Hiroaki yawned as he woke up. He rolled over and sat up. Gabumon was snoring next to him. He sat up and found everyone was already awake and sitting talking. "Hey." He stretched.

"So everyone is awake now?" Benjamin asked and chuckled as Gabumon rolled over. "Up you get little guy."

"Um.." Gabumon rolled over and sat up.

"Well now that you are all awake I think it is time you guys prepare and go. After all you need to find Zhuqiaomon right?"

"Yeah." Susumu stretched his arms above his head. "Come on everyone."

"Can we sit for a little longer?" Gabumon yawned."

"No, now come on."

"Fine." Gabumon yawned again and got up. "What about food."

"Here you go." Benjamin put down a plate of fruit. "Take some as you go."

"Thanks." Susumu picked a piece up. "Are you going to come with us?"

"No I've got too much work to do." He picked up another book. "Too much work. Too much work." He chuckled.

"Come on guys." Susumu started walking. The others all slowly followed. Hiroaki glanced back as they left, the door closed behind him.

"Come on." Liollmon called after them. Susumu slapped Hiroaki on the shoulder.

"Come on buddy, no need to be a sleep walker."

"Oh leave me alone." Hiroaki yawned. "I can't help that I'm so sleepy."

"No problem." Susumu chuckled. He jogged forward next to Liollmon. "No matter how sleepy you are we can still continue on."

Hiroaki groaned but continued walking. He ate his own strange fruit. Gabumon walked silently next to him for a while. "Hiroaki… What do you think those crests are?"

"No idea… Some kind of device? Like our digivices."

"I'm predicting that it's something like an upgrade for our digivices." Tomoaki looked over. "Some kind of additional tool, you plug it in and the digivice changes, that's my prediction."

"That sounds about right." Tentomon laughed.

"I bet the crests are like some kind of weapon that you can use." Susumu laughed. "Like I'll give it to RizeGreymon and he'll get stronger. Maybe it'll be a big sword!"

Everyone laughed and spent the next hour talking about what the crests could and couldn't be. The ideas ranged all over the place and by the time they tired of the conversation they still didn't have any real idea.

And by the end of it Hiroaki actually felt awake. It felt like it had been forever walking though. "I'm hungry." Kokoa called out. "Can we stop and eat?"

"We've only been walking for an hour." Liollmon complained.

"But we only had a little, it wasn't enough."

"Oh fine." Liollmon complained. "There are some trees up ahead if you want to climb those and get some fruit."

"Sounds good." Kokoa ran over and started to climb the tree.

Hiroaki sat down as the rest of the group began to climb the tree. He closed his eyes. "Hey will someone toss me down one?" Gabumon called up.

"Here you go." Falcomon called out.

Hiroaki rested, taking the chance to actually get some rest for once. Liollmon wouldn't cave more than once. Hiroaki opened his eyes as he heard some music. It reminded him of a jack in the box music song. He stood up. "Hey! Does anyone else hear that?" Everyone went silent. The music wasn't very loud.

"Let's check it out!" Susumu dropped down from a tree branch. He started running towards the noise, and everyone else started chasing him.

"Wait up!" Hiroaki ran after them. Sitting in the middle of a hill was a box that seemed to go up to his waist. Susumu blinked.

"What is it?" Tomoaki got a little closer when suddenly the top popped up and a gray digimon came out. He looked like a black grey slim creature wrapped in a red cloak. It had no arms.

"I am… Apaclamon!" He laughed. "And this world will fall!" He laughed again and the kids scrambled away. Two arms sprouted out of the box and shot towards them. They all rolled away.

"Who are you?!" Liollmon growled.

"I already told you! I am Apaclamon and I am the bringer of darkness!"

"YOU!" Liollmon growled. "You are the evil that is corrupting this world."

Apaclamon laughed. "I am!" His arm shot and stretched and grabbed Falcomon and squeezed.

"FALCOMON!" Kokoa screamed.

"Phoenix Fire!" Fire rained down on the box and it roared angrily. But the fire allowed for Falcomon to escape. "I HAVE FOUND YOU CREATURE OF DARKNESS!" A voice roared and a large fire bird digimon flew over them. "AND I WILL DESTROY YOU!"

"That is Zhuqiaomon!" Liollmon gasped.

"Your think? But I will not fail." THe box closed up around the digimon and shadows wrapped around it, pulling it into the ground and disappearing.

"NO!" Zhuqiaomon roared angrily. "NO!" He slowly landed. "You humans! You got in my way!... What are you annoying creatures even doing here?!"
"Great Zhuqiaomon!" Liollmon called out. "Please we needed your help! We need help finding the crests!"

"Crests? Why would you want those worthless things? Only a worthy human can summon and bring a crest into existence."

"What do you mean by into existence?!" Tomoaki asked.

"Crests don't exist currently, they have to be summoned by a worthy human… I doubt any of you could do that." He laughed. "But… I don't doubt that a crest could save our world… If any of you could do anything then you'll need to find a crest. Go west and find the digimon known as Pixemon. He has a talent for drawing out untapped powers. He's your only help." He spread his wings and took off.

"Wow…." Hiroaki gasped as he collapsed and watched the digimon flying in amazement. He looked so majestic.