CR: Oh man. She's got a plot twist in her head that even sends me spinning. Help!
Sora: Ignore her. I do not own Digimon. Though one day I undoubtedly will. On with this very confusing story.
Chapter Nineteen: Awaken Me
Taijin was walking down a corridor in the palace of darkness that Dragomon called home. His mind was a blank slate not containing anything but his name and what Dragomon had told him. Once more his feet carried him to the door of the great hall. Peering in, he made sure that Dragomon was not in there before he entered. The girl that had called him Davis was still chained to the wall, though she was asleep. Taijin plopped down once more at the base of the wall.
Kari opened her eyes with a groan and a silent curse about headaches. She peered about herself and blinked a few times when she saw a Gogglehead.
"Taijin?" She whispered out the name that Dragomon had given the young man. Taijin's head snapped up so fast to look at her that Hikari thought that he might have gotten whip-lash. He did not answer her, but just continued staring at her. Kari shuddered at his soulless eyes and let a tear fall. ----------------------
Davis groaned, opening his eyes. The first thing he saw was a blinding brilliant light on the ceiling. Letting a breath of air escape his lips in a hiss, he closed his eyes.
He could tell where he was by just smelling the air. The scent of cleanness, used to mask the scent of death. Davis sighed, he hated these places more than any others. Hospitals.
Oh what a shiver that word sent up his spine.
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Jun was worried. She was in the hospital waiting room. Aunt Mie had dragged her down here after she received a call. It had been the police reporting that Davis had been found unconscious in one of the streets. What was the odd was that the buildings around him had been damaged. Yamaki was out with the others trying to find Demiveemon, who was missing at the time.
Jun looked up sharply when someone- or something- came through the automatic doors. It was BlackGatomon and she had something in her mouth. Whatever it was, she was carrying it like it was a mouse. Well, maybe there are blue mice.
"Put me down!" Squeaked out the little blue creature hanging from BlackGatomon's mouth. The black cat rolled her eyes before she spat out the little annoying dragon.
"Demiveemon!" Jun squealed, scooping up the dazed Digimon, "What happened? Why is Davis hurt? Where were you?" Jun asked all of these questions in an amount of time that others only could've asked one or two. At this all of the other beings in the room sweatdropped.
"Shheeshh... Down, girl. Davis is hurt because a big bad Etemon attacked us and kicked my butt! It wasn't fun... It threw me through a building and it tossed Davis into one! I'm not sure if Davis should have gotten tossed. What happened to the Etemon, I don't know. Now, if you'll excuse me, I got some sleep to catch up on." And with that, the little dragon closed his eyes and started to snore. Sweat drops all around the room.
"You may come in now." Everybody turned to see a nurse at the door of the waiting room. So they trooped in. When they arrived at Davis' room, they walked in to see a injured Davis groaning and complaining.
"Ow! That hurt!" He snarled at a nurse that was examining him for broken bones, the nurse blinked and hurried out of the room. Following her with his eyes, he winced when he saw his sister and aunt in the doorway. Then one of his eyebrows trooped upwards.
"Where's Takato?"
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Takato sighed, he was still stuck in this dream world with Rika. Rika on the other hand seemed a bit more excited than usual, though she was trying to hide it from Takato. Of course, he noticed everything, especially anything to do with Rika.
"Rika? What's wrong? You seem kinda nervous." Takato muttered to the still hiding girl. Rika tugged downwards on her short tank top before she peeked out from behind the ice.
"How would you feel if a guy from your school was stuck in your dreams?" Rika asked him, brushing some of her hair out of her eyes. She wished that she had remembered to put it back that night, but she had forgotten. Takato cocked his head to the side, thinking. He had to admit that she had a point. He smiled at her meaningless efforts to keep her bright red hair out of her eyes and snickered quietly. Unfortunately for him, Rika had hawk ears. No luck for Goggleheads.
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Davis moaned as Demiveemon jumped onto his chest. The little dragon hopped there for a minute before Jun reached out and swiped him off.
"Davis? What happened to Etemon?" Demiveemon asked him, his little chibi eyes wide.
Davis smirked at his Digimon and answered, "I don't know. I lost consciousness when he grabbed my neck. After that I don't remember anything until I woke up here."
"So what deleted him?" Yamaki walked into the hospital room and looked down at the child of Miracles, "You look like you got your butt beaten. But I got some news!" Davis, Jun, and Mie all blinked and sweatdropped at the happy Yamaki.
"What are you so happy about! Here I am, lying hurt in a-" Davis was cut off by what Yamaki choose to tell him.
"Your crest did something. It glowed for a few seconds and it turned black for a moment. I think whatever took out Etemon had to do with your crest, even if you didn't have it on you at the time." Yamaki smirked at everyone's looks that varied from person to person and continued, "We also looked at the crest like you asked. It's made out of an unknown metal, this metal conducts special currents that we can not identify just yet and it uses these currents to power up your Digimon. Also, we have identified a isotope in the crest that was not there before tonight." And with that Yamaki pulled the golden trinket out of his pocket and handed it to Davis.
Davis blinked. The crest felt different than the last time he had held it. It felt dark, if dark could be felt. Also, there seemed to be a tug on the crest that made him want to get up and go somewhere. Where, he could not tell.
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Taijin once more looked up, Kari noticed. His eyes were no longer soulless and he had a cast of being alive about him. His stood up from his position on the floor and walked out of the great hall. Taijin went out the great stone doors and down the stairs outside. He stopped and stared up at the sky, he could feel that some thing was different. Something had happened and he could feel it in his digital bones. He started to walk down the beach, his feet leaving depressions in the black sand.
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Davis sighed, looking up at his ceiling. He had been released from the hospital on a clean bill of health. Didn't mean that he didn't get a lecture from his aunt about doing dangerous and stupid things. Davis rolled over in his bed and nearly let out a few words when he saw a portal not ten feet from his bed. He sat up, pushing off his covers and stared at this anomaly. It's center was pitch black and the edges were flaming red. Davis blinked a few times before he got out of his bed and touched the center. Like all the readers have guessed, he got sucked in.
Davis gasped, tumbling head over heels down a tunnel that was pitch black except for a golden glow that was surrounding him as he fell.
Davis let out a startled yelp as the tunnel ended... about twenty feet above the ground, that is. Groaning and letting out the words that were forming in his head he received the shock of his life when he looked up. Standing not more than five feet away from him was the dark him that had been haunting his dreams of late. This dark 'him' was staring at him with equal shock, the look mirroring his own perfectly.
"You're.. me.." Davis muttered, noticing that a dark crest of Miracles was strung around the dark one's neck. Davis reached up a hand and touched his own crest, to see if the dark pull had been coming from the person standing in front of him. The dark him mirrored this movement perfectly and touched his dark crest as well. A golden thread linked the two crest together and Davis felt another mind close to his own. The dark him's eyes widened and suddenly Davis knew this other him's name, pulling it from the fake him's mind. He was Taijin. Taijin's eyes widened, pulling the name of this traveler's out of the mind that he felt. The boy on the sand was Davis.
"I.. I don't understand..." Taijin muttered, the words sounding as if he had never spoken before. Davis blinked, he wasn't sure if Taijin had used his mouth to speak or had thought those words. Climbing out of the sand, Davis reached out and touched Taijin's shoulder to see if he was really there. Taijin blinked at Davis and cocked his head to the side, as if thinking about something.
"Who.. Who are you, exactly?" Davis asked him quietly, not wishing to go through Taijin's mind. Taijin blinked at him and scratched his head, as if trying to think.
"I'm.. I don't know who I am." Taijin muttered, his eyebrows coming together. Davis blinked and gasped, realizing just what happened to the Etemon.
"You're the one that destroyed Etemon, aren't you?" Davis asked him, blinking rapidly at his dark twin. Taijin blinked and nodded, opening his mind to Davis and showing him what had happened exactly to Etemon. Davis blinked, seeing the battle as if it was his own memory.
"Yeah.. He had ahold of my neck." And with that Taijin raised his chin so that Davis could see the red marks on his neck, "You're Davis, right? Dragomon's after you. You had better go." Taijin told Davis, looking him straight in the eyes. Davis blinked and finally realized who Taijin was fully.
"Dragomon created you, didn't he? He stole part of me and created you with it. That's why you look so much like me and even have the same crest, isn't it?" Davis asked him, his eyes wide as he looked at Taijin. Taijin blinked and scratched his head again.
"Your me... and I'm you?" Taijin muttered quietly, his eyes getting a look of confusion in their dark depths. Both boys reached for support when the ground started to rock and rumble beneath them. "Dragomon! He's sensed you! You've got to go now!" Taijin shouted over the sharp cracks of the ground under the sand moving and breaking. The sand started to drain through the cracks under it as Taijin grabbed ahold of Davis' arm. "Not without you!" And with that, Davis flipped up the screen on his Gestalt and hit port out on it. Rings of golden light surrounded the two boys as they teleported out of the Dark Ocean and back into Davis' room. Davis groaned, something that he had been doing a lot of, and flopped down on his bed. He looked up at the dark him standing in the middle of the room and scratched his head, wondering how he was going to get away with this one.
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The next morning the two gogglehead's alarm clock, Aunt Mie, walked into their room and blinked. She counted the number of Goggleheads in the room and found the wrong result. She counted three goggleheads and there was only suppose to be two.
"DAVIS! TAKATO! What is going on here!" Her loud yell awoke everybody in the house including Jun and Mie's husband. The three Goggleheads sat up straight. Takato looked relieved for some reason, Davis looked nervous and the one on the floor, Taijin though his name was unknown to her, looked either scared or confused.
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Mie was scowling. She did not like it when people went and made copies of her nephew and she didn't like it even more when that copy was staying with them. She sighed and finally got out of her chair at the kitchen table and when into the living room. The boy called Taijin was looking at everything, his hand every so often reaching up and touching his necklace as he examined things in the room.
"Well now, Taijin. Looks like we have to go shopping. We also have to go and sign you up for school. Yamaki said that he would smooth things over so that you'll have some records, he also want's me to bring you to Hypnos so that he can test how smart you are. Well, let's go, shall we?"
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Taijin blinked, walking across the big lobby after Mie. They had already gone shopping and had signed him up for school, so he supposed that this was the Hypnos place.
"This place is huge, Mrs. Mie." Taijin told her as they walked over to the elevators. Mie looked at him and smiled.
"You can call me Aunt Mie, Taijin." She told him, her eyes bright at the prospect of another nephew. Taijin nodded as the elevator dinged and the doors opened. Clambering in, Mie hit the button of Yamaki's floor and leaned against the wall, disliking elevators intensely. The same couldn't be said for Taijin, who was observing everything in the elevator.
The doors once more dinged open and they stepped out onto the floor where Yamaki was waiting for them. The blonde man looked Taijin up and down and blinked, this kid did look like Davis. He motioned for the two to follow him down the hall and led them to a room.
"Taijin, is it? Go on in. Mie, why don't you go get yourself some coffee?" Yamaki asked her. Mie nodded and headed off as her nephew went in and sat down.
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Awhile later, Yamaki sat back, blinking. He hadn't seen test results like this since they tested Davis. Apparently the brothers shared more than just looks.
Yamaki smirked and walked into the room where Taijin was kicked back drawing.
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Taijin sighed once more. He hated being bored. It was so tiring. Taijin bent his head to once more look at the page he was drawing on. It was a young woman. Her hair was a darker color and her eyes had a seemingly light quality about them. Taijin sighed once more, he had no idea where he had seen this girl. Perhaps on the street, perhaps never, who knew?
All he knew was that this girl was beautiful in an odd way. Looking up as someone entered, he saw Yamaki shaking his head at some papers he was holding. Standing up and stretching, Taijin asked, "What's up, Mr. Yamaki?" Yamaki sighed before answering the Gogglehead.
"Oh, nothing. Expect that you answered the same things that Davis did. You two even share the same intellect! Amazing..."
Taijin shrugged and picked up his paper and pencil, "Am I free to go now, sir?" Yamaki nodded.
"Your Aunt Mie is waiting for you in the lobby. Tomorrow you can go to school with Davis and Takato. Goodbye Taijin." And with that Yamaki showed Taijin to the elevators. Taijin waved goodbye as the grown up left and pressed the down button.
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Taijin sighed, it was the next day and his first day of school. He was walking to school with his 'brother', Davis, and his 'cousin' Takato. He just hoped that the evil fan girls from hell wouldn't swamp him under like they supposedly did Davis ever day. No luck for Goggleheads though.
Arriving at the school, the fan girl's heads all turned as one, sensing a new target. Their eyes nearly popped out of their heads when they saw three punked out guys standing in the gateway to the school. The girls looked at the newest and unknown hottie like a dog would look at a piece of meat. In their eyes that was what the newbie was.
Taijin gulped, seeing the girls looking at him. He quickly ducked behind his brother, who in turn ducked behind Takato. Takato's face drained of all color as the girls started towards him. Fortunately for him, the Ice Queen stalked out in front of the girls and gave them a look that could freeze hell. To say the least, they quickly got the point. That is, all but Leiko.
She quickly ran past Rika and ducked behind Takato to get at Davis, who turned pale as she grabbed ahold of his arm.
"Oh, hello Leiko.. Have you met my brother, Taijin?" He quickly shook her off and ran towards the school, leaving his innocent brother to be the one glomped. Taijin glared at his brother's fleeing back and ducked out of Leiko's grasp and shot towards the school at top speed, which in itself was pretty darn fast.
Skidding into the classroom, he shot past his already sitting brother and bobbed him on the head as he snagged a seat. Ms. Asagi walked in and sighed, she had another Mataski to put up with. One she could deal with, two was okay, but three was just too much.
"Taijin Mataski, come up here and introduce yourself." Taijin nodded and got up, heading to the front.
"My name is Taijin Mataski. Davis is my brother, twins to be exact." He then blinked at the adoring looks that half the class was giving him. Turning to Ms. Asagi, he asked for permission to sit down. She nodded and Taijin headed for his seat, keeping away from the people on the edges of the asides.
The day pasted quickly for the three and soon they were preforming in the daily ritual of running for the bakery. Taijin ran into the kitchen and collapsed onto the table in there, gasping for breath as the other two shot in behind him.
Looking up, his eyes met deep green ones of one Saito, who was sitting at the table.
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Sora: Whoa! Lots of reviews! Heh, this might help me get over my slight case of writer's block. School will do that to you.
CR: Heh. It will do that to YOU, but it'll never do that to me.
Sora: Grr... I might dress you up as a human and make you endure a day of class for that one! As I said last time, whoever gives me my 100th review will either get a guest appearance or a question about what's to happen answered. Sora: Oh, man. This is the chapter were I hopefully get 100 reviews! Now, my dear Readers, become my dear Reviewers! Please remember this, the one who gives me the 100th review gets a special prize! Either a cameo appearance, or an answer to any question about the story! It's the reviewers choice!
