Legal Poo: I don't own digimon. Hell, I wish I did 'cuz I'd get rich but I don't. I'm writing this fic without their permission and neither wind nor rain nor bloodsucking lawyer will get in my way. On the other hand, the new stuff I write into this fic is mine and it'll always be. You can write about it if you ask me first though. I also don't own Shastina or Tao. I've tried my best to characterize here but I've done easier chapters I'll tell you that. Apologies for the long combat scenes eating space, couldn't help myself. =)
Blade of Destiny
Chapter VI: A Plan of Action
Izzy found his TV's remote control sitting upon the small coffee table as usual and turned the tube on as he flopped down onto what could be the most basic and generic couch ever made. He got back up immediately however and headed to the kitchen to grab a soda while considering what to make for dinner and whether it would be possible to switch said dinner from TV dinner to something else.
…I'm Raymond Hioko, KBN Financial Report…Monster sightings once again are in store for Japan and it seems this time that it could be stranger - and worse - than ever. More later, after these commercials…
Izzy wasn't really paying attention to the news or the ensuing commercials as he poked about his fridge for dinner. Finding nothing of edible value, he resigned himself to another day with the old disposable platter and microwave. Absently, he punched a few numbers in and opened his pop as well, taking a gulp before striding down the hall to start up his computers and stuff. He allowed them to boot up as he reverted from outdoor clothing to more comfortable pants and one of a number of T-shirt he often wore indoors.
"Izzy? Izzy!!" Tentomon called from the living room. "I really think you should see this!"
"What is it? Okay, I'm coming!" Izzy stepped back into the living room, took one look at the television and disabled whatever part of his brain usually kept his jaw from dropping right down. Displayed on the news, was one thing that was seriously not good.
…destroyed today by what preliminary investigation explained as an industrial explosion. Further investigation however, has, a mere hour ago, revealed this to be untrue. The force that destroyed the building is now being described by officials as 'several shockwaves of exterior origin'. The disaster nearly claimed the lives of two youngsters who appeared to have been present at the time of the incident when most of the workers were at lunch. They were uncovered after spending at least three and a half hours beneath the rubble, they are both at Kyoto Central Hospital in serious condition. In addition to this, we just received new footage. Just briefly before the incident, a viewer caught this image… The image on screen switched here from footage of none other than Tao and Shastina being moved onto an ambulance to a photo dominated by a lens flare probably because it was taken around noon. At the center of the image was a vaguely humanoid figure, floating in mid-air, beams of colored light dispersing from his hand. Yet, the news made no mention of that light. Obviously this was another thing only digi-destined could see, just like the digimon in the real world just prior to Myotismon's invasion nine years ago. It is unknown whether this vaguely humanoid figure is one of the monsters that have again begun appearing in Japan or if it had anything to do with the destruction of the building. So far, no further reports after the major incident in the New York area of the United States has been reported. Stay tuned…
Izzy collapsed into his chair before once again getting up. He ran to his computer and began composing an email…
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The green clothed figure looked both ways along the road carefully. Her coloration concealed her well in the darkness which would also only light up green on either side of her. Failing to see any telltale headlights, she proceeded to cross the road as swiftly as she was able before disappearing into the brush on the opposite side. From there, she ran roughly along the road until she got to a clearing, the place of her arrival when she and her charge had somehow been transported to another world. Here, what water could be found was polluted and the place was dominated by strange creatures which most certainly were not digimon. The one she had acquired water though, definitely seemed to be this place's Digitamemon equivalent and soon after acquiring a few bottles of water, she was pursued by several others. Not wishing to attract attention, she fled and here she was, back.
Before her, lay a still unconscious Fraramon. Her healing abilities were limited and outside of her home, in another world no less, her options were limited. She only hoped those options had been enough to keep her friend alive. Carefully, she opened the first bottle of water and allowed it to dribble into his mouth.
"Okay, Frare. You'd better not choke…" She said to herself. She didn't notice the flashlights of the police hunting for her nearby apparently.
"There you are!" A voice shouted. The surprise snapped her head around to look. She turned and she was suddenly starting at a flashlight pointed at her, illuminating her face and shimmering pink hair. "You're under arrest for shoplifting, lady!"
Obviously, she had no idea what this meant except now she had nowhere to retreat to. Training and instinct kicked in over conscious thought. Fortunately, the flashlight had not yet illuminated Fraramon so she had no need to protect him, just get rid of these people. Raising her hand, set of petals materialized in them. They were razor sharp and half the size of her relatively small palm but served a potent role.
"Petal Shards!" With a flick of her hand and wrist, the petals went flying towards the source of the light.
"Ahh!!!" The officer yelled something unrepeatable in surprise and pain as Verdantmon leaped into the air.
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"Huh? What was that?" Michael looked momentarily from where he was driving to the side of the road from the direction he had heard the sound, which seemed suspiciously – and eerily – like a human scream of pain.
"You heard it too?" Mimi asked concerned. The two had really not been expecting to find much on their second drive through the area that night in their attempt to discover something new about the area that had somehow spawned dozens of digimon that day.
So much for that conclusion… Mimi thought.
"Ah damnit!"
"We're within range of the suspect, suspect is armed…"
Hearing what was obviously a police radio not far from them at all, they momentarily thought this was a crime scene, not what they were looking for, until a ball of green energy lashed out from the woods. When the dust kicked up by the attack hitting cleared, there was cracked part of the road and a police officer groaning with pain from that attack and a few cuts here and there.
"Let's go!" Michael yelled as Betamon jumped out of the car, ready at the command of his digivice.
"Betamon, digivolve to…Seadramon!" The giant serpent reared up, from the ground it now sat on and got ready to charge into the woods. There was no need however, as the digimon in question somersaulted through the air effortlessly and landed on the road. The headlights of Michael's car revealed a face that certainly shared characteristics with Lillymon's. This new plant-looking digimon had pink hair, green tunic with bell-shaped leaf sleeves, verdant cape and pink hair.
"Whoa! She looks almost like Lillymon!" Mimi remarked.
"Ice Blast!"
Seadramon's attack went wide as his enemy sidestepped and ran a few steps before leaping. With a cry, she released razor sharp petals in mid-air and placed her landing well enough for the car to cover her as she returned to Earth amidst the sound of Seadramon's grunt of pain from the attack. Seadramon's hesitation in damaging Michael's car cost him as within a few moments, the enemy digimon was back in the air. The same attack and this time, Seadramon fell backwards, close to being knocked out.
"Man, she's not bad! Seadramon!" Michael he cried, running towards his digimon – his head anyway – to make sure of his condition.
"Mimi?"
"Right!" Mimi said, pulling out her digivice.
"Palmon, digivolve to…Togemon!"
The boxing cactus came out swinging, forcing the smaller planet into a retreating fit of dodging the punches. Togemon's red gloves looked impressive but she wasn't quite able to connect to the agile pink-haired digimon she fought.
"That's it, Togemon! Keep it up!" As if enhanced by Mimi's sincere support, the next punch clipped the smaller digimon, sending her flying without the usual balance when she jumped.
"Now you've tasted the glove, how about some needle spray?!?" Togemon yelled as she let loose a flurry of cactus needles at her foe. Despite landing hard though, she jumped again, leaving the needles sticking out of the dirt or lying about on the road to catch the next unlucky tired vehicle.
"Verdant Force!"
A ball of green energy formed at the once more airborne digimon's fingertips and launched at Togemon, who received it full in the face with a resounding "Urrgh!"
"Togemon!"
"Yeah, yeah, I'm alright…" The cactus managed feebly.
"Look's like we need one more level!" Mimi declared.
"Togemon, digivolve to…Lillymon!"
The new, plant fairy was about the same size as her enemy now. Except this was one case of an ultimate against a champion.
"Verdant Force!" Lillymon dodged the green sphere this time and returned fire.
"Flower Cannon!"
"Ooph!" The other digimon was struck directly and got thrown backwards, crashing back into the woods.
"We got it!" Michael said, running back. Seadramon still had not de-digivolved yet. So the damage must not have been threatening. The two chased after the digimon, with their own digimon following behind. They were halted by sudden surprise as a red wave of energy cut through the foliage and forced Lillymon to evade.
"What the-" The two humans said in unison.
"If you know what's good for you, do not touch Verdantmon." Came a hoarse but harsh voice from the woods.
"Another one!" Michael exclaimed in surprise.
"There he is!" Mimi said, spotting the humanoid digimon that was nearly perfectly concealed from detection in the shadows. At the moment, only a slight orange glow over his hand betrayed his position to the first glance.
"Flower Cannon!"
With an audible grunt of effort, Fraramon dodged the attack and let off another Heat Katana. The searing attack nearly clipped Lillymon's wing this time but did not cause serious harm. Another green blast from Lillymon came out in retaliation.
"Stop it!" Verdantmon yelled, surprising everyone by getting up from an ultimate level attack. She saw Fraramon, way too exhausted, hurt and out of energy to do any more serious fighting on his own level and made a split second decision that might have earned her the crest of rashness. She leapt in front of the attack. The blast engulfed her. There was no scream as her face looked simply too shocked from the pain for it. She crumpled to the ground, caught by Fraramon, who attempted to revive her, to no avail.
Mimi looked at Michael, who looked back, uncertain and Mimi. The two digi-destined's digimon seemed to reflect their partners' confusion as well.
"We'd better call the others about this…" Mimi said at last.
"No kidding!" Michael replied, running back to the car for the cell phone. This one would be worth the long distance bill…
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Tai slammed a hand onto the table after a length of silence amidst the fine mix of angry, shocked and horrified faces of the digi-destined. The pause after the slam, a rare one for an often much cooler-headed Tai of today, was broken only by the hum of hospital equipment. The rest, especially the figure lying unresponsive on the bed.
"Who could have done this?!?" Matt demanded of the air.
"Well, whoever it was knocked Goshukumon right out of there." Sora remarked, still holding a rather undecided expression on her face. "Where are Harriermon and Tigramon anyway?" She added.
"They're in the same room as Tao." Kari said, sitting beside Shastina. "I think Joe said they're both going to be okay. They'll just be hurting for a while from all those bruises.
Hurting…
She's getting better at hiding it, for better or for worse. Sora thought to herself as she looked at the high school student's almost forced neutrally worried expression. Yet, she couldn't hide it complete. Her strength was her greatest weakness. It was not difficult to tell how much seeing someone else hurt had hurt Kari in turn. That omnipresent light within the heart that gave her crest meaning. It meant in a way, she had to absorb all that darkness. Tai was perhaps not the type to feel that way, yet she could see that in there with that reawakened anger was something that could see his sister was disturbed. A glance told her Yolei and TK could see it too. Davis… Well he was still being Davis.
"I can't believe someone could have done this! Heck, we've never actually suffered any injuries before and now this!"
Davis is feeling it… I guess he isn't as simple as the Davis so long ago…
"I am going to find whoever did this and kick-"
"Uh…do you even know who beat them up so badly?"
Davis just glared at Cody. Normally, a humorous incident or at least a humorous confused expression would have been in order. But no one was in the mood for jokes now. Ken just looked on, loathing another confrontation from back from five years ago.
"Cody's right." The whole group turned as Izzy came in, newly arrived with research from Tao and Shastina's digivices and possibly, a verbal account out of the damaged Harriermon and Tigramon. "At the present moment, we don't stand much of a chance if it came to head to head fight. I've compiled all the information we have on what our new enemies can do in terms of fighting ability. The conclusion; we are definitely outmatched right now."
"Gee, we've taken on the Dark Masters, Apocalymon, Diaboramon…the whole works and now we're outmatched??" Tai exclaimed.
"That is hard to believe, Izzy. I mean, after all we've been through…" Matt said in a more controlled tone.
"Well, look. At the moment, we've got three Mega digimon between us. Imperialdramon, Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon. Now, let's take a look at what we're up against." He brought up the first image. "Ohmumon." He said unnecessarily, as if any of them might not recognize the gargantuan pillbug of a digimon and its array of red eyes. The image switched again, this time to a huge dragon. "Darigamon." Izzy continued.
"And there was that smaller one Mimi said was hanging around it too." TK said, remember.
"And then there's the one who did this…" Yolei said, still disturbed. Izzy nodded as they spoke.
"Ohmumon, Darigamon, Celesmon and Wobbumon. They're the four Megas we've seen so far and in case anyone can't count, they outnumber us."
"But the Dark Masters were four Mega digimon as well." Sora said. "We certainly managed to defeat them."
"Yeah, but that fight was a lot easier for a number of reasons." Izzy replied. "Remember, the Dark Masters came at us independently. They worked alone and we could take them out one by one. Not to mention we had digimon with advantages against two of them and the other two were just out-numbered like hell. These ones might be too but are you willing to bet two worlds on that? And then, we also have reason to believe the Dark Masters weren't as strong as this new set."
"What?" TK exclaimed, quite appalled.
"Let's take a look at say Puppetmon for example. When we fought him, he lost a hammer to Garudamon's claw even though she was only an ultimate. Same thing with Piedmon, he was forced to block a Wing Blade, again from Garudamon with his own attack. Even Blackwargreymon took a beating when he fought Paildramon, Shakkouamon and Sylphimon all at once. That suggests even at the Mega level, ultimate attacks can still hurt if you're not careful. But look at Wobbumon! He just took all the hits Goshukumon cared to throw at him and didn't even feel it! He cleaned Goshukumon out of there in a single hit as well. And let's not forget Ohmumon. Even Imperialdramon's Positron Laser attack couldn't get through its shell. These guys are a lot tougher than anything we've faced before, we need a plan, not a blunder right now."
"I guess Izzy's right." Matt said, slumping down into one of the remaining chairs. "And let's not forget the whole slew of ultimates Mimi and Michael ran into in America. I think we'd better think up a course of action. Better to take some time than to lose everyone."
"But how much time do we have to take?" Tai argued. "We've got one giant roach possibly still under Kyoto. We've also got two Megas possibly in America and the last one is known to be able to appear in Japan. If we take too long, it may well be over and based on our past experiences, I think we're looking at another threat to both worlds."
"A reasonable conjecture." Izzy replied. "In other words, yes, we need a plan but we need one quick."
"Well, we could try picking them off one by one." Yolei suggested.
"That would be great but where are we going to find them? They could be anywhere in either world!" Cody pointed out.
"Well, it seems to me we really don't have a choice but to revisit the digital world. Maybe we can find out what happened in there."
"I guess that's about the only thing we can do now." Sora said finally after hearing Izzy's idea. "What about Tao and Shastina?"
"Well, the doctors said they're both through the worst of it. I got the impression they won't be walking around anytime soon though." Matt said. "They were both hit pretty hard. Tao's got two broken bones but Shastina got hit real hard in the head or something. Not to mention both of them supposedly have a long cut that they don't know the origin of except it somehow healed while they were here."
"Funny." Izzy said, tilting his head in consideration. "Look at this." He continued, turning the monitor of his laptop once again to his audience. "The profile on Wobbumon here shows him without any visible weapon either because he's hiding it or because he doesn't have one. But here..." The screen changed to the auto-record footage on Tao's digivice. "…he has a sword." Izzy finished."
"Whoa! That's some sword." Davis remarked, noting the crystal clear object. There were red designs on it but the picture was neither large enough or of sufficiently fine quality to make out what it was. "I wonder what is it."
"Whatever it is, I'm betting he hit Tao and Shastina with it." TK said.
"I looked through everything we have on the digital world but that object doesn't come up in any of them but whatever he's carrying, it isn't his."
"So…" Sora began. "We schedule a time I guess, to revisit the old digi-world…"
"And we keep in mind the few clear objectives we have right now. Finding out what that sword is, possibly taking it away from Wobbumon and above all, find out what is sending digimon into the real world and evaluate the threat from there."
"Sounds like we have a winner." Matt said, agreeing. "This weekend then?"
"Sunday." Izzy affirmed. "I think we're all available and it should be Saturday night for Mimi and Michael so that would work out too. We enter the digital world, try to track down someone we know – say Gennai or something – and then we work from there."
"Good plan." Davis commented. "Now can we eat?"
"Yeah." TK agreed. "I'm starving."
"Well, we'll see you guys Saturday then." Tai said. "The lot of us older kids gotta head back and burn some books for a few tests."
"Heh, older kids eh?" Matt poked. Tai responded with a shrug and a grin.
"Whatever."
With a general round of 'cyas' and so forth, the group headed to the elevator and broke up thereafter. Imperialdramon facilitated transportation for those heading back for Tokyo. Upon arrival, the group disintegrated some more. It wound down to V-mon and Davis walking with Ken and Wormmon as the two headed towards the other end of town.
"Hey Davis, you wanna come over for dinner?"
"Well uh…sure!" Davis said. "Your mom's a good cook, unlike mine."
"Heh."
Beepbeep-beepbeep-beepbeep-beepbeep…
"Huh?" Davis said, momentarily shocked out of the silence of the river's flow by the sound.
"Cell phone." Ken muttered, pulling his out and answering it. "Hello?"
"Ken?" Michael asked rather desperately. "I called Davis and I called your house and you weren't there."
"Michael?"
"Yeah uh, listen." The American boy replied, looking back at the cause of the call. The green, plant-looking digimon was still out cold. The black cloaked one with the glowing red eyes that gave him a classic 'monster-in-the-shadows' look continued to stare balefully back at him. Quite creepy. Whenever he looked, the digimon was always looking back. "We've got two uh…digimon here and two of us just gotten real confused. I'm wondering can you get Imperialdramon here?"
"Uh, yeah if you need him…"
"Mimi and I were driving along the place where we saw all those digimon before."
"And?"
"First run through, nothing. Second time through, we ran into two. A champion and an ultimate it looks like-" A blast of light interrupted him, compelling him to drop his phone. This wasn't much of a problem though because by then, the phone was in a great deal more pieces than usually advisable anyway. The two digi-destined looked up to see what appeared to be an angel digimon encased in an aura of golden light. Her face was of an appalling beauty with white hair that ran not ragged with age, but evenly as if white were their natural color. Her wings were black as night. Her face was a sleepy smile and by now, it was quite obvious where that blast of light had come from.
"Who're you?" Michael demanded in return for a brief laugh from the figure.
"I, am Celesmon. And you, are in some serious trouble."
"Well, I hope you're prepared for some role reversal." Michael said, inwardly hoping Davis and Ken were smart enough to get here after the line got cut. "Betamon."
"At your service, friend." The digimon said at once.
"You too, Palmon!"
"You got it!"
"Betamon, digivolve to…Seadramon!"
"Palmon, digivolve to…Togemon!"
"Seadramon, digivolve to…Megaseadramon!"
"Togemon, digivolve to…Lillymon!"
"Well guys, I hope you aren't tired from a double digivolving because now we need to fight!"
"Oh yeah!" Megaseadramon said in enthusiasm. "Mega Ice Blaster!"
"Flower Cannon!"
For a moment, the two attacks looked like they were actually going to hit something. Then, Celesmon exploded into action. Flipping her wings once, she was suddenly moving fast enough to avoid both attacks.
"Thunder Javelin!"
In an instant, Celesmon's black wings were folded forward, protecting her face as the electric energy struck the barrier and dissipated. Unfurling them once again, her left hand wound back. "Angel Crusher!" A much larger version of the ball of light that had obliterated the cellular phone developed and came flying towards Lillymon. The ball was blazing fast and scored a partial hit on the flower digimon, eliciting a cry of pain and surprise. The retaliatory Flower Cannon was dodged easily once more.
Celesmon's sleepy smile grew. "I don't think you're going to be able to beat me like that. Angel Crusher!" This time, it went after Megaseadramon who was far too slow to avoid any of it. With a roar, the sea serpent was knocked backwards into a roll across the ground, obliterating some trees on either side of the highway. "No, I definitely don't think you can beat me if you keep going like this. Don't you two even have a Mega form yet?" She taunted sweetly. "No? What a friggin' pity. I'm not supposed to be picking fights while here but I don't suppose it'll matter if you're both utterly annihilated in the first inning." The corrupted angel wound up again. "Angelic-"
"Mega Crusher!" The giant white ball of energy burst in from the side, horizontally seeing as any angel leading it to the ground would have been quite disastrous for the city. Celesmon reacted instantly, converting her attack into a defense. The energy crashed into the angel, blowing past her barely stable defense and nearly knocking her out of the sky and definitely producing her own cry of surprise and pain.
"I THINK WE'LL BE GOING INTO OVERTIME!" Davis shouted from the ancient dragon's back.
"About time!" Mimi replied, waving.
"This isn't over yet!" Celesmon declared, flapping a few times to get back to the altitude she had lost. "Angel Crusher!"
"Ugh!" Imperialdramon shuddered under the force of the blow but wasn't put out of action just yet. "Positron Laser!"
The beam cut into thin air as Celesmon dodged again.
"Flower Cannon!"
Celesmon's flying was pretty impressive they had to admit. It was easily as fast, if not faster than Lillymon and she certainly didn't look like she was slowing down after taking a Mega Crusher from Imperialdramon.
"There's your opening, Imperialdramon!"
"HIT IT!" Ken yelled.
"Imperialdramon Mode Two…" The massive dragon crashed to the highway below which, thankfully, was deserted. The pavement cracked and Michael's car positively jumped on its tires from the massive impact. In an incredible aura of light, Imperialdramon transformed into his two legged, triple powered form. "Imperialdramon, Fighter Mode!"
"Wha…?" Celesmon could only wonder. "I didn't know you could do that…ah well…" Celesmon flapped a few times to gain some combat altitude against her new foe. "ANGEL CRUSHER!" This time, the glowing ball was one heck of a lot larger and faster. The attack came down on Imperialdramon like a meteor, hitting home upon the mega digimon's quickly crossed arms.
"Positron Laser!"
"Thunder Javelin!"
"Flower Cannon!"
Celesmon was a comet in the air, zipping away from the attacks and launcher her own in return, swatting Lillymon out of action. Mimi only just managed to catch the falling Palmon as she fell to the Earth below.
"Mega Ice Blaster!"
"Agh!" The attack hit its target, nailing Celesmon with ice.
"Got her!"
Celesmon quickly brought herself under control and paused for a moment in the air as if considering. "Hehe, I'll concede this time. Wouldn't let it get to your head though." She said abruptly. Before any of her opponents could respond to this sudden conclusion of the battle, a swirling portal of some sort appeared behind Celesmon and engulfed her, facilitating her escape, leaving the digi-destined digimon on the road, breathing hard.
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The hour was late indeed but Casey failed to notice the digital clock displaying 3:49. Even his sister was home, asleep in the next room but his computer has stayed on. He knew there might be a connection between this new object of his and the computer. After all, it had appeared in his hand immediately after his computer had done something strange…to say the least.
Indeed, this thin was a puzzle. The swirls of blue shifted each time he wasn't looking directly at it. It was incredible. Anyone else would have called it an alien object. Casey however, was only intent on solving the puzzle. Finding the solution to a problem or task was his specialty. It helped him forget the real world once in a while. It was something
"Hmm…" He muttered turning the thing over in his hand, continuing his contemplation. "Well, there aren't any moving parts that I can see. I wonder if it does something by itself or if I have to hold it near something." He looked then, at his computer. The supposed source of the object did not respond outside its continuation of its screensaver. "Well, seems reasonable enough." Obligingly, he held the device at the screen, whose screensaver seemed only to beckon him further.
A sudden revelation hit him. The device was now covered in condensation and it was warming than it usually was. He thought he was going to cry out but some exterior force silenced him. He thought for a moment he heard that same music and bubbling voice from the time he'd gotten this thing. The sound of the ocean could be heard again. The next moment, Casey was no longer standing in his room.
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Casey opened his eyes and found a pair of larger ones staring right back at them. His mid-length blond hair practically straightened to needles right there. His green eyes widened at the sight of the clearly living thing sitting on his red T-shirt.
"Whoa!"
"Hi there! You're awake! Are you Casey?"
"Uh…yeah!"
"Nice to meet ya! My name's Yisamon! I'm you're partner!"
"Uh…cool…" Casey had no idea which of the statements to answer since this clearly sentient guy here seemed to favor saying them in sets of three. He elected to try and send a question of his own. "What are you?"
"Why I'm a digimon of course! Haven't you seen a digimon before? Didn't you see one before becoming a digi-destined?"
Casey got an arm and scratched his head. "Nope." He concluded, then added. "Digi-destined?"
"Well, you're a digi-destined of course! Only digi-destined have access to the digital world! That's why you're here!"
"Okay so you're a digimon and I'm a digi-destined. So what is this, the digi-world?"
"Why yes! It makes perfect sense doesn't it? I'm a digimon, a digital monster and this is the digiworld, the digital world and you're the…well, I don't think digital destined is the right term but it's something to that effect." By now, Casey had gotten a good look at the animal – if you could call it that – sitting on his chest. It was a sort of lizard with four claws per limb and webbing like a duck's between each digit. The sail on its back seemed to indicate an mainly aquatic nature as well. Save for its proportionally large head and larger eyes, it was a normal lizard. That is, if blue was a normal color for a lizard.
"Okay…" Casey ran the new information through his head a few times and resolved to ask more later. Right now, he knew he was in some sort of other world. Judging by the word 'digital' attached to everything, this was inside his computer or the internet or something and these digimon…were they viruses or programs? "I'll ask more later when I think I need it." He concluded. "Meanwhile could you please get off me so I can get up?"
His new 'partner' smiled brightly and leapt off with surprising agility for a lizard. It/he didn't say anything in reply. Casey wondered if it was because he couldn't think of three separate sentences or fragments to say. His thoughts were interrupted by a distant buzzing that seemed to be coming closer.
"Hey, you hear that?"
"I sure do and I ain't liking it." Yisamon said. "That's Yanmamon's wings beating. He's one insect digimon with a bad temper!"
Casey wasn't into insects, but the last time buzzing got that loud was with a mosquito practically in his ear. If this thing was so loud at a range he couldn't even see…
Oh man, I think this thing's going to be large…
"Thunder Ray!"
"Aaaaaah!" Casey hit the turf as a blast of electric energy discharged at his feet, charring the earth and filling the air with a burning smell.
"Casey! Are you alright?" Yisamon turned towards the air to say the third thing in his set. It turned out, as Casey saw now, not to be mere words this time either. "Water Blast!" To Casey's amazement, a stream of water emitted from Yisamon's gaping reptilian mouth and struck the dragonfly-like Yanmamon dead on knocking the thing astray and painfully into a sapling. It replied to the insult with the cackle-sounding noise of his mandibles clattering.
"Thunder Ray!"
"YeaaAAHH!" Yisamon yelped in pain as he was electrocuted thoroughly by the assault, keeling over in a heap almost right away.
"Yisamon!" Casey ran over, for some reason he could not fathom, feeling a connection to his new friend. "Are you alright?"
"I've felt better. Dangit, he's too strong." He turned to Casey as if beseeching something that he could provide. "I need more power!"
"Well, all I got here is this darn thing that brought me here and it's-"
"That's a digivice!" Yisamon interrupted excitedly. "I knew you'd have one!" Falling silent, he jumped in front of the device that Casey held in his hands, wet from condensation on its ice cold surface, its swirling oil patterns of blue shimmering underneath a layer of real water droplets.
"Digivice? What's this thing got to-"
"Yisamon, digivolve to…" Yisamon glowed with a powerful blue aura as energy gathered around him. Briefly, the image of a dragon, wings of vapor spreading glorious appeared before Casey's eyes. The eleven year old could only stare at the metamorphosis happening to his friend, another miracle in a strange day indeed and one that amazed him more than all the others before. Now, the former Yisamon reappeared, clearly changed to the image Casey had seen flashed before him. He resolved to ask about this first opportunity he had. "…Mistdramon!" Yisamon had become Mistdramon, a dragon hovering inches from the ground that seemed entirely composed of the thick mist of its namesake. The dragon's head reared back and let loose a muted but still regal roar. The wings and claws of mist flexed eagerly for battle.
"Thunder Ray!"
"Fog Bank!"
The area was suddenly covered in fog so thick that Casey could barely see his hand held out before him. The humid atmosphere was not oppressive although it did carry a certain chill to it, like his digivice. Anyhow, Yanmamon certainly couldn't see well enough to aim as random blasts of thunder struck wide, all around them.
"Mist Claw!" A fog congealed into a thick claw that came down heavily atop Yanmamon which immediately smashed into the ground from the quite substantial attack. Caught unprepared, the dragonfly took heavy damage and shattered into bits of data.
"Yeah! You got it!" Casey yelled excitedly. Mistdramon reverted back to Yisamon once again and smiled with Casey.