My first few days in Shinjuku were relatively uneventful after that. I had mostly been keeping to myself, feeling too down about my empty digivice. I had occurred to me not too long after arriving here that it should at least have my digi armor on it, but even that appeared to be gone, but I also had no clue how it was supposed to work.
Today I had decided to go to the park alone - Takato was helping his parents out at the bakery – and I was taking time to think things through. So far this place had been weird. I mean, I could understand Takato having a Digimon, it's not like I had never seen them on Earth, but I hadn't seen him go to the Digital World. I didn't want to jump to conclusions, maybe there just a lull right now or something, there had been times like that for us those years ago, but I still found it disconcerting.
There was also the whole thing about how Digimon appeared to be a card game here, an idea that puzzled me to at all times. I wasn't sure how that was possible, maybe someone from Odaiba had come up with it after all those events with Miotismon and stuff.
"Are you going to play?!" I started a bit and looked down. There was little Calumon, looking up at me. That was another thing, this little ball of joy had been following me around since I had met him. I had asked Takato who his partner, or tamer as he was determined to call it, though I didn't know why, and apparently he didn't have one.
"Um, no, not today, I was just thinking that I'd hang out alone." I replied, scratching the back of my head. Calumon's ears retracted into his head, making him look smaller.
"Oh… I'll be alone with you!" He exclaimed and they came right back out as he hopped onto the bench, I emitted a sigh from my mouth.
"Yeah, okay." Calumon hopped onto my lap and leaned his head against my chest. A smile wormed its way onto my face. "Hey, Calumon?"
"Yeah?" He said, looking up at with those huge eyes of his.
"Why do you like me so much?" According to Takato, Calumon pretty much went the wind blows, so it was weird that he'd hang around me so much.
"You feel a lot like me!" He exclaimed, and then tilted his head. "Well, more like you used to or something, I'm not quite sure, like when there's an echoey thing in a big tunnel and you can kinda hear something even though it's not there anymore." He stood up on my lap and placed his hands on my chest. "Like right here." He said, and I looked at him in surprise.
I wasn't really sure what he meant like that, but it was pretty deep for the little guy. Plus it was pretty hard to take him serious with his little hands and huge ears and big eyes. I couldn't help but to place a hand on his soft head.
"Heh, thanks, I guess." He gave me a smile before his ears perked up and he looked around.
"What is it?" I asked, looking around as well. Fog was appearing in the park, which was strange since it had been a pretty sunny day and it was around noon. "What the heck is happening?"
"Sir, we have another wild one." Riley said into her comms as she started to tap away on her colorful keyboard, her partner working back to back with her. "It appears to be attempting to bio-emerge."
"Well stop it." Yamaki's voice was rough, and for perhaps the millionth time Riley thought about how different he sounded.
"Sir, it's too far into the process, I don't think we can."
"Well try anyway." The command was harshly barked and the used to be pacifist rolled her eyes as she followed through with the command. The anomaly was already halfway through bio-emerging, by the time that they started to attack it, it would be long gone. She hoped those kids could handle it. She knew Yamaki had a dislike for them, but he had his reasons, and her reasons for hating should be the same, but the loss had never hit her the same way it had hit him…
"Holy cow, is that an Ogremon?" I exclaimed as said green figure stepped out of the fog. The way it was glaring at me made it easy to tell that there was no chance it was the nice one I had met on my first trip to the digital world, Leomon's old nemesis. Calumon's ears were small once again and he climbed up onto the top of my hat, holding on for dear life as I stood up to face the monster.
"He doesn't look happy." Calumon said, and I could feel him trembling.
"Terriermon, go for it!" An unfamiliar voice cried, and though it was the vocal chords of a stranger, I felt Calumon relax slightly, and could only assume that it was a friend, or at least not an enemy. My Digivice beeped like it had when I had first met Guilmon, but I didn't want to pull it out, I hadn't even told Takato I had one, there was no way I was going to let the stranger hidden in the fog know.
"Bunny Blast!" A voice cried and a green ball of energy hit the Digimon, causing it to change the direction it was facing. A Terriermon appeared in front of it, reminding me of the one I had met one on my trip to New York with Kari, and then that had all been blown into this entire showdown with Cocomon and Willis and everything.
I watched as the Terriemon flitted around the Ogremon, landing attacks and being too fast and small for it to land any of its own. Before I knew it Terriermon was just blasting it in its face before it collapsed and turned into bits of data, the strange fog lifting at the same time.
"Great job, Terriermon!" I could now see the Digimon's partner. He was about the same age as myself with navy blue hair much like Jo's, a bright orange vest sticking out along with a bandage he had wrapped around one of his arms.
"That was too easy, Henry!" The Terriermon exclaimed and Calumon jumped off of my head.
"That looked like fun!" He said as he went over to Terriermon, who just about the right size for him to jump on, which he did.
"Hey Calumon, what're you up to?" The boy, Henry asked, getting down on his haunches so that he was closer to the small Digimon's level.
"I was playing with TK!" Henry then looked up and made eye contact with me, very awkward eye contact on my part, and I of course lost by breaking it, deciding instead to momentarily turn my attention to Calumon and Terriermon. When I looked back up he was walking towards me.
"So, you know Calumon?" He asked, glancing behind him for a second to look at the purple and white ball of joy.
"Um, yeah, we met a few days ago." I looked down and saw a hand sticking out. I paused for only a brief second before taking it.
"I'm Henry, and you are?" He asked.
"Oh, I'm Takeru, but everyone calls me TK." His eyes lit up with recognition.
"TK, right, you're the one that's staying with Takato, right?" I blinked for a second before replying.
"Yeah, you know Takato?" He nodded.
"We hang out a lot, partially because he's a pretty nice guy and partially because Guilmon and Terriermon get along so well." Ah, so he knew about Guilmon too, well, of course he did, but my thinking process had not been at its best since I had gotten here, there was just so much to take in.
The rest of my day was spent mostly chilling out with Henry, Terriermon, and Calumon, which was a big step up from sulking. I decided to stay away from asking why a Digimon had randomly appeared out of nowhere; since I was a supposedly amnesic I didn't want anyone to get suspicious. Henry turned out to be really nice, and Terriermon was a huge goofball.
Although there was something about Henry, maybe it was the way he talked, or that way he walked, or something else, but there was definitely something that reminded me of someone. I couldn't quite put my finger on who, but it was there all the same.
Okay, well, that wraps up this chapter! I decided to do something on my own, that was not part of an episode, so I hope you guys like it. BTW, when do you guys think the Digimon Tamers movie happened (NOT the trailmon one, the other one) it's very relevant. Thanks for reading, see ya later ;)
~the-east-hunter
