Future Awakes-chapter 10

To Iniora Nackatori: S'okay, don't blame her about that, I DO have mistakes around there... but, thanx for the review anyway, Corran and Iniora! (Can I call you Iora-chan?) And, I was jotting down the scene about Shiftmon just yesterday and decided he's gonna be a pain in the @$$ to write so, he's gonna show up as the elite fighters in later chaps...

To A-chan: I was waiting for you and mage-chan. But, since you're here, might as well put this up. ^_^ Thanx for the review!

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"Oh, great... One of the many things I'd hate to fight today..." Impy moaned, looking at the two ninja digimons. Shurimon pointed a shuriken at Beelzemon and said,

"All we want is that digimon. If you'll give him up, we'll let you go." He didn't sound so promising, even though he IS a ninja. Beelzemon was about to just walk over to them when Wizardmon stood in front of the rouge and shook his head.

"Don't. I don't like the idea of you risking your life to get us past this. Shurimon, if you want him, you'll have to get past us." Wizardmon said, defending the Mega behind him. Ninjamon, still sword-locked with Nina, looked at Shurimon with a slight tinge of worry as if saying 'what now?' and Shurimon looked back, as if saying 'we'll have to.'

Ninjamon pushed Nina away and jumped, right next to Shurimon. Kumamon looked around then suddenly said,

"We've got more company." Around 8 Starmons circled around them, along with 3 Thundermon.

"Guys, it's time to party! BANZAI RUN!!!!" Guilmon yelled, running at full speed at 2 Starmons, head-butting one and using Rock Breaker on the other. While they all kept some digimon busy at once, Black and Bee made a combination themselves. Grabbing Shurimon from behind, Black held him airborne as Bee aimed.

"This isn't my idea of fun but, why do all the digimons we run into want to have something to do with the rouge? What? You guys gay or something?" Bee said, giving a disgusted look, gun pointed right in between the ninja's eyes.

"We were given this task and we will complete it, no matter what the reason is!!" Shurimon said, straining in Black's grip. Suddenly, a ray of light, shaped like a star flew right in front of Bee, barely missing his mask. He looked down, and saw a loose Starmon.

"Black, you know what to do. I wanna go and get some fun." Bee said, lowering down to the ground.

Meanwhile, Nina was doing a pretty good job against Ninjamon with her quick reflexes even though she had a few cuts back there. She was backing up when she hit something, or someone. She turned around, blade swung and it came in contact with Grizzmon's claws.

"Nina, watch where you're swinging!" Grizzmon then turned his attention back to the Starmon he was busy with.

"BADA-BOOM!!!" Impy yelled, deleting a Starmon.

"Sheesh!! These guys just keep coming!!" Taomon complained, throwing magic land mines under the enemy's feet to paralyze them.

"Kimber! Use your digivice!" Sorcerimon yelled, dodging a Meteor Stream.

Kimber pulled her digivice out, where it was glowing again.

"Sorcerimon, hybrid digivolve to, Lairamon!" A digimon, almost as tall as Black, clad in a metallic shade of purple and a purple scarf around its neck, covering the mouth and nose region. Electric sparks were flying around its body.

One of the many Starmons tried attacking Lairamon with its infamous skill, Meteor Stream but with a wave of Lairamon's hand, it sent a wave of electricity at Starmon, deflecting the attack along the way.

"Why does everyone start hybrid Digivolving one of these days...?" Monmon said, using his Swing Swing attack on a Starmon.

After a long fight, all the Starmon and Thundermon were demolished, thanks to Lairamon but miraculously, Ninjamon and Shurimon stood their ground.

"You two are the only ones left. If you would surrender peacefully and answer our questions truthfully, we'll let you live." Lairamon said, hands on her hips. Ninjamon, who was standing using his sword, shook his head 'no'.

"For the sake of our pride as ninjas, we won't say anything!" Ninjamon managed to say without stuttering. Rosemon 'hmphed' and said,

"Ninjas... Always full of pride... For the love of the digi- gods, just spill it already! Getting beaten up like this is bad enough. You're just making your situation worse!"

"If that's how you put it... Rather than telling our enemies, we'll keep the secrets to us and we'll bring it down to the digi-hell with us!" Shurimon said, stabbing himself from the chest to the back, deleting himself. Everyone was surprised by the act as Ninjamon did the same. When they vanished, Rico crossed his arms across his chest.

"Damn... Even if we persuade them, they won't tell but instead, they sent it and themselves down the drain!" Lairamon collapsed, changing back to Sorcerimon and replied to Rico's words,

"Even so, we'll have to go into hiding for now. I saw a Phoenixmon while we were in battle a while ago."

"Good idea. But, where? We're in the middle of a forest here and Glacier Mountain is right behind us." Impy said, pointing to the forest around them and the mountain path behind them. He had a point there...

"Well, we can always hide underground..." Kotemon suggested.

"Oh, that's a BRILLIANT idea! And you can digivolve to Digmon, I presume?" Rosemon said sarcastically. Kotemon hung his head in shame.

"Listen, we're not getting anywhere through arguing. Rosemon and Kotemon, stop your bickering and we'll think of something before it gets too dark." Jake said, looking around in case there's a cave nearby.

Nina said something to Bee and Bee nodded in agreement. He spread his wings and told the others;

"Nina suggested that I look from bird's-eye view. If I lose you guys, just signal or something." With that, he flew off.

"Okay, where do we start looking? We don't have a map of the place." When Rico said 'map', Kimber pulled out a piece of paper from her pocket and opened it, revealing a map of the region.

"We DO have a map, li'l bro!" Kimber smiled triumphantly as Rico turned an interesting shade of red in anger.

"IF YOU HAD A MAP, WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SO SOONER!!!????" Rico bellowed, almost shaking the ground. Kimber rolled her eyes heavenwards and replied plainly,

"You never asked, silly! ...Until a few seconds ago, that is." She smiled sweetly at her twin whose face was as red as a tomato and looked ready to clobber her anytime, which he did.

"AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!! YOU SLY FOX!!!!!!!!" He wrestled his twin.

"SEZ YOU!!!" Kimber yelled and screamed when her brother tickled her.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!" She shrieked and practically the whole digiworld can hear it... -_-;

"Alright, break it up, you two..." Wizardmon said, pushing Rico aside as Sorcerimon pushed Kimber to the other side.

"We have to wait for Bee to come back so, it's best not to make any noise. Besides, you know that Beelzemon has the word 'wanted' printed on his face." Impy said, resting his head on his hand. Beelzemon heard this and said,

"Well, Mr. I'm-a-perfect-imp, if it wasn't for you, we would've gone out without Piedmon knowing."

"If it wasn't because you 'caught' me for a hostage, I wouldn't have been here now."

"If you didn't follow me, we wouldn't have been spotted."

"If..."

"That's enough!!" Black said, clamping a hand over Impy's mouth. Impy slid out of Black's grip, made a face at the rouge and sat on Nina's lap.

Meanwhile, airborne...

"...What the hell was that? If they want us to be spotted, I can do that for them..." Bee said, cleaning out his ears. He kept on searching until he saw a cave.

"Perfect... Now, let's see if I remember where the others are..." Bee said, then through what they told the others a 'mental link', sent a message to Nina.

Nina stood up, brushing Impy off her lap and wrote on the ground;

'Bee found shelter. I'm going via air with Impy and Black. You guys follow from below, okay?' The others agreed to this and once they reached the cave, it was dark.

"Talk about bad timing. It's getting darker and I can't see a thing!" Ronfar said, looking around.

"HOT HEAD!!" Kotemon used his tech on a log, breaking it into firewood and setting them on fire on the way.

"There. Fire problems, done." Kotemon said triumphantly.

"Okay, that's good to hear. By the way, where're Wizardmon and Sorcerimon? Wizardmon would've pulled a fire stunt earlier." Rico said, looking around to look for the wizard digimon.

Meanwhile, somewhere in the forest, Wizardmon and Sorcerimon were looking for their way to the cave. They got side-tracked by a few Kunemons earlier.

"Damned Kunemons... If it weren't for them, we would be well around the campfire by now!" Wizardmon said, cursing under his breath.

"My, my. You're inheriting a lot from 'her', aren't you?" Sorcerimon said, amused. Wizardmon turned slightly red from anger and replied,

"Come on... We were reconfigured without our memories replaced so; I still remember what happened before as if it happened yesterday."

"But yesterday, we were looking for the Wolfmons."

"Never mind..." Then, they passed by a vine that moved.

"Who's there!?" Wizardmon called. A startled voice was heard.

"Friend or foe!?"

"..." the wizard's didn't reply.

"I said, 'friend or foe'!?" the voice demanded again.

"...Friend." Wizardmon said. Then, a pair of dark eyes peeked from behind the tree trunk.

"Oh... a Wizardmon and a Sorcerimon... Thank goodness you're not what I expected you to be." It was a Lillymon, setting the vine on the ground was to trap enemies.

"So, what were you expecting, if we may ask?" Sorcerimon said politely.

"Well, I was waiting for my two friends here. We got separated, thanks to a BlueMeramon and while I was looking for them, that BlueMeramon had killed one of my friends... Now, I'm waiting for the other one to come. So far, she hasn't come yet..." the Lillymon said, trailing off.

Wizardmon and Sorcerimon fell silent for a while. Then, a thought struck Wizardmon as he slapped his forehead.

"Of all the stupid things I've done, we could FLY, for goodness sake!!" Lillymon looked clueless.

"Congrats... Wizardmon, why don't we look for the others by air? Maybe we can figure something out there."

So, they went to the campsite where the others were waiting. Lillymon pounced on Rosemon once they reached the campsite and got everyone, including Rosemon, dumbfounded.

"I found you! Thank goodness you're okay..." Rosemon pried the Lillymon off of her and snapped,

"What do you mean!? I don't even know you for goodness sake and what's with the finding bit?" Lillymon looked a bit disappointed by the answer.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were my friend. You smell a lot like her."

"Smell?" Jake repeated.

"Yeah. A lot of digimon, or all digimon look the same so, we tell each other apart through scent. Mostly, flower digimon use that method otherwise, others use a certain type of communication." Rosemon explained.

Suddenly, there were loud growls coming from around them. They all stood guard and waited for the assailant.

What kind of evil is it now...? I'm getting sleepy... (looks at watch) hoo, boy... 11.20 p.m...

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Done... (falls face first on the table and slept)

Certain Impmon(not Impy): Wake up, lazy author!! (whacks Tyrant's head, resulting author to get into a deeper sleep)

Signboard: PLEASE REVIEW!!!!

P/s: MAGE-CHAN IS MISSING!!!!