Digimon: Elementals
By: ArtikGato
Disclaimer: For the minuscule portion of you who are BRAINDEAD IDIOTS, I DON'T own Digimon. Not that I wouldn't like to, but I don't Toei Animation, Saban, Fox Kids, and those Japanese people own Digimon, not me. There are lots of Digimon that I've created for the sole purpose of putting them in this story, so if you see a name you don't recognize, it's probably one of my creations. There will be a list at the end of the fic, and in the Author's Note at the beginning of every chapter, I'll put the names of my creations for that particular chapter, as well as the origin of some Digimon you may not recognize.
Author's Note: Comments, suggestions, and CONSTRUCTIVE criticism welcome. Flames will be answered by a multitude of things from my army of faithful and loyal (and powerful) Digimon. The following Digimon are 100% my creations. If there are actual Digimon with those names, oops, and sorry to whoever created them. Here they are: Marinedramon and Falcomon. OK, enjoy the story!
Chapter Six: Curses
"Wow, Pansymon looks so cool!" Yolei exclaimed. The armor Digidestined were looking over Izzy's shoulder at the computer screen of his laptop. Izzy had plugged April's Digivice into it and accessed Pansymon's file. He unplugged the Digivice and handed it back to April.
"Who Digivolves next?" Yolei asked.
"Gee, how could you tell?" Nick asked, sarcastically.
"OK, so my storytelling skills are a little bad, but I've got a lot of stuff to cover, and I'm sure you guys don't have much time here in the Digiworld," I said, to the Armor Digidestined and Izzy, looking at my watch.
"Right, so go on with the story," Davis said, impatiently.
"OK, OK! Well, we got a peaceful night's sleep...up until some point during Nick's guard duty....."
"Oh, sure, blame it on ME why don't you?" Nick retorted.
"As I recall, Nick, it was your fault..." April butted in.
"Just get on with the story," Nick growled. I rolled my eyes, but continued.
Flashback:
"Wake up, everybody!" Nick yelled to us, and we were all of a sudden hit with a splash of water. We woke up with a start. Nick and Syakomon were standing on the shore of the lake, and in the middle of the lake a very big, very angry looking Digimon was floating.
"What's going on?" Randy asked.
"We were throwing rocks into the lake and we accidentally hit that guy in the head!" Nick yelled over to us.
"Actually, it was just Nick. I can't throw rocks, since I have no arms!" Syakomon yelled to us, pushing all the blame on to his now completely soaked partner.
"Good going, now we're in trouble!" I yelled over to him, angrily.
"Who is that, anyway?" Will asked.
"His name is Shellmon, he's a shellfish Digimon with a devastating attack called Hydro Blaster," Floramon explained.
"He's one of Deltamon's slaves!" Tapirmon exclaimed.
"Perfect, he got a giant shellfish who happens to be one of Deltamon's minions mad, and he disturbed our sleep!" April yelled.
"I was hoping for ONE night where we didn't have to wake up in the middle of the night and fight some stupid servant of Deltamon!" Wendy whined.
"Well, what are we standing around here for, let's go guys!" Voltomon exclaimed to Flamemon and Floramon.
"Right!" they exclaimed, nodding.
"Voltomon Digivolve to.....Shockmon!"
"Go get ém Shockmon!" I cheered.
"Flamemon Digivolve to.....Meramon!"
"Charbroil that shellfish!" Randy exclaimed.
"Floramon Digivolve to.....Pansymon!"
"Go Pansymon!" April cheered. The champion Digimon went to attack. Shockmon flew over top of Shellmon and prepared to launch a Shock beam.
"Hydro Blaster!" Shellmon exclaimed, and hit Shockmon with a blast of water so strong that it blew the rabbit/cat Digimon back across the lake and into a tree. Shockmon glowed and returned to Voltomon, coughing.
"Oh no!" I exclaimed, and ran toward Voltomon.
"Roaring Flame!" "Stinging Petals!" Meramon and Pansymon attacked, but their attacks were shot back at them by another Hydro Blaster. They were blown backwards and crashed into the makeshift shelter, where a cloud of steam, from Meramon, rose up. They reverted back to Flamemon and Floramon.
"Uh oh!" Randy and April exclaimed and ran to the aid of their Digimon. Shellmon turned to Wendy and Will.
"Deleting Virus!" "Spiral Wind!" Tapirmon and Sparrowmon attacked Shellmon. Shellmon withdrew into it's shell, and the attacks bounced right off.
"Hydro Blaster!" Sparrowmon and Tapirmon bit the dust.
"What now?" Will asked, as he picked up Tapirmon.
"Now, as the command of master Deltamon, I destroy you!" Shellmon bellowed, and aimed his head, where the Hydro Blaster came out of, toward them.
"No!" Nick exclaimed from the other side of the lake.
"I don't think so, Black Pearl Blast!" Syakomon exclaimed from underwater, and blasted Shellmon. Shellmon dove underwater after Syakomon. A few seconds later, Syakomon rose up out of the water on a spout of water. Shellmon had blasted him from underwater! Syakomon landed on the beach, but his shell absorbed the shock.
"Syakomon! Are you OK?" Nick asked, as he ran up to his friend.
"I'm fine..." Syakomon replied, a little weakly, and opened his shell.
"I'm so sorry, this is all my fault!" Nick apologized. Syakomon was about to reply, but a loud roar from Shellmon stopped him.
"Lord Deltamon bids me to destroy the Digidestined! So I will! Starting with you!" Shellmon exclaimed, and aimed his head toward Nick.
"Nick! Move! Get out of the way!" I exclaimed, when I realized what was happening. Nick just stood there, a look of grim determination on his face.
"Attack me if you want! Just don't hurt my friends! It was my fault, I woke you up! If you must take out your rage, take it out on me!" he exclaimed.
"Don't be crazy, he'll kill you!" Syakomon shouted at him.
"Foolish human! Say goodbye!" he exclaimed, and began to power up.
"Nick, no!" Syakomon exclaimed. Suddenly, there was a bright, aqua-blue light surrounding them. An all too familiar shrill beeping sounded.
"Take him down Syakomon!" Nick exclaimed, holding out his glowing Digivice. Syakomon suddenly flared white, and started to change shape.
"Syakomon, Digivolve to......Marinedramon!" Syakomon was replaced by a huge blue lizard of some sort, standing on two legs. He jumped, and hit the dazed Shellmon on the head with his massive tail. He jumped off of Shellmon's shell and landed on the other side of the lake. All six of us and our five remaining Rookie Digimon were looking on with awe.
"Syakomon Digivolved! That's his Champion form, Marinedramon!" Voltomon exclaimed.
"All right! My own Champion Digimon!" Nick exclaimed, gleefully.
"Not for long, Hydro Blaster!" Shellmon exclaimed, and fired a blast of water at the newly Digivolved Marinedramon.
"Hydro Punch!" Marinedramon said, and punched straight through the blast of water, making it split in half around him and hit the trees behind him. We were all amazed at the power of Marinedramon. He jumped forward, and dove underwater. Shellmon dove underwater too, but a few seconds later, Shellmon was thrown up and out of the water by Marinedramon's punch. Shellmon flew up into the air and plummeted down again. Marinedramon grabbed the Shellfish Digimon and tossed him up onto the beach. He jumped out of the water and beside Shellmon on the bank.
"Give up," Marinedramon said.
"I give up," Shellmon said, defeated, and groaned. Suddenly, a white glow surrounded Shellmon, and he stood up. Marinedramon took up a fighting stance. The white glow receded, and a black shadow of some sort came out of Shellmon's eyes and disappeared across the water and into the distance. Shellmon's eyes, which had been black, returned to their normal blue color.
"What was that?" I asked.
"I don't know," Wendy replied. Shellmon, in a much different voice, began to speak.
"You don't need to fight me, I am on your side now," Shellmon said. Marinedramon relaxed his fighting stance, and glowed. He turned back into Syakomon.
"OK, so if you're on our side, why did you just attack us?" April asked Shellmon. Nick arrived, and picked up Syakomon.
"Yeah, and what was that weirdo shadow?" he asked. We all walked up with our Digimon.
"It isn't my fault that I attacked you, Deltamon cast a spell on me. That was what that weird shadow was. He uses an attack called Delta Curse to cast spells on innocent Digimon and make them his slaves." Shellmon said. We gasped.
"Oh no, that means that we killed innocent Digimon!" April exclaimed.
"Poor Snimon, and Kokatorimon, and even Roachmon, they weren't evil, they were just cursed!" I said.
"Oh, no, no, those Digimon were evil," Shellmon said.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Deltamon has a group of five Digimon called 'Dark Generals'. They are evil, but not as powerful as Deltamon himself. They are, or were, in some cases, Roachmon, Snimon, Kokatorimon, Tyrannomon, and Tuskmon. Those are evil Digimon, and it's good that you destroyed them," Shellmon replied.
"So, they follow him willingly? They are evil," Will remarked.
"Well, we've destroyed three out of five of them, so the other two can't be that tough," Randy said, optimistically.
"You'd think so, wouldn't you? Actually, Tyrannomon and Tuskmon are almost as powerful as Deltamon himself, so beating them won't be easy," Shellmon warned.
"Oh, great!" Wendy exclaimed, sarcastically. Voltomon yawned.
"You all must be very tired," Shellmon said.
"Oh, yeah. We haven't gotten five hours of sleep straight since we came to the Digital World," Will said.
"I tell you what, since you uncursed me, I want to pay you back, so you guys go get some shuteye, and I'll stand guard for the rest of the night," Shellmon offered.
"Great!" we all exclaimed.
"Thank you so much Shellmon!" I exclaimed, and we all settled down for a long and peaceful sleep, under the watchful eyes of Shellmon.
"Goodbye, Shellmon, and thanks for a good night's sleep!" I exclaimed, as we waved to Shellmon.
"Thank you, Digidestined, for uncursing me!" Shellmon yelled to us. We had slept in for a while, and rested up. Our Digimon were in prime fighting condition now, and we had had a huge breakfast, thanks in part to Shellmon. Shellmon had helped us find a deposit of freshwater clams along the shore of the lake. Syakomon gigantically opposed us eating clams, but we convinced him that they weren't family, so he let us eat them. Now we were saying goodbye to our new friend, Shellmon, and beginning yet another long hike through the jungles of the Digital World.
We were walking along, when suddenly, we all heard a beeping sound. It sounded strangely familiar......
"Is it an enemy Digimon?" Wendy asked.
"No, it's my Game Boy! But...I guess it must have been turned on somehow," I said. I got it out of my book bag and was about to shut it off, when a bright light came out of the screen. I cried out in surprise and shielded my eyes. A bright light also shone out of somewhere else in my book bag. I sat down the Game Boy and dug through my book bag and pulled out my CD Player, which was also glowing. I sat the CD Player down by the Gameboy, and the light got even brighter. When the light disappeared, we all gasped. In the place of the CD player and Game Boy was a large electronic gadget. It had a large screen, and a keyboard, and below the keyboard a CD could be inserted.
"Aww, man! My CD player!" I exclaimed.
"What happened?" April asked. The screen all of a sudden flashed on, and a picture of an old man with almost no hair and closed eyes walked onto the screen.
"Greetings Digidestined, I am Gennai," the man said.
"What the heck?" Randy asked, peering over my shoulder along with everyone else.
"What do you want?" I asked, feeling kind of stupid talking to a mini computer.
"That is a good question," he replied. He could hear us! "I am here to help you. I know that your enemy is a Digimon called Deltamon. I can't tell you exactly how to beat him, but I can help you if you get into trouble," Gennai explained.
"OK, great, but why are we here, anyway?" April asked.
"And where's 'here'?" Nick asked.
"You six were chosen to become the Digidestined a long time ago. The ones who chose you, I do not know who they are, but I know what their intentions were. You six were chosen because of the special traits within each of you. Together, you can help save the Digi World from the evil forces threatening it. The ones who chose you long ago have summoned you now because you are needed now," Gennai continued.
"Needed for what? Defeating Deltamon?" Nick asked.
"For now, yes. But, I must warn you, defeating Deltamon won't be easy. You cannot fight him right now and expect to win. I cannot tell you what the key to beating him is, you must figure that out on your own..." Gennai said, and then the screen started to get fuzzy.
"Wait, Gennai!" Randy exclaimed.
"My transmission is starting to go, but before it does, I have equipped this computer with a file that helps keep track of and identify Digimon. Use it wisely..."Gennai exclaimed, and then the screen blinked off.
"Perfect, now not only am I MORE confused than before, but we STILL don't know where the heck this 'Digiworld' place is!" Wendy exclaimed, frustrated.
"Well, at least we know that we have to beat Deltamon..." Sparrowmon replied, trying to calm her partner down. That only made it worse.
"Yeah, that's the problem! Now we have to worry about defeating a huge, three headed killing machine that's bent on killing us! Life's not fair!" Wendy whined. I sighed, and looked at my new 'computer'. The screen displayed a blue background, with several icons on it. One was a Digivice, while I couldn't tell what the others were. There was some sort of weird writing below it, most likely Japanese. There was also no mouse pad of any kind on the computer, so I couldn't figure out how to access it.
"Maybe it's one of those computers where you touch the screen," April said, and tapped the screen where the Digivice was. The screen flashed to a different color, and then went into a screen that had Digimon names in it.
"Hey, it worked, thanks April!" I exclaimed. I fiddled around with the Digimon file for a while, and then packed up my new 'fusion computer' as I had dubbed it. We headed off through a dense forest. Around midday, we came to a fast, lush, tropical jungle, much like the first one we were in when we came to the Digiworld. The trees in this rainforest were certainly....different. They had leaves of every shade but green! Several trees were red leafed, with purple and pink growing on them. The way they were shaped made them look almost like giant doughnuts, circular but flat on two sides, and with an indention and sometimes a hole in the center. The fruit was extremely sweet, however, and Floramon said they were called Jiala fruit. The Digiworld sure has weird taste in fruit. Or, maybe we just have normal taste in fruit. Anyway, we were harvesting some of the Jiala fruit, when we were suddenly attacked from the air. A big, red beetle of some sort flew overhead. We jumped down out of the tree and out of the way of another attack. I dashed over to my book bag.
"What is that thing? It's so creepy!" April exclaimed. She had an eternal fear of bugs. Especially giant ones. She wasn't the only one, either. I pulled out my fusion computer, and opened it. I pointed the infrared port at the giant beetle, and his picture flashed onto the screen, along with a description of his statistics, attacks, and general facts.
"His name is Kuwagamon. He is an insectoid Digimon with a giant set of claws and a lethal attack called Scissor Claws. Careful guys, it says this guy is easily angered," I read off of the screen.
"Why is it attacking us?" Wendy asked.
"It must be cursed, because the only evil Digimon left are Tyrannomon, Deltamon and Tuskmon," Randy pointed out.
"OK, then we've got to handle this delicately. Try not to hurt it, OK guys?" I said to the Digimon.
"Right!" they replied, and jumped forward. Kuwagamon had turned around and was heading back this way.
"Voltomon Digivolve to....Shockmon!"
"Flamemon Digivolve to......Meramon!"
"Syakomon Digivolve to.......Marinedramon!"
"Floramon Digivolve to.....Pansymon!"
The four new champion Digimon jumped and ducked to avoid a Scissor Claws by Kuwagamon. Sparrowmon and Tapirmon stayed back and defended us.
"Careful guys!" Nick yelled.
"We've got it under control!" Marinedramon exclaimed, and jumped. Shockmon rammed into Kuwagamon from the air, and knocked him toward Marinedramon. Marinedramon caught Kuwagamon and they fell to the ground. Marinedramon and Pansymon restrained Kuwagamon, while Meramon and Shockmon searched for away to lift Kuwagamon's curse.
"This is getting annoying!" Kuwagamon yelled, and suddenly broke free of Marinedramon's grip.
"Scissor Claws!" Kuwagamon exclaimed, and slashed through the vines that were holding him. He lifted into the air.
"Oh, no you don't! Shock beam!" Shockmon exclaimed, and blasted a beam of gold light at Kuwagamon. Kuwagamon dodged it, and rammed into Shockmon. Shockmon sailed through the air and turned back into Voltomon. Kuwagamon turned back to the other three Champion Digimon.
"Roaring Flames!" Meramon exclaimed.
"Stinging Petals!" Pansymon exclaimed. Kuwagamon was hit by the two attacks, and went into a dizzying dive in the air. He suddenly straightened out, and grabbed Meramon in his claws.
"Power Guillotine!" he exclaimed, and squeezed Meramon. Meramon Digivolved back into Flamemon and fell out of Kuwagamon's claws.
"Flamemon, no!" Randy exclaimed.
"How come he's beating us so badly?" I asked.
"I don't know!" Nick yelled back. Kuwagamon flew up into the air. Marinedramon and Pansymon stood below, ready to fight.
"Power Guillotine!" Kuwagamon screeched, and zoomed through the air toward Marinedramon.
"Stinging Petals!" Pansymon exclaimed, and blasted Kuwagamon, sending him off course and crashing him into a tree. We gasped. Suddenly, he did a back flip of some sorts, and grabbed both Marinedramon and Pansymon in his claws with one swoop.
"No!" Nick and April exclaimed. Kuwagamon was flying out of control, and crashed headfirst into a tree, ramming Pansymon and Marinedramon into it with his claws. All three Digimon sank to the forest floor. Pansymon and Marinedramon, exhausted, reverted back to Floramon and Syakomon. All six of us were stunned.
"How could Kuwagamon go that kamikaze without being one of the five evil Digimon? Maybe Shellmon was lying!" Will said.
"No, Shellmon wouldn't lie to us, there must be some other reason. Maybe the curse has different effects on different Digimon. It says that Kuwagamon normally have a rotten temper, so maybe the curse made it worse, enough to go kamikaze," I hypothesized.
"Now is not the time to be coming up with theories!" Randy exclaimed. Kuwagamon was back up! After all that?
"What do we do now?" Wendy asked, frightened.
"I don't know, all of the Digimon that can Digivolve to the Champion level so far are out!" April exclaimed. Kuwagamon zoomed through the air toward us.
"Deleting Virus!" "Spiral Wind!" Tapirmon and Sparrowmon attacked Kuwagamon, but he just waved away the attacks, and flew overhead. He turned around in midair and zoomed back toward us.
"Here he comes again!" I exclaimed.
"This is insane, he wouldn't be doing this if Deltamon hadn't cursed him!" Wendy exclaimed.
"We have to do something, and try to uncurse him!" April yelled. Kuwagamon buzzed overhead again.
"Yeah, but what?" Randy asked.
"I know what we have to do, we have to fight!" Sparrowmon exclaimed.
"Wha?" Wendy asked.
"Come on Wendy, are you with me?" Sparrowmon asked. Wendy shook her head.
"No way! The other four Champion Digimon were beaten way too easily! Even if you Digivolved, you wouldn't stand a chance!" Wendy exclaimed. They ducked as Kuwagamon swooped down again.
"It's now or never! Please Wendy, just let me fight! I know I can beat him with you backing me up. Are you with me?" Sparrowmon asked again. Wendy sighed, but then nodded.
"I'm with you. Give it your best shot," she said. Suddenly, her Digivice started to shake back and forth, and the air was filled with loud, shrill shrieks and beeps. She and Sparrowmon were surrounded by a bright, orange glow. Kuwagamon, in the air, stopped and backed up, shielding his eyes in surprise.
"Go for it!" Wendy exclaimed, and held up her glowing Digivice.
"Sparrowmon Digivolve to.......Falcomon!" Kuwagamon, who had now recovered, zoomed back toward us, but abruptly stopped in midair. Behind him was a large bird Digimon with huge wings. She had a hold of Kuwagamon's foot with one of her talons.
"Sparrowmon Digivolved!" Will exclaimed.
"All right Falcomon!" Wendy exclaimed. I opened my fusion computer.
"Falcomon is a giant winged Digimon with a huge heart. She uses Falcon Wind; a powerful cyclone of wind that will knock out most Digimon with one blow!" I read.
"Great! Falcomon can handle Kuwagamon for sure!" Voltomon exclaimed beside me.
"Yeah, a flying Digimon is better fought by another flying Digimon, right?" Floramon added. Falcomon let go of Kuwagamon, who zoomed through the air and smashed into a tree. Falcomon flew after him. Kuwagamon was back up in no time!
"Power Guillotine!" he exclaimed, and flew forcefully toward Falcomon.
"Falcon Wind!" Falcomon exclaimed, and twisted around in the air. Kuwagamon stopped in midair, and Falcomon slammed into him. Kuwagamon was slammed into the ground by the Wind, and Falcomon stopped spinning. She jumped down off of Kuwagamon, and landed gracefully on the ground. A dark shadow flew out of Kuwagamon's eyes and disintegrated. Kuwagamon coughed, and stood up. Falcomon glowed, and demoted back to Sparrowmon.
"What happened?" Kuwagamon asked.
"You were under the spell of a curse, but we freed you from it's power," Sparrowmon explained.
"Thank you, and I hope I didn't cause too much trouble," Kuwagamon replied.
"Not now," Flamemon said.
"Nah, not too much for Falcomon to handle, anyway," Wendy added, relief in her voice.
"I must repay you for your kindness, are you in the need of food?" Kuwagamon asked.
"FOOD!!" Voltomon, Flamemon, and Randy cried simultaneously.
"Well, we could always use more food, you never know when you're going to run out of it in Digiworld," Tapirmon replied, trying to ignore the two bouncing, hyper Digimon and the hyper, jumping Digidestined.
"Follow me, I'll lead you to a special part of the forest where some fruit grow," Kuwagamon said.
"Wow, thanks!" I exclaimed, stopping the bouncing Voltomon and forcing her to calm down. I sighed. "You know, until now, I didn't think it was possible for something to have a non sugar sugar rush. But, I guess I was wrong," I said, looking at Flamemon and Randy, who were still bouncing around," Everyone else laughed at my comment. Kuwagamon lifted into the air, and we followed along below him through the forest. We soon came to a small grove of trees. At first, we thought the fruit was going to be unusual, like the Xarians, but we soon found that we were wrong.
"Apples! Pears! Peaches!" Randy exclaimed happily, and we ran into the grove to harvest the bounty.
"The fruit here are always growing, so there is always ripe fruit here. If you ever need food, come by this grove, if you're in the neighborhood, that is.
"Thanks Kuwagamon!" Tapirmon exclaimed, as he bit down on an apple. We said goodbye to the insectoid Digimon, and set off through the forest. Little did we know, our next adventure lay in wait at the edge of it.
"Wow, so I guess that the next one to Digivolve was Tapirmon, right?" Cody asked.
"Technically, yes, because he was the only one of the six Digimon that hadn't reached the Champion level yet. However, things didn't exactly go the way they would seem......
Next Chapter: Deltamon, desperate to stop Tapirmon's Digivolution, sends his entire army of cursed Digimon soldiers after the Element Digidestined! Will we have the power to stop him?