Traveling Towards a Goal

A break chapter where they just travel as a group towards the forest, chapters break for what's to come

"My names Zoe Orimoto" said Zoe to their two newest teammates, finally finishing the group's introductions.

The group had been walking for awhile and decided to get names out of the way.

Kouji looked at her and nodded as he looked away again, but the girl beside him gave a different response.

"My names daisuke" she said quietly, traveling in a group wasn't so bad just kinda weird.

"And I'm lalamon" said lalamon floating around Zoe's head with a giggle.

"Nice to meet you two then" she said as daisuke slowly walked up next to her.

Zoe was currently in the back as kouji and daisuke decided to keep their distance.

"Don't be offended by what kouji says, he doesn't usually mean it" she said to the blond as her brother did have that tendency.

She noticed the others in the front were watching her as she got nervous and hoped they wouldn't start talking to her.

"So daisuke" was saying Zoe as daisuke interrupted her.

"You can call me Dai, that's what I tell my brother and anyone else" she said as even if she was nervous around people.

"Who's your brother?" asked takuya who was listening in when he cringed at the glare kouji was giving him.

If looks could kill, takuya and the others would have been dead on the spot.

"Why else do you think I've let her follow me around, I'm not here to play babysitter with some random kid" said kouji as they realized what daisuke was talking about.

"You don't have to be such a jerk" said Zoe as kouji ignored the remark when JP spoke.

"Wait! How are you guys related? You don't look anything a like" said JP as he also received a death glare.

"She's my step-sister if you have to know" he said not liking their questions.

Luckily the others got the hint and left him alone.

"Jeez, no wonder the guy probably doesn't have any friends" muttered JP as daisuke heard what he said.

He ended up cringing at the nine year old who glared at him before giving a huff and looking away.

Only she could insult her brother and no one else, the group was walking in an awkward silence as the first moon of the digital world was already up and the other two were starting to rise as well.

Something flew above them very quickly as only neemon noticed the object.

"Hey look, a shooting star" said neemon breaking the silence as they all looked to where he was pointing and saw nothing.

"It's starting to get dark" said takuya though everyone had already noticed that.

"So who's the genius who thought of bringing fire wood with them" said kouji in a sarcastic remark as they were already far away from Leo village.

The area was all grass with no trees in sight and unless they wanted to start a wildfire they couldn't use the grass.

"Does that mean we have to sleep in the dark? Lots of bad digimon come out during the night" said lalamon looking around hoping there weren't any in the area.

"What kind of digimon?" asked tommy a little scared.

"Big ones that'll gobble up your data then absorb it forever and give it to" but lalamon found her mouth covered by takuya who had made a grab at her.

"Okay, we get it, lots of bad digimon" he said as the others looked at him strangely.

He mostly had done that as he saw tommy and even daisuke had started to become unnerved by the explanation.

"She is right though, the digital world is a dangerous place at night" said bokomon as the moons had already risen.

It was a shame as he had wanted to try finding more information on Darcmon, something didn't sit right with him about her appearance and he never liked being in the dark on information.

"So we should set up camp here" said lalamon as the land they were on was still the grassy plains but if you looked closely you could see a forest farther up.

BREAK

The sky was dark as the three moons of the digital world were the only source of light.

A figure was in the darkness of the tree's his garnet red eyes scanning the area.

He wasn't in a very good mood; matadormon had been completely useless and hadn't been able to take the fractal code from the village so he had nothing to show for his efforts.

And the stupid digimon he was forced to work with had gone off and disappeared.

And the humans, all he knew was that they were heading in this direction.

"Stressed sugar, that's to be expected" said a voice with a southern accent from directly behind him.

The dark digimon seemed unfazed as he looked at the dark sky.

"Namimon, what do you want" he said not even giving her a sideways glance.

A woman who looked like she was half fish sat in the tree, her skin was a slimy green color and a silver helmet covered half her face. Her lips were ruby red and her outfit was a cerulean one piece bathing suit with a white cape. The suit had frills on the shoulders and two cloths that mimicked a fish tail from behind the outfit. Fins were on the side of her helmet with long teal colored hair in a braid coming out of the helmet, the end of her hair resembled a mermaid tail. She held a golden trident in her left hand and a white belt had the mark for the warrior of water, her hands were covered in white gloves, as white boots covered her legs. She could change her legs for a tail but their wasn't any water at the moment.

"Oh come on, don't be such a buzz kill we already got mercurymon for that" she said annoyed that he was ignoring her.

"What are you doing here? Didn't master dynasmon order you to collect fractal code from the surrounding areas" he said to the sea nymph, why did she always hang around him?

The other's left him alone; all digimon who saw him left him alone out of fear.

Okay they only ran from his dark form, and not the form he was currently in.

"Oh, but I hate hard work! Anyway ya'll got your work to do too so why ya standing in a tree?" she asked looking at her gloved fingers as if inspecting them for dirt.

"The darkness is comforting and the humans are headed this way, so I'm killing time and waiting here" he said finally looking at her, those garnet eyes looked kind but held an inner darkness.

"What? Ya mean it wasn't some old rumor that there are humans here?" she asked as all she got was a glare.

"I'll take that as a yes" she sighed, wondering why she always hung around this guy.

When he wasn't brooding he was moody and when he wasn't moody he was off who knows where.

"So I'm guessing you'll take them down, now that you know their headed here" she muttered not happy that he would get all the fun.

"No" he said startling her.

"If our masters heard that response sugar, you'd be a digi-egg by now" she said.

"They intrigue me but they won't let them live forever, the others can take care of them for all I care but the girl with the angel spirit is mine" he said something about her disturbed him.

The child brought a foul taste to his mouth and disturbed his heart, if he had one. It was more like his soul was restless and his memories, something he couldn't recall.

"Why her?" asked namimon, wondering why one human was so important.

"That is none of your business" he said coldly, though in truth he didn't have a clue.

"Honey if you ain't going to answer the question, don't tell me things I don't know!" she pouted as all she got was a dark glare in return.

"There's something else about this area that seems strange, do as you please if you spot the humans but I'm warning you! If you even hurt the girl you'll have more to worry about than a chipped nail" he said with a slight growl.

"Maybe even show them a beast" he said his voice was completely a growl as she felt the tree shake from something large leaping off.

Again she wondered why she hung out with the creep, but even if he was a bit of a loner and kinda killer obsessed she felt like he was the only teammate who even knew she existed.

Mercurymon was always plotting something or acting like he was superior to all of them, mostly annoying with that accent of his.

Grumblemon wasn't even worth the conversation since the digimon didn't even have a good vocabulary and believed everything could be solved by hitting it.

While arbormon was just too lax and didn't even seem to take anything seriously.

"Well, instead of sitting here I'll get my beauty sleep then try to find those humans" she said to herself.

After all, their whole mission as to take the spirits that their lords hadn't collected yet.

With that thought in mind she decided to find a more open yet hidden place, that way she wouldn't have to sleep in a horrible tree.

She shuddered at the thought; it would ruin her beautiful hair with splinters.

(Break)

"Are we there yet?" came the tired voice of JP as an equally tired tommy walked beside him.

"For the tenth time no" said a very irritated takuya as the normally cheery goggle head had seemed to reach a breaking point.

In fact everyone either seemed irritated or tired.

Even the normally sunny lalamon seemed tired as she sat on daisuke's head, her yellow propeller drooping.

"Your worst than a kid" said kouji, he had reached his breaking point a long while ago.

"Yeah, well no one asked you" said JP, though this only proved koujis point.

"Actually couldn't we stop, we've been walking since morning" said Zoe looking behind her.

Bokomon who had been looking at his book all day finally seemed to acknowledge the six humans.

"I believe we should take a break, it'll take at least the rest of today to reach the forest" he explained as everyone but kouji let out groans.

"You have to be joking" said takuya who had just flat out sat on the ground just glad to not be standing.

"Nope, at this rate it'll be awhile" he said looking at his book once again.

"We get to rest now?" asked neemon who hadn't been listening as usual.

It seemed bokomon was too entranced in his book to even give neemon a pants slap which the rabbit was grateful for.

"As long as I don't have to move for the next few hours I'm fine" said JP sitting down.

"Me too" agreed tommy.

"If only we had food" said Zoe.

Everyone agreed on that as they didn't have anything with them.

"Maybe I can find something" said lalamon perking back up as she began to float away from the group.

"Lalamon wait! You shouldn't go off alone" said daisuke who like her brother had remained silent as she began to chase the flower digimon.

This caused kouji to groan "what did I tell you about running off!" he called to his sister but it fell on deaf ears.

"can't she listen once in her life" he muttered going after her leaving the remaining group either looking at them or in bokomons case still having his nose in his book.

"You know it's weird that he acts like a jerk around us, but when he does that it almost makes him seem normal" said Zoe as they watched the loner go after his sister.

"Maybe it's because their related" said tommy.

"Kinda makes you wonder" said takuya as the other's looked at him.

"Wonder what?" asked Zoe as takuya shrugged.

"Ah, it's nothing" he said as they began to talk about random subjects trying to take advantage the break.

(…..)

"Lalamon stop! There's nothing out here" said daisuke as her digimon friend finally stopped as she gave a yawn and a giggle landing on the girls head.

"At least we finally got some fun right" she replied as daisuke gave her a confused look.

"We were all gloomy and grumpy from walking, well everyone besides bokomon who had his nose in his book and neemon" she answered.

Daisuke finally seemed to realize that and couldn't help but laugh" we'd probably be bored without you around lalamon" she said as lalamon just giggled.

The two were snapped out of their moment by a voice calling out to them.

"What did I tell you about running off?" was the exasperated question of kouji as lalamon seemed to cringe since daisuke was the one getting in trouble.

"Sorry, I was trying to make things fun" said lalamon.

"Yeah nii-san, give lalamon a break we were all tried from walking and JPs complaining" said daisuke giving him a look since she knew she was right.

"And don't tell me I'm wrong" she said as koujis sighed and actually sat down.

She copied her brother glad to get a break "is it because were traveling in a group?" she asked her brother.

He sigh "I don't know, we were better off on our own" said kouji proving her right.

"but it's easier to be in a group, that way we won't get out numbered like yesterday" said lalamon offering her words of wisdom, which meant random facts half the time.

"Mostly since all you guys were being controlled by the crazy cat lady" said daisuke as her brother looked away not wanting to admit he was controlled by bastemon the day before, but then he looked up at her.

"Well if I have to hear anymore of JPs complaining on this save the digital world trip I might just go lobomon on him" said kouji making his sister laugh a bit, most thought he had no sense of humor but he had his moments.

"Then we should get back, we can't go five minutes without being attacked by a digimon" said lalamon as they've had to fight nearly the entire time they were here.

"Don't say something like that lalamon, knowing our luck it'll probably happen" said kouji as he and his sister stood up.

They began walking back towards the group as they stop seeing a very comical scene "Neemon how many times do I have to tell you to stay away from my book" was the irritated voice of bokomon.

Said digimon was chasing neemon around in anger as bokomons green book lay on the ground, there was some drool on it most probably neemon's.

This went on for another three minutes when neemon tripped giving bokomon a chance "you bakamon!" he shouted at the rabbit as he pulled at neemon's red pants and let go causing a loud snap.

"Ouch! I said I was sorry" whined neemon rubbing his waist.

The humans just watch the two digimon in slight amusement while kouji just wanted to get moving again.

"Okay, let's go before that bakamon hurts my book again" said bokomon as if he was the leader and even began to lead the way.

"Do those guys ever have an off switch?" asked takuya as they already knew how much those two fought.

Well besides kouji and daisuke who were starting to wonder if they were always like this.

"I was wondering the same thing about JP" said kouji as his sister and lalamon laughed at this.

Much to JP's dismay the others also laughed at this "you have to admit you had that one coming" said Zoe as JP grumbled something about laughing at the anti social guys jokes.

This only caused him to receive glares from the siblings as they once again began to walk.

Looking at the bright side they finally had a day without something trying to kill them, but that wasn't going to last.

The grass shifted ever so slightly to something crouched in it, keeping silent as brown eyes watched his prey.

They thought they were heading towards safety, little did they know they were entering a snake trap.

God it took forever to write this, I know I should have added action but I'm sure the talk between Namimon and Mr. Dark and Broody was at least able to make up for it. I can't Promise I'll update soon but I'll try, this story is one I am going to write till the very end. Thank you for taking the time to follow and read I always appreciate constructive criticism and tips.

Heres a small preview on what's to come.

Nagramon hissed in anger at the mention of fujomon "that fox, I still have a score to settle with that one but I'll settle for you two and fujomon little daughter" she opened her mouth showing her fangs as the two took out their D-Tector's quickly spirit evolving.

"Lalamon digivolve too…sunflowmon!" the rookie once again assumed the champion form she had.

"Evolve all you want, it won't change the fact that you'll fall to the maiden of water" she hissed at the three who looked at her.

"I thought maidens were beautiful not snake's" said lobomon crossing his arms as his sister and sunflowmon laughed.

"Yeah, in what dimension are you considered a maiden? Maybe in Egypt?" Darcmon offered in a joke.

Nagramon twitched as she yelled at them "how dare you! I'll have you know I'm the most beautiful digimon in the digital world!" she said her face had complexly turned red in anger.

"Sunshine beam!" nagramon then felt something hit her armored back as she hissed lunging at the plant digimon he avoided the attack.

"Oh, so you made me mad just to attack me! Well two can play at this game, as we speak some little friends of mine are keeping your friends busy" she said, suppressing a hiss.

She hated this form but if she was right, the humans didn't have this power yet. They probably didn't know they were staring into the face of demise at this very moment.

"What's that suppose to mean?" asked lobomon, he wasn't really worried more annoyed if he had to save the others hides.

He wasn't about to have his saved again by them, like before.

"Let's just say snakes don't really travel alone" she chuckled as before she could get another word out she felt a slash to her arm.