I winced slightly as I saw the portal open. A circular shaped disc of swirling colours that seemed to hover in mid-air. I stared at it. Quite unsure of what to say. It had been such a long time since I travelled from the digiworld to the real world. I stated to wonder what changes there would be in the real world. I glanced at Ray who had taken a step forwrd then seemed to chuckle slightly.
"You're nervous aren't you? IceRenamon?"
I swallowed a retort then nodded. Firstly, I had never seen such a portal before. I was used to the spherical kind of portals which showed obvious digital elements. Secondly, this plate-like portal in front had such a myriad of colours that I was taken by surprise.
"I have not seen such a portal before Ray." I stated as calmly as I could, trying not to betray my unease.
"It's a different program that was recently created. It makes the travelling safer. Come on. We haven't got the time." She stretched out her hand to me. I frowned then clasped my three digit paw in her hand and she pulled me towards the swirling disc of colours. We passed through it andI felt a cold whoosh of air break through my fur. I couldn't help but shiver slightly. We seemed to be suspended in nothing but weird swirls of colours, glaring and dull, bright and dark. It was enough to make me go blind. For a few seconds I felt myself falling through nothing, then. WHOOSH! I could see a panel below us open to reveal something dark and flat. I landed with knees bent, toes widened to absorb the impact of the fall. Ray landed neatly beside me, almost with the same grace. Her white cloak billowed in the wind for a moment before dropping to a standstill over her crouched figure. I looked up seeing the swirling disc above us diminish to a pindrop and disappear. It was after that that I took more notice of our surroundings.
I stood up as my brow furrowed. It was a grim dirty place with grit and sand on the floor. The floor was made of concrete that had been weathered by the elements. We were standing atop a desolated building, that of an old residential apartment. The wind was slightly warmer than I remembered, and dusty. I could already feel the dirst gathering on my furry face and in my eyes. I blinked a couple of time as a speck of something lodged itself in my right eye causing slight discomfort.
"Not very impressive is it?" Ray murmered as she took a few steps to the edge of the roof we stood upon. I turned to look in her direction and saw what she saw. It was a sad sight. In the distance, obscured in a a fog that clung to the ground and the tall skyscrapers was the city. I could barely see the outlines of the buildings. Around us was the residential area, dimly lit with half of the area covered in shadows while the street lamps of the other half were functional, but flickering. Upon closer inspection, the houses nearby were fenced with barbed wires and windows were bolted with wooden planks, as if a typhoon were about to arrive. There was barely anyone on the streets but us. barely any signs of movements but the swaying of the trees and branches in the wind.
I lowered my ears slightly and looked up. Most of the once-starry sky was covered with dark clouds, as drab and dreary as the August sky. The dusty clouds covered the city like an overturned bowl, threatening to suffocate and snuff out the life that once filled this city. I turned away, disgusted. A brown bug scuttled near my foot paws and I flicked it away disdainfully with one of my claws. What was it called? I tried to recall. Oh yes I remember, a cockroach. I walked over to the edge to stand beside Ray, gazing at the aweful sight before me. I turned to her to ask a question then noticed the tired and weary expression on her face. I knew I myself wasn't up to my normal standard. The travel through dimensions seemed to have sapped part of my energy away.
Just then, something stuck my heart as an alert quickly went up in my mind. I grabbed Ray's hand and quickly lept to the side, dragging her along with me. It was in the nick of time as a streak shot past us. I could hear the whirring of the wind against something bladed. I immediately lept in front of Ray, ready to defend her from harm. It was disgusting. The creature, a mass of tentacles that ended in sharp barbs and spikes. I couldn't identify any head or body. When in doubt of a pinpoint weakness, a large range attack would do better. I crouched and lept upwards, ready to Diamond Storm blast the revolting creature. I thought I heard Ray yell something. I couldn't be sure.
"IceRenamon! Leave it! Let's go!" Ray yelled.
I blinked. 'what? retreat?' I was already in the air. "Diamond Storm!" I clenched my paws, brought them near to my chest then swung outwards in a release of sharp crystals that rained upon the mass of tentacles. Only it didn't seem to affect it. I drew in a gasp as the tentacles snaked out suddenly, aimed at Ray. I lept to the left to try and intercept the tentacles. Ray lept over the edge of the roof and I turned to follow her direction. Argh! Something struck me from behind and a burning pain lashed my shoulder. Loosing my balance, I fell the rest of the way down from the roof till I impaled against the floor. My mind set in a nauseating whirl after hearing the sickening thud of my own body against the pavement.I tried to calm myself and gritted my teeth as I tried to get up. Ray ran to my side and bent down. Gripiing my uppwer arm, she hauled me to my feet.
"Let's go IceRenamon. We're in no state to fight." She growled and started half-dragging and hald pulling me away from the building. It was the worst statement I ever wanted to hear. For goodness sake I was the Queen of the Moon Foxes, living everyday almost with battles after battles. Why couldn't I take down that thing that looked like a bunch of seaweed? I tried to wrench my arm for a grip. I hadn't run away from a fight since the battles in our first days together. That was when I was an inexperienced fighter but now...
"Renamon!" Ray hissed with an irritated expression on her face. "You're in no condition to fight."
"yea? well I... " I found myself on the floor once again, pain coursing through my whole body. I trembled as I crawled to my feet. My shoulder screamed in pain and I could feel something lodged in my back. I was a sickening feeling of having a foriegn object stuck on my body. Ray quickly pulled out the huge barb, as large as my own paw, out from my shoulder. Glancing back, I saw the outline of the creature crawling towards the roof. I got to my paws again, this time eager enough to run. Just stop the pain! Ow!I ran a few steps and almost fell when Ray caught me.
"IceRenamon!" Ray cried. Then there was a tiny beeping sound. One I feared with my very life. One that I heard eery so often as I defeated my foes one after another. Only this time, I was the one who was affected. I felt my world fall away from me as i began to shrink, my long silver fur disappearing as I dedigivolved into an icepokomon?! I could almost scream. How could I dedigivolve? I felt my senses being reduced but at least the physical pain was gone. I was so small...
Ray looked down in surprise then just wrapped me in her arms and ran. I was surprised to see how much larger the world felt around me. Ray looked as if she had grown three times bigger. I was probably more than ten human years since I had been a pokomon. Worse of all. I couldn't believe I was running away from a battle. It didn't make any sense. A small voice inside me seemed to pipe up, 'at least you no longer feel the pain' yea? That wasn't true. My ego was drastically hit. How could I run away from a fight? Okay, forget the running part for now, how could my attack not have any effect on the monster? Even though it was quite a normal attack, the data I absorbed from the countless previous battles should have raised my attack level ratio. Feeling the rhythemic motions of Ray's strides. I closed my eyes, feeling the pain of defeat well up inside me. Ice-cold and harsher than the flaring physical pain I had felt. Right now, all I wanted to do was sleep.
A jolting motion made me open my eyes slightly as Ray got into a car. What car I couldn't tell. Resting me inbetween her legs. She closed the door, turned the ignition on and sped away from the apartment buildings. I was too exhausted to care. The former Queen of Moon Foxes had been defeated by a spaghetti monster. What news. That would surely make the headlines in the digiworld. Feeling the warm carress of Ray's hand on my blue fur. I gave a snort and closed my eyes to try and drown out the emotional pain I felt. Okay, perhaps I had too great an ego. But I ready have an ego than be a pathetic creature who always apologised for nothing...
A few minutes later, Ray pulled the car into reverse as she parked the car. I half opened my eyes as glanced around and realised that we were underground. Underground? I took in the sight of the ceiling above me while Ray carried me with an arm and locked the car's door with the other. There didn't seem to be much space. Only a place big enough for a car. The entrance where the car had drove in from was soon sealed off by long metal pieces which slide over the entrance and locked down, shutting us off from the outside. Yet I could even see the daylight from here. How far underground were we? I couldn't tell. One storey? Two? I gave up on making guesses as Ray walked over to a metal door with a small glowing panel beside it. Swiping a card through the card slot of the panel. The door opened to reveal a rather well furnished home.
Greeting my sight first was a rather narrow passage way with a metal polished floor. It was like a tunnel except covered with metal, hexagonal in shape and every so often there were small lights on side panels. At the end of the tunnel was another door that we went through and it revealed Ray's living quarters. The floor was covered with wooden boards and semi-circular. After that were a few steps which connected to a rather spacious living room. With marbled floor and some leather furniture thingys. What did you call those.. erm. Ah, sofas. I almost got them mixed up with beds. You have to forgive my lack of vocab to describe the interior of such human dwellings. After I, IceRenamon.. okay IcePokomon now, prefer to sleep outsidein the trees where nature was abounding. Then again, considering what the real world was like now, the enclosed home was quite a welcome. Ray set me on a sofa beside a cushion and I grudgingly lay on the soft... 'poofy' sofa.
"Are you alright IceRenamon?" Ray questioned, running her hands over my fur. (now is had to say 'fur' instead of 'body' as Ray advised me to. She said something about human mentality different from digimon mentality. Whatever, humans...) I didn't reply for a few seconds then grumbled. Or rather, almost snapped at her.
"Do I still look like a Renamon to you? Huh?" I growled as I padded forward a few steps on my four stubby legs. Rather lame excuses for legs.
Ray could only smile, "By the way you talk I suppose you're quite okay... feeling a little pinch somewhere in there huh?"
I gave a groan. Let me wallow in slight self-pity some more before I go back to being my normal controlled self. I have many reasons to be crabby. Then again, I haven't been crabby in years. Ha! See, reason number one to be crabby. Secondly, Now I'm stuck in pokomon form, my own beautiful silver fur disappeared save for (thank goodness) my tail. Thirdly, my figure has been reduced from elegant... to a round ball. Fourthly, I have just known defeat again in one of the many years I battled. I could go on and on... but being crabby sometimes isn't a good feeling. There now that I have complained, you get my point don't you?
"I'm going to bathe. Do you need anything?" Ray asked as she moved off to lay her coat against the table.
"Some answers would be very much welcomed thank you." I muttered.
"Answers. After I bathe. Want a bath too? You look... a tad gray than light blue."
"After you're done. I'm not going to bathe in a sink." I replied and turned over to lean against a cushion, now as big as I was. I realised, that the problem seemed greater than I could imagine. Or else how could I have been defeated so easily? This was going to take a long time I could tell...
"You're nervous aren't you? IceRenamon?"
I swallowed a retort then nodded. Firstly, I had never seen such a portal before. I was used to the spherical kind of portals which showed obvious digital elements. Secondly, this plate-like portal in front had such a myriad of colours that I was taken by surprise.
"I have not seen such a portal before Ray." I stated as calmly as I could, trying not to betray my unease.
"It's a different program that was recently created. It makes the travelling safer. Come on. We haven't got the time." She stretched out her hand to me. I frowned then clasped my three digit paw in her hand and she pulled me towards the swirling disc of colours. We passed through it andI felt a cold whoosh of air break through my fur. I couldn't help but shiver slightly. We seemed to be suspended in nothing but weird swirls of colours, glaring and dull, bright and dark. It was enough to make me go blind. For a few seconds I felt myself falling through nothing, then. WHOOSH! I could see a panel below us open to reveal something dark and flat. I landed with knees bent, toes widened to absorb the impact of the fall. Ray landed neatly beside me, almost with the same grace. Her white cloak billowed in the wind for a moment before dropping to a standstill over her crouched figure. I looked up seeing the swirling disc above us diminish to a pindrop and disappear. It was after that that I took more notice of our surroundings.
I stood up as my brow furrowed. It was a grim dirty place with grit and sand on the floor. The floor was made of concrete that had been weathered by the elements. We were standing atop a desolated building, that of an old residential apartment. The wind was slightly warmer than I remembered, and dusty. I could already feel the dirst gathering on my furry face and in my eyes. I blinked a couple of time as a speck of something lodged itself in my right eye causing slight discomfort.
"Not very impressive is it?" Ray murmered as she took a few steps to the edge of the roof we stood upon. I turned to look in her direction and saw what she saw. It was a sad sight. In the distance, obscured in a a fog that clung to the ground and the tall skyscrapers was the city. I could barely see the outlines of the buildings. Around us was the residential area, dimly lit with half of the area covered in shadows while the street lamps of the other half were functional, but flickering. Upon closer inspection, the houses nearby were fenced with barbed wires and windows were bolted with wooden planks, as if a typhoon were about to arrive. There was barely anyone on the streets but us. barely any signs of movements but the swaying of the trees and branches in the wind.
I lowered my ears slightly and looked up. Most of the once-starry sky was covered with dark clouds, as drab and dreary as the August sky. The dusty clouds covered the city like an overturned bowl, threatening to suffocate and snuff out the life that once filled this city. I turned away, disgusted. A brown bug scuttled near my foot paws and I flicked it away disdainfully with one of my claws. What was it called? I tried to recall. Oh yes I remember, a cockroach. I walked over to the edge to stand beside Ray, gazing at the aweful sight before me. I turned to her to ask a question then noticed the tired and weary expression on her face. I knew I myself wasn't up to my normal standard. The travel through dimensions seemed to have sapped part of my energy away.
Just then, something stuck my heart as an alert quickly went up in my mind. I grabbed Ray's hand and quickly lept to the side, dragging her along with me. It was in the nick of time as a streak shot past us. I could hear the whirring of the wind against something bladed. I immediately lept in front of Ray, ready to defend her from harm. It was disgusting. The creature, a mass of tentacles that ended in sharp barbs and spikes. I couldn't identify any head or body. When in doubt of a pinpoint weakness, a large range attack would do better. I crouched and lept upwards, ready to Diamond Storm blast the revolting creature. I thought I heard Ray yell something. I couldn't be sure.
"IceRenamon! Leave it! Let's go!" Ray yelled.
I blinked. 'what? retreat?' I was already in the air. "Diamond Storm!" I clenched my paws, brought them near to my chest then swung outwards in a release of sharp crystals that rained upon the mass of tentacles. Only it didn't seem to affect it. I drew in a gasp as the tentacles snaked out suddenly, aimed at Ray. I lept to the left to try and intercept the tentacles. Ray lept over the edge of the roof and I turned to follow her direction. Argh! Something struck me from behind and a burning pain lashed my shoulder. Loosing my balance, I fell the rest of the way down from the roof till I impaled against the floor. My mind set in a nauseating whirl after hearing the sickening thud of my own body against the pavement.I tried to calm myself and gritted my teeth as I tried to get up. Ray ran to my side and bent down. Gripiing my uppwer arm, she hauled me to my feet.
"Let's go IceRenamon. We're in no state to fight." She growled and started half-dragging and hald pulling me away from the building. It was the worst statement I ever wanted to hear. For goodness sake I was the Queen of the Moon Foxes, living everyday almost with battles after battles. Why couldn't I take down that thing that looked like a bunch of seaweed? I tried to wrench my arm for a grip. I hadn't run away from a fight since the battles in our first days together. That was when I was an inexperienced fighter but now...
"Renamon!" Ray hissed with an irritated expression on her face. "You're in no condition to fight."
"yea? well I... " I found myself on the floor once again, pain coursing through my whole body. I trembled as I crawled to my feet. My shoulder screamed in pain and I could feel something lodged in my back. I was a sickening feeling of having a foriegn object stuck on my body. Ray quickly pulled out the huge barb, as large as my own paw, out from my shoulder. Glancing back, I saw the outline of the creature crawling towards the roof. I got to my paws again, this time eager enough to run. Just stop the pain! Ow!I ran a few steps and almost fell when Ray caught me.
"IceRenamon!" Ray cried. Then there was a tiny beeping sound. One I feared with my very life. One that I heard eery so often as I defeated my foes one after another. Only this time, I was the one who was affected. I felt my world fall away from me as i began to shrink, my long silver fur disappearing as I dedigivolved into an icepokomon?! I could almost scream. How could I dedigivolve? I felt my senses being reduced but at least the physical pain was gone. I was so small...
Ray looked down in surprise then just wrapped me in her arms and ran. I was surprised to see how much larger the world felt around me. Ray looked as if she had grown three times bigger. I was probably more than ten human years since I had been a pokomon. Worse of all. I couldn't believe I was running away from a battle. It didn't make any sense. A small voice inside me seemed to pipe up, 'at least you no longer feel the pain' yea? That wasn't true. My ego was drastically hit. How could I run away from a fight? Okay, forget the running part for now, how could my attack not have any effect on the monster? Even though it was quite a normal attack, the data I absorbed from the countless previous battles should have raised my attack level ratio. Feeling the rhythemic motions of Ray's strides. I closed my eyes, feeling the pain of defeat well up inside me. Ice-cold and harsher than the flaring physical pain I had felt. Right now, all I wanted to do was sleep.
A jolting motion made me open my eyes slightly as Ray got into a car. What car I couldn't tell. Resting me inbetween her legs. She closed the door, turned the ignition on and sped away from the apartment buildings. I was too exhausted to care. The former Queen of Moon Foxes had been defeated by a spaghetti monster. What news. That would surely make the headlines in the digiworld. Feeling the warm carress of Ray's hand on my blue fur. I gave a snort and closed my eyes to try and drown out the emotional pain I felt. Okay, perhaps I had too great an ego. But I ready have an ego than be a pathetic creature who always apologised for nothing...
A few minutes later, Ray pulled the car into reverse as she parked the car. I half opened my eyes as glanced around and realised that we were underground. Underground? I took in the sight of the ceiling above me while Ray carried me with an arm and locked the car's door with the other. There didn't seem to be much space. Only a place big enough for a car. The entrance where the car had drove in from was soon sealed off by long metal pieces which slide over the entrance and locked down, shutting us off from the outside. Yet I could even see the daylight from here. How far underground were we? I couldn't tell. One storey? Two? I gave up on making guesses as Ray walked over to a metal door with a small glowing panel beside it. Swiping a card through the card slot of the panel. The door opened to reveal a rather well furnished home.
Greeting my sight first was a rather narrow passage way with a metal polished floor. It was like a tunnel except covered with metal, hexagonal in shape and every so often there were small lights on side panels. At the end of the tunnel was another door that we went through and it revealed Ray's living quarters. The floor was covered with wooden boards and semi-circular. After that were a few steps which connected to a rather spacious living room. With marbled floor and some leather furniture thingys. What did you call those.. erm. Ah, sofas. I almost got them mixed up with beds. You have to forgive my lack of vocab to describe the interior of such human dwellings. After I, IceRenamon.. okay IcePokomon now, prefer to sleep outsidein the trees where nature was abounding. Then again, considering what the real world was like now, the enclosed home was quite a welcome. Ray set me on a sofa beside a cushion and I grudgingly lay on the soft... 'poofy' sofa.
"Are you alright IceRenamon?" Ray questioned, running her hands over my fur. (now is had to say 'fur' instead of 'body' as Ray advised me to. She said something about human mentality different from digimon mentality. Whatever, humans...) I didn't reply for a few seconds then grumbled. Or rather, almost snapped at her.
"Do I still look like a Renamon to you? Huh?" I growled as I padded forward a few steps on my four stubby legs. Rather lame excuses for legs.
Ray could only smile, "By the way you talk I suppose you're quite okay... feeling a little pinch somewhere in there huh?"
I gave a groan. Let me wallow in slight self-pity some more before I go back to being my normal controlled self. I have many reasons to be crabby. Then again, I haven't been crabby in years. Ha! See, reason number one to be crabby. Secondly, Now I'm stuck in pokomon form, my own beautiful silver fur disappeared save for (thank goodness) my tail. Thirdly, my figure has been reduced from elegant... to a round ball. Fourthly, I have just known defeat again in one of the many years I battled. I could go on and on... but being crabby sometimes isn't a good feeling. There now that I have complained, you get my point don't you?
"I'm going to bathe. Do you need anything?" Ray asked as she moved off to lay her coat against the table.
"Some answers would be very much welcomed thank you." I muttered.
"Answers. After I bathe. Want a bath too? You look... a tad gray than light blue."
"After you're done. I'm not going to bathe in a sink." I replied and turned over to lean against a cushion, now as big as I was. I realised, that the problem seemed greater than I could imagine. Or else how could I have been defeated so easily? This was going to take a long time I could tell...