Chapter 5

Tai rolls his shoulders as they continue on, soon it started getting colder and Serena unzips her backpack tossing a blue hoody to Matt, green to Mimi, gray to Joe, purple to Izzy, orange went back to Tai, Sora got red, and TK got yellow. She also tossed them matching hats, gloves, and scarves before Tai helps her get her silver gear on and then she zips the backpack up again. Renamon was holding Yokomon, sharing her body heat. Mimi smiles, " I love your grandma, Serena. "

" Like I said, she packed for just about every situation she could think of. "

" Why give us these specific colors? " Matt asks her.

" They just seemed to suit you all. " Serena responds, shrugging.

They hand back the gear when they reach the hot spring and Serena looks at Joe, " I highly doubt there are any other people here, Joe. This is fucking survival right now. You can't keep all your damn morals intact. " Serena tells him sharply.

Joe blinks at her harsh way of telling him they had to do what they had to do. Soon Sora is frying up eggs and Serena reaches into her backpack for salt, pepper, paprika, garlic, and ketchup. " Garlic in my eggs, please, Sora. "

The others stare at the spices and condiment, " Remind me to send my gratitude to your grandmother. " Izzy says once they're all eating.

The others all seconded that motion and Tai is the one feeding Yokomon. The little guy may be an in-training digimon but he didn't have any hands at the moment. Serena was highly annoyed with only having one arm at the moment, though come the end of the day the sling could finally go, which she was grateful for.

Infinity Mountain:

Devimon was still contemplating the problem of which digimon to send after the blonde girl and the boy with the Agumon. They were becoming a pain, not to mention that they had managed to elude Monzaemon easily enough. The girl may just figure out how to destroy the Black Gears soon, how to drive them out of a digimon without having to fight them. Then he smiles maliciously, he had found the perfect digimon, Sandiramon.

Hot Spring:

Serena shivers suddenly, " Renamon, stay alert, I think Mr. Big and Bad has figured out his next move. "

Tai groans at this, " Why is it he fears our development more than that of the others anyhow? "

" Wish I knew, Tai, I really do. "

Renamon leaves to scout the area immediately, there was an ill wind blowing at the moment. When Matt and Tai start to argue about their next course of action the female blonde rolls her eyes, " We need the higher terrain, it'll give us an advantage in combat. Ishida, like I said to Joe earlier, this is about our fucking survival, so get whatever stick is shoved up your ass out of it now! " Serena snaps.

Sora and Mimi snicker at this while Matt gapes at her, his jaw working uselessly. Tai grins, " However, we need to find an easily defensible camp for tonight if Big and Bad is coming after us soon, Tai. "

" Got it, I kinda figured that anyhow, I wasn't planning on going up the mountain tonight, I wanted to do it in the morning. " Tai tells her.

Matt's blue eyes widen at this and Sora laughs, " Tai is a helluva lot better at this than you think. He is the captain of our soccer team after all. " Sora tells Matt.

The older blonde sibling just groans at this news, how was he supposed to know that such an impulsive individual was such a good planner. An hour and a half after everyone has fallen asleep, Serena has taken the first watch and Renamon sounds the alarm. Serena wakes Tai and Agumon before waking Biyomon to take over the watch. The pair head out, Yokomon was curled up with TK for the moment. Serena's digivice starts to react and the girl speeds up, grinning when she can lose the sling, she shoves it into a pocket for the moment and they arrive to see Youkomon fighting a Cherrymon.

Tai's digivice reacts as well and Agumon digivolves to Greymon. The pair find their work cut out for them with Cherrymon. Serena shoves Tai out of the way of another attack and this time she was able to get herself out of the way as well. While this is going on Joe has decided to climb the mountain by himself. Gomamon follows after him, since as his partner it was his job to protect him.

Youkomon grunts as she gets batted aside while Greymon slams his tail into Cherrymon before backing away, " Jaenryu! " Youkomon calls out.

" Nova Blast! "

Cherrymon hurtles backwards and wilts, " You may have driven me off this time, but I will return. "

Tai and Serena, along with their partners return just in time to find out Joe was missing. Serena groans and hops onto her partner, " TK, watch over Yokomon for me. "

TK nods at this and Serena goes with Sora to get the second eldest child of the group while Tai and Agumon remain behind. The others eat quickly and then follow them. They knew they had to stay together and Serena was not above telling them the truth about a situation bluntly, as Matt and Joe had both learned the hard way, Matt more so. Mimi looks at the older male blonde, " Serena has a point, Matt, most of the time you're just arguing with Tai for the sake of arguing. Tai generally has good ideas and yet you seem to think that your way is the only way. "

Matt blinks at this even as they head out to catch up with Serena and Sora. Matt was astonished that the bubbly brunette had actually told him off politely. He hated to admit it, even to himself, but she did have a point, and then Serena's telling off of him, that one still hurt a little bit. By the time they reach Serena, Sora, and Joe they have already dealt with a Unimon with a Black Gear in him, Gomamon had digivolved and then Serena stiffens, jumping off of her partner. Youkomon caught on quickly and turns to face…Leomon. Serena groans, " Not another digimon controlled by those damn gears. I swear if I find the idiot whom is using these gears like this I am going to make him hurt, badly! "

Infinity Mountain, Devimon's Castle:

The fallen angel smirks maliciously, those foolish children thought that Cherrymon had been their next opponent, they had failed to realize that Cherrymon had just seen an opportunity and took it. Sandiramon was still awaiting the right moment to attack them.

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