Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ The Digital Trilogy - Episode 2 - Complexity of Life ❯ Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Seven humans and their respective digimon gathered on the roof of Kovin's apartment building just as the sun was starting its climb into the sky for the day. It would already be noon where they were going. TK, Kari, Ken and Yolei were excited to go. Riding on Aeromon was a fun trip in itself, but they tried not to show it out of respect. Also, they had never been to Canada.

"Should I have worn heavier clothes?" Yolei asked.

"No, Yolei. It's probably going to be thirty degrees there." Kovin said. This made the tenth comment she made about Canada's temperature or civilisation.

"Guys, wait! I didn't get my sleeping bag or a tent or anything! And what are we going to eat? I don't want to eat deer cooked over a fire or something gross like that." That was the straw. Kovin and Kelryn made like they were going to attack her. TK and Kari held them back while Allura and Ken just laughed at Yolei.

"Yolei, we can stay in a motel ok? And they have restaurants and pizza places." Ken said between laughs. It was so funny because Yolei genuinely believed all that, not just trying to piss off Kovin and Kelryn. They were both die-hard Canadian patriots.

"Is there at least running water?" She asked quietly. Kovin decided if he couldn't make the situation better, he's make it worse and have fun doing it.

"Sorry, Yolei. The only running water is in the river. The rich people use an elephant for a shower like on the Flintstones. And don't let these guys get your hopes up. There isn't any motels. But after a few days of eating caribou, sleeping in logs and wearing rawhide, you'll feel right at home." Yolei went white, everyone else was laughing loudly. Most people would assume the laughing meant she was being made fun of. But she interpreted it as the others were excited to go. It didn't dawn on her that Kovin received his message from home by email, meaning the sender had a computer, electricity, and internet access.

When they got their laughing under control, Kovin made a motion to invite Ozlimon to start the show.

Ozlimon warp-digivolve to ... Aeromon

The huge bird lowered himself to allow the seven humans and six digimon to climb on his back. He waited a bit for them to get settled, and took off heading into the rising sun.

The trip only took an hour and a half, they spent most of the time building Yolei's fears about Canada. After a while, Aeromon spoke up.

"Kovin, I think Yolei might want to see this." Kovin and Yolei climbed up Aeromon's neck, it was bitter cold at their height, but it was OK because he had slowed to a speed just enough the stay in the air. They looked down and a wide cityscape below them.

"Holy shit! Aeromon, are you sure we're in Canada?" Yolei asked. Aeromon just chuckled.

"Yolei, that's Toronto. There are three million people living there, and it has a number of the world's fibre optic routers in it. There's also an international airport. And this isn't even the capital." Kovin explained to her. "Canada is just as technological as the rest of the world, and sometimes a bit more civilised." Yolei couldn't believe her eyes and they both climbed back into Aeromon's plumage.

After another ten minutes, Aeromon could be felt landing. Everyone climbed out, and onto the ground, stretching tired muscles as they went. Aeromon reverted back to Ozlimon. They looked around, and found they were in a cemetery.

"Ozlimon? Are you sure this is the right place?" Kovin asked.

"St. Mary's cemetery, Division st., Kingston, Ontario. That was the right address wasn't it?" He asked. Indeed it was. Kovin looked around a bit and got his bearings. Ozlimon had landed them in the back so no one would see him. They walked out into more frequently used portions, and soon found the event they were looking for, unfortunately too late. The crowd was just starting to depart.

"Adam!" Kovin yelled. Several people turned to see who had called out, and some were a little surprised to see Kovin and Kelryn there, but Adam was the only one who came over. He had the uniform black suit everyone wore to a funeral.

"Well, fuck me! You both show up, and you show up together. Brought kind of a crowd didn't you? Come on guys, sit, talk, and give me information. I haven't seen either of you in like three years." Adam was glad to see them, speaking in English.

The group of eight walked over to a statue thing that had benches around it, they sat and enjoyed the san and fresh air. "So can I ask how you guys are doing or is Kelryn going to knife me?" Adam asked.

"Details at eleven, my friend. Can you still speak Japanese? Right now Kelryn is the only other person who can understand you. These guys here only speak Japanese." Kovin said, in English. He was getting smiles from the other five, because English sounded like such a strange slow language to them. They had only know Kovin to speak to them in Japanese, and this was sure a change. Both Kelryn and Kovin could speak, read and write it fluently, and had almost no accent when they spoke. But Adam did. His Japanese was slow, and heavily accented. They found that funnier than Kovin speaking English.

"Yeah, sorry guys," Adam said, in Japanese, "I'm just a little used to speaking English, you know?"

"So Adam. How have things been here?" Kovin asked.

"Much has changed since you lived here, my friend." Kovin, Kelryn and Ozlimon were laughing over that, being big Diablo fans. They just got some queer looks from the others. "I'm the only one left. Everyone else has moved away. I was hoping you guys would show up so we could reminisce a little." He turned to Kelryn. "I'm sorry I had to be the one to tell you about Tash. I know you guys were good friends." Kelryn's smile was gone from her face as she remembered why she was home again.

The visit home promised to be bittersweet, but definitely educational from everyone's point of view. It began with Ozlimon getting three years worth of missed head scratching from Adam.