Drabble Collection: Digimon Tamers
-by Ajora Fravashi

Title: A Passing Bird
Characters: Kenta, Marine Angemon
Rating: G
Words: 216
Topic: Wish
Note: Based on the Kenta and Marine Angemon duet, Shiroi Kamome. Lyrics can be found at animelyrics dot com.

When Kenta was ten, he wanted to be (or at least fight with) a hero. To him, heroes were strong, fought evil, and were never alone. People would like him. He'd stand out on his own, independent of Hirokazu, and be able to rely only on himself. When he discovered his partner, it was a small comfort that Marine Angemon felt the same way. Sometimes they would watch a white seagull together and think of the bird as the symbol of their unobtainable wish.

The D-Reaper war changed that. No longer were his views of war so simplistic and childish. He found that there were many kinds of heroes, and few that fit his immature ideals.

At twenty-five, Kenta was content with his other ways of fighting. His opponents were not evil villains with sinister plots, but mindless infections and diseases that had no concept of good or evil. In the real world, he did his internship in clinics, and in the Digital World, he and Marine Angemon could be called upon to heal wounded soldiers in whatever battles were raging at the time. It was far more gratifying for both of them than the ideals they had as children.

The white seagull drifted out of sight, but neither Kenta or Marine Angemon noticed its passing.