I don't own digimon. That's the honor bestowed upon Toei Animation and all of its affiliates. However, most of the characters in this story were created by me and thus, owned by me. I would appreciate it if you didn't rip them off. Thank you.
Digimon: Twilight Chronicles
Chapter One (The World of Beginnings)
A world created from chaos
A land locked in constant wars
Belief is the only thing that allows this place to exist
Kai Tenrio raced down the sidewalk. His bulky backpack bounced around as he ran, and the straps dug into his shoulder blades. He didn't care though. He had reached his destination. He breathed out happily as he reached forward to push open the door to the game shop. A tiny bell chimed overhead, announcing his arrival. He walked further into the shop as the door closed behind him. Kai's bright green eyes landed on his target and he leaned over the checkout stand. The cashier, who had his head ducked under the counter at the time, didn't seem to notice his presence. He smirked a little bit, deciding to use this situation to his advantage. He took a deep breath and lowered his head towards the counter.
"Hey Jamie!" he yelled rather loudly, causing the boy below him to jump in alarm. In his haste, he slammed his head into the bottom of the counter rather loudly before he regained enough energy to stand up straight.
"Thanks, Kai. I think you just helped me to kill off a few more brain cells." Jamie growled, rubbing the back of his head.
"Eh, I didn't think you had that many left anyways." Kai smirked.
Jamie laughed sarcastically and placed his elbows on the counter-top, propping his head on his hands. "What can I do for you today?" he asked Kai, raising his brown eyebrows up to meet his. He had long brown hair and blue eyes. He smirked as he waited for an answer.
"What? I can't come to visit my best friend in the whole entire world?" Kai asked casually, giving Jamie a tasteless smile. Jamie raised a thin eyebrow in return.
"You want to see the new cards, don't you?"
Kai nodded enthusiastically. "You said a week ago that you were getting a new shipment in today!" he reminded him. He nodded in agreement and walked out from behind the counter. He headed over towards the back storage room with Kai on his heels, eager to take a look at the new cards. Jamie climbed onto a small stepladder and reached up towards the fourth shelf, pulling out a small brown box. He dropped the box onto the floor, jumped off the ladder, and landed next to Kai. He pulled the box closer to them with his foot and looked over to Kai.
"Knock yourself out." he said, waving his hand vaguely towards the box. Kai's eyes lit up and he knelt down next to the box of cards. He tore open the box and began rummaging through the cards therein.
"Awesome!" he cried as he dropped one group of cards and picked up another.
"Aren't they? Mom said that I could have some to add to my deck in place of a paycheck." Jamie remarked, kneeling next to the teenage boy.
"Lucky you. Then again, the money would've just gone towards new cards too."
"That's what they figured, too. I don't care either way."
"How many do you get?" Kai inquired.
"Ten."
"Ten?" Kai's eyes widened in disbelief.
"Yep. I get ten o' them."
"But Jamie, you already have a HUGE deck!"
"It isn't that huge."
"How many cards do you have in your deck right now?"
"Forty-five."
"Forty-five? After you add those ten, you'll have fifty-five!"
"So you WERE paying attention in basic math." Jamie smirked.
"Yeah, but that's not the point. The point is..."
"The point is, that with these cards, I'm going to be able to beat you easily."
"That's what I'm afraid of." Kai moaned as he stood up with five cards in his hand. Jamie picked up the box and walked into the showroom with it. In there, he began placing the cards in their respective racks. "Which ones did you choose, Jamie?"
"Let's see." Jamie replied, pulling the cards out of his pocket. "I needed an extra Hyper-Speed card, so that makes one. Then, I picked up Gatling Arm, Phase Shift, Bomb Dive, Brave Shield, Phoenixmon, Matrix Digivolve, Pyro Sphere, Ice Breath, and I also picked up this new one called Shining Light." Jamie laid the cards down in front of Kai as he named them off.
"Man, Jamie. You got all the rare ones." He said as he reached forward to pick them up. He was planning to simply look at them, but Jamie noticed what he was attempting and he snatched his cards back up.
"You didn't actually think that I'd let you touch them, did you?"
"Oh, c'mon, Jamie! I just want to look at them."
"You're a freshmen in high school and yet you still act like a third-grader."
"Just one look." Kai pleaded.
"No."
"Okay, okay. Then at least answer me this. What does Shining Light do?"
"If a digimon is hiding somewhere, this card will find it and freeze it for one attack turn. This card will find the digimon wherever it is. It could be a water-type swimming in a marine area or a flying-type way above the clouds. Pretty useful, huh?"
"Yeah, for you." Kai growled.
"So what ones are you getting?"
"Hyper Wing, Terra Firma, Blitz, Avenging Knight, and this blue card."
"A blue card?"
"Yeah."
"Lemme see it."
"If you want to see it, I'll trade you your Shining Light for it."
"No deal."
"Then sorry. Wait until your next shipment gets in then, Jamie."
"Fine. I'll trade you." Jamie sighed as he handed Kai the Shining Light card.
"Nice doing business with you."
Jamie chuckled as he messed with the cash register. "Your total comes to 327 yen." Jamie replied, holding out her hand. Kai looked at her in confusion."
"327 yen? For what?"
"Hey, this is a business here. You didn't think that you'd get them for free, huh?"
"What? The cards?"
"No. Those lame drawings you keep in your bag."
"Well, I don't have any money on me right now. Can I pay you back tomorrow?"
"That's what you said the last three times. Every time you don't pay, it comes out of my check. You already owe me 1,310 yen, give or take a little bit. Pay up, moocher."
"You're one of my best friends!"
"And you're one of mine."
"So doesn't that come with benefits?"
"Sure." he sarcastically replied.
"Wait a minute. I got it." Kai said as he fumbled through his backpack.
"What are you blabbing about now?"
Kai continued searching through his bag, placing the assorted contents on the counter as he did. One was a math book, full of messy papers, a literature book, a folder, and an art notebook. Jamie picked up the art notebook and began flipping through pages. On one of the pages, there was a mountain and overlooking it was a dark, misty sky. He saw the signature at the bottom-right corner of the page: Kai Tenrio.
"Nice picture."
Kai looked up and noticed the picture. "Oh. That's just a painting I had been working on. It's nothing really." He reached up, grabbed the notebook, and shoved it back into his bookbag. He continued fumbling through the bag some more and finally found what he was looking for. "Oh yeah" He reached into his bag, beamed as he pulled the object of his desire, and shoved them into Jamie's hands.
"A pair of goggles?" he asked after a short period of awkward silence.
"Yes, they're goggles."
Indeed, they were goggles. They were blue and red with a black band for securing them to his head. The lenses were also glass. They appeared a bit large for Jamie's head, but it wasn't like he had been planning to wear them around town.
"What am I supposed to do with a pair of goggles?"
"Wear them, genius. I got them from my brother and naturally, I thought of you."
"...why?"
Kai chuckled and rubbed the back of his neck in embarrassment. "I don't know. There was just some sort of aura surrounding them. I thought that you'd look good in them. They just kinda match your...umm, your style. Yeah, that's it."
"I'm sure." Jamie replied. "But what about your pay for the cards?"
"Consider the goggles as collateral until I can get you real money."
Jamie let out a small sigh and replied, "Fine. I'll keep your stupid goggles."
"Excellent. Thanks, Jamie! Umm, what time is it?"
"A little past four. Why?"
"Mom wanted me to run some errands. I'll see you at school tomorrow, okay?"
"Sure. See you later, moocher." Jamie waved him off. Kai waved back and exited through the door of the game shop. The little bell announced his departure once more. Jamie sat down on his stool and started toying with the goggles. As odd an item as it was, he got this strange sensation to put them off and see how they felt. He put shook his head furiously and chuckled at his foolishness.
"What does he really think I'm going to do with a pair of goggles? Next thing you know, he's going to want to pay me with a pair of his boxers or something." He remarked, shaking his head once more. 'That does seem like the sort of thing Kai would do.' he thought amusingly to himself. Jamie pocketed the goggles and walked away from the counter, crossing the room to reach the staircase. This staircase led to his family's living quarters, directly above the shop area. He approached the top of the stairs and wandered into the kitchen, where his mother was preparing dinner.
"Hello, honey. Is there much business today?" his mother asked as she chopped vegetables. Mari Gotaki was your average mother. She loved to cook, speak with her family about their day, and on occasion, scold you about your untidiness. She had brown hair that she kept tied back, and blue eyes that reflected her infinite wisdom.
"About like we expected."
"How does this taste?" she asked, holding up a spoon of soup.
Jamie slurped the liquid off of the spoon and smiled. "Outstanding as usual."
"Good. Then you can finish making it. I'm gonna run downstairs for a bit."
"Why?"
"To run the shop a bit longer. Call me when dinner's ready."
"Okay, mom."
His mom removed her apron and started to head downstairs.
"Hey, mom. I grabbed those cards."
She stopped and turned around. "What cards?"
"Those digimon cards you said I could have."
"Oh. I forgot. Sorry, Jamie. You know how absent-minded I can be."
"Sure, mom."
"No more freebies until next month, okay?"
"Okay. Love you, mom."
"I love you, honey." She turned and disappeared downstairs.
After dinner, Jamie helped his mom clean and then darted down the narrow hallway to his room, closing the door behind him. He crossed the room and threw himself down on the bed, emptying the contents of his pocket. He fingered through the cards, making sure to read each one thoroughly.
"With these, I'll be unstoppable." He placed the cards on an endtable next to his deck and picked up the pair of goggles. He traced his finger across the lens and then threw them to the end of his bed. "Maybe I'll humor Kai tomorrow and wear them."
He raised out of bed and walked over to his desk. He opened up his drawer and pulled out the card scanner that was kept therein. He then hooked it up to his laptop. "Let's add these cards to the database." Jamie muttered as he walked over to the endtable. He picked up his cards and slashed them through his card scanner. The computer beeped each time he slashed a card, symbolizing that the card had successfully been registered. However, when he slashed the blue card, there came no beep in response. Instead, there was a small whir and the card scanner began to spark. "Piece of junk." Jamie cursed. Just then, there was a knock on his door.
"Come in."
The door opened and his mom peeked in. "Jamie, a new shipment came in. Do you think that you'd be able to come downstairs and help me out for a minute?"
"Okay, mom. Be there in a second."
His mom withdrew her head from the doorway and closed the door. Jamie set the cards back down on the endtable and placed the card scanner next to them. He stood up and walked downstairs to the shop area. His mom had opened up a box of cards and was stuffing them into their respective racks. Jamie helped her out for a little bit before someone knocked on the glass door. Jamie walked over, unlocked the door, and outside was standing a girl dressed in tomboyish fatigue.
"Umm...hello." she stuttered. "Is this the Gotaki Card Shop?"
"Yeah. How can I help you?"
"I got a funny card the other day and I was wondering if you could tell me what it does." She pulled out a card. It was another blue card. She held it out for Jamie to inspect. "Do you know what it does by any chance? My mom said it doesn't look like any of my other cards, and my card scanner couldn't read it either." she asked Jamie.
"Sorry, Ms...?"
"Arishima. Ariana Arishima
"Forgive me, Ms. Arishima, but I don't know what it does."
"Oh. Well, thanks for looking at it."
" If I find out anything about the card, I could call you."
"I live at 687 West Shinjuku Park. My number is 555-6037"
"Okay. Umm...sorry, I couldn't help you."
"No problem." She turned and walked off. He closed the door and locked it.
"Who was that, Jamie?"
"A girl who needed some help."
"Did you help her?"
"I tried. I wasn't much help though."
"Well, at least you tried. Why don't you go upstairs and get to bed."
"Let me just finish helping you down here."
"I can take care of myself, Jamie. Now get to bed. It's getting late."
"Yes ma'am." He set down the box he was carrying and headed upstairs.
Jamie collapsed on his bed and he must have dozed off for a while because when he woke up, it was already nine o'clock in the morning. It took a while for Jamie to realize where he was at. He had had such a strange dream. He had been laying in bed when the room began to glow. He had gotten up and walked over to the source of the glow. It was coming from his laptop. The one that his card scanner was hooked up to. He opened the laptop and discovered that it was his screen that was glowing. The image of a cheetah appeared through the light, but it wasn't the normal image of a cheetah. Instead, it had a ring on its tail and gauntlet-like bracelets on its four legs. Then, Jamie woke up. "If he finds out about this dream, Tenrio will have field day." He muttered as he crawled out of bed. His bare foot rested on something warm and fuzzy. Jamie saw the fire before he ever saw its source.
"Jamie, honey. Tell me how you got his burn again." said Ms. Gotaki as she bandaged up Jamie's burnt arm. Fortunately for him, the flames had only singed the hair off his arm and barely seared the surface. Not even a first-degree burn. Still, it hurt.
"I, uh...I was making breakfast and I burned myself."
"So much for your great cooking streak, huh?"
"Funny, mom."
"I'm just glad you're all right, but you're not allowed to cook for a month."
"...but, mom?"
"I know how much you like to cook, but I just want you to heal first."
"Yes, ma'am."
"Until then, I'll be doing the cooking. How does pancakes sound?"
"Like they could fill me up."
"Well, I'll fix pancakes and you go downstairs to the shop for a while."
"Okay." He began to leave.
"...and Jamie?"
"Yeah, mom?"
"I love you."
"I love you, too, mom."
Jamie rushed to his room to grab his laptop and ran downstairs to the shop. He didn't even notice that his card scanner was missing. Jamie arrived downstairs in the shop area and walked over to unlock the door. It was almost ten-thirty now, so they were thirty minutes late on opening up shop. As always, Kai was waiting just on the other side of the door. He frowned as Jamie opened up the door to let the boy inside.
"Where've you been? I've been waiting for half an hour."
"I got burned. Thanks for asking." Jamie retorted, holding up his bandaged arm.
"Ouch. How'd that happen?"
"Don't exactly know."
"How can you get burned and not know how?"
"The fire appeared in my room out of nowhere!"
"Uh-huh. Sure it did. Did Smokey the Bear remind you to put it out?"
"I'm serious."
"Yeah, whatever. Listen," Kai said, holding up his wallet, "I got the money."
"Good. Let me run upstairs and grab those goggles of yours."
Jamie raced upstairs, past his mom, and into his room. He picked up the goggles that Kai had given as collateral the day before and walked back into the front room. His mom was waiting for him as he exited the hallway connecting his room to the front room.
"Jamie, what are you running for?"
"Kai's here. I had to scurry up here to grab some of his things."
"Oh, Kai's here? Why don't you invite him up for some breakfast."
"We were going to go out for a while and play a little digimon."
"Don't forget to grab your deck then."
"Oh yeah." He said as he raced back to his room and picked up his battle deck.
"Could you stay a little bit to watch the shop, Jamie. Just until I freshen up."
"Okay, mom." he said as he ran past her, stopping just long enough to give her a peck on the cheek. Then, he darted back downstairs. Kai was crouching in a corner and the place lay somewhat in shambles. Jamie raced over to Kai to find out what happened. "Kai, dude, what happened down here?"
"I...I thought it was...it was just a toy. Just...just a stuffed animal or something."
"What are you talking about?"
"That...that thing!"
"What?"
"It's...like a cheetah or something."
"What is? What's like a cheetah?"
"Could you tell him I'm sorry?" a voice said from behind him.
Jamie turned around to see the cheetah from his dreams. "What the...?"
"I thought he was trying to hurt me. I didn't mean to hurt him, Jamie. Honest."
"What are you and how do you know my name?"
"I'm a digimon, and to answer your second question, you're my tamer."
"Digimon? Tamer?"
"Yep." the furry creature responded.
"Did you say 'Digimon'?"
"Uh-huh."
"Now, I know I'm dreaming."
The little cat appeared confused. "Dreaming? Why do you say that?"
"Because digimon aren't real!"
"Well, I'm standing right here, and I'm pretty sure that I'm real."
"Fine. If you're a digimon, then what's your name?"
"My name is Swiftarimon."
"Swiftarimon?" Jamie thought. "There is no such digimon."
The cat looked at Kai, who had calmed down a bit. "He isn't very bright, is he?"
"Umm..." Kai stuttered. "I guess not."
Now it was Jamie's turn to be confused. "What are you talking about?"
The cat spoke again. "The blue card, genius! It summoned me."
"Summoned...?"
"You say digimon aren't real, yet you see me with your own eyes."
Just then, Kai interrupted. "Come on, Jamie. If you're dreaming, then I'm having the same dream, and there's no way that we are having the same dream because my dreams are completely...well, lets not get into my dreams. Face it, dude. We are in the presence of a full-fledged digimon!"
"Fine. Lets say that digimon are real and we aren't just dreaming. Then, how?"
"I already told you how. The blue card!" the catlike digimon responded. "When you swiped it through your scanner, you called me from the Digital World and I came, so here I am. I am Swiftarimon, and I am your digimon partner, Jamie."
"My...partner?" Jamie muttered, pointing to himself.
"Yep."
After a long silence, Kai broke in. "Guess I should've kept that card, huh."
"Yeah." Jamie chuckled.
The next morning, Ariana Arishima lay sleeping in her bed. She had planned to sleep late, but the touch of something stretching across her feet awakened her. She sat up in her bed and felt the furry thing leap off of it. It landed on the floor with a small thud and she turned her head in the direction of the sound.
"Who's there?" she queried.
"Please, I didn't mean to scare you." the female voice apologized.
"How did you get in here?"
"You called me, Ariana."
"I called you? I don't even recognize your voice. How could I have called you?"
"The blue card. Once you swiped it through your scanner, you called me."
"Who are you?"
"My name is Tierramon."
"Tierra...mon? Are you saying that you are a digimon?"
"That's exactly what I'm saying."
"So you're like my digimon partner?"
"That and I guess you could call me your "seeing-eye digimon."
Mina Tenrio opened the door to her son's room. Like always, he had fallen asleep at his computer desk. She had told him numerous times not to, but he was stubborn and didn't hear a word she had said. She giggled under her breath as she strode back to her room. She opened one of her desk drawers and withdrew a feather that she used just for situations like these. She walked back into her son's room and approached him. She tickled the back of his ear with the feather and he kind of twitched. She did it a second time and once more, he moved. The third time she did it, he rolled over, out of the chair, and landed on the floor with a loud, "I'm up!" He climbed to his feet and frowned at his mother. "I thought I asked you to stop doing that?"
"You did, but it's just too funny to stop now."
"Well, mom, one day you're going to do that, and I'm going to fall and hurt myself, and it will be all your fault. You're going to have to take me to the doctor and pay all those expensive medical bills or they'll throw you in jail."
"Are you ready to start your cooking lessons?"
"Huh?"
"If I'm going to be in jail, then you're going to have to cook for yourself."
"Okay, okay. I'm sorry. I'll get up earlier from now on."
"I'll believe that when I see it."
Kai looked over at his clock and it read 8:53 AM. He looked back at his mother.
"Why'd you wake me up at nine o'clock in the morning anyways?"
"Because Jamie stopped by this morning and asked me too."
Just then, Jamie Gotaki appeared in Kai Tenrio's doorway. "Hey." he mumbled.
"Hey, Jamie. What's up?"
"I want to talk to you about some of the cards you picked up yesterday."
"What about them?"
"I found a rare one I thought you'd like to see."
"Cool. Lemme see it?"
"I...umm, forgot it back at the store."
"Well, which one is it?"
"Swiftarimon."
Kai let out a small, "Oh." as he realized what Jamie was hinting. "Lets go."
He began to race out, but his mom stopped him.
"Ah, mom. Whatever it was, I didn't do it."
"Where do you think you're going?"
"I'm going to hang out with Jamie for a bit."
"You're welcome to do that, but the other kids might make fun of you."
"Why do you say that?"
"Because that's what kids do when they see other kids walking down the street with dinosaur PJs on." she told him. Kai looked down at his pajamas and his face almost immediately turned a shade of what seemed to be crimson red. He let out a small chuckle that contained his complete embarrassment. Ms. Tenrio and Jamie exited Kai's room while he was getting dressed, and when he was done, he stepped out and the boys left.
Jamie and Kai stepped into the Gotaki Card Shop with a small ding of the bell overhead. Jamie's mother, Mari Gotaki, was situated behind the counter and greeted the two boys as they rushed upstairs to Jamie's room. They stepped into Jamie's room where he proceeded to close and lock the door behind them. He turned around and gave a small whistle. In an instant, Swiftarimon appeared.
"I can't believe you have your own personal digimon."
"I don't have my own personal digimon. He's my partner. Not some toy."
"Well, you know what I mean. Your own personal digimon partner."
"Yeah. It is pretty cool, but there's something more."
"What?" inquired the Tenrio child.
Jamie strode over to the endtable where he had set his laptop, scanner, and cards at two nights ago. He picked up his laptop and deck of cards and said to Kai, "Check this out." Kai approached and Jamie spoke again. "I went to inspect that blue card some more and I couldn't find it. I assumed that Swiftarimon had eaten it or something. By the way," he added, "Swiftarimon eats like a pig."
"No more than you!" added the cat.
"Anyways," Jamie continued, "I searched around some more and I also found out that my card scanner was missing. I had to shove Swiftarimon away from the edge of the bed in order to find this." He held up a small handheld device. It somewhat resembled the PET from the popular Megaman NT series that had been showing in Japan. However, it was dark blue and crimson red, and in place of the handle, there were two buttons. Near the bottom of the device was a slit to swipe cards through and there was even a small screen centered on the face of the device. There was also a larger button (roughly the size of the two smaller ones combined) on the left side of the device, opposite the other two keys which were on the right.
"Is it a...?" Kai asked as he reached out towards the device.
"Yeah. I think it is." replied the tamer as he retracted the small device.
"Wow!" gaped Kai. "A real, honest-to-goodness digivice! How cool is that?"
"Pretty cool." agreed Jamie.
"What do the buttons do?"
"I've yet to fully check it out, but I'm going to tonight at the park. You in?"
"You bet!"
Kai ran home as fast as he could. He had to get his stuff together for his trip to the park later that night. He also had to tell his mother what he planned to do. That would be the difficult part, he thought to himself.
He took the steps to the apartment building two at a time. He darted inside, past the people conversing in the lobby, and over to the elevator as fast as he could. There was a group of people already inside the elevator, but Kai managed to squeeze himself in. He pressed the button for the fourth floor and began to hop up and down as if he needed to use the restroom very bad. People gave him strange looks as he did this. Finally, after a stop at the second floor, the doors parted for the fourth floor and young Tenrio pushed his way out and went quickly down the hall to his family's apartment. In his haste, he forgot to check if the door was unlocked and, because it wasn't, slammed into it at top speed. He slowly slid to the floor, and then remembered the house key. He opened up his backpack, which he always kept with him, and extracted the house key. He opened the door and raced to his room, taking only enough time to kick off his shoes next to the door. He slung his bag down at the foot of his bed and dived under it. He hastily looked around under it. Nothing. Not even a dust bunny. He rushed over to his closet. Once again, he found nothing but the usual items. Then, he heard the front door open and he flitted into the front room where his mom had just entered.
"Where's it at? Where's it at? Huh, huh?" he exhaled.
His mom smiled and gently replied, "Sorry, not today."
It appeared as if he just found out that he had to go to the dentist and get drilled.
"I'm sorry, Kai. Maybe tomorrow, okay?"
Then the buzzer rang and before his mom stepped an inch, he was at the intercom.
"WHO IS IT?" he screamed in anticipation.
"Whoa, back off the cappuccinos , dude."
Kai practically ripped the intercom off the wall. "What do you want, Jamie?"
"I just got a delivery for you at the store. It came right after you left. Have you been signing up for things using my address again, because I told you the last time that I would not tolerate you doing that unless you told me in advance or I said you could. I don't remember you doing either of those."
"Meet me in the lobby!" screamed Kai.
By the time, Jamie had walked from the entrance of the building to the lobby's lounge couch, Kai was already leaping off the last few stairs. "Gimme, gimme, gimme!"
cried Kai as he approached Jamie. The card seller held out a small box about the size of CD case and Kai tore it from his hands. He quickly opened it up and extracted the precious items therein. Jamie stared in dismay at him. Kai was holding packages of digimon cards that held nine cards each.
"You about killed me over a bunch of digi-battle cards?"
"Not just any digi-battle cards. Check these out." He held up the card packets and Jamie read what the packets said. They said: Digimon: The Next Level. Jamie shrugged and gave a small, "So?"
Kai's mouth dropped wide open and he went wide-eyed. "SO? What do you mean so? Do you know what these are?" he screamed loud enough so that everyone in the lobby turned to see what was wrong. He didn't even seem to notice. He pressed the packets closer to Jamie's eyes, so that he could look again.
Jamie observed the packets of digimon cards once more and noticed what Kai had been talking about. Jamie realized that these were the newest cards to be released. These had just been released. Him and his mom's store didn't even have these cards. "Dude, these are Next Level cards! Our store doesn't even carry them yet! How'd a moocher like you get his hands on them this quick?" Jamie curiously screamed. Once again, everybody in the room turned to stare at them. Jamie even heard a few shushes coming from some of the people in the lobby. "Maybe we should go somewhere else," he whispered to Kai. Together, they moved outside and down the road to the park.
"Where's Swiftarimon at?" inquired Kai Tenrio.
"He's never been in the Real World before so he's out exploring."
"When's he coming back?"
"I don't know, but I found the card and discovered something about my digivice."
"What'd you discover?"
"If I ever need Swiftarimon, I can find him using one of the options programmed into the digivice. See, watch this." Jamie pressed the bottom button a few times and then pressed the large button. Kai, intent to see what was going on, peered over Jamie's shoulder. On the digivice's screen, a small map appeared with a few blinking blips. "That green blip right there indicates where Swiftarimon is. See? Right now, he's at the corner of Eighth and Main. The blip on the screen was moving fast, very fast. In fact, it appeared as if Swiftarimon had just reached 27th Avenue. It was two seconds ago that he was at Eighth.
"What's the other blip?" Kai queried.
"I haven't figured that out yet."
Suddenly, Swiftarimon came roaring in at an unbelievable speed. "I hate this world. People have no respect. A group of girls actually picked me up and squeezed me like I was some sort of stuffed animal."
"Don't forget, Swiftarimon. These people have never seen a digimon in real life."
"Yeah," Kai agreed. "We've only seen them in the TV show and card game."
"Still." pouted the cheetah-like digimon.
All of a sudden, Jamie's digivice began to beep. "What's wrong?" asked Kai.
"I don't know." responded Jamie, looking at the device.
"The beeping means another digivice is in the area." explained Swiftarimon.
"I thought you were the only person with a digivice, Jamie."
"Yeah, me too."