Digimon World Wars

Chapter 2 - Forgotten Memory

"What do you mean he's not here, he shouldn't be up and about so soon after what happened," Eureka was feeling really frustrated, she had wanted to see Duo, to thank him again, to finally have a chance to talk to him without a group of thugs around.

"We tried to stop him, but he insisted he was fine, the doctor took another look at him, gave him some pain medication to get over the headache he's sure to be feeling for the next couple of days, then let him go."

The nurse seemed unconcerned and it was making Eureka angry.

'There's no way he could be okay already, how could they have let him go.'

"Excuse me nurse?" Eureka turned her head to see her father standing next to her now. "I'm the chief of the police force and I'd like to be able to meet this boy to personally thank him for saving my daughter, could you please give me his address." Her father showed the nurse his badge, she seemed to think about it for a bit then looked in the computer and gave him the address Duo had left them.

"I can't believe she just gave you the address dad."

"Yeah being chief has its perks sometimes." Eureka noticed he had emphasized 'sometimes'. Eureka hated how little she got to see her father, but she knew how important he was.

"What happened to the thugs dad?"

"They're all cuffed to hospital beds for the time being, then they're going to be charged for what they did." Eureka could hear the disgust in his voice. She followed her father into the car and they were on their way to Duo's. Little did they know someone was up visiting the three thugs at that moment.

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"Now tell me what happened." Three men wearing black suits and ties were speaking to the thug who had his hand shattered.

"That freak did something, I don't know what it was but it broke my hand." The men exchanged looks.

"Can you explain what you saw?"

"Something was on his hand, some kind of blue glow, it kinda looked like..." he paused trying to figure out how to describe what it looked like. "It sounds weird but it kinda looked like some kind of blue computerized glow." That was all they needed to hear, the three men left the room with out another word. Within two minutes they were back in their van, where a fourth man was waiting.

"Hack into the hospital records find out who it was and where he lives." One of the men pulled out a laptop and began typing away furiously on it.

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KNOCK-KNOCK

Duo shot out of bed as fast as a bullet from the loud knocking. Grumbling he walked to the door and opened it. Old man Himura was standing there.

"You have visitors." Duo yawned, then followed after Himura wondering who would possibly want to come see him. They got to the front gate and Duo saw Eureka there and standing behind her was a huge man with a dark mustache, short flat top hair cut, and a scar over his left eye. Duo was definitely awake now.

"So this is the beautiful young lady you were telling me about," Duo became bright red at these words, glaring at the old man who merely chuckled at Duo's embarrassment.

"Um hey Duo, are you sure you shouldn't be back at the hospital?" Duo could hear concern in her voice.

"Nah don't worry about me, I heal quick." It wasn't a lie, ever since he was little, people were always surprised by how fast he healed, "I'll be back to a hundred percent in just a couple of days as long as I get enough rest."

"Thanks for saving me again, um here, " Eureka gave him a flower with a little note tied around it saying 'Thank you, please get well soon.' Duo smiled reading the little note.

"Hello Mr. Maxwell I'd like to personally thank you for saving my daughter, my name is Matsumoto," he held out his hand to Duo, who didn't hesitate to take it and shake the man's hand.

"Just call me Duo, I just hope those three men don't get out of jail anytime soon."

"You and me both."

Old man Himura stepped forward, "Sir would you like to join this old man for a cup of tea?"

"That sounds great, thank you." And with that the two older men walked inside leaving Duo and Eureka alone.

"How are your injuries?"

"My head is still pretty sore but aside from that I'm okay."

"Why don't you sit down." She led him to the porch of the dojo and motioned for him to sit down. He sat down without a word and she sat down next to him.

"How have you been since the incident?"

"I'll be okay." She looked like she wanted to ask him something, Duo patiently waited for her to ask what she wanted. "Do you remember when we were kids?" Duo wasn't expecting that question.

"Yeah."

"Have you seen the news lately?" Duo was getting confused now, where was she going with this.

"No I don't have cable, sorry."

"Theres been a lot of strange stories about monsters and conspiracy theories going around lately, Duo... I think the monsters are what we saw when we were kids," she was looking him straight in the eye now, "Don't you remember."

Duo's heart rate was going up as distant memories flooded his mind, memories of a child form of himself and Eureka having stayed out late, watching hidden behind a bush as a giant insect attacked the park, it was green and had sickles for hands, Duo remembered thinking it looked like a praying mantis, before it was blasted by a group of men and disappeared.

"I... what are you saying?"

"Duo there are more and more sightings coming in around the world, and not only that people around the world keep disappearing." Duo was stumped he didn't know what to think about what she was telling him, but one thing was clear to him whatever all this was, it scared her.

"Eureka time to go dear, your mother will have dinner ready for us in an hour. Thanks again Mr. Himura the tea was great, and Duo if you ever need a hand with anything you could call us we'd be glad to help."

"Thank you sir." Duo stood up and watched as Eureka followed her father, gave one last concerned look towards him, and left.

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Hours later Duo was back in his room sitting on his bed thinking about what Eureka had said. Duo had convinced himself that those old memories had been nothing more than a bad dream. But if that was so, how could she remember it too. Was something dangerous on the horizon or was it all just nonsense? Duo didn't know.

Duo got up and walked past his desk to get a soda from his mini-fridge when a blue glow caught his eye, Duo turned around and saw nothing. He sighed thinking he must be going crazy. He grabbed his soda and walked back to sit down on his bed when he saw the glow again, he turned and it was gone again. It seemed to be coming from around his desk, Duo walked over to it and began looking around to figure out what was causing the strange light. When his hand passed by the computer the screen began to glow, he pulled his hand away and the glow faded.

'What the hell is going on.' He reached his hand toward the computer again and on que it started to glow again, he kept his hand there and the glow intensified. Duo pulled away again and it faded again.

'This isn't normal,' Duo's brain was telling him he should stay away from whatever it was, but something was pulling him toward it, and again he reached his hand to the computer, the glow was back, but this time Duo wouldn't pull away, he had to know what this was.

Then he saw his hand begin to glow blue again with an almost computerized looking aura. 'Is this what I saw yesterday, is this what broke that man's hand?' Duo heart was racing a million miles a minute, but he couldn't stop now. He touched his aura covered hand to the computers screen and a shape formed in the middle of the screen. Duo pulled his hand off the screen but kept it near the computer.

'Is that an... egg?' The egg-shaped image on the computer began to grow larger and larger until a blinding light came from the computer Duo shielded his eyes from the light, and once it faded he opened them to see something he couldn't believe.

There was a giant egg sitting on the keyboard, it was bigger then a football and had a strange blue pattern around it.

'What... the...hell,' Duo was staring flabbergasted at what was sitting on his desk.

Then the egg twitched, and Duo jumped in surprise. He reached forward and picked up the egg it wasn't very heavy. It twitched again in his hands and he almost dropped it.

Duo set the egg down on his bed, and turned away chugging his soda in one sitting, hoping that maybe when he turned around there wouldn't be a giant egg on his bed... There still was.

Duo stared at the egg as it started to crack. 'Is it hatching!' Duo's questioned was answered instantly as the egg continued to wiggle and crack. Duo took another step forward something inside him was telling him that whatever this was it wasn't something Duo should fear.

The egg gave one more crack and a small blue and white head popped out of the egg, Duo watched at the small creature struggled to get out of the egg. It was kind of cute, Duo helped the little guy out of the egg without saying a word, he watched it as it sat down on his bed and looked up at him.

Then it did something that almost knocked Duo off his feet in surprise... It spoke. "I'm Hungry!"

~To Be Continued~

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Matsumoto

Age: 47

The idea of Eureka's father being the chief of police seemed like a good idea, but because of that the only way I could imagine the man was as the Detective Conan police chief. Not Megure or Meguire, the man above him, who only shows up in a few episodes.