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Recap:
"No we go this way!" Rex calmly stated pointing to the right hand path out of the three in front of them.
"You're wrong. It's this one." Shinya called pointing to the one of the left.
"Both of you are idiots. It's obviously that one!" Emi shouted pointing at the one in front of them.
"Right!"
"Straight."
"Right."
"Left."
"Straight."
"Why don't we flip a coin?" Zack asked.
"NO!" The three of them shouted back.
Chapter Four
One hour previous
Rex sneered at the back of his friend's heads as they walked in front of him. 'They think they're so much better than me. They're worse.' He thought to himself. 'Shinya can't wait to save his life, Tami's too interested in computers, Zack's just a weakling, Rini's too happy all the time and Emi just can't make up her mind. Indecisive tramp.'
His relationship with Emi was getting high maintenance for his liking, everything always had to be the way she wanted it. Even if he voiced an opinion that was against hers she'd blow up like a volcano. Then he'd shout back since there was no way he would just sit there and take the abuse.
He was a guy. A guy with values and an ego. He deserved to be respected. He was the best catch at their school. He was good looking, he was the star of the soccer team, great to talk to (when he wanted) and had great taste in friends. How else did he end up with the people he hung out with?
It wasn't just because their parents had forced them to grow up. No sir, not that at all. He had kept the group together whenever they had arguments. It wasn't Shinya. Sure Shinya might be the one talking to everyone to solve shit like that but who gave him the confidence? Rex did. He was Shinya's back bone.
'Maybe I should become's Zack's?' He thought. Zack just wanted to help everyone it was pitiful. If Rex helped him then Zack could actually act like the man he was meant to. Even Tami didn't act like that and she was the youngest and a girl. That let her off the hook for freaking out in that cavern. Had she been awake she would have analysed every bit of the situation until she was happy, but she never was happy.
That reminded him Emi. He didn't like that. He had thought about dumping her for weeks now but every time he gathered the courage to walk up and say the words something stopped him. Take the first time he tried, there was an emergency soccer training. The second time the lunch queue was tiny and food was just more important. The last time he tried she was already crying and not even he is that big a douche.
From the corner of his eye he saw a TV sitting in the grass. 'Was it meant to be there?' He thought. He looked back at his friends but they didn't seem to have noticed it. 'I'm probably just hallucinating'.
"What in hell are you doing?" Rex asked when he saw Zack pointing his mobile phone into the air like a loon. 'Was he dropped as a child? Idiot'
"I'm looking if I have signal. We can call our parents or some bug exterminators in case Snimon comes back." He replied as if talking to a child.
"The term is not 'looking' it would accurately be 'testing'." Tami corrected, which made Rex feel happy that Zack had been taken down a peg. He was showing off since he got that ninety something for some subject.
"Yes telling our parent would be a marvellous idea." Rex replied sarcastically as they slowed down. "Hey mom, dad. We got teleported into some crazy world called the digital world. There's these creatures called digimon, some are sweet but some want to kill us. Could you send us a car to get us? Oh how do you get here? I don't know; let me ask the next monster that tries to attack us. No mom I'm looking for attention."
"Was it just me or does throwing Rex off the nearest cliff seem like a good idea." Emi questioned. 'What had he done now?' He thought/complained. Today was not his day.
"Calm down cousin." Shinya said which made Rex slap his head in his imagination. He'd offended Zack and since he and Emi were cousins she got pissed. He had to much more careful when talking. 'Note to self, always piss of Zack when Emi isn't there.'
"I ain't a dog." She screeched.
"Funny you always act like I'm one." Rex put in dryly.
"That's because you look like one." She spat back.
"Hey!" Labramon piped up offended.
"Ohhh, she went there." Rini laughed.
"Are you quite finished acting like a child?" He asked the two of them. Suddenly Tami seemed like the only girl worth talking too.
"Are quite finished being a stuck up prick?"
"Not even the slightest." He smirked back.
"Conceited much." Emi muttered.
"Thanks sweetheart."
"Both of you need to conclude this argument before some person becomes injured or worse offended." Tami said in a slightly raised voice. 'Since when is being offended worse than being injured.' He thought
"Great now the little girl is going to tell us what to do." He muttered as he crossed his arms.
"Just because you're angry at Zack or Emi don't take it out on us." Shinya told him.
"I can do whatever I want, you aren't the boss of me."
"I'm the leader of your group while we're here."
"Leader of what? Democracy or Dictatorship?" He shot back which didn't help his case in the least.
"I apologise for breaking up your argument but the path has split into three ways, which should we venture on?" Tapirmon asked.
Rex looked in front of them, not noticing they had even stopped. The left path was more forest, that didn't appeal to him. They just walked through what had to be miles. The path to the right was surrounded by dead trees and some thorn looking plants. So it was just more forest, but dead. The third path was straight ahead and there were no trees in sight.
"Let's go left." Shinya said.
"Back to more trees? We'll probably end up by the silly dark cavern place again. I say we go straight. No trees in sight." Rex argued.
"That sounds logical." Tapirmon said, although Rex wasn't exactly sure what he was agreeing with.
"You sure?" Emi asked her partner. "Okay we should go straight."
"I'm with Shinya, the trees have to end up somewhere." Rini said.
"Yeah back to the start." He mumbled to himself.
"We should go straight. Chances are we'll end up somewhere else." Zack agreed.
"Yes. But do you suppose that where the path ahead of us concludes would be safer than the one Shinya is optioning." Tami asked stumping them all.
"Which way do you want to go?" Rex asked rudely.
Tami blushed, "I didn't mean to get in the middle of it. I'll just allow you to confer. Please tell me which way for choose."
"Whatever." Suddenly a thought came to him; if they couldn't decide then they'd spilt up. He'd be stuck with Emi and Zack while Shinya, Tami and Rini left the other way. He'd only have Tapirmon to talk to if anyone. "I change my mind. We should go right."
"Are you crazy? They could be vampires and scary bug things there." Rini squealed.
"So? You scared?" He taunted, feeling quite good.
"No." She said back crossing her arms.
"I think you are."
"I don't care what you think."
"I think the right path would be the safest." Tami offered from her seat on the ground which surprised him, as well as everyone else.
"Really?" Lunamon asked from her lap.
"The only digimon that can attack us would be present already; therefore we are less likely to be attacked from behind for the first hours. If any digimon where to follow us then they would assume we took either the left or straight path not the frightening one." She explained. The way she said made him seem less of a loony; he had just said it to be difficult.
"But would you take that way?" Labramon asked.
"I do not know." She answered instead playing with Lunamon's ears.
"So which way?" Zack asked. "Straight?"
Present day
After they rejected Zack's stupid idea of coin flipping they were once again stuck as to which way to go. 'How did Zack even think that would work?' He worried about the boy's future; he wasn't the brightest tool in the box. Well, who was he to talk. He only got two marks above a fail since he was ten. The teachers were stumped.
"I don't care what you guys do. I'm going." Rex said, breathing in heavily and starting his way into the dead forest. He could hear them calling him back and then arguing between them but then they were too far away for hear them.
"I wonder if they followed me or went the other way." He said to himself as he cleared some of the cobwebs from in front of his face. "When's the last time someone cleaned."
Suddenly he stepped in something that he was sure wasn't clean. Too bad it was too dark for him to see what it was. 'Maybe they should be slept where the paths spilt and gone in the morning' he thought. But that idea went out the window when he realised it was too in the open. They would have been found in hours.
"Hey please slow your pace." Someone shouted behind him, which made him jump and stop. Tami had said no one would follow him, since when was she wrong? "Thank you." The person said sitting down on the ground as they reached him. It was a girl and human. He only knew one girl that would sit on the floor anywhere.
"What are you doing here?" He sneered looking down at Tami who smiled back. Didn't she know he wasn't in the best mood? He was still meant to apologise to her too, but like breaking up with Emi he hadn't found the right time.
"I'm sitting on the ground. Why, what should I be doing instead?" She asked confused. Was she serious?
"Why did you follow me? And get off the floor, something will crawl onto you."
"Really you think so?" She looked happy at the idea of bugs crawling on her. "I have never seen an insect before only in pictures. Are they friendly?"
"There a riot." He replied drying, pulling her up by the arm. "We shouldn't stay in one place too long. It could be dangerous." If anything happened to Tami, his dad would kill him. Then his mom will bring him back to shout at him.
"That is very true. Judging by the moonlight on the floor we should be nearing the end of this forest." She said.
"Translate to English."
"Um. I can see the light over there." She guessed.
"Wasn't that easier?" He asked as they walked towards the moonlight.
"To speak the truth, not especially."
"How could I have thought otherwise?" He mumbled to himself.
"Excuse me?" She asked, running her hands through her red hair in an attempt to tie it. But every time she got the band in she lost her grip on the hair before she could twist the band around. It would have been funny to watch is they weren't in a creepy dark forest.
"Nothing. Here." He grabbed the band from her hand and the hair up, just to hurry them up.
As he was tying up her hair he saw a TV box sitting in the trunk of a tree. 'That's odd, what's a TV doing here?' He thought. If he was anyway else he would have looked for the remote to watch something, but the forest scared the daylights out of him.
"I could have completed the task myself. But thank you." She smiled at him which had him stumped. Had that been Emi she would have screamed at him for thinking she was too weak to do it herself. She wouldn't think of it as helping, she'd have thought of it as he trying to hurry her. That was followed by the cliché argument of do you not like what I look like when I do it myself.
Tami was genuinely thankful. Either that or she was a very good actress.
Rex nodded as they made their way in silence which suited him fine until he realised she hadn't answered his question. "Why did you follow me and not go with Emi and Shinya?"
"The answer's simple. Emi went with Zack and Tapirmon straight ahead. Shinya went with Rini, Labramon and Lunamon to the left pathway. But you had already left without a partner human or otherwise. You were alone and everyone else seemed angry so I knew they wouldn't follow you. So I came. I could go back and join another expedition if that would be convenient." She explained.
"No that's okay." He said putting his hands into his jeans, falling into silence again. Even if he wanted to be alone at the start, it was nice to know that no everyone hated him. Even if it was Tami. If she went back now, everyone would be pissed. Imagine if she got hurt? She didn't have a partner at the moment either so it was the same argument she had used at him.
"I forgive you. I thought I would inform you." She said suddenly. Rex looked back to see her staring at her shoes.
"For what?" He knew precisely what for.
"Concerning the words you said at lunch time earlier today and for when you called me a little girl." This time Rex blushed like a little girl. 'She heard that?'
"Oh. You probably aren't used to people rules but I have to apologise for you to forgive me." He said back offended that she'd accepted his non-given sorry.
"Oh I know that much." She laughed. "But I assumed you would be too shy to say it so I made it easier for you."
He shy? More like he was too proud. He pouted. "Great. Now my apology has to be really good."
"You could just say a simple sorry. It would not matter to me." She said as they reached the end of the forest.
"It does matter. It has to a really good so I feel better." He told her. His ego needed the boost since she'd deflated it. "Look a house!" He pointed to a small cottage with smoke coming out of the chimney. "The others are going to be so jealous, we get a hotel to sleep in and they probably get the dirty muddy floor. Take that! Hopefully the digimon are friendly."
"Surely we have to walk closer to the house to evaluate if they are friendly or not." Tami said killing his mood. Killjoy.
Rex walked, knowing she was following, to the front door. An egg shell answered. It was a slightly cracked white egg shell with green feet and shiny yellow eyes. He didn't look that powerful. How did he open the door without hands?
"Hello there I am Tami." Tami said before he could stop her. They should have made the digimon speak first; it would have showed they were more important.
The digimon looked them up and down, which was quiet funny for Rex to watch. An egg with feet sizing you up. Didn't see that every day. Hopefully it wouldn't see them as a threat. Tami was small and frail looking, especially with the dirt stains and messy hair. He was prefect as always. "Hello." The digimon replied.
"How are you?" Tami asked.
"Are you digidestined?" The egg asked pissing Rex off. If the egg thing could work out what they were why was he being so secretive of who he was. Rex pulled out his digivice and pointed it at the walking egg.
"Digitamamon. Ultimate Data digimon. Attacks: Hyper Flashing, Swing Egg, Nightmare Syndrome." The girl's voice said which brought a frown onto Digitamamon's face. Ultimate, that even more powerful than Snimon.
"So you are digidestined. Come inside then, you can stay the night if you can afford it." Digitamamon said talking them to a reception. There was a black and white sign saying plainly, 'No Pay, No Stay'. Classy. 'Did he expect them to buy a room?' He thought, he didn't have money only what he's swiped from his mom but he doubted that would work.
"Do you want to stay here? I mean we could move further on." Tami asked. What did he know?
"No we'll stay if we can afford. I don't trust it out there."
"Tell you what just 'cause you're digidestined I'll give you a discount. And a free dinner." Digitamamon offered. It almost seemed to good.
"Why?" He asked.
"Digidestined have been good to me in the past. I'm returning the favour."
"Are these the humans before us, no one tells us about them." Tami said.
"Yeah, friendly bunch well some of them. Now do you want the room or not?"
"How much?" Tami asked.
"Twenty dollars." Digitamamon replied.
"America, Australia, Fiji, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada?" Tami asked confusing them. Did so many places use the dollar? He thought it was just America.
"American." Digitamamon almost screamed.
"Thanks lucky." Rex laughed, albeit forced. She slammed down a twenty on the counter.
"Great. This is your key; it's the room on the end of the first floor, have a pleasant stay."
"Thank you. Have a pleasant day tomorrow." She screamed back. "Why do you have American dollars with you? Did you know we were coming here?" She whispered once they got to the stairs.
"Of course not. I just saw it on my mum's dresser and thought I could exchange it to yen later on. She wouldn't know it was me if it was gone." He explained.
"Oh. But that's wrong?" She said horrified.
"Well stealing it got us a room for the night. Hopefully with two separate beds." The room didn't have two beds it just had a very small single. "I'll take the floor."
"No you paid; I'll sleep on the floor."
"But I'm the guy." He said as if it sealed the argument.
"So?" She asked deflating his ego once again. But why when she did it, it hurt less than when Emi did it. 'Probably because she didn't try to flick/punch/kick/slap you at the same time.' His subconscious told him. That he couldn't argue with.
"Fine you can sleep on the floor. I'm going to ask Digitamamon for some blankets for you." He said quickly leaving the room. He'll just move her once she was asleep.
Shinya
"Should we have left them?" Lunamon asked for the fourth time since they left.
"They didn't want to come so they didn't." Shinya replied at his wits end with the question. People and digimon should understand that answering once is enough. Thank god, Lunamon wasn't his partner. She was way too happy, all the time.
"Maybe Lunamon's right." Rini piped up.
"Do you want to go back and get them? We'd have lost hours of walking." He snapped. Thankfully she stayed quiet.
"Can we take a break though, my paws hurt." Labramon complained pulling out a thorn.
"No. Once we find a good spot we can go to sleep, just not here." He indicated to the vines and bushes that here around them. One bush got up and started walking away. It looked like a peacock.
They walked in silence for the next couple of minutes.
"Do you think we'll find Baromon?" Rini asked.
"Yeah why not." He answered.
"One digimon in the entire world. Won't that take too long? Out parents will be getting worried."
"I'm sure they're trying to look for us. You're dad and Uncle Izzy will find us for sure. I mean digital world, it's a computer. No one knows computers like them." He consoled.
"That's true. Thanks Shinya." Rini said looping her arm through his. 'WOAH, what's going on?' He thought. 'That's not good'. He did like her, no question, but this was unsafe. He needed to have witnesses around him. What if she took advantage of him? He should be focusing on getting home not getting a girlfriend.
Still he didn't move her arm. "No problem." He squeaked out.
They walked a few more minutes coming to a stream. "We can rest here." He said to which Rini and Labramon started jumping up and down. He put his hands into his jacket instead.
"NO!" Lunamon shouted.
"Why?" Labramon asked.
"They are only a little away. Just ten more minutes please." She begged. "I promise you won't be disappointed."
Shinya shared a look with Rini then agreed. They walked down the length of the stream, reaching a small clearing filled with flowers and bird chirrups. Tall trees surrounded the land providing shelter and on the rock in the centre sat the most beautiful digimon ever.
Beautiful wasn't a strong enough word. Exquisite, Delicate, Superb, Wonderful. Any word in the dictionary would not compare to her radiance.
"Hump." Rini said knocking him in the shoulder as she walked towards her radiance. She pointed her digivice at the angel. "Venusmon. Mega Vaccine digimon. Attacks: Healing Therapy, LOVE YOU, Peace Fantasia."
"Venusmon." He breathed as he walked towards her.
"Olive, Hotan. We have guests." Venusmon had the most melodic voice ever. "Lunamon, Labramon it is a pleasure. I see you have brought humans. Rini, Shinya welcome."
"How do you know our names?" Rini asked rudely. 'why was she being so rude to the angel. She was perfect.'
"I know a lot." Venusmon smiled, lighting up his world. Suddenly she forced a smile at Lunamon. "How lovely to see you again."
"Ah please. You couldn't wait to see the back of me."
"That may be. I will take you back to the fold now. Thank you Shinya for bringing my sister to me." Venusmon said. Suddenly an orange light shone from his digivice towards a creature a few feet away. Shinya shook his head, clearly it of digimon magic. Being in Venusmon's presence made you fall in love with her.
The digimon looked like a red baby lion. There was a burst of fire coming off his tail and some fire was exploding from his head as well. There were two bracelets on his hands with a symbol oddly familiar to the omega sign. He had yellow toe nails and some yellow fur. He was sitting next to a small TV. Odd.
"How cute." Rini shouted running up to the digimon. "And he has a TV; I wonder what channels it gets. Hopefully I can catch the end of Moon Shine." She plopped herself in front of the TV and stared at the blank screen.
Shinya pointed the digivice at his partner which for some reason caused Venusmon to frown. "Coronamon. Rookie Vaccine Digimon. Attacks: Corona Knuckle, Corona Flame, Petit Prominence."
'AMAZING! His digimon made fire!'
"Shinya I must warn you, many digimon will not like to be scanned like that. I would not do that so openly next time." Venusmon advised. Shinya nodded not wanting to offend the digimon. Not only was she a Mega but she was pretty! "We should take our leave. Coronamon are you staying with these humans?"
Coronamon nodded. Venusmon and Lunamon vanished before his eyes, which made Shinya blink a few times to make sure he wasn't dreaming.
"Can we stay here?" Labramon asked looking at him pleadingly.
"Yeah okay." He mumbled back, walking over to Coronamon. Rini and Labramon fell asleep quickly against a nearby tree.
"Hi, I'm Shinya." He introduced. Best to start of small.
"Coronamon, but you already know that."
"I'm sorry I did that. It's just that were knew here and we haven't met a lot of digimon. We are still weary of them. I'm sorry."
"You said that twice."
"I'm really sorry." He smiled awkwardly.
"That's alright. As long as you are truly sorry for it I won't hold it against you. Next time you should let us digimon tell you who the other digimon are. How did you and Rini come to the digital world?"
It took Shinya a few seconds to realise the Venusmon had said Rini's name. "Oh well it wasn't just the two of us, there was six of us. Rini and my cousin Emi found their partner and we were told to find some digimon named Baromon but we don't know who that is, where or how to find him. Oh and we have to find all our partners to prove we are digidestined. So we were walking and the road split into three. We split into pairs as we couldn't make up our minds and Lunamon brought us here."
"Lunamon's my sister." Coronamon said.
"I didn't know digimon could have a family."
"Oh we don't. Normally we just get reconfigured over and over again. But you can often find twin digimon, they are hatched from the same egg."
"That's kind of like with humans."
"Oh that amazing. If you want I can stay up while you get some sleep."
"Why don't both of us sleep?"
"Oh you never sleep with a watch in the digital world. Digimon can pop out of nowhere."
"Right then. You sleep and I'll stay up."
"Okay." Coronamon agreed.
Shinya quickly hated the offer he'd made. It was his birthday and he was stranded in some unknown land with unknown creatures roaming around.
"Oh I forgot to say, I know where Baromon is." Coronamon said getting up.
"Really?" He asked. This made their life a lot easier. "How?"
"I'm Coronamon." The digimon said as if it should explain everything. "We got beyond the Nightmare Forest, then across the Breathless Sea," Before Coronamon finished a digimon appeared from the forest.
It was really big, much bigger than the Snimon. A boar covered orange and flames. There was a metal plate on his forehead, which looked odd to Shinya but he wasn't there to judge. Two giant tusks came out from his mouth. The creature dug its back leg in the soil before heading straight for him.
"Humans are to be destroyed!" The creature chanted.
"SHINYA!" Coronamon screamed but all he could hear was the blood in his ears.
Digitamamon
Digitamamon pressed the phone to his ear as he watched the stairs for the human creatures. Digidestined were always a nuisance.
"Hello." A happy voice answered.
"I need to talk to the lord. It's important." He whispered keeping his voice down. He didn't want to wake the humans.
"Trust me sugar, everyone been saying that. Can I ask what it is about, his highness is very busy."
"The new digidestined have come to the digital world just like we thought. I have two in my hotel until the morning." He explained.
"I'll just put you through." The preppy digimon said and he was automatically put through to the guy in charge.
"This better be important Digitamamon, I have much to do." His lord highness said.
"Oh of course Lord highness. I only called and disrupted your day with very important news. Digidestined have come to the digital world again. They are different that the first two times. I have two of them in my hotel for the night."
"This is good news servant. Do they have partners? How many are they in total?"
"I do not know the full total but these two do not have partners. Yet their digivices can identify a digimon on the spot. I would be weary."
"Do YOU dare tell me how I should act? Should I pay you a visit?" He threatened.
"NO, No. I didn't mean offense. I merely cautioned, you know I was your best interest at heart." He whimpered.
"I will send my best digimon to dispose of them. Keep them there as long as you can."
"Yes of course my lord."
"Oh and Digitamamon. If they escape before then, I will have your head on a platter." Digitamamon gulped as he put the phone down.
"Hey Digitamamon." The light brown haired kid said coming down the stairs. "We need more blankets." He demanded. Digitamamon restrained himself from firing an attack at him. He didn't know what his lord highness wanted with the humans but he didn't want to offend the master by hurting them.
"I'll have someone bring some up." He smiled. The boy gave him an annoyed look.
"I'd rather have them now. It's been a long day and I want to sleep."
"They are in the outhouse. I'll send someone quickly."
"You better. Or I'll do something that you won't like." The boy said before walking back up the stairs.
"Dorumon." He called the moment the boy was out of sight. "Take these to the humans in the guest room." He handed him some blankets from beneath the counter.
"Fine." Dorumon mumbled knocking over a lamp in the process.
"That's it an extra day!" Digitamamon shouted. The stupid digimon kept knocking things over which meant he had to stay extra days. At least that's what Dorumon was told. Digitamamon just kept him around because the digimon worked for free and made the food so he didn't have to. Dorumon just had high combat instincts which made him always jump about, which worked out great for him. Free labour, who wouldn't want that!
End of Chapter.
It seems Digitamamon will never change is ways. More on Dorumon in the next chapter and the mystery voice will be explained further on in the story. Yes he's the bad guy but there are others.
Soooooo? What did you think of Rex/Tami. I love them because the way I see it is that Rex always needs someone to save, he likes to be the hero and save people. But Emi doesn't need anyone to save her; she's too independent so that's why they always clash. Oh and Rex's ego gets in the way a lot. But with Tami he gets to save her.
By that I don't mean literally but metaphorically. Tami has an innocence which the other's don't. She gets really scared, or really happy or really sad. She doesn't feel things on the same level as everyone else. She's has heighted emotions which most people can't deal with (like Shinya on the bus) but I think Rex would be able to deal with it.
Oh and she just so happens to be able to cut down Rex's ego without hurting him as much as when Emi does it. And he will help her come out of her shell, the one she made by learning through the computer.
Next chapter will have a lot more romance, I wanted to include it here but it was getting too long. Watch how Tami makes Rex feel better, I LOVE IT.
Shinya found his partner although it was after he went a bit gaga over Venusmon. Well she is the digimon of love and beauty so it was expected. If you didn't know Olive is the dove that Venusmon has and Hotan is the scallop. Why there's a scallop I don't know but yeah. Check out pictures on the internet. (No copyright infringement intended.)
Not much Emi or Zack but they'll be back.
Oh the forest that Rex and Tami went through is called the Nightmare Forest, that's where Coronamon said they had to go through so Rex and Tami were right all along.
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