Authors Note :

It took me far to long to write this an still haven't found a beta-reader (mainly because I didn't search much an had no time) so be warned, you fools.

But I hope you guys like this chapter, its not very long but it establishes some characters and leads to the next few chapters, so much fun.

Chapter 2

Welcome to Cloud City

Cloud City was as busy as always, afterall it was the central hub of this continent so thousands of humans and digimon hurried through the street, but this tower on the edge of the town was quite.

Only two person were in it building, it was used as an observing post, to make sure that no enemies could simply infiltrate this area.

"We have an situation." one of them, a young woman, said, she had spotted something with her binoculars, a small group chased by an attacker.

" Alright, lets go !"

"Run faster !" Koemon screamed, he was in front of the group, running incredibly fast, with his short legs, while the the others could hardly keep up with him.

And they had every reason to run, a demon was after them, a red, winged devil, armed with an trident was flying after them.

"Stop running you little pest and I'll make your end quick and painless, I swear !" there was an evil grin on his face as he spoke, he was completly serious, which made the children and their digimon panik even more.

But Coronamon didn't want to run anymore, so he turned around and attacked with all he had.

"Corona Flame !" he used all of his strenght to fire a large flame out of his brow, which made the devil stop, as he was set on fire.

It took a few seconds, in which Coronamon collapsed due to exhaustion, until the devil had turned of the flames, but now he was furious.

"You'll pay for this !" he rose his trident and rammed it down on the little digimon, while Haruka turned around and screamed her partners name.

"Bad idea, Boogeymon." it happend fast, faster than anything Haruka and Arashi had ever seen before, something hitted the trident, just in time to stop it from hitting Coronamon.

It was a sword, the sword of an giant knight, which suddenly stood right in front of Boogeymon, pointing his blade at him.

The devil seemed to be scared, if he had pants then they wouldn't be dry anymore and his eyes were completly focused on the weapon that was pointed at him.

"Get lost." the knight commanded and Boogeymon replied with a simple nod, before he turned around and flew away as fast as he could.

"Are you guys alright ?" Haruka and Arashis attention had been completly focused on the attacker, so they hadn't noticed that somebody had approached them from behind.

It was a young woman, maybe 18 years old, with long, blue hair, also blue eyes and a friendly smile on her face.

She wore an black pullover, denim jeans, a long, blue cape and slightly healed, light blue boots.

"Not bad." went through Arashis head, he had to admit that the woman was attractive and Haruka seemed to amazed, too.

"I'm Elizabeth, from Cloud-Security. You can call me Ellie if you want to." she introduced herself and smiled friendly, while Knightmon now took a position right next to her.

"We should go back to the city now, Elizabeth." Knightmon advised her and she replied with a nod, before she turned towards the teenagers again.

"You can come with us, it's already getting dark and I know a place where you can stay for the night . Whats your name by the way ?"

Haruka had picked up Coronamon, who was completly exhausted and could not move anymore, but she replied
" I'm Haruka and this is Arashi, we landed in Sakura Valley and wanted to come here." Ellie nooded friendly and then kept on asking.

"Sakura Valley, so you met Makusu, right ?" Arashi directly nooded and said

"Yeah, he was alright and talked like some sort of tutorial NPC." Ellie had to laugh a little about this comment and then she said

"Yeah, I heard this quite often. He always had his problems with this position, I mean he always used to be ..." the young womans thoughts seemed to be somewhere else, like she rememberd something, but then she stopped, she seemed to have reached something she didn't want to talk about.

Haruka and Arashi noticed this and decided that they would not ask about it and after a few minutes they had reached the cities outskirts, while the sun was very low already, turning the sky deep red.

The outskirts were not really interesting, mostly smaller buildings and narrow streets, with only few people walking around, but they soon reached the inner district, which was much more alive.

Hundreds of humans and people were busy running between buildings, chatting with each other or even trying to sell something.

"It will be hard for you to find any place to sleep today, its already late and most places will be crowded by now. I'll bring you to Cloud-Security HQ, you can stay there for the night." Ellie told them as they approached a rather small, blue building, which she directly enterd.

They found themself in a small aula, with a few seats and one desk in the middle, behind which an blond haired, young man sat, accompanied by an Agumon.

"Hi Anton, we still got two free betts, right ? Those two need a place where they could stay." the young man inspected the younger guests while Ellie talked and finally replied, with an unpleased expression on his face.

"You and your helping-complex." he then pressed a buttom and only a few seconds later another young man enterd, whos tanned skin blushed slightly once he saw Ellie.

"Oh you're back Elizabeth, how was the patrol ?" he asked her and the young woman replied smiling

"It was ok Matthew, I saved those two. Next time you should come with me." his face blushed a little more now as he replied, slightly mumbeling

"I would just be a burden, you and Knightmon are simply in another league, than us." a digimon now appeared behind, like it had heard its key word, it looked like an small, grey dinosaur with yellow fangs and eyes and an strange symbol, made of several triangles, on its chest.

"Stop talking nonsense, but nevermind. Could you show those two the empty room we have at the moment, they'll stay here for the night." Matthew did something that looked like an salute, which made both Anton and Ellie roll their eyes slightly, and said

"Of course Commander, would you two follow me ?" for a moment both Harukas and Arashis eyes were fixed on Ellie, she was the commander of this place ?

But they then followed Matthew, who guided them through the building, until they enterd a small room.

"The two people who normally sleep here are currently on mission and won't return until tomorrow morning, so you can sleep here for tonight." Matthew told them and Haruka bowed slightly, while saying
" Thank you very much Mister Matthew." which made the young man feel uncomfotable, so he replied

"You can call me Matt and its no problem, just have a good sleep. We'll have a nice breakfast tomorrow and then you can search for a place where you can stay. Toilet and shower is right next to your room and if you need anything else just ask somebody."

Matt now closed the door behind and left Arashi and Haruka, alone, together with their partners.

Coronamon was still sleeping so Haruka placed him on one of the beds, before she turned towards her traveling companion, with an emberassed look on her face.

"I'll go sleeping now." she said, before layning down, completly clothed, while Arashi needed a moment to realice what her problems was.

He then blushed a little, before he also layed down on his bed, completly clothed, while Koemon stood in the room, scratching his head.

The little monkey had no idea what was going on, so he simply shrugged and pulled an banana out of his cloths, which he ate as an sleeping snack.

Arashi fell asleep very quickly , just like Koemon who decided to rest on top of his patner, but Haruka stayed awake for a long time, because she couldn't stop thinking of her family and friends, back home.

Were they already missing her, did they search for her ?

Tears ran down her cheeks as she imagined her parents despretly looking for her.

She wanted to go home, as fast as possible.

Haruka woke up first the next morning, Arashi still snored loudly after she stood up and started to look for a place to wash herself.

The bath was right next to her room, so she didn't search for long and quickly refreshed and cleaned herself.

Her travelling companion was still assleep when she looked into the room again, but Coronamon was now also opening his eyes again.

He was still weak and his legs shacked as he stood up, but he refused to be carried again, so they both went to search for something to eat.

On the floor, they heard voices and smelled fresh bread, they followed them and quickly found the dinning room.

Ellie, Matthew, Anton and several other Cloud-Security members were already eating, together with their digimon and they friendly greeted the girl.

She sat down next to Matthew and while she started to eat something, he told her

"Elizabeth wants me to help you finding a place to stay. We will go to one of the free shelters, where new travellers like you can find somewhere to stay."

"Thanks you." the girl mumbeld, while she bited into an apple, she didn't want to be a burden to anybody, but she also had no idea what to do here.

"Morning." Arashi had finally woken up too, bbut he had not taken his time to clean himself before breakfast, so his hair were dirty and messed up and his clothes weren't much better.

He simply grabbed the first thing he could find and strated to eat it, he had oviously not slept very good.

Nobody said anything to him, it was obvious that he wouldn't give any satisfing answers and Haruka was to shy to start any conversations.

So she simply stayed silent, while the Cloud-Security members chatted happily, Ellie talked with an dark skinned young woman, which had an large afro, while Anton seemed to scold some other members, who only looked on their feet in shame.

" Jose and Ano messed up their mission, you slept in their room this night, and Anton is making sure that it doesn't happen anymore.

He is Elizabeths deputy , he doesn't talk much and is very hard and strict. But deep inside he has a soft side and would never let anybody down."

Matthew told Haruka, smiling, and she only replied by nooding her head, she could believe the first part about Anton, but she couldn't say anything about the rest.

But Matt seemed to be a nice person, at least he tried to be one and Haruka wouldn't object if somebody tried to help her.

Arashi made some strange moaning sounds, after he had finished eating and went back into the room, to get his stuff.

"You should follow him, we'll meet in the aula once you're finished and then I'll show a place where you can sleep, for more than just one night."

Haruka had not said a word during the whole breakfast and she also didn't say anything while leaving the room and getting her stuff and a very bad mooded Arashi didn't want to start a conversation.

It only took her a few minutes to get ready and then she and her companion meet with Matthew again.

Haruka now noticed that Matt wore a cape similar to Ellies and she couldn't stop herself from asking
" Does this cape have any special meaning or does it have any use ?" for a moment the tanned, young man was suprised by this question, everybody in the city knew the meaning of the capes, but then he rememberd again that they were newbies.

"Oh this cape. It's Cloud Securities uniform, we all wear it while going on missions or patrols." he smiled friendly and Haruka felt a little bit more secure than before, Matt seemed to be a really nice person.

"So you try to look like superheroes ?" Arashi asked, not even expecting an answer, since he simply kept on walking and didn't even look at them while talking.

"Superheroes, you read to many comics Arashi." Matthew seemed to be a embarresed but everybody simply forgot this little conversation, while they left the building.

The Cloud-Security member lead them through the city, he knew the streets well and directly went for one of the shelters, which gave free rooms to new travellers.

The first one was completly full, some people even had to sleep in the bathrooms, since everybody wanted to live there, it had the best quality and was in town centre.

They then headed for another shelter, which was located on the cities borders, but this one completly underwhelmed them, even for free.

It was nothing more than a old barn and they agreed that they would only take if they couldn't find anything else.

But they had no luck, they visited three other shelter and every single one was full, not even one free bed for them.

"Alright, lets take the barn, a bed of straw is better than none." Arashi mumbeld, he was already annoyed by all of this, but then Koemon punched him in the face, trying to get his attention.

"What was that for Koemon." he nagged, but his partner didn't care and said

"Look at this building, it looks like a hotel." and the monkey was right, there was a small building in a side street, hardly visible from the main street and only 2 storys tall.

"Hmm, this must be new, haven't heard of it until now." Matthew said, while inspecting the building, but Koemon and Arashi had already enterd and Haruka had followed and with her Coronamon.

For a moment Matthew kept on standing in front of the building, silent, while Bitemon tried to pat him, they had just left him outside and didn't even listen to him.

He inhalled deeply and also enterd the building, where Haruka was already talking with an Babamon, who appeared to be the owner.

"Oh darling, so you know my sister, that's wondeful. Of course I have a place for you to stay.

I have a room for you and only for you, your friend can also have a bed in another room.

"Thank you Babamon." Haruka smiled happily and slightly bowed her head, while Koemon started nagging about the fact that Haruka could have a room for herself and that they had to share theirs.

Babamon solved this problem by hitting the monkey with her stick, until stayed quiet.

"Thank you for your help Mister Matthew !" Haruka thanked Matthew, before Babamon lead her and Arashi to their rooms, leaving Matthew alone, again.

"Let's go back to the HQ, they seem to be alright." Bitemon said, while Matthew was still shocked.

"But I was supposed to find a please for them." he mumbeld while troting away and Bitemon tried to cheer him up.

"This is your room young man, take one of the free beds and don't make too much dirt." Babamon told Arashi while opening a door for him.

Arashi went inside followed by Koemon and directly noticed that he was watched, it took him a minute until he realiced who was it.

A , blonde boy, maybe 10 years old sat on top of one of the loft beds and simply looked at him, with a red dinosaur, which was nearly as large as himself sitting next to him.

"I'm Menma and this is Guilmon." the boy said, while he kept on looking at him without even flinching.

"I'm Arashi and this is Koemon, we'll now be living in this room, too." there was an akward silence, Menma still inspected Arashi with his bright, blue eyes, before he simply said

"Ok." and turned towards his partner.

Arashi realiced just now that there was some bread laying between the boy and the digimon and they now to eat it .

Arashi didn't mind him anymore, him simply threw the package, which made up all off his stuff, next to one the beds and then lay down on it, while Koemon lay down on the ground next to him.

For a few minutes they simply stayed this way, looking at the celling, only hearing Menmas and Guilmons chewing.

1 pm had just passed so they couldn't simply sleep, and finally Koemon was sick of doing nothing.

"Now what Arashi, any ideas what we could do ?" the monkey stood up again and looked at his partner, who had no idea what to answer.

"Youf cup o a miffin." Guilmon mumbeld with his mouth full of bread and both Arashi and Koemon only looked at him bewilderd.

"You could do a mission." Menma translated, after chooking a large piece of bread, "there are many missions on the black board, people looking for help or offering jobs. You can earn money like that, but most don't want me or Guilmon since we are to young."

Arashi and Koemon looked at each, this idea was better then nothing, but they wouldn't do it alone.

"Let's ask Haruka if she wants do a mission." the teen finally said, jumped up and went out of the room, leaving Guilmon, Menma and their bread alone.

"They are a bit strange Menmamon." Guilmon said to his partner, to which the blond boy only replied,
"Yeah a little but it could be worse."

"Haruka, are you in there ?" Arashi knocked at the door, which wasn't closed properly, so it opend a little.

"Is everything alri ..." he stopped mid-sentence and froze, while all of his blood went into his head.

It had been a mistake to open the door, since Haruka had just came out of the bathroom, only wearing a towel.

His mouth was wide open and his brain had simply stopped working, while the girl, who had just noticed him right now turned completly red.

"How dare you pervert !" first Babamons stick hitted him right in the face, then Coronamon jump-kicker him right into the belly, making him tremble outside.

But he had no time recover, the elderly digimon chased him away, while keep on hitting him with her stick and Coronamon threw little fireballs after him.

Only Koemon, who both seemed to had forgotten, stayed and looked at Haruka, who was still blushing.

For a few moments both of them were silent, only Arashis "I'm sorry !" screams were audible ,before the little monkey said :

"Don't worry, we Digimon don't have any sexuality." and walked away, after his partner.

"You don't have to apologise anymore, it was just an accident." half an hour had passed, Haruka was done clothing herself and she had met with Arashi again.

They sat in the hotel little dinning room, eating Babamons soup, which tasted just like the one in the Sakura Valley.

"It really wasn't on purpose. But lets talk about something else." Arashi went on, while Coronamon still oberserved him, waiting for any mistakes he made.

" We may have found free shelter here at Babamons place, but I think it would be better if we found a way to at least pay her something, afterall soup doesn't grow on trees." Haruka nooded in agreement, she had felt bad about getting this room for free.

" We could do some mission, like a quest in a game. People are offering payment for simple or harder task, like gathering stuff or escorting them.

I found an easy one, it takes a few days but it's here in the city."

he headed a piece of paper over to her and she read out loud

" Help out at Digitamamons bistro." she looked up to Arashi again, who grinned a little and said

"He is looking for two helpers, the digimon won't have to work and will be rather easy work."

for a moment Haruka thought about it, they needed money and it really seemed to be an easy job , but she had never worked in a restaurant.

"As long as I don't have to wear a french maid outfit." she joked and nodded her head in agreement .

The boys face on the other hand had turned red and his eyes were empty, it seemed like he was imagining something.

A single drip of blood came out of his nose, and Coronamon charged at him tackeling hima nd his chair down
"I'll kill you bastard !"

Chapter 2

End

Authors Note:

Chapter 2 done, like 50 planned chapters ahead, I really have to speed up my update rate ^^.

But holy shit, a third new OC, which isn't recycled or from somebody else, but don't get to happy about this, there'll be more old friends of mine in the story soon, muahahahaha

tobi out