Chapter 10 is finally up. I am so tired. I finish this also three in the morning. Let's hope I can wake up in time to do my homework and do chapter 11. Then again I might end up combing the episode again with this and Bizarre Bazaar all into one since it some how counts as the whole day. Either that or I'll just add a little night time scene. I don't know. Yay for little fluffiness. I haven't put any of them since they made it to Seraphimon Castle. So here you go. But dang I am sleepy.
I DO NOT OWN DIGIMON ONLY MY OC
Let's just get this show on the road I am tired I want sleep.
With the last several minutes we all manage to land on shore of the island. We all turn to Whamon to say our goodbyes and he disappears into the horizon. I'm gonna miss him. He may be a big whale who cries a lot but he has a big heart. At least he can roam freely to do whatever he wants. Let's just hope the rest of the Legendary Warriors don't do the same thing again the next time we see them. This has become awfully eventful lately. We never seem to get any rest. We manage to go on without fighting until we are being dragged into another. No doubt that we are gonna be in another one once we relax for a bit. We will never get any rest.
I notice that we are in some kind of tropical island to. No wonder I feel a bit warm. I take off my blouse seeing that dark red is not gonna go well in a heat like this. It's a good thing I have a tank top. I fold my blouse and tuck it into my bag. I am still surprised that I haven't lose my backpack. Sure it's a little soak but nothing better than the sun to dry this off. Hopefully the rest of my stuff isn't as soak too. Checking the rest of my belongings, the only damage is that they are a little moist. That's good.
"Well there he goes," Kouji states once Whamon is fully submerge into the sea.
"Nice of you to point out the obvious," Takuya mumbles crossing his arms.
"Don't be such boys!" Izumi cheerfully says. She jogs to a nearby rock and stand on it, stretching her D-tector in the air. She must be really happy to get her spirit back. I smile at her seeing that she can finally pull her own weight. That reminds me, we never got a chance to practice with her martial arts skill. I guess since we are on the move a lot we barely have time to practice since Cherubimon and his lackeys are taking the Fractal Code of this world. We don't have time to stop and play around as I hope. With lives at stake we can't afford to lose anymore precious time. It seems that teaching her is a trivial thing to do now. No matter at least she can take care of herself.
"Has the heat affected your head?" Takuya asks wondering why the blonde is so bubbly.
"Takuya, don't blame her. She just had her spirit back, of course she would be happy," I state crossing my arms. "I'm sure you would be too if you lost your spirit and got it back after a very long period of time. The feeling of being useless in battle when everyone else are fighting a battle for you is not a good combination when you have the power to do it."
"Yeah, yeah," Takuya grunts. I roll my eyes at his behavior.
"I think the heat affected your head more than it did to Izumi," I remark.
"Anyways~ let's not forget who has a beast spirit!" Junpei pipes bringing up the atmosphere, also happy mimicking Izumi.
"Let's hear it for Junpei, the Princely beast of Thunder!" Izumi chants.
"And Izumi the Princess of the Summer Breeze!" Junpei chants next.
"And Takuya the King of I'm gonna be sick!" Takuya grouchily interjects the light mood. I whack Takuya up the head as he groans in pain. He glares back as he held his head.
"Don't spoil their fun, Takuya. Just let them have it while they still can," I scold walking ahead. "Let's go and see if there is anything we can do." I say boredly. Everyone nods their head and follow suit.
"You know I can't help but notice it's summer and we are in a beach," Izumi states as we got farther into the Island. "You know what that means!" She cheered happily.
"Summer vacation!" everyone cheered except Kouji and I. How come everytime there is something good, something bad always seem to follow up? It's always that feeling. But I can't spoil the mood right now. It would be too cruel of me to do that.
"The waves!" Tomoki yells his arms in the air trying to look like waves as the water in the background made a decent size wave.
"Shell hunting!" Izumi says next holding a pink-ish orange starfish from who knows where.
"And lots of Sunshine!" Junpei said pointing up to the sun in which it is blazing hot right now.
"Put them all together and what do you get? The beach, baby!" Takuya answers a bit more cheerfully than before while he stares at the ocean.
"Aren't you guys forgetting something?" Kouji questions catching everyone's attention. "We're on a mission here. We'd be stupid to let our guard down." He states. He does have a point. But with all the crud we been through I doubt maybe a short little break wouldn't hurt. We are just gonna end up moving on after that anyway.
"Oh come on, lighten up," Takuya says jumping to Kouji's side and elbowing him. Junpei did the say thing. But what I notice is that Kouji is twitching a bit. He then bit his lip to stifle his laugh. Who knew the great Kouji Minamoto is ticklish? Especially on the sides. Maybe I could use that as an advantage. Then again I'll leave him be. It's not my forte. It's irrelevant. As the two brown haired older teens keep elbowing Kouji's side he burst out laughing. Then the two stop as Kouji try to gather up his serious expression.
"It can't hurt to take a short break. We've earned it," Izumi declares along with Junpei, Takuya and Tomoki. I shrug my shoulders in indifference. I don't really care, really. But that doesn't mean I'll let my guard down either. I know better.
"All in favor say 'Aye,'" I say counting the votes while half raising my arm.
"Aye!" the others all except Kouji cheers.
"Fine, whatever. I'm obviously outnumbered here," Kouji grunts, giving up. I pat his shoulder while he rolls his eyes at me. As my crimson eyes flies away from Kouji, I notice a shack. I raise a suspicious eyebrow at it. A shack? Hm.
"You guys, there's a shack," I point at it. We all walk there and we stand in front of it.
"This is all too convenient," Kouji says suspiciously as he cross his arms. There are reasons Kouji thinks this. Of course when we got here the shack could have been placed there that we didn't notice it before. Then again that shack could have been there long before we even came to the Digital World. This is all a 50-50% chance of either one of those options. We all slowly go up to it to make sure nothing is out to get us. By the time we got near it, four toucan like Digimon appears wearing Hawaiian clothing.
"Honored guests, we welcome you to Toucan Paradise," the one with the actual Hawaiian shirt greets bowing down.
"Thank you Mr. Toucanmon. We're honored your honored," Tomoki gleefully says.
"Yeah, we're honored but we are broke Toucanmon, Sir," I state going all business like. It's the truth the money that we have isn't any good here. I heard a few Digimons saying something about Digishackles as their currency. The Digital World doesn't have machines or tellers to help us exchange so the only option to that is to earn them ourselves. But with the boys that may be a bit lazy won't be as much help. As much as I want a time for myself we don't know how to earn Digishackels.
"Come on, what's a few Digishakels between friends. It just so happens that today, everything is on the house," the Toucanmon with a safari hat cheers. On the house? Looks like someone is desperate also. Got to play it like I am not suspicious of them. But I just can't help but glare at them.
"By which he means free. Not served on the roof of course," the one with the chef's hat says. We take that as an offensive greeting as we furrow our brows together.
"We know what that means," I cross my arms in a huff. I can sense the nervousness they emit as I give them my best business poker face I got.
"Sorry, so sorry. It was just a small joke. Very Small," the one in the Hawaiian shirt squeak as he flaps his wings a bit faster sensing the dangerous aura I emit.
"S'okay," Tomoki reassures them waving them off. I am not liking these birds one bit. Sometimes I wonder how everyone can trust random Digimon that looks so harmless yet don't know if they won't backstab you in the end. Of course there were a few who went against us but turn back to being good and help us at some point. And some that was really harmless that you could really make it your friend without having any difficulties.
"There is absolutely nothing we won't do to make it up to you," the one with swimming gears says. Hm? Insult us and apologize by doing anything we ask huh. Birds thinks business and business is my forte. I'll make sure to put them in their place to make sure they know who they are dealing with.
"Oh, really?" I ask eyeing them carefully. They nod their heads vigorously. Something tells me they are eager since they have their confidence being boosted. Whatever the reason for their boost of confidence I will deflate it before it gets any worse. Hopefully. "Let's see what you provide to us weary travelers. Let us start off with a nice feast. We have traveled very far and haven't eaten in days. I am surprised that we manage to get this far with barely any nutrition. We are famished and we want you to serve us your best course of meal. If you do I could possibly advertise your little Beach Resort to have all kinds of Digimon to come by." I propose. "I am sure this is an offer you can't refuse."
"Right this way~," the Toucanmon cheers happily as we follow them to an area where the tables are. I sit in between Takuya and Kouji as always. Bokomon is next to Kouji. Junpei, Izumi, Tomoki and Neemon are on the opposite side of us. The Toucanmon with the chef's hat disappears into the kitchen and starts cooking in a breakneck speed. Hopefully he doesn't stab anyone with those knives while the rest of the Toucanmon enters in there. After almost 15 minutes of waiting the food arrived and is placed in front of us. I got to admit the food actually looks good. Really authentic. Plus it's the food we eat back in our world: curry, salad, pizza, pasta, steak, you name it. It's not those food where a fruit taste like meat or a cabbage taste like spaghetti. We each pick our food. I go for the salad and the curry that was sitting in front of me and Izumi. I try the curry first. Lumi curry? Never knew they would actually make this.
"This is the best Lumi Curry I've ever had!" Izumi exclaims putting another mouthful in.
"I agree," I state not caring. I am starving if you haven't notice. Like I said I would ignore my grumbling stomach and push on even if I get a bit grumpy or weak in some ways or two. But if there is food in front of me, I tend to be a little possessive when I am beyond starving.
"You two are weird. Is that supposed to be a compliment?" Kouji asks and looks at us like we grown an extra head. I shake my head answering him as I elbowed him for calling us weird. Sure I can sometimes take insults well but there are some points where I take the insults to heart. Especially back home... I sigh at the thought of home. I wonder how my parents are holding up. I shake they thought away not wanting it to cloud my objectives.
"Don't you get it. It's real food!" Junpei exaggerates waving his arm towards the food on the table. Knowing Junpei he always talks with his stomach. I still don't get why he is so obsessed with food. I mean yeah food is good and keeps us alive but sometimes we don't always need food. We can still survive without it. But in the end the body starts to eat itself especially the fats stored in our bodies to keep us going. So wouldn't that consider us being cannibals. What do you call a person who eats themselves? Self-cannibalism I believe. Wow did I just think that far? I never thought that a person would eat themselves unless desperate measures or maybe, they are just plain nut cases.
"Yeah everything looks like what it is. Besides, it's a Beach House. The food could have dirt and bugs and stuff all over it and no one would even care," Takuya states weirdly. I was pulled out of my stupor as I raise skeptical eyebrow at him. Then again other people in the world do eat bugs so I can't complain.
"Bring on the bugs!" the others cheer as I quietly eat my lunch. I take a quick glance at Kouji to see him a bit irritated. Must be because he is more focus on moving on than enjoying his time here. I do admit he can be a party pooper, a downer, the one that zaps all the fun away and the list goes on. But he does have a set goal in mind and wants to accomplish that. He's not the type of person to waste time on something irrelevant. I'll give him that as a hard worker. While all of us are eating, chatting away, and relaxing we clean the plates of all the food.
"Man, my stomach feels like a melon," Takuya pats his stomach sounding like he is about to burp.
"Did you get enough to eat, Tomoki?" Izumi questions the younger boy as he nods his head. As long he is growing properly and eating enough he should be fine. He's still a kid after all. It's our job to look out for him not matter what. Plus I need to make sure he goes home in one piece along with everyone else. That's a vow I will make till the very end.
"A fine meal. You Toucanmon have done well. You have my respect. I assure you will have Digimon coming to your Beach Resort in no time," I compliment as I stand up. "Unfortunately, we are also in a hurry. We wish to stay but we have more important business to take care off. Excuse us." I politely excuse all of us as the rest stand, agreeing.
"Oh no please stay for a bit longer. Sooner or later you will get hungry again. You are all growing children. We don't mind," the Hawaiian Toucanmon panics trying to convince us to stay. Now that is suspicious.
"Are you kidding we won't be hungry for a very long time. We need to save the Digital World," Takuya says trying to get us out.
"But you will soon when you are out in the sun, playing all day. We would be bad host if we didn't tend to our customers," the safari Toucanmon says. Didn't they get the "save the Digital World" message? I really do need to keep an eye on them.
"We don't want to impose," I say trying to leave but the one with the swimming gear flies in front of me, stopping me in my tracks.
"How about free swimming rentals?" the one with the swimming gears asks pulling the curtains revealing all the swimming gears and swim suits. That caught everyone's attention and finally agreed to the idea. I still have a bad feeling about this. Izumi pulls me with her into the girls dressing room while the boys went to the guys dressing room. Really, I didn't want to go but since Izumi is forcing me to go might as well. She went through the racks of swimsuit trying them on and tossing them out saying that it doesn't suit her. I then hear the guys out of the changing room screaming with delight making their way to the beach. I sigh at their little antics as I pull out a baby blue two piece swimsuit. I undress and neatly fold my clothes placing them into the basket. I then dress myself with the swimsuit and grab myself a beach bag. I take my D-tector and pocket knife in case something terrible is going to happen. I place them into the bag. I tie my forest green hair into a braid putting the purple floral clip into the bag. I then left Izumi alone as she still looks through the racks of swimsuits and make my way out.
"Seriously, Izumi just choose one," I say slightly annoyed.
"At least you can look good in almost about any outfit," Izumi whines feeling envious. I shake my head.
"No I don't," I say modestly, "I'm going."
"See you out there," she calls back as I turn around. Going out I stray a little bit away from the shack in case those Toucanmon are up to no good and I'll be able to stop them in their tracks. I sit myself down on the warm sand and watch the guys swim. Then Takuya notice me and makes his way over.
"Come on Rena the water is fine," he eagerly pulls me up from my spot and drag me to the ocean. I stop by the time the water is up to my thighs. "I got to admit though, you look good." I glare at him and splash water in his face. What is up with him and flirting with me? I mean Junpei did it before but at least he stop and is thinking about Izumi. How did I tolerate him anyway?
"Shut up! I don't look good at all!" I embarrassingly yell at him, splashing him again. But he ducks under water avoiding the attack and grabs my waist. I take a deep breath as he pulls me under with him. I open my eyes to see his face close to mines. He gave me a smirk as he wraps his arms around my waist. Dang it not again. I was having a good streak too. I can feel my cheeks warm up a bit. I turn around trying to swim away from him but he keeps his grip tight on me. I squirm as I can feel his bare chest against my own bare back. I can feel a little tingle running down my own body. Then I can feel another grip on my hands. I swivel my head to see Kouji glaring at Takuya. He points up and we all follow him. Resurfacing, I breath in all the air I need from holding my breath for too long. I wipe my face a bit to see Kouji still holding my hands and Takuya now having one arm around my waist. Why me? I embarrassingly thought.
"Dude what was that for?" Takuya asks a little tick off that Kouji interrupted his fun.
"Are you trying to kill her?!" Kouji yells/asks angrily him. "You could have made her drown! What if she can't swim?!" He seems to be a bit over protective. I mean I don't mind Kouji's protectiveness but I can take care of myself just fine. Even if Takuya might do something stupid in the end.
"Oh, please she manage just fine," Takuya nonchalantly waves him off.
"Um... can you guys let-" I start but was never able to finish because a piercing scream makes its way over. I ran out of the guys grips and dash for my beach bag and make my way back to Izumi. "Izumi you okay?" I enter the changing room to see herself half naked.
"Someone is a peeping tom!" she screech at me. I growl. Toucanmon! I failed again. I close my eyes rage filling my entire being. Not only rage; guilt. I knew they were up to something but why can't I stop them? Even the first several times I failed to protect the others. Am I cut out to be a Legendary Warrior. Ah! I shake my head ridding the awful thoughts. I can't think like that now. I went to my basket to change. I took off the top half and grab my undergarments until Takuya and Junpei pops their head into the dressing room.
"Izumi are you okay?!" they both yell but stop getting red in the face. I growl at them and throw a basket at them along with Izumi. "Perverts!" How dare they pop their head in here while we are getting undressed. They both scream like girls and yell "sorry" along the way. I huff. "If I see them again I am going to do much worse." I growl at them as I finish dressing up.
"I agree," Izumi pipes up finishing getting dress to. We both get out seeing the boys still in trunks. "Sorry you guys, it's just that someone was a peeping tom." I cross my arms.
"That creep lemme at 'em!" Junpei exclaims as everyone besides me glances at Junpei. "What?"
"I don't know Junpei you seem to be a likely suspect," Takuya infers, while Kouji and the other nods.
"But Junpei was with us swimming," Tomoki defends Junpei much to Junpei's relief.
"I agree with Tomoki," I call out patting the kids head. "We all have the same allebei. The only people or should I say Digimon here are the Toucanmon." I deduct. Their eyes widen and went to their baskets and start to dig.
"They took our D-tectors!" Kouji yells frustrated.
"Those dang birds!" Takuya yells. They were about to change and I back away knowing the outcome. Izumi squeaks in surprise as I grab her before they notice Izumi standing in front of the changing room.
"You don't want karma to hit you," I advise as she nods her head nervously. As they were finish dressing up we all run outside to see the footprints in the sand. We follow them until we see them on the ground with the boys' D-tectors.
"Oh Ranamon the Ravishing!" the Toucanmon chants.
"What do you mean by Ranamon the Ravishing?!" Takuya yells angrily at the bird Digimon.
"Give us back our D-tectors!" Kouji yells next.
"No way, no how. This little baby is our ticket to a date with Ranamon!" They screech at us. Seriously all that for a date with a Digimon that we despise. How unprofessional.
"It seems that you all have lost my respect. I demand you to give the D-tectors back or prepare for punishment!" I command them.
"You can't make us! Now scram!" the one with the safari hat yells at us trying to be macho.
"Maybe we should scram..." the one with the chef hat suggested.
"Scramming!" they all yell running away. I growl and chase after them along with the others. By the time we manage to catch up to them a fountain of water sprays up with Ranamon on it. Great, just our luck. Then there is Seadramon with his golden head, green serpent like body with white on the bottom and red tail in all his glory.
"Oh dear, it's Ranamon. She is the Spirit of Water and very evil," Bokomon read from his book.
"Didn't we figure that out at Seraphimon Castle!" I yell at him being a little late. "She has lousy timing." I glare at her as she chuckles at us.
"Now be good lil' children and handover your precious lil' spirits," she evilly smiles at us.
"I'll have to disagree to that idea," I state stepping forward.
"Sounds stupid to me!" Izumi says next stepping up next to me.
"We don't have our D-tectors!" Kouji yells.
"That's you guys but I kept mines with me the whole time. So let Izumi and I take care of her," I turn back to them giving my "business face." They reluctantly agree and step down.
"This is gonna be a treat," Ranamon smiles as water tornadoes comes crashing down on the beach making the sand all clingy.
"Ready?" I ask pulling out my orange, black and silver D-tector.
"Ready as I'll ever be. I need to make up the lost time," Izumi says pulling out her pink, purple and a little grey D-tector out. Time to redeem myself too. I should have kept a better eye on the guys things because I was the one still weary about the Toucanmon.
"Spirit Evolution!" Izumi and I cry out changing to our respective Legendary Warriors. I jump into the air my claws glowing an orange yellow.
"Okay you sea fish time for you to become sushi, Star Slash Wave!" I rip the air with my claws sending waves. Seadramon dives down into the sea dodging the attack. As I fall, he resurface and whacks me with his tail into Kazemon. Ranamon water pillars engulf us while Seadramon shots bullets at us. "Raining Star!" I send out rapid stars from the sky canceling the attack. Then Ranamon water pillar dies down and she dives behind Seadramon.
"What is she up to?" Kazemon wonders as she flies over.
"I think she found her Beast Spirit," I state pulling myself out of the water and shaking like a cat or dog would when they are wet. I really don't like the sound of that. When I think I am dry enough the water explodes upwards showing Ranamon as a huge squid. "I so called that!" I point at her. Well if she has a Beast Spirit time for me to test mines out.
"Calmaramon!" the ugly squid exclaims waving her tentacles around. "Look how beautiful I am!" Sorry but I have to disagree to that. I animatedly sweat drop. How about you just keep telling yourself that and all is fine. No, maybe a paper bag should do the trick.
"That is Ranamon... the Ravishing...?" the Toucanmon questions not liking the view also.
"That's just ugly!" the guys says as I face palm. They need to stay quiet or else they would get attack. And true to the words Calmaramon attack the guys with no hesitation. The area has become a massive torn down forest you see in our world. The sand are either been dug deep or piled high. The trees have been knocked down by the thrashing of Calmaramon. Not good at all.
"I'm coming you guys! Slide Evolution!" I jump into a data code warp tunnel. My body shifts into a tiger I saw/imagine from my subconscious brain. I land on my feet as I gave a loud tiger like roar. My tail flicks with the small bell ringing getting everyone's attention.
"Sentoramon!" I roar my name making another swish of my tail and the bell rings once again. "Hurt my friends and you will become an actual calamari!" I will not let her hurt my friends. She will regret it if she does. I'll make sure she will pay if she lay a finger on them.
"Whoa! Rena's controlling her Beast Spirit!" Tomoki cheers while the older guys nod their heads in agreement at the turn of events. I was just lucky enough to even get my Beast Spirit from Sorcerymon. I'm probably even more lucky just to control it.
"How did she do that?!" Junpei asks still bewildered.
"Meteor Roar!" I roar at the skies with comets falling from the black sky trying to crush her. Unfortunately, the attacks were canceled because she was able to whack the comets away using her many tentacles. She swings at me as I dodge being nimble on my feet as always and Kazemon tries to attack but she was then slammed into me causing us to turn back. That didn't last long. But I do have to admit Beast Spiriting really takes a lot out of you. I help Izumi up as I help myself.
"Izumi! Rena! Watch out!" Takuya and Kouji warns us as Calmaramon makes her way over to us.
"Titanic Tempest!" Calmaramon calls one of her attacks but she spun out of control and out of sight. Looks like she can't control her beast spirit yet. Sucks to be her I guess. Then again sucks to be anyone who can't control their Beast Spirit. Now I am making fun of the guys who couldn't control their Beast Spirit from the start.
"What just happen?" Izumi questions confusion makes its way on her face.
"It seems that she can't control her beast spirit yet better than you lot and I say you did quite well in controlling your Beast Spirit, Rena," Bokomon praises and also agreeing to my statement before. I nod my head as a thank you. "Way better than the rest of the boys."
"Hey!" the boys except Tomoki yells at the insult. I look around noticing the Toucanmon gone. Dang it they got away while the boys were distracted and we were fighting. Sneaky little guys. I should have told the guys to go after their D-tectors while we keep Calmaramon/Ranamon busy.
"Guys there's no time to argue about who controlled the Beast Spirit the Best, the Toucanmon are gone." I state as they all panic and we went into a frenzy. The main goal right now is to find the guys' D-tector. We will deal with Ranamon later on in the future 'cause I know for sure we will end up running into her like we did with Grumblemon. This is becoming one hectic day. Is my list of things I hate ever gonna stop? If not I might lose my sanity one of these days. I thought as we all follow the direction into the forest.
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