Digimon: The Pre-Series

Chapter Two

"Where are we going?" asked Zach.

"Why don't you ask your bug?" teased Renamon.

"Oh, ha ha." Zach grumbled.

"Where is he anyway?" asked Renamon.

"In your fur." Zach replied. Renamon's eyes widened and she started jumping around, screaming something along the lines of 'Get it out get it out'. Zach was rolling on the ground laughing. Renamon noticed this and glared at Zach. "Oh my god, that was priceless." Zach chuckled as he wiped a tear away.

"Laugh it up, virus." Renamon growled.

"What?" asked Zach.

"That symbol, do you know what it means?" asked Renamon as she pointed at the symbol on Zach's stomach.

"Nope." Zach replied.

"It's the digital hazard. It's one of the most obvious signs pointing to you having the virus attribute." Renamon explained.

"Cool." Zach said. Renamon face palmed.

"Are we there yet?" Zach moaned.

"No, stop asking." Renamon replied.

"But I'm boooooored." Zach whined.

"Then play with your tail." Renamon suggested.

"I'd prefer to play with yours." Zach said. Everything went silent. "That sounded dirty didn't it?" asked Zach. Renamon nodded. "I don't want to play with my tail." Zach groaned. Silence again. "Let's just change the subject." Zach suggested. Renamon nodded. "I'm bored." Zach complained.

"Oh my god, shut the hell up." Renamon said.

"But then how will you know I'm bored?" asked Zach.

"I don't want to know you're bored." Renamon replied.

"Why won't anything interesting happen?" Zach asked. Then the both of them fell into a pitfall. They heard mischievous laughter and looked up to see four bluish-white digimon laughing at them.

"That interesting enough?" asked Renamon.

"I guess." Zach sighed, his true feelings were obvious as his tail was twitching with anticipation. He jumped as high as he could, dug his claw into the wall of the pitfall and flipped up behind the digimon. They were shocked and tried to run away but Renamon was in front of them. Zach ran up and pushed the digimon into their own pitfall.

"What are you?" interrogated Renamon.

"We're just some lowly Gazimon." answered one.

"We wouldn't have done that if we knew how cool you guys are." A second added.

"Why did you in the first place?" asked Zach.

"Some big bad guy told us to." the first Gazimon replied.

"So why did you listen to him?" asked Zach.

"Because he was way bigger than us." said the second.

"And stronger." added the third Gazimon.

"And he thought a pitfall would stop us?" asked Renamon.

"He just told us to do what we could." the fourth Gazimon replied.

"What else did he tell you?" asked Zach.

"He didn't tell us anything else." answered the first Gazimon.

"Okay, nice meeting you." Zach said as he walked away.

"What? You're just gonna leave us here?" asked the Gazimon.

"Yep." replied Renamon before following Zach. Zach was walking along through the forest when he noticed a beeping. He looked at the device he carried and the screen was flashing.

"Wonder what that means." Zach thought out loud before he felt his tail shrinking. "Renamon! We need to get back!" Zach called behind him.

"Why?" asked Renamon.

"I'm turning back into a human!" Zach called before running back home.

"See you tomorrow." said Renamon as she ran past Zach.

"See you." Zach replied as his hands and feet returned to their regular size and his claws disappeared. Renamon disappeared from view just as Zach tripped over a root. "Ah crap." Zach growled through gritted teeth as he finished the digimon-human transition.

"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" said a voice from behind Zach. He turned to look but he was punched into unconsciousness.

Princess Gabriel woke up somewhat early next morning, 10 am is early isn't it? "You've been asleep for a while. Any particular reason?" asked a voice. Gabriel scanned the room and noticed her aide standing against the wall in the corner. He only wore simple clothes that seemed pretty worn out, it was hard to tell what color they originally were. His white hair hanging down, almost covering his eyes that seemed completely devoid of any emotion, even the life seemed to be sucked out of them.

"Nope, just couldn't get to sleep." Gabriel replied.

"Well, get up, your dad wanted to see you for something." the boy said.

"Any clues, Casper?" asked Gabriel.

"It's Castiel, and no, he just said it was important." replied Castiel.

"Fine." Gabriel groaned. She knew what it was for. It was for what it had been for the last ten times. Her father wanted her to pick a suitor. She was only fifteen, she thought she was still too young to be thinking about marriage but her father had the illusion that she was the perfect age to find a worthy husband. It would end the same way as it always did. Gabriel would complain a bit, have to sit in her throne for a few hours, shoo the jerks, ask the gentlemen to leave, both of them annoyed her. Gabriel would want a man who was somewhere in the middle, not a perfect gentleman, but not an absolute jerk, someone who was reckless but knew who could cream them and who couldn't.

Gabriel walked into the room behind the public room seeming sweeter than sugar. "Yes father?" she asked, hands behind her back.

"Ah, Gabriel, I have decided that it is time for you to find a suitable man to marry." her father replied. She knew this all too well, she even had the guts to move her hand like a mouth behind a back, showing that she didn't care at all.

"Father, I have already told you, I am too young." Gabriel said, she didn't even think about it, it's become instinct to say that when he decides these things.

"Nonsense. We shall start immediately." he replied. This part was new, he seemed far too eager than normal. He took her into the public room.

'Please tell me he isn't a prince' Gabriel thought. She sat in her throne, as usual, and the squire opened the main doors, as usual. A boy only about her age entered, wearing royal garments, his light blue hair hung just above his bright yellow eyes.

"Gabriel, this is Prince Raphael." Her father introduced.

'Damn' Gabriel thought.

"It is an honor to meet such a beautiful woman." Raphael said with a slight accent, so slight you couldn't tell where he was from.

"And it is a pleasure to meet such a gentleman." Gabriel replied. That was how she was supposed to greet most men.

"Gabriel, Raphael comes from our neighboring country, he is attempting to make peace between us." Gabriel's father explained.

"No." Gabriel simply said.

"Why not?" asked her father.

"They are trying to extend their rule, kings outrank queens." Gabriel replied.

"I can see why you would think that." Raphael said.

"You're not going to attempt to disprove my daughter's logic?" asked Gabriel's father in disbelief.

"She seems hard to convince." Raphael replied.

"He's intelligent." Gabriel commented. "But, I still say no." she added as her father opened his mouth.

"It's okay, I understand." Raphael said. "Maybe I will see you around." he said before leaving. Gabriel glanced at her father before also leaving, albeit a different a way. He was extremely frustrated.

Castiel was standing outside Gabriel's room, waiting for her return. He opened his mouth to say something. "I am not in the mood." Gabriel said. "I'm going back to bed." she added before entering her room.

"Okay." Castiel replied before walking away. Gabriel removed her royal dress to reveal a crimson tank-top over a black undershirt and a denim skirt over tight, black pants. A vibration came from her pocket, despite only having it go off twice, she knew exactly what it meant and quickly stuffed some things under her bed's sheets to make it look like she was sleeping. Then she ran up and dove out the window, instead of Princess Gabriel landing, it was Renamon. She ran into the forest.

(A/N) Ooooh, cliffhanger, I hate cliffhangers, but they're so dang fun, also, this will definitely reveal how the princess survived, unless you're retarded, shocking ice

Disclaimer: I own everything in this story except the digimon, damn, still no-one has guessed the bug, think dark green