AN: I wrote this fic to celebrate my first anniversary of being on fanfiction.net! On 23rd September I joined, and on the 25th I posted my first fic! And since my last few fics have been on the dark side, I decided to do a really demented humour fic!
Feralimon belongs to me!! I invented him a little while ago, but I lost the picture (and it was really good as well! T_T), so you'll just have to put up with the description. If you want to use them in a fic, then let me know! I'd like to see what my little Ferali's get up to!
In case you're wondering, Mel is Pulsar, my beta-reader! And she beta-ed this for me! She also doesn't like me doing loads of dark fics, so I hope this calms her down! I'd better go write a fluff to pacify her ^_^
And if you're a bit puzzled by Cody's behaviour, my RL friend Scarlett and I both think that he's a psychopath. C'mon, it's obvious he is!
This fanfic is for everyone who has read and reviewed any of my fanfics over the past year! If I was Azulongmon I'd give you all the power to go Mega, but since I'm not, you'll have to accept my eternal gratitude instead!
The Case of the Missing Bishounen!
By Rayamon
Chapter 1: Takeru, Where Are You? (and everyone else, for that matter)
It was a beautiful night in Odaiba. The thrum of traffic was just a low background murmur, and there was nary a cloud to obscure the sky. The moon hung in the sky, surrounded by a myriad of twinkling stars, and lots of other pretty metaphors I like to use in my fics instead of getting on with the story.
Anyway, near Odaiba, in Tamachi, Ken Ichijouji lay asleep in bed, Minomon curled up beside him. All was silent and dark...
Then a blinking light appeared in the room.
The computer switched itself on.
The screen glowed, a Digi-Port opened and someone came through.
Minomon yawned and blinked awake at the light. He saw the shadowy figure and his eyes widened.
"KE-"
The shadow quickly grabbed the little Digimon and stuffed a hand over his mouth to gag him. Minomon responded by biting the hand. The shadow swore and threw the In-Training through the Digi-Port, before going over to Ken.
"Oh Ken-chaaaaaaan!"
"Mmm..." muttered Ken in his sleep "Gimme another 5 minutes momma..."
"Keeeeeeen...wake up Keeeeeen!"
Ken groaned and rolled over. He opened his eyes and looked at the figure.
His eyes widened and he opened his mouth to scream, but a hand gagged him and yanked him out of bed.
Ken struggled, but he was caught in a headlock. He didn't even have time to blink as the shadow dragged him through the Digi-Port.
Back in Odaiba...
Davis lay sprawled out over his bed, snoring outrageously, Chibimon curled up in his hair. He was snoring so loudly that he didn't notice someone open his bedroom door and sneak in. He also didn't notice as they picked up Chibimon and disappeared with him, before coming back into his room.
"Davis! Dai-kun! Wakey-wakey!"
Davis continued to snore.
"Daisuke! Wake up!"
More snoring.
"MOTOMIYA DAISUKE!!!"
No answer, apart from a snore.
The shadowy figure sighed, then wrapped their arms around Davis and pulled him off the bed, before dragging him into the living room, where a Digi-Port was open on the computer.
And Davis continued to sleep through it all.
In another part of Odaiba...
Kari lay asleep in her bed, Gatomon next to her. Suddenly, she stirred and woke up. She blinked tiredly. What had woken her? She was a light sleeper, so it could have been anything.
Then she heard it.
Struggling.
Coming from the living room!
She slid out of bed, trying not to wake Gatomon, and opened her bedroom door.
A shadowy figure was fighting with Tai across the living room, trying to drag him towards the computer. Tai was struggling madly, biting and kicking, but whoever it was holding him captive was gagging him and succeeding in getting him to the computer.
"TAI!" screamed Kari. The figure looked up, swore and threw something to the ground. It exploded and a choking smoke filled the air. Kari coughed and spluttered, and when the smoke cleared, both Tai and the shadow were gone.
Kari ran over to the computer screen and shook the monitor, staring at the closed Digi-Port.
"Tai? TAI!!!"
"Uh...Kari?" Mr. Kamiya stood in the doorway, looking incredibly sleepy "What's the matter?"
"Tai's just been kidnapped by an evil shadow and got sucked through the computer!!!"
"Yeah...that's nice dear...now why don't you go back to sleep..." with that, Mr. Kamiya turned and went back to bed.
Kari stared after him, then ran back into her room, picked up her D-Terminal and started typing.
"Kari?" asked Gatomon, now awake "What are you doing?"
"I'm sending e-mails! It's an emergency Digi-Destined meeting!"
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At 7 o'clock the next morning, Sora, Yolei and Poromon sat in the park, half-asleep and waiting for Kari. All three were absolutely shattered and on the verge of dropping off. Eventually, Yolei gave in and collapsed backwards, snoring. Poromon followed suit and soon they were both asleep.
Sora yawned and looked at them, and decided to join in. She lent back and closed her eyes...
"SORA! YOLEI!"
They jolted awake as Kari and Gatomon came running towards them. Completely out of breath, they plopped down onto the grass next to them. Taking deep breaths, Kari looked round puzzled at the small group.
"Where are the others?"
"I dunno," shrugged Sora "I thought it was just us."
"No...I e-mailed the whole gang! They should be here! Unless...they got kidnapped too!"
"Come again?" asked Yolei.
"That's what I called the meeting for! Last night Tai got kidnapped by a shadow and got sucked through the computer! What if all the other lads got taken too? What if we're next? AHHH!!!" Kari began to hyperventilate.
"Calm down!" said Gatomon "They're probably just late! Let's wait for them."
An hour later...
"I don't think they're coming." Said Poromon.
"But are we sure they've been kidnapped?" asked Sora "We've got no way of knowing!"
"Actually...we have!" pronounced Yolei, pulling out a laptop "I hid cameras all over the boy's houses, so all I have to do is rewind the film to see what happened to them!"
"Great!" said Kari. Then she stopped "Er...WHY do you have cameras all over the boy's houses?"
"Izzy installed them for me, after I found out that he had-" she cut off.
"After he what?" prompted Sora.
Yolei blushed "After I found out that that he had set up cameras all over the girl's houses."
"WHAT!?!?" screamed Kari and Sora "WHERE!?!?!"
"All over...the living room, the bedroom...the bathroom..."
"The BATHROOM!?!?" screeched Sora "I'm gonna kill that perverted little hentai! I'll stuff that laptop right up his a-"
"Got it!" interrupted Yolei, typing on her laptop "Here's MattCam 1!"
The picture on the screen showed inside Matt's bedroom, focused on the bed. Yolei fast-forwarded it until they spotted a flash of light off-screen, then movement in the room. Leaving it running at normal speed, they saw a shadowy figure grab Matt and pull him out of bed, waking him. He struggled, but the figure yanked him off-screen, there was another flash of light...then nothing.
"Let's try the other cams..."
It was the same story for IzzyCam 1, JyouCam 1, TKCam 1, DavisCam1, CodyCam1 and KenCam 1. All showed the Digi-Destined lads (and Patamon, Chibimon, Upamon and Minomon) being kidnapped by shadowy figures and being taken through the Digi-Ports.
"Well," said Kari "There's only one thing to do!"
"We go and trash Izzy's room for putting up cameras?" asked Sora.
"We go home and sleep?" asked Poromon.
"No!" shouted Kari "We go to the Digital World and search for them!"
Everyone groaned.
"To my house! CHAAAAAAARGE!" Kari took off at a run.
Gatomon, Sora, Yolei and Poromon looked at each other.
"Definitely too much sugar in the tea."
Later on that day...
The three girls and two Digimon stood in the Digital World.
"So..." asked Hawkmon "What are we supposed to do now?"
"We go look for the lads!"
"Kari, do you have any idea how BIG the Digi-World is? It'll take us ages!"
"Plus there's no signal on the D3." Said Yolei, looking at her D3.
"Never mind that! We'll search for them by foot! Nobody kidnaps OUR bishonen and gets away with it!!" Kari began to foam at the mouth.
Everyone edged away.
"Sora! Sooora!"
Sora looked up at hearing her name, and broke into a big smile as she saw who called it "Biyomon!"
The two hugged.
"Sora, I'm so glad you're here! Something terrible has happened!"
"What? What's happened?"
Biyomon sniffed "Last night, all us Digimon were asleep, when something woke me up...and all these shadowy figures were kidnapping the boy Digimon! I tried to stop them, but one of the shadows attacked me with an Electric Stun Blast! And by the time I recovered, they'd gone!"
"Electric Stun Blast?" asked Gatomon "That means...Gazimon!"
"And Gazimon are the henchmon of the Digital World..." mused Hawkmon "That can mean only one thing!"
"What?" asked everyone.
Hawkmon sweatdropped.
"I haven't got a clue."
Everyone fell over.
"Right." Said Kari, calming down and wiping foam from her mouth "We've got to get organised! Yolei, you and Hawkmon try to identify where the Digi-Ports were opened, and where they lead. As for the rest of us..."
Everyone waited.
"We go back to the Real World and search for clues! The shadows must have left at least SOME hint of who they are!"
"Great! Let's get to it!" cheered Sora. With that, she and the rest charged back through the Digi-Port.
Yolei waited until they had gone, then opened up her internet browser and went on nakedkaiser.com and fanfiction.net.
"Aren't you going to track down those Digi-Ports?" asked Hawkmon, looking over her shoulder.
"Ah, no hurry." Dismissed Yolei. Suddenly she broke into a grin "Look! Nakedkaiser.com just had an update! More naked Ken pics!"
Hawkmon rolled his eyes "Does Ken know about this?"
"I hope not...it was Davis and Wormmon who set it up in the first place..."
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KNOCKKNOCKNOCK!
"Coming!"
Jun Motomiya sleepily opened the door to see Sora and Kari, with overly nice (and slightly inane) grins on their face.
"Hi Jun!" said Kari, never taking the grin off her face "Is Davis in?"
"Hang on." Jun turned round and bellowed down the hall "DAVIS! YOUR GIRLFRIEND'S HERE!!!!"
Sora and Kari sweatdropped.
Jun shrugged, as there was no answer from her little brother "He's probably sleeping, as usual. You can go in and wake him up."
"Arigatou!" keeping their grins plastered to their face, the girls ran to Daisuke's room.
"Man," said Sora, wrinkling her nose at the state of Dai's room "This room is a tip!"
"Never mind that," said Kari "Let's search for clues!"
They looked at the junk-filled room and sweatdropped.
Half an hour later...
"It's no good!" wailed Kari "There're no clues ANYWHERE!"
The girls had managed to clean most of Dai's room in the search for clues, but they hadn't found one.
"Well, this has been productive." Sighed Sora, slumping down onto the floor. Suddenly her eyes went wide and she jumped up in pain "OW!!"
"Huh?" asked Kari "What's the matter?"
Sora got up and gingerly pulled a badge pin (still attached to the badge) out of her backside "I think I really got the point that time!"
Kari groaned at the awful joke and took the badge. She looked at it and gasped.
"Look, it's a clue!"
"Jinkies!" said Sora, coming next to Kari. They looked at the badge.
It had a picture of Davis on it, complete with the phrase 'SUPPORT DAISUKE! How can you say 'no' to that face?' (AN: See my profile!)
"This is an important clue!" gasped Kari "Quick, let's go get Gatomon and Biyomon!" With that, the girls ran from Daisuke's room.
"BYE JUN!" they shouted as they slammed the door behind them.
Jun blinked, slightly puzzled, then went back to checking her favourite website.
Which was, incidentally, nakedyamato.com.
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"So Davis wasn't kidnapped by some anti-Davis fans..." mused Gatomon "But by a we-all-love-Davis fan. Interesting."
"Now we just have to see if the rest of the lads fit in with this..." said Biyomon.
"Who's the nearest now?" asked Kari, looking at Sora.
Sora worked it out in her head "Joe's house!"
"Let's get going then!"
10 minutes later...
"Hello Mr. Kido!" chorused Sora and Kari, grins still on their face "Is Joe in?"
Joe's father blinked in surprise "No, I'm afraid he's out at the moment. He's been out all day."
"But can we come in?"
"No, sorry."
"Please?"
"No."
"PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE?" they fluttered their eyelashes.
"I said no! Look, I've got an important business meeting on at the moment, with some very important guests! So if you don't mind..." with that, Mr. Kido shut the door.
"Now what?" asked Sora, sitting outside Joe's apartment with Kari and the Digimon.
"We could always Digivolve and fly you up." Offered Biyomon.
"No," said Sora, shaking her head "It'd be too conspicuous. I think a few people would notice a giant bird and an angel flying about."
During the conversation, Kari had been quiet, studying the building intently.
"Whatcha thinking about, Kari?" asked Gatomon.
Her human partner broke into a grin.
"I've got a plan."
5 minutes later...
"This is a stupid plan!" hissed Sora.
"I didn't see you coming up with any other ideas!"
After being unable to get through the front door, Kari and Sora decided to go via the back...climbing up the drainpipe. Sora, who was before Kari, gulped and tried not to look down as she pulled herself up...
Suddenly, the pipe gave way under her hand, drenching them in a spout of stinking water. They spluttered, caught in the waterfall, unable to do anything until the water went down.
"Was THAT in your plan as well?" asked Sora sarcastically, soaking wet.
"Oh shut up!"
After a few more minutes, they managed to get high enough to climb through Joe's open bedroom window.
"Ugh, I'm SOAKED!" complained Kari, lifting her arm and letting the water drip off her sleeve.
"Be quiet!" whispered Sora "We're not supposed to be in here!" she sloshed a few steps "But maybe we can borrow some of Jyou's clothes until ours dry. I don't think he'll mind."
Rummaging through the drawers, the girls managed to find some clean clothes. They had just pulled off their own when they heard something.
"Hey dad, sorry to interrupt, but do you know where the medical encyclopaedia is?"
"It's in Joe's room"
"Oh, okay, thanks dad!"
Sora and Kari stiffened and looked at the desk in the room.
The encyclopaedia was on it.
They looked at each other.
Both were in just their underwear.
Jim would catch them standing there, in their underwear, in Joe's room!
"We've got to hide!" whispered Sora.
Kari looked round "In the closet!" The two girls ran to the closet and hid inside, closing the door as tightly as possible.
The bedroom door opened and Jim came through.
They held their breaths.
There was a rustling as Jim picked up the encyclopaedia. Kari peered through a crack in the door and watched him.
Jim flicked through the book, when he came to a page with a note stuck in as a bookmark. Writing on it caught his eye, and he picked it up and read it out loud to himself.
"Jim. Borrowed your green jacket last night. If it's not on the chair it's in the wardrobe."
There was no jacket on the chair.
Sora and Kari stared wide-eyed at each other, then up at the clothes in the closet.
Hanging there was a green jacket.
They mentally said every swear word they could think of.
Jim walked over to the closet.
He put his hands on the handle and pulled the doors wide open.
His eyes went wide as he saw two scantily clad teenage girls hiding in his brother's closet.
"Heh heh...hi Jim!" said Sora nervously.
Jim continued to stare.
Then he screamed, long and loud, before his eyes rolled into the back of his head and he fainted clean away.
"Jim? What's the matter?"
Damn! Joe's father!
Quick as a flash, the girls jumped out of the closet, grabbed their clothes (and the ones they were borrowing from Joe) and dashed out of the room.
Joe's father's jaw dropped as he saw two girls run clean through the living room in front of his (very) important guests wearing nothing but their underwear before running out the front door.
"Bye Mr. Kido!" shouted Kari as they escaped the apartment.
Mr. Kido slowly turned round and looked at his important guests.
All were staring wide eyed at what just happened, with their cups of tea partly raised to their mouths, one of them with a digestive biscuit suspended above his mug.
The end of the biscuit fell into the tea.
Mr. Kido shakily took a bottle out from under the table, poured a glass for himself and emptied it in one swig, before offering it to everyone else.
"Brandy, anyone?"
Back outside...
Sora and Kari dashed outside, pulling on Joe's clothes as they went. They skidded to a halt in front of their Digimon.
"What's the rush?" asked Gatomon. Then she stopped "And why are you wearing Jyou's clothes?"
"No time to explain! We've gotta make a run for it!" scooping up their partners, Sora and Kari ran as far away from Joe's apartment as possible.
Eventually they came to a halt and lent against the side of a building, panting heavily.
"We're never gonna be able to look at Jim again!" panted Kari, completely out of breath.
"And no doubt Joe's dad's gonna be after our hides as well!" added Sora.
"What exactly happened in there, anyway?" asked Biyomon curiously.
"You don't wanna know." Answered Kari.
Suddenly, Kari's D-Terminal began to bleep. She took it out and flipped it open.
"It's an e-mail! From Yolei! Get to the Digital World, quick! I've discovered something!"
"Well then, what are we waiting for?"
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Once Sora, Kari and the Digimon got back to the Digital World, they soon tracked down Yolei. She was still there, tapping away at her laptop.
"Guys, glad you could make it!" Yolei blinked "Why are you wearing Jyou's clothes?"
"Don't ask." Grumbled Sora
"Anyway..." continued Yolei "We've found something amazing!"
"The best way to eat noodles with a spoon?" asked Gatomon.
"Where Jeff Nimoy lives so we can put a horse's head in his bed?" asked Biyomon.
"NO!" shouted Yolei "We've managed to track down a program that let's us see which Digi-Ports have been opened recently, and where they opened to and from!" She turned her laptop round, showing a map of the Digital World. She pointed at a red dot. "See, here's the portal you just came out of. And this..." she bought up a blue dot "Is a portal that opened up about 10 minutes ago! That means that someone else has just come to the Digital World!"
"Let's get there and go see!" said Kari "It might be those shadows who kidnapped the boys!"
Suddenly a beeping sound filled the air. Yolei typed away at her laptop and turned pale.
"Another Digi-Port's just been opened...and it's right near us!"
Everyone froze and slowly looked at the forest around them.
Not a single sound could be heard. The birdsong had fallen silent and the wind died, leaving the leaves still. The silence was oppressive, weighing down on them...
Suddenly a noise began deep in the forest. Rustling and snapping came through the foliage as the entity forced itself through towards the group...
The Digimon took a fighting stance in front of their partners, flexing their claws and ready to Digivolve at the slightest moment...
The creature staggered forward through the bushes in blur of pink and green.
Pink and green?
Everyone did a double take.
"MIMI!?!?" gasped Sora and Kari.
"PALMON!?!?" gasped Biyomon and Gatomon.
"Mimi!!" squealed Yolei happily, little love hearts appearing in her eyes. Hawkmon nudged her.
"Yolei! No yuri or lesbian activities, please!"
"Ah, you're no fun."
"What are you doing in the Digital World, Mimi?" asked Sora.
Mimi, who was picking twigs out of her hair, suddenly stopped and went teary eyed.
"It's awful! Terrible! Catastrophic!"
"Jeff Nimoy's writing Tamers?" asked Kari.
"You have a boyfriend?" asked Yolei.
"NO! It's Michael...he's been KIDNAPPED!!!"
The rest of the gang looked decidedly unimpressed.
"So?" asked Sora.
"What do you mean, so?" asked Mimi.
"I mean, so what? Nobody likes him, anyway!"
"THAT'S NOT THE POINT!!" screamed Mimi "He was going to take me shopping tomorrow and buy me some new clothes! He has a platinum credit card, for crying out loud! I NEED to find him!"
Kari looked at Sora "Do you think it's the same creatures who kidnapped the others?"
"Possibly..."
"Huh?" asked Mimi, oblivious as usual "What do you mean, kidnapped the others?"
Sora clued her in.
"You mean ALL the lads have been taken? Even Joe? Nooooooooo!! Not Joe!" she sweatdropped "Erm, not that I like him or anything..."
"That's a relief." Said Yolei, who had just then been trying to think of a way to knock off Joe so that he couldn't have Mimi.
"Now that we're together," said Gatomon "Let's get going and find that Digi-Port! Then we might find the others!"
"Right. DIGI-ARMOUR ENERGISE!!"
"Gatomon Armour-Digivolve to...NEFERTIMON! The Angel of Light!"
"Hawkmon Armour-Digivolve to...HALSEMON! The Wings of Love!"
"Come on, Sora." Said Kari, helping her and Biyomon onto Nefertimon's back.
"You can ride with me if you want..." said Yolei dreamily, staring at Mimi.
Halsemon sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Oh, and Sora?" asked Mimi.
"What is it?"
"Why are you and Kari wearing Jyou's clothes?"
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10 minutes later, the girls (and Halsemon) were flying towards where the Digi-Port had opened up earlier. Apart from an amorous Sukamon making advances at Mimi (which Yolei soon put a stop to), their flight was mainly uneventful.
"How much further to go?" asked Kari, riding Nefertimon.
Yolei checked her laptop "We should be almost there..."
"HELP! HEEEEEELP!!"
The girls all looked at each other.
"That sounds...like Michael!" gasped Mimi.
"We'd better hurry!" said Nefertimon as she and Halsemon flew as fast as they could towards the screaming...
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The girls (and Halsemon) stood looking wide-eyed at the scene in front of them.
Michael was tied up and was suspended above a crated lake by a long rope attached to an overhanging tree branch, quite a way above the lake surface. And the water in the lake boiled with the angry thrashing of the Digimon in it. They were Feralimon, huge, 30ft long crocodilian Digimon, at the Champion level. Their scales were light blue, while harder, navy blue shield scales plated their backs. Two spikes grew out from the back of their skulls, and two short sabre teeth protruded from the front of their fang-crammed jaws. Their blue scales were decorated with occasional black diamond pattern, with a smaller blue diamond inside them. These in turn were separated by black stripes, one of which ran over their great golden eyes. The Feralimon were taking turns in leaping out the lake as high as possible, snapping at Michael. Each time they fell just short, but they were getting closer...
"HELP ME!!!!" screamed Michael, pulling up his legs as a Feralimon came a bit too close for comfort.
"Michael!" shouted Mimi "We've come to save you!"
"Mimi? Is it you??? Thank the gods! I'm about to be crocodile bait! Help me!!"
"We have to distract the Feralimon enough for Yolei and Halsemon to cut Michael down." said Sora "But we've only got one Armour, and there's an awful lot of Feralimon..."
"Leave it to me!" said Palmon, who had been feeling pretty left out as she hadn't had a line yet "Palmon Digivolve to Togemon Digivolve to...LILLYMON! FLOWER CANNON!!!"
Lillymon fired her attack at the mass of Feralimon. As one, they all turned and charged for the Ultimate, temporarily forgetting Michael in the process.
"Let's go, Halsemon!" cried Yolei, leaping onto her partners back, leaving the rest to fight.
"ROSETTA STONE!"
"FLOWER CANNON!"
"METEOR WING!" cried Birdramon, joining in. There wasn't enough room for the giant Garudamon to fight so she didn't Digivolve again. Besides, Garudamon scares me.
Halsemon hovered beside Michael as Yolei cut him down and helped him onto Halsemon's back.
"Phew, thanks Yolei! We'd better get out of here before the Feralimon decide to eat your friends!" said Michael in his annoying-posh voice.
"Ah, they don't look so tough!" scoffed Yolei.
The lead Feralimon opened up its immense jaws "DILIAN BLAST!" It shot out a turquoise blast of energy, much like Garurumon's Howling Blaster, straight at Lillymon. The flower pixie dodged, but now other Feralimon joined in the shooting, lighting up the entire area.
"You were saying, Yolei?" asked Halsemon.
"Oh shut up." Yolei turned and frantically signalled the others "We've got Michael! Quick, let's move it!"
The girls grabbed hold of their Digimon partners as they flew away, pursued by angry Feralimon.
Holding onto Yolei as he'd never flown on Halsemon before, Michael babbled out his story "It was early morning, as we're about 9 hours ahead of you. I was eating my breakfast when suddenly my computer turned on, a shadowy figure came through and kidnapped me! She-I'm sure it was a she-took me to this big dark place and took me inside to this huge ballroom! All the other Digi-boys and their Digimon were there too! Well, I don't think Cody was. She took me to this other shadow-I'm pretty sure that was a she too- who decided that she didn't want me here, so they took me to the Digital World, tied me up and summoned the Feralimon to eat me!"
"So the boys are all alright?"
"Yes! At least, they were when I was there!"
"We've got to hurry up and find them!" said Kari "If they decided to feed Michael to the Feralimon, who knows what they'll do to the others!"
"Guys! I think we have a problem!" shouted Birdramon. Everyone looked round to see the entire pack of Feralimon charging after them...and gaining. For saying they were giant crocodiles, they were very fast on land.
"We won't be able to out-fly them!" puffed Nefetrimon, flapping her wings harder to stay ahead.
"And we can't out-fight them either!" panted Lillymon.
"They'll catch us!" wailed Kari.
"Oh no they won't!" shouted Yolei. Turning round, she gave Michael a push and shoved him off Halsemon. He bounced several times on the ground before coming to a dazed halt. Then the Feralimon were upon him and tore him apart with their teeth and claws, his screams mingling with their roars.
Everyone turned and looked at Yolei.
"What?? I stopped them following us, didn't I?"
Everyone mushroom-sighed.
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The girls stood in front of the TV with a feeling of foreboding.
They had found the portal which Michael had been dragged through, and it would lead back to the dark fortress from which he spoke of. Now, with a vicious battle in front of them to save the boys, and the possibility of them all not making it back, they stood silent for a while, preparing themselves for the worse.
*gets hit by beta-reader* Itai! Mel!! Stoppit, it's my fic! I can put something dark in if I want to! *gets beaten with a Silphymon plushie* Okay, okay! I'll stop with the drama!
Anyway, the girls-
"I'M NOT A GIRL!!!" shouted Hawkmon.
Okay then, the girls AND HAWKMON stood in front of the Digi-Port.
"Are we ready to go?" asked Sora.
"HELL YEAH!" roared Kari, who had somehow managed to get her hands on the gun arm of a Tankmon, complete with ammo. To prove her point, she fired several rounds into the air, hitting a stray Airdramon who just happened to be flying over (don't worry, he wasn't badly hurt).
"Alright then, here we go!" called Yolie, holding up her D3 "DIGI-PORT OPEN!!"
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Mimi blinked in surprise "THAT'S the Dark Fortress??"
The girls (and Hawkmon) gazed upwards at the immense structure in front of them. True to its name, it was a dark fortress; the walls made of black stone. The battlements clawed at the crimson skies, in which carrion birds circled and squawked mournfully. The high turrets pierced the smoky clouds, shrouding the high walls. Each crenellation was tipped with a spike, and a crumbling stone path led up to the immense ebony doors.
In all, it wasn't a very cheerful place.
"Not exactly a place I'd go on holiday to," said Biyomon.
"Now, we've got to be careful about this," said Sora "There could be guards about. We'll have to keep low and sneak in, as well as..."
"Um, Sora?" asked Yolei.
"What is it?"
"Look behind you."
Sora looked round...and saw Kari running straight up to the fortress, firing off ammunition and screaming at the top of her voice.
"So much for sneaking in..."
"Kari!" shouted Gatomon, running after her. The others followed suit, trying to catch up with the deranged girl.
Kari, still screaming insanely, didn't notice the object lying on the path in front of her. That is, until she tripped on it and went flying.
"Kari! Are you alright?" asked Gatomon, coming up next to her.
"Ow....pain..."
"What is it?" asked Palmon, looking at the object. Yolei picked it up and examined it. Her eyes widened as she figured out what it was.
"It's Cody's kendo stick!"
"Jinkies!" said Sora (again).
"Zoiks!" said Hawkmon.
Palmon couldn't think of any more Scooby Doo quotes, so she just gasped instead.
"What's it doing here?" asked Mimi.
"Maybe the shadows dropped it when they took Cody..." mused Gatomon.
"Well lets hurry up and go break in so we can save them!" whined Mimi, hands on hips.
"And just HOW are we supposed to break in?" asked Yolei, gazing up at the absolutely immense door.
"Like this! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" Screaming a war cry, Kari fired her gun at the door until all the bullets ran out.
The door didn't have a single dent.
"Let me try! Biyomon Digivolve to Birdramon Digivolve to...GARUDAMON! WING BLADE!!"
Still no dent.
"FLOWER CANNON!"
"CELESTIAL ARROW!"
"GRAND HORN!"
Once again, no dent. Not even a scratch.
"We've FAILED!" wailed Kari "Now we'll never save the boys, all the fangirls will stop watching and the show will be taken off the air! We're DOOMED!!"
"And we came so far..." Yolei sighed and lent heavily against the door. She squealed as a section suddenly gave way beneath her, sending her sprawling on her backside.
"Well, what do you know?" asked Hawkmon, peering through "It had a doggie door after all!"
"Ow...it hurts!" whimpered Yolei.
"Are you alright?" asked Mimi.
Yolei got love hearts in her eyes again "It will be if you kiss it better..."
Hawkmon rolled his eyes and strode forward, dragging his partner behind him.
"What have I told you about making yuri passes at people...?"
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The gang followed the passage into the fortress. Actually, that's all they did; the passage had no doors and no junctions. It just stretched on and on and on. It was high enough and wide enough to let a Digimon at least the size of Paildramon through, and had a huge vaulted ceiling. Statues of various Digimon flanked the walls, the most popular being Zudomon, ExVeemon and Flamedramon. The girls' (and Hawkmon's) footsteps echoed spookily throughout the massive corridor.
"How much longer does this corridor go?" wondered Mimi out loud "My feet hurt!"
"It can't be much further..." said Kari.
An hour later...
"WILL THIS CORRIDOR NEVER END!?!?!?!" screamed Mimi at the top of her voice.
"I have to use the bathroom!" wailed Hawkmon.
"You should have gone before we left!" said Biyomon.
"I went right before this fanfic started, but it's going on for AGES! I only thought it'd be about 6 pages or so!"
"Wait a minute!" said Sora "Mimi, scream again!"
"Huh?"
"You heard me! Scream!"
Mimi obliged, causing everyone to cover their ears in pain.
"You mind telling me what THAT was about?" asked Gatomon.
"Didn't you hear it?"
"Hear what?"
"When Mimi screamed, I heard a faint echo from further down. That means there must be a door...and the end of the passage!"
"WHOOHOO! THE END IS NIGH!!" shouted everyone. As one, they charged towards the end of the corridor.
5 minutes later...
The gang slowed down to a jog.
10 minutes later...
The gang slowed to a walk.
Eventually...
The gang crawled up and slumped at the foot of the door at the end of the corridor. They lay there, panting, as they surveyed the door.
It looked like it was made from a dark, solid oak. It had huge metal handles and looked like it weighed a ton or so. Flanking it were statues of two Imperialdramon (the dragony mode).
"So all we have to do is get through the door?" asked Palmon.
"That shouldn't be so hard..." said Kari. Then they all remembered the last door they had faced and sweatdropped. Hawkmon stood up and ran his wings over the door.
"There isn't a doggie door in this one."
"Noooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!" wailed everyone.
"Wait!" said Gatomon suddenly "Did you lot hear that?"
"Hear what?"
"Sshhhh......listen..."
Everyone held their breaths and listened intently.
Clunk splosh...clunk splosh...
"What is it??" panicked Sora.
"Sounds like something going clunk splosh to me." Said Mimi.
Everyone groaned at the obvious Mimi-esque quote.
Clunk splosh...clunk splosh... clunk splosh...
"It's coming closer!!!" panicked Biyomon.
"HIDE!!!" shouted Kari. Everyone looked round.
There wasn't anywhere to hide!
Clunk splosh...clunk splosh... clunk splosh...
The gang huddled together into the corner as from down the corridor emerged...
"CODY!?!?!"
Indeed, it was little Iori. Looking rather strange. His clothes were soaking wet and his feet were encased in a block of concrete. To move he had to do little jumps, causing his clothes to squelch. That explained the clunk splosh noise.
"Cody? What are you doing here?" asked Yolei.
"Doing here? DOING HERE!?!?! I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I'M DOING HERE!!!" screeched Cody, obviously annoyed "I was asleep in my room when suddenly this shadow grabbed me and tried to take me through the Digi-Port! So I picked up my kendo stick and started beating them with it, but they snatched it off me and threw it away! The next thing I know I'm in a ballroom, handed to ANOTHER shadow, who takes me through another Digi-Port, encases my feet in cement and throws me in the river! Do you know how long it took me to drag myself out the river? DO YOU!?!?!"
"I daresay you're gonna tell us..."
"SIX HOURS!!! SIX SMEGGING HOURS IT TOOK ME!! SIX!!!"
"Cody..." asked Yolei "How could it have taken you six hours? It's impossible to hold your breath that long!"
Iori suddenly got an evil grin on his face "It'll take more than a river to destroy me..."
Everyone suddenly looked nervous.
"Er...hey Cody!" said Yolei nervously, trying to appease the insane child "We found your kendo stick!"
"Really? Give it to me!"
Yolei handed him the kendo stick and he hugged it, mumbling soothing words to it.
"Now how are going to get Cody's feet free form the cement?" asked Biyomon "We can't use our attacks, we might hurt him!"
"Leave it to me."
Everyone looked at Cody in surprise. Closing his eyes, he held his kendo stick in front of him and started to mutter. He began to chant under his breath for a few minutes, then suddenly raised his voice.
"I am not the God of Death, I am the Emissary..." he opened his eyes and swung the stick above his head "AND I SHALL DESTROY YOU ALL!!!" He bought the stick crashing down onto the concrete and the block shattered into thousands of pieces.
The girls (and Hawkmon) stared.
"Wow!"
Cody stepped clear from the rubble and shook bits of cement from off his shoes. Suddenly his eyes hardened, he struck a dramatic pose and held out the kendo stick in front of him again.
"And now I shall cleanse this fanfic and the world of the evil shadows that kidnapped me and unleashed the wrath of prune juice upon the unsuspecting people!!!"
"Um...Cody?" asked Kari.
"What is it?!?!"
Kari cringed back from the tone of his voice.
"Well, erm, you see...we have to get through this door first. But we can't. And another thing...I don't think that prune juice is involved in all of this."
"Are you sure?" asked Cody, astonished. "Prune juice is the root of all evil! It has already corrupted Grandpa!"
"Yeah, but..."
"Never mind," dismissed Cody. "First I will get us through the door."
"And just how are you going to do that?" asked Hawkmon.
"Like this." Cody went and stood in front of the huge door and closed his eyes for a few seconds.
Everyone stood silent.
"I SHALL DESTROY YOU ALL!!!!" Everybody jumped as Cody screamed out his catchphrase, and in a blurring whirlwind of motion swung his kendo stick several times at the door, causing the stick to hiss through the air like a scythe.
The door still stood firm.
"Well, THAT was good, Cody!" complained Yolei "That didn't do ANYTHING!"
Iori did another one of his inane grins "You underestimate me, Inoue. Watch."
Cody turned round and gently blew on the door.
There was a second's silence...
And the door crumbled into dust.
Everyone's jaws dropped.
Cody smirked.
"Told you I could do it."
Suddenly, he noticed that everyone wasn't gawping at him.
He slowly turned around and stared at what was behind the door...
His kendo stick clattered to the floor as he dropped it in surprise.
For before them was...
What lies beyond the door? Will the gang be able to find the boys before all the fangirls stop watching? How much longer will this fanfic go on? Find out in the next chapter of 'The Case of the Missing Bishounen', a fanfic of Digimon: Digital Monsters!
"SHUT UP YOU STUPID NARRATOR!" screamed Cody "Omae o korosu! I SHALL DESTROY YOU ALL!!!"
No, please don't hurt me! Arrrrgggghhh!!! Stop hitting me! I'll stop narrating! I give you all my money! Nooooooooo!!!!!!!