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Digimon: A New Journey

Chapter 6

First Encounter

I wake up to feel a heavy weight across my whole body. I feel it shift and hear a low moan. I open my eyes to find myself staring into the eyes of Hailey. She smiles at me and I smile back.

"You know you make a good pillow. Nice, warm, and soft." She says softly.

"Well any time you want a pillow just ask." I reply.

We lay there until we hear someone walking towards us. Hailey gets off me and offers me her hand. I take it and let her help me up. I notice her hand lingers in mine for a few seconds before falling away. Before I can say anything Nate steps around a pile of boulders and its then that I look around and see that we have a big problem.

We are standing on top of a very small plateau almost perfectly round and about 300 feet in diameter, with outcrops of rocks every couple of dozens of feet.

"Well we didn't plan for this." Nate observes looking around.

"Don't worry, we now have the power to help you." A voice says calmly. We quickly look up to see three strange Digimon standing above us on a rock. The three Digimon jump down and we get a good look at them.

The Digimon in the middle is the same color as Dorimon, though many times larger. He stands around four feet tall on powerful looking clawed hind legs and short front paws with large claws, each tipped in white fur. He has a white tipped tail as long as he is tall, a triangle plate on his forehead, pointy black tipped ears and small wings on his back. My digivice gives its familiar beep and speaks."Dorumon, the Unknown Digital Monster, a Beast Digimon that, because it has an old-style interface on its brow, has been conjectured to be an experimental "Prototype Digimon" from before Digimon were discovered. The personality of natural Combat Species Digimon manifests particularly strongly within it, so its combat instinct is high, and it often barks and snaps at everything, but it seems tamed by someone it once bit. The data that is said to have been hidden within the deepest parts of its Digicore, during and experiment is the potent life force data of the legendary beast, the Dragon, and it is said it has the potential to grow into a mighty Digimon. Its Special Move is firing an iron sphere from its mouth (Metal Cannon). Its Signature Move: it has more strength when it is fired after standing still and accumulating power, but it is also able to fire an iron sphere even while charging (Dash Metal)." "Hiya Boss, we can get you down from here, no problem." He assures me.

"Indeed, with our new forms, scaling down the rock face should prove only slightly difficult." Said a tall, golden fox figure on the right. She is the tallest of the three at around six feet with a long white tipped bushy tail. She has long white legs with purple symbols on her thighs, with tipped with three short claws. Her hands also have three claws with purple gloves extending three-quarters of the way up her arms, each have a yin-yang symbol on the front. She has a triangular shaped head with long white tipped ears. Hailey's digivice beeps as well. "Renamon, the Fox Monster, a Beast Man Digimon which has the appearance of a golden fox. Renamon is a Digimon whose relationship with humans is expressed bluntly, so depending on how it was raised during its time as a Baby, it is said that it can evolve to a Renamon of particularly high intelligence. As it is always calm, cool, and collected, it is practiced enough that is doesn't lose that composure in any situation. Its tall, slender appearance excels when compared with other Rookies, and rather than Power Battling, it makes sport of the enemy with various arts that use its speed. Its Signature Move is a transformation art in which it copies the opponent's appearance and re-covers itself in that texture (Kohenkyo). Its Special Move is throwing sharpened leaves at the opponent (Koyousetsu)."

"You said it, I might be small but I can still help." Said the smallest figure on the left. She is a small, tan colored, dog-shaped Digimon with floppy ears; she has four short legs with clawless round paws, big eyes, rosy cheeks, and a stubby tail. The most stand out feature is the golden ring, with strange symbols, around her neck. Nate's Digivice activates, "Salamon, the Pet Monster, a Holy-species Digimon child characterized by it's lop ears. Because it is still very young, it is unable to manifest its holy powers, and isn't even aware of its own mission. For that reason it is naturally insecure, so it can become either good or evil. However, the time will come someday when Salamon, who was born as a Holy-species Digimon, will awaken to its mission as one of the Virus Buster. Also, Salamon is an experimental Digimon that was created by Digimon researchers, and because it was made to imitate the pets that live with humans, it has the appearance close to that of a real animal. With its Special Move "Puppy Howling" a super-high pitched bark, it completely paralyzes the opponent."

"Well it looks like we have a few new advantages. Good to see you guys have gotten stronger." I greet our newly digivolved Digimon.

"We're just glad we can be of more help now, Boss." Says Dorumon

"Alright, with our new Digimon on our side there's no way a mere cliff can stand in our way." Nate announces and runs over to the edge. When he reaches it he is blown back by a huge gust of wind. Six yellow and brown shapes blow straight up the side of the cliff into the air. As the Digimon descend, Nate runs back to the group and our Digimon take up positions in front of us.

When the Digimon get close we can see them clearly, they look like overgrown bees and have large jagged stingers. Hailey's digivice gives its familiar tone, "Funbeemon, the Yellow Bee Monster, an Insect Digimon that belongs to the mysterious "aerial, covert honey base, Royal Base." Although its daily life differs from that of other Insect Digimon, it is a strong, dedicated worker due to its personality being so cheerful. Because the base is usually under construction, it has the duty of carrying home data left on fields of flowers or vegetation, little by little, to use as raw materials. Also, because the base is defended by powerful Digimon, making it impossible to approach, the goal of that construction is a mystery at present. Its Special Move is rapid-firing tiny, serrated stingers (Gear Stinger)." We look at the small hologram on her digivice. "There's something different about these Funbeemon, look at their eyes, the ones in the hologram look normal but the ones in front of us are pure black." Hailey observes.

"We'll worry about that later, it looks like they are about to attack." I say.

"Let us handle these guys. They won't be a problem for us now." Boasts Salamon.

Our Digimon step forward to confront the Funbeemon. The enemy split into pairs and each one moves to attack. Two rush Salamon and she meets their charge head on. "Puppy Howling" she calls unleashing three pink rings from her mouth. The rings break upon the Funbeemon and paralysis them. "Sledge Dash" she calls dashing towards them and tackling the left one. It bursts into data and flies into the sky. The other one recovers and unleashes three stingers "Gear Stinger" Salamon sees them coming and smoothly dodges all three. She dashes over and punches the Funbeemon with her front paws "Petit Punch". The attack finishes it off.

Meanwhile Dorumon is facing off with his pair of attackers. Dorumon meets their charge with his "Metal Cannon". The iron ball shoots from his mouth followed by a quick moving Dorumon. Moments after the iron ball hits one of the Funbeemon Dorumon is there with his "Dino Tooth" attack, finishing it off with a quick slash of his Chrome Digizoid dagger. The other Funbeemon attacks with "Gear Stinger" shooting three stingers at Dorumon. He whips his head around and fires a small blast of energy "Metal Shoot" and intercepts them. Dorumon follows up with a quick thrust of his dagger to finish it off.

Renamon is handling her pair of Funbeemon well. They attack simultaneously with "Gear Stinger". Before the attack hits Renamon uses her "Kohenkyo" and switches places with one of her enemies. The Funbeemon is hit with all six shots of the "Gear Stinger" attack and is immediately defeated. She turns to the other and punches it with a blue flaming paw, "Wisteria Punch" to finish the battle.

The encounter takes only a few minutes in which we stand in awe of our Digimon. "Well, it looks like we have some good protectors." Nate comments.

Salamon bounds over, "Yeah and we are just getting started." She says

Renamon and Dorumon walk over barely winded from the fight. "Now we can work on getting off of this cliff." Renamon suggest. We start down the cliff and with the help of our Digimon we reach the base safely. Looking at the sky and seeing the sun directly over head we decide to take a break under the trees of the forest that surrounds the plateau.

After a couple of hours of dozing we are feeling rested and ready to continue. We have only been walking for a little while when we hear a buzzing sound start to build. A large black shape shoots quickly over our heads.

Author's Note: FINALLY ACTION! And we have our rookies, who will be around a lot. I hope I did good describing the fights. There will be anouther one in the next chapter and I will introducing more new Digimon. What is the black shape flying over head? Are the Digidestion in trouble again? These questions and more answered in the next chapter of Digimon: A New Journey.

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