Shishi-Kokoro: Well here I am again!! ^-^

Mimi: Yep with me too!!!! *\(^-^)/*

Shishi-Kokoro: Yeah, yeah you're here too..

Mimi: Well I'm important.. aren't I?.. *water works start*

Shishi-Kokoro: Of course you are..

Mimi: Shishi-Kokoro doesn't own Digimon or it's Characters.. does that mean you don't like us?

Shishi-Kokoro: Of course not!! You're just so expensive. *looks at price for the rights of Digimon*

Mimi: Oh well, lets start the chapter. Oh and thanx to all you Readers that reviewed!!!!!!!

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The Summoner

Chapter 5 - The gates to Spiritos

"So shall we go?" Yamato asked and they all nodded.

It only took them five minutes to get to the exit of the village and Kira was waiting there allready.

"I thought you lot would never come." She said with a smile as she joined the group of teens.

"So how long is it going to take to get to Spiritos?" Taichi asked streching his arms out over his head.

"Two or three days at least. That's why Mr. Ishida told us to pack a lot of food."

"Two or three days? But that's such a long way... Why do we have to go by foot?" Taichi asked Yamato.

"Well, it's tradition I guess. Every summoner does it."

"Great these are going to be three very long days." Taichi said with a sigh as he took a last look at his little village Bianco. He was going to have to get used to not being at home anymore.

"Hey what are we going to do after we've been to Spiritos?"

Mimi let out a sigh.

"Are you going to ask questions like this all the time we're traveling?"

"Probably." Taichi smiled at her and then looked to Yamato. "If you told me everything now I wont have to ask later, will I?"

"No, I guess not." Mimi sighed in defeat.

"So, what's gonna happen first?"

"Well, first we go to Spiritos and unlock my powers." Yamato explained.

"How do they do that?" Taichi asked looking highly interested.

"You know, I have no idea." Yamato said and started to think.

"Oh well, what do we do then?"

"We start collecting the fourteen Summoning-rings, which will be melted into one."

"Rings?" Taichi asked looking at his hands. "You summon with rings?"

"Well what did you think? That I should summon them out of thin air?" Yamato said laughing.

"Allright, you don't need to rub it in. Which ring are we getting first?"

"Well, the first ring is in Spiritos itself." Kira said finally joining in on the coversation. She had been on the look out all the time the others were talking.

"Which ring is it?"

"The Ice-ring." She answered still looking out for anything suspicious.

"Will you stop that!" Taichi shouted at her and she just looked at him blanckly.

"What?" she asked.

"Looking around all the time! You're driving me crazy."

"Look, Mr. Ishida told us always to be on our guard. And that's what I'm gonna do."

"Oh, no he didn't tell you that did he?" Yamato asked looking a bit embarrassed.

"Yeah, and a few other golden rules." Taichi said in a low voice trying to imitate the High Summoner.

"Oh great. Could you please forget those stupid rules. My father doesn't seem to think that I can handle anything and that's just not true." As he said that the bushes next to them started to make strange noises.

Taichi pulled out his sword and slowly went up to the bush. He watched it for a few seconds and then swung his sword at it.

"Hey!" The bush fell aside and revealed three teenaged boys sat behind it.

"Be careful where you swing that thing will ya!" The one in the middle said. They stepped out of the trees and went onto the path. Taichi was still holding his sword up, ready to make another swing if they tried to go too near to Yamato.

"Oh look, it's Yamato." The boy said with a smirk.

"Hello Rioko." Yamato said in a voice full of hate.

"So I see you've finally got yourself some guardians." The boy said looking at the other three. "I have to say they don't look very professional."

"And how would you know? It doesn't just take muscel to be a good guardian!" Taichi spat back at Rioko before Yamato could even answer.

"Oh, I wouldn't want to offend Mike and Brad if I were you." Rioko said with a venomous voice as his two friends got their weapons out.

"Oh wouldn't I?"

"Leave it Taichi." Yamato told him. "They're not worth the effort. Come on let's go." He said and turned around.

"See you in Spiritos Yamato. I guess that's were you're heading since you havn't even got a ring yet." Rioko said before they disappeared into the trees again.

"So how do you know him?" Mimi asked Yamato once they had caught up with him.

"He's my neighbour. We used to be friends until my family got more popular than his."

"What made your family more popular?"

"My dad of course. Once my dad had collected his eighth ring he was named High summoner and Riokos father never made it that far."

"So, your father doesn't have all fourteen rings?" Taichi asked him.

"No. He probably wont get anymore anyway."

"Why?"

"Because he's getting too old Taichi. That's why he wants me to go on this journey, so I can someday bring all fourteen rings to Nikata."

They walked on for a few miles and nothing special had happened since they met Rioko. Yamato didn't talk much afterwards and Kira had finally given up on looking out all of the time, which of course made Taichi feel a lot more calmer. They had set up camp as it got dark and Kira had made a big campfire with one of her spells.

"So you're a mage are you?" Taichi asked, interested in what sort of magic Kira could use.

"Yep. Black mage to be precise." She smiled and continued to brush her long blond hair. Taichi hadn't noticed how bright the blond of her hair was since she had had it in a bun all day long.

"What about you though? I just can't seem to guess what you are." She said examining him closely. "Black mages have a darker iris colour than other people and white mages have lighter ones. But you seem to have normal eyes and still you can use magic."

"I'm half mage. My mothers side of the family were all mages." He answered and Kira nodded understandingly. Then Mimi came out of the tent they had built up and sat down next to Taichi. He looked into her eyes, it was true. Her eye colour was brighter than anybody elses. Mimi noticed Taichi looking at her and gave him a questioning look.

"What are you looking at?" she asked him.

"Oh, nothing." He said quickly looking away.

"Right. So who's going to take the first watch?" she asked a smile coming back to her face.

"I think I will." Kira told them. "You lot get some sleep."

Mimi nodded and entered the tent again. Taichi stayed by the fire but soon fell asleep next to it, not being to hold his eyes open for any amount of time.

The next morning Yamato pocked Taichis sleeping form hoping that he would wake up. Then all of a sudden Taichi jumped up.

"Oh no I mist my shift!!" he shouted panicking.

"Don't worry Taichi. Mimi didn't want to wake you so she did your shift." Yamato expained, trying to calm Taichi down.

"But I wanted to do my shift."

"Well, you shouldn't have slept so long then. We've already pulled the tent down and were just waiting for you."

"Well you could of woken me earlier." Taichi said with a scowl.

"Don't worry about. Just take your things and we'll start going."

Taichi picked up his bag and joined the others. They started to journey west of the path they had been on the day before which meant they had to go through a big field which had grass that went up to their hips.

"We're not going through that are we?" Taichi asked them not trusting what might be under the high grass.

"It's the fastest way to Spiritos. If we take this way we could get there this afternoon." Mimi said.

"I thought you said it took two to three days." Taichi said giving her a questioning look.

"It does but because Yamato walked at such a speed after we met Rioko we're going to get there early."

"Oh." Taichi said looking over the tall grass. Mimi shook her head and walked into the grass.

"You don't need to worry, it's dry." She said as she walked further into it. Yamato and Kira followed her and Taichi reluctantly followed them too.

They were allready half way through the field as Kira suddenly let out a squeal.

"What the hell his wrong with you?" Mimi asked her.

"I felt something bruch against my legs." She said in a panic stricken voice.

"It was probably the gras." Yamato said grinning at her.

"That's not funny Yamato! I know when something hits my leg and it wasn't the gras." She said scowling at him.

"This is why I didn't want to go through here." Taichi said in a sort of I- told-you-so voice.

"Look we got this far and we're not turning back." Mimi told Taichi in a strict voice.

"Okay, okay." They went on but soon stopped as Yamato saw the grass parting a mile away from them.

"See I told you there was something in this field." Taichi said grabbing his sword as the parting grass started to get closer. The grass kept on parting as if there was something running through it and it was heading straight for them.

"Don't you think we should run." Kira asked hoping they would agree with her.

"No, running away is the worst thing you can do." Mimi said.

The grass stopped parting a few meters infront of them and out of the grass a big snake rose up and hissed at them. Taichi looked at it shocked and Kira let out another squeal.

"See, told you!" she squealed.

It slithered around them and started to fence it's teeth at Kira. Probably because she was the only one showing how scared she was. But all of a sudden arrows which were on fire flew at it stabing it here and there. Yamato and Taichi looked in the direction in which they were coming and saw Mimi holding a huge jeweled bow, shooting arrow after arrow. She stopped for a short while and looked at them expectingly.

"Well, get her out of there!" she shouted and they both nodded and ran to get Kira out of the way of the snake. Mimi started shooting her arrows again and they started to run in direction of the exit. As they got out of the field the saw Mimi still shooting it and then the snake collapsed. She ran out to the others and put her bow on her back.

"Well, that takes care of that." She said with a triumphant smile.

"I never knew you had a bow like that." Taichi said looking at it suspiciously.

"You don't know a lot of things."

"So, how long is it to Spiritos now?" he asked walking over to the forest that started a few meters away from the field. He looked around and suddenly bumped into something.

"You are stood infront of the great gates to Spiritos!" a low voice came from nowhere.

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Mimi: Wohoo!! We're finally there!!!

Shishi-Kokoro: Yeah. finally. took me a while to come up with something for this chapter so I hope it turned out ok..

Mimi: Don't worry. I'm sure they'll like it. *has high hopes*

Shishi-Kokoro: Maybe.. I still have big plans for this story so that should make the readers happy anyway ^-^

Mimi: Yup!! ^-^ Please Read&Review!!!!!!!!!