Chapter Two
A New Enemy Appears
Lexxy-'Me, Chase and Hikoti are stuck in this cave with our Digimon. The cave is being guarded day and night by Tyrannomon. All looks bleak, when I come up with the idea of sending a e-mail on Koti's computer, problem is, there's only one e-mail address on her computer-typical Hikoti!- anyhow, we send an e-mail to this Izzy kid who just happens to be one of the DigiDestined! Him and his other friends arrive with food. They ask us all about how we got here and other stuff. Hikoti wakes up from her fever, and Cunomon, Sulcromon and Lotomon DigiVolve to defeat the Tyrannomon. Wonder what's going to happen next!'
"I'm tired, I'm hungry, my feet hurt and I'm actually starting to sweat! Can't we take a break for a few minutes?" Mimi complained.
"We had a break five minutes ago." Chase pointed out.
"And five minutes before that." Hikoti continued.
"And five minutes before that." Lexx agreed.
"Come on. I'm tired! Please! Tai, please!" Mimi begged. Tai looked at her and then around everyone else who looked tired, but weren't trying to admit it.
"Since it is coming up to sunset and we've been walking all day, maybe we should get dinner started and camp here for the night. What d'you guys think." Tai said.
"Whatever." Matt replied, shrugging his shoulders.
"Fine by me." Lexx told him. "And I think I'm speaking for everyone." She looked at everyone who started doing their own thing.
"Good. Now that's settled, Chase, Lexx and Hikoti you guys go get the food along with Izzy and...Matt. Me and Tai will started building the fire. Mimi, you, Kari and TK start looking for stuff to burn in the fire, Joe, you look for a good place to eat and start making it clear. OK." Sora said taking charge. Everyone agreed and went off.
"Rolling Spines!" Cunomon yelled hitting a tree as fruits fell out of it. He had narrowly missed Chase and Sulcromon.
"Hey! Watch it, Spikey!" Sulcromon snarled kicking dirt over Cunomon.
"Try it yourself, lizard." Cunomon shot back. Sulcromon turned and faced him, her face looked like thunder.
"What did you call me?!" She demanded.
"Lizard." Cunomon answered coolly.
"That's what I thought you said. Fire Bolt!" Sulcromon yelled as a fire arrow appeared from her back and flew at Cunomon.
"Sulcromon! Cool it!" Chase snapped.
"Rolling Spines!" Cunomon yelled rolling at Sulcromon and catching her back.
"Cunomon! Stop it!" Lexxy yelled.
"Apologise! Both of you!" Lotomon told them.
"Or what?" The both said.
"Or poison gas attack...." Lotomon replied, with a sly look on her face.
"OK, OK. I'm sorry." Sulcromon said.
"Like you mean it." Chase said.
"I'm sorry Cunomon. I shouldn't have flamed you." She told Cuno, more sincerely.
"Apology accepted." Cunomon said, with a smug look of his face.
"Cuno!" Lexx said sternly.
"I'm sorry for hitting you with my spines. It was uncalled for." Cunomon said staring at the floor.
"Apology accepted." Sulcromon smiled and walked over to the holes she'd been digging.
"Those two...." Chase muttered to herself putting mushrooms in a pile. Matt appeared next to her chuckling to himself. "What's so funny?" She asked.
"Those two. They like that all the time?" He asked.
"They have an argument like that pretty much every other day. You get used to it. They get on, but....that's not the worst fight they've had. It's funny y'know, they do really like each other, if they could get passed the argument bit, they'd be the perfect Digimon couple." Chase replied laughing to herself.
"That is, if Digimon can have relationships." Matt smiled.
"Yeah." Chase smiled. She looked at him for a minute, concentrating mainly on his eyes. When he looked at her.
"What?" He asked.
"Huh? Oh nothing." Chase said going a light shade of crimson.
"You're weird." Matt chuckled and walked away. Chase stared at his departing back for a second.
"Oh please, I can practically see the drool!" Lexx laughed appearing to her left smiling broadly. Chase went back to perfecting the pile of mushrooms.
"I don't know what you're talking about Lexx." Chase said, trying not to blush.
"Oh yeah. You were drooling all over him!" Hikoti giggled joining in.
"Shut up!" Chase snapped. She picked the mushrooms up and walked back to where Sora and Tai were making the fire.
"In denial." Lexx declared.
"No doubt." Hikoti agreed nodding her head.
Later on as the kids all settled down to eat, things weren't so calm else where. Not far off, in the thick of the woods, Lichmon, a frog like Digimon with bludging yellow eyes was talking into a small pool of water, to his reptilian master, Basikmon, a fifty foot brown and dark green snake capable of causing death to any thing that looked at it's yellow eyes.
"Not to worry master. The children aren't safe as long as I'm watching them." Lichmon slurred.
"Good work Lichmon. Your valour will be greatly rewarded. What about the other three tagsss? Where are they? Are they being protected?" Basikmon hissed from the reflection on the water.
"Yes Master. With Jukomon guarding them, there is no way they could get the tags, unless he lets his guard down, which he never does." Lichmon replied.
"Good. Ssssend him in to finissh them off. Tonight!" Basikmon ordered. "Contact me again when the job hass been done!" He snapped and the reflection disappeared. Lichmon turned away, and walked to a tree trunk.
"Right Jukomon. Do what you're told. Don't let your guard down, and finish the children off." Lichmon snapped.
"Oh shut up. I don't need a little frog to tell me what to do." Jukomon, a sphinx like Digimon snapped and headed off into the woods.
"I'm just gonna go for a walk. OK." Chase declared standing up. Everyone looked at her, Lexx and Hikoti's faces weren't surprised in the least, they were smiling. But everyone else's faces showed concern or puzzlement. "What?"
"Are you at least going to take Sulcromon?" Matt asked in the most unpatronizing voice he could.
"I'll be fine. I won't be gone for a long time. But, if it would make you feel better, I'll take her. C'mon Sully." Chase said walking away.
"Coming!" Sully giggled running after her and slowing her pace as she got closer.
"Aren't you two concerned for her safety?" Matt asked glaring at Hikoti and Lexx.
"Nope." Hikoti said.
"Should we be?" Lexx smiled.
"Well, yeah. I mean there are loads of evil Digimon about, she could get hurt." Matt replied.
"If your so bothered why don't you just follow her?" Mimi suggested eyeing Matt slyly. Matt's mouth went dry and he looked round everyone's faces, all their eyes on him.
"I-err-well-erm-I....yeah." Matt said trailing off.
"Now that's settled. Chase does that a lot. She prefers to be by herself sometimes. She's a bit sensitive....on the matter, of her-"
"Lexx!" Hikoti interrupted. "Ex-nay on the amily-fay!" She whispered. Lexx looked at her puzzled. Hikoti raised her eye brows and mouthed 'family, not good!' to her. Lexx understood and smiled apologetically.
"Err....sorry, I guess I can't tell you. Come on Cuno, I'm bushed, lets go to bed. Night everyone." Lexx said hastily and walked off to the cave they'd found to sleep in.
"Yeah. It's been a busy day. See you in the morning. Come on Lou." Hikoti added just a hastily. She got up and followed Lexxy, Lotomon close behind.
"What was that about." TK said sounding like Matt.
"Sulcromon, I have a bad feeling that we're lost." Chase said looking into the darkness. Sulcromon appeared at her heels, the red bolt on her back spreading a warm red light over the place.
"Really. I figured that out when we passed the skull and cross bones!" Sully snapped.
"Where and when was that?!" Chase asked shooting her look.
"Never. It was a joke. So laugh, ha ha." Sully said with unconvincing confidence in her voice.
"Don't do that. Please, not right now." Chase told her in exasperation.
"Sorry." Sully said looking at the floor.
"Yesss....you will be sssorry." A voice said. It was barely more than a whisper.
"W-who's there?!" Chase said panic becoming visible in her voice.
"You were a very ssstupid girl, to wander away from the sssafety of your camp, your friendsss. But then again...I had been becoming very hungry." The voice said. Someone slithered round in the darkness. Bright yellow eyes visible through the darkness.
"Sulcromon...." Chase said quietly.
"Who are you!? I'm warning you!" Sulcromon yelled to the eyes. The voice began to laugh, a low cackling laugh and who ever it was slithered closer.
"And what isss a ssstupid dragon going to do.....you have no idea what power isss facing you." The voice hissed. "And now you'll never find out. JUKOMON!"
"Yes Master!" The sphinx-like Digimon yelled appearing in front of Basikmon.
"Holy-, Sulcromon, who is that?!" Chase yelled falling back.
"That's Jukomon! Everyone always thought he was a myth, but I guess he's not! All I know about him is that his attacks are very strong and it's been said that he has the power to kill Mega level Digimon!" Sulcromon said. "Chase I think it's safe to say, RUN!"
"Not so fast! I can't have you going back to tell your friends about my masters plans, can I?" Jukomon sneered appearing in front of them.
"Sulcromon, I think it's safe to say we're not going to get through this!" Chase uttered hugging her Digimon partner.
"You think right girl. Sands of-"
"Howling Blaster!" A stream of blue fire hit Jukomon who fell back on the impacted.
"Chase! Climb on! Lets get outta here!" It was Matt, riding on Garurumon.
"How, do you suggest, I do that!" Chase screamed.
"Don't ask questions! Just grab my hand!" Matt yelled back putting his hand out for her. Chase accepted and grabbing on the Sully, was pulled/pushed up by Matt and Garurumon. "Now hold on to me. We're going to get out of here!" Matt yelled. "Go!"
"NO! Sands of Time!" Jukomon yelled. A sand whirl wind appeared behind them and started following, close behind Garurumon, despite he was going top speed.
"Sulcromon DigiVolve! We'll go two ways, it'll confuse him!" Chase yelled over the wind. Sulcromon nodded and jumped off Garurumon's back.
"Sulcromon DigiVolve to.......Boltramon!" Boltramon spread out her wings and swooped off into the air.
"Hey! You forgot me!" Chase yelled as Boltramon flew back down.
"Jump off! I'll catch you!" Boltramon told her. Chase did as she was told and jumped, landing on Boltramon's back, just in front of her wings.
"Let's get rid of this over grown artefact!" Chase yelled.
"I'm with you!" Matt yelled back.
"Right! Arctic Freezer!"
"Howling Blaster!"
"Huh?!" Lexx said waking with a start. She looked around her to see everyone a sleep. But Chase and Matt weren't there. "Uh-oh.....Hikoti! Cuno! Everyone! Wake up! We've got an emergency!" Lexx yelled.
"Huh? Lexxy, go back to sleep." Tai said sleepily.
"NO! Chase and Matt are gone! So are Gabumon and Sully!" Lexxy screamed at the top of her voice. At this everyone woke up and looked out of the cave entrance where they could see blue, red and purple light. Plus a lot of yelling.
"Sands of Time!" Jukomon yelled again. The attack narrowly missing Boltramon who got out of the way just in time.
"That was to close. Keep a distance." Chase told her.
"I agree." Boltramon said and sharply turned away from Jukomon who was chasing after Garurumon and Matt, trying to hit them using his head butt attack.
"Arctic Freezer!" Boltramon yelled. An ice diamond appeared above Jukomon's head. It lowered itself around his head and cracked. Jukomon snarled and turned to Boltramon.
"Sands of Time!" He yelled again. This time a larger sand whirl wind appeared and started to followed her every move again.
"This is getting dumb! We're not going getting anything done!" Matt yelled to Chase.
"Matt! Can you see, I'm a little busy to argue right now!" Chase yelled back as Boltramon dodged another attack.
"Diamond Claw!"
"Headbutt!" Jukomon said slamming into Garurumon's ribs. Garurumon toppled sideways, Matt falling off his back and slamming into a tree and landing totally out of it on the floor, by Jukomon's huge feet.
"MATT!" Chase screamed. "Boltramon go low! I've gotta get him away from there!" Chase yelled.
"No! It's to dangerous!" Boltramon told her firmly.
"But he could die! Please Boltramon! Let me down! Or I'll jump!" Chase threatened.
"You wouldn't!" Boltramon snapped.
"Wouldn't I?!" Chase teased sitting side ways.
"OK! OK!" I'll let you down!" Boltramon yelled. "Garurumon! Keep him busy!"
"Oh yeah. That's easy." Garurumon said being slammed against a tree. Boltramon flew down and hovered above ground. Chase jumped off and ran over to Matt who was sitting up slowly, holding his head.
"Tai! Lets go! I don't think they can keep it up much longer! He looks powerful!" Hikoti, who was riding on Imensamon, called.
"Then you, Sora and Lexxy go. We'll be along in a couple of minutes. Keep him busy." Tai called back.
"Right! You heard him. Lets go!" Lexxy said. "Come on Sartomon."
"Tai, do you think Matt and Chase will be OK?" TK asked, obviously frightened for Matt's safety.
"Well-"
"Don't worry TK. They'll be fine. Right Tai?" Mimi butted in.
"Yeah. Yeah, they'll be fine." Tai said smiling weakly.
"Matt! Come on! We've got to move! It's to dangerous to stay out here!" Chase said quietly shaking Matt's shoulders. "Chase, why are you so concerned?" Matt asked, getting unsteadily to his feet.
"Because, you got badly hurt. Now come on." Chase said glancing at the cut on his arm and allowing him to lean on her.
"Where do you think your going?!" Jukomon said appearing in front of them.
"How did?!" Chase began. She looked round and saw both Garurumon and Boltramon, battered and bruised laying on the ground.
"They were easier than I thought. Then again, it was a fun chase too. And know, it's time to kill two birds with one stone." Jukomon laughed. "Sands of Ti-"
"Giga Blaster!"
"Not again!" Jukomon snapped looking round. There was MetalGreymon standing in front of everyone else and their Digimon.
"Hey Chase, how's it hanging?" Lexx smiled.
"Lexx! Boy am I glad to see you!" Chase grinned.
"Lets take him! MetalGreymon!" Tai yelled.
"No problem! Giga Blaster!" MetalGreymon yelled.
"Come on Matt, let's get outta here while we still have the chance." Chase said.
"Why are you doing this? I thought you hated me." Matt said.
"No. This is pay back. You saved me, I save you. Plus, I care about you....."Chase said helping him sit down. He looked at her in a surprised way. "About everyone. I'm always wondering, will we get passed this danger, or is this the end. Now, you wait here. I've gotta go help." She smiled and ran off towards Boltramon who was standing up again.
"We're friends.....me, a Chase. She, cares, about me. No one's ever said that to me. Not even mom, or dad. Not even TK." Matt said to himself. "So why is she saying it.....ugh...GARURUMON!" Matt yelled as his crest began to glow.
"Garurumon DigiVolve to....WereGarurumon!"
"WereGarurumon?" Chase said climbing on to Boltramon.
"Gabumon's Ultimate state, I guess Matt made him DigiVolve because he feels the same way you do." Boltramon said. Chase stopped getting on and smiled.
"Hello! Earth to Chase! Move it or lose it!" Hikoti yelled.
"Let's go Boltramon!"
"No complaints here!" Boltramon said taking off.
"Everyone surround him and fire at the same time! We have got to get him when his guards down!" Tai yelled to everyone from off of MetalGreymon's shoulder.
"Giga Blaster!"
"Wing Blade!"
"Tsunami!"
"Start Shooter!"
"Arctic Freezer!"
"Garuru Claw!"
"Flower Cannon!"
"Vulcans Hammer!"
"Celestial Arrow!"
"Hand of Fate!"
"Horn Buster!" All the Digimon fired their attacks at Jukomon who yelled as they all hit him. The dust cleared and he'd gone, made into data. In his place were three necklaces. The Digimon de-DigiVolved to their rookie forms whilst Izzy, Matt and Tai ran forward to examine the necklaces.
"Where do you think you're going?!" Chase said grabbing Matt's good arm. "You have got to rest!" She snapped.
"But, those necklaces, there tags. Yours, Hikoti's and Lexxy's tags." Matt explained.
"I don't care! You have got to rest up. I'll put some dressing on that when we get back to camp. OK." Chase smiled lightly and turned to Lexxy and Hikoti who were examining the tags.
"They're really cool! So what do they do again?" Hikoti asked, after examining her tag for the second time. Tai sighed in exasperation. This would be the fourth time he'd explained.
"The tags are were your own personal tag is held. It glows when the crest is near. Your crest and tag react with each other when your crests meaning has been fulfilled. The crest allows your Digimon to DigiVolve to their ultimate level. OK!" Tai said resting his head in his hands.
"Great." Lexxy smiled and stifled a yawn. "I'm going back to bed. It's been a busy night." She said getting up. Hikoti and everyone else followed, except Matt and Chase. Chase was patching up Matt's wound, which he was making a lot of fuss about.
"Oh, for God's sake! Do shut up! It may hurt, but it's already beginning to heal! So it's not deep, just quite...big and...bloody." Chase said. "Now hold still. This might sting a little." She said quietly soaking a piece of cloth with antiseptic.
"What d'ya mean-OW! THAT HURT!" Matt yelled as Chase rammed it on the cut.
"If you'd hold still, it wouldn't hurt as much!" Chase yelled back.
"So, I see we're back to hating each other again." Matt said glaring at Chase who glared straight back.
"If that's how you want it to be then fine!" She snapped taking cotton wool and a bandage out of Sora's first aid kit. Matt said nothing in return. But something caught his eye, something Chase was wearing.
"What's that?" He asked pointing to the small silver locket around her neck.
"A locket, what's it look like?" Chase said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
"I can see it's a locket. What's in it?" Matt asked.
"Pictures....of my parents." Chase replied quietly putting the cotton wool on the wound.
"Oh yeah, that reminds me. Lexx was saying about why you may have walked off earlier, said something about your family....back Hikoti told her not to, what's that about?" Matt asked.
"You promise not to tell anyone." Chase said fiddling with the bandage.
"I promise." Matt replied softly. Chase raised her head and shrugged her shoulders.
"My parents...were killed....in a car accident. I get sensitive about it, and sometimes like to be by myself to think about it." Chase said simply.
"What happened?"
"I must've been four when this happened, my sister Darby must've been.....thirteen. Me and my family, had been out, for the day. It had all been going great, when my dad was backing into the drive, a car came hurtling around the corner, must've been doing at least eighty. Took the front of our car clean off. My sister and I got out with cuts and bruises. The worst the driver got was a broken arm and cuts on his head." Chase stopped as she sniffed back tears. Her shoulders shuddered and she sighed. Matt put a comforting hand on her shoulder at which, Chase put her hand on top of it.
"Mom and dad, both died, on impact. There would've been no way to save them. Darby and I were put up in an orphanage and up for adoption. Darby got adopted by a really nice family, they wanted to take me too, but Darby didn't want me to go with her, she'd always hated me. A few weeks later I was adopted too, by a total wash up family. I swear, I was the cleanest thing in the house when I first went in there. The father used to come home drunk at least five times a week and beat me up, see, he was a violent drunk. The mother wasn't any better. She used to laze about the house all day drinking white wine or vodka and tell me what to do. She'd never lift a finger. Their son, Arnold, to them picture perfect, they never saw the side of them I did. He used to beat me up and use me as a punch bag." Chase stopped again, this time her shoulders shuddered even more violently and a tear dripped off the end of her nose.
"He used to beat you up?" Matt asked in awe.
"Yeah. No one used to do anything about it. School, when ever I went, was just as bad. I had no friends and that was either because of Arnold telling them I was an inbred. A mongrel, he once said I was the spawn of Satan, which I had a bit of fun with for a little while. Or it was because I was smarter than them, I always had my nose in a book and was reading almost all the time. They didn't even remember my birthday, when I turned five. That day I decided to run away. Packing everything I had, which wasn't much, into a bag and left through the front door, right in front of Arnold's mother. She didn't notice at all. I lived on what I could for as long as I could, until one day, this guy, Mr. Fugiama he took me in and looked after me. He was the guy that let me go on a totally different camp to you guys. I'd lived next door to Lexxy y'see and we were friends, Lexxy told me about this artist camp or something like that, and because she is really good at drawing and I'd like to learn to draw, we went. Whilst we were there we were sucked in to the Digital World and have been looking for a way out ever since." Chase finished with a thoughtful sigh. She wiped the last of her tears away with the back of her hand and went back to bandaging Matt's arm.
"Can I see the locket? The inside of it." He asked. Chase nodded, and unclipped it. She handed it to him and took another bandage from Sora's kit. She looked different without her locket. It was almost as if it was a part of her. Matt opened the locket carefully and saw two pictures. One of a black haired man with light blue eyes, and the other of a copper haired woman and green eyes. She had the same shape face as Chase and was smiling in exactly the same way.
"You look a lot like your mom." Matt said smiling.
"Thanks. People usually say I look like my dad, cause we have the same eye colour and everything, but Darby, from the last time I saw her, looks more like him and I've always thought I looked more like my mom." Chase smiled weakly and looked back at the ground. Matt handed the locket to her. She took it and clipped it back round her neck and started folding the unneeded bandages up.
"Chase...you miss them, don't you? I mean, of course you miss them, what I mean is, oh God! I'm sorry, I mean-thanks." Matt stammered getting up, he started walking away, debating in his head weather to look back or not.
"No problem." Chase uttered quietly, her blue, tear filled eyes staring into Matt's back. Matt did look back, their eyes were caught in a gaze for a few seconds, when Chase looked away and stood up. She turned her back to Matt and looked into the dark. She gripped onto the locket and muttered something. Matt walked up to her and tapped her shoulder. She looked round and smiled. "Sort your speech problem out?" She asked smiling lightly.
"Yeah." Matt replied.
"So what did you want to say?" Chase asked.
"I care about you too." Matt said simply. Chase looked at him, surprised y this out burst. Yet she smiled and flung her arms around his neck, so as to give him a hug. Matt, was thrown aback by this and didn't know exactly what to do. But he let her hug him and grabbed on to her hands as they left his neck. "We're friends, now, right?" He whispered leaning his forehead on hers.
"I guess so." Chase replied just as quietly.
"Just one more thing left to do." Matt said.
"What's that?" Chase asked puzzled.
"This." Matt said quickly and kissed her. They pulled away from each other, Chase surprised and Matt embarrassed. To his surprise she smiled and dropped her hands from his.
"I'm going to go to bed. I'll change the dressing tomorrow before we set off, OK." Chase said and started walking back. Matt stared at her, when she looked back smiling. "Coming?" She said holding out her hand. Matt smiled and ran up next to her and took her hand.
Lexx-'So, now we've got our tags, hopefully we'll find or crests soon! I hope so anyway! I can't wait to see Cuno's Ultimate stage! And another, Hikoti is not going to lay off this Chase and Matt thing. But if you ask me, Izzy wants to be more than friends with her. It's be kinda cute too, since she is smaller than him. Also knowing our new enemy is a huge snake with yellow eyes that are capable of killing, is not something we're finding easy to sleep on. But once we can all get to the ultimate, they'll be no stopping us!'
