A/N: Chapter 10, here we come. Another long wait. Sorry.

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PlatinumGuest: There is another season involving the characters from Seasons One and Two. It's called Digimon Adventure Tri and it just started airing in Japan. The second part airs in March.

Glad everyone is okay with the last chapter! Let's start Chapter Ten now (mostly focusing on the other DigiDestined).

~DigiDestined~

The DigiDestined had been travelling all day, making better progress than predicted. This was, of course, due to Jackie notifying all the villages about his "special guests". The last village they had visited had given them food and water. Tai had, surprisingly, told everyone that they were going to rest for a bit before continuing.

Tai and Agumon had been missing for almost twenty minutes. This kind of action - sneaking off on their own – was more of Matt's thing and with the situation the way it was, worried many in the group. "I'm going to go see if they're okay. We really don't need to find out that those two snuck off to keep going." Sora called out to the group. She and Biyomon were already set to go look; they just wanted to notify everyone else. Izzy looked up from his laptop, "That's probably a good idea. We're making great progress as it is, but I wanted to show him the information about the possible routes I obtained from the villagers."

"Okay, I'll let him know once we find him. Let's go Biyomon."

~Meanwhile with Tai & Agumon~

Agumon couldn't tell how long they'd been sitting on this hill overlooking the whole village, but it'd been a while and Agumon was getting hungry. Agumon couldn't help but worry about his favorite human as he looked at Tai.

He just sat there. No words. No jokes. Nothing. Agumon knew that Tai hadn't ate with the others either.

"Sora, I found 'em." Biyomon flew into the clearing, followed by Sora. "Tai! What are you doing up here all by yourself?" Sora walked over to the clearly sulking, Tai. Sora sighed, leaning over to look at Tai's face. "Tai. It's okay. I'm serious. Kari is going to be okay. We're going to find her, and she's going to be okay." Sora quickly sat next to Tai and wrapped him up in an embrace.

Biyomon and Agumon sat a small ways back, happily watching the scene between the long-time friends for a few minutes. "Sora, don't forget to tell Tai about Izzy's new information." Biyomon, having decided to end this quiet moment, reminded. "Oh! That's right. Izzy got some information from the villagers about our potential routes. So come on, let's go see what's recommended. Kari and Gatomon are waiting for us." Sora stood, offering her hand to Tai. Tai grabbed Sora's hand and gave her his trademark goofy grin as he stood up. "Yeah!"

"Hey TAI! We were just about to see where you went." Davis excitedly called out as Tai, Sora, Agumon, and Biyomon walked back into the middle of the village where the rest of the group sat. Tai smiled, "Sorry, I just needed a few minutes. So, Izzy what did you find out?" Izzy looked up from his typing once again, "So we're about halfway to Chéng huā Village. There are three major routes we can take after we reach it." Izzy paused, as DigiDestined moved closer to hear their 'plan of action'.

"The only thing is – two of those routes split into two smaller routes. By smaller, I mean the paths get either (a) really narrow or (b) turn into a crawlspace-like path. The thi—"

"Wait, what's the problem? There's three routes right?! We'll just take the third route!" Davis excitedly exclaimed.

Izzy sighed, he was getting really annoyed with the goggle-head who had interrupted him. "Yes, Davis. There are three routes. The third route, as I was just about to say, is the shortest but goes through a village that, to put it nicely, tends to ignore Jackie and his attempts to keep the peace. This route not only goes through the village itself, but through their main farm lands. So it's safe to say, we'd have to fight through that whole route."

The silence felt deafening. Everyone tried to contemplate the best route. Matt suddenly stood up, "We should just focus on getting to Chéng huā Village first. Maybe Rosemon will know of another path. Besides, we should get there before sunset if we leave now." "Matt's right. We leave in ten minutes, make sure you're prepared. Izzy, Sora, Yolei, and Ken when we leave, have Tentomon, Biyomon, Hawkmon, and Wormmon digivolve. We'll fly the rest of the way to the village." Tai stated in a serious tone, until his stomach growled. Laughter erupted throughout the group. "Oops. I guess I didn't eat. I should probably do that, ahahahaha…" Tai quickly walked off in search of a quick bite.

"Izzy, did they tell you the name of that village?" Ken asked Izzy as everyone went off to make sure they had all their needed supplies. "They said to, at all costs, avoid Erupt Village. Their territory also has a small volcano within its borders. They don't go easy on any intruders, nor do they care about your reasons for being in their territory. If you weren't invited, stay out. Ken, "

Izzy paused, giving the younger member a serious look. "Do not tell Tai or anyone else this – Erupt Village seems to hate Youthful Village. The village is full of fire based digimon, and believe that the different types should not associate with others. They're not fond of this Takuya either. His partner digimon is a fire type. So we should try to expect them to cause problems."

Ken nodded, unable to find the right response. Let's hope they don't decide to try to do anything before we can get there.

~Youthful Village~

A loud explosion was suddenly heard. Gatomon, jumped onto the windowsill. This is bad.

Gatomon turned towards the rooms other occupants and yelled out, "Something big is going down! There's a fire in the village!" This is really bad. Really, really bad.

Coronamon raced out of the building, "I can handle this!" Kari and Takuya followed suit; Kari pausing for a split second to allow Gatomon to jump onto her shoulder. "I thought the fires were put out last night!" Kari called out to Takuya as they ran. "Coronamon said they were!"

"Maybe he missed one!" Gatomon really hoped that was the case, and not that this village –this small village filled to the brink with in-training and rookie digimon- was under attack. Takuya stopped dead still in his run, turning to glare at the suspicious cat-like digimon. "Coronamon was born here. He would NEVER let something hurt this place! If you think that, then you can leave!"

"Takuya! Kari! We've got a big problem!" a Dorumon cried out as the residents of the small village came running towards them. Kari, choosing to ignore the tension between Takuya and Gatomon, sprang into action. "Takuya, go help Coronamon with this problem. We'll take care of the Digimon." Takuya started to rush off towards his partner.

"Coronamon and Takuya can't handle it alone!"

"There's so many Champion-level digimon!"

"There's even some Ultimate-levels!"

"Greymon, WarGrowlmon, Asuramon, Centarumon, and Meramon!"

"They don't stand a chance!"

Kari looked between the frightened digimon and the way Takuya had run off. It took half a moment to decide what to do. "Gatomon! Let's go! Stay out of the way and yell if you need help!" Kari took off running. Gatomon sighed before chasing after her partner.

I really, really hoped it was just a fire. Now we have to fight. But, I'll protect you Kari. I'll make sure you get back home, even if it's the last thing I do.

That's the end of Chapter Ten. Some more tension between Gatomon and Takuya, Kari's questions for Coronamon got forgotten, the others have made some progress towards finding Kari and Gatomon... Expect a fight scene next chapter and some more drama!

How many people have been playing Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth? (*raises hand* Me~)

I'm also really excited for Fire Emblem Fates. I'm going to *hopefully* post Chapter 11 tonight! I needed some time to get a good idea for this chapter. Let me know if you like it. There will be a poll on my profile page, so check it out!

Greymon, Centarumon & Meramon – Champion Level

WarGrowlmon & Asuramon – Ultimate Level