Chapter 7
"HELLO! Anybody hear me? Elecmon! Somebody!" Apparently, Marin was oblivious to Alexx washing the sand off herself. "He can be so clueless," she thought. "Hey, Alexx, seen anyone? I only noticed the look on your face when that thing ricocheted off your head. No offense, but it was priceless. I wish I had camera." Alexx blushed violently and walked back to the white sandy beach. "Oh, were comedians now. Let me slap you so I can have a laugh, and because you were watching me clean myself. What are you, a pervert?""No, because then I'd have the Internet at home. So, what do you recall from the cloud?"
Alexx folded her arms and stared at the azure ocean waves. "I don't remember falling. It was that thing, the one that caused the wave. I think he's our enemy we were told about. All I remember was waking up here with a seagull picking at a crab on my back." Marin's smile had faded, and he began to look cocerned. "Alexx, I remember about as much. Except I remember being carried to shore by a dolphin-like digimon. I'd not be here otherwise. I've come up with two questions so far; how do we find everyone and how we can defeat such a digimon. It makes me feel sick to my stomach. Speaking of which, have you noticed we don't have to go to the bathroom here? I just thought that was weird."
Alexx looked bored. "Mmm...I have doubts about Tim. I think something's wrong, that he's not telling us something.""I agree, Alexx. But for now, we'd have to trust him. We have no choice. We need to find any other people too. Hey, what are those devices for? A sky blue colored ray of light hit me, and I got this strange little thing that had a screen and stuff. But I don't know how to use it. You have a orange covering, judging by the light."
Alexx dug into her pocket. "Yeah. After this thing hit me, I was tempted to throw it, but something made me hold onto it. Do you have your compass?" Marin rummaged through the pockets of his jeans. "???...No. Wait, wasn't Chris the pickpocket next to me. Hey, my money's gone too! Damn him! OW! What, if you can call Tim a smart-OWW! THAT WAS MY TOE! For being short, you sure have powerful feet!" Alexx rolled her eyes. "Well, then watch your mouth. What if they were little kids around?" Marin stared at her for a second, and his jaw dropped. "Do you SEE any?"
"No, and no one else either. We'll patrol the beaches." Marin began to walk in circles on the beach. "Wait. If the sun is there and Taura Island was south, let's assume this is that and we walk north. Which is...that way." Marin pointed to his right. Soon they were walking slowly, leaving footprints to be washed away by the foamy waters. Marin stopped and looked at Alexx. "If this were a vacation, I'd have enjoyed it. What's happening at home? If they discovered five kids missing, that'd be a huge splash in our towns." Alexx kept walking, to the point were Marin ran to catch up to her. "I don't think we're missing yet. If we have to save both worlds, then they aren't running, or at least at different speeds. It would be a hassle otherwise."
The sun was past noon. "Hey, Alexx, everyone's probably up and walking if they're here. Maybe I should look in the forest while you wait in case anyone comes.""yeah...sure." "Okay. I'll be back before nightfall."Marin walked into the tropical forest and that was it. Three hours later, Alexx had amused herself by collected wood for a fire and by fiddling with her device. By pressing the buttons, she dicovered it was called a Digidex, told time, identified digimon and registered basic data about Alexx, like age and physical description. The top button didn't work. It displayed the word rookie, with a bar that want halfway up the screen. The last button, however... "It's a map!" she whispered to herself. It showed that North was whereMarin said it was, and it showed him as a red dot "6.3 km ESE of location." Three more dots were 13.5 km S and 12.2 km NNE. Beside him were two yellow dots. It showed they were walking back to the beach. "I'll give them a minute," she thought happily to herself. "Hmmm...its getting dark quick. Are those storm clouds?"
Meanwhile, Tim and Julie were on the southern tip of the island, a small sandbar that jutted out in to the sea. Tim was wringing out his T-shirt while Julie was mesmerised by the seagulls and the breeze. "We should be going you know. It's not worth waiting here for anyone to show up, they'd be near the beaches walking to find us, if they made it on land. Plus, its getting late." He gave a halfhearted smile towards Julie, but she didn't return it. Tim wondered if she was even paying attention. "You don't look so bad now that you washed the sand and slime out of your hair. Kinda nice." Still no response. "Hmmm...I wonder...you look kinda cute..." Suddenly she snapped back to attention. "Did you say something? I guess I was lost in thought." Tim turned away. "No, I didn't say anything. But we should go."
They started to walk aimlessly up the beach. Tim seemed to be enjoying it by walking barefoot and letting the warm water lap over his feet. Julie was less interesting. "Tim, what do you think of those things? They match a dream that the others and myself had in color. Mine's got the same plum coloring I saw as a plastic grip on the side. It's weird.""We'll find a use for these things sooner or later Julie. I had a similar dream, and mine's a matching color." He held out the bronze device at arm's length. "I don't know what happened back there on the Celierimon. But I 'm sure it was intentional. First things first. We find the digimon and the others. Then we go to the tower."Julie stared at him. He was a born leader. "Yeah..."
They continued to walk up the beach. Thick black clouds were coming in from the west. Tim turned to Julie. "Hey, a storm's coming! We'd better get to the edge of the woods to try and find some shelter there!" Tim and Julie walked into the woods, which was filled with cycads, palms, and plants never seen or extinct to man. suddenly, there was a rustling of leaves. "Julie, did you hear something?""No." More rustling. "I swear I hear something." "Okay then."
Tim gave her a look of frustration. "Just stay here. I'll look around." Tim began walking slowly around the trees and leaves, when he heard a rustling behind him. He whipped around. Back away slowly...slowly..." and straight into Elecmon, who he promptly tripped over. Super- "Oh, sorry Tim. Its okay Nemeamon. You can come out." Nemeamon bounded out of the bush while Elecmon helped Tim up. Nemeamon smiled gleefully. "Hi Tim! Chris is with you, right?"
He gave a sad but well meaning look. "No, only Julie. We haven't seen anyone else." "Oh..." Both Nemeamon and Elecmon looked crushed. Well, we can go back to Julie and keep looking. We'll find them, trust me (characteristic grin)."
They soon were back to where Julie was. She appeared to be frozen. "Is something wrong?" "I'm just worried. I just want to find the others." The clouds were still near the horizon. It was early evening. "Well, we still have time. Let's go...Tim waved his finger above head. "That way, pointing to his left to the direction they were already going. Lets go."