The Kyoryu Desert Part 1
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Cody POV
Two hours had gone by since the group began trudging through the sand.
And two hours since the heat really began pelting their heads.
"This is harder than I thought it would be" Cody said with a voice raspy from dryness. He did take the warriors warning to heart and was only consuming the water he had in very small sips, because as bare as the desert was back in his digital world's dimension, this digital world's desert took the cake.
So far the group hadn't passed by anything! No plants, no discarded buildings, no digimon, not even rocks have been seen! So far the Kyoryu Desert was a bare as bare can be.
Nothing else seemed to exist but bright tan sand.
"I'm hoping we run into somethin' soon Cody whether it be water or a shady spot, I'm fine but I know some of other digimon are really starting to feel the weight of the heat" Armadillomon said shuffling next to Cody at an even pace.
Cody nodded his head in agreement. Palmon, Gomamon, and Marineangemon seemed to be hit the hardest among the digimon in the group. However it made perfect sense, after all Marineangemon and Gomamon were both water/ice-based type of digimon, and Palmon was a plant monster.
So all three of them were pretty ill suited for this environment. Instead of floating Marineangemon now rested on Kenta's shoulders, and Gomamon was still being carried by Joe. Mimi was even carrying Palmon in her arms bridal style without any complaint.
Although this allowed Cody to notice something he never noticed before.
And that was how important a digimon's typing REALLY was here.
For instance Cody noticed that besides Armadillomon. Guilmon, Agumon, Veemon, and Monodramon also seemed perfectly fine in this environment.
They appeared to be the least tired, and the most alert out of all the other digimon in the group. To him Armadillomon made perfect sense being rather immune to the desert environment. He was based off an armadillo after all, and this was the type of environment they are constantly found in real world anyway.
But Agumon, Guilmon, Veemon, and Monodramon being adept mildly confused Cody. Back in his dimension he didn't remember Agumon being anymore adept to the desert than the other digimon not counting Gomamon and Palmon who were the weakest in this environment. Veemon was on the same boat as Agumon in that regard.
Now he couldn't speak on behalf of Guilmon and Monodramon, but from what he remembered from the Tamer's story their digital world was mostly a barren wasteland anyway. So those two probably have a little more creditability to being able to trudge through a hot desert so easily.
So how come Agumon and Veemon were so adept now. Was this world slowly altering their data structure?
Or was something else at work?
But before Cody could mull over his thoughts for too long, Koichi announced something that caused nearly everyone to cheer for joy.
"Hey everyone I can see some big rocks coming up, so there has to be some shade there!" Koichi shouted his hands in front of his face taking up that universal scouting position.
"Finally I need some kind of cool off" Gomamon huffed out panting happily.
"Pu, pu!" Marineangemon seemed to be agreeing with Gomamon, but Cody couldn't really tell for the life of him. That was something that fascinated Cody about Kenta and his partner.
Kenta always could understand Marineangemon, despite the fact it appears the little guy could barely talk, but maybe there was something to the partnership he just wasn't seeing.
"Come on Cody let's git goin' I wanna a good spot!" Armadillomon said almost breaking out into a small jog.
"Alright, alright wait up!" Cody called back to Armadillomon giving a little raspy laugh as he did so.
Later when everyone was closer to rocks they were finally able to get a good look at their source of relief.
There were indeed large dark brown pointed rocks. However they were unusually positioned. Three out of the five large rocks were all positioned next to each other making a psuedo wall. While the other two rocks were spaced out a little and positioned right in front of the other three.
However the best thing was that because of that, these rocks became shade traps and were producing enough shade for everyone.
"Wow! Nice find Koichi, didn't see this the first time we went through here!" Tommy said congratulating his friend on his keen eye.
"Well you know the Digital World's constantly changing Tommy" Koichi smiled slowly getting into a good position in the rock crevice.
"Whatever I don't care as long as there's shade!" Gomamon sighed happily sinking into the darkest shade of the rock he could find.
Soon enough everyone was settled down for a nice break under the shade Cody sat next to T.K and Izzy to enjoy the slight cooling effect.
"Hey Tommy do you think you can be our air conditioner for a bit?" Umi asked still sweltering under the shade. Cody guessed since her partner was a water based digimon, that the same rules applied to her as they did with Gomamon and Marineangemon.
Umi just must've been better at hiding the fact than those two. However it appears she couldn't keep putting of the effect for long, as her head was glistening in sweat.
Tommy also highly sweaty probably due to his partners ice typing perked up from his semi sleep state in mild surprise, but he did smile and nod his head in agreement. He pulled out his white and green D-tector and proceeded to do a merging spirit evolution.
Once in his merge form Tommy did a trick that earned the immediately thanks of everyone in the group, and that was slowly breathe out a highly concentrated stream of cold air onto the resting group.
"Thanks Tommy I owe you one" Umi sighed out in relief.
Tommy stopped breathing cold air to reply.
"No problem Umi it's my pleasure, and I'll be sure to go around and get everybody!" Tommy said and began slowly moving around the sitting group while still breathing cold air.
While Tommy went around and did his job, Cody decided while they were resting now would be the perfect time to ask the warriors something that had been bothering him for a while.
"Excuse me Takuya? But I've been wondering how come those Meramon weren't in Hinansho City and are out here instead, aren't they humanoid enough?" Cody questioned aloud drawing everyone's attention.
"My friend here brings up a good point I was wondering the same thing myself, however I would also like to know where digimon who are neither completely humanoid or completely bestial tend to end up" Izzy said sending the inheritor of his crest a smile.
A smile, which Cody easily returned to his mentor.
"Well Cody, Izzy the answers to your questions are quite simple. For Cody the Meramon live here because of preference. Hinansho City has seasonal changes and they would just rather stay somewhere where it's constantly hot all the time. Although you are right, if they chose to go or live in Hinansho city they would be easily accepted." Takuya explained making gestures in the air.
From there Zoe took on the rest of the explanation.
"And for your question Izzy, they are the digimon who are lucky enough to be known as neutrals" Zoe stated with an odd smirk.
"Neutrals?" Renamon restated with slight confusion in her voice.
"Yes, Renamon neutrals out of all the digimon in our universe they are the only ones with true choice. For example digimon like Weregarurumon, Gargomon, Wargreymon, and Leomon…" Zoe began.
Jeri gave a flinch.
"Are all beast like enough to fit in with the animal digimon, but also have enough humanoid qualities to fit in with the humanoid digimon. Though they still may get a little bit of flack, it isn't nearly as bad when compared to the pure animal like digimon." Zoe said.
"Most elementals like Candlemon, Meramon, and Demimeramon are also on the same boat as neutrals and can choose on who and where they reside with or in." Takuya continued for Zoe finishing the explanation.
"Fascinating" Izzy stated wanting so badly to reach in his bag and catalogue the information, but due to the heat he was afraid of his computer overheating too much to do so.
Cody nodded his consent as well; happy with the information he was given.
"So if I was digivolved and I walked right into Hinansho City, I could get in no problem?" Terriermon questioned very surprised by the information Zoe just revealed.
"Yeah, pretty much" Zoe confirmed.
"Well I hate to say it, but that makes probably half the digimon there sound like complete hypocrites. I mean a Wargreymon in that city is only one mere dedigivolution away from being a Metalgreymon, which is a more animalistic like digimon. So the fact they pick on their brethren seems even more stupid!" Agumon huffed angrily to the surprise of Cody, Tai, and many of the others, as Agumon was usually very calm.
"Don't worry Agumon we thought the same thing the first time we arrived there, but that unfortunately is how many of those type of digimon are in Hinansho City. Most seem to either deny, forget, or disinherit their original forms, and or where they came from before living in the city." Umi agreed sadly.
"So what would be the case with us then?" Sora questioned her voice having a hesitant tone to it.
"Nothing, all of you humans would be allowed in easy peasy. In fact you'd most likely be treated like royalty once entering the city. With the warriors it's a slightly different case, because they have a faint digimon scent, but they're still treated mostly with respect in Hinansho." Bokomon answered his face in a grimace.
"By your grimace I'm guessing your not treated the same" Sora replied sadly having immediately caught the shift in Bokomon's face.
"No, unfortunately I'm not, but it's not because I not humanoid enough it's a different reason, but my dear Sora that is a story for another day" Bokomon sighed sadly while J.P patted him on the back.
Sora just gave a small sad smile back.
However Cody looked on to Bokomon with curious eyes, it seems that there was just as many secrets to him as there were to the warriors.
"Henwee I'm all out of water, and I'm so thirsty!" Suzie cried with tell tale tears beginning to from in her eyes. Cody turned to look at the pair of them; he wasn't too surprised that one of the toddlers was the first to run of water. As they would have the least self control among all the children in the group.
Henry began to panic at the sight of his sister getting ready to have a cry fit, but luckily Takuya saved him.
"Hey now little Suzie didn't I say to only drink the water in small sips?" Takuya chided gently going do to Suzie's level on one knee.
Suzie suddenly became very sheepish which was surprising for Henry as she is rarely seen that way.
"Yes Mr. Takuya" Suzie replied sounding ashamed her eyes looking downward guiltily.
"I know it's hard Suzie, but you have to drink your water slowly and in small sips. I know you tried so I'll give you a bit of leeway. Here" Takuya said thrusting his whole canteen toward the young girl.
"But Mr. Takuya what about you?" Lopmon said worry in her voice. She loved Suzie, but she didn't think it was fair for her tamer to take Takuya's whole canteen.
Suzie looked to Takuya with sad eyes, obviously sharing her digimon's sentiments.
"It's no problem Lopmon, out of all my friends I have the least to worry about the desert environment" Takuya reasoned a small smile on his face.
That statement instantly caught Cody's attention, and he had to ask something.
But surprising to Cody at least his partner beat him to it.
"How's that Takuya? You ain't trying to be a tough guy are ya?" Armadillomon questioned a frown on his face as he did so.
"No, not at all Armadillomon. See because I'm the warrior of flame, I don't get hot, or dehydrated due to heat, and the desert environment actually powers me up a little. As it does with all fire, dinosaur, and dragon based digimon that's why a lot of them live here." Takuya explained while showing Suzie how to drink her water conservatively.
"Conversely, like Takuya because I'm the warrior of ice, I don't get cold in icy or chilly environments, but places like the Kyoryu Desert can take it's toll on me" Tommy sighed wiping his brow with his now clawed hand, on break from cooling everyone off.
"Really the desert powers dragon types up? Maybe that's why I've felt so alert" Veemon wondered aloud. Nods of agreement could also be seen from Guilmon, Monodramon, and Agumon as well.
"Precisely Veemon, the Kyoryu Desert has a sort of special force over it, that powers up fire, dinosaur, and dragon based digimon. According to Bokomon this was my partner Hono's old home before he died. So his power lingers here a bit," Takuya said wistfully.
"Yes, and according to digital lore. Hono's old temple is somewhere in this Desert, but we haven't been able to find it to prove that theory true unfortunately" Bokomon sighed sadly upset he had no proof of that fact.
Cody listened with raised eyebrows. So his thoughts early about Veemon and Agumon did actually have some merit. If what the Takuya and Bokomon say is true, then Agumon, Veemon, Guilmon, and Monodramon all have an advantage here.
"Anyway I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it's time to keep going guys we need to at least reach the first oasis, before night fall" J.P announced tapping his watch for emphasis.
"NOOOOooo" Gomamon moaned sadly.
Cody gave the seel digimon a sympathetic look.
"Sorry Gomamon, but we have to get going sometime, we can't just stay here for your sake" Cody joked sarcastically at the quipster, giving him a small smirk.
Gomamon smirked right back.
"Yea, yea whatever Cody, I'll walk this time Joe. I figure your arms could use a break," Gomamon giggled as Joe glared at him for the insult at his strength.
So the group continued on again with the Desert getting less bare the deeper they got in, but about one hour later when they were only about fifteen minutes away from the first oasis….
"What in the?" Armadillomon began to say going stiff.
"Armadillomon what is it?" Cody asked concerned for his partner's freeze up, however if he had looked around he would've seen the other partner's plus the warriors freezing up too.
Then Cody FELT the reason all the warriors and the digimon froze up.
The ground…the sand…
It was shaking…
Cody whipped his head behind him to see what appeared to be a giant dinosaur digimon speeding over a sand dune towards them.
"Oh boy…" Cody heard T.K who was next to him mutter.
"Stand your ground everybody this approach feels different from Monochromon" Takuya commanded as the warriors instantly flocked to his side. However Tommy was the only one in his merged form, the others appeared to be waiting to see if this digimon was going to be a real threat first.
As the dinosaur digimon lumbered closer the group was finally able to get a good look at it, and it was large, had huge horns on it's head, red, and had black stripes with scythes on it's arms. The ears on this dinosaur digimon were very unusual. They were long and downwardly spiked.
The dinosaur digimon's body even looked different from the norm. Instead of the slight pudginess that Greymon and Tyrannomon had, this dinosaur digimon sported a six-pack abdomen. Finally the last notable feature Cody could see on the creature was at the end of the long tail; there were a couple of vertical spikes poking out.
In fact it looked like a larger version of Guilmon….
Wait…
"I'm an idiot…" Cody murmured to himself, while smacking himself on the head for his lapse into stupidity.
This heat was killing him….
"Hey it's a Growlmon! But man he looks almost nothing like the way you look when you digivolve Guilmon! Wait there's a Growlmon here?! HOW!?" Cody heard Kenta shout in shock.
However Cody wasn't paying the spastic mumbling of the Tamers too much mind, and instead was focusing on the warriors like a few of the other digidestined. He wanted to know if this digimon was a threat or not.
Cody let out a HUGE sigh as soon as he saw the warriors smile.
"It's lookin' like he might be a friend, huh partner?" Armadillomon said staring up at Cody.
"Yeah Armadillomon hopefully so" Cody sighed once more before walking closer with Armadillomon at his side to the digimon called Growlmon that now stood in front of the warriors.
"Hey, Abraxas you didn't have to go scaring us like that! Walk slower next time we thought you were an enemy!" Takuya laughed as he went to pet the now leaning down Abraxas on the nose.
"Yeah, dude no need for that charging, why were you doing that anyway?" J.P questioned.
The Growlmon named Abraxas lifted himself back to his full height, and glowered down to all the others gathered.
"Oh! I see! Don't worry Abraxas they're our friends, not enemies they aren't going to hurt us but thank you for your concern my friend." Takuya reassured. "We were just on our way to the oasis to camp for the night, want to join us?" Takuya asked.
"Grrrr roooar urrl" Abraxas responded then gave the warriors an annoyed look.
"Well, no need to get huffy man, how were we supposed to know you lived in this oasis now. So I'm assuming Rei, Todd, and Millie live there now as well?" Takuya proposed scratching his chin.
Abraxas simply nodded his head.
"Well don't you mind if we crash there for the night, do you?" Takuya asked a sly smile on his face.
Once again the Growlmon nodded in agreement, before doing something Cody didn't expect.
A bright light surrounded Abraxas, and he dedigivolved back to his previous state of a Guilmon.
Cody noticed that Takato looked downright shocked from seeing Abraxas. At first Cody thought it was because of differences Abraxas had from his Guilmon, until Cody realized the real reason for Takato's shocked face.
Cody remembered that from the Tamer's story Takato's had created Guilmon, and in his universe Guilmon is the first and only of his kind. Plus Cody knew that back in his own universe the Guilmon species didn't exist either. However it seems like in the warrior's universe this isn't the case.
"That explains why they didn't look surprised about seeing Guilmon for the first time" Cody pondered inwardly before turning his attention to focus on the aesthetic differences Abraxas had from Takato's Guilmon.
Abraxas as a Guilmon lacked the digi-hazard symbol on his chest, and lacked the inverted zero-unit on his nose. Abraxas also had three front-toed claws instead of two, and his batwing ears were a lot bigger and thicker. Finally Abraxas had more black stripes around his body, was slightly larger, and had small symbols on his shoulders and the back of his paws.
Abraxas then seemed to notice Guilmon, and marched right over to him.
"HI!" Guilmon greeted waving his paw. He unlike his tamer was absolutely delighted to see another one of his species; even if it wasn't the something he ever thought he'd see, he couldn't be happier.
Abraxas gave no real response and just sniffed Guilmon on his neck a couple of times.
"Hehehe stop tickling me!" Guilmon laughed. Lightly swatting Abraxas because of the sensation. Abraxas backed up and gave Guilmon a happy smile and a tail wag before walking toward the direction of the oasis, before turning back to the group and nodding his head toward the direction.
"Let's go Armadillomon, I don't want to be out here when the sun sets, besides the oasis should have some nice cool water" Cody said walking along with T.K again now that the previous scare was over.
"I hear ya Cody, it sure was nice of Abraxas to be so hospitable" Armadillomon agreed smiling as the group continued it's trek with their new companion.
When the group arrived at the oasis between some large rocks fifteen minutes later, everyone was greeted to the glorious sight of fresh green palm trees with large amounts of fruit, and beautiful luscious green grass.
However the best sight for many were the two large pools in the middle.
"YEAH!" Gomamon shouted joyfully taking off full speed toward the one of the pools, before diving in happily. Joe slowly walked to catch up shaking his head in amused exasperation.
PU, pii, pii" Marineangemon cried happily as well slowly floating a little above the same water Gomamon was in looking like he was dancing over it.
Mimi walked up to that same pool as well, lowering Palmon near the edge, who sighed in appreciation as she stuck her roots into the water.
"Something tells me it's going to be even harder for me to want to leave later Mimi" Palmon sighed sadly. Mimi said nothing but gave Palmon an affectionate sad smile before hugging her gently.
Cody smiled at the sight before heading up to the other pool with the others. Many of the children refilled their canteens, got large amounts of fresh water down the hatch, and wet some washcloths that Ophanimon had packed for them in the water, before putting the cloths to their heads.
Cody took the route of the latter, and was lying comfortably on the grass with a cold washcloth on his head. Armadillomon lay right next to him, with his head on Cody's stomach.
The other digimon either, followed Gomamon into the second oasis and took a refreshing swim, or some like Gabumon, Hagurumon and Renamon simply stayed near the shore of the first oasis and drank all they could to re-energize themselves.
"Lucky there were two oasis' here, so we could have one for swimming and one for drinking." Cody thought happily, because unlike the wide river, Cody had originally feared the oasis would be rather small and compact. Fortunately those worries were null-in-void.
The warriors Cody noted were near the second oasis with some of the other digimon as well. Umi had been just like Gomamon, and immediately dived into the water on sight swimming through the water very similar to a real otter.
Cody did think it was highly amusing that she jumped straight into the water with ALL her clothes still completely on, but then again Cody didn't know if Ophanimon and her servants had packed swimsuits so she may have had no other option.
"Hey Cody why don't we go rustle up some grub? I could use tha eats," Armadillmon asked sitting up looking toward some of the fruit on the palm trees.
"That doesn't sound like a bad idea at all Armadillomon" Cody said smiling at his friend. However before he and Armadillomon even attempted to get the fruit atop one of the trees, a blur flew by the top of the tree they were trying to get fruit from.
Cody screamed from being startled, and was surprised to see that when he looked up all the fruit atop the tree was missing.
"CODY! Are you alright?" Cody could hear T.K yelling for him. He turned around to see T.K with Patamon on his head running toward him, and he also noticed his yelp seemed to alert everyone else in the group as well much too his embarrassment.
"Yes, I'm fine but something flew by and startled me!" Cody answered T.K with a small blush on his face. Armadillmon was now poised to attack, wary of fighting something he couldn't see. He was reminded too much of the fight with Thunderballmon where Cody almost got smashed by the collapsing tunnel roof.
Suddenly the blur dropped down to the ground, and it was revealed to be a Renamon.
Once again differences were aplenty.
Unlike Rika's Renamon, this Renamon was silver and white with piercing purple eyes, and the armbands were dark blue instead of purple. This Renamon also seemed to only be able to stay on four legs, instead of walking upright on its hind legs. Another notable feature was the fur on the top of its head.
It appeared to grow in a strange style and it covered the Renamon's left eye giving it a mysterious look.
But that wasn't what concerned Cody at the moment.
What did concern Cody was the small amount of glowing shards that seemed to be materializing in front of the Renamon's head.
But before Armadillomon, the mysterious Renamon, or either of the others in the gathered group could release the first attack, Abraxas put an end to the would-be-brawl.
Abraxas ran right in front of Cody, Armadillomon, and T.K and Patamon spreading his arms out while taking a protective stance in front of the Renamon as well. He turned his head to look behind him at the Renamon, and began to admit oddly comforting sounding growls from his mouth.
The shards around the Renamon disappeared as the Renamon perked its head up and cocked it to the side, showing that it was listening to Abraxas.
"Hey guys don't worry it's only Rei Abraxas' mate, she must've been worried about all the new intruders in her home" Koji proceeded to explain lessoning the stressed postures of many of the humans and digimon, all whom were probably ecstatic that they've gone on without a fight this long, and didn't what to ruin it with a misunderstanding.
But Izzy was so fascinated by Koji's statement he had to say something.
"So is this the mixed species mating you guys talked about in Ophanimon's castle?" Izzy asked as he watched Rei calm down and walk up and nuzzle her mate on the nose.
"Yep it is Izzy, isn't it cute?" Zoe gushed facing the general direction of the two nuzzling digimon. Cody wondered if her other senses had developed enough that she might be able to know what their doing.
"But how can they be mates? I mean can they even understand each other?" Henry questioned not in an offensive way, but sounding genuinely curious. Cody had to agree because Bokomon even stated earlier that only digimon of the same type can understand each other with only a few exceptions.
"No, they can't understand each other's language, but their mates because of their much deeper connection that transcends their language barrier. They've reached a point where they can understand each, without needing to actually "understand" each other." Bokomon explained giving the two a fond look.
"Awwwww" all the girls of the group except Rika sighed. Although Cody swore he saw a small flicker of a blissful smile, before Rika retreated it to a smirk. However Cody would never point this out to her in fear of the red head's wrath.
Now that the misunderstanding was cleared up, Rei now relaxed walked over to Rika's Renamon to greet her. Renamon who was so far the only digimon able to understand ANY of the digimon here regardless if its only one type of digimon, bent down on her left knee and gave Rei a small smile in return.
"Hello to you too" Renamon replied with a smile. Rei gave one back and turned to Rika with a curious look. Renamon immediately knew what Rei wanted to know though.
"This is my tamer Rika" Renamon explained pointing to Rika who sent her own smile to Rei. Rei gave a couple of yips and barks to Rika who looked to Renamon for translation.
Interestingly enough to Cody and many of the others gathered, Renamon gave a small gasp of surprise, and took on a look of embarrassment at whatever Rei had said. It also seems that Renamon wasn't to keen on telling Rika or anybody what Rei had said, but the with expectant look on Rika's face she eventually gave in.
"She said hello to you and she asked if our Guilmon was my mate…" Renamon said sounding extremely embarrassed.
Rika appeared to be trying to hold in her laughter, but like many of the other tamers and their digimon who started laughing she couldn't help herself, and began to laugh along with them. Poor Guilmon just remained at Takato's side looking as confused as ever, not really understanding why everyone in his group was laughing so hard.
"What's so funny?" Guilmon whined walking up beside Renamon to ask her, since she wasn't laughing along with everyone else.
"Nothing…" Renamon insisted quietly.
"But…"
"NOTHING…" Renamon growled out through gritted teeth giving Guilmon a glare.
"Oki Doki" Guilmon consented putting his paws up in defense. Takato gave the poor confused dino a comforting pat on the back.
"Anyway now that everything's settled down, why don't you and Rei get Millie and Todd and join us by the campfire for the night?" Takuya suggested to Abraxas who thought about it for a second before giving an affirmative squawk of agreement, then took of into the rock canvas along with Rei.
"Sorry about the scare Cody here's some fruit since Rei took yours" Takuya offered holding up the strange but colorful fruit to Cody's face.
Cody took the fruit, tore it, and gave half to the jumping for joy Armadillomon.
"Thank you Takuya" Cody smiled back at the warrior, happy to him like this again, and not the brooding boy he was back in their first night in Chi Forest.
The rustling of trees alerted Cody and the others to the return of Rei and Abraxas, expect this time they had two more accomplices.
In between the two of them were some of the strangest looking digimon Cody had ever seen.
One was another Renamon but much smaller hinting that it was probably a baby or young kit. Although this Renamon was red the same shade as Abraxas. The tips of its ears and paws that would have normally been white were now black. The eyes were the same gold as Abraxas, and Takato's Guilmon.
This smaller Renamon also lacked armbands, and had the small triangle markings on its back paws, shoulders, and knees. Lastly the thing that stuck out to Cody most was the fact this Renamon had scaly arms with no fur on them, unlike the rest of its body, and this Renamon also had batwing ears.
The other one was a very small Guilmon, but was silver with white tipped feet, upper claws, ears, and tail. Thus the same colors as Rei. This Guilmon had Rei's dark purple eyes, and the most notable thing was this Guilmon was it was completely furred and lacked any scales at all, plus this Guilmon had fox ears.
But this Guilmon still had the hunched over structure of Abraxas.
Like Cody digimon and partners alike were all gapping at the sight, clearly figuring out the implications that these two new digimon presented.
They had heard the warriors talk about cross breeding back at Ophanimon's castle, but many didn't expect the results to be this realistic. No one in the group not counting the little kids thought that the crossbred digimon would look like true mixtures of its parents.
Cody himself had originally thought that maybe when crossbred digimon were born one would be the same species as one parent and not have any traits from the other parent. Maybe it would take pieces of the other parent's personality, but none of the aesthetic traits.
Little did Cody know that was the overall opinion of many of the other digidestined, tamers, and digimon alike.
"Everyone meet their children this kit right here is Todd their first born son" Koichi stated introducing Todd while pointing his hand in the direction of the small kit.
"Then the little Guilmon over here is Millie, their second born and their daughter" Koji added along with his brother actually picking Millie up who gave a happy cry.
"Beep, beep!" The little one called Millie cried reaching out towards the gathered group, however it was clear she was reaching for Guilmon more specifically.
"Takato look she likes me!" Guilmon said happily as he walked up to the little one in Koji's grasp as she patted Guilmon's nose like a curious human baby would.
Takato smiled at the sight along with many others.
"Anyway they'll be joining us for the night, so now the little have some more playmates, and we have some more gatherers to help get the food" Takuya joked to everyone else who all proceeded to laugh, while the toddlers jogged up to the baby digimon in excitement.
Cody smiled down to his partner who was still munching out on the fruit.
Cody shook his head fondly before staring up at the darkening sky.
"It's going to be an interesting night…."
Long Author's Note: Here you all go, I got this chapter out sooner than I thought I would I was on a roll!
Anyway now the gang is officially in the Kyoryu Desert. I liked that I was able to use the introductory chapter to hopefully answer some questions I know that was on everybody's mind. Like where digimon who are counted as Beast Man, Dragon Man, etc fit into this society.
I like to think of them as Neutral. As stated in the chapter they are the luckiest type of digimon because they do get legitimate choice on where to live, and who to live and or be with. Unlike completely beast like or completely humanoid digimon.
By the way what I count as neutral digimon, are digimon that have a human stature, wear and or have forms of clothing or clothing like armor, high intelligence, and finally possibly carry weapons (e.g Leomon,Orgemon, Gargomon). But clothing and human stature/physic are usually the two traits that a digimon must have one or the other of to be counted as a neutral digimon.
Like how Meramon doesn't wear clothes but has a human stature so he counts, then Stingmon is another good example of a neutral digimon with his human physic despite having no "real" clothes. Also Candlemon counts because of the high intelligence it has and the human like behavior it displays.
However also stated in the chapter these type of digimon tend to be rather high and mighty and largely hypocritical often besmirching their past forms, or looking down on their undigivolved brethren. The best example would be an Angemon completely disregarding a Patamon in need of help simply because of his appearance. This scenario may or may not come up in the story later *moves shifty eyes*
Also I was happy to cameo four others from my AU story, Rei, Abraxas, Todd, and Millie the lovable oddball family. Plus it allowed to dive into the cross breeding I mentioned back in chapter five.
By the way the desert giving a small power up for some of the partners here I mentioned in this chapter is NOT the main power up I was talking about last chapter. That doesn't come till later ;).
Also the Guilmon is this chapter is based off Guilmon X, and the Renamon is based off the vaccine variety type colors that her higher forms Kyubimon and Taomon can get. Both are on the digimon wikia if you guys want a better mental image!
Another thing in case anyone is wondering Abraxas can dedigivolve because he is not yet strong enough to constantly stay in his champion state. As the original digidestined's digimon were shown doing this in Digimon Adventure 02. Where they were shown to be able to digivolve to champion without needing their partner near them or even in the digital world, but they still couldn't constantly stay in champion state that honor still belongs to Gatomon.
Fun Fact: Abraxas is the name of a real type of computer virus.
Anyway PLEASE REVIEW FUSAOKAIRI OUT!