Anyway, enjoy this chapter... If you've read the novel Flabbergasted, it may sound a little like it, but hopefully it doesn't (I've been reading that a lot recently). I find it scary that the fics both have similar beach trips.
Setting might be a bit weird... and if you still don't really know what Crystal looks like (oo; Which is interesting, because I've done a good bit of detail on her outfit most of the time), then look at my deviantart, and try and look for pictures there. Setting should be explained a little bit more here.
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"Man..."
I gave a heavy, deep sigh and felt the blankets and sheets underneath my back as I fell against the bed.
It was evening when we got there, and I had felt a -tad- too tired. Emotionally and physically - carrying my "suitcase", or rather Guilmon himself was rather hard. I felt my hair somewhat fall against the blankets, and I gave out a tired sigh.
"Giru? Takato, what are you doing?"
A red muzzle nudged my side, and I glanced into a pair of yellow eyes. I saw Guilmon tilt his head to the side, blinked, and continued to stare.
I felt sore. I had been so tired that the most I could do was trudge into my room, and tear the clasps of the suitcase open for Guilmon.
"I'm tired, Giru," I muttered, using his nickname for him. Crystal and Jeri, with their nicknames for all the digimon, had rubbed off a bit. Guilmon's nicknames were Guilleh (suggested by Jeri) and Giru (from Crystal). The nickname Giru was a bit obvious (AN: In the Japanese series, Guilmon often says "giru" a lot. Calumon also says "curu", but then again he isn't in this story...). "I want to sleep. Let me, please?"
"No play, Giru?"
"Too tired."
"Tommorrow?"
"Maybe."
"Awww," I heard a small sigh emit from Guilmon, and a little puff of breath hit my leg. Out of the corner of my eye I saw his ears droop a bit, and his head rest there.
I pulled off my goggles as I looked up at the ceiling and closed my eyes, holding the strap in my hand and letting my hand hit the mattress.
I must've drifted off because I felt something warm against my hand instead of the cool edge of my goggles. I slowly opened my eyes and I could see a hand in mine. A black gloved hand.
I looked up. I faced a back. Long black hair drifted down in layers.
I let my fingers lace around Crystal's hand, and I saw her turn to me. She briefly let go of my hand to sit on her knees ontop of the bed.
She smiled at me, as she sat next to my laying body.
"Nice nap?"
"Quite long. Didn't realise it was morning."
"Afternoon."
"Wow."
"You must've been tired, I'm guessing."
"Yeah..." I propped myself up on the bed. "I was really exhausted when we got here and I ended up just falling asleep."
I looked around the room. Crystal was right. I saw a faint yellow glowing in the room pouring in from the windows. I didn't see a Guilmon insight, though.
"You should change into something lighter," Crystal said, as she held the blue sleeve of my hooded shirt. "Your shirt seems a bit thick, and it's pretty hot."
I looked at her, and I noticed she had changed her top to a tight black tanktop that showed her midriff. I also noticed that it was quite low on her, and I blushed at the thought. I looked away, to hide my embarrassment.
"I probably will, in a sec."
"All right," Crystal said, standing up. She walked over to the doorway, and I watched as her loose black leather belt - as always, only strewn through two of the side belt loops - hit her hip as she walked, the silver buckle shining. Instead of her usual jeans though, she wore a jean skirt. I also noticed a two small, loose, light blue straps on her shoulders. Half of me wanted to ask if it was a bathing suit. The other half wanted to stay quiet, incase it was... well, something else. I decided to go with the other half.
Crys leaned against the door. "Oh, and Takato?"
"Yeah?" I sat crosslegged now on the bed.
"I'll be in the kitchen. Everybody else is up."
I watched her walk out of the room, and I found myself with my mouth open. I blushed and started looking for some more casual clothes.
I ended up just taking my sweater shirt off, wearing only my white undershirt and a pair of blue swimtrunks. I decided to string my goggles around my neck, and throw on some sandals as well, then made my way out into the hall.
I saw everybody just sprawling around. Rika was wearing a dark blue tanktop, tied at the shoulders, with an ice-blue fragmented heart (AN: Similar to the Whatever Blooheart top on Gaia) as well as some jean shorts, flipping through her digimon cards out of boredom. Henry sat next to her, in a similar outfit to mine - a black shirt and green shorts. It seemed like we were always dressing similar lately. He was busy trying to maintain Terriermon from moving around and climbing on him.
Crystal was nowhere in sight even though she had said she'd be there, but I saw Jeri stroll in from what I believed to be her room, in a red strapless bikini top and a pair of incredibly baggy jeans, 15 sizes too big. Her belt barely even helped it stay attatched to her waist. I didn't know which one to gawk about - the strapless bikini top, or the gimongous (AN: Giant + humongous gimongous) pants.
Both, I agreed on.
That's when I noticed a little sunset-colored cat giggling at me from behind Jeri's leg. I blinked, and it giggled even harder. I half expected it to fall over and start rolling around, laughing uncontrollably. (AN: A literal ROFL... And wow, I used an acronym like THAT!I never use any acronym similar to "lol" or "rofl" and etc... very rare.)
Henry looked up at me. "So -that's- why you're always late to school. Jeez, how much sleep do you need?"
"Quite a lot," I responded, slightly embarrased while going over to the fridge. I pulled out a carton of juice. "So are we planning to go anywhere?"
"Well, we were kinda talking about going to the boardwalk," Rika said, putting her deck of cards on the table.
"But then I kinda suggested that we could take the digimon there, since most of our digimon we can take as 'stuffed animals'," Jeri continued on, picking up her still-cackling kitty. I guessed that she was Katzeimon.
"What about Guilmon?" I asked, staring at the cat. It was finally coming to its senses, although still giggling a bit. Katzeimon covered her mouth with her paw, her golden eyes still laughing. But as soon as I had poured myself a glass, it started up again.
"Cuz said she'd take care of that, somehow." Rika responded. "Said she had a REALLY great card. Which is funny, because I don't remember the last time I saw her know the difference between a good card in the Digi-card game, and a credit card."
"And that's why Rika's been searching through her deck," Henry explained, and on cue, his girlfriend picked up the pile of cards again, sorting. "She wondered if there was really a card that was that good that she hadn't heard about."
"I still don't get it," I heard Rika mumbled. I let out a small chuckle, and Jeri continued the story for the frustrated Digi-queen.
"Anyway, she said she'd take care of that, which is why we started looking for Guilmon... but no such luck. So we decided to wait for you to wake up, since you know him best and all."
"Heh, go figure that Guilmon went off on his own..." I muttered, and I made my way to the door, Jeri following with Katzeimon in her arms. As our beach house stood right infront of the beach, I stood there for a moment, mystified after I had opened the door.
I blinked, taking in the view infront of me. I suppose it was because we had arrived at evening, and all was pretty dark, but the view was great. Stretches of sand lay infront of me, and the ocean was huge.
I looked around, and I heard the familiar "Myaaah!" from Guilmon's muzzle. My eyes darted, knowing he was around... but where?
"You have any clue where he is, Taka-kun?" Jeri said, looking at me with worried eyes. Katzeimon leaped from Jeri's arms and started to look around.
"Giru giru giru..." Katzeimon mumbled, looking around for a trace of the red dragon. I wondered if Katzeimon already knew what Guilmon looked like or not, but I shrugged and continued looking myself. Even if she didn't know, she seemed to do a pretty good impression of him, as she snuffed around for his scent, muttering "giru" under her breath.
"There," I said, pointing to a red dot in the water. I ran onto the beach. Grains of sand inched their way up my legs as I trudged through as fast as I could, and suddenly I could see two more dots in the water. Then I heard a scream, and as I made my way in the ocean spay, throwing my shirt onto the beach as the cool water licked my ankles, I could see something fretting about.
"WHY IN THE WORLD DID YOU TAKE ME INTO THE WATER!" I heard, and then as I got close, I saw Giru with Puppi on his nose, and Crystal laughing in a light blue bikini.
So -that's- what she had been wearing.
Puppishumon was screaming, and Crystal gently picked her up, and placed the terrified blue puppy onto her head, although Crystal wasn't very tall to begin with, so it made very little difference.
"I can't BELIEVE you! I know you know that I'm TERRIFIED of this, this, this... this..."
"Water, Puppi."
"THIS TERRIFYING BLUE LIQUID OF HORRORS."
I laughed, and Crystal looked at me, her massive black-framed sunglasses hanging from her mouth, held inbetween her teeth. The blue lenses were blinding, and she ended up hooking them onto the middle of her bikini top so she would be able to talk.
"Umm... I guess a 'hi' wouldn't really explain this," Crystal said in a slight chuckle.
"Definately not." I looked at Guilmon, then at Crystal, then at Jeri, who had slid her gigantic jeans off and joined us in the water, in her strapless red bikini.
Girls. Girls and bikinis. Girls.
Gah. I had no idea where to look.
"So what went on here?" I said, concentrating my eyes on Puppi, who was holding onto Crystal's head as if the tide were up to our eyes, instead of at our waist. "A bit confusing."
"Well, I saw Puppi napping, and I know she's afraid of water--"
"SEE! SHE ADMITS IT AND YET SHE TORTURES ME." Puppishumon continued to grip onto Crystal's head, mussing up her tamer's hair.
Crystal continued, ignoring her digimon. "And so I couldn't help but lift her up and take her down to the beach. So then I spotted Guilmon in the water and so I went over to him, 'cause I wanted to ask what he was doing out here. And then you see the situation infront of you."
"See, I could -never- really have much of a relationship if Katzei and I were fighting like that," Jeri said, pushing her hair back away from her face.
"Puppi and I have a very... odd relationship," Crystal explained. "Kind of like... an older sister tortured by her younger sister."
"And which one are you?" I asked, slightly bemused about the situation.
"...I think the roles kind of switch off, at times." Crystal said with a shrug.
We started making our way back, and I walked next to Guilmon, asking him why he had gone out in the ocean.
"Felt like it, giru!" He responded, with a grin. I smiled, and patted him on the head like a puppy, and I could see his tail swish through the water as we walked.
As we approached the beach, I saw Katzeimon sun-bathing in the sun on a rock, waiting for us. Her ears were drooped and she looked content. Her golden tailring and bracelets on her front legs glistened in the sun, and I could see the rubies on the golden jewlery shining as well. As we approached, us sloshing through the water, I saw one of her golden eyes slowly open, and hear ears perk up, kind of like Guilmon when he sees me. When we got on the beach, she leaped off and ran up to join us.
Oddly enough, she didn't pounce on Jeri. Instead, she ended up pouncing on Guilmon.
How come I expected that?
"GUILLEH!" Katzeimon tackled Guilmon to the ground, sand spraying everywhere. Guilmon's head ended up landing near my feet. For such a small cat, she sure could topple Giru down quick.
Wow, this sure felt familiar.
"Who's this, Takato?" Guilmon looked up at me, with a startled voice.
"I'm Katzeimon!" She said, nuzzling him. I heard a small growl, and I turned. Both Crys and I looked suprised as we looked at Puppi, who was sitting down on the groupd next to her tamer. She glared at Katzeimon, and a small "hmph" escaped from her mouth, as she turned to look away, curling her tail around her.
"Something wrong?" Katzeimon challenged, as Guilmon got off and she slid off of his white muscular chest. "You don't like me being around Guilmon?"
"No," Puppi muttered under her breath. She flicked the end of her tail slightly, her eyes narrowing a bit. I could tell she was really bothered though.
"Good." Katzei smiled, her canines showing. "Then that means that you won't be bothered if I do anything, right?" As she spoke, she went over and gave the red dinosaur a small kiss on the muzzle.
I saw Puppi's face turn red, and she ended up going walking over to where Guilmon sat, and tugged on Guilmon's arm. "No, but you don't need this, do you?"
Katzeimon tugged on his other arm. "Well, yeah, I do. Have a problem with it?"
"Cat fight!" I heard Terriermon's voice, and I saw Rika and Henry exit the house, walking next to each other, hand in hand. Henry grinned at me, and Rika just gave me a small smile. Terriermon sat perched on Henry's head, and Renamon stood behind the both of them.
"It's not really a cat fight, if you think about it," Renamon said, crossing her arms.
"Cat fight, dog fight, cat-dog fight." Terriermon said in a small pouting voice. "Whatever! Mouhmantai!"
I reverted my eyes back to Katzei and Puppi, and they continued to pull on Guilmon's legs. My digimon looked at me with confused eyes. Although they could not lift him off the ground because he was massive as appose to their sizes, the two female digimon still continued to tug at Guilmon's arms.
I smiled. Like tamer, like digimon.
Well, then again, the digimon were more immature.
"Boardwalk, anyone?" Henry asked, reminding us of our original plans for the day.
"We've been waiting for a while, so you guys better be ready," Rika retorted. She had grown a bit impatient, as I noticed.
I looked over at the others. Jeri nodded, putting her belt back on. I guess Crystal had dashed into the house while the argument with the digimon went on, because she had her old outfit back on, and she nodded as well, scooping up Puppi into her arms, to stop her digimon from tearing Guilmon's arms off.
"Yeah, we're ready. Let's go!"
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Yeah, it's long. I know. It was gonna be longer oO; And that's pretty much why it took so long to publish.
Next chapter hopefully won't take as long.
If anyone could help me, I'm having issues downloading Digimon season 1... I wanted to watch it, 'cause technically that's the only season I've seen (-Please- don't shout at me that I missed a really good season, I know it already!) but I'm having issues downloading it. I use Bittorrent to download all my Digimon episodes, and I went to this one site, downloaded it from the group who fansubbed Digimon Tamers, and tried downloading it, but I had some problems, and every time Bittorrent would stop working after that, and I'd have to restart to get it to work again.
Anyone have any advice, or anything? Please contact me if you do o-O;;;