Digimon: Elementals
By: ArtikGato
Disclaimer: For the miniscule 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: Zombimon and Skeletomon. Soulmon is actually a Bakemon with a black hat on, and he is from Digimon World, but I tweaked him around so that Soulmon is the Ultimate form of Bakemon. OK, enjoy the story!
Chapter Twenty-Nine: On The Run
"My name is Sorcemon, and I am a Mega Digimon! Beware of my Witch's Curse and Devil Shadow attacks!" Sorcemon exclaimed.
"Me...ga?" I asked, frightfully.
"You fools! You didn't even know there was such a level as Mega, did you?" she asked. We shook our heads, and gulped.
"Well," Ladydevimon interceeded, "Mega is the highest level of power that a Digimon can reach. Unfortunately for you, your puny Element Digimon don't stand a chance against her!" We gulped.
"So, Digidestined, you only have so many choices. You can either give up to me and I may spare your worthless lives, or you can attempt to fight me, and, of course, you'll be defeated," Sorcemon said, and laughed.
"We'll never surrender!" Randy exclaimed.
"Oh! I must commend you on your bravery, little boy. But, bravery will not save you! Prepare to die!" she exclaimed, and with that, flew forward, toward us. Our Ultimate Digimon jumped in, to defend us.
"Flaming Laser!" Tyremeramon shot his fireball at her. She held up her hands, and it disappeared. She smirked at him. Aeromarinedramon ran up behind her.
"Hydro Punch!" he shoved his fist toward her back. She turned around, lightning fast, and grabbed his fist. He gasped, and she flung him around, into Tyremeramon, knocking them both back at least a hundred feet. We all watched, in awe and fear at the same time. Sorcemon laughed.
"Too easy. Who's next?" she said. Electramon and Naturamon appeared on either side of her.
"Electromagnetic Pulse!" Electramon glowed a bright yellow.
"Nature's Fury!" Naturamon glowed a bright green. Both shot their energy attacks at Sorcemon. Sorcemon jumped higher into the air, and the two attacks passed right by each other, Electramon's hitting Naturamon, and Naturamon's hitting Electramon. They both fell backwards, stunned.
"My turn! Stone Spear!" Jagamon exclaimed, and shot his attack. She swished her cape, and vanished. She reappeared behind Jagamon, and prepared to attack.
"Not so fast! Eagle's Eye!" two red beams of light hit her in the back. She turned to look, and saw Egalamon. In a split second, Sorcemon was gone, and floating in the air in front of Egalamon. Before Egalamon could react, a black ball of energy hit her square in the chest, knocking her backwards. She crashed into the ground, and with that, reverted back into Birdlingmon.
"Bye, bye birdie!" she said, with an evil laugh.
"Stone Spear!" Sorcemon dodged the attack.
"You're next!" Jagamon ran toward her, glowing bright purple. She smirked.
"Jaga Earthquake!" a pulse of purple light shot into the air from his body and toward Sorcemon. She dodged, and flew straight forward toward him, glowing an eerie black glow.
"Devil's Shadow!" she shot a ball of black energy into Jagamon. He tried to use his shell to deflect it, but the attack was way too powerful, and he was thrown into the air. He crashed down back to Earth, and reverted back into Pebblemon. Will gasped. Suddenly, Electramon and Naturamon, running side by side, appeared back on the battle field.
"Ready?" Naturamon asked.
"Ready!" Electramon replied, and with that, Electramon wrapped her static whip around Sorcemon, and Naturamon wrapped her vines around Sorcemon. They lifted her into the air, and slammed her into the ground.
"Ah, a team effort!" she exclaimed, and suddenly, disappeared. She reappeared behind Electramon and Naturamon, and blasted them from behind. They reverted back into their glowing forms of Voltomon and Floramon before they hit the ground.
"The only two left are Tyremeramon and Aeromarinedramon!" Nick exclaimed. We were still standing at the edge of the battle field, afraid to move because we may be destroyed at any minute now.
"But where are they?" Wendy asked. Suddenly, Sorcemon was hit by a blast of water and a ball of fire. They exploded around her, and engulfed her in a mist. She coughed, and swished her cape. The mist disappeared. Tyremeramon and Aeromarinedramon, glowing bright blue and red, flew with full force toward her. She narrowed her eyes.
"Time to end this now," she said, and held up her hands, and they glowed with a black light. "Witch's Curse!" At that, a beam of black light shot from her hands and hit Tyremeramon and Aeromarinedramon, charging at full force. They were slowed down, and forced backwards by the light. They hit the ground, and dedigivolved.
"Syakomon!" Nick exclaimed.
"Flamemon!" Randy yelled. Sorcemon laughed.
"Well, Digidestined, looks like it's your turn. Or, maybe I should just destroy your pathetic Digimon first?" Sorcemon asked. We glared at her. Suddenly, all six of us and our Digimon were suddenly surrounded by a bright, pink light. The light got brighter, and we disappeared!
"Who? What? Where?" I asked, when we reappeared. I looked around, and realized we were somewhere in a forest. The others were standing near me. In fact, the others and the Digimon were in the exact same position as they were back on Sorcemon's Island. Only, we were in a forest. Hopefully, miles away from Sorcemon. But who or what had brought us here? The others opened their eyes, and looked around as well. Suddenly, we realized it was safe, for the moment, and rushed up to our Digimon.
"Voltomon? Are you all right?" I asked.
"Well, I've been better," she replied.
"Hey, Flamemon? You ok?" Randy asked his Digimon, a few feet away.
"Never felt better," Flamemon replied, weakly.
"Syakomon?" Nick asked, across from Flamemon and Randy.
"Wow, even my shell hurts..." Syakomon grumbled.
"Wow, Sorcemon is powerful," Floramon said.
"Yeah, too powerful," Tapirmon replied.
"We'll never be able to defeat her, because we can't even Digivolve to Ultimate without the help of the Elementals!" Sparrowmon said, sadly.
"Kasheramon lied!" I suddenly exclaimed. The others turned to me, astonished.
"What?" April asked, like I was a lunatic.
"She lied! She told us that Ladydevimon was the last evil Digimon we'd have to face, well, what about Sorcemon?" I asked.
"Maybe she didn't know about Sorcemon," Nick pointed out.
"Well...yeah, I guess I am jumping to conclusions," I replied.
"Well, quite frankly I don't care if Kasheramon lied or not, I want to know who or what brought us here," Randy said.
"For once, you're thinking clearly, and on the right track too!" Wendy joked, only getting a glare out of Randy.
"I brought you here!" a voice spoke up from out of nowhere. We all turned to look, and a pink powder puff with wings and feet flew up to us.
"Who is that?" Will asked.
"Looks like a powder puff with wings to me," Wendy said.
"My name is Piximon, and I am NOT a powder puff! You definitely don't want to use me on your face!" he said, appalled.
"OK, OK, chill out!" Wendy replied.
"He is an Ultimate Digimon, and uses the attack Pit Bomb. He is known throughout the Digiworld as the master trainer of the best Digimon fighters in the world," I said, with the fusion computer out.
"Well, at least he's friendly," April commented.
"That's a smart little toy you've got there," Piximon said, referring to the Fusion Computer.
"Yeah," I replied, putting it back up.
"I met another Digidestined who had a toy like that one. He was always on that thing, instead of training like he was supposed to do," Piximon said.
"He must have been referring to me," Izzy said.
"So, you met up with Piximon too?" Nick asked.
"Yeah, and, from what I remember, he worked us like dogs! And, he didn't even feed us!" TK informed us.
"Well, he didn't do that much for us, after all, we WERE targets of Sorcemon at the time," I said, continuing my story.
"So, Piximon, why did you save us?" I asked.
"Because, you are the Digidestined, and it is the duty of any good Digimon to help the Digidestined in any way he or she can," Piximon replied.
"Well, thanks for the rescue, but I think we should get moving. Sorcemon is bound to be after us, and I don't think I want to stick around for round two," Nick said. The rest of us nodded, and started off.
"Be careful, Digidestined!" Piximon called after us.
"So, anyone have any suggestions on where we can go?" Randy asked. We all shook our heads in unison. He sighed.
"We could try to contact Gennai or Kasheramon," Will suggested.
"We don't have many other options right now, but let's try to get to a safe enough spot first," I said, and Sparrowmon flew up to look around.
"Those Digidestined! How did they get away?" Sorcemon asked, pacing. She and Ladydevimon were in the front room of the castle. Ladydevimon no longer sat on the throne waiting for a Demidevimon, for it wasn't her throne, but Sorcemon's.
"I have plenty of Digimon trying to find that out at this very moment," Ladydevimon said.
"You'd better!" she exclaimed, angrily. "Well, now I understand a little about how you had so much trouble with those brats." Sorcemon said.
"Ok, I've managed to get a hold of Gennai!" I said. We had found a large cave nearby, and were hiding out in it. The others gathered around me and the fusion computer, and waited for him to pop up on the screen.
"So, Digidestined, you are in hot water, eh?" he asked.
"Obviously, if you're talking about Sorcemon," I replied.
"Yes. I would like you to know that neither I nor any of the Guardian Digimon anticipated her arrival. We didn't know that she even existed until you found out. It was just as much a surprise to us as it was to you," Gennai said. We nodded.
"What can we do about it? We've already tried to battle her, and that was a huge disaster," April informed him. He thought for a moment.
"I'm afraid there's nothing you or your Digimon can do. I've looked, in fact, you caught me in the middle of looking, but nothing in my database has any information on how any of you can Digivolve to Mega. I am sorry," Gennai said.
"What if we have to fight Sorcemon again? What will we do? Piximon can't always be there to bail us out, you know!" Nick exclaimed.
"The safest place in the Digital World for you to go is a place where your friends gather. I'm sorry I can't be of more help." Gennai said, and disappeared from the screen.
"Well, that was sure helpful, as usual," Randy said, sarcastically.
"What does he mean, 'where our friends gather'?" Wendy asked.
"Well, he could be talking about our Digimon friends, like Airdramon and Metalmamemon," Will pointed out.
"Tecno!" we all said, in unison.
"But Tecno's way too far, Sorcemon will catch up with us before we can get back there," Wendy pointed out.
"Ok, then, maybe we should head back to Skullgreymon's base. We've got friends there," I said. This, we all agreed on, since we had been transported to the forest, just at the edge of Sorcemon's territory. We'd be at Skullgreymon's base tomorrow, if we didn't run into any distractions on the way.
"Hey, I think I found something!" I exclaimed. It had been a day and a half since our encounter with Sorcemon. I was searching through a couple of files in Skullgreymon's base, for anything that might be of any help to us in the fight against Sorcemon. The others got up from where they were sitting down in the cool, air conditioned comfort of the base, and came over to the large computer.
"What exactly are we looking at?" Randy asked.
"Well, this is that strange CD we bought from Coelamon, back when we were still on the Digit Peninsula. I figured I'd give it a look-see since I remember I'd seen the word "Digimon" in it somewhere. Check out what I found," I said, and turned back to the computer. I clicked the mouse a couple of times, and a bunch of jumbled up symbols that looked like a mix between Japanese characters and wing dings appeared. Some of the symbols were numbers and letters.
"What is it?" April asked.
"I'm not quite sure yet, but I did find one part that I could translate," I said, and clicked on one portion of it. It appeared in normal, English writing. The words "Two warriors, their strength combined, are one with the power of ten. Combine the elements, and you combine the warriors," were up there, vaguely translated.
"What does this have to do with us?" Randy asked.
"Well, I think that the warriors that it is referring to might be the Digimon, at their Ultimate level," I said.
"Huh?" Randy and Wendy asked.
"No, that makes sense, think about it. When they Element Digivolve, most of them look like warriors, and they gain armor, like warriors," Nick said. We nodded.
"Ok, so basically it says that if we combine the strengths of two Digimon, they'll have twice the strength, same as with Elementals. But, what does "one with the strength of ten" mean?" Will asked.
"Darn and we were so close too!" April exclaimed, exasperated.
"Well, all I know is that this makes about as much sense as everything else in this crazy, mixed up world," Randy commented, plopping back down in a chair.
"We'll find out, it's like the Elementals, when we need it, we'll figure it out. Until then, we should just relax, and enjoy the AC here," Nick said. We nodded, and I turned back to the computer.
Sorcemon was sitting on the throne, the throne Ladydevimon used to sit on, tapping her fingernails on the side of it, angrily. There was a knock at the door. Sorcemon simply held up one hand, and the doors flew open. Standing there was Ladydevimon, looking incredibly nervous. Sorcemon returned her hand to tapping on the side of the throne.
"What is it?" she asked, annoyed.
"Well, I think we have located the Digidestined," Ladydevimon said. Sorcemon stopped tapping, and looked up at her.
"Where?" she asked, coldly.
"Some scouts saw them heading toward Circuit Desert this morning," Ladydevimon replied.
"Skullgreymon's base," Sorcemon said, reasoning.
"What? Why do you think that?" Ladydevimon asked.
"Think about it, the safest place those brats could go is where they have a lot of friends. From what I understand, Skullgreymon's former army is on their side, since they saved them. So, they have a lot of allies at Skullgreymon's base. Traitorous pests," Sorcemon explained, in disgust.
"Ah," Ladydevimon replied, ashamed that she hadn't thought of that.
"Send all your forces to Skullgreymon's base." Sorcemon said. Ladydevimon turned around to leave. "Blow it up," Sorcemon said, a hint of amusement in her voice.
"I'll get right on it." Ladydevimon said, and walked out the door. She walked into the main control room, and summoned her forces.
"Those blasted kids destroyed most of my army," Ladydevimon grumbled, pushing a couple of buttons on a control panel. "I only have so much to work with. Looks like I'll have to appoint new generals."
"Wow, I can't believe Sorcemon hasn't even sent part of her army to attack us," Randy said. We had been staying at Skullgreymon's base for close to three days now, and still there was no sign of Sorcemon. We weren't any closer to figuring out how to Digivolve to Mega, either.
"Shhhh! Don't jinx it!!" April exclaimed, hastily.
"She can't find us, I guess," Wendy suggested.
"I don't like this, it's like waiting to be executed," Will said. We turned to him, a little surprised.
"What?" I asked.
"It is, you know. Eventually, she's going to find us here, and our Digimon aren't strong enough to fight her. And, we're no where near close to figuring out how to Digivolve to Mega. This just seems hopeless. It's like we're waiting for her to come and destroy us," Will replied.
"Yeah, and we can't go home until we beat her," I said, "This is just hopeless. We'll never be able to beat her if we can't Digivolve to Mega!"
"We can't give up hope, it's like when we were facing Numerimon and we couldn't figure out how to Digivolve to Ultimate," Nick said.
"You're right. But, this isn't anything like that, in some ways. I mean, then, we knew that all we had to do to Digivolve to Ultimate was get the Elementals..." Randy started.
"Yeah, and this time all we have to do is figure out how to combine the power of two Elementals," April said.
"Yeah, but it's more complicated this time. I mean, if we get it wrong, very bad things could happen. We don't know which Elementals go together," I pointed out. Voltomon yawned.
"And, we don't even know if that whacked out prophecy is true in the first place," Randy pointed out. We shrugged. "Or, for that matter, if it's even a prophecy,"
"I say, we should all get some sleep, and think about this in the morning," Flamemon suggested. The Digimon had been quietly debating on this to the side, and had decided that they weren't any closer to figuring it out than we were.
"Good idea," Floramon said, and we all headed off to go to sleep in the main room.
I couldn't sleep. I laid there awake for a while, and then decided to go take a walk outside. The desert had cooled off, and it was warm outside. I walked around outside, in the moonlight, over patches of green and purple sand.
"Two warriors, combined...why can't I figure out what that means? I'm sure it's the key to defeating Sorcemon, but I just can't put it together-" my out loud thoughts were cut off abruptly.
"This is really bugging you, isn't it?" a voice asked behind me. I jumped, surprised, and whirled around, taking up an instant defensive position. Nick was standing there. I sighed in relief, and relaxed my fighting stance.
"What makes you think that?" I asked.
"Well, it's 1 AM in the morning, and you're taking a walk. That was my first guess," he replied.
"Well...maybe I just like the desert at night," I replied. He looked skeptical.
"Or maybe this is really bugging you," he repeated. I shook my head.
"Nothing gets past you, does it?" I replied.
"You want to go home, right?" he asked.
"Yeah. I don't know, It's just…now, it seems like we're farther away from getting home than when we started. It seems so hopeless," I said.
"Hey, we'll get through this. We have to believe that we will," Nick replied.
"Yeah. But...last time I had a conversation like this..." I began, remembering the conversation on the beach, "We weren't any closer to getting home than we are now,"
"Life's full of tests, and so far, I think we've been passing with flying colors," he pointed out.
"Normal people don't have these kinds of tests, though. I mean, two months ago I was headed to New York on vacation, and now I'm stuck in some strange dimension with evil monsters bent on destroying me. I want to know why I'm so special, why I had to be dragged into this. It's not my fight, so why am I fighting it?" I asked.
"Because you're strong," Nick simply replied. I blinked, not expecting that answer.
"I am?" I asked. I'd never really thought of myself as a strong person.
"You're one of the strongest people I know, and I haven't really known you for that long," he replied. "I think we were dragged into this because we're the only ones who CAN do this, we're the only ones who can win this fight. And, when you think about it, it is just as much our fight, now at least."
"What do you mean? Why is it our fight now?" I asked.
"Well, I'm not sure, but when we were first brought here, I think it was because who or whatever brought us here needed our help. But now, we have a reason to fight this fight," he said.
"The Digimon," I said, knowingly.
"They are our partners, and all of us have developed some sort of a special bond with them because of our experiences in the Digiworld. We all have different reasons, but I definitely know that the bonds are more than that of friendship. I mean, all six of us humans are friends now, under these circumstances, but the bond we have with our Digimon is stronger than the bonds we have with each other, I can tell." Nick said.
"And it's our fight now too because we care too much about the Digimon to just let them fight alone. Plus, they can't Digivolve without us," I said.
"Right, so we have to fight. And when this is all over with, I know things will work out for the best. I know it," Nick said.
"Yeah," I said. Suddenly, there was a loud explosion, and a pulse of light came from the other side of the building. We looked over in the direction of the explosion, and ran to the edge of the building. We peeked around the edge, only to see a bunch of darkness Digimon blasting the front of Skullgreymon's base. We ran to the back, and went back in through the back door. We ran into the front room.
"What's going on?" April asked, just getting up.
"Some evil Digimon are attacking the fortress!" Nick exclaimed. We ran over to our Digimon.
"Did you get a good look at them?" Randy asked.
"No, it was too dark. I think I saw a couple of Shadowmon and Bakemon," I said. Randy gave me and Nick a strange look, and then we rushed over to the front windows.
"I was right, there are some Shadowmon and Bakemon, but I don't recognize the rest," I said.
"Those are Soulmon, they're Ultimate Digimon with an attack called Spirit Crusher," Flamemon informed us about the large, white, transparent Digimon who looked like the Digivolved form of Bakemon.
"Those others are Zombimon, Champion Level Digimon who can scare you stiff with their Grave Robber attack," Floramon said.
"Those over there are Skeletomon, Skeleton Digimon. Watch out for their Bone Chiller attack." Syakomon continued.
"Geez, it looks like a Halloween party out there!" Wendy said.
"Yeah, but those guys aren't nice little trick-or-treaters, and they sure aren't throwing eggs!' Will exclaimed.
"What should we do?" April asked.
"We can't attack them from here," I said.
"Maybe if we gave them some candy...?" Randy half joked, half suggested. We all shook our heads at his never ending stupidity.
"Now's REALLY not the time to be joking around, Randy!" Wendy practically screamed at him.
"Maybe we should sneak through the back way and attack," Nick replied.
"No, it might be an ambush," Will pointed out.
"So three of us should stay here and three of us should go around the back, any volunteers?" Wendy said.
"I'll go around back, coming April?" I asked. She nodded.
"I'll go too," Nick said. We quickly ran to the back of the fortress.
"Be careful guys!" Tapirmon called to us. We went outside, and rounded a corner.
"Ok, what from here?" April asked.
"Let's see...the Soulmon and Zombimon are Ultimates, and the rest are Champions," I began contemplating.
"Let's just go to Champion and see where we should go from there," Voltomon said.
"Right," April said.
"I don't get it, why aren't those kids attacking yet?" Ladydevimon asked.
"I don't know, maybe they aren't here," a Skeletomon replied. Suddenly, a blast of yellow light hit the ground in front of them. Ladydevimon and Skeletomon looked up, to see Shockmon. Below, Marinedramon and Pansymon jumped into view.
"Let's get to work," Ladydevimon said.
Miles away, in her castle, Sorcemon watched the battle through a portal of light. She glared at us and our Digimon.
"There were six, why are only these three attacking?" she asked. In the portal, three beams of light, one yellow, one green, and one blue flashed across the screen. There was a surge of light from the portal, and she glared at the three Element Digimon standing before Ladydevimon and her army.
"That fool! She is such a sorry excuse for a Digimon! I'm sorry I picked her to be my second-in-command! She is going to fail this mission, and the last thing I need is for those kids to be in my hair any longer than tonight. If she can't destroy them herself, I'll have to do it!" she said, and looked into the portal. The three Element Digimon attacked.
"She's losing to half of them!!" she screeched, angrily, and clenched her fist.
"That's it!" she snarled, and swished her cape. She disappeared into thin air.
"No, no no!! We can't fail this mission, Sorcemon will have my head!! Ignore them and attack the base with all your strength!" she shouted to the army of Digimon. They turned to the base. The three Element Digimon, knowing what would happen, fired their attacks to try and stop them. The Digimon in the army had no choice but to fight back instead of attacking the base.
"Forget them!! Attack the base NOW!!" Ladydevimon commanded. The fight raged. She screamed in rage, and threw a dark energy ball into the crowd of Digimon. A Bakemon screamed, and disintegrated. All the Digimon, including the three Element Digimon, stopped fighting, and turned to look at her. She had both of her fists clenched, and was turning red from rage.
"Unless you want to end up like that Bakemon I suggest you ATTACK THE BASE AND DESTROY IT RIGHT NOW!!" she screamed at them. The Digimon looked from her to the Element Digimon with sweat drops on their heads, unsure of who was worse to turn on. Suddenly, the whole area went black. All the light from everywhere just disappeared. Everyone gasped, in surprise, including Ladydevimon. Suddenly, a voice that everyone there knew all too well filled everyone's ears.
"Ladydevimon!! Why haven't you destroyed the base yet?" the voice asked. Inside the base, Randy, Wendy, Will, Tapirmon, Sparrowmon, and Flamemon gasped.
"Sorcemon!" they all exclaimed, terrified. Outside, Kimi, Nick and April gasped, and they too exclaimed "Sorcemon!" The three Element Digimon and Ladydevimon were taken by just as much surprise, and said her name with the same amount of terror in their voices. Sorcemon laughed a laugh that filled the whole area and sent chills into the depths of everyone's souls. Suddenly, the light returned, and Sorcemon was standing between Skullgreymon's base and Ladydevimon's army. All had turned to look at her, paralyzed with fear.
Next Chapter: After being saved right in the nick of time by Piximon, it seemed the Element Digidestined would escape from Sorcemon...but not for long. Now that Sorcemon has found them, will they be able to hold her off? Only a miracle can save them now!