"The Dark Network of Etemon part 1"

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Everyone was just sleeping on top of Whamon as he sailed us over to Server after about five days of calm waves and the nice salty sea breeze.

I heard some voices speaking from my sleep clouded mind.

"We left File Island almost five days ago." My brother's voice woke me up.

"We're almost there." Whamon said making me wake up, my eyes opening to see the blurry shape of my brother.

"Hey, I think I see an iceberg. Either that or it could be the Continent of Server." My brother said and my eyes adjusted to see that he was looking through his telescope.

"It's Server." Whamon confirmed.

"All right! Whoo hoo!" Tai cheered jumping up and down and then he turned to look back at the rest of us.

"All right everybody, wake up! Rise and shine, we're landing at Server." My brother hollered as Demiveemon and I both sat up, yawning.

Matt woke up next, looking over with bleary eyes.

"I was only resting my eyes." He yawned as TK and Poyomon got up too, half dazed from sleep.

"Well your eyes were snoring pretty loudly." Joe said as he woke up and adjusted his glasses.

Everyone else soon got up too.

"Come on, we're gonna be there in a few minutes. We gotta make sure we have everything we need." Tai said pointing off to where Server was.

My brother wanting to be prepared for something?

Did the aliens Izzy talk about a few weeks ago just appear and do something to Tai's brain when we were sleeping?

"We're really there?" Sora asked.

"Well, I'm ready to be on land again." Izzy said as he stood up.

"I'd sure like a bed that didn't move." TK said.

"Wow, that island's huge!" Agumon said as we all looked out to see Server as we got closer to it.

"I'd never seen an island so big." Biyomon said.

"Cool!" Demiveemon chirped as he sat on my head.

"It's not an island; it's the Continent of Server." Tentomon said as Palmon tried to wake up her human since she was still sleeping.

"Mimi, you've just gotta wake up and look at this. We're going to land on a big continent." Palmon said.

"No, I'm getting a pedicure." Mimi whined as she turned over in her sleep.

Wow, we're both always late for stuff, we're cheerful and we're hard to wake up.

We really do have a lot of things in common.

"Ah, Mimi." Palmon sighed as we all laughed.

(A half hour later…)

"Almost there." Biyomon said as we got closer to the land.

"Server, here we come." TK said.

We were soon at the cliff were we would get off, Tai jumping the distance off first and then he held his arms out to catch me as I went next.

The others all jumped off next, but Mimi was having some problems.

"Come on, Mimi!" Sora called.

"Um, this is a little too extreme sports for me. Isn't there some way I can be air lifted onto the island?" Mimi asked.

"Sorry, we can't just move the continent for you, Mimi. Now according to the map, this is the best beach to come ashore." Izzy said as he looked at the map.

"Just put one foot in front of the other and you'll be fine, really. It's as easy as falling off a log, Mimi." Joe called up making me give him a look.

I don't think that's helping.

"Yeah, well I've fallen off of plenty of logs and it's not as easy as it-WHOA!" Mimi yelped as Whamon jerked his head and made her slip, falling to the beach, right on top of Izzy.

"I think I broke a nail." Mimi gasped as she got up.

I think she broke Izzy's spine.

"Good luck finding the Crests." Whamon said as he swam away and we all stayed there just waving good bye to him and thanking him for all his help.

"So what are we going to do now?" Mimi asked.

"While you were asleep, Whamon told us where to go in the forest. A few miles from here, there's a Koromon village." Palmon said.

"Koromon? Why, that somehow sounds familiar." Mimi mused.

"I was a Koromon the day you got here." Agumon said.

"I forgot." Mimi said as she clapped her hands.

"The Koromon are a group of digimon always willing to help out those in need." Tentomon said.

"OK gang, let's move out." Tai said and we all nodded, agreeing.

So now we're back to the walking thing that we've been doing far too much since we got here.

I think it's a good thing though because I haven't been feeling sick at all lately.

Maybe all I really needed to build up my immune system was to actually go out and breath in what was around me instead of letting my mom keep me locked up.

Shoot, Kari should've come!

"This place is bigger than I thought." Sora said as we walked in a desert looking plane.

"It's simple physics. The universe is expanding." Izzy said.

"I think my feet are expanding. We have been walking all day long and there's no sign of the village yet." Joe said as he, Tai and Demiveemon watched me, checking to see if I was gonna get sick again from the heat, but I was perfectly fine.

Tired and hungry, but fine.

"Oh, I'd give anything to be in a nice clean bath tub with lots of bubble bath in it." Mimi said as she whipped sweat from her brow.

"You can do that once we get to the village." Palmon said.

"You honestly think they have bath tubs here, Palmon?" Mimi asked hopefully.

"Well…" Palmon trailed off as Agumon stopped walking.

"Hmm?" he asked as he then started sniffing around.

"Agumon, what is it?" Tai asked.

"Tai, I smell Koromon over in this direction." The orange dino said.

"Really?" Tai asked as he ran up and checked with his mini telescope.

"A forest!" he gasped.

"You see a forest?" Joe asked as everyone else talked at once.

"Is that where the Koromon village is?" Matt asked.

"It must be. Come on!" my brother yelled as he and Agumon ran.

"Tai, wait a minute!" Sora called as we all ran after him.

We soon made it to the forest and we all walked together, enjoying the shade and coolness that came with the trees.

"Almost there." My brother said.

We came up over a hill and gasped when we saw the huts in front of us about thirty feet away.

"Wow." Matt said.

"Look!" Mimi gasped.

"Great, hut tents. We can rest." TK said.

"Even better, a bath!" Mimi giggled as she ran down.

"Wait, stop!" Palmon cried as she followed.

"Uh…" Agumon said making us all look at him.

"Agumon, what is it? What's the matter?" Tai asked.

"Something doesn't feel right." The orange dino said making us all look over at the village.

Well, it is deserted and quiet and very creepy.

Oh no, it's a trap isn't?

Man!

We all ran down when we saw Mimi and Palmon talking to these strange creatures that were grey with puppy ears and creepy red eyes.

Not all red eyes are creepy, take DemiVeemon, Gabumon and Koromon for example, but these guys, the Pagumon Tentomon called them, they were creepy.

"Oh no, they've got Mimi!" Palmon gasped as the Pagumon grabbed the pink loving girl and hopped off.

"Don't let them get away!" Joe said.

"How can something that doesn't have legs move so fast?" I muttered as we ran.

"Around that corner!" Gomamon said.

"Which way?" Tai asked when we turned and saw the huts and all the Pagumon, but no Mimi.

"Oh, help!" we heard her cry out from the largest hut that was in the center of the village.

"To the tower!" Tai said as we all ran in.

"Mimi?" Tai yelled as we saw the grand staircase and yellow drapes around.

"Mimi?" Sora called out.

"Hey, look up there, that's Mimi's hat." Sora said pointing to one of the staircases.

Sora ran up them and picked up the pink cowgirl's hat.

"There's the price tag. It's Mimi's all right." Sora said as the boys ran past her.

"That's Mimi's purse, she never goes anywhere without it." Joe said and the purse still had her digivice strapped to it as it lied there on the floor.

"Logically that can only mean one thing; she's missing." Izzy said.

"That's it!" Tai huffed in annoyance as he threw back some of the yellow drapes and I was getting a bad feeling that he shouldn't go in there.

Sora then looked over to where a cage like shelf was and it had a basket with a pink dress in it as she pulled it out to check.

"No, Tai! Don't go in there!" she cried out as she looked over to my brother.

"He'sh gonna be covered in bruisesh ishn't he?" Demiveemon asked from his place on my head.

"Mimi?" Tai asked as he pulled back the curtain and he froze in shock.

I could imagine what he was seeing.

Izzy, who was curious about why he wasn't moving, went up beside my brother to see what was wrong.

"We'll find out soon." I said answering my dragon's question.

"Uh, Mimi, sorry!" Izzy yelped.

"AHH! Haven't you two ever heard of the phrase; 'Please knock before entering'?!" Mimi yelled as she began throwing things.

"Mimi, we're here to rescue you and-"my idiot brother was cut off by a bowel being thrown at his head and Izzy was hit by a shampoo bottle, both falling to the ground in pain as Sora came over and closed the curtain.

"I believe I said don't go in." she said simply as the two boys lay on the floor, groaning in pain and I just laughed at them.

I picked up the shampoo bottle and then set Demiveemon down on the floor.

"Where are you goin', Dai?" he asked.

"To take a bath." I said running into the bathing room.

"Knock knock, I'm coming in!" I said as I went into the room.

"Stand guard, OK, V?" I called to him as Mimi looked up at me as I began to strip.

"Okie dokie!" he said.

"Sorry about that my brother. Sometimes he doesn't think." I said to Mimi as I walked over and she smiled at him, helping me into the large tub.

"That's fine." She said as she helped me wash up.

After that, we all were gathered by the Pagumon and were in a dining room to eat the fruits and such that they had gathered.

"Welcome to our village

We hope you never go

Stay and visit here with us

And please enjoy the show" the Pagumon sang with party hats on.

That was cute, but I still don't like them for some reason.

"This is definitely a Pagumon village." Gabumon said to Agumon.

"Something's wrong here, Gabumon. I know what I smelled was Koromon. I bet my nose on it." the dino said.

"Here's your fruit platter." The Pagumon said as they brought the bowels with fruits and vegies in them over to us to eat.

"I feel just like a princess in a beautiful palace." Mimi gushed.

"I once had a Chihuahua named Princess." Joe said.

"Listen, Tai, you don't suppose this could be some kind of trick?" Sora asked.

"Of course not. You think I don't know a good digimon from a bad one?" Tai asked as he munched on a pear.

Someone smack him, please.

"This is really strange. I always heard that Pagumon were awful pranksters." Tentomon said with crossed arms.

"You were just hearing an awful rumour." Gomamon said.

"Nice of you to say that." One of the Pagumon said.

"These guys are really nice little digimon." Biyomon said to Palmon as the two ate their fruit with a smile.

"Right, nice digimon." Another Pagumon said.

I watched them from my seat next to TK as he fed Poyomon a peach and Demiveemon glared at the food, not wanting to eat it, which was a shocker.

If Demiveemon isn't eating it, that's a sure sign to not eat it, so I'm not touching it.

"You like that?" TK asked as Poyomon ate, but then the jellyfish stopped and started shaking.

He then was covered in yellow light.

"Poyomon digivolve too…TOKOMON!"

Instead of the white jellyfish was now the familiar white genea pig that we had seen on our first day here.

"Hey, he's Tokomon again!" TK cheered as the little guy jumped into his arms.

"That's awesome!" I said smiling.

"The food made him digivolve." Izzy said.

"Congratulations." Matt said as TK laughed.

The Pagumon were oddly quiet as they just stared at the two partners hugging.

"Together we can make me Patamon again." Tokomon said.

"Mm-hmm." TK said.

"Let's hear it for Tokomon!" Mimi cheered as she stood up and we all began clapping for the little guy as Demiveemon jumped over to his friend and the two giggled.

"Congratulations!

Way to go!

We're all excited!

All aglow!" the Pagumon sang and they had this creepy look in their eyes.

A little later, we all gathered up together and went to sleep, but I still wasn't too sure about being anywhere near the Pagumon.

Call me paranoid, but I don't like them and there has to be a reason for it.

I just hope that reason doesn't wind up biting us all in the rear end because of it.

TBC