Episode 32: A Little Rei Of Sunshine!

After ten more minutes, Mario now feels tired. "I feel ready for bed..." Mario says as the Gomamon head back to the resort.

"Yeah, me too," Flora says, admiring her nails. She stretches a little and stand sup, going over to Mario to help him up.

Mario manages to get up, but the sudden shift in weight causes him to fall onto Flora and knock her over.

Normally, she would yell at Mario for what happened, but seeing him lying on top of her, him staring into her eyes, she couldn't help but blush instead.

Mario also blushes and then gets up. "Sorry," he says, helping Flora up.

Flora says nothing for a bit as Mario helps her walk to the spa. After a few minutes, Flora hugs him.

Mario returns the hug a few more seconds later, his wings curling up around them as if in a protective way.

"Aw, how sweet."

"GAH!" Flora and Mairo yell as they quickly release each other and fall in opposite directions. They look to the source of the voice.

It was Lopmon.

"Lopmon?" Flora asks.

"Who?" Mario inquires.

"We met her at Auggie's house," Flora explains. She then looks at Lopmon. "What are you doing here?"

"I heard that you all managed to save Shellmon," Lopmon says, "and since the spa was open, I'd thought that I would drop by and get my ears massaged." She then walks over to Mario and picks up his tail. "So you're part-dragon, huh? Wow, that must be something."

Mario's tail pulls away. "It's not really much of anything."

"Are you kidding?" Lopmon says, now examining his wings. "Do you realize how unique this makes you?"

Flora quickly grabs Lopmon and pulls her awake. "Back off. He's mine..." she whispers to Lopmon.

"Of course," Lopmon says, holding her paws up while sweatdropping.

"Well, if you don't mind, we want to go to bed," Agumon says.

"Of course. Don't mind me," Lopmon says. "You'll know where I'll be." She then rushes off into the spa.

Silence follows before Guilmon yawns.

"Come on, let's get you to bed," Gatomon says. She helps lead Guilmon into the spa, and Agumon helps Palmon into the spa as well. Mario does the same with Flora.

In the spa, they quickly find the room where everyone was sleeping. Everyone soon goes to bed.

About five minutes later, Flora rises from her bed, quietly going over to Mario's bed. A few seconds pass, in which she watches Mario's sleeping figure. She then leans over, kissing him on the cheek. She then goes over to her bed and gets back into it, falling asleep almost right away.

Zai sighed, retiring to a room with Syn, but, though Syn slept like a baby, Zai hadn't slept quite as well.

When they woke up, Syn bounded out of the room, happy as can be, with Zai walking rather calmly behind her, perhaps a lack of sleep was always the reason for her to be lesserly cheery in the digital world.

The next day Evander woke up. Evander got up, woke his Digimon up and went to the Lobby. "I'm really Hungry. Do you think that they serve pancakes here? I didn't get any from Mario's Secret Stash." Ladybugmon said. "Mabey, I would like some pancakes as well. Or Mabey Eggs and Bacon." Agumon said. Terriermon nodded. "Man, I had a Good Nites Rest. I wonder if they DO serve breakfast here? Oh Well there is the desk guy so I'll ask him. " Evander thought. Evander walked toward the Toucanmon. His legs were still a little weak because he just had woken up. "Excuse me. Do you serve breakfast here? If you do then What do you have?" Evander asked.

"I want Bacon and Eggs." Agumon said.

"We want Pancakes." Ladybugmon, Terriermon and Evander said at the same time.

Flora yawns as she walks out next to Zai. "Well, yesterday was pretty good, minus you-know-who's insane moment," she says, referring to Syn. "I had 'Billy' thrown into the ocean, though, so I think that problem will be out of the way for a while, hopefully."

"Hey, look what I found on the beach!" Guilmon says, holding up a stick with a cloth and seaweed on it.

At that second, Flora looks ready to blow a gasket.

Ladybugmon's eyes widend. "WOW!? Oh...but how much is this gonna cost?" Ladybugmon asked.

"Well... that's good," Zai sighed in relief hearing that the stick had been tossed, and Syn no longer could talk about, and to, her little stick-friend. Then... she saw Guilmon. With 'Billy'. "Next time... if you throw it in the ocean, remember to snap it into several little peices and hope that it doesn't re-assemble itself somehow..."

"Billy?" Syn seemed to perk up more, spotting Guilmon and her 'long' lost stick. She quickly darted over to Guilmon, "ooh!" she hopped a little, "can I see it? It's Billy!" she whined loudly, "please let me see Billy? Please?" she squeaked out her last word.

"Okay," Guilmon says, about to hand Billy over.

"...Guilmon, come over here," Flora says.

"Okay...why?" he asks.

CRACK!

"OW! Why'd you hit me with the stick I was holding?!?"

"Trust me, I just did everyone a favor," Flora says, dropping the broken stick.

Everyone started to dig in. "Oh Wow! This stuff is so good. I love pancakes. I love Grits, I love Eggs, Waffles and Toast." Gabumon said with a mouth full of food. "You can say that again." Jessica said sigging in. "Oh Wow! This stuff is so good. I love pancakes. I love...." Gabumon was cut off. "I didn't mean that literalty." Jessica said. "So, What's with the Crests they haven't glew in a while?" Leormon asked. "Oh...I don't know." Jessica said. Evander finnaly was full. "Oh...that was great. We have been so well fed, So relaxed that I defenetly feel like getting the crests and fighting the Digimon Ruler now." Evander said punching left and right. "OK. I've had my Pancakes...All is well." Ladybugmon said.

"Wow, you really wanted those pancakes." Agumon said.

"Yup." Ladybugmon said.

"Evander? What are we going to do now?" Agumon asked. Evander looked around. Evander sighed. We have to wait for Tameron andMeldmon to come down and eat." Evander said.

Tameron did eventually go to sleep and he woke up late. By the time he woke up everyone else had been wake and was already eating breakfast. He looked over and seen Nanomon had dedigivolved from Meldmon. Tameron woke up Nanomon by shaking him to death. Nanomon woke up angered and began to yell at Tameron. Tameron slapped Nanomon in the head and then went to find the other whom were already eating breakfast. When he found them he seen the food and felt sick to his stomach and his face turned green, but he walked over to the empty chair and sat down. Nanomon didn't spare any time at all, he jumped right onto the table and just started feeding his face.

Evander stood and looked at billy the stick. Evander picked it up and gave it to syn. "Don't worry. Now you have too. One's Billy, one's Mandy." Evander said.

Syn had begun crying when Billy had snapped. "Billy's dead!" she shouted loudly, but almost instantly stopped when she heard Evan, and sniffled slightly, before smiling, "yay! Two!" she sounded unusually happy at this point, and looked at him in silence for a quick moment, "Evan," she spoke in a childish and hopeful voice, "sometime when you're not busy would you play with me?" she shifted the Billy stick a little, then the Mandy stick.

Zai sighed a little, "well... that almost worked..."

"When i was 6, I had a Teddy Bear that was torn up by a dog one time. I cryed. but I found a nice Tailer and he had him Fixed right up. Even if the 2 sticks do annoy us. Every child needs an Imaginary freind untill they mature so...welcome to the team Billy and Mandy!" Evander said.

Flora turns to Zai. "Okay, I got a plan. I'll find some string, and you'll distract Syn with it. Then I'll take the sticks and find a way to burn them."

Before anything can happen, though, a bright light fills the room. It was coming from the marble from earlier.

"GACK!" a yelp comes from the next room as Mario's Tag floats toward the marble with all the others, but still tied around Mario's neck. It dragged him into the room from the bedroom until the string snapped. Mario falls on his wings and the Tag begins to circle the marble. Rays of light shoot out of the marble as a ray of light runs from the Crest of Amity to the marble. An image of the Crest appears for a second before hitting another Tag. The Tag glows and then points in the direction of the jungle. The Tags then return to their owners.

It was Flora's Tag this time.

"...Wow...it's my Tag..." Flora says. "...And the light completely burned up Syn's sticks, so I guess that's two birds, one stone."

Flora can't help but nod. She goes over to Mario. "Are you okay?"

"Fine..." he says, pulling on one sleeve of a special jacket he was given with slits in the back for his wings. His pants also had a hole in the seat for his tail. "I'm surprised how good the tailors here are."

"Come on, we better hurry," she says as Guilmon hands Mario his backpack.

"Thanks..." Mario says before checking the inside. "You didn't put food in it again, did you?"

"No," Guilmon says. "Only the orange juice."

"...Just go ahead and catch up with Evan..." Mario says with a sigh as he tries to dry the inside out with a towel.

Guilmon nods and runs out the door with about ten pancakes in his mouth. Gatomon follows him after finishing her fish. Agumon leaves after eating three steaks. Palmon gets up after a few glasses of water.

Flora helps Mario up after he finishes.

Mario then takes Flora's hand and walks with her out the door.

Guilmon finishes his pancakes as soon as he reaches Evan and the others.

Gatomon comes up from behind him. "You all need to learn to slow down. What if you rushed off once and you were attacked while we were still some distance behind you?"

Agumon and Palmon soon follow, then comes Mario (dragon form) and Flora.

"Then he'd be in trouble," Zai shrugged a little, as Syn had finally stopped talking about sticks.

"I want to eat Flora's tag... it was mean... and is shiny... and looks very yummy-ful..." Syn spoke, almost hypnotised, "can I?"

"I think that would be bad, Syn..." Zai sighed.

"Ah... no, sadly, I don't think he's sane at all..." Zai shook her head quickly, "he is odd. Very odd. For anything. Especially a fallen angel... I swear, as a baby, he had to have been dropped on his head or something..."

"Eeek..." Syn cringed a little, "I don't like hands... they're yucky, and touch icky stuff... and... do you really want to find out all the squishy stuff I eat everyday if you did that?"

Evander's Agumon looked dumbfounded. "You don't like hands? What the heck does that mean?" Agumon asked. Evander smacked his face. "Oh, the Stupidity." Evander replied to Agumon.

Tameron was still feeling sick and didn't know even what they were looking for. He then began to make faces at Evan. After a while of Evan not noticing Tameron got bored of that and quite making faces. Nanomon ran up in front of the others and acted as if he was marching.

"Hnh I hate marching...It cramps my legs up and makes me sticky."Tsuko complained to his digimon.

"ah suck it up Tsuko!"

Flora sighs. "We'll get there when we get there," she says. "Be patient."

"So what is your Crest, Flora?" Mario asks.

"It's still a mystery!" Agumon and Guilmon say in a ghostly way.

Silence.

"Was that really necessary?" Flora asks.

"Well, it's true," Agumon says. "We won't know what the Crest is of until we get it."

Ladybugmon ran and hid behind Evander, pulling him down accidently. "AHH!! GHOSTS!" Ladybugmon yelled. "AHH!! MY BUTT!" Evander yelled. Ladybugmon started crying. Evander bopped Agumon and Guilmon on the head..

"OW" they both yell.

"Don't hit them, Evan," Gatomon says with a sigh. "Look, they just said whatever they felt was appropriate."

Nanomon stopped marching and ran back and tackled Labybugmon hopping Ladybugmon would play. Tameron walked up beside Flora.

"So what exactly are we looking for?" asked Tameron scratching his head kinda embarrassed that after all that had gone on he still had no clue about anything.

Ladybugmon started tackling Nanomon and running around with him. Evander smiled at the site of his Digimon having fun. "The Crest dohdoh brain." Jessica said. the other Digimon went to go play as well.

Tameron contiuned to look at Flora. "So how do you know that it's something important if you know nothing about it?" he asked feeling more like an idiot. Tameron then turned around and began walking backwards.

Jessica sighed. "Come on let's go find it." Jessica said. Jessica looked over to Leormon. "Leormon, Gabumon, Pawnchessmon, let's go!" Jessica called. "Coming!" They all yelled at once. Ladybugmon also came along. Evander. Jessica and Digimon started to walk further into the jungle. Looking for any sighn of the Crest.

"Simply put, our Digimon can only go as high as Champion level without the Crests," Flora says.

"Mario, why don't you do an aerial search?" Palmon asks.

"Look, I've only recently discovered what I am, so I'm still new to this body," he says. "And flying is something that I haven't mastered yet."

Evander looks back. the group looks small. "HEY!!! Slowpokes hurry up. Why don't you use you Digivice to look!" Evander called. "Yeah, the Digivice will know! " Terriermon yelled.

"Look, you think I haven't been trying to look?" Flora asks. "The Digivice isn't doing a thing, and the Tag has been flashing at the same rate it has been flashing at since the marble acted up. It doesn't speed up, it doesn't slow down, so it won't tell us how hot or cold we are!"

"BECAUSE YOU AREN:T MOVING!" Terriermon yelled over to Flora. "COME TO US AND SEE WHAT HAPPENs!

Tameron was bored and began messing with his Digivice again and manage to pull up the 3D map again, but this time there was a red dot on it and it was moving closer to them. Then he heard a girl scream. "GET THIS THING AWAY FROM ME!!!" the voice said. Then the bushes beside him began to shake.

"I AM MOVING! IN FACT, I'M COMING OVER THERE TO POUND YOUR FACE IN!" Before she can move, however, she notices the bushes. "Oh gee..."

A tall girl wearing a long black over coat ran out of the bush and right over Evan. She stopped right before she ran over Tameron.

"YOU!!!" She yelled. "WHAT THE F*** IS GOING ON HERE!!!" she demanded an answer from Tameron. Tameron was speechless and kinda scared. This girl was one he has known sence he was a baby... It was his older sister and she wasn't to happy. She then grabbed Tamerons shouldeers and started shaking him.

The bushes began to shake again and red eyes appeared. Then out ran a white Agumon. "Master!!" iut yelled as it aprroched the girl. She stopped shaking Tameron and jumped behind him. "Get it away from me!!!" she yelled "I'm just skin and bones... Eat him first!" she yell as she pushes Tameron towards the Agumon.

Evander grabbed Rei. "Hey, Back off. Just because you're a girl doesn't mean I'll go easy on you!" Evander yelled.

Rei turned around and looked at Evan. "HOW DARE YOU TOUCH ME!!!" She Said as he reared her fist back and punched Evan in the face. Tameron ran back and grabbed onto Rei's arm so she couldn't hit him again. "Raicel stop!!!!" yelled Tameron pulling back on her arm as she tried to pull her arm away.

While Tameron and Rei were fighting over her arm, the white Agumon walked up and grabbed onto Rei leg. Rei screemed again, but this time ven louder.

"Don't be afraid I don't want to hurt you, I want to be your friend. My name if SnowAgumon and I'm here to protect you." it said.

That didn't change how raicel felt at all, no it just made her more scarred and she began to kick her leg hoping to shake the white Agumon off.

While Tameron and Rei were fighting over her arm, the white Agumon walked up and grabbed onto Rei leg. Rei screemed again, but this time ven louder.

"Don't be afraid I don't want to hurt you, I want to be your friend. My name if SnowAgumon and I'm here to protect you." it said.

That didn't change how Raicel felt at all, no it just made her more scarred and she began to kick her leg hoping to shake the Agumon off.

"...Okay...it looks like she's new here..." Flora remarks as she sighs.

"Did anyone else notice how scared Tameron looked when he saw her?" Mario's Agumon asks.

"I did," Gatomon says. "Which means that he knows her..." She looks at Tameron. "So, who is she?"

Evander looked angry at the purple haired girl. Ladybugmon started to whimper. "Who is the mean pirate lady?" Ladybugmon asked. Ladybugmon thought that she was a pirate because of her eyepatch.

Evander then thought about it. "Wait...YOU'RE THE DIGIMON RULER!" Evander yelled.

Evander punched her. Not caring that she was a girl. him thinking she was the Ruler made him not care.

Tameron looks over at everyone else and turns really red and kinda shaky. "She is my sister." he said. Just about then Raicel kicked SnowAgumon off of her leg. He tried to walk back over to her, but Nanomon got in his way. "That isn't a good Idea." said Nanomon and SnowAgumon backed away.

Raicel settled down when SnowAgumon backed away. "Ya he's my little brother," she said. She then kneed Tameron in the back. Tameron fell to his kees and looked back at her. "Hey what was that for!"

"Because if you didn't wonder off the other day I wouldnt have followed you here and I wouldn't have been woundering these woods for the last couple days running from this thing." she said as she kicked Tameron. "OWWW!" Yelled Tameron.

"Oh, Sorry." Evander said feeling guilty that he punched a...well...sort of innocent Girl.

Raicel felt the punch but it just felt like she was stung by a bee. She turned around again and punched Evan again. "Don't hit a lady!!!" she yelled as her first popped over the contact pof her fist hitting Evans jaw.

"Well, she would do well on Felinica, that's for sure," Flora remarks, chuckling a little.

"When do you think she'll realize that we're here?" Mario asks.

"Not sure, but she could just be ignoring us because I have cat ears and a tail and you're part-dragon."

"...Touche..."

For a second, nothing happens.

Then Flora grabs Raicel's hands and pulls them away from her ears in a mixed gentle/harsh way. "Please...don't grab and/or pull the ears and tail..." she says with twitching eyes.

Mario and the Digimon are silent before backing away slowly, wanting a good distance should Flora lose it.

Raicel turned around and tucked her arms under each other as if she was about to get mad. "Boy did someone wake up on the wrong side of the litter box" she wispered. She did this to test her sence of hearing.

"I heard that..." Flora says, looking like she was using all her willpower to try and keep from killing Raicel.

"Um, Raicel, is it?" Mario asks. "I think you'd better stop now before Flora goes crazy..."

"AWW! Pretty Kitty all gwown up!" Evander said poking flora.

Raicel walked over to Mario and looked him dead in the eyes. "Oh isn't that cute. Are you standing up for your girlfriend? I don't think you should have to worry about me." she said as he got into Mario's face and did the puppy dog eye thing that girls do.

Evander walks over to flora. "Come on let's find your crest." Evander said.

Evander walks some more looking for the Crest.

"Uh... In a way I like her... in a way, I think she's going to be almost as bad as Tsuko..." Zai commented lightly, to Syn, almost certain she wasn't noticed, which, could have been a good thing. "Then again, Flora will probably kill her by the end of the day... so, if you ever find a way to become friends with her, don't get too attached like you did the stick..."

"I miss Billy..." Syn commented to that a little harshly for only a second, "oooh! Do you think she'll play games with me?" she shouted that last part.

"No... no, I don't think she will..." Zai sighed a little.

Evander walks over to Rei. "Hey, we are on a mission to find our crests. You can either join us or stay here and freak out over your Digimon." Evander said. "Plus why are you Being mean to my friend Tameron?" Evander asked.

"THAT BOY HAS BEEN NOTHING BUT TROUBLE! I HATE HIM!!!!" Raicel yelled. Evander looked confused. "What? But he's you little brother, plus he's family, how could you hate him?" Evander asked.

"He's always been the center of attention, and I always got a severe punishment while he only got a slap on the wrists!" Raicel said. Evander sighed. Jessica walked over to Raicel and went into a deep explaination about the Digital World &he Digimon who live in it. "That's rediculus! That's just a Card Game/TV show isn't it?" Rei asked.

After Raicel had calmed down, Evander showed Raicel the functions of her Digivice. "If you have any questions about Digimon, press the options button on your digivice, you'll see Digidex, and Digi-pedia, it'll give you explanations about Digimon, the Digital world and ETC. You have a Responsibility now to save this place from destruction. So stop beating on everyone or I'll have to Beat on you." Evander explained.

"Oh Well, I guess the Ice White Dinosaur clinging to my leg is proof, so I geuse I'll help 'Save' this virtual reality world that we are in. Oh By the way...GET OFF OF ME!!! YOU'RE STARTING TO DROOL ON MY LEG!!" Rei yelled at her Digimon.

"OK! Let's get a move on. Finnaly." Evander said walking off. Rei looked over to Tameron. "Just don't get in the way you little brat." Rei said. Evander rolled his eyes. "Oh gosh, it's like Flora except she usualy has a reason for going ape on everyone." Evander thought. "Hey, I've never seen your kind of Digimon before, are you a new speices?" Agumon asked. SnowAgumon didn't hear him.

Flora is still steamed from Raichel, but soon bottles up her anger, but she still keeps her fists clenched and ready.

"Come on, guys, let's just try and find Flora's Crest," Mario tries to change the subject.

Flora holds up her Crest, finding that it was beginning to pulse faster. "...Hey, I think it's just past these bushes," she excalims before running ahead of the group, not only a bit eager to get her Crest, but also eager to get away from Raichel even if just for a few seconds. However, as soon as she steps through the bushes, she disappears in the blink of an eye and without a sound.

"Where did she go?! Where did the Cat Girl go to?!" Rei asked really confused.

"Odd...." Agumon mumbles.

"WHAT!? FLORA DISSAPEARS INTO THIN AIR AND ALL YOU CAN SAY IS 'ODD'?" Terriermon yells.

"Where did she go?! Where did the Cat Girl go to?!" Rei asked really confused.

"I don't think this has to do with her Crest..." Gatomon adds.

"It doesn't. I'll guarantee you that."

Everyone jumps.

"Flora, it that you?" Mario yells, looking around. "Where are you?"

"Down here."

"Down where?" he asks before freezing. "...No...they sent you to the bad place!" He falls to his knees and begins to cry.

A shoe suddenly flies at him and hits him in the head.

"Ow!" he yells.

"Not in the bad place! In a hole in the ground!" Flora yells again. "Now someone throw me back my shoe!"

Ladybugmon picks up the shoe. Ladybugmon flies down the hole. "Here you go!" Ladybugmon said handing Flora her shoe.

"Thanks..." Flora says, taking the shoe back.

"Why are you down in a hole?" Guilmon asks. "Doesn't look fun."

"It isn't! Now someone please pull me out now before I have to pull one of you down here and use you for a footstool!" Flora retorts.

"Oh boy, she's mad again..." Palmon says with a sigh.

Digivolution.

Ladybugmon Digivolve to....Boxerincectmon!

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Boxerincectmon picks up Flora and flies out of the hole. Boxerincectmon puts Flora on the ground and Dedigivolves.

"Hey Flora, are you ok?" Evander asked. Tameron chuckled a little. "Evander, she just fell down a hole. Would you be ok if you fell down a hole?" Tameron asked."I'm fine," Flora says, seeming to swallow her pride. "Now let's hurry and find that Crest. I'm already fed up with this jun-"

Flora suddenly disappears again.

"Flora?!?" Mario yells. "She's gone? Again?!?"

"Mario, shut up! I just fell down another hole..." Flora yells.

"...Erm..." Gatomon didn't know what to say now. "Why are there two holes in this jungle?"

Mario reaches into the pit with his tail, straining a little before succeeding.

"Thanks, Mario," she says, seeming to soften a little when Mario helped her.

"...Um...guys?" Agumon says to bring everyone's attention to him.

In front of him along the path were numerous holes.

"...Wow...that's a lot of holes..." Guilmon adds.

"What in the world? I can't Digivolve again, because I just now did it. Wait, Mario can turn into his dragon form to get us out incase we fall in." Ladybugmon said.

"Yeah, Mario can do it. But still why are there so many holes!?" Terriermon asked. Pawnchessmon sighed. "This might be the Digimon Ruler's doing."

Mario walks over to a few of the holes. "...I'm not really sure about that."

"Why's that?" Guilmon asks.

"Because these holes were made by a shovel," he says, pointing at the uneven walls. "Look at the walls and floor. Shovels create this kind of uneven dirt markings on the wall and ceiling. Drills and all other digging tools create different patterns in the dirt, like spirals and smooth walls."

"...Erm...I'd rather not ask why you know that," Gatomon states. "I just have the feeling that it'll be some long, pathetic story."

"For your information..." Mario starts looking a bit angry before sighing. "...Yes, it is..."