Oh no, they couldn't intrude on their hospitality even longer. It's not that they didn't appreciate the offer and the dinner they had served them tasted wonderful, not to mention that the Koromon were more than kind to both girls as well as Dorumon.
But even if they did help them chase off the Pagumon, it didn't feel right to stay there longer than necessary. After all, they still needed to find a way to get home somehow, even if that was, in Ryoko's opinion, pretty impossible at the moment. Of course, she wouldn't say it outloud, worried that it would only cause sadness for her younger sibling Miya.
Dorumon did, however, seem to share Ryoko's opinion on leaving the small and cozy village since he too seemed to be in a hurry to find something or maybe even someone, Ryoko made a mental note to ask him about this sooner or later. As they walked just far enough from the village and were just about to enter the jungle they came from again, Ryoko stopped moving and started looking at the sky in wonder.
"I don't think it would be too smart to walk back in the jungle again, right?" She questioned both Dorumon and Miya.
"No I guess we should find a sleeping spot around here, it's getting way too dark to return to the jungle now.."
Ryoko smiled, knowing that Miya was always was the voice of reason between the two of them. It really amazed her sometimes that her little sister could be so calm and collected about certain situations, considering that it didn't seem like they would be returning home anytime soon.
"Well then.. I suggest we just sleep right here, the grass is soft enough and I'm pretty tired anyhow.."
Miya giggled "You're always tired I bet you could even sleep on a rock if you needed to"
"Well you can sleep in my lap, that way you'll have a softer place to sleep and we can keep each other warm"
Ryoko grinned slightly before sitting down onto the soft grass. Dorumon just watched the two sisters observing their interaction. Usually Dorumon was a happy go lucky digimon but even he got tired today not to mention he was stuffed from all the tasty food. Miya soon placed herself with her arms and head into Ryoko's lap sighing softly.
"Say Dorumon, the Koromon mentioned back there that they couldn't help you either.. Is there something you are looking for?"
Dorumon looked up at the younger sibling debating in his mind whether to tell them or not, but as this was in the end probably more important to them than to himself, he decided it might be for the better if he just told them.
"Well I got separated from a few friends actually... One of those is right here somewhere on the Server continent and the others are still on File Island."
"File Island, huh... I guess you are searching for your friend who's on this continent as well right? I mean if the others are on a Island it'd be pretty hard to get there I suppose" Ryoko butted in obviously thinking outloud, since Dorumon was previously Dorimon she'd imagine it being really hard for such a small digimon to cross the water to a different island.
"Yup, her name is Moonmon. Her and I both got separated from our other friends by Devimon whom put us on the Server Continent. He must have found out somehow that we were waiting for the chosen children to arrive…"
"Wait wait wait, so there might be other humans in this world? But are they on the island also, just like your friends?" Ryoko interrupted him again, wondering what those chosen children he spoke of might be like.
"I'm not sure, I guess they could be... I can't think of a different reason why Devimon would put us here... Anyhow, Moonmon and I got separated since we split up when Etemon started chasing us. Since then, I haven't seen her"
Ryoko looked down at Miya, noticing that she'd already fallen asleep she smiled gently, petting her head. Maybe finding Moonmon would atleast get them anywhere, so now aside of their mission to go home they got this sidequest so to say.
"Well I guess I can speak for the both of us and say that we'll help you find Moonmon in any way we can. Afterall I don't think we'll be getting home right away and atleast we'll get to see a bit more of this continent. Not to mention that maybe along the way we'll even discover why we were brought here at all."
"Thank you, Ryoko" Dorumon smiled before curling himself up next to Ryoko, holding his tail slightly with it's paw and she had to admit, it was quite a cute sight.
The moonlight soon took her attention as she looked up at the large white moon, which didn't even look so different from the moon back at home. She soon found herself in deep thoughts wondering how this adventure might continue and what this new world may bring them before they return home.
It had been several hours already since they'd woken up from their short night sleep, Ryoko had to admit to herself that sleeping right there on the grass wasn't as cozy as she thought it would be. Walking through the forest was all they had been doing since breakfast. Lucky them they found a refrigerator with a few eggs in them and Ryoko carefully prepared them for breakfast with a little help of Dorumon that is. What a fridge was actually doing in the middle of the forest was beyond them, but it wasn't any weirder than the vending machines they had encountered not too long ago.
Miya's stomach was the first that could be heard growling as they came to a stop, both her older sibling and their newly made friend staring at her with slight surprise. In response her face reddened, avoiding their gaze in embarrassment. As if on cue both Ryoko's as well as Dorumon's stomach responded to Miya's in a loud growl, causing Ryoko to grin.
"Looks like it's about time to find us some lunch"
"I guess we can only hope that there are a few vending machines or refrigerators out here in the woods.."
They walked on for a bit, taking in their surroundings in search of the objects mentioned before by the younger of the two siblings. Out of the corner of her eye the older Watanabe sister witnessed Dorumon sprinting off all of sudden in a certain direction.
"Looks like Dorumon found something!"
This also took Miya's attention, resulting in both sisters quickly following the purple friend. Following him proved to be more difficult than the girls had imagined for Dorumon had an outstanding endurance, even Ryoko whom practiced soccer now and then had trouble keeping up with his speed. A house could be seen a little bit further, giving the sisters the motivation to run faster in the hope of atleast getting something to eat.
As they reached the house Dorumon was already waiting for them, confusion was written all over his face a once he saw the girls stopping, breathing problems could be heard emitting from both.
"Why are you so out of breath?"
"Do you even realise how fast you ran? We can't keep up with that..."
Dorumon grinned at Ryoko's reply pointing in the direction of the house explaining that he ran so fast because he smelled food. Ryoko looked up at the house and for a second she was afraid of dieing with the cause being a heart attack, this wasn't just a house, it was HUGE, she seriously felt like an ant in it's presence.
She started spacing out for a second wondering what kind of monstrous person or even Digimon would live in that sort of house, she snapped out of it however as Miya and Dorumon waved at her from the entrance motioning that it was safe to enter. Deciding against her worries she then followed them both in and started exploring this huge house together.
Once they managed to find the kitchen, they started to cook themselves some of the huge food in an equally large cooking pan. Of course they needed to do so in teamwork as all of them were way too small to do it by themselves. Pushing the cooking pan onto the stove however took most of the effort while the rest turned out to be easier. Dorumon kept an eye on the meat and eggs whom were cooking slowly while Miya and Ryoko managed to cut of some of the bread which they had found in one of the upper cupboards.
Soon enough their lunch was served and each of them started eating some of the food they had manage to make in teamwork. Ryoko sighed in delight, even if she had also eaten eggs for breakfast, this food just tasted like heaven. It was probably due to the fact that they had been so hungry that the food tasted even better though.
Their peaceful meal didn't last for long, the sound of flapping wings echoed through the house. Ryoko's face turned pale as she recognised this sound, even if she was used to this particular noise being less loud than it was at this moment. The noise got closer and closer, eventually the source of the sound was within the presence of both siblings and Dorumon. Ryoko's face paled even worse at the sight of the huge wasp like Digimon that had appeared in front of them.
"Ya want some?"
Dorumon casually asked him with a mouthful of food. The digimon however didn't seem to be to happy about this, and as a few more of his species appeared he started attacking both of the girls and Dorumon. Ryoko fled to the nearest hiding place she could find, she was terrified of wasps and even if this one was a digimon she could care less. Wasps were wasps and that's that.
Miya and Dorumon had in the meantime followed Ryoko to her hiding place behind the refrigerator. Lucky for them the gap was small enough so the Digimon (now known better as Flymon due to Dorumon's explanation) couldn't fit through, meaning they would be safe for a little while.
"We can't stay here forever, you know?"
Miya once again was the voice of reason as she spoke, but her older sister didn't want to hear any of it. She just wanted to wait there until the Flymon would leave them be. For Dorumon it was weird that someone who usually was so determined, was now trembling with fear for the angry Flymon. But Miya (as she knew Ryoko longer than today obviously) knew that ever since the day as a little kid that a beehive had fallen from the tree and the bees had started attacking Ryoko, she had formed a phobia for bees, wasps and anything alike..
"I don't think I can take them on my own…. they are already in the Adult level not to mention that there's 3 of them"
Dorumon frowned in sadness while explaining the situation. Miya got the gist of what he was trying to say even if she didn't really understand what he meant with Adult level… it was probably some higher evolved form though, atleast that was the conclusion she took out of it. Even if she was young she was quite a bright thinker and in this situation all she needed to do was think up a plan for atleast getting them to flee from their current position. She looked at her sibling who usually was the source of these kind of plans and even though she was listening she wasn't really helping the situation due to her being struck by fear.
"We need to find a way to atleast flee from here, maybe you could distract them for a little bit Dorumon? In the meantime I'll try to get away from here with Ryoko."
The plan didn't sound bad at all, and so Dorumon nodded in agreement. With a sudden dash he ran from behind the refrigerator towards the middle of the kitchen firing a few iron spheres from it's mouth in different directions, confusing the 3 Flymon. That was their cue to run, Miya took Ryoko's arm and ran off as fast as they could, however out of the corner of her eye she saw how Dorumon got hit by one of the Flymon's tail. As Dorumon lied there motionlessly she stopped in her tracks, running towards their only friend in this unknown world. She tried to help him up, but did not realise that all 3 Flymon were about to focus their attacks on Miya instead.
Something snapped inside of Ryoko. Yes, she was afraid, but was that really worth the fact that these vicious Digimon were about to hurt the probably most important person in her life? Would she be able to live with herself if something happened to her dear little sister? Of course not! She had to get over this fear, she just had to. Usually she wasn't as reckless as she was now, but she had to. She ran, the fastest she could run. She took all of her courage and stood in front of Miya.
"Don't you dare attack my sister! I could never forgive myself if she'd get hurt!"
She was ready to take the hit, that was for sure. Hearing those words from his partner, he just had to protect them. Her determination even though she was still somewhat trembling with fear, it inspired him. He wanted to protect the ones dear to him as well. Ryoko's device began to glow once again and Dorumon's shape changed to become larger. The siblings looked in amazement at the larger Dorumon with wings, which they had now learned was to be calledl Dorugamon. Both of them easily fit on his back, holding onto him tightly as he once again fired iron spheres in the direction of the Flymon. This time it was more effective though as the move seemed more powerful as ever. In the distraction he had caused, he quickly took off with both girls still holding onto his back. All they needed to do now was find the exit in which they succeeded, as Dorugamon flew off with them.
To be continued….