Pleased that Kamika had sat down next to him, Chris stood up and got everyone's attention. "Um, guys, sorry to interrupt... whatever it is that you're doing..." Chris sweatdropped as he saw what was happening with Thi and Fiona. "I know you probably are all wondering just what we're doing here, and I may be able to answer some of your questions."
"You've got answers? Geez, you some kind of genius, or sommat? Seems confusing as anything around here to me..."
"Um, well.... er...." Chris stammered a bit, not too sure that he wanted to tell about his techno-power yet.
"It's nothing to be embarrassed about! Not everyone can be as handsome as me... just how DID you get that stuff, anyway?"
Chris sweatdropped. "Fine, I'll tell you. This is something I very rarely tell anyone- up till now, only my parents and sister knew. I have.... this strange power over technology. I can manipulate it with my mind. It's not really a psychic power... I can only make it work with technology. But that's how I discovered all this. The first thing I did when I *arrived* here was to probe these things, which are called digivices." Chris said, holding up his digivice. "So I discovered all the controls... It has three functions. The button on the left switches it to the clock-function... shows the date, time, and everything else that a digital watch would. The upper right button switches on the locator screen, which I'm sure most of you have already seen. The dots are colored the same color as our digivices, and the slightly lighter dots of the same color are our Digimon. I don't know why everyone has a differently-colored digivice... No, Isthian, before you make a rude comment, I don't know everything!"
"Aww... that's mean! Should've let me do it..."
Chris sweatdropped and got back to his explanation. "The bottom right button... it brings up a screen that I can't explain." He shot Thi a look, promising dire punishment if he burst out again. "It's a meter that the digivice's memory banks call a "digivolution bar." It can be filled up little by little, but I have no idea what fills it up." As he looked at his bar, though, he saw with a slight shock that the bar was already filled up about a quarter of the way. "Huh... That's weird. But another thing I figured out... I'm pretty sure most or all of you got your digivices in the real world, and then were transported to this 'digital world' through some form of technology... Kamik and I came through computers. That means this place has some connection to computers, or data, or technology of some sort... Anyway, that's most of what I found out, but there's a few questions I wanna ask. First, I know that Kamika's from New York, USA, and I overheard that Tina's from Australia.... Now, where are the rest of you from?"
Fiona spoke up. "I'm from the US ooffff A! Sugar City, Colorado, to be exact."
"I'm from England, not that it's any of your bloody business." Kyrainia said rolling her eyes slightly. She was already annoyed with this guy. Him being more technologically inclined then her. That wasn't exactly something she was used to.
All of a sudden she heard leaves rustling behind her....
Kamika looked around. 'Chris has a power? That's kinda weird yet cool. And why do those words sound so familiar?' She thinks back to the first time that she had come here. 'Oh shoot!! That was in the email.' She mutters to herself, "Digidestined."
Puttimon looks up at her. "What are you mumbling, Kamika??"
Kamika smiles at Puttimon, "I just remembered something in an email." She says.
"Like what??" Puttimon asks.
"Something about Digidestined and a Digital World." Kamika tells.
"Well, we're in the Digital World, Kamika!!" Puttimon says, laughing.
Kamika blinks, "We are?" She shakes her head in confusion and listens to the others. She turns to Chris and smiles. "This is going to be some adventure." She mutters and turns back to the others.
Isthian was surprised. "Hey, you're from America, honey? Well, of course! I knew something as beautiful as you couldn't be grown where I come from... That's Japan, you know. Tokyo. I live in the Asakusa district... you ever been?"
"I come from Canada." Christo said. "Want some tea, any one?" She held up her flask, which she had taken from the fire.
"No..." Fiona said. "But I still want to go."
Fiona decided to ignore Isthian, and turned toward Christo. "I'll have some, thanks..." she said. "You're lucky, I was sitting at my computer when I came here, I didn't have a backpack or anything NEAR me to bring along."
'Well, if it'll impress her...'
"Can I have some tea, too?" Isthian turned to Fiona. "I'd like to go to where you live, too... are all the people there as sweet as you?" He laughed slightly at his own joke.
"Sure." Christo took off the too cups that served as a lids on her thermos flask, filled them with the tea, which was now rather reddish. She took the fruit out of the flask, and discarded it. The fruit was a very very very pale pinkish color. "It's Aiyafruit tea, Labramon taught me how to make it -- hope you don't mind." she said, handing the cups of tea to Thi and Fi. "Careful, it's a bit hot."
Fiona blushed a teensy bit. A little. Kinda. A LOT. 'Does Isthian ACTUALLY HAVE a sweet side.' She turned to him. "Well then, you'll have to visit sometime, won't you?"
Fiona smiled and took a sip. "mmm..." she said. "Yummy! You're a good cook, Christo. Well, a good tea-maker." She smiled again and looked over at Kyrainia. "Hey!" she said. "Kyrainia! Want some tea?"
Kamika declined the offer of tea. She was more tired than hungry. Kamika was about to open her mouth to yawn but instead her stomach growled 'I'm hungry!! Feed me!!!' Kamika sweatdropped and spoke, "Hey guys??" Everyone's attention turned to her. "Where are we gonna get food?" She says.
Kyrainia took her attention off of the bushes and onto Fiona.
" Oh, uh, tea? Sure okay." Kyrainia replied. She then started focusing on the bushes again. All of a sudden something popped out. It was a little creature. " Hiya Ky!" it said. Kyrainia glared at it.
" Err, Kyrainia...sorry." the creature corrected itself.
" And you would be?"
" I'm Mushroomon."
" And you're mine?"
" Yup Yup Yup! I'm your Digimon!!"
" Great, I'm going to have an over hyper little Digimon hanging around..." Kyrainia sighed. " But if I'm stuck with you, then I'm stuck with you."
"Here ya go." Christo took the empty cup back from Fiona, filled it again, and handed it to Kyrainia. She turned her attention to Thi. "Did you like your tea, Thi-kun?" She asked, taking his cup back and filling it for herself.
Fiona went over to Kyrainia with her tea. "Hey Ky-" she broke off when she saw Mushroomon "... you have one too?
"Yeah I guess I do....does everyone?"
"So far, yeah... what's yours?"
" This guy? This is..."
"Mushroomon!" yelled the little creature.
Fiona smiled. "Mushroomon, eh?" She then called over to Penguinmon. "Hey, Penguinmon! Get over here!"
Penguinmon ran over. "Yes, Fiona?"
"Penguinmon, meet Mushroomon."
"Hiya Penguinmon! I'm Mushroomon! Glad to meet cha!"
"Hello!" he extended a wing. "Is your human crazy too?"
"She's a bit....err.....high strung or something....I don't think she likes me very much...."
Fiona, realizing what he said, whacked Penguinmon. "I am not crazy!"
Kyrainia rolled her eyes " That's a matter of opinion..."
Fiona sweatdropped.
" You don't seem to crazy to me..." said Mushroomon.
"Yay!" Fiona said, and hugged Mushroomon tightly.
"Aww... what about me?" Penguinmon asked. Fiona let go of Mushroomon and hugged Penguinmon as well.
"You don't have to worry, Penguinmon. You're a Penguin."
" Why aren't you saying anything Ky?" asked Mushroomon.
Kyrainia glared at him. "Don't call me Ky."
"Kyrainia..." Fiona sounded it out. "I like that name! Mine's so boring sounding..."
" Fiona isn't that bad. It's more unusual then some names...."
"Like what?"
" Like err.....I dunno, typical names that you'd find, like Sarah or Emily, or something like that."
"Point. I'd hate to be named Sara, there's like, 5 Sara's in my class."
" Me too"
"So, where are you from?"
" I'm from England"
"Wow. I'm from Sugar City, Colorado."
"That's cool"
"Yeah. I like the name, but it's about as boring as boring can be. The most interesting thing to do there is go to school." Fiona shuddered a bit. "Which I don't like either way"
" School's bloody awful...I hate it. It's like your being held captive in a place that you absolutely don't want to be"
"Exactly. The food is bad, too."
" That's why it's a help that I live within walking distance of the school. I can go home to eat."
"Lucky. Our school's in a different town. Which proves how boring mine is."
" So, is all that's in your town like dirt and grass or something?"
"Pretty much."
Kyrainia rolled her eyes. "Sounds exhilarating" she said sarcastically
Fiona also replied sarcastically. "Oh yes. It's the best place in the world. I'm going to live there all my life." Then she added, "phht. I can't wait till I go to college."
" How old are you?"
"I'm twelve, you?"
" I'm 16."
"Lucky. That means you'll graduate four years before me."
" The only bloody problem....me being a Junior, is that collage isn't that far away. However collage will get me away from my mother. Thank god."
"What's with your mother?"
" She's a religious fanatic, who's bizarrely strict when it comes to some things. It bloody drives me crazy."
"Yikes. How so?"
" Besides the fact that I'm not at all religious...that alone causes some bloody tension. But she thinks all technology is the devil's work. And that right there just annoys the bloody hell outta me"
"Technology devils work?" she cringes. "Life without a computer for me would be torture."
" Same....which is why I've found ways around her rules"
Fiona gave her a quizzical look.
Kyrainia noticed the quizzical look on Fiona's face, but quickly ignored it.
"So, want to come back and sit with me and Thi-boy over there?" she asked. "As long as I'm not sitting alone with him, I think I'll be safe.
Kyrainia half grinned. " Sure, why not. I have no bloody reason not too. He's quite the flirtatious one...isn't he?"
Fiona sighed loudly. "Yes. He french kissed me back there..." she shuddered at the thought.
" Dear god....that boy obviously needs help..."
" Yeah. he needs a mallet whack, too"
" Most definitely"
"Well, let's go!!" Fiona motioned to Kyrainia and started walking back towards the campsite.
Kyrainia stood up and followed her.
Chris had waited patiently while Kyrainia's Digimon appeared, everyone finished their tea, and Kyrainia and Fiona sat back down. "Okay, guys, I think I figured something out. Isthian, I'm assuming that to you, we sound like we're speaking Japanese."
"Bokura omowareru bassei nihongo desu." Chris finished.
"Hai, so desu." Isthian replied.
"Yes, that's true." Isthian said.
"Well, to me, it sounds like you're speaking perfect English."
"Well, it's not like I speak English, but... but... that's still just freaky!!" Isthian said.
"I'm sure everyone else has this same thing happening to them. I'm pretty sure that these digivices are doing this. Although..." and here he looked at Kamika and blushed, "As Kam-kun and I...discovered..., not everything is translated from Japanese to English. I think it depends on what the person can understand. For example, I know a small amount of Japanese, and so does Kam-kun, so we hear each other saying the Japanese -kun ending. Also, one last thing I found that might interest you all, though it scared me slightly. In the memory banks, I found a few sentences. They went like this: 'There have been several children brought from the human world. These children, or Digidestined, were brought here for a reason. They were brought here to save this Digital World.' Freaky, huh? I'm not sure what exactly that means, and what we're supposed to save the digital world from. Do any of you have any idea?" Chris finished.
Just then, Kamika asked about food.
"Um.... Tekumon, do you know where we can find some food?"
"Sure! Be right back!" Tekumon flew off into the forest. About ten minutes later, he returned, his arms full of fruit. "Dig in!"
"Thanks, Tekumon! That better, Kam-kun?" Chris said, blushing again.
"We're probably going to have to save the bloody digital world from some insane evil villain freak!" Kyrainia stated.
Kamika blushed everytime Chris called her 'Kam-kun.' She still wasn't used to the fact that someone actually liked her. She grinned in relief when Tekumon had brought back food. "YES!!!" Kamika exclaimed happily, and starting eating various fruits.
Taira sat bored on the log. She simply pulled on her head phones and listened to the music. Foxmon was already asleep by the Fire and wasn't paying much attention to anything. Taira was deep in thought and didn't even notice Chris stand up till she could no longer feel his heat next to her. Foxmon perked and ear and nudged Taira. "Pay attention!" The light brown Digimon said. Taira jumped "Ack!" The goggled headed girl looked over the log and glared into Foxmon's shining silver eyes.
Taira sat up and took her head phones off. Chris began to explain the situation. Taira watched with interest and understood most of what he said. She was kinda distracted by how close Chris Looked like her old Boyfriend Back home. She once again shook off the image.
Foxmon's attention was diverted as another Digimon popped into view. "Looks like all my friends are almost here!" The small Fox Digimon said to her Digidestined. Taira just blinked at her and A question about where we all came from was asked. "I used to live in New York City.....But I moved to Japan with my aunt just before I got sucked into this world. I simply found the Digivice in my back pack." She responded.
Chris brought up the point about language. "I know Some japanese. My aunt had me learn it. I took french, but I slept threw most of it. English of course is my Native tongue!" She says.
"I honestly don't know, Fiona. Anything could be possible here." Chris said.
Fiona started to panic. "I can't save the world!!! I'm only twelve!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Kamika stopped as she heard Fiona. 'No way!!!' She thought. "I guess we were selected for a reason, huh?" she says out loud.
"Probably." Chris said.
"Well, the reason is evil then."
"Fiona, calm down! Christo's 10, and you don't see her throwing a fit!" Chris said, slightly exasperated.
Kamika slightly giggled. "I guess so." She says and turns back to the food.
Fiona still wasn't convinced. "I dun like the idea of having to save the world or anything!!! Do you know how dangerous that is?"
"But remember, we're here to protect you!" Tekumon spoke up.
Puttimon nodded from where she was sitting next to Kamika. "Yup that's right!!!"
Penguinmon piped up too. "Yeah, Fiona!!! We won't let anything happen to you!!!"
Chris grinned. "You see, Fiona, the only danger you'll have to worry about is Isthian."
"Gah! Don't mention HIM..."
Kamika slightly giggled again. She remembered Thi's actions around Fiona. "Well. . . I guess we'll just have to see the real reason why we're here." Kamika says.
"Right, Kam-kun." Chris said, turning from his sitting position and smiling at her.
Kamika blushed for like the thousandth time that day. "Um. .. yeah." she says agreeing with him.
Fiona smiled at the two and said, "I think I know the reason why you two like it so much here."
Chris blushed slightly and took Kamika's hand. He whispered to her, "Wanna tell them?"
Kamika blushed at his contact, "Um. . . sure. . .I think that would be okay." She says softly.
Taira blinked sensing something big was gonna happen. She just watched the pair get tense. "Tell us what?" she said not thinking.
Chris blushed again. "How exactly are you supposed to say this kinda thing?" he thought to himself. "Um... okay. Kam-kun and I just wanted you to know... that we're a couple now." Chris turned bright red, and grinned slightly.
Fiona smiled again. "Finally."
Foxmon began to chew on Taira's pants. She blinked at her Digimon " Stop!" The Digimon blinked back "I was hungry..." Taira shooed the Digimon away after she pointed out the food. Taira was gonna yell as Foxmon started to eat her share. Suddenly she stopped after hearing this news. "You are?! I KNEW IT! Not fair he's the only guy my age here!" Taira crouched down and blushed. "He he he.....Opps....." Her competitive side was showing through.
Kamika's eyebrows went up. "Fiona? what did you mean by 'finally'?" She says slightly blushing.
"Well, it was pretty obvious. And I think I'm going to... go back over with Kyrainia and Thi-boy, and leave this to you three." Fiona sweatdropped and walked away.
"What did that mean" Taira said from the shadows before she hid again.
"No clue. I think Kam-kun and I... should go back, too..." Chris said, standing up. "Coming, Kam-kun?"
Kamika sweatdropped at Fiona's words. She shook her head and followed Chris. "Sure. Let's go." She says.
Chris walked, still holding Kamika's hand, over to the others. Chris looked back at Taira, hoping she was okay. She seemed pretty down in the dumps.
Taira blinked and sighed "I'm an idiot" she said softly. Taira slinked back to the group and found herself a spot alone. She just watched the group. Her focus stayed on the newest love bird.
Kamika turned and looked in Taira's direction. 'I feel so bad for her. I wonder what happened.' She thinks as she focuses back to Chris.
"Man, that whole stuff about different languages was mega-whacked!"
Tsafmon had different priorities. "Who cares? Let's go EAT!!"
"How could I have forgotten?! Ooh, race ya there! Haha!"
"Aww, that wasn't fair! You've got such longer legs!" Tsafmon whined, as Isthian did a victory dance by the pile of fruit.
"Haha! Winner's keepers, loser's weepers!" Isthian taunted.
Tsafmon just sighed as he made his way over to the food, Thian already shoving massive amounts in his mouth at the same time.
Christo made her way over to the pile of food, and snatched an Aiyafruit from Isthian's grasp. "Labramon said the Aiyafruit is unpalatable to the human," she said, "you either have to boil them in water to make tea, or eat the peals candied." She took a large Pineapple from the pile, and took it and the Aiyafruit over to Labramon. Labramon cut the pineapple in half, and they both shared it. "Hey guys," Christo called, "I'm turnin' in." She took off her backpack, tightened the zip on her jacket, curled up with labramon and went to sleep.
Chris nodded. "She's got the right idea." he said to Kamika. "Think we should turn in, too?"
Isthian yawned. "I guess it is a good idea to be going to bed. Mind if I bunk with you, honey?" He raised an eyebrow and looked questioningly at Fiona.
"Sure!" Fiona said, and walked toward another area of the campsite.
"Yaaaaaay!" Isthian followed eagerly after her.
"Oh, just one thing." She turned to Isthian and looked at him. "You can't sleep within 50 feet of me. Got it?"
"...um. Well, perhaps I'll just go sleep over here, then, on second thought." He walked about three feet away and sat down.
Tsafmon laughed. "You gave it a first thought? Wasn't that your problem?" He settled down by Isthian to sleep.
Fiona giggled a little bit and sat down about 20 feet from Isthian. "Don't worry... you'll learn." She smiled and relaxed against a rock and closed her eyes.
"Eww, no! Lizard does NOT get to sleep next to me! Go 'way!"
"Aww... what'd I do?" Tsafmon asked sadly. "Oh, well..." He trotted over to Fiona. "Hey, could I sleep by you, pretty please? My partner won't let me lie by him..."
Fiona looked sympathetically at Tsafmon. "Isthian's a poop head. You can sleep over here with me and Penguinmon!"
"Yaaaaaay!!" Tsafmon wagged his tail and laid down next to Fiona.
Fiona looked over at Isthian, who was looking a little lonely after Tsafmon had left him. '... well, just this once.' "Hey, Isthian!" she called. "Want to join us?"
Isthian was overjoyed. "You mean it?! Awesome!!" He went over to Fiona, shoved Tsafmon out of the way, and sat down right next to her.
Fiona wasn't expecting this. "Er..." she began, but was too tired anyways and gave up. She laid her head against Isthian's shoulder and fell asleep.
"Aww..." Isthian's adoring looks were cut short by a big yawn. "This is nice..." he murmured, draping his arm over her shoulders before falling asleep.
"By the way..." Fiona murmured before she fully fell asleep. "Remind me to whack you tomorrow, kay?"
Tsafmon settled his head down on Thian's leg and closed his eyes. "I'll do that for ya..." he murmured sleepily.
Kamika looked back at Taira and sighed. "Um. . . sure." she says hesitantly. 'I bet I won't sleep though.' She thinks to herself.
Chris looked at Kamika. He could tell she was a bit worried about Taira. To tell the truth, so was he. She seemed really depressed all of a sudden. "Kamika, if you're really worried about Taira, go talk to her." Chris said.
Kamika turned to him in shock. Was she that easily seen? She smiled at him and spoke, "Thanks. I'll talk to you when I'm done." She says. Before she left though, she gave him a short peek on the cheek. She walked away slightly blushing.
Chris stood still for a second, turning red. "She actually kissed me..." he thought. Then he smiled. He heard chuckling behind him, though. He turned to see Tekumon hovering there, chuckling. "Hey! What's so funny?"
"You two! You're just too cute!" Tekumon replied.
"Well, thanks a lot. Glad you like it." Chris said slightly sarcastically. "But I'd like you to do one thing for me. Can you?"
"Sure. What's up?" Tekumon said.
"Can you go talk to Foxmon and see if she knows what's bothering Taira? I'm just as worried as Kam-kun is."
"Sure, Chris!" Tekumon said, flapping off. Chris smiled and went to look for a spot to wait for Kamika to return.
Christo woke up. It was still dark, and her Digivice said it was 7:00am. She was cold, so she tightened her jacket, checked that her backpack was still safe, snuggled up with Labramon, and tried to get back to sleep. It was no use Christo just couldn't sleep. There was something eerie about this place in darkness, and it felt like she had woken up for a reason......
Chris sat down with his back against a moss-covered rock and sighed in contentment. He was pretty happy. It was strange, though, that these good things had only happened after he came to this "digital world." He looked at his digivice, and remembered that back in the real world, not much had ever gone right... except for one thing. Getting his power over technology had to be the only thing that had worked out for him. It was the second best thing that had happened to him in his life... (first best was meeting Kamika) He lay back and remembered just how he had gotten and discovered his strange power...
*****FLASHBACK*****
12-year-old Chris lay back and relaxed on his bed. He had had a good day. He had debugged his neighbor's computer, and had been paid quite nicely for it. Then the poor guy had asked him how to set his VCR! It surprised Chris sometimes how inept most people were with technology, compared to him. It wasn't like he was a prodigy or anything, but he was smart and very logical and analytical when it came to solving problems with technology. He pulled on his pajamas and went to sleep. He was tired... It had been a long day. Chris slipped quietly into sleep.
Later that night, Chris was dreaming... (about something that doesn't concern you, so butt out!) Suddenly, his dream vanished. He was floating in a black void. Then millions upon billions of green 0's and 1's appeared and started filling it up, scrolling across in lines. Chris was slightly interested, because he had never had a dream like this before...hadn't he? Suddenly, strange letters appeared in front of him. At first, he couldn't read them, but suddenly they became clear. "Do you wish to download?"
"Download? Huh?" Chris wondered.
The words disappeared, to be replaced by what looked like two buttons, one red and one green. Although they weren't labeled, Chris could figure out what they meant. (Green=yes, Red=no, duh!) Being a slightly adventurous person, Chris said to himself "Hey, it's just a dream!" and reached out and pushed the green button.
Instantly, all the green numbers stopped dead, then began flowing into a point about a yard or so in front of Chris. They began to form a whirlwind that increased in size steadily, getting larger and larger, until just before it was about to touch Chris, it instantly shrunk and changed shape into what looked like one of those atom models (the kind with the big thingy in the center and those rings rotating around it at different angles.) The nucleus of it was glowing brightly. Suddenly, it shot toward Chris, and as soon as it hit, he saw a bright light envelop him, then he woke up, sweating. He sighed. "It was just a dream..." and went back to sleep.
Back in the dreamworld, two words were flashing... DOWNLOAD COMPLETE...
*******END FLASHBACK*********
Chris smiled as he remembered how he had discovered his power over time and learned to control it, although at the expense of several computers. (BOOM!) But he wouldn't have had it any other way! Although... he still had never figured out just why he had gotten that dream in the first place. He sighed and put it out of his head as he looked up again, waiting for Kamika to return.
