Blah blah blah…that's how I feel right now…I don't own Digimon...well, actually I sorta do, but just the children…hmmm, wonder if I can cash in…?

Night arrives & the children still haven't arrived at File City.

Eden stops & falls to her knees. "I'm tired & hungry. I say we stop." she whined.

The Gekomon stop & immediately begin to crowd her. "What's the matter, Princess?" "Can we do something?" "We must get food." "We will be back!" The four of them run off to find food before Eden can get a word out.

"Be careful!" she yells after them. She groans & sits down, hard. "I'm serious. I'm stopping."

Celina nodded. "I guess we'll stop for the night." She begins to unpack. Caitlyn began to help.

Nicky watched Eden close her eyes & shook his head. He began to unpack his stuff as well.

Eden opened her eyes & saw everything was unpacked. "Oh!" she exclaims, jumping up. "I'm sorry." she apologizes for not helping.

"It's fine. It's not that much stuff." Celina motioned to the two sleeping bags & the bottles of water.

Eden sighed. "Still…"

Nicky smiled. "You can help clean up."

"OK." She walked over to the group & sat down. They sat in silence for a while, just staring at the sky.

"Princess! Princess!" the Gekomon exclaimed, running back.

Eden got up to greet them. "I'm glad you guys are back. I was beginning to get worried."

The leader's (the Gekomon who talks the most) eyes widened. "We are sorry for worrying you."

Eden laughed. "It's fine." She looked towards the food; berries, mushrooms & some weird yellow things.

"Thank you." Eden smiled, picking up the food. She began to walk, but then turned. "Come on."

Gekomon 2 looked at her, puzzled. "Do you want us to get more?"

Eden shook her head. "No, I want you to come eat with us."

Gekomon 3's eyes widened. "You are asking us to dine with you, Princess?"

Eden nodded. "Yeah. Now come on." She turned back & walked to the group.

Laying out the food, Caitlyn looked at the weird yellow things. "What are those?"

Eden shrugged her shoulders. "Dunno." She turned to the Gekomon.

Gekomon 4 supplied. "That is the happiness fruit. Eating it will fill you up with happy thoughts & feelings."

Celina grinned. "That's nice."

Nicky agreed. "Nice thing to eat before going to bed."

They all sat down; the four kids, the Gekomon & the other Digimon. They began to eat in silence, just the smacking of the food being eaten.

Once it was all gone, Celina passed around the water bottle to quench everyone's thirst. It was finished by the time it got back to Celina. "Everyone full?"

"Yep." "Yes." "Thank you." a chorus of yeses went around. Eden stood up, & began to walk. Nicky looked at her. "Where are you going?"

Eden turned around, making a face. "Can I go pee?"

Nicky blushed & Celina & Caitlyn laughed. "Sure." Celina said, still laughing.

Eden laughed with them & walked into a bush. (Don't need to go much into detail here.) When she was finished, she walked back to the 'campsite'.

Caitlyn yawned & curled up on the sand. "I'm going to sleep. Good night." She instantly feel asleep. Upamon curled up next to her & slept.

Eden smiled at her, eyes drooping. "Good plan." She curled up next to her & closed her eyes. Hawkmon curled up next to her & the Gekomon went to sleep in front of the three of the four of them.

Nicky & Celina watched, smiling. "We should get some sleep too." Celina said.

"I'll do watch out for the first half." Nicky volunteered.

"OK. Wake me up when it's my turn." Celina said, curling up in her sleeping bag, Leafmon next to her.

"Don't worry, I will." he joked, staring into the fire. Demi Veemon sat by Nicky & tried to keep watch also, but kept yawning.

"Buddy, go to sleep." Nicky told him.

"But who will protect you?" Demi Veemon yawned.

"Don't worry, I'll be fine." he smiled as the small blue Digimon fell asleep. Nicky stared at the happy view of everyone sleeping & his eyes began to droop as well.

"I'll just rest them for five minutes." he yawned, laying down on his sleeping bag. But, of course, he fell asleep.

"Who are they?" "Are they alive?" "Are they dangerous?" Eden heard voices.

She groaned. "Five more minutes."

All the voices exclaimed & jumped backwards. Eden blinked at the bright sunlight & looked up.

She was surrounded by all kinds of in-training Digimon. She blinked a couple more times to wake up. She pulled herself up, the Digimon moving backwards more.

"Hi, who are you?" she asked, rubbing her eyes.

The Digimon gasped & backed up more, whispering.

Eden squinted. "Well, I'm Eden Takashi." she introduced herself.

All the Digimon began to whisper more until a deep voice called out. "Enough."

Eden looked up in shock as a short Digimon with big feet, a cane with a paw at the end, an outfit of old fabric & enough hair to completely cover his face walk up to her. "Who are you?" she asks.

"Jijimon." he answered. He turned to all the in-training Digimon & shook his cane. "Shoo all of you!"

The Digimon all scattered & Jijimon turned back to Eden. He motioned to her still sleeping friends. "Are these yours?"

Eden nodded. "Yeah."

"I think you should wake them up." Jijimon instructed.

Not wanting to anger him, Eden went on with the task of waking 3 crabby humans up & 8 crabby Digimon.

"What do you want?" Nicky groaned, swiping at her.

Eden smirked. "What else do you think I want?"

Nicky opened one eye. "My body?" he joked.

Eden went crimson red. "Ewww! No!" she began to hit him, hard.

Nicky blocked the hits, laughing. "Calm down! I was kidding!"

Eden stopped hitting him, but refused to look at him. "It's your fault." she said, pouting.

Celina & Caitlyn were awake by now & had watched this exchange of words. Celina shook her head & Caitlyn just looked confused.

"Why would she want his body? She has one." Caitlyn asked Celina.

Celina bit her lip to keep from grinning. "You understand one day."

Caitlyn nodded, then turned to Jijimon. "Who are you?"

"This is Jijimon & he's going to tell us something." Eden said, turning to him, still a little pink from Nicky's comment.

Nicky, recovered from his attack, became serious. "We're ready."

Jijimon nodded. "Well, you're probably wondering what your purpose in the Digimon World is."

Celina nodded. "To destroy this Digimon Queen."

Jijimon nodded. "Yes, but you have another quest."

"What is it?" Eden asked.

Jijimon turned to them. "You see, the Digimon of File Island have all left the city because of some mysterious force, and their world is in danger."

Eden scrunched her face up in confusion. "But I just saw tons of Digimon."

Jijimon leaned on his cane, nodding. "Yes, but they are some of the few left."

Caitlyn spoke up. "So what's our job?"

Jijimon looked at her. "You must go out and explore File Island and convince the once friendly Digimon to return to the File City."

"That's all?" Nicky scoffed.

Jijimon hit him with his cane. "Watch your mouth, boy!"

Nicky rubbed his head, Eden giggling.

Celina smiled, then turned back to Jijimon. "If you don't mind me asking, why must we do this?"

Jijimon turned towards her. "If the Digimon don't return, the City will crumble. And since this is one of the main cities, it will cause a Domino effect on the rest of the Digital World. It might collapse."

The four kids stared at him, mouths opened. Eden recovered first. "Are you serious?"

Jijimon nodded, sadly. "Unfortunately, yes. Now you understand that this won't be an easy task, so I will give you these." He handed them four chains, each in different colors & each with a different shaped pendant at the end.

The four kids stared at them. "What are these?" Nicky asked, holding up his blue chain with a flame shaped pendant.

"These are you symbols." Jijimon said, as if that would explain it all.

"Our what?" Caitlyn asked, staring at her green chain with a wave shaped pendant.

"Your symbols. They will allow you to Digivolve."

"But don't we have Digivices for that?" Eden asked, playing with her own pink chain with a flower shaped pendant."

"Yes, but these will allow you to Digivolve to Mega."

Celina nodded, holding her red chain with a cloud shaped pendant.

"Before I let you go, are you sure you want to do this?" Jijimon asked, staring intently.

"Yeah." Eden nodded.

"Yes." Caitlyn agreed.

"Of course." Celina smiled

"Sure." Nicky said.

Jijimon smiled, then began to cough. Eden ran up to him & patted him on the back. "Jijimon, are you OK?" she asked, concern etched in her face.

Jijimon laughed. "Fine. Just an old Digimon like me needs to rest." He nodded at them. "Good luck."

With that, Jijimon waddled off, coughing.

Eden stared after him, trying to absorb everything she just heard. She stared back at the chain & smiled.

"Ready?" Nicky asked.

Eden turned to see the three other kids smiling. She noticed they had their symbols on. "Yep." she smiled, putting her own on.

Geez, 6 pages on Microsoft Works…I have no life…oh well, please RR.