"Princess Karaoke"
Here is the next chapter. I hope you guys like it. Please enjoy and review!
So here's what happened…
I got my Crest and I'm super excited about it.
Miracles.
Who would have thought I'd get such a sweet Crest?
Well, V-Mon and I are on our own now and have been for a while.
Why?
Well, ya see…
"Daisuke, I want you and V-Mon to go off on your own." Sora said.
V-Mon and I looked at her in surprise, not believing she had just said that to us.
"What? But…" I said.
"Dai." Sora interrupted me and she got down to her knees to look me in the eyes and placed her hands on my shoulders.
"Biyomon and I need to go on by ourselves now. But don't worry, you're strong, Dai. You always have been." She said smiling.
"We're not splitting up now, though. We'll still be with you. That is, until we find one of the others and you can go join them." Biyomon said.
"If you're sure." V-Mon said.
Sora pulled me into her chest and we hugged while our partners clasped hands.
I really didn't think this was a good idea, but she looked very determined to do this on her own, meaning she was planning to do something very dangerous and wouldn't forgive herself if I was caught up in the middle of it.
"They should be close by now." I said as I followed the signal my digivice was giving me.
Sora, Biyomon, V-Mon and I had separated a few weeks ago when I first got the signal of one of the others, but now it's split up into two signals, then four and now two again.
Just what the heck is up with that?
V-Mon looked over the area, hopping from tree to tree to search for whoever it was from above.
"Agh, what is up with this?" I groaned as the signal turned into three.
"Dai, I see a castle up ahead." V-Mon called down to me.
"No way. Really?" I asked.
"Come on!" he called jumping down and we both started running to where he saw it.
The closer we got to the castle, the stronger the signal became.
That must mean some of the others are here.
When we got to the palace, my mouth dropped at the sight of huge palace that looked Japanese styled and sat up on a cliff side looking over a beach.
"Hey, look over there!" V-Mon said pointing to a swan shaped paddle boat.
"Let's go in and see who's here." I said as we started climbing.
When we got to the doors, we pushed them open and saw all of these blue tadpoles and green frogs with tubas wrapped around their necks running around.
"Who are these guys?" I asked.
"Those guys are Gekomon." My dragon said pointing to the frogs.
"And those guys are Otamamon." He said pointing to the tadpoles.
"Excuse me?" I called out to them, making them stop and turn to us.
"Are you the ones delivering the pashminas?" a Gekomon asked.
"No, we're looking for our friends. Have you seen any other humans?" I asked them.
"Humans? Yes, there are two boys and our princess." An Otamamon said.
"Princess?" V-Mon asked.
"Can we see them? Please?" I asked.
"Should we?" Gekomon2 asked.
"I don't know." Gekomon1 said.
What on earth is going on here?" a voice asked making us look over.
Coming down the grand staircase was Mimi and Palmon, both dressed in pink princess dresses.
"Mimi!" I said happily.
"And Palmon." V-Mon smiled.
"Oh? Daisuke, you're here." Mimi said as she came down the stairs.
We ran over to the duo of Sincerity and hugged them.
"I'm so happy to see you. What are you two doing here?" I asked.
"Oh, we were lost looking for Tai, Agumon, Sora, Biyomon and you guys. Then we came to this place." Palmon explained.
"The Gekomon and Otamamon let us stay here and become their princesses." Mimi said with a wave of her fancy pink fur lined fan.
"Really? Why though?" V–Mon asked.
Good question.
"Enough of that. Come with me, I have a surprise." The pink loving girl said as she led us somewhere.
Palmon went off to go take care of something along the way.
She kept walking until we came to a dinner room that had a table filled with all sorts of food, V-Mon and I both gasped at the assortment of it all.
"This is the surprise?" I asked not noticing that there were people sitting in the chairs around the table.
"Daisuke?" I heard a familiar voice ask.
I froze and turned to see my brother get up from his chair and tears of happiness filled them.
"TAI!" I yelled running over to him and jumped into his arms.
He laughed as he hugged me.
"Hey. Where did you two come from?" another voice said.
I looked over and saw Joe was here too with Gomamon and Agumon, V-Mon running over to them.
We all then went to Mimi's room to talk and I was starting to see a bit of a change in them.
"Well, the important thing here is that you're all right." Joe said.
"Yeah, I'll say. Well, come on. Let's get a move on." Tai said to Mimi.
"No way!" she said.
"Right. You wanna change first. We'll wait." Joe said.
"For what? I'm keeping this dress on." Mimi said.
"And it's beautiful, but it's not the best thing to walk long distances." Agumon said.
"Walking? I have no intention of walking anywhere." She said.
"Are you expecting us to carry you out of here, Your Majesty?" Joe asked sarcastically and I started getting a bad feeling at the annoyed look she had.
"No, I'm not going." She said.
"Huh?" we all asked.
"Why would I leave? I am a princess here. Besides, who knows if we'll ever find our way home, so I might as well live large and in charge." Mimi said.
"You've got to be kidding." Joe said.
"No. take a look around, I've got a nice bed, pretty clothes, food. It's like having a birthday every day. I am a princess. And you want me to give this up? I don't think so." Mimi said as if we were all stupid and couldn't see this all for ourselves.
"Is there something wrong?" Palmon's voice came.
"Another servant?" Agumon asked.
"No, it's Palmon." Gomamon said as we all turned to the door.
"Finally, a voice of reason. Palmon come talk some sense into Mimi." Joe said.
I think he's going to be very surprised when he sees her.
"As in princess?" Palmon asked as she came in dressed in her pink and white dress.
The duos of Courage and Reliability all fell to the floor in shock as Mimi grinned smugly.
"Oh no! Not you too!" Joe said as he got up in the plant/lizard's face.
"OK, that's enough. This is no time for playing games. Both of you change out of those dumb clothes and let's get out of here." Tai said making me and V-Mon share a worried look.
Why are boys so stupid?
You do not insult a girl's taste in fashion unless you have a death wish.
Even I would punch out the guy who said something bad about my clothes.
"I am not playing a game, Tai! I'm staying! You can go anytime. Why don't you guys go look for the others? Be gone from my palace!" Mimi yelled at us making us all give her a shocked look.
This isn't good.
She's supposed to be the child of Sincerity, but now she's becoming selfish and mean.
"Wait, Mimi. Don't be mean. They're our friends." Palmon said.
"If you wanna go, be my guest!" Mimi yelled at her.
V-Mon glared at that as he shifted his body in front of Palmon protectively when he saw her upset look.
"You are comin' with us!" Tai yelled getting annoyed.
"Get down off that high horse of yours and shift that rear into high gear." He said.
"Yeah, come on. Why do you think we almost killed ourselves trying to find you? Because you are part of the team." Joe said trying to reason with her.
Didn't work since she turned away from us with her arms crossed, nose turned up to the air.
"That's very nice, but I am not going." She said.
"That's it! Mimi, like it or not, Joe's right. We've gotta stick together, so I'm not budging from this spot until you come to your senses and leave with us." Tai said as he sat down cross legged.
"Yeah." Agumon said doing the same.
"Right." Gomamon did the same.
The selfish princess turned to look at us with a cold look.
"Really? You all keep forgetting who's in charge around here." Mimi sneered as she picked up a bell and rang it.
In a millisecond, a swarm of Gekomon were there.
"Your Highness, what is it that you desire?" one of them asked.
"I desire these rude and bothersome peasants to be removed from my bedroom at once." She ordered.
"Yes princess!" Gekomon1 said as they all came after us, grabbing our arms.
"Hey, let go!" Joe cried.
"Quit pushing!" Agumon yelped.
"Get your grubby hands off of me!" Tai yelled.
"Put me down!" I cried.
"Get your hands offa my human!" V-Mon yelled.
The Gekomon all carried us to the outside of the palace and lowered a draw bridge.
"I won't dissect you frogs in biology, OK." Tai yelled as we were thrown down onto the bridge, me landing on my brother's back and he yelped at it before he grunted in pain after I got up.
"If that's the way you treat your guests, we're never coming back." Gomamon said as the boys got up on their feet.
"Now what are we gonna do? She's totally into this digi-fairy tale." Joe said.
"I wonder what she could've done to get them to wait on her hand and foot like this." Tai said.
"You really wanna know?" Gekomon1 asked making us all look at him in surprise.
"Uh, sure." Tai said at the three depressed Gekomon and two depressed Otamamon.
"You're not taking us to an evil digimon are you?" Joe asked nervously as we all followed the frogs and tadpoles to what looked like a royal warehouse.
"Uh uh." Gekomon2 said.
"What if Mimi catches us?" Tai asked.
"Then we're lucky I can fly." V-Mon said making me smile at him.
"She won't." Gekomon3 assured.
"Here's our master, Lord Shogunmon." Gekomon1 said.
In front of us was a stage that had dozens of different stage lights and there was this huuuuuggggge red and yellow frog with his back to us and had two horn on his shoulders with a green color made of leaves around his neck and he had a long red hair thing with purple at the ends.
"Whoa, somebody's had a few too many donuts!" the child of Courage gasped.
"Is it a statue or what?" Joe asked.
"No, it's not a statue. He's very much alive." Gekomon2 said.
"Huh?" we asked.
"He may be alive, but he's not lively, is he?" Agumon said.
"He's sleeping." Otamamon1 said.
"He's been this way for over three hundred years. You see, Lord Shogunmon was proud of his voice and entering contests, but he lost. He felt so bad that he fell into a deep sleep, from which he never recovered. It's said only a voice as beautiful as the one that beat him can wake him. For centuries we tried, but every song's failed." Gekomon1 said.
"We Gekomon love music, but unfortunately, none of us has a voice that would be considered beautiful." Gekomon3 said.
"Then we got a break. Strange little digimon spoke of a girl with a pretty voice. He told us where to find her and we did." Otamamon1 explained.
Last time we heard Mimi sing, she was pretty bad, but maybe she was messing with us last time.
So, anyway, they told us that when she sang, they saw Shogunmon close to waking up, but then she had forgotten the words, so they gave her food and stuff to help her remember.
They, she stopped to say they needed lights, a disco ball, costumes, make-up and it could go on.
"And that's the way it's been. One excuse after another." Otamamon2 said.
"We've done all she's wanted. We even redecorated the entire palace for her. I used to like pink, but now I can't stand to look at it." Gekomon2 said.
"I feel for you, dude." I said.
"And when one of us complains to her, 'Whoa, be careful. You wouldn't want me to lose my voice now, would ya?' she would say." Otamamon2 said with tears.
"We're in a terrible position, you see? We're totally helpless." Otatamon1 cried.
"Unfortunately, you've given Mimi the life she's been accustomed to and then some." Joe said.
"What, are you crazy? She's worse!" I said.
"Well, since you're friends of her's…" Gekomon2 trailed off.
"Could you reason with her please? We'd be so eternally grateful." Otamamon1 begged.
"I don't think she knows what 'reason' is." Agumon said.
"Just leave it to me, guys. I've got it." Tai said making us turn to him, wondering what he had come up with.
"I knew it! I knew you'd come through!" Gekomon1 said hopefully.
"Yay!" the Otamamon cheered.
"What are you thinking, Tai?" he child of Reliability asked.
Something stupid, I bet cha.
"Who says you need Mimi to wake up jumbo?" Tai asked as he grabbed a mike.
"Crank it up and let me take a shot!" he said.
See?
"You?!" we asked and then all laughed in disbelief, even though I knew he was dead serious.
"What cha laughing at?" he asked.
Daisuke: OK, this is a warning to anyone who loves hearing.
Please cover your ears so there is no damage done.
If you don't do this, then don't sue for not reading the warning.
The music was started and the disco ball was spinning as my brother was up on stage, bobbing to the beat.
"I'm gonna sing a song
A song that will wake you up
I'm belt it out
Shogunmon I's time to get UUUUPPP!" he sang as we held our ears.
"Hey, wake up!" Tai said to the big guy as Joe walked onto the stage.
"Hey, let me give it a shot." He said taking the mike as Tai came down to stand next to us.
"I'm attempting to sing a song
A song that will awaken you
And aid all of the Gekomon
That are loyal to your world view
And of you being in charge." He sang as we all shook our heads 'no' at it.
"I'm attempting to sing a song
A song that will awaken you and aid all of the Gekomon…" He continued on before Gomamon and Agumon went up to try.
"I bring this song to you
A tune right now until Juuuune
When you hear us sing
You'll call us singing bafoooons
We just wanna wake ya so don't close your eaaaaars."
I found that ironic since we all covered our ears as they sang.
Not a pretty sound.
When they saw it wasn't working, they gave up as the music stopped and the lights went off.
"It's no use." Joe sighed.
"After that, he might not wake up for another 300 years." Tai said.
"I wouldn't." V-Mon said.
"No kidding." I sighed.
"Hey guys." Someone said making us look over to see the sane half of the duo of Sincerity.
"Palmon." Tai said.
"Why did you all disappear like that? It was like you weren't even happy to see us." She said making me look at her like she was insane.
Excuse me?!
We were THROWN out!
Literally.
"What are you talking about? In case you hadn't noticed, Mimi's gone nuts." Agumon said.
"Yeah? Hmm. Hmm. Now that I think of it, she has kind of gone off the deep end. Even for her." Palmon said making us all sigh and slouch over at that.
"Oh, well, you noticed?" Tai asked sarcastically.
"You're so observant." Gomamon quipped weakly.
She just giggled and placed a hand on her head shyly.
She then came up with a plan that involved us tricking Mimi into singing.
The boys and I were sitting out on the balcony of Mimi's room with a tape recorder that was hooked up to a karaoke machine in her room.
"So she'll be performing and won't even know it." Joe said after the plan was explained.
"Yeah and we'll get the whole thing on tape." Tai smiled with earphones on.
"Watch it!" Gomamon gasped when he saw her opening the door to the room, so we ducked down us Tai turned on the machine.
"What's this?" Mimi asked as she walked into the room.
"It's a karaoke set." Palmon said.
"Yes, I can see that. But what's it doing in my royal chambers?" Mimi asked.
"I just love hearing you sing. I thought you might give us a private concert. Here." Palmon laughed nervously.
"Thanks, you're the greatest." Palmon said meaning the girl took the mike and the music started.
"Now, feel the music."
"Tai, is she falling for it?" Joe asked.
"Mm-hmm." My brother hummed with a smirk.
"Huh? What's that cord for?" Mimi asked making me freeze.
Oh, we're dead.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHH!" she screamed into the mike, the loud sound shocking everyone so badly that we screamed too, Tai's the loudest though since he was wearing the earphones.
She called the Gekomon and had us all thrown in jail, the bars clanging behind us.
Even Palmon was in here with us, stripped of that dress.
"So, you though you could pull a fast one on Princess Mimi, did you?" Mimi taunted as she stood in front of our cell.
"That's 'Princess Meany'!" Tai snipped.
"Yeah." Agumon said.
"Who do you think you are, anyway? Don't you remember we're your friends?" Joe asked.
"I remember you tried to trick me." She said.
"We tried to trick you because we're trying to save you. Have you completely forgotten about the Crest of Sincerity?" Tai asked.
"Have you forgotten it's not nice to lock people up in a dungeon? Where's your manners?" Agumon asked.
Mimi scoffed as she turned away and started walking.
"Wait!" Tai called.
"Uh, before you go, I have something I want to tell you." Palmon said making her pause and frown down at her.
"Nobody likes you more than I do." The lizard/plan said in a teary tone.
"It hurts me deeply to have to say this, but…you're a SPOILED BRAT!" Palmon yelled with tears falling.
Mimi gasped in shock, her eyes wide before she turned away from her partner.
"Is that fact? Well, it's nice to know how you really feel!" she yelled before she walked away with a huff and Palmon sagged over in sadness and V-Mon placed his hands on her shoulders to try and comfort her.
Man, this is bad.
I hope Mimi comes back, the real Mimi, or else this world is doomed.
I gripped my Tag and Crest, making Agumon look at me and gasp.
"Hey, Daisuke, when did you find your Crest?" he asked making the others look at me shocked.
"What? Your Crest? When did that happen?" Tia asked as he knelt in front of me.
"When we were all split up. I was with Sora and Biyomon." I said.
"We split up from them after because she had something important to do on her own for now." V-Mon cut in.
"I got this Crest, the Crest of miracles, a week ago." I said showing the gold Crest to them.
"Miracles?" Joe asked.
"It's pretty." Palmon said.
"Yeah, miracle that you're related to Tai." Gomamon laughed as V-Mon snickered.
"So you don't know where Sora is now?" my brother asked.
"No, sorry." I said sadly.
"It's OK." He said hugging me.
"Tai, where did you go?" I asked.
He pulled back as we all sat down, me in my brother's lap as he started telling me.
"Well, somehow I was at home. In Odaiba. I went for and found Kari home alone." He said shocking me.
"Really? How was she? Is she doing any better?" I asked getting worried for my big sister.
"Yeah, she's a bit better. She somehow knew about Koromon and was worried about you, too, but also knew that you were safe where ever you were." Tai smiled at that, then frowned.
"Then all of these bad digimon started showing up around town and this portal opened up, pulling me and Koromon back here. We have to save this world before we return home, or else bad things will happen there if we don't." he finished.
After that, we all fell asleep as I thought about what he had said.
I was happy that my sister was OK, but how did she know about digimon?
"All right, wake up!" a Gekomon yelled making us all groan as we tried to brush away the fog that was making us sleepy.
Not real fog; it's a figure of speech.
"What now?" Tai asked.
"The princess wants you." Gekomon said.
He and his friend then led us to where Shogunmon was, all of us not sure what was going on and why this couldn't wait until the morning.
I mean, it's like what, the middle of the night or maybe early morning?
It's dark out.
"Is she gonna chop off our heads?" my brother asked.
"Don't even joke." Joe said.
We walked in to see the place was packed with all of the Gekomon and Otamamon, watching as Mimi stood there on the stage dressed in her normal clothes and a guilty, sad look on her face.
"What's she up to?" we asked.
"First of all, there's something I have to say to everyone here. Tai, Joe and Daisuke. Agumon, Gomamon and V-mon. Palmon. All of you have been so nice. I'm sorry!" she cried bowing making us all gasp.
"I've been such a little idiot! If you can find it in your hearts to forgive me, and I don't know why you would, but if you can, then I'd be honored to sing for you…one more time." She said lifting her head up to shown tears falling from her brown eyes and her face was red from crying.
That's the Mimi we all know and love.
"We forgive you." Palmon said as we all smiled at her.
"Of course we do. Sing, Your Highness." Gekomon1 said as we all started shouting our encouragements to her to sing.
"Oh, thank you." She sniffled with a smile as she dried her eyes.
"Hit the lights and cue the music!" Palmon said.
The room was darka sthe music started up, then as it got faster and louder, a spot light shone down on Mimi.
"I wanna sing a song
A song to bring Shogunmon around
When he hears my voice
I hope he likes the sound
He has to listen
Listen to my sincere heart." She sang as Shogunmon started moving and I was close to crying.
She really is good.
"I learned that friends are friends even when they're apart." She snag as the boys started dancing.
"I've asked my friends to forgive me from the bottom of my heart
If it's my choice
His eyes would open wide
And the Gekomon will be cheering
Cheering with pride-"Mimi stopped when Shogunmon started moving.
He stood up and turned around, the ground shaking as he did so and I feel nervous that he was way too close to our friend.
"Don't panic! It's our lord and master Shogunmon. Finally restored to us after many centuries." Gekomon3 said.
"I was having such a nice sleep. Which one of you clowns woke me up. Or should I just squish all of ya?" Shogunmon threatened with a nasty look as stopped down.
"Women and gentlemon first!" a random Gekomon cried as we all ran out of the building as the giant frog went on a rampage.
Remind me again why we wanted to wake him up?
"And I thought…I was cranky when I first wake up!" Joe panted.
That's my line!
"Give me the mean Mimi back any day!" Gomamon yelled.
"Whose idea was this? Remind me never to listen to them again!" Gekomon1 yelled.
"You wanna hear some singing?!" Shogunmon demanded.
"The ground will shake
When you hear the noise I make
'Cause I'm glad to be awake
YEAH!" he sang, then his horns blasted out air that blew us all away.
Oh, and did I forge to mention he SUCKS?!
No wonder he lost that contest.
We all crashed through the wall that was destroyed from the sound and fell down into the river below us.
V-Mon swam over to me and pulled me up to the surface.
"Is everyone safe?" my brother asked.
"Yeah!" we said.
"Then let's go help Mimi!" he said.
Gomamon digivolve too…IKKAKUMON!"
"Agumon digivolve too…GREYMON!"
"V-Mon digivolve too…XV-MON!"
We all got up and saw Togemon was there with Mimi, Shogunmon about to hurt them, but Ikkakumon fired off his Harpoon Torpedo and cut the big guy off.
"Oh, have you come to play?" Shogunmon taunted.
Ikkakumon and Greymon blasted their attacks to Shogunmon, but he started singing again and blew his horns, canceling out the attacks and sending the two back on their backs.
"Did you see that?" Tai asked.
"Yeah, he gives new meaning to the term 'flat note'." Joe said.
"Watch out below!" Shogunmon called as he jumped down to come after us, but then Tai's Crest and digivice glowed orange.
"Greymon digivolve too…METALGREYMON!"
MetalGreymon stood over us and head butted the big frog away from us, XV-Mon flying in from behind him and kicking him into the damaged building as Togemon jumped out with Mimi in her arms.
"Yeah, give it to him, MetalGreymon!" Tai called.
The Ultimate used his Giga Blasters, firing them off to Shogunmon's horns and then an explosion was caused by it, burying him in the rubble.
The sun soon came up as our digimon went back to their Rookie forms and we went to go check out the damage.
"He deserved to hear that last flat note, don't you think?" Mimi asked with a frown as we all laughed and she then smiled and laughed with us.
"Well, ready to go, Mimi?" Tai asked.
"Yeah. Do you think I could take some of my princess clothes with me?" she asked.
"Mimi!" Tai said in exasperation.
"Well, it just seems such a waste. The jewels at least?" she begged.
Well, we got her back at least.
Now to find Matt, TL and Izzy.
And find out what the heck happened to Sora.
TBC