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Viruses Ch. 6

Phantomon seemed to be in between the emotions of joy and terror. He was shaking while having an intensely happy look in his visible eyes. The bandit leader somehow found his voice as his giant serpent of a master board into him with yellow eyes. "S-sir, what do you mean by revenge? Wasn't it an accident, like Cherrymon had said? He had told us that you had been Hoooribly ambushed by a group of Impmon and pushed off of a cliff and even bit off your tongue."

"Bull." The 'Master' muttered in anger and his snake-like body started to form coils beneath him, Wisp found her-self trapped in between coils as she reached the floor. "I refuse to let this go unpunished. We will break off from the forest government at once."

"As you say my master." Said Phantomon in a cheery voice. His fear seemed to have subsided. The seemed to float-skip away and Wisp could swear she was hearing whistling portraits from below, most likely the portraits.

Wisp tried to squirm out of the snake-like bodies grasp and call to the 'master' to ask him to release her, but before she could utter a cry the breath in her lungs was squeezed out. Muscles all around her were tensing, the digimon above her's human body had started to stretch back, as if poising for a strike. Wisp suddenly clung to her section of snake body in sudden realization of what was about to happen. Then with such quickness that Wisp's gasp was torn from her mouth, the 'master' launched him-self foreword, easily turning out of the door, and down the hall. His powerful snake body propelling him foreword with barely glimpse-able speed.

Before Wisp's mind could comprehend the hall ways passing before her, she found her-self in front of the fireplace on the main floor. The scaley tail that had followed her whipped into the room and formed neat coils under the 'master'. Wisp managed to slip off of the snake-like body and roll a bit away, but ended up at the foot of a couch clutching her head.

The 'master' still did not remember Wisp, but instead rose several feet into the air. He let out a strong below, "ASSEMBLE!".

Wisp did not hear her own groan her as the portraits and statues screamed and luckily slowly became silent. Answering the call Phantomon floated in giggling like a schoolgirl, he whispered to the curled up Wisp, "No one's been able to get the portraits to shout like that for ages. Isn't it horribly loud?"

The Bakemon came tumbling in after all of them with an alternating look of surprise, happiness, and fear at the sight of their master. They greeted him with cries of delight and deep bows. The 'master' waited until they were all seated before he spoke. "I am back and healthy. It will take some time, but I will recover the strength that was sapped from a devise planted inside of my mouth. All of You who took care of me and let me remained chained and did not even try to inspect me once! Although I am enraged at your stupidity I do not blame you for what has happened. The fault lays upon the forest government, they suspected my thoughts of leaving for the metal government and could not afford to lose or allow another government to gain the taxes we collect!"

Wisp's brain had stopped buzzing a while ago, but she still clutched it as if she was in pain. As she laid on the ground she listened intently, considering the information she was receiving.

"Hoooow did you escape?" Inquired Bakemon number three droned.

"Oh yeah," the 'master' scooped up Wisp, who had been content with just listening and now coward in front of all of the Bakemon glowing eyes, "This little female noticed something in a few minutes that you Bakemon couldn't for months and pried my mouth open to get it out!"

All of the Bakemon hung their heads, a few even had tears forming in their eyes. Phantomon broke the silence in a choked voice, "Master, I will send a letter to the metal government and another letter to the forest government, but what of the female? We had before had her clean as punishment, but now the statues should work again under your control, so what shall we do?"

the 'master' held Wisp in front of him, looking her over thoughtfully, but before he could make a conclusion, Spi-mon burst into the room.

"Wisp?" He called, it was story time after all. He stopped dead in his tracks at the sight in front of him. It certainty didn't look like anything good was about to happen. He quickly snapped into action snarling and slithering as fast as he could. He screamed in what seemed to be a threatening voice, "Put her down!"

"Why?" the 'master' was not impressed, but he did seem slightly amused because of the small digimon. "Are you going to fight me for her? Or are you going to think of some clever plan to save her from my evil clutches."

He stuck out his long tongue at Spi-mon and hissed while waggling his non-existent eyebrows. Spi-mon snarled in response, "Wisp does the thinking not me! So you let her go or...or I'll beat you up!"

"Is that so," the 'master' chuckled and tucked an annoyed Wisp under his arm. She didn't dare say anything to offend the large digimon, he seemed to have a very bad temper, but at that moment she very badly wanted to give him a good kick to the jaw and run to comfort poor confused Spi-mon. The snake mon rose into the air his powerful coils extending while easily keeping him balanced. He put one hand on Wisp's head and started to give her a noogie laughing eavily. Spi-mon became infuriated and sprang at the 'master' he flipped trying to scratch him with his tail. The giant powerful digimon flicked the smaller on aside easily and grinned seemingly thinking of the situation as a game.

Spi-mon rose again unsteadily and started to advance toward the 'master' again. Seeing that her little digimon could get seriously hurt Wisp grabbed the 'master's' fist to stop his annoying assault and found her voice. Trying to yell in a commanding motherly tone that ended up as a odd squeal of irritation she squealed, "Stop. It!"

The room became silent everyone remembering that she could talk. Spi-mon started to cry, assuming that she had cried out for some sort of pain to stop. Then enraged in his own righteous anger Spi-mon began to glow and a high-pitched 'weeeeee' came from him. His glowing form stretched as a dog-like body formed with what seemed to be a human-like torso forming on top. Altogether he now had six limbs, four legs and two arms. All of them had three long claws. His head-spike became wider and longer fitting his head like a cap and his split tail end grew into three small blades. His face seemed to belong to a dinosaur, almost like his previous one. As the light faded Spi-mon's dog-like body was revealed to have very long, shaggy dark gray fur and his human-like torso seemed to have tough light gray skin. His now dark green eyes glared at the shocked 'master'.

"Let her go!" His voice, now slightly lower but still boyish, commanded. He held up his new hands and shifted his new shaggy dog-like-body, so he was firmly grounded and ready to fight. His tail whipped back and forth, the three spikes at the end twitching threateningly. He even bared small sharp teeth along with four larger canines.

"That was interesting." The 'master' muttered breathlessly and to everyone's surprise he set down Wisp. Spi-mon held his ground as the giant digimon snaked toward him.

"What is your name little mon." the 'master' inquired. Reaching out as if desiring to pick up the digimon in front of him.

"Sudiusmon," Sudiusmon (soo-dee-us-mon) muttered, "what's going on? And who are you?"

"That is the beloved master 3," Phantomon popped up out of no where.

"I am not calling you master." Sudiusmon spat indignantly and crossed his arms stubbornly as if the 'master' had suggested the title.

"Of course not, you may call me Werehebimon." Werehebimon was actually smirking down at Sudiusmon. He looked at him with an almost frightening interest, "So tell me how did you do that."

"Umm," All of Sudiusmon's aggression disappeared and a look of confusion took over, "I really don't know how. I just felt like I needed to save Wisp. Oh yeah, Wisp!"

Sudiusmon lept away from Werehebimon and tried to sprint over to a stunned looking Wisp. However he seemed confused of how to properly move his new limbs and ended up getting his face to the ground, instead of him-self to Wisp. Wisp having been shocked her-self by another transformation, finally came to her senses and fast crawled to Sudiusmon. She started to hoist him to his feet.

"No more riding on my shoulders for you," She grunted and then without thinking she said concerned, "Are you alright Aboo-mon."

Sudiusmon stared at her, "Aboo-mon? Really? Aboo-mon!"

"...sorry..." Wisp smiled apologetically, "Wh-what was your name exactly?

"Sudiusmon." The young mon hung his head defeated.

"Sooooodiusmon," Wisp repeated, trying out the new name. she couldn't help but to feel a little uncomfortable with this new version of Spi-mon. She had already felt Spi-mon had changed during the stay at the mansion. Well he had obviously changed due to being forced to fight and toughen up all by him-self, but now he had limbs and it was weird. Without thinking Wisp started to play with Sudiusmon's tail, imagining a hairy Spi-mon. Neither of them noticed a giant snake man slither behind them.

"I have decided." Werehebimon voice boomed behind the duo. Wisp jumped and Sudiusmon swung around accidentally smacking Wisp with his tail, "You are both free to go."

"What?" Wisp couldn't help, but to question the digimon while she nursed her poor bruised cheek. His expression looked like a child who had just found a portal to the inside of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.

"Yes of course you can leave!" He grinned, a bit of drool at the corner of his mouth. "You just have to promise to do me one little favor."

"And what's that." Wisp asked, not liking the way he was looking at Sudiusmon.

"Deliver a message to a certain digimon." Werehebimon drew back and took a piece of paper and quill from an oddly prepared Phantomon. He scribbled a message down, snickering as he did so. He gave Wisp the message and patted her on the head, much to both the dislike of Wisp and Sudiusmon. "Now let's see, who takes toll around that area? Number five? Yes number five will show you the way. We need you to give the message to that lovely little Rosemon. Tell her it's from her old friend Werehebimon."

Wisp wasn't sure that she wanted to go anywhere with the most aggressive Bakemon as her guide. Number five crossed his arms and snorted, but he didn't raise any protests to leading them there.

"Why should we?" Sudiusmon barked at Werehebimon, whose smile instantly disappeared. "We don't owe you anymore, we did what you guys told us."

"Weeell," Phantomon floated over to them, twirling his scythe, "Actually your debt is paid, but Wisp's debt is not. She still has a few days of work to do...so this would clear her completely and I suppose I could maybe help you out a little too. I noticed Wisp doesn't look like any digimon I've ever seen and she hasn't shown signs of a special attack at all. So whatever you are maybe I could help you figure whatever you need to know out, because I'm sure you didn't come here by choice."

Wisp eyes widened. She hadn't really thought about getting back to her world. There was her father and mother...how would they react if they figured out she had been gone for so long? She looked down, feeling guilty for not having thought of it before. "Okay then. We'll do it."

"Great!" Werehebimon grinned obviously pleased, "Number four and seven go pack some supplies! Number one and two get this female some decent traveling ware, so she doesn't come back with bloody feet. Phantomon stay with me, we need to talk."

Wisp was sent down one of the halls and into a room, so she was separated from Werehebimon and Phantomon by a wall. Number two and one kept coming in and out of the room piling various clothes in the middle of the room. Wisp shuddered at the thought of having to try all of them on, she had never been much of a shopper. The girl made a request for a glass of water and drained it quickly then when both Bakemon were out of the room she put it up to the wall and put her ear to the end. Now she could make out most of the two powerful digimon's conversation.

"...Are you sure?" The voice was Phantomons, "I could have just gone instead. You obviously wanted Sudiusmon."

"I'm sure." Werehebimon answered, "With that ability anyone would want him. However the female is obviously how he did it. I would like to know more about this actually. So I'm sending you to the ancient libraries. Find things out, listen into conversations, ask questions, and even bring me some books on the matter?"

"You can read?"

*SMACK*

"Oww, okay, I'm sorry. Your certainly the Mr. grumpy-scales today."

"Hmph, I'll feel better once they get back from their journey."

"Why do you want them to goo so much exactly?"

"...just so they can get to...know the other governments. That's..."

Wisp jerked her head away from the wall and hid the glass behind her. She smiled at the Bakemon who had walked in right after she had jerked her head away from the wall.

The next few hours consisted of Wisp findinga sturdy pair of strong leather boots that fit comfortably, a coat just in case, and a pocketknife just in case they met a meany on the way. Wisp and Sudiusmon bathed, ate slept, and then ate again. They were sent off, Wisp with a backpack and Sudiusmon with a mini backpack and what Wisp suspected were saddlebags. His dog-like-body was only the size of a medium sized dog, but he was very strong. Number five joined them, he carried his own supplies in a small pack slung over his shoulder.

The trio set off toward whatever was the forest government, to talk to whoever was Rosemon. Wisp had a funny feeling that the chore would not be as easy as Werehebimon made it out to be and could not forget the way Phantomon had strengthened her suspicion by hugging her before they left.

So what did you think? Like where this is going? Like Sudiusmon?

Please review, so I don't become depressed and so I can actually think of some insperation to add to the meat of the story :)

THANK YOU TO: The Fire Magician (You've reviewed every chapter, so you deserve 5 times the thanks)! and Tamer Of Light (Your awesome too) for reviewing the last chapter.