Well folks, unfortunately the school bell will soon be ringing and more than likely I won't be able to update for a while. I do plan however to get at least this chapter and one more out to you kind readers before the weekend well ends. So wish me luck! Unlike last time I won't be fecking off for like 5 months and not writing, I plan on updating once a week (emphasis on plan) lol :P
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The gang remained mostly quiet during the journey out of the city. They had decided to walk as far as the small wood just beyond the main road into the City. It was usually peaceful there and plenty of places to take refuge in and hide if digimon attacked again. It was perfect.
Tk walked slightly ahead of the others as he thought through everything that had happened during the day. He had woken up so happy and excited about the day ahead and now, the girl of his dreams was with his best friend (a douche) she wouldn't give a second look at before, one of his closet friends was dead, evil digimon were attacking the world, his friend had lost his girlfriend and most of all someone had set a virus on the digimon and he had no way of knowing who or how to put an end to it. Tk sighed as he put his hands in his pockets. Sometimes he hated being the one who was expected to be the hopeful one all of the time, especially in moments of such despondency.
Suddenly someone ran up and threw his arm around Tk's shoulder. The blonde flinched with the impact but it was only Tai.
"So Tk," said Tai. "When will your daring brother Matt be joining us?"
Tk smiled. "I told him I'd contact him after we left the city," he said. "I think we should probably ttry get hold of Gennai too, because of the Greymon attacking the school we kind of had to leave without saying goodbye. Maybe he has some answers for us on how to stop the digimon."
Tai nodded wisely. "You've done a lot of growing up in the past few years Tk," he said. "I can hardly recognise you from that little blonde kid with the stupid hat that kept bugging me when we were first in the digital world.
"Hey!" said Tk loudly facing Tk stern faced. "My hat was not stupid." The blonde's face broke into a grin and the old friends shared their first laugh of the day.
Tai looked back at the others and his face turned serious again. "Tk?" he asked.
"Yeah," said Tk looking back over at Tai.
"Why is Kari going out with Davis?"
Tk tensed up. "Eh.. I guess… I mean she must like him," he said unsure.
Tai grimaced. "Odd."
Tk looked at the older boy confused. "What?" he asked simply.
Tai looked down as he put his hands in his pockets. "It's just last night she seemed so excited about meeting up with you in the digital world, you know alone."
Tk nodded solemnly.
"Now that's she suddenly dating Davis it's just weird, like I mean she always said she wouldn't touch Davis with a barge pole because he was too much like me. She said it would almost be like incest."
Tk looked at Tai and then back at the other behind him. "She told me that too," he admitted.
"Hmm," said Tai. "Who knows perhaps she really did like Davis all this time and was just too shy."
Tk looked down at his feet. "Maybe," he muttered feebly.
About an hour later the digidestineds were safely out the city and were at the edge of the wood.
"Do you think we should camp here?" asked Cody looking around at everyone.
Tk looked behind him. Smoke enveloped the city and as night fell he could see the dark silhouettes as countless more digimon entered the city. "No," he said I response to Cody's question, "we should continue on into the wood until we reach a clearing or something, it's safer that way."
Everyone nodded in agreement and the gang carried on. There pace had to slow down considerably as the woodland was rough and twigs and stones everywhere made the path one that was easy to lose one's footing on. However after twenty minutes or so the gang found a comfy spot to crash for the night. The land was well closed in by trees and the ground was good and dry, which meant they could easily light a fire.
As everyone began to settle down and Joe unpacked his bag of "borrowed" food from the hospital the reality of the day's events began to hit everyone.
"Guys?" said Izzy.
Everyone turned to the red haired teen and smiled weakly.
"Yah?" said Tai.
"Do you think we could maybe possibly bury Mimi here, now, I mean before we eat or anything?"
"No problem Izzy," said Tk standing up. "If it's what you want, I'm up for it."
Everyone nodded to prove they were in the same mind set as Tk and with that the gang walked away slightly from the fire and decided to dig.
"Eh, we don't have any spades or anything," said Yolei.
"Then we'll use our hands," said Ken back to her.
Yolei grimaced but she knew it had to be down.
The labour was hard, especially without any proper equipment but nonetheless the gang managed to dig a somewhat shallow grave for their friend after about an hour.
Izzy gently picked up Mimi's body and placed her down in the grave.
He smiled weakly. "I'll always love you Memes," he said simply.
"We all love you Mimi," said Sora.
"And as God is my witness Mimi," said Tk. "When we find who did this to you-
"We'll kill him," said Izzy.
Just at that moment Tk's phone began to ring, it was Matt. "Sorry guys," said Tk, "it's Matt I better take it."
Tk walked a bit away from the group before taking the call. "Matt, hey" he said.
"Tk!" exclaimed his brother down the line. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah bro, I'm fine. Where are you?"
"I'm still in the city. I was talking to the officer earlier, he said that since I'm a digidestined and might be able to help the world more if I'm with my fellow digidestineds that he's letting me go tomorrow. I should be with you and the others by 3pm tomorrow. Where are you?"
"We're in the woods," said Tk simply. We'll probably move nearer the river tomorrow meet you there?"
"Yeah, that sounds okay to me Teeks." Said Matt.
"Awesome," said Tk simply. "I'll see you tomorrow then Matt!" By-
"Wait Tk don't go!" yelled the older blonde down the phone.
"What?" asked Tk worriedly.
"Teeks, promise me something alright?"
"Anything bro, what's up?" said Tk back.
"Promise me you won't do anything stupid. Promise me you'll be safe alright? If anything happened you I'd…
Matt left his sentence hanging and Tk began to feel scared. "Don't worry Matt I'll be careful," he said.
"Promise me little bro?" said Matt.
"I promise."
When Tk returned to the group they had filled in the grave and most of the digidestineds were all teary eyed. Tk began t approach Kari to pull her into a hug to comfort her but Davis beat him to it and pulled the auburn beauty into a big hug. Tk's heart fell.
The blonde sighed and sat next to Joe who was starting to prep the dinner.
"Need a hand?" asked Tk kindly trying to distract himself from the loved up teens.
As everyone began to settle down after the burial small chat resumed again.
"Who would do such a thing?" asked Sora vaguely.
"Everyone turned to face the girl. "What do you mean?" asked Kari.
Sora frowned. "I mean like who would set a virus like this on the digimon and attack innocent people?"
"Maybe Malomyotismon is back," said Cody.
"Or maybe Piedmon and the other dark masters are making a return," suggested Tai.
"Or maybe," said Izzy quietly. "Maybe a human is behind it all."
"But Izzy that's impossible," said Davis.
"Really?" said Izzy don't you remember Oikawa?"
"Or when I was the Digimon Emperor," added Ken.
"Oh yeah…" mumbled Davis.
Tk stood up. "I don't think we should jump to any conclusions just yet," he said. "At least not before we've talked to Gennai."
Davis shrugged. "It's just some digimon up to his old tricks."
Izzy grunted loudly. "Well because of a digimon up to his 'old tricks' Davis, my girlfriend is dead- remember."
Everyone looked down and an awkward silence consumed the group. It felt like an eternity before Joe said, "dinner is ready."
When they had finished eating it was very late however the digidestineds decided they had to ring Gennai anyway. They had to know more information before they attempted to get some rest.
It may have been years since their first journey to the digital world but Izzy still kept a laptop with him. After a long ten minutes of trying to get connected to the Internet Izzy finally managed to open a link to talk to Gennai.
"Kids," said a tired and wry looking Gennai.
The digidestineds smiled. "Any word Gennai on what happened?"
Gennai nodded curtly. "It seems from my findings that the starting point of the virus is indeed from your world."
"WHAT?" Exclaimed all the digidestineds in unison.
"But it cannot be," said Kari in awe.
"I'm afraid it is true Kari," said Gennai solemnly. "However I do know of a way in which you can save your world."
"How?" asked Tai desperately.
"You must go on a quest for the crests," said Gennai.
"Our crests?" asked Sora. "Are we going to the digital world?"
"No Sora," said Gennai. "When the virus attacked the digimon your crests were released into your world, into the Japanese countryside, you must find them, only then will you be able to conquer the virus."
"What about us?" asked Cody, "we don't have crests."
"Oh but you do young Cody, you just haven't found them yet." Said Gennai wisely.
"When we find our crests, will our digimon be ours again?" asked Joe.
"I believe so Joe," said Gennai. "The together you and your digimon will destroy whoever set up this virus, together."
"Gennai," said Tk. "I know you said the virus started in our world but do you think a digimon is ultimately behind all this?"
Gennai nodded. "Yes I do Tk, similar to the situation with Oikawa a few years ago I believe an innocent human was led astray by a powerful digimon."
Tk nodded.
"Are there any crests around here Gennai?" asked Davis.
"As a matter of fact there is Davis, Cody's crest is either across or in the river just beyond the woods."
Tk grabbed Cody's shoulder and smiled down at his DNA digivolve partner.
"I am sorry children," said Gennai. "The connection is weak and I am very tired. I wil contact you after you have collected Cody's crest is that okay?"
The digdestineds nodded.
Gennai smiled weakly. "Good luck."
Woah, that was a long chapter! Hope you enjoyed it. As always reviews are nice so keep them coming! 'Til then, toodles xx