AN: Just thought I'd say thankyou to JyouraKoumi for reviewing this whole time
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The digidestined children followed their digimon suddenly seeing what they must have been brought here to see. On the circular stone slab, arranged evenly spaced around its edge were what looked like small brightly coloured treasure chests.
Keiko's eyes travelled around the table, noting a gap as she counted the member of chests, others were doing the same.
"There's 14 chests in total,' Akio commented, having been the first to finish counting.
"Gatomon, what are they?" Takara questioned but Gatomon shrugged.
"We're not certain but I think they hold your tags," Gatomon replied, "the chests are coloured and marked similarly to how crests are said to be," she added, pointing to a blue chest, the symbol representing the crest of friendship resting on the lid.
"Ok so I guess we just have to find which ones are ours," Keiko suggested walking around the stone slab.
"But there's some that are doubles!" Katsu called out in dismay looking at all the different, yet the same, chests.
"They react to the digiwatches," Sam stated looking at the red chest with the crests of love on the lid, it was glowing red, the same colour of his digiwatch.
"Awesome! Nice work SamSam!" Takara called out from the other side of the table as she pointed her arm that she had strapped her digwatch at the different chests.
Now knowing how to tell what chest belonged to who it didn't take long for the kids to find their respective chests.
Akio had a silver chest of Reliability
Katsu had an orange and blue splashed chest of Courage
Kuro had a dark pink chest of Love
Hitomi had a pale yellow chest of Knowledge
Hanako had a bright green chest of Sincerity
Yuki had a pale pink chest of Kindness
Kawada had a yellow chest of Hope
Takara had a white chest of Light
Osamu had his red chest of Love
Keiko had an orange chest of Courage
Kiyoshi had the blue chest of Friendship
And Kasumi had a deep green chest of Sincerity
But now the faced the next problem, how to open the chests? Keiko, Katsu and Takara had already tried to open them with there hands and with there digimon help but it didn't seem to work.
Kuro was reciting 'open seseme' over and over again, Kasumi was standing back at one end of the slab watching everyone else's pitiful attempts and Kiyoshi was doing the same from the other end of the slab, both seemed slightly dazed.
"How'd you do that!" Yuki called out as the lid to Akio's chest lid slowly rose, the silvery glow around it dimming slightly.
"The middle button on the digiwatch," he commented.
"Figures, the digiwatches tell the digidestined which chest is theirs they might as well open them too!' Gomamon commented. Akio walked over and looked inside the chest before pulling out a chain, on which was attached a small oval shaped, dull silver gem. At the instance he had put it around his neck, after Gomamon told him that it was probably like some new tag and crest system, his chest slowly disappeared until there was just a blank space.
"So that's what's inside," Katsu commented pressing the button to open up his chest as the others did the same too and as they did so all their chests began to slowly disappear.
Kasumi had a dull dark green gem
Yuki had a pale magenta gem
Takara had a cloudy white gem
Kawada had a dull yellow gem
Hanako had a pale green gem
Keiko had a dull orange gem
Osamu had a dull red gem
Kiyoshi had a dull blue gem
Hitomi had a cloudyyellow gem
Katsu had a dull orange gem with asimular blue streak through it
And Kuro had a dull purple-pink gem
"Why do they look so dull?" Hitomi asked, looking at the small gem that hung around her neck.
"I don't know, maybe they brighten when you find your crest," piped in Upamon.
"If this is what the tags look like… what do the crests look like?" Keiko asked, looking around the group, not remembering her parent's descriptions of tags being anything like this; it seems the digital world was forever changing.
"There are two chests left…" Kawada commented, pointing to a green chest of sincerity and a purple chest of Knowledge.
"Does that mean there's two more digidestined still not found yet?" Hanako asked curiously.
"I guess so," Hawkmon replied.
"I wonder what they're like," Yuki voiced her thoughts.
Keiko thought for a moment, remembering Mimi, one of her mums best friends who had moved away to America a long time ago, did she have two kids? She looked around at the group, Kasumi had an unusual expression on her face.
"Well what now?" Sam asked looking from Biyomon to the others that made up their group.
"I say exploring!" Katsu called out.
"Ok, but we should all probably meet up back here in a few hours," Keiko said, adjusting her red and orange goggles.
"Kool! Ok. Lets get going!" Katsu and Kuro yelled, out taking off into the trees Hitomi being dragged along behind Kuro yet agian.
"Hey wait for us!" Kawada called out grabbing Sam and suddenly Kiyoshi by their arms and dragging them along as he ran after them and almost losing one of his slip-on runners in the process.
"Kuro don't get into any trouble do you here me! And take good care of Hitomi!" Yuki shouted at the top of her lungs making many of those around her quickly block there ears as best they could.
"Boys!" Takara and Yuki said in unison, rolling their eyes sky high. As it turned out, Takara and Yuki went one way with Hanako tagging along, while Keiko and Akio went back into the forest while Kasumi took off by herself.
…Meanwhile in on of the Digitalworld Forests…
"Where are we going?" Miki asked. She and Palmon were lagging behind again, for some reason Elizabeth seemed to be in an energetic hurry.
"You'll see," Elizabeth said plainly, as they walked through the trees, Miki didn't say anything just rolled her eyes, though she could hear something that sounded like running water.
"What's the time?" she asked, after she passed around ten more trees.
"If you want to go home then do so, if not stop bothering me," Elizabeth sighed, getting annoyed at her sisters complaining and irrelevant questions.
"Here we are," Elizabeth muttered, looking at the 3D holographic screen as she left the trees before pressing one of the buttons on her digiwatch and watching the map vanish. Now they were standing on the edge of a grass covered cliff, in front of them was a raging river which cascaded over the cliff edge and down into the valley below.
"Wow it's beautiful," Miki whispered, watching as the mist rose up into the air at the edge of the cliff.
"That's not why we're here," Elizabeth said, looking out over the river.
"Then… Oh I see," Miki said, as she followed Elizabeth's gaze out over the stepping-stones that were only just above water level to a flat top rock that stuck out of the centre of the raging river just before the fall.
"That's a digiegg right?" Miki asked, approaching the rivers edge.
"That's for you to find out," Elizabeth said, as she sat down on the grassy bank, before proceeding to pull out her new purple laptop from her bag.
"Hey when did you get a new laptop!" Miki shouted, eyeing the expensive looking laptop.
"Dad got it for me, he said it would come in handy for analysing any data I come across in the Digitalworld, " Elizabeth said as though it was obvious, her father also mentioned he had uploaded some programs for the sole purpose of taking it with her to the digital world.
"Why don't I get a new laptop?" Miki complained, Elizabeth said nothing, that question wasn't worth her time.
"Fine then!" Miki said, handing Palmon her hat before storming off towards the river.
"Be careful!" Palmon called out, from where she sat by Elizabeth and Tentamon.
Miki smiled slightly, her temper dropping. She walked until she was level with the first stepping-stone and then gracefully jumped the gap between the bank and the stone. Two more to go. She judged the distance and jumped, all her training and cheerleading was paying off as something other then to impress boys. 'This better be my digiegg Elizabeth or your going to pay,' Miki thought, as she made the last jump onto the flat rock slab. She stood up and steadied her self, her back to the water that fell over the cliff edge, as she looked down at the digiegg at her feet. It was the digiegg of knowledge. Miki sighed, if Elizabeth was right then she would have come all this way for nothing. 'O well couldn't hurt to try' she thought before bending over and pulling at the egg; amazingly, it came lose. She nearly fell backwards off the edge of the waterfall but it came lose.
"Elizabeth! Elizabeth, it worked it's mine!" She called out cheerfully, jumping up and down on the rock, Elizabeth looked up.
"Miki be careful or you're going to slip!" she called back out, "now come back over to this side," Elizabeth added.
"How does it work?" Miki called out over the noise of the falls.
"According what mum and dad told us you've got to call out 'Digi Armour Energize'" Elizabeth called out.
'Well here goes,' Miki thought as she looked over the digiegg.
"DIGI ARMOUR ENERGIZE!" She called out as loud as she could in hope it would reach Palmon.