It's been close to two years since I last updated this story and I feel pretty bad about it considering I had been wanting to do this for so long before I actually started it, but unfortunately I made the mistake of loaning the game I had hunted for for 8 years to my ex roommate and he lost it. Never making that mistake again. But fortunately I have an emulator and I've been able to play the game on my laptop so here we are. I'd like to thank kingdomsavior90 for the wonderful reviews. Anyway on to the story.

Disclaimer: Pyrorynox does not own Digimon, Digimon World 3, or any of said Digimon used in this work of fiction.

After facing a few more Vegimon and a few Betamon that had been unlucky enough to pass by, Kenja's Digimon had all jumped to level 5. They had gone back to Asuka City and Kenja bought equipment for his Digimon now that they had enough money to do so.

"Well how do you guys feel with a little extra protection? I know it's not much but it's better than nothing, right?"

Kotemon swung his sword, getting a feel for his added strength and defense. "No complications here. The power increase was much needed and I'm sure we can put these items to fair use for a while."

"I agree with him. We can always find stronger items though if these aren't enough after a while," said Kumamon.

"So what next?" asked Monmon.

"Well I think we're at a good level to finally leave the starter area so I think we should leave for Seiryu City and take on the first leader. Sound like a plan?" All of his Digimon pumped their fists in the air and he grinned. "Let's go then."

The four of them left Asuka City and went back into the Central Park area. Kenja could see the path that they needed to go through to the east, but something caught his eye to his right. "What's going on over there?" Tamers were sprinting down the slope terrified, their Digimon barely keeping up with them. They looked exhausted.

That's Plug Cape, home to some pretty strong dino Digimon. They're really strong against us rookie so you don't really see many new tamers go there early on," Kumamon said. He didn't get an answer. The three digimon looked around but Kenja had disappeared.

"Where Kenja go?" asked Monmon.

Kotemon finally caught sight of him going up the slope towards Plug Cape. "Kenja!" He shot forward, his long shirt sleeves whipping around behind him. He was just in time as a Kunemon materialized over Kenja. Kotemon quickly pushed him out of harm's way and slashed at the Kunemon, deleting him instantly. Kotemon looked at where Kunemon had been seconds before sheathing his sword back in his belt. "I didn't expect that." He looked and saw that Kunemon and Monmon had caught up and were staring at him. "Hmm?"

Monmon smirked at him. "Kotemon strong!"

Kumamon was now looking towards Plug Cape. "We're strong enough to do one hit kills now? Maybe we'll be okay if we train in Plug Cape a bit to test our strength."

"I'm sure you guys can handle it. Besides. I want to see as much of this world as I can. So are you all up for it?"

Kotemon nodded along with the other two Digimon and they headed into the next area after Kenja opened a container with three hundred bits nearby. They walked down a long, winding slope as soon as they entered the area but stopped when they reached the bottom because they saw a guy just...standing there. He stared away from them at one of the weird looking trees that adorned the digital landscape.

He kicked the blue part of it once and sighed as nothing happened. "Man, Cardmon isn't coming out...and why did I lose Gabumon?"

"Huh?" Kenja said in confusion. "Why are you kicking the trees?"

The boy at the tree turned around in surprise and saw Kenja and his Digimon staring at him. "Huh? Did you ask why am I kicking the trees? To find a Cardmon of course!"

"Cardmon? What's that? A Digimon?"

"Cardmon is a Digimon that drops boosters with extra cards in it and only Divermon in the city can open the boosters."

Kenja was silent for a minute and his Digimon were slightly worried about him. Then he shouted out. "Cardmon drop boosters!? ….Let me kick 'um too..." He had a weird look on his face like his was in a weird trance.

"Heh heh heh. You need Tree Boots to kick them. So, you probably want to get the boots. Well then...I lost my Gabumon card, will you find it? If you find it, I'll tell you how to get the boots."

"Gabumon card? Ok, I'll find it and come back! My name is Kenja, by the way."

"Soccer Kid Hide. I might have lost it in the Asuka Inn. Sorry, I don't really remember!" Kenja told him not worry about it and he waved goodbye and left the area. He didn't head back up the slope though.

"I thought we were going to find that strange person's Digimon card. It might be advantageous for us. I've heard that some cardmon are fairly weak but they give very good experience.

"I'm not too sure about that. It seems kind of cheap to take advantage of some Digimon like that." Kumamon put his paws behind his head and pouted. He wanted to fight strong opponents to test himself. Anything else just didn't seem right to him.

"Me no care. Me just want to get stronger."

"Well guys, think of it as strategy to get stronger. There are always different ways of gaining strength and this could save some time." Kumamon mulled over what Kenja said and finally nodded. "But to answer your question Kotemon, we came here to train. We can look for his card afterwards." They began walking again towards the west, crossing a stone bridge, took the right turn at a fork, went up a slope, and then up a ladder before down another winding path. The further they went, the more people they saw exiting the area as fast as they could.

"That weird. Me no see any strong Digimon."

"Monmon has a point. You would've thought we'd seen an adversary by now. This worries me." There was a stomping sound behind them and they turned around. Kumamon's mouth nearly dropped to the ground.

"How did we not see that thing!?" Behind them stood a gargantuan triceratops-like Digimon. It stood on it's hind legs though and looked to be made out of nothing but muscle. It roared at the group and looked at them menacingly.

"It looks like it would be really hard to take it down up close. Monmon, get in there and hit him with ranged attacks. Try to test its defense." Monmon nodded and the other two Digimon backed away with Kenja. The health bars for both Digimon appeared above the area they were in and the battle started. Monmon ran around and shot energy balls from his sling shot but a lot of them only bounced off of his rough hide. One attack hit and it took out about a fifth of his health. The Triceramon roared and jumped forward. The strength of it's legs propelled him to Monmon in less than a second and he slammed into Monmon before he could dodge. His health bar went down by a third and he fell to the ground.

"Monmon!" the three shouted. Monmon tried to get up but Triceramon had jumped forward again, surprising everyone. He landed on Monmon and quickly got off before stomping off to wait for Monmon to make his move.

"Oh no! This guy can attack twice in a row!? His speed must be a lot higher than that of a rookie." Kenja looked and saw that Monmon's health was in the red and really close to being zero. One more attack like that and Monmon would be out of the fight. "Monmon get out of there!" Monmon tried to get up but couldn't move. "Kumamon get him out of there!"

"On it!" Kumamon jumped into the fight and threw Monmon out where Kotemon caught him. Before Kumamon could attack though Triceramon once again did his dive more and slammed into Kumamon. Kumamon slammed into the cliffside behind him and he health instantly went into the red zone.

"He scored a critical hit? This is crazy! Kotemon switch out with him!"

Kotemon leapt forward but bounced off some kind of invisible wall. "I can't! He still has a turn and it won't let me switch with Kumamon!"

Kenja tried to keep his cool but the situation was starting to get to him. "Maybe I should've listened to Kotemon. We're gonna lose because I got overly excited. I'm such a bad tamer." He face showed what he was thinking and Kumamon saw this. He slowly stood up before Triceramon could jump again and held up his guard.

"I'm not gonna lose to you in front of my tamer!" Triceramon roared as he soared through the air, but he bounced back when he came into contact with Kumamon. Kumamon had managed to somehow block his attack. He was breathing heavy and close to passing out but he glared at Triceramon all the same. "You see that guy?" He pointed to Kenja and grinned. "That guy may be a bit rocky now, but one day he's gonna be the #1 tamer in the digital world. Your next opponent will be the one to burn his face into your memory." He started to topple over but was grabbed before he hit the ground. "Kotemon?"

"Ah. That was quite a splendid speech just now. I'll make sure to honor your fiery shout and prove that Kenja will someday be the strongest tamer." He helped Kumamon up and Kumamon limped off of the field as to not distract Kotemon from his fight.

Kenja looked from Kotemon to Kumamon and felt tears well up in his eyes. "Guys." He looked down and saw that Monmon was grinning at him. He sniffed fighting back tears. "You guys are the best!" He whipped the few tears from his eyes and brought his goggles down over his eyes which looked as fierce as flames.

The satellite above his head shined for a second as new information was transmitted to him. "Evolution now unlocked: Hookmon, Grizzmon, Dinohumon." Kotemon looked back at Kenja and nodded. Kenja accessed his menu and navigated to Kotemon's evolution to Dinohymon. "Kotemon...evolution!"

The field suddenly changed as the forest faded and was replace by a black void with several giant rings surrounded the field. But smaller rings surrounded Kotemon as his skin quickly shed and showed his green programming underneath. Over the rings that surrounded Kotemon and strange symbol formed. It was a a large triangle with three smaller triangles surrounding it. The symbol came down and everything within the rings turned into a white egg shape. "KOTEMON SHINKA!" The egg shattered and in Kotemon's place stood a much larger Digimon. Gone was Kotemon's kendo sword and oversized shirt. This large digimon was shirtless wore strange purple pants that went just below his knees but he wore strange garments on his ankles that were of the same color and material. Around his waist was a yellow and brown belt with a long yellow sash etched with red digital symbols down his front. His forearms and fist were much large than they should have been around his forearms were large, red wool armguards with large blades coming out of each of them. He held a large knife in his left hand and had an extremely large sword that was nearly as tall as he was strapped to his back. His face was lizard like in appearance but he was clearly based on a native American from the look of his garments and he headband around his head, even with a feather in the back. "DINOHUMON!"

Kumamon whistled weakly and Monmon felt slightly jealous that he couldn't be the first to evolve but he was still happy for his comrade. Kenja looked forward with even more pride than he'd had a minute ago. Kenja navigated to Dinohumon's techniques and picked the only one there, and it looked strangely fitting for the situation. "Go Dinohumon!"

The familiar ringing sound rang through the area and Dinohumon tucked the cleaver into holster at the side and pulled his large sword from his back. He breathed out as he held it in front of him and roared. "HISSATSU!" He ran forward and drug his blade through the ground, the friction setting it's surface on fire. "HEAT CUTTER!" He slashed Triceramon up and across and his body erupted into flames and deleted. Dinohumon sighed and tossed his sword over his shoulder before glowing and reverting back into Kotemon, his regular kendo sword in place of the giant sword he just had. "That's for making our tamer cry." All three Digimon glowed as they all gained a level. After he used a couple of Power Charges to heal up Kumamon and Monmon Kenja grabbed all three of his Digimon in a bear hug and laughed. "I love Digimon!"

I'm sure some of you noticed some changes I made, such as the slightly different evolution scene, the evolved Digimon already having an attack despite not being at the right tech level (seriously, at least give them one attack when the first evolve), and unlocking of the Digimon evolutions through the bond with the tamer when being at a certain level. The major appeal of Digimon in my opinion has always been the bond between Digimon and partnered human and how that bond strengthens them both, or all four in this case and that's the main things the Digimon World games were missing. Anyway, please leave a review if you liked it or even if you didn't like it. Just don't flame me bro. I promise the next chapter won't take two years to come out.