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Chapter 4: Collecting The Chosen Part 1

"Wherethe heck are we anyway?!" half yelled half whimpered Kira. Kira and Jesse had made it to the Ice Region safely aboard one of the enchanted clouds Wizardmon had put a spell on but now, they were hopelessly lost. "I believe that we're in the south western part of the Ice Region Kira," said Monkamon. "You can also find a map on your band you know," hissed Snakemon pointing to the bands on their right forearms. "Óh yeah, I completely forgot about these things!" exclaimed Jesse. He pressed the green button on the bottom of the band and chose the map setting.

"Hey, I think I see another Chosen One on the screen!" Kira and Monkamon hurried over to where Jesse and Snakemon were standing. There indeed, were two other blinking dots on the screen around the north east side of the Ice Region. "I can see where we are currently," said Jesse pointing to the green and black dots on the screen towards the left corner. "This is where we have to go." He then pointed to the black and white dots on the screen in the upper right hand corner. (A/N: The dots on the screen represent the person's Ora but I won't tell you who it is! MUHAHAHAHAHA! 'Cept you can already kinda guess from the colors though, but what ever! Back to the story!) "Well we don't want to waste time dilly dallying here so shall we?" Kira had already danced ahead, band set up the way Jesse's was and Monkamon following behind. Jesse sighed and ran after her. This was going to be a long day.

After two hours of walking nonstop, the group decided that they needed a small break. "Monkamon, how are we gonna get food if we're floating on ice?" asked Kira who was sitting next to Jesse on the ice. "Well, first you need to cut a hole in the ground. Then, you ask the fishes for some of their food. It's as simple as that." Kira looked at her partner like he was a freak. "You mean fish can talk here too?!" "Of course they can Kira! I mean, it IS the digital world we're talking about." Jesse, meanwhile, was fiddling around on his band when suddenly…

"I found it! I found it!" "What did you find?" asked Snakemon trying to make Jesse stop jumping up and down so that he wouldn't break the ice. "I found out the way to get a sword and shield up!" Jesse finally sat down. Kira, Snakemon and Monkamon all sweat dropped. "Um, it's not that hard to figure out…" muttered Monkamon under his breath. Kira jabbed him in the rib cage, silencing him. "That's great Jesse! Now we can get food!" Kira smiled sweetly and gave a silent apology to her partner who was looking at her with hurt in his eyes. He nodded and smiled back. Jesse started to cut a circle in the ice with his neon green sword from the band (A/N: By the way, the sword isn't attached to the band. It comes out of the band so that it's easier to wield. Hehehe, sorry. Just thought you would want to know…) and had trouble taking it out of the ice.

Kira walked over and pulled it out with one hand. "Um, thanks…" "Your welcome," replied Kira as she strode off towards the digimon. "God she's strong," thought Jesse silently to himself. While he was thinking this, the ice circle he had just cut caved in so that he could get the digimon to talk to the fish. "Hey guys, I'm done. Can ya come over here?" Kira and the digimon ran (well Snakemon slithered or what ever, you get what I mean!) over to where the newly cut hole was. "Snakemon, you're better at talking to fish than I am. You can do it," said Monkamon. Truth was, he didn't like talking to the fish because they were so slippery and gross. "No, it's ok, you can do it," said Snakemon pulling him toward the hole. "I SAID YOU CAN DO IT," said Monkamon in an annoyed tone. Then the two started to fight over who was to talk to the fish.

One of those anime cloud things appeared as the other two were beating each other up over a stupid disagreement. While that was happening, Jesse was trying to get the others to settle down so that they wouldn't kill each other and Kira was trying to talk to the fish. "Cut it out you guys! Stop it! I said STOP IT! Hey, watch where you throw that fist! Ouch! Snakemon! Don't trip your partner! Ok that's it. EVERYONE SHUT UP!" Jesse was completely scary looking at that time. He had cuts and scratches all over and had a look that was just plain scary. Snakemon and Monkamon made up unhappily but then started to head over to where Kira was. "Hey guys, I caught lunch!" Kira was beaming at the massive pile of fruits, vegetables and meat sitting a few feet away from the hole.

Everyone stared at the food. "Well, I said dig in boys!" Kira sat down next to the pile of food and picked up a piece of watermelon. She munched into it, juice staining her lips. "This is great!" Jesse looked at the digimon. The digimon looked at Jesse. Then, they all raced to the food, eating things left and right. "Hey guys, slow down! You're gonna choke!" Kira was obviously disturbed at everyone's actions. She slowly inched away from the hunger crazed boys and ate quietly a few feet away. The food was almost gone when the boys sat back, stuffed to the gills. "Ready to leave now? We can get in around three hours before night fall," announced Kira. Jesse stood up and nodded his head in agreement. "Should be bring the food?"
asked Snakemon. "Sure, why not," said Kira. "How do you store food?" asked Jesse. "Wizardmon taught Ed and me how do use the features on the band at Serphimon's palace so we know. Here, I'll show you." Kira took Jesse's arm and pointed the band towards the food. "Food storage open. Store food." The food then went inside his band. "Cool! That's rockin!" exclaimed Jesse. "Ok, NOW we're ready to go," said Monkamon.

The group made their way towards the blinking dots.

"I think I see something!" exclaimed Jesse. Indeed, he saw two of his best friends trudging toward them. The male of the two figures looked up. "Jesse? Is that really you?" "Cato, Cata! I'm glad you're alright!" cried Jesse as he ran toward his other friends. "Right back at ya," said Cata smiling. "Oh, meet the digimon. This is Snakemon and this is Monkamon," said Jesse pointing to the digimon standing behind him. "And this is Kira." "Hello, nice to meet you," said Kira taking a bow. "Nice to meet you too," replied Cato and Cato. "These are our digimon. Meet Sheepmon and Racermon." Cato pushed the digimon forward. "Hi," said Sheepmon. Sheepmon had fluffy off white fur and black ears. It stood at about 4 feet and had black markings on it's face. There was armor covering it's legs and there was a brown ball on the end of its tail. "It's a pleasure to meet you," said Racermon. Racermon was brown with lighter brown mane and tail. There was red armor covering her legs and a red racing mask was over her head. Her tail was braided recently (assuming Cata's handy work) and she is about 14.5 hands (A/N: 'Hands' is a term used to measure horses. One hand is 4 inches. I know this because I'm obsessed with riding and horses. Now back to the story.)

"Well, now that we're together, time to head out for the Dark Region," said Kira. "Do you still have some of the magic cloud with you?" asked Jesse. "Yeah, I saved some in my pocket," replied Kira pulling out some of the cloud. "Do you guys know what's happening and stuff?" asked Jesse as the children and digimon boarded the cloud. "Yeah, we told them everything," said Racermon. "Everything they need to know at least," said Sheepmon. "Let's roll then," said Snakemon. With that, the cloud lifted into the air and head toward the Dark Region.

The next chapters are kinda short (as this one is) because the file was too big for all of the scenes to fit in a chapter so sorry about that. Oh, and what did you guys think about this one? If you thought it was boring, I kinda agree in some ways though typing the parts down wasn't as fun as the pictures going through my head. I couldn't really think of anything better so I'm sorry that I made you bored. Well, on with the other chapters! Wait, I almost forgot, for you action lovers, there's gonna be more action later in the story but for the moment, I'm keeping it pretty low.