(Tamers!)
Ruki had some packing to do and sent Renamon to make sure the less reliable tamers were at least preparing properly. It would be easier now, she supposed. They knew what to expect in the digital world this time around, and part of her was really glad Ryo stayed behind. But he could have at least kept Kenta and Kazu with him. And she would miss having Jianliang and Juri on the team. At least they were helpful last time...
Still Ruki understood their reasoning. Juri couldn't be any help there this time around and Jianliang was going to stay behind and try to help his dad with closing the breaches. Shaochung was staying because everyone agreed she should. All the families protested the sending of their children, but this time would be different and everyone, Everyone would come back safe. That she and Renamon would make certain of.
(Adventure!)
Sally arrived back home to find that her brother had taken the last of their ice cream. Just great really, it's not like she was looking forward to it or nothing. Her friend Michel would be happy about it though. Oh well, she'd just have to go back out later to get more. Maybe she should call Michel and tell him about the kid she met in the digital world. Ha, like he'd believe her. He'd only just found his digivice thing a week before and still hadn't met his partner.
(?)
Biyomon wasn't one to complain most of the time... But this was getting annoying! Sora and her may have found their way to this forest area, but there was still nothing to be found. The worst part was that Sora hadn't taken any time at all to care for herself. How could she keep searching like this was beyond her.
"Sora let's stop to gather water. If they're in a desert place like Tai and Agumon are, they'll be thirsty when we find them." The bird digimon reasoned. Sora glanced at the stream but caught on quickly.
"That's a good idea Biyo..." The teen girl said. "I'm sorry about not stopping sooner. We did have that water break a bit ago, but we've been working none stop haven't we? Funny thing is, I don't feel hungry or anything. It must be past breakfast time at least. Maybe lunch too."
"That is kind of strange. I only drank that water out of habit..." Biyomon said.
(Tamers!)
"How far have we gone?" Davis asked.
"I don't know. It's been morning again for a while so I think we're really far from where we started." Veemon replied. The group had continued following the girl, Alice. But so far She hadn't led them to anywhere they needed to go. Then again, she never said she would.
"Hey are you lost?" Tentomon asked.
"No. I don't have a destination in mind yet though, so I'm simply wandering right now." Alice replied. None of her companions cared to comment. They knew they'd just get lost on their own and there is safety in numbers, but it didn't seem like they'd find their way back home anytime soon.
(?)
"I hate this!" Makoto complained loudly,throwing himself onto the ground. "No one's listens to me! Everyone is so busy and they don't care about us. I want to go home. I'm hungry and the ground is making my feet hurt" The boy ranted.
Ai glared at her brother, but wanting to avoid fighting with him she didn't shout at him. Couldn't he see they hated this too? Yaamon tried his best to keep the kids spirits up, but nothing looked familiar and no one wanted to stop for them. They were getting no where fast.
"Oh? Are you two lost?" A voice asked them.
The three looked up and saw a teenaged girl wearing weird clothes with a star on her shirt.
"We don't know where our house went." Ai started.
"Do you you can help us find it?" Makoto said rubbing his eyes, a smile forming on his face.
"Well I might be able too... I used to live in this area of town when I was younger so I know where most of the things are." The girl replied.
"Really? Thank you so much miss!" Makoto jumped to his feet with glee.
"My name's Ai and he's my brother Mako. What's your name?" Ai asked.
"My name's Mimi, it's nice to meet you. Do you know the street your house is on?"
"I think so... it started with an o" Ai replied.
"No it didn't, our house has the numbers one and four on it. There wasn't any o" Makoto argued.
"She asked for the street not the number you dummy." Ai scolded.
"You said dummy! We're not sposed to say things like that Ai!" Mako said, now getting angry.
"Well I wouldn't if you hadn't-" Ai stopped mid sentence when she remembered their promise.
"Oops..." Makoto uttered when he too came the realisation.
Yaamon certainly didn't look happy at the moment, but kept up his act of being a stuffed toy really well. He wasn't sure what he would do in this situation anyway. He wouldn't leave them, he decided never to do that again after all. Did he even have the right to be mad at them anymore? He wasn't sure.
Mimi meanwhile was glad they stopped, although a bit confused as to why. Little kids often fought and these two weren't in the best of moods being lost and all.
"I know a few streets which start with an o around here. We can search them for your house. If we can't find it then I'll take you to the police station, they'll be able to find your mom and dad. Does that sound like a plan?" Mimi asked.
"Yeah..." Ai was still disappointed in her own actions and continued to stare down at Yaamon who she held carefully.
(Tamers!)
Takato's parents were baking a lot of bread for him to take.
"We don't get hungry in the digital world, you don't need to make so much mom." Takato explained.
"What if something happens and you're not in the digital world anymore? What would you eat there?" His mom argued.
"Besides, you two need something to remind you that we're still waiting for your safe return." His dad said with a smile.
"I still can't believe you let him go back. I thought we were done with this." His mother complained.
"There isn't much we can do. People we know are already going missing because of this new disaster. If I could help them, I know I would go." His dad sighed.
Takato finally decided to stop watching and started going up to his room to pack a few more things.
"Are you coming Guilmon?" The boy asked when he reached halfway up the stairs while his partner stayed put.
"Takato, we should stay down here a bit longer. We won't get to see them for a while." The red rookie said looking quite tearful.
"You're right..." Takato replied and climbed back down. "Hey mom, dad, can we help with anything?"
(?)
Gomamon had run out of songs so they began making up nonsense songs instead.
"I once raced a tuna to the top of a mountain tree!" The small white digimon sang, rather poorly.
"The fish ate my sandwich but I still won!" Flamemon continued with laughter.
The two were having a really great time, but still something was wrong. They weren't getting any closer to figuring out where they were. Or at least until-
"Sora! Biyomon!" Gomamon shouted, interrupting their game. Flamemon turned to see a human girl, a few years older than his partner, and a pink bird digimon. The two ran over and greeted Gomamon with excitement.
"Gomamon! We were worried we'd never find you!" Sora exclaimed.
"Yeah, I was worried I'd never get home! Did you find Joe? Where are the others?" Gomamon asked.
"We haven't seen him yet... " Sora began her explanation, "Tai, Matt, Agumon, and Gabumon are all here too, or at least somewhere around here. We all went through one of those pillars after you guys, but we must have all gotten separated. Don't worry though, Izzy built these communicators so that we can still talk to them, so we should be able to find them."
"I'm just glad too see a familiar face. We'll find them!" Gomamon agreed.
"Who's this?" Biyomon asked.
"I'm Flamemon. I've been traveling with Gomamon in search of my home as well. Those pillars caught me off guard too." He explained himself.
"Well it's nice to meet you Flamemon. My name's Sora and this is my partner Biyomon. Let's all go back home together then."
"Couldn't agree more!" Gomamon cheered.
(Tamers!)
Packing was pretty easy for Juri. She never understood why it took some people so long, all you needed was the basics. Saying goodbye to everyone though... that was the hard part. Even more so when she might never return. But she had to do something.
"Dad? Can I talk with you and Shizue for a minute?" Juri worked up the courage to say. Her dad looked at her curiously, but nodded. He called his wife over. Shizue brought their four year old son Mashiko with her, she had been playing with him in the next room over.
"What is it?" She asked.
"Come, let's go into the living room." Tadashi responded, sensing the importance of what his daughter had to say.
Once the four were seated, the little boy on the floor with a toy truck to occupy him, Juri began.
"I'm going to leave for a while. I don't know when I'll be back, but I'm going. This time, I'm going to explain everything to you first. It's what I should have done last time. Instead of leaving it to Leomon..." She clutched her digivice tightly. "Ai and Mako have gone missing along with their partner Impmon. The people at Hypnos think it was because of a tear created by the d-reaper. It formed in their bedroom last night, and no one has seen them since. They are alive. Whatever's on the other side of that tear, we're sure it can support life. Someone needs to go in after them. They are two six year old children, just a couple years older than Mashaki, two children I know very well. I need to help them. That's why... That's why I'm leaving you all again."
Shizue looked to her husband, not knowing what she could say. Mashaki looked up wondering why everyone was so afraid. Juri's father though... he got up and keeled in front of his daughter, placing his hands on her shoulders.
"I nearly lost you the last time. You're leaving? What makes you think..." The man broke into tears and stopped. He got back up and took a few steps away. "I don't know what you want me to do. I'm sorry, for everything I've done wrong as a parent all these years... Do you know that I love you?"
"Yes, I can't stay though. I need to help-"
"I can't stop you from leaving. Just promise me you'll be back, alright? If you're not back in three days, I'll go in and bring you back home myself." He said before leaving the room.
(Adventure!)
Mimi walked through town with the two little kids in tow. They got more talkative as they went along, but Mimi was concerned. She was running out of streets now, and she'd have to drop the two off at the police station soon.
"How old are you Mimi?" Makoto asked cheerfully.
"I'm fourteen Mako. How about you?" She replied with a smile.
"Me and Ai are five, but we'll be six next week!"
"Wow, that's exciting. Are you having a party for your birthday?"
"Yeah, mom asked the Matsuda bakery to help her get everything ready." Ai imputed.
"The Matsuda bakery? Are they new?" Mimi wondered.
"No I don't think so... We've known them since we were four." Ai was now doubting Mimi knew a that much about their home town. Maybe that's why they hadn't found their street yet.
Mimi however was starting to realise that these two kids might not be from this town at all. Surely something like the park or the elementary school would have looked familiar when they passed by them.
"How about we take a break for some lunch?" She asked. Afterwards she really would have to tell the police, these two were further from home than she thought.
"Good! I'm really hungry... we haven't had breakfast!" Makoto said.
Mimi brought them to the convenience store Yolei's family owned, and paid for their meals. They ate their food outside on a picnic table.
Ai put Yaamon on the table before remembering something. She instead put him back on the back next to her. When she went to take a bite of her food, she "accidentally" dropped it next to Yaamon.
"It's my turn to carry Yaamon next Ai." Makoto said to his sister, whispering. Ai nodded and continued eating like nothing happened.
Mimi however heard him.
"I thought their was something about that toy..." Mimi said realisation dawning on her. "He's a digimon, right? Are you two digidestined?"
The two kids couldn't believe they had been caught.
"He's out partner and were his tamers..." Makoto managed to say.
"I've never heard of a digidesint." Ai said.
Mimi wondered what a tamer was, but figured it was just something these kids thought to call themselves because they didn't know what else it could be. It would explain why they didn't know what a digidestined is, she remembered that she didn't know either when she first met Palmon.
Their digimon, Yaamon, hopped onto the table.
"Who are you and why do you know so much? I thought our act was pretty convincing... not many people know about digimon enough to recognize one from a toy..." The in training digimon was awfully suspicious.
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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), Michel Ferran(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, Henry Carter(firestar's oc)-8
Ai Terada, Makoto "Mako" Terada-5
Hello! I forgot what I was going to say... See you all next time!