Shadow-Assassin: *Sits on a rock near the sea trying to figure out how to get Venom Tanyamon to come back*

Venom Tanyamon & The Other Virus Digimon: We want our pay! We Want it now! If we don't get it We QUIT!

Shadow-Assassin: I don't have the money to pay you guys. Come on, you love fighting, so why won't you do this?

Chaos Leighamon: Because the only thing better then fighting is money! Because money is POWER!!! *Shakes her fist*

Shadow-Assassin: I'll find the money ok? As soon as I find me a job.

Virus Digimon: YAY!!!!

Shadow-Assassin: Ohhh! *Puts her head in her hands as a jet shoots through the air leaving a smoke trail that says, "Once again… I DO NOT OWN DIGIMON."*

Virus Digimon: *Leave now that they're getting what they want*

Chapter 5: Remembering

Ianumon

I blinked and slowly opened my eyes. The pain surged through me from every part of my bruised and broken body. I took some time but I eventually sat up on the blood drenched grass of the field I had always called home.

I felt like I'd abandoned my best friend, even though it was her who's abandoned me. I sat there shaking for a while and eventually managed to crawl to the river to soak my wounds. I drank my fill and lied down on the river edge with my head in my paws.

I couldn't believe she'd let them hurt me. How could she just abandoned me like that? Why would she leave? This was her home... our home.

I could still hear her voice in the air where she had lived for so long. We'd been happy together and we'd promised each other we'd always be together. She was my first friend, only friend, and best friend. I couldn't imagine life without her. How would I survive without her by my side?

I remembered the first day we had met. My digiegg had hatched before hers and I had been watching her egg with my beady little baby digimon eyes. Eventually I saw a crack in the thin shell. The crack got bigger and bigger and I jumped back as it suddenly shattered into tiny pieces.

Two little beady eyes looked out of the shattered remains of the shell looking right into mine and a little voice said to me, "Hello, I'm Black Jinnimon, who are you?"

I smiled at the little creature and introduced myself as Inoumon. This little digimon was a dark, reddish, purple with greenish, blue spots and had an earring in each ear. She seemed nice enough though her features made her a bit scary. I could tell she was a virus type digimon but that didn't matter to me back then. Not that it does now.

I was a small bright, blue digimon with light blue spots. All we really where, where small puppy looking heads. We smiled at each other and jumped around happily.

We became fast friends over the next little while. We never wandered to far from the field for fear of being attacked by an evil or angry digimon. We stayed close to each other and slept curled together to keep warm during the colds nights.

I remembered the day when we decided to try to swim in our baby forms. What a bad idea that was. We jumped in bobbed back up to the surface and flipped with our heads underwater. Or rather our mouths. It took us a while to get back to shore but with a little teamwork we did it. We shook ourselves off and laughed like fools till we finally laughed ourselves to sleep.

I think it was a few week later that we'd digivolved. We had been attacked by a Crawmon, a rookie Crocodile digimon, who wanted our home. He fought with his Craw Snap attack, while we fought back with Bubble and Black Bubble. To no avail, however. We where growing tired and eventually the only thing left to us was to digivolve. So that's what we did. We digivolved and fought back with stronger Bubble and Black Bubble attacks, defeating our enemy. Crawmon left quickly and never ever came back. He knew better then to mess with us.

We where now Demi Ianumon and DemiBlack Jennimon. Jenni had been so happy to digivolve. She felt stronger like she could take on the world. We spent our time collecting food, eating the food, sleeping, talking to each other and laughing the day away. we didn't have a care in the world. We could take care of ourselves and we needed no ones help.

We liked to tell stories to each other before we fell asleep at night. My favorite was the one about the noble dragon. The noble dragon lived on the other side of the digital world and protected those who were to weak to protect themselves. One day he'd come across a little creature who was being hunted. He tried to save the creature from the evil hunters. The hunters had attacked him with bows and arrows and swords and shields. He failed and died in the process. He disappeared into pixels, but that is not the end. His great and powerful spirit entered that innocent little creature changing it. It became wise and cunning and powerful. It had the ability to change into a stronger more powerful creature still. It drove the hunters away with it's great abilities and the hunter never again hunted the little creature, for they knew that if they hunted them it would be them who wound end up being the hunted. That creature was the first digimon ever, DemiBlack Jennimon had told me. I wasn't sure where she'd gotten the story from but I liked it. It was a wonderful story and I would never forget it. I wondered some nights if the story could have been real. That the great noble dragon had indeed created the digimon race.

I remember the day where DemiBlack Jennimon decided she would become a flying digimon when she digivolved. She wanted to get a head start so she climbed up the tallest tree in our field and flapped her front paws while she jumped out of the tree. I jumped after her and she landed on me with a thud. Thankfully neither of us was hurt and we spent the rest of that day laughing and pretending we where birds... this time on the ground.

I also remembered the day I'd digivolved. We had, had a very large dinner that day due to finding a large apple tree just outside our field. I was sleeping and had gotten a very odd feeling in the pit of my stomach. I opened my eyes and nudged DemiBlack Jennimon to wake up. She looked over at me as I slowly stood up. Suddenly I was engulfed in a bright shining light. I closed my eyes to shield them from the light and then I felt my body changing. I quickly opened my eyes and shouted out,

"Demi Ianumon digivolve tooooooooooo!"

DemiBlack Jennimon was astonished and gaped in amazement as I finished the transformation.

"Ianumon!" I said in a deeper sounding voice.

I smiled and looked over at her. She looked me up and down.

"Wow, you look... great." She said with a little less that her usual enthusiasm.

I shrugged it off and we lied on the river edge for a while. She slapped at the water half heartedly and I didn't understand why. I decided to liven thing up by slashing her, but all I got was an angry face. She turned and walked away leaving me by the river. It was the next day that she'd met up with Flame Leighomon. I wondered to myself if things could have been different if I'd took her with me that day. Too many If and Buts in my life.

Some bad memories but so many more good memories filled my mind. I missed her so and wished to the heavens to bring her back to me.

I lied there drinking the cool water and resting all day. I cried myself to sleep that night as I lie helpless on the river bank.

I awoke in the morning feeling quite better and I got up slowly and dug up what was left of my food stash. I ate hungrily and spent the day recuperating. My wounds where healing up nicely and I imagined that I would be back to my normal self within the next few days.

The night I stayed up late watching the stars and wishing to the gods. The bright shining stars always made me happy. I smiled as I watched them and walks around for a bit to try to get my soar muscles to work again. I stood by the tree for a while remembering how much fun we had climbing it.

That's when I saw her. Her reddish fur blowing in the light wind, her blue spots as dark as the night itself, her blue hair flowing like a veil. I couldn't believe it was her. She come back to me.

"JENNIMON!" I shouted out smiling and running up to her.

She looked at me sadly and I stopped. A frown crossing my face. Something wasn't right.

"What's wrong Jennimon?" I asked in concern.

"I'm sorry... I'm so sorry." Was all she said.

"Sorry for what?" I asked.

"I'm so very sorry..." She repeated.

Then I noticed her vision begin to blur. She was disappearing before my eyes and there was nothing I could do. She disappeared just a little more every second and soon I could see the faint outline of the tree right through her. I gaped in horror. What was going on? Was she dying?

"Je... Jen... Jennimon NO!" I yelled.

She kept repeating the same thing over and over as her image slowly faded away before my very eyes.

"Please don't leave me again. I don't want to be alone. I love you too much... Please NO! JENNIMON!" I yelled as she finally faded out of existence and out of my life for good.

It must have been an illusion I said to myself. she couldn't be gone. It was just my mind playing tricks on me. A trick my eye where playing. A simple dream.

I sat there shaking and whimpering until sleep finally caught up with me, and I drifted into dreamland.