"WOW!" Mimi squealed as she finished admiring Kari's present. "Kari, that dress is sooo cute! Thank you so much!"
Kari smiled. "It was my pleasure."
"Still, I think my present is the most useful one," Izzy pointed out.
"Yeah right," Matt chuckled. "Mimi can't have enough electronic diaries, can she?"
"For your information, I think Izzy's present was useful as well as cute," Mimi informed the blonde guitarist while looking at the table where her other already unwrapped presents were placed. Among them... an electronic diary Izzy had discovered while searching around the Internet. And it was even in her favorite color... pink!
"Let's see, what have we here?" Mimi murmured as she weighted another present in her hands. "This is yours, Sora, is it? What could it be, I wonder...?"
Mimi's best friend grinned at her. "Why don't you open it and find out?"
Mimi grinned back. "I think I'll just do that."
Meanwhile, Davis, Veemon and Armadillomon were busy attacking the buffet.
"Hey, this is a birthday party, not an 'all-you-can-eat' restaurant," Tai reminded them.
"So what?" Davis mumbled in-between bites. "I don't believe Mimi has just bought all this food just so we can look at it, right?"
"Well, at least you could have waited until she has finished unwrapping her presents." Hawkmon shook his head as he saw Armadillomon gobble down an entire plate of peeled peanuts.
Yolei, who was standing next to her Digimon partner, grinned. "You know those three... they never stop when they see any free food. Well, at least Armadillomon's partner is not like that... right, Cody?"
But the youngest of the Japanese Digidestined didn't respond.
Yolei turned around. "Hello? Earth to Cody, are you still there?"
Cody looked up from what he was holding in his hands. "Huh? Oh, sorry, what did you say?"
"Say, you've been pretty quiet the whole day long," Yolei said while walking up to him. "And just what is that thing you've been holding onto all the time? Another present for Mimi?"
"Did I hear another present?" the once-again-pink-haired girl shouted as she instantly was at her younger friend's side. "Oooh, that looks really nice, Cody... don't tell me you bought me some jewelry."
"Oh no, no, I found this after that battle we had... you know, with that strange armor creature."
"You still haven't told us how that happened," Joey spoke up. "Did it just pop out of nowhere or what?"
Ken, who had been silent until now, gave off a sigh. "No, it... it was after me."
"After you?" Sora wondered. "How could you tell?"
"Because..." His friends could tell that it was hard for him to keep on talking. "Because I could feel their intentions... deep in my heart. Not only of that armor creature, but also of those dark, shadowy things."
"They were really creepy," Wormmon shuddered. "I never saw any Digimon like that before."
"Those definitely weren't Digimon," Gatomon exclaimed. "I had a bad feeling as well when fighting that monster... as if it were corporeal darkness."
"Perhaps they know about... what I did in my past..." Ken whispered.
They all went silent for a few seconds after that.
"Hey, come on now, people," Kari suddenly scolded. "This is Mimi's birthday party, remember? We don't want any brooding or sulking around here. We can still worry about that tomorrow, right?"
"I totally agree," Armadillomon said - before grabbing a bowl of crackers and shoving them down his mouth.
"Perhaps you're right," Ken sighed. "Sorry, Mimi, I didn't want to ruin your party."
"It's okay," she waved it off. "But you know, I'm still kinda curious about those creatures... I wonder what they were here for. And where did they come from?"
"Cody... this pendant you got there... it had just been lying there, on the ground?" Izzy asked. Cody nodded and held it up. Now everyone could see: It was a silvery chain with a pendant that was shaped like a key... and it also had some sort of symbol engraved on one side.
"Hmmm... I think I've seen this before," Tai said as he looked closer at the keychain. "Looks... familiar, somehow."
"Really?" Veemon asked and snatched the pendant out of Cody's grasp. "Lemme see!"
"Hey, I wanted to see it too," Davis protested and reached for the pendant. "C'mon, give it to me, Veemon!"
"You're both very childish," Sora huffed and grabbed the pendant herself. "This doesn't belong to you. Cody is the one who found it." She smiled and handed it back to the small boy.
"Yes, maybe... but still, I only found it..."
"Well, then you just hold onto it until you find the real owner." Yolei winked.
Cody nodded and once again looked at the small key. That symbol... could it be?
"Hey, guys! That's... that's the Crest of Light!"
"You don't say!" Tai gasped, taken aback.
"Really?" Kari said in amazement. "My crest? But then... maybe it has been left there by someone so we could find it. I mean, I'm not only the holder of the Crest of Light, but also of the Digi-Egg of Light."
She reached out to touch the key dangling down from Cody's hand...
"Hold on, Kari," Gatomon shouted. "Let's wait a second before we..."
She never got to finish that sentence, as suddenly, when Kari touched the keychain, a gleaming light poured out of it and blinded the room's occupants with a bright flash.
When the light finally dimmed down and they could see again, Kari noticed that the light was starting to flow into the middle of the room, where it slowly began to take shape.
"A Digi-Egg?" she gasped.
T.K. shook his head. "No, it's too big for that."
Then the light vanished and they all could see just what was sitting there on the ground.
"A Digimon?" Mimi asked.
It looked cute, a little bit smaller than Veemon, like some sort of mouse with big, round ears and a knobby nose. Its fur was beige and white on its front. Also, on the stomach, there was a pink heart symbol.
The little figure blinked, looked around the room and smiled.
"Hello, I am Heartmon! Is anyone of you the chosen wielder of the Keyblade?"
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