Samar rolled onto her back, gasping for air. The others were doing
likewise. She slowly sat up and wiped the dirt from her face, succeeding in
smudging it across her cheek. Andrew rose up unsteadily and leaned against a
tree.

"What was that about?" Alex muttered, rubbing his head. "I hope
nothing in our bags broke."

With much groaning and moaning, the five youth got to their feet and
picked up their bags. They were in a small, dirt clearing, surrounded a
forest. A faint sound of trickling water could be heard.

Tam pivoted in a full circle. "Didn't Dr. Bobly say that our digi-eggs
would be here when we arrived? I don't see anything but green."

"No where. This has to be a nightmare." Jay said as he sat heavily on
a rock. At those words, he slipped and fell backwards onto his head. "Found
them."

The four friends hurried to where Jay sat. Alex helped him up, and
beneathe Jay lay five digi-eggs. The largest egg was black with wavy blue
lines. Two of the eggs had white back rounds; one with red triangles, and
the other with golden lines. The smallest was purely silver. The last was
medium sized, with yellow spikes covering it.

Andrew picked up the largest. Tam claimed the white egg with golden
lines to herself, and Jay chose the red triangles. Alex selected the
yellow-spiked egg, and Samar cradled the silver egg in her palm.

"Our eggs." Samar whispered softly.

Instantly, the digi-eggs cracked. A bright light enveloped the group,
and when the youth were able to see again, small creatures were sitting in
their hands.

"Hey, ya." greeted the small, pointy red blob in Jay's hand. He
crawled up Jay's arm and into his backpack. "Comfy up here. I'm Ryromon."

The digimon in Andrew's hand looked exactly the same as Ryromon, but
blue. It wiggled excitedly. "Wow! Hi, I'm Tearmon! Are you my partner?!"
Andrew stared for a minute, then laughed.

Tam's digimon looked the most interesting. It was a furry brown
circle, with a blond pony tail coming from the back of it's head. "A pleasure
to meet you, I'm Hovomon."

"I'm Zeximon." Alex's yellow-striped blob said. "You're going to love
me, and care for me, and..."

Samar looked curiously at her small digimon. It felt like jello in her
hand. The thing was white, and had soft spikes covering its round body. "I'm
Gelmon." Gelmon wrinkled her nose. "You smell icky. Like dirt."

Laughing at Gelmon's frankness, Samar sat down in the grass. Gelmon
hopped out of her hand and onto her partner's head. She looked at the bag on
Samar's back. "You got anything good to eat in there?"

"Yeah, you too, Alex. I'm hungry!!!" Zeximon said, making a puppy face.

Hovomon whipped back her pony tail, and looked imploringly to Tam. "Do
you have any victuals? Please?"

All the digimon started hounding the youth for food. Alex broke out
some chocolate bars and they all chowed down.

Wow. Her own digimon! It was SO cute. Gelmon... Samar wondered what it
would digivolve into. Maybe a rock digimon, or a cat, or a fish... A loud
beeping noise turned Samar's thoughts to her digi-vice. Pulling it out, she
noticed the screen read:

"Cool. Check it out! It works!" Jay said, examining his.

Andrew smirked. "What, did you except them not to after all this?"