In The Beginning: Part 2
I got to know everybody enough to know that they too are in the same boat with me, except the fact that I had more problems than them. My Digivice has somehow merged with me, my digimon got killed before I even had a chance to talk to him, my clothes were burned to cinders and I was naked…ALL DAY! How often does that happen?
All in all, it wasn’t all that bad… I met some new friends, they helped me, and they actually liked me. That doesn’t happen too often either.
I woke up sometime near noon, Tai sitting beside me, smiling. “Thought you’d never wake up”.
“How long was I out?” I asked.
“I’d say just about a whole day. Right when I was talking to you too!” Tai said in a giggling way.
I smiled. “Oh; sorry.”
“Not a problem. That hit you took from the wall must have helped that out as well.”
“oh, yeah. That’s right.” I said feeling around for the bump I was expecting. But I found nothing. “No bump. Good. No headache either then.”
Tai laughed. “well that’s a relief. Joe’s gone along with everyone else to look for some food. I stayed behind to keep watch incase something tries to attack you when your down.”
“thanks, Tai. How long do you think they’d be gone?”
Tai looked shocked and I heard his heart beating fairly quickly. “I’m not sure. Why?”
“just thought we’d go and take a walk somewhere, and talk about stuff.”
“okay; let’s go. I already did, so I can show you the places I checked out.”
As we left, Tai piled up some dirt, and spread it around and wrote something in it. “Just incase they get back before we do.”
“Good idea”, I said. Tai walked to the mouth of the cave and looked around. I followed. To my surprise, this wasn’t a cave that you find in mountains but a cave that leads down, but ended abruptly as if someone stopped digging when it was deep enough. “Over here. We’ll take this path first.”
“Sounds good.” I said as I walked toward him.
We walked side by side for about five minutes when we heard a large snap in the bushes.
I looked in the direction of the snap, worried. “Living in
“And the looks of it suggests your right!” Tai yelled looking as if he was ready to pee himself.
“well, well, well… Humans. I never tried those before. YOU;” he called out to me “COME HERE YOU LITTLE MORSEL!!!”
With surprising speed he came running at me. I never saw such a thing in my life. Or at least I thought. I knew I never saw it before, but something in the back of my mind clicked a name of this monster. “Kentaikomon” I said, as Tai was shouting out of horror, and with good reason. This thing was butt ugly. It looked something like an Ogremon with gray-brown skin and a crown of horns jutting from his scalp. The thing wore a loincloth that was shredded with age and held a mean looking spiked club made of digimon bone. This guy easily cleared eight feet in height and stunk of dried blood. That’s as far as I got before he shoved Tai out of the way to get to me. At first, I was scared. And by that, I mean WAS. One of the worst things that I think I don’t want to endure was if one of my friends were hurt. I heard Tai screaming as he flew to the side and slammed into a tree, breaking his arm in the process with a clearly audible ‘snap!’ it sickened me to have to hear that, but after it happened, I felt nothing but sheer rage. I shouted my rage, which made Kentaikomon stop dead in his tracks with a surprised look on his stupid face. I lost it. I mean, I cared for nothing else but the fact that my friend had been hurt for no reason whatsoever. I threw a punch, which connected on his left shoulder blade, sending him soaring into a tree. The tree snapped and exploded into little sparks of data that faded into the air. Kentaikomon laughed. “Not bad, human. But I’m not finished yet…” he threw his arm back, a fireball forming over his fist. What he said next felt like pins sinking into my heart. “FIRE COMET!”
“It was you…” I said. “It was you…! YYYYOOOOUUUU!!!”
The fireball streaked toward me, it’s heat can be felt before it left his hand and was getting hotter as it came toward me. I snapped. Everything seemed to go into slow motion. I can see leaves bursting into flame on the ground as it passed by them. It was eight meters away, then seven, six, five, four, three, two, one…
I raised my hand as it closed in on me, and gave it a backhand swat sending it reeling back toward him. Quick as he was, he just wasn’t fast enough to get away from it. Kentaikomon jumped to the side, the fireball just nicking his leg. But that was all the fireball needed to detonate. It exploded sending Kentaikomon flying back. He landed on the ground 40 feet away. I wasn’t too surprised when he got up. In fact, I wanted him to get up. I wasn’t done yet. I held out my fists and raised them into the air. I wanted Kentaikomon to die. He had to suffer as much as I have. The image of my digimon exploding over, and over, and over again in my head. This time, I had a fireball in MY hands. I felt the power flowing into me. Tai’s power and his bond with his digimon.
“NOVAFORCE!!!” I threw the ball with as much force as I could give. Kentaikomon shouting in horror as he realized his doom.
“Humon! I’ll get you!! I’ll be bac… … …”
There was a gigantic explosion, and then nothing… total silence. Then I heard Tai grunt. I turned around and ran to where he was. And then I witnessed the second thing I didn’t want to endure. He was scared of me. Of ME! He was hurt bad. He had cuts and bruises, and his arm was broken. How he was still conscious I could never know. But I didn’t care. I don’t know what I was thinking, or if I even was. But I kissed him. I held him in lovers embrace and kissed him. What I didn’t know was that I was using another “skill” of mine. I was taking his pain. I felt every cut bruise, and the broken arm as Tai’s wounds were healing. He broke off right before I received the actual broken arm. He was healed and I liked like a mess. My arm throbbed with pain, but it was still in one piece. He looked at me in confusion. “Humon…? James…?” I smiled at him.
“I love you… don’t leave me… ever…”
all around me was the smell of burning leaves, shrubs, and trees. The smell of fear, and death lingered in the air as regret hit. I killed… plain and simple, I killed…
I felt as if I could just lie down and die. Just give myself to the Digital world and die.
Tai dragged me down beside him, and spoke softly into my ear. “I’ll never leave you. You risked your life for me, and so I owe you my life in return.
“No… consider it even…” again I blacked out.
“Humon? HUMON!!!”