Chapter Twelve

Shocking News

Takuya sighed as he ran along with the others even if he wasn't happy about it. Although Kouji had told him that if they had fought with Crusadermon then and there, a lot of people would have gotten hurt and he knew that Kouji was right. But that didn't mean he had to like it, he hated running away. It always reminded him of a past that he tried hard to forget.

"Takuya there wasn't any way we could have fought back there and you know it." Zoe sighed as they ran.

"I know that, but it doesn't mean that I have to like it that we ran."

"We didn't have much of a choice, Takuya." Kouichi said.

"I know Kouichi, but I don't like it."

"None of us do Takuya, but Kouichi is right." Kouji told him. "And besides, you know we have to get to Heighten View Terrace as soon as possible."

"Alright you guys come on." the flame Warrior said and he ran to a train that was about to leave to Heighten View Terrace, but Zoe could tell that he was still upset and worried about his cousins.

"What is his deal?" Kouichi asked as they got onto the train.

"He's worried about Kari and the others." Zoe told him.

"Well that makes sense." Kouji said. "But what I don't understand is why Myotismon tried to fool everyone into thinking he was destroyed."

"Kouji has a point." Takuya said as he walked back to the others after looking at the map on the train. "Another think that doesn't make sense is why did he tell Kari and TK that they needed to get back home?"

"I wish I knew you guys, but I have no more knowledge than any of you." Zoe said

"It just doesn't make sense." said Kouji. "But I guess we'll find out when we get to Heighten View Terrace."

"Yeah." Takuya said looking out the window. What he didn't tell them was that he had a feeling as to why Myotismon came here and wanted Kari and the others there as well.

Meanwhile Autumn was still asleep when she was softly nudged. Jerking slightly she looked around and saw Kari was trying to wake her. She knew then that it must be close to their stop.

"Kari, what is it?" she groaned wanting to be sure.

"We're almost there." Kari told her as she turned to wake everyone else.

"Oh." Autumn sighed as she sat up, still holding her side. She had to admit she was glad that Zorak didn't really ask her about it, but that didn't stop the other campers from looking at her strangely when she had gotten on the bus. Looking down to her side and noticing that it felt wet she sighed again. "Great."

"Autumn, are you alright? How is it healing?"

"I need to change the bandage, but I don't have anything to change it to, that and my shirt has blood on it." Autumn told Kari. She was glad for the first time that she had worn a red shirt and that the color was almost hidden.

"I don't have anything to change it either." Kari said slightly aggravated. "I don't know why we didn't grab more bandages and supplies before we left the cabin."

"Well, we were a bit preoccupied and weren't thinking about the small things." Autumn told her as Tai walked up to them.

"What's up you guys?" he asked looking at Kari's aggravated expression. "What's wrong?"

"We have a problem." Autumn told him as she moved her hand and showed him the blood soaked padding. "And we don't have another one."

"Heh, is that all?" he asked smiling, annoying Kari.

"What are you smiling about?"

"Oh nothing." he said putting his hand in his pocket.

"What? Can you help us or not?" Kari asked getting even more aggravated her brother.

"Here." Tai said pulling out a new pad and some tape. "I took this from the cabin after you two left. I had a feeling we might need it."

"Thank you Tai." Kari said hugging her brother, still slightly annoyed with him, and took the bandage.

"Sure." he said, starting to walk away, then he turned back as he remembered the reason he had came back to them for. "Oh by the way we need to get ready to go. The driver said that he could drop us off close to the Terrace, but couldn't go all the way there."

"Alright thanks for the update on where we're getting off at." Kari told him.

"Sure." Tai said again as Kari walked back to Autumn and handed her the bandage.

"Thanks Kari." she said. "Let's go to the back restroom. At least we'll have a bit more privacy there."

"Alright." Kari said following Autumn as Tamrie watched them go into the room. Then she shook her head. She could tell that there was something about Autumn and her friends. Something that made Tamrie feel like she wasn't alone after all.

"I swear they are so weird." Tamire said to her friend beside her, unaware that Taiyou was sitting behind her.

"You're one to talk, you know." she said.

"What do you mean by that?" Tamrie asked quickly. "And I know you weren't on the buses earlier, so what's you're deal with all of this?" she added hoping to find out the truth.

"Well if you must know, I'm friends with Kari and the others and was going to come to camp this summer, but I missed the buses." Taiyou told her slightly harshly. "As for what I mean by you're one to talk, is well you sit there gossiping about people with your friends, like you have nothing better to talk about. So what do you actually do with your spare time? Because I know people who help others and not hurt them."

"You wouldn't understand what I do with my spare time." Tamrie said so suddenly that she looked like Rika did, whenever there was a Digimon attacking her friends or family, or even the city.

"I might if you told me." Taiyou said slightly shocked by the sudden attitude. "You just reminded me of someone. Someone I know well."

"I…you wouldn't get it." she said turning back to the front.

"How do yo know that, if you don't even try to tell me?"

"Uh…"

"Tamrie, just ignore her." one of the girls said.

"Why don't you just let me and Tamrie have our conversation and stay out of it?" Taiyou asked kind of annoyed with the girl. "I mean what are you in charge of everything she does?"

"Stay out of this Korina." Tamrie said as the girl started to respond. Then she got up and walked toward the front. As she did, she pulled something from her pocket. A sort of something that Taiyou recognized instantly, and she got up to follow her.

"So that's what it is." she told her. "You have one too."

"Uh…" Tamrie said quickly putting her device back in her pocket. "I-I don't know w-what you're talking about."

"I think you know exactly what I'm talking about." Taiyou said as she smiled and took out her own digivice, showing it to Tamire.

"Hey Kari, do you know what's going on with those two?" Autumn asked as they watched the two talk. She was worried about what was going on and knew that Taiyou wouldn't normally talk to someone like Tamrie if it wasn't important.

"Tamrie's trying to hide something and she's feeling panicky, while Taiyou's confused." Kari said absentmindly as they tried to stop the fresh bleed that had started when they pulled the old bandage off.

"I wonder…" Autumn said trailing off. Kari noticed then that something was troubling Autumn.

"Autumn, what is it?" Kari asked

"Tamrie…" Autumn said slightly distracted. "I wonder if that's why she's like she is."

"What do you mean?" Kari asked confused. "You wonder if what is why she's like she is?"

"A Digidestined." Autumn told Kari smiling. "I wonder if that's why she's always rebuffing everyone. I think it's a defense from being misunderstood."

"Huh." Kari said.

"This is what I'm talking about." Taiyou said to a shocked Tamrie.

"You too?" she asked

"Yeah me too."

"I didn't know that there were others." Tamrie said. "I-Is Autumn…"

"Yes." Tamrie told her. "All of us; Kari, Autumn, Yuuki, Starla, Sora, Tai, Matt, TK, and myself are."

"I…I didn't know." Tamrie said again shocked even more. "That's why Autumn's is hurt isn't she?"

"Yes, she got hurt while we were trying to get back home."

"I…see." she sighed, then she walked back to where Autumn and Kari was, shocking her. Especially because of what happened before at the campsite. "Autumn do you mind if I look at it?"

"Taiyou what all did you tell her?" Kari asked

"The truth. Not all of it in detail, but she figured out why Autumn was hurt, when she learned tat we're all Digidestined."

"Well, alright but…"

"Kari…" Autumn said causing Kari to look at her best friend. Tamrie watched confused as the two had a silent conversation and finally Kari just sighed, then she moved. "You know about this?" she asked moving her hand and showed Tamrie the deep cut.

"Yeah, a little bit anyway. My mother is a doctor, so I know a few things." Tamrie told them. "Do you mind?"

"No, I don't." Autumn said smiling, as Tamrie looked at the cut and sighed. Then she smiled and looked up at Autumn.

"It's not too bad, but it does need stitches." she said shocking them all.

"Well that's not good." Kari said worried. "Is there anything we can do right now?"

"Just keep it wrapped up. I live in Heighten View Terrace and my mother works at the hospital not far from the bus station." Tamrie told them. "I'm sure she could fix it for you."

"Alright, thank you Tamrie." Kari said. "Um do you want to join us?"

"R-Really?" Tamrie asked shocked. "I mean even after everything I said before?"

"We understand now why you were being like that." Kari told her smiling. "Believe me we all understand more than anyone. So yeah really."

"Besides, you're already one of us." Autumn said smiling.

"Thanks you guys." Tamire said smiling. "Um hold on. I'll be right back." she added, then she walked back to where she was sitting and grabbed her bag. However as she was walking back to the others, Korina grabbed her arm, but Tamrie grimaced, and wrenched her arm out of the girl's grip. "Good bye Korina." she called back as she walked to her new and true friends.

"You'll regret this, Tamrie." Korina said. "You won't find someone who will accept you like I have." she added causing Tamrie to freeze.

"Tamrie?" Taiyou asked when she noticed that she was just standing there. When she didn't answer her Taiyou walked over to her and placed her hand on Tamrie's shoulder. "Is everything okay?"

"Y-Yeah I'm fine." Tamrie said, then she turned to Korina. "As for you, you can just stay out of my life from now on." and the two walked back to the others. Then Taiyou turned to Tamrie.

"Let me guess, she said something about never being accepted by someone, right?"

"Yeah…" Tamrie said slowly. "You see it all started the day my parents spilt up."

"I'm sorry, that can't be easy on you." Taiyou said. "my sister and I have no idea where our father went after our parents spilt. We haven't heard from him in years, so I know that feeling, but what does your parents splitting have to do with why Korina says you'll never be accepted?"

"Because when they split up, my mother tried to make it seem like my father had died and make me move on, when I knew he hadn't. I also knew that he had left us for someone younger and that didn't have a child. See he never really wanted a kid and because I was around he was always looking at me like I was scum. So after he left I searched for about three years for someone who wouldn't leave me like he did, and that's when I met Swanmon. But then Korina found out about my Digimon and me, and would often call me a freak." Tamrie explained looking back at the girl. "Then she basically started to use me and Swanmon for different things. She said that if I would do what she wanted than she wouldn't tell anyone about my Digimon, and that she would be my friend. I didn't have any human friends at the time, so I told her that I would do it."

"So that's why you acted the way you did before." Autumn said. "It was a defense from when your father left you the way he did."

"Yeah I'm sorry Kari, for everything. You guys too." she said looking away.

"Well it doesn't matter right now, right you guys?" Tai asked. "Besides you have us now, and we understand more than anyone would, right Kari?"

"Of course and all is forgiven." Kari said smiling and then she gave Tamrie a hug, surprising her.

"T-Thank you." She said surprised as Autumn smiled. She could tell that Tamrie had never thought that she would really be accepted by them after what had happened before, but the four of them accepted her and she knew that the others would as well.

"Hey you guys, I just talked to the driver." Yuuki said as she walked back to them not at all surprised to see Tamrie there. "He said to get everything ready and to be up front in five minutes."

"Thanks Yuuki." said Kari "Is everybody ready?"

"Y-Yeah." Autumn said trying to stand and hold her bag at the same time, but Tamrie took it and dared her to challenge her. Autumn just smiled and nodded, then followed her to the front.

"Man I don't know what it is about her, but Autumn can make friends out of almost anyone." Matt said as he followed the girls, except for Sora, who was behind him.

"Its not just Autumn who can do that. Kari can as well, and it seems that Taiyou can as well." Sora told him.

"Yeah I guess you could say that." Matt said. "Its just weird seeing them that way. Even though I've grown up around Kari, its just weird."

"It doesn't really matter, who talked to her." TK said "I'm sure we would have found out about Tamrie sooner or later."

"That's a good point, TK. She did also explain her situation." Sora said. "That's an awful lot of respect in my opinion."

"Yeah I guess." Matt said as they got to the front the bus.

"Is this everyone that's getting off here?" the driver asked Kari.

'Lets see, myself, Autumn, Taiyou, Matt, TK, Sora, Tai, Tamrie, Yuuki and Starla.' Kari thought as she double checked. "Yep this is everyone."

"Aright then." the driver told them. "And good luck with whatever it is your doing."

"That's weird." Autumn said as Yuuki helped her sister off the bus.

"Yeah strange, but we need to get going." Kari said. "We probably should go see Tamrie's mom first and have Autumn's wound taken care of. Tamrie have you called your mom? You know to tell her we're coming?"

"No I don't have a phone." Tamrie said.

"Here you can borrow mine." Taiyou said handing Tamrie her phone.

"Thanks." Tamrie said taking the phone, dailing her mother's number and waited for her to pick up.

'Hello?'

"Hey mom."

'Tamrie this is unexpected. I thought you were at camp.'

"It's a long story, but I have friend who needs your help."

'Well are you near home?'

"Yeah actually, we're about a block from the clinic." Tamrie told her mother.

'Well alright then, I'm not busy at the moment, so you can go ahead and bring your friend.'

"Thanks mom." Tamrie said hanging up and handing Taiyou back her phone. "She said it would be alright to come by."

"Great, thank you so much." Kari said. "So where do we go?"

"Follow me." Tamrie said but as they started down thr street, they heard a shout and Autumn groaned.

"Kari I don't want Kouichi to see this." Autumn told her.

"Aright, you guys go a head, and I'll talk to Kouichi and the others. I'm sure Takuya wants to see me anyway." Kari said

"I'll stay with you." Tai said as the others head toward the clinic, barely avoiding the warriors.

"Hey when the warriors.

"Hey when did you guys get here?" JP asked

"Just now, why?" Kari asked confused.

"Just wondering." JP asked as Takuya got closer.

"Hey Kari, I thought Autumn was with you." Takuya said looking around. He didn't want to break his promise to Kouichi, but he couldn't find out how she was if she wasn't there.

"Yeah the others went a head to find sleeping arrangments. Tai and I stayed back to meet up with you guys."

"I see." Takuya said but he could tell that Kari was hiding something from them. "Anyway Kouji and the others are headed toward Odiaba. JP and I stayed behind to let you guys know."

"Takuya are you okay?" Tai asked concerned.

"Yeah I'm fine." Takuya told them but Kari could tell that he wasn't.

"Takuya you're lying, you've been worried about us haven't you?" Kari asked crossing her arms.

"Gah…Uh sort of." Takuya sighed. Then he walked to one of the benches and sat down, confusing both Tai and Kari.

"Takuya?" Kari asked worried. "What is it?"

"A friend of ours…w-we lost a friend of ours before you guys got here."

"Oh, Takuya, I'm so sorry." Kari said walking over to him, sat down and placed her arm around him.

"I just can't believe…I mean why would they attack the village?"

"What village?" Tai asked

"It happened when we were all fight Lucemon, Tai." JP explained since Takuya couldn't. "His village was attacked and well…Kari do you remember the house that the six of us built?"

"Yeah, what happened to it? Are Bokomon and Neemon alright?" Kari asked worried about her friends.

"Neemon is fine." Takuya told her as he placed his head in his hands. "But Bokomon…"

"You never came across him while you were looking?" Kari asked hopefully, missing a minor detail. "I just hope he's alright."

"Kari…W-we found the book." JP told her crushing the hopes. "You know as well as we do that he never lets that book out of his sight. That and the fact that Crusadermon was the one fighting and she destroyed the Village of Flames."

"No." Kari gasped.

"We're not for sure that he's really gone," Takuya told her. "but I do know that Crusadermon is working with Millenniummon and Myotismon."

"That's not good. Especially because once we defeat Myotismon, Millenniummon is free…" Kari trailed off hoping that the feelings she were having was wrong.

"How did you find all of this out?" Tai asked confused.

"An old enemy. Hey Kari do you remember me tell you about Dynasmon?" he asked to a shocked Kari.

"Yes why?"

"He was the one that told us all of this." JP said

"So he was finally freed from their control." Kari said lowly confusing everyone there. "That's good, but then, he's the friend that's gone isn't he?"

"I…I don't know." Takuya sighed. "W-We h-had…"

"Had what?" Kari asked

"We had just gotten back from the Digital World and were waiting on a train to get here, when Kouichi was knocked down by something." JP said taking over for Takuya since he was still in shock from the scene at the train station. "It turned out that Crusadermon somehow followed us and was trying to destroy Kouichi, since she knew he was one of the three strongest. However, Dynasmon caused Kouichi to fall ad made Crusadermon's attack miss him and that was the last we saw of both Knights."

"I get the feeling you guys aren't telling us everything, but alright." Kari sighed. "At least Kouichi's alright."

"We don't know what happened to the knights or anything, but I'm afraid that Dyansmon…and Bokomon…" Takuya trailed off.

"What?" Kari pushed although she knew she had to be careful, like Zoe she knew what Takuya was like.

"Kari…" Tai said softly, placing his hand on her shoulder. Unlike Kari he saw how close Takuya was to breaking down and he didn't want his cousin to do that in front of one of the other Warriors. "Don't push it, and we need to go meet up with the others."

"Alright." she sighed.

"I'll let Kouji and the others know you guys are back." JP told them. "Takuya why don't you go ahead and stay here with them, alright?" he added knowing that the best place for his friend to be right now was with his family.

"A-Alright." Takuya said, his voice breaking as he walked away with Tai. However just as Kari was about to follow them JP called her back.

"Hey uh Kari, I don't know the whole story between you guys and your uncle, but I have a feeling that part of the reason Takuya is like this, is because Yorak said he was staying behind."

"Wait what? My uncle is still in the Digital World?"

"Yeah him and the other two." JP told her. "I don't know why but I have a feeling that Takuya does."

"Alright, I'll Takuya tell me on his own." Kari sighed. "If I try to push it he'll never tell me."

"Okay, later." JP said and he took off running the other direction, leaving Kari shaking her head as she caught up with Takuya and her brother. Once she caught up with them, she took her phone out and called Yuuki to find out what was happening on their end.

'Hello.'

"Hey Yuuki."

'Hey were at the clinic and Autumn is getting stitched up now.'

"We're on our way with Just Takuya."

'Okay I'll let Autumn know.'

"Alright see you soon."

"Yep." Yuuki said hanging up and looking up at the others. "Kari and Tai are heading this way."

"Is Kouji and the others with them?" Starla asked.

"No, just Takuya." Yuuki said and she could tell that Autumn was more than a little relieved. Just then the doctor stood and smiled.

"Mom?" Tamrie asked.

"Well you'll all done, Autumn." Corin said. "Try not to fall on any more sharp rocks."

"Okay." said Autumn as the girl gathered their thinks and met the boys outside with Tai and the others.

"Everything okay Kari?" asked Yuuki noticing her friend's distracted face.

"Hmm? Oh yeah, everything's fine."

"Alright, you guys ready to head over there?" Matt asked

"He's not there." Takuya said suddenly

"He's heading for Odaiba already, isn't he?" Kari asked

"Yeah it's one of the reasons I stayed behind and the others went on ahead." Takuya told her. "Rika and the other Tamers already know as well and are heading that way too."

"Alright then we better get back Odaiba quickly then." Kari said, having a really bad feeling come over her when Takuya said that the Tamers were already going there.

"Then let's go." Autumn said, calling a name that shocked Takuya and Kari immensely, but Takuya especially. "Dynasmon!"