Finding Mysteries (Open)

It was a normal afternoon in the Miyashita Park, or at least somewhat normal. Tasha was sitting in a bench, with a lot of books next to her. She managed to finish her studies at the museum the about a week ago, but she still had more to do. She was holding both her textbook and translation book, using the smaller book to translate the kana in the textbook. She was studying outside in the park and enjoying the nice sunny day. That and her little brother was playing games loudly with his friends and disturbing her studies. She looked down at her Tanemon, laying down on the soft grass and sniffing at the flowers on the ground. Tasha looked down at her digimon, smiling a bit. Maybe it was good thing that she's studying here.

Still, Tasha was having a hard time focusing on her work. So much had happened these past few days. She met a nice boy named Kevin in this park. They went over to the museum together, but he managed to find out about Pedra. After some persuasion, Tasha gave in and told him all about her digimon. Now he wanted to have a digimon of her own. Just when he said that, he got his digivice. They all went back to his house and an egg came out of his computer, just like what happened with Pedra. She wished that she didn’t leave so suddenly. He was a really nice guy to be around, and when it wasn’t sneezing out fire, his digimon was kinda cute. Oh course, she left him his number so that he could call her anytime. She looked back over at Pedra, still talking with the flowers in front of her.


Her and Pedra had their differences and tend to bicker sometimes, but then there were moments like this that she was glad to have Pedra around. She was slowly starting to think less of Pedra as a pet and more as a friend. Pedra hummed happily at the flowers, knowing that they enjoy it.


"It's so nice to finally be outside for once." said Pedra, the leaves on her head taking in the sunlight.

Pedra was humming at the small flower for a little bit. Then she noticed that it started drooping slightly. The Tanemon looked intently at the flower, trying to figure out what it needed. Pedra looked over at Tasha, who was still staring deeply at her textbook. She looked up at the sky and sighed. She was beginning to see Japanese kana in her mind, thinking that she just has to take a break. The hot sun wasn’t really helping matters much. She opened her purse and got out a bottle of fresh, cool water. Pedra smiled widely. That is just what her little flower friend needed. She hopped on a bench and tapped Tasha’s leg.

“Hey, Tasha. My flower friend needs some water. You think you can give me your water bottle so I can give it some.” Said Pedra.

Tasha just stared at her digimon. “Psh. No way. I need this more. Tell you little friend to wait till it rains.” Tasha said.

Pedra glared angrily at Tasha. There was no way that she would deprive her flora buddy on what it needed. The Tanemon hopped on Tasha lap, surprised the girl and making her accidently drop her water bottle. The water started pouring out of the bottle, making it run down to the flower. It slowly started be more upright now. Pedra saw this, making her smile.

“Heehee. Thanks, Tasha. ” said Pedra happily.

Tasha gave Pedra a very angry look, her mouth forming a scary snarl. It was the only water bottle she brought with her. Sometimes she really couldn’t stand that digimon of hers. Why couldn’t she get one that was nice and quiet, and not annoying? Then Tasha looked over at the basketball court and saw a boy shooting some hoops. She thought that he looked kind of cute. She was always attracted to the tall, athletic types. When he stopped, he reached over for his bag and something fell out of it. Taking a closer look, it looks like one of the same devices that she and Kevin have, making her gasp a bit. Pedra noticed this and hoped back on her tamer's lap, looking over at the same direction.

"Hey. Whatcha looking at Tasha." the Tanemon asked her. That when she say the device the boy was holding. She squeeled and giggled a bit. "Hey. That guy has that doohickey you have. That means he has a digimon."

Before Tasha could do or say anything else, Pedra hopped off her lap and rushed forward to the boy. This anger her and she chased after her digimon. Then Pedra stopped right in front of the boy.

"Hey there. My name is Pedra. I see that you have weird looking device thing in your hand. That's awesome. So what kind of digimon do you have?"

Tasha finally caught up with Pedra and picked her up, covering her mouth so she wouldn't say anything else. "Girl, what's wrong with you? You can't just go blarting your mouth out like that." she said to her, barely noticing the boy. When she did, she stared back at him, looking very nervous and realizing the situation she was just in. "You..probably want an explanation, don't you...?" she asked him rhetorically, knowing full well what the answer is.

Well, the fact that he wasn’t freaking out as much as Tasha thought he would was good sign, at least. Now trying to explain about digimon to him was going to be another story. She didn’t even know where to start. She looked down over to Pedra, who was squirming a bit in her arms. She took a while to think of what she wanted to say.

“Well…How can I say this…” Tasha held Pedra in front of her. “This is actually a digimon. They’re little creatures that lives in our computers…I think.” She stopped a bit, know how ridiculous all of this sounds. She put Pedra back on the ground and reached in her pocket for her device, showing it to him. “As for this, I have no idea what it is. It think it might have something to do with Pedra changing shape or something.” She said, looking at her device and mostly wondering to herself aloud. The she turned her attention to the boy, feeling a bit embarrassed. “Sorry, I guess I should tell you my name. It’s Natasha, but everyone calls me Tasha.”

Pedra hopped over to the boy again, smiling widely at him. “Sooo…Where’s your digimon? Can I meet it? Huh? Huh? Huh?” Tasha picked up Pedra again, covering her mouth.

“What my friend means is that when I found the egg that Pedra was in, I also found that weird device thing. I was wondering if you found an egg wherever you found yours.”

"Tasha!" Kevin called over to Tasha.

Still not quite sure how to get the Babydmon out of the house comfortably, Babydmon was once again crammed in his backpack. He started running toward Tasha. As he got closer he realized there was another guy there. Oddly enough, this made Kevin a little mad. When he had finally caught up to them, he huffed and puffed catching his breath.

"Hey-- Tasha" Kevin said in between breaths. "What's-- up?"

"Can I come out now it's cramped in here" Babydmon whined.

Kevin took the school bag off his back and opened it. Babydmon came whooshing out.

"Ahh, that's better" Babydmon breathed a sigh of relief.

"So Tasha, who is this?" Kevin said with a hint of animosity in his voice.

Hiro was really confused. The device and the egg had not been there before. He knew that. He had packed the bag himself. All it had was his towel, some extra clothes and some snacks for later. There was no electronic device or giant egg in there. 

"Seriously, how did I not notice someone putting a giant egg in my bag?" Hiro stared at the egg in complete bewilderment. He was busy practicing by himself, sure, but that did not mean he would miss someone messing around with his stuff. He would have seen someone carrying a giant egg and stuffing it into his bag. Heck, he had picked up his bad when the device fell out of it. Surely he would have noticed something as heavy as this egg in his bag. 

"Ugh, whatever. I'll let future Hiro deal with this." Hiro's head fell and collided with the egg with a dull clunk noise. 

It was at this point that Hiro looked up from the egg and noticed that someone else had joined them. A blonde kid with a tiny dragon thing sticking out of his bag. Oh god, they're multiplying, Hiro thought with a slight twitch. Still, Natasha was gracious enough to introduce the boy. Luckily, Hiro had not spaced out long enough to miss the introduction. 

"Right, my name." Hiro felt a little embarrassed that he had not introduced himself yet. He was a little more focused on the giant egg in his hands. "I'm Hiro Tsukino. It's nice to meet you."

Hiro raised an arm in a weak attempt at a wave with his free arm. "But yeah... I have no idea where this thing came from. What do I do with it?"

Tasha couldn’t help but sigh happily when the boy finally said his name…Hiro Tsukino…His name sounded so exotic. It’s probably a common name in Japan, but still, it sounded so nice to her. As she kept watching them, she could relate to him more and more about find her digimon. She also wondered why she would have one and what all this was about. It was weird that his egg would just appear inside of his bag. Pedra though the same thing. She turned over to Babydmon.

“Yeah. It’s really weird. I was watching the bag the whole time, but I didn’t see anyone passing through. It could just appear from thin air.” She said to the dragon digimon.

Then Kevin snapped at Hiro and asked Tasha where he met him, still having an attitude. Why was he like this? Was he really jealous or something? She wasn’t too sure why. She just hoped that this would pass soon. “Well, Pedra just rushed over to him as soon as she saw that he had one of those devices we have. Then she started talking to him, freaking him out.” She gave her digimon a quick glare. “That little nasty still doesn’t have any manners.” Pedra replied to this by sticking out her tongue playfully.

Tasha looked back at Hiro as he was staring at his egg, still wondering what he should do with it. Tasha really wanted to help him, hoping that he would give her a second chance to try to explain what she knows about digimon. Maybe Kevin could help try to explain it too, if he wasn’t being a jerk, of course. He even asked if Hiro was going to hang out with them, like he was going be an annoyance. Tasha glared at him and then looked back at Hiro.

“Sorry…My friend is suddenly being a jerk. What we mean is that if you don’t already have any plans, maybe we could hang out together…Maybe I can try to explain this digimon stuff to you again.” Tasha asked Hiro, hoping that he would accept being with them. “Oh and about the egg, you should try rubbing the top of it. Those things actually hatch pretty fast.”

"Tasha's right Kevin, stop being such a jerk" Babydmon said to Kevin.

Maybe he was being to harsh on Hiro, after all he looked nice enough.... and he did aplogize...

"Listen Hiro, I'm the one who should apologize" Kevin admitted. "You didn't do anything wrong"

"Now that's better" Babydmon said to Kevin. "Just because you're jealous of--"

"I'M NOT JEALOUS!" Kevin snapped at Babydmon.

He wasn't jealous, was he?

"Kevin and Tasha siting in a tree K-I-S--" Babydmon sang until Kevin clocked him in the head.

"OW! what was the for?" Babydmon asked Kevin angrily.

"For not shutting your big mouth!" Kevin retorted.

He turned towards Hiro.

"Anyways, yeah we'd love to help" Kevin said with a smile. "Tasha knows more than I do, though"

Hiro watched the play between the four with an amused look on his face. The digimon teasing the two and the girl's panicking was hilarious and the riposte by the humans only made it funnier. Hiro grinned at the laughter that the two digimon had at the human's expense. He privately wondered what was so important that Natasha needed to pull Kevin away, but considering what the digimon had been insinuating, he had a good idea. 

So with all the interesting things happening in front of him, he could be forgiven for missing the hatching egg in his hands until it was pointed out to him. 

"What?" Hiro blinked and looked down. The patterned egg in his hands was shaking and he could see cracks running sideways in the middle. "Oh!"

Hiro shifted the egg so that it was resting in his hands. The patterned egg started to glow and he could feel the heat coming off the egg. After a few moments of shaking, the cracks finally linked around the entire egg and the top of the egg popped up off of it. 

Hiro flinched at the splintering egg shell. 

"Naa...."

Hiro opened his eyes and looked down. Sitting in the remainder of the egg shell was, what Hiro could only describe as, a purple furry blob. It was round and covered in purple fur, except around it's mouth which was white. It had large amber eyes and animal ears sitting on the top of its body. 

"Uh... hi?" Hiro offered.

"Hi?" The newly hatched digimon tilted his entire body like a puppy before breaking out into a smile that spread over his entire body. "Hi!"

Hiro grunted as the digimon launched itself into his body like a furry cannonball and knocked him on his ass. The digimon bounced on his chest while happily repeating the greeting like a spaz.

"Ugh, hey, ow, little help, gah!" Hiro panted out in between his new digimon's hops. His digivice clattered to the ground, he had dropped after being tackled, and displayed the hatched digimon's name to the world.

Dodomon was happily greeting his new best friend.