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The 9th Digidestined #5

In Search for the Destiny Bells

(Well, so far, Mike has just broken off contact with the other Digidestined as he walks off with Charsemon to find the mysterious objects known as the Destiny Bells. Tai and the others are left to keep the evil Chamdrillmon at bay to buy Mike some time…)

Mike, after walking far enough away from the digidestined found himself… inexplicably lost. "So far, I haven't found much in the digital world… how do these destiny bells look like anyway? And what are they, actually? Stupid spirit, won't even tell me stuff I need to know…" he muttered under his breath. "Charsemon, as you probably know this terrain better than me… where are we?"

Charsemon shrugged, "I don't know." He suddenly somehow pulled out a map of the digital world (K: Don't ask how, don't ask from where… just think Marauder's Map from HP.) "Hmm… scanning the area…" (K: *sweatdrop* Um… been playing too much Oni.)

"Mmm… yep, I think we're in the Mysterious Forest." (K: Oh god… 'yep'?!) Mike looked around dubiously. "Forest? I wouldn't even call it a weed patch."

Then, like all things that happen in that world, a black hole suddenly appeared below them, swallowing them. Taking their time in the pit of blackness as they fell, they cleared their throats, coughed a few times, BEFORE yelling, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" simultaneously.

After a long fall, and plenty of lung expansion techniques, Charsemon finally landed (surprisingly without killing himself or making a crater big enough to bring Armageddon) and looked around hesitantly. "Mike…" he whined softly, "Are we still in the Forest?" Now, if Mike had been there, he'd have said, "I'm sure I would know wouldn't I?" quite sarcastically… but as he was not there, he didn't say anything. Charsemon looked around him. Mike wasn't anywhere to be found… and obviously, he is in some other where.

And in that some other where, sat a very confused boy. "God, and I only wanted to go online for awhile… I find myself risking my life for people I barely know!" he was muttering to himself. "Um, HEEEEELLLLLLOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! Charsemon?! Are you there?! Is ANYONE here?!" And from this, we can all believe that the both of them are separated.

(K: *sweatdrop* No DUH! Who'd a guessed!)

Mike looked around and suddenly heard a big growl, the echo was so great that Mike could hardly hear the words, "gotothecenteroftheforest!Goan—!"

Mike looked around again, "what? Is that my stomach rumbling or what?"

The growling thing then stopped growling and sighed, "No, I'm not your stomach, I am barely even acquainted to anything that has to do with your stomach. Therefore, you just DO WHAT I (*BEEP*) SAY!"

Mike looked around him and said weakly, "Um… language, language…" he admonished to a wisp of fog. The growling thing, finally growing too irritated simply snarled, "Just GET TO THE CENTER OF THE FOREST! NOW!!"

Mike sighed, and looked around him, "this is NOT the first time I've done this and… where the hell is the center of the forest? Geez, give me more specific instructions…" he grumbled before suddenly walking STRAIGHT, "this better be the center." He muttered before looking at an iddy biddy ant scurry past him. Mike threw his head back in frustration, "CHARSEMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!!!!!"

"Charsemooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon!!!!!!!!" A voice pierced through the forest. Charsemon yelled and stumbled on the ground, but stumbled somewhat the wrong way, so he got up, ran, tripped, fell, and slipped in all directions, "MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" He yelled before crashing in a tree and looking around, "yeGADS! What is this?"

A shadow swarmed over him, "I am me. The growling-thingy." Charsemon blinked, "is this a name to help ME, or are you just stupid and REALLY bad at naming people?"

"Who should I know? I didn't name myself." The growling-thingy said and Charsemon nodded, "Yeah, I believe you. Now, just a question… do you know where I can find Mike?"

The shadow looked at Charsemon, "And WHAT kind of question is THAT?" He asked and sighed, "Us big people can't get anything out of you little people these days…"

Charsemon shrugged, "Why you want to, I have no idea."

"Just go."

"…Okay!" Charsemon went.

Both Mike and Charsemon headed towards the center of the woods, barely able to see anything because of the dense fog. They only found one another when they rammed into each other head on. Charsemon, believing it was an evil Digimon bent on attacking him let out a blast of flame which Mike barely ducked. He came up, looking grumpy with a thin trail of smoke swirling into the air. He'd singed his hair. Mike looked up at the smoke and would've yelled Charsemon to high heaven had Charsemon not literally saved his skin by exclaiming, "LOOK! Is that one of those Destiny whatchamacallits?!"

"HOW SHOULD I KNOW?! YOU JUST ABOUT SINGED MY HEAD OFF!" yelled back his more frustrated Digidestined counterpart.

"I think it is."

"THAT'S GREAT FOR YOU! NOW GO AND GET IT!"

"I can't get it, you have to."

"Says who?!"

"Says… the um… spirit guy?"

"FINE!" Mike stomped up to the glowing thing and was just about to swipe it off the little pedestal when something burst out of the ground in front of him, blasting him backwards away from the Destiny Bell and towards a bemused Charsemon. He glared up at his digimon from his spot lying on his back. "I think you already knew that would happen." Charsemon buffed his claws, "If I did, I will never tell."

The thing that had appeared in front of them… well, walking a step towards to signify its existence. Mike, being sidetracked by Charsemon's comment had quite forgotten. "Who dares touch the precious Destiny Bell?" he roared at everything and all. Which just happened to be a digimon, a boy, and grass. Oh yes, and fog.

Mike sighed, "I do! The Digidestined need it to destroy Chamdrillmon!" Charsemon smacked his clawed hand to his head. "Mike you imbecile. You do not tell a bad digimon something like that!"

Mike gave him a blank look, "You mean he's a bad digimon?! There's such a thing?!"

The… thing, for all we know what it is, again tried to restore attention to itself. "YOU DARE DESTROY MY MASTER?! You will never get the Destiny Bells! I will DESTROY you!" Mike looked at him extremely bored and with an expression of long-term suffering. "Could you think of line any more lamer than that? I swear, all this televised Japanese anime dubs are getting way overrated."

The thing looked blankly at him. "What?"

"'What?'?! 'What?'?! That's what I should be asking you! What are you?!"

"I'm Apemon, no duh!" his expression made him look too much like a pretentious (K: Excuse the term, blame my sister!) valley girl, that both Mike and Charsemon couldn't completely hold back a snicker.

Charsemon, getting tired of the strange digimon yelled over to Mike, "Yo, make me Digivolve!"

Mike rolled his eyes waving the little digivice in the air. "Here's a question, HOW?!" Charsemon got this incredulous look on his face and he grabbed his digidestined by the shoulders shaking him. "YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO MAKE ME DIGIVOLVE?! OH MY GOD! I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die!!!!!!!"

Apemon stared at him puzzled. Mike stared at him in pain as Charsemon's claws were digging into his skin. And Charsemon was… yeah, panicking.

"FINE! I'll do this by myself." And for some strange reason completely unknown to anyone else in this universe, Charsemon digivolved to…

"Charsemon digivolve to… DRACOMON!"

Apemon just stared at the new and improved (K: Well… sorta.) Dracomon and shrugged, yelling, "Take this!!!" A bone came flying at Dracomon. Mike looked at him in disgust, "What do you think he is, a DOG?!" Dracomon simply vaporised the bone in a "SPINNING FLAMES!" attack. Apemon then dodged the attack that would definitely have charred most of his hair. "Nice fire… a little more of that and you could toast some marshmallows!" he taunted. Mike was simply amazed that the big lug knew what marshmallows were! Apparently Dracomon did too. "Well… take this! SHIFTING FIRE!"

"HUH?!" yelled Apemon throwing bones at it in a vain attempt to keep himself from becoming nothing but an ash cinder. But of course, he was a bad guy, and he died. And he began to vanish into little micro-chip things, or data-like stuff and disappeared completely. Mike sighed, "That was anti-climactic."

"A little." Dracomon dedigivolved back into Charsemon who was looking extremely proud of himself for his new attack.

"Now let's get that Destiny Bell! The sooner I get them all, the sooner I get home, and continue going online."

"Yes… I see…"

"Oh shut up and let's get that stupid bell." It was a small golden glowing thing that stopped glowing once Mike touched it, and he could see a strange symbol on it. "Uh… Charsemon… what is this?" he asked showing it to his digimon. "A… bell?"

"NO! Not that! THAT!"

"A BELL!"

"No! That little symbol thing!"

"Ohhh! Jeez, you could have told me! It's the symbol of courage!"

"Okay cool, we've got the Courage Bell, can I go home yet?!"

"We've got to get the rest of them you know."

"BUT I DON'T WANNNAAAAA!!!!"

"Quit your whining and let's go."

"Go where?!"

"To get the next one."

"THERE ARE MORE?!"

"You're the one who had to dream, I'm just the one who knows how many digidestined there are."

"Well then… where else can they be?!"

"Somewhere in the forest maybe?" asked Charsemon sarcastically.

"Good, I won't have to walk as far." His digimon looked at him barely hiding a smirk. "That I will disagree with." He said as he loped off to walk in front. "Or… maybe it's not in the forest." He murmured as they walked right through the forest and out… of the forest.

"Look! Up in the sky!" Mike yelled. Charsemon stared at Mike, "Is this the part where I say, 'It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!'"

"Actually, I was thinking more of… uh oh…"

What they saw instead was a big black bubble showing the fight against Chamdrillmon. "Whoa, better than cable television." Mused Mike.

"You idiot, everyone else almost defeated!"

"We have to get the Destiny Bells first though!"

"Oh yeah… well let's go."

"YEAH! We'd BETTER! I need to get home!"

And they're off…

TO BE CONTINUED.......