Children of the Legend
Kari Minamoto
Author's Note: Nice to see you again- here's chapter 15 and my last backup chapter which means I now have to find time to write!
Disclaimer: Don't own Digimon, Harry Potter, and/or anything else that is copyrighted. The plot is mine though see ©.
Chapter 15- The Freindship of Strangers
Mimi and Kari drove to Izzy's in silence, each deep in her own thought about the crests mystery. It was like seeing an old friend, yet a new enemy.
The crest represented the power each of the digidestined had, but also that there was danger. They were originally given the crests to save the world and then had to give them up to protect it. And here it was again; giving the digidestined another problem to solve, another villain to defeat.
"We're here Kari," Mimi said breaking Kari's thoughts and turning off the ignition, pulling out the key, and stepping out of the car.
Kari also got out of the car still thinking about the crest and hoping that Izzy would have some answers for them.
Kari was worried that he would not be home, considering the fact that they had not called him before hand, there was also the problem that he had just moved out of his apartment to a house.
"I hope he's here," Mimi said voicing Kari's worry.
They walked up to his front door. It was a good size with green paint and peach trim. The yard was clean cut, everything was in place and not a weed could be seen. From the black and silver Hummer in the driveway, Izzy's job was paying very well with the new promotion.
They walked up the front walkway and rang the brass doorbell. After a few seconds pause the door opened.
"Mimi! Kari! I haven't seen you for a while, well since the last time all of us got together, come in!" Izzy said stepping aside for them to enter then noticing the crest around Mimi's neck. "Mimi! Your crest! Where did you find it! You must tell me!"
Izzy than almost started pulling them into his house hoping some questions would get answers.
The house was completely modern from what the two women could see. The house opened up into a living room with dark blue paint on the walls. As for décor there were two forest green chairs and a navy blue couch with the focal point being a brick fireplace with the T.V. not that far away. A green and clear coffee table was in the center of the rectangle the chairs, couch, and fireplace made. A blue and green shag carpet was on the floor where the furniture was so it would not scratch the wood floors. If you looked right you could see some of the kitchen where a stainless steal refrigerator could be seen easily.In the front of them was the stairway upstairs. Hanging on walls and the wall bookcase in the living room were pictures, some that they remembered and others that Mimi and Kari had no recollection of.
Then there was Izzy himself. He looked like he had just come home from work. He still had on navy blue dress pants with a white dress shirt which had become untucked while he had unbuttoned and rolled the sleeves up to his elbows. The shiny purple tie lay absentmindedly on the coffee table. His red hair looked ruffled up and uncombed, and Mimi would have said he looked really good if there were not more pressing matters.
Mimi and Kari quickly removed their shoes and shed their jackets. They than followed Izzy into his living room and took a seat on the couch while he sat in one of the chairs.
"Tell me where you found it. None of the digimon could find any of them, and Gennai is now worried about Gabumon and Agumon since they haven't spoken to him for a few days. None of the digimon have found anything and Gennai is getting really worried," Izzy told them all of this without hardly taking a breath of air.
"Clam down Izzy," Mimi told him. "Kari could probably explain better than me anyways and I'm sure that Agumon and Gabumon are alright."
"Fine, but I want Gennai to be here to get all the facts," Izzy said quickly standing up. "He wanted me to report anything to him."
He than hurried up the stairs followed by Mimi and Kari to a room that had a steel door.
Izzy stopped in front of it and looked at his fellow digidestined and saw their expressions at seeing the door.
"I just don't want anyone in here that shouldn't be," he told them point blank. "I do computer research for work in here which I'm not supposed to disclose to anyone, as well as some other things."
Mimi and Kari said nothing and just watched as Izzy pushed a bunch of numbers into a key pad next to the door. A minute later the door opened and everyone stepped in.
Besides work and dismantled computers and new programs all over a desk spanning a quarter of the room since it was in a 90 degree angle was an enormous bookshelf that took up another quarter of it. On the other half of the room was a computer but it looked like some modifications had been made by someone not from this world. There were two silver couches near it and pillows stashed in a corner for those return trips from the digital world which always hadhard landingsif nothing had been placed on the floor before hand. The walls had been painted grey with a sea sponge to make designs. The floor had been covered in slates.
Izzy went to his computer and punched in a series of codes and programs no one but a computer genius like Izzy would understand. As Izzy did this the women looked around in awe at his work room. They had expected his whole house to be completely neat, and it was. This must be the exception to the rule.
"All set. Gennai will be here in a couple of seconds," Izzy said.
Not a minute after he said this did Gennai come out of the computer. Unlike the digidestined, he never seemed to fall out of the computer, just kind of glide out in a sense.
"What is this important news?" Gennai asked almost as enthusiastic as Izzy. Then he noticed the crest around Mimi's neck.
"A crest! How did you find it! We've been searching the digital world for them for so long, where was it?" Gennai asked as Mimi and Kari walked over to one of the couches while Izzy took a seat on the other and Gennai remained standing.
"I want to know too. Come on Kari, tell us," Izzy said eagerly. Deep down he wanted his own crest and was slightly jealous that Mimi had hers first.
"A student of mine had it," Kari started before being interrupted.
"A student?" Izzy asked looking skeptical.
"I couldn't believe it either but it makes perfect sense," Mimi said putting inher own opinion. "It would explain why no one could find them in the digital world right? Cause kids here have them."
"I think you might be right," Gennai said with his had on his chin deep in thought.
"You can't be serious," Izzy said getting off the couch. "Other kids having our crests! It's preposterous!"
"No I don't think it is. Mimi's right it would explain why we couldn't find them in the digital world," Gennai said turning from an upset Izzy to Kari. "What was this students' name anyway?"
"Zoe Orimoto," Kari told him.
"I think we found one of our Children of the Legend," Gennai told them.
As soon as he said this three pairs of eyes turned to him. All showed disbelief.
"Why?" Kari asked after a minute of silence in a small voice.
"Cause crests are unique. Not everyone can feel the power in it, but some know there is something different about it that can't be explained some more than others," Gennai told them. "What was her reaction to it?
"She seemed really protective of it and it took a promise of giving it back to her tomorrow for her to loan it to me," Kari told the small group gathered in the room.
Gennai walked over to Mimi and asked, "May I see your crest?"
"Why?" Mimi asked afraid of what he might do.
"Trust me Mimi, I have an idea," Gennai told her holding out his hand for the crest.
Mimi handed him the crest reluctantly, almost like she was afraid it might never be returned to her.
As soon as Gennai had it he went to Izzy's desk and cleared off some of the computer partsand paperswhile the three digidestined looked from where they were. All three realized without speaking that it would be best if they left Gennai to what he was doing.
Moments later he returned…with two identical Crests of Sincerity!
"Remember when Myotismon made copies of the Crest of Light," Gennai started looking at the heads nodding. "That's what I did. It will do everything except digivolve a digimon which shouldn't really matter. Also it won't give off the same energy."
"Brilliant!" Izzy said.
"This would be true no matter what but it's important in this case since people who have been to the digiworld would feel the difference. The girl won't notice anything different, unless she has some sort of relation to the digital world," Gennai finished. He then handed the real crest to Mimi and the copy to Kari.
"Make sure you give this to Zoe, and make it seem like nothing is wrong," Gennai told Kari as she put the copy crest in her pocket.
"I will," Kari told him thinking about the idea that she could be teaching the new generation of digidestined and never had known it before then.
Tomorrow they might be closer to finding out that these mysterious children are. And if Zoe Orimoto was one of the people they were looking for would she know any of the others and if she is a digidestined, why didn't she tell then ahead of time before going through all of this confusion…or do they have no idea what is going on?
Koji had just arrived home from school and was looking forward to later in the day for Kendo practice with Sensei Hida. At the moment he was still in school clothes meaning jeans and a black T-shirt with a black and white bandana holding back his bangs and hislong hair tied back. His house was in the wealthier area of Shibuya. It was larger than some and was ironically white with a black door which had an oval window with a design in it. The exterior did have a little oriental design to it but not much.It was more Western based.
He took the key out of his pocket and went into the house taking off his shoes at the door as was typical.
He walked through the bland living room consisting of black and beige with the staircase on the right hand side of the room to the kitchen which had stainless steel appliances and light yellow paint and a sunflower border. The table was a light wood with fresh flowers on it. The same wood was on the cabinets and a darker wood floor.
AsKoji entered he unceremoniously dropped his jacket on the floor andwent to the fridge and took a glance at the note his step-mom, Satomi, had left before opening the door.
It said:
Koji,
I hope you got home from school okay. Your father has to work late and will not be home for dinner. I went to see a friend in the neighboring town who's sick. I shouldbe home before your Kendo practice to take you and make dinner. If not there is leftover chicken in the fridge. Love you, Satomi
It was typical to come home to an empty house, but it did not mean Koji liked it. After glancing at what wasin the fridgehe pulled out a bottle of water.
Koji then started for his room to finish homework thinking to himself if he had time to get the bus to Takuya's and back if he hurried.
He had only gone up three stairs before his cell phone rang. This was also a normal ritual since Koichi attended a different school and one of them almost always called the other after it ended.
Koji took the phone out his pocket after the second ring.
"Hello?" Koji asked the person on the other end in case it was not his brother.
"Am I speaking to Koji Minamoto?" a woman's voice asked him.
"Ya, so?" Koji responded impatiently. He did not want to tie up the line in case his brother called.
"My name is Asami Makini. I'm from the Shibuya General Hospital," the woman now identified as Asami replied.
Koji's thoughts immediately went to his brother. Why would the hospital be calling him unless something was wrong?
"Is my brother okay?" Koji asked anxiously now holding the banister for support.
"How did you know we were calling about him? We aren't really sure what's wrong but your mother is here and said to call you and…" Asami said before being hung up on.
He was at the door when he realized he had taken off his jacket and shoes and was about to leave without them.
He ran back to the kitchen grabbed the blue jacket with the double yellow stripe on the sleeves. As he went past the fridge Koji scrawled a note on Satomi's telling her he was out and did not know when he would be back. As an afterthought Koji took the blue necklace he found out of his backpack which had been deposited at the front door.
He went back and put his sneakers on some what since he did not tie them or even bother pulling the heals up.
He then closed the door and ran for the nearest bus station.
As soon as Koji approached the terminal it was pulling up. The black bus with red stripe pulled up to the curb and Koji quickly boarded the bus paying the fare halfway up the steps.
Before taking his seat Koji asked the driver, "How long until the stop for Shibuya General Hospital?"
The driver looked at him for a second and then answered with no emotion, "About an hour."
"What!" Koji practically screamed at the driver. "My brother is there and they don't know what's wrong with him. I have to get there now!"
The few passengers that were on the bus at the moment looked at the argument that was starting and felt pity for the boy standing in front of them who was now trying to explain that his parents were not home.
One of the men who were dressed in a business suitand was a brunette started up to the driver.
"Hey Kyouta," the man said to the person who was obviously the driver. "Drop the boy off at the hospital. My sister will forgive me for being late for dinner. We all decided its fine."
The driver just rolled his eyes andnodded to Koji who sat down on the second seat on the right and started staring out the window.
All he could think about was Koichi and what was wrong with him. Koji did not bother to call any of his friends; he knew they must already know. His mother must have had the hospital call the others, she knew how close they all were.
"You okay kid?" the man who told the driver to go to the hospital.
"I'm fine, I just have to get to my brother," Koji told him not fully concentrating on the conversation.
"My sister used to go to the hospital a lot when we were about your age or a little younger, around 10 which I guess isn't close to your age, but youget the point, I can understand what you are going through," the man said to Koji.
Koji just nodded his head and continued staring out the window.
The rest of the ride was made in silence until finally fifteen minutes later, which seemed like an eternity to Koji, they arrived.
Koji stood up with his left hand in his pocket almost like it he was grasping something for comfort. Before disembarking Koji turned to face the man and said, "Thank you."
Koji could have sworn he saw something familiar in the man's face and his eyes but could not quiet figure out what it was.
He then ran out of the open door and for the hospital's emergency room for his brother that was once again going to be lying there.
As Koji ran across the street he almost dropped something from his pocket which the man on the bus thought looked very familiar,something with a blur glimmer in a familiar shape on a string or chain.
To be continued…
Little longer than the past few and I hope It is okay, I am going to try to make the meeting soon so please stop asking me to tell you when they will meet cause I will not tell you. I am so busy like I already stated and therefore have no idea when updates will come, please bear with me since this is my last summer written chapter. Also to Digi Fan no he does not know, he just knows there are other digidestined/chosen.