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Humon?

-Chapter 31-

-Last Time-

"I swear, if anyone else causes trouble while I'm trying to sleep, they are gonna end up just like that." Naruto stated with a slightly crazed look thanks to his slightly bloodshot and baggy eyes that made everyone on deck shrink away slightly before Mimi scooped him up into her arms and marched off back towards their room.

…

"Hmm, somebody appears to be in quite the foul mood," A small pink pixie like digimon wielding a small spear said as he floated onto the deck, getting the remaining people to snap their attention towards him. "Perhaps I should come back later."

…

"Indeed Master," Aidmon said as she placed the rest down beside him and started munching on a chocolate bar. "Shall I proceed with the next phase?"

"…Yes." The intimidating kitsune said with a nod, getting the doll digimon to smirk mischievously.

-And Now-

"Who are you?" Tai asked the pixie digimon cautiously as the children braced themselves for a fight.

"Relax guys, that's Piximon, a wise warrior who's known for helping others and training digimon to be the best they can be." Tentomon said with a happy buzz while the other Digimon happily greeted the newcomer.

"Are you sure Tentomon?" Izzy asked, earning a confused buzz from his partner. "No offense but your information on supposedly friendly digimon has been more then a little spotty in the past."

"…Fair enough, but I am certain that Piximon is a good guy this time."

"Alright, if you say so." The computer whizz muttered as he and rest of the kids slowly relaxed in Piximon's presence.

"Hello Piximon, it is nice to meet you in person." Agumon said as the tiny Digimon landed on the deck.

"It is a pleasure to meet you all as well," Piximon said with a bow before floating back into the air. "But it appears that now isn't the best time for us to chat, if your friend's reaction is anything to go by you all probably want to go get some sleep as well."

"Actually, Naruto's just been doing most of the heavy lifting for the last few days and it's left him pretty tired." Gabumon said, frowning a little bit along with the rest of the group as they remembered how hard their friend had been working.

Thankfully, the workload had lightened now that the repairs were done and he taught the group how to do some of the various tasks needed to keep the ship in running order, but he was still doing the vast majority.

"Ah, of course," Piximon said with an understanding nod… which looked rather odd considering his whole body was his head. "As I was saying however, how about you all stop by my place to rest for a bit. It's not very far from here and I can guarantee completely safe."

Almost immediately, all the digimon, with the exception of Palmon who'd left in favor of following Mimi and Naruto, gained excited expressions and nodded their heads eagerly in agreement. However, that eagerness rapidly dissipated when they turned back to their partners and saw the hesitant looks they all had.

"Uh… that's very nice of you sir, but I think it would be best if we just continued on our way." Sora said with an apologetic smile while the rest of the children nodded in agreement, baffling the digimon.

"Oh, may I inquire why?" Piximon asked, his head/body tilted in confusion.

"Yeah guys, what's the hold-up? I'm sure we could just stop by for a short break, it is the polite thing to do after all." Gabumon said with a small frown.

"Well I don't know, how about what happened almost every time we accepted some random digimon's hospitality since we've gotten here," Matt stated dully, causing his partner and the other digimon except for Piximon to deflate upon being reminded of those instances.

"Look, not to sound rude or ungrateful Piximon, but we've just been tricked, manipulated, and duped too many times to just blindly accept such an offer," Joe explained, "Besides, no matter how safe your home is, our ship kinda sticks out if you haven't noticed and we'd feel pretty bad if we led Etemon right to your home."

"Hmmm, yes, that is quite understandable," Piximon said with a nod after contemplating their words for a few moments before turning to the front of the ship and waving his spear in a dramatic fashion. "Though perhaps this will assuage your concerns, if only a little bit."

Before anyone could ask him what he was doing, the whole group found themselves staring in awe as a large hole opened up in the air, revealing a lush jungle forest.

"That over there is my home, I use this barrier to keep unwanted visitors out, and as you can see there is plenty of space to hide your ship. You won't even have to step off board if you wish." The small pink digimon said with a smile.

Taking in the sight for a few more moments, the children glanced at each-other, then at their digimon who were silently pleading, and finally back at the forested area.

"Could you give us a minute?" Joe asked, holding up his dominant hand up with the universal 'one-moment' sign.

"Of course, of course, take all the time you need." Piximon said with a wave of his hand, prompting the children and their digimon partners to huddle up and whisper quietly to each-other.

After several minutes of silent, and occasionally not-so-silent, debate along with a dozen or so glances back towards the pixie digimon and his home, the group disbanded and turned back to Piximon.

"Alright, we'll stay for a bit, but only so Naruto can get a proper night's rest and get some supplies if that's alright." Izzy said, since stopping meant the clones Naruto had still running about could dispel for now… and the kitchen was starting to run a bit low on food.

"No problem, none at all, help yourselves to whatever you may need while you're here." Piximon said, nodding his head/body in response. With this decision made, Joe ran off to go inform the clones currently in control of the ship on what was going on and the Sandoraidā soon started moving again, sailing through the hole in the camo-barrier.

However, right as the last part of the ship was passed through, a small figure shot out into the air from a nearby dune and landed silently on the back deck of the ship. Glancing back at the desert, a familiar doll-like digimon's face could be seen for just a few moments before the gap closed, her expression brimming with mischief and humor.

-Fifteen minutes Later-

"Oh man, Naruto is going to be soooooo pissed." Tai said with a groan as he and the rest of the gang stared at the Sandoraidā from a small hill several yards away.

"No kidding, he is going to flip out when he sees this." Biyomon stated with a sheepish trill while everyone else but Piximon nodded in agreement.

The cause for this was the dozens of scratches and giant splinters that now ran along either side of the cruise ships recently repainted hull, curtesy of the multitude of trees they'd run over while trying to park the massive boat.

"…my favorite pillow to Unimon and my emergency box of chocolate to Centarumon…" Gomamon muttered as he rapidly wrote things down on a sheet of paper that had 'Last Will and Testament' written in bold at the top.

"Relax young ones, watch and see, I can fix this up easy as one, two, three!" Piximon rhymed as he twirled his spear dramatically, creating a swirl of sparkles that washed over the ship and magically fixed the damage, leaving the hull a nice pristine white once more.

"Huh… that's a handy trick." Joe said with a relieved sigh while wiping off the sweat that had formed on his brow.

"That it is, especially when I need to clean up after a hard day of training," Piximon said with a grin before glancing up at the sky. "Speaking of which, I need to get back to my exercises, if you need me or wish to join me just follow the noise. Otherwise feel free to relax or help yourself to some fruit and vegetables from my gardens."

The pixie digimon pointed to a cluster of trees a short distance away that were laden with various fruits and multiple vegetable plants, both of earth and digital world origin, then promptly shot off in the opposite direction towards a large mountain with a house atop it.

"…Well, that was… I wanna say either random or anticlimactic." Sora said with a quirked brow.

"Both, definitely both," Izzy said dully before turning his attention back to the rest of the group. "Okay guys, does everyone remember the plan?"

"Yeah, yeah, you, Tentomon, and Matt will check out the crest signal nearby while Sora, Biyomon, and Palmon watch over Naruto and Mimi, and the rest of us work on collecting supplies," Gomamon said with a wave of his paw as he carelessly chucked his half-finished will aside. "We'll have this done with before you can say 'Digimon'."

"And don't forget to keep your guards up, we still don't know if this is some kind of trap." Izzy said, getting the rest to nod in agreement, albeit slightly reluctantly from the digimon.

No other words were said as the groups divvied up to their tasks, Izzy leading his group off into the forest with his laptop and Sora heading back up into the ship with her partner. Meanwhile, the remaining children and digimon in the group also split up, with T.K., Patamon, and Gabumon working on gathering food and Tai, Joe, Agumon, and Gomamon went to another part of the ship and moved big crates up and down a larger, sturdier ramp.

Twenty minutes later though, Tai and Agumon finished moving one of the now filled boxes back up the ramp and stopped to catch their breath, the goggle wearing boy leaned against the wooden container with a tired huff. "Man, these things weigh a ton."

"No kidding, my arms are killing me." Agumon grunted as he flopped onto his rear, equally as tired.

"You guys know it would be easier if just had Agumon digivolve, right?" Joe asked the pair with a raised brow as he and Ikkakumon went past, the former carrying a basket of herbs while the latter effortlessly moved multiple crates up the ramp at once.

The moment the older boy said this, Tai gained an uneasy look as he looked at the ground with a slightly glazed look. "Yeah, I know… it's just…"

"Die."

*Cra-Squelch*

Having an idea what was bothering the boy, Joe gave him a sympathetic look before starting to move along… only to stop when an idea popped up in his head. "Hey Tai, why don't you guys go check on Piximon? See if he's really just training like he said and not setting up some trap."

"Yeah, that's sounds like a good idea," Tai said with a nod as he stood up, glad for the change of subject. "We're on it."

"Sweet! Maybe we can ask him for some training while we're there." Agumon said excitedly as the duo went off in the direction of the tiny digimon's house.

'Well… hopefully that wasn't a terrible idea.' Joe thought to himself as he readjusted his grip on the basket of herbs in his grasp and went back to work.

-Meanwhile, on the Ship-

"This is really boring." Biyomon said, pacing back and forth in the hallway outside Naruto's room (and unofficially Mimi's) room.

"Why do you think I brought a book?" Sora asked rhetorically as she held the book up in her grasp for emphasis. It was a comedy manga she'd got from the ship's library, which the group had found just the other day. "I told you that you should have grabbed one as well, didn't I."

"Yeah, but I didn't think it would be this boring." The pink bird said with a pout, making Sora roll her eyes good-naturedly before snapping the picture filled book shut and holding it out to the pacing digimon.

"Here, I'm done with it already."

Smiling happily, Biyomon reached out to grab the offered book-

*Sploosh* "Gah!" "Bjdhf!"

…Only to be cut off by a blast of translucent red slime that soaked the duo.

"Hehehe, bullseye!" A soft feminine voice said with a giggle, causing the pair to snap their attention to the side to see a certain nurse-doll digimon standing at the end of the hall with water blaster as big as her filled with more goo.

"What the? An Aidmon? Where did you come from?" Biyomon asked in surprise.

"Ugh, more importantly, what the heck is this stuff?" Sora demanded as she wiped off some of the gunk on her face.

"Won't tell unless you catch me." Aidmon said before blasting the pair again and running off.

-End Chapter-

AN: Sorry for the short chapter, but I was just not really in a writing mood these last few days thanks to personal issues, though I still hope you all enjoyed it. As an apology for the long Hiatus though, I have decided to reconsider having Angewomon as part of the pairing… so hurray for that.

On another note, please check out my new twitter account, Twitter (Period) com (Slash) kitsune654 (Really hate the link removal thing), if you haven't already as I will be posting updates such as which stories will be updated next or on any delays that come up. Thank you for reading and please review.