BEST OC Maker: I'm alive, sorry for taking so long with Agents of D.A.D but I'm still trying to perfect the battle scene since it presents some new elements that will be more unique in that story, anyways enjoy the chapter!
The group had been walking for 2 hole days ever since they left Bantyo's Rest right after the poisoned partners healed entirely, to their displeasure Candmon theorized it would take two more days before they finally managed to leave Leo Savannah. While Leormon did his best to keep everyone's spirits up with his usual cheerfulness, he had been failing miserably the last few days.
"We need water," Maria realized, YukiAgumon and Penmon had been supplying water until now, the two rookies had tried their best until now, the Norton Cactus had made them slightly less vulnerable to the heat and they could fire water, but earlier that couldn't take the heat anymore and devolved to Koromon and Missimon respectively.
Missimon was still hot since he's made of metal and all so nobody could even touch him, it was like touching a car that had been exposed to harsh sunlight for a long time. The blue missile scouted the area ahead for them despite being afraid of large mammal digimon. Marcio carried Koromon, the InTraining had gotten far better since he devolved due to Koromon lacking the ice properties of his rookie form, but still felt the heat as much as the others.
Artur had considered asking Dracomon and the now evolution-capable Leormon to try accelerate things by digivolving and giving everyone a ride, however the fight cough*beating*cough against MadLeomon made him realize those two might need the strength to digivolve for more important reasons then hurrying things up. Just like those stupid paid-in-cash currencies in those IOS apps.
The Leo Savannah was all around them, tall grass twice Juca's size grew a few meters to their left, a single lone tree stood farther up the road, there was a tiny dark orange speck in the distance that they haven't noticed just yet.
"I think there's a village over there, maybe we could try to find water there," Missimon flew above their heads and pointed to a speck in the distance, at the same time everyone broke into a full run. The thought of water and shelter gave them newfound strength, halfway there however, they saw a small fireball similar to the one on Candmon's head but a little bigger running/floating away from a large saurian beast with immense red striped black horns.
"Dracomon!" Artur exclaimed, thankfully the sun that scorched them all just made Dracomon stronger for reasons Candmon was explaining in a way that only confused everyone else further. The rookie's red eyes blazed in determination.
"Alright! Dracomon Digivolve to... Coredramon!" Dracomon broke into a sprint, light covered him as he ran and by the time he slammed into the tusked dinosaur, he was already a mass of emerald scales glinting on the sunlight.
"Who are you guys? Why are you protecting me?" The fireball asked, his pupil-less blue eyes wide with fear. Artur gave him a thumbs up and a reassuring smile which only made the InTraining even more curious.
"Just a bunch of travelers ready to help those in need," Artur answered heroically. Meanwhile Coredramon was fighting the horned beast in a fierce match, Coredramon was stronger, but the horned beast seemed battle hardened, on closer look there was a nasty scar with a slightly lighter shade of green than the rest of his scales going across his left eye, which was pure white.
The creature charged in horns first while a fierce roar escaped it's throat, Coredramon caught him by the horns as they tried to push each other backward. Their leg muscles tensed and growls came from both of them as they attempted to win in this contest of strengths. Coredramon held on his adversary's huge tusks and tried to push him back just as the horned beast attempted to pierce the green dragon with the very same tusks.
"Why are you helping that wimp? Such a weak digimon doesn't deserve to live," The creature growled as he tried to push Coredramon. Both had their leg muscles tensed as they kept forcing each other back. Whenever one of them had their focus flickered, even for a moment, the other managed to push them back.
"All digimon start small, don't you think for a second that I'll let you hurt someone smaller than yourself, just because you're bigger it doesn't mean you can just go after those who are weaker," The red eyed dragon growled and pushed harder, the tusked dinosaur just chuckled menacingly.
"Really? You don't know what's really going on, oh well, you'll find out soon enough!" The champion pushed harder, Coredramon was pushed just a bit before regaining his stature and pushing back. His wings spreading open as he did so.
"Find out what?" Coredramon interrogated him, baring his triangular teeth. The tusked dinosaur just gave him a cocky saurian smirk, his red eye glowing with mischief as he began to use even more power.
"As I said, all in it's due time," The tusked dinosaur smirked at him, Coredramon growled. Green flames began to build up in his maw, his wings stretched wide. The dinosaur then realized what was about to happen but couldn't do anything besides curse his own fate.
"If you won't tell me, then I guess I should stop wasting time, GREEN FLARE BREATH!" Coredramon unleashed the green inferno from his mouth, the tusked creature was caught by surprise and burned severely. As he stumbled back, the green fire kept on burning him even after Coredramon stopped the attack.
"Grr, this isn't the last you see of the mighty Tuskmon!" The creature named Tuskmon roared before running away, Coredramon devolved to Dracomon and joined the group with a small frown, wondering at what Tuskmon had been talking about.
"Thanks for helping me! I'm DemiMeramon an InTrainning Digimon, I'm not very tough but I'm sure hard to catch," The fireball named DemiMeramon introduced himself in a cheerful attitude. The small InTraining flew around them like a phantom drifting through a mist, despite the stitches on his mouth, he was obviously a talkative fella. Due to the glow coming from his fiery form, it was bit hard to look directly at him. Specially with the already powerful heat from Leo Savannah, the small InTraining was like a small slightly darker sun with blue eyes.
"Well, I'm Artur and this is my buddy Dracomon," Artur gave him a thumbs up, Dracomon stood besides him with a huge grin. The others quickly introduced themselves as well. Maria had another cuteness overload but it ended fairly quickly, probably because of DemiMeramon's fiery anatomy.
"Well you guys should come to my village," DemiMeramon offered and pointed to the village that they were heading to. The small fireball floated in the road before them grinning, his small form shone like a Birdramon at night.
"We were going there anyway," Artur told the fireball, as they walked towards the village, the small fireball talked with Dracomon cheerfully, his small form drifting around like a vanity pet from WoW.
"So, thanks for sending that meanie away, how does it feel?" DemiMeramon asked Dracomon who looked confused at him, his reptilian head tilting slightly while his red eyes revealed his confusion.
"You mean defeating Tuskmon or digivolving?" The rookie asked the InTrainning, whose bright eyes were like blue flames, scratch that, they were blue flames. DemiMeramon flew 360 around Dracomom before replying.
"Digivolving of course!" DemiMeramon's eyes sparkled as he flew around Dracomon, obviously excitement coming out of his fiery frame. Dracomon couldn't help but smile due to the InTraining's infectious excitement.
"Is it like the elder of my village says? Raw power filling your body and all?" The fireball asked, Dracomon just scratched the spot behind his horns with a shy smile. The young dragon has never thought much about the feeling that Digivolution caused, he always focused more on the part where he kicked evil tail.
"Raw power? Yeah, I get that feeling of pure power surging through me while I get bigger and stronger, but the great part is the other feeling, the feeling you can do anything in order to accomplish your goals, set a goal for yourself and fight for it, that way you will certainly Digivolve, partnered or not," Dracomon told him, DemiMeramon's eyes sparkled further, even glowing brighter.
"What's your goal?" The fireball asked. Dracomon just looked ahead with a determined grin. The red eyed dragon looked forwards, glanced at Artur and smiled before replying.
"To become the strongest digimon alive, that way I'll be able to keep my friends safe," Dracomon replied determined. DemiMeramon's eyes got all sparkly when he said that as he began to float around them with rewarded vigor that matched even Leormon's hype attitude. Finally they arrived at the village.
The village was made of rock. Rock houses, streets and all, a river of lava flowed by the village. The villagers were all fire Digimon like Lynxmon, Agnimon, Meramon, FlareLizarmon and DarkLizarmon, plus a bunch of fire rookies and plenty of InTrainings.
As soon as they entered a human shaped blue fire made humanoid Digimon came to them. The large figure had his mouth stitched oddly enough and his eyes were black with yellow pupils.
"DemiMeramon, I warned you not to leave the village, who are your new friends?" The bonfire questioned. However, despite his fearsome appearance, DemiMeramon talked to him happily and cheerfully as ever, not revealing an ounce of fear.
"These guys saved me from Tuskmon, guys this is the chief of the village, BlueMeramon, despite his looks he's actually a mighty perfect Digimon, his Phantom Flame will burn away his enemies or he can use his Cold Flame to freeze and burn them at the same time, which makes quite a glitch!" DemiMeramon answered and introduced the blue fire man to the chosen. The teens quickly introduced themselves, then an explosion was heard on the other side of the village.
"It's MameTyrannomon, I'll take care of this," BlueMeramon told them and narrowed his eyes. The blue fire digimon could feel the presence of the other perfect level. That's when a small creature came into view, it was Koromon sized, with tiny legs and huge arms, dark green plates on his forehead, he wore a metal helmet and had a nasty look on his face, his eyes were glowing red.
"MameTyrannomon?" Artur asked surprised, DemiMeramon hovered besides him. The young InTraining cowered behind Dracomon, his fiery shape shaking with fear.
"Yep, MameTyrannomon is the chief of Theropod Village, it's a village of feral dinosaur Digimon like Tuskmon, they're our worst enemies and often attack us when we travel out of the village, but it's odd that MameTyrannomon came, he'd normally stay inside his village," DemiMeramon commented with a confused look. BlueMeramon reached MameTyrannomon. The blue perfect glared at MameTyrannomon's purely red eyes.
"MameTyrannomon! Leave my village now!" BlueMeramon demanded, the scowl on his face powerful enough to scare off any champions. MameTyrannomon however, just growled and charged right at him, but went right through the perfect level bearing scorch marks.
"DINO SLAM!" MameTyrannomon charged at BlueMeramon once again from behind, put the dinosaur just fazed through BlueMeramon. However on the second MameTyrannomon spent inside BlueMeramon a BlackGear came from his arm it split into two, one stayed on MameTyrannomon while the other stayed within BlueMeramon.
"Argh!" BlueMeramon's knees buckled and he could no longer stand. The evil powers of the Dark Gear surging through his body as the flames that made his body darkened even further.
"Chief!" A Lynxmon leaped towards him. The fiery lynx reached his leader in a flash, but he was too late to help the perfect level.
"No... Stay away," BlueMeramon warned, then his eyes became red and he laughed crazily. BlueMeramon stood up and smiled fearsomely at his ex-comrade. Lynxmon wasn't sure about what happened. But he could tell it was bad, really bad.
"Come to me!" BlueMeramon suddenly absorbed Lynxmon's fiery form as he grew bigger. Then he unleashed red flames upon the ground as he shrunk back to his normal size, a few seconds later Lynxmon re-appeared, but now he had red glowing eyes, and probably a BlackGear inside him too since he joined the rampage.
MameTyrannomon began to destroy everything that stood in his wake, any Digimon that tried to stop them were also infected and joined in the rampage, for every Digimon BlueMeramon infected or one of those he infected did, he grew bigger.
"No way! What's happening?!" Maria gasped as BlueMeramon and some of the villagers rampaged through their own village. Candmon was about to tell everyone a theory but someone had arrived.
"Oh yeah it worked!" A voice laughed, they turned around to see Fugamon laughing. The brown ogre hung his club over his shoulder and barely took notice of the young heroes.
"Who's that guy?" Ana asked the others, on the background BlueMeramon rampaged with a mad laugh. Gazimon growled and his fur spiked up. Leormon went on a pouncing position and his fur also spiked up.
"I know him! He's Fugamon! One of the Oni Bros working to conquer Bit Island!" DemiMeramon exclaimed pointing at the ogre. The teens' eyes widened at the newfound information supplied by the InTraining.
"That's right shrimp! How do you like my newest henchmen? They might be weak perfects, but perfects nonetheless," Fugamon smirked at them while swinging his club in the air.
"They're brainwashed then?" Gazimon wondered, claws ready, then Fugamon smirked once again and stood up. One hand branding the club, the other closed while concealing something.
"Vajramon's eye kid, thanks to one of my associates I got my hands on this," Fugamon opened his palm to reveal a darker version of the BlackGear, same as the ones in MameTyrannomon and BlueMeramon. Now that his palm was open the gear hovered only a few inches from Fugamon's palm. Also the dents on it were a bit sharper than the normal ones.
"All I need is for one of the infected Digimon touch the other, bam! I get more and more servants!" Fugamon laughed at them. DemiMeramon was shaking in anger, his fire brightened and he grew ever so slightly, blue eyes narrowing.
"You can't treat others like that! DEMI FIREBALL!" DemiMeramon fired tiny fireballs at Fugamon, the brown ogre laughed. The fireballs didn't do anything against him.
"EVIL TWISTER!" Fugamon summoned a small twister from his hand that cancelled the flames and sent DemiMeramon flying back to the group.
"Dracomon/Liollmon!" Artur and Luke exclaimed and lifted their Digivices, the rookies nodded without skipping a beat. Light engulfed them before the changes began.
"Dracomon Digivolve to... Coredramon!"
"Leormon Digivolve to... Liamon!"
The light faded and the two champions stood growling, ready to beat the data out of Fugamon. Fugamon was only a head shorter than Coredramon. The brown ogre smirked cockily, legends said that the partners of the DigiDestined were stronger than common champions. If Fugamon engaged them in battle he'd be beaten for sure, but he wasn't one to play fair.
"Don't think so kiddies, now join me!" Fugamon hurled the BlackGear at them, the gear split into two while in midair, Coredramon and Liamon didn't need any warnings. Quickly they tried to dodge the gears but apparently they tailed them like heat seeking missiles.
"Ha!" Fugamon laughed as the gears slammed on the two champions, however instead of penetrating their bodies and brainwashing them like they should, the Digivices shone as the gears made contact. The gears just bounced off Coredramon's scales and Liamon's fur before falling on the sandy ground like rocks and shattering into black dust, that if analyzed on microscopic level would be shown to crumble as well, and the crumbles also crumbled until they went subatomic.
Coredramon and Liamon had some pretty evil grins despite being the heroes as they turned to Fugamon, Coredramon cracked his fists. Liamon's claws dig into the ground as he got in a leaping stance and bared his teeth.
Fugamon couldn't help but notice that Liamon's two main canines were slightly bigger than the rest of his teeth and that Coredramon had a lot of muscle.
"Now you're done for!" Coredramon charged using his strong legs for impulse. Fugamon was pretty scared but being the coward he was, he called BlueMeramon and MameTyrannomon to defend him.
"PHANTOM FLAME!" BlueMeramon hurled dark blue fireballs at Coredramon, who was hurled and crashed on one of the stone huts. The blue flames vanished quickly after for unknown reasons.
"DINO SLAM!" MameTyrannomon also tackled Liamon on another hut, this wasn't going to be easy, meanwhile the other brainwashed Digimon rampaged. Fugamon neared the DigiDestined, their rookie and InTraining partners and DemiMeramon, who was hiding behind Artur. Fugamon had a nasty smirk.
"Now, I wasn't planning on killing you kids today, but hey, might as well do it already, I might even get a promotion," The brown skinned ogre commented as he neared them, the rookies and two InTrainnings jumped forward.
"Get off my way shrimps! EVIL TWISTER!" Fugamon sent a powerful twister, Missimon and Koromon didn't stand a chance, and the others were too affected by the heat to do anything, except Candmon who stood up. Like Liollmon and Dracomon, heat wasn't a problem to him.
"BONFIRE!" Candmon hurled fireballs at Fugamon, who wasn't used to his enemies fighting back, the fireballs slightly scorched his face as well. The brown ogre stepped back as the flames scorched his face.
"MOLTEN WAX!" Candmon seized the opportunity to fire molten wax at Fugamon, who let out a cry in pain, it doesn't matter how big the level different was, molten wax stings, the ogre looked angrily at him while he managed to get rid of all the wax.
"I'll kill you all!" Fugamon roared and charged again, Candmon tensed, it wouldn't be easy, the humans were helping their injured partners. The candle began to float and dodged Fugamon before unleashing another barrage of Molten Wax.
"Candmon! It's just you so be careful!" Eric warned his partner, who quickly nodded. Fugamon clenched his club ready to beat the rookie. But Candmon wasn't going to go down easily.
"Coredramon!" Artur called as the green dragon got a powerful punch from BlueMeramon, the fiery humanoid might be immaterial, but the powerful flames seemed to freeze slightly when the blue fire creature punched Coredramon. DemiMeramon looked helplessly at the scene.
"Liamon!" Luke and Liamon weren't having much luck either, MameTyrannomon was fast and furious, striking Liamon but escaping before the mighty lion could land a hit on him. The tiny perfect was a blur of red, green and dull silver as he moved around in inhuman speeds.
"Green Flare...!" Coredramon began but Artur interrupted him before the emerald dragon made a huge mistake.
"That'll only make him bigger and fuel his flames, try the G Shruggen II!" The GoggleHead ordered, he wasn't risking making the challenge even harder for them. The reptilian champion nodded as his horns began to light up.
"Right! G SHRUGGEN II!" Coredramon blasted a mighty laser blast, unknown to him or Artur, the laser hit right on the edge of the BlackGear, BlueMeramon growled in pain and stepped back.
"COLD FLAME!" The angered inferno fired his burning ice, freezing and burning Coredramon simultaneously, the dragon roared in pain and stumble on the ground, then devolve into a knocked out Dracomon.
"Dracomon!" DemiMeramon called along Artur, the small fireball seemed to clench his little fists.
"Time to die," BlueMeramon growled, the flames on his fists becoming bigger as he approached the helpless dragon, Artur rushed towards his partner, much to DemiMeramon's surprise.
"Fight it! You're the chief of this village! You can't let some stupid gear tell you what to do!" Artur exclaimed, BlueMeramon flinched as his eyes flickered yellow, then red again before his entire form seemed to tremble.
"No... Must take... Control... Roar! PHANTOM FLAME!" BlueMeramon struggled for a few seconds, then the BlackGear regained control and fired a dark blue fireball at Artur.
"No!" DemiMeramon flew forwards, absorbing the flame.
"I won't let others protect me! I won't let you suffer BlueMeramon! I refuse!" DemiMeramon exclaimed determined as he began to glow, not in the blinding light the partners evolved with, but it seemed like the fire in his body began to grow and expand as it took a more humanoid shape. The blue fire was absorbed in his growing figure.
"DemiMeramon Skip Digivolve to... FlaWizarmon!" The fiery wizard announced, however unknown to Artur, said human's Digivice flickered on as the familiar light engulfed FlaWizarmon. Not like the one used on Dracomon, more like a bonfire light rather than a pure glow.
"FlaWizarmon Digivolve to... Mistymon!"
The new Digimon stood tall, he looked like a magical knight of sorts, with a crystal orb on one hand and a large sword engulfed in flames on the other.
"He digivolved to perfect this quickly?" Fugamon gasped as he saw the new perfect, then regained his bully attitude.
"No matter! You're not partnered like the others, you won't stand a chance! BlueMeramon!" Fugamon laughed, but then Candmon fired more Molten Wax at him, he yelled in anger.
BlueMeramon's BlackGear split as one came right at Mistymon flying faster than eye could follow.
"Mistymon!" Artur gasped but the knight quickly pulled up his sword.
"BLAST FIRE!" The flames that covered the sword hit the black gear and burned it into nothingness, then he gazed at BlueMeramon.
"Your turn, CORE DART!" Mistymon launched his crystal orb, which went right inside BlueMeramon and destroyed the BlackGear, BlueMeramon's eyes returned to yellow, however the mighty fire being then fainted, Mistymon then looked at where Liamon faced MameTyrannomon and charged.
"Jump!" The mystical knight ordered Liamon, the lion jumped quickly right as MameTyrannomon was charging, instead of hitting Liamon, Mistymon's sword cut off the arm where the BlackGear was, the small dinosaur's eyes returned to blue before he fainted, the arm that was cut off crumbled into data, revealing the BlackGear that shattered, Mistymon transferred the data of the arm back to MameTyrannomon. Fugamon growled, he was losing here.
"Alright loyal servants! Retreat!" Fugamon bashed Candmon with club before a Firamon picked him up.
"This isn't the last you see of me!" Fugamon shouted to the DigiDestined as most of the villagers, those brainwashed, followed him. Into the wilds.
After that the team tended their partners for the next few hours, Mistymon's newly acquired magic healed the team before he devolved to FlaWizarmon.
"Did I do well for my first time?" FlaWizarmon asked Artur, the human gave him a thumbs up.
"Pretty nice, though I wonder how did you reach perfect so quickly," Artur frowned, BlueMeramon and MameTyrannomon had woken up a few hours ago, MameTyrannomon went to inspect his village while BlueMeramon checked how the village was, much to their dismay the only villagers that stayed were Flamon, Agumon and other small yet fiery rookies and InTrainning.
So only BlueMeramon and FlaWizarmon were above rookie, the team decided to camp on the village that night, despite most of the village being in ruins, there were some beds of non-flammable material for them to rest on. In the next morning MameTyrannomon returned with an angry scowl, his arm had regrown but he was really mad.
"You were lucky BlueMeramon, everyone back in Theropod Village was taken, when I put my talons on that damned ogre..." MameTyrannomon snarled to himself, BlueMeramon offered a conforting hand but MameTyrannomon neglected it.
"I'll be on my way, gotta track down that ogre," The small creature shot off in the distance, BlueMeramon observed him as he became a speck in the distance.
"He's already a gruff one, now that he lost his entire village..." BlueMeramon shook his head sorrowfully.
"We'll find out where Fugamon took the villagers," Artur promised him, the fiery humanoid smiled sadly.
"I know already, but know this young DigiDestined, I doubt Fugamon is the only one, there will be more, of that I'am sure," BlueMeramon ominously warned them, Luke looked confused at him.
"DigiDestined?" Luke asked, FlaWizarmon looked surprised at him, so did BlueMeramon, but then the blue flame sighed.
"You don't know? I thought your leader has told you all," BlueMeramon gestured to Artur.
"A DigiDestined is a person chosen to be partnered with a Digimon and save the DW, thats what a DigiDestined is, though sometimes they're or should I say we're are called Chosen Child, with everything going on I forgot to mention the term," Artur summarized and apologized for not saying it sooner.
"So... We're superheroes?" Juca grinned. Wormmon's mouth twitched in what seemed like a smile as he lifted one stubby arm.
"High one dude!" Wormmon exclaimed as Juca hit his small arm with his pinkie.
"Makes sense, specially with all of the stuff happening. It would explain why we are here in the first place and why we have these," Eric took out his Digivice.
"You forgot? You mean you forgot to mention that we kinda have to save this world?! You literally forgot something that important?! You remember the name of just about every creature in WoW, the frigging background of every character you read about and you just forget to mention that we need to save the world?!" Luke shouted angrily at Artur. The GoggleHead rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. Leormon couldn't help but purr.
"Looks like Dracomon's forgetfulness is rubbing off on him," The golden furred lion laughed. Dracomon crossed his arms and scoffed.
"I'm not forgetful, I just have a short attention span," The green dragon stated. All of the partner digimon traded a look but Koromon was the one to talk.
"What did we eat a few minutes ago for breakfast bro?" Koromon asked Dracomon. The green dragon scratched his chin as he tried to remember.
"Something spicy... DigiNoir with Firewall Pepper?" Dracomon guessed, allow the partners sweat dropped, did he really have such a bad memory? It was him who enjoyed eating those Lava Choco Cookies the most.
"So, if we are Chosen Children or whatever, who chose us?" Ana asked the obvious question. Artur shrugged in ignorance, he had no clue. Maria crossed her arms and sighed.
"So, whoever picked us thought it would be a great idea to just kidnap a bunch of teens and a kid, drop them off in an island full of monsters and hope they'd become capable of saving everyone?" Maria asked with a small scowl, her voice dripping with sarcasm. Artur laughed nervously, when she put it like that...
"Well, whoever did it left you guys near us, your partners, not only that but I think he knew of our connection to you guys as well, ever since I hatched I've had a feeling that I had to find someone called Eric Bolt, I originally theorized that this feeling was because of an odd colored mushroom that I ate but then I met Eric," Candmon pointed out. Now each of the partners realized they also had similar feelings since they hatched, but instead of seeking Eric, they sought their own partners.
"The connection between a Chosen and their Partner is strong, it's no wonder you feel such bond, maybe one day I'll meet my own partner..." FlaWizarmon daydreamed.
"Do you have a name of someone you've been seeking?" Candmon asked curiously, the thought that perhaps FlaWizarmon was the partner digimon filled his mind. However the wizard shook his head in denial.
"Well you're our friend if that counts for something," Artur tried to cheer up FlaWizarmon, who looked up and released a small smile.
"Right, anyways if you guys ever need a place to stay Flame Village will be glad to greet you with open arms," FlaWizarmon told them while giving them a thumbs up. The rest of the day flew by quickly enough and on the next day, their 01s carrying plenty of DigiNoir, they set out as their adventure continued...
Author Notes: I've posted up an image of each of the DigiDestined in here with their partners in my Devianart Account: Masterofportals, feel free to check them out,