First Year Bliss (Nanami)

Kaya and Hawkeye listened patiently as both Nanami and Cream shared the events of how they met. Apparently an egg and her Digivice appeared next to her bed, and she later found them in the fridge. Right then and there was when they attempted to explain everything to her. "Yeah, not the best way to meet anyone in general, I suppose..."

"Agreed," Hawkeye said with a small nod.

"So wait... that means you have two Digimon, right?" Kaya had asked. "So where's the other one?"

Kaya and Hawkeye were both equally shocked when Cream revealed that she was just upset over Nanami taking back a thank you for passing her the milk at the time. They'd both be doing anime falls if this was an anime. Nanami then asked how Kaya had met Hawkeye. "Well, it happened so suddenly... I was minding my own business at home when suddenly this... portal opened up, and it sucked me in. When I woke up..."

"...she ended up in my village, in another world known as the Digital World," Hawkeye continued. "I was chosen to accompany her on her way to a city in the Digital World to send her home... but alas, we bonded during the trip. I tried to ignore that feeling when she left, but I just could not. I ended up coming here myself to find her, and when I did, that's when her Digivice was summoned to her."

"And we became partners and best friends," Kaya added, "even if he's a big grump half the time!"

"I will make this perfectly clear: it is not like... THAT... between me and Kaya," Hawkeye said very sternly. "Because I am entirely against a human and Digimon being together in that sense, and Kaya is very young still." The bird looked utterly disgusted that their story was compared to a story of romance, when in his mind it clearly was not anything of the sort.

"Just like a grumpy old man, isn't he?" Kaya asked Nanami in a jovial tone.

It was then that Cream stated that she and this Mocha were playing hide and seek, but then Cream got bored and took a nap, and she seemed very concerned about finding her. Apparently Mocha does things when she gets bored. One of those things seemed to immediately happen when the school's fire alarm then started to go off.

"What is that noise?!" Hawkeye asked, pulling an arrow out of his quiver.

"The school's fire alarm," Kaya said, realizing what Cream had meant. Cream asked the three of them - Kaya, Hawkeye and Nanami - to get to safety. Kaya firmly disagreed with this. "That isn't gonna happen, Cream. I'm a Tamer now, and dealing with Digimon problems is what we do."

"Besides, if you cannot even open a door how else do you expect to traverse the school? We're coming with."

It seemed like there was no shaking the others off for Cream, as Kaya, Hawkeye and Nanami all insisted on coming with her to find Mocha. Cream was clear on one point, though: no harm would come to Mocha in any way. Hawkeye looked at the Gummymon. "I can make no promises but I will be sure to not harm Mocha if we come across her."

Kaya followed Nanami down the stairs after putting Hawkeye back into the V-Pet. Cream would have to find somewhere to hide as well so that no other students or teachers see her. Said students were evacuating the school as teachers led them to their designated safe areas. Kaya saw that same teacher look in their way, jumping behind the corner as well. Nanami asked what they should do from here. "Well, Digimon have the ability to sense nearby Digimon. Maybe Cream can-"

"What are you two doing here?" A sudden male voice asked, scaring Kaya to no end. She looked up to see a male student that was also in Kaya's and Nanami's class. This light skinned student had medium brown hair that went a little bit past his neck, parted so that his bright blue eyes were very visible. "There's a fire in the school, why are you not following the rest of the class?"

"Ugh, you scared me, Luneth," Kaya said with a sigh, "someone pulled the fire alarm on purpose, we're trying to find them."

"Someone pulled the alarm as a prank?! Well, I'm going to help you find them then!"

"No no, that's okay, you don't have to-"

"Nonsense! You can't talk me out of it; I shall come with!"

As stated before, Digimon can sense other nearby Digimon. Well, Cream would be able to sense this Luneth the same way as she would be able to with other Digimon. Could that mean something...?

Luneth raised an eyebrow when both girls shrieked upon his arrival, especially with the pink haired one hitting her head and spouting nonsense to him. "I'm not the class representative... not yet, at least," he said with a slight chuckle in that last part. She then held out her D-3 towards him, claiming it to be a "hall pass". His eyes widened upon seeing the device.

A Digivice?! But then that means...

His thoughts were confirmed when Cream began to speak up. She had been completely missed by Luneth, and now that she's here it's clear that these two know about Digimon. Luneth suspected he might be going to school with some Digimon-involved humans, but for two to be in his class? At the moment though, he decided to not reveal his secret too early. He convincingly backed away slightly when seeing Cream. "W-What the heck is that!?!"

"A Digimon..." Kaya said with a sigh, unable to hide it any longer. "I can explain more later. Right now we need to find the Digimon who pulled that fire alarm."

"There's ANOTHER one on the loose?"

"Uh huh... and you can't promise to tell anyone about this. Got it?"

"Yep, got it... and it's nice to meet you too, Nanami. I'm Luneth Kanzaki, and I'm in the same class as you and Kaya. So... where would this other Digimon go?"

While Nanami was catching on that something was off about Luneth, Kaya wasn't catching on at all. To her, he was just a normal classmate that she would see every day. Granted they haven't really befriended each other yet, but they did run into each other every so often, and he just seemed.. well, average.

Cream began to head down the hallway on her own, saying that if they stand around any longer, Mocha will cause even more chaos. "Yeah, she's right," Kaya said with a nod, lightly grabbing Nanami's hand and walking down the hallway with the others.

As they walked, Nanami asked if there were any more humans in the Digital World. Mocha explained that they were scary because they had no idea how powerful their Digimon could become, and that they tried to avoid them as much as they could. "I don't think humans are so bad," Luneth said. "A lot of us are pretty nice, actually."

"Besides, the ones I've met that are involved with Digimon only want good things to happen involving our two worlds. Besides, you and Mocha have a Tamer now, Cream. That could only mean you two could get even more powerful!"

Eventually they found a sentence written on the hallway wall in black marker. The writing used was Digicode, something only Digimon could read. Luneth, of course, could read it just fine but pretended like he couldn't.

Kaya blinked when Cream translated it. "Stupid stupid? My sister makes up better insults than this, and she's nine!"

After hearing Cream share her pondering, Kaya felt... offended. Horribly offended. The way her race was talked about... well, it was as if Cream was talking about some sort of virus or disease. No one would feel good after hearing about their species being described of like that. Kaya was about to just take off and join the other students before Nanami spoke up in defense of herself, Kaya and Luneth.

That was enough to convince Kaya to stay. But before they moved on, Kaya looked at Cream once more. "Just so you know, the way you described me, described my race... that was horribly mean. Please don't say anything like that to me again." Things between Cream and Kaya were now shaky, at best.

When Kaya asked about Mocha's vocabulary, Cream mentioned that she was indeed born yesterday. "Wait, seriously?" Luneth felt like he had to ask.

So it seemed like in order to find Mocha, they had to go somewhere where a Digimon like her could cause the most chaos. After thinking about it for a minute, Kaya had an epiphany. "There's a garden on the roof! She could've slipped up there while we were heading downstairs!"

"I do understand, but that's the thing: humans and Digimon should be united, working together, not as bitter enemies. I haven't seen much of our influence on the Digital World but I can say with confidence that we aren't taking it over, or forcing the Digimon to like us. And humans have feelings too, so you could've been a lot nicer, ya know!"

While it wasn't surprising for Kaya, or even Luneth, to know that Mocha and Cream were a day old - Hawkeye had explained the whole process to Kaya - it still stunned Nanami a little bit. But before Cream could explain it, the group suddenly heard a scream coming from the staircase, the surprise of it causing Kaya to scream along with Nanami.

Letting the shock die down, they went to investigate the source of that scream. It turned out that it had come from another student, who was now on his back unconscious, foaming at the mouth. Nanami deduced that it was their classmate Takeshi. "...not surprising. Yesterday he fainted after a couple classmates mentioned a ghost."

"Wait, Takeshi is covered in something," Luneth pointed out, picking up the dirt. He whiffed it before immediately gagging. "Yup, that is definitely manure..."

"So he DID come from the garden! That has to be where Mocha is!" Kaya took another look at the unconscious boy. "Wait, we can't leave Takeshi here like this, the school will probably list him as a suspect for whoever pulled the alarm."

"I can take him to the others," Luneth offered. "I promise I won't say anything about the, uh... monsters, okay?"

"Thank you, Luneth," Kaya said to the boy before grabbing Nanami's arm and going back upstairs to the garden, this time releasing Hawkeye so that he could join in as well.