Back to the Digital World
Chapter Seven: BurningGreymon is Back and Burning Bright
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The kids and the digimons left the castle and walked through the forest.
"So where to we go now?" Junpi asked.
"Maybe we split up to find our beast spirits and Syoaran's, Emerald's, Sapphire's, and Sakura's spirit," Izumi said.
"No! I don't think we should split up," Takuya argued.
"Why not?" Izumi asked.
"Because if we get attack we'll have a better chance at defeating the enemy if we're together."
"I think I agree with Izumi, Takuya, " Kouichi said. "If Kouji, Izumi, and Junpi didn't even effected the digimon with their attacks I doubt three other people are going to make any difference."
"Maybe it will," Takuya said.
"I could see which direction the spirits are," Emerald said interrupting the argument.
"You can?" Takuya asked.
"Yeah," Emerald answered. She took out Sakura's Wood card and closed her eyes. Like last time Sakura's Wood card, Emerald's gem on her neckless, and the trees around them started to glow. After a few minutes the things that glowed went back to normal and Emerald opened her eyes. "I think it would be faster for us to find the spirits if we split up since the spirits are all scattered in different direction."
"So which spirit is in which direction," Kero asked floating toward Emerald.
"The beast spirit of Fire and Ice and the spirit of Water is on the north. The beast spirit of Dark, Light, and Wind and the spirit of Wood is on the east. The beast spirit of Thunder and the spirit of Steel and Earth is on the west," Emerald answered.
"But how do we know who'll get which spirit?" Sapphire asked.
"Sakura's card can help us with that," Emerald said. "If the person holds the card that has the power he/she possessed the card will glow."
"I wanna try first!" Sapphire shouted.
"Sapphire, why do you have to keep shouting," Takuya said.
"Oops, sorry."
"Here, Sapphire-chan," Sakura said handing her the three cards. Sapphire took them and after a few second of holding the cards the Watery card glowed.
"Cool! So does that mean that I have the spirit of water?" Sapphire asked.
Emerald nodded.
"But Emerald-chan, I've hold all the cards a lot of times and all of them glowed sometimes when I hold them. How would I know which spirit I have?" Sakura asked.
Emerald closed her eyes and the Wood card she was holding glowed. When the card stopped glowing Emerald opened her eyes and said, "You and Syoaran both have the powers of all the elements so you can choose which card you want."
"Okay, then I'll choose... mirror," Sakura said.
"But I thought the four other elements are Wood, Water, Earth, and Steel. There's no mirror," Takuya stated.
"Since mirror is made of steel it is considered as steel," Emerald answered.
"Oh."
"I guess that left Syoaran with the Earth card," Tomoki said.
"Yeah so Takuya, Tomoki, and Sapphire has to go to the north since they have the spirit of Fire, Ice, and Water," Emerald said. "Junpi, Sakura, and Syoaran have to go to the west because they have the spirit of Thunder, Steel, and Earth. Izumi, Kouji, Kouichi, and I will have to go to the east since we have the spirit of the Wind, Light, Dark, and Wood."
"Aw, I wanted to go with Izumi," Junpi said.
Sapphire looked down then said, "I wanna go with Emerald."
"How about us?" Bokomon asked.
Kero floated toward Sakura and said, "I'll go with Sakura's group."
"I'll go with my group," Neehmon said.
"You nincompoop, which group will be your group then?" Bokomon.
"Ah, I donno know."
Bokomon sighed then said, "I'll go on Takuya's group while you go Junpi's group."
"Okay," Neehmon said.
"That's not fair. I'm the only one able to turned into a digimon in my group," Junpi said.
Kero looked at him then said, "Don't worry I can turn to Cerberus when we're in trouble." After saying that, his wings started to grow bigger and he turned to Cerberus.
"Wow! Cool! A lion with wings," Sapphire said.
"Am, Cerberus isn't a lion," Sakura said.
"Yeah, I'm the guardian beast of the Clow cards."
Takuya chuckled and said,"Yeah and now you'll be the guardian beast of the children."
"We better get going," Kouichi said.
So they all split up into three different directions. Takuya, Tomoki, Sapphire, and Bokomon headed north. Junpi, Sakura, Syoaran, Neehmon, and Kero, headed west while Izumi, Emerald,
Kouji, and Kouichi headed east.
~*Izumi's group*~
The four walked silently through the forest. Three of them were thinking about the enemy and how they easily defeated Seraphymon and Cherubimon, but one was thinking of something that has nothing to do on what is going on, instead she was thinking of her friend's feeling.
'Hm, I don't get it, why can't I tell who Izumi likes. Is it Kouji or Takuya? I can usually tell people's feeling toward each others. It kind of looks like Izumi likes Takuya more than Kouji from what I saw in the past, since they seems to argue a lot. Usually people that argues a lot is because they like each other or because they're siblings. So does Izumi likes Takuya as a brother or something else. Maybe Izumi mentioned something that might give me a clue.'
Emerald searched through her memories to find something. 'When we were talking about siblings, Izumi said she doesn't have any, so Yusika asked if she ever felt that a friend of her is like a sister or a brother to her and Izumi said yes. She said that she have two friends that are like little brothers to her. One must meant Tomoki and the other one must meant Takuya, since I doubt she likes Kouji or Kouichi like a little brother since they both don't act like little brothers and I don't really think Junpi can be like a little brother to Izumi since he's older than her.'
Emerald looked at Izumi then smiled. 'Now to figure out if she likes Kouji.'
~*Takuya's Group*~
Three kids and one digimon was walking through the forest.
Sapphire: I wanted to go with Emerald.
Takuya: I want my beast spirit.
Tomoki: I'm hungry.
Sapphire: I wanna play in the ocean.
Takuya: I want to turn into BurningGreymon.
Tomoki: I'm tired.
Sapphire: Me too.
Takuya: I wanna keep going.
Tomoki: I wanna rest.
Sapphire: Me too.
Bokomon: I want all the whining to stop.
All three stop then looked at Bokomon for three minutes then continued to walk and whine. Bokomon sighed then said, "I should have chosen to go with Izumi's or Junpi's group instead."
~*Junpi's group*~
Three kids, one digimon, and one guardian beast was walking through the forest except the guardian beast who was flying.
Junpi was thinking about wanting go be in Izumi's group. Syoaran was thinking about how's he's going to be a digimon and what's it's going to be like. Sakura was thinking about Tomoyo and the others back in the real world, while Neehmon was thinking about his pants.
~*Izumi's Group*~
(Night)
"It's night already maybe we should stop and make a camp here," Emerald said.
The others agreed and they all put there backpacks down on the ground. "Maybe we should save the food we have in our backpack and eat some meat apples instead," Kouichi said.
The others agreed. "Okay, Emerald and I'll go find some meat apples while you two find some wood to build a fire," Kouichi said. "Am, Kouji?"
"Yeah?"
"Do you mind if I put the rest of food on my bag on yours? So I can put the meat the apples inside?"
"Go ahead."
Kouichi opened his and Kouji's backpack and put the foods from his bag to Kouji's. When finished he left with Emerald. Kouji stood up and so did Izumi. They gathered some woods silently. It was getting colder so Izumi put her sweater on.
Izumi didn't like the silence so she said the first thing that came on her mind, "Kouji, why did you bring your harmonica?"
"I wanted to bring it so I can do something when I'm bored. I was going to bring my guitar but it was too big to fit on my bag," Kouji replied.
"You play the guitar?"
"Yeah, why?'
"Nothing."
Izumi wanted to know what else he brought but remembered the last time she asked and decided not to.
~*Kouichi & Emerald*~
Kouichi and Emerald walked through the forest trying to find a tree with meat apples. "There's one," Kouichi ran toward the tree that had a lot of meat apples, while Emerald just walked toward it. Kouichi climbed at the tree and picked the meat apples. "Catch," Kouichi said as he threw three meat apples toward Emerald.
Emerald caught it then said, "Your bag."
"Huh?" Kouichi looked down at Emerald.
"Your bag, I need it to put the meat apples in."
"Oops, sorry. Here," Kouichi took his backpack from his back and threw it down at Emerald.
Emerald caught it and put the meat apples on it.
After a few minutes the bag was half way full.
"I think this is enough," Emerald said.
Kouichi looked down and said, "Okay." He came down from the tree and walked toward
Emerald to take the bag. "Here, I'll carry it. It must be heavy."
Emerald shook her head then said, "No, it's okay. It not that heavy."
"Are you sure?"
"Yea."
Emerald put the backpack on her back and began to walk toward the camp and Kouichi followed.
After a few minutes of walking Emerald's shoulder was hurting because of the bag on her back but she didn't said anything nor did she show it. Kouichi looked at her, though she didn't show it Kouichi somehow knew that she was tired so he said, "Emerald, why don't I carry the bag."
Emerald shook her head like last time then said, "No, it's okay, really."
Kouichi grinned then said, "Do you think I'm going to eat the meat apples behind your back while I'm carrying it?"
Emerald knew he was just playing and that he knew that she didn't think that so she decided to play along and said, "Maybe."
"How do I know you won't eat it behind my back? Or maybe you had already eaten some, since you had been walking behind me."
"I'm just slower than you that's why I'm behind you."
"Why are you slower than me then?"
"Because I'm tired," Emerald replied then she remembered what she just said and said, "No, I meant that I just walk slower than you."
Kouichi grinned again then said, "No, you said your tired."
"No, I'm not tired."
"Then why did you say you were tired?"
"Am..."
"You are tired," Kouichi said then he walked behind her to get the backpack.
Emerald sigh in defeat then gave him the backpack. Emerald remembered something about the meat apples from the past, she smiled then said, "Why don't you eat one?"
Kouichi looked at her suspiciously then asked, "Why?"
"Just to try it out."
"Okay," Kouichi took out a meat apple from the bag then took a bite. After the bite he made a horrible expression that said 'yuck'. He swallowed it with dislike then look at Emerald who was laughing.
Kouichi scowled at her then said, "You knew it was going to taste like that do you?"
Emerald didn't answer since she was still laughing which made Kouichi scowl even more.
When Emerald finally stopped laughing she said, "You need to cook it first, did you forgot?"
"No, I've never eaten meat apples before. When the others freed me from Cherubimon's control there wasn't time to eat."
"Oh yeah, I forgot."
"No, you didn't."
"Your absolutely right."
Kouichi scowled again then sigh and said,"We better get going Kouji and Izumi are going to wonder why we're taking too long."
"I doubt it."
Kouichi raised an eyebrow but Emerald only giggled then walked toward the camp.
~*Kouji & Izumi*~
Kouji and Izumi were finished picking up woods for the fire and Kouji had already built the fire, so they just sat there silently.
"Am... Kouji?" Izumi asked breaking the silence.
"Yeah?"
"Can-" Izumi wasn't able to finish her sentence because she saw Emerald and Kouichi walking toward them. "Hey, Emerald! Kouichi!"
"Hey, what's wrong bro?" Kouji asked looking at Kouichi who has a scowl on his face then look at Emerald who was trying to stifle a laugh.
Izumi also chuckled. Kouji looked at her questioningly and Izumi said, "Let me guess you fell for one of Emerald's trick."
Kouichi nodded then asked, "How did you know?"
"Emerald like to play trick people though she only does it to some people. They always fell easily since they would never think Emerald would do such a thing and she's really good at it too."
"What did she do?" Kouji asked Kouichi, but he only sat down and didn't answer.
Emerald sat next to him then said, "He fell at two of my trick. The one first one was I got to make him eat the raw meat apples and the second one was..." Emerald couldn't continue since she started laughing again while Kouichi just scowled even more.
Kouji looked at his brother then said, "It must be really bad since I've never seen him scowl like that, I never even seen him scowl." He chuckled at his brother's expression.
Izumi was curious at what Emerald did since most of her trick is really funny, "What was the second trick, Emerald?"
Emerald was still laughing but she was able to stop and said, "If only you two were there you wouldn't be able to stop laughing specially if you seen the expression on Kouichi's face and what he did."
"Tell us!" Izumi said.
Emerald was about to say what she did but stop when she received a death glare from Kouichi so instead she said, "Maybe I'll wait tell I found my spirit incase I need to defend myself from Kouichi"
~*Takuya's Group*~
(This happens the same time)
"Can we rest now, Takuya?" Sapphire asked. "It's getting dark and cold."
"Then wear your sweater then," Takuya answered.
Sapphire put her sweater on then said, "But I'm still tired and it getting dark."
"Okay, okay, we'll rest."
Tomoki and Sapphire were about to shout 'Yay' but Takuya seen it coming and said, "But if either of you shouts we're not going to rest."
"Okay," Sapphire and Tomoki said in unison.
They sat on a clearing and built a fire. Takuya and Tomoki both opened their bag to get some food.
"Hold it," Bokomon commanded.
"Why?" Takuya and Tomoki said in unison.
"You should save those foods for later and eat some meat apple instead."
"But that's going to take long," Takuya whined.
"Okay then but don't complain when you don't have any food left later and there's no meat apple trees near by," Bokomon said.
Takuya sigh the said, "Come on buddy, let's get some meat apples."
"Ok," Tomoki said.
"What about me?" Sapphire asked.
"You stay here," Takuya said.
"But I'm scared by myself."
"You won't be by your self, Bokomon will here with you."
"Okay."
Sapphire watched as Takuya and Tomoki disappeared in the darkness.
"Takuya, are you sure Sapphire and Bokomon are going to be okay?" Tomoki asked. "What if a digimon attacks them. Bokomon can't fight and Sapphire doesn't have her spirit yet."
"You worry too much buddy, I'm sure they'll be find," Takuya answered.
Tomoki nodded then said, "Okay."
"Hey! There's a meat apple tree," Takuya said running toward the tree.
After a few minutes Takuya's bag was almost full of meat apple. Takuya came down then said, "I guess that's enough. Now lets go back and eat."
Suddenly they heard a scream coming from where Sapphire and Bokomon are.
"Sapphire!" Takuya said recognizing Sapphire's voice.
They ran toward where they had camp. When they were a few meters away from the camp they saw Sapphire on the ground unconscious while Bokomon was standing in front of her. He was between Sapphire and a back digimon that looked like a wolf.
The digimon walked toward Bokomon and threw him out of the way.
"Bokomon!" Tomoki shouted but the digimon didn't seem to hear him and continued to walk toward Sapphire.
Takuya and Tomoki quickly spirit evolved and ran toward the digimon. The digimon was about to squash Sapphire by stepping at her but Agunimon attacked him before he could step on her.
When the digimon was a few meter away from Sapphire, Agunimon attacked him again with
"Pyro Tornado." The attack effected the digimon but it wasn't enough to defeat it.
"Lupine Destroyer!" The digimon shouted. A dark blue light from the digimon's mouth hit Agunimon through the chest. Agunimon was thrown backward by the attack and hit a tree then dedigi-volved back to Takuya.
"Takuya!" Kumamon shouted then attacked with "Crystal Freeze."
The digimon dodged it then attacked Kumamon. Kumamon dedigi-volved back to Tomoki.
This time it was Takuya's time to shout, "Tomoki!" After Takuya shouted Tomoki's name the fire they built exploded to a fire as big as the digimon. Then Takuya's beast spirit came out from it toward Takuya. Takuya hold out his D-tector and the spirit went inside it.
"Beast spirit evolution!" Takuya shouted then turned to "BurningGreymon."
The digimon looked at BurningGreymon and started to attack but BurningGreymon dodged it and attacked with "Wildfire Tsunami."
The digimon's fractal code appeared and BurningGreymon scanned it. It turned to a digi-egg and flew up.
BurningGreymon dedigi-volved back to Takuya. He ran toward Tomoki and asked, "Tomoki!
Are you okay, buddy?"
Tomoki opened his eyes, he sat up then said, "Yeah, what about Bokomon and Sapphire?"
They looked around and saw Bokomon sitting by a tree. They ran toward him. "Are you okay,
Bokomon?" Tomoki asked.
Bokomon stood up then said, "Yeah, but I doubt Sapphire is." He pointed a Sapphire's unconscious body and they ran toward her.
"What happened to her?" Takuya asked.
"The digimon attacked her with the same attack he used on you, Lupine Destroyer and if that attack was able to dedigi-volve you from being a digimon, how much damage do you think it cause her if she wasn't even a digimon?" Bokomon said.
Takuya and Tomoki didn't said anything they just looked at Sapphire worriedly.
"Her heartbeat is unsteady and if she's not treated soon she'll die," Bokomon continued.
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