Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Connections Revealed ❯ Tamers and Digidestined ( Chapter 8 )

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TAMERS AND DIGIDESTINED

PART 1:

A MEETING OF FATE

"Are you two digidestined?" Kari asked.

Takato gulped nervously. "Uh, in a way."

The way Takato had nervously answered her question made Kari even more curious about her two new friends. Still she hadn't seen any digimon with them.

"So where are your partners? Shouldn't they be with you?"

"Renamon is my partner, but we got separated before I came here." Said Rika.

"Oh I'm sure you'll find each other. And what about your partner Takato?" Kari said.

Takato stopped walking and looked straight at Kari. Kari felt herself gasp as she saw the expression of emotion in Takato's eyes. `Such pain and sadness! I wonder what happened to him.' The sadness in Takato's eyes was soon replaced by an anger that had shivers running down Kari's spine. Rika suddenly grabbed Takato's shoulder.

"Easy Takato. She doesn't know." Said Rika.

Takato nodded and resumed walking silently. Sensing that she was missing something, Kari walked next to Rika.

"Rika what was that all about?" she asked.

"Look I think it's best that you let the subject drop." Said Rika.

"But…"

"Mynah Hah. Well look what I found. Don't think that you'll get away from me this time Takato Matsuki."

Looking up Kari was surprised to see a virus digimon floating above them. There had not been any evil digimon since the defeat of MaloMyotismon. She hadn't thought three would be another one. Rika's reaction was slightly different. Grabbing Kari's arm she started to run. `I hate to run but without Renamon there's just no way I can fight this guy.' Thought Rika.

"What about Takato?" asked Kari.

That stopped Rika cold. In her haste she had forgotten all about Takato. Looking back Rika saw that Takato was gripping his d-arc, glaring at Mephistomon.

"Not now Takato. You're in no shape to fight." Mutters Rika.

But before Takato could digivolve.

"Pepper breath!"

The small fire ball hit Mephistomon in the back. Mephistomon turned and glared at his sudden attacker. The attack had not hurt, but it had annoyed him.

"Who dares attack me?" demanded Mephistomon.

"We dare! Now why are you attacking my sister?" Tai asked as he stepped behind Agumon.

"The girl? Bah, the girl means nothing to me. The one I want is…." Said Mephistomon.

"Me!" Gallantmon said as he suddenly struck Mephistomon with his lance.

Tai watched startled as Gallantmon stood between them and Mephistomon. `Who is this guy?' thought Tai. Mephistomon growled. He had not expected Matsuki to be able to digivolve so soon. Despite his strength, Mephistomon knew that he could not defeat Gallantmon. Not head on any way.

"We shall meet again Gallantmon." Mephistomon said as he started to fly away.

Gallantmon shook his head. "Wrong. We won't meet. Not ever again! Lightning joust!"

The attack ripped through Mephistomon deleting him instantly. Tai and Kari just stared in horror. Both had thought the days of digimon deleting digimon were over. Tai looked Gallantmon over with a frown. At first Tai had thought the knight digimon to be one of the good guys. Now he wasn't too sure. Rika was the only one who was not afraid. In fact she was smiling when Gallantmon approached them.

Gallantmon groaned inwardly as he felt his strength leave him. Dropping to his knees, Gallantmon focused on changing back to his human form. The two digidestined watched stunned, as Gallantmon dropped to his knees and began glowing. Rika, having seen this before, began running towards Gallantmon. In a bright flash the holy knight had returned to being Takato. But he was not alone. Lying next to the white haired boy was none other than Calumon. Rika gasped in surprise. When they had exited the dimensional rift she had thought the white digimon to be lost.

Tai just stood there with his jaw hanging open. He had just witnessed the impossible. A digimon that had just split into another digimon and a human. Rika knelt besides Takato as the white hair youth collapsed onto the ground. Seeing that Kari and Tai were still just staring at them, Rika frowned.

"Hey quiet staring you two and give me a hand!" Rika snarled.

Startled Kari and Tai immediately rushed to help.

"Is there someplace that we can take them?" asked Rika.

Tai nodded. "Yeah. We can take him to our place."

As Tai carried Takato Rika found herself once again being questioned by Kari. The digidestined of light simply would not let the situation with Mephistomon drop. Rika sighed as she looked down at what was in her arms. Calumon seemed to be extremely weak after being split from Takato. Rika wondered silently just how the two had gotten merged in the first place.

"Come on Rika why won't you tell us what's going on here?" Kari asked again.

"…"

Tai shook his head. As much as he wanted answers he could tell that this Rika was not going to give them any just yet. As they neared their apartment Tai saw Matt and T.K. waiting for them. Both had looks of concern. Tai frowned. He hadn't known that they were coming over today. T.K. usually came over to see Kari, but Matt hardly visited. In fact he only did when there was an emergency. The fact that they were both there now did not bode well.

"Matt what are you guys doing here?" asked Tai.

"We got a problem Tai. A really big one. Who are your friends?" Matt said.

"It's a long story. Can you get the door Matt. Takato is starting to get heavy." Said Tai.

Matt sighed as he took the keys from Tai and opened the door. He noticed the red head followed Tai immediately inside. T.K. and Kari were the next to go in. Both glancing at each other when the other wasn't looking. Shaking his head, Matt followed them. If the current situation was not so serious he would encourage T.K. to ask Kari out.

Stepping into the apartment Matt suddenly found himself staring directly into Tai's face. The look in his eyes now serious.

"Okay Matt what is the problem?" Tai asked bluntly.

"I got a message from Izzy. He says that Gennai contacted him an hour or so ago with disturbing news."

"What disturbing news?" asked Kari.

"Daemon has escaped." Said T.K.

Kari gasped. "Is that even possible."

"Oh it's possible alright. I was there. I saw it happen."

The digidestined turned to Rika who was sitting on the couch with Takato's head on her lap. Her eyes never leaving Takato's face. Again Matt frowned. `If she was there what about her friend?' he wondered. Rika seemed to know what Matt and the others were thinking and looked up straight at them.

"We weren't there by choice. Daemon needed Takato's power to help him escape. So he had us kidnapped and brought to him." She said.

"Takato's power? What do you mean?" asked T.K.

"He's half digimon." Was all Rika said.

A collective "What!" could be heard throughout the apartment.

"That's not possible." Said Tai.

"Actually it is." A weak voice said.

They all looked to see Takato awake and trying to sit up. However Rika was having none of it. Pushing Takato back down, she looked at him sternly.

"Take it was easy goggle head. I think we're safe for the moment, so just rest." She said.

"Your wrong Rika. None of us are safe while Daemon's free." Takato murmured closing his eyes.

Kari looked down at Takato worryingly.

"Is he going to be all right?" she asked Rika.

"I don't know. Daemon put both him and Calumon through quite a bit just so he could escape." Sighed Rika.

"Perhaps you should tell us why Daemon wanted Takato. We might be able to help you if you trust us." Said T.K.

Rika thought about it for a moment then nodded in agreement.

"Fine. But you better get the rest of the digidestined here first. I don't want to repeat myself."

Back in the Tamers reality…

Shibumi grinned. It had taken him some time, but he had finally been able to track Takato's digital signal. At first they had tried to follow Mephistomon's digital data but it had vanished too quickly. But for some reason Takato's was still coming in strong.

"Yamaki I think I got it." Shibumi said.

Yamaki walked over. "Are you sure?"

"Yes. The problem is how we are going to get them."

"I've been working on that. I've created a program that should help us."

Shibumi raised an eyebrow. "What do you call this program of yours?"

"Granni."

The digital world, Eastern Quadrant….

Daemon laughed once again. Free! He was free and soon the digidestined would feel his wrath. They and their pathetic digimon would be spared only long enough to witness their precious digital world being plunged into darkness.

The digidestineds' real world….

Takato couldn't help but stare in awe at the sight in front of him. He had waken up to find more than five faces staring at him. It took him only a moment to recognize the faces before him. The digidestined, both old and new.

"Well goggles do you want to tell them or should I?" asked Rika.

"No, I'll do it." Takato then told his tale to the digidestined.

Several of the digidestined had looks of shock when Takato told them of his parents' fate. The digidestined continued to wince as they heard the rest of Takato's story. There was no doubt in their minds, Takato had definitely been through hell and back. As he listened Izzy became intrigued. A human and digimon merging to create a hybrid of both. Such a thing shouldn't be possible and yet the proof stood there in front of him.

"So your body is a combination of yours and your partner's?" asked Sora.

"Well I'm not really sure. My mega form might be, but I think this form is kinda default setting. Wish Yamaki was here. He could explain it better than I can." Said Takato.

Speaking of Yamaki…

Yamaki looked at the children that stood in front of him. Every single one of had wanted to go on this rescue mission. Even though only one of them had a digimon partner.

"Are you sure that you want to do this?" he asked.

Henry nodded. "Yes. Takato and Rika are my friends. If I can help them in any way then I will."

"The same goes for us. Chumly needs our help so lets just go." Said Kazu.

"And besides Leomon, Renamon, and Impmon have agreed to with as well." Added Kenta.

"That's nice Kazu, but how are we going to get there?" asked Jeri.

"That's where this comes in." Yamaki said.

Henry and the others stared in shock at the great d-arc that stood behind Yamaki. (A.N.: I know that this isn't what the ark looked like in the show but I can't remember how it did.)

"This is an artificial digimon that I and the monster makers created to help you. It is called Granni."

"Yamaki it doesn't look anything like a digimon, more like my d-arc." Henry pointed out.

"Right now no. But once you get where you're going its programming will reformat its form."

Leomon looked at Granni with a raised eyebrow. "Interesting."

"We're just wasting time." Renamon said.

After everyone had boarded it, Granni floated up into the air and then faded from sight. Yamaki watched them leave, a look of concern and regret on his face. `Good luck kids, your going to need it.'

Back to the Digidestined….

"Feeling better goggles?" asked Rika.

Takato nodded. "Yeah. Now that I explained everything what now?"

"Ken and I will work on a way to get you two home. Gennai might be able to help us as well." Said Izzy.

"Don't forget there's still Daemon to deal with." Said T.K.

"Don't worry about it TJ. We'll beat Daemon you just got to have faith." Boasted Davis.

Yolei shook her head. Same old Davis, nothing daunts him. Standing up she said her good byes and left with Ken. Soon all the digidestined, but Kari and Tai had left. Takato looked out the window and noticed that it was now raining. `I hope that isn't a bad omen.'

"Until this is over your welcome to stay here with us." Offered Tai.

Takato sighed. "That's fine for Rika, but I don't think I should stay."

Rika glared at Takato. She couldn't believe he had just said that. From the startled looks on Tai and Kari, neither had they. The Takato she knew wouldn't normally say something like this. There had to be another reason. And Rika was determined to find out what it was.

"You can't mean that." Said Kari.

"It would be for your own protection. Calumon might be safe here, but not if I'm still here. Daemon found me once he could do so again." Takato said.

"That's a bunch of bull! There's something else behind this. What is it?" growled Rika.

Takato smiled weakly. "I never could fool you. Alright. I can still feel some of the dark energy Daemon used. Its weak, but still there. I'm scared of what could happen if it starts to grow. I could wind up hurting you."

Rika just stared at Takato in shock. She had not expected such an answer. Not knowing what to say Rika merely wrapped her arms around Takato.

Through all this the rain outside continued to pour down harder and harder.

The Place between dimensions….

Henry thumbed through his cards for the third time since they had left Hypnos. Briefly he looked to see what the others were doing. Kazu and Kenta were trying to explain the card game to Jeri. Admittly they were doing it some what lamely. Terriermon and Leomon were conversing. Off in a corner Renamon was trying to meditate. Hearing a sigh, Henry looked up to see Impmon standing next to him.

The virus digimon seemed as unsettled as Henry felt. A fireball kept appearing in and out over Impmon's opening and closing fist. `Yep. Definitely unsettled.' Thought Henry.

"Do ya think goggle head is ok?" asked Impmon.

"Knowing Takato probably not. Still, I wouldn't worry too much. After all he's got Rika with him." Said Henry.

"That doesn't really reassure me." Impmon said.

Henry chuckled. "Heh. Good point."

"Hey Henry help us over here will ya." Called Kazu.

"Yeah Henry. Jeri needs someone better than those two to teach her how to play." Terriermon.

Shaking his head, Henry got to his feet and walked over to where Jeri, Kenta, and Kazu were sitting. Sitting next to Jeri, Henry patiently began explaining the cards to her. Impmon watched this for a few minutes before going back to his silent brooding. `Hang on goggle head. Help is on the way.' He thought.

TO BE CONTINUED…..

Howling Wolf: Well there's the first of part of the new chapter. The next part will have more action as the tamers and Digidestined band together to defeat Daemon's newest servant.