((Sorry this Chap. Took so long, I had MAJOR writer's block, and I was preoccupied with another story, so here it is, this chapter bounces around a bit, as I have some catching up to do, Enjoy!, and please, please, please review ))
Alex yawned, and rubbed his eyes sleepily, he had had 2 late nights in a row and it was really affecting his school life, his grades had been dropping slowly, not that he really minded, he had never been too sure on what he wanted to do when he 'grew up', and now he was even less sure, G.C.S.E's were the last thing on his mind as he left the school grounds, lost in the crowd of student trying desperately to leave the school, everyone was trying to leave at once, all so wanting to get home, Alex didn't mind, he liked a nice, slow walk to the station, he always got there no time, unless something major happened, then he normally missed it. He didn't really pay much attention to where he was going, he instinctively knew where he was going, that left his mind to zone-out and think, he thought back to the previous couple of days, life had gone from been 'normal' to abnormal in a very short time, and he wasn't sure if he could cope with the pressure, he had his future, if he would have one, to consider, and then he had … Digimon to consider, what was he going to do, he had Digimon coming in left, right and centre, and what was he going to do if someone found Wizardmon, how was he going to explain that. He sighed and zoned himself back in, and almost crash into a lamp-post, laughing silently to himself, he stepped round it and briskly jogged the rest of the way to the Station, he liked a nice jog, it helped him clear his head, even though he wasn't dressed for it, he made it too the station, and hopped onto the Train just in time, the doors shut behind him and he felt the familiar jolt as the station drifted away behind him, he sighed again, before sitting down on the nearest available chair, Alex shut his eyes, he was tired, he shouldn't be, normally his mind was a-fire with ideas, but now… it was exhausted, he drifted between sleep and conscious as the familiar countryside sped past, Alex touched a hand to his forehead, his hands felt cold and clammy and his forehead was hot, "Great, now I feel Ill, what next???" he thought drowsily as he felt the train screech to a halt again, "next stop I'm off", he thought as he drifted off again.
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Wizardmon was bored, he didn't mind the fact the he couldn't stay with Alex, he understood the fact that he was trying to keep him safe, he didn't understand why he had hidden him in a Park?, why of all the places to keep something secret, why a park?, a public place, where anyone could pop up, Wizardmon opened his eyes, e gazed around the room he had been looking at all day, it was a simple affair, a table and a few stools, a small fridge and a carpet, almost a child's hide-hole, with a small wooden door, Wizardmon picked himself up off the floor where he had been lying and stretched, ten he straighten suddenly, he could here … something, vague, almost silent foot-falls, Wizardmon calmly walked over to the door, and, with a moments hesitation, pulled it open, and could have sworn that he saw something white flicker round the corner of the corridor, he investigated, floating slightly, he flew to the corner and looked down the corner, there was nothing there, he shrugged, before going back into the room, missing however, the pair of faintly glowing eyes that followed him back, like a pair of pale lamps.
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Alex walked home, caught in a fog of tiredness, he stumbled slightly, then righted himself and carried on, he felt … detached, almost like he was running on automatic, he vaguely remembered coming home, another late note from his mom was on the fridge, he dumped his shoes and jacket and bag at the foot of the stairs and slowly made his way up the stairs and crawled into bed, he shut his eyes and felt sleep engulf him, as he drifted off he vaguely heard the Digivice on his bed-side table begin to beep,
-Danger!- -Digimon Emergence Detected-
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Courtnie yawned, her Mother had insisted that she stay at home today, she yawned again, she felt tired, she didn't know why, she leaned back in the nice, fluffy chair she had in her bedroom, the room was painted a vague, pale violet, the curtains were a deeper purple and the bed was … purple, she sighed and snuggled into the chair a little bit more, she liked sitting on this chair, it made her feel … safe, and cosy, she wearily tried to push herself out of he chair, and failed, so she half-closed her eyes, and began to drift to sleep, as sleep overtook her, she could have sworn that she saw a cat-like figure sitting calmly on her windowsill, watching, waiting, then she feel asleep.
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Alex woke up, his head was ringing like a bell and his hands were shaking, he hadn't slept well, his dreams had been filled with fire and destruction, almost absentmindedly, he looked at his hand, and recoiled, the mark that he had received was glowing, and as far as he knew, he knew it meant only one thing, he grabbed the Digivice off his bedside table and stared at it,
-Danger!- -Digimon Emergence Detected-
"Here we go again" he thought as he pocketed it, he shook off the after-effects of his sleepiness and ran down the stairs 2 at a time, he hurriedly put his shoes on and zipped up his jacket, he opened the door and ran straight into .. .Courtnie, she was stood on his doorstep, with a very indignant look on her face, Alex flinched as brandished he hand in his face, revealing the mark that she had received during their encounter with Ogremon, it was glowing too,
"You Alexander, owe me an Explanation" she said huffily, Alex just stared as she barged her way past him and plonked herself down on the Sofa, and crossed her arms,
"And I am NOT leaving until I get one" she said crossly, Alex shuffled his feet nervously, what to do, what to do, a faint smile crossed her lips, "And if I don't get one Alex, I'll just tell your mother what happened" at that, Alex heart skipped a beat, she had just, very skillfully, trapped him into a corner, with no way out, "What am I going to do now, If I go, she might tell Mum, but if I don't, who knows what might happen" he thought hurriedly, then lowered his head in defeat and shut the door, the smile on Courtnie's face grew,
"Perfect!" she said as she crossed her legs, cocked her head slightly and sat there quietly, "I'm all ears" she said, Alex groaned slightly, before almost collapsing into the chair opposite her … this was going to take a while.
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Alex groaned again, he nervously scratched the back of his head, things hadn't quite gone to plan, he had hoped to have just given a quick explanation, but that hadn't satisfied her, she had even gone as far as to threaten to sit on him until he told her, Alex shuddered, that was something he defiantly didn't want to happen, but she had sat there, unflinchingly whilst he described the events of the past few days, her expression hadn't changed, but her eyes had spoken volumes, he was still trying to keep himself from staring.
The room was quiet, all they could hear was each other breathing, and the faint sound of cars passing on the road below them, Alex felt his forehead with his palm, he was warm, too warm, he caught a faint whiff of what smelt like crush raspberries as Courtnie carefully ran a hand through her hair, her face had a pensive look about it, and she was gazing at the mark on her hand as if it was a snake, or worse, then she sighed, it was tinged with ambiguity, she picked herself up and walked over to his chair, slowly, she grasped his marked left hand, looking first to her own hand, and then to his, comparing them, analyzing them, then she sighed again, before grasping his hand in hers, he looked at her, surprised, she smiled, before moving closer, closer, closer, until she and Alex were almost nose to nose, she saw the look in his eyes, it was one of desperation and … something else, she gave a soft smile,
"Oh don't be such a Goose" she said quietly, as their lips met, Courtnie felt a slight breeze brush through the room, but she ignored it, she was busy with other things, then, breathlessly, they pulled apart, breathing quickly and panting heavily, lost in each others eyes,
"Ahem!, If you two lovebirds are quite finished"
The sound came from behind them, in a split-second, they both jumped apart, staring around the room for the source of the noise frantically, lying nonchalantly on the arm of the sofa, was a white cat, standing out against the brownness of the sofa, licking a paw and staring at them intently, Alex looked at Courtnie, Courtnie looked at Alex, then they both stared at the cat, goggle-eyed, the cat stared back, blinking several times
"What?" it asked in a confused, very feminine voice, a slightly puzzled on it's catish features then it blinked, "Oh … that!, hang on!", the cat began to glow, a pale gold light, enveloped it, then the light faded, and what was sitting on the sofa was defiantly not a cat.
It looked like a cat, except now its fur had changed to long and spiky, to smooth and white, it eyes had changed from an emerald green to a deep blue, the fur on top of its ears had lengthened and was now purple, as had the fur on its tail, which now had purple stripes and a large tuft of purple on the end. On it's fore-paws, were a pair of Yellow, tiger-striped gloves, and her claws had grown black and much bigger, as had the claws on her back-paws, stretching slightly, she stood up on her hind legs and looked at them, they both continued to stare,
"What?" the cat repeated, blinking again, then she hopped off the arm of the sofa and onto the floor landing with a muted THUD! Her eyebrows were slanted slightly in confusion, then they relaxed, she looked at the pair of them and spoke directly to Courtnie, completely ignoring Alex
"Oh … Hi" the Cat said waving a gloved paw, her voice was rather more high pitched now, but it had a slight purring sound in some of the words,
"I'm Gatomon, and you, young lady, are coming with me" in a few deft strides, and with a speed which defied her size, Gatomon bounded across the room and gripped Courtnie by the wrist, before beginning to very roughly drag her toward the door. She never made it to the door however, because when she placed her hand on the door handle, it swung in all on it's own, revealing a rather disgruntled and annoyed Wizardmon, his hat was bent slightly and his hands crackled with a brilliant kind of energy, obviously expecting something rather dangerous.
When he saw Gatomon dragging Courtnie across the floor, he stopped, one foot firmly planted in the threshold. Gatomon stopped, the two of them stared at each other, their eyes, deep blue and pale blue, like two icicles locked together. The tension in the air could have been cut with a knife, then the pair of them looked at Alex, ten at Courtnie, then at each other, then Wizardmon spoke, his voice was placid and slightly humours,
"There is a certain Irony about this situation isn't there" there was a pause, and the statement hung in the air like a bad smell, then it crumbled as the pair of Digimon suddenly burst out laughing. Soon the pair of them were rolling on the floor in a fit of laughter, whilst the two onlookers just stared, when the fit subsided, the pair of them were still hiccupping slightly, then Gatomon started talking
"I can't believe you hic. Thought that I hic. was-" she was cut off at that point by a large Thump!, everyone froze, there was another one, a deep Thump!, the four of them turned to the window, Thump!, four faces peered out of the window, there was a flash of bright green, then yellow, then a glimpse of a shining blue eye, Wizardmon and Gatomon looked at each other again, before they both spoke at the same time,
"Parrotmon"
"Parrotmon?" Alex and Courtnie asked, staring at the pair of digimon, they turned around and continued,
"Big, Green and Ugly" Gatomon said
"But also strong, fast and a screech like a cats meow" Wizardmon finished, "present company excluded" he quickly added when he saw the look on Gatomon's face.
Alex caught Wizardmon's eye, and he nodded,
"Let's go" Alex motioned toward the door, the pair of them were almost at the door when there was a pair of very loud, Ahem! 's
Cringing every so slightly, the pair of them turned, revealing a two pair of crossed arms and two very cross expressions,
"You honestly thought that you were gong to go on your own did you" both voices said, cringing some more the pair of them nodded,
"No Chance" came the response.
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There was a loud screeching noise as the huge parrot-like digimon soared overhead, clumsily crashing into the side of a building, Wizardmon ducked, covering himself with his cloak as he was showered with broken glass. As he uncovered himself he dived to one side as a huge pair of talons raked the ground where he had just be standing, he glanced momentarily at Alex and nodded, "It's time"
Alex pulled the Black and Red Digivice out of his pocket, now the screen was glowing a bright green just as it had before, as he held it in his hand, the light spread, forming 3 rings, which surrounded his hand.
-Scanning …-
-Scanning Completed, Crest of Hope Identified-
-DIGIVOLUTION ACTIVATED!-
The Three rings surrounding Alex's hand flew off and span towards Wizardmon, they enveloped him, before joining together, forming a solid oval of light.
"Wizardmon, Digivolve too … Sorcerymon"
Sorcery smiled, emerging from the glowing sphere as it dissolved into thousand of tiny sparks of light, now he was ready.
The Parrot Digimon had lost interest in Wizardmon and was now turning it's attention on Gatomon, who nimbly dived forward avoiding the hooked beak, rolling once, she bounded up, gloved paw forming a fist,
"Take this Bird-Brain, Lightning Paw" her clenched fist slammed into the birds chest, winding it slightly and knocking back, with a furious squawk, it retaliated, slamming both taloned feet either side of her, trapping her, before bring the hooked beak down.
Straight into a shimmer sphere of blue energy, recoiling horrified it tried to fly until it realized that it was stuck fast, a solid bar of ice attached its left talon to the ground, Gatomon faintly heard Sorcery shouting,
"Now Gatomon"
Gathering her strength, Gatomon leapt, lacing both hands together like a club, she gave a massive swing, smacking into Parrotmon's face, in glared at her, it's eyes full of hate, it gave a huge squawk and blue electricity shot up the pair of red feathers on it's head, Gatomon's eyes widened as both feathers pointed at her,
"Mjolnir Thunder"
Thee blast of electricity caught Gatomon in mid-air, sending her flying backwards, into a car at the end of the street, she groaned slightly, trying to pick herself up, as Courtnie dashed out from the cover of a side-alley.
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Sorcerymon floated about 6 storey's up, watching, from his vantage point he saw what happened and grimaced, Gatomon would be ok, she was a hardy soul.
"Stay down old friend" Sorcerymon muttered to himself as he raised his staff, pointing it at Parrotmon, as a blue light began to snake its way up its length and into the head of the staff,
"Crystal Barrage"
A mass of crystal pieces burst from the head of the staff, showering Parrotmon it crystal, undeterred he turned toward Sorcerymon and flew toward him, his massive wings hindered slightly by the tall buildings. Sorcerymon kept firing, until he saw that it was unaffected, he turned slightly as a voice behind him roared,
"Sonic Destroyer"
Something zoomed toward him, faster than even his eye could follow, the it swerved suddenly, Sorcerymon's eyes widened as a solid wall of air shot at him, he held out his hands, muttering quickly, attempting to cast a spell, but too late, it send him reeling backwards, until he collided with something soft. Dreading what it was he looked up, and caught a glimpse of a beak, before it collided with him, slamming him into the ground.
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Courtnie looked at the dishevelled form of Gatomon in front of her, the glove on her right par has been rather badly burnt, as she grasped the unconscious form lovingly, something slipped out of her pocket, landing on the tarmac beside her, it was her phone, and it was vibrating, someone was calling her.
She grasped at it, trying to discern the name, then it began to glow, and so did Gatomon, small particles of light suddenly appeared, each like a tin star and they began to surround both phone and digimon, as more and more appeared, until it form two solid balls, the smaller of the two, containing her phone, rose until it was at her hand height, then the lights dissipated just as rapidly as they had appeared, and something dropped into her hands, and it was not her phone. Idn it's place lay a Digivice, it was Red, with a bright pink-band running around the edges and around the screen which lay in the centre, along with a pink strap attached to it, she stared at until, trying to think where she had seen it before, then she realized, Alex had one as well, but it was a different color, it still glowed faintly, then the glow spread all over her hand, forming 3 thick rings of light rings, which surrounded her hand.
-Scanning …-
-Scanning Completed, Crest of Love Identified-
-DIGIVOLUTION ACTIVATED!-
The Three rings surrounding Courtnie's hand flew off and span towards the sphere of light that contained Gatomon, they entered without any resistance, then there was a bright light, the light of Digivolution
"Gatomon, Digivolve too …"
(Muhahahaha, now you have to wait until next time to find out what she evolves into, so lets all be patient shall we, just don't bring any torches)