By Zombie X
Izzy stood at the edge of a steep hill. He had tried to scout the area aorund it for another path, but there were none. He would be forced to climb down into the large quarry like pit. In fact it may have actually been a quarry, this proving his populated world theroy. The last signal he seen was pointing across the quarry and into the woods on the other side.This meant that the group was moving, and If he wanted to catch up, he would have to climb. Izzy never did like heights and he never was really good at climbing, but he had no choice. He hopped down to a small ledge of rock that was jutting out from the hill side.
"So far so good." said Izzy to himself. He bagan to slowly work his way down the steep,rocky hill. Suddenly, about half way down the hill a rock gave way when Izzy put his weight on it. Izzy grabbed the hill side with a desperate grip! He found another foot hold and breathed a sigh of relief. It was a long drop even for a slightly sloaped Hill. Izzy began to climb again when another rock gave way, this time Izzy began to slide! He franticaly grabbed at the out croppings of rock but could not get a hold on one! The hill slanted sharply and Izzy drooped a few feet maKing him loose all control! He began to roll down the rocky sloap,picking up speed and kicking up a cloud off dust behind him! He desperatly tried to stop himself but he contiued to roll, hitting rocks hard all the way down! His straps on his back pack ripped and his lap top case was pulled away from him. Suddenly he rolled of another drop-off point and landed hard on some rocks below! The world grew fuzzy as Izzy finally stopped rolling. He lay in a pile of loose rocks at the bottom of the hill. Through clouded vison he tried to move but found it impossible! Everthing had a dream like quality to it. His vison was blury and he couldn't focus. His right arm throbbed with a pain like no other. A warm liquid trickled down his face and ran into his right eye, further clouding his vision. He began to drift away into a deep black pool. The pain seemed more distant now, and he was so tired, so very tired.
" Can't we wait just a few minutes more?" Whinned Mimi. She was sitting on a large rock rubbing her feet.
" Mimi, we've already been waiting for about ten minutes, If we wait any more It will be night time!" said Sora.
Joe and Tai were arguing about what path lead to the city they had seen the night before. " I'm telling you, we have to climb back down and go around, that river is to big to cross and there are no bridges anywhere!" belowed Tai.
" But we barely made it up the hill, let alone going back down."replied Joe.
" I need some better shoes, and a nice dress to go with it.And mabey a new purse..." Mimi drifted off into her usual shopping fantises.
Sora sighed. Surrounded by people and not one decent conversation. Sora wished that Biyomon and the rest of the digi-mon were with them. She wondered where the were now and if they were ok. Gomamon would be bugging Joe, Agumon would be off getting into trouble with Tai, Gabumon would be trying to be a good role-model, Palamon would be talking with Mimi-perhaps trying to figure out what a mall was,Tentomon would be trying to pull Izzy away from his computer. and Patamon would be playing with T.k off in the shade somewhere. Sora and the gang knew the digi-mon for about a Month or so in Digi-time,and In earh time it probally would have been only a few Hours from what Tai had told them form his trip back to earth. The more she thought about it the less sense it made. And then-
" Sora!, so are you coming or not?" asked Tai impatiently," I've been trying to ask you for a few minutes now, but you were off in a dream land."
" Oh, um , sorry , Yeah I guess so."
"Good, I finaly convinced Joe to take the hill path."
" I still think it's a bad idea..." said Joe under his breath.
"And why's that?" snapped Tai.
" OH WOULD YOU TO BE QUITE I CAN'T HEAR MYSELF THINK!"belowed MImi in one of those Giant Anime head things. Once everbody was pacified they began to hike back down the hillside. It was fairly steep and the gravel was loose. But it was passable. The hill side was actually an old quarry, which only further convinced Tai, Joe,Mimi,and Sora that this was a populated world, mabey even Earth. The four kids began there climb back down.
" T.k, where are you?" called Matt, his voice echoing in the large Warehouse. He had folowed T.k after he had ran away to the warehouse next door. The sounds from the battle next door contiued. T.k was crouched under a formation of crates with a tarp on top. He'ed seen the small gap between the boxes and squeezed in, the tarp covering most of the space.
' T.k were are you?" called out Matt in a surreal voice. T.k wanted to run out but he knew that Devimon had him under his control and if he was found he was a goner. " T.k, you can come out now, it's safe." said Matt in a calm voice. " We can all go home now, it's over!"
A tear ran down T.k's cheek. He was emotionaly torn between his love for his brother and his saftey. " Takaruuuuuu!" called Matt. "Come out and play!" he snarled. T.k covered his ears and closed his eyes.A door opened and slammed shut, the noise echoing throught the ware house For a few long minutes T.k hid, not moving or even breathing hard. All was quite, mabey Matt had left? T.k decided to take a quick peek outside. The warehouse was quite and empty. As T.k shuffled out of the small hiding place a voice from behind startled him!
" Miss me little brother?" sneared Matt from atop of a loading platform. T.k took off running with Matt close behind him! T.k ran into a fenced off storage area and tried to slam the door shut, but Matt reached it in time and pushed it open, knocking T.k to the ground. In a flash T.k was on his feet running into the darkness. " You can't hide for ever!" called Matt as he ran into the Darkened room.
T.k stood pressed against a large card bord box in the shadows. Matt walked right past him and when he did pass T.k dashed back for the door.
"Why you little weasel!" snarled Matt as T.k dashed out the door and sealed him in! Matt ran into the chain link fence and shook it with rage! " Let me out now or you will be sorry!"sneared Matt.
" I can't Matt , not when your under Devimons power!" whimpered T.k, a tear running down his cheek. T.k forced himself to run out the door and into the ally.
" T.k!, are you alright?"cried Misty as she ran up to him.
T.k looked up at her with wet eyes. " he's my brother, I can't just leave him." " Theres no way we can help Matt now." said Misty soothingly as she got down on one knee and hugged T.k. " You're going to have to come with us , where you will be safe." said Misty. T.k took Misty's hand and they ran off away from Devimon and his evil.
Izzy opened his eyes. It was dark out and very cold.His head and arm throbbed. " I must still be alive ." thought Izzy numbly, Izzy tried to move his right arm, but it was numb and sore. By the looks of things he had been un-conscience for a few hours, for it was now night and it was getting cold. He lifted his left arm , which was stiff, and touched the back of his head. It felt wet and sticky. When Izzy looked at his hand , it had thick,clotted blood on it. He must have split his head on a rock during the fall. Izzy began to drift off again, mabey for ever this time. Izzy's last few conscience thoughts were about where the others were, if they were ok, and who were his real parents like. "I may never know now." thought Izzy blindly. He drifted out once again into a black sea.
" There!" cried Agumon as he pointed out into the small valley. He was pointing at the glow of a camp fire of in the distance.
" It has to be them!" he cired with joy as he began to run towards the light.
" Wait Agumon, are you sure?' Asked Gabumon.
" It is a distinct possibility!" Piped Tentomon.
" I hope they are ok.' said Biyomon as she flew into the air and headed for the fire.
" They'll be fine." said Palomon as she headed towads the fire." They've lasted longer alone."
" Hey wait for me!" said Gomamon as he shuffled after the digi-mon.
" Yup it is!" said Gomamon with a smirk. " I can smell em'!" " Horay!" called Patamon as he began to fly towards the fire. The others began to follow, in hope that they would find the Group again.
" I wish Agumon were here," said Tai as he poked the small fire. " He could always start nice fires."
" What I wouldn't give for a nice soft bed." Moaned Mimi.
" Yeah, I'm so used to sleeping on rocks and leaves, I've forgoten what a bed feels like." replied Sora.
" I'll bet my homework is a month overdue." Whined Joe.
" You actually do homework in the summer?!?" said Tai with a tinge of shock in his voice.
" I don't want to fall behind." replied Joe with a shrug.
Sora was looking out onto the sparse vallley like pit they were in.The moon light light up the plain with a soft blue light. She squinted her eyes, somthing was moving out on the darkness. " Tai, let me see your telescope for a second." asked Sora. Tai brought her the scope.
" Do you see something out there?" he asked.
As Sora focused the scope, she could make out a small group of creatures running thowards them.
" It's them!" cried Soar, " It's the digi-mon!" " What?, really" cried Tai as he look throught the scope. Sure enough he could make out Agumon running as fast as his stumpy legs could carry him. " Hey Agumon!" cried Tai as he began to run towards his digimon.
" Gomamon!" called Joe as he got up and began to run. Mimi and Soar followed.
As the two groups met,hugs and greetings were shared. For each one had been seperated for almost 3 days now. After all the greetings were done they all returned back to the camp site.
" So none of you have seen the others?" asked Gabumon.
" No, I'm afraid not." said Sora .Biyomon sat close by Sora.
" Don't worry, we wil find them." said Biyomon, trying to raise group spirits.
Patamon seemed the most worried. T.k could be all alone out there, and he wasn't around to protect him.
" Hey Patmon, well find T.k, just you wait and see." said Gabumon in a reasuring voice. " I know we will, but I hope he's not lonley." repiled Patamon with a sigh.
" Uhh, Tai, we have some bad news..."said agumon as he remembered the incident before.
" Whats that Agumon?"
" We are not the only beings to come here, and there are more people here too!"replied Agumon in a grim voice.
" What?" aksed Joe a little surprised.
" We were attacked By Etamon and some more people like you only older!" said Gabumon.
" What?" cried Sora, Tai, Mimi, and Joe all in unison. " Thats immpossible!, we defeated Etamon!"said Tai in defience.
" I saw him disingrate myself!, how could he return?" said Sora.
" I Hate that Etamon creep!"said Mimi, " he has the worst taste and is just plain rude!"
" Well like it or not, Etamons back and hes teamed up with some people." said Gomamon," They managed to catch us and lock us in cages, but of course they were no match for us, and we escaped."
" well I guess then we have to on gaurd for Etamon again." said Tai with a sigh.
"We beat him before and we can do it again!' said Mimi
" but first we need to find the others." said Sora.
"Umm, Tai?" asked Agumon again.
"Yeah?"
" umm can we eat?, we've been without food for a while now."
" Oh, yeah, of course." The humans and Digimon alike sat down and enjoyed there first calm meal in a while.
Joe stood up and began to walk away.
" Hey Joe where you going?" askd Gomamon as soon as Joe got up.
" Nature calls." replied Joe with a blush.Joe walked a little ways of and around a bend to find some privacy when suddely , his digi-vice beeped. Joe looked at it excitedly. There was a signal from another Digi-vice.
" Hey guys come here quick!" cried Joe.
" Why do you need help?" Joked Tai with a smirk.
" I think I found someone!"
At this every one got up and ran to hear what Joe had to say.
" I had just walked into the range of a digi-vice, must have been a stroke of luck."
" Who do you think it is?" asked Palamon.
" I don't know, could be anyone." said Joe.
"Well, some of us should stay here, theres no sense in all of us going." said Tai.
" I agree," said Sora, " I'll go."
" Ok then I'll go too."said Tai. " You guys going to be ok?
" Sure." said Mimi.
" No problem. I'll just get some more food ready." said Joe as he dug some fruit out of his bag.
"OK, we won't be long." said Tai.
" Were coming too Tai!" said Agumon. Agumon and Biyomon got up and followed.
" The signal's getting closer, I think its over there." said Tai
" Yeah, mines pointing that way too." said Sora as She looked at her digi-vice.
The four friends walked into a crescent shaped section of the wall.
" The signal is right here, but yet I don't see anyone?,I hope we don't have to climb up there." said Sora indicating the cliff side.
" No, we won't." said Tai somberly as he picked up a digi-vice from the ground.Tai was crestfallen. There was a digi-vice, but no owner, and he knew that none of them would ever leave there digi-vice behind. " well thats just great." said Tai with a scowl. " Now what?"
" Tai, look!," said Sora. "It's Izzy's backpack and laptop, he would never leave these behind!" Sora sounded worried. " Something must have happened!"
" Izzy!" called Tai "Where are you!" Tai began to walk around calling for Izzy.
" Oh no." said Sora in a low voice, " Tai look." Sora covererd her mouth in shock.
" What is it?" said Tai. His eyes folowed to where she pointed. " Oh man, no!" Tai ran to the rocks at the base of the cliff, there lay Izzy. Not moving. Tai climbed over to Izzy. " Oh man, this is bad..." he said In a low voice. Izzy lay silent, his face had a dried trickle of blood on it. Tai grabbed Izzy's arm and checked for a pulse. Tai was relived to find one, it was faint but it was there.
" Biyomon go for help!" cried Sora.
" Right!" said Biyomon in a worried voice.
" Is he?" asked Agumon
" Yeah, he's alive, barley." Tai looked devistated. " We have to help him now, or he won't make it."
"Can you hear me Izzy?" asked Tai shaking him gently.
Sora climbed over to him. " I remember in gym they taught us a little on first aid."
Tai lowerd his head and covered his eyes.
" Tai, we'll save him, I promise." said Sora, her eyes moist.
Just then Izzy moved a little. " Hey he's awake!, can you hear me Izzy?" asked Sora.
" S-s-ora?, where am I?" said Izzy in a dazed voice.
" Your going to be ok Izzy, just hang on ok?" said Tai , his eyes red rimmed. and his face wet.
" My-my arm hurts, I think it's broken."
" Don't worry, we'll get you all fixed up!" said Tai. " Can you move?"
Izzy nodded slowly, " I think so."
" We have to move him out of the rocks." said Tai.
" Tai, I'm cold, so very cold." Izzy said in a low scratchy voice.
" Izzy hang on!" said Tai . Izzy closed his eyes and drifted out of conscenice again.
" He might be going into shock,We need to build a fire, agumon can you do that?"asked Sora.
Agumon had been standing aside. He had never seen any of the humans hurt so bad, and it scared him.
" Agumon?" asked Tai.
" Y-yes I can." said Agumon as he rushed off to find some wood.
Tai had always felt like he was in control, but now one of his best friends was badly hurt and he couldn't do nothing about it.