DAY 6 PART 2
Having girls fight over you is a good thing right?
It wasn't a good thing in Veemon's case. He just stood there watching the dust cloud fight among the girls; it was a cat-dog-flower fight or...ah, you know what I mean. Every time he tried to stopped the fight, he was pushed back by one of the girls.
"Hey, break it up you three!" Veemon was surprised to see Levi and Manfred run in and separate the girls. Though separated, they glared at each other angrily.
"Look, as much as I'd love to see you girls rip each other to pieces, attacking players isn't allowed." Levi said.
"But do not worry. Tomorrow, you can attack each other all you like and we will be there watching." Manfred finished.
They turned and vanished into thin air. The girls, still bearing the marks from the fight, crossed their arms and looked away from each other.
"Uh...we should go look for that third Noise." Veemon said out loud. The girls "Hmphed" at each other before walking. Floramon and Labramon latched onto Veemon's arms again while Floramon stuck her tongue out at Gatomon.
"Hey, stop fighting you three. We'll have to work together to finish this mission." Veemon said.
"Like I'd work with that stuck up kitten." Labramon said.
"What did you say you mutt?" Gatomon snapped back.
"Alright, that's it." Veemon freed himself of Floramon's and Labramon's arms and faced them. "Look, Gatomon's my partner. You two are nice and all but if you have to make me chose, I'd choose to stick with Gatomon."
"So you don't want us..." Floramon said sadly.
"I'm not saying that. The Noise we've been fighting are tough and we'll need all the help we could get." He sighed. "So I'll let you two come with us but please don't be so clingy."
They nodded and resumed their searched; they only had a little over an hour left. Hopefully, they would be able to find the two remaining Noise and complete the mission.
"Hey, look you two." Gatomon said approaching Floramon and Labramon. "I'm sorry about the fight a while ago; I hope that we can put that aside and finish this mission together."
"Oh be quiet you stuck up kitten." Labramon said rudely.
"Veemon's ours so butt out." Floramon added.
Gatomon just stared; she wasn't exactly surprised about this . These two were still determined to get Veemon all to themselves.
That for some reason made Gatomon feel annoyed. The very thought of those two alone with Veemon made her blood boil like it never did before.
"Am I jealous of them?" she thought to herself. But she dismissed this thought. To be jealous of them being close to Veemon meant that she wanted to be close to him. But they were just friends; that's all she thought about.
Or was he? Gatomon remembered that his memories of her were the most important thing in the world to him which is why they were taken away. She wanted to know exactly why; she wanted to know how much he cared about her.
She approached him. "Veemon, can I ask you something?"
Floramon and Labramon glared at but he ignored them and spoke quietly. "What is it?"
She thought about how to approach this. "Have you ever wondered just how important I was to you to have your memories of me taken?"
He thought about it for some time. "Yeah, I've been wondering that too. But since I've got no memories of you from the past, I've got nothing to work on."
"I see."
"But," Veemon looked at her. "I've still got memories of you right now, memories that're just as important, memories that I'd hate to lose."
Gatomon smiled. "That's really nice of you to say Veemon." But then she saw a pin in Floramon's hand. She dropped the conversation and separated from Veemon.
"Stop." Veemon said all of a sudden and they all did. There was something charging towards them at a distance without stopping. A closer inspection revealed it to be a black rhino with a red and purple tattoo horn ( a Dub Rhino).
The four of them scattered as the Noise charged; it stopped and turned around slowly before charging again.
"He can't turn around quickly! Attack him when he stops!" Veemon shouted as they dodged the next charge. The Dub Rhino stopped and began to turn. "Now!"
They fired their attacks at the still turning rhino. Its hide was thick for it was able to withstand all four attacks easily. It faced them and snorted.
"This might take some time." Gatomon said. The Rhino charged right at her; she jumped to the side and fired a Celestial Arrow into its right side. Its tough hide lessened the damage and it was able to recover quickly.
"We aren't doing enough damage." Veemon said after firing a Thunder Blast which didn't seem to affect the Dub Rhino much.
"Hey Veemon, I've got an idea." Floramon said. "Why don't we try knocking it over? That way, we won't have to worry about it charging at us."
"Good thinking." Veemon said. Floramon stuck her tongue out at Gatomon. The Noise charged again and this time, they jumped to one side.
"Vee-Laser!"
"Cat's Eye Beam!"
"Spiral Flower!"
"Tee Dia!"
The attacks slammed into the right side of the rhino causing it to be pushed back but not topple over. It faced them and gave another snort as if to say: "Nice try."
"So much for your plan." Gatomon said. Floramon growled at her. "Let me try something." She ran in front of the rhino before it could charge.
"Cat's Eye Hypnotism!"
The rhino's eyes flashed which was expected. They then waited for it to slowly fall down so that they can destroy it easily.
Only it didn't; instead, the Dub Rhino went rogue and began kicking and bucking like an angry bull in a rodeo. Worse still, it knocked Gatomon right into the air before she landed on its back.
"Gatomon!" Veemon cried out. He tried rushing in to help but the rhino was thrashing around so violently that he couldn't get close. Gatomon was hanging on for dear life.
He turned to Floramon and Labramon who were apparently enjoying the sight. "Can't any of you two do something?"
"I can." Floramon answered walking up to the thrashing Noise.
"Rain Of Pollen!"
A shower or pollen rained on the Rhino causing it to stop thrashing and fall down. Veemon was relieved but then he saw that Gatomon was affected by Floramon's pollen too.
"Oops." Floramon said innocently. Veemon helped the groggy Gatomon off the Noise and laid her on the ground before shooting a Vee-Laser right at its forehead, destroying it completely.
"Gatomon...Gatomon, wake up." Veemon said shaking her shoulders a little. She finally came too; she opened her eyes, blinked a little, stood up and faced Floramon.
"You did that on purpose!" Gatomon shouted.
"No, you were just in my way like you always are!" Floramon countered.
"That's enough you two!" Veemon said stepping between them. "Look, that Noise is gone OK? That's all that matters. We've got just one more Noise to take care of so we'll need all to focus."
"How could I focus if they make another 'accident'" Gatomon said sharply.
"Look, I don't know if that was an accident or not but that's in the past. C'mon, let's go." Veemon said and they started their search again.
Meanwhile...
Lily was on kneeling on the ground panting as if she was fighting. Her eyes were wide and close to tears.
"Well, I'm glad we had this chat Lily." Joshua said. "I was just curious of something about you. I've got what I came here for so good bye."
Lily didn't look up as he left. She suddenly crumpled to the ground and started crying loudly.
"I expected more from this week's Game Master." Lilly stropped crying looked up fearfully. She couldn't see where the speaker was but she knew him and that he was watching her.
"To think that a lowly human has reduced you to bawling baby...Perhaps I should remove you from your post."
"No! Master please!" Lily begged. "I-I'll do better; I swear I'll be a better GM."
"But your performance so far has been very...disappointing. I stand by what the Conductor said; Beelzemon was a much better Game Master than you."
"Don't listen to him Master." Lily begged again.
"Not listen to him? You should thank him. He asked me for permission to do something regarding the mission you sent."
Lily hesitated a little. "What did he do?"
Veemon tried to keep Labramon and Floramon apart from Gatomon. In his opinion, he didn't think what Floramon did was an accident. He did want to bring that up in fear that this might cause another argument.
But something caught their eyes in the distance, something running towards them. A few seconds later, it was revealed to be Levi and Manfred.
"What do you two want?" Veemon said and the four of them puled out their pins. Levi and Manfred got closer and closer before running right past them much to their surprise.
"Run you old man!" Levi yelled.
"I am you fool!" Manfred said.
"They're...running away? But from what?" Labramon asked.
"I don't know; but if they're scared of it, I don't think we should mess around with it either." Veemon said.
"So what now?" Gatomon asked. Veemon's answer was simple.
"We run."
Levi and Manfred spotted an narrow alleyway between two buildings, the perfect spot to hide. They hid there and, catching their breath, saw that Veemon, Gatomon, Floramon and Labramon had followed them and were also in the alleyway.
"What're you two running from?" Veemon asked.
"Shut up; it might hear you." Levi whispered angrily.
"But-"
Then a loud sound, like something large took a step, was heard, silencing Veemon. Levi clasped his hands over his mouth and Manfred gripped his cane tightly. The four Digimon listened as the sound got closer and closer until it stopped completely. They gave sigh of relief.
Then something large and black appeared at the end of the alley near them and roared.
The six of them screamed and ran for the other end of of the alley. They were back on the street and wondered which way to go when the creature landed right in front of them.
At a glance, this creature looked like a Noise but it was unlike any they have ever seen. It was a large black winged dragon with black and gray tattoo legs, head and tail (a Neoclassical Drake).
"What is that thing?" Gatomon said as they took a few steps back.
"It's supposed to be a Pteropus Canor and the fourth Noise." Levi explained. "We went to check on the last Noise since it was the only one left and we found this thing instead."
"Surprised?" They looked to the side and saw Damian appear out of thin air.
"What is that monstrosity?" Manfred demanded.
Damian looked at the dragon. "I decided to make thing a little more interesting today by changing the last Noise. What you see before you is a very special type of Noise called a Taboo Noise."
"What?" Veemon said confused.
"What!" Levi said but mostly out of shock. "Dude, we still don't know how to control those things yet!"
"True which is why it attacked you as well." Damian said. "But I had permission directly from the Composer to do this."
"Composer? Where is he?" Gatomon demanded.
Damian turned to her. "None of your concern." And then he vanished.
Levi turned towards them nervously. "Uh...hope that thing gets rid of you!" he yelled before vanishing along with Manfred. The four of them were left all alone with the Noise.
The dragon snapped at them with its jaws and Veemon gulped. "Alright; he looks tough, OK he is tough, but if we work together, we can handle it right?"
"Uh yeah...We're gonna sit this one out Veemon." Labramon said. Veemon and Gatomon saw them slowly back away from the Noise.
"You're just running away?" Gatomon asked surprised.
"Yeah, sure, call it call it whatever you want." Floramon answered.
"Well I call it cowardice." Gatomon replied.
"Yeah but I believe cowards live another day." Floramon added. "So...bye Veemon. Hope you don't get erased."
And with that, they ran away faster than you could say Taboo Noise.
"Wait, you can't just leave us!" Veemon called but they were out of earshot.
"Forget them, we'll handle this thing." Gatomon said facing the Neoclassical Drake.
"I'm glad your staying Gatomon." Veemon said facing the Noise. She smiled and they charged.
"Vee-Headbutt!"
"Lightning Paw!"
The both hit the Noise in its chin and knocked it back several feet. It didn't give up and fired five red energy orbs from its mouth which were dodged.
The Neoclassical Drake roared and fired several spikes that looked like swords at his attackers. Veemon destroyed them with Lightning Strike allowing Gatomon to fire Celestial Arrow. The dragon swung its tail and deflected the arrow easily.
"Do you think I should try hypnotizing it?" Gatomon asked as they dodged a tail swing.
"I don't think so." Veemon replied. "What if it ends up going rogue again like that rhino?"
"Good point."
They fired their attacks again but it didn't seem to do enough damage. It shot out a combination of orbs and spikes this time and Veemon and Gatomon couldn't destroy all of them. An orb slammed into Gatomon's chest and knocked her down and a spike grazed Veemon's left shoulder.
"You alright?" she asked.
"Yeah. Let me try something."
"Fire Rocket!"
His body on fire, Veemon hurdled towards the dragon. Sensing the threat, it used its tail to swat him back causing him to crash into Gatomon. The Noise roared in triumph.
"I was so close." Veemon said frustratingly as they recovered. The dragon swung its tail at them again and this time, they hung on to it. It was surprisingly easy to grip for something made up of tattoos.
The dragon noticed that they were gone before noticing that they were on its tail. It roared and started to try to shake them off but they hung on. It slammed its tail repeatedly on the ground and yet they still hung on. Gatomon shot Cat's Eye Beam every now and then which angered it some more.
"I don't think I can hold on much longer!" Veemon yelled.
The dragon seemed to have heard him; it gave an almighty roar and swung its tail upwards. Veemon and Gatomon couldn't hold on anymore and were launched high into the air.
It all seemed o happen in slow mo. Veemon and Gatomon felt themselves fly upwards, higher and some of the surrounding buildings. Then there was the moment when you seem to stop at maximum height (man I love physics). They were able to get a look around; they were level with one of the buildings. Below them, the dragon readied itself for them to fall.
Then Veemon had an idea,a somewhat reckless idea that just might work. But he had to confirm something first.
They began to fall getting faster as they got closer to the ground (again with physics). Veemon had to act now.
"Gatomon, are you like a normal cat!" he asked loudly as they fell.
"What do you mean!" she asked back.
"D'you land on your feet like a normal cat does."
"Yeah! Why!"
"Trust me on this!"
He shoved her so now she was going horizontally instead of just vertically. A surprised look on her face, she landed easily on top of a building watching Veemon continue to fall towards the Noise below. He pulled out a pin.
"Vee-Headbutt!"
"Fire Rocket!"
As his body was engulfed by flames, Gatomon understood what he was trying to do. The force of his headbutt plus the flames on his body plus his speed from falling equals...that Noise didn't stand a chance!
But the dragon was ready Gatomon could see that. It saw Veemon fall and jumped upwards; its jaws wide open. Veemon didn't react and continued falling. Soon, the dragon's jaws were around him.
They snapped shut.
The dragon landed and swallowed.
Gatomon just stared at it trying to comprehend what she just saw.
The Noise just ate Veemon.
"Veemon..."Gatomon whispered completely stunned. He was gone, eaten; one of the bravest Digimon she had ever know had been eaten by a dragon which was looking for her.
A rage unlike any other filled her up. She wanted to go down there, to hurt, to get rid of that damn thing that took Veemon away. She was going to be erased anytime now, why not spend her last moments avenging Veemon?
With a loud cry, she leaped from the building and headed towards the Noise and delivered a solid Lightning Paw right to the top of its head. The dragon gave a roar of pain and threw its head around while Gatomon jumped off and landed in front of it.
"Celestial Arrow!"
Still furious, she shot an arrow right at the dragon's chest. It retaliated by firing spikes at her. One hit her painfully but she didn't care; ran ran forwards dodging as many spikes as she could and jumped on the dragon's back.
The Noise began to shake her off but she held on delivering Light Paw repeatedly at the dragon's back. Furious tears came to her eyes and her paws hurt but again, she didn't care; she continued her relentless beating on the dragon's back.
The Neoclassical Drake finally shook her off and smacked her with its tail. She was sent flying and eventually crashed painfully into the side of a building and slowly slid to the ground.
The Noise saw its chance and slowly approached Gatomon. She was much to weak to get up and felt like she was about to faint any second now. She saw the Noise approach her ready to erase her faster than she was going to since Veemon was gone.
"Veemon..." she whispered and the dragon lunged at her.
Before it could even touch her, the dragon suddenly and violently pulled back. Gatomon, almost passing out, saw it fall to its side and start thrashing out violently and roaring as if it was in pain. Then, it stopped and slowly vanished into nothingness; Gatomon heard the sound of her timer vanishing.
In the place of the Noise was familiar blue Digimon. Why was he there? Is he really there or have the DL's decided to erase her already and decided to show her who she'll be joining with?
"I told you to trust me." Veemon said and she passed out. Seeing this, he ran over to her and started shaking her.
"Gatomon! C'mon, stay with me!" he said but a few seconds later, he passed out too.