Hey everyone, it's the Digital Knight of Heroes with chapter 12! All right before we get started, I just want to say, Kain has no relation to any Kain in the Digimon world series or story series. Like other characters he is based off a final fantasy character. More specificaly, a character of the same name in IV. Let's dive into chapter 12 everybody.
I wasn't sure how but we've made it to day five, things have been, surprisingly eventful. Scott, David and Maria have been out getting scans for Digimon when not going after food. Scott has Betamon, a fish Digimon, David has Tsukaimon, a dark version of Patamon, and Maria has Gomamon, and much like her parents, he has the opposite personality from her. I was out hunting for food with Maria.
"Knock knock."
"Gomamon, stop with that."
"I can quit any time I want to."
"Stop or I feed you to Garurumon."
"You're no fun." He waddled along beside us. We came by the mountains and volcanoes and saw a single, white tree, where there was no other trees for a hundred feet. Maria walked up to it.
"This seems really out of place, don't you think?" A pebble fell from the tree and hit her in the head.
"Stay away! This is my tree!" We looked up and saw a red insect Digimon, Tentomon.
"What's so special about it?" She touched the tree.
"Oh you asked for it, Super Shocker!" We were electrocuted to the point where we were almost fried.
"Note to self, don't touch the tree." Maria fell over from excessive electrical shock.
"Sorry, I think I went a little overboard there." He flew down and helped Maria up.
"You went way overboard buddy." Tentomon apologized again and looked to his tree.
"You asked what was so special about it? Because it's the only one like it on the island, and it survives where no other does. Back when I was still a Motimon, it saved my life, it gave me shelter, and even had fruit. It's my home."
"Well we're sorry for trespassing, we'll leave now. We've got to go find food for ourselves and our friends."
"It's okay, come back any time! And piece of advice, there's an apple orchard east of here."
"Okay, thanks." Patamon and I took the lead for the orchard. There was little distance between the tree and orchard, I grabbed one to see if it was any good. It was the best thing I'd eaten in the past two days, it was a whole lot better than bananas and olives.
I tossed the others one, though Gomamon and Patamon couldn't catch it. "Let's stop here for a break."
"Now you're speaking my language." Maria sat under a tree and ate while I walked around gathering apples here and there. After an hour of walking I went back to the tree and woke Maria, who had fallen asleep. We discovered a path, and decided to explore it, it looped around the woodlands and we came onto a hill where a tall Digimon stood.
"A beautiful view, is it not? I come here every evening to view the sunset." We stared at him, finding his personality odd. "Forgive me, I have not introduced myself. I am Susanoomon of Gaia Origin, why don't you take a look?" I set the sack of apples I had collected down and I looked into the distance. I could see Tentomon's tree in the distance, and the Cabin elsewhere.
"You can see everything!" Gomamon was dazzled with the view.
"Huh, this is a nice change of pace today."
"Yeah, but we've gotta go Maria." I reached for the sack but something in it rustled and a little grey furball crawled out with an apple in his mouth. Susanoomon's eyes let off a smile under his helmet.
"There you are little one. I was wondering where you were." The little furball glowed and grew to a small dragon with black wings and grey fur. "I told you it would happen eventually Dorimon." The Digimon finished his apple.
"It's Dorumon now." Susanoomon laughed
"Of course. Now children, may I ask something of you?"
"Sure?" I wasn't quite sure what he could want.
"Will you take Dorumon with you on your adventures? He is young and needs to do this for his own growth."
"I'll do it," I said. The guy seemed friendly enough. "Umm, Gallantmon said you guys would have advice for us?"
"Ah yes. Enjoy things while they are there, nothing is permanent, you are your own enemy so overcome yourself, lastly, I'd watch out for the Digimon behind us." I turned to him but he had vanished with the wind. I then looked behind to see a black bird Digimon, Saberdramon.
"Now might be a good time to run." Gomamon started backing up with us.
"Thank you Captain obvious." Loose dirt fell beneath us and we tumbled down the hill. As we slid down Saberdramon swooped down and grabbed Maria in its talons. "Gomamon, Veemon, a little help?!" Her two partners glowed a bright gold.
"Gomamon digivolve to, Ikkakumon!"
"Veedramon!" I pulled my digivice and got Patamon to digivolve to Angemon, who lifted Dorumon and I off the ground to help give chase.
"V-Breath Arrow!" Veedramon fired a blast from his mouth, barely missing Saberdramon.
"Harpoon Vulcan!" Ikkakumon's horn launched like a missile, again missing Saberdramon.
"Watch where you fire! You almost killed me!" We passed Tentomon and his tree in the chase.
"Whoa! What's going on!?" As Angemon flew closer to Maria, Saberdramon turned to us.
"Meteor Wing!" Fireballs came from all over its wings, one of which hit Tentomon's tree.
"That bastard! Super Shocker!" He worked up the energy to shock the bird enough to bring him down to the ground, letting go of Maria.
"Ow! Goddamn that hurt! Ikkakumon, Veedramon, take this bastard out!"
"Harpoon Vulcan!"
"V-Breath Arrow!" The bird Digimon exploded into bits of Data, scattering in the wind. We came to Tentomon, who was crying by his burning tree, knowing there was nothing he could do to save it.
"I'm so sorry, Tentomon," said Maria. Huh, I guess she could be sympathetic, she didn't really let that off much. Ikkakumon put out the fire, though the white tree was long gone. One of its branches fell, on it, a single fruit.
"Fruit," he sniffled, "wait, that means…" He tore it apart, revealing a single, large, seed.
"Do you want to replant it?"
"Y-yes, just not here, some place where somebody can make it their home like I did…" He cried a bit more before getting any of his things that he could salvage from the smoking wreckage.
"Do you want to come with me? After this whole Demon Lord ordeal I'm going traveling with my family." This was a side of Maria you didn't see often, but it was a great thing when it happened. Dorumon and Tentomon began talking to ease the latter, and I wondered what sort of adventures we'd have in the near future.
Kain wasn't quite sure of this dimension when he first came here. He was certain of this place, how it was his home, he had a wife, a daughter, and another kid on the way, he loved this place. Currently, he was at a bar with Koh.
"So… how do you think the kids are doing?"
"Gallantmon said we could communicate with them after the month is over, I guess we'll find out then."
"You'll have a lot to tell them we you can call." Kain took another chug of his drink.
"Tell me about it, you know, you're lucky to only be having your second kid, three? I don't think I'm going to make it." Koh called for another round of drinks.
"I've just got two months that I have to survive, based on last time, these are going to be the worst." Kain drank again and sighed, feeling pain from old scars.
"How bad was it?"
"Ever had your head bashed through a wall?"
"No but, Sayo tried throwing someone off a skyscraper when he accidentally bumped into her after we left a meeting there."
"I remember that, Glare tapped her, she grabbed a chair and threw it through the window, and tried doing that to him."
"With David she tried killing Julia, with Alice, Glare. I think you're next."
"Well… damn, that's two women who want to kill me. But you think that's bad? Rina tried getting an assasination job done on me, all I did was come home late with dinner."
"Wow… tell ya what, drinks are on me." Kain finished up and began the journey home, but first he stopped by research and developement, where a purple haired woman worked vigorously.
"What do we got Mirei?"
"If you're talking information on the Demon lords, nothing. The same could be said for weapons and new digivices."
"So nothing."
"Not exactly," Mirei said as she pulled up a map. "This old fortress has seen a lot of activity lately, and occasionally there are Data fluxuations here." She pointed to a cave system, neither area had teleporters nearby, a clear problem for investigation.
"I'll get to work on getting an exploration team out there. Also Koh said we could talk to our kids after a month."
"I'm not worried about them."
"Really? Rina and I are worried sick about Maria."
"The twins are fine, if anything it's these two I'm worried about." She pulled up pictures of Taiyo and Ryan. "They both moved here recently from the Light Fang, went to Tamers academy, but theres no other records of them, they're orphans from instructors' reports." Kain sighed and started making his way home to his wife, who he knew would give him all sorts of hell.
Speaking of Kain from Final Fantasy IV, our Kain was originally going to be partnered with Examon, a referance to Final Fantasy's being a Dragoon. Mirei is the twins' mother if I wasn't clear enough. My computer has been glitching more than ever sometimes it just shuts off out of nowhere, sure it's a 2003 or something but still…ugh… Anyways Remember to review favorite and follow, and I'lI see you all later.