D on't sue me,
I don't own Digimon.
S o you won't get a thing
C ause I'm broke as hell,
L ike I was when I began.
A nd if you take this disclaimer
I will hunt you down and flame you.
M ine! My poem disclaimer!
E njoy this next part of the fic, and
R EAD AND REVIEW PLEASE!
Back at Camp….
"Ok, T.K., do you know where they were going?" Tai asked for about the sixty-seventh time.
"Tai, he's already told you he doesn't know! Stop aggravating him!" Kari told her big brother. "It's getting exceedingly annoying."
"I'm sorry Tai, but I'm going to have to agree with them," Sora said, backing the two youngsters up.
"Oh… I'm sorry Sora…."
Kari quickly shot a glance over to her boyfriend, who nodded vaguely to show that he had gotten the point. Yep, there was nothing to do between those two but wait. He attempted to get Kari's attention again, this time sending the message: 'I wonder what Matt and Mimi are up to.' She shrugged, but her eyes glistened with excitement and curiosity at the thought.
Almost unexpectedly, there was a sudden noise of thundering feet, and then Matt and Mimi swiftly entered the cave, their faces red from running.
"And where have you two been?" Tai asked his rage blazing like that of an out-of-control forest fire.
"Uh oh…." Mimi whimpered just loud enough for Matt to hear it. "You're on your own, I can't stand it when he's like this!"
"Oh goody…" he muttered sarcastically.
"Do you two even know what time it is?! It's almost four 'o clock! Everyone wanted to go and find our Digimon today, but you know what we did? We sat around waiting for you two to decide to show up so we could leave! And now it's too late, because there's another storm coming in from the east according to Izzy, so we are now forced to stick around here and use the rest of the paper to light a fire tonight! And it's all thanks to you two! Besides, Mimi was sick, so you shouldn't have even let her go outside Matt, let alone drag her to some place God only knows how far away in the condition that she's in!"
"Since when are you Mimi's physician?!" Matt quarreled. "Since when have you suddenly thought it in your best interest about making sure that she was ok?!"
"Last time I checked, you weren't her doctor either!" Tai shot back.
"Quit it, you two! Stop fighting!" Mimi yelled, her voice echoing in the large cave.
Stay out of this Mimi," Tai spat at her. "Since when have you suddenly become God?"
"Shut up Tai, leave her alone," Matt growled, the tone of his voice making it clear that he could only take so much more before he lost his temper.
"Hey, who made you her guardian angel?!"
"Since you abandoned her to die from loss of blood and hypothermia," he snarled.
"That's it!" he cried, lunging at his friend, and throwing a sudden upper-cut, he hit Matt square in the jaw, and he fell down, blood trickling down from the corner of his mouth. Mimi and Sora rushed in, Sora pulling Tai away from him, and Mimi sheltering him from any other possible attacks from the enraged Tai.
"No Mimi, let me at him," Matt said, trying to get up and fight.
"No, no more fighting! I won't let you! I hate it when you two fight!" Mimi wept, holding him down as her tears fell onto his shirt and neck.
Finally, when both boys had calmed down enough, the two girls both pulled the guys they were holding onto over to each other and forced them to apologize to the other.
"Sorry…" they both said, their heads faced away from each other, not wanting to look the other in the eye.
"Ok you two are forgiven," Sora said, both girls yanking them away from the other and forcing them to sit down in a circle with everyone else on opposite sides.
"Ok, now what do you suggest we do, now that those two have 'supposedly' made truce with each other?" Joe asked the group.
"I say that we go scavenge around for something to eat, and then we discuss plans for tomorrow after dinner. How's that idea with everyone?" Sora asked the group. Everyone nodded in agreement, as did their stomachs, as they all joined in chorus, grumbling and rumbling at the thought of food.
"Ok then, let's get to work." T.K. said, jumping to his feet. "Kari, Mimi, and I will go look for food and stuff."
"Ok, you three go do that, Matt, Tai? I know that I'm asking for a lot here, but can you two go and gather firewood? And have both of you come back here without a broken bone, bloody nose or still alive for that matter?"
"Ok…." Tai muttered gloomily.
"Wait, I'll watch over T.K. and the others, and then you can go with Tai. That way, Tai doesn't have to put up with me, and someone is there to watch out for them." Matt said, thinking of a liable excuse as fast as he could.
"Fine, that sounds better. And then Joe and Izzy can start the fire with what wood we have already. Good idea."
Kari and T.K. looked like they we're about to strangle Matt. They had hoped to talk to Mimi in private about the day's adventures with 'prince charming', but it would prove to be a huge challenge with him around. They sighed, and followed his lead out of the cave and off into the forest. But something didn't quite seem right….
"Mimi," Kari asked suddenly. "Where's your bag?"
"My wha-? Oh no! I must have left it on the beach! And it has my Digivice and matches in it!"
Matt turned around to find Mimi in hysterics.
"What am I going to do?! It's got everything in it! It's got my Diary in it, and Izzy said it's going to rain tonight! It'll get ruined! And what about my Digivice?!?!?!?!?!?! It's the only way Palmon can Digivolve!"
"Calm down Mimi, I'll go and get it for you, don't worry," Matt offered, hoping that she wouldn't start crying. "Just don't tell Tai where I've gone, alright?"
"But… but what if that screaming thingie comes and goes after you?!" Mimi asked him, terrified of what she imagined it to look like, a creature dressed in black robes on a black, winged, nameless creature chasing after Matt in the dark was not exactly a thought that she treasured.
"Don't worry, I'll be okay, you'll see," and he quickly headed off towards the Ivy cliff.
"The 'screaming thingie'?" T.K. and Kari asked Mimi, confused.
"Well, we were walking along the road, and all of a sudden, I felt these eyes, someone was watching us. At first, I thought that maybe it was you two following us, but then you guys don't have this evil, blood-curdling presence that whoever it was had."
"Well, I wanted to follow you two and find out what you were up to, but then Kari said that we should wait for you to tell us, so I gave in." T.K. interjected. "But you were saying?"
"Well, we both agreed to get off the road, and no sooner did we get off that whatever it had been screamed and then another one answered this one farther away. But it felt like my blood had turned to ice and all the hair on my neck, back, and arms all stood on end. We ended up running all the way back from the cave entrance back to camp, we were so scared we were going to meet what it was that screamed."
"Ok, you lost me there, you ran from what to what?" Kari asked puzzled.
"Oh, well, I might as well start off from the very beginning…."
A/N: Ok, you know what to do! For those of you waiting for some Taiora, hold on, it'll be coming up in the next chapter:)