Smoke Snake

Chapter 1

Here is how Davis sees things:

Tai is his idol. Strong leader and fast player, he shines like his own sun. He is everything Davis aspires to be, everything Davis has ever admired.

 

Here is how Davis sees things:

Kari is the love of his life. Kind and bright and witty, a gentle light in dark waters. She makes his heart flutter and his frowns turn into smiles. Davis cannot envision a world without her in it, a future without her at his side.

 

Here is how Davis sees things:

TK is a threat. Dangerous, sharp, scorching. He even looks like a villain, with his silly hats and his large teeth. Davis hates him. He hates how he seems pleased everytime he manages to make Davis uncomfortable, he hates how close he is so so close to Davis’s idol and crush without even trying.

 

Here is how Davis sees things:

He’s chosen. He’s destined. He’s a hero, a savior. The small device on his belt is proof enough. He wears goggles on his head, an aviator jacket on his back, and his heart on his sleeve. Because he’s a hero. Veemon tells him so, Tai recognizes him so, the Digiworld beckons at him with whispers of hero hero hero.

Because despite everything, Davis is but a ten years old, a kid with a simple world of black and white. Davis doesn’t know about the fire in Tai’s blood. He doesn’t know about the waves licking Kari’s toes in her dreams. He doesn’t know that heroics come in many shapes and forms, curse and blessing at once.

Perhaps, Davis should have feared less TK’s teeth, and more the world that made him grow them.

(The disgusting crack of breaking bones, heat and fire and smoke, screams and red red red)

Davis would learn, in time.