Later that night as everyone but Gabumon was sleeping: he never minded doing
the first night watch as long he thought he was doing something for Matt. He
took a stick and pocked the fire with it, the piece of the burning log crumbled.
The fire hissed and popped; a drop of sweat revealed on the side of his face
hoping that anyone wouldn't wake up. Agumon opened one eye to see what all the
noise was but relaxed to see that it was his friend.
"I didn't mean to wake you..."
"That's okay," Agumon smiled rising to his feet to sit next to Gabumon,
"I wasn't really all that tired anyway."
"Oh," He said rather coldly looking back at the fire.
Agumon studied his face and asked what was wrong; Gabumon sighed with pain in
his eyes and tears. Agumon slipped his hand around the depressed Digimon. Gabumon
turned to face his friend and asked if Matt stilled him, even though Tai had
a crush on him.
"Gabumon, no matter what happens, Matt will always love you."
"I hope you’re right...."
"...What's the matter," Agumon asked studying his face, "you
don't believe me...do you?"
"Huh," Gabumon responded with shook on his face, "I didn't say
that..."
"I know you didn't...the thing I'm trying to say is that you should trust
your own intuition."
Agumon turned walked toward Tai and laid next to him, Gabumon turned toward
Matt to notice that he was shivering. He quickly walked up and curled up real
close to Matt. He opened one eye rolled over to kiss Gabumon's wet nose; the
Digimon closed his eyes and was soon asleep.
A shadow peered from behind a tree; the evil Digimon grinned seeing that they
where all there. He moved away from the tree and flapped his wings to fly toward
Matt. Demidevimon lifted the crest up and used his teeth to brake the string.
I didn't want Lord Myotismon way to take this one when I should be taking Tai's,
Demidevimon thought, but orders are orders. The string landed on Gabumon's paw.
A large drop of sweat came down Demidevimon's face what Gabumon's eyes opened.
The evil Digimon backed up with fear on his face; Gabumon got to his feet and
pounced. Demidevimon moved out of the way to see Matt sitting up, he rubbed
his eyes and gasped. Matt rose to his feet as Gabumon opened his mouth blue
stuff came out, Demidevimon quickly flew away. The angry Digimon and started
to run after him.
"Matt, what's going on?" Tai asked
"It's Demidevimon," Matt answered, "he took off with my crest!"
"He what...?"
"This is terrible..."
They were all running after Gabumon by then; the gang stopped when they all
found Matt's Digimon standing there with his back turned to the group. Matt
ran up and asked if he was all right. Gabumon stood there shaking in anger;
he couldn't look at Matt, felt as though he let him down. The Digidestinied
stepped in front of Gabumon to bend down and hugged him.
"I know you did your best to get the crest back..."
Gabumon was even angrier when Matt had forgiven him for what happened. The Digimon
pulled away and said that he couldn't be Matt's Digimon anymore since he let
him down. Matt's eyes grew big with pain; he couldn't believe what he was hearing
and neither could the others.
"Gabumon, don't do this," Said Agumon with pain in his eyes, "we
need you."
"No one needs a Digimon that can't even protect....good bye."
With that, Gabumon turned and started to run; the Digidestinied were about to
take a step when Matt put his hand out to stop them and said that he needed
to have some time to himself. Agumon knew that Gabumon was just confused and
need to have some sense knocked into him.
Gabumon by now was walking, he started to feel weak and hot; great pain started
to pears his body like arrows. Gabumon collapsed onto the ground breathing heavily.
What's happening to me, he thought; just right then he saw cold eyes all around
him. Gabumon painfully got to his feet to see that Gazimons surrounded him.
Agumon and the others however, where not to far off from where Gabumon was.
He started to run even faster when he started to feel that something was not
right. The Gazimons cleared out when they saw Agumon running up ready to use
his Pepper Breath. Matt ran up to Gabumon who was lying on the ground; he looked
pail and wet from perspiration.
"What's wrong with him?" TK asked.
Izzy got out his lab top and started to tip, looking at the screen; he gasped.
Everyone looked at his direction to see fear on his face; Tai walked up to stand
behind him and look on the screen with confusion. He couldn't make it out, all
he saw was Matt's crest.
"Okay," He said, "so what's wrong?"
"Since Matt's crest is with the hands of the enemy....they could do anything
with it they want..."
"So what are you saying?" Mimi asked.
"I'm saying that Lord Myotismon may have found something about the crest---"
"What about them...?" Tai interrupted
"I was just getting to that part," Izzy responded, "the crest's
have a unique energy property that is linked to our Digimons to help them evolve....and
since Myotismon has it, he might have found a way to harm that power---that's
why Gabumon is in a lot of pain...and if we don't get the crest back he'll...."
Izzy's voice trilled off to silence, he didn't want to doom the other or bring
anymore fear to Matt who all ready looked scared.
"He'll what...?"
"....Gabumon will die."
Everyone gasped in fear Gabumon dying was never something they thought possible.
Oh sure, everyone knew that he was made out of data base....but their Digimons
dying? Now that was just not something that they had to think about until now.
"We must take him to Gennai's place, so we can figure out how to help Gabumon."
They all agreed, Matt picked Gabumon up and started to follow the others to
a lake. It split in two and stairs appeared, they dissented down the steps to
see Gennai standing on the bottom step.
"What happened?"
"It was Demidevimon---he took off with my crest."
"Come inside."
They all followed the old man in the house to a room to see a bed and a bowl
of water. Matt laid him down and covered him up, he took the wash cloth and
wiped the perspiration off Gabumon's face. By now, he was pail and unconscious;
Tai never seen Matt or Agumon looked so worried before.
"What can we do---Gabumon is dying..." Said Matt impatiently.
"Calm down my friend...the only way you can help your Digimon is if you
retrieve the crest back." Said Gennai.
"Yea...and how do you suppose we do that? Knock on Lord Myotismon's door
and ask for the crest back?" Comamon asked flatly with closed eyes.
"Be practical," Joe responded, "you know that we can't engage
until we have a bullet proof plane."
"Duhh!"
Tai took Matt's hand and squeezed it, he turned his head to his friend smiling.
Matt looked down and then back at Tai with a parcel grin; it took the rest of
the day to plan out how they were going to get in the castle. That night everyone
but Matt was sleeping; he walked in Gabumon's room and sat next to him. He took
the cloth off dunked in the bowl took it out and rung it out. Matt wiped Gabumon's
face, he closed his eyes as tears formed under his eyelids.
>From the doorway Tai watched with pain in his eyes; it wasn't fair that
Lord Myotismon was hurting Gabumon and Matt in the process. Tai walked up and
sat down next to his friend. Matt was a little surprised at first sense he was
deep in thought.
"Don't do that," Matt panicked.
"I didn't mean to scare you." Said Tai softly.
They both starred at each other for about one moment; Matt looked back down
at Gabumon. Tai inched closer when Matt looked back at him; his lips touched
Matt's. He couldn't move for some reason, it was as though time itself stopped.
Tai pulled away when he realized what he was doing to his friend, he got to
his feet quickly turned around and ran out.
Tai collapsed on the mattress baring his face in his pillow and sobbing. Agumon
awakened at the moment. Agumon rolled over and asked why he was crying. Tai
turned his head to face his friend with tears coming down; pain revealed in
Agumon's eyes.
"Matt hate's me..."
"What happened?" Agumon finally asked.
"I...I kissed Matt..."
"What's wrong with that..." Agumon smiled, "you always wanted
to kiss him now you got your chance...you should be proud of yourself."
"You’re right," Tai sighed.
'You’re right' was the only thing that Tai could say at the moment, he
couldn't believe that he let himself get carried away like that. Tai rolled
over; he was still wide-awake. The memory of kissing Matt was burning in his
mind; Tai tried to forget about it but he couldn't. He closed his dry swollen
eyes and fell asleep.
Matt still sat there still unable to move, he couldn't believe what happened.
He got to his feet and walked to the door, when he stopped and smiled. Matt
didn't feel any different, to him the kiss meant that their relationship will
always be strong.
The morning came to soon for Tai and Matt, they still wanted to sleep in a little
longer. Everyone insisted that they wake up; Matt got dressed and joined the
others. Sora tried to convince Tai to join them but he said that he was too
tired to eat.
"I'll talk to him." Said Matt standing at the doorway.
"Okay."
Sora got to her feet and walked out as the door closed behind her; Matt walked
up to sit next to Tai. He finally rolled over and opened his eyes, they looked
bloodshot and swollen. Matt's expression changed to pity and asked if he cried
last night. Tai looked down at his twiddling thumbs when Matt turned his cheek
to kiss Tai fully.
"Thanks for cheering me up last night."
"....Matt---you're welcome."
The blond haired boy sat straight looking down at the floor; Tai studied his
face and what he was thinking about. Matt closed his eyes real tight remembering
what Gabumon told him at camp, 'I love you...'.
"I do like you Tai...but I love Gabumon too---"
"I know how much he means to you but that still doesn't change our friendship,
right?"
"Of course Tai," Matt paused opening his eyes with a hurtful expression,
"it's just that I never allowed anyone get that close after my parents
got divorced...I was in TK's age when that happened---I felt isolated and I
couldn't trust anyone. It wasn't until I met you and the others when I realized
that friendship is important."
"...Matt..." Tai whimpered, "I had no idea..."
The others however, were waiting for them when the door opened and both boy's
walked in and sat down. Izzy got out his computer as his hands danced on the
key bored.
"I think I found away to get in Lord Myotismon's castle."
"All right," Said Tai excitedly hopping to his feet, " let's
move out!"
"Not so fast," Said Izzy, "there are more Gazimons patrolling
in that area and we need to be careful not to be seen."
Tai scooted closer to Izzy so he could look at the screen and have a good plan
once they got inside. Everyone watched Tai gaze at the screen, Matt put his
hand on his friend's shoulder and said that he was going to check on Gabumon.
"We'll get you when we're ready to move out." Tai smiled.
Matt nodded his head, got to his feet and walked out of the room. He walked
in Gabumon's room to sit next to him. Matt took the cloth out of the water rung
it out and wiped the sweat off his face. He turned his head to look out the
big window, Matt got to his feet to walk to it and putt his hand on the glass.
"Matt," Said Tai from the doorway as he turned to see his friends,
"we're ready to go when ever you are."
"Yea, I'm ready to kick some Digi-butts!" Said Matt walking toward
his friends.
Meanwhile, Lord Myotismon looked at the crest that was being held up by a stand.
Blue beams were going though the symbol; Myotismon grind with a pleasing look
on his face when Demidveimon came knocking on the door. Myotismon said that
he could come in.
"Lord Myotismon...." He said when the castle shook.
"What's going on?"
"That's what I was just going to tell ya....the kids are---"
Right then the wall caved in and Greymon walked in, Tai and Matt hopped out
of his hand. Myotismon growled in anger then he calmed down and laughed feeling
that he had the upper hand.
"You Digidestinieds think you're so smart..."
"Where's Matt's crest?" Tai snapped.
"...Oh, you mean this thing?" Said Myotismon holding the crest up.
"You give that back!"
"Now why would I do that? So you can win at the end of the story?...I swear,"
Myotismon responded with a flat look on his face, "you guys can give me
a head ache!"
"You're the one who doesn't have any tacked pride, or honor! Come here
and fight like a man!" Said Tai running toward Lord Myotismon.
He pounced on Myotismon, who fell on his back; Tai held his left arm down as
he tried to yank the crest out of his hand. Myotismon pulled his arm free and
got a hold of Tai's neck. The whole gang gasped in fear as they watched Myotismon
hold Tai in the air as he rose to his feet.
"Fight like a man you say..."
"Yea," Said Tai in a weak voice as he hit Myotismon right in the stomach,
"that's exactly what I said!"
Tai was dropped onto the floor so was Matt's crest, Myotismon backed up as Tai
grabbed the crest, got to his feet turned and threw it to his friend. Matt jumped
in the air and caught it. Myotismon got out his special whip; the end of it
wrapped around Tai's throat. He pulled on it and the Digidestinied fell back
and was drug toward Myotismon.
"Howling blaster!"
Everyone turned to see the other wall caved in and Garurumon walked in. Matt's
face lit up with joy in his eyes; the wolf opened his mouth and blue energy
came out. Lord Myotismon growled while he ran for his life. This isn't over
yet, he thought. I'll get you for this!
Garurumon powered down to Gabumon; Matt and the others ran up, the blond haired
boy bent down and hugged his Digimon close. After Agumon hugged Gabumon too
Matt asked if he was all right.
"I'm fine...but I was wrong....will you forgive me Matt?" Gabumon
asked looking down on the floor with shame.
"Come guy's," Said Tai walking out the way they came in followed by
Agumon, "our mission is done here...lets move out."
Matt said that he forgave Gabumon and followed the others out. That night as
the Digidestinieds sat around the campfire; Izzy got done doing research on
the crest and said that Gabumon was out of danger and all his strength will
return to him in the next day or so.
"That's great," Said Tai, "but what Myotismon did to Gabumon
makes it more important to win this fight!"
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