Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ The Digital Trilogy - Episode 1 - A Time Honored Tradition ❯ Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Kovin woke up early the next day. He had been spending his nights in a small motel near where Nolan and Cera shared an apartment. He didn't have breakfast, and instead left with Ozlimon walking the streets. When the morning crowds came out, the started walking the back streets, to an abandoned industrial park.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Ozlimon asked. He didn't have any accent when he talked, but his bird nature did show when he spoke. Ozlimon whistled a bit when he pronounced sharp letters like 'T'. Kovin smiled.

"Not at the moment, my friend. I'd like to just be with you, and quiet time to think. Just you being here helps. The past fourteen years have been very turbulent. And in all that time, you've been there. You're my anchor." The little bird was happy for that. Just his presence made someone happy.

They went down onto a pier. A large one that at one time was used to dock massive ocean going cargo ships, but now sat derelict. There was graffiti on the rusted crane equipment, and long strands of grass and weeds were growing from the cracks in the uneven pavement. And most of all it was quiet, not a sound. In the distance, the ships that once docked there could be seen going to and from a newer port on the other side of Tokyo. There wasn't even road access to this place. It had been torn up to make a new highway, and the access to the pier was never rebuilt. The environment looked so lonely and forgotten. It looked like Kovin felt.

The human and his digimon sat right at the end of the pier. Four hundred meters of concrete out into the water. The breeze was fresh. It was invigorating. It felt like the wind itself was trying to breathe life back into this place. Trying with all it could. But it was too far gone. This place hadn't died recently. These were the dusty bones of an industry long since killed. And it looked like it was a slow death. Ozlimon was just getting used to the silence when Kovin spoke.

"Do you remember that night? When Kelryn...?" He asked. Ozlimon knew this was it. Whatever the problem was would have to be solved here and now. The title page said it was about Kelryn. But he'd have to hear the whole story.

"I do. The day was beautiful. Sunny. The night was clear, and we stayed out counting the stars. Just you and I. It would have been perfect if Kelryn hadn't done what she did." Next page, please.

"It was, wasn't it?" There was a long silence. "I think that's why I went full tilt into the game. To see if I could feel again. She broke my heart. It still hurts. I... I can't... feel anything. Life made sense, and then I saw her again. She wants to make it up to me. She wants to make it right. I've dreamed about this every night for years. Hell, I still do. I love her. But the thought of her being close to me scares the hell out of me. Half the time I want to kiss her, hold her, and make love to her like we used to. The other half the time I want to just kill her so I can end this." Ozlimon thought about it for a while.

"Are you sure you want to kill her? Wouldn't that make it worse? I've seen a lot, and I've never seen a girl do anything so cold. But you have to remember, she was young and so were you. She had only been a digidestined for a week, and I had already been with you for eleven years." The owl stopped to think some more. "You also have to remember something. People can learn from their mistakes. I think she has. Just because she has hurt you, doesn't mean she'll do it again. Have you ever considered how hurt she was?" That stopped Kovin.

"What do you mean?"

"I was talking with Demireumon. She told me a lot about what she and Kelryn have done since she left. Kelryn used the time to sort her life out. She knows what she wants, and that's you. She spent two of the three past years looking for us." Kovin just listened. He was processing all the information.

"I don't know. I'm going to have to think about it." He stood up. The sun was starting to touch the tops of the buildings behind them. "What do you say we go get some dinner?" The little bird hopped up joyously.

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Kovin and Ozlimon were walking back up the same deserted back streets they had taken that morning. They had had a big meal, and Ozlimon really enjoyed the stir fried rice. Kovin heard voices coming around the corner.

"Whatever Izzy, it doesn't matter." Just then Joe, Izzy, Tentomon and Gomamon came around the corner.

'Shit' Kovin thought.

"Hey! It's him! Joe, it's Kovin! Guys, digivolve!" Izzy's command was barely out of his mouth, when their digimon digivolved.

Tentomon digivolve to ... Kabuterimon digivolve to ... Megakabuterimon

Gomamon digivolve to ... Ikkakumon digivolve to ... Zudomon

Ozlimon had already started to digivolve out of reflex.

Ozlimon digivolve to ... Feamon digivolve to ... Talomon

Talomon assumed a defensive stance.

"Guys! I don't want to fight!" Kovin yelled.

"We're going to make sure of that!" Izzy responded.

"You are going to pay for Mimi, and Davis!" Joe yelled. Megakabuterimon and Zudomon went at Talomon with a will. But the fight was decided before it began. Talomon was a virus type, while both of the others were data type.

The fight was going strangely. Zudomon and Megakabuterimon were firing their best attacks with lethal objective. Talomon was just defending himself. At one point, Talomon fired his own attack.

"Sonic Blast!" He did it to try and stop the others. It did, far to well. Both digimon pixilated instantly. Kovin was shocked, and fell to his knees. Talomon did not want to win. He wanted to stop the fight like Kovin did. Talomon tried to shrug off the pixels we won, but he got them anyway. Kovin didn't hold out his digivice, but that didn't stop the energy transfer from Joe and Izzy's to his.

Joe looked shocked, so did Izzy. Talomon looked strange, like he was trying to hold something back.

Talomon digivolve to ... Aeromon

Talomon digivolved. The three stared at him. He was huge! Easily seventy meters high. He was the size of Garudamon, but sleek and aerodynamic. His eyes alone looked lethal. His talons and beak were gigantic. But he looked to be trying to hide it.

"I'm so sorry." He was trying to apologise to the lost essence of Joe and Izzy's digimon.

Joe and Izzy wondered what to do. They had lost their digimon. The twelve was now eight.

Kovin couldn't stand it. His eyes rolled back in his head, his breathing shallowed, and he fell down unconscious. Aeromon reverted back to Ozlimon. Joe and Izzy came closer. Ozlimon had no idea what they were going to do. Before he could find out, his vision went black, and he fell with his human.