Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ If that's what it takes ❯ If thats what it takes ( Chapter 1 )

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Mimi sighed and dipped her aching feet into the cool water of the stream. She and the other seven Digidestined had been walking for what seemed years. Just a few moments ago, the group had stopped for the night, and Mimi had wandered off to soak her feet in the cool stream that had been detected near by. Laying her pink hat beside her, Mimi sighed again and leaned her head against a large boulder on her other side. Just like this, she sat for several moments, finally drifting off to sleep. About half an hour later, she woke with a start. She looked at the sun, which had almost disappeared. Quickly, she stood up and shook Palmon, her Digimon companion.

"Wake up, Palmon! We've got to get back to camp!" she exclaimed.

"Uhh? What's this? Mimi? You actually got up?" Palmon mumbled.

Together, Mimi and Palmon hurried to where the camp for the night had been set up. Upon reaching the small clearing, Mimi stopped in confusion. No one was there! Mimi looked around.

"Mimi, where is everybody?" Palmon questioned.

"They probably went off to look for food or water! I feel so bad! Sleeping when they've all been working. But then again, I needed that rest!"

"Matt! Sora, Tai, Kari, TK! Joe! Izzy!" Mimi called out. "Matt! Where are you guys?"

Just then, she set her eyes upon an object a couple of feet away. With a gasp, she hurried over to it. Izzy's laptop lay, discarded upon a mound of dirt!

"Izzy would never treat his precious computer that way! Something must have happened!" Mimi cried. She ran over to the object and snapped it open. What she saw made her cry out in horror. There was a warning on the computer screen, written in one of Izzy's many typing programs!

"What's it say, Mimi?" Palmon asked worriedly.

In a trembling voice, Mimi read the warning out loud. "Myotismon has captured us! Don't try to look for us, he'll only capture you too!" It was signed simply with the Words, Izzy and the others.

"He's captured them!" Mimi cried. She hid her face in her hands and cried. What would she do now? The others, Mat, Tai, Joe, Izzy, T.K., Sora and Kari had all been captured, and she was the only one left.

"Mimi," Palmon interrupted her thoughts. "There's something else!" Mimi peered at the screen and read the rest out loud.

"15 21 18 3 18 5 19 20 19 1 18 5 8 9 4 4 5 14 9 14 20 9 5

2 21 19 8 5 19" Mimi read out loud. "It's just a bunch of numbers, Palmon!"

"Mimi, could it be a code? Don't humans sometimes make up codes out of numbers?"

"You could be right, Palmon. See how there are spaces in between some of the numbers? They might stand for words!" Mimi studied the code. "Wait a minute! None the numbers go over 21, and there are only 26 letters in the alphabet! There must be a number between each word!"

Mimi moved the cursor over to the first set of numbers, and pressed on of the side buttons. The cursor moved into an empty space in between the numbers 15 and 21. "Okay! So 15 would be the first letter. Let's see…" She studied the numbers some more.

"Mimi…?" Palmon started.

"Shhh! I'm trying to concentrate!" She thought for a couple more minutes, then grabbed a piece of paper from her purse. She began scribbling letters onto the paper. "Got it! The message says…"Our crests are hidden in the bushes," she read aloud.

"How did you get that from the code?" Palmon questioned.

"Look," Mimi shoved the computer towards Palmon. "O is the 15'th letter in the alphabet. U is the 21'st letter in the alphabet. And R is the 18'th letter in the alphabet. Put them together, and you get the word OUR!"

"I never knew you were so smart!" Palmon complimented.

" But why would they have hidden their crests in the bushes?"

"So that Myotismon wouldn't get them, Mimi!" Palmon explained. "Sometimes you've got to think!" Palmon then muttered to herself "I take back what I said about her being smart!"

"Did you say something, Palmon?"

"Uh…No!" Palmon nervously shook her head.

"Okay! Now let's find the crests!"

Mimi and Palmon excitedly began looking in the bushes that surrounded the small clearing. After a couple of moments, Mimi cried out, "Look! The crest of Friendship! It's Matt's Crest!" Mimi held the crest close to her. She wished Matt were there. She had began to like him a lot…

"And I found the crest of Reliability, Joe's Crest!" Palmon added. Within twenty minutes, Mimi and Palmon had found all of the Crests.

"At least Myotismon didn't get these!" Mimi said in a relieved tone of voice.

"But Mimi, when Myotismon realizes that they don't have their Crests, won't he do something bad to them? Like kill them, or throw them into a pit of Tyranamon's, or something like that?" Palmon questioned.

"Oh my gosh, Palmon! You're right! We've got to find them! I don't care if Izzy told me not to, it's my duty! They're my friends!"

Mimi and Palmon rested for the rest of the night, and the next morning, set out in the direction that Myotismon's castle lay.