Chapter 2: Blythe's New Adventure Part 2

Blythe was struggling to open her locker. It was her first day at this new school, and everything felt so unfamiliar to her. She pulled on the lock, but nothing happened.

"Hey there! Having trouble?" a boy near Blythe said.

Blythe turned around to see a boy her age in front of two other girls.

"I've tried to open this locker at least five times, but nothing worked!" Blythe answered.

"Oh! I had this locker last year! There's a special trick to it," the boy said, "You mind if I try?"

"Sure!" Blythe said. She handed the boy a piece of paper. "Here's the combination if you need it.

The boy picked up the combination and pulled on the locker. The two girls that were behind him introduced themselves.

"Hi, my name is Sue Patterson," the orange haired girl answered. Sue turned her head toward the other girl, "And this is Youngmee Song."

"Hi, I'm Blythe Baxter," Blythe answered.

"Oh, are you new here?" Sue asked.

"Yeah. New in school, new in town," Blythe said.

Behind her the boy was pulling on the lock with his feet on the locker.

"Oh!" Sue said, "Where do you live?"

The boy had successfully pulled off the lock opening the locker, but not before falling of the locker and tumbling backwards.

"On Oak Street," Blythe said, "Our building has a pet shop on the ground floor."

"Littlest Pet Shop?" The boy had gotten up off the ground and began talking again, "I loved that place!"

"Yeah, too bad you couldn't love it a bit more," Blythe said, "Because it's closing."

"Oh...yeah," Sue said, "I've heard that ever since Largest Ever Pet Shop opened, it has stolen a lot of business away from Littlest."

"Oh, really?" Blythe questioned.

"Yeah, and Largest Ever Pet Shop is owned by Fisher Biskit, father of the unofficial official mean girls of the school," Sue said.

"The Biskit Twins," the boy said, all of them shivering in fear.

"Oh, I think I saw them while I was moving in," Blythe said, "They didn't seem very nice."

All four of them laughed. "Say, would you like to eat lunch at our table?" Sue asked.

"Yeah, sure!" Blythe said. All four of them walked off together. Blythe knew that the her new school would be a better place with friends like these.

Kazima was still angry. That attack from that Digimon really hurt. He held his eyes. The acid from the bubbles still stung. He wanted that Digimon, those animals, the entire pet shop, to just disappear.

When his eyes got better, he reached into his laptop-bag, only to find it wasn't there, nor was the tracker. He had realized he had left them at the pet shop, and there was no way he would go there again.

Tokomon explained what a Digimon was to the pets. A Digimon is an animal made entirely of data. They hatch from eggs called Digi-Eggs and age via a process called Digivolution. Digivolution has 6 stages, Fresh, In-training, Rookie, Champion, Ultimate, and Mega.

Fresh Digimon are the lowest level of Digimon, equal to that of an infant.

In-training Digimon, which Tokomon is, are slightly bigger and mature than Fresh Digimon, but still can't defend themselves.

Rookie Digimon are the most common digimon and are most Digimon's basic forms. They are the equivalent of a child.

Champion Digimon are the equivalent of adults, in that most of them get significantly stronger when they evolve and develop a more human intellect.

Ultimate Digimon are extremely powerful, but they eat up a lot of energy.

Mega Digimon are the last stage in the cycle, and most Megas contain a huge amount of power, some even having the potential to tear continents apart. However, you're lucky to even encounter one.

"...and that concludes my lecture on my species. Any questions?" Tokomon asked.

Tokomon saw that all the pets either fell asleep or were distracted entirely. However, he saw a pink hand raise itself into the sky.

"Yes?" Tokomon asked.

"Hey Tokomon! What do YOU digivolve to?" Minka answered.

"To be honest, I really don't know yet," Tokomon said.

Russell looked around to see the stranger left his computer and tracker on the floor.

"Hunh? What is this?" Russell said.

He looked at the computer to see a counter now at 5 hours. Below it he saw the words, "Digiport Open."

"Hey Tokomon, look at this," Russell called.

Tokomon walked over to Russell. He looked at the screen.

"Do you know what this means?" Russell asked.

"Hm...nope!" Tokomon said, "Sorry, no clue!"

"Well anyway, we have to think of a plan!" Russell exclaimed.

"Hunh? For what?" Tokomon asked.

"We need to think of a plan to save this shop from closing! If not..." Russell said.

Russell gave Tokomon the skinny about Largest Ever Pet Shop. The caused them both to shiver.

"So, does anyone have any ideas?" Russell asked.

Vinnie, Sunil, Minka, and Pepper all suggested ideas that pandered to their own interests. However, Russell could see that they would all not raise enough money to support the Littlest Pet Shop or went nowhere.

"We need something else..."

Just that moment, Blythe arrived into the pet shop holding her notebook. She began speaking to Mrs. Twombly. The pets and Tokomon huddled around the window.

"Blythe seems to look excited about something!" Penny said.

Blythe began showing Mrs. Twombly drawings in her notebook.

"I wish I could hear what they are saying..." Pepper said.

Zoe put her hand on her chest. "I can hear the mailman from three blocks away!" Zoe boasted.

She ran up to the window and lifted an ear. She could sort of hear what the two were saying.

"Oh! Got it!" Zoe turned around to the other pets, "Blythe said that she is sure to set fire to the pet shop!"

The pets looked confused.

"Hold on, that can't be right..." Zoe said.

When Blythe had finished talking to Mrs. Twombly, she ran to the pet room.

"Hey guys! Guess what!" Blythe stopped running when she saw Tokomon.

"Hi!" Tokomon said. Blythe saw all of Tokomon's fangs when he said that.

"Wha...what are you?" Blythe asked.

"Oh, this guy?" Vinnie said, "His name is Tokomon. He doesn't have an owner. He says he a Digiman, or something like that."

"Digimon," Pepper corrected.

Blythe looked at Tokomon. He looked like a giant pillow with two long ears and a cat face.

"I guess, I'll let him stay, he doesn't look like he'll do any harm..." Blythe said.

Blythe realized she had gotten sidetracked. "Anyway, I think I found a way to save the pet shop!" Blythe said holding her notebook to the pets.

Blythe flipped to various designs in the book, "I think that we should host a fashion show! With you seven..." She looked down at Tokomon with his cat smile, "Well, eight, as my fashion models!"

All of them got excited and smothered Blythe in affection, proving that it was a good idea.

After Blythe had finished designing the models, she had Minka and Tokomon put them on the walls. Russell checked this off on a checklist.

A few minutes later, Blythe was blogging to everyone, including her father, that there would be a fashion show at the pet shop at 8:00. Beside her, Vinnie was struggling to move some red fabric to the design room.

Zoe looked at Penny's costume, and then at the fashion mannequin. She wondered how she could fit a yellow, sleeveless, turtleneck shirt on there. Meanwhile, Penny was dancing with a light yellow piece of cloth. She was doing pretty well with it, until she tripped and got everything from her head down trapped in cloth.

Zoe saw this as a good thing, as she pulled on the cloth causing it, and Penny, to fly on the mannequin. When Penny landed on the ground, she looked up and saw that the cloth had arranged itself almost exactly to the design. Russell came up and checked off another thing on the checklist.

Russell had climbed on the bed with Blythe, who had finished designing fliers on her laptop. They both looked behind them to see all the other animals making with the outfits. Blythe smiled and closed the laptop.

Blythe was shining a light on the doorway of her bedroom, which a carpet lay. All six of the acting pets were at the end of the carpet. Russell had prepared a clipboard to write on, with Tokomon next to him.

Penny was first. She danced, as she twirled a ribbon around, with beauty and grace. Her performance had gone according to plan. After her, all the other pets performed as well according to plan, with Minka's, then Pepper's, and then especially Zoe's performances succeeding.

After Zoe went backstage, Vinnie strutted up the carpet,wearing goggles designed for his costume. Vinnie danced clumsily, and ended up tripping and tumbling into Russell. Russell hurled in a ball for defense, and was pushed backward as Vinnie slammed into him and fell on the ground. Russell, still rolling, he accidentally slammed into Tokomon's face, and ricocheted back to Vinnie.

As Vinnie got up, he saw Russell rolling toward him, and began running to not get hurt, eventually going on top of him. Vinnie saw the pet's look of horror as they were about to be run over. After he ran into the pets like a bowling ball, all the pets were lying in pain.

When they recovered, they all looked at Vinnie. Vinnie looked worried for a second, but then Tokomon started laughing, despite taking a hard blow to the face. All the other animals began laughing too.

Kazima walked around the town, still with a swollen eye. It was 6:30, and only an hour and a half until the portal open. He held his eye, not seeing where he was going, until he ran into a wall.

As he rubbed his head, he looked up and saw a flier on the wall. Now that he looked around, he saw a lot of those fliers everywhere. He picked one off the wall, and read it said.

Go save Littlest Pet Shop!

Pet Fashion Show

Today at 7:45

Designs by Blythe Style!

"Yeah, like heck I'm going," Kazima thought to himself sarcastically. He walked along to the street to check on the spawn spot. When he got there, he saw a stage being built there, to his horror.

"What!? No! Anywhere but here!" Kazima said. He looked at the flier he crumpled up, "I have to stop this from happening!" he exclaimed.

"Pet Fashion Show to stop Little Pet Shop from closing?" Brittany said. She looked condescendingly at Whittany who was giving an equally condescending look back. "Blythe Style?" Whittany said.

The two looked to see these fliers were all over Largest Ever Pet Shop. Brittany grabbed one of the fliers.

"This is a really good idea," Brittany said in a sarcastic tone.

"Uh, yeah," Whittany said, "And we've got to do something to ruin it!"

"Oh, yeah," Brittany said, "And, like, humiliate Blythe, for good!"

Britanny ripped the flier in two.

It was 7:30, and the stage had been set up. There was a full audience in the crowd.

"Oh my! That's some crowd out there!" Mrs. Twombly said behind the stage.

Kazima watched from a distance. His eye was getting better. The stage audience was full. Whatever came from the portal in thirty minutes, these people were in danger.

"What were these people thinking putting the show here..." Kazima thought to himself.

Blythe was finishing Sunil put on his costume. When she finished, Blythe's friends entered the pet shop.

"Blythe, you're a genius!" Jasper said with a flier in his hand, "But how will you come up with all the money?"

"Wait, what money?" Blythe asked. She had no idea what Jasper was referring to.

"All this money," Jasper said, handing her the flier.

Blythe read the flier. "Come get free money?!" Blythe read. She checked the other fliers to see they had the same thing written on them.

'WHAT THE WHAT?" Blythe exclaimed.

All three of them looked at her, confused.

"I have no idea how this happened. Who could have put this in all our fliers?" Blythe said, "I just seems so mean..."

All four of them got the sudden realization.

"I'm sure the fashion show will be great and all, but I just came for the free money," an audience member confessed to his friend.

"Yeah, me too," his friend agreed.

Behind them, two mysterious girls hiding behind a mailbox were dressed like cats. They had malicious intent in their eyes.

"Look at this crowd, Whitanny," Britanny said, "It was a good idea to put 'free money' on all of those fliers."

"Yeah, we needed a lot of people here to see Blythe get totally humiliated," Whittany said.

"So you did this!" a male voice said.

The twins looked behind them to see a boy at least two years older than both of them with black air and a blue T-shirt.

"Um, excuse me?" Brittany asked.

"You got all these people here so that they could be attacked by whatever comes out of the portal tonight!" Kazima said. He pointed to the sky. "Look up there! Doesn't the sky look more pixellated?"

The two twins just looked at him funny, "Ew, get away, freakazoid!" Brittany said, the two running away from him, preparing their devilish plot. Kazima just looked. He began to question his sanity, seeing as he was called a freak by two girls were dressed like cats, face paint and all, carrying kitty litter and chocolate icing in a bucket.

It was 7:43, and the crowd was chanting.

"MONEY, MONEY, MONEY!"

Blythe and Mrs. Twombly were backstage with all the pets and Tokomon.

"Oh dear, I only have a buck seventy-four," Mrs. Twombly said, "We're gonna have to get a lot more money to keep this crowd at bay."

Blythe sighed, "OK, I'll just have to get out there, and tell the crowd there has been a terrible mistake."

Mrs. Twombly approached Blythe comfortingly. "Oh, don't be silly dear, I'll do it,"

Mrs. Twombly said walking toward the front of the stage, "They can't be too angry, after all, they're about to see the most amazing fashion show ever!"

Mrs. Twombly was now on stage. She heard the crowd shout for money, which worried her.

"Thank you for coming," Mrs. Twombly said, "I have some good news, and some bad news. The bad news is, there is no free money."

This caused a massive uproar among the crowd. Some of the crowd even began to leave.

"But the good news is, the first ever, Littlest Pet Shop Fashion Show is about to begin!" Mrs. Twombly said, trying to get interest, "So without further ado, I'd like to begin Blythe Style, sold exclusively here, at Littlest Pet Shop!"

Blythe motioned the pets to go on stage. Tokomon and Russell watched the others go onstage, certain nothing would go wrong.

Kazima watched from the crowd, certain something would go wrong. He saw the pixellation on the sky had gotten bigger.

The fashion show started with pink fog appearing on the stage. After the pink fog went away, the crowd could see three figures. One was Minka, wearing a green jacket with green sneakers and a green hat with yellow lining and a purple circle in the middle. She was carrying a paintbrush.

One could also see Pepper, complete with spiky hair, a green sleeveless shirt, and dark blue pants.

The last figure belonged to Penny, wearing a yellow sleeveless turtleneck shirt with a white color and ruffing, which went well with her red gloves, blue jeans, blue hat, and black shoes with red lightning on them.

One could also see Pepper, complete with spiky hair, a green sleeveless shirt, and dark blue pants. The shirt had a flower on it.

These designs caught the crowd's attention, and they looked surprised at these designs. A lot of people come back to the show. Penny walked down the walkway first.

Behind the stage, Brittany and Whittany were holding the litter and chocolate icing. They climbed up the ladder of the stage.

When Penny reached the end of the walkway, she got out a ribbon and danced back to the stage elegantly with it. This allowed Minka to go down to the walkway. When Minka arrived, she was holding a paintbrush in one hand and a pastel in the other.

She mixed gray and yellow and painted a mustache on to an audience member he seemed pleasantly surprised by this. Minka walked back to the stage.

"YEAH MINKA," Tokomon called backstage, "YOU ROCK."

While no one else noticed it, Kazima swear he had heard a voice he had heard before, and he shivered in his seat.

Now it was Peppers turn. She walked up the stage in he suit and posed for the crowd. An audience member went up to smell the flower on her chest. She squeezed something attached to her costume and water squirted out off the flower and onto the man. The man was soaking wet, and everyone around him was laughing. The man couldn't help but laugh with them.

The Biskits had reached the top of the stage. They pulled up the buckets that were down the ladder, and ended up spilling some of the contents on the ladder.

Vinnie and Sunil walked out in the crowd, Sunil being a bit worried. Vinnie was wearing a blue T-shirt with long sleeves and yellow collar, black pants, white and blue shoes, and big white goggles connected by a blue strap. His hair was done in a more spiky way.

Sunil was wearing thick red glasses, a white over-shirt with blue stripes on the edges, a light gray T-shirt under that, long blue socks, white and red shoes, and a watch. He was carrying an umbrella.

Vinnie moon-walked to the end of the walkway and did a twirl. He held out one hand and strapped on his white gloves. He held onto he goggles, and turned them so his face would face toward the audience. One audience member fainted in excitement when she saw this.

Sunil slowly walked to the end of the walkway. He began to get nervous. He turned away and opened up his umbrella. To his surprise, the umbrella opened in an outward fashion, what was originally planned. He held up the umbrella in triumph, not before the umbrella snapped and caught Sunil inside.

Vinnie grabbed the umbrella and faced it toward the audience. He saw that Sunil was clasping to the inside of the umbrella. When he was done, Vinnie closed the umbrella and bowed.

Russell was kind of disappointed that Sunil had failed to use an umbrella, however, he saw some strange black stuff fall from the ceiling. He looked up and saw two cat-like figures on the roof carrying buckets. Russell knew this was no good and went backstage. Tokomon saw him check behind the backstage curtain. Tokomon picked up Minka's Digivice around his neck and followed Russell

Russell went jumped out of the curtain and landed on all floors. He saw Tokomon come right beside him. The two saw weird substances on the ladder to the roof. Tokomon put himself on Russel's head, and Russell leaped up the steps of the ladder.

The two twins watched on the top of the roof. They were waiting patiently for the right moment.

Finally, after Vinnie and Sunil left, blue fog appeared around the stage. In the fog, a blue light shined, and after the fog had lifted, the light revealed itself as Zoe.

Zoe was wearing a golden collar, purple belt, green gloves, green and white shoes, a long red dress, and a pink hat. Zoe walked across the runaway for the crowd's admiration.

Mrs. Twombly and Blythe saw from backstage that the show was being a success.

Russell and Tokomon had reached the top of the ladder. The two saw the twins talk.

"Ugh, Whittany, I'm getting bored," Brittany said, "Can we, like, dump this stuff on Blythe now?"

"Can it, Brittany, it's got to be at just the right moment," Whittany said back.

Blythe and all the other animals had gotten on stage. Zoe ran back to the stage, and they all bowed.

Kazima began to shake in his seat. The sky had gotten at its worst. He was missing his laptop so he couldn't enter in the code.

"The sky looks bad, who knows what will happen when it opens up."

"OK Brittany, let's do it!" Whittany said.

"This will teach Blythe not to say no to us!" Brittany said.

The Biskits were about to pour the contents of the buckets onto Blythe and the pets, but then Brittany felt a bubble hit the side of her face. The two looked and saw Tokomon next to them with his massive jaws.

The two screamed and fell backwards, accidentally throwing the buckets over their heads and onto their face. Tokomon and Russell approached them.

"Don't even think of hurting Blythe, you meanies!" Tokomon said.

Russell and Tokomon would have heard the Biskits try to run away screaming, but they didn't. He saw the twins were completely frozen in time. The two looked down to see everyone but Blythe, the pets, and a boy shivering in his seat still frozen.

"What the what?" Blythe said. "Why aren't they moving?"

"OH NO," Kazima shouted, "IT'S HAPPENING!"

Everyone conscious turned to Kazima. "Hey, that's the guy that tried to abduct Tokomon!" Vinnie said.

"Look up, at the sky!" Russell called.

They saw a giant transmutation circle in the sky. The circle opened up, revealing a huge amount of white light. There was a flash, and Blythe, Kazima, Tokomon, and all the pets had been teleported from the real world frozen in time, and into the Digital world.

When Kazima got up, he saw that everything around him felt different. He couldn't feel the progress of time. He looked down and saw all the pets were still in their clothes they wore to the fashion show and unconscious. He took the Digivice around Tokomon's neck.

"Hunh?" he said, "They have been in contact with this thing for that long..."

Suddenly, he felt the earth shake below him. This woke everyone else up. When they all got up, they experienced another weird quake.

"Wha, where are all these earthquakes coming from?" Sunil said, "I'm getting scared..."

"Look! Over there!" Pepper pointed.

Everyone looked in the direction she pointed. They saw a giant mole with purple fur on his top side and a drill for a nose and claws. He had a strange black disc jammed in his face above his left eye.

"That's Drimogemon!" Tokomon said, "It's a Rookie Level Digimon that can use his drill to penetrate bone!"

Drimogemon faced Blythe. He dashed toward her with his drill spinning, face forward, trying to stab Blythe. She sidestepped to her right before he could attack her. Drimogemon stopped, turned around, and he began charging forward at Tokomon and Kazima instead. He rammed into Kazima with his body and pounced on top of Tokomon. Drimogemon prepared his claws to slash Tokomon.

When Kazima fell, the Digivice he was holding landed right next to Minka.

"Minka! Put the Digivice on!" Tokomon called. Drimogemon lifted up a claw to attack Tokomon.

Minka slipped on the Digivice, and a green light shot out of the Digivice and engulfed Tokomon. Tokomon's body was beginning to glow.

"Tokomon digivolve to...Patamon!"

All the other pets looked at the newly evolved Patamon. He was entirely orange save for his underside, which was a bright cream color. His anatomy included a short, stubby tail, small arms, light-blue eyes, and bat-like wings on his back, which got rid of his ears.

"Oh! Tokomon, or Patamon, explained this to us!" Penny said.

"Digivolution..." Kazima said. He had never seen anything like this. Sure, Patamon wasn't that different looking from Tokomon, in fact he may have gotten smaller, but he was also more powerful.

"Thanks Minka!" Patamon called. He used his new wings to escape the slash from Drimogemon.

After escaping, Patamon inhaled in air into his small body. He then shot said air forward from his mouth and onto Drimogemon. Drimogemon flinched.

"Yeah! Go Patamon!" Vinnie called. He was liking how this battle turned out.

Kazima studied Drimogemon. His body movements did not seem natural, he only focused on trying to attack Patamon's small frame. He then noticed that the strange black disk above Drimogemon's eye was sticking out in a way that could not have been part of Drimogemon's natural body.

While Patamon was fighting Drimogemon, she now noticed the black disk in Drimogemon. It was black and incredibly ugly, however, it reflected light quite well. This caught Minka's attention.

"Ooh, shiny!" Minka said.

Minka leapt on top of Drimogemon and began pulling on the black disc. Drimogemon began to struggle to move. Patamon saw this as a distraction and swallowed in more air. He shot that air forward and onto Drimogemon. Minka fell backward, pulling the black gear out. Drimogemon fell on the ground, chest forward.

It took a few seconds for Drimogemon to go back to his senses. When he got up off the ground, he rubbed his head.

"Hunh? Where am I?" Drimogemon said.

As he walked out, all the pets with Blythe, Kazima, and Patamon were engulfed by a ray of white light and put back where they were before the Digital World.

In a few seconds, time started up again. The crowd was cheering at Blythe and her models, Kazima was back in his seat. Minka still had the black disk in her hand. The Biskits continued to scream at Russell and Patamon before running down the ladder, buckets still on their heads. Patamon and Russell just laughed at this.

A few minutes later, after the show had finished, the pet shop was packed with new customers. Mrs. Twombly was at the cash register. She had not experienced this amount of financial success since the early days of the shop. Blythe walked up to the register.

"Well, Blythe, you did it!" Mrs. Twombly congratulated, "You've saved Littlest Pet Shop! However..."

Blythe looked confused. "What is it, Mrs. Twombly?"

"All these sales! The only way I'll be able to keep up is if you come to work for me."

A smile appeared on Blythe's face, "Really, Mrs. Twombly? I'd LOVE to work here!" an enthusiastic Blythe said.

Blythe felt someone tap on her shoulder. She turned to see the boy she had seen during Patamon's fight with Drimogemon.

"Oh, hi. You are..." Blythe said.

"Kazima Hashi," the boy answered, "I saw you in the Digital World."

"Oh!" Mrs. Twombly said, "You went into the pet shop yesterday didn't you?" She got out his laptop and portal tracker. "I'm afraid you forgot these."

Kazima picked up his items and put them in his laptop bag and pocket.

"So, what is it you wanted to talk about?" Blythe asked.

"Do you have that black disk that the monkey took from Drimogemon?" Blythe asked.

"Oh! Right here!" Blythe got out the black disk and handed it to Kazima.

"Thanks." Kazima said. He put a tip in the tip box and left.

When he left, Roger Baxter's , Blythe's Dad's, car arrived to see a long line entering in the pet shop. He looked confused.

"Did I miss something?" he wondered.

End of Chapter Two. Blythe saved the pet shop, and with Patamon saving everyone's life, things are looking up for Blythe. What will happen when Patamon tries to get equipped with living in the human world? Read the next chapter, Patamon's Small New World!