"Return to Highton View Terrance"
Here is the next chapter. I hope you all like it. I'm also pretty excited because tomorrow is my birthday! I guess you guys don't really care about that. Whatever. Enjoy please and review.
As soon as Kaitoumon left, there was a flash of light making me and Demiveemon look up to see Tai and the others all falling from the sky where the hill top was.
"Wow, that didn't take long." Demiveemon said as he hopped up onto my head.
I ran over there and found them all unconscious, except for the digimon.
"Hey guys." I said making them all turn around to see me and smiled.
"Daisuke, you're OK." Tsunomon said as he hopped over with all of the others.
"What happened?" Patamon asked.
"We jusht flew through the portal. It didn't take you guysh too long to come after us." Demiveemon said.
"Yeah it was, like, a few seconds." I said.
"Really? But we were separated from you for a day." Palmon said.
"Whoa. Really?" my dragon and I asked.
Freaky.
The digimon told us all about what had happened since we were separated with meeting Gennai in his underwater home, him giving them special cards that would open up the gate and WereGarurumon holding off the Dokugumon so that Tai could place the cards in the right place to open the gate and finding the fake card.
Soon enough, we saw my brother and the others waking up, so we went over to see how they were.
"Then in this world we could be without them." Sora said sadly.
"You can't get rid of us that easily." Biyomon said making them all look over to us.
"Wake up. Come on sleepy heads." Palmon teased.
"We're up, we're up. Where have you been?" Tai asked as the digimon all pulled berries that they had gathered out from behind their backs.
"We all went to look for a little lunch." Gomamon said.
"And a guest to help ya eat it." I said coming up behind them with Demiveemon on my head.
"Daisuke!" everyone said.
"What am I; chopped liver?" my dragon pouted.
Tai ran over and scooped me up in his arms, holding me the way Matt was holding TK.
"Now that we're home, we don't have to eat leaves anymore. We can eat cheese burgers." Joe said.
"That's right! And pepperoni pizza." Mimi said whipping at her teary eyes.
"Are you OK? They didn't hurt you, did they?" Tai asked.
"Nuh uh. They didn't even notice us." I said.
OK, it was half true and I wasn't technically lying.
The others didn't notice us at all, but namely because Kaitoumon had helped us out, but how would the others take this news?
"And French fries!" TK said as the others were still going on about real food.
"And ice cream." Matt said.
"Yeah and broccoli." Sora said making us all exclaim in disgust.
Tai set me back down as Koromon hopped over to him and was picked up, a curious look on his face.
"How did you know that my card was the fake, Tai?" he asked.
"I didn't. I kept your card 'cause you're my friend." Tai said with a nervous smile making some of us laugh.
Wow, he was lucky nothing bad happened.
"That's so nice." Koromon said.
"Hey everybody, we've got to go find the 9th child." The child of courage said.
"Yeah and we gotta get a move on since Myotismon's there ahead of us." Matt said.
"I'm happy that we're finally heading back to my home town and we already know that's where we're going to find the 9th child." Tai said.
Really?
This kid was living in our home town this entire time?
Well, at least searching a city is easier than an entire country.
"Let's go!" my brother cheered.
"We're back at camp where we started." TK said as we all walked around.
"We've gotta get back to Highton View Terrance and stop Myotismon before he finds the 9th Digidestind." Tai said.
"I wonder how much of a head start he has on us." Sora said.
"Not even a minute has passed through the time Myotismon left for Japan when we arrived. Time flows at a different pace in the Digital World." Izzy said.
"I'll say. We've been gone for months in the Digital World and yet here in the real world it's the same day we left." The child of Friendship said.
"But that's impossible. You mean all those adventures took less time than it does to, say, get a haircut?" Joe asked.
"Please, Joe, don't exaggerate. Imagine getting your hair done in such a short amount of time." Mimi said as Tai started running down the stone steps to where all of the cabins were with the others students and teachers.
"I'm gonna go take a look at the camp. I wanna see for myself how much time has really passed. One of you come with me, the rest of you stay there. Who volunteers?" my brother asked as he reached the bottom.
Koromon, Gomamon and Biyomon went down the steps, the In-Training slipping and falling right into Tai's arms.
"One volunteer, not 13." Tai said as he saw the rest of us walking down.
"I thought I'd keep you company." The child of Sincerity said.
"And we're gonna keep Mimi company." Joe said.
"I guess we're all pretty curious to find out what happened while we were gone." Izzy said in our defense.
I mostly wanted to get home and see how Kari was doing.
I don't know why, but I have this weird feeling that she needed us to be there.
"But how will we explain it if somebody sees our digimon?" Tai asked.
"Oh, kids!" a familiar voice called making us all jump.
"It's…our teacher!" the child of Love gasped as we saw the middle aged man running over to us.
"We are back in the real world." Sora said smiling.
"Mr. Fujiyama." Tai said running over to the man with a smile as Fujiyama skidded to a stop.
"Watch out!" Fujiyama said as Tai slipped and fell back.
"What are all kids doing playing around here when you haven't even packed up your gear yet?" he asked sternly.
"Whoa, sir, I can explain." Tau yelped.
"Well, I'm Tai's digimon-"Koromon said, but Tai cried out as he covered his mouth.
"Didn't you kids hear we're closing up camp early because of the snow? Everyone else is all ready to go home." Fujiyama said.
"Sure, of course we heard." Tai said nervously as he stood.
"Look at those dirty little toys you're carrying. Where'd you get 'em?"Fujiyama asked.
"Um, toys?" my brother laughed nervously.
"Who's he calling a dirty little toy? That's not-" Motimon asked as the digimon all seemed angry at the insult.
"We can't let anyone know you can talk." Izzy whispered as we all covered our In-Trainings' mouths.
"Pretend to be stuffed animals." Matt whispered.
"Oh, these toys. Well, you see they're stuffed." My brother said making me face palm.
We're dead.
"Yes, Tai. I can see that." The teacher said.
"We made them!" I said suddenly going over to my brother's side.
Fujiyama looked down at me as I held up Demiveemon.
"We made them in arts and crafts for Kari." I said as my brother caught on.
"Yeah, you remember our sister. She wasn't able to come to camp." He said.
"Oh, yeah. She caught a cold, didn't she?" Fujiyama asked as he remembered how easily us Kamiya sisters could get sick.
"Yes, but she's feeling much better now because I went home and made her an omelet." Tai said making me face palm again and Demiveemon sighed in annoyance.
Yeah, see, we're totally dead if my brother keeps opening his mouth.
"When did you do that?" Fujiyama asked.
"When I-"Koromon was about to say, but Tai covered his mouth.
"When? Uh, that's a good question. Right before I left for camp." He laughed.
Please let our teacher have one of his dumb days and believe this junk.
"It's nice that you're thinking of your sister, Tai, Daisuke. But how did those toys get all dirty?" he asked.
"Uh, we accidentally dropped them when we tried to get outta the snow." TK said.
I love that guy and I swear I will never call him TS or TP or anything like that again…for a short while.
"Well, make sure you wash them then or throw them in the trash. Meet you at the bus." Fujiyama said before he turned and ran off back to camp.
"Right!" we said as he was soon out of sight.
"I'd like to get his gear together and throw him in the garbage can!" Koromon said.
"Well, you won't be littering at least." Tai said.
We all went back to our cabins and got our stuff, then went to see that the kids were all getting on their buses to go home.
"Remember. Don't talk in front of anybody else, OK?" the child of Reliability said.
"Don't worry. We can just pretend to be adorable stuffed animals." Palmon said as she held her cupped hands to her face and Gomamon gave her a look.
"Wow, look at all the kids." Koromon said in excitement as Tai freaked and covered his mouth.
"Didn't we just say not to talk out loud?!" he asked quietly.
"Yeah, but look at all the human children." The In-Training said.
"We never knew there were more human children than you." Biyomon said as the digimon watched the students in amazement.
"This is nothing. Why, just in the city alone, there must be tens or thousands of kids like us. And when you add the rest of the kids in the world, there must be millions." Sora explained making the digimon all look at her in amazement.
"You mean there are millions of Soras?!" the pink bird asked.
"There's only one of me!" Sora cried.
"She just means there are more kids our age, but there are tons of different people in the world." The child of Hope said.
"Wow!" Patamon and Tsunomon said.
"Hey, it's Michelle!" Mimi cried accidentally knocking Palmon back as she ran over to a small group of girls.
"I've missed you so much!" she cried to the confused girl.
We're dead.
I have a feeling that I'm gonna be saying that a lot.
"You missed me? You just saw me 10 minutes ago." The sandy haired girl, Michelle, said.
"What's going on?" a dark brown haired girl asked.
"Mimi's weird." Michelle said.
"Taren!" Mimi cried hugging her, then pulled away and laughed.
"She's wigging out." Michelle said.
"Too much caffeine." Taren said.
"Oh, Mimi." Palmon sighed.
"She's going to give us away. I told her no time has passed since we went to the Digital World." Tai said.
"Forget Mimi. We have to find some form of transportation to Highton View Terrance." Izzy said.
"I got an idea." Tai said as he went over to where our teacher was talking to one of the bus drivers.
"Mr. Fujiyama! Can you have the bus drop us off somewhere?" my brother asked as we followed.
"Have the bus drop you off? No can do. The rules say I have to take you straight to your homes." Fujiyama said.
"Please, Mr. Fujiyama, I'm begging you, sir. Could you just let us off somewhere near Highton View Terrance?" my brother asked.
"Highton view Terrance? Why do you want to go there?" the teacher asked.
Quick, someone with more brains think of something!
"Well, we used to live there and we were feeling nostalgic, so we thought we'd visit our old hang out." Tai said.
"Come on." Matt said.
"Please?" TK begged.
"We'd appreciate it, sir." Izzy said.
"But it's against the rules." Fujiyama said.
"You know, I think we drive pretty close to Highton View Terrance. Let's see." The bus driver said checking his clipboard.
"First we take the freeway to the parkway to the freeway…that's the wrong way. Oh, yeah. Here at the road way. Highton View Terrance is within walking distance." The man said as we nodded.
"Just, then that's where you can let us off, mister." Tai smiled.
"Hold on! I didn't give the bus driver permission yet." Fujiyama growled.
"Please, Mr. Fujiyama?" Matt begged making me look at him and TK to see the sad looks they had.
"You'll break TK's heart if you don't let us go. It was the last place we all lived together as a family before our parents got divorced." Matt said as he placed a hand on his brother's shoulder when he whimpered.
"Oh!" the child of Hope cried as he hugged Matt around the waist.
"TK." Matt sighed.
"Oh, brother!" TK said.
"Mr. Fujiyama, please let us off at Highton View Terrance. As an upper class man, I'll take responsibility for getting them home." Joe said.
"Well, I guess if a reliable kid like you is going, Joe, then I guess it's OK. But I better call your parents and tell them where you are." Fujiyama said.
Yay for Joe living up to his Crest his entire life.
"Deal!" Joe and Tai said as they bowed.
"Thanks, Mr. Fujiyama." Joe said.
"You're the greatest teacher ever." Tai said.
"Yeah, yeah." He said as he walked away with the amused looking bus driver.
"Yahoo!" Tai cheered as he jumped over o the rest of the group.
"Yay!" I cheered tossing Demiveemon up and catching him as he giggled.
"Hey, how long are you gonna keep that act up?" Tai asked the blonde brothers as their whimpers turned into laughter.
"Hey, if we didn't come up with something sappy like that, he never would have let us go." The child of Friendship said.
"You mean that sad story was just an act?" Joe asked with a stunned look.
"You guys are so cool! I love you so much right now!" I cheered hugging them both, although it was kinda awkward with one arm around TK and the other around Matt's legs.
TK, Demiveemon, Tsunomon and Patamon giggled while Matt seemed to stiffen up from the hug, not used to it.
"I was crying my eyes out so much for you guys that my glasses started to fog up!" the bluenette ranted as my brother ran over to him.
"Calm down before you have an asthma attack." Tai said.
"I missed all of you so much." We heard Mimi laugh as she got onto the bus with her friends.
"I hope she's not gonan act this way with every kid that she meets." Palmon said.
"Hey!" she cried to get her partner's attention, but Izzy and Sora covered her mouth, hushing her.
We all went to the bus and took our seats, me leaning into my seat as I felt very tired from what had happened.
I swear, this whole saving the world thing is gonna make me age too much.
I was shaken awake when we got to our destination and we all walked up to the bridge near our old home where we lived when I was a baby.
I don't know why, but I think I supressed the memory for some reason.
"They were nice to drop us off here." Koromon said as we watched our bus leave.
"Yeah." Tai said.
"There's the Highton View Terrance tower." The child of Sincerity said pointing out the tall building.
"The tallest apartment building in Japan." Izzy said.
"Terrific. I'm afraid of heights." Joe said.
"That place isn't so hot." Tai said.
"That's true. The heat never worked. I used to live there." Sora said.
"Wow, Sora. You lived in that big castle?" Biyomon asked.
"Yep." Sora nodded.
"We lived near here too. A block away in another building. Sora and I went to West Side Elementary together." Tai said as I nodded.
"Hey, I went to West Side Elementary." Matt said.
"You're kidding! You mean that you guys were telling the truth when you said that you used to live in Highton View Terrance?" Joe asked.
"Yeah, we really did live here before my parents broke up." Matt said.
"That was a long time ago when I was a little kid." TK said.
"Strange coincidence, because I used to live here too." Joe said.
"I lived here too before we moved." Mimi said making Joe look at her in confusion.
The wheels in his brain were turning.
"Me too!" Izzy said making us all look at him in confusion.
How is it that we all lived so close to each other, but never even knew it?
That's kinda sad.
"Just for a little while, it's a long story." The red head said.
"So at some point we all lived at Highton View Terrance at the same exact time?" Tai asked.
"This can't just be a coincidence. There has to be some meaning here." Izzy said.
There was then this weird screeching noise that made us all look up and see a swarm of bats flying in the sky.
Looks like fang boy's closer than we thought.
"Myotismon's army. Run for it!" Tai cried.
We all ran down the street trying to get away, but I had the feeling we were spotted and were doomed.
The ground was shaking as we ran and the sound of things being smashed and broken could be heard.
"Say, do any of you remember this place?" Tai asked when we stopped in front of a store.
"I bought candy here." He said.
"It was my favorite store." Mimi said.
"Oh, sure. Mine too." Joe said.
"You probably don't remember this place, TK, because you were too little, but Mom and Dad used to take us here all the time." Matt said.
"Maybe some candy will help me to remember." TK smiled.
"You're awfully quiet, Izzy. Didn't you like living in Highton View Terrance?" Sora asked.
"I don't remember." He said.
"How long did you live there?" she asked.
"Just for a little while. About six months." He said.
"Wow. Why did your parents move away?" Tai asked.
"I don't know." The red head said.
"You're kidding? Well, if you don't know then maybe I should tell you why." Joe said.
"What do you mean, Joe?" Sora asked.
"Yeah, Joe. How could you know why Izzy's parents moved away from here? Did you know them or something?" Tai asked.
"No, I didn't know Izzy back then, but I did see what happened." Joe said as a bunch of police cars drove by with the siren going off.
"What's going on?" Mimi asked.
"Where there's trouble, there's Myotismon." Tai said as we all went to check it out.
We all gasped when we saw a woolly mammoth digimon with metal on its trunk wrecking everything in the street.
"A monster digimon!" Matt said.
"It's called Mammothmon. He's a fully digivolved digimon with the strength of a woolly mammoth and shoos missiles he calls Tusk Crusher and has a chilling attack called Freezing Breath." Izzy said as he checked his lap top.
"Get out of here kids, this is a danger zone!" a policeman in a police car told us.
The man tried to call his buddies to come help out, but the radio was dead and Mammothmon looked over to where we were standing.
"Wait a minute, I think he sees us." Ai said.
"Get out of here now!" the man said before he drove off.
Now that guy sucks at his job.
Wouldn't it have been smarter to get us all into the car and take us with him?
"And he's heading this way." Tai said as Tsunomon and Koromon growled.
"That mosnter's fully digivolved. You can't fight him." Matt said as they hopped out of their arms.
"Just leave everything to me." Biyomon said.
"Biyomon!" Sora cried.
"Biyomon digivolve too…BIRDRAMON!"
Birdramon flew up and used her Meteor Wing on Mammothmon, hitting the ground around him.
One hit his metal face, but bounched off to a phone booth and destroyed it and I gasped as a strange memory came to me, like I had seen it once before, only it was dark out.
The same thing happened when Mammothmon threw a bus and it exploded.
Mammothmon hit Birdramon with his trunk, then blasted her with his Tusk Crusher, making her fall back on top of an apartment building.
"Birdramon!" Sora cried.
"There were two!" TK said suddenly.
"What?" Matt asked.
"There were two monsters." TK said as I bit my lip in thought as the red bird turned into a green one and day turned into night.
What was that about?
"What are you talking about, TK?" Tai asked.
"Oh man, now I remember. A long time ago TK was insisting that he saw two monsters and my mom was upset at him for it. I just assumed he imagined the entire thing." Matt said.
"So when did this take place?" Izzy asked.
"This is where it happened." Sora gasped.
"Right outside this foot bridge." Joe added.
Mammothmon and Birdramon were still at it, making a mess around town.
"This is really strange." Joe said.
"We have to get off this bridge." Tai said when a vision of that green bird crashing into this very bridge came to mind.
We all ran and got off just as the Tusk Crushing hot the place we were standing.
"Oh, this is déjà vu all over again!" Mimi cried.
"This is just how it happened." Joe said as the place was getting wrecked up all over the place.
"Back then a giant ball of fire destroyed the bridge." Joe said.
"Something's definitely different. I remember the fire breathing monster didn't fly. There had to be another one." Matt said as more images crossed my mind of the green bird and a…orange dinosaur fighting.
"You're right. There were two monsters fighting, but they were different than these two." Tai said.
Mammothmon used his Freezing Breath on Birdramon, freezing her top half and making her fall back into another bridge.
"Birdramon!" Sora cried as she and Tai and I ran over with her to see how the bird was.
"Sssora?" the bird asked as her partner's Crest activated.
"Birdramon digivolve too…GARUDAMON!"
Mammothmon blasted at us, but Garudamon dived down and shielded us as Tai did the same to Sora and I, that same visions coming to me, only it was Kari and I that were being shielded with Tai, all of us in our PJs and it was a dino that protected us from the green bird.
"Garudamon." Sora said as the Ultimate got up, the girl holding her red digivice.
Tai frowned as he closed his eyes in thought.
"Greymon." He said.
Holy digital monsters!
It was Greymon and Parrotmon that made that mess four years ago when Kari and me were babies.
Tai chased us all over the town when we played with Greymon and then he disappeared after he fought that green bird.
"Sora, it was Greymon!" he said as everyone all gasped and agreed as they all remembered what had happened that night.
Garudamon got up and charged Mammothmon as we all watched and thought back to what happened.
Mammothmon used his Tusk Crusher, but she didn't get hit and jumped on his back, ridding him away from us.
"It's the day Koromon came to my house and digivolved into Greymon." Tai said as those forgotten memories came back.
"He was fighting with a birdlike digimon. After the fight, they disappeared." Tai said as Garudamon flew up with Mammothmon in her hands and let him fall down on the ground.
The she used Wing Blade and finished him off.
We all ran over as Garudamon de-digivolved and Sora caught Yokomon.
"After the figth that day, Greymon and the other digimon disappeared." Tai said as we stood in the middle of the mess.
"Exactly. Somehow the digimon were involved all along." Izzy said.
"That's why my middle sister Kari already knew Koromon." Tai said.
"Yeah, she actually talked to him while she whistled at you." I said.
"Kari met him back on that day." Tai said.
"You met her?" Patamon asked.
"It must have been a different Koromon." Koromon said.
"But I did have a strange feeling when I met Tai that we had met somewhere before." He said.
"Listen, it's the cops. They'll ask a ton of questions and blame us for all this. I'm too young to go to the bog house." Joe said as the police and firemen all drove to where we were, so we took off.
We stopped when we came to an empty park to rest and talk.
"You know, I always thought that it was pretty strange that out of all the kids at camp we were the only ones chosen to go to the Digital World. I knew it just couldn't be coincidence. Somehow we were all connected by some common event. Today I discovered what that event was." The child of Knowledge said.
I think we all did.
"We all took French in school?" Mimi asked.
OK, maybe not.
"No. four years ago we were all living in Highton View Terrance at the same time and all of us saw those two digimon-"
"Greymon and Parrotmon." I said making them look at me briefly before looking back to Izzy.
"Right, Greymon and Parrotmon fight." He said.
"Then the 9th Digidestind saw it too." Matt concluded.
Wait, didn't Kari see it?
I think my eyes almost fell out of my head by how wide they were opened up.
There was just no way.
I mean, come on, is it really that simple?
Is anyone else thinking about this?
"Right, so the person who's the 9th Digidestind had to have been there as well." Izzy said.
"What if Myotismon found him already? I mean, he's been searching the city all day. And if the child lived here four years ago, maybe it's still here." Joe said.
"I don't think so." Motimon said.
"Mammothmon wouldn't be making all this commotion if they already found the 9th Digidesind child. Myotismon is still searching. I say the child is still out there or maybe he moved like you guys." Motimon explained.
"We'll find him before Myotismon." Tai said confidently.
"The 9th Digidestind. He might be someone we know."
Oh my goodness, no one is even considering that Kari might be the 9th Digidestind?
You know what, to heck with them.
If they're that stupid to even figure it out on their own, then I won't even bother telling them until I'm sure I'm right about it.
Watch out big sis, I'm gonna be after you 24/7 until I find out the truth.
TBC