"Kamina!" shouted Kazero, finally finding some bass and confidence to his voice. By now, with his relentless shouting, his throat was getting coarse and lips were beginning to dry, but at least it did well to steady his nerves. With no more beach to trek, Kazero eventually went further inland. He decided to search silently for Kamina at this point, mindful of the monster that attacked them before. On the beach, he had a chance of seeing something approaching him before it was upon him. The forest was a very different beast. After trekking aimlessly once again under the trees and through the leaves Kazero jumped as the device in his pocket began to beep and vibrate. He instinctively reached into his pocket to throw it away, completely forgetting that he even picked it up. When he threw it into the dirt his mind flashed back to when it was glowing as the river currents dragged them both under the waves. He remembered that it brushed his hand as he was thrust involuntarily around.
He was snapped out of his daydream when the device shot out a light and began making a lot of noise. Kazero jumped on the device, trying to bushel it under his stomach to muffled the noise and the light to little avail. It soon stopped and Kazero breathed a sigh of relief before picking up the device and inspecting it at close view now that it was no longer animated. As he did so, his ears picked to the noise of rustling bushes. It was a ways off, but the next rustle was closer. The one after that was closer still. Kazero began to scramble backwards while facing the incoming rustling ready to emerge from the clearing. He backed away far enough to see a stick and yanked it to hand while standing to his feet. He swallowed his heart as the figure broke through the last brush and plodded in front of him. Kazero froze. Not so much in fear but in perplexity. Expecting a large scary beast much like the one that chased him last night, Kazero was faced with a small rounded face beset with orange fur and a relatively oversized jet-black horn.
It looked about as harmless as Kazero. The monster studied Kazero quite calmly, but then made a confused face of his own. He approached Kazero, making Kazero step back cautiously, but stopped while still a few paces out, beginning to sniff into the air doggedly because making a disgusted face.
"I knew it - You're not the one I'm looking for!" the puff-ball snapped.
"Wha-?" replied Kazero, somewhat taking in that the puff-ball could speak english. The puff-ball took Kazero's ignorance as an offence, however.
"What did you do with him? Where is he?" snapped the puff-ball.
"Where's who?" replied Kazero sheepishly.
"Don't play dumb with me! The digidestined of course! The one you stole that digivice from!" rebutted the puff-ball while pointing it's horn at the grey device Kazero left on the ground. It hopped at Kazero horn-first, causing the teen to swat it back with his stick while Kazero was glancing at the device, realising that was the 'digivice' the puff-ball was referring to.
"H-hey! Stay back! Digidestined? Digivice? I didn't steal anything! If it's yours then take it! But if you come-" Kazero was quieted by his stick sliding a part in twain which he appreciated came from the puff-ball's horn slicing it and immediately rescinded any notion of it being harmless. The puff-ball bounced up to the device and simply sat on it clearly trying to struggle with something to no avail. The puff-ball growled under its breath.
"How did you get this?" he asked, no beginning to believe that Kazero was as clueless as he was portraying.
"I... I was being chased- no. My cousin and I were being chased! That's right! My cousin! He was attacked by a big black monster with wings! He might be hurt real bad! Can you help me-"
"Wait- a black monster with wings? You mean like a Devimon?" replied the puff-ball.
"I don't know! I've never seen anything like it before! But it attacked my cousin-"
"So you were there... hmm. And cousin? I guess as family the device might be likely to make that mistake in close quarters..."
"What are you saying?" asked Kazero confused. "Can you help my cousin?"
"I already helped your cousin. The white light that you must have seen was that digivice, stored with the raw digipower I have from my evolved state. It was supposed to be enough just to save the digidestined long enough to get transported to this world. The fact that I cannot digivolve back means the power was clearly used. Your cousin was saved," explained the puff-ball, igniting a smile on Kazero's face. "For now." he detailed, shutting down the smile just as quickly. "Right now I should have been talking to him to explain why that Devimon attacked him and why I transported him here. I only put the limited digipower I did into the digivice because I never would have expected a random kid to fiddle with it first!" he snapped.
"I- I'm sorry. I didn't mean to touch anything. The mons- Devimon; it attacked me first. Kazero jumped in the way to save me and I got knocked into a river. The digivice got knocked in too and then I touched it and ended up here. If you sent me here, just send me back, I gotta help him!"
"Relax." commanded the puff-ball. "The journey is only one way. I cannot send you back right now and even if I could, you would serve no use against that digimon. You couldn't stop me in my current form. This is my second weakest form by the way. Nonetheless, time works differently in this world compared to yours, and Devimon cannot stay in your world for too long. You have some form of Vanguard in your world, I presume?"
"Vanguard? We have police if that what you mean," replied Kazero, eliciting a stone-face from the puff-ball. "Law Enforcement. They protect people."
"Good. Then he'll be fine. Follow me." replied the puff-ball. Kazero initially didn't move.
"To where?"
"To the others. I'll explain the rest on the way, but for now remember that you are not supposed to be here. You're a liability and highly vulnerable. Don't touch anything, don't trouble anything, don't try anything." The puff-ball ordered. "Now pick up the digivice; I don't have pockets or hands... thanks to you." he snapped. Kazero looked down after being insulted, but did as he was asked, picking up the digivice to follow the puff-ball.
"My name is Kazero by the way-"
"Shut up." snapped the puff-ball. Kazero silently put the digivice in his pocket.