A.N.:Sorry I haven't posted in forever. I started just Started a Stem School this year and it was pretty stressful and totally killing any hope of my working on this. However I have a break coming up so I'm hoping to get to work on the next chapter some. Happy Holidays!
A few hours later, the group of kids decided it would be best to keep moving away from Fangmon's den. In the end they made their way through the forest and as they walked away from the mountain. The part of the forest they wandered into had road signs posted all over randomly. All of the sudden a dark shadow paaes over head and made a terriable rukus. Harriet ducked down at the sound of it and covered her ears.
"Wha- Hey!" Sora cried almost immediately.
"Whoa, did you hear that?" Tai asked.
"It's alright, Harriet, it's gone now." T.K. said and pulled Harriet up.
"It sound like some sort of aircraft." Matt said, trying to focus on the thing as opposed to the two children.
"It seemed like a big flying gear." Sora commented and looked towards the sky.
"Admit it, my alien theory is becoming more plausible." Izzy said.
"Yeah, they hit us with an anti-gravity ray to make us all crooked!" Joe shouted from where he was studying the road signs scattered about.
"Or maybe that signs just crooked?" Tai suggested.
Harriet and the older kids climbed a small hill with ease. T.K. stepped on a branch and would have slipped if Tai hadn't grabbed him. "T.K." Sora yelled when she saw the younger boy slipping Matt turned back towards him and his eyes flashed with anger briefly, upset that TAi had helped his brother as opposed to him.
"Whoa! That was scary!" T.K. said after he was set down.
"Watch it! That could've been a snake, or worse!" Tai scolded.
"Oh boy, I'm sorry. Hey Biyomon, are there really snakes here?" T.K. asked.
"No, just giant flying killer bugs and other unpleasant digimon." Biyomon responded chipperly.
"Don't worry T.K., I'll take care of them!" Patamon declared proudly, puffing up a bit, making T.K. laugh and hug him.
"Okay, now that's settled, let's get going." Sora said brightly.
"Nothing's settled, and where would we go? We don't even know where we are!" Matt snapped, eyes focusing on T.K. behind him. Why can't I protect him?
"This is silly, I say we keep moving and see if we can find any signs of intelligent life form." Tai interrupted before couldn't turn into a shouting match.
"Hey wait a minute, is he saying that digimon are not intelligent? Is that what he's saying?" Biyomon objected.
"Not at all. But I think Tai is right. We need to keep moving in hopes of finding out where we are. We need to stay calm and stick together. Let's remember, we're in this together." Sora said closing her eyes.
"Together sounds good!" Biyomon agreed happily and nodded her head to reconfirm it.
"That sounds wonderful, Sora, but-" Harriet interjected softly.
"We can do it! This'll take teamwork. And I'm sure we'll figure out exactly where we are and how to get back. There's no point in splitting up because then, once somebody did figure it out, we-" Sora continued, not noticing Harriet's interruption.
"Hey, Sora? Open your eyes." Biyomon interrupted loudly. Sora opens her eyes to see what Harriet had tried to point out. That everyone was leaving them behind. The four of them jogged to catch up to them.
"Well thanks for waiting!" Sora yelled indignantly.
"Moving right along folks, keep it moving. Our next stop on the tour will be the forest of irrelevant road signs. No pictures, please!" Matt jokes sarcastically, apparently over his outburst, making T.K. and Harriet giggle at very least.
"We're lost and these guys are making jokes." Sora said disapprovingly.
"Tis better to laugh than cry." Harriet told her, with wide eyes.
"Wha-What?" Sora spluttered.
"It's better to make jokes than to focus on the fact that it's just the 8 of us, lost in alone in a brand new world, without any help besides our partners, with monsters that seem eager to kill us or do serious harm." Harriet replied and flounced off to walk beside Izzy.
"Hey wait up, my shoelace is broken." Joe called. Harriet skipped over to him and undid the ribbon in her hair and gave it Joe.
"To use as a lace." Harriet told him and ambled off.
"You need new shoes. Oooh new shoes!" Mimi squealed.
All at once, the forest thins out into a large desert with telephone poles traversing it. The broken wires sung lightly in the whispering breeze.
"Look! Telephone poles. I say we follow them and see where they lead!" Matt shouted and pointed to them.
"They'll just lead to trouble." Joe muttered.
Despite Joe's protests, they ended up deciding to crossing the vast desert. As they passed through another black gear passed over head, though it wasn't nearly as noisy.
"Look, the alien saucer again!" Izzy shouted and pointed towards the giant gear again.
"And it's headed for a close encounter." Matt shouted and they all watched as it crashed into a grass-covered mountain in the distance.
"Come on we should keep going." Tai said and they continued on.
Around noon the kids reached the middle of the desert and everyone was affected by the extreme heat. T.K. had ditched his shoes to walk in his socks quite a while ago. Izzy wiped the sweat off his forehead and sighed.
"What's the matter, Izzy?" Harriet asked him.
"Hmm, nothing it's just very hot." Izzy said.
"Mhmm, when it gets this hot in the summer, sometimes Aunt Petunia lets me play in the sprinkler if Uncle Vernon isn't home." Harriet said brightly and grinned widely.
"Boy, it's so hot I can feel the heat coming up through my socks." T.K. complained.
"Well, T.K, maybe you should boot your shoes back on." Matt said somewhat harshly.
"Oh, but Matt, it's too hot for shoes." T.K. whinned.
"So keep them off." Matt snapped.
"Either way, your feet are going to be hot, so why don't you chose which one is more comfortable, okay?" Joe suggested.
"Okay." T.K. replyed and went with just staying in his socks.
"Oh, this hot hot desert air is destroying my complexion. How much further is it?" Mimi whined. "Is that all you're worried about, Mimi? We'll be lucky if we even survive this hike!" Joe yelled. "Hey, does anybody besides me see that these telephone poles have no connecting wires?" Sora asked, completely obvious to the potential argument stirring up. Harriet looked at her like she was stupid from where she was walking up by Tai. "She's right. Maybe they're some odd alien equivalent." Izzy said. "Hey, remember those phone booths? And that streetcar?" Mimi asked suddenly. "Yeah, what about 'em?" Izzy asked. "Oh, nothing. I was just wondering if anybody else remembered." Mimi said. "They're all from back home." Harriet stated like it was obvious. "That's it! Doomed! The heat has baked our brains and we're all gonna end up like roasted piglets!" Joe shouted. "Just remain calm, Joe. We've only been walking for a few minutes." Izzy told him. "Izzy! Come here, Izzy. I think we'd better find some shade for Joe. And quick." Tentomon said. Harriet pulled a baseball cap out of her bag and hopped over to Joe. "Joe, 'ere's a hat for you!" Harriet said brightly. "Thank you, Harriet. But don't you want it?" Joe asked her. "I don't like hats." Harriet said and bounced away.
"Hey! You won't believe what happened to my favorite watch!" Mimi called. "Hmm? What?" Joe intoned. Mimi held up a compass and laughed. "The sun melted the numbers right off." Mimi says and laughs again. "Mimi, for somebody who hates hiking, you sure have a lot of compasses. Of course, none of them actually work." Tai said as he looked at the compass. The compass's needle teters back and forth for a second before it begins spinning rapidly like a top in the compass. Izzy picked up some of the dirt and examines it. "Oh, this dirt contains small traces of metal which could affect the compass needle." Izzy said after he finished his analysis. "Oh well. I'm always late anyway." Mimi said obliviously. "This is one weird world and I don't like it one bit!" Sora yelled suddenly without much explanation. "I think we should start looking for water, guys. Otherwise, we could dehydrate in all this heat." Izzy said ignoring Sora's outburst. "Yeah. But we're doing okay for now, aren't we?" Tai replied. "Can't Tentomon just find water for us again?" Harriet asked as she peeked around from Tai. "I have to be relatively close to water to be able to find it. Unfortunately there's no water in this desert." Tentomon replied. Izzy had a weird impression that Harriet was trying to avoid him. "Heeeeeelp! Somebody please find us!" Mimi shouted towards the sky.
The black gear the kids had seen crash into a mountain grinded against the rocks it smashed into and a fiery figure growls.
"I've taken this soil sample, measured the barometric pressure, and analysed the relative humidity." Izzy said after a couple of more minutes walking. "And what did you find out?" sora asked. "It's really, really hot." Izzy said grumpily. "Hang on, just a bit longer. Don't give up now!" Tai encouraged despite not knowing how much longer they would be in this never ending desert.
"We're gonna be okay, just keep moving." Mimi piped in. Harriet had taken to standing behind Joe as he was the tallest and therefore casted the longest shadow.
"My head is baking. If this goes on too much longer, I'm going to look like a wilted salad!" Palmon complained.
"Here, you wear my hat for a while. You need it more than I do." Mimi said and placed her giant pink cowboy hat on Palmon's head to give her some shade.
"Thank you, Mimi." Palmon said.
"Pee-yew! What's that yucky smell?" T.K. asked.
"Here's a thought. Now you know why they call them sweat socks!" Matt responded from the front of the group behind his little brother.
"This beach would be a lot more popular if it
just had a couple more things. Like, an ocean, a gentle breeze, snack bar, hunky lifeguards..." Mimi laughs. Biyomon suddenly stops walking and everyone turns back to here.
"Hold it, I have to stop. I just don't think that I can go any faster." Biyomon responds.
"You just have to think positive. Let's all pretend that it's raining." Sora says cheerfully. Harriet can't help but wondering if Sora is honestly that cheerful despite the heat and lack of water or if she was just pretending.
"Yeah, that;s a great idea! I simply adore the rain!" Biyomon shouts and dashes off ahead. Either way, Harriet decided, Sora was effective in her efforts.
"Me too, but it's time for a reality check. This isn't getting any better. It might be a good idea to turn around and get out of this desert right now!" Matt declares. Behind Matt, Joe hums and agreement.
"You mean before we all have a power outage? I'll vote for that." Tentomon voiced.
"Wait, hold on for just a second, everybody if I'm seeing what I think I'm seeing…" Tai says and trails off as he pulls out his mini-telescope.
"What is it, Tai?" T.K. asked while Tai stares off into the distance with his telescope.
"Mmm hmmm, it's not a mirage, it's real water!" Tai shouts.
"Water?" Biyomon asks.
"This is fantastic! Now all we need are some lemons, sugar, and some big fat ice cubes!" Joe cheers.
"That looks like a village! Maybe we'll find some people." Izzy suggests.
"And shade!" Palmon suggests, because despite the hat and following Harriet's example, she was still far to hot.
"Maybe they'll have hats for sale. Hang on!" Mimi cries happily.
"Water and food! I'm hungry to eat broccoli!" T.k. yells.
"What's broccoli? Is that a joke?" Patamon asks.
"Broccoli is a green vegetable. It looks kind of like a tiny tree, 'cept all green. Some people say it doesn't taste very good." Harriet replies.
"Do you like it?" Patamon asks.
"Food is food." Harriet replies and shrugs.
"Great! Let's get outta this desert!" Tai yelled and everyone takes off running towards the village.
The fiery face belongs to a digimon entirely made of fire, who is growling happily until the black gear frees itself from the rocks holding it and implants itself into the digimon's back and the digimon groans in pain.
The kids and their digimon reach the village that the saw while trespassing the desert but to their brief disappointment they find it inhabited by some very friendly Yokomons.
"From so far away it looked so big." Tai sighed.
"But they're so cute and tiny." Mimi squealed.
"Okay, question. Who here knows where we can get a drink?" Biyomon asked.
"And just what do big Digimon drink?" A Yokomon asked while examining Sora.
"Me? I'm no digimon." Sora protested.
"My friend Sora is what's called a human being. Yes, we know they look funny. In spite of this, they are all actually very nice." Biyomon said.
"What's a human being?" Some of the Yokomons cried.
"If you're not a digimon, what are you doing here in the digi-world?" Another Yokomon asked.
"What kind of Digimon are?" A Yokomon asked Dracomon.
"I'm a Dracomon. I'm not from this part of the Digi-World." Dracomon replied.
"There's different parts of the Digi-World?" Harriet asked.
"Well, yes, though I should say planes." Dracomon replied.
"Planes?" Harriet asked in confusion.
"So all the other digimon are from this plane. Just think of the planes as parts of your world. All the other kids are from a different place, right? That's what it's like for me." Dracomon explained.
"Mmhmm. They're all from Japan but I'm from England." Harriet replied.
"This is great. There's no way we are all going to fit in this place." Joe whined.
"Relax, Joe. At least the natives here a friendly." Tai said while the Yokomon swarmed around them.
"Oh, my! I would just love to take one home and put it on my bed with all my other stuffed animals." Mimi squealed while looking at all of the Yokomons.
"There she goes again. Do you think Mimi hears the same things we hear? I'm not sure anymore." Matt said while studying the pink-loving girl.
" Maybe she's an alien spy." Izzy said and began studying her as well.
"That's not very nice. At least she's sincere about things.." Harriet protested.
"T.K. is tired and hungry!" Patamon informed the Yokomons.
"He's not the only one." Joe said.
"Biyomon, just when did you digivolve?" The apparent leader of the Yokomons asked.
"When I met Sora. We share a special bond which is magical." Biyomon explained proudly.
"And we got attacked by a monster." Harriet muttered under her breath.
"You don't talk like us anymore. Is that how all Biyomon talk?" The leader asked, continually it's questioning.
"No, it's how the big ones talk. I suppose I just picked it up from Sora. She is a wonderful and kind human being and I've already learned a lot from her." Biyomon responded pleasently.
" We still don't understand how you digivolved. What is it about being around human
beings that makes it happen?" Another Yokomon asked.
"Sora needed me. I had to protect her." Biyomon responded.
"She had to protect me?" Sora muttered from the other side of hut that she was sitting next.
" When she was in danger a power kept flowing through me. I didn't know what it was. I can't describe it, but all of a sudden I realized I'd digivolved." Biyomon continued.
"Wait a sec, now I get it. That's why she's
always following me around. Hmm. When Tai needed
him, Agumon digivolved to Greymon to protect him, and Garurumon did the same for Matt. They digivolve for us. We're lucky kids." Sora murmured and closed her eyes.
"We're invited to have dinner with the Yokos. They said they'd be willing to share their food with all of us." Biyomon said from where she now stood before her.
"Oh wow." Sora responded as the other kids cheered, Joe the most excitedly as he fist bumps the air.
"Raise your hand if you want lemonade." Joe shouted and kept his hand in the air.
"I wonder what Yokomon eat." T.K. said curiously.
"I'll take a cheeseburger, fries, and a shake!" Tai called happily.
"I wonder what they will be serving. Perhaps some bone with meat, lettuce topped with fish, and…" Izzy mused.
"Water, water!" T.K. shouted from over by a spring.
"Water?" Izzy puzzled.
"Look everybody, a fresh water fountain! Hurray!" T.K. shouted.
"Oh, the water here is piped in from a spring at Mihirashi 's the best water in the world!"
"Forget the world. Mount Mihirashi is the best in all the galaxy." declared Tentomon.
"May I have some?" asked Harriet as she peered into the water.
"Of course!" the Yokomon shouted.
Harriet quickly pulled out her water bottle and fild it back up.
"Thank you." Harriet said.
"You're welcome." The Yokomon said.
"Where's Mount Mihirashi?" asked T.K.
"Up there!" the Yokomon said gestured towards the mountain that the black gear crashed into.
"Hey, that's a live volcano!" shouted T.K. after he turned to look to look at the mountain.
"Yes, but the heat boils away all the germs." a Yokomon explained.
On the mountain, the fire digimon roars and it heats the mountain water. In the village a loud rumbling was heard.
"If I'm not mistaken that sound precedes an eruption." Izzy stated and Tai lunged forward and pulled T.K. and Harriet away from as the other kids screamed, and pulled them away from the fountain. A huge plume of far springs from the village fountain.
"Are you okay, Harriet?" Dracomon asked panickedly.
"I'm fine, Draco." Harriet told him. Dracomon opened his mouth to say something, but T.K. bet him to it.
"That's cool, but I still didn't get a drink." T.K. complained.
"Here T.K. you can have a drink from my water bottle." Harriet said and handed T.K. the bottle that she had filled with water.
"What's happening?" Tai asked.
"The water evaporated!" one of the Yokomon said.
"That's okay because the lake is always full of water." Another Yokomon told them.
"I'll go check it!" Tai shouted.
"Let's all go." Sora said and so everybody runs over to the lake.
The group reached the lake only to find it completely empty except a part of a sunken ship that stuck out from the center of the lake.
"The water's all gone!" Izzy said dumbfounded.
"Goodness, where did it go?" Mimi asked.
"Somebody pulled the plug!" T.K. declared.
"All right, let's not panic." Tai said and tried to sooth everybody.
Everybody walked back towards the village and grouped around the fountain that served as the village's well. Tai lowered a bucket tied to a rope down into the well. It falls and crashes to the ground.
"Dry as a bone." Matt commented.
"I won't give up." Tai shot back and started pulling the rope back up. When he finally finished he only found a singed end where the bucket had once been. Another column of fire shot out of the well. Tai jumped back as quickly as possible and started hopping from foot to foot.
"Look. Tai's doing a dance for us! Is that supposed to stop the fire or bring down the rain?" Mimi asked cluelessly.
"Hey! Do you remember that flying gear we saw earlier?" Matt asked suddenly.
"It crashed right into a hillside." Izzy responded.
"That hillside was Mount Mehighrashiey, Izzy." Harriet told him, unable properly pronounce the name.
"Great. Of all the hillsides out there, the gear crashes into Mihirashi Mountain." Sora groaned.
"That's the place the water comes from!" Joe shouted, stating the obvious.
"That's right. The water comes from a lake on top of Mount Mihirashi. So a gear crashing into the mountain could affect our water supply." The leader of the Yokomon said.
"Mmmm hmmm." Izzy hummed in agreement.
"We don't dare go up there. The mountain is guarded by a fiery digimon called Meramon. He is Hideously dangerous." Another prominent Yokomon said.
"I want a closer look at that mountain," Tai said and pulled out his pocket telescope. "You say this character Meramon is a fiery digimon? What does he look like- nevermind, there he is! He's coming! He's coming our way."
"He burns up everything he touches! He never comes off the mountain, though. This is strange behavior for him." The leader told them.
"Oooh, I'm burning…. Too hot!" Meramon shouted from where he was sliding down the mountain, his yells carrying all the way across the desert to the village.
"Meramon is a fiery digimon. There's no reason he should be in pain from his own flames. That's his nature." Palmon said.
Meramon was sobbed from the pain of the black gear burning into his back, not that the kids knew that.
"This is weird. He's crying!" Tai exclaimed.
"Burning!" Meramon screamed.
"Sounds like he's out of his mind with pain."
"You can make, him better, can't you, Joe?" Harriet asked Joe and looked up at the older boy.
"I don't think so, Harriet." Joe told her.
"What should we do?" Tai asked as they all watched Meramon approach.
"Look he's coming straight to the village!" Sora shouted and pointed towards Meramon.
"Hey everybody, we'd better decide what we're going to do." Biyomon told them. "I've seen him move so fast. He's already reached the foot of the mountain, and he's starting to enter the forest!"
"Everybody, freeze! Stay very still." Sora commanded confidently. Everybody in village followed her instructions and stood motionless like statues. Meramon continued straight towards them. Black gear had burrowed so far into his back it had corrupted him with darkness.
"You're gonna need more than sunscreen to stop me!" Meramon shouted.
"Don't move a muscle!" Sora whispered forcefully.
"Agh! Burn, burn, burn!" Meraon shouted as he speed through the forest, igniting the trees with fire.
Tai stumbled forward on them and Meramon, who had just reached the start of the dessert locked his focus down on them.
"Ah! Unfreeze! And run!" Tai shouted, sending panic rippling through the village inhabitants.
"Onto the boat, that's into the lake! Make your way to the boat, as fastly as you can but don't panic we have plenty of time before Meramon reaches us." Harriet shouted over the din, her plan and kind words, helping to soothe the frazzled nerves of the Yokomon. The group of digimon, their human partners, and the frightened digimon all ran towards the lake, while Meramon's evil laughs filled the air. The children and their partners all herd the Yokomon into the hull of the wrecked ship.
"Come on, keep it moving!" Tai shouted from by the hole in the ship that they were using to enter it with.
"All the way to the rear!" called Sora from the other side of the pack.
"Okay, settle down, there's room for all of you! Will you please stop squirming." Matt snapped from the bow of the ship, were he was helping to organize the Yokomon. When Matt had his back turned towards the stairs were Yokomon were being carried up by Joe and Izzy, Joe had climbed up there as well.
"Here's the next batch , Matt." Joe said, as the dozen of Yokomon he had been carrying jumped off of him and scrambled towards Matt.
"Easy now, you'll be okay." Tai said as he tried to soothe some of the last Yokomon in a very long line of them.
"Who's not here?" Sora asked Tai, though he couldn't here her over the noise the Yokomon were making. Sora complemented the rolls they had been giving. Matt and Mimi were helping to organize the Yokomon on the bow, Joe and Izzy were escorting them up to the two, and Harriet and T,K. were help securing them in the Stern in the ship with the help of the digimon, except for, Sora realized, Biyomon, who had wanted to make sure all the Yokomon made it down into the ship. "The Yokos… I'll take care of them!" The pink bird-like digimon had told her.
"This is bad! Run, come on!" Sora shouted as the laughs of Meramon got louder as he got ever closer. Sora looked up at the edge of the cliff that had once been the bank of the Yokomon's lake.
"Everyone keep moving, now. Just Follow the one in front of you." Biyomon told the Yokomon called gently to the yokomon as they jumped over the edge to get down to the lakebed.
"Biyomon, save yourself! Come down while there's still time!" Sora shouted up to her new friend.
"I can't leave until my friends are safe, Sora!" Biyomon shouted stubbornly back down to her.
"Alright. I suppose I'll just have to come up there, after you, then!" Sora shouted and started to run towards the edge Biyomon was standing upon.
"Hurry! Sora, you'll never make it!" Tai shouted after her, but didn't dare leave his position to go after her. Joe and Izzy were way too busy trying to find room to put all the Yokomon and there was no way the youngest two were going outside until this was over.
"Hey, where is Sora going?" Joe said, from up on the bow, but got no answer.
"Sora, come back!" Matt shouted at her, but Sora either didn't hear him, or didn't care, because she kept running. Biyomon had just helped the last of the Yokomon down when Sora reached the edge of the cliff. Biyomon surveyed the edge lakebed
"Ah, good. They're all safe now." Biyomon said.
"Watch out!" Sora shouted, as Meramon appeared behind Biyomon. "Biyomon, he's right behind you!"
"Go away, Meramon, leave us alone. We're not bothering you!" Biyomon shouted a the giant, fiery digimon. Meramon didn't reply verbally, but instead swiped Biyomon with his hand and knocked her off the edge.
"Biyo! Biyo, I'm coming, Biyo!" Sora yelled and ran towards where Biyomon was falling and lept up to catch Biyomon before she hit the ground and they both tumble to the ground.
"Are you okay?" Sora asked Biyomon worriedly.
"Sure. i hope I do that again. It wasn't very fun." Biyomon responded. Sora laughed and picked Biyomon up in a hug.
"Thank you for coming to rescue me." Biyomon told Sora.
"Don't mention it. That's what a friend is for." Sora replied to Biyomon honestly.
"You can say that again. My friend." Biyomon said and laughed, both temporarily forgetting the danger that lurked up above them. Until of course, Meramon roared and both of them spotted the giant fireball forming in his hand.
"Uh oh. We're still in great danger, Sora." Biyomon told her.
"What?" Sora asked confused.
"You stay here." Biyomon ordered firmly. "It's my turn to rescue you now."
And with that, Biyomon flow up determinedly to hover eye level with Meramon.
"You think you're really hot stuff, well you're in big trouble now. Spiral twister! Ha!" Biyomon shouted at the fiery menace. Meramon is pushed back and takes several more hits from Biyomon.
"Okay, big red, take that! And that! And that!" Biyomon shouted and launched her attack thrice more.
"Is that the best you've have to offer, weakling?" Meramon taunted as he righted himself.
"We gotta help her. He's too big to handle!" Tai declared determinedly, eyes flashing.
"Yeah." Izzy agreed.
"Yeah!" Tai celebrated.
"Fireball! Catch!" Meramon shouted and lobbed his attack directly at Biyomon, who didn't even have a chance to dodge, as the fireball hit her and knocked her from the skies.
"Oh no! She's hit! Biyimon…" Sora cried out.
"Come on, everyone! We can beat that monster!" Tai rallied, and most of the group rushed to Sora and Biyomon.
"What we needed is teamwork!" Izzy added loudly.
"I'm ready. Give me your best shot!" Meramon taunted again.
All the digimon launched their attacks at Meramon. All of them connected but they only make things worse. Meramon grew stronger with each landed blow and with them he grew larger until he was as tall as the ship they had sought safety in.
"We need a fire extinguisher!" Joe said, barely able to keep from panicking.
"That made him bigger!" Matt stated in astonishment.
"Yeah." Joe agreed glumly.
"If we knew why he was crying, it might help to stop him." Tai stated logically.
"Uh, fire's not affecting him, I guess it's not heart heartburn" Izzy supplied unhelpfully.
"Maybe this monster just has growing pains." Matt quibbed.
"Growing pains?" Izzy asked inquisitively to see if Matt was being serious.
"Matt, this is not a time to make a joke!" Joe scolded.
"Maybe the black gear that crashed into the mountain hurt him." Harriet suggested.
"Harriet, you shouldn't be out here." Izzy told her.
"I wanna help. Maybe Draco will digivolve again." Harriet challenged.
"Draco?" Izzy asked.
"Dracomon." Harriet replied as if it should be obvious, ad hindsight it was.
"Better get ready because here I come!" Meramon shouted and started sliding down from the edge towards where Tai, Agumon, Izzy, Tentomon, Matt, Gabumon, Joe, Gomamon Harriet, and Dracomon had clustered around Sora and Biyomon.
"Sora? We're all in trouble now. Meramon can not be allowed to win. My friends need my help now." Biyomon said weakly, the fireball having taken a lot out of her.
"Ah!" Izzy cried as Biyomon was hidden in a glow of white.
"Biyomon digivolve to… Birdramon!" Biyomon called while she shone.
Birdramon, a huge bird of fire, swooped under Meramon and caught him before he could reach her friends below. Birdramon threw Meramon back on the edge.
"We're safe now. Birdrammon digivolved to rescue us." Sora told everyone confidently.
"What's wrong Birdramon? Afraid of me?" Let's fight! Here, have a ball!" Meramon taunted again and threw another fireball at Birdramon, which hits her square in the back and caused her to shriek awfully.
"Don't turn your back!" Sora shouted up to Birdramon. Meramon chuckles and as Birdramon moves towards him, he hits her head on with fireball after fireball.
"Birdramon, move away!" Sora all but screams to Birdramon. Birdramon heeded Sora's advice and flew far above Meramon. Her wings glittered, as Birdramon prepared to go on the offensive. Meramon's smirk, which he held all throughout their battle began to fade as Birdramon launched Multiple fireballs from her wings all at once. The fireballs all find their mark and force the black gear out of Meramon's back, where it explodes into millions of pieces. Meramon begins to shrink back to his normal his normal size.
"It was a gear!" Izzy yells when he sees the black gear being forced out of Meramon's back.
"I told you! I told you a the gear was hurting him!" Harriet exclaimed.
"It made him crazy." Izzy tacked on.
"Right!" Tai said.
"I suppose if you had a big black gear stuck inside of you, you'd act a little crazy, too. Poor guy." Matt muttered sympathetically.
"Yay! Biyomon did it!" Tai celebrated and pumped the air with his fist. Over all of their heads, Birdramon dedigivolved back into Biyomon, as everyone watches.
"Wow! Every time I'm in danger, Biyomon comes to my rescue! That's what I call a friend." Sora said softly.
"Are you alright? Oh, Sora!" Biyomon said softly and ran over to her and gave her a hug.
"Oh, B! I was so worried about you! You're great. I can't begin to tell you how proud i am of you." Sora told Biyomon and smiles at her.
"I wasn't even the least bit afraid. All I could think think about was saving you because… Well, you know." Biyomon told her excitedly. Biyomon and Sora hug once again and Sora smiles happily.
Just before the sunsets, everyone returns to the village. Meramon is already sitting there waiting for everyone.
"My apologies for the trouble I caused you. I'm very thankful that Birdramon was able to stop me before I hurt anyone." Meramon told the village inhabitants and guests sincerely.
"Meramon, why did you attack our village?" The leader asked.
"I couldn't stop myself." Meramon responded honestly.
"That must of been awful for you. If you weren't of in control of yourself, who was controlling you?" another Yokomon asked, out of turn.
"The last thing I remember is being hit by that gear." Meramon replied, the only response he could give.
"Well, we're just happy to see you back to normal. I hope that nothing like this ever happens again. You're needed to protect Mount Mihirashi." The leader said.
Not long after Meramon leaves for the long trek back to his mountain home, as the Yokomon and DigiDestined watched on.
"Goodbye, Meramon, may you always stay well." The leader said.
"Goodbye! And please try not to burn down our village anymore, okay?" the Yokomon who spoke out of turn called to Meramon's retreating figure.
"Hey! I just remembered you never got that dinner we promised you. You must be starving!" Biyomon said.
"My tummy is ready for action!" T.K. declared happily and Harriet hummed in agreement.
The Yokomon quickly went about preparing a meal for them. Soon the group was sitting down for the meal the Yokomons provided, which was a bowlful of some sort of seeds.
"What is this stuff?" Tai asked in disgust.
"Be polite and eat it. A gracious guest never insults is host's cooking." Mimi scolded.
"Hm, I can't tell if it has even been cooked." Tai muttered to himself
"Eat as much as you want. We have more than enough for seconds." Biyomon told them cheerfully.
"Yeah, well, there's probably a good reason for that." Joe muttered.
"You know, that's exactly what i was afraid you were going to say." Sora told him.
"It smells better than broccoli. Who knows, might taste better!" T.K. told Patamon and Harriet. "What do you think, Hari?"
Harriet blinked at him for a moment before she grinned at him.
"I think it's delicious." Harriet told him before turning to a yokomon. "May I have some more please?"
"Has anybody noticed? We talk a lot about food." Matt commented from where he was musing about getting seconds.
"Nah, I'm not hungry." Sora said.
"I'm skipping this one too. I don't like to eat on an empty stomach. Besides, I don't even know what this stuff is, but I'm pretty sure I'm allergic to it!" Joe told her. Sora laughed softly and looks over at Biyomon.
Posting date: 12/17/16
