Gonna start naming chapters now.
Disclaimer: Once again I don't own Digimon, but if I did there would be more Tamer's stuff...like a sequal series
It was 7AM and Rika's phone was ringing. She rolled over sleepily recalling the events of the past few hours with annoyance and a bit of anxiety. Last night she had learned that her mother couldn't stand Digimon and she put up a few of them only because they were her friends or protected her. Their argument had been heating up when her new friend Alex started to fall over and disappeared before he even hit the floor. Dianamon immediately left to look for him leaving Rika and Renamon alone with her mother. Rika had gone to her room and began crying, she wanted to know why her mother hated Digimon, it just didn't make any sense, and what happened to Alex? As Rika began to fall asleep still sobbing she felt a soft paw, not a hand but a paw, begin gently stroking her back and then she heard the song. She had heard this soothing lullaby before when she was having nightmares or trouble sleeping but she never knew that her real mother was not the one singing it.
"Hello?" She sleepily answered the phone
"Rise and shine Rika, I apologize for the hour but its urgent." It was Mitsuo Yamaki the leader of Hypnos whose function had become digital-real world relations including tracking bioemergences.
"Well, let's hear it."
"We've picked up a bioemerging Digimon, it's the strongest one we've seen in months. This leads us to believe it's either a very strong Ultimate or a weak Mega. I decided that it would be best to contact all of The Tamers to give the best chance of dealing with this quickly and with minimal damage, however the strangest thing about it is where its bioemerging."
"What do you mean?
"It's bioemerging in the same place that SkullGreymon did two days ago. I'll let you go now so you can get there and deal with it."
"Thanks for the heads up Yamaki, I'll get there ASAP. Oh and tell Riley I said hi."
"I will good luck."
"Thanks." Rika said hanging up the phone.
Rika quickly got dressed in a pair of black of shorts and a plain red t-shirt with red socks. She put on her belt and clipped her D-Power on one side and her deck on the other. She made her way into the kitchen to grab a bagel and a bottle of water. She munched on the bagel as she pulled on her shoes when someone behind her cleared their throat. Rika glanced over her shoulder at her furious mother, ignoring her Rika finished putting on her shoes and the rest of her breakfast before walking towards the door. Rumiko cleared her throat again, louder this time, she knew Rika understood the unspoken message but didn't understand why she was ignoring it. Renamon appeared beside Rika and opened the front door for her.
"Where do you think you're going young lady, out in public and dressed like that?"
"To help, to protect people that can't protect themselves."
"You are staying here; we leave for the shoot in an hour."
"No mother," Rika practically spat the word "you leave for the photo shoot in an hour. If we've finished dealing with whatever this is by that time then I will be hanging out with my friends somewhere." Rika pulled her D-Power off her belt and stepped outside.
"Biomerge Activate!" Rika and Renamon were bathed in a bright light
"Renamon Biomerge TO!...Sakuyamon!"
Sakuyamon took off heading for the street that SkullGreymon and Alex had appeared on two days ago. Inside Sakuyamon Rika shook her head, it was hard to believe that that it really had been two days since Alex showed up and seemingly turned the world on its head. He was a dead man who was alive; he was a Digimon and yet still a human. Within two hours of meeting him she already considered him her friend and he was able to draw on power from a pair of supernatural worlds. At the thought of the supernatural Rika felt something stirring deep within her but she shook it off as just nerves.
It was 7:15 when Sakuyamon arrived at the street, the first thing that caught her eye was the number of people there. Yamaki hadn't been kidding when he said he contacted everyone. Even the media was there albeit at a "safe" distance. Gallantmon was talking to Kenta, Kazu, Jeri, Suzie, Antylamon, MarineAngemon and Guardromon; Jeri had Leomon's egg in sling, her cell phone in one hand and her D-Power in the other. MegaGargomon was talking to Justimon about something or other. Even the Imp Twins were there sitting in Behemoth wearing their helmets while Beelzemon gave instructions to the bike. Then Sakuyamon noticed Dianamon standing in front of a bank of TV's by herself with a confused look on her face.
"Is something wrong?" Sakuyamon asked as she landed
Dianamon shook her head "I know I should be out looking for Oto-chan but, I just feel like I'm supposed to be here. I don't know why but…"
"It's alright," Sakuyamon put a comforting hand on Dianamon's shoulder "after this we can all go look for him."
"Thank you…how long does it usually take for a Digimon to bioemerge?"
"Usually no more than about a minute why?"
"Well, we've been waiting for about twenty minutes now." Dianamon indicated a large digital clock on a nearby building. "Should we be concerned about the amount of time this is taking?"
Before Sakuyamon could answer there was loud rushing sound as the Digital Field appeared. Everyone waited for the fog to clear and was so focused on it that they failed to notice a figure quickly fly up out of the fog. When it did clear they saw what looked like a person, about five and a half feet tall. His right arm was armored by a pale blue brassard with white trim. While his left arm was bare but his hand seemed to glow red. His chest was covered in brown fur that matched his hair; his face was covered by a green horse head mask that sported a small red horn and on his back were four dragonfly like wings which were fold down and resting. Jeri pointed her D-Power at the "Digimon" and waited a few seconds till a screen popped up saying no data.
"There's no data on this one." Jeri said
Takato took a step forward "What do you want here? Are you friend or foe?"
The figure didn't respond. Sakuyamon heard the sound of static from the TVs behind her and looked at them. The all displayed one simple message. "To play, and yes." Sakuyamon read off the screens.
"Yes to friend or yes to foe?" Takato asked
The figure giggled and the message on the screens changed "Yes, now we play?" Sakuyamon read off
"I guess the only we'll find out if is a friend or not is by 'playing' with him." Beezlemon said
"Unfortunately, it seems he's right." MegaGargomon said "If we want to find out then we'll have to 'play' with him."
The message on the screens changed to a happy face followed by more text "You move first." Sakuyamon read
"That's fine with me."
Gallantmon rushed forward at blinding speed, but he wasn't fast enough. The four wings snapped out and the Digimon took off into the air shattering the asphalt beneath its feet. It giggled tucking its wings in as it spin to the right dodging a lunging Justimon. It flew up even higher and weaved around MegaGargomon's arms as he reached out to try and grab it. Guardomon flew towards it but missed as it suddenly closed its wings and dropped down. Sakuyamon waited until it was very close to her before trying her tactic.
"Crystal Sphere!"
A spherical barrier appeared around Sakuyamon and the strange Digimon. It flew slowly around inside the barrier for a little while. It brushed against Sakuyamon's arm like an affectionate cat. She had no idea why she had never seen this thing before now. Her thoughts were quickly interrupted when the Digimon sped at the barrier and flew straight through it leaving behind a small hole. Beelzemon was waiting for it on the outside but when he caught it the Digimon shattered into a million pieces. A hushed silence fell over everyone, even the media who had been obnoxiously loud until this point became silent watching as the pieces slowly fell to the ground.
"Henry."
"Not now Terriermon, can't you see what just happened?"
"Can't you? Check the sensors."
Before he could a series of giggle was heard behind everyone. They all turned to see the Digimon which they had thought destroyed sighting on the edge of a nearby building lazily swinging its legs back and forth like a bored child. When it noticed everyone had seen it, it waved merrily at them and took flight again. They continued to try and catch it for the next forty minutes but it always seemed one step ahead of them.
"It's almost like it has a bird's eye view of what's going on as it happens." Justimon said
The entire time they were chasing the Digimon Dianmon had remained unmoving. She watched as they failed time and again to try and grab a hold of Digimon. "A bird's eye view huh" she muttered still watching its movements. It was a possibility, but only just. She jumped to the top of the nearest building and began scanning the sky above and around the battlefield. She spotted what she was looking for and waited until it would be close enough for her to catch it when it fell.
"Goodnight Moon!"
Dianamon's leg guards glowed and the object in the sky dropped straight down. As it dropped the strange Digimon flew erratically for a few seconds before pulling up its mask and flying very high. Dianamon jumped into the air and caught the large Digimon that had fallen out of the sky. She carefully set down on the street while the one in the sky looked angrily at her. She just looked straight back at it.
"Onee-chan that's cheating!" It yelled down at her crossing its arms huffily.
Everyone looked at Dianamon who had started giggling before breaking down into fits of laughter. They all seemed so confused by the small Digimon's statement. She couldn't help but laugh at them all. What they had wasted forty minutes trying to do she had done in a matter of seconds. She didn't know why she thought of her idea but she had been right and that was the important thing.
"Oto-chan just get down here so I can hug the rest of you before you start explaining everything to us."
As Alex flew down at a low speed everyone was able to get a good look at him. Little wonder why they didn't recognize him right away, if he had left the mask up they would have. When he passed by everyone on his way to the ground they saw that his wings don't actually move but stay spread out and moved when he wanted to change direction or speed. He did a small mid air flip before resting his wings flat against his back and dropping the last foot or so to the ground. Dianamon gave him a quick hug before hitting him the top of his head.
"OW! What was that for?" he asked rubbing his head
"You idiot, we could've seriously hurt you back there!"
"No, do have any idea how slow I had to move so you wouldn't lose track of me?"
"Chirinmon, Ultimate, Holy Beast, Special Attacks are Wind Cutter Sword and Wave of Reformation, digivolves from Reppamon, it is said to be an ancient Digimon that was born at the creation of the Digital World, no type listed though." Jeri read off when she pointed her D-Power at the large sleeping Digimon.
"Human-Digimon hybrids have a type?" Alex asked as he walked up to the sleeping Digimon "Hey I need to be fully awake to explain anything so I need to wake up now." He said nudging Chirinmon with his foot. "I'm up, I'm up." He mumbled
Everyone had noticed that Alex and Chirinmon had the same voice but put it out of their heads for now. The more pressing issue was what had happened to make them have two bodies and we they kept referring to themselves as "I" instead of "we". They had so many questions to ask but Alex waved them all off. He motioned to the press indicating that this was not the place for the discussion. The decided to go to Henry's apartment instead of Rika's because it was closer and Rika didn't really want to go home anyway. On the way there Chirinmon Digivolved back into Kudamon and but Alex's appearance remained unchanged so he just carried Kudamon in his arms.
They all arrived and Gallantmon, Sakuyamon, MegaGargomon, and Justimon split back into The Tamers and their respective partners. They waited at the elevator for Henry, Terriermon, Beelzemon, Ai and Mako. With everyone there they took the elevator up to the penthouse apartment owned by Henry's family. The first thing Janyu did when Alex walked in the door was hook him up the scanner again. He went over its data for next few minutes before giving up on with a huff.
"Even if I could understand what this data is trying to tell me I don't think I could explain it. Basically it seems that you have a perfect link to each. So perfect in fact you think of yourselves more as one person than two."
Alex nodded and closed his eyes in concentration. His wings pointed back and spun together as they shrank and vanished. His fur became pale blue fabric as it became part of his shirt again. The blue on the brassard became transparent before it all shattered into a fine dust of ice while his left hand became normal again. Lastly the horn on the mask retracted and it faded away. Alex opened his eyes and checked to make sure he was fully human again before he started telling everyone what had happened.
Meanwhile in the world of the Digidestined Hikari was recounting the story of the Dark World as well. At first everyone had been too happy that she was back to question how she had gotten back. That is, until Takeru asked her how she was able to escape on her own. So then all the attention became centered on finding out just how she had managed it. She had to alter certain details to keep Alex and what he told her a secret from the others she could understand why. She had known nothing about him or the other side of the Gate but she felt that she could trust him and that his trust would be important.
Everyone seemed to believe her story, which was good in a way as it meant she had told a convincing lie. She hadn't lied very much; she just changed Alex into something that moved too fast for her to see and even that was partly true. The one person who seemed skeptical of her story was Takeru, he didn't like the power of darkness and in his mind nothing dark could perform such a selfless feat. The other person that was bothering her was Daisuke who was busily trying to prove how much he cared for her by more skeptical than Takeru. They were both bombarding her with questions about the "figure" that had rescued her from Dagomon and his minions. She was starting to get frustrated by the constant questioning and when she gets frustrated she sometimes forgets things.
"This 'figure' didn't plant anything on you did he? You know like something that would allow him come to the Real World?" Takeru asked
Hikari menatally snapped "Alex wouldn't do something like that!" she yelled at him, realizing what she just said she clapped her hands over her mouth.
"Alex?" her brother Taichi said "You were rescued by a guy? But I thought"
"I'm not answering anymore questions, right now I just want to be left alone with Gatomon."
Everyone was about to protest when Ken Ichijouji spoke up. "I understand Hikari, come on everyone let's give her some time alone." Everyone was about to say something but Ken held up a hand to silence them "She's been through a lot in the past few hours and having all of us interrogating her isn't what she needs." He said simply, his fool proof logic had gotten through to everyone because they nodded and muttered in agreement as the filed out of the room. "We'll be right outside if you need anything." Taichi said. She nodded her acknowledgement and said she would call if she did.
She breathed a sigh of relief as her door was closed leaving her alone in her room with Gatomon. She began a mental check of everyone's reactions to her story and slip up. Everyone had shown the most concern over her brief encounter with Dagomon and his minions. She began running through a list of people that she felt she could trust with the real truth. At the top of the list was Ken, she knew he would keep it secret if she asked, next was Sora, she was good at keeping secrets and was like a sister to Hikari, last was Takeru, she knew she had to trust him even though he might blab and use it as way to prove that she loved him and not Daisuke…which was true and she had told the two of them as much to begin with. What she really wanted right now was to be out of the house, she remembered how good it felt to be flying when she and Alex left the Dark World.
Hikari got up and grabbed her Digivice and D-Terminal, since Digimon were becoming more common the world over nobody would notice an extra one flying around. She gathered up the rest of the packaged snacks in the room and put them in a bag. She took off her slippers; since she was going to be flying she wouldn't need shoes anyway. She scribbled a note to everyone and set it on the desk. She never would have done something like this before she met Alex, but since she had something inside her had begun to stir. It wasn't anything new, on the contrary, it was something that she had as far back as she could remember but it was always content to stay buried. She opened the door and stepped out onto the balcony with Gatomon and slid the door shut behind her.
"So why are we doing this?" Gatomon asked
"I'm not really sure, I just… I just feel the need to fly right now. I don't really understand it but ever since we met Alex I've been feeling restless, especially when we were cooped up inside with everyone."
"I understand," Gatomon said knowingly "let's go now before everyone starts to wonder why it's so quiet."
"DigiArmor Energize!"
"Gatomon ArmorDigivolve to…The Angel of Light Nefertimon!"
Hikari quickly climbed onto Nefertimon's back and they took off into the morning sky. She reveled in the wonderful feeling of flying once again, she would probably be gone for a while and didn't know when they would find the note she had left. It couldn't have been more than ten minutes when she heard her name being called. She looked back and saw Ken and Stingmon flying towards her. She sighed it hadn't taken them as long as she had hoped it would but at least it was Ken they had sent after her. They flew up alongside her and the four of them flew in silence for a few minutes. Ken was the first to break the peaceful silence.
"So…what really happened when you went to the Dark World?"
"Wha? What do you mean what really happened?"
"Every time we've gone to the Dark World we had help from someone in order to get out."
"I…I can't tell you."
Ken nodded in understanding "It's alright, you don't have to tell. But…I'm here if you want to talk about it, and I promise you I won't tell anyone else."
"Alex." "What?" "The name of the person who saved me is Alex. Somehow he got trapped there as well. His Digimon partner is a Kudamon and they're…interesting, to say the least. Kudamon said that they before they got there the two of them had shared one body."
"What? How is something like that even possible?"
"I don't know but that's not even the strangest thing. Alex was able to make Kudamon digivolve by slashing a card through his Digivice and when Kudamon digivolved Alex changed to."
"Changed? Changed how?"
"He became more like Reppamon, Kudamon's Champion form. When Dagomon's minions showed up to try and take me away he frozen one of them and it died when it shattered. But he and Reppamon where swiped aside by Dagomon and I…I was willing to give up my hope, I was willing to let Dagomon take me away. Then Alex hit the ground with his fist and this pillar of magma shot up in front of me. He slashed a blue card and Reppamon digivolved again into Chirinmon and Alex changed again to. He made me get on Chirinmon while he fought Dagomon. His right arm became an ice sword and he managed to slash up Dagomon's arms before he flew yes flew up to where we were. Dagomon tried again but Alex shot a magma pillar at him from his left arm and Dagomon gave up."
Ken was silent for a little while as he processed this new information. "And he made you promise not tell us about him right?" Hikari nodded "I see, well you don't have to worry I won't tell anyone about it."
"Thanks Ken. But, there's still more to it."
"You don't have to tell me about it"
"I want to though. I feel that I can truly truly trust you with this information. He told me about that Gate we've been examining for the past for months. He said on the other side is not just the territory of another Sovereign but another Real World different from ours. He, that is Kudamon, used to be Kentaurosmon and was usually in charge of guarding the gate on his side and saw our silhouettes and heard us talking several times when Omnimon went through it. I…I don't think we should go through the gate on Monday."
"I have to agree with you. What do you think Stingmon?"
"Based on this new information I am of the same mind set. Hikari is there anyone else that you want to tell this to?"
"Just Sora, I want to tell Takeru but if I do I'm afraid that he might hint that he knows something to Daisuke and then I'll never hear the end of it."
"We'll go get her then." "Huh?"
"Everyone else is still back at your house. I volunteered to come get you because I had a feeling that you were hiding something. They only said to make sure you were okay. They never said I had to bring you back with me."
"That's okay; I'll go back with you and talk to Sora about it privately. If you send her to come get me it might cause even more trouble."
They flew back in silence Hikari enjoying the feel of wind and flying once again. Ken was lost in thought as he continued to go over the new information. He was surprised by the fact that Hikari had been able to keep most of the story she told everyone true. He had no idea that the Gate had not just another area of the Digital World but a completely different version of the Real World as well. But, that only made him uneasy about going near it again.
There is significance to the feeling that Rika and Hikari have both felt. Rika's will be explained in the next chapter accompanied by an encounter with a certain supernatrual being. When Hikari's is revealed more explaination of what a Gatekeeper is and their "hierarchy" of sorts will be explained and more information about Dianamon will be given. Also, Alex/Kudamon is the only person who's human Alt-form is so interesting and powerful, but remember he's channeling the power of 2 supernatrual worlds.
later ^^;