A brown haired (with a small ponytail at the side of her head that was dyed blond); brown eyed; tan skinned girl with a black, sport backpack; and a silver metal armband; wearing a black sleeveless jacket with a white collar over a gray muscle shirt; and a pair of blue, baggy, parachute pants was running as fast as she could. She hardly noticed that her clothes were getting totally soaked. This girl had only two things on her mind. Run and what happened a few minutes ago.
*~ The girl was falling through some kind of portal and landed in, what she guessed, a park. "Ouch." She said, got up, and dusted herself off.
"Hey you, are you all right??" A voice asked.
She turned around and saw a red haired girl and a blond haired boy sitting on a bench behind her. She looked at the boy and whispered, "West ...??"
"Are you all right?" The boy wondered.
The girl sped back and began to run away.
"Wait!! You forgot your backpack!" The red haired girl called out. Just then, it began to rain. ~*
The girl stopped at a door to catch her breath. "Home." She said to herself and opened the door. She walked into the second bedroom and laid down on the bed. In a few minutes, she fell asleep.
~*~
'Gee, I wonder why that girl just ran off like that.' Matt thought to himself as he drove back from taking Sora home.
*~ Sora and him were sitting on a park bench on their usual Tuesday date at the park. When they were about to kiss, a brown haired girl with a small ponytail at the side of her head which was dyed blond; tan skin, wearing a black backpack, a silver armband, and a black sleeveless jacket with a white collar slapped over a gray muscle shirt; and blue, baggy, parachute pants dropped out of nowhere and landed in front of them. She stood up and dusted herself off.
"Hey you, are you all right??" Sora asked.
The girl spun around and said something as she eyed Matt.
"Are you all right??" He wondered.
Then, she just sped off leaving her backpack behind.
"Wait!! You forgot your backpack!!!" Sora called out and it started to rain. ~*
Matt looked down at the backpack the girl left. "Hopefully I'll be able to give this back to her." He said.
Finally, Matt got to his apartment door and walked into his room. He threw the backpack on his bed and sat down.
"Wait a minute. Maybe there's an address on here and I can mail to her." Matt said and before he could examine it, something behind him moved around.
A bit startled, Matt threw over the blanket and saw the girl from the park, laying on his bed, completely drenched from the rain. She let out a scream.
"Whoa!" Matt exclaimed, now more frightened, "Calm down! I'm not gonna hurt you!"
The girl grabbed the nearest thing to her, which happened to be her backpack, and hit him on the head with it. She began to run away, but Matt grabbed her by the foot and she fell over. He, then, pinned her down to the floor and covered her mouth.
"Shhh... It's all right. I'm not going to hurt you in any way." He assured her. The girl stopped trying to get Matt off of her and Matt uncovered her mouth.
"What are you doing in my apartment?" She asked.
"Your apartment?!" Matt exclaimed as he rubbed his head, "What are you talking about?! I've lived her for the past eleven years!"
'How can that be?? Wait, I remember now ... Yes, I understand.' She thought. "I'm sorry," She said, "I've been mistaken."
"That's ok. Hey, what about your knee?" Matt replied as he pointed to the wound. It was bleeding rapidly.
"It's fine. Nothing too serious that I can't handle." The girl told him.
"But it's bleeding! Come on, follow me." He said and headed toward the kitchen. The girl sat down at the table and looked around. Matt came back with a Band-Aid, an alcohol swab, a towel, and an ice pack.
"Here you are." He said as he handed her the towel and sat down next to her. "So, what's your name?" He asked while wiping the alcohol over the wound on her knee. She let out a little hiss as it swarmed her knee. "Sorry." Matt added as he placed the ice pack on his head.
"No problem. Sorry about hitting you on the head." The girl said and put the band-aid over her wound.
"It's ok, I've been through worse."
"Oh, answering your question, I'm Ruvee Bleemington, but everyone calls me Silver."
"Why Silver?"
"Because "I always put myself second and my friends and family first." so my friends used to say. Ya get it? First place is Gold, second is Silver?"
"Yeah, I get it. That explains that silver armband thing you're wearing. I'm Yamato Ishida, but everybody calls me Matt. They call me that because I want them to."
Silver giggled and looked out the window at the rain.
"You're welcome to stay here for a few days." Matt informed her.
Silver looked at him and asked, "Are you sure?"
"No problem! I could sleep on the couch while you sleep in my room. Just don't make a mess of course."
Silver smiled and wondered, "What about your parents?"
"My parents are divorced," Matt muttered, "I live with my dad but he's always at work. I have a younger brother, named TK, he lives with my mom."
"Oh, I'm sorry. I can imagine how it feels."
~*~
Elsewhere, Izzy was, like always, typing away on his laptop. He let out a yawn. "Just about done." He said to himself and then,
YOU'VE GOT MAIL.
"Huh? Genni?!" He asked.
Genni walked across Izzy's screen and faced Izzy once he reached the middle and said, "Hello, Izzy. How are you? Well, there's no time for catching up. I have e-mailed you for a really important reason. You and the other digidestined have to find someone very important at the time. The way to find this someone is to use your digivices. They'll start to erupt in a frenzy when you're near to this person. How's about we refer to this someone as the fifth girl? Once you've found her, she'll be the one explaining everything that I wasn't able to tell you. I'll hear from you soon then." Genni then disappeared.
"Another digidestined?? Too bad Davis and the other digidestined are still on their vacation." Izzy whispered and looked at the digivice held in his hand.
~*~
The next morning, it was 10:45 AM at the Kamiya's place.
RING! RING!
"I got it!" Kari announced and picked up the phone. "Hello?"
"Good morning, Tai there?" Izzy wondered.
"Yea, this is Kari. Who is this?"
"Huh? Kari, what are you doing back so early? Erm, this is Izzy, by the way."
"I'll tell ya later. What's up Izzy?"
"Kari, you and Tai meet me at the park within an hour, ok? This is urgent."
"Umm... sure."
"Oh, by the way, I need you guys to bring your digivices along as well."
"Ok then, we'll see you in a bit." Kari said and hung up the phone and walked into the room were Tai was playing with a soccer ball. "Kari, who was it?" He asked.
"It was Izzy," She replied, "He wanted us to meet him at the park in an hour with our digivices. He also mentioned that it's urgent."
"Huh? Our digivices?" Tai echoed and stopped playing with the soccer ball, "Why does he want us to bring them along?"
"I don't know! He just said to meet him in the park in an hour and to bring our digivices."
~*~
"Matt?? Matt?? Hello??" Someone called as they pounded on the door.
Matt was on the phone, tossing his digivice up and down in the air. "All right, five o'clock next week, got it. Bye. Hold your horses!" He said as he hung up the phone and walked to the door.
"But we don't have any horses!" Someone else exclaimed.
Matt opened the door and saw Mimi and TK smiling at him. "Mimi! TK! What ---"
"Mimi's parents had time off. So, we took the last flight to Japan!" TK explained.
"Glad to see ya again, Matt!" Mimi said.
"Yeah," Matt agreed with a smile, "Same here."
"It's good to be back in 'ol Japan!"
"Are you ready to --- Who's that?" TK said while pointing behind Matt.
Matt turned around to see Silver walking towards them. "Hey." He said.
"Hey... Who's this?" Silver replied when she first caught eye of TK and Mimi.
"Matt, you haven't been cheating on Sora, have you?" Mimi asked.
"No! Give me more credit than that!" Matt exclaimed, "Silver, this is my younger brother, TK, that I told you about. And this is an old friend of ours who moved to America, Mimi. Guys, this is Silver."
"Nice to meet you." TK said.
"Good to finally meet you too." Silver responded by shaking his hand. "Hey Mimi, this the ones you were talkin' about?"
"All in the same."
"Havin' a good vacation?"
"Hell yeah! I'm back home!"
Matt and TK looked at them.
"Have you two met?" Matt asked.
"Sure! She's one of me and Michael's best friends up in New York!"
Matt, Mimi, and TK's digivices began to glow and beep loudly. "What the??" Matt said aloud.
Silver noticed the digivices and thought, 'Are those... digivices?? Are they??... Could they be part of the other digidestined?? Damn it, the consequences could be bad.' "Hey, what are those?" She asked.
"What? These things?" Matt questioned nervously, "Uh .. they're the new style in watches."
"Yea, watches. You can't find 'em in stores 'cause ... they're so damn popular!" TK agreed.
'Oh yea, they're digivices all right, but they're the older model. That probably explains why I've got some extras in my bag.' Silver thought.
"Chill out, you two. You can tell her that they're digivices. She knows all about the digiworld and the digimon!"
"But.. HOW?"
"Please, just about everyone in the world, especially in New York, know about the digiworld 'coz of last year's event."
"Where's Pangmon?"
"He said that he had to do something in the digiworld and he'll be back in a little bit."
"You have a digimon too??" TK asked.
"Like I said, after what happened last year everyone in the world have a digimon and know about them. Namingly, New York is one of the big ones."
"Well, actually not everyone has one, or knows about the digiworld."
A long silence was broken when, "Well, I think that we'd better get going. Tai's gonna be mad at us." Matt said.
"Where are you guys going?" Silver asked.
"To the park. Wanna come?" TK answered and Matt elbowed him in the stomach.
"I'd love to go to the park," Silver said, "but I think that I'll just sit on a bench and finish up something while you guys do whatever it is that you have to do with your friend. Hang on."
Once Silver was clear from earshot, "Wanna come?" Matt murmured.
"You weren't just going to leave her here, were you??" TK retorted.
"Besides, she already, KNOWS..." Mimi added.
"Yeah, well, still..."
Inside, Silver grabbed her backpack.
"You didn't bring me any snacks?!" A high pitched voice exclaimed.
"No time, just stay in the bag then I'll give you something to munch on, ok?" Silver responded and came back outside.
~*~
At the park, "Why are we all here, Izzy?" Joe asked.
"Well, Genni e-mailed me last night ---"
"He did?!" Everyone exclaimed.
"Yea, he said that all of us have to find a very important person in the digiworld. He referred to her as the fifth girl." Izzy added.
"Sort of like when we were trying to find Kari?" Tai asked.
Izzy nodded his head.
"So she's a digidestined like us?" TK wondered.
"Well, she has to be if our digivices react to her." Joe said.
"You're probably right about that, Joe. But another Japanese digidestined? I thought that we were the only ones who saw Parrotmon and Greymon fight back at Highton View Terrance." Matt said.
"Well, there were other times like when Myotismon entered our world, remember?" Izzy told him.
~*~
On the other side of the park, Silver was sitting down on a bench, looking at a notebook, with her backpack sitting beside her.
"So you've already found them?" A voice asked.
"Yes." Silver said.
"Well, why don't you just go up to them?"
"I have my reasons."
"But it could take them forever to find us! ---"
"Genni has managed to them how to find me, and TK, Mimi, and Matt's digivices---"
"Mimi's here?!"
"Obvisiously, these are the friends she talked about. Anyways, their digivices have already reacted to me. They should be able to know that it's me they're looking for. Plus, if any of the dark digimon's henchmen sees me with them, they'll be in danger."
"That's you. You don't care about yourself but about others. Silver... Well, can't I at least come out?? It's hot in here!"
"No, even if you did act like a stuffed animal or something the others will know right off that you're a digimon by your appearance."
"But that's what we want them to do!"
"Have you forgotten WHO the bad -----"
Then, there was a beeping noise. Silver pulled out a device and opened the cover. An old man popped up on the screen. "Ah, Silver." He said.
"Benjamin?"
"Yes, have you found the digidestined yet?"
Silver sighed heavily and replied, "Yea."
"Well, tell them everything that's going on here."
"But I'll be putting them in danger. Maybe even killed if I hang around then that long, and I don't want that to happen. Why does have to be me?"
"Silver, I heard what happened, but you're just going to have to face it. This is for the fate of the world you've got here... What you need to do is tell the digidestined and that's all." And Benjamin was gone.
"Silver?" The voice called.
"Yea?" Silver answered to the sound of her name.
"Would you mind if I eat these?" A small black panther with yellow eyes and a skull covering its head came out of the backpack with a bag of gummy bears in its mouth. "I'm Pangmon, a rookie digimon. I am Silver's digimon. To protect the both of us, I use my Skull Smash." It announced.
Silver smiled and responded, "Sure, go for it."
"I love this world." Pangmon said and went back in the bag. Silver couldn't help but laugh.
~*~
"Wait a minute, TK and Mimi, remember how our digivices reacted to Silver?" Matt said.
Sora glared. "Who's Silver?"
"You don't think?" TK asked.
"She is." Mimi told them and all three of them ran over off to the bench where Silver had been sitting.
"Hey guys, wait a minute! Who's this Silver???" Sora called.
~*~
Once at the other side of the park, everyone caught their breath.
"What's going on here?" Tai asked.
"Sora, remember that one girl that left her backpack yesterday?" Matt questioned.
"Yes, why? What does she have anything to do with this?" Sora replied.
"About an hour later, I found her in my apartment and there's a good chance that she could be the one we're searching for." Matt said.
"So, she's this Silver girl. What'd you do when you found her in your apartment?"
Matt sweatdropped. "Sora..."
"Anyways, Matt, Mimi, and my digivices started to react to her when she was around us." TK announced.
In the distance, they heard some screaming. "Monster!!!" The people exclaimed in horror as they ran pass the digidestined.
"Monster? What do they mean "monster"?" Kari wondered.
"That's what." Joe said pointing above the trees. There was a gigantic creature that looked like a cross between a leopard and an elephant. "That's Leogonmon. Watch out for his "Triumphant Growl"." Izzy announced.
"Man! Where's our digimon when we need them the most??" Tai asked.
Leogonmon noticed them and shouted, "TRIUMPHANT GROWL!" There was a light blue pair of teeth heading over to them. Everyone screamed and ducked for cover.
"HOWLING EXTREME!!" Someone yelled out of nowhere and it hit both Leogonmon's attack and Leogonmon, causing them to disappear. Everyone looked up in surprise.
That's when their digivices began to glow. "Wait a minute. I think we're getting a signal from over there." Izzy proclaimed while pointing toward the direction Leogonmon had came from.
"Silver! Zerogrowlmon!" Mimi shouted as she ran ahead of the group.
~*~
"Zerogrowlmon, come on." Silver ordered.
"But why?" A teenaged panther with a long thunder bolt shaped tail, squating down on its hind legs, purple claws, and gray streaks shaped as little thunder bolts (like its coming out of the tail) asked.
"I told you before, that if any of the dark destiny's henchmen, such as Leogonmon, find me with the other digidestined then I'll be putting them in danger."
"They're already in danger as it is! Once you tell them their own lives are being put into this! It's a battle till the death." Silver collapsed. "Silver! Silver!" Zerogrowlmon called sounding both worried and scared.
"West... Lexi... Cork... Tike!!" She exclaimed and began to cry.
~*~
"Over in that direction." Izzy announced as the digivices began to glow and beep stronger.
TK pushed some branches out of the way and found... nothing.
"That's strange. How come our digivices are saying that the fifth girl is right here but she's not??" Izzy wondered.
"Zerogrowlmon! Silver!" Mimi called.
"What's up with Mimi?" Tai asked Matt.
"She said she knows the Silver girl." Matt responded.
"Mimi, is she a digidestined?" Kari wondered.
"Yes..."
"Why didn't you tell us??"
The signal was gone. "Come on guys, let's go." Tai said and everyone headed out.
Matt stayed and looked up at the trees where Mimi was looking. "Come on, Mimi." He said.
"I know you're out there." She whispered and they ran after the others.
~*~
Up in one of the trees was Silver and Zerogrowlmon. Silver was still crying and this time she was shivering all over. "Silver, please don't feel this way. It's not your fault.." The digimon said.
Silver took deep breathes followed by some weezing. "Geez, Zerogrowlmon! "Till the death," you really know how to brighten my day, don't you?? Anyways, it was my fault! If only I had gotten there in time!!"
"They must've done that for a reason."
"For what reason? To make me cry?? To see them be tortured that way?? To endanger the other digidestined when they fine me?? And to ---- to...." She looked down at her dark green digivice clutched in her hand.
"No, Silver, they would never want to see you cry. All of you mean a lot to each other to go through that kind of pain. Especially that bound between you and Tike. Besides, I have this feeling that they're really alive."
*~ The girl was falling through some kind of portal and landed in, what she guessed, a park. "Ouch." She said, got up, and dusted herself off.
"Hey you, are you all right??" A voice asked.
She turned around and saw a red haired girl and a blond haired boy sitting on a bench behind her. She looked at the boy and whispered, "West ...??"
"Are you all right?" The boy wondered.
The girl sped back and began to run away.
"Wait!! You forgot your backpack!" The red haired girl called out. Just then, it began to rain. ~*
The girl stopped at a door to catch her breath. "Home." She said to herself and opened the door. She walked into the second bedroom and laid down on the bed. In a few minutes, she fell asleep.
~*~
'Gee, I wonder why that girl just ran off like that.' Matt thought to himself as he drove back from taking Sora home.
*~ Sora and him were sitting on a park bench on their usual Tuesday date at the park. When they were about to kiss, a brown haired girl with a small ponytail at the side of her head which was dyed blond; tan skin, wearing a black backpack, a silver armband, and a black sleeveless jacket with a white collar slapped over a gray muscle shirt; and blue, baggy, parachute pants dropped out of nowhere and landed in front of them. She stood up and dusted herself off.
"Hey you, are you all right??" Sora asked.
The girl spun around and said something as she eyed Matt.
"Are you all right??" He wondered.
Then, she just sped off leaving her backpack behind.
"Wait!! You forgot your backpack!!!" Sora called out and it started to rain. ~*
Matt looked down at the backpack the girl left. "Hopefully I'll be able to give this back to her." He said.
Finally, Matt got to his apartment door and walked into his room. He threw the backpack on his bed and sat down.
"Wait a minute. Maybe there's an address on here and I can mail to her." Matt said and before he could examine it, something behind him moved around.
A bit startled, Matt threw over the blanket and saw the girl from the park, laying on his bed, completely drenched from the rain. She let out a scream.
"Whoa!" Matt exclaimed, now more frightened, "Calm down! I'm not gonna hurt you!"
The girl grabbed the nearest thing to her, which happened to be her backpack, and hit him on the head with it. She began to run away, but Matt grabbed her by the foot and she fell over. He, then, pinned her down to the floor and covered her mouth.
"Shhh... It's all right. I'm not going to hurt you in any way." He assured her. The girl stopped trying to get Matt off of her and Matt uncovered her mouth.
"What are you doing in my apartment?" She asked.
"Your apartment?!" Matt exclaimed as he rubbed his head, "What are you talking about?! I've lived her for the past eleven years!"
'How can that be?? Wait, I remember now ... Yes, I understand.' She thought. "I'm sorry," She said, "I've been mistaken."
"That's ok. Hey, what about your knee?" Matt replied as he pointed to the wound. It was bleeding rapidly.
"It's fine. Nothing too serious that I can't handle." The girl told him.
"But it's bleeding! Come on, follow me." He said and headed toward the kitchen. The girl sat down at the table and looked around. Matt came back with a Band-Aid, an alcohol swab, a towel, and an ice pack.
"Here you are." He said as he handed her the towel and sat down next to her. "So, what's your name?" He asked while wiping the alcohol over the wound on her knee. She let out a little hiss as it swarmed her knee. "Sorry." Matt added as he placed the ice pack on his head.
"No problem. Sorry about hitting you on the head." The girl said and put the band-aid over her wound.
"It's ok, I've been through worse."
"Oh, answering your question, I'm Ruvee Bleemington, but everyone calls me Silver."
"Why Silver?"
"Because "I always put myself second and my friends and family first." so my friends used to say. Ya get it? First place is Gold, second is Silver?"
"Yeah, I get it. That explains that silver armband thing you're wearing. I'm Yamato Ishida, but everybody calls me Matt. They call me that because I want them to."
Silver giggled and looked out the window at the rain.
"You're welcome to stay here for a few days." Matt informed her.
Silver looked at him and asked, "Are you sure?"
"No problem! I could sleep on the couch while you sleep in my room. Just don't make a mess of course."
Silver smiled and wondered, "What about your parents?"
"My parents are divorced," Matt muttered, "I live with my dad but he's always at work. I have a younger brother, named TK, he lives with my mom."
"Oh, I'm sorry. I can imagine how it feels."
~*~
Elsewhere, Izzy was, like always, typing away on his laptop. He let out a yawn. "Just about done." He said to himself and then,
YOU'VE GOT MAIL.
"Huh? Genni?!" He asked.
Genni walked across Izzy's screen and faced Izzy once he reached the middle and said, "Hello, Izzy. How are you? Well, there's no time for catching up. I have e-mailed you for a really important reason. You and the other digidestined have to find someone very important at the time. The way to find this someone is to use your digivices. They'll start to erupt in a frenzy when you're near to this person. How's about we refer to this someone as the fifth girl? Once you've found her, she'll be the one explaining everything that I wasn't able to tell you. I'll hear from you soon then." Genni then disappeared.
"Another digidestined?? Too bad Davis and the other digidestined are still on their vacation." Izzy whispered and looked at the digivice held in his hand.
~*~
The next morning, it was 10:45 AM at the Kamiya's place.
RING! RING!
"I got it!" Kari announced and picked up the phone. "Hello?"
"Good morning, Tai there?" Izzy wondered.
"Yea, this is Kari. Who is this?"
"Huh? Kari, what are you doing back so early? Erm, this is Izzy, by the way."
"I'll tell ya later. What's up Izzy?"
"Kari, you and Tai meet me at the park within an hour, ok? This is urgent."
"Umm... sure."
"Oh, by the way, I need you guys to bring your digivices along as well."
"Ok then, we'll see you in a bit." Kari said and hung up the phone and walked into the room were Tai was playing with a soccer ball. "Kari, who was it?" He asked.
"It was Izzy," She replied, "He wanted us to meet him at the park in an hour with our digivices. He also mentioned that it's urgent."
"Huh? Our digivices?" Tai echoed and stopped playing with the soccer ball, "Why does he want us to bring them along?"
"I don't know! He just said to meet him in the park in an hour and to bring our digivices."
~*~
"Matt?? Matt?? Hello??" Someone called as they pounded on the door.
Matt was on the phone, tossing his digivice up and down in the air. "All right, five o'clock next week, got it. Bye. Hold your horses!" He said as he hung up the phone and walked to the door.
"But we don't have any horses!" Someone else exclaimed.
Matt opened the door and saw Mimi and TK smiling at him. "Mimi! TK! What ---"
"Mimi's parents had time off. So, we took the last flight to Japan!" TK explained.
"Glad to see ya again, Matt!" Mimi said.
"Yeah," Matt agreed with a smile, "Same here."
"It's good to be back in 'ol Japan!"
"Are you ready to --- Who's that?" TK said while pointing behind Matt.
Matt turned around to see Silver walking towards them. "Hey." He said.
"Hey... Who's this?" Silver replied when she first caught eye of TK and Mimi.
"Matt, you haven't been cheating on Sora, have you?" Mimi asked.
"No! Give me more credit than that!" Matt exclaimed, "Silver, this is my younger brother, TK, that I told you about. And this is an old friend of ours who moved to America, Mimi. Guys, this is Silver."
"Nice to meet you." TK said.
"Good to finally meet you too." Silver responded by shaking his hand. "Hey Mimi, this the ones you were talkin' about?"
"All in the same."
"Havin' a good vacation?"
"Hell yeah! I'm back home!"
Matt and TK looked at them.
"Have you two met?" Matt asked.
"Sure! She's one of me and Michael's best friends up in New York!"
Matt, Mimi, and TK's digivices began to glow and beep loudly. "What the??" Matt said aloud.
Silver noticed the digivices and thought, 'Are those... digivices?? Are they??... Could they be part of the other digidestined?? Damn it, the consequences could be bad.' "Hey, what are those?" She asked.
"What? These things?" Matt questioned nervously, "Uh .. they're the new style in watches."
"Yea, watches. You can't find 'em in stores 'cause ... they're so damn popular!" TK agreed.
'Oh yea, they're digivices all right, but they're the older model. That probably explains why I've got some extras in my bag.' Silver thought.
"Chill out, you two. You can tell her that they're digivices. She knows all about the digiworld and the digimon!"
"But.. HOW?"
"Please, just about everyone in the world, especially in New York, know about the digiworld 'coz of last year's event."
"Where's Pangmon?"
"He said that he had to do something in the digiworld and he'll be back in a little bit."
"You have a digimon too??" TK asked.
"Like I said, after what happened last year everyone in the world have a digimon and know about them. Namingly, New York is one of the big ones."
"Well, actually not everyone has one, or knows about the digiworld."
A long silence was broken when, "Well, I think that we'd better get going. Tai's gonna be mad at us." Matt said.
"Where are you guys going?" Silver asked.
"To the park. Wanna come?" TK answered and Matt elbowed him in the stomach.
"I'd love to go to the park," Silver said, "but I think that I'll just sit on a bench and finish up something while you guys do whatever it is that you have to do with your friend. Hang on."
Once Silver was clear from earshot, "Wanna come?" Matt murmured.
"You weren't just going to leave her here, were you??" TK retorted.
"Besides, she already, KNOWS..." Mimi added.
"Yeah, well, still..."
Inside, Silver grabbed her backpack.
"You didn't bring me any snacks?!" A high pitched voice exclaimed.
"No time, just stay in the bag then I'll give you something to munch on, ok?" Silver responded and came back outside.
~*~
At the park, "Why are we all here, Izzy?" Joe asked.
"Well, Genni e-mailed me last night ---"
"He did?!" Everyone exclaimed.
"Yea, he said that all of us have to find a very important person in the digiworld. He referred to her as the fifth girl." Izzy added.
"Sort of like when we were trying to find Kari?" Tai asked.
Izzy nodded his head.
"So she's a digidestined like us?" TK wondered.
"Well, she has to be if our digivices react to her." Joe said.
"You're probably right about that, Joe. But another Japanese digidestined? I thought that we were the only ones who saw Parrotmon and Greymon fight back at Highton View Terrance." Matt said.
"Well, there were other times like when Myotismon entered our world, remember?" Izzy told him.
~*~
On the other side of the park, Silver was sitting down on a bench, looking at a notebook, with her backpack sitting beside her.
"So you've already found them?" A voice asked.
"Yes." Silver said.
"Well, why don't you just go up to them?"
"I have my reasons."
"But it could take them forever to find us! ---"
"Genni has managed to them how to find me, and TK, Mimi, and Matt's digivices---"
"Mimi's here?!"
"Obvisiously, these are the friends she talked about. Anyways, their digivices have already reacted to me. They should be able to know that it's me they're looking for. Plus, if any of the dark digimon's henchmen sees me with them, they'll be in danger."
"That's you. You don't care about yourself but about others. Silver... Well, can't I at least come out?? It's hot in here!"
"No, even if you did act like a stuffed animal or something the others will know right off that you're a digimon by your appearance."
"But that's what we want them to do!"
"Have you forgotten WHO the bad -----"
Then, there was a beeping noise. Silver pulled out a device and opened the cover. An old man popped up on the screen. "Ah, Silver." He said.
"Benjamin?"
"Yes, have you found the digidestined yet?"
Silver sighed heavily and replied, "Yea."
"Well, tell them everything that's going on here."
"But I'll be putting them in danger. Maybe even killed if I hang around then that long, and I don't want that to happen. Why does have to be me?"
"Silver, I heard what happened, but you're just going to have to face it. This is for the fate of the world you've got here... What you need to do is tell the digidestined and that's all." And Benjamin was gone.
"Silver?" The voice called.
"Yea?" Silver answered to the sound of her name.
"Would you mind if I eat these?" A small black panther with yellow eyes and a skull covering its head came out of the backpack with a bag of gummy bears in its mouth. "I'm Pangmon, a rookie digimon. I am Silver's digimon. To protect the both of us, I use my Skull Smash." It announced.
Silver smiled and responded, "Sure, go for it."
"I love this world." Pangmon said and went back in the bag. Silver couldn't help but laugh.
~*~
"Wait a minute, TK and Mimi, remember how our digivices reacted to Silver?" Matt said.
Sora glared. "Who's Silver?"
"You don't think?" TK asked.
"She is." Mimi told them and all three of them ran over off to the bench where Silver had been sitting.
"Hey guys, wait a minute! Who's this Silver???" Sora called.
~*~
Once at the other side of the park, everyone caught their breath.
"What's going on here?" Tai asked.
"Sora, remember that one girl that left her backpack yesterday?" Matt questioned.
"Yes, why? What does she have anything to do with this?" Sora replied.
"About an hour later, I found her in my apartment and there's a good chance that she could be the one we're searching for." Matt said.
"So, she's this Silver girl. What'd you do when you found her in your apartment?"
Matt sweatdropped. "Sora..."
"Anyways, Matt, Mimi, and my digivices started to react to her when she was around us." TK announced.
In the distance, they heard some screaming. "Monster!!!" The people exclaimed in horror as they ran pass the digidestined.
"Monster? What do they mean "monster"?" Kari wondered.
"That's what." Joe said pointing above the trees. There was a gigantic creature that looked like a cross between a leopard and an elephant. "That's Leogonmon. Watch out for his "Triumphant Growl"." Izzy announced.
"Man! Where's our digimon when we need them the most??" Tai asked.
Leogonmon noticed them and shouted, "TRIUMPHANT GROWL!" There was a light blue pair of teeth heading over to them. Everyone screamed and ducked for cover.
"HOWLING EXTREME!!" Someone yelled out of nowhere and it hit both Leogonmon's attack and Leogonmon, causing them to disappear. Everyone looked up in surprise.
That's when their digivices began to glow. "Wait a minute. I think we're getting a signal from over there." Izzy proclaimed while pointing toward the direction Leogonmon had came from.
"Silver! Zerogrowlmon!" Mimi shouted as she ran ahead of the group.
~*~
"Zerogrowlmon, come on." Silver ordered.
"But why?" A teenaged panther with a long thunder bolt shaped tail, squating down on its hind legs, purple claws, and gray streaks shaped as little thunder bolts (like its coming out of the tail) asked.
"I told you before, that if any of the dark destiny's henchmen, such as Leogonmon, find me with the other digidestined then I'll be putting them in danger."
"They're already in danger as it is! Once you tell them their own lives are being put into this! It's a battle till the death." Silver collapsed. "Silver! Silver!" Zerogrowlmon called sounding both worried and scared.
"West... Lexi... Cork... Tike!!" She exclaimed and began to cry.
~*~
"Over in that direction." Izzy announced as the digivices began to glow and beep stronger.
TK pushed some branches out of the way and found... nothing.
"That's strange. How come our digivices are saying that the fifth girl is right here but she's not??" Izzy wondered.
"Zerogrowlmon! Silver!" Mimi called.
"What's up with Mimi?" Tai asked Matt.
"She said she knows the Silver girl." Matt responded.
"Mimi, is she a digidestined?" Kari wondered.
"Yes..."
"Why didn't you tell us??"
The signal was gone. "Come on guys, let's go." Tai said and everyone headed out.
Matt stayed and looked up at the trees where Mimi was looking. "Come on, Mimi." He said.
"I know you're out there." She whispered and they ran after the others.
~*~
Up in one of the trees was Silver and Zerogrowlmon. Silver was still crying and this time she was shivering all over. "Silver, please don't feel this way. It's not your fault.." The digimon said.
Silver took deep breathes followed by some weezing. "Geez, Zerogrowlmon! "Till the death," you really know how to brighten my day, don't you?? Anyways, it was my fault! If only I had gotten there in time!!"
"They must've done that for a reason."
"For what reason? To make me cry?? To see them be tortured that way?? To endanger the other digidestined when they fine me?? And to ---- to...." She looked down at her dark green digivice clutched in her hand.
"No, Silver, they would never want to see you cry. All of you mean a lot to each other to go through that kind of pain. Especially that bound between you and Tike. Besides, I have this feeling that they're really alive."