Chapter 2: Roar of Greymon
The eight children and their Digimon defeated the insectoid monster, Kuwagamon, but their victory was cut short when a pre-teen girl ordered Kuwagamon to finish them off. The stag beetle broke the ground they all stood on, sending them plummeting into the sea below. As they fell, the flying Digimon tried to rescue their partners but to no avail. Before they could crash into the water, Gomamon cried out for a school of colorful fish to save them all.
At the wasteland area, the girl and her white Agumon returned to their dinosaur master.
"The kids have been taken care of, MasterTyrannomon." She jumped off a cyan Asian dragon with red orange wings.
"So you say," growled the giant Digimon, turning to face her.
"I saw Kuwagamon send them to their deaths. There's no way they could have survived." The white Agumon said, playing with her claws nervously.
"That's not what Anemone says." Master Tyranno grumbled.
"Annie?" The girl questioned.
"Hi, Lucy," The girl known as Lucy turned her head to see a girl with curly black hair with a green head band who wore lime green clothing made from silk, "Mo-Mo says that their Gomamon helped them reach Coela Point safely."
"No," Lucy looked at the newcomer with wide eyes, "How could a Digimon that was just born know how to save them?"
MasterTyrannomon roared before slamming his claws into a thick tree trunk, slightly swiping at Lucy's cheek leaving a small cut, "You should never underestimate those children! Why do you think it's important that they are destroyed?"
Lucy fell to her knees and held her cheek as she lightly cried. Annie watched the scene in fear, biting her lip.
"Anemone," Master Tyranno glared at Annie, "Take Airdramon and meet up with ModokiBetamon at Coela Point. Take care of them."
"Yes, Master," Annie bowed and then jumped onto the dragon Digimon before flying off to Coela Point.
At the seaside known as Coela Point, the eight children and their Digimon were breathing heavily after their rescue.
"Where did those fish come from?" Joe asked.
"Those were my Marching Fishes." Gomamon replied with a sweet smile.
"Thank you, you saved our lives, Buka…" Joe examined his marine mammal Digimon.
"I'm Gomamon." Gomamon corrected.
"What happened to guys?" Tai asked Agumon.
"I don't know, Tai. I just know that when you were in trouble, I felt a strong burst of energy and a voice in my head telling me to become Agumon." The orange dinosaur explained.
The others looked at their Digimon and wondered if the same happened to them.
"They digivolved." Parker elaborated standing beside her Digimon, Psychemon.
"You mean like 'evolved'?" Izzy wondered, "When a species changes to adapt better to its surroundings?"
"So you have seen ShadowTsunomon in this form before?" Sora wondered.
"Yes, but I still call her Shadow since she doesn't like the name 'Psychemon'." Parker added
"As far as we know, Digimon can't evolve without using human energy." Shadow said.
"How do you access my energy?" Izzy asked Tentomon.
"We don't know ourselves. This is still all so new to us." Tentomon replied.
"What do you mean?" Mimi asked.
"We were just born not too long before you arrived. We still have a lot of growing and learning to do too." Palmon stated.
"You mean you were babies when we arrived?" T.K. inquired.
"Something like that, whatever a baby is," Patamon chuckled.
"How do you know how to speak?" Sora asked.
"Even we don't know." Biyomon answered, bluntly.
"We don't exactly remember much right when we were born aside from meeting you guys." Gabumon said.
"I barely remember Parker when she returned." Shadow looked up at her, "Hopefully that changes as we move on."
"I agree." Parker smiled.
"OK, now that our heads are filled with even more confusion, what do we do?" Matt asked, calmly.
"Are we even still on Earth?" Joe questioned.
"How could we not be?" Izzy noted, "It's impossible for us to just be transported to another world."
"Maybe I just dreamt about a place called the Digital World," Parker thought to herself and then looked at Shadow, "But then what about Shadow and how did I know that giant beetle was Kuwagamon?"
"We have to still be in Japan, right?" Joe asked, snapping Parker out of her thoughts, "That giant wave could have washed us away from camp and sent us here."
"I've never heard of File Island. Maybe it's in Australia? That's probably how Parker remembers this place." Sora said.
"Impossible, the ocean would kill us before we made it to Australia." Izzy clarified.
"It certainly is a mystery." Sora added.
"Are there more giant monsters like that red beetle?" Mimi asked no one in particular.
"Maybe," Shadow shrugged.
"Are there humans on File Island?" Izzy asked.
"Wait; there was a girl with that Kuwagamon." Tai remembered.
"And she had a Digimon that looked like me," Agumon mentioned.
"We should look for her. Maybe she can help us." Tai said, walking off with Agumon.
"Last time I checked, she wanted to kill us and called us pathetic." Matt sighed.
"Tai's right about one thing, we need help to get us home, so let's go." Sora voted, following him with Biyomon.
As the group of sixteen walked off, two figures in the water were watching them. One was a white, bony fish and the other was a chartreuse colored amphibian with a pink fin on its back. They submerged underwater and followed them.
The group walked along a forest by the river.
"These trees are beautiful but strange." Sora noticed.
"I thought they were subtropical, but maybe I'm wrong." Izzy said full of curiosity.
"Maybe that wave did take us away from Japan." Joe added.
"The fact that there are creatures called Digital Monsters should tip you off that we're not in Japan anymore." Matt said.
"So, they call themselves Digital Monsters," Parker started, "I wonder if they were created by humans." She looked around at all of the different monsters, "There are some that look like plants, animals, insects, and more."
"Don't you remember when you were here the last time?" Shadow asked her partner.
"I'm not even sure if I was really here last time." Parker whispered in frustration, "I mean, I had to be because you remember me, but what else do you remember?"
"I don't know." Shadow lowered her head and shook it slowly.
"Here we are! This is Dragon Eye Lake." Gomamon announced.
"How do you know?" T.K. asked.
"Probably because it says it right here," Patamon pointed to a sign.
"So if Beetle Land had a giant beetle, will this place have a dragon?" Joe asked.
Before anyone could answer, a ringing noise was heard along the beach.
"What is that?" Tai asked.
"It's coming from over there." Agumon pointed in a direction.
Tai led the group to five phone booths by the lake. When Tai opened one, the ringing stopped.
"That's weird." He said, tilting his head slightly to one side.
"Maybe we can use these phones to call someone to get us." Joe suggested.
"Izzy, do you have any money?" Tai asked.
"We can use my phone card." Izzy pulled out the aforementioned item from his pocket.
"I wanna call my mom." T.K. said. Izzy, Mimi, and Sora joined Tai in separate phone booths with Matt, Parker, and Joe right behind them.
"Hello?" Tai spoke into the phone with Agumon next to him.
"The time is 38:00:00AM," a voice said on the other end, followed by it imitating beeping noises.
"Tomorrow's weather will be sunny with a chance of ice cream." A voice said from Mimi's phone.
"Ice cream sounds great, but that's still weird." Mimi said.
"The number you dialed doesn't work. Do not call again!" A voice yelled from the phone Matt and T.K. used.
"The phones appear to all be playing strange messages." Parker said outside of the booth Izzy was in. She looked over as Sora hung up in annoyance.
As Joe tried the phones again, the others sat around in a circle on the sand.
"We should get going." Tai told everyone.
"We're all too tired to continue walking. Maybe we should wait for someone to ring the phones like before." Matt noted.
"We could use something to eat too." Izzy said to Tai.
"Then I guess It's break time." Tai decided.
"Does anyone have any food? All I have is…" Sora felt an item attached to her jeans, "This." She showed the device to the others.
Everyone looked at the grey octagon-shaped devices that they received from the sky at camp. Parker looked at everyone wondering why she didn't have one.
"What else do you have, Sora?" She asked.
Sora pulled out some medical supplies from her bag, "Just a mini first-aid kit with gauze, and thread needles, disinfectant, and other stuff."
"I have my laptop, a digital camera, and cell phone." Izzy said, opening his computer, "Except none of them has worked since we got here."
"I have this." Tai pulled out his telescope.
"I don't have anything." Matt said.
"I do!" T.K. blurted out. He opened up his backpack to reveal a lot of candy.
"Wow!" Mimi gasped in surprise, "Can I have some?"
"Of course," T.K. smiled and then looked at Parker, "What did you bring?"
"I have a notebook filled with songs." Parker interred shyly, "Of course there's only like one or two songs but that's not the point."
"Do you think you can sing us something?" T.K. asked.
"Nah, I doubt any of you would really want me to, besides, I'm not very good." Parker laughed.
"What do you have, Mimi?" Izzy asked.
Mimi pulled out a Swiss army knife, flashlight, fuel, a compass, and some more gear.
"Why did you bring all that?" Tai asked.
"I love camping, so I brought my dad's gear." Mimi beamed.
"That would have been nice to know when we needed a compass." Parker said.
Tai looked over at Joe and noticed his bag, "Joe has the emergency food bag."
Joe gave up on the phones and joined the others.
"Joe, why didn't you tell us you had food?" Matt asked.
"I forgot I had this thing. Besides, I was trying to give it to Mimi before we got here because it's her turn to look after it." Joe said.
"That bag is heavy." Mimi whined.
"Hey, forget that. Why don't we see what's in there and chow down?" Tai offered. Everyone agreed.
Gomamon rested above water. Beneath the surface, three of the bone fish Digimon watched as a small group of green amphibian Digimon with orange fins on their back dug under the sand from under water.
On land, the kids tried to figure out a way to evenly divide the food between the eight of them.
"If we count the Digimon, we only have enough food for less than a day." Sora deduced.
An image of a farm with meat growing from the ground and a Digimon that looked like Palmon running it flashed through Parker's head.
"Don't worry. Since we're animal-like, we'll find food ourselves." Shadow said. The other Digimon nodded.
"If you say so," Joe said. Tai and Agumon helped themselves to some food, "Tai, what are you doing?"
"Eating?" Tai raised an eyebrow as Agumon took a bite of some chips, "Agumon wanted some too."
After eating a chip, Agumon lowered his head, "I'm sorry. I'll stop now."
"Send in, Shellmon!" called one of the fish Digimon underwater.
"You heard him, boys." The green-yellow amphibian said who was also underwater.
On the beach, Biyomon looked out towards the water.
"What's wrong?" Sora asked.
"Something's coming." The pink bird replied.
Strong spouts of water shot up from the sand, sending the phone booths in the air. The children and Digimon hurried away from the lake in fear. A giant grey, spiked shell emerged followed by a pink mollusk-like hermit crab monster from inside.
"Shellmon?" Parker looked at the Digimon as images of a similar green Digimon showed her a newspaper stand when Parker was younger, "Was I here when I was a kid?"
Shellmon turned to Gomamon in the water, "Aqua Blaster!" It shot a strong force of water from its head at Gomamon.
"Attack!" Agumon led the charge with the other Digimon. Agumon succeeded in using his 'Pepper Breath' but the others failed to use their attacks as Shellmon blasted them all with its 'Aqua Blaster'.
Agumon shook off his daze and attacked again, stunning Shellmon.
"Why is Agumon the only one able to attack him?" Izzy asked with his arms wrapped around Tentomon.
"So…hungry…" Tentomon rasped softly.
The kids realized Agumon was the only one who ate; therefore, he was the only one who could fight Shellmon.
"Agumon, looks like it's just you and me." Tai cheered.
"You got it, Tai." Agumon used his 'Claw Attack' to swipe at Shellmon's arm.
Tai ran beside Agumon, taunting their aquatic opponent.
"What's with this kid?" Annie asked herself, arriving on top of a small mountain and dismounted from Airdramon, "He's doing our job for us."
Tai grabbed a piece of the broken telephone booths and poked Shellmon in the chest. Angered by the attempt to hurt it, Shellmon wrapped some of its anemone hair around Tai, squeezing him tightly.
"Tai!" Agumon cried as Shellmon crushed the little dinosaur's body under one of its hands before knocking everyone unconscious with its 'Aqua Blaster'.
"Agumon, help me!" Tai begged, struggling against Shellmon's hold.
"Tai!" Agumon cried out as the device attached to Tai's shorts beeped and lit up.
"Agumon digivolve to…Greymon!" Agumon was gone and in his place was an even bigger, dark orange dinosaur with blue stripes covering his body and a rhinoceros beetle-head shell on his face.
Agumon growing in size caused Shellmon to flip over and release Tai. On the ground, Tai looked up at his new Digimon.
"Greymon?" A sense of familiarity filled him.
The two Digimon clashed, pushing the other before Greymon threw Shellmon into the air with his 'Grey Horn' attack.
"Nova Blast!" Greymon exhumed a giant orange ball of fire that blasted Shellmon into the water. Greymon returned to Agumon who told Tai he was hungry.
"I don't believe it!" Annie exclaimed, "One of their Digimon actually digivolved into the Champion level." She looked down at her orange V-Pet, "Mo-Mo, look after them." She spoke into the device.
"Right, Annie," replied a digital voice from the device.
Annie hopped on Airdramon and took off in the opposite direction from where Tai and the others were.
As the kids fed their Digimon, they all decided it was best to leave.
"I've definitely been here before." Parker said, "It couldn't have been a dream."
"So, where do we go?" Tai wondered.
"When I saw Shellmon, I remembered a city." Parker unveiled.
"A city?" Everyone was confused.
"I'm not sure if it's real, but if we keep walking, we should find it." Parker guessed.
The children agreed and gathered up all of their supplies before leaving together. However, when they all took their first step, they were stopped by a group of four of the amphibian Digimon on either side of the lime green one.
"You aren't going anywhere." The middle one demanded, all of them glaring at the group of sixteen.
To be continued…
Next time, the kids take a break at the north side of Dragon Eye Lake where they camp out for the night and fight another Digimon another Digimon digivolves. Hope you enjoyed. See ya next time.
Disclaimer: Digimon is owned by Akiyoshi Hongo, Bandai, and Toei Animation. Parker Chadwick, and the character of Shadow the Psychemon (not the actual Digimon) are owned by my friend CyberChick135/DemiGirl21.
