"Gatomon Comes Calling"
Here is the next chapter. So sorry for the wait. Many know I have other stories I have been working on. Hope you like this. Oh, and some of you who are curious about me doing a squeal to this, I already have some ideas for it and a pairing for Dai, but I'm not telling. Please enjoy and review!
OK, so V-Mon and I got into a heaping amount of trouble for sneaking out to go help Izzy, but we were saved by the puppy dog eyes, added by Kari to help out.
"I still say Kari is the Ninth Child." I said stubbornly.
"She didn't have a digivice. There's no way that's possible." Tai said.
"Well, maybe she lost it. I know that she's the one we're looking for, Tai. When she gets her digivice and digimon partner, expect me to tell ya 'I told ya so'." I said pouting.
He sighed in exasperation as our digimon watched us as my brother looked for his old year book.
"Ah, come on. Where'd I put that thing?" Tai asked as I watched him riffling through all his old stuff.
"Junk. Stuff. More junk. More stuff." He said looking through desk drawers.
"Man, I was a messy kid. I can't believe how disorganized I was." He said as he reached up to a shelf, but all the stuff fell down on his head as he and Agumon were buried.
The door to the room opened and Kari stepped into the room, looking at our brother curiously from his spot.
"What cha doing?" she asked.
"Looking for my old phone book. It'll have exactly what I need." Tai groaned.
"And I'm helping." Agumon said popping out of the pile.
Oh, I thought it was his year book.
Guess I heard wrong.
"We're not havin' much luck." V-Mon said.
"How come?" Kari asked closing the door behind her and we then told her about what was going on.
The others all thought that maybe one of the other kids from four years ago may have seen the fight between Greymon and Parrotmon too and one of them might be the Ninth Child, but I am still holding my ground on it being Kari.
V-Mon and Agumon were wearing sweaters to disguise themselves as we go out on the street.
"Tai, it's your friend Izzy." Mom said walking by the door.
"Coming!" he called.
Tai opened up the door and we both started sliding on the floor with our fronts to our mom as she was busy cooking while our digimon were hiding behind us.
Agumon tripped, but V-Mon quickly pushed him away so Mom didn't see him as she turned around, only seeing Kari as she looked all sweet and innocent as she chuckled nervously.
"Hey." Tai said as he opened up the door to view Izzy.
"Hey, ready to go? Agumon, you digivolved." The child of Knowledge pointed out.
"You bet I did. All I needed was a good meal." He said.
"Pst. It's me." Someone said.
We looked over to see Tentomon was dressed in a green coat with a yellow cap.
"Tentomon, nice disguise, dude." Tai chuckled.
"Thanks, Tai, I put it together myself." The bug said.
"Wait till Mimi sees ya." The child of Courage said.
"I need one too." Agumon said.
"Yeah, any ideas?" my brother asked.
The six of us then walked off to the park with Agumon and V-Mon wearing hoodies, no one paying any attention to us, meaning the digimon blended in pretty good.
"Yeah, real inconspicuous." My brother said.
"So, Tai, did you find your address book from school?" Izzy asked as we waited at a stop light.
"Oh, uh, well, Sora was in my class, so I thought we'd just use hers." Tai said.
"Uh huh. Couldn't find it, huh?" Izzy asked.
"That's what cha get for trying to pull one over on a smart guy." I said as we were allowed to walk across the street to the park on the other side.
TK, Matt, Patamon and Tsunomon were at the park waiting for us when we walked over, TK and I waving to each other.
"All right, listen up everybody; I called you all here today because, well, uh, there was nothing good on TV." Tai said.
I slapped my forehead at that.
Can you believe I'm related to him?
"Ha ha. Very funny, Tai. So where are the others?" Matt asked.
"Hey!" someone called as there was some giggling.
Sora was running over with her address book under her arm with Biyomon flying beside her.
"Don't start without me." The child of Love called as she ran over, then stopped when they were by us.
"Ah, good morning." She sighed.
"OK, so where's Mimi?" Tentomon asked.
"She's probably out buying clothes." Izzy said.
"Baby clothes, maybe." V-Mon said making me look over where he was to see Mimi was pushing a stroller with Palmon inside wearing a bonnet.
"Oh, get out and walk. You're too heavy to push." The child of Sincerity whined.
"Mimi, how's that going to look? I'm supposed to be a wittle baby." Palmon said.
"You just grew up, now get out." Mimi said.
Once they joined us, we all sat down in a circle, starting off this little meeting without the duo of Reliability since they were late.
"Hey, did you guys see it? it was all over the news on TV this morning." Sora said.
"More and more of Myotismon's digi-bozos are popping up in the city." The child of Friendship said.
"And they're very real." Tai said.
"What do ya mean?" Agumon asked.
"The last time we came back, there were digimon all over the place like now, but only Kari and I could see 'em." Tai said leaning back on the ground using his arms as a pillow as he looked at the sky.
This just continues to prove what I meant before.
"Everybody else walked right by them, as if they weren't even there. Now even normal people see 'em and they're on the news and everything. It's like they're really here this time." Tai said making everyone but me gasp.
"Maybe that's because this time they came through the gate that Myotismon made." Izzy said.
"I don't like it. If they can be seen, then they're physically here. They can do a whole lot of damage." Matt said making TK nervous.
"Yeah, like what?" the child of Hope asked as he hugged Patamon.
"Do I really need to remind you what those evil digimon are capable of?" Matt asked.
"Creepy." Mimi said hugging herself.
"Complete systems failure." Izzy said as Tai sat back up.
"So what are we sitting around here for? We better get out there and find that ninth kid if we want to stop this, guys. Save the Digital World and we'll save our own!" Tai said.
"Go, Tai!" TK and I cheered as Sora nodded.
"What's the plan?" Matt asked.
"Well, I've got a few." Izzy said.
"STOOOOP!" our late member yelled making us all jump in surprise.
"I wanna hear Izzy's theory. Don't start until I get there. I love Izzy's theories. Come on!" Joe cried as he ran over with Gomamon in his bag.
"All right, we won't start without you." Tai said.
Joe sat down panting, then the meeting resumed.
"We've already concluded that when the digimon attacked four years ago all of us including the Ninth Child was there. It is also safe to assume that each of us was given digivices for a reason. Last night, Daisuke and I picked up an unidentified digivice reading. I think it was the Ninth Child. Obviously we lost the signal, but it's clear that the Ninth Child is in this vicinity. That's why the monsters are here too." Izzy said.
Thank you for stating the stuff we all already knew about.
"Monsters, worse than snakes. And this is supposed to help us? I'm lost." Mimi said holding up a lavender book with writing on it and a yellow flower.
"The illusion is that the Ninth Child is somewhere in one of these address books. Somehow we have to make a lot of calls and patrol the city for monster attacks at the same time." Izzy said.
"Well, I guess I could do some calling as long as my folks don't find out. But I really gotta do some serious studying, so I won't be able to go on the search with you." The child of Reliability said.
"What? Joe, it's the summer!" Tai exclaimed.
"I wanted to get an early start. Next year I'm really gonna be prepared." Joe said as his eyes darted around in bashfulness.
Dude, you are so insane.
If we don't save the world, then school won't even matter.
"Ok then." Mimi chirped as he shoved her book in his arms.
"If you're not coming with us, then you might as well do my calling for me, OK? Thanks." She said standing and started walking off with Palmon.
"Joe, we're talking about the fate of the world here. If you're gonna chicken out, you can all of the names in my book too. See ya." Mat said as he handed his book to Joe and then left with Tsunomon in his arms.
"Yes and it might make more sense having one person concentrate on all the phone calling rather than splitting up." Izzy said as he handed his book to Joe and then left with Tentomon.
"He has a point there. Good luck!" Sora giggled as she handed over her book and left with Biyomon.
"Wait a minute." Joe called as everyone but my brother, our partners and I left.
In fact, we got up and walked over to him.
"No, Tai, Daisuke! Not yours too, please!" the blue haired boy cried desperately.
"I'm not that kind of guy, Joe. Don't worry. It's my job and you've got enough on your plate." Tai said smiling making Joe sigh in relief.
Yeah right.
If you had your book you woulda handed it over to him like everyone else.
"Oh, man, Tai. You're a totally great guy. Thanks a lot." Joe said with a smile and waterfall tears as Tai looked away bashfully.
"Oh, well, you know." He said scratching his cheek.
"Dai, you go back home and hang with Kari, OK?" Tai said to me.
"Whatever." I shrugged as I turned and left with V-Mon hot on my tail.
The others all went off to go search around the city while I stayed near the apartment and park watching the people around me.
Maybe I should talk to Tai about those dreams I've been having while I was in the Digital World and home.
Could they be from the Crest?
"Dai, look." V-Mon said grabbing my arm.
I looked over to where he was pointing and saw that Kari was bending down talking to…GATOMON?!
What in the-?
We hid behind a tree and watched them, Kari seeming to be asking her questions, but we couldn't hear.
Gatomon was on all fours and meowed at my sister before the cat walked off with Kari watching her curiously.
"You still think Kari's the one we're looking for, don't cha?" V-Mon asked.
"I know it. Something deep inside of me is screaming that she is." I said.
"That would be the Crest you wear." A familiar voice said.
V-Mon and I yelped jumped back as we turned around to see who had said that.
"Kaitoumon!" my dragon said.
The winged man gave a small grin down at us as he knelt down to look us in our eyes with his one gold one.
"The Crest of Miracles is a mysterious thing. It holds great power and can be used only by its owner. The Keeper of the Golden Radiance. That would be you, dear." Kaitoumon said.
"So all those visions and stuff is from my Crest?" I asked gripping the gold jewelry in my hands.
"Yes." He said nodding.
"Dai? Is that you?" Kari asked.
The three of us looked over to see her coming over to her looking worried with a frown on her face.
She stepped in front of me with her arms held out, sending a warning look to Kaitoumon.
"Stay away from my little sister, mister, or I'll call an adult on you." She demanded.
OK, what the heck just happened?
Since when is she like this?
This is the first time I've ever seen her act the role of protective older sister in my entire life.
Kaitoumon looked at her stunned and I'm pretty sure my mouth was hanging open and eyes bulged out.
He chuckled then as he stood up.
"Sorry, I'll just be on my way then." he said.
He sent a wink in my direction before he walked off, his wings covered by his long swishing black coat.
Kari didn't relax one bit until he was gone from sight.
Once he was, she sighed and then turned to me.
"What were you doing talking to a stranger? You know better than that." She scolded.
"That wasn't a stranger. It was Kaitoumon." V-Mon pointed out.
"Huh?" she asked as realization dawned on her and she looked to the place the male disappeared.
"That was him?" she asked.
"Yeah." I said nodding.
"I guess I was a little rude to him, huh?" Kari said holding her hands to her mouth with an embarrassed look.
"It was fine." I said holding my hands up.
The ground then shook making us look up to see that a large digimon had arrived in the park scaring off the kids and adults all around.
It looked like a legless, armless dragon thing.
"Oh great, it's Airdramon. He's a real fun guy." V-Mon quipped.
"Is he one of those evil monsters you told me about?" Kari asked.
"Yep. V, get in there before someone gets hurt." I said.
He nodded as he flung off his sweater and started to digivolve.
"V-Mon digivolve too…XV-MON!"
The large blue dragon took off at a fast pace and rammed right into Airdramon's chest, sending his back as he cried out in shock.
"Get him, XV-Mon!" I cheered holding my digivice as Kari watched in awe.
Airdramon then whacked XV-Mon with his tail, sending him crashing into a tree, snapping it in half from the hit.
My dragon struggled to get back up, but he did and then landed a punch to the other dragon's face.
The evil dragon then wrapped his tail around XV-Mon, strangling him.
"Oh no! This isn't good." Kari gasped as we both watched in fear.
"XV-Mon!" I yelled running over.
"Dai, no!" Kari called.
XV-Mon was gasping and crying out in pain as he tried to trash around to get out of the grip, but it didn't work.
Airdramon then sent out a blast of flames from his mouth at me, but Kari showed and pushed me out of the way in time.
"Are you trying to kill yourself?" she yelled.
"I can't leave V alone. He's my best friend and my partner!" I yelled back.
"D-Dai…suke." I heard XV-Mon choke out.
I looked up in worry as he was thrown into the air, looking so weak from the attacks he already got.
Then he was blasted with flames from Airdramon and my eyes widened in fear.
"NOOOO!" I yelled as my Crest glowed.
Kari gasped as she watched.
I looked up to see XV-Mon fall down to the ground, the ground shaking from the impact and he looked badly hurt with bruises and burns.
I ran over not wanting to leave him alone to deal with any more pain, my Crest still glowing as it did so.
"Get up! V, you gotta get up." I said as I ran over to him as Airdramon took to the air and circled above us.
I placed my hands on my unconscious dragon's arm, trying to shake him awake as tears streamed down my face.
"Wake up. It can't be over. Please, I won't let it be over. Wake up, I'm begging you." I pleaded as I rested my head on him.
"Daisuke Kamiya, get away from there right now!" I heard Kari yell to me, but I didn't listen to her.
"No! I refuse to leave without XV-Mon." I said back as Airdramon screeched up in the sky.
I clung to my dragon's arm, willing him to wake up and lifted my head up to look at his face that was dirty with blood and dirt.
"Come on. You can do it. I believe in you. I always have. Just wake up." I said.
Airdramon let out a massive roar that made me cringe from the sound and looked up to see him flying down to where we were, his red eyes filled with blood lust.
"DAISUKE!" Kari yelled.
I climbed up onto XV-Mon's chest, looking at his face better, ignoring the danger I was in right now.
If I'm going to die then it'll be with my best friend.
"Please…wake up." I whispered as a tear fell from my eye and it fell onto XV-Mon's face.
Something strange happened then.
My Crest glowed with a blinding gold light, stopping Airdramon in his tracks when he was only a few feet away from us and he screeched in pain as he flew off away from the gold light.
XV-Mon groaned as he moved under me.
His eyes snapped open.
My digivice turned gold and XV-Mon gathered me up in his arms as he started to transform, but the light blocked him from my sights as I had to cover my eyes.
"XV-Mon digivolve too…V-DRAGOMON!" he said with his voice changing.
It was still deep, only not as gruff as he sounded like a different person.
Once the light faded, I looked up to see a human looking young man with long blonde hair holding me.
He had the same V marks that V-Mon had on his face, only in black and his eyes were red with slited pupils.
His skin was blue, his ears were pointed and he was dressed in a skin tight white shirt and pants that showed off his muscular body and black shoes.
He had a sword tied at his waist and he had four white angel wings on his back.
"V, you…digivolved." I said amazed.
"My name is V-Dragomon now. Hang on, I'll take this guy down in no time." He said as he cradled me with one arm and drew his sword with the other.
I clung to his shirt as he jumped up in the air, shocking Airdramon with his speed.
Seriously, he was moving so fast he looked invisible and I was getting nauseous.
V-Dragomon was moving all around Airdramon with his speed, slashing his sword at him, leaving large V shaped marks on the dragon.
The dragon/angel stopped in front of the larger dragon and calmly put his sword away.
Before Airdramon could do anything, the marks turned red and glowed brightly, destroying Airdramon and his data particle were scattered in the wind.
Holy…bleeping…cow.
"I have to constantly remind these guys to not touch you or else I'll kill them. Do I have to send a memo to them all?" V-Dragomon asked as he sighed in annoyance.
I chuckled nervously at that as he swooped down to where Kari was standing watching us with wide eyes that were glazed over in wonder.
My dragon/angel landed on the ground without making a sound, then set me down gently.
"Are you both all right?" he asked.
"I'll good, V." I said.
"You were amazing out there, V-Dragomon. I've never seen such power." Kari said.
V-Dragomon laughed as he then scooped us both up in his arms and I spotted Gatomon watching us from up in a tree with Kaitoumon, both looking very interested.
"Let's get you two home." V-Dragomon said.
He flew off to our home, Kari and I smiling at the sight of the city flying by us as we went.
When we got there, Kari was placed down to go inside by herself while V-Dragomon flew up to the roof, the both of us spotting Gatomon chasing after her.
Just what is up with that cat?
V-Dragomon set me down on the roof as he turned back into Demiveemon and I picked him up.
"I'm hungry." He groaned.
I laughed at that as I walked over to the door to let myself inside to go to my apartment to go inside to watch Gatomon and see what she does.
"You're always hungry." I said.
"So? You are too." He said.
When we got downstairs we watched as Gatomon just watched Kari and I wondered if she had her suspicions about her being the Ninth Child like I did.
Demiveemon and I stayed hidden in my room spying on them, my little dragon munching on a bar of chocolate.
After walking around for a bit, the cat left the apartment.
"Well, that wash weird." Demiveemon said.
"No kidding." I said holding my chin in thought.
After a while, we both went to bed, wanting to sleep after the day we had and prayed that Kari wouldn't tell Tai about what had happened.
In my dream were two girls that looked to be 13 and 14, both laughing and smiling at each other.
The 14 year old looked like Kari only dressed in a pink and white top with long pink gloves, yellow shorts, pink shoes and had her bangs pinned to the side out of her face.
The other girl was 13 with long mahogany hair and tanned skin, with brown eyes like mine dressed in a teal colored top, jeans and black shoes.
In the two girls' laps were V-Mon and Gatomon, both wearing my orange bandana and Kari's whistle.
"WHAT?!" a loud voice boomed waking me up.
Great, I had a weird dream and now Tai's gonna kill me.
I wonder if that was a vision of my future.
"DAISUKE KAMIYA, YOU GET OUT HERE RIGHT NOW!" Tai yelled.
Yep, I am so beyond dead.
Thanks a lot, big sis.
To be continued…