Chapter 5

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"Ok Niku. Ready?" Takeru asks.

"Uh, yeah."

"I'm ready Nemoriku!" Tsumon yells to her partner.

"Tsumon! DigiVolve now!" Nemoriku shouts, raising her DigiVice into the air. The DigiVice activates and shines a beam of silver light straight at Tsumon.

"Tsumon DigiVolve tooo..!" Tsumon yells, changing form. "Carisomon!"

"Good work guys. Now it's time to get started with the actual training. Remember, anything in this area of the park that moves can be used as a target. Some of the other Destend in the area will walk out, and you go attack, Carisomon. The person's partner will demonstrate different abilities such as speed, power, agility, and control. Ok?" Takeru explains.

"Ok." Carisomon says, nodding.

"Niku?" Takeru asks, getting his sister's attention. "What I want you to do is guide your partner. Remember, you hold a part of the power, and you should try mimiking what you see other Destend doing out on the field. Try developing your own technique, but yet still be a partner and a friend to Carisomon at the same time. Understand?"

"Yeah." Nemoriku says, hoping that she'll get the hang of it.

"Ready you two?"

"Yeah." They answer.

"Ok, let's start this, then." Takeru says, signaling the first duo to start. Right on cue, Yolei starts walking across the open area.

"Carisomon, there! To your right!" Niko shouts.

"Yeah!" her partner responds, flying quickly toward the Destend. In one swift movement, Hawkmon blocks her attack and punches Carisomon in the face. Before she knows it, she's on the ground.

"Behind you!" Niku shouts. "Flying a little off the ground!"

"Hawkmon! Dodge and attack!" Yolei yells in defense. Carisomon lands flat on her back once again.

"Hawkmon's demonstrating speed!" Niku says to her partner. "Use your attack that you used on Unimon!"

"Ok then!" Carisomon replies. She stays low to the ground and figures out the pattern in which Hawkmon is flying.

"Thunderbolt!" she yells, guiding her attack to where Hawkmon will be by the time it reaches the height. Hawkmon is hit, and she falls to the ground.

"Watch out!" Niku yells, noticing the Agumon that's creeping up behind Carisomon. "On the ground!"

"Pepper Breath!" Agumon shouts, spitting a fireball out at Carisomon.

"Light energy!" Carisomon yells, blasting a medium sized energy ball at Agumon. Agumon stays true to his orders, and remains slow to react, as he was told he'd be demonstrating power. He takes the blow and then sends out another vicious attack.

"Pepper. Breath!" Agumon shouts, making his attack much stronger than before.

"Light energy!" Carisomon yells, moving quickly over to the left and releasing many small energy balls from her paws, 'defeating' Agumon.

"Over there, to the left!" Niku informs Carisomon. "Another Destend! Quick, attack!"

"On my way!" Carisomon says, flying quickly toward Davis (who, by the way, is eating a cheese dog, and paying no attention to what is going on. DemiVeemon runs after him, also paying no attention to the Carisomon flying straight at them.

"Hey Davis! Can I have a piece?" DemiVeemon asks his partner.

"Sure!" Davis says, pulling a piece off the end.

"Davis!" Takeru yells. "Watch out!"

"Huh?"

Wham! Carisomon runs straight into a bewildered Davis.

"Ow! My arm! My arm!" Davis cries out. Carisomon looks at the Destend on the ground yelling out in pain, confused about why the DemiVeemon never attacked.

"Davis! Are you ok?" Takeru asks, running toward the dazed Destend.

"My cheese dog! Oh no! I dropped my cheese dog!" Davis yells, now depressing over his hot dog of which is on the ground face down in the dirt.

"What was that for?!" he yells at Carisomon. "You owe me a cheese dog!"

DemiVeemon is rolling on the ground laughing at all of this. (Think about it, it is funny to see Davis sprawled on the ground crying about his poor hot dog.)

"Davis! I warned you earlier not to come to this park because of training for Nemoriku and Carisomon! Yet, you end up here, anyways." Takeru says in disgust, lowering his head.

"I was thinking about eating! I couldn't help it! I'm hungry, and I wanted food, and there's a great new hot dog vendor a couple blocks away from here!"

"You ended up two blocks away from the place you bought the hot dog at, and you just now started to eat it?"

"Uhh.umm..yeah." Davis responds. "So?"

"Just making sure." Takeru says, walking away. "Get off the field now, Dai. Time to finish for the day!"

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Off somewhere in Japan, later that day.

"I'm tired of this! First mom dies and now you act like I'm some stupid dog?! I'm outta here!" yells a boy. He's 16, has blue eyes and brown hair, is 5'9 and goes by the name

"Reko! Get back here! You have nowhere to go, no one to take care of you, nothing!"

"I expect to change that very soon!" he says to his father, walking down the apartment hallway, and then outside. He takes the backroads. No one ever goes back there at night. He'll be ok for now, he took the yen with that he was paid from his last job. It'll get him through a few nights. Of course, he'll need a place to go and sleep. He doesn't exactly have enough for a hotel or anything.

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"Well, I figured who better to stay with then the person who saved my life."

"Sorry Reko. I'm not living here anymore, I just came to pick up the rest of my stuff." Hikari says, looking at the necklace that lay in her hand.

"I thought they actually cared every once in a while. They gave me stuff like stupid necklaces when they wanted to say sorry." She throws the necklace at the wall. "Sorry Reko, but I'm staying at Takeru's. His house is filled up right now. He's living with his dad and brother, and their newfound little sister."

"Yeah, I heard. But I didn't know that your family."

"Don't worry about it."

"I do have some money. All I need is a place to sleep."

"Could you get a job or anything?"

"Course. That's the second thing I was planning on doing."

"Well, come on, let's see what we can do."

"Thanks, Hikari. This means so much."

"I know how you feel. That's why I'm doing this for you." She turns to Gatomon. "Hey, could you DigiVolve and give me a hand?"

"Sure!" Gatomon says. She DigiVolves to AngeWomon.

"Here, take this box. Don't drop it, it's got my collection of glass wolves, k?"

"Sure."

"Is that box heavy or something?" Reko asks.

"No. I just don't trust myself with it."

"Ya know, I wish I could have a Digimon partner. That would be so cool. I've always wanted to go to the Digital World."

"Keep dreaming." Kari says with a smile. "You never know, maybe someday it'll come true."

"Yeah," Reko says, walking out of the apartment after Hikari, and closing the door. "I guess you're right."

"Course I'm right." Kari says, walking down the hall after AngeWomon. "I know this stuff from experience."

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