Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon. I'm sorry, I'm sorry for the large gap between updates. Next time you people review, could you please say something other than "about time"? Please? Like good story idea, or something. Finding time to write is hard.
Anyway, I have exams and big projects coming up, so who knows when the next chapter will be.
Enough rambling, on to the story!
Lost Destiny
By the Traveler
This is Cody. And Yolei. Last time, we nearly got caught in the crossfire between 2 Monochromons, so we all decided to head inland, and settled down in this trolley car for the night. I told everybody else about our new D-3s, and of course, Davis was too dumb to understand the importance of my discovery. Anyway, Michael had a little heart to heart chat with Catherine, but their talk was interrupted by Garurumon! Michael heroically tried to save Catherine. Oh, he is so dreamy! But then, Betamon digivolved to Seadramon! After a gruesome fight, Seadramon sent Garurumon packing. I wonder what's next. Don't I get to say anything? NO DAVIS!
"Triple Trouble!"
The children were walking. Then they decided to walk some more. And then for a change of pace, they decided to walk some more.
After their last encounter with the deadly Garurumon, the group had all voted to leave the island the next day.
Davis, leading the way with Veemon behind him, squinted as they emerged out of the forest into a grassland.
"Finally, we're out of that forest," he grumbled as he waited for everyone else to emerge out of the forest.
"Well, I liked it," said Floramon as she and Catherine arrived. "It was nice and shady."
"So, which direction do we go now?" asked Michael.
Davis looked around. "Since I have a great sense of direction, I think that we should go…" Davis looked around, and then pointed in a random direction.
"Hey guys, I think I see some buildings over in that direction," shouted TK who was looking in a completely different direction.
"What?! Where?!" everyone shouted. They all ran towards TK, and saw something in the distance, leaving Davis to stand lamely there.
"It's okay, Davis," comforted Veemon. "Anyone could've made that mistake."
"It is a village!" shouted Yolei. "Come on, let's get going, Mr. 'I have a great sense of direction.'"
Davis sighed. "She can never resist a chance to do that," he muttered.
Suddenly he saw a pink-gloved covered hand reach out and gently take his hand.
"Don't worry Davis, you couldn't have known that was there," Kari said.
Davis blushed at the fact Kari was holding his hand. "Uh, thanks Kari."
"Come on, Davis," called Ken. "That village might have people who can help us get home!"
Davis started. "Coming," he answered.
He turned back to Veemon, Kari, and Gatomon. "Come on, we don't want them to call me, Davis, the soccer super-star a slowpoke, right?" Davis said, striking a silly pose.
Kari giggled at Davis' acting. He could always get her to laugh, even at the worst times. That was one of the reasons she liked him.
The foursome took off after the main group.
***
"Odd, this village looked a lot bigger from far away," Yolei murmured as she looked at the "village."
Or at least what she thought was a village. All the huts barely reached up to Cody's waist, and they had tiny doors to match. They hadn't run far when they had already found themselves at the village. They had thought that the village appeared small from the forest because it was far away, but instead it was just tiny.
Cody cautiously stepped into the center of the village. "Hello, is anyone there?"
"Oh, I know this place," Hawkmon spoke up. He cupped his hands/wings to his beak. "Hey, Yokomon, don't worry, its just me, Poromon."
Slowly, what looked like pink talking heads with plants on their heads emerged from the huts.
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One of the strange Digimon bounced up to Hawkmon. "Poromon, is that you?" it asked.
"Of course, its me," Hawkmon said, "I've just digivolved to my Rookie form, Hawkmon."
Yokomon looked Hawkmon up and down. "So that's your Rookie form. You were the first Poromon/Hawkmon we had ever had, so we had no idea what you would digivolve into. But how did you do it so quickly?"
"Quickly!?" Hawkmon looked indignant. "I'll have you know that it took me years to reach this form."
"But
you were still younger than most of the village when you passed through," Yokomon reminded him.
"Only recently have only our leader, and others reached the Rookie
level. I'm just wondering how you got
there so quickly."
"Well, my partner, Yolei helped me, of course," Hawkmon said.
"Your partner? Digimon don't have partner," Yokomon said surprised.
"I'm a special Digimon, so I warrant a special partner," Hawkmon said proudly.
"Uh, Hawkmon, you know these… people?" Yolei asked hesitantly as she stepped up next to Hawkmon.
All the Yokomon yelped and bounced back away from the tall human.
"Don't worry," Hawkmon said waving his wings around, "this is Yolei, she's a nice human, she won't hurt you."
"Human?" repeated the lead Yokomon. "What's a human? I've never heard of a human before."
"Hawkmon, you better start explaining," growled Yolei softly. "I don't like not knowing what is going on."
"Well, you see," began Hawkmon. "I wasn't born on File Island. In fact, out of the eight of us, only Patamon was born on the island. My first memory is waking up as a Poromon in another place, on a continent called Server. I don't know how I got there, but I knew that I was waiting for someone to come, but I knew that I to go someplace to get there. I started following this feeling I had that this was the right direction, and managed to get across Net Ocean, and here, until I reached that clearing. But that journey took a long time, and by the time I reached the island by flying, I was exhausted. These Yokomon found me and took care of me, until I could travel again."
All the rest of the Digimon nodded in agreement with Hawkmon's story.
They would've continued talking to the Yokomon, if a voice from the sky hadn't shouted "Spiral Twister!"
Yolei nearly fell when blast of green fire hit the ground in front of her.
Everyone looked up to see about 6 cute pink birds hovering in the air, and most of them were blasting fire at them. They all started running away as the birds continued shooting at them.
"Why are they shooting at us?" asked Cody, "we've haven't done anything wrong."
"We won't let any of you monsters conquer our village!" shouted one as she dived at Cody, intending to finish it up at close range.
Cody stopped when he saw the attacking bird flying towards him. He pulled his kendo stick off of his back, and stood his ground. "Okay, enough running."
He waited till the bird was within reach, and then swung and connected with the bird.
The bird flew back for a bit, and then attacked again with its fire. Cody jumped back, but accidentally dropped his kendo stick. The bird, seeing another opportunity, dived again.
"No, Cody, look out," shouted Armadillomon. "Diamond Shell!" Armadillomon jumped inot the air, curled up into a ball, and collided with the bird in mid-air, knocking her aside.
Armadillomon landed, and stood protectively in front of Cody as the attacking pink bird got up again.
Meanwhile the other children were holding their own. Veemon head butted one, nearly knocking it out, while Gatomon was easily taking on 2 at once. Betamon and Floramon had teamed up and were attacking one together, while Patamon was dodging the birds in the air, and Wormmon had managed to tie up a couple with his Sticky Net.
"Wait, stop," shouted the lead Yokomon as she hopped to try to catch up to the small battle.
"Stay back," called back one of the flying birds. "We'll handle this."
"But they're not mean, they haven't done anything. And one of them is Poromon."
That caused her to pause. "But I don't see Poromon anywhere."
"I'm right here," Hawkmon said, raising a wing.
The leader looked him over. "Wow, you've grown. I'm impressed."
Slowly, all the birds landed, and looked warily at the others.
"Who are you, and what do you want?" demanded the lead bird.
"Hawkmon, who are they?" whispered Yolei to her partner.
"They're Biyomon, the digivolved form of the Yokomon. They may look cute, but they can still hurt you with their Spiral Twister.
The 6 Biyomon were waiting, so Hawkmon, as the only one who had been there previously, started the introductions again.
***
Far away, a burning Digimon was minding his own business, when all of a sudden, a black gear flew out of a crack in the wall of a nearby mountain, and lodged itself into his back.
He screamed out in pain, as he started running around as if his head was on fire… which it was.
***
"We're sorry for attacking you," apologized the leader Biyomon. "We had heard reports of evil Digimon attacking other villages, and so we've been a bit jumpy. And you humans sure look weird."
Yolei fumed at the comment, but luckily Hawkmon and Cody managed to calm her down before she punched Biyomon's lights out.
"Well, it was very nice to meet you", Yolei said, and Hawkmon nodded along. "We're just wondering if you've ever seen any other humans."
"Humans?" Biyomon shook her head. "Nope, you're the first we've ever met. We've never traveled that much. Once, a long time ago, one of our number left, saying she felt that she was waiting for someone, and we've never heard from her again. But we've heard from traveling Digimon of a dark power in the center of the island, is gathering strength. That's why we attacked you immediately."
As if on cue, a giant blue fireball landed on one of the nearby huts and the hut exploded.
The Yokomon scattered as more oddly blue fireballs landed nearby. Oddly enough, some of the fires seem to freeze the huts into ice, while others just burned them down.
All of the children looked up, and saw a burning man launching the fireballs.
"Who's that?" Ken asked as he dodged one of the fireballs. He expected to feel heat from the fire, but instead, the closer he got, the colder.
"The fire, it isn't hot!" he called to the others.
"But it can still burn," yelped Yolei as she watched one of the Yokomon huts burn down.
"Why would anyone want to do something this horrible?" Cody asked, disgusted at the destruction around him.
"That's Blue Meramon," explained one of the Biyomon. "He lives over on that volcano over there. He's an Ultimate ice Digimon, and his Cold Flame and Ice Phantom will freeze your heart."
"Quick, everyone to the shelter!" ordered the leader.
The Yokomon, looking like a river of pink, started flooding out of the village, towards the mountains.
"Where are we going?" asked Davis right before he was swept away by the crowd.
"There's this big cave over there," answered a Yokomon. "We'll be safe there!"
Everybody else helped with leading the bouncing radishes towards the mountains, before Blue Meramon descended on the village.
Yolei and Cody were picking up the rear, checking that everyone was out.
"That's the last of them," Cody said to Yolei as they watched the end of the stream of Yokomon leaving.
Yolei sighed in relief, but screamed when Blue Meramon landed right in front of her.
"AHHHH!"
He smiled savagely and held up a blue fireball. He threw it, and Yolei froze as she watched her doom coming towards her, when Hawkmon tackled her, and knocked her out of the way. The attack hit an already frozen hut, and shattered it.
"Diamond Shell!"
Armadillomon slammed into Blue Meramon from the back, but he barely escaped being frozen as Blue Meramon unleashed a wave of ice power.
"We've got to get out of here," Cody said as he carried Armadillomon over to where Yolei was getting back up.
"No argument there," Yolei agreed.
Blue Meramon, in his insane rage, saw his only targets escaping, and roared, and charged them.
The two Rookies valiantly stood in front of their partners, ready to defend them to the death. Blue Meramon threw more of his Cold Flame fireballs, and right before they hit-
"Hawkmon digivolve to… Aquillamon!"
"Armadillomon digivolve to… Ankylomon!"
Ankylomon took the brunt of the attack, but his armor protected him, while Aquillamon quickly snatched up both of the children, and flew away.
"Hawkmon?" asked Yolei as she and Cody tangled from the eagle Digimon's talons.
"Actually, its Aquillamon now, Yolei. I'm a Champion bird Digimon, with my Grand Horn and Blast Rings attacks. That yellow dinosaur down there is Ankylomon, Armadillomon's Champion form, and his Tail Hammer and Megaton Press should be able to hold off Blue Meramon's attacks for awhile."
Cody squirmed in Aquillamon's grip. "But, we've got to go back for him!"
"Don't worry, after we get you 2 to safety, then I'll go back and him," soothed Aquillamon.
"Well then, go faster!" shouted Yolei. "We don't want out lose him, right Cody?"
Cody only nodded back as he looked back at the battle.
***
"Excuse me, sorry, pardon me," Davis said as he struggled to get to the back of the cave without stepping on any of the Yokomon.
"Davis, do you want to kill one of the Yokomon?" asked TK as he and everybody else were waiting outside.
"I heard them say there was something inside here, something that resembled an egg, and I want to check it out," answered Davis.
"Can't you check it out later Davis?" asked Micheal. "We've got to make sure Blue Meramon doesn't find us."
"No, I've got this feeling that it might help us somehow," said Davis. "Hey, what's that?"
He was finally at the back of the cave, and saw something that looked like an egg, with a horn sticking out of it, with an odd symbol on it, and flames painted on the sides.
Veemon gasped. "It's a Digimental! It can make me Armor Digivolve!"
Davis picked it up.
"Armor Digivolve, huh? Well, I'm sure that'll help against that
walking fireball. Uh, how do I use it?"
"Just hold it up and say Digi-Armor Energize!"
Davis nodded. "Right. Digi-Armor Energize!"
"Veemon armor-digivolve to… Flamedramon, the Fire of Courage!"
Veemon was now about Davis' height, with flame emblazoned armor covering his arm, and two clawed gauntlets on his arms.
"Time to roast some Meramon," he said confidently as he jumped over the Yokomon and out of the cave to join the battle.
***
Ankylomon was in trouble. His hard shell could take the brunt of most of the Ultimate's attacks, but he was getting sluggish, and was losing energy.
Aquillamon at least could dodge most of the attacks from the air, but he also couldn't attack much.
That was when a red-hot giant fireball crashed into Blue Meramon, causing him to roar in pain as the opposite elements collided.
Ankylomon blinked. "Veemon?"
Flamedramon landed on the ground again. "Actually, its Flamdramon now. And this battle should now be a piece of cake, , since, when its fire vs. ice, fire always wins."
Ankylomon smiled. Now they were rocking.
***
"Yeah!" Davis cheered when he saw Flamedramon ram into Blue Meramon. "Now its 3 against 1! There's no way we can't win!"
"I'm not so sure," said Biyomon.
Everybody looked at her.
"Blue Meramon is still a level above all of them, though I'm not quite sure what level a Flamedramon is," she explained. "He used to be our protector, and even defended us against this swarm of Vilemon a while ago." She shook her head. "I don't know what caused him to go berserk like this."
Ken frowned. "So its possible he may be influenced by something?"
Biyomon shrugged. "Who knows?"
Ken turned to Yolei. "Yolei, do you think our Digivices can look for some sort of weak point on that guy, something controlling him, anything?"
Yolei started fiddling around with her laptop, and the connect D-3. "Let me see,"
A diagram of Blue Meramon appeared on the screen, and she started scanning with her D-3.
"Huh, what's that?" Yolei noticed there was something sticking out of Blue Meramon's back. It seemed to be a sort of gear, or something. It was somewhat hard to see, with all the blue flames surrounding it, but it definitely stood out as the only bit of black on Blue Meramon.
"Hey guys!" she shouted to the Digimon. "Aim for the back!"
The three attacking Digimon nodded, and renewed their attack.
"Megaton Press!" Ankylomon rolled into a ball, and nearly squashed Blue Meramon, but the fire Digimon tossed the dinosaur Digimon away, but he left himself open for an assault from Aquillamon. Aquillamon shot his Blast Rings, and knocked Blue Meramon forward.
Flamedramon's gauntlets burst into flame, and he leapt forward. He kneed Blue Meramon in the stomach, and then shouted "Flame Fist!" as he punched Blue Meramon with both fists.
The larger Digimon went flying, but Flamedramon kept up with him, and for a final blow-
"Fire Rocket!" He stuck his fist into the center of Blue Meramon's body, and started firing multiple fireballs. Flamedramon kept the assault up, until several fireballs burst through Blue Meramon's body, and came out in his back. At the same time, a burned black gear came out, and disintergrated.
Flamedramon pulled back, but stayed on guard as Blue Meramon fell to the ground.
After a few moments, the Ultimate groaned, and sat up. "What's going on? How'd I get down here? And why do I have a colossal headache?"
The other Digimon stood down after it seemed that Blue Meramon had come to his sense.
Both Aquillamon and Ankylomon glowed, and shrunk to their lower forms, but for Flamedramon, his armor glowed, and then flew away towards Davis.
Davis blinked as it turned into a beam of energy and went into his pocket. He reached inside and pulled out his D-Terminal, as Yolei had also come up with a name for them, and flipped the cover open.
On the screen was the Digimental. Davis smiled. "Well, that's convenient, I guess it would be kinda hard to carry around something that bulky all the time."
***
From up above, a pink Biyomon was watching the rest of the tribe come out of the cave and cautiously examining Blue Meramon. You might think that it was just another stray Biyomon except for the fact that she was holding a small communicator in her wing.
"I didn't really expect them to be able to beat him since he was so powerful, but I didn't know that they had a Digimental hidden in that cave. If it weren't for that third Armor fire Digimon, I bet they would've turned tail and ran away."
"Yeah," answered a voice over the communicator, "but I thought that Andromon would be the first high level Digimon they would fight. Now, if you must excuse, Gabumon is yelling at me to fork over those Digidollars. See you when you get back."
"Acknowledged," said Biyomon. In a flash of orange light, she disappeared, and was replaced by a large orange bird that flew out of sight towards the center of the island.
***
"I'm really sorry, but I have absolutely no idea why I attacked you. For that matter, I don't even remember attacking any of you," said a confused Blue Meramon after they had asked him why he had attacked them.
"I still don't trust him," Davis said dubiously as he kept his distance.
"Come on Davis, have a little more faith in people, er Digimon," Kari said as she walked closer to Blue Meramon to examine.
Davis instantly rushed over to Kari. "Whatever you say Kari."
"What is the last thing you remember?" asked Ken.
Blue Meramon rubbed his head. "Let's see, I was taking a nice warm lava bath over there in that mountain, then I thought I saw this little pink bird holding a black gear somewhere, then the next thing I know, I'm here."
"Pink bird?" Yolei asked. "Was it a Biyomon?"
Blue Meramon thought for a moment. "Yeah, it could've been a Biyomon. I thought it strange, so I got up to take a closer look, and then here I am."
"Iz it possible that it was one of the village's Biyomons?" Catherine asked, looking over at the group of evolved Digimon.
The leader shook her head. "We were all out in the forest, and were with each other all the time, so it couldn't have been one of us."
"So does that mean there is a Digimon deliberately causing trouble somewhere nearby?" asked Cody. "How could anybody do something this mean to somebody else?"
"Well, its over, at least for now," TK said.
"Don't worry, with X-Veemon on our side, no one can hurt us!" Davis said enthusiastically.
"Yeah!!!" shouted Veemon, copying his partner.
"Will you pipe down before some other really large monster hears you?!" Yolei shouted as she got Davis into a headlock.
TK thought about everything that had happened to them over the last few days. First Kuwagamon, then Shellmon, those Monochromons, Seadramon, and then the erratic behavior of Blue Meramon.
"Does anyone else get the feeling that someone is watching us?" TK asked.
"What do you mean, TK?" asked Cody.
"It feels like we're being tested somehow," TK said. "I mean, we keep getting into these situations, and then we somehow get out of them, and our Digimon get stronger at the same time."
"Yeah," agreed Cody. "And half the time the Digimon are really friendly, like Gomamon, the other half are monsters, like Garururmon, or Kuwagamon."
TK nodded. "Yeah, that's it. And everything is always wrapped up all nicely, just in time. I don't like it. It just seems too perfect. And besides, I'm more worried about that black gear that caused Blue Meramon to go berserk. Imagine if it happened to one of our Digimon."
All of the children shivered at the thought.
After a moment of silence, Davis perked up again. "Ahh, don't be so gloomy TG. You should enjoy life. And I'm sure we'll get home eventually."
TK growled. "Doesn't anything get through that thick skull of yours! We're stuck on this island, with no real way to get home, and almost no hope of getting home again, and you're telling me to enjoy the scenery!"
The two boys were glaring at each other, and it looked like it would come to blows, until Kari came between the two of them.
"Come on, boys, don't fight. Besides, we don't want to damage the Yokomon village anymore, right?"
Kari glared at both boys, and they both nodded guiltily.
Davis sighed. "You might have a point TQ, but there is nothing we can do about it right now. We can only do the best we can."
TK nodded acknowledgement. "And I guess we shouldn't fight in front of the Yokomon."
All the other children let out their breaths in relief at the end of the tension.
The lead Biyomon cleared her throat. "Well, excuse me, but thank you once again for saving our village. I don't know what we would've been able to do against a powerful Ultimate like Blue Meramon. We don't have much we can give you, but hopefully, this will make up for it somewhat."
On cue, several Yokomon came forward with several baskets of bird seed.
All the children looked awkward at the gift, but Hawkmon's eyes lit up. "Thank you, thank you very much!"
He immediately grabbed a bowl and started gulping down bird seed.
All the children stared, and after a quick quiet conversation, they agreed that they would accept the gift, even if most of them didn't eat bird seed.
Everybody agreed that it was best to leave the village before they attracted the attention of anymore Digimon.
The children wearily set off for parts unknown as they continued their quest to get home- somehow.
To be continued.
I am so sorry for the long delay! I appreciate reviews for anything about the story. I'm working to correct some minor errors in previous chapters. I'll get the chapter out sometime this year… I hope. Heh.
Also, please review! But don't just say "it took long enough!" I know its been awhile.
