It might have been a warm and sunny day at the academy, but it didn't feel that way for Davis. Hearing the truth about his parents was a real shock to him.

"Davis, please talk to me." Veemon said. All Davis did was lay on his bed with his front side pressed against the mattress. Ever since he got back to the academy, he hasn't really done much of anything. He wasn't moving or anything. It's almost as if he was dead. Veemon was getting really worried about him and he didn't know what to do.

"Davis, are you in there?" Lita said as she knocked on his door. Veemon went and answered it and saw Sierra and Fria with Lita. "Hey, Veemon. Any change?"

"Nope. He won't move or even talk to me." Veemon said. All three of them were starting to get worried about him. Serene and Kimi showed up themselves and were just as worried.

"How is?" Kimi asked,

"No change." Fria said.

"I feel so bad. I wish I knew what we could to make him feel better." Serene said, but none of them knew how they could help them.

….

Marinda

Meanwhile, the mysterious Marinda was going to meet up with her mother, Lineer. Lineer was looking over the data they have on Davis Motomiya and Ichika Orimura.

"Lineer, you asked for me?" Marinda said.

"Marinda, you know you can call me mother." Lineer said. "I just wanted my daughter's opinion on what she thinks of these two."

"Ichika Orimura and Davis Motomiya?" Marinda questioned. "I haven't had the chance to fight Orimura. As for Motomiya, he's no threat. Either way, they're both enrolled in I.S. Academy and that means they won't be a problem."

"Perhaps, but it is rare for there to be a male I.S. pilot." Lineer said.

"Do you think they might actually be a problem?" Marinda asked.

"I'm not entirely sure. Sometimes the most special things can be quite troubling." Lineer said.

"If that is all." Marinda said and left the room and had her mother continue with her little research.

"Ooh! What'ch ya thinking, Marinda?" Harina asked. "Can I come? Can I? Can I? Can I?"

"You're a child. I don't need your help." Marinda said.

"You're not fun." Harina whined. "You don't even call your own mother Mommy or Mama half the time. Is this about those weaklings at the academy?"

"Mind your own business, you twit." Marinda said and continued on. "If they really are a threat, all threats must be eliminated."

…..

Davis

Davis was like a statue. He hasn't moved at all. Everyone was concern, but they're going to keep trying until Davis gets back on his feet and his usual happy self. Veemon opened up the door and let Lita in.

"You really think you and the others can help him out?" Veemon said.

"We're all going to try. The main thing we must not do is just give up on him." Lita said. "He needs his friends now more than ever in this situation. Here goes." Lita put on a brave face and walked over to him. "Hey, Davis. I was thinking that maybe you could help me try out Red Wyvern. What do you say? You want to be my first opponent?"

"No thanks. I'm not in the mood." Davis said. Lita remembered that Davis turns down from a challenge. This was worse than she thought.

"Hey. At least we got him to actually talk. That's something." Veemon said trying to look at the bright side of it. Lita's attempt didn't work, Serene switched places with her and went in.

"Davis, I could use your help. I need a strong man to do it." Serene said as she tried using flattery to get him to at least move.

"Ichika's with Houki." Davis said.

"That's nice, but…..Ichika isn't all that strong in my opinion." Serene said. "I need someone who is tough and maybe a little bit of a backbone. Maybe someone like you. Can you think of anyone else tougher than you?"

"Miss Orimura's the teacher. She's suppose to help students. Go see if she's available." Davis said. That didn't go the way she was expecting. Kimi went in and try in her place.

"Davis! I've got a great idea. Let's go play some soccer." Kimi said. "We were told it was your favorite sport and some of the girls aren't that skilled. Maybe you can show them a few tricks."

"No thanks. It's just some game." Davis said. Kimi got annoyed and grabbed him by the back of his shirt.

"Will you get up?!" Kimi said as she started shoving him around. "We're all use to your peppy personality and this isn't the least bit peppy." Veemon grabbed her arms and was trying to stop her.

"Kimi, stop. This isn't helping. Now is not the time for your short temper." Veemon said. Even that didn't get Davis up or moving. Sierra went in and took her turn.

"Davis, I was thinking that maybe you and I could do some training together." Sierra said. "I showed you a thing or two about being a sniper. Maybe you could help me with my close-range combat."

"You're better off with Houki since she is a kendo champ." Davis said.

"True, but you and I were partners." Sierra said. "We made a great team before. So I'm sure you be able to help me the most."

"That's over and done with. You can ask the others to help you." Davis said. That hurt Sierra since that team they were meant so much to hurt, but was trying to stay strong for him.

"Okay. You're hurting. You didn't mean that. So I won't hold that against you." Sierra said as she tried to stay strong, but she wanted to get out of there and cry in her own pillow. Since she failed, that meant Fria was up. She went in and walked right over to the bed.

"What are you going to do? Try to reach out with that friendship you want to know so much about?" Veemon asked.

"Net. This requires something I have a better understanding of. He is my bride and it's my job to help him." Fria said.

"That's still not right. You think you can do any better than the others?" Veemon said.

"What I'm about to do, might seem unethical to some, but appropriate for us." Fria said. "From what I understand of the male gender, this should help him perk up." Fria grabbed his arm and held it to her.

"What are you going to do? You're not going to hurt him are you?" Veemon said.

"Net. This is what I had in mind." Fria said and opened up her shirt and showed her breast and black bra. She placed Davis' hand right on it.

"What are you doing?! What does that have to do with whatever you just said?!" Veemon said.

"The male gender desire for something like this, do they not? It is quite alright because he is my bride." Fria said.

"No he's not!" Veemon shouted. Even if Fria was right, even that didn't perk Davis up.

…

Outside

"All five of us and no one made even better progress?" Lita said. All five of them gathered together after their failures.

"I don't know what else we can do." Serene said.

"Hey guys." All of them looked and saw Ichika and his friends. All of them had an understanding of what was going on.

"Ichika told us what's going on with Davis." Houki said.

"The poor dear. It must be horrible." Cecilia said.

"You said it." Sierra said.

"I can't imagine what he must be going through. Finding out your parents aren't your real parents and learning you were really adopted for all this time must be hard." Kimi said.

"Why don't you let us try?" Rin said.

"Oui. Davis is our friend too and we should try to help him." Charlotte said and all of them were in agreement.

"I've already tried, but if you all want to give it a shot." Ichika said.

"Hopefully you will have better luck, but I had him grab my breast and he still would not move." Fria said.

"You did what?!" All four shouted.

…

Davis

Lita and the other girls did their best, but it wasn't enough to get Davis back on his feet. So Houki and the other upperclassmen are going to try and Houki is the first.

"Hey, Davis. You doing okay?" Houki asked as she went in, but already made a mistake. "Okay. That was stupid of me to ask. Davis, you are pretty good with a sword. I was thinking maybe I can teach you a few tricks since I am good with a sword myself."

"No thanks. Kendo isn't really my thing." Davis said. "Ichika's good with a sword and you like being around him. Just go ask him to join." So much for Houki's turn. Cecilia was the next one to try.

"Hello there, Davis." Cecilia said. "You're just the person I need. I thought DemiVeemon was so cute that I'm hoping to have a digimon partner of my own. I was thinking that maybe you can tell me about their world and how I might be able to have one. I'm sure a powerful man like yourself with a powerful digimon like Veemon might be able to help me with this."

"Just get in contact with Izzy. He's a lot smarter than I am and he knows it better than anyone." Davis said. Cecilia wasn't doing much better either. Rin went in and tried and had some cooking supplies.

"Time to get up." Rin said. "I hear you make great ramen and I want to see that for myself. Davis, let's just see how much of a cook you are. I brought everything you might need to make those noodles."

"Sorry, Rin. I'm not really in the mood to cook anything." Davis said.

"But you want to open a noodle cart from what the others told me." Rin said. "If you're serious about that, you need to keep practicing your cooking and you can't give up on it."

"I'm not, but in my mood, I might start a fire or something." Davis said. Rin tried using what he loves and that didn't work either. Charlotte went in and gave it a try.

"Bonjour, Davis." Charlotte said. "Listen, I could use your advice. I'm sure you're a smart guy."

"Not really." Davis said.

"Oh, I'm sure that can't be true." Charlotte said, but Veemon was already pushing her out. "What are you doing?"

"You already failed by going for his brains. That was doomed from the start." Veemon said. Charlotte felt like she needs to get know Davis better if she wants to help. Laura went in to give it her chance.

"So he still has not moved or anything." Laura said. "Not to worry. I will get him to move."

"Laura, you seem to be influencing Fria from what the others told me." Veemon said as he was a little worried. "You're not going to do something crazy like she did, are you?"

"Of course not. This always gets others running." Laura said and pulled out her battle knife. "If you wish to live, you will have to flee for your life!"

"Are you insane?!" Veemon said. Even that didn't work. "Going for his life at risk? He already thinks his life is a lie. Are you people even trying?"

…

Outside

"I just don't know what do." Lita said. Everyone gathered together, but not a single one of them had any luck.

"We all tried, but he just won't fall for anything we do." Cecilia said.

"At least you all tried. I need to get know him better. I tried going for is intellectual side and apparently that was a mistake from the start." Charlotte said.

"I tried a cook off from this dream of his, but that didn't work. Maybe Kanzashi or Tatenashi might know of a way we can help him." Rin said.

"No. Kanzashi is continuing research on those two I.S. pilots so we know what we're up against." Ichika said. "I'm also not sure Tatenashi might be the best person for something like this."

"What's going on around here?" All of them looked up and was met with Chifuyu.

"Miss Orimura! We're talking about Davis." Lita said.

"Yes. Motomiya is starting to slack in his studies." Chifuyu said.

"Chifuyu!" Ichika said as he can't believe she's not seeing the real problem, but she hit him on the head.

"That's Miss Orimura." Chifuyu said.

"Whatever. The problem is that he's going through something serious." Ichika said.

"How about I go talk to him? Ormiura, come with me so you can fill me in on the details." Chifuyu said.

"You can try, but none of us have succeeded. I'm starting to worry Davis might never smile again." Kimi said. When she said that, Laura was beginning to think of something.

"If mentor is helping, perhaps I have an idea that could do the trick." Laura said.

"What do you have in mind?" Houki asked as they all looked to her.

"I've got a bad feeling about this." Ichika said.

….

Davis

The sun was going down, but Davis hasn't even moved from his bed all day. Veemon tried everything he could, but he had no better luck than anyone else.

"Motomiya, it's Miss Orimura. I'm coming in." Chifuyu said. Veemon freaked out and looked for a place to hide. He ducked under the bed just as Chifuyu came in. "You don't look like you've been doing so well." Davis wasn't even responding to her, but Chifuyu was more aggressive about it. She lifted Davis up from his bed and actually slapped him across the face and knocked him to the floor.

"What was that for?" Davis said.

"You're being pathetic." Chifuyu said. "Ichika told me what you recently found out. I understand that it's hard, but you're not doing yourself or anyone favors by just moping around."

"You don't get it." Davis said. "My parents aren't my real parents. My whole life has been a lie."

"Is the friendship you have with Ichika or any of the others a lie?" Chifuyu said. "So what if you found out you were adopted? This was still the life you were given."

"The life I was given?" Davis questioned.

"Maybe you don't know who your real parents are and I'm not saying you should forgive your other parents." Chifuyu said. "You still have some people in your life that actually care about you. My little brother sure does and so does everyone else that you consider a friend. None of that is a lie."

"It's not?" Davis said.

"No. Really think about your life with the people you consider friends." Chifuyu said. "Do you think any of those bonds is a lie? Do you think they really don't care about you? Are you really going to throw all of that away?" Davis thought back to all his friends he made and all they've been through together. He remembers all the great times he had with each one of them and he knows none of that could have been fake.

"You're right." Davis said as he got back up. "Those people are still my friends and none of that was fake."

"Of course I'm right and you can't just hide yourself away." Chifuyu said. "You'll see what I mean." She pulled out a piece of paper and gave it to him. "Head to this area tonight."

"What for?" Davis asked.

"Trust me. It will be experience that should at least take your mind off things. It will be hard to look away." Chifuyu said. Davis didn't understand, but he soon will.

…..

Veemon: Okay. Things are looking good so far. Davis is at least back on his feet and he's talking. That's all good. Wait a minute! What the heck are they all doing? Oh boy. Davis is sure in for a surprise. I doubt he will forget this, but who exactly came up with something like this in the first place.

Next time: Five Fair Maidens

It's one against the others and only one will be able to win it all.