Part 3: The Entrance

The next morning, the sun was shining, the birds were singing, and Akihiro had definitely not had a weird

dream. The first thing that tipped him off? Floramon was still there.

"Good morning, Hiro-kun!" she cheered, causing Akihiro to open his eyes. After seeing Floramon's blue eyes

staring back at a distance of only about 4 inches, Akihiro bolted upright. "Gah! You're still here!" Floramon

giggled. "What, did you think you were dreaming?" Akihiro raised an eyebrow. "For a second there... yeah.

I kinda did."

Floramon jumped out of the bed and sat on Akihiro's desk. "Remember where we're going today?" she asked.

Akihiro thought for a moment. "The Digital World?" Floramon nodded and Akihiro sighed with aggravation.

"I should've stayed home last night." "I would've found you anyway," Floramon replied, rummaging through

Akihiro's desk drawer. Akihiro looked at what she was doing and jumped.

"Wait!" he yelled. "What are you doing? Don't touch my stuff!" he ran over to her and closed the drawer.

"Jeez, lighten up, would you? I'm just looking for your D-3," she retorted. Akihiro opened up the drawer and

took out the D-3, D-Terminal and Crest Tag. "I can find them myself, thanks."

Floramon looked toward Akihiro's closet. "Hey, what's in there?" she said, jumping off the desk and running

to the closet to answer her own question. Akihiro ran to her and picked her up. "Can't you hold still?

You're just like a little kid!" He set her back down. "Now, sit still and don't touch my stuff, okay?" Floramon

looked down. "I'm sorry. I'll be quiet." Akihiro sighed and rolled his eyes. "Alright, fine, you don't have to sit still.

Just don't touch anything." Floramon smiled and clung to Akihiro. "Yay!"

Floramon looked at Akihiro's closet. "Oh, one thing. You may want to pack some provisions. The desert soda

machines aren't safe." Akihiro looked at her. "What do you mean?" he asked. Floramon simply looked back at

him and said, "You'll see." Akihiro shook his head. "Whatever. I'd rather not know. I'll just get some stuff from

the fridge."

Much later, Akihiro had packed his backpack full of food and drinks. He didn't know how long they were going

to be in the Digital World, but he had packed for at least two weeks. At least, that's what he thought until he

heard a sound like a mix between a crow and an electric saw inside his backpack. When he looked inside, he

saw Floramon munching on an apple. "Did I ever tell you how much of a pig you are?" he told her.

Floramon swallowed the piece of apple she was chewing. "What? All Digimon eat like this," she said. Akihiro

sighed. "Just don't eat anything until we get there. Now, how do we get to this place?" Floramon pulled her

free hand out of the backpack and pointed to his computer. "Just go to your computer and hold the D-3 up

to the screen. It'll do the rest." Akihiro held up his D-3, and the computer screen began glowing blue until the

light enveloped them both.

A few seconds later, everything was peaceful in a forest somewhere in the Digital World. Then everything

was interrupted by the sound of a Digiport opening and two beings falling out of it. "You know," said Akihiro,

"I kinda expected the trip to be less... painful." "I did say to keep your hands and feet inside the computer at

all times," replied Floramon. "How do you stick your hand out of a- oh, you know what? Just forget it. Now..."

He turned to her. "Where do we go first?"

Floramon looked around at the expansive foliage around them. "Um... that way." She pointed her hand into

the distance. "Or was it that way?" She pointed her hand in another direction. Akihiro looked at her. "You're

totally lost, aren't you?" he asked. Floramon waved her hands in denial. "I'm not lost! I just... gimme a minute

to think." She looked back and forth between the two points. "All right. Um... it was that way." She began

walking in one direction, with Akihiro following.

After a few minutes of walking, Akihiro suddenly realized something. "Wait. You said 'it' was this way.

What exactly is 'it'?" he asked Floramon. "The place someone who can help us out lives. Who else?"

"And who is this mystery person?" "His name's Piximon. He lives in the desert over there." Floramon pointed

off into the distance. Akihiro looked up and jumped.

"What the-?" Akihiro was shocked and a bit disturbed. To make sure he wasn't hallucinating, he looked

behind him. Nothing there but forest. Then he looked in front of him. Desert. How could that be?

Floramon jumped up and waved her hand in front of Akihiro's face. "Hiro-kun? Hello? Are you okay?"

Akihiro snapped out of his shock. "Sorry. I just noticed that this place has really screwed-up geography."

Floramon shrugged. "It's okay. Now, can we continue?" Akihiro nodded and the two continued walking until

the sun was close to setting and the pair were well into the desert. Suddenly, there was a loud rumbling

noise and the ground began shaking.

"Gah! What was that?" said Akihiro, trying to get back up after having fallen down. "I don't know," replied

Floramon. "It was probably a Digimon, but there's only one that big here. Tyrannomon." As if on cue, the

enormous red dinosaur Digimon appeared out of what seemed like nowhere, but was simply where they

hadn't bothered to look: right behind them. The sight of the huge Digimon instantly set off Floramon's

proverbial panic button.

"Hiro-kun, we have to run! I don't know how to use the D-3 yet! If he sees us, he could eat us!" She

grabbed him by the arm, but Akihiro pointed at Tyrannomon. "I... don't think he sees us, Floramon."

Floramon looked over at Tyrannomon. It was true. Even though Tyrannomon was extremely close by, he

seemed to be totally unaware of his surroundings. Floramon laughed awkwardly. "Silly me. I got a bit scared

there for a second and... huh? What's that on his back?" She pointed at Tyrannomon's back. A dagger was

lodged in it, but it was no ordinary dagger. It seemed to be giving off a blackish aura which reeked of evil.

"What is that thing doing in his back?" asked Akihiro. "I don't know..." said Floramon. Just then, Tyrannomon

gave a frightening roar and looked downward at Akihiro and Floramon, who were both shivering in fear.

Something was telling him to attack them, no matter how much he tried to resist. Tyrannomon was normally

a reasonably nice Digimon, but that dagger in his back was controlling him. He bared his fangs and lunged

at the two partners...

Part 4: The Battle

As the fearsome Tyrannomon lunged at Akihiro and Floramon, Akihiro's mind began racing. What could he do?

Was it better to risk his life to save Floramon or to risk her life and save his? Nobody had ever saved his life,

figuratively or literally. But then again... "Hiro-kun!" His thoughts were interrupted by the sound of Floramon

screaming. Akihiro looked up and saw Tyrannomon with his claw wrapped around Floramon, slowly squeezing

the life out of her.

"Hiro-kun..." Floramon's voice was raspy from the tight grip on her torso. "Run... don't worry... about me..."

Floramon knew that it was her duty to make sure that nothing happened to Akihiro. Unfortunately, her

current method of going about that was causing her to cough and wheeze from lack of air. One can imagine

the look on her face when Akihiro adjusted the goggles on his head, cracked his knuckles and said, "No. I'm

not leaving you." You see, Akihiro knew what his duty was as well, and it was definitely NOT to let someone

who truly cared about him die at the hands of a giant dinosaur thing.

Without another word, he ran toward Tyrannomon, but as the red beast snarled and raised his other claw to

crush Akihiro, the young Tamer was unprepared. Tyrannomon's hand came down with the force of a hammer,

and Floramon was helpless to do anything except cry out, "HIRO-KUN!" in fear and concern.

At that moment, something happened which a viewer would expect, but not Akihiro, since he'd only gotten

his digivice the day before. The white device began glowing, and Floramon became engulfed in a yellowish

white light. Her flowery hands morphed into white wings, her feet became talon-shaped and a white hat sat

atop her now more human-like face, all within the course of about 2 seconds. She sang out a battle cry during

the transformation: "Floramon, digivolve to... Harpymon!"

The newly-formed Harpymon burst out of Tyrannomon's grasp, jabbing into his claw with her razor-sharp feathers.

The giant red Digimon turned to her, roaring in her face as he did so. However, his menacing roar was shrugged

off by Harpymon. "Haven't you heard that it's impolite to breathe in a lady's face?" She asked, before slapping

him hard across the face and pointing her wings at him in preparation for her attack.

"Wind Seeker!" shouted Harpymon, flapping her wings furiously. The force of the wind knocked

Tyrannomon off his feet and caused him to roll over on his stomach, exposing the black dagger poised in his

back. Another Wind Seeker sent the dagger flying out of his back and onto the ground, where it shattered and

disappeared. Harpymon landed on the ground near Akihiro, wrapped her wings around him, and in another flash

of yellowish light, she de-digivolved back into Floramon and flopped on the ground to rest.

"Floramon, that was amazing!" yelled Akihiro. "How did you do that?" Floramon giggled her precocious laugh.

"That wasn't me. That was you, Hiro-kun. It was you and your Digivice that helped me do this." She got up

and yawned. "All right, it's getting late," she said, pointing at the twilight sun, "so we better find somewhere

to rest for a while." With that goal in mind, the two of them walked for a little while longer in hopes of finding

an oasis or something similar. Of course, they were in the Digital World, so what they found was much different

from an oasis.

What the HELL is THAT doing here?" stuttered Akihiro, staring with his mouth wide open at a big yellow school

bus which was simply sitting there in the middle of the desert. His plant-like companion stared at the bus

as well, wondering more about whether they could sleep in it then what is was doing there. After a couple

of seconds of gawking, Akihiro shrugged it off and went inside.

The inside of the bus was fairly hot from the desert day, but Akihiro knew it was going to get colder, so he

began looking around in his backpack for something to use as a blanket. After a few moments, he found a

soft picnic blanket and lay down on the back seat of the bus with Floramon next to him and the blanket

covering them both. Before they went to sleep, Floramon looked at Akihiro. "Hiro-kun?" she whispered.

Akihiro looked at her as well. "What is it, Floramon?" "Thanks for not leaving me behind." Floramon smiled

and nodded off. "This has been a very strange day," thought Akihiro.