CR: -grumbles- I hate the holidays! She sticks a santa hat on me every year! Oh well, can't stop her. Thanks, Akira, for all your great work! We do not own Digimon. Any and all songs that were wrote for this fanfiction are by Akira Bane. Thanks, Aki!
Chapter Twenty-four: Happy Holidays!
Kari shivered. Man, was it cold! She crossed her arms, rubbing her hands up and down. Even though most of her skin was covered by the clothes that Jun had dressed her in, she still felt the chill of late November.
She hurried to her apartment building, which was not an easy task in those boots. She quickly entered the elevator and pushed the button for her floor. When the doors dinged open, she hurried to the apartment door and pulled her key out of the skirt's pocket. She unlocked the door and headed like a cruise missle for her and Tai's room.
She threw open the door, she looked around and smiled as she saw her brother. He was on the bottom bunk of their bunk bed and was snoring away. She snunk quitely over to said bed and jumped on her sleeping brother's chest.
"Zzzz... Ow!" Tai sat up as Kari's belt buckle dug deep into his chest. He glanced down to see the source of the pain and was surprised when he saw the missing that was not so missing, "Kari!" Kari was enveloped in a bear hug that would have squeezed the head off OF a bear. Kari's face started to turn blue rather quickly.
"A-air! I... need... air!" She gasped out, trying to push away her brother's arms. Tai let go off his sister and finally noticed her outfit. He started to scowl at her outfit as she grinned at him.
"Just where have you been, Kari! You had me worried sick!" Tai growled at her as she jumped up and raced over to the computer. She removed the camera from around her neck and plugged it into the computer using it's USB cable, "Um... What are you doing, sis?" Tai asked her, climbing up from his bed. She turned around and grinned at him as the camera's contents started to download into the computer. When it was finished, she pulled up the camera album and showed him the pictures.
"That is where I've been. It's a place called West Shinjuku." She told him, surfing through the pictures until she got to one in particular. It was one of Davis, Taijin, Takato, Rika, Henry, Jun, and herself. Not that Tai knew who half of these people were, "You won't ever guess who I ran into!" Kari told him, watching him puzzling over the screen.
"Uh. Um... Who?" Tai asked her, scratching his head. Kari giggled softly before she answered her befuddled big brother.
"Davis and Jun." Kari told him, watching his face extra carefully. Tai's mouth fell open, almost to his ankles, in fact. He soon began to stutter, which lead Kari to answer his question before he asked it, "Yes, Davis and Jun. And yes, I did get a picture of them. After all, it's on screen." She told him, leaving Tai even more confused than before.
"Davis? None of those people look a thing like Davis!" Tai muttered, making Kari roll her eyes at him. She held up a finger and put it on the screen over Davis' image. Tai blinked, examining the white haired, pale skinned punk on the screen, "It can't be him. It doesn't look like him." Kari snickered softly, taking out the video tape.
"Maybe this will convince you." She told him, waving said tape in front of his face. Tai growled and snatched it from her, popping it into his run down VCR. It started to play immediately. On the screen was the white haired boy and he was smiling.
"Well now. If you are watching this, it means that Kari did get back to the Eastern Quadrant. That's good. Now, Tai, you most probably are not believing that it's me, but it is me. After all, I sound like me, don't I?" The boy on the screen spoke, almost as if he was reading Tai's mind. Tai blinked, admitting silently to himself that this kid did sound a lot like Davis.
"Now, I'm not coming home. Sorry, but I need this vacation. I'm happy here. Jun's even happy here. But then again, there are some things that are a bit abnormal. For instance, there's a dark me in this place, but he's not that dark. He's actually kinda like a baby. He's totally innocent." The boy paused for a second, thinking it seemed, "His name is Taijin. He was created by Dragomon, who by the way was the same ass-wipe that kidnapped your sister." 'Davis' said, rubbing his chin, "Oh. And tell my mother that I'm fine, okay? She doesn't need to worry about me. I'm staying with a kid named Takato and his family." The boy, who Tai stilled doubted was Davis, said. The door behind the kid suddenly opened and in came Veemon. The boy turned to face the Digimon and the tape stopped, leaving Tai gaping. That had been his friend, just with snow white hair, the presence of Veemon confirmed it.
Tai turned to his sister and told her, "Call the others."
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Davis grumbled, rolling over in his sleep. He had finally gotten some sleep, even through the pain. That didn't mean that the dreams he had were pleasant. In his dream, the sky was a angry orange color. The land around him was a wasteland of toppled buildings and metal skeletons of cars. Some of these land marks were twisted and melted almost as if kissed by the sun. The same went for the ground that these behemoths rested on, for there was not a blade of grass growing.
Davis looked looked skyward. To the far west, the sun seemed to be sitting on the horizon. Rising from the ground in front of the golden disc was three creatures. Davis was extremely famliar with their shapes, after all his partner had a similar shape. The three creatures were dragons, but of three different colors. One was white and it was medium sized. Another was black and it was as well medium sized. But the largest was colored gold and it was the most magnificent of them all.
The golden dragon leaned it's head back and let out a roar that shook the earth beneth Davis' feet. A few of the metal hulks collapsed from the vibrations of that sound, but to Davis, it sounded slightly like music. In that roar there was various sounds, some sounded like chimes on a windy day, some sounded like water going over a fall, and miraculously enough some sounded like snow falling.
The golden dragon lowered it's head and glared at the other two dragons, who bowed their heads to the larger one. The golden one seemed the most powerful as it beat it's mighty wings and started to climb higher into the odd sky. The white and black dragons took their chances and started after the larger dragon. Apparently they thought that they could take on the other dragon. Oh, how wrong.
The golden dragon flipped over in midflight so that it was heading downwards. Davis could have sworn that the golden creature had worn a grin on it's muzzle as it extended it's gold-sheathed claws and attacked the other two. As the dragon divebombed, it turned so that when it passed the other two it's claws would rake both of them. Davis, however, did not get to see the blood of dragons, for he awoke at this time.
Davis sat up, breathing heavily. His face when pale, one of his hands rubbing his belly. That had hurt. He had been looking forward to seeing a fight, but he had to wake up. Why did he wake up anyways? Davis looked side to side. Takato was to his right, once more snoring. To his left was his brother, Taijin, looking like he was dead. After all, Taijin didn't move his chest up and down like most people. Taijin didn't even need to breath.
As Davis turned his head back around, he noticed something flickering at the edge of his vision. When he turned his head to look at it, it stopped, but when he turned away, he saw it again. Davis scowled. He didn't like it when things like this happened. Davis got up and walked over to his brother's bed.
When he stood at the edge of the bed and stared, it seemed as if a misty shape appeared on the top of his brother's covers. What was even more odd was that it had a dragon like shape. Davis scowled, shooting his hands out and grabbing the little dragon. It was curled up in a little ball. It had black scales that were glossy as glass. It's wedge shaped head buried into his palm seeking heat as he held it. Davis looked over the small digimon and reliezed what was so familar about it.
It was a black Demiveemon.
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Rika sighed, rolling over on her futon. She oddly enough couldn't get to sleep. Her mind kept on drifting back to the party and her Gogglehead walking her home. She rolled over again, her fist striking the pillow to make it more comfortable. Her mind just would not slow down. She sighed again.
The next thing that Rika knew, she was in the odd landscape again, but this time there was something different. Rising from the ground was a large tower. This tower was made from see through material, proably glass. It rose into the air and branched off every so often like a tree.
Rika stepped forward, her eyes wide at the immense form of the tower. It was huge! It reached up to the very heavens themselves. She walked forward, her head tilted back the whole time. She stopped a few feet away from the tower and looked at it. Looking close, she spotted a opening in the side. Rika walked into the dark opening and blinked.
Ahead there was a light golden light. It was coming down a long hall that cut into sections by a series of arches. Rika walked forward, her bare feet almost frozen off by the cold floor. She walked finally into a large chamber with a raised platform in the middle. Above that platform, a crystal rotated, and from that crystal the golden light was coming. Rika walked toward the crystal, shielding her eyes. It was so bright...
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Taijin yawned, his sleepy eyes popping open. He looked around, searching for his brother. He wasn't in the room. He slid out of his bed and padded off to find Davis. He walked into the kitchen and blinked at the sight in front of him. His brother was sitting at the table with two- no, three- no, FOUR digimon. Last time Taijin had checked there had only been three digimon in the house. He walked over to the table and stopped by Davis' chair.
"Davis, who is the new digimon?" Taijin asked, blinking. Davis sweatdropped slightly at his brother's innocent attitude.
"Actually, I believe that he's your partner." Davis told him, smiling widely. Taijin paused and thought for a few seconds.
"So, I'm a Digidestined?" Taijin asked, when he recieved his brother's nod he continued, "Cool!" Davis smiled at Taijin.
"Just so you know, his name is ChaosDemiVeemon." Davis told him, watching the new digimon work on eating the kitchen dry. Taijin looked at his partner for a second before he spoke.
"It's good to meet you ChaosDemiVeemon." Taijin told him politly. ChaosDemiVeemon looked up at his partner before he replied.
"Good to meet you too." The little digimon quipped to it's partner. Taijin nodded as he watched with amusement as the little digimon ate just as much as it's doppelganger.
'Two sides of a coin.' Taijin thought.
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Tai was pacing back and forth as the others viewed the video Davis had sent back. When it was over, he ejected it from the VCR and put it in a case. The rest of the team seemed a bit shocked.
"Just where is this 'West Shinjuku', Kari?" Matt asked, turing to the still punked girl. Kari sighed.
"You're not going to believe me." The girl paused and shook her head as if she didn't believe herself, "It's in a different Quadrant." This left most of the team puzzled but not one.
"A different Quadrant!" Izzy almost shouted, jumping out of the lazy-boy, which to the sudden in-balance knocked him on his face. He quickly hopped up and continued, "Whoa! Th-hat's totally awesome! Did he tell you how he got there?" Izzy asked her, hopping over the coffee table to get to his laptop. Kari blinked, a little bit taken back at Izzy's unusual outburst.
"Well, he said something about a rift between the worlds, whatever that means." Kari told him as he flipped the lid of his laptop up. The teenager hit a few keys, pulling up a window on the screen.
"Okay. This is basically what a tear between worlds is. As you can see, I've been working on this for some time." Izzy hit another key and the window lit up. On it was two different landscapes. Suddenly, in between the two, there appeared a white mist, connecting the two pictures, "A rift between worlds is a tear in the fabric of reality. It's much like the digiports, though I havn't figured out what actives these." Izzy told them, stepping back to let the others crowd around the laptop. Tai lended forward, rubbing his chin like some villian off of a cheesy action flick.
"Um, does this mean that we won't be able to go into this 'West Shinjuku' and get Davis?" Joe asked his short friend. Izzy shrugged.
"I don't know. You can't just walk through these portals. You got to know how to activate them, and we just don't have the key." Izzy told him as he shook his head.
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Leiko walked into the bakery. She just loved the smell of hot bread and the sight of hot guys. Naturally, once more, she was stalking Davis. It was a vicious cycle, in his words, that neither one of them could end. After all, Davis would never stop running and Leiko would never stop chasing. Ah, the cycle.
Of course, often, that cycle would get a hiccup. A hiccup, you ask? That would be one Taijin, who would often warn his dear brother when he saw the fangirl coming. So the back door would fly open with a racing Gogglehead throwing on his jacket. The fleeing Gogglehead would then proced to race to one of his friend's houses and hide out. They would tell him when Leiko was coming up the street and there went the Gogglehead. After a while, Davis turned out to be the fastest runner in all of West Shinjuku.
Of course, if the great runner is laid up in bed, he really can't run, now can he? Leiko snuck up the stairs and into the room. There was Davis, sleeping like a baby. Literally, he was curled up like one!
Leiko smiled softly, but wincing when the young man rolled over in his sleep. When he settled back down, she relaxed but only for a second.
"Leiko..." Davis uttered in his sleep, not knowing that the girl was standing there. Leiko's cheeks blushed a red and her eyes grew wide. It was then that Davis started to stir. Leiko stifled a gasp and rushed out of the room.
Davis' eyes opened and looked about. He eventually shrugged and laid his head back to sleep. What he had been dreaming about, he had no idea but it had been a good dream.
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Davis groaned, sitting up. He peered out the window and blinked. He had slept the day away. He edged out of bed and started down the stairs. Davis walked into the bathroom, he stopped suddenly.
There, in front of him, was a ghastly scene. Taijin was helping Jun with her hair while talking about said hair! Quiet obviously, his brother had gone over to the dark side. Where he had learnt to talk girl-talk was beyond him.
Davis shook his head, reaching into the room and yanking his brother out. Taijin blinked as his brother dragged him back to their room. Davis turned to his twin and scowled.
"Who taught you to do hair!" Davis growled at the confused kid. Taijin blinked a few times before he answered.
"Jun." Taijin answered innocently.
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Takato grinned, walking out of the shop that he had just bought from. He was going to surprise Rika. He had bought her a bouqet of blue roses. After all, blue was her favorite color. He reached the corner of the street and peeked around it. There she was, slouched against the wall.
He had called her and told her to meet him in the park. She had been suspicious but he hadn't gave her any details. Takato started towards Rika, making sure that she didn't see him. He came up behind her and tapped her on the shoulder.
Rika whirled around, and blinked when she saw the light blue roses. It was then that Gogglehead had the privilege of seeing Rika actually blush. He also had the privilege of seeing Rika's mouth hang open as she took the flowers from his hands.
Takato smiled a half smile at her. Rika was looking absolutely shocked. She finally looked up into his eyes.
"What are these for?" She asked him, her eyes full of puzzlement. He was just glad that she wasn't going to deck him.
"Um, well. Rika, I'd like to ask you something." The Gogglehead stuttered out, his face going as red as his eyes. She blinked and motioned for him to continue, "Wouldyouliketogooutwithme?" The Gogglehead asked her quickly, not taking the time to separate his words. Rika blinked at him.
"What was that?" Rika asked him as he turned red.
"Would you like to go out with me?" Takato muttered, almost whispering it. Rika turned red, from anger or embarrassment he could not tell.
"Yeah." Rika whispered back, blushing. Takato blinked, realizing that he had just scored a date with the Ice Queen. Takato grinned, taking a dangerous course of action. He leaned down and kissed her gently on the lips. What was different was that she didn't slug him.
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Davis groaned, rubbing his chest. He had to get himself blown up the night before the band's gig. His dear brother came hopping up to him, all cheerful.
"Come on, guys!" Saito called from across the room. It was their time to go on. Davis picked up his guitar and started towards the curtain. It was then that Saito decided to pull off an prank on the dear Gogglehead. He quite simply disappeared.
When Davis stepped out onto the stage, he found no Saito and only one mike left empty. That black headed baka had been planning this! Davis scowled and walked up to the mike. He closed his eyes and started to sing,
"Maybe its your darkness, that draws me to you.
Or your magnetic personality,
or simply the smell of sakura on your breath?"
Davis scanned the crowd in front of him. Yep, lots of swooning fangirls and one that stood out. A smirk crossed his face as he continued,
"Nothing compares to you, everything seems dimmed when its challenged by you..."
Even the already swooned girls swooned again (what does swooned mean?). Davis smirked at this effect, continuing,
"But why am I drew into your spell?
Its not my wish to.
to fall into enchantment..."
Davis grinned, striking the strings on his guitar. It produced a beautiful harmony with Jiro's playing. He gradually brought the sound down to nothing, leaving only the drums beating a march out in the background,
"Because love is nothing but chemicals,
or is it something more?
Can attraction, be simple like fractions?
Or is it something else,
just hormones?"
The guitars came blazing back in with a shriek of sound. The girls now looked like they were drooling, which they were, and they weren't even taking their eyes off of him. Apparently they were considering him a piece of meat. Davis gulped a little before continuing,
"Does it fade over time,
and when I age,
will it be the same?"
Now the girls were all sighing and imagining themselves in that position. Davis smirked at their actions, his eyes locked onto one girl in particular,
"Will I still love you,
a thousand years from now?
Or will my mind mature,
and the love I once felt,
just melt?"
Davis could see the girl blush as she heard those words, as she felt Davis' eyes upon her. Davis continued singing as the girl blushed on,
"Because love is nothing but chemicals,
or is it something more?
Can attraction,
be simple like fractions?
Or is it something else,
just hormones?"
Davis sang as the girl looked him in the eyes. Those pale green misty orbs. He was sure that she was the one that had been haunting his dreams. She was the one that he saw when he closed his eyes at night.
It was then that both of them heard the screams. Davis looked up sharply as the girl twirled to see what was the problem. In the very back of the packed room, there was a Digimon. It had a skull for a head and the torso of a suit of armor. The odd thing was that it became something like a snake after it's arms.
Leiko twirled back around to look at him. He nodded at her. It was time for a fight.
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Sora: Hehehehe... I just had to put the lovey-dovey stuff in there! Ah! And this was that Christmas concert that Saito was planning by the way!
CR: Do you see what I gotta put up with on a regular basis? Why me!
Sora: Could be worse! You could still be stuck in the Digital World! Then you wouldn't have my Mom's cooking! I know how you love those chocolate oatmeal cookies of her's!
CR: You're right... Thanks, Sora. Happy Holidays, everybody!
