Chapter 7

Mimi: Everyone decided to take a day and relax since I had come back. Romance was definitely in the air when with help from Adele, Tk was finally able to ask out Kari! It's about time! And speaking of romance and Adele, there's got to be something going on between her and Davis! It's so cute! I can't wait to find out what.

Monday morning rolled around faster then anybody wanted it to. Adele was running around trying to find her hat when she remembered she was supposed to wear Davis's goggles.

Maybe she could get away with not wearing them. . .

And then Davis would know she liked him.

Goggles it is.

"Guys, lets go!" She yelled. Dorimon and Babydmon came running into the room and into her dance bag.

"Ready!" They squeaked. She smiled as she made her way down the stares. Tk had told her he was going ahead which meant he was going to spend some time with Kari. How cute!

And for once she was actually running late. That's right. How you may ask? Well, she decided to have the digimon sleep in the laundry room that night and told them it was a test of courage so she could sleep later. Of course she forgot to set her alarm and it wasn't until Babydmon and Dorimon ran in and jumped on her telling her they completed the challenge did she wake up. Then there was the five minutes spent trying to find her hat until Babydmon dropped the goggles at her feet.

"Here you go Adele!"

"Right. Thanks Babydmon." She hugged her two digimon and then set of sprinting towards the school.

"Why are we going so fast! I'm gonna be sick!" Dorimon yelled.

"Faster, faster, faster!" Babydmon laughed and cheered. She rolled her eyes but didn't slow down. Finally, she was at the school gate and coming from the other direction was Davis and Demiveemon.

"Wow! You late too?" He yelled.

"I guess so!"

"Race you to class?"

"You're on!" her speed picked up as her feet moved smoothly along the payment. She took a sharp turn into the school gates and on the property. Davis matched her pace as they ran side by side into the building.

"Go Adele go!" Babydmon yelled. She ran to the computer lab, opened her bag, dropped it and took off again. Davis got a bit of a head start but she caught up. They were neck and neck through the empty hall way. Adele was just getting ahead. She could see the door and-

Davis grabbed her arm and pulled himself forward with it sending her behind. He opened the door first breathing hard.

"I win!"

"You cheated."

"Did not."

"Did so!"

"Did not."

"Did so!"

"DAVIS! ADELE!" They froze and slowly turned to face the teacher who was staring at them with evil eyes. Adele shrunk back behind Davis.

"Y-yes?" They stuttered.

"Now I don't know what childish game you were playing here but you've got detention after school with me for one hour! Is that clear."

"Crystal." Adele answered heading to her seat. People giggled and laughed as she sat down with Davis next to her. Kari had a hand over her mouth to keep from laughing. Adele felt her phone vibrate in her pocket. Making sure the teacher wasn't looking, she pulled it out and checked the message.

What was that about - Kari

We were racing to homeroom. I guess we forgot that it was the middle of homeroom...- Adele

Well that's adorable anyway! -Kari

Her face turned red and it took all her will to not look at Davis. She now felt slightly, scratch that very uncomfortable with the fact that she had to sit next to him. Kari, noticing the reaction, giggled lightly.

No it's not! -Adele

After that they stopped texting and just payed attention to the class. Davis seemed to notice the flustered look on Adele's face.

"You okay?" He asked gently. Her face burned up again and she did her best to force her blush away.

"I'm fine. Lets pay attention so we don't get in trouble."

That's how the rest of the day went. After school they were going to go to the digital world again to see if they could spot another one of those prisons. They all had to be destroyed after all if they wanted the digital world to be freed.

After class, Adele was going to meet the others in the computer room. Cody was with Yolei picking up the promised brownies, Ken was going to meet them at the school this time and Kari and Tk had to take a minor 'detour.' That left her and Davis walking down the hall together.

Finally, Adele asked the question that had been bugging her for a while.

"Are you okay?" She whispered. Davis looked over confused.

"Yes...Why wouldn't I be?"

"Kari." It was a simple statement that seemed to speak a thousand words in one. Adele choked on the word almost as if it had pained her to say so, and maybe it had. It wasn't hard talking to your crush about theres.

"Oh."

It was silent for a minute. Davis was contemplating his answer and Adele's heart was beating 10x faster waiting to hear what he was going to say. She was scared out of her mind that he would hate her for asking such a question, but he wasn't.

"Actually, I'm not as upset as I thought I would be. I was always worried about Kari being taken away from me but I realized that she was never mine. She's been Tk's all along and she's happy now, happier then she's ever been. I guess that makes me happy too."

A small tension formed between them. Adele didn't like it, so she decided to do things the german way.

She sliced through it with her arm and elbowed him lightly.

"Wow, that was surprisingly mature."

"Hey!" Davis defended. "I can be mature."

"The Davis I l- consider my best friend is not mature." She giggled. He bumped her lightly but was grinning himself.

"Whatever. Lets just get to the digital world already."

They exchanged jokes and laughed until they entered the computer room where they were attacked by three ultra excited digimon. Adele fell to the ground and Davis's goggles were knocked down onto her nose so she was looking through them. Babydmon and Dorimon licked her face and laughed.

"What took you so long?"

"How come you're so late Adele?" They complained. She giggled as she sat up hugging them.

"I wasn't late, this is the same time I get here every day."

"You were 27 seconds late." Poromon pipped in.

"Trust me, I'll always come back for you guys."

"Even if your 28 seconds late?" Babydmon asked. She laughed.

"Even if I'm 29 seconds late. I swear it." They snuggled into her again enjoying their partners warmth. Finally, she was able to get them off.

"Come on guys I have to fix these goggles! My god Davis, how do you put up with this?" She asked trying to fix them.

He laughed. "Come on, it's like my signature look! Of course I have to put up with it. Besides, they look cute on you."

Both blushed at the sudden comment that Davis added to the conversation. Cheeks pink, Adele tucked a stray piece of blonde hair, the goggles now set back into place. She was sitting cross legged with her digimon on each leg.

"Y-you think so?" Davis scratched the back of his head nervously.

"Y-yeah, I do."

Kari, Tk, Cody, Yolei and Ken entered the room. They saw a blushing Davis and Adele sitting on the ground facing each other with digimon on their laps that didn't seem to matter when they were staring at each other.

"We're here~" Yolei sang. The two on the ground snapped out of it and stood up quickly to see there friends.

"H-hey guys." Adele stammered. She was trying to keep her blush in check which wasn't working all that well.

"Hey Adele hey Davis." Tk smirked. The formers eyes darted around the room not willing to look at anyone.

"So uh, lets get going."

"Sure, sure. That's what we're here for right?" Kari asked with a grin.

"Yup! So let's go! Digiport open!"

Soon, all the children where sucked into the digital world.

The first thing Adele noticed was that now both her and Davis were wearing goggles and that they match. Yolei took no time in pointing this out either.

"Oh my god, you guys match!" She screeched. All eyes turned to the two goggle wearing teens.

"H-how come I didn't get my hat back?" Adele stuttered. The group laughed.

"Because you're like Kari, Tk and I in that your outfit doesn't change when you come here, and because Davis's does, he gets his goggles back and you get to keep yours." Ken explained. She blushed and looked away.

"R-right. So, why don't we split into groups." Adele suggested.

"Oh! Dibs on Ken and Cody!" Yolei shouted. Ken blushed a bit as Yolei grabbed his arm.

"Then I've got Kari." Tk smiled while holding his girlfriends hand.

"Which leaves you and Davis." Cody grinned.

Part of the two wanted to complain and say that this wasn't fair, another part didn't want to complain and be rude, but the largest part was actually. . . Happy.

Tk and Kari waved as they left on Pegasusmon and Nefertimon, Yolei and Ken were riding Aquilamon while Cody rode underground with digmon and all that was left was them.

"Adele, can I digivolve this time!" Dracomon shouted.

"But you always get to digivolve." Dorumon pouted.

"Can you carry three passengers!"

"I bet I can!"

"You can hardly carry one!"

"How about you both digivolve." Adele suggested. They huffed but agreed. Adele grabbed her digivice and held it out, letting the confidence flow through her and a desire to save the digimon since, well, she didn't know what this digimon was the crest of.

"Dracomon digivolve to. . ."

"Dorumon digivolve to. . ."

"Coredramon!"

"Dorugamon!"

Adele turned to Davis. "Okay, so how about I ride on Coredramon and you-"

"Dibs on flying with Dorugamon!" Veemon shouted. He ran over and jumped on the digimons back looking ready to fly solo.

"Fly on Coredramon too..." Her face was pink again as was his.

"Yeah, that's fine."

Together they walked over to the big dragon. It lowered it's head allowing the two of them to climb onto his neck. Adele got on first, Davis right behind her.

"H-hold on." She mumbled.

"Right."

Glad that she couldn't see his blush, Davis wrapped his arms tightly around her waist. Adele was also glad that Davis couldn't see her blush as she held on to Coredramon.

"Goggles on?" Davis asked. They both put on their goggles.

"We're all set."

"Then let's go!"

Coredramon flapped his wings shooting up high into the air. If possible, Davis's grip on Adele tightened. Adele was smiling with glee as they soared through the sky. Dorugamon appeared next to them with Veemon and was doing tricks like flips and turns.

"Ha! Beat that!" He challenged. Coredramon smirked.

"Easy."

"Wait! Don't!" Adele and Davis screamed. To late. Coredramon shot straight up into the air spiraling with two fearful teens on his back that were to scared to even scream. Once at the highest point, he stopped.

"Oh thank GGGGOOOOODDDDDDD!" Coredramon shot back down doing a cork screw like spin. Adele was suddenly happy that she was wearing the goggles. Very, very happy.

"We're going to crash!" She screamed. The ground was getting closer and closer until-

Coredramon turned, doing several backflips into the hair and several other twists. It was like the worlds most unstable and dangerous roller coaster.

Finally, he straightened out until he was flying next to Dorugamon again. Adele was so dizzy that she ended up leaning back against Davis's chest for support, trying to get the world to stop spinning. He had buried his head into her shoulder trying to do the same.

"Never again." He groaned.

"Agreed." Adele sighed.

"Fine, you win this round. Hey, what's that up ahead?" Dorugamon asked. Up ahead of them, they could see a giant mountain covered in snow. The temperature was getting colder and colder by the second.

"Cold?" Davis asked Adele. She shivered in response.

"V-very."

Feeling bad and suddenly no embarrassment, Davis gently pulled her back into his chest further and slid a bit of his jacket over her shoulders to cover them. She instantly felt the warmth from both his jacket and arms. Perhaps it was the cold, but she didn't freak out in embarrassment either, rather she snuggled deeper into his chest.

"Thanks."

A comfortable silence fell over them as they headed closer and closer towards the mountain. Adele had a feeling that their was something their that she just had to find no matter what.

"So why are we heading towards the mountain?" Davis asked.

"I've just got a feeling." Adele mumbled. Her eyes were feeling a bit heavy. . .

"Okay. Just don't fall asleep before we get there." The boy whispered to her. She nodded.

They made small talk until Coredramon and Dorugamon found a safe place to land. Once they did, the two digimon dedigivolved back to their rookie forms. Davis still kept an arm around Adele since she was still shivering. At least, that was the only reason he would allow himself.

"Got any ideas?"

"Walking seems like the best one." Adele replied. Two humans and three digimon began their hike up the mountain. It was snowing lightly as they climbed.

They hiked up small cliffs, through forests, along a stream and even further in about 2 hours.

"Remind me that I need to get back into shape." Adele groaned as they continued to climb.

Once they got to the top, they discovered a cave. Adele felt a strong force coming from it and a need to go inside.

"It's in there."

"Well, lets get in, grab whatever it is, and get out. I'm freezing!" Davis exclaimed.

"You and me both, come on."

They entered the cave that seemed to be made entirely of Ice. Crystals shined brightly from the ceiling and the only path was the narrow one they were moving down now. Dorumon stopped to sniff the air.

"It's here, it's here!" He shouted excited and started running down the tunnel.

"Hey! Hold on, what's here? Dorumon?!"

"Come on, you'll see in a sec!" Adele rolled her eyes but started racing off down the tunnel, her partner right on her heels. Davis and Veemon exchanged glances and soon charged on after them.

The narrow passage opened up into a huge dome of ice. In the center of it was a podium with some kind of pendent on it. Once Adele walked in, it began to glow brightly as if reacting to her very existence.

"Is that-"

"Yeah! Come on!" Dorumon grabbed her hand and started dragging her towards the object. Dracomon seemed to understand that this was something important between his two partners so he stayed back with Davis and Veemon.

When Adele was close enough, she could see that in front of her was a tag and crest. The symbol on the crest looked like a four leaf clover with little dots separating each section. It glowed brightly and in response, the crest of confidence glowed as well.

"What is it?" She asked. Dorumon grinned.

"That's our crest, the crest of Compassion. Compassion is a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering. It's a quality that you have to have if you want to save the digital world."

Adele carefully took the crest off of the podium it sat on. It gave her a warm feeling, almost as if it was happy. She slipped it onto the chain her other crest was already on.

A loud crash came from the east wall. Everyone's head snapped over to it. Snow from the ceiling started to fall right where Adele was standing. She pushed Dorumon out of the way before being absolutely covered in snow.

"Adele!" Davis screamed. The digimon at the door laughed which Davis was able to identify as Frigimon. There were six of them into total.

"How sad, I guess she just wasn't strong enough." One of them laugh.

"And as you know, the weak don't belong in this world." Another smirked.

"She obviously didn't." The third one stated.

"And the question now is" The fourth started.

"Do you?" The last asked in unison. They began to laugh.

"You better believe we do!" Davis shouted. Dracomon and Dorumon's forms began to glow.

"You're gonna pay for that!"

"Dracomon digivolve to. . ."

"Dorumon digivolve to. . ."

"Coredramon!"

"Dorugamon!"

"Veemon?"

"Right."

"Digiarmor energize!"

"Veemon digivolve to. . . Flamedramon, the fire of courage."

Three champion digimon took the place of three rookies angry and ready to fight.

"So, how many digimon do you think it takes to bring down a pack of Frigimon?" Coredramon asked.

Flamedramon smirked. "One, but you're help is definitely welcomed. Fire rocket!"

He shot forward, his now completely on fire. Dorugamon laughed.

"Don't leave me out of the fun!"

With the digimon all fighting, Davis ran over to where he had last seen Adele. Quickly, he began to dig through the snow.

"Adele?" He yelled.

No answer.

"Adele, are you there?"

Still no answer.

"Adele please answer me."

Nothing.

"ADELE?!"

He heard a groan and soon a hand appeared. No hesitation, he grabbed it and yanked out the person it belonged to.

"Cannonball!" Dorugamon shouted, firing a metal ball from his mouth. He cheered when three of the frigimon were knocked over like bowling pins.

Adele gasped and shivered when she was pulled out of the snow. Her lips had turned blue from the cold and she was incredibly paled. Davis slipped his jacket off his own arms and onto her own before picking her up bridal style.

"You alright."

"I've been better." She managed weakly. He sighed but smiled knowing that she was sort of alright.

"How come you pushed Dorumon out of the way instead of jumping yourself?"

"Blue flare breath!" Blue fire shot from Coredramon's mouth almost melting the target Frigimon.

"I didn't want him to get hurt." She mumbled. Her eyes were starting to close.

"Okay, Adele, listen. I know that you're tired but whatever you do, you can't go to sleep okay! Please, don't go to sleep."

"I'll try." Her voice sounded so weak and tired that Davis almost wanted to let her sleep, but he had a greater desire for her to live.

"Tell me about your family then. How was life in Germany?"

"I have a little brother. H-he's 8 years old. H-he really A-admires me so much. We u-used to play with each other in the b-back yard all the time. His f-favorite game was the one w-where we saved the princess by k-killing the witch. S-sometimes, we c-could get my dad to play the p-part of the witch. I j-just know that one d-day, he'd love to meet Dracomon and Dorumon."

"Keep going." Davis ordered.

"M-my mom was always a p-perfectionist. I-it was like s-she was afraid of b-being late to being early. H-her meals had t-to be perfect, H-her schedule had to be perfect, her h-house had to be p-perfect. Even her c-children h-had to be perfect. M-my dad is m-more easy going, so they b-balance each other out."

Davis looked over at the battle going on between the digimon. Flamedramon was taking out the last two Frigimon. Hopefully, they could get out of there before it was to late.

"I-It wasn't u-until I re-recovered from m-my depression that m-my mom started to change. I realized th-that she thought I w-was perfect the way I was a-and that she loved me n-no matter what. Sh-she was the one wh-who convinced my d-dad to let me come and s-study here."

The battle was over with the Frigimon unconscious on the ground. The digimon ran over to the two teens on the ground.

"Lets go guys!" Davis shouted urgently. Flamedramon changed back to Veemon and climbed back to his spot with Dorugamon While Davis carefully got onto Coredramon's back.

"We have no time to waste, so lets move." He stated. Exiting through the hole in the wall, the digimon took off into the air.

Davis and Adele were the last ones to land in the computer lab. Once adjusting to the real world, Davis leaped into action.

"Guys! Someone get a blanket quick!" He shouted. Kari's eyes widened.

"We'll get it!" She screamed. In the mean time, the digimon huddled around Adele on the floor to keep her warm.

"Cody, is she supposed to be this cold?" Upamon asked. Cody shook his head.

"No, she isn't."

Ken was the first to notice the second crest around Adele's neck. He studied it closely.

"Davis, where'd she get that?"

"It's a long story, so I'll explain everything when Tk and Kari get back."

Tk and Kari entered the room again and the digimon instantly moved out of the way so Kari could wrap the blankets around a barley conscious Adele.

"T-thanks." Adele shivered. She snuggled into the blanket that Tk and Kari had grabbed from the nurses office with a smile on her face. She tilted to the right which caused her to fall over onto Davis's chest. In her sleepy state, it became a pillow so instead of moving, she snuggled closer. Davis sighed but wrapped an arm around her hoping that it would help.

"Davis what happened?" Kari asked.

"Can I sleep now?" Adele mumbled. Davis smiled lightly. "Yeah, you can."

She was out like a light.

Davis turned back to Kari so he could start explaining everything to his friends.

"Okay, so we were heading to this mountain because Adele said she felt as though there was something there. After that we had to hike to the top and once we did, we found a cave. At the end of the passage in the cave we found a large ice dome and in the center of that was a tag and crest. It was Adele and Dorumon's crest of Compassion. She put it on but then there was an explosion in the east wall and snow fell on Adele and then brainwashed Frigimon appeared. Our digimon fought them off while I pulled Adele out of the snow. When the battle was finished, I got Adele on Coredramon and we flew back here as fast as we could." He finished and took a deep breath. Tk sighed and knelt down so he was next to Adele.

"It's always you, isn't it." He whispered. Kari shook her head.

"She's got to be prone to accidents or something. It hasn't even been a month and look how much damage she's taken."

Adele was oblivious the conversation going on while she slept. The other digidestined were exchanging information about what they found, which was pretty much nothing. It was starting to get late.

"What should we do about her?" Ken asked. Adele had hardly moved since she fell asleep and she wasn't waking up anytime soon.

"Since we live in the same building, Kari and I can take her home." Tk suggested. Kari nodded.

"She probably won't feel well when she wakes up and somebody has to take care of her. I'll tell mom that I'm staying late at a friends house to work on a project." Kari agreed. Reluctantly, Davis let go of Adele and passed her to Tk who picked her up and put her on his back, managing to keep the blanket on her.

"Let's get going." He sighed. Adele was a lot lighter then he thought she would be. . .

"Bye guys!" Kari waved.

"bye."

Tk set Adele down in her bed and left so Kari could change her out of her wet cloths and into some warm pajamas. Once that was done, she went into the kitchen. She had already called her mom and her mom suggested that she might as well sleep over since it would be late by the time she'd get home. Kari agreed.

"Let's see what we have here." She mumbled as she dug through the pantry for food. Gatomon was looking for a pot just like Kari had asked her to. Meanwhile, Tk was playing with the other three digimon in the living room.

"I found it Kari, what do I do now?" Gatomon asked.

"Fill it up with water in the sink. I'll have to make mac 'n' cheese for us and a can of soup for Adele when she's ready." Gatomon nodded and dropped the pot in the sink for Kari. The girl turned on the stove and once the pot was filled, placed in on so it could boil.

Tk entered the room alone with a sigh.

"Mind keeping an eye on them, they're a hand full." He asked Gatomon.

"Trust me I know." She rolled her eyes but walked back into the living room. Kari sat down in one of the chairs.

"What's wrong?" Tk asked. Kari frowned.

"I'm worried about her Tk. Both her physical and mental health. She's sick now and also. . .I don't want her depression to come back. She's been through so much and now she has to save the digital world too? Isn't that just to cruel?"

Tk frowned but leaned down and hugged his girlfriend who willingly returned it.

"I know Kari, but none of us choose to save the digital world, it chooses us. I just hope that for Adele's sake, it made the right choice."