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11 ~The dragon in Rn~

Four days has passed since the event in Vertiro, and most of the digi-destined had resumed their normal lives back at their districts while keeping a keen eye on the other GigaDramon on the lose. Nothing happened despite how things had seemed so strange lately, not even a single sentence of news report.

'I told you it's gonna work out.' Said Katashi. Ever since Yuzuki had returned to Rn she had been hanging out with him for almost everyday as if she'd been gone for years. The event in Vertiro was still bothering her despite how the team had come to agreement that they would cooperate. Katashi, on the other hand, seemed optimistic on this.

'We're lost in a total mystery, like we are being tracked by someone every time we take a step.' Yuzuki replied, referring to the news report that disappeared mysteriously soon after it led the team to the last out-of-control digimon and let the group defeated it. She could almost tell that someone was directing their steps, playing them in the maze that 'someone' had set up.

'We can only take it step by step.' Said BaoHuckmon.

'Sometimes it's good to be able to stay out of these things.' Said Katashi with a sneaky smile, 'though I'd like to be part of it more.' The saying caused the black-haired girl to darken her face. It has already given her a good amount of stress dealing with that. 'You'll want to stay out of it once you're part of it.' she sighed.

'Sorry, just joking.' Apologized the brown haired boy. 'You know I'm keen on things like this. By the way, why didn't you find Ishiguro to discuss with? He's part of your team.'

'He's left Rn yesterday…you were there too! And I've seen someone way worse than you.' Replied Yuzuki, 'why didn't you bring out Frimon? It's just a park.'

'He is digivolving quite fast ever since he's born.' Said Katashi. There're some strange feelings in using the word 'born' since the last time they saw Leomon X, the previous incarnation of Frimon, he was trying to kill the two. 'He likes my home, and I don't want him to disturb us.'

Listening to the words of Katashi caused BaoHuckmon to be a bit guilty. 'Should I not be following you, Yuzuki?' he asked. Most of the time he had considered himself to be a guardian of some sot of the black-haired girl, as shown by how he had always been around the girl. Yet lately his view had changed a bit. Yuzuki had been treating him like a friend, and he felt the same way to the girl as well. All these caused him to value the feelings of Yuzuki more than he had ever done.

'Of course not.' Yuzuki said. 'You're not disturbing us. I'm sure Katashi said that simply because I'm not used to Frimon yet.'

'Besides, you're quiet most of the time.' Said Katashi, reassuring the importance of the champion digimon. 'Maybe I can show you Liollmon, that's how he's called right now. Nut he's not quite friendly to strangers. So, don't expect too much of him.'


The three spent a few ten minutes to reach Katashi's house. His parents, again, were out for work and so the only resident in the flat was Liollmon. Amazingly the interior of the house was cleaner than the black-haired girl had expected. She had thought that keeping a newborn digimon would be like keeping a baby, which would cause a giant amount of mess. BaoHuckmon, reminding Yuzuki that digimon were born with sufficient knowledge to live alone, immediately corrected the incorrect thought.

'Where's he?' wondered the white dragon digimon. Almost all lights in the house were turned off. No sign of any moving object could be seen or heard.

'He's probably in my room.' Said Katashi. 'He loves my room.' The brown-haired boy first entered his room, having advised the two to stay behind so as to get Liollmon used to the situation. 'I think you can come in.' he said from the inside of the room after a few minutes of silence.

Walking into her friend's room the first thing she noticed was that the entire bed of Katashi was occupied by a medium sized digimon with golden yellow skin. He looked large in terms of a cat with a little orange fur on top of his head while wearing a necklace of some sort with a giant aqua-colored gem on it. 'Liollmon, they're Yuzuki and BaoHuckmon, friends of mine. You don't have to be afraid of them.' Said Katashi as the black-haired girl and the white dragon digimon walked in. Liollmon stayed on the bed, half-covered by a heavy white blanket.

'Hi, I'm Yuzuki. I'm sure Katashi had introduced me to you.' Yuzuki said as gentle as she could while hanging a warm smile on her face. 'My name is BaoHuckmon,nice to meet you.' The white dragon digimon said. Having been around Yuzuki for a long period of time had really granted him a more casual tone and choice of words.

Liollmon hid under the blanket immediately after seeing the two strangers, leaving only a small opened space that allowed his glow-in-the-dark emerald eyes to see what's on the outside with a very limited angle.

'It's alright, Liollmon, they're friends.' Said Katashi softly to the lion cub digimon as he slowly pulled the blanket over to let Liollmon to the outside.

'Hello.' Liollmon started to talk. His voice was soft and shaky as if he's been in shock and has to stay under certain psychological supervision. 'I'm Liollmon.'

'I can't believe he was the one trying to get us killed.' Whispered Yuzuki. BaoHuckmon gave a slight nod in agreement while Katashi wasn't quite happy with that, protesting lightly. 'Let's not say this sort of things in front of him.' He sounded serious, instantly causing the girl to regret having said that.

'Did I?' uttered Liollmon. Surely he had heard the sentence of the black-haired girl and, according to his knowledge that digimon die and resurrect, he realized that he must have wanted to hurt the girl in front of him. That wasn't his biggest concern, though, as the real reason that caused his uneasiness was that he actually tried to kill Katashi, the one who had taken care of him so well that he was the only one Liollmon trusted.

'The past stay passed.' Said BaoHuckmon. 'No memories of the previous life could be retained, which makes you a new digimon. You are different from the murderer that you used to be. At least I can't see any similarities in you two.'

'You should listen to him,' said Katashi, 'he's quite objective when it comes to things like this.' He than sat beside the digimon who was almost of his size and gently placed the lion digimon on the floor. 'Let's go out for a walk, and see how people think of you.'


The four of them set off for the main street, walking randomly for approximately an hour. Same as always, digimon weren't common on the streets, and people weren't paying much attention to them. 'See? People won't hate you for what you used to be unwillingly.' Said Katashi, comforting Liollmon as they settled by the ground floor of a mall.

'They won't be afraid of you.' Added Yuzuki. 'They're not even afraid of BaoHuckmon, who's almost twice your size as twice as terrible.'

'I'm not terrible.' Objected BaoHuckmon. The unusual act of self-defense caused his partner to giggle.

A few more lines were exchanged, and the group proceeded in the peaceful walk for a few minutes until as unusual beeping noise broke the atmosphere of harmony.

'It's never made any sound like this before.' Uttered Yuzuki as she took out her d-magnus from her pocket. Following her instinct she opened the radar as taught by Takumi. Five red dots were on the screen as usual. In addition to that, a certain yellow spot was beeping very close to the center of the radar, which meant that something, or someone, was very close to the group.

Yuzuki asked Katashi to keep an eye on everything around them while she and BaoHuckmon headed upstairs. The one downside of a radar was that it only tells four directions, and up and down aren't among them.

'What's happening?' asked Liollmon. Being new to the situation he probably found it confusing at what the black-haired girl was doing and why Katashi looked worried.

'Don't worry.' The brown-haired boy replaced his anxious face with a smiling one. 'Yuzuki thinks that something bad's gonna happen, but she might just be wrong about it.'

Unfortunately she wasn't. Something strange appeared next to Next to Katashi and Liollmon. At first there was a dim light that curved the view of a nearby sight. A few second later the light extended into the shape of a spinning whirlwind placed 90 degree rotated, having the center of the vortex facing horizontally outward.

'What's that?' Yuzuki didn't need to be on the same floor as Katashi did to notice what was happening down there. The vortex was a sheet as a sheet when viewed vertically from above. Within a second a winged shape, followed by a blast of blue flame chasing it, flew out of the vortex seconds before it disappeared.

'That's a GigaDramon.' BaoHuckmon immediately recognized the outline of the purplish cyborg dragon. Though it looked battered, with its wings' armor partially penetrated by some unknown wounds. One of its mechanical arms was also damaged, with one of the three claws missing. The GigaDramon flew across the interior of the mall with an unsteady pace, clashing into the walls occasionally.

'What should I do?' asked BaoHuckmon, awaiting his partner's instructions. Initially Yuzuki wanted to attack, but then realized that fighting in a crowded mall would easily cause casualties, not to mention that people were so disorganized that any single move from BaoHuckmon could mean the death an innocent person. She then thought of Katashi. He hadn't been in any digimon ballet before, so he would be another factor to take care of.

'Delay him. I'll get down to Katashi.' Said Yuzuki as she rushed to the elevator. 'Remember, be careful.'

The white dragon digimon nodded in response as he leaped down to the outraging ultimate. 'Fif cross!' he yelled, using his long unused claws to wound the GigaDramon as he landed on the back of the levitating dragon. GigaDramon, already wounded, couldn't stand the pain induced by the slicing and yelled in pain, shaking his body so that BaoHuckmon was left unattached to anything midair before slamming him with his tail, sending the white champion plugging straight into some opened floor.

'BaoHuckmon!' shouted Yuzuki reflexively as she saw her partner being tossed aside. But there was no time for useless concern. She ran straight toward where Katashi and Liollmon were, both glad and a bit annoyed that they were still on the same spot.

'Maybe you should evacuate with the others.' Suggested Yuzuki.

Katashi first made the attempt, asking Liollmon to go with him for the sake of their safety, only to be rejected by the lion digimon. 'No.' he said sincerely, looking at the direction where the two digimon was battling against each other.

BaoHuckmon made several attempts to strike, but all ended up being futile as the airborne digimon countered almost every attack readily. 'Fangmon's Snipe steal, connect!' Yuzuki gave BaoHuckmon increased speed. The white dragon digimon struck fast, and succeeded in making contact with GigaDramon despite losing control of the super speed seconds later and gave his opponent the chance to strike back.

'I want to help him.' Muttered Liollmon. His eyes still fixed on the sight of the battle while ignoring Katashi's protests and went upstairs.

'No, it's too dangerous!' yelled the brown-haired boy as he rushed up to ran after Liollmon. There were similarities between them, and he knew it. He always was not fear of danger, but rather enjoy them as they present themselves while the lion digimon was doing the same with a different intension. BaoHuckmon, despite having only said a single sentence to him, basically taught Liollmon the value of his resurrection and somehow given approval of his importance. It was no surprise that Liollmon would want to return something to the champion, but it was too hazardous to do so at the moment.

'Yuzuki told me, last time it took all six of them to defeat just one GigaDramon. You won't be able to help!' shouted Katashi during his chase. It's probably gonna be wasted. The words he had just said must be of no use. He knew it. He would have ignored other's advices too had someone told him to stay out of something you really wanted to help. And I hate this side of me sometimes! 'Just let them handle it!'

But Liollmon wasn't stopping. Running faster and faster he leaped out of the open floor and approached GigaDramon. 'Lio claw!' he attacked, only to be slammed back to his original position be the mechanical arm of GigaDramon.

Katashi quickly leaned forward at the severely wounded rookie, holding him in his arms. 'Stop it, it'll kill you!' he muttered with tears leaking their way out of his eyelids. He never liked it when he had the smallest amount of tears on his face. Yet the reflexive act of care and worry couldn't be stopped by his personal preference, he didn't have much tine to care about it either. All he wanted at the moment was to keep his friend alive.

GigaDramon probably noticed that Liollmon was the easiest to get rid of, as shown by his taking aim at the brown-haired boy and the lion digimon with an organic missile loaded in his relatively well preserved right arm.

'Don't even think about it!' BaoHuckmon, obviously noticing that, rapidlly jumped and crounched on the right arm of Giagdramon. 'Teen blade!' he attacked, hindering the ultimate from firing his missile as well as disabling his right arm's function. 'Digital enhancement: strength, connect!' the enhanced strength allowed BaoHuckmon to hold himself on GigaDramon's arm securely while the cyborg was struggling to shake him off.

'I have to help him.' Uttered Liollmon weakly as she slowly got up to his feet. 'He can't do this on his own.' He said, walking unsteadily to the battlefield.

'You can't!' yelled Katashi. He didn't care if the tears around his eyes splashed around his face. All he knew was that he couldn't let his friend to walk into his own death. He yelled for a couple of more times, but still didn't succeed in getting Liollmon back. Things weren't all against his will, though, as the lion digion began to glow in a bright white light.

Two seconds was all that it took for the shape of the four-legged Liollmon to evolve into the shape of a humanoid digimon at the height of about 1.5 times that of Katashi.

'Leomon, champion, vaccine type.' The digimon was immediately identified.

'Not an X ?' uttered Yuzuki as she watched the digivolution took place.

No much time was wasted as Leomon's right fist glowed with an orange light immediately after the digivolution. 'Fist of king beast!' he roared in a much deeper voice than he had been as Liollmon. A pulse of energy that looked like a lion's head with fire burning around it was launched as Leomon made the movement of punching. The high velocity of the strike ensured that it hit GigaDramon, causing the cyborg dragon to lose balance in addition to how he was already not having a good state in midair.

GigaDramon swung his battered wings hard without a specific pattern owing to his high speed fall. Lucky to him, he was capable of retaining his state as an airborne. BaoHuckmon, on the other hand, jumped off GigaDramon once the attack form Leomon struck the poor dragon and re-bounced himself with a nearby wall to get on GigaDramon again, using him as an air platform to return to the side of his partner.

'How can we stop him?' asked Leomon. The balance of the game hadn't changed much, and would hardly be affected by the mere presence of an additional champion. GigaDramon, despite having been severely injured, was still standing, or in this case, levitating as he increased his speed painfully and aimed his partially broken left arm's cannon at the children as he charged at a very constantly low speed.

'I don't know.' Muttered Yuzuki. The last time it took five champions to just wound, though very badly, one GigaDramon. And it almost worned out their entire team in doing so. 'BaoHuckmon, how much longer can you fight?'

'Not for long.' The white dragon digimon answered. 'But so is he.'

'So what do we do now?' asked Katashi. 'I don't have that genius device like you do.'

'We strike together.' Answered the black-haired girl before swiping a card by the side of her digivice. 'This should be yours.' She said as the giant blade of Leomon X appeared next to Leomon, giving him two blades to use instead of his own dagger-sized one.

When all was ready, the two digimon struck again.

As the two leaped forward, the GigaDramon struck as well, firing a couple of shots that stopped BaoHuckmon from succeeding his attempt, causing him to fall from approximately two floor's height while Leomon successfully stabbed GigaDramon with one of his blades before being shaken of too.

'BaoHuckmon!' Yuzuki shouted as she ran down the stairs. Her partner seemed motionless while he was falling, which worried the black-haired girl. She found her partner lying on the bed made of rubbles, also motionless, as he had been during the fall. She swiftly ran to his side while couldn't do anything but to mutter numerous lines of concern and worry.

BaoHuckmon rose up slowly and gave a gaze of assurance to his partner exhaustingly before starting to glow a dim orange light. Katashi, who had been following Yuzuki down, holded the girl back away from the glowing BaoHuckmon. 'You know what's gonna happen.' He said as he called Leomon to hold GigaDramon for at least a few more second s to but time for the white dragon digimon.

As always, the light intensity increased vigorously before a new shape was formed. Now an ultimate, the white dragon digimon looked a lot leaner and was standing with two legs instead of four. His crimson cape enlarged, and was cut tidier than its previous incarnation.

'SaviorHuckmon, ultimate, data type.'

Stunned by the sudden appearance of an ultimate, GigaDramon shot a few more blasts at SaviorHuckmon, who swiftly covered himself with his cape that which deflected almost every single shot from GigaDramon. Leomon stepped aside as GigaDramon launched an organic missile at SaviorHuckmon.

SaviorHuckmon jumped up, skillfully slicing the missile in half with the shinning medieval styled blades attached to his arms. 'Trident Savior!' he made the final attack. Data streams kept flowing out of GigaDramon as he decomposed, leaving another digi-egg unattended.

Leomon degenerated back into the form of Liollmon after the battle. SaviorHuckmon, on the other hand, retained his ultimate form, stating that he enjoyed having two hands despite being a bit not accustomed to the balancing required to walk with two legs instead of four. Yuzuki received a phone call as the group prepared to leave the innocently and unwillingly damaged mall. The call was from Amy.

'Amy? You don't call me very often.' Said Yuzuki. According to her knowledge of the older and more random girl, she had to be either joking or having something really vital.

'Should I do the greeting first or should I just skip directly to the point?' said the voice from the other side of the phone. Both the tone and the voice matched the older girl's.

'To the point.' Yuzuki said. She could hardly take any irrelevant information anymore by now.

'You should be the last one to receive the call, but I still have to ask you something.' Said Amy, her voice suddenly becoming serious. 'Have you seen a GigaDramon, coming out from…something, out of nowhere?'

'We've seen it, and we've taken care of him. Now tell me what's going on?'

'You what?' Uttered Amy in shock. 'Tell me you didn't delete him.' Unfortunately, the answer to that question was a positive one.

'Alright, I'll tell you everything we know for now. I've already contacted Eiji and Takumi, none of them are related to this, and I could get to Ryosuke.' Said Amy, sounding urgent. 'Just a few moments ago, Kaoru and I met the GigaDramon that escaped the prison, also got here by some unknown means. We managed to damage him but he still escaped, and I didn't have the chance to let Meramon read his mind.'

'Then I suppose the blue flame is from you?'

'It passed through? Anyway I think we should meet up for the issue.' She concluded. Yuzuki agreed, and then briefly explained everything to the others.

'So, you have to leave again?' asked Katashi, obviously upset by that.

'No we don't have to.' Answered Yuzuki. 'We can discuss it on Internet. I'm really tired of going all the way around.'

'Yep, I want to spend more time here, too.' Said SaviorHuckmon. 'Even face to face communications cannot ensure secrecy anymore.'

'Besides,' said Yuzuki, 'I think we have to be responsible for causing this.' She said, looking at the crippled mall that was left behind by the battle.

'I think we should just go away.' Said Katashi. 'It's really not the time to be responsible.'

He was correct about it. Despite how Yuzuki initially hoped to cause as less damage as possible, the fight had almost destroyed half of the building. Reconstructing it would most likely spent no less than a week even if the best construction team was involved in the repairing work. Besides, it's not their fault that the mall was demolished. Had they left at the earliest opportunity the entire mall would've been vanished, probably a year and a half would have been needed be then. So in theory they actually helped to minimize the damage done by GigaDramon. Only explaining all this to the black-haired girl could Katashi get her to leave the mess behind.

The only question left for Yuzuki to figure out was how the GigaDramon was able to get from Ne to Rn in such a short period of time. Amy called soon after the battle was over, and the battle was finished in less than ten minutes, meaning that Amy faced the GigaDramon quite near the time when the two in Rn faced him. Yuzuki thought for digital gates for a moment, but she instantly dispute her own theory, remembering that digital gates were on computer screens, and were nothing close to a straighten-up vortex, and that the digital world had gone basically implied that no more digital gates would appear.

And why is GigaDramon, a fugitive with no resources at all, able to achieve such an advanced technology?

Many other questions rose in her mind, but she didn't want to think about them at the moment. We'll find the answers out eventually, after all.


The digivolution of Tsukaimon on the last chapter might be really an astonishing one, so I'll explain my theory behind it.

First, I'd wanted to use Pteramon X all along, so I changed it into a chanpion (Armor~champion). Then, according to Wikimon, Pteramon can be digivolved from Patamon, but Patamon seemed too bright in colour, so I chose its purple counterpart, which is Tsukaimon. (I mostly do things according to Wikimon+my "little" imagination)

I hope that can solve your puzzles. (You have to accept, though, like it or not.)

And about this chapter, obviously it is confusing on its own, for this is a multi-chapter incident, which means, you'll see GigaDramon again in the next week.