(Author's Note)

Sorry this chapter took so long. Gomen! (_) This is now Chapter 3 and I am sad to say that Chapter 4 will be harder than I thought due to one of the-most-hated-illness-an-authoress-could-have: WRITER'S BLOCK.

Wish me luck!

P.S. Please read and review! I need to get better at writing! Thank you!

Lyraeira:)

Chapter Three

Sakuriya's POV

After dinner, I slumped on my bed, my brain exhausted after the stress-loading experience in school. One day, I was going to find the person who started the idea of education and erase him (or her) from history. School is like a curse, quite identical to having second parents. It was simply annoying to have a set of meddling parents, let alone two.

I glanced at my desk and groaned at the pile of homework waiting patiently for me to complete them. It was a dirty task, but I had to do it, sooner or later. I picked up my pen, inhaled deeply, and started scribbling away.

It was around ten when I completed the assignments. I yawned and stretched, and I knew it was time to turn in. I gazed out of window and saw the illuminating moonlight cascading down on the tress surrounding my house.

I jumped into my bed and snuggled into its soft embrace, groping about in the dark to find my favourite pillow. Suddenly, my fingers touched something cold and metallic and I clasped around it. I brought it into my line of view and gasped.

It kind of resembled a small phone but it was round and had a rectangular screen, framed in a red outline, with some red weird-shaped buttons on the front with a red lanyard was attached on the top.

How strange, I mused. I didn't know I had one of these.

I played around with the buttons and pressed one of them.

That was the biggest mistake of my life.

The next thing I knew, I was tumbling down some sort of wormhole (practically screaming) and fell flat on my back on a tuft of grass.

"Oophm," I moaned. "That's why I hate roller-coasters."

I got up and immediately a wave of giddiness swept over me. I held a tree for support and had a clear view of my surroundings. I was in a jungle of some sort and there was a hint of strangeness in its midst. I just could not seem to finger it. Where was I?

Suddenly, I heard a strange buzzing overhead. A helicopter! I thought excitedly.

"Hey!" I shouted, as I began to wave frantically in the air, though the helicopter was not in sight. "Over here! Help!"

When I saw the 'helicopter', my face began to pale.

"Oh damn," I cursed, as I started to run, for I had foolishly drawn the attention of a huge insect-like creature. Still, it looked rather familiar. But I couldn't think now. I had to get away first.

If you all don't know, I have a very low stamina. I hate running and but in this situation, I had no choice. I could hear it coming closer every second, and I was beginning to panic. I imagined myself being bitten and stung and of course, eaten alive.

"Flicker Breath!" I heard a little voice cry out behind me. I glanced over my shoulder, as was just in time to see a small pink blob jump infront of me and started to spit out small, not to mention pathetic, flames. Well, at least that got the creature distracted. Anyway, since when did little pink blobs start to speak?

"Hurry! Over here!" I heard a voice call out. Before I could react, a hand reached out and dragged me into the bushes.

"Oof!" I groaned, as my back slammed hard against the rock-hard ground. I stared up in my rescuer's face and gasped when I realised there were two. And the best discovery of all so far? I knew them.

"You guys?"

Kajome's POV

Okay, so I had not been expecting the girl that Najo and I were supposed to team up with was the latecomer. Sometimes, I wonder if destiny, if it had a brain, was hay wired. I mean, seriously, why would anyone choose their savior to be a girl that always arrives at school late? Apparently, she had not been expecting us either.

"You guys?" she exclaimed.

"Yes," I sighed. "Us. Is that the way to thank your rescuers?"

She flushed, I hope, with embarrassment. "Sorry, I am just confused. Imagine popping out of somewhere in nowhere."

"Hello!" the pink winged creature, that had gone and distract the big insect monstrosity, shrieked. "Need I remind you with have an Ultimate Digimon on our heels? So, can we escape like now?"

As if to prove it right, the creature burst into our hiding place and roared.

"Snow Spit!" the small blue creature, I had first met when I came into this world, quickly opened his mouth and snow pelted the Ultimate Digimon. As I ran off, I remembered the first time I came here. The first time I saw my partner.

The first time I knew I was a Digidestined.

*Flashback*

In the darkness of my room with only the desk light glaring down on my homework, I was sitting and solving a math equation. It was kind of easy. In my intelligent mind, I was calculating and putting together the unknowns. Suddenly, I felt cold. Not that type of winter cold feeling. It's more like the you-watch-a-horror-movie-and-you-get-the-chills cold. It was creepy.

"Ka..jo..me.." a child-like voice whispered into my ear. I spun around immediately, but there was no one, except me, obviously.

When I turned back to my desk, I found that my homework had disappeared and it their place was a circular cell phone with a rectangular screen framed in dark-blue. It looked like some kind of toy. Before I could think anymore, I could hear the winds in my ear and I felt I was falling…

…And I landed on a bush.

I heard a cry of pain and I thought it was my own, until I saw a blue creature emerge from where I landed.

"Owww…" it moaned as it rubbed its head. "When did a branch get so heavy?"

Slowly, it turned to catch a glimpse of the 'branch' and yelped in surprise."A human!"

I yelped too. "A monster!"

"GRAHHH!"

"What's all the screaming about-" I heard a bubbly voice begin before it was cut off by a startled gasp. "It's a human!"

"Yeah," I muttered. "A human surrounded by monsters!"

"Hey! That's not very nice!" the blue creature shouted defiantly. "We are Digimon! Not monsters!"

Wait. It said it was a….digimon? I blinked a few times. Seriously. Those little creatures on television that can transform and all that?

Apparently, the Digimon were having conversations of their own.

"The human looks familiar, doesn't he, Koramon?" A pink creature was saying to the blue creature that I had fallen on.

"Yeah…" the blue creature, which I figured was Koramon, agreed, as both of them began staring at me. Somehow, the black creature's eyes were wide in surprise and…recognition?

"Koramon!" it shouted in glee. "That human! He's your partner!"

"WHAT?" Both of us gaped at each other. Okay. I have to admit, I did watch some episodes of Digimon when it aired in Japan, enough to know about the Digidestined and their partners. Personally, I liked Matt and his Gabumon in the very first season of Digimon, and when Digimon Frontier aired, Koji was so cool with his Spirit Evolutions! As you can see, I'm kind of infatuated with wolves.

"Y-You are…K-Kajome?" Koramon stuttered, looking at me.

"Yes," I nodded and he flung himself onto me.

"Hear that, Tokimon, Tagomon?" he nuzzled against my chest, which was kind of (A/N: Kajome's trying to be nice. He means 'very'.) gay. I was in a daze. Okay, so I landed in the Digital World in its forest and found my partner. But somehow, I could not help but wonder…why me? I grew out of Digimon every since I started elementary school. I guess you could call it peer pressure.

But...I have to admit, being one of the almightly chosen ones is pretty awesome.

Najo's POV

So I was the same as Sakuriya and Kajome. I came into this totally bizarre world by falling down in this forest. I was actually watching some documentary on bears. You know, black bears, polar bears, you get the picture. I was fishing around for the remote control, until I felt something circular. I took it out, and found that it was grey circular hand phone or something, but no keypad; just two triangular buttons and a circle button in the middle. It had a rectangular screen framed in black.

And then a tiny voice began to call my name repeatedly, before the television sucked me in. And that was basically how I got to the Digital World.

Unlike Sakuriya and Kajome, neither was I chased by a bug nor did I fall onto my partner Digimon. I was just wandering around in awe. The trees were not anything I've seen back on Earth. I did try and take some samples, but a black fur ball cannon-bolted into my chest before I could do so.

I landed on the ground as it began to scold me shrilly. "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING? HARMING OUR FOREST?"

At that time, I didn't know why its voice sounded so freakishly familiar. I didn't know what I was facing was a Digimon, let alone my partner Digimon. All I knew was that I was tackled by an UTM— which stands for 'Unidentified Talking Monster'.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU?" It was my turn to sound shrill. Like seriously, how would you react to see some weird black monster infront of you? (P.S. And by the way, it speaks.)

It was glaring furiously at me. "I am a DIGIMON. D-I-G-I-M-O-N," it shouted. "AND WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO TO MY FOREST?"

I blinked. I did not know what a Digimon was, but I was sure that this was definitely not its forest.

"Oh yeah?" I challenged. "Then why are there no scent markings on the trees?"

Then I saw it turn red— with anger or embarrassment?— and before it could reply, another voice called, "Tagomon! Where the hell are you?"

A blue Digimon stumbled out of the bushes and then to my astonishment, so did a human. And I watched as the human turned… and gasped.

"Kajome?" My eyes widened as the human looked at me in bewilderment.

"Najo? Don't tell me you are a Digidestined too?" he spoke, inching towards me.

"Digi-destined?" I cocked my head sideways.

And so, sighing, Kajome began filling in details of Digimon and about some Lord Plazamon destroying Digimon villages.

"Neat!" I exclaimed, after he finished. "So you mean with this-" I fished out the weird hand phone I obtained earlier back on Earth. "- our Digimon can evolve?"

"Digivolve, you mean," he corrected.

I glanced at the black Digimon, after figuring that he was my partner, and smiled. I stretched out my hand.

"My name is Najo," I said cheerily. "Looks like we're going to be partners."

He just glared at me. "How wonderful."

And I gulped as he moved away. And we were off to a bad start.