*Jap. Names vs. English Names*: (I will not be using the acknowledgement of
- i.e.-Izumi-chan...Takuya-kun...etc.)
Izumi-Zoe/
Junpei- JP/
Tomoki-Tommy/
Kouichi- Kouji/
Kougi-Kogi/
Takuya-Takuya/
(Digimon names will stay in English version) also D-Scanner - D-Tector
Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon, Digimon Characters or any other related subjects that are directly copyrighted towards Toei Animation.
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The Pure of Heart: Netherworld Journey {I}
The Data Raven -Chapter 2-
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She had said this many times before, during their journey since Cherubimon, but how she had said it now could not hold solace in Takuya's mind.
"I'm not going to make it, Takuya." Izumi earnestly convicted of herself, not daring for a second to meet with his gaze.
Takuya sat across from her, his throbbing headache subsided, only to find that soon after a sharp jolt from inside had been sorely connected to what she had just confessed.
"You can't mean that... you can't." he said in reproach.
He knew her to be a strong-willed spirit, a fighter--surprisingly-- amongst all the boys, and she was certainly more than just the innocent, sweet girl Takuya previously presumed of her.
No, she was much more...
So, why now did her strong front come crashing down...Why had she felt so inclined to say a such a thing?
"Lucemon is winning this fight...again...almost all the data has been collected, again...this world is falling apart faster than we can ever stop it from doing so...and even with the data we tried to save for the Digital World can't possibly rival of what Lucemon has already...he's still got Tomoki in his capture...and...and...now we're lost without any of our friends at our side." she mumbled miserably, her head now willingly hiding from his sight; facing the ground.
Takuya caught a very slight glimpse of her eyes--the eyes she shamefully hid from him--her face had been freely streaming with a faltering attempt of suppressive tears. His insides gave another painful jolt as he continued to peer openly at her face. He couldn't help but think if he were the cause for her sobbing.Whenever or however these tears started they did not seem to show, but it certainly looked as though she had been holding back for quite some time now.
He had seen her shed a few anxious tears when he had been in danger-- this was only natural to do for a girl, he thought carelessly--but he never knew how suddenly it would effect him, and so severely at that. Her hands covered her tear-soaked face now. Takuya never had dealt with a situation like this before. What was he to do?
"Erm...Izumi?" he said nervously and winced to see her tearful eyes again. He didn't know why but it truly ached to see her in this condition.
"Oh, Takuya." she whimpered silently and flung her arms round his neck. Takuya, instinctively, took his arms to hold her much in the same way. He did undeniably embrace her, but rather shakily.
For a moment that seemed to hold such a lingering instance, Takuya knew there came a fleeting second where he had felt it right just to stay this way for truthfully a long time. This long moment came to a reluctant halt however; they had parted.
"Look you can't keep talking like that." he encouraged sincerely. "All you're doing is making it seem more impossible then it already has gotten. I told you to trust me...remember?"
Izumi solemnly wiped away the tears that continued to roll down, her now, rosy cheeks. A meek smile broadened across her face, slowly but surely, to Takuya's relief.
"You've changed a lot." she said still smiling, her eyes flashed an innocent glint.
"For the better I hope...?" he curiously asked.
She paused reflectively, then answered. "Of course!" Takuya's cheeks began to gently redden as he grinned to her compliment.
Unbeknownst to the pair, they--out of their subconscious and absent- minded feelings--always seemed to share their true intentions...their true thoughts and emotions...to each other in secret. In a way that, far from the prying interest of others, they often talked their mind. Very frankly...very bluntly...through sincere honesty. They grew to be knowingly insightful of each other--possibly knowing each other more than they would of the other children they travelled with. Though the thought of this had been kept solely to themselves, in fear of not knowing how or why they felt this way...and possibly for each other.
"Thank you...for everything." she whispered graciously. "I feel quite better now."
"No, problem. Now come on, we should start exploring this place... who knows, we might even find the others." he said grinning and brought himself to his feet. Izumi took another hesitant glance around the outlandish surroundings, until afterwards being helped upright by Takuya.
This in truth, was a splendid world they coincidentally, had been trapped in. Gakido Woods was the complete opposite of this unknown land. In fact it was: beautiful, just absolutely lovely, Izumi silently thought dreamily.
They continued to tread through a nearby seaside. Willow trees followed throughout the path they walked upon, the leaves on these willow trees were particularly peculiar however. They were translucent; the sky's two or three suns beamed a trail of light that shone through the leaves. It created a radiating prismatic effect. To the ground lay, and grew, the blossoms of flowers of violets and forget-me-not buds flourishing at a rapid rate. These blossoms grew wild and extremely enormous-- to about five feet tall. And then their was the spectacular view from their left, where they couldn't help but avidly watch the rise and fall of the stunning ocean waves. This body of water remained down below the cliffs they were presently on and extended from miles and miles into the distance. Its waters like shimmering diamonds embedded within blankets upon blankets of a cascading sapphire sea.
Yes, this place had genuinely seemed peaceful enough, safe enough, and wonderfully pleasant to watch. But one aspect about this Digital World had been missing... The Digimon. Where had they all gone?
Continuing their exploration in this strange world, they had come across a near-distant forest that followed along a path they were now on. It lie beyond all the willow and pine-coned spruce trees settling among a grassy trail they presently strode upon. At the brimming edge of this woodland came a dreary sense to it all as they slowly entered--defences and all alertness considerably low.
This forest looked fairly mundane too, with little or less vegetation growing in the land. They had ventured deeper and willingly farther out into the forest where the noticeable grey tinge of light seeped through the tree branches above. Again no sign of danger or visible creature for that matter had arisen. It was only until they had reached a more foreboding part of the woods that they hesitated in walking for the first time. A whistling in the wind came from behind like an icy, cold draft. Izumi shivered unpleasantly to the feel of it. Both reluctantly began to move again. A furious grunt had abruptly sounded from their turned backs.
"W-What was that?" Izumi whispered frantically to Takuya.
"I don't know." he replied and turned to look behind. "But whatever it is...it doesn't seem too happy that we're here."
Panic-stricken and alert with all senses in strain, they both scrambled to find their D-Scanners. Their eyes incredulously narrowed at the bushes and trees in front of them, anxiously trying to see what was making such a noise.
"Who's there?!" Izumi shouted fiercely into forest, her voice followed through with a loud echo.
Takuya held his D-Scanner tightly by his side. Both firmly stood their ground in an tentative stance. The loud grunting of what sounded as a large creature continued through their nerve-wracking wait. They spent no time in waiting for an ambush of other creatures to appear, Takuya and Izumi quickly activated their D-Scanners.
"Execute!" they shouted in unison.
Their spirit evolutions of Agunimon and Kazemon now stood materialized from their previous human forms.
"What happens now?" Kazemon implored fluttering her wings and hovered close by Agunimon.
"We wait..." Agunimon answered, clenching his fists readily.
A gleaming set of eyes suddenly appeared before them, blood-curdling and eerily red in colour. The eyes floated a good few feet away from the two. Izumi was the first to indignantly ask it a question, "Who...or...uh... What are you?"
It did not reply, instead it determinedly stayed silent. It was only until Agunimon made a sudden movement from where he stood that the eyes averted from it's previous spot.
"ARGHHH!" Agunimon shouted as a streak of blue flames came spurting at breakneck speed towards him. Agunimon was thrusted into the air, crash- landing into the tree next to Kazemon.
"Agunimon!" Kazemon cried out and turned to him.
"Who... ARE YOU?!" She levelled her eyes to meet the large ones now menacingly glaring at her.
"Data....Data...DATA!" the eyes now voiced out for the first time, a shrill peircing cackle.
Kazemon quickly flew over Agunimon, "Agunimon...wake up...please wake up!"
She looked over at the evil eyes once more, they were hungrily looking at the both of them.
"I need DATA!" the eyes now began stalking towards them.
"Agunimon!" called Kazemon again.
Agunimon's eyes stirred awake, "Kazemon...? Wha-"
Kazemon shrieked as the eyes from behind grew hands, hands which now grasped onto her, away from Agunimon's reach.
"Kazemon!!!" shouted Agmion, he shot upright and readied his attack. "Pyro darts!" A blazing row of fiery bolts sparked from his arm. The creature merely evaded the attack with its extending hands which captured and extinguished the flames. Agunimon stared after the possibly invincible monster of a creature, he found himself feeling frantic in finding another way to attack.
"Data...I need your data!" the monster raged on with its hungry eyes.
" I heard you the first time!" Agunimon irritably spat back him.
The monster rolled its glaring eyes at Agunimon as if he were bored, though it did stare interestedly at Kazemon: she still lay unconscious to the ground nearby the ever-growing monster. As it turned to her side trails of ground below began to dissolve from where the monster once hovered above.
"You have much data....yes...data..." the monster delightfully spoke in its shrill and ear-splitting voice as it neared Kazemon.
"You keep away from her!" Agunimon threatened and bared his teeth angrily, "Pyro darts!"
The monster's back swallowed Agunimon's attack whole, no trace of pain was apparent in the monster's movement but the sign of his growing increased on the double. The monster advanced further towards Kazemon, enough so, that he now hovered over her. Its hands extended to Kazemon's forehead, a glowing of green emitted from a chant that had been muttered under its breath. A rim of fractal code began to extract from Kazemon's being. She had awoken with a start and gasped in fright to what was happening to her. Agunimon stared thunderstruck, without any ideas how to counter this creature's impenetrable body. The only possible idea he had soon thought of was...his very own brute strength.
Agunimon sped towards the monster with a directed fist to its head-- one swift blow would do it, Agunimon thought confidently. One powerful blow indeed; the monster staggered to the side and jerked uncomfortably to the sudden painful wound to its head. As quickly as Agunimon's effective fisted attack temporarily ceased the monster's advances, the monster also quickly grew twenty sizes larger than before; stronger as well. The roar from the monster shook the ground below. The trees were no match for its size.
Kazemon struggled to lift herself up as she sided Agunimon, her wings feeling quite heavy.
"What is that thing?" gasped Kazemon breathlessly.
"I haven't a clue." Agunimon replied staring after the monster in shock.
"Do we run?" said Kazemon fearfully.
"No. We have to at least slow it down...it might follow us later... when we'll be too tired to Digivolve." replied Agunimon and clenched his teeth again.
"All right then." answered Kazemon and gulped inwardly. "Tempest Twist!"
The attack didn't do as much as tickle the monster. And Kazemon flew a good distance away from the monster's failing arms.
"We aren't strong enough, Agunimon!" Kazemon yelled to him below.
"Right!" called Agunimon after her. "Slide Evolution!"
Kazemon nodded.
BurningGreymon now joined Zephyrimon in the air.
"If he can take our spirit attacks and not budge... then maybe he wouldn't be able to take the full throttle of our beast spirit attacks... if we combine them!" BurningGreymon told Zephyrimon.
"Right!" she nodded, acknowledging his proposal.
"Wildfire Tsunami!" "Hurricane Gale!" they cried out.
A raging swirl of flames and piercing winds erupted from each Digimon. Another powerful blow to the monsters head had exposed a second wound. A high-pitched screech had then been sounded from the creature, they both had to shield their ears from hearing its awful anguished cry. The blast of both their attacks had finished him, the monstrous creature swayed to and fro. Though its hungry red eyes still remained intently staring into their direction. Zephyrimon readied another attack from seeing his apparent consciousness, but BurningGreymon projected his outstretched arm to stop her.
"Wha-" she began.
"I think that did it." he interuppted her.
"We should make sure he's completely knocked out, at least!" she protested back.
" Zephyrimon, he's done." he replied. "Look he's about to collapse!"
"We--need--to--make--sure!" she said fervently.
"No! We need the rest--to conserve our energy for the trip ahead of us." he said just as firmly as she had.
Zephyrimon scowled at him furiously, leader or not, it would be best to make sure so there would be no surprise ambush later on if the beast decided to follow them while they were vulnerable enough. The nerve of him, arguing right in the middle of a battle--he apparently still had much of his stubborn, foolhardy and hot-headed attitude from before--
"ARGH!!!" BurningGreymon suddenly shouted.
"Taku--BurningGreymon!" Zephyrimon called out nervously.
The split second in which she had left her attention of any danger from, had been fatal. The monster had been still alive and had used its last ounces of spared strength to attack the distracted BurningGreymon.
"NO!" she cried still and in desperation flew to him.
He was being thrashed about by a barrage of burning-blue digital spears. The infinite number of spears had continued to multiply from the steadily descending monster. Zephyrimon had been too late to stop the attack from happening but she had hoped if she streaked down the sky fast enough that she could, at the very least, safely help BurningGreymon back down. In the corner of her eye she noticed the monster gradually shrinking in size as faint digi-code slowly revolving and vanishing along with the creature. She focused her gliding speed towards the rapidly falling BurningGreymon. To her mind's terror, he had hit the ground hard--the fiery spears still pelted down towards him. The aching and tired Digimon began fading back to Takuya, of whom lay stiff on the ground not aware of the spears just nearly skimming his skin.
He had suddenly awoken just seconds after--from his senses tingling of danger--another flaming spear headed towards him, he rolled to the side narrowly escaping certain injuries. These spears however, were relentless their were too many to count and still more of them came.
"Argh!" shouted Takuya, he was hit by a smaller spear still burning intensely. He hastily ripped it out, he yelped momentarily to feel the excruciating pain surge throughout his body as if his very blood had caught fire.
" Takuya!" Zephyrimon finally touching back down to his side, she was regretfully too late to save him from this incident. "You're wounded--No! Don't move!"
The winged Digimon returned to her form as Izumi. Her eyes too--had returned to its original state from before--welled up with stinging tears. She gasped to see his bleeding shoulder, his shirt was stained with blood and his goggles thrown askew.
"Takuya...oh, Takuya you're so stupid! I knew we should have made sure he was completely incapable of hurting us...look what it did to y-- ...oh--" she cried and glared at him, her face paled chalk-white.
"Izumi..." he groaned irritably. "Even when a I'm injured...argh! In pain and lying helplessly on the ground...not to mention..." he winced to painfully grasping his shoulder, "and not to mention bleeding....You still insist on nagging...." His voice trailed off into a raspy whisper. He struggled to lift himself in an upright position; supported by a tree.
"Oh!" she cried again. "I told you not to move!"
She came closer to his side forcing him to stop moving. Izumi continued to ramble on how careless he seemed to be in not avoiding the injury, her voice shook fearfully. Takuya's mind was elsewhere, his head was spinning, his heart thudded loudly and his stomach gave a funny churning flip. Soon Izumi's ranting seemed distant, his eyelids drooped and felt as though they had been weighed down heavily.
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A/N: Okay, so I made a couple adjustments to all three chapters...just so it is easier to read and looks more presentable....I hope you enjoy (for those of have not read yet, I guess ^_^;)
(Digimon names will stay in English version) also D-Scanner - D-Tector
Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon, Digimon Characters or any other related subjects that are directly copyrighted towards Toei Animation.
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The Pure of Heart: Netherworld Journey {I}
The Data Raven -Chapter 2-
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She had said this many times before, during their journey since Cherubimon, but how she had said it now could not hold solace in Takuya's mind.
"I'm not going to make it, Takuya." Izumi earnestly convicted of herself, not daring for a second to meet with his gaze.
Takuya sat across from her, his throbbing headache subsided, only to find that soon after a sharp jolt from inside had been sorely connected to what she had just confessed.
"You can't mean that... you can't." he said in reproach.
He knew her to be a strong-willed spirit, a fighter--surprisingly-- amongst all the boys, and she was certainly more than just the innocent, sweet girl Takuya previously presumed of her.
No, she was much more...
So, why now did her strong front come crashing down...Why had she felt so inclined to say a such a thing?
"Lucemon is winning this fight...again...almost all the data has been collected, again...this world is falling apart faster than we can ever stop it from doing so...and even with the data we tried to save for the Digital World can't possibly rival of what Lucemon has already...he's still got Tomoki in his capture...and...and...now we're lost without any of our friends at our side." she mumbled miserably, her head now willingly hiding from his sight; facing the ground.
Takuya caught a very slight glimpse of her eyes--the eyes she shamefully hid from him--her face had been freely streaming with a faltering attempt of suppressive tears. His insides gave another painful jolt as he continued to peer openly at her face. He couldn't help but think if he were the cause for her sobbing.Whenever or however these tears started they did not seem to show, but it certainly looked as though she had been holding back for quite some time now.
He had seen her shed a few anxious tears when he had been in danger-- this was only natural to do for a girl, he thought carelessly--but he never knew how suddenly it would effect him, and so severely at that. Her hands covered her tear-soaked face now. Takuya never had dealt with a situation like this before. What was he to do?
"Erm...Izumi?" he said nervously and winced to see her tearful eyes again. He didn't know why but it truly ached to see her in this condition.
"Oh, Takuya." she whimpered silently and flung her arms round his neck. Takuya, instinctively, took his arms to hold her much in the same way. He did undeniably embrace her, but rather shakily.
For a moment that seemed to hold such a lingering instance, Takuya knew there came a fleeting second where he had felt it right just to stay this way for truthfully a long time. This long moment came to a reluctant halt however; they had parted.
"Look you can't keep talking like that." he encouraged sincerely. "All you're doing is making it seem more impossible then it already has gotten. I told you to trust me...remember?"
Izumi solemnly wiped away the tears that continued to roll down, her now, rosy cheeks. A meek smile broadened across her face, slowly but surely, to Takuya's relief.
"You've changed a lot." she said still smiling, her eyes flashed an innocent glint.
"For the better I hope...?" he curiously asked.
She paused reflectively, then answered. "Of course!" Takuya's cheeks began to gently redden as he grinned to her compliment.
Unbeknownst to the pair, they--out of their subconscious and absent- minded feelings--always seemed to share their true intentions...their true thoughts and emotions...to each other in secret. In a way that, far from the prying interest of others, they often talked their mind. Very frankly...very bluntly...through sincere honesty. They grew to be knowingly insightful of each other--possibly knowing each other more than they would of the other children they travelled with. Though the thought of this had been kept solely to themselves, in fear of not knowing how or why they felt this way...and possibly for each other.
"Thank you...for everything." she whispered graciously. "I feel quite better now."
"No, problem. Now come on, we should start exploring this place... who knows, we might even find the others." he said grinning and brought himself to his feet. Izumi took another hesitant glance around the outlandish surroundings, until afterwards being helped upright by Takuya.
This in truth, was a splendid world they coincidentally, had been trapped in. Gakido Woods was the complete opposite of this unknown land. In fact it was: beautiful, just absolutely lovely, Izumi silently thought dreamily.
They continued to tread through a nearby seaside. Willow trees followed throughout the path they walked upon, the leaves on these willow trees were particularly peculiar however. They were translucent; the sky's two or three suns beamed a trail of light that shone through the leaves. It created a radiating prismatic effect. To the ground lay, and grew, the blossoms of flowers of violets and forget-me-not buds flourishing at a rapid rate. These blossoms grew wild and extremely enormous-- to about five feet tall. And then their was the spectacular view from their left, where they couldn't help but avidly watch the rise and fall of the stunning ocean waves. This body of water remained down below the cliffs they were presently on and extended from miles and miles into the distance. Its waters like shimmering diamonds embedded within blankets upon blankets of a cascading sapphire sea.
Yes, this place had genuinely seemed peaceful enough, safe enough, and wonderfully pleasant to watch. But one aspect about this Digital World had been missing... The Digimon. Where had they all gone?
Continuing their exploration in this strange world, they had come across a near-distant forest that followed along a path they were now on. It lie beyond all the willow and pine-coned spruce trees settling among a grassy trail they presently strode upon. At the brimming edge of this woodland came a dreary sense to it all as they slowly entered--defences and all alertness considerably low.
This forest looked fairly mundane too, with little or less vegetation growing in the land. They had ventured deeper and willingly farther out into the forest where the noticeable grey tinge of light seeped through the tree branches above. Again no sign of danger or visible creature for that matter had arisen. It was only until they had reached a more foreboding part of the woods that they hesitated in walking for the first time. A whistling in the wind came from behind like an icy, cold draft. Izumi shivered unpleasantly to the feel of it. Both reluctantly began to move again. A furious grunt had abruptly sounded from their turned backs.
"W-What was that?" Izumi whispered frantically to Takuya.
"I don't know." he replied and turned to look behind. "But whatever it is...it doesn't seem too happy that we're here."
Panic-stricken and alert with all senses in strain, they both scrambled to find their D-Scanners. Their eyes incredulously narrowed at the bushes and trees in front of them, anxiously trying to see what was making such a noise.
"Who's there?!" Izumi shouted fiercely into forest, her voice followed through with a loud echo.
Takuya held his D-Scanner tightly by his side. Both firmly stood their ground in an tentative stance. The loud grunting of what sounded as a large creature continued through their nerve-wracking wait. They spent no time in waiting for an ambush of other creatures to appear, Takuya and Izumi quickly activated their D-Scanners.
"Execute!" they shouted in unison.
Their spirit evolutions of Agunimon and Kazemon now stood materialized from their previous human forms.
"What happens now?" Kazemon implored fluttering her wings and hovered close by Agunimon.
"We wait..." Agunimon answered, clenching his fists readily.
A gleaming set of eyes suddenly appeared before them, blood-curdling and eerily red in colour. The eyes floated a good few feet away from the two. Izumi was the first to indignantly ask it a question, "Who...or...uh... What are you?"
It did not reply, instead it determinedly stayed silent. It was only until Agunimon made a sudden movement from where he stood that the eyes averted from it's previous spot.
"ARGHHH!" Agunimon shouted as a streak of blue flames came spurting at breakneck speed towards him. Agunimon was thrusted into the air, crash- landing into the tree next to Kazemon.
"Agunimon!" Kazemon cried out and turned to him.
"Who... ARE YOU?!" She levelled her eyes to meet the large ones now menacingly glaring at her.
"Data....Data...DATA!" the eyes now voiced out for the first time, a shrill peircing cackle.
Kazemon quickly flew over Agunimon, "Agunimon...wake up...please wake up!"
She looked over at the evil eyes once more, they were hungrily looking at the both of them.
"I need DATA!" the eyes now began stalking towards them.
"Agunimon!" called Kazemon again.
Agunimon's eyes stirred awake, "Kazemon...? Wha-"
Kazemon shrieked as the eyes from behind grew hands, hands which now grasped onto her, away from Agunimon's reach.
"Kazemon!!!" shouted Agmion, he shot upright and readied his attack. "Pyro darts!" A blazing row of fiery bolts sparked from his arm. The creature merely evaded the attack with its extending hands which captured and extinguished the flames. Agunimon stared after the possibly invincible monster of a creature, he found himself feeling frantic in finding another way to attack.
"Data...I need your data!" the monster raged on with its hungry eyes.
" I heard you the first time!" Agunimon irritably spat back him.
The monster rolled its glaring eyes at Agunimon as if he were bored, though it did stare interestedly at Kazemon: she still lay unconscious to the ground nearby the ever-growing monster. As it turned to her side trails of ground below began to dissolve from where the monster once hovered above.
"You have much data....yes...data..." the monster delightfully spoke in its shrill and ear-splitting voice as it neared Kazemon.
"You keep away from her!" Agunimon threatened and bared his teeth angrily, "Pyro darts!"
The monster's back swallowed Agunimon's attack whole, no trace of pain was apparent in the monster's movement but the sign of his growing increased on the double. The monster advanced further towards Kazemon, enough so, that he now hovered over her. Its hands extended to Kazemon's forehead, a glowing of green emitted from a chant that had been muttered under its breath. A rim of fractal code began to extract from Kazemon's being. She had awoken with a start and gasped in fright to what was happening to her. Agunimon stared thunderstruck, without any ideas how to counter this creature's impenetrable body. The only possible idea he had soon thought of was...his very own brute strength.
Agunimon sped towards the monster with a directed fist to its head-- one swift blow would do it, Agunimon thought confidently. One powerful blow indeed; the monster staggered to the side and jerked uncomfortably to the sudden painful wound to its head. As quickly as Agunimon's effective fisted attack temporarily ceased the monster's advances, the monster also quickly grew twenty sizes larger than before; stronger as well. The roar from the monster shook the ground below. The trees were no match for its size.
Kazemon struggled to lift herself up as she sided Agunimon, her wings feeling quite heavy.
"What is that thing?" gasped Kazemon breathlessly.
"I haven't a clue." Agunimon replied staring after the monster in shock.
"Do we run?" said Kazemon fearfully.
"No. We have to at least slow it down...it might follow us later... when we'll be too tired to Digivolve." replied Agunimon and clenched his teeth again.
"All right then." answered Kazemon and gulped inwardly. "Tempest Twist!"
The attack didn't do as much as tickle the monster. And Kazemon flew a good distance away from the monster's failing arms.
"We aren't strong enough, Agunimon!" Kazemon yelled to him below.
"Right!" called Agunimon after her. "Slide Evolution!"
Kazemon nodded.
BurningGreymon now joined Zephyrimon in the air.
"If he can take our spirit attacks and not budge... then maybe he wouldn't be able to take the full throttle of our beast spirit attacks... if we combine them!" BurningGreymon told Zephyrimon.
"Right!" she nodded, acknowledging his proposal.
"Wildfire Tsunami!" "Hurricane Gale!" they cried out.
A raging swirl of flames and piercing winds erupted from each Digimon. Another powerful blow to the monsters head had exposed a second wound. A high-pitched screech had then been sounded from the creature, they both had to shield their ears from hearing its awful anguished cry. The blast of both their attacks had finished him, the monstrous creature swayed to and fro. Though its hungry red eyes still remained intently staring into their direction. Zephyrimon readied another attack from seeing his apparent consciousness, but BurningGreymon projected his outstretched arm to stop her.
"Wha-" she began.
"I think that did it." he interuppted her.
"We should make sure he's completely knocked out, at least!" she protested back.
" Zephyrimon, he's done." he replied. "Look he's about to collapse!"
"We--need--to--make--sure!" she said fervently.
"No! We need the rest--to conserve our energy for the trip ahead of us." he said just as firmly as she had.
Zephyrimon scowled at him furiously, leader or not, it would be best to make sure so there would be no surprise ambush later on if the beast decided to follow them while they were vulnerable enough. The nerve of him, arguing right in the middle of a battle--he apparently still had much of his stubborn, foolhardy and hot-headed attitude from before--
"ARGH!!!" BurningGreymon suddenly shouted.
"Taku--BurningGreymon!" Zephyrimon called out nervously.
The split second in which she had left her attention of any danger from, had been fatal. The monster had been still alive and had used its last ounces of spared strength to attack the distracted BurningGreymon.
"NO!" she cried still and in desperation flew to him.
He was being thrashed about by a barrage of burning-blue digital spears. The infinite number of spears had continued to multiply from the steadily descending monster. Zephyrimon had been too late to stop the attack from happening but she had hoped if she streaked down the sky fast enough that she could, at the very least, safely help BurningGreymon back down. In the corner of her eye she noticed the monster gradually shrinking in size as faint digi-code slowly revolving and vanishing along with the creature. She focused her gliding speed towards the rapidly falling BurningGreymon. To her mind's terror, he had hit the ground hard--the fiery spears still pelted down towards him. The aching and tired Digimon began fading back to Takuya, of whom lay stiff on the ground not aware of the spears just nearly skimming his skin.
He had suddenly awoken just seconds after--from his senses tingling of danger--another flaming spear headed towards him, he rolled to the side narrowly escaping certain injuries. These spears however, were relentless their were too many to count and still more of them came.
"Argh!" shouted Takuya, he was hit by a smaller spear still burning intensely. He hastily ripped it out, he yelped momentarily to feel the excruciating pain surge throughout his body as if his very blood had caught fire.
" Takuya!" Zephyrimon finally touching back down to his side, she was regretfully too late to save him from this incident. "You're wounded--No! Don't move!"
The winged Digimon returned to her form as Izumi. Her eyes too--had returned to its original state from before--welled up with stinging tears. She gasped to see his bleeding shoulder, his shirt was stained with blood and his goggles thrown askew.
"Takuya...oh, Takuya you're so stupid! I knew we should have made sure he was completely incapable of hurting us...look what it did to y-- ...oh--" she cried and glared at him, her face paled chalk-white.
"Izumi..." he groaned irritably. "Even when a I'm injured...argh! In pain and lying helplessly on the ground...not to mention..." he winced to painfully grasping his shoulder, "and not to mention bleeding....You still insist on nagging...." His voice trailed off into a raspy whisper. He struggled to lift himself in an upright position; supported by a tree.
"Oh!" she cried again. "I told you not to move!"
She came closer to his side forcing him to stop moving. Izumi continued to ramble on how careless he seemed to be in not avoiding the injury, her voice shook fearfully. Takuya's mind was elsewhere, his head was spinning, his heart thudded loudly and his stomach gave a funny churning flip. Soon Izumi's ranting seemed distant, his eyelids drooped and felt as though they had been weighed down heavily.
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A/N: Okay, so I made a couple adjustments to all three chapters...just so it is easier to read and looks more presentable....I hope you enjoy (for those of have not read yet, I guess ^_^;)