Chapter 3 - The First Encounter
Masaru stood behind Lunamon, stunned. There other real Digimon besides Lunamon?!
Goburimon chuckled. "Kehkehkeh, who'd be afraid of lil' bunny wabbit here? A Numemon could rip your ears off easy!"
Lunamon's face turned red with rage. "You... You're going down!"
"We'll see about that, bunny wabbit!"
He lunged at Lunamon and threw a great punch, square her face.
"Argh!" She screamed as she fell to the ground.
"Lu-Lunamon!" Masaru ran to her quickly and tried to wake her. "Please wake up!"
"Gwahahaha!" laughed Goburimon. "One punch was enough to take the bunny? Not a surprise, ain't it?"
At that moment, Lunamon stood up, bruised slightly under her right eye. Her claws extended several centimetres.
Goburimon froze. "Oh, so now the bunny wabbit's angry?" But Masaru noticed that the look in his eye was different. It was no longer pride, but fear.
"Masaru, stand back" warned Lunamon. He did as he was told.
After, Masaru nearly denied what had happened. Lunamon ran back at Goburimon with amazing speed and scratched his cheek. It happened so fast, it seemed like Lunamon had teleported behind Goburimon, who somehow gained a scratch and a frightened face.
"Ugh..." Goburimon bent down in pain, staring at the blood on his hand.
"That's what you get for punching a girl!"
"I... I AM NOT GETTING BEAT BY A GIRL!"
He stood up, turned around, and swung his fat green fist at Lunamon again. Lunamon easily dodged it and began forming a ball of water between her ears.
"Tear Shot!"
Goburimon turned around fast enough to see the big ball of water flying straight at his face. It forcefully hit his stomach, launching him back several yards, stopping when he hit a tree.
"Ungh..." he groaned, lying on the grass.
"Hahaha! Now I'm warmed up!"
Goburimon stood up and regained his evil sneer. "Let's see how you like this then." He held up his hand and flame gathered into his palm from... well, nowhere. "Goburi Strike!"
He threw the ball of flame like a baseball straight at Lunamon. She tried dodging it, but it followed her and eventually outsped her. It impacted with a small explosion that burned one of her ears. Lunamon fell on the grass again, completely immobile.
Masaru ran over to her and tried to wake her again, but to no avail. "Lunamon, please wake up!" His eyes watered. How could I have let her get hit with that fireball? I... I failed again...
He fell to the ground and began sobbing. Goburimon walked over to him and laughed. Masaru looked up. "Gwahahaha!" Goburimon cackled. "Seems like your bunny wabbit is now roast meat! Now, if you stay there, I'll make your death a lot less painful, kapeesh?"
"Fine. Do whatever you want. All I did was just stand around and let Lunamon do everything. I-I should have at least pulled her out of the way. I'm just a big disgrace to human life."
"Kehkehkeh! Okay, shall I roast you or beat you to a pulp? Oh, wait I know-"
Goburimon was interrupted by Lunamon, who was slowly standing up. As Masaru and Goburimon gaped in amazement, she began spinning around rapidly, large bubbles forming around her ears.
"Lop-ear Ripple!"
The bubbles forcefully shot at Goburimon repeatedly, sending him back so far he looked like a fat green blob in the distance.
When Masaru regained his train of thought, he looked at Lunamon woefully. "Lunamon, I-I'm so sorry. I should've done a better job protecting you. Are you okay?"
Lunamon looked back and attempted a weak smile. "It's okay, Masaru-kun. I'm not terribly hurt, just really tired. We should go before Goburimon gains consciousness again."
Masaru nodded. He picked up the tired Lunamon, put her in his bag with a bottle of water, and ran around the school all the way to the subway.
In front of the subway was, to Masaru's luck, Shibutoi. He was about to walk down the steps when Shibutoi saw him turn the corner.
"Hey, Shibutoi!"
"Oh, hey Masaru! What are you running from? By the way, nice Lunamon!"
"Huh?"
"I'll explain on the train, 'kay?"
* * *
A moment later, Shibutoi and Masaru boarded the train. There was less fuss because most students had already gone home, much to Masaru's relief.
Shibutoi said that the same thing had happened to him last night. He lost his Digimon Pocket, and in return obtained an roange device and his own Digimon, Coronamon.
"But how did you know about Lunamon?" asked Masaru, still gasping from his long sprint.
"Coronamon told me. He sensed her, just like how Lunamon sensed Goburimon."
"Hopefuly Goburimon doesn't find us again. But wait," he opened his bag a little and peered inside, "You sensed Coronamon too, didn't you?"
Lunamon giggled. "Yeah."
"Then why didn't you tell me?"
"I thought it would distract you even more. Besides, Shibutoi would explain eventually."
"Well, yeah..."
"Shh," whispered Shibutoi, pointing at a hooded little man boarding the train, "That's the same guy from yesterday!"
Masaru zipped up his bag and tried to look natural. Well, as natural as you could after sprinting several blocks.
The man boarded the train and looked around. Finally, he spotted Masaru and Shibutoi and sat down in the seat across from them.
The doors closed and the train began moving.
"I know you're there" said the man in his deep voice.
Masaru and Shibutoi looked away from the man, so as not to show their guilty eyes.
"Very nice battle, Masaru. Well done."
Masaru froze and nearly had a heart attack. He saw all that? And how does he know my name?!
"Um... Thank you, sir?"
"Your very welcome. But next time, be more protective of Lunamon."
Masaru nodded very slowly. He even knows Lunamon's name?!
Shibutoi's expression changed from fearful to angry. He stood up and began yelling (luckily the only other passengers on their cart was a sleeping old man).
"Okay, I wanna know how you know all this! How do you know Masaru's name, and how did you watch that battle?"
The man chuckled. "Look, if you allow me to explain, I can tell you why your Digimon appeared and everything else you need to know."
"Um... Okay" answered Masaru.
"Please wait. I have something to attend to in the next cart."
He opened the door to the next cart and entered it.
Fortunately, when the door shut behind him, the train stopped at Hamura. When the boys made sure the man couldn't see them, they slipped through the doors hastily, running away from the subway as fast as they could.
* * *
That night, Masaru lay in bed again, this time unable to sleep because of the day's events. Lunamon quietly slept behind the same bookshelf, using a small towel as a blanket.
Earlier, he examined the strange purple device from the night before. Lunamon said it also looked familiar to her. Despite his efforts, he could not figure out how to use the device, as it would always say LOCKED when he tried to access something.
Masaru sighed. That man... What does he have to do with all this?
He looked out the window. Down below, the cars in the street were rushing by. For some reason, looking out at night time Tokyo eased him, even though the city itself wasn't. Laying there alone, he wondered why.
As he turned away, he saw a big black shadow outside the window, on the balcony. Masaru froze. Who could that be? It couldn't have been the strange man; he was much too short to be whatever was outside.
Before he could react, the dark figure punched tremendously at the window, smashing a gigantic hole that it climbed into.
"Kehkehkeh," said a monster-like voice, "Didn't think I'd let you get away that easily, did you?"
Masaru wiped his eyes and turned on the lights. Standing in front of his window was a tall, green humanoid creature carrying a large wooden club. Its long light-grey hair half covered two big black horns protruding from its forehead. There were spikes on it shoulders and its black kneepads and wristpads.
"Who-who are you?!" said Masaru in a loud, scared voice. But he already knew the answer.
"I'm Ogremon, you idiot! Battling you two's was enough to let me evolve into my Adult form!"
Just then, Lunamon woke up. "What's wrong-" She froze in her tracks, shocked to see Ogremon's frightening face.
"Oh, good morning, Miss Princess Wabbit. Did you sleep well? 'Cause this is the last time you're seeing weird goggle boy here!"
With that, he picked up Masaru. He struggled against the grip, but was overpowered. Ogremon ran out the window, and jumped onto the street. (Luckily, Masaru's apartement room was only on the third floor.)
"LUUUUNAMON!" yelled Masaru, nearly drowned by the ongoing traffic.
"MASARU!" yelled back Lunamon. She started sobbing. Now it her turn to save her partner. But she was powerless while Masaru was nearly choked to death by Ogremon's fat green hand.
She stood up and wiped her tears. Somehow, someway, she was going to save Masaru, no matter what.
How will Lunamon save Masaru from Ogremon? Find out in the next chapter: "Evolution! Lunar Warrior, Rexmon!"