"Garurumon & Growlmon"
After the attack with Shellmon, the group were now wondering around on a cliff, looking for any familiar sites.
Tai stood off a few feet from everyone, obviously thinking about how Agumon was able to digivolve into Greymon to save him from being crushed to death by the giant shellfish.
"Yo, Agumon." Tai said.
"What's up, Tai?"
"I like it when you're Greymon, and no offense, but why don't you stay that way?" he asked.
"I can't. But even super heros need their rest." he joked.
Tai deadpanned at the joke and nearly fell off the cliff, but Agumon grabbed hold of his shorts, holding him in place as he kicked his legs around, making everyone laugh at the scene.
Their laughter was cut short by a roar and they turned to see a dinosaur like digimon crash into some boulders, revealing himself.
"Who's that digimon?" asked Izzy.
"It's a Monochromon, but don't worry about him. He's a laid-back digimon." Tentomon assured.
But to Parker, he looked pretty angry as he stared directly at them.
"But it would be wise to be cautious of them." the insect said.
"Yeah, they get pretty cranky when they're hungry!" Guilmon said.
"Then he must be starving, cause he looks really mad!" Tai said.
"And I think he wants to eat us!" cried Mimi.
Monochromon advanced on them, making Guilmon get a feral look in his eyes and snarl at him ashe jumped in front of the kids to protect them, but Monochromon roared at somethng he saw behind them. They turned to see another one, glaring at the first one.
"There's two of them!" Joe cried.
"We're stuck between a rock and two sets of teeth!" Matt said.
Everyone yelled and ran behind the boulders behind them, just narrowly missing getting hit fron the charging dinos, as they began to spar.
"Something must have set those Monochromon off!" Tai peered from behind the boulder.
"They're fighting over territory." Tentomon explained.
"They can just have it then!" Palmon ran off.
"Hey, don't leave without me!" Mimi ran after her, everyone following.
"They deffinately don't need us hanging around!" Tai panted.
Parker heard a yelp and stopped and looked behind her to see that TK had tripped. She ran back and gave him her hand.
"Better hurry up you guys!" Tai called, seeing Parker go to the brothers.
"Hurry, we gotta go!" she said firmly.
"OK! We're comin'!" TK said, determined, taking her hand.
Matt stared at her in shock, but was snapped out of it when she grabbed his arm with her other hand, pulling the two brothers along, their three digimon following from behind to protect them.
Hours latter, the sun was setting and Parker was still holding TK's hand, but only to keep her calm so she didn't kill Mimi, who wouldn't stop whining.
"I don't walk this much unless I am at a mall, and as you can see, we're no where near one!" she complained.
"Mimi, stop whining." Tai said.
"No! My feet hurt!"
"Maybe if you take off your boots and socks, you'd feel better, Mimi, it's much more practical, I think." Agumon offered.
"I'm not walking in dirt in my barefeet!" she exclaimed.
"I love the feel of dirt under my feet, especially between my toes!" Palmon said.
"Gross!"
Parker groaned at the forming headache she was getting and noticed that Guilmon was trying to keep his mouth shut and not yawn and his gold eyes were drooping shut.
"It appears we may be loosing our light sorce." Izzy said, looking at the darkening sky.
"What a weird sunset." Sora said.
"This whole island is weird! And who knows what will come out at night."
"Wait, I detect water! Stay here while I check it out." Tentomon flew off.
"Yes, as usual, I'm right! It's a lake with fresh clean water and a variety of tasty fish! The perfect campsite!"
"Maybe I can finally soak my poor, achy feet!" Mimi said.
Tristan massaged her temple with her free hand, fighting the massive headache she had.
She'd kill for some Tylenol!
"Yay, we get to swim!" Gomamon cheered, but he was held back from going to the lake by Joe grabbing his tail.
"Gomamon, you better wait to make sure it's safe first!"
"That's why I think we should start walking and stop all the complaining!" Matt said, noticing how worn out his brother and Parker were.
"Everybody's hungry, we have to find some food!" Tai said.
"That is a good plan! I like that plan a lot!" Joe said.
"Me too!" Guilmon cheered.
Everyone walked on until they came to the lake, the water a golden yellow and blood red color from the sunset.
"It should be safe to rest here tonight." Biyomon said.
"Yeah, I love camping outside!" Sora said.
"If I wont walk in dirt, what makes you think I sleep in it?" Mimi complained.
"You're getting close to getting to sleep 6 feet under it!" Parker growled under her breath, no one but Matt and her digimon hearing.
"Mimi, do you see a hotel around here?" Tai asked.
"Look!" she gasped.
Everyone turned to look where she was pointing and saw a trolley car light up.
"What's that?" Tai asked.
"It looks like a trolley car." TK said.
"That's odd! The lights just...came on!" Izzy said.
"Well, maybe there are some real people in there." Sora said.
"Let's check it out!" Tai ran towards it, Agumon following.
"Maybe it can take us back home! In air conditioned comfort!" Mimi cried.
Everyone ran towards the car then, Parker still holding TK's hand so he could keep up.
"Mimi, wait up!" Tai yelled as the girl ran a head and went in with Palmon.
"Bummer, it's empty!" the google head said.
"Totally empty." Sora chimed in.
"No trolley car is this clean!" Izzy stated.
"Oh, goody, these cushions are comfy!" Mimi said, seating in one of the seats.
"Something's wrong. Remember those weird phone booths we saw on the beach? Something just as feaky could happen here." Tai said.
"Yeah, like it suddenly moving by itself!" Joe said.
"Possibly, then again, maybe thats our only way of getting home." Tai said.
"So we have nothing to loose by staying here." Sora smiled.
"Can we eat now?" Tentomon groaned.
"I'm famished!" Guilmon whined.
"That's right, I forgot." Tai said.
Everyone went off to complete a different chore to get ready to eat.
Izzy and TK were fishing, or at least trying to with Gomamon swimming in the water.
"Gomamon, stop playing in the water! I can't catch any fish if you keep warning them away!" Izzy complained.
Parker was helping some of the digimon collect berries and other various fruit.
"Yum yum! You can never get too many berries down the hatch!" Tentomon said, picking berries.
Patamon used his boom bubble to knock down some bannanas from a tree, but they fell down on Gabumon.
Parker gasped and went over to check on him.
"Oh boy! You better watch that killer breath of yours, Patamon!" Biyomon laughed, flying away.
"That isn't funny, Biyomon!" Parker scolded.
She carefully took the bannanas off of Gabumon's horn, rubbing his head to ease the small bump he got.
"We're all set to cook dinner! Now all we need is the grub!" Matt said.
Parker, Gabumon and Guilmon walked over with the friut they gathered to see the others had made a fire pit.
"Great, but how are we suppose to light the fire?" Sora asked.
"Like this!" Guilmon breathed out some flames and the fire started.
"Wow, Guilmon, you're the man!" Tai exclaimed to the digimon, who blushed at the praise.
"Hey, look-it!" TK called.
"We caught a bunch of fish!" Izzy said.
"Wow, you sure did." Parker smiled at the two as they carried an armfull each.
"Awesome, Izzy, let's eat 'em!" Tai said.
"Thanks, Squirt!" Matt said, taking a fish.
"This is where I wish we had a microwave." Tai muttered, dangeling the fish above the fire.
Parker gave him a look.
Wouldn't that be easier with a stick? Hasn't he ever been camping before? He's going to hurt himself.
"Me too, because you're about to loose your fingers! Why don't you use a stick?" Matt said, sticking a stick with a fish on it by the fire to cook.
"How did you come up with that, Matt?" he asked the blond.
"Because I'm the man!"
That night, everyone dug in, enjoying the meal. Parker and her digimon sat by Matt, TK and their digimon to eat.
"This is surprisingly good!" Tentomon said, sharing a large fruit with Biyomon.
"Mm-mm, delicious!" Izzy said, eating a fish.
"Matt, Mom only lets me eat fishsticks!" TK said to his brother.
"I wont tell!" the blond said.
"I never eat with my fingers."
"TK, it's alright!" he was getting frustraded.
"Sweetie, what your brother means, is we don't have any plate or forks to eat with, so we have to work with what we have, get it?" Parker said, smiling gently.
"OK, Parker." TK said and began eating.
She smiled down at him, then turned to see Guilmon stuffing his face, his cheeks getting stuffed with the food, looking vaguely like a chipmunk.
Parker chuckled at the sight then resumed eating.
She noticed Tai had gone off to talk to Sora and Joe joined them afterwards.
She looked over to TK when she heard someone yawning and saw that it was Patamon.
"Hey, look, Patamon's tired!" he said as the hamster with wings curled up to sleep.
Palmon and Gomamon were sleeping against each other further away from them.
"I'm getting really tired myself!" Tai yawned, stretching.
"Wait a second! I think we should take turns standing guard." Izzy said.
"Alright, who wants to go first?" Joe asked.
"How about if each of us stands guard for an hour?" Tai asked.
"Not TK!" Matt said standing up.
"Aw, come on, me too, Matt!" TK stood up too and grabbed his brother's shirt.
"No you're too young and you need your rest!"
"Of course he'll help." Parker said.
Matt looked at her, shocked.
"Really?" TK asked.
"Mm-hm, you'll help by by staying with us girls in the trolley to protect us from the monster!" she winked.
"Yeah, I can do that!" TK cheered, bouncing over to her.
"I'm getting cold, I need a warm blanket to help me sleep!" Mimi said.
Parker sighed and began digging through her bag, pulling out her blanket.
"Hey, Gabumon!" Tai said in a weird voice.
"Watch out! Mimi might sneak up on you and steal your furs! So if you feel a little tug, it might be her about to cut your tail off!" he joked, freaking him out.
"Tai!" Parker scolded throwing the blanket at Mimi, rushing to the freaked digimon's side.
"Stop, Tai, that's not funny!" he said, running to Parker.
She knelt down and rubbed his back, shooting the laughing brunette a disaproving look.
"Quit it!" Matt said, pushing him.
"What are you buggin' about?" Tai asked, angered.
"Gabumon told you to stop, so knock it off!"
"Hey, you can't tell me what to do!"
The two then grabbed each other, but were pulled apart by Parker placing her hands between them, pushing them away from each other,
"Hey, enough!" she said
"This is not the time or place! You are upsetting everyone. Resolve this a different way."
The two boys turned their backs on each other, pouting.
She sighed and rubbed her temples.
What, was she rearing children or something?
"You'd both make good guards! Who goes first?" Joe asked.
"I will!" Tai spun to him.
"I'm next!" Matt turned to him.
"How about Izzy takes up after that and I finnish the night?" Joe concluded.
Everyone, minus Tai and Agumon, went into the trolley to sleep.
Mimi thanked Parker for the blanket and she nodded in reply, cuddling up to the warm body of her digimon, ingnoring everyone talking as she hummed him a lullaby to fall asleep.
The others seemed to have fallen asleep and she was about to drift off, when she saw Gabumon lay down with TK, keeping him warm. The boy opened his eyes and saw the digimon then looked over to see his brother watching them.
"Thanks Matt."
Matt turned away, bashfull.
Parker giggled at how cute it was, then cuddled up to her dino, who was already snoring, on the floor and fell alseep.
She could have sworn she heard a lovely melody being played by a harmonica before she entered the world of darkness.
She gasped and woke up when she felt the ground move.
"What's happanin', Parkermon?" Guilmon asked, half asleep.
Parker ran out of the trolley as the shaking got worse, her digimon following her.
She was met by the sight of a seadragon bursting out of the water and he did not look happy!
"Oh no, it's Seadramon!" Tentomon cried.
"We're gonna get eaten for sure!" Mimi said as they others came out to see Seadramon pulling the island away from the land.
"Hold tight, we're going for a ride!" Agumon said.
"It's like we're on a monster long board!" Tai said.
"He's pulling us along by his tail! I don't even think he realises we're here!" Izzy said.
"Perhaps not, he is a bit dense. As long as he doesn't see us, we should be safe." Tentomon said.
"Don't be too sure!" Agumon said.
Guilmon had gone wild again and was snarling.
"You guys jinxed us! Now he knows we're here!" Tentomon said, jumping on a large red thing on the ground.
"What? I didn't do anything!" Agumon and Tai exclaimed.
"I guess he does know we're here!" Izzy said as the red thing flicked the bug digimon off and went down into the water.
"Ah, the big red thing was his tail!" Tai cried.
"It wasn't my fault!" Tentomon cried.
Seadramon rammed into the island and Parker tried not to fall as she turned to run over to check on TK, looking for Matt and Gabumon as she did so.
"He's coming back and he's not happy!" Tai exclaimed.
"We're gonna crash into the shore!" Joe yelled.
"This is really gonna mess up my hair!" Mimi cried.
"TK! PARKER!" Parker turned to see Matt and Gabumon jump into the water from the land and start to swim over to help, but how, she didn't know.
The island stopped moving and Seadramon resurfaced the water and all the digimon went to attack him, but they didn't cause any damage.
Agumon tired to digivolve, but he couldn't find the power to do it.
TK heard his brother calling him and ran to the other side of the island, Gomamon, Parker and Guilmon in tow.
"Matt, becareful or the monster will get y-!" TK fell into the water when Seadramon rammed into the island again.
"TK!" Parker yelled as Gomanmon dived in after him.
She knelt by the shore, warry of the water, watching as Matt swam over to them as the seal surfaced with the small blond on his back.
"Gomamon, take TK to Parker!" Matt said.
He then swam over to the sea serpent.
"Hey, over here, you over grown water lizard!" he called.
"That boy is trying to give me a heart attack, isn't he?" Parker said as she carefully reached out to grab TK, shaking as she got close to the water.
Gabumon used his blue blaster on Seadramon, but he just got him mad and was sent flying through the air.
"I HATE FISH!" he yelled as he landed on the island.
Parker gasped as she saw Matt get dragged down by Seadramon.
She stood up, parralyzed with fear.
She looked at the water, memories of nearly drowning when she was a child, haunting her.
"Parker, what's wrong?" TK asked.
"She's scarred of the water!" Guilmon answered.
She began shaking, but she shook it off. She may be scarred, but she was also a good swimmer, she had to help. She couldn't stand being useless! She wouldn't let TK loose his brother! Taking a deep breath, she dived into the water.
She cut through the water easily and swam over to Matt who was wrapped in Seadramon's tail. He opened his eyes and saw her, shocked. Parker swam over and grabbed onto the tail then bit hard into it. The serpent screamed and released it's hold on the blond, so Parker grabbed his hand and pulled him to the surface. They both panted as they burst through.
"Thanks, Parker."
"Thank me latter, Nessie's back!"
She pushed Matt out of the way as Seadramon brought his tail down on then, trapping her in it.
"PARKER!" everyone yelled.
"Parker, hang on!" she heard TK say.
Parker coughed and choked as Seadramon raised her up out of the water, squeezing the life out of her. She wheezed as she tried to get air in her lungs, sqwirming to get free.
"Parkermon, don't worry, we'll help you!" Guilmon cried.
She screamed as she was sqweezed tighter.
Two bright lights shone as a double evolution took place.
"Guilmon digivolve too...GROWLMON!"
"Gabumon digivolve to...GARURUMON!"
Growlmon snarled and reared his head back.
"PYRO BLASTER!" he growled.
He fired a powerful glowing red fireball at the sea serpent, making it cry out in pain and shock, releasing his hold on the girl.
As she began to fall, Garurumon leaped in and caught her on his back, then took her back to the island as Growlmon used his "Dragon Slash" on Seadramon.
"Parker!" TK yelled, running to her.
"Thanks, Garurumon." she said, slidding off his back.
"My pleasure." he growled.
The blue wolf then went back over to help the large dino fight.
"Parker!"
She gasped as someone clung to her waiste and looked down to see TK.
"I'm soo glad you're alright!" he cried.
She smiled and kneeled down to hug him, then turned to watch the fight rage on.
The two digimon combined their attacks and blasted Seadramon with their "Howling Blaster" and "Pyro Blaster", making the serpent retreat, wounded.
The kids all cheered at the defeat and the two digimon swam back to the island, reverting back to their normal forms.
"That's one way to keep my fur dry." Gabumon joked.
"Parkermon, did ya see me? Well, did ya?" Guilmon asked as he jumped onto the girl.
"Easy, boy! You were great." she said and then kissed his nose.
The two turned to see the small blond hug Gabumon.
"You digivolved into Garurumon just in time!" Matt complimented.
"Aw, Gabumon, thanks for saving Parker!" TK said.
"Anytime, young friend!" he said.
"Matt, Parker, you two were soo awesome against that monster!" the little boy said.
"Think so?" Matt asked, he and Parker blushing.
"You're the man!" Gabumon said.
"And you're the wolfman!" Matt and Parker chorused.
Everyone laughed at that, except Joe.
"OK, very funny, but how are we suppose to get back?" he asked.
"Just watch!" Gomamon said.
He jumped into the water and summoned up his fish buddies again and they moved the island back to it's place.
Afterwards, everyone was resting in the forest, safe and away from the water, exhausted again.
Parker, TK, Patamon, Guilmon and Gabumon were laying against Matt, the little boy and the digimon sleeping, while the girl was close to passing out. She vaguely heard everyone discusing how only her and Matt's digimon were the only ones to digivolve, and came to the realisation that it was because they did it when they were in trouble.
"Is it time to go to the mall?" she heard Mimi ask, sleepily.
"We've been here one day and I think she's already put some muscle on her." Sora said.
"Yeah, maybe if she puts in the effort, she'll become a hard body machine like I am!" Agumon said.
"I hope she grows pink wings just like my wings!" Biyomon said.
Parker smirked at that, trying not to laugh as she tried to fall alseep.
"You must be kidding." she heard Mimi say.
Then all she heard was yawning and snoring.
She opened her eyes a little when she felt Matt move and saw him through blurry eyes bring something to his lips.
She smiled as she heard the harmonica music she heard from last night and cuddled into his side, snuggling her snoring dino up to her.
The boy really could play!
'I wonder what his voice would sound like if he sang?'
With that last thought, she driffted into her dark realm of safety, peace and dreams.
To be continued...