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Chapter 2

Kagome clung to the small bunny like digimon, her face was pink and she was utterly terrified. She didn't want to die, forcing her eyes open a moment of pure adrenalin and delight seemed to run through her heart and veins. This place, this digital world was beautiful and more than a little amazing…. she could see mountains and the ocean… as they neared the water Kagome could feel tears well up in her eyes, blinking she yelped when she hit something bouncy and sorta soft.

Blinking she had a few seconds to get oriented before a small blonde landed on her stomach knocking Kagome completely on her back, surprisingly it didn't hurt nearly as much as it should have. Then again whatever they were on had dipped quickly when she'd landed, then a second time when Takeru landed on her.

"Takeru!"

Kagome blinked, completely disoriented by the weight of two digimon and a little boy. Looking up she found herself looking into two pairs of worried blue eyes and a pair of brown eyes. "Owww?"

Taichi broke into laughter, at his cousins belated, complaint of pain then again she looked as confused as to what had happened.

"Tai… cut it out, Takeru get off her." Yamato frowned, a worried expression on his face, before helping the younger boy move off her.

Kagome's eyes went wide, "Wave."

Yamato frowned, before he followed her eyes, "OI! Look!" The rest of them members of the group turned to see what he was talking about, they were all just as surprised.

When the cliffs had fallen into the water behind them, it began to make a tidal wave and it seemed like it was just getting larger and larger. The fish raft, followed the shouted commands of Gomamon, their speed seemed to double but it wouldn't be fast enough to outpace the mass of water. It was beginning to feel like rain because the top of the wave was now climbing over their heads and the water was raining down upon them. Just as quickly they seemed to be yanked up on top of the wave, just as quickly they were washed over one of the banks of the river.

Kagome blinked as she lay on her side, she could hear the others talking but at the same time she really couldn't force herself to concentrate on what they were talking about. It was so odd and bizarre and she could honestly say she was far from happy with what had happened. She didn't mind meeting Moonmon…. well no she was Lunamon now, but anyway she didn't mind meeting a digimon, and she liked it here.

Sighing she turned back toward the others, listening and watching… Jyou was so odd he made mountains out of molehills, everything became so much more complicated when he started talking.

"What now? Just standing here isn't going to help matters." Yamato frowned, his arms crossed as his cool blue eyes seemed to cut across everyone.

Jyou huffed, he knew that the others would probably ignore him but he had to at least try to get his point across, "We should try to go back, the adults are probably looking for us."

The other turned to look back from where they had come from, it was obvious that there were miles away and below from where they had landed in the digital world. "We're too far away." Sora finally spoke as she and the other continued to stare at the distance between them, and their landing spot.

"It doesn't look like it would be easy to get back up that cliff either," Yamato commented calmly dismissing the idea.

"Not only that but there is no guarantee that if we go back to where we landed we could find a way back to camp." Kagome finally spoke up, a frown on her face. When the others turned back to look at her she wanted to twitch so badly.

Jyou frowned, "Then what should we do? Or where do we go?"

Kagome sighed, before glancing at the others at least she wasn't the only one annoyed by Jyou's constant questions and worries. Taichi, Sora and Yamato looked as annoyed and frustrated as she felt.

"Does that really matter?" Yamato asked, his tone dismissive.

Jyou scowled, "We should go back!"

"Well… we could probably find some clues if we went back." Sora finally spoke up, it was obvious she'd been thinking about the problems at hand.

"IIE!" Mimi finally yelled, her face was red, and she seemed extremely unhappy with the thought of going back toward the camp area. "There are still monsters right? What if we run into them or something like that!"

Palmon smiled, "There are a lot of digimon in this area."

The talk seemed to pause as they each thought about what Palmon had said, it was unnervingly quiet. They all looked toward the other, each had a searching look on their faces. The digimon on the other hand didn't really understand what was going on, they didn't understand the conflict between the children.

"I don't think we should go back… I don't want anyone to be put in danger." Yamato frowned, his arms crossed a worried expression on his face.

"Hmmm… this is called File Island right?" Sora asked, curious.

"Is this really even an island?" Izzy replied, an interested look on his face, he was always ready to get more information of knowledge it was just something that he enjoyed.

"What if it's like Japan? Is there a mainland?" Kagome asked, she'd picked Lunamon up and had begun to cuddle and squeeze her much like a stuffed bunny. Not that Lunamon minded, Kagome was extremely warm and she made Lunamon feel loved and happy.

"That's plausible." Izzy replied, looking at Kagome with a small smile.

"Whatever! We're not getting anywhere just standing around here, and since we've pretty much decided not to go back toward that cliff, I'm going this way!" Taichi grinned before he began to march.

"Oi… where do you think you're going?" Yamato asked, a slightly bewildered expression on his face.

Taichi grinned, amused "I saw an Ocean earlier."

"The Ocean?" Kagome asked, before she glanced at Yamato who was returning her surprised look.

"Yeah! So let's go!" Taichi grinned before he began to hop across a number of stones that would allow him onto the other side of the river. It was wide and clear of debris and most of the bushes and such had been removed by the wave.

"So should we go?" Yamato finally asked.

"Yeah." Kagome and Sora chimed in at the same time, they both paused before looking at the other. They could only smile slightly at the other, neither of them had been expecting to reply in tandem.

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Yamato glanced at the girl, just ahead of him she was still clutching her digimon like a shield all the while chatting away with Takeru and Patamon. It was odd and he wasn't sure how to feel about it, Taichi knew her, knew her very well from the way the reacted with each other.

He sighed, sometime he wished he could talk to Takeru with such ease but every time he tried something seemed to go wrong, such as the fact that while his little brother was visiting him at camp… they were now in a completely new world. The others continued to talk to each other and he really only listened while watching the world around him.

It was odd… Yamato wasn't really sure what a jungle looked like from the forest floor but he felt like this was what it would be similar to, but at the same time it was a lot like his grandmother's home; She lived up in the mountains much like camp and this really reminded him of her home.

"Nn, I smell the ocean." Gabumon's voice sounded beside him, before Gomamon began to shout about seeing the ocean. They all seemed extremely excited, and Yamato had to wonder how many of them hadn't actually gone to see the Ocean… they lived in Tokyo so it wasn't like it was that far away.

Just as quickly, they were all looking up in confusion as close as they were to the beach all of them could hear the shrill ringing of what sounded like telephones going off. They were all so surprised everyone rushed forward to see what exactly was, when the landed on the beach they could plainly see a long row of telephone booths. But it was the one closest to the estuary opening, which was ringing off the hook like crazy.

"It stopped ringing." Taichi frowned, as he looked inside the open telephone booth.

Izzy frowned, "That should be impossible."

"But there exactly like the ones we have at home." Yamato stated.

"Ahh, we have one like this right down the street from my home." Mimi replied.

"Soo we must still be in Japan!" Jyou stated.

Yamato watched as each face changed and his eyes rose when Kagome stared at Jyou like he'd just gone crazy.

Kagome's cheeks puffed up, "There is no way we are still in Japan! Last time I checked there weren't any telephone booths like this on the beaches! Not only that… there aren't any digimon in Japan," She had a look on her face daring the older boy to argue with her, and everyone could see the boy visibly deflate.

Taichi just rolled his eyes, "Koushiro… gimme Ten yen."

"What for Taichi?" Izzy asked in response.

"I'm going to use the phone." Taichi grinned.

Izzy nodded, "Ah, here… I don't have yen I carry a phone card." The smaller boy replied before handing him the card

And just like that everyone was trying to use the phone, Yamato couldn't help but follow his little brother. Dialing the number, Yamato sighed he was a little nervous talking to his Mother… he really hadn't had a lot of contact with her since the divorce. It was especially hard considering he was mad at both his parents for separating him from his baby brother.

Yamato blinked at the phone in confusion, the phone had rang just like the phones of Tokyo but they had never said something like "This number is no longer in use, it won't matter if you dial again."

"What's wrong onii-chan? Where did you call to?" Takeru asked, a small frown on his face.

Yamato knew he had a troubled expression on his face, "I called home." Looking over the others he could see that, no one had any success in calling home.

Then again… looking over at Kagome… she hadn't even tried. The younger girl was just sitting on the sand with a sad expression on her face, Yamato watched as Takeru walked up to the girl and he couldn't help but follow.

"What's wrong Kagome?" Takeru asked, before sitting down next to the older girl.

Kagome sighed, "I don't think my dad would care if I was missing or not." It was left unsaid that she didn't think it had been worth it to call, or that her dad would have cared if she had of called.

"Aww. I bet he would miss you more than you think… I would." Takeru grinned at her, before sighing he was really tired… and he was hungry.

Yamato watched, slightly surprised… but then again Takeru had always been more social able than he had been. He was even more surprised when she squealed about how cute his little brother was and promptly pulled the younger boy into a warm large hug.

Takeru laughed, happily returning the hug, his mom and dad didn't hug him like he could make the world go right. But for whatever reason Kagome, did and it was new and different and he liked it.

"Let's go this is pointless… none of the telephones are helping." Taichi stated, he was ready to be on the move again.

"Taichi, we need to take a break. The others are tired… and more than likely hungry!" Yamato sighed, why was he the voice of reason.

Taichi frowned, staring at his friend he really hated it when Yamato was right that and he could tell the younger kids were going to have a hard time keeping up. Both Takeru and Kagome were hunkered down together, Mimi wasn't far from them… all three of them looked exhausted.

"I have to admit, I'm getting hungry." Izzy replied, he was pretty tired too… and this would give him a little more time to work with his computer to try to get it working.

"Does anyone have any food?" Sora finally asked, Izzy wasn't the only one who was hungry. "The only thing that I have… oh…. it's that thing that fell out of the sky." Sora frowned, she wasn't really sure

"Ah… I'd forgotten about that thing." Taichi frowned, as he found his attached to one of his belt loops

"Ah, Mine is on my bag…" Mimi stared at the device.

Takeru grinned, "I got one to!"

Yamato closed his eyes, "It seems like everyone got one…"

"Maybe it's what let us into this place." Kagome muttered out rather loudly, looking at the little thing in her hand. The wave that had sucked them in would have been big enough to suck the whole camp in… but only the eight of them had been pulled here.

"How do you figure that Kagome?" Izzy asked, curious.

"The way we got here, anyone could have fallen in… but they didn't so that means there was something special about those of us here." Kagome reasoned.

"Then I wonder what they are?" Izzy replied, poking at the small device before his stomach began to growl hungrily. "Though I suppose we could worry about that later, we really should eat." There was a small pink of embarrassment on his face.

Sora frowned, "I only have my emergency kit, band-aids, antiseptic and some thread and needles." The girl frowned they really wouldn't be much help considering they weren't food.

"All I have with me are my electronic, my computer, digital camera and cell phone…" Izzy sighed a slightly disappointed look on his face, "There worthless now, but I thought I had charged the batteries."

Taichi rolled his eyes, "That's what you get for bringing that thing to camp." He was bent down next to him before a small tennis ball smacked him in the forehead knocking him backwards. "OI! What was that for Kagome?"

Kagome grinned, "Be nice, if Izzy can get an energy source here we might be able to make a map or even see if they have something similar to the internet at home."

Yamato and Sora shared an amused look between the two of them, they weren't sure how the two knew each other but it was defiantly fun to watch.

Izzy laughed softly, "What about you Taichi?"

Taiichi sighed, throwing the tennis ball back toward Kagome her could only watch with slight annoyance when she caught it and put it back in her bag. "I only have my Pocket Telescope…"

"Hmm, I didn't bring any food either." Yamato frowned, looking over the others.

Takeru grinned up at his brother, "I did!"

Mimi squealed, "CANDY! It looks so good. Ah… you're not from our kids club…" Mimi looked toward Kagome, "But then again neither are you."

"Un, its summer vacation so, I was visiting my brother. Right, Yamato?" Takeru grinned.

"Uhh, yeah." Yamato looked a little embarrassed.

Mimi looked over to Kagome, "What about you?"

"Ah, my parents wanted all the kids out of the house… we just moved back to Odaiba last week, my younger siblings were sent to Auntie Yuuko and Uncle Susumu's house because Hikari is sick like they are…. Sango has soccer camp and Kikyo had music camp… I was the only one who didn't have anything to do so they sent me to spend time with Taichi."

"Wow you have a really big family Kagome!" Takeru looked amazed.

"Heehee, yeah I do… two older sisters, two younger brothers and a little sister… I'm the third of six." Kagome grinned, sticking her tongue…

"So you're Tai's younger cousin." Yamato wondered out loud, that explained a lot like why he wouldn't put up to much resistance when she got onto him. Tai had a soft spot for his little sister so it wasn't too surprising that he had one for a younger cousin.

"Yep!" Kagome smiled.

"Ah, Mimi what did you bring… I mean you're back is huge!" Sora finally asked, she'd been listening to two different conversations both of which were getting off subject.

"Oh! There's solid fuel, swiss army knife, compass, flashlight, and that's it." Mimi smiled.

"You're pretty prepared." Yamato stared surprised that she would have those kind of things, then again all of them except Jyou was staring at Mimi as if totally stunned.

"I was coming camping, so I bored my papa's gear." Mimi smiled happily.

"Can you use it all?" Tai asked.

"Ahh, no, not all of it." Mimi pouted, looking at all the time.

"Normal kids don't bring all that." Taichi started.

"But it might be useful from here on out," Yamato finished.

Sora frowned, pulling her knees up to her chest, "True, we really don't know what to expect from here on out. Ah, Kagome what about you?"

Kagome blinked, "Oh… I forgot I grabbed my pack." All eyes narrowed on the dark haired girl, before she began to take things out of her bag, "Well I have my art stuff like my sketch pads and my coal and pencils. I brought my dad's extendable fishing rod… he doesn't really use it, one of those really big boxes of match, some flint that must be from dad… hmm, oh yeah towels… my swimsuit ahhh….oh..." Kagome blinked, "Oh... bentos, we can share… it would probably be better to eat those first or they'll go bad. My tennis balls… chopsticks… some dried food… and I think that's it."

"That bag is never ending." Yamato, just gapped it looked like a large bag but she just kept pulling things out of it.

"Some of that's going to be really useful like the fishing rod… the matches to…" Taichi grinned, he knew Kagome usually didn't pack her bag and his aunt Kun loon was known to make impossible things happen as far as packing was concerned.

"Ah… Kagome who made the Bentos?" Sora asked curious… that looked like a lot of food enough for several adults.

"Oh, Mama and I did… I help her with cooking a lot because my other sisters burn everything… even water." At that comment Kagome looked mildly horrified at the thought of burnt water, "There were supposed to be for the instructors because they let me come… but I think we're going to need them more."

Sora grinned, "That's useful, and so you know how to cook?"

Kagome nodded, "I have to… with so many people in our house hold if someone doesn't help Mama she would be all worn out… and with Rin being sick all the time it can't really be helped."

Sora nodded, it was only her mom and herself so she never really had to worry about things like that. Sure she had to clean up her room by hers self and help at the flower shop sometimes she never had to deal with anything like that.

"Hey, is Jyou still talking on the phone?" Taichi asked looking for the older boy.

Both girls stop speaking to look toward the phones, sure enough the boy was still there still trying.

"He's really persistant… hey! He has the emergency supplies!" Taichi stared surprised.

All eyes narrowed on the boy who seemed completely oblivious, but that seemed to be the things about Jyou he would become so focused on one certain thing he would miss out on the other problems.

"Oi! Jyou you have the emergency supplies!" Taichi shouted at the boy.

Jyou turned around and stared at them before yelling back, "Why do I have to carry it?"

"But that bag!"

"Bag? Oh yeah, Mimi was supposed to carry it." Jyou frowned.

"You were supposed to carry it." Palmon stated.

"Me?" Mimi blinked surprised.

Jyou frowned, before finally walking away from the phone booths to speak with Mimi, "You were supposed to be in charge of the rations. You need to keep better tabs on it you know!"

Mimi looked surprised, then mildly upset, "But it's so heavy!"

"Hey, hey stop yelling Jyou. It's just a good thing that we have extra food." Taichi grinned, looking back at his cousin he wasn't the least bit surprised that she'd started up wrapping the bentos. Before popping them open, almost all of them were drooling at the food grilled shrimp, and chicken laid with stir fried rice, while in some of the smaller compartments there were steamed vegetables and some tofu with negimiso, there was also raw carrots and celery with some dipping sauce, even some small sweets were in every box… it was pretty obvious that Aunt Kun-Loon went a little crazy.

"Wow… Mama went a little wild…" Kagome blinked, opening another box she sweatdropped at seeing several different types of Sushi as well.

"Just a little?" Tai gapped, "This will feed everyone, even the digimon."

"You don't have to feed us, we can find our own." Gabumon smiled.

"Non-sense… we don't have time eat, besides when do you think you'll get to try human food again." Kagome grinned, she was now handing out chopsticks.

A silence seemed to settle over the group as they and several of the digimon began to chow down, the silence was eventually broken when Lunamon finally got a hold of the something that tasted yummy to her.

"Ahh, Kagome what are these?" Moonmon was one of three digimon who'd agreed to eat with them. The others said they would find something for themselves, Patamon had agreed and Agumon was chowing down happily.

Kagome looked, at the digimon fingers, she was pointing between to different areas, "Well, the orange and green are carrots and celery there a type of vegetable from our home, the other is rice… why do you like them?"

Lunamon grinned, "They taste the best!"

Kagome giggled, before full blown laughter broke out… "You're just like a bunny!"

Several of the children snickered or laughed, "Is that a bad thing Kagome?" Lunamon pouted.

"Ah, you just remind me of a story my granny tells me… it's not bad at all..." Kagome hugged Lunamon before falling back onto the sand... "Gah… I'm so full"

"Thanks for feeding us, Kagome… it was really yummy… you cook better than mom," Takeru grinned, the food was great.

"Better not let mom hear that Takeru, but it was very good thanks Kagome," Yamato smiled, in agreement.

"I'm glad you all liked it." Kagome grinned happily, she was always happy when people complemented her food.

Just as conversation was about to start up once again, Piyomon stood and promptly began to glare. "What is it Piyomon?" Sora asked.

"Something is coming." The bird like digimon responded, before the other digimon began to get up with their own concerns.

Several feet away a large geyser of water seemed to erupt from the ground, it then began to do something that shouldn't happen it began to move. It was fast and seemingly ruthless as if ran through the line of phone booths, each one launching high into the air. All of them, human and digimon alike quickly got up leaving there things behind as they ran. And just as quickly as the geyser of water appeared it stopped, and with it they stopped running only to turn around and seeing the carnage at the phone booths returned to the ground.

As the last few booths fell sending glass and metal flying around into the air, a mountain covered in shifting sand began to life, as the mountain got higher something began to spin around its top sending sand away leaving a large shell to continue to raise out of the sands.

"Shellmon!" Tentomon frowned, "This area must be his domain!"

The conch shell thing was grumbling and groaning but it had a distinct water sound with each reverberation. At the bottom of the shell there was a large pink opening and it was gross when the pink thing bulged out, the part that had come out of the shell was large and it body and head was similar to Agumon, but it was a bubblegum pink had tentacle things at the top of its head extremely long arms with what looked like suction cups at the end of each fingertip.

Jyou yelled for them to follow but when the digimon caught sight of him the Hydro pump this digimon was known for knocked the boy back to the ground, after Jyou was knocked to the ground all the rookie level digimon tried to attack. Not that it did much good, only Patamon, Lunamon were able to keep up with their attacks.

Agumon immediately used his baby flame, which smacked the larger digimon in the face making it angry. But when the other digimon like Piyomon and Gabumon tried to attack they couldn't be completed. Both Patamon and Lunamon continued to attack, a large icy ball of water slapped tied with the hard shot of air from Patamon smashed into the monsters face.

"Their attacks won't work!" Yamato shouted to be heard of the increasingly loud grumbling.

Shellmon promptly began to growl angrily, before pulling his head back and trusting it forward and attack called Hydro pressure erupted from it head hitting several of the digimon. Looking around for more targets he webby hands slapped Palmon away before one of his tentacles hit Patamon out of the air violently.

Agumon quickly got back up from being hit down, before raring back and letting lose yet another baby flame. It seemed as if Shellmon had a very strong dislike of flame considering how badly the digimon was shivering.

"Good job, Agumon!" Taichi shouted.

"Why were Agumon, Patamon and Lunamon the only ones who could attack?" Izzy asked, looking over Tentomon.

"I'm soo hungry." Tentomon grumbled.

"Gabumon?" Yamato looked over his partner feeling slightly guilty.

"My stomach is so empty…" Gabumon sounded rather hungry.

"I get it, it's because the others had lunch earlier!" Sora looked over at both Patamon and Lunamon. Both of those digimon did better attacking from far away physical attacks hurt them badly and seemed both were unconscious

"I see". Izzy frowned.

"They can't fight if they don't have the energy, right?" Yamato reasoned with the others.

"That would make since… we can't do much if were hunger and weak." Kagome frowned, holding Lunamon's still form.

"Agumon you gotta try something!" Taichi yelled.

"Got it!" Agumon agreed rushing forward, Taichi did the same creating a distraction, and Agumon struck hitting Shellmon once again in the face.

Taichi grabbed a pole from the left over wreckage from the phone booths, he promptly began to stab at the sides of the digimon it wasn't long before one of Shellmon's green tentacles came down yanking the boy up into the air.

Kagome felt her heart stop watching when she began to rush forward, a strong hand wrapped around her wrist pulling her backward onto the ground right next to him. Teary blue eyes met with a serious blue one, "Don't rush into things, Taichi would worry if you got hurt because of him." Yamato sighed, he would feel the same way about Takeru.

They could only in horror as Agumon moved forward before trying to dodge on of the large hands, but he couldn't make it the large pink hand pinned the small reptilian digimon down. Shellmon taking advantage of the stop of attacker turned his Hydro Pressure attack on the children sending them and the weakened digimon into the sand.

Tai watched, anger as his friends her knocked over "Damn it, at this rate they'll all…. there had to be something we can do!" Just as suddenly pain erupted in his body as it was squished violently, his cry startled many they could hear Taichi and Agumon's cries for the other.

Just as suddenly a white light once more surrounded Agumon, before turning a goldish color. Taichi and the group of children watched in awe, they could hear the cry of Agumon SHINKA, echoing across the sandy beach, to the words Greymon. When the lights faded a large dinosaur similar to a T-Rex appeared, though Greymon didn't have weird small arms, his were proportional to his body while he was still orange in color there were now blue stripes run sidewise across his large body, there was also now a large hard bone looking helmet resting across Greymon's head, there were three long and dangerous looking horns, there was one at the tip of his nose and two on either side of his head, the bone helmet was dark brown in color.

During the evolution, Shellmon was shoved up and back forcing him to let Taichi go. The human boy hit the sand rolling, when he looked up he was surprised but quickly got out of the way by making his way toward his friends.

The two colossal digimon were standing directly in front of each other it was similar to a western movie, Greymon stood still while Shellmon walked forward trying to push the other digimon over. Greymon simply grappled with Shellmon, before grabbing its head and began to push it back, once more Shellmon released Hydro Pressure, but Greymon anticipated the move and simply side stepped the attack.

Greymon proceeded to open his mouth and let out a steady stream of fire when the water and fire connected a large cloud of steam appeared, as the two attacks died down Greymon bent low with his front horn and caught the digimon with it before he sent the Shellmon flying out to sea. This was followed by another larger ball of fire called Mega Flame that was roughly the size of a minivan followed after Shellmon hitting the digimon in the stomach before driving him farther into the air, and farther out to sea.

Minutes later, Agumon shrank back de-evolving back to his smaller state. Taichi rushed forward toward his partner and asked repeatedly if he was alright.

Agumon looked up at his friend, "Taichi, Taichi I'm hungry." Taichi laughed, before helping Agumon back on his feet, the two of them made their way toward the others.

Jyou was once again at what was left of the phones trying to get contact, the rest of them were deciding what to do now that they were out of a place to stay.

Kagome had grabbed the food rations and put them out for the digimon to eat, and they were all told that they had to eat if they were hungry it was too dangerous.

"We have no reason to stay here now," Taichi frowned, looking over the carnage.

"That and I don't think that Shellmon was completely defeated, he might come back. We should probably get out of here." Izzy reasoned, while Yamato and Taichi could only agree.

"Probably, yeah." Yamato agreed.

"I agree to… the digimon are fed to…" Kagome spoke up, walking forward, "And everything had been packed up to…" She sighed, she was still mad at Taichi that was such a stupid and dangerous thing to do.

"Then we should probably go back to the forest!" Jyou had walked toward them after finally giving up on the shattered phones. "We aren't getting anything done here, we might get some help there!"

Sora stood up frustrated, "I hate to be the one to pop your bubble, but we fell off a cliff and then floated down stream, we can't go back so easily!"

Mimi piped up in a squeaky loud but scared voice, "NO MORE KUWAGAMON!"

"Besides since there are phones here there might be something or someone that put them here." Izzy continued. "We should find them.

"I guess you're right." Jyou seemed very put out.

"I agree!" Sora thought that sounded like a viable option.

"Yoush! Let's go!" Taichi grinned.

The digimon all happily agreed as well, finally Yamato spoke up "Okay it's decided then."

Taichi grinned as they took off down the stretch of beach before them, the farther they went the rockier and hillier it got. At one point they found themselves at the end of yet another cliff, this is when something that had been bothering Tai finally came out "Agumon?"

"What Taichi?"

"Why did you change back from Greymon to Agumon?" There was a puzzled look on the brunette's face and they could all tell from his voice that it was bothering him.

"Well, ah, I have no clue." Agumon replied, he was a very blunt digimon.

Taichi nearly fell over with surprise, so much so that Agumon was forced to grab the back of his shirt to keep him from falling over into the water. Taichi sighed, he could hear the laughter of his friends behind him.

"Roooooooor."

They all quickly turned at the strange sound behind them, it really was an awkward sound like the low grumbling of someone's stomach. There had been something like a rock wall behind them and it was completely torn down by a triceratops, it was completely gray though the shades varied, though there were plate on its knees tail and running across its back, its face was covering in a gray plate or helmet just like Greymon but it followed the shape of the triceratops face.

"What is that?" Izzy asked, surprised.

"That Monochromon, he's a gentle digimon so there should be no reason for us to worry." Tentomon answered confidently.

That was until the Monochromon started to stalk their way, and just as quickly they found themselves turning back around and stuck between what seemed to be two very cranky digimon.

"We're stuck between them!" Jyou stated, sounding slightly panicked.

"Then run!" Taichi promptly took off behind a large nearby boulder, the others hot on his heals as the two digimon got ready to charge. Peeking around the boulder Taichi could only frown, "They're fighting each other?"

"Why?" Izzy asked.

"They must be fighting over territory." Tentomon reasoned.

"Who cares… do you see how easily they knock down those rocks?" Kagome was scowling at all three of them, and both Sora and Yamato agreed with her.

Palmon was the first to take off away from the powerful tails and horns, and the rest of them weren't far behind her, it was better to be safe than sorry right? It wasn't long before Takeru stumbled, and Yamato being the older brother worried over him.

Once Taichi yelled back for the younger boy to shake it off, he did, while Yamato seemed relieved and something else.

They had been running or walking for hours and Kagome would be the last to admit that she was utterly exhausted, thankfully she didn't have to because Mimi was the first to pipe up that she was indeed extremely tired.

"Come on Mimi, just a little farther." Taichi continued, they could hear the tiredness in his voice to.

"Ahh, my feet are getting fat." Mimi complained leaning against a nearby tree,

"That's a good thing, Mimi. It helps support your weight and lets you kick better." Agumon replied, pausing by the pinkly dressed girl.

Kagome broke into giggles before rushing ahead to keep herself from burst out in slightly hysterical laughter. She found herself stopping next to Izzy and Sora as they spoke about what was going on, "this sunset looks really different, the colors are odd." Izzy commented looking to the sky.

"And it's about to get dark to." Sora frowned.

"Well, what can we do? It's going to be dark soon, and we're going to be impaired..." Kagome frowned, nodding as she agreed with them.

"Aahh! I smell something! Oh yeah, I smell it! Water! It's fresh water, it's a lake it would be a good place to camp for the night." Tentomon.

"Nee, Izzy?"

"Ah?" Izzy looked up to Kagome wondering what she wanted.

"Why does a bug have that strong of a nose…?" Kagome asked, curious

"I have no idea." Izzy answered just as honestly… they both stared at Tentomon curiously.

"I think we have gone far enough for the day." Yamato stated looking at Takeru.

Taichi had to agree, "Everyone is tired and hungry… again."

Upon their arrival they were surprised to see just how large the lake actually was, they could barely see straight across it was just that wide.

"This will be a great place to camp," Sora smiled as she began to look for the best place to camp.

"You mean were going to be outside?" Mimi whined, looking over the others.

But a reply was lost on all of them when the sound of clanking metal reached their ears, as their eyes followed the sounds they were all surprised when they could see a trolley car sitting on an island.

"That's a little random." Kagome finally found her voice.

"Maybe there's someone inside?" Sora asked, looking at the lights as they turned on.

"Well… let's check!" Taichi replied, as he ran toward the trolley. Everyone followed after him just as curious. When the automated door opened, everyone found themselves depressed there wasn't a single person in the cart.

"What the hell? First the phones and now this?" Taichi sighed he was really frustrated.

Kagome sighed, as she listened to the others walking out of the trolley she looked over everything that was there. "Hey, Kagome where's the fishing rod?" Izzy asked.

"Oh… it's in my bag… ne, Takeru do you know how to fish?" Kagome asked.

The small blond shook his head, "Then you should go with Izzy he can show you how… while the rest of us get things ready to be cooked and stuff."

"Haii!" Takeru took off after Izzy.

Kagome couldn't help but giggle, "You're really good with kids." Yamato spoke from behind her, he was gathering extra wood for a fire just like her.

"Yeah…. Souta and Kohaku are a lot like Takeru, there the same age and everything… but I suppose I get the patience from Rin." Kagome replied, standing up to walk back with Yamato.

"Hey this looks like a good place." Yamato nodded toward a spot that now grass seemed to grow on.

Seeing the spot, the two of them walked forward to begin arranging the fire wood Sora, Jyou and Taichi had found several large stones and Yamato and Kagome began helping them by putting them around the wood.

"I'm glad that didn't take too long." Sora smiled.

"I didn't think that it would… considering how long it will probably take Takeru and Izzy to get Gomamon to leave them alone long enough to catch any fish." Kagome laughed, lightly it didn't take long for Sora and Taichi to join her. Yamato looked surprised before a slow smile ran across his face.

"So how are we going to light it?" Sora asked, the four of them looked at the other. At least until Agumon run forward "I can do it!" just as quickly a large ball of fire lit the wood and branches up like a candle.

"Wow, that was fast." Kagome blinked, "Good job, Agumon." Agumon grinned, before a light pink ran across his cheeks.

"Hey, we got a lot of fish!" Izzy grinned, Takeru followed with just as many.

"Wow Izzy that's a lot…" Kagome blinked in surprise. Before taking one of the strands of fish from the boy.

"Good job, Takeru." Yamato glanced at his brother and broke into his own small smile when the younger boy lit up like the sun. Pulling one of the straighter sticks from the extra wood pile Matt rolled his eyes at Taichi, "Stop that you'll ruin the fish like that, you're supposed to cook it away from the fire."

"How do you know so much about this Yamato?" Taichi looked on curious.

Yamato just shook his head before offering the boy a stick and helping Kagome and Izzy set up the rest of the fish around the camp fire, both of them thanked him, Yamato just waved it away.

It took an hour for the fish to cook right and they all ended up around the fire as it burned down eating fish and fruit that the digimon and the other had collected.

"Takeru?"

"What is onii-chan?" Takeru asked, looking up from his fish.

"Do you want me to get the bones out?" Yamato asked.

"Just bite it in the hghgh" Taichi frowned, before glaring at his younger cousin a tennis ball could be seen rolling around near Takeru from where it bounced of Taichi's head.

"Don't even go there!" Kagome glared, before yanking her cousin back, whispering in his ear she spoke, "You are so oblivious, this is supposed to be Yamato's time with his little brother, if he wants to help Takeru let him. One, those bones could choke Takeru, two, Takeru can learn to do it himself, three not everyone has a cast iron stomach like you!"

The whole group could hear the younger girl whispering in low tones, she seemed annoyed and frustrated and to them the whispers sounded more like a demon hissing. They all blinked when the hissing changed becoming deeper, and the realized that Taichi was demon hissing back.

Yamato glanced at Kagome with a curious look in his eye, before showing Takeru how to de-bone the fish, it was odd that the younger boy found it so interesting. "You learn quickly Takeru."

"Only because onii-chan teaches well," Takeru grinned happily.

Yamato felt a light blush run across his cheeks, before the both of the brothers looked up to see that Kagome had won the argument because she had a slightly smug expression on her face, while Tai was walking away down toward Sora who had gone to get water.

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"Sora?"

"What is it Tai?" Sora asked looking at one of her best friends.

"Takeru is calling Yamato onii-chan, but they had different family names. Why?" Taichi had to asked, Kagome had told him not to interfere.

"I don't really know, why?" Sora asked.

"Kagome told me not to interfere with their relationship… that this was supposed to Yamato's time with Takeru and vice versa." Taichi frowned, frustrated.

"Did she tell you why?" Sora asked curious.

Taichi shook his head, "Just that if Yamato and Takeru wanted to talk about it they would."

"Well… Kagome is really perceptive and she notices things that others don't. Like that this island could be similar to Japan's relationship to China. If she's picked up on something we haven't, we should respect it." Sora smiled, Kagome might seem a little blunt and a little violent sometimes but it was obvious that the girl was extremely sweet and caring.

"Hai." Taichi sighed, maybe he was just being nosy like his grandmother said he was.

"Haaah," Jyou walked up, he was significantly calmer than he had been before.

"What's wrong, Sempai?" Sora asked, as she and Taichi turned to look at Jyou.

"I was trying to find the directions, but I can't find the North Star. I'm beginning to think Kagome is right, we are in a completely different world. Some of the things might be the same or appear, but it's obvious that the digimon don't use the things that are similar to our world." Jyou sighed.

Sora blinked in surprise before looking up at the night sky, "I can't find any constellations either."

"That's kinda weird." Taichi muttered, he was looking up to and he didn't see anything that he recognized. "But you can only see the Northern Star from the Northern Hemisphere right?"

"So could we be in the Southern Hemisphere?" Sora asked, she would prefer being in another hemisphere instead of a different world.

"Can't be, I can't even see the Southern cross." Jyou sighed.

"Then what does that mean?" Taichi asked.

"That Kagome is probably right, we aren't in Japan or on earth anymore." Jyou sighed, as he looked at the others.

"Are you sleepy Patamon?" Takeru asked, before laughing as Patamon plopped down.

Several of the digimon were sleeping, Taichi sighed "It's about time for bed."

Izzy walked forward, "We should take turns watching."

"That's a good idea let's decide on an order," Jyou nodded in agreement.

"It's fine if the girls stay out of it." Taichi muttered.

"Takeru to." Yamato replied, looking at the others.

"I can help to."

"Iie, don't worry about it and just rest. Please Taekeru?" Yamato asked.

Takeru frowned, looking up at his brother, he looked worried about something but what was it?

"Hey, Gabumon let me borrow that fur to use as a blanket." Taichi laughed, "I've been curious to see what was under it!" He tugged lightly on the fur.

"Nooo! Don't do that!" Gabumon immediately tried to get away.

Yamato frowned, before pushing at Taichi to make him stop, "Cut it out he doesn't like that!"

"Hey, what's your problem!" Taichi snarled.

"You wanna go?" Yamato scowled.

Taichi huffed in return, "You can't just have it your way!"

The grabbed the others shirt, both trying to threaten the other into submission

Takeru frowned, "Stop it you two!"

Both boys looked at the younger child and huffed, both crossed their arms and turned away from the other. Jyou watched the two of them, before walking behind them, "So the first to take watch is?"

"I'll do it!" Taichi frowned.

"I'm next!" Yamato responded.

Jyou blinked at the two, "Alright, Koushiro next, and I'll go last. Alright everyone let's go, everyone head to the Trolley it's time to sleep."

Kagome sighed as she watched everyone enter the trolley and stood outside listening, as they talked sighing she finally entered before grabbing some things. She blinked in surprise as Yamato left the trolley, while Gabumon moved to settle down next to Takeru… she had to hide her giggling when she caught a glimpse of a blush across his face.

Shaking her head she wrapped herself in one of the beach towels, while grabbing another one of the really large beach towels before blinking at the sound of a harmonica, following the sound she grinned when she saw Yamato. "Here."

Yamato paused briefly before his eyes went up to see who was before him, "Kagome?"

"Here, you'll get cold and sick if you say out here without a fire." Kagome replied, still holding the large towel. It was large and extremely fluffy, she and her brothers used it when they went camping as a blanket more so that as an actual towel.

"You should use it, or give it to Tai." Yamato replied, looking away. He blinked in surprise when he felt the large towel wrap around his shoulders, Kagome was bent in front of him making sure it was covering him.

"I don't want to explain to Takeru why his onii-chan is sick… it would make him sad." Kagome replied, before plopping down next to him. "You know he really looks up to you and loves you."

Yamato just closed his eyes, "I… I get jealous sometimes… when he looks so happy with you or Taichi. I don't really spend a lot of time with him since my parents divorced." Looking over at her, he was surprised to see her studying him closely.

Kagome sighed, "I don't think it should matter, you know? Takeru… he might get sidelined by Taichi's bright personality but if something bad happened or he needed comfort he would come to you instead… you make him feel safe. And he gets upset when you might get hurt, like when you and Taichi got into a fight."

Yamato blinked in surprise, "Thanks." Before pulling the harmonica back to his lips he once more began to play. Kagome stayed she really enjoyed it the sound, she'd never heard anyone play the harmonica before.

Just as things were beginning to calm and settle down, a loud sound of shaking began, both Kagome and Yamato could only watch in surprise. The island that the others were on was shaking violently and the water around it was beginning to swirl into a maelstrom. The water suddenly exploded upward, revealing a large serpent like digimon

"It's a Seadramon." Both of the humans startled violently, when Gabumon spoke behind them, Lunamon not far behind. They had both been curious as to where their partners had gone and about the interesting noise that they had heard.

As the digimon turned away from the digimon it promptly began to pull the island behind itself as it tried to leave. Back and forth the digimon went in the lake, before finally something happened and the island was released from Seadramon's hold.

Seadramon roared before slamming the end of his tail against the side of the island before diving down to slam into the island from below, continuing to hit the thing until it finally ran into something ahead of it.

"Takeru!"

Kagome could hear Yamato's cry of worry, before the boy dove in to go after the moving island. Sighing she could only groan in frustration as she and the other digimon followed after the blonde haired boy into the water toward the island and their companions.

As they drew closer, Seadramon rose of the water again slapping at the island again before knocking Takeru into the water and sending several of the children into the dirt. Just as quickly Gomamon was taking Takeru back toward shore with Kagome and Lunamon following.

Yamato on the other hand was swimming away calling attention to himself as he did making sure that Seadramon followed him instead of focusing on the other child. Seadramon was only too happy to follow the blond's movement, before attacking Yamato. Gabumon was flicked away by the sea serpents tail before it grabbed Yamato around the ankles pulling the boy beneath the surface of the water.

"Onii-chan!" Takeru was crying, he couldn't see his big brother anywhere in the water.

"Yamato!" Taichi cried, looking up were Yamato had finally been lifted out of the water.

Kagome stared horrified, Yamato was screaming so loudly he was in so much pain, and she wasn't sure there was anything that any of them could do about it. "It's not your fault Takeru." She'd been listening to the little boy repeatedly saying that it was all his fault that his big brother had saved him.

Tentomon was buzzing overhead, and what he was saying wasn't the least bit comforting "This is bad really bad, Seadramon can squeeze someone to death!"

Takeru was once again crying and this time screaming for his brother begging Patamon to save him, Patamon apologized saying that he was to weak and that maybe Gabumon could do it.

"It's impossible I don't have that kind of power." Gabumon looked like he would fall into tears.

Just as quickly, Yamato let out another yell. Everyone turned to look toward the boy Seadramon was being exceedingly cruel by slowly crushing Yamato's body.

A sudden determined look came over Gabumon's face when he realized what he could lose if he was without Yamato's friendship. Gabumon began to glow a bright golden color forcing everyone to look away Gabumon was digi-volving and when the light cleared they could see were the skin Gabumon wore came into play. A large wolf like digimon was standing in front of them and seemed to have the same markings as Gabumon's long stripes ran across its back, tail, face and limbs. This evolved digimon was called Garurumon, was tall taller than any of them were standing with Amber colored eyes. Long feather like hairs rose off the digimon's limbs were they joined to the body, and also stood around the back of the digimon's head creating something like a lion's mane.

As soon as the evolution was stable the large wolf took off, slashing at the sea beast until Yamato was dropped back into the water when Seadramon let out an ear splitting yowl of pain. It didn't take long for Garurumon to start biting and clawing eventually Seadramon squirmed and then slapped Garurumon away from himself.

"Yamato!" Kagome moved quickly following Takeru as he took off toward the edge of the island toward his brother, Taichi and the others were just steps behind the two.

"Onii-chan! Are you all right?" Takeru asked worried.

"Don't worry about me, what about Gabumon?" Yamato asked looking toward the battle as he tried to stand he was surprised when Taichi and his cousin dragged him the rest of the way to his feet.

"I don't think you have to worry Yamato, he's Garurumon now… and he has something to fight for," Kagome grinned, looking at the battle as well.

Every time Seadramon tried to bite at Garurumon used his long thin tail to slap the over grown garden snake in the eyes blinding it at times, because of this and the fact that Garurumon was swimming in a circle around the beast it was easy to see it was getting rather dizzy. Finally frustrated with the swimming wolf, Seadramon released an attack called Ice Arrow, which was more like ice breath.

Layer upon layer of ice began to pile up atop Garurumon, on Garurumon's part the ice didn't seem to bother him in the least, instead he returned an attack called Howling blaster that seemed like a large heavy hit of blue fire. The attack literally ate through the ice, before covering Seadramon's head. Eventually Seadramon's attack simply stopped, as did Garurumon's when attacks cleared it was easy to see that the water digimon was badly burned, Seadramon seemed to pass out in pain or maybe it was dead because it never resurfaced. Relief swept through them all as Gabumon de-evolved.

Gabumon sighed in happiness when he got out of the water before shaking the extra water off, "Somehow everything's okay…"

"Why didn't you just evolve in the first place?" Yamato asked looking over Gabumon, glad to see that he was without injury.

"Gabumon, thanks for saving us!" Takeru hugged the digimon, Kagome snickered quietly… Gabumon was as tall as Takeru, taller if you counted the horn.

"Ahh… no… not really." Gabumon blushed lightly, very grateful that no one could see the blush on his cheeks.

"You to onii-chan!" Takeru grinned.

"Yeah, whatever." Yamato looked up.

"Mah, mah…. I told you." Kagome whispered, elbowing the older blonde lightly.

Yamato glanced out of the corner of his eye to see that Kagome was grinning with a knowing look, and felt his face heat up even farther.

"Your face is all red." Gabumon teased.

"Yours too!" Yamato returned, laugher could be heard as they all broke down laughing. The laughing eventually died when Jyou asked a valid question, "How are we going to get back?"

"I can handle it!" Gomamon grinned before diving into the water, using his ability Marching Fishes the island was quickly moved back toward the place they'd gotten on.

When they arrived they quickly climbed off the island, when everything was settled Sora noticed that Kagome was walking around looking for something. Following her, "Kagome, what are you doing?"

"Oh…. I saw Yamato leaving last night… he didn't stay by the fire with Taichi, so I brought him one of the beach towels I had." Kagome replied, "They should be around here somewhere…"

"Towels?" Sora asked.

"Yeah… I get cold really easily and I didn't know how long it would take to find him." Kagome replied.

Sora chuckled, "You're really like a mother, aren't you Kagome?" The chuckling became louder as Kagome's cheeks lit up.

"Here."

Kagome turned, to find Yamato holding both the towels, "Ah… thanks for getting them. I really don't want to lose anything."

"Thanks… for last night." Yamato replied, his cheeks were a bit pink.

"Yamato… you really are bashful." Kagome grinned, "But I'm glad you see how important you are to Takeru." Taking the towels she walked back toward the others, all the while Sora, Yamato and she kept up a natural conversation between the three of them. The closer they came to the others, they could hear them talking. Mimi was whining about being tired, not that anyone could blame her they all felt pretty tired.

As the three of them settled, Izzy spoke up, "Why was Gabumon the only one to evolve this time?"

"Maybe it was because Yamato was in danger?" Sora pondered out loud.

"Well, last time Agumon did evolve when I was in trouble…" Tai replied.

Izzy sighed, "That means they can probably all evolve if were in trouble."

"Ahh, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to be careful," Kagome sighed, "I don't like seeing anyone getting hurt like that."

"That's true… and I agree we should be more careful," Sora replied, before blinking when Mimi just fell over on her shoulder. Gently pushing the girl away, Sora laughed when Mimi said she was going to sleep right there, "Well... even after a day she's gotten stronger."

"She'll be nice and strong like me!" Agumon smiled.

Kagome laughed softly looking over everyone, before she began to look for Yamato and seeing him across the lake. Takeru was snuggled up to his side, but so was Patamon and Gabumon… they all seemed pretty happy. Looking over the others she could only yawned before finding a nice looking, "Okay, I admit that you're right… I'll try to keep my comments to myself."

Kagome blinked, looking at her cousin before a grin ran across her face "Taichi you're such a softy."

Taichi rolled his eyes, before yelping when his cousin glomped him almost sending him to the ground, "Come on… let's take a nap…"

"Haaaaaiiiaiiaiaiiii" Kagome replied, her reply slurred by a yawn as she snuggled down more against her cousin. She might pick on him a lot but she loved her cousins and her siblings a lot.

Taichi grabbed his sleepy cousin before sitting down against a tree and laughed when she went all soft and sleepy in his lap. Closing his eyes he let himself relax before fading into sleep, Yamato would wake them up if something else happened.