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Right, so after a lot of research I found that Jun's original Digimon Partner is Penguinmon.
Beta by the lovely Ketsuoni
"The truth is always there."
Chapter 3
The first time Jun noticed something was off about the world was when she was barely 10 years old. She had woken up in the middle of the night to a rather loud sound. At first, she thought she was dreaming.
After all, she had found herself lying, spread out across the ground. Jun had stayed still on the ground, twitching. Only lifting herself up when her baby brother ran into her room.
He wore a simple light blue onesie with a cat like hood. She wouldn't ever admit it, but Jun had always found her baby brother adorably cute. Daisuke, with his messy red locks, squealed out her name excitedly. He threw himself at her. Jun was barely able to catch the wiggling child.
Daisuke had looked up at her with such wide, glowing red eyes that it made her forget about all the angry words she wanted to hiss at him about waking her up at 2:00 a.m. in the morning. In the end, she had sighed and listened to his words. He didn't quite make sense. They were all slurred and Daisuke was tripping over his words. They buzzed in her ears, nothing spilling out of his mouth made sense.
Jun expected he was excited about a dream he had, something to do with dinosaurs. She only laughed and shook her head, guiding him back to his bedroom. As soon as the siblings entered his room, Jun yelped when Daisuke dragged her towards his wide open window. The white and blue wolf-like curtains were pulled back, revealing the street they had lived on at the time. The blinking lights made her eyes ache a little.
It was then Jun remembered something, Daisuke doesn't lie. He can twist the truth, but he doesn't lie.
There, outside the window, was a dinosaur. A giant t-rex like creature stood mighty outside his window, orange scales with a dark mask covering most of his face. A pair of large glowing baby-blue eyes stared back at them through the window before turning its attention to something else. There was also a huge green parrot. Jun thought to herself, at that moment, maybe dreams can come true.
"So…if we follow the tracks, we might find somebody who can help us?" Jun repeated, looking down at the small beautiful bird like Digimon standing by her side.
It didn't occur to her that Penguinmon hadn't left her side since they had left Lantern Village.
Penguinmon nodded her head, her glowing yellow eyes sparkling beautifully up at the human. "Right. I'm sure that there has to be somemon out that can explain why you guys are here." She says, her posh voice filing Jun's ears. The Digimon shuffled her feathers; her beak opens and shuts slightly.
Jun looks up the tracks leading away from Lantern village. Her heart pounds within her chest and her stomach twists tightly. She had a bad feeling about this. Glancing back at said glowing purple village, she breathed sharply and clenched his fists.
Taichi grins widely; he shoves his hands into his pockets while Koromon sat snug within his brown hair. Jun could only wonder how he was able to stay up there without falling off.
"There isn't any way to find out without trying." He shrugged, a little too excited for Jun's liking.
Both females shared a worried expression before trailing after the brunette.
Jun bite her bottom lip, "Kamiya, did…did Daisuke really have to do things like this?" she finally asked.
She couldn't imagine her baby brother having such a big reasonability on his shoulders. She felt horrible to know that she couldn't even help him, but maybe now she could…maybe?
The bushy brunette looks back at the girl. His eyes lower as he notices the concerned expression, "Yeah, he did." He admitted, nodding his head slowly.
"Daisuke became the second Digidestined leader, after me," Taichi grins goofily and scratches the back of his head.
Koromon makes a soft snort of displeasure over being moved, even if it was just a little. After we entered high school, the Digital world decided to choose some new Digidestined, Daisuke was chosen as the new Digi-leader. I gave him my googles after seeing how well he worked as the leader."
"So that's where he got the goggles," Jun thought out loud, noticing the way Taichi seemed to speak proudly of her little brother.
For some reason it made her swell with happiness and pride. Her baby brother seemed to make friends with the un-likeliest of people. She couldn't ignore the warmth that spread through her being at that moment, "I guess that explains all the late nights. Huh?"
"Don't worry. I know it's a little strange, it'll get better," Taichi snickered. He still remembered how scared he had been when it all first happened to him.
Not that he'd ever admit that, of course. So many people depended on him at the time, "I guess since you're here it means you're now a Digidestined too."
Jun's eyes widen at the words, her mouth gaped.
"M-Me? A-A Digi-DigiDestined," She squealed out, shaking her head forcibly, "Oh-No-no-no. This…this is Daisuke's thing. Not mine. I'm not cut out for this hero thing. Honestly. Kamiya! This isn't right. They've got the wrong sibling!" she panicked, wiggling her hands out.
Yeah, this all wrong! She doesn't even have a Digivice, let alone a Digi-Partner. She shudders at the thought of it.
Taichi blinks his bright amber eyes, he smiles lopsidedly, "Geez Jun, calm down," He snickered, shaking his head in amusement.
Whoa, was this girl a drama queen or something? Well that wasn't so far-fetched, considering her little brother. Guess it runs in the family. Look. If my time in the Digital world has taught me anything, it is that nothing happens by chance." Taichi smiles almost goofily, placing his hands firmly into his jean pockets. Little Koromon woke briefly and grumbles under his breath about his partner keeping him awake.
Taichi stares at Jun in the face and frowns, "The Digital world called you here Motomiya. Deal with it!" He snapped, tough love.
His father had always told him that sometimes tough love is needed, of course, with some benefits. When he was younger, Taichi didn't get that part, now he's older. He certainly understood it, walking into the kitchen late one night and seeing his parents going at it on the table had really set him straight.
"Jun. Dear. You don't have to worry. Everything will be fine," Penguinmon chimed in, her soft and lady-posh tone filling the raw tension building between the two teens.
She wondered briefly to herself as to why Jun looked like she wanted to ice-beam Taichi's ass. Shuffling her beautiful purple and pink feathers, Penguinmon makes a soft wheeze and nuzzles the side of Jun's hip.
"And if anything happens, I'll do my best to help you."
The swirling anger and frustration within Jun suddenly disappeared. Like a switch the young beauty went from wanting to deck Taichi over the head to smiling warmly and gently stroking Penguinmon on the head, "Thank you so much Penguinmon. You really don't need to go through too much hassle."
Taichi raised a milky chocolate eyebrow, his lips press together in confusion. Sure he had a thick head, but there was obviously affection growing between the human girl and bird Digimon, a very familiar relationship had begun.
Swiftly, a grin spread across his face and his amber eyes twinkled.
"So that's it," He thought to himself smugly and, to put it bluntly, proudly.
He liked knowing he was right, it wasn't everyday he got something right and it would seem he was right about Jun.
She was a new Digi-Destined, even if said girl doesn't know it. The pull was there, right in front of him. He was more than 100% positive that Penguinmon is her partner, and sooner or later the two will become Digi-bonded, just like him and Koromon and the others with their partners. The only thing to prove it now was to see if he was right, his gut was screaming yes but he really wouldn't know till the two get a Digivice.
"What?" Jun's voice cut thought his 'heavy' thinking. Blinking his amber eyes, Taichi found Jun glaring at him in annoyance.
Taichi shook his head, his smile twitching and a sweat-drop appearing on the back of his head.
"N-Nothing!" He forced himself to speak, stepping away from the red haired girl.
"When did she become so scary?" Taichi found himself wondering nervously, edging further away from the 16 year old female.
Snapping his head around, he points randomly towards the distance, "Let's follow that track!"
Jun tilts her head; she turns her attention from the brunette to the trail he was pointing at.
"The tracks are over here, genius." She snorted in amusement, lightly grabbing his wrist and turning it to point to where the tracks are.
Taichi pouts as he looks at the original direction he had pointed in and true to her word, no tracks were visible, he curses under his breath. Jun rolls her eyes and shakes her head.
"Let's follow that one."
Taichi grumbles as he looks at the track Jun had nodded to. Said track leaned to the left where trees were sported around it.
"No. You're wrong." He grunted out shaking his head, remembering the first time he had been in the Digital World.
If he remembered right, they were attacked more in the forest then out in the open as ironic as it is.
"This way!" Taichi pushed, throwing his hand out to the right track.
"Why, just because I disagree with you?" Jun argued back, her shoulders hunched up in frustration. Now she remembered why Kamiya annoyed her so, despite the fact her younger brother appeared to just love him, "Or is it because I'm a girl?"
"That's got nothing to do with it and you know it!" Taichi shot back.
Taichi pointed his finger directly at the girl as he remembered back in 6th grade, he and Sora had gotten into a small fight about soccer. He had accidently mentioned something about girls being weaker than boys, which set Sora off.
"I just think it'll be safer out here than in there!"
Jun shook her head and puffed out her cheeks, "What? Out in the open? We'll be sitting ducks stupid!"
"Listen Motomiya! Last time I was here, we were attacked more in a forest than out here! Honestly!" Taichi exclaimed, throwing his arms out with wide eyes, his hands clamping up with the sudden urge to shake the other.
Koromon made a loud groan, his ruby eyes snapping open, and puffed out his furry pink cheeks. He squealed as he tumbled through the air, he was thankful that his rookie form was so resistant to damage from falling. He sighed to himself, his long rabbit ears twitching.
"What's going on?" He questioned wearily, looking around, his crimson eyes flickering between his partner and the female.
"Tai? What?"
"They're making noise again," Penguinmon spoke with a soft sigh, her wide yellow eyes turning half-lidded.
Her feathers twitching as she curled in and pulled her wings tightly to herself.
Koromon's lips spreads into a large 'Oh' shape, his red eyes glowing beautifully.
He looked around excitedly, only now seeing the area his partner had brought him to. He grinned widely as he looked at the metal tracks. It was the first time seeing them, this Digital World was different from the one he had been born into, and it was exciting to be here and to experience it all. At the same time, this world brought him and Taichi back together again! Bouncing up and down, moving towards the tracks and tapping one of his long pink rabbit ears again it, tilting his round body backwards to look up at a long metal poll poking out of the side of it.
"The track splits here," Penguinmon explained curtly to him, moving to stand next to the little Digimon, "They can switch between either track and the Trailmon will be able to go down. Trailmon have this ability to switch them at will."
Koromon nodded in understanding, his grin growing wider and goofier. It remind the other Digimon of Koromon's human partner, they both seemed to possess the same goofy grin.
"Which way to go, Left or right? Right or left or up or down, on or off, fast or slow? Time to make a decision!" Koromon sang to himself, using his ears to grip onto the handle and swinging him back and forth, casing the tracks to repeatedly switch.
"Oh…I made myself sick…" He mumbled, sliding down the poll with a greenish face.
Penguinmon made a soft sound of concern.
"Fine!" Taichi finally snapped loudly, gaining both Digimons' attention.
Taichi groaned to himself, running his hand through his deep brown hair in frustration. His shoulders sagged as the blunt reality of losing this fight sank in depressingly.
"But if we get attacked, don't get angry if I say ' I told you so'!"
Jun stuck her nose up in the air and snorted, "Boys!" She grumbled under her breath, stomping her foot lightly.
Jun turned her back to Taichi and stalking in the direction of the trees.
"The sooner we find this Digimon, the better…" Taichi huffed under his breath, his eyes narrowing at the ground.
The sooner they find whoever brought them here, the sooner he can get rid of the girl! She's so annoying, so frustrating! He grumbled very colorful words under his breath, shoving his hands into pockets and kicking a poor rock out of his way as he trailed after her.
Koromon blinked unnervingly as he started after his partner and the other human.
"I believe that's called…sexual frustration." He spoke with a matter of fact tone. His lips twitches, his face unmoving until, swiftly, a large toothy grin ripped across his face.
"Se-what?" Penguinmon questioned cluelessly, tilting her feathered head to the side.
Carefully moving her large feet after the two broody humans, Koromon bounced alongside of her. She briefly wondered if maybe she should pick him up, but quickly shut that thought down when she noticed him squealing with joy as he did tricks every time he bounced from the ground. He really enjoyed bouncing.
"It's a human thing."
Taichi scratched the side his head. His lips locked together tightly, it had been god-knows how long with no talking and unfortunately it was driving him insane! Being with the only other human, who wouldn't even look at you sucked big time.
Hell, he was even considering apologizing when he had done nothing wrong, except trying to look out for her. Though it hadn't been too bad, he will proudly admit that most of that time he had spent checking out a certain fine ass. Frowning, he looked from the back of Jun to observe their surroundings.
It'd been long since they entered the forest and, he has to admit, he had never in his life seen trees this big before. Not a single branch was the same size; none of them were smaller than the average full grown human.
They stood as high as the sun and twisted around each other. With trees this big, Taichi could only imagine what kinds of Digimon were hiding in here. The tracks seemed to swirl across all the trees and branches. Tilting his head to the side, a smile of amusement appeared across his face as he watched Koromon and Penguinmon use one of the massive roots as a long slide that curled in hoops.
It made him happy to see his Digi-partner getting on well with the Digimon from this Digital World. He hoped when he found the Digimon who brought them here, they could help him understand the concept of this world.
Running his fingers through his hair once more, he lifts his head and turned back to look ahead of himself. His amber eyes widen briefly before his lips twisted lopsidedly.
"So it was the wrong way," He said to himself, stopping next to the girl.
Jun looked around the forest-created train station. Hearing Taichi's words, she snaps her head around and glared harshly at the brunette.
Said brown haired boy laughed nervously and rubbed his cheek. Jun snorted and walked towards one of the shelters of the station.
"It looks like it's built by humans…" She frowned in confusion.
"It's smooth!" Koromon laughed, sliding across the wooden floors.
Penguinmon climbs onto the platform. Her beautiful yellow eyes swirled around the area quietly. Her large soft feet pattered against the floor gently as she wobbled along slowly and clumsily.
Taichi picked at one of the smooth carvings, eyeing the odd looking flower designs.
"Well Trailmon are Digimon that are in the form of a train, so I assume other Digimon uses them to get around," He explained thoughtfully.
Hey! Koushiro would be proud of him. When he got no reply, he turned to look at Jun and gasped upon finding himself alone in the station. Snapping his head side to side, he puffed out his cheeks when he saw the three entering a tree like doorway.
"Hey! Don't leave me behind!" He called out, running after them.
Jun inhaled deeply, peering down the clean yellow steps. Her ruby colored eyes flicker up at the curved walls that seemed too curl up to the ceiling and onto the other side. Slowly, she ran her hand across the smooth odd wall. She noticed it had a slippery texture.
"Let's go down! Let's go down!" Koromon laughed, peering down the steps, his long pink rabbit ears twitching and patting the smooth steps excitedly.
Penguinmon tilted her head in thought, "I wonder what's down there…" She wondered out loud as her small beak opens and shuts quietly.
"What do you mean? Don't you live here?" Jun questioned, looking down at the feathery Digimon in wonder, her own eyes glowing wonderfully in awe.
The penguin Digimon looked back up at the woman and smiled, if that was possible, "Well, I've never left the Lantern village before now."
"You've really never left that village before now?" Koromon asked innocently, swirling around in a circle on the smooth floor, just as Taichi joined them, leaning against the door-frame tiredly and out of breath.
Penguinmon lowered her head sadly, hiding her face in her feathers, "I've always been too scared to leave my home. There're…there're so many rumors about the outside world…I never chanced it."
"Don't worry. You've got us now," Koromon grinned widely.
Penguinmon just stared quietly at him. It would seem the other Digimon is always happy for no reason. How strange, the feathered Digimon smiles in her strange way before nodding her head in thanks.
Taichi breathed deeply, calming his raging heart, "Well, are we going down now?" He finally spit out, wiping the sweat from his forehead.
His eyes flicker around the others and he grins as they nod. Carefully, he enters the hall and frowns when he finds nobody following. His lips press together in a frown and he looks back at them.
Koromon laughed softly and bounced up and down before throwing himself at Taichi. Said brunette almost stumbled backwards as he caught the furry pink rabbit like Digimon. He smiled down at his partner who returned it with a toothy grin, switching his head back up to look expectantly at the two girls still at the door-way.
"Well?"
Jun smiled weakly, sharing a look with Penguinmon before both nodded bravely.
"Yeah! We're coming!" Both spoke together, carefully stepping onto the steps.
Jun's eyes widen briefly and she almost cursed under her breath but held it back, "The steps are slippery. Be careful."
Penguinmon makes a soft squeal as she followed after, her large feet sliding across the wooden steps.
"I'm fine," She smiles weakly, struggling to keep herself up right.
Jun, seeing her having a hard time standing on the wood, offered, "Here, I'll keep you up-right." She smiles, holding onto one of Penguinmon's wings. Said bird Digimon smiles thankfully.
Attentive to the stair tunnel, the two humans and Digimon climbed down the steps. Their hands gently slid across the smooth sides of the stairwell. Taichi wasn't sure how long they've been walking, but he felt that they had been going down for a very long time now.
Blinking his amber eyes, he tilts his head when he found the stair tunnel make a sudden curve upwards. Scratching the back of his head, he glanced back at the girls, pressing his lips into a nervous smile.
Taichi shrugged and began to climb up the steps. Finally, Taichi noticed another doorway coming up ahead. His amber eyes flash excitedly and he walks a little faster.
"I can see something up ahead," He grinned, looking back at the others.
Koromon purred within his hands, just as excited as his human partner.
Moving closer and closer to the doorway, Taichi noticed it lead into a large hall. Pausing briefly in step, he gathered his courage and ventured out into the open.
Jun slowed to a stop at the door frame and, with Penguinmon, poked her head out, observing the beautiful sight lay out in front of them. It wasn't a hall; it was the inside of a tree! It was massive, stretching high with a pathway heading upward, lining the wall. Many other doorways were littered all over the place. The floor liked like bark, shaped into a beautiful shape, a large cloth hung over one of the doorways.
"It's…it's almost like a home…" Jun mumbled thoughtfully, entering the hall nervously.
She shifts over to the other human, feeling safer closer to him than on her own. Swallowing a lump that appeared in her throat, Jun looked up the small walkway. Tilting her head in thought, Jun stared at one of the door-frames near the top.
It had white and red feathers lining the top part of it, and she felt a pull drawing her up to it. At first she shook it off, her stomach flipped when she found herself staring back up at it and without much thought; her feet began to carry her towards the opening.
"Err…Motomiya? Where're you going?" Taichi called after the red haired girl, his lips twitching to the side.
He shared a concerned look with the two Digimon before running after the teenager girl. He peered into the doors he past, one was a large office with a lush rug laid out, and another door-frame was behind the large desk. Turning his head back around, he yelped as he almost ran into Jun's back.
Balancing Koromon in his left arm, he rubbed his face carefully and groaned, "What the hell? Motomiya?"
Jun puffed out her cheeks and slowly moved through the door frame. She gasped upon what was on the other side. Surrounded by bark-like walls that had the same door-frame as the ones they entered was a pond. It was surrounded by lush green grass and beautiful trees that held many Sakura blossoms. Leaning against the rails, Jun looked up at the opening at the top to see the glowing blue sky.
"The air smells great…" She mumbled to herself, her hair being blown around.
"Whoa…" Taichi grunted, coming to stand next to Jun.
His eyes grow wide as he looked at the area spread out in front of him. Honestly, he hadn't seen anything as beautiful before now.
Sucking in a deep breath, Jun couldn't believe something this beautiful existed. Her pale lips spread open in an 'O' shape, her ruby eyes shift around, looking in awe at everything in sight.
"I wonder who lives here," She thought out loud in amazement.
Taichi's mouth opened and shut, his eyebrows pulled together. Jun made a good point, what kind of Digimon lives in this area? You could never be too safe really. Sometimes something that looks harmless is harmful. Scratching the back of his head, his lips twist together and his milky brown eyes narrowed, searching for anything out of the ordinary.
Tilting her head to the side, Jun turned and looked down the wooden pathway leading down to the pond at the bottom. Licking her bottom lip, she slowly began to walk down the wood planks.
The young female froze, mid-step her eyes growing wide when she felt a tremble erupt through her feet. Snapping her head down to look at the wood planks under her feet, she sucked her bottom lip as a crack appeared between her feet and before she could even gasp the a crack snapped, creating a massive hole around her, sending the young girl crashing.
"Jun!" Penguinmon cried, wobbling up to the edge of the hole and peering through it.
Taichi ran up next to her, falling onto his knees and leaning over the edge, his fingers clenching the rough edge and peering further into the hole.
Jun wheezes, her eyes clenching shut as she fell through the air fast, her red hair flying out around her face. Right as she thought she'd hit the ground, she felt soft feathered arms catch her.
Opening her eyes in shock, Jun looked round to find pure white-angel like birds standing around her, giggling softly. "W-What?" Roughly the height of a human stood a beautiful bird with long, creamy white feathers and large round sea-like blue eyes that glowed gorgeously. All of them had a metal like vest wrapped around their bodies.
"Jun!" Penguinmon whimpered, running straight towards the human girl and throwing her reasonably short feathered wings across Jun's stomach.
Said girl looks down and smiled happily at the tiny bird-like Digimon, wrapping her own arms around the soft feathered back and gently stroking the tip of the purple and white feathered. Both Digimon and Human blinked in surprise as hundreds of pure white Angel like Digimon began to land around them, some smaller than others while many others were bigger in size.
All had beautiful glittering blue eyes with a sun-bright beak.
"Swanmon."
"Swanmon?" Taichi repeated, coming to a stop at the bottom of the wooden walk way. His own eyes grow wide, looking at the clan of white birds.
Koromon nods his head, if that's possible, his large crimson eyes growing wide and looking at the angel Digimon, "I heard they're kind and wise Digimon, known for being caring and always doing their best for others. Swanmon are known to be messengers; they deliver letters and such over millions of miles at a time. I thought they were just a myth, but apparently, they're not."
Taichi's lips spread into an 'o' shape, "Messengers, hmm?" He tilts his head to the side in thought.
It amazed him because he never thought Digimon had assigned jobs. His lips pressed together and twitched lopsidedly, well Trailmon had jobs he supposed. He and Jun had to use tickets to get onto the Trailmon.
"Hello!" One beautiful Swanmon smiled brightly and cutely, its blue eyes glowing.
This began a chant of adorable Hello's and Hi's erupting from all the Angel Digimon, all of which waved their long feathers around.
"Err, Hello…" Jun mumbled nervously, waving in return to all the Digimon.
Just as a gentle summer breeze blew through the area, the blossoms gently danced around the air and the leaves watched in awe. Jun's back arched just a little as the breeze gently caressed her skin.
"Aw. The breeze feels so good…" She smiled weakly, closing her eyes briefly in pleasure.
Another Swanmon tilts their head to the side, her beak opening slightly.
"That's all thanks to our lung tree. The wind filters through the lung tree's many branches, cooling our entire village," She explains warmly, turning her feathered head around and pointing at the bark around them.
Taichi tilts his head back, "So…we're inside the lung tree?" He questioned wearily and grinning when another Swanmon nods her head in answer.
"Whoa," Jun smiles, feeling another gentle gush of wind blow through her hair, "This wind is like the wind in Hawaii. Do a lot of visitors come here?"
"Hawaii?" Penguinmon tilts her head in thought, looking at Koromon.
If he could, Koromon would have shrugged, "Don't look at me. Tai usually keeps me in his room…unless I wear one of his smelly sweaters," He giggled, sticking out his tongue as he spoke.
"Not like before, no one comes to visit us now…" Swanmon whimpered, lowering her head as she spoke.
She sniffed sadly and sighed to herself, "We used to have so many Trailmon coming through with many excited passengers, but now, we'll be lucky if we even get one Trailmon…"
"Maybe you should put in a video arcade," Taichi said quietly, only to groan when Jun elbows him in the ribs.
He rubs the spot and pouts, looking at the red haired girl briefly. "Girls," He snorted to himself.
"You and your friends are the first tourists we've had in four months…" Another beautiful but small Swanmon spoke softly.
Jun frowns and tilts her head to the side in confusion. She runs her fingers through her soft locks, "I don't get it. Your village looks beautiful, why doesn't anybody come?" She questioned gently, crouching down to a tiny Swanmon and carefully stroking her head.
"It isn't just that…nobody hires us anymore. We're way behind with delivering our letters. We don't have enough time to seal all of the envelopes," A sweet young Swanmon explained weakly.
Jun's lips parted, her eyes glow and she smiles, "Well. We can help, right?"
She looks at Taichi who sighs softly before nodding, his lips twitching into a strained smile.
Just the thought of having to lick all the envelopes made his tongue burn. One or two is alright, but hundreds, oh man. Taichi groaned to himself, finding hundreds and hundreds of white, un-sealed letters awaiting them in one of the rooms within the Lung tree.
Running his hand through his long brown locks, his lips crushed together, he glared at them, mentally cursing his luck for agreeing with Jun. He should have just said no and went back down the tracks. Looking at said girl, he sighed at finding her sitting down at one of the huge stacks of letters and beginning to seal the envelopes.
"Well…better get started," He grumbled to himself, sitting down across from Jun and lifting one of the envelopes. He held it between his fingers and glared at it again.
"Yuck! It tastes horrible!" Koromon whimpered, rolling around next to Taichi with an envelope stuck to his large tongue.
"Get it off! Get it off! Get it off!" He shrieked, his long rabbit ears twitching uncontrollably.
Taichi grinned in amusement and peeled the paper from the Digimon's tongue and quickly sealed it and chucked it into one of the empty brown sacks behind them.
"It can't be that bad," He mumbled thoughtfully, laughing softly at the small pink furry head.
He lifted one of the letters and sealed the envelope, he grimaced and shook.
"Yuck. It tastes worse than the ones on Earth!" He grumbled, looking across to Jun and watching as the girl easily sealed letter after letter, gently stacking them up at her side and when they got to high, she placed them into the brown sack.
"How does she do it?" He wondered to himself quietly, he looked down at the letters and sighed to himself.
After what seemed hours, Taichi's head flopped forward, his eyes half-lidded, "My mouth's gone numb." He whimpered, his words coming out in slurs. He panted softly, reaching for the last letter in front of him and slowly sealing it.
"Well…we're done…" Jun spoke slowly and tiredly, placing the last letter into one of the sacks around her.
"Well on the bright side. We've eaten so much glue, we don't need lunch!" Koromon chimed in sleepily, lying on his side with his ears spread out. Penguinmon, lying next to him, whined softly in agreement.
Jun slowly pushes herself up, stretching out her legs. She winced as they made soft pops and cracks. She turns to look at the Swanmon all around them, all of which were filling up their leather-brown shoulder bags with letters,"See. Everyone will be visiting again in no time!"
She blinked in confusion when all the birds lowered their heads sadly.
"No?"
"It's the Parrotmon brothers," whined a male Swanmon, his tone almost depressed.
Taichi's eyes widen, remembering the large green feathered bird back from when he was a child.
"Parrotmon brothers?" He repeats softly, a brown eyebrow lifting.
A female Swanmon hums softly, while nodding her head, "Yeah, they sit at the top, they never let any of us go and deliver our letters. They scare away any Digimon that visits….they just like making everyone's lives difficult…"
"We'll never be able to deliver all these letters because of them," Another Swanmon added weakly, walking with the Humans and their Digimon through the halls towards a launch pad. It was still as beautiful as the other areas of the Lung tree.
"Mjolnir Lightning!"
Exclaimed a deep and greedy voice. A powerful bolt of lightning rips through the air and hits the side of the Lung tree causing one of the branches to break off.
Swanmon made a soft concerned squeal, watching with wide eyes as the branch falls, "No, that took us months to grow back!" She whimpered sadly, her head lowering and puffing out her white feathered chest.
Taichi lifts his head to see a reasonably sized bird. It wasn't as big as the one he remembered when he was child. It was roughly his height, maybe a little taller. Deep green feathers filled his body with glowing dark brown eyes; a dark and twisted smirk appeared across his face. In a flash two other forest green birds appeared on either side of him. One had glowing blue eyes while the other had cat-like golden eyes.
"So, you're the Parrotmon Brothers?" He snorted, looking from one to another.
"Please don't wreck our tree!" Another Swanmon begged loudly.
"What did we ever do to you to deserve all this? We used to greet the visitors and deliver the letters together? Lung tree was your home too once, remember?"
One Parrotmon snorted, their yellow eyes darkening and narrowing with darkness, "You Swanmon were always more popular with the tourists! They all liked you better! No matter how hard we tried to please those looky-loos, they thought you Swanmon were cuter and nicer than us!"
"That's not true! They liked you guys too!" A sweet female Swanmon replied softly, throwing her wings out briefly before rolling them back to her body, "And you were requested more than us!"
"That is enough! Sonic Destroyer!" Growled another Parrotmon, throwing itself backwards and using shockwaves created at Mach speed to attack the tree, burning off another branch of the Lung tree. "It's over! We've had it with your feather power! And we're gonna rip all the branches off of the Lung Tree!"
Taichi chewed the inside of his mouth, narrowing his eyes down on the three green parrot Digimon, "Tai, Tai. If I didn't know any better I'd say they have a black gear or ring on them. Doesn't it feel like that?" Koromon questioned, turning slightly to look up at the brunette.
Hearing the words, Taichi's eyes grow wide and he looked down at his Digimon partner.
"Yeah…it's like their attitudes have been adjusted for some reason…maybe that's why we're here. Maybe something like the gears and rings are happening again…" He wondered out loud, thoughtfully.
Jun growled to herself, "They're jealous! Is this what it's all about?" She thought to herself, grinding her teeth together and stomping along the pad, just as one of the Parrotmon lands on the edge.
"Hold it!" She hissed, gaining the Parrotmon brothers' attention.
She reeled her right hand back before smacking him hard across the face, almost knocking said bird Digimon off.
"Hey now!" Another Parrotmon cried, catching his brother before he fell through the air, "That's my brother, why'd you slap 'em?"
Jun stuck her nose up and flicked a red lock over her shoulder, "You need to learn to get along! Just because you feel like you're getting the short end of the stick that doesn't give you the right to just to destroy their home! Try solving things peacefully!"
"Nah, we'd rather blow things up!" The green feathered bird-brothers grinned toward her, lightening flickering from the golden masks on their foreheads.
The lightning glowed brightly before erupting towards the small human girl.
Jun's eyes widen, her arms lifting up to shield herself from the powerful blast.
"Look out!" Taichi cried out, throwing himself forward and pushing Jun out the way, both humans rolling over together.
"So much for that…" Jun mumbled quietly, scratching the side of her head and looking around wide eyed.
She blinked and looked over at the boy who had saved her, "Are you okay?"
Taichi groaned, stretching his back slightly, "Nothing broken, except my pride."
One of the brothers smirks, if it was possible with their beaks, his brown eyes glowing brightly and evilly.
"Now for the core!" He cackled loudly.
Jun tilted her head in confusion and repeated 'core' again before lifting a red eyebrow.
"They're going for the core of the lung tree!" Shrieked one of the Swanmon in desperation, her long white feathers trembling, "If they destroy that then the lung tree will die! It'll dry up!"
Jun gasped, standing up quickly, "We have to stop them!"
"Easy for you to say…" Taichi groaned, rubbing his lower back and pouting.
He saved a girl and doesn't even get a reward for it, how depressing, "Where is the core of the tree?" He questioned, thoughtfully.
"It's back in the core pond," A male Swanmon explained nervously, flapping its long white feathers around, quickly leading them back to the area Jun had accidently fell into.
It was just as beautiful as she remembered it. Her ruby eyes looked at the pond, watching it sparkle in the sun-light.
Taichi bit the inside of his mouth, quickly following the others. His amber eyes look down at Koromon, "You think you've got enough energy?"
Koromon whimpered, his long ears twitching, "S-Sorry…I'm not strong enough yet." He sighed sadly, closing his eyes and breathing deeply.
"I've only got enough energy for this," He wheezed out as data strips gently wrapped around him, "Koromon Digivolve to Agumon!"
"Well. It's nice to see you back," Taichi smiled, quickly hugging his orange dino-partner.
The Parrotmon brothers laughed, flapping around the water-source. Grinning brightly, looking down at it and gathering into a circle. Holding out their fathered wings, they began to charge up lightening.
"Jun!" Penguinmon cried, pushing the girl down as Agumon does the same for Taichi.
Just as a bolt of lightning erupted from the feathers and smashed into the water. The tree wailed around them and shook.
When Jun looked up, covered in soot, she found the pond gone. The area suddenly looked dark and gloomy, it set and uneasy bubble in the pit of her stomach. Almost automatically, the sky grew dark and clouds began to gather around.
The Swanmon huddled together while making whimpers, "Ohhh…they removed the fractal-code…our tree is done for…" They sobbed, shaking extremely.
Taichi stared in shock. He couldn't believe they'd done it, that they really destroyed their own home, the lung tree. His eyes narrowed and he felt anger. He wanted to scream in disbelief but found himself struggling not to.
Agumon whimpered softly and nuzzled Taichi's side, "Tai-Tai…the Digivice."
Blinking in surprise, Taichi carefully pulled the crimson object from his pocket and, like he assumed, the Koromon skeleton had transformed back into Agumon. So it does have his Digi-partners DNA and apparently, his too. Tilting his head, he gasped upon seeing the swirling data like pattern appear across the screen.
"My Digivice is doing something…" He gasped out again, slowly pushing himself up and holding it out.
A loud buzzing sound erupts from the tiny thing. His milky amber eyes grow wide at the sound.
Jun groaned, she moves slightly and whimpers from the pain, "What was that?" She wonders, looking up at the Parrotmon brothers, noticing that they were very pleased with themselves.
"How could they…" She whispered, shaking her head stunned.
Her eyes drop when she heard a very painful whimper, gasping, she wrapped her arms around Penguinmon and lets out a soft hiccup.
"Penguinmon! Are you alright? You aren't hurt are you?"
Penguinmon looks up at Jun and forces a smile, "I'm fine…just a few of my feathers got caught is all…" She meekly spoke; whimpering again as Jun carefully touches her back.
"You are hurt." Jun frowned, biting her bottom lip and struggling to breath, "You got hurt trying to protect me…" She shook her head in realization.
All this time Penguinmon had stuck to her side to protect her, to keep her safe. She's never noticed it before. Her stomach twisted and her heart pounded, her face felt hot and she felt like crying.
"I'm so sorry for letting you down, Penguinmon…" Just as the words fell from her lips, the crater in the middle of the tree glowed a dazzling pink.
A small object emerged from the spot directly in the middle, lighting up the now dark place beautifully with pink and purple light. Jun lifted her head, her eyes growing wide and jaw dropping as the object floats towards her, hovering straight in front of her.
Her ruby eyes flicker down to Penguinmon and then the object. Swallowing a lump in her throat, she looked to Taichi in desperation. What's she supposed to do?
Seeing the others confusion, fear, and concern, Taichi grinned widely and waved his hand.
"Take it! I told you that you're a Digidestined too!" He yelled over to her, cupping his mouth briefly as he spoke.
At his words, Jun jerked backwards slightly. She turned her head to look at the glowing purple and pink floating Digivice. Shakily, she holds her hand out. She jumped when the Digivice moved to gently lie in the palm of her hand; as soon as it touched her skin a nice breeze wrapped around her.
"J-Jun…" Jun lowers her head in shock, looking down at Penguinmon.
The feathered Digimon whimpered and looked up at her with wide golden eyes filled with worry and concern. Her soft posh voice made Jun's heart break. It was then that she realized how strong their connection had grown within a few days, it amazed her deeply and her heart pounded loudly in her ears.
"I'm alright Penguinmon," She smiled warmly down at the gentle and lady-like Digimon, running her fingers through the soft colored feathers before returning her attention to the object in her hands.
It almost looks like the one Taichi had. Just like Taichi's, it was the shape of a rectangle with a wide glowing screen. Weakly, she slid the screen up to reveal three buttons, one bigger than the other two, on the side was a long pad.
Unlike Taichi's though, it had another pad on the right side. It was a gentle dark pink color. The part with the buttons was pale purple and the pads were whitish pink. Jun ran her thump over it and smiled weakly when a beautiful pale pink colored light erupts through the screen.
The screen flashes on with a strange symbol appearing, a symbol that reminded Jun of a pair of wings, curled around one another.
Penguinmon squealed gently, her eyes growing wide briefly as a light purple beam illuminates her body, scanning her from the top of her head to her feet. When the light finished scanning her, it made a soft 'beep' like sound from the speakers.
Jun gasped, her eyes glowing gorgeously from the light when a skeleton-like form of Penguinmon appeared on it. She pressed the larger button and jolted, startled when the screen slid up and sat on its side. A data like ribbon erupts from the tip and circles around her small hand.
Without thinking, she runs the ring across the top of the Digivice and clenches her eyes shut in shock.
Taichi's amber eyes sparkle as he stared in awe at the beauty in front of him. He watched as the glowing light made Jun's eyes stand out gorgeously. He was slightly, just a little, sad when she closed her eyes before she was covered up by a cocoon of data.
Agumon and Penguinmon look at each other. Agumon whines when the other Digimon erupts into a purple and pink light, shining beautifully.
Jun bit her bottom lip. She suddenly felt her clothes being pulled away. Wrapping her arms tightly around herself, she pulled her legs up, finding the ground disappear from underneath her feet.
"Jun?" Jun heard a gentle, posh voice echo around her.
Shuddering, Jun turned her head side to side, all she could see was data strips of pink and purple, it confused her, especially when a breeze flow around her again. She felt her heart pound within her chest as she realized the voice belonged to Penguinmon.
"Over here!" the voice called in answer to her thoughts.
Jun turned in time to catch her new small Digi-feathered partner.
"Our minds are connected," Jun's mouth opened to speak, only for no words to come out.
Instead her mind asked the question and Penguinmon giggled. It was at that moment, Jun looks down at her hands to find lines running up and down her skin before, horrifyingly, her skin began to strip off, revealing a glowing pale pink light underneath. It didn't hurt, was the first thing she realized as she watched herself change. It didn't hurt in fact it felt almost good.
Twirling her head around, she tried to see Penguinmon only to find her gone.
"P-Penguinmon?" she stuttered out in her mind, only to get a soft girlish laugh in reply.
Jun smiled a little as she suddenly understood what was happening. Penguimon's still there, only they were merging together to create a new body, "I can feel her strength running through me…."
Taichi's mouth opened in shock, watching the newly made cocoon of data. A large glowing pink and purple image appeared above the cocoon. He felt concern and amazement bubble up in his stomach.
"Whoa…Did I look like this?" He thought to himself, pressing his lips together only to yelp later and shield his eyes when the data burst.
Taichi's heard pounded and his eyes grew wide, looking at the new Digimon. It was Jun and Penguinmon merged together, they looked, well he couldn't say it without blushing brightly.
"Holy shit."
A new Digimon stood directly in the spot where the cocoon was. It was definitely a female, no doubt about that. A Human-woman like Digimon stood; she had milky white skin and wore skin tight pink and purple armor that hugged her figure just right.
On her legs and arms were green parts. Deep green stripes were on her face, going across her chin with long purple hair gently dancing to mid-back with a glass-bar around her face, hiding her eyes from anybody. Lastly, what caught Taichi's attention the most was the pair of butterfly-like wings poking out of her back.
"My god. It's Kazemon, the Warrior of Wind. Impossible," A Swanmon gasped in shock, her blue eyes growing wide, "I've only heard stories of her. She's one of the known myths around these parts. I had no idea she actually existed."
Taichi blinks, he looks down at Agumon and smiles.
"So then, Jun and Penguinmon are the Warrior of Wind, so we're the Warrior of Fire." He chuckled, patting Agumon on the head.
Kazemon flies up to the same level as the Parrotmon brothers.
"Evil creatures, be purified by the wind!" Her voice was mix of two tones, one Penguinmon and the other Jun.
All the brothers looked at one another before snickering.
"Uh. Nice try, Butterfly!" One grinned devilishly, each one fluttered to surround the butterfly-Digimon. Each one had lightening erupt from their forehead, "Mjolnir Lightning!"
Kazemon held up her hands as if to silence them, her lips pressed together, "Hurricane Wave!" She cried out, throwing long, thin tornadoes from her fingertips.
The attack spun around her small being, throwing each one of the brothers back against the hard bark of the lung tree, they shrieked, slamming into the bark before falling to the ground. Kazemon peered down at them with her arms crossed tightly over her chest.
"Alright!" Taichi and Agumon cheered, watching the female Digimon warrior in amazement.
One Parrotmon looked up and growled, "You pesky insect!" He hissed, throwing himself into the air, meeting up with his brothers, "We're not through yet! Revenge time!"
Kazemon fluttered backwards, watching as data began to circle around the three bothers. She clenched her teeth and arched her body, preparing for what was to come.
"Parrotmon slide to Eaglemon!" Kazemon gasped quietly as the data exploded revealing a dim-gold armored bird-Digimon. Eaglemon reminded Kazemon of some kind of robotic bird. Frowning, she clenched her hands tightly.
Taichi's eyes widen, "Kazemon! Eaglemon is a mega, be careful!" He called up to the Warrior of Wind.
Turning to face Kazemon with a loud growl, Eaglemon twisted oddly, "Mystic Break!" His deep voice erupts through the air, preparing to fire a white ray that most obviously is designed to reduce the opponent to ash.
Kazemon gulped. She arched over, watching the white ray. Just as it was about to hit her, she used the air around her to flip herself through the air, narrowly missing the attack. Landing in the air on the other side of Eaglemon, she clenched her fists tightly.
"Hurricane Wave!" She calls out, her mixed voice filling the air gently before she throws long, thin tornadoes from her fingertips again, she breathed deeply and charged it directly towards Eaglemon.
Eaglemon let out a bird like roar, allowing the attack to hit him so he could get close to Kazemon. Its eyes glowed brightly, burning with anger at the Warrior of Wind. "Kaiser Phoenix!" He hissed out, twisting his body oddly and performing a ramming attack, repeatedly using his body weight to smash into the Butterfly Digimon.
Kazemon yelped, falling to the ground with a rather loud thud. Her body ached from the pain. She breathes deeply, covered in cuts and bruises. Her hands clench around the dirt, slowly pushing herself up.
"Nothing's working…" Kazemon thought in desperation, pushing herself back into the air, panting deeply as she dodged Eaglemon when he charged at her.
She back flipped over him and rolled through the air, "Wait that could work, but I'm going to need to be close to pull it off," Looking at Eaglemon, Kazemon gulped and breathed deeply.
Glaring through the glass bar, Kazemon shot towards the other Digimon.
"Roseo Temporale!" She said deeply, throwing out her legs and repeatedly slamming her feet into his body, kicking the back of her left ankle against the left side of Eaglemon's head before doing the same with her right ankle.
Flipping forward, she pushed her foot hard down on Eaglemon's head, throwing herself into the air. Once she was in the air, she threw herself back, slamming her foot harshly against the top of Eaglemon's head. The loud smacking sound of her ankle hitting his head erupted through the air before Eaglemon limply fell through the air, slamming into the ground with a loud, earth-shattering thud. A crater was created around him as he was imprinted into the earth.
"Shadow creature, be purified by the wind!" Kazemon called out, holding out her Digivice.
Data erupted from the crater and flashed to her Digivice, she flicked her arm out, gaining the data to fill in the small object before three Parrotmon climbed out of the crater, rubbing their head in confusion. Smiling, Kazemon back flips through the air and lands gently on the ground next to Taichi and Agumon, who were still watching in awe with wide eyes and gaping mouths. Data erupted around the Warrior of Wind. When it faded away, Jun stood there. She breathed deeply and wiped her forehead.
"Man, am I pooped…" She sighed to herself, running her fingers through her hair. Looking up at the dark sky, she smiled weakly.
"Whoa...I really flew…" She breathed out, turning her head and looking around for her new Digimon partner. "Penguinmon? Where are you?"
"Down here." Whispered a soft and timid voice. Jun jumped when something touched her ankle, tiling her head down, Jun gasped upon seeing a baby like Digimon nuzzling her left foot.
Letting out a gently squeal, Jun scooped the Digimon up.
"You're so cute!" She smiled brightly, kissing the little Digimon on cheek.
The baby Digimon blushed brightly from the affection her human partner was giving her, she purred as Jun gently stroked the top of her head. The tiny female Digimon had pale green feathers with large sparkling eyes.
A cute little yellow duck-like beak stood out in the middle of its face. She had no feet, only a very white and soft looking stomach that curled around to make a small feathered tail.
A pair of tiny wings unwrapped from around her stomach, and she smiled. She had green feathers surrounding a white patch on the top of her head, much like a flower with long green like feather gently laid across it.
"I'm Chapmon now…Penguinmon's lesser form," Chapmon explained shyly, using the long feather on her head to hide her face in embarrassment.
"Chapmon, huh? Whoa, I'm learning new Digimon everyday…" Taichi grinned as he reached over and gently stroked the tip of Chapmon's head.
Agumon tilts his head and stretched onto his toes to look at the tiny Digimon and sniffed.
"Chapmon you smell like oranges," He laughed in amusement, not noticing the tiny Digimon growing redder in embarrassments.
Jun jumped in surprise as her small Digivice began to beep loudly. Pulling it out of her pocket, she blinked noticing the skeleton form of Chapmon. Smiling warmly, she slid the screen up and watching as data erupted out of the small object, it swirled through the air before filling the pond/crater. When the data faded, the pond had returned, along with everything else.
Jun stared in shock; she gently lowered her Digivice, and looked around.
"You returned the Fractal Code. We thank you very much!" A young female Swanmon replied, looking over at the Parrotmon brothers rubbing their heads and apologizing to the others around. They honestly had no idea what had come over them.
Jun pouted, looking over at Taichi, she smiled, "So I was right to come this way after all."
"Here we go!"
Okay. So after a lot of thought, I've decided I will add in the 'froniter' characters. They won't be like, well, normal. They be hinted and such, not prober characters.
Who would you like next, Koushiro or Cody? Or would you guys like another chapter of Tai/Jun first?