Digimon Dark Worlds 02: Crests of the Sins

All together || Chapter 7

(This is a more boring, uneventful chapter...It can be skipped if you'd like.)
"Hey...Jake? Jake, wake up!" Terriermon pokes Jake, him groaning in response as he opens his eyes, sitting up out of bed.
"Ugh...What..." Jake looks at the bed across from him, trying to spot Lily, but seeing no sign of her.
"Hey...Where'd Lily go?" Jake asks.
"Her and the others went to some Dojo or something..." Mrs. Evans suddenly says, poking her head into the room. "They rented it for the day, said they wanted to train or something."
"Huh, alright then..." Jake stretches, standing up out of the bed.
"Jake, is everyone alright? You all seem pretty stressed the past few days..." Mrs. Evans says, with a concerned expression. "Plus Lily was arguing with the other kids this morning...I'm surprised it didn't wake you up!"
Ugh, not really..." Jake grumbles. "Ever since that fight Allison had with another Digidestined a few days ago, everyone's been nothing but tense the past few days..." Jake's thoughts start making him think about Hoshi again. "Man, I hope that boy is ok. I wish I knew where we could find him again, then we could smooth everything out here..." Jake says.
"Me too...I can't stand all this fighting!" Terriermon pouts. "I don't like seeing everyone mad at each other like this...Plus it ruins my beauty sleep!"
"Blaine also wanted to tell you that a package had arrived for them today..." Mrs. Evans says. "It's from the other Digidestined kids, and they want everyone to open it up together..."
"Aw man, we should probably hurry up and head to the Dojo then, Terriermon..." Jake says. "But let's eat Breakfast first, I'm starving."
"Yeah, alright! Follow me, I already made some toast for you!" Terriermon excitedly runs to the kitchen.
"Aw, man...Did you burn the toast again?!" Jake whimpers.
"Heh...Maybe..."

Sometime later...
Lily and Blaine sat in the small Dojo room, the two of them sitting on some chairs. Blaine looked down at the cardboard box sitting in his lap, as the two heard Jake and Terriermon run into the room, out of breath.
"We're...Here! Sorry we're so...Late!" Jake huffs.
"Come on...I wanna see what's inside the package!!" Terriermon says, running up to the two. Jake looks around the room, noticing the lack of Logan and Allison.
"Hey, aren't Logan and Allison supposed to be here too?" Jake asks.
"They were here earlier, but the two started arguing again, and ran outside..." Blaine says, rolling his eyes.
"We were gonna wait until everyone was here to open this package, but..." Lily says. "Those two could be arguing forever."
"Aw man...Can we just open it right now? And show them later?" Jake begs. Lily and Blaine exchange looks, thinking.
"Might as well. No point in delaying it any longer." Lily says. Blaine pulls a pair of scissors out of his pocket, cutting the tape on the box.
"Yeah! What's in that box, exactly?" Jake asks.
"I think you've only seen him like, a few times before, but one of our Digidestined friends, Axel..." Blaine says. "He had a bunch of teleportation cubes left over, and I asked him to send them to us..."
"Ooh, yay! Those are what we use to go to the Digital World! Right?" Terriermon asks excitedly.
"Sure is." Lily says, smiling.
"Woah, seriously?! Does that mean we can go to the Digital World like, right now?" Jake asks.
"If these things still work..." Blaine says. Blaine fully rips off the tape, opening the box, to reveal it being stocked full of countless teleportation cubes, all neatly stacked against each other. Everyone's eyes light up looking at them, except for Lily, who notices something off.
"Wait a minute...Look at that one cube..." Lily points to a cube that was on its side, the button pressing against the side of the box.
"Wait...What?" Blaine looks in confusion, picking up that cube and pressing the button...But it does nothing.
"Do...Any of these work?" Lily asks. Blaine and Lily both pick up multiple cubes, pressing each button...But none of them do anything.
"Ugh...These are all defective! None of these work anymore!!" Blaine gets mad, angrily throwing the box to the ground, all the cubes falling out and scattering everywhere.
"Wait...They're all broken?" Terriermon sadly mutters, as he grabs and tries out more fo the cubes, none of them still working.
"Ugh, I hate this...I have no idea how we're gonna get to the Digital World now..." Blaine grumbles, resting his head in his hands. Jake awkwardly looks around, looking at the entrance door.
"Uh...You think I should ask Logan and Allison what we should do?" Jake asks.
"I don't know, I guess..." Blaine mutters quietly. "I'm not getting involved in their argument right now though..."
"That's ok..." Jake stands up. "I wanna talk to them, try and smooth things out." Jake and Terriermon walk out, leaving the room.
"Hey, it's gonna be alright..." Lily pats Blaine on the shoulder, trying to comfort him.
"Ugh, I'm sorry..." Blaine mutters, his gaze staring down at the floor. "Everything thats going on right now, it's just a bit stressful...I mean, we still have no idea how to get back to the Digital World, we still don't know how to get Allison to control Tsukaimon, and to top it all off, we still gotta find where Kudamon's partner is, and convince him to join us..."
"I remember Terriermon also mentioning that there was another Digimon that came with him to this world..." Lily adds. "It was a Dorimon, and we still have no idea where he could be..."
"Yup, that too..." Blaine says. "But if we don't see any more News headlines of Digimon attacks, there's no way for us to know where Dorimon is..."
"True...At this point we'll just have to hope that Dorimon finds his partner on his own, and we run into them in the Digital World..." Lily states. "And I wish we knew more about the Digimon that are attacking here..." She continues. "And what they want exactly."
"Thing is, there's only been a few Digimon attacking us...And they're all the same species, a Wendigomon...." Blaine says. "It's not like a variety of Digimon. It's just one type, which is weird..."
"You think those Wendigomon could be agents of some sort? That were ordered to come after the new Digidestined?" Lily asks.
"Could be...All the more reason we need to hurry and get to the Digital World." Blaine responds.
"Blaine, I know the other Digidestined desperately need our help..." Lily says. "But how else can we help them, once we get to the Digital World?"
Blaine turns his head, pulling out his katana from behind his back, the one with the cloth wrapped around the handle, and the odd line work etched into it.
"I still have this...I can fight some of the weaker Digimon with this, and help defend the group a little..." Blaine says. "At least, until I find Ryudamon again." Lily's face falls a bit, once again thinking of her partner.
"I really wish I had Lopmon and Taeka with me..." Lily says. "I always felt so much more confident with them around me." Blaine looks over to Lily, patting her on the shoulder.
"Hey, don't worry about it..." Blaine says. "I promise you, we'll find Lopmon, Taeka, and our other partners...Don't worry Lily, I've got your back." Lily looks up at him, with a warm smile, as she suddenly hugs Blaine.
"Thanks, Blaine..." She says, Blaine hugging her back.
"...Of course." The two stay embraced for a short moment, before letting go.
"Hm...I wonder what's going on with Jake right now...With Logan and Allison..." Blaine says, the two looking out at the door.
"Well, whatever's going on..." Lily says. "It's probably not pretty."