A/N & Disclaimer: For the disclaimer check chapter two. Now, Thank you to
Bunnie, for her support and her volunteering to help Zeemon illustrate my
fic. Thank you also to Trista for helping me keep "Faith" in myself.
Congrats to ya too! I hope that you're happy. Thanks to... Ah never mind
I'll thank ya later. So, do ya like the cliffhanger of "Getting Closer"?
Hehehehehe! I know, at that point I was hanging to. I got to that point and
my mind went blank, but obviously that didn't last long cause here I am! I
know you guys are all wondering what happened to Katey, aren't you? Ha! I'm
so smart. Well, maybe you'll find out in this chapter.
"First Awakenings: The Crests of Faith and Unity"
'Wow! This place is huge. Well, when I get off the plane all I do is look for Izzy or Lia. This shouldn't be hard. I wonder if her cousin Ken will be there?' Since Teresa saw Lia's cousin a week ago she couldn't stop thinking about him. 'What's the big deal if I have a crush on him? I mean, who wouldn't?!?!?! He's cute, smart, he laughs, Lia says he can be funny some times, and he's supposedly very sweet and kind..' Just then her thoughts were interrupted by the call for everyone to get their stuff and leave the plane. 'Well, here I go.'
"There she is! Teresa! Over here, Teresa!" Lia called to her friend and ran towards her.
"Ken, she's here. Are you coming to say hello?" Izzy was trying to get Ken's attention as the other genius stared out a window.
"Huh?.. What?. Oh, Izzy. I, uh, sure." Ken looked lost and confused.
"Ken is something wrong? Not that I'm implying anything here, but ever since you saw Teresa on the computer a week ago you've seemed different."
"Well, uh she is kinda cute." Ken began to blush slightly.
"Ok, man. I was starting to think it was serious. Hey, look Lia still hasn't gotten to Teresa, because of the crowd." The two boys began to laugh at the two girls. Lia finally able to get to Teresa and hugged her. Then, the two girls started blabbing about everything to each other, then more hugs, and laughter. Ken and Izzy smiled and started over to the girls.
"Ken, Izzy, this is Teresa Mitzumi, my best friend and one of my sisters. That's a slang term. And Teresa this is my cousin, Ken and my great friend Izzy. I know that you guys already met in a sense, but this is much more polite and less embarrassing for some of us." Teresa shot Lia a dirty look.
"It's nice to meet you in person. And I feel so sorry for you," she said to Ken. "You have to live with her." Ken and Izzy laughed, while Lia hit Teresa on the head. Teresa mouthed 'I'll get you later.'
"It's not that bad. She does get a little temperamental at times, but doesn't everybody?" Ken waited for her to reply 'not me' like a lot of other girls would, but she didn't.
"True, very true. Hey, I know that you have mentioned other people in your letters, so when do I get to meet them?" Lia knew she was referring to Matt.
"Well, maybe tomorrow. Tonight our families are going to dinner-"
"Lia, you've talked enough," interrupted Izzy. "To finish what she was saying, we're all going to dinner and tomorrow we're going to have a picnic with all our other friends so everyone can meet each other, chat-"
"Play soccer." Ken and Lia said it at the same time. Teresa was shocked that Ken liked soccer.
'Well if he's this perfect, than he can't be single.' Thought Teresa as she, Lia, and the boys walked through the airport to the parking lot where the Izumi's were waiting. "Thanx for coming to greet me, both of you." Teresa was thanking Lia and Ken who were going to visit a friend. "I guess I'll see y'all tonight."
"Nice to meet you face-to-face, Teresa. Until this evening." Ken bowed slightly and backed up for Lia to say goodbye.
"I'll call you later to see how you like your room. See ya tonite, Te." With that Lia and Ken started toward Matt's band's practice studio.
"So, Ken. Why were you oh/so/quietly-shy while we were with Teresa?" asked Lia. She had her guesses. She and Ken were complete opposites when it came to liking someone. Lia would act fairly normal, but with prolonged eye contact and a little bit of blushing. Ken on the other hand was more quiet and reserved.
"What do you mean, Lia? I was perfectly normal for first meeting her. I have no clue as to what you were implying." His checks started to get red as they walked along the beach way towards the old warehouse.
"Uh-huh. Well then, you wouldn't care explaining why you've been so day- dreamy the past week. And, if I'm not mistaken you started right after you saw Teresa on the net."
"Lia, I'll tell you later." The two arrived at the warehouse. Matt came out just as they got there.
"Hey, guys! How was Teresa's flight? She got in ok, didn't she? We just went on break, so we got time to talk." He knew Lia was really into music and didn't want to miss a beat. He heard about the almost run-in before his last concert. It just proved he was right about her love for music. 'I wonder if there's a guy that gets to feel her love, like the music does.' He had found himself wondering things like that all the time after his concert. "So, is the picnic still on?"
"Yep! You can make it still, right?"
"Of course I can still make it." 'Why would I miss any chance to be with you?' he thought.
"Great. Than we'll see you tomorrow, Matt. Have a good rehearsal!" Ken said as they started for home. "Well weren't you a little too worried he couldn't come, cuz?" Ken was enjoying this chance to torment her, because he didn't get many.
"What do you mean, Ken? I was just trying to make sure a friend of mine could meet another. I don't know what you're thinking, but if it was anything other than that you're wrong." 'At least that's all I'll tell you. You don't need to know I like Matt, especially since you two are pretty good friends. I think I'll wait till later to even let on that I might like him to him.'
"Hurry up, Lia!" Ken was getting really tired of saying that. Finally, his cousin emerged in a blue-green, flower-patterned, full-length dress. Lia smiled as her cousin's jaw dropped,
"I'm ready to go. Come on Ken we can't keep Izzy and Teresa waiting!"
Meanwhile, Teresa was getting the same reaction from Izzy.
"Can you move any slower? We can't keep Ken and Lia waiting."
"If she's dressed any thing like you I'll have a heart attack."
"You will not do any such thing, Izzy!"
"I would to, cause she's always in something that she could play a sport in."
"Well, you will start to be very surprised.."
Izzy shook his head and thought, 'Lia in a dress.. Never gonna happen. Ken won't be doing much of anything tonight with Teresa dressed like that.' He looked at the girl that had captured his friend's thoughts; she was dressed in a purple, flower-patterned, full-length dress. (A/N: I thought it would be cute if Lia and Teresa dressed similar cause it would make the boys' jaws drop a little further down ^___^)
Matt sat with TK as the hours dragged on. "How long can dinner take?!?!!"
"Well, since they're at a nice restaurant, probably a while. I agreed to wait with you cause you seemed a little depressed when you said that you were waiting for Izzy to call you after dinner. Why? I mean, what's got you messed up, Matt? And if you don't want to tell me tell someone, Tai, Izzy, Lia-"
"I can't tell her, that's the whole point! I've known her as a friend for a while now and before I met her I never thought that I might have to deal with liking her, but then she came and so did the feelings."
"You're telling me that the Matt Ishida that has girls throwing themselves at him, can't tell one, just one girl, that he likes her.. Matt something is wrong with your brain."
"No, it's the fact that she might not feel the same way, that she might shy away from me, that it might upset her or hurt her in some way."
"Matt, you'll never know until you try. Have a little Hope," TK smiled as his older brother glared at him.
"Easy for you to say, you ARE Hope."
"And you're Friendship. Tell her."
"If I tell her, you gotta tell Kari that-"
"You asshole, don't blackmail me." TK was getting really red at the sound of Kari's name and the mention that he'd have to tell her.
"I'm not an asshole, I'm the Man." TK and Matt started to laugh. Matt had always said he was the man ever since they had gone to summer camp four years ago, and gotten transported to the DigiWorld. Suddenly, the phone rang and startled the boys from their gales of laughter and Matt lunged for the phone. "Hello, Ishida residence... Kari? No, Tai I haven't seen her. No, TK's here with me. When did she leave? An hour ago. She didn't take Gatomon. . ."
"Matt, What's going on?!?!? What Happened to Kari?!?!? Matt tell me!!!"
"Tai, I know you're upset, but blaming yourself won't help. She left an hour ago, after you got into a fight, and which way was she heading?. Towards TK's okay. No Tai TK's been over here for almost two and a half. We'll call over there Tai. No, it's no problem. We'll call and we'll go and try to find her. No, Tai. You stay home in case she comes back. We'll keep you posted if we find anything. It'll be ok Tai we'll find her. Goodbye." Matt looked dazed as he hung up the phone.
"Kari. Why'd you leave?. Kari." TK was more of a wreck than Tai was. He was crying the tears that wouldn't come easily to him anymore.
"Come on TK. Get up we're gonna go out as soon as I call mom." Matt dialed the numbers quickly and listen to the rings. "Mom, it's Matt. Fine, has Kari been over there?. No, Tai is looking for her. No, she's not missing. She's probably at Yolie's. Ok, Mom. Talk to ya later. Bye.."
"She's gone." TK looked up from his D-Terminal. "I just asked Yolie, Cody, and Davis if they'd seen her. They all said no." TK's eyes were red all the Hope that is usually there, was completely gone.
"Tai asked everybody else he could get a hold of. He even called Izzy and Ken. What do you think could have. TK?" His brother was tensing up next to him. "What's wrong?"
"It's the Dark Ocean. That damn Dark Ocean took her away from me again..." TK then left his brother's apartment and headed toward the beach, with Matt staring wide eyed after him.
Ken, Teresa, Izzy, and Lia were all sitting happily outside the restaurant that they and their families just finished eating at. Teresa and Lia looked at their companions as their D-Terminals started to beep. "What's up, guys?" Teresa asked.
"Oh. My. God. Kari's missing." Ken had his out first and quickly read it because he knew it would be an emergency. "She's been missing for more than an hour." Ken looked over at Izzy fear and worry in his eyes. Lia didn't notice because she was in shock, Teresa had and thought, 'Poor Kari, whoever she is. Ken looks terrible. She must be his girlfriend. I knew a guy to good to be true wouldn't be single.'
The two families parted ways.
Kari was still missing the next day except now TK was all over Odaiba trying to find her. Teresa came over with Izzy. Izzy and Ken exchanged few words before telling the girls that they were going to join the search and would be back later. Teresa looked around. "Where's Ellis and Mikhail?"
"In the country, they left early this morning. Wanna spend the night? You can borrow some of my clothes."
"Sure. Hey does Ken have a girlfriend?" Lia looked at her friend and smiled. She knew Teresa liked him, and he liked her. She had promised both that she wouldn't tell the other. She smiled as she got them something to drink.
"Nope. He's single. No prospects, well. he does have a crush, but that's not anything big. Not very into the whole big couple thing, he's really mellow about it." She saw Teresa smile. "Yes, Te, you're welcome to go for the gold, well, in this case I'd say it's purple."
"What is?" asked Teresa eyeing her friend suspiciously.
"The object of your obsession." The girls smiled and laughed, while they toasted each other.
"May every girl get the guy she wants.." Teresa said as their toast.
"Amen!" The girls drank their sodas and sighed. "So much for a picnic and soccer." Lia sighed.
"It's not a total loss. I'm still here, we're still best friends, we're both chasing guys that think of us as friends."
"As usual. Hey what's that?"
"What's what?" Teresa asked as she turned around towards where Lia was looking.
"Something's in Kennie's room. Come on let's check it out." The girls sat their sodas down and went towards Ken's room. When they got to the door, Lia listened . The sound was a humming sound that sounded strangely familiar. "Well here goes nothing." The girls went in and saw nothing except the computer screen activate a program all by itself.
"Ummm. Lia maybe we should leave. Now."
"No let me turn of the computer first." Unknown to the two, Minomon was watching them. He wanted them away from Ken's computer since the DigiPort was opening on it's own. He only recognized Lia, since she was Ken's cousin, but who was this stranger in Ken's room?
"Lia please. Can't you sense something? Or do you ignore it here?" What was she talking about? Sensing? Lia was a normal girl.
"Teresa you are worrying too much nothing bad is here."
"You're just saying that because.. Lia!" Lia was starting to fall. "Li. Are you ok?" Teresa caught her friend.
"Yeah." Lia said it as she looked at Ken's bed.
"Li, What's up? Is something here?" Minomon was no longer watching them he was hiding in the shadows on Ken's bed hoping Lia wouldn't come up. Suddenly,
"Gottcha!" Lia grabbed Minomon as he tried to squirm away. "Hey it's ok. We won't hurt you.." She brought Minomon into the light. "What are you anyway?" Minomon was upset enough that he forgot to act like a stuffed toy.
"I'm Minomon. Now let me go!" He started to wiggle even more.
"Teresa, stop cowering in fear. Hi, Minomon. My name is-"
"Lia, you're Ken's cousin. I don't know her." He indicated Teresa. Since
Minomon stopped struggling she held him gently.
"My n-n-n-name is T-T-T-T- Teresa." Teresa was still scarred.
"Now that we all know each other's names, what are you?" asked Lia. Minomon looked up at her and said
"I'm a Digimon." Lia looked a little confused.
"What's a Digimon?"
"A Digimon is a Digital Monster. We're usually good little Digimon like me. You don't need to be afraid of me in any of my forms." Teresa relaxed. This cute little green fluff ball was a friend. The computer screen started to glow really bright. "Oh No. The DigiPort is opening!" cried the little Digimon. Before either girl could say a word, the three were sucked into the DigiWorld.
A little while later. "Lia! Teresa! We're back! We found Kari." Ken, Matt, and Izzy came into the living room to see it deserted except for two soda cans. Matt walked over to one and sloshed the contents around.
"They're flat, and mostly full. They left a while ago, if they did." Matt explained to them.
"Hey Ken, maybe Minomon knows what happened," suggested Izzy.
"Great idea, Izzy." The three boys went to Ken's room. The first thing Ken noticed was the computer screen. "Oh no. Oh God no!" He ran to screen and pulled up the DigiWorld grid. Matt and Izzy watched over his shoulders. On the screen were two dots, a blue-green dot and a light purple dot.
"They're in the DigiWorld, with Wormmon, whose unable to DigiVolve. They're in great danger. We gotta go after them!" Matt cried as he pulled ken away from the computer. "Come on Ken, open the DigiPort."
"Wait!" said Izzy. "Let me call my mom and tell her me and Teresa are staying over. Then, you two will have more time to try and find them."
"Get going then, Izzy! We gotta go fast!"
"Then go, I'll keep you posted on this side." Matt and Ken nodded and turned toward the computer.
"DigiPort open!" yelled Ken and in a flash they were gone.
"Good luck guys."
"Minomon! Minomon!" Teresa and Lia were searching for their new little friend.
"Lia, Teresa over here!" They ran to where they heard their names called. "Up here." They looked up into the tree, and saw something that resembled Minomon. "I'm Wormmon. I'm a higher form of Minomon. Can you help me down?"
"Sure," said Teresa as she started up the tree. She gently picked him up off the branch and climbed down. "There you go, Wormmon. Safe on the ground."
"We need to find a way back to the real world and fast before we get attacked." Wormmon started into the direction the girls had come from.
"Hey Wormmon!" Lia called him. "What are these?" She and Teresa each held out a D-3. Wormmon walked back towards them and Lia picked him up so he could them better. The most comfortable position for the both of them was Wormmon sitting on her head.
"They're called D-3s," said Wormmon from his perch. "They're a type of digivice. A digivice is only given to a few people all over your world. They're called DigiDestined. That's what you two are, DigiDestined. You will each have a Digimon and probably a crest, too."
"Will our Digimon be anything like you?" asked Teresa.
"No, not that I know of," he answered.
"What about those crests you said something about?" asked Lia. "What's their importance?"
"The crests are created of an outstanding quality in it's Keeper. Some examples of crests are sincerity, hope, kindness, and friendship. They help the Keeper's Digimon companion DigiVolve to a higher level."
"How many levels do Digimon have?" asked Teresa.
"That I know of there are seven and an alternate way to DigiVolve. The levels are egg, in-training, rookie, champion, ultimate, and Mega. The alternate way is Armor DigiVolution. We should be finding a TV around here soon." Wormmon trailed off and the girls looked at each other and shrugged. He was their guide. He knew what he was doing, they didn't.
"Hey, Wormmon. How do you get picked to be a DigiDestined? I mean there is a reason that we were picked right?" Lia was asking questions left and right.
"You ask more questions than Izzy does."
"What?!?!?!?!?!?!" the girls cried. "Izzy's a DigiDestined?!?!?!?!!!"
"Yes, he is." Suddenly, a roar came from behind them.
"Wormmon, please tell me that's a good Digimon that just has a splinter."
"Um.. How about me telling you guys to run!!!" The girls took off at high speed. Wormmon was having problems hanging on, so Lia was running with him in her arms. They had been running a good fifteen minutes when a huge white and purple wolf appeared in front of them. Teresa screamed.
"Hang left, hang left!!!!!" Lia called to her and they turned and ran some more. "There's a cave up ahead. Head there!" The girls dashed inside the cave and sank down puffing against the cool cave walls. Lia sat Wormmon down as she tried to calm down.
"Lia! Teresa! Come here, there's something you should see!" called Wormmon from deeper in the cave. The two girls got up slowly and walked over to where their little friend was standing.
"What are they?" asked Teresa when they saw the two egg like things sitting on a natural shelf.
"DigiEggs." Lia breathed the word she never knew existed and advanced slowly toward them. "Teresa they're our DigiEggs." As Lia neared the DigiEggs one started to glow with a faint blue-green light. Teresa walked towards them, too. The other DigiEgg glowed a light purple. They picked up a DigiEgg each. A bright light began to radiate from each DigiEgg. Then, they hatched and the Digimon inside quickly DigiVolved to the in-training forms, Spritemon and Horsenamon.
Meanwhile the huge wolf the girls saw earlier was battling the Tyranamon that had been chasing the girls.
"Get 'em, Garurumon!" Matt called to his Digimon. Ken was trying to locate the girls by using his D-Terminal and D-3. When the battle was over he had just found them. "Where are they?" Garurumon De-DigiVolved to Gabumon.
"That way, in a cave about seven yards away." The two boys sighed in relief, and started to walk towards the girls they secretly loved.
"Matt, Ken, I still don't understand how they got here if they don't have digivices." Gabumon knew that Matt cared a lot about Lia, but her coming here without a digivice was impossible.
"If we look at it logically, they *didn't* have digivices. That could have been changed by now. We got to find them though." Matt explained to his Digimon companion.
"At least we know where they are and that they're ok," said Ken.
"And they run like the wind." The boys laughed. They heard the girls before they saw the cave.
"Hey.." said Gabumon.
"What's up Gabu?" asked Matt.
"I smell two Digimon that I've never smelled before. They're in the cave." As the three neared the cave Wormmon heard them even over the conversation the girls and their Digimon were having. He went towards the entrance and waited for whatever it was that was coming. Gabumon walked in and saw him, "Wormmon."
"Gabumon? What are you doing here?" Ken came around the corner. "Ken!" Wormmon jumped into his partner's arms.
"How did you get here without me Wormmon?" he asked.
"I don't know, Ken. There are a couple of girls over there with Digimon that would like an answer to the whole 'What the hell is the DigiWorld and what the hell does that have to do with me?' question."
"So the girls are alright then?" asked Matt as he came into view.
"Yes. That was you out there wasn't it, Gabumon? The Garurumon that got that Tyranamon to stop chasing us long enough to get away."
"Indeed it was. You said they have Digimon." said Gabumon.
"Yes they just hatched. The miracle of DigiLife." Ken laughed along with Matt, but not loudly so they wouldn't scare the girls. Then they heard a shriek.
"Gabumon." Matt sighed. His Digimon had tried to get a peek at the two girls and one had seen him.
"Hush," hissed Lia. "Hi. I'm Lia. Who are you?" Matt turned toward his Digimon in time to see him disappear around the corner. Matt sighed and went after him. When he saw his Digimon sitting and talking with the two girls he smiled and leaned against the cave wall. Ken joined him a minute later. Wormmon jumped down and went over to Lia who scratched him behind the ear. Wormmon said something and Teresa looked nervously at Lia who didn't notice and started to nod. Wormmon turned back toward Ken and Matt, and two boys realized what was going on. Wormmon was coming to get them in order to show the girls that the DigiDestined were all very normal people. Matt looked at the girls, their attention was on Gabumon and their Digimon. He and Ken exchanged nervous glances, nodded, and walked toward the girls.
"Hey Girls!" they said in unison. Lia stopped, looked up, and nearly fell over.
"Oh My God!" the girls cried. Teresa was staring at Ken and this blond guy she didn't know and was really confused. Lia on the other hand fainted from shock.
"Lia!" Matt cried as she fell. He caught her just in time. Spritemon hovered protectively over her.
"Lia, wake up! We need to get you home." Spritemon then turned her attention to the boy holding her partner. "Don't you have any manners. You two waltz in here and scare her into a faint. You two should be ashamed!"
"Umm, whatever-mon you are, Lia's a friend of mine and she fainted from shock not fright!" Matt retorted.
"Matt, it's not the Digimon's fault. She's just trying to protect Lia."
"Yeah! You would show me some respect if I could DigiVolve! Yeah, then You'd be sorry." Spritemon was around Matt's head until Gabumon grabbed her by the ankles. "Hey! What's the big idea Gabumon?"
"I'm just trying to protect my partner." Teresa giggled at the two. Her Digimon was resting in her lap. She gasped when Ken sat down beside her.
"So, how was your first trip to the DigiWorld, Teresa?" He asked with a perfect smile.
"Tiring. I haven't run that far, that fast since the track meet last spring at nationals! Hey Ken, Do you know what Digimon looks like-"
"A big white and purple wolf? Ask Gabumon about Garurumon. That is his champion form after all."
"Really?"
"Yeah." There was a soft moan from Lia and they both looked over to see her stir in Matt's arms. Slowly her eyes fluttered open and saw Matt.
"Oh!" she sat up fast and whipped around to see Ken and Teresa laughing at her, even the Digimon were having trouble keeping a straight face except for Spritemon who was flying around and scolding everyone. Lia started to laugh herself. Spritemon flew over to her and perched on her shoulder. "Hey, can we get back home now? Nothing against the DigiWorld, but I wanna sit on nice comfy sofa and drink some soda pop!" Everyone agreed with Lia's plan except for Horsenamon, because then she had to get up. Stingmon carried Ken, Teresa, and her Digimon to the portal, while Lia rode behind Matt on Garurumon. Spritemon was clinging to Lia's shoulder for dear life.
"Can't you slow down?" asked Spritemon.
"Can you stop complaining?" asked Lia. "Come on, Matt I wanna fly!"
"You heard her Garurumon let's get going!" And they raced off toward home and a night of learning and confessions.
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A/N: The Lia*aka*SailorV you knew is no more!!!!!! Evil laughing I have found my true destiny as the Digimon Fanfic Kaizeress!!!! People look at Lia funny as she comes out in her outfit. It's a black outfit similar to Ken's except it has a skirt with the crest of faith embroidered on it. The one piece is black, as are the boots, except with blue-green trim. Everything that was gold is now silver. Even the glasses are smaller with a blue-green tint. Taylor calls her a phsyco. I am not crazy! This is my destiny!!!! Bunnie and Teresa come up
Bunnie: I know you like your new outfit, but! Taking Teresa's job as a Ken impersonator is not good.
Teresa: What's wrong with that..
Lia: Nothing. And I'm not impersonating Ken this is my Destiny!
Bunnie: But you're a DigiDestined.. And what's that spot on your arm? Lia looks at it closely
Lia: Oh that's blood from when I punched that guy at school for Dissing Fanfic writers and Digimon. He also called me a weirdo. So I knocked his lights out. Sorry, Bunns. I woulda saved him for you but rage induced punches are more effective.
I command you to come back and read more when it comes. more evil laughter Bunnie and Teresa can't take it anymore and drag Lia away after putting duct tape on her mouth.
"First Awakenings: The Crests of Faith and Unity"
'Wow! This place is huge. Well, when I get off the plane all I do is look for Izzy or Lia. This shouldn't be hard. I wonder if her cousin Ken will be there?' Since Teresa saw Lia's cousin a week ago she couldn't stop thinking about him. 'What's the big deal if I have a crush on him? I mean, who wouldn't?!?!?! He's cute, smart, he laughs, Lia says he can be funny some times, and he's supposedly very sweet and kind..' Just then her thoughts were interrupted by the call for everyone to get their stuff and leave the plane. 'Well, here I go.'
"There she is! Teresa! Over here, Teresa!" Lia called to her friend and ran towards her.
"Ken, she's here. Are you coming to say hello?" Izzy was trying to get Ken's attention as the other genius stared out a window.
"Huh?.. What?. Oh, Izzy. I, uh, sure." Ken looked lost and confused.
"Ken is something wrong? Not that I'm implying anything here, but ever since you saw Teresa on the computer a week ago you've seemed different."
"Well, uh she is kinda cute." Ken began to blush slightly.
"Ok, man. I was starting to think it was serious. Hey, look Lia still hasn't gotten to Teresa, because of the crowd." The two boys began to laugh at the two girls. Lia finally able to get to Teresa and hugged her. Then, the two girls started blabbing about everything to each other, then more hugs, and laughter. Ken and Izzy smiled and started over to the girls.
"Ken, Izzy, this is Teresa Mitzumi, my best friend and one of my sisters. That's a slang term. And Teresa this is my cousin, Ken and my great friend Izzy. I know that you guys already met in a sense, but this is much more polite and less embarrassing for some of us." Teresa shot Lia a dirty look.
"It's nice to meet you in person. And I feel so sorry for you," she said to Ken. "You have to live with her." Ken and Izzy laughed, while Lia hit Teresa on the head. Teresa mouthed 'I'll get you later.'
"It's not that bad. She does get a little temperamental at times, but doesn't everybody?" Ken waited for her to reply 'not me' like a lot of other girls would, but she didn't.
"True, very true. Hey, I know that you have mentioned other people in your letters, so when do I get to meet them?" Lia knew she was referring to Matt.
"Well, maybe tomorrow. Tonight our families are going to dinner-"
"Lia, you've talked enough," interrupted Izzy. "To finish what she was saying, we're all going to dinner and tomorrow we're going to have a picnic with all our other friends so everyone can meet each other, chat-"
"Play soccer." Ken and Lia said it at the same time. Teresa was shocked that Ken liked soccer.
'Well if he's this perfect, than he can't be single.' Thought Teresa as she, Lia, and the boys walked through the airport to the parking lot where the Izumi's were waiting. "Thanx for coming to greet me, both of you." Teresa was thanking Lia and Ken who were going to visit a friend. "I guess I'll see y'all tonight."
"Nice to meet you face-to-face, Teresa. Until this evening." Ken bowed slightly and backed up for Lia to say goodbye.
"I'll call you later to see how you like your room. See ya tonite, Te." With that Lia and Ken started toward Matt's band's practice studio.
"So, Ken. Why were you oh/so/quietly-shy while we were with Teresa?" asked Lia. She had her guesses. She and Ken were complete opposites when it came to liking someone. Lia would act fairly normal, but with prolonged eye contact and a little bit of blushing. Ken on the other hand was more quiet and reserved.
"What do you mean, Lia? I was perfectly normal for first meeting her. I have no clue as to what you were implying." His checks started to get red as they walked along the beach way towards the old warehouse.
"Uh-huh. Well then, you wouldn't care explaining why you've been so day- dreamy the past week. And, if I'm not mistaken you started right after you saw Teresa on the net."
"Lia, I'll tell you later." The two arrived at the warehouse. Matt came out just as they got there.
"Hey, guys! How was Teresa's flight? She got in ok, didn't she? We just went on break, so we got time to talk." He knew Lia was really into music and didn't want to miss a beat. He heard about the almost run-in before his last concert. It just proved he was right about her love for music. 'I wonder if there's a guy that gets to feel her love, like the music does.' He had found himself wondering things like that all the time after his concert. "So, is the picnic still on?"
"Yep! You can make it still, right?"
"Of course I can still make it." 'Why would I miss any chance to be with you?' he thought.
"Great. Than we'll see you tomorrow, Matt. Have a good rehearsal!" Ken said as they started for home. "Well weren't you a little too worried he couldn't come, cuz?" Ken was enjoying this chance to torment her, because he didn't get many.
"What do you mean, Ken? I was just trying to make sure a friend of mine could meet another. I don't know what you're thinking, but if it was anything other than that you're wrong." 'At least that's all I'll tell you. You don't need to know I like Matt, especially since you two are pretty good friends. I think I'll wait till later to even let on that I might like him to him.'
"Hurry up, Lia!" Ken was getting really tired of saying that. Finally, his cousin emerged in a blue-green, flower-patterned, full-length dress. Lia smiled as her cousin's jaw dropped,
"I'm ready to go. Come on Ken we can't keep Izzy and Teresa waiting!"
Meanwhile, Teresa was getting the same reaction from Izzy.
"Can you move any slower? We can't keep Ken and Lia waiting."
"If she's dressed any thing like you I'll have a heart attack."
"You will not do any such thing, Izzy!"
"I would to, cause she's always in something that she could play a sport in."
"Well, you will start to be very surprised.."
Izzy shook his head and thought, 'Lia in a dress.. Never gonna happen. Ken won't be doing much of anything tonight with Teresa dressed like that.' He looked at the girl that had captured his friend's thoughts; she was dressed in a purple, flower-patterned, full-length dress. (A/N: I thought it would be cute if Lia and Teresa dressed similar cause it would make the boys' jaws drop a little further down ^___^)
Matt sat with TK as the hours dragged on. "How long can dinner take?!?!!"
"Well, since they're at a nice restaurant, probably a while. I agreed to wait with you cause you seemed a little depressed when you said that you were waiting for Izzy to call you after dinner. Why? I mean, what's got you messed up, Matt? And if you don't want to tell me tell someone, Tai, Izzy, Lia-"
"I can't tell her, that's the whole point! I've known her as a friend for a while now and before I met her I never thought that I might have to deal with liking her, but then she came and so did the feelings."
"You're telling me that the Matt Ishida that has girls throwing themselves at him, can't tell one, just one girl, that he likes her.. Matt something is wrong with your brain."
"No, it's the fact that she might not feel the same way, that she might shy away from me, that it might upset her or hurt her in some way."
"Matt, you'll never know until you try. Have a little Hope," TK smiled as his older brother glared at him.
"Easy for you to say, you ARE Hope."
"And you're Friendship. Tell her."
"If I tell her, you gotta tell Kari that-"
"You asshole, don't blackmail me." TK was getting really red at the sound of Kari's name and the mention that he'd have to tell her.
"I'm not an asshole, I'm the Man." TK and Matt started to laugh. Matt had always said he was the man ever since they had gone to summer camp four years ago, and gotten transported to the DigiWorld. Suddenly, the phone rang and startled the boys from their gales of laughter and Matt lunged for the phone. "Hello, Ishida residence... Kari? No, Tai I haven't seen her. No, TK's here with me. When did she leave? An hour ago. She didn't take Gatomon. . ."
"Matt, What's going on?!?!? What Happened to Kari?!?!? Matt tell me!!!"
"Tai, I know you're upset, but blaming yourself won't help. She left an hour ago, after you got into a fight, and which way was she heading?. Towards TK's okay. No Tai TK's been over here for almost two and a half. We'll call over there Tai. No, it's no problem. We'll call and we'll go and try to find her. No, Tai. You stay home in case she comes back. We'll keep you posted if we find anything. It'll be ok Tai we'll find her. Goodbye." Matt looked dazed as he hung up the phone.
"Kari. Why'd you leave?. Kari." TK was more of a wreck than Tai was. He was crying the tears that wouldn't come easily to him anymore.
"Come on TK. Get up we're gonna go out as soon as I call mom." Matt dialed the numbers quickly and listen to the rings. "Mom, it's Matt. Fine, has Kari been over there?. No, Tai is looking for her. No, she's not missing. She's probably at Yolie's. Ok, Mom. Talk to ya later. Bye.."
"She's gone." TK looked up from his D-Terminal. "I just asked Yolie, Cody, and Davis if they'd seen her. They all said no." TK's eyes were red all the Hope that is usually there, was completely gone.
"Tai asked everybody else he could get a hold of. He even called Izzy and Ken. What do you think could have. TK?" His brother was tensing up next to him. "What's wrong?"
"It's the Dark Ocean. That damn Dark Ocean took her away from me again..." TK then left his brother's apartment and headed toward the beach, with Matt staring wide eyed after him.
Ken, Teresa, Izzy, and Lia were all sitting happily outside the restaurant that they and their families just finished eating at. Teresa and Lia looked at their companions as their D-Terminals started to beep. "What's up, guys?" Teresa asked.
"Oh. My. God. Kari's missing." Ken had his out first and quickly read it because he knew it would be an emergency. "She's been missing for more than an hour." Ken looked over at Izzy fear and worry in his eyes. Lia didn't notice because she was in shock, Teresa had and thought, 'Poor Kari, whoever she is. Ken looks terrible. She must be his girlfriend. I knew a guy to good to be true wouldn't be single.'
The two families parted ways.
Kari was still missing the next day except now TK was all over Odaiba trying to find her. Teresa came over with Izzy. Izzy and Ken exchanged few words before telling the girls that they were going to join the search and would be back later. Teresa looked around. "Where's Ellis and Mikhail?"
"In the country, they left early this morning. Wanna spend the night? You can borrow some of my clothes."
"Sure. Hey does Ken have a girlfriend?" Lia looked at her friend and smiled. She knew Teresa liked him, and he liked her. She had promised both that she wouldn't tell the other. She smiled as she got them something to drink.
"Nope. He's single. No prospects, well. he does have a crush, but that's not anything big. Not very into the whole big couple thing, he's really mellow about it." She saw Teresa smile. "Yes, Te, you're welcome to go for the gold, well, in this case I'd say it's purple."
"What is?" asked Teresa eyeing her friend suspiciously.
"The object of your obsession." The girls smiled and laughed, while they toasted each other.
"May every girl get the guy she wants.." Teresa said as their toast.
"Amen!" The girls drank their sodas and sighed. "So much for a picnic and soccer." Lia sighed.
"It's not a total loss. I'm still here, we're still best friends, we're both chasing guys that think of us as friends."
"As usual. Hey what's that?"
"What's what?" Teresa asked as she turned around towards where Lia was looking.
"Something's in Kennie's room. Come on let's check it out." The girls sat their sodas down and went towards Ken's room. When they got to the door, Lia listened . The sound was a humming sound that sounded strangely familiar. "Well here goes nothing." The girls went in and saw nothing except the computer screen activate a program all by itself.
"Ummm. Lia maybe we should leave. Now."
"No let me turn of the computer first." Unknown to the two, Minomon was watching them. He wanted them away from Ken's computer since the DigiPort was opening on it's own. He only recognized Lia, since she was Ken's cousin, but who was this stranger in Ken's room?
"Lia please. Can't you sense something? Or do you ignore it here?" What was she talking about? Sensing? Lia was a normal girl.
"Teresa you are worrying too much nothing bad is here."
"You're just saying that because.. Lia!" Lia was starting to fall. "Li. Are you ok?" Teresa caught her friend.
"Yeah." Lia said it as she looked at Ken's bed.
"Li, What's up? Is something here?" Minomon was no longer watching them he was hiding in the shadows on Ken's bed hoping Lia wouldn't come up. Suddenly,
"Gottcha!" Lia grabbed Minomon as he tried to squirm away. "Hey it's ok. We won't hurt you.." She brought Minomon into the light. "What are you anyway?" Minomon was upset enough that he forgot to act like a stuffed toy.
"I'm Minomon. Now let me go!" He started to wiggle even more.
"Teresa, stop cowering in fear. Hi, Minomon. My name is-"
"Lia, you're Ken's cousin. I don't know her." He indicated Teresa. Since
Minomon stopped struggling she held him gently.
"My n-n-n-name is T-T-T-T- Teresa." Teresa was still scarred.
"Now that we all know each other's names, what are you?" asked Lia. Minomon looked up at her and said
"I'm a Digimon." Lia looked a little confused.
"What's a Digimon?"
"A Digimon is a Digital Monster. We're usually good little Digimon like me. You don't need to be afraid of me in any of my forms." Teresa relaxed. This cute little green fluff ball was a friend. The computer screen started to glow really bright. "Oh No. The DigiPort is opening!" cried the little Digimon. Before either girl could say a word, the three were sucked into the DigiWorld.
A little while later. "Lia! Teresa! We're back! We found Kari." Ken, Matt, and Izzy came into the living room to see it deserted except for two soda cans. Matt walked over to one and sloshed the contents around.
"They're flat, and mostly full. They left a while ago, if they did." Matt explained to them.
"Hey Ken, maybe Minomon knows what happened," suggested Izzy.
"Great idea, Izzy." The three boys went to Ken's room. The first thing Ken noticed was the computer screen. "Oh no. Oh God no!" He ran to screen and pulled up the DigiWorld grid. Matt and Izzy watched over his shoulders. On the screen were two dots, a blue-green dot and a light purple dot.
"They're in the DigiWorld, with Wormmon, whose unable to DigiVolve. They're in great danger. We gotta go after them!" Matt cried as he pulled ken away from the computer. "Come on Ken, open the DigiPort."
"Wait!" said Izzy. "Let me call my mom and tell her me and Teresa are staying over. Then, you two will have more time to try and find them."
"Get going then, Izzy! We gotta go fast!"
"Then go, I'll keep you posted on this side." Matt and Ken nodded and turned toward the computer.
"DigiPort open!" yelled Ken and in a flash they were gone.
"Good luck guys."
"Minomon! Minomon!" Teresa and Lia were searching for their new little friend.
"Lia, Teresa over here!" They ran to where they heard their names called. "Up here." They looked up into the tree, and saw something that resembled Minomon. "I'm Wormmon. I'm a higher form of Minomon. Can you help me down?"
"Sure," said Teresa as she started up the tree. She gently picked him up off the branch and climbed down. "There you go, Wormmon. Safe on the ground."
"We need to find a way back to the real world and fast before we get attacked." Wormmon started into the direction the girls had come from.
"Hey Wormmon!" Lia called him. "What are these?" She and Teresa each held out a D-3. Wormmon walked back towards them and Lia picked him up so he could them better. The most comfortable position for the both of them was Wormmon sitting on her head.
"They're called D-3s," said Wormmon from his perch. "They're a type of digivice. A digivice is only given to a few people all over your world. They're called DigiDestined. That's what you two are, DigiDestined. You will each have a Digimon and probably a crest, too."
"Will our Digimon be anything like you?" asked Teresa.
"No, not that I know of," he answered.
"What about those crests you said something about?" asked Lia. "What's their importance?"
"The crests are created of an outstanding quality in it's Keeper. Some examples of crests are sincerity, hope, kindness, and friendship. They help the Keeper's Digimon companion DigiVolve to a higher level."
"How many levels do Digimon have?" asked Teresa.
"That I know of there are seven and an alternate way to DigiVolve. The levels are egg, in-training, rookie, champion, ultimate, and Mega. The alternate way is Armor DigiVolution. We should be finding a TV around here soon." Wormmon trailed off and the girls looked at each other and shrugged. He was their guide. He knew what he was doing, they didn't.
"Hey, Wormmon. How do you get picked to be a DigiDestined? I mean there is a reason that we were picked right?" Lia was asking questions left and right.
"You ask more questions than Izzy does."
"What?!?!?!?!?!?!" the girls cried. "Izzy's a DigiDestined?!?!?!?!!!"
"Yes, he is." Suddenly, a roar came from behind them.
"Wormmon, please tell me that's a good Digimon that just has a splinter."
"Um.. How about me telling you guys to run!!!" The girls took off at high speed. Wormmon was having problems hanging on, so Lia was running with him in her arms. They had been running a good fifteen minutes when a huge white and purple wolf appeared in front of them. Teresa screamed.
"Hang left, hang left!!!!!" Lia called to her and they turned and ran some more. "There's a cave up ahead. Head there!" The girls dashed inside the cave and sank down puffing against the cool cave walls. Lia sat Wormmon down as she tried to calm down.
"Lia! Teresa! Come here, there's something you should see!" called Wormmon from deeper in the cave. The two girls got up slowly and walked over to where their little friend was standing.
"What are they?" asked Teresa when they saw the two egg like things sitting on a natural shelf.
"DigiEggs." Lia breathed the word she never knew existed and advanced slowly toward them. "Teresa they're our DigiEggs." As Lia neared the DigiEggs one started to glow with a faint blue-green light. Teresa walked towards them, too. The other DigiEgg glowed a light purple. They picked up a DigiEgg each. A bright light began to radiate from each DigiEgg. Then, they hatched and the Digimon inside quickly DigiVolved to the in-training forms, Spritemon and Horsenamon.
Meanwhile the huge wolf the girls saw earlier was battling the Tyranamon that had been chasing the girls.
"Get 'em, Garurumon!" Matt called to his Digimon. Ken was trying to locate the girls by using his D-Terminal and D-3. When the battle was over he had just found them. "Where are they?" Garurumon De-DigiVolved to Gabumon.
"That way, in a cave about seven yards away." The two boys sighed in relief, and started to walk towards the girls they secretly loved.
"Matt, Ken, I still don't understand how they got here if they don't have digivices." Gabumon knew that Matt cared a lot about Lia, but her coming here without a digivice was impossible.
"If we look at it logically, they *didn't* have digivices. That could have been changed by now. We got to find them though." Matt explained to his Digimon companion.
"At least we know where they are and that they're ok," said Ken.
"And they run like the wind." The boys laughed. They heard the girls before they saw the cave.
"Hey.." said Gabumon.
"What's up Gabu?" asked Matt.
"I smell two Digimon that I've never smelled before. They're in the cave." As the three neared the cave Wormmon heard them even over the conversation the girls and their Digimon were having. He went towards the entrance and waited for whatever it was that was coming. Gabumon walked in and saw him, "Wormmon."
"Gabumon? What are you doing here?" Ken came around the corner. "Ken!" Wormmon jumped into his partner's arms.
"How did you get here without me Wormmon?" he asked.
"I don't know, Ken. There are a couple of girls over there with Digimon that would like an answer to the whole 'What the hell is the DigiWorld and what the hell does that have to do with me?' question."
"So the girls are alright then?" asked Matt as he came into view.
"Yes. That was you out there wasn't it, Gabumon? The Garurumon that got that Tyranamon to stop chasing us long enough to get away."
"Indeed it was. You said they have Digimon." said Gabumon.
"Yes they just hatched. The miracle of DigiLife." Ken laughed along with Matt, but not loudly so they wouldn't scare the girls. Then they heard a shriek.
"Gabumon." Matt sighed. His Digimon had tried to get a peek at the two girls and one had seen him.
"Hush," hissed Lia. "Hi. I'm Lia. Who are you?" Matt turned toward his Digimon in time to see him disappear around the corner. Matt sighed and went after him. When he saw his Digimon sitting and talking with the two girls he smiled and leaned against the cave wall. Ken joined him a minute later. Wormmon jumped down and went over to Lia who scratched him behind the ear. Wormmon said something and Teresa looked nervously at Lia who didn't notice and started to nod. Wormmon turned back toward Ken and Matt, and two boys realized what was going on. Wormmon was coming to get them in order to show the girls that the DigiDestined were all very normal people. Matt looked at the girls, their attention was on Gabumon and their Digimon. He and Ken exchanged nervous glances, nodded, and walked toward the girls.
"Hey Girls!" they said in unison. Lia stopped, looked up, and nearly fell over.
"Oh My God!" the girls cried. Teresa was staring at Ken and this blond guy she didn't know and was really confused. Lia on the other hand fainted from shock.
"Lia!" Matt cried as she fell. He caught her just in time. Spritemon hovered protectively over her.
"Lia, wake up! We need to get you home." Spritemon then turned her attention to the boy holding her partner. "Don't you have any manners. You two waltz in here and scare her into a faint. You two should be ashamed!"
"Umm, whatever-mon you are, Lia's a friend of mine and she fainted from shock not fright!" Matt retorted.
"Matt, it's not the Digimon's fault. She's just trying to protect Lia."
"Yeah! You would show me some respect if I could DigiVolve! Yeah, then You'd be sorry." Spritemon was around Matt's head until Gabumon grabbed her by the ankles. "Hey! What's the big idea Gabumon?"
"I'm just trying to protect my partner." Teresa giggled at the two. Her Digimon was resting in her lap. She gasped when Ken sat down beside her.
"So, how was your first trip to the DigiWorld, Teresa?" He asked with a perfect smile.
"Tiring. I haven't run that far, that fast since the track meet last spring at nationals! Hey Ken, Do you know what Digimon looks like-"
"A big white and purple wolf? Ask Gabumon about Garurumon. That is his champion form after all."
"Really?"
"Yeah." There was a soft moan from Lia and they both looked over to see her stir in Matt's arms. Slowly her eyes fluttered open and saw Matt.
"Oh!" she sat up fast and whipped around to see Ken and Teresa laughing at her, even the Digimon were having trouble keeping a straight face except for Spritemon who was flying around and scolding everyone. Lia started to laugh herself. Spritemon flew over to her and perched on her shoulder. "Hey, can we get back home now? Nothing against the DigiWorld, but I wanna sit on nice comfy sofa and drink some soda pop!" Everyone agreed with Lia's plan except for Horsenamon, because then she had to get up. Stingmon carried Ken, Teresa, and her Digimon to the portal, while Lia rode behind Matt on Garurumon. Spritemon was clinging to Lia's shoulder for dear life.
"Can't you slow down?" asked Spritemon.
"Can you stop complaining?" asked Lia. "Come on, Matt I wanna fly!"
"You heard her Garurumon let's get going!" And they raced off toward home and a night of learning and confessions.
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A/N: The Lia*aka*SailorV you knew is no more!!!!!! Evil laughing I have found my true destiny as the Digimon Fanfic Kaizeress!!!! People look at Lia funny as she comes out in her outfit. It's a black outfit similar to Ken's except it has a skirt with the crest of faith embroidered on it. The one piece is black, as are the boots, except with blue-green trim. Everything that was gold is now silver. Even the glasses are smaller with a blue-green tint. Taylor calls her a phsyco. I am not crazy! This is my destiny!!!! Bunnie and Teresa come up
Bunnie: I know you like your new outfit, but! Taking Teresa's job as a Ken impersonator is not good.
Teresa: What's wrong with that..
Lia: Nothing. And I'm not impersonating Ken this is my Destiny!
Bunnie: But you're a DigiDestined.. And what's that spot on your arm? Lia looks at it closely
Lia: Oh that's blood from when I punched that guy at school for Dissing Fanfic writers and Digimon. He also called me a weirdo. So I knocked his lights out. Sorry, Bunns. I woulda saved him for you but rage induced punches are more effective.
I command you to come back and read more when it comes. more evil laughter Bunnie and Teresa can't take it anymore and drag Lia away after putting duct tape on her mouth.
