A.N: Thank you to everyone who reviewed, I appreciate your comments. I'm sorry I haven't updated this in so long, but this was one of my dodgy earlier fics. Now I've had more experience I've decided to come back and update. Please keep reviewing!
Disclaimer: I do not own Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon or Digimon. They belong to their respective owners and the only thing I own is the plotline of this story.
Chapter 4: They're After UsUsagi felt uncomfortable. She wasn't good with change and didn't like the prospects of how long she and her friends would have to stay here in this strange world. Already, after only a few hours, she was tired, hungry, cold and wanting to go home. She missed her nice warm bed, she missed her mum's cooking, and she missed Shin-chan's teasing. She missed her father coming home and telling them about the photos he'd taken that day. Did they realise she was missing yet? What would they do? Was Mamoru worried too?
'Mamoru…'Usagi sighed. It was true she'd been separated from him before, even by death – but now from what she gathered, she wasn't even in his universe. It was hard to keep up with the techno-babble Izzy and Ami kept talking in. Usagi lied her head on the hard dirt floor, and pulled her legs up to conserve warmth.
"Ow…" she moaned as she removed a large stick underneath her head. She glanced over at the group, sitting around a large campfire. Usagi had been camping before and that was bad enough, at least then they had tents and sleeping bags and food and Mamoru had been there…
Usagi sighed.
"I can't go home till we defeat these monsters…I hate monsters…" Usagi said softly, frowning. She wasn't sure she could do it, even with the Senshi and the Digidestined's help. Plus, the monsters were scary. Usagi hated scary.
It wasn't as if the Digidestined weren't their friends and allies already. Ami and Izzy were getting along very well, engrossed in looking at something on Izzy's orange pineapple. Mimi and Palamon were discussing idols or maybe clothes in the far-left corner of the group. Most of the digimon were asleep next to the beginning of a line of thick trees. Makoto was talking to Joe about which food seemed edible and the goggle-boy…Kai or Tai something and his Digimon was rugged up in a sleeping bag close to the fire. The two little kids were leaning against each other opposite him, also in their warm sleeping bags. Earlier on, the Senshi had been told that they had brought this stuff from home and this wasn't the first time they had been stuck in the Digitalworld. Usagi didn't listen to all the details but she realised that her group didn't have any.
Usagi frowned as she realised that Rei, Yamato and Gabumon were missing.
'I hope Rei-chan doesn't get lost…'"Hey, you look like you need this more then me" said a kind voice above Usagi. Usagi smiled nervously as the girl pushed her sleeping bag towards her. Usagi quickly clamoured into the bag, but bowed in thanks, but had forgotten the girl's name. The girl laughed.
"It's Sora" the brunette said to the blonde. Usagi smiled.
"Usagi. Thankyou again for this…won't you be cold?" Usagi said frowning at the Sora in concern. Sora shook her head and adjusted her blue helmet.
"We once had to walk on snow for a few days with nothing – no sleeping bags, no food. Compared to that, this is the Bahamas" Sora laughed, "I'll be fine, don't worry. It's not your fault you guys came here without stuff"
"What's that sound Sora? It sounds so sad…" Usagi said, hearing something in the distance. Sora sighed dreamily.
"That's Matt-san. He's playing with his harmonica again."
"Does he always go off like that?" Usagi asked and Sora nodded.
"He's got a lot to deal with…I know exactly how he feels" Sora said looking at the ground, remembering the dark cloud that had almost incased her. She knew Matt had suffered from the same thing. Usagi looked at her curiously.
"What do you mean?"
"It's not really any of my business. He's better then he was before, at any rate." Sora said sighing. Usagi frowned. She knew someone who'd suffered pain too. Actually, she knew a lot of people who'd suffered great pain before. She knew that in this life she'd been incredibly lucky.
"I'm worried about my family Sora. Does yours worry when you're here?" Usagi asked. Sora shook her head again.
"One day here is bearly a second in our world. We could spend whole years here and no one in our world would notice."
"Oh…" Usagi sighed. Sora hugged her and smiled.
"Hey, don't worry, we'll get you home again. Everyone is sent here for a purpose – once they've fulfilled that purpose they get to go back home"
"Is it worth it? I mean doing that purpose?" Usagi asked. She'd never been sure about her actions in the past and now it just seemed to have reached boiling point. She wouldn't be able to go home until after her "purpose" was fulfilled. It sounded kind of evil. Usagi shuddered.
"Of course it's worth it. Us, Digidestined had saved many lives, we learnt more about ourselves, and we made an awesome group of friends from all over. We've found out what makes us who we are"
Sora smiled and pulled a chain from underneath her yellow tank top. On the chain was a pretty pink heart inside a golden tab.
"These are the Digicrests. I'm the crest of love"
"I think that's about right" Usagi smiled.
'I wonder what crest I'd be…'"What's everyone else?" Usagi asked, focusing on the rest of the group.
"Tai's the crest of courage, Mimi's the crest of sincerity, Yamato has the crest of friendship, TK's the crest of hope, Izzy is the crest of knowledge, Joe's is reliability and Kairi's is the very important crest of light"
"They help the Digimon evolve right?"
"Yeah. It's like a fancy power boost" Sora said.
"Kind of like our henshin stick power-ups…" Usagi mumbled. Sora gave her a weird look.
"What?" Usagi blinked and went red.
'Whoops…'"Don't worry. Talking about a…um...TV show. Yeah, a TV show. Like one of those magic-girl animes…" Usagi said nervously. Sora shrugged.
"Ok, then…"
"Can you tell me about these evil Digimon?" Usagi asked. She might as well know something about what she had to defeat. Sora appeared to be thinking and then said:
"Well, there's not much to say. They just appeared one day and started creating havoc. They appear to leave the Digimon that they don't datasize breathless without energy. They tried to steal our crests once too"
Usagi blinked.
'Pluto said it was an enemy we knew…but this sounds like just about EVERY enemy we've ever defeated…'
"Do they seem to be doing anything in particular?" Sora bit her lip.
"Just collecting energy"
'Yeah,' thought Usagi, 'every bad guy seems to do that'
"I guess really, they just have a grunge against us. They are looking for something, I'm sure, or waiting for something but we don't know. Maybe, they were waiting for you guys to show up"
Usagi thought for a minute, the fire crackling, and the sad echoing sound of Matt's harmonica, the soft chatter of her friends.
"Maybe, they're after us"
All done! R&R!
… # Rei Ant # …
