Digimon are copyrighted by Toei Animation Co. and Fox Kids. Kelamon and all her digivolutions are copyrighted to me.

Author's Note: This is an adaptation of Digimon World 3, and is also a sequel to my first Digimon hit story, Battle To Save The Dimensional Plane. There is no "Tamer", no Ivy (Kali) or Teddy in this adapt. It is purely Digimon based main cast.

More Than Just A Game

Chapter 1: Playing Games

It has been over three months since the whole ordeal with Milleniummon. By now, things were back to normal, and all effects of the dimensional rift between the worlds had been fixed…or so it was thought.

"Ha! Take this Kunemon!" cried Ai. Impmon and BlackGatomon watched in interest as Renamon delivered a Diamond Storm attack to the small insect digimon, knocking it out cold.

"Good one Ai," said BlackGatomon as she watched Renamon's experience level go up to five, letting her learn her Kyubimon digivolution.

"Thanks BlackGatomon," said Ai as she put down her Playstation 2 controller and gave her partner a hug. Impmon walked over and picked up the controller.

"I still don't get what you and Mako see in this game. I mean, why would you want a game that is based on us digimon when you have the real thing?" said Impmon.

"Because now we have something to play that involves you guys," said Mako as he walked into the room with a plate of cookies. He set them down on the table as he and everyone grabbed one from the plate.

"Still, this game doesn't look that interesting to me," said Impmon as he took a bite of his cookie. Just then, Ai and Mako's parents called for them.

"Oh man! Looks like it's time for us to go out to the mall," said Ai. She reached over and turned off the game console, the screen fading to darkness as the game shut off.

"How come you guys always get to go out to the mall, but we have to stay here?" asked BlackGatomon.

"Because I don't think that people would take seeing a talking cat and an imp walking around," said Mako. "Don't worry, we'll be back in about an hour."

"Okay. We'll see you later," said Impmon. Ai and Mako waved to the two digimon as they walked out of the room. After they heard the sound of the door shutting, BlackGatomon sat down in front of the TV and turned the game back on.

"I can't believe your going to play that game," said Impmon. BlackGatomon merely shrugged.

"Who knows? It might be fun," she said. Impmon just shook his head and sat down on the couch, watching as BlackGatomon brought up Ai's save file and started to play with Renamon.

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After a half an hour, Impmon was actually starting to get into the game, cheering BlackGatomon on as she defeated another Tapirmon with Ai's Renamon, who now was at level eight. Just then, Impmon heard a familiar sound come through an open window.

"Tag! You're it!" he heard the voice cry. Jumping down off the couch, he looked out the window to see the red reptile digimon Guilmon chasing after the small white Calumon. Both were laughing and having a good time. Impmon watched them as Guilmon managed to tag Calumon, who then started to chase after Guilmon. Suddenly, an idea hit Impmon. Why not invite them inside? After all, what's the worst that could happen.

"Hey pineapple head!" called Impmon. Guilmon stopped in his tracks as he heard Impmon's nickname for him being called out. Calumon also stopped upon hearing the familiar voice of Impmon. They both looked over at the imp digimon.

"Impmon. Is that you?" asked Guilmon.

"No. It's an overgrown gopher," said Impmon sarcastically. "Of course it's me!"

"What do you want?" asked Calumon, floating up next to Impmon.

"I just wanted to know if you two wanted to come inside and play a game with me and BlackGatomon," said Impmon.

"A game? I didn't know you played games," said Guilmon.

"Surprised me too," said Impmon. "So how about it?"

"Sure!" cried Calumon as he flew inside the house.

"I'll go and open the front door for you," said Impmon as he jumped down of the window, ran to the front door, and opened it. Guilmon walked inside, his nose busy taking in all the new scents.

"Ya! Cookies!" they heard Calumon shout from the other room.

"We'd better hurry or else he'll eat them all," said Impmon. Guilmon nodded in agreement as the two of them walked into the next room. BlackGatomon was still absorbed in the game, guiding her player into a good sized city.

"Hey BlackGatomon. You want one of these?" asked Impmon. BlackGatomon paused the game and turned around.

"Sure. I could use a break anyway. My paws are starting to get cramped," she said. The four of them sat down around the table and each ate three of the cookies. As they ate, they all talked about trivial things. For Calumon, that meant talking about nothing but food and games. Just then, they heard a static sound coming from the TV. They all looked over to see the screen covered in white static.

"Cheap piece of junk," said Impmon as he jumped down from his chair and waked over to the TV. But as he reached down to try and adjust the screen, the static partially cleared, revealing the image of what looked like a green version of Guilmon. There were some differences. The green reptile digimon was missing all of Guilmon's black markings and his bat-like ears. And instead of a hazard mark on the chest, this digimon had a black moon crescent mark.

"What's going on?" asked Impmon in astonishment as the picture cleared even more, revealing the digimon to be running through a forest of some kind with a Kuwagamon chasing it.

"I'm not sure. I've never seen this part of the game before," said BlackGatomon. Calumon flew down next to Impmon. Suddenly, his red jewel started to glow red. The screen flashed a bright light at the four digimon, then it dragged them into the TV set itself, leaving no evidence that the digimon had even been standing in that room.

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"Get away from me!" cried the green reptile digimon in a female voice. She looked back over her shoulder to see the Kuwagamon close with her, his pinchers clamping together a couple of times. Suddenly, a red fireball soared out of a tree and slammed into the Kuwagamon's head, knocking the Champion digimon headfirst into the ground, causing him to do a complete flip onto his back. The green digimon stopped her running, breathing heavily as she tried to figure out who or what had stopped that Kuwagamon.

"Are you okay?" asked a voice. The green digimon nearly jumped out of her skin when she heard the voice behind her. She whipped around, fire welling up in her mouth. But when she turned around, she came face to face with Guilmon. She calmed down as she realized he wasn't going to attack her.

"Yeah. I'm okay," she said. Just then, they heard a loud roar as the Kuwagamon stood back up, angry at having been attacked.

"Watch out!" cried Guilmon as he jumped in front of the green digimon. The Kuwagamon snapped his pinchers together a few times, trying to scare Guilmon. But after having faced down the D-Reaper and Milleniummon, this was nothing. Guilmon reared his head back as red fire welled up in his mouth.

"Pyro Sphere!" he cried, breathing a ball of red fire at Kuwagamon. The fireball splashed against Kuwagamon's chest, causing some damage, but making him more mad than anything else.

"That wasn't to smart of a move," said the green digimon.

"I think you might be right," said Guilmon in agreement as the Kuwagamon roared loudly in anger.

"Badda Boom!" cried Impmon as he dropped down out of a tree, throwing a fireball of his own at Kuwagamon. The fireball nailed Kuwagamon in his head, knocking him slightly off balance.

"Lightning Paw!" cried BlackGatomon as she leapt out of another tree, punching Kuwagamon right in the chest, knocking him over to the ground.

"Ya! Ya! Hit him again! Harder! Harder!" cried Calumon as he flew out of another tree. But by now, Kuwagamon had had enough. Rearing back his head, he let out a loud roar.

"That can't be good," said Impmon as he watched the giant insect digimon cry out in rage.

"What now?" asked BlackGatomon. Guilmon lowered his head, his eyes glazing over to their battle look.

"He's mine," said Guilmon. Up above him, Calumon's gem started to glow red. "Guilmon, digivolve to…!" cried Guilmon as his body became wrapped in red light, his body growing bigger and more muscular. His head then grew two pointed ears in front of the bat ears, along with some white hair. Finally, two blade-like appendages grew out of the sides of his arms. "Growlmon!"

"Get'm Growlmon! Show that overgrown cockroach who's boss!" yelled Impmon. Growlmon let out a deafening roar of his own as Kuwagamon looked over his new opponent. Growlmon didn't waste anytime as he ran towards Kuwagamon, his left arm blade extending, the blade itself alive with electricity.

"Dragon Slash!" cried Growlmon as he swung the blade. But Kuwagamon was a step ahead of him as he flew out of the way. Growlmon retracted his arm blade as he watched Kuwagamon circle around and come flying right at him. Growlmon braced himself just before Kuwagamon slammed headfirst into him, knocking Growlmon back several yards. But Growlmon held his ground as he pushed back against Kuwagamon. Growlmon then reared back his head as fire welled up in his mouth.

"Pyro Blaster!" cried Growlmon, breathing a blast of fire from his mouth at Kuwagamon. Kuwagamon tried to get out of the way, but he was way to close to avoid the attack. Kuwagamon let out a roar of pain as his body burst into data particles.

"Way to go!" cried BlackGatomon. Growlmon then started to glow a bright yellow as he shrank back into Guilmon again.

"That wasn't so hard," said Guilmon. The green digimon walked up to the group of friends and bowed her head.

"Thank you for your help. I would have been deleted if you had not intervened," said the green digimon.

"Think nothing of it…uh, what's your name?" asked Impmon. The digimon smiled.

"I'm sorry. My name is Kelamon," she said, reaching out her clawed hand to Impmon.

"The name's Impmon," said Impmon, shaking her hand.

"I'm BlackGatomon," said BlackGatomon, giving a graceful bow.

"And I'm Guilmon," said Guilmon.

"You can call me Calumon," said Calumon, his ears extending.

"A pleasure to meet each of you," said Kelamon.

"So do you have a Tamer?" asked BlackGatomon. Kelamon shook her head.

"Nope. I used to have one, but she had to quit playing because her mom grounded her," said Kelamon. The other four digimon looked at each other questioningly.

"What do you mean 'quit playing'?" asked Impmon.

"Well, no one can possibly stay in the Digital World forever," said Kelamon. BlackGatomon's eyes widened as the truth dawned on her.

"You guys…we're in the game!" she cried. The our three gasped. This was certainly not what they expected.

"What are you taking about?" asked Kelamon, cocking her head to the side.

"It's kind of complicated," said BlackGatomon as she put her hand behind her head. "You see, you're a video game in our world. We were somehow pulled into the game."

"Sounds kind of weird to me, but whatever floats your boat," said Kelamon. "Follow me. Asuka City should be just past this next patch of trees." Impmon looked over at BlackGatomon.

"Now what?" asked Impmon. BlackGatomon gave a shrug.

"I guess we just go along with the game and try to get out of it later on. I'm sure we won't be stuck here forever," said BlackGatomon.

"I smell bread," said Guilmon as he took a whiff of the air.

"Doesn't surprise me that much," said Kelamon as they started to follow her through the rest of the forest. "Asuka Inn is one of the best places to eat in the whole Digital World. We'll stop off and get some breakfast before we head out."

"Where are we going?" asked Calumon.

"To Seiryu City. It's a town on the other side of the Wire Forest, which we're just leaving now," said Kelamon as the group of five emerged from the forest. In the distance was a giant city. "And that's Asuka City right over there."

"I have a question," said BlackGatomon.

"Yes?" asked Kelamon, turning to the black feline.

"Just what exactly is in Seiryu City?" asked BlackGatomon.

"It's the home of Seiryu Leader. He's one of the four leaders that Tamers have to beat in order to gain entrance to the Digimon Championship Tournaments that are held in Asuka City," said Kelamon. She then returned her attention forward. "But we wild digimon can also challenge the leaders for their badges. It's a sign of strength and character to be seen with even one of the four leader badges."

"I'll bet I could win them all," said Impmon.

"In your dreams maybe," said BlackGatomon.

"Hey! I could easily beat you!" cried Impmon. The other three digimon laughed as the two of them argued back and forth. Suddenly, Kelamon straightened up, her eyes darting back and forth.

"What is it?" asked Guilmon. Kelamon lowered her head as something rustled in some bushes in front of them. Suddenly, a thread of electrified silk shot from the bush, hitting Guilmon, shocking him with hundreds of volts of electricity.

"You will pay for trespassing near my bush!" cried a Kunemon as it jumped out of the bush.

Digimon Analyzer (Kelamon's voice)

Kunemon is a larva digimon whose Electric Thread attack can give you quite a shock.

"Badda Boom!" cried Impmon, tossing a fireball at the Kunemon. But the Kunemon performed a somersault, rolling out of the way of the fireball. He then uncurled, taking in a deep breath.

"Electric Thread!" cried Kunemon, spitting another thread of electrified silk from his mouth. This strand landed on BlackGatomon, tangling her legs up while zapping her at the same time. Kelamon dashed forward, her left arm raised high in the air, electricity crackling around her claws.

"Plasma Claw!" she cried, bringing her claw down on Kunemon, knocking the larva digimon head-over-heels. Kunemon rolled along the ground a few meters before regaining his footing. But by now, Kelamon was ready to attack.

"Spit Fire!" cried Kelamon, breathing a ball of orange fire from her mouth. The fireball slammed into Kunemon, his form bursting into digital particles, the thread from his attacks also bursting into digital matter. Kelamon sighed as she watched the last of his data float away.

"What was that all about?" asked BlackGatomon as she climbed to her feet.

"Wild digimon are not always as friendly as I am," said Kelamon.

"I guess not," said Calumon, retracting his ears.

"I don't know about you guys, but I'm ready to get some chow in me. All this battling builds up an appetite," said Impmon as he started to walk towards Asuka City.

"We're right behind you!" called Kelamon as she and others caught up with Impmon. "You know…I think that were going to make some team." Everyone else nodded in agreement as they passed the fountain near the start of Asuka Bridge, which lead into Asuka City.

END OF CHAPTER 1

Whoa! Who knew that games could be so realistic? But with Kelamon as their guide and friend, I think that Guilmon, Impmon, BlackGatomon, and Calumon are in safe hands. What adventures await them in Asuka City? Find out on the next Digimon: Digital Monsters!