, Tai stared after the digimon with a look of hope on his face, maybe running into this digimon wasn't such a bad thing, sure he would most likely tell the others about him, but if he could also tell him where information about Karatenmon could be gained, then he could live with his sister bugging him about an answer, or even her anger at him refusing to tell her what he had been doing all this time.
Stopping, Tentomon looked over his shoulder, his eyes locking right onto Tai's as he went over the request from the human boy. "Try Babamon, she might know something, she lives down by Lake Fate. You can't miss her." Pointing towards the west, Tentomon turned back around to return to his tree. "But I suggest you wait for Izzy or one of the other chosen before you go, you could use some help if you want to fight..." Stopping, as he heard no reply, he turned around and stared after the boy running towards the west. "You could at least say thank you."
Looking back and waving a hand, Tai smiled as he increased his pace. "Thank you Tentomon, and tell Izzy I said hi."
Running next to him, Tailmon looked up at Tai, confusion clear in his eyes. "I thought you didn't want the others to know about this."
Tai sighed as he slowed down. "Well, I didn't, but now." Tai looked back at the trees in the distance. "Tentomon will tell them about us anyway, we might as well try and get to live with the fact that they know about it." Slamming a hand into his fist, Tai grunted as he began to walk instead of running. "I only wish it could have been on my conditions that they found out."
Tailmon nodded in understanding, even he really didn't understand a word of what his partner had said, it confused why his partner was so reluctant to work with others, gah, now he was getting to confused, better change the subject. "So Tai, what do you think Karatenmon is up to?"
Tai shrugged a he picked up the pace. "Beats me, guess he plotting something evil."
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Far away from the location of Tai or any of the other humans in the digital world at the moment, the four island of Server rested in the middle of the digital sea, each of the on par with any other islands on earth, the wind playing softly through the trees and field of grass on each of them, although the number of trees were rather varied and scattered about. The northern one was completely forest with small areas of grass while the southern one was nothing by a giant desert with a few oases here and there. The western and eastern isle looked almost the same with the mountain range and the mixed landscape of forest, savanna and wastelands.
On the northern Island in the group, a small castle rose up from the middle of the swamp like parts of the forest island in a rather strange and twisted way, from the looks of it, the sight of the castle would convince anyone that a drunk had built it, the four towers were twisted and stood out in different angles from the poorly built walls and gave anyone the sense of being on the verge of collapsing at any second if you as must as sneezed on the walls.
From one of the towers, a simple banner waved in the air showing just whom the castle belonged too, one the simple red green background; a black outline of a Numemon was sewn onto the side of it. And if that wasn't enough, one could always stare at the large number of the different kinds of Numemon's walking around the walls or into the forest as well.
Moving closer to the castle. One could make out that while some of them looked like Numemons, Some of them were moving around with strange snail like shells on their backs, the rest where normal Numemons. To the outsider, the number of Numemons would have had anyone running for their lives as the digimons where known to have a bad temper and a willingness to fling Poop at anyone that entered their little kingdom without permission.
But on this very day, something was different as most of them stopped and stared at the rising commotion at the entrance into the Numemon castle. Turning to get a better look at the digimon causing all the noise, many of them blinked as they spotted the sight of a badly hurt digimon from the neighboring kingdom of the plant type digimons.
Moving closer to the digimon, several blinked when they recognized one of the rookie type digimons from the plant kingdom, this one going by the name of Alruamon, a data version of the digimon Palmon, the only difference found in the temper and color department, as the flower on it's head was purple instead of pink and red, it also lacked the patience of it vaccine counterpart and had a more red hot fiery temperament.
Pushing the Numemon's jumping towards it out f the way, the plant type digimon moved slowly towards the castle on a set of badly burnt root like feet, the left arm full of tears gushing out small trails of green blood, that moved down to land on the ground as he moved forward in a frantic pace, one sentence being muttered over and over again. "He coming, they're coming, no one can stop him. Karatenmon's coming."
Staring at one the shell wearing numemons, the normal numemon's shuddered at the words muttered over and over again from the, as he could see now that he had come close enough, dying plant digimon. But it wasn't the fact that the plant digimon was dying before him that had him scared, it was the fact that Karatenmon was coming, the terror of the southern Island of the Server continents part of the Digital Sea.
"Someone warn the king!"
"Yes... BlackkingNumemon will know what to do."
The shout caused a wave of Numemons and their counterparts Shellnumemons to run madly towards the main part of the castle, overwhelming the poor guards outside as they rushed to warn the only Ultimate to live in the castle at all. Their beloved King of all of the digital swamp they lived in.
Looking up from his sleeping spot, a dark gray Numemon with a silly little black mustache and a iron crown with several yellow balls on it blinked his red eyes as the door into his champers was broken down by a rush of his loyal and scared servants rushed towards him, all of them yelling the same thing at the same time.
After a good deal of trying to sort out what was happening, the numemon king finally managed to piece together the full impact of what was going to happen in a very sort time. Staring from each of the bowing, and some case crying Numemons, he paused and wondered briefly if he shouldn't just grab as much food as he could before running off. Then he sighed knowing that how suicidal it would be, he had to stay, if he didn't, he would lose all of his loyal servants, not to mention he would have to work to get something to eat again.
Standing up in his full height, something that wasn't as tall as he whished it was, he stared from each of the Numemons to the other ones as he began to go over defense tactics in his head. "ShellNumemons!" The numemons with the snail house moved forwards and stared at their leader with eyes full of fear. "Round up the Raremon forces in the swamp." Nodding and rushing out of the room, Blackkingnumemon turned to the remaining forces in the chamber. "Numemons. Find as much food and allies in the swamp as you can." As they rushed out of the room, the king of the Numemons sank down on his fluffy red pillow and sighed at the thought of losing everything he had worked so hard for. "Damn."
As night began to fall over the castle, BlackkingNumemon stared out over the swamp from the wall of is castle, on the ground, the combined forces of dozen upon dozen of Numemons, Shellnumemons and the much larger Raremons stood together in several large defense lines, each of them staring into the darkness of the forest, hoping to spot the coming forces before it was too late.
"Look, up there!"
Staring up at the cry, The king of the Numemon's nearly screamed at the sight of several Yanmamon's flying through the night sky in a large triangular formation, each of them headed clearly towards them, on the backs of the closest ones, he could see at least two smaller round figures. "They're here!" Screaming out the words, he watched as all of his forces turned their attention towards the danger coming form the sky, something that would prove to be a big mistake only a few minutes later.
"Thunder Ray!"
The cry rang throughout the night as all the Yanmamon's fired their attack at the same time, several yellow rays of lightning shooting down into the neat lines of Digimons on the ground, the explosions sending smoke and debries flying in all directions from the power of the attacks alone. Then they flew in over the castle, low enough for the shadows on their backs to jump off and down onto the walls.
Staring at the round digimons landing on the ground, BlackKingnumemon groaned at the sight of the many champion digimons as they turned to engage the few forces standing on the wall. "Kougamon's, the elite champion forces of Karatenmon." Turning to stare down at the ground troops outside his castle, he blinked when he noticed the many lights moving towards them from the forest. "No!"
Taken by surprise form the air, many of the Numemon's had turned their attention skyward, their eyes following the flying enemy as it flew over the castle to drop off the elite forces, before they circled around to attack once more from the air, the attacks cutting through his troops like a knife through butter. The few who were still staring into the forest spotted the invading ground forces too late, and their hopeless cries of surprise were cut down as the first attackers hammered into their ranks.
Screaming in terror, the ultimate king of the Numemon's ran away, his crown falling to the ground as he did so, the cold laughter coming from the sky urging him to keep running in the hope that he could somehow escape from the source of that evil laughter. Rushing into the castle, he ignored the cries from the Numemon's and Shellnumemon's getting overpowered around him by the more agile and powerful Kougamon's battling them.
Reaching his own room, the black coloured ultimate rushed inside and jumped into the large pile of pillows near the wall, the small body of his pressing right into them with ease and hiding him from the carnage taking place outside his room. Pressing further down, he gave a small squeak of fear as the sound of boots hitting the stone floor could be heard. "Please don't be him, please don't be him."
All it took was one move form the digimon to find the cowering king of all Numemon's on the Island. Stepping back from his handiwork, Karatenmon stared coldly at the cowering digimon before him, the stench from it enough to make him consider killing him just for that crime alone, still, he had a job to do, and he couldn't have the pleasure of killing this lowlife before he had complete that. "Black KingNumemon, I heard a rumor that there's a temple to a certain ancient Digimon god in your area of the Server Islands, tell me where it is and I shall grant you a quick death." Lifting his sword, he stared down at the covering digimon with cold ruthlessness shining from his eyes as he waited for an answer.
Tbc: The Past and The Present.
AN: Well, it's another chapter of "A Lone Digi Destined." I hope it lived up to your hopes for it, if not, then I'm sorry. Now, hit the review button and leave your impression of it, and before you start screaming about pair ups, then I'm not really planning on doing any yet. For now, I'll simply settle for trying to explain why things are so different in this universe, and how it can be fixed in the next few chapters.
As for the spelling error, I ran the chapter through a spell checker, but it seemed to be a bit different from the one I normally use, so there may be a few slip ups here and there.