Chapter Four: Digi-Destined Unite

Amanda, Eric, Kitmon, Solarimon and the two strangers were all ready to defend themselves against the unknown danger. The rustling sound was still coming closer.

"Hey! Whoever you are, stay away or there will be trouble!"

Amanda's threat did not stop whatever was coming towards them. The rustling was really close now.

"Sis! It's almost here, what do we do?!" Eric asked Amanda.

"We have to defend ourselves." Amanda told him.

"We have to be strong." The other girl said.

"We have to fight." Amanda continued on to say.

At that point the two figures appeared out of the bushes. One was about the height of the kids, while the other was smaller. Without realizing what it was, Amanda charged at the larger figure, knocking it to the ground.

"Owww!" the boy said as he lay on the ground. "Shouldn't you at least say hi before tackling somebody?"

"Oh, I'm really sorry!" Amanda quickly said as she helped the boy up. "My name's Amanda."

"I'm Kaii." The boy said. "And this is Ribbitomon." Kaii said as he pointed towards the smaller creature.

"Hi Kaii, Hi Amanda, I'm Chloe" said the second girl. "And I'm Tigrimon." Said the red cat.

"I'm Eric! and this is Kitmon." Eric happily said.

"And I'm Solarimon" said the white bird digimon.

"So now that we all know each other" Chloe commented "Does anybody know where we are or why we're here?"

"We're in the digital world." Kaii replied. "and I'm here because I'm following my new digivice." He showed everybody the digivice that he had currently found.

"Hey!" Amanda said as she saw Kaii's digivice. "I have one just like it, but it's yellow."

"Mine's green." Eric said smugly. "and I've got a red one." Said Chloe.

"So we're the digi-destined." Amanda commented.

"Yeah, I guess we are." Chloe replied.

"So what do we do now?" Eric asked.

Kaii looked down at his digivice and the arrow was pointing towards the temple.

"Well." Kaii said. "I don't know about you all, but Ribbitomon and I are going into that temple. Whoever gave me this digivice is guiding me to that temple."

"I'm coming along too" Amanda told him.

"We all are" Chloe replied. "Whoever sent Kaii the digivice probably sent us ours too."

The eight of them walked towards the temple.

"So Kaii, how come you weren't transported to the temple like the rest of us?" Chloe asked.

"Well," Kaii replied. "I didn't travel between worlds, I got my digivice in the digital world.

"So you live here?" Eric asked him

"I guess you could call it that, I've been here for four years."

"You lived here all by yourself for FOUR YEARS?!" Amanda asked. She was completely shocked by what Kaii had just said.

"I didn't live by myself, I was with Ribbitomon."

They entered the temple but it was completely empty. There were torches burning, lighting the way down a long corridor. At the end of the corridor was a big steel door.

"Heh, the lights are on but there's nobody home." Eric said jokingly.

They walked down the corridor and arrived at the door.

"We cannot come with you." Tigrimon told the kids. "Only the sacred digimon and the digi-destined are allowed through those doors."

The four digimon waited outside the doors while the children entered. The room, like the corridor was also lit and completely empty.

"Do you think these sacred digimon are invisible?" Eric asked.

"I don't think so." Amanda said "That wouldn't make any sense."

"And like any of this does?" Chloe blurted out "My life was completely ordinary until all of a sudden my cat is a digimon and I'm chosen to be some digi-destined or whatever. Then I'm zapped into some alternate world and."

"Look!" Kaii interrupted. "There's some kind of engraving on that wall."

The four of them walked over to the rear wall to see the engraving in detail. It was a star and near each point was a hole. At the tip of each point was a drawing. The drawing on the top point was a flame. The next point had a picture of a water droplet, then a sun, then a gem and finally a crescent moon.

"These four pictures match our digivices." Amanda said.

Eric placed his digivice inside the whole next to the gem drawing. "Hey guys! They fit in the holes too!"

Each digi-destined put their digivice in the appropriate hole of the star.

"Wait." Chloe said. "There are five points, but only four of us. One is missing."

"Does that mean that there is another digi-destined kid like us?" asked Eric.

Suddenly there was a loud bang against one of the walls. Then another and the wall began to crack. The next bang knocked a big hole in the wall and three figures walked into the room. The first was very big. It seemed to have horns and looked a bit like a bull standing up. The second was shorter and wore something that looked like a witch's hat. He also had a cape and a rod. The end of the rod was the shape of the sun. The final creature had six black wings and a black staff. He also wore a black helmet that covered his eyes.

"No!" said the six-winged creature. "It means that there's one more of you to kill."