Hey I'm back!
Hope you liked it so far
But um… about the date, I think it's a Sunday right now
So the digidestined still aren't in school

OHHH and there's a LOT of information in this chapter
So get ready to fill that head of yours
Yup that's all I wanted to say

Disclaimer: I don't own digimon

Chapter 11: Meeting with Gennai

The next morning Kari got up and walked out to the living room with Gatomon. Her mom still thinks Gatomon's a cat so she's able to walk around the house freely; though she didn't like the cat food that she had to eat every morning. Kari was eating breakfast while Tai was in the living room watching the news. Their parents had left that morning to run errands so only the three of them were left in the house.

"It appears as though another child has vanished from the metro area making this the 2nd child this week. It appears as though the case of disappearing children from many years ago, where we had seven children missing in one week, is commencing yet again; in which two of the children had remained missing while the other five had all returned safely to their homes, all not knowing what had happened between the time they had disappeared and reappeared. Parents are warned to keep watch of their children and to not let them wander around alone. This is Mariya Izumi for the news report..."

"Man, two kids in a week? You and your friends had better be careful Kari." Tai said to his sister.

"Don't worry, Gatomon is here to protect me, right Gatomon."

"Of course Kari, I won't let kidnappers come after you." Gatomon said proudly.

"You're the best." Kari smiled at the digimon as she cleaned up her dishes.

"Oh yeah, Kari, Izzy called and wanted me to tell you that he got a reply from Gennai and just sent you the message."

"Alright, thanks Tai." Kari ran back into their room and took her D-terminal and read the message. She then took off to meet the others at the soccer fields.

Kari arrived and found Yolei, Zoe, Tommy, Cody and TK who have all arrived before her. The ones who were missing were still to come. "So the other guys are late again?"

"Are you surprised?" TK raised an eyebrow at her. "Davis is practically late every time, Takuya's almost the same, Ken and Koichi both live far away and Koji is... somewhere."

"And JP is just really slow." Yolei said.

"Hey, I made it before them didn't I?" JP huffed and heard her comment.

"Well, I made it right before JP did. Isn't that right Bokomon?" Takuya asked the white digimon in his arms. JP tried to resent that comment before Bokomon had the chance to answer but was cut off by the white digimon.

"I think so." Bokomon jumped down from his arms and ran over towards Zoe who had Neemon in her arms.

"Hey! How was your sleepover?" Neemon asked.

"Shinya thought I was a toy this morning and nearly dropped me from the roof of the house." Bokomon shivered at the memory.

"I played with a cat." Neemon said immediately after.

"Takuya, you gotta take care of him better." Zoe scolded.

"Hey I saved him at least. My mom called me to help her with something and Shinya likes to sneak into my room, so there was nothing I could do." Takuya tried to defend himself. At this time, Koichi, Ken and Koji all came walking towards them.

"Hey, we're here." Koichi called as he walked with Ken and Koji. Everyone looked up and greeted them as they walked down the steps towards them.

"Now all that's left is Davis." Cody said.

"How can he be this late?" Tommy wondered.

"Oh, you don't know Davis." Yolei sighed. The group had waited to about a half hour later until Davis finally showed up. He was out of breath and nearly fell down the stairs as he approached them. Takuya asked him what had happened and Davis started on his tale of how Jun was following him as he left the house. He tried to lose her but she just wouldn't quit and he didn't want to run since that would make him look suspicious. So he just started to walk in and out of stores then he finally ran off when he made it around the corner. He finally lost her when he had run past Matt and she stopped to talk with him. Everyone then started to laugh at him.

"Is Jun still giving you headaches?" Takuya asked him. "That's too bad buddy."

"It's funny how she lost interest in you when she ran into Matt." TK laughed.

"Ha ha, I know, I have a whack job for a sister but can we get on with whatever we have to do?" Davis pouted and sat down.

"So any reply from Izzy yet Kari?" Yolei asked the girl.

"Tai told me that Izzy emailed me and this is what he said." Kari showed them the message.

Hey Kari,

No, it isn't a bother at all to contact Gennai for you. In fact, I'm talking to Gennai right now and he told me that he wanted to apologize to the Warriors that he didn't get to meet in person yet. He was talking with me about programmatic databases that are in the digital world and we just lost track of time. (The 02 digidestined sweatdrop)

But anyways, he just wanted to say that he'd be happy to meet you as soon as you come to the digital world. So how about you guys come over and I'll send you right to his house as an apology for taking up his time from you.

Izzy.

"I told Izzy that we'd come over soon so why don't we go now?" Kari suggested. No one had any disagreements with that decision so and it gave the Warriors an opportunity to meet one of the older digidestined as well. They all got up and started to walk towards the older boy's house and knocked on the door. Izzy had come and let them all in, despite the fact of not knowing half the people that came in.

"There's no need to worry about my parents, they both went out for the weekend so I'm here by myself today." Izzy explained. "So who are you're new friends guys?"

"Well guys, this is Izzy Izumi and Izzy, they are Takuya Kanbara, Zoe Orimoto, Tommy Himi, JP Shibayama, Koji Minamoto and Koichi Kimura. Also known as the Legendary Warriors of the digital world. Oh, and these two are Bokomon and Neemon." Davis introduced.

"Ah prodigious, so these are the Legendary Warriors that Gennai had mentioned last night. It's great to meet you all and I'm sorry for taking your time with Gennai." Izzy apologized.

"It's alright, I'm sure that talking about... programmatic... databases can be very interesting." Zoe said to him.

"Oh yes it is, for instance, all of our wired electronics and energy for our systems are from a very small fracture of the digital world's energy and we don't even use one percent of it, more like a tiny micro..."

"Um Izzy..." Yolei interrupted. Izzy just looked paused and looked at her. "It's great talking about this but we would like to go and meet Gennai if you don't mind." She said to Izzy who just smiled again.

"Oh my, I'm rambling again aren't I? Ha, ha, well then, let's get you twelve to the digital world first then shall we?" Izzy started to type various codes and inputs on his laptop and when he finished, he set it on top of his desk. "Alright guys, do what you gotta do." He said and stepped out of the way.

"Are you coming with us Izzy?" Ken asked.

"No, I should stay here and monitor the digiport in case something goes wrong." He told them as they nodded in understanding. Davis then raised his D3 and exclaimed the words, 'Digiport Open' and the kids and their digimon were then gone in a flash. When they landed, they had arrived in the middle of a forest once again.

"Oh, we're back in the forest, isn't this where we were yesterday?" Zoe wondered as she looked around and observed the area to try and find something different.

"It seems a bit different here." Cody said as he too looked around.

"I agree with Cody, it seems as though we're supposed to head towards a certain direction but are unsure of the destination." Ken said as Wormmon had crawled upon his shoulder.

"Hey, the digimon changed back to their rookie forms." Takuya said as he noticed Wormmon climb up Ken's shoulder, he then started to observe Veemon.

"Yup, when we come back to the digital world, our energy comes back to our bodies and we're able to keep these forms." Veemon explained to Takuya.

"So does anyone know where we're supposed to go?" Zoe asked the group but everyone just exchanged confused expressions.

"Hold on, I think I know where we are." Gatomon purred as she led them towards a certain direction. They all weren't exactly sure where they were so they just followed the cat digimon. They all walked for a certain amount of time until they had reached a large blue lake. "Yup, we're here." Gatomon said proudly.

"Don't tell me..." TK started as he looked at Kari.

"I think this is the place." Patamon said as he then flew above the water.

"But what place is this?" Davis asked.

"Gennai's place." TK said simply as Patamon then observed as the water then split in half and revealed the steps to a small, Japanese house.

"But is it safe to walk down there with all that water just waiting to splash on top of us?" Yolei expressed her uneasiness while hiding behind Hawkmon.

"Oh Yolei, I'm sure Gennai wouldn't do that to us... on purpose." Hawkmon then started to reflect on his inner doubts as well. But in his case, if the water did cave in, then he could just escape by flying, though he would feel bad for leaving Yolei behind in the water.

"Well, let's not waste our time just standing and wondering if he'll wet us or not, let's just get this over with and get down there." Koji said in an annoyed tone and started to march down the stairs with Koichi by his side. Bokomon didn't really like the idea of walking beside the water walls but with everyone heading down, he might as well tag along. It was better than being left outside by himself anyhow. Neemon was enjoying the walk down as he greeted and played with the fish that came by in curiosity of the travelling group in the middle of the water.

"You know, it'd be pretty cool if your house was underwater." Takuya said as he looked up at the water walls.

"Yeah, it's like having your own aquarium right outside your window." Davis said.

"But I wonder why Gennai wants to have a meeting here instead of at the huge castle from earlier." Cody wondered but by the time someone had come with an answer, the group had now stepped upon the grassy lawn and looked around at the pond and cherry blossom tree. They all then started to walk over the bridge which was placed over the pond and they saw a man standing on the porch. "Hey Gennai!" Davis and Veemon waved as the older man waved back.

"Hello there children, I'm so happy that you could make it today." Gennai greeted them as he motioned for them to enter.

"So that's Gennai?" Takuya whispered to Davis.

"Yup, I told you he was old." Davis smirked.

"But you told me before that he looked like he was at least thirty." Takuya was baffled by the fact.

"Well... yeah but Kari and TK told me that he changes between ages for some reason." Davis was now getting confused by all the age switching. They both decided to drop the topic and followed the gang into what looked like Gennai's living room.

"It's nice to finally meet you Gennai. Ophanimon had told us..." Zoe paused as she thought about what she was going to say to the man. "well, she told us about you." Zoe smiled awkwardly.

"I'm sure that she did, though she isn't much of a speaker unless the subject is about the greater good of the digital world." Gennai said to her. "And I just wanted to tell you young warriors that I'm terribly sorry for not meeting with you before and it is a pleasure to see you now." Gennai apologized as they sat inside his living room.

"Likewise, it's nice that we get to speak with you now." Koichi said.

"And it all turned out for the best anyways. Because of your message, we ended up meeting with them. So it's all good." JP referred to the other digidestined.

"Well I'm happy to hear that."

"Gennai, I have a question." Cody decided to bring up his previous question from outside. "Why did you bring us here when you could've just transported us to your other castle?"

"The reason why I wanted you kids here is because of the bugs that may be surrounding the Castle at this moment. I'm not saying that there's someone watching it completely but here, we have privacy and certainty that no one is listening in on us right now." Cody nodded in understanding. "But now I wanted to talk about what the Demon Lords are planning."

"You know what they're up to?" Takuya asked him.

"Oh yes, my intelligence tells me everything that I need to know." Gennai informed.

"Then you know of their plan?" Cody asked.

"Not exactly but I do know that they aren't completely revived yet and what I do know is that they are kidnapping children from you're world and using them as a medium to reproduce their own bodies." Gennai said sadly. "If there was any way that I could stop Lucemon, then I would but..." Gennai then looked and saw that the kids weren't really listening to him anymore.

"So those kidnappings that have been happening in our world right now is because they're taking unsuspecting kids right from Earth and just using them for their own game?" Davis exclaimed.

"We have to stop them Davis!" Veemon said to his partner.

"Wait, then that means that the kidnapping that happened a long time ago was because of them too?" Kari asked in shock.

"Yes but that was a long, long time ago." Gennai said. "And we couldn't do much to help them either. The best that we've done was fight the Demon Lords with all our might and they were then deleted and the child was then be released."

"But since Lucemon and Daemon weren't deleted, then the two kids that didn't come back were..." TK started to shake at this point.

"They are still being used by Daemon and Lucemon." Gennai concluded the sentence.

"But if we have to fight them, then doesn't that mean that we're fighting kids?" Yolei exclaimed.

"Yes however, it appears as though the kids will be unharmed if you free them from their control." The man explained.

"But how are they able to take over kids when they themselves aren't even able to reproduce their original selves?" Koichi wondered out loud.

"According to the book," Bokomon started as he opened to the page on the Demon Lords, "they have something called Code Keys and with these Code Keys, they are able to fuse them with the children that match a certain quality that they need and are then able to conjure back their body."

"That sounds painful." Veemon commented as his face cringed when he heard the process.

"Yeah and there's no guarantee that they won't be harmed even after we free them from that." Ken said. "Isn't there a way that we could fight them but make sure that they aren't injured in the process?"

"Actually, there is a way for you to fight them evenly. This is one of the reasons why I wanted to summon both of you here together."

"So you sent us to find them so that we could all hear what you wanted to tell us from the beginning?" Armadillomon asked the man. Gennai nodded and cleared his throat as he continued with his explanation. "Do you kids remember the crests?" He asked them simply as the question made all of them give a confused expression.

"What about them?" Gatomon wondered what purpose this man had to bring up the subject in the first place.

"Well, as you remember, I had asked the older children to give up this power in order to help restore and protect the digital world." Everyone nodded as they have heard this story before. "When you second generation kids showed up and defeated Malomyotismon, Oikawa spirit had spread throughout this world and has taken over the role of protection."

"So what does have to do with our crests?" TK asked.

"Yes, so with Oikawa protecting the digital world, I was able to take the crests' data and was able to revitalize and restore them to their former glory." Everyone's faces all lit up as they heard this news.

"So do you have them with you right now?" Patamon eagerly confronted Gennai.

"You see, it's been a few months since I was able to take them but since it was still clear that evil may have been wandering around, the Crests seem to have hid themselves away in case we needed them for the future."

"Alright so do you have a map on how to get to all of them?" Davis questioned, just as excited as Patamon was even though he was not the holder of the crest.

"No." Gennai said with a smile.

"No? Then how are we supposed to get to them?" Veemon looked at the man.

"Do you know where they are at least?" Bokomon asked.

"I'm sorry little fella but when I finished with the restoration, the Crests flew away." He said, slightly fearing what the kids might say next.

"So you have no idea on how to find them." Hawkmon sighed.

"Well, we could just use our D3's. That's how we found them the first time." TK said cheerfully.

"Bokomon, why don't you go check that book of yours and see if there's something more about these Crests in it." Hawkmon said to the other as Bokomon nodded and cracked it open.

"Hmmm, now let's see. Crests, crests... ahh here it is." Bokomon showed them the page. "It says here that the Crests were once used as a catalyst to enable the digivolution of chosen digimon but were then reabsorbed by the digital world to aid in its restoration after the defeat of Apocalymon. But when there comes a day that the crests must once again be used, they will appear before the eyes of the chosen, and then will release the new power needed to protect the digital world yet again."

"So does it say how to find them?" Kari asked the white digimon.

Bokomon then searched the pages again. "Ahh, yes it does. It says here that it will appear in a sanctuary befitting the Crest's emblem."

"What does that mean?" Yolei hated all this chatting, especially when she didn't know what the chatting was talking about. She hated being left out of a conversation.

"I think it means that whatever the symbol is, it will be in a place that matches that symbol." Tommy said. "It was the same for when we first found our spirits, they were in a place that matched their elements, so if we think about like that, then it would be easier to find."

"Great thinking buddy," Takuya praised the little boy, "but how are we supposed to find a specific place to represent Courage or Light?" Takuya wondered.

"The symbols on the Crests." Kari bursted out. "On my Crest of Light, the symbol looked like a flower."

"Oh yeah, and then the Crest of Courage must have been the sun." Davis said as he remembered the symbol on his digiegg.

"But we're still stuck on the same problem, how are we going to find the Crests?" JP asked.

"TK said it already, we can use your digivices to help find them." Patamon said has he perched upon TK's head.

"I still don't get it." JP crossed his arms.

"Don't worry, you'll see when we get there." Ken reassured the boy.

"Oh and speaking of the digivices, that's what I was talking with Izzy about." Gennai suddenly said.

"Gennai, this is a lot of information already." Cody tried to interrupt.

"Yeah and Izzy still has to tell us how to reboot our computers so that we could access them at home." Yolei then found this as an opportunity to fully join the conversation and jumped in.

"But that's just it, we figured that it was certainly hard to find a suitable place to meet up and then find a portal to the digital world so we came up with the idea that it would be much more convenient to just let you lot carry the digiport with you at all times. All Izzy has to do is send a message to all your digivices and it will show how to set up something called a DigiZone."

Phew, that's it for this chapter
That was a lot of information to take in
I know and I'm sorry but I just wanted to get this stuff out there
You know?
Anyways… I got accepted to University! Yay
So that means… *drum roll*
I get loads more free time Yay
Which would mean… More updates (hopefully!) Yay
See ya next time!