Thanks for reviewing, guys! *big smile* *hugs the reviewers* Hopefully this will end up as a 15+ chapter story! But only if I get lots of reviews! ^_^

the disclaimer, again: I don't own Digimon, except for Arumon(the dude from the first chapter) and my own character (Lurai)

Sorry if there's any spelling/grammar mistakes (I suck at lie, laid, and lay words)
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After dinner, Lurai went back up to her room. "Mmm, those noodles were good," she said out loud.

She got up to her room, went in, and closed the door. The clock on the other side of the room did the hourly chime and showed the time: 7:45 p.m.

' I'm bored and tired,' she thought. After she thought that, Lurai flopped on her bed near the window and stared up at the ceiling. A couple of minutes later, she decided to go downstairs and watch some TV shows.

But what would happen later would make the night something other than boring.

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Outside, Veedramon was still crawling (now kinda struggling) into the room. Mumbling, he said "It's a good thing I don't eat much, or I-ow-oh no-gak-I can't fit!"

This Veedramon wasn't like the size of other champion Digimon, but because of his frequent training, he didn't really find the time to eat. When he did eat though, it was usually only a piece or 2 of fruit. So his size was pretty much one of a rookie Digimon.

' This hurts' he thought. From the look of it, it was a funny sight (mainly because half of his body was in the room and the other half was poking out the window). But since his arms and head were already in the room, he put his claws on the windowsill and started to push on it.

' Come on, just a little farther, that's right,' Veedramon pushed harder and harder, until he accidentally pushed a little too hard and then flew into the room.

Hitting the wall near the door, Veedramon rubbed his head. "Great, hurt twice in one day, what else could happen?" he asked out loud.

He walked over back to the window. The window was slightly still ok, but there were some chips of wood and glass missing. Seeing this, he carefully picked up the pieces and put them in the trash can.

It was dark in the room, so Veedramon went over and looked for something on the wall to make the room fill with light. He felt around the wall for a little while, and flipped up a switch.

The light filled up the whole room. There was so much light that Veedramon had to shield his eyes from it. When he was used to the light, he opened his eyes. ' Wow,' he thought.

He saw the small room covered in stuff. There was the fairy bed, dragon statue, and all the other stuff he saw earlier. Veedramon started to walk around and examine everything.

On one side of the wall, there was a small bookshelf. There were 2 shelves on it. The one on top had some fantasy books about wizards and dragons, but over half of them were about dragons. The bottom shelf was pretty much empty except for a shoebox on it. He could have, but Veedramon didn't really want to go look and see what was in it because he didn't want to go in other people's stuff.

The floor was made of normal wood with a small light blue circle carpet in the middle. The wallpaper, was also a light blue color, but it had big and little sketches of dragons all over it. Veedramon thought, ' Hmm, whoever drew that must be good.'

Now on to the dragon statue. It was made of platinum and had a dragon sitting on a mountain and the dragon looked like it was supposedly protecting an orb of some sort. The statue looked old, but that was because the once-silvery look of the platinum had dulled to a brown bronze like color.

On the floor in the corner, there was a purple shape. Veedramon walked over to it and picked it up. It looked like some kind of a game with buttons on it. (A/N: That was a GBA) "I wonder what this is," he said out loud. He put it down back where it was.

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Back downstairs, the TV was on the Weather Channel, but Lurai wasn't really watching it. Actually, she was eating some ice cream.

"Lurai, I'm going to go out for a while," her mother called.

"Ok," she answered, still eating her ice cream.

A couple of minutes later, Lurai's mom left the house.

Now Lurai was done eating the ice cream after they played that "Current Weather on the 8 of the hour" thingy. She went into the kitchen, put her plate in the sink, washed it, put it in the dishwasher, and started to go upstairs.

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Back in the room, Veedramon was still looking around the room. He yawned and decided to rest a little. Walking over to the light switch, he flipped the light off and laid on the bed. He didn't want to sleep on the bed, so he just went over and sat where he landed on his way in.

' I'll just...rest for a minute...' he thought.

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Lurai ran upstairs, and opened the door so fast that the door hit the wall with a slam. Unforutunately, Veedramon got hit by the door in the face. "Ow! Who did that?" he yelled.

Lurai heard that and turned around. "Who's there?" she demanded.

Veedramon pushed the door out of his way and asked, "Did you really have to go and do that? he asked and closed his eyes and rubbed his face.

Lurai examined Veedramon carefully. At the time, she didn't know what he was. A couple of seconds later, she screamed. "Aaahhh! A monster!"

Veedramon looked up. He also looked up and examined Lurai. He screamed also. "Aaaahhh! What are you?"

After a pause, they both screamed. "Aaaaahhhh!"

Another pause...Lurai was the first to talk. "I'm a human. Wh-what are you?"

Veedramon answered. "I'm a Digimon. Nice to meet 'cha." He extended his hand for a handshake.

Lurai hesitated for a little bit and shook his hand. "What were you again?"

"A Digimon. It's short for "Digital Monster."

"Hey, I think I've heard of them before...hold on!" Lurai grabbed the shoebox and emptied it. A bunch of things fell out of it, like some GBA games, money, candy, and some Digimon cards.

She held up a Tortomon card. "You mean this?"

"Yeah, but that's not actually me. Could I see your cards for a minute?"

"If you want to."

"Thanks." Lurai moved over and let Veedramon dig around.

Veedramon held up a playing card with a picture of him on it.

"You're that?"

Veedramon looked at the card. It was a Guilmon. "Oops, sorry." He started to dig again.

After digging through the pile of cards, Veedramon finally found his card. "I'm this."

"Veedramon? How can I believe that?"

"Well, don't they look the same?"

Lurai looked at the Veedramon in front of her and the Veedramon on the card. "Hmm...ok, I believe you. Veedramon."

"And so you know my name. What's yours?"

"Lurai."

"Cool name. Ack!" Veedramon clutched his arm in pain.

"What's wrong, Veedramon?"

"The pain...it hurts...very bad..."

Lurai went over to Veedramon's other side. "Move your arm," she said.

Veedramon obediently moved his arm. His arm had 4 cuts on it all near his shoulder, with 2 of them being large and heavily bleeding.

"I'll be right back," Lurai said.

She ran out of her room, went into the downstairs closet, and grabbed an old blue bandanna. Then she ran upstairs, into the bathroom, and wet it. But before she got out of the bathroom, she also grabbed some rubbing alcohol.

She wet a piece of cotton with the alcohol, and rubbed it on Veedramon's scratches.

"Ow!" he yelled. "What is that?"

"It's just some stuff to help stop the bleeding, I guess."

After rubbing the alcohol on Veedramon's arm, she tied the bandanna around the cuts.

Veedramon asked, "Why not use a band-aid?"

"We don't have any big enough."

"Oh. No one's ever cared about me before..."

"I care, Veedramon."

"Wow. Thanks."

After saying that, Veedramon sat in Lurai's lap and started to sleep.

' He looks so adorable when he sleeps...' Lurai thought.

From behind them, something glowed with a white light in the shoebox.

Veedramon woke up from his short nap. "What is that?" he asked.

"I don't know...but I'll go check it out." With that, Lurai set Veedramon by the bed and crawled over to the shoebox.

Reaching in, it looked like a blue device thingy. Veedramon slowly walked over to her. "What is that?" he asked again.

"If I'm right, it's a D-Arc from that Digimon Tamers show! Then that means..."

"What does it mean? Tell me!"

"I'm your Tamer!" She grabbed Veedramon and pulled him in a tight hug.

"Tamer?"

"Yeah. Meaning that I'm your Tamer and you're my Digimon. Or we'll be best friends for life!"

"Friend? I never had one of those before..."

Lurai hugged him again. "Well, you do now!"

"Wow..." Veedramon gave back the hug.

Lurai's blue D-Arc started to beep like crazy.

Veedramon asked, "Ok, I'm gonna ask again. What is it?"

Lurai got out of the hug and looked at her D-Arc. "Well, there's something going on at the shopping center," she said.

"Let's go see what's happening!" Veedramon yelled.

"Ok."

Lurai ran out of her room holding her D-Arc with Veedramon following behind her. They ran downstairs and Lurai put on her purple jacket, but then she suddenly stopped running.

"Did you forget something?" Veedramon asked again.

"I'll be right back." Lurai ran upstairs, grabbed her digimon cards, put them in a jacket pocket, and ran downstairs.

Back downstairs, Veedramon was standing at the door eating a piece of beef jerky.

"Done?" he asked.

Lurai nodded. "Now let's go get that digimon!"

They ran out in the street.

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Oh, suspense! Who is attacking the shopping center? Will they get there in time? Find out in the next chapter! But I'll only write it if I get, say, 5 or more reviews?

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