Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ The Jewel Of Strength ❯ A New Digidestined ( Chapter 2 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

Chapter 2

<Hey everyone. Thanks for all the reviews. I honestly didn't think I'd get this many. I'm sorry it took so long for this to come out. I've been soooo busy. I'll try to be faster next time.Last time I check I didn't own Digimon so that makes things easier.>

BRRIINNGG!!!!!!!

Melody sighed in relief. She continued to sit in her chair while the rest of the students scrambled to the door to escape the school. She kept on writing, wanting to finish the last question she had so she won't have homework from the class. Melody felt her weak exterior attitude began to crumble.She was only meek and mild when she was in school. Had anyone seen her outside the building they would have met up with a girl who had laughing eyes full of mischief and a happy, bouncy step. She was probably the strongest, wittiest, most confident and sharp toughed person you would ever come across.Over the years Melody had prefected the act of being the poor little girl with the tail who lets others bully her. Just as long as no one tried it outside of school she won't bother them. She acted this way in school because if she showed her stronger side, other people took it as an excuse to make her life worse.Not an experience she wanted to repeat.

It had been particularly bad in the computer class she'd signed up for. The teacher, kind as he might be, was joking about no one being able to solve a question and had asked her to try and figure it out.Melody had solved the question with the greatest of ease, much to the teacher surprise.Due to the fat that her social life was very poor,Melody had trained her mind hard and had grown to the point where she could correct the teachers for their mistakes.She never did this, of coarse, as it brought unwanted attention onto herself.

She finished writing the problem and glanced around the empty room.Beinging to pick up her books, Melody was almost ready to go, when the door to the room flew open, slamming into the wall and making her jump from the loud
SMACK!! of metal hitting wood. She found herself looking onto the raging face of her classmate, Davis.
 
 
 


Davis had been outside, after a very, very long day of school, waiting for the others to arrive.They had all agreed to meet together in order to travel to the digital world. He was chatting comfortably with Kari and Cody when Kari's partner Gatomon, a white cat digimon with orange glove-like paws and sharp claws, came tearing across the field at a very unsafe speed screaming that Demiveemon had been diginapped. Demiveemon was Davis's partner and best friend so, of coarse, he had freaked.

"Wadda mean he's gone!" Davis yelled, starting to go into a panic.

Gatomon breathed rapidly to catch her breath,
 
"Like I said, we were in the computer room. Demiveemon and Ompamon were goofing around when Ompamon fell of the table.We heard someone outside and all hid but Demiveemon got caught and we haven't seen him since!"

Kari was trying to think rationally about the situation, "Did you see who took him?" she asked the winded digimon.

Gatomon thought for a minute before replying, "I didn't get a good look at him, Patamon was standing on my paw, but I do remember that he had a tail."

The three friends exchanged looks.

"That new girl!" Cody exclaimed, "she must have him."

"Gee Cody, ya think!" Davis said, his voice heavy with sarcasm.

Gatomon piped up, "She said she was gonna take him to the lost and found box."

Kari gasped, "If Demiveemon gets put in there we'll never find him!!"

"Ya," Davis agreed, " that box is a regular black hole!"

T.K and Yoglei joined the hyperactive group about that time.After a quick explanation T.K stated, "She stayed behind after the bell.If we hurry we can catch her before she leaves."

And so, after a mad dash thought the hallways of the school,Davis practically kicked open the door and confronted a very shocked looking Melody.

"Want did you do with him!!!" were the first words that escaped the enraged boy's mouth.

Melody was so stunned by the stupid question that she didn't know what to say.

"ANSWER ME!!!!" he bellowed at the top of his lungs, the sound echoing slightly in the room.

She finally managed to get her brain working again. Quickly falling back into the weak and submissive little girl, she spoke in a soft tone, "Do with who?"

"Demiveemon" Davis practically screamed.

Melody was being to get annoyed with the boy ranting babble and gave him a totally confused look.Davis manage to get his anger and fear for his partner back under control. He spoke in a calmer tone.

"The...the toy, the stuffed animal you found in here earlier.Want did you do with it?"

Melody had a hard time catching all of this, as Davis was talking so fast his words sounded slurred.Nevertheless she did understand.Giving Davis a shy smile that didn't reach her eyes she said, "Oh him.I put him in my locker for safekeeping.I was gonna put him in the lost and found box."

This proved only to make Davis mad again, "Well don't, he's mine! Give him back!!"

"Alright, just hol..."Melody was cut off when Davis suddenly grabbed her arm and practically dragged her out of the room.

"Now!!!" he said forcefully.

Managing to catch herself before she fell, Melody pulled her arm away sharply, and began to led him towards her locker.She noticed that his friends were nearby.

The purple haired girl suddenly spoke up, "What were you thinking, you creepy girl, don't you know your not suppose to take things that don't belong to you."

The others nodded their heads in agreement.Melody didn't respond.A thought came to her out of the blue. She turned to Davis.

"How did you find out I had the toy?" she asked softly.

Davis seemed at a lose, "I...uh...he...uh...I," he stuttered.

Davis grew angry again, "Never you mind how I found out just give him back,Nosey!!"

Melody cringed inwardly.It still hurt to have people call her names but she was very good at concealing it.Stepping in front of her locker, she turned the dial, while Davis danced around on the balls of his feet.Opening the door,Melody began to reach of the little toy, in the exact same spot she'd left it in, only to be roughly shoved aside by Davis.Melody hit the ground, hard, and glanced up at the others when she heard them snickering at her fall. She looked up at Davis to find him hugging the toy like it was his long lost brother.Melody climbed to her feet.

"I'm sorry," she said, her voice thick with sincerity, "I didn't know it was yours."

Davis gave her a loathing look, "Ya well,don't do it again! Just stay away!"

Melody felt tears burning behind her eyelids.Why did it hurt so much to have this small group of kids hate her when she had faced giant mobs of angry children who hated her without batting an eyelash?She was confused and hurt and upset at Davis and his friends...and at herself. She stood by silently as they walked by, talking about how rude she was.

`Great, more enemies' Melody thought to herself. Feeling her confidence and sprit rise with the thought of going home, she began to put the books she needed for her homework in her bag.

`Lets see' she thought `Math...check...English...chec...Oh crap'Melody realized in the rush Davis had put on her she had left her notebook with her English notes in the computer room.

`Damn, I need those notes for my homework assignment...Just great' she thought.Melody gave herself a few minutes to force down her more rebellious personality before closing her locker.She swung her backpack over one shoulder and headed back to the computer room.

On the way there, she met up with three other boys.They were older, probably in high school.Not wanting any more trouble,Melody quickly stopped and stepped to the side of the hallway, waiting for them to pass.She observed them as they came closer.The shortest had red-brown hair cut fairly short and looked way too smart for his age.Anthor one had tall, dark brown hair and a calm I-don't-care look on his face and was speaking to a golden blond hair boy with Melody thought was rather attractive. The smart looking one paused when he reached her.Bowing her head and pretending to be very shy,Melody swished her tail gently, hoping to scare him off.The boy was anything but intimidated and looked ant her with a curious and calculating expression before moving on.The brown hair boy looked at her in a welcoming and odd way but didn't stop. The blond boy however gave her a, how can you possible resist me, smile showing he liked her looks.Melody turned away,letting the longer pieces of
hair on the side of head cover up the slight color on her cheeks.

"Hey Matt, ya coming,"one of the boys called out, making him glance at her again before running to catch up with his friends.

Melody sighed happily.She was glad the boys hadn't stopped to point fingers at her.They had actually struck Melody as being some people who wouldn't laugh or make fun of her.Standing outside the door to the computer room,Melody could hear the voices of Davis and the other,realizing they had returned to the classroom.

"Is everyone ready to go?" she heard a female voice say.A chorus of replies came and one caught her attention.

"Can we eat first?" said a high pitch voice she didn't recognize.

Placing her hand on the doorknob,Melody took a deep breath and opened the door.The sight that she saw was...mindboggling.All five children were crowded around one computer, arms outreached towards the screen and each holding something in their hand.When thy saw her at the door, everyone froze.For about 5 seconds nobody moved.Then they all exploded,Davis being the first.

"Want da ya think you're doing here,you little creepazoid!"

"Ya didn't we make it clear that we wanted you gone,brick brain," T.K said,sounding nervous.

Melody winced visibly at these words.She never showed what she was feeling when people made fun of her tail, but she had work hard at her education and was proud of it.Acussing her about that hit a real soft spot.She lowered her eyes and looked at her feet, very near tears.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you.I just needed to get my notebook,"Melody whispered miserably.

"Ya well get it and get out," Cody said in a demanding tone, also sounding nervous.

You'd have to be a real big idiot not to know that they were hiding something but she didn't press the issuse.Melody moved slowly to the table where her notebook was.Picking it up, she clutched it to her chest, crossing her arms in an X shape over top of it.Melody headed for the door, felling the accusing and angry looks from the other kids burning into her back.

The room was suddenly lit up by a powerful light that made her turn back towards the others. Her eyes widen in shock as the computer in front of them was glowing so brightly she could hardly see.A purple beam of light exited the screen of the machine and shot towards her.Reflexs,worked to perfection from passed experiences and self defense classes,caused her to drop her notebook and throw her arms in front of her face to block the threat.The beam hit her hands and became a solid form.Melody slowly lowered her arms and look at the device in her hand, which had been nothing more then light a few moments earlier.

It was an odd shape, kinda like a very round footprint without the toes. It had a small antenna on the top, a small, square screen on the front and even purple colored sides.It was still warm from the computer and fit perfectly in the palm of her hand.Melody just stood, rooted to the spot, and stared at the odd...thing.An excited cry broke her out of her trance.

"Oh wow, this is so cool!!"she heard Davis yell.

"Totally!!"was the lavender haired girls reply.

Davis came forward, practically jumping up and down, "I guess if your gonna be part of the team we'd better get to know each other.I'm Davis, soccer player extraordinary."

A loud snort was heard clearly.

"And this is Demiveemon," he explained.

"Hi," the little blue creature she'd believed was a toy, said.

From the look he gave her, Demiveemon was probably expecting her to start screaming or running or yelling. But Melody was still so stunned about the device in her hand, that she hardly even registered that he had talked.

"And this is Yoglei and Poromon,"Davis said,pointing to the purple haired girl and a small, pink puffball with tiny wings, a beak, and a feather at the back of its head.

"And Cody with Ompamon," pointing at a the young boy and a cream colored ball with floppy ears.

"T.V and Patamon," directing to the blond boy and a small brown and white creature with batwing-like ears.

"T.K," he responded automatically.

"Right," Davis said in a distracted tone.

"And that's Kari," Davis said pointing to the other girl,speaking her name with a definite note of affection Melody noticed, "and Gatomon," waving at the white cat-like digimon.

He looked back at her, "and your one of us!!"

Those words snapped Melody out of her dazed state.She felt a slow rage bubble within her and,with a great amount of difficultly,forced it done. `Don't freak out yet' she thought hotly to herself.Melody looked around at all of the kids.They were grinning like idiots and looking at her like she was their best friend.

"Sit down,"Yoglei said, "we'll explain."

She took the seat they offered,carefully keeping her facial expression concealed.

"Ya see,"Yoglei started, "there is a world outside our own, one made up of all the digital information produced by computers, Internet, all of that.It's the shadow world of Earth and is called the Digital world. There are creatures in the Digital world called Digimon.This are some of them,"waving her hand at the group of digimon.

"The problem is that the Digital world is directly connected with the real world.If something goes wrong, both worlds are affected."Yoglei paused.

Kari stepped in to finish, "so the powers that protected the Digital world sent out digivices to children so they could pass from the real world to the digital one.They then had digimon partners created for each child since they would save the Digital world from whatever threaten it."

"And right now the digital world is being taken over by the Digimon Emporer.He's a real nasty person who creates these huge towers called Control Spires and uses them to power his dark rings.The dark rings are put on digimon and turned into his slaves.Its so awful."Cody explained with a hateful tone.

"Ya,"Davis said, "but now that your with us we'll kick the Digimon Emporers butt!!"

The group of 5 stared to cheer and celabrate.Had any one of them bothered to pay the least bit of attention to Melody, they would have seen her in a very different state.Her hands were clenched in fists so tight her knuckles were turning white, the muscles in her body were rigid and shaking with suppressed anger.Melody's face was no longer showing the calm expression she had before.Instead it was twisted in a way to show almost blinding rage.Her tail lashed back and forth rapidly behind her.Her deep-sea green eyes were almost glowing with a furious fire stoked by Melody's private thought.

"So what da ya say!"T.K exclaimed turning to her.

His excited expression was wiped from his face and the others finally turned and looked at her.The cheers and cries were silenced and the only sound heard in the room was Melody's quick breathes of rage.

"You," she said in a calm voice that tremble with fury, "are all fools."

No one said anything to this till Kari spoke up and said, "what do you mean?"

Melody's control snapped.She shot to her feet so fast to the others,with their untrained eyes, it looked like a blur.Her backpack fell off her shoulder in the process.

"You think I'm going to come with you after the way you treated me!"she yelled, making them all jump, "You just expect me to forget that before this digivice flew out at me, you all treated me like I was some kind of diease!You laughed and pointed and bullied me around and you want me to just forget all that and come with you when all I'll be able to think about is how your all going to give me dirty looks and make nasty little comments when my back is turned!You want me to just say,Oh well they treated me like dirt but that's alright because I get to be part of their team! Your all a bunch of...of monsters!Something different suddenly enters your life and you take it as an excuse to push their face in the mud!"

"We didn't mea..."Yoglei tried to explain.Melody cut her off.

"BULL!!"she bellowed, "you meant ever word and I won't be any part of your Digital world!"

And with that, Melody fled.She turned and ran for the door.The three older boys she'd seen earlier were standing there.Melody muscled her way passed them letting her rage and hurt take over and feeling tears in her eyes.She powered down the hallway, running as fast as she could in the direction of her home.

Davis and the others were all so stunned by Melody's angry words that they didn't even move.Guilt and regret swelled up inside Davis like a ballon.He looked at the other.They all looked the sameDefeated,upset and guilt stricken.

"We really blew it," Cody moaned miserably.

Izzie,the boy with red-brown hair, came forward, "what happened?"

"I think we'd all like to know that?" Tai, Davis's idol and Kari's big brother, said in a stern voice.

The five digidestenied explained what had happened in low voices. The three older boys,and frist digidesined, were silent after the story.

"So," Tai said softly, "she's a digidestined but won't join you because of the way you treated her."

The five heads of the children nodded unhappily.

"Well you do have to admit she is kinda wired and all," Yoglei said in a strained cheerful voice.

"No she's not," Izzie said sharply, "we all saw her in the hallway before she came in and none of us thought she was weird.I thought it was an interesting concept that Melody had a tail."

"Ya," Tai said, "and I thought it was unusual that she was trying so hard not to bring attention to herself."

"And I thought she was cute," Matt finished,gaining a few looks from the others.

"All this about her being weird is your own personal opinions.You should have known better then to treat her that way.Shame on you."Tai stated in his leader-like voice.

This made Davis's heart clench. He felt so terrible. `Is this the way Melody feels when she's picked on' he wondered sadly.Davis had a sudden thought.

"Hey," he exclaimed,feeling his sprits lift, "mabye its not too late.Mabye if we go and tell her how sorry we are she'll forgive us."

"Even so there's no guarantee she'll join you if you apologise,"Matt said calmly.

"Ya, that's true but it's a start," Kari replied.

"How will we find her?"Cody asked.

"Hey look," Poromon said, "she left her backpack here."boncing up and down on the deserted bag.Demiveemon then came running across the room,holding a book that was way to big for him to be carrying.He stumbled and fell before piping up, "Her notebooks got her address on it!!"

Izzie picked up the fallen book and looked at the cover.Both eyebrows raised in surprise.He glanced back up,"She lives in the same apartment as T.K,Cody and Yoglei," he explained.

"Great!!that'll make things easier.Lets go!!"Davis shouted energetically, heading for the door.

"Hold on Davis,"Tai's soft voice stooped him.He turned back towards the others.Tai stocked his chin thoughtfully.

"I think we should give her some time to cool down.From all the yelling we heard in here,I imagine if we approached her now,she'd probably take someone's head off. Literally!!."

"Ya," T.K agreed, "Its best just to leave her for right now.Why don't we all go into the Digital world for a while.I think we could all use something to clear our heads."

All the other members of the group agreed.

"Alright!," Yoglei said excitedly, clicking a few keys on the computers key board to bring up a small, very odd shaped window, "Lets go!!"

All the children held out their digivices to the screen.

"Digiport open!!"Davis yelled.

Bright light surrounded the group and in an instant sucked them into the computer.