Night had fallen and the eight travelers were still wandering through the
forest on their way to Kaii's house. Chloe, Eric and Ribbitomon were in
front and were followed by Tigrimon and Lupemon. Kaii, Amanda and Solarimon
were towards the back of the group. Kaii was still carrying Amanda, who
remained unconscious.
"So you've been here for four entire years?!" Chloe asked Ribbitomon
"Actually, I've been here my entire life. I wasn't born in the real world like you." He replied.
"But, Then how are you Kaii's digimon partner?" Eric asked the digimon. "Lupemon and I have been together all my life."
"Well, I wasn't Kaii's."
"RIBITOMON!" Kaii interrupted.
"What?" Ribbitomon protested.
"I just don't want to talk about it." Kaii told the digimon.
There was an awkward pause after Kaii's interruption. Everybody wanted to say something, but they didn't know what. Finally, Chloe broke the silence.
"So Eric," she asked "where did you and Amanda grow up?"
"New York" he replied.
"WOW!" she told him. "You're so lucky! It must've been so cool to see New York with all those digimon. I grew up in a mountain village."
"That must've been fun." Said Solarimon.
"No," Chloe replied sternly. "Believe me, it wasn't."
The group left the forest and entered a large plain. The moonlight dimly lit the tall grass and some houses could be seen on the horizon.
"I live over there." Kaii stated. He pointed towards the houses.
They all walked into the tall grass. When they were about halfway through the field when Eric cried out.
"STOP! I saw something move over there!" He pointed to the left.
"I don't see anything." Tigrimon said.
"Maybe you were just imagining it?" Solarimon suggested.
"No!" Eric replied. "I KNOW I saw it. It looked like a blur through the grass."
"Let's keep moving." Chloe told the group. "Whatever it was, I don't think we have to worry about it, and we're almost at Kaii's house."
The group continued to move across the tall grass.
"I saw something moving really fast over there!" Chloe said. She pointed to the right of the group.
"Whatever it is, it's circling us!" Eric cried out.
"We have to get out of this field!" Tigrimon said.
"All right." Kaii told everybody. "On the count of three, everybody run as fast as they can towards those houses."
"One" Solarimon said.
"Two" Lupemon continued.
"Three!" Kaii said loudly.
Everybody ran as fast as they could towards the village. As they ran, the blur kept appearing. First it was on the left, then the right. It then zoomed by in front of them, causing Chloe and Tigrimon (who were in the lead) to stop abruptly and fall down. Eric and Ribbitomon helped them up and they continued to run. Chloe, Tigrimon, Eric, Lupemon, Ribbitomon and Solarimon made it out of the forest, but Kaii was having trouble running and carrying Amanda at the same time.
The blur suddenly began to circle Amanda and Kaii. At first it was far away from the two, but eventually it became closer and closer. Then the creature stopped right in front of Kaii and Amanda. The creature looked like a woman covered in white feathers. The woman then opened its mouth and let out a might shriek. Sound waves radiated out of its mouth and caused the digimon and digi-destined to cover their ears in pain. The creature then flew off into the forest.
Kaii and Amanda then joined up with the others and they all continued on to the village.
"The houses are all so little." Chloe said surprisingly.
The group walked past the village of houses and each house was only a little taller than Kaii.
"It's an Elecmon village. Elecmon aren't very big, so their houses don't need to be big either." Kaii explained.
"Is YOUR house this small?" Eric asked.
"Of course not." Ribbitomon told him. "Our house is much bigger. I'm not sure if we'll all have much room though. It was built for only Kaii and me."
The group continued to travel through the village and towards the outskirts there was a house larger than the rest.
"Welcome home." Ribbitomon said as he ran into the house.
Everybody followed him.
The house consisted of two rooms. The first room was the one all the children were standing in. In the corner of the room there was a small table and two chairs. On the other side of the room there were two couches with a rug in between. There was also a fireplace on the rear wall. Beside the fireplace was a doorway that led into the second room.
"This is it." Ribbitomon said. "So what do we do now?"
"I'm thinking sleep." Chloe said yawning.
"Me too." Lupemon said.
"Then let's all get some sleep." Kaii told them all. "We'll talk more about what to do in the morning."
With that he walked towards the bedroom with Amanda still in his arms. Solarimon followed. Kaii placed Amanda on the bed and then told Solarimon to stay there. Kaii tiptoed out of the bedroom and past the sleeping others. He left the house and walked towards the village. He arrived at a well in the middle of the tiny village and filled a bucket up with water. He then returned to the house and went back into the bedroom. He moistened her forehead with a wed piece of cloth and then turned to Solarimon.
"I'm not sure what I can do to help her here." He said to the digimon.
"Is there anyplace we could go that would help her?" the digimon asked.
"There's a village a days walk from here that has a digimon hospital, we'll go there in the morning. You can go to sleep now Solarimon, I'll stay awake to make sure Amanda stays fine."
"But." Solarimon said.
"She'll be fine." Kaii assured her. "I won't let anything happen to her."
With that Solarimon hesitantly flew to a corner of the bedroom and closed her eyes.
"The children have arrived at the Elecmon village." The feathered woman informed Minotaurumon. "I suspect they are staying there for the night, should I go and destroy them?"
"No." replied the bull-like digimon. "I'll send somebody else." The digimon paused and then turned around. "Snimon!"
A large green digimon flew down from the sky. The digimon looked like a praying mantis with two large sickles for arms.
"Snimon, you will destroy the digi-destined children."
The digimon gave a loud cry and flew off into the distance.
"The children are weak, as are their digimon." Minotaurumon said to himself. "This will be easy."
The sun rose and shown though the window of Kaii's house, awakening Chloe. She looked around and at first she didn't realize where she was. She thought she was back in the mountain village with her mom. She soon realized where she was when she saw Tigrimon. It was amazing that Tigrimon was her cat for all these years and she didn't notice it. She looked around the room and also saw Eric, Ribbitomon and Lupemon. She knew that they'd be hungry when they got up so she decided to make breakfast
Chloe walked into the bedroom and found Kaii at the foot of the bed placing a freshly moistened washcloth on Amanda's forehead. Chloe opened her mouth to say something but Kaii stopped her. He then pointed at Solarimon who was still asleep. Kaii then got up and walked closer to her so she could whisper.
"I want to make breakfast for everybody." Chloe said. "Is there any food here?"
"No." Kaii replied. "But there's a small orchard behind the house and across the river. You should be able to get some fruit there."
"Thanks!" Chloe said as she enthusiastically as she rushed out of the room. She crept through the main room and made it all the way to the door without waking anybody up. She opened the door and it let out a creaking noise, causing Eric to stir. Eric got up and rushed over to Chloe.
"So where are we going?" Eric asked.
"I don't know about us, but I'm going to get some fruit for everybody's breakfast. Why don't you go back to sleep, I'll be back in a few minutes." Chloe stated.
"Fine." Eric stated.
Chloe could tell that he was disappointed but she didn't want him coming along. This world was so new for them, and she didn't know what dangers might be out there. Eric went back to where he had slept and closed his eyes. Chloe then left the house and began to walk towards the river.
Back in the house, Eric opened his eyes again and sneaked out the door. He began to follow Chloe, making sure that she didn't see him. Chloe crossed the river and entered a small area with all kinds of fruit growing from trees. Some of the fruit looked familiar but some of the fruit looked completely foreign to her. She began to pick some fruit when she heard a twig snap behind her. She looked around and saw Eric running behind a tree to hide himself.
"Eric!" Chloe scolded. "I told you to stay in the house. You have no idea what's out here, it could be dangerous."
"Hey hey" Eric said smugly. "You don't know what's out here either. It's dangerous for you too. I'm here to protect you."
"Sure." Chloe said as she tossed him one of the odd looking fruits. "Why not take a bite of that one, see if it's poisonous."
Eric laughed and picked another fruit from a tree and tossed it at Chloe, hitting her in the leg. Chloe laughed at the boy and picked up another fruit and sneered at Eric jokingly. Chloe then saw a look of sheer terror appear on Eric's face.
"Eric, don't be scared. I'm only kidding!" Chloe said cheerfully.
"It's nnnnot you that I'm afraid of." Eric stuttered. "It's him!"
Eric pointed behind Chloe. Chloe turned around and saw the same large praying mantis digimon that Minotaurumon had sent. The digimon let out a loud cry and chopped a nearby tree in half with one of large sickles.
"Eric! Get out of here!" Chloe screamed towards the boy. "Get the others! Get help!" Eric immediately ran away from the orchard and across the river. He ran all the way to the house and burst through the door.
"Everybody wake up!" Eric screamed at the top of his lungs. "Chloe is in danger, she needs our help!"
Kaii and the four digimon rushed out the house and Eric joined them as they ran towards the orchard. There they found Chloe running from tree to tree in an attempt to avoid the digimon. This was not working; the digimon would simply destroy the tree that she was hiding behind, causing her to run to a new tree.
"What is that?!" Solarimon asked. "I've never seen a bug that big."
"Eric." Kaii ordered. "Press the button on your digivice."
They both pressed the button and their digivices turned into the headset.
'Welcome to Battle Mode' the electronic voice said.
Kaii's Digivice locked on to the unknown digimon.
'Snimon'. The voice said. 'This insect digimon is not very smart but it's strength more than makes up for it. It's twin sickle attack leaves its opponents in the dust.'
"Chloe!" Eric cried out. "We're here!"
Chloe looked over at her friends and away from Snimon. The insect digimon took full advantage of this opportunity and sliced the tree she was hiding behind in half. Chloe didn't notice the tree as it fell towards her.
"CHLOE!" Tigrimon cried out as her and the other three digimon ran towards the girl.
"Razor Wind!" "Hydro-Shot!"
Solarimon and Ribbitomon unleashed their attacks and destroyed the falling tree before it landed on Chloe. The four digimon then focused on Snimon.
"Razor Wind!" "Tail Quake!" "Hydro-Shot!" "Flaming Arrow!"
All four digimon attacked Snimon, but there wasn't a scratch on the massive digimon.
"TWIN SICKLE!"
Snimon retaliated and shot two waves of purple light at the four digimon. Snimon's attack hit just in front of the digimon and caused the ground to explode beneath them. Ribbitomon and Lupemon got the worst of the explosion and were thrown against one of the few remaining trees.
"Lupemon!" "Ribbitomon!"
Eric and Kaii ran towards their fallen digimon.
Snimon then began to flap its massive wings and rose off the ground. The insect digimon then began to move towards Kaii's house.
Chloe looked around at what had just happened in shock. She couldn't let the same thing happen to Tigrimon, she just couldn't.
"I won't let you pass!" Solarimon said as she placed herself between Snimon and the house. "I won't let you harm Amanda!"
"Razor Wind!"
Snimon lifted one of it's sickles and deflected the attack right back at Solarimon, knocking her to the ground.
"Flaming Arr."
"STOP!" Chloe cried out, stopping her digimon's attack. "I don't want to get hurt. I don't want to loose you!"
"Chloe, I have too. I can't let Snimon get to Amanda. We have to protect our friends."
"But he's too strong for you!' Chloe told the little tiger.
"Don't you think I know that, but I can't just sit here and do nothing?" Tigrimon told Chloe. "I'm going to stop Snimon but I'll need your help. I can't do it without you."
"I want to help." Chloe said quietly.
"You have to be brave Chloe, you have to protect your friends like they protected you."
"You're right Tigrimon, they did protect me. Even though I just met these people, they were willing to protect me. I have to do the same. let's go Tigrimon!"
Chloe then pressed the same button on her digivice that Kaii and Eric had pressed. Her digivice then turned into a headset.
'Welcome to Battle Mode' the digivice said.
Chloe and Tigrimon ran towards Snimon, who had crossed the river was just approaching the house.
"Hey bug-boy!" Chloe said as she yelled at Snimon. "You must think you're pretty tough huh? Picking on little kids and their digimon. But you're not facing any kids anymore, you're facing me and I won't let you get to that house. I'm going to defeat you and there's nothing you can do to stop me. You hurt my friends and now it's time to pay!"
"Flaming Arrow!"
Tigrimon launched her attack towards Snimon. and it singed one of its wings, causing the beast to crash to the ground. Snimon gave out a cry of pain and turned around to face Chloe and Tigrimon.
"Twin Sickles!"
Snimon's launched his attack towards Tigrimon.
"TIGRIMON!!!" Chloe screamed out as she ran in front of the blast. "I won't let him hurt you!"
Chloe's digivice beeped and she hear a mechanical voice say
'Digivolution activate'
Tigrimon then began to glow
"I can feel your strength Chloe. It's surging inside me. I can digivolve."
Tigrimon grew over ten times her normal size and her red fur slowly began to fade to white. Her teeth elongated and curved and became too large to fit in her mouth. Tigrimon now looked like a large white tiger with the teeth of a Saber tooth Tiger.
'Tigrimon digivolve to. SIBERIMON!"
Chloe's digivice locked on to the new digimon.
'Siberimon: This champion digimon can survive even in the coldest of temperatures. Her Fire Javelin attack makes this digimon a formidable foe.'
"You grew." Chloe said in awe.
"Not only that." Siberimon said, "I'm also strong enough to wipe out this bug."
Siberimon ran towards Snimon and pounced on the insect, knocking him to the ground.
"Fire Javelin!"
A large beam of fire shot out of Siberimon's mouth and struck Snimon. This caused Snimon to explode into millions of tiny bits.
Siberimon then began to glow and then reverted back to Tigrimon.
"Chloe! We did it!" Tigrimon cried in joy as she ran to the girl.
"But you killed him!" Chloe said.
"Not exactly." Kaii told the group. "When a digimon is decompiled in the digital world, it turns back into an egg. No digimon ever dies, they only get reconfigured."
"Ugh." Ribbitomon said. "All this talk of eggs has got me hungry." "Me too!" Lupemon added.
"Then let's get cooking!" Chloe told the bunch.
The group returned to Kaii's house with whatever fruit wasn't destroyed. They then made themselves breakfast and prepared to embark on their adventure.
"Where are we going again?" Lupemon asked Ribbitomon.
"We're going to Sukoza, the closest digital city. They have a medical center there. Hopefully we'll be able to heal Amanda."
"Then what are we waiting for." Solarimon said excitingly "Let's go!"
"Snimon may have failed me, but my next warrior will not."
"So you've been here for four entire years?!" Chloe asked Ribbitomon
"Actually, I've been here my entire life. I wasn't born in the real world like you." He replied.
"But, Then how are you Kaii's digimon partner?" Eric asked the digimon. "Lupemon and I have been together all my life."
"Well, I wasn't Kaii's."
"RIBITOMON!" Kaii interrupted.
"What?" Ribbitomon protested.
"I just don't want to talk about it." Kaii told the digimon.
There was an awkward pause after Kaii's interruption. Everybody wanted to say something, but they didn't know what. Finally, Chloe broke the silence.
"So Eric," she asked "where did you and Amanda grow up?"
"New York" he replied.
"WOW!" she told him. "You're so lucky! It must've been so cool to see New York with all those digimon. I grew up in a mountain village."
"That must've been fun." Said Solarimon.
"No," Chloe replied sternly. "Believe me, it wasn't."
The group left the forest and entered a large plain. The moonlight dimly lit the tall grass and some houses could be seen on the horizon.
"I live over there." Kaii stated. He pointed towards the houses.
They all walked into the tall grass. When they were about halfway through the field when Eric cried out.
"STOP! I saw something move over there!" He pointed to the left.
"I don't see anything." Tigrimon said.
"Maybe you were just imagining it?" Solarimon suggested.
"No!" Eric replied. "I KNOW I saw it. It looked like a blur through the grass."
"Let's keep moving." Chloe told the group. "Whatever it was, I don't think we have to worry about it, and we're almost at Kaii's house."
The group continued to move across the tall grass.
"I saw something moving really fast over there!" Chloe said. She pointed to the right of the group.
"Whatever it is, it's circling us!" Eric cried out.
"We have to get out of this field!" Tigrimon said.
"All right." Kaii told everybody. "On the count of three, everybody run as fast as they can towards those houses."
"One" Solarimon said.
"Two" Lupemon continued.
"Three!" Kaii said loudly.
Everybody ran as fast as they could towards the village. As they ran, the blur kept appearing. First it was on the left, then the right. It then zoomed by in front of them, causing Chloe and Tigrimon (who were in the lead) to stop abruptly and fall down. Eric and Ribbitomon helped them up and they continued to run. Chloe, Tigrimon, Eric, Lupemon, Ribbitomon and Solarimon made it out of the forest, but Kaii was having trouble running and carrying Amanda at the same time.
The blur suddenly began to circle Amanda and Kaii. At first it was far away from the two, but eventually it became closer and closer. Then the creature stopped right in front of Kaii and Amanda. The creature looked like a woman covered in white feathers. The woman then opened its mouth and let out a might shriek. Sound waves radiated out of its mouth and caused the digimon and digi-destined to cover their ears in pain. The creature then flew off into the forest.
Kaii and Amanda then joined up with the others and they all continued on to the village.
"The houses are all so little." Chloe said surprisingly.
The group walked past the village of houses and each house was only a little taller than Kaii.
"It's an Elecmon village. Elecmon aren't very big, so their houses don't need to be big either." Kaii explained.
"Is YOUR house this small?" Eric asked.
"Of course not." Ribbitomon told him. "Our house is much bigger. I'm not sure if we'll all have much room though. It was built for only Kaii and me."
The group continued to travel through the village and towards the outskirts there was a house larger than the rest.
"Welcome home." Ribbitomon said as he ran into the house.
Everybody followed him.
The house consisted of two rooms. The first room was the one all the children were standing in. In the corner of the room there was a small table and two chairs. On the other side of the room there were two couches with a rug in between. There was also a fireplace on the rear wall. Beside the fireplace was a doorway that led into the second room.
"This is it." Ribbitomon said. "So what do we do now?"
"I'm thinking sleep." Chloe said yawning.
"Me too." Lupemon said.
"Then let's all get some sleep." Kaii told them all. "We'll talk more about what to do in the morning."
With that he walked towards the bedroom with Amanda still in his arms. Solarimon followed. Kaii placed Amanda on the bed and then told Solarimon to stay there. Kaii tiptoed out of the bedroom and past the sleeping others. He left the house and walked towards the village. He arrived at a well in the middle of the tiny village and filled a bucket up with water. He then returned to the house and went back into the bedroom. He moistened her forehead with a wed piece of cloth and then turned to Solarimon.
"I'm not sure what I can do to help her here." He said to the digimon.
"Is there anyplace we could go that would help her?" the digimon asked.
"There's a village a days walk from here that has a digimon hospital, we'll go there in the morning. You can go to sleep now Solarimon, I'll stay awake to make sure Amanda stays fine."
"But." Solarimon said.
"She'll be fine." Kaii assured her. "I won't let anything happen to her."
With that Solarimon hesitantly flew to a corner of the bedroom and closed her eyes.
"The children have arrived at the Elecmon village." The feathered woman informed Minotaurumon. "I suspect they are staying there for the night, should I go and destroy them?"
"No." replied the bull-like digimon. "I'll send somebody else." The digimon paused and then turned around. "Snimon!"
A large green digimon flew down from the sky. The digimon looked like a praying mantis with two large sickles for arms.
"Snimon, you will destroy the digi-destined children."
The digimon gave a loud cry and flew off into the distance.
"The children are weak, as are their digimon." Minotaurumon said to himself. "This will be easy."
The sun rose and shown though the window of Kaii's house, awakening Chloe. She looked around and at first she didn't realize where she was. She thought she was back in the mountain village with her mom. She soon realized where she was when she saw Tigrimon. It was amazing that Tigrimon was her cat for all these years and she didn't notice it. She looked around the room and also saw Eric, Ribbitomon and Lupemon. She knew that they'd be hungry when they got up so she decided to make breakfast
Chloe walked into the bedroom and found Kaii at the foot of the bed placing a freshly moistened washcloth on Amanda's forehead. Chloe opened her mouth to say something but Kaii stopped her. He then pointed at Solarimon who was still asleep. Kaii then got up and walked closer to her so she could whisper.
"I want to make breakfast for everybody." Chloe said. "Is there any food here?"
"No." Kaii replied. "But there's a small orchard behind the house and across the river. You should be able to get some fruit there."
"Thanks!" Chloe said as she enthusiastically as she rushed out of the room. She crept through the main room and made it all the way to the door without waking anybody up. She opened the door and it let out a creaking noise, causing Eric to stir. Eric got up and rushed over to Chloe.
"So where are we going?" Eric asked.
"I don't know about us, but I'm going to get some fruit for everybody's breakfast. Why don't you go back to sleep, I'll be back in a few minutes." Chloe stated.
"Fine." Eric stated.
Chloe could tell that he was disappointed but she didn't want him coming along. This world was so new for them, and she didn't know what dangers might be out there. Eric went back to where he had slept and closed his eyes. Chloe then left the house and began to walk towards the river.
Back in the house, Eric opened his eyes again and sneaked out the door. He began to follow Chloe, making sure that she didn't see him. Chloe crossed the river and entered a small area with all kinds of fruit growing from trees. Some of the fruit looked familiar but some of the fruit looked completely foreign to her. She began to pick some fruit when she heard a twig snap behind her. She looked around and saw Eric running behind a tree to hide himself.
"Eric!" Chloe scolded. "I told you to stay in the house. You have no idea what's out here, it could be dangerous."
"Hey hey" Eric said smugly. "You don't know what's out here either. It's dangerous for you too. I'm here to protect you."
"Sure." Chloe said as she tossed him one of the odd looking fruits. "Why not take a bite of that one, see if it's poisonous."
Eric laughed and picked another fruit from a tree and tossed it at Chloe, hitting her in the leg. Chloe laughed at the boy and picked up another fruit and sneered at Eric jokingly. Chloe then saw a look of sheer terror appear on Eric's face.
"Eric, don't be scared. I'm only kidding!" Chloe said cheerfully.
"It's nnnnot you that I'm afraid of." Eric stuttered. "It's him!"
Eric pointed behind Chloe. Chloe turned around and saw the same large praying mantis digimon that Minotaurumon had sent. The digimon let out a loud cry and chopped a nearby tree in half with one of large sickles.
"Eric! Get out of here!" Chloe screamed towards the boy. "Get the others! Get help!" Eric immediately ran away from the orchard and across the river. He ran all the way to the house and burst through the door.
"Everybody wake up!" Eric screamed at the top of his lungs. "Chloe is in danger, she needs our help!"
Kaii and the four digimon rushed out the house and Eric joined them as they ran towards the orchard. There they found Chloe running from tree to tree in an attempt to avoid the digimon. This was not working; the digimon would simply destroy the tree that she was hiding behind, causing her to run to a new tree.
"What is that?!" Solarimon asked. "I've never seen a bug that big."
"Eric." Kaii ordered. "Press the button on your digivice."
They both pressed the button and their digivices turned into the headset.
'Welcome to Battle Mode' the electronic voice said.
Kaii's Digivice locked on to the unknown digimon.
'Snimon'. The voice said. 'This insect digimon is not very smart but it's strength more than makes up for it. It's twin sickle attack leaves its opponents in the dust.'
"Chloe!" Eric cried out. "We're here!"
Chloe looked over at her friends and away from Snimon. The insect digimon took full advantage of this opportunity and sliced the tree she was hiding behind in half. Chloe didn't notice the tree as it fell towards her.
"CHLOE!" Tigrimon cried out as her and the other three digimon ran towards the girl.
"Razor Wind!" "Hydro-Shot!"
Solarimon and Ribbitomon unleashed their attacks and destroyed the falling tree before it landed on Chloe. The four digimon then focused on Snimon.
"Razor Wind!" "Tail Quake!" "Hydro-Shot!" "Flaming Arrow!"
All four digimon attacked Snimon, but there wasn't a scratch on the massive digimon.
"TWIN SICKLE!"
Snimon retaliated and shot two waves of purple light at the four digimon. Snimon's attack hit just in front of the digimon and caused the ground to explode beneath them. Ribbitomon and Lupemon got the worst of the explosion and were thrown against one of the few remaining trees.
"Lupemon!" "Ribbitomon!"
Eric and Kaii ran towards their fallen digimon.
Snimon then began to flap its massive wings and rose off the ground. The insect digimon then began to move towards Kaii's house.
Chloe looked around at what had just happened in shock. She couldn't let the same thing happen to Tigrimon, she just couldn't.
"I won't let you pass!" Solarimon said as she placed herself between Snimon and the house. "I won't let you harm Amanda!"
"Razor Wind!"
Snimon lifted one of it's sickles and deflected the attack right back at Solarimon, knocking her to the ground.
"Flaming Arr."
"STOP!" Chloe cried out, stopping her digimon's attack. "I don't want to get hurt. I don't want to loose you!"
"Chloe, I have too. I can't let Snimon get to Amanda. We have to protect our friends."
"But he's too strong for you!' Chloe told the little tiger.
"Don't you think I know that, but I can't just sit here and do nothing?" Tigrimon told Chloe. "I'm going to stop Snimon but I'll need your help. I can't do it without you."
"I want to help." Chloe said quietly.
"You have to be brave Chloe, you have to protect your friends like they protected you."
"You're right Tigrimon, they did protect me. Even though I just met these people, they were willing to protect me. I have to do the same. let's go Tigrimon!"
Chloe then pressed the same button on her digivice that Kaii and Eric had pressed. Her digivice then turned into a headset.
'Welcome to Battle Mode' the digivice said.
Chloe and Tigrimon ran towards Snimon, who had crossed the river was just approaching the house.
"Hey bug-boy!" Chloe said as she yelled at Snimon. "You must think you're pretty tough huh? Picking on little kids and their digimon. But you're not facing any kids anymore, you're facing me and I won't let you get to that house. I'm going to defeat you and there's nothing you can do to stop me. You hurt my friends and now it's time to pay!"
"Flaming Arrow!"
Tigrimon launched her attack towards Snimon. and it singed one of its wings, causing the beast to crash to the ground. Snimon gave out a cry of pain and turned around to face Chloe and Tigrimon.
"Twin Sickles!"
Snimon's launched his attack towards Tigrimon.
"TIGRIMON!!!" Chloe screamed out as she ran in front of the blast. "I won't let him hurt you!"
Chloe's digivice beeped and she hear a mechanical voice say
'Digivolution activate'
Tigrimon then began to glow
"I can feel your strength Chloe. It's surging inside me. I can digivolve."
Tigrimon grew over ten times her normal size and her red fur slowly began to fade to white. Her teeth elongated and curved and became too large to fit in her mouth. Tigrimon now looked like a large white tiger with the teeth of a Saber tooth Tiger.
'Tigrimon digivolve to. SIBERIMON!"
Chloe's digivice locked on to the new digimon.
'Siberimon: This champion digimon can survive even in the coldest of temperatures. Her Fire Javelin attack makes this digimon a formidable foe.'
"You grew." Chloe said in awe.
"Not only that." Siberimon said, "I'm also strong enough to wipe out this bug."
Siberimon ran towards Snimon and pounced on the insect, knocking him to the ground.
"Fire Javelin!"
A large beam of fire shot out of Siberimon's mouth and struck Snimon. This caused Snimon to explode into millions of tiny bits.
Siberimon then began to glow and then reverted back to Tigrimon.
"Chloe! We did it!" Tigrimon cried in joy as she ran to the girl.
"But you killed him!" Chloe said.
"Not exactly." Kaii told the group. "When a digimon is decompiled in the digital world, it turns back into an egg. No digimon ever dies, they only get reconfigured."
"Ugh." Ribbitomon said. "All this talk of eggs has got me hungry." "Me too!" Lupemon added.
"Then let's get cooking!" Chloe told the bunch.
The group returned to Kaii's house with whatever fruit wasn't destroyed. They then made themselves breakfast and prepared to embark on their adventure.
"Where are we going again?" Lupemon asked Ribbitomon.
"We're going to Sukoza, the closest digital city. They have a medical center there. Hopefully we'll be able to heal Amanda."
"Then what are we waiting for." Solarimon said excitingly "Let's go!"
"Snimon may have failed me, but my next warrior will not."