Warner: Pg 14 for language

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Thirteen

Wizardmon

The car puttered out before it moved three feet. Caroline took a deep breath, but spat out a string of muttered curse words. She slammed the car door behind her. I followed her to the T.V. sitting in the middle of the field. The Numemon were gathered around our tired tracks, trying to repair the damage to their garden.

Caroline knelt before the T.V. It was a really old one with a dial that you had to spin. She tinkered with it a bit, but it didn't turn on until she held her little device up to it. For a moment it was just static, but then an image of someone's room appeared.

Just like with the car, all detail blew out, Caroline, Lillymon, and I seemed to be the only things to exist in a world of complete white. Next thing I knew we were inside the room that had appeared on the T.V. It wasn't what I would consider clean, or at all homey. A boy lived here, that was for sure. Unless Caroline wore boxers and left them in any visible place she could.

Caroline wrinkled her nose, and I quite agreed with her. I couldn't place exactly the smell of the room, it wasn't too terrible. It was just weird.

"If he's going to leave a gate open in his room, he should at least leave it somewhat presentable." Caroline let out a sigh. She seemed to do that a lot. "Come on." She didn't walk to the door leading out of the room, but to the window. She cracked it open and climbed out onto the roof, Lillymon zipped out after her. I was a little slower in coming, wanting to be someplace else, but there really was nowhere for me to go.

Caroline walked across the roof with practiced ease, and jumped off without the slightest hesitation. I carefully made my way to the edge, and peeked over. She was waiting on a green lawn some eight feet below me. Eight feet might not sound like much, but I'm not accustomed to jumping off the roof of stranger's house, let alone my own, or any roof for that matter.

"Here," Lillymon said, fluttering next to me. She lifted me easily in her arms and gently flew to the ground.

"Where do they live?" Caroline asked once Lillymon had set me down again.

I blinked. "Who?"

"The people who you think saw the digimon. Where do they live?"

"I don't know."

"What do you mean, you don't know?"

I shrugged. Come to think of it, I don't think I knew where any of my friends lived. I knew Sarah's general location, only because we rode the bus together. Josh had invited me over to his house once for a party. I didn't go of course.

"Alright, what's their number?" Caroline asked, pulling out her cell.

Again, I shrugged.

"You don't know there number? Do you even know who they are?" Caroline said, losing patience yet again.

"Yeah. I'll see them tomorrow at school." Assuming I live through the night…

"We can't wait that long. Tell me what happened, and what you thought they saw."

In as few words as possible I recounted the event with the ghost.

"Bakamon," Lillymon stated once I had finished.

Caroline curst again.

Lillymon blinked. "They are not a problem."

"They wouldn't have kept their mouths shut."

"Then I will search for the boys," Lillymon said, and flew high into the air. She zipped off. At a far slower pace, Caroline and I followed after her.

"Can I use your phone?" I asked, carefully.

"Why? You don't know their number."

"No, but I should probably tell my dad that we no longer have a house," I said.

"He probably already knows by now," Caroline replied, but handed the phone to me.

I dialed my dad's number, but he didn't pick up. I left a message, letting him know I was alright. I probably should have said more, but some things you just shouldn't leave in a message.

"I'm sorry about your mom," Caroline said when I handed the phone back to her.

I didn't reply, just continued to walk. My bangs covered my face, hiding it from view. My expression was neutral. At least, I think it was. I really should be more upset with my given situation, or at least more worried about my mom. But I wasn't. Guess I'm just a horrible person.

Caroline said nothing more and before too long, Lillymon rejoined us.

"There is a boy with potential close by," Lillymon announced. She did not fly down to us, simply hovered overhead.

"Did he see you?" Caroline asked.

"I didn't give him the chance. He is not far. I will lead you to him."

After that, Caroline broke into a run, I belatedly followed after them. Lillymon zipped ahead, keeping within few. Now, I'm not accustomed to distance running, so after the first two blocks I gave up on keeping any sort of pace with the pair of them. Luckily, or perhaps not so luckily, there really wasn't that much farther to go.

We had entered a busy main road, or at least the road would have busy had there been any cars. It didn't seem like many people were up. We crossed an intersection. The lights were red, but no one was there to run over us. On the other side of the street was a 711 gas station with a redbox outside it. Two people stood before it, one at least a foot shorter than the other and wearing a tall pointed wizard hat. It did a good job at compensating for the lack of height.

As we came closer, I recognized Brian. He appeared to be talking to the little, ah, wizard?

"Shit," Caroline curst. "Lillymon!"

"Back off!" Lillymon yelled and, in a burst of speed, shot for the short wizard.

Feet away, Brian and the wizard clasped hands, and a light exploded from their palms. It was bright enough to be painful if I looked at it directly. So I didn't. I slowed to a walk as Caroline and Lillymon continued to charge on ahead.

Just as suddenly as the light appeared, it faded and Brian broke the holy handshake of light. Or at least that's what it looked like. He looked down at his hand, clasped around a device. I supposed it wouldn't come as too great of a shock if that device resembled the one Caroline carried. What could be the device's secret? Were they connected to these strange monsters? Did I really want to know? Nope. But I suppose I'm going to find out anyway.

At last we reached Brian and the wizard. He looked up from the device in his hand and seemed to notice us for the first time. "Whoa!" He pointed at Lillymon. "Is she going to be mine too?"

"No, you idiot!" Caroline snapped. She took an 'I'm so pissed with you' stance. "What, you just go partnering to any strange digimon that comes your way? Have you met with Wizardmon before?"

Brian blinked, lowering his hand. He looked back to the short Wizard. "Your name's Wizardmon?"

"Oh, my, fucking, god!" Caroline kicked the redbox.

Wizardmon kept a wary eye on Lillymon, but he nodded in response to Brian's question. "Yes, and I am your digimon. I crossed the gate searching for you."

"Like hell you did!" Caroline snapped. "Your one of Myotismon's little shits. You guys don't give a rat's ass about—"

Wizardmon's eyes narrowed. "I joined with Myotismon because it was the only way I could enter the human world. I did feel the calling, and I did come to seek my partner."

"Bullshit, if that were true you could have gone to any number of people to gain passage to our world."

"With the response you're giving me, I find that hard to believe. I know you only let vaccine digimon through. You digidestined monitor the gate so strictly it forces all other data types to take a side that maybe they would not have chosen. Your prejudice will be your downfall!"

"If you're trying to convince me not to kill you, you're doing a pretty poor job of it." Lillymon said.

"Whoa, dude, calm down. What's going on? Am I like some sort of chosen one?" Brian seemed pretty pleased with the idea.

Caroline jaw dropped slightly. She then put a thumb and forefinger to her forehead. "Sure, yes, you're a chosen one sent to save the world."

"Holy shit!" Brian said, ecstatic. "Sweet! Are you guys like, my trainers?"

Wizardmon gave Brian a look out of the corner of his eye. "Why would you need training?"

"Because he's dumber than shit," Caroline sighed. "Fuck me."

"Erm" Brian muttered and Caroline shot him the death stare.

"Alright," Caroline said. "Suppose what you're saying is true, that you felt the calling to come. What was your plan once you bonded to your dumbass partner?"

"It would be up to him, what I do next." Wizardmon said.

"So what cock in bull would you tell him to get him to join your cause?" Caroline said, crossing her arms over her chest.

"None, I don't have a cause. I came for my partner, no other reason. It's up to him where I place my allegiance, if we place it anywhere." Wizardmon came to stand next to Brian.

Caroline looked from one to the other and after a few minute she turned on her heel. "Alright, dumbass, let's go."

"Are you talking to me?" Brian said, following after her. "You know. If I'm the chosen one, you really shouldn't be calling me names. One day I'll surpass you."

Caroline stopped in her tracts and stormed right up to Brian. "Listen to me, and listen well, this isn't a game." She pointed to me, and I jumped a little. "That girl just lost her home, and sorry to burst your oversized head, but she's a chosen one too, and so am I!"