Well,here you go. Enjoy your long chapter. I actually did not expect this to be this long. But the longer the better right? So,enjoy.
Episode 3: The Dark Arrives
Once everyone got up and out of the trees,Ethan told them what happened last night.
To their surprise, everyone had one once they reach in their pockets.
"How did we not notice these before...?" Flavio questioned.
"Well they are pretty small..." Jayme replied looking at her small device.
True, They were small enough to fit in their palms.
"What are these things anyways?" Rioc asked throwing his in the air and catching it.
"They're Evo Balls."
Everyone turned to the voice,which happens to be Gastly, Flavio's partner.
"What do they do Gastly?" Flavio asked.
"They help us digivolve,duh!"
"It all makes sense." Ethan said.
Keeth looked at him. "So these...Evo Balls.."
"That's how Squirtle and Charmander digivolved." Ethan finished.
"Pft..I knew that.." Keeth looked away and muttered.
"So what now?" Jayme spoke up.
"Maybe we should find a way out of the forest." Flavio said
"Sounds good," Keeth replied. "Besides,we shouldn't stay here for obvious reasons."
Everyone nodded and walked away from the lake,following one of the many paths in the forest,hoping for the best.
It was around noon,the sun blazing straight down on the kids.
They saw a clearing,and rushed out to find it was a plain of grass,with flowers here and there.
Penni immediately rushed off to pick flowers,with Jayme trailing behind her.
"She's gonna learn not to rush off like that soon enough." Ethan quietly said to himself.
"Give her a break. She's eight." Keeth countered,receiving a glare from Ethan.
Penni sat down hear a patch of flowers,some white,yellow,and a few red ones.
Ralts came up behind her sat down beside her.
"These flowers sure are pretty." Ralts said in awe.
"Mhm!" Penni reached out to pick one of the red flowers,but a small Digimon came out from under the flower and hissed her hand away.
Penni pulled her hand away and looked at the very small Digimon.
"Ralts,who's this?" Penni asked while watching it climb onto the flower.
"That's a Flabébé. That must be its flower." Ralts explained.
"Oh!" Penni looked back at the Flabébé,seeing it calming down a bit more.
"I'm sorry,I didn't know that was your you forgive me?" Penni asked in a sweet voice.
The Flabébé looked at her,before picking up it's flower and floating around her with a small dance of forgiveness.
Jayme and Mareep came up behind them and huffed. "Penni you really need to stop running off like that," Jayme said.
"Oh sorry,but look!" Penni moved out to reveal Flabébé,who looked up at Jayme.
"Oh..." Jayme said sitting on the ground looking at it.
Mareep noticed Flabébé looked a bit sad.
"Are you ok?" She asked,and Flabébé looked at her.
"Do you speak Fairy Mareep?" Ralts asked.
Mareep shook her head no, "Nope."
"Don't worry, I do," Ralts smiled.
"Hey Mareep," Jayme started, "What does 'Do you speak Fairy?' mean?"
"Oh,every type element has its own language,but Digimon of different types can speak to each other too," Mareep started, "But since the Fairy type wasn't noticed until a while ago,they haven't learn to communicate with other types. But Digimon with a secondary type learn both languages of those types. Flabébé is a pure Fairy type,and Ralts is a Psychic type and a Fairy type."
"I see," Jayme said
Ralts started speaking in a language that no one present could understand,but Flabébé looked like it did.
Ralts and Flabébé started a conversation with Flabébé looking sad the entire time.
Once they finished, Ralts turned back to the girls.
"Well, she's sad cause she has nowhere to go."
"What do you mean?" Jayme asked
"She was run out of her home village," Ralts looked down, "..by Dark types."
Mareep's face paled, "D-Dark types?!"
Penni and Jayme exchanged a confused look.
Ralts noticed their confusion. "Oh,let me explain,
Dark types are by far the most evil of all types. They decided to go full on independent. Because of their power,they are feared by other types. Most Dark types are born evil. But Digimon with Dark as their secondary type can be born good,it depends though."
"Why was she run out of her town?" Jayme asked
"They just suddenly attacked. Flabébé was the only one in her family who made it out safe." Ralts looked down.
Penni stood up suddenly,scaring everyone around her. "Penni?" Ralts asked.
Penni looked at Flabébé and smiled. "Don't worry Flabébé,we will save your village!"
Everyone looked just as shocked as Flabébé did.
"I can't stand to know that those mean Dark types did something like that! We gotta do something!"
Something flashed in Penni's uncovered emerald eye as she had a look of bravery.
"We should tell the others," Jayme spoke.
Penni nodded and followed Jayme to the group of kids and Digimon.
Everyone sat in a circle as the two girls explained what happened to Flabébé
It took a while to explain everything that Penni and Jayme have learned,but everyone learned quick how Dark types were evil.
"So...you want to help get Flabébé her home back." Keeth summed up.
"Mhm!" Penni smiled.
"I don't know..." He thought.
"What's up?" Rioc asked
"I mean,how are we gonna beat them?" Keeth asked.
"Well...uh.." Jayme tried to ask.
"I mean,when was the last time we fought something?"
"Gyarados." Ethan answered
"And how did we beat it?" Keeth leaned into Ethan.
"Uh...Squirtle digivolved..." Ethan said scooting away from Keeth.
"EXACTLY!" Keeth yelled,scaring some kids and digimon beside him. "And how are we gonna get Squirtle or Charmander to digivolve?"
"I have...no idea." Flavio said back
"I don't either. And I doubt we can wish for them to digivolve."
"We did fight them though..." Rioc said
"But we ran away at first!" Keeth exclaimed.
"So what are we suppose to do about that?" Jayme asked crossing her arms.
When Keeth didn't say anything,Charmander spoke up.
"You do know that we can defend ourselves,right?" He said.
"Uh.." Keeth looked a bit bewildered.
"Yeah! What do you take us for? A bunch of weaklings?" Gastly shouted
"We didn't do anything before cause...we kinda didn't wanna scare you." Bulbasaur said.
"That makes sense." Ali replied to her partner.
After everyone came to an agreement, the digimon went ahead and showed the kids what they could do.
Ali and Bulbasaur were father from the group as Bulbasaur showed her the attack she could do.
"Vine Whip!" Bulbasaur shouted as two dark green vines came from the side of her bulb and whipped at some branches on the trees.
"Wow Bulbasaur..." Ali said in awe.
Bulbasaur turned around and smiled up at her. "Cool huh?"
Ali felt a tug at the end of her shirt and looked down to see it was Penni holding Ralts in her other hand and Flabébé to her right.
"Ali..." Penni whispered and looked around.
"Uh...yeah?" Ali said confused.
"I didn't think it would take this long for them to get ready." Penni said.
"Your point?" Ali said as Bulbasaur walked beside her.
"I want you to come with me to Flabébé's town." Penni said and Ralts nodded
"W-What? Wouldn't the others get mad?" Ali said looking at the group of people watching Mareep shoot a thunder shock at a nearby tree.
"Not if we sneak away from them." Penni winked
"Well..." Ali looked down at Bulbasaur who just shrugged.
"Pleaaasssee!" Penni begged.
Ali sighed before saying, "Ok, fine."
"Yay!" Penni jumped up and hugged Ali's stomach,squishing Ralts in between.
Ali looked at Flabébé, "Are you gonna lead us to your village?" she asked.
Flabébé nodded and motioned her to follow.
Gastly watched as Charmander and Squirtle duked it out,until he noticed green and yellow hair near the forest.
He turned around and saw Ali and Penni together following Flabébé somewhere.
"What's wrong Gastly?" Flavio asked
"I may be jumping to conclusions, but I think Ali and Penni are leaving without us." Gastly whispered.
"Should we follow?" Flavio whispered back.
Gastly nodded and sneaked away from the group along with Flavio.
The group of two girls and two Digimon followed Flabébé through the forest,which started to change from green leaves to pinker trees and more flowers.
They saw a clearing and ran up to it and looked around.
It was beautiful,white grass,pink trees bordering it,and houses made out of glowing materials.
Though,the houses looked deserted.
"Is this it?" Penni asked and Flabébé nodded.
Ali looked farther in the distance and saw a crystallize castle that was glowing like the houses.
They followed a cautious Flabébé through the deserted town.
Everything seemed calm,until two figures jumped out in front of them.
They looked like little dogs,but with black coloring.
"Well well,we don't get visitors often." The one on the left said.
Flabébé hid behind Penni once the right one saw her.
"Ooo! The princess has finally returned!" It said.
"Princess?" Ali said to herself as she looked at Flabébé.
"What do you want with Flabébé?!" Penni shouted.
"Oh nothing really," The left one said, "Just to take Princess Flabébé to our boss."
"We won't let you!" Ralts shouted.
"We'll see about that!" The right one said and jumped to attack Ralts with a vicious bite.
"Ralts!" Bulbasaur shouted as the dog got a hold on Ralt's arm.
"Confusion!" Ralts' eyes glew red and threw the dog off her arm at his partner
The left one got up and tried to jump at Bulbasaur.
"Vine Whip!" The two vines whipped away the dog back to the ground.
Obviously the dogs were angered by this.
"Who are you anyways?" Ralts asked
"We are..." Lefty said.
"The great..." Righty said
"POOCHYENA BROTHERS!"
"Poochyena Brothers?" Ali repeated.
"That's right!" Righty shouted.
"We are respected by Mightyena." Lefty said smirking.
"Who's Mightyena?" Ralts asked
"Our boss,he's at the castle holding Queen Florges, Prince Sylveon and the town's digimon captive." Righty answered
The girls gasped as Lefty hit Righty with his paw. "You idiot! We weren't supposed to tell them that!"
"That's why this place looks deserted!" Penni shouted and pointed at the Poochyena
"Uh oh..." Righty said
"Get 'em!" Penni shouted and Ralts and Bulbasaur jumped into action.
"Confusion!" Ralts lifted the brothers in the air, "Bulbasaur!"
"Vine Whip!" Bulbasaur hit the two from the air and to the ground.
"Grrrh..." Lefty growled.
Lefty tried to get up and attack again,but something appeared behind him making turn around.
"Hypnosis!"
Both Lefty and Righty looked and passed out,revealing the black ball of gas known as Gastly, smirking like a kid.
"Gastly?" Ali asked.
"I thought we were all going together." The girls turned around and saw Flavio standing there slightly angry.
"Uh..." Ali started before Penni said, "They were taking to long!"
Flavio sighed and looked at Gastly. "Thank's Gastly. Who know's how long they would have tried."
"Thanks! They won't be waking up for a while." Gastly said looking down at the sleeping dogs.
"So what now? Do we got get the others?" Flavio asked.
"Nooo!" Penni shouted "We have to go save them noow!"
"But-...ugh." Flavio held his forehead knowing her answer wouldn't change.
"Surely they wouldn't mind..." Ali said trying to convince him
"I know Keeth won't be happy."
"So we agree?" Penni said getting impatient.
Flavio sighed, "Yeah...let's go."
"Yaaaay!" Penni rushed off to the castle with Ralts trailing behind her.
"P-Penni! Wait!" Ali and Flavio ran to catch up with the speeding child.
It took only two minutes to get to the castle doors, but Ali and Flavio were exhausted from chasing Penni,who was completely fine.
"I wish I had half your energy..." Ali muttered.
"Come on! Let's go!" Penni almost walked in,but Flabébé tried to stop her.
"What's wrong?" Penni asked
Flabébé was speaking fairy trying to tell her something.
"What's she saying Ralts?" Bulbasaur asked.
"She's saying the place is overrun with guards,and it's dangerous to go in." Ralts translated.
"We're not safe here..." Flavio looked around.
"No you're not!"
Before they even looked they were surrounded by Poochyena.
"I told you this was a bad idea..." Flavio whispered to Ali.
"What do we have here?"
They turned to the castle door and say what they thought was a Poochyena,but it was bigger.
"That must be Mightyena," Ali whispered.
"Oh,so you finally came back Princess," Mightyena smirked, "I was starting to get worried."
Flabébé hid behind Penni who glared at the leader.
Mightyena finally noticed the three humans and looked back behind him before looking back at them.
"Why don't you come in..." He lead them inside,confusing the group of smaller dogs.
They were lead through a hallway that had flowers trailing it. Kinda a weird place for evil Digimon to make their hideout.
They heard quiet voices every now and then. It was probably the town's digimon.
When they were out of the hallways, they were in a large room,possibly the throne room.
There were more Poochyena and a couple of weird black birds that looked like they had hats on.
In the thrones were two Digimon they hadn't seen. One looked like a bigger version of Flabébé,and the other looked like a pink and white fox with ribbons.
The group of humans assumed that was Queen Florges and Prince Sylveon.
"Ahh,Flabébé!" Florges gasped at the site of the young fairy.
"Mama!" Flabébé said and rushed over to her mother's arms.
"Good to see you back where you belong,Princess." Mightyena sarcastically bowed.
"Why did you kidnap everyone?!" Penni shouted,but Flavio and Ali covered her mouth to make her not anger Mightyena.
He turned back and smirked. "So we could catch the attention of who we're after."
"Who you're after?" Ali asked not letting her guard down.
"Why yes,and our plan seems to have worked."
"What?" Flavio looked back and saw Poochyena guarding the only exit.
"We know you have the Keystones," Mightyena growled. "Just hand them over peacefully,and no one gets hurt."
"Keystones? We don't have any of those!" Ali shouted.
"QUIT LYING!" Mightyena shouted.
"We're not lying!" Flavio yelled back.
"Fine. Be like that," He looked at the birds near the windows.
"Murkrow." The birds nodded and flew up.
They zoomed towards Florges,Flabébé,and Sylveon and started pecking at them.
"No!" Penni shouted.
"If you don't wanna risk their lives,I suggest you give us what we want." Mightyena evilly grinned.
"We're telling you! We don't have your Keystones!" Flavio yelled.
Mightyena growled,and turned back to the Murkrow. "Don't be afraid to hurt them."
The Murkrow began hitting them with their wings and pecking them.
Bulbasaur finally had enough and used Vine Whip to smack the Murkrow away.
Ralts and Gastly helped by getting rid or the Poochyena.
Penni and Flavio ran to the three fairies and helped them get away.
Penni lead them into the hallway and the exit,and Flavio stopped to Ali.
"Me and Bulbasaur will find the others. Just get them out of here." Ali told Flavio,who nodded in response,and ran off.
Once they were gone,Ali and Bublasaur ran down the hallway and through another corridor. The voices they heard before were getting louder.
They reached a door that had many locks on them.
Bulbasaur's vines broke the locks and Ali pushed open the doors.
Inside were caged with many different Digimon in them. Though,they all shared one thing. They were all pink.
Bulbasaur and Ali freed them from the cages and sent them out.
They lead the crowd to the doors that lead out of the castle,and everyone ran back to the town.
"We need to make sure everyone left." Ali said.
"Ali,it's too dangerous." Bulbasaur told her.
"I'm not leaving until I know everyone is safe!" Ali ran back into the castle.
"Ali wait!" Bublasaur ran back in but was jumped on by two Poochyena.
Ali saw and stopped running, "Bulbsaur!"
"If you won't hand them over I'll take them by force!"
Ali turned back to see Mightyena charging at her,ready to pounce on her.
"ALI!"
A green light shone from Ali's pocket and Bulbasaur,stopping Mightyena.
Ali pulled out the Evo Ball and saw it was shining green.
"Bulbasaur digivolve to..."
The bulb on her back opened to see pink petals on her back. The leaves ringed the bud as Bulbasaur grew in size.
"...Ivysaur!"
The Poochyena were thrown back as Ivysaur pushed them back.
Ivysaur redirected her attention to Mightyena.
"Razor Leaf!" Leaves shot out and threw back Mightyena,who recovered quickly.
Mighyena jumped on Ivysaur and bit her head.
Ivysaur shook him off and threw him out of the castle,into the grass outside.
"Leech Seed!" Seeds spouted out of her bud and near the ground beside Mightyena.
Roots then came out of the ground and wrapped around Mightyena,draining his energy.
As the roots sucked his energy, the wound that Mightyena made was slowly going away.
After a while of Mightyena struggling,he finally stopped signing his energy was all gone.
"That should put him out of commission for a while," Ivysaur turned to Ali. "He didn't hurt you did he?"
Ali shook her head. "I'm fine,I'm just worried about you." Ali said rubbing the spot where Mightyena bit.
"I'm fine. Leech Seed gave me Mightyena's energy. I'm perfectly fine."
"How does that work?"
"...I have no idea."
Ali climbed on Ivysaur's back and rode on her to the town.
Once there,everyone was shaken up. They spotted their group and some more.
"Oh great..." Ali muttered as she saw Keeth and Flavio arguing.
Penni was the first to notice Ali and Ivysaur's arrival. "They're back!"
Everyone stopped and looked at them as Ali jumped off of Ivysaur.
"Woah,did Bulbasaur get bigger?" Keeth commented.
"I digivolved." Ivysaur simply stated.
"You look so cool!" Squirtle praised.
Ivysaur glew white and shifted back to Bulbsaur. "Did I really?"
"Yeah!" Charmander said. "But not as awesome as me!"
"Dream on." Bulbsaur rolled her eyes.
Ali giggled at the scene. Someone poked her arm. She turned and faced Rioc,her brother.
"You ok?" He asked
"I'm fine,don't worry about it." Ali was about to look away but Rioc caught her shoulder.
He grabbed her left arm and lifted the sleeve to see a bite mark.
"Where did you get this?!" Rioc yelled causing unwanted attention.
"Nowhere." Ali tried to pull her arm away but Rioc's grip was too hard.
"You do this every time..." He muttered.
"What?"
"You put yourself out for others. You don't want us worrying."
Ali looked down,knowing it was true.
"Is something the matter?" Florges came to the siblings noticing their bickering.
"No-" Ali was cut off my Rioc. "She was bit."
Ali glared at her brother as Florges examined the bite mark.
She smiled. "I can fix this,if you don't mind."
Ali looked at Rioc as he nodded,and put her arm out to Florges.
Florges put her hand on the bite mark. The area glew a greenish hue,and an aroma of flowers filled the air.
When the glow was gone,Ali's bite mark completely disappeared.
"How-" "It's called Aromatherapy. It heals wounds and status conditions." Florges answered Ali's question.
"Oh! Miss Florges,I wanted to ask you something!" Penni came up beside her.
"Yes?"
"How can you speak our language? I thought Fairies didn't know how."
"Well," Florges started. "Since so many different Digimon wander into my town,I've caught on to their language,although there's still much for me to learn."
"Ooooh." Penni said
"Anyways," Florges turned back to the group of kids. "Since most of you drove off the Dark types,I would like to share my gratitude."
"And how's that?" Keeth asked.
"Well,we can give you anything you want,or some answers."
"Answers? Why would we need any?" Ethan asked confused.
"As of why the Dark Types wanted our castle."
Ali looked down and thought of a question. She remembered what Mightyena told her,and looked back up to face Florges.
"Why are Keystones so important to the Dark Types?" Ali suddenly asked.
The area went quiet,with Florges just staring at her with shock.
"Well?" Flavio said "Mightyena went though a lot of trouble to get them."
Florges snapped out of her shock and looked down. "I'm afraid I can answer that. To be honest I know nothing as of why they want them,but I do know one thing."
"Anything you can tell us is good enough." Ali spoke.
Florges took a deep breath. "Keystones are very special. If memory serves,there are only twelve Keystones in this world.
Their power is amazing. They are the keys to 'Mega Digivolution'."
"Mega?" Ethan said. They barely knew anything about regular Digivolution.
Florges nodded. "But that's not enough,you have to get the Mega stones coordinated with the Digimon that can Mega Digivolve."
"That's so cool. So your saying if I had a Keystone,and the Mega Stone coordinated with Charmander,he can Mega Digivolve?"
"That's still not enough," Florges said,making Keeth groan. "You also need a strong bond with each other. And you have to be aware of it."
Everyone looked at their partners and smiled. Their bond was growing with each passing minute together.
"Now then," Florges smiled. "Anything else you need?"
Keeth's stomach started growling ans he sheepishly smiled. "How 'bout some food?"
Ethan bonked Keeth on the head. "Behave yourself."
"Food wouldn't be an issue. There's no need to hesitate."
Everyone agreed and followed Florges to get food.
They ate with the Digimon who were freed,and surprisingly had fun.
Night came and everyone went to sleep happily,knowing they wouldn't have to worry about the Dark types for a while.
Oh how wrong they were.
Somewhere dark and isolated,there were two Digimon having a very stern conversation.
"What do you mean you failed?"
"Forgive me,but some kids got in the way and-"
"Kids? You don't mean human kids to you?"
"I'm afraid that's the case."
"Ugh...send out Zweilous."
"But Master-"
"No arguments. Just send him out."
"Those humans are here sooner then I thought. I'll need to take drastic measures into making sure they don't foil my plans.
Even if it mean killing them."
