The Powers Within: Deed of Creature
by Creedogmon
edited by Godeerc VanDrey
Category: Digimon
Genre: General, Fantasy
Rating: PG
Language: English
Summery: Phillip Maxx gets his power.
A/N: It's pretty formatted, but as I looked through my notes on the rewriting of this series, I noticed that I've added a plot element to each, with some additional touches. It still not up to the level of the series I based this on, but it's closer. Summaries are still about the same.
Chapter 5: Deed of Creature
Phillip Maxx pushes himself away from the ground. He looks around to get his bearings, but there are none. There were a lot of tropical trees around, also some more common trees and shrubs. Familiar with the story of the DigiDestined, he thinks, What happened? This crazy D-3 thing sent me here. Yay! I'm a DigiDestined! "Okay, where my digimon?" he comments indignantly.
"Hello?" It is a girl's voice.
He calls back, searching for the origin of the voice. A hundred yards into the brush, a dark-haired girl pulls herself out of the leaves. "Hey, do you know where we are?"
"We're in the DigiWorld, I think," Phillip replied, almost recognizing the girl.
"The what?"
"DigiWorld. It's a parallel universe with digital monsters: digimon!"
Justine rolled her eyes, This kid's a loon, she thinks. "Okay, now what?"
"Well, we're each supposed to have this little digimon monster following us around. And then we save the world!"
"Tell me, do you go to a psychiatrist?"
"Very funny," Phillip replies.
"Who are you? I think I've seen you before," Justine inquires.
"Well, I'm Phillip Maxx. I live in Raytonville, Georgia. I go to Westwood Jr. High there."
Justine's brown eyes light up, "Me too. I go to school with you. You must be a ninth grader."
"Yeah,"
'Ah, the Patron. He comes to help others. But he can only think for himself.'
"Whoa, did you hear that?" Phillip asks.
"Hear what?" Justine replies, confused.
"That voice. It's deep and… growly. It sounded like a man... or a digimon!"
"There he goes with that digimon thing again," Justine mumbles to herself, "I'm thirsty. Do you know where any water is?"
"Well, not really, but let's go find some." Phillip remarks.
Justine smiles lightly. The two walk through the woods in search of a pond or a lake or something. Phillip tries to tell her about digimon, "…and T.K. and Kari… well, Kari didn't come till later because she was sick or something, but she finally got back. Well, this was before… well, not before, during Myotismon… I did tell you about Myotismon, didn't I?"
"Uh… Phillip, I don't know. You've said 'mon' so much I don't know what a Mytoesmon is anyway."
"Sorry."
After about half an hour without success in finding water, Justine reluctantly comments, "It's okay, I don't really need any,"
"Well, sit down, I'll keep looking. I'm thirsty anyhow. Besides, a Scout is Helpful."
After Phillip had looked around in the woods near Justine for a while, he heard the voice again.
'Yes, Patron, leave the maiden alone. You can't help when you're not there. Ha ha ha.'
Phillip looks around. He sees nothing that would indicate where the voice was coming from. He heard a scream from what definitely sounded like Justine. 'Okay, a Scout is Helpful... and Loyal, and Trustworthy, and Brave.' He exhales and sprints toward the sound of Justine's screaming.
"Hey, Justine! I'm coming, I'm coming!" He runs so quickly, he almost falls into a large hole. Stopping to look at it, he finds Justine trapped inside of it. Exhaling, Phillip reaches down his hand. He's not even close to reaching her. He turns around to grab a vine. Feeling resistance, he looks up, following the vine to its source, which happens to be the pointed mouth of a furry, frog-like creature. Gizamon Phillip scans the clearing and discovers himself and the pitted Justine surrounded by a herd of Gizamon and a large ape-like creature. The ape reaches his arm into the hole, his arms four times as long as Phillip's, pulling out the squirming Justine. She yelps, screams, and whacks at the ape's arm with a frail branch that she grabs on her way up. Phillip grabs a rather large branch, eluding the leap of a Gizamon and takes a hard swing at the ape's flank.
The creature cries out in pain, then retaliates with a firm sweep with his armored arm, sending Phillip flying into a tree and smashing the branch to pieces. Phillip, his courage built up from his fantasy of being a DigiDestined, pulls his aching body up, and grabs a larger branch, taking a home-run swipe at the ape's kneecap. The primate moans in pain before roaring, "Patron, you are seriously overstepping your boundary. You are far too weak and frail to defeat IronGorimon. Blasting Fist!" The gorilla-like creature's fist shoots a ball of energy toward Phillip, who takes full force of it. Justine screams at the attack on her newly befriended hero.
"Only one problem, though," a voice resembling Phillip's, only deeper, speaks. IronGorimon turns to see Phillip standing in a grayish-white aura. "You are wrong. I am the Patron. I help others. And now I am going to help destroy you." His digivice, beaming with light, emits a crest, which was secured by a golden glow around his neck. A mercury-colored glow engulfs him. The form expands to a gargantuan size.
When the aura subsides, a huge creature stands in its place. The beast is over ten feet tall, with mounds of marble-colored fur. It has four legs, and resembles a dog somewhat. It has a wide upper torso and long, bear-like claws. Its eyes, barely visible, are slitted.
IronGorimon, terrified, orders the herd of Gizamon to attack the beast. They hurl themselves at it, biting and clawing. None get through the thick fur and the Patron swings his forelegs sending many flying into rocks and trees. Many dedigitalize; others retreat in terror into the grasses.
When only IronGorimon is left, he attacks, "Blasting Fist!" The Patron once again takes full force of the attack, but this time, the blast is lost in the mounds of fur, which sway indifferently. The fur glows strongly, and the beast roars, "Deed of Creature!"
A translucent blast of white and yellow entities came from the furry beast. IronGorimon is struck on every side, also smashing the ground as he falls. A small crater is soon all that is left of him. The beast glows again, shrinks, and collapses as the short, lanky Phillip once again.
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Phillip awakes in the late afternoon. Justine is sitting against a tree next to him. "Phillip, you're awake. Do you know what happened to you?"
"I remember something weird, like turning into something big and furry. Like a huge dog or something."
"Yeah, you defeated IronGorimon and saved both of us. I'd say you're a hero." Justine smiled. "And I'm severely confused."
Phillip sighs, "Well, this is the DigiWorld. Crazy stuff happens here." When Justine just nods, he inquires, "You still think I'm crazy?"
"If you are, I am, too. I'm seeing all the monsters. I'm stuck in some funky world. If you say it's the DigiWorld, your guess is no worse than mine is. And, oh yeah, I think your graying."
"What?"
"Well, you have all these gray strands of hair, but they're a weird gray. They're really thick too. You also have gray ring around your eyes."
"Whoa, weird, I've changed."
"Tell me about it,"
"I am the Patron,"
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A/N: Okay, these are starting to work out. Little by little, they're improving. Well, anyway, I'm not going to require reviews as I did the first time. Since it's mostly already written, it's just going back and working on it. The third story's not quite written, yet, though. And they're a bunch of work to be done on the second story. Encouragement is accepted.
(Sonriso) - A big furry monster? Tell me, have you been taking hallucinogenic drugs?
