Author note: I would really like to thank all of you for sending a review about my story. They really help me get some new ideas for the story and help me become a better writer. Also, Piedmon Lady, you had many questions concerning about why Flamedramon was a rookie, and how I was going to get Flamedramon back with Davis. Your questions, I hope, will be answered in the next chapter. Just to warn all of you I have been busy lately, and I am having trouble finding time to write this, but I will finish this story. So keep checking up.
Chapter 2: Harsh Reality
Henry's House
"Hello." Henry said as he picked up the phone. "Hey Henry, its Takato I need to talk to you." Henry couldn't believe it. Why would Takato phone him at 11 o'clock in the afternoon? "Takato do you realize what time it is?" Henry said in a tired voice. "Yeah I know, but I have to talk to you. It's important." Henry grabbed a chair from the kitchen, and sat down by the phone. "Alright what do you need to talk to me about?" Henry heard Takato take in a deep breath before telling him a story that he thought could never be possible.
"You found a what!" said Henry in a now more surprised, and alert voice. "A Flamedramon." Replied Takato as he sat in bed. He didn't have to phone Henry this late, but what he saw in park confused him, and was hoping Henry would have some answers. When he got back from the park Takato secretly used the phone while his parents were asleep. "Was he badly hurt?" Henry questioned. "Not life threatening, but still pretty bad." Replied Takato as he tried to remember the condition of Flamedramon. "Henry, he looked like something kicked the living tar out of him." Henry paused over the phone. He most likely was thinking about what Takato had said. "Well was the portal like the one we went through to get to the digital world." Takato thought back for a moment, and realized it wasn't like the portal that they had gone through before. "No, it was dark, and it shot out electricity. It looked more like a black hole.
"Well he probably got to the real world a different way then what we did."
"I don't think he's from the digital world."
"What makes you think that?" Henry asked.
"Well for one, when I scanned him on my digivice he read out as a rookie."
"A rookie, but he's supposed to be an armour digi-volved."
"I know that! But that what my digivice says."
"Perhaps your digivice is broken." Said Henry as he tried to sort out solutions to this problem.
"I don't think so, but it's a possibility." Takato said, as he looked his digivice over. Everything looked fine, but Takato still didn't really know how these things worked. "Still Henry, I don't remember us ever seeing a Flamedramon in the real or the digital world."
Takato was right. While the group had explored many parts of the digital world, they didn't see one Flamedramon. Still the digital world is one big place, and they couldn't have possibly explored the whole thing. "Takato even if we didn't see a Flamedramon; that doesn't mean that they aren't out there. We probably didn't explore enough of the digital world to see them."
"You're probably right, but there's something else about him that really bothers me."
"What is it?" Henry asked as he listened more to what Takato
was say.
"I don't believe it myself, but when me, and Guilmon got him back to his house Flamedramon was moaning out a name."
"What was the name?"
"Henry he was calling out the name Davis." Henry froze at those words. Davis! he thought. But that's impossible he couldn't be the same one from the T.V. show. He couldn't be.
"Maybe he has a tamer who happens to be named Davis."
"Maybe, but that's too much of a coincidence."
"Well he can't be the Flamdramon from the T.V. show; that's fictional it's not real."
"I know, but still it could be possible. Anyway, why don't you and Terrimon come to my house tomorrow morning and will go to the park to see if he has regain conciseness. We'll probably get our answers then." Takato said as he looked at the clock. It was already midnight, and his mom might check to see why his lights were still on.
"Alright I'll do that." Henry agreed
"Good, but Henry can you phone Rika, and tell her what's happening tomorrow?" replied Takato.
Henry paused for a moment, and nearly yelled. "Are you crazy? I'm not going to phone Rika this late. Why don't you phone her?"
"Well I don't really want to…." Takato said hesitantly.
"Oh I get it." He said in an amused voice. "You don't want to wake the sleeping bear do you?"
"Not really." He replied.
"Phone her in the morning, and tell her what's going on."
"Will she be mad?" Takato questioned.
"She'll be mad, but not as mad as she would be if you phone her in the middle of the night. Beside Renamon is there too, and I don't think she's a night-kind of digimon."
"Okay, I'll phone her in the morning, and will both meet at the park; how's that?"
"That will be good. I'll see you tomorrow then."
"Okay, bye Henry."
"Good-Bye Takato."
Henry placed the phone back on its hook, and looked at the clock in his kitchen. It was late, and if Henry wanted to meet Takato at the park early, he would have to get some sleep. Henry took his chair back to the dining room, and slowly walked back to his room. He opened his door quietly, and saw Terrimon sleeping on the pillow. His big ears were spread across the pillows, and he was sleeping on his back. Unlike Henry, Terrimon was a heavy sleeper, and couldn't be awaken by any normal sound. Henry pulled back the blankets, and lay down beside his digimon partner. I wish I could sleep like you Terrimon. he thought. As Henry closed his eyes, he thought back to what Takato said over the phone. Who was Davis, and how did he get here? Maybe tomorrow, when he meets Takato, he too will find his answers.
Rika's House
It's so beautiful. Renamon thought as she sat the roof of Rika's house. It was early in the morning, and Renamon was just catching the first glimpse of a sunrise. Every since she came to the real world she always watched the sunrises, and sunsets of each day. In her opinion, they were beautiful, and unique. They made colors so beautiful and so bright you thought could never excise. Also, each day they were always different, but still brought the same beauty they had always had. In the digital world there wasn't a sunrise or sunset; there was just night and day nothing in between. These were the reasons why Renamon always watched them. Other than Rika, no one knew of Renamon's habit and she wanted that way. If the others knew that, she loved to watch sunrises and sunsets they would probably laugh at her because she was always serious, and never showed emotions. With that thought in her mind, Renamon sighed. I wish I could share this with someone. she thought to herself. Sometimes when she watched the sunrises, she wished that someone would be beside her for company. It was sometimes lonely to watch.
"Renamon are you out here." A voice cried out that snapped Renamon out of her deep thought. She looked down from the roof, and saw Rika. She was still in her nightclothes, and looked very tired. She must have bee worried about Me. she thought.
"Yeah I'm out here." Renamon replied as she jumped down from the roof.
"I hope I didn't interrupt you." Rika said in a tired voice.
"No you didn't, it was just ending."
Rika looked to the sunrise and back at Renamon. "Was it beautiful this morning?" She asked.
"Yes it was. It created orange and red colours this time." Renamon replied as they both started to walk into the house. "I'll get dressed, and will do some early training if you're up to it." Rika said as she walked to her change room.
"Alright I'll wait over here." She heard her digimon replied as she went into the change room. Rika closed the door behind her, and opened her closet door. Inside the closet were many pairs of jeans, shirts, and one dress she owned. Rika looked at the clothes, and wondered what she was going to wear today. Over the past two years, Rika had started to change her looks. Instead of wearing a shirt with a broken heart on the front, she wore t-shirts that had a single strip down the middle. She also wore her hair down. Still, over the years she continued wore jeans. Rika never liked wearing dresses or skirts because they were too glamorizing, and brought to much attention to her. She didn't like that. She wanted to be respected by others and as a normal person not like some Barbie doll. She picked a blue pair of jeans, and a t-shirt that was her favourite. It had two-toned colours of blue and white on its sleeves and collar. Rika had gotten many compliments from both Henry and Takato about it. She put the clothes down, and was about to get undressed when she heard the phone ring. Who could be phoning this early? Rika asked herself has she grabbed the phone that was in the change room.
"Hello."
"Rika. Is that you?"
"Hey, Takato how's it going?" Rika said with enthusiasm in her voice. Every since Takato had gone back to the digital world and retrieved their digimons she held more respect for him.
"I need to talk to you. It's important."
"It better be important for you to phone me this early in the morning!" she exclaimed.
"It is, you better be sitting down for what I'm about to tell you." She heard him say in a serious voice. Rika sat down on a chair, and thought for a moment. What was Takato was talking about?
"Alright I'm sitting down now what is it?"
Takato cleared his throat, and started to tell his story to Rika
"You found a digimon last night!" Renamon quickly walked over to the change room door, and put her ear to the door. They found a digimon! Damm it and I missed it! Renamon yelled in her mind as she listen in to what Rika was saying. Every since the tamers had defeated the D-reaper the rate of bio-merge digimon slowed to a crawl, and Renamon wasn't getting any fighting time. Now she missed her chance to fight. "You didn't fight him!" said Rika in an angry tone. Renamon was surprised at this. They didn't fight him why not? she asked as she continued to listen to the conversation. Maybe there's something more to this than I thought.
As the conversation progressed, Renamon tried to hear what they were saying. Even with her extreme hearing, she could not quite get all the information. All she could hear was that the digimon's name was Flamedramon, and that he was injured when Takato and Guilmon found him. She couldn't understand the rest of the conversation so she sat back down on the floor. Perhaps Rika will tell me what's going on when she done. Renamon thought as sat and waited for Rika.
"Okay I'll be there Takato. Bye." Rika hanged up the phone, and quickly grabbed her clothes off the hangers. As she put them on, she thought about Takato's story. To her it was amazing, but very hard to believe. It almost sounded like it was all a lie, but Rika knew Takato would never make up a story like that. After Rika was finished getting into her clothes she opened the change room door. There she saw Renamon sitting down on the floor waiting for her. "Renamon we're going to Guilmon's house to meet up with the others." Renamon stood up and replied. "What's going on?" she asked. "I'll tell you on the way." Rika said as she walked out the door. "Wait, Rika."
"What is it?" Rika replied.
"I want to know what's going on."
"There's no time we have to get there!" she said in a strong tone.
"Please Rika, I want to know." Rika looked at Renamon, and gave out a sighed. She knew how stubborn Renamon could be, and if she argued with her, they would probably be late to meet the others. "Alright, I surrender." She said as she closed the door, and sat down on the floor .As soon as Renamon joined her, Rika started to tell her the situation.
Guilmon's House
Flamedramon opened his eyes slowly as he felt a morning sunshine come across his face. Where am I? he thought in a daze. "Davis?" he suddenly called out. He lifted himself into a sitting position and quickly looked to his surroundings. None of the digi-destined or Davis were to be found. Instead, he was in some sort of stone house. "How did I get here?" he whispered. Flamedramon thought back for a moment, and remembered a portal that he went through. Maybe the portal brought him back to the real world. He looked around the stone house, and saw a few things he hadn't noticed before. In the corner was a large amount of bread that could sustain anyone for at least two-weeks. At Flamedramon turn towards a large hole that was in the floor. Whoa! That's a big hole. He looked at it closer and saw it was a large tunnel. Even Digmon would have trouble making this kind of hole. he thought. Flamedramon then turned his attention to the entrance of the house. By what he could see, he was in a place with many trees. While they weren't thick, they still camouflaged the entrance. Flamedramon could also hear the beautiful sounds of birds in the trees. Well, I better look outside. Maybe I'll find out were the others are. He placed his claws underneath him, and started to lift himself up. However, at that moment he felt pain surge through his shoulder and back. He quickly fell back to the floor, and moaned. The pain was so intense, and blinding that it, made Flamedramon's eyes water. He lied there still, and allowed the pain to slowly leave his body. "I guess that wasn't a good idea." He murmured as he carefully brought himself back to a sitting position. He slowly looked at himself, and what he saw shocked him. All over his chest and shoulders were deep bruises that were already black and blue. Jeez, that BlackTyrannomon hit me harder than I thought. Flamedramon stopped for a moment. The battle, the portal how was going to get back to Davis? That thought sent a chill through Flamedramon mind. It was probably his fear, but he must it think of that.
There has to be way.
Then Flamedramon saw something that broke his thought. He had been so caught up in his thoughts that he hadn't noticed the bandages around his arm and leg. He must have been cut in the battle because the blood had started to seep through the wrappings, but that's not what concerned Flamedramon.
Who put these bandages on me? was the question that he kept asking in his mind. He tried to think back to the events that had happened after he entered the portal, but he couldn't. All he could remember was that he fell unconscious and woke up here. I guess he had some sort of amnesia from the whole experience. He sighed and looked around the house again By the look of all this stuff, whoever helped me will surely be coming back. As Flamedramon finished that thought a figure appeared in the doorway.
"Oh good you're awake." Said the figure as it walked into the house. Flamedramon looked to the voice's owner, and saw standing in front of him was a red dinosaur.
"Who are you?" he asked
The red dinosaur smiled, and replied, "I'm Guilmon."
Rika's House
"So were going to park to meet this digimon Takato found." Renamon said as Rika was putting on her shoes. "Yeah were supposed to meet Takato and Henry at Guilmon's hideout so we better get going." As the two were about to go out, Renamon stopped Rika at the door.
"Rika I need to ask you a question."
Rika looked at Renamon with a puzzled look. "What do you need to know?"
Renamon paused then reluctantly asked her question. "Do you know what a Flamedramon looks like?" Rika looked at her partner with a surprise look on her face. "You don't know?" she replied.
Renamon shook her head in embarrassment. Indeed, she had been the digital world for many years, and had seen a lot of digimon, but never encountered someone by the name of Flamedramon. Rika looked to the floor, and tried to think of Flamdramon's features, but she couldn't. She hadn't watched the show in over a year and over time forgot what Flamedramon's appearances were. Then she remembered something.
"Hold on a second Renamon." Rika grabbed her cardholder off the table, and quickly started to shuffle through the deck. Now I know I have one. Rika thought as she continued to look through the cards. Finally, after almost going through the whole deck, Rika found her Flamedramon card.
"Here Renamon, take a look at this." Rika said as she handed the card to Renamon.
Renamon looked at the card, and was surprised at what she saw. What she saw was probably the most striking digimon she had ever seen. He was a dragon type digimon that used fire attacks, and by the way, he looked, he was probably fast. She also noticed the sharp blades and talons that were coming out of his hands, and feet. However, what really impressed her was the red armour he wore. The armour covered his hands, feet, and thighs they had a unique flame design on it with the colors red, and yellow spread all over it. His mask had the same colors as the rest of his armour, but it had a blade coming out of his forehead. Indeed this digmon looked like a tough opponent. Renamon handed the card back to Rika, and said to Rika.
"For digimon I haven't heard of he looks impressive."
"Well he is a good fighter, but we got to get going if we want to meet Takato and Henry on time."
Renamon nodded, and soon followed Rika out the door. As the two made their journey to the park, Renamon couldn't help but fell excitement. She wanted to meet this digimon, and see what kind of fighter he was. She would probably find out when she meets this digimon.
How will the tamers react to meeting a fictional character, and how did Flamedramon come to the tamers world? Find out in the next chapter "The Meeting"
Author Note:
I would again like to apologize to all the readers for having to wait this long for the next chapter. I will try not to do it again. Please keep reviewing I like to hear all your opinions, and suggestion to the story.
-RayD