Chapter 10: Girls Rule, Cerberumon Drool
Hello there fellow Digi-readers, welcome back to another chapter of Digimon: Evolution. Things got pretty heated up in the last chapter, right? GeoGreymon was taken down hard, and Kenta felt the heat! Dinohyumon made a second appearance, his first in the Real World actually. Wait a minute…I thought the Gold Evolution Card didn't work in the Real World. How the hell did Kotemon Digivolve in the first place? Well I guess we're going to find out in this chapter so enjoy.
*Kai's POV*
Cerberumon is taking down everybody. Renamon is lying limp with Rin gasping for air, Kotemon is unconscious and Daiki is holding his arm in pain, and Kenta is struggling to get up. Koromon is beat up real bad, and Falcomon and I are next. "Daichi, what do we do?" I can't hide the fear in my voice. Daichi is starting to sweat, and he doesn't answer me at first. "I don't know buddy…I just don't know."
"Cerberumon lets clean up the rest of the trash!" his Tamer yells. Cerberumon turns on Wizardmon getting ready to attack. "Thunder Cloud!" The lightning bounces harmlessly off Cerberumon. "Wizardmon get out of there!" Daichi yells. "Hell Fire!" Wizardmon gets hit full on by the flame and is knocked down. "No, Wizardmon! Agh!" Daichi grabs his sides in pain. He must've felt Wizardmon's pain.
"Falcomon, we've got to help Wizardmon!" Daichi comes towards me and hands me a Battle Card. "Here use this; it's a card Kenta loaned me." I take it quickly and run towards Falcomon. "Digi-Modify! Alias activate!" Whoa, now there are eight Falcomon. That is so awesome! "Throwing Stars!" The eight Falcomon send out a barrage of shuriken at Cerberumon. He dodges all of the attacks by jumping up into the air. "Hell Fire!" Oh man, he's launching the flame down on everybody. What are we going to do?
"Meteor Wing!" Two fireballs come out of nowhere and hit Cerberumon from behind, knocking him down into the ground. "Sorry we're late!" I look up and see a giant orange bird flying towards us with a girl on it. "Yumi, didn't expect to see you here!" Daichi yells out. I guess she's a friend of his.
"Nice hit, but it won't help you fools. Come Cerberumon, it seems like you have a new chew toy." the Tamer yells out. "Falcomon, are you alright?" The clones had been destroyed by the flame, but Falcomon got away in time. "Yes I'm fine Kai. I think we should leave this to Birdramon though." I nod in agreement.
"Hey Kai, lets go help the others while Birdramon battles Cerberumon." Daichi, Falcomon, and I split up and go to the others. Daichi runs over to Rin and Renamon, Falcomon heads over to Daiki and Kotemon, and I head over to Kai and Agu-, I mean Koromon. "Kenta, are you alright?" I ask. He's still trying to get up but he's shaking. His entire body is bruised and he's even bleeding a little on his head. "Yea I'm fine Kai, please go help Koromon."
I go over and pick up Koromon and bring him over to Kenta. "Koromon, Upload." Koromon turns into a spiral of data and enters Kenta's D-Phone. I help Kenta sit up but that's as far as we can go before he's clutching his stomach in pain. "Kai, you need to get out of here. There's no way I can move right now." I shake my head at him, tears starting to form. "I'm not leaving you here!"
"Kai!" I look up to see Falcomon running over to me with Daiki. He's still clutching his arm in pain. "Kai we need to get out of here!" Falcomon says. I look over to see Birdramon flying down at Cerberumon, for him to then dodge and launch his fire at her. She blows it away with her wings and sends two more fireballs down at him. "Kenta can't get up though." Daiki comes next to me and puts one of Kenta's arms over his shoulder. "Come on Kenta, time to get up kid." he says. Kenta tries to get up with Daiki's support but both are too weak to do it.
"Looks like you guys could use a little help." I look up to see Daichi come over just as a fireball explodes. Daichi grabs Kenta's other arm and wraps it around his shoulder. Him and Daiki successfully get Kenta up and start to help him walk away. I don't see Wizardmon or Kotemon so I'm guessing that Daichi and Daiki Uploaded them into their D-Phones. "We need to get out of here, now." Rin is walking over now clutching desperately onto her D-Phone. She must've Uploaded Renamon.
"You fools aren't going anywhere. Cerberumon, finish them!" Cerberumon runs at us at full speed. Oh no, what are we going to do? There's no way Birdramon can hit him in time, and Falcomon's not strong enough to knock him away. I need to pick a good Battle Card. Oh no, he's about to jump!
"Sunshine Beam!" A giant yellow beam comes out of nowhere and hits Cerberumon just as he's about to jump, knocking him into the ground. I look over to where the blast came from and see a giant, dinosaur flower. Next to the flower is a girl with short purple hair, hazel eyes, and looks to be about 16. She's wearing a black red t-shirt, blue jeans, and a black jacket. "Nice hit Sunflowmon!"
Sunflowmon
Form: Champion
Attribute: Data
Type: Plant
"A Plant Digimon with a sunflower-like body. It becomes healthier when exposed to the sun, and its offensive power levels up at the same time. Sometimes, it will be able to flap the leaves on its back and fly, but this depends on the weather. Its special attacks are "Sunshine Beam", which emits beams of sunlight from its flower-like head, and "Smiley Binta", which slaps the opponent whilst smiling. In addition, its creepy grin will make the opponent flinch in fear. It can also swing its spiked stem-like tail at the enemy with "Cactus Tail"."
Whoa, that's the second time a girl showed up and saved us. "You guys alright?" the girl asks. We all nod in unison. "The name's Sakura Kuroki. I guess it's a good thing I got here when I did. You'd all be road kill by now." The thought was pretty scary to think about. "Yo Sunflowmon, let's take this bitch down!" She yelled. Well she certainly has character…
"You got it Sakura! Sunshine Beam!" Sunflowmon launched the same blast from her face again. "That attack won't work twice! Cerberumon, burn that ugly weed!" Sakura started fuming next to me. "She's not a weed you asshole!" Cerberumon jumped out of the way of the attack, only to be knocked down by Birdramon's fireballs. "Hm, I guess I underestimated you too quickly. Cerberumon, we're leaving." The cloaked guy ran over to Cerberumon and hopped on his back. They than jumped up into the air as a Digital Gate formed. "Until we meet again DigiDestined!" The gate closed and they were gone.
*Two Hours Later*
We ended up heading back to Sakura's home since her parents were out. It turns out she has a pretty big house. Most of the houses are in apartment buildings but she had a real house that was almost as big as a mansion. We had patched up anyone who was hurt and the Digimon were naturally healing within the D-Phones.
"Thank you for helping us back there." Daiki said to Yumi and Sakura. "No problem. My D-Phone started to go off and then I got another Gold Card. I used it and then Biyomon came out of my D-Phone. We had been running to your location when I just felt this really warm and amazing feeling and Biyomon Digivolved. I felt connected to her, it was really cool. You guys know the rest." Yumi said.
"Pretty much the same with me, though I had already brought Lalamon into the Real World. We had practiced with the Bio Digivolution for a while and it looks like we got it down pretty good." Sakura said. She had a weird look of discomfort on her face, but not because a bunch of strange people she had saved earlier are in her house. It was as if she hated being in her house. I know the feeling.
"Thank you for letting us come to your house. It would've been awkward having to go home all beat up like I was," Kenta told Sakura. "No problem at all, it's my pleasure." She added in something under her breath that sounded like "At least something good comes out of living here."
Daiki and Rin walked into the large living room we were all sitting or lying around in. "Looks like we're all going to be ok, but I think you should really stay off your feet Kenta. You might even want to call your parents and say you're staying over a friend's house tonight," Daichi told him. Kenta did look pretty bad. He was bruised and cut all over and even had burn marks on him. Daiki and Rin had been hurt badly too, but Kenta had felt GeoGreymon's pain from Cerberumon's Hell Fire at full power. He was sitting up but I could still see the discomfort in his eyes.
"Yea that's a good idea. Hey Kai could you do me a small favor?" he asked. "Sure, what is it?" He picks up a cup he had been drinking out of. "Can you go grab me some more water buddy? I'm really sorry it's just I can't get up right now." I nod happily and grab the cup. "Of course, be right back!"
*Sakura's POV*
"Wait Kenta, shouldn't I get the…" he shakes his head as the little boy named Kai runs out of the room. "I know it is your house and that you are probably the only one that can find the kitchen but I needed him out of the room. We have some important things to talk about." I sit down and scratch my head. "Isn't that kid part of the DigiDestined?" In the two hours it took to get everyone to my house and healed, Yumi and I had been filled in on what's been going on in Chosen Children Land.
"Yes he is, but I don't think he needs to be hearing this. First things first, we can all admit that we're lucky to be alive. If Yumi and Sakura hadn't shown up with Birdramon and Sunflowmon, we'd all be dead right now." I wonder if this Kenta guy is serious all the time. Considering the somewhat shocked look on the kid Daichi's face I'd say this is new for him. "Also, there are two new things that we did not know before. Number one, there are humans that are siding with the evil Digimon and can use new Black Battle Cards. Number two, they are capable of coming into the Real World."
"There is something else I noticed that I found odd. Renamon had originally told me that the Gold Evolution Card does not work in the Real World because there is no surrounding data for it to use in order to empower our Digimon. However, Daiki was able to use it on Kotemon." Daiki looked up in realization. I guess he hadn't thought much about it. "I don't know why or how it worked, but I highly suggest you don't use the card Daiki. Kotemon was lucky to not have anything happen to him, but for all we know the card could permanently delete him." Daiki nervously nodded and then took a seat. He looked really pale all the sudden.
"There are some things we have to be certain about. First off, does everyone live in Konyu City?" Everyone nodded together and I did too. They don't need the whole story. "Alright, that makes things easier. Konyu City might be big but at least we're all in one general area. As of now, five of the eight DigiDestined have been found. They are Rin, Kai, Yumi, Sakura, and me. Possible DigiDestined are Daiki, Daichi, and Tatsuya." Everyone let out a small gasp at his name, except for me and Yumi. Who's Tatsuya?
"Why would you say that asshole is a DigiDestined?" Daichi asked him. "I'm not ruling anyone out due to personal feelings. Tatsuya, no matter how big of an asshole, is a powerful Tamer with a powerful Digimon. The Royal Knights may have picked him because of his skills. Do not worry; I have him very down on the possibility meter. He had to take Kai's Gold Battle Cards in battle in order to obtain them, so I doubt he's a DigiDestined. I'm just keeping the possibility out there."
"Finally, I suggest nobody enters the Digital World through the proper login. We'll have to go to it for real." For real, is he saying we can actually go to the Digital World? I had figured as much since Digimon can come to our world, but hearing it is still cool. I get to go to another world…I guess my wish came true after all. "The High Admins have already accused Daichi and me of being hackers. Rin and Kai will probably be on their list since they helped us escape arrest. Do not stay in towns for very long amount of times. We don't need to be attracting attention or evil Digimon."
"Wait, if there's so much danger going to the Digital World, why are going at all?" Rin asked. "We're not ready to fight this ancient evil Digimon yet. We couldn't even take down Cerberumon with more then half of the DigiDestined. We need to get stronger, and the only way we'll due that is by going to the Digital World. We may even learn more about the Bio Digivolution and about our enemy."
Everyone fell silent after that. "I'm going for a little walk. Do you want to come with me Rin?" Daiki asked. He still looked pretty pale. "Sure, let's go." Something's telling me he's not going for a walk to just get exercise. They soon left the room and I started thinking on what their relationship was. "They're cousins." I guess Kenta noticed my concentration. "Hey Sakura, wanna go watch some TV?" Daichi asked. I nodded and headed out. He's a pretty hyper guy, and is actually kind of cute. Too bad I'm not one for younger guys.
*Kenta's POV*
Soon enough it was just Yumi and me left in the large living room. "Thank you again for saving us." I said. She smiled at me. She has an amazing smile. "No problem, you certainly helped me battle Airdramon back in the Digital World, it's the least I could do. Besides, if we're a team now I guess we're going to be saving each other a lot." I laughed and agreed with her.
"So, um, how are things in your life going?" I asked her. "Well besides the knowledge that the fate of two worlds lays on my shoulders, pretty good. My sister just got her driver's license, my mom and dad are happy as can be, and things are going pretty well between me and my boyfriend. What about you?" I felt a little disappointed when she said boyfriend. It didn't matter I guess. I'd never have the courage to actually ask her out.
"I guess the same, besides the sister part. I'm an only child, though Daichi and I have been like brothers since birth. My family is doing pretty good. My dad works at Digital Enterprises, the big gaming company that released Digimon: RPG. I'm hoping I can somehow get a hold of the files to learn some more about the Digital World. Maybe I'll ask Kai if he can help me get a hold of them."
She had a confused expression on her face. "How can Kai help?" That's right; she wasn't with us in the Digital World. "Kai may be young, but he's pretty smart when it comes to technology. He was able to punch in the address to get us all out of the Digital World when we last went. I bet he could hack into the computer and get the files if I asked."
"Speaking of Kai, why did you want him out of the room before so he didn't hear anything?" I was expecting someone to ask me this, just not Yumi. I can't exactly lie to her. "I don't want him to be a part of this. He's just a kid, not some tool for war. I'm the second youngest out of all of us, but I'm at least 13. You saw how dangerous the battle was today. What if he got hurt during a battle, or was killed? There's no way I could watch that happen. I can't watch it happen with any of you actually. I think it's very dangerous for all of us, but even more since he's just a kid."
"I agree with you Kenta, but I'm afraid he is a part of this. I can see that you care for him, and I think you'll be able to protect him if needed. We'll all be there to protect him though. Besides, we haven't seen his and Falcomon's true power yet. They may just become the most powerful out of all of us. I don't think you need to worry so much." I sighed in defeat. "Yea, you're probably right." She grinned at the fact that she won. "I'm gonna grab something to eat then head home. Do you need anything?" I shook my head no. "Alright then, I'll see you later."
"Thank you again." I said to her while she was walking out of the living room. "Don't mention it; just make sure you don't get yourself killed next time. I may not be able to save you again." I could tell she was joking, but there was some truth behind that. She may not be able to save me the next time. Wait, since when did I become the damsel in distress?
*Kai's POV*
I had walked out of the room to get Kenta's drink when I heard Sakura start to call me. I stayed still to hear if she would call me again, but started to go again until I heard Kenta speak. I sat down against the wall and listened in on what they were saying. I listened the entire time while Kenta talked to everybody. I finally went and got his drink once I heard him stop talking. I didn't want the others to catch me eavesdropping. When I came back I could see that only Kenta and Yumi were left in the living room.
I walked in after Yumi left. Kenta was looking at where she left kind of funny. Maybe he like likes her, though I think I heard her say she's dating somebody. I hope Kenta gets a chance to ask her out. "Hey Kenta, sorry it took me so long but I finally got your water!" I said while handing him the cup. He smiled at me and took the cup. It felt good to know I was needed by somebody.
"You heard the entire conversation, didn't you?" he asked suddenly. "Uh, well, uh, I didn't, I mean, yes." I couldn't come up with a believable lie so I just told the truth. "How did you know?" He chuckled a little and pointed at my face. "Your expression kind of gave it away. You were looking at me sadly, and I'm guessing it's because I didn't want you to hear what I had to say. It was nothing against you Kai, I promise."
I chuckled a little. He can read people pretty well. I doubt I'll be able to lie around him. "I don't mind; just promise me you won't leave me out again?" He sighed and seemed to reluctantly agree. "I promise." He ruffled my hair a little before lying down on the couch. "Do you need anything else?" I asked him. He shook his head while taking out his D-Phone. "Nah, I'm good buddy. If you want Daichi can probably walk you home, or you can just call your mom or dad to come pick you up."
I felt the tears start to prick at my eyes. He noticed immediately and sat up. "What's wrong Kai?" I wiped the tears away quickly. "It's nothing, it's just that, well, I live at an orphanage. I don't actually have a family. My D-Phone wasn't bought; I had found it in the trash and was able to fix it. This trench coat guy gave me one of the Gold Cards one day and that was the day I got Falcomon. My parents took me to the orphanage when I was 4, and promised that they'd come back for me. They never came though. I've waited 4 years for them to come back and they never did."
"All the kids in the orphanage usually pick on me and tell me how nobody wants me, how my parents probably hated me and that's why they left me at the orphanage, that I'll never have a family, that no one would ever want me. Only one of the boys named Kazu was nice to me. He always acted like an older brother to me and protected me from the bullies, but even he was adopted eventually. The only person I ever thought of as family was taken away from me."
The tears were running down my face freely now but I didn't really care. "Being here with you guys is the first time I've ever felt at home. I'm a part of something really big, something that I'm needed for. Even just taking care of you is amazing. I get to be useful to somebody, and that somebody actually wants me around. Falcomon is the only real friend I've had in two years, and then I met you guys. You're all nice to me and don't want to see me hurt, but I want to fight with all of you. I want to be with you guys, whether it be here or in a battle field." Kenta probably things I'm just some loser kid by now.
I felt Kenta pulling me into a strong hug, a couple of tears falling down his face. "Do you remember that promise I made to you, about getting your Gold Battle Cards back?" I nodded my head slowly. "I will keep that promise, along with this one. I promise to keep you safe, to not let anyone harm you. You may have lost an older brother before, but I can be your new one. You have a new family now Kai, me and the others. We will always be there for you and I promise we won't abandon you." I smiled, the tears finally stopping. I had found a new family, a new brother, two things I thought were never possible.
"Thank you Kenta, but promise me Agumon gets to be the mom." We both laughed together. "Sure, as long as Kotemon gets to be the dad. Wizardmon could probably be the grandpa." We just kept laughing and laughing. It felt really good, being so happy.
Well that's the end of this sappy little chapter. We had a little bit more fight, a little bit of an explanation, and a new understanding of some of our DigiDestined. It seems like the reality of the situation is making Kenta a pretty serious guy. Plus, why do Sakura's guests feel more at home then she does? It also seems like Daiki and Rin are going to be having some important conversation in the next chapter. He seemed pretty pale when it came to the use of the Gold Card. Has some sort of side effect already happened to Kotemon? Will Kai ever get out of that orphanage of his? Really, who saw that coming? Finally, probably the most important thing of all, is this new Dark Digivolution more powerful then the Bio Digivolution? I guess you little Impmon are just gonna have to come back and read the next Digimon: Evolution!