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Chapter 2
Digital Ocean
Linzi looked up at the surface of the water that she was swimming under. 'This does not seem to be going well at all…' She thought, panic quickly setting in. 'I'm going to run out of air, this is not good. I don't want to drown…' She began swimming quickly to the top of the water. 'Ouch, my ears…. But I have to get to the top…' She began feeling the pressure of the water in her ears, causing them to pop as she quickly swam to the top. 'I… gotta hurry… I can't be known as the girl who drowned.' She began seeing stars as she neared the surface of the water.
Fortunately, the girl reached the surface of the water just in the nick of time. "Oh my gosh, where is land?" She immediately began searching around for any land, seeing only a large beach that was about 100 yards away. "Better get swimming then." She began to use her swim training as a Girl Scout to cross the distance as fast as she could, but knew that she would run out of energy soon.
The blond-haired girl quickly made it to the halfway point before feeling the pull. "Oh no… The tide is going out…" She screamed in her head and kept fighting even harder to reach the shore, despite the tide's pull out to the open sea. 'Keep fighting Linzi… You are stronger than this…' Soon, she began to feel a tug on her leg as well. 'What now? I hope it's not anything bad!' She began to overthink what it could be. 'A blood-sucking shark? What if it's a jellyfish? I don't know where I am! I can't deal with a man-of-war sting!' The tug became stronger, much faster, and Linzi was pulled underwater.
'What is that accursed tugging!' She was quickly growing frustrated and terrifying and turned around to see what the tug was. "AHHHH!" Linzi screamed underwater and inhaled some water. "Octomoooooon!" The octopus-like digimon had one of its tentacles on her leg and was gradually pulling her towards its opened mouth. 'THINK QUICKLY!' Linzi looked around for anything that could help her, and grabbed one of the tent stakes from her bag out and smacked the tentacle. "OCTOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" The digimon shrieked and let go, leaving bloody sucker-shaped wounds on her leg. 'OW! SON OF A NASTY WORD!' She screamed inwardly and quickly began swimming away from the hungry digimon.
It didn't take long for her to make it to shore, even with her injured leg. "Boom. That's how you outswim a hungry, predatory octopus…" She looked at the water to see the digimon climbing out of the water. "I'm screwed." She sighed and she tried to stand up. "OCTOOOOOOOOOO!" The digimon raised a sword that it had in one of its tentacles. "Alrighty, listen here sea food. You may be twice my size, and I may have a hurt leg, but you are not getting me without a fight!" She yelled and lifted her tent stake. However, both of them were distracted by the glowing light of a digivice on Linzi's belt and the sudden emergence of another player on the field. A small yellow and green ball came flying out of the ocean and smacked Octomon on the head. "NUBAXIEMON DIGIVOLVE TOOOOO!" The small ball digivolved into a quadruple legged seal-looking creature with a horn on its head. "TORPEDOMON!" She yelled and jumped in front of Linzi. "Don't worry girl! I got this overgrown sea food! You take care of your leg!" Torpedomon blocked the sword strike that Octomon had sent down.
"HORN BLASTER!" Torpedomon's horn came off and fired itself at Octomon, stunning it for a few precious seconds that Linzi needed to get away from the fight. She took clear advantage of it, and quickly began looking for the first aid kit in her bag and began cleaning her wounds. "OCTOOOOOMOOOON!" The Octomon's sword began to glow, and it hit Torpedomon right on the head. "Ow… That makes me dizzy…" She began shuffling over to Linzi, determined to protect her despite Torpedomon's dizziness. "Torpedomon, be careful!" Linz yelled as she tried to stand up and get farther away from the Octomon that was heading right towards her. 'OCTOOOOOOOOMOOOOOOOON!" The Octomon began reaching its tentacles towards Linzi and she screamed. "NO! I'LL PROTECT YOU!" Torpedomon yelled and Linzi's digivice began glowing again, as did Torpedomon.
"TORPEDOMOOOOOOOOOON!" A stream of energy from Linzi's digivice flew into Torpedomon, who began shedding her skin, revealing a beautiful blue and white skin that flowed into a more streamline shape. She lost her legs, but gained a pair of wings that also served as fins in water on the side of her body. "DIGIVOOOOOLVE TOOOOOOOO!" The stream of data continued, as her new skin covered her entire body. "DOLFINOMOOOOOOON!" The newly digivolved Dolfinomon glared at Octomon, who charged at her. "Alright, well, I can play that game too!" Dolfinomon flew past Octomon as fast as she could, throwing his balance off. "Octo!" "Now! Here's a taste of your own medicine! AQUA BLASTER!" Dolfinomon opened her mouth and began charging a massive blast of water. "OCTOMON!" The octopus-digimon began charging at Dolfinomon, but was halted in his tracks. "HIYAAAAAAA!" Dolfinomon let loose the deluge of water in her mouth at high speeds, sending Octomon high in the air and far out into the ocean, landing with a massive splash and pained cries. "Ha! That serves him!"
Dolfinomon glowed with a soft yellow right and dedigivolved back to Torpedomon. "Oh dear… I'm tired now." She made her way over to Linzi. "Are you okay?" She nuzzled the injured girl's hand. "Yeah, I'm fine now. Thank you for helping, but if I may ask, who are you?" Linzi looked puzzled at both Torpedomon and her digivice. "My name is Torpedomon and I'm your digimon partner and protector! I'm to help you and protect you until this place gets fixed up." Linzi looked confused. "What? Why was I brought here?" She asked, confusion etched on her face. "You were one of the chosen ones. There are others like you here, and we've got to find them soon." Torpedomon quickly looked around, very nervous.
"HEY! OVER HERE!" Linzi and Torpedomon glanced up into the forest. "Do you folks happen to know where I can get a bus home?" The teen that was originally attacked by Flymon walked out of the trees with another digimon on his shoulder. "Hi! My name is Ravenmon!" The new digimon exclaimed. "And my name is Luke." Luke smiled and sat down next to Linz and Torpedomon. "Your leg is hurt. We should probably stay here for a bit." Luke noticed and began dressing it. "Ouch! You be careful there." Linz winced as Luke cleaned out the more shallow wounds. "Sorry, but it's going to sting. I've got to clean them somehow." He grimaced as he continued to work. "I know, but it doesn't mean I can't complain about it." Linzi stuck her tongue out at Luke. "That's true, that's true." He conceded.
"How did you get here, anyways?" Linzi asked the boy. "I'm not sure at all. All I know is that the strange creature that destroyed my house opened up this weird portal, and I followed it through the portal to stop it from hurting anybody else." Luke looked away into the trees and frowned. "What's the matter?" She asked him. "Oh, it's nothing. I'm just wondering if we'll be able to get home…" He trailed off and looked to Ravenmon. "Well, don't worry buddy! We'll make sure that you and Linzi get home." Ravenmon cawed and flew around the beach before landing in front of Torpedomon. "Right?" "That's right! We'll get you home in no time at all." Torpedomon barked happily. "Never forget that we're your partners. We'll help you in any way we can." She smiled and watched as Ravenmon flew over the jungle to see if there was any trouble.
"Anything up there, Ravenmon?" Luke called out to the bird digimon. "Not that I can see!" He called back and Linzi smiled. "Good. Are all digimon like that, Torpedomon?" She asked her partner. "Well, most digimon are kind and peaceful creatures. There are those that are hostile when you get in their territory though, and then some digimon like Octomon eat whatever they can to get by and survive, so it's more of a survival aspect of their life." Torpedomon explained, glancing back at the ocean. "Oh… Well, I'm happy that I have you to protect me then." Linzi hugged her partner. "I'm happy that you're happy!" She replied, smiling. Luke laughed at the two and waved at Ravenmon to come down. "We've got to rest here for a bit so Linzi can use her leg again." He explained as Ravenmon landed on his head, causing Linzi to burst out laughing.
In the Jungles
Caninmon and Jacob finally stopped walking and sat down after about an hour of walking. "I'm so tired… Have we lost Flymon?" Jacob sighed and asked Caninmon. "Well, I think we have. My nose is telling me that we have, and I trust my nose." The dog-digimon sniffed around again for a second check while Jacob sat down. "I can only go so much farther…" He moaned and froze up when he heard the rustling of leaves. "Caninmon. Someone's here." He whispered, and Caninmon pointed and crouched down, ready to attack whatever was in the leaves.
"Calm down there, Caninmon! It's me, Kangamon!" Kangamon bounced out of the bushes and called back to the other five. "HEY GUYS! I FOUND CANINMON!" Chinchilmon was the next out of the bushes, followed quickly by Tiffany and Michael, with Ally and Azuremon bringing up the rear. "Caninmon, I missed you!" Kangamon bounced up to the black dog-digimon and hugged him around the neck. "I missed you too, Kangamon!" Caninmon licked her face. "Ewww! Nasty tongue!" She giggled. "They really really really really like each other." Chinchilmon jumped on Michael's shoulder and whispered into his ear, causing the boy to smirk. "It seems like it." He whispered back, causing Chinchilmon to giggle.
"Azuremon, who are they?" Tiffany seemed a bit more cautious. "That's Caninmon and his partner. They are another duo of the chosen." Azuremon smiled. "It seems that we are slowly finding everyone." "How many are left?" Jacob asked, looking at the bipedal digimon. "Two. They should be near here, right Azuremon?" Kangamon asked the taller digimon. "Indeed they should be." He affirmed, using the power in his legs to jump up in one of the trees to see out farther. "He'll be down in a second." Tiffany reassured the group.
True to what Tiffany said, Azuremon jumped down from the tree. "There is water that way. We should begin heading down there." He quickly began moving, while the others gathered themselves. "Sheesh. He's so impatient!" Tiffany ran after her partner. "Well, we better hurry!" Caninmon and Michael ran ahead while Jacob helped Ally up, while Chinchilmon and Kangamon quickly began moving. "Hi. My name's Jacob." Jacob told Ally when she had got her feet on the ground. "My name is Ally." She smiled at the slightly taller boy and continued onto the group.
Down at the Beach
Linzi stood up. "I think I can walk now. We better keep moving just in case any nastier digimon come along." Luke nodded and stood up as well, grabbing his backpack while she grabbed hers. "Oof! Water makes this thing that much heavier." She laughed and straightened up, popping her back as she did so. The two began walking away from the beach while Torpedomon and Ravenmon followed a little ways behind them, talking.
"The other digimon are near. If we stay here just a bit longer, we'll be able to see everyone again!" Torpedomon argued. "Yes, we best do what we can to keep them here for a bit longer while the others get the other chosen here." Ravenmon agreed and fluttered up to Luke and began whispering in his ear. "There are others here?" Luke's mouth dropped open and he told Linz what Ravenmon had just told him. "Ravenmon here says that there are other kids who got stranded here like us and that they're on their way here!" Linz smiled with joy. "We should head back to the beach then." She turned around and they quickly left behind the jungle again to go back to the beach.
"Okay, so now do we? Just wait for them?" Linz asked, looking out at the ocean nervously. "I don't want that Octomon to come back while we're still here." She bit her lip and looked at the ground while Luke shrugged. "This is what Ravenmon said we needed to do, and I trust him." Ravenmon cawed and flew up to Luke's cheek and nuzzled it. "Thank you Luke! I appreciate your trust of me already!" "It's no problem little buddy. You're the only help we've got and we need to trust you since we're not from here." Linzi nodded and glanced down at Torpedomon, who had snuggled up to her leg. "That's right girl! We need you, otherwise I would've been octopus bait there earlier, and that is not my ideal future career choice!" Linzi laughed and petted the digimon.
"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY! OVER HERREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Jacob yelled and began climbing down the cliff to the beach. "What does he see?" The shortest member of their group, Ally, asked Kangamon. "Hmm… I don't know! Tiffany, what does he see?" The Kangaroo digimon asked the tall girl, who replied with a shrug. "He's probably got better eyes than I do. I can't see anything from up here, except the ocean." "Well, I guess we better follow him." Michael began climbing down the cliff as well, with Caninmon and Chinchilmon quickly making their way down the cliff. Tiffany let Ally go first, making sure that the younger girl wasn't falling before heading down the cliff, leaving Azuremon at the top. "Coming, Azuremon?" Tiffany called up to the stoic digimon. "Yes, I am simply thinking…" "About what?" Tiffany decided to see if she could get a better view on her new partner. "The dangers of this world. It is more dangerous than you could ever imagine, Tiffany. There are digimon that are far stronger than that Digmon at the cliff." Azuremon sighed and jumped off of the cliff, landing nimbly on his feet at the bottom. "Hm… What does he mean by that? I'm sure that we can take care of any digimon with all of us working together." She continued her climb down the cliff, reaching Ally who was waiting for her at the bottom.
"Look over there Luke!" Linzi pointed to the other side of the beach, where a sharp cliff rose up and led to the jungle. Torpedomon looked up and excitedly started barking and running towards the four people and four digimon. "HI EVERYONE! IT'S SO NICE TO SEE EVERYONE AGAIN!" She came to a halt and beckoned Linzi forward. "Linzi, Luke, these are the other chosen!" Ravenmon also flew up, beating both Luke and Linzi to the other group that were running towards them. Linzi and Luke looked at each other, smiled, and quickly sped up their pace to reach the other group.
"Well hi everyone! Interesting to see you over here." Caninmon woofed and smiled at the newcomers. "Well, we couldn't stay away for that long. Strength in numbers and all that." Ravenmon cawed and flew around Luke's head. "Hi! My name is Luke, and this is Linzi. We only met a little bit ago, but man, it sure is good to see some friendly faces!" He exclaimed and picked up Ravenmon. "This is my partner, Ravenmon." "And this is my partner, Torpedomon! She's also even digivolved into this awesome digimon called Dolfinomon!" Linzi introduced her digimon. "Awesome, Torpedomon! You digivolved into your champion level!" Chinchilmon cheered, and Azuremon smiled as well. "Your power and ability to digivolve came from your partner, did it not?" He asked. "Well, yeah! Linzi here was so brave, that she thought she was going to take on an Octomon with only a metal pole and a hurt leg! I had to help out." Torpedomon blushed.
"Wow! That sounds like quite a story!" Kangamon bounced around the group in circles. "Is she always like this?" Linzi whispered to Torpedomon. "Yeah, she's always been a bit excitable." She whispered back, and the two giggled. Azuremon quickly turned his head to the left. "Be vigilant. Something is coming." He assumed a fighting pose and the others turned to watch the jungle. Kangamon jumped back over to Ally and Chinchilmon quickly dashed on top of people's heads to reach Michael. "Caninmon, where are you at?" The dog digimon quickly ran back from where he was behind the rest of the group to stand next to Jacob, growling softly at the hidden creature in the jungle.
"GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" A blur jumped out of the bushes. "KOROKO DRILL!" The dodo-looking digimon that was clearly flightless shot off its beak like it was a propeller. "EVERYONE MOVE!" Michael yelled and pulled Ally away out of the way as the group split up. "Korokomon!" Korokomon cried out again and charged at Luke. "Alright, you overgrown birdbrain! Let's go!" Luke yelled as he ducked quickly and pulled a wooden branch off of the ground and turned to the Korokomon. "Let's see if you like the taste of your own medicine!" He threw the branch at the Korokomon, which promptly caught it and broke it in half. "KOROKOMOOOON!" Its beak flew off again and sent itself directly at Luke, who dodged out of the way in the nick of time. "I think I underestimated this thing! Somebody help me!"
"Torpedomon, can't you help him?" Linzi looked at the digimon. "I'm sorry Linzi, but I'm all out of energy. That fight with Octomon took a lot out of me." She frowned, but Linzi patted her on the head. "It's okay, we'll just have to keep you super well rested and fed!" She smiled and looked at the other digimon. "Can any of you help?" Ally asked the question that they all wanted to know. "I sure can!" Ravenmon charged at the Korokomon that was slowly approaching Luke. "FIRE SPRAY!" Ravenmon cried and sent a blast of fire breath at the Korokomon, which turned around. "Come on you guys! We've got to help!" Chinchilmon and Kangamon began to attack as well.
"Powerful… Ugh…" Kangamon dropped to the ground, clearly exhausted. "Taaaaail spin!..." Chinchilmon's attack failed as well. "Our attacks aren't working! We're too tired from defeating those other digimon earlier." Azuremon dropped to one knee as he and Caninmon tried to use their attacks. "He's right. It's up to Ravenmon now." Caninmon barked, looking at the Korokomon.
"Ravenmon, watch out!" Luke's warning prevented Ravenmon from being caught off guard from the Korokomon's attack, barely missing the bird digimon. "How'd you like that fire spray?" Ravenmon sent out another attack, hitting the Korokomon again. "GRAAAAAAAAH! KOROKO DRILL! KOROKO DRILL!" The Korokomon quickly sent out two more drills from its horn, one at Ravenmon, the other at Luke. "RAVENMON! BE CAREFUL!" Luke cried out as one of the Koroko drills struck his partner. He turned his attention back to the one that was following him, ready to either dodge it or brace for impact.
Ravenmon weakly lifted his head from where he lay on the sand, weakened by the Koroko Drill, but desperately wanting to save his partner. "LUKE! WATCH OUT!" Ravenmon yelled in fear as the Koroko Drill came closer and closer.
"Wait! Look on his belt loop!" Tiffany cried out. Luke's digivice began shining brightly, as did Ravenmon. "It's another digivolution!" Michael celebrated while Jacob looked on, intrigued by the device.
"RAVENMOOOOON!" Ravenmon's feathers began to turn all sorts of colorful colors, and his beak began to grow to a much larger size. He also grew both in length and in height, now able to fly faster than he was before with his powerful wings. "DIGIVOLVE TOOOOOOOOO!" His feet also changed color into a bright orange, matching his bright orange and yellow beak. "TOUCAMON!" The newly digivolved digimon quickly went to work.
"FIERY WING!" Toucamon cried out, setting his wing ablaze and throwing the fire at the Koroko Drill, successfully destroying the drill before it hurt Luke. "LUKE! GET OUT OF THERE! LEAVE KOROKOMON TO ME!" Toucamon began to fly up in the air while Luke managed to scramble around Korokomon until he reached the main group. "NOW KOROKOMON! HOW DO YOU LIKE MY FIERY WING?" Toucamon screeched and sent another wing of fire at the flightless digimon, whose lack of wings were really hurting now, lowering its ability to dodge attacks. The attack landed directly on it, sending it hurtling backwards into the cliff. "KOROKOMON!" The digimon got back up, stumbling every which way.
"TOUCAMON! AIM FOR ITS BACK! IT HAS SOMETHING ON IT, I THINK!" Luke hollered at Toucamon. "You got it boss! One fried bird, coming up! FIERY WING!" Toucamon threw another wing of fire at the Korokomon that was still stunned from the collision with the cliff. It connected and landed on Korokomon's back, sending it into the sand. "KRAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" It shrieked in pain as a black strip flew off of it and was destroyed. "What was that?" Ally wondered, seeing the strip disappear.
"Oh, I'm terribly sorry for that awful misfortune that I caused you children. I promise that it will never happen again, I truly do. That Dark Strip is the work of demon spawn, let me tell you." Korokomon profusely apologized before running off back into the jungle. "Well, he was certainly a strange one." Michael commented while watching Tiffany. "What are you thinking Tiffany?" He asked the older girl. "If that was only one of the weaker digimon here, then we're in for the fight of our lives here. We've got to be prepared for anything…" She sighed, and looked back to Michael. "But I know we'll make it through." Ally stepped up to her and told her confidently. "Yeah! Ally's right!" Jacob smiled and stepped up to the group as well. "Of course! Torpedomon and I will do our part to get us back home." Linzi smiled down at her partner and joined the circle that they had formed. "That's right. We're our best chance of getting home, and if that pizza is cold by the time we get back, I'll sue the pizza place!" Luke got a laugh out of the group and they put their hands in the center of the circle. "Ready? On three, coming home. One! Two! THREE!" The chosen threw their hands up in the air. "GOING HOME!" They left the beach and continued walking into the jungle together, ready for whatever could possibly come their way.