... I lied again.
The next chapter will be everyone meeting up at the riverside.
When I tried to write for the other groups, I got writers block, so I did Ryo and Ken.
So there are two chapters left.
Ryo and Ken were traveling through the desert where they once fought Milleniummon.
Where Ken had gotten the Dark Spore.
If their digimon were waiting for them, they'd be here. Lunamon and Kunemon would've stayed with Wormmon and Cyberdramon, they knew.
The two boys walked through the desert, D-3 and D-Power in hand. Ryo would use his whip/leash thing he normally used on Cyberdramon when he got out of hand on any digimon that attacked from the dunes.
Eventually, they arrived in front of a small hunt made to withstand the sand and other unsavory bits of the desert.
Ken knew who lived here. It was a Mikemon friends with the BlackGatomon and BlackKudamon that he and Ryo had talked to after they woke up in Cutemon's care, all those years ago. Ken had also enslaved this Mikemon, but it was Mikemon's idea… it was a deal.
He'd enslave Mikemon if he let Cutemon, BlackGatomon, and BlackKudamon run free. He had agreed, but he regretted it.
Mikemon, however, wasn't angry. She had actually tried to befriend him during the small amount of time before the DigiPort had closed, forcing the Chosen and their digimon to stay in the Real World.
Wormmon, Kunemon, and Lunamon had easily befriended Mikemon, and they'd drag Cyberdramon with them. The digimon were easy to puzzle out, if you've known them for a long time, like Ken, Ryo, and Sam knew their Digimon.
Ken walked up to the door of the hut, and knocked once.
"Who is it?!" yelled out a tough, but feminine, voice.
"Ken!"
Swiftly, the door swung open, and the Second Ichijouji Genius was glomped by a large green silkworm.
"Ken-chan! I missed you, Ken-chan !" Wormmon exclaimed as he was being held by his partner. Ken chuckled, a small smile on his face.
"I missed you too, Wormmon." Ken spoke, hugging Wormmon tight.
Ryo was off having a reunion with Cyberdramon within the hut, and Kunemon and Lunamon were next to Mikemon.
"Where's Sam, Ken?" Lunamon asked her partner's Otouto.
"He couldn't fit into the portal." Ken explained, "So me and Ryo promised him that we'd bring you two back."
The two Digimon of Protection nodded once.
"Alright." Kunemon spoke, before climbing onto Ken's shoulder. Wormmon climbed so he was carefully on Ken's head, his normal perch stolen by the bee larva digimon. Lunamon simply smiled and readied herself for the walk to the coast, and then the trip by Whamon to the island of File.
It certainly would be awhile.
At least Cyberdramon could fly; that was an extra plus. And Wormmon could digivolve to Stingmon or Jewelbeemon to also fly.
Kunemon and Lunamon could digivolve to Flymon and Lekismon as well. So the time would be shortened, of course…