I feel betrayed…

No reviews for last chapter, seriously? Only a couple people PMed me. Hrmph… Whatever

But either way, I don't want someone yelling at me this Friday so I'm gonna continue writing. But if I don't get a review this chapter I won't update until I get one.

So without further ado

ON WITH THE CHAPTER!

"This place could really use a good bus system." Joe mutters as we climb the rest of infinity mountain with the others. I look down at his kneeling figure at the cliff's edge.

"Yeah, but it looks like we've reached the end of the line." Matt comments from behind Joe, Sora, Tai, and I.

"See. It wasn't so bad." I smile brightly, still full of energy. Ever since I took that attack from Unimon I've felt more refreshed and energized.

"We're doomed." Joe says, breathlessly. "Trapped on an island, we'll never get out of here alive. I knew I wouldn't like camp. But would my folks listen to me? Noooooooo. I wanted to go to summer school."

"Don't be so negative!" I swat my hand in dismissal. "It's not like we have giant monsters cha- wait… nevermind." I laugh nervously, rubbing the back of my neck. Then I glare at him, "Besides its not like I wanted to go to summer camp either. But it was the only way to get out of my house for an extended period of time."

"Now why would you want to do that?" Joe asks, looking up at me. I look away nervously and mutter something incomprehensible. "What?"

"N-none of your business!" I snap, turning away with my arms crossed. I feel a hand on my shoulder.

"Why don't we all take a small break?" I hear Sora suggests, taking her hand off my shoulder. I put on a bright smile and turn around.

"That sounds like a great idea!" I reply happily. This makes everyone sweat drop at my sudden mood change.

"Well I'm all for it, my feet hurt." Mimi complains and sits down.

"Whatcha doin' Tai?" I hear Agumon questions his partner. I look over at Tai as he writes another this down on the piece of paper I gave him earlier.

"Making a map of the island." Tai replies as he writes. "That way we'll know exactly where we are and where we've already been." I get up and head over as Izzy approaches him with Tentomon.

"Yes, That works in theory." Izzy looks over Tai's should and gasps a bit "What?!" I reach them and look at the paper, full of scribbles and scratches. "Did you say map or mess?" I have to hold in my laughter at the terrible piece of work before me. Matt and Sora come up as well.

"No question man you are the dude of doodles." Matt says. I almost choke on laughter and have to take in quick gasps of air.

"If you follow that map it'll lead you right to a headache." Sora adds. I finally lose it with laughter.

"Oh.. My… God…" I gasp out between fits of laughter, "My mom could draw a map better than that and I have to give her directions everytime she goes to the store!"

"Well, I could read it just fine and that's all that's really important!" Tai snaps, "Now stop laughing, it's not that funny!" I finally manage to control my laughter and wipe away an imaginary tear.

"Oh it is that funny." Tai glares at me.

"We don't need a map to know we're totally lost." Joe says. "I figured that out a long time ago."

"I figured out that these gloves don't really go with this dress." Mimi comments out of no where.

"How sad." Palmon sympathizes with her partner. We hear a low grumbling for the, oh I don't know, twentieth time in the past few days and look towards the sound.

"What was that?" Matt asks as it stops.

"I don't know, but I have a feeling we're gonna wait here and find out." Joe answers.

"Would we do it any other way?" I say sarcastically.

"At least it wont be a long wait." Sora tells him as a large digimon steps out. He looks like a cross between a lion and a roman gladiator. The sword at his side was about a couple inches shorter than my sword and about five times the width (A/N: Those of you with dirty minds… Please don't comment on this.)

"Don't worry, Leomon is our friend." Patamon tells us, reassuringly.

"With big teeth." TK adds.

"He just uses them for smiling." Patamon replies with a smile.

"He's a just leader and role model for all digimon." Gabumon joins in the praising of the menacing loking digimon before us.

"I want the children." The large digimon, Leomon, growls. We gasp at him in confusion

"Is this becoming a daily thing? Because I hope not!" I comment worriedly.

"I think its time we run." Joe yells and we all turn on our heels. Him chasing after us with a yell. After about thirty seconds Tai's map flies out of his pocket.

"Oh no! My map!" Tai chases after it. I stop and wait, clenching my fists in irritation.

"Tai!" I yell out. "Hurry up!"

"Tai, come back, forget about it!" Agumon calls. Tai stops in his tracks when he sees Leomon. "Pepper Breath!" Agumon sends a fireball at Leomon, catching the map on fire in the process. "Sorry about your map." Agumon says as they run towards me. I turn on my heels and run to catch up with the group.

"That's okay at least it didn't fall into the hands of the enemy." Tai reassures his digimon. I have to hold back my laughter again as I run. Like the enemy could even read that load of scribbles.

"Don't slow down Joe. He's right behind us!" Matt yells as Tai, Agumon, and I catch up.

"And just where do you think you're going." A large green digimon, resembling something like an ogre or a troll , jumps out from behind a corner to block us. We all stop in our tracks, "Well children, so good of you to stop by."

"He looks hungry to you?" Patamon asks.

"We're too small to eat and I'm full of junk food." TK yells, trying to make himself feel a little less like he's going to be eaten.

"He's not against a little snack." Gommamon says.

"Not helping!" I snap at the small, white digimon. I turn to see Leomon right behind us.

"Make it easy on yourselves and give up now." Leomon threatens. "or else!"

"Like we'd ever surrender to the likes of you, overgrown cat!" I insult, making him growl.

"I don't see an exit door." Matt says. He looked nervous and… kinda sweaty… Gross.

"This proves the theory that well executed team work is efficient even for bad guys." Izzy comments.

"But Leomon has always been Orgemon's enemy, what's happened to him!?" Biyomon tries to defend the menacing digimon. They start to move in on us.

"Ready Leomon?" Ogremon asks, raising his club. "Charge!" They both jump at us and go in for the kill. We all yell in fear and the strange keening sound occurs again and several rays of color appear for about a split second.

"Agumon digivolve to… Greymon!"

"Gabumon digivolve to… Garurumon!"

"Palmon digivolve to… Togemon!" The three digimon charged at the approaching Leomon. Greymon head butts him away from us.

"Biymon digivolve to… Birdramon!"

"Tentomon digivolve to… Kabuterimon!"

"Gommamon digivolve to… Ikkakumon!" Then the three of them charged at ogremon. Ikkakumon hits him away with the large horn on his head. All six digimon gathered in a protective circle around the eight of us.

"Come with me TK!" Matt grabs his little brother's hand and pulls him to safety.

"Let him have it Greymon!" Tai encourages his partner.

"Nova Blast!" Greymon throws a fireball at Leomon, only to hae it be blocked by his sword.

"Harpoon Torpedo!" Ikkakumon launched his attack and hit Ogremon dead on.

"Needle Spray!" Togemon shot, making Leomon flinch back and stop in his tracks.

"Listen up, everybody all together now!" Tai called out, leading the digimon as the rest of us ducked behind a boulder just in case things went wrong. "Are you ready?!" Just before Greymon could attack again we hear a small explosion and the tumbling of rocks.

"Avalanche! Watch out!" Joe calls out.

"Everyone get down!" I yell, everyone crouches down and covers their head. My mind starts going haywire as it kicks in to conspiracy mode (A/N: Me again… Yeah you'll be seeing this a lot… Just read.)

What caused that avalanche? An earthquake? No, I didn't feel the ground shake. Pressure? No. There was an explosion and the timing was just too perfect for it to be a coincidence. Maybe it was a digimon? That would probably be the best answer, but the question is why? Why do these digimon want us so bad? Maybe it has something to do with the devices that fell from the sky.

My brain feels like it was going a million miles a minute. I was so distracted I didn't even notice the dust falling on top of me. Finally I felt a hand shaking me, "Hunter…" I shake my head quickly and look at Izzy, "Are you okay? You zoned out on us." I nod my head and look over at our digimon, collapsed on the ground.

"Oh No!" Tai yells in worry and runs over to his digimon, "Agumon, speak to me!"

"We aren't wounded Tai. We're all just a little exaughsted." Agumon groans.

"Two digivolutions in one day, no wonder." Tai exclaims. I stand next to Izzy as he helps up Tentomon and stare at the others. We've been walking all day without rest even after the fight with Unimon. We've been pushing them past their limit and they haven't said a word about it. Now I feel like a big idiot.

" Poor Biyo." Sora says.

"Hey!" Izzy captures everyones attention with his sudden outburst. "What happened to the bad guys?"

"He's disappeared." Tai states the obvious.

"Are you sure?" Palmon asks, sitting on her hands and knees.

"Do you think that avalanche knocked them both off the cliff?" Gabumon adds to the game of what happened to the guys about to kill us. Joe walks over to the edge and shouts.

"Unless they can fly their goners." Joe turns to us. Sora walks up and glances over the edge.

"Neither one of them had wings so they weren't air worthy." Sora explains.

"Nothing is logical here." Joe spreads out his arms for emphasis. "Anything is bound to happen. Including flying monsters."

"For once you might be right Joe." Sora jokes.

"Is something bothering you?" I turn to see Tai with his hand on his chin in thought. That must hurt.

"I just can't seem to find what set that thing off." Tai answers.

"Stress accumulates over time until a crack develops, excess weight the terrafirma suddenly isn't so firma." Izzy explains.

"No. It can't be that." Izzy and Tai look at me.

"Why not?" Izzy asks curiously.

"One." I hold up a finger, "There was an exploding sound right before it. Two." I hold up another finger, "The timing was just way too perfect for it to be a coincidence. My theory was it was a digimon that really doesn't want us around."

"You think so?" Tai asks, approaching me.

"I know so." I nod at him as the eight of us continue onward.

"Its amazing how our digimon were able to digivolve Twice in One day." Izzy comments as we walk through the forest. I nod in agreement.

"It sure was lucky for us that they were able to do it." Tai agrees.

"And that they were willing to do it. Even if they were as tired as they say." I add with a smile, "They really are loyal friends."

"Oh stop it." Tentomon says as he flies next to me. I laugh at his embarrassment.

"Our digimon are growing stronger. I wonder if that's a normal part of their evolution or if we're bringing out something special in them." Sora looks back at us as she explains her theory.

"A fascinating hypothesis." Izzy comments, "If only we could test it."

"WE ARE NOT EXPERIMENTING ON THE DIGIMON!" I whack the back of Izzy's head, "Don't even speak of it!" He yelps in pain.

"Hey hey!" Izzy yells in defense, "I didn't mean it." I whack him again, "Ow!- What was that for?"

"Don't lie to me." My eye twitches in irritation.

"Maybe today was too much for them." Matt continues over Me and Izzy's bickering.

"Palmon's looking very tired." Mimi watches her half-asleep digimon walk next to her.

"I've been tired before, don't worry." Palmon tries to reassure her partner.

"Oh come on Palmon, we need to stop and rest." Biyomon argues.

"actually I think that would be a good idea for all of us." Joe stops. Making the whole group stop.

"Rest where? I don't wanna sleep on the ground." Sorra complains.

"Then what were you doing last night?" I narrow my eyes in question as she flashes me an irritated look.

"Hey look over there!" Joe shouts before Sora could argue. "A mansion!" I turn my head to see a large building through the trees.

"Or maybe it's a hotel. Come on!" Tai yells and we all start running towards it.

"We may have found other life forms." Izzy comments as we enter the clearing with the building, " look at the grounds, I mean somebody had to have cut the grass."

"Plus, the house is so well kept!" I add.

"What a place. I cant believe my eyes." Tai exclaims happily, "its just too good to be true." We all stop to admire the big building.

"I hope they have a hot tub. Just as long as it's not too hot." Joe says and is the first to run up to the door, followed by Matt.

"Wait guys, don't go charging in there! It might be dangerous." Tai calls out to them.

"I thought you two were suppose to be the most cautious!" I yell with my arms crossed.

"Hey. Was this on your map?" Agumon asks.

"Hm, somehow I don't think so." Tai replies as we watch the two approach the door and talk. It's too far away to hear though.

""Its not like we could check." I mutter.

"This place should be on your map." Tai leans down to be eye level with the orange dino.

"Agumon~ if you recall you burned up my map." Agumon sweatdropd a bit.

" Oh yeah." He says nervously. I look back at the two at the door and finally Joe opens the door. The rest of us finally approach and walk into the, surprisingly, empty building.

"Something feels weird." I nod in agreement to Tai's statement.

"Well it doesn't look or feel weird to me." Joe states as he walks ahead.

"Perhaps my definition of weird is different than yours." Izzy replies.

"And you're surprised?" I cock an eyebrow at the maroon haired boy next to me.

"I'm with you." Sora adds.

"Think about it, are we safer in the open woods with no shelter, or here in a sturdy building we could defend from attack?" Joe turns to us.

"I have to admit you have a point." Matt agrees.

"Why do I even try to reason with you people?" I mutter.

"Because we're your friends!" Tai explains.

"It was a hypothetical question!" I snap as TK runs past me.

"Wow, that's beautiful!" TK exclaims in wonder. I look up at the large angel painting on the wall. "Look it, it's an angel!" TK and Mimi walk past us, towards the painting.

"What's an angel, TK?" Patamon asks.

"Something special that watches over you." TK explains, "Kinda like you guys."

"If this is a spooky haunted house would there be pictures of angels hanging on the walls?! I don't think so!" Joe turns to us. I sigh in reply and shake my head, Obviously none of these guys have seen a good horror movie.

"Relax, we just want to be careful." Sora puts her hands on her hips. "And talk quieter or you'll wake everybody up." I look at our feet to see all our digimon passed out on the floor.

"They're out like a light." Matt adds.

"I'm not surprised." I say, "They've been working all day. I'd be tired too."

"I hope they have a dress shop. I've never wore anything two days in a row before." Mimi says out of the blue. I roll my eyes at her as we walk in and close the door behind us.

"Lets take a nap later." Izzy adds.

"Well there are no crowds. We must've missed the summer rush." I look around the old place while listening to my friends converse.

"We keep missing everything." Sora tells Tai.

"This is one cooky mixed up world." I nod my head in agreement when a scent hits my nose. The digimon obviously smelled it too, causing them to wake up from their five minute nap.

"Do you smell that?" Gabumon asks as His horn twitches and Agumon walks towards the smell.

"I don't smell anything." Matt says.

"I do. It smells good." I reply

"What is it?"

"It's the delicious odor of food." Gabumon answers.

"Food!?" Everyone answers in disbelief.

"Are you sure?" Matt asks for clarification.

"Yeah. There's a lot of it too." I smile brightly.

"Show us where guys!"

"It's this way, follow me!" Gabumon rushes up the stairs with everyone following him

Tai opens the door where the scent was coming from to reveal one of the biggest arrays of food I had ever seen. My mouth was watering just looking at it. "Wow, look at that spread!"

"Sorry for saying this everybody but this looks like a set up." Matt has his arms crossed and a suspicious look on his face.

"Matt is right. It could be some sort of trap." Sora agrees.

"And you didn't consider this when we walked into the suspiciously nice building in the middle of a monster inhabited island?" I turn to them skeptically with a facial expression that says 'you wanna keep going? Because I could do this all day.'

"Agumon!" I turn to see the digimon already digging in, almost inhaling their food. "Are you sure that food is safe to eat?" The orange digimon was too busy eating to answer.

"Theyre all eating but their table manners are appalling." Mimi says with a bit of disgust in her voice.

"Guess that's cause they like it." TK adds.

"That's it, I can't bear to look any longer." Joe finally snaps, "I'm gonna eat it! At least I wont die hungry!" He flies into a chair and grabs some food, "On your mark… get set…" He started to dig into the food at an alarming rate. I laugh a bit and sit down at a chair across the table from him.

"If we die, we die together!" I grab a plate and start to dig into some of the most delicious fruit I've ever had. After another minute of them thinking they finally give in and join us. Finding all of their favorite food laid out on the table. Everyone started to happily go on about the food all at once that none of what we were saying could be understood over another and we all ended up eating to our hearts content.

I sit down outside the door to the girl's bathroom with my face red and my arms crossed over my chest. The girls and boys are each happily bathing while I sit outside, too embarrassed to even go in to bathe. You could say I'm shy but it's more like I'm self-conscious.

"Come on, Hunter! Don't be shy!" I heard Sora yell from inside.

"No, I'm fine." I yell, leaning against the wall.

"Its just girls in here, there's nothing to be scared of." Mimi adds, "Besides the water's warm!"

"That's okay." I reply, "I'm just gonna go for a walk instead." Before they could answer I hear the boy's bathroom door open and close from across the hall and Gabumon walks out with his head hung in shame. "Gabumon?" The digimon jumps in surprise.

"Oh Hunter! I didn't know you were out here!" Gabumon rushes out nervously.

"Yeah, I didn't feel like taking a bath." I lie, putting my hands in my pockets.

"Me either." He laughs nervously. I narrow my eyes at him skeptically.

"Yeah…" I drawl out, then an idea pops into my head, "Gabumon, do you want to go for a walk with me." He smiles happily.

"Sure." He replies happily and follows me. We walk in silence as we wonder the halls until Gabumon asks me something.

"Hunter, what's your home like?" I cock an eyebrow at him.

"You mean Earth?" I ask in reply

"No. I mean your home." Gabumon looks up at me. My lips purse and I look away in thought.

"I don't really have a home… But I have a house." I reply.

"What do you mean you don't have a home. Everyone has a home!" Gabumon argues.

"Well, if I do have a home. Then I haven't found it yet." I look down at the ground. "Can we please not talk about it."

"Okay. If it makes you uncomfortable you don't have to explain." Gabumon says, "Then can you describe your house?"

"That, I can do." I smile warmly at the furry, horned digimon, "It's a small apartment, right below Izzy's actually." Then I go on, explaining the area around the building, my room filled with sketches and unfinished stories, the places I walk to every night and he tells me more about the digiworld and a few more digimon we haven't met yet.

Finally we reach the bathrooms again and everyone is already done with their baths and are in robes they found in the cabinets. I had to smile at how weird they looked, especially the one TK was wearing which was way too big for him.

Everyone was in ropes except for me when we walked into the room. On each side there were four beds, each for one of us if the others slept with their digimon.

"The only thing better is bunk beds!" TK flops back on his bed with Patamon.

"Wow, the last time I had a bed this soft was when I was dreaming." Izzy comments as he flattens out the sheets.

I crawl into the bed in between Joe and Sora. Earlier, after my walk with Gabumon, I hand taken off my black tanktop and my gloves, which were still charred from my encounter with Meramon. So I only had on my white T-shirt and shorts. I place the sword under the bed just in case I need it later and lay my head on the pillow.

"How I missed sleeping on soft, silky sheets." Mimi says happily.

"I'll tell you what I don't miss." Joe says, "I don't miss walking through the flaming hot thing I really don't miss is starving to death in the jungle."

"Shut up Joe." I mumble, sitting up.

"Sorry." Joe hangs his head a bit in embarrassment.

"That's okay Joe. We all just miss being home and I'm sure that we're all wondering if we'll ever get back there." Tai reassures him sadly.

"I bet our disappearance caused a big fuss at school and all over town. But we've been gone so long everybody must've given up looking for us right about now." Matt lays back.

"Mom and Dad wouldn't stop." TK argues a bit.

"I'm homesick. Aren't you?" Mimi asks.

"We'll find our way back, don't worry Mimi." Sora comforts her.

"I doubt my parents would even notice I was missing in the first place." I say quietly, laying back down.

"Let's just try to go to sleep and have nice dreams." Mimi says.

"Goodnight guys!" Sora calls out and turns off the light.

"Goodnight!" We all call out.

My eyes snap open and I sit up abruptly. I was gasping for air and looking around frantically, only to see everyone asleep in their beds. My breathing starts to slow down as I scramble to get the sword from under my bed. Something was wrong. I just knew it.

After I finally find the sword I sit up and quietly get out of bed. I be careful as to not wake anyone up and walk outside the bedroom. I look around, only to see the light to the bathroom on. I turn back to the room again and don't see Tai or Agumon in their bed.

A sigh of relief escapes my lips a little too soon because then I hear shouting coming from the bathroom, "Everyone up guys!" Tai yells, "Ogremon is here!" Tai and Agumon come running towards me and the bedroom. "Hunter!"

I meet them half-way. "Tai, Agumon, what happened?" I ask, but stop in my tracks at the voice from behind me.

"I must obey." The voice was a monotone growl. "Destroy them. The children."

"Why do you hate us!" Tai yells.

"He hates you because I commanded him to hate you." I turn to the voice as a large, black demon dressed with belts and metal comes up from the bottom floor. Tai and I yell in fear.

"Now the real trouble starts." Agumon says. I take a small step forward with the sword lifted a bit.

"Agumon, who is that?"

"That's devimon." Agumon replies to his partner.

"He looks bad."

"He is. This is the guy who invented the nightmare." The smile on the evil digimon's face in front of us sent shivers down my spine.

"I have no further use for this imaginary building." Suddenly the walls started to dissipate from behind him. This revealed the broken and ruined form of the building. He raised his hand with the creepy grin still on his face. "Because you work so well together. I will just scatter you throughout the digiworld."

"Hey! Leave them alone!" I yell, completely ignoring that the boy next to me is in just his underwear. Devimon turns his head to me, causing me to back up a bit with wide eyes.

"Please tell me this is all just a bad dream." Tai says as he stares at the beds swirling in circles.

"Tai.." Agumon groans, I look away from Devimon to see Agumon bent over in pain. "I'm too weak to walk, even after all that food I've eaten." Tai and I look at him in confusion.

"The food, the bathroom, the building, none of it was real. I created all of it in your imagination." Devimon explains smugly.

"Listen you, if you don't bring back my friends you're gonna be in big trouble." Tai threatens.

"That's amusing." Devimon replies, "My concerns are more important than your friends." My mind went blank as I hung my head at his words. My body shook in anger.

"That's my only concern." Tai says, "You bring them back now!"

"Bring them back? You incompetent brats. Allow me to show you who's really in control here." The ground started to quake and with each second my body shook more, not because of the ground but because of my emotions. "I have discovered the secret of the black gears. I call them forth to do my bidding." The island breaks apart into pieces of land. "You and your friends happened upon this tiny island. Which is just one of the fragments of the world scattered across an enormous ocean. You pretend you are strangers who know nothing of this world. But I am aware you are the digidestined who are sent to rescue this world from my domination."

"Do you really think that?" I raise my head. My eyes devoid of all emotion. The grip on the sword tightens until my knuckles are white, "Then you must be too stupid to take over the world… Now." I raise the sword so it pointed at him, "BRING MY FRIENDS BACK!" The symbol on the sword glowed a bright yellow and it spread up the blade. The light shot off in a beam and hit Devimon straight in the chest.

The large digimon yells in pain and anger as I collapse to my knees in exaughstion, black spots clouding my vision, "Hunter! Are you okay?" My vision turns black and I pass out to Tai yelling and Leomon's voice getting closer to us.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh CLIFF HANGER!

Perfect revenge for no reviews last chapter!

Man, changing the plot is fun. Especially when action comes out of it :3.

Anyways, this time please review, and the chapter will come out faster.

Well, I'm Hunter and wish me luck on typing my essays! *Slams laptop shut*