Episode Three
Here a Crest, There a Crest
Chase-'Hey, Chase here, my turn to fill y'all in. Well, it started coming up to sunset. We were all tired and hungry so we started settling for dinner and finding somewhere to sleep. After dinner me and Sully wandered off and were attacked by this huge, Ultimate level Digimon named Jukomon. Sully DigiVolved to Boltramon, but not before we were both rescued by Matt and Garurumon. Boltramon and Garurumon tried their hardest to fight Jukomon, but they weren't enough. All looked bleak when the rest of the gang showed up, together, Jukomon didn't stand a chance! When he'd gone, there were three tags in his place for me, Lexx and Koti. The others guys have them and say they're for crests! Can't wait to find mine! Also, me and Matt got a little...close...if you catch my drift, and Hikoti hasn't stopped teasing me about it since.'
"Hey, Cuno, watch out. Falling fruit, three o'clock!" Lexx yelled as Cuno jumped out of the way just in time. She laughed as he check his tail over.
"A little more warning next time, please!" He snapped and stormed off with his nose in the air.
"Check out Mister. I'm-So-High-and-Mighty!" Lou said to Sully who giggled.
"Yeah, if he sticks his nose up any higher, it'll be as high as Infinity Mountain!" Sully replied.
"Sulcromon."
"Lotomon." Two familiar voices said behind them.
"Yeees?" The two of them said turning round with innocent smiles on their faces.
"It's not nice to talk about other Digimon behind their backs." Chase scowled.
"That's right. It's mean and can make the person or Digimon, in this case, feel very unhappy." Hikoti said.
"Now be good and go cheer him up. We'll finish up here." Chase finished giving Sulcromon a quick shove.
"OK! I'm goin'! I'm goin'!" Sully sighed walking off with her head hanging.
"You too Lotomon." Hikoti smiled.
"Do I have to?" Lotomon whined.
"Yes." Hikoti said sternly.
"Oh, fine...." Lou sighed and followed Sulcromon.
"Hi Cuno, what's wrong?" Sulcromon asked, noticing the down look on Cunomon's face. Sulcromon and Lotomon looked at each other, back to Cunomon and then sat down to look in his direction.
"It's disgusting. It's making me feel sick." Cunomon said suddenly.
"What is?" Lotomon asked.
"That!" Cunomon replied pointing to Lexx and Tai with his tail. "It's gross. Matt and Chase are together and they never did that!" He sighed. Sulcromon and Lotomon looked at each other thoughtfully and each put a foot on Cunomon's head.
"Cunomon, that's the human way of courting. Koti told me all about it. It's called flirting. Both humans flirt, and if they like each other, they'll usually pair off. It's some kind of ritual." Lotomon smiled looking round at Hikoti who was happily tapping away at her turquoise Pineapple Computer and chatting to Izzy.
"Yeah. Some humans do it more than others. Like Chase and Matt for instance, they never flirted with each other, and now look at them." Sulcromon said looking for Chase, who was busy having her head in a playful lock by Matt.
"Yeah, but look at Lexxy and Tai! Could they be any more obvious?" Cuno complained.
"Come on Cuno, don't be such a sour puss! It's cute! Look, ever TK and Kari are pairing off." Lotomon smiled nodding at TK who was holding onto Kari's hand very shyly.
"Aw! That's so cute!" Sulcromon grinned.
"Hey you three, just because you're Dragons doesn't mean you get out of doing work!" Agumon yelled.
"Yeah, come and help." Biyomon joined in.
"In a sec. We're talking." Sulcromon yelled at them standing up.
"Well finish talking later, you have to help!" Palmon snapped.
"Oh shut up, vegetable mulch!" Lotomon snapped back. For a Digimon, she could come out with some seriously good come backs, not that she knew what she was saying.
"I'll show you vegetable mulch! Poison Ivey!" Palmon yelled.
"Marking Brand!" Lotomon yelled launching her attack. Both hit each other. Lotomon being squeezed and Palmon being burnt and marked with the shape of Lotomon's stripes.
"That wasn't nice! Now I'll show you what I can do! Spiral Twister, bragh!" Biyomon yelled directing her attack at Sulcromon who jumped out the way.
"That the best you can do you stupid fluffy toy?" Sulcromon asked teasingly. "Fire Bolt!" She yelled. A flame arrow appeared from the marking on her back, and quickly caught up with Biyomon who was flying away. It singed her tail first then made her fall into Sora's arms.
"Guess that leaves you and me. Rolling Spines!" Cunomon snarled.
"Pepper Breath!" Agumon yelled back, moving out of the way as Cuno flew passed and hitting him three times with the flames.
"CUNO!" Lexxy screamed running over and picking him up gently. Despite the fact he could be quite heavy, he seemed pretty light, probably because he wasn't squirming so much as usual. "Cuno, come on. You'll be OK. Cuno, speak to me!" Lexxy begged. He coughed and opened one eye.
"Did I win Lexx?" He asked sounding feeble.
"Shh. Don't talk, save your strength." Lexxy whispered trying to hide her tears of relief. She turned round, anger burning inside of her and glared at Agumon, who was staring at the floor apologetically. Everyone else had gathered around. Hikoti and Chase were both telling Lotomon and Sulcromon off, while Sora and Mimi were making sure Palmon and Biyomon had no permanent damage.
"Don't be mad Lexx. He didn't mean to do it." Tai said in Agumon's defence. He kicked Agumon in the tail. "Did you?" Agumon didn't answer properly, he just shook his head vigorously.
"I don't care. That fact is, he did, and badly hurt Cuno when it was Agumon who started it. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to patch my Digimon up." Lexxy said with a stern look on her face. She walked through a gap in the group and accepted the first aid kit Sora handed to her. She walked into a clear area in the woods near a small stream and put Cunomon down and started taking stuff out of the first aid kit, mumbling about Chase using everything up on her precious Matt.
Cunomon, who was now fully awake, was lying on his side thinking about weather the talk to Lexxy. She did look like she needed major cheering up.
"Er...Lexxy...." Cunomon began. Lexxy looked at him and her face immediately softened.
"What's up Cuno?" She asked.
"Are you mad at me?" Cuno asked timidly.
"No...I'm just mad at that stupid orange lizard, how dare Tai try and defend it, when it hurt you. You could've been badly hurt, but luckily, it's not to bad. just a few bruises and a small cut." Lexxy told him dipping some cotton wool in the stream and squeezing the water out.
"But it was my fault.....I was jealous of you spending so much time with Tai, that I thought you were forgetting about me....and wanted to take my anger out on somebody. Agumon seemed perfect, he was Tai's Digimon. Just as good as the real thing. I'm sorry." Cunomon said sincerely. He looked up at Lexxy's face and expected to see steam escaping from her ears she was so angry, but she wasn't instead she was smiling and stretched a hand out to stroke his ears.
"Cuno, I'm glad you were honest, I mean, lets face it, it isn't exactly your strong point, is it? But I'm glad that you told me the truth, and I'm not mad. I'm just, a little hurt that you would think Tai could make me forget about you. Cuno, you're my Digimon! You're my best friend! And no-one would ever take you place, OK. Are we clear on that?" Lexx asked.
"Yeah.....Lexx?" Cuno said.
"Hm?"
"You're my best friend too." Cuno smiled. Lexx grinned and rubbed behind his ears, where he liked the best.
Later in the night, just as everyone was settling to sleep, and Lexx, Cuno, Tai and Agumon were sitting down to their watch, Lichmon was reporting back to Basikmon from the small stream Lexx and Cuno had been by earlier.
"Not to worry master, we'll not fail this time." Lichmon said, his voice barely more than a whisper.
"Good Lichmon....we cannot afford failure at a time like this. And you know what happens to someone who fails me....don't you?" Basikmon hissed.
"Yes master..." Lichmon said shuddering at what had happened when Jukomon and he had failed to destroy the kids. "...I promise you, we'll not fail. Since you are sending over two of your elite soldiers." Lichmon grinned in a sinister way.
"Yesss, the Killfarmon brothersss have never failed me yet. And I intend for them not too." Basikmon snarled bearing his yellow fangs. Two silver Digimon with blue, purple and red shining stripes down each of them appeared. The projection of Basikmon disappeared and Lichmon turned to the Digimon. They were completely identical, apart from one thing. One had sick green eyes and the other blood thirsty red eyes.
"Which is which?" Lichmon snapped.
"I am Kill." The red eyed one said.
"I am Fare." The green eyed one said eyeing Lichmon hungrily.
"Yes...well. Come with me, I'll show you who to attack and who to take to the master." Lichmon said gulping nervously and walking between them. They followed, close to him, closing their claws dangerously near and swiping at Lichmon, trying to snatch a chunk out of him.
"Come on Lexxy! It wasn't Agumon's fault! It's not his fault that he was trying to make that lame excuse for a dragon pull his weight a bit." Tai said sounding thoroughly sick of begging for Lexxy's forgiveness, and frankly the way he was going about it, Lexxy was more likely to slap him round that face than admit to forgiving him.
"So what exactly are you saying about my Digimon?" She asked eyeing him accusingly.
"That he doesn't pull his weight. He expects everyone to do things for him, he's tubby and a lazy excuse for a drag-"
"Lizard!" Agumon butted in.
"What did you call me?!" Cunomon yelled enraged by this accusation. "I am an honorary dragon! Not some common lizard like you, you got that? We are nothing in the least a like! Clear?!" He yelled giving Agumon a evil glare.
"It's true though! Dragon Digimon died out years ago. So unless you've been waiting just for Lexx and your egg hatched the moment she got here, or you're lying. The same with Sulcromon and Lotomon." Agumon yelled back. Cuno thrown back by this come back, not from seeing the truth, but from annoyance and amazed at the stupidity of Agumon, sighed in exasperation.
"Why would I lie? Hm? Answer me that?!" Cuno snapped. "I am a dragon. Pure bred through and through. Dragons, I'll except did die out, but, Dragon eggs are kept at a different village to other DigiEggs since the eggs and babies require special care!"
"And what is the name of this village and where is it?" Tai asked smugly. Let's see him talk his way outta this one. Tai thought triumphantly then looked at Lexx, who was leaning back on her hands casually listening to Cunomon. Oh geez...man I feel bad about Lexx. We were getting on really well then Agumon has to go spoil it.
"The village is called Secondary Village, it's run by another two Dragon type Digimon, called Alecmon and Kimnamon. I'm not allowed to tell you where it is, because I don't even know where it is. I never saw it. I was mainly strapped into my cradle when I was a baby Digimon because I used to climb out all the time, the second I evolved to Eekamon my in-training, I was teleported to Lexxy. OK! And if you don't believe me, ask Sulcromon and Lotomon, they'll tell you the exact same thing." Cuno said with a triumphant finish.
"Will you guys shut up! Some of us are trying to sleep." Lotomon snapped appearing at the doorway looking extremely groggy. She turned to go back into the cave and shot a look at Agumon. "Secondary Village does exist. And I can take you there!" She snapped and walked back in the cave. There was a long silence and Tai coughed uneasily.
"Er..Lexx?" Tai said. Lexx looked at him, with one eye brow raised. "Look, I'm sorry for knuckle head here. He didn't mean all those things he said."
"Tai, stop covering for him. It was his fault that Cuno got hurt. And until he publicly apologises to Cuno, I'm not forgiving him." Lexx said adamantly.
"What's the big deal anyway?! Digimon are bred for fighting. Why can't you see that?!" Tai snapped.
"Maybe that's what you think, but I, for one, have a bond with Cuno. We're best friends. He protects me, I try to protect him! I suppose you only see Agumon, Greymon, MetalGreymon and all other evolved forms of Agumon as little play things for your own personal pleasure. Well, here's a news flash for ya Tai, he's not! He is as real as you or I. Not just some little piece of data on a computer! A living thing. He feels things just like us. He has emotions, and he'd probably go through anything for you, despite that fact you treat him like dirt." Lexxy snapped back.
"Enough with the bickering already! It's becoming vastly annoying. Kill, Fare, attack!" Lichmon yelled at the top of his lungs the two Digimon jumped over the small frog and landed in front of the two kids and two Digimon, snarling with glee.
"Agumon, who are those guys?!" Tai yelled.
"Those are the Killfarmon brothers. Kill is the more vicious using his Lazy Eye attack he makes enemies fall asleep on the spot and then petrifies them with his Petrifaction Position attack." Agumon answered.
"And Fare, the one with green eyes, he's the more docile of the two, but his attacks are just as dangerous. He starts off using his Burning Swipe attack to bring enemies down to their lowest strength, then using is Snot Swamp attack, he makes Digimon stay in one place, the attack sticks them to the ground." Cunomon told Lexxy.
"C'mon Cuno, let's do it!" Lexxy smiled.
"You too Agumon." Tai joined in.
"Cunomon DigiVolve to.......Sartomon!"
"Agumon DigiVolve to........Greymon!"
"Oh, Champion form, I'm so scared." Kill sneered leaping into the air. Lexx had climbed onto Sartomon by now and was busy yelling at Sartomon to follow.
"Guess that just leaves you and me dino man." Fare grinned nastily at Greymon.
"Guess it does. Nova Blast-hoah!" Greymon yelled. Fare jumped out of the way and cackled.
"Heh, heh, Burning Swipe!" He yelled.
"Sartomon, watch out, he's getting more ruthless now!" Lexxy yelled over the beating of Sartomon's wings.
"I know. It's difficult to attack with you on my back Lexxy. I'm afraid he'll hit you." Sartomon replied.
"It doesn't matter about me, just watch yourself." Lexxy yelled back.
"Whatever you say. Star Shooter!" Sartomon yelled.
"Lazy Eye!" Kill snarled. The attacks met in the air and exploded together. "Eugh!!!! That's not fair!!!! Petrifaction Position!" Kill yelled. A purple liquid shot out of the purple stripes on his body and missed Sartomon, only by a little though.
"Burning Swipe!" Fare yelled. The attack caused a huge impact on Greymon who fell back.
"Greymon! Get up! C'mon man! He's comin'!" Tai yelled.
"I'm up! Nova Blast!" Greymon said shooting the fire ball. It hit Fare who was knocked back a little, but he kept on coming.
"Greymon, DigiVolve again!" Tai yelled.
"You got it! Greymon DigiVolve to........MetalGreymon!"
"Alright!" Tai yelled. "Let's finish this!"
"No problem! Mega Claw!" MetalGreymon yelled. His claw circled around Fare who struggled to break free. As he did, his legs became more entwined with MetalGreymon's claw.
"Finish him!" Tai yelled at the top of his voice.
"Giga Blaster!" MetalGreymon yelled. Fare disintegrated in front of them and nothing remained.
"TAI!!!!! HELP ME!!!!" Lexxy screamed as loud as she could, which wasn't easy when she was being held upside down by Kill.
"Huh? Lexxy! Hold on! I'm coming!" Tai yelled. "Lets go!" He called to MetalGreymon who started walking in the direction of Lexxy and Sartomon, who was also being held up by his wings by Kill.
"Giga Blaster!" MetalGreymon yelled shooting at Kill.
"METALGREYMON! WATCH IT! YOU ALMOST HIT US OVER HERE!" Lexxy yelled sounding very angry.
"That's right....shoot me, and you'll probably kill your little friend here." Kill teased waving Lexxy around.
"Oh, no, I. Think. I'm. Gonna. Puke!" Lexxy said gasping between each word.
"Well what do you expect me to do?!" Tai yelled.
"This isn't a good time to argue!" Lexx screamed. "I don't care what you do, just don't kill me and get rid of this walking mass of....disgusting stuff!"
"OK! Take the same aim you did with the other one." Tai told MetalGreymon.
"Right! Mega Claw!" MetalGreymon yelled. It did the same it did to Fare and Kill dropped Lexx and Sartomon.
"Get offa me!" Kill yelled struggling to break free.
"I don't think so! Giga Blaster!"
"Star Shooter!" Sartomon joined in.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kill yelled as he disintegrated, just like his brother.
"Whoo hoo!!! We defeated them!!! HAHA!! You were awesome Koromon!" Tai yelled swinging the little bouncing head around.
"Lexx? Lexx....are you OK?" Cuno said to Lexx who was laying sprawled out on the floor. "Lexx? Wake up." He said.
"Huh? Cunomon, what's happened?" Tai asked rushing over.
"It's Lexx. She won't wake up....Tai, what's wrong with her?" Cuno said trying not to show emotion.
"I don't know Cunomon." Tai said holding up a limp wrist. He let it go and it dropped to the ground. Tai said at the ground solemnly.
"She's not.....is she?" Cuno asked tears dropping off the end of his nose.
"It's hard to say Cunomon. But you gotta be prepared for the worst." Tai said quietly.
"Oh, Lexxy! No!" Cuno sobbed shoving his head under one of Lexxy's arms.
"She's not dead Tai! Look! She's breathing." Koromon pointed out. He was right. She wasn't finding it easy, but she was breathing.
"Good! Cunomon, go get some of the others. Joe, and Matt and Gabumon." Tai told him.
"No! Send Koromon, Lexx is my DigiDestined. Send yours! I'm staying with her!" Cunomon snapped.
"OK! OK, Koromon, you heard him. Get Joe, Matt and Gabumon. And don't come back until you got them!" Tai yelled to the quickly distancing pink ball.
He came back a little later with a groaning Joe and Matt, a very sleepy Gabumon and a very worried Chase and Hikoti.
"Lexx!" The two of the squealed when they saw her. Hikoti glared directly at Tai and grabbed his collar.
"What did you do to her! Sure she blamed that dumb lizard when Cuno got hurt, but that was no reason for you to try and kill her in the process!" Hikoti snapped, raising a fist.
"Wait, Hikoti!" Lexx's voice said suddenly. Hikoti turned round and saw Lexxy sitting up very shakily.
"Lexxy! Are you OK! What's broken?" Hikoti asked, tossing Tai backwards as she let go of his collar.
"It feels like everything-"
"But it's just a sprained wrist." Joe said cutting her off. "Maybe, now the panic is over, we can get some more sleep."
"Whatever." Matt said getting up with Gabumon. "Hey Tai. Why did you want Gabumon, just outta interest?" He asked.
"Just in case Lexxy couldn't walk, we may've needed Garurumon to help her back to camp." Tai answered. He kneeled down to Lexxy and helped her up.
"Oh. C'mon Chase. We better get some more sleep." Matt said slipping his arm around her waist.
"Hang on." Chase said. "I'll go in my own time. I prefer not to be made to do things." She smiled pushing his arm off her waist. A warm glow suddenly washed over her and her crest tag started shimmering.
"Hey, Hikoti. You OK to walk back on your own?" Joe asked.
"Yeah. I gotta be by myself for a little while. Clear my head." Hikoti replied, although she hadn't realised it, her crest tag had begun to glow.
"Tai....can I just say something?" Lexxy asked stopped in her tracks.
"Sure. I'm not going to stop you." Tai said. "Always speak your mind anyway."
"Whatever. Listen. I'm sorry for blaming Agumon and you when Cunomon got hurt, and I want to thank you...for saving my life. It was a very sweet thing to do." Lexx sighed and held her good hand a wrist out. "And, I willing to forgive you."
Tai looked at her hand, then her face. Something about the way her eyes were glaring at him said she really wanted him to forgive her. He smiled and accepted. A bout of relief washed over her and she turned around, to walked away
"Hey Lexxy. Look at your tag." Cunomon said.
"Hm?" Lexxy said and noticed the glowing. "Wha? What's going on! Tai!" Lexxy said. Tai came around and smiled.
"Your crests near by. Don't worry. It should come to you!" He grinned. And sure enough, a hologram of a sky blue diamond carved in a rock floated past him and shrank to crest size, it slotted into her tag, and a sky blue light flashed and almost blinded them.
"Chase....what've I done?" Matt asked walking in front of her. Chase's eyes sank to the floor and she shook her head.
"You wouldn't understand, even if I began to tell you." Chase sighed.
"Why not? What wouldn't I understand? What's so bad that you can't tell me about it?!" Matt snapped.
"I said you wouldn't understand! So drop it! You've gotta learn I do things by myself! I can't work as a team! I find it too difficult! The same with Sulcromon!" Chase sighed.
"What?!" Matt snapped.
"Don't you ever worry about everyone else? Whether or not they're gonna get through the next battle, if everyone's gonna be OK? What if TK or Kari got hurt? Huh? What would you do?!" Chase replied, sniffing back tears of angst in the backs of her eyes.
"What are you talking about?" Matt asked bemused.
"All I'm saying is that I think we're all better off alone! At least that way we don't start getting to attached to each other. Cause one day something is going to hit us, and we're not ever going to notice it because we're so wrapped up in our own little lives! We've gotta stop being so dependant on each other and start being more independent! Don't you get that!?" Chase snapped.
"Cha-" Matt began but was cut off as a hologram of a silver circle surrounded by four curved lines floated in front of him and shrunk to crest size and slotted into Chase's tag. Both stood there with nothing to say.
"Are you sure you'll be OK? I mean, I'll walk you back if you want." Joe said. Hikoti smiled, and tried not to show the annoyance of him following her.
"No. Honest Joe. I'll be fine. Really." Hikoti smiled through gritted teeth.
"Are you sure?" Joe asked again.
"JOE! DON'T YOU GET THE IDEA YOU'RE BEING JUST A LITTLE BIT ANNOYING?! NOW CAN I PLEASE, JUST BE BY MYSELF FOR A WHILE?!" Hikoti snapped.
"OK...sorry Hikoti." Joe said, sounding hurt.
"No, Joe...I'm sorry. You just being nice, and I go bite your head off. I'm sorry, OK. It's just I sometimes need time by myself." Hikoti sighed.
"It's OK. I know I can be a bit annoying at times." Joe admitted.
A bit annoying?! That's a BIT of an understatement. Hikoti thought. "Oh look. What's that?" She said trying to shut Joe up. What 'it' was, was the hologram of her crest. It was a platinum colour and the shape of an upside down heart with a base and two lines through the base. Like to other two, it shrunk and slotted into her tag. She held it in her hand and examined it.
"It's the Crest of-" The three of them said at the same time.
"Compassion."
"Independence...."
"Solitude." They all said together.
Lexxy-'Hah! Lets just see this new evil stand up to us now we have crests! I can't wait to see Cuno's ultimate! I bet it's really cool! Same with Sully and Lou. What's up with the so-called love-birds. I think there's something not right in Chase's head! Anyway. She'll be cool, I think this place is getting her. I hope Lou takes us to Secondary Village. I'd really like to se more dragon types. The problem is. Will we get attacked there....'
