Chapter 4:
"Wow. You all look pretty down in there." A disconnected voice said, causing many of them to jump. David made a snorting noise and woke up.
"Huh, who said that?" He said, rubbing his face "Is the new girl talkin' now?"
Everyone was now looking around, confused on where the voice was coming from.
"If you're looking around, you won't find me." The voice said again.
"Who are you?!" Monet yelled, having a serious look on her face. The voice laughed.
"Don't worry about that, I'm the Digimon guarding the door to your cell. I'm using telepathy cause it's kinda the only safe way to talk here."
"Why do you wanna talk with us in the first place?" David asked, his arm crossed and his devil tail lashing about.
"Because I wanna help you guys! I'm gonna get everyone in this prison outta here, including you guys."
"Wait.. There's more than just us?" Jared questioned.
"Yup! Plenty a Digimon. They seem to be all Datas and Viruses though.."
"Well what are you waiting for?" Monet said. "Help us now."
"I can't yet. It isn't the right time to do so.. I have to wait till you're all… Well.. Fully transformed. It'll be safer for you all if I wait. I'm sorry."
"What?!" Was the collective yell from the cell. But then they heard banging on the door.
"Hey!" Said the voice they were hearing earlier. "Keep it down in there!" Which caused them to become quiet. "Sorry about that," said the voice again, this time once again in their heads "I don't want anyone to get suspicious, try to talk with your thoughts so others can't hear." The room was quiet, until Monet tried to think.
"Ok.. We'll try."
"Alright! Though, I think this is as much I can talk for now, this takes a lot out of me, I'll tell you more of what's going to helped tomorrow."
"Ok." Monet sighed. The voice disappeared after that, everyone was deathly silent, trying to wrap their heads around what just happened and what could happen. Until they heard a voice.
"F-fully transformed…? Is, is that why there's fur on my arm? I-is that why I'm here..?" The girl sobbed, grabbing her arm, yellow fur slightly visible underneath the bracelet. Monet rubbed her back as the girl continued to sob.
It was beginning to become night cell beginning to darken because of the setting sun no longer being able to reach the translucent roof of the cell.
The door clicks, and a Weregarurumon walks in, several beds under his arms, it is obvious the guard opened the door for him. He carelessly throws the beds on the floor, one nearly hitting Little One.
"Bed time." They growled as they closed the door behind them.
"Asshole." Hissed Rita, grabbing one of the beds and straightening it out. Everyone grabbed a mattress, until the new girl noticed something.
"I-I don't have one." she stuttered, looking at the empty spot where all the beds were. Everyone was surprised and silent.
"Are you kidding me!?" Rita said, voicing what everyone was thinking. The girl looked at the floor.
"I-I'll just sleep on the floor-" she said before being cut off. "No, you can share my bed." said Jared, who had already placed down his bed and was smoothing it out. The girl was surprised.
"What!? You don't have-" "You shouldn't have to sleep on the floor, there'll be room for both of us on the bed. I'm short." he said, albeit flatly. The girl looked around a bit before walking over to Jared. She was nearly a good foot taller than him right now. Jared lied down on the bed, scrunching himself up so that the girl would have the most room. The girl lied down, her and Jared's backs almost touching.
Soon, everyone except Jared and the girl were asleep, light snoring filling the room. Jared shifted a bit, and started to whisper.
"You still awake?" He asked.
"Mhm.." Was the reply from the girl.
"I'm sorry you'll have to go through all this." The only reply to this was a small whimpering noise.
"Though, hopefully we won't have to wait here any longer.. If the Digimon was telling the truth.."
"Yeah… but that won't be until…"
"Yeah…" After that, there was silence, until the girl whimpered. Feeling bad, Jared moved towards the girl and pulled her into a hug. The girl was surprised, but hugged back.
"Things will be ok, don't worry.." Was all he said. The girl was silent for a lher no time, Jared almost thought she was asleep.
"Sammy." She muttered.
"Huh?"
"My name's Sammy…" she said, before falling asleep.
Jared was surprised, no one really asked her name now that he thought about it, he felt bad for not asking earlier, but was glad he knew her name now at least. Soon, the two fell asleep.
"Awww, this is so cute~"
"David stop trying to poke them."
"But it's fun-OW!"
"I told you to stop!"
Jared slowly opened his insectoid eyes, being woken up by the talking. He noticed Sammy was still asleep in his arms, then he looked up, only to notice everyone standing above them, David seeming to be giggling. He thought he could feel his face flush red, let go of Sammy and jump back. He fell right on his back, making an audible groan as he tried to get up, only to be unable to do so. He helped in confusion, trying to get up, only to roll back onto his back.
"What the-!?" He said, looking back, only to notice a gigantic blue shell on his back, red spikes protruding from it. This caused him to whimper a bit. Rita ran up to him, offering her hand. He readily grabbed it.
"There you go." She said as he helped him to his feet. "Probably gonna have some balance issues with that shell on your back.. and that horn."
"Horn?" He asked incredulously as he patted the top of his head, feeling something very big in the middle of it. He ran as best as he could with the shell on his back. While he ran to the bathroom, Sammy started to get up, yawning a bit, rubbing her eyes, before stopping because she felt something fuzzy.
"Huh…" she said quietly as she saw her hand. It was covered in yellow fur, her fingers seeming to have merged into three white claws. She yelled loudly at seeing this. This caused everyone except Jared to look at her in surprise. She was grabbing her hand, looking at it with very wide eyes. Monet walked up to her and patted her on the back.
Meanwhile, Jared was in the bathroom staring at his reflection in the mirror incredulously. Smack in the middle of his forehead was a gigantic blue horn, with two little red appendages at the end. He tapped it with his clawed hand.
"What am I? Some sort of beetle?" He asked himself. He felt he should be feeling something more extreme because of this, but at this point he was starting to get used to it, as odd as that sounded. Sighing, he walked back out to see Sammy clutching her transformed arm while Monet comforted her. He blinked.
"Oh." he said, bringing the attention of the others, including Sammy, who stared at him with wide eyes. David started to giggle.
"Wow. Nice horn, dude." Jared rolled his eyes at this.
"Whatever." He said, crossing his arms.
"You all awake?" A voice suddenly called out, taking them all by surprise again. Rita growled in frustration.
"You really need to speak with us like this?" She asked in her thoughts. "Its really confusing."
"Well its the safest way! No way someone can eavesdrop ya know?"
"I get it." Monet chimed in. "Still weird and confusing, but I get it."
"Anyway, good news! In a week I'm gonna get everyone outta here!" At that most wanted to cheer but thought against it, David making a fist pump motion at most. The voice continued.
"But it won't be easy. It'll most likely be pretty dangerous, in fact. So you guys better have your guard up when the time comes."
"..really?" Jared asked.
"Thats kinda a 'No shit, Sherlock' sort of thing dude." Rita pointed out, her arms crossed.
"True true, but better to remind you! See ya!"
"Wait thats all you're gonna say!?" David asked incredulously, but no response came. Everyone looked at each other, and sighed.
"What a weirdo." Rita huffed.
"Well he's nice, but I agree kind of weird." Jared shrugged.
"Welp.. guess we got a week to wait."