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. I didn't create any new Digimon for this chapter. OK, enjoy the story!
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Battle On The Beach
"Wow, we have to go there?" Randy asked, astounded. We were standing on a beach, looking out over the water. In the distance, there was an island with a large, dark castle sitting on top of it. Ladydevimon's castle.
"That doesn't look too far, we just need a boat or something," April commented.
"Yeah, but that just look so...creepy," Randy replied.
"Aww, is mister big-shot tough guy afraid?" I asked, and smirked. He glared at me. The others smiled.
"Look, I'm NOT afraid, I'm just saying, it looks kinda creepy, what with all this fog and there being almost no light..." he started. I just shook my head.
"Just drop it," Wendy said.
"Look, we have to figure out a way to get over to that island without any of Ladydevimon's slaves spotting us," Nick said.
"We could build a raft, but they might spot us. Plus, we'd have to hike all the way back to the forest to get enough trees to build a raft," Will said. We sighed.
"We surely can't swim, or ride on Marinedramon," I commented.
"We can't fly either, she'll definitely spot us from the air," April said.
"Too bad we don't have some sort of a submarine," Randy finished the thought. Suddenly, we heard a noise behind us. We turned around, to see a Digimon. It looked kind of like a shellfish.
"So, you six are the Digidestined? Well, this happens to be my lucky day, because I have orders to destroy you!" the Digimon said, and rushed forward before we knew what was happening. We jumped out of the way, and he shot past us. Suddenly, he was tagged with a blast of fire, a blast of water, a beam of yellow light, a boulder, a burst of wind, and finally some vines were wrapped around him. From behind us, the Digimon, at the Champion level now, jumped forward. Pansymon lifted him into the air and threw him into the sand a few yards away with her vines.
"Who is that?" Wendy asked.
"His name is Scorpiomon, a shellfish Digimon. He's an Ultimate Digimon who can swim and dig around in the sand. His attacks are Tail Blade and Scorpion Storm," Shockmon said.
"Ok, he's an Ultimate Digimon, huh? Who wants to do the honors?" I asked, and looked to the rest of the group.
"I'll go," April said, and held up her Digivice.
"Floral Armor Energize!"
"Pansymon Element Digivolve to.... Naturamon! "Scorpiomon looked at the new Element Digimon he was facing.
"Tail Blade!" he hit her with a blast of light in an X. She recovered.
"Nature's Fury!" She hit him with a blast of green light.
"Shock Beam!" "Falcon's Wind!" "Roaring Flames!" "Hydro Blast!" "Asteroid Smash!" the others hit him with their attacks as well. He was thrown backwards into a sand dune.
"All right!" we cheered.
"Scorpion Storm!" came from below the dune. We all turned in surprise, and saw that Scorpiomon had tunneled away, and was attacking from within the dune. A blast of sand hit all the Digimon, as well as us, making us drop to the ground, coughing and choking.
"Can't.....breathe...." someone said beside me, and fell to the ground, choking. I coughed, and tried to stay awake. The blast of sand continued. With a groan, April slid to the ground, unconscious, as did Randy and Wendy. I coughed again, about to faint myself.
"Shockmon!" I yelled as loud as I could, and held up my Digivice. It began glowing in a yellow light.
"Lightning...Armor..." I started, but coughed, and sank to the ground. My Digivice was still glowing, so I tried again, with what little breath I had left.
"Lightning Armor Energize!" the light shot as a beam from my Digivice and hit Shockmon, who was using her wings as a shield from the dust storm.
"Shockmon Element Digivolve to... Electramon!" Electramon fired an Electromagnetic Pulse in the direction of Scorpiomon, and hit him, stopping the sand storm. As soon as the storm ended, I sank to the ground, unconscious.
"Hey! Wake up!" I heard. I opened my eyes, and sat up with a groan. I coughed, and looked around.
"What happened?" I asked. All the others were lying unconscious, along with most of the Rookie Digimon. Ellmon and Sproutmon were sitting beside me.
"Where's Scorpiomon?" I asked.
"I don't know. The last I saw, Electramon hit him with an Electromagnetic Pulse. I just woke up," Nick replied.
"What about the others?" I asked.
"No good. I've tried to wake them up, but I can't. They're all alive, but they just won't wake up," Nick replied.
"Maybe Scorpiomon put some sort of spell on them," I suggested.
"You mean like a magic spell?" Sproutmon asked.
"Maybe," Nick replied. I suddenly had a thought.
"This is bad. If they don't wake up soon, and we run into one of Ladydevimon's slaves, Voltomon and I will be the only ones that will be able to fight," I said.
"Don't worry, they'll wake up soon," he said.
"I hope." Voltomon replied.
"So what can we do in the meantime?" I asked.
"Wait. That's all we can do. That, and try and think of a way to get over to Ladydevimon's castle without being spotted." Nick replied. We sat down on the beach, and waited.
"Mistress! MISTRESS!!!!!" a Demidevimon shouted at the top of his lungs.
" What? WHAT? WHAT IS IT!! I was in the middle of a nap, this had BETTER be important!" Ladydevimon screeched.
"It is, mistress! We've received word from Scorpiomon at the beach! He encountered the Digidestined!" Demidevimon exclaimed.
"He did? What happened?" Ladydevimon asked.
"Well, he was severely wounded, but he did manage to put most of them to sleep with his spell," Demidevimon replied. She grinned.
"Thank you for your message, Demidevimon, you are dismissed," she said, and with that, he flitted out of the room. She was about to leave, when suddenly, a dark shadow passed across the room. She stopped in her tracks, and shuddered. A female voice started speaking to her, from out of nowhere. It sounded cold and dark, definitely evil.
"I trust you are having no problem eliminating the Digidestined?" the voice said.
"No trouble, master. I am sending troops right now to get rid of them," she said, fear in her voice.
"Good. Don't fail me, Ladydevimon. You know the price of failure, do you not?" the voice asked. Ladydevimon gulped.
"Yes master, you made that quite clear," Ladydevimon answered.
"Good," the voice said, and the shadow disappeared. Ladydevimon shivered, and walked out the door.
"I wish they would wake up soon," I said, looking back at the still forms of my friends and the Digimon. Nick turned too, and got a concerned look on his face when he saw Syakomon.
"Don't worry you two, they'll wake up soon, I know it," Sproutmon said, looking away from them.
"I keep getting the feeling that we're going to be attacked any minute now by Ladydevimon's minions," I said, nervously.
"It's gonna be all right," Nick replied.
"I just don't know if it is," I started, tearing up, "they really should've woken up by now, even if they were in a deep sleep," I said. Nick looked over at me, and noticed I was tearing up.
"Hey, don't go and get sad about it, your Digimon partner is awake! Mine isn't, if anything, I've got more of a reason to get mad than you!" he exclaimed. I looked over at him, and just started crying. I looked away, embarrassed.
"Way to go Nick! You made her cry harder!" Voltomon exclaimed, in my defense.
"How could you be so insensitive?" Sproutmon asked. I wiped the tears out of my eyes, embarrassed I'd shown my weak side.
"Oh...geez I'm sorry...I just...I'm not used to.....you're always so tough and all...I don't really think I've ever seen you like this before....except maybe when Mamemon was destroyed..." he stuttered.
"No, you're right, I've got to stay strong...it's just..." I started.
"I shouldn't have yelled like that," he said. I sighed, and got up.
"I'm sorry..." he said.
"I just have to...go take a walk, to clear my head. I won't be gone long," I said, and walked off. Voltomon and Sproutmon looked concerned, but knew better than to follow me. Nick, however, did.
I walked off, and found a large rock. I sat down on the rock, and stared over the ocean. I used to love to stare out over the ocean, back when I used to live in California. Of course, that beach was different. For one thing, the sun was almost always shining there, and here it was gloomy, and foggy. Oh, and there weren't giant Digital Monsters bent on destroying you there. At least, I didn't think so. I sighed.
"Hey, Kimi, listen, I'm sorry..." Nick began, walking up, through the mist. I turned to him, startled. He stopped walking, abruptly.
"Just go back to the others," I said, turning my eyes back to the ocean.
"No, all right. I'm sorry I made you cry," he apologized.
"Stop apologizing! I forgive you!" I exclaimed, startling him.
"What was that for?" he asked.
"Look, I just want to be alone for a few minutes, OK? Go back to the others! I'll be back in a few minutes!" I said, anger rising in my voice.
"It's not safe, we can't see you because of the fog, for one thing, and for another, Voltomon can't Digivolve without you," he said. I glared out across the ocean.
"So send her then!" I almost shouted.
"You both need to be back there so you can protect the others if they get in danger!" he argued. I sighed, angrily, and stood up.
"Fine!" I exclaimed, angrily, and jumped down off the rock.
"What's with you, anyway? A minute ago you were crying your eyes out, and now you're all mad!" Nick exclaimed.
"Look, I just want to beat Ladydevimon and go home!" I said, and looked him in the eyes, angrily.
"Everybody does. We all want to go home," Nick replied. I shifted my gaze to the sand below my feet, abruptly, trying hard not to blush.
"I know, but...with Scorpiomon putting all those guys to sleep now...it just seems like we're never going to get to go back home," I said.
"We'll get through this," Nick replied.
"Yeah, but I don't know if we can beat Ladydevimon... I mean, Ravenmon and Scorpiomon were strong...a little too strong. And they're just flunkies," I said. I still looked at the sand.
"We've got six Ultimates on our side now, I know we can win, we've just got to believe we can," Nick said.
"I don't know..." I started, "I just have a feeling that we are in more danger than we think. There's something really powerful and really evil out there, I just don't know what it is," I said.
"That may be true, but remember, we're the Digidestined. We were chosen to save this world for a reason: because we CAN. We just have to believe it," Nick replied.
"Yeah, but this feeling...that there's something else out there...it has me a little spooked. I don't know how I know it, but I know that...it's definitely not Ladydevimon. I'm sure of that. It's definitely more powerful than any other evil Digimon we've faced before," I said.
"Maybe..." he started, but suddenly, he was interrupted by a loud yell.
"KIMI! NICK! GET BACK HERE, HURRY!" Voltomon yelled. We turned to the direction of the voice, and took off in a sprint. When we arrived back where the others were, we stopped and gasped.
"Oh no!" Nick exclaimed. It was Scorpiomon, and about five Shellmon!
"Static Strike!" Voltomon shot at them, in an effort to keep them back. They laughed, and the Shellmon blasted them back. Voltomon and Sproutmon landed at our feet, and the Digimon stomped toward the others.
"Voltomon!" I exclaimed, and held up my Digivice.
"Voltomon Digivolve to... Shockmon!"
"Shock Beam!" Shockmon fired her attack at them, blowing back the Shellmon.
"Tail Blade!"
"Lightning Armor Energize!" Shockmon dodged the attack, and the light hit her.
"Shockmon Element Digivolve to... Electramon!!!"
"Electramon, you can do it! We have to defeat them! Our friends' lives are in danger!" I exclaimed.
"Ha! You fools! Do you think you can beat ALL of us on your own?" Scorpiomon asked.
"We'll sure try!" Electramon threatened.
"Tail Blade!" Electramon jumped out of the way.
"Hydro Blaster" The Shellmon attacked. Electramon fired an attack at the water, blasting it back into them, and shocking them at the same time. The Shellmon were blasted back into a rock.
"Tail Blade!" Electramon was hit, but did a back flip in the air, and landed on her feet steadily.
"Electromagnetic Pulse!" Scorpiomon burrowed into the ground, and the attack hit the sand. We looked around nervously, but couldn't spot Scorpiomon. He tunneled up behind us.
"Tail Blade!" A blast of light shot toward...us! We jumped to the side, the attack barely missing us. Scorpiomon scuttled toward us, but was stopped by a whip of electricity wrapping around him. Electramon jumped into the air, and lifted Scorpiomon into the air with her.
"Mega Volt!" she shocked Scorpiomon, and dropped him into the sand. She landed, and held up her hands, charging up for another attack.
"I'm outta here!" Scorpiomon exclaimed, and scuttled off. The Shellmon ran off too. We sighed in relief, and Electramon dedigivolved back into Ellmon.
"I'm glad that's over," I said.
"We still have a problem. What if they come back...and with even more Digimon?" Nick asked.
"Right, we have to try and wake these guys up again," I said, and got my water bottle out of my backpack.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"How ELSE are we supposed to wake them up? We've tried everything but this and setting them on fire, practically," I half-joked, and walked over to the others. I looked around for my first 'victim', and decided to dump the contents of the bottle on April's head. She suddenly shot up, coughing and sputtering. I laughed.
"Huh? What? Who?" she asked, looking around.
"Relax, April!" I said, trying not to laugh.
"Scorpiomon! Naturamon! What happened?" she asked.
"Scorpiomon's gone, but not for long, he's bound to be back. And as for Naturamon..." I said.
"I'm fine," Sproutmon said, walking up to us. "And I'm glad you're awake,"
"How long was I asleep?" she asked.
"Not too long. Though...you kinda had us worried. Come on, help us wake up the others," I requested. Nick smirked, as if he was going to enjoy this, dumped the contents of his canteen on Randy's head. Randy woke up, disoriented, and shook the water off.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR!?" Randy yelled at the top of his lungs, getting up.
"How else was I supposed to wake you up? No offense, man, but you sleep like a brick," Nick replied, laughing.
"That's because his brain IS a brick," I joked. He glared at me.
"I wouldn't talk if I were you!" he fired back. I just grinned.
"Ha! You wish! I happen to much, MUCH smarter than you'll EVER be," I taunted.
"Oh yeah?" he asked.
"Yeah!" I retorted.
"Ahem...could we get back to waking up everyone else?" Nick demanded, ending our 'discussion'. I shrugged. Randy just glared at me. I went down to the water, and refilled my canteen. I walked back up, and dumped the water on Wendy's head, and April dumped her canteen on Will's. As soon as they were both awake, we woke the rest of the Digimon up.
"Whoa, what happened?" Syakomon asked.
"Scorpiomon got you guys with his sleep attack," I explained.
"He got all of us, but thankfully, we were able to wake you guys up," Nick added.
"Well, did anybody come up with a plan on how to get over to that island yet?" Will asked. We all shrugged.
"So, we're back to square one, then?" Will asked. We all nodded. We all sighed, and sat down again.
"WHAT???? THEY DID WHAT????" Ladydevimon bellowed.
"They beat Scorpiomon and his army of Shellmon!" a Demidevimon said, cowering, with one of his wings shielding his face. Ladydevimon snarled.
"Those BRATS!!! How did they beat him? I thought they were all asleep!!" Ladydevimon practically screamed.
"Well, you see...all of them weren't asleep like we thought...and the Lightning Element Digidestined and Digimon sort of beat them all..." Demidevimon replied, shaking.
"Was he destroyed?" She asked, angrily.
"No ma'am, he escaped," Demidevimon said. She shook her head furiously.
"Get out of my sight, you are dismissed!" she screamed, and the Demidevimon quickly flew out of the room. She walked back to her throne, and sat down with an angry sigh. The room suddenly turned dark.
"Ladydevimon, how goes the capture and defeat of the Digidestined?" that bone chilling female voice asked. Ladydevimon shuddered.
"Well... uhmm..." she started.
"Never mind, I already heard. I was listening," the voice said. Ladydevimon gulped. "Don't fail me," the voice continued.
"Scorpiomon is just an incompetent fool, and I'll see that he is properly punished," Ladydevimon said, shuddering.
"Good," the voice said, and the light returned to the room. Ladydevimon shuddered, and got up from her throne abruptly. She stormed out of the room, and began giving orders.
Next Chapter: With Voltomon the only Digimon left who can Digivolve, will the Element Digidestined survive? What is Ladydevimon planning? How will they get to the castle? And what is that mysterious voice ordering Ladydevimon?