Well, chapter 8 of Jeri's Trust. Excited? I am. Sort of. Last chapter was so short, I hoped the dream seemed longer, but it seemed so short in the edit box, I wanted to cry. Well, here goes nothing. You know, I just realized I haven't done a disclaimer in a long time. Don't want to get sued so…

I don't own anything. It's the sad truth. I own the fictional parts of the plot, but that's all. Now I'm defiantly going to cry.


"So what are we going to do now?" Mimi asked the group.

"Whamon told us where to go. In the forest. A few miles from here is a Koromon village."

"Koromon?" Jeri asked, surprised. "Isn't that Agumon's in training form?"

"Yeah." Agumon answered. "It is." He beamed.

"Ok gang, let's move out." Tai told them.

"All right!" They agreed and started to move.


"This place is bigger than I thought." Sora groaned. They walked through a desert. It reminded Jeri of the old Digital World.

"It's simple physics. The universe is expanding." Gomamon cheered.

"I think my feet are expanding." Joe complained. "We've been walking all day long and their's no sign of the village yet." Jeri silently agreed with him. It was taking too long! Mimi started telling them what she wished. 'She's such a princess!' Jeri thought angrily. She doesn't need to be pampered so much. Jeri shook her head, trying to get those horrible thoughts out of her head. They wouldn't leave. Jeri settled for refusing to open her mouth.

Agumon ran ahead, sniffing the air. "Agumon, what is it?" Tai demanded. Jeri had a sudden picture of someone calling their dog.

"Tai. I smell Koromon over in this direction." Agumon said seriously. Jeri silently cheered.

"Really?" Tai questioned. Tai got out his mini telescope and scanned the horizon. Jeri held her breath. "A forest."

"A forest?" they all chanted together.

"Is that where the Koromon village is?" Matt asked.

"It must be. Come on!" Tai yelled and ran forward.

"Tai! Wait a minute." Sora called after him. She started to run. Jeri stayed put a second longer, trying to figure this out. But fear of being left alone won out and she chased after the group.

'I hope we don't regret this later.'


They walked through the thick forest.

"Almost there." Tai grinned. At the top of the hill, they came to a stop and gasped. The Koromon village. Calumon clapped aimlessly.

They ran down the hill, stumbling. Jeri fell. The others didn't notice and kept running. Jeri picked herself up and watched them. Jeri sighed.

"Jeri?" Leomon asked, puzzled.

"It feels like something bad is about to happen Leomon. The others had reached the village. Jeri started to walk slowly. "I can tell. Something is going to happen and its going to be bad." She looked up at her partner.

"You really feel that way?" he asked her. Jeri nodded. "Then you should tell them. You know what dangers lie here."

"I don't know. I'm not really a part of their team. I'm just some girl that got transported here by mistake." Jeri frowned.

"Are you sure. Maybe it wasn't a mistake. This could be your where your heart lies. Don't think that you aren't important. You may be the person that saves them from what is to come." Leomon said wisely. Jeri nodded weakly. She smiled at Leomon and ran for the village, to tell them her concerns. Leomon knew this was the right thing to do. He followed her lead.


"Guys? Where are you?" Jeri called. No answer. The tallest building was the tower. It was the only that they could all fit inside. Jeri stuck her head in. "Anyone in here?" She called throughout the building. Calumon appeared from atop the left staircase.

"Jeri, Jeri! It's so funny. Come see!" He went back through a doorway. Jeri looked at the lion, then race up the stairs. She was greeted with the sight of Tai and Izzy on the floor, stunned.

"What happened." She asked them.

"They walked in on Mimi taking a bath." Sora smirked at the two boys. "I told you not to go in there."

"But. But they kidnapped her. How was we suppose to know." Tai blubbered. Jeri was lost.


Night time. After the ordeal with Mimi (Sora had told her what happened) they were in the tower still, eating a delicious supper. The Pagumon were singing a song for them.

"Welcome to our village. We hope you never go. Stay with here and visit us and please enjoy the show." They chanted together, rocking from side to side. To Jeri, they looked untrustworthy.

"What happened to the Koromon?" Jeri asked a passing Pagumon.

"What Koromon?" it puzzled. "This is the Pagumon village." Jeri watched it go with untrusting eyes. Jeri turned her attention to T.K., who sat beside her. He was feeding a cookie to Poyomon. She smiled. T.K. was acting just like a parent. He always took care of Poyomon and made sure he was happy. Poyomon started to shiver.

"What's the matter?" T.K. asked. Jeri knelt down to take a look at him. In a flash of light, Poyomon said…

Poyomon digivolve to…Tokomon!

"Hey! He's Tokomon again!" T.K. cheered, engulfing the newly digivolve Digimon in a hug.

"Congratulations." Jeri said earnestly.


"Goodnight everybody." Jeri sighed sleepily. The mumbled replies were lost as she fell into sleep.


"Guys! Tokomon's gone!" Came T.K.'s frantic cries, waking Jeri and the others up from their peaceful sleep.

"Huh? What's all the racket T.K.?" Matt asked his little brother, rubbing the sleep from his eyes.

"Tokomon's gone!" T.K. repeated. They all sat up on alert. Jeri had a bad feeling that the Pagumon were involved with Tokomon's disappearance. They all got up to look for him.


Various cries of "Tokomon!" came from all around the village. Jeri was off to the south, near the path that led up to the waterfall. She decided to search the forest. She had saw Agumon go in there a few minutes ago, so she didn't feel like she had to call Leomon to come with her. All around her were exotic plants, plants that Tokomon could hide behind.

"Tokomon!" She called. She spotted Agumon heading for the waterfall. "Agumon! Wait up!"

"Jeri. What are you doing here?"

"I decided to help you search the forest." Jeri told him.

"Ok. I thought I just smelt Koromon by the waterfall. Come on." he sniffed then moved on. Jeri kept pace. They reached the lake that the waterfall emptied into. "It's coming from behind the waterfall!" he exclaimed. Jeri and Agumon ran over to the waterfall and looked behind it.

"What!" Jeri gasped. There was Tokomon, tied up and in a cage. And behind him, in a bigger cage, was the Koromon!

"Help. The Pagumon came and put us in these cages." A Koromon told them.

"I knew it. They were behind this." Jeri muttered to herself. She started to work on Tokomon's lock. Agumon worked on the Koromon's.

"I'd stop that if I were you." An unknown voice came from behind them. Jeri looked back to find two Gazimon standing there, arms crossed and smirks on their faces.

"But your Gazimon." Agumon told them.

"Exactly right. We are going to be giving the humans to King Etemon. And here's the first." He grinned at Jeri and jumped her.

"Pepper Breath!" Agumon shouted, releasing it on Jeri's attacker. The other Gazimon ran toward Agumon, while the first continued to relentlessly attack Jeri, tying her up. They put her in the cage with Tokomon and went to finish off Agumon.

"Agumon!" Jeri cried.

"Go ahead. Scream. No one can hear you." The Gazimon sneered.

"If only it wasn't for this waterfall." Agumon groaned from the ground. "That's it!" He stood up and got ready to fire an attack.

"Pepper Breath!" he fired over and over at the waterfall. Jeri gasped when she caught on to what he was doing. Letting him alert the others, she settled for trying to get her and Tokomon out of the ropes. She stopped when Agumon started getting beat up again.

"Agumon! Stop it! Don't hurt him!" Jeri and Tokomon yelled at the Gazimon.

They ignored them. "Get ready lizard." said the first. "Here's a present for ya." the second raised his claws.

"NO! Don't kill him." She had an image of Beezlemon raising his claws to Leomon, and stabbing him in the chest.

"Agumon!" Tai's voice came from outside the waterfall.

"Help us! Help!" Jeri and Agumon yelled together.

"Hold on Agumon!" Tai yelled. Tai appeared. "Agumon." He looked at the cages. "Jeri? What happened?"

"Help Agumon!" she screamed at him.

"Right. Are you all right?" he asked Agumon.

"Now I am." Agumon answered, lying on the ground between the two Gazimon.

"Digivolving time. Agumon, get up!" Tai ordered.

"You got it!" Agumon got a serious look in his face.

"Agumon digivolve to…Greymon!"

"Go Greymon!" Jeri yelled from her cage. She started rocking back and forth, trying to break the lock on her cage. "Come on. Break already." she grumbled while the others ran up to them. Greymon threatened the Gazimon.

"Jeri!" Leomon yelled.

"Leomon. Help me out please." She told him. He and T.K. broke the lock and untied them.

"Tokomon. I thought I lost you again." T.K. rubbed his face against Tokomon's.

"I'm like a boomerang. I keep coming back." He told the child.

"Are you ok Jeri?" Leomon asked her, concern on her face.

"Yeah. I'm not hurt or anything." Jeri smiled up at him as Calumon attacked her face, giving her a big smooch.

"Jeri, Jeri. We were so worried when you disappeared Leomon went bezerk!" Calumon laughed. Jeri glanced up at Leomon, who was hovering near her, unwilling to leave her side.

"Well, hello." A microphoned voice said. Joe looked up in surprise.

"A Digimon rock star?" he asked. A monkey rose up from the bushes.

"Why you measly little digidestined, thank you very much." he said into his microphone. "Hello."

"It's Etemon! Oh no!" The Koromon chanted together, fright in their voices.

"You little bratty kids messed up all my beautiful plans. So now I'm going to have to punish you all by playing a number I just wrote." A stage rose up and Etemon stepped onto it. He got ready to play the guitar. "It's called wrecking the whole place."

"Wrecking the whole place?" Tai asked.

"Do you think he can actually do that?" Izzy wondered aloud.

"Dark Network Concert Crush." Etemon let his attack rip. The ground started to shake. Black likes appeared out of the ground and started zapping everything. One zapped the river and a big ball of water shot up. Leomon stepped in front of Jeri and got soaked.

"Everyone! Digivolve now!" Sora yelled to them. They all agreed and Jeri held onto Calumon as the red triangle on his forehead started to glow.

Gabumon digivolve to…Garurumon!

Garurumon was the only one able to digivolve before Etemon let out another attack. The Digimon screamed in pain, all the champions dedigivolved…including Leomon! An Elecmon was left in his place.

"Leomon." Jeri said softly. "Err…Elecmon." she corrected herself. She picked the red and blue Digimon up in her arms and hugged him. She pulled out her D-Ark.

"Elecmon is a Mammal Digimon. He resembles a red and purple rabbit with reptilian skin and tail feathers. He can run around discharging electricity. Each Elecmon are proud of their tails and can use it to threaten their enemies. He is a curious Digimon that likes mischief." she read to herself. She grinned down at him. "Mischief eh? How did you become Leomon then." she joked with him. He frowned at her and turned his attention back to the battle.

"Something strange is going on." Tai alleged. Jeri looked down at Elecmon and nodded. Etemon sent another ball of energy at the river.

"Etemon took our power." Agumon complained.

"Does rock and roll have that effect in your world?" Tentomon asked.

"Only on our parents." Sora answered. Jeri grinned.

"So there's no way to fight this monster?" Izzy asked as explosions were heard in the distance. Jeri set Elecmon down and joined the others

"As we are, no. If only we could digivolve a step further." Tentomon wished.

"A step further?" she said softly as Matt repeated her words louder.

"That must be what Gennai was referring to when he told us about finding the crest and the tags." Sora enlightened them.

"I think it's just a little late for that now Sora." Joe notified her. Jeri nodded sadly. The rocks outside the cave started to fall.

"Get away from the opening." Elecmon told them. He pushed on Jeri's leg to get her moving. She picked him up and ran down the tunnel in the back of the cave. She followed they others as the kept going.

"Oh no! A dead end." Jeri wailed.

"No. This is a safe place where we hide when anything bad happens to our village." The Koromon told her.

"What do we do now?" Tai questioned. Jeri groaned. Etemon was going to be here soon, then they would have no where to go. Calumon's ears shrunk as he got the gist of the situation that they were in. Tai suddenly brought his tag out from under his shirt. Jeri saw that it was glowing.

"Does that mean…?" Jeri asked herself. The dead end started to glow orange. An imprint of three circles, each bigger than the rest, surrounded by triangles, glowed from the wall ahead. The wall shrunk, and a small metal crest floated to Tai.

"It's your crest Tai!" Jeri shrieked. They all gasped in surprise. "Come on guys, lets get out of here." Jeri ran ahead and out of the cave. The rest laughed and followed her.

"These mountains are a long way from our village." A Koromon commented. Jeri stopped in her tracks.

"What!" she screamed.

"The crest must of brought us here." Tai told her, not understanding why she was freaking out. "What's that matter?" he asked her. Jeri shook her head. Her mind was with the old digital world. The Digital World with the data streams. Data Streams that, if you got sucked into one, brought you to a random place in the Digital World. Jeri could swear that she saw a pink stream disappear in the distance.


Ooh! Now that is something scary. Jeri just can't get away from the old world. Well, how was that? Did you like? Hate? Can't decide? Tell me in a review. Just click that little button down there and let me now. Kay? Thanks!