//------------------------------// // Late Night Talk (Revised Edition) // Story: My Little Digimon, Courage is Magic // by SuperPinkBrony12 //------------------------------// Tai tossed and turned in his sleep. He was having a nightmare, but for the sake of his privacy we shall not delve directly into it. "No, please, take me! I'm the one you want! Take me, not them! Just please don't hurt them, I'll do anything but please don't hurt them!" he muttered "NO! You monster, you heartless monster! You said you'd let them go! Why did you have to kill them?! WHY?!" he bolted up right in bed, breathing heavily. "It was all just a dream. A really horrible dream." he said to himself. He looked over and saw that his partner Agumon was sound asleep in bed. "Figures. Agumon could sleep through an earthquake." he thought to himself. Still he needed comforting (something he wasn't too ashamed to admit to), but he didn't want to wake his partner up. He had a feeling that Agumon would need to be well rested for tomorrow. He wasn't sure why exactly but he a gut feeling that something was going to happen tomorrow, and he would need to Agumon to be ready. A sleep deprived digimon wouldn't do him any favors. This left him with only two options. He could try to sneak down to the basement and talk to Izzy but he decided not to. He didn't want to risk bumping into any of the lab equipment Twilight had stashed down there and he knew Izzy didn't like to be woken up. So he had no choice but to find Twilight and see if perhaps she'd be willing to listen. He got up from the guest bed and looked around, Twilight was not in her bed. "That's odd. I guess she couldn't sleep either." he thought to himself. "Now let's see if I was a super smart librarian and I couldn't sleep where would I go?" he thought for a moment and then an answer sprang into his mind "Of course. I'd go star gazing." and with that he headed out onto the balcony of the library. Sure enough there was Twilight looking up at the stars. "I thought I'd find you out here." Tai said. "Oh hello Tai." Twilight said turning her attention away from the stars for a moment. "What brings you out here?" "I couldn't sleep." Tai replied "I had a nightmare." "Really? Well do you want to talk about it?" Twilight asked. "I suppose I should." Tai said "In my dream my friends and I were battling some evil monstrosity. We couldn't even tell what it was because it was hidden by shadows. It captured my friends and threatned to kill them. I begged with it to take me instead of them. My friends pleaded with me not to and to just forget about them, but I couldn't leave them behind. So the monster took me instead and let my friends go free for a moment. Before it charged up an attack and killed them all. And the worst part was that I saw the whole thing. I watched as my friends ran free, unaware that their lives were about to cut short. I wanted to scream at them to run away, but the words never came out. I woke up just after I asked the monster why it had killed them." "I am so sorry to hear that." Twilight said "Luckly it was just a dream." "Yeah. But I'm scared something like that might actually happen." Tai said "There have been times in my life where that dream I had came close to coming true." "How so?" Twilight asked. "Well it's a long story." Tai said. "I've got time." Twilight said "I'm all ears. "I don't know if you'd understand this but I've never really had a normal life." Tai said and with that he told Twilight everything, from the time he was chosen as a digidestined at the age of 6 up to this very day. "Wow that was quite a story." Twilight said "You've most certainly been through a lot." "I know." Tai said "I'm sorry if that long speech was boring for you." "It wasn't boring at all." Twilight said "I've heard longer speeches myself. I've also given a few long ones once in a while." "Well that's intresting. I take it you for some reason you couldn't sleep either." Tai said. "Well yes I've been having trouble sleeping lately as well." Twilight said "But it won't make sense unless I explain some things to you first. Be warned it will likely be long." "Well it's not like I've got anything better to do." Tai said "Let's hear it." "I wasn't born here in Ponyville." Twilight said "I was actually born and raised in Canterlot,where I became a personal student of Princess Celestia, the ruler of Equestria, along with her sister Princess Luna." "Equestria is ruled by princess'?" Tai asked. "Yep." Twilight replied "Don't ask me why because I have no idea. But I assure you they are both great rulers." and so Twilight proceeded to tell Tai everything from her time in Canterlot up until now. "Ever since then I've been having trouble sleeping, because I believe that Celestia might be training me to become an alicorn like herself." Twilight said "I don't know if she wants me to take over the throne, and rule alongside Luna, or if she's even planning to turn me into an alicorn at all. I don't think I want to be an alicorn, even if it gives me great powers and earns me a place in history. I don't want my friendships to change, and I don't want to change either. Because I've grown to like who I am." "Wow that was quite a story." Tai said "I must say you've come a long way since you first moved here." "And you've come a long way since you first became a digidestined." Twilight said. "Yeah I guess I have." Tai said "And if it means anything to you I think you're very brave. Even when things look bleak you've almost never given up. Just like me you have a lot of courage. And like me you've become an effective leader with experience despite being new to the leadership role. It looks like we might have more in common then I thought." "Yeah I guess we do." Twilight said, a sudden yawn escaping her mouth. "Wow. Suddenly I feel very tired. I guess I just needed someone to listen while I got all of this off my chest." "Same here." Tai said "Well goodnight Twilight. See you in the morning." and he turned to leave. "Wait, Tai." Twilight called. "What?" Tai asked. "I just want to say thanks." Twilight said. "For what?" Tai asked. Twilight paused for a moment, as if to reconsider what she was about to say. Then she spoke up "For just being there." she said "Not even Spike or Princess Celestia would've likely listened for as long as you have." and with that Twilight kissed Tai on the cheek. "Um, you're welcome I guess." Tai said "I assure you it was nothing really." "Well all the same you did listen." Twilight said "That counts for something. See you in the morning." "You too." Tai said. "Wow I just got kissed by a pony. My first kiss!" he thought to himself, a slight blush forming. "Never thought it be a pony. Even though Twilight is super cute." Little did he know that Twilight felt the same way. And so the two "love intrests" returned to their beds. Sleep came much eaiser after that for the both of them.