The Digital Gate: Sorry it took so long, I had to study for finals. And once again, I'm sorry if this doesn't match up to Expect the Unexpected. Thank you for your time.
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon or Yu-Gi-Oh GX, only the characters I made up.
Bam. A slight pause. Bam. Another pause. Bam.
"Stop it."
Yazuki didn't bother to turn around. "Why should I?" Bam.
A hand grabbed his shoulder and whirled him around. "I said, stop it," Suzy repeated firmly. "You're sick enough as it is. If you keep cracking your head like that--"
"I don't care!" Yazuki thrust her hand away. "Meinumon got taken away. And it's my fault! I could've stopped Akuonimon. Besides, it was me who he was after, not Meinumon!"
"It's just as much of my fault that he got taken away."
"You weren't the one who was conscious! I should have done something!" Yazuki's voice was rising, and showed no point in stopping. Even his growing headache didn't matter. "I could have pushed him out of the way!"
Suzy didn't relent. "It's no fault of yours. You couldn't move; you were too weak."
Yazuki's answer was to pummel her in the jaw. Suzy winced. Behind her, the duelists (besides Chazz) stared. Lopmon started to step forward when his Tamer gestured for him to stay back.
"How's...that for weak?" Yazuki huffed. His breath now came in rapid short gasps. "Well..? Answer...me.."
Suzy shrugged. "Could've been worse."
"That's all...you're going to...say? I...punched you in...the jaw. Doesn't..it hurt?"
"If it helps you calm down, then so be it."
No sooner had the words left her mouth, Yazuki collapsed. Suzy caught hold of him and gently lay him down. "He's got a burning fever," she noted. "Lopmon, could you hand me my canteen?"
"It's been long enough. I'm going to search for them. Now," Henry announced, standing up.
Takato looked up. "You shouldn't really go in this darkness, you'll trip or something. How about in the morning?" he suggested.
Terriermon snorted. "Are you kidding me? It's not much better then. Some leader you are."
"Terriermon..."
The Digimon grinned. "What? I'm just saying the truth."
"Well, the truth isn't pretty. Now let's go."
"Moumantai, Henry. They'll be fine."
"Suzy..." Alexis began as she watched the female Tamer turn around.
"Yes?"
"Don't you think it's about time you told us about Akuonimon? From what Jaden said, you defeated him."
Suzy blinked. "Oh...right..." She hesitated, glancing at Lopmon. When the Digimon gave an nod, she began: "A few weeks after I returned home and Henry fully recovered, he came with me to the Digital World to search for Primary Village. It's a place where Digimon go after they get deleted. They get reborn there," she added hastily, seeing the confused looks.
"We eventually found Primary Village, and with it, Lopmon. But less than one day after Lopmon hatched, in a different form, than Akuonimon re-appeared. He somehow closed off any open gate and cast a dark cloud over the entire Digital World. So Henry, Lopmon, and I were stuck there. All the other Tamers were in the human world.
"But soon enough, Yazuki and Meinumon found a way through. They brought along all the others as well. When they arrived, the first thing Meinumon did was roar. Akuonimon heard it. We heard it. Nearly everyone heard us.
"Akuonimon did his best to keep us seperate, but all of us met up eventually. When we did, Yazuki had caught a cold for some strange reason. He ignored it, though, and told us that ever since we left, Digimon working for Akuonimon had been coming into our world almost daily. They seemed to posses something that let them open portals at will.
"Takato and the others had fought nearly everyday, and were too tired to move by then."
Suzy continued to speak throughout the night, talking about how the revived Necromancer had cause chaos across his homeland, deleting nearly every Digimon in sight. How he had sent what the Tamers called 'Aku Soldiers' out to ambush them night after night with no sucess. How they had started tracking down the soldiers and deleting them one by one when one night, Yazuki and Meinumon disappeared. Suzy, along with Lopmon, had set out to find him, instead found a soldier, and chased him to the real world where they found Duel Academy.
Her cousin lay sleeping, twitching occasionally with a murmur. With his brow furrowed, Yazuki seemed as if he was planning something.
"Ouch..." Yazuki slowly sat up and scanned his surroundings. Suzy and Lopmon, along with everyone else, were curled up, sleeping. One of them was snoring, but he couldn't tell. It hurt to think.
With a flash, he remembered everything that happened. Akuonimon traveled to the real world to get him, and instead had taken Meinumon. "It's my fault, it's all my fault," Yazuki muttered to himself. "I have to find him. I have to."
He scrambled up, shaking off the blanket that had been on top of him. He whipped around, searching for his digivice and pack of cards. Locating them, he grabbed one in each hand, spun around to face the forest, held his digivice up and shouted, "Open!"
To his suprise, it worked. A digital grid appeared, stretching from one tree to another. Yazuki glanced back. Safe. No one had woken up.
He faced the portal again. Here goes something. The Tamer gritted his teeth and charged through. Whether he had arrived safely or not, he didn't know. He had collapsed, unconscious.
"Suzy, wake up!" Someone was shaking her, and it wasn't gently..
"Just five more minutes..." she mumbled in response, rolling over. The shaking resumed.
"Suzy, get up! Yazuki's gone!"
She rolled farther away. The shaking was really starting to get on her nerves. "Then go and order a new one."
This time, the shaking stopped and didn't start again. "Someone go and get some water. I need to pour it on her head."
"No need. I'll do it."
"Wait. Chazz, that's too much. Chazz!"
Suzy groaned and sat up, blinking water out of her eyes. "What the?" She glanced up. Chazz stood in front of her, a bucket dripping wet. "Yow!"
Lopmon glanced at her. "What?"
"Nothing. I just thought I'd woken up to a nightmare, that's all. Why am I so wet?"
"Because you wouldn't get up," Lopmon stated simply. "I asked someone to go and fetch water to pour on you, but Chazz decided to dump a bucket filled with water instead."
Suzy shook her head violently, spraying everyone nearby with water. "He did what?"
"Dumped an entire bucket of water on you."
She froze. "Why that little--" In less than a second, she had stood up, grabbed the bucket, and shoved it into Chazz's face.
"Hoo boy," Lopmon groaned.
"What was that for?" Chazz shouted.
"Why did you pour an entire bucket on me?"
"Because you wouldn't wake up!"
"I don't need a bucket-full of water to wake me up! Your scratchy voice is enough to send anyone running!"
"Then how come no one's running?"
They continued for several more minutes, bantering about each other's hair, voice, body odor, and more. Neither side showed any sign of giving up to the other.
"Uh...aren't you going to stop them?" Syrus asked, turning to Lopmon.
He shook his head. "Arguing will keep her awake for a while."
"Besides, I haven't seen Chazz this angry in a long time," Jaden grinned cheefully.
"What about yesterday when you stole his food?" Syrus reminded.
"Oh yeah."
Finally, Chazz and Suzy stopped. Their voices were hoarse and they seemed to have run out of breath. Suzy plopped down.
"Why did you need to wake me up again?" she croaked.
Lopmon gestured to where Yazuki had been. "Yazuki's gone."
Suzy's eyes popped wide open. "What?"
The rabbit Digimon nodded. "I found out about half an hour ago. I woke the others up pretty quickly, except for Jaden. He took a while. Not as long as you though, he was pretty hungry for breakfast. Then we got you up, and you started bickering."
Suzy let out a scratchy groan. "He could be anywhere by now..."
"Or in the Digital World," Alexis put in.
"Huh?"
Lopmon sighed. "Look behind you."
Suzy spun around. The portal Yazuki had opened was still there. Lopmon stepped up beside her. "You know what we have to do."
She nodded. "Go after him." The Tamer turned to the duelists. "We're going to leave now. You all stay here."
"Why? I want to help!" Jaden retorted. "Yazuki's my friend too!"
Lopmon stared. "You barely know him..."
"So?"
"Look, just stay," Suzy ordered. "It's too dangerous." She turned towards the portal. "Lopmon, let's go." The Digimon hopped onto her shoulder as she took off. Seconds later, they both disappeared into it.
Jaden stood up. "I'm going too," he announced.
"What? But Jaden, she just said--" Syrus began.
"Since when do I listen?" Jaden cut him off.
"Good point. But still--" Syrus started again. He never got to finish. Jaden had charged straight through. "Aw, man...Wait up!" The small duelist sprinted after his friend, disappearing into the portal as well.
Alexis stared before regaining her composure. "I'm not going to let boys get all the fun. I'm going too."
The only one to hear her was Chazz. He watched as she walked into it before turning away. "They can go if they want. I don't care. I'm not the one who will get killed." His steps slowed as he hesitated.
"There's no way I'm going...no way..." he repeated. But his words denied his thoughts. Chazz spun around and, against his will, ran into the portal.
TBC
The Digital Gate: Uh...can someone tell me how the Ojamas act? And their names and how to spell it?