Trials of Life
I don't own Digimon
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"Talking"
'Thoughts'
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(----) Different point of view
(-/-/-) Flash back
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Chapter 14
He just stares as Angewomon and LadyDevimon go at it. He sighs and wonders if anyone was of the appropriate age to understand why they can't take their eyes away from the sight before them. He can hear Kari yell encouragement to her partner.
He was kind of happy that Tai told Sora to go search for Joe and Mimi. He really doesn't know just what Sora would do or say during this battle. He tears his eyes away from the two battling female Digimon to check and see just where TK is. He's relived to find TK with Matt and Gabumon.
He turns to his right and finds Revmon standing by his side. He asks quietly, "Anyone else around?" Revmon looks at him and answers, "Nope." He feels a bit better about that and Revmon asks, "What were you and TK talking about?" He sighs as he looks away from his partner. "I just told him about when I woke by Primary Village and about how Elecmon knocked me out." He explains. "O." Is Revmon's reply. It was all that need to be said.
He only plans on telling TK about how he hunted down all eighty Digimon that had participated in killing off the whole group of original Digidestine. He wasn't willing to go any further then that, for he'll wait for when TK's older to continue on with the story, but that's in the future and in the here and now, two hot looking Digimon were currently having a cat fight in the air.
He sighs, but doesn't watch the fight. He just decides that the area around them was more interesting, plus it'll cool off his hormones too. He didn't need to get worked up about this; he still wants to get some rest later.
Soon it sounds like Angewomon wins the fight and he turns to watch as Angewomon transforms back into Gatomon. He sighs and asks Revmon, "Might just waking me up when the clown arrives?" Revmon grins at this and just nods his head. He finds a patch of dirt and places his pack on the ground in front of him. He slowly, but surely falls asleep.
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He stands guard by his sleeping partner. The others were now energized and wide-awake. It seems that Piedmon was slowly walking towards them, he rolls his eyes at this, but knows that it'll give Jager some much need rest.
He hears Patamon fly over and land by his side. "Didn't he get any sleep before?" Patamon asks. "I doubt it. It'd be the same with me, if I saw Jager fall asleep. I'd fine is impossible to sleep for I'd need to keep an eye out for trouble." He explains. Patamon looks at Jager's face and Patamon just sighs. "What was it like, seeing him like that?" Patamon asks.
He sighs and says, "I just didn't know it was him. I began to cry because my partner wasn't around and that this stranger was holding me. It wasn't until Leomon came for me three days after I hatch did I learn about what happened with the others. I was stunned when I was told that the white teen that had been holding me when I hatched was really TK. It took a good mouth before he'd finally stop murmuring about making his memories stop. He finally got enough of a grip and he accepted me. I was stunned to find out that I too wasn't in the form I should have been in." He looks away as he still remembers the few times he saw Jager back then. It was heartbreaking sight to see the once blond, go lucky teen reduced to a broken white haired teen.
He collects his thoughts and continues, "When the others hatched, they also didn't know why their partners didn't come for them. Some of them were resentful that TK got a second chance at life where their partners didn't. It wasn't until they meet up with him did they see that it wasn't a good thing. For five years since TK was killed and reborn, TK couldn't bring himself out of his stupor. It wasn't until the news about the ones that killed the group were trying to take over the Digital World did TK began to do more then mop around. But that's for a different story." He stops and looks to find Patamon staring sadly at Jager. He couldn't help but call his partner TK in the story.
"Did you guys defeat the group?" Patamon asks suddenly. "We deleted them. Gennai couldn't send for help from the real world, so it had been just him and me." He tells his… brother. Patamon just sighs and turns to look at TK.
He too finds it hard to think of the eight year old kid could grow into that resurrected teen that's sleeping behind him. But he knows that if events played out in the same way, then it could happen. He was very determined to keep that from happening.
Soon the clown is close enough and he wakes his partner up. Jager yawns and stretches a bit. He then grabs his pack and they join the group watching MetalGarurumon and WarGreymon face off against Piedmon.
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He wasn't so surprise that when they destroyed Piedmon's white cloth that Piedmon would summon Vilemon to aid in the coming fight. He was kind of surprise at how easily Angemon Digivolved into MagnaAngemon though. Between TK and his partner, you'd think that this wasn't their first time.
He's on Shalindramon's back watching the fight. He also sitting behind him is Kari and TK. He could feel TK hold onto his jeans. He turns to look at Kari and TK. Other then look a bit afraid, they seem perfectly fine.
He hears TK says, "Look! It's Zudomon and Lillymon! I think that's Garudamon too!" He turns to see where TK is pointing and finds that his little 'brother' is right. He sighs in relief as he notices the small army that Joe and Mimi have gathered.
Soon it's a battle royal happening between the Vilemon and the ally Digimon. This leaves the groups partners to attack Piedmon without much interference. MagnaAngemon hovers close by and TK yells out, "You get 'em, MagnaAngemon! You rock!" If he didn't know any better, he'd swear that the angel Digimon was embarrassed. "I'll do my best!" MagnaAngemon says and soon rejoins the fight.
MagnaAngemon uses Gate of Destiny. The gate opens and soon the others begin to throw the Vilemon into the gate. It took MetalGarurumon, WarGreymon, and MegaKabuterimon to fling the mega level clown Digimon into the gate. The gate closes when all of the Vilemon have been sucked through.
He knows what's next, but he motions for Shalindramon to land by the others. His partner does so and Mimi says, "Is this his ultimate level form?" "No, just a different Digivolution called armour Digivolving." Izzy explains to Joe and Mimi. He helps TK and Kari onto the ground, but remains on his partner's back.
Izzy soon receives E-mail from Gennai and reads it out loud. He's not too surprise at what's in it. "Any clue who this guy is?" Joe asks. Then after they think about it for a minute they all turn towards him and he sighs and says, "Apocalymon." "That's it?" Tai asks. He blinks and says, "All I remember was this large golden thing with some figure talking about some depressing stuff about how he's made out of data from our fallen foes. I was kind of busy thinking about what I wanted for dinner then on the battle." The focus then shifts to TK and he also seems to be thinking about something else then to what he's saying.
TK snaps out of it and finding everyone looking at him, he asks, "What?" "You were thinking about food." Matt says. "How'd you know?" TK asks in surprise. The group laughs at this and he sighs as he watches the group disappear in front of his eyes. He wishes them luck, he really did.
He turns to find Gennai appearing in front of him. "We need to talk more about you're aging problem." Gennai says. He blinks and says, "But I thought that if I live in the real world, I'd start aging again." "I don't think it'll be that simple." Gennai tells him. He sighs and Shalindramon takes off into the direction of Gennai's house. He just hopes that it's good new, he didn't want to out live anyone.
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They found themselves in this black void and soon spy this golden thing that Jager must have been talking about. He looks around for Jager, but can't find his 'older' brother for the life of him or Shalindramon either.
"I guess we're on our own for here on in." Tai says. He could see TK look kind of depressed about this, but soon a different expression appears on his little brothers face. "We'll win, we're the good guys." TK says with a lot of confidents in his voice. "He's right, we just need to believe in ourselves, Jager did." Sora says. "Alright then, it's go time!" Tai states and they take that as a cue to have their partners Digivolve to their highest level.
Before they ever saw the face of their enemy, their partners were attacking the golden object with extreme prejudice. They also began to notice that all of their crest were glowing brighter then ever before. After a few minutes, the face of the enemy appears and he shouts out angrily, "Why didn't you let me at least talk before attacking me!" "'Cause, you're going to try and destroy us and all the bad guys speeches are the same!" Tai yells out. The villain blinks a few times, clearly dumbfounded that the clear-cut logic that they were displaying.
They didn't give him much pause before they start attacking again. Apocalymon grunts at the hits he received and attacks by opening the other sides of the object revealing golden metal claws and chains. They dodged the attacks that Apocalymon was using, mostly odd attacks they've seen before. Considering they know that he could use those said attacks helped them out too.
Through out the whole battle, their crests kept glowing. Then WarGreymon drills through the golden body of Apocalymon. Their crests then glow more brightly and suddenly their Digivices sends out lights that soon form into some kind of glowing box. "Curse you all! You ruined my final attack!" Apocalymon's voice cries out and soon the body explodes within the box.
They all just stare dumbly around the void and they soon look down and watch as the Digital World reforms. Then they find themselves in a forest and find Jager, Revmon, and Gennai approaching them. He notices that Jager looks a bit upset about something and sends him a questioning look.
"Good job, Digidestine. You did something that the first group of Digidestine weren't able to do. Congratulations." Gennai tells them. "And is something wrong with Jager?" He asks. Jager smiles a bit at this and Jager then says, "I'm going to be stuck as a fourteen year old for a few more years." They all blink, but TK then asks, "So your not coming back to the real world with us?" Jager blinks at this and Revmon chuckles. "It means that I can't age until you are my age." Jager explains. "You mean that you're going to be fourteen until TK's fourteen?" Joe asks. Jager just nods and says, "It appears so." He doesn't know just what to think, but he can't suppress a smirk. "Then you'll be my 'little' brother in a few years." He says. Jager glares at him a bit and Revmon says, "Very true." "Traitor!" Jager says to Revmon. Revmon just chuckles and moves away from the white haired teen.
Then Izzy asks, "But why?" Everyone too wanted to know the answer to that question. Gennai explains, "Jager can't age naturally any more. So considering that in away Jager is in a sense TK's double and TKcan age naturally, its makes sense that they have this odd bond between them. All I can't says is, either TK will stop aging at age fourteen with Jager or at age fourteen Jager will age with TK. I don't know which though and given enough time, I might also find a way before TK is fourteen and its put to the test." "That helps explain things, so who's for staying here for a few months?" Tai asks the group.
"Sorry to bust the bubble, but the Digital World now is on the same time clock as the real world." Jager explains. They blink owlishly at this and they turn to Gennai to confirm this. "He's correct. If it hasn't been for the fact that he has an operating Digi Port, I would be telling you that you only have an hour to spent time with your partners before sending you back. But since he does, you can came and go as you please." Jager grins and says, "I'm also aloud to teach you guys how to operate it so you don't need me to open it for you guys." They all smile at this and they sadly did have to leave the Digital World and with things getting hectic for the next few weeks, they'll have to put off visiting their partners, but once they learn how to use this Digi Port, things will be great.
They say bye to their partners and promise to visit in a few weeks. Revmon will be coming with them to the real world, mostly cause it wouldn't be fair for Jager to live in his own apartments alone. They would have to wait a few months before thinking about bringing their partners to the real world too.
To be continued …