Five humans and five Digimons - who were currently resting in a house they have been lent for now - arose from their slumber. No, they weren't in synchronization; someone knocked at the door.

All five humans eyed each other, a second set of knocks came. Chris gave in after all, "Oh I'll get it! Jeez..." she got up and headed down, no more than a few seconds later the rest of the crew followed down the stairs. The sound of the door grated as it opened, and a small squeaky voice echoed in the house. It was in fact, a voice all of the crew already knew, it was the same one that had greeted them the moment they stepped into the village, and she was accompanied by the other Biyomon as well.

Chris led both digital birds into the living area of the house, just at the same time the rest of house habitants stepped into the room. "Good morning," greeted both Biyomon and they all answered back in their own way before everyone took a seat (at least those who needed it, Katzemon and Arumon once again ended in a cushion).

"First and foremost, we would like to thank you in behalf of the village for taking care of the situation yesterday. Where did that Fangmon came from or why it attacked, we do no know, but without your aid, things would have probably gone bad," the first Biyomon ended with a sheepish grin at the last remark. The other Biyomon stepped in.

"Now, perhaps you are wondering why even with all the commotion you didn't saw anyone nearby," she started as the crew nodded, "Well, to say the least, we are mostly pacific Digimon, there are no warriors up here, save for occasional times when a traveling Digimon comes by, such as the case of you. I'm sorry you had to go through that; however, in gratitude we've prepared a small banquet and you are more than welcome to remain here as long as you wish," and with that, she stepped back.

Michael cleared his throat to gain attention, "We are very grateful for the banquet you prepared for us, as for the latter, I believe we have to press on."
"Remaining in the same place won't do us any good if we want to find more of this prophecy," added Alan.

"Very well, whenever you are ready we will escort you to where your 'reward' awaits," the first Biyomon said and started heading out, followed by the other. The door closing in made everyone snap back to reality.

"Well, we don't really have anything to do here anyway. It's not like we brought luggage with us..." Kina said shrugging.
"Say, we don't even know where to head at all..." Gentatsu interjected, this, needless to say, brought the whole group to a full halt (not that they were moving before anyway).

"Well, east of here we have water. We came from the south and the only other two directions will take us to the Scorching Wastelands, which is just a fancy name for a desert by the way," Arumon said.
"No other options, so we might as well take our reward and start the trek there," Michael said as everyone nodded and stepped out, where they followed the two Biyomon to a fancy looking restaurant in the middle of the village... [Screed fade out effect]

Back, after 4 months of constant school labor, with two and half months of vacations (I think something might go wrong however, and I still have FF XI to count here); a new revamped writing style (No, seriously... Ok, they were only minor modifications...) and with his muse in place (At least I think so...); the author of Digimon: Fusion is back in business!

Oh by the way, I had to make a 'slight' shift from the way the anime does things... For now, suffice to say data beings (AKA Digimon) have blood in my fanfic (As well as with many other fics); had to do it, there is something simply odd with certain attacks...

And more extra notes, this is now actually my attempt of a 6th season, not 5th... That one was already announced and called something like Digital Monster X-Evolution.

Clearing aside the fact of the copyright stuff (Digimon Bandai, and damn finally some info on DW4 and DRA2. All other characters to their respective owners and the story idea belongs to me, along with some help coming from Michael), I now present you with:

Digimon: Fusion - Chapter 6 - Through the Endless Green

[Screed fade in effect]

Green... Green... More green... Oh look! Bodies of both human and Digimon sprawled in the floor!

"Seriously... Those Digimon up there never come down or what?" asked a totally spent and heavily breathing Alan laying on the grass.

"You start to wonder if these stairs are the reason why they don't get many visitors..." Thiemon added somewhere behind, earning a small laugh from the whole group.

The group went silent again as the refreshing breeze of the morning blew through the giant meadow that was laid upon them. The grass swayed along with the wind and giving that sensation of simply not wanting to get up. They complied with the breeze by just staying there catching their breath and overall recovering from the sight (Yeah, you try looking down from the height of that tree... Not pretty...).

After 5 minutes of simply laying down Kina spoke, "We better get moving..." With that, everyone groaned as they got up and stretched a little before grabbing a small backpack of sorts they were presented earlier, each bag contained some rations, fruit and the sorts, only the humans carried one. They started to walk to the northwest.

"Is there any particular direction to follow or just walk aimlessly as we head northwest?" Gentatsu asked catching up to the rest who were a little ahead.

"Well, there really isn't too much to see here... Sure you get quite a nice amount of trees, but too much to use as landmarks, so the general plan is just go northwest, once we get to the Scorching Wasteland we can easily follow the trail depending on where we arrived to get to the small outpost," Reilmon answered a little ahead.

Not much happened after that, the group simply kept walking in the same direction, the shadow from the great Arched Trees couldn't reach them anymore, the road had become a little more bumpy as small hills now made the path. Fortunately for them, it wasn't so hot as to slow them down.

"Lets see... I see green.. More green... And yet more green... This color gets tiresome after a while..." Chris complained as she dragged herself through the meadow with Thiemon next to her.

"The only other way to the Wastelands is through Mount Digit, and the road there... If you can call it a road since there really isn't one is a little too dangerous... If lots of Digimon have trouble there I suspect humans would fare worse. No offense intended," Nagmon said back at Chris. With a "None taken," she sighed afterwards.

"Since we wasted a lot of time up there before we headed out I'm quite sure we won't make it by today. I don't really like camping out in the open, but heck..." Katzemon declared with a small huff. Kina shrugged, "We should push forward as much as possible nonetheless," Katzemon nodded at that.

Nine hours later, the 'sun' of this digital world had already set, and night had fallen for a while already. Technically it would be close to 10 PM in this world... If they even had the same time settings. The trek though this vast, and seemingly endless meadow was tiring to say the least, the group had rested quite a few times in the whole day, but by now they were spent.

They finally decided to call it night. Using branches from a nearby tree, and after Thiemon cleared a small patch of grass, Reilmon lit a fire. The surrounding area wasn't too 'bushy.' After they all settled down they started talking, and grabbing some food to pass the hunger.

"How far in are we?" asked Alan, right in front of him Arumon looked at the sky in thought, "I'd say we should take about 3 hours tomorrow to finally get to the Wastelands, if you notice the area around here is not as green as before, which means we are getting close," Alan nodded.

"We are taking shifts again I suppose?" Thiemon asked, Chris, who was at her right turned her head to look at her. Katzemon nodded, "We have to," she said in a low tone.

"I'll take the first shift this time," Thiemon rapidly said remembering she had ended last the previous time. "Second here," Reilmon said, Nagmon followed, then Arumon had offered but a snarl coming from Katzemon threw him down to the last shift, Katzemon smiled to herself as Nagmon shuddered for a while, both Digimon partners laughed.

They weren't going to sleep yet however, just making small talk they went on for a while. Kina was the first to lay down, saying she was just doing so, but quickly went to the dream world, Katzemon snuggled with her and started purring quietly after a while, leaving a scowl on Arumon's face wondering how can she be all snappy one moment and then completely quiet and rather happy looking the next...

"Might as well," said Michael yawning as he also laid back. Nagmon was already doing so, and had been off before Kina even though no one noticed, they just thought he had nothing to say...

Alan and Reilmon did the same afterwards, snuggling against each other's back. Gentatsu was next, and Arumon simply curled up to the side. Chris gave a small hug to Thiemon as she also went down. Thiemon looked up for a second and then stood up...

After about almost 2 hours later Thiemon nudged Reilmon lightly to wake her up, she groggily opened her eyes and looked up, "Wha? Is it my time already?" she mumbled, Thiemon nodded. Reilmon sighed to herself and Thiemon snuggled against Chris in the same way Alan and Reilmon previously were. Reilmon got up a few seconds later stirring Alan a little, though he remained asleep.

Since there wasn't really much to do, Reilmon lit two small fireballs in her hands and started juggling them, then added a third and dared for the fourth, which just sent them flying down but they faded before any damage occurred. She kept at it for a while until her time passed. She approached Nagmon, then bent down and poked him lightly at around the shoulder but he didn't moved. Reilmon insisted but nothing. A third time, the outcome was the same.

She straightened herself up, "Oh for the love of..." she huffed and then delivered a small but not necessarily weak kick to what would be his stomach, "Ow!" he yelped, "I tried waking you up three times and you didn't even moved, I had to do it," Reilmon somewhat giggled in an odd tone and snuggled against Alan once again to pass the remainder of the night.

Nagmon stretched himself, defying the laws of physic as he floated without reason, he landed afterwards, instead of spending a little more than an hour flying he would just lay down while keeping watch. After at least ten minutes he took off and flew off a little away.

"Ugh..." Nagmon turned around to see who had made the noise and saw Reilmon getting up, "Can't sleep now?" asked Nagmon.

"I don't know... I have this uneasy feeling... Never liked it. Never lets me concentrate on anything else..." she sighed. Nagmon simply cocked his head in wonder.

Reilmon shrugged as he did that, "It's just that I never know why it gets to me... Not once has it been because of the same situation," Nagmon shook his head then, "There is only one way to find out I suppose," Reilmon nodded in answer. She then got up and approached the slowly dying fire and brought back some life to it.

"So how you find this crazy trip so far?" asked Nagmon now completely turning around and facing Reilmon, she approached him and sat next to where he hovered. "Fun in some way to say the least... Then again, the hard part hasn't even started... I believe we will encounter stronger foes the closer we get to the truth... Whatever that is."

"Agreed."

"By the way, sorry about the kick back there." Nagmon shook his head after Reilmon said that, "Don't worry."

"And what do you know, I now know what that feeling was..." Nagmon turned around to face Reilmon with a wondering look, "I believe our two large friends approaching from the south can answer your question," said Reilmon with a grin just before she quickly got up, spun around and entered a fighting stance. Nagmon turned around and sure enough, two shadows were approaching from their south. "Don't know you, but I think we gotta wake up the rest," said Nagmon.

"I think it's kinda late for that birdie," said Katzemon as she jumped below the spot Nagmon was hovering over. "No need for the sarcasm pussycat," Arumon stretched behind the whole group as he walked to the front, Katzemon threw a small swipe from his right paw at the air in front of him with an amused yet bothered look, she grinned when she saw Arumon go wide-eyed and then turned around; Arumon rather shocked stood there for a second before he ended just a little to the right of Katzemon.

"Now now, don't go turning on each other," Thiemon said on the other side.

"Well, let's see what we are dealing with this time... We'll make sure they pay for disrupting our sleep..." said Reilmon around the middle of the five as she narrowed her eyes... "Oh cripes... Pajiramon and Vajramon... Both are Perfection levels... We are in for some ride here," she rolled her eyes.

And surely enough, at that precise moment part of the clouds blocking the moon of sorts of this world moved letting some of the light fall on the field revealing two bull-like figures approaching them.

Gentatsu pointed his D-Core at the white looking bull and Chris pointed hers at the black bull. On Gentatsu the middle screen flashed to life showing a picture of this particular enemy, a white looking bull of sorts in 4 legs yet with 2 arms. The lower part of her body was mainly white save from the knees and below which were black. All her chest was covered in some sort of purple breastplate with a red scarf around it supporting her weapon, an Arbalest of sorts on her back. She wore purple gloves to the elbows and her paws were black as well, just like the front of her face. She also had two long purple horns. The lower panel flashed as well with 'Pajiramon' on it, the bottom third in black and the rest in white with purple stripes here and there. The right screen came up with 'Thunder Stomp' and 'Treasure Bow', the Virus symbol flashed on the left and some other info scrolled above.

Chris' D-Core showed a larger black bull, standing in two legs however, he wore red armor on several parts of his body, namely, below the knees, the chest, the waist area, forearms and shoulder pads. He had a couple of yellow stripes on both legs and two large one-handed swords, one on each side of his waist. He also had to horns but a lot smaller than Pajiramon's. The name 'Vajramon' flashed in the bottom, black color with pieces of armor here and there. The attacks, 'Terra Blade' and 'Deva Blade' flashed on the right. He was a Vaccine however, and the symbol appeared on the left. Other non-important information appeared above. Both displays went dead.

Both approaching Digimon stopped just a few meters away. "Let me guess... You also come saying we are some sort of menace to some weird plan you have?" asked Katzemon in a rather sarcastic tone.

"Not us, our leader, the great..." spoke Vajramon but Pajiramon hushed him, "They do not need know more..." Vajramon nodded afterwards.

"Aww..." Katzemon moaned, "Come on, it's not like your 'leader' is going to find you mentioned him," she insisted. Pajiramon scowled.

"And why do you say that," she moved her right arm to grip her crossbow, but not taking it yet.

"Because you are getting hurt," Reilmon finished as she cracked the bones of her paws, everyone went to a fighting stance of sorts and spread out. Thiemon on the far right, Reilmon on the south and middle of sorts, Katzemon on the far left. Nagmon was between Reilmon and Thiemon and Arumon between Reilmon and Katzemon. Pajiramon grabbed her crossbow and held it in front of her as Vajramon unsheathed both swords.

Reilmon looked to both sides, and nodded at both Thiemon and Arumon, who nodded back. Thiemon produced a small orb out of nowhere.

"Fire Bomb!" she threw the orb at Pajiramon, it produced a small curtain of fire, not extremely powerful, but server the distracting purpose rather well. Arumon on the other side used his "Ice Punch!" to throw a cold blast at Vajramon, who got rid of it by slashing his right sword down. In the same time both had attacked, Reilmon was already in the sky launching her "Burning Fox Leaf Arrowhead!" down, synchronizing with Nagmon's "Speed Impulse" and Katzemon's added "Katzenjammer" managed to get both Digimon's hearing reduced to nothing as they never picked up the burning crystals or the scarlet light coming. Reilmon's crystals exploded in a set of nice 'fireworks' adding power to the already existent curtain of fire while Nagmon light-speed dashed through both perfection enemies. Katzemon laid off the piercing scream as the fire roared.

All five Digimon stood watching the fire, just looking for the minimal sign of their enemies. They knew they were still up, heck, there was no way this could get two perfection levels down. A sudden crossbow bolt flew through the flames directly at Thiemon, the speed of the bolt was way too much for her and only managed to avoid a fatal hit as the bolt struck her in the left shoulder as her black clothing turned a crimson red around the struck area. She could still wield her dagger at least, as long as she could keep up with the pain. On the other side, Vajramon had jumped through the flames and fell with both swords over Arumon, who had grew his nails to at least 40 centimeters long as clashed with Vajramon's swords; the odds were against Arumon however, considering Vajramon was a lot taller and could apply his strength better because he was attacking downwards. Reilmon appeared out of nowhere besides both of them, and with a "Blazing Kick!" she spun in midair, lighting her left foot in fire as she kicked the black bull squarely in the face. He ended on the floor.

Right at the same time another bolt flew from the fire against Reilmon, the bolt singed past her left cheek, leaving just a small cut a small tip of blood formed. She landed kneeling and pressing her left paw over the cut. Vajramon was getting up at the time.

Thiemon lifted her dagger and looked ready to dash even with her wound, "Nagmon, cover me!" she somewhat ordered as she dashed into the fire, Nagmon nodded and backed up a little, "Multi-Laser Wing!" he moved his wings to the front as he somehow hovered static in the air, the tubes at the end of the wings started to glow in all of the rainbow and started shooting lasers in the proximity area of the fire, which was already dissipating.

"Double Slash!" Thiemon yelled from somewhere, a silhouette suddenly appeared in the fire and moved swiftly while the other, larger figure, was stun, the first shadow disappeared and quite instantly reappeared, this time the second figure managed to block the attack, and ended up locking weapons. Unfortunately for Thiemon, the crossbow was aiming at her, and she knew it was loaded, she was about to jump away when a sudden, strong jolt forced both combatants away as a replica of Katzemon glowing yellow landed where both Thiemon and Pajiramon were previously locked.

On the other side Reilmon was avoiding Vajramon's slashes as best as she could, occasionally the slash would sing a few hairs of her fur, but no damage so far, that's it until Vajramon used his "Terra Blade!" to slam and wreck the earth in front of him, sending chunks of rocks and what not against Reilmon, the same wind force from the impact was the reason that she was knocked away though. Arumon had jumped from behind at the same time with his claws/katars ready (Suffice to say his nails, when grown up at that size look like some blade of sorts). He swiped with his right claw from right to left, opening a decent cut in the back of the bull as some blood tainted the brownish floor.

Vajramon grunted in pain and he quickly spun around slashing his left blade, which locked momentarily against Arumon's left claw, but he was easily thrown away considering he was in mid-air. He crashed against the ground harshly, slightly denting the earth below him. At about the same time, the replica of Katzemon made a downwards sickle with her hind legs hitting Vajramon in the head, making him bent down a little, the real Katzemon used the replica as some sort of impulse lever and did the same motion as the replica, but backwards, knocking Vajramon a few steps back. Who complied with a "Deva Blade!" slashing his right blade sideward creating a small energy wave right that knocked the 'flying' Katzemon a few meters away.

Back to Pajiramon. Thiemon continued to lock weapons, Nagmon had received a bolt on the tip of his right wing, while the hit wasn't really bad, considering the tips of his wing were made with some sort of light alloy, it had send a sting of sorts, close to a cramp through the whole wing, which laid him out of action for the time being as Michael helped him shake it off.

Pajiramon ended with her crossbow looking directly at Thiemon's head as she simply held it at bay with her dagger, Pajiramon grinned, "Treasure Bow!" she whispered as she shoot a rather powerful bolt, while it would have spelled instant death for the thieving woman, she had the side of the dagger directly in front of the 'cannon' of the crossbow, she was sent flying away a nice length nonetheless. The next thing she saw after opening her eyes was Pajiramon coming from above after she had yelled "Thunder Stomp!"

Thiemon quickly tried rolling aside, evading yet another lethal blow, the intense power unleashed upon the soil released a very strong wind current nearby, which sent her at least five meters above ground and hit land loudly after that. Chris gasped and rushed at her partner as Nagmon, while still with his wing out of commission, though less than before, distracted Pajiramon for the moment.

Katzemon had been put out of the fight for now, after engaging in a dance with Vajramon evading his swords, he managed to connect with the hilt of his right sword in Katzemon's forehead, which knocked her out cold. As Vajramon raised his right sword to deliver the final attack on Katzemon, Reilmon stepped in from behind, after getting Vajramon's attention after a quick pair of "Flame Shuriken!" she started to deliver a quick flurry of attacks, Vajramon, after blocking one away with his bracers performed another "Terra Blade!" which missed directly again, but the after effect got Reilmon enough to leave her out of the fight for a while. Alan was already by her side.

He was about to resume what he started with Katzemon, "It's a shame you had to become part of our opposition..." Vajramon muttered as he slashed downwards.

"No!!" Kina yelled from behind and she quickly closed her eyes, but the sudden sound of metals colliding made her look again. Arumon had somehow recovered from the previous Deva Blade and was again locked with Vajramon. Using only his right claw, and panting heavily, he held it at bay away from Katzemon's unconscious body. "You have to get rid of me first before you reach her!" Arumon yelled and deflected Vajramon's blade with a newly summoned strength and jumped with a "Frost Punch!" delivered by his left, normal paw which seemingly froze Vajramon's face a little.

In a slow motion scene, and still in the air, Gentatsu, who was not too far away pointed his D-Core at Arumon. Feeling the same newborn energy as his partner, and radiating a slightly bluish cold aura, he shot a ray of energy towards Arumon with a loud, vigorous "Core... Evolution!!". Arumon, who finally, after seeing his friends evolve had wanted to do so as well.

"Arumon shinka!" right in front of a dazzled Vajramon he was encased in the bright light as his outer layer of skin detached from his body and twisted into a new form, just as his skin changed and was added against at his body. The light exploded as the new form delivered a sickeningly strong round-hose kick on Vajramon which sent him flying at least 8 meters away. The new figure landed, cracked his knuckles and dashed roaring, "You shall answer to Selemon before you try to touch my comrades!!" He was a rather large humanoid looking cat, reaching the two meters in height, a lot of fuzzy hair in dark blue color. The only different part was his white muzzle. His arms were wrapped in white bandages up to the elbows, his hand/paws had long, sharp claws. His legs had sharp nails as well, but a lot shorter, bandages also wrapped from the ankles to the knees. He wore a pair of small brownish shorts, quite ragged, and a brown open vest. Seizing the opportunity, Kina carried Katzemon away.

Vajramon was getting up, but if he knew what was coming next he would have stayed down. With a "Hundred Fists!" Selemon, true to the name attack, started delivering a quick, fast paced blur of hits with his strong arms as Vajramon couldn't do anything but to hope that his armor helped in reducing the damage. After a nice amount of hits Selemon delivered a fast, but not necessarily weak uppercut which sent the black bull away.

Thiemon, being helped a little by Chris wanted to rush again against Pajiramon but Chris wouldn't let her. She was bleeding rather badly from her left shoulder from the bolt that had struck her near the beginning of the battle. "You can't go, the wound is too serious!" Chris protested, "I have to go help Nagmon! Reilmon and Katzemon are out for now, I can't leave Nagmon alone against her!" Thiemon protested back, at that moment Arumon had evolved, the light had dazzled Chris enough for Thiemon to go, "Thiemon!" she yelled, "Sorry, but I have to!" "At least be careful!" Chris ended as she sunk to the floor.

Nagmon was deflecting bolt after bolt with his metallic wings, whatever the other bolt had done, none of these seemed to repeat it. He wasn't doing anything at all when a sudden flash bomb in the middle of both startled both him and Pajiramon. Thiemon dashed along the floor and made a small, but stinging cut on Pajiramon's front legs, which made her let out a small moan of pain. She cursed at herself for not doing this before but quickly readied a "Treasure Bow!" aimed at Nagmon, who even when he blocked it with both wings, knocked him away. Almost leaving him unconscious from the harsh hit of the earth. Michael rushed to him.

Thiemon attacked heads on, but Pajiramon answered by kicking Thiemon with her right front leg, even though hurt. Thiemon flipped in mid air and using her hands she jumped to land safely... But Pajiramon had expected this, and two bolts were already fired, the first one hit Thiemon on her right shoulder, as the impact threw her back her head seemingly snapped to look at the sky for a fraction of a second as the second bolt struck her in the abdomen, making her wince backwards. She, as well as Chris froze for a second and time seemed to slow down as she fell on her knees as the floor right in front was painted crimson, Chris snapped back to reality and dashed to her. Before Thiemon landed completely on the floor, Chris caught her and turned her around.

"Thiemon!" she yelled as tears started to flow from her eyes, "Chris... I'm sorry... It looks like I... wasn't careful enough..."

"Don't speak! Save your strength!"

"I'm sorry," Thiemon placed his right hand on Chris' right cheek before it started to slid down from the lack of energies, "Thiemon!" at the same time Chris' D-Core started to emit a strong light which automatically centered on Thiemon, "Core... Evolution..." she muttered quietly as Thiemon opened her eyes and the light encased her.

"Thiemon shinka!" she somewhat yelled with a low voice. Still laying over Chris' lap she twisted her data after his clothing and skin had faded leaving the wire frame, when the light faded a figure somewhat resembling Thiemon was there. Slightly taller, a just a little older looking, this woman figure was wearing black pants and black blouse without sleeves. Bandages covered from his hands, like fingerless gloves up to the elbows. Her blond hair was totally straight now, if standing up, it would reach to the neck. She had two bangs on the front. Her hair was secured by a black bandana. A silk white/black belt supported two katanas on her back in an 'X' figure.

"Shadow is my closest ally, death is unimportant to me... Sorry to worry you Chris, but I, Ninmon, will take care of things now," as she said this she jumped up and took a step away from Chris and closer to Pajiramon. She grabbed both katanas and held them facing back.

"The result is going to be the same you know..." Pajiramon hushed and fired 3 consecutive bolts, which Ninmon easily deflected with both katanas leaving Pajiramon dumbfounded.

"Shadow Replica," Ninmon muttered and 4 clones of herself appeared to the sides. They all sheathed their katanas and started to produce several figures with their hands in a very quick motion.

"Katon: Grand Dragon Fireball!"
"Hyoton: Ice Shards of Damnation!"
"Raiton: Shocking Rush of Light!"
"Doton: Giant Roots of Entanglement!"
"Huton: Endless Raging Typhoon!"

They shouted in unison as first several roots were produced from the floor, Pajiramon tried to move away but she was already secured in place, she struggled but accomplished nothing and feared for what was coming. One of the figures disappeared. Another one raised her right hand a lightning fell on her, she hurled the energy at Pajiramon, who yelped as her body was stunned as small pain roared through her as the clone disappeared. Another figure summoned about 7 shards of ice, of about 8 centimeters long which were hurled at the enemy, piercing her in random parts of her body, the clone faded. The next one created a giant gust of wind which released Pajiramon from the roots, but was then hurled upwards along with the typhoon as the last clone faded. The real Ninmon released a giant fireball from her mouth which hit Pajiramon as she was falling. Each ninjutsu wasn't overly strong however, this only served to weaken her a little.

"Ugh.. Pretty nasty trick you've got there... But take this! Treasure Bow!" she quickly fired an energy coated bolt, which Ninmon flawlessly avoided, Pajiramon snarled. "Treasure Bow! Treasure Bow! Treasure Bow!" she constantly yelled as she fired bolt after bolt, Ninmon had no actual trouble avoiding them, but lost her focus as one singed past her right leg, leaving a small trickle of blood fly.

"Sonic Clash!" Ninmon said in a rather more feminine voice, a little more mature than her Thiemon's form as she drew both blades and dashed towards Pajiramon who did nothing to stop it. The first swipe was right to left with the right blade, then backwards with the left one. Quickly repeated the first motion and spun in her place as she swiped the left one around until she ended facing her again and quickly made an uppercut of sorts with the right blade. Tainting the brown soil with a crimson color after each slash.

Pajiramon grunted but fired a bolt, mostly by accident, which hit Ninmon in her left hand making her drop her left weapon. She sheathed the right one and jumped back, "Shuriken Mirage!" she grabbed 3 shuriken from the right pocket on her belt. Normally, she would have used 6, but couldn't use her left hand right now. She then threw them away to the side, the shuriken shifted directions in mid air and homed in on Pajirmon at different angles, and she wasn't able to avoid them. She was too distracted in the pain that she missed out hearing the "Flashing Fire Somersault!" behind her as Reilmon, having recovered obviously, went to assist Ninmon.

The burning, downwards thrusting kick motion slammed Pajiramon heads on against the floor as her crossbow flew from her hands. Reilmon kneeled not far away, still a little weak. "You miserable Digimon..." Pajiramon mouthed as she looked up and tried to extend her right arm to grab her crossbow, her hand suddenly went limp, "Our master will make... you... pay..." she then exploded into data. "Phew..." Ninmon sighed as she quickly shone back to Thiemon, completely healed from the bolt wounds, she absorbed the data, but fatigued nonetheless, she collapsed. Chris dashed.

"Terra Blade!" Vajramon yelled as he slammed his right sword on the floor, sending rocks against Selemon, who easily threw them away. He jumped with an "Omniglass!" spun in midair, joined both fists and then slammed the floor in front of him as he fell. The floor somehow turned to a carpet of ice, which made spikes of ice start to form heading towards Vajramon. He ended receiving various cuts, some deep, some just superficial but making the blue ice turn a little red at the tips.

He dropped both swords, mouthed a "Damn you..." as he burst into data. Selemon absorbed the data, flashed back into Arumon as the ice disappeared then looked at the night sky for a second before falling backwards as he passed away, Gentatsu rushed to his partner.

Each human helped their partners as they needed to return to the initial campfire, where Reilmon re-lit the fire.

"This keeps getting stranger... At least now we know we are officially a threat to their plans, whichever those might be... We have to press forward even faster it seems," Alan commented as Reilmon licked clean the few open wounds she had, mostly on her hands. Wounds of these type on Digimon healed quickly after a time, and didn't left a scar, but they still needed proper care.

"Well, we should get as much sleep as we can for now. I don't think we are in a position to take shifts, and I really doubt more will come, considering news of their demise have to travel back before another one comes," Michael added as Nagmon started to doze away, slightly light-headed.

"I think the rush in my system has to calm down first before I can sleep," Kina said as she petted the sleeping Katzemon in her lap. She looked quite peaceful and happy, much unlike her normal self.

Gentatsu was holding the sleeping Arumon as well, he looked as usual, but a strange grin was in his face, "We have to learn to control this evolution thingy. The enemies' power has been growing over the time, we won't be able to depend on our luck too much from here on it seems," everyone nodded. Alan and Reilmon snuggled back to back again. Chris helped the sleeping Thiemon to the same position as well. The rest simply laid down holding either close their partners, such case as with Gentatsu and Kina; whereas Michael simply laid Nagmon a little to his side.

And yet another night in this world concluded. Another night of danger. Another night of surprises. Another night of fear...

Finally! So yeah, enjoy... I go to sleep now... Almost 3 AM when I finished typing this.
Reilmon Too bad we weren't able to obtain another funny tape like back in chapter 10..
Alan It was definitely not funny...
Reilmon But you had this wide grin and you were laughing!
Alan Hmm, right...
Reilmon Oh well.
Alan Anywho, hope you enjoyed this chapter. Slightly shorted than the previous two, but what can we do about it...
Reilmon Add more stuff?
Alan The only things I didn't added are for the next chapter.

Again with the ownerships. Digimon and most of those things are property of Bandai. Each character and made up Digimon are property of their respective creator (As noted above near the title). Story ideas, settings and situations are property of moi (I like how that sounds...)
Any resemblance of the settings or characters to real life situation are mere coincidence. And if you do think the settings resemble anything in real life, well, you have issues...

Signed as usual,
Alan "Gray Fox" Quirino - grayfox2510hotmail.com
Until next time!

Chapter 7: Burning Wastelands, Burning Power.