Digimon {Digital monsters}
Friends and Enemies
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon, just Aquamon and her digivolved states. So don't go stealing her ok? On with the second chapter!
With the sun setting behind a bunch of fluffy white clouds, the eight young men and women from Bo'ness Academy, Scotland, began to set up camp for the night. Lyndsey, Stuart, Palmon, Gabumon, Aquamon and I went off in search of firewood. Lyle and the rest of the group stayed behind to collect dinner and create sleeping places for us all, Digimon included. When my group returned with large armfuls of firewood Agumon lit them into a blazing fire to keep us warm and to cook the fish Craig and Kim had caught. Aquamon would have better of course, but she needed to protect me in case any evil Digimon were about. The group sat down and ate dinner in silence, obviously the encounter with the Flymon army and Kuwagamon had scared the rest of the group and they certainly didn't seem keen to fight anything of that magnitude again.
"Alana, why's everyone being so quiet?" Aquamon asked me when we had finished our dinner.
"I think it's because they're a little freaked out, Aquamon." I replied flatly, "This is the rest of the groups first encounter with anything like this. Bo'ness is a relatively quiet town you must remember that." I explained
"Yeah it's not like it's got a lot of violence or crime in it, so we don't actually have to fight for our lives or anything like that." Sarah supplemented. I nodded, after all Bo'ness was never usually on the Scottish news and the only time it was mentioned outside of Central Scottish newspapers was when we held the annual Children's Fair Festival on the last Friday of every June. It's the biggest event of it's kind in Britain and people come from all over the world to see the Coronation of the Fair Queen, the procession and the Royal Revels in the Douglas park, about 15 minutes away from the place of coronation. When Sarah mentioned the Fair Day I automatically began singing 'Our Festal Day' to cheer everyone up,
"See the summer sun is gleaming, shining bright o'er land and sea. Nature's face with smiles is beaming, symbol of festivity." at this point the others joined in and pretty soon we'd moved on to 'Hail to Our Queen'. As we sang the last few notes the Digimon began humming the tune along with us. When we had finished we held a bit of a 'debate' over who should be on watch and for how long each night,
"I say that we should take turns keeping watch for about two hours and rotate it every night so everyone has the same responsibility." I finally suggested after we has all spent an hour arguing over the issue, "I'll go first just to make it fair. Lyle can take over after me, then Lyndsey and Craig can finish the whole scenario off. Tomorrow night the rest of the group can take turns keeping watch." I said impatiently. The others sullenly agreed on this arrangement and retired for a good night's rest.
The next morning dawned clear and bright, perfect conditions for sunbathing if and when it got warmer. I knew, however, that we couldn't waste any time relaxing as we still had to figure out why we were in the Digital world and where the seven other tags and Crests were.
"Come on guys. I know it's an absolutely gorgeous day but we need to keep moving. We don't want to risk another assault by an evil Digimon by sitting around doing nothing." Lyle said sternly while Lyndsey and some of the others in the group began moaning about having to get a move on. I backed Lyle's statement up,
"Yeah, and besides, you all want to get home right?" I teased, "So why not just do what Lyle suggests for the time being alright?" I grinned when the others agreed to move. Aquamon and the other Digimon helped in clearing up our campsite and we all moved on.
By midday Lyndsey was complaining bitterly about being hungry and tired and so on,
"Can't we stop just for half an hour?" she whined; making Lyle cringe at the sound of her voice.
"Oh. all right!" he finally conceded, "let's get lunch going." He ordered. Agumon, Biyomon and Tentomon all went off to look for firewood with their respective partners, while the rest of us gathered some food.
"Poison Ivy!" Palmon cried out, grabbing several apples down from a tree. Lyndsey and Kim caught them with ease. Aquamon was following her nose looking for something on the ground,
"Aha! Found them!" she exclaimed happily as she rooted up a handful of truffles.
"You've got truffles here in the Digital World?" I asked her incredulously, truffles were rare in our world.
"Uh huh." Aquamon nodded, "But we call them tree mushrooms since they grow near tree roots." She explained her ears twitching and a breeze catching her golden mane.
"We should get back to the others now Aquamon, they're bound to have found lots of other things for us to eat."
"Okay then." Aquamon agreed. She watched as I gathered up the truffles and proceeded to carry them back to our temporary campsite.
Lyle greeted us both rather genially, a fire blazing in the centre of the clearing we had chosen to eat in.
"What have you got there Alana?" he asked curiously, eyeing up the truffles hungrily. I laughed at his expression,
"They're truffles Lyle. You know the things the French are so proud of having." I giggled. Aquamon laughed along with me,
"Yeah. but what's French?" she suddenly asked, a confused expression adorning her face. I laughed even harder at that,
"Never mind." I managed to get out, "We'll tell you some other time." The rest of the afternoon was spent quite pleasantly joking around and eating our fill of the delights the digital world had to offer. The Digimon asked questions about our world, I expected this kind of conversation; after all I'd watched the entire first season of Digimon five times right through already.
"So your world has only one kind of creature that has a language?" Tentomon asked incredulously, his bright green eyes fixated on Craig's brown ones.
"As far as we know. yes. But Alana swears that dolphins can talk, we just don't understand them. But then again she's crazy." My famous temper began to rise to the surface at that comment,
"Oh boy," Kim sighed, "You shouldn't have said that 'Davo'. Now you've got her mad." Kim said, using Craig's childhood nickname to great effect.
"Huh?" he asked intelligently,
"I'm crazy am I?" I asked, one of my eyebrows began to twitch, "You all thought I was crazy to even think this place even existed. Now you're questioning a comprehensive biological study just 'cause you don't think it's even got a good basis." I said quietly, getting madder by the minute. Aquamon placed a calming flipper on my lap,
"Alana, please. I'm sure Craig didn't mean it like that. Did you?" she asked threateningly. Craig gulped; sweat accumulating on his forehead and his glasses began fogging up,
"No. of course not. I'm really sorry about that." He squeaked nervously, none of my schoolmates had seen the full extent of my temper, and they were pretty sure they didn't want to.
"Good." I smiled and went back to eating my fish and truffle stew. Craig gave an audible sigh of relief, while the others began edging away from me, discreetly.
When we had finished eating and putting our refuse away, we continued exploring the forest we had landed in the previous day. Needless to say Lyle got us totally and utterly. lost.
"Lyle, I hate to say this, but I think we're lost." Kim said tentatively, not wanting to arouse Lyle's temper as Craig had mine.
"Ocht, no we're no'." he announced confidently, "We haven't walked past anything more than once have we?" he asked with a smile back at Kim. Kim just sighed in reply. I walked a little to the back with Sarah and David,
"So Alana, you said something about maybe predicting what our Digimon will digivolve into yesterday?" David asked. I nodded,
"Yeah, but that was from in-training to Rookie. The possibilities for our Digimon to digivolve into their Champion forms are almost unlimited." I replied with a sigh. Sarah just gave me one of her brightest smiles,
"Well, we'll just have to find out for ourselves then won't we?" she exclaimed, a happy note in her voice. I was glad Sarah was viewing this in the same way I was, as a learning and growing experience with people we didn't know all that well personally. We continued walking, but then Aquamon cocked her head to the side and stopped,
"What's wrong Aquamon?" I asked, trusting her instincts completely. Aquamon wore a puzzled expression,
"I hear voices, they sound like other humans and Digimon." She said. I called to Lyle,
"Hey Lyle! Aquamon says she hears other humans. maybe we should go and investigate!" I suggested. Lyle walked to our position,
"How do you know that?" he asked, eyeing Aquamon with caution, "It could be her imagination." My temper began to rise for the second time that day, but I remained forcibly calm,
"Look Lyle, there's no reason to distrust Aquamon's instincts. She belongs in this world and I, for one, trust her completely." David, Sarah, Biyomon and Patamon agreed with me, Aquamon blushed,
"Thank you Alana. That means a lot to me." She whispered. Lyle sighed; noticing my temper was only just being controlled,
"Ok then, I'm sorry Alana, I should trust the Digimon more." He turned to Aquamon,
"And I apologise for doubting you." Aquamon gave a bright cheerful smile,
"It's ok, it's hard to trust a creature you've only known for a day." Lyle smiled and called to the others,
"All right then people. Aquamon has heard some voices, she reckons they're human. Since we have no reason to distrust her I say we follow her 'k?" he asked. There was a mutter of approval from amongst the rest of the group,
"I can't hear you!" Lyle bellowed, causing Agumon and Aquamon to jump at the sudden noise. I shook my head to clear it of the ringing sound that left me half-deaf.
"OK." Came the unanimous reply. Lyle smiled and looked to Aquamon,
"Ok then, lead the way Aquamon." He ordered. The entire group followed Aquamon's lead silently; hoping that the little sea lion Digimon was right.
Ok then people please R&R so I can get the next chapter up before I have too much work piled on top of me.
Friends and Enemies
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon, just Aquamon and her digivolved states. So don't go stealing her ok? On with the second chapter!
With the sun setting behind a bunch of fluffy white clouds, the eight young men and women from Bo'ness Academy, Scotland, began to set up camp for the night. Lyndsey, Stuart, Palmon, Gabumon, Aquamon and I went off in search of firewood. Lyle and the rest of the group stayed behind to collect dinner and create sleeping places for us all, Digimon included. When my group returned with large armfuls of firewood Agumon lit them into a blazing fire to keep us warm and to cook the fish Craig and Kim had caught. Aquamon would have better of course, but she needed to protect me in case any evil Digimon were about. The group sat down and ate dinner in silence, obviously the encounter with the Flymon army and Kuwagamon had scared the rest of the group and they certainly didn't seem keen to fight anything of that magnitude again.
"Alana, why's everyone being so quiet?" Aquamon asked me when we had finished our dinner.
"I think it's because they're a little freaked out, Aquamon." I replied flatly, "This is the rest of the groups first encounter with anything like this. Bo'ness is a relatively quiet town you must remember that." I explained
"Yeah it's not like it's got a lot of violence or crime in it, so we don't actually have to fight for our lives or anything like that." Sarah supplemented. I nodded, after all Bo'ness was never usually on the Scottish news and the only time it was mentioned outside of Central Scottish newspapers was when we held the annual Children's Fair Festival on the last Friday of every June. It's the biggest event of it's kind in Britain and people come from all over the world to see the Coronation of the Fair Queen, the procession and the Royal Revels in the Douglas park, about 15 minutes away from the place of coronation. When Sarah mentioned the Fair Day I automatically began singing 'Our Festal Day' to cheer everyone up,
"See the summer sun is gleaming, shining bright o'er land and sea. Nature's face with smiles is beaming, symbol of festivity." at this point the others joined in and pretty soon we'd moved on to 'Hail to Our Queen'. As we sang the last few notes the Digimon began humming the tune along with us. When we had finished we held a bit of a 'debate' over who should be on watch and for how long each night,
"I say that we should take turns keeping watch for about two hours and rotate it every night so everyone has the same responsibility." I finally suggested after we has all spent an hour arguing over the issue, "I'll go first just to make it fair. Lyle can take over after me, then Lyndsey and Craig can finish the whole scenario off. Tomorrow night the rest of the group can take turns keeping watch." I said impatiently. The others sullenly agreed on this arrangement and retired for a good night's rest.
The next morning dawned clear and bright, perfect conditions for sunbathing if and when it got warmer. I knew, however, that we couldn't waste any time relaxing as we still had to figure out why we were in the Digital world and where the seven other tags and Crests were.
"Come on guys. I know it's an absolutely gorgeous day but we need to keep moving. We don't want to risk another assault by an evil Digimon by sitting around doing nothing." Lyle said sternly while Lyndsey and some of the others in the group began moaning about having to get a move on. I backed Lyle's statement up,
"Yeah, and besides, you all want to get home right?" I teased, "So why not just do what Lyle suggests for the time being alright?" I grinned when the others agreed to move. Aquamon and the other Digimon helped in clearing up our campsite and we all moved on.
By midday Lyndsey was complaining bitterly about being hungry and tired and so on,
"Can't we stop just for half an hour?" she whined; making Lyle cringe at the sound of her voice.
"Oh. all right!" he finally conceded, "let's get lunch going." He ordered. Agumon, Biyomon and Tentomon all went off to look for firewood with their respective partners, while the rest of us gathered some food.
"Poison Ivy!" Palmon cried out, grabbing several apples down from a tree. Lyndsey and Kim caught them with ease. Aquamon was following her nose looking for something on the ground,
"Aha! Found them!" she exclaimed happily as she rooted up a handful of truffles.
"You've got truffles here in the Digital World?" I asked her incredulously, truffles were rare in our world.
"Uh huh." Aquamon nodded, "But we call them tree mushrooms since they grow near tree roots." She explained her ears twitching and a breeze catching her golden mane.
"We should get back to the others now Aquamon, they're bound to have found lots of other things for us to eat."
"Okay then." Aquamon agreed. She watched as I gathered up the truffles and proceeded to carry them back to our temporary campsite.
Lyle greeted us both rather genially, a fire blazing in the centre of the clearing we had chosen to eat in.
"What have you got there Alana?" he asked curiously, eyeing up the truffles hungrily. I laughed at his expression,
"They're truffles Lyle. You know the things the French are so proud of having." I giggled. Aquamon laughed along with me,
"Yeah. but what's French?" she suddenly asked, a confused expression adorning her face. I laughed even harder at that,
"Never mind." I managed to get out, "We'll tell you some other time." The rest of the afternoon was spent quite pleasantly joking around and eating our fill of the delights the digital world had to offer. The Digimon asked questions about our world, I expected this kind of conversation; after all I'd watched the entire first season of Digimon five times right through already.
"So your world has only one kind of creature that has a language?" Tentomon asked incredulously, his bright green eyes fixated on Craig's brown ones.
"As far as we know. yes. But Alana swears that dolphins can talk, we just don't understand them. But then again she's crazy." My famous temper began to rise to the surface at that comment,
"Oh boy," Kim sighed, "You shouldn't have said that 'Davo'. Now you've got her mad." Kim said, using Craig's childhood nickname to great effect.
"Huh?" he asked intelligently,
"I'm crazy am I?" I asked, one of my eyebrows began to twitch, "You all thought I was crazy to even think this place even existed. Now you're questioning a comprehensive biological study just 'cause you don't think it's even got a good basis." I said quietly, getting madder by the minute. Aquamon placed a calming flipper on my lap,
"Alana, please. I'm sure Craig didn't mean it like that. Did you?" she asked threateningly. Craig gulped; sweat accumulating on his forehead and his glasses began fogging up,
"No. of course not. I'm really sorry about that." He squeaked nervously, none of my schoolmates had seen the full extent of my temper, and they were pretty sure they didn't want to.
"Good." I smiled and went back to eating my fish and truffle stew. Craig gave an audible sigh of relief, while the others began edging away from me, discreetly.
When we had finished eating and putting our refuse away, we continued exploring the forest we had landed in the previous day. Needless to say Lyle got us totally and utterly. lost.
"Lyle, I hate to say this, but I think we're lost." Kim said tentatively, not wanting to arouse Lyle's temper as Craig had mine.
"Ocht, no we're no'." he announced confidently, "We haven't walked past anything more than once have we?" he asked with a smile back at Kim. Kim just sighed in reply. I walked a little to the back with Sarah and David,
"So Alana, you said something about maybe predicting what our Digimon will digivolve into yesterday?" David asked. I nodded,
"Yeah, but that was from in-training to Rookie. The possibilities for our Digimon to digivolve into their Champion forms are almost unlimited." I replied with a sigh. Sarah just gave me one of her brightest smiles,
"Well, we'll just have to find out for ourselves then won't we?" she exclaimed, a happy note in her voice. I was glad Sarah was viewing this in the same way I was, as a learning and growing experience with people we didn't know all that well personally. We continued walking, but then Aquamon cocked her head to the side and stopped,
"What's wrong Aquamon?" I asked, trusting her instincts completely. Aquamon wore a puzzled expression,
"I hear voices, they sound like other humans and Digimon." She said. I called to Lyle,
"Hey Lyle! Aquamon says she hears other humans. maybe we should go and investigate!" I suggested. Lyle walked to our position,
"How do you know that?" he asked, eyeing Aquamon with caution, "It could be her imagination." My temper began to rise for the second time that day, but I remained forcibly calm,
"Look Lyle, there's no reason to distrust Aquamon's instincts. She belongs in this world and I, for one, trust her completely." David, Sarah, Biyomon and Patamon agreed with me, Aquamon blushed,
"Thank you Alana. That means a lot to me." She whispered. Lyle sighed; noticing my temper was only just being controlled,
"Ok then, I'm sorry Alana, I should trust the Digimon more." He turned to Aquamon,
"And I apologise for doubting you." Aquamon gave a bright cheerful smile,
"It's ok, it's hard to trust a creature you've only known for a day." Lyle smiled and called to the others,
"All right then people. Aquamon has heard some voices, she reckons they're human. Since we have no reason to distrust her I say we follow her 'k?" he asked. There was a mutter of approval from amongst the rest of the group,
"I can't hear you!" Lyle bellowed, causing Agumon and Aquamon to jump at the sudden noise. I shook my head to clear it of the ringing sound that left me half-deaf.
"OK." Came the unanimous reply. Lyle smiled and looked to Aquamon,
"Ok then, lead the way Aquamon." He ordered. The entire group followed Aquamon's lead silently; hoping that the little sea lion Digimon was right.
Ok then people please R&R so I can get the next chapter up before I have too much work piled on top of me.