Time Warp Ch.4 Artemis and the Huntress
Kathy woke up, blinking awake. "Hey." Another girl with blonde hair, wearing a pink hat and a blue and white shirt leaned over her. "Think you can get up? We've got a lot to do today!"
"I think so." Kathy sat up. She and the girl were not the only ones in this cave. AeroRaidramon had rolled onto her stomach, and was kicking her paws in the air in her sleep. A boy with dirty blonde hair, wearing a floppy baseball hat and a jacket was carefully grinding out the fire. A second boy with long black hair, wearing a bandana and a blue jacket was straightening his clothes out. The third male in the group was big and fat and wore a blue and white work jumper and boots. The final human member of the group was no older than Rina had been when she and Kathy had traveled through the digital world. He wore an orange hat, a t-shirt, and shorts.
And with them were two other rookie digimon. One of them looked like an orange rabbit wearing pants, and he didn't seem to be paying attention to much of anything. And the last of them... A lump came to Kathy's throat as she remembered her friend Scribemon and all that had happened to him. Bokumon wouldn't recognize her in this timeline.
"I'm Kathy. My spirit is DryadArbormon." She said with a smile, extending a hand to them.
Introductions were quickly made. Kathy Dedigivolved AeroRaidramon and hefted her backpack and her guitar. She sheathed her sword, slipping the strap for it under her guitar. "Let's go."
~about midmorning~
"Wow!" Takuya exclaimed. "Talk about a megalith!"
They faced an enormous statue of a dragon, made entirely of metal. Metal? Kathy gently ran her hands over the statue. Sure enough, she found an engraving of the sign for Steel. "This statue contains the spirit of steel. Gigasmon will have to come through here. And since Mercurymon has already been released, he needs to come here to get his beast spirit." She grinned.
"So what does this have to do with anything?" Takuya asked.
"SO, we can stage an ambush!" Kathy grinned. "If we're lucky we'll catch at least one of them!"
"And how?" Junpei challenged.
They were interrupted by a lovely siren voice singing.
"'cause when I see you!
In spite of all that we've become
I'm still blinded!
Its like I'm staring down the sun!"
Kathy shushed him. She took her Force three in her mouth and grabbed her sword, shedding all her gear. Then she motioned for Bokumon, Kouji, and Takuya to drop low, stay quiet, and follow her. They crept over to the pool where the voice was coming from.
Ranamon, sublimely unaware that she was being stalked, bathed happily in the forest spring, butt naked. Kathy smirked, shifting her D-3 into her left hand, she put she sword down and pulled a tiny strip of paper, an ofuda, from her cargo pocket. Finally, she crouched on the ground and slipped into the pool without a sound.
Kathy, swimming up to her under the water. She grabbed Ranamon's ass, before glomping her around the neck. "Gotcha!"
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!" Ranamon screeched. "RAPE! AMBUSH! ASSAULT! TRAVESTY!"
Kathy cut her off by slapping the ofuda on her face. "Nighty night! Don't let the Kathy bugs bite!" Then she held up her D-3, "Duplicate Fractal Code! Digitize!" Ranamon collapsed. "Quick! We've got our bait! Mercurymon LOVES Ranamon to death!"
When Ranamon woke up she was tied to the Dragon Statue. "What the fucking bloody hell?" She demanded.
"Language!" Tommy, spirit evolved, chastised.
"I told you we'd get her!" Kathy grinned. "Now Mercurymon will come to the dame's rescue and if we're lucky the presence of a beast spirit will lure Gigasmon. Then we'll get Zoe's spirit back and the Master's Fractal Code too!"
"Look you lesbo!" Ranamon shouted at her. "If you lay so much as one hand on me I'll bite it!"
"I was teasing you Ranamon!" Kathy grinned. "Can't you take a joke?"
"NO I CAN'T NOW LET ME GO!" Ranamon shrieked.
"I'd advise you do as the Lady says." Mercurymon said, standing on a Tree Branch above the statue.
"There's Robin Hood, I wonder where the Merry Men are." Kathy grinned.
"Why should we?" Kouji asked.
"Because the alternative is we kill you!" Gigasmon grinned, coming up from the Earth.
"Try it!" Kathy smirked. She hefted her sword. "Let's get ready to rumble!"
"You will regret your impudence human!" Mercurymon snarled at her.
Kathy gripped her sword lightly, then fell into a lunge. Mercurymon parried it off of his shield. Advance, thrust, advance, thrust, parry, thrust! Mercurymon blocked all of her attacks.
Gigasmon charged Takuya and Kouji. Kouji met the attack head on, stopping the charge in its tracks. Agunimon/Takuya, thoroughly in the moment, jumped up and landed on Gigasmon's head. "Pyro tornado!" He blasted downward, being flung through the air. He came down on Mercurymon's head with a vicious kick. Mercurymon flung him back.
"Takuya! Fire melts steel!" Kathy called.
"Pyrotornado!" Takuya threw every ounce of power into the attack.
"Generous mirror!" Mercurymon deflected the attack. It blew past Takuya, barely missing his head.
But he had turned his back to Kathy. "ARBOR SHARD!"
"OW!" Mercurymon flicked it away.
"It... it didn't do anything!" Kathy gasped.
"Of course it wouldn't." Mercurymon sneered. "Steel cuts wood!"
"But this would! Benten's ire!" AeroRaidramon growled, shooting white lightning at Mercurymon.
Mercurymon took the blow head on. "Generous Mirror!" Mercurymon diffused the blast, but it weakened him.
His back was to Takuya. "PYROTORNADO!" Mercurymon jumped out of the way. AeroRaidramon followed him into the air.
Meanwhile, Gigasmon, Kouji, and Junpei were moving so fast that it was hard to track who did what! "GIVE ME BACK ZOE'S SPIRIT!" Junpei shouted.
"NO! IT MINE!" Gigasmon stomped his foot, shaking the ground a bit.
"OH NO IT'S NOT!" Tommy changed into ice, then shot at Gigasmon, a barrage of crystal shards. Gigasmon screamed, then choked, spitting out Zoe's spirit.
Zoe reclaimed her spirit and Tommy reformed. "EXECUTE! SPIRIT EVOLUTION... KAZEMON!"
But elsewhere, Mercurymon was thoroughly holding his own. Agunimon and DryadArbormon were weakening. Mercurymon raised his shield to bring one last blow on Kathy's back. //I'm sorry master...// Kathy heard a scream, and then blackness...
~notes~
How'd you like it? Lots of action huh?
I got the idea for Ranamon bathing in the spring from the legend of Artemis bathing in the spring. It's the one where a hunter catches her bathing and she changes him into a stag, to be chased by hounds and ripped apart.
And the whole song by Sugar Ray? There's a part in that where the main character walks in on his girlfriend when she's getting out of the shower! So I thought that would be a lot better than "Hot in here," or something Chingy, which is what I wanted to use first.
Kathy woke up, blinking awake. "Hey." Another girl with blonde hair, wearing a pink hat and a blue and white shirt leaned over her. "Think you can get up? We've got a lot to do today!"
"I think so." Kathy sat up. She and the girl were not the only ones in this cave. AeroRaidramon had rolled onto her stomach, and was kicking her paws in the air in her sleep. A boy with dirty blonde hair, wearing a floppy baseball hat and a jacket was carefully grinding out the fire. A second boy with long black hair, wearing a bandana and a blue jacket was straightening his clothes out. The third male in the group was big and fat and wore a blue and white work jumper and boots. The final human member of the group was no older than Rina had been when she and Kathy had traveled through the digital world. He wore an orange hat, a t-shirt, and shorts.
And with them were two other rookie digimon. One of them looked like an orange rabbit wearing pants, and he didn't seem to be paying attention to much of anything. And the last of them... A lump came to Kathy's throat as she remembered her friend Scribemon and all that had happened to him. Bokumon wouldn't recognize her in this timeline.
"I'm Kathy. My spirit is DryadArbormon." She said with a smile, extending a hand to them.
Introductions were quickly made. Kathy Dedigivolved AeroRaidramon and hefted her backpack and her guitar. She sheathed her sword, slipping the strap for it under her guitar. "Let's go."
~about midmorning~
"Wow!" Takuya exclaimed. "Talk about a megalith!"
They faced an enormous statue of a dragon, made entirely of metal. Metal? Kathy gently ran her hands over the statue. Sure enough, she found an engraving of the sign for Steel. "This statue contains the spirit of steel. Gigasmon will have to come through here. And since Mercurymon has already been released, he needs to come here to get his beast spirit." She grinned.
"So what does this have to do with anything?" Takuya asked.
"SO, we can stage an ambush!" Kathy grinned. "If we're lucky we'll catch at least one of them!"
"And how?" Junpei challenged.
They were interrupted by a lovely siren voice singing.
"'cause when I see you!
In spite of all that we've become
I'm still blinded!
Its like I'm staring down the sun!"
Kathy shushed him. She took her Force three in her mouth and grabbed her sword, shedding all her gear. Then she motioned for Bokumon, Kouji, and Takuya to drop low, stay quiet, and follow her. They crept over to the pool where the voice was coming from.
Ranamon, sublimely unaware that she was being stalked, bathed happily in the forest spring, butt naked. Kathy smirked, shifting her D-3 into her left hand, she put she sword down and pulled a tiny strip of paper, an ofuda, from her cargo pocket. Finally, she crouched on the ground and slipped into the pool without a sound.
Kathy, swimming up to her under the water. She grabbed Ranamon's ass, before glomping her around the neck. "Gotcha!"
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!" Ranamon screeched. "RAPE! AMBUSH! ASSAULT! TRAVESTY!"
Kathy cut her off by slapping the ofuda on her face. "Nighty night! Don't let the Kathy bugs bite!" Then she held up her D-3, "Duplicate Fractal Code! Digitize!" Ranamon collapsed. "Quick! We've got our bait! Mercurymon LOVES Ranamon to death!"
When Ranamon woke up she was tied to the Dragon Statue. "What the fucking bloody hell?" She demanded.
"Language!" Tommy, spirit evolved, chastised.
"I told you we'd get her!" Kathy grinned. "Now Mercurymon will come to the dame's rescue and if we're lucky the presence of a beast spirit will lure Gigasmon. Then we'll get Zoe's spirit back and the Master's Fractal Code too!"
"Look you lesbo!" Ranamon shouted at her. "If you lay so much as one hand on me I'll bite it!"
"I was teasing you Ranamon!" Kathy grinned. "Can't you take a joke?"
"NO I CAN'T NOW LET ME GO!" Ranamon shrieked.
"I'd advise you do as the Lady says." Mercurymon said, standing on a Tree Branch above the statue.
"There's Robin Hood, I wonder where the Merry Men are." Kathy grinned.
"Why should we?" Kouji asked.
"Because the alternative is we kill you!" Gigasmon grinned, coming up from the Earth.
"Try it!" Kathy smirked. She hefted her sword. "Let's get ready to rumble!"
"You will regret your impudence human!" Mercurymon snarled at her.
Kathy gripped her sword lightly, then fell into a lunge. Mercurymon parried it off of his shield. Advance, thrust, advance, thrust, parry, thrust! Mercurymon blocked all of her attacks.
Gigasmon charged Takuya and Kouji. Kouji met the attack head on, stopping the charge in its tracks. Agunimon/Takuya, thoroughly in the moment, jumped up and landed on Gigasmon's head. "Pyro tornado!" He blasted downward, being flung through the air. He came down on Mercurymon's head with a vicious kick. Mercurymon flung him back.
"Takuya! Fire melts steel!" Kathy called.
"Pyrotornado!" Takuya threw every ounce of power into the attack.
"Generous mirror!" Mercurymon deflected the attack. It blew past Takuya, barely missing his head.
But he had turned his back to Kathy. "ARBOR SHARD!"
"OW!" Mercurymon flicked it away.
"It... it didn't do anything!" Kathy gasped.
"Of course it wouldn't." Mercurymon sneered. "Steel cuts wood!"
"But this would! Benten's ire!" AeroRaidramon growled, shooting white lightning at Mercurymon.
Mercurymon took the blow head on. "Generous Mirror!" Mercurymon diffused the blast, but it weakened him.
His back was to Takuya. "PYROTORNADO!" Mercurymon jumped out of the way. AeroRaidramon followed him into the air.
Meanwhile, Gigasmon, Kouji, and Junpei were moving so fast that it was hard to track who did what! "GIVE ME BACK ZOE'S SPIRIT!" Junpei shouted.
"NO! IT MINE!" Gigasmon stomped his foot, shaking the ground a bit.
"OH NO IT'S NOT!" Tommy changed into ice, then shot at Gigasmon, a barrage of crystal shards. Gigasmon screamed, then choked, spitting out Zoe's spirit.
Zoe reclaimed her spirit and Tommy reformed. "EXECUTE! SPIRIT EVOLUTION... KAZEMON!"
But elsewhere, Mercurymon was thoroughly holding his own. Agunimon and DryadArbormon were weakening. Mercurymon raised his shield to bring one last blow on Kathy's back. //I'm sorry master...// Kathy heard a scream, and then blackness...
~notes~
How'd you like it? Lots of action huh?
I got the idea for Ranamon bathing in the spring from the legend of Artemis bathing in the spring. It's the one where a hunter catches her bathing and she changes him into a stag, to be chased by hounds and ripped apart.
And the whole song by Sugar Ray? There's a part in that where the main character walks in on his girlfriend when she's getting out of the shower! So I thought that would be a lot better than "Hot in here," or something Chingy, which is what I wanted to use first.