Chapter 9: The Beast in the Rain
My name is Jeri Kato. I was at Rika's house. It was raining, at not just a light drizzle, but a complete downpour. It was raining so hard it was difficult to even see what was happening outside. I sighed and sat down.
It was Sunday. I had gone to Rika's house for a while, but then it began raining really heavily. Leomon was also with me. It had been a few weeks since the Devas had started coming back. Getting Leomon back was well, kind of hard to get used to.
My name is Leomon. As you might have guessed, I am a Digimon. A lion that can talk and walks on two legs. I was a bit uncomfortable; I couldn't entirely fit into a small human room that I was in.
I decided to go out of the room, after all; Rika, Jeri, and Renamon were somewhere outside. I came in this room, to well think. I remembered all of them, telling me what had happened. It was a bit hard to get used to, just being pulled into this war of the beings Ellimist and Crayak.
The others had been there when the D-Reaper and Locomon had attacked. It wasn't about glory or something like that, it was about being there and knowing what was going on. I didn't know what had happened. They may have explained what had happened, but I was still not sure about everything.
The door to our room opened. Leomon came in. Rika and Renamon barely even noticed him. I admire Rika, she's always so brave, and I panic nearly every time something happens. I try to do better, and I definitely will, since Leomon is back.
I was about to say something to Jeri, to break up the silence in the room by saying something, but I heard a noise. It was outside, in the rain. Renamon must have noticed, since he got up quickly and started looking around fast.
Leomon and Renamon were acting weird and looking around fast, and that could mean only one thing, that there was a Digimon nearby. It was probably a Deva, but on the other hand, it could be another one. I decided to ask Leomon what he felt about it. I waited to long.
"What is it, Renamon?" Rika asked Renamon. Leomon and Renamon were quiet for a while; I think that they were trying to concentrate on something. It took about 30 seconds for them to figure out what it was.
"Whatever is near here … I just can't explain it. It's definitely a Digimon, but for some reason it seems to be, well blinking." Leomon said. That was weird, how could it be blinking. I asked Leomon,
"What do you mean by saying that it's blinking? That seems weird." Renamon responded this time.
"What we mean by blinking is hard to understand. Imagine it in a way that every Digimon gives off some signal, which we are able to pick up. Now imagine that whatever the Digimon is vanishing and reappearing. That is what we mean by 'blinking'. And it's not just happening in one place, the target seems to be moving every time it reappears. And I think that it is headed toward us." There was a moment of silence. I was wondering how a Digimon could vanish.
"Does it mean that it's a Deva?" Jeri asked Renamon and me, and I replied,
"I think that it might be. I've never heard of a Digimon that could do that, so it probably is some Deva with new abilities." I was probably right in that, because I could feel that it was coming to us. If it was a Deva, we had to act fast. The problem was that it was raining, making almost zero visibility outside. We could sense it, but that made it very hard.
"Could that Digimon be underground or in the sky? It could be a fast Digimon that can fly, or maybe one that can dig underground fast. That might be an explanation." Rika said.
"No Rika. We would sense a Digimon no matter how high or low, just that it should be near us. Even if it can, there are many holes in that theory. Such as how it goes in the sky or underground and comes up again. Humans would definitely see that." Renamon told Rika. I agreed with Renamon. I realized something.
"It's finally coming near us. It's barely 50 yards away. It will reach here very soon." Leomon said standing up. If he was right, the Digimon was going to come near us soon.
"Jeri, don't just stand there. Take out your cards. We may have to fight very soon." Rika told me. She was right and I took out my Digivice to tell her that I was ready. Leomon had taken out his sword. Renamon had crouched down and I knew she was ready to attack the new Digimon if it was a Deva.
"It's 20 yards away from us. I know that it is big. Yes, larger than I am. I think we should be able to see it soon, but this rain is preventing me from seeing anything." Leomon said. I was standing still, waiting for some attack when a voice spoke something from behind me. I turned around and saw Chatsuramon.
Chatsuramon is the dog Deva. He's this light-blue dog the size of a school bus. He has four long canines. Like the rest of the Devas, he also had red eyes and three horns. He wore some kind of pearl necklace and he was smiling. That was not a good sign.
Rika's house had a garden in the middle of it, which was good otherwise he would have destroyed the house. Before anyone could move, there was a blinding light and we were on some kind of plain area. The thing was that the rain was the same as it had been before, and I could barely see the others. I thought that we would win, there were all of us against him.
"Give up tamers! I have the advantage hear!" Chatsuramon said loudly. Advantage? I was wondering what that could mean. The only thing that I could think of was that it was raining, and we could barely see. That also meant that Chatsuramon couldn't see either.
I could hear Chatsuramon making small noises. Since I was a Digimon I could also sense him. However, I couldn't smell him due to the rain.
"We can sense him." I heard Renamon say.
"But we can't see you or each other." I added. This was going to be very dangerous.
"Done chatting?" I heard Chatsuramon say. "Well then let's fight!" I sensed him jump into the air. I took out my sword and leaped at him. Then, he disappeared! I felt a foot hit my chest and I fell back words. I realized that it was Renamon and that I had hit him to.
"Are you two okay?" I heard Jeri call out.
"Chatsuramon jumped in the air. We tried to attack him, but ended up hitting each other." I said quickly.
"Digi-Modify: Hi-Speed Plug-In X!" I heard Jeri call out. I expected to feel a boost in power, but I felt nothing.
"What happened?" I called out. I still felt nothing. Jeri had only used on me once, and that was when she used LadyDevimon and I defeated Orochimon.
"The rain is making all of our cards useless. They stick together, and then our Digivices can't read them." I heard Rika call out. That was a major disadvantage. We usually could use them against Digimon that were stronger than we were. Still, I was the one who had defeated Kumbhiramon alone.
"Matrix Evolution!" I heard a voice cry out. It was Rika. I knew that by now I she was Sakuyamon. I couldn't see her or Leomon yet. But I remembered that she was around Renamon's height. She also had fox-like pointed ears and wore golden armor. I remembered that the others had defeated the Devas by biomerging and I wondered if it was enough if Leomon was just in his Champion level.
"Spirit Strike!" I heard someone say, and I knew it was Sakuyamon. I didn't remember what attack that was, but I heard some howling wolves. Most of Renamon's attacks and his evolutions were based on foxes, like Kyubimon.
"He's disappeared again!" I called out. I could sense that he had vanished. Whatever Sakuyamon had did it would be pointless.
"Where did he go?" I heard Jeri call out. Jeri … In all of the time I was back it felt that there was some gap between us.
"You shouldn't lower your guard that easily." That voice … it was Chatsuramon! I turned around and saw his head, and he opened his mouth.
"Howl of the Heavens!" he screamed and opened his mouth. At that moment, the world had exploded. I felt nothing…
"Leomon! Where are you?" I shouted out. There was no reply. I checked my Digivice. It had that static, the kind of thing that happens when there is something wrong with your T.V. This had happened before, when Leomon had been destroyed by Beelzeemon. I was afraid, that maybe it had happened again.
I closed my eyes. Like last time, I was helpless. I couldn't help Leomon, he was my Digimon partner, and I couldn't do anything for him. I had heard Chatsuramon say something, and then I heard a roar, it nearly made me deaf. After that, I heard nothing.
I checked my Digivice again. I wanted to see where he was. I looked again and saw Leomon. His sword had been smashed into pieces, and he was cut everywhere. He wasn't moving. I checked his breathing rate on the Digivice, and it wasn't normal at all.
I started breaking up. After what seemed like hours I opened my eyes. What would Leomon say? He would tell me the same thing he did before being destroyed by Beelzeemon. Just because he was dead, it didn't take all of the reasons for me to live.
"Jeri, you have a lion's heart." He used to tell me that. Now, I had to defeat Chatsuramon.
MATRIX EVOLOUTION
Chatsuramon's attack had hit me full in the face. I had blackened out, and when I finally woke up I was standing up right. I could feel someone else's presence and I realized that it was Jeri's.
I knew that we had biomerged. Into one mega-level Digimon. I felt Leomon. My friends had told me that we had to speak to communicate, but we could feel each other's emotions.
"Jeri, we have to help Sakuyamon." Leomon said.
"How are we going to do that?" I asked.
"We have to ask Sakuyamon on that." Leomon replied.
We opened out eyes. We still couldn't see much. We thought about our Digivice. It appeared before us and we took it. The same blue holographic disk came and we saw, what we supposed was us. We were as tall as Sakuyamon. A giant sword that was a lot like Leomon's was on our back. Armor, that was a combination of silver and gold covered most parts of our body. A helmet was placed in such a way that we could only see our eyes that were brown just like me. Hair that we though looked like a fusion between a mane and long hair was around our neck.
"Lionessmon, a beast biomerged Digimon. It wields it's sword with great power. It's technique is Blade of Time." A voice from the Digivice said.
"Jeri! Leomon! Are you there?" We heard Sakuyamon shout out.
"Leomon is gone human. That is the fate of all Digimon who are shameful enough to bond themselves with humans. Humans are weak and all Digimon deserve to live alone. Look at me; I am so strong that you are helpless!" Chatsuramon said. We were Digimon now, and we could sense Chatsuramon.
"There is no way that you could have done that!" Sakuyamon said. Sakuyamon was right to.
"You really are weak if you think that. You can't even sense us. We biomerged, and became one. We are Lionessmon!" We shouted at the top of our lungs and we heard no echo. Great, that at least tells us that we're in a flat area, we thought.
"Human! You will never be able to defeat a powerful Digimon like me." He disappeared and we could no longer sense him, but we could sense two new Digimon.
"Roternmon, ultimate level Digimon that follow and obey Chatsuramon. There special technique is Hound Howl." A voice near Sakuyamon said, and it took a while to realize that it was Sakuyamon's Digivice.
"Why don't you meet my friends?" We heard Chatsuramon say. He was using other Digimon to help him, but wasn't fighting himself. It proved that he was scared of our power. He knew that we could probably get him in one hit, if we put all of our power to it.
"It is way too difficult to do this, if we can't see at all." I heard Sakuyamon say.
"We need to stop the rain." We said. Stopping the rain, that sounded as impossible as if we were trying to destroy the moon.
"How are we going to stop the rain?" Sakuyamon said. We thought that that was a really good question. Before we could reply, we heard dog's barking and something flew over us. Leomon had been victim of Chatsuramon's Howl of the Heavens, and when we heard them suck in some air we knew what was going to happen.
We jumped. We didn't think we could make it. The thing was that we were traveling very fast and managed to avoid what was probably the Hound Howl. We could sense Sakuyamon too.
"What are your ideas to stop the rain?" We said in Sakuyamon's direction.
"I'm not sure about that. We could make some shield around us, but that could be easily countered." Sakuyamon said.
"I know, the shield could break or the enemy Digimon could run us out of it." We added. We couldn't think about much because the Roternmon were attacking and it was very difficult avoiding it without seeing. Normally, sensing them would be enough, but they were fast.
"Why are you attacking us? Why do you serve Chatsuramon when you know that he's evil?" We said. All we got in response was a bunch of barks. That probably meant that they could speak nothing else.
"All they can do is bark, Lionessmon. I think that they are probably trained from birth to obey him." Sakuyamon said.
"I have an idea about getting rid of the rain." We said.
"What is it? If we are making a force field I'll have to put all of my concentration on that alone." Sakuyamon said. We ducked as a Roternmon tried to pounce on us and we blindly swung at it with our sword and missed.
"We could try to blow the clouds above us away. It may take a lot of power, but we only have to do it above us." We said.
"Are you sure we have enough power?" Sakuyamon asked.
"Yes, we're sure about it." That was strange; usually Rika was the one telling me something could be done. "We've seen a bunch of Digimon make large fogs and those were around champion level. I bet we could do it really easy."
"That was when they appeared into the real world. Mr. Yamaki was saying that happened because there data, oh whatever. I don't remember anything of what he said." Sakuyamon said. We jumped again.
"Let's try it." We said.
"Of course." Sakuyamon said. "Spirit Strike, Wind Fox Attack!" She added. I couldn't see what she was doing, but I heard those howling fox voices again. The rain was decreasing. We could see Sakuyamon now.
"The rain's stopping." Sakuyamon said. We looked up and saw that there was some sort of hole… In the middle of the storm. The eye of the storm. It was about a quarter of a mile large and the thought that we got was,
"Won't the eye move?" We said.
"Yes, but we can move in its direction. Also, if you're wondering I created that, It isn't natural." I? How could Sakuyamon say I?
"Because we are one." Lemon said.
Okay, I asked that. This was confusing, and I doubt that I will ever completely get it.
"We didn't have to pay attention to that old guy to know how to change the weather." Sakuyamon said.
"Uhh, Rika, Mr. Yamaki isn't that old." I or we said. That was Rika.
"Who cares? He's just another adult." Sakuyamon added. That was definitely Rika speaking.
"What do yo-" We were interrupted by a Roternmon bit my arm. We were so careless we had forgotten to pay attention to them. I finally got a good look at a Roternmon. They were a bit bigger than ordinary dogs but they didn't look tough. I took a swing at one with my sword and it was destroyed. Just like that. Chatsuramon must have thought that we couldn't see them, because they were pretty weak.
"I'm finished to." Sakuyamon said. I could tell that she expected more.
"If you beat my servants, don't think that you can defeat me!" Chatsuramon said and we turned around to find him. I charged at him with my sword, and then he vanished. Renamon and Leomon were right, he can disappear!
"Can't beat what you can't hit, can you? Howl of the Heavens!" Chatsuramon's voice was behind us. Before we could avoid it, Sakuyamon and I were hit by sound which knocked the wind out of me.
"Twin Blades of Beauty and Truth!" Sakuyamon said but she couldn't finish her attack. Chatsuramon was gone again.
"If this keeps happening he'll beat us!" I said. How could we beat Chatsuramon like this?
"We need a plan, and I have one." Sakuyamon said.
"What is it?" I said quickly.
"First, stop being so nervous. You're nervous so you can't focus and do anything." Sakuyamon said. I wondered if she was angry, but she was right. I had let being nervous beat me.
"It doesn't matter now, Jeri. Now, we have to beat Chatsuramon." I heard Leomon's voice, in my orb of light.
"What's your plan?" I asked Sakuyamon.
"If Chatsuramon even plans to defeat us, which I bet he has to, he'll have to reappear again." Sakuyamon said.
"How can we be sure of that?" I asked.
"It's easy. If wherever he goes he could attack us, he would have just finished us. He isn't doing this for fun, it's because he's serving Crayak." Sakuyamon said calmly.
"How does that help us defeat him?" I asked. Sakuyamon was really losing me on this.
"He has to reappear, even for an instant. We're Digimon; we can sense him the second he comes here. Then, we attack with all of our strength at him. I don't think he's very strong, otherwise he wouldn't keep running away." Sakuyamon said that all very fast.
"Then what do we do until then?" I asked.
"Store up our power and then attack when he comes." Sakuyamon said.
"Okay then, I'm ready." I said.
"Then store your power and close your eyes." Sakuyamon said and closed her eyes.
"Let's do this Leomon!" I said.
"Yes Jeri, we have to do it." Leomon told me.
"Remember what the Digivice said, Blade of Time?" I said.
"It looks like it's time to use it." Leomon said.
"Yup." I said and closed my eyes. "Leomon?"
"Yes Jeri." Leomon said.
"Ever since you've been back, I haven't been very kind to you. I seem to barely notice you anymore." I said. I wanted to be with Leomon, really.
"I too, have felt a gap in us. But now it's okay, and let's defeat Chatsuramon." We were standing still, and it felt like minutes. Then, felt him, the same data, and charged.
"Blade of Time!" I said.
"Twin Blades of Beauty and Truth!" Sakuyamon said. We went closer to Chatsuramon. This attack was different, and I could see every second, like if you're watching a movie and they slow the motion to make it look better. Chatsuramon made one last roar before he was gone.
Everything was white again. This is being very repetitive, I thought. I saw Leomon, so we had de-biomerged, if that's even a word.
All of us were sitting at Rika's house. We were back to normal. For now. It had stopped raining. The phone rang. Rika went to get it.
"Takato, what is it?" Rika said. She looked shocked and let down the phone.
"What happened?" Jeri asked.
"Takato says that he can't explain it right now. We have to go to his house, right now. He said that something had happened." She said and immediately started to leave.
"Jeri, let's go." I said.
"Sure, Leomon." She said. The four of us got out of the room.
