Takashi stopped suddenly as he felt Kae cuddle next to him. He growled and threw her off again. He turned to Isamon when he heard what the digimon said. Following his view, he looked up to find Kae floating. Blinking a few times, the male didn't really know what to say. "Right. Today has just been full of surprises." He muttered underneath his breath.
Ishimon stared up too. "Hmm. . . Isn't that Tova?" He asked curiously, noticing the other bubble up there.
Aya stared at Kae-In-A-Bubble, "KAE!! Who did this to you???" She shouted. Then she looked at Tova, "HEY TOVA!! You too?! What is this?!" She then put a determined expression on her face, "AN EVIL-DIGI-DUDE! LET'S GO KICK SOME BUTT, TAMA-MON!"
"Yes, master."
Takashi turned at Aya. "Hey. Stay out of it. I can handle this." He glared at her.
Ishimon sweatdropped. Takashi was acting weird. . .. Weirder than normal. Now that confession had NOTHING to do with this. . . right?
"No! I *won't* stay out of this! I'm a Digidestined too, Takashi!" she glared back, "You're not the only HERO, Takashi!"
Takashi glared at her more. "I'm not TRYING to be a damn hero. I'm trying to make sure that you don't get hurt! God. Trying to help you is like MURDER!" He shouted.
"I don't need help, Takashi!" shouted Aya back, "I can take care of myself! If it's like murder, then just ignore me like you did before!"
His eyes burned in anger. "Fine! I'll ignore you. I'd rather anyway!" He spun around, his arms crossed, taking his view off of the blonde haired female.
Aya looked at Takashi triumphantly, and did the same in the other direction.
Takashi didn't really like the idea of just standing there so he turned to Ishimon. "Come! Let's go see if we can go find who's behind this." He yelled, running into the castle.
"HEY!!!" shouted Aya, grabbing on to his shirt, "THAT'S *MY* JOB!!!"
Takashi stopped short. "What the hell? Who said?!" He said, angry that she had stopped him from moving.
"I said!" she told him, "Are you deaf as well as stupid?!"
"Who said I had to listen to you?! And no I'm NOT deaf or stupid." He retorted.
"I'M SAYING SO RIGHT NOW!!!" she shouted right in his ear, "And I'm not letting go of your shirt until YOU STOP PLAYING HERO!"
"ARGH!!! STOP SCREAMIN IN MY EAR ALREADY! And I'm not playing Hero!!! I'm just trying to protect you, damn you!! And apparently you don't seem to like that!" He screamed.
"WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO PROTECT ME?!" she shouted right back, "YOU SAID ALL I CAUSE YOU IS ANGER AND CONFUSION!"
"I just AM!! I don't have to explain myself to you!!!!" He yelled, not sure himself why he was.
"Yes, you do! I DEMAND you tell me!"
"Demand?! I don't have to take you screaming at me."
"You think???" said Aya, "As long as I keep screaming... YOU DO HAVE TO TAKE!"
Takashi couldn't take it anymore. He was sick of her yelling at him and so far only ONE idea flashed through his head to shut her up. He didn't know if he SHOULD but he did anyway, while he had both the guts and the anger in him. He glared at her ONE last time before leaning down to kiss her.
Aya's face went red as he kissed her. Aya CERTAINLY had not expected this... And everyone was watching! Tamagomon was dangling as she kept on holding him! Tamagomon just stared at the two. He thought '......Weird humans...... Well, at least it shut her up.' He sweatdropped.
Takashi glared at her once more time. "Now will you LET GO OF ME?" He asked with anger.
Aya just stared at him speechlessly, as she slowly let go of him. She fell to her knees in astonishment. 'Why are you getting so worked up, Aya?!' she thought to herself, 'It's not like it's your FIRST kiss! I mean, your first kiss was in grade one! But... this is so WEIRD!'
With that, he spun back around, not saying a word and immediately walked straight into the castle. He was rather quiet after that show. Although his thoughts showed a different story. 'You are crazy.' He repeated numerously in his head, only phrase that was heard.
Aya got back up. "Come on, Tama-mon!" she told her Digimon, "WE'RE FASTER THAN HE IS!" She grabbed her Digimon again, and ran as fast as she could, WAY past Takashi.
Takashi face faulted as he saw Aya run past him. "She doesn't give up. Does she?" He asked out loud.
Ishimon, who was quiet the whole time, shook his head. "Nope. Not at all."
Takashi frowned. "Then. . Let's beat her at her own game." He smirked as he ran off, following her and leaving everyone behind.
Not-Kae, extremely confused, followed Takashi and Aya. The real Kae, on the other hand, was mentally scarred for life.
"EEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWW! EW EW EW!!! DID YOU HAVE TO DO THAT IN FRONT OF ME?!" She screeched at Takashi's retreating back. Retreating back? Wait a minute... "HEY! HEY! GET ME OUTTA HERE! AYA! TAKASHI! HELP!"
Starmon had suddenly become aware of the situation, and hurriedly made her way to where Aya and Takashi were. Deciding to go after the boy first, just because she wanted to, she raised her staff, and POOF. Now Takashi was in a bubble, too. And his body was soulless. She turned to smirk at Aya.
"Your turn, sweetie." She raised her staff, hesitating only slightly because of the spasm of pain from her lower back (where the black gear had made itself comfortable).
Takashi suddenly awakened in his nice pretty bubble. "Right. This doesn't seem quite. . . Right. . ." He muttered to himself. He stared at the ground and to his surprise there stood HIM! "That doesn't seem quite right either. . ." Ishimon stared as Not-Takashi froze suddenly. 'Hmm. .'
"Takashi?" The digimon asked, concerned. The male suddenly started moving, catching sight of a female in front of him. Not-Takashi marched towards her and out of nowhere, decided that a hug was a great greeting.
Aya shrieked this time, "DAMN YOU, TAKASHI!!!! FIRST THE KISS, NOW THE HUG DAMN IT!!!!" Then she thought, and spoke, "Oh... wait... Takashi is in the bubbly-thingy-boo!" She turned to Starmon, "Damn YOU!!!" She shook Fakeness-Takashi off, and tackled Starmon.
Starmon glowered angrily at the girl, before throwing her off and to the floor. Raising her staff, she proclaimed, "Now you shall spend eternity in a BUBBLE! MWAHAHAHAHA!"
"WHAT?!" shouted Aya, "That sucks! It's not fair! They don't do that at football games!"
Takashi started banging against his bubble. "GET ME OUT OF HERE!!!!" He looked down. "Come on!!!!!"
Tamagomon squirmed out of Aya's hands, "Aya! It's my turn to do my job as Digimon!" Aya stared at him,
"You mean you'll Digi-tude??"
"Yes, I'll try at least. To DigiVOLVE that is. Just believe in me."
Ishimon stood slightly lost. Looking up, he caught sight of Takashi banging on his bubble. He grabbed onto the Not-Takashi who seemed to be trying to race towards Aya, for god knows WHAT reason. "Now now. You stay here and better not do anything with my partner's body."
Aya glared at Starmon and pointed her index finger, "You better watch out! 'Cause you're going DOWN! DIGIVOLVE!!!" Tamagomon stood still, and sweatdropped, "..." Aya frowned,
"It ain't working!"
Starmon smirked, and raised her staff high. "NOW YOU SHALL SLEEP FOREVER!"
Takashi kept banging on the bubble. "COME ON!!! GET ME OUT OF THIS DARN THING!!"
"EKKKKKKK!" screeched Aya, "DIGIVOLVE NOW!!" She took out her Digivice (Make-up cleaner) and held it up high, "I believe in you, Tama-mon!" Tamagomon glowed red, as he yelled out, "Tamagomon Digivolve to... Butterflymon!" Aya's eyes went wide, "Now THAT is worthy of my beauty!" Butterflymon was like a giant butterfly, with colorful rainbow-like wings.
Starmon hesitated, staring fearfully at Butterflymon. Though her magic was incredibly powerful, she, herself, really wasn't. Taking an angry stance, however, she readied herself for battle.
Butterflymon glared at Starmon threateningly, and flew above her. "You shall pay for what you did to the Digidestined!" He stared down at her and quickly started to beat it's wings. A purple powder came out, "Sweet pheromone!"
Takashi stopped banging and instead watched on in interest. "Amazing. . . Who'd have thought he had it in him?"
Starmon started to shriek, but the powder caused her eyelids to droop, and she just sort of stood there in a daze for a moment, before the gear tore out of her back, and she yelped. "Uh...? Hi?" Seeing Takashi in the bubble, she meeped. "EEK! Sorry, dear, did I do that?" Starmon hung her head. "I'm sorry. I can't change you back, though, only Dreammon can, and I have no idea where he went..." She sniffled.
Takashi glared at the digimon. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?!?" he kept banging on the bubble. "I DON'T WANT TO STAY IN A BUBBLE!!!!"
Starmon cowered. "I'm sorry! But it's true..."
Aya jumped up and down in excitement, "'UTTERFLYMON! 'UTTERFLYMON!!! YAAAAAAYYYY!" Butterflymon looked back at Aya and sighed in relief. A light surrounded him, and he turned back into Tamagomon. Neither of the two noticed the discussion between Takashi and Starmon.
Takashi snarled at the digimon. "Well then. YOU HAD BETTER GO FIND THAT DIGIMON!!!" He screamed.
Starmon glanced about nervously. "I think he went out to the meadow a little way from here to gather herbs, and he should be back in a little while...?" She smiled sheepishly. "We'll wait for him and your friends to get here."
Tova looked around, confused. "What's going on? Where am I? Where's Hanny? Am I in a...bubble?" She looked around herself. "Psychemon? Where've you gone?"
She'd just been sleeping, perhaps, or something, but now she was completely awake and very scared. Clutching her left arm, she called, "Psychemon? Where are you? Psychemon? Psychemon!"
Kae didn't notice that Tova had awoken. But, then again, she was banging her head on the bubble grumbling about bad mental images, so it was very understandable.
"That's it. We are going to find the others!" Hannah yelled, annoyed. She ran off towards the castle, yanking Tova along with her. Fukimon followed, pausing only to yell, "Come on!" to Psychemon.
They (Fukimon and Hannah) got to the castle soon enough, all in peak condition--I.E.: white, spluttering and sweating.
"Whoa," Hannah noticed the bubbles and the people in them, "What happened here?" She looked at the others, "You fought someone here, right?" She then began to bang her fists against the wall, "FLIP! WHY do I always miss these things?"
"Yay!!! You did it! And nice scene you two made! Thanks to my matchmaker skills!" Eros said hyperly.
"Uh huh, sure you did.." Lucemon said sarcastically.
Tova-in-a-bubble saw Hannah, Fukimon, Psychemon, and...herself? "Hanny! Hanny!"
She paused for a moment, taking in the fact that there was currently two of her. "If you have my body, then how am I here? Oh, I'm confused." She slumped against the side of her bubble.
Aya looked at everyone, "Why is everyone still in the bubble?"
Tamagomon sweatdropped, "Starmon... just said..."
"Didn't she say that we need to find Dreammon?" Eros asked.
Takashi glared at Starmon. "GO FIND DREAMMON ALREADY!!!! I DON'T LIKE BEING IN A BUBBLE!!!" He screamed at the digimon. He was absolutely furious. Of course the fact that Ishimon was having a hard time from keeping his body away from Aya couldn't be why Takashi was furious. Of COURSE not.
Ishimon struggled to keep Not-Takashi from moving. He kept trying to run towards the confused Aya and probably give her another hug like before. "GEEZ!!! WILL YOU STOP MOVING ALREADY?!" The digimon screamed. That didn't work since a few minutes later Not-Takashi slipped out of Ishimon's grip and immediately gave Aya a hug from behind.
Takashi saw this and screamed. "WILL YOU STOP THAT YOU DAMN BODY?!!? I DON'T WANT YOU TO DO THAT!!!!" He was positively crazy. Turning back to Starmon, he gave the digimon one of his most deadly glares which he hoped would cause it to RUN OFF AND FIND DREAMMON!
Starmon meeped. She was about to go off and look for Dreammon, when who should walk in but... Dreammon!
He was a rather handsome (okay, very handsome), humanoid Digimon. He had shoulder-length, sandy blonde hair that was tied up in a ponytail. His ears, though human-like, were slightly pointed. His eyes were an icy blue, and he wore what could only be described as a punk outfit. He had claws instead of fingernails, and a sword attached to his belt. The only other nonhuman thing about him were the draconic wings and tail.
Dreammon took in the scene before him and chuckled. With a wave of his hand, he restored all in bubbles to their bodies, and then shoved Takashi away from Aya, grinning flirtatiously at the girl. "Hey there," He purred.
Kae, relieved at finding herself in her body again, hugged Isamon. "I'm me again!" She said happily. Then she spotted Dreammon. And managed to determine that the Digimon was flirting with Aya. She wrinkled her nose.
"Ewww..."
Takashi sighed in relief. "I'M BACK!!!" He turned to the digimon that reverted him back only to find him flirting with Aya. Normally, Takashi wouldn't really CARE but he was starting to turn red, which he dismissed as left back emotions from Not-Takashi. Shaking his head, he headed towards Ishimon, trying his BEST not to face the flirt.
Ishimon blinked. "Well at least I won't have to deal with the other . . . Er. . Takashi trying to attack Aya." The digimon mumbled to himself.
Tova opened her eyes, frowning in confusion. "Wait...I'm not in a bubble anymore...Weird. And my nose hurts. What's going on, Hanny?"
Psychemon pounced on her and bit her nose a second time. "You stupid girl! Why'd you go running off? I was really worried about you!"
"You were?" Tova smiled.
"Well...not really worried. I just didn't want to get blamed if you went off and ended up killing yourself." Psychemon tried his hardest to cover up any hint of affection for his partner, though it didn't work very well.
Aya gave a small smile, "Hello. Ehm, thanks for helping my friends get back to normal!" She brushed back her hair, giving him a playful grin.
Dreammon gave her a seductive smile.
"No problem! I was glad to do it. Say, how come a pretty girl like you's rompin' around the Digiworld? It's dangerous out there, you know." He said, all in a very flirtatious manner. Starmon was NOT pleased.
"Dreeeeammonn!" She whined. "What about me?"
"What about you?" He asked, blinking. "You're my sister, Starmon, not my girlfriend. By the way, I'm still single." He added, winking at Aya. Starmon pouted.
"Do any of you want a fresh change of clothes? Yours don't seem to be in very good condition." Starmon addressed all the children now. "And there's two whole rooms full of clothing upstairs." She gestured towards the staircase. "Pink door's girl's clothes, blue door's boy's." She added.
Kae, who had been hitting her head to clear the bad mental images of Dreammon and Aya doing something inappropriate, was grateful for this distraction and pretty much raced up the stairs and through the pink door. Isamon blinked, and chuckled.
"My Partner's funny." He said cheerfully.
Aya smiled back, "Oh, me? Well, I'm not too sure why! It seems these... DIGIMON..." She glared in Tamagomon's direction, "Seemed to have gotten us in this situation!" She titled her head to the side,
"Nothing to worry about though! Hard to believe you're single though~!" She looked towards Starmon, and her eyes glittered, "Clothes??? You two are *so* nice! Excuse me!" She rushed the girl's change room.
Dreammon watched her go with a dreamy expression on his face, and if this had been a manga, there would be, in bold letters, the word "DROOOOL" above his head.
"Sexy... girl... mweh..." He would have continued, but Starmon thwacked him with her staff.
Aya browsed through the many clothes she could find. Not any *fashionable* around, but who needs fashion in a place like this? She picked the "most fashionable Digi clothes" she could get, and quickly put them on. She felt the relief of clean clothes on her body. She skipped out, "Whoo! You have great clothes there, Starmon!"
"Wow, where have I been anyway?" Seto thought aloud.
"I don't remember," replied Auroramon, "but there's like a bunch of clothes upstairs. Ah-hem! Shoes!"
"Sweetness!" replied Seto, moving so fast that Auroramon kept talking to the smoke image he left behind.
Starmon grinned at Aya.
"I know." She said smugly. "I have the best collection of clothes in Digiworld."
"You look great in that," Dreammon told Aya, giving her a charming smile. "But, then again, I'll bet you look great in anything." He winked. Laying it on rather thick, that he was.
Kae, meanwhile, was digging through the clothes to find something she liked. Finally finding something, she ditched all her clothes except for the bandanna, her goggles, and her underwear, and pulled on a loose, dark green t-shirt, baggy black jeans, and a pair of boots. She tied her hair in a ponytail and placed her bandanna over it, then put the goggles over that. Looking in the mirror and finding herself looking more like a boy than a girl, smiled in approval and romped down the stairs.
Aya laughed flirtatiously, "Well, of course. Same for you."
Dreammon grinned.
"Really? You know, you're a very beautiful and charming girl." He said, not even bothering to even take it slowly anymore. Starmon thwacked him with her staff again.
"PERVERT! FLIRT! DISGUSTING FREAK! I'M ASHAMED TO CALL YOU MY ONII-SAN!" She shrieked, chasing him around the room and thwapping him with her staff.
"AHHHHHHH! I'M SORRY I'M SORRY I'M SORRY!" Then, Dreammon said the two most random words that came to mind. "DAEMON WOMAN!"
Aya was about to respond 'That's what everyone says' but then she just sweatdropped and sank to the floor in confusion.
Eros came out of the blue room dressed in a loose fitting white formal semi-transparent dress shirt with the collar and cuffs unbuttoned. He had an undershirt on, which looks like a sleeveless shirt. His pants were black and perfectly silky smooth. He wore polished, black boots and blew himself a kiss in the mirror.
"I'm irresistible!" he said then trotted downstairs.
Seto walked out of the blue room with his new shoes. He felt like a 'TV person.'
Takashi hadn't moved for quite awhile. He had turned red and started twitching at the flirting between Dreammon and Aya. He STILL didn't know why but he didn't care. . . at the moment anyway. Grumbling, he headed for new clothes.
Ishimon followed behind him but he was rather slow. A few seconds later, Takashi had already finished getting changed. He wore a sleeveless black shirt with blue jeans and in his hand, he had a white button down shirt that he planned on stuffing in his bag in case it got cold. Sighing, he decided that he might as well THANK the digimon. (Of course that didn't mean he'd thank Dreammon.)
Takashi walked towards Starmon and frowned. "Thank you for the clothes." he said monotonously. That was the end of that glorious conversation.
Eros walked downstairs, and he saw the drama between Dreammon, Starmon, and Aya being in the middle of the chase.
"Umm...hi! Are you all busy?" he asked. Looking at the chase, he took a seat and watched in amusement.
Aya just stared as Starmon and Dreammon chased each other. She glanced at Takashi as he arrived, and she gave a big grin.
'That'll teach him!'
Takashi turned to see Aya grin at him. Rolling his eyes, he FINALLY reverted back to what he called "Normal Takashi." He sighed inwardly. 'Now I'm back. . . Great. . What was going on with me awhile ago?' He thought but shook it off. He grabbed a seat and sat in it slightly sloppily, slouching as much as he possibly could, hoping they would leave soon.
Aya, knowing that Dreammon might be *busy* for a while being, skipped over to Takashi.
"So, glad to have you back, Takashi-kun," she said, smiling, "Now... tell me..." Her face turned angry, "WHY THE HELL DID YOU KISS ME?!?!"
Takashi turned red. If he had thought she would ask him a question, THAT definitely wouldn't be the one he would have thought. Trying to keep it cool and brushing away the blush, he responded. "Why does it matter?"
"A kiss is an important thing for a girl like me!" yelled Aya, "And if you kissed me for no reason, I'd get very hurt! It's not nice to mess around with a girl's feelings!"
Takashi glared at the girl. "You think it MATTERS to me? I just needed you to SHUT up. So I kissed you. BIG DEAL." He crossed his arms angrily, standing up at this point.
Aya frowned, "I didn't know you were so cruel, Takashi! Otherwise, I wouldn't have fallen for you in the first place! It is a big deal! It matters a lot to me, can't you tell?!"
Takashi glared. "Well I AM cruel!! It's not like I WANTED you to fall for me!!" At this point he turned quiet and silently added in. "Although I can't even see why you did. . ."
Aya stood quiet, slightly hurt at the comment. "It's not my fault you had that charm over me..." she said quietly, "...I fall for boys easily... but you... you were... different..."
Takashi sighed, "Don't. . . Don't fall for me. . ." He walked away from the blond female, slightly confused about what he was doing. Ishimon stared in silence. He could tell that that argument had a particular influence on Takashi.
Aya tried to push away the pain in her heart at the moment, but soon she felt an even stronger pain in her throat. She put a hand up to it, holding back. Then suddenly she went in another coughing fit... 'No... not now,' she thought.
Takashi spun around immediately. "Christ. . Not again Aya!" He exclaimed, rushing towards the female forgetting what he just said. He rushed to her side, picking her up and turning to Starmon. "Where's a room?!" He yelled.
Aya kept coughing, and soon her own vision got very blurry. She couldn't tell what was going on, except that pain was filling up her body worse than ever before. 'I wonder... if I die... will the pain stop?'
Auroramon was quick to act this time, but soon realized his healing spell was having no effect.
Seto frowned, "Come on, Auroramon! Just do what you did before with Kae."
Auroramon shot out his rainbow light frantically but to no avail, "Worthless again..." he mumbled.
"What's wrong with Aya?" Hannah said, coming out of one of the changing rooms. She was wearing a violet t-shirt, sky blue skirt and dark blue tights, a black jacket and hiking boots. She had also grabbed a backpack from a large pile of spare backpacks and stowed her old clothes in it.
She looked at the group-- Kae, Takashi, Tova, Seto, Aya--poor Aya--Juuso and Eros... She looked at Eros in his new clothes and blushed.
Tova followed Hanny out of the dressing room. She wore a dark blue turtleneck and brown corduroys, having been a bit uncomfortable with all of her skin showing. That's perfectly fine when I'm with my family, of course, she thought to herself, but around strangers? No, unless I want to play 20 Questions. She'd also taken a backpack with her, filled with what she had been wearing and another, more 'interesting', outfit.
At the sight of Aya, she gasped. "Err...What's going on? Aya, are you all right?" she asked, looking very pale.
Starmon and Dreammon were at Aya's side immediately, argument forgotten. Starmon gently placed the tip of her staff on Aya's forehead, and Dreammon slipped off one of his gloves, revealing a brilliant, bright blue gem on the back of his hand. Taking Aya's hand in his (the one with the gem), he nodded to Starmon. Both gems, the one on Starmon's staff and the one on Dreammon's hand, began to glow.
"We can stop the coughing for right now, and since we both did it, it should last a while." Starmon said softly. "But that's a very strange human illness, and as Champions, our magic isn't as strong as it's needed to be." Dreammon nodded, and gently squeezed Aya's hand before letting it go.
"Where ever you're all going, I think I'd better come with you." Dreammon announced. "I know the Digiworld better than you or your Digimon would, I can heal minor illnesses, and I can be a help in general. What d'you say?" He looked around eagerly at the Digidestined.
Kae considered that.
"I think it's a great idea." She said, and was about to proclaim it so when, for the first time in her life, she realized it might be a better idea to ask the others first. "What do you guys think?" She looked around at the others.
