The third chapter to this fic. Still looking at suggestions for a new title
but don't think there'll be any for some time since this fic has only just
begun. Please read my songfics too. I'll be updating that one soon too.
Well, thankyou to CyootKitty and Ud the Imp(1) who have reviewed the last
chapter.
Disclaimer: All that Leo's Fire owns are Katrina, Vinya, Michelle, Danielle and all the digimon partners. All the rest are owned by some one else.
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*~Beach, Digital World~*
The beyblading duo and their digimon partners headed towards the forest, climbing over rocks and stones.
"Are we there yet?" Kitmon and Tommon chorused.
"No," Ray replied.
"Are we there yet?" Kitmon and Tommon asked again a few seconds later.
"Not yet," Mariah replied this time.
"Are we there yet," the two in-training digimon asked yet again.
"No," grumbled the two beybladers.
"Are we-" Kitmon and Tommon stopped short as a rustle of leaves was sounded.
With a flash of silver, a tiger with dark grey stripes and golden eyes appeared.
It roared before growling a single word, "Intruders."
"Tigmon," Tommon and Kitmon growled together.
"I have a bad feeling about this Mar," Ray whispered to her as the two small digimon stood ahead to defend their human partners if neccesary.
"Who here doesn't?" Mariah replied as she saw Tigmon ready itself to attack.
He pounced. Mariah and Ray leapt out of the way and recieved a few scrapes from the rocks. Kitmon and Tommon attacked together.
"Negative beam!" Tommon shouted and blasted a small black beam from his mouth.
"Positive beam!" shouted Kitmon and a little white beam blasted from her mouth.
The two attacks spiralled and hit its target while the tiger was in mid- air. It created a strange-coloured blast; the colour black would be if it was white or the colour white would be if it was black(2). It wasn't grey though. Once the blast diminished, smoked covered their view of what had become of their opponent. Kitmon and Tommon looked on anxiously.
"Metalic claw!" Tigmon shouted from his cover.
The smoke cleared as he leapt out and his front paws changed to metal with glistening claws. He was aimed straight for Mariah.
"Look out Mar!" Ray called out.
Ray pushed Mariah out of harm's way while taking the blow himself. Luckily, the tiger happened to be aiming slightly higher so Ray only recieved shallow slashes on his back. Ray rolled out of the way before the tiger's hind legs landed onto him. The metal claws disappeared as he landed, leaving Tigmon back to his silver self.
"Double Team attack!" shouted two cats, a yellow and pink one.
Tigmon was caught by surprise as two relevantly small cats dug their teeth and claws into his skin and clung on.
"Where did Tommon and Kitmon disappear off to?" Ray asked Mariah.
The silver tiger roared and easily shook the duo off after getting over his surprise.
"Not sure. Why's there a yellow and pink cat instead?" Mariah replied.
Tigmon sunk low and prepared to pounce on the two small digimon. His eyes locked onto his targets and quickly calculated the distance between them. A bright light shone from behind the trees and Tigmon had to shut his eyes and turn away for a second. That was all that the yellow and pink cats needed to escape from Tigmon.
"Hoof trample!" a voice called out from Tigmon's left.
Tigmon opened his eyes to see silver hooves belonging to a young golden horse. Tigmon tried rolling away but the hooves caught his right paw. Tigmon roared in pain before metal claws appeared to stop the horse-like digimon doing any more harm. He slashed at the closest leg of the horse and the digimon fell to its knees.
"Coltmon!" a raven-haired boy with glasses called out from behind the trees.
A blue emu sprung forward to keep the boy from danger.
"Emumon..." Tigmon growled and trailed off.
"Drill peck!" the emu screeched and ran forward to ram its beak, which had turned to metal, into Tigmon's side.
Tigmon roared in pain again and tried to escape from the pain this emu was inflicting on him. The golden-eyed tiger back up onto a precipice but Emumon didn't seem to be satisfied by the amount of damage she had already inflicted on him. Tigmon looked below and saw water.
'Well, at least that'll break my fall,' thought Tigmon as he eyed Emumon edging closer.
Tigmon shut his eyes and stepped backwards, created a large splash in the water. Roungh skin scraped across his wet fur as he was submerged underwater.
'Oh no! Savamon!' Tigmon panicked and tried to fight his way back to shore before the silver shark attacked him.
Tigmon finally managed to return to shore, close-by to where the battle started. He shook his silver and dark grey fur to rid of the water but then noticed the other four digimon, Coltmon, Emumon, and the two cats and him surrounded on land. They were all ready to attack him if he made any attempt to do the same. In the water was Savamon so he couldn't go there either. His injured foreleg didn't make the situation any better as it would only cause him to limp which would slow his progress to safety.
"Great. I'm a champion beaten by five rookies. This'll leave a stain on my reputation," growled Tigmon quietly.
A pink swan then appeared out of nowhere and covered Tigmon just as he ran out of energy and devolved into a dark grey lion with a silver and and tail and lime green eyes.
An 18-year-old girl leapt into view. Mariah noticed her strange coloured eyes; one was green while the other was blue. She wore baggy black pants with a black sleeveless top. She also wore black running shoes and the fingerless gloves were black too. The gloves had three blades protruding from the knuckles to the fingertips on each one. Her hair, black with aquamarine highlights, was tied up in a black ribbon. Finally, a blue sapphire pendent on a silver chain necklace flashed in the sun.
This girl, with cat-like movements, made her way towards the swan. As soon as she got there, she disappeared as well as the swan and Tigmon. Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley stood on one side staring at where the girl had been while Ray and Mariah were on the other side doing the same thing. All the digimon were looking from one to the other, their human partners and the place they were all staring at.
"Where's Kitmon and Tommon?" Mariah inquired.
"We're right here. Well, not exactly," replied the pink cat that had appeared during the battle, "I'm Hongmaomon, and that there is Wongmaomon. We're the rookie forms of Kitmon and Tommon."
"I don't get it," Ray simply stated.
"Well, basically we become a stronger version of what we were before so we can either protect or fight," the yellow cat, Wongmaomon, answered.
"I see. So that's what happened to Bimon, Ruemon and Finmon," Hermione said. "Anyway, I'm Hermione. This is Harry and Ron. You must be two of the other nine digidestined."
"Yeah. This is Ray and I'm Mariah. Nice to meet you," greeted the pink- haired beyblader.
"Well, we'd better find some place to camp before we continue with out introductions. It's starting to get dark," interupted Harry.
"I agree. Let's camp within the forest. It's a lot safer there than out here in the open," Ray suggested.
The other four agreed and they all rushed towards the forest together to look for a suitable caping place.
*~Forest, Digital World~*
Artemis trudged through the forest, trying his best to ignore the sharp sticks poking at him and the soil on his shoes. Foaly had long taken the lead with Aurumon to clear the path for both of them and Holly at the back with Faridatmon so Artemis wouldn't think of trying anything.
"What use am I? I can't do anything. I'm useless," a quiet voice murmured behind the safety of the trees.
"Who's there?" Holly whispered to the two ahead of her.
"Not sure. Let's go see. Could be one of the digidestined," Artemis quietly whispered back.
The trio headed towards the voice.
They saw a girl with waist-length blue hair. It was tied up in two buns with hair trailing down. She wore a light pink shirt with pale blue lining and a purple heart with white angel wings in the centre. The skirt matched the top but without the picture. She also wore pink knee-length boots containing amethyst gems on the egdes. Her elbow-length wrist guards were the same. Amethyst earrings glittered in the small amount of sunlight the forest canopy let through.
Artemis, Holly and Foaly saw the girl very clearly. She was sitting down against a tree trunk with her eyes shut. Holly guessed that was probably why she hadn't seen them yet. *SNAP* A twig broke in half as Foaly tried to quietly edge closer.
The girl turned her head and simply shouted, "Go away!" in their direction with her eyes still shut.
There was a blaze of purple light before a pair of beautiful blue eyes appeared. The pink body of a swan shimmered into view shortly afterwards.
"I don't like this," whispered Intmon to the other two in the treetops.
"Same here. Maybe we should attack," replied Aurumon.
"I think we... Should just leave. We've gotta find... The other chosen... Digidestineds," the reason for all the breaks was because Faridatmonn found it hard to grip the tree branch with her paws. "Yelp!" she cried.
A small puppy crashed into the bushes and the swan turned her head towards the sound.
"Oh well, too late. We've got to attack to protect Faridatmon, since she revealed our hiding place too," Aurumon said.
"Fine," Intmon sighed. "Leaf barrage!"
"Feather duster!" joined Aurumon.
An assault of leaves and feathers headed towards the swan.
"Rainbow beam!" Faridatmon joined as soon as she managed to scramble into an upright position.
A beam of rainbow colours was fired out of Faridatmon's gem and flew independently at the swan.
"Reflect," the swan replied to all the attacks without opening it's beak.
A glass wall shot up. All the attacks hit square onto the wall and bounced back. The assault they each contributed was fired back at them.
"Argh!" All three digimon cried.
"Aurumon! Faridatmon! Intmon!" Foaly, Holly and Artemis shouted.
They ran to tend their wounded digimon partners. Artemis, Foaly and Holly turned to look at the girl and her digimon. The swan had wrapped its wings around her and in a flash of blinding light they both disappeared. The only sign that told they were there before was a single pink feather that gently floated down. It would get blown away sometime anyway.
"...So someone tell me what just happened?" Holly asked.
"That was Tranquilmon, one of the Digimon trying to take over the Digital World. And the girl was her digimon partner. I don't know anything else though. The dark side has always been a mystery to everyone," replied Faridatmon.
"What about the appearing and disappearing act and the barrier?" Holly asked again.
"Well, my conclusion is that Tranquilmon is a digimon having exceptional mental processes," Artemis answered.
"You mean that Digimon's got a mental problem?" Holly was confused with his definition.
"No. Fowl means that Tranquilmon has unusual mental powers," Foaly answered this time.
"So she does have a mental problem!" Holly declared.
"No, Holly. What we mean is that she has extrasensory powers," Artemis replied.
"Extrasensory? Does that mean she's got a sixth senth and can see the dead?"
"No," Foaly growled in fustration. "It means that she has the power to see into the future, teleport, use telepathy, read our minds and all that other stuff. What she just did was teleport herself away."
"Oh, why didn't you just say so before, Foaly? Well, let's get going anyway. We've got to find the others so we can get back to LEP headquarters ASAP," Holly quickly said and hurried on while carrying Faridatmon.
*~World of Artemis Fowl, Underground~*
"Foaly! Foaly! Where are you? Got yourself out here right now!" Root called but no reply came. "Foaly! If you don't come out now, I'll slash your budget for playing truant."
Still no reply from Foaly. Root started to worry. But soon thought better when a piece debris from the LEP headquarters building collapsed directly ahead of him.
'Well, that's his escape cut off. If, IF, he survives this ordeal, I'm gonna wring his little pony neck for not warning us when Koboi had decidedly escaped Howler's Peak and placed us as #1 on her list of 'Places to Destroy'. Where's Holly anyway?' Root thought.
"Hey! Trouble! You know where Holly disappeared to?"
"No, sir. The last I saw of her was when she disappeared into Foaly's Ops Booth," the elf replied.
'WelL, at least if my best female recon officer is with that pony, my vision of wringing his neck will have a sufficient increase of coming true,' Root thought. 'Better get out of danger's way too.'
Bits of rock shattered above Root's head and he made for a dive under a desk.
*~Cave, Digital World~*
A light shone through an opening ahead of Danielle and Lexmon. They emerged from the cave opening and saw a large forest below them and the ocean further up.
"Lucky guess Lexmon. Now what?" Daneille asked.
"Well, see where there's a fight going on by the Sea of Sincerity? We're headed there," announced Lexmon.
"What? All the way there? But that's too far away!" whined the Italian brunette.
"Well, ok then. We won't try to get you home," sighed Lexmon and sneaked a look to see if Danielle was buying his act.
She was staring at Lexmon and thinking about her choices; whether to stay by the cave and wait for the others to find her before getting a chance to return home or do her best to reach the fight by walking and return home earlier.
"Oh, ok. We'll walk there," sighed Danielle at last.
Danielle and Lexmon slid down the side of the mountain, trampled through the forest before Danielle declared she was too tired to go any further, although she had only walked for only about five minutes.
"We'll take a rest then," replied Lexmon.
A low growling sound and the rustle from bushes to the side of Danielle startled her. She tripped on a root just as a blue ball of fire blasted at her.
"Oh, what luck... My brand new jeans are ripped," muttered Danielle and sat up to inspect her black jeans, oblivious of what she had just avoided.
A dark red leopard with blue spots calmly strode out of the bushes. Its blue eyes glared at the pair while Danielle continued muttering away and complaining about what had happened to her clothes. Lexmon bounded in front of the newcomer, afraid that he might attack his human partner.
"Leopmon... You'd better not to anything to harm us," threatened Lexmon.
"Oh, hello Lexmon. And, no, I won't be doing anything to harm you two... Just the girl," growled Leopmon in reply. "Icy fire!"
Just as he finished the sentence, he fired the blue fireball again. Danielle had finally gotton over her ripped jeans and stared at the two digimon. She then noticed the fireball closing in on her. Using her hands, Danielle tried to shield herself since she wouldn't be able to avoid it on time. Nothing happened to Danielle and she lifted her arms to see what had happened.
"LEXMON!"Danielle cried.
Lexmon had jumped in the way of Leopmon's attack and avoided it hitting its target, Danielle. He concentrated while Leopmon fixed his deep blue eyes on her. Leopmon readied himself to pounce on the vulnerable human girl.
"LEXMON DIGIVOLVE TO... CINDRAMON!"
"Electric shock," a black kangaroo with yellow electric stripes and red eyes called out.
Leopmon pounced but landed short when he was electrocuted by Cindramon's electric attack. Leopmon tried again but was kicked out of the way by Cindramon. Leopmon landed on his feet but was quite tired out by his efforts.
"Leopmon, time to go," a female voice shouted from the treetops and a chinese girl swung off a low branch.
Brown eyes were revealed and straight, mid-back length hair floated gently behind her. She wore a black sleeveless top with a lion picture surrounded by fire on the front. Her blue faded jeans were held up by a black stud belt. The girl also wore blue platform shoes that raised her height by three centimeters and black cuffs that went from her shoulder to her elbow. A gold chain necklace with a ruby sun pendent and ruby Leo earrings flashed as she moved towards Leopmon.
A pink swan appeared a covered the Digimon and girl before Danielle got a good look at her. Then they disappeared. Danielle turned to the former Lexmon, the current Cindramon.
"So, why couldn't you do this before so I didn't need to walk?" she asked.
"You weren't in danger so I didn't need to," was the answer from the kangaroo.
"I was in danger of becoming exhausted," Danielle said back.
"Not a good enough excuse for me to digivolve," Cindramon replied. "But since I have digivolved to rookie form now, I might've well take you . Get on."
The brunette climbed onto his back and held on just as Cindramon bounded off towards their destination, the shore by the Sea of Sincerity.
"So, how was it inside that fireball?" Danielle asked.
"Well, it was fire so it felt hot, but then it felt so hot that it felt cold. But if it did feel cold, then it felt so cold it felt hot. You get what I mean?" said Cindramon as they bounded along.
"Um... not really..." Danielle replied.
"Well, anyway, why'd you ask? Trying to strike a conversation because you're starting to like digimon?" asked Cindramon slyly.
"What? No way! I hate this place. That digimon, Leopmon or whatever, tried to kill me!" Danielle complained.
"But I saved you. Doesn't that make up?"
"No. Because... this place will never be as good as home!"
*~Labyrinth, Digital World~*
Tranquilmon returned with the chinese girl and her digimon partner by the Labyrinth of Light.
"What did you think you were doing? You were supposed to stay with me, Vinya!" scolded the cat-like girl.
"Well, sorry. But I prefer to work alone, Katrina. And I work better that way too," replied Vinya.
"That's no excuse. I was worried sick about you! I'm the oldest here, at age 18, while you're the youngest, at age 13, and you're still under my supervision," Katrina answered Vinya.
"Hey! Just because I'm blind doesn't mean I can't hear you. Quiet down over there, I'm trying to get some sleep!" a female voice shouted through a door on the second storey of the castle.
"Sorry, Michelle. We'll stop now!" Katrina shouted back up. "Well, we might've get some sleep too. Goodnight, Vinya."
"Goodnight Katrina. See you in the morning," she replied.
Vinya helped her injured Leopmon into her room before attempting to attend the cuts, bruises and other injuries. Katrina did the same with her digimon, Dionmon.
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Well, that's the third chapter done. Review please!
(1) I'm afraid the girl's ain't the Canker Sisters from Ed, Edd and Eddy. I know next to nothing about Ed, Edd and Eddy, let alone the Canker Sisters.
(2) I got this from a book somewhere. Forgot who it was by or what it was called. Just thought It'd be a good description to put here.
(3)They're all in a castle in the middle of the labyrinth.
(4) They were on the first storey while Michelle was on the second.
Disclaimer: All that Leo's Fire owns are Katrina, Vinya, Michelle, Danielle and all the digimon partners. All the rest are owned by some one else.
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*~Beach, Digital World~*
The beyblading duo and their digimon partners headed towards the forest, climbing over rocks and stones.
"Are we there yet?" Kitmon and Tommon chorused.
"No," Ray replied.
"Are we there yet?" Kitmon and Tommon asked again a few seconds later.
"Not yet," Mariah replied this time.
"Are we there yet," the two in-training digimon asked yet again.
"No," grumbled the two beybladers.
"Are we-" Kitmon and Tommon stopped short as a rustle of leaves was sounded.
With a flash of silver, a tiger with dark grey stripes and golden eyes appeared.
It roared before growling a single word, "Intruders."
"Tigmon," Tommon and Kitmon growled together.
"I have a bad feeling about this Mar," Ray whispered to her as the two small digimon stood ahead to defend their human partners if neccesary.
"Who here doesn't?" Mariah replied as she saw Tigmon ready itself to attack.
He pounced. Mariah and Ray leapt out of the way and recieved a few scrapes from the rocks. Kitmon and Tommon attacked together.
"Negative beam!" Tommon shouted and blasted a small black beam from his mouth.
"Positive beam!" shouted Kitmon and a little white beam blasted from her mouth.
The two attacks spiralled and hit its target while the tiger was in mid- air. It created a strange-coloured blast; the colour black would be if it was white or the colour white would be if it was black(2). It wasn't grey though. Once the blast diminished, smoked covered their view of what had become of their opponent. Kitmon and Tommon looked on anxiously.
"Metalic claw!" Tigmon shouted from his cover.
The smoke cleared as he leapt out and his front paws changed to metal with glistening claws. He was aimed straight for Mariah.
"Look out Mar!" Ray called out.
Ray pushed Mariah out of harm's way while taking the blow himself. Luckily, the tiger happened to be aiming slightly higher so Ray only recieved shallow slashes on his back. Ray rolled out of the way before the tiger's hind legs landed onto him. The metal claws disappeared as he landed, leaving Tigmon back to his silver self.
"Double Team attack!" shouted two cats, a yellow and pink one.
Tigmon was caught by surprise as two relevantly small cats dug their teeth and claws into his skin and clung on.
"Where did Tommon and Kitmon disappear off to?" Ray asked Mariah.
The silver tiger roared and easily shook the duo off after getting over his surprise.
"Not sure. Why's there a yellow and pink cat instead?" Mariah replied.
Tigmon sunk low and prepared to pounce on the two small digimon. His eyes locked onto his targets and quickly calculated the distance between them. A bright light shone from behind the trees and Tigmon had to shut his eyes and turn away for a second. That was all that the yellow and pink cats needed to escape from Tigmon.
"Hoof trample!" a voice called out from Tigmon's left.
Tigmon opened his eyes to see silver hooves belonging to a young golden horse. Tigmon tried rolling away but the hooves caught his right paw. Tigmon roared in pain before metal claws appeared to stop the horse-like digimon doing any more harm. He slashed at the closest leg of the horse and the digimon fell to its knees.
"Coltmon!" a raven-haired boy with glasses called out from behind the trees.
A blue emu sprung forward to keep the boy from danger.
"Emumon..." Tigmon growled and trailed off.
"Drill peck!" the emu screeched and ran forward to ram its beak, which had turned to metal, into Tigmon's side.
Tigmon roared in pain again and tried to escape from the pain this emu was inflicting on him. The golden-eyed tiger back up onto a precipice but Emumon didn't seem to be satisfied by the amount of damage she had already inflicted on him. Tigmon looked below and saw water.
'Well, at least that'll break my fall,' thought Tigmon as he eyed Emumon edging closer.
Tigmon shut his eyes and stepped backwards, created a large splash in the water. Roungh skin scraped across his wet fur as he was submerged underwater.
'Oh no! Savamon!' Tigmon panicked and tried to fight his way back to shore before the silver shark attacked him.
Tigmon finally managed to return to shore, close-by to where the battle started. He shook his silver and dark grey fur to rid of the water but then noticed the other four digimon, Coltmon, Emumon, and the two cats and him surrounded on land. They were all ready to attack him if he made any attempt to do the same. In the water was Savamon so he couldn't go there either. His injured foreleg didn't make the situation any better as it would only cause him to limp which would slow his progress to safety.
"Great. I'm a champion beaten by five rookies. This'll leave a stain on my reputation," growled Tigmon quietly.
A pink swan then appeared out of nowhere and covered Tigmon just as he ran out of energy and devolved into a dark grey lion with a silver and and tail and lime green eyes.
An 18-year-old girl leapt into view. Mariah noticed her strange coloured eyes; one was green while the other was blue. She wore baggy black pants with a black sleeveless top. She also wore black running shoes and the fingerless gloves were black too. The gloves had three blades protruding from the knuckles to the fingertips on each one. Her hair, black with aquamarine highlights, was tied up in a black ribbon. Finally, a blue sapphire pendent on a silver chain necklace flashed in the sun.
This girl, with cat-like movements, made her way towards the swan. As soon as she got there, she disappeared as well as the swan and Tigmon. Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley stood on one side staring at where the girl had been while Ray and Mariah were on the other side doing the same thing. All the digimon were looking from one to the other, their human partners and the place they were all staring at.
"Where's Kitmon and Tommon?" Mariah inquired.
"We're right here. Well, not exactly," replied the pink cat that had appeared during the battle, "I'm Hongmaomon, and that there is Wongmaomon. We're the rookie forms of Kitmon and Tommon."
"I don't get it," Ray simply stated.
"Well, basically we become a stronger version of what we were before so we can either protect or fight," the yellow cat, Wongmaomon, answered.
"I see. So that's what happened to Bimon, Ruemon and Finmon," Hermione said. "Anyway, I'm Hermione. This is Harry and Ron. You must be two of the other nine digidestined."
"Yeah. This is Ray and I'm Mariah. Nice to meet you," greeted the pink- haired beyblader.
"Well, we'd better find some place to camp before we continue with out introductions. It's starting to get dark," interupted Harry.
"I agree. Let's camp within the forest. It's a lot safer there than out here in the open," Ray suggested.
The other four agreed and they all rushed towards the forest together to look for a suitable caping place.
*~Forest, Digital World~*
Artemis trudged through the forest, trying his best to ignore the sharp sticks poking at him and the soil on his shoes. Foaly had long taken the lead with Aurumon to clear the path for both of them and Holly at the back with Faridatmon so Artemis wouldn't think of trying anything.
"What use am I? I can't do anything. I'm useless," a quiet voice murmured behind the safety of the trees.
"Who's there?" Holly whispered to the two ahead of her.
"Not sure. Let's go see. Could be one of the digidestined," Artemis quietly whispered back.
The trio headed towards the voice.
They saw a girl with waist-length blue hair. It was tied up in two buns with hair trailing down. She wore a light pink shirt with pale blue lining and a purple heart with white angel wings in the centre. The skirt matched the top but without the picture. She also wore pink knee-length boots containing amethyst gems on the egdes. Her elbow-length wrist guards were the same. Amethyst earrings glittered in the small amount of sunlight the forest canopy let through.
Artemis, Holly and Foaly saw the girl very clearly. She was sitting down against a tree trunk with her eyes shut. Holly guessed that was probably why she hadn't seen them yet. *SNAP* A twig broke in half as Foaly tried to quietly edge closer.
The girl turned her head and simply shouted, "Go away!" in their direction with her eyes still shut.
There was a blaze of purple light before a pair of beautiful blue eyes appeared. The pink body of a swan shimmered into view shortly afterwards.
"I don't like this," whispered Intmon to the other two in the treetops.
"Same here. Maybe we should attack," replied Aurumon.
"I think we... Should just leave. We've gotta find... The other chosen... Digidestineds," the reason for all the breaks was because Faridatmonn found it hard to grip the tree branch with her paws. "Yelp!" she cried.
A small puppy crashed into the bushes and the swan turned her head towards the sound.
"Oh well, too late. We've got to attack to protect Faridatmon, since she revealed our hiding place too," Aurumon said.
"Fine," Intmon sighed. "Leaf barrage!"
"Feather duster!" joined Aurumon.
An assault of leaves and feathers headed towards the swan.
"Rainbow beam!" Faridatmon joined as soon as she managed to scramble into an upright position.
A beam of rainbow colours was fired out of Faridatmon's gem and flew independently at the swan.
"Reflect," the swan replied to all the attacks without opening it's beak.
A glass wall shot up. All the attacks hit square onto the wall and bounced back. The assault they each contributed was fired back at them.
"Argh!" All three digimon cried.
"Aurumon! Faridatmon! Intmon!" Foaly, Holly and Artemis shouted.
They ran to tend their wounded digimon partners. Artemis, Foaly and Holly turned to look at the girl and her digimon. The swan had wrapped its wings around her and in a flash of blinding light they both disappeared. The only sign that told they were there before was a single pink feather that gently floated down. It would get blown away sometime anyway.
"...So someone tell me what just happened?" Holly asked.
"That was Tranquilmon, one of the Digimon trying to take over the Digital World. And the girl was her digimon partner. I don't know anything else though. The dark side has always been a mystery to everyone," replied Faridatmon.
"What about the appearing and disappearing act and the barrier?" Holly asked again.
"Well, my conclusion is that Tranquilmon is a digimon having exceptional mental processes," Artemis answered.
"You mean that Digimon's got a mental problem?" Holly was confused with his definition.
"No. Fowl means that Tranquilmon has unusual mental powers," Foaly answered this time.
"So she does have a mental problem!" Holly declared.
"No, Holly. What we mean is that she has extrasensory powers," Artemis replied.
"Extrasensory? Does that mean she's got a sixth senth and can see the dead?"
"No," Foaly growled in fustration. "It means that she has the power to see into the future, teleport, use telepathy, read our minds and all that other stuff. What she just did was teleport herself away."
"Oh, why didn't you just say so before, Foaly? Well, let's get going anyway. We've got to find the others so we can get back to LEP headquarters ASAP," Holly quickly said and hurried on while carrying Faridatmon.
*~World of Artemis Fowl, Underground~*
"Foaly! Foaly! Where are you? Got yourself out here right now!" Root called but no reply came. "Foaly! If you don't come out now, I'll slash your budget for playing truant."
Still no reply from Foaly. Root started to worry. But soon thought better when a piece debris from the LEP headquarters building collapsed directly ahead of him.
'Well, that's his escape cut off. If, IF, he survives this ordeal, I'm gonna wring his little pony neck for not warning us when Koboi had decidedly escaped Howler's Peak and placed us as #1 on her list of 'Places to Destroy'. Where's Holly anyway?' Root thought.
"Hey! Trouble! You know where Holly disappeared to?"
"No, sir. The last I saw of her was when she disappeared into Foaly's Ops Booth," the elf replied.
'WelL, at least if my best female recon officer is with that pony, my vision of wringing his neck will have a sufficient increase of coming true,' Root thought. 'Better get out of danger's way too.'
Bits of rock shattered above Root's head and he made for a dive under a desk.
*~Cave, Digital World~*
A light shone through an opening ahead of Danielle and Lexmon. They emerged from the cave opening and saw a large forest below them and the ocean further up.
"Lucky guess Lexmon. Now what?" Daneille asked.
"Well, see where there's a fight going on by the Sea of Sincerity? We're headed there," announced Lexmon.
"What? All the way there? But that's too far away!" whined the Italian brunette.
"Well, ok then. We won't try to get you home," sighed Lexmon and sneaked a look to see if Danielle was buying his act.
She was staring at Lexmon and thinking about her choices; whether to stay by the cave and wait for the others to find her before getting a chance to return home or do her best to reach the fight by walking and return home earlier.
"Oh, ok. We'll walk there," sighed Danielle at last.
Danielle and Lexmon slid down the side of the mountain, trampled through the forest before Danielle declared she was too tired to go any further, although she had only walked for only about five minutes.
"We'll take a rest then," replied Lexmon.
A low growling sound and the rustle from bushes to the side of Danielle startled her. She tripped on a root just as a blue ball of fire blasted at her.
"Oh, what luck... My brand new jeans are ripped," muttered Danielle and sat up to inspect her black jeans, oblivious of what she had just avoided.
A dark red leopard with blue spots calmly strode out of the bushes. Its blue eyes glared at the pair while Danielle continued muttering away and complaining about what had happened to her clothes. Lexmon bounded in front of the newcomer, afraid that he might attack his human partner.
"Leopmon... You'd better not to anything to harm us," threatened Lexmon.
"Oh, hello Lexmon. And, no, I won't be doing anything to harm you two... Just the girl," growled Leopmon in reply. "Icy fire!"
Just as he finished the sentence, he fired the blue fireball again. Danielle had finally gotton over her ripped jeans and stared at the two digimon. She then noticed the fireball closing in on her. Using her hands, Danielle tried to shield herself since she wouldn't be able to avoid it on time. Nothing happened to Danielle and she lifted her arms to see what had happened.
"LEXMON!"Danielle cried.
Lexmon had jumped in the way of Leopmon's attack and avoided it hitting its target, Danielle. He concentrated while Leopmon fixed his deep blue eyes on her. Leopmon readied himself to pounce on the vulnerable human girl.
"LEXMON DIGIVOLVE TO... CINDRAMON!"
"Electric shock," a black kangaroo with yellow electric stripes and red eyes called out.
Leopmon pounced but landed short when he was electrocuted by Cindramon's electric attack. Leopmon tried again but was kicked out of the way by Cindramon. Leopmon landed on his feet but was quite tired out by his efforts.
"Leopmon, time to go," a female voice shouted from the treetops and a chinese girl swung off a low branch.
Brown eyes were revealed and straight, mid-back length hair floated gently behind her. She wore a black sleeveless top with a lion picture surrounded by fire on the front. Her blue faded jeans were held up by a black stud belt. The girl also wore blue platform shoes that raised her height by three centimeters and black cuffs that went from her shoulder to her elbow. A gold chain necklace with a ruby sun pendent and ruby Leo earrings flashed as she moved towards Leopmon.
A pink swan appeared a covered the Digimon and girl before Danielle got a good look at her. Then they disappeared. Danielle turned to the former Lexmon, the current Cindramon.
"So, why couldn't you do this before so I didn't need to walk?" she asked.
"You weren't in danger so I didn't need to," was the answer from the kangaroo.
"I was in danger of becoming exhausted," Danielle said back.
"Not a good enough excuse for me to digivolve," Cindramon replied. "But since I have digivolved to rookie form now, I might've well take you . Get on."
The brunette climbed onto his back and held on just as Cindramon bounded off towards their destination, the shore by the Sea of Sincerity.
"So, how was it inside that fireball?" Danielle asked.
"Well, it was fire so it felt hot, but then it felt so hot that it felt cold. But if it did feel cold, then it felt so cold it felt hot. You get what I mean?" said Cindramon as they bounded along.
"Um... not really..." Danielle replied.
"Well, anyway, why'd you ask? Trying to strike a conversation because you're starting to like digimon?" asked Cindramon slyly.
"What? No way! I hate this place. That digimon, Leopmon or whatever, tried to kill me!" Danielle complained.
"But I saved you. Doesn't that make up?"
"No. Because... this place will never be as good as home!"
*~Labyrinth, Digital World~*
Tranquilmon returned with the chinese girl and her digimon partner by the Labyrinth of Light.
"What did you think you were doing? You were supposed to stay with me, Vinya!" scolded the cat-like girl.
"Well, sorry. But I prefer to work alone, Katrina. And I work better that way too," replied Vinya.
"That's no excuse. I was worried sick about you! I'm the oldest here, at age 18, while you're the youngest, at age 13, and you're still under my supervision," Katrina answered Vinya.
"Hey! Just because I'm blind doesn't mean I can't hear you. Quiet down over there, I'm trying to get some sleep!" a female voice shouted through a door on the second storey of the castle.
"Sorry, Michelle. We'll stop now!" Katrina shouted back up. "Well, we might've get some sleep too. Goodnight, Vinya."
"Goodnight Katrina. See you in the morning," she replied.
Vinya helped her injured Leopmon into her room before attempting to attend the cuts, bruises and other injuries. Katrina did the same with her digimon, Dionmon.
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Well, that's the third chapter done. Review please!
(1) I'm afraid the girl's ain't the Canker Sisters from Ed, Edd and Eddy. I know next to nothing about Ed, Edd and Eddy, let alone the Canker Sisters.
(2) I got this from a book somewhere. Forgot who it was by or what it was called. Just thought It'd be a good description to put here.
(3)They're all in a castle in the middle of the labyrinth.
(4) They were on the first storey while Michelle was on the second.