"Departure for a new Continent"
All right, here is the next chapter and this chapter is dedicated to Yua-hime since she's really been into this story. Yay, it's finally the saga for the search for the Crests! I hope you and all the others enjoy this. Thanks.
We just defeated that creep Devimon and just when we thought everything was over, this weird hologram thing of an old man appeared out of nowhere.
"So, you children are the Digidestinds? Huh. You must be strong to have defeated Devimon." The old man said.
"Who are you?" Tai asked.
"Are you a friend of Devimon's?" Matt asked.
"Fear not, for I am a friend to all and yet I am a friend to none." The man said confusing me.
Where'd he get that, a fortune cookie?
"I can't believe it. There are actually other humans besides us in this world." Sora said.
"I am human and yet I am not human." The man said making me just get annoyed.
"This is confusing." Mimi said.
Thank you!
"Now, my name is Gennai. I couldn't send you this transmission during your battle with Devimon, but now the lines are clear and only ten cents a minute." Gennai said.
"But who are you and just where are you?" Izzy asked.
"I'm speaking to you far away from File Island across the ocean on the Continent of Server."
"Talk about a long distance call. How long have you been here?" Sora asked.
"Since before the beginning and until after the end." Gennai said getting me all the more annoyed and I could feel my temper rise.
"Are you the one who got us stuck here in the Digital World?" Mimi asked the million dollar question.
"It was not I." Gennai said.
"Well then who the heck was it?" I asked with an attitude which made my brother lightly smack me over the head for being rude.
"It was…I don't know." He said making us all groan in disappointment.
You mean nothing to us, dude, so leave.
We need answers, darn it!
"But Mr. Gennai, sir, do you know what we need to do so we can all get back home again?" TK asked.
"No, I don't." Gennai said and now even my brother was losing his cool as he crossed his arms with a frown.
"Boy, you're a regular fountain of information, aren't you?" Tai snipped.
"I'm sorry I can't help you, but you can be of help to me." Gennai said.
"How?" everyone asked.
"Please come to Server and defeat our enemies. As the Digidestinds, I have faith in all of you." Gennai said confidently.
"But that's crazy when we don't know your exact location." Izzy said.
"Good point, I forgot you're from out of town." Gennai said.
Now, normally I'd respect some jokin' in these type of situations to lighten the mood, but we ALMOST GOT KILLED a few minutes ago and now some old dude we don't know wants us to cross the ocean to save the day?
I'm too young for this junk.
"Let me create a map for you on your computer." Gennai said as Izzy looked at his lap top that was on his back in its holder.
"What if your enemies are humongizoide? You think we can beat anything tougher than Devimon?" Joe asked.
Wait, I just thought of something.
What happened to Kaitoumon?
I mean, he was hit by Devimon's attack, but what happened?
I don't think he was destroyed, so then where the heck was he?
I really hope he stays away.
"Not presently, but if your digimon can digivolve once more, you might be able to do it." Gennai said.
"So we can digivolve even more?" Agumon asked.
"But you'll need something special to do it." Gennai said as his image turned into this pendant with a small square shaped gem thing next to it.
"If you have the tags and Crests, your digimon will be able to digivolve even further." Gennai said.
"Please tell us where we can find these tags and Crests." Gabumon said as the orange gem thing, which I think was the Crest and had a sun symbol on it, slid into place in the tag.
"Well, the Crests are scattered about and you can locate them all across the Continent of Server." Gennai said as the tag and Crest faded out and he appeared again.
"And the tags were secretly sealed away somewhere by Devimon. Oh no! Devimon…you must…come to…AHHH!" Gennai said as he began to fuzz out like on a TV screen.
"What's going on?" Matt asked as everyone started talking at once, unsure of what was happening.
"Come…quickly! I'll be waiting! ...Server…" Gennai's transmission thing then ended and we were left confused.
"He's gone!" Tai said.
"What was that?" Mimi asked.
Izzy soon pulled out his lap top and started typing away, looking for the map that Gennai said he had e-mailed him.
"Gennai's transmission ended rather abruptly." Tentomon commented.
"Well, at least he was able to send the map through before he got cut off." Izzy said when he found the map and had it pulled up on screen.
"I hope he's all right. What's our next move going to be?" Sora asked.
"Huh. I've got a fool proof plan. First we'll eat something and then I'm open for suggestions." My brother said with a smile as he pumped his fists.
"Yay!" Demiveemon and I cheered at the eating part.
(Later…)
T was now night time and we were all sitting around s fire after we had eaten some fish that we had caught and cooked.
"That was delicious." Agumon giggled.
"I was so hungry." Biyomon giggled.
"Sleepy." Demiveemon yawned as he cuddled up into my arms after he ate three fish and was tired.
"Now that my stomach's full, I'm ready for lunch." Tentomon said as I watched TK gently rub Angemon's digi egg.
"TK?" Matt asked as he walked over to his brother as he sat at the lake's shore.
"I was just wishing that my digi egg would hurry up and hatch already so it could grow up." TK said making me smile and shake my head.
I'd probably be acting the same if the situation was reversed.
"Don't sweat it little bro, when your digimon hatches, it'll be the coolest one yet." Matt said with a smile.
"Eggsactly." TK said as he stood up making me laugh at the pun.
"OK everyone, now that we've stuffed our faces, what are gonna do next?" Tai asked as we put out the fire and sat down near the lake shore.
"You know what's next. We have to go to Server to save Gennai from his enemies." Sora said.
"Well, according to my calculations of longitude and latitude, Server is quite some distance from here." Izzy said.
"I can't even swim across the bath tub, let alone an ocean, I'll never make it." Mimi said.
"Why do we have to go anyway? What I mean is, Devimon's gone from the island, the black gears have disappeared too." Joe said.
"But Kaitoumon is still out there." I said making him look at me briefly.
"Whatever, go on with the rant." I shrugged as I leaned back on the ground with my little dragon sleeping in my arms.
"As I was saying, we've been once around the island, so we basically know where everything is. We wouldn't have to worry about food or water." Joe said.
"What are you saying?" Sora asked.
"Why should we believe what this weirdo Gennai guy says? What I mean is, how do we even know that this place Server really exists?" Joe asked making everyone think over his words as my brother stood up.
"What are you thinking? If we hand around here, guys, we'll never get back home." Tai said as he looked around as everyone got a bit depressed again at that thought.
"I don't know guys. Devimon almost got us. Maybe we shouldn't go. At least we know what we're up against here." Sora said.
"Um, but what about Kaitoumon? He's still out there and he could bring those other baddies on Server over here." I said.
"Then there would be no point in just staying here where we're sitting ducks." Matt said.
"And even if we wanted to go, what mode of transportation could we utilize?" Izzy asked as he closed his lap top.
"We don't even know what the fashions are like on Server." Mimi said.
"Maybe we should stay here a while longer and think this through." Matt said.
"What's the matter with you, man?" Tai asked.
"Let's go." TK said making everyone look at him in confusion while I just smiled as I sat up to look at him.
"Huh?" the older kids asked.
"TK?" Matt asked in surprise.
"We don't know what kind of danger will be waiting for us, but let's see. I'm sure Angemon would say the same thing if he were still around. So I'm…going." TK said as I stood up and walked over to him.
"You know I'm going. Wild Monochromon couldn't stop me." I said as TK smiled at me and we bumped fists with a giggle.
"We'll go too!" Agumon said.
"If we have the tags and Crests, we'll be able to digivolve again, right? Once we transform into our new shapes, we'll be able to protect you for sure." The orange dino said.
"You da mon." my brother said to him.
"Sora, so what do ya say?' Biyomon asked as she took her human's hands and looked at her expectantly.
"Our chances for success are extremely high." Tentomon said as he tapped Izzy's lap top.
"Come on, Mimi, I'll bet you'll see the prettiest flowers all over Server." Palmon said.
"Don't worry about me, I'll swim to Server." Gomamon said.
"What'sh happenin'?" Demiveemon asked as he woke up.
"Server, yes or no?" I asked simply and he perked up as he jumped up on my head.
"You know I'm ready to protect my girl." He said as he pumped his fists making me laugh.
"Come on, let's do it." Gabumon said to Matt.
"Let's go." Matt said as Sora stood up with a smile.
"Count me in." she said.
There's the girl Kari and I secretly want as our big sister.
"OK, I'll go, I'm convinced." Joe said as he adjusted his glasses.
"Well I'm not staying here by myself. Count me in too." Mimi said as she gripped her hat in excitement.
"All right, it's unanimous." Izzy said as he stood too.
"That's great, it's decided. We're going to Server." Tai said making us all cheer.
We all then went to sleep so we could get a fresh start in the morning and find our tags and Crests on Server and beat these baddies once and for all.
(Morning…)
Right now, the digimon were knocking down trees so that we could tie then together to make a raft to sail on over to Server.
"Timber!" Tai yelled as Agumon blasted one tree down.
Gabumon then blasted another down, making the digimon run away so they didn't get hit.
That was only two trees down and a lot more to go.
"At our current rate, it'll take us forever to build a raft." Izzy sighed.
"Don,t worry about it, Izzy, it's not we're in some kind of hurry." Sora said with her hands on her hips.
Sora then looked behind her and yelled, making us all look to see Leomon was back and heading towards us.
What's up with the yelling, the guy's on our side now.
"Leomon!" Izzy gasped as the lion walked right by the duo.
"So I heard you were all going to Server." He said as he stopped.
"How did you know?" Sora asked.
"Oh, you know us monsters, we all love to gossip." He said making me snort.
I love this guy not that he's not trying to kill us.
"I thought I'd see if you wanted some help with anything." He said making Sora and Izzy both laugh and smile.
"You mean you'll really help us?" Sora asked.
"I've got some friends who'll want to help as well." Leomon said as he looked behind him.
"Electmon!" Izzy said when we saw three digimon walk over to us.
"Mojyamon and Centarumon too." Tai said as he ran over.
"Yeah, hi, what's up?" Electmona sked.
"Monzaemon!" Mimi giggled as the bear came over.
"Hey, look, it's Frigimon!" TK said as the bear shaped snowman digimon came over too.
"No way, it's Meramon too!" I said as I saw the Digimon Torch and the Yokomons all coming over.
With all of our new friends working together, we had a raft ready to use in a matter of minutes and we were ready to set off to Server.
The digimon and I all got on the raft as Meramon pushed it over a hill and it sailed off into the air and landed in the shallow end of the ocean water.
We all cheered at the ride and laughed as we waited for the others to come.
"Hey, it really worked!" Matt said as he and the others all ran down over to us laughing.
"All right." Tai said.
"Its hydro dynamically designed." Izzy said.
"I think I'm getting sea sick already." Joe groaned.
"Get a grip, Joe, it'll have to do." Tai said.
"Believe me, that raft is strong enough to get you across the ocean." Leomon said as he walked over.
"Thanks Leomon, we never could have done it without your help." My brother said.
TK gasped making us all look at him.
"What is it?" Mattasked as we all looked and saw the digi egg was hatching.
"Digi egg, you hatched!" TK said he smiled at the white little blob digimon.
"Poyo, Poyomon!" the little guy said as he shed off the rest of the egg shell and sat in his human's hands.
"How cute!" Mimi said.
"That's great." Sora said.
"Yay! Yay! He did it! Yay!" TK cheered spinning around.
"Whoo hoo!" Demiveemon and I both cheered, my arms in the air as my little dragon jumped up and down on my head in celebration.
"Poyomon is a jellyfish type digimon of few words, but if his friends are in trouble, he's ready for action." Tentomon said as TK hugged Poyomon to his cheek.
The others then all got onto the raft and we were soon off, waving good bye to all our new friends as they wished us good luck.
We all then sat back as we sailed out into the sea, watching the waves under us and looked around for any sign of Server, Tai using his trusty mini telescope.
"I can't see anything." Tai said after an hour or so had passed.
"I wonder how much longer this trip will take." Joe said.
"Chill out, Joe. We just left." Tai said.
"The salt air is killing my sinuses and we've only got enough food for two weeks." The blue haired guy said.
"If we run out of food, we'll catch some fish." Tai said.
"Well, the one good thing is the beautiful weather for sailing." Sora said.
"Oh, I don't feel so good." Mimi groaned as Palmon tried to comfort her as waves splashed around us.
"I didn't calculate these waves being so rough." Izzy whined weakly.
"Hey, hey, Poyomon!" TK said as he played with the little guy.
The jellyfish jumped around and almost went over board when we hit a rough wave, but TK quickly caught him.
"Oh, Poyomon, be careful." He said.
"Look tidal wave!" my brother yelled as we all looked up to see the large blue wave towering over us.
We all yelled and held onto whatever or whoever was closest to us as we were knocked back.
"That had to have been twelve feet tall." Matt said.
"18.3 to be exact." Izzy said.
"Was thay another boat that caused that wave?" Joe asked.
I swear to the gods, that if it's a sea monster…
"There's no boat that could do that." Tai said as he looked around and then this huge thing showed itself.
"An island!" my brother said.
"An island? Since when does an island have fins?!" Sora asked as we sailed closer to it and then it went back under water, making waves shake us up.
A whale?
Seriously?
It swam under us and then it raised its tail and the waves got worse.
The whale, or Whamon as Tentomon called him, jumped around and the force made the waves shoot us up out of the water and land back a few feet away from where we really were.
TK, Poyomon, Demiveemon and I were all screaming and hanging onto each other during the entire thing, wanting it to be over.
The waves settled as Whamon went back under.
"It was massive." Gabumon said.
"Whamon can sometimes be fierce, but I've never seen one act this aggressive." Tentomon said.
Whamon came back up and then opened his mouth up wide, the water running into his mouth and the current was pulling us along with it.
We all yelled again because we were about to become FISH FOOD!
"I hope we don't give him a sore throat." Sora said as we all rushed down the stream into the Whamon's body after he closed his mouth.
"It's not the throat, it's the esophagus that leads to the stomach." Izzy yelled as we all hung on as we went down.
"He thinks we're fast food." Joe yelled.
"So he really did eat us!" Mimi cried.
"Sooner or later this has to lead to an exit!" Sora yelled.
"It does, but you don't wanna go there." Izzy yelled.
"This is damaging my hair all the way to the roots!" Mimi yelled.
"Use my roots." Palmon said.
"You're a plant!" Mimi yelled.
"What is that gross gooey junk?" Tai asked as this weird stuff started falling down into the water around us.
"Anti bodies! They're attacking us because they think we're germs or something!" Izzy yelled.
We all continued to yell when we finally came to a stop in the part of the whale that must be his stomach.
"Finally, we've stopped. Is everyone OK?" Sora asked as we all picked ourselves up.
I groaned as I swayed and grabbed onto the nearest person to me, which was Matt and clung to his leg.
"Where are we?" Joe asked.
"This would be the stomach." Izzy said.
"The stomach? Isn't that where food goes after it's chewed up?" TK aksed.
"Yeah." Matt said as he placed a hand on my head making me look up at him as Demiveemon clung to my shoulder.
"Gastric juice!" Izzy gasped as this weird brown looking liquid started coming down.
"What?" Mimi asked.
"It's the acid in the stomach that dissolves the food." Izzy said.
"We're melting!" TK cried as he hugged Poyomon to him as the acid touched the raft and it began to burn.
"Don't let it get on you!" Tai said.
"We gotta get outta here before we give him a major ulcer." Joe said.
"Tai, look up there." Sora said pointing up and we saw a stupid black gear.
"It's a black gear." Tai said.
"Seriously?!" I yelled in outrage.
"That's why Whamon was acting so aggressive." Agumon said.
"Joe, do something to help!" Gomamon said.
"Why me?" Joe asked.
"Someone climb on these." Palmon said as she used her Poison Ivy to made a rope bridge up to the gear.
"Right, I'll do it." Tai said as he climbed the vines that were holding onto the gear.
Why couldn't she just pull it out and let the gear fall into the acid?
Tai's digivice started beeping and glowed and that made the gear dissolve into tiny bits.
"OK, I destroyed it." Tai said as he fell back down onto the raft.
The raft then started moving up and then we found ourselves outside of the whale, the raft got destroyed as we were all in the ocean.
"Sora, are you OK?" Biyomon asked.
"Yeah." The orange haired girl said as we all hung onto the logs to keep us up.
"Somehow we all got out of there." Agumon said.
"Yeah." Tai sighed.
"Poyomon, talk to me." TK said as he sat on the log that Matt, Gabumon and I were all holding onto with Poyomon on his shoulder and my dragon on my head.
"Poyo." The jellyfish said.
"You're OK!" TK said.
"Go away! Not again!" Mimi cried as Whamon turned to us.
"Sorry about that, I must have had a tummy ach or something." WHamon said.
"It's OK. We all know it wasn't you fault." Biyomon said.
"That's right, it was the black gear inside you." Sora said.
"Those black gears are rude. I bet that's the last one." Tai said.
"I bet you're wrong." Joe called.
"I'm with Mr. Negative Nelly." I groaned as I struggled to hold onto the log.
Matt saw this, so he grabbed me and pushed me up behind TK to sit.
"Well kids, I owe you one." Whamon said.
"Don't mention it, Whamon, it was our pleasure. By the way, do you know how far it is to Server?" my brother asked.
"Yes, it would take me five days, uh, make that three and a half without traffic." Whamon said.
"Great, our raft's broken." TK said.
"You're going to Server?" Whamon asked shocked.
"Yeah, were trying to." Agumon said.
"I'll take you there myself. It's not every day your lunch saves your life." Whamon joked.
"Really?" Sora asked.
"Yay, all right!" Mimi, Demiveemon and I all cheered, throwing our arms up, but the pink girl nearly went under water, so Palmon helped her back up.
We all then got on top of Whamon's head and he quickly started jumping through the waves, sailing over them at a very quick pace.
"This is great." Sora said as we stood up on Whamon's head as the wind dried us all off.
"This sure is a whole lot faster and smoother than that raft." Izzy said.
"Which means I won't get sea sick." Mimi said.
"Now if only we knew where we could find those tags and those Crests that Devimon hid somewhere." Tai said.
"Did you say Devimon?" Whamon asked as he slowed down.
"Yeah, do ya know him?" Tai asked.
"Well, I don't know anything about tags or Crests, but a while ago Devimon hid something deep in at the bottom of the ocean." Whamon said.
Of course he did.
"Can you tell us where?" Tai asked.
"It's right on the way to Server. You can all ride inside me and I'll take you there, but tickling." Whamon said.
Inside of the whale?
Ew.
We all went into his mouth as he dived down and swam to where the tags were hopefully hidden.
"I'm so out of shape. I have to rest here for a while. I oughta drop a couple of thousand pounds." Whamon said as he let us out into an underground cave.
"Thanks Whamon." Tai said as we left him and started looking around.
We walked into the dark, spooky cave and then found a Deji Mart store.
Nothing can really surprise me anymore in this world.
"What's that?' Joe asked.
"A convenience store." Tai said and the ground shook as a giant white and purple mole with a drill for a nose burst through the ground.
"Huh?" my brother asked.
"What is it?" Matt asked.
"Drimogemon!" Demiveemon yelped.
"Ah, a black gear!" Sora gasped when she saw the gear on top on his head.
"I knew that couldn't have been the last black gear." Joe said.
"It is Lord Devimon's will that no one shall pass." Drimogemon said.
"But Devimon'sh gone now." Demiveemon said.
"Tai, leave this to us digimon. You guys find the tags." Agumon said.
"I got it." Tai said as Drimogemon started his attack.
"Ha, you think that drill scares us? Think again!" Gomamon said as he then digivolved into Ikkakumon and stood in front of us, ready to fight.
"Now,s our chance." Tai said as the two digimon got into a fight.
We all ran into the store as Ikkamon rammed Drimogwmon back into the windows of the store.
"Ikkakumon, you've got now. Get him." Joe yelled as his partner used his Harpoon Torpedo, hitting the mole and the force of the attack making the store shake, shelves and stuff falling down all around us.
"I think it's time I joined the battle." Tentomon said as he digivolved into Kabuterimon to help Ikkakumon out.
"Kabuterimon, aim for the black gear!" Agumon said as Demiveemon hopped off my shoulder and scurried over to some rubble.
"V, where are ya goin'?" I asked as I ran after him.
He started digging and pulled out a box that had the golden pendants that were our tags inside of them.
"Lookie at what I found!" He said.
"Cool." I said as I took one of the tags and placed it around my neck, smiling at how right it felt to wear it.
"Daisuke, what are you doing back here?" Matt asked as he came over with TK and their digimon.
"Look!" I said holding out the box to him as the others came over after Drimogemon was freed.
"The tags!" Matt gasped as he took the box.
"Just like the ones Gennai showed us during that transmission." Izzy said.
"How pretty." Mimi gushed.
The others all took their own tags and put them on, then we went back to Whamon and he brought us back up to the surface to continue on to Server.
We sat stood on top of his head as the sun set.
"Remember what Gennai told us, guys. The crests are scattered throughout the Continent of Server." Matt said.
"And if we get both the tags and the Crests…" Gabumon trailed off.
"We'll all be able to digivolve once again." Agumon finished.
"Then we'll have to go out there and find the Crests!" Tai said.
Watch out Server, we're coming and we're gonna take this new place by storm!
I wonder what the Crests can do and how we'll know which one belongs to who?
TBC