After school, Marla and I met outside by the transit bus. She had her Blue card in her right hand, and was staring at it.
"So.. Digimon are real.. I wonder...."
"What?" I asked.
"If.. I can get my own digimon, like Takato did."
"Heyy..." I said, "You're right! that'd be so cool!"
Out of the corner of my eye I spotted Draco. "Hey, Draco!" She looked up, as if I had startled her.
"Hey! Ruby! I heard there was a bit of 'trouble' first block. Do yoooouuuu know anything about that?"
I laughed, "Marla does too."
"How? Did she?"
Marla held up her card with a sly grin.
"DUUUDE!" Draco jumped over to her, nearly tripping over the curb in the process. With my quicker reflexes, I reached over and grabbed her arm before she fell.
Unfazed, Draco continued on. "Do you have your D-Power?"
Marla shook her head. "Nope."
"Howya gonna do it? You gonna slash it in something?"
"Uhh..." Marla shrugged, "No idea. I don't even have a toy D-Power."
Draco gave her a wide smile, "You should try one of those payphone where you have to swipe the phone card." She made a slashing motion with her arm.
"Uh," I pipped up, "I don't think the municipality would apreciate that a whole lot."
"mmmm... good point. That could be a problem."
"yeah. " Marla laughed, "we just creep up.. slash the card, and steal the payphone. I'm sure no one'll notice!" We all giggled at the idea.
"Dude, the bus!" I said suddenly.
"Okay then, Good luck Marla!" Draco waved as Marla and I climbed on.
Once Marla and I were safe in the confinments of my room, we began to discuss the problem of her D-Power.
"As far as I can see," I began, "We don't have anything we can legally use to swipe. You might have to buy a D-Power."
"Yeah." She shuffled through her bag for a moment, and pulled out a piece fo paper. Without a word, she handed it to me. I looked at it, it was Lunamon, Marla's personal digimon.
"That's gonna be my digimon." I gave the drawing back to her. "I can't wait to see her real life. She'll Probably look even cooler then."
Marla smiled, and placed the drawing on my bed. The paper shriveled, like it was burning by some invisable flame. "My picture!" She went to grab for it, but a loud beep was emited from it. It stopped retracting and shone a bright red, and altered its shape and became a D-Power. The ring around it was a deep red, almost the colour of blood. "Wow.. I got one!"
"Slash your Blue Card!"
"oh, right!" She fulmbled for a second, and she pulled it out of her back pocket. In one motion she swiped it through the slot . With a loud series of beeps , a small digi-egg appeared one the screen.
"I wonder how long I'll have to wait before it hatches?"
"Or if when it does, wiether or not we can find it."
Marla was excited, every few minutes she'd look hopefully at her new D-Power, hoping that the egg hatched. We ate dinner at my house, my Dad made a really tasty vegitarian chili. It was a nice full meal, and after wards we were stuffed. We chatted about digimon and random things while I unloaded and loaded the dishwasher.
I finished, and slumped down in the chair next to Marla. She glanced at her Digivice, and sat up straight.
"What?"
"It hatched!"
"Dude! Where is it?"
"I dunno.. hold on..." We both watched as the compass on it span a couple times, slowed, and pointed almost directly behind us.
"The school."
"Wha?"
I stood up and faced the window to my backyard. "My old elementary school's back there."
"Then let's go!"
We both scrambled to get our shoes and jackets on, and just as we were opening the door, my dad came in. "where are you two going?"
We froze. "Uhh... We got a craving for chips. Bye!" My dad started to say something, but Marla and I were already halfway down the stairs.
Unfortunatly, we had to go all the way around to get to the school. Running as fast as we could, we managed to get onto the main road and walked the last few minutes onto the schools' property. The building itself was across the field, and that's where the D-Power was still pointing.
My digivice started going off the compass was pointing slightly to our left. Something besides Marla's partner must have bioemerged, my stomach had the same unsettling feeling that I had gotten when the Airdramon and the Owlmon had came.
"Something else is here. Let's go!" We took off running again, and as we rounded the corner so that we were infront of the school, a very large digimon filled our view.
"Whoa oh." I looked up, and saw pink. Lots of pink. and blue. It was Shellmon. A thick tentacle emerged from his hair, and shot towards me. I barely got out the way, I could feel the rush off air as it blew past.
"Dude, that was close." I threw off my jacket, and tosses my glasses inside it. With a few seconds of concentration, I wasn't myself anymore. I was much, much stronger. I used the poweful muscles in my legs to vault off the pavement, into the air. I lashed out with my claws, and scratched his tentacle quite nicely. It roared, and swung up at me with one massave hand. I was still in the air, and couldn't do much to divert my direction. I focused, and tried to teleport. I was just a bit too slow, and was backhanded itno the side off the school. "Ouch"I commented, and I struggled to pull myself to my feet.
It lashed out again, and wrapped one great pink vine around Marla's waist.
"Marla!" I grunted and shoved my hands on the brick wall, and launched myself like an arrow at Shellmon's head. "Let her go!"
He opened up his mouth, and moved into position to swallow me as I torpedoed in his direction.
"Whoops. Bad move" I thought to myself as I flipped my body around, and kicked him under his chin rather then punching him like I had originally planned. Unfortunatly, that caused him to tighten his grip on Marla instead of dropping her. I landed on the pavement, breathing hard. I could see my friend gasping for air, high above my head.
"I won't let you do this!" As anger surged through my body, I felt immense power. My face lengthened, and my mane bushed out even more. Two gold coloured sphere's appeared at shoulder hieght, and a red and white rope shot out of each one, going up behind my neck, looping around, and coming back down to meet under my throat. My tail twisted, and split into nine, and flames grew at the tip of each one. I fell forward, no longer bipedial, I stood on four legs. two black and white triangles glowed on each leg and my forhead, and a yin yan wrapped around them.
I stood, glaring at the digimon, as both he and Marla gaped.
"You digimon really gotta learn not to mess with my freinds. FOX TAIL INFERNO!" I aimed at his hair, the source of his attack, and he screeched as the blue flames engulfed it. Marla dropped, and tucked herself into a little ball and she rolled when she hit the ground.
I circled around behind him, and used my Dragon wheel on his shell. it cracked a bit, and he whirled around to face me.
"Water Cannon!" Within seconds, I was surrounded by water, and I choked as I tried to take a breath. I coughed and tried to get out of the way of the jet stream.
Through the water rushing around me, on the roof of my school, I saw a blurry black shape. The cannon ceased as Shellmon spotted it too. I gasped for air, and I looked at the figure. it was tall and covered in black fur. A bright red jewel stood out on her forehead, and two crimson bat-like wings were folded at her side. She stood on two legs, and had formidable claws on both hands.
"Lunamon.." Marla whispered.
"Darkness shot!" She yelled in a deep voice, as she jumped off the roof, and spread her wings with a snap. She streaked past Shellmon's head, and sliced the back of it open.
He whipped his head around, trying to see his attacker, who was moving too fast for him to see. She landed gracefully on the ground infront of her tamer, and gave Marla a grin, displaying teeth that looked just as deadly as her claws. A ray of light appeared, and seemed to get sucked into Lunamon's jewel. She closed her eyes, and the light intensified even more. Her eyes cracked open, and she took a step foreward. "Moon BEAM!"
The attack that came out her mouth crackled with power, and I felt the heat as it blew past me.
Shellmon's eyes widened in fear as he deteriorated and dissapeared.
Lunamon hovered in the air as she absorbed his data.
I climbed to my feet and approached her.
"Thanks Lunamon, you did great!"
Lunamon grinned at Marla and I. "That was fun. I wanna do that again!" She looked at Me, "Thanks for protecting my Tamer untill I could come."
"Anything for a freind."
The black digimon stood behind Marla.
"That digimon came and stole my energy when I tried to come to your world. He used it to bioemerge, so I took a bit longer then I should have." She quirked her head to her side. "But I kicked his butt!"
Marla laughed, "You sure did Aerith"
"Aerith?" The young digimon asked.
"Sorry. I don't like calling you by your species. if you don't mind?"
"That's okay!" She flapped her wings in pleasure, "Now I have two names!"
"Well, " I said, "I should revert. So we can go home and get some rest.. I'm tired."
I closed my eyes and focused all my energys on being a human again. I could almost hear it humming around me like an aura. I felt it dim, and go out. I frowned, and tried to change again, It didn't work.
"Uhh.. Little problem"
"Little?" Marla raised her eyebrow.
"Okay, a big problem," I explained, "I can't go back to human. I don't know why.. I just can't"
"So.. Digimon are real.. I wonder...."
"What?" I asked.
"If.. I can get my own digimon, like Takato did."
"Heyy..." I said, "You're right! that'd be so cool!"
Out of the corner of my eye I spotted Draco. "Hey, Draco!" She looked up, as if I had startled her.
"Hey! Ruby! I heard there was a bit of 'trouble' first block. Do yoooouuuu know anything about that?"
I laughed, "Marla does too."
"How? Did she?"
Marla held up her card with a sly grin.
"DUUUDE!" Draco jumped over to her, nearly tripping over the curb in the process. With my quicker reflexes, I reached over and grabbed her arm before she fell.
Unfazed, Draco continued on. "Do you have your D-Power?"
Marla shook her head. "Nope."
"Howya gonna do it? You gonna slash it in something?"
"Uhh..." Marla shrugged, "No idea. I don't even have a toy D-Power."
Draco gave her a wide smile, "You should try one of those payphone where you have to swipe the phone card." She made a slashing motion with her arm.
"Uh," I pipped up, "I don't think the municipality would apreciate that a whole lot."
"mmmm... good point. That could be a problem."
"yeah. " Marla laughed, "we just creep up.. slash the card, and steal the payphone. I'm sure no one'll notice!" We all giggled at the idea.
"Dude, the bus!" I said suddenly.
"Okay then, Good luck Marla!" Draco waved as Marla and I climbed on.
Once Marla and I were safe in the confinments of my room, we began to discuss the problem of her D-Power.
"As far as I can see," I began, "We don't have anything we can legally use to swipe. You might have to buy a D-Power."
"Yeah." She shuffled through her bag for a moment, and pulled out a piece fo paper. Without a word, she handed it to me. I looked at it, it was Lunamon, Marla's personal digimon.
"That's gonna be my digimon." I gave the drawing back to her. "I can't wait to see her real life. She'll Probably look even cooler then."
Marla smiled, and placed the drawing on my bed. The paper shriveled, like it was burning by some invisable flame. "My picture!" She went to grab for it, but a loud beep was emited from it. It stopped retracting and shone a bright red, and altered its shape and became a D-Power. The ring around it was a deep red, almost the colour of blood. "Wow.. I got one!"
"Slash your Blue Card!"
"oh, right!" She fulmbled for a second, and she pulled it out of her back pocket. In one motion she swiped it through the slot . With a loud series of beeps , a small digi-egg appeared one the screen.
"I wonder how long I'll have to wait before it hatches?"
"Or if when it does, wiether or not we can find it."
Marla was excited, every few minutes she'd look hopefully at her new D-Power, hoping that the egg hatched. We ate dinner at my house, my Dad made a really tasty vegitarian chili. It was a nice full meal, and after wards we were stuffed. We chatted about digimon and random things while I unloaded and loaded the dishwasher.
I finished, and slumped down in the chair next to Marla. She glanced at her Digivice, and sat up straight.
"What?"
"It hatched!"
"Dude! Where is it?"
"I dunno.. hold on..." We both watched as the compass on it span a couple times, slowed, and pointed almost directly behind us.
"The school."
"Wha?"
I stood up and faced the window to my backyard. "My old elementary school's back there."
"Then let's go!"
We both scrambled to get our shoes and jackets on, and just as we were opening the door, my dad came in. "where are you two going?"
We froze. "Uhh... We got a craving for chips. Bye!" My dad started to say something, but Marla and I were already halfway down the stairs.
Unfortunatly, we had to go all the way around to get to the school. Running as fast as we could, we managed to get onto the main road and walked the last few minutes onto the schools' property. The building itself was across the field, and that's where the D-Power was still pointing.
My digivice started going off the compass was pointing slightly to our left. Something besides Marla's partner must have bioemerged, my stomach had the same unsettling feeling that I had gotten when the Airdramon and the Owlmon had came.
"Something else is here. Let's go!" We took off running again, and as we rounded the corner so that we were infront of the school, a very large digimon filled our view.
"Whoa oh." I looked up, and saw pink. Lots of pink. and blue. It was Shellmon. A thick tentacle emerged from his hair, and shot towards me. I barely got out the way, I could feel the rush off air as it blew past.
"Dude, that was close." I threw off my jacket, and tosses my glasses inside it. With a few seconds of concentration, I wasn't myself anymore. I was much, much stronger. I used the poweful muscles in my legs to vault off the pavement, into the air. I lashed out with my claws, and scratched his tentacle quite nicely. It roared, and swung up at me with one massave hand. I was still in the air, and couldn't do much to divert my direction. I focused, and tried to teleport. I was just a bit too slow, and was backhanded itno the side off the school. "Ouch"I commented, and I struggled to pull myself to my feet.
It lashed out again, and wrapped one great pink vine around Marla's waist.
"Marla!" I grunted and shoved my hands on the brick wall, and launched myself like an arrow at Shellmon's head. "Let her go!"
He opened up his mouth, and moved into position to swallow me as I torpedoed in his direction.
"Whoops. Bad move" I thought to myself as I flipped my body around, and kicked him under his chin rather then punching him like I had originally planned. Unfortunatly, that caused him to tighten his grip on Marla instead of dropping her. I landed on the pavement, breathing hard. I could see my friend gasping for air, high above my head.
"I won't let you do this!" As anger surged through my body, I felt immense power. My face lengthened, and my mane bushed out even more. Two gold coloured sphere's appeared at shoulder hieght, and a red and white rope shot out of each one, going up behind my neck, looping around, and coming back down to meet under my throat. My tail twisted, and split into nine, and flames grew at the tip of each one. I fell forward, no longer bipedial, I stood on four legs. two black and white triangles glowed on each leg and my forhead, and a yin yan wrapped around them.
I stood, glaring at the digimon, as both he and Marla gaped.
"You digimon really gotta learn not to mess with my freinds. FOX TAIL INFERNO!" I aimed at his hair, the source of his attack, and he screeched as the blue flames engulfed it. Marla dropped, and tucked herself into a little ball and she rolled when she hit the ground.
I circled around behind him, and used my Dragon wheel on his shell. it cracked a bit, and he whirled around to face me.
"Water Cannon!" Within seconds, I was surrounded by water, and I choked as I tried to take a breath. I coughed and tried to get out of the way of the jet stream.
Through the water rushing around me, on the roof of my school, I saw a blurry black shape. The cannon ceased as Shellmon spotted it too. I gasped for air, and I looked at the figure. it was tall and covered in black fur. A bright red jewel stood out on her forehead, and two crimson bat-like wings were folded at her side. She stood on two legs, and had formidable claws on both hands.
"Lunamon.." Marla whispered.
"Darkness shot!" She yelled in a deep voice, as she jumped off the roof, and spread her wings with a snap. She streaked past Shellmon's head, and sliced the back of it open.
He whipped his head around, trying to see his attacker, who was moving too fast for him to see. She landed gracefully on the ground infront of her tamer, and gave Marla a grin, displaying teeth that looked just as deadly as her claws. A ray of light appeared, and seemed to get sucked into Lunamon's jewel. She closed her eyes, and the light intensified even more. Her eyes cracked open, and she took a step foreward. "Moon BEAM!"
The attack that came out her mouth crackled with power, and I felt the heat as it blew past me.
Shellmon's eyes widened in fear as he deteriorated and dissapeared.
Lunamon hovered in the air as she absorbed his data.
I climbed to my feet and approached her.
"Thanks Lunamon, you did great!"
Lunamon grinned at Marla and I. "That was fun. I wanna do that again!" She looked at Me, "Thanks for protecting my Tamer untill I could come."
"Anything for a freind."
The black digimon stood behind Marla.
"That digimon came and stole my energy when I tried to come to your world. He used it to bioemerge, so I took a bit longer then I should have." She quirked her head to her side. "But I kicked his butt!"
Marla laughed, "You sure did Aerith"
"Aerith?" The young digimon asked.
"Sorry. I don't like calling you by your species. if you don't mind?"
"That's okay!" She flapped her wings in pleasure, "Now I have two names!"
"Well, " I said, "I should revert. So we can go home and get some rest.. I'm tired."
I closed my eyes and focused all my energys on being a human again. I could almost hear it humming around me like an aura. I felt it dim, and go out. I frowned, and tried to change again, It didn't work.
"Uhh.. Little problem"
"Little?" Marla raised her eyebrow.
"Okay, a big problem," I explained, "I can't go back to human. I don't know why.. I just can't"