*I'm happy today, because I received my first review of the Harmony Chronicles (and it was a good one too :-D). Every author out there must know what I mean when I say that just an eensy-weensy bit of feedback makes writing worthwhile (hint, hint ^.~). Even if it's negative, you know- at least someone read it! Anyways, here's the next episode as promised. Enjoy!*
Episode 7
LOST AND FOUND
"Everything has suddenly started going totally wack here on Earth. Last night while we were all sleeping a lot of weird stuff was happening all over the world, like a snowstorm in the Sahara, a tornado in Paris, France, and a big earthquake in New York City! Here in Odaiba everybody's crests and digivices started activating all at once although we weren't awake to see it. Then the drift opened and all of the Digidestined besides me and probably the ninth one were transported back to the Digiworld. I hope I find this ninth kid real soon." -Tai
Kari opened her eyes and stared into Gatomon's concerned face. "Are you okay?" the Digimon demanded. "I was worried about you! You were out for a while."
"I'm sorry I made you worry," Kari said. Then she rubbed her eyes, confused, and looked around. "Are we back in the Digiworld?"
"That's what it seems," Gatomon replied.
"But how?"
Gatomon shrugged. "Don't ask me, I must have slept through it." She looked around. "My guess is that the dimensional rift opened while we were asleep and took us all back to the Digiworld."
Kari shook her head. "But if everybody came back, then where are they? And what about Tai? Isn't he supposed to be looking after me?" For a moment, Kari felt mad at her brother, but then she realized she was being silly. It wasn't Tai's fault that this had happened. And just because she was scared, that didn't mean she was allowed to be mad at anyone. I have to be brave, Kari thought to herself. I have to be strong. That's what Tai would want me to do.
"Well, I don't know where any of the others are," Gatomon told her. "I haven't seen anyone else around here. But look! I brought you some food."
Kari took the food that Gatomon offered and quickly gobbled it down. "Thanks, Gatomon, that makes me feel better." She smiled at her Digimon, then worry came over her. "You had some yourself, right?"
Gatomon nodded, smiling back. "Yep. There was plenty so I couldn't help being a greedy pig."
Kari giggled. "That's okay. You need to eat so you can have the strength to digivolve."
Gatomon nodded. "Right."
Suddenly, from the woods, there came a loud cry. "Gatomon! Kari! Is that you?"
Gatomon looked up quickly. "Patamon?" she asked as the Digimon came flying into the clearing.
"And TK!" Kari cried joyfully when she saw her friend following Patamon.
"Hi, Kari! You're here to, huh?"
"Yeah," Kari said regretfully. "But that's okay, now that you're here."
"I'm glad I found you!" TK exclaimed. "I was worried that I wasn't gonna find anyone!"
"Me, too," Kari said soberly. "Our brothers must be worried sick about us."
TK's face fell. "Yeah, you're probably right."
"Then what are we standing around here for?" Gatomon said, trying to cheer them up. "We can find Tai and Matt, we just have to go look for them!"
"Yeah, Gatomon's right!" Patamon added.
Kari and TK perked up. "Yeah, we'd better go find them," TK said.
"They'll be proud that we're being so brave," Kari said, smiling.
"Right!" the other three replied, and together they went off into the woods in search of the others.
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Tai was sitting silently on his balcony with Lily, thinking about his sister. She had to be okay. She had Gatomon with her, and Gatomon was a powerful Digimon.
Tai knew Lily was trying to think of something to say. He wasn't sure exactly why he called Lily after finding out that Kari and the others were missing. Maybe he just needed somebody to tell him that it was all going to be okay, even though he knew he should be trying to find a way to get to the Digiworld and help the others.
Tai had never really been too sure exactly why he and Lily were best friends. They were definitely total opposites. Tai knew he was really hot-headed and acted pretty dumb sometimes. Tai was always the one who would start a fight, and Lily was always the one who broke it up. He teased her for that, calling her the Peacemaker, but in truth he admired her ability to bring about harmony in any situation.
She liked to tease him an awful lot, too, especially about his obsession with soccor, but somehow when he was around her he never seemed to get very mad. It was impossible to fight with Lily, anyway. She could tell anyone off anytime.
But she WAS good at making people feel better.
"I'm sure Kari is all right," Lily said for the hundreth time. "She probably just wandered off somewhere."
"Uh-huh." Tai wasn't really listening. He was staring at his digivice in anger, wishing it would somehow transport him back to the Digiworld. Of course he couldn't tell Lily where Kari and the others really were, but it didn't really matter.
"Tai?" He looked up at Lily. She was staring at something strangely -his digivice, Tai realized, which was lying in his open palm. "What is that thing?"
Tai quickly closed his fist over the device. "It's called a digivice," he said nervously. "It keeps track of the time and all."
Among other things, he thought dryly to himself.
"Oh, that's what you were talking about the other day?" Lily nodded. "I was just wondering 'cause..."
She dug around in her pocket, and held something out for Tai to see. "I have one too."
He nearly fainted.
"I found this in my house one day," Lily continued, not noticing that Tai was totally freaking out. "I
had no idea what it was but it gave me this weird feeling. Like I was drawn to it or something. It's not working or anything but I've been carrying around ever since. I don't really know why." She stared at Tai, then added, "Are you okay?"
"Am I OKAY?!" he pratically screamed. Then he took a deep breath. "I mean, can I see that, Lily?"
"Sure." She handed it over to him, still looking at him strangely. Tai took out his own digivice and laid it in one palm with Lily's in the other. Slowly his digivice started glowing, a tiny bit at first, then definitely bright enough to be noticed. Lily stared at them silently.
Suddenly the digivice gave out a piercing whistle, like the one they usually made when someone was about to digivolve. Then with a tremor, Lily's digivice activated and began glowing and trilling just like the other. Slowly it raised itself out of Tai's hand and floated back to Lily, who was staring at it openmouthed. Tentively she opened her palm, and the digivice dropped into it and slowly deactivated.
Lily raised her eyes and stared at Tai. "What on or off Earth was THAT?" she demanded.
Tai could only shake his head. He couldn't believe it. LILY, the ninth Digidestined? But there could be no doubt about it. The digivice had claimed Lily as a Digidestined, and the digivices never lied.
*I think I'm gonna have a lot of explaining to do,* he thought ruefully.
"Tai!" Lily yelled in alarm, bringing him back to his senses. "Look! They're doing it again!"
Tai stared at his digivice and Lily's. Sure enough, they had started glowing again. Suddenly, both digivices gave a long, piercing trill and started shaking in their hands like they were going crazy or something.
"What is going ON?" Tai demanded, more of himself than anyone else.
All of a sudden, the door was flung open and Agumon came bounding outside.
"Tai! I think you'd better look at this!" he yelled, pointing to the sky. "I saw it from the window inside!"
Lily stared at Agumon. "You...you talked!"
But Tai couldn't be concerned with Lily right now. There in the sky, right above them, a huge hole and begun to tear through as if soemone was cutting through the sky with a giant pair of sissors.
"The drift!" he yelled.
"The WHAT?" Lily demanded, but Tai and Agumon had already taken off, down the stairs to the street in front of the apartment complex.
Lily caught up with them as they stood in the middle of the street, panting and staring up at the sky. The drift was slowly widening, and already, Tai could feel it tugging at him, trying to pull him in.
"Agumon, I have a feeling we're going to be going back after all," he said tersely.
"TAI!" Lily yelled, and before he could think, or react, she was pulled up off the street and into the drift. She quickly disappeared from sight.
"Uh-oh," he murmured even as he and Agumon lifted up off the ground. "Lily is gonna ream me out big time over this one."
There was a bright flash of light, a sensation of falling, and suddenly they were lying face-down on the grass in an open field next to woods. To their right a stream ran from the woods, and in the distance Tai could see a huge, dark mountain.
"Agumon, are you okay?" Tai asked as they slowly sat up.
"I think so," the Digimon replied.
Suddenly, it all came back to Tai in a flash, and he bolted upright. "Lily! Lily's around here somewhere! C'mon, Agumon, we've got to go find her before she's attacked by who-knows-what."
"Right," Agumon said, and the two raced off into the forest.
Next Episode: "LILY'S DIGIMON"
Episode 7
LOST AND FOUND
"Everything has suddenly started going totally wack here on Earth. Last night while we were all sleeping a lot of weird stuff was happening all over the world, like a snowstorm in the Sahara, a tornado in Paris, France, and a big earthquake in New York City! Here in Odaiba everybody's crests and digivices started activating all at once although we weren't awake to see it. Then the drift opened and all of the Digidestined besides me and probably the ninth one were transported back to the Digiworld. I hope I find this ninth kid real soon." -Tai
Kari opened her eyes and stared into Gatomon's concerned face. "Are you okay?" the Digimon demanded. "I was worried about you! You were out for a while."
"I'm sorry I made you worry," Kari said. Then she rubbed her eyes, confused, and looked around. "Are we back in the Digiworld?"
"That's what it seems," Gatomon replied.
"But how?"
Gatomon shrugged. "Don't ask me, I must have slept through it." She looked around. "My guess is that the dimensional rift opened while we were asleep and took us all back to the Digiworld."
Kari shook her head. "But if everybody came back, then where are they? And what about Tai? Isn't he supposed to be looking after me?" For a moment, Kari felt mad at her brother, but then she realized she was being silly. It wasn't Tai's fault that this had happened. And just because she was scared, that didn't mean she was allowed to be mad at anyone. I have to be brave, Kari thought to herself. I have to be strong. That's what Tai would want me to do.
"Well, I don't know where any of the others are," Gatomon told her. "I haven't seen anyone else around here. But look! I brought you some food."
Kari took the food that Gatomon offered and quickly gobbled it down. "Thanks, Gatomon, that makes me feel better." She smiled at her Digimon, then worry came over her. "You had some yourself, right?"
Gatomon nodded, smiling back. "Yep. There was plenty so I couldn't help being a greedy pig."
Kari giggled. "That's okay. You need to eat so you can have the strength to digivolve."
Gatomon nodded. "Right."
Suddenly, from the woods, there came a loud cry. "Gatomon! Kari! Is that you?"
Gatomon looked up quickly. "Patamon?" she asked as the Digimon came flying into the clearing.
"And TK!" Kari cried joyfully when she saw her friend following Patamon.
"Hi, Kari! You're here to, huh?"
"Yeah," Kari said regretfully. "But that's okay, now that you're here."
"I'm glad I found you!" TK exclaimed. "I was worried that I wasn't gonna find anyone!"
"Me, too," Kari said soberly. "Our brothers must be worried sick about us."
TK's face fell. "Yeah, you're probably right."
"Then what are we standing around here for?" Gatomon said, trying to cheer them up. "We can find Tai and Matt, we just have to go look for them!"
"Yeah, Gatomon's right!" Patamon added.
Kari and TK perked up. "Yeah, we'd better go find them," TK said.
"They'll be proud that we're being so brave," Kari said, smiling.
"Right!" the other three replied, and together they went off into the woods in search of the others.
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Tai was sitting silently on his balcony with Lily, thinking about his sister. She had to be okay. She had Gatomon with her, and Gatomon was a powerful Digimon.
Tai knew Lily was trying to think of something to say. He wasn't sure exactly why he called Lily after finding out that Kari and the others were missing. Maybe he just needed somebody to tell him that it was all going to be okay, even though he knew he should be trying to find a way to get to the Digiworld and help the others.
Tai had never really been too sure exactly why he and Lily were best friends. They were definitely total opposites. Tai knew he was really hot-headed and acted pretty dumb sometimes. Tai was always the one who would start a fight, and Lily was always the one who broke it up. He teased her for that, calling her the Peacemaker, but in truth he admired her ability to bring about harmony in any situation.
She liked to tease him an awful lot, too, especially about his obsession with soccor, but somehow when he was around her he never seemed to get very mad. It was impossible to fight with Lily, anyway. She could tell anyone off anytime.
But she WAS good at making people feel better.
"I'm sure Kari is all right," Lily said for the hundreth time. "She probably just wandered off somewhere."
"Uh-huh." Tai wasn't really listening. He was staring at his digivice in anger, wishing it would somehow transport him back to the Digiworld. Of course he couldn't tell Lily where Kari and the others really were, but it didn't really matter.
"Tai?" He looked up at Lily. She was staring at something strangely -his digivice, Tai realized, which was lying in his open palm. "What is that thing?"
Tai quickly closed his fist over the device. "It's called a digivice," he said nervously. "It keeps track of the time and all."
Among other things, he thought dryly to himself.
"Oh, that's what you were talking about the other day?" Lily nodded. "I was just wondering 'cause..."
She dug around in her pocket, and held something out for Tai to see. "I have one too."
He nearly fainted.
"I found this in my house one day," Lily continued, not noticing that Tai was totally freaking out. "I
had no idea what it was but it gave me this weird feeling. Like I was drawn to it or something. It's not working or anything but I've been carrying around ever since. I don't really know why." She stared at Tai, then added, "Are you okay?"
"Am I OKAY?!" he pratically screamed. Then he took a deep breath. "I mean, can I see that, Lily?"
"Sure." She handed it over to him, still looking at him strangely. Tai took out his own digivice and laid it in one palm with Lily's in the other. Slowly his digivice started glowing, a tiny bit at first, then definitely bright enough to be noticed. Lily stared at them silently.
Suddenly the digivice gave out a piercing whistle, like the one they usually made when someone was about to digivolve. Then with a tremor, Lily's digivice activated and began glowing and trilling just like the other. Slowly it raised itself out of Tai's hand and floated back to Lily, who was staring at it openmouthed. Tentively she opened her palm, and the digivice dropped into it and slowly deactivated.
Lily raised her eyes and stared at Tai. "What on or off Earth was THAT?" she demanded.
Tai could only shake his head. He couldn't believe it. LILY, the ninth Digidestined? But there could be no doubt about it. The digivice had claimed Lily as a Digidestined, and the digivices never lied.
*I think I'm gonna have a lot of explaining to do,* he thought ruefully.
"Tai!" Lily yelled in alarm, bringing him back to his senses. "Look! They're doing it again!"
Tai stared at his digivice and Lily's. Sure enough, they had started glowing again. Suddenly, both digivices gave a long, piercing trill and started shaking in their hands like they were going crazy or something.
"What is going ON?" Tai demanded, more of himself than anyone else.
All of a sudden, the door was flung open and Agumon came bounding outside.
"Tai! I think you'd better look at this!" he yelled, pointing to the sky. "I saw it from the window inside!"
Lily stared at Agumon. "You...you talked!"
But Tai couldn't be concerned with Lily right now. There in the sky, right above them, a huge hole and begun to tear through as if soemone was cutting through the sky with a giant pair of sissors.
"The drift!" he yelled.
"The WHAT?" Lily demanded, but Tai and Agumon had already taken off, down the stairs to the street in front of the apartment complex.
Lily caught up with them as they stood in the middle of the street, panting and staring up at the sky. The drift was slowly widening, and already, Tai could feel it tugging at him, trying to pull him in.
"Agumon, I have a feeling we're going to be going back after all," he said tersely.
"TAI!" Lily yelled, and before he could think, or react, she was pulled up off the street and into the drift. She quickly disappeared from sight.
"Uh-oh," he murmured even as he and Agumon lifted up off the ground. "Lily is gonna ream me out big time over this one."
There was a bright flash of light, a sensation of falling, and suddenly they were lying face-down on the grass in an open field next to woods. To their right a stream ran from the woods, and in the distance Tai could see a huge, dark mountain.
"Agumon, are you okay?" Tai asked as they slowly sat up.
"I think so," the Digimon replied.
Suddenly, it all came back to Tai in a flash, and he bolted upright. "Lily! Lily's around here somewhere! C'mon, Agumon, we've got to go find her before she's attacked by who-knows-what."
"Right," Agumon said, and the two raced off into the forest.
Next Episode: "LILY'S DIGIMON"