This is the second chapter in showcasing the evolutions of Kotemon, Kumamon, and Monmon with this one featuring Kumamon. So please read and review.

Disclaimer: Pyrorynox does not own Digimon but if he did Digimon World 3 would be remade for the PS4.

"Did any of you find that card yet?" An angry, resounding "NO!" shot out at Kenja from all directions of the downstairs area of the Asuka Inn. Kenja backed away as he had asked that same question ten times in the past five minutes and his Digimon were slightly irritated with him. "I'm sorry. I was just asking."

"Well instead of asking you could help us look instead of examining the floor. I know you're amazed at how real it looks, but you can't be so easily distracted," said Kotemon. Kenja nodded halfheartedly and moved to go look at an area behind the ladder.

"Hey guys I found it!," shouted Kumamon and he pulled his paw from behind some barrels on a shelf. He flicked the card straight to Kenja who caught it between his fingers. "Nice catch Kenja."

Kenja thanked Kumamon for the compliment but nearly fell as Monmon jumped on top of his head. "Monmon?"

"Lead way Kenja," He slid down so that he was sitting on Kenja's shoulders and they left out through the Lamb Chop, kind of a digital bar/lounge area. They headed straight back to Plug Cape where Soccer Kid Hide was.

"Hey, Hide!" Kenja yelled as he came towards the strange boy who had been again staring at the strange tree."

"Hmmm? Oh it's you Kenja. Any luck finding my card? I'm sorry that I couldn't go look for it myself, but I was busy training my Digimon by fighting Cardmon." Behind him a Growlmon was shooting fireballs from it's mouth at a small circular digimon that looked like it had a booster pack of Digimon cards floating over it's head while a Patamon and another Kumamon watched from nearby. "I saw you running around earlier. You level grinding?"

"Yup. When we first ran into that Triceramon it looked pretty bad, but once we got the evolution thing down we didn't have much trouble. My team's all at level 10." Behind him, his digimon high-fived each other. "We went to the Inn and found your card afterwards though." He pulled out the Gabumon card from his pocket and handed it Hide.

"This is it alright. Thanks so much Kenja. Since you did this for me, I'll tell you about the tree boots. First of all, to get the boots to have to make friends with Veemon."

"Like I have to partner up with one? But there weren't any Veemon in the starter packs." Kenja looked confused as did his Digimon.

"No no. It's a wild Digimon, but it's one of the ones that interacts with tamers. Not like the ones that attack you. I think it's only purpose in the game is to give people tree boots, but he's kind of hard to find because he's quite the unpredictable Digimon. It's a rule that you can't tell people exactly where to go once you find him, but we're supposed to give a little riddle instead. 'To find Veemon, go where people meet.' If you can figure out where that is then somebody there should be able to help you."

"Thanks Hide." He reached up to shake Hide's hand and Hide smiled as he shook it. "I'll definitely come say hi the next time I come through here."

"I look forward to it. Best of luck to you." Kenja and the others left up the winding path back to Central Park and headed back to Asuka City.

"'Go where people meet' eh? Well considering we haven't really gone to any populated areas other than Asuka City I think we should start there. Since a lot of people go to the Lamb Chop that seems like the most likely place where people would meet," said Kotemon. "But I think since we've leveled quite a bit, some training at the gym would be a good idea to increase some of our base stats. Plus Kumamon and Monmon have been eying the place for a while now."

Kenja looked at Kumamon and Monmon and sweatdropped at the were eying the equipment in the window of the building like it was a buffet. In front of the big building was the iconic Leomon in all of his heroic glory. Kenja walked up to the Leomon followed by Kotemon and a very excited Kumamon and Monmon.

"Hello young tamer!" the Leomon said in a loud voice when he saw Kenja walk up. "I don't believe I've seen you before. You must be a newbie here for training. We offer five kind of exercises for this level of gym: Punching for strength, blocking for defense, yoga for spirit, studying for wisdom, and jump rope for speed. For every level your digimon gain they receive five trainer points, or TP. How many TP does each of your digimon have?"

"Well we started off at level one and gained nine more levels. So I believe 45 each."

"Alright. Each exercise will give more of a stat increase based on how many TP you choose to use on it. You can use one, five, or ten TP per exercise. Please begin."

"Kumamon, you're up first. What should we train first? Since nobody knows your body better than you I'll trust your judgment."

"Hmmm." He looked at the five options then stopped at the yoga. "I think for my style spirit and speed are my best bets. I think twenty on each of those and five on offense." He sat down on a matter and focused until he started to float slightly off of the ground. Kenja's eyes widened as did Kotemon's and Monmon. He landed softly on the ground and wiped his forehead. His spirit, or strength of techniques had gone up by 64 points. He then took the jump rope and started to do as many as he could until he finally got tired and tripped. Speed up by 90. Now for the punching. He started punching the bag until it hit him in the face and his attack went up by 22. He rubbed his face and smirked at Monmon. "Your turn."

For Monmon, his offense, and defense were important, while studying was forced upon him by Kotemon. Strength up by 58, defense up by 90, and wisdom went up by 14 when he got a basic math problem wrong and a metal bin fell on his head. Kotemon was now up. His best stats were wisdom, speed, and spirit would be getting a bit of training. Wisdom up 130, speed up 89, and spirit up by 10.

With all of their TP spent up, the four went back into Asuka City and into the Lamb Chop. Immediately Kenja walked up to the strangely dressed waitress, Debbie, who always stood near the front door. "Hi Debbie. I have something to ask you."

Debbie looked over and waved at him. "Why hello. Kenja was it?" He nodded. "Oh good. So what do you need to ask me?"

"I wondering if you could tell me about seeing a Veemon. I'm looking for him so I can get the kicking boots."

"Oh Veemon? Yeah, I saw him the other day at Wind Prairie out in the East sector. Looked like he was looking for something. Hope that helps."

Kenja smiled and thanked Debbie before leaving the Lamb Chop. The went back to Central Park to the entrance to Wire Forest, the path to the east sector.

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Central Sector: Wire Forest

The forest looked a lot like Central Park, but was a lot less of an open area. There seemed to be just one large path in the forest and the ground was littered with circuit markings.

"So how far are we from Wind Prairie? I have a map, but it only shows the places I've been."

"Not too far I think," said Kotemon. "I believe it's either in the next area or the one after that, but it isn't far. And Seiryu City is really close too we maybe able to fight the first leader and kill two birds with one stone."

"Good thing none of us are bird type Digimon," Kumamon deadpanned.

"Hey kid!" came a voice.

Kenja looked over to his left and saw a kid trying to call him over. "The name's Tamer Mitch and I wanna know if you want to fight me in a Digimon battle. How many leaders have you beaten?"

"Well none so far, but I'd love to fight you!"

Mitch waved him off and laughed. "On second thought I don't want to fight some noob with weak Digimon who hasn't even conquered east sector yet. Pass."

"What was that!?" Kenja, Kumamon, and Monmon were all angry and moved towards Mitch but Kotemon whacked all three of them on the head.

"Calm yourselves. He isn't worth it." He started to walk off but stopped and turned his head to Mitch. "But when we come back through here, be ready to see how worthless you really are." His tone sent a chill down Mitch's spine but he pretended he wasn't scared. The other three smirked and followed Kotemon as he walked off into West Wire Forest.

"Nice going there Kotemon. You even started to scare me a little bit." Kumamon smirked and patted Kotemon on the back. He backed away a bit when Kotemon slowly turned his head to him and just stared at him. "Ahhh! I'm sorry! Please don't kill me!"

Kotemon turned back around and started laughing lightly. "That was funny."

"Oi! That wasn't funny you jerk! Don't you agree Monmon? Monmon?" He looked around and saw the monkey Digimon looking through some trees at something. "Hey, what are you looking at?" He looked through the trees to and nearly jumped back. There was a girl staring through the trees right back at Monmon, their faces only inches apart. "Um, hi?"

"Hi! I'm Tamer Catherine from Sydney! Are you wild Digimon?"

"Eheheh. No? Our tamer is right over there. Come along Monmon." He grabbed Monmon by the arm and tried to drag him back, but Catherine jumped out from the trees and grabbed Monmon before running off through the trees. "Oh crap! Kenja we have a problem!"

Kenja and Kotemon ran over and saw that Monmon was nowhere in sight. "Where's Monmon?" Kumamon pointed in the direction that Catherine had carried off Monmon in and ran after her. They found her near a lake bed with Monmon aiming his slingshot at her.

"You stay away! You kidnap Monmon! I shoot!"

"Monmon!" Kenja yelled as he ran out into the clearing and scooped Monmon up in his arms. "Are you okay buddy?" Monmon nodded and sat on top of Kenja's head. "Hey! What's the big idea trying to kidnap my Digimon!?"

"I only did so so I could get you to battle me. Go easy on me though."

"You did this for a fight? Why didn't you just come out and ask. I would've battled you. You're rather odd, but I'll battle you. I haven't had a tamer fight in a while this is a good chance to show off my Digimon to a cute girl." Kumamon stepped out in front of Kenja.

"If we're really gonna battle then I want to go. I still don't appreciate her taking my friend like that. So let's go." A Kunemon jumped out of the trees and in front of Catherine.

"I'm ready to fight, Master."

Kenja looked from the Kunemon to Catherine and raised an eyebrow. "How did you get a Kunemon? It wasn't one of the starters."

"Starters vary from region to region. You only saw the starters for Japan, but some countries have completely different starters. So shall we start?" The health bars for Kumamon and Kunamon appeared overhead and everyone but the two digimon backed away from the center of the field.

"Well it's only a Kunemon. We were one hit killing those in Central Park. How hard could this one be?" Kumamon got into a fighting stance and ran forward. Kunemon tried to snap it's pincers at him, but Kumamon jumped to the side and aimed a kick at the side of his head. The kick connected and his health went down by a third. Kumamon was surprised, but not by much. "You're stronger than the average Kunemon. I'm impressed."

"Good, then I'll impress you more." The Kunemon used Kumamon's slight surprise to its advantage and grabbed him by the ankle before jumping into the air and somersaulting Kumamon right into the ground, taking his health down slightly. Kumamon quickly got up and tried to punch Kunemon, but Kunemon dodged three of Kumamon's punches. "Hehehe."

Kumamon growled and grabbed Kunemon by his antenna and threw him.

"Kumamon, use your Bear Fist!"

"On it! Finishing move!" The area rang and Kumamon jumped over Kunemon as it was still soaring through the air. His fist glowed and he grinned at Kunemon. "Kuma Ken! BEAR FIST!"

He punched Kunemon into the ground and Kunemon was out cold. As soon as that happened another Kunemon jumped out from the trees and attacked Kumamon, making his health go down another tenth. "Another Kunemon!?"

"Hey Kumamon! You're good to Evolve!"

"KUMAMON SHINKA! GRIZZMON!" In Kumamon's place was a large bear with blue fur, a white underbelly, and a blue and white mane behind his head. His large paws were covered in red spiked gloves and his shoulders had guards on them. His most noticeable feature was the crescent mood mark on his forehead.

"Go for it Grizzmon!"

"You got it." A loud boom was heard and the area around Grizzmon seemed to be blown away. His fur billowed in a strong wind as he took a step forward then bolted, the wind getting stronger and stronger.

"Kunemon, watch out!" Catherine shouted to her Digimon. The wind that was coming from Grizzmon seemed to be pulling it closer to him.

Grizzmon jumped up and slashed Kunemon with his claws. "WHIRLWIND!" The wind from the attack blew the Kunemon back into a tree and it didn't get up. Grizzmon snorted stood triumphantly. "Well that was easy. You got anything tougher?"

Catherine pouted and stomped her foot on the ground. "Dokugamon!"

Kenja and the others looked around but they didn't see anything, but the Digimon could sense danger. "Where is it? It shouldn't be hard to spot a giant spider."

"I smell it," said Monmon. He sniffed the air and tilted his head upwards and his eyes snapped open. "There!"

Grizzmon looked up just in time for a web to shoot down and snatch him up. The giant spider Digimon, Dokugamon, had the end of the webbing clasped in his mandibles. A high pitched squeal came from her mouth as Grizzmon struggled against his bindings. "Crap! I'm stuck! Ow!" Something was burning him. He look closely at the web and saw that there was a purple liquid running the threads. "Poison? Oh man, I'm starting to feel weak." Kenja and the others looked up and saw that Grizzmon's health was slowly, but steadily dropping.

Monmon grabbed at Kenja's sleeve and started to panic. "Kenja, do something!" Kenja pulled down his goggles and looked in his satellite and looked up Grizzmon's attacks. "This should work."

Grizzmon's claws started to spike with electricity and he smirked weakly before grabbing the web thread between his claws. "LIGHTNING SLASH!" Several bolts of electricity shot out from his claws and ran up the webbing...right into Dokugamon's mouth. The spider screamed before letting go of the spider web, dropping Grizzmon harshly to the ground, but he was no longer affected by the poison. When Dokugamon finally stopped screaming it dropped to the ground and groaned in defeat. Grizzmon glowed dimly and reverted back to Kumamon before glowing brightly once more for an instant. "I leveled up." Kumamon got to his feet and walked over to the Kunemon who had just reverted from Dokugamon. "You sure are a sneaky one. You almost got me."

"Yeah, but you're clearly stronger than me if my loss is any indication. I enjoyed our fight and I'm sure Catherine appreciates it as well." Kumamon smiled at the Kunemon and laid it down gently beside Catherine and the other two Kunemon. Kenja walked over and raised his hand for Catherine to shake. She huffed at first, but took it with a slight smile.

"I hate to say it, but I didn't stand a chance. I appreciate you battling me despite my being weird."

"It's no problem. You meet all kinds of people in games like this. At least you were nice unlike this guy we met earlier."

Catherine smiled against and looked to Monmon. She leaned down and rubbed his fur. "I'm sorry for kidnapping you earlier." Monmon waved her off but didn't say anything. It was faint, but he was blushing. "Well I guess I'll see you around. Maybe we can card battle next time."

"I would like that. Later Catherine." Kenja smiled and bowed respectfully to her before heading off. Kumamon's health was pretty low and he was acting a little sluggish, so Kenja threw him a couple of power charges. Kumamon threw them in his mouth and burped as his health was replenished as they walked into the next area: East Wire Forest. But what they didn't realize was that someone was watching them from the shadows.

"So more novices have come to the forest. I will have to welcome them personally."

Who is this creepy person watching them in the woods? If you've actually played the same you should know what Digimon is near that area and if not then you'll be pleasantly surprised next chapter. Leave your reviews at the door on your way out.