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Water-Part I




Water gurgled, surging forward, smothering the Digiworld in a blanket of ocean. Huge trees floated in the water as though they were nothing more than stray bits of hay in a whirlpool.

It was a huge wave, bigger than the biggest of tsunamis. It was crashing down upon everything around it, erasing land from existence.

And running from the surging water was young Kari Kamiya. Tears were streaking down her face and they mingled with the water that was on her face from the mist of the crashing wave.

Everyone she had grown close to in this world had been swallowed up by this huge wall of water. Whether or not they were alive, she didn't know.

All she knew was that by some miracle she had escaped. Or maybe this blessing was really a punishment? Her remaining alive while all of her friends and her brother were killed seemed like a terrible punishment indeed.

Kari tripped over a root protruding from the ground and fell, not bothering to return to her feet. She knew the wave would swallow her up.

The water roared behind her coming closer and closer...

Kari gasped and sat up drenched in sweat. It had all been a nightmare.

"Are you all right?" Sora inquired, stifling a yawn.

Kari didn't respond and Sora repeated a bit louder: "Kari, are you OK?"

Wordlessly, the younger girl nodded her head and wiped a bit of sweat from her brow. The crashing of the water was still ringing in her ears.

"Bad dream?"

Kari again nodded without a word. It had felt so terribly real. She could have sworn she'd felt the mist spraying from the churning waves onto her face and the emotions had been raw and so realistic.

"Kari!" Sora shouted.

"What?"

"I asked if you wanted to talk about it."

After a brief hesitation, Kari answered: "not right now."

Sora nodded, yawned and replied: "fine. Are you sure you'll be all right?"

"Yes, I'm OK."

"Then I'm going to wake up Joe for his shift then. Goodnight."

"Goodnight."

Kari lay back down and listened to Sora wake Joe. She tried to forget the dream, but it came back, more vivid than ever every time she closed her eyes. The gurgling of the water, the air, heavy with mist and the fear-it returned to her nearly as clearly as though she was re-living the dream.

It was quite some time before the young girl was sleeping once again.


~*~

A small creature peeked through a bush, observing the children. It had enormous eyes and looked a bit like Salamon, except for the fact that it seemed to be made entirely of water.

The grass and trees behind the creature were slightly blurred, but nevertheless visible through the beast.

The water-monster began speaking to the drops of dew on the grass in a hushed voice: "I have found the ones that stand in your way, exalted one."

"Excellent. As the leader of my army, you shall have the honor of disposing of their Digimon. I, myself shall destroy the children," a flowing voice responded, making the dew glow. Strangely, it seemed to come from the dew itself.

"Consider it done!"

At that moment, the water-monster heard a voice say: "who's there? Come out!"

The creature gasped and the dew stopped glowing. Quickly, it raced into the bush. The instant it hit the bush, the creature split into hundreds of tiny droplets of water and became nothing more than dew on the leaves.

Seconds later, a boy with bluish hair and glasses peered over the bush, but, upon seeing nothing, walked away.

Had he stayed a moment longer, he would have witnessed the drops of "dew" on the bush merging back together and forming the monster...


~*~

Palmon snapped awake. Something about the mist in the air felt odd against her roots. It felt as though the water was ALIVE-but that was impossible.

"Mimi," the flowery Digimon whispered, poking her partner awake.

Mimi groaned in her sleep, but did not open her eyes.

Palmon shook the pink-clad girl more forcefully and repeated: "Mimi!"

"Palmon?" Mimi yawned, forcing her eyes open. "What is it?"

"Something isn't right."

"What do you mean?" Mimi sleepily inquired.

"I don't know, but something feels weird. I can't explain it."

Mimi yawned again and retorted: "well tell me about it in the morning. I'm tired."

"Mimi-" but the girl was already sleeping again.

Palmon tried to settle back down, but the harder she tried, the more unsettled she felt. Something was definitely wrong, but what she didn't know.

After nearly a half hour of lying awake on edge, Palmon closed her eyes to rest, dismissing the feeling for the moment.

The feeling suddenly increased dramatically and Palmon gasped and sat up as something seemed to spread through her.

It took her a moment to realize that Biyomon was gone...


~*~

Biyomon was rudely awakened when she was thrown into the icy-cold river.

She tried to return to shore or fly out of the water, but something was pulling her beneath the surface and it wasn't the current.

She heard something jump into the water beside her, but when she turned toward the place where whatever it was should have been, she saw nothing.

Something wrapped around her leg and forced her underwater.

Biyomon tried to shout for help, but instead received a mouthful of water. Instead of choking, as one would expect, the water seemed to be like a breath of fresh air.

With surprise, the bird-like Digimon realized she could somehow breathe underwater, but that still didn't ease her tensions.

A whooshing sound suddenly sounded and Biyomon was sucked into a hole in the bottom of the river.

The Digimon noted that she was now in a small glass chamber and the water was slowly draining away.

When the water got lower than her beak, she gasped, feeling as though the wind had been knocked out of her before breathing normally.

Through the water-stained glass, Biyomon saw someone approaching her. As it dawned on her who it was, she gasped sharply.

"Hello, protector of Love."

"It's...YOU! But that's impossible!"

"Nothing is impossible."

"But you don't exist! You're a myth!"

"Then how do you explain this?" the somebody inquired as Biyomon was hit with a jet of water more powerful than a fire hose.

Biyomon blacked out hearing the sound of cruel laughter.


~*~

Mimi laid awake feeling guilty. She felt she could have prevented Biyomon's capture if she had listened to Palmon.

Everybody else had already gone to sleep, even Joe-though he was supposed to be keeping watch. She also had at some point, but it had been fitful and troubled, plagued with dreams on the topic of Biyomon's digi-napping.

Sora had been devastated.

A feeling spread through the girl that chilled her to the bone and she quickly sat up and looked about the camp.

The first thing she noticed was that nearly all the Digimon were now missing, with the exception of Gomamon and Palmon.

The second thing she noticed was that Agumon was being carried away by a strange creature that seemed to be made of water.

Mimi screamed, waking everyone up, Agumon included.

"What happened to Patamon?" TK whimpered, looking about for the lost Digimon.

"Mimi, what's going on?" Joe queried, acting more awake than he felt.

The pink-clad girl pointed to the water-monster that was still somehow forcing Agumon to go with it.

"Agumon!" Tai cried. "Digivolve, quick!"

Nothing at all happened.

"That trick won't work when I'm around," the water-monster calmly stated.

Agumon inhaled, flames gathering at his mouth, then shot a small ball of fire at the water-monster: "Pepper breath!"

The attack hit the monster and disintegrated.

"You think your puny attacks will harm me? Sorry to burst your digi-bubbles, but I'm not a Digimon and neither is my master. Now if you'll excuse me, I have my job to do."

"No!" Tai shouted as the water-monster smashed into Agumon, becoming droplets of water on his yellow skin.

Once Agumon was covered with the water, he disappeared.

"Impossible!" Izzy cried.

To make the situation even stranger, a voice that seemed to come from nowhere cried: "you think this is all a big game? Well, I write the rules and whatever I say goes! And I say it's time you were destroyed!"