Chapter 14: Into The Waves!
When the small bay that marked the entrance of the Marine Field appeared on the horizon, Ren and Grizzlymon were beyond relieved. Even though they were traveling fast as they possible could, they still felt like they were in slow-motion and that they were wasting time that could be spent healing HippoGryphomon. Now that they were at the bay, the true problem donned on them. It wasn't fighting enemy Digimon, but actually getting to the Marine Field itself.
Ren looked for anything they could use to at least travel out into the ocean beyond the bay, but was disappointed to find not even anything to make a raft. "Grizzlymon...what do we do if we can't even get to the Marine Field Healer?" She asked nervously.
"Don't give up hope yet, Ren." Grizzlymon said in his gruff voice. "There has to be a way. Wait! I got! What if we got caught!" He suggested.
Ren gave him a confused looked. "Got caught?"
Grizzlymon nodded. "There's a story passed down about humans who were here a long, long time ago. They and their Digimon partners pretended to be captured to get into a place guarded by their foes. Maybe that could work for us too!"
The human Defender thought for a moment. "I suppose...it couldn't hurt to try...I just hope we aren't sent straight to Leviamon." Ren shuddered. Even that name just...freaked her out. She couldn't believe their could be more Digimon just as cruel as, if not crueler than, King Kaiki.
Grizzlymon, not seeing the shudder, scanned the bay. "We have to get ourselves noticed, something that will make the Marine Digimon come running. Let's go splash around in the water." He suggested and headed towards the clear water.
Ren hopped off Grizzlymon when they reached the water's edge. Then, both she and Grizzlymon stepped into the water. The huge bear Digimon began to pretend to sniff about, dancing about the water as if he was looking for something. Ren stayed close to him, hoping their plan didn't land him straight in front of Leviamon and instead nearer to Gwappamon.
However, they did attract the attention they desired. Suddenly, a dozen Divermon peeked out from the waves only a few yards away, and they were swiftly approaching. Grizzlymon turned to face them, Ren grasping a bit of his shoulder fur. Soon, the Divermon appeared again, surrounding them in a ring formation.
"Now, what do we have here? A couple of trouble makers!" One said.
"Look, companions, it's a Beast Digimon and that human that we've been hearing about! How pleased the Great Leviamon be to have his claws on these two," replied another, followed by an eerie chuckled from the rest.
"Do not resist us, intruders! You can't not possibly win against Marine Digimon, especially in our own bay!"
"You want us? Come get us!" Grizzlymon growled and turned to run. However, suddenly the Divermon launched their harpoons at them. One went straight for Ren. Frightened by the sharp tip coming towards her, she bolted. But it was too late. Quickly, it wrapped around her several times, and tightened.
"Heh! Got you, human!" The Divermon said and began to pull her in.
"Ren!" Grizzlymon called out just before having the rest of the the harpoons wrap around his body, including his muzzle. He was pulled down to a laying position, his purple fur becoming heavy as it got soaked.
Suddenly, his eyes widened as he glanced up and saw something causing waves in the water directly behind the Divermon who was pulling Ren closer and closer towards him. Suddenly, a huge, blue metallic mass rose from the waves and sped towards them. Then front behind it rose a blades that looked like a metal shark fin. The Divermon, alarmed by the sound of fierce waves turned around to see what it was. Their grins fell as they saw the blade coming straight towards them.
"Run! Forget the human and the Beast! They can drown for all I care!" The lead Divermon called out to his buddies. The others nodded and let go of their harpoons before diving back into the water to avoid the way. However, Ren and Grizzlymon were left their, still tied up. It looked like whatever this was coming towards them, its waves would surely swallow them.
However, it wasn't the waves that would be doing the swallowing. As the the blue metal mass and sharp blades came closer, a huge mouth emerged from under it. It was a dark tunnel and swallowed water as it came straight forward towards the Beast Defenders as they tried to run, but were left battling against the ropes that prevented escape. They could only close their eyes and prepare for the worse as they were sucked into the mouth, which quickly closed once they were inside it.
They did not get far from the teeth however. However, the water forced in with them soon came crashed down around them. Ren and Grizzlymon were tossed about and were forced down to the bottom of the pink tunnel. To their horror, the water quickly drained back out the tunnel through the teeth, leaving them crammed in the narrow tunnel that was this thing's mouth.
In fact, The only thing that saved the two from going deeper was that whatever had swallowed them had gotten the guns that launched the harpoons caught in between its set of teeth, creating an anchor for the two inside it's mouth. However, Ren and Grizzlymon soon felt the strain all their struggling had put on their bodies. Grizzlymon was forced to De-digivolve back to Bearmon.
Then, he and Ren, exhausted and stuck inside this beast, could do nothing else but black out into slumber, not knowing what would happen to them or their Leader now.