Back to the Digital World
Chapter Eight
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon.
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"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.
~*Izumi's Group*~
Emerald woke up abruptly. She sat up and looked around, everybody else was sleeping. She looked at Izumi's watch being careful not to wake her up. It was 1:12. She had a nightmare but she knew that it wasn't just a nightmare it was real.
"Sapphire," she whispered. After a few minutes she stood up and walked through the forest. She stopped when she found a huge sequoia tree. She sat on front of it and put her head down on her knee. She stared at the tree in front of her and a few tears started to flow down from her eyes. 'I wouldn't make it there in time and if I will I wouldn't be able to do anything about it. I can't tell anyone, it would only make them sad and they'll want to go and find them even if we can't do anything about it and it will only slow us down to find the spirits and more people or digimon will get hurt.'
~*Junpei's Group*~
Sakura woke up. She had this dream but she couldn't remember it, though she knew it wasn't good. She closed her eyes to try and remember it. She saw a bright sapphire gem. It was glowing brightly then something happened and the gem stopped glowing. After a few seconds it glowed again but not as bright as before. It was only one percent as bright as before and it was flickering as though it will stop glowing at any minute.
Sakura thought for a few minutes on what it might mean and the only thing it remind her of is, "Sapphire."
She had only whispered but it was still able to woke up Kero and Syoaran. Kero floated to her and asked, "What's the matter?"
"Sapphire, she's in trouble. We need to find her!" Sakura said loud enough to wake up Junpei but it was still not loud enough to wake up Neehmon.
"Hey, what happening?" Junpei asked as he sat up.
"Sapphire is in trouble, we need to find her!" Sakura repeated.
"Hold on, we can't do that. We don't even know where she is and beside I'm sure Takuya and Tomoki would have protected her if they were attacked," Junpei said.
"He's right, and beside it might be too late," Syoaran said.
~*Takuya's Group*~
Takuya was sitting by the fire looking at Sapphire who was between life and death. Bokomon was also awake. Tomoki had fallen asleep a few hours ago even though he wanted to stay awake.
'It all my fault' Takuya thought. 'If I didn't leave Sapphire and Bokomon alone Sapphire would have been okay. If the others find out, I'm in so much trouble and I don't even wanna think what will Izumi and Emerald going to do if they find out. Emerald probably won't kill me since she seem way nicer than that but I don't know about Izumi, she is Sapphire's best friend.'
"It's not your fault, Takuya," Bokomon said as if he had read Takuya's mind.
"No, it is my fault. Tomoki even said that you and Sapphire might be attacked but I didn't listen."
Bokomon was about to say something but Takuya's D-Tector interrupted.
"Takuya," Ohpanimon's voice came out from Takuya's D-tector.
Takuya hold out his D-tector in front of him and said, "Ohpanimon!"
"Takuya you must find Emerald. Her spirit have the power to heal Sapphire," Ohpanimon said.
"But how are we going to find her?" As soon as Takuya asked that his D-tector showed something that looked like a compass.
He woke up Tomoki and beast spirit evolve to BurningGreymon.
"What's going on?" Tomoki asked.
"I'll explain later," Takuya said as he picked up Sapphire.
"Tomoki, Bokomon, ride on my back."
Tomoki and Bokomon did what they were told and BurningGreymon flew up as soon as they were on. Bokomon told Tomoki what Ohpanimon said while they were flying. BurningGreymon was now following the compass on Tomoki's D-Tector since he used his to digi-volve.
~*Emerald*~
Emerald stood up and was about to go back to the others when she heard something behind her. She quickly turned around to see a black digimon that looked like a lion.
She turned around again toward the different direction and tried to run away from the digimon, but the digimon was faster and blocked the way.
Emerald stared at the digimon then calmly asked, "What do you want?"
"I am here to destroy you and the chosen children," The digimon answered.
"Why?"
"I am not here to answer your question!" With that the digimon threw Emerald toward the sequoia tree.
Emerald was hurt. She tried to stand up but fell down again. 'At least now I would be able to be with sapphire and the rest of my family at wherever people go when they die,' Emerald thought. 'No, I can't, I need to help Izumi and the others to help defeat whoever endangered this world.'
With that Emerald tried to stand again. This time she was able to stand although she looked like she might collapse at any minute.
She looked up to see that the digimon was using an attack. A dark light headed toward her. She closed her eyes waiting for the pain but she didn't feel it. She opened her eyes and saw that she wasn't in the dark forest anymore. She looked around, there wasn't anything around here and everywhere she look it was emerald.
"Where am I?" Emerald said aloud. She covered her eyes when something glowed brightly in front of her. When it stopped glowing she opened her eyes and saw a small figurine (AN: I don't know how to describe it, so use your imagination, here's a hint it has a lot of emeralds, green, and something like that). Emerald's emerald gem and Sakura's card glowed. Both the spirit and Sakura's card went inside the emerald gem.
When the items entered it there was another bright light then when it disappeared the gem was replace by a pendant that looked like the spirit. Emerald cupped her on at the pendant and shouted, "Spirit Evolution! Radymon!" Emerald turned to a digimon (AN: Once again, I don't know how to describe what she looked like so again, use your imagination).
The tree Emerald was in exploded to reveal Radymon. "Vine Drain!" Radymon shouted as vines came out from her hand and headed toward the digimon. The vines wrapped the digimon then glowed in light green and drained the digimon's energy. When the vines disappeared the digimon had become weak.
Radymon was about to attack again but was interrupted when the digimon evolved. Emerald could sense that the digimon was a lot stronger now. The digimon looked at her then attacked. Radymon was sent to the ground. She got up then shouted, "Emerald Blast!"
A bright emerald light emerged from Radymon's palm and hit the digimon. When the light disappeared the digimon was unaffected.
Radymon gasped. She tried to attacked with "Vine Drain," but the digimon broke the vines and freed itself.
~*Takuya's Group*~
"She's down there," BurningGreymon said. He flew down and saw two digimons fighting.
"That digimon must be Emerald," Tomoki said pointing at Radymon. "She seems to be in trouble."
"I'll go help her. Tomoki, you stay with Bokomon and Sapphire," BurningGreymon said.
Tomoki nodded and BurningGreymon flew toward the two digimons.
~*Emerald*~
Radymon was on the ground looking up at the digimon. Radymon closed her eyes as the digimon's sword was about to hit her. After a few seconds she opened her eyes to see BurningGreymon fighting the digimon.
"Pyro Barrage!" BurningGreymon shouted. It hit the digimon then it's fractal code appeared and BurningGreymon scanned it. The digimon turned into a digi-egg and flew up.
BurningGreymon walked toward Radymon and asked, "Are you okay?"
Radymon stepped back and asked, "Who are you?"
"I'm Takuya," BurningGreymon said as he dedigi-volved back to Takuya.
"Takuya? What are you doing her?" Radymon asked as she too dedigi-volved back to Emerald.
"Ohpanimon said your spirit have the power to heal Sapphire," Takuya answered. "Sapphire was attacked by a digimon."
"Yeah, I know but how am I going to heal her and where is she?"
"She's with Tomoki and Ohpanimon didn't tell me how so I don't know."
They walked toward where Tomoki, Bokomon, and Sapphire were.
When they arrived there Emerald looked at Sapphire who was laying on the ground. She walked closer to her and sat down beside her. She closed her eyes and cupped her hand on the pendant of her neckless. The pendant glowed and so did Sapphire's gem.
After a few minutes both pendants stopped glowing and Emerald opened her eyes.
"Did it worked?" Takuya asked. They waited a few more minutes and were about to give up hope when Sapphire's eyes opened.
"Where am I?" Sapphire asked as she sat up. Emerald hugged her younger sister in happiness.
"Emerald? What happened?" Sapphire asked.
"You're okay," Tomoki said hugging her as well.
"Why won't I be, what happened?"
"Don't you remember what happened?" Takuya asked.
There was a silence while Sapphire tried to remember. "I think I remember now, while Takuya and Tomoki were gone a digimon attacked Bokomon and I, then there was this light then I'm here."
"The digimon attacked you and you were going to die but Emerald did something and you're healed," Tomoki said.
Sapphire was about to say something when Takuya's D-Tector started to beep. He took it out and Ohpanimon's voice came out from it. "Emerald's spirit also have a power to heal people as long as they're not dead yet."
"Wow, why don't we have powers like that?" Tomoki asked.
"It's because of Sakura's card, it gave her extra powers," Ohpanimon answered.
"Maybe we should get back to the others they might wonder where I am," Emerald said. They walked toward the others in silence.
When they got there all of them were gone. "Where are they?" Takuya asked.
"They might have notice that I was gone and went to look," Emerald answered then she saw a paper on the ground. Emerald bend down and picked it up. "It's from the others."
"Really, what does it said?" Tomoki asked.
"It said, Emerald if you find this we've left to look for you. Look at the trees and find an arrow, follow the direction it's pointing. I.O., K.K., K.M."
They looked through the trees near by and found an arrow pointing east. They ran toward the direction to find it.
"Izumi!" Takuya shouted as he saw something purple that looked like Izumi's hat. It was Izumi's hat, she turned around and ran toward them with the twins.
"Takuya? What are you doing here?" Izumi asked then looked at the rest. "Emerald! Where did you go, why did go?
"Sorry if I made you worry, I was just walking when a digimon attacked me," Emerald said.
"How did you escaped and what are Takuya's group doing here?"
"I found my spirit but the digimon digi-volve so I wasn't able to defeat it but luckily Takuya came as BurningGreymon."
"You found your beast spirit?" Izumi asked Takuya.
"Yup."
"But what were you doing here, we thought you guys were going north?" Kouichi asked.
"We were, but when Tomoki and I left Bokomon and Sapphire to..."
"You left them?!" Izumi interrupted.
"Yeah, I'm sorry, I didn't know they were going to be attacked. Anyway while..." Takuya continued and explained to them what happened and told them what Ohpanimon said about Emerald's power.
"So, Sakura's card gave her and her spirit extra powers?" Kouichi asked.
"Yeah, I guess," Takuya answered.
"By the way, where you guys find a paper?" Emerald asked.
"Kouji had some in his bag," Izumi answered.
Tomoki yawn and said, "I'm sleepy."
"I'm not, I just woke up," Sapphire said.
"Will, we really should go to sleep now it's three in the morning," Izumi said as she looked at her watch and yawn.
"Yeah, and tomorrow you four need to go north again and find Tomoki's and Sapphire's spirit," Kouji said.
"And this time, Takuya, don't leave Sapphire and Bokomon alone, neither of them can fight," Izumi added.
"Okay, okay, I won't sheesh."
AFEWMINUTESLATER
Izumi woke up as the light hit her eyes. She looked around and saw that Kouji, Kouichi, and Emerald were already awake.
She walked toward them and eat some meat apples. When the others woke up they got ready to go to the other direction.
"Bye," Takuya said.
"Wait, Takuya," Emerald said.
"Why?" Takuya asked.
Emerald looked at him in the eye and said, "Please protect Sapphire, she's... the only family I have."
Takuya was shocked at what she said but smiled then said, "Of course I will."
"Hey, Emerald?" Kouichi said.
"Yeah?"
"You already found you spirit, why can't you go with them?"
"My best spirit is in the same direction of yours, Izumi's, and Kouji's so I have to go with you guys beside I think Takuya can protect Sapphire on his own specailly since he can fusion spirit evolve now."
"I can?!" Takuya asked.
"Yeah, you've already fusion evolve last time you were here, so as long as you have both your human and beast spirit you will be able to."
"No, Emerald you are wrong," Ohpanimon said through Takuya's D-Tector.
"Huh?"
"You are right, Takuya can fusion evolve as long as he have both human and beast spirit but it will take a lot of power and he doesn't have enough. He need to have something that will give him power to do it, last time he got it from Seraphymon's egg this time however, one of Sakura's card the one that have the power of fire can give him the power."
"But how am I going to find it if this new enemy got it?" Takuya asked.
"You won't need to find it, it will come when you need it the most since you are the one that possess the power of fire."
"Okay, then I guess we should be going now, bye guys. See you all later, I hope," with that the two groups split up into two different direction.
ENDOFCHAPTEREIGHT