A/N: Hi everyone! I am SO sorry about this. I haven't updated in forever, and even worse, this is my shortest chapter =/ On my computer, I had this whole chapter written out, but a bug came or something and completely erased it, so I tried to redo it even though it isn't as good as the original. Well, I hope you enjoy it anyway, please R&R :D

Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon, yadda yadda yadda….

Chapter 5

Why did Salamon do that? We're just as lost as when we first got here. It's not like we know what to do! Rena Johnson sighed and rubbed her temples before beginning to examine the wall closely. She pressed her hand against it, her fingers tracing the symbols that had been carved into the cold stone. They were all curvy and in weird forms, but she found that they were real shapes. She was especially fascinated by a symbol that looked a little like a heart; it was so…beautiful.

"Don't you agree, Rena?"

Rena blinked out of her trance, glancing up to see Zach staring at her, as if he was expecting an answer. Logan smirked at the brunette girl, but she never turned in his direction as she spoke.

"Uh . . . what was that, Zach?"

Before Zach could speak up, though, Logan did. "Goggle-boy here said that we need to figure out a plan on how to open the wall, which of course nobody ever considered."

Ignoring the blonde's comments, Rena glanced at Zach with surprise, but then she frowned again. "Now you're talking to me like an equal?" she spat, arms crossed. "What, am I not good enough to be your twin anymore now that you're some sort of Digimon professional?"

She had obviously caught her brother off guard, and he tried to stutter an answer, but Rena wouldn't listen. Instead, she pulled out her Digivice and held it in her hand right in front of Zach's face.

"You see this?" she almost shouted before remembering where she was. "It's a Digivice, just like yours. That means that you're not better than me; we're both Digidestined, both equals, both—," but her voice stopped, and she collapsed on the ground in confusion, head in her hands. Nervously, Riley approached her and slid down against the wall next to her.

"Hey, Rena, it's okay," he said quietly, trying to console her. "You're just tired; we all are. After all, we've been taken to some world that we didn't even know existed." Rena looked at him in surprise before immediately burying her face in his shirt so the others wouldn't see the sudden flow of tears.

Logan sighed, resigning himself to sitting on the floor with the others. "Well, we're a loving bunch," he said with a yawn.

As they all sat in silence, Rena began to think of her Digimon. She was just behind that wall, waiting for her to come, yet here she was crying like a baby! So what if Zach was being a jerk to her. Apparently these Digimon were real, which meant that they had feelings and emotions, and she didn't want her Digimon to feel hurt and abandoned like she had. And she had a feeling that the others felt the same way, even though they wouldn't admit it. After all, she was traveling with four guys.

Before she could even say something, though, Miles had peered around the corner, and he frantically glanced at the group, a surprise since she had never seen him show what he was feeling so openly.

"I see two or three Digimon coming down the tunnel, and if we stay here for much longer they're going to see us," he told them, which caught all of their attention immediately.

For a second, they all looked at Zach in default, but for once he didn't look like he was in charge. Staring miserably at the ground, he couldn't have looked any sadder. Rena almost wanted to apologize, but she was too stubborn for that. So instead, she quickly brushed away her tears and stood up to face the group.

"We are not about to run away after we came all the way up here. Come on, we have to figure out how to open this!" She gripped her purple Digivice before hitting her fist against the wall. They had to open the wall. They had to . . .

"Whoa!" Rena heard, but she knew that it was Logan, probably just pulling some sort of joke, even in a time like this. When she turned though, she saw that he was staring at his Digivice with awe in his eyes, which was glowing a warm orange. Glancing at the others, she saw that their Digivices were glowing as well, and Rena had to stop to really admire them. How could they be so beautiful? But then she looked at where the evil Digimon were coming from, ignoring her own purple light, and groaned.

"Great, now we're, like, signaling them!" she whispered.

Riley tried to comfort her, but she barely even heard him. "Don't worry. We'll figure something out," he said. "You can't just give up!" At that, his green light shot straight from his Digivice into the wall, shining brightly on one of the symbols.

And then, as if starting some sort of chain reaction, four other lights shot onto the wall as well- a rainbow of red, orange, green, blue, and purple. Rena stared at it in awe when suddenly, the whole wall began to glow a beautiful gold, and it began to shift. In the background, she heard a few calls, probably from the approaching Digimon, but surprisingly, she didn't worry about them. The wall was opening . . . they were getting one step closer to their partners.

"Hurry!" she exclaimed, as soon as there was an opening. Before waiting to see if the others followed, Rena hid her Digivice and ran into the dark room. Once her purple light had disconnected from the wall, everything automatically grew darker, and she could only hope the other Digimon wouldn't see them anymore.

Behind her she heard scuffling, which signified the other four boys had followed her. She blinked her eyes rapidly out of habit, but when she realized that it was pitch black in there and it wasn't getting any lighter, she sighed and ran blindly to the back of the room.

"What--," Logan started to say in the darkness, but someone kicked him. "Ow."

"Shut up," Zach retorted.

Together, the group gathered in the back of the room as the wall closed them in, not uttering another word until they were sure they were safe. Riley's breathing sped up, probably because of the small space, but Rena could only hold his hand sympathetically.

After what seemed like hours, although it must have been only a few minutes, Zach whispered, "Uh, I think they're gone. We can probably talk now."

"Brilliant Sherlock," Logan muttered, but then he exclaimed, "Hey! Who's touching my hand?"
"Why would anyone want to touch your hand?"

"Oh, shut up, Johnson! You're jealous of me, because you know I get more girls than you. Are you touching me, Fox?"

"No."

"You better not be, because—," but there was a loud hitting noise that interrupted what Logan was saying. The blonde boy erupted in yells and curses before finally calming down, and Rena was staring ahead through it all in confusion.

"That was my shin! Ow, God that hurt. Who did that?!"

"That was me."

Miles and Logan continued arguing, but Rena began to zone out when she noticed something. Was that . . . a light, floating? But when she approached it, she realized it wasn't floating at all. There was a glowing symbol on what felt like a rock or egg of some sort, and it was sitting on a pedestal. And when she glanced around, she saw four other glowing symbols as well.

The egg in front of her had the heart symbol, like the one on the wall earlier, so she automatically stayed in front of it. To her right was a sun, and to the left was what could only be described as the yin yang symbol. In the far right sat an egg with a cross on it, and in the far right sat the last egg; Rena thought the picture looked like a sun over a mountain. They were all different, like they were all . . . representing something different.

Without taking her eyes off her own egg, she called out, "Guys, look at these! They feel like eggs or something."

There was more shuffling, but wordlessly, she saw their faint outlines each moving to a different symbol. Jake brushed up against her as he faced the sun, with Logan on his other side. Riley stood in the other corner, while Miles stood between him and Rena.

"Hey, Rena," she heard her brother whisper, but she cut him off.

"Don't worry about it," she replied, reaching out for his hand. "We have better things to do than fight irrationally."

He gave a low chuckle. "Yeah," he added, "I guess we do fight irrationally . . ."

"I mean, it's kinda hard not to freak out and fight when you get sucked into a random world you never knew existed. It's hard to take it calmly."

"Hey, who said you could use my sense of humor?" Even without being able to see, Rena knew he was staring at her with his eyebrows lifted.

She was going to joke with him again, but suddenly something told her it wasn't the time anymore. The symbols were beginning to glow even brighter, lighting up the whole room, and then she realized that the eggs were glowing as well! She gasped, stepping back in surprise, as they slowly lifted up into the air.

"What the heck is going on . . .?" Logan asked in wonder, staring at his own egg.

A crack slowly made its way down Rena's egg.

"R- Rena, are you still there?" Riley called, although it was more like a whisper.

"Yeah, I'm still here, Riley."

The crack in the egg rippled into a bunch of smaller cracks.

"What a baby . . ." But Logan's insult stopped in his throat. Rena blinked slowly as she stared at her egg. All five eggs were slowly beginning to break, but she couldn't look away.

I can't believe this . . . crazy, absolutely insane, I'm back to the idea that I'm dreaming . . .

But just then, the glowing egg disappeared into nothingness, the room turned surprisingly bright, and five creatures plopped onto the pedestals.

"Hi!" the one in front of Rena exclaimed.

She fainted.