If you have not read Izzys crush, then this fic will make no sense to you, and you need to turn back around and read it...

If you have not read it and you continue reading, then you need to go get a C.A.T. scan so that the rest of us may sleep well at night, knowing that you may have read your drivers book before you got on the road.... Please don't ask, It's a personal joke between me and a good friend of mine.

Izzy looks around. There is noone around to see him log on to Katinas blue laptop.

He sees a file labled Digimon.

He brings it up on the screen.

There is a code to lock him out of it, but he breaks it easily, and goes into the file...

The file shows up as the following...

DIGIMON... Digital Mosters, does not belong to me... Unfourtunatly.

For those of you who would sue me for not saying that, you can go ---- a goat.

For those of you who have just had to put up with my vulgarities, I apologise, and you do not go have to do that... PLEASE DON'T... ( Unless you enjoy that kind of stuff.... YUCK I just got a mental picture of someone running off to do that.)

Izzy sweatdrops.

Besides, for all you lucky peeps, I just want you to know, If I did own Digimon, I would have been in it, and Izzy and I would have already gone out on a date. And probably even kissed. Or maybe, just maybe, gotten married....

Izzy stares at the computer screen, and shakes his head, " Now that is demented..." he mutters.

" What's demented?" comes a familiar voice, from behind him.

" Uh, shit." Izzy turns around, to see Katina standing in the doorway, her hands on her hips.

" And just excactly what do you think you're doing on my laptop?"

" Checking it out for viruses... I know that you like your birthday gift from me, and was just checking it out... you know?" he sweatdrops again.

" Oh really?"

" eh heh..." Izzy reaches to turn off the computer, But Katina gets to it, before his hand ever reaches the button.

She looks at the screen, and turns crimson in both emberassment, and rage.

"IZZY!!!! I'm GONNA KILL YOU!!!!!"

Izzy begins to run from the very angry teenaged girl.

" TENTOMON!!! HELP!!!"

" You're crazy, Izzy, give me Myotismon anyday! I am not getting between her and you!!"

" TEEENNNNTOOOMOOOONNNN!!!!"

When we last left off, Izzy was telling Katina what had happened. He was explaining in the best terms he could find that what she thought she had dreamed was not just a dream, but real... While Katina, on the other hand, is not taking it all that well.

Katina just stared at Izzy for a moment.

Her jaw has dropped, and she looked as though she was going to faint.

" So that's the story." finished Izzy, " You went out just before Gennai sent us back home..."

~ Should I tell her about the fact that she is a digidestined too?~ he asked himself.

Katina shivered, the apartment was getting cold, and the power was still out.

" Izzy..." she said, holding her arms around herself, " Do you know what time it is?"

" It was about four-thirty when I came over, So it's probably about four-fifteen."

Katina looked at him over the rim of her glasses.

" No way... we've been gone for almost a full day... Izzy you need to get your watch fixed." She shivered again.

Izzy shook his head, " No.. Time travels at a different speed in the Digiworld... While many months can pass there, only a few moments will here."

Katina nodded, " I see... Kinda like Narnia..."

Izzy looked at her couriously, " Huh?"

She shook her head, " Never mind... I'll explain it to you later."

Izzy nodded, somewhat confused.

" I see..."

He saw Katina shiver the next time... He too, noticed the change in the temerature.

" Are you cold, Kat?"

Katina shook her head, " I'm fine."

" Are you sure?"

" Not really... I just found out I almost killed my two only friends, I went to another world, And the Amazon... My best friends little buddy becam a gaint Bug, I flew, without passing out, Oh yeah, did I mention, My voice id Magic, or was, that can cause devastation... anything I missed?"

~ Not Quite...~ thought Izzy, " And you're a digidestined...." he kinda trailed off.

Katina shot him a very convicting glance.

".... do what..." It was a statement, not a question.

" Eh heh..."

" What did you just say?"

The cold was still, but still, Katina felt as though an icy breeze had just run up her spine.

" Well, see, after you lost conciousness, I was contacted by Gennai... And he said that you were a Digidestined, like me and the others...."

Katina felt her head become light, she wasn't sure whether it was because of the fact that she felt like someone had just put her in the freezer, or because of what Izzy had just told her.

" He told you I was a digidwhatsit?" she said, staring straight ahead of herself.

"A digidestined, and no, not in so many words, I believe it was in the form of a question, Then you will understand when I tell you she is a digidestined?" Izzy saw Katina sway in the faint light left from the day, coming through the window on he other side of the room.

" ..." she sighed.

" What did you origionally come over here for, Izzy, I've forgotton..." she finally asked.

Izzy was surprised.

He was silent for a moment, not sure of what to say. She had not reacted to the shock of being a Digidestined the way he had expected she would.

" Katina? You do realise what I just said, don't you?"

" Yes... but what did you origionally come over for?"

Izzy was once again shocked. Katina had put it aside like it was nothing important... But his time he did not say anything in regards to it.

" I came over to help you with your Japanese, originaly. I'd still like to help you woth that, If you'll let me."

Katina nodded, " Sure... Actually, that would help me more than anything right now..."

Thunder rolled overhead, and Katina shivered again.

" Are you cold, Katina?"

Katina smiled. It was a small sad smile.

" I'm fine."

Izzy noticed the blanket that was laying on the back of the couch they were sitting on. He pulled it down, and wrapped it around Katinas shoulders.

She smiled again, in the dark.

" Thank you..."

" Let's begin right now..." said Izzy.

"... huh?"

" Arigatou."

" what?"

" Arigatou means thank you." (Please don't hurt me if I have the wrong defs, If I do, E-me and help me out with them please.) Thank you.

" Arigatou.... Izzy."

" You're welcome."

Katina sighed again, as yet another roll of thunder passed them.

She could almost feel the rain coming down on her.

The two sat on the couch untill it was almost seven-thirty. The power came back on, with a sudden buzz.

Katina looked up, and blinked at the sudden change of light.

Her stomache growled.

" Are you hungry?" she asked Izzy.

" Hai, I am. Are you?"

She nodded, " I'm gonna fix something to eat in a few minutes, would you like to stay?"

" Sure. Need some help?"

" You'll prbably need to stand next to the phone, incase you need to dial the firedepartment." her sarcastic answer made him laugh.

" I'm serious. I have a black thumb when it comes to cooking."

" I see."

She got up from where she was sitting, and headed into the kitchen.

Katina opened the fridge, and stared inside.

At that point she would not have been surprised if a moth would have come fluttering out.

The fridge was empty, except for a little bowl with a green lid. And a half gallon of milk.

The two sweatdropped, " She had to of been kidding..." muttered Katina, opening the bowl to reveil an old wilted salad, "I ain't that hungry..." she said, carefully replacing the lid, and putting the bowl on the counter.

" I don't believe that constitues as a balanced diet." said Izzy, still sweatdropped.

" ... me neither." Katina shrugged, " Uh, I'm sorry, but I really.... I guess I'll have to wait until they get home..." ~Tomorrow.~

" I can't just let you go hungry..." said Izzy, still staring at the empty refridgerator.

" I'll be fine..."

" Come to my house and eat... My mother is the greatest cook.... really!"

" I don't want to be rude and intrude..." Katina protested.

" I'll call her... I'm sure she wont mind." he said reaching for the phone, and already begining to dial.

" But Izzy...?!"

" It's ringing." he said, and then, " Hi mom..."

He stopped for a moment, and then laughed nervously.

" No, mom, I was just calling to see if Katina could come over for dinner..."

Pause.

" It's fine with Mrs Hatek, mother."

Another pause

" Thanks, mom!"

He hung up the phone.

Katina stared at him for a moment, and sighed, " That tone usually means that the parent agreed to it." she muttered under her breath to noone in particular.

" Prodigus! She said yes!"

Katina grinned, ~Thank you very much Mrs. Izumi, you have no idea what you have possibly gotten into. Jules is not going to like this.~

Izzy had to litterally drag her down the hall by the arm.

" But Izzy, Really, I'm not so sure this is a good idea, parents always seem to get strabge ideas about me and...."

" If you're scared to go in, just say so, Kat. But I'm not gonna let you go hunry, and you can't turn back now."

Tentomon stiffled laughter.

".... damn..." she muttered, half thankfull she was getting the first decent meal in a while, and half afraid of what the Izumis would think of her.

When the three went inside, almost immedietly, she noticed the warm atmoshpere that greeted her. The smell of dinner made her stomach growl loudly.

Tentomon had gone to Izzys room, " To go find something" he had explained, although Izzy had no idea what something that might be.

Untill Tentomon came out of Izzys room with a little frame made out of popsicle sticks.

Izzy went berserk when he saw the little frame, and threatened Tentomon within an inch of his life if he did not go replace the item to where it belonged.

Tentomon, somewhat shocked at Izzys unusual behavior, went and put the frame back.

" What was that all about?" asked Katina.

" Oh... nothing.." laughed Izzy, nervously.

Katina had to sit down to take her shoes off, and Izzy seemed a little surprised at the fact that she already knew to take her shoes off as a sign of respect.

Katina felt his stare, and looked up at him, "... did I do something wrong....?" she asked, blushing.

" Huh? No!" he blushed, " I was just a little surprised, that's all."

" Oh..." she continued to take her boots off.

The next surprise came as Izzy saw that she had metal around her ankle.

" What's that?" he asked.

Katina looked down, "...oh.. this?" she asked, motioning to it.

Izzy nodded.

" It's a brace, so that I don't fall and hurt myself." she explained, " See, when I was little, I was seisure-prone. During one, I sliced a muscle in my ankle, and it doesn't work anymore. So they gave ma a brace to wear, so that way, I don't fall on my ass when I try to walk." she grinned at his confused look, and reached for the screw that held her brace tightly against her leg, "... look, and I'll show you..."

She removed the screw and a pin, and the brce came apart in two peices in her hands.

Pushing her sock down, it reveiled a gouge in her foot, just above her ankle-bone. The flesh was gone almost to the bone, but it was healed.

Katina looked at Izzy, who was staring, " When did tha happen?"

" ..Ohhh.. when I was about four."

" That was before you moved here the first time.."

" Yes.. I mean, hai.." she quickly corrected herself.

" So why didn't you tell me then?"

Katina shrugged, "I'm not sure..." She began to put her brace back on, " I really never thought about it, It was just a normall part of life, for me."

" I see."

" Koushiro!!!" came a rather loud, feminine voice.

Izzy looked up, to see is mother standing in the hall, she ran up to him, and hugged him tightly,

" Your father told me he thought he heard you yelling here in the hall."

" I was... "

" But why? Is everything alright?"

" Hai, mom,, it was just Tento... He did something a little rude.." he empasised the word, seeing the little beetle like digimon standing not far behind his mother.

Tentomon stepped back.

" And you.. You're Katina? My look, how you've grown....." she held Katina out at arms length, "I can remember the first time Koushiro told us about you... it was so cute...."

" MOOOOMM!!!"

" Well it was."

Izzy sweatdropped, and groaned.

Katina blushed.

" Come on Koushiro, Your father will be thrilled to death to see her again..."

".... ugh..."

A little while, and a few embarassments later....

" This is my room..." Izzy opened the door to his room, which really didn't reveil much. Except for the fact that it was tidy.

Very neat.

" Wow... Does an actuall teenager live here?" asked Katina outloud, " I mean, it's so neat... Definitly not like my room."

Izzy laughed softy at the comment, " I'm not very messy I guess."

" I guess."

Izzy sat down in fron of his desk.

" Nice computer." stated Katina, unable to think of anything else.

" Yeah, my parents got it for me for my birthday." he turned it on.

The mainscreen popped up, It was a full color picture of a shark comin after a smaller fish.

".... uhh, nice..."

" That's not the whole of it..." he said, talking now in computer language that Katina could no more understand than if he was talking fluent Japanese. ( Which she now knew a few, select words, but not enough of.)

" Wanna give it a try...?"

Katina shook her head no.

" Awww... come on, as long as you don't try to hit it to get it started..." he laughed.

"... I.. really, don't think... that's a good idea..."

"Huh? Why not?"

Katina blushed, and muttered something under her breath.

Tentomon pulled on her shirt, " What did you say? We couldnt hear you.."

" I don't know how to use a computer..." she said quietly, looking down at her feet.

Izzy sweatdropped, very surprised by this.

" Huh? You?" he was at a loss for words, and with that, motioned to his computer.

She shook her head no, in reply.

He motioned to the chair next to him, " Sit down, and I'll show you."

" ...I..."

Tentomon gave her a friendly little push into the chair, and smiled with his eyes up at her, " At this point it's better to just do it. He's going to, wether you do or not..."

Katina sighed in response to this remark, and smiled somewhat.

" Now... This is..." he began to ramble, giving an alternate response to everything that Katina gave him a blank look about, (Which was pretty much everything.) And then showing her how to do different things on his computer.

When he was finished with the basics, he looked at her, and offered her his chair.

" Now, you try to boot it up, and get it through to the internet."

Katina shook her head no.

"You did understand me when I showed you how to do it?" he asked.

She nodded.

"Then come here and try it." he said, taking her by the arm, and setting her down in his chair.

Katina stared at the computer for a moment, and then reached to the button that turned the power on.

The computer hummed to life.

When the command screen came up, she just stared at it, unable to do anything.

Izzy watched her confusion, " What's wrong? Did you forget what I told you to type in?"

She shook her head no.

" Then, what could you possibly be...?"

She lifted her hand to scilence him, and then motioned to the keyboard.

"... You forgot.."

Izzy was confused this time, " I'm sorry?"

".... I can't read Japanese...."

"... uhhhhh....." he felt very stupid at that moment. Not a feeling he was used to, or enjoyed, for that matter.

" I don;t even know which keys are which in English, Give me Japanese, and, well...."

Katina looked down at her lap, and was suddenly surprised by another pair of hands, putting hers on the keyboard.

She looked up, to see Izzy smiling down at her.

"...eh...?"

" The first step to eliminating the obstical, is having your hands on the keyboard. It's a nessacery part of typing."

Katina giggled and blushed at his little attempted joke.

"... so... now what..."

"Now we are going to attempt to teach you to do this." said Izzy, placing his hands under hers.

Katina put her hands back in her lap to get them out of his way, but he put them back up on the keyboard, and put his under hers.

Katina got the idea, this time, and left them there.

" Thank you. Now, this key will take you back to past documents and research written by me, we don't want to do that, we want to begin a new file so that I can teach you the basics. If you figure out how to read it, then it is acceptable to assume that it will get easier for you to learn to speak Japanese." he typed in the command quickly, so that they could start a new program. Katina was amazed at how fast his fingers were.

When the blank screen, ready to be filled showed up on the screen, Izzy looked at Katina and smiled, and then frowned.

" What is it?"

" My lower bodily functions are begining to ache."

"...eh?"

" His legs hurt." entered Tentomon.

" I'll move if you want." said Katina, getting up from the chair.

Izzy stared at the empty chair for a moment, and then looked at Katina.

Thinking for a moment, he sat down, and began to shut down his computer.

Katina watched him, somewhat confused.

He grinned as he got out his laptop from his backpack, and turned it on.

" The only difference in turning it on is the fact that my laptop is a bit faster." he said, waiting for it to boot up.

Izzy motioned for Katina to sit on his bed.

She hesitated, not sure what to think, but did it after a moment.

Izzy set the laptop in front of her, and then sat down behind her.

Once again, she felt two hands slip under her own, and go for the keyboard.

Once again, she was amazed at how fast his fingers were, while typing in the commands for a new program screen to pop up.

When the screen popped up this time, though, he did not say anything about his legs, but instead turned his atention to Katina.

" Watch..." he said, typing in her name, slowly, so that she could follow easily, as he typed in ech character, he said the name of each.

When he was finished, there was a short length of characters on the screen.

" What is it?" asked Katina.

" Your name."

"...oh... so that's what it looks like..."

" Now you type it." said Izzy.

Katina looked down at the keyboard, but Izzy brought his hand up, to face her to the screen, instead.

" Now what'd you do that for?" she asked, somewhat irritated.

" Never look down at the keyboard, unless you need to use one of the upper keys, It's a bad habit to fall into." he explained to her, gently.

She sighed.

"...ohkay." she tried to remember which keys he had used.

She began to try to type.

Izzy was surpised just how light Katinas' hands were, and how lightly she tapped his fingers to get to the keys.

When she went to type in the wrong keys, she found that his finger refused to go down, and the correct one would flinch.

When she had finished typing her name, she smiled, and looked at Izzy.

Izzy was smiling, almost proudly.

" See, I had tottal confidence you could do it."

Katina blushed, "... thank you Izzy...."

" Now down to the real work." he said, in mock seriousness.

" What?"

" The alphabet."

Katina jerked back," You gotta be kidding... right?"

" How else will you learn?"

Katina sighed, she knew he had a point.

" Alright..."

He began to type slowly again, once again saying each character as he typed it.

When he got finished with the entire alphabet, he watched as Katina began to try to copy what he had just done.

By the latter half of ten o'clock, Katina was begining to find it much easier to pick out the right keys, and she knew the alphbet, as well. (I Know it isn't possible to learn the entire Japnese alphabet in one night, but this is a STORY people, get used to it. *computer hits up in instant flames* What!? You people have no imagionation... *More flames erupt* ARGH!!!)

When Izzy looked up at the clock on the wall, he was somewhat surprised at how late it was.

Rain still patted at the window. It wasn't nearly as hard as it had been only a little while earlier. And the thunder and lightning had quit.

Katina yawned, " I'm tired, Izzy, I really should be heading home."

" And we have classes tomorrow." stated Izzy.

" Mmmmhmmm." Katina removed her hands from atop his, and set them in her lap.

She and Izzy dodn't move for a few moments.

Neither of them really wanted to.

Tentomon was snoring, softly in the other corner of the room.

Izzy took his own hands from the computer, and put them on the bed, on either side of himself.

Katina started to get up, and found that her legs had fallen asleep.

"Oh!" she let out a quiet cry of surprise.

" What is it?"

"... my legs fell asleep...." she said, giggling.

Izzy tried to streatch his legs as well, and found that they, too, were asleep.

The two of them sat there and tried to reawaken their legs, laughing.

It was about this time that Katina looked up, and saw that on Izzys nightstand, there was that small frame made out of popsicle sticks again.

It was facing his bed, away from her.

Katina looked at Izzy, " There's that little frame again... What in it?" she asked.

Izzy looked over at the frame, " Oh, nothing."

" Can I see what nothing looks like?" asked Katina, trying to make a joke.

" I really don't think that...."

" Awww, come on Izzy, I wont laugh or anything like that.... promise."

Izzy hesitated, thinking abut what might hapen if she saw it. The worse thing that could happen would be she would laugh at him....

He sighed a breath of defeat, and reached over to get the frame.

Handing it to her, face down, he looked down at the floor.

Katina was confused. Izzy never acted this way about anything. She wondered what was wrong with him, as she turned the frame to face her, in her hands.

Then she gasped in surprise, as she saw what his 'secret' was.

The frame, had faded marker on it, reading " To Izzy From Kat... 1989...." Katina read it outloud. The frame had little buttons and ribbons pasted on it.

And inside of it, was a picture of the two of them when they were younger. Obviously, whoever it was taking the picture, had gotten them by surprise, because Izzy looked as though he was going to fall over, while she was just at that moment, taking a bite from a hamburger.

They had watermelons in front of them, on a picknic table.

And suddenly Katina remembered when that picture was taken.

It was at Izzy's birthday pary, the second year she lived down there.

Katina looked at him, and smiled, " What's to be emberassed over, Izzy? It was a good memory."

Izzy looked over at her, " Yes, it was wasn't it?"

The clock in his digivice beeped. It was eleven o'clock.

There was a knock at the door.

" Izzy? It's time for your friend to go home, you have school tommorrow."

" Yes, mother."

Katina glanced at the picture in her hands, and then handed it to him.

" Your mother is right. I need to go home." said Katina, and then she started out of his room.

" Wait, and I'll walk you home." said Izzy, getting up from where he had been sitting.

Katina smiled, and waited for a moment.

Upon opening the door to her apartment, Katina looked back at him, " Thank you for walking me home, Izzy, you really didn't have to."

" I wanted to, the pleasure was mine."

" I guess I'll see you in school tomorrow, then , huh?"

" Yeah... If you want though," he scuffed his foot in front if himself into the concrete, " What I mean to say is, if you like, I can come here tomorrow morning, and we can walk to school together, I mean, I think it's safe to assume that you go to the same school, and..."

" Alright, then Izzy, I'll see you tomorrow morning." Katina smiled, and then, quickly, and silently, kissed him on the cheek.

" For coming to my rescue..." she explained, " Earlier."

Izzy blushed crimson, as Katina shut the door.

He practicly floated home.

THE NEXT MORNING.....

( Yes, I realise that we skipped a day, but I couldn't fugure out what to do....)

There was a knock on the front door, as Katina was getting dressed.

" Come on in!" She called, "It's unlocked!"

Izzy opened the door, and walked just inside.

" Ohayo! Good morning Kat! It's me, Izzy!"

" You're early, Izzy, we still have a half hour." said Katina, poking her head out from the bathroom.

Her hair was still wet.

Izzy blushed, and looked the other direction. Afraid of what else was running through his mind.

" Yeah, well, I thought we could practice a little before we left." he explained, removing his shoes.

Katina slipped her uniform shirt over her head, and frowned, " Gawd, I look like Usagi." she muttered.

Putting on her skirt, she looked one more time in the mirror, and grabbed her brush.

Izzy was waiting patiently in the living room.

When he saw he in her uniform, he smiled.

Katina almost ran back to her room. She did not like the way that the shirt was to short to tuck in, and it showed her belly button.

" Go ahead, tell me how strange I look." she said, laughing.

" You don't look strange.." said Izzy, " You look like you're ready to go to school."

Katina sighed and smiled, " Alright, I'll except that.

" So are we going to practice, or what?"

Katina nodded, and sat down on the couch, but then she stood again, and looked at Izzy.

" What's wrong?" he asked.

" I hate this skirt." she stated, " It's just, I can't.."

It suddenly occured to Izzy what she ment. She knew that he would have to sit... oh, that was the problem.

" I see." said Izzy, bluntly.

" You... do?"

" I can compleatly understand you self conciousness... So we should not do it, if it's uncomfortable to you." Izzy motioned to her.

" Thank you, Izzy. You have no idea how much I apreciate it." She breathed a sigh of relief.

On the way to school, The two of them caught a quick glance of her cousin, running down the street, in the direction of the school.

Katina stopped in her tracks.

Izzy noticed this, and followed her eyes to her cousin, " Don't worry.... Me and my friend wont let him hurt you." he took her by the hand, and led her to the schoolgrounds.

Katina noticed a movement in his backpack.

".... what was that....?"

Izzy stopped for a moment, " uhhh..."

Katina jerked in surprise as a little pink head popped out of the bag.

" Hello, Kat."

" What the...? You know my name?"

" Of course... I was Tentomon, but now, I'm Motimon."

Katina eyed the little pink thing, from the safe distance of the length of Izzys arm.

".... you... were... huh?"

Izzy pulled her back next to him, " Don't attract attention. My past experiances prove that everyday people do not react well to litttle pink monsters that are capable of speaking."

" In other words, you don't want me to accidently cause a riot." stated Katina, staring at him.

" In a word, Yes."

Katina glanced back to the little head, but it had popped back into the bag.

" Would you please explain this to me?"

" We can get into it extensivly, during third period, at the library."

Katina eyed him for a moment, " How did you know that third period is my library period?"

Izzy looked at her with humor in his deep black eyes, " The school computer has no limits for finding basic information on the students."

Katina nodded, " I see. You went to the school database, and looked up my class schedule."

" Yeah."

" Do we have any other classes together?" she watched him, as he turned away, for a moment, to greet someone named Frank.

"First, third, fourth and fifth. And lunch, of course."

Katina grinned. " Uhhuh."

Izzy stopped abrubtly.

" Ohayo, Coach Tamaki." he said greeting a middle aged man, walking the grounds.

He was grasping a small, flat package, and his umbrella, firmly.

" Ohayo, Izzy. I was just looking for you."

" Oh, really?"

Katina shivered as a little rain drop found its way to dribble down the side of the umbrella covering her and Izzy, and hit her in the head.

" Yes... You see, My wife and I bought something for her neice, for her birthday, but she already had one, and we just didn't know what to do with it... So Mrs. Tamaki thought we should give it to you, scince you seem to like computers so much." he handed the paper bag wrapped package to Izzy, and then ran to break up a fight be tween two boys, " HEY! You two! What do you think yu're doing?!!"

Izzy glanced at Katina, and then to the package.

" I wonder what it is..." said Izzy out loud, just before the bell rang.

He looked at Katina, " Class! We're gonna be late if we don't haul!" said Katina.

" Yes. Let's go!"

The two ran off in the rain.

During first period, Izzy opened the package.

It was a blue pine-apple laptop. Similar to his own yellow version.

He sweatdropped, " What am I supposed to do with this? I already have one..." The teacher came into the room, and he stuck it under his desk.

" Ohayo class."

" Ohayo, Mrs Rintago."

Suddenly, she began to speak in Japanese. Katina now only knew a few words, here and there, so she did the only thing she could think of. She stared in front of her, and tried to will herself invisible.

It didn't work, but thankfully, the teacher did not call on her, during class.

First period seemed to drag, and Katina sighed a breath of relief as they filed out of the room.

~I'm gonna flunk~

Izzy caught up to her in the hall.

" Katina?" He tapped her on the shoulder, which caused her to jump about two feet into the air,

" Don't DO that, Izzy!!"

" I apologise. Are you alright, You're as pale as a ghost..."

Katina looked ahead of her self, untill she reached her locker, looking at the little peice of paper the principal gave her, matched each of the numbers up with those on her locker. The lock popped open, and she began to put in her book, and shut it with a bang.

" I couldn't understand a word she was saying, Izzy... I'm up..."

" Don't worry about it, I have it covered." he said, and then noticed that she had not taken out her second period, Spanish book, " Hey! What about your book?" he asked, as she began to head away from the lockers.

".. huh...?" she turned around to face him, and smiled, then she laughed, " Oh... well, you see..."

Izzy got suspicious, " You aren't gonna skip class are you?"

"HUH!??! NO!!"

Izzy turned red, " Ups, sorry."

Katina laughed, " That's alright, Izzy. I was going to tell you I don't need it for that period."

" Oh?"

Katina nodded, and then ran off, as the first bell rang.

Matt noticed Katina sit down in the back.

He motioned for Tai to come to him, and then said, " Look... She does not have her book. Does she realise that she'll have to stand up in front of the entire class and recite in front of them if the teacher catches her?"

Tai looked, and noticed that the blonde haired boy was right. The new kid did not have her book.

The only things she had with her, were a note book, a leatherbound book, and a little wooden box.

" Don't say anything to her."

" Huh?! Why not!? She's gonna get embarrased, Tai..."

" Maybe so, but even if she does, wouldn' you like to hear her speak?"

Matt sighed, " Yeah..."

Right then the second bell rang, and the teacher entered the room.

" Buenos Dias, Seniors, Senoritas..."

" Buenos dias, Senora` Sapatcha."

The older woman began to take role. As she did, she walked up and down the rows.

Upon seeing that Katina had no book, she smacked her ruler on the poor girls desk, and demended that she stand up in the front of the room.

Katina obeyed, and went to the front of the room.

" Now, " Said the teacher in spanish, " I want to to give us an oral report of your opinion on our city..."

Katina looked at the woman with venom in her eyes.

It was the same one who had told the principal that she was a retard because she would not speak.

" My name..." She began, " Is Katina Dianne Ashton... I was born in Washington, in the United Sates. I've lived in Multipule places all over the world. Mostly, Mrs Sapatch, In Spain.

When I moved down here, I found that I had to deal with rude, arrogant teacjers who did not like students who simply could not deal with speaking in front of peopl in general. I know two languages fluent, Ma'm. English, and SPANISH. When I tried to tell you that, you told the principal I was a retard who did not understand the first word of Spanish, and needed to be sent to the firstmost class.

All in all, I find that Tokyo is a beautiful city, with many sites to see... But I find that there are a few problems here.... Though it is much better than any other place I've ever lived, There are some people who's personalities have somethng left to be desired." finishing her little Spanish escapade, she took a deep breath, and watched the teachers face turn from red to purple, to almost black in the fury of being told off. And the fact that It came from a girl who she had made a wrongful asumtion about, did not help any.

There came a few snickers from around the classroom.

Tai looked over at Matt, who was sitting there with his mouth open.

" The PRINCIPAL!!! NOW!!!"

Katina smiled a little smile, and left the room.

She met up with Izzy in the library.

Izzy was sitting with a couple of guys, talking to them.

She recognised the two from the class she had just been in.

She sat down in a secluded corner, cut off from the rest of the library.

She took out her leather-bound book, and began to draw.

Izzy saw her sit down, and left the to guys to their buisness.

" Hello, Kat... Uhhh... You alright?"

She looked up from her artwork, " I'm fine. I'm not so sure about my second period teacher, though."

" So I understand."

Katina looked at him over her glasses, " So... you heard..."

" There are not many students here that would find the odacity to speak up to her." he stated, simply.

" Uhhuh... so that's why she was so pissed off... hehehe..." she snickered under her breath.

Izzy tried to force himself not to grin, (And wasn't doing very well at it.) " You didn't tell me that you knew Spanish."

" You didn't ask." stated Katina.

Suddenly, she was yanked up out of her chair, roughly by the arm.

" What were you thinking, Katina?" came an angry growl.

She was turned around to face the one who was speacking to her.

It was her cousin, Jules.

Izzy jumped up out of his chair, " Hey! Leave her alone..."

" Go back home, and play with your toys." he spat at Katinas friend.

Then turning back to her, he shook her, " What were you thinking?" he demanded again.

"... she... she called me a retard, Jules..." her voice was small, and weak now, " ... I couldn't let everyone think that...."

" So your soulution was telling her off?" he sighed, " Now they ARE gonna think that... 'cause NOW they're gonna move your classes... And GEUSS WHAT??! You've just screwed yourself into a nice little kettle."

"... what do you mean...?"

He laughed under his breath, " You're so smart, that I think you don' need any help at all... I think you can manage those classes yourself, don't you?"

" Put her down..."

" Yeah, really."

Katina could see the two boys Izzy had been talking to, behind Jules.

He dropped her, and she fell to the floor, smacking the side of the table with her hip, she let out a little cry of pain.

Her cosin looked at the two boys, and then back at Katina, " Ahhh, you ain't worth the time of day anyway." he shoved his way past the two boys, and went on his way.

Katina was laying on the floor. holding her hip.

One of the boys leaned over her, with Izzy.

" Are you alright?"

" Kat?"

" I'm fine... Really."

Izzy watched Katinas face, as it was contorted in pain, while she got up.

" Guys, we need to talk." he said, as he helped Katina up.

" Is she the one you were telling us about, Izzy?" asked the boy with unusually messy brown hair, and goggles.

" Yes."

Katina watched Izzy and the other two boys talk as though she weren't there... and then, finally fed up, she cut into the conversation that they were having.

" Excuse me... but I am not a third party. Please, If you're going to talk about me, right her in FRONT of me, then include myself in your conversation."

The two boys who had been talking to Izzy stared at her in shock.

There was scilence for a moment.

It was Izzy who broke the scilence.

" I think we need to have a meeting. After all, this does involve all of us."

" No kidding, and if Gennai is involved, well, I think..." the blond haired boy stopped when he spotted the brown haired boys dirty look.

" Don't EVEN start, Tai..."

Tai sighed, somewhat irritated at Matts sudden interest in becoming a leader.

" I'll get Sora and Kari..."

" I'll get Takeru and Mimi..."

" We can meet at my house after school."

" But, Izzy, I can't, my cousin..."

" It is inevitable that we get together. If not at my house, then where?"

Katina sighed in defeat.

The rest of the library period was spent between only Katina and Izzy, discussing the reasons that there was a pepto colored critter in his backpack. That knew her name.

The lunch bell rang, and they headed out to the cafeteria.

The rain was still coming down.

" Do you ever have a DRY day?" asked Katina, looking up at the darkened sky.

" Oh, every now and again."

They hurried to the cafeteria, to eat.

" I brought my lunch." said Katina.

" Huh? There was nothing in your refridgerator...."

She smiled, " I know, but after you left, last night, I walked down to the all night store, down the street, and got some groceries."

" Oh... I see." Izzy glanced at the line, " I have to go get mine."

Katina nodded, and after he left, she searched the room, for an empty table.

She couldn't find any.

She swore in Spanish under her breath.

Glancing around the room again, she saw a stairway leading to the roof, where alot of the popular kids probably ate on nice days.

She made her way to the stairway, and began up.

Spotting her, he followed.

Soon, the noise of the busy room faded away, as the rain took over, on the tin covering of the stairwell.

Making it to the top of the stairway, she opened the door, to find she was correct in assuming that people ate up here on nice days.

There were tables and the such up here.

But on this rainy day, there was noone.

Spotting a dry spot under the eve of the tin roof, Katina sat down on the cement, and began to eat in scilence.

She did not hear anyone else come behind here.

" Why did you come up here?"

Katina jumped, and whipped around, and then started coughing, uncontrollably.

It was only Izzy, but he had scared her bad enough to make her choke on her salad.

He knelt down next to her, and patted her on the back.

When she stopped coughing, she took a drink of tea, and looke up at him.

" I don't like loud places." she said, plainly.

" Well, could I have the pleasure of joining you?"

Katina glanced at him in surprise.

" You want to... eat with me?"

" Yes." Izzy looked at her confused, " Why?"

Katina motioned next to herself, " You can if you want." she said, avoiding his question, easily.

Izzy sat down next to her, his lunch on front of him.

He reached for his back pack, and pulled it twards himself, " You can come out, now, Motimon."

The little pepto-critter, as Katina had reffered to him as, popped out of the bag, and onto the concrete, next to Izzy.

"Are we all alone?"

" Yes."

" Oh boy! Lunch!"

Katina had to laugh, and then looking at what Izzy had gotten from line, she frowned.

" Is meat supposed to be that color?" she asked, pointing to the mystery loaf of the week.

Izzy prodded it with his fork, " I'm not sure it IS meat." he commented.

" Have you ever seen ANY food that color?"

" No."

Kationa looked at her lunch bag, and offered its contents to Izzy, " Have some of mine... I always make WAY to much for just myself."

Izzy shook his head, " Oh, no, I couldn't do that...."

Katina cut him off, with a wave of her hand, " Nope, This is repayment for having me over to your house for dinner last night. And like you, I won't take no for an answer."

Izzy looked at the paper bag, and then back to whatever it was that was on his plate.

In the end, he figured whatever was in the sack HAD to be better than on the tray, besides, he had this thing about eating food that had to be DNA tested to figure out what it was.

Katin handed him the sack, and told him to help himself.

Between bited of salad and cheese and tomato sanbdwiches, he and Motimon talked to Katina about the neccesity of a Digimon partner.

" So.. you.." Katina motioned to Motimon, "... you're not only his best friend, but his protector?"

" That's right... As Izzys Digimon, I have a duty to protect him, and befriend him." Motimon motioned to Izzy, " I missed him alot when we had to split up, the first time, after we defeated the Dark Masters."

Katina took a swallow of tea, " I see... But if you had to split.. then how did you get back here?"

Motimon shrugged, " I'm not sure... About a week ago, I just felt like I needed to go to Infinity mountain, and when I reached the top, I was brought back here, to Izzy."

Katina looked up at Izzy, " But you said last night that..."

" Yes, I know, but apparently the digimon were ment to return, as all of them did, not just Motimon."

Katina furrowed her brow, in somewhat confusion, and a little bit of worry.

" I see."

Izzy took out his laptop, and booted it up.

" Should you be doing that up here?"

He glanced at her and grinned, " It'll be fine, there's no lightning, and no thunder. It won't hurt it."

".. mmmhhmm...." she shivered, as the little hairs on her arm prickled up on end.

Something was about to happen. She could feel it in her bones.

She pulled her green, sweat-shirt jacket closer around her, and watched the rain come down.

Then, somethng caught her eye. It was light colored.

And it was falling!

She tapped Izzy on the arm, but he continued to type.

After another moment, she grabbed him by the arm, and shook him, violently... THIS, got his attention, and he looked at her, about to say something, but he, too saw the falling object.

" What is it?" she asked him.

" I do not know, but it's about to land on the roof!!"

The two teens ran for it, and it stopped, floating in mid-air, right in front of Katina.

She reached out, and grabbed it, and almost immedietly felt a warm current run through her.

It only lasted for a moment, but it was something Katina would never forget.

When she opened her hand, she saw a small, silver metallic device resting in her palm.

Izzy only had to see it for a moment to know what it was.

He looked at Motimon, and together they both said, " The digivice...."

ELSEWHERE....

A pair of green eyes opened.

Somehow, he was alive...

How, he did not know, but the fact was, that he WAS alive.

However... he was... no longer who he used to be.

Instead of being in his champion form, he was in his secondary form. He was in his training form, which confused him even further.

Out of the void that he was in for the moment, came a voice.

" Cajamon... Would you be willing to join the side of the Digidestined?"

" Of course I would... I was on their side to begin with, but because I also sought to fight beside Gatomon..."

The voice was silent, untill he mentioned the Cat-like digimons name, " Yes, I know..."

There was light, from the void, and the Digimon saw the form of Gennai.

" You do realise by doing this, you have sworn to protect the child of pure heart..." he said.

Cajamon nodded, " Yes, I do..."

The light became brighter, but not harsher.

" Then come back, and protect her."

" Yes..."

He found himself standing in front of the old man, in his home, under the lake.

Looking down at himself, he saw that he was not only smaller, but furrier, as well. He looked like a grey furry blob, (Think Koromon. But somewhat larger, and furry.) with a red stripe on either side of him.

He had forgotton what it had been like to be so small and so virtually powerless.

He wasn't sure he liked it... but he wasn't so sure that he didn't either.

And then, it hit him... Gennai had called his protectrant a her... a... girl?!!!

" I do not understand... Is my Human a girl?"

The old man nodded.

" But... I've never heard of..."

" Sometimes, Cajamon, It's much better not to ask questions." he said before the digimon could complete the sentance.

" Now what?" asked the digimon.

" Now we wait untill she gets her digivice, so that you might become bonded to her again."

" Again?"

EARTH....

Katina stared at the mettalic object in her hand.

" .... huh ....?"

" Kat?"

Katina turned and looked at Izzy, somewhat afraid, " Izzy?"

" Kat?"

" What... what just happened?"

Izzy stood with her in the rain, both of them getting soaked, and tried to explain to her what a digivice was.

When Katina sneezed, they both suddenly remembered where they were, and that they were both standing out in the rain, getting wet.

After school, Izzy and Katina walked home.

When they got to the fllor that the two of them lived on, Katina split from Izzy for a moment, explaining that she had to get into some dry clothes, like right THEN.

" I'll wait for you, if you like..." Izzy offered.

Katina motioned for him to come in, after making sure that the coast was clear.

There was a note on the fridge.

-Went out to get groceries, Jules is helping me... Will be back by 7:00p.m. Jameera-

" Jameera?" asked Izzy.

" Mrs. Hatek." explained Katina, going to her bedroom, and shutting the doorm so that she could change, out of her wet school clothes, and into her nice, dry jeans.

Izzy and Motimon sat down on the couch.

Katina was just into her jeans, when she heard a sound behind her like a pop!

She turned around to find herself face to face with a little black, cat-like creature with a red vest.

" WHAT THE ...?!!!"

Izzy heard the sudden obcenity coming from Katinas' room, and looked at Motimon.

Motimon shrugged, and the two didn't hear anything for a moment.

Then there was a sudden thud.

Izzy looked at Motimon looked at each other again, and in a moment, they were both on their feet, unsure of what they were about to see.

Motimon digivolve to... Tentomon!

The beetle digimon hovered next to Izzy, as they made their way down the hallway, cautiously.

They heard sounds from inside the room, and as Izzy opened the door, silently, they saw a strange digimon shaking and unconcious Katina.

" Hey! What do you think you're doing?!" demanded Izzy as he barged in, with Tentomon.

The digimon looked at the two, and then back to Katina, it stood in front of her, protectivly, " You stay away from her, or else..." it growled.

" You're the one who'd better back away..." said Izzy, " Isn't that right, Tentomon?"

" Yeah, you get away from her, or else."

" No... I'm warning you..." said the little grey furball.

Izzy made his way, slowly twards it, and Katina.

" Cajamon digivolve to.... Havamon!"

The Digimon that stood in front of it now, was a black, Digital cat, wearing a red vest. His ears , unlike Gatomons, ( whose suck out to the side.) were straight up in the air, and his paws here not covered in gloves. They were bare paws, with small cresent moons on either one.

Izzy stepped back, " Huh?"

" Havamon?" said Tentomon, " You're a Havamon?"

" What's a Havamon?"

" He's a good guy, Izzy. Havamon is a cat-like digimon, He's very rare to run across, there are very few of his kind left in the Digital world. "

Izzy watched as Havamon stood, prepared to fight.

" What makes him so special, Tentomon?"

" Havamon is a mixed Digimon."

" What does that mean?"

" He is both Vaccine-type, and Data-type digimon."

Izzy stared, couriously.

Katina groaned, " I think I need to see a doctor. I thought I saw a talking dustbunny...."

She opened her eyes, to see Havamon standing before her, and in front of him, her friends.

She rolled over, " What's going on?"

Havamon turned to her, and leaned down, " Are you alright?" he asked, " I'm sorry I startled you."

" I did see a talking dustbunny. I really need to clean out my closet." Katina closed her eyes again, hoping that the image of a three foot talking cat would not be there when she opened her eyes.

Unfourtunatly, it didn't.

" Don't be afraid, Kat, I'm Havamon, I'm your digimon."

" ... you're my... what? Oh... shit..." she sat up.

Izzy looked at Tentomon, who hovered not to far from him, " Havamon is Katinas' Digimon?"

" Apparently so, Izzy."

Katina looked over at Izzy, " Okay.. This part you DID NOT explain."

Izzy shook his head, " No, I failed to..."

" I suggest you leave before I..."

" HEY! Those are my friends..." said Katina, upset by the whole matter.

Havamon looked at Katina, and then back to Izzy. He squinted, and tilted his head to the side,

" Wait! I know you! You're one of the Digidestined as well."

Izzy nodded.

Havamon helped Katina to her feet, and then turned back to the two in front of him

" I apologise, I did not know wether or not you were friends... but I am just now getting around to remembering EVERYTHING."

The two humans exchanged looks.

Katina heard the front door open, and a set of heavy footsteps.

" Quick!" she hissed, " Into the closet, you two..." she shoved Izzy and Tentomon into the closet,

" And as for you... up on the bed, and not a sound..."

Havamon climbed up on the bed lightning fast, and layed on the made bed.

There was a knock on her door, as Katina flopped down on the bed, next to him, and reached for one of her shoes, " Come in..." she said, softly.

The door opened, and Jules came in.

" Where are you going?" he demanded.

" Out to draw." she said, shortly.

" I think not."

Katina watched in horror as He grabbed up her leatherbound book from her desk.

She was up on her feet in a moment, and ready to take it back.

" Now now, Kat, I think you'd better just sit right back down, or else..." he reached inside the book, and took a hold of a handfull of pages, to make a point.

Katina sat back down, shaking, on her bed.

" You wouldn't... dare..."

" Listen to me and I won't..."

Katina hung her head in defeat, " I'm listening."

" Good. Now. I want you to tell Mrs. Sapatch, tommorow, that you memorised that little speach of yours, off of something you read, and that you did not know what it was untill you got home, and looked it up...." he smiled " And then, after you do that, I want you to go tell the principal the same thing... "

"... but ..." Katina reached back, but all she could find to grip was Havamon.

Izzy felt dust rise in his throat, and to his nose.

He sneezed.

Katina faked a sneeze at the same moment.

Jules eyed her, and headed for the closet, letting the book fall to the desk.

Katina grabbed the book, ~ If Izzy's caught, then he'll be DEAD!! I gotta do something...~ Not thinking about what would happen after she did it, she threw it at Jules, and it bounced off of his head.

He whipped around, and grabbed the book up off the floor. He only hit her once with it, right smack on top of the head.

She staggered.

Then he procceded to tear each and every page out of her book, and tear each page to shreds, right there in front of her.

Havamon had to fight himself not to get up and kick that kids @$$.

Izzy and Tentomon were sill in the closet, and could not tell what was going on, but from the sounds of Katinas' crying, they knew it could not be good.

Jules stormed out of the room, leaving Katina standing in the middle of the room, crying.

When the door slammed shut, Havamon got up, and tried to get Katina to calm down.

Hearing Havamons voice, the othr two decided to come out, and see what had happened.

They were greeted by scattered paper shreds all over the room, and the cover, left over from the book, thrown on the chair, aside the desk.

Katina pointed to the door.

" Go home, Izzy..." she gasped between breaths.

" Are you alright?"

" Go home, you two, I can't come to the meeting."

Izzy hesitated, but Tentomon tugged his sleeve, and nodded in agreement to Katina, " We should leave, Izzy..."

The two heard the front door shut, as Jules left the apartment to go somewhere.

They took that moment to leave.

Looking back at Katina, Izzy hesitated, but left anyway.

Katina collapsed on her knees, to the floor, and continued to cry...

" It's alright..." said Havamon, patting her on the pack.

" NO!... no... it's not... Those pictures are the only things in the world I had left of... of..." she began to cry even harder.

Havamon didn't know what to do... Katina was so upset that she could hardly speak straight.

He looked at the scattered peices of paper, and noticed one in particular.

It was a strip of paper with four faces, real as life, on it, He recognised two of them, Jules and Katina. The other two he did not. But he knew that the people were happy. They were all happy.

The digimon looked at the scattered papers, and then to Katina, who was still crying.

" Katina...?"

The door opened. Jules came in again.

" I thought I heard you talking to someone... What the hell?!" he saw the cat-like digimon turn and glare at him.

" Why did you do that to her?" it demanded.

" WHA?!! ANOTHER ONE?!! WHERE DO THESE THINGS KEEP POPPING UP FROM???!!!"

Katina looked up at he cousin, through tears.

" What do you want?"

" I knew there was someone in here with you." He crossed his arms, still soemwhat surprised by the site of ANOTHER Digimon, but unafraid, nonetheless.

Havamon stood protectivly in front of Katina, " You leave her alone..."

" Oh, right, a little cat is gonna tell me what to do?" he tried to shove Havamon out of the way, but the little digimon did not budge.

Havamon shrugged it off as though he had done nothing.

Katina watched as Jules grabbed the digimon by the ear, and jerked it out of his way.

" HEY!"

Havamon landed on the otherside of the room.

Katina felt a strong hand jerk her to her feet.

" I don't know where you get your weird ass friends, but I suggest you tell this one to go home, and get to bed... You have school tomorrow." he threw her on the bed, and stormed out of the room.

Katina was still crying, when the door slammed shut.

Havamon climbed up on the bed with her, and rubbed her back, trying to comfort her.

" I'm sorry.." he said.

Katina looked at him through tear stained glasses, " What... what ever for?" she asked, confused.

" Don't you know?"

" No..."

Havamon watched rain pelt the glass windowpane, " Well... I'm your digimon... I supposed to protect you..."

Katina buried her face into her pillow, " You don't have to protect me... You can go back home if you want..." came her muffled voice, " I really wouldn't blame you..."

" What are you talking about, Katina? I'm your digimon, We're friends for life..."

Katinas shoulders stopped shaking, and her breathing became slow and even.

Havamon rolled her over on her back, and was relieved to see she had just fallen asleep.

He curled up next to her, to keep her warm, and fell asleep, himself.

AT IZZYS HOUSE...

" Where is she?" asked Mimi.

" Yeah, really, Izzy, where is this girl?" asked Jyou.

Izzy scuffed his foot into the carpeting of his room, " Well, you see..."

" Well....?"

Izzy sat down at his desk, " She couldn't make it..."

" Why?" came several cries from the children.

" See, Katina has several problems... one of which, is her couisin..." he gritted his teeth, " And he had caused her much greif, but you need to know about what happened in the Digiworld.."

" The DIGIWORLD?!!"

" Well, that is a long story, but the short of it is, that Katina is one of us..."

" That girl is a digidestined?" asked Sora, Biyomon was sitting calmly next to her, and motioned to the door, " Doesn't that mean she has a digimon?" she asked.

" What I want to know is when you went to the digiworld... said Matt, holding Tsunomon in his lap.

T.K. watched as the older kids discussed this new girl, and looked over at Kari, who was playing with Salmamon.

Patamon was sitting quietly on his hat.

Tanemon and Bukamon exchanged glances... Another digidestined?

" Why is it that every time we hear about another digidestined, " said Tanemon, " I want to run and hide?"

" We've only done this once before," said Bukamon, " And at least this time we don't have to search for her." he sweatdropped, " But you're right, it makes my stomache flip every time I hear that sentance."

" Don't turn into another Jyou.." said Salmamon, overhearing their conversation.

Bukamon laughed.

" I couldn't handle it..." moaned Jyou.

" ANYHOW... It's like this, guys..." Izzy began to explain the atory behind it to them... Leaving out of course the part about him telling her about what happened to him, and him teaching her how to use a computer.. He also did not tell them about her not knowing Japanese.

Katina was awaken suddenly, by her cousin dragging her out of bed.

By her hair.

Havamon woke instantly, and jumped on the tall boy, " You keep your hands off of her!!"

" Back off, kitty." Said the older boy, he grabbed the digimon, and threw him in the closet, propping a chair up against the closet, he turned again to Katina.

She was cowering in the corner of her room.

He advanced on her, and grabbed her by the arm, roughly, " NOW!! Tell me EXCACTLY what's going on."

Katina began to cry.

" Stop crying and TELL me!!"

Katina couldn't speak... she knew what would happen if she told him.

It happened anyway, as the fist came down at her face.

THE NEXT MORNING...

Katina rolled out of her bed, and headed to the bathroom, for a shower.

She found that the house was quiet.

Jules and Mrs. Hatek had already left.

Sighing a breath of relief, she stripped off her clothes, and exsamined the wounds from the night before.

She had a black eye... And that just could not be hidden.. The rest of it on the other hand could. And she was thankful for that, alone.

She hissed of pain as the warm water trickled down her spine. Those were cuts and bruises that would take a little longer to heal than that shiner on her eye.

She began to cry, as she lifted her arms to wash her hair, the pain that her body screamed of was almost intolorable.

Getting out of the shower, she reprimanded herself.

" You've gone through worse than that..." she whispered to herself, " So stop it."

Her tears stopped for a while.

Havamon awoke to find no Katina next to him.

He got up, and seeing that the door was open, peeped out.

There was no sound with the exception of that from the bathroom. It sounded like crying.

The door was shut, and he wasn't sure wether or not Katina was dressed, so he knocked lightly.

" Katina?"

The sounds quit.

Then he heard, " Yes...?" in a low tone.

" It's me... are you alright?"

She coughed, " I'm fine... thank you..."

The door opened, to reveil a fully dressed Katina, in her school uniform.

Her face was red, with the exception of the purpling mark just above her eye.

" You don't LOOK alright..."

"... I'm fine..."

The front doorbell rang.

Katina cleared her throat, " Who is it?"

" Izzy..."

" It's unlocked, come on in..."

The front door opened, to reveil not only Izzy, but two other people as well, a boy and a girl, " Kat this is Tai, and his sister, Kari."

Katina nodded in reply.

" Ohayo..."

" Ohayo..." she replied.

She ran to her room, and grabbed up her backpack.

She looked out the window. The rain was not falling now. But the skies were still dark, and threatining.

She slung her bag on her back, and then threw it off again. It HURT. And that was putting it softly.

Havamon watched her reaction to the backpack, and confronted her about it.

" I thought you said you were alright..."

She sighed, ".... I am...."

Havamon took the backpack from her grasp, and stared at her.

Then he marched out into the living room, looking at the three there only once, and put it on the couch.

Katina watched him. She wasn't sure what to make of it.

Then she walked calmly out of her room, and went for her backpack.

Havamon was talking to the three there.

And he was sitting on her backpack.

" Awww.. come on now, I need that for school, please get off."

Havamon looked at her, and then turned back to Izzy and Tai, and Kari.

Izzy looked at Katinas face one time, and knew what had happened.

" Are you okay?" he asked, confronting her.

" I'm fine..."

" What happened to your eye?" asked Tai.

" I fell." she stated.

" Onto the larger humans fist, she did." said Havamon.

Katina glared at him, and then YANKED her backpack out from under him, and stormed out the door, leaving three very confused humans behind.

Havamon shook his head, and went after her.

" Wait, Katina!" he called after her.

Katina stopped, and looked back at him, " I don't know what to say... I cannot leave you here... mostly because Jules comes home before I do. He'll kill you. But I can't take you to school with me."

Havamon nodded, releived that she was not VERY angrey at him.

It was Izzy who made the next suggestion.

And soon they were all on their way to school without any problem.

Three humans... and three rookie digimon in each of their backpacks.

LATER....

Katina was relieved that the day had gone by without incedent.

She headed home, to find Jules waiting for her.

" You're late." he stated simply.

There was a familiar smell about him. It was the same smell she remembered being about the house during football season, back in the U.S.

Alchole... beer.

Jules was DRINKING???

Scince when?

" ... you've been drinking...?"

" No, you idiot. My friend, Garry, was, and he dumped his whole damn beer on me." he stated in disgust.

He pointed to his once white shirt. It now had a brown stain on it.

" Why are you late?"

Katina sighed a breath of relief.

But it didn't last long.

He grabbed her, and drug her to her room.

The fight that followed is not important, but what happened afterwards is.

Katina was laying on her bed, her head buried in her pillow, when a re-digivolved Havamon, (When she went to school, he was Cajamon...) set his paw on her back.

" Why do you put up with it?" he asked, simply.

" It's the only thing I can do.." was her muffled answer.

There was a pause, and then her head raised from the pillow. " No.." she said.

" What?" asked Havamon.

" No, It's not... It's not the only thing I can do..." she got up from her bed, and grabbed her backpack.

She walked to the closet, and grabbed out a clean pair of jeans, and a t-shirt.

She very calmly stuffed these in her backpack, and then went for her desk. She opened a drawer, and stuffed her brush, and a little velvet case into the backpack with the clothes.

She was still wearing her uniform, so she didn't bother with that, but she did think enough to grab a big t-shirt and a pair of shorts.

Her headphones and the usual were already in her bag.

" What are you doing?" asked Havamon.

" Leaving, like I should have a long time ago."

" Not without me..." said Havamon.

She looked out her door.

Mrs. Hatek had gone to bed, and she could hear Jules on the phone in his room.

Motioning to Havamon to follow her silently, she crept to the front door, and left, without looking back.

Brrrrrriiiiiinnggg!

The doorbell rang.

Izzy looked up from the laptop he was re programing.

He sighed, and got up to answer the door.

Looking through the Peeps hole, he saw Katina standing there in front of his door.

He immedietly opened the door.

She was crying.

Havamon was with her.

" Katina?! What's going on?"

" I need to know if you know of a place I can stay for a while." she said, not moving.

He motioned for them to come in the home.

Katina slipped off her shoes, respectfully, and then turned to Izzy, " Please, Izzy, I need to, before..."

" Before what?" asked Izzy, taking her gently by the arm.

Tentomon looked out the door to Izzys room, and upon seeing Katina he ventured out.

" What's going on?"

" Please, Izzy, if you know of somewhere, tell me, so I can leave." Katinas' eyes did not leave his face, " I do not want to get you into trouble...."

" First tell me what's going on..." he led her into the living room, and sat her down.

Katina looked away from him, " I'm leaving..."

" Why?!"

" I just can't take it any more." she said, staring at her lap.

"It's him, isn't it?"

" Please, Izzy... don't tell anyone... I just want to leave and get lost from his sight forever."

" Katina..."

" I just need to find a place to stay untill I get enough money to get out on my own."

" You can stay here."

Katinas head shot up at the thought of it.

" No... no Izzy, I don't want to be any trouble to anyone else."

Izzy took her hand, " You will not be of any trouble... Believe me, my parents wont mind."

" What will we tell them?"

Izzy thought for a moment, " We can tell them that you are just getting out on your own..."

" Which is ot a compleat lie." said Havamon, seeing the doubt in Katinas' eyes.

" And where will you put me?" she asked, " I don't fit well in a closet, and I'm claustraphobic."

" There ARE three bedroms." he pointed out, " All of the apartments are the same. And besides, mom and dad used to constantly have people over-night. We don't anymore, because dad has a new job, but it's still a bedroom. Just in case, my mom always says."

Katina looked at Havamon, who looked hopeful, and then to Tentomon, who was nodding, in agreement with Izzy... And then she looked up at Izzy, who showed genuine concern in his eyes.

~ He's really worried about me...~ she thought, ~ Really, genuinly worried...~

Sighing in defeat, she nodded, " Alright... I'll do it..."

Izzy felt like hugging her as tight as he could, and never letting go.

" So.. Izzy, where ARE your mom and dad?"

Izzy snapped back to reality, " They went to a meeting at the hospital." he said.

He reached for her backpack, but she refused to let him take it.

Izzy shrugged, and led her to the other room, next to his.

Turning on the light, she saw that the room was a pale green color, and that there was a bed, a chair and a desk.

And a chest of drawers, but other than that, it was bare.

Katina shook her head, " I.... I don't know what to say, Izzy..." she said, turning to him.

" Nothing is nessacery." he replied, then he motioned to her backpack, " What have you got in there?" he asked.

" My few things, a change of clothes, and my night shirt." she said, " Nothing other than my own things..."

" I see. And this is all you took with you?"

Katina set her backpack down, on the desk, and looked at him, " I took only what I came to this country with, plus my uniform."

Izzy stared at her in surpirse, " That's all you had?"

" Well, yes... when I was in the State home, we moved alot, so after a while, I learned to be expected to move within a day or so, and got rid of everything except for the few things in the world that are TRUELY mine." she put her finger to her lips, " Don't tell my cousin, but I sold it all, so I could leave, " she unzipped her packpack, and reached inside, Before withdrawing her hadn,she smiled, a small smile, " You have to proimise you won't laugh, "

Izzy crossed his heart.

Katina nodded, and pulled out a popscicle frame similar to his, and held a picture that they had taken at school, before she had moved, of Izzy.

She took the back off of the frame, and held out a small role of money.

" I was saving to come back here, to Japan, before Mrs. Hatek came for us." she explained, shaking her head, " But it just isn't enough to get me anywhere."

Izzy took the frame from her shaking hands, and looked it over.

" Where'd you get this?" he asked, turning it over in his hands.

" I don;t know wether or not you remember this, Izzy, but when I gave you yours, I told you that I had the other one."

The two heard the front door open.

" Mom and dad..." said Izzy, he took her hand, " Come on... you two stay here." he said to Havamon and Tentomon.

They nodded.

Katina and Izzy stood in front of Izzys parents, and explained it to them, just as they had said they would.

Izzy was holding Katinas' hand the entire time, and when his parents looked at each other, for console, he sqeezed it, reasuringly.

" Alright." his father said, " You can stay."

" I always did want a girl around the house... " said his mom, " I mean, you know, no one can replace Izzy, but I always thought It'd be nice to have a little girl as well." she trailed off.

Katina let out a breath that she had not known she had been holding, and looked over at Izzy.

Later on that night, Izzy and Katina were in his room, talking about all the events that had occured scince they , met in the park, as well as practicing Katinas Language and computer skills.

Once again, Izzy was sitting behind her, his hands under hers.

" You know what, Izzy?"

"No... What is it, Kat?"

Katina sighed, and looked out the window. The city lights blinked through the drizzle that had reappeared between the time she got home from school, and the time she left.

" My birthday is in three days. And for the first time scince my mother and father left me... I'm going to have a happy birthday."

Izzy looked at her, surely, she didn't know about her present already?

He hid his concerns, " Oh? How so?"

" I get to spend my birthday, this year, with people who care about me." she said, leaning into him. He was warm.

Izzy blushed, he wasn't sure weather it was the comment, or the action that had taken place afterwards.

Not that either one bothered him to awful much.

Her hands came up off of the keyboard, and into her lap.

And then she began to cry, " What am I saying?" she asked quietly, leaning away from him now, "No on cares about me... I'm... just an annoying kid..."

Izzy was shocked by this sudden quiet outburst.

He took his hands off of the keys as well, ad placed them on Katinas arms.

"You're wrong, Kat..." he said.

She flinched, and turned around to face him.

" No, I'm not, how could anyone care about me? Look at me... I was dumped, like trash, into a home, now what does that say...?" she was still crying.

Izzy shook his head, " You're still wrong... I care about you."

Katina stopped speaking for a moment.

She was still crying.

" How? How could you care? How could you care about me, when noone else does...?"

Izzy lifted her chin, " I care, because I'm your friend... And I think..."

The computer beeped.

" You have mail..." it chirped.

Katina coughed, annd watched Izzys face change colors. " Can't it wait?" he muttered.

Imagine his and Katinas' surprise when the computer answered back, " No, It can't..."

Katina was so surprised that she jumped. Right into Izzys lap!

Izzy just stared, but reached out, ( Yes, with her still on his lap... ) and typed in his e-box password.

" You have mail from Gennai." it chirped.

He opened it.

It read,

Izzy, please click in the link below to reach me...

http://oldmanriver/mostereats/killerdeal//[email protected]

Izzy did this.

Gennai appeared on the screen.

" Izzy, you must come back to the Digiworld at once! Darkmon and Basimon have taken over, and are destroying our world... It will take all nine of you to do it..."

The transmition began to fuzz up.

" You must return at once.... The future of the worlds depends on..." more fuzz and static, " You and... must get together... digivices... to... portal.... tag and .... Fare well..."

The transmission was cut off suddenly, and there was nothing left online but static.

Izzy looked at Katina, who had somehow turned white during the ordeal.

" We must go back..." he said, " The fate of both the Digiword, and ours, is up to us."

Katina nodded.

Izzy tried to get up, but she was still on his lap.

Still dazed, she got off, and watched as he dailed the phone...

" Hello Mrs. Kamiya, Is Tai about?"

A pause.

" Tai... we need to meet, bring a backpack, and get Kari... We're headed back to the digiworld."

He hit the reciever button, and dailed again, " Hello, Mr. Kiddo, Is Jyou there?... Hello, Jyou... I just know you're going to love this... yep..."

Katina ran through the dark rainy streets with Izzy. She was no longer in her school clothes, but wearing her yellow turtle neck and jeans, and her green jacket.

Her backpack was on her back, and she ignored the pain that screamed at her from her lungs, and every muscle of her body. Havamon, on the other hand could see the pain that contorted her face, as she ran.

The two running humans, and digimon payed no attention to the people that were staring at them, from all sides...

There were seven other kids and digimon awaiting them in the park.

Tai looked at Katina, and then to Izzy.

" She's never going to forgive us for this." he said, plainly.

Izzy nodded, " I know."

" Alright, let's do this!" Tai held out his digivice in front of himself.

The other eight did the same in turn, including Katina.

They all grabbed each others hands.

Katina couldn't help but blush a little when Izzy grabbed hers.

The next thing she knew, she was enveloped in a bright light. And then....

There was a peircing pain on her head, just above her eye.

His head was spinning when he got up. Jyou looked around. Gommamon was on top of him.

" Jyou? Jyou, are you okay?" he asked.

Sora shook her head to regain her senses.

" I swear that ride gets rougher every time we do it..." said Tai, rubbing his back.

"Takeru! Get offa me!!" came Matts voice from under T.K.

" Oops, sorry, big brother."

" My hat!!!" whined Mimi, pulling the pink thing from under herself.

Izzy pushed himself up off the ground, he spit out the leaves he had eaten on the way down... unintentionally, of course.

" That could have been a little bit easier..." he muttered.

Katina was on the ground not far from him, she had not moved.

While the various Digimon and their partners shook themselves off, Izzy made his way over to Katina, where Havamon was just then coming to.

He shook the brambles from his fur, and looked to Katina.

" Katina?" he asked, shaking her.

No answer.

" Katina?! Wake up...!"

Izzy reached over, and rolled Katina over.

There was a bloody gash above her left eye, behind her glasses.

The blood had begun to seep onto them.

Izzy gasped, "... Kat!... Jyou, come quick! Katinas' hurt!!"

Jyou walked quickly over to the panicked tennager.

Seeing the blood made his stomache turn, but he reached into his backpack, and pulled out a bandage, rubbing alchole, and a rag.

He cleaned the wound, as well as he could, without water, and placed the bandage over it.

" She should be fine... It wasn't very deep, or very bad, but it probably just knocked her out of it..." he said, placing the items back in his bag.

About this time, Katina groaned.

" Damn... is it ALWAYS that rough? I fell like I've been run over by a semi-truck..." she sat up, and instantly reached up to her little wound.

" Hey... that hurts..." she muttered.

Havamon placed a friendly paw over it, " Jyou said it's be fine..." he said.

Izzy sighed a breath of relief. Tentomon saw that he looked as though someone had just lifted a great weight from his shoulders.

Jyou smiled. Izzy had a crush, he could tell already.

Tai looked around at the group, and then noticed that he did not see his little sister.

" Kari!!!" he called, " Kari!? Gatomon!? Where are you?!"

" You don't have to yell, Tai, I'm right here." said Kari coming out from behind a tree. Gatomon was not far from her side, " Gatomon and I landed over there, in the bushes... They were okay, though, there were no thorns..." she giggled.

" And besides, I would not have let anything happen to Kari... Just as Augumon would not allow anything to happen to you, Tai..." the digital cat stopped, and looked around. Nine Digidestined accounted for... but who was the new digimon? She had never seen his kind before...

Havamon felt someone watching him, and turned, to find himself looking right into the bright blue eyes of Gatomon.

He wanted to call her by name...

" Hello, Gatomon, my name is Havamon..."

Gatomon eyed the new Digimon, percatiously, " How did you know my name?" she demanded.

" I know many things..."

Katina watched as the cat-like creature continued speaking to the other one.

He knew the other one, Gatomon, he had called her.

Pretty soon the two of them were in a pretty deep conversation, about being new at protecting someone, and yet, not so new at it.

" You probably saved her life more than once then..." Gatomon pointed to Katina, when Havamon told her about Katinas' cousin.

" No... I couldn't do anything for her..."

Katinas' eyes began to water, remembering her cousin. She had wanted to get away from him, but going to another world had not quite been what she had had in mind.

" I know how it feels to be that way... though I had thought I didn't before Kari."

" Well, I do not like it... and I wont let anything else happen to her anymore." Havamon stated boldly, looking back at Katina, " Never again." he said, making sure she heard him.

Katina was looking straight ahead, balancing her head on her knees.

" Come on guys, let's move out!" said Tai, back to his brave mannerisms again.

Katina stood, but not without wincing.

Her lungs burned, from the pain of running earlier, ut she would not allow the others to know.

She took the stride with the rest of the group in a matter of moments, Havamon by her side.

He saw the troubled look on her face.

" What's wrong, Katina?" he asked.

" Kat... please call me Kat... And... nothing's wrong." she said.

The group walked all day, and into the hidden hours of light between eve and night.

It was that time, when the stars and the fading sun was out.

" Let's stop here and make camp..." said Tai.

There were no complaints about this from any of the others.

Not long after they had settled in, and built a fire, Matt began to play his harmonica, and Izzy booted up his computer.

Mimi took off her boots, and rested her feet, Jyou and Gommamon were playing chess with a little miniature chess set that he had brought.

Kari, T.K., Patamon, and Gatomon were playing a card game.

Tai and Sora, and their Digimon were talking about what they did while they were at home for that short time.

Katina moved a little way from the fire, and reached into her backpack.

She pulled out her Pipe, ( For those of you who do not know, a pipe is a flute like instrument with only six holes, and no keys. It is also shorter than a flute.) and stared at it for a moment. The silver glinted in the firelight.

She looked up at the moon, and closed her eyes, before raising the flute to her rose lips, and blowing, gently.

The sweet sound was so perfect that Havamon, who was watching her, dared not speak, for fear that he would break the single note she played.

One note became many in a sweet seranade to the night.

In Katinas' heart, she heard the music, and from her lips and fingers came the notes of extacy.

He watched her play the pipe, for a few moments.

And then he noticed that Izzy was watching her as well, listening to each of the notes as though his very exsistance depended upon it.

Tentomon was with him.

And behind them was Mimi, who listened as well, with Palmon by her side.

Matt had stopped playing, and he and T.K. were listening from where they sat, with their digimon.

Tai and Sora talked for a few moments, and then realised how quiet camp had become.

After a moment, they too, were enchanted by the melodius tune coming not far from camp.

Kari, who had been listening the whole time, simply sat there where she was, and stared at the fire.

The flames seemed to dance and flicker to the eerily beautiful song being played.

Katina shivered. Someone was watching her.

She opened her eyes, and abrubtly stopped playing, as she found seventeen pairs of eyes, human and Digimon, all watching her.

She blushed, and placed the flute down on her lap.

"..... did I do something wrong....?" she asked in her low voice.

This seemed to break everyone from their spell like trance.

" Huh? You didn't do anything wrong..." said Jyou, he was still clutching a chess peice, from where he and Gommamon had been playing.

" Yeah, we were all just listening to you play..." said Gommamon.

Havamon was now sitting next to her.

" Where did you learn to play like that?" he asked her.

Katina shrugged, and blushed even feircer, in the evening dusk.

She slipped it back into her backpack.

After a few more moments og quiet, everyone went back to their buisness. Except for Katina, and Izzy, and their digimon.

Kaina sat still for a few moments.

Izzy took his laptop, and went over to sit with her.

" You can play very well." said Tentomon.

Katina did not say anything.

She was looking at the ground, trying once again to will herself away.

Havamon leaned against her. He was warm, unlike her, who was still wearing a wet, cold jacket, over her shirt.

He seemed to be compleatly dry, to Katinas' surprise.

Izzy motioned for Katina to go sit in front of him, so that they could continue on with their practice.

And thus they did, the same as they had in the real world.

After a while, the two began to talk quietly, not really paying any atention to what they were typing, and soon, not typing at all.

" I think that it is a distinct possibility that we may be expected to do the impossible..." said Izzy, he trailed off, as Katina leaned closer into him for warmth.

She moaned quietly in her sleep.

She had drifted off and he had not even realised it.

Carefullypushing her forward, so that he might be able to move, he then placed he gently on the ground, and covered her with his coat.

Havamon snuggled into her, to keep her warm, and to protect her in case any dangers might come along.

The next morning, the children rose, and ate, and began on their way again.

Not long after they had started, Tai, and Matt began to argue, (Because they had reached a fork in the road.) about which direction to take.

Sora and Mimi tried to breack the two from their fighting.

Katina looked over at Jyou, and then back to the sqabbling boys.

" Every day..." he muttered, " But after a while, you get used to it."

Clatter....

Katina froze.

The two guys were still fighting, so they did not hear it.

Clatter... crunch...

Her instincts wanted her to run, but Katina could not do it.

The sounds grew closer together, and soon, they were not just one sound, but multipule sounds.

Whatever had been making the sound at first, had become more than one thing... There were at least a dosen of what ever it was that she heard.

The two were still yelling, so no one heard her say, " Something's out there."

The fighting still went on, loud as ever.

Havamon began to hear it too, soon Gatomon was listening.

" Guys... Somethings coming..." said Katina.

" She's right." said Gatomon.

" Something is coming our way..." said Havamon.

Still more fighting, and yelling.

This time Katina was scared, and she shouted, " YOU TWO SHUT UP!!! SOMETHINGS HEADED OUR WAY!!!"

There was nothing bu quiet from them, as they stared at her in shock.

There was one final crunch as two trees shook, and fell.

A loud voice shouted out, " MAKE WAY FOR THE QUEEN OF THE DIGIWORLD!! BASIMON!!!"

The digidestined were froze to the spot.

The Digimon stood in front of them, to protect them from who ever or whatever might be coming.

What they saw was a teenager, perhaps a little bit older than they were, wearing a black robe, with gold trim, and a golden circlet around her forehead.

She had raven black hair, and skin that was white as cream.

The only things that even made her remotely look like a digimon, were her eyes, which were far larger than any humans, and compleatly black with no whites around them.

There were instead of irises, two, thin red cirles around each pupil.

The other, was her legs... or at least where she should have had legs... Where the two legs should have been, there was a snakelike coil, covered in red and black scales.

She looked at Tai, and he quivered where he stood.

" Who are thou, and what might thee be doing in my forestsss?" she said in a heavily sugared accent. She could not hide the snake like hiss that accompanied it.

She was indeed very beautiful digimon... And had it not been for her coils, He would have thought her the most beautiful human he had ever seen in his entire life.

Her lips were crimson... the color of blood, and with them, she smiled.

" Ssssurely, you mean me no harm?" she asked, or rather demanded of them.

Sora looked over at Matt, who also seemed to be infatuated with the digimon.

Jyou, and Izzy seemed to be the same way...

Mimi watched the woman-like digimon, as though she were hypnotised.

Sora turned to look, and soon, she too was in the spell that was woven around them.

The only three that were not affected by it, seemed to be, Kari, T.K. and Katina, and their digimon.

Katina thought for a moment... This woman reminded her of a feary tale... And when she realised which one, she grabbed T.K. and Kari by the arms, and ran.

They did not stop, untill Katina could no longer breath, and then, she did stop.

" Why did we leave the others, Katina?" asked Kari.

" Yeah... why did you take us and run like that?" asked T.K.

Katina held up a hand for them to wait a moment.

And then when she caught her breath, she told them.

" Many years ago, when I was very little, my mother told me the story of the Basilisk... It was a hideus creature, that was so ugly, that it could kill with only one look, " She stood straight up for the two children to see she was very serious, and to not interupt her untill she was finished, "It had the head of a rooster, and the body of a snake.. It was so saddened by its own ugliness, that it learned the arts of magick, and learned how disguise itself, to make an ilusion tha it might seem to be beautiful. But after it learned, after SHE learned, she found that the spell she had woven around herself only worked once, and that it had only worked part of the way...it had given her the beauty of a woman... but had left her coils, and snake-like reproach to people. She was very angry, and for payment to the one who had taught her, she found him, and enchanted him, and then she killed him." Katina paused, to remember the rest of the story, but she dared not tell the two children in front of her.

It was Havamon who broke the temporary scilence, " Tell them the rest, Katina, they may look like children, but they, like you, have seen many things..."

" Before the man died, he put a curse on her, first banishing her to the world away from our own, and then giving her eternal hunger, for both praise, of how she looks, and for..."

Kari reached over andgrabbed Gatomon, "We have to go save Tai!" she exclaimed, " We can not let some sneaky old snake woman eat him up!!"

T.K. nodded, " She's right Patamon, we have to go save the others." Patamon nodded.

Havamon took Katinas hand, " Come, Katina, we must go." he said.

Katina only nodded.

The six of them turned back the way they came, to the monster that awaited them.

ALRIGHT, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE BOMBARDED ME WITH DEMANDS THAT I DO THE NEXT PART, HERE IT IS...

I KNEW YOU'D LOOOOVVVVE THE ENDING... HEHEHE....

AND I THINK....

Katina and Izzy run through the authors room, Katina hitting poor Izzy on the head with a two by four, " And how do you like reading through my files now YOU BIG SNEAK!!!!????" she cries out.

" KAT!!! HELP!!!" cries Izzy.

Author points a Katina, " He went through your files, didn't he?" she asks.

Izzy points at the author, " It was her idea!" he yells.

Katina lets him run from the room, and goes after the author.

" ACK!!! KATINA!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!!!" author runs from the room, Katina not far behind her.

THWACK!!!

" Ohh... my head...."

Katina pops in, " Izzy, tell them that Kat's delayed for a little while... hehehe..." snickering, she goes back off to hunt for the authoress.

SORRY, GUYS. KAT IS SOMEWHAT DELAYED AT THE MOMENT. I GUESS THAT MEANS THE NEXT PART OF THIS INTRIGING SAGA WILL BE SOMEWHAT CAPTATED FOR A FEW...

Katina sticks her head in the door, " Whart he means to say, folks, is due to the fact that I am in the middle of trying to decapatate the authoress, she wont be able to do another part for a while... Sorry... and goodnight."

YEAH, WHAT SHE SAID...