| Chapter 2: A Strange Meeting “AAAHHHH!!” Iris jumped away from the TV as Davis and Veemon fell out of it. “Wh-where did you come from?” Iris cautiously moved around the two to Polarmon. “Ouch…” Davis stood up rubbing his butt, he glanced at Iris and Polarmon then down at Veemon who was in the same pain as he was. “Who are you?” Iris asked, gathering her courage she stood to her full height and glared at the intruder. “…I’m Davis Motomiya, and you are?” “Iris Yoki… and this is Polarmon.” She motioned to the white bear at her side. “Polarmon, the Polar bear digimon. She’s the fastest swimming land digimon, so she can catch you on land or in sea. I’d watch out for her icicle breath if I were you.” Veemon said helpfully. “Thanks I’ll remember that…” Davis said sarcastically, “anyway, how did you get in the digiworld, or are you a digidestined?” “What?” She asked, confusion marring her pretty features. “You’re not a digidestined?” Davis asked, he rolled his eyes back into his head and took on a thinking position, “Of course your not, only really good people like me can be a digidestined.” “Whatever…” Iris muttered, “Anyway, where did you come from?” “I’m from Japan.” “You’re kidding,” Iris replied sarcastically, “What I want to know is how you came into the digiworld.” “Huh? I used my digivice.” He held out his digivice for her to inspect. “You mean you can get back to the real world?” She asked, her eyes lit up noticeably at the concept. “Well yeah, but I don’t really want to.” He muttered “Why not, why would you want to be stuck in this deathtrap?” “I’d rather be in this ‘deathtrap’ than to face Kari and all the others in the real world.” Iris looked dumbfounded at this, as if being away from the real world was incomprehensible, “You wouldn’t understand, no-one does.” “Can you take me to the real world?” She asked hopefully. “I-I guess so, just not now, I need time to think.” “I can’t believe it Polarmon I’m going back!” She hopped around excitedly. “But Iris…” Polarmon interrupted, “If you go I’ll never see you again.” “That’s not true,” Veemon said, “Digimon can go into the real world, just like humans can come into the digiworld.” Iris hopped next to polarmon. “You hear that polarmon! You can come too. To the real world.” She bent down and hugged polarmon tightly. Their rejoices were interrupted though, by a loud beeping noise. While they had been talking Davis had walked over to the pool of water. “Woah, my digivice is going off.” He exclaimed holding up his digivice. A thin beam of light came from his digivice and disappeared under the water. “What does that mean?” Iris asked walking over and peering into the pool. “I don’t know but I’m gonna check it out.” Davis stripped off his shirt and dived into the pool. “I can’t see him anywhere.” Veemon yelled, panicking. “Don’t worry, look.” She plunged her hand into the water and let veemon observe. “It disappeared.” He observed. “It’s crazy hey,” she pulled her hand out and dried it on her pants, “It’s like a reflection pool.” Davis’ head popped up from under the water, and he gasped for air. “This water is freezing.” He said swimming over to the edge. “What did you find?” Veemon asked him. “Look.” He placed an aqua colored digivice on the ground before climbing out himself. “A digivice.” Veemon pointed out, “I wonder who’s it is.” Davis shrugged his shoulders and put his shirt back on. “Maybe it’s hers.” He said pointing to Iris. “Hey I have a name you know.” Iris pouted. “Sorry,” He mumbled, “anyway why don’t you try it out?” He picked it up and handed it to Iris. As soon as it touched her skin it began to glow. “Is it supposed to glow like this, or is it broken?” Iris held it in both hands, her face bathed in the golden glow of the digivice, her blue eyes reflecting it making them seem golden in color. “Try it out.” Davis nudged her side. “How?” “Polarmon try to digivolve.” Veemon said. “How am I supposed to do that?” Polarmon asked staring at the digivice. “Just gather all your energy, the light from the digivice should help you.” Veemon said guiding Polarmon. She began to glow a faint white light. The same color as the digivice. The light brightened until they could only see polarmon’s outline. “Yes she’s doing it.” Veemon exclaimed. “Polarmon digivolve to………” the light slowly began to fade, and polarmon could once again be seen. “What happened?” Veemon asked, confused. “I don’t know, is that digivolving?” Polarmon asked looking herself over to see if anything had changed. “Well no,” Veemon said sympathetically, “But don’t worry you’ll get the hang of it. Iris let out a small yelp, as the golden light that consumed her grew bigger. “Iris!” Polarmon yelled running over to her,” What’s happening?” Polarmon asked frantically. “I don’t know.” Davis said staring at her. The light continued to grow until it took on the shape of a huge bird Digimon. “What digimon is that?” Davis asked. “I don’t know… but it doesn’t look very happy.” “Who disturbs me?” A booming voice asked. “Who are you?” Polarmon yelled to the golden bird. Iris opened her mouth and started talking in the bird’s voice. “I am Geniemon.” Its voice seemed to come from all corners of the cave, and then echo about making it seem even louder. The digimon started to change shape again, and took on the form of a green spirit. “Who wakes me?” Iris said again. “Davis should I digivolve?” Veemon asked getting ready. Davis immediately pulled out his D3. “Digiarmor energize!” He yelled. “Veemon digivolve to… Flamedramon the fire of courage.” Polarmon stared at Flamedramon in amazement. “That’s digivolving?” “No time to talk, “ Flamedramon said jumping into the air, “Fire Rocket!” he shouted. Firing a huge ball of fire at the genie, it recoiled in pain but immediately recovered. It glared at Flamedramon and started to change again. This time it took on the form of a Flamedramon, exactly like Veemon. “Fire rocket!” they yelled in unison. They both shot identical balls of fire at each other, but they cancelled each other out. Flamedramon jumped back and attacked again, but Geniemon just counterattacked with the same attack. “Flamedramon aim for the digivice!” Davis yelled. Flamedramon followed Davis’ advice and shot an attack straight at the digivice, but Geniemon intercepted it. “Davis I can’t he keeps blocking my attacks.” Flamedramon yelled, shooting another attack at the digivice. “Just keep fighting!” Davis ran over to Polarmon who was staring at Iris is shock, “Hey Polarmon!’ Davis tapped polarmon’s shoulder to get her attention. “Iris!” she yelled. “Polarmon!” Davis yelled over the sounds of battle, “Polarmon, go and get the digivice.” Polarmon immediately jumped into action. She ran over to Iris, avoiding the two battling Flamedramons’ with a catlike grace. She leapt into the air and snatched the digivice out of Iris’ hands with her mouth. Geniemon let out a spine tingling wail as it returned back into the digivice. Iris fell limply too the floor with a thud. “Iris!” Polarmon yelled, dropping the digivice and running over to her aid. She nudged Iris’ face with her paw, attempting to wake her. She was successful as Iris’ eyes fluttered open. “Iris your okay.” Polarmon said joyfully. “What happened?” She asked sitting up and rubbing her head; “all I remember is being surrounded by this light and then its all a blank.” “It doesn’t matter, I’ll tell you later, I’m just glad your okay.” “Hey guys I think I found the problem.” Davis said bringing the digivice over and showing it to the others, “I think its this gold thingy.” He pointed to a small golden emblem stuck on the back of the digivice. “If I can get this off…” He said pulling at the emblem; it came off with a small clink. Davis looked it over it was quite pretty. It was engraved with small indefinable symbols. He guessed that it meant something, maybe a warning. It didn’t really matter anyway, if he kept it, it might somehow unleash itself again. He ran his eyes across it once more before throwing it into the pool. With a quite ‘plunk’ the emblem was gone. ** “Hello Mrs. Kamiya, yes I was wondering if you’ve seen Davis? … You haven’t…well if you see him could you please tell me… thank you anyway…good bye.” “Any luck?” June asked their mother. “No he’s not there either.” Davis’ mother replied “Where could that little brat be?” June asked herself. “June do you have idea why Davis would run away like this?” Their mother asked, “has he been having any trouble at school or anything?” “I don’t know mother, I don’t have any idea why he would do something like this.” Joan hugged her mother, as she started to cry. ** “Mistress Witchmon, we have destroyed most digimon villages in the area.” The Bakemon delivering the news materialized in front of Witchmon’s throne. “Very good.” She said in her croaky voice, “this is what I expect from you.” “But…” The Bakemon continued, “We have learned that the digidestined are also in the area.” “What?” Witchmon asked, her eyes turning red with anger, “Why didn’t you destroy them?” “Well… we must be cautious of the digidestined…” The Bakemon trailed off. “What do you mean ‘be cautious’ of the digidestined? Are you implying that I cannot defeat the digidestined?” “No mistress Witchmon… it’s just I have learned they are very powerful… and you know what happened to the other dark lords….” Witchmon’s eyes lit up with rage. “So are you saying I am the same as those pushovers?” “No mistress Witchmon…” the Bakemon was cut off by a crackling sound. Witchmon had formed a ball of blue fire in the palm of her hand. She threw it at the unfortunate Bakemon. There was a terrible howl and the Bakemon was disintegrated. “Now let that be a lesson to all you other digimon who try to defy me.” She screeched through the halls of her castle. Every digimon in earshot cringed with fear of their powerful leader. ** “So can you tell me what happened before?” Iris asked Davis across the fire. Davis’ eyes didn’t shift from the fire when he replied. “You were possessed,” He glanced at her, her face was lit by the fire enhancing her pretty featured and sapphires eyes, “You were possessed by Geniemon. Flamedramon tried to save you but he wasn’t strong enough…” He trailed off shifting his gaze back to the fire. “So what happened?” “Polarmon saved you, she grabbed to digivice out of your hands, and after that Geniemon just disappeared.” Iris looked over to Polarmon, she was sleeping snugly next to the fire, and Veemon was using her a makeshift pillow. “Did she digivolve?” “No… I’m guessing Geniemon stopped her, but if you try again it should work.” They sat in silence for many minutes. Iris broke the silence. “Are we going to go back to the real world tomorrow?” Davis didn’t answer her, just stared into the fire, “Davis?” “Hmm?” His eyes met her across the fire; she could see tears starting to well up in his eyes. “Nothing… I’m going to go to sleep now, goodnight.” She lay down next to the fire, trying the best she could to make herself comfortable. Davis watched as she shifted on the hard ground. She somehow reminded him of Kari. Although they look nothing alike, and they act completely different, he just thought of Kari every time he looked at her. He gave a long sigh, Kari. He couldn’t help but think of her, he had liked her for so long, three years is a long time to have a crush on someone. Why did she have to hurt him like that, the way her and TK were so close drove him mad. She said they were ‘best friends’ but Davis knew better than that. He knew they liked each other, maybe even loved each other. She always told him there was nothing there but she couldn’t fool Daisuke Motomiya. Although he knew she thought he was dumb, everybody thought he was dumb. The way they had been treating him recently showed how dumb they thought he was. They’d always leave him out of their little outings and thought they could hide it, every time he’d walk in the room their conversations would stop and they’d all greet him, with their mocking eyes and cynical smirks. Well from now on it wouldn’t be like that, from now on he was going to show them his true self, but first he had to get over Kari. She was the basis of his little act, if he could get rid of her then he wouldn’t be bothered by his need to impress her. He told himself over and over again that he was over Kari, and he almost half believed himself, that was until he looked over to Iris. Memories of Kari came flooding back into his head. Why was it she reminded him of Kari? Was it because she had the same soft look in her eyes, was it the way she talked? No that wasn’t it at all… He thought of all the reasons he liked Kari, and then it clicked. She reminded him of Kari because he was attracted to her. ** “Hey Yolie, did Davis’ mum call you last night?” Kari walked up to the counter of Yolie’s shop. There weren’t any customers right now, so Kari decided to talk with Yolie. “Yeah she did actually, he didn’t come home last night.” Yolie finished cleaning the counter, she took off her apron and lay it across the counter, “why would he run away?” “I don’t know…” Kari said staring off into the distance. “He never seemed like the kind of person who would run away, especially before a soccer game.” “I think I know why he… ran away.” “You do, shouldn’t you tell his parents?” “I can’t do that,” Kari snapped out of her trance and looked Yolie in the eye, tears were starting to form in the corner of her eyes, “It’s my fault that he ran away.” “How could it be your fault?” “I blew him off, “ She sniffled trying to keep her tears at bay, “He wanted me to go and watch him play soccer, but I told him I had to watch TK play basketball. It’s all my fault and now Davis is out there somewhere. Who know maybe he could even be dead.” She broke into a hysterical sobbing fit. Yolie rushed around the counter to comfort her friend. “Don’t cry Kari, it’s not your fault Davis is so strong headed.” Kari noticeably settled down, her hysterical sobs merely became small hiccups. Tears still split out of her brown eyes. “But I can’t help feel partly responsible,” She said between sobs, “I’ve been ignoring him for the past few weeks.” “I too feel pretty bad,” Confessed Yolie, “I remember he came in here to help a couple of nights ago and I kicked him out because he was messing up the cash register.” “I guess maybe if we paid more attention to him he wouldn’t have done this, I can only imagine how his parents feel. He may be a brat sometimes but that doesn’t matter.” “I feel really bad now cause we always used to tease him for being dumb, we really shouldn’t have been so mean.” “We shouldn’t really worry ourselves so much, I mean he doesn’t have any money, so how far could he go? You know what they sat ‘the apple never falls far from the tree” they both looked at each other knowingly. “You don’t think…” Yolie started “He could have gone to the digiworld?” Kari finished. They both got up and run out of the store. Yolie’s mother walked in just as Yolie and Kari ran out. “Yolie! Where are you going?” She yelled, but they were already out of earshot. ** Iris awoke the next morning next to the ember of the fire. She sat up and stretched her back. She flinched as pain shot up her spine; she must have slept on it funny. She glanced over the group, her eyes lingering on Davis. What strange twist of fate brought them together? She would be forever grateful towards him; he had saved her from the digiworld. When she was first trapped here she thought she would never get out. She thought she would be stuck in here forever. She let her eyes wander over his face, his eyes fluttered occasionally, and he would mumble something unintelligible. His messy brown hair looked even messier, if that was at possible. She thought he was quite handsome. She blushed at the thought, she had never like someone before, and she wasn’t quite sure if she liked Davis. He started to stir; his eyes fluttered open and looked directly into hers. She blushed and looked down at her lap. Davis rubbed his eyes and sat up. “Good morning. “ he croaked, he stretched out his arms out over his head, “I hate sleeping on the ground, my back hurts like hell.” He said getting up and stretching his legs. He walked over to Veemon and Polarmon who hadn’t moved since last night. He knelt down beside them and smirked evilly at Veemon. She looked up at her that same smirk on his face. “Do you have a bucket or something?” he asked her. She smiled at him and grabbed her bag. She pulled out her canteen and threw it too him, he walked over to the pool and filled up the canteen with the freezing water. Her crept back over and kneeled back down next to the two digimon. He slowly poured the ice-clod water over the both of them. Veemon jumped up with a yelp and knocked Davis over. Polarmon sat up and shook the water out of her fur. “What did you do that for!?” Veemon yelled at Davis who was laughing hysterically. Iris tried to keep the smirk off her face but failed, she started giggling at Veemon who was using Davis’ T-shirt as a towel. Davis settle down enough to get a few words in. “You-you should have seen your face.” he burst out in fits of laughter. “Not funny.” Veemon pouted. “I’m sorry,” He said calming down and wiping tears away from his eyes, “it was just to irresistible.” He sat up and rubbed his eyes, still giggling. “Hey Davis won’t your parents be wondering where you’ve been all night?” Veemon asked, changing the subject. “Nah they won’t care, they’ll just think I’m at Tai’s place.” He discarded the idea with a wave of his hand. “Hey umm Davis…” Iris interrupted, “Are we going to the real world today?” Davis stared at her long before answering. “Sure…we can go now if you want.” “Really?” her eyes lit up with hope. “Yeah lets go!” He jumped up and walked over to the TV. Iris grabbed her stuff and followed him over to the TV, she watched him pull out his digivice. “You gotta use your digivice to get back.” He said watching her pull hers out of her pocket. He held his digivice up to the TV screen and yelled, “Digiport open!” Iris found herself flying through a tunnel made up of symbols and pictures. They were familiar, how could she not know what they were, she’d been to so many temples and old digimon ruins she couldn’t count them on her fingers and toes. These symbols were everywhere. She couldn’t understand them though. They were surrounded by a blinding white light; this was obviously the end of the tunnel. She tumbled out of the tunnel on top of Davis. “We really gotta put some cushions here.” He muttered from underneath her. “Sorry.” She said getting up off him and helping him up. “Don’t worry it happens all the time.” He said dusting himself off. “Yeah Davis is always on the bottom,” Veemon chimed in. Iris turned her attention to the two digimon. “Snowmon?” Iris looked at her digimon in shock; “You changed?” “That happens when ever digimon come into the real world.” Davis explained. Iris turned her attention to the door. “There’s someone out there.” She said moving closer. “There shouldn’t be, it’s a Saturday.” Davis said thoughtfully. He now heard what Iris was talking about. There were two sets of footsteps running through the halls. “Don’t they know they’re not supposed to run in the halls.” Davis said walking to stand behind Iris. The footsteps were getting louder and he could now hear voices to go with the feet. “Do you really think he’s in the digiworld?” “It’s worth a try.” Davis heart skipped a beat at the sound of the second voice. “Kari?” He whispered. “Who’s Kari?” Iris asked. All of a sudden two girls ran through the door, almost knocking Iris over. She yelped in surprise, alerting the other two girls of her presence. The girls both screamed in unison. “Davis!” The brown headed one called. She threw herself into Davis’ arms and started crying, “We were all so worried about you, your mother thought you ran away.” “She did what?” Davis asked half surprised by the news but even more so by the fact Kari was hugging him. “Who’s she?” Yolie asked pointing to Iris. Davis snapped out of his trance when Kari let go of him, “Oh sorry I didn’t introduce you guys. This is Iris.” He motioned towards her, “And Iris this is Kari, and Yolie.” He pointed out each separately. “Did she come from the digiworld?” Yolie asked. “Yeah she’s a destined.” “She is?” Kari asked. “Yep and I’m her digimon.” Snowmon interrupted. The small snowman digimon walked between the other girls and stood next to Iris. “That’s so cute.” Yolie exclaimed “Anyway, my mom thinks I ran away?” Davis asked “Yeah she was so worried about you. She rang everyone you know.” “Gosh I didn’t know, I thought she would have thought I was at Tai’s house.” “Everyone’s been looking for you. She’s even got the police looking for you.” “I better get home.” Davis said making his was towards the door. “Wait who’s Iris gonna stay with?” Yolie asked looking sympathetically at Iris, “Do you have any family in Japan?” “Not anymore, even if they lived in the same place they probably don’t remember me.” “I’m sorry, what happened to you anyway? I mean how did you get into the digiworld?” Kari asked “It’s a long story and now is not the time to talk about it.” “So who you gonna stay with?” Davis asked, “I mean you can stay with me if you want.” “No she’s staying with me.” Kari butted in; ”The last thing she needs is to be staying in your room Davis.” Davis blushed obviously at the statement. “I guess your right, anyway I gotta get home, I’m gonna be in so much trouble.” With that Davis ran out the door into the halls, Veemon following closely after. “Well we better be going too.” Kari said leading Iris out of the computer room. ** “Did you find the digidestined?” Witchmon asked the Meramon that stood in front of her throne. “Well we found them but…” the Meramon trailed off remembering what had happened to the last news bearer. “But…” Witchmon chided. “But they got away before we could launch our attack.” “Well why didn’t you follow them?” “Well they got sucked into this TV.” “A TV you say?” Witchmon coolly asked “Yes, a TV” “What do you take me for?” She asked in her old voice. “Wha…” The Meramon was cut off by a huge icicle that came flying its way. It let out a haunting scream before disappearing completely. “DAMN YOU DIGIDESTINED!” She bellowed, her screeching voice echoed hauntingly off the castle walls. ** “So how did you get into the digiworld again?” Kari asked Iris. They shared the bunk bed Kari and Tai had once shared, until Tai moved out. “Well it’s a long story,” “That’s alright I’m in the mood for long stories.” “Alright, it happened when I was about eight years old. My family was on holiday in San Francisco. I was with my father at the time, he had told me to stay put while he went to get us some hot dogs. But I was way too impatient, I saw this toy store across the road, and it looked very appealing. I looked both ways to check if there was any cars coming, and then I crossed. You could tell the surprise I face when this tram came out of nowhere and slammed into me. When I woke up I was in the digiworld and Snowmon was next to me. I’ve been stuck in there ever since, looking for a way to get back.” “And then Davis turned up in the same place you were.” Yeah….” Iris trailed off into silence. “What is it between you and Davis?” Iris asked out of the blue. “Huh? Oh there’s nothing between me and him, we’re just friends.” Kari replied. “Funny, he doesn’t seem to think so.” “What? How do you know?” Iris could hear Kari sit up, then her head popped out over the side of her bed. “Well it’s pretty obvious, the way he was looking at you when you hugged him,” Iris explained. “So that doesn’t mean anything.” Kari objected. “And he talks about you in his sleep.” “Really?” “Yup, at first I thought it was some sort of food, but then I learned who you were.” “You thought I was food?” Kari asked feigning the hurt in her voice. “Well I’ve never really dealt with boys and girls before, if you know what I mean.” “Yeah I guess your right.” Kari pulled her head back up and lay back down, “So what do you think of Davis?” She asked in a playful voice. Iris could feel her face flush with embarrassment, luckily Kari couldn’t see her. “I don’t know…” she trailed off. “Well he did save you from the digital world, if someone saved me like that I’d like them for sure.” “You would?” Iris asked surprised, so that’s the way things worked? “Well they’d have too be good looking.” “Like who?” Iris chided. “No one.” Kari replied playfully, “You wouldn’t know him anyway.” “Of course I wouldn’t know him, the only boy I know is Davis, so unless its him then…” “Good point.” Kari said thoughtfully, “Well I’m tired now and you’ve got a big day ahead of you, we better get some sleep.” With a yawn Iris fell asleep. ** “Ma, I’m home!” Davis called as he walked through the door. “Davis?” His mother called running out to meet him, “Davis where have you been? I’ve been so worried about you, you’re not hurt are you?” She started inspecting his body for scratches or bruises. “Ma I’m fine.” Davis said backing away from his mother. She looked at him for a second then wrapped him in a tight hug. “I’m so glad you’re okay, don’t you ever do that to me again you hear.” “Yeah…” “Davis you worried your mother so much what were you thinking?” His father scalded him. “Where were you anyway?” June interrupted. “Yeah where were you?” His mother parroted. “I… well…uh…” he trailed off into silence. His family waited expectantly, “I fell asleep in detention and I woke up in the computer room.” “You stupid boy.” His mother said hugging him again. Davis let out a sigh of relief, he’d got away wit hit this time, but if he were to try that again he’d get his butt kicked. After his mother had finished fawning over his return her retired to his room. He never got used to sleeping on the floor and his back ached like hell. Unluckily for him he was stopped by June. “I know you’re lying, where were you really?” “You don’t know that I’m lying.” He said coolly “You just admitted it.” “No I didn’t.” He tried to maneuver around June but every time she’d move to block his way. “Tell me the truth.” “No just be satisfied with my story, a bad excuse is better than none.” “Fine but I’ll get it out of you eventually.” She warned him and walked off. “Stupid June.” He muttered and walked into his room. He flopped down on his bead and almost immediately went to sleep, if it wasn’t for that muffled rustling. “Veemon!” He exclaimed jumping up and unzipping his bag, releasing Demiveemon. “I saw my life flash before my eyes.” He said before falling down in a heap. Davis picked up the small digimon and placed him on his stomach when he lay down. “You’re in a lighter mood today.” Demiveemon pointed out. “Hmm she was worried about me…” He said, a huge grin plastered on is face. “I thought you were over her.” “I thought I was too, but then I saw her…” “This is sad.” Demiveemon jumped off Davis and hopped onto the shelf he usually sat on, ”take my advice Davis, get over her. She’s not worth it, she’ll only break your heart.” “What would you know?” Davis snapped. “More than some love struck fool.” Davis didn’t reply to that. He lay in silence for a while. “What do you suggest I do then? Oh great guru, how do I get over her?” “Find someone else.” Demiveemon simple stated. “Like who?” “That is completely up to you. I just think if you want to get over her, find someone else.” “But no one can compare to her.” Davis whined. “Then I guess you’ll just have to live your life pining after Kari…” Davis thought long and hard about that, was there any one who could compare to her? Iris was very pretty but he didn’t even know the girl, all he knew was she’d been living in the digiworld for half her life. How could he get over someone he had been in love with for so many years anyway? It’s not as simple as that, Veemon just wouldn’t understand. Love is more complicated than that. |