"Start the Quest"
Here is the next chapter. Please enjoy and review!
Later that night after they had eaten, Dai went off to the attic where the Oracle was waiting on her to hear all about the quest while Koichi, Koji, Matt, TK and Takuya waited for her downstairs.
Slowly creeping through the old room, she looked around carefully as she finally spotted the old woman who was mummified as she wore tattered robes and sat in a rocking chair.
"So you're this Oracle, huh? All right, tell me the prophecy, but if ya tell me someone's about to die or anything else bad, I'll show ya how bad my attitude is. Worse than Ares." Dai said.
Blue mist came out of the mummy's mouth as it slowly opened and flowed around the room, transforming into Ken, Tai and Willis which surprised her, but she frowned instead as she looked the three males over.
"Would you wish for us to rhyme?" Ken asked in an old, raspy female voice.
"This is something I do to heroes all the time." Tai said in that voice.
"I hate rhyming. Just give me the prophecy like a normal person." Dai said with her arms crossed.
"Always brave in the face of danger." Tai said.
"But how will you manage when you meet some strangers?" Willis asked.
"I'm getting annoyed. Cut the rhymes." Dai growled.
"On your quest you will be faced with matters of the heart." Ken said.
"There will be one male who will feel like his world is falling apart." Willis said.
"You want me to hit you. That's why you're doing this." Dai stated.
"Princess of Thieves, set out and help your farther with this mess. I'm sure you'll do your best." Tai smirked.
"But beware of what could be at stake. In your path lies one who loves snakes." Ken gave that Digimon Emperor grin.
"This is what you await. Now go forth and meet your fate." Willis said as he pointed to the door.
The three males turned into mist and then went into the Oracle's mouth, which closed to symbolize the old woman going to sleep until the next hero comes to her.
"What does any of that mean?!" Dai asked.
Growling in frustration, she turned on her heel and stomped down the stairs, muttering and cursing the Oracle on the prophecy.
With the males, they were just standing there awkwardly since they had no idea what to talk about since Dai was the one thing that connected them.
Finally, Matt cleared his throat.
"So, what do you think's happening up there?" he asked.
"Not a clue." Koji said as he shoved his hands into his pockets.
The air had become awkward yet again as someone tried to figure out what to do or say.
There were some thudding footsteps that made them look over in relief to see the girl coming down the stairs to see them, muttering things as she went.
"Stupid old hag with her stupid rhymes that make no sense and couldn't gather up the nerve to tell it to me herself. No, she has to make illusions of my friends to do it." she ranted.
"I take it nothing good happened." TK said.
"What was your first guess?" Koji scoffed.
"What happened up there?" Matt asked Dai when she was standing in front of them.
Giving another growl, she brushed her hair out of her face.
"She told me this stupid, really bad rhyme about me being brave in the face of danger, but was curious if I would be the same when facing a stranger. Then she's talking about some guy dealing with heartbreak or whatever on this journey and something about a snake lover. I mean, what the heck is that about?" Dai nearly yelled in frustration.
Matt and Koji were giving their brothers wary looks as they realized that one of them will be getting their heart broken on this quest and it will hurt them badly, though Dai might suffer more to know that she was the cause of their emotional pain.
This was going to be a very ugly event.
"OK, that is messed up. I'm a bit worried about the snake lover part. Who loves snakes? They're evil." Takuya said.
"Takuya, you do realize that a snake is the symbol of Hermes. There are two snakes on his Caduceus." Koichi pointed out.
"Snakes are still freaky." Takuya said stubbornly.
"No kidding. And she called me the Princess of Thieves. Can you believe that? I've never stolen a thing in my life!" Dai complained.
Takuya, Koji and Matt deadpanned at that as they looked over at the son of Ares and son of Apollo who were both victims of having their hearts stolen from them by the fiery girl.
"Uh huh." The trio nodded, though they didn't sound like they believed it.
"Why don't we all hurry back to the cabins to get some sleep now? We have a big day tomorrow and who knows how long it will take us." Koichi suggested.
"Right, come on." Takuya said.
They all separated and started going off to their own cabins to rest up after they packed their essentials, Takuya and Dai getting into their cabin to see all of the others were sleeping peacefully.
Smiling at them, the two walked over to the bunk they shared and changed into their pajamas and then crawled into their bed, quickly falling asleep as they awaited what could be happening to them in the morning.
(The next day…)
As soon as morning came, the group of six showered, ate breakfast and then went over to see Chiron with their bags packed and ready to set out.
With Chiron was Percy who was holding a map and smiled at the group as they all walked over.
"Hey guys, ready for your first quest?" the son of Poseidon asked.
"As ready as we'll ever be." TK said.
"Calm yourself. I'm sure things will be fine. Just work together, look out for each other no matter what. Quests normally test the power of the team and their different beliefs. Don't let that effect you." Chiron chided.
The six nodded at this while Percy handed the map over to Dai, who opened it up to see it was a map of America.
"What is this?" Koichi asked as he and TK flanked her.
"This map will show you where you need to go next. It'll guide you to where you need to be. I had this too when me, Grover and Annabeth went after the pearls to bring us back from Hades and we found Zeus' Master Bolt. Good luck guys." Percy said.
The group nodded and then turned around to go off to the gates to leave camp, meeting Argus and then hopped into the cab, Takuya pulled his sister onto his lap in the back seat while TK was on Matt's lap with Koji in the middle and Koichi in the passenger seat.
"Where do you need to go?" Argus asked.
Dai carefully opened up the map again and looked to where a section glowed gold and revealed a place that surprised her.
"Colorado?" she asked.
"Huh? I wonder why we would need to go there." TK said.
"Bright side, we get to see Willis and Terriermon again. Hey, maybe we can even get our digimon from the gate he has and bring them along with us." Dai suggested.
"Sounds like a plan. We could use some extra help." Matt said.
"All right, I finally get to see this V-Mon I've heard so much about." Takuya smiled.
"Colorado, huh? All right, I'll bring you there soon enough. Hang on tight." Argus said.
When the speed was picked up, everyone but Matt and Dai yelled as the car took off, either clinging to the seats or someone else that was around them.
Thanks to their digimon, the two children of Friendship were used to that type of speed and enjoyed it.
It was only an hour later that they wound up in Colorado, near a very familiar summer house that made Dai smile at the memories she had from her time here.
"Thanks for the lift, Argus." Koichi said.
"Of course, but after this, you six are on your own." The monster said.
They all nodded as they got outside and then went over to the house as a blonde American boy walked out, looking off to the group in confusion and then smiled.
"Dai, you're here!" Willis exclaimed happily.
"Willis, hey!" Dai called as she waved to him.
Laughing, he ran over as she also ran, the blonde picking the mahogany haired girl up and spun her around looking very much like a couple from out of a romance movie being reunited.
Takuya's eye twitched at this since his protective streak grew for his only sister while TK was bubbling over in jealousy and Koichi frowned a bit, but knew he had no right to cause a scene since she wasn't his girlfriend.
"I think we might be the only sane ones here." Koji said to Matt.
"Tell me about it." the oldest male sighed.
After setting her down, Willis looked over the group curiously since he only knew TK while the others were strangers to him.
"Hey there, who're you guys?" Willis asked.
"Oh, Willis, you know TK, but this is his brother Matt, the twins Koji and Koichi and my brother Takuya." Dai said as she pointed to each male.
"Wow, aren't I lucky." Willis smiled.
"Why are you guys all here?" he asked.
"We need to use your Digi Gate to get our digimon and then after that we need to leave because we have some work to do." TK said.
"Oh, is that it? well, all right. Follow me and I'll get the gate opened up." Willis said.
He then led the group inside to see that Terriermon was at the table feeding a small brown digimon, the two looking up when they heard footsteps.
"Who was there, Willis?" Terriermon asked.
"Some old friends." The child of Faith said.
Spotting the mahogany haired girl, Terriermon smiled brightly as he jumped over and cuddled up into Dai's arms making her laugh.
"Dai, it's been a while! Where's V-Mon?" he asked.
"He's in the Digital World now, but Willis is about to open up the gate so we can get him." She explained.
The little brown digimon went over to Koichi and pulled on his pant leg making him look down at the digimon and he smiled at it as he bent down and picked it up.
"Aw, who's this cute little guy?" he asked.
"That's Kokomon, he's Terriermon's twin brother." Willis said as he brought his laptop over to the table.
"Twin? He doesn't look at thing like him." Koji stated as he looked the two digimon over.
TK and Dai then both pulled out their D-3s and held them out to the screen, everyone watching as three different digimon came flying out, Terriermon moving to Dai's head as she caught her dragon.
"V-Mon, I missed you!" she said.
"Dai, it's been a while. I really missed you too." He said as he hugged her back.
"Patamon, how are you?" TK asked as he hugged the hamster bat to his cheek.
"I'm great, but you're kind of crushing my ribs, TK." He said.
"Gabumon, I hope everything was OK." Matt said as his partner hugged him around the waist and he pet the lizard/canine's head.
"Of course it was, Matt. I'm just glad to see you. We never really talk much anymore." He said.
"So this is V-Mon. nice to finally meet cha, buddy." Takuya said as he looked over the dragon who looked at him.
"Hey, you must be Takuya. Dai told me all about you and the twins. Nice to meet you all." V-Mon smiled.
"OK, how is it you two got these guys but blondie here got the shrimp?" Koji said.
"Hey, I'm not a shrimp." Patamon pouted.
"I'm sorry; he didn't mean anything bad by it. We've just never seen digimon before today and from what Dai told us about your adventures, we thought you'd all be bigger or more intimidating." Koichi said trying to mend things before they were broken.
"Trust me, we all can get bigger than what we originally look like now. We used to be smaller than this even." Gabumon explained.
Willis chuckled as he watched Terriermon and Kokomon tackled V-Mon down, the three all rolling around on the ground as they playfully wrestled each other.
"Are you sure you guys can't stay? It'd be good for Kokomon and Terriermon to have their friends around." He said.
"I guess we can stay for a little while, but then we need to leave. We have something important to do." Dai said.
"And it's not like we have a time limit." Matt said.
And so they stayed for a while, talking and eating as they got to know each other better when suddenly the digimon all tensed up, Lopmon and Terriermon raising their ears.
"What's wrong?" Willis asked.
"My ears for one thing." Terriermon said.
"Something dangerous is approaching us." Gabumon said.
"Stay here." TK said as he ran out.
"TK, wait for me!" Patamon cried as he flew after him.
Running out of the house, TK gasped as he saw the large Minotaur that was charging at the house and when he saw that it was missing a horn, he knew it was the very same one that he, Matt and Dai took on a year ago.
"These thinsg really don't stay dead. Patamon, let's get him." He said.
"Right." Patamon chirped.
"DIGI ARMOUR ENERGIZE!"
"Patamon armour digivolve to…Pegasusmon: Flying Hope!"
Mounting the golden horse, TK held his bow and arrow as Pegasusmon flew off at the Minotaur, shooting a round of arrows at the beast making it cry out in anger.
"That thing is vicious." Pegasusmon said.
"No kidding." TK said.
Dai then ran out with V-Mon and gasped as she recognized the beast and saw that TK was having trouble with killing it.
"Let's help them out." She said.
"You got it." V-Mon smiled.
"DIGI ARMOUR ENERGIZE!"
"V-Mon armour digivolve to…Raidramon: the Storm of Friendship!"
Matt, Gabumon, Koji and Koichi ran out next and watched as Dai hopped onto the back of her dragon and he took off for the Minotaur, her sword held in her hand ready to strike.
As TK and Pegasusmon distracted it, Raidramon tackled the beast to the ground and then Dai jumped off, doing a flip in the air as she then landed and brought her sword down on the Minotaur's head and sliced it off.
It burst into golden dust and then faded away making everyone sigh in relief.
"That was easy." Takuya said.
"Yeah, but we need to move. The monsters will follow our scent here and will attack again." Koji said.
"Guess we're leaving." Matt said.
Once they said their goodbyes to the trio of Faith, the Demigods took off on the digimon, Koji and TK on Pegasusmon while Matt and Koichi were on Garurumon and then it was Dai and Takuya on Raidramon.
"Where to next?" Garurumon asked.
Dai opened up the map and looked at it as it showed off a small shop that was in Arizona.
"Em's Rare Finds in Arizona. It shouldn't be too hard to find." She said.
"How long until we get there?" Takuya asked.
"Just hang on." Raidramon said.
The three digimon then picked up the pace making their riders hang on as they sped off.
To be continued…