Digimon: Fusion Chapter 5: The Sky Village, a digimon fanfic

Well, last time I checked TOEI still owns Digimon... So we get Digimon Battle Spirit 2, big deal, Nate made their Digimon MMORPG go into P2P! *sigh*
If you never heard about that MMORPG before, well, don't try finding it...

Alan, Reilmon, Chris and Thiemon are characters made by me. Michael and Nagmon are property of Michael. Kina Yamakai and Katzemon are property of Kae-chan. Gentatsu and Arumon are from Christian, and that's pretty much all for the ownership thingy...

Note, I use the Japanese names for the stages, which go from Child, Adult, Perfection and Ultimate. The US are Rookie, Champion, Ultimate and Mega just so you know, so don't get confused...

By the way, I'm quite sure the way I portray some enemy attacks are wrong, but I've never seen those particular attacks in action and that's how I pictured them... Anyway, on with the story.

Digimon: Fusion - Chapter 5 - The Sky Village
I know you waited quite a while for this and I'm sorry, hope you all are still around.

Perhaps the Prophecy might have helped, or maybe it just confused them more than before. Whichever might have been the case they decided to end the day early by taking up to Ophanimon's offer. The sun shined down at the group through the crystal windows in the room, although no one noticed it, save for Michael, who stirred in sleep, and then decided to wake up.

The room was quite simple, various beds, in fact 10, made most of the room, the crystal-stained windows making the sun shine in different colors inside the room had a nice touch, and oddly enough, these rooms escaped devastation from the attack of the FlaWizardmon the day before. Michael just stepped out not really looking if the rest were asleep or not. On the end of the corridor a double door lay open, making it able to see at a balcony out there and the whole meadow. Michael stepped out and supported himself in the ceramic hand-rail as the wind rusted his hair and clothing.

"Morning" greeted from behind. Michael turned around to find not only Chris, but Ophanimon as well sitting on chairs around a table.

"Morning, didn't saw you there..." greeted back Michael, stepping closer to them.

"Chris and I were just discussing the Prophecy, trying to look for any insights as to your next move" explained Ophanimon, Michael nodded and sat down besides them.

"Is there anything that could make our journey easier perhaps?" asked Michael.

"There are a couple of objects called Cores, hence the D-Core. They are basically an add-on to it that unleashes greater powers and could help your partners to evolve further. Of course, should it fall on evil hands..." Ophanimon trailed off.

"And where can we find them?" asked Chris this time.

"The locations are unknown, no one has ever seen them. It is said the holder of that particular Core should be able to feel it, and his or her D-Core should help"

"So for now it's best to just explore the area in hopes of finding them..." added another voice just entering the balcony.

"That would be the wiser choice, Alan..." Ophanimon agreed.

"How long were you there?" asked Michael, barely pointing to the other side of the door.

"Just enough to hear Ophanimon's comment... I just took a wild guess..." and he grinned, then looked around. The sky was clear, thus allowing the sun to hit directly into the dorms, the wind swayed lightly.

"We should head for the Sky Village in the Arched Trees then..." added no one in particular and then a small screen of smoke swirled around and Thiemon appeared from it, basically kneeling down, she then got up and took seat next to her partner.

"Perhaps, you might be able to find a clue in there..." added Ophanimon.

"It's still a little early though... We have to wait for the rest to wake up... Not to mention we haven't ate something in a while..." added Alan then.

"Don't worry about the food, after the rest of your friends wake up I shall prepare a small banquet for you..." offered Ophanimon as she smiled.

"Thanks" answered back the rest in unison, they all got up then. Ophanimon returned to her 'office'. Alan just went to the edge of the balcony and looked in the distance, catching a glimpse of the Archer Trees, Michael went inside, Chris and Thiemon stood in the other side of the balcony. A small yawn from the inside caught Alan's attention, and just as he though a rather large vulpine and red figure stood besides him.

"Morning" both greeted at the same time. And both just looked into the distance, as the wind rusted their hair and fur respectively. After a while Nagmon had also woken up, and after asking around he followed Michael in Ophanimon's office. Gentatsu and Arumon followed a little later, and both also joined the rest outside, who filled him on what just happened. However Kina nor Katzemon woke up at any moment. At one point Ophanimon had left the building to the balcony to announce their 'small' breakfast was over. Chris decided to wake up Kina, and so Thiemon followed, the rest went downstairs to the ruined lobby to wait.

Chris and Thiemon entered the dorms, where Kina laid asleep and Katzemon too to one side. Chris managed to wake up Kina by just swaying her. Katzemon however almost rips an arm from Thiemon should she not have her good reflexes, she then hissed and after realizing what just happened and that it was Thiemon in front of her she just mewed in apology, Thiemon scowled. They went down then while they explained the previous events.

Dinner was rather uneventful, if you call uneventful loads of pies flying by... But not really, no one really talked, and the only sound was the shaking of glasses, the plates moving, the silverware moving against the plates, you get the idea... And unknown to everyone, each human with his or her partner Digimon was thinking about their line on the Prophecy...

Fire as in courage, for fire is around our hearts,
Light as in honesty, for it will never break your trust
Ice as in friendship, for friendship makes us strong
Air as decision, for is as clear as no one else
And finally, the shadow as in stealth, of shadows can easily hide from every eye.

A long journey was still ahead of them, a long line of battles, new discoveries, sorrows, hardships, but at the moment, no one really cared, they had their next target and had to move. Dinner ended, and everyone thanked Ophanimon but they had to leave.

"Alright, it was good meeting you" Ophanimon said showing her guests to the exit.

"The pleasure was ours, thanks for showing us the Prophecy" answered back Chris.

"Be sure to stay out of trouble, and when in doubt, don't hesitate to visit me..." she ended as she waved at the group walking away, who waved back.

They walked north for a while, the path had stabilized from the hills, and you could already see some trees in the distance. Their enormous size was what made it possible. The walk was as silent as usual, the trees getting closer with every step, in a couple of minutes their massive size was already blocking every ray of light, making the group, or part of it, reminisce about the Forest of Silence.

"Pretty high, but..." started Kina. "How in hell are we going to get up there?!" and as soon as she ended the rest of the humans flinched at the thought of climbing it.

"There is an entrance at the bottom, you have to take a 'couple' set of stairs" answered Thiemon making emphasis in 'couple'. Nagmon muffled a small laugh, when the group they already knew why he had laughed about... He could just fly...

"Oh well... This place hasn't been soft on us, why stop now?" added Alan sarcastically. The rest laughed. After a couple of other jokes coming from the rest of the group.. The humans that's it, they reached the Arched Trees. They took a final glance of the massive tree and gulped hard, very hard then sighed and entered the carved opening in the tree. If it looked so big from the outside, how would it be from the top? The question ran among the humans...

~*~

30 minutes later and 74 sets of stairs with 25 steps each, they reached the top, literally winded up to death, but they reached. Nagmon's wings were aching, but since he couldn't land... In the case of the rest of the Digimons their dexterity allowed them to bounce of the walls ninja-style. But they were tired as well. Taking a deep breath Alan collapsed at the top, quickly followed by Chris, Michael, Kina and even Gentatsu as they gasped hard for breath. The way up was long, the height was too much and the air was stale.

After a couple of seconds they recovered and where up again, the Digimon used the time to sit for a while and rest their legs as well. A couple of seconds later 2 Biyomons approached the group. All looked up to them as they stood there. Chris pulled out her D-Core and scanned the bird Digimon unknown to her. A picture of the bird appeared in the middle in usual fashion. The right branch extended in a sec with the names Spiral Twister, Pecking Attack, Violin Attack and Tubo Pecker. At the bottom the display had the word Biyomon etched in pink color made of what looked like feathers with blue stripes running on some places. The left display showed the Vaccine type and the top displayed some other information. Chris put down her D-Core.

One of them spoke in a feminine voice, "Well, its been quite a while since the last time someone climbed up those stairs, let alone humans!" The other hushed her, and also in a feminine voice, "But lets not keep you here, you obviously look tired from climbing all those stairs," she ended as she moved a little away from the other and extended a wing towards what the humans guessed was the village in the Arched Trees.

They immediately got up and followed both Biyomons through town. A lot of different Digimons roamed the place, it looked pretty much like any human city, but from long times ago, the enormous tree was powerful enough to hold all the stone houses that stood there, a lot of counters in front of most, either the whole town was like this, or this particular place was a market. The crowd noticed the humans but chose not to bother them for now, since they were basically dragging themselves across town.

After a few more turns they left that particular spot of town, showing that the town was more than that. Not so far away a lot more of houses also stood there, the Biyomons led the group to a rather secluded house, the house looked just like all the others, simply perfect for the weary travelers, but a little bigger overall. "You can use this house while you remain in town, no one currently lives here, feel free to rest until you are ready to move or if you want to explore town," said the first Biyomon that had talked earlier, they waved their wings at the group who did the same and the Biyomons stepped away.

All 10 humans and Digimons entered the house, as they gazed through the stone walls. The house was adorned quite nicely, not really like the humans' house back in their world, but they couldn't ask for much, they had been lucky enough to get a place to rest free of charge! Michael and Chris were the first to continue exploring the house, the first room was what looked as the kitchen, they passed an arc and turned left in the intersection and came to another big room, which they easily labeled as the living room. It looked pretty comfortable over all, especially for a nice looking couch in the middle...

Both stood there, then glared at each other for a second before they dashed towards it, both jumped in unison. Unfortunately for Michael, he had chosen the wrong side, Chris landed and was supported by the back of the couch as Michael simply bounced down into the floor, "Damn," he muttered and Chris giggled then simply laid there. Having heard the thud the rest came through, Kina and Gentatsu simply sat on some chairs not from the couch as Michael got up and walked groggily. Alan took the other turn and started going up some stairs, a couple of doors were at the top of the stairs, he opened one and spotted a few beds, he then lazily dragged himself over one and jumped on it. Back downstairs Reilmon looked around trying to spot her partner, she shrugged and quickly vanished, Thiemon caught a glimpse of it.

Reilmon then appeared next to her partner, she looked down at him, then looked behind and let herself fall on another bed as she then rested her legs from all the jumping. Thiemon came up a few seconds later having guessed Reilmon had gone upstairs and into the same room, 2 more beds remained free, she smiled to herself as she walked towards one and plummeted on it. Chris oblivious to her partner disappearance enjoyed the comfy couch downstairs, Michael then went upstairs with Nagmon hovering barely above the floor. At the top he gazed at the open room, but instead opened another, 4 more beds laid there as well, he jumped in on one and Nagmon stopped flapping his wings while he was above another. Back downstairs both cats snagged a cushion form the couch Chris had 'nested' on and each cat curled up on their own cushion. All drifted to sleep...

~*~

A couple of hours later some start to wake up, it was already night, and there wasn't too much light coming from the outside. In the upper floor Thiemon leaves the bed she used, she accidentally hits a bed and the sound it makes is enough to wake the sleeping vixen not far away, she groans at the thief-Digimon as Thiemon smiles sheepishly. Reilmon leaver her bed too, and follows Thiemon down. Chris, Gentatsu and Kina were already up and were talking in a low tone as to not disturb the cat-Digimons. Thiemon sits on the couch next to her partner as she joins in, Reilmon smiles for a second at the 4 and then fades away leaving a rather puzzled group of humans and one Digimon. After a few more minutes Alan stepped down and right behind him Nagmon hovered lazily, "Where's Reilmon?" he asked in a low, groggy voice tone as Nagmon hovered towards the rest of the group, "I think she went out, she just faded," answered Thiemon in a low tone as well.

Alan wondered a sec and headed out. "I think I'm going out for a walk, some fresh air would be good," said Chris as she got up, "Mind any extra company?" asked Thiemon, "Not at all!" answered Chris cheerfully as Thiemon walked with her outside. Just before that Alan had pulled out his D-Core and after pressing some buttons a small radar showed up, a small arrow pointing to his left signaled where Reilmon was, he tucked away the D-Core in his pants' pocket and walked away. Chris and Thiemon had just exited after that, though Chris closed the door a little strongly, she immediately flinched and waited, she heard nothing then walked away with Thiemon.

However both cats were up and on their nerves. They immediately relaxed down and looked around. "I think I'm going to walk around town," said Kina breaking the silence, Katzemon walked towards her, "I think I'll do the same" added Gentatsu as he motioned Arumon to follow, all four stepped out and walked in their own directions. Nagmon still inside was about to fly back upstairs but he noticed Michael coming down, and yawning. "Where is everyone?" he asked, "All just left a while ago to get some air," Nagmon answered. "Sounds great, I could use the walking by now," he said as Nagmon nodded and also followed him out.

~*~

Alan had walked already for a couple of minutes. The darkness didn't helped much overall, after a while he notices a moving object in front of him. Left. Right. Left. Right. Left... He follows the white-moving object for a couple of seconds until he snaps out of it. He finally realizes the object is in fact the white tip of Reilmon's tail. She was lying down in the grass-leaves of the tree looking at the moon as her tail moved lazily. He steps besides her and she hasn't noticed him so far at all.

"You ok?" he asks looking down at his partner as he sits down. Reilmon's head whirls around quickly looking shocked. "Alan! How did- When-" she trails off and starts standing up a little, obviously surprised, she hadn't sensed him at all. She calms down in a second and then lies down again.

"What's on your mind?" Alan asks. "Nothing... Just... Watching the moon..." she trails off as she resumes what she was doing before. Alan wonders a little, "Need to talk about something?" Reilmon looks at him and stammers a little, "I-I-ah..." "You don't have to tell if you don't want to" says Alan cutting her off as he also gazes at the moon, "If you ever need to talk remember I'm always there with you" he adds. Reilmon smiles at him even though she doesn't knows if he saw her, "Thanks," and she too, gazes at the white moon.

A few seconds later a small explosion is heard not far away and both are startled, "What was that?" asked the boy as his D-Core goes wild, the vixen hisses and narrows her eyes, "That was no accident, lets go!" she says as both get up and start running towards the rising smoke direction...

~*~

Chris and Thiemon are walking around the streets near the house they occupied for now, they were pretty silent and the dim light came from the nearby houses flickering into the darkness. Thiemon looks down at her partner and notices she is lost in though. "Something wrong?" she asks snapping Chris away from her thoughts. "Huh? Oh, no, no at all... Just thinking about all this... I guess it's still hard to cope with," she answers back. "You... regret coming here?" Thiemon asks somewhat sad. "Of course not!" Chris quickly replies back, "It's just that it happened so sudden and we have no idea what to do..." she adds.

Thiemon nods, "The answers should come around one of these days, there were a lot of times I didn't knew what would happen either, especially after the Great Battle of Liberation... Nothing seemed to be right... So I decided to wander around, and I went back to my lost city... I met the four of them and then the Tyranomon chased us, and well, you know the rest..."

"So basically what you mean is just move through life and let things happen as they go?" asked Chris, "Yeah." Chris chuckled and just continued walking with Thiemon besides her.

An explosion goes not far behind them, "What happened?" asked the girl to herself as she hears her D-Core beeping madly, Thiemon quickly adds, "A Digimon did that, lets hurry!" and both run towards the explosion...

~*~

"So what do you think of the Digital World so far?" asked a small winged creature flying close to another human, they had just wandered away, going away from the city. "It's nice here... Sure I miss some things from my world, but there is nothing like this back there," Michael answered.

"I would like to see your world one day," added Nagmon. "After this whole thing is over and if we return to our world maybe you can tag along I suppose," retorted the boy. "I don't if its possible for us to go to your world though."

"There's got to be a way, I don't think any of us wants to leave you all here while we return."

"The best we can do is look on the way," added the winged creature as they continued walking through the darkness.

An explosion suddenly startles both as they turned around and see piles of smoke rising, "Lets go see what happened" started Michael as his D-Core starts beeping, "Try to keep up!" said Nagmon as he started move slightly faster...

~*~

"You know..." started a blond-haired girl walking along-sides a yellow/black cat. "I seem to notice you changed a little, back when we first met you had an angry look all the time... I seem to it less often now..." she pauses, "It's still there nonetheless," she chuckles.

"Nyao~" the cat replies. "I was expecting that..." added the girl, the cat known as Katzemon lets out a small laugh. "I guess all your cheerfulness is rubbing off on me," the girl laughed this time.

"Well, as long as you are yourself and happy, I'll be good as well," Katzemon nodded after that and both continued their walk through the silent streets of the market.

Katzemon suddenly turns to a halt and watches in the opposite direction, a strong rush of wind flies through as an explosion of sorts goes off, Kina pulls off her D-Core right in time as it starts beeping, a small radar shows up and an arrow directs the explosion, "Talk about stating the obvious..." said Katzemon sarcastically watching the display. "Lets just go."

~*~

"This is some wild trip..." said a tall man as the wind swayed his hair. A black cat walking in 2 legs by his side tilted his head up, "What do you mean?"

"Well, I never quite expected I would have to save a world I didn't even knew existed!" said the man known as Gentatsu, the black cat, Arumon replied, "Destiny is some weird stuff, you never know what will happen or has already until it's too late. The best way to deal with things is just go through with them and treasure the best parts of them."

"I wonder if my camera still works?" he held it up, it looked just like usual, unfortunately, he only had one more shot left, so he decided to save it.

Just as he was testing the lens an explosion echoed behind them with a strong gust of wind, they turned around, and using the camera as some sort of binoculars Gentatsu tried checking the place where the explosion had gone off.. "I can make out a figure..." he said, "Lets go then!" Arumon added as both dashed towards it...

~*~

In the middle of the silent part of town a shadowy Digimon walked by. A howl echoed in the air. Alan and Reilmon reached from one side of the smoke. Chris and Thiemon got another. Michael and Nagmon also reached through another street. And the same could be said of Gentatsu and his partner Arumon, plus Kina and Katzemon. Nagmon hovered higher into the air, "Wing... Storm!" he said as he moved his wings back for a sec and was completely frozen in the mid air, then air started to blow at incredible speed from the tip of his wings blowing the smoke away, he quickly went down again. The figure of the Digimon was finally revealed, Michael pointed his D-Core to it.

The small ray shot up and the inverted cone appeared, in the middle the picture of what looked like a dog combined with a fox appeared, it had the same figure in sorts, but its body was quite slender, it had red fur overall, though all its snout, underbelly and lower part of its fox tail was in white. Its leg had a black machinery look until they reached the actual paws, which were red as well, with 3 long, purple-colored nails. His red, white-tipped ears like Reilmon's ticked as it howled again revealing its menacing teeth and mouth. (See bottom of chapter for a link to its profile by the way.)

Just below it data glowed and the name Fangmon bursted into picture, looking white in color and outlined by a strong red, the 'm' was basically a copy of its claws. On the right the attack names appeared, Blast Coffin and Snipe Steal. The Data symbol appeared on the left and some information scrolled on top.

"There's someone else there... A Biyomon!" yelled Michael across field, the Fangmon stood right before a frightened Biyomon, the Fangmon raised its right front paw and prepared to simply slash his prey away, he flung his paw downwards as the Biyomon closed her eyes, a rather loud metallic clashing sound pierced the air. Nagmon had moved at surprising speed and blocked the simple paw with his metallic wings, he quickly tail slashed the dog/fox away as he simply back-flipped in midair and landed safely back in 4. The Biyomon simply ran away in fear.

"Why did you stopped me?" growled the creature. "Why did you wanted to kill her?" retorted Nagmon as the other 4 surrounded him. "Because I can" growled back Fangmon. "I stopped your attack because I could" Nagmon retorted. The dog/fox bared his fangs as he growled, "That does it!" as soon as he said that he charged at an incredible speed, Nagmon was barely able to avoid by 'rolling' sideways in the air.

Thiemon grabbed her dagger and quickly appeared besides Fangmon, "Venom Slash!" she spun quickly and slashed downwards at the... floor? The blade simply bounced back just as she had heard the words "Snipe Steal!", she was then hurled sideways directly to the ground and skidded a few meters. Fangmon appeared besides her.

Reilmon used the opportunity to attack, she jumped upwards and while in midair she extended her claws and mouthed "Flame Shuriken" as various sharp, star-shaped objects made of pure fire glowed above each finger, she drew her paws backwards and hurled them away at Fangmon. He picked up the attack but couldn't avoid it perfectly as 2 of the 6 shurikens thrusted on his side as the rest etched on the floor. He growled in pain as the flames roared until they died down. Reilmon had landed already.

"Blast Coffin!" Fangmon howled as he opened his mouth in a shotgun motion as a strange wind draft moved through air, Reilmon quickly jumped back into a house as the draft hit the floor, disappeared, and in a second a small explosion was created out of thin air. He attacked again and Reilmon bounced away from the wall avoiding it as well. Fangmon dashed forward and lunged.

Just before that Arumon had already extended his claws to full reach, he dashed forward as fast as he could and lunged as well, "Tornado Needle!" he yelled as he 'transformed' into a small tornado of sorts flying on a straight line, he caught Fangmon dead on as he slashed numerous times at the creature. Both landed down though Fangmon grunting at the pain disappeared and a slash of sorts painted over Arumon as he was thrown into the air, in his place Fangmon appeared. Just in that moment an ice burst appeared out of nowhere and Fangmon's legs were tied to the floor by the ice, he turned around and saw Thiemon holding a couple of round spheres and a blowgun. "Multi-Laser Wing!" he heard behind him and grunted in pain as numerous lasers pierced through him, the ice shattered but before he could react and electric-looking cat tackled him from the side.

Fangmon lied on the floor, his paws trembled as he got up, he howled in pain as a white light encased him. A larger, frightening howl filled the sky as Fangmon disappeared, in his place now stood a wolf of sorts in 2 legs, he delivered a quick rush of fists and kicks in his place and howled in a different tone, "WereGarurumon!" as he stood in his fighting stance ready to strike his enemies down.

This time Gentatsu lifted his black D-Core as the profile of the new enemy appeared. A picture of the werewolf appeared in the middle as usual. The name WereGarurumon was white/purple striped, some letters were encased in blue leather. His attacks, Wolf Claw and Garuru Kick appeared on the right, a Vaccine type this time however.

Both Thiemon and Reilmon rushed at the same time from opposite directions, "Blazing Kick!" yelled Reilmon in front of WereGarurumon as her right leg bursted into flames and tried delivering a powerful round-hose kick which WereGarurumon avoided by backflipping, Thiemon had awaited there however, already in mid slash with her venom coated dagger, but WereGarurumon was able to read ahead as he spun on the floor sweeping Thiemon from her feet and landed with a loud thud. He raised his right claw ready to strike a finishing blow, "Speed Impulse!" yelled Nagmon not far away distracting the werewolf.

The next it saw was a scarlet light and he was being attacked at high speed out of nowhere, after a few hits he had basically felt nothing, Nagmon decided on a bad landing spot as he hovered right in front of the wolf with his back turned to him, the next "Wolf Claw!" slashed him directly into the floor and bouncing away with the air knocked out of him. It didn't ended there though, in a quick spin and a "Garuru Kick" later, Thiemon was sent flying away towards a house, she was hammered against the wall because of the powerful blow and fell kneeling, she drove her dagger into the floor as she looked at Chris, mouthed a "Sorry" and fell on the floor heads on. Chris ran at her in an instant...

WereGarurumon smirked as he moved, a "Dark Slash!" echoed behind him as he felt a very big couple of claws thrust on his back, he turned around and quickly delivered a "Wolf Claw!" on the unsuspecting black cat as he was sent flying away in a straight line through the air, he managed to break the hit midair and landed on the floor tumbling. Not expecting it however, WereGarurumon had already dashed against him, tackling him and knocking the wind out of him, he collapsed a few meters away, Gentatsu ran to his partner as well.

Just a seconds later numerous amounts of explosions rained over him as Reilmon used her Burning Fox Leaf Arrowhead attack on him, when the smoke subsided WereGarurumon was kneeling in the same place. Reilmon was already rushing, an holographic image of Katzemon was on her side, Reilmon yelled "Flashing Fire Somersault!" as she jumped in a flip motion as he body was engulfed in her own flames. At the top she stop in midair for a split second and then drove downwards with a powerful kick which WereGarurumon deflected with one of his own, even though he burned his right foot a little from the hit, Reilmon back-flipped but was caught unaware by a sudden back-kick of WereGarurumon right in the chest, she was sent sprawling over the floor while Alan ran to her.

The electric hologram of Katzemon was already on him, trying to restrict his movements as the real Katzemon dashed as well. She was quite sure the fight was at the enemy's advantage but she didn't cared, if she fell, she would do so trying. Evolving was not an option, she had already tried, both her and Kina tried her best a while ago but they failed, Reilmon simply didn't had enough strength left to support the evolution. Thiemon and Nagmon were resting besides their partners.

Katzemon along with her hologram used their Katzenjammer attack, but it seemed to do little effect, most of it was angering the wolf for the sudden burst of sound. He tried slashing the yellow cat but his claw went through thin air as a small shock zapped his paw. The hologram faded below his claw, he turned around and gazed at the hissing cat, her fur on edge and with an insane amount of volts flying through the air around her. She hurled at the enemy and swiped her right paw while sending an enormous bolt from it, shocking the enemy on the right hand, she sting left a burn mark on it as the wolf grunted, he tried a round-hose kick on the falling cat, the result was a big explosion of electricity as the cat was seemingly hurled away from the small explosion and the wolf got his right leg stun for a moment. Katzemon was up, she wasn't going down yet.

The hit did weakened her strength and the flying sparks weren't as bright as before, she only had two options left now, either go 'paw-to-paw', or unleash all the electricity she had stored.. She opted for the first option since the latter would drain her out. She dashed again and jumped as the wolf tried a Garuru Kick on her, she landed behind and whip-slashed with her tail. The wolf kneeled and quickly spun taking the cat down on a kick, he was about to Wolf Claw her, but not only she deflected the blow, she let out all the electricity by mistake trying to defend the blow stinging the wolf for all it was worth. He was still up however, panting a little. All 5 Digimons were down now, he glanced around looking at the humans, he started taking slow steps towards Michael, who was besides Nagmon resting on the floor.

Michael stood up, he knew he had no chance whatsoever against the Digimon, but he wouldn't leave his partner behind. WereGarurumon was already baring his claws as he got closer, Michael braced himself for the blow as he closed his eyes... He opened them a couple of seconds later and noticed Nagmon had covered the hit with his metallic wings. The wolf continued to punch through but Nagmon kept deflecting the hits somehow even though he was badly injured. The lack of energy and the swift movements of the wolf allowed it to manage to hit Nagmon downwards, and while Nagmon was down on the floor he used the rest of his energy to create a large gust of wind that knocked the wolf away a nice couple of meters as he crashed on the floor.

"Nagmon!" Michael knelt besides his partner and held him is his hands, "What did you that for?! You almost killed yourself!" he yelled frantically. Nagmon smiled, "I would never let it get to you... I'm sorry, but I don't think I'll be able to...see...your...world..." he trailed away.

"Nagmon!!!" yelled Michael with all he had and a strong bright light erupted from beneath them, Michael grabbed his D-Core as Nagmon's body hovered in mid air.

"Core... Evolution!!" he yelled as he pointed the device at Nagmon's limp body, the sudden jolt of energy was enough to awake him, not only that as he flew higher and faster than usual, the light faded and Nagmon figure was already shape-shifting.

"Nagmon shinka!" The color of his body was drained away as only a wire-frame of his figure was left, the wire-frame broke and then shifted as it was making one big piece again, the color suddenly returned. His wings had changed and now instead of metallic they were like an angel's. His ears had changed a little and now looked like a backwards horn. What looked like red hair grew from the back of his neck and the tip of his tail. The phoenix emblem on his chest was a little bigger, and a 3-spike object attached not long from the end of the tail looking away from him, as if being a crown for the tail, the side spikes were actually cannons. The enormous (in a way...) creature spun in midair and dived downwards as he ended in front of Michael, taking easily twice his height, the same for the wings as he spread them.

"Ayumon!" the new creature echoed in a rougher yet calmer voice. Michael pointed his D-Core to his partner. The picture of him appeared on the middle. The name was green colored save for the 'y' which was made of the object in his tail but twisted a little to make the shape. His attacks, Double Cannon, Pre Crest Light and Holy Cross appeared on the right, the Data symbol on the left and the display faded in a while.

The WereGarurumon got up again. Ayumon smirked as he move higher, spun, and pointed his tail at the wolf, "Double Cannon!" he yelled and the twin cannons on his tail device started to fire a large amount of energy bursts, seemingly resembling Gargomon's Gatling Arm, WereGarurumon was being pummeled against the floor shot after shot. After a nice amount of shots he hovered down. Surprised to see the wolf still standing, though in a pretty bad shape. He managed to charge forward with "Garuru Kick!" which Ayumon easily avoided by deflecting with his cannons, hurting the wolf more.

Ayumon started toying with the WereGarurumon after this. He would try to hit the flying creature over and over as he simply avoided the attacks as if he knew where would they land, after a few minutes the wolf was panting, he had taken quite some damage already and chasing Ayumon wasn't useful. Ayumon finally flew higher and left some distance between the two. He went into a straight line with his body as he spread his wings, creating a giant cross, "Holy Cross!" he yelled as he started glowing a golden red and a energy beam shot resembling his cross-form, the weakened WereGarurumon was unable to avoid this hit...

The light of the ray finally disappeared, in the floor, only a scorched mark was on the floor and bits of data were already floating away. Ayumond absorbed the data as he flied through, Michael walked towards his partner. "Great job!" he said, Ayumon mouthed a "Thanks" as he seemingly passed away in midair and quickly changed back into Nagmon. Michael caught it, but the long wing and body span made it hard for him to carry Nagmon around.

Just after he had evolved the rest had moved their Digimons towards a nearby house and supported them with the wall as they were helping nursing their wounds. Michael approached them.

"How's Nagmon?" asked Chris as she diverted her sight to Michael from Thiemon. "Heavy..." he groaned in a way. "We should head back, I still wonder how come no one showed up... With all the ruckus you would expect a curious one to at least check..." said Kina as she carried Katzemon. Arumon was pretty light as well and posed no trouble for Gentatsu. Thiemon and Reilmon however supported on their partners instead, as they walked back into the house the Biyomons had lent them...

~*~

The place was exactly as they left it. Since there were only 8 beds in total, Katzemon and Arumon brought a cushion from the couch below to use as 'beds'. Michael simply placed Nagmon on a bed. Alan and Chris helped Reilmon and Thiemon to their own bed as the former took their own. Gentatsu and Kina used the remaining two. A round of "Night" later, everyone slumbered away... Rest first, ask questions later...

Well, you can't expect every chapter to keep growing and growing now can you?

Anyway, at least I finally finished this, after... almost 3 months...
Reilmon~ Yay for you...

Pay her no attention, she loves doing this sometimes... Anyway, I'm hoping the inspiration won't die soon so I can at least start working on the next chapter..
Reilmon~ Yeah right...
Alan~ Look over there, flowers!
Reilmon~ Wha?! *dashes away*
Alan~ That trick never fails... (Long story, don't ask... Though I think Kae-chan might know where this is from...)

Lastly, ownerships. Alan, Reilmon, Chris and Thiemon are characters made by moi~ (I love that...). Michael and Nagmon are property of Michael. Kina Yamakai and Katzemon are property of Kae-chan. Gentatsu and Arumon are from Christian.

Signed as usual,
Alan "Gray Fox" Quirino - grayfox_2510@hotmail.com
Until next time!

Chapter 6: Through the Endless Green.