(?)
Matt and Gabumon explored an area where what was left of the ground was made of clouds, and gears ticked on ominously. There still didn't appear to be any signs of life and the two had been in this place for more than just a few hours.
"How do we leave? Shouldn't this place have an exit or something around here?" Matt wondered aloud. Gabumon, his ever loyal friend couldn't seem to offer much help. In this sort of situation what was there really left to do?
"Has anyone had any luck yet? You've got to be doing better then me by now right?" Matt asked into the Mic on the earpiece.
"Me and Biyomon found a forest with a fresh water stream." Sora's voice responded. "It sort of reminds me of home. Or at least the digital world. But so far, no sign of any of the others. How about you Tai?"
"It feels like we've been walking in circles here. There's nothing here..." Tai said, obviously exhausted.
"At this right, we'll all be as lost as our friends we set out to find." Sora said disheartened.
"We'll just have to keep going." Matt said and he trudged forward.
"Don't worry too much, I think we can find a way to bring all of you back if we had the right tools..." Ken said over the earpiece.
"Is that why you all have been so quiet?" Tai asked.
"We're trying to be as useful to all of you as we can." Cody said simply.
"Well we appreciate that. I'd like to see some actual ground again soon." Matt spoke.
(Tamers!)
"Hey Ryo! Wait up!" Kazu shouted. Ryo stopped, wondering to himself what his fellow tamer might want. "So we all gave our decisions but... what about you?"
"I thought I did tell everyone. I'm not going with everyone to the digital world." Ryo said, wondering what Hirokazu could be getting at.
"Well I know that. But why? I thought you basically lived for adventure. You kept saying how you missed it there..."
"I do miss it there still. The digital world was my home for more than a year, but it wouldn't be right to go back there with how it is now. Besides that, I've got things I still need to take care of here."
"I guess..." Kazu didn't sound convinced. "Oh well, I can still tell you all about it when we get back though so enjoy yourself here. It's my turn to shine."
Ryo smiled, Kazu always was the eager type, headstrong and ready for action. Although still far too childish for his own good.
"I guess I'll see you later then." Ryo said as he walked away.
Cyberdramon met him when he was further away. The large adult level digimon never did like crowds, and had instead waited outside in a nearby alley, just close enough to be ready if trouble struck.
"You likely won't see him again." The digimon stated.
"I know, but he needed to hear it. I had to say good bye somehow." Ryo replied, though he knew Cyberdramon didn't really care about that.
"Did you find out where we need to go?" Cyberdramon asked instead.
"Yeah, one of the portals is in the sea so we can't use that one, but the other... It landed in someone's home. They put a barrier around it, but we should still be able to get through." Ryo said leading the way.
(?)
"Hey let's sing a song." Gomamon said to his traveling companion.
"A song?" Flamemon asked uncertainly. What was the white colored rookie thinking this time?
"Yeah! It'll be fun! But if you need a reason more than that, if one of our friends hear our voices, they'll know where we are!"
"That makes sense... Do you know any good songs?" Flamemon asked, he was rather bored of walking in silence anyway.
(Tamers!)
"Ryo?"
At the Terada household, where Ryo expected it to be empty instead he found Juri already inside.
"I probably shouldn't ask, but what are you doing here?" Ryo asked.
"Well earlier today I found out that Ai, Mako, and Impmon went missing so I came to help miss Terada search for them." Juri began her lengthy explanation. "I arrived a while after she left so Ii waited for her to get back while I looked around the block for them. But Takato called a while ago and explained what happened to them... he said that Yamaki isn't going to look for them. So you probably know why I'm here now then? I'm going through the breach and bringing them back home. If it's just me, the hole shouldn't get any bigger."
"You don't need to worry, I'll get them back." Ryo said.
"No, I'm going. I can't help anyone here, but if I go..." Juri was determined.
"I can't let you go alone... I have to go, me and Cyberdramon have to go through. Me and him won't be coming back, we've already made up our minds." The teen declared. Juri seemed as if she were about to back down, but paused. She wondered why Ryo said he wouldn't be coming back. She supposed that if he only made one trip it wouldn't leave as much strain on the tear, but he had a life here riding he? The more she thought of it the more she realized she didn't know much about the legendary tamer. He was still a mystery.
"Then we'll both go. Ai and Mako don't know you that well, it'll help them if I was there."
Ryo smiled at her resolve, but decided to test her a little more.
"You don't even know what's on the other side. What if you never made it back?"
"Then I'll miss my home here, but at least I'll know that none of my friends are alone. I'll write a note saying goodbye to everyone..."
"How will they feel after you've left? Don't you think they'd worry?"
"Of course they will... But... I can take care of myself now, those two little kids are a week away from being six, they're too young to be by themselves. I trust you and I trust Impmon, but here their mother is worried sick over her children."
"What if you can't find them?"
"I will! I won't stop searching once I get there until I do find them!"
"I guess there isn't any helping it. Go say your goodbyes and get your things ready. We'll go together tomorrow morning." Ryo said. Cryberdramon wouldn't enjoy waiting, and there was still a few risks with bringing her. But if she was going, and she probably would still go even if he didn't take her, it would be better for her to be prepared. She was still just eleven, but he wasn't much older when he came to this world.
(Adventure!)
Mimi and Palmon fell back onto the cozy hotel bed. Palmon was asleep almost immediately. Mimi however, tossed a bit.
"Maybe some tv will clear my head some..." She mumbled to herself. The teen girl took the remote and clicked on the old television set. There wasn't anything on, so she just left it at the news.
"How boring." She said before getting back up. She decided to instead wash up, she must look like a mess after hiking in the digital world all night!
Actually after her shower she felt wide awake. Maybe she should go out and explore her old home town some more. So that's what she did. Although the door was shut a bit harder than she intended, and closed with a bang.
"Huh? Mimi?" Palmon snapped awake.
The green plant digimon looked around the room and listened carefully.
"Flash floods in the southern Gifu district have experts baffled" the news caster droned.
Figuring out that she was alone, Palmon was a bit disheartened.
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Joe Kido-16
Taichi "Tai" Kamiya, Sora Takaishi, Yamato "Matt" Ishida, Ryo Akiyama-15
Koushiro "Izzy" Izumi, Mimi Tachikawa-14
Ken Ichijouji-13
Yolei Inoue, Alice McCoy, Sally Carter(firestar's oc)-12
Takeru "TK" Takaishi, Kari Kamiya, Davis Motomiya, Takato Matsuda, Ruki Makino, Jianliang "Jian" Lee, Juri Kato, Hirokazu "Kazu" Shiota, Kenta Kitagawa-11
Cody Hida-9
Shaochung Lee-8
Ai Terada, Makoto "Mako" Terada-5
I sent a lot of the adventure kids to bed... they're the ones who chose to stay up all night. Not entirely my fault they're tired. (Okay it's completely my fault...)
Firestar- You reminded me of something I planned to do later in the story. I can't tell you what it is yet but soon. I'll put Henry and Michel to use too. I'm assuming Michel is twelve, correct me if I'm wrong. How old is Henry? (It seems so funny to call him that, but thankfully tamers Henry is going by Jian in this story so it's all good.)