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Draco nodded as he turned, looking down as Ashu ran by, hiding from his armoured digimon. Draco sighed as he walked over to Chaos, hitting him. "Come on, can't you be friendly?" He said, turning back to the little dragon. "Sorry about him. He is just stoic." He looked back at his Dragon once more. "Ugh... Chaos why don't you fly ahead and... see if you can spot anything."

Chaos just nodded as he looked down at Ashu, giving him a try flash of his razor sharp teeth before taking off.

"Chaos is a funny character. He isn't looking for anything beyond combat. He doesn't want strength, he wants to fight. He doesn't want power, he wants to battle. He doesn't want to be the best, he just wants to brawl." Draco answered, "But I trust him with my life. He was my first partner, and he hasn't let me down yet." Draco smiled a little. "But don't worry about him. Lets just focus on getting back to Network City.

(Exit Draco to The Senate Dome)

The switch of dress...
[Enter from File mountains]

The portal opened on the side of a rock. The trio stepped out and took time to examine the surroundings.
"Nice place."
Jai took a deep breath and let it all out.
"Maybe we should rest here."
Veemon and Lucemon nodded with huge smiles on their faces.
"Seems like a plan, I'm bloody exausted after the escapade in the mountains, and opening portals takes it's toll."
Jai smiled and headed to the beach. The lake was seperate from the main island, so it was a nice retreat.

The three boys found a nice warm spot underneath some trees to rest. A few things filled Jai's mind, only trivial things though. Things like: Maybe I need a change of clothes, like a new style, Hey, I haven't washed in a while, I must stink, and Hmm, maybe I should kinda disect my digivice to find out what it is.

Jai stood up, and rummaged through his jacket pocket. He pulled out his Gameboy Advanced, his pair of, now cracked, glasses, his Digivice and his notepad and pen. He put these at the base of the tree he was layed against, and pulled off his jacket.

He threw his jacket, his raggedy scarf and his worn out shoes to one side. He got the assitance from Lucemon who somehow, turned leaves and tree bark into cloth. He then would meld this with Jai's jacket and scarf to form a new shirt and trousers. As this mystreious, and rather questionable event begun, Jai would employ the help of Veemon to make some gloves, the old fasion way, using old material and a sharp shard of metal. Time flew and it was already dark, mearly lit by some flaming sticks, wedged into nearby rocks.

The group all sat with cramping hands and strained backs, but the result was great. Mainly because of Lucemon's wierd tailoring skills. Jai had obtained a messanger/shoulder bag to store his equiptment in, a magnifisent white-blue shirt, a new pair black jeans and a pair of awesome gloves, with yellow rubber braclets on them. Jai switched from half naked to fully dressed with extreme thanks to his friends. As he whent back to his resting spot he slipped on his new sneakers and used his bag as a pillow.
It'll do. I hope I come across some awesome clothes soon. At the moment I look Like I'm off to school.
The group fell into a silent rest, gathered around an orange, glowing fire.

Dinohyumon's legs were crossed, and his eyes closed. His deep breaths were interrupted by a young mans voice in his ear, and breaking his concentration he listened momentarily to the boy's question about a hidden base nearby. Giving absolutely no sign that he had been paying attention dragonic human waited a few moments taking in a few last deep breaths from the herbal fire burning in front of him. As he finished his train of thought he began to speak in a low, calming voice "We... have been expecting you young man." His eyes still closed he stood to his feet, and turned about face to the boy and his blue dragon. "You" he addressed the Veemon, "You have disturbed our careful balance of peace, and now you wish to find that which has saved us from the ensuing turmoil... this can not be done." Opening his eye's as he finished his statement for emphasis, The green digimon then turned and walked through the flames of his fire away from the rocks, and into the plains. The grass in this valley was sharp like needles, bringing pain into the feet of the faithless. The colors of the habitat were so vibrant, that human eyes had no hope to truly take in the majesty that a digimon could surely appreciate.

Jai ran after the dragon like creature with haste.
"What do you mean 'disturbed the peace'?"
Veemon looked up with a scared, and sotongly confused expression.
"What's going on?"
Jai had no answer to Veemon, and remained focused on the dragon.
"We came here to find Lief's hidden base! You know, Lief Pyrex? He had a wolf called Scout, don't you know him?"
Lucemon sctratched his head, and his pupils dilated. Thinking.
"We need to go there! I don't care if Veemon disturbed you, because..."
Jai stopped, and began to well up in tears.
"Lief is dead!"


---Veemon's mind---

As the boy who so helped him in the underworld called after the digimon known as Dinohumon, Veemon thought more about his pourpose. The very meaning of his existence was to do something for this boy. No matter how much thought whent into this, Veemon could not figure out what he had to do.

A heartbeat, a shout, a cry. All sounds from Lief's death. He remembered them all, exactly as they happened. No boy so young could cope with a death of a friend. Jai? He wasn't the bravest boy, and he got over it faster then the bravest themselves. Why?

The Digisoul, yes, that was too fammiliar. The core of it all. No one can see the core, the heart and the root of Digisoul. But Veemon did, he saw what should not be seen by ordinary digimon. The coding had rushed into Veemon's head, causing a power surge, waiting to be calmed. That calming was the digivolve, all the way up to Mega stage, all the way to Veemon's final strength, only reached once one has trained, helped, and saved...

---Reality---

Jai stared at the dragon-man until an answer was brought.

Jai adheared to the dragon's words, and led the team through the giant footprints to follow. Jai noticed what Dinohumon inferenced. Someone in the shadows. The presence was all too fammiliar, but Jai chose to ignore it, and continued to catch up with the dragon man.

Jai turned in responce to the fammiliar voice.
"Huh? Rei, it's you."
Jai answered the question.
"The person... Lief...."
A tear ran down Jai's face.
"He's... well, he's dead."
Lucemon placed a hand on Jai's shoulder.
"It's difficult. But since you and Kazu got absorbed into that light, we decided to heed his last words. To find his base."
Jai nodded, sending tears on his shirt.
"Yes, and we are following this dragon man as he is going to help us find it."
Jai thought what had happened. Rei attacked Kazu with no reason. The boy thought of seeping a bit of torment into Rei, but now wasn't the time.
"So, you wanna tag along? Well fine, but if you are gonna attack any of my friends, then you can leave."
Veemon huged Jai's leg. This Digimon was really a child? After what he did at the mountains? Without any more questioning Jai picked Veemon up and placed him on his shoulders.
Boy, all this adventuring has made me tougher.
Jai called ahead.
"Wait up dragon man!"

Jai resumed to follow the path drawn by Dinohumon, into the dark depths of a network of a cave. Lucemon fell silent, deep in thought, and followed instinctivly down the trail.

--Veemon's mind--

Maybe, maybe my purpose is to help Jai, but how, why me? How could I help a human, and that power, how did I release it? Jeez, why am I asking myself these things? I obviously don't know what the answer is. But hey, what if I find my answer here? This place is full of dragons like me! Yeah, when we get to that place Jai's friend wanted, I can ask. But who is that boy behind us? He seems nice enough, maybe I can trust him, beause he has a dragon digimon. Well, all we can hope is that when we arrive, I will finally understand.

--Reality---

Jai turned his head to Rei, and sighed. His little adventure on his own ruined, but hey, when they get to the base, they both can forge the league.
"That's it! We need a name... hmm...."
Jai trudged on and finaly decided to ask Rei.
"Rei, um, when we make this league, what shall it be called? I'm letting you get dibsies on naming it."