Chapter five: Another Time
"So where are you from?" Kari asked as the searched for the missing children.
"Odaiba." Answered Dakedo. Kari beamed.
"Hey that's where I'm from!" Dakedo smiled down at her.
"That's where most of us are from." Izzy said.
"Really? Wow!" Dakedo replied pretending not to know.
"You should come and visit us sometime!"
"Uh, sure!" Dakedo felt bad about saying that to Kari. He knew he couldn't visit her once they got back to their own time. He kept his mouth shut before he made anymore promises he wouldn't be able to keep.
"So Nazo, tell me about yourself." Izzy said. He seemed to find the girl charming and intriguing.
"What do you wanna know?" She asked shyly. He smiled at her.
"Nazo is a pretty odd name; I would like to know the origin of it if you don't mind telling me." Nazo giggled. Izzy looked at her inquiringly.
"What's so funny?" She stopped her giggling and looked up at him with a warm smile.
"When I was born, my mommy and daddy were thinking up names," She began.
"My daddy was getting tired of Mommy saying no to all the names he suggested and said 'This is very puzzling, I've suggested every name I can think of and you don't seem satisfied with any of them.' After my daddy said the word 'puzzling' my mommy then said 'That's it! We'll call her Nazo!' My daddy thought it was an odd name but it grew on him, and that's the origin of my name!" Izzy could only chuckle at her explanation.
"Some kids make fun of me but I'm proud to be called Nazo Izumi!" Realizing what she had said, she immediately covered her mouth with both hands. Izzy had a surprised look on his face. The other kids heard what she said.
"Uh oh." said Andoru. Dakedo slapped his hand against his forehead; Hiroshi lowered his head a little and shook it from side to side.
"Wow! She has the same last name as Izzy!" TK piped. Tai walked up to Nazo.
"Are you related to Izzy or something?" Nazo trembled, too frightened to say another word. She took a deep breath. She stood profoundly and decided to tell them the truth.
"Actually..." She began. Her friends gawked at her with panic written all over their faces.
"What?!" Everyone's head turned as they heard a yell.
"What was that?" Patamon asked. TK recognized the voice.
"It sounded like Mimi!"
"Are you sure TK?" Asked Kari.
"I'm positive, who else can shout that loud?" TK ran in the direction of the cry. Everyone followed after.
"Saved by the yell!" Declared Andoru glaring at Nazo as they ran. She glared back.
"Don't get mad at me for wanting to tell the truth Andoru!" She told him, he just stuck his tongue out at her. The group had finally ended up in a clearing where they saw Mimi, Joe, their digimon, and two children swapping words.
"What do you mean you're not from this time?!" Asked Joe.
"I mean that we're from the future." Responded Makoto.
"From the future?!" Asked Tai. Makoto, Kado, Mimi, Joe and the digimon turned to see Tai and the others who had just arrived. Makoto and Kado rejoiced but soon felt awful when they saw their friends, with the exception of Nazo, with angry expressions plastered on their faces. They gulped. Tai turned to look at the children he had met. Andoru looked up at him innocently.
"Is that where you come from, the future?" The boy glumly nodded and turned away to face his friends. Hiroshi and Dakedo faced the ground with stern expressions. Nazo on the other hand smiled with relief that half of the truth was out. Ogremon, Meramon, Frigimon, Gekomon and Otamamon were standing aside. They were becoming frightened by the digidestines' behavior.
"Oh no, those kids are talking to themselves too!" Cried Ogremon.
"I think we should get out of here while we still can." Said Meramon. The digimon slowly walked backwards into the digital forest, still facing the digidestined. Mimi saw them out of the corner of her eye.
"Where do you think you're going?" She asked them as she turned to face them; but right after questioning them they vanished into the forest. Mimi tried to run after them but they were gone.
"Wait! You're supposed to help us beat the Dark Ma... oh what's the use? They think we're crazy anyway." She pouted and returned back to the group. She fell to her knees and sighed.
"Okay, can someone please explain to us what's been going on?!" Tai shouted. Kado took a deep breath.
"Well as you all know now, we come from the future," He began.
"You see, Nazo's dad is really smart and created a time machine but we didn't know what it was so we started to play with it, then Andoru started messing with the controls and, well, that's why we're here." The digidestined stared awkwardly at Kado and the other children.
"You kids look a lot like us, are we your ancestors or something?" Inquired Joe.
"Yeah, you could say that." Answered Dakedo. Tai smiled victoriously.
"Hey if we're your ancestors then we must have been successful in beating the Dark Masters right?" Nazo smiled up at him.
"Yeah, thanks to all of you, in our time both the real and digital world are now peaceful places and everyone has a digimon!"
"Really?" The digidestined and digimon asked in unison. Nazo nodded.
"Wow! Do you think we can come and visit you when you get back to the future?" Asked Mimi. The children's smiles became frowns.
"That's if we get back, we don't have the time machine with us so we don't know how to get back to our own time." Dakedo said sadly.
"Well, we better find a way to get you back before the Dark Masters appear." Kado then remembered something.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you."
"What?" Asked Tai.
"You don't have to worry about protecting us from the Dark Masters, they can't even see us." Tai had an astonished look on his face.
"How do you know that?" Asked Izzy.
"Because we weren't able to be seen by Ogremon and the others." Izzy smiled in relief.
"Prodigious!" Nazo beamed when she heard his favorite word.
"Alright gang! We have nothing to fear now that we know the future will be free of any evil digimon trying to take over the world!" Tai cried. The group cheered except for Hiroshi. He had a look of worry on his face. TK and Kari noticed.
"What's wrong?" Asked Kari. Hiroshi looked down at her with a smile.
"It's nothing." The two kids weren't convinced.
"Then why aren't you happy?" TK asked. Hiroshi's worried expression came back.
"I'm just worried for my cousins."
"You have cousins?" Patamon asked.
"Yeah, I know they're in the digiworld somewhere, they landed a bit farther away from us." Hiroshi then turned around and started to walk away.
"Where are you going?" Asked Kari.
"I'm gonna go look for them." He answered as he walked away. TK, Kari, and Patamon glanced at each other and went after him.
"Wait! We'll come with you!" Hiroshi smiled at them and they headed out. The others were still celebrating and didn't notice that they had left until Gatomon spoke up.
"Hey where did Kari go?" Dakedo saw that she was nowhere in sight. Tai noticed this as well and panicked.
"Kari? Kari?!" He called but there was no answer. Makoto looked around and saw that a few others were missing as well.
"TK, Patamon, and Hiroshi aren't here either!" Everyone began to panic.
"Oh no what if the Dark Masters kidnapped them?!" Joe asked. Gomamon patted his back.
"Easy Joe, they couldn't have kidnapped TK, Kari, Patamon, and Hiroshi, they can't even see him."
"You're right, but what if they just planned on kidnapping Kari and TK and Hiroshi tried to fallow them?!"
"You worry too much Joe, Hiroshi would have told us if that happened." Everyone started to think up things that could have happened to them. Dakedo tried to calm everyone down but had no luck. He then took his whistle and blew hard into it. Everyone held their hands to their ears until the ringing in their heads ended.
"Uh, could someone answer that phone?" Tai asked sarcastically.
"You guys don't have to worry, if I know Hiroshi he probably went off to find his two cousins and TK, Kari and Patamon probably went with him."
"His cousins? There are more of you?" Asked Agumon. Dakedo nodded.
"How many more?" Mimi asked. Dakedo put up two fingers.
"Just two more, a seven year old girl and a five year old boy." Mimi sighed with relief and got up off her knees.
"Thank heaven, I don't want to have to walk around all day looking for a million other kids." She then felt someone grab her hand. She looked down to find Makoto with an encouraging smile on his face.
"You can do it Mimi, I believe in you!" She smiled at the small child.
"Thanks, it's nice to know there's someone out there in the world cheering me on, even if he's not born yet." She giggled.
"Well I guess we'll have to look for Kari and the others before we can find these two kids." Tai said.
"By the way, what are their names?" He asked.
"The boy's name is Ariyo and the girl's name is Yamara." Nazo answered. The digidestined glanced at each other awkwardly.
"Uh, does anybody know what 'Yamara' means?" Asked Joe. Andoru giggled.
"My dad made it up, he put her mom and dad's names together and came up with Yamara." He said.
"We just call her Mara for short!" Makoto piped.
"Well lets start heading out!" Tai said. He took out his digivice in order to find TK and Kari. He got their signal and they all started walking in their direction.