Gomababe:ok the disclaimer first, the the notes.

Aquamon:why can't we have the author' notes first?

Gomababe:'Cause that's the way I work it, and it's my account!

Aquamon:ok ok, Gomababe and Lar-Lar do not own Digimon..better?

Gomababe:thankies

Chapter one

Lucy had long since decided that acting before engaging the small organ between her ears was a bad thing. It had been a conclusion she come to many years ago if she was honest with herself, but right now, denial seemed a much better idea than honesty.

"Maybe if I just keep my eyes closed, everything will be okay." She muttered to herself, her eyes remaining tightly shut but she could not deny the fact she was not in her room anymore, the uncomfortable ground she was sitting on told her that much so reluctantly, she opened her eyes, looking around at the are she was in. Lots of trees and bushes, almost like a rain forest and very warm too. She pulled herself up and dusted down her jeans before tying her shirt round her waste in a vain attempt to cool herself down. "At least this vest top is cool." She muttered again, finding some comfort in the sound of her own voice. "Shame I didn't bring a hair band." There was nothing much of any interest around, just trees and other green things, so she decided that walking might be a good thing. She pulled out her digi-vice, remembering how Koushiro had once told her they could be used to track other digi-vices and when a red blinking light appeared on the display, she grinned from ear to ear. "Alright! Score one for me!"

"You sure do talk to yourself a lot, don't you?" Lucy jumped about four feet in the air at the sound of that voice, her eyes desperately searching the area the sound had come from only to find a small, purple caterpillar appear, covered in pink spikes. It tilted it's head at her. "Are all humans this funny?" It asked the girl.

"What the... who the... huh?" She asked, her questions not quite making their way from her brain to her mouth and causing the creature to giggle at her.

"I'm Chrystamon and you're Lucy, right?" The girl nodded, still eyeing the creature suspiciously. "Well then, we're are partners."

"Partners huh?" She asked, looking at the creature more closely now. "So you are a digimon right? And I'm in Digi-world?" Chrystamon nodded.

"You know about all this?" She asked, somewhat surprised.

"Well, I know abit. I got my digi-vice just over two years ago, a friend of mine, Alana, got hers at the same time, and I spoke to a boy, Koushiro, about it all." Chrystamon nodded as the girl spoke and when she had finished, she climbed up to the girls shoulder, noting how she flinched at first.

"The child of determination, that must be the friend you were talking about."

"Well, I suppose. Alana can be pretty focused when she puts her mind to it." Then it hit her. "So she's here too?" The creature nodded, pointing one of her five pairs of feet in the direction they were facing, showing Lucy she should walk as they spoke.

"Oh yes, as are the original digi-destined. You two are needed to help them out this time so we came to meet you. Alana has been partnered with an Aquamon, they will be around here somewhere I should think, we really should try and find them before it gets too dark, there's safety in numbers and forests like this one are just brimming with danger." Lucy did not dare argue, already walking, faster than she normally would, in the direction Chrystamon had told her.

"But what about the others? There are six other digi-destined in the UK, why just Alana and me?" Chrystamon shrugged, in her own way.

"It was only you two that were needed I guess. The Children of determination and calm will give strength, reassure and bring peace to where others cannot reach, that is what Gennai said."

"Gennai huh?" Koushiro had told her about him. "So I'm finally gonna get to meet the famous hologram... Hey, does that mean I'm the child of calm?" Chrystamon nodded and it was a full three second before Lucy was laughing hysterically. "Me?! Calm?! I'm about as calm as paranoid lemming! There is no way that can be right!" Chrystamon just smiled knowingly.

"You'll be surprised." She said. "How little we know ourselves until others become involved."

"What the? Do all you digimon make this much sense or was I just lucky to get paired up with you?"

"It will all make sense in the end, but first we need to find the child of determination, the digi-vice says she's this way." The digimon turned her face to her partner. "Lets go."

Alana groaned as she came to, her head hurt like mad and she was sure

She had more than her fair share of bruises along her back. Slowly opening

Her eyes she looked at the forest surrounding her,

"Ok, this is definitely not Kinniel Woods any more." she muttered,

scanning the area with bright, blue eyes. Getting up and dusting herself off,

Alana noticed the device clipped to her belt giving off a steady beeping

sound. Suddenly a white blur rushed past the young girl's legs and skidded to

a stop a couple of meters away,

"Hi there Alana, sorry I was so late." the little creature panted. It was obviously female from the high pitch of its voice.

"Who... or whit the heck are you?" Alana asked, a little shocked at being addressed by name, the creature giggled slightly.

"I'm Aquamon, an aquatic Rookie level Digimon and your partner. Welcome to the Digital World child of Determination!" Aquamon greeted. Alana looked more closely at Aquamon, taking in her features. She was a small, white sea lion like creature with light blue markings all over her body,

including her front flippers and under her delicate purple eyes. A golden mane cascaded down her shoulders, catching the light, along with the thick, golden bracelets around her front flippers. She also wore a red diamante

collar around her neck, which glittered as she cocked her head to the side.

"A Digimon huh?" Alana asked after her inspection of the sea lion.

Aquamon nodded enthusiastically,

"Yep, and you're my Digi-destined partner." she added. Aquamon nodded to the still beeping digi-vice, "We'd better go and find the Child of Calm and

her partner before nightfall, it gets very dangerous here at night." Alana

unclipped her aquamarine coloured digi-vice and looked at it closely,

"Ok, so how do we find them Aqua?" she asked curiously, her eyes

brightening.

"Just follow the red dot on the screen, the closer you are the stronger the light will become, its simple really." Aquamon instructed, beginning to waddle on ahead, "but it might be simpler if we just followed my nose, I can smell Chrystamon from here." Alana laughed lightly, and followed the white sea lion Digimon, feeling a sort of security around her.

"Ok then, lead on Mac duff." Alana stated. Aquamon gave her Scottish

partner a puzzled look, that just sent the young girl into more its of laughter.

After walking for what seemed like hours, Alana began to think about why she was in the Digital World at all. She decided to discuss the issue with Aquamon, "Hey, Aqua?" she began, "I know you said I was one of the Digi-destined, but why am I here... you only mentioned about one other person. Who is it?" Aquamon slowed so her partner could catch up,

"Well, the child of Calm, I believe is called Lucy." at this Alana

gasped,

"Lucy Runagall?" she asked delightedly. Aquamon only nodded, Alana let her continue,

"As for why you're both here, I think Chrystamon and I can explain it a little better when we meet up...in fact we can tell you in the next five

minutes or so, cause there they are!" Alana looked up only to see Lucy

walking towards her with a purple caterpillar like creature perched on her

shoulder. Alana recognized Lucy from the photo the older girl had sent a few

months back.

"LUCY!" Alana exclaimed as she rushed up to her and hugged her hard.

Chrystamon jumped from Lucy's shoulder so she wouldn't get squashed.

"Hi Alana...." Lucy wheezed as Alana began to loosen her grip and let go.

The two Digimon nearby just giggled girlishly at their antics.

"Sorry about that Lucy, I just got over excited." Alana apologized.

Lucy just shook her head,

"No worries mate, I just wasn't quick enough." she laughed, grinning

at finally meeting her pen pal face to face for the first time. "though I

wish we had met in better circumstances." she sighed.

"Huh? What's going on Lucy? Aquamon said she and Chrystamon would

explain it better once we were all acquainted...." she paused as she looked over at the Digimon, who began to shift nervously.

Izzy was not really paying attention. He was still trying to work out what the rainbow TK had seen earlier could possibly mean. He knew that since Digi-world had appeared in the sky two years ago that many other children all over the world had digi-vices but if their were new digi-destines here now, then why were they there too? And how come they had not heard anything about it from Gennai? He was still running through the possibilities when he heard a voice calling him from up ahead.

"What are you doing way back there Izzy?" Matt shouted back to his younger friend. "It's getting late we need to find a place to set up camp. Come on! Pick up the pace!" The red head looked up and was surprised to see he had fallen pretty far behind.

"Sorry." He shouted back, shaking the whole 'rainbow thing' from his mind and picking up the pace as Matt had suggested so nicely. He had not noticed it was getting dark already but then he supposed, the forests of Digi-world always did seem little dark. He moved faster after his friends, not noticing the long, vine-like thing hat rested on the ground in front of him, not until he tripped over it.

"You okay back there, Iz? You trying to steal Joe's roll as the clumsy one?" Tai called back, grinning, followed by a 'Hey!' From Joe. Izzy pulled himself to a sitting position, he did not feel like he had hurt himself too badly.

"I'm okay Tai, just grazed my arm a little." He said, looking at said arm. "I suppose I should pay more attention to what's going on around me and less to what's in my head." Tai grinned at him.

"Like I keep telling you Iz, thinking too much can be seriously bad for your health." He laughed at his own joke as they all began moving again. "We'll get Old' reliable to take a look when we stop." Izzy rolled his eyes skyward, absent mindedly rubbing the arm he had landed on before jogging up to join the others.