Hey guys, once again it's me, Lunamon810. And I would just like to say in advance, I am so, so, so, so, so, so sorry that this chapter is so short. It bugs the crap out of me, but this was a necessary chapter that I couldn't do much more with without having to run into the next chapter, which would either make the next one really short or an over sized chapter of the two combined. So yeah. Gomenasai! I really hope none of you are mad at me! I know my chapters are short, but this is ridiculous! But there will be some longer chapters coming up, so hopefully those will make up for it!

Also in the last chapter, I think in this little author-note thing I put at the beginning I said chapter twenty-eight, and if I did I meant thirty-eight. Sorry for the mix up! *sweatdrop* I was kind of busy, my mind was racing with the planning I was doing for this story. And I guess I'll go ahead and break it to you guys, this story only has six chapters left, including this one. So...yeah. But do hold on, okay? Love you guys.

Also Latina Shewolf is kind of MIA right now with studying and stuff, so I won't have any of the recaps until she gets back, because I suck at making recaps myself. I can't wait for my writing buddy to get back~ But until then, we'll have no recaps. Gomenasai, again! Anyways after this over sized author's note, please enjoy~

All of the digidestined who went with Tai were heading up the mountain, most of them talking to one another, Tai leading, just thinking to himself. He sighed and turned around, over hearing many people say they were tired. "Alright, I guess it's time for a break, and I see a village up ahead. So come on!" He smiled as they all ran up ahead to the village-like area. It was long a really long street with stores and houses. They all went into houses and laid back, relaxing.

"I'm so glad this village came up, I was so tired!" Mimi said smiling.

"Me too, my feet were starting to hurt." Sora admitted, as she removed her shoes and socks and rubbed her feet.

"I wonder if there's running water here, we could take a bath!" Mimi said, jumping up, and she started towards the bathroom. She turned the knob over the bath tub, and water flowed into it. She shrieked with joy as she went to tell Sora. "Water's running!"

"Alright!" Sora said smiling, though she was a bit worried about the town being seemingly abandoned and the water still running. She shrugged and went to tell the others as Mimi started water in the other bathroom.

Soon they were all taking baths, removing the fair amount of dirt and the alike that had built up from not taking baths. They all cleaned their clothes in the bath and used hair dryers to dry them off, and changed back into their clothes, rather than being wrapped up in their towels.

"I feel so much better being clean!" Tai said to Agumon, who nodded in agreement.

They all helped themselves to the food as well, since they were all starving. When they were done the lounged on the beds and couches, happy to finally be able to relax after the traveling they'd done. Tai walked into Sora and Mimi's house, searching for Sora. "Sora?"

"In here." Sora called back, and Tai went to the bedroom her voice had came from. She smiled when he walked in. "Hey Tai."

"Hey Sora. Listen, do you think something weird's going on around here? All of this food and stuff being left behind from whoever lived here?"

"Yeah, something seems off. It could be nothing, maybe whoever lived here abandoned it because of whatever's on top of the hill, trying to get away from it."

"Yeah, but the thing is, there are no signs of a fight or a struggle." Tai commented. "It's as if they just up and disappeared."

"Maybe they left before something could happen." Sora suggested.

"I guess so. But it seems so weird. It would have had to have been recently, some of the food would have spoiled if it'd been a long time, and we haven't encountered any digimon on this mountain."

"Maybe they went a different way than we did. But I think we should get out of here soon, it does seem kind of suspicious. Plus, we need to see whatever is at the top of the hill. If it's one of the evil digimon, we need to defeat them as soon as we can so we can get home, you know?"

"Right." Tai nodded. "I'll go round up the others."

"Okay."

Tai went around, getting everyone together. He explained the situation to them all, and Tai packed a bag of food and supplies, as did Sora. They started to head out, but something was blocking their path. Machinedramon.

"I knew something was wrong here." Tai and Sora said in unison. As the digimon digivolved, the digidestined prepared themselves.

"Giga cannon!" As huge energy waves started out from the cannons, some of the digimon started counter attacking.

"Giga blaster!" MetalGraymon called out, hitting Machinedramon with missiles from his chest.

"Celestial arrow!" Angewomon called out, hitting Machinedramon with an arrow.

"It doesn't look like any of our attacks are working!" Izzy said.

"Lets take him out like we have the others." Sora said, looking at Tai. "All at once."

"Right." Tai nodded, and everyone did so. All at once the attacks hit Machinedramon, and in a flash, he was gone. They all shared high-fives as the digimon dedigivolved to their intraining forms, minus Gatomon. Then they all caught their digimon as they bounced over to them and spun around, laughing.

"That's one more down! Alright!" Mimi cheered.

"Yeah, but that still leaves Myotismon. And we all know he can be harder to get rid of than anyone." Izzy said. "Not to bring us down or anything."

"Well yeah, but still, that's one less enemy to worry about," Sora said smiling. "Which means the closer we are to saving the digital world and going home to our families."

"Right." Izzy nodded.

They all started walking again, and within a few hours they were about three fourths up the hill, which they all noted with great happiness and relief. Also a bit of fear though, of what could be awaiting them at the top of the hill. It could be anything, but most likely it'd be an enemy. And who knows how strong Myotismon or someone could be now?