Well I don't have much to say honestly. Here's the next chapter.

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Chapter 8: Settling

"Oh, where are those two?" Takato's mother; Yoshie Matsuki, question impatiently, while she and her husband; Takehiro Matsuki, sat at a table that had a freshly cooked roast chicken set in the center. There were four places set at the table, but only two were occupied. "I'm really starting to get worried."

"Relax, honey. I'm sure they're just playing with their friends and lost track of time," Takehiro assured his wife-even if he felt a bit worried himself. The adult woman had to admit that that was likely the case, it had happened before. But still…there had also been many times that their child, and his creation had gotten into trouble, sure, not like the Digital world, or D-reaper, but still…

"Maybe I should go look for them," Yoshie said, about to get up and leave, when the sound of the front door opening stopped her.

"We're home!" The voice of their son put both parents at ease. But Yoshie soon decided she needed to have a few words with her child about coming home so late.

"Takato! Where have you-oh, um hello," Takato's mother had stormed out to the front room of the bakery with the intent of berating her son about coming home so late without calling. What she had not expected was for Takato to have some company aside from Guilmon, that wasn't one of his friends that she'd recognize.

"Um…hello," The young girl, who hid behind Takato, greeted nervously, Yoshie noted the odd, frog-like hat on the girl's head, that seemed to be alive.

"Who's your friend, Takato?" the mother asked, curiously. Takato and the girl glanced at each other, while Guilmon wandered toward the kitchen.

"Um, mom, this is…Yuri" Takato hesitantly introduced his friend.

"Well, here we are." Henry didn't really have much else to say at this moment, he had only just met this girl from another world and her alien-hat-thing a few hours ago, and had now led them to his apartment.

"Little slice of heaven, right here," Terriermon chuckled from atop Henry's head, not noticing the annoyed look on his tamer's face.

"What are we waiting for? Let's go in! Nya!" Kasumi exclaimed with excitement.

"You're absolutely sure that your family won't mind us staying?" Kasumi's borg asked, he seemed a bit unsure of the situation…a direct contrast to how his partner perceived it.

"He said it would be alright, so relax, Borg," Kasumi laughed before looking at, Henry and Terriermon excitedly. "Ok, let's go! Nya!" Henry nodded before he went to open the door.

"Mom! Dad! We're home!" Henry called as he stepped into the apartment, followed by Kasumi.

"Mom and dad aren't here," Henry's older sister; Jaarin, said from the couch, she looked like she was invested in something on the TV.

"They went out?" Henry question, Kasumi and her borg had started looking around, curiously.

"Out looking for you, there was something going on. Did you and your friends fight another digimon?" Jaarin eyed Henry and Terriermon, before taking notice of Kasumi. "Who's that? Another tamer?"

"Not exactly," Henry wasn't really sure how he was going to explain this; luckily(or maybe unluckily) Kasumi beat him to the punch.

"Hi there! I'm Kasumi, I'm an alien fighter from another dimension! And this is my symbiotic partner, called a borg!" Kasumi explained cheerfully.

"It's a pleasure to meet you," The pink borg greeted, politely. Jaarin almost jumped up in shock, even if Terriermon sat on Henry's head a lot, she did not expect what she had thought was a hat to talk.

"Anyway, Henry said we could stay here until we got back home, nya!" The blonde girl finished, with a big smile on her face. Jaarin stared at Kasumi and her borg, before looking at her younger brother and his digimon.

"Ok…I barely understood half of that. But you need to explain this to mom and dad if you want her and her talking hat staying with us," Jaarin said, before getting up and leaving the room, not even bothering to shut the TV off.

"I am not a hat…" Kasumi's borg muttered; feeling a little insulted.

"Great, we have to wait for your parents to get home," Terriermon groaned, before jumping off Henry's head and making his way over to the couch. Henry sighed, and pulled out his cell phone.

"They're out looking for us, Terriermon. I should call them and tell them we're back," Henry said, before he got out his phone and began to type in some numbers. Terrier, Kasumi, and her borg ignored him as they watched TV.

"Ok, so this is my house, I'll just need to talk to my dad, and stepmom about you staying here, be right back!" Jeri explained to Kumi and her borg, before she left to find her parents. Kumi looked around the living room that she had been left in and sighed.

"Let's hope they do let us stay, I'm not sure what to do if they won't," The purple clad alien fighter said, she was about to sit down, when she spotted a little boy, with brown hair, brown eyes, and wearing a shirt with some kind of bug creature on it, staring at her. "Um…hello," Kumi said nervously.

"Stranger!" The little boy suddenly shouted, while pointing at Kumi, she jumped back in surprise at the child's outburst before he quickly ran out of the room.

"…Well, that was something," Kumi's purple borg muttered, wide-eyed.

Yuri sat uncomfortably at the Matsuki dinner table, across from her; Takato was discussing her presence with his parents.

"Takato, are you sure she's the same Yuri, wasn't she imaginary?" Takato's mother asked, Takato had already told his parents that she was his old friend that they couldn't see before, and, naturally, they were a bit skeptical.

"No, you're not getting it, she wasn't imaginary, she's from another world," Takato tried to explain.

"Are you sure about that, because you made Guilmon, didn't you?" Takato's father pointed out. Guilmon raised his head from his meal at the mention of his name.

"That was different," Takato groaned, looking down at his food. Yuri's borg glanced around the room before deciding to speak.

"I can assure you two that your son is telling the truth. Yuri and I have indeed come from another world, as far as we can tell," Takato's parents looked surprised at the borg talking, but everybody who had seen him so far had, so he was expecting that, and didn't take much offence from it.

"Takato, is that a digimon?" Yoshie asked her son, cautiously. That the borg did take a little offense to.

"I am not a digimon, I am a symbiotic alien life form, called a borg," the frog-like creature grunted, a little annoyed over that confusion happening again.

"He's telling the truth, he doesn't smell like a digimon," Guilmon commented, cheerfully. There wasn't much for the two adults to comment on after that, it had been well proven by this point that you should never doubt Guilmon's nose. Still the odd hat-creature not being a digimon didn't just prove that she was their son's old imaginary friend, apparently visiting from an alternate universe.

"Can't you just let them stay tonight? Please," Takato pleaded. His parents looked at both him and Yuri in thought, before glancing at each other and nodding.

"Well, I suppose it's too late for her to find somewhere else to stay, so she can stay the night," Takato's mother said with a small smile. Takato smiled back before looking at Yuri.

"Well, that settles it, you're staying," he said, cheerfully. Yuri smiled back at her old friend.

"Thank you, I promise I won't be a burden!" Yuri said; getting up and bowing in thanks.

"Nonsense, compared to Guilmon, I doubt there's many ways you could be a problem," Takehiro chuckled. Guilmon looked a little confused before Yoshie pet him on the head.

"Don't worry, he's just kidding, you're like a second son to us, Guilmon," she assured with a motherly smile on her face. "Though, grandson would probably be more accurate," she added, too quietly for anyone to hear. Not much else was said, as the Matsuki family, and their guests enjoyed their dinner. Well one of the guests enjoyed her dinner.

"Yuri, when you're finished I would like to eat too," Yuri's borg said, all she did was groan in response, while Takato and his family just looked confused.

"So, you're from another world?" Henry's father; Janyu Wong asked as he faced Kasumi, the young girl nodded with enthusiasm.

"That's what we figured! Nya!" she responded happily. After she and her borg had been taken to the Wong apartment by Henry. They had found that his parents had apparently heard about the Spinomon attack and were out looking for their son and his digimon, Henry had called them once he learned of this and it hadn't taken long for them to return home.

"And you possess, a real, biological, extraterrestrial entity, incredible," Janyu said as he looked at the Kasumi's pink borg in amazement.

"You could just say alien," The borg said with as best a smile as he could manage.

"I'm sorry; I haven't offended you, have I?" Janyu asked, in concern.

"No, but 'biological, extraterrestrial entity' sure is a mouthful, don't you think?" Kasumi's borg said, in an amused tone.

"Really, mom, we handled it," Henry said, looking back at his mom in the hallway as he walked into the room, with Terriermon on his head.

"Yeah, we kicked some serous butt today!" Terriermon exclaimed.

"I know, but I don't like the idea of you still having to deal with violent digimon," Henry's mother; Mayumi Wong said, as she followed her son, and his digimon out of the hall.

"I know, mom. But there isn't much we can do about that at the moment. Yamaki said that the barrier between the worlds was weakening, like it keeps fading in and out. We think a millenniummon may be behind it," Henry stated.

"Weakening? Fading in and out?" Janyu questioned, walking over to his son with a look of concern on his face.

"Yeah, that's what he said, but don't expect an explanation or anything, the guys at Hypnos sure don't know what's up," Terriermon said, looking a little bored with the current conversation.

"Millienniummon is what sent me and my friends here," Kasumi pointed out, her cheerful smile still ever present.

"We still don't know that for sure," Henry pointed out, though he was pretty convinced it was the case, he didn't want to start making too many assumptions about what was going on.

"I don't think there is much else explanation, it certainly matched the picture your friend showed us, even if we only saw its shadow," Kasumi's borg pointed out.

"Whatever it is, I'm calling Hypnos tomorrow to try and figure it out," Henry's father decided. After that there hadn't been much talk of the subject. The family sat down to dinner with their guests and Kasumi was happy to sleep on the couch.

…...After dinner, Yuri had excused herself to the bathroom, she had seemed pretty unhappy, but when Takato had asked her about it she had refused to tell him why, her borg also muttered something along the lines of 'come on, I'm starving.'

Later into the night Yuri and Takato had decided to watch a little TV, before Takato's mother told them it was time for bed, so now here they were, Takato on the top bunk, with Yuri occupying the bottom one. Guilmon had often used it after he had officially moved in with his tamer's family, but he didn't really mind sleeping on the floor, in a nest of Takato's dirty laundry, while using Yuri's borg as a pillow-much to the symbiotic alien's discomfort.

Yuri was now awake in the bottom bunk, unsure of what exactly she and her friends would do next. She was really happy to see Takato again, and finally find out that he in fact was real. But she really didn't know what to do now. She and her friends were stuck in another world, and they had no idea how to get back.

"…Takato?" Yuri quietly called up to the top bunk, hoping her tamer friend was awake.

"Yuri?" Takato responded quickly, apparently Yuri wasn't the only one who couldn't sleep. He too had a mind currently filled with many concerns, not the least of which being that he had promised to explain things to Kazu, Kenta, and Jeri tomorrow.

"Takato, I can't sleep," Yuri managed to say, despite the fact that she was feeling nervous, for reasons she could not quite pinpoint.

"…I can't sleep either; I have too much on my mind," Takato admitted his old, not so-imaginary friend. They both sighed while their respective none-human partners snored. "I'm surprised they're able to sleep like that," the tamer commented, peeking down at the snoozing digimon, using the sleeping borg as a pillow.

"Spending time in my backpack might have made it easier on him," Yuri said, feeling a little embarrassed about admitting that she had kept her alien partner in her backpack sometimes, Takato didn't give any comment on this though, much to her relief.

"How do you think we should explain everything to the others?" The goggle-headed boy questioned. Silence filled the dark room as both thought about this.

"I really don't know, Takato, they're your friends we need to tell, so wouldn't you know the best way to do it?" Yuri almost sounded like she was pleading, Takato could tell she wasn't looking forward to all the questions, Yuri was always shy from what he remembered of her, but now she seemed to be even more so, and timid. Takato honestly couldn't help but feel like he needed to protect her.

"Don't worry, I'll figure it out, I know I can figure someway to explain this, and then we can begin figuring out just what's going on, and how Millienniummon fits into all of this," the young tamer assured the alien fighter.

Despite Takato's words, both of them still felt a bit uneasy, but managed to drift off to sleep.

The next day, after school the group of tamers and alien fighters had all decided to meet up at Guilmon's old hut, with the exclusion of Ai and Mako-with Impmon coming in their place, and Ryo, whom still could not be located.

It had been rather boring for the alien fighters while they waited for their respective hosts to return, though they each found something to pass the time after a bit.

Yuri had found it pretty easy to just watch some TV, specifically, she had found Takato's digimon adventure DVD's and had decided to watch some episodes, remembering Takato talking about the show when they were younger, and thinking it might give her a better idea of what they were dealing with.

Yuri and her borg actually found themselves getting interested in the show as they watched it, even if Yuri found a few moments scary.

"Hey, I'm home," Takato announced as he walked through the front door of the bakery.

"Takatomon!" Guilmon called, excitedly rushing over to his tamer.

"Oh, welcome back, Takato," Takato's mother smiled from behind the counter. "Your friend's in the living room, she's been mostly just watching TV," she explained, the goggle-headed boy nodded before heading back into the house part of the bakery.

"Hey, Yuri, I'm back!" Takato called towards the living room. He was a bit surprised to find his old friend, and her alien partner watching one of his Digimon Adventure DVDs, he couldn't help giving a small smile when he saw that they were, apparently, really getting into it.

"Go, WarGreymon!" Yuri cheered as she watched the screen, before turning to Takato and smiling at him. "You're back," she said, happily, before getting up and walking over to him. Her borg continued to watch the show from the couch. "So, how was school?" the alien fighter asked, with a cheerful smile.

"How was school? What are you, my mom?" Takato asked, half jokingly. Yuri giggled in response. "You seem a lot more cheerful from last night," the tamer pointed out, both confused, and happy to see his old friend's improved mood.

"Well, I've just been thinking about how, even though I'm stuck in a different world, I don't need to worry about going to school, or fighting aliens while I'm here," she explained, a serene smile on her face. "I'm also…really happy to know that you're here," she added, shyly.

"I'm also happy to have you here with me, Yuri," Takato responded, softly. The two stared at each other for a moment, before looking away, their faces slightly red. "So, um, we should get going to the park, everyone is expecting us to explain ourselves," Takato said, looking away from Yuri, trying to hide his blush.

"R-right, we have to do that," Yuri muttered, also looking away from her friend. She had nearly forgotten about that, and the nervousness of trying to explain her and Takato's friendship to complete strangers was now returning, in spades.

"Hey, don't worry, I told you I'd figure it out. Besides, we already told Henry, Rika, and your friends, and they all understood…kind of. Anyway, I'm sure it will be fine, even if we're not even sure how our connection worked before," Takato said, he glanced around for a moment, and noticed his dinosaurian companion was absent. "Guilmon? Where'd you go?" this questioned was answered by the sound of footsteps in the kitchen, Takato shook his head before going to get his partner. Yuri held in a chuckle and turned back to the couch, and her borg.

"Come on, Borg. We're going to be leaving in a minute," the symbiotic alien groaned at his host's words.

"But this is the best part," the borg said, gesturing his wing towards the TV, which was currently displaying a flashy sequence of an orange dinosaur-creature gaining robotic parts.

"We can watch the rest later," Yuri said, before using the remote to turn off the DVD. The borg sighed in defeat as the alien fighter placed him on her head.

"You seem a bit less…you today, Yuri," The red borg commented after a moment. Yuri seemed confused by his statement.

"What do you mean?" Yuri questioned, Takato had already mentioned that she seemed more cheerful today, but there couldn't be that big of a difference in her behavior, at least that's what she thought.

"Since we came to Takato's house, you've been less…depressed than usual." The red alien didn't really seem to be sure of how to say what he was thinking, but Yuri managed to get the idea of what he meant.

"I'm just happy to see Takato, and to not have to worry about fighting aliens for once," Yuri explained as she went over to the DVD player and pressed the eject button, before putting the Digimon Adventure DVD back into its box.

"That boy…what exactly is he to you?" the alien's question caught Yuri off guard, she stopped for a moment and thought about what he had asked. What was Takato to her? The answer seemed obvious.

"He was my best friend. Back when we were little we did everything together. We'd play for hours, or just talked. We never even fought," Yuri had a look of nostalgia on her face as she remembered the time she and Takato used to spend together, but she frowned as she began to remember something else. "But I was told to get rid of him, that he wasn't real. After he was gone, as the years went by, I began to believe he had just been in my head; that I made him up," Yuri's borg looked both confused and concerned. The young girl looked like she was trying to figure out what to say next, but her thoughts were interrupted by the voice of the one she was thinking about.

"Ok, finally pulled Guilmon away from the fridge, let's go," Takato stated; looking into the living room, before heading to the bakery part of his house, a disappointed looking Guilmon followed after him.

"I wanted more peanut butter," Guilmon whined, quietly, as he went after his tamer. Yuri sighed before following the two.

"So, Rika, how about we play a match?" Kazu questioned, holding his deck up as he leaned against a tree near the old, stone hut that Guilmon had once inhabited. Rika looked over from a spot she stood nearby and huffed.

"No, I don't feel like kicking your butt right now," Rika scoffed, turning her head away from the boy.

"Hey! I could win!" Kazu exclaimed in disagreement, but Rika ignored him.

"What are you yelling about, Kazu?" Henry asked, walking over with Terriermon resting on his head. His little sister Suzie and her partner Lopmon trailed behind him.

"Rika won't take my challenge seriously," Kazu groaned, sinking down to the ground. Guardromon watched him from a nearby spot with a confused look in his eyes.

"You can't blame her, you haven't exactly done very well against her in the past, not that your bad at the game or anything, Rika's just better," Terriermon said with an ear-shrug. Kazu groaned again.

"Yeah, you're not good enough to beat her," Suzie giggled, Lopmon looked uncomfortable.

"I really need to have another talk to you about tact, you're starting to rub off on Suzie," Henry sighed. Rika glanced over at the newly arrived pair of tamers and their digimon.

"It's about time you got here, but we're still waiting on everyone else," Rika said, with annoyance clear in her voice. "By the way, where's that girl who went with you?" the red-headed girl asked, noticing said girls absence.

"Hey yeah, where is she? What was her name?" Kazu questioned, looking to be in thought, while Guardromon stared up at the tree his tamer stood under.

"Um...Kazu."

"Not now, Guardromon, I'm trying to remember her name. I know it started with a K," Kazu continued to think. Rika, Henry, Suzie, Lopmon and Terriermon slowly looked up into the tree that Kazu was under.

"Nya! It's Kasumi, for your information," Kazu jumped back with a scream at the surprise of a the alien-wearing girl suddenly popping out of the tree; hanging upside down with her legs wrapped around one of its branches. Kazu stared at the upside down girl, speechless, mouth agape. "You look funny!" Kasumi giggled, before swinging up and sitting on the branch.

"…What is wrong with you?" Rika questioned, Kasumi smiled and shrugged before jumping from the branch she was on, with a back flip.

"She's silly," Suzie giggled happily at the pink-clad alien fighter's antics.

"Careful Kasumi, you're going to make me dizzy," Kasumi's pink borg groaned.

"She really knows how to make an entrance," Terriermon chuckled. Kazu had regained his composure and was now glaring at the blond girl.

"Were you just waiting up there to sneak up on me!?" The spiky haired boy asked with irritation in his voice.

"I did try to warn you, Kazu," Guardromon pointed out, his tamer turned his glare towards him, but said nothing. Henry rolled his eyes before looking at Kasumi.

"I really don't understand why you felt the need to do…that. But let's not dwell on it, we have more important matters at hand," Henry said, seriously.

"We can't exactly do discuss that until everyone else gets here," Rika pointed out.

"We're here! Ruff!" Jeri called as she ran over, Kumi following her with a tired look on her face.

"Hey, Kumi! Why so glum?" Kasumi questioned, jumping down from the branch she sat on. Kumi grumble something under her breath before looking at Kasumi.

"Jeri's little brother, he just wouldn't leave me alone," The purple-wearing alien fighter muttered, in an annoyed tone. Jeri giggled at this, before holding up her puppet.

"It's just because he likes you, ruff!" Jeri spoke for the puppet. Kumi groaned in annoyance.

"We're here! Don't start without us!" Kenta suddenly called out, running over with MarineAngemon following him. He stopped to catch his breath before Kazu walked over to him.

"Where exactly have you been?" Kazu asked his friend, an eyebrow raised. Kenta sighed.

"I…wasn't exactly sure when we were supposed to meet," He admitted.

"Is right after school really that hard to comprehend?" Rika questioned unhappily. Kenta rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.

"Well, school hasn't been out for very long," The glasses wearing boy said in his defense. Rika didn't look very satisfied with that, but decided not to continue that line of conversation and started looking around.

"Whatever. Where's Gogglehead? He's the one who said to meet here in the first place," Rika said impatiently.

"Yeah, and hopefully he can explain how he knows that girl," Kazu added, still feeling confused about his friend knowing someone who was apparently from another universe.

"Her name's Yuri," Kumi stated, glaring at Kazu.

"I knew that!" Kazu countered defensively, Kumi knew he was lying but did not continue the argument, instead choosing to turn away from him and wait for Yuri, Takato, and Guilmon to show up.

"Seriously, how can Takato and Guilmon be the last ones here?" Terriermon questioned in a confused manner.

"I'm sure they'll be along soon," Lopmon said with a small smile.

"Wait! We're here!" Takato yelled, running up from the path with Yuri and Guilmon trailing behind him. "Don't start without us," The goggle-wearing tamer gasped for breath as he stopped by Kumi, who looked annoyed at him.

"Start what? You called this meeting," Kenta pointed out. Takato thought about what Kenta said for a moment before he chuckled in embarrassment from the realization that he was right.

"We could have started figuring out the issue of Millenniummon, or where Ryo is," Kazu argued, causing Takato to stop laughing and look down regrettably.

"I really don't care where that jerk is, but the Millenniummon thing is important, so just get this explanation out of the way so we can move to that matter," Rika said, approaching Takato and glaring at him. Yuri looked a bit frightened by Rika and quickly met with Kumi.

"Kumi how was Jeri's house?" Yuri asked in an attempt to break the ice.

"Well, it wasn't the most peaceful place, but I really can't complain," Kumi admitted to her friend. "How was it at Takato's?" she asked to continue the conversation. Yuri didn't get a chance to answer this as Kasumi jumped over and interrupted.

"Let's not talk about that right now! Yuri and Takato need to tell those guys how they already knew each other! Nya!" Kasumi commented in her usual cheerful manner.

"Oh yeah, this again," Kumi sighed remembering Yuri and Takato's first explanation of their pre-existing friendship. She honestly thought it was pretty pointless to sit and listen to this again, but Takato's friends who hadn't heard it-mainly Kazu-wouldn't drop it, so it seemed to be necessary in order for them to move on to the other issues.

"Ok , Chumley. Spill," Kazu insisted. Yuri walked back over to Takato, while Kazu, Guardromon, Kenta, MarineAngemon, Suzie, Lopmon and Jeri watched with interest; the others in the group seemed less interested, as they had heard it already. Though Henry seemed somewhat interested, as he thought that Takato and Yuri's connection might have something to do with what was happening.

"Ok, let's start from the beginning," Takato said as he began to recount his and Yuri's first meeting.

"I'm exhausted, where are we even going?" Miyu groaned as she followed her newly appointed digimon partners; Shamanmon, and Goblimon walked through what appeared to be a vast wasteland. Goblimon snorted in annoyance.

"Are you just going to complain the entire time?" Goblimon said as he looked back at Miyu, he seemed to be about to add some sort of insult to his sentence, but stopped talking when Shamanmon looked at him in a scolding manner. Goblimon grumbled something as he turned his eyes forward while Shamanmon gave their shared tamer a sympathetic look.

"We're heading to a rendezvous point that Tapirmon, and Kotemon will most likely also be heading to. We agreed to do that if we should ever get separated," Shamanmon explained, Miyu seemed to understand but still looked unhappy.

"Well, how long is it going to take though? I'm getting tired, can't we take a break?" The young girl asked with some hope in her voice. Goblimon gave another snort.

"We'll get there when we get there. Now quit acting like a baby level and come on! If you want to get left behind just say the word and you can have all the rest you want," Goblimon growled. Miyu looked down to the ground with a look of shame, while Shamanmon glared at his fellow digimon.

"Goblimon, that was uncalled for. She's just tired, and I admit I'm a bit tired too. I bet you are as well," Goblimon didn't want to admit that his old friend was right, but didn't object when he sat down and gave the ground a pat. "We can rest here for a few minutes. But we must get moving soon, we don't have much food or water with us, and digimon could attack from out of nowhere," Shamanmon explained, before looking through a small bag that contained the provisions he had managed to scavenge from their destroyed base.

Miyu sighed in a bit as she took a seat on the ground. The confusion of this situation was still a bit much for her. She reached into her pocket and began looking through a deck of cards.

"I still don't know what I'm supposed to do with these," Miyu muttered to herself as she remembered what had happened the other day.

"Yes, I'm a tamer, but my question is, are you?" the older boy, named Roy questioned as he looked at Miyu, whom felt a little intimidated and unsure of how to answer that.

"Yes, she is our tamer," Shamanmon answered for her as he walked over with Goblimon. Goblimon glared at Ryo suspiciously. Cyberdramon noticed this and growled a bit. Ryo noticed his partner's aggression and motioned for him to stop.

"Do you have any idea what was wrong with that Digmon?" The older tamer asked, looking down the hole that the berserk digimon had escaped through.

"No, but it isn't the first time a digimon has just gone crazy out of nowhere, we also don't know why is was red," Shamanmon said. Ryo looked like he was thinking, before he turned to Miyu.

"You seem new to this and very confused," Ryo commented. Miyu nodded slowly.

"I was just pulled here a little while ago, I don't really know anything about this place, or its inhabitants," Miyu answered shyly. Ryo smiled before he reached into his pocket.

"Well, I can tell things will be rough, something is going on around here. I can't stay and help you, but these should help," he said before handing Miyu a deck of cards. Miyu looked through them with a confused look on her face, there were all sorts of symbols and creatures on them-was that Goblimon on one of the cards?

"I…don't understand," Miyu said, still staring at the cards. Before Ryo could give any answer the ground suddenly began trembling.

"Ryo, it's not gone," Cyberdramon growled and his tamer nodded.

"It seems to be circling the area from underground, you get out of here, Cyberdramon and I will take care of this," Ryo said to Miyu. Shamanmon had managed to pull a small amount of rations from what remained of the base before he ran over to his tamer and grabbed her hand.

"You heard him, let's get out of here!" Shamanmon stated as he began pulling Miyu.

"But-" Miyu tried to say something but Goblimon interrupted.

"Look, you can't digivolve us, and we've been separated from our allies. Just do as you're told!" Goblimon's tone was harsh, but Miyu didn't argue and they escaped as quickly as they could.

They had been moving since that incident, but Miyu was at a loss on what she was supposed to do. She didn't know what the cards she was given were for. She didn't know how to help her supposed partners, or how to be a tamer. And she didn't know what this place was or how to help its problems.

"Why am I even here?" Miyu whispered to herself, Shamanmon and Goblimon seemed to be talking amongst themselves and didn't hear her. Shamanmon was about to get out some of the food and water they had, but suddenly the ground shook. "Digmon!?" Miyu nearly panicked as she looked around.

"No, that was a footstep," Goblimon growled, more stomps were heard and they turned to the direction they were coming from. Miyu nearly jumped at the site of a large, orange dinosaur, with what looked like a horned helmet on its head. She was about to panic but Shamanmon held up his hand for her to stop.

"Greymon, I see you decided to come looking for us," Shamanmon spoke in a respectful tone.

"I heard your base was attacked, I didn't expect to run into you on the way there," The dinosaur-creature called Greymon responded in a deep-yet kind sounding voice. Miyu felt extremely confused and nearly fainted when the large creature's eyes fell on her. "So…it worked?" Greymon questioned as he looked at Miyu.

"Yes, we now have a tamer," Shamanmon confirmed, proudly. Goblimon grunted and slowly nodded in agreement.

"And she doesn't know how to digivolve us, and our base was destroyed, and we got separated from Kotemon and Tapirmon," Goblimon decided to point out the negatives of their situation.

"If Kotemon and Tapirmon are ok they will find their way to my base, let's get moving, three kids shouldn't be out here on their own," Greymon explained before turning and motioning for them to follow him.

"Three kids?" Miyu questioned in confusion, she glanced at Goblimon and Shamanmon, but said nothing as they followed Greymon.

I don't know when I'll update again.