Fordina: Another chap!

Soccer Chicka: All done by me of course! ^_^

Fordina: Yeah… yeah… what ever you say there Chicka….

Soccer Chicka: Well it's true!!

Tai: Damn straight!

Ken: Oh god….

Fordina: I'm surprised you're not used to it by now…. It took me a few chapters…. But I think I've learned to ignore it.

Soccer Chicka: You cannot ignore us!!

Tai: We will not allow it!!

Fordina: Did you say something?

Soccer Chicka: No! You will not ignore me!! I will NOT be IGNORED!!!

Tai: Um… maybe you should calm down…

Soccer Chicka: No! I will NOT BE IGNORED!!!!! LOOK AT ME!!! DO IT!! DO IT NOW!!!

Fordina: Well…. You will see were we get the inspiration for one of the characters from….

Soccer Chicka: What did you say?!

Fordina: Nothing…. Nothing at all….

Ken: *Sigh* I think I should just do the disclaimers….

Tai: No! I wanna do them!! Let me!! Let me!!!

Ken: *Sigh* Fine….

Tai: *Grins* Soccer Chicka and Fordina do NOT own Digimon or CardCaptors…. But they do own James, Jen, Traci, and Karen….

Fordina: So enjoy the fic!!

Desperate Days

By: Fordina and Soccer_Chicka

Chapter 5

"So these are Canadian sidewalks...and those are Canadian buildings…and those are Canadian cars…" Davis said pointing at the various things that were pretty much the same as in Japan.

Yolei sighed. "Yes Davis… are you going to point out every little thing?"

Davis looked at her annoyed. "Of course I am! And those Canadian trees, and Canadian flowers…and Canadian soccer chicks…. Damn!" Davis said as he walked into another pole.

Tai looked across the street where Davis pointed. "Damn is right…"

Matt looked at Tai and shook his head. He knew exactly what Tai was doing. Sora was looking at Tai worriedly…he was back in the game already?!

Tai looked at the group. "Look guys, I'm gonna go over there a get me a soccer chick!"

Davis scrambled back onto his feet. "Me too!" He started to walk beside Tai. Tai put his hand on Davis head and prevented Davis from moving any farther.

"No, no Davis! My turn!" Tai strutted over to the girls. "Hey girls! How are you doing today?"

The girls looked at him and smiled. "Not bad…" One of them stated.

Jen looked over at her friend and whispered. "He's not bad him self…."

"And you?" Another girl asked.

Tai grinned his famous grin. "Ahh just fine now that I've had the pleasure of meeting you girls!"

A couple of the girls giggled. Jen gave him a grin of her own.

"We've gotta get going Jen, you sure you'll be able to catch the bus from here?" On of the girls asked.

Jen smiled. "Don't worry about me! Go on!" She winked.

Her friends nodded in understanding. "Good luck with him Jen!" One of them whispered to her as they left.

Davis looked at the soccer girls leaving. "NOOOOO!!!" He screamed. "Come back!" But they were already too far away. He hung his head.

"So your Jen?" Tai asked.

"And you are?" She asked.

"Tai."

"Tai. Cool name…" "…Damn I can't say anything intelligent….can I?!" She asked herself in her mind.

"Yeah, those are my friends…but you don't want to meet them…" Tai said looking over his shoulder at his friends. Davis was glaring at him.

"Of course I do!" Jen cried. "Com'n!" She grabbed Tai's arm and ran to where the group was.

Tai shook his head at Davis who was still glaring at him. "You couldn't save me one could you?" Davis asked angrily.

Jen looked at them both confused. "What? Tai didn't say he had any food? Or do you? You have food?!" She looked around ravenous.

Tai laughed. "Trust me, if I had any food, it would be in my stomach!"

Jen smiled. "The same with me…"

Matt coughed. "An intro would be nice Tai."

Jen looked over at the …hot…blonde. "Yes an intro would be nice…" She said giving Matt a huge smile…in which Sora glared at.

Tai sighed. "That…is just Matt…"

Jen shook her head. "Just Matt?! He's definitely more then that…" She thought. Out loud she said. "I'm Jen."

Matt gave her one of his cute lopsided smiles, while Sora elbowed him in the gut. "Hey!? What was that for?!"

Sora gave Matt a 'death glare'. "Ahhh…and this is Sora…" She gave Matt another nudge. "My girlfriend…" Sora gave Jen a triumphant glance. Jen shrugged and turned to Tai. She gave him a huge grin.

"And your other friends?"

Tai slowly introduced his friends. Davis was practically crying. "You could've at least gotten me a number!! A fax? An email?? Anything!!!"

Jen finally understood. "Oh, you want my friend's emails?" She quickly wrote down a couple emails and her friend's names. "There you are…Davis?"

Davis nodded. "THANK YOU!!" He cried.

Tai smiled. "So you wanna hang with us for a bit?"

Jen shrugged. "Sure, but my friend Traci will kill me if she knew I was hanging around some new guys and wasn't telling her about it…"

Davis looked happy. "You can invite her too!"

Jen laughed. "She doesn't play soccer Davis…" She smiled, because she caught on to what he was looking for. Davis pouted.

Matt handed her his cell. "Here you can use it to call her." Jen took it and looked at the numbers…if you can call them that…

Jen looked at Matt skeptically. "What kind of phone is this?!"

T.K. laughed. "A Japanese one!"

Jen looked around at them. "You're from…Japan?!"

Cody laughed. "Technically."

Jen lit up in excitement. "Do you know the four Japanese geniuses that are coming here for that IQ contest?!"

"Well we know two of them." Kari supplied.

"That's great! I'm going to be in it!" Jen cried.

Tai's eyes popped. "You're a genius?"

Jen laughed. "I like to think so…but not really…"

Tai sighed relieved. "Glad to hear you're not like Izzy…"

"Show me what these things…mean on the phone…and I can phone my friend."

Matt made sure he was the one to show her. He took her hand and started pressing the buttons with it. Sora was bubbling with surpressed rage. Matt shrugged at her. "It was an innocent act!" He told Sora when Jen was busy on the phone with her friend.

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Ken was busy putting his final touches on Izzy. Finally finished he stepped back to look at his work. Ken knew this was childish… But hey, everyone was allowed to act like one ever once and a while! Besides… his childhood was taken away from him!

"Hmm… Now that this is done… I think I'll go outside," Ken said as he made his way to the door, grabbing his coat on the way.

Once out side Ken was awed at the beauty of this place. He hadn't had much time to look around since they got here… Izzy's been making him study ever since they got to the hotel….

"Hmm… I know he wants to win… but why can't we have a little fun as well?" Ken thought aloud not noticing that he was about to walk right into someone. Falling backwards Ken apologized. "I-I'm sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going."

"Hey that's okay," Traci replied. "Neither was I," She smiled. "I'm Traci," She said extending her hand.

Blushing slightly Ken took the offered hand. "I-I'm Ken."

"Well Ken it's nice to meet you," She smiled.

"Yeah, you too," Ken choked out. "Um… I'm kinda new here and well… I was wondering could you um…" Ken stammered.

"Show you around?" Traci offered. Ken nodded shyly. "Sure… but I'm meeting a friend by the soccer field… you could join us if you want?"

Ken shook his head. "That's alright… I wouldn't want to intru--" She stopped him.

"Nonsense! It'll be a chance for you to meet more people! Well one more person but that's more then you know now right?" Traci asked. Ken nodded.

"Yeah…"

"Then it's settled! C'mon!" Traci said as she pulled on Ken's arm to get him moving.

Turning another corner Traci finally spotted her friend.

"Oh! There's Jen!" Traci told Ken as he looked over. Squinting Traci added. "But who's that hot guy she's hanging over?"

Ken who had been trying to get a better look at Traci's friend suggested, "Let's get closer… that guy looks familiar…" Nodding they walked forward.

"Jen!" She called. Looking over Tai's shoulder, as best she could, Jen started to wave her friend over.

"Traci!"

Getting a tighter grip on his arm Traci started to run towards her friend.

"So who's this?" Jen asked pointing to Ken.

"This is Um.. Ken right?" Traci asked. Ken nodded.

In hearing that name the Digidestined turned to see who this person was.

"Ken!" Davis yelled.

"Oh hey guys, I didn't know you all got here already," Ken smiled.

"Yeah we all just got here a few hours ago," Kari told him. Traci looked at him.

"You know them?" She asked.

"Yes, we all come from Japan," Ken told her.

"Wait, wait, wait a minute here…. does that mean… that your one of the geniuses?!" Jen cried. Ken blushed.

"Well… I wouldn't say ge--" Davis cut him off.

"Of course he is! One of the smartest people I know!"

"Davis, everyone you know is one of the smartest people you know! It's not hard to be smarter then you!" Yolie told him smirking.

"Damn it Yolie…. I mean it if you don't--" Matt restrained him.

"Calm down buddy, you should know by now that she only does this to piss you off. So the more you show it the more she'll do it!" Matt told him. Davis sighed.

"You guys are sure fun to hang out with!" Jen laughed. Traci nudged her. "Oh, you guys this is Traci, Traci this is the guys," Jen said as she swished her arm in a circle, as if she thought that it would be satisfactory.

"Okay… Nice to meet you, mind if I know you names?" Traci asked. Ken smirked at the annoyed look she just gave off.

"Traci, that's Tai, Matt, TK, Sora, Kari, Davis, Yolie, Cody, and Joe," Ken said as he pointed each out as he said their name.

"Like I said before Nice to meet you, and as Jen said I'm Traci," Davis looked at her hopefully.

Jen sighed. "And as I said before she's not into Soccer Davis!" Again Davis pouted. Traci looked at her friend confused. "Don't even bother asking." Traci just nodded and put it out of her mind… or at least tried.

"So where you guys headin'?" Traci asked.

Tai shrugged. "No where in particular…. Since we don't know where anything is…"

"Well then!" Jen started. "We'll just have to show you around! C'mon!" Jen said as she grabbed onto Tai. The others followed after them.

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Izzy woke up and stretched. He shook his head and got out of the covers. He rubbed his eyes and looked around. Ken was no where in sight.

"Good for nothing Ken…" Izzy muttered looking outside. "He let me fall asleep…he did that on purpose!" He opened the window and received inquiring looks from the people down below. Izzy gave them his own inquiring look and closed the window. "Hmmm…Maybe I should I go around looking from him." Izzy walked out of the hotel door. Not noticing some changes on his person…

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Walking around down town, Sakura, Madison, Chelsea, Zachary, Nikki, and Rita were busy taking in all the sites of Toronto.

"Wow, this place is huge!" Sakura exclaimed.

"No kidding! Our home would practically fit just the down town area!" Chelsea agreed.

"Actually," Zachary started. "Reedington would only fit three quarters of the down town area of Toronto."

"Yeah sure Zachary," Sakura said skeptically. "What ever you say," Everyone looked at her in disbelief. Especially Zachary.

"Wha-what?!" He yelled.

Madison blinked. "You mean you don't believe him?"

"No."

"Bu-but why?!" Zachary yelled again. Not understanding why one of his favorite people to lie to wasn't going to believe him!

"Because you lied to me Zachary," Sakura said simply.

"Me?! Never! I would--" Chelsea clamped her hand over his mouth before anything else could come out.

"Right Zachary! You never lie and Toronto is made of igloos!"

"See! You did lie Zachary! You lied!" Sakura exclaimed near the brink of tears.

"But!"

"Not again Zachary!"

"Li and I trusted you! And you let us down!" Madison took hold of her friend and hugged her.

"How could you Zachary!?" She cried.

"But!"

"Enough Zachary. We're heard enough." Chelsea said as they started to walk away.

"But you guys! Hey wait!" Zachary yelled as he tried to catch up with them.

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Izzy walked down the streets near the hotel. He looked across the street but couldn't figure out why everyone who looked at him, looked either scared, weirded out, or laughing their heads off. Izzy shook his head, "These Canadians…" He thought. "I guess they really know how to tell if a person's not from around here…" He suddenly spotted a large group walking on the sidewalk across the street. He ran across the street , receiving odd looks from the motorists and walked up behind the group. Ken, who was slightly behind the group turned around to see Izzy panting, and still in his 'mask'. He burst out laughing and couldn't stop to tell anyone why.

Yolei was looking at Ken like he was crazy. "Ken, com'n people are looking at us…" She tried to slink out of sight.

Cody tugged on Ken's sleeve. "What's so funny Ken? People don't just laugh like that for nothing."

Davis was looking wildly around for the source of Ken's laughter. "Where—com'n! If Ken's laughing…it's gotta be funny!"

Joe slowly turned around to look at Ken, but his gaze met something else. He burst out laughing harder then Ken did. The others were paranoid. "What's going on?!" Demanded Tai.

Izzy looked at his friends, two of them were laughing hysterically, and the rest were looking really confused. But the two that were laughing seemed to be laughing at him…

Sora shook her head at the boys and then turned around her self and almost keeled over with laughter herself. She was laughing so hard that Matt had to support her. "Sora! Sora! What's so funny? Sora? Are you listening to me?!" Matt cried.

T.K. and Kari turned round together and fell onto a bench laughing so hard they were crying. To see dignified Izzy this way was just too much.

Finally most of them got the picture that whatever was funny was behind them, and they turned around. Seeing Izzy, the laughed also. Izzy was looking at them incredulously. He looked at himself. "Well," He thought, "I'm not naked, and I don't have toilet paper on my shoe…so what's going on?!"

Matt was standing there propping up Sora and looking around frantically at his friends who were almost dying with laughter. He was pissed. "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!" Matt got no answer. "ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME?! LISTEN TO ME!!!" Matt yelled.

Finally gaining some composure Ken slowly pointed backwards and almost toppled himself over. Matt slowly turned around. There was Izzy, in the middle of the sidewalk, fully clothed and yet there was something different about him. His hair was still red, and his eyes were both there…but his face…there was something wrong with the usually clean face. Matt finally realized what it was. There was marker drawn all over Izzy's face in a mustache, goatee, glasses, a unibrow, and some really black eyes.

Davis slowly turned around to Ken laughing hard. "Did—did—You do that?!" Davis managed to squeak out.

Ken nodded in reply as he clutched his stomach that was sore from laughing.

Davis almost fell. "I—I—never—Knew…--you were an---artist…" He cried.

Izzy stood there, overhearing what happened. In that spilt second his face…well what was left of it…turned as red as his hair. If steam were able to come out of ears, I think it would have. "KEN…!!!!" Izzy cried outraged. "YOU DIDN'T!!!!!"

Ken's face fell and he said, "Oh crap," then he started to run.

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Li lied back on his bed.

"Eriol!" Li cried.

Eriol looked up from his book. "What is it?"

"I'm bored!"

"What else is new?!"

"Not much! But I'm bored!" Li sighed getting off the bed and pacing the length of the hotel room.

"Practice your sword!" Eriol suggested.

"I can't," Li sulked.

"Why?"

"There isn't enough room! And it's not like I can just go outside with it! What will people think?!"

"That you're crazy, but they'll think that anyways," Eriol smirked.

"I think you're mistaking me for yourself," Li smirked back. Eriol frowned.

"Shut up."

"What? Did I touch a nerve?" Li smirked some more.

"No."

"I think I did."

"No you didn't."

"You sure?"

"Yes."

"Because I'm sure that I did."

"Well you didn't."

"I think I did."

"You didn't."

"You di--" Li was cut off by something knocking on their door. Walking over to answer it he yelled. "I did!"

"You did what?" Eriol asked smirking.

"Damn you," Li said then opened the door. "Yeah?"

"Well is that anyway to greet your favorite cousin?" Since Li hadn't seen who the person was… he thought it was the worst case scenario.

"Don't be Meilin, don't be Meilin," He wished in his head. He looked up to be greeted by, green eyes. "Karen!" Li cried.

"Li!" Karen yelled back, hugging him. Li went ridged.

"Karen! Let go!" Li cried.

"Oh sorry… forgot you weren't the touchy feely type," She grinned. Eriol walked up behind them.

"Mind introducing us?"

"Actually--" Karen cut him off.

"I'm Karen, Li's cousin," She said grabbing his hand and shaking it. Eriol looked at her strangely. "Oh, guess you're not the touchy feely type either."

"Only when it comes to Madison," Li mumbled. Eriol looked at him crossly.

"You saw us?!"

"What?!" Li cried.

Eriol coughed. "Um… Nothing…"

"You and Madison?!"

"Um… No…"

"Seriously?!"

"I told you… No…" Karen looked at them. Again she wasn't the center of attention.

"Um… Hello? Look at me!"

"Oh god… I forgot she came from Meilin's side…" Li thought. "Yes Karen we see you."

"So who are you?" Karen asked pointing at Eriol.

"I am Eriol Hiiragizawa, reincarnation of Clow Reed," Eriol said bowing.

"Wow, a reincarnation, that's so cool."

"Well…" Eriol blushed.

"Yeah, reincarnation my a--"

"What was that Li?" Eriol asked.

"Nothing," Li said quickly.

"Hmm…"

"So Karen… what are you doing here?" Li asked turning away from Eriol.

"I live here silly," She smiled.

"You live here? I thought you lived somewhere in Japan, with Sonomi," Li asked. (Fordina: Yeah, yeah, I know that Sonomi is Madison's mom's name in the Japanese version but we're using English names here! Eriol: Ahem. Fordina: Oh well… we're using Eriol's Japanese name because I like it better… Soccer Chicka had no say in that…. I will not write a fic with someone with the name Eli Moon! Soccer Chicka: Why? Fordina: Because it's a bad name!)

"We moved," She said simply.

"Oh. How did you know where I was?"

"I called your mom."

"Why?!"

"I wanted to catch up."

"Oh."

"Yeah, so you guys wanna do something?" Karen asked looking at Li then Eriol.

"No that's--"

"We'd love to," Li gave Eriol a look that said, 'What the hell are you doing?!'

"Great! Let's go!" Karen said as she grabbed Li and Eriol's hands and ran out of the hotel room.

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Karen linked arms with the disgusted Li and the amused Eriol. "We're going to have so much fun! Look, from here, you can see the CN Tower!"

Eriol and Li looked up at the massive Canadian landmark. "Well, that's tall." Li stated the obvious.

"No kidding Li." Eriol remarked. Karen was looking elsewhere.

"OMG! James! Fancy meeting you here!" Karen strolled up to James with a huge smile on her face.

"You are?" James mumbled.

"Karen, silly!" She laughed. "You're so funny!"

Li and Eriol looked blank. "And who is this?" Li asked.

"This is James!" Karen cried, bursting with enthusiasim. "He's my friend from school!"

"Friend?!" James muttered.

Li looked James up and down. "I wouldn't want this guy as a friend…"

Karen looked shocked. "LI! You never had good manners did you?"

Li shrugged. "I got it from your side of the family."

Karen puffed up indignantly. "Well…" She said icily. "As I was saying, this is Li, who is unfortunatly my cousin…"

"Very DISTANT cousin…" Li put in.

Karen glared at him. "Whatever and this is Eriol a reincarntion--"

Li intruptted. "She means Eriol Reincarnation."

Eriol nodded his head. "Yes my last name is Reincarntion."

James raised an eyebrow. "Some interesting friends you've got there Katie…"

"Karen." She put in.

"Yeah…yeah…Karen…" James shook his head. "You know, I've got get going…"

"Oh! Stay a while!" Karen pleaded. "It'll be fun! I promise!"

"Look, I don't have time for fun…I gotta go." James pushed passed them and walked away.

"Bye bye!" Karen called waving. She sighed. "Isn't he cute?!"

Li looked at her oddly. "You're asking us?"

Eriol nudged Li. "I think you're cousin has problems…" He whispered.

"I know she does. You just noticed that?" Li whispered back.

"Well, no…but she's staring after that guy like he was a movie star…"

Li shuddered. "You mean the way Madison looks at you?"

Eriol stared at Li. "That's different. She's not a weirdo."

Li shook his head. "I don't know about that…the way she acts with that camera is questionable…"

Eriol gave him a punch on the arm. "Well at least my girlfriend doesn't get all weak in the knees when she hears the word 'ghost'" Eriol shot back.

"Aww…Lay off Eriol…" Li said. "Com'n we better bring Miss Ditzy back to the real world before she faints." He went up to Karen, grabbed her arm and dragged her off back towards the hotel.

"James…" She sighed.

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Walking down the street to get away from the annoying… Katie… Kathy…. What ever her name is, James stumbled across Traci.

"Traci!" He called from across the street.

She looked over to where she heard her name being called and saw James walking towards her.

"Hey James!" She yelled back.

Jen mumbled. "Great…. James…. Always count on him to show up sooner or later."

Tai looked at her. "Who's James?"

"James? Oh he's a…."

"Ahem," Traci cleared her throat.

"He's a guy that Traci knows…. Great guy…." She muttered.

"Oh," Tai said.

"So James, what brings you out into the world at this time of day?" Jen asked. "I thought you only came out with the creatures of the night."

"Haha, very funny Jen," James faked laughed.

"Oh my god… he… he didn't yell at me…. And… and he… he used my real name… Tai catch me… I think I'm going to faint," Jen said as she did a fake damsel in distress act.

"Yeah, funny Jen, funny," Traci mimicked James earlier act.

"You people have no sense of humor!" Jen cried.

"Of course we do…. Just not when it comes to your joke," James said calmly.

"What ever…." Jen mumbled.

"So…" Davis started. "Who are you?"

James looked at him… finding him harmless he answered. "James."

"Yeah we got that," Davis told him.

"He's a friend of mine…." Traci slowed her speech as something caught her eye.

Ken walked up to the group, " Hey guys…." He said rubbing his cheek.

Yolie's eyes bulged, "Ken! What happened to you?"

Looking behind him Ken pointed to Izzy.

"I never would have thought Izzy could do something like that…. I mean when we were back in the Digi… Um I mean summer camp… I told him to hit me and he said he wouldn't resort to violence… this is odd… very odd indeed…" Tai mused. The others looked at him.

"Okay…." Matt started. "Now that we know who ambushed Ken… lets find out more about this guy," Matt said pointing to James.

"Like I said he's my friend…. And well that's all you really need to know," Traci filled him.

Tai leaned closer to Matt and whispered, "Oh… looks like he's a rebel Matt…. Got a little competition now don't you Matt?" Matt looked at him and growled. "Calm down grasshopper… I've taught you all I know… now it is time for you to fend for your self…. I have confidence in you…. Go now… hop young grasshopper!" Tai snickered as he referred to the times when he beat Matt up.

Matt growled again, "Shut up."

"Hop…. Go on hop!" Tai said as he demonstrated.

"What the hell are you doing?" Matt asked looking at his friend strangely.

"Hopping, what does it look like?" Tai asked not getting it.

"You do that Tai… you do that…"

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Fordina: Well here ends another chap.

Soccer Chicka: 'Bout time!

Tai: Yeah the readers have been waiting like… Forever!!!

Ken: Actually they've only been waiting….

Tai + Soccer Chicka: Shut Up!!

Ken: Sorry…

Fordina: Hey! Don't yell at Ken!!

Soccer Chicka: But we just did.

Tai: Yeah, it's not like we can take it back now…. That's not possible.

Fordina: *Sigh* Well at LEAST say you're sorry.

Tai + Soccer Chicka: *Grumble* Sorry….

Ken: Apology accepted.

Fordina: *Beams* Great!! Now…. When will the next chap be up….

Soccer Chicka: When you start writing it!!

Fordina: Correction! When YOU start writing it!! I did the last part to this one!!

Soccer Chicka: But!!

Fordina: No Buts!

Soccer Chicka: But!!

Fordina: No Buts!!

Soccer Chicka: But!!

Fordina: *Sigh* Okay…. I already did TWO sections like this…. The readers don't have to see anymore…

Soccer Chicka: But!!

Fordina: SHUT UP!!!

Soccer Chicka: But!!

Ken: Um… Please review….. They need the help….

Soccer Chicka: But!!