Raven felt incredibly smothered when she sat down for beginning classes the next day, all the digidestined in her class had their eyes trained on her and she felt increasingly irritable, as if she could feel thousands of questions she could only imagine they were going to ask her once break came.
She hoped that the lesson would go on as long as possible, but murphy's law contradicted her every step of the way and before she knew it, she had all four of them standing in front of her desk, ready to ask the questions she so rudely left them with in hopes she wouldn't have to ask.
"I have no reason to talk to you." She simply said before pulling out a small device and working.
"You never told us you were a digidestined." Davis said, "You're digimons awesome, we could have used you in our group two years ago!"
"Then clearly you're mistaken." She said as she pulled out her digivice, "I'm not one of your group, so I would rather not be affiliated with you."
"Maybe you're a new generation, heck tai and the others have different digivices from us." T.K said trying to sound a little friendly to her.
With a sigh she looked up at the three of them, "No, I never told you I'm a digidestined because I am not a digidestined, I am a tamer, but not a chosen child of Yggdrasil."
"You don't need to sound all spiteful." Davis said, this only made her more annoyed, the DATH members had to undergo rigorous training to even have digimon anymore, they really had no idea how blessed they were.
"Clearly not, but you've been watching me through the entire class and I said I would prefer for you to have forgotten that I am a tamer."
"So that's what the riddle meant, you're not a digidestined but a tamer." Ken said after he remembered the riddle that came soon after meeting her in the first place.
"Riddle?"
"Oh yeah, here just a second I logged it here somewhere." T.K said and then repeated the riddle from his device.
"To open this door, I must have the answer, to, what am I?
I am similar to digidestined,
yet different as well,
I look like silver and carry some to;
as quiet as a grave,
yet eerie I seem,
to carry a heart,
within my team. Of what do I speak of?"
Raven read the riddle a few times before she realized that it was talking about her and Renamon, "I am not eerie…" she muttered to herself.
"You seem so, after all you're all the sudden really scary actually." Kari said, "You were nice before."
"I'm just a little grouchy is all, the door is probably your passage to the digital world, maybe since you know I'm no longer a digidestined and just a tamer it'll open for you again."
"Usually when they say these riddles there's more to it than meets the eye." Ken spoke up, "Gennai doesn't often give us these unless the meaning within it, meaning you has a greater purpose."
"I have bigger problems, and anyway I can't help you with that, I'm restricted from going to the digital world." She said.
"By whom?" Davis asked, "Every tamer can go."
"My organization can't, as I told you, I'm not a chosen child now unless you'd like to loop into an endless cycle until we both go loopy I'd rather get my work done."
"I get the feeling you don't like us." Veemon said.
"I hold nothing against you, simply that I cannot help yo~" however she was quickly interrupted by her digivice going off.
Renamon appeared from the shadows, "How many?"
"Five this time, appears to be rookies, don't take any changes though, there may be more, Penguin's also reported in so he should be there to aid you." Penguin showed hikaru's picture on her device and within a second Renamon disappeared.
"What's going on?" T.K asked.
"Digimon have broken through another barrier, Penguin is on his way so you can relax." She spotted that each dot became a spot until the device stated that it was cleared. "See."
"That's amazing you can see them eliminated and that other device shows the digimon, it's like the D-Terminal." Davis said smiling as he saw each of the five digimon's profiles.
"D-Terminal?" it was her turn to ask, she was curious of what a D-Terminal was, she had heard that they had digivices which allowed the digimon to DNA digivolve with other digimon but not a terminal, she wondered if it was where they trained their digimon or fed them maybe. Her question wasn't answered due to the fact that Yolei opened the door panting.
"Guys! The portals open again! Izzy said when he checked just now the portal appeared to open once again." All of them headed out of the classroom leaving raven to sigh with relief as they headed down the hall and into the computer room. As Yolei said the portal opened once again they all readied their digivices and figured that telling Izzy about Raven could be done once they got back.
Davis stretched and smelt the fresh air of the digital world or at least he thought he would, that was until Yolei screamed out. "What happened?!" They all looked up to see that their digital world was directly connected to a far more barren wasteland high above, only a thin stream of digital code left between their digital world and this unknown digital world.
From behind the thin binary strips was a large structure webbing where several hundreds of webs began to string down from whatever unknown place they were staring into and small kodokugumons and Dokugumon were spinning webs. Many digimon began to pass the horrified digidestined screaming in terror.
"Davish!" Veemon shouted to get his partner out of shock, "We need to fight!"
"I agree." Gatomon said, "digivolve us!"
The four of them finally stopped looking at the horrors when they saw the amass of digimon head straight for them and in moments their four digimon were champion and DNA digivolved.
Meanwhile in the human world, Raven was working on her work when her cellphone went off. The name id was sparrow so she knew it had to be important.
"Yes sir?" She said, the color of the caller meant he was in the digital world.
"You need to get to DATH immediately, have Renamon send in a signed letter and get over here pronto."
"What's going on sir?" She asked, dread sunk into her stomach and cursed herself for being absent at school.
"Get your gear and head into the portal, Hikaru will debrief you when you get here." Was all Sparrow said before he disconnected.
"Damn…" she cursed before she ran out of the room and quickly messaged Renamon to respond.
TBC
