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Thank you to the readers of this fic

Well, I might not update as much until next week because I have to practice my guitar and piano for my Lola's (grandma) birthday

I'm being 'forced' to perform for her...

Anyways on with the fic

Disclaimer: I don't own digimon... I own my characters

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Chapter 3: Nowhere but There

"Alright, so what are we looking for in the digital world?" Yolei looked around and saw nothing but the long meadow.

"Keep an open mind, Yolei, at least breath in that fresh digital air." Hawkmon said as he stood beside her.

"Well, we're actually here to see if there's any digidestined walking around here if they even found out about it." Davis said. "So we gotta look for something that digimon wouldn't be able to make." He continued.

"Why don't we just ask some kids if they have a certain device with them?" Armadillomon asked.

"Isn't it obvious, if we just go around asking if a kid has a digivice, they'll think we're crazy, they'll probably lie or they might think we're crazy!" Gatomon yelled out. "Calm down Gatomon, no need to yell." Kari tried to calm her partner down.

"Sorry, I just hate not knowing anything about these kids!" She started to twitch with annoyance.

"We'll get through this Gatomon. I promise." Davis said. Gatomon smiled at the goggleheaded leader. She didn't want to admit it but when he was around, it felt like Tai was around too. She felt a certain vibe about him that made her feel safe but she didn't dare mention that to him or Veemon since Veemon might accidently let it slip to his partner.

"So where do we start Davis?" Kari asked him.

"Well, we should probably split up in groups to see if there are digimon around who have seen any humans." He suggested and no one disagreed so they split, Yolei and Cody, and Davis and Kari. "So how much time do we have Cody?" Davis asked him.

"We have approximately a half an hour till school starts." He said.

"Ok so we meet here in 20 minutes and tell us everything that you guys find out." Davis and Kari then headed towards the forest and stopped at the border where the meadow and forest meet. "This should be a good spot to start." Davis said and started to walk inside. Meanwhile, Yolei and Cody stayed in the meadow and looked around in the burrows that some digimon most likely dug up.

"Hello? Is anyone in there?" Yolei yelled in a tunnel and it echoed very loudly.

"Yolei, I don't think that's a good idea to be yelling in a hole." But Yolei obviously ignored him like always and kept on doing what she did best, yelling. Cody came over after a while and noticed that Hawkmon was just staring at his partner. "Who's she yelling at now? Davis isn't around." Cody said looking around.

"She's trying to find out if anyone lives in that hole." Hawkmon did a face palm. Suddenly, Yolei got a face full of dirt and she shook it off. "Hey what's the big idea?" She yelled back into the hole.

Then a Prairiemon came out and he didn't look very happy when she gave him the same look. "Why are you yelling? This is a quiet meadow and we plan to keep it that way." He crossed his arms.

"I just wanted to know if there was anyone down there."

"Well you didn't have to yell." He said.

"You wouldn't come out."

"Only because your yelling was louder when I came closer."

"Alright, enough," Cody came between the two then looked at Prairiemon. "We wanted to know if you saw any humans around here." He asked, the Prairiemon tried to remember if he had.

"Well I'm sorry but I didn't see anything, in fact, you guys are the first humans that I ever saw. I'm not sure about Rabbitmon." He scratched his head.

"Well may we speak with this Rabbitmon?" Hawkmon asked.

"I'll be right back." Prairiemon disappeared into the hole and after about 10 minutes, a pink rabbit like digimon with a blue scarf came out. "Rabbitmon I presume." Hawkmon bowed with respect.

"Such a gentleman." She giggled and turned away slightly blushing. She had a faint country accent. "Well what brings ya'll to my burrow?" She asked the digidestined.

"We were just wondering if you saw any humans around here recently." Armadillomon came by and told her.

"I'm sorry but besides you, I haven't seen a human in ages." She said. "Sorry I can't be much help."

"No it's alright." Yolei said. "And sorry for yelling at you guys before." She sweatdropped, a bit embarrassed by her actions.

"Don't worry about it, we needed a wakeup call anways." She said and disappeared in the den. "Well we better go and meet Kari and Davis." Yolei said to Cody as they started to walk back. They reached the television set and saw Kari and Davis. Kari was smiling and giggling while Davis looked like a mess.

"Hey guys, back so soon?" Cody asked them.

"We couldn't find anything because Mr. Courage got lost!" Gatomon sounded amuzed.

"Well I didn't know that the bushes were going to be that thick." Davis said. "Let's just get back home." He grunted as Veemon looked like he felt really bad for Davis but he seemed amused to.

"Do I even want to know?" Kari smiled then started to explain what they just did the past 15 minutes.

Flashback...

Davis and Kari made it in front of the forest. "This should be a good spot to start." He said and was about to walk into the bushes when Kari stopped him.

"Uh, Davis, is that such a good idea I mean the bushes are pretty big and we could get lost." Kari said looking at the giant bushes that stood before them. She looked at Gatomon who nodded and she tried to get to the top of the bushes but they were too big for her to just jump up to them.

"Well if you can't jump over them, and I bet you can't go around them, then let's go under them!" Veemon said and started to dig a few inches then he hit something. "Ouch!" Veemon jumped out of the hole and told them that there were a lot of thick roots down there.

"Alright, so our last option is to go through them." Davis said. Kari and the two digimon just looked at him. The look in their eyes could tell you that they thought it was a bad idea. "What?" Davis looked at them.

"Davis, those are some thick bushes, you could get lost!" She said. Davis looked around for a bit then pulled on a vine. "Here, you hold on to that and I'll hold on to this end and if I get lost then I'll use this to find my way back alright? And if I get into trouble, I'll tug on the vine." Kari couldn't really protest but she still thought it was a bad idea.

"Just be careful Davis." Veemon pleaded.

"Aren't I always?" He said and started to push his way into the bush. It started out smoothly and there was nothing in his way until he saw a wall of branches that he couldn't get through so he started climbing. And he was climbing and climbing, not seeing the top until he got caught on one of the branches and he tried to shake himself loose which made things worse because his shorts leg got stuck then after he somewhat fell and got tangled even more.

Davis then tugged on the rope and in 2 minutes, he saw Veemon do a V-headbutt to get inside the bushes. 'Why didn't I think of that?' He thought dumbly and yelled out to Kari who was looking around for him. When she caught sight of him, she couldn't help but laugh as Davis dangled in the air. "Yah, yah, laugh after you got me down!" He yelled and Kari looked at Gatomon.

Lightning Paw

She hit the surrounding vines and branches and Davis fell to the ground. "We told you not to go in here." Kari said smugly as Veemon did a face palm. They then headed back and waited for Yolei and Cody to come back.

End of Flashback...

Yolei rolled her eyes. "Typical Davis." She smiled too and then turned to the television set and in a flash of light, they were transported to the real world. When they came into the real world, TK smiled when he got a look at Davis.

"What happened to you?" He asked still smiling.

"None of your beeswax." He grunted and walked into the hallway. They all then burst into a giggle fit at how Davis looked. He had a few tree branches in his hair and a couple of leaves clung to his arms. He had dirt on his clothes and a few scratches on his face. He looked like Tarzan the jungle man.

"Well we better get to class and get grumpy cleaned up." Kari said pushing TK out of the room followed by Yolei then Cody who told the digimon to behave. He then closed the door.

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"Alright, so Magnadramon is supposed to be there?" Daiki looked at the huge castle that stood in the middle of the clearing.

"Yup and if you don't want to be late for class then you kids better step on it." Ryudamon said and walked through the gigantic doors. The kids had no choice but to follow him and when they entered, the big scary doors closed almost right on cue. "Weird." Dai said and they ran down the hall to catch up to the dragon digimon.

"So what do you think Magnadramon is like?" Rumiko asked them.

"I just hope she's as nice as she sounds when we first had our little chat." Daiki said.

"I hope she's not evil and makes us eat dirt or something." Kiyo said. The others just stared at their little friend with amusement in their eyes. "Yah, kid you gotta stop watching too much TV." Roshi even seemed as amused as the others. They kept on walking until Ryudamon stopped.

"My Lady, the digidestined have arrived." He waited a couple minutes then walked in, it took him some time until he came back out.

"So um... Ryudamon, what's going on?" Dai came up to him.

"I'm sorry but Lady Magnadramon isn't here, she went on an urgent meeting with a few old friends." He bowed in apology.

"So how do we get out of here anyways?" Hiroshi asked the digimon.

"The same way you found the digital world, I'm sorry but I have some duties that I must tend too. I bid you farewell, until we meet another day." He bowed again then disappeared behind the big doors. The kids just exchanged glances and went back to the entrance of the building and then found themselves back in front of the forest.

"I guess we should look for some spiral thing." Rumi started and gazed at the forest.

"So how much time do we have?" Yoko looked at Kintaro.

"We still have 20 minutes left." He said.

"Well maybe we can find something to do at school." Dai said and was about to start walking until his digivice started to make some noise. They all flinched when they first heard it and they realized that Dai's digivice started to glow. He looked at it and saw this weird symbol on the screen and it matched the symbol on the bottom right of the device.

"That's weird." Kiyo looked at his digivice. "It looks like that thing is that way." He pointed to the left of the forest entrance.

"Oh, now I want to know what it is!" Mayoko squealed a bit.

"So you guys want to find out what it is?" Daiki asked them. "Yes!" They bursted out. "Sure." Roshi said.

"Come on Roshi, you can show a little more enthusiasm than that!" Rumi nudged him. He just rolled his eyes and they went off following Dai's digivice. They've been walking around and saw nothing but forest and bushes.

"Are we getting any closer?" Yoko looked over Dai's shoulder and looked at his digivice. "We should be there by now..." he said.

"Wait how are we going to get home if the spiral thing is all the way over there?" Kintaro pointed at his screen. They then started to panic a bit and wondered what their teachers would think if they were late, they'd get a bit suspicious.

Roshi looked at his own digivice and then looked at everyone else. "Well, if you were looking a bit more clearly, there's one right over that way. Near that symbol that we were trying to find." He said to everyone's relief. They all let out a big sigh and started to make their way over to what looked like a cave. On top, there was that same symbol that appeared on Daiki's screen and they all exchanged glances. "So you guys still wanna go in?" Yoko hid behind Kintaro.

"Well I'm kind of interested in what lives in there." Kintaro said.

"Same here." Rumi said.

"Well then let's get going." They all snuck in the cave and looked around, it felt like they've been walking around for ages but Kintaro informed then that only 10 mintues had passed since the castle. "We should hurry." He said and they started to run.

When they finally reached the end of the tunnel, they met a huge creature. He looked like a giant green dinosaur who stood upright, he also wore Indian like clothes. He also had blades on his arms, a blade on his back and carried another in his hand. "Halt, who goes there?" He said rather angrily.

"Uh, hi, I'm Daiki Kuraya and we're here because of this." Dai quickly showed the scary dinosaur who looked a bit nicer when he caught sight of the digivice.

"So do all of you have digivices?" He looked at them who all nodded. "Well I suppose you know why your here aren't you?" They all shook their heads with a bit of embarrassment.

"We're sort of new to this." Rumi explained.

"Well right this way." He pushed Daiki inward to towards a wall with a huge picture of what looked like a giant dinosaur with armour and I shield on his back.

"Who's that?" Roshi asked the dinosaur while Kintaro examined it.

"All in good time. I'm Dinohyumon by the way." He said and they all then went over to the wall and started to look at it. "Nice to meet you." Yoko shook his hand still a bit nervous though.

"He's amazing isn't he Dai." Kiyo looked at his friend. "He sure is." Dai said as he walked up to the wall and touched its surface. Just when he touched it, the whole place started to shake and quiver, they were about to panic but the digimon didn't move, like he wasn't even worried at all so they all just stood still as the cave wall with the picture split in 2 and out from behind the wall came a little red thing they guessed was a digimon. He started to bounce around and yelling happily as Dai's digivice started to glow a bright red.

"What the..." He gazed at the red digimon. He looked like a red fox who stood on his hind legs, his paws were orange and the tip of his muzzle, tail and chest were orange and had antenna like things on his head. He had some sort of tattoo under his right eye with 2 golden rings crossing over each other to form an X on his tail. He was about the height of Dai's waist.

"Hello Daiki!" the digimon hugged him.

"Uh, hey." Dai looked at him nervously. "So who are you exactly?" He asked a bit shakily. The little red digimon pulled away for a moment.

"Sorry, I am Cindermon, Rookie level digimon, my special attacks are Pyro Ball and Tail Whip. And I'm your digimon partner!" He said bouncing around, everyone just stared at him with disbelief. This is crazy, am I going crazy? Roshi thought. I think the world flipped. Yoko thought. He's so cool! Kiyo thought in his mind. I wanna get one...

Rumi just stood there quietly, too stunned to think of anything. But Kintaro came to a conclusion. "So this is what that Lady Magnadramon meant about fighting, that they'll be fighting with us." He said and everyone turned to him.

"So we all get one?" Kiyo looked at him hopefully.

"I believe so." Kintaro nodded.

"These humans are bizarre." He said quietly but smiled at them.

"Wait, we're going to be late!" Rumiko shouted as she realized that they've been there for a while.

"Not to worry, there's a spiral, as Lady Magnadramon said." Dinohyumon told them. "You know Lady Magnadramon?" they all asked him.

"And what about Cindermon? There's no way I can bring him with me." Dai said.

"Well I can stay here until you guys can come back." He told Dai who nodded.

"Great, we'll be back later." He hugged his partner then turned and headed towards the spiral in the room. "Be careful." He said and lifted his wrist. "Transport, Digitization." And they disappeared. They appeared back behind the tree and heard a loud bell.

"Don't panic, that's just the warning bell." Kintaro informed them before started to run off. "That means we have approximately 10 minutes." He said.

"That doesn't matter. It takes at least 5 just to reach the school grounds by walking." Roshi said and they started to sprint off. When each of them made it to the main hallway where most of the hallways connect, they agreed to meet up with each other later by the big tree just outside the school grounds if they didn't have anything planned. Dai and his two friends made it in time with 2 minutes to spare. They walked into the class and nobody noticed them walk in, instead, they paid attention to Daiki's soccer mate, Davis. No one knew what he did but he looked like a mess.

"Davis, what did you do?" He asked with a slight giggle in his voice.

"You know Davis, soccer accident, hit a couple of bushes." Kari quickly covered for her friend.

"Well you should know by now to be a bit more careful." Rumi giggled and took out a twig from his head.

"Ha, ha you guys are sooo funny." He sounded very grumpy. Just then the teacher came in. "Alright, settle down class. Now, let's continue with our studies on equations, can anyone tell me what X equals in x+7=3-x?" Man our teacher is boring. Daiki wrote down the equation and tried to answer it but the teacher suddenly spoke again. "Mr. Motomiya, would you like to be excused to the washroom where you can wash yourself up?" Davis rolled his eyes and got up from his seat. "TK, could you accompany him?"

"Sure thing." TK got up and the 2 guys started to make their way into the hallway and the last thing that Kari heard was TK's laugh. Lucky guys, I would do anything to get out of this math lesson. She listened to her insanely boring homeroom teacher's lecture.

Back in the digital world, Cindermon was hanging with some smaller digimon, Kyaromon to be exact and he got a very long explanation from Dinohyumon about not talking to any other digimon about seeing a human in the digital world not even that he was a digimon partner to a human. Although he didn't really get it very much so that wasn't a very big problem.

"Alright, guys let's go and play some soccer, whatever that is." He said as the Kyaromon dragged him to an open field. They took out some sort of ball and taught Cindermon how to play soccer. Suddenly, the air got really cold and the atmosphere changed from happy to scary. The Kyaromon cowered in fear since they were pretty defenceless so Cindermon told them to go and hide. He turned towards the bushes and saw Dinohyumon fighting against a digimon. "Dinohyumon, what's going on?" He called out.

"Get out of here, Cindermon." He said and continued to fight the digimon.

"So Cindermon is it? That's the digimon partner of those digibrats. He looks like a lost puppy." The digimon chanted. "I'm Matadormon, Ultimate Virus type digimon."

"Ok, so what are you doing here?" Cindermon spat at him.

"I'm here to take you down." He slashed at Dinohyumon who fell back on the ground. "Run Cindermon." But he didn't listen, if he was anything like Daiki, this would be bad.

Pryo Ball

Cindermon gathered energy in his palms and shot it at his opponent who got burned slightly. He then ran over to Dinohyumon who got up. "We gotta get outta here, let's go." He picked up the fire digimon and they took off behind the bushes.

When Matadormon realized that they were nowhere to be found, he kicked a rock and went back towards the bushes, the bushes where he first emerged from.

The final bell rang and Kari and the boys met the others in the computer room. "Hey guys." Davis opened the door and saw DemiVeemon. "Hey buddy, how are things?" He asked him obviously feeling better about what happened this afternoon.

"Not good." He said and Davis got a worried look on his face.

"He's right, we got an email from Tentomon today and he said that there was an evil digimon attack today." Gatomon pointed to the computer.

"We have to get to the digital world right away." Kari said aloud.

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