Emerald Danger
"Behind us: Trees. Before us: Rock City. Beyond that: Mighty Big Hill. WHEN IS OUR LIFE GOING TO GET ANY BETTER?" Violet screamed at no one in particular.
Mary was the only one who plugged her ears in time. The rest of them were half-deafened by the scream. Steve seriously considered slapping her several times. He lifted his hand slightly, but Snowmon muttered, "Don't Steve. It's not worth the effort."
They continued forwards, towards, as Violet put it, Rock City. Actually, it was a bunch of rocks that were various sizes, with a rough path running between them, but Rock City was a reasonable description. The group trudged along, each one of them thinking their separate thoughts.
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The thing watched them and gave a slight chuckle. It sounded like a cross between a mud-monster's and a series of clicks. Those digidestined were so foolish. It was only luck that had got them this far in the first place. Luck, and the stupidity of the Digimon they had already faced. Well, this time it was going to be different.
He considered his plan: to pretend to be one of the group, then destroy them in their sleep. It lacked challenge, but then they would be out of his data forever. Another chuckle emerged, slowly becoming a cruel, evil laugh.
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Mary firmly sat down next to a rock that gave some shade, "I'm not taking another step. I'm too tired." As if to prove her point, she stifled a yawn.
Violet smirked, "Lazybones. Come on, it's not THAT far to the end."
"Yes it is."
"No it isn't."
"Yes it is."
"No it isn't."
"Yes it is."
"Yes it is."
"No it isn't." Suddenly Mary clapped a hand over her mouth.
Violet pulled her to her feet, "There, you've said it yourself. Now, onward, woman!"
The shorthaired girl dragged her friend past the boys, and carried on pulling her until they suddenly disappeared behind a large rock. Steve grasped the straps of his rucksack, "Come on, we'd best catch up with them."
The three boys sprinted after them, Mike holding Firepentmon. When they caught up with the girls, they were at the end of `Rock City`. Violet was muttering something to Mary, and the two of them kept laughing. Steve cleared his throat, "What's so funny?"
The two of them looked up guiltily. Violet gave a nervous grin, "Oh, nothing. Just...discussing the differences between Seasons 1 and 2, that's all."
Mike looked at them with a look that clearly said `Yeah, I really believe you`. However, before he could say anything, John pointed to the top of the hill.
"Am I the only one who can see something up there?" he asked. They all looked up. The sunlight glinted off something silvery, with purple above it. Streaks of gold passed around the purple.
Mike squinted, "Wish I had some binoculars."
Steve shielded his eyes, trying to see better, "Or a telescope."
"You'd burn your eyes."
"No you wouldn't. You would just wait for night, then have a look."
"Only you would think of something as stupid as that."
"And what's that meant to mean?"
By now, the two of them were glaring at each other, fists raised. Violet was about to turn on her see-into-your-soul-look, when Mary tapped her shoulder. She leant over and whispered, "Let me try. Please?"
Violet gave her a strange look, "You think you can stop them?"
"Give me a chance." Violet nodded an `OK`, and Mary gave a loud sigh and said, as loudly as she could, "You'd think they would have learned to keep their fists down when talking to each other, wouldn't you?"
Violet blinked, then she grinned and joined with an equally loud voice, "Yes, you would. I guess they're just babies at heart."
Mary suddenly switched to a granny's voice, "Oh, yes, dearie. I remember when all Englishmen got along like old friends."
By then, Steve and Mike had stopped glaring and were staring at the two girls. Mary turned to them and shook a finger at them, still using the granny voice, "Now boys, let bygones be bygones, or else you'll never grow into charming young gentlemen."
Their mouths were hanging open. They never knew Mary could do granny impressions! Violet and John both had hands over their mouths, and stifled laughs came from them.
Five minutes later, no one was laughing. They needed to save all their energy for what they were doing: Climbing up the hill. The huge hill. The gigantic hill. The absolutely colossal hill.
"Did you know that this is the first hill I've ever seen that's huge, gigantic and colossal all at the same time?" Violet managed to gasp. Mary just mimed that the girl needed to save her breath.
They were halfway up when they stopped for a rest. Mary and Violet lay next to each other, saying something like, "Emperors are really important, of COURSE they'd be-" John firmly positioned his hands over his ears. He didn't like the sound of where THAT conversation was going.
Snowmon rammed Steve to one end of the group, and Firepentmon shoved Mike to the other. Now was not the time for arguments.
They were about to start upwards again, when they heard a low growl. Violet muttered, "Oh, goody. Another Digimon wants to start a fight. One of these days, I'm going to snap and start firing martial art moves in all directions."
"Make sure we're hiding behind a rock first," Mary replied.
Suddenly, part of the grass leapt up at John and knocked him down. Once it stopped moving they could see that it wasn't part of the grass, but a Digimon. Its body was the same shape as Sapphiremon and Crystalmon's, except its tail ended in a point with two curved lines coming out of it. Its ears curved around in a perfect circle and a khaki tongue flicked in and out of its mouth. Its entire body was emerald, which was why it had blended in.
John was firmly pinned to the ground, and the Digimon flicked its tongue at him. Its eyes scanned him, and it was hard not to look at them. It snarled, "Here you are. I was looking for you."
Mythicmon flew up behind him, "Mythical Spike!"
The emerald Digimon cried out in pain as the attack hit it, but then it smirked and turned around, "Emerald Earth!"
It blew as hard as he could, and a mass of earth mixed with emeralds shot out. It struck Mythicmon and the bird crashed into the ground.
John, being a sensible young boy, had decided to get as far away from the Digimon as he could. When it had realised he had gone, it snarled, "You may be able to run, but you can't hide. I am Emeraldmon, a fully trained hunter. Once I have sighted my prey, I shoot them down with my Emerald Earth, and none have ever escaped me."
Steve shook his head; "This gets better and better."
Emeraldmon turned around to face John, "And now, let's be going." John stepped away, and his digivice began to glow.
"Mythicmon digivolve to Phoenixomon!"
The giant bird Digimon swooped down, and Emeraldmon only just ducked in time. He leapt at John, pinned him to the ground again, and said, calmly, "Attack and your friend says bye-bye."
Phoenixomon hovered, not knowing what to do. He didn't want John to die, but if he didn't do something, his digidestined was going to be kidnapped!
Suddenly, something crashed into Emeraldmon, knocking him off John. The thing ended up rolling slightly down the hill with the Digimon, but they crashed into an appropriately placed rock.
Snowmon was about to say something to Steve when he realised his digidestined wasn't there. He ran to where he could see the rock, and saw Emeraldmon and Steve glaring at each other. Emeraldmon bared his teeth and sprang at the boy, but his target ducked and the Digimon carried on going. When he hit the ground, he suddenly vanished.
Steve stood up and peered at the place where the Digimon had been, but he couldn't see anything. Then Emeraldmon sprang out of the grass beside him and knocked him back against the rock. Phoenixomon swooped down, "Phoenix Fire!"
"Emerald Earth!"
Mary was staring at them, and then she heard the sound of typing and turned around. John was typing feverishly on his laptop, and didn't seemed to notice when Mary asked what he was doing.
She peeked over his shoulder and saw a picture of the hill. As she watched, a purple light began to emerge from the top of it and form itself into the crest of Knowledge.
Mary pointed at it, "What in the world...I mean, what in the Digiworld is that?"
He finally noticed her, "I've been setting up a program that can help us find our crests, only it took a longer time that I thought. Anyway, according to this, my crest is at the top of this hill."
"In case you haven't noticed, we are fighting a Digimon intent on capturing you. Now, how are you supposed to go up there and fetch your crest WITHOUT being caught, hmm?" Violet asked, coming up behind them.
"Our Digimon can distract him, isn't it obvious?"
"To you it is, but you haven't seen the way he's fighting. He's positioned himself so that he's always facing you," Violet replied, looking over at the Digimon.
"Then we just have to get a Digimon to get us up to the top as fast as possible."
Mary knelt next to him, "While you were typing away, our Digimon all digivolved to champions. They're fighting him with all their strength, and they're barely holding him back. Tigermon isn't helping much either."
John looked up at Violet, and raised an eyebrow. She sighed, "OK, OK, I get the picture."
She placed one hand over her digivice, "Violet digimorph to Moondramon!"
John folded up his computer and climbed on. Emeraldmon saw them, and he was about to leap when Moondramon soared into the sky, away from him.
She flew just above the treetops, saving her energy in case she was needed. As they neared the top, the purple light that they had seen from the bottom began to grow brighter and brighter.
As they reached the top, the light washed over them, turning Moondramon's scales purple. She smiled as she swooped in to land, "Thankyou for choosing Dragon Airways for all your travel needs. We hope to see you again. Goodbye now, goodbye, goodbye now."
John slid off her back, and stepped towards the centre of the light. He could see some kind of square stone, with a point at the top, covered in moss and strange writing. Rays of golden light burst from the top, surrounding the purple light. The boy walked as close as he dared. In the centre of the light, he could just about see the crest of Knowledge. He removed his tag and held it out.
All the purple light formed a sort of sphere around the crest. Then it rushed towards the tag and enveloped it. For a moment, it looked as though John was shooting out purple light from his hand. Then it faded, as did the gold. Inside his tag was the crest of Knowledge.
There was silence. Then a beam of purple light shot out of the crest and down the hill. Moondramon picked him up by the T-shirt as gently as she could, put him on her back and flew down.
The light carried on down. Moondramon flapped her wings as hard as she could, and they raced down the hill. When the light reached the battle, it sped towards Emeraldmon and went straight through him. He screamed, and then he dissolved.
Moondramon landed, and John slid off. She shook herself, and then she shrank back down to an exhausted Violet. The girl panted, "I have got to stop doing that!"
Everyone's attention was focused on somewhere that wasn't the ground. No one saw the red shape streaking through the foliage, until it was too late. Suddenly, Snowmon let out a yelp as something tugged him away from the digidestined. A moment later, he was being dragged down the hill at a terrific speed.
He screamed, "STEVE!" Immediately the thing stuck a ruby-red hand over his mouth. Before it could fall, it leapt onto a waiting dragon Digimon. It sprang into the air, and the sun reflected off its red and gold scales.
Steve stood there, helpless. It had happened so fast, he hadn't done anything. Then he ran to where the dragon had been and yelled, "SNOWMON!"
WHY HAS THE DIGIMON KIDNAPPED SNOWMON? AND WILL THE DIGIDESTINED BE ABLE TO RESCUE HIM? FIND OUT ON THE NEXT DIGIMON: DIGITAL MONSTERS!
Author's Note: MWAH HAH HAH HAH HAH! That has to be one of my best cliff- hangers EVER! And as for Mary and Violet's discussion... Er, I don't think people with relatively clean minds would want to know. Also, can I say that the kidnapper WAS going to get onto an Icedramon, but I've decided that he's a fire-type. A fire-type on an ice-type. Ouch.
DIGIMON DOESN'T BELONG TO ME!!!!! I KEEP SAYING THIS BUT APPARENTLY I MUST DO IT AGAIN!!! THE DAY IT DOES BELONG TO ME HUMANS WILL ALL DIE AT EXACTLY THE SAME TIME AND THE ANTS WILL TAKE OVER!!!!! #Pause# That's a very disturbing mental image...
P.S. Alan, Mary DOESN'T have two partners now. That's part of the whole cliff-hanger! And next episode sees the first of their Digimon going to Ultimate, so just review and I'll see what I can do to bring it out as soon as possible! THAT GOES FOR EVERYONE ELSE TOO!!!!
"Behind us: Trees. Before us: Rock City. Beyond that: Mighty Big Hill. WHEN IS OUR LIFE GOING TO GET ANY BETTER?" Violet screamed at no one in particular.
Mary was the only one who plugged her ears in time. The rest of them were half-deafened by the scream. Steve seriously considered slapping her several times. He lifted his hand slightly, but Snowmon muttered, "Don't Steve. It's not worth the effort."
They continued forwards, towards, as Violet put it, Rock City. Actually, it was a bunch of rocks that were various sizes, with a rough path running between them, but Rock City was a reasonable description. The group trudged along, each one of them thinking their separate thoughts.
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The thing watched them and gave a slight chuckle. It sounded like a cross between a mud-monster's and a series of clicks. Those digidestined were so foolish. It was only luck that had got them this far in the first place. Luck, and the stupidity of the Digimon they had already faced. Well, this time it was going to be different.
He considered his plan: to pretend to be one of the group, then destroy them in their sleep. It lacked challenge, but then they would be out of his data forever. Another chuckle emerged, slowly becoming a cruel, evil laugh.
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Mary firmly sat down next to a rock that gave some shade, "I'm not taking another step. I'm too tired." As if to prove her point, she stifled a yawn.
Violet smirked, "Lazybones. Come on, it's not THAT far to the end."
"Yes it is."
"No it isn't."
"Yes it is."
"No it isn't."
"Yes it is."
"Yes it is."
"No it isn't." Suddenly Mary clapped a hand over her mouth.
Violet pulled her to her feet, "There, you've said it yourself. Now, onward, woman!"
The shorthaired girl dragged her friend past the boys, and carried on pulling her until they suddenly disappeared behind a large rock. Steve grasped the straps of his rucksack, "Come on, we'd best catch up with them."
The three boys sprinted after them, Mike holding Firepentmon. When they caught up with the girls, they were at the end of `Rock City`. Violet was muttering something to Mary, and the two of them kept laughing. Steve cleared his throat, "What's so funny?"
The two of them looked up guiltily. Violet gave a nervous grin, "Oh, nothing. Just...discussing the differences between Seasons 1 and 2, that's all."
Mike looked at them with a look that clearly said `Yeah, I really believe you`. However, before he could say anything, John pointed to the top of the hill.
"Am I the only one who can see something up there?" he asked. They all looked up. The sunlight glinted off something silvery, with purple above it. Streaks of gold passed around the purple.
Mike squinted, "Wish I had some binoculars."
Steve shielded his eyes, trying to see better, "Or a telescope."
"You'd burn your eyes."
"No you wouldn't. You would just wait for night, then have a look."
"Only you would think of something as stupid as that."
"And what's that meant to mean?"
By now, the two of them were glaring at each other, fists raised. Violet was about to turn on her see-into-your-soul-look, when Mary tapped her shoulder. She leant over and whispered, "Let me try. Please?"
Violet gave her a strange look, "You think you can stop them?"
"Give me a chance." Violet nodded an `OK`, and Mary gave a loud sigh and said, as loudly as she could, "You'd think they would have learned to keep their fists down when talking to each other, wouldn't you?"
Violet blinked, then she grinned and joined with an equally loud voice, "Yes, you would. I guess they're just babies at heart."
Mary suddenly switched to a granny's voice, "Oh, yes, dearie. I remember when all Englishmen got along like old friends."
By then, Steve and Mike had stopped glaring and were staring at the two girls. Mary turned to them and shook a finger at them, still using the granny voice, "Now boys, let bygones be bygones, or else you'll never grow into charming young gentlemen."
Their mouths were hanging open. They never knew Mary could do granny impressions! Violet and John both had hands over their mouths, and stifled laughs came from them.
Five minutes later, no one was laughing. They needed to save all their energy for what they were doing: Climbing up the hill. The huge hill. The gigantic hill. The absolutely colossal hill.
"Did you know that this is the first hill I've ever seen that's huge, gigantic and colossal all at the same time?" Violet managed to gasp. Mary just mimed that the girl needed to save her breath.
They were halfway up when they stopped for a rest. Mary and Violet lay next to each other, saying something like, "Emperors are really important, of COURSE they'd be-" John firmly positioned his hands over his ears. He didn't like the sound of where THAT conversation was going.
Snowmon rammed Steve to one end of the group, and Firepentmon shoved Mike to the other. Now was not the time for arguments.
They were about to start upwards again, when they heard a low growl. Violet muttered, "Oh, goody. Another Digimon wants to start a fight. One of these days, I'm going to snap and start firing martial art moves in all directions."
"Make sure we're hiding behind a rock first," Mary replied.
Suddenly, part of the grass leapt up at John and knocked him down. Once it stopped moving they could see that it wasn't part of the grass, but a Digimon. Its body was the same shape as Sapphiremon and Crystalmon's, except its tail ended in a point with two curved lines coming out of it. Its ears curved around in a perfect circle and a khaki tongue flicked in and out of its mouth. Its entire body was emerald, which was why it had blended in.
John was firmly pinned to the ground, and the Digimon flicked its tongue at him. Its eyes scanned him, and it was hard not to look at them. It snarled, "Here you are. I was looking for you."
Mythicmon flew up behind him, "Mythical Spike!"
The emerald Digimon cried out in pain as the attack hit it, but then it smirked and turned around, "Emerald Earth!"
It blew as hard as he could, and a mass of earth mixed with emeralds shot out. It struck Mythicmon and the bird crashed into the ground.
John, being a sensible young boy, had decided to get as far away from the Digimon as he could. When it had realised he had gone, it snarled, "You may be able to run, but you can't hide. I am Emeraldmon, a fully trained hunter. Once I have sighted my prey, I shoot them down with my Emerald Earth, and none have ever escaped me."
Steve shook his head; "This gets better and better."
Emeraldmon turned around to face John, "And now, let's be going." John stepped away, and his digivice began to glow.
"Mythicmon digivolve to Phoenixomon!"
The giant bird Digimon swooped down, and Emeraldmon only just ducked in time. He leapt at John, pinned him to the ground again, and said, calmly, "Attack and your friend says bye-bye."
Phoenixomon hovered, not knowing what to do. He didn't want John to die, but if he didn't do something, his digidestined was going to be kidnapped!
Suddenly, something crashed into Emeraldmon, knocking him off John. The thing ended up rolling slightly down the hill with the Digimon, but they crashed into an appropriately placed rock.
Snowmon was about to say something to Steve when he realised his digidestined wasn't there. He ran to where he could see the rock, and saw Emeraldmon and Steve glaring at each other. Emeraldmon bared his teeth and sprang at the boy, but his target ducked and the Digimon carried on going. When he hit the ground, he suddenly vanished.
Steve stood up and peered at the place where the Digimon had been, but he couldn't see anything. Then Emeraldmon sprang out of the grass beside him and knocked him back against the rock. Phoenixomon swooped down, "Phoenix Fire!"
"Emerald Earth!"
Mary was staring at them, and then she heard the sound of typing and turned around. John was typing feverishly on his laptop, and didn't seemed to notice when Mary asked what he was doing.
She peeked over his shoulder and saw a picture of the hill. As she watched, a purple light began to emerge from the top of it and form itself into the crest of Knowledge.
Mary pointed at it, "What in the world...I mean, what in the Digiworld is that?"
He finally noticed her, "I've been setting up a program that can help us find our crests, only it took a longer time that I thought. Anyway, according to this, my crest is at the top of this hill."
"In case you haven't noticed, we are fighting a Digimon intent on capturing you. Now, how are you supposed to go up there and fetch your crest WITHOUT being caught, hmm?" Violet asked, coming up behind them.
"Our Digimon can distract him, isn't it obvious?"
"To you it is, but you haven't seen the way he's fighting. He's positioned himself so that he's always facing you," Violet replied, looking over at the Digimon.
"Then we just have to get a Digimon to get us up to the top as fast as possible."
Mary knelt next to him, "While you were typing away, our Digimon all digivolved to champions. They're fighting him with all their strength, and they're barely holding him back. Tigermon isn't helping much either."
John looked up at Violet, and raised an eyebrow. She sighed, "OK, OK, I get the picture."
She placed one hand over her digivice, "Violet digimorph to Moondramon!"
John folded up his computer and climbed on. Emeraldmon saw them, and he was about to leap when Moondramon soared into the sky, away from him.
She flew just above the treetops, saving her energy in case she was needed. As they neared the top, the purple light that they had seen from the bottom began to grow brighter and brighter.
As they reached the top, the light washed over them, turning Moondramon's scales purple. She smiled as she swooped in to land, "Thankyou for choosing Dragon Airways for all your travel needs. We hope to see you again. Goodbye now, goodbye, goodbye now."
John slid off her back, and stepped towards the centre of the light. He could see some kind of square stone, with a point at the top, covered in moss and strange writing. Rays of golden light burst from the top, surrounding the purple light. The boy walked as close as he dared. In the centre of the light, he could just about see the crest of Knowledge. He removed his tag and held it out.
All the purple light formed a sort of sphere around the crest. Then it rushed towards the tag and enveloped it. For a moment, it looked as though John was shooting out purple light from his hand. Then it faded, as did the gold. Inside his tag was the crest of Knowledge.
There was silence. Then a beam of purple light shot out of the crest and down the hill. Moondramon picked him up by the T-shirt as gently as she could, put him on her back and flew down.
The light carried on down. Moondramon flapped her wings as hard as she could, and they raced down the hill. When the light reached the battle, it sped towards Emeraldmon and went straight through him. He screamed, and then he dissolved.
Moondramon landed, and John slid off. She shook herself, and then she shrank back down to an exhausted Violet. The girl panted, "I have got to stop doing that!"
Everyone's attention was focused on somewhere that wasn't the ground. No one saw the red shape streaking through the foliage, until it was too late. Suddenly, Snowmon let out a yelp as something tugged him away from the digidestined. A moment later, he was being dragged down the hill at a terrific speed.
He screamed, "STEVE!" Immediately the thing stuck a ruby-red hand over his mouth. Before it could fall, it leapt onto a waiting dragon Digimon. It sprang into the air, and the sun reflected off its red and gold scales.
Steve stood there, helpless. It had happened so fast, he hadn't done anything. Then he ran to where the dragon had been and yelled, "SNOWMON!"
WHY HAS THE DIGIMON KIDNAPPED SNOWMON? AND WILL THE DIGIDESTINED BE ABLE TO RESCUE HIM? FIND OUT ON THE NEXT DIGIMON: DIGITAL MONSTERS!
Author's Note: MWAH HAH HAH HAH HAH! That has to be one of my best cliff- hangers EVER! And as for Mary and Violet's discussion... Er, I don't think people with relatively clean minds would want to know. Also, can I say that the kidnapper WAS going to get onto an Icedramon, but I've decided that he's a fire-type. A fire-type on an ice-type. Ouch.
DIGIMON DOESN'T BELONG TO ME!!!!! I KEEP SAYING THIS BUT APPARENTLY I MUST DO IT AGAIN!!! THE DAY IT DOES BELONG TO ME HUMANS WILL ALL DIE AT EXACTLY THE SAME TIME AND THE ANTS WILL TAKE OVER!!!!! #Pause# That's a very disturbing mental image...
P.S. Alan, Mary DOESN'T have two partners now. That's part of the whole cliff-hanger! And next episode sees the first of their Digimon going to Ultimate, so just review and I'll see what I can do to bring it out as soon as possible! THAT GOES FOR EVERYONE ELSE TOO!!!!