Even if she had been up for hours just thinking to herself, Jean finally got out of her sleeping bag and untied Koromon.
"That was very uncomfortable, just so you know," he said squarely. She simply stuck her tongue out.
"Yeah, well, until you stop taking my stuff, you'll be sleeping like that EVERY night!" She grabbed the string and tied the pillow things up, slinging them over her back. "We need to find a way out or something."
"Way out? There is no way out!" Koromon informed her.
"There has to be! Pssh... Doesn't there?"
"Maybe there's a vortex here somewhere."
"We should split up and look for it, eh?" Jean suggseted.
"What, you and me split up?"
"NO! Arg. The rest of the team. Into pairs, or something." She looked around and yelled at the top of her lungs, "HEY EVERYONE!!!!!!!!! WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Shhhhh, you'll scare it away..." Loki mutters, gesturing a movement in the bushes. Seeing the movement suddenly speed up, Loki draws his katana. In a swift slice, the bush flies through the air. Underneath, a clear creature appears-only a slight distorion from the ground seperates it.
"What's going on?" Loki asks the little creature.
"What's going on?" a small high pitched voice asks.
"Who're you?" Loki asks.
"Who're you?" the voice asks.
"No, that's what i'm asking you. You answer first," Loki says.
"No, that's what i'm asking you. You answer first," the voice says.
"Ohhhh," Loki clutches his head as if he had a headache, which isn't quite inconcievable.
"Ohhhh," a small tail from the creature (it has no arms or legs) reaches over and rubs the forehead-like part of the creature.
"My name is Loki," Loki says.
"My name is Kaimon," the small creature says.
"Hello Kaimon. I am asking you questions."
"Hello Loki. I am asking you questions."
"Hmmm, at least i've made some progress..." Loki mutters.
"Hmmm, at least i've made some progress..." the voice mutters.
Jean and Koromon looked at them and sighed in unison.
"Not another one!" she groaned. "And it's annoying too."
"Hello!" Koromon said, bouncing toward Kaimon. "I'm Koromon!"
"Yo, pink dude, cool your jets. He might be evil."
"What?! Nah!" Koromon continued to bounce over.
"Oy." Jean looked over at Loki. "Consider yourself lucky, you've got one of them too now." She made sure to emphasize her sarcasm on the word 'lucky'.
Kaimon, the hard to see fellow he is, jumped off the ground and landed on Loki's head. Koromon bouncing towards him...
Kaimon says from Loki's head, "Hello, i'm Kaimon. What?! Nah!"
"I've got one of them? What are you talking about?"
Kaimon says from Loki's head, "I've got one of them?" her tail gesturing Loki, "What are you talking about?"
"Why would I have one?"
"Why would I have one?"
"Stop that!"
"Stop that!"
*grumble*
*grumble*
Jean laughed. "Real cards, the two of you," she said, gesturing to them. "Koromon, knock some sense into him before Loki goes blitzo on us."
Koromon spat a fwe bubbles out of his mouth. They hit Kaimon square on the head, but he wasn't fazed at all.
"THAT'S WHAT YOU CALL AN ATTACK?! WHAT WAS THAT, PRETTY BARBIE BUBBLE POWER?!" she cried, amazed that her creature was stupid AND powerless.
"No, it's called Bubble Blow! It's all that I've learned!" he complained.
"Well, learn something else. Jump on him!"
Koromon bounced over and lept on Loki's head, then fell onto Kaimon. "Whee!"
Jean groaned. "What. An. Idiot..."
Koromon fell to the ground by Loki's feet. "Will you stop mimicking us now?"
Kaimon began, "Will you stop mimick-" but was cut short by something else he was copying, a very unbalance Loki wobbling from a digibattle on top of his head.
"Whoa... whoa... AHH!" Loki falls over and land on his back, Kaimon bouncing a few feet away.
"Look at all da pretty stars..." Loki muttered, looking up at the sky.
Kaimon shook himself, and popped back ontop of Loki's head. Right on top of his mouth.
"Hey chap, whatcha doin down dere? Don ya dink youze shoe be getzin uppa? No?"
Loki sat upright coughing, clutching his forehead. "What happened?" He looks around. "Oh, i'm still here."
Kaimon returns to his normal state, asking, "What happened? Oh, i'm still here."
Jean started laughing again. "Dude, sounds like you were seriously drunk, even though you weren't."
Koromon tackled Kaimon. "YOU'RE ANNOYING!!!!!!" he yelled.
"Like you aren't," Jean muttered under her breath. "You okay?" she asked Loki.
"I feel ok," Loki mutters. Loki stands up, and in moments Keimon has launched himself and landed on top of Loki's head again.
Siren sat there with Dinmon on his head just watching. Siren then started laughing so loudly then the faces of whoever was awake turned slowly to him. "....I...I couldn't resist!" Up in the sky another meteor shower was happening and a few more explosions. Siren rememberred something "Oh! I forgot! When you guys were sleeping I was still awake and saw this same metoer shower happen. I was by a lake and there was a mermaid playing a harp and-" Dinmon interrupted "Mermaimon, ruler of the seas and lakes of this sector of the digiworld, very powerful..." Siren continued "ya, then a metoer or something fell into the lake after mermaimon got in. Then the whole lake started glowing!" Dinmon jumped off of Siren's head and began to talk "Way up in the space regions of the digital world lies a place called the Star Kingdom, it is divided into three parts-the royal grounds, dreamland, and the fountain of dreams. There was a king there, he had fallen and is now an in training digimon. He was defeated by a very evil digimon...The king was protecting a secret item called the star rod, which makes the beholder very very powerful, so the evil digimon heard of this and defeated the king to nab the star rod, but after the kings defeat, the royal subjects didnt allow him to steal it, so he left. It looks like the evil digimon stole it now....."
"I wonder," said Hikaru, "So much confusion..."
"You're REALLY weird, Hikaru," said Seikimon, "I wish I had a cooler owner, Like Siren or Jean. But nooooooooooo, I HAD to get you!"
"WHAT?!??!?! SHUT UP SEIKIMON!!!" exclamed Hikaru, "Well, I should have gotten a Digimon that has a better attack then "Water Bubbles"!!! I would have loved a Digimon that can breathe fire and stuff!! Not little bubble thingies!" Pause. "Stupid project. This whole thing is the teachers fault," whispered Hikaru.
She looked at the full moon above. Suddenly, Hikaru started to glow. (look at Hikaru's desciption!!!)
"H- Hikaru!!! What.. What's going on?!?!?!??!?!?"
Hikaru screamed in pain.
"HIKARU!!!" shouted Seikimon.
Avumon is awakened by the noise,and notices Nathans digivice beeping for some reason,then he sees Hikaru glowing outside.
"What the? Hikaru? Nathan! Nathan! Wake up! Somethings happening!"
Nathan opens his eyes slightly,"Wha-what? Huh?"
"Somethings happening to Hikaru! Wake up!"
"Who-who is..."
Nathan looks around and see's Hikaru glowing and screaming "...oh,wow,someones glowin....n....scr...."
Avumon then hits Nathan on the head over and over while yelling, "Wakeupwakeupwakeupwakeupwakeupwakeupwakeupwakeup!!!!",but Nathan remains asleep,giving up,Avumon waddles out to help as quickly as possible for a fish the size of an exercise ball.
Siren got up and took out a napkin to cover the moon (hope it works)
"Huh?" asks Hikaru, "What... what happened...?"
"Hikaru!!! You worried me so much!!" exclames Seikimon.
"Aw... My head..." whispers Hikaru, "Siren? What happened??? I looked up at the moon and suddenly... Aw...."
She touched her head. It hurt terribly as the rest of her body did.
Siren then gives Hikaru water and tries to make the glowing less obvious with some foundation make up.
Jean was too preoccupied with the small war going on between the creatures to notice what was going on with Hikaru, Nathan, and Siren.
"KOROMON, STOP IT!" she yelled, as Koromon started to leap up and attack Kaimon again. "Grr... He's so ignorant. Sorry about him." She had a small sweatdrop on her head as she debated on what to do.
"BUBBLE BLOW!" More pink bubbles issued from Koromon's mouth and missed Kaimon by a few feet. Startled by his lack of aim, he fell back ont he ground. Jean smacked her forehead.
"You're useless, just useless," she said, walking over to take him away. "Come on, you. I feel like exploring, and if we run into mutant ninja turtule-mons, you're c oming with me!" She tried to pick him up, but he latched his ears around a tree.
"NO!" he yelled. "I WANNA FIGHT!" Jean shook her head and yanked him harder.
"I'll rip your ears off if that's what it takes!"
"Well, what if I didn't have ears?" Koromon asked mischeviously.
"You won't if you keep holding on like you are," she muttered so he couldn't hear her. "What do you mean?" she asked innocently.
"Like this! Koromon digivolve to...AGUMON!"
Jean jumped back in surprise and let go of him. His little tiny figure had contorted into a small orange dinosaur of sorts.
"WHAT'D YOU DO THAT FOR? NOW I CAN'T THROW YOU AROUND!" she yelled furiously.
"I did it so you'd stop bugging me!" (and HK was getting mighty tired of Koromon!) "And I'm more powerful now."
"Riight, sure you are. Arg. C'mon anyway!" She grabbed one of his arms and started to drag him away from Kaimon and Loki, but when she turned around, she saw Nathan, Siren, and a glowing Hikaru off in the distance.
"Whoa," the two of them said in unison, stopping right in there tracks.
"Dude, I wonder what's up with her? Looks like a light show!" Jean ran over to them, waving. "HEY! I'M JEAN KARO, AND THIS IS MY LITTLE DIGI-THING AGUMON! WHAT'S UP WITH THE GLOWING GIRL?!"
They quickly skidded to a halt when they were near enough to be heard without shouting.
"Well? Did she eat the mushrooms? AAAHHH! NOT THE MUSHROOMS!!!" Jean said, being extremely random. "Er, sorry.. Anyway, is she okay?"
"Hmm... Maybe you should avoid the radiation..."
Aen watched the kids from her spot at the forest's edge, hugging Tsukaimon like a teddy bear. The little mon looked worried. Aen looked nearly traumatized.
"Those are your team-mates, Aen," Tsukai stated, "Aren't you going to say hi?"
"They make my head hurt just watching them," she murmured, voice shaky with what could be shock, "They're crazy. I'm getting all these bad flashbacks to my old babysitting jobs . . ."
Tsukaimon twitched irritably, "Yer a weird kid, Aen."
"I wanna go hooooooome."
"Oooooowww... My body really hurts," says Hikaru. She looks at Jean. "I don't know any more than you do," she says, "This never happened before..."
"I bet you're acting! You did that to scare me, didn't you? Or maybe to make me become bigger and stronger?" said Seikimon with a frown.
"WHY WOULD I?! I wouldn't kill myself to make you worry!!!!! Man, you Digimon are so immature," said Hikaru back.
"WHAT DO MEAN BY "IMMATURE"?! WHY YOU..." Seikimon paused, "What DOES "Immature" mean?"
"Never mind," said Hikaru, "This is no time to fight! My whole body hurts, and all you can do is fight."
Siren yelled out "Hey, is there any digimon around here with fire power? Hikaru needs heat quickly!" Dinmon jumped up and down saying he can use din's fire.
Siren ignored him "Is there any other Digimon with fire power?" Agumon stepped up. "Perfect!" Siren took out a first aid kid from his bag of wonderous things he can do and filled up the hot water bottle with water from the river. He placed it over the fire place (he still had his cooking thing over it) and Agumon breathed fire to light up the wood.
The water was heated and he placed it on Hikaru's cold head (the moon has the element of ice so it would feel cold to glow under it). Siren put a rolled up sleeping bag under her head and feet.
"Thanks Siren," said Hikaru softly. She wished this pain would stop.
She wished Marika, her best friend, was here.
Marika's mother was a doctor, and Marika had some experience herself. Most of all, she wished that she hadn't slept during class time. If she hadn't done that, she wouldn't be here. Hikaru looked around at her new friends...
"I want to go home," she whispered.
Jean looked from Agumon to Hikaru.
"WHOA! You're useful now! And a lot more fierce looking than that lousy puffball Koromon," she said, motioning to Agumon, who was trotting back to her.
"Hey, this is home!" Agumon said in reply to Hikaru's wish. Jean frowned and bopped him on the head.
"Not for us, it isn't. This is some alternate freaky world, and frankly, it couldn't be home if we even tried to make it be like it. I mean, how many of us live with a bunch of kids that range from age 11 to 17, huh? And this ain't no farm."
"Well, I tried."
"Shut your mouth. Anyway, Hikaru, do you think it has anything to do with, say, a magnetic field? Cause this place could be radioactive."
Agumon scowled at her. "It is NOT!"
"How do I know that, eh?" She rolled her eyes and gave him a quick kick in the back. "Now be a good Digithing."
Aen stood up and walked over to Hikaru, fishing through her purse as she knelt beside the girl.
"You look like yer in pain. I have some advil . . . Do you want it? My name is Aen, by the way. And that is Tsukaimon. If the advil doesn't work, I'll try something else, k? I have a little experience in first aid." She set about making the girl more comfortable, finally able to calm her mind enough. The group had seemed fairly oblivious to her existance, so she was able to convince herself that it wasn't babysitting. It was something a little more important. Tsukaimon watched approvingly.
"What's your name?"
