First off i'd like to give a shout out to my favorite reviewer (and so far the only reviewer of the rewrite) Darks Light. If you like original character stories for digimon they i suggest reading her story "the kids generation: reign of chaos"

Authors note: As I said in the first chapter, this story is a rewrite of my original "DB4D" story. In my original I had posted the first 16 chapters, not the whole story but it may take a while for the rewrite to get to that part of the story. If anyone is interested in reading the original and comparing it to the rewrite just put in your review that you want the original story and I'll e-mail you the first 16 chapters of the story. Even if you don't want to read the original still write a review just to say you liked the story because I like them and the more reviews a story has, the better people scrolling through the list of fanfic will know the story is

Chapter 3: Hikaru and the Stampeding Monochromon

Hikaru stared as an Otomamon crawled closer. "what are you humans doing out here?" the Otomamon said to Hikaru. Hikaru was stunned. He didn't know what to do. He tried to speak but for some reason the words wouldn't come out of his mouth so instead he just continued staring. "what are you staring at human? And answer me! Why are you out here?" the Otomamon asked again. Still Hikaru could say nothing.

Finally Hikaru spoke, "we don't know. We just appeared here."

"well its dangerous out here. We need to head to the village" the otomamon said to Hikaru. The Otomamon looked at the passed out Shantelle, "what's with this girl. She sleeping or something? This is a strange place to fall asleep in, but anyways we need to head to the village now."

"why do we have to get to the village so soon? Can't we just take our time getting there? It couldn't be that far. Is it far?" asked Hikaru

"No, its not far but we have a problem! There are a bunch of Monochromon heading this way to attack the village! We have to get all the humans back to the village immediately!" replied Otomamon, "It's not safe here!"

"But why are the Monochromon attacking the village?"

"I'll tell you when we get to the village. We have to hurry!" Otomamon said as he started crawling away.

Hikaru started to follow Otomamon but stopped when he remembered Shantelle. He thought a moment about if he should wake her up or just leave her. After all she never was really nice to him. She was always picking on him and making fun of him or pulling mean pranks on him. She had always been a bitch. He thought some more and then decided to do the right thing. he tried wake her up but she would not. Finally he just picked her up and tried to carry her along. She was too heavy and Hikaru collapsed under her weight . 'darn, I can't lift her. She's just too heavy for me to lift.' he thought to himself. "Otomamon," he cried out, "I need help to bring Shantelle with us." There was no answer. Otomamon had gone too far ahead already and couldn't hear Hikaru's screams.

'Darn it' he thought. BEEP…BEEP. Hikaru heard something beeping. He reached into his pocket for his cell phone but his cell phone was at his house. Instead of that, in his pocket he found the device that came out of the ball of light. The device flashed and a map appeared on its screen. It was a map of the jungle he was in. In the center was two blue dots near those dots was a river and moving down the map was a yellow dot. 'Hmmm. Must be Otomamon moving toward the village' Hikaru needed a plan he decided that he would need to wake Shantelle up the same way she woke him up… or at least close enough. The river was close enough to his position that he could drag her there. He started dragging her to the river checking on otomamon on the map so they could follow his path when Shantelle woke up.

Hikaru got Shantelle to the river in a few minutes and dunked her head into it. Just because he was nice enough not to leave her behind didn't mean he didn't forgive her. He would wake her up and get her back for being a bitch at the same time. He held her head underwater and in a few seconds she started flailing around. She was awake. He kept her head in there for just a few more moments. Not so much that she would drown but enough to give her some discomfort.

When he released Shantelle's head she pulled herself out of the water and swung her fist right into Hikaru's face. 'I deserved that' She grabbed his arm and threw him into the river. 'I also deserved that' ,when Hikaru climbed out of the water she started pummeling him like crazy "OW..OW..OW. Quit it we need to go"

"What the hell were you doing? Trying to drown me?" Shantelle yelled at him.

"I was trying to wake you up before we get mauled by a digimon!" Hikaru replied

"Get mauled by a what? You're going insane."

"I don't care we have to leave here! And it's a digimon we're gonna get mauled by if you don't hurry up and get out of here!" Shantelle still looked puzzled, "I'll tell you what a digimon is later if you hurry up." Hikaru looked at his device. The dot indicating otomamon disappeared from the map. In the upper corner of the map there was a large number of yellow dots heading down the map at a rapid rate. "They're coming quickly! Run!" he grabbed her arm and pulled her as he ran south. Behind them he could hear the sound of a stampede coming their way. They ran as fast as they possibly could but in a few minutes the herd of monochromon had reached them.

Hikaru looked behind him and saw them coming. They would run him and Shantelle over if he didn't do something. He pulled Shantelle back over to the river. Pulling her with him, he jumped into the river and swan under the surface of the water just in time that the monochromon didn't see the two at all.

When the monochromon had passed out of sight, the two kids swam up to the surface of the water. "That's what a digimon is. The things that nearly ran us over." Hikaru yelled at Shantelle.

Shantelle looked at Hikaru for a moment. This was a different Hikaru than she grew up with. The Hikaru she knew for her whole life would have hid in a corner and started crying. This Hikaru had done everything he could to save her life and was very brave. At least there was something brave about him she thought. The more she thought about it the more she started thinking that his courage was really just cowardice. A real brave person would have stood up to those monsters, not run and hide in a river. 'What the hell am I thinking? He just saved my life… But really he hasn't changed a bit… That coward." Shantelle was still the same person that she always was. She always undermined Hikaru and acted like he was a crybaby idiot. She would never admit to herself that Hikaru was a better person than she was. She would not recognize his courage. Instead she just made up excuses to herself that made him seem like a coward.

They got out of the river and started making their way south. After an hour of walking the two made it to the village. The path was easy to follow because the monochromon had cleared the a half-mile wide path through the jungle. All around they could see the remains of a battle. There were humans around the battlefield. Each one had a white dinosaur like digimon putting out fires with ice attacks.

As they walked closer Hikaru's digivice started flashing and on its screen a picture of the white digimon came up and a voice from the digivice said "Snowagumon"

Closer to the village were digimon in flames that were being healed by humans. "Meramon"The two children walked up to the village gates. No one even gave them a second look as they entered the village. All of the humans were too preoccupied with healing the digimon and putting out the out of control fires that must have been the aftermath of a battle.

Once inside they village they noticed that one human was watching them. A boy with flame-red hair was waiting for them at the gate to the village. There was an Otomamon next to him. "Are these the kids, Otomamon?" he asked him.

"Yeah, Akamaru these are them." Otomamon replied

"Great! That must mean that you are the other digidestined kids." Akamaru said to Hikaru and Shantelle.

"Were you waiting here for us?" Hikaru asked Akamaru.

"Depends on if you are who I think you are. If you let me examine your digivices I could tell you if you are or not. So how about it? Can I see them or not?" Akamaru asked them.

"What's a digivice? I haven't heard of that before." Hikaru asked him, "Have you Shantelle?"

"Never." Shantelle replied.

"What! Are you serious? You don't know what a digivice is." Akamaru reached into his pocket and pulled out his digivice, "This is a digivice. You sure you don't have one."

"Hmmmm. Wait a minute, I think I do have one." Shantelle said. She pulled out the device that she got during the thunderstorm, "Is this a digivice?"

Akamaru looked at the device. It was exactly like the one that Kasume had except that it was yellow. "Yeah, that's it you have to be the other two digidestined kids. I'm sure that you are. If you'll follow me to my shop, I could tell you for sure."

"Do you think we should trust him?" Hikaru asked Shantelle.

"It's worth a try. We got nothing to lose by it. Anyways we got no money to do anything or get a room for the night and it's getting dark." Shantelle said to Hikaru. She turned to Akamaru and said, "Okay we'll go with you if you let us stay at your place tonight."

"Done deal! Follow me. By the way, my name's Akamaru. What are your names?" he asked them."

"I'm Shantelle and this is Hikaru. Nice to meet you Akamaru." Shantelle said to him.

"What's up with you Shantelle. I've never seen you like this before. Usually you're a jerk." Hikaru whispered to Shantelle.

"I'm not always a jerk! Besides if you were as cute as he was I wouldn't be so mean to you." Shantelle whispered back to him.

"I cant believe how shallow you are." Hikaru told her.

"I can hear you two, ya know. And it's nice to know that you think I'm cute. Next time be quieter when you're whispering. Lets Go." Akamaru said. He started walking into the city. Followed closely by Otomamon, Hikaru, and Shantelle. He brought them to his digivice shop. "In here please." They went inside the store. "Can I see your digivices now?" Hikaru and Shantelle handed him their digivices and he took them upstairs to his workshop.