"Welcome to my Nightmare"
The group of humans and digimon stood in the forest watching as a Trailmon rode by on a track that was above the forest they were in, Davis sitting on the large tree that had fallen with Neemon in her lap as Bokomon stood by with a calculating look and the others were standing below them watching as the train went.
"I believe the Forest Kingdom is beyond that track." said Bokomon.
"Sure looks big." Takuya commented as the group all looked out to where the track was above the forest they were in.
"Hey, Bokomon, how much further do we have to walk to the Forest Terminal?" asked JP.
"Don't worry. You should only have to walk a little bit more." the chicken said.
"A little bit more? These little bits are killing me!" JP groaned hanging his head down in misery.
A few hours later the sun was setting and Davis was running ahead of everyone.
"Wait up!" Takuya yelled as he, Zoe Koji went after her.
"Man, isn't it time for a dinner break? I'm wastin' away here." JP asked as he came over a hill they just ran down.
"We didn't even get any breakfast yet." Tommy said standing next to him.
"I think we better stop here and make camp." Takuya said.
"It's been a long day for all of us." Zoe said.
"Yeah, whatever." Koji said.
"Sounds like a plan to me." Davis said coming up to the warrior of Light and took his hand in hers, making him smile down at her, then he frowned in thought.
How did she influence him so easily?
"Does that mean we're stopping?" Tommy asked.
"Does that mean I get to eat? And lie down? And eat? Yes!" JP said making Davis laugh at his eagerness for a rest.
She noticed Zoe pick up some strange colored apple from the ground and presented it to the group.
"Look what I found. I hope its edible." the blonde said.
"It's called a meat apple." Bokomon said.
"Meat apple?" Davis and the boys asked.
"Yes, each one has the flavor of a different meat."
Zoe, Tommy, Neemon and Bokomon went off to find a tree that had more apples while Davis and the boys gathered firewood, JP complaining the entire time and so the warrior of Harmony picked up the apple Zoe dropped and threw it at the boy's head, making him yelp in surprise and pain before he turned to look for who did it and the girl pointed to her brother as she hid behind Koji, who was smirking as he picked her up in his arms to get her away as JP yelled at Takuya for throwing an apple at him and the warrior of Flame yelled at him too, saying that it wasn't him, the real culprit being carried off by the lone wolf of the group with a smug look on her caramel face.
"How can you not start a fire? I mean, you are the warrior of Flame, after all." Davis commented as she watched her brother struggling to start the fire by rubbing a stick on a pick of wood from her place with the others as they stuck the apples on sticks to cook.
"Oh, be quiet." Takuya groaned as he struggled to start the fire, Koji rolling his eyes from his place next to him.
Davis went back to work sticking apples on and then looked up when she saw the warrior of Thunder smiling hungrily down at one of them and licked his lips.
"Apple, you're my best friend!" he said taking a bite before Davis could stop him.
He got blue in the face as he spat the bite out.
"Disgusting!" he yelled.
"I'm pretty sure those things are raw, so they need to be cooked first." Davis said, sweat dropping when she saw Neemon had taken a bite out of a raw apple too and had a sour look on his face.
"She is right. Only a ninny would eat them raw." Bokomon said.
"I wish you told me that before." Neemon whimpered making the chicken growl in annoyance.
The maroon haired girl turned back to look over at her brother and older friend to see that they had gotten the fire up.
"Hey, the fire's ready. Let's go cook these things. I am starving!" she said.
"Took the words outta my mouth, D!" JP said gathering his apples like everyone else.
They all sat around the fire, Takuya and Koji taking the two 8 year olds' apples in the fire to cook since they were the youngest.
Takuya then asked Bokomon to find something in the book on Beast Spirits, but he couldn't find it until Neemon pointed out that a page was folded over and some more information on the warriors was discovered, making everyone groan as they realized that they were only half way done with their journey, making Davis scold them all for thinking that saving the Digital World was going to be that easy.
After that they all dug into their apples, talking about what flavors they each got and were enjoying their time, until the clouds rolled in and blocked out the three moons and the trees all got these screens on them like TVs and Bokomon said they were in the TV Tree forest where the trees all showed images from the human world.
Zoe was staring at an image of her school, smiling at how beautiful the cherry blossoms looked and everyone was watching as Davis noticed a screen that showed a girl her age walking in the park with a boy Takuya's age that wore goggles.
She walked over to that screen and watched as the goggle head hovered over the girl, his sister maybe, checking to see if she was all right.
Davis noted that the girl looked familiar to her.
She looked a lot like her!
They could be twins if not for the hair and eyes and that was pretty creepy.
Davis reached her hand out, as if she was going to touch them and the mark of Harmony appeared on her chest, the gold light reaching out to the two kids and the warrior gasped when she saw a strange sun symbol appear in orange lights near the boy and a snowflake symbol appeared in pink lights near the girl.
The girl was broken from her daze as Tommy started crying so Davis turned her back on the image as the clouds moved away from the moons and the images disappeared.
Davis and Takuya tried to console their friend since he was upset about seeing the image of his mother and JP even did some magic tricks to lighten the mood.
As everyone went to sleep, Davis stayed up as she thought over what those images she had seen were about and why she saw them.
Koji noticed that something was on her mind, so he went over to talk to her about it.
She told him about what she saw and he grew concerned and curious about why she had seen that.
They were interrupted when Tommy started talking in his sleep and then woke up, possessed by some evil force and he attacked everyone.
Koji, Takkuya and Davis all Spirit evolved into Lobomon, Agunimon and Sakuyamon to help their friend when he became Kumamon and attacked.
They found out that it was a Bakumon that was under Cherubimon's evil influence that had placed Tommy in a real life nightmare and thought that they were his enemies, so they purified Bakumon and then went back to sleep.
Davis fell asleep against Koji and he smiled down at the girl tenderly, finally understanding what it was like to be a big brother and why Takuya freaks out about her safety so much.
He had a feeling that if Davis were their age she would be the leader of their group and he would probably fall for her, but he was happy with just having her as a sister instead.
His D-tector then went off and the woman's voice said that he had some growing to do and he needed to find his Beast Spirit.
The raven haired boy gently set the maroon haired girl down so that he could sneak away, but she sensed that he was leaving so she woke up and followed after him.
"No, you should stay here with the others." He said.
"And I thought you knew me by now. I am not going to hang back with the others and worry about you. I'm coming and there isn't a thing you can do to change my mind, wolf boy." She said with stern eyes.
Koji sighed in defeat and allowed her to come with him, especially when she unleashed the wrath of her puppy dog eyes.
TBC
