"The digi-destined?" I asked, "Yes," Said Tai, "We're seven children brought here from the real world, and given digivices and digimon partners so that we can protect the digital world from evil and powerful digimon, like Devimon. He was an evil digimon who was working under another evil digimon named Myotismon," Tai shivered. "Little T.K. over there, well his digimon, Patamon, digivolved for the first time to his champion level, Angemon, and defeated Devimon, but he was destroyed in the process, and his information was re-formatted into a digi-egg. He only just re-digivolved back to his in training level, Patamon…Now we're on a journey finding our tags and crests, which help our digimon digivolve even further, so we can defeat Myotismon and end his evil reign." There was a pause as I let all the information sink in, "So," I said, "We're here to—to save the world?" Tai nodded, "How in the world are we going to manage that?" I said indignantly, "We're just a bunch of kids who got zapped here, with a bunch of little pets!" "Hey!" Said another boy standing up from in the group, he was blonde and tall, and had on a sleeveless green turtleneck, and green gloves, and jeans. "Never underestimate the strength of digimon!" he said, "They're more powerful than you can imagine!" This boy spoke with such earnestness, I thought I'd back off a little, so I said nothing, but threw him a dirty look. "Well—uh, let me introduce you to the gang," Tai said trying to break the tension, "This is Matt," he said, introducing the blonde boy who had yelled "And this is his little brother, T.K." he said, motioning to the little blonde sitting on the ground by his brother. He wore a green cap and a green vest, green gloves, and brown shorts. T.K. stood "Glad to meetcha!" he said happily, holding out a hand, I shook it, and he sat back down. "And this is Joe," He said, pointing at a boy sitting on the ground nearby, he had black hair and thick big glasses, with and argyle sweater-vest, and khaki shorts. "Hello" he said, standing and offering me his hand like T.K. had. I shook again, then he sat down. "And this is Izzy," Izzy was a little short, with red spiky hair and he had on an orange shirt, yellow gloves and brown shorts, "Prodigious to meet you," He said, standing and holding out his hand as well, We shook and he sat down again. "And this is Mimi," He said. A girl with blonde hair stood up. She was about as tall as me, and had on a pink cowboy hat and pink cowboy boots, and a pink, fringed dress, and pink gloves, "Like, Hi," She said smiling goofily, she held out a hand, and I shook hers too. Then Tai said, "And last but not least, this is Sora," A girl with dirty blonde hair stood up, she had on a blue hat, a yellow sleeveless shirt, and jeans, "Hello," she said, and I shook hands with her too. "And these are the digimon, Palmon, Agumon, Gomamon, Biyomon, Patamon, Gabumon, and Tentomon," the digimon remained seated, but all said timid hellos, "And everyone, this is Trina Kingsley," Said Tai to everyone else. "So," Said Izzy after a moment, "How did you come to find yourself in the digital world?" he asked me. "Well," I said, I had just moved to Highton View Terrace apartments, in Japan, a few weeks ago—" I would have continued but was cut off by an chorus of shouts. "YOU LIVE WHERE?" They seemed to all be saying. "Highton View Terrace apartments," I said slowly, "Whoa," said Tai, "that's creepy," "Why?" I asked, "Well," said Tai, "Because that's where I live," He said, "Yeah, me too," Said Izzy, "And me," Said Sora, "Me too," said Joe, "Yeah so do I," Said Matt. "That's weird." Said Tai, but then shook his head, "Oh well, I suppose it's another one of those destiny things," He shrugged it off, "Continue," He said. "Well," I began again, "I moved here from London, and I found out that most of the kids my age at my building had all gone off to summer camp I guess those kids are you…Well anyway, So my mom signed me up for the same camp, and I went there today. I was walking around when I came to this cliff, and it was really pretty, because it looked like the northern lights or something. I stepped on this little digivice thing by accident, and I went to pick it up and it started glowing, and then this portal opened up, and then I found myself on the ground here." I said "And then Lorimon came up to me, and he introduced himself, and told me all about digimon and the digital world. Then I started walking, trying to find some way home when this huge dinosaur digimon thing. I think it was called Monochromon, well he chased us to this cliff, and right when I thought we were dead meat, my digivice lit up and then Lorimon digivolved to Lindramon. He used his attack to make this huge black round thing come out of Monochromon's back, and then the thing just sort of vanished and Monochromon ran for it, then you guys came," I finished, looking around at them. They all looked pretty impressed, "Your digimon must be extremely powerful to have defeated a Monochromon single handedly, do you mind if I have a look at him, I've never seen a digimon quite like him before," Said Izzy, "Umm, Lindramon, is that okay with you?" I asked him, "Sure!" he said, "No problem!" he walked over to Izzy who began to study him closely, "I think he's adorable!" Said Mimi, stroking his line of yellow fur," "Me too!" Said Sora, walking over to me "It's great to have another girl in the group," She said kindly, "And don't mind Matt, he's just temperamental about digimon sometimes," "Okay," I said, smiling. "Well what I'm interested in is the flow of time in the real world versus the digital world," Said Tai, "Do you have a watch?" he asked "Yeah, but it hasn't been keeping time since I got here, it just froze up." "Exactly," said Tai, "I want to see the date and time when you entered the digital world, compared to the date and time when we did. " He said, taking my watch, and taking off his. "Well this can't be right!" he said after looking at the watches, "It says that you arrived here only ten seconds after we did, but that's impossible we've been here for at least a month!" He said, "Well maybe that's the way time flows here." Said Matt; "Maybe a year in the real world is like millions of years in the digital world, so maybe a second in the real world is equal to a few days, or a week in the digital world." He said "Well that's terrible, I mean, we could be here for a year in this time, and by the time it's my fourteenth birthday, people will just start wondering where we are!" "Yeah, but who says we'll be here that long?" said Joe, jumping into the conversation, "Besides, technically we wouldn't age the same way here would we? I mean our bodies age on real time, so maybe instead, by the time your body is fourteen, where we're standing now could be at the bottom of an ocean!"
We continued discussing things until dusk began to fall, "Ugh, with all that talking I forgot how hungry I am," Said Tai, his stomach rumbling "You guys don't have anything to eat?" I said in surprise, "Not in two days," Moaned Joe, "All we've had to eat are roots and berries, and they aren't very filling!" the rest nodded in agreement, "Well why didn't you say anything?" I demanded "I have a bunch of food in my bag, here!" I opened my bag and pulled out three bags of chips, four bottles of juice, four bottles of water, a bag of carrot sticks, a bag of celery sticks, a package of crackers, some cheese, and four chocolate bars. The group's mouths watered at the sight. "Before we dig in though, we need to ration," I said, "We need to think about how many days we'll be stuck here! So I think we can have half the bag of carrot sticks, and a full bag of chips split among all of us. We can all have half a drink, and everyone gets two crackers, a slice of cheese, and a piece of chocolate," I said, and even then they looked delighted at the prospect. I put away two of the bags of chips and the bag of celery sticks and split up the food. We built a fire, and talked long into the night. It was only until T.K. slumped over onto Matt's shoulder, and Mimi started yawning loudly that we all agreed to turn in for the night. We lay out under the stars and though most of the others fell asleep almost immediately, I couldn't sleep though. I got up and walked over to the edge of the cliff. I sat and looked up at the stars, trying to find constellations I knew, then I remembered I was in the digital world, and the stars weren't the same here. I sighed and slumped back on my elbows. "You know it's not safe to be alone at night," said a voice behind me—I felt like I'd been zapped with a thousand volts, and I whipped around. Matt was standing there looking up at the stars, "Jeez Matt, you scared me!" I gasped, "Sorry," He said, sitting down beside me, and we both sat in silence looking up at the sky, "I—I always was hoping that someday I'd just leave my parents, leave Japan, and be on my own—but—I never meant it like this…" I said sadly, Matt looked over at me, "We all miss home." He said. We both looked up at the sky in utter silence, simply breathing in the cool night air… "I—I'm sorry I snapped at you earlier, you haven't been here long and—I don't know, I guess I'm kind of touchy when it comes to digimon," he said after a moment. "Oh, no it's okay, I mean, I was just freaking out that's all, It's so different from anything else here," I said, looking behind me fondly at Lindramon's sleeping form. "Yeah," Said Matt, "It is," and then suddenly, I found myself blushing! "Well," I said, "I'm kind of tired, I think I'll go to sleep," I stood up and walked over to where the others were, He stood over by the cliff still, silhouetted in the starlight, "Good night," I said softly, lying down by Mimi and Sora. There was a long pause and I was about to drift off to sleep when I heard Matt's voice say softly, "Good night,"