Chapter 9: Ikkakumons Harpoon Torpedo
The next day, we walked out of the streets of Toy Town. We found Monzaemon cut up into several pieces, then a egg in the mess.
"What happened last night?" Mimi asked, looking at all the pieces and egg in the center. I was confused over it myself. Some part of me in the back of my mind said I wouldn't get a answer any time soon.
"I have the feeling something dreadfully evil has come by last night." Izzy told us. I found that comment kind of unneeded, since it should have been plain and obvious something bad happened last night.
"Maybe this egg is supposed to represent Monzaemon starting a new life again. So maybe it will be back soon enough. We never know." T.K. suggested, nobody shot his idea down. Since it had a chance of being real.
"We shouldn't stay here for too long. If we do, these shadows might start chasing us again. Plus, something about this town is starting to really creep me out now." Tai said looking at the egg. We agreed to what he had just said. I looked around, looking for a exit. When I found one on the northeast side of town, we took it. Starting the next part of our journey.
We were walking down the road, looking for a place that might be good for a fifteen minute or so rest. Since we had gone on for a hour or so.
"The snow is starting to get to my heels." Mimi told us, which I also found obvious. I also forgot to mention that it was snowy. It wasn't actually snowing at the moment, but the ground we walked on was covered in it.
"I don't know, this might be the best thing that has happened to us since we first arrived here." Matt muttered under his breath. I silently agreed with him. Despite not being a real fan of snow myself.
Silence for a moment. T.K. was looking at the sky, wondering if it would start actually snowing. "It would be bad if we started again, and then there was even more to this snow problem." He told us, and didn't even take his eyes off the sky while doing so.
"Guys, he's right." I chimed in. Hating this leadership role Eric gave me. But nobody has stepped up to try to take it. I would be glad if they did. "If this falls more than there already is, there would be too much. Then we might possibly get sick from it. The sooner we leave this snowy place, the better for us." I felt like part of me sounded like a little brat.
"Take it easy Joe, they friends art enjoying themselves. Can't thou light up a little bit? It would be more fun if thou did?" Gomamon tried telling me. I looked down at him. Debating if I should dismiss him, or listen to what they are saying. Maybe I would listen to it.
Or I was going to listen to it. That was until Tai made a snowball, and threw it right at Sora. I looked at Tai, glaring.
"What are you thinking? Starting a snow fight when there are these things chasing us now?" I got onto his case. Tai looked at me, as if confused by what I just said. Like I was telling him not to do something I was already doing. It actually confused me.
Nobody had said anything for a while afterwards. Tai would look at me every once in a while, still trying to make sense of what had just happened. Matt just stayed quiet, as if he didn't want to start another argument. Sora looked bored, like she wanted to go home. T.K. was looking at his hands for no reason at all besides possibly they were more interesting. Mimi looked at the snow excited. I assumed that she likes snow, just not that it gets everywhere on her clothes. Izzy was just walking, not saying anything. Just looking ahead of himself. But he was the first to speak up.
"Hey guys look. I think I see a fridge just a few feet away. Just away from the pond over there." He was telling us. I looked at what he was talking about. It looked like one to me. I rubbed my eyes even, and it still looked like a actual fridge. What would it be doing in the open like this?
"Tell me this is just a cruel joke." I told myself, not daring to take my eyes off of it. Worries that it would like vanish away or something if I did looked away from it.
Tai ran over to the fridge himself. Not even telling us that he was going to be doing so. Annoyed, I ran after him. Everybody slowly followed along. Matt being the last of them all.
"I wonder what can be inside." Tai said a little faster than normal, as I was shaking my head wildly. When he opened the fridge door, all we saw were eggs. Hundreds of them, at least. I couldn't believe my eyes. This made no sense. The eggs couldn't be real, and if they were, they would have t be bad.
"I say we should have some for dinner." Tai suggested, and I gave him a worried glance.
"I think we should just leave these eggs here. First, we don't know who owns them. Second, they are most likely bad. Third, it would be rude to take them without permission. Fourth, this could all just be a trap." I gave Tai many reasons why we shouldn't, and just keeping moving on like normal.
"You just worry a tad too much Joe." Matt had told me, grabbing six out of the fridge. Mimi grabbed four. Sora grabbed five. Izzy grabbed three. T.K. grabbed five like Sora. Tai then went in and grabbed seven.
"Fine, I will grab a very minimal amount." I had told them, grabbing two. One for each hand. "Happy now?"
"I'm just fine now." Matt replied, and took all the ones we had grabbed. Then he counted them up. Afterwards, he told us the result. "Thirty-two. It will last us one or two nights. Depending on how we use them."
That was when he has heard a loud screeching noise. That really hurt my ears. I looked back, and saw one of the shadows nearby to us. Like about a hundred yards away.
"Guys follow me! I was the one who got us into this whole egg mess." Tai told us, taking responsibility and lead for now. We followed him, having no other clear or good choice.
We ran down the area as fast as we could. The shadow was getting closer to us, raising their sword to get ready for the strike. Izzy took one of the eggs from Matt, and threw it the way to the shadow. With the impact, they couldn't do anything for a moment. We then took that chance to get further away from it. When he had ran for a while, Matt found a hole. He ran inside of the hole, and we followed along with him.
"We should stay in here until the shadow decides to leave us alone again." Matt wisphered to us. I was glad he was sort of calling the shots, since I would have not been able to say anything.
"You can't hide forever. All of File Island will fall under the other shadows and I is you don't give up. We will hunt you down until you are tired, then we will strike. When you can't stop us." The shadow said in a voice so low and hard to understand, I had to put my head to the edge of the wall. To make the hearing a little better.
Mimi made a quiet, unsure gulping noise. The shadow misheard it, and ran away from us. We waited a minute or so before we got out of the hole. Glad that this was over with, and we could move on.
"I think we should move on now. At least get further away from this thing. It's starting to give me the creeps now." Sora said, looking over at me. She then put a hand on my shoulder. "Do you have any ideas?" She asked, her face getting a tad red. Like from when you put your hand on a stove.
I didn't for a moment. Until I found a sign leading us somewhere.
"Maybe we should try this area." I told everybody else, and we all followed down the path. Until we found a huge rock. Like one so big we could all stand on it just fine big. I looked at it confused. Wondering what we would possibly do with it.
"What the heck is a rock that could possibly be taller than me and no top be doing all the way out here?" I had asked, totally confused. Then I walked closer to it, and rubbed its surface. The part with no top and was flat. T.K. looked at me, as if this were to mean something.
"The sun is up. We barely have any cooking gear. Maybe we could use this rock to cook on it." He suggested, which I found stupid at first. Then slower became more clever the more I had thought about it. Maybe this idea could get us somewhere.
"Might as well give it a try." I replied, not having any idea where this could possibly get us to.
Matt and Sora duoed up to make all the eggs. They talked to each other the whole time. As if to know each other better.
"Matt, what kind of things do you like?" Sora asked him. It felt like he didn't even need to think about it. He already had a answer.
"Music. I like to play and make music on my free time. Make some songs, try them out. See if I like them. If I don't, then I redo the lyrics. Maybe I could make a band someday. If you want, I can sing for you sometime." Matt gave his response, and Sora looked fascinated by this response.
"I would love to hear your songs Matt." She replied. Matt looked as if he wanted to kiss her on the hand, but he decided against it. Not yet, he thought to himself.
Izzy was staring at the rock, and I decided to give a quick hello to him. I haven't really talked one-on-one with him yet.
"Hey Izzy, are you busy? Just wanted to say hello." Izzy looked up at me, then back at the rock again. I sat next to him, breathing in some fresh air as I took the seat.
"Just wanted to talk to you is all really. Seeing as I haven't really interacted with you yet." I said, looking at the same spot of the rock Izzy was.
"But I'm just plain old Izzy. Nothing interesting about me really. I heard you talking to Mimi a couple nights ago."
"No, you're not just plain old Izzy. Yes, I did talk to her a couple nights ago. She's rather pretty, isn't she?" I told him. Then I realized I shouldn't say that. I'm eighteen and she's only fourteen. Not even turning fifteen for several months.
"No, not really. She's decent looking, at best. I'm in her same class. That's how I know her. Despite our height difference, and mine being shorter, I'm actually six months older than her." Izzy made his honest opinion on her looks.
"I think she said something about that to me one. As well as the fact that T.K. should be in your grade level actually. But he was held back once. Is that true?"
"Yeah, he actually is in our same range. But a couple months younger than Mimi. Doesn't really look it, but you should never judge by looks. He was held back on the year his parents got divorced. It has actually left a bigger impact on him than he allows himself to show onto about it. I have parent issues to. He works very hard. In fact, he falls asleep some days in class because he spends so much time doing work at home. Even talked in his sleep once." Izzy told some facts about T.K. to me. T.K. looked at us from the other side of the rock. He must have heard us talking about him.
"What kind of parent issues do you have?" I asked Izzy. Figuring it couldn't be any or at least too much worse than the parent issues I currently have. Then again, everybody has some parent issues in their own way.
'They seem distant. I don't know why though. But when I ask them what made them decide that a kid was good to have, they seem like they wanted to just go home. When they already are. When I ask where, when, and what hospital I was born in, again they seem like something's wrong. I feel as if they are hiding something." Izzy explained, as the food was close to being done.
"How much longer do you think we will be in this strange place? With these strange creatures I honestly kind of don't like." I asked, starting to feel sort of tired. No answer came from Izzy. Maybe he was debating the same subject. I wouldn't be surprised.
"Dinner is almost ready!" Sora yelled, and I guessed the conversation was going to end there. Maybe we should talk again later. Maybe I could ask about his school life next.
We went over to where the others were at. Sat down, and waited for the food to be served. Soon enough, it was. Each with their own thing that they had requested. Mine was being the easiest. Eggs with salt and pepper on it. Everybody else had weird and gross combinations on them.
I don't even remember most of the combinations. But it led to a argument. I remember what was in that though.
"Really guys?" I asked, really grossed out. "Why are you having these combinations? They're so wrong. I mean, eggs on salsa. Don't you know simple is best?"
"Come on Joe, we art hathing fun on purpose. Not like we art being gross on purpose." Gomamon told me, and I wasn't convinced.
"Yeah. It's just messing around. Like we would take any of this seriously. Although it would be interesting to try it out." Tai said, and I had my hands on my face.
"Then why don't you be leader? I never wanted to be. I don't want to be. I never even wanted to be at this camp anyways. What makes you think I possibly want to be in this world over if I never wanted to be at this camp? When are you going to wake up? This is all a load of junk!" I finally broke, and the entire group started at me. Surprised by my snapping moment.
"Doff thou really feel this way Joe?" Gomamon asked, and I looked at it. Feeling I like I could possibly snap even more now.
I slammed the bowl with the eggs down. I knew I was being childish. But at the moment, I didn't care. "Leave me alone. I need to think for a few moments to myself." I got up, heading towards a pond.
I looked into the waters of the pond. Wondering if I had gone a little too far. Even though I was stating my full on and honest opinion. Just something about the way I said it felt wrong. After another ten or so minutes of sitting there, Gomamon came up to me. I looked at it, wondering if I was going to get a lecture. I hoped not.
"Joe." Gommon said, and I looked at it annoyed. Already feeling like the lecture was coming.
"What? Are you going to say I was wrong back there? Because I don't care if you are or not. I was being truthful, and I can have that. Or will everybody look down at me over it?" I realized that my snappy mood wasn't quite over with yet.
"Joe, I get that. Thou doff not need worry over that. But I still wanted to talk to thee alone and personal." Gomamon said, while I was letting out a huge sigh. Wondering how much longer this was going to have to last.
"What do you want to talk about now?" I asked impatient. Still wanting this to end soon. Because I was already getting tired of it. And we've only talked a minute.
"It's just, I'm worried about thee. Thou art trying too hard to be a good team member. Thou need to rely on on other people as well. If thou doth not, then thee might not be well enough to keep going after a while." Gomamon told me, and I had to stop and think for a moment. Maybe it did have a point here. Maybe I am putting too much on myself here.
"Maybe you're right. But you still are falling short of getting it. This is the first time I honestly feel useful. Being in this group. But now it feels like people are starting to not need me anymore. That just makes me feel sad." I said, not even taking my eyes off the water. Which I knew was rude, but a part of me didn't even care.
"I doff not understand." Gomamon replied also staring into the water like me. Will this digimon, pretty much destined to be my partner, ever get it? Or maybe it got it, and was thinking over something different. Now I wasn't so sure about it anymore.
"Now you got me confused." I mumbled. This was going to require a lot of getting used to if this was what I was going to have to deal with. I started a little while longer at the water, and then I got up to seek the others. But Gomamon stopped for a little last note.
"Joe." Gomamon called, and I glanced over at it. "Please take it easy from now on. Let's go back together." I agreed, and we went back back to the others together.
Right away, I knew something was wrong. I saw Matt and Tai arguing. Wondering why, I walked over to the others, who also stared pretty confused. At least I wasn't the only one right now.
"We have to go up that mountain. It's right there, so it might be out best route for now." Tai said, and I was already trying to piece this together. Something about a mountain.
"What are they going on about?" I asked, just to be sure. I wasn't even directing it to anybody at once. I just wanted a basic answer.
"I say that we shouldn't. We might get stuck. Plus genius, we have no climbing gear. How would we get up normally? Besides, nobody else has said anything yet. We need their opinions to." Matt told Tai before anybody could answer my question. I was annoyed just hearing this.
"They are debating to climb this mountain or not. As you might have seen, Tai says we should. While Matt says that we shouldn't. Nobody else has said anything yet. Because we don't want to get involved." Izzy told me, and I nodded in their direction. I was trying to figure out who had the better idea in my thoughts. They both had good and bad points from the little I did hear. I was going to do it. I was going to be a part of this now. Even if it's just to make a simple idea.
I walked up to the two of them. "Guys, we shouldn't be arguing over this. We should stop yelling, and discuss it fairly. Maybe I can give some insight here." They both turned towards me, wondering what I was going to say. Who I favored in this.
"Joe, who do you think is right?" Matt asked, and I nearly gave up there. I had no clue what to say anymore. I messed up, and I couldn't get myself out of this one easily.
"I don't really know. You both have some valid points that we need to consider. But I can't really explain how or why that is either." I said, and made it even worse for myself just by letting those words out of my mouth.
"So you pretty much decided to butt into our talk just to make it longer? Not cool, Joe. Stop trying so hard, makes you look like a fool more than anything when you put this much effort into it." Tai questioned, and started talking to Matt again. As if I didn't exist anymore.
I listened for a while, before I felt I just couldn't handle it anymore. I snapped once again. "Stop arguing! You're not helping anybody. Let's just all agree you guys all vote next morning. I say we stay here tonight. But I shouldn't vote, since I have other things to do and worry about." I looked at the mountain. My choice was made. I will just wait until everybody was asleep to do it though.
"Fine." Matt and Tai said to me at once, and we all started getting ready for camp. We had no tents, just sleeping bags and pillows. T.K. knew how to set up sleeping bags pretty well since he told us that he used them quite a bite. But he didn't really take the time to explain how or why. But we still let it happen. Since they were set up pretty easy from him.
Every body went to one, and slowly started to fall asleep. I was almost there when I heard two people talking. They were Tai and Sora. I know it's rude to listen in on peoples talks, but I decided to listen in anyways.
"Thanks for that talk a couple days ago. It feels like we've been here a week already. The other campers must be worried by now. I'm surprised by Joe' snapping moment." Tai said looking directly in her eyes. Like she was the only person in the entire world who mattered. I think that was just because of the fact he was talking to her.
"You're welcome Tai, I liked it also. It has actually felt that long when I come to think about it now. Interesting though, how we are best friends and we find ourselves to still be talking to each other even over all these events." Sora replied as if she were thinking of the same problem. Or at least within the same league of it. Tai had a rather strange question in his mind. It was strange for a few reasons. Them being great friends by itself was one.
"Sora, what has been the best birthday present you have ever gotten?" Tai asked, looking somewhat away when he asked this one. Because he felt he should already have a clue on this ones answer.
"A little over five years ago, when I was ten. My mother said that she cared about me and wanted me to let her in. Saying a new decade of my life is always a true fresh start. Along with birthdays as normal and New Years day. She gave me the entire Lord of Rings set, Hobbit, and the Silmarillion. I haven't really ever really read any of it yet, but she spent so much money into it, I knew she put in true effort for this gift. So for that, I will always love those books. Even if I don't ever really read them." Sora told Tai, as he was obviously thinking about his answer. What he would say. Then he snapped his fingers like a answer was now clear.
"My eleventh birthday four years ago. Before my parents got into several arguments for a year period of time. My father and mother put all their money together and bought me a gaming system. All I got game wise was just the original Mario games. But since then, I've extended my collection. Like Zelda for example." Tai said as if he was thinking back to the good old days when he had the innocence of the youth. I guessed I missed those type of days to.
"Well sorry to cut this off Tai, but I think we should get to sleep now." Sora said as she put herself in her sleeping bag. Tai sat quietly for a couple minutes before putting himself in his own sleeping bag. I silently followed their examples, and then I went back to sleep
-In my dream, I was imagining walking home one day from school. My dad was in the living room, crying miserably. I ran up to him, wondering what was wrong. I didn't want to see him like this, even with all he put me through.
"Dad, what's wrong? Talk to me. Please." I looked at him worried I was falling for some kind of trick. He looked at me looking honestly miserable. I embraced him, not caring over all he said or done before now.
"Joe, I got a call from the hospital. It's about Jim. The doctor said he got hit by a car a hour ago. It killed him on impact. Made me open my eyes and see how horrible of a parent I've been. I'm sorry for everything. Will you give me a second chance? He now hugged me. I was breathless because of the news of Jim and the apology.
"Yes. I will give you a second chance." I didn't know what came to me. Maybe I thought even the worst of people could be redeemed. Or maybe I was so struck by the news of Jim's death that I just took anything thrown at me. But I let go of the hug, and walked slowly towards my room. My dad running after me, but stopped.
I went over to a drawer, and took out a gun. My dream self looked at it for a moment. I put it up to my head, and fired. My dead body falling down to the ground, creating a loud thud.
My father ran into the room. When he saw my body, he fell on the ground in grief. He picked up my lifeless body, and cried immensely.
"Why? I though you forgave me. I'm sorry I failed you and Jim. Now I'm alone forever." My father said in emotional agony. It showed him crying on my body for about a minute before the dream ended. I decided then, that in real life, I would become a doctor. On one condition. If Jim died before I got a carer. That way, I can do health and save people from family loss. But that will be the one way I will willingly become one.-
I woke up and it was late at night. But it felt like I was asleep for about a hour. I looked up at the mountain, and decided to climb it. Right now and all alone.
I wrote a quick note telling them my situation. It was the least they deserved. This was the note I had made for them read.
I'm going to climb up this mountain.
Let's call it Infinity Mountain.
I don't know when I want to be back.
But I want to go on this walk alone.
From Joe Kido
I started leaving the sleeping grounds. This was the right to do, I kept telling myself in a loop. At the front of the mountain a voice called out to get my attention.
"Joe, what art thou doing now?" The voice said, and I looked back to see who it was. I noticed that it was Gomamon. My partner digimon. I looked back at it, a little annoyed. Yes, it was my partner and everything. But I needed a break from it sometimes.
"I was planning to go up on a hike alone. For no reason really." I didn't really want to say that it was just really to see if there was anything worth checking out or not.
"I will come with thou then." Gomamon said, as I rolled my eyes. I honestly didn't want Gomamon to come with me, but I gave in.
"I guess we will together then." I replied, sighing. Gomamon reached me and got on my back, and we started out hike up.
It was nearing morning when Sora woke up and noticed my little note for them. She didn't freak out or anything, but she did wake everybody else up to see what they had to say.
"I still won't to go up this mountain. I know Joe is in danger, but this is a bad sign. How about this, everybody who wants to go up may. While we all wait until you guys come down." Matt said when he was fully awake. If only I knew who right he was.
"Okay. I will be fine with us doing it that way. I will go up the mountain and anybody else who wants to help me save Joe can come with me." Tai went up to the foot of the mountain as he was saying this. Only Sora joined him, while everybody else stayed behind.
"We will be back soon" Sora assured them as they commanded Agumon and Biyomon to digivolve. The two best friends started going up the mountain. Matt ran a few steps forward, but stopped when they were out of range. He fell down in defeat.
"Tai, please keep Sora safe." Matt wisphered under his breath. Like he was hiding something he wanted to say.
Our climb up the mountain was a rather interesting one. We helped each other when one was about to mess up. Like Gomamon did its part, and I did mine.
Like at one part, when a twenty foot hill was over us, I climbed up it, and and Gomamon was on my back so it wouldn't fall off. At the top of that hill, I was taking a few deep breaths as a break.
"Thou art actually a pretty good climber. Did thou get lessons from somebody?" That question made me have to think a little while back. When Jim taught me how to climb up tress and other big things constantly over the last five years.
"My older brother helped me with this. His name is Jim. One day, without explanation, he was a expert climber. That was around five years ago. He has been helping me learn how to climb really big things such as this ever since then. That was also when he started to devote himself to losing all the weight has had put on over time. But I never asked how or why he became so amazing at it out of nowhere." I told Gomamon, taking one last nice deep breath in this fresh air.
"Doth thou like thee brother?" Gomamon questioned as if I might have been lying to myself about something all this time. But I already had the answer.
"Yes Gomamon, I do. He is like the one person I am sure of that I like." I got up, and Gomamon got itself in their walking position again. Our quest up the mountain now continued.
So we walked up for another few minutes. We must have been going up for a really long time, because I could barely see any tress or normal ground below me. I must have been near the top. But what made us stop to take another break another break from going up was a huge stream of water going down from a huge hole. I didn't realize how thirsty I was until I saw that. Gomamon and I walked up up to it.
I cupped my hand around the water, and drank what I had in my hand. Gomamon sipped it for a little bit. Until something was flying towards us. I looked to see what it was. Looked like a unicorn with a red helmet covering its eyes.
"Look. It's Unimon. I question why it is up here right now." Gomamon said as it flew to the water. I saw something black in its back, and and I assumed that it was nothing at the moment. Of course like everything, I was wrong.
"Hello Unimon. How art thou doing? Art thou taking a break from a long ride?" If Gomamon never spoke up, we would have been just fine. But the Unimon turned right at us. With a loud scream, I knew this wasn't going to be a friendly meeting.
At the main camp, Matt was getting a breakfast fire going. All was going decently well until Izzy heard a cracking noise. Not like the ones in the movies and shows though, It was more of a warning crack. Izzy wondered what it was and for good reasoning to.
Izzy got up and saw something running by. He raised his device up looking around to see what it was, or is he was just imagining things. A small sweat going down his face, and he took a deep breath. Ready to face whatever it was.
One of the seven shadows jumped out and surprised all of them. Even Izzy wasn't expecting or at least waiting for it to be one of the terrors they had been trying to escape from for two days.
T.K. slowly backed away from the situation since nobody was looking at him to stop him from doing so. But when he started full on running, he fell down a hill. At the bottom, he realized Patomon wasn't there with him. Several of the black army that Daemon has secretly been inventing were waiting for him. He knew this encounter was going to have to be done alone, and that he was going to need to be smart instead of violent to win this one out.
T.K. thought of a way that he could defeat the servants without having Patomon require digivolution, or even Patomon there at all. Just his mind.
He picked up a fallen tree branch and was going to use that as his defense for this fight. Or at least the start of it. He picked the servant furthest to the right to right first.
The servant looked at him and raised their weapon for fighting. It was a large club with some spikes on it. T.K. swung the branch on its leg. With a loud roar, they ran at T.K. swing its club around.
That was when T.K. ran the branch right through the servant. With a part of it sticking out of the body. Grabbing the branch in a taunting way it exploded. With that one taken care of, he now had seven left to fight.
He exchanged the branch for the club the first servant he fought used. He swung it around a little bit, hitting one of the spikes into another of the servants head by mistake. It exploded like the first one, and he still had six to defeat.
One of the other servants hit him in the arm using their hands. He grabbed the arm that hit him and and pushed the servant into the ground. He swung the club across its chest, making the third explosion. Giving him now five to defeat.
Two more ran up to him. One on each of his sides. T.K. knew that he wasn't going to need any weapon to get rid of these two. He raised his arms, and when the servants got close to him, he slammed the heads of each servant onto each other. By doing so, he kicked them around, leading to their explosions. That left three for him to now take care of.
It got progressively harder from there. Instead of one of them running, they waited for T.K. to make the first move. By doing so, he made the move by running towards it. The servant hit T.K. hard, making him fall to the ground. He jumped back up, and shoved the club into the servant with all this effort. With that being done, it exploded. With that, there were two left. T.K. was now getting tired from all this fighting.
The next one that ran up to him was even larger than the other six he fought so far. Although he didn't let that bother him. It got him hard on the neck first. He remembered his mother saying that this could be a way to actually kill somebody, so he was thankful when he noticed he was still alive. He ran and grabbed a hold of the servant and pushed it against a tree. He ripped a spiky part from one of the branches off, and stabbed the servant in the heart. With its explosion, there was now only one left to deal with.
The last one was just watching the entire fight, seeing far far T.K. could make it. Now that it was just the two of them, it charged at T.K. Pushing him on the ground. Kicked him three times. T.K. noticed a knife carrier on its leg. He grabbed the knife, and sliced the left leg off. The servant hit T.K. hard in the face, and he fell back on the same tree he destroyed the last servant on. The servant shoved the shield into T.K.'s chest. T.K. got the knife again, and pushed himself out of the grip. Then ended the fight by cutting the servants head off. The final explosion happened, and T.K. was now left alone.
T.K. climbed up the hill quietly, and started heading back to the others. Hoping that the shadow was gone, and that Patomon was fine. It wasn't hard of a fight, but he noticed now that the last parts were a little difficult.
At the main campground, none of them even noticed T.K. was gone that entire time. All three of them had their digimon digivolve, hoping that it would be enough to defeat the shadow. The shadow was able to move by the digimon pretty easily. Having the goal just to take the humans out.
Matt noticed Mimi was on the ground scared, and he helped get her up. He noticed that Garurumon was attempting a attack at the shadow. The black body stared at the digimon, faceless of all expression.
"Howling Blaster!" Garurumon yelled and the shadow made the attack vanish by its hand. Then slowly strode to Garurumon, and gave a loud, deafening scream t Garurumon. It hurt everybody's ears in the area. Garurumon tried to resist the scream as they were still fighting each other. It gave another attempt of a attack to defeat the shadow.
Then the shadow countered the attack by throwing Garurumon down to the ground. It went back down to Gabumon, and didn't even have the strength to try digivolving once again. It hoped Kabuterimon and Togemon would do well as it wasn't even going to try fighting again.
Togemon came from behind, while Kabuterimon came through the front. So the shadow would be having to deal with two opponents at once. They didn't even do anything for a moment, but let the digimon approach it instead.
"Electro Shocker! Needle Spray!" Kabuterimon and Togemon yelled their attacks respectively. The shadow held its right hand at Kabuterimon, and left at Togemon. When the attacks reached the hands, they returned to the digimon that made them. Both fell down in defeat
After it was obvious that the victory was its own, the shadow faded away. The fight wasn't to kill them, that would be for later. It just wanted to show its power to them. Now times that by seven, the shadow was sure they would never win.
The group stood there, surprised over the easy defeat. T.K ran to them, but remained silent. With his victory, comes their defeat. Complete opposites of the situation. Patomon was on his shoulders now, silent as well.
Up on the mountain, I was ducking holding onto Gomamon tightly. I was scared. Scared that this was going to the end of the road for me, and I never got to even say good-bye to anyone. Even Matt would have been something. How would they do without me being there?
Gomamon was shaking an my chest could feel the trembles. I hoped it would digivolve, but no glow came. Or that at least somebody else from the group might show up. No luck on that either. It was official I was screwed. I looked up at Unimon, and kept my eyes open. Embracing my fate. When a loud noise came to my ears.
Tai was on Greymon's back, grinning at me as he was interested why I did this single journey. Just after, Sora was on Birdramon with a worried look on her face. She landed five feet away from Unimon. I felt glad now, that people did show up to help.
"Thank you." I muttered, and moved a few steps over to the left while Unimon was distracted. Tai was getting closer with Greymon to Unimon. Sora was going to wat until Tai made his move.
"Nova Blast!" Greymon yelled, and hit Unimon's left side pretty rough. Sora now took her chance to get at it. I was getting more relieved by the second because of them.
"Magical Fire!" Birdramon yelled, shooting out fire at Unimon and hit its helmet. The unicorn started wailing around wildly. As it was starting to slowly fall down off the mountain.
"Joe get away. Tell the others what is happening?" Sora requested, and I was about to listen. Until Unimon started going at her and Birdramon. I froze at that moment, not quite sure what my next course of action should be.
"Nova Blast!" Greymon gave a second go. Only barely hitting at Unimon's behind. Everything else just hit the mountain. Hope was still growing but fading away for me during this fight.
Unimon flew right at Birdramon and Sora They flew down right to the ground. They didn't move for several seconds, and Unimon was now flying at Tai. It was still below us, so I had to make a plan. Gomamon looked at me, wondering what was on my mind.
Before it even ask something like 'what art thou thinking' I jumped down. If it worked out well, I would get on Unimon's back. Fortunately, that was the one thing in all this that did work out well. I was on its back, trying really hard to grab a hold of the gear.
"Joe, why art thou doffing this? Please let me digivolve. It would work out well if thee would only let me." Gomamon said, and I was shaking my head. I had to keep Tai, Greymon Birdramon, Sora, and Gomamon all safe.
"This is for you all!" I was pulling harder at all the thoughts of our journey so far. With all the battles we had together and digivolutions. I had truly done the least. At least T.K. did a good job interacting with people and got to know them to make up for his lack of battle contributions. Me, I had nothing.
Unimon threw me off, and I hit the mountain. I really hurt for a moment, but I got over it when I saw something far more important. My device was glowing, Gomamon was now ready to digivolve. Number six on the list, I hope this was worth it.
"Gomamon digivolve to... IKKAKUMON!" Gomamon yelled, exposing its new self. A giant walrus with a black horn and white fur. As if the horn was important, it lowered the horn down. Looking like it was ready to attack.
"Harpoon Torpedo!" Ikkakumon yelled, hitting Unimon on the back. "I hath impressive accuracy." Ikkakumon told me, facing the Unimon again. About to give a second go and win the fight.
"Harpoon Torpedo!" Ikkakumon yelled a second time, getting Unimon spot on with the black gear. It exploded, and Unimon no longer tried to attack us. In fact, it flew away. The battle had been won, but this deepened the mystery of the black gears even more.
"I will get you." Tai got Sora up, and she got Birdramon up. All the digimon went back to their normal stages. We looked down the mountain. Everybody else in the group showed up. They walked to be at our sides, and Tai said something else.
"Nothing new looks down there. But I can draw a map of the area as a visual reference. Let's go back down after." He told us, and we all agreed silently. One detour now taken care of.