Trials of Life

I don't own Digimon

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"Talking"

'Thoughts'

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(----) Different point of view

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Chapter 28

He sighs as he stares at his test sheet. He sighs and then flips it over, he hopes that he gets a decent mark on this test. He lets his thoughts drift over the story they got from Izzy and Jager about their meeting with the sovereigns.

He notices that Davis is busy with his test and Kari has also finished her test. Soon he loses himself in his thoughts and he snaps out of it when the bell rings. He picks up his backpack and gets up to leave. He hands in his test and he makes his way towards his locker. He opens it and opens up his pack and places the books he doesn't need into the locker and then takes those he needs into his pack.

Soon he finishes and he closes his locker. It's October and Halloween was approaching. He has been spending time with Jager, coming up with what he needs for his costume. This year he decided to take Jager up on his offer of help with a costume. Somehow, Jager talked him out of his prince costume and into a beastly one. He's also learning more about making robotic gadgets then he even thought possible. Currently he's working of moving wings for himself. He's having a tough time, but once his finish they'll send them to Mimi to put material on them. They finished the tail a week ago and Mimi also had promise not to tell a single soul about what's she's doing for them.

He has a feeling that Mimi's usually the one Jager turns to for help with his costumes, but he doesn't have proof though. It might also explain why Mimi never push too hard to have Jager dress in the cloths that Sora and Mimi choose for him. He sighs and just feels glad that this year, he'll have a really good costume and his friends might not even know it's him unless he tells them. He knows that Revmon and Jager won't tell on him and it goes for him not telling the others about Jager's.

He snaps out of his thoughts when he notices that the others are walking towards him. "Hey TK! Ready to go?" Yolei asks him. He smiles and nods his head. Shouldering his backpack, he follows them towards the computer room. "So for Halloween, I'm going as a knight! What are you going as Kari?" Davis asks. He almost rolls his eyes at this, almost. "I'm thinking about an angel." Kari says. "I'm still deciding between a priestesses and a fox." Yolei says. "What about you Cody?" He asks the younger boy. "I'm thinking about going as a soldier." Cody tells them. "What about you TK? I think you're due to go as a prince this year, considering that you went as a knight last year." Kari says. Before he could answer Davis says, "You're dressing up as a prince? I'm sure that a lot of girls will love that!" His friends all nod at this and he just decides to let them think that. He's not going to tell them, for it'll ruin the surprise.

They make it to the lab and Cody opens the gate and Davis then says the magic words with his D-3 out. They soon find themselves in the Digital World. It was then that he noticed that the others hadn't appeared in a dog pile. "Gennai must have fixed that." He says. They were awarded with the sight of Yolei and Davis jumping for joy at this. He just looks around for their partners.

Soon their partners come charging into the clearing and they soon greet their friends. They soon are on their way towards where Guilmon X, FanBeemon, and Raptordramon are. They chat as they walk, they listen as Davis complains about his test and about how unfair that it came out of nowhere. If you call getting told a week in advanced out of nowhere.

FanBeemon greets them as they enter the clearing and they soon also find Joe talking with Guilmon X. "Hey Joe!" He says. "Hi TK. Kari. These must be the new Digidestine. I'm Joe Kido." Joe introduces himself. "I'm Davis. This is Yolei and Cody." Davis tells Joe. Joe smiles and they then turn the left to see Ken with Wormon and Gomamon walking towards them. "My partner is Gomamon." Joe adds. "And don't you forget it!" Gomamon yells out as the group draws near.

He decides to change the subject. "So are the others coming then?" He asks Joe. "As far as I know they are." Joe says. He sighs; they'll be making plans on which Halloween party they'll go to as a group. The newer ones were also invited to come along. They started this last year and it had been fun, so they were going to try again this year. The party was on at a youth centre and it promises to be a large one too. All you need to attend is to make a donation of minimum of five dollars. It was a worthwhile cause too.

He sits down and watches as they all visit together. He wonder just how they'll take it when they learn that Matt, the lead singer of the Ice Wolves. Matt had trouble coming up with a name and had used this name generator that was on Jager's computer. The full name that appeared was Wolves of the Ice Sword, but dropped the sword part and switched the order of the words. So Ice Wolves it was and Matt only told him about how he came up with the name, Matt didn't even tell Jager about it. Though Jager was shocked with what Matt named the band. He decided that Jager was expecting another name, though Jager never talk about it though.

He snaps out of his musings when Sora, Tai, and Matt appear with their partners trailing behind them. "Isn't that Matt Ishida? The lead singer of the Ice Wolves?" Yolei asks as they draw closer. "Hey Matt!" He cries out. "Hey little bro!" Matt says and smiles at him. He grins and gets up. His older brother looks about for their other brother. "Jager?" Matt asks. He shrugs as his brother draws closer.

Tai and Sora head towards the group while his brother walks over to him. They sit down and begin to talk about things. Then he nods towards where Tai and Davis. It looks like Tai's grilling Davis. "You better talk to him before it gets out of control." He says to his brother. Matt sighs and they get up. Matt intervenes between the two goggle wearing Digidestine. "Tai, relax man. Trust Kari on this, ok?" Matt says. Tai sighs and gives Matt a glare. Matt doesn't flinch at this and Sora says, "You need to trust Kari to decide when she wants to date, Tai." Finally Tai breaks the scowl and smiles. "Fine, but if he starts stalking her…" Tai doesn't finish that sentence.

Then Yolei asks, "You're Matt Ishida! The lead singer for the Ice Wolves!" Matt looks startled and then smiles coolly at Yolei. "I'm also TK's older brother." Matt tells Yolei. Yolei turns and says to him, "You never told me that Matt's your brother! Why didn't you warn me?" He blinks at this and hears Kari giggle at this. "He's just my brother." He says weakly.

His savour is Izzy and Mimi. He watches as Yolei turns towards the new comers and soon is busy talking with Mimi about stuff. He thanks his lucky stars and Kari says, "I think we should have warned them about Matt and maybe Davis about Tai." He nods, still dazed. He then looks around the group, seeing who is with whom. Joe and Cody were speaking with each other, Tai was talking with Ken, Matt, and Izzy, Mimi and Yolei were hitting it off, and Davis was talking with Sora about something. The Digimon were talking among themselves and with FanBeemon and Guilmon X. Raptordramon is missing as is Jager and Revmon.

Kari and him just stand there, just together enjoying each other company. They didn't feel the need to talk or hold onto each other. They just liked being together.

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He sighs as he watches as Raptordramon and Revmon spar. They have been going at it for a good fourteen minutes now and they need to head to where the others are. They were meeting today to discus about Halloween plans and they were late by twenty minutes.

He watches as Revmon dodges the blades on Raptordramon's back. He watches as Raptordramon tries to turn quickly in the direction of where Revmon is. Revmon tries a head on attack on Raptordramon. The champion jumps straight up and tries to pin his partner with his legs.

He hears Tai's voice asks, "What are they fighting about?" He answers, "They're sparing. They've been going at it for a good seventeen minutes." Tai whistles at this and asks, "So who's winning?" "They're not trying too hard, so it's a draw." He explains. "You're saying that they're not serious about this fight? Then what's the point?" Davis asks. He sighs and says, "Its just exercise." "You call that exercise?" Tai asks again. He nods his head and asks, "You guys were sent to find us then?" "Yip." Both goggle wearing guys say at the same time.

He sighs and yells towards the pair, "We need to get going before they send another pair in search of us." That cause the pair to pause and they both turn to look at them. "Ok." Both Digimon in tone at the same time as they get out of their stance. He turns away from the pair and find both Davis and Tai just looking stunned at the fact that both have stopped their fight.

Soon they are on their way to the clearing. He hears Raptordramon and Revmon talk about their quick spar. He then hears Tai and Davis arguing on which would have won if it had been a real fight. He should have guessed that they'd be fighting; the info about Davis having a huge crush on Kari when Tai was younger wasn't helping the relationship at all. He has long since figured out that it was Revmon who informed an eleven-year-old Tai about Davis.

They soon enter the clearing with Tai and Davis arguing at a higher volume. Everyone turns to watch them. He smiles and everyone looks passed him and the Digimon to the two arguing humans. He walks towards the group as Raptordramon and Revmon split off from him to head towards the other Digimon. Davis and Tai have stopped a good six feet away from the group. "They're arguing about who would win in a fight, Raptordramon or Revmon." He explains to the group. "And they're started when?" Joe asks. "After watching them spar." He says simply.

Then after a bit of a silences among the group, Ken asks, "Who won?" He sighs and says, "Either, I call a halt to the spar." They then all as one turn to look at Davis and Tai, and after a good ten minutes of watching them fight, Davis and Tai pause and look their way. "What!" They say as one. "You're done yet?" Jager asks, being braver Digidestine of the group. They then blink and then they just sigh. "We'll finish this later." Tai tells Davis. Davis just agrees and soon both join the group.

They sit in a circle, the Digimon join them too. He sits with Izzy on his right and Mimi on his left. His partner is sitting with Gomamon to the right and Davis on the left. TK has Tai to his right and Veemon to his left. Matt has Biyomon on his right and Cody on his left.

They soon start talking about where they're going and went to meet up together. The X Digimon asks a few questions about Halloween. This whole planning takes about an hour for everyone to agree on it. They soon just start to hang out; they decide to have supper together. Mimi hears about this one restaurant that's said to sever good food. They soon are on their way to have supper together, the X Digimon deciding to join them.

To be continued …