Chapter Two

Meeting Someone New: Chick Power

"OOF!" Miyako puffed landing on her butt. Several other 'oofs' and 'ows' around Iori and Miyako signaled the arrival of more people.

"Why the heck are we back in the digital world?" asked a loud and annoyed voice.

Miyako and Iori turned to see about six others teens, with digivices shaped like the originals shining in their pockets. Only, they didn't know these six teens!

"Excuse me, but who are you? Are you Digidestined?" Iori asked after dusting off the seat of his pants.

"We have digivices, don't we?" one of the girls said sarcastically.

"If you're Digidestined, and there's five girls besides me and only two boys here, that means...there's finally more girls than boys! YES! CHICK POWER!" Miyako said happily with her index finger pointing to the sky high above her head.

"You're weird." Said the one other boy with a raised eyebrow. Miyako blushed. Suddenly, Miyako and Iori's square D3's started beeping loudly.

"Miyako! Are you okay? Where are you?" Ken yelled as she flipped open the top.

"I'm fine." Miyako said confused at Ken's panic.

"Iori, where are you?" asked Koushiro from Iori's small screen.

"OH, HOW CUTE! A BISHIE!" said the girl that had spoken first from behind Iori. She had crept up to see what he and Miyako were talking to.

"Oh no." groaned the guy.

"She's at it again." Said one of the other girls who hadn't spoken before.

"Wha? Me?" squeaked Koushiro pointing at himself baffled and blushing. No one called him a bishonen before.

"Uh huh. What's your name?" she asked with stars in her eyes. The girl who had snapped at Iori grabbed the starry-eyed girl by her long hair while the guy clapped his hand over her mouth.

"Don't listen to her man, she's a total heartbreaker." The guy warned. Koushiro blinked still addlepated.

"We're in the digital world. Hey, an email from Gennai." Iori said quickly while in the back ground the 'heartbreaker' was kicking and waving her arms trying to tell her 'friends' she couldn't breathe. They dropped her as Iori clicked to his new email.

"You know Gennai?" All but the 'heartbreaker' and another unknown girl yelled. The 'heartbreaker' was gasping for air on her hands on knees.

"Yes...he says we all are stuck here. We're not allowed out or others in." Iori frowned.

"What!" Shrilled Ken from Miyako's screen.

"What that guy said." The sarcastic girl muttered.

"He says here that Miyako's and my crests aren't ours, and all of you need crests. We need to find our true quality and not rely on the ones inherited to us. This is a quest for us, the Digidestined without our own selves." Iori summarized. "He also says we'll be accompanied by friends." Just then the 'heartbreaker' squealed.

"PAWMON!" she happily drew an in-training digimon into her arms. Soon, all the teens had their digimon partners with them.

"Hmm, this is strange, Daisuke really can't open the portal..." Koushiro muttered. "I think I understand Gennai, however. All of the first Digidestined like Tai, myself, etc., have crests, one for each of us. Nobody had our crests before us, but you and Miyako have crests already given to another, even if you do posses those qualities quite strongly, you still have one of your own."

"But what about Kari and Takeru and Daisuke and Ken?" Miyako asked angrily.

"Daisuke has the crest of Miracles, Ken has Kindness, those are theirs alone, none of us have them. Takeru and Kari's crests were theirs only, also. They don't need this quest." Koushiro reminded her.

"But what about us? We don't even have crests!" shouted the guy.

"Exactly. You need them for some reason. Even though you didn't save the world. I guess Gennai sees some sort of purpose for you." Koushiro said confused. "I knew there were other Digidestined, but none of the others had crests, only us. I thought only the destined who saved the world would need one." Koushiro answered trailing off into his own musings.

"We are Digidestined; maybe we need to be together for some dark purpose not known to us. Or maybe we just had to meet." Offered the 'heartbreaker'.

"But what good would that do? To just meet? Gennai must have some purpose... I need to get my facts straight and start a hypothesis. Keep in touch, okay?" Koushiro clicked off as he finished leaving the 'heartbreaker' pouting.

"Damn." She cursed sadly.

"We should introduce ourselves. We are stuck together." Iori offered.

"Yeah! Hey, Ken, I'll email you, okay? We have to think of a battle plan! Bye!" Miyako shut it off before he could protest. "I wonder what's wrong with him. He's been acting strangely."

"He cares for you." Said the quiet voice of the one new person who hadn't yelled before. She continued stroking her digimon as if she had said nothing.

"Creepy. She never speaks. But when she does it's like she knows everything we don't." the guy said. "My name's Miyazawa, Touji by the way." He had ocean green eyes and bleached blonde hair. His digimon had a brightly checkered collar on, kind of like a collar a clown would wear. His left eye had a black diamond spot and his large round body was white. He also had huge red shoes for feet. "This is Circusmon."

"My name is Aizuka, Shizuko. This is my digimon Quimon." Said the sarcastic girl. Shizuko had black eyes and hair so ruby red it seemed black. Her digimon had a black mask over the bottom part of his face and two feet in black slippers. Three deadly looking spikes, which looked like the blades of a stiletto, were sticking out of the top of his head.

"I'm Melina Hopkins. I'm from Hawaii. But I'm really English. My digimon is Lizmon." Said the girl who had groaned when the 'heartbreaker' started 'to get to know' Koushiro. She had tan skin and strawberry blonde hair and purplish blue eyes. Her digimon looked like a lizard head with no body, but with a tail too long for its ball-like body.

"My name is Kudo, Yukina. This is my digimon, Finmon." Said the other quieter girl. In her arms was a blue digimon with a tail like a miniature whale's, and a shark dorsal fin on its head. Yukina had mousy brown hair and muddy brown eyes.

"My name is Subaru, Motoko! This is Pawmon!" the 'heartbreaker' exclaimed happily. While Yukina had mousy brown hair, hers was a rich dark color of mahogany with light streaks of natural gold, her eyes were a merry green and she had a large smile on her face. Her digimon had a mane of the same color as her hair and two huge clawed paws. He had a very catlike face.

"OH MY GOD! YOU'RE THE GIRL WHO WROTE THAT CAMELOT PLAY!" Miyako shrieked with her finger pointing at her face.

"Um, you mean 'Mists over Camelot'? Yeah, I got most of the ideas from my favorite book and movie 'Mists of Avalon'. It's American. Why? Oh, you're from that high school that's playing it?"

"Yes! I'm Gwenhwyfar!" Miyako said excitedly.

"Oh really? Oh, you're perfect! Maybe I'll come and watch. Um, will that really cute red head be there? OW!" Motoko cried rubbing the large bump on her head. Shizuko stood behind with her fist smoking and her eyebrow twitching.

"Shut up, you heartbreaker." Shizuko growled.

"Hey! That hurts! Oh, I guess we better introduce you to Tsubaki. This is Tsubaki, Tsubaki. Her parents aren't that imaginative. She has like eight other siblings all with names like two letters different." Motoko explained with a roll of her eyes. "She pretty quiet but really sweet and kind. You just never realize it until after she's already gone."

Miyako and Iori turned to see the girl that had only spoken one sentence, a really weird one for Miyako. She had hair that seemed the essence of blonde, a very yellow-like gold. Her skin was as white as snow and her eyes were half-closed with her long pale lashes hiding the color of her irises.

"I'm Baublemon!" said her digimon happily. It had huge butterfly wings and a light pink body and one eye.

"Well, I'm Inoue, Miyako. This is my digimon Poromon." Miyako said rubbing the pink fluff that covered Poromon's round body.

"I'm Hida, Iori. This is Upamon." He said pulling out his digivice. "We really need to find a place to spend the night. It might take us a while to gather all we need, so we should start out now."

"Who the hell made you boss?" snapped Touji.

"What? That's not it. I'm just trying to plan the best course of action. We're stuck here. We might as well be safe and stuck here. That's all. I'm not assuming leadership. That's Daisuke's job." He ended sadly wishing his boisterous friend were here.

"Who's Daisuke? Is he cute too?" asked Motoko dusting off Pawmon.

"SHUT UP! YOU BOY CRAZY WACKO!" shouted Melina and Shizuko together.

"Okay, ow, need earplugs or a hearing device." Motoko winced rubbing her ear.

"I think Iori's right, Touji. Let's start looking for somewhere to spend the night." Shizuko agreed after breathing loudly through her mouth to calm down.

"Great even my girlfriend is listening to a pipsqueak acting older than his age. What are you, ten?" asked Touji pissed.

"Miyazawa, Touji." Shizuko said with narrowing eyes.

"He's sixteen years old, you idiot. I suggest you stop acting like a piss ass before I give you a black eye." Miyako hissed raising a fist.

"I guess shorty here is a ladies man. Do what you want. I have no choice now do I, pipsqueak?" Touji asked with a smile that didn't reach his angry eyes.

"Touji damn it. Stop being a jealous idiot. Just because you aren't the only boy anymore doesn't mean you don't rock hard, okay? Geez." Melina snapped pissed. "Get over your self."

"Shut the fuck up, Mel." Touji snapped back turned away and walking away from the group.

"Touji needs to calm down." Tsubaki said in her quiet voice as she stood.

"Yeah, I'll go talk to him. He has issues." Shizuko said with a shrug like it didn't matter.

"This is not how it should be. We're a team. We shouldn't be fighting. And Miyako, I understand that you wanted to help, but you may have made it worse. But thank you." Iori sighed frustrated a little; using the calming techniques his grandfather had taught him. A pale hand touched his shoulder and he turned surprised to see a golden head of hair at his shoulder. She's so small...he thought startled. "Thanks, Tsubaki." He whispered as she squeezed his shoulder softly. He instantly felt a calming effect wash over him at her silence and touch.

They then set out, Shizuko and Touji a ways behind them talking to each other lowly.

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