Guilmon's Quest
Chapter Two : Strange New World
Guilmon looked around and tried to get used to his new environment. Impmon had already taken him to the digital world, and they had been walking for a few minutes. Impmon had been talking a bit, but most of it was under his breath. Guilmon had only caught a few things, and most of them delt with the D-Powers. He continued to think of seeing Takato again, and being able to play again. He gave a soft howl to the sky, and continued to walk, and his stomach began to growl, as he hadn't filled himself before he began looking for his Tamer. He was about to howl some more, when something caught him offguard. Off in the distance, he could see a few small rock-like creatures running around.
"Who they?" he asked, very curious of these new strangers. Impmon sighed, but explained.
"Those are Gotsumon. Dumb little bastards, but you may want to get to know them. They're going to help you find your little friend Lee." Guilmon got excited at this, and let out a howl of glee. Impmon shook his head again, and continued to talk. "You do realize though, that you're going to have to take his D-Power once you meet him, right?" At this, Guilmon stopped cheering.
"Could the plans change? Leemon keeps his D-Power?" he asked hopefully. To this, he received a smack across the face from a jumping Impmon. The little guy had to leap to reach Guilmon's face, but he still packed incredible power. Stumbling backwards, Guilmon whined. "Me sorry. No more plan changes. Guilmon is a good digimon and he keeps his promise." Impmon smiled.
"Your frind is in the mountains. The Gotsumon will help you look for him. And don't think I'm going to help. I have... other business to attend to."
"What about Takatomon and Rukimon? Where Guilmon find them?" he was worried. What if he never found his friends? He'd go though life without a Tamer, and he didn't know if he could handle that.
"Don't worry, you overgrown baby. I'll know when you have Lee. Then I'll tell you where Ruki is. I'm not going to have you running around and saving them all without giving me the D-Powers, now am I?" Guilmon shook his head and bowed it sadly. He wanted Takato first! But he knew that Impmon would hurt him if he tried to find him first. Impmon continued to stare down Guilmon, and after a moments hesitation, he nodded. Impmon grinned evily, and motioned towards the Gotsumon. "They know you're coming, just let them know who you are." Guilmon nodded and wandered off towards the Gotsumon.
The Gotsumon were not far off, and within a minutes, Guilmon could see them clearly. They all appeared to be quite nervous of something, although what, he was not sure of. When he arrived in their midst, they all took a quick glance at him, and then back at the ground. They slowly stood up and motioned for Guilmon to follow them.
"Where we going, Gotsumons?" questioned Guilmon. One of them hopped up, out of the group and walked over to him.
"Are you Guilmon? We know what Impmon said about you," the Gotsumon stated. Guilmon was confused at this, but the feeling wasn't new to him, so he attempted to answer.
"I need to find Leemon. He's here." he smiled. The Gotsumon looked at him and nodded nervously, and then explained some more.
"We know where he is exactly. We'll take you to him." At this, Guilmon got fairly excited and started clapping his paws together. The Gotsumon got the idea. "Follow us then." They appeared fairly upset about something now, and Guilmon just couldn't figure out why this was. But he wanted to find Lee, and went along with them anyway.
After walking for a while throughout the mountains, not much happened, excluding the blisters Guilmon realized he would have on his feet later. After what seemed like days, the Gotsumon finally stopped walking.
"Lee is down the slope, but we don't want to go with you." Guilmon smiled and clapped his paws once again before he started down the hill. It wasn't long before he reached it.
Trapped in two separate wooedn cages, Lee and Terriermon lay unconcious. Guilmon was worried, and began to gnaw at the bars on Terriermon's cage. The low noise was enough to snap Lee out of sleep. Rubbing his eyes, Lee looked at Terriermon's cage. He saw Guilmon standing there, trying to break the little guy free. Within seconds, a hole large enough for Terriermon to fit through was present.
"Terriermon! Watch out! It's Guilmon!" Lee screamed to his digimon. Terriermon woke up and saw Guilmon right next to the cage, not thinking, he jumped out of the hole and began to claw at the poor dinosaur digimon.
"Leemon? Make him stop?" cried Guilmon.
"Faster Terriermon! You have to stop him before he can hurt you!" Lee screamed. Guilmon was confused. Lee was his friend, and yet for some reason, he wanted Terriermon to attack him.
"Leemon?" he tried once again. But it was to no avail. Lee had a very angered look on his face, and didn't look at all like he had any give. With the pain of Terriermon's claws starting to kick in, Guilmon shook his head, causing Terriermon to fly off and hit the ground hard.
"Use one of your good attacks now, Terriermon!" called Lee. Guilmon was terrified now. He couldn't hurt his friend.
"Leemon...?"