Lar-Lar:now the disclaimer...Aquamon?

Aquamon:sighing Gomababe and Lar-Lar don't own Digimon...you know this is getting kinda monotonous.

Gomababe:sorry but until Lar-Lar and I get our funds together as well as every other Taishiro fans', there is no way we can buy Digimon off Toei.

Aquamon:to readers, beggingplease help us...please stop this insanity from continuing....keeps begging

Chrystamon:rolling eyes onto the fic..

Chapter six-Stroll Around Town

Sora looked about nervously, she remembered what Tai had told her about this place, if it was indeed the same place, when he and Izzy had been looking for something to help Kari's fever two years ago but so far they had found no sign of anything. It was strange, the streets and stores were all spotlessly clean and stocked full of fresh foods but there was no-one there. Nothing at all. It was almost like this place had just been built and no-one had arrived yet, it seemed completely un-used.

"Biyo?" She asked. "Do you think any of the food and drinks we found are safe? This could all be some plan to trap us, make us all ill or something so we can't fight..." She broke off, feeling stupid fro even suggesting it although she knew after all that had happened last time they were here that anything was, indeed, possible. Biyomon hovered beside her partner, scanning the streets as she had been doing.

"I don't think so. This place looks brand new. Maybe it's only just been reborn? You remember what Gennai said after we defeated Apoclamon? That file island would be the first to be reborn and from it the seas, mountains, desserts and land would come?" Sora nodded, that made sense.

"So do you think once we find the aspirin we can go back to the others? I really don't like us all being so broken up like this." Biyomon nodded, she did not like it much either. Right now she was feeling especially nervous, after the flight over here and her lack of food, she was not sure she could digi-volve to protect her partner, even if both their life's' depended on it. Sora heard a strange beeping sound, frowning, she reached for her digi-vice. "Hey Biyo, look at this!" Sora held out her digi-vice, a clustered of red blinking dots flashed on the small display causing both of them to smile. Sora looked up to her partner. "You think it's them?" She asked, trying to work out who else it could possibly and at the same time trying not to get her hopes up too much.

"Maybe I should check it out?" She asked, already flying a little higher to get a better view.

"No wait! We need to stick together! We'll both go." Biyomon came back down to Sora's level and nodded.

"Together." She said.

"LUCY!" Joe called as he rushed forward to try to wake the younger girl up. Chrystamon frowned as she watched,

"Joe, please stop." she finally requested, "Panicking will not help matters. Plus this might help Izzy more since Lucy should be able to hear him more clearly if she's unconscious herself." she explained. Joe turned to give the small caterpillar a scathing look, but relented after seeing the calm look she was giving him back. Gomamon cocked his head to the side, ears perked up,

"Well, if that's true Chrystamon, then why didn't Lucy go unconscious before?" he asked, his sea green eyes blinking. Chrystamon sighed,

"I don't know Gomamon, maybe it's because of the prophecy Gennai told Alana, Aquamon, Lucy and myself, I can't be sure." she sighed again as she looked to her partner, worry apparent in her crystal blue eyes.

Tai was still walking ahead of the group of children, Agumon by his side. Matt, Alana, Gabumon and Aquamon followed and behind them came Mimi, TK, Kari, Palmon, Patamon and Gatomon.

"Hey look TK! I can see a town!" Patamon cried out. He was the only flying rookie left in the group and had been flying high every now and again to see what he could see. TK grinned happily.

"Did you here that Matt? There's a town up ahead!" Matt nodded, smiling at his little brother obvious excitement. He reached for his digi-vice, nothing was showing up yet but he was sure that Joe, Sora and Lucy would have taken Izzy to the first town they came across. He jogged up a little ways to where Tai was still trudging on, seemingly oblivious to what TK and Patamon had been shouting about.

"Hey man, did you hear that? There's a town just up ahead." Tai looked up, he looked completely worn out but still managed a grin at this news.

"Then we must be catching up to the others. Anything on the digi-vices yet?" Matt shook his head but before he could answer, a beeping sound did it for him. Both boys looked at their digi-vices, each seeing one red flashing dot. Matt frowned.

"Just one? What happened to the others?" Tai shrugged.

"Maybe they got split up. This isn't a good thing at all, we need to get to them and fast." He turned round to the rest of the group. "Hey listen up! How many of you digimon are up to digi-volving?" Partners and digimon looked at each other.

"Palmon's too hot, I don't think she likes the dessert much." Mimi said, holding her partner in her arms. Alana nodded.

"Aquamon's pretty out of it too." Tai nodded, it made sense that a plant type and water type digimon would react badly to the dessert.

"I'm just fine." Gatomon said. Patamon nodded.

"Me too and we ca both carry two of you in our champion forms."

"I'm just fine." Gabumon added. Tai nodded again and before Agumon could say anything, he spoke.

"Right then, you three do your stuff. We'll keep Agumon here just incase there's trouble when we meet up with the others, that way you'll be ready to fight." The dinosaur type digimon nodded.

"Gabumon digi-volve to...Garurumon."

"Patamon digi-volve to... Angemon."

"Gatomon digi-volve to... Angewoman."

"Okay, Angewoman? Can you manage Kari, Mimi and Palmon?" She nodded, already gathering up the aforementioned ones. "Garurumon, you can take Matt, Alana and Aquamon and Angemon? You can take TK, Agumon and myself." The two other digimon nodded. "Then, let's go find the others!"

"As-pi-rin? Sora? We were looking for As-pi-rin, right?" Biyomon asked. As they had made there way towards the flashed red dots, they had passed a pharmacy and so had stopped off to see what they can find. Sora smiled as she met up with her partner.

"Yeah that's great. And look, I found some bandages and antiseptic creams too. These will all come in handy should any of us get hurt." Suddenly, the steady beeping of the digi-vice seemed to step up a pace or too, now it beeped madly. Sora too it out of her pocket and gasped. "Look at this! It has to be them, look at the speed they're coming at us!" Biyomon nodded and made towards the door.

"We had better get back out to the streets, so they can see us, we don't want them going straight passed us, do we?" Sora shook her head, following her partner out of the store glad that she had bought a bag along with her this time as she forced the bandages and aspirin in on top of the food and drinks they had found earlier. "Look Sora! Look up there!" Sora looked, and smiled, relief washing over her as she recognized two angels flying towards them. She waved her arms about, smiling even more as she did so.

"Hey guys! Down here!" She yelled. It was Biyomon who spotted Garurumon carrying Matt, Alana and Aquamon and who ended up reaching them first. "Guys! Am I glad you caught up so fast!" Matt jumped down from His partners' back and helped Alana off too before turning to Sora.

"Where are the others? Did you get split up or something?" Sora shook her head.

"No, they are back at the mansion with Izzy, we need supplies so Biyomon and I offered to go see what we could find."

"How is Izzy doing?" Alana asked, Aquamon still in her arms but already looking better to be out of the dessert. Sora sighed and shook her head.

"No change when I left, we found some aspirin which Joe said will help but other than that..." She broke off as the two other digimon landed, Tai practically jumping the last few feet himself then running up to Soar.

"You're okay." He panted. "Thank God! Where are the others?"

"Back at the mansion but we really need to get back there, Joe said he and Gomamon would come looking for us it we took too long." Tai nodded, just happy that soon they would be back together again.

"Lead the way."

Lucy winced at the noise that came at her the moment she lost consciousness. The chaos was almost unbearable, as was the heat. She took a moment to gain her bearings,

"Where the hell am I?" she asked no one in particular. No one answered her, although the noise did seem to die down a little. She could now hear individual voices or songs much more clearly, but it was still extremely random. It was when Lucy heard Izzy's voice that she discovered where she was, "Koushiro!" she yelled, hoping he could hear her wherever he was. A weak voice answered her yell, Lucy spun round to see Izzy trying to get up onto his feet, but failing badly. "Hey, are you alright mate?" Lucy asked the Digi-destined child of Knowledge as he struggled to recognize who was helping him. He shook his head as he tried to figure out who this young girl was.

"Who are...you?" he asked breathlessly as he took Lucy's hand. Lucy frowned lightly at his lack of recognition, then she remembered that Izzy had collapsed and was already unconscious by the time she and Alana reached his group.

"Well, I'm Lucy Runagall, Digi-destined Child of Calm. I'm here to help you out of the little problem you've gotten yourself into." she explained, "We emailed each other a lot after you told me about the Digital World?" she pressed, trying to get the younger boy to concentrate on something. A faint look of recognition crossed Izzy's face as he remembered the day he had first emailed Lucy,

"Lucy..." he gasped, "how in... Digi-world did...you get...here?" he asked. Lucy grinned at her accomplishment, but frowned again as she realized Izzy was gasping for‡ breath,

"Listen mate, we need to get you back to the world of the wide awake and living." she said in a concerned voice, "you told me you got stung by something?" she asked, trying to get answers to a lot of unanswered questions that were buzzing through her own mind. Izzy nodded weakly,

"Tripped over...a vine...of some...sort... Grazed... my arm... Didn't think... anything...of...it..." Lucy stopped him from talking any more,

"Listen Koushiro, I know you're trying to tell me what happened, but I think we'd better stop there before you make yourself any worse." As she said this Izzy looked around with a panic stricken expression. Lucy frowned but then realized that she could faintly hear the sounds of a raging battle. She turned to look at Izzy again, who was currently trying to get up again.

"Koushiro," she said, "stay here. I'll be right back, you're in no state to wake up just yet, let alone help us out." she said sternly after seeing the determined expression on his face. Izzy could only sigh and nod weakly,

"Okay then... but hurry... the others... probably...don't...have much...." that was as far as he got before the noise that Lucy had encountered when she had first arrived in this place returned with a vengeance, sounding almost twice as loud as it did then. Izzy held his head in agony, "Just....go!" he ordered as Lucy tried to help calm the voices down. But before she could say anything, a sharp shake on her shoulders brought her back to consciousness with a start....

"Joe? Lucy?" Sora called as she lead the others into the big mansion house where they had left Izzy to rest.

"Tentomon? Gomamon? Chrystamon?" Biyomon asked afterwards. Matt looked worried at the lack of a response.

"You don't think something happened, do you? While we were all gone?" tai was just about to remind everyone he had not wanted them to split up, that he had known something like this would happen, when Tentomon flew out from round the corner. Matt sighed. "You're all still here, we thought something had happened." Tentomon paused for a moment, he knew there was no easy way to say this.

"Well, you're not wrong, Lucy's unconscious now too." Alana's eyes widened at this, Lucy had been her friend for longer than any of the others but before she could ask what had happened, tai was standing in front of her, staring at her.

"Your crest Alana." He said, his voice steady and calm. "Remember when it glowed back in the dessert and you said you could feel how we all felt?" Alana nodded, her mind putting together what he was saying with the conversation that Tentomon and Matt were having.

"You think this might have something to do with Lucy's crest?" Alana turned to Tentomon, who was now quiet. "Did Lucy say anything about her crest?" Tentomon paused again.

"Well, Chrystamon did and before she passed out, she did say something."

"Well, what was it?" Tai asked, growing impatient.

"She said 'Koushiro is that you?' And then, well, it was like she was talking to him but he never moved." Tai, Matt and Alana exchanged glances before heading up to the room Izzy was in, following Tentomon's lead. When they arrived Joe looked over to them, pleased that they were all together again.

"Am I glad you guys are all here." He turned to Sora. "Did you find any aspirin?" The girl nodded, rummaging in her bag for the vial containing the tablets. The other children crowded round the bed, looking at the two children now passed out. Chrystamon stood beside her partner, gently tapping her shoulder. She was almost sure that this was a good thing but she was still worried about her new friend.

"Joe! Look! She's coming round!" Tentomon practically shouted at the dark haired boy, causing him to jump. The insectoid digimon appeared to be right though, as Lucy began to stir, first lifting her head from where it had fallen on the bed and then blinking her eyes rapidly, still adjusting to the light. Where ever she had come from had been dark when compared to here.

"Where did all of you come from?" She asked, still looking very tired. "And what's with all the noise? Did someone forget how the volume button works or something?" The children all stared at her for a moment, but it was Alana who answered her question.

"We didn't say anything." She said. For a second Lucy just blinked at the girl, the voices seemed to sound familiar, like the other children and digimon infact, but just as she was about to tell the other, she remembered what had caused to come round and her eyes widened in panic.

"Everyone! Get down! NOW!" she yelled, grabbing Izzy off the bed just in time for Dramon to come crashing through the bedroom window.