KD: Yea, Merborymon is in da houuuuse!!

Tomoki: Stop, you are embarassing us.

KD: Sorry, anyways, Takuya merby, and others are focus of this chap, Koj Koui and others next chap, dont own...start the fic.

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CHAPTER 23: THE NOMAD DRACOMON AND THE LEGENDARY SPIRIT OF WOOD!!

Takuya was standing watch, and he looked over to merborymon, and see that he is awake as well, "hello..." Takuya said weakly, and merborymon turned to him and spoke, "I thought it might have been a dream, that this was all some nightmare, but no." Takuya sat next to him, "You are an evil digimon, I suppose you are a cross between arbormon, and mercurymon. I can tell, you cant fool any of us, why are you doing this?" merborymon sat up, and sighed, "Well, you are wrong takuya, I am a mix of them, yes, but even they were under a certain control, they were not real spirits, they were mere puppets, and I am one as well, I found a break though. I destroyed my bond with the evil that had trapped me, as ranamon and grumblemon had done, but I had already grown to powerful, I destroyed them."

Takuya looked at him, "No, you didnt destroy them, if you are who you say. You cant have." merborymon let out a soft warm laugh, "Thank you, Takuya." he got up, and looked over to the others, "Your little brother Shiya awakes, gather the others, we leave now." Takuya woke Utaka and Tomoki, and they each slowly rose from their places, and merborymon walked to them, "Now, we have to leave, he picked them up, and shot into the sky, and sailed towards the mountains, and Takuya pushed his goggles over his eyes, which widened, what he saw before him was unbelievable.

They were high in the air, and he could see over the mountains, the battle still waged on, the air digimon were fighting and small explosions could be seen, on the ground, the digimon were also fighting hard, warrior digimon were going into hand to hand combat while others shot blasts towards them,he could see many dark copies of digimon fighting thier counterparts, and he saw drumon fighting many digimon at once, and he started to look frantically for cherubimon, seraphimon and ophanimon, but did not see any sign of them.

Merborymon slowed down, and dropped the kids off on the ledge of a mountain, and walked towards Utaka, "Give me your D-tector." Utaka took it out, "Why?" merborymon looked at him, and took the D-Tector, as Utaka reached for it, merborymon pushed him down, and the D-Tector started to grow, then, he threw it back at Utaka and walked towards Shinya, "You too." he said, and grabbed the D-Tector, it shined, and he gave it back, he walked near the edge of the mountain, "I will be back, but if I am not, if I am destroyed, my spirits will go to your D-Tectors." He set off his rockets and floated off the side of the mountain, and Takua ran to him, "No!"

"What are we supposed to do?" merborymon looked at him, "Stay here, you will be safe, no one will think of coming this high up the mountain, and there is a cave around the other corner." Utaka walked up to him, "Dont get hurt." Takuya looked at Utaka, and back at merborymon, "How did you change?" merborymon laughed, "I digivolved." he turned and flew off, and Takuya sat down at the edge of the mountain, "I still dont trust him completly, but he is our only form of protection." Utaka sat next to him as Tomoki and Shinya both stood near them, "Its alright Takuya, lets get to that cave, and see if we can watch the battle from there."

They walked around the corner of the mountain, and then, jumped back, "I thought he said that it was safe up here!" Takuya pushed Shinya back, there was a dragon like digimon at the other side of the mountain flying towards them, Tomoki looked around the corner of the mountain, and his eyes widened, e saw the digimon flying at him, and it landed on the mountain side, "It is coming closer!" he gasped, and Utaka pulled him behind a rock, and they both ducked down, Takuya did the same behind a rock at the other edge of mountain, and peeked around it, he could just make out a plated red tail, it swung around, and he heard a bang and a rumble, then, saw rocks fall down the side of the mountain as a face appeared around the corner.

It was the face of a dragon, thick and it had short fangs sticking out, and a single small horn on the tip of its nose, it walked out a little more, and he could see it fully, it had red skin, and had black stripes down its back, it had a very slender body, and metallic armor covering its chest, and an open abdomen, he had a rope belt, that held up baggy shorts that ended in tears under his knees, and its feet were very big, and had three toes ending in sharp claws. its arms were long and slender, on the right forearm, it had a metal claw, with three fingers and a thumb, all ending in claws, on the other hand, it was long and slender, and had a hand that looked like the other one, but it was normal.

"Come on out, where ever you are..." its voice was deep, and low, "I know you are here, I saw a digimon leave just awhile ago, and heard talk-hmmm....." Takuya went back behind the rock, and heard the foot steps of the giant digimon, he was breathing hard, and he grabbed onto Shinya,but then, the support behind his back dissapeared, and he saw that the dragon digimon had destroyed the rock with its metal claw, by smashing it. it grabbed Takuya but the collar of his shirt, and Shinya ran towards the wall of the mountain, "I seem to be lucky that I awoke here....right? In that cave, that is where I slept for the past many years...and...I heard your voices, and saw the digimon fly...and felt a presence." he laughed, "Your presence, you are the holder of the Spirit of Flame, if I destroy you...My reign shall never end, you cant take my Soul Stone, and...I will never fall to rest again." Takuya tried to shake free, and it was hopeless, the dragon digimon turned to where Shinya had run, which was where Utaka and Tomoki were, "I guess they are the Spirits of the others..." he tossed the rock the were hiding behind away, and tossed Takuya at them, as he backed up, "Good bye you all!"

He lifted his metallic claw, "Dragons Fury!" it came down qucikly, and they could not even see it due to its speed, but it was sopped, when Takuya opened his eyes he had shut from fear, he saw a gigantic silver claw inches from his face. He dove sideways towards Utaka and Tomoki, and ran to a rock with them and Shinya behind him, and looked back, a flying digimon had grabbed the dragon by the wrist, Utaka stepped forward, "Wow...thats amazing, did you see that speed?" the dragon was dragged towards the flying digimon, but then, stopped and brought it s fist back, and the digimon flew past him, and stopped right before the kids. It turned and faced off, "Dracomon! Stay away from them." Takuyas eyes widened, "The dragon digimon that has the Stone of Fire!" he got up, and inched slightly away forrm the rock, Utaka grabbed his shoulder, "Stay back Takuya, the other might be evil as well.

The digimon was as tall as Dracomon, very tall, it had a small head in a helm, that had a rectangular openning for its glowing eyes, and a dark shadowy neck, then, it had chest armor, that seemed to be made of wood, and two jets coming from each shoulder blade on its back. It had long metal arms, and at the elbow, one arm was connected to a huge wooden mallet, on the other ar, it was connected to a stick of wood, that was conected to a metal for arm gaurd, and out the end cam a large hand, as dark and shadowy as the face of the digimon. it also had a dark uncovered abdomon, that led to a metal pelvic covering, that was conected to two wooden legs, that were each at the knee conected to metal legs, that ended in metallic boots.(I have a picture I drew of it...and I am trying to describe it.)

It stood up, and faced off with dracomon, "Elemon, you try and protect them, but why...?" elemon stared at him, "How do you know me?" dracomon laguhed, "I and the others know all about the world as it progressed. you have become the true spirit, but through much pain, and you and I both know it will be you end!!" he lunged at the digimon, "Dragons Fury!" elemon lifted his huge hammer, "Flying Mallet!!" he brought his arm back, and forced it in front of him, as the mallet shot out, and dracomon brought forth his metallic arm in quick repetitions, and hit the flying object with great force, but it over powered him, and he fell back.

Dracomon looked back a the mallet flew out, and turned to attack his opponent, he jumped up, and flipped down, "Dragons Fury!" he brought back his metal claw, and attacked, elemon fell back, and put out his good hand, "Solid Formation!" the hand formed into a long black whip that was thick at first, but, became very thin, "Snap!" he jumped up, as dracomon flinched, and he thrust his arm downward, and the whip cracked loudly, he landed, and he grew his hand back, and reached towards dracomons face, who backed up, "What?" elemon stopped, and dracomon rushed forward, but was hit hard suddenly in the back of his head, and was forced to the ground, and elemon grabbed his mallet, and placed it in its rightful socket.

Dracomon rolled out of the way as elemon kicked at him, and leaped up, he backed away, "Colossal Flame!" he bent hid head down, and lifted it revealing flames in his mouth, elemon backed up, and jumped into the ground, He looked at the dragon digimon who opened its mouth wide, and flames erupted out, and singed the corner off of the mountain, and hit elemon, who fell to the ground, burning, and dedigivolved into merborymon, and hit the side of the mountain, and toppled to the bottom, and dracomon with flames still in his mouth, blew to the side, ans flames escaped, and he ran at the kids, "Dragons Fury!"he ran at them, and let his fist fly, ans the kids were cornered, but Utaka and Takuya both ran at him, and Utaka rolled under him, as Takuya rolled behind a rock, and around, Utaka climbed onto his back, and Takuya got on top of the rock, and jumped at his head, and he stopped abruptly, and Tomoki grabbed Shinyas arm, and they ran as fast as they could around the mountain.

Takuya wrapped his arms over one of dracomons eyes, and Utaka did the same on the other side, and dracomon backed up, a little bit, Utaka looked back, they were under where the flame attack had hit, and the rocks were very loose a little bit behind them, as a rock slide had gone down the mountain, "Follow me, Takuya!" he jumped down dracomons back, and Takuya followed as dracomon tried to grab for them, Utaka landed on the loose rocks, and found a small one that was soe what ut, he picked it up, and threw it at dracomon, who took notice, and turned to them, he let out a growl, and started to walk towards them, "Not very bright, are you guys? Trying to pick on me?" Utaka ran and Takuya followed him, they were almost past the loose racks, but Dracomon was nearly to the halfway point, but, he stepped on a very loose one, and it fell, and he tripped, another was hit by the rock, and another, and the rocks started to slide again, he fell down, and the rocks started to cover him, he rolled over, and there was a jutted piece of land that stopped rocks from going under it, dracomon thrust his claws one feet and hand into the side of the mountain, and slide a bit before stopping, and Takuya looked out at him, "Utaka, it didnt work, he..." but Takuya trailed off, the shoulderblades on dracomons back were getting larger.

Utaka went over to where Takuya was, the rocks stopped falling, he ran across, and Takuya did the same, he turned towards the side of the mountain, that dracomon came from, and half the rocks remained, and there was an inclined trail. They ran up it, and Takuya made it up first, and saw that there were many rocks still there, he started to push on one that was jutted out, and Utaka helped. Dracomon was at the side of the mountian still, and his soulder blades were still getting larger, and he started to growl very low, and his face somewhat distorted with stress.

Tomoki was running to the other side of the mountain, but, his foot hit a loose rock, and he fell, Shinya tried to grab him, but he was forced down as well, and they started to slide and roll down the side of the mountain. They went down and down, and the mountain side started to level out, and the soon were rolling into a forest, and when the incline leveled out completely, they rolled right into a bush, and stayed unconcious.

Utaka and takuya were now trying their hardest, and Takuya had his feet proped up against the side, while he was pushing the rock with his back, and it was moving ever slightly. Dracomon though was getting up, his back was now sprouting small wings, and they were getting larger, then, all of a sudden, they reached full length, and he let out a loud scream, and it was loud enough for Utaka and Takuya to here, and the rock slid ever so slightly more.

They were pushing as hard as they could against the rocks, and then, as dracomon flew into the air, it gave way, and they pushed it out, Takuya fell and went over the side of the mountain, as Utaka dove to save him, and dracomoon started to fly up at them, but, then, he noticed the rock slide, and they all fell over him, and this time, he went all the way down to the bottom, he was finally beaten, Takuya grabbed on to Utakas wrist with both hands as Utaka struggled to hold on. They were both losing their vitality, and many small rocks were hitting both of them hard, but, then, as Utaka finally started getting Takuya up, one big rock hit him in the side, and he fell over, letting go of Takuya and falling off the edge of the small part they were on, and Takuya fell down as well, as they both went down, something amazing happened, Utaka was getting stronger, he could feel it...

"Execute!" Utaka yelled instinctivly, "Spirit Evolution!!" he scanned his fractal code, and digivolved, he became, "Foliamon!" and flew towards Takuya.

Foliamon was the Human Hybrid Spirit of Wood, he has a wooden jawbone covering conected to a wodden crown covering his head and revealing bright red eyes over its forked mask, he has a very slender neck that goes to a well crafted wooden chest armor much like arbormons, and he has two gears in his back, over his shoulder blades, and four leaves coming from it, two very large ones on top, and two smaller ones on the bottom, he has an open abdomen that is covered in a felt black material, and a grey belt wit a big round white buckle, and he has two leg armor things covering to his knees from just below his waist(The felt covers all of his body), and his calves are covered all around by armored boots that look alot like the chest plate, and his arms are black felt fabric to the elbows, where it stops, ans shows skin to the wrist, where armored gloves cover half of his forearm, and he has silver bands around each of his wrists.

Foliamon flew fast as the wind and caught Takuya with great speed, and he then, flew up, and back, away from the rocks falling down, and landed on the side of the mountain, letting Takuya down, Takuya looked up, "Wow...Utaka, you digivolved..." foliamon took awhile to look at himself, and then, dedigivolved, and fell over, "I think its time to sleep Takuya..." Takuya laughed, "Yeah..." he sat down aginst the cliff wall, and closed his eyes.

KD: Sorry about the lateness...I rewrote the whole thing like three times, and just couldnt get the story right...also, my internet is busted, so I am not quite shure when this will be posted.

Rika: Anways, since not many of you enjoy it anyways, he is gonna take it slow from now on...

KD: Yea, and anyways, its not that good...this chap I mean...too fast.

Rika: Digimon: Digital Monsters!

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