The Kyoryu Desert Part 7
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Joe POV
Joe trudged along nervously a bit behind the group, besides being tired from carrying Gomamon, there was the fact he was quite wary of the Veedramon and Veemon that have now joined the group.
After the core was destroyed and Majiramon split, the Veedramon pack calmed down quite easily.
Instead of hostility they displayed curiosity to the large group.
But Monodramon's victory displayed another surprise.
Turns out that like Takuya he too could understand the Veedramon and Veemon's snarls, roars, and grumbles very clearly. After the Veedramon pack approached him more closely when the fight ended.
This surprised Monodramon himself, because he and everyone else had to wonder why he couldn't understand Natas, and the Veedramon pack earlier.
But Takuya seemed to be suggesting that it was after the fight with Majiramon, Monodramon opened up his true wild side.
Not the circumstantial one he had back in the Tamers universe. After this was the longest time he's stayed in his rookie form that he or Ryo could remember. So it was the longest time he's ever been calm and rational for a while.
And even Joe usually the one always questioning how something like that could happen, found himself agreeing with Takuya very easily.
To him at least it did make some semblance of sense. Monodramon awakening his true wild side, without the influence that the fusion between him and Millenniummon held over his personality as Cyberdramon per say.
This way he would really be able to connect with his true primal side that had been clouded by unrelenting bloodlust and anger before.
Although once again Joe had to question, why the heck didn't his team know about Millenniummon when that villain was from their world. It still bugged him and many other people in his group.
However Joe unlike some others in his group easily conceded to the fact that the Tamers digimon were more primal than theirs and had better chances of understanding the digimon anyway.
"Still that leaves me wondering if the same thing will happen to some of our digimon?" Joe stated in his head while he looked down at Gomamon in his arms. Then he looked around at everyone else from his group.
He did smile quite a bit when he saw Veemon though. The little blue dragon was getting a lot of attention from his dimensional cousins.
Although unfortunately for poor Veemon he couldn't understand any of the noises they were making like Monodramon could, and since Monodramon was out like a light recovering Veemon was left to guess what they were saying to him.
"Poor Veemon left to guess the roars and snarls being blown at his face, if I'm honest and I always am. It is pretty funny to watch" Gomamon snickered from his spot in Joe's arms.
"Hey be nice Gomamon who knows how it will go if we run into some of this world's Gomamon on our journey eh?" Joe quipped back just as lighthearted.
"Ohhhhh don't remind me," Gomamon moaned sadly actually not looking too forward to meeting his dimensional counterparts.
"Anyway I'm more concerned about heading to the third oasis area. The warriors did say this area would be the most crowded" Joe sighed worriedly.
"Hey come on Joe, I know you worried about the possibility of another fight breaking out, but remember at the moment we've got a mini army of Veemon and Veedramon on our sides. I say the odds are in our favor" Gomamon said soothingly giving Joe a very good point.
Joe gave the seal a smile.
"Okay buddy I'll concede this time, only because you'll keep on trying to convince otherwise if I don't" Joe relented with a sigh.
Gomamon gave him a sly smile, before snuggling deeper into Joe's arms and turning his attention back to the direction they were walking in.
Joe looked over to the horizon as well. He could see palm trees coming up so that must mean that they're close to the last oasis.
"Well let's get this over with. Something tells me this is going to be my least favorite stay of anywhere else we've been…" Joe mumbled quietly so Gomamon wouldn't hear him.
Sometime later the group finally made it to the last oasis.
And what a sight it was.
The warriors weren't at all joking when they said this oasis would be the most crowded. There were packs and herds of Monochromon, Tyrannomon, Tuskmon, Greymon, Agumon, Guilmon, Growlmon, Veedramon, and Veemon all over the place.
Once again aesthetic differences were aplenty. For one the Agumon here appeared to be very much like Takuya's partner Hono.
The males were about his same size maybe a little shorter and already the blue stripes around their body and bigger claws. While the females were the size of Tai's Agumon and lacking the blue stripes.
However the other digimon like Tuskmon and Tyrannomon besides the former coming in different colors like blue, orange, green, and black and the latter having only height differences depending on sex/gender and being a lot skinner…
Actually didn't have that many differences from the digimon of the same kind back in his dimension.
Not only that but the oasis itself was quite different as well. Besides having it's standard fruit trees and water pools this oasis had some new things too offer.
Joe could spot stream arising from some rock-covered areas.
"Most likely those are hot springs" Joe mused and continued to look around.
Next he noticed that near some of the outer areas our the oasis, molten lava could be see flowing near the hot spring areas as well.
This led to dark spots on the sandy desert where it was becoming coal or other minerals, that Joe noticed the fire oriented digimon seemed to actually be eating.
He could make out flat rocks where many of digimon were sunbathing just like people on a beach would.
Finally the last things to catch Joe's eye was how there was some debris of Hono's left over temple here as well, and some of the digimon forged it into make shift houses for themselves. They were no masterpieces mind you, because the digimon here shaped the debris more like the nests real world dinosaurs were known for making.
Also Joe spotted an area little ahead of the oasis as they walked down the sand dune to get to it. It was a nice horizon line where Joe could see slivers of green, meaning by tomorrow they will have finally reached the end of the forsaken desert.
"Thank Goodness so only one more hot night here, and we're done with this place," Joe thought with a smile spreading across his face.
Upon closing into the place, the head Veedramon (who was the biggest one and the darkest blue of the entire bunch) roared into the sky signaling the groups approach.
Now Joe and many others began to understandably panic. In fact Joe was sure this would result in another confrontation as soon as he saw all the present digimon focus their attention to the group.
But thankfully Takuya came in and began roaring/snarling back to the other present dino and dragon digimon.
"Man I wish Monodramon was awake to translate for us" Gomamon sighed in Joe's eyes looking more bored than nervous, in complete contrast to Joe himself.
"Gomamon shush!" Joe whispered feeling the tension in the air as everyone awaited the reaction from this large group of digimon.
Then something unexpected to most happened.
The digimon gathered…
Went about their business after a brief acknowledgement once Takuya was done "speaking".
"Huh?! I'd thought they'd be more hostile than that?" Takato said aloud with heavy confusion evident in his voice.
"Takato! Don't jinx us you moron!" Rika hissed right back at the boy unnerved by the lack of reaction as well.
Takuya turned his gaze back toward the group and let out a light laugh.
"All I had to was explain that we're just passing through and will only be staying a night. The digimon here only get really rowdy if they think you're making a move to permanently take their territory." Takuya explained.
Joe let out a sigh of relief.
"Well that sure is good to know. So wait then where are we sleeping tonight?" Joe voiced a concern that many others shared as well. After all it was beyond crowded and many of the digimon had taken up viable spots for them to rest.
"Hey Joe, it'll be fine the Veedramon pack says were welcome to stay with the for the night. Although they do want one favor in return…" Takuya admitted sheepishly.
Moans and sighs spread throughout the entire group of children. Of course there would be a catch.
"There's always a catch" Joe stated tiredly just wanting one day to go by where worrying about possible injuries didn't become common.
"They want to see proof of strength. Something quite common when bartering with dragon/dino digimon they value physical strength very highly in their species" Bokomon explained simply.
"Yeah think of them as the jocks of the digital world. At least of our digital world" J.P joked with a light laugh at the end of his sentence.
"So what's the test" Ryo said hesitantly still holding his now barely awake partner on his back piggyback style.
Joe sympathized with Ryo; he knew Ryo was afraid they'd choose his partner for the test when he was already so worn out.
But as Joe has learned from his time in this digital world, mercy is an option only reserved for the weak.
The head Veedramon growled lowly pointing to Daivs' Veemon who stood in front of him. Then he growled again and to the surprise of many pointed to Agumon too. Then the Veedramon made the strangest gestures Joe's every seen.
He waved his claws up and down along with his body, which also moved up and down.
"Uhmm does he want us to do jumping jacks?" Veemon asked Takuya his voice hitching in confusion toward the end of his sentence.
"I'm with Veemon, I don't follow anything he's doing right now" Agumon sighed putting a claw to his face.
"No, no if only it was that easy. No what Veedramon is asking of you guys is to challenge him and his second in command to a strength test, but he want you to digivolve so you're on even ground with him" Takuya explained.
"Wait! Is this test another battle? Because this at least to me feels like he asking something else" Joe said halting everyone's movement for a second.
"Good observation Joe, yes the strength test is different it's not another battle. But more of a variety marathon test. You'll see as soon as these two accept" Takuya smiled happy Joe caught the niche.
Tai, Davis, Agumon, and Veemon nodded in agreement to the semi smiling Veedramon, and digivolved accordingly.
Joe removed his arm from his face once Agumon and Veemon lost the light of digivolution that surrounded them.
Or he should say Greymon and Exveemon now.
"Hehehe Joe check out the Veedramon pack" Gomamon chuckled and whispered to his partner.
Joe looked toward the pack and did have to subdue a slight snicker. The pack dropped their jaws at the sight of Exveemon shortly after Agumon finished digivolving into Greymon.
"I've gotta wonder why they seem so surprised" Izzy monologued to himself. Joe turned to look at his best friend in amusement.
"I don't Izzy. I'm just surprised any digimon in this universe can be shocked" Joe stated rolling his eyes.
"Actually Exveemon is quite the legend in our universe"
Everyone in the group turned to Bokomon who had spoken those words even Exveemon and Greymon displayed a little bit of surprise.
"Wha?" Davis so fluently articulated.
"Really I am?" Exveemon floundered.
"Exveemon is known as an ULTRA rare sub species digivolution in our universe. In fact Exveemon is so rarely seen that this Veedramon pack probably thought you were just a myth until now." Bokomon laughed.
"Heck I thought Exveemon was a myth until now" Bokomon confessed proceeding to laugh even harder.
"That's right you weren't there during our dinner story back in Ophanimon's castle you were still updating my laptop" Izzy stated with a somewhat guilty tone to his voice, when he realized Bokomon put off spending time with his team for him.
"That's correct master Izzy, and I must say that I and obviously the Veedramon pack are impressed very much. Because in our world Veedramon is the common place Veemon champion evolution." Bokomon finalized.
"Ha! So this is the first time someone on our team gets to be the rarity. To bad it's Exveemon" Gomamon goaded earning groans, and laughs at the same time.
Although once Exveemon and Davis returned from their gushing/ boasting moods Gomamon immediately was graced with their lovely glares.
To which Gomamon took with a smarmy smile, and Joe took with a nervous laugh.
"Gomamon these are the moments where I really hate you sometimes" Joe thought with slight despair.
"Raaarrrrww" The head Veedramon growled tapping his foot on the ground now beside his sky blue shade companion.
"Oh right what's the challenge?" Exveemon stated getting back into the serious mode.
"Humph!" The head Veedramon snorted pounding his fist into his chest and pointed at a couple nearby rock precipices.
"The test is consists of either one or two different kinds challenges of that exhibit physical strength and or endurance. For the first test he wants to see how well the two of you do at smashing those rocks." Takuya gestured pointing to them.
Joe mouth corked in suspicion he had a feeling there was more to it than Takuya explained.
Sure enough his worrywart nature was in the right here.
"However there is a time limit on all these test. The time you guys have to destroy the all rocks will depend on how long it took these two to destroy the rocks, but the good news is you guys are allowed to use your typed attacks" Takuya reasoned a sheepish smile on his face as he watched the others expressions.
However more of the group remained optimistic this time at the mention Greymon, and Exveemon were at least aloud to use attacks without facing persecution.
Still there were a couple of exceptions…
"A time limit?!" Joe shouted in disbelief.
"Hey relax Joe, they at least can use their attacks!" Gomamon stated brightly having complete faith in his friends.
"Yeah…" Joe said still sounding a bit skeptical.
"I'm with Gomamon on this one Joe. Plus their attacks are all updated remember?" Tentomon reminded the two boys who began to have semblances of a smile on their faces.
"That's right I almost forgot good thinking Tentomon!" Izzy exclaimed happily reaching out his for laptop and turning it on.
"Before they begin I'm going to go brief them on the type of attacks they can both do now. Hopefully we don't run into any 'problem" attacks this time" Izzy told Joe before running off to the front of the group with Tentomon where Greymon, Exveemon, Tai, and Davis were still getting ready.
"I think you're counting maybe counting our chickens to soon Izzy, but I hope you're right," Joe mumbled quietly as not to attract attention form his smart mouth partner.
A while later Joe stood along with everyone else to the side as they prepared to watch the trials. Gomamon even remarked that they should've brought popcorn for the occasion.
Joe shook his head fondly at his jokester of a partner. However his mind was thinking of more serious matters.
Like hoping Greymon, and Exveemon didn't strain themselves to hard and get injured, or worse have a moment where they may not be able to properly use their moves right and cost them the trials.
"But I definitely don't want them to get hurt above anything else. I mean Koji and Bokomon are great healers but what if they cant heal them.." Joe thought his mind reeling.
It wasn't that or didn't have confidence in either Koji or Bokomon healing abilities. They were phenomenal, but Joe was worried about a time when he would be depended on to be the entire group's healer if Bokomon or Koji weren't around or worse incapacitated.
But when Joe was honest with himself he knew that wasn't quite his entire real fear.
No his true fear was how he go about treating the warriors if Koji or Bokomon were too injured or absent to do it themselves, heck he was even afraid of treating the other humans and digimon if their injuries were too harsh as well and he had no backup.
After all he had no knowledge of how to treat half digital half human beings, and besides that with seeing the brutal way they fought he had a horrible suspicion any injuries they might receive would be past mild.
They'd probably be exceedingly severe.
And he was still on the cusp of learning medicine as he had just entered medical college and was only a freshman.
"Could I really rise to the challenge if something like that happens?" Joe thought fearfully finally attracting the attention of Gomamon who was on the ground beside him.
"Hey Joe come on! The games are about to start and we gotta cheer our friend on!" Gomamon huffed at Joe.
"Oh right! Sorry pal just lost in thought" Joe smiled awkwardly before returning his attention to the fight.
Of course since he did that he didn't see the suspicious contemplating look Gomamon was giving him from his position on the ground.
With Izzy being the timekeeper the trials were underway. Many of the other digimon in the oasis area began to slowly pay attention as well eager to see how the rag tag group would do.
First the lead Veedramon and his second charged toward the jutting rock faces horns down. They rammed the rocks with exceptional precision and large cracks had already formed. Then both clawing at the rock for what Joe guessed was about a minute the two unleashed cries in unison.
They roared into the air as their fist began to glow and punch the small mountain in unison causing it to shatter into pebbles instantly.
"That was the attack called Hammer punch. Basically it's a superpowered Vee punch, looks like these guys think rather strategically if they waited for the perfect moment to use it." Izzy explained and complemented at the same time as his voice has an impressed tone to it.
"So how long was that Izzy" Tai asked rather impatiently.
"That was about two minutes and fifty seconds. So Exveemon and Greymon have to get either under or tie with that exact same time or they lose this round" Izzy announced.
Joe could hear Tai and Davis give small gulps.
He didn't blame them one bit for being nervous that was a fast time their partners had to beat.
With a nod to each other Exveemon and Greymon charged toward the rock they were assigned.
But upon closer inspection Joe could also see they were charging they're attacks.
"Fire Horn!" Greymon roared, as his entire top head became a flaming inferno.
"Cutter shot!" Exveemon shouted with his wings glowing a bright white.
"Woah that's awesome Greymon!" Tai cried happily in awe at seeing the attack.
"Go Exveemon show them what for!" Davis shouted actually jumping up and down excitedly at seeing his partner shine as well.
Joe smiled and starting cheering as well, his worrywart nature fading away in the heat of the moment.
The two collided into the rock harshly. Greymon's fiery head softening the rock a smidge, and Exveemon's attack giving the rock deep gashes from the air slices from his wings.
Joe had to admit so far the new attacks were very impressive. A flaming head charge and an air cutter attack were definitely not things to be taken lightly.
For about maybe forty seconds the two hammered away at the rock conventionally, until Joe saw them share a look.
"Must be preparing for the finishing blow," Joe thought now fully excited.
"Tail Smash!" Greymon shouted once more whipping his tail as hard as he could into the decrypting rock.
"Hearty Shatter!" Exveemon cried while both his arms began to become coated in a blue fire. Then Exveemon smashed them both into the ground creating a fiery earthquake with a crack that headed straight into the rock.
Upon contact with the blazing earth crack the rock precipice crumbled beneath the ground into the abyss.
Many of the group's jaws were dropped at the display of Exveemon's attack, well except for Davis who just went full on cheer crazy.
"Now that is something!" Gomamon breathed out with a hearty laugh and smile.
Joe could only nod; once again the display of new attacks was making Joe excited to know what Gomamon would eventually learn and to find out which warrior was his partner.
Of course the other partners and their digimon were all thinking that same thing at the moment.
"So what was the time Izzy?" J.P questioned getting everyone tense and back on track.
There was a silence for a moment until a happy announcement rang in the air.
"Greymon and Exveemon's time was two minutes thirty second! Twenty whole seconds faster!" Izzy said cheerful.
Greymon and Exveemon shared a smile, and the congratulations rang throughout the group.
Even the head Veedramon and his second seemed to be cracking a smile. The head Veedramon then huffed and waved his arms in a follow me motion.
"Looks like we're going to have to move well come on Gomamon let's go!" Joe insisted as his partner broke into a smile.
"Glad to see you finally excited again Joe!" Gomamon quipped following him.
The Veedramon pack and the rest of the group then moved a little ways off from the oasis for the second and final test.
"Wonder what they've got planned, I mean they look really serious this time dudes" Joe heard Kazu comment with nervous excitement in his voice.
Joe said nothing but continued to look out into the sandy horizon where Exveemon and Greymon were walking. Like him the rest of the group was at the top of a sand dune to watch the proceedings so they got a complete view of the horizon.
The head Veedramon roared into the air with gusto along with his second. They crouched down into the sand and stared intensely into the distance. Greymon and Exveemon who were a couple of feet away just look at each other in confusion.
"Hey Takuya what's happening now?" Rika demanded somewhat impatiently.
Joe's worrywart nature came barreling back as he saw Takuya's face shift to one of worried hesitance.
"Hmmm…This maybe the test they don't pass…" Takuya mumbled sadly.
Everyone was now fully alert even the recently woken up Monodramon.
"What do you mean? What are they going to have to do?!" Mimi questioned seemingly near hysterics.
"Uhhh..Let's just say I now see why Guilmon and I weren't chosen for their trial period. They must not sense any hesitation in us like they do those two." Takuya began to explain sharing a worried look with his team.
Joe noticed Takato and Guilmon share a moment after those words before Takato asked what was on everyone's mind.
"So what do they have to do!" Takato asked raising his voice now fully annoyed with the warriors for being cryptic.
Takuya turned to face everyone let out a breath and said…
"The Veedramon have put these two in an hunting competition. The second test is for them to successfully complete a hunt. They will both charge out at the same time when the prey is spotted, and whichever group gets the bigger kill wins." Takuya finally confessed.
Many of the digidestined's and their digimon's blood/data went cold, when they realized that their friends would essentially at least to them have to do pointless kills.
Joe his face white as a sheet now perfectly understood Takuya's concern. It's already been established the digimon in his group are not used to being this brutal or unnecessarily cruel.
Plus back in his dimension's digital world they unlike some of the other digimon in his home world never had a need to truly hunt. Especially when there were things like restaurants around.
Even the carnivore based digimon in Joe's group like Agumon, Gabumon, Gatomon, and even his own partner Gomamon would just eat fish or things like earth chicken. After all their digital world was more nonsensical and things like chicken, beef, pork just happened to be around.
Although once Joe slowly broke out of his stupor and looked to the others in the group, He noticed they seemed to be more along the lines concern than outright fear, and he could understand why.
The Tamer's and their digimon on the other hand seemed to be in agreement with Takuya's reason for why Guilmon wasn't picked for the competition. They had obviously been curious before but like Takuya said now the reason is clear.
Joe figured like the Guilmon/Growlmon in this dimension, Takato's Guilmon besides physical features differences and a more mild attitude in his rookie form when not being threatened, Takato's Guilmon was just as vicious as the one's here.
And the Veedramon knew it, that or they sensed it.
"I have to admit even I see the big red lug having no problem carrying out this task when he gets in the zone" Joe stated internally with morose.
So the head Veedramon wanted to test how strong the Exveemon and Greymon were morally/mentally as well as physically.
"I'll give to the guy, he's smart disguising it as another physical test. But now we have to see if these guys are up to it" Joe moaned.
"Joe…I don't think this will end well" Gomamon breathed out shakily.
Joe nodded his head in the no fashion.
After the toddlers had protested but were nonetheless shuffled away from the sight by Jeri, the rest of the gang waited at the top of the hill for whatever prey was supposed to be their target.
Sure enough a herd of digimon Bokomon identified as Brachiomon came marching across the horizon. The digimon were clearly based of real world Brachiosaurus. They had long necks, were taller than earth giraffes, white bump on all their heads, and appeared to have very calm demeanors.
However this type of digimon hasn't been seen in Joe's home dimension. So he's not to sure if his call of them having calm demeanors can be valid.
They also came in a variety of colors. The colors were mostly greens, blues, grays, tan, and orange, with stripes on their body being the opposite of their entire body tone.
But what made Joe feel sick were the sight of smaller Brachiomon among the large.
"Babies…" Joe heard Sora whisper in fear.
Joe noticed near the bottom Greymon and Exveemon flinched too, at the sight of the younglings. After the group had initially figured out what they were meant to do, Takuya had gone down and informed the two of their trial.
Needless to say they weren't too happy about it. Exveemon even suggested flat out forfeiting. But when Takuya reminded them the entirety of the oasis digimon would kick them out, and their group can't even go past champion level, plus they had to save "Gaias"…
The two reluctantly changed their tune.
Finally the hunt was underway.
The two Veedramon hidden by the immense sand dunes waited for stragglers or weak Brachiomon to be spotted. But when they spotted them the two Veedramon charged out faster than Joe ever expected them capable of.
They fired their V-nova blasts attacks piercing one of the Brachiomon's ankle areas causing it to roar in pain. Once the digimon was down they went in for the kill.
The second open his jaws and snapped the digimon on the legs, while leader jumped to the Brachiomon's head and did a Hammer punch attack. Of course that knocked the digimon right out and it fell to the group with a large thud.
The Brachiomon now out cold was prevented from fighting back and the two proceed to do the fatal move and hammer punched where the heart was on the Brachiomon together.
Killing him.
Joe and everyone else, besides the warriors who do this and have seen this done before, marveled at how quick and actually merciful the killing was. Because by knocking out the prey it wasn't conscious to feel any pain.
"They were showing Exveemon and Greymon that the killings don't have to be overly brutal. Gotta I'm the surprised the leader did that. He must feel somewhat sympathetic for them" Koji stated his voice hitched in surprise.
The digidestined were all shocked as well, that the head Veedramon actually took some sympathy on them. Joe agreed with Koji no one expected that. Now everyone just had to pray Greymon and Exveemon got the message.
Joe watched as the two reluctantly charged out into the now panicking Brachiomon herd.
They appeared to corner one of the Brachiomon and Greymon made sure he didn't escape.
"Fire Wall!" Greymon cried without the usual enthusiasm as a huge wall of fire appeared in front of the feeing Brachiomon blocking its escape route. Greymon then looked to be straining himself keeping the wall up.
"So those two must've decided on Exveemon giving the finishing blow" Joe commented out loud looking at the concern on Davis' face.
Exveemon appeared to be hesitating big time until Greymon losing strength yelled.
"Exveemon just do it, and make it quick before my fire wall goes down and we lose our chance!" Greymon yelled pain evident in his voice.
Exveemon nodded and closed his eyes, before crying out his attack.
"V-nova Blast!" Exveemon shouted his voice waning. His attack waned along with his voice. The attack barely had any aim or zeal, but luckily it still managed to hit the intended back ankles.
Joe and many others weren't sure if the attack nearly failed because of Exveemon's emotional investment or because it might have been a bit of a "problem" move.
Joe saw Exveemon cringed as the Brachiomon fell to it knees and cried in pain. Exveemon gathered himself and quickly flew over to the fallen Brachiomon and grabbed its head while rearing his arm back. Greymon in the mean time dropped the firewall now that the prey was captured.
He then marched towards the two incase Exveemon needed back up.
Joe and the others all frowned when they saw Exveemon stop mid punch and stare at the moaning Brachiomon. Even Davis couldn't convince his partner to finish the job, as he didn't want Exveemon to do it either.
But then to the surprise of many…
Greymon sensing Exveemon was not going to finish Brachiomon off took the liberty of doing it himself.
"Bit Fire!" Greymon cried as Joe swore he saw tears well up in Greymon's eyes. Greymon mouth became full of fire as he harshly bit down on the nearly unconscious Brachiomon's neck.
It was the fatal strike.
Brachiomon cried and wheezed for only a moment before going completely limp in Greymon's mouth.
Once sure the Brachiomon was dead, Greymon immediately dropped it from his mouth in distaste. The rest of the Brachiomon herd was long gone by now, although Joe thinks he may have seen a young Brachiomon stop and look back.
But he'd like to think he imagined that.
Greymon and Exveemon dedigivolved right after both with looks of sadness and shame on their faces.
There was no cheering only silence as Bokomon and J.P went down the sand dune to measure the kills. The Veedramon came up to Agumon giving him congratulatory smiles and roars.
Not that Agumon returned those sentiments at all.
The Head turned to Veemon and gave him a look of disappointment along with his second in command that actually pushed Veemon to the ground and pointed at him.
Davis tired of seeing his partner get treated poorly rushed down the sand dune along with everyone else who then followed.
"Hey stop that!" Davis cried running to place himself in front of his partner protectively.
The sky blue Veedramon did stop, but gave both of them an annoyed looked before returning to the Head Veedramon's side.
"Veemon are you okay?" Davis asked helping his partner off the ground.
"He called me a coward Davis…" Veemon said sadly tears in his eyes.
Davis' eyes widened.
"Wait you understood him?" Joe asked in shock.
"No…I felt it…" was all Veemon said before looking back down at the ground.
"Agumon and Veemon won by the way…" J.p said awkwardly returning from measuring the prey. The Veedramon nodded happily before mentioning for the group to follow them back to the oasis.
"This is the first time I think I would've liked losing Tai…" Agumon whispered sadly as Tai gave him a hug.
"I think they're going to be suffering an injury I'm not going to be able to fix Gomamon" Joe said sadly looking down to his frowning partner.
"I know Joe, I know…but we can try…"
Author's Note: There you guys go! The next chapter is the Crossing/ Connector out of the Kyoryu Desert. I decided to end the desert saga on more of a somber note as a hint for things to come.
Plus once again it's helping the digidestined group and digimon prepare for having to do more jobs like this in the future. And yes it is going to take Agumon and Veemon a while to stop feeling guilty.
Brachiomon is a canon digimon he's on the wikia and by the way all the moves used are canon . Although for Exveemon, I took some of the moves from Veedramon and gave them to him, because otherwise his only new canon move would've been Hearty Shatter.
And go to my Deviantart profile FusaoKenji when you all have the chance because Koichi's merged form is up!
Also I have a question for my readers today.
I was having a conservation with one of my friends about digital worlds and it got me to realize I like certain digital worlds more than others from certain seasons.
For my instance my favorite digital world comes from season 4 and I was never able to articulate why until recently.
It's because the Frontier digital world has the most history, both explained and unexplained. There are just so many open doors to it. I mean the Frontier digital world has social, war, and political history the first of it's kind in the digimon franchise.
Now the digimon adventure digital world is my third favorite because it was still in infancy during the time of both digimon adventure 01 and 02. But there were two really interesting slices of history being that Tai's group wasn't the first digidestined, and the dark ocean bit (which I'm still peeved they never explored…).
Then Tamer's digital world is actually my second favorite because it was the most hostile to me, but in a different way than the digidestined's digital world, because most of the danger didn't come from the monsters in that digital world.
But the digital world itself, with the data beams, the fall into the world, certain areas just collapsing. The world itself was more hostile than the digimon in it sometimes and that fascinated me and still does.
Seasons 5, and 6 I wont go into simply because I didn't get into those seasons like I did the first four. Not to say they didn't have very good high points, but I just didn't like them as much.
So my question to my readers is: What is your favorite digital world and why?
Anyway Please Review! FusaoKairi Out!