Chapter 8

Juuban:

Tsukino Umika had just gotten finished watching a certain video and her left eyebrow starts twitching, if any of her closest friends would be nearby they would be diving for cover as Umika's temper was about to break like a Tsunami over her baka of a son, bitch of a daughter-in-law, and hell spawn of a grandson. Sammy had a twin and they had given him up merely because he had burgundy hair. The Tsukino family matriarch stands up and heads for the door to her room, " KENJI, IKKUKO, YOU HAD BEST BE IN THE LIVING ROOM BY THE TIME I GET THERE OR YOU WILL NOT LIKE THE CONSEQUENCES! "

Ikkuko and Kenji scramble to the living room, neither one of them willing to risk pissing Umika off any more than she already was and they didn't even know what had set her off. Kenji gulps when his mother comes into sight, " You two are deplorable excuses for human beings, for parents! Oh, I suspect how you treat my heiress, you spineless cowards. I'm talking about Sammy's twin. Giving him up merely because he had burgundy hair! I will be filing for custody of Serena and your other son. Quite frankly Sammy is a damned brat that needs to be taken down several pegs. "

" That thing should never have been born! " Ikkuko snaps.

Umika throws a ball of spirit energy at her daughter-in-law, " I want you, Sammy, and Kenji out of this house. I am taking it back as I do own it. Serena and my newly discovered grandson will live here. I don't give a flying fuck where you three live. You have a week to get your clothes and possessions out, the furniture stays. "

Kenji and Ikkuko gulp before scrambling to obey, Kenji immediately set about apartment hunting, as he knew he had to so they would have a roof over their heads. Umika makes a copy of the video she had watched and calls in several favors, no way in hell was she going to allow her grandson to remain in an abusive home if she could help it. She would raise her grandchildren, seeing as how those that were supposed to couldn't. Umika just couldn't believe her son and daughter-in-law would be so shallow as to get rid of their one son due to his hair color. That was not how she raised her son.

The Tsukino matriarch was still pissed off though she had already gotten the paperwork pushed through naming her guardian to Serena and Davis, though her instincts were telling her that Davis needed to stay in Odaiba. Maybe she'd keep the house in Juuban and they could all live in Odaiba. Of course, she'd make sure that dear Molly was still able to come visit, maybe pay for both her and Serena to take some sort of lessons together. She had learned Davis loved soccer, so she would make sure he'd be able to continue to play the game that he loved.

Meanwhile, she needed to visit those damnable Motomiyas as well for daring to belittle her grandbaby like that. Let it be said that no one ever got in Umika Tsukino nee Albarn's way when it came to protecting her family. Oh, there would be hell to pay once she got ahold of those idiotic Motomiyas, hell, they'd be lucky if they didn't end up in jail, being a semi-retired demon hunter for the Emperor meant that she had some pretty powerful connections.

Digiworld, Cave:

Davis kept very quiet upon waking up, eating, and being introduced to the others. Veemon and Cutemon stuck close to him while he stayed close to Tai. All Tai had to do was send a glare someone's way when they were about to ask why he, Davis, was there or how he got there. Renamon had been talking quietly with Veemon so she knew that Davis was one of lord Fanglongmon's chosen children and he had been brought to Digiworld to save his very life. No one questioned his wrist bands, though Serena had made sure to look him over before letting him meet the others. TK sensed that he couldn't approach Davis just yet and was the only one that hadn't wanted to question why he was there. Leomon, too, suspected why and how Davis had ended up in Digiworld but said nothing, knowing it wasn't his business.

They instead shifted their focus on how to take down Devimon. Of course, Renamon took Veemon, Cutemon, and Davis along with Patamon and TK off to train. Tai and Serena both resolving to fill the younger ones in one what they had missed because it would take everyone to resolve this mess they currently found themselves embroiled in. They weren't going to try and shield the younger ones from the harshness of reality. The sooner they learned that life was full of hard knocks the better. Children could not be shielded for all of their lives, they had to be shown how cold and cruel the world could be.

Finally it was decided that Tentomon and Renamon would scout out the situation before they made any further plans. When Renamon returns with the others for lunch Tai and Serena fill those that had missed the planning session in on what had been discussed, Serena sending Matt her Shut-up-or-I-will-make-you-pay look quelling his protest before it even left his lips. TK did not need coddling in Serena's opinion. Hell, she was teaching him how to access his spirit energy so he could at least defend himself and sense out his surroundings for trouble. Patamon and Veemon both accessed their champion forms through Renamon's training. This meant that every rookie there could go up to champion now and Davis and Veemon had only been a part of the team for not even a day. Yokomon still hadn't accessed his rookie form yet but he was a growing boy.

Devimon's Lair:

The evil angel looks around himself, wondering where those children were hiding. The girl had raised a ruckus earlier but that was it. They had gone silent and he didn't like that. It meant that they were scheming and they had Leomon with them. How that girl had stumbled upon another use of the Digivices they all had he didn't know. All he knew was that the boy with the Agumon and the blonde girl with the Renamon needed to be eliminated before they became a problem later on down the road.

" Woodmon, Monochromon, Drimogemon, go find those children, immediately. They must be eliminated! " Devimon shouts it out.

Cave:

Twenty minutes later the ground under the children starts shaking. Davis and Serena were quick to grab on to Tai while Serena also kept a firm hold on Yokomon while Agumon was holding on tightly to Tai, Renamon to Serena, and Veemon and Cutemon to Davis. The Drimogemon had found them and had congregated under them before creating a massive quake, causing the children to all fall in different directions. Tai, Serena, Davis, and their digimon end up trapped in the cave while the others end up on pieces of File Island that broke up. Joe and Sora plus their partners ended up together while Izzy, Mimi, and their partners end up together too. Matt ends up alone with Gabumon, same as TK with Patamon. They had been separated, though Leomon was with TK as well.

The ball was now in Devimon's court, making things that much harder for the children. Their only hope lie in the fact that Tai and Serena had ended up together. Perhaps the two of them, along with the others with them would be able to find some way to reunite them.

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon or Digimon.