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Chapter 8: The Digidestined Meets the Warriors
"Yoleeeiiiii?"
"JP! What are you doing here?" Yolei exclaimed as she stood shocked. Of all people, she hadn't expected to meet JP at a festival or even in the Digital World for that matter. Ken, Cody and the digimon just stared as they watched the encounter.
"That's a... person?" Cody said dumbfounded.
"And a person that... Yolei knows." Armadillomon said as he laughed nervously.
"What do you mean what am I doing here? What are you doing here!" JP exclaimed as the pair continued to go back and forth.
"Oh my, it seems like we've stumbled upon some humans."
"Wow." Neemon said as he took another bite from his taiyaki.
"Will you stop eating?" Bokomon snapped his waistband.
"Ouch!" Neemon exclaimed. A few surrounding digimon just stared at the group and made sure to keep their distance between themselves. Ken noticed this and sweatdropped.
"I think we're causing a bit of a commotion." Ken said to Wormmon who nodded his head. Cody just looked over towards him with an uneasy look on his face but Ken reassured him that everything would be just fine. At that time, Hawkmon flew over and tried to calm down Yolei who was still freaking out and started to strangle JP. Bokomon and Neemon both tried to get their girl's grip off of his neck but they were surprised by how strong she was.
"Is she really a human?" Bokomon exclaimed as he saw Hawkmon managing to ease the girl back to her normal state.
"I wonder that every day." JP said after getting the oxygen running through his lungs again. At this time, Ken and Cody stood up and walked over to meet the boy.
"Hi, I'm Ken Ichijouji and this is my partner Wormmon."
"I'm Cody Hida and this is Armadillomon." The two boys introduced.
"Hey, I'm so glad you guys showed up. I can't wait to tell those guys that I found the other kids." JP snickered to himself. "I'm JP Shibayama by the way and these two are Bokomon and Neemon."
"So you aren't alone, here?" Hawkmon asked questioned the boy.
"No, I just said that I was with Bokomon and Neemon." JP corrected.
"No I mean, that there are other digidestined other than yourself present?" Hawkmon corrected instead.
"Oh yeah, of course." JP smiled.
"Where are they?" asked Cody.
"Everyone decided to split up since we were searching for something." Bokomon said this time. "Our leader said that we should all meet up at the end of the festival so that we could tell each other what we found, since we don't have any way of communicating with one another."
"Oh well, I'll just email our group and tell them where we're going. They're all going to be ecstatic." Yolei said taking out her D-terminal.
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"So Jijimon, do you know about a guy named Gennai?" Koji asked as the elder digimon brought them to a place away from the hustle and bustle of the festival.
"Everyone around the digital world should have heard of Gennai, ho ho ho." Jijimon laughed. "However, there are many different rumors on his exact location."
"Is that so? So it's going to be really difficult to pinpoint an exact location then." Koichi sighed.
"Yes, that is true. Gennai unfortunately travels from one place to another quite rapidly so there are various places that digimon see him at. I'm sure that he's even come to visit this festival recently, though I did see him inside our hidden village one day."
"Hidden village?" Koji questioned the elder digimon.
"Yes, unfortunately, the reason why we have our festival out in this forest is because our old location was out of our reach since we got driven out of the territory." Jijimon just shook his head sadly.
"That's terrible." Koichi commented as he noted the hint of sadness in the eyes of the old digimon.
"The good thing is that everyone is recuperating well in our current spot which is also safe from any invasion that may occur." Jijimon explained.
"That's good to hear but that doesn't have anything to do with us." Koji said up front.
"Koji!" Koichi scolded as he turned back towards Jijimon. "Well, thanks for listening." The older twin thanked.
"No problem. If there's anything that you need, just feel free to contact me. I'll be around the festival so don't hesitate to approach me." Jijimon waved his goodbye before mingling back within the crowd. The twins just looked at each other and without saying a word, they both decided that it'd be best to go and start heading towards the meeting place that Takuya had set.
"If we're lucky, then the others should have found something." Koji scratched the back of his head as his brother just smiled and nodded as they headed back towards the edge of the festival.
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The twin boys had made it to the meeting spot and looked around to see if anyone else was there as well. However, it seems that they were the first ones to arrive. "Hm... I wonder where everyone is?" Koichi wondered as his younger twin sat down.
"I don't know but they're taking their sweet time in getting here." Koji sighed. Just then, he heard their names being called from behind Koichi and the other turned to see who is was and found Bokomon and Neemon running towards them, yelling.
"Bokomon, Neemon, what's wrong?" Koichi asked as he stood up.
"Is someone attacking you?" Koji asked.
"No, it's nothing like that." Neemon breathed heavily.
"We and JP found something!" Bokomon said excitedly. The twins exchanged confused glances but then heard JP's voice in the distance. Behind him were three humans with digimon at their sides. They both just stared wide eyed at the older boy who made his way over towards them but were unsure of what to say. When JP came by he smiled broadly.
"Look at who I found." He said as he turned towards the others.
"You actually found them?" Koji and Koichi said in unison.
"Neemon did actually but yeah technically." JP scratched the back of his head as a boy with longish dark blue hair walked towards them.
"Hello, I'm Ken Ichijouji and this is my partner Wormmon." Ken said as he gave his hand to Koji and Koichi.
"Hey..." Koichi gave Ken a good look in the eye. "I think I go to school with you." Koichi said as Ken suddenly had a realization in his eye as well.
"You were the new student that was introduced in my class this year." Ken replied with a smile. "Nice to finally meet you, though I never expected that I would befriend you in a place like the digital world."
"Likewise, but I've heard a lot about you." Koichi smiled. "I'm Koichi Kimura by the way and this is my twin brother Koji Minamoto." Koji just gave a wave as he looked at the other two behind the genius boy.
"Right, my turn. I'm Yolei Inoue and my partner Hawkmon."
"A pleasure." Hawkmon bowed towards the pair.
"I'm Cody Hida and this is Armadillomon."
"Howdy."
"What do you know, we didn't need to find that Gennai guy after all." Koji said partly to himself.
"Gennai? You were looking for Gennai?" Yolei looked straight into Koji's eyes as she looked at him up close.
"Y-yeah..." Koji said pushing her back by her shoulders and turned away from her.
"What about Gennai?" a new voice said as three other kids appeared from the bushes. Koji, Koichi and JP all just stared at the trio with wide eyes. How many kids were there in the digital world and why were they meeting here out of all places. The other three just stared as well upon seeing new faces with their friends. Davis was standing there frozen, stuttering something that no one could really make out while Kari and TK just exchanged glances before speaking.
"Yolei, was this what you meant by a surprise?" TK asked the older girl.
"Yeah, it's great isn't it?" she smiled.
"Wait, I recognize you guys." Davis said as he put a hand on his chin, rubbing it while thinking.
"You're that soccer captain on Takuya's team, what's your name... Mavis, Donald, Daiki..." JP started listing names.
"It's Davis, and I'm Veemon." Veemon greeted. The others all introduced themselves as well before letting the warriors take their turn in introductions. That was when Davis suddenly spoke up. "You said Takuya earlier, aren't you guys his friends outside the soccer team?" The warriors looked surprised at the soccer captain for knowing something like this.
"Yeah, we're that gogglehead's friends, what of it?" Koji looked at him suspiciously.
"You're right Davis, which would mean that Takuya's here too." TK pieced together.
"The Co-Captain of the team? That's some weird coincidence." Armadillomon commented as Cody nodded in agreement.
"Not only him, but a little kid name Tommy Himi and a girl our age, Zoe Orimoto, are also here with us." Koichi informed. Kari then looked shocked at this, even Zoe was here in the digital world but for how long have these guys known that the digital world existed and why would Gennai only tell them this now? These and many other questions were bouncing around in everyone's heads as each group looked towards one another.
"That's all right? I mean, there isn't any more of you is there?" Hawkmon asked.
"Nope, this is all plus the missing three. Though I do wonder where they've gone off to." Bokomon wondered worriedly.
"Knowing Taki, they're probably lost somewhere." JP snickered.
"It's not like you're any better with directions, JP." Yolei said skeptically.
"Isn't there a way for you to contact them?" Patamon flapped over towards Neemon and Bokomon.
"Unfortunately, no." Bokomon said as he shook his head.
"Then when you get lost, how do you find each other?" Gatomon asked.
The Warriors and their two digimon all looked at each other and wondered themselves how indeed. "Well, we establish a lot of meeting spots and stuff but other than that, we sort of just end up back together." Koichi said in a non-believing sort of way. The digidestined all just nodded their heads but didn't really understand the kind of luck these kids had.
"Well, no use in sitting around, we should go and look for them." Davis said to the group. No one argued and they then walked off in search of the missing three. The group all searched every inch of the festival and asked almost every digimon that they saw. Each had said something slightly different from the other but they all lead to one area, which is also the last area that they haven't checked out yet.
"Alright, they have to be around here somewhere. This is the last place in the whole festival." JP said as he was starting to get tired. They had been walking around for a while now looking for his friends but couldn't find them anywhere.
Davis and Veemon didn't waste any time in asking the digimon in some booths about the kids. "Hey, did any of you see a couple of humans around here?" the digimon all shook their heads, disappointing the two.
"I saw them!" said a new voice from behind. They turned to see an Elecmon running up to the large group behind the pair. Davis and Veemon ran over to hear what the rookie had to say.
"Did you really see them?" Gatomon asked.
"Yeah, we talked with our village leader, Jijimon and they were asking about some guy named... uh... Genie, Geoffrey, Ginney..."
"Gennai?" Yolei suggested.
"Yeah that's the one!" Elecmon said happily.
"Hold on, they met Jijimon?" Koji asked suspiciously.
"That's right, we talked a little while ago and he said that he was going to take them to see Gennai." Elecmon informed.
"But that can't be." Koichi insisted.
"What's wrong, my boy?" Bokomon asked as he climbed up on his shoulder.
"Koji and I also talked to Jijimon but he said that he didn't know anything about Gennai's whereabouts."
"That's odd, something doesn't seem right." Said another new voice. "Elecmon, can you please tell us a few more details?"
"Jijimon? I thought you were guiding those three humans?" Elecmon sounded confused.
"I assure you, not, the only humans that I've met today are these two fine young fellows." The elder digimon motioned towards the twins. "Other than them, I've been seeing other digimon who are visiting as well as the villagers."
"But if Taki, Zoe and Tommy met someone that could potentially help us, then why didn't they tell us first before going off?" wondered JP.
"Something really stinks." Davis said seriously. "If there are two Jijimon's then who's the real one?"
"Davis you have to think about it." TK said to the boy. "Other than Izzy, no one seriously knows where Gennai is."
"We don't even know where Gennai is, and he's the one that called us here!" Yolei practically screamed in the gogglehead's ear.
"Then that means we have to find those guys fast." Hawkmon said as everyone agreed.
"So which way did they go Elecmon?" Kari asked.
"They went in the forest, that way." Elecmon pointed behind them where the festival met the forest bushes.
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Takuya, Zoe and Tommy had followed Jijimon out of the festival area and into the woods. They had asked earlier where he was leading them and he answered that they were going to go inside the hidden village though the area was pretty shady to them. However, they didn't really want to push on the subject so that they don't offend Jijimon and his village. Before they had set off, Takuya had offered to race over to their meeting spot to inform the others of their discovery but Jijimon said that it'd be best not to keep Gennai waiting. Takuya didn't want to potentially insult someone that was supposed to help them so he went along with Jijimon's proposal to head there straight then inform the others later.
"So um..." Zoe decided to break the silence between them all. "Thanks again for helping us and everything, Jijimon." She smiled, the other two boys agreeing with her and expressing their thanks also.
"Oh, really children, it really is no trouble, no trouble at all. If it means that I can help you humans then it is my pleasure and privilege." Jijimon waved it off as they continued through the dark.
"So are getting any closer?" Tommy asked.
"Oh yes, we are nearing the secret entrance. We shall be there in a few moments, so please be patient." Jijimon said to the boy. And just like he said, they came to a hidden entrance found at the base of a very large tree. The old digimon had opened up the hatch for them and let them enter first.
"This seems very well made." Takuya said as he looked down at the tunnel.
"I only hoped for the best and to give the villagers the best that I could offer them." Jijimon said philosophically.
"That's sweet, we'll we better get going." Zoe entered first followed by Tommy then Takuya.
"Thanks again, Jijimon." Takuya said and headed after the others.
"You're welcome." Jijimon walked after them and shut the hatch behind him. On his face, there creeped a small, devious smile. "You're very welcome indeed."
Whoooaaa didn't see that comin did ya?
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