Recap: (Charisse) Whoa nelly! I'm having a blast with this crew! At first, I thought my biggest problem was fighting against my pushy family members to like Yoko. Now I have to worry about saving a Digital World!

Recently, I got the Pure Spirit of Earth and Lily got the Pure Spirit of Water! Such progress!

Davis may be a hothead at first, but he's just stressed of everything that's going on. He just needs patience…

OCs-

Dakota Bedard: Age 15 (going on 9th grade). A Legendary Tamer and dancer. Free-spirited, passionate, brave and wise.

Echohawk: Dakota's partner, a Garudamon.

Arc 2: Chapter 7

~Digital~

Davis led the group, smiling wide. He explained his plan of gathering the Tamers and some friends of his to help. To add more good news, Lily had received the Pure Spirit of Water! She and Lori were getting along better, like Lori did with Atsuko. Although Lily may be more vivacious than the cheeky Coronamon, she seemed akin to Lori despite a couple of differences. Both have problems with elder siblings, view Davis as a hero, and are brave, straightforward, honest about their feelings and self-reliant for their age.

Davis then heard something and stopped in his tracks.

"Can you hear that?" He asked out of the blue.

"Hear what?" Sadie wondered. There was nothing but silence and birds whistling.

"It sound like…never mind."

{Cue Real in Rio from Rio the movie}

Then the Bird Digimon started whistled together in an upbeat tune. More sounds followed, even Portuguese words were thrown in. Sounded like a party was on. The music was festive, lively, upbeat, cheerful, magical...He heard it from somewhere…Brazilian Carnival. Early memories of him as a little boy visiting Rio with his half-Brazilian/half-Japanese aunt flooded his eyes.

Brilliant floats paraded down the streets of Rio de Janeiro, more amazing than beyond your wildest dreams. Dancers swayed their half-naked bodies, rapidly moving to the rhythm. Carnaval was no doubt, the biggest party in the world.

All the birds off a feather
Do what they love most of all
We are the best of rhythm and the laughter
That's why we love carnaval

All so free we can sing to
Sun and beaches they call
Dance to the music
Passion and love
Show us the best you can do

Davis, small for a 6 year-old, shyly hid himself among the crazy crowd, allowing him to be showered with confetti. His tiny feet began to move along with the beat. He looked around him, taking in the amazing part, smiling brightly. He really wanted to join in. He waddled forward, but accidently bumped into a few legs and got shoved back by the rude, annoyed people.

Everyone here is on fire
Get up and join in the fun
Dance with a stranger
Romance and danger
Magic could happen for real, in Rio
All by itself

(Itself)

But those rude people were shunned by someone and got fiercely told off. Davis smiled, knowing who, whom dance towards him. Dark honey skin bathed in the spotlight, a slender and curvy body displayed in a blue bikini with feathers attached to the hips, topped with blue heels, blue scales on the arms, and long maroon hair swinging about in a Dutch braid.

You can't see it coming
You can't find it anywhere else
(Anywhere else)

It's real, in Rio
Know something else(Something else)

You can feel it happen
You can feel it all by yourself

Davis opened his arms, ready to embrace his bestest friend…

SLAP!

Davis howled in pain, gingerly touching his stinging red cheek.

"We almost lose ya, mate." Sadie said, sounding concerned.

"Can't a guy daydream once in a while?"

"Not on a serious mission." Was the casual answer. This meant that he is slowly gaining her trust, while still on slapping terms.

"Hello!" Four short, fat, black-feathered toucans with green eyes, blue Mohawks, long blue beaks with yellow stripes and short black wings, and wearing red/yellow-tipped shoes with white rims at the ankles and red egg-shaped overalls with yellow buttons, strolled in a samba line, waving at the kids.

"Those are Toucanmon. Part of Ranamon's fanclub." Narramon explained, annoyed.

"Not anymore!" One Toucanmon said, as all of the four of them crowded around Lily, staring up at her adoringly. Two of them each held a dainty hand of hers, while the other two kneeled on the ground beside her.

"We saw you Digivolve into Namimon!" Another Toucanmon said.

"You're nothing like Ranamon!" Another mentioned.

"You're much cuter than her!" The final fourth Toucanmon stated.

Lily bashfully blushed at the attention. Then she shrieked when the Toucanmon looped their wings under her and carried her off.

"Hey! Come back with her!" Davis hollered, giving chase after the quartet.

The group followed the Toucanmon into a dance club for Digimon. The room was dark but colourful lights were flashing, a disco ball was hanging down from the ceiling, sparkling all over the Digimon dancing their feet off along the beat. The Toucanmon set Lily down and the group caught up to Lily just as a human girl dancing a samba strolled up, dancing with a Garudamon.

"Oi! Bela festa, hein?"* She said, twirling around with her Garudamon. Her looks were exotic, featuring a strong and slim figure, long caramel hair that bounced off and settled on her arms, copper skin and bright brown eyes. For her spirit and amazing dancing, she was wearing a dress with a black zip-up bodice and a long white dipped-hem skirt, revealing black shorts, brown heels on her non-stop dancing feet, and a brown headband on her head with a red feather hanging off.

The group went 'huh?' at the girl, except for Charisse, who replied, "Sim, totalmente!"*

"What was that?" Naomi asked.

"Portuguese," Charisse simply replied.

"I'm Dakota." The exotic girl said. Her Garudamon bowed welcomingly. "Dakota Bedard and Echohawk." She smiled at Davis. "You should know samba, since you're a quarter."

Davis blinked. The people who knew or believed his heritage was his blood-related family and Kokoro. "How did you know I'm quarter-Brazilian?"

"I'm very passionate about culture," She pointed to Sadie. "You're half-Japanese and Australian," Sadie's eyes widened. "You're African-American," Charisse's smile said a cool 'obviously'. "You're purely Japanese," Naomi looked thoughtful. "You're Japanese with a hint of Chinese," Lori looked taken aback, indicating she didn't know how far her bloodline goes. "And you're half-Japanese and half-British." Lily beamed.

"What's going on?" Naomi questioned.

"I started up a party, to lift the Digimon's spirits because there's an uprising evil."

"We know exactly what evil is uprising." Davis deadpanned, making the girls look at him worriedly. Whenever it comes to Kinu, he gets serious.

Then Dakota whistled, getting every mon's attention. "All right everyone, listen up! I have some special guests from out of town and let's show them some love, because I don't think he gets out much." Davis frowned. Dakota giggled. "You're so serious. Loosen up."

The girls giggled too, making Davis glare at them.

{Cue I Wanna Party from Rio the movie also}

"Hey, hey, hey, hey!" Davis waved his hands, trying to stop the partying. "I hate to be a party-pooper but there's a really bad evil rising and ya can't just-"

"Shut up and samba!" Dakota interrupted him, pushed him onto the dancefloor. He clumsily stumbled around and turned to glare at the spirited and exotic beauty who was on the stage, tapping a tambourine.

Dakota: Party in Ipanima, baby!

The drums banged by the wings of the Toucanmon as Dakota started to sing.

Dakota: I wanna to party
I wanna samba
I wanna party
I wanna samba
I wanna party
And live my life

Toucanmon: My life…

Dakota: I wanna party

Toucanmon: Party…

Dakota and Toucanmon: And fly…

Dakota: Hey! wanna fly, fly just like a bird…

"But you are a GIRL!" A Toucanmon rhymed.

Dakota: Oh yeah, you're right

So let me fly just like a rocket, then

Toucanmon: OK!

The four Toucanmon launched the human girl into the air with a seesaw. Dakota still maintained an air of spirit and grace as she floated up and fell.

Dakota: Fly so high where I need to come down for oxygen

All: Hey!

Davis's foot had a mind of its mind, beginning to tap. Even Veemon was beginning to groove.

Dakota: Cause once we started, baby, ain't no ain't no stoppin' then

All: Hey!

Dakota slid down a pole (non-suggestive!), jumped down and danced to the music of her song with the Toucanmon.

Dakota: Cause I just want to live my life, and party

All: Hey!

Atsuko grabbed a pair of maracas and shake along.

Dakota: All I want is to be free, and rock my body

Toucanmon: OK!

Dakota danced with Echohawk, back-to-back.

Dakota: Been nowhere around the world and I want to live my life

Davis looked down and saw his legs beginning to shake, not by nervousness, but a need to dance. Images of him back in Rio rushed back. He remembered feeling loved, having fun with his aunt…

In Rio
Cause in Rio
In Rio, I realize

With a wild grin, Davis let loose and danced to the beat, doing a splendid samba by himself.

"What are you doing?" Sadie asked.

"Samba!" Davis answered, still dancing. He slid across the floor smoothly and twirled on his heels, even did a moonwalk!

While singing, Dakota saw the googlehead 'moving like Mick Jagger' and grinned. She took a quick second to praise, "All right, Davis!"

"Go Davy!" Charisse whooped.

Dakota: I wanna party

(Party)

I wanna samba

(Party)

I wanna party

(Party)

And fly…

Lori stood at the sidelines, hidden in the shadows as her friends danced until Davis grabbed her arms and pulled her onto the dancefloor. "C'mon, Lor!"

"You're acting like my brothers!" She stated, stubbornly standing her non-dancing ground.

"I thought they're your half-brothers?" Davis wondered.

"Lori has brothers cut in HALF?" Atsuko popped out behind Lori, making the latter deadpanned.

Toucanmon: I'm that samba, samba master
Master, master, master, master

Push out sound from my ghetto blaster
Blaster, blaster, blaster, blaster

Veemon, flapping and swinging his arms like a pair of wings, turned to Davis. "You know what would make this even better? If Cleo and Kokoro were here!" Pink hearts popped in the dragon's eyes as he remembered the lively, spunky silver-coated Gatomon, winking coyly in his mind.

Davis stopped for a moment to image the radiant quarter-Spanish beauty dancing in front of him, keeping in touch with her Spanish heritage, doing flamenco. Her golden curls, impossibly glowed naturally, bounced on her shoulders, short bangs brushed her glowing face, gleaming waves of ocean blue in her eyes, a sincere smile gracing her lips…

You dance fast,
But I dance faster, faster, faster
Faster, faster

You're too slow
You need to catch up

Lori had her arms doubled crossed firmly but there was a twitch and a shuffle of her shoulders. She shook her head and stubbornly struggled to stay still.

"Lori!" Atsuko hopped about, bursting with energy. Just like her brothers…

"…I'm not fun." Lori admitted quietly. She envied how free her partner was. Because of the drowning attempt of her mother's ex-husband, she dedicated herself in kendo and archery to prevent her from becoming weak again. However, with Davis saving her all the time, it eased her.

Dakota: You can dance, and dance, but I…

I wanna party
(Party)

I wanna samba
(Party)

I wanna party
(Party)

I wanna samba
(Party)

I wanna party
(Party)

And live my life
(Live my life)

I wanna party
(Party)

And fly…

For her troubled partner, Atsuko calmed down and smiled. "Just be yourself. C'mon." The cub took Lori's hand and led her off to the dancefloor. Lori bumped into Davis by accident so she bowed apologetically. But Davis smiled and bumped her back teasingly. He took her hands and helped her move her feet around, matching the beat. As soon she got the hang of it, the young girl stared awed-eyed at Davis, who twirled around once and smiled at her, a warm golden glow shone behind him, making him more radiant and handsome than a Brazilian sunset.

All: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

The fun dancing was too much for Naomi's excitement and she couldn't stop herself from singing, elegantly moving as if she's a Geisha.

Naomi: Laya, laya, laya, laya…

Everyone watched in amazement, even Sadie cracked a smile. Davis too smiled at her amazing singing, even though it wasn't as enchanting as Kokoro's angel voice, so deep in with her emotions in a traditional way…

Laya, laya, laya, laya

Laya, laya, laya, laya…

Naomi finished, stopped in a spin. She realised what she had done and blushed in embarrassment. Nevertheless, everyone in the club applauded for her performance.

"That was incredible!" Davis praised.

"I didn't know you could sing." Sadie said.

"Neither did I." Naomi replied, looking away.

"Dakota, obrigado pela grande festa. Eu precisava relaxar."* Davis thanked in portgualsge, finally in touch with his heritage. The exotic Tamer smiled in return. He turned to his crew, serious yet more relaxed. "We better get moving. Dakota, I'm sending a Locomon to the Real World to pick up more Tamers to help out here and I-"

Dakota cut him off with a hand out. "Davis, you don't have to ask. I would be happy to help. Besides, the evil here doesn't affect D-Powers." She showed him her active amber/white D-Power.

As the group left the club, the Digimon performed a musical farewell for the young heroes.

Digimon: All birds of a feather
Ohh…

Do what they love most of all
Ohh ahh ohh…

Moon and the stars, strumming guitars
That's why we love carnaval

Naomi: Loving our life in the jungle
Everything's wild and free

Never alone 'cause this is our home
Magic can happen for real, in Rio

All: All by itself

(By itself)
You can't see it coming
You can't find it anywhere else

Toucanmon: I'm a kako wera kinga kinga kinga kinga, kinga
Birds like me 'cause I'm a hot winga
(There's your hota winga)
Ha!

Dakota: Here, everybody loves Samba

Toucanmon: I like to Samba

Echohawk: Rhythm you feel in your heart

Toucamon: I'm the Samba master

Dakota: Beauty and love, what more could you want?

Toucanmon: Ha!

All: Everything can be for real, in Rio
Here's something else
(Something else)

You just feel it happening
You won't find it anywhere else…

"Goodbye!" Naomi waved.

"Sayonara!" Charisse bid.

"Até mais!"* Davis called.

"Aye-aye-aye!" Lily, Atsuko and Lori chorused before falling into giggles.

"Aye caramba!" Sadie moaned. "English, please!"

Meanwhile, the Legendary Warriors and Kinu were trailing through a different path. Takuya and Zoe were arguing heatedly, thanks to Kinu's sly tricks. She misled their private moments and twisted them around for her own amusement. So far, no one of the Legendary Warriors or the Digimon suspected her of being a spy. But the twin Warriors of Light and Darkness have their suspicion about her. She was smart…

"They're worse than ever now!" Tommy commented as Zoe called Takuya worse than an idiot and moron.

"They're giving me a headache!" JP whined, clutching his throbbing head while Takuya retorted an insult to Zoe, fuelling their fight.

Kinu, making sure she was clear out of hearing range of the warriors, winked at Electro waddling by her side. Electro nodded and scrabbled up to Bokomon, smirking slyly. "It's odd that you don't have the complete set of warriors."

"Well, the four remaining spirits are sealed away already." Bokomon answered while he focused his full attention and concentration on his book, unaware of Electro and Kinu sharing a wicked smirk.

Kinu nodded at Electro, who pressed, "Sealed?"

"Yes, sealed!" Bokomon snapped, clearly annoyed. "In Takuya's and Koji's D-Tectors! Now, please, leave me in peace! I'm trying to figure out the Pure Spirits!"

"Of course. Just curious." Electro bowed his knobby head before leaving the scholar Digimon in peace and returned to his adorned partner. She picked him up, smirking very pleased, piercing her crimson eyes on the two D-Tectors kept in the two boys' pockets, the Tectors that contained the Spirits of Steel, Earth, Water and Wood.

"Hey, look!" Tommy suddenly called, pointing to something in the distance.

Takuya stopped his fighting with the girl he secretly loves to exclaim, "A castle!"

Kinu's smirk grew wider and sinister. Ready or not Davis, here I come…

* Oi! Bela festa, hein?= Portugalese for 'Hi! Nice party, huh?'

* Sim, totalmente!= 'Yeah, totally!'

* Dakota, obrigado pela grande festa. Eu precisava relaxar.= 'Dakota, thanks for the great party. I needed to loosen up.'

* Até mais!= 'See ya!'