The Courage to Love
Author's Disclaimer: Ah, I don't own Digimon and I'm not associated with Saban, Toei or Disney. If you've read my 3rd chapter you should know why I included Disney in this disclaimer.
Author's Notes: Sorry I forgot to mention in the last chapter that "Chosen Children" is the Japanese term for "Digi Destined". Anyway fourth chapter!
Prisoners for Each other
"Damn that Datamon!" Taichi pounded his fist against the ground. Hot tears poured down his face, his emotions mixed with anger and sadness. "It's all my fault! I wasn't brave enough to chase after Datamon to rescue her!"
"Tai, it's not your fault, that fence had electricity all over it and there was only one spot that was safe to go through…it would've taken us a while to figure out where that spot was" Izzy explained.
"That's right, try not to get too touchy about alright?" Matt patted Tai on the shoulder.
"I'm sure Sora would understand Tai, it looked really dangerous to follow after Datamon" said Mimi.
"If anyone can get Sora back it'll be you Tai" Joe said proudly.
"Yeah!" Takeru screamed.
Despite the groups' encouragement, Tai just made himself feel lower. He thought to himself "What's the use of being the bearer of Courage if I can't even help a best friend…that I…I…I…love…" Tai never thought the time would come when he thought to himself that he loved Sora. He could feel it inside him, but the ways he expressed it were limited.
"Let's get some rest, we'll look for Sora tomorrow" Matt instructed the rest of the group, to save Taichi the trouble of having to command anyone. If anything, Taichi needed to control his emotions at this time. After everyone had gone to sleep Taichi just sat in front of the fire, staring into it. He could feel as though the flames were making his anger burn more and at the same time punishing him with the painful heat of not saving someone who mattered greatly to him.
"Taichi…you're always there for me, aren't you?" Taichi's eyes widened when he heard Sora's voice. He looked around but she was nowhere to be seen. Hearing her voice say those words made Taichi curl up into ball, to make it even worse, that voice wasn't accompanied by a physical form, it was just…a voice.
The next morning Taichi and Koushiro began to infiltrate Datamon's pyramid labyrinth with the help of a diversion by Yamato, Mimi, and Joe. Etemon easily defeated Garurumon, Ikakkumon and Togemon and sang his horrible music to turn them back to their rookies. While he was still singing the kids and their Digimon took a run for it to hide under some camouflage in the desert that they had set up earlier.
Meanwhile Taichi and Koushiro were moving swiftly through the invisible walls in the pyramid that Koushiro was easily detecting with his computer. They had made it through many passageways until they reached the second final room.
"Taichi, beyond this room is an electrical fence like the one before, I hope you're ready"
"No worries, I'll be fine" Koushiro gave Taichi the exact point for the safe spot in the next room.
"Good luck Taichi, I'll be waiting outside with the other…AAAH!"
Etemon burst through the wall with a look of anger upon his face.
"You kids ain't getting away this time, I'm gonna make sure ya pay" Etemon pounded his fists together.
"Go ahead Taichi, save Sora!" Koushiro nodded at his friend as a final signal to get going. Taichi nodded back and headed to the next room with Agumon.
"Tentomon shinka! Kabuterimon!" Tentomon evolved into Kabuterimon and began to face off against Etemon.
"Taichi? What's wrong?" said Agumon. Taichi was standing directly in front of the spot where Koushiro told him it was safe. He was shaking a bit, but he knew what he had to do.
"For me, for Sora, and for everyone else! " Taichi stepped forward with his eyes closed and reached his arm into the fence. He kept his eyes shut and moved his arm around a bit. It was safe, he was ok! Taichi opened his eyes and smiled, at the same time his crest began to glow.
"You did it Taichi!" Just then Kabuterimon rolled down the stairs from the other room with Etemon grabbing him.
"Hey you, you aren't getting anymore further!"
"I got this one Taichi, go on ahead!" said Agumon
Taichi gave a thumbs up to Agumon and ran through the fence to save Sora.
"Now to deal with you. Agumon shinka! Greymon!" A battle started between Greymon and Etemon.
"Sora!" Taichi ran up to Sora who was just standing with an emotionless look on her face.
"Hey come on Sora, I've come to get you out of here" Taichi started to shake Sora, he was getting on the verge of tears.
"Taichi! That's not me!" Tai spun around to see another Sora locked down onto an experiment table. Datamon suddenly appeared next to the Sora in front of Tai.
"How nice of you to show up young warrior"
"Why are there two Soras? What did you do?!"
"Well young man, I've cloned your friend over there so that I may see if her crest will react even if to a copy of the real holder of the crest"
At those words Taichi immediately snatched the crest from the fake Sora and sprinted for the real one.
"Get back here!" Datamon was enraged that Taichi had stolen the crest from the clone he made.
"If my copy can't have the crest, then your original can't have it either!" Datamon made a hole appear in the floor and Sora started falling through.
"Taichi!"
"Sora!" Tai leapt to the hole and grabbed Sora's arm. He held on to her as tight as he could, he didn't want to lose her now, he didn't want to lose her ever.
"Sora here!" Taichi dropped down Sora's crest and Sora caught it.
"Biyomon!" yelled Sora.
"Biyomon shinka! Birdramon!" Birdramon picked both Taichi and Sora up and flew off to get away from Datamon.
"Curse those children! I guess there's no point in having this useless puppet around anymore" Datamon deleted the clone Sora. Footsteps could be heard and Datamon turned toward the sound. Only a shadow of a figure could be seen in the entrance to the room.
"We made it!" Taichi, Sora and Koushiro were waving to Mimi, Yamato, Joe and Takeru.
"See Taichi, I told you, you were going to be the one to save Sora" Joe closed his eyes and crossed his arms boastfully.
"No one doubted you Joe" Mimi said while putting a hand on his shoulder. Joe froze for a second at her touch and soon calmed down and smiled. Matt smirked at Joe.
"Looks like someone has a little crush" said Matt, he playfully punched Joe in the shoulder. Joe panicked and then got defensive.
"Well who's been taking sneaky glances huh?" Joe said defensively. Matt didn't comment and just looked in the other direction. Joe just slumped over and sighed.
"Umm…guys there's a big problem over there" Koushiro was pointing to a large sphere like object composed of cables and wire. Atop the whole mess, was none other than Etemon.
"You're still alive?" Taichi yelled.
"Of course, this monkey still has a few notes to sing"
"I've had it with this guy" thought Taichi. "Come on Greymon lets take this guy down!"
"I'm right behind you!" Greymon and Taichi charged forward towards Etemon.
"Here comes my first string of notes, Dark Network!" Etemon hurled a ball of dark energy at Greymon, which caused him to fall backwards.
"No, Greymon! We're staying in this together!" Taichi's crest began to glow and he picked it up to look at it.
"Taichi, your crest has given me even greater strength now I can evolve!" said Greymon.
"Greymon shinka! MetalGreymon!" Metal Greymon appeared as an even bigger Greymon. His beetle like protection on his head was replaced with solid metal. He developed wings and most of his body was covered with metal parts.
"What? Why have you reached another level?" questioned Etemon frantically. Metal Greymon didn't respond and instead started to glow.
"What's going on? I can't see Taichi" Sora and the others were watching the battle from a distance and could barely see due to the blinding light that Metal Greymon was emitting.
"Give me an answer now!" Etemon demanded. Little did Etemon know that this time he would receive an answer.
"Giga Blaster!" Two large missiles were fired from a missile hatch on Metal Greymon's chest and impacted on the large ball that Etemon was stuck to.
"No this can't be happening I'm not supposed to die!" Etemon became distorted and him and the large ball began to swirl around violently. The space where Etemon used to be, soon became a vortex and started to suck things in that were close in its way. One of the first things that were starting to be sucked up was Taichi.
"Ahhh…nooo!" Taichi started to roll along the ground being caught up in the sand, nearing the vortex. A metal hand came down in front of him and started to block him from being sucked up.
"Metal Greymon!" shouted Taichi. Soon even Metal Greymon's weight wasn't enough to keep them from being sucked in and they entered the portal. Within a few moments the portal was gone. The sand had settled and Taichi and Metal Greymon were nowhere to be found.
"Taichi!" Sora yelled.
"Taichi!" yelled everyone else.
In the Real World
Taichi stared at his surroundings wide-eyed. A now devolved Koromon also stared at his surroundings.
"Taichi, where are we?" Koromon asked
"I think…I think I'm at home, we're where I live!"
In the Digital World
"It's settled, we're going to look for Taichi starting tomorrow" stated Matt
"Right" said everyone. Once again the group went to sleep, all except one. Sora got up and started to leave with Biyomon until she caught that TK was still awake. She slowly walked over to him as not to wake anyone else.
"TK I'm leaving with Biyomon to find Taichi on my own ok? Don't tell anyone else"
"Hmm…? Ok…I won't tell anybody" TK started to drift off into sleep.
"Behave with the rest of the group ok?" TK heard those final words before he fell asleep.
"Sora, why did you leave to look for Taichi with just me around?" asked Biyomon.
"It's a private reason Biyomon, but I'll tell you soon, I promise" Sora smiled at her Digimon partner.
"Just when we were back together you went missing…where are you Taichi? Don't leave me behind…" Sora started to feel an emptiness inside her, little did she know that her feeling of emptiness would soon lead to another problem.
Back in the Real World
"Pepper Breath!"
"Uaaaghhh!" Ogremon went flying up into a Digital Portal that had formed in the sky.
"Agumon!" Tai shouted
"Sorry Tai, I'm needed in the Digital World" Agumon also disappeared into the Digital Portal. Taichi soon stepped up near the portal until he felt someone tug at his arm.
"No, Onii-chan please don't go" it was Hikari Yagami, Taichi's younger sister.
"I have to, everyone else needs me, Agumon needs me!" Taichi looked at his younger sister concerned.
"But…but…oh…ok, but you promise to be back?"
"Of course" Taichi said. They both hooked pinkies to promise. Tai stepped in the path of the portal and slowly began to rise up while Hikari was holding onto his hand.
"Don't forget Onii-chan! You have to come back!" Hikari said to her older brother.
"I won't forget Hikari, I'll be back" Taichi said with a smile. Taichi's hand began to slip out of Hikari's.
"Take care of yourself Hikari, be good ok?"
"I will"
"Good…well this is it, goodbye"
"Goodbye…Onii-chan" They both smiled at each other before Taichi disappeared into the portal.
In the Digital World
"Well Agumon we're back and we've got business!"
"That's right and we've got to catch up with everyone else"
"We've got a long way ahead of us so let's go!" said Taichi.
Taichi and Agumon both began their journey, chins up and fists raised in the air.
A/N: I used both a mix of English and Japanese Digimon terms in this chapter. In case you didn't know Shinka stands for evolve or evolution and in the English version Shinka is Digivolve or Digivolution. The title for this chapter refers to how Taichi and Sora continually think about each other and how they feel lonely without the other around. In other words, they're prisoners for each other's company. Thanks for reading! Please review!
Author's Disclaimer: Ah, I don't own Digimon and I'm not associated with Saban, Toei or Disney. If you've read my 3rd chapter you should know why I included Disney in this disclaimer.
Author's Notes: Sorry I forgot to mention in the last chapter that "Chosen Children" is the Japanese term for "Digi Destined". Anyway fourth chapter!
Prisoners for Each other
"Damn that Datamon!" Taichi pounded his fist against the ground. Hot tears poured down his face, his emotions mixed with anger and sadness. "It's all my fault! I wasn't brave enough to chase after Datamon to rescue her!"
"Tai, it's not your fault, that fence had electricity all over it and there was only one spot that was safe to go through…it would've taken us a while to figure out where that spot was" Izzy explained.
"That's right, try not to get too touchy about alright?" Matt patted Tai on the shoulder.
"I'm sure Sora would understand Tai, it looked really dangerous to follow after Datamon" said Mimi.
"If anyone can get Sora back it'll be you Tai" Joe said proudly.
"Yeah!" Takeru screamed.
Despite the groups' encouragement, Tai just made himself feel lower. He thought to himself "What's the use of being the bearer of Courage if I can't even help a best friend…that I…I…I…love…" Tai never thought the time would come when he thought to himself that he loved Sora. He could feel it inside him, but the ways he expressed it were limited.
"Let's get some rest, we'll look for Sora tomorrow" Matt instructed the rest of the group, to save Taichi the trouble of having to command anyone. If anything, Taichi needed to control his emotions at this time. After everyone had gone to sleep Taichi just sat in front of the fire, staring into it. He could feel as though the flames were making his anger burn more and at the same time punishing him with the painful heat of not saving someone who mattered greatly to him.
"Taichi…you're always there for me, aren't you?" Taichi's eyes widened when he heard Sora's voice. He looked around but she was nowhere to be seen. Hearing her voice say those words made Taichi curl up into ball, to make it even worse, that voice wasn't accompanied by a physical form, it was just…a voice.
The next morning Taichi and Koushiro began to infiltrate Datamon's pyramid labyrinth with the help of a diversion by Yamato, Mimi, and Joe. Etemon easily defeated Garurumon, Ikakkumon and Togemon and sang his horrible music to turn them back to their rookies. While he was still singing the kids and their Digimon took a run for it to hide under some camouflage in the desert that they had set up earlier.
Meanwhile Taichi and Koushiro were moving swiftly through the invisible walls in the pyramid that Koushiro was easily detecting with his computer. They had made it through many passageways until they reached the second final room.
"Taichi, beyond this room is an electrical fence like the one before, I hope you're ready"
"No worries, I'll be fine" Koushiro gave Taichi the exact point for the safe spot in the next room.
"Good luck Taichi, I'll be waiting outside with the other…AAAH!"
Etemon burst through the wall with a look of anger upon his face.
"You kids ain't getting away this time, I'm gonna make sure ya pay" Etemon pounded his fists together.
"Go ahead Taichi, save Sora!" Koushiro nodded at his friend as a final signal to get going. Taichi nodded back and headed to the next room with Agumon.
"Tentomon shinka! Kabuterimon!" Tentomon evolved into Kabuterimon and began to face off against Etemon.
"Taichi? What's wrong?" said Agumon. Taichi was standing directly in front of the spot where Koushiro told him it was safe. He was shaking a bit, but he knew what he had to do.
"For me, for Sora, and for everyone else! " Taichi stepped forward with his eyes closed and reached his arm into the fence. He kept his eyes shut and moved his arm around a bit. It was safe, he was ok! Taichi opened his eyes and smiled, at the same time his crest began to glow.
"You did it Taichi!" Just then Kabuterimon rolled down the stairs from the other room with Etemon grabbing him.
"Hey you, you aren't getting anymore further!"
"I got this one Taichi, go on ahead!" said Agumon
Taichi gave a thumbs up to Agumon and ran through the fence to save Sora.
"Now to deal with you. Agumon shinka! Greymon!" A battle started between Greymon and Etemon.
"Sora!" Taichi ran up to Sora who was just standing with an emotionless look on her face.
"Hey come on Sora, I've come to get you out of here" Taichi started to shake Sora, he was getting on the verge of tears.
"Taichi! That's not me!" Tai spun around to see another Sora locked down onto an experiment table. Datamon suddenly appeared next to the Sora in front of Tai.
"How nice of you to show up young warrior"
"Why are there two Soras? What did you do?!"
"Well young man, I've cloned your friend over there so that I may see if her crest will react even if to a copy of the real holder of the crest"
At those words Taichi immediately snatched the crest from the fake Sora and sprinted for the real one.
"Get back here!" Datamon was enraged that Taichi had stolen the crest from the clone he made.
"If my copy can't have the crest, then your original can't have it either!" Datamon made a hole appear in the floor and Sora started falling through.
"Taichi!"
"Sora!" Tai leapt to the hole and grabbed Sora's arm. He held on to her as tight as he could, he didn't want to lose her now, he didn't want to lose her ever.
"Sora here!" Taichi dropped down Sora's crest and Sora caught it.
"Biyomon!" yelled Sora.
"Biyomon shinka! Birdramon!" Birdramon picked both Taichi and Sora up and flew off to get away from Datamon.
"Curse those children! I guess there's no point in having this useless puppet around anymore" Datamon deleted the clone Sora. Footsteps could be heard and Datamon turned toward the sound. Only a shadow of a figure could be seen in the entrance to the room.
"We made it!" Taichi, Sora and Koushiro were waving to Mimi, Yamato, Joe and Takeru.
"See Taichi, I told you, you were going to be the one to save Sora" Joe closed his eyes and crossed his arms boastfully.
"No one doubted you Joe" Mimi said while putting a hand on his shoulder. Joe froze for a second at her touch and soon calmed down and smiled. Matt smirked at Joe.
"Looks like someone has a little crush" said Matt, he playfully punched Joe in the shoulder. Joe panicked and then got defensive.
"Well who's been taking sneaky glances huh?" Joe said defensively. Matt didn't comment and just looked in the other direction. Joe just slumped over and sighed.
"Umm…guys there's a big problem over there" Koushiro was pointing to a large sphere like object composed of cables and wire. Atop the whole mess, was none other than Etemon.
"You're still alive?" Taichi yelled.
"Of course, this monkey still has a few notes to sing"
"I've had it with this guy" thought Taichi. "Come on Greymon lets take this guy down!"
"I'm right behind you!" Greymon and Taichi charged forward towards Etemon.
"Here comes my first string of notes, Dark Network!" Etemon hurled a ball of dark energy at Greymon, which caused him to fall backwards.
"No, Greymon! We're staying in this together!" Taichi's crest began to glow and he picked it up to look at it.
"Taichi, your crest has given me even greater strength now I can evolve!" said Greymon.
"Greymon shinka! MetalGreymon!" Metal Greymon appeared as an even bigger Greymon. His beetle like protection on his head was replaced with solid metal. He developed wings and most of his body was covered with metal parts.
"What? Why have you reached another level?" questioned Etemon frantically. Metal Greymon didn't respond and instead started to glow.
"What's going on? I can't see Taichi" Sora and the others were watching the battle from a distance and could barely see due to the blinding light that Metal Greymon was emitting.
"Give me an answer now!" Etemon demanded. Little did Etemon know that this time he would receive an answer.
"Giga Blaster!" Two large missiles were fired from a missile hatch on Metal Greymon's chest and impacted on the large ball that Etemon was stuck to.
"No this can't be happening I'm not supposed to die!" Etemon became distorted and him and the large ball began to swirl around violently. The space where Etemon used to be, soon became a vortex and started to suck things in that were close in its way. One of the first things that were starting to be sucked up was Taichi.
"Ahhh…nooo!" Taichi started to roll along the ground being caught up in the sand, nearing the vortex. A metal hand came down in front of him and started to block him from being sucked up.
"Metal Greymon!" shouted Taichi. Soon even Metal Greymon's weight wasn't enough to keep them from being sucked in and they entered the portal. Within a few moments the portal was gone. The sand had settled and Taichi and Metal Greymon were nowhere to be found.
"Taichi!" Sora yelled.
"Taichi!" yelled everyone else.
In the Real World
Taichi stared at his surroundings wide-eyed. A now devolved Koromon also stared at his surroundings.
"Taichi, where are we?" Koromon asked
"I think…I think I'm at home, we're where I live!"
In the Digital World
"It's settled, we're going to look for Taichi starting tomorrow" stated Matt
"Right" said everyone. Once again the group went to sleep, all except one. Sora got up and started to leave with Biyomon until she caught that TK was still awake. She slowly walked over to him as not to wake anyone else.
"TK I'm leaving with Biyomon to find Taichi on my own ok? Don't tell anyone else"
"Hmm…? Ok…I won't tell anybody" TK started to drift off into sleep.
"Behave with the rest of the group ok?" TK heard those final words before he fell asleep.
"Sora, why did you leave to look for Taichi with just me around?" asked Biyomon.
"It's a private reason Biyomon, but I'll tell you soon, I promise" Sora smiled at her Digimon partner.
"Just when we were back together you went missing…where are you Taichi? Don't leave me behind…" Sora started to feel an emptiness inside her, little did she know that her feeling of emptiness would soon lead to another problem.
Back in the Real World
"Pepper Breath!"
"Uaaaghhh!" Ogremon went flying up into a Digital Portal that had formed in the sky.
"Agumon!" Tai shouted
"Sorry Tai, I'm needed in the Digital World" Agumon also disappeared into the Digital Portal. Taichi soon stepped up near the portal until he felt someone tug at his arm.
"No, Onii-chan please don't go" it was Hikari Yagami, Taichi's younger sister.
"I have to, everyone else needs me, Agumon needs me!" Taichi looked at his younger sister concerned.
"But…but…oh…ok, but you promise to be back?"
"Of course" Taichi said. They both hooked pinkies to promise. Tai stepped in the path of the portal and slowly began to rise up while Hikari was holding onto his hand.
"Don't forget Onii-chan! You have to come back!" Hikari said to her older brother.
"I won't forget Hikari, I'll be back" Taichi said with a smile. Taichi's hand began to slip out of Hikari's.
"Take care of yourself Hikari, be good ok?"
"I will"
"Good…well this is it, goodbye"
"Goodbye…Onii-chan" They both smiled at each other before Taichi disappeared into the portal.
In the Digital World
"Well Agumon we're back and we've got business!"
"That's right and we've got to catch up with everyone else"
"We've got a long way ahead of us so let's go!" said Taichi.
Taichi and Agumon both began their journey, chins up and fists raised in the air.
A/N: I used both a mix of English and Japanese Digimon terms in this chapter. In case you didn't know Shinka stands for evolve or evolution and in the English version Shinka is Digivolve or Digivolution. The title for this chapter refers to how Taichi and Sora continually think about each other and how they feel lonely without the other around. In other words, they're prisoners for each other's company. Thanks for reading! Please review!