Chapter Two The Children have Landed, let the Adventure Begin!
It was a funny sensation, turning into dust, that Jake felt. It felt like he was everywhere at once, but at the same time, he was still together. Jake drifted in and out of conscious, and the best way he could describe it was that you got to bed in your own bed, but when you wake up you end up sleeping on the couch. You do not know how you ended up there, only that you fell asleep in one place and end up in another when you woke up. That is how Jake felt when he was flying around as dust. After what seen like hours, perhaps even days, he could feel that he was become solid. However, he did not know if fully became whole right then or not, for he blacked out and could not remember feel any sensation after that.
The first sense that return back to Jake was his sense of hearing, for he could hear the bird chirping just above his head. It was a pleasant tune, that had no rhyme or reason, but it a beautiful sound to behold. The second sense the return back to Jake was his sense of smell, for the smell of strange flowers and trees seem to float pass his nose. The smell brought back the memory of him and his mother and father going to a hike a few summers back. He remembers finding a great walking stick and hide it somewhere so when he returned he would pick it up again. Wonder if it's still there, he thought to himself as a smile formed on his face. The third sense that return back to Jake was the sense of touch, and it was not due to the fact that the blades of grass were poking up on his bare neck. It was the fact that someone, or something, was poking him with something.
Jake's eyebrow twitched a bit, being annoyed whatever was poking him, as his sense of sight return to him. When he first opened his eyes, everything was a blur of colors such as blue, green, and brown. Yet after a few moments everything began to focus and began to see things clearly now. He noticed the blue sky, with the puffy clouds above and the silhouettes of birds flying threw the sky. There were also huge trees just above him, with thick green leaves that only appear in the summer. The first thought that popped into Jake's mind was that he must have fell asleep in the park, for the heat can knock anyone out and can put anyone into a deep sleep. However, that thought was pushed to the side, when he noticed the television sets hanging off the branches of the trees like pieces of fruit. Several of the television sets were small and old and had those rabbit ears they used to put on top to obtain a clearer picture. He blinked a few times, trying to make sure he was not seeing things, when a big pair of yellow eyes stared right down at his light green eyes.
For a moment, Jake's eyes fixed on the eyes on the creature. His mouth gapped a bit at what he was seeing, for no animal that he knew had those kinds of eyes, well not in the real world. For a moment, Jake blinked at the creature and the creature blinked back at him. Then the creature did something that made Jake's heart jump out of his chest; it spoke to him.
"What's up?" the creature said in an almost childlike voice, and that made Jake scream so loud that the television sets shook gently.
"WHAT! HUH!" Jake stumbled as he crawled back. His back hit the tree causing it the television to shake a bit more. He was painting uncontrolledly as this little sliver dragon was staring at him. This couldn't be a dragon, Jake thought as he was looking at the creature carefully from a dissent. Sure enough, the 'dragon' did not look like any dragon Jake came to know. For one thing, it was a lot smaller than what he thought to be a dragon, about 2 feet shorter than himself, could it just be a childlike dragon? Also, it had no wings and it stood on two legs, and all dragons have wings and walk on four legs, from what he understood. Yet, there were still dragon like feature to this creature. It's sliver scales, which seen to shin in the light, were like that of a dragon, and it had three claws on each one of its fingers and toes. Its flappy ears, which actually look like wings, were push back to the side, maybe to hear better, Jake thought once more. A sliver tail, sway behind the dragon as it looked at Jake with curious eyes. Its face looked very childlike, except when it grinned it showed two sharp fangs that could tear something apart. The only thing that was not sliver was its chest, for it was white with a strange symbol in black: an empty semicircle with a little dot on the center of the line that contented to stick figure chest and legs. All in all, this creature did not look like it could hurt anything, but Jake did not think so.
"St…stay back you?" Jake called out hold one hand out as the dragon was walking up to him. The dragon halted and looked at Jake with a bit of a hurt look on its face. It scratched its claw finger on its chest and said,
"I was just seeing you were okay, you did fall from the sky."
"I…did?" Jake asked as he quickly look up to the blue sky. He did not feel that he had fallen, for he did not hurt anywhere, but then again, he did black out sometime and was not face to face with a dragon, kind of. Shaking his head quickly to return his thoughts, he continued to say, "Don't come any closer or I'll….I'll…." He then felt something in his other hand and glace down at it quickly. It was the strange device that was once his charm that he received from that lady. His memory of the lady was fuzzy, but he knew those two figures had something to do with this.
"Or I'll toss this at you!" he finally announced holding the device up in his hand.
"What is it!?" the little dragon exclaimed jumping up with excitement, "Is it food? I love food!"
"Well it's….um….." Jake stumbled as he back into the tree once more. The television sets sway once more, until finally one of the broke off form the branches and plummeted straight toward Jake. Jake heard something falling down, and his eyes widen as he glace up the see the television set crashing down to him. Quickly he shut his eyes and braced for the sudden pain, when suddenly:
"HEAD SMASH"
Jake peered through his shut eyes, only for them to widen when he saw the little dragon jump in to the air and smash the television set with his head. Pieces of the television set went flying all over Jake, but none of them hit him. Jake watched as the little dragon stumbled back when he landed back on the ground, shaking several pieces of the set out of his head.
"That….was…." Jake began still awestruck while he picked himself up on his feet, "AWESOME!" The little dragon chuckled a bit as he rubbed his nose and look up at Jake. "That would an amazing final strike when you want to score in the final minute of a soccer game."
"What's soccer?"
"Guess you don't' know huh?" He glace around looking around him for the first time. Ture enough, he was in some kind of forest, but none he ever seen before. Glancing up at the other television sets hanging from the branches, Jake asked,
"So where am I?"
"Static Forest," the little dragon answered looking at Jake, "What kind of Digimon are you?"
"No, what? I'm human."
"Hu-mon?"
"No!" Jake exclaimed shaking his head. He pause and tried to think how to explain this to his new friend, "I'm human, but my name's Jake." He held out his hand to shake with the dragon, but the dragon stared at the handshake with a confused look. "What's yours?"
"Ryulucmom," the dragon answered with a grin and pointing a claw thumb to his chest, "What I am supposed to do with that."
"We shake hands."
"Like this?" And Ryulucmom began to shake his all over the place. Jake laugh as he watched Ryuluckmon shake his hand.
"No, no. Like this," he said and grabbed the little dragon hand, which felt scaly in his hand, and the two of them shook.
"This feels funny," Ryulucmon said with a grin.
"You can say that again."
"This feels funny."
"No you don't…you know what, never mind." The two of the pulled away and Jake glace around the place.
"So are there other hu-mons like you Jakemon?"
"It's just Jake, and….YES! There are, maybe, if their charms did the same thing as mine!" Jake exclaimed snapping his fingers realizing this for the first time. "Come on! Let's go find them!" And so, Jake and his new friend Ryulucmon went out to look to see if any of the other children fell nearby.
The two friends began the trek deeper into Staci Forest, wondering if there were any humans around. As the two of them made their way, glancing up every now and they in case of fallen television sets, Jake began to take in more of the forest he was in. Other than the hanging television sets, everything look normal to him. Sure, he did not know any of the flowers or trees that were around him, but that was nothing new to him. However, he could not shake the feeling that he was not longer on his planet anymore, and that little fear was tingling inside of him. He glace down Ryulucmon, who was trotting beside him with a huge goofy grin on his face, and he could not have but smile. Soon he began a conversation with the creature by saying,
"So, what did you say you were again?"
"I'm a Digimon Jakemom!"
"Yeah….one stop calling me Jakemon and just Jake. Two, what is a Digimon?"
"It's short for Digital Monsters, silly."
"…..Yeah, but what does Digital Monsters mean?"
"….I have no idea….."
"Great."
"So what is a humon anyway?"
"…..I….have no idea either."
"Ha! Right."
The two of them began to chuckle at their confusion with one another, they way all children do. Sure, they may be different from each other, but they were still curious about each other as well, and is that really so different from anyone?
"Jakem….I mean Jake," Ryulucmon asked, "What that in you hand?" The little dragon pointed at claw finger at the device that was still on his hand. He halted and the little dragon bumped into him, as he stared at the device. Once again, the device in his hand look to be some kind of phone, only that he knew for a fact it was not. He held up the device up so he could see himself fully as well as Ryulucmon right beside him. He stared at his image for a while, he looked the same as he ever was, the only difference was the goggles on his head and the creature calling himself a Digimon, whatever that was. He soon lowered the device and began to push the one the buttons a few times.
"Heck if I know," Jake began pushing the button harder, "It was a charm before, but know it's…I don't know what this is?"
"Can you eat a charm?" Ryulucmon asked rubbing his belly and having a dreamy look to his face.
"Only if they're Lucky Charms." As Jake was laughing at his own joke, the device in his hand began to beep loudly. The sudden beeping cause Jake to stop laughing and glace down at the device. One word kept on flashing as it was beeping his white letters "SCANNING….." Jake scratched his head, confused on what this thing was scanning. He turn around to face Ryulucmon, and just as he did a green light shot out of the device and began to scan Ryulucmon.
"That tickles!" the little dragon said between giggles. Jake's eyes widen as he notice on the screen the word had disappeared, and replace in front of it was an image of Ryulucmon and information. The information was right next to the image of a jumping Ryuluckmon and read:
Name: Ryulucmon
Type: Flightless Dragon
Level: Rookie
Special Attack: Head Smash
Info: Ryulucmon is known for his 'head on' attuned. He is also known as a very impish Digimon but knows where it is time to get serious. They say if you rub his head, you will have good luck.
"It's like a trading card!" Jake exclaimed as he read the information about this Digimon. Ryulucmon stopped his giggling and look up at Jake with a confused look on his face and asked,
"A trading card? What do you trade the card for?"
"It's not like that, it's more of looking at yoru stats and stuff like that," Jake explain as he began to take the advice began to rub the little dragon's head. It felt scaly to the touch, but at the same time smooth like polished stone. "I wonder what else this thing can do?" Ryulucmon had a dreamy look to his head, almost as if Jake was rubbing in a spot he enjoyed, while Jake began to tap another button. Instantly, when Jake pushed another button on his device, the image of Ryulucmon disappear, a six light began to appear on screen. Jake pulled his hand away and began to look at the screen carefully. The six dots were all different colors, red, yellow, purple, blue, orange and green. Just like:
"This is where the other kids are!" he exclaimed as the thought popped into his head. His sudden exciting made the little dragon stubble back a bit and almost step on his tail.
"Great!" Ryulucmon began walking up to Jake and peering next to him to have a better look at the screen, "I don't know what the means, or what you said, but that's great."
"It means, my lucky friend," Jake said with a grin on his face, "We can find where the other kids are!" He glace down at his to see the red dot was close to the yellow dot. Thinking that this was his he added, "Come on! I think one might be close by!" With that, he dash off deeper into the woods, with Ryulucmon right by his heels.
"So, what are the other humons like?" Ryulucmon asked as he kept up with pace with Jake. For the moment, Jake was busy looking at his device and running to the location of one of the dots. When the little dragon asked that question, Jake glace down and flash Ryulucmon a grin and said,
"I can't say for sure about the others, cause I never meet them before. But for me, I love burgers, listening to rock like Nickleback, and I'm a natural leader."
"Really?"
"Yeah!" Jake added with a bigger grin that before. The thought of his father, who came to ever game, flash threw his mind, but he shook it out and added, "It's because of my leader's charm. Once we are all together, they'll see the leader's charm in…." Yet before he could finish his thought, a branch came out of nowhere and whack him right over the face.
Pain hit Jake all over his face as he stubbled backwards and grab his face with his hands. Sure, during practices he was hit with the ball in the face a few times, so he was used to that kind of pain. Yet still, being hit in the face with a branch or whatever was a lot worse than anything he felt before. A panic look appeared on Ryulucmon face as he darted to his friend as Jake almost backed into a tree.
"What the heck was that!?" he yelled threw his hands as the pain stung all over his face. Then threw the stinging pain on his face, he heard a voice cried out.
"Oh my God!" Emily exclaimed as he dropped the stick she was holing and running up to Jake. "I am SO SORRY! I thought you were a wild animal or whatever these creatures are! Are you okay?" Jake was about to say, No! You just hit in me the face with a stick, why would I be okay? Yet as soon as he saw who Emily was, his attuned changed. He pulled his hands away from his face, crossing them with his arms, and gave a weak smile saying,
"I'm fine."
"You sure? I see tears in your eyes?"
"What?" Jake began as he rubbed the tears of pain out of his eyes, "Really I fine, I'm…." he stopped suddenly and look at Emily closer now. "YOU'RE HUMAN!" He exclaimed as he finally realizing he found another human.
"So are you!" Emily exclaimed back a huge smile on her face. The two of them pull each other into a tight hug, and for a second all felt right with the two of them. Then as quickly as they came together, the pulled apart blushing a bit from ear to ear.
"It's….great to see someone form our world," Jake said playing with his goggles a bit.
"Y…yeah…it sure is," Emily added as she fixed her taupe bag on her shoulder, "When Canarymon said that she ever seen a human, or a humon as she calls it, I was a little worried. But seeing you here make me feel like there is hope."
"Canarymon?" Jake asked as he stopped fixing his goggles and glace at her. Almost on cue, something soared down from the trees, making the television set sway a bit with the wind blowing across, and landed right next to Emily.
Just like the little dragon, this yellow bird was the same size as him and had a childlike appearance as well. Jake could see the wonderment and excitement in its big green eyes as it stared at him. It ruffled its yellow feathers, which looked so soft that one could lay their head upon, as it landed almost as it was shaking off some dirt. Its wings, which look more like arms with three small black claws, were pulled in just like a bird when it lands on the ground. It hopped to one black foot to another as its shinny tan beak seem to shine in the light. After a while the yellow bird, who Jake assumed to be Canarymon, and asked in a sweet sing song voice,
"Emilymon? Is this a friend like yours? It doesn't look anything like you."
"In more ways than one," Jake said under his breath. Emily glace down at Canarymon and smiled. She began to pat the bird on the head, which felt like the softest thing she ever felt in her life, and said,
"You're right, he doesn't look like me, but you can say he is a friend. Also, what did I tell you to call me again?"
"Emily."
"Good!" With that Emily dug in her taupe bag and pulled out a piece of candy. Still smiling she place the piece of candy in the yellow bird wings, and with a greedy look in her eyes, Canarymon toss the candy in her mouth and began to eat it, wrapper and all. Ryulucmon stared at the yellow bird as she was munching on this candy Emily gave her.
"What's that?" he asked licking his lips.
"It's called candy!" Canarymon began with a smile as she was enjoying her treat, "And it's super-duper yummy!" The little dragon began to lick his lips even more as he looked up to Emily with pleading eyes. Before he could say anything, she handed the little dragon a piece of candy in his hands, and in a second it vanished into his mouth.
As the two Digimon began to enjoy their treats, Jake walked up to Emily and said rubbing his nose a bit,
"That was really nice of you."
"Thanks," she said as she watch the two Digimon licking their lips, "It was lucky that I brought some candy when I was out today. Otherwise they would keep calling on -mon at the end of our names. Thought I do not want to be around when the get a sugar rush in them."
"Yeah!" Jake laughed. For a moment the two of them said nothing. Then Jake added, "Do you know where we are?" She shook her head and her gripped tighten on her bag.
"No, I just woke up here with Canarymon looking down. At first, I was scared but Canarymon was so nice to me, that I forgot my fears. But now…." Even without finish her sentence, Jake could tell that she was starting to become scared again. Deep down, he was scared too, but a leader need to keep a cool head that what he learned before.
"Have no fear, Jake is here!" He pointed his thumb to his chest and grin at her. This small jester brightened up Emily greatly. She smiled at Jake and gave a light laugh, which made Jake blush a bit. "Hey! Here's something!" Jake added, "Do you have that charm that transformed or whatever?"
"Yours too?" Emily asked as she pulled out her device which was the same yellow color as her charm. Jake nodded as he said, "You can scan these guys and it gives you their info! Go ahead try it!" With nervous look, Emily pointed her device at Canarymon and just like Jake's device, it scanned and gave information about Canarymon:
Name: Canarymon
Type: Bird
Level: Rookie
Special Attack: Sonic Scream
Info: Canarymon is a beginner flyer, so her takes off and lands are a bit rough. However, that does not bother her that much. For when she flies, she because an air head.
"That' so cool!" Emily exclaimed as she looked at the cute picture of Canarymon. Jake nodded as Ryulucmon came running up to him, holding out his hand for more candy.
"And that's not all they can do! They also have some kind of GPS thingy where you can track where the other charms were. That's how I found you!"
"Wow!" Emily added as Canarymon flew up next to her and holding out her hand as well, "Do you really we can find the others? I mean this place," she glace up at the television sets that hung on the branches, "Is kind of big and strange. Plus who knows what else we'll find here."
"What did I just say before!" Jake said puffing out his chest, "Have no fear, Jake is here! We'll find the others in no time." Emily giggled so much that she had to cover her mouth, as both Digimon glace up at the humans with confused looks on their faces.
Just as soon as Jake said he would find the other, May came walking out of the bushes nearby with her face deep into her own device which was orange. Her sudden appeared made the small group jump back, and the two Digimon were taking a fighting stand. Jake shook his head quickly and pointed at something that was on May's shoulder.
Sure enough there was another Digimon curled up around May's shoulder watching. At first glace it looked to be some kind of enormous caterpillar, yet it too had some kind of childlike appeached as well. Its white body look so squish and soft to the touch as it joined May looking down at her device with his big blue eyes. To the side of it, it had stubby little legs shooting out of its body that look like red thorns. The antenna twitch a bit in the air as if they were sensitive to everything around. In all, the this Digimon looked kind of cute, if it was not an enlarged bug and had a red beak that looked like it could chomp threw anything.
May was completely obvious to the fact that she had stumbled upon the other children and their Digimon, for she was talking to herself saying,
"This device. How did it change shape and size so easier? It's just not possible! And this place," she looked up to the trees with the television sets in them, "This place is nothing I've seen or read about before. I mean it has several aspects of Earth, but things just don't make any sense!"
"You sure do ask a lot of question for whatever a humon is," the caterpillar said in a sweet tone. May turn her head to face the Digimon and said,
"Can't gain knowledge if you don't ask questions, Silk-Wormmon."
"Hey!" Jake called waving his hands to gain May's attention. Emily did the same and their Digimon imitated their action. "Hey! Computer Girl! Over here!" May turn her head to where Jake was calling her and was shocked to see the others right in front of her. She began to race towards them, clutching her computer bag while Silk-Wormmon held on for deal life, saying,
"Excellent! My observations of this device begin some kind of location beacon were right!"
"You sure are smart, Maymon!"
Soon May was with the others, painting a bit for she was not used to running, as she glace up at the others.
"I take it your charm changed into whatever this thing is?" May asked once she caught her breath and held up her device. Both Jake and Emily nodded as their flash their devices to her as well.
"You okay?" Emily asked sounding a bit worried, "You look a bit out of breath? Wish I brought some water with me so you can have." May shook her head and licked her lips before finally catching her breath.
"No, no," she began, "I'm just more curious about this place than anything."
"What do you mean?"
"Take these hanging TVs here for example," she began nodding up to the hanging television sets, "Some of these TVs should be in a museum, not on trees! That's now TVs are made anyway."
"You mean they don't grow off of trees?" Jake asked sarcastically. May glared at him for a moment before continuing to say,
"No, they don't. Also," she held up her device and continue to say, "What are these devices for? Transporting us into this…..this world here, yes. Tracing other with the same devices, that's correct as well. But there has to be more to it than just that!"
"You can get information off these little guys if you press this button," Emily added holding up her device and pointing at a button. May blink at her own device, almost as he she was looking at it for the first time again today, then she pointed it to the caterpillar on her shoulder and scan her and information pop on her device:
Name: Silk-Wormmon
Type: Bug
Level: Rookie
Special Attack: Sticky Bomb
Info: Silk-Wormmon is known for her caring nature. She spends most of her eating her body weight in leaves. When there is danger she does one of two things: fights with all her might or panic until it is over.
"I don't panic until it's over, or at least that much," Silk-Wormmon quickly added as she read her own information. "Who wrote this stuff?"
"Yes….who indeed," May asked softly to herself as she cross her arms. She was mumbling to herself as the two of them watch her. Jake pointed at thumb at her and asked,
"Is she going to be okay?"
"I think so," Emily added, "I see adult do this all the time, mostly when shopping because they overthink things at times." As May was lost in her thought, Ryulucmon ears began to peek up, as if they heard something no one else could. Canarymon was the first one to notice the little dragon's ears and asked,
"Do you hear something?" Ryulucmon nodded and pointed to the bushes with his claw finger.
"Yeah! Right over there," he said which made the children all look down at him.
"Is it a good Digimon or a bad Digimon that's coming," Silk-Wormmon asked stretching her body, trying to obtain a better look. Yet before anyone else could answer, a big dog burst out of the bushes and startled everyone.
Calling this creature a 'big dog' was not accurate for it was about the same size as the other Digimon. However, it was walking on all fours which appeared to be bigger in their eyes. Almost all its fur was a fluffy gray color, that look so soft to the touch, but on its legs and belly it was white. It stared at all of them with its tense blue eyes, almost as though it was silently judging them. Then the creature stood up on its hind legs and look more like the other Digimon, while his font paw took the form of hands. It too had a child like look to it as it stood like that sniffing the air with its black nose. In all, this Digimon look to be some kind of childlike wolf that was looking at them funny.
They all stared at the wolf for a moment, not knowing if it would attack or not. Then the creature turn its head to the bushes and said in a soft and almost gentle voice said,
"Kentamon! I think found more of your kind, for they kind of smell like you." The children glace at each other, wondering what a Kentamon was and if they should be worried. Their fears were put to rest, as Kenta stepped out of the bushes, swiping away the leaves that landed on him. He sighed and look down at the wolf Digimon and said,
"I told you Houndmon not to call me Kentamom. It's just Kenta, okay?"
"But Kentamon just rolls off the tounge, but if you don't like being called that," Houndmon said his pointed hears drooping a bit. Kenta sigh and he rest his hand on Houndmon's head, which the wolf began to wag its fluffy tail happily.
"We're work on that," Kenta said softly under his breath, which made Houndmon grin showing his sharp teeth.
Upon seeing Kenta and his wolf companion, Jake made the first move of introductions. He marched up right to Kenta, with Ryulucmon by he side and held out a fist with a grin on his face saying,
"Great to see there is another guy that got pulled into this world. I'm Jake, and you can trust me to lead us out of here." For a moment Kenta just stared at Jake fist with his stunning blue eyes. As this was going on, the little dragon wave to the wolf and the wolf return with a small grin on his face. After a while, Kenta look straight into Jake's light green eyes and said a bit coldly,
"What make you sure you're the leader?" Jake dropped his fist down slowly and raised an eyebrow.
"Because I was captain of my soccer team, that's why."
"That was sports, this is real life. So I ask you again, what makes you sure that you're a leader?" Jake jaw tighten as glare draggers at Kenta. Normally Jake was about to be friends with just about anyone and he never meet anyone who did not enjoy his presents. However, this Japanese guy was questioning what make him a leader, something no one ever did before. As the two boys were having a staring contest, Emily lead over to May and whispered,
"I don't like the looks of this. I think these two are about to start fighting, just like my day and my brother Grayson. Should we stop this?"
"Agreed," May answer, her thoughts already formulate a plan, "If we are going to be stuck here, might as well work together. Let me try something." She walk over right between the two boys, who took no notice of her, and said,
"So what information do you have on your Digimon here? Houndmon was it?" Houndmon nodded, happy that someone broke the tension, while Kenta looked at her funny.
"What do you mean information, his name is Houndmon, that's it," he said sound confused but not angry. May quickly explained how the device worked and how they bring up information about these Digimon. Upon hearing this, Kenta pulled out his blue device and, looking a bit claimer that before, scanned Houndmon:
Name: Houndmon
Type: Beast/Dog
Level: Rookie
Special Attack: Chump Down
Info: Houndmon will be your best friend in no time. He will always be by your side and will never talk back to you. Yet, even dogs need to play sometimes.
"Huh," he said after reading the information about Houndmon. "I always wanted a dog to be honest, but Gramps said it was too much work. I guess my wish came true then." He scratched Houndmon behind the ear, to which the tail of the wolf went cray and a goofy grin pop on his face once more. After that moment, the two boys seem a bit claimer to each other, Kenta petting Houndmon and Jake rubbing the head of Ryulucmon. As May was walking back to Emily, Silk-Wormmon look at her and said,
"That was good thinking Maymon! I thought those two were going to release their attack on each other." May just gave a weak smile, and she blush a bit with the complaint, as she reach back over to Emily.
"How long do you think those two are going to play nice? I mean they were about to fight at the drop of a hat," Emily said biting her lower lip.
"What a hat?" Canarymon asked look at Emily, "And can we still eat it if it falls on the ground." Emily giggle a bit as she patted Canarymon on the head, wishing she had a pillow as soft at this back home.
"The real question is who would will in a fight; goggles boy or pony tail boy? That's something I would like to see," Iris said from behind May and Emily as she placed both their hands on their shoulders.
The two girls jump and spun around as they notice Iris standing there, smirking at them while flashing the piece sign at them.
"What did you just call me!?" both boys shouted, having heard what Iris called both of them. She chuckled as she kept up her smirk until May asked,
"I'm guess your charm turn into one of these devices." She held up her own, and the smirk on Iris face disappeared. She gave a fake laugh as she pulled out her device, a purple one, to show to May on the others.
"Aren't you smart," Iris began putting her device back, "Yeah, I got one of those charms/devices as well. When I find those freak who gave us these things…."
"But how did you find us? Did you use your device to track us?" Emily asked fixing her back on her shoulder. Iris looked at her with a confused look before saying,
"Man do you have a lot smiles on you, Sunshine. But, no I did not know anything about this tracking crap. Oncillamon was pouncing around in the trees when she heard you guys and told me all about it."
"Don't tell you…." Jake began. Yet before he could finish something pounced out of the trees and landed right next to Iris and making poor Houndmon hide behind Kenta's legs.
Just like the other Digimon, this one was the same size and had the child like look to it as well when it landed. However, it had an exotic jungle cat feel, like that of what you see in a zoo. The cat stood on two feet, just like the others, and its short fur was golden color that seem not a fluffy at the others but sleek for movement. All over its head to it long tail were black spots just like the ones you would see on any other jungle cat and made it hard to see the cat in shaded areas. Its big green cat eyes stared at all the other Digimon with a mischief look deep within them, and it had three sharp claws on hear hand. It place one hand on its hip and while its tale was swaying side to side it look up to Iris and said in a cool voice,
"Irismon, you didn't tell me that there would be others Digimon with the humons? This is just Claw-some." The other Digimon darted towards Oncillamon with excitement of children, all except Houndmon who was still hiding behind Kenta.
"Your, pretty!"
"And you fur look so shinny too!"
"What was that plan one words thing you did back there?" Iris smirk at her cat as she said,
"Aren't your poplar, huh?" Oncillamon grin up at her saying a bit sarcastically,
"I'm just Pur-fect the way I am, better than that mutt over there." She nodded at Houndmon, who retaliated by yelling,
"Don't' call me mutt!" Kenta shot Oncillamon a dirty look before saying,
"I wonder what this Digimon information said about her. Bet it something saying how much of jerk it is to dogs."
"What are you talking about?" Iris said. The group then explained how their devices worked and soon Iris was pulling up Oncillamon information with a grin on her face:
Name: Oncillamon
Type: Beast/Cat
Level: Rookie
Special Attack: Shadow Claws
Info: Oncillanmon may look like an evil Digimon, but in fact she is not. She gets along with everyone, except dog types. If you step on her tail, then you will have bad luck.
"Alright you heard it here," Iris began pointing at Oncillamon, "Don't step on her tail, or you'll get some bad luck on you head!"
"Why would anyone want to set on the poor things tail? That seems mean," Emily said sounding very worried. Iris shook her head and glace back at Emily saying,
"It was a joke. Have to make a joke in these kinds of situations."
"That's true," Emily said with a sigh of relief. Iris glace around the place, looking questionably at the hanging television sets and said,
"So all five us made it to wherever this place is."
"Six," May correct fixing her computer bag, "If I'm right, then there should be six of us here." Just after May finished her statement there was a high pitch scream coming form one direction. The scream was hard to determent who or what made the scream, but it was coming closer and closer to the with in the seconds.
"Quick! Do some karate or something!" Iris yelled at Kenta. Kenta glare at Iris with his mouth a bit open and said,
"Okay, I'm just going to ignore that comment until we get out of here." Just then something burst out of the bushes and screaming their heads off. It was not a Digimon, but rather Nate screaming at the top of his lungs while something was attach to him laughing all the way.
At first glance, it looked like a big white puff ball wiht black spots and claws attach into Nate's clothes. Yet after a second long, it appeared to be a seal of some kind with a child like face and big aqua blue eyes and a grin showing sharp teeth. A thick black mohawk that stretch down its head and down his neck sway as Nate try to ride himself of this creature. Nate was yelling and swinging his whole body saying,
"GET OFF! GET OFF! GET OFF!
"No way! This is too much fun! Faster," the seal yelled back laughing at his thrill. Soon Nate stopped his thrashing around and grab onto the seal and pull him off his back. He held out the seal and gave the thing a stern look as he said,
"Now listen here…um….um….
"Sealmon."
"Sealmon, you just can't jump on anyone. You could get hurt, and more importantly, I could get hurt. You understand."
"I understand you need to lighten up a bit." Before Nate could said another word to Sealmon, Emily called out saying,
"Glad to see you made it and your okay!" Nate turn his head to where Emily was calling him and dropped Sealmon to the ground and ran right towards them.
"Humans! Finally! You have no idea what I've been through. First I was solid and happy, then I was turn into dust and thought I would be suck into a vacuum! But this is much worst! Why am I the only one freaking out?!"
"Cause this is every kids dream come true," Jake said with a grin, "Isn't it?
"Not mine!" Nate exclaimed jabbing a finger at him. As this was going on, Sealmon was waddling up to the other Digimon.
"Before you start going off again in a panic," May began, "Can you scan you Digimon and tell me more about him?"
"What?" Nate asked, and May began to explain the device, becoming tired of repeating the same thing over and over. Starching his head, Nate began to scan his Digimon and gain his information:
Name: Sealmon
Type: Ice/Beast/Water
Level: Rookie
Special Attack: Ice Rain
Info: Sealmon normally live in the water, but can travel on land as well. He is a very risky Digimon and would do crazy thing, like swimming up a waterfall.
Nate read and reread the information that was presented to him about Sealmon. He turn to the other and asked,
"This is great and all, but how can this help us get back home!" For a moment the children all stood there in silence, some of the looking at the shoes as if they answer would be right then. The truth was, Nate had a point, how were they going to travel back home? And where was home anyway. As this was going on Sealmon was busy making the other Digimon laugh by making funny face. May glace at the Digimon and said,
"It's funny how each one of us bonded to one of these Digimon."
"Like a duck or something?"
"Kind of. Sure they look like something you see in a Japanese TV show, but deep down they act like kids like us. Do you think each one of them were meant for each one of for a reason?"
"If so, does anyone want to trade Sealmon for theirs?" There was some weak laugher in the ground, but quickly die down as reality set in. Ryulucmon looked over at the children and frowned saying,
"The humon look kind of sad. I feel like we should do something."
"Seeing them sad makes me sad," Houndmon added drooping his ears a bit. Silk-Wormmon look at the other Digimon as a though appeared in her mind.
"You think the rumors about Him are true?" Upon hearing this, the children perked up and turn their head to the Digimon.
"What do you mean Him?" Emily ask looking at Canarymon closely.
"Do you mean another human is here?!"
"I don't know if he's humon or not. But we Digimon, we like to gossip with one another," the little bird said with a hidden smile.
"And word on the Digi-street is that there is the being called The Listener," Sealmon added putting a mysterious tone in his voice.
"The Listener? Why is he called that," Kenta asked crossing his arms.
"No one knows, it's a Pur-fect mystery."
"But one thing is for sure," Ryulucmon added, "The Listener knows everything, and when I say everything, I mean everything! Maybe he knows how to get you humon back home or whatever." The attitude of the group of children changed from gloom to excitement. If they find this Listener, maybe he can tell them where home was for the children.
"Great! Take us to him!" Nate exclaimed clapping his hands. The Digimon all look at each other with worried looks on their face.
"No one knows where he lives," Canarymon said sadly.
"But like we said before, we Digimon like to gossip, so some Digimon who might know where to find him!" Jake fixed his goggles the rested on his head and step forward past the group.
"So what are we waiting for!" he exclaimed. He pointed a finger forward and added, "Let's explore to find The Listener and get back home!" Jake was expecting everyone to cheer for him, but he settled on all of them fallowing as he lead the group.
And so the adventure of these six children begins as they make their way threw Static Forest. None of them knew what was waiting for them head, but they had one goal in mind and they will do anything to obtain that. As the little group disappeared deeper into the forest. A Black Spot flew out of the trees, and into the air.