Time: Right before that Unpurified Beast Spirit of Koichi's flies at Koji
" Why am I, like, the only one who's noticed we've been walking for forever and getting nowhere?" Serena complained, slumping against a tree.
Faryl gave her a look. " If I remember right you're the one who's excited about this whole thing."
Serena shrugged. " Excited for the adventure? Sure! The walking? Not so much."
Faryl rolled her eyes.
Serena sighed. " I don't see why we can't fly. I don't even see why we are still moving at all. Really, don't you think its odd we haven't heard from that voice in a while? Maybe we're going the wrong way."
" The voice pointed us here. I'm sure it knows what it's doing. Besides, don't you want to find those other kids it told us about?"
Immediately the girl brightened. " Yeah. I do. No offense. I love hanging out with you of course but I do want to see who these other kids are. But how will we know them when we find them?"
" I'm guessing we just look for the only things even half-way human looking and then ask them if they are human. Or maybe when we get closer the voice will tell us."
Serena shrugged. " Yeah well I still want to fly."
" Do you really want every digimon in this whole forest knowing where we are?" Faryl asked.
" Not really. But if the voice is right then the others, the humans, should be here so maybe they can find us."
Faryl sighed. " Fine. Fly if you want."
Serena gave her a look. " I'm not going to fly away without you so just forget it. I don't care how sick of me you are."
Immediately the girl turned to her, apology on her face. " I'm sorry! Really! That's not what I meant! I-"
Bang!
Immediately the earth began to quake.
Faryl turned to Serena. They didn't need words. Immediately they took off toward the sound. Even if it wasn't the humans then at least they'd find somebody. Or something…
The two girls ran side by side, picking up speed each second and it wasn't long before they'd reach the edge of the trees.
Before them was a battlefield. A huge gaping hole seemed to be carved into the rock. It looked deep and like the breaks were ragged, perhaps it had been caused by a digimon. However it was also a perfect circle. Rocks and boulders were everywhere.
" Look!" Serena yelped pointing to the sky above them. Flying above the edge nearest to the two was a huge bird. It seemed to be made of entirely of bone. It had feathers as well but they were green and somehow looked moldy. A log bone tail came forth from its body. The thing seemed to have blond hair coming from its head as well.
The creature roared and light flared.
Blue digital light formed a living cocoon around something then spiraled away, leaving a boy in its wake.
Serena and Faryl gaped. The boy lay with his head on top of a rock, body twisted at an unnatural angle.
With a shriek the creature circled as it prepared to dive, its razor talons reaching for the boy.
" We have to help!" Faryl said, taking off in a run toward the boy. Serena kept pace easily.
This was one of the humans, or at least a human. What if he was one of the Ledgendary Warriors?
" Wait! At least Spirit Evolve!" Serena yelped as Faryl drew closer. The bird thing shrieked again and dived.
" No! We have to help the creature! It's human!" Faryl cried, leaping over a rock.
" What! This is no time for that! We have to help the boy!" Serena cried, she felt a spark of anger at her friend.
" I'm telling you! I can feel his light, its just hidden in the shadows! I have to help him!" Faryl snapped.
" Agh!" Serena yelled in fury. Her friend was being ridiculous. They had to help the boy, first a foremost.
With that she gripped her D-tector tighter and pulled it out of her pocket. Her arms swung out in smooth motions as the now familiar blue code-like light began to form a ring around her hand. Swiftly she brought it down and ran the D-tector over it. "Execute she cried. Immediately her clothes disappeared, as if whipped away by a mysterious wind. The world seemed to fade away and all there was around her was light and energy and streams of coding as she called out the final words " Spirit Evolution!"
Then it was all black and she ceased to see. She could hear what sounded like machines whirring and then it was all over. Her long black hair lengthened a few feet so it fell down to the backs of her knee's. Smooth, thigh-high, metal boots appeared on her legs. A long, flowing, cloth tunic appeared and it was immediately cinched with a belt composed entirely of stars. In her hands materialized a metal bow. Her ears elongated and began pointed like elf ears as huge, shining wings unfurled from her back.
With that she spiraled down, stardust raining all about her. " Celesmon!" She cried.
Immediately she was in the air, the shining wings flapping furiously as she propelled herself forward. The creature was now only a few feet away from the boy. Serena felt herself began to panic as she raised her bow. " Star A-"
" No!" Faryl cried launching herself from a rock into Celesmon's, Serena's, line of fire.
Serena stopped, her attack finished before it even began. The creature bore down on the boy and her friend.
Before she could muster the power to fuel another attack the bird crashed into Faryl, a force that should have sent her sprawling but the girl clung tightly to the creature.
Immediately the creature recoiled in pain but Faryl hung tight to its leg, wrapping her arms around it as it beat its wings in effort to stay balanced.
Had this been any different of a situation Serena would had a million and one things to say about how stupid that had been but it wasn't. With a uncanny speed Serena dived down toward the boy who watched, wide-eyed and wincing in pain.
Folding her wings back sharply Serena turned to the boy. " Come on! We have to go! Hurry!"
The bird thing shriek again and it seemed almost ready to fall over. It almost seemed that, in the remaining echoes of its cries you could hear a human boy. Faryl just wrapped her arms tighter around the bird thing as it shook its leg in effort to dislodge her, screaming in pain. With a fury it tried to bring its wings around to slash at her but it couldn't hold its balance long enough with the extra weight. The forceful beating of its wings sent sand spinning about them all in a whirlwind like manner.
" Come on!" Serena called again as she walked toward the boy. In her digimon form she was taller then him. The boy looked at her with the most conflicting of emotions. At last she lost her temper. " Do you have a freakin' death wish! Come on!" With that she grabbed the boys arm and yanked him from the ground to his feet, ignoring his cries of pain. It would hurt worse to be dead.
Faryl winced as the bird thing screamed again. It hurt her to think she was hurting the boy inside of the creature but whatever it was that controlled him was too strong to beat by brute force. You had to take it down from the inside. Inner pain. Squeezing tighter she glanced at the other two, at her friend and the boy.
Scrambling furiously the boy climbed over rocks as he moved. Serena had taken to the skies after having attempted to lift him to no avail. Now she flew in a small circle behind him bow ready to use.
The two made very little progress but they did manage make it a safe distance away before they heard the final scream.
Serena and the boy turned and saw. The bird thing reached its head down and bit at Faryl but she huddled closer to its leg and at last the creature slammed its leg into a huge rock, mashing the girl that clung to its leg against the stone.
" Faryl!" Serena cried and flew for her friend. The girl lost her grip on the bird and fell.
The bird itself cried again and flew up higher into the sky, away from them.
Serena dived. Even with all her speed she barely caught the girl before she hit the ground and even then ended up sprawled on the ground beside her, bruised but safe. Shining blue code light flew from her as she transformed back to her normal self.
" Ouch!" Serena moaned as she sat up, checking herself over for any serious injuries. Finding none she stood and offered her friend a hand which the girl gratefully took.
Serena turned to Faryl. " That has to be the stupidest thing you have ever done! And that's saying something! You've done a lot of stupid things!" Serena scolded. " I mean what did you just wake up this morning, take crazy pill and then all of a sudden say 'I'm gonna go hug a giant killer bird' ?"
Faryl shook her head. " I know I'm stupid and I took no such pill."
Serena glowered. " That's not the point! The point is th-"
" Well he was suffering and I thought I should help him…" Faryl said.
Serena exhaled loudly. " It was a bird. And it almost killed the poor boy!" She snapped.
" Well if he doesn't mean to be like that then we should help him!" Faryl protested softly.
" And how do you know it was a him? How did you know any of this stuff! And honestly for the love of good would it have killed you to digivolve? I mean what if you hadn't been able to get close enough? What if it ate you? You seriously need to start thinking about yourself every now and then!" Serena snapped.
Faryl sighed. " As to the him thing I don't really know, it just is. I knew he was in there somehow but I don't know for sure why. It was probably because of the moon. I mean he's spirit is in there but its shrouded in darkness."
Serena huffed. " It was still stupid." With that she turned to the boy. She had so many questions to ask him but first she planned on getting a good look at him. Saving people really doesn't give you much time for a decent once over.
He was defiantly fully human. In fact Serena was willing to bet that he was one of the other digidestined.
The boy was tall, probably taller then her and her age as well. He wore white and blue sneakers and navy socks and gray pants that stopped a little more then two inches above his ankles. Also he wore a yellow t-shirt with a grayish collar and a navy jacket with a single thick yellow strip down each of the sleeves.
His hair was long in the back and worn in a low ponytail. The rest of the style was covered by a slightly darker bandana that bore an odd design, slash-like marks of an odd brown like color.
He's kinda cute…Serena thought as she walked toward him.
He'd been sitting, or rather a sort of half-leaning on a rock, his midnight blue gaze distant.
" Hey." She said.
The boy seemed to draw back to earth of digiopolis or whatever these people called this place. " Hey." He replied. Serena found she liked his voice immediately.
For a moment she waited, gaze fixed on his, and wondered if he was going to say anything. He didn't. In fact he even seemed to space out again.
" I'm Serena Lumen." She tried.
Once again he regarded her with that blurry eyed look most people only have after waking from a three day nap. Then again Serena suspected almost dying could do that to a person.
" Koji Minamoto." He said, causing her to jump. She really hadn't thought he'd respond but…Koji huh?
" Koji." She said as if to confirm the name but then she grinned. " So what was that thing huh?" She asked.
"Velgemon. He's Duskmon's Beast Spirit. "
" So why was he after you then?" Serena asked. At this point Faryl had come up beside them as well.
" He said he was the shadow. Shadow waits for the light until it is strong enough to defeat it." The boy said.
" So you're light?" Faryl asked.
Koji nodded.
" So how did you meet it, or him, or whatever then?" Serena asked.
Koji didn't answer.
" Heyyyyyyyy!" Serena said waving her hand in front of the boys eyes.
Koji blinked.
" Look I know almost dying is probably really life-changing and all but really we did sorta save your life. Or at least Faryl did. I think we have a right to know this now." Serena said.
" I don't know. I have no idea who he is." Koji said. " He spoke like he knew me and then I saw this boy, like inside him."
" A boy." Faryl said.
" Yeah, yeah fine. You were right." Serena snapped at the other girl. Immediately the two began to exchange theories on what the boy could be.
No one noticed Koji as he gazed after the way the bird had flown and spoke. " Duskmon…" He paused. " Who are you to me?"
OOC: Sorry this isn't that good. Wanted very badly to get this done before the weekend ended. Ah school, the horror. Well I shall edit more in the future and of course write more too. However I do have other stuff to do but I promise I'll have the next chapter done by next Suday. In the meantime I'll edit and please remeber to review, reveiw, reveiw.
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