The duo walked for maybe less then five or so minutes, chatting away, in the middle of splitting a granola bar with each other, when Kain paused in his tracks. Dani immediately noticed her friend had stopped moving and she looked towards him, snack in her mouth.
âYou ok?â She asks, pulling the bar form her mouth to speak.
Kain peers towards the nearby woods, scoping his hands around his eyes and squinting in the distance.
âI think I smell smoke?â He replies âI think itâs smoke? Digital smoke?â He pauses as he thinks. The only smoke he recalls was smoke from the human world. It smelt the same on this side, suppose it makes sense it would. Still odd to himself. He hadnât been here since he was just a very low level after all.
âSmoke? You mean like a fire?â She stands beside her companion, imitating his scoping method although she used it to get the sun out of her eyes. She did see very faint plumes either beyond the treeline or in it. From their position it was hard to tell.
âMnn⌠You think we should do in there?â She looks down at the Wizardmon. âWhat if itâs a wild fire?âÂ
âIt probably isnât, if it were it might be like the ones back in your home. With the big black stacks of smoke that darken the sky.â He replies, putting a finger on his obscured chin. âMaybe. I think we should-â
Kain looks back up to Dani and realizes sheâs already begun to move forwards towards the treeline. He quickly holds onto his hat and scrambles to catch up.Â
âH-Hey Dani! Hold on! We donât know whatâs in there!â He calls out to her âBesides, we could get lost! We need to head back before dark, remember?â
The girl nods as Kain babbles out his concerns but her focus was on her digivice, it had begun to blink at a faster pace.
âKain, I think somethingâs coming.â Dani says as she stops and looks at the tree line. Kain himself immediately stops his babbles, looks at the digivice then at the treeline. Quietly the Wizardmon takes a step forward and pulls his staff from his cape, just in case of the unexpected.Â
They both could hear the sound of something moving through the underbrush coming closer and closer.
Until eventually another Wizardmon (Dani assumed but wasnât sure) seemed to jump from the treeline, rolling and laughing. And apparently yelling out profanities.Â
Kain cringed at the word as Dani stared at the rolling digimon and looked at her digivice. It was no longer blinking and the screen was white. It was at this moment she realized the other Wizardmon was on fire? Oh, no yeah that it definitely fire.
âHuh.â she looked at Kain who in turn looked back at her, seemingly solved the mystery.Â
They both leap out of their skin when he suddenly stopped and pointed at them (Or rather, Dani as she noticed) and exclaiming that they didnât belong here.
âWh-ha- Whoa hold on a moment-â
âWait a second here we werenât-âÂ
They both start, Dani flailing her hands around and Kain holding up his arms as a gesture of non-hostility.
âWe werenât going to walk in the forest if thatâs what your asking!â Dani says âWe looking for something! Like Uh-â
âThere was smoke!â Kain chimes in âWe saw smoke and we thought maybe something was going on but we didnât know if we could even go in there!â
The flame wizardmon with one quick movement got to his feet, squatting now but seeming ready for anything. Now it could be seen now that heâs not obscured by the grass he himself is pretty scarred and roughed up.
His clothes not in peak condition and there was no hiding of his stitched mouth.
He piratically screamed VIRUS with no apology or concern.
âWell, Iâd sure hope youâre not dumb enough to go in there. Thereâs a bunch of stupid weedmon who are pissed off and ready to behead any digimon they come across. Which. Is not my fault!â
Chester tilted his head at them hearing the two stammer, squinting at them as he thought about something. Mostly he had his eyes on the strange looking wizardmon.
THE HUMAN THOUGH...
That thing was shady, at least from...what heâs heard.Â
If that was a human.
....
He stood still for a good long while as his eyes seemed to light up realizing he was on a timer again.
âOH SHIT! wait.â
Chester finally stood up and ran over to the two since he had to close the space between them. He grabbed Kain by the wrist, his hands feeling hot to the touch but not enough to burn.
 âHey, you. You, yes.â he said with a serious tone âYou know how to hurt a digimon bad right? Okay so, like, weâre going into this forest even though thatâs what I said was dumb and weâre going to plow through it to get to...â
He cut off as he looked over at Dani for a moment then looking back to Kain âI gotta go get my boss and coworker out of there and I donât know where I came from in there.â
The flame wizardmon didn't really wait for Kain to respond though before he went to drag him into the treeline without Dani