Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ South Digimon Diaries ❯ Opening Up ( Chapter 4 )

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South Digimon Diaries

The story of the Digi-Destined from Argentina.

By Persona

Notes from the author: This story is a fanfic, nowhere in Digimon 01 or 02 have

anyone ever mentioned the chosen from Argentina, still according to Toei, there

IS at least one Chosen or Digi-Destined in every country of the world, so this

story COULD have happened.

Second of all, english is my second language, but I think I'm good enough at it

so you'll understand this. The characters in this story will be talking in

spanish of course, except when stated otherwise.

As far as I know, the only guy in Digimon that spoke spanish had been Ken.

Third. The Argentinean version of Digimon 01 and 02 is a loyal translation from

the original Japanese (from what I know, the US version had many things cut out,

kanji erased and stuff like that) so if there is any difference from what you

saw, it was not my intention.

One more thing, I'm setting this up in the 'universe' created by Lord Archive

(after asking for his permission) known as Red Digivice Diaries and War Diaries

Adventures 03, if you whish to read it, you can find it at Fanfiction.net and

Mediaminer.org

Lord Archive has helped me clear up some things regarding his timeline so this

fic would not contradict his.

Please keep in mind that Argentina is on the other side of the equator, so when

up there is summer down here is winter and vice versa.

Any other things that I think are worth explaining will be so at the end of the

story.

Well, with that settled, on with the story.

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Chapter four: Opening up

A ten years old Julia was at her house's garage.

Her parents had bought her a brand new bicycle, and she was more than eager to

use it. It was still a few hours for her parents to take her to hockey practice,

so she had plenty of time.

Her dad had told her not to use it until he attached a pair of helping wheels on

it. But she didn't care. She was a big girl, she could do anything!

Without her parents knowing it, she took her new bike and opened the garage's

side door, which was big enough for her and the bike to go out.

Once she was out on the street she looked around, seeing nobody, she started to

try and get on her bike.

It was a good thing she was wearing a T-shirt and jean shorts, or else her

clothes might have got caught on the wheels. Still, due to her inexperience, she

had trouble getting on the bike.

When she finally did get on the bike, Julia frowned as she discovered that she

had to keep at least one foot on the floor or she would fall to a side.

But that didn't stop her, after a few awkward moves of her feet, she finally got

an idea.

Using both feet, she pushed the bike forwards a small distance, and then placed

her feet on the pedals and started pedaling.

That lasted only a few seconds, she quickly found out that she wasn't going fast

enough, nor was she able to control the bike correctly.

With a yelp, Julia fell down to the right, taking the full impact on her arm,

and her bike falling on her.

Julia felt pain in her arm, a pain so intense that she did the only thing she

knew. She started to cry.

So loud was she crying that it only took her parents a few minutes to find her

laid down on the street, with her new bike over her and her arm twisted where it

shouldn't have been.

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Julia woke up as her dream ended. It was still very early since the sun was

barely coming up the horizon.

Julia's eyes started to get glassy with tears. She stayed in bed as she sobbed

quietly.

One day.

It had just been one day since she returned to the Digital World to get Piyomon

like she had said she would. It wasn't a long trip; she hadn't even seen David

while she was there. When going to the real world, Piyomon turned back into her

baby stage of Pyocomon, since Julia's power wasn't enough to maintain a

relatively inexperienced Digimon at child level in the real world.

When they were back in Julia's room, Pyocomon had told Julia the same story that

Candmon had told her the day before.

It was too much for the young girl.

The e-mail from Gennai, telling her why David had been absorbed into the Digital

World in the first place, and why he couldn't come back.

The story that Candmon told Pyocomon, in which she learned the hardships and

pains that David had to suffer from being alone in a hostile world without the

means to come back.

And now this dream, which made Julia remember in every single detail how she had

broke her arm. How she had been stubborn, and used the bike even when her

parents told her not to.

It was her fault! It was all her fault!

She was responsible of David's suffering! The day she broke her arm she had been

supposed to go to the club for hockey practice, but instead she was stubborn and

injured herself by using her bike when she didn't know how and had to be taken

to the hospital.

Because of that, she hadn't been where she had been supposed to and instead of

both of them getting their Digimon partners, David was absorbed into the Digital

World.

She had become a Digi-Destined then, but she didn't know that that was what the

small video game thing she found meant.

Because of her, David had to suffer terribly, had to run away day after day from

hungry Digimon, had to watch in helplessness how many innocent baby Digimon were

killed in front of him. Because of her, David had to kill.

As she told herself of all thing things, her sobs came completely unabashed, she

wrapped herself in a tight ball as she wept.

The movement on the bed caused Pyocomon, which had stayed in Julia's room and

was sleeping next to her on her bed, to wake up.

The small pink bird noticed Julia's position and heard her soft cries. Worried

for her partner, the baby Digimon stood up on the bed and walked closer to

Julia.

"Julia? What's wrong? Why are you crying?" asked a worried Pyocomon.

"Pyocomon, it's all my fault." cried Julia.

"What do you mean? What's your fault?" asked Pyocomon again.

"What happened to David. All his suffering, all his pain, it's all my fault."

responded the young girl.

"Julia what are you saying? How can it be your fault?"

"I broke my arm because I was too proud and too stubborn to admit that I

couldn't ride a bike without help. Because of that, I wasn't where I was

supposed to, and so David ended up in the Digital World." explained Julia.

"Julia that's nonsense. How could you have known that that was going to happen?"

"If you do something wrong and something happens to someone because of it, but

you don't know about it, does that make you less guilty of what happened to that

someone? Ignorance is a crime all by itself." asked Julia.

Pyocomon looked down, she couldn't find an answer to that. "Julia, even if it is

your fault... what can you do about it? You can't go back in time and fix it."

"I know... but I have to do something. I can't help but to feel guilty about

it." Julia stood up and wiped her tears with the sleeve of her white pajama.

Then she stood up and silently started to undress.

Pyocomon watched Julia as she was left wearing only her bra and panties, she

couldn't say anything as Julia's response had reminded her of what Candmon said

about him and David. How had him been stronger, David wouldn't have gone trough

all the suffering and pain.

Both felt guilty because they didn't do something, and because they didn't do

something someone else suffered a great pain. But were they really guilty? Is

someone guilty for not being able to help someone because they're too weak or

they don't know what to do?

Pyocomon remembered what had happened after she met Julia the first time, when

that Kuwagamon attacked them. She had tried to protect Julia, but she was too

weak to beat that Kuwagamon. If David and Meramon hadn't shown up then, Julia

would have died then at the hands of that Kuwagamon, and she would have been

helpless to stop it. Did that make her guilty for Julia's death? Maybe not by

other people's standards, but she would surely feel guilty about it for the rest

of her life.

Thinking that, Pyocomon now had a more deep understanding about Julia's and

Candmon's feelings regarding all this.

"So, what are you going to do?" asked the baby Digimon.

Julia picked up a shirt from her closet and started to button it up, "Well, for

starters I'm going downstairs to get some breakfast and bring you some so you

can eat too. And then we're going to the Digital World again." Julia picked up a

skirt and also put it on.

Pyocomon nodded, "Okay. But how exactly are you going to help David?"

Julia was putting on a pair of tennis shoes as she answered, "I... I'm just

going to be there for him. Neither of us got a choice about being a

Digi-Destined, it just happened. At first he was alone in this, but not anymore.

Now there's two of us, and I'm going to ease his burden any way I can."

Having finished dressing, Julia walked out of her room. "I'll be right back."

she said to Pyocomon, and then closed the door behind her.

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The Digital World, half and hour later.

Julia and Piyomon, having evolved back to child level once they were back in the

Digital World, looked around the spot where they appeared in. It was at the

monitor where she left the first time at the edge of the forest.

"So Piyomon, where is it?" asked Julia to her Digimon partner.

"Huh? Where is what?"

"The house that you told me David and Candmon made."

"Huh? I don't know." replied Piyomon.

"What? But you told me that you talked with Candmon after I left." continued

Julia.

"Yeah, but he met me at the forest, I never saw the house and he never told me

where it was." explained Piyomon.

"I see. Oh well, I guess we'll have to look for it by ourselves." Julia started

to walk, "let's go Piyomon."

Piyomon started to follow Julia a second later.

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Digi-Destined and Digimon had been looking around for about an hour when they

found themselves in a big clear place, not even a tree in sight around them.

"Where are we now?" asked Julia as she looked around.

"I'm not sure. I don't remember being here before." replied Piyomon.

"Could you fly higher and get a look around?" asked Julia.

Piyomon nodded and flapped her wings harder to get higher up.

"So? Do you see anything?" asked Julia from below.

"Not really, just..."

Suddenly, she heard a yell behind her.

"Get out of here!" a big humanoid-beast like Digimon, holding two big knives in

each hand and a huge sword attached to his back attacked Piyomon in mid air.

Piyomon managed to dodge the attack, but fell down nonetheless, Julia catches

the pink bird Digimon before she hit the ground.

The attacking Digimon fell on the ground on his feet, and then turned around

looking angrily at them.

"What is that?" asked a surprised and scared Julia.

"Dinohumon." replied Piyomon in Julia's arms.

"Why is he attacking us?" asked Julia, taking a step back as the angry Dinohumon

took a step forward.

"This is my territory! Get out of here!" yelled the angry Digimon as in an

answer to Julia's question.

"We... we are sorry, we didn't know, we'll leave right away and you'll never

hear from us again." said a scared Julia as she took another step back.

Dinohumon took another step forwards, clutching both his weapons more tightly.

"That's what they always say. I had it with you trespassers! I'm gonna make you

an example to all the others!" with that, Dinohumon jumped up and swung his

blade at Julia.

"Heat Cutter!" the blade of his knife turned red as he fell.

Julia screamed but her reflexes allowed her to jump away from the attack. As

soon as she dodged it, she started to run away, looking for cover, still holding

Piyomon in her arms.

Dinohumon looked up from the dust cloud that he made when his attack hit the

floor, saw Julia running away and ran after the girl.

Even if Julia had a head start, she was carrying Piyomon and Dinohumon was a lot

faster than she was. And luck had it, she then tripped on a small pebble.

When she fell, Julia and Piyomon turned around on the floor, looking up to see

Dinohumon getting ready to strike them with both blades.

Piyomon was speechless as it seemed like Dinohumon's blade came at her in slow

motion. Julia screamed in terror and despair, her eyes closed.

But the strike never came, both Heat Cutter attacks were stopped.

Julia opened her eyes and watched in awe how a Meramon, David's Meramon, was

holding Dinohumon's knives with his bare hands, standing between the angry

Digimon and the young girl.

The two Digimon struggled for a while, and then finally Dinohumon gave up and

jumped back and away from Meramon, looking at the fire Digimon defiantly.

"How could you stop my attack!?" exclaimed Dinohumon.

"It's not very effective to use a fire attack against a Digimon that is made out

of fire, don't you think so?" said Meramon in a mocking manner, which only

caused Dinohumon to grit his teeth.

Meramon turned his head a little to look at Julia and Piyomon sitting on the

floor behind him, "Are you okay?"

Julia and Piyomon nodded slowly, still surprised from the turn of events.

Meramon smiled a little, "Don't worry, I'll take care of him," then he looked

straight at Piyomon, "promise." Meramon blinked an eye at Piyomon before turning

his head back at Dinohumon.

Piyomon blushed a little from Meramon's actions, and Julia didn't fail to

notice.

Both adult Digimon faced each other, neither of them wanting to make the first

move.

"Dinohumon! What are you doing!?"

Julia and Piyomon turned their heads to a side as they heard that voice. It was

David, he was walking slowly towards them, his eyes fixed hard on the offending

Digimon.

"I'm tired of all this trespassers getting into my territory! We had an

agreement, nobody comes here and I leave everyone alone!" exclaimed the Digimon.

"This is not of your concern, so get out of here before I kill you too!"

"It is of my concern when you attack innocents. As for you killing me," David

grinned and Julia could see a strange glint in his eyes, "I would love to see

you try."

"Damn you! Argh!" Dinohumon turned his attention back at Meramon, and jumped

towards the fire Digimon, his arms up and ready to strike.

"Fire Punch!" Meramon tossed a fireball at Dinohumon, striking him in mid air

and causing him to fall on his back.

Before Dinohumon had even gotten enough time to stand up, Meramon was already

over him, pinning his arms to the floor with both feet, Meramon smiled in

triumph over the Digimon, and started to punch him over and over in the face.

After about twenty punches, Meramon rose his right arm and was ready to deliver

a Fire Punch at short range.

"No! Stop!" that was Julia. The pleading was so loud that it caused Meramon to

stop his attack and for David to turn around to look at the girl and her Digimon

partner. Julia's eyes looked pleadingly at him.

"Please, just let him go. He learned his lesson, you don't need to kill him."

Julia's eyes were glassy with tears.

David rose an eyebrow, "And why should I listen to you?"

"Don't you understand? For every Digimon that you kill, a little bit of you dies

with it. Please, if there is some humanity left in you, please don't kill him."

a small tear fell down Julia's left cheek.

David looked at Julia, saw her cry. Again, it made him feel uncomfortable. For

some reason that he couldn't explain, he felt that he had to do what she asked

of him.

Slowly, David walked towards Dinohumon who was still being pinned down to the

floor by Meramon. Terrified by the fire Digimon.

David looked down at Dinohumon straight in the eye and in a cold tone he spoke,

"I'm going to let you go this time. But if I ever find out that you messed up in

any way, then I will seek you out day and night until I kill you, and then I

will go to Primary Village just to crush your Digitama. Got that?"

Dinohumon nodded nervously.

David smiled, which was even scarier because of how he did it, "Good boy." He

looked up at Meramon, "okay Meramon, let him go."

Meramon nodded, and stepped off Dinohumon. The beat Digimon stood up as fast as

he could, gave David and Meramon one last look, and escaped from there as fast

as his legs could take him.

David looked at the fleeing form of Dinohumon till the Digimon was out of sight

while Meramon turned back into Candmon. Then David turned to look at Julia, and

took a few steps towards the girl.

Julia was expecting for him to say something but he didn't, he just stood there

looking at her. Finally Julia couldn't take the silence anymore. "Thank you."

"For what?" asked David in a dead tone, "for saving you AGAIN, even when I told

you NOT to come here again, or for NOT killing that Digimon just because you

ASKED it?"

Julia looked up at him, and surprised him when she smiled warmly at him. "For

both things." she answered.

David again felt uneasy when he saw Julia smiling like that, why was he feeling

uneasy? Quickly he recovered his cold demeanor. "Well, don't let it become a

habit. This is the LAST time I'm saving you from trouble."

Julia giggled, "No it isn't." she said.

David frowned at this, "and how exactly do you know that?"

Again Julia smiled, "Because you said the same thing last time."

"Well I REALLY mean it this time!" exclaimed David.

Julia nodded, "Sure you do." she sarcastically. She knew for sure that he really

didn't mean that. When he had spared the life of that Dinohumon, she knew for

sure that deep inside that though-guy shell he made around him there was a

caring person who was crying every day at how life treated him.

Not able to answer her, David just grunted and turned around to leave, "Let's go

Candmon."

Candmon, who was helping Piyomon stand up, quickly said goodbye to the pink bird

and turned to follow David.

As he was walking away, David heard footsteps behind him. He sighed knowing who

that was, and stopped. "Stop following me."

Julia and Piyomon also stopped, "I'm not following you. You are walking ahead of

me."

"Ha ha, very funny. Aren't you supposed to be at school or something?" replied

David, still not turning around.

"Not really, back there is December so summer vacation just started." replied

Julia.

"Whatever, just go home." replied David.

"I don't feel like going home." said Julia.

"Whatever." David resumed walking, and soon he heard Julia's footsteps behind

him again. For a second he considered running, knowing that the girl and her

Digimon partner wouldn't be able to keep up with him and Candmon. But then

reconsidered, knowing that Julia would just get in trouble again.

Frustrated, he turned around. "Damn it girl! Why don't you leave me alone!?"

Again Julia stopped, "Why do you want to be alone?"

"What do you care?"

"I'm asking you, so I care." replied Julia, not even once getting scared by

David's tone of voice or cold demeanor.

"Humph, just words." replied David, looking away from her.

"What do you mean 'just words'?" asked Julia.

"Nothing, look just go home and leave me alone." answered David, again turning

his back at her.

"I can't do that." replied Julia. She surprised David when she placed a hand

softly on his shoulder. "I can't leave you alone, not again."

David was speechless, he felt like he was going to melt at Julia's gentle touch

and soft caring voice. Fighting the feeling off, he clenched his hands into

fists and turned around, causing Julia to let go of his shoulder. "Shut up! What

do you know about being alone!?"

"I'm sorry, I know that I could never understand all the pain and suffering

you've gone trough. And I won't try, I just want to help you." replied Julia,

her voice calm and soothing.

"I don't need help!" yelled David in frustrated anger.

"That's what you keep saying, but I know that you don't really mean that." said

Julia, her voice was still soothing.

"Shut up! You can't help me, don't you get that!? Nobody can help me! Just leave

me alone!" as he said all this, David's eyes started to fill up with tears,

tears that had been wanting to come out for three years, they were the tears of

a young boy that had lost what little he had. "Nobody can't help me." he said

more softly, almost a whisper. Slowly he sank down to his knees, covering his

face with both hands so Julia wouldn't see him cry anymore.

Julia slowly knelt next to him, and hugged him softly. Letting David cry out

openly, letting go of all the pain and sorrow that were eating him out inside.

David stayed as he was, not moving away from Julia but he wasn't returning her

hug either.

David was overwhelmed by emotions, everything that he had been keeping inside

for three years came out at the same time. It had been too long since the young

teenage boy had had any human contact, and Julia's way of being, her soft voice,

her kindness, her caring, it was just too much for him to resist.

After a few minutes David crying stopped and he spoke again, "Why do you want to

help me? Why? I'm beyond help. I'm... I'm a murderer."

"Maybe, but I don't see you as one." replied Julia softly, still hugging him.

"Candmon told Piyomon what happened to you, about the Dark Tyranomon and the

Motimon village. You weren't given a choice, it was you or him."

"Maybe so." replied David, "but that changed me forever. I had taken a life.

There was a breathing living creature, and it doesn't exist anymore because of

me. After that, I killed every Digimon that attacked me. It got easier and

easier, and then... and then..." David started crying again but his hands hid

the tears, "It's just like you said, I have killed so much that I'm already dead

inside!"

"No! Don't say that!" exclaimed Julia, tears were also starting to form in her

eyes, "You didn't kill that Dinohumon, even if you didn't kill him because I

asked you. If you truly were a murderer, if you truly were dead inside, then you

would have killed that Digimon no matter what."

David didn't answer to that, he didn't know how to. He remained silent.

"I'll be here for you. No matter what happens I'll be here for you." replied

Julia, tightening the hug. "We never chose to become Digi-Destined, it just

happened. All this time you have been taking the burden of being one alone, but

you don't have to be alone anymore. I'm sorry that I wasn't here before, and

I'll do anything to make it up to you. I promise."

David separated from Julia, and looked up. Julia could see the dried marks of

tears on David's cheeks. "No, I can't let you. I just can't. I'd rather suffer

alone than to drag someone else to pain that they don't need to suffer."

"I wasn't asking your permission. I'm going to be here for you no matter what

you say." replied Julia in a serious tone.

"Look, I promise I won't kill any more Digimon unless they leave me no choice.

Just go home." said David, his voice was once again almost completely

expressionless.

"You really are serious about that, aren't you." said Julia.

David nodded, "I appreciate what you are trying to do, I won't deny that

anymore. But I just can't let you stay here." he answered.

Julia sighed and nodded. She shouldn't have expected to melt all of the iceberg

in just one day, but at least he was opening up at her, "Okay, I'll go home. But

I will come for a visit every once in a while."

David didn't answer to that, instead he turned around to leave once again.

"Let's go, I want to make sure that you leave trough that monitor."

David walked away with Candmon following him. Julia and Piyomon followed them a

few seconds later.

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Julia was sitting on her bed in her room, looking at her D-3 as she held it in

both hands.

Piyomon had asked to stay behind, which Julia acceded to since it was far more

easier than to keep the Digimon hidden from her parents, even if in the real

world Piyomon turned back into her baby stage form of Pyocomon.

Julia was thinking about David, and how he had opened up to her.

He had taken, with a little help, his first step down the road. It was a long

and hard road, but she knew that David was strong enough to do it. And he

wouldn't be alone while going down the road, she'll be there for him to support

him in any way she could.

To be continued...

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Author's notes:

I really like how this chapter turned out.

About David's threat: He said that to the Dinohumon to scare the crap out of

him. David has never been in Primary Village, so he never even saw the Digitama

of any of the Digimon that he killed trough the course of the three years that

he has been in the Digital World.

The next chapter would be a very special one: The Christmas Invasion!

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And now for a little extra... PERSONA'S FUN FACTS ABOUT ARGENTINA!

Did you know that, many of the national teams of the different sports of

Argentina have nicknames?

The first one was the national Rugby team. In 1965 they did a tour of sixteen

games trough all South Africa. It was in that tour that they were called 'The

Pumas'.

But that's not so strange considering that almost every national Rugby team in

the world has a nickname (it's sort of a tradition). For example, the New

Zealand team is called the All Blacks; the France team is called the Roosters,

or the Australia team, which is called the Wallabies.

The second one happened in the Olympic Games of Sydney 2000.

There, the national female field hockey team started to be called 'The

Lionesses'.

After that, many have followed.

The female Volleyball team is called the Panthers.

The Handball team is called the Tigers.

The female roller-skates Hockey team is called the Eagles.

But I think the cleverest one is the name of our national team of Soccer for the

blind: The Bats.