Nightingale: ch4— Shukai (meeting)

At first, the chapter's names were just there for it to be there. This one actually fits this chapter,

RYU: yeah, and boy is there going to be some chaos in here!

And FYI, there will be no cross romance or yoai in this fic. It's all going to stay relativily in cannon. (but I do like yoai)

RYU: Just admit that you can't help but put yoai in your fics.

... SSHH!

Ok, for ages; its been only a few months scince the fall of Lucemon and all the frontier are still the same age and it's before the ending episode somewhere in 02. That's all I've got. And also, for the dividers, a regular line will be swiching from Ken&Kouichi to the others (and vise versa) while my own dividers only mean that a little time has gone by. We okay on that? good.

RYU: Lets just get on with the fic... which Evide does not own!

"...wh— who is that?" Ken jumped as he was suddenly addressed by a young, hurt voice. The sound came from the darker part of the round room and Ken had to step closer to see...

"Sam?" It looked so much like him...

"Umm... no. My name is Kouichi." He said quietly.

"Oh... sorry, I just thought you looked like someone I knew." Ken said absently, quietly examining the shackles that Kouichi hung from.

"Oh... I thought you looked like someone else, also. So, who are you?"

"Excuse me, I'm Ken." He said awkwardly, now reaching up to finger the chains.

"What about your... er, friend?" Kouichi nodded to the insect that was trying to hide behind Ken's leg unsuccessfully.

"That's Wormmon." Ken said, picking at the lock. With a clatter the lock broke easily and Kouichi fell an inch onto his feet with his hands still chained together. The two paused to listen if someone had heard them, being extra quiet to pry the shackles off of Kouichi's hands now.

"...So ... your a digimon, right?" Kouichi suddenly asked. Wormmon hesitated with an answer.

"...yes, but... how do you know?" Ken got the locks off and Kouichi rubbed his wrists while he looked for his shirts.

"Well, unless this is the digital world, how are you even here?" Now they were both confused... and Kouichi was still shirtless. Ken shook his head and picked up the clothing from the corner behind him.

"Here," Ken handed the other his clothes and got a quiet 'thank you' from him. He sighed and put a hand to his head. "I'm not sure if we're in the digital world but we should hold off with the stories for later and just try to get out of here."

"There is a trap door open we could go through." Kouichi said while he slipped on his loose green shirt over his tattered back, tying the red one around his waist.

"Um, Kouichi, who was it that was with you?" Wormmon asked, climbing up the wooden steps in front of the two humans.

"Oh... he called himself the Digimon Emperor."

"Well... that was... weird." Takuya complained from under the heap of people.

"You're telling me!" Davis retorted as he looked up into the face of the other goggle-head.

"Not two goggle heads!" Cody exasperated as he noticed the other goggle-headed teen and crawled out from the clump with difficulty.

"Oh la mia qualità!" Izumi exclaimed in Italian as she often did when she was excited, "Guys, look! Digimon!"

A ripple of surprise rushed through everyone, and so now chaos ensued. First, the teens had to untangle themselves and then most of them started to shout out questions. It was all really annoying and no one could hear what the other was saying or anything.

Kouji leaned on the wall away from the screaming with a huff, worried about his twin. Kari was equally worried, but only about the member who hadn't shown. She opened her d-terminal and typed up a quick message and sighed when no one answered. After a minute more of the yelling, Kari got really annoyed.

"shrEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEk!" went Kari's whistle... and everyone shut up.

"Uh, thank you, Kari. Now, I think we deserve an explanation." Izzy spoke. The chosen children all sort of gathered together, giving the others confused stares and weird looks. Takuya was about to say something... but was cut off.

"No time." Kouji turned to his friends, "Kouichi is missing."

"Uuuhh, yeah but there are a few problems..." Takuya replied shakily.

"We have no idea were we are, we don't know were Kouichi is, and there are digimon here." JP said. Kouji gave him an I-know glare and huffed in annoyance.

"Sounds like you need some help." Yolie said smartly, smiling at the frontier.

"T.K., we also have a problem. I can't reach Ken and there is still the problem with the digital world."

"Kari, there is nothing happening in the Digital world, I assure you." Izzy said. Kari sighed but then he continued, "The problem is in the Dark Ocean." He turned to the frontier. "My best bet is to look there for your friend." Izzy said.

"What makes you so sure?" Tommy wondered.

"There is an unknown signal coming from the dark forest, directly connected to the ocean. It looks like a digivises emblem, but it is different from regular." Izzy took out his digivise to show what he meant. Takuya hopefully reached for his pocket almost atomatically. Before he could stop himself he could feel a familiar, comforting bulge there.

TBC

This was actually a hard chapter. Well, harder than the angst scenes, and shorter. I am way better at angst than action/adventure. —sigh—

RYU: I'm just happy there was some chaos in here! Finally! And Yey for the meetings! Now the other good stuff can come out.

I'm not good at suspense, either (well, except for clifies, which I seem to be doing good at.). More Dark Angst scenes in the next chapter.

RYU: Yeah, and if you were wondering what Izumi was saying in Italian, all we did was google 'Oh my goodness' in the trancelation bar for Italian. nn It was easy! So, the next chapter is to come soon, just you wait!