Gate Way of Life
I don't own Digimon
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'Thoughts'
"talking out loud"
'-----' scene change
(V)(V) different point of view
'+' flash back
Chapter 17
He finished eating the breakfast that Matt made. It's 5:24 am, and the Digidestine plan on see them off. Most of what they had given him to give to Kari and the other Digidestine were letters. They fit easily into his pouch. He now didn't know how to send the DVDs that Tai had hinted at. Also, he never really told Kouji, Kouichi, and the other Digidestine that where he came from Tai and the other Digidestine's adventures became a cartoon show. He hadn't seen the point in telling them about it, and he didn't know how they'd take it. 'I'll tell them when we meet up with Kari and the others. I better get back to Ranma's world, just to let them know that he's all right. I wonder if Davis has made contact with them? I'll just have to find out later.'
He finishes the breakfast and takes his plate to the sink. "It's 5:40, ready?" Matt asks. He nods and says, "Thanks for letting me stay here Matt." "It's no biggie. You're a great houseguest; I mean you didn't need any cloths that need to be clean. You also don't eat as much as a normal Digimon about your size would eat." Matt says as he puts his plate by the sink. Gabumon was already in the Digital World. Gabumon had been in the real world for about five days already. He follows Matt to where the computer was. He takes out his D-ark as he walks. Matt gets the gate up and then they hold their Digivices to the screen. "Digi-Port Open!" They say at the same time.
Matt lands on his back, soon they untangle and then they head to where the river are, where most of the Digimon are. They find Joe and Sora already there. "Hey you two!" He says to Joe and Sora. Joe and Sora wave their greeting. "I bet you can't wait to get back to the right Reality, huh?" Gomamon says. "I can't wait to unfused with Guilmon. But for now, yea, it would be nice to get back to see Calamon. I really miss the little guy." He says with a longing. "I'm certain that the little guy can wait to see you too." Matt says to him. He nods his head.
Soon the rest show up, and then leads them to where the building was. He sees it so clearly, but know that the others couldn't. "I guess this is it. Hope you remember to give them the letter we wrote. Also, don't forget about those DVDs, Takato." Tai says. He gulps at that and nods his head quickly; not liking the look Tai's giving him. "Enough with the stupid DVDs Tai! I'm certain that he'll try his hardest to get them. Gees, don't go threatening the poor guy." Matt says to Tai. Tai looks over at Matt, and then says, "Are you the bit curious to know just what they showed? I mean, come on! I want to know just what Takato and millions of other kid from where he comes from has seen. I think it's imperative to know just what this kids have seen." Tai had moved slowly towards Matt.
While Tai was talking to Matt about that, he had taken a leap into the air and was already finished tying the rope to the building. Upon hear that last bit from Tai, he tosses the two ropes down to Kouji and Kouichi. "Bye you guys! Thanks for everything!" Kouichi says as he begins to climb a rope. Soon the twins were on plate form and he was aright rolling up one of the ropes. Kouji was rolling up the other; Kouichi opens the door to the building. He didn't see the point in putting the rope in his pouch, they'll be using it soon enough.
They close the door and then they all think about File Connect, they way the remember it. Then Kouji does the honors of opening the door. They walk through the door and Kouichi closes the door behind them. He sniffs the air and as he ties the ropes, he hears the sounds of a town waking. Soon Kouji and Kouichi are off the plate form and are now on the ground. "This is the right place! Meet you at IceLeomon's!" Kouichi yells. He finishes up with the ropes and then leaps into the air. He flies around, enjoying the experience. He grins as he looks around. It's File Connect alright, and then heads to where IceLeomon's house was.
He meets Kouji and Kouichi at the door. Kouichi knocks on the door, and IceLeomon opens it after a few minutes. "Greetings! I was beginning to worry about you. The rest of your cloths are in the closet. I don't think you need breakfast." IceLeomon says as they walk into his house. "Sorry but our hosts made breakfast for us. Thanks for the offer though. It's great to be back." Kouji says. They walk into the living room and he smell something. "Is Zoe here?" He asks IceLeomon. "She arrived yesterday. It's just her, though." IceLeomon says. He nods his head, understanding what he meant.
IceLeomon heads back to the kitchen to finish making breakfast for Zoe and himself. They just relax. After an hour, Zoe comes into the living room. Zoe smiles as she looks at the three of them. "Hey you guys! Where have you been? IceLeomon said that you must have run out of supplies by now, so what kept you?" Zoe asks. "We'll tell you and IceLeomon after you guys had breakfast, ok?" Kouichi asks. Zoe nods her head and then heads to the next room.
They all thought about where Tai and the other Digidestine live. They didn't see the harm in telling Zoe or IceLeomon about where they have been since Sunday. Soon Zoe and IceLeomon finish their breakfast and come into the living room to listen to their adventure.
Kouichi starts at the beginning, then Takato, and Kouji. They all add to the story and to what they saw in that other reality. Zoe and IceLeomon listen with great interest and wonder at what they had been through.
After they finish about how they got here, silents settles over the group. Then Zoe says, "I can't believe that this door was capable of doing that. I wonder where else it leads." IceLeomon nods his head in agreement. "This is quite interesting, to think that this Hazard is the great enemy that was the reason for Avalon's Gate to be created. And then to be sealed, incase the Hazard returned. But then I guess the Hazard has returned, in a fashion at any rate." IceLeomon says with amusement in his voice. He blushes at the comment, but you couldn't tell because of his black hide.
He knew that IceLeomon was right; Guilmon and the Hazard were the same very being. The only difference was that he shaped the Hazard into Guilmon and what's the Hazard to stay as Guilmon. He didn't want the Hazard to continue its rein of terror. He hopes that with the Hazard being with him and being in the shape of Guilmon, that he doesn't have to worry about the Hazard trying to conquer anything. 'Didn't LoreApemon say that the Hazard and me being together is enough? Does that mean that what I worry about will never happen? I hope that LoreApemon's right. I really don't want the Hazard to do what it did in ages passed. I'll have to ask LoreApemon more about this, next time we meet.'
IceLeomon gets up, and says, "I'll contact the keep that you guys are safe. Will you be going back in, though?" He looks over at Kouji and Kouichi, they just shrugged. "Not right away, I think we'll head back to the keep to visit our friends and to tell them about our adventure. We might leave to today to do just that." He says, Kouji and Kouichi nod their heads in agreement. "I'll tell them that. Then I think that you'll be back then?" IceLeomon asks. "You bet! We've got more levels to search! More answers to find!" Kouichi says. Zoe nods and says, "I hope the others want to come. Then we could get through that place faster." IceLeomon leaves to go report to the keep about Kouji, Kouichi, and Takato being safe and that they'll be heading back to the keep.
(V)(V)(V)
He sighs as he enters the hot waters of the pool. It's been a busy week, the enemy has renewed their attacks, and they had help to battle them. The enemy has been trying to avoid Takato in one-on-one battles. Not that it helps them, all Takato has to do is to swipe a single card and most of the enemy Digimon just run as far as their legs can carry them. Takato has deleted five ultimate level Digimon with only using a single card. By now, they just up and run before they even see a card in his hand.
He just got back from a battle and had wanted to be clean for supper. The last time he remember them all together on a battlefield was Friday. He knew that Tommy's the only other human here at the keep. He heard that from a Bearmon. He hopes to see his brother tomorrow before going back into battle. Kouji and him have only been talking to each other by the notes they leave in their shared room. He wonders just how Calamon and Lucemon reacts to only seeing a tired Takato. He, too, had been making time to play with the two of them. Everyone has, they needed to be reminded about the good things in live. He knew that Ranamon has been flirting with Takato and knew that Takato was uncomfortable about it. 'I wonder just what this Rika's like, I know from Takato's tales that she's partners with a Renamon, what is a Renamon? I can't wait to meet her and the other Tamers. I wonder what they'd make of us?' He thought about these things until a Digimon calls to him, "Suppers almost ready!"
He gets out of the hot pool and heads to where the towels are kept. After getting dry and putting on clean cloths, he heads to where Calamon and Lucemon will be having supper. He was lucky, it's been two days since he had to rest at night. He'd be lucky if he gets a full eight hours sleep. He's only been here for about two hours already. One hour to report to Cherubimon and then fifteen minutes read the note that his brother left. Then he picked his cloths and head to the hot pool.
Now he walks through the door and finds Calamon and Lucemon sitting at the table. He grins at seeing them; they turn to look at him and wave at him. He finds a chair and sits down, he looks around for Tommy. "Is Tommy have supper with us?" He asks them. "No, he got about three hours to nap, then he took a mission. I hope you don't have to leave yet, Kouichi." Calamon says, looking sad at him. "I need to sleep before I get another mission. I know Tommy and the others would be here if they could. Don't worry about a thing. Besides, you have each other, right?" He says to the two of them. Lucemon and Calamon grin and nod. "Your right! We almost forgot about that, but still it's not that fun with just two people. Why isn't there some kind of holiday? I mean, can't a truce be called or something?" Lucemon asks. He smiles sadly at Lucemon, he then says sadly, "You can't always get what you want. A lot of Digimon are fighting to get the enemy to turn tail. If we just let them have their way, then the battle would be even harder. They'd bring their own Digimon here to live where the native Digimon should live. We can't just let them claim any part of this world for their own. They have countless worlds under their control and we'll do everything we can keep them from claiming this world. They don't need this world or to add this world true inhabitants. We can't back down; they don't have a right to decide the fate of this world or the Digimon that live here. We're trying to protect the free will of the Digimon that are native to this world. Remember this you two, always fight for your ideals. Takato and the others are fighting to give the future Digimon a place to call their own, to make their own mistakes and to learn from them. Nothing is ever perfect and if it was, it would be boring, huh?" He says.
He could tell that Calamon didn't really understand everything that he said, but he could tell that Lucemon was trying to understand just what he meant. "So, if everything was perfect, it would be boring? Why?" Lucemon asks. "To have a perfect world, there would be no free thought or new ideas. Everything would end up being the same, for without everyone having their own opinions, no new ways of doing things can be found. You know how you don't like to play the same games day in and the day out? You need variations in what games you wish to play, you know, change the rules or come up with new ones? If the world is to be perfect then everything can only have the same rules and you can't change them. You get it? I don't know if I can really explain it to you guys. All I knew is that everybody's opinions matter and that this enemy that keeps us from see you guys as often as we want, shouldn't be aloud to have free rein of the other areas. Ask Seraphimon or Orphanimon or even Cherubimon about this, they might explain this better then I can." He tells them. Lucemon thinks about it and begins to eat the food that some of the Digimon that work in the kitchens placed on the table.
After fifteen minutes Lucemon asks him, "So, every body's opinion matters, then whose opinion matter more? And if the enemies have as many worlds under their command, then why add ours?" He thinks about it for two minutes and then answers, "Some Digimon are just plain greedy. They always want more then they should. And to answer you first question, the opinion that matters most is different for everyone. My opinion matter more then a strangers, right? And your father's matter more then my, right?" Lucemon nods, and then asks, "Then Calamon's and my opinion matters to you and the others?" He nods his head. "Ask your father to explain it better. For he might have better answers then me. You can even ask any of the others opinions about this, next time." He says to Lucemon. Lucemon look thoughtful about this and then nods, "Thank you, Kouichi. I'll ask Takato, and then if he says to talk to my father about it, then I will. I still don't see why anyone would want that perfect world you described. Is that the only way to get one?" "I believe it is what a perfect world would be like. It would lack individuality and originality. That's all I can really envision." He says and that end the discussion.
As he gets ready for bed, he thinks about the time he and the others battle Lucemon. He remember about how Lucemon talked about a perfect world. He wonders if it was a good idea to talk about it with him. He hopes that Lucemon understands what he was trying to say. And just as he was about to fall asleep, he felt a certainty that Lucemon had gotten some of his meaning. Then he falls into a dreamless sleep.
To Reader:
Something new, I double hitter! Hope you enjoy reading chapter 16 and this one.
To be continued …
