Don't own it and I don't have any cash to give ya if ya sue me so don't bother. Oh and if ya want the snake or Mr. Lock go ahead I don't care so long as ya give me at lest a nod.

Chapter 4

As the others took some time to think about what they had been told, The first group started sharing tails of there old adventures with each other. Travis was treated with almost reverent respect for all of 5 minuets before they all started howling like wolves after remembering that he had shown up in a dress the first time they had seen him in the digital world.

The red faced boy tried to glare them down but they were to busy laughing to give him any heed. "This is why I always keep spare clothes in this world from now on, I still can't believe it will change the 3rd groups' clothes but it kept me in a dress I had been forced to wear because of a dumb bet. Thank God we went home about three days after we got here the first time or I wouldn't have been very good company."

"You mean you were good company?" Ken asked.

"I was on my best behavior, which is why its such a good thing you took that seed for me, it had to happen to one of us and sadly you where the best one it could have happened to, the rest of us would have been hundreds of times worse then you." And with a sad little smile he continued, "and some of our digimon might have even encouraged us as opposed to just letting us walk all over them." They continued to talk from there, in a much more subdued manor.

Yoli hadn't meant to eavesdrop, she really hadn't but all the cute guys but TK were all over here and she just couldn't help herself. She walked away thinking about what she had heard.

Serpentmon watched the lavender haired girl walk away from the small circle the first group had made and smiled to himself. His partner had gotten the conversation to were it needed to be at just the right time, she and Ken had a destiny together and it seems that Travis wanted to help fate along just a bit. He felt confident in Travis' skills in this until he took a look around and saw something going wrong he was about to bring it to his partners attention when he herd the groan that told him that his partner did indeed know.

Travis looked around in dismay, having found out that Ken and Yoli weren't an item had come as a bit of a shock so he had steered the conversation to put Ken in the best possible light about the worst thing he had ever done right when the lady in question had been unconsciously eavesdropping.

He had felt pretty good about it too, he might not be the best mach maker in the world but he could handle two people who liked each other but just couldn't figure it out, well he thought he could, that was until he turned around after his group's little reunion.

He looked around and the first thing he laid eyes on was Sora hanging off Mat. His eyes had bugged out a little, he knew they had to have, his felt his stomach started to feel a bit queasy, and his brain was going a mile a minuet trying to figure out how to stop THAT abomination. Looking anywhere but at them he saw Mimi hanging off Michael while Joe looked at her with longing, he couldn't believe it, three of the four couples that HAD to happen weren't.

Dreading what he was going to see with the last destined couple he looked towards the angles and almost sighed in relief until he looked close at there body language and saw two very close friends but nothing more and he almost shook his fist at the heavens and cursed every god that might have ever existed as to why they decided to do this of all things to him, before deflating and trying to work out some plan to get the right people together the right way. Glancing down at his partner he sighed "you might have to help we by working on their digimon ya know."

"Huh?" then taking a quick look around the snake digimon saw just what was happening, after prying his eyes off Mat and Sora and caught on, "oh. Makes sense, their digimon and they are linked, we can get them together the humans are likely to fallow suet. They are trying to make this hard on us aren't they?" his partners' only response was to look at the crest hanging from his neck, black and dull

"It's never is easy for us is it?" his voice barely a whisper, almost cracking do to repressed emotions. Sighing again he walked towards the center of the field, his little band finally took note of what was dangling from his neck, their talking stopping immediately, Mimi was caught off guard as Michael who was so proper suddenly stopped talking to her in mid sentence and stared at his leader, ironic really as he was the leader of the NY "chosen". The first wave were not the only ones to see the dull crest around Travis' neck, Tai took note as did TK.

The crest seemed dead almost lifeless and if that was the case then this new kid wouldn't be of much help in a fight. Travis started off with groups and search patters for anything unusual in the digital world, being summer most of the kids had the time off, he knew he would get some arguments on who was to go with whom though, and he wasn't disappointed.

"No way! I'm with Kari!" came the first of the arguments from the third goggle-head, Davis, "I'm the leader of the destined now and I say I'm with Kari!" Travis was a little taken aback by this, oh he new it was coming but he hadn't even thought for a moment that Davis would try to take control, the idea of him leading Tai and the others almost made him bust a gut right then and there.

"First of all you're not in command here, I am or Tai is. You are not, unless of course, you wish to challenge me?" the threat was not an idle one, Travis had lived most of his vast lifetime in the digital world where the laws of the pack and the jungle were king, the strong survived and the strongest lead, only TK, Mat or Tai could rival him in power, Kari would never want to openly lead and so would never challenge for the Alpha spot but Davis could only go Champion level without Ken. It wouldn't even be a fight. Davis was a little surprised at the challenge but decided what the heck he excelled at winning hopeless battles.

"Sure, when and were?"

"Right over there." Travis responded pointing to a large savanna about 20 yards away. "Our digimon should have adequate room to duel there. Ken I expect you not to interfere, this is our fight unless you wish to take me on as well?" Ken merely shook his head and gave a soft "no" Davis's enthusiasm fell just a bit, he didn't know how strong this kid's digimon was and without Ken all he could do was Champion level, but he reluctantly walked towards the dueling grounds.