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EPISODE THREE:

THE WORDLESS AIRIS

Ivi's parents sat quietly on the couch as Ivi worked to mend Arumon's wounds and broken ribs. Deep gashes on her side from the last fight were refusing to heal.

"Ivi-nee-san! Are you sure we have to go? I don't want anything to happen to V-chan! I just met him." He hugged his digimon tightly.

Ivi gave him a sad look, then went back to wrapping her digimon's chest. "Aru…" she pondered how all the digimon on the shows never got hurt. She laughed softly at the thought. Of course they don't get hurt. It's just a show.

Ash sat at his parents feet, Bakumon resting next to him. While he had no critical wounds, his arm was broken and he hadn't woken up since they returned home.

V-mon pulled away from Max and walked over to Ash. "I'm sorry I ran away. I could have protected Baku-"

"You might have gotten killed. I'm sure if Bakumon didn't have that helmet he would be dead now." Ivi said quietly.

Ash let out a small whine and hugged Bakumon. "Please be ok, Baku-san…" a small red aura emitted from his digivice and engulfed Bakumon.

"Master?" the digimon looked up at Ash questioningly.

The boy cheered and tackled his digimon. "You're ok! You're ok! You'll live forever now!" small tears ran down his face.

Their parents had been silent. Their mom had finally resigned over to the fact that it was what was needed. A small smile crossed her lips seeing that her son's digimon would be alright. Her eyes returned to Arumon.

Ivi knelt beside her digimon, silently praying. She held her digivice against her partner's wounds, putting as much energy into it as she could. "Aru-chan… You'll be ok. You have to be." The girl bit down on her lip, pouring her strength into her digimon.

A purple aura engulfed Arumon, as her flesh stitched itself back together, and the ribs cracked back into place.

"I'm going to murder Demidevimon next time we see him." She vowed, struggling to all fours.

Finally tired of staying silent her mother cleared her throat. "So… will you have to go to… their 'world'?" she asked quietly.

The Children and digimon shared glances. "Yes." Bakumon said simply.

"And how exactly do you expect to get there?" Their dad asked, glaring pointedly at Bakumon.

"Carefully."

Ivi had to bite back a giggle at the response. V-mon wasn't quick enough to stifle his amusement.

The parents gave the lizard-like digimon a harsh glare.

"We'll find a way." Ivi stood, determination set in her features. "I got there before through my computer. I'll see if it works again."

She strode past the couch, Arumon and the others following behind quietly. After a few moments hesitation her parents trailed behind, and waiting in her doorway.

Holding her digivice towards the computer she clenched her fist around it. "Please work… we need to get there… there's something going on. Something is terriably wrong… let us IN!" Her digivice glowed, as did her computer screen.

The younger brothers quickly raised their devices as well, as a sharp burning sensation swept over them. It felt as if they were nothing and everything at the same time. Nowhere, and everywhere. Feeling all, and nothing.

As soon as it stopped Ash took a deep breath. He was the first to open his eyes. "Holy shit!"

"Ashteroth!" Ivi chastised him, then gave a dark glare towards Arumon who was chuckling nervously.

The world Ivi had come to six years ago was gone. The plant life, the skies, the clouds, anything that showed that this world was inhabited was gone.

"Wha? What happened to our home!" V-mon looked around frantically, clawing at the coarse ground. "How could this happen?" The sun shone brightly on the world, but no heat got to them.

"Hey guys!" They looked to the pink sky, (it had lost it's vibrance), to see Demidevimon flying towards them.

"Oh good. A way to take out our anger!" V-mon growled, clenching his fists. Bakumon and Arumon readied themselves to attack as well.

"Wait! Remember how I said I had a partner? Well, I found her! But I need your help to rescue her!" He pleaded quickly.

"Bullshit!" Ivi slammed her foot down on Arumon's tail. "Ow… I mean: … nrn… 'bullshit!'"

Ivi sighed and gave up. "So, you expect us to believe you have a partner?"

"I know you don't trust me but please." He landed and bowed low. "Please help me. She's in danger."

"I say we kill him." V-mon voiced, stepping towards Demidevimon.

"What if he is being honest?" Bakumon asked. "And because of us a child's life is ripped from her?"

The boys frowned. "Ivi-nee-san! We can't let that happen!" Max bit his lip. "We have to go help her…"

The other two digimon paused. "If you're lying, we'll make sure you die in the most painful way imaginable." Arumon promised.

Ash stood close to Bakumon. The two took the lead in following Demidevimon. The other four followed carefully, both digimon and Ivi wishing death on the bat-digimon.

The group walked for many miles. V-mon eventually had to carry Max, while Arumon allowed Ash to ride on her back. Bakumon stayed only a few feet from Demidevimon, ready to unleash a finishing move on him at any sign of trickery.

Ivi remembered years ago when she had had to walk a great distance. Though she had grown bored, she didn't remember it taking this much of a toll on her body.

Right before she felt she might collapse, the found a cave. It was the most color they'd seen since they arrived. Entering the cave the temperature dropped at least 20 degrees. The entire party shuddered and paused for a moment.

The group moved foreword, deeper into the cave. They finally saw a girl-she looked older than Ivi by a few years, lying on the floor, heavy chains covered her.

Ivi and V-mon ran foreword, grabbing the chains and pulling against them. They easily moved off of the girl. "They… aren't attached to anything…" Ivi stared down at them.

The girl on the floor stirred. She had short silver hair, and, as was seen when she looked up at them, green eyes that mirrored Ivi's. The two little boys ran to stand next to their sister. "Are you ok?" Max held out his hand, as if to help the girl up.

The girl waved his hand away and stood up. "Are you alright?" Ivi voiced the question again.

The silver-haired girl eyed Ivi, then smiled and nodded. She gave her a 'thumbs up'.

"How did you get here?" Max asked.

The girl just shrugged.

Ivi watched as her younger brothers pestered the older girl with questions. "Hey… Are you mute?" she finally asked when the girl gave no vocal response.

The girl turned to answer, but stopped when she saw Demidevimon. She looked down at the bat-like digimon, who smiled in return.

Their moment was cut short when a large tentacle came from within the cave, and pulled the girl inside. The girl was silent as she was carried off.

"Airis!" Demidevimon flew after the girl.

"Airis?" Ash and Max exchanged looks. "Did she ever say her name?"

"Digimon are born knowing their partners names." Arumon quickly explained. "Ivi, we have to help her."

V-mon stood straight. "I'll rescue her!" He nodded apologetically towards Arumon and Bakumon. "To make up for last night." He ran foreword, the others behind him.

Ivi's digivice began to glow. She looked down at it, in time to see a shadow of the device appear infront of it, glowing twice as bright. It shot off, faster than they could watch.

When the reached the area where Airis and Demidevimon were, they saw that Demidevimon had evolved.

A large black dragon-esque creature stood facing his partner's captor.

"Devidramon…" the humans said in awe. "He's beautiful." Ivi watched the digimon's graceful moves as he unleashed attack after attack. His gleaming red claws dug into the octopus-like digimon that held Airis.

"Dark Gale!" He cried, black energy engulfing his right foreclaw and he forced it into the octopus's heart. Blood seeped from the wound, quickly covering the cave floor. Airis fell from the now limp tentacle, and Devidramon had to run to catch her.

Carrying her gently with one arm, he walked towards the others on his remaining three. "Told you." He growled, before passing them.

"Tako-sushi anyone?" V-mon asked pleasantly.

"But we don't have any rice." Arumon pointed out.

While the two digimon conversed about how to go about getting rice, Bakumon hovered over to the digimon. "We should at least collect some of it, in case we need food later."

Ivi nodded then walked over to the octopus digimon, grimacing as she pulled meat from it, and stuffed it into her bag.

"Yucky!" Max and Ash stuck out their tongues.

"Yeah. Lets hope it doesn't come to having to eat it, then, shall we?" Ivi slung her back over her shoulder, trying to ignore the sound of the blood drops splashing against the ground after escaping her bag.

The six ran from the cave, the stench of the digimon finally registering in their brains.

They found Demidevimon and Airis sitting on a cliff about twenty feet down from the cave. After a bit of difficult descent the entire group sat on the ledge.

"So, you're name is Airis?" Ivi asked, conversationally.

"Yes." Demidevimon's pupils disappeared momentarily as he spoke.

"Um… so… you are mute?"

Demidevimon spoke again. "Yes, but I wasn't always. Jijimon took away my ability to speak."

"Jijimon? Like in Digimon World 01?" Ivi asked.

"Yes. He is-" before she could finish Airis and Demidevimon both collapsed, exhausted. It was apparent that it took a lot of energy to communicate like that.

"That was so cool!" Max came to Ivi's side.

"Jijimon… I can't imagine why he would take away Airis's power to speak. Not without a reason, right?" Ivi mused/

"Perhaps she is being deceitful?" Bakumon asked, narrowing his brown eyes at Airis.

"De-seat-ful?" Ash asked.

"Lieing." Bakumon explained patiently. "Why reason do we have to trust her?"

"She's a Chosen Child though, right? So… she has to be one of the good guys, right?" Max asked, confused.

V-mon thought about that for a little bit. "It was a little before my time. But my grandfather was alive whenever the Digimon Kaiser was reigning over the digital world. He even helped defeat him, with the aid of his partner, Daisuke."

"Daisuke Motomiya?" Ivi asked quickly.

"I think so. Anyway… the Kaiser was a Chosen Child too; with a 'Wormmon' as a partner. He was a terrible person, and killed many digimon."

Bakumon was silent for a moment. "I was alive at the time, working at a restaurant under Devitamamon, then Digitamamon. The sorry excuse for a human nearly destroyed primary village!" Bakumon growled softly. This was the most emotion they had ever seen him show.

Ash walked over and hugged his partner. "It's ok, Baku-chan. It's over now."

"That girl is Demidevimon's partner. We already know he's a liar and a cheat. Why should we trust his human? Especially if Jijimon felt the need to-"

Bakumon was cut off by V-mon. "But Jijimon's an old coot. He and his wife fight to entertain themselves. They tried making humans fight for them." V-mon gave Airis and Demidevimon and unsure look. "Maybe we should give them a chance. Just in case, right?"

Bakumon eyed the child and her digimon for several long minutes. "Very well."

The rest of the group gave a collective sigh. "Aru-chan, were you alive when the Digimon Kaizer was here?"

Arumon looked up at her partner. "No, you had already rescued me from Vamdemon by that time."

Confusion set over Ivi's face. "But, that was only six years ago. How is it V-mon's grandfather was here, yet V-mon hadn't been born yet?"

"Doesn't time go by weird here?" Ash asked. "Like each minute on earth is a day here?"

Ivi looked down at her brother, realizing he was right. She knelt down drawing the equations down with a sharp rock.

"That's still 144 years?" Ivi gave them confused looks. You're grandfather must be very old. That or you're…" she continued the math. "80-something years old?"

V-mon blinked. "Grandfather spent much of his time in the human world."

Still confused, the topic dropped when Airis stirred. She looked surprised. She got to her knees, and placed her hands together as if in prayer, then bowed slightly.

"It's ok, Airis-chan!" Max smiled.

"Yeah, we're just happy you're ok!" Ash continued.

Airis looked up and smiled. She frowned for a moment, and then rubbed her stomach.

"Yeah, I'm hungry too!" V-mon said. "Arumon lets go get some wood!" Arumon nodded and the two descended the mountain quickly, quickly gathering quite a bit of dead wood.

It took them nearly an hour to return up the mountain however. By which time Demidevimon had reawakened and the entire party was hungry.

Ivi set up the firewood, while Airis made a makeshift spit. They gave each other thumbs ups then Ivi set about finding food in her bag.

Pulling out several steaks, she realized this wouldn't feed them entirely. Sighing, she pulled the octomon meat from her bag as well.

Setting the food down on the ground she looked at the wood. Realization dawned on her: "Um… how are we going to start a fire?" She looked at them. No one had a lighter. Nor did any of the digimon have even a heat based attack.

"What about Arumon? You have that… light thing, right?" Demidevimon asked hopefully.

"Yeah, but that isn't heat. It's a cold light."

"But I thought light was a direct product of heat?" Airis quickly asked through Demidevimon.

"Only if the one who reacted you doesn't have a vivid imagination." Arumon eyed Ivi.

"I was seven." She defended.

The group pondered for a while. "Demidevimon… what's in your dart things?" Ash finally asked.

Demidevimon summoned one, then handed it to Airis. She broke it open, and poured the contents onto the wood.

Nothing happened, except now the wood was wet. "Dang it." Ivi chewed on her lip, staring at the small logs infront of her.

"Oh! I know!" Max said excitedly. "V-mon can evolve to Fladramon and-"

"No, I can't… only grandfather could reach that form." V-mon frowned. "Sorry…" his ears fell, and he stared at the ground.

"Well, we have to do something. Bakumon?" Ash looked hopefully at his digimon, hoping he had some ideas.

The tapir digimon seemed deep in thought. "Perhaps V-mon, you could hit a rock with your 'V-mon Whack' technique, and create a spark? I believe Demidevimon's poison is flammable."

"V-mon WHACK!" He punched the rock that Max had handed him; only to break his knuckles. He hissed. He bit his lip to keep from swearing. "Dang… that hurt."

Airis walked over to V-mon. She took a few of the smaller sticks they had brought, and wrapped them to his fingers with some tape that Ash had thought to bring. She then taped the fingers together, creating a makeshift cast.

"Thank you, Airis-kun." V-mon smiled at her, then studied the cast.

Max and Ash gave a cry of defeat. "We're gonna starve…" Demidevimon complained. Then his eyes lit up. "Wait!" The others looked at him. "That one digimon… Caramon… he screwed around with my evolution! He made me turn into that rabbit thing. If he were around, maybe he could make one of us evolve into something that could breathe fire."

"Good plan, just one problem. This… Caramon isn't here." Arumon said pointedly.

The group turned to staring at the wood again, willing it to catch fire.

"Need some help?" They looked above them, towards where they had heard the voice. A boy, he looked about the age of 18, stood a good 20 yards from them. A Gotsumon stood next to him. He had short red hair, and a pair of goggles on his head.

He pulled a card from his pocket, and slid it though his digivice. His Gotsumon grew wings, and the two fluttered down to their level.

Quickly looking though his cards, he selected another one, slid it though his digivice and the rock digimon called "Baby BURNER!" Fire flew from his mouth, igniting the sticks.

"My name is William. I'm a Digimon Tamer." He smirked at them.