Digimon {Digital Monsters}
Is This Destiny?

Disclaimer: I do bot own Digimon, the lucky guys at Toei animation do. This is the fifth part of my first story "Is This Destiny." The chapter's quite long, so I suggest you all get something to eat and drink while you can.

The digidestined crawled out of the cave they had been sleeping in since the storm had broken literally above their heads. Mimi and Yolei were both complaining bitterly about their hair being messed up by the winds, while the rest just looked plain knackered {don't you just love Scots slang?} Izzy and Cody emerged first, rubbing their eyes and looking blearily around the destroyed landscape. Cody sighed,

"It's all clear now." He called to the others, who were still sitting by the cave entrance, "Whatever caused those high winds seems to have gone." He added. Armadillomon snorted,

"Cody, I don't think it's completely gone." He murmured in his Texan sounding voice, looking around the once secluded forest warily. Izzy nodded,

"He may be right, Cody. But then the Digimon were all kinda spooked about that wind yesterday." He turned to Tentomon,

"Tentomon, do you think you, Biyomon and Hawkmon could check this area out. y'know, to make sure that it's completely safe?" Tentomon gave a single nod and waved Biyomon and Hawkmon outside,

"Don't worry, leave the safety of your entire group to us." He remarked confidently as the three flying Digimon took to the air. The digidestined watched them go until they were mere specks on the horizon. Matt gave a loud yawn,

"Alright then folks we may as well get ourselves some breakfast made while those three are off searching the area for any evil Digimon. As well as figure out what we're going to do for today." He exclaimed, taking his natural position as Tai's 'Second in Command'. Kari glared at him, her tan eyes flashing with anger,

"What do you mean by figure out what we're going to do today?" she yelled, "We need to find my brother!" Matt took a step back,

"I. uh. was going to suggest that. but. we need to conserve energy at the moment." Kari was about to cut him off when a pair of pale white, though slightly tanned, arms wrapped themselves around her shoulders,

"Kari, please. We don't have time for this, besides I'm sure Tai's just fine. he's a big boy now." Came Izzy's soft, gentle voice. Kari sighed as she leaned her head against Izzy's chest, still worrying about her older brother, but welcoming the comfort Izzy's presence brought. Matt breathed a sigh of relief, wiping accumulated sweat from his brow; glad that Kari's rather. violent temper hadn't been taken out on him. Joe, Mimi and Sora just chuckled at the scene, while Yolei's eyes misted over as she watched Kari and Izzy share a moment together.

"I wish my other boyfriends had been like that." She thought, "Izzy's just so romantic, smart and good looking. the perfect guy. Too bad he's with Kari. Wait what am I saying? Kari's my best friend, I can't just decide I've developed a crush on her boyfriend after seeing them together for the last five years!" Yolei shook her head to clear any thoughts of her and Izzy together. Mimi noticed it,

"Hey, Yolei what's wrong?" she asked in her confident sing song voice, wondering why Yolei was acting so strangely all of a sudden. Yolei's eyes still bore some sign of guilt as she turned to face the older woman,

"N. nothing's wrong Mimi." She replied with fake confidence, the type that had got her into big trouble on her first day in staying in the digital world. {See 'Run Yolei Run' for a reference.} Mimi gave Yolei an unconvinced sigh before turning around again to talk to Palmon. Yolei gave a quiet sigh of relief at not having to tell Mimi what she was thinking. If Kari overheard the team would be one person short and Hawkmon wouldn't have a partner anymore. Yolei looked up to the sky at a sudden whooshing sound; Hawkmon, Biyomon and Tentomon had arrived back at the campsite,

"Well, there's no evil Digimon around, we've asked plenty of native Digimon if they'd seen anything and they hadn't." Biyomon announced as she landed at her partner's side. Matt nodded with quiet relief.

"But we did find a certain missing someone." Tentomon called cheerfully as he approached Izzy. Hawkmon gave a huge grin as he hovered above the group,

"We found him hiding out in a cave just a couple of miles away from here. He's heading I this direction now." Yolei jumped up and gave Hawkmon the biggest bear hug ever,

"That's fantastic Hawkmon, now we can go and kick some Psyslickomon butt!" she announced with total confidence, her glasses flashing as the caught the sunlight. Hawkmon just gave a strangled wheeze as he struggled to get out of Yolei's grip. Matt and the others laughed while Izzy pointed out that she wouldn't have a partner very shortly if Yolei didn't let him go at once. Yolei turned a crimson colour as she let Hawkmon breath,

"Sorry, Hawkmon. Guess I got a little over excited huh?" Hawkmon blinked as he gasped for air, thanking the big Holy Digimon up there that he was still alive.

"Hey guys!" came a yell, "Sorry I took off like that." It was Tai, still holding Koromon in his arms as he rushed to greet the others. Kari rushed to her brother's side at once; followed by the rest of the group and their Digimon.

"Tai, I was so worried about you! Why'd you run off?" Kari sobbed as she hugged Tai hard. Koromon bounced out of Tai's arms before he got squashed. Gabumon stared at his best friend,

"What happened to you?" he asked with some confusion,

"Long story." Koromon replied, sighing. "You guys got anything to eat, I'm starving!" He asked, ears perking up with enthusiasm. Gabumon gave a soft chuckle as he handed Koromon several pieces of fruit and left over fish, which Koromon promptly wolfed down in seconds. He gave a satisfied belch as he sat back and took in the scene before him.

"Gabumon, what happened here?" he asked, eyes wide as he took in the destruction the wind had caused the night before.

"A strong wind came out of nowhere and kept getting worse every second. It stopped when we reached that cave over there." Gabumon replied, voice tense as he pointed to the cave the digidestined and their Digimon had slept in the night before, "Izzy reckons it was caused by a flunky of Psyslickomon's to distract us before we could find you and Tai." Koromon's eyes reflected his worry,

"If that's the case, then we've got Psyslickomon on the look out now. We'd better be careful, if that prophecy's anything to go by, we are in serious trouble until," Koromon began to recite the last few lines of the prophecy Gennai had told them two nights before,

"The final kiss seals
The angel's true love."

That's that chapter, almost finished, just a couple more chapters to go. Next time you'll finally meet Psyslickomon face to face, but before you do please take the time to Read and Review this chapter. Lots of luv, gomababe