Author Konnichi wa, how are you? Ok, letting you know that in the beginning, I messed up. Summer there is from July something till August something. They getting out of school from March something until April 1st, I think… I'm assuming on when school restarts. They also have weeks when they don't have school but I'm not sure on any of them so they won't be mentioned. If you know any that hasn't passed then let me know. That way I could but them in. Arigato.

Hello, I'm not feeling much better but I am going to write here for a bit. Ok, it's the last day of testing and the last class period of the day.

Kari

Ken and I were walking from Math class to PE. We weren't talking about anything important when Davis came running up.

"Kari, Ken, hey guys!" Davis put one arm around my neck and the other around Ken, leaving him in the middle.

I went under his arm and got freed from his hold. He then let Ken go. "Hi Davis." I said afterward.

"Doesn't TK walk with us to PE?" He looked around, wondering where he was.

"He's busy with something else. He'll be there though." Ken said.

"Oh, well what is it? It must be really important if he's not walking with us."

"I'm sure it is."

"Hey, what are you guys doing for this summer?"

"I'm going to be going various things." Ken said.

"After today, I'm going to taking scenery pictures. TK wants some since he thinks that it might help with some of the stories. I'm not sure how long that will take me since I'm going to be traveling around Japan for them."

"Wow! Why isn't TK going with you?"

"There something else that he needs to take care of. Tai is coming with me though."

"Well, I think that TK should be there with you."

"That's an improvement."

I turned to see that TK was right behind me. I smiled and he smiled back.

"What's 'so' important that you can't even spend time with your future wife?" Davis sounded a bit mad.

"Door."

"Huh…!" Right then, the door that led to the gym hit Davis and he fell to the floor.

"Davis, are you alright?" I asked.

"Yea… I'm alright. I have a hard head." His hand was on his head. Ken helped him up and we walked in.

We went to where our class was and sat down near the top of the bleachers. The bell rang and the teacher was calling student's names. After he gave us the options to do in that class, everyone spread out with his or hers friends and did one of the games. We stayed since none of us really want to do any of them.

"So TK, what's so important that you can't spend time with Kari?" Davis asked again.

"Matt isn't feeling well. So I'm staying with him to make sure that he gets better."

"Oh, is Panther busy with something?" He said her name with disgust.

"Iie but I want to make sure that he's better. He's still my brother."

"But she can take care of him. Unless she's busy with something herself."

"She's not. Hey Ken, want to shot some hoops?"

"Sure."

They sat their Digimon down and walked down to the floor. There was one ball left and lucky for them that they got there first. A group that was already playing went up to them. TK sat down the ball and they went with them to their court. The odd thing was that TK and Ken were on different teams.

"Don't Ken and TK like to be on the same team?" Davis asked, a bit to himself though.

"I thought so too. But they aren't today."

"Well, both are good at this game. Wonder who's the better one."

"Davis, they're not competitive." I looked at him.

"I know, but it's still an interesting question."

Their game began. At first they were passing the ball to the more skilled ones on their team but somewhere along the way, it became pass-it-to-TK/Ken. They were at each other like they were rivals. We were too high to see what their eyes looked like but I was getting worried. I looked at Davis to see that he was getting into this game, like many down below. Patamon and Wormmon didn't look worry at all. They seem to say that all this was natural or something. But since when have they wanted to beat the other?

"Kari?"

I looked down at Gatomon, who I was holding in my lap. "Hm?"

"What's wrong? You look worry."

"I didn't know that Ken and TK could get so competitive. It's something different."

"Oh, good point."

I looked back at the game. I noticed that even when one of the other students had the ball, TK or Ken would be on them so fast that they would have to have tossed the ball as soon as they got it. That includes when they were on the opposite side. If the student did manage to pass the ball, TK or Ken was the only one close enough for the person to pass it to. Then they would get in the way of the one with the ball so that they would have to pass the ball to a student and the cycle repeated.

When the bell rang, no one scored and only the other students were tired. TK and Ken seem like they could do that for hours. I picked up Patamon and Wormmon and we walked down.

"Wow! I didn't know that you two were at equally match. That was an awesome game." Davis said with great excitement.

"Yea, it was interesting." Ken said, sounding modest.

"When did you guys want to beat each other?" I asked then noticed that they weren't even sweating. I took a quick glance at the other players and they were greatly.

"We don't. What gave you that idea?" TK asked.

"Couldn't you ask to be on the same team?"

"We did but they wanted to know how we do if we were facing each other." Ken said.

"Well, we should stay and chat but Kari, don't you need to get somewhere?" TK said.

"Right, I almost forgot. See ya later boys." I handed Patamon and Wormmon over to them and ran out the doors. I saw Panther and Lily Dawn there.

"What took so long? Need to fresh in up?" Panther joked.

"Yea, I'm done now."

"Good, the younger ones are waiting outside." Lily Dawn said.

We walked outside and I saw that Neon was standing in a tough pose and Nereida looked a bit nervous since kids were whispering to one another.

"Nereida, are you ok?" Lily Dawn asked.

"Yea…"

"But these bystanders are just jealous of her company." Neon said this as another group was watching them but they quickly ran when she looked at them.

"Your way of making friends is very unique." I said.

She pulled out the sunglasses from her golden necklace that appears when she goes to the Digital World and puts them on, "And we're unique ourselves. Now let's get that food in our stomachs."

We all smiled and headed towards an outside dinning place. We agreed that today was a girl's day so after school we were going to hang together. After eating something, we were going to go to shops for no real reason. We just want to have some fun before we all spilt for the summer.

We got to the dinning place and sat down. We didn't order that much but it was more than we usually eat.

"What are your plans for the summer?" I asked since I didn't get to hear their plans since they were helping me with some spots for me to take pictures from. All I know is that almost no one was going to be around near the beginning of summer.

"I don't mean to intrude but… Where are the chopsticks?" Lightningmon asked.

"Oh, I almost forgot. Sorry." Nereida pulled out some from her bag and handed them over to her. She smiled and started to eat.

"Lightningmon, you don't know how to eat food with forks?" Lily Dawn asked, not sounding insulting.

"Iie."

"Oh, ok. Bellimon, you can move to get some food."

"Really?" She got up on her lap and started to grab some food.

Sakuramon come out from Neon's hair and kneeled on the table, eating some of the food in her reach. Plantmon went to Panther's head and grabbed some food that way. I was handing Gatomon the food she wanted.

"I'm heading with Don to a special training ground. Don't worry though, I'll have my cell on so you can call us if we're needed."

"Do you go there every summer?" Panther asked.

"Yea, but we only spend a few days there, maybe a week or so. Then later on we go to see his mother and grandmother."

"Aren't you going to go see your father?" Nereida asked.

"Don't know where he is. Though we don't really care. He left when I was still an infant so…"

"Sorry."

"It's ok. I don't mind."

"Well, I'm going to a dancing camp for two weeks. My pager will be on. Bellimon knows how to use it too."

"Tim has a science conference to go to and he's bringing us along. I'm not sure how long it's going to take but he's planning on us to go to other rooms to get more information for him. Luckily for him, our Digimon are going to help out."

"This sounds important, well, that or really big." I said.

"Oh, it is. Many scientists go there to learn more from each other. He heard about a long time ago and we keep going every time. Saving a lot of money just to go."

"Do you have fun?" Panther asked.

"Yea, it's a lot of fun. You can meet many interesting people there."

"Really? Wow, maybe Matt should've gone."

"He was able to go?"

"Yea, his boss asked whether he wanted to go. He said that he still had a lot of work to get done. Though I thought it would be boring so I told him not to go."

"Oh, well we'll make sure that we get everything for him. Are they still sending someone?"

"I think so. When are you guys going?"

"We're leaving two days from now."

"I'll call you tomorrow then. Well, I'm not doing anything really big. So I guess that means that I'm helping with the phone tag."

"Who else is with that?" I asked, guessing that it would be Ken, TK, and Matt.

"TK and Matt. Ken is for a few days but then he has to go to an invention convention 'cause his parents want him to go. I think it had something to do with a past genius."

"Oh, that. Didn't you hear about it? He was famous when he was eleven."

"Really?"

"Oh, yea. I completely forgot about it. I remember hearing his name on the news. Didn't really care too much though." Lily Dawn said.

"I thought that he lived in another district?" Neon said.

"He did… but something brought him and his parents over here. I'm not sure what though." I explained.

"Ask him then. When were you going to leave on that photography trip?" Nereida asked.

"Tomorrow. I have to get packing when I get home."

"Then we should hurry then. What about contacting you?" Neon said.

"Well, TK has my number that he can use to reach me and you could always call Tai for something less important. Everyone has that."

"Oh, Kari, almost forgot; at the science conference, there always great places to take great scene pictures. Do you want us to take some for you?"

"Sure, that would be nice."

"No problem. After all we're all friends."

"Would someone ask that girl with pink hair if she wants to eat with us?" Lily Dawn asked her eyes focus behind Neon.

I quickly looked to see a girl about our age watching us. She was wearing a dull red violet cape, biker gloves, a massager bag, blue mini skirt, ocean green tight tank top and her frizzy hair was covered by a field-worker's hat from the old days. She quickly realized that we knew that she was there so she tilted her hat down to cover her eyes and acted like she wasn't watching us.

"Hey, you want to join us?" Nereida asked before she took her third step.

"As long as I'm not interrupting anything important." Her voice held some gentleness to them but there was the sound of a tough experience in there. I think TK's observation is rubbing off on me.

"We don't mind company." Lily Dawn said.

"I don't have that much money on me."

"We'll pay then." Neon said.

"Why? If you don't mind me asking."

"You were watching the food. So you must be hungry." Panther answered.

"Come over and we can talk. Don't worry about anything." I reassured her.

I think we all thought that she was going to walk in the middle of the street or something because she faced us and backed towards it. I knew that I held my breath when she got to the curve but then she took two quick steps forward and jumped over the little fence that the dinning had for the outside. She did a flip in midair and landed perfectly. She smiled at us as she walked towards us, grabbed a seat from a close by table, twirled the seat closer, stopped it with its back facing the table, sat down between Panther and me.

"You can sit like that in a mini skirt?" Neon asked, since her legs were across the chair.

She blinked for a bit, "Oh, sorry. I usually don't wear skirts." She got up and twirled the chair so the back was away from the table then sat back down. She took her hat off and let it hang from her neck. That revealed a golden hair band that held a beautiful silver stone. I was amazed that, for someone that didn't have any money could have a stone like that. I noticed her stone earrings right then. They were a beautiful blue that reminds one of the ocean on a clear day.

"Ok, go ahead and eat something." Neon offered, since we've eaten a bit and our Digimon had their fill. Only Lightningmon was eating, but that was because she didn't know how to eat some of the food with chopsticks, though she wasn't going to show her paw gloves to someone new so she was just sitting there.

"Thanks." She went for a hamburger when I noticed that her biker gloves were tied to her wrist by a thin gold band and on her back palm is a beautiful stone that reminds one of fire. I'm not even going to say red, though that what it mostly is, since it dose seem to be fire inside it.

"Where are you from?" Lily Dawn asked.

"Huh?" She looked at her before she took a bit. She chewed quickly before speaking, "I'm from this area. Why do you ask? Oh, what your names before I forget."

"You don't look familiar. My name is Lily Dawn."

"This is a big area." She took another bit.

"But we should see you in school."

"Oh, well I was on a trip and I just came back. Is school over?" She covered her mouth as she spoke.

"Yea, it just got out. You were lucky. I'm Neon."

"Wow! My luck never been so good, oh well. I like to travel around."

"I'm Nereida and this is my friend Inazuma. Do you travel with your folks?"

"Kinda, they send me to places as they go somewhere else. All to gather information." She now finished with the hamburger and now she's eating apple wedges that are tipped in soy sauce.

"Panther, and don't you get lonely?"

"Lonely? Nah, I have to go to people's houses on my travels." She was now doing the same with the fries, even though there was a container of ketchup there.

"Kari, I'm sure you have fun then."

"Yea, it's always a blast."

"If you travel then wouldn't you have money?" Neon asked.

"See, I do but it's foreign and I know that most places here want yen."

"Oh, that would explain it then. Hey, want to hang with us? After this we're going shopping." Nereida offered.

She put something else in her mouth as she thought about it. She swallowed, "Sure."

"What's your name? We gave ours." Panther said.

She drank from a glass that was filled with water, as there was bread in her other hand. "My name is Ceres. Nice to meet yawl. " She said that last part in an American western style. She smiled like she cleverly said something then continued to eat.

We all did as well. Plantmon hid as a weird looking hat, Sakuramon as a movable doll, and Bellimon and Gatomon turned to plush toys. Though Ceres didn't ask about them, we could tell that she was curious about them so that's what we told her.

After she was done, which she ate more than we did, we went walking around at different stores. We weren't planning on buying anything so it worked out for Ceres.

"Are you going to your house?" Nereida asked when we were about done looking around.

Ceres held up a dark, shiny blue dress that you could dance in. I noticed then that her boots were that of a biker's, heavy and hard looking. I thought it was odd but it didn't really matter. That could be just her style.

"Ummm…. Well, I was actually wondering if I could stay with one of you guys. See, though I was born here, my folks never liked this area so we don't have a house here. Hope you don't mind."

"I would gladly offer mine but I'm leaving tomorrow for a trip. Sorry." I said.

"That's ok."

"I have to pack for a trip too. Sorry." Neon said.

"Same here." Lily Dawn said.

"I don't think that my brother would mind." Nereida said.

"I know my guardian wouldn't mind."

"Well, do you want to call them? Incase it's not ok."

Nereida pulled out a cell phone and called her house. She talked for a few moments then hanged up. "Sorry, my brother is really worried about this conference that we're going to."

"Are you going to call your guardian?"

"Nah, I know that he doesn't care. He welcomes guest. Plus we have many rooms to spare."

"Well, if you're sure."

"I am. Don't worry about it."

"Well, it's been fun but I got to go. See you Legend Digi in the shadows." I said with a smile.

"Right, we don't want to mess with the light." Neon joked.

I waved bye and walked across the street.

"Why didn't you tell the others about TK and Ken?" Gatomon asked from the top of my head.

"I didn't want to worry Panther. She does care for TK and since Ken has been hanging around more… I'm hoping that it's nothing. You know, like a one time thing."

"I hope so too. Patamon didn't seem to notice a difference."

"And Davis was too much in the game to really care. Well, that's why we love hope."

Gatomon giggled, as did I.

Panther

We watched until Kari was out of sight.

"What did she mean?" Ceres asked.

"We're going to see her off tomorrow morning. I hope that's not a problem." I said

"Oh no, I was just wondering. It shouldn't bother me. After all I'm the guest that's imposing."

"Well, we better head home too. After all, we have to start packing as well." Neon said.

"Right, see you tomorrow." Lily Dawn said.

They waved and headed towards their house.

We walked to a bus station and waited with Nereida and Lightningmon. Two buses passed by before one came that Nereida could use. I waved them off.

"How far is your house?" Ceres asked.

"We're also taking a bus. It's just simple like that."

"So I can figure that's it is pretty far."

"I just don't want to walk." Though the real reason is that we're in enemy land.

She lend against the pole that held the roof of this station. She looked up at the sky. "It would be nice if it rained."

I looked up to see that the sun was setting and the clouds were few. Looks like a perfect night to look at the stars. "Why wish that?"

"So the building's feelings could be shown. Don't they look sad?" She said that like she was an innocent child. It wasn't her voice but her attitude that told me that.

"I couldn't tell. I always think of them as buildings. Not living things. If you want that opinion, you need to talk to my guardian's brother."

"Estne poeta?"

"What?" I looked at her.

"Oh, sorry. Is he a poet?"

"Iie but he's a novelist in-training. I was able to read some of his stories and they're good. What you just said sounds like something he would describe."

"That's so cool." She looked back up at the sky, "Wow! This must be my luckiest day." She said that with so much excitement that I had to look to see what she was talking about.

I noticed that a big mass of clouds were coming this way then I saw thunder. "It wasn't supposed to though. It was supposed to be clear."

"Meteorologists are usually wrong, you should know that."

"That's too much out of the blue."

"Oh well. At least the building will be able to express themselves."

"You're one weird person."

"Everyone has their own way."

Our bus came and we got on. I noticed that as soon as I had a good glance at the back, there was some of the enemy in the back. I hid my face as I took a seat in the middle. Ceres looked at me then at the back. She took the seat behind me and rested her arms on the back of my seat.

"Something scaring you?" She asked like it was nothing. I can't blame her, she doesn't know.

"Nothing scares me. I just don't want to start a fight with innocent bystanders." I looked at the driver and he seemed stiff with fear. I looked into the back-view mirror to see them smiling and laughing inside. I hope they didn't see me before hand. I didn't show any signs that I was nervous.

"Wow, talk about nerves of steal. They look to be carrying something in their belts. Are you in some kind of trouble?" She sounded excited about this.

"Is there something that you don't see in them?"

"I see that they like baggy clothes. Most likely to hide whatever they don't want others to see. Hey, I know, you challenged them in some kind of game with cards and you lost. Now you can't bear to show your face and they won't stop harassing you about it. Right?" She sounded like she just got a good grade combine with solving a puzzle that took everyone else a long time and her a few minutes.

I just wanted to hurt her for being so dumb, "They're gang members."

"Gang? Your club lost a match to them?"

"No!" I said that in a harsh tone that I haven't used in a while. I calmed myself down before speaking again. "Never mind. Just hope that they don't get off as we do."

"Ummm… Ok." She sounded like she just brushed it off.

I felt Plantmon grip getting a bit tighter. I noticed that I was feeling the knife that I got. I placed the device in different places every time so that no one knew where to look for it. Our stop came up and I got up. I paid the driver for our ride but I noticed that he's expression was getting more and more nervous. I got off and walked fast.

"Why are you walking fast?" She sounded like a child.

"Did those guys from the back get off?"

"Hai!" Her voice sounded happy.

"That's not good. How fast can you run in that mini skirt?"

"Um?………………… I think as fast as I need to?" Going back to her child voice.

"Then… can you fight?"

"I can't stand violence." She sounded like a wealthy lady.

"Too bad. Run." I took off. I went to a bare street that was close to the house that if something did happen, I could at least tell her where to go.

"Hey, you didn't count to three." I looked at her like she was nuts. "Nani? When you have a race you have to count so the other people can get ready."

I was about to say something but I heard footsteps coming fast our way. I got in front of Ceres and pulled Plantmon on my back. Then they appeared.

"You shouldn't have made us run." Said the one that seemed to be the leader. They were three and all were breathing hard.

"Maybe you shouldn't have followed us." I got ready to fight them.

The other men there pulled out guns and were pointing them at me.

"Guns? That's so lame." I dare heard Ceres say.

I turned to look at her to see that she was serious.

"Lame huh? Well, maybe you want to be the first to get a cold metal to go through your body?"

"How much skill do you need to aim and pull? Nihil." I couldn't tell whether she was brave or foolish.

I heard the gun's safety switch turn off. I looked back at them to see that the one on my left was aiming at Ceres.

"Panther, do you have something that can freeze them?" She whispered.

"I do… What do you have plan?"

"Hai, but you can't protect me."

"So you want to die?"

"Mortus isn't something I fear but respect."

"Whatever, just don't get killed. I don't want to feel guilt."

"Hai."

The gun was fired. I ran up to the leader so fast that they didn't have time to take aim too well. When the right guy did, I was at their leader's throat with my dagger. I looked over at Ceres to see that she was putting on her cape. I guess she did something with her cape. She smiled and walked over. The left guy was about to take aim but stopped.

"I would think the line 'put down your weapons' is appropriate."

They both dropped theirs. Ceres picked them up and took it apart. She walked over to a sewer opening and tossed them in it. She looked back over to us with a happy but mischievous face. "Have a nice evening, gentlemen."

I pulled my dagger away and they ran fast. I watched them run until they were out of sight. "How did you dodge the bullet?" I looked back at her and she was looking at the sky again. I looked up too to see that the clouds were almost above us. I guess I was so nervous about those punks that I didn't hear the thunder. The sound roared and echoed a bit.

"I used my cape to slow it down. It's something that I learned when I was hanging with actors."

"We better get to my house before the rain comes down on us."

Then the rain came. I knew that I looked pissed because she was laughing.

"I guess you can't beat it."

"Yea let's go."

I led her to my house, though it's not really my house. The house wasn't locked since Matt's usually home so I opened the door and noticed that the kitchen light was on.

"Hello!" Ceres yelled and heard her voice echoing through the house. "Wow, this looks like an abandon house. Filled with ghost and stuff."

"I see that we have a guest." Matt said from kitchen door.

"This is Ceres. We met her while we were eating."

"I see, come on in. I'll make some tea." He walked back in.

I closed the door and was about to turn on a light when Ceres's hand stopped me. I looked at her with confusion.

"Can we light a candle? It seems more appropriate."

"Matt, Ceres wants to light a candle."

"Sure, go ahead."

I pointed to the place were our candles were at. Ceres walked over and looked inside. The house trembled with the sound of the thunder. Matt brought out the tea and placed it on the table. I walked over to him since Ceres was still looking at the candles.

"Matt, are you feeling well?" I whispered.

"A lot better. I'm almost done with my work. Why was there gun fire outside?"

"A few enemies were around and one of them fired. Don't worry, they won't come back."

"Ok. As long as you're safe."

"Do you guys like candles?"

I looked back to see that Ceres had in her hand a pyramid-shape gold candle. She set it directly in the middle of the table.

"We had a black out one time. I brought more incase it happens again." Matt answered.

"Ohh, that's a good reason. I love candles since they can express different emotions with their colors and be in any shape. Then the flame that makes a dark room into a dim room."

"Are you going to stay here for a while?" Matt was walking back to the kitchen to get a match but then candle lit itself. This also surprised Matt.

He came back and sat down. Ceres and I did as well but then she got back up and poured the tea into the cups like I see professional tea-makers do. She sat closer to us than she was when she first sat down.

"I might. I'm always traveling so you never know. But I'll say bye before I go. And I'm going to help in anyway I can."

"Do you have a schedule to follow?"

"Iie, not really." She drank some tea.

"Well you're free to stay here for as long as you like. How old are you?" I took a sip from my cup and Matt did as well.

"Eighteen."

"Then you have to go to school if you stay for the last part of the school year."

"Hai." She seemed a bit nervous about that.

"Ok, go ahead and pick a room that you like to stay in. All have a bed that you could use."

"Arigato." She got up, bowed, and headed upstairs. It didn't take her long to pick a room.

"Which one?" Matt asked as he put down his cup.

"The one that you see when you go up."

"Ok. Oh, you might hear other voices."

"Are they ghost?" She looked really excited.

"Yea…"

"Wow! I always wanted to meet a real ghost. Every time I was promised a ghost they weren't real or they didn't show. Please call me when they're around." She smiled and walked over to her teacup. She drank the last of it in her cup, filled it up again, and drank it with a bit left. Then she headed to her new room.

"She's really weird." I said to Matt as I picked up her cup and pour her last bit into my cup.

"I would agree."

"Oh, is Hota sending someone else in your place for that conference thing?"

"I think so, she didn't really say if she was or wasn't."

"Call her tomorrow. Tim and they are going there and they're more than willing to get the information for you."

"Really? Wow, I will."

The phone rang. Matt was about to get it but Ceres somehow got to it first.

"Moshimoshi. This is the house of Matt and Panther, how may I help you?……………… Hai, he's here……… Sure," she looked over to Matt and said in a whisper, "It's for you."

Matt walked over and Ceres handed him the phone. Ceres walked over to me as Matt talked to the other person.

"What's your last name?"

"Just say Ishida. That's Matt's last name."

"You took up your guardian's name?"

"Iie but I do use it. I'm not about to release my real last name."

"Ohh, so that's your 'secret identity'? The real you?"

"Yea. You could say that."

"Cool." She sat down and wanted for Matt to get off.

I did the same thing. I looked over at the map that was still hanging on the wall.

"Amateur star glazers?"

"I might be but Matt is an astronaut."

"Cool, does he work at a desk most of the time?"

"I think he does nowadays. How did you figure that?" I looked at her and she was still looking at the map as well.

"Guessed. He is planning on going to the metagalaxy?"

"What?"

"Is he going beyond the Milky Way?"

"I don't think so, this is just a map that he was handed. There's an area that seems familiar to Matt and his brother but they don't know why."

"Weird. Maybe they went there before and just forgot."

"How can you forget going into space?"

"How can someone forget about their childhood when they're still in it?"

"What do you mean?"

"If something happened to the person that horrified him or her, they can suppress the memories. Something like that could've happened to them."

"But you still need training to go into space. Not to mention a spaceship. Someone should've remembered hearing something like that. It would've made the news big time."

"I'm only saying that they could've done that. I'm only guessing."

I heard the phone being hung up.

"Who was that?" I asked, turning to face him.

"It was Seto Kaiba." He sat down as well.

"Seto Kaiba! You know that cutie?" Ceres said, though she wasn't as excited as her tone.

"Kinda, what do you know?"

"I know that he was an orphan and a genius. The former owner of Kaiba Corp. adopted him, along with his brother, and he inherited it. He's into this card game called Duel Monster and it was a big hit a few years ago. I'm proud enough to say that I was in two tournaments that were held for them. One was called Duelist Kingdom and the other was Battle City. I didn't make it to the top because I won the items that you need to get to the finals for other people. Kaiba also invented the high tech part of the dueling. I never got to meet him."

"Why did you call him a 'cutie'?" I had to ask.

"Because that's what some of the girls that I knew said about him."

"How do you know so much about his past?"

"A reporter never reveals their sources." She winked when she said that.

Matt closed his eyes, I think he was thinking about either his mother or father or maybe both since they were both of that profession. He opened his eyes, "He was wondering why I wasn't going to the conference. I told him that I was sick. I also said that I have some friends there but I didn't give him their names. Then he decided not to go as well since he was only going because he wants another chance to duel me."

"You dueled him and he wants to duel you!" Ceres sounded surprised.

"Yea, I was told to do so because my boss wanted his technology. Why is that surprising?"

"Only two people were able to defeat him. One is the creator of Duel Monster, Maximillion Pegasus and Yugi Mutou."

"Yugi?" Matt said that like it was familiar to him.

"You know him too?"

"Iie, but Seto thinks I do."

"Well, you should feel honored then. Yugi Mutou is known as the King of Games."

"I'll remember that. Anyway, after he hanged up, I called Hota and she told me that she hasn't found someone that was free. I told her that I have some friends that were going and they wouldn't mind helping. She gave me a general list to give them."

"I bet that she was happy. Are you going to hand her the information that they give you?" I asked him.

"Yea, she doesn't need to know them. Well, we better head to bed. Ceres, are you going with us to see off our friends tomorrow?"

"You mean Kari, Neon, and Lily Dawn?"

"Yep, they leave at different times but all tomorrow. Do you want to come?"

"Normally parents drop off their kids, not friends."

"Neon's mother is going with her. I was told that there was something in that area that she liked. Lily Dawn's brother is going to see her off and her father is doing something else."

"Shows how much he cares. Anyway, I'll go. It could be fun. See you two in the morning." She got up and went upstairs.

"Is it just me or do you get the feeling that she might stay until school starts?" Matt sounded like he was just talking to himself.

"TK would like her. Good with personifications." I got up. "Where's Gabumon?"

"When I heard the gun shots, I told him to hide since I saw that there was someone else with you." He looked upstairs, "Gabumon, I think it's safe."

I heard him coming from the kitchen. "You have to tell her sooner or later." He went over to Matt but in a way so someone from the stairs couldn't see him.

"I'm hoping later, that's why I told her that she might hear other voices."

"But what about the other Digimon? They would wave when Tai and Kari leave."

"I forgot about that." He looked at me, "Do you want to tell her in the morning? That way she doesn't freak out or something."

"I get the feeling that she wouldn't but I'll tell her just the same."

"Ok, then in the morning, I'll make breakfast."

"Sounds great. Night." I walked upstairs and went to bed.

I woke up on my own. I first went to Matt's room to see if he did slept. Nowadays he stays up but he has been acting normal at least. I opened his door slightly and didn't find Gabumon, so that means that they're making breakfast and he did get some slept or they're making it and he didn't. I went back to my room and got dress. Plantmon was up and waiting for her show-and-tell. I put on a loose tank top, a bit of baggy jeans, and didn't put up my hair.

I picked up Plantmon and headed towards Ceres's room when I heard something in the bathroom. I walked over there and knocked. I heard alarm then feet coming towards the door. Ceres came out and closed the door behind her.

"Ceres, what are you doing?"

"Getting ready. After all, I'm meeting everyone else. Want to look my best." She seemed to be hiding something. "Nice plush toy, do you like that character?"

I looked down at Plantmon then looked back up, "She's not a plush toy. She would be the ghost that you wanted to meet."

She blinked then looked at Plantmon.

"Hello, I'm Plantmon."

She blinked some more then she got an excited face. She picked up Plantmon and hugged her, "Kawaii!" She handed her back to me. "Are there more?"

"Yea, Inazuma is like Plantmon. They're something called Digimon, short for Digital Monster. Everyone that you know the name of has one."

"That's so cool. I want to meet them all."

"You'll see all the ones that have one. You won't meet all the Digimon."

"Why?" She looked disappointed.

"They're in a group that can't know we have some. Only a few in that does know."

"Ohh, so you're in this special group that protects the innocent, right?"

"I don't know about that but we are protectors."

"They protect the world that I live in." Plantmon explained.

"That's cool. Hope you guys can take me there some time. Oh, since you guys, I'm only guessing that Matt has one too, have Digimon in your house. Is it ok if I have a pet?" She looked a bit nervous.

"What kind of pet? I didn't see you have one yesterday."

"I know but that was because she was in my massager bag. I was secretly feeding her while I was eating."

"What is she?"

"A raccoon."

"Can I see?"

She opened the door and I saw a raccoon in the sink cleaning an apple under the running water. I walked closer and she stopped cleaning and started to watch me.

"Don't worry, she won't bit. Let her smell you and Plantmon."

I walked closer and held out my hand. Plantmon did the same with her vine hand. She smelled both then went back to cleaning. I looked back at Ceres.

"Isn't she one of the cutest animals you've seen?"

"But why do you have her?"

"Her mother was killed by a hunter. She was the only one of her kids that lived."

"A hunter killed her and her babies?"

"Not one, many. I think they wanted their fur."

"I don't mind, she is cute but I'm not the one that you need to ask."

"Right, I thought so. I will as soon as she's done with washing her apple."

"How did you know where to find them?"

"I know where people generally put them."

"Oh, well, breakfast is going to be ready soon. Come down when you're ready."

"Right." She lifted her right hand to her forehead in a diagonal.

I walked out and went downstairs. "We were supposed to surprise her, right?" Plantmon asked.

"That's how it was supposed to go."

We found Matt in the kitchen and Gabumon setting the table.

"How did she take it?" Matt asked, guessing since he didn't see her with me.

"Very well. In fact, she had a counter surprise. She'll let you know when she comes down."

"Counter surprise? Wow, didn't see that one."

"Nor I." I sat down and waited.

Ceres came down and she didn't have her cape on. She was wearing a weird shirt that looked to have a red rhombus shape attached to it from an angle cut that seems to be in the front, low knee high pants that also had an angle cut, and ankle boots that were all had the color of her gloves. There was a beautiful green stone in the middle of her chest that was attached on her shirt and a beautiful pure white stone in the rhombus. I saw something reflecting light above the green stone but couldn't tell what it was.

"Not wearing your cape?" I asked, since she had that on in the bathroom.

"Nope. I like this outfit too much to have it cover." I noticed that her massager bag was behind her, guessing that's were her pet was when she was hiding.

"Panther told me that you surprised her with something. Mind telling?" Matt asked from the kitchen, "Oh, and the blue furred is Gabumon."

Gabumon waved as he walked out of the kitchen with some tea. She blinked and then ran to him and hugged him, making sure that he didn't spill it.

"Kawaii!" I noticed that her bag was now on the floor nearest to the kitchen but not that far from her.

"Is that how you're going to react to all of the ones you're going to meet?" Matt asked, putting the food on the plates.

She let go of Gabumon and looked at Matt, "But they're so cute!"

He put the plates on the table and sat down. Ceres got up and sat down too, bringing her bag with her.

"So, what's your surprise?"

"Do you know what a raccoon is?" She started eating.

"I'm happy to say yes. Is that want the surprise is?"

"Ele, come on out." She looked over to where she placed her bag. The raccoon came on the table and looked around. When she spotted Gabumon and Matt, her eyes were watching them carefully.

"Wow." It seems that was the only way Matt knew how to express what he wanted to say.

"Sorry for not telling you but most people with nice homes, a.k.a. this, don't want 'wild' animals in."

"I don't mind. You didn't have to hide Ele. What gender is Ele anyway?"

"Female but she doesn't act like a dame all the time."

"That might be helpful around here. Show the others her."

"Ok, Ele, go over and know them."

Ele walked on all fours towards Matt and Gabumon. She smelled Gabumon then Matt. She stood up and looked at Ceres. Ceres seemed to know what she was saying and smiled. Ele got closer to Matt and he petted her. When she seemed satisfied, she returned to Ceres and sat down in the seat where her bag was.

After we finished eating, we headed out. We were walking over to the train station. I explained to Ceres where they were going. Ele was curled on her head and Plantmon on my head. We reached the station and looked for the others. I spotted my group and walked to them. They were acting like they were there for no reason.

"I'll let Kari know before she leaves." Matt said as he walked passed them.

We stopped on the outer part.

"Hello." Ryan said.

"Nice to see you again." Neon said.

"Ohayo min'na. I'm Ceres to all you pueri and to everyone, kawaii creature on my head is Ele." Ele sat up.

"It's illegal to bring a wild animal here." Tim said.

She looked like she did something wrong and she was sorry for it.

"Hi, I'm Ryan."

"And your dog's name is?"

"Uh…"

"She knows." I said.

"Why?" Damon asked.

"She's staying at our house."

"Oh, that would explain it. This is Breomon." He nodded.

"I'm Don, and the Digimon that hangs with me," points to his back since that's where he was, "is AeroDinomon."

"Damon and this is Huskimon."

"Tim and the Digimon that's with me is hiding. His name is Shendramon."

"The doll is Sakuramon."

"My plush toy is Bellimon and Kari's is Gatomon."

"My real name is Lightningmon."

"Nice to meet you." Ceres said with a smile.

"Guys, Kari's about to leave." Neon said.

We all looked and watched as she boarded. We waved and she waved back but her other friends thought it was to them. They watched the train leave before they did the same. TK, Ken and Matt acted like they were walking with them but then quickly came toward us.

"Hello, I'm Ceres and this is Ele."

"Hi, I'm TK, Matt's brother, and this is Patamon."

"Ken and this is Wormmon."

"Why aren't the others coming over?" She sounded disappointed.

"Because three of them don't like this group too much." TK answered.

"Oh… How many groups are there?" She looked at everyone.

"Three. One is the first group that TK, Matt and Kari are apart of. Then there's a second group that TK, Kari, and Ken are in. Then there's our group. The ones that you know the Digimon to are in that group." Lily Dawn said.

"Sounds like Kari and TK are popular. They're in all three groups."

"Oh, sorry. I'm not in this group. The only reason I know everything about it is because of my brother. He tells me everything that goes on."

"Oh… How do you join this club?"

"First and third groups are basically the same. You need something called a Crest that represents your strongest point. I have the Crest of Hope so hope is my strongest virtue."

"Then shouldn't first and third be together?"

"There's a difference in the Crest and the way they're presented."

"If they're virtues then that means that they come from your heart. How can you show that differently? Other than covering it so it seems like you don't have it."

"At first, ours were shown physically as a tablet with the symbol engraved in it. The third group has it shown as an amulet. Also, the device that helps the Digimon partner evolve is another key. The first group has the one that Matt has," Matt held up his Digivice, "And the second has this," he held up his D-3, "and the third one doesn't have one."

"So what do the second group have? I mean with the virtues and stuff."

"The three people that don't like this group have two of the Crest of the first group. Kari, Ken and I only have one even though we're in that group. We also have something called a Digimental that gave our Digimon a side evolution, though Ken doesn't have that."

"Interesting. Uh.. Should we stay here and talk or should we sit somewhere?"

"Well, Don and I need to get our parents ready. See ya at noon." Neon said and her and Don walked away.

"Oh, I'm leaving with Lily Dawn. I just found out that it was near her camp." Ryan said.

"Did you already pack?" I asked.

"Yea, good thing too. Otherwise I would've left about now too."

"Ok, you guys might as well head back. Oh. Tim, would you mind if you guys get a few things for my boss?"

"Sure Matt, what does she want?"

He took out the list and handed it to Damon, since he was closer. "She couldn't find someone to go on short notice."

"Not a problem. We were already thinking about getting you any information on it. Well, we better make sure that we got everything for Matt."

They waved then left as well. Lily Dawn and Ryan left with them.

"I guess we could back to your house to let her know what's up." TK said, looking at Matt.

"Ok, let's go."

We walked the way back. Matt made a snack for us and brought out tea. Ele was sleeping on the table.

"Ok, can I hear the names of the other people?" Ceres asked.

"The one that went with Kari is her brother Tai. Did you get a good look at the other people there?" TK asked.

"Yep."

"Good, the orange hair is his girlfriend Sora. The one with pink in her hair is Mimi. The one that was next to her with black hair is Joe. The one near Matt is Izzy. The brown spike hair with goggles is Davis. Purple hair is Yolie. And the other one is Cody. Davis, Yolie and Cody are the ones that don't like this group too much."

"What are the Crests and who has what?" She was loving this for some reason.

"The first Crest in the order that they were found: Courage, Faithfulness, Purity, Friendship, Knowledge, Hope, Love, Light, and Kindness. The owners in the same order: Tai, Joe, Mimi, Matt, Izzy, me, Sora, Kari and Ken. Davis has Courage and Friendship, Yolie has Purity and Love, and Cody has Faithfulness and Knowledge."

"And the ones that are in the third group?"

"Virtue, Faith, Peace, Patience, Calmness, Honesty, Glory, Forgiveness, Trinity and a mystery one." I answered since I'm in this group.

"Who has what?" She still had the same excitement as when TK was talking.

"Matt, Ken, Kari, me, Lily Dawn, Ryan, Don, Neon, and Trinity is spilt among Tim, Damon, and Nereida."

"Wow! This is so cool."

"I've been meaning to ask, what's that amulet that you have around your neck?"

She looked at it and her finger was feeling it. "I had it ever since I could remember. I don't know what it means but it's cool. Since I think it's a mana medallion so I never take it off. Actually, if I remember correctly, my mother gave this to me."

"Couldn't you've asked about it? What it means or something?"

"But where's the fun in that?" She acted like why should she though I had a feeling that she was hiding something.

The door knocked.

"I hope that isn't Yolie or them." Ken said, getting up and walking to the door.

He came back in a few minutes and looked at Matt with a worry look.

"What is it?" Matt was either worried about the news or Ken.

"The police are here. It has something to do with last night."

Matt looked down and nodded. He got up and walked toward the door. I was getting nervous about what the policemen want but I didn't show it. I looked over at Ceres and she seemed to be unaffected about it.

Me (I'll explain a bit what I'm feeling.. I hope)

The policemen were waiting near the door. I think one of them was lending on the doorframe.

"Hello, can I help you with something?"

"We got a report yesterday about some gunfire. Do you know anything about it?"

"I heard it too."

"Where was Panther during that time?"

"Coming home."

"We have a witness saying that she was there at that time. We would like to speak to her, if you don't mind. And if the other girl is there, we would like to speak to her too." Said the other one.

I looked at them and for a strange reason I didn't want to let them go to them. I nodded and headed back inside. Both Panther and Ceres look like nothing was bothering them, though I would like to know why Ceres was worry.

"Panther, Ceres, they would like to speak to you two."

Panther got up and set Plantmon down. Ceres looked like she was debating but decided to go too. They walked to the front door and I followed.

"Ishida-san, we only want to talk to these two. May you please go back inside?" Asked the first one.

I don't know if it was on my face or not but I knew I was getting bad at them. But I listened just the same. I didn't want Panther to leave me.

Panther

I noticed the way Matt was looking. He wanted to show his anger but he hid it. I turned to face them, not showing my worry.

"What happened last night?"

"We were walking back home when they came up and tried to shot us." I said.

"This isn't their area." Said the other.

"We took a bus home on their territory. Unfortunately they were on."

"And how did you scare them off?"

"I made sure that they have no choice but to leave."

"Did you have a gun?"

"No."

"Then how did you scare them?"

"Scaring their leader."

"Can you give us a straight answer?"

"Never mind, you tell us then." The other looked at Ceres.

She didn't seem to have that much emotion on her face. "Team work!" She said that in a happy way.

"Team work?"

"Yep, yep, yep!"

"Did she put you up to this?"

"Iie, they followed us. Are we not able to defend ourselves?" She said the last part in something that would be considered a grant voice, like royalty or something.

"Yes, you are but when it involves her, that's a different story." He looked at me but I made sure that nothing was on my face.

"But she's a citizen! She has the same rights as us all." Still in her grant voice.

"She was once like them."

"Has any wrong been her way?"

"Please explain that."

"Has she done anything that she would risk her own freedom, her citizenship?"

"Not yet."

"You can't predict the future. The past is the past. That only tells you want might happen. Humans can change if they really want to and I believe that our dear friend here wants that change. What she has told you, is correct." I'm now getting the feeling that she wants them gone more than I do.

"Are you sure? She's not pressuring you or anything."

"I can greatly assure you that I'm not one to be pressured so easily. Make no mistake about it."

"Right, sorry to trouble you then." Then they walked away.

I looked at Ceres to see her waving them good-bye. When they were gone, she stopped. "Wow, I didn't think they would ever leave."

"Why did you want them gone?"

"I did it for you. Some cops are just annoying."

"You did something that got you in trouble?"

She looked at me, "You think I'm an angel?"

I smiled with amusement. "So why did you sound like that?"

"You mean this." Her grant voice was back.

"Hai."

"I thought I should. It was fun at the time." Her normal voice was back.

We walked back inside. Matt looked at bit worried.

"What happened?" Ken asked.

"They wanted to know about last night. They don't know how I scared the leader though."

"That's good. At least they didn't try to pin the blame on you." Matt said.

"They were going to."

"What stop them?"

"My voice." Ceres said with a smile.

"Your voice?" Ken seemed puzzled. Though it was understandable since he wants to be a detective.

"Yep, I just put on my royal/lawyer voice and they understood the situation."

"Wow, I'm impressed." TK said.

I could tell in Ken's eyes that he didn't fully believe in that. I know that she left out that she pressured them with the law that they hold and most likely confused them a bit too. It was obvious that she has done something like this before. I noticed that TK had the orb with him. I guess they think that Ceres might've been one since of her amulet.

"May I ask what's the orb that you have in your hand? Are you a fortune-teller?" She was getting excited again.

"Iie, we just wondering whether you're apart of this group. That's all."

"You mean the third group?" She looked like a child with confusion.

"Yep. We just want to make sure. Since there was one Crest missing." Matt explained.

She blinked for a second then she smiled like an over excited child, "This means that I could be apart of your adventures? THIS IS SOOO COOL! Ok, what do you want me to do?" I don't think she could sit down, or calm down, if she wanted to. At least that's what it seemed like.

"Touch the orb and that's all you have to do."

She walked over to TK and laid her hand firmly on it. The blinding light poured out from it, meaning that she was the missing one. The light stopped shortly after. I looked back over to see that TK pulled the orb away from her hand.

"I think I'm blind." Ceres announced in a calm voice.

"What makes you think that?" Ken asked.

"I'm seeing white."

"Didn't you close your eyes?" Matt asked.

"I was supposed to?"

"You thought that you were supposed to keep them open?" TK asked in unbelief, as did us all.

"I thought it was a test that if you closed your eyes you can't enter."

Everyone was speechless on what to say. If I was back in my gang, I would yell at her for being so stupid but I kept my mouth tightly shut.

"Oh well. Can someone get me a glass of water?"

Ken went into the kitchen and got her one.

"Matt, is it ok if the floor gets wet?"

"Hai." He didn't know what she was going to do but I knew he didn't want to say anything about what she did.

She tilted her head backward and poured the water onto her open eyes! When the last drop escaped the glass and entered her eye, she shook her head with her eyes still open. Then blinked a few times and looked around.

"I know, I know, it was dumb but I've looked into the sun plenty of times to know how to get the blindness out."

That shocked the whole room.

"Are you saying that you can see now?" Ken could hardly believe what we just heard her say.

"Yea." She said it like it was no big deal.

"How?" TK asked, shocked and awed at the same time.

"I know this trick. That if you pour water, as long as it isn't dirty with soil, into your open eye, it'll cool the cells that are burning. Of course it doesn't work on people that are already blind."

"Where did you learn this trick?"

"Oh, something that I thought up. It's every handy."

"Anyway… TK, did you get what was on her shadow?" Matt asked, I think trying to forget what just happened.

"Yea, it isn't one of the ones that you mentioned but it is the one that her amulet shows. I think that means that somehow she got into the Digital World, someone put it on her, and then sent back. That's the only way I could think of that might come close to explaining how it got on her neck."

"I'm apart of the group. Wow! I would like to thank everyone that supported me throughout my life." She sounded like she just won an award for something important.

"Ceres, where is your mother? Didn't you say that she gave it to you?" Ken asked.

"Hai, I'm pretty sure that she did… But the one that I call mother isn't my mother. Nor is she the one that gave this to me. My bio mother is on a business trip. I'm not sure where she is since she and father go off in different direction and don't tell that many people where they're going."

I could tell that none of them were buying it, though it seemed logical to me since she told everyone that her family likes to travel and that even she travels.

"Ceres, you'll have to tell us the truth. We really need to know." TK said in a sincere voice.

"That's the truth."

"You don't trust us?" Ken asked.

"I do. What makes you think that I don't?"

"You're lying to us. We can tell."

"I had this since birth, I've never really seen my parents so I'm only assuming."

"Well, most people don't remember their younger years." Matt said.

"Good point. So if TK's theory might be right then why take those pages out of the book?"

"That's a good question. Wait, Panther, you might be able to see that."

"Huh?"

"Touch the book to see what you find."

"You have powers?" Ceres asked.

"I can see things. Past, present, and future."

"That's so cool."

"Everyone but Kari, Ken and Matt have some kind of power. TK also doesn't have anything special."

"Really? Can I hear what they are?"

I looked at Matt and he nodded. Then he headed upstairs, I'm guessing to get the book.

"Ok, Lily Dawn has telepathy, Ryan is able to turn invisible, Don can heal things and control heat, Neon is able to freeze time though she never showed them to us anyway, Tim is able to go through solid objects, Damon is a telekinesis, and Nereida is able to breath underwater."

"Wow, that's so cool."

"Do you have anything special?" TK asked.

"Oh yea and I'm happy to say that I've mastered it to near perfection." She smiled slyly to herself.

"What is it?"

"Maho."

"Really?"

"Yep, want-ne me demonstrare?"

" Demonstrate? " TK pronounced in English.

"Yea. That's what I said."

"Sure, go ahead. Do you need something?"

"No," she looked at the floor, "I'll use this water." Nothing in her face changed nor body but the water lifted into the air and back in the cup. TK just blinked.

"Cool?"

"Very, when did you know that you could do this?"

"For as long as I can remember. My power has increased with my age. That's why it's near perfection."

"I see. This is going to be interesting."

"So Ele means elements ?" Ken asked.

"Yep, I couldn't think up a name for her so that's what I thought up."

Matt came back down with the book in his hand. He laid it on the table and opened it to a page that had a torn page. I could tell that Ceres wanted to look at the book fully but didn't move toward it. I walked to the table and placed my hand on the rip page. I pulled back when the imagine stopped. Matt was waiting patiently for what I saw.

"There was a weird looking cat that was writing with her tail on that page. The cat looked a little like Gatomon."

"Could you see what the cat was writing?" Ken asked.

"Yea." I grabbed some paper and recreated what I saw her doing. The top page was Ceres's amulet and afterward it was a bunch of weird symbols, which I assumed were words. When I was done with that, I handed it to Matt.

"I need to call Izzy then. Anything else?"

"Yea, after that, though I know it was some years after the cat wrote in it since the book looked aged but not as aged as it does now. Two human looking Digimon took that page out and they also had some other pages in their hands. I'm guessing before Titanmon got it, those two found it and took the pages for some reason."

"Why call Izzy?" Ceres asked normally.

"In the Digital World, whenever he came across these symbols, he always tried to translate them. I'm not sure if he still works on it but it's worth a shot." He walked over to the phone and called Izzy.

"I thought Izzy had to go somewhere today?" TK asked more himself.

Matt hanged up and walked back, "You're right TK. He won't be back until two days."

"Is he leaving today?" Ceres asked.

"Yea but he's driving there. In fact, I think everyone else is going somewhere for like a day or so."

"I know that Yolie, Davis, and Cody are all going somewhere. Yolie is going to the beach with Mimi. Davis is going to a soccer game of one of his favorite teams. And Cody has some Kendo match that takes place somewhere else." Ken said.

"Sora is going to the mountains to get some flowers and/or designs ideas. Jo is going to be at the hospital more than usual since Mimi is going stay there for a few days." TK said.

"Guess that means that we're the only ones that didn't have anything planned." Matt said.

"Yea, I got an idea. Why don't we go to the Digital World for some fun?" Ceres suggested.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean go to the Digital World and have some fun. Travel around there, meeting Digimon, stuff like that."

"We have to be careful. There is one Digimon that we don't want to know that we're there."

"Is he your enemy?"

"You could say that."

"Oh… But then wouldn't he try things to get you in the Digital World so that way he can kill you better? And why are you guys going off in different directions if there's danger in the world that you're protecting?"

"Not all of them know that there's danger." Patamon explained.

"Huh? Then why not tell them?"

"Because they're the special group. It's only a danger to them and no one else."

"Oh, so this enemy is only the enemy to us and no one else?"

"Yep."

"But if they're friends with everyone else then wouldn't their friends want their safety and would love to help since they would want to ensure that safety?"

"That should be the case but the three that don't like this group are siding with the enemy. Because they listen to him, they don't like anyone to 'mess' with the group order or something of that." TK said.

"So it's basically they don't want anyone new in?"

"Right, they don't even know that most of the people they don't want to hang with us are apart of this group, which is a good thing since two have classes with one of them." Ken said.

"Oh, this is getting confusing."

"You'll understand when you see them. I guess this means that you have to stay here." Matt said.

"Why?" She blinked.

"You're apart of this group. We will need you."

She didn't show it much but she did look a bit nervous. "We'll see."

"Panther touch the other pages to see what you see."

"Right."

Matt flipped the pages to the first one that was ripped. I drew/wrote down everything I saw. When I reached the first page that I touched, I touched it again and I saw what was on the other side. The good thing about the other pages is that the next page was also shown. After a while, I was done. I closed the book and saw something really, really weird. I guessed it showed on my face.

"What is it?" Matt asked with some worry in his voice.

I looked at him, "I saw the cat Digimon placing this book with another book that was thicker than this. Then I saw a Gabumon waiting near the exit and she walked up to him. Then they walked out together."

"Another book?" That seemed to ring some kind of bell in him. Then I remembered about what Matt said when Styxmon left him.

"Care to fill us in?" TK asked.

"Styxmon's family was reading this book that was centered on the Digidestined. The two legends were in there." Matt said with a blank stare.

"You think that other book that Panther saw was that book?"

"It might be."

Then we heard a beeping noise. We preset a clock to remind us when we have to go. Matt got out of his stare and walked to the door without saying another word. TK and Ken got up and followed him.

"Is there something that hasn't been explained?" Ceres asked.

"I will on the way. Let's stay a bit behind though."

We walked out and followed after them. We did stay a few feet away so Matt couldn't really hear us. I could see that he was trying to regain some of his poser but it wasn't coming back.

"What's wrong with Matt?" Ceres asked with worry.

"Styxmon is a Digimon that Matt fell in love with. Near the beginning of the school, she had to leave him because of a legend saying that she would die and bring two others with her. She feared that those two people would be Matt and TK."

"Wow, that's love. But then why aren't there any pictures of her? Unless you can't take pictures of Digimon."

"You can, Kari has done that plenty of times. She died before I even came in. I think a bit before the last school year ended. Everyone in the two other groups knows what she looked like."

"Can I assume that you were one of the first to be found?"

"You can. Ken and Kari were found before me though."

"But you're the new one. So you understand more about this than the others?"

"I also know that Matt wants to get this over with. He wants to show Styxmon that nothing bad will happen to him. It's also in another legend that she told him."

"Wow, so why is he depressed now? He seemed like he was able to keep his emotions under control."

"It's been near four month since he has seen her."

"Did you lose something too?"

"Huh?" I didn't know what she was talking about.

"You looked sad too. Did you lose something as well or are you just sad for your guardian?"

"Around the time that I was found, my boyfriend was killed. Mine hasn't been five months yet but it's getting close."

"Oh, I see. I've met a few people like that. You two were really close, uh?"

"My boyfriend and I, yea."

"That seems really hard to get over. And I'm betting that for Matt, it's even harder."

"Yea, it seems like it."

We reached the station that Neon and Don were leaving from. Everyone was there when we reached it.

"Guys, guess what? I'm apart of your group!" Ceres said that with a weird happy voice.

"You're the missing Crest?" Ryan asked.

"Yea. Isn't that just super?"

"Do you know what its call?" Neon asked.

"Iie."

"We should be able to get it when Izzy comes back from wherever he's going. I'm hoping he's able to translate it." Matt said in his normal voice. He seemed to show that nothing was wrong.

"That's great. Give us a call when you find out." Don said.

"We will." TK reassured.

"Ok, we have to get going." Neon's mother called.

"Right. Bye guys, have fun." Neon said.

"You too." Nereida said.

They walked to the train and got a window seat. They waved bye as the train took off. We watched the train leave before we headed back home.

When we reached there, the phone was ringing. Ceres was the one that got to it first.

"Moshimoshi, Ishida-san resistance…… Hai, he's here…… Ok." She sounded like a child. She gave to phone to Matt.

"Hello?……… What is it?…………… Right, I'll get right on it……… They left for some fun time. It's summer here………… They most likely thought that they didn't need it……… No, I didn't……… Right, I'll be there." He hanged up the phone with anger but he didn't slam it. I guess since he was thinking about Styxmon, he was getting mad at Gennai again.

"Who was that?" Ceres asked.

"That would be our enemy. He's name is Gennai." I explained.

"If he's the one that we have to fight then why are you talking to him? Let me guess, you were once apart of his group but now your spies for his enemies?"

"Close, we want to help the people he calls enemy." Ken said.

"TK, are you apart of this revolt?"

"I'm happy to say yes. We just have to listen to him for now so he doesn't think too much."

"Oh. Ok."

I picked up my cell and called everyone in our group that was still here. In minutes, they were here. TK, Ken and Matt went through the computer since Gennai needs to know that they're there. We opened our portal with our amulets and went through there. Ceres finally saw Shendramon but she didn't run to hug though I saw that in her eyes.

We hid a bit since Gennai was walking towards them.

"They listen to an old man?" Ceres asked.

"Yea."

"Matt, I thought you said that everyone had something to do."

"Oops, I mean everyone that you most likely called. TK and Ken were already at my house."

"What took you guys so long to get in?"

"I forgot my D-3." TK said.

"Where's the trouble?" Ken asked.

"Near the ocean. There are two Digimon that you need to take care of."

"Right Gennai. We'll get right on that." TK said.

Then Gennai left them alone. We got out of our hiding spot and walked toward them.

"Ceres, you might get your Digimon." Matt said.

"I get one too!" I seriously thought she was going to do her speech again. "Ele, that means you get to have a friend!"

Everyone froze in their spot. I looked over at Ceres to see that Ele was in her hands and her massager bag was with her.

"This… isn't a safe place, ya know." Lily Dawn said.

"I know." She has even realized that she's putting Ele in danger yet!

"Then why did you bring Ele here? She can get killed." Ken said, pointing it out for her.

"Why should I leave Ele? Oh, that's why. Ok, I get it. Digimon might hate real animals but I'll make sure that nothing happens to Ele." I think someone wanted to punch some sense into her.

"Ceres, the Digimon don't hate real animals but they do take advantages whenever they pop up. We just don't want Ele to get hurt." Matt explained.

"Oh… So you don't want me to bring Ele here? Incase that happens." Now she gets it.

"Right, or if blast happens to miss."

"I see. But don't worry, Ele's tougher than she looks." She just missed the whole point.

"Fine, why did you bring you bag?" Matt seemed like he wanted to avoid an argument.

"Never go anywhere without it."

"Fine. Let's go."

We all started walking in the direction that Matt was leading us.

"Matt, how do you know where to go? Gennai only told you 'near the ocean'." Damon asked.

"I know this area. It's where we defeated one of the powerful enemies." He said that with some grief.

I looked at TK and he knew what happened here but Ken didn't. Patamon and Gabumon were a bit sad too. Then it hit me, they have never told me what happened to them when they first came here. All I heard was when the second group came in and when Kari was found. They never talk about when Tai, Sora, Izzy, Joe, Mimi, Matt, and TK first step foot in this world. I wonder why they don't want to talk about it? They never really talk about their enemies before the second group. Only one that I know from their time was Myotismon but that's because he came back.

It didn't take that long before we reached the beach. There was this guy with flaming hair (real flaming hair. It was literally on fire), a loose tank top, fighting style pants with a cloth as a belt, and boots. He also had wristbands and was looking at the water.

"May I ask why you're looking at the water?" Matt asked, only them three walked up.

He turned his head like it was no one important, "You may, though I like to know whose asking." He had a hard voice.

Something popped out of the water. It was an alligator that was able to stand on it hide legs that look human length. The same goes for his arms.

"Who are you?" The alligator asked.

"I'm just curious on why he's here." Matt said.

"Why, you're not a Digimon. Who sent you?"

"Isn't it obvious? The old man didn't want to pay us so he sent his 'warriors' here. Tell the old man that we're not giving it to him for free."

"Now that's interesting. He told us that you're mining something that's dangerous to the whole Digital World."

"And you believe him? Guess you would, seeing that you follow him. Look, we're doing our job. Bossmon wants us to get this metal for profit."

Right then all the Digimon that were with us started to growl lowly.

"Bossmon?" I asked.

"Yea, he's the one that we take orders from. In fact, Bossmon would normally give it to him for free but since all of his important post are dead and he heard that Gennai was the last one that they got word from, he's being more careful."

"Is it that metal that's able to beat the powerful moon being?"

"Yea, it is. The same one that was at the factory."

"How do you know it works?"

"Fortunately for Gennai, he tested some a long while back. It worked, though not in the way he wanted it."

"On who?"

"I don't know, but all the Super Levels knew it worked before that. And some even know who the moon beings are in your group. You better watch yourselves."

"What are your names?" TK asked.

"I'm Torchmon."

"I'm Gatormon."

"So it's not dangerous to the Digital World?"

"Not really, unless killing one of your friends is a danger but I'm doubtful that Gennai really cares."

This Digimon popped out of the water. It looked like a dinosaur by the head but it was very odd. The head and bit of its neck was red but the rest was blue as far as I could tell since its body was still under the water. It also had a small flame on the back of its head. It didn't seem to have any teeth by the way the mouth was shaped.

"What's going on?" Asked the new Digimon. I could tell that it was a she by the voice but though gentle, she did have a hard life.

"Nothing, at least I hope. We don't want to start something but we'll finish anything." Torchmon said.

"What's your name?" TK asked the other Digimon.

She looked over at Torchmon and he nodded his head. "I'm Fiterimon."

"I hope you're not treating her the same way the others treated theirs." Ken said.

"You mean Lordmon and those robots?" Ken nodded. "Nah, we're different from them."

"That means that you have them, return them now." Gatormon said in a demanding voice.

"Now, if those Digimon don't want to come back then that's fine."

"Torchmon, what are you talking about? Bossmon needs those Digimon."

"They always wanted to be free. I'm glad they got their wish." Fiterimon said.

"You stay out of this."

"Fiterimon is apart of our team, don't ever let me hear you speak to her that way again."

"Fine." Though Gatormon didn't sound like it but Torchmon seemed to brush it off.

"Guys, get away from them!"

I looked to where Yolie's voice was coming from to see her with Mimi and Davis.

"Friends of yours?" Torchmon asked, though not looking at them.

"One is. Though we call the other two the same thing." Matt answered.

"Look, we're not going to do anything if you don't bother us." I could tell that he meant it since he wasn't tensed. Gatormon was a different story.

They stopped.

"I think you are doing something already. Mining that metal." Davis yelled.

"It's in no way harming the Digital World. Look, we like it here so why would we try something that would put it in danger?"

"Because you're evil Digimon." Yolie answered.

"Those two are the ones that fully follow the old man." Matt said, though I knew that it wasn't loud enough to reach the others ears.

"DigiArmor Energize!" Both Yolie and Davis yelled, holding out their D-3.

"Hawkmon Armor Digievolves to……………………… Halsemon, the Wings of Love!"

"V-mon Armor Digievolves to……………………… Flamedramon, the Fire of Courage!"

"Like that level has anything against us." Gatormon said, getting ready to attack.

"Gatormon, please. They're just showing off. Now please. We're Super Level Digimon. Give us more respect than that."

"How powerful are Super Levels?" Mimi asked, standing behind Yolie and Davis.

"Our power is only limited to what we want. Of course, some have more limitations than others but that's all with the Digimon. Now, this situation here, it's like putting a Rookie to fight a Mega."

"Yolie, Davis, call them back."

"Nani!" Davis looked back at Mimi.

"There's no point in fighting them like this."

"Sorry Mimi, but we can't. They want to destroy the Digital World and we can't let that happen." Yolie said. Their Digimon charged toward them.

"Palmon Digievolves to…………………………Togemon!"

"Togemon Digievolves to……………………… Lillymon!" Togemon changed into a beautiful girl with long, narrow leaves as wings; pink flower petals and a yellow thing that curls into a question mark for hat or headdress; a pink dress with a three blade leaf on her chest, stomach, and breast and the bottom of the dress is like her hat minus the question mark part; boots; gloves with petals at the end; and vines for hair. Lillymon got right in front of them, forcing them to stop.

"Lillymon, what are you doing?" Flamedramon asked.

"Don't attack them."

Yolie looked at Mimi.

"We have to do something too." Ceres said.

"Yea, but we can't let them see us. Besides, the others are there to make sure nothing happens." Lily Dawn said, hating to face the truth though.

"I wish we didn't have to hide like cowards."

"Same here." I agreed. Watching and waiting was getting old but I knew that Davis and Yolie couldn't see us here.

All of a sudden, Gatormon launched forward and bit Lillymon's leg. She screamed a bit from the pain and fell to the ground.

"Lillymon!" Mimi ran up to try to help her.

"Gatormon, what are you doing?" Torchmon sounded very angry.

Lillymon turned back into Palmon and Gatormon now had one of his claws at her neck. Mimi stopped and looked at this scene with horror. I looked over to Matt and them. They were angry at what he did.

"Torchmon, we should take care of these humans once and for all! That way Bossmon doesn't have to worry."

"Listen, I want to avoid a pointless battle. They don't even know how to reach this level. If they could, then that would be a different story."

"So, are you saying that you would wait until they got stronger? You should get back to the real goal here!"

"That would be the Digidestined, not the Digimon."

"You and your honor." He raised his hand and was about to slice Palmon.

"Plantmon Digievolves to………………………………… Flowermon! Sweet Smell!" Plantmon transform into a something similar to Plantmon but instead of vines, they were leaf looking; taller; and instead of her headdress similar to Palmon, it was more of a flame style. She looked serious and little dust was coming from her new headdress. It went towards Gatormon and he froze his attack on Palmon to smell it. Breomon quickly ran towards them, grabbed Palmon, laid her down near Mimi, and headed back. Then Flowermon, since she was out in the open, went back in as well and turned back into Plantmon.

"Great job!" Ceres said.

"Thanks." Breomon said.

"I see that you have more friends." Gatormon said, angry that he was affected by a Champion's attack. He had his mouth opened towards us and shot a blast from there. Then all of a sudden, a metal looking Garurumon was between the blast and us. I looked over at Matt to see that Angemon and Stingmon were there.

"Well Mimi, do you want to stop us now?" Davis asked.

Mimi looked over at Matt for that answer.

Torchmon's hand was on fire and he sent some of it at Gatormon, which burned a bit of his skin. He looked angry with Torchmon.

"What the hell was that for!"

"I'm sorry for my friend's actions but it's still inexcusable. Fiterimon, there should be something in the ocean that can help with Palmon's wound. Hurry before she starts to delete."

"Right." Fiterimon drove into the water.

"Torchmon, why are you helping them? They are enemy!"

"Because she was trying to make sure that we were left alone to do our work. Plus, you attack from behind."

"They are Digidestined Digimon! We should fight them as we pleas!"

"Torchmon, I got it." Fiterimon said with a weird looking seed weed in her mouth.

"Great job. Gatormon, retrieve it."

"Let the Rookie die."

Torchmon narrowed his eyes. "Fiterimon, launched it at Palmon's Digidestined."

Fiterimon tossed it up and a little water blast at it, which made it go towards Mimi. Mimi caught it and looked at Torchmon for instructions.

"Let her eat some and put the rest on that wound."

"Arigato." Mimi did as told.

"Metal Garurumon, are you ok?" Matt asked, guessing he wanted to make sure that Palmon was ok.

"I'm fine." He sat down where he stood.

Then there were footsteps being heard. Everyone looked at where they were coming from to see Gennai walking towards them.

"Gennai, nice of you to show." Torchmon said.

"Digidestined, what's going on here?" I guess he expected the job done by now.

"Mimi's insane! She doesn't want to fight them." Yolie said.

"Mimi, why?"

"Gennai, they said that the metal wouldn't destroy the Digital World."

"These kinds of Digimon would lie to stay alive. You know that."

"Gennai, you're doing all of this just because you don't want to pay? That's very low." Torchmon said.

"Can I kill him then?" Gatormon asked with annoyance, not even trying to hide their conversation.

"If we attack him then one of those two would defend." He tilted his head towards Flamedramon and Halsemon.

"Why are you saying that only we would? The others would too!" Yolie said.

"See Torchmon, I told you that we should've take care of them before hand."

"Fiterimon, you are done in this area, right?"

"Yes, Torchmon."

"Then head towards the next area. Gatormon, go with her. I'll be there shortly."

"You better take care of them." Gatormon walked towards the water.

"Tempest Wing!" Halsemon yelled and shot his attack at Gatormon. He dodged it fairly easily and blast from his mouth at Halsemon.

Halsemon got hit and fell to the ground, going back to Hawkmon. Yolei ran to him and picked him up. Gatormon then launched at Flamedramon and knocked him into the water. Flamedramon did a flip to avoid landing on his head but when he landed in the water, he went under.

"Flamedramon!" Davis called, running to the ocean.

Gatormon then launched an attack on Davis. He would've gotten hit if Stingmon didn't get in the way. Amazingly, he was still standing, like it didn't do anything to him. This surprised both Supers.

"Fiterimon, get Flamedramon out." Torchmon ordered.

She drove in and in seconds, Flamedramon was on her back and she went towards shore.

"Why are you helping them?" Gatormon didn't seem to be asking Fiterimon.

"I'm the one in charge here! Don't question my orders!"

"I am because you're helping the enemy!"

Davis pulled Flamedramon off of Fiterimon's back. He quickly got up and launched at Gatormon, "Fire Rocket!" He landed a solid punch on his cheek but it didn't affect him at all.

Gatormon grabbed his arm and threw him to the ground and hard. He went back to V-mon and Gatormon tossed him back into the ocean. Fiterimon caught him before he went in.

"Fiterimon, drop him!" Gatormon ordered.

She swam back to Davis and gave back V-mon.

Gatormon launched an attack at Fiterimon. Torchmon got in the way and deflected it away from everyone.

"Do that again and you won't see another day."

"Matt, now is your chance. Attack them while they're distracted." I heard Gennai say in a low voice. I looked over to see that Matt didn't care what Gennai said and was pretending that he didn't hear him.

"Matt." He said a bit louder.

Matt looked over at him, his eyes showing no emotion.

"Attack them while they're distracted."

"If Flamedramon couldn't do anything, what makes you think our Digimon will make a difference?"

"Because of Stingmon."

"Defending and attacking are two different motions."

V-mon went to XV-mon. A flash came and both Stingmon and XV-mon say their names and 'DNA Digievolves to…' The flash ended and Paildramon was in their spot. Hawkmon went to Aquilamon and Gatomon appeared above him. They repeated the same thing that Stingmon and XV-mon did but they turned into Silphymon. WarGreymon appeared and the same with Tai and Kari. Matt looked sad at Tai being there for some reason.

"We were told that you guys needed some help." Tai said. He looked at Matt but Matt didn't do anything. Tai then held confusion but ignored whatever was on Matt's face. "Matt, let's bring out Omnimon!"

Matt sighed before nodding his head. I could tell by body language that he was sad to do so.

Metal Garurumon and WarGreymon fused together to create a warrior looking Digimon. He had Metal Garurumon's head for his right hand and WarGreymon's for his left.

"I guess this means you don't have a choice." Gatormon said, looking at Omnimon.

"And here I thought you were ok with our job." Torchmon looked at Matt then there was shock in his eyes. I couldn't see how Matt looked but obviously there was something there that Torchmon didn't expect to find.

"Omnimon, attack!" Tai said.

Omnimon summoned a laser sword from his WarGreymon's hand and launched toward them.

Both Silphymon and Paildramon fire an attack on them as well.

Omnimon struck both first with one swing then pulled up. The other two blasts hit one of them. When the smoked cleared, the blast from the two only marked them but the cut was did any real damage.

"Paildramon Digievolves to……………………… Imperialdramon!" Imperialdramon didn't waste any time. He attacked them again but they didn't get any damage. Omnimon attacked again but this time with a blast that comes from Metal Garurumon. They dodged those and Gatormon launched his own back at Omnimon. They hit but did little damage to him.

"How can a Mega stand against a Super?" Torchmon asked out loud but more to himself.

"TK, Digievolve Angemon into MangaAngemon!" Yolei suggested.

Before TK could say anything, Gatormon looked at Angemon and blasted at him with what looked like a lot of power.

"Angemon!" TK yelled, knowing that he's powerless to help.

Surprisingly though, Angemon dodged it by moving up. The blast landed some miles away from TK and them.

"What!" Gatormon was shocked by Angemon's reaction time.

"Gatormon, we have to pull back!" Torchmon yelled.

"I'm not a coward! They're just getting luckily!"

"Gatormon, you might get killed if you continue!"

"By some low level Digimon? I don't think so." He launched towards Angemon, or so everyone thought. Before he even reached him, he quickly aimed for TK who didn't have any time to react. But instead of biting TK, he bit Shendramon's tail. He tossed him back to Torchmon.

"One of the missing Digimon. Good, that means we can take you back." Gatormon said as he was getting up.

"Gatormon, you idiot!" Torchmon said. Omnimon, who was showing no mercy, was blasting them on.

Torchmon didn't have enough time to dodge them all and either did Gatormon. The others were doing the same thing but only Shendramon wasn't attacking. A weird looking blast hit Silphymon and sent him to the ground, de-evolving them back to two Digimon. But neither Hawkmon nor Aquilamon showed, only his In-training from, Poromon and Gatomon's Rookie form, Salamon.

I looked in the direction of the blast to see that it came from Fiterimon. Torchmon and Gatormon weren't badly damaged but a few more hits and they could be.

"If they enslaved you then why protect them?" Gennai asked.

Angry tears started to flow from her eyes. She turned to Torchmon. It looked like he was talking to her and more tears started to come down.

Imperialdramon launched an attack on them. Omnimon did the same. Torchmon pushed Fiterimon away but something hit him. He looked at Gennai. The blast hit and a big explosion came. We covered our faces and Digimon but I heard the others falling back.

When only smoke came, I looked up to see that Matt was protecting TK and Ken; Mimi was protecting Yolei, Davis, and Palmon; Tai was protecting Kari. The other Digimon were down graded. Angemon was back to Patamon; Imperialdramon went to Leafmon and Demi V-mon; and Omnimon was Gabumon and Agumon. They were lying where they stood. Torchmon and Gatormon were disappearing. Matt ran to them and I could see Torchmon saying something. Then they disappeared into dust and floated away.

Matt looked down but then ran to Gabumon. Ken went to Leafmon, as did all the ones that didn't have their Digimon in their hands.

"Are you guys alright?" Nereida asked. I noticed that Shendramon was back with us.

"Yea, everyone is fine." Ryan said.

"What now?" Ceres asked.

"We wait until everyone else leaves. That was some good thinking, Digimon." Lily Dawn said.

"No problem." Breomon said.

"Great job Digidestined." Gennai said, walking towards them.

"Thanks Gennai." Yolei said.

"We're just glad that the Digital World is safe." Davis said.

"Kari, who called you?" TK asked.

"Yolei did."

"Well, we better head back. See ya later." Tai said.

Kari smiled was a bit sad but she walked with Tai anyway.

"Yea, I better hurry too. I think the game is about to start." Davis took off.

"Let's head back too." Mimi said, looking at Yolei.

"Right." Mimi waved bye then walked off with Yolei.

"Don't you need to go somewhere?" Gennai asked.

"Not really." Ken said, knowing that Matt might say something he can't.

"Oh, ok." Gennai walked away.

As soon as he was out of our sight, we walked out.

"Are you guys ok?" Matt asked, looking worry.

"Yea, we're fine. Thanks Gabumon." Damon said.

"Not a problem." I could tell that he was lending on Matt's leg.

"What did Torchmon said to you?" I asked.

"He wants Fiterimon to be safe and happy."

"I'm sorry Matt. I didn't want to attack him." Gabumon said.

"It's ok. Agumon was in more control."

"Yea, the same goes for you too Leafmon." Ken said, looking at him. Though Leafmon was sleeping in his arms.

Ceres went over to edge. She looked at the water. "Fiterimon, aren't you going to come up?" Fiterimon came up. "Hi there, I'm Ceres."

"Would it be alright if I stay with you? I don't have anywhere else to go." Tears were still falling from her eyes.

"Of course you can come with us. We didn't want your friend to die." Matt said.

"Thank you." She got out. She had webbed feet, a long tail with a dolphin style end, her body and most of her tail was red; legs and the end of her tail were blue.

Nereida opened a portal. Ceres led Fiterimon through and everyone else followed. We were in front of Matt's house.

"We better go, still need to get ready." Tim said.

"Fiterimon, sorry we couldn't do anything to help." Damon said.

She nodded and they left.

"Well, we have a few hours before we have to go." Ryan said, looking at his watch.

"Then you better make sure you have everything." Ken said.

"Right, see ya." They waved and headed to their house.

Matt opened the door and everyone walked in. TK showed them around the house.

"I better get to work. I don't have that much to do and I might be able to get it done before they leave." Matt walked towards the door where his new room is (letting you know that I wrote the few comments during this time. It was the only time that I had to do so).

"Hope he does get it done. Then he'll go back to normal." I said.

"I hope he does but for some reason, I really don't think so."

I looked at Ken and he was being serious. "What do you mean?"

"I don't really know but somehow… I just know something isn't right. And I can't do anything to help."

"There has to be something that we can do."

"I hope there is." Ken's cell rang. "Moshimoshi?…… Oh, hi mother…… I thought it wasn't until a few days?…………… Fine. See you later." He hung up.

"What was that about?" I asked.

"It seems like convention date was changed. They usually have it on the same days."

"Oh, when do you have to leave?"

"Tomorrow morning. I'm riding myself over though."

"Oh, ok."

TK and they came back.

"Where's Matt?" He looked around.

"He's working. He wants to see whether he can get it done." I said.

"He's in there?" Ceres looked at the exact door.

"Yea."

"Oh, TK, the convention was moved. I have to go tomorrow."

"Really? Ok." He seemed disappointed about something else.

I went into the kitchen and started to make tea.

"Ya know, I know how to do a tea ceremony."

I looked over my shoulder to see Ceres smiling. Fiterimon was with her.

"But we don't need a ceremony."

"I know, but it's really cool to watch."

I put the tea on a tray, "Really?" I carried it out.

"Yea, the grace of the maker is really important."

I sat the tray down and handed everyone one.

"How do you drink this?" Fiterimon asked, looking at hers.

"I'll show you." Plantmon went over and showed her. At first it was difficult but then they found something that worked. She uses her tail as hands but we decided that it would be best for her to use a bowl.

After a while, Matt came out. Everyone looked at him and he smiled.

"I'm finally done." He came a sat down.

"Good." Gabumon handed him tea. He drank it with great relief.

"You better call Hota then. To let her know."

"Right." He got up and started to dial. He told her that he was done with the work and then listened to what she was saying before hanging up.

"What did she say?" TK asked.

"She said that she'll come over to get the work and a few of the other workers that were also helping with the project that I was doing are having a party. She also promised that I wouldn't get any work for a few days, she's hoping for a week though."

"Wow, you have a really nice boss." Ceres said.

"It's only because Matt needs it. He's been working day and night on this for a long while now." TK said.

"Have you gotten any sleep?"

"I wish. But tonight I know I'll get that."

"Great." Ceres seemed a bit nervous.

There was a knock at the door.

"Come on in." Matt said as soon as all the Digimon went to a position in which they could hide.

The door opened and Hota came in. "Hello everyone."

"I'll get the work." Matt went back to the room and got it out.

"You kept them in there?" She asked as she was handed them.

"I worked on them in there."

"I guess it was the closest thing to having your eyes close. Anyway, great job Matt. Are you going to that party?"

He looked at us. TK nodded and the same with me. "Sure."

"Great, have fun then. Bye and it was nice meeting you." Then she walked out and closed the door.

The beeping came and we all headed out. Matt drove us, since the place he has to get to is far away from the house. We said bye to Lily Dawn and Ryan and watched them leave. Gabumon went with Matt to that party and we headed back to Matt's house. When we got there, TK and Ken said night and headed towards their house.

"Let's get to bed." I suggested.

"Right."

We walked in and then went to bed. Before I left asleep though, I took a long look at the picture that I drew. I felt like something wasn't right here. I held Plantmon a bit tighter before actually falling asleep.