Children of the Legend
Kari Minamoto
Author's Note: Thanks again for the reviews and the suggestions. I'm glad that my chapters are a little longer. I've been busy and will continue to be busy so I don't know how often I'll be able to update. (There is a longer note at the end.) Now let's get on with the fic.
Disclaimer: I do not own any part of digimon, but I do own this story's plot since it came from my brain. I also don't own The Pit and the Pendulum. Like I state below, it's by Poe.
Chapter 7- Thunder Hear My Cry
"Class, please open your text book to page 234," Kari said toher class in a weary voice.
T.K. and she had stayed up half the night trying to figure out what to do next involving the digital world. They had decided to keep the hypothesis about Takuya between themselves; after all if they were wrong then it would be wasted time for the whole group.
"Now read the short story The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe to yourselves and NO talking," she continued in the same voice.
The only word she emphasized was no. While Kari said this she eyed Takuya who was rolling his pen back and forth inattentively, obviously not hearing, or choosing not to hear a word she said. She thought it was a wonder he even got the grades he did.
Kari took a seat at her desk and put her head in her hands. She had a bad headache, but she did not dare leave the class alone. Who knows what would happen if they were lest alone, even for a minute.
To try and distract herself from her headache, she decided to look around the classroom and see what the students were doing. After all, she did not completely trust the class to do what it was supposed to do even if she was right there in front of them.
She looked up again at Takuya. He had his head down and he was doing something, but it definitely was not what he was assigned. His book was open to the correct page but that was about it. She also had a suspicion that he had asked Koji what they were supposed to be reading.
'Those two sometimes puzzle me,' Kari thought to herself 'they are so different, but also the best of friends. I doubt I'll ever understand how that friendship came to be.'
She then turned her attention to Koji. She wanted some reassurance that someone was doing what they were supposed to be doing and got a surprise.
He had his book out and had read some of it, but he was whispering with the blonde girl in front of him who had recently transferred into the class from a different school.
"Koji, please don't talk or I'll have to write you up a detention," Kari said to him firmly.
Being addressed for that reason seemed to affect the boy and he quickly began reading again, but not without shooting a don't-you-ever-bring-this-up glare to Takuya who was silently laughing about Koji being addressed by the teacher in that way.
Kari decided to patrol the aisles to make sure that the class was doing what they were supposed to be doing.
She knew their tricks by now. Look like you are reading the assignment, but in reality be reading a comic hidden behind the book or between the pages.
She passed Koji who was reading the story but the blonde girl named Zoe, however was practicing a language on the pages of her book. It said La letteratura inglese puzza.
Kari had no idea what it said and just told Zoe to practice her language in study, not during English, but threatened with detention again.
She then moved over to Takuya who was doing something even less productive. He was doodling fire all over the page of his text book that was open.
"Takuya put that away and read or you'll have a detention!" said Kari with so sternly that the poor boy jumped. She was annoyed that no one seemed to be paying attention to what they were supposed to be doing.
"Yes ma'am," he said with a grin after recovering from his scare.
Takuya put the pen away in front of her, but as soon as her back was turned he continued with his doodles, and received another glare from Koji in the process.
Takuya sat in his seat bored as usual. He never actually found this class exciting.
Even after being told off by Mrs. Takashi there was no way he was going to read the story, after all that's what friends are for. They are there to get the information that he did not feel like reading for himself.
He looked to his left and tried to get one of his best friend's attention. There was no way it was going to happen.
Koji was immersed in the story and seemed to actually find it interesting, plus he had a feeling Koji did not want to be spoken to again.
Zoe had stared the story and at the same time was checking out her make-up in a pocket mirror and he knew it was useless to interrupt that either.
Takuya had started to scribble on his book when he heard Koji next to him shout loudly!
Takuya quickly turned his head and saw that Koji was holding his head in both hands and the expression on his face showed extreme pain.
Takuya had no idea what was going on and it all went by so quickly too. Zoe had gotten out of her seat and so had Takuya and both were gathered around their friend.
They had not seen Koji in this much pain since their experience in the digital world.
They got quickly pushed aside by Mrs. Takashi who was also trying to figure out what was wrong.
She was nervous because he did not seem to be physically hurt.
"Takuya, go to the nurse's office now and see whose there and bring whoever it is back here!" said Mrs. Takashi in a panicking voice.
Takuya was about to go when he heard Koji.
"No. I'm fine. Just a sharp pain, that's all. I'm fine," he said none too convincingly.
"I don't care what you say Koji, you're going to the nurse," said Mrs. Takashi firmly.
Koji knew this was an argument that he could not win and gave in. Mrs. Takashi asked Takuya to walk Koji down to the nurse in case he had another awful headache.
Half way down the hall Koji stopped. Takuya looked at him worriedly and was about to say something but Koji spoke up first.
"The darkness is coming Takuya. I can feel it. I'm not guessing, I know it," Koji said to Takuya so calmly it surprised him.
Koji continued, "I'm not the only one. Koichi felt it too; last night he called me about it."
Takuya was puzzled. He did not feel the darkness at all. It never had affected him in the real world. Sure, in the digital world he sometimes felt the presence of an enemy, but he never felt the darkness growing and strengthening.
"How do you know this Koji," Takuya asked in the serious tone he almost never uses.
"I'm not sure." Koji started. "I think it's because Koichi and I hold the spirits of light and darkness. If the balance is broken then we are affected too. I guess that's why we get those headaches, because the darkness is becoming to strong and disrupting the balance."
They started to the nurse's office once again. Each was deep in his own thoughts.
Koji spent the last half hour of classes in the office, and he never had another "headache" while there. As soon as the last bell rang he left the office, went to his locker to get homework, and left to go meet up with his friends.
As usual everyone was going to meet at the park, but that did not occur. Takuya had managed to land himself in detention again with fifteen minutes left of school. Mrs. Takashi had caught him doodling again. As for Tommy, he was busy working on a project with Shinya for history class.
Koji met up with Zoe, J.P., and his brother next to the big oak tree in the school's front yard. Everyone was staring at J.P. who, after four years and many girlfriends, seemed to still have his crush on Zoe.
No, I will not go out with you, was the first thing that Koji heard when he was within ear shot.
Apparently J.P. was once again rejected by Zoe Orimoto. Koji had his suspicions that J.P.'s crush on Zoe was minor and he mainly did it to get a rise out of her.
"Stop arguing and tell me what's up," said Koji breaking up the argument. Koichi seemed relieved that the argument had been broken up before he had been dragged into it.
Before anyone could tell Koji anything, J.P.'s cell phone brought up a map to follow to find his spirits.
The four of them then set of to find his spirits after making a unanimous decision not to wait for the others. Takuya would not be out of detention for another hour and Tommy and Shinya's project was due tomorrow; so it was best not to bother him.
As they were following the map J.P. all of a sudden said, "I'm not last! Last time I was last and this time I'm not last! Hahahaha."
"Um, J.P.," said Koichi quietly, "You weren't last, I was, in case you've forgotten."
"Huh. No, you had yours before me. Even if you were possessed by them you still had them before I did," said J.P. without thinking it though.
Even though it had been four years since they're adventure in the digital world, Koichi still had not completely gotten over the fact that he had been tricked into hurting his friends and was once possessed by the spirits he now felt were a part of who he was.
One look from Koji silenced J.P. for the rest of the journey to wherever the map was showing them the way to.
After a while the four chosen were standing in front of an enormous power plant. It seemed to cover at least two acres of land, not that it was all developed yet.
"Well, I guess this would be a logical place to find your spirit J.P.," said Zoe.
"Yeah, guess so. Let's go find it," said J.P. heading for one of the doors in the front.
"Wait!" said Koji. "I think it would be a better idea to go in threw a back door or just ask for a tour that way it doesn't seem as suspicious."
"Geez, Koji. Your so cautious and suspicious all the time, lighten up a little more." Said J.P. but agreed to go with Koji's plan since it sounded like it would be more successful.
It seemed that the group had been wandering around the power plant forever. It was probably a good thing to do the tour considering they would have been lost in a matter of minutes.
The tour had just finished and the guide had left them when J.P.'s cell phone started to act up.
All of a sudden one of the pillars in the power plant opened and revealed the spirits of thunder.
J.P. was excited just to see the spirits again.
"Here me Spirits of thunder and come to me!" said J.P. in an over dramatic voice.
At the end of that simple sentence, the spirits flew over in a blinding light of gold and dissolved into the cell phone which had turned into his blue and yellow D-Tector.
When the light died away J.P. saw another one of the necklaces they had been finding on the ground where his spirits had been.
The necklace had a whitish grey piece across the middle and had a symbol on it just like the other one's, except, like with the other one's, the symbol was different. It was a cross with little triangles in the spaces that the cross made.
J.P. instantly picked it up and put it on like he had just won a first place ribbon in a pie eating contest.
The four friends decided it was best to get going since the damage to the power plant was probably not going to go unnoticed by the people running it.
The friend left but unknown to them the darkness was approaching.
To be continued…
A lot of people suggested that J.P. should find his spirits in a power plant and that was also along the lines I had been thinking, so that's where I decided for the spirits of thunder to be discovered. A note: I know nothing about power plants so this chapter might not be that great. Also, you might notice that I put a lot of Koji in. That's because I find him the easiest person to write. I can also write Zoe, Koichi, and Takuya pretty good (I think), but I don't seem to be that great with Tommy or J.P. so there might be less of them in the story then the other characters. Also with those characters being older/younger than the majority of the chosen it makes it harder to include them. Anyways, I will be busy with finals already since over half of my classes have project finals. I also want to say I'm sorry there have been no breaks between the changes of the point of view. I just realized that so I'm going to try and fix the problem if I can. Also, if anyone cares, I chose The Pit and the Pendulum because I just read it in my American lit. class and was the first thing that popped into my head.
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