Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ The Digital Trilogy - Episode 1 - A Time Honored Tradition ❯ Chapter 8

Chapter 8

TK, Kari, and Yolei sped through the streets and allies of Tokyo on their bikes. TK's D-Terminal detected DP coming from halfway between them and Tamachi district. So that means the Davis, Cody, and Ken would also have been alerted, and would be on their way.

"Slow down guys!" Kari yelled up to the faster two. TK played basketball and Yolei was athletic so they could pedal faster than Kari.

"Hurry up!" Yolei yelled back. It also slowed down Kari because she had to carry Gatomon. Patamon and Hawkmon could fly and keep their weight off their human partners.

TK rounded a corner and narrowly avoided hitting Ken and Davis. The six of them screeched to a stop.

"What are you guys doing, the fight is that way!" Ken said, pointing the direction he was going.

"No, my D-Terminal said it was that way." TK said, pointed the opposite direction as Ken. Their argument was settled by seeing Feamon soar overhead and launch an attack. They rode over to the edge of the ally, and set the bikes down.

"OK, guys," Ken said, "these guys are strong, remember what Tai and Sora told us about them. Let's save the angels as a backup, and send in the other four. Everyone with me?" The other five nodded in agreement.

Veemon digivolve to ... Exveemon

Wormmon digivolve to ... Stingmon

Hawkmon digivolve to ... Aquilamon

Armadillomon digivolve to ... Ankylomon

The two flying champions led the other two champions out of the ally. The plan here was to take them down before Kovin or his friends could respond. Stingmon and Aquilamon went for Feamon, while Exveemon and Ankylomon went for Meramon. The six were standing on the corner directing their digimon.

All six forgot that Kovin's real target was the humans, not their digimon.

* * *

Across the street Kovin, Cera and Nolan were waiting with enough guns and ammo to take a small country.

"That's it boys and girls. They're in the open. We take them down, now. If we get them, that'll make over half." Kovin exchanged nods with Cera and Nolan, and the three jumped out from behind a bench running straight at the others. Each had two guns, so six weapons started screaming bullets at TK, Kari, Yolei, Cody, Davis and Ken.

TK and Yolei had their guns out firing, but couldn't hit anything with all the commotion, noise, surprise and the dark street.

"Get out of here! Everyone out!" TK was yelling the order. He wasn't in charge, no one was. Their group was based on consensus. Although they didn't need to vote to tell it was unanimous. All six turned and fled down the ally. Davis and Ken instantly took the lead, being soccer players. TK and Yolei behind them, and Kari and Cody bringing up the rear.

Yolei felt a bullet breeze by her check. It didn't touch her, but she felt the heat and heard the sound. It sounded like and angry wasp. The corner of the ally was just ahead. Past that, they could slow down, or change direction. They could use some tactic other than running. Davis and Ken were around it. Then Yolei, then TK. Kari's motherly instinct slowed her a bit to allow Cody to turn in front of her. Then it happened.

Kari saw a slash of blood enter the left-bottom quarter of her field of vision. She also heard bone shatter. It sounded like celery breaking. The shock of the sight and sound stopped her. She looked at her left shoulder and saw the exit wound. A bullet had passed right through it. It looked like a small bomb had gone off causing the skin inward of the joint to blow outwards. Kari fell to her knees, experiencing the pain for the first time.

They all heard her, TK and Davis were instantly turned around to go back and help her. She was halfway around the corner. TK stopped on her right side, Davis on her left. Davis has never been known as the brainy one, and this time he proved it with his life. The hail of bullets was still coming, and Davis was exposed to it. Three hit him in the chest, and one in the head. TK already had Kari on his shoulder and was running with her, so no one saw Davis fall.

Above them, following on the rooftops, Exveemon reverted to Veemon who cringed with pain. Stingmon flew into the alleyway.

"Spiking Strike!" Stingmon's attack brought tons of ruble down between Kovin and the others. They would be safe for now. Back on the roof, five digimon were gathered around Veemon, who could barely breath.

"I saw Davis, he was shot. Poor Veemon, digimon can't live without their partner." Stingmon said. Veemon didn't suffer long.

"Gato..." And with that, he died and pixilated. He was absorbed into the five digimon around him. Gatomon looked at the spot where he had been. She knew he always had kind of a crush on her. She wondered if it was because Davis liked Kari, or Veemon really did like her. She shook the thoughts from her head and joined the others running across the roof to make sure a similar occurrence didn't happen to them or their partners.

* * *

Down on the ground, the digimon joined up with the humans.

"Kari!" Gatomon was instantly at her side. Hawkmon flew up to Yolei, but talked loud enough for everyone.

"Davis was killed, so was Veemon." They stopped for a second, shocked to hear that they were down to ten. Davis may not have been the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he was a good friend, and would be missed. It hit Ken most of all, Davis was the first person to ever give Ken a chance.

"What are we going to do about Kari?" TK asked in a panic. "We can't help Davis but we can help her!" Almost to answer he prayers, a long haired girl came down from a fire escape.

"I've got some bandages and medicine, that will help. But she'll need water. Find some." Yolei and Ken were off like flashes to find some. TK took the bandages and was preparing to apply them. The other girl was cleaning the wound as best she could. Mainly taking out bone fragments. "It was a clean shot. She'll be fine as long as we can stop the bleeding."

Ken and Yolei returned with two bottles of water. One was used to help clean her wound, while TK used the other to try and get her to drink. The pain was causing her to slip in and out of consciousness. Cody wanted to help, but was riveted in place with fear.

TK and the girl bandaged Kari up, and they decided to wait there until morning. They found a secluded spot behind some bushes on a church lawn. TK looked the new girl up and down for the first time. She had a collection of throwing stars on her right leg.

"What's your name?" He asked.

"Kelryn." She said.

* * *

Back at the scene of the battle, Nolan, Cera, Kovin, Ozlimon and Candlemon were gathered around Davis' body. Nolan and Cera had become hardened in the past few days. And they were grateful to see one of their enemy dead. Kovin however didn't feel the rush he did when he killed someone. He was saddened. He didn't let it show, but it was there. Ozlimon could tell.

Seeing Kelryn again had messed up Kovin's mind and emotions. Perhaps he was starting to go back to the nice normal guy he was three years ago that Ozlimon knew. Or was he slipping further away?

"Ten left." Cera said. She was giddy just thinking about killing the others.

"Yep. We'll get them. I've got an idea for a new plan. Want to hear it? Kovin?" Nolan said.

Kovin just stared at Davis' body. An hour ago, his life made sense. This quest, killing the Twelve. And killing in general. But now nothing made sense. He couldn't think or move. He questioned his place in the world, and wondered if playing the game was worth it at all. Something drew his mind, though. It was the goggles the boy wore. Kovin knelt beside Davis and removed the goggles from his head, he looked at them for a moment, and put them in his backpack. Something told him they'd be valuable when the time came.

* * *

Back in America, Mimi was still crying over the loss of Palmon. It had been about a week, since Talomon destroyed Lillymon. Mimi came out of her room to join her parents at the table for dinner. She noticed her parents looked uneasy.

"What's wrong?" She asked.

"Well, Mimi. We have something to tell you. I know we should have told you earlier, but we didn't think you could handle it." Mimi's dad said.

"What is it daddy?"

"Well, you have a sister. A twin sister, actually. I am your real father, but she isn't your birth mother. About a year after you and your sister were born, your real mother and I split up. We each took one of you, and left. Since then, I've remarried, and you've never known. You real mother remarried too, and had a little girl from that marriage. But she ran away when she was nine and has never been seen since." Mimi's dad looked relived to have it all out in the open. Mimi blinked for a second, but believed him.

"Does she still live in Japan?"

"Yes, she does."

"What's her name?"