Terriermon
This weekend will start with a first small Mini Tournament in the DWC - The Digital World Championship. Not much being said so far about it except its name: Taiki VS Kiriha.
I know these two. Among us Tamers they are like superstars. Taiki, the leader of Team Xros Hearts and Kiriha the general of Blue Flare. Together they fought many hard battles and saved our world not just once. While Kiriha is mostly not in the country, Taiki can be seen here and there sometimes. It's interesting, those who know the truth about Digimon cross paths more often than they think... However I never could get my courage up enough to go and talk to him.
The only info we got about the mini tournament is that it will be all about making friends and getting to know each other. A little ironical but I guess but it fits quite well ^^;
Also Terriermon and I had to first get to know each other. But in the end we noticed, how much we already knew about the other.
After the appearing of the D-Power, Terriermon and I sat there on the snowfield a few seconds longer. I now finally started to realize what just happened. We got buried by an avalanche but got brought back out by an unknown power, I had a creature in front of me that I thought I would never see in reality, a Digimon and even more it is my Digimon Partner! Terriermon which sat on my lap looked at me and waited patiently until my thoughts were sorted. I just wanted to say something to Terriermon but it was faster than me "Okay Ryo, I know you probably have some questions but we first should find a way out of here." Terriermon pointed around and I knew what it meant. It was not really safe to stay in and on an area where another avalanche could easily start again.
It was still snowing heavily. My ski, sticks, helmet and ski goggles were gone, somewhere buried under tons of snow. I slowly stood up worrying if I could. The force with which the avalanche ripped away my gear was really brutal but I was relieved that no bones were broken or joints twisted, but I felt that all over the body would be bruises. I could stand up and walk around. Terriermon noticed that my ears started to get red from the cold air and snow. It jumped high into the air and landed on my right shoulder. There it covered my ears softly with its to keep me warm. "Thank you" I said to Terriermon and we both had to giggle a little about how we probably looked like.
I slowly started to walk down the mountain but after a few minutes of walking I noticed that I was pretty lost. That side of the mountain was pure nature with no slopes or ski-lifts. Also I did have some trouble with the orienteering after the twisting and turning inside the avalanche. Terriermon asked me why I didn't take my D-Power to show me a map. I remembered now seeing in the tv-shows that this was possible. I still hold it in my hand with a tight grip not wanting to ever let it go again. Lifting it up I saw some buttons on the top of the Digivice. It was strange, I immediately knew which button I'd have to press and a holographic map of the area around me appeared in the air. A dot on the virtual hill in front of me showed our position. Surprisingly, the map already showed the pattern of the recent avalanche! It was kind of a real-time map which I thought was pretty cool.
After some climbing down we reached a street near the bottom of the mountain. I'd just have to follow the snow covered track to get directly back to the village. The street lead us through a light forest, no other person or animal was around. The snowfall slowly became less but never stopped completely. On the way we now finally had time to talk a little with each other.
Terriermon told me that it's been looking for me since it hatched out of its egg. It didn't know who I was but knew that its partner would be here in the human world and show himself when it needed him the most. Terriermon told me about the digital world where it grew up, how nice it was there and also how bad during the hard times of all the different bad Digimon which tried to get control over the digital world. Terriermon already saw and fought countless fights even with its just few years it was old. How old exactly was not possible to tell since the times in the digital world and our world don't always run at the same speed, although they synchronized already pretty much over all the years.
So it knew it somehow had to get into the human world. Terriermon told me about all of his journeys to the different regions of the digital world to find a way to cross the border of the two worlds. It spread his hand open in front of my head and a silver shining key appeared in it. The key had the shape of a normal key you use to unlock doors but the edges were formed like connectors you see on new usb-sticks or computer parts. As sudden as it appeared, the key vanished again. Terriermon told me that it found the key on top of a mountain in the digital world, similar this one we were on. As soon as it touched the key, a gate opened and a voice told him, that it could choose to go to the human world right now to meet its partner or wait for another opportunity to come. It told me that there was nothing of a choice; it already decided that it would come here long ago, no matter what or when. Terriermon told me that it ran right into the vortex of the gate and landed on that mountain we're on not long before I rescued it from the avalanche.
I also told Terriermon about myself and we noticed some similarity between us. Like me, it also never got to know its parents. Terriermon grew up in a cold and snowy area of the Digimon world with many Gabumon and Gomamon. This maybe also explains the fact that it is, not like normal for Terriermon a wind type Digimon, but an ice one. It also of course loved the ice and the coldness and like me all its skills compared to other Digimon were fairly well average or a little better.
We had an awesome chat on the way back and it strangely felt kinda familiar to talk with Terriermon. It was like I knew it since I was born and could talk freely about everything. Terriermon always pointed out how glad it now was to finally have met me. These words went directly into my heart and gave me a nice warm feeling. After all, I was completely soaked wet from the avalanche and the walking back and the cold air made my body shiver quite a bit already. But Terriermon made me completely forget about that.
By dusk we finally reached the vacation house which our school rented for the trip here to the mountains. Even nowadays we still try to keep Digimon a secret but more and more tamers and Digimon show them self in public. Back then, no one ever saw a real Digimon or at least no one said they did and if, then no one would've believed them anyway. Already on the way back I wondered about how to explain the others the appearance of the Digimon but I didn't have to do it yet because Terriermon said "Okay I'm going to hide in your Digivice. In that way I can always be by your side." With a flash it disappeared into the display of the Digivice. I was surprised that this was possible with the d-power Digivice. I only saw this in the tv-shows on newer models. But I was quite happy with that update of the d-power, opened the door and stepped into the house.
I wondered if the teacher would believe my excuse why I was a little too late and why all my ski equipment was gone. Together with Terriermon we came up with the idea that I got surprised by the avalanche, overlooked that I was driving to the end of the slope and fell down hard next to the official track. That ripped away all my gear. Because I landed right where the avalanche would go through I didn't care about collecting the gear and went back up to the slope just in time before the avalanche buried all my stuff under tons of snow. I then was late because I had to walk down the whole mountain cause they turned the cable car off. My teacher believed me that explanation and told me that he was glad I was not too badly hurt but also scolded me because I didn't follow their top rule to never go alone on the slope.
Well, he then thought that I had learned my lesson because I lost all my equipment and because I had to walk back (I didn't tell him that my insurance would probably come up for all the lost things) so I didn't get any punishment and could go back to the rest of the class.
During the night I nearly couldn't sleep at all. I wanted to talk with Terriermon so badly but I was in a room with seven other class members. And sneaking out was also not possible because the teachers walked around on the floors from time to time to check if we were really asleep. So I just hold the D-Power as close to me as possible to at least see Terriermon.
The next day we drove back to Tokyo, first by bus off the mountains and then by train. I always tried to sit a little offside in the train so I could take out my Digivice and have a quick chat with Terriermon. Holding the Digivice in the hands was nothing special. There are tons of toys that look more or less exactly the same as these Digivices. But talking with it was kinda strange. On the train when we were near Tokyo I noticed that more and more kids also did hold a Digivice in their hands, mostly the newest model, the xros loader which you also can use as mp3 player. But I couldn't get the idea out of my head that some of these Digivices were real, like mine.
Today I know I was not mistaken.