Chapter Sixteen: The world we protect

It was a beautiful day, the sun was shining and the wind was blowing. Botamon were playing with Chibomon, Leafmon were playing with Nyokomon and Elecmon was making dinner ready for his baby digimon. Suddenly the sky flashed and three dots flew out of it. They were digimon. "Cashmon, Semimon and Bidionmon" Elecmon said. When the three had landed Elecmon went on guard. "What are you doing in my village? Go away" he said. Semimon cocked his head. "Why?" he asked. "Leave my village. Now" Elecmon yelled. Bidionmon started to giggle and Semimon got caught. "Why are we laughing?" he managed to say. "He's getting red from yelling around" Bidionmon said and he and Semimon burst out laughing. Cashmon sighed, picked both the digimon by the scruffs of their necks and turned to go. "Cashmon" Elecmon said. Cashmon stopped. "Do you know where you're from?" Elecmon asked. "No" Cashmon said quietly. "All I know is that Ree helped me hatch." "You would have done fine without the human" Elecmon spat. Cashmon stayed quiet. "I will return, Elecmon. One day I will return. And then I wish to learn of my origin" he then said and left.

"Where am I?" a soft voice asked. "Certainly not where you just were" someone answered. "Whiskermon?" the first voice asked. "Yes?" the second voice said with a hiss. "Who are you? And how do you know who I am?" "I'm Terriermon, digimon partner to Lita Hashimoto. And I don't know but I. just did" Terriermon said. Whiskermon nodded and stepped up to Terriermon. "Why weren't you at the meeting?" another voice asked out of the darkness. "I was still sleeping and Lita doesn't trust me yet. She thought I would be mad at her if she woke me." "You mean she's scared of you?" Reimon asked. "Not really" Terriermon said. "Why?" "Mai treats me like a tool. She thinks I was born to fight. But I can't tell her different because I don't know why I was born either" Reimon said and bent her head. "Deo, too, sees me only as a fighting tool to mirror his ability to train a digimon." "And you? How do you see your Keepers?" Terriermon asked. "I. I don't know" Reimon said. "I want her to accept me as what I am. But that's a hard goal because even I don't know what I am." Reimon and Terriermon looked at Whiskermon who was clawing the ground. "I don't know. There is this one sentence I heard someone once say about him: I like him as a friend. I don't know what a friend is. Terrierm0n?" "A friend is someone who will help you no matter what happens to you, a friend will stick to you no matter what you look like or what you do. A real friend doesn't care what others say about you and doesn't say bad things about you behind your back. A real friend will always tell if he has a problem so you can help him. But many people don't act like real friends. They use the people who trust them, be it because they have a lot of money or a lot of selflessness." Whiskermon and Reimon nodded and looked up to the stars thinking about their partners.

"Who are you?" Kolamon asked. "Starrmon. And you?" the star-shaped digimon asked. "Kolamon" the little wolf said and stood up. "Where are we?" Kolamon asked. "We're in the digiworld. The place where our existence was prophesied" Starrmon answered and turned around. Something had moved in the bushes. "Who goes there?" Nothing happened. "It was the wind" Kolamon said. "Whenever someone says it was the wind, something bad happens" Starrmon said. "They don't smell the difference."

"Go away, you cat you" Seimon barked and jumped back, it's usually gentle dark blue eyes glinting with pure hatred. "Don't touch me, dog" Tuinimon said and took it's knife from it's waist. "Could someone maybe tell me what's going on here?" Serpenmon asked and slithered in between them. "None of you business, snake" Tuinimon hissed. "You guys have hung around in the real world much to long" Serpenmon said. "Oh, yeah and how long have you been in the digiworld?" Seimon asked and lost his tension. "Erm, same time as you? But guys you're digimon. Okay, cat and dog digimon but not cat and dog. Heh? What am I talking about?" Serpenmon asked himself. "Well, I'm hungry and I'm going to go get myself something to eat" Tuinimon said and marched off.

"You know what Cashmon?" Semimon said after a while. Cashmon stopped and looked and Semimon who he had been carrying. "You can let us down." Cashmon looked at Semimon a while and then dropped him and Bidionmon. "Man, you're as sour as a squashed lemon" Bidionmon said after getting up and rubbing his back. Semimon burst out laughing and got hit over the head by Cashmon. "Hey, watch it or. or I'll digivolve and kill you." Now it was Bidionmon's turn to start giggling. "I can digivolve. Didn't you see me digivolve to Talesmon just now?" Semimon asked. "I did, Semimon. But I would like to ask you two a question" Cashmon said starring at the stars. Bidionmon stopped giggling at the site of Cashmon. 'He's so. so. boring' Bidionmon thought and started giggling again but stopped when Semimon hit him. "What?" Bidionmon asked. "Do you know why we were born in the real world? Why Elecmon banned us out of Primary Village?" Cashmon asked. "Do you know the meaning of a digimon's life? Were we really born to kill?" "Born to kill? Who told you that?" Semimon asked. "Ree." Semimon gulped. The way Cashmon had answered made him nervous. Did Cashmon care about the human? "Well, tell her she has a bunch of stupid ideas floating in her head" Bidionmon ordered. Cashmon ignored Bidionmon and keep his eyes glued to the stars. "Um, Cashmon. Can I. can I ask you a question too?" Semimon asked. Cashmon nodded. "How. how do you see Ree?" "She is my Keeper and I accept that." Semimon waited a bit as he thought Cashmon wasn't finished. But he was. "I think Kerry, is a bit weird. He. he has a short temper and doesn't tell anyone about how he feels. But he. the only person he really cares about is his sister. He's never really met her and he talks a lot about her when he thinks he's alone. I usually try to cheer him up but. but he doesn't want to and then I get on his nerves and bother him. What about you?" he asked Bidionmon. "Hm? Trip is my bestest friend in the whole wide world." Semimon sighed and looked at the stars as Cashmon did. Kerry hated him and all Semimon actually wanted was someone who would say that to him. He looked at Bidionmon who had found a weird- shaped stone and was busy playing with it. Bidionmon had no problems and no fears. He was happy and didn't care if someone told him that he wasn't liked. Bidionmon would laugh the thought away and start playing with something. But Semimon, he had problems. The four digimon that had crossed their path were the four sovereigns. He knew that but somewhere deep inside he knew that something was wrong with that thought. Semimon was a god. He was a god and he was meant to rule over the eastern part of the digital world. He was the digimon god.

Heartbreaking, isn't it? The poor digimon know nothing about their future or their past. Poor digimon. Erm, Jazzy, I think that last part got a bit out of hand, hey. Mimi's Pet Chameleon (from now on know as MPC) was the part about Bidionmon okay? Actually everyone was this okay? I am prepared to rewrite this chapter because I forgot to ask for digimon personalities. So I'll ask know: Could all the authors helping with this story, send me Digimon Personalities (with other, alone and change) I put Cashmon's below. And If you're unhappy with this chapter MAIL me what I should change.

Digimon Personality: Cashmon is quiet and thinks about stuff a lot. But what he thinks about most is his origin. His biggest wish is to know where he's from and what the meaning of his life is. When with other digimon he asks them these questions and so usually confuses them. When with humans he stays quiet and does what Ree tells him to. He knows Ree is his Keeper and he accepts that. He doesn't fight against it or fight for it, he just lets it come to him. Throughout the story he finds out about his origin and the meaning of his life. He grows more open but stills stays quiet. His best friends in the end are Bidionmon and Semimon though he only learns from them and doesn't laugh with them and so on and so on.

Okay, my dear Keepers, I forgot something: I have and origin and a meaning of life for all the digimon in the story so don't add that. And Jazzy don't worry, I've got your story under hand, of something like that.