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Chapter Four

Kouji was sitting in the Shellnumemon's house. Since the house was siting on the side of the mountain Kouji was sitting on the wall. He was thinking about Rei, wondering what Grumblemon had done with her. He hoped that she was at least safe for the time being.

During the time that he had been traveling with her he had grown fond of her. It was as if he had known her for a long time.

'Damn! If I had been paying more attention this wouldn't have happened.' He thought.

'I'm sorry Rei, I swear I'll get you back soon.'

Suddenly he heard someone outside. He thought that it was an enemy and grabbed a stick. He waited by the door and when it opened he swung it and hit the person that was there.

"OWWW!!! Why did you hit me!?!...you…"

It was Takuya.

"What? It's you…"

"Kouji!" The fat kid said.

"Did you come here for the food?" Takuya asked.

"Of course not!" He turned to the Shellnumemons.

"You don't need anymore help."

"What do you mean by that?" Said Takuya angrily.

"Why did you hit him?" The boy with the hat said.

"If I had known more help was coming I wouldn't have. Do what you like…" He turned away from them.

The Shellnumemon went over to them.

"Well, now that all of you are here the food will be here shortly."

"Yeah!!!" Everyone, but Kouji exclaimed.

The Shellnumemon gave them some ccabbage like vegetables that tasted like different kinds of meat. Kouji sat by himself in the corner, eating. He found out the names of the other kids. The girl was Izumi, the little boy with the hat was Tomoki, and the guy with the blue jumpsuit was Jumpei. They were traveling with two digimmon, Bokumon and Neemon. When they were done eating they began to discuss their plans for rescuing the Shellnumemon in the mountain. Kouji didn't mention that Rei had been captured. He showed tem where the Shellnumemon were on a map.

"I found them in this spot." He said pointing on the map.

"We can get them out." Takuya said.

"Leave it to us, we're Legendary Warriors." Jumpei said.

The Shellnumemon were alarmed and went to the other side of the room to talk.

"What's wrong?" Takuya asked.

"They must be surprised that you're Legendary Warriors." Bokumon said.

The Shellnumemon returned with nervous looks upon their faces.

"Sorry about that." They said.

"Well let's go defeat Grumblemon!" Takuya said.

"Later, for now you must rest." The Shellnumemon said nervously.

"Okay…"

The Shellnumemon helped them make some beds and they all went to sleep. Takuya couldn't sleep he turned around and saw that Kouji was awake.

"You're a good guy, right? Wanting to save the Shellnumemon."

"Hmph! You don't have to save them too, you know. I'm not doing this just for them."

"Then why…?"

Kouji turned serious.

"Grumblemon, he took something from me, something important."

Takuya looked at him and something occurred to him. He felt so stupid for not noticing before.

"…Where is Rei…?"

Kouji turned his back to Takuya.

"That's none of your concern."

Takuya turned around and went to sleep.

When Kouji woke up he saw that he was hanging from the side of the mountain along with the others. Apparently the Shellnumemon thought that they were Grumblemon's allies. The Shellnumemon were ready to cut the ropes that they were hanging from when Grumblemon appeared with Rei. She was tied up.

"Kouji-kun!"

"Rei, are you okay? Did he hurt you?"

"I'm fine."

Grumblemon laughed.

"She won't be fine if you no tell me where digicode is."

"Leave her alone!" Kouji said.

The Shellnumemon realized that they weren't allies and tried to pull the kids up, but Grumblemon took out his hammer and hot the side of the mountain. The Shellnumemon couldn't pull them up, but one of them dropped his scythe. Kouji kicked off the side of the mountain and his rope was cut by the falling scythe. He spirit evolved into Lobomon and charged at grumblemon. Grumblemon threw Rei to the side and started fighting with Kouji. He managed to throw Lobomon into a building. They made ahole in the building and Lobomon was about to fall.

Meanwhile the others were pulled up and untied by the Shellnumemon. They spirit evolved and went to help Lobomon. Agnimon and Jumpei's spirit Bettlemon fought against Grumblemon while Tomoki's spirit, Kumamon freed Rei and Izumi's spirit, Fairymon helped kouji.

Lobomon, Agnimon, and Bettlemon fought against Grumblemon while Fairymon and Kumamon went to rescue the Shellnumamon. Soon it began to rain. Bettlemon struck the mountain and the electricity in his hammer combined with the rain broke off a part of the mountain and revealed the digicode of the mountain. Grumblemon slide evoved into Gigasmon and defeated them. He stole the code and the mountain disappeared. Rei fell from where she was and Agnimon, Lobomon and Kumamon went to help her. They were too tired and reverted into their human forms.

Kouji managed to get to Rei and grab her hand. He pulled her closer and held her around her waist.

"Hold on!" He said.

She held onto his neck and he held onto her tightly, glad to have her back. They braced themselves for when they hit the ground, but they never did. They hit a weird surface. When they managed to get their heads out they saw that they were in a pool of multicolored balls. Kouji and Rei got out and waited for Takuya and Tomoki.

While they waited he turned to Rei.

"I'm sorry." He said.

Rei looked at him and cocked her head to the side in puzzlement.

"For what, Kouji-kun?"

"For having let you get captured by Grumblemon and for not rescuing you sooner. I should have been paying more attention that way Grumblemon wouldn't have captured you. I should have tried to rescue you sooner. I wasn't even the one that rescued you. I'm sorry." He looked away.

Rei looked at him and smiled.

"Kouji-kun, thank you."

He looked up surprised.

"You may not have been the one to set me free, but you helped. You tried very hard to save me and I appreciate that."

She kissed him on his cheek.

"Thank you kouji-kun." She smiled at him.

He blushed bright red. He was glad to have her back.

End Chapter Four

Sorry for the shortness of the chapter. I have other stories to update and homework to do so I'm very busy. I'll try to update as much as I can. Please review. The sooner people review the sooner I'll update. Sayonara!