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Ray

IcePokomon

Gyo (Weiss Hai)

Biomon

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"Gyo, I have a bad feeling about this." Ray muttered as she lowered her head and followed behind him as they walked towards the stairs of the apartments. I could hear clearly, a snort, coming from Gyo.

"Well... we've come all the way here. Besides, when we agreed to the mission you knew we'd be facing danger right? Don't worry, I'm heret o protect you." Gyo seemed to laugh as he made a small joke.

I coughed slightly. Oh pardon, I think I do a great job of protecting Ray. It's just that I'm in a form that's a tad too small now. I tested my limbs and wriggled slightly under the cover of Ray's white coat. Yep. I definitely felt stronger now compared to last night. My energy must be returning. I felt the rhythemic walking as Ray and Gyo opened the swing door connecting to the stairs and started climbing upwards.

"Ahem, I can take care of myself Gyo. Thank you so very much." Ray answered keeping her voice level.

'My point exactly!' I thought as peeked out from under the white silky material. The staircase seemed to the very dimly lighted. There was the definite smell of damp and dust, and the odour of being unaired for a long time. There was a tint of ammonia in the air and the corners of the walls were slaked with yellow-green goo and thriving dirty brown mould. IcePokomon was immediately repelled by the rancid odour. She moved back under the folds of white cloth. That was one of the grossest things she ever smelt. Phoo! Hopefully the smell didn't cling to her fur when the got out of this place.

Gyo reached the last level (not the roof) and held open the door for Ray.

"Ladies first," he said, his voice without a hint of any gentlemanly tone. I forced myself to come out form under the coat and almost yelled in his face. What if it was a trap?! I was about to shout that aloud when Ray shifted her weight and raised a brow in question.

"No, I'm carrying Pokomon, if anything jumps at me I won't react in time." She insisted.

'My point exactly! Again.' I snapped at him mentally. If I were back in Renamon form I would have crossed my arms and given Gyo a glare. This guy either had something up his sleeve or he didn't have brains. Gyo shrugged and stepped through the doorway first. Sliding his hands into the pockets of his pants, I immediately watched him carefully. But he didn't take anything out. I flicked my ears, trying to pick out any sounds. I felt as if I could fel a presence somewhere about. But my physical senses told me otherwise. We just faced a dark and equally rancid corridor with almost no light filtering through the side windows. They had been sealed off with thick sheets of newspaper with masking tape. I wondered why. It wasn't a good sign.

"We'll go to the right first and check the rooms one by one." Ray said and moved off without waiting a reply from Gyo. He followed silently beside her. We turned a corner and Gyo kicked ope nthe first floor he saw. Nothing much was in the room except for old moudly cardboard boxes. There was a small electrical box on the wall of the room but its coloured buttons were cracked and its metal framework rusted. Cobwebs hung limply by its corners and black rubber-covered wires, gathering dust. Ray glanced the box over, much too disgusted to try and open the metal cover and check the switches inside. She was about to call Gyo over to do it when he called her name. She turned around and moved over the dirty floor to stand by his side.

"What? Found soemthing?" She qeried and peering over his stooping form to try and glimpse what he was holding in his hand. I stretched forward too, catching side of it's glint. I expected to see a barrel but it was the sharp pointed barb, triangular in shape like the tip of a harpoon, only curved and solid black. Its inside was hollow and rough, its exterior curved into a sickle-sharp shape like a claw of a beast. I had seen that somewhere... but where? I searched frantically through my memory. Any digimon no... I had seen many digimon with claws but they weren't so hollow like that. What if it isn't a digimon? What if its... LAST NIGHT!

Last night when I had battled the monster. Fine, it wasn't a real battle. But yes there it was in my memory. A greenish grey mass of writhing tentacles that were long and spiked... ending in black barbs. One had even pierced my flesh last night and made me de-digivolve. Ray had recognised it too and she had a grave look upon her face.

"Gyo, we'll take it back to the lab's to analyse. Meanwhile, let's get out of here. I feel as if something is going to..."

"RRRRROOOWWWWWWAAARRR!!!" Came a loud grumbling from behind us that echoed in the corridors. My heartbeat accelerated suddenly as I saw and smelt what was to come. IT WAS HERE! I saw the tip of a tentacle, the wicked barb curved and ready to strike, slashing through the air as the ghastly monster seemed to flow like a watery mass of tentacles over the floor to cover the doorway. The entrance of the room. Gyo quickly unholstered his gun and aimed at it, fumbling slightly on the sercurity lock with his crouched position. I lept off Ray's arms to give her move freedom to move about. Her shocked cry at my sudden action told me she wasn't expecting that move. Yea like I was going to let her carry me all the time. I lept onto a cardboard box in front of her and hissed at the monster, leaping to the other end of the room trying to draw its attention away from the other two.

"AAAhhhh!" I yelled aloud as I dashed to the corner of the room, also for a lack of a better word to distract it. I was surprised at howm uch my energy had returned in such a short time compared to this morning. I could feel the nergy in my legs as I lept over cardboard boxes agily. Drawing the tentacles away from the two humans. That's right! Try and catch me you spaghetti monster! Just see you try! I was but a small light-blue ball flashing away as I lept around avoiding the tentacles that slashed around me. But the ends of the tentacles were quick too. I felt the blade of one whiz over my head and the air whoosh by as I lept onto the spiny hard texture of one tencle and dropped down to the floor again to dodge another.

Gyo fired three rounds into the centre of the monster but it continued in its writhing. Worse still, it started toward's Ray and Gyo's position.

"Let's go!" Gyo yelled and he grabbed Ray's wrist, then ran for the doorway.

"Wait! Pokomon!" I heard her call as I vaulted over a box towards the entrance. In my hurry and taking my eyes off the monster, something hard and spiny slammed into my side and I flew , the world spinning around me as I crashed onto the hard dusty floor. I felt the sickening thud of my own body against the grey cement. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw it moving towards me now. The mass of tentacle then opened to reveal a maw lined with serrated teeth and gooey saliva. Repulsed, I climbed to my paws shakily. Just then,

!!!CARD SLASH!!!

"IcePokomon! Power Up! Metal armour!" Ray yelled.

'What the what?' was all I could think before I saw her slash a grey card through her digivice which glowed a luminous eerie blue. A lighted ring of digital data streaked from the digivice and shot right into my midsection and i could feel the plates of armour form around me, encasing me in metal. Silver streaks covered my blue fur like a coccon. Covered with metal, the force of the tentacles wouldn't hurt me much now...unless it had some acidic poison. But I wasn't goign to take the risk. A tentacle crashed downwards but i sidestepped. The metal weighed me down and decreased my weight, but not by much.

"Pokomon, go for its exposed gut!"

I understood, the creep wouldn't open its mouth much longer once it knew that 'prey' wasn't defeated at all. Something swooshed in the air behind me and I lept upwards upon instinct, feeling the whir of a bard as it passed behind me. My, this monster must be feeling irritated playing 'whack-the-blue-jumping-thing'. I landed on the floor again and charged towards the pink maw with glistening teeth, as revolting as it was. it was the monster's weak point. Gyo fired another round aimed at the monsters mouth. It shot into a side of its 'cheek' ripping a small hole.

"SCREEYAH!!!"

Screeching a cry of surprise mingled with pain. It shut its mouth immediately. Great!!! WHAT NOW?! I lept backwards as another barb fell from above. It hit the cement in front of me, even cracking the cement and embedding its barb inside. I started to get frantic. Now that I couldn't go for the offensive, this metal armour was of no good weighing me down. Ray was groping around for ideas. Great, great. What now? She picked a card and held it between her index and middle finger. Drawing up her digivice again, she slashed the card through its length.

!!!CARD SLASH!!!

Immediately the cardseemed to split into three plys that separated with green lines trailing from their edges, forming the three-dimensional shape that represented the data on the card. The digivice lit up once more as I recieved the data again to aid my battle.

"IcePokomon! Hyper Power! IceFlare!"

Yes! That was it. I glowed a light luminous blue and blueish flames seemed to flare from my metallic body. A spark from the flare lept at the monster and it drew back. It seemed to be working! With renewed confidence I charged at it, leaping from side to side, I pressed my charge forwards. I wasn't going to give up noW! No way! NOt to some freak that made me de-digivolve. At the last metre I sprang upwards with all my energy towards the middle of the monster, trailing blue icy flares behind me.

"YAAAAH!"

"WHACK!" Inches from the monster, I was suddenly sent hurtling in a totally different direction and hit agaisnt the glass windows, cracking them slightly from the force and the hardness of the metal plates. A few streams of sunlight filtered in around me as I dropped to the floor again. I sneezed and tried to clear my mind. I blinked then winced as the monster's screech suddenly filled the room, followed by a sudden flurry of failing moments.

The small tiny streams of sunlight had landed on the monster... and parts of it had crumbled into dust. Light! That was the solution! Ray had mentioned that the monsters came out only at night. But it was here in the daytime only becauset he room was dark! I whacked the window with my tail and sunlight streamed in upon the monster. With a last anguished cry, it disappeared into dust, no more to be seen. I stared at it's disappearing form. Was that a digimon?! I tried to absorb its data.... only, It wasn't data. Huh?! Wasn't data?

Ray saw what was happening and took out a small cube that had weird inscriptions on it.

"Estra-convert..." Ray whispered as the cube glowed a queer hue of multicolour. The remaining half of the monster, rapidly turning into dust, changed suddenly into data and streamed towards me as I absorbed it. It was however, yet to be identified. I looked at Ray and gave a small smile as the metal armour and blueish glow faded away. Then, I leaned against the wall and closed my eyes. I felt the floor thump slightly as Ray ran over and wrapped me in her coat.

"Ray! We gotta go! NOW! The whole place is rigged!" Gyo yelled, ran forward and grabbed Ray's shoulder.

"Rigged?!"

We ran, helter skelter as fast as we could down the stairs. Just as we reached the bottom of the stairs, there was a massive explosion from the upper levels as the concrete cracked and rained down in bits and chunks. Ray and Gyo evaded the huge chunks in time as they ran and ducked under the plastic tapes that cordoned off the area. Watching in shock, we saw the whole building tumble bringing out a layer of dust and dirt. Ray quickly wrapped me in her white coat as Gyo ran around the perimeter with the police officers checking for any casualties. Thankfully there were none. Sorely tired and longing for a good bath, Ray got into her car and Gyo entered the passenger seat. Slamming the door shut, we all let out a sigh of relief. Deciding that this was quite enough for one day, Ray turned on the engine and we drove off. Having won one battle but left with more msteries.