So here's the next chapter. Hope you like it. Promise in the next chapter will be a lot of action probably.. I'll try my best.
Taichi:
„Ha, I've got three aces, beat that!"
"Ok, I've got a straight flush."
"WHAT? How did you manage to beat me again?!" Davis shouts, causing me to sit up from where I'd been laying down on Gennai's sofa. Davis was diving at Agumon, who is attempting to avoid my protégé's attack. I lay back down on the sofa I'm on, ignoring Davis and all of the digimon's antics. It had been a few days since we defeated Devimon and got the tablet, and now we're in a more of a waiting game than before. Although we have the tablet, we can't figure out how to use it, so we're stuck in waiting while Izzy and Ken try to figure out how to use this damn thing. I for myself tried to use it a couple of times but finally I had to accept that it just doesn't work. Gennai told us about a digimon city where a digimon lives who actually knew someone that used this tablet a thousands of years before, so he'd sent a message to the city asking about it. That had been yesterday, and we're still waiting for a response, so we're all sitting around, waiting again. Right now Sora is asleep, we didn't talk much these past days, not because we avoid each other, we just don't want to ruin what we have right now between each other, I don't even know how to call it. Davis is playing poker with the digimon, losing. IT seems that once the digimon learned the game they'd become quite good at it, almost eerily so. Either way, that led to the current situation of Davis chasing Agumon around the house while the rest of the digimon just sits there and laughs at Davis. I however just go back to my musings which is what our next move should be. Probably go to drill city (seriously, who names a city drill city?! I mean, get some imagination digidom) and kick this digimon's butt because it doesn't respond to our message. Then we could manage to make this tablet work and lead us to the Crystal, and finally go get this thing. Then of course are the decisions coming from that, like would we need the others to come back, when should we get them back, and how exactly does this Crystal work? And when do I finally have time to figure out with Sora what is going on between us? My head is buzzing with all of these questions, and it's giving me a massive headache.
Why can't things be simple for once in my life...because then I wouldn't get headaches, I could live a happy life with a great woman on my side and play soccer but of course, when things would be simple, my life would be too easy, of course.
A little smile forms on my lips as I think that. Then there's a crash, coming from what sounds like the kitchen. Oh God...seriously? Again?!
This time I actually get up of the sofa, heading into the kitchen, followed by all the digimon. Davis and Agumon are somehow tangles up in several of the chairs that had been left around the Kitchen table after lunch earlier that day.
"A little help please?" Davis asks, from where his head is stuck between the legs of one of the chairs. I don't even know how he, or my partner for that matter, have managed to get stuck that well, but I can't just help them out, not without showing everyone else first.
"Ok, just a minute, I think I might need a little help." I tell Davis, an evil grin on my face.
"Oh no, Tai please don't!" Davis exclaims as I walk out of the kitchen. "Tai!"
As I walk back into the living room, Sora walks in, rubbing her eyes as she'd just woken up.
"Good morning Sunshine." I say cheerfully as she looks at me like she really doesn't want it to be morning just yet.
"What's all the racket?" She asks, stopping a few feet from me.
"Davis, of course." I reply, and then gesturing for her to follow me. "I think you'll like this though." I let her into the kitchen where Davis and Agumon had managed to get even more tangled up than they were when I'd left. Sora looks out at the two of them, and then laughs uncontrollably. That's my girl.
"How did you two manage this?" She asks, sounding more like her normal self than she has before. I can't help but just stare. Although she just woke up she looks incredible. I really have to pull myself together to resist the impulse to make out with her right now.
"It's not like we meant to do it, now would you help us out of this?" Davis replies, while Agumon nods emphatically. I look over to Sora and she nods, so we go over to begin helping the two of them out of the chair thing. It takes a lot longer than I have expected. Just as we finish freeing the two of them the door to Gennai's office opens, revealing Gennai, Izzy and Ken, who all look surprised to see all of us, freeing Davis and Agumon.
"What happened here?" Izzy asks, obviously really confused. Then Ken however, replies for all of us, with a perfectly simple answer.
"Davis." He says, earning a HEY! From Davis and a laugh from the rest of us. Well the rest of us but Gennai, his face is still serious, somewhat abnormally. Gennai then clears his throat, getting all of us to shut up.
"We have a word of Drill City. Don't you dare to interrupt me Davis." Gennai says right at the moment when Davis wants to say something. However he continues. "Unfortunately the digimon who knew the digidestined who once used the tablet is long gone. Nobody knows how where it is or what happened. I would suggest you to go to Drill city to find some answers because I'm sure there's something useful to know for us but I will not let you. The city is currently besieged by one of Piedmon's armies."
"Wait, Piedmon has armies?" Sora asks, looking over Gennai. "Since when do digimon have armies?"
"Digital armies have long been a part of the digital world my dear." Gennai replies, looking over at Sora. "Did you think that the first war against the Dark Masters was fought by a few individuals? No, massive armies were used in that conflict.
"So, then how come we never saw any of these massive armies?" I ask, wondering why these so called armies were never used against us, they certainly would have made defeating all of our enemies much harder. "I mean all of our enemies had some lackey, but never an army."
"Most of your enemies never had the time to assemble a powerful army to support them, especially since most of the digimon who would have joined them were already in the Dark Master's army. And the reason why you never saw any of them was because first, you defeated them faster than their armies would have assembled. Second, their confidence in being able to deal with the eight of you without their armies caused them never to call them up in the first place."
I'm a little shocked at this revelation and suddenly glad that our enemies had been so over confident. The minions we'd fought getting to the Dark Masters had been bad enough, fighting an army worth of them would have been next to impossible.
"I'm sorry to change the subject to rapidly but I just wanted you all to remind that we're in kind of a war and the only thing that could actually help us to getting out of this mess is Crystal-thing that we can't find before we figure out how to use this tablet-map-think." Davis reminds us about our original problem at the moment.
"Yeah you're right Davis. Unfortunately we can't do anything but just keep trying to make this thing work. And we should probably think about how to get the others back Tai" Gennai turns to me when he says the last bit. Now, that Gennai reminded me at that I begin to worry about our next problem, when should we contact the others to come back?
If we send for them now, getting they back sooner, but also putting them in more danger, or should we wait until we have the Crystal and then send for them. The down side to the first one is obviously the fact that they'd be in danger with the rest of us until we find the Crystal, all but cancelling out the reason for their cross continental flight. Of course the downside of calling them back after we have the Crystal is almost worse. If Piedmon finds out about the Crystal and comes after us we might not be able to stop him without the others, and things would be really really bad.
Ugh, when did things get so hard? I ask myself when everyone breaks up and goes after his own business, the meeting done with that. Making these decisions used to be a lot easier. The hardest thing used to be getting everyone to go along with a decision, not making it. How did we end up in this mess? Not a long time ago I was hanging around with my teammates, having fun with girls and just have fun and now I'm again fighting to survive. Why did I even come back?
I run my hands through my hair, looking up at the ceiling as I sit there, thinking.
"Penny for your thoughts?" A voice asks, and I look over to see Sora still in the kitchen with me. Oh yeah, now I remember why.
"Just trying to figure out when we should call the others." I reply, sighing as I said that. "you know, making decisions used to almost be easy, sometimes, ok, on occasion..." I start to say, but as I really think about it the decisions had never really been that easy, one would put us in a lot of danger but move us closer to saving the world, while the other would do the opposite.
Sora just smiles at me, takes my hand and kisses my knuckle.
"I know what you mean Tai, things are a lot different this time around, not just because our enemies are stronger, but also because of us. I'm sure you noticed that." Sora says and I just nod. "Well I wouldn't fret about it too much. You'll make the right decision when the time's right, you always do."
I smile at her and nod again.
"Thanks Sora." I say and she just gives me a light kiss on the lips, leaving me with the desire for more. But before I can say anything like "stay" she's out of the kitchen.
Sora:
So I'm just walking a little by Gennai's lake when I suddenly see a group coming nearer to the entrance of Gennai's home. I'm totally ready to fight when I realize that these people aren't our enemies. My heart jumps in happiness when I notice the girl with the short brown hair and the skinny figure. I don't even want them to reach me, I run toward the little kamiya girl and the rest of the digidestined.
Davis:
So Izzy and ken are in Gennai's office, still looking through something I really don't want to know about because if I would, I probably would die because it's so boring. Sora left a couple of minutes ago to walk a little around on the fresh air and Tai is lying again on the sofa in the living room while I play poker with the digimons, like I did a while before. I can't help but glance again and again to Tai who actually ignores everything around him. Something's bothering him... Right at the moment when I want to ask him what's wrong with him I hear the door shut and somebody shout.
"Guys, where are you all?" I recognize the voice as T.K and jump from my sitting position right when T.K, Matt, Cody, Yolei, Joe, Mimi, Kari and finally Sora enter the room. Matt turns immediately his glance to Tai, who's still lying on the couch and didn't even move. Matt moves closer and I can't hear what he's saying but obviously Tai was sleeping and is now hugging his best mate like they didn't see each other for years. Izzy and Ken enter the room right after and the room is full happiness and I probably got hugged what feels like a hundred times.
~couple of hours later~
"So you're telling us that there's a Crystal-thing that can help our digimon to reach higher levels than ever before and to find this Crystal we need a tablet that you already found but you don't know how to use it?" Yolei centralizes everything that we just tell the others. It turned out that the others weren't any safer even when they we're gone, so they just decided to come back. The fact that the "safe" group had to fight against Machinedramon and Puppetmon, two of the Dark Masters, like the older ones told me proved that it was a really stupid idea to split up. But luckily for us the others didn't come back alone; they brought some old friends, like Tai asked Matt to do. They actually could find Andromon, BanchoLeomon and Ogremon who are willing to help us all.
"Exactly" Tai replies to Yolei's summary.
"Okay I would suggest we take a look at this tablet." Cody suggests. We all agree and lead the others in the room where the tablet is held. I never saw this room before, not even when Tai brought the tablet in there. The room is in a bright blue and round. Instead of a wall there's just glass what makes us possible to watch the fishes that are swimming in their happy little world. In the middle of the room is a table. The Tablet lies on that table next to a few maps of the digital world. Yolei approaches the tablet and holds it in front of her for a couple of minutes just to lay it back on the table.
"It really is beautiful, but I can't imagine how this thing could probably be a map to lead us to the Crystal-thing." Yolei says. The rest of the others take the tablet one after another just to lay it back down on the table, frustrated.
"Okay, and what should we do now?" Matt finally says something to break the silence, his glance at Tai, who just stands there, leaning at the doorway. I can't help but think about how much he changed in the past three years. He's much calmer, taller and his messy hair is a lot shorter than it was when he left. Everyone suddenly turns to look at Tai who just looks at the ground and doesn't look like he's going to say something.
"Tai, you're alright?" Agumon asks with concern in his voice. Sure it's his partner we're talking about. Tai lifts his head and wears his typical goofy grin on his face.
"I guess we can't do anything yet. What about we rest for the rest of the day and discuss our next steps tomorrow morning?" He suggests and everybody is fine with that. Within a couple of hours everyone picked a room in Gennai's house and is asleep.
Taichi:
I wake up when Sora gets up off of the bed, stumbling towards the bathroom. I really was surprised when I felt her snuggling to me in the middle of the night. She probably couldn't sleep and just came to me. Within minutes she was asleep. I strangely feel completely rested, and ready to start the day, so instead of going back to sleep, like I normally do, I get up and go to the kitchen.
The entire house is empty (well not empty, but everyone is asleep so I feel like it's empty) and I don't really feel like making any sort of breakfast since no one else would be up for a few more hours. I make some oatmeal quickly, scarf it down, and then go out of the kitchen. At that point I realize the one big problem with me waking up early; there's absolutely nothing to do. I look over at Sora who's now sleeping at the sofa. She probably doesn't want to sleep in my bed without me in it. I consider to going back to sleep, but I'm not tired at all. I just turn and walk into the other part of the house, the part that contains Gennai's study and lab. No one is here either, telling me that Gennai had left some time after I'd passed out last night. The map however is still on, displaying the digital world, and I'm slightly surprised to see the tablet lying on the table.
I ignore the tablet for now, having already spent some time staring at the gibberish (to me it's gibberish at least) on it. I pay more attention to the map table. Gennai had shown me how to work it when I was obsessed with following Piedmon's activities the first couple of days where we didn't have anything to do. I manipulate the controls to show the entire continent of Server with only a little difficulty, and then begin looking over the territory Gennai had identified as belonging to Piedmon. I spend the next couple of hours just looking at all the different sectors, trying to find out anything about them, and I honestly feel really cool. I still have enough of my younger self into me to remember doing this with computer games at home, trying to plan all the cool strategies to take out the enemies. I suddenly realize that I really changed in the past few years. I lived in an luxurious apartment in the heart of Los Angeles, played soccer all day and calmed down a lot. I can't help but miss the states. I really enjoyed my life there. I turn my attention to the sector where Piedmon hides at the moment and I remember the couple of hours that I spent there. My hand uncontrollably reaches my stomach, where the scars of Piedmon's swords still are apparent. I can't imagine what Gennai did to safe my life, I actually already thought I was dead when I lost consciousness in the castle. I leave the map open to the area and start walking around the table, looking at if from all angles. I have a tendency to need something to occupy my hands with when I do this, so I pick up the tablet, just to occupy my hands while I pace around.
After about ten minutes of this I get a little bored and start looking at the tablet once more. It really is a pretty cool thing. It's roughly diamond shaped, with a red crystal in the center of it and another part of one at the bottom of it. I look over it again, trying to see if any of the gibberish makes sense to me now, no, it doesn't. On a whim I hold the tablet up to the light, trying to see through the crystal, and got a bit of a shock.
"AAHHH!" I shout, dropping the tablet as a bright beam of light hits my eye. The shout is enough to wake up the entire house, and a few seconds later everyone is in the study, all of them looking pretty disheveled.
"Tai!" Sora says, kneeling down next to me as I hold my eye. The pain is mostly gone, and it hadn't really been bad, just very surprising. Kari kneels down on my other side and looks at me with concern. She takes my hand of my eye to take a look on my eye. Just to smile in relief, obviously there's nothing wrong with my eye.
"What happened Tai?" Joe asks, approaching me too.
"I was looking at the tablet, and I held it up to the light. The crystal shot out a really bright light and it hit me in the eye. Nothing special. It was just surprising, that's all." I tell them, earning a laugh from Davis (promptly silence with a glare from Sora).
Izzy however picks up the tablet and gasps. "Tai! You're a genius!" He shouts. That earns him a laugh from mostly everyone in the room and a really confused look from me. As a respond Izzy turns the tablet to us and suddenly everyone shut up. After a couple of minutes of silence Mimi speaks out.
"Tai, you really are a genius."
On the tablet, where before was the red Crystal, is now a map visible. I don't know the place that's apparent but I'm sure Izzy does so I turn my glance to Izzy who nods, as if he know exactly what I'm about to ask.
"So I guess we know our next step." Matt asserts with a smile on his face and a proud expression on his face when he turns to me. I smile back and get up off of the ground.
~Later that Day~
Davis:
We're all on the outside, expect of Izzy, Ken and Yolei. The guys want to take good look at the map on the tablet and Yolei just wants to spend time with Ken. It's a really good feeling to sit with everyone and every digimon around a fire and just have a nice time and talk. Kari and Tai are talking what seems like hours, I don't know what this is about but Kari looks really worried and Tai annoyed. So I guess that's a typical talk between siblings. The digimon are all together talking and playing around, happy to be together again. I'm next to T.K who tells me everything about the fight with Machinedramon and Puppetmon. Everyone else is just as happy and relaxed, for the first time in a couple of days I really feel relaxed and safe.
"JOE!" Yolei's voice cut through the silence that descended for a moment. Joe doesn't even hesitate before getting up from where he'd sit and dashing towards Yolei's voice on the inside of Gennai's house.
Taichi:
"Stay here!" I exclaim, looking at Matt and Davis before dashing after Joe, Yolei's shout didn't sound good. I follow Joe into the back, to where Gennai's offices are and come upon a wrecked scene. The entire room had been trashed and Tentomon, Wormmon, Hawkmon and Armadillomon are all knocked out on the ground.
Ken is leaning against one of the bookcases, a rather nasty looking cut across his forehead.
"Yolei, it's not that pressing." Ken says in his usual quiet voice as Yolei is obviously distraught over his state. Joe goes right to him, pulling out his med kit as he kneels down. That under control I turn to Izzy.
"Izzy, what happened here?" I ask, and he looks up at me.
"Astamon Tai." Izzy replies, and I can feel how I freeze immediately, there's something in his voice that I'd never heard before, almost like fear. "He took them Tai."
"What?" I ask confused. "What did he take?"
"The tablet."
~Later~
Kari:
So Piedmon has the Tablet now." Tai starts off, looking around at all of us. I'm looking around as well, and to be honest things aren't looking too good for anyone. All of us had been through a lot over the last few weeks, and we'd been so close to victory, only to have it snatched away from us. It's very demoralizing for all of us.
Tai, Matt, Davis and T.K are the only ones who don't seem to have a look of despair on their faces.
"We need to figure out what we're going to do next." My brother says, looking our at all of us once more.
"What else is there to do?" Mimi asks, "Piedmon has the tablet, and that was our way to stop him."
"Well, that's not entirely true." Tai replies, looking over at Izzy. "The tablet were a map, not the item we're looking for."
"That's right!" Davis exclaims, also looking over towards Izzy.
"But we don't have the map anymore, do we?" Sora asks, looking over at Izzy too.
"Well, we might have it." Izzy replies. "We'd activated the Tablet before Astamon showed up, and it showed us some images."
"Ok then, it seems our map just change to Izzy!" Tai exclaims, a grin on his face.
"But Tai, we don't even know If the place I saw was the real place." Izzy says.
"Well Izzy, do you have another idea?" Tai asks, and I think I recognize the tone he has. It's his stubborn tone. He isn't going to just let us sit here and no nothing, not when we still have a chance. Izzy obviously recognizes the tone too because he just shakes his head, a grin on his face.
"So it looks like we have our next destination! By the way Izzy, where exactly is it that we're going?" I join the conversation.
"I'm sure that's going to shock the few of us who stayed but, it's File Island." Izzy replies and I see the surprise that's on everyone's faces, especially the older ones and Davis and Ken.
"File Island?" Matt asks, looking over at Izzy who nods. "Are you sure?"
"Matt, I've spent more than enough time on File Island to recognize it easily." Izzy replies and Matt nods.
"Ok, well I guess we better get going then," Tai says, looking around at all of us. "We've got a little bit of a trip ahead of us."
After that we grab some food and then head out of Gennai's home. Gennai watches us leave, wishing us luck since there's little else that he could do at this point. Once outside our partners digivolve to take us to the sea. Kabuterimon takes Joe, Davis and Izzy while Birdramon takes Mimi, Matt, Tai and Sora. Aquilamon carries Yolei, Ken and Cody while Pegasusmon carries T.K and me. After a really long flight we finally reach File Island we decide to setup our camp since it already is really late and dark on here. Within a few minutes Agumon managed to setup a fire. The night is clear and everything's quiet. I can see Infinity Mountain not far from here and am really relived that Piedmon isn't here already. We sit around the fire and Tai is the first one to speak out.
"Izzy do you know where exactly the Crystal is held?"
Izzy nods seriously and turns his glance to our leader. "Yes Tai, and it shocked me like it will shock you when I tell you." Tai's expressions turns to really confused and he frowns. "It's on Infinity Mountain." Tai's eyes widened and he obviously can't believe what he just heard. I look around just to see that Davis, Ken and Sora have the same expression on their faces, like their digimons too.
"Why do this shock every one of you?" I ask, really confused right now.
"Because, dear sister. We found the map on the same place." Tai replies much calmer than he looks like.
"That's kind of genius. To hide the map and the item where the map leads on the same place. But how come you didn't find the Crystal too?" T.K says.
"There's a secret passage that we didn't bother to notice when we first were there. In addition we were really in a hurry because our digimon fought against Devimon." Izzy explains to all of us and the confused expression from the others disappears.
"So it's settled. Right?" Matt asks, looking to Tai who just nods thoughtfully, his glance at Sora who doesn't bother to look up from the fire. Since there's nothing more to do we all turn to sleep. Tai takes the first watch. Within minutes everyone is asleep and I just want to look one more time to my brother just to make sure he's alright. I see him sitting on a cliff above our bivouac, looking over the place; Agumon is next to him, asleep. He looks fine to me, so I allow myself to fall asleep.
Sora:
It's so ridiculous! Why can't I just fall asleep?! Right, because Tai isn't next to me and I don't have somebody to snuggling on.
Realizing that I probably won't sleep this night I stand up and climb on the cliff where Tai is sitting next to a fire. He doesn't even notice me. The sight which I have from this cliff is amazing. The ocean extends on the horizon and the moon shines brightly. I sit next to Tai and look at him from the corner of my eye. I can see him smile, like he just waited for me to get up and come to him.
"Couldn't sleep without me holding you?" He speaks out with jokingly fleer in his voice.
"Yeah, I missed your snoring." I counter. That makes him laugh and he turns his glance to me and I'm finally able again to look in his beautiful face. The perfect, fully lips which kissed me just a few weeks ago everywhere I could imagine, his perfect nose (I'm serious, he really has a perfect one) and last, but not least, his amazing chocolate brown eyes with that he looks at me with a warm and welcoming expression on his face.
"I don't snore Sor" He says, still laughing.
"Why do you know that? Did you watch yourself while sleeping?" I say. He looks at me with an arrogant expression on his face.
"No, but every girl I slept with left my apartment with a grin on her face so I don't really think that they would look like that when I would snore, you know" I grins, I know that he's joking but I can't help but feel miserable. It really hurt when he said that. Of course, he had a few girls in the states. How could I think that he didn't do anything there?!
Tai obviously notices my expression and sits nearer to me, laying his hand on my thigh. The same hand that probably laid on a whole bunch of other thighs too. But I can't help it, it feels right. He caress my cheek with his other hand and forces me to look at him. Our foreheads touch when he leans forward to me.
"It didn't mean anything Sor" He whispers, and I believe him. I don't know why but I do. As a respond I wrap my arms around him and hug him tightly. After a while I turn my face to try to kiss him but he leans back. I look at him confused but he just turns his glance on the ground.
"Tai, it's just me.. what are you afraid of?" I ask him, because it really seems like he's actually afraid to kiss me. It isn't like it's the first time?! So what's wrong with him?
"It's nothing." He whispers and I can hear something in his voice that I really don't like.
"Nice try. And now the truth please?"
"I'm not afraid Sora. It's just.. Us." He finally turns his glance back to me. And I gasp. What is he trying to say?!
"It shouldn't have happen. That's it." He adds.
"So you're saying it wasn't special?" How can he say something like that?
"No, it wasn't supposed to be special. You know why I left? I had the choice to play soccer here in Japan but I chose the states. Do you know why? Because I was heartbroken Sor, but I had all that time to think and eventually I moved on. No one seemed to make a fuss about it when it was the other way around. Hell, no one even came to me and talked to me about it. I'm sorry for blowing on you like that. You're breakup with Matt isn't a long time ago. You're still regrouping and I'm confident that a few months from now, you would be back to your former self. It wouldn't be long till you would find someone who fits you better and you would move on with your life. I wouldn't be jealous and I wouldn't feel anything and in a couple of years I just would be another lost memory. Maybe you would remember years after and we'll talk again. Then you would blame me for not being here for you even though you don't need me at all. It wouldn't be long till you realize that and it wouldn't be long till everyone moves on with their lives. In the end I would be alone and it would be my own choice. But I made a mistake. I allowed myself to fall for you again Sor, I don't know what it is but I just can't stay away from you. You're like a drug to me. I probably would give up everything just to be with you. You're asking me what I'm afraid of. Okay I'll tell you. I don't want to stand alone again. I know now how it feels like to be with you, how it feels to kiss you and I don't want to lose that. I don't want to be the one who loves to much, because it hurts Sor. It really hurts, and I don't want to be hurt again."
I don't know what to say. I look at him and he's staring on the ocean, not looking at me because I'm sure he didn't plan to tell me everything. I had no idea that he felt so horrible. I really don't know what to say so I just stop thinking and chose by way of exception to actually listen to my heart.
"Out of all the stupid things I've ever heard you say Tai, and trust me, there's been a lot, and this might be the stupidest one yet. Just cause you think you're gonna end up alone doesn't mean you will. I won't let you! I don't regret what happened between us. No. I'm glad that it did, because it caused you to fall me again and trust me I couldn't be happier! And about Matt. I'm not regrouping! You know, Love and Friendship does sound really nice, but you know what Kamiya? Love and Courage sounds downright legendary. Just like how light and Hope sounds awesome. And I'm not out to find a rebound relationship, because honestly, I knew my old one ended long ago. I was just stupid enough to think, I could make it work. You know why I realized it was ending? Because I finally noticed that he wasn't you. I realized his smile doesn't make me all warm like yours does. I realized that he was boyfriend material, but definitely not love-you-for-the-rest-of-my-life material like you are. I'm staying Tai, by your side; because that's the only place I want to be. And if I can't have you, I don't want anyone!
Taichi:
I can't believe what she just said. I'm truly shocked and can't help it but feel happier than I ever felt before. I just can't resist and make her say it. I just want to be sure with that.
"Okay... Matt wasn't ´love-you-for-the-rest-of-my-life material like me?"
Sora's eyes widened. "Uh, when did I say something like that?"
I really have to put myself together to resist bursting into laughter.
"Oh, just about at the end of your rant." Sora doesn't respond, she blushes uncontrollably. "What's wrong Sor,? Seems your confidence from earlier is starting to fade."
She turns her gaze towards me. She lets out a huff and continues to speak.
"Yeah, I did say that. I love you, and if you weren't so ignorant and stubborn you would've know by now."
THANK YOU GOD! But just a little more..
"I'm sorry, what?" I reply, trying to look confused.
"I..." She gulps, but she knows she has to continue with her confidence. "I said I love you."
"I must be hearing things. Can you say that again, just to clarify?" I say teasingly.
"I said I love you Taichi Kamiya! Did you hear that?" She shouts in my ear.
"Yeah, I heard you the first time Sor you don't have to keep repeating it y'know." I smile at her and burst out into laughter. The expression on her face is just priceless. But I know that she's not in the mood for jokes. So I pull myself together and just spill it out.
"You know what it was what helped me to get through that wall in Datamons pyramid Sora?" I ask her and she looks finally at me and just shakes her head.
"It wasn't courage..." I slid her hair to the side of her ears. "It was love, Sor." I smile at her.
"I love you." A single tear rolls down her face as I said this. "I love you too" She embraces me like she's not going to let go ever again. "IT took you this long to admit that?"
I rest my head on hers and close my eyes. "I was too scared to."
She giggles quietly at my shoulder. "Don't you dare to leave me ever again Tai"
"There's no way I could ever do that." I reply and finally she leans in and I'm not backing up like I did a couple of minutes ago. I lean in too and just about when our lips should met..-
"NIGHTMARE SHOCKER!" We jump on our feet and Agumon woke up right when the voice turned out.
"Guys wake up!" I shout when we approach the bivouac. Everyone is on their feet just to face Astamon. I can't help but feel the fear approach me when I look at him. In a couple of seconds our digimon are on their highest level and ready to kick his butt. I don't even have time to look on my left or the right because the next attack of Astamon causes me and everyone else flying all over the place. I can't concentrate enough to notice what's going on. The dizziness in my head is just too much. I probably hit the ground pretty hard. I look around just to see the digimons fighting with all they have against Astamon, but Astamon doesn't even look like he's in trouble. He fights against our digimon like they're little dolls. One after another dedigivolves back to their In-Training state. I turn to see all of my friends in the same state as me. I can't help it anymore and just give in to the dizziness..
~In the morning~
"Tai, wake up!" I feel somebody shaking me and I open my eyes. First I don't know where I am, when suddenly the memories come back and I sit up immediately to look at a concerned Matt.
"What happened? Is everyone alright?" I ask him. I notice that everyone's gathering around me and Sora takes my hand, her glance to the ground. I don't know what they are so concerned about. I look down at me and there's absolutely nothing wrong with me so I turn my glance to Izzy.
"Tai, it's about Kari." Joe says slowly and I turn my glance to T.K who's sitting on the ground, staring on his hands in his lab. Suddenly I feel really frightened. My sister, my baby sister. What happened with her?
I turn to look at Sora.
"Sor, what is it? Where is she?" I ask her.
"He took her Tai." She replies and takes my hand in hers.
"What? What are you talking about?"
Matt takes my head in his hands and forces me to look straight in his marine blue eyes.
"Astamon took her Tai."
And with that, my world falls apart.
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