Chapter Three
"You're apart of the Digidestined!" Tai exclaimed. "But it makes me wonder why we never knew that until now. We were about eleven, six years ago, that we entered the Digital World for the first time, and when we returned there was only said to be eight of us..." He trailed off, realizing that now there were more than just eight, there was Cody, Yolei and Davis, plus- Hannah and Cia...
Matt couldn't believe what he was hearing - Cia had been to Tokyo! And she was apart of the digidestined - but why did being around bring on all those feelings? He was quite sure of the last thing. But he was curious about why she would want to return to Tokyo - even had been there when she was quite little (five or six at the oldest). So how could she been so sure of wanting to return?
Hannah looked at all the people surrounding her and knew that she had to get to the bottom of why Cia and her where all of the sudden brought into the Digital World now. It was only the five of them sitting in that small cave near the falls - and she wasn't sure how many more of the original eight were in the Digital World.
"Where is the rest of the gang?" Tai asked Mimi, almost as if he had read her thoughts.
"They got some sort of distress call from a digimon and went to check it out. It said it was urgent and that he needed help so I volunteered to stay behind until you guys got back."
"How long have they been gone?" Matt asked, looking toward the cave opening at the water and beyond.
"Well, it was a little after you guys left this morning." Mimi said, and it made Hannah realize that it was way past noon outside.
"How long have we been here?" She asked, and looked at the people surrounding her.
"Well, we went out at mid-morning." Tai paused, getting up and walking to the opening of the cave. "That's when we heard that explosion near where we found you." He turned around to look at Hannah. "That was nearly five hours ago." A concerned look crossed his face and they all knew that something was wrong.
"We've got to go look for them." Matt stood, feeling an obligation to himself to go and find his little brother T.K.
"We'll go with you." Cia stood and Matt's gaze shifted to her once again.
"It's not like we have anything better to do." Hannah said, standing and looking at the rest of the faces. Tai nodded and looked at Mimi.
"Where was it that they headed?"
"Over near the mountains." Mimi said, and they all began to run out of the cave into the disappearing sun.
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The sun began to set fast as they all ran through the forest looking for the rest of the gang that headed out. Hannah and Cia still had no idea who all was in the digital world. Most likely the people that they were with, Davis, T.K., Kari, Yolei and Cody. All they could do was run in the direction that Mimi had told them and hope that it was were they could find their friends.
It was dark within a couple of hours and they had no luck in finding anyone. But they couldn't return to the cave because there was no light to see by. And as they searched for a cave or just some place safe to rest - it began to rain and they had to hurry to find shelter underneath the canopy of the trees.
Cia leaned up against the trunk of the tree they were all standing under and looked at Salamon who had been such a trooper in helping look for the missing. Tokomon jumped into Hannah's lap as she sat down next to Cia and they both leaned up against each other as their eyes began to droop.
"Go ahead and sleep." Tai said to the girls "Matt and I will watch for anything." All of the girls smiled and soon they felt a flame of warmth and knew that one of them had been kind enough to light it to warm them up. Cia and Hannah began to fall deeper and deeper into their sleep.
The storm was raging all around them and they could do nothing but scream. They were five again and in Tokyo - looking at the two digimon below fighting. They were tearing up all of downtown Tokyo.
Cia looked up, towards a higher story on another building and could see a blond haired boy peering down below. He spotted her and his eyes filled with wonder before he was rudely taken back to reality when the highway was split in two.
Hannah couldn't take her eyes off of the site below - and she knew what was going on. Her mind in the current saw only the past and she couldn't help but cry.
Cia found herself levitating off of the balcony of their hotel room and towards the fighting. When she landed she was 18 and she couldn't help but notice that she was going to get trampled by the digimon right in front of her.
Cia woke up screaming loudly and then realized it was all a dream. She looked around to see that Hannah was curled up in a tight ball and that Mimi was close to the fire. She rubbed her eyes and realized they were wet with tears. Why had she been crying?
She looked at the fire and could only see the dancing flame. She was tired and knew that she should try and get some sleep but the memory of that night was too near.
She got up and walked out into the small clearing where she could see the stars glistening. She just looked at their beauty - wondering if she'd ever be able to see the stars from her own window again.
"Cia, are you ok?" Matt asked as he rushed over to her. She looked at him and felt her cheeks turn red.
"Sorry." She whispered, realizing that he had heard her screaming. "Just a nightmare." She whispered again but couldn't take her eyes off of his face. His expression was one that she had not seen before - it was one of concern and urgency. Like he had to get there and see if she was all right.
'No, that can't be.' she thought 'He had no idea that it was me screaming - he just knew someone was and wanted to make sure we were all ok.'
His look melted away once that he saw the she was ok. He didn't know how - but he had known that it was her screaming in the middle of the night and not one of the others - and he had almost felt pulled to her to see if she was ok.
"Are you ok Cia?" Matt asked one last time.
"Huh?" she asked, not paying attention to what he had said. She had been looking at his face - she was becoming accustomed to it.
"Oh... yeah, I'm fine." She said, rubbing the back of her neck to relieve some of the tension. Matt turned to walk away, but then spun to look at her again.
"Do you want to help watch with me?" He asked shyly. She looked over at Salamon - to see that she was looking at Cia curiously - but had not moved from her spot. She stood up slowly and walked over to Cia.
"Sure." Cia said, looking back at Matt and slightly smiled. He turned to walk away, and Cia hurried up to follow him.