season of love THE SEASON OF LOVE

Disclaimer: I don't own digimon and I ran out of fancy ways of saying that.

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'Argh!' Mimi screamed as she shut her eyes and turned her head away. She waited for the pain to strike her body, but the pain never came. She cautiously opened one of her eye and there it was, the beast was still right in front of her but it is not moving. She looked again and this time more closely and there she saw, a piece of rope wrapped tightly around the beast's huge body and right behind the beast, there was Tai standing his face pale. For a moment there, Mimi thought that he might faint. Then, he steadied himself and started to jump. Everyone was startled, they never thought Tai would act this way. Sure he's personality is like a child sometime but this is outrages not to mention they are in middle of a battle too.
'It worked! It really worked!' He said hugging everyone and when he reached Mimi, he added. 'For a moment there, I thought you are a gonna.'
'Um, I hate to break this 'reunion' party but we can't just left this thing standing there. The sun is going to be up soon and we still have to get out of here.' Joe said reminding everyone that there is still work to do.
'Yes, what exactly do we do with the beast?' Matt added.
'Well, we could check the book Izzy have since it has told us to come here than it should also tell us what to do with this beast.' Sora suggested.
Izzy opened the book again and this time, this is what it said:

The beast is not the key
To the secret behind the copper door
Your mind is the only way
To the treasure you will find.

'Well, since it want us to find out whatever is behind those door over there' Izzy said pointing towards one of the many doors in the room. 'We might as well go and get out as soon as possible. The sun is going up in approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes.'
'Yeah, but which one is the copper door?' Matt asked. From what he can see, all of the five doors are in similar colors.
'I can tell door 1 and 3 is not copper for sure.' Sora said after examining every door. 'Every other doors are dull, copper is a dull substance. But the color on door 1 and 3 is very shiny.'
'Smart.' Matt complimented her and to himself he added, 'I like Sora, she is attractive, caring and smart. I really don't know what is between us anymore. Friendship or...'
'Door 2 seems to be like made out of wood. It sound quite brittle.' Kari said interrupting his thoughts.
'Now door 4 and 5. Which one is the real copper door? They both seem to have copper qualities.' Tai muttered as he paced around the five doors. 'Let's just say it's door number 5! Everyone agree with me to try door 5?'
'Why not?' Everyone was just about to open the fifth door when suddenly Joe stopped everyone.
'Wait a second! I think the real copper door is door 4.' He announced. Everyone wasn't sure what to do so they listened for his explanation. 'As we were pushing the fifth door, I noticed that door 5 is light, a little too light. From my experience, copper seems to be more heavier than that. If my observation was correct, door 5 should be plastic with a large piece of copper wrapped around.'
'I really believe door 5 is the correct door.' Tai was stubborn. 'I suggest we open door 5.'
'But what Joe said does make sense.' Sora had to admit that she agrees with Joe. 'Come on everyone, have faith in the observation Joe had made. Let's open door 4.'
Everyone started to mutter, they just aren't so sure who to believe any more. The book told them to believe in their friend, but which one? It wasn't until a long time they have finally decided to try door 4.
'Tai, we are not doing this because we don't trust you. We are choosing door 4 because what Joe said made more sense. Wouldn't you say so?' Kari tried to talk some sense into her brother since he is still not convinced that Joe is correct.
They slowly pushed open door 4 and there it was. A huge golden snake in the center of the room, no, it's not a monument. It's a real snake eyes full of hate, it hissed at the digidestineds as they approached it and got into a position that looks like it's going to attack.
'Wow!' Sora exclaimed. 'The snake looks impossible to me. someone better think of something soon.'
But before any of the digidestined would say anything, their ankles and wrists got tied up tightly with the weeds on the ground and the snake spoke.
'Bonjour les enfant, je suis le serpent or. c'est the commencement des vous morts. Mais je préfère un jeu de Rechercher avant ce.' (A/N: please excuse my poor French, this is where Sora being living in France comes in.)
'Huh?' All the digidestined except for Sora was confused, they had no idea what on earth the snake is talking about. Sora on the other hand communicated with the snake.
'Nous somme désolé, mes amis ne savent pas le français et c'est trés difficile traduis pour moi. Parle en une autre langue, s'il vous plait.'
'What?' This time, the rest of the digidestineds were more confused. 'Can anyone please translate?'
'Oh.' The snake was a little surprised to hear someone responding. 'All I was saying is that: Good meeting you children, I am the Golden Snake. This is the beginning of the end of your life. But before I do anything, I would like a game of Quest.' It explained. 'And all your little friend there is saying is that you don't understand my language which is French and it is difficult for her to translate. And she politely asked me to speak in another language.'
After a long moment of pause, Izzy agreed to the game of Quest and asked for the rules.
'The rules are easy you see.' The snake started to explain. 'You eight is a team and me myself and I will be challenging you. I will be asking 4 questions and you will be answering. If you cannot answer any one of the questions, I will destroy you. But if you got all of them right, I will give you a chance to fight me. Fair?'
The eight friends nodded. It wasn't fair, but right now, the snake has the advantage and the digidestineds agreed to loosen it up a little before attacking although they had to make sure they got the questions correct because it won't do them any good by attacking when they are being captured.
'Trés bien. The first question. In Myth, when a lightning strike, how long does it take to be heard on the ground?'
'1 second!' Kari was a pro at this myth stuff.
'Second question. Use three steps to load an elephant into a fridge.'
'Um... Gomamon actually did this with me last time. Let's see, you open the fridge door, you put the elephant in and then you close the fridge door. Yes, that's it.' Joe also got the answer right.
'This seems to be easy for you. Next question. In an arid weather, if you wanted to survive, do you take your cloth off or do you keep them on?' There was hesitation for this question, no one knew what was the correct answer.
'Keep the cloth on.' Finally Izzy said. 'I read it from some books I was reading. I think that's the answer'
'Good guess. Now the fourth question:
What born in winter, dies in summer and has it's roots up side down.'
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I am sorry if this chapter took a little long, I am trying to speed up.

Raie