In the last chapter…

Mimi and Matt decide to meet in the DigiWorld, and just after they met they hear a familiar voice speak behind them… stay tuned (woah, that sounds like an advertisement) to find out who it is!

Narrator's POV (contd.)

Mimi and Matt, extremely startled, stopped what they were doing and swung their heads around to see Gabumon and Palmon.

"Hi there you two," Matt greeted them. "Boy, has it been a while since we saw both of you."

"What are you two doing here?" asked Palmon.

"Oh… well…" Mimi felt her face become very hot.

"Okay, okay, I think we know," Gabumon laughed. "You shouldn't be here though. We came over here to investigate something. Lately, we have been hearing odd noises in this area during night-times, and it's getting dark."

"Odd noises? Like what?" asked Mimi in a frightened tone, subconsciously cuddling up to Matt's arm.

"Like… rough rustling in the bushes on a windless night, for instance. Or very familiar, but unrecognizable voices, talking away, but nobody could work out what is being said," Palmon replied.

"Uh-oh, sunset," Mimi looked up to the grey sky. "We should set up camp."

"Good idea," Gabumon agreed. "Now we'll get to find out whose voices they are."

"Yes, of course," Mimi laughed hesitantly.

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The night was warm and calm but Mimi could still not sleep. She did lay in the comfort of Matt's arms who was already asleep (A/N: nothing more than an embrace hinted there ^_^) but she still feared whatever was out there that Palmon and Gabumon had told her about.

Suddenly, she heard a faint rustle in the bushes. The rustling seemed to get louder, stronger, then it sounded almost as if there were a pack of lions fighting over a clump of meat. Then came the voices, low and audible. Mimi seemed to hear two voices speaking in the bushes, the voices seemingly so familiar but unrecognizable.

'Devimon? No… Miotismon? No…' Mimi thought as she tried to identify the voices, and what the voices were speaking. To her it sounded like uttering nonsense but she could understand why. Not only did the voices sound soft, but also distant and low.

"Matt? Wake up," Mimi urged, shaking his arm. All she received from him was a moan and a grumble, and he was as silent as the sea once more.

Knowing how slim the chances were of awakening her deep-sleeping prince, she gently shook herself free from his arms and decided to take a chance on Palmon.

"Wake up, Palmon," she whispered, lifting her gently from the warmth of Gabumon's furry body and the sheet that blanketed them. "Palmon…!"

"Uh?" Palmon groaned, only half awake.

"I heard rustling and voices in the bushes," Mimi urged. "Go check on it Palmon!"

"Only if you come with me," Palmon muttered sleepily, dragging Mimi along with her.

Gabumon's POV

All I remembered was Palmon drifting off to sleep beside me, and I was woken up by Matt's loud… but not-so-manly… scream.

"Aah! Oh no!" he yelled so loudly that all the birds in the surrounding trees scattered and flew in different directions, awakening me with a scream as well.

"Gabumon, Mimi is gone!" he panicked. "Looks to me like she went off somewhere with Palmon!"

"They can't be far," I reassured. "Let's go look for them. Those noises Palmon and I heard… They must have heard it and gone to investigate it last night without us."

"Anything could've happened, and that includes bad things," he complained with an 'it's your fault, you should have seen where they went' expression on his face. "Hurry up and let's go find them!"

We ran on for miles of our campsite, looking in vain for Matt's princess and her Digimon partner. But suddenly as we walked we became completely frozen in our spot, unable to stir any of our limbs- for no apparent reason whatsoever.

"Gabumon, I can't move!" Matt shouted.

"Neither can I!" I replied.

Suddenly our limbs moved, though we did not control it. Something was moving our bodies, determining whether our arms writhed or our legs kicked. As our body parts continued to move by itself, a funny wooden puppet-like creature walked into our midst.

"Hi," he said with his shrill annoying voice. "Remember me?"

"Puppetmon!" I yelled in surprise as both Matt and I broke free from the threads that allowed him to control us like puppets. "Now I recognize it! You were one of the voices we hear in the bushes at night!"

"Smart little Mon," sneered Puppetmon. "Perhaps it's not the best hideout, but for one thing, shelter is shelter. And what good is shelter if you cannot relax and discuss how to destroy you DigiDestined pests!"

"But… who were you talking to? Who was the other voice?"

At those words, as though it were a cue, out came an ugly clown-looking beast. Matt and I struggled to restrain our anger as we saw the small Digimon and the teenage girl, tied up and struggling to breathe, being carried in his arms.

"Piedmon!" we shouted in unison.

Note:

Okay, so I didn't really do an ending too dramatic, but I stopped it here because there will be a mid-dramatic opening sentence in the next chapter… and of course, please review! =)

Luv, Fëaruin