Digimon: .

by: falkoren

{Thoughts}

(sounds)

(A/N: .)

blah~ = emphasis

'sarcasm'

~lack of better word thing~



{What's. going on.I can't see.anything. Was that Renamon merciless enough to.kill.me?}

"Oh, wake up~ darling." The yellow kitsune spoke in an soft giggly voice.

{Oh no. I hope Guilmon is alright.}

Then as if on cue. "Takatomon!!!!"

Takato's eyes burst open to see the panicking red dinosaur cower and squirm within his restraints in the face of their.curse. "Leave him alone!" he hopped to his feet a bit.tied up.

"Oh~, why should I?" Her face was an unusual shade of red around her nose, and in one of her hands was a deep green bottle labeled.Yebisu.(A/N: Yebisu is a brand of beer from NGE. I dunno if its real or not.)

Takato nervously chuckled and slowly backed away. "No.reason?" he continued to back away.

Renamon got up a bit.unsteady and.wobbled toward him. "What's wrong? I am perfectly capable of holding my liq-" Immediately she passed out with a somewhat lecherous grin on her face, drooling. Not the most pleasant of ways to pass out.

Once again, Takato nervously chuckled and slowly edged himself closer to his partner. {Note to self, NEVER ask what was going through her mind right now.} "C,come on, G,g,Guilmon. I think it's time to.go." He broke for an all out dash through the door.

"Wait for me Takatoooooo!" Guilmon hopped to his feet and quickly caught up with his tamer.

~The castle ruins~

The surviving digimon gathered at the ruins of the fallen castle, the joy of the victory was quickly wearing. After honoring brave Agumon with a small memorial, the tamers were quickly losing the hope of finding Takato. alive.

"How do we expect to save Takato if we don't even have a clue where he is." Kenta hopelessly tried to understand their current situation.

Rika quickly gave Kenta an icy glare.

Renamon kneeled and embraced her partner then drew in close to her ear. "Don't worry Rika, I'm sure we'll find them." Renamon lacked confidence in her own words but did her best to hold back her doubt. {Guilmon. you better be alive when I get there.}

Noticing the expressions of despair plastered on the faces of his unlikely friends, Talon stared hard at the sky. {How can they be so hopeless! I've never seen them like this.} Various memories of his life since he's met them roll through his head.

The ground begins to rumble lightly, so lightly that even the finest hearing couldn't sense it. Before long, the rumbling increased in volume to where the digimon began to notice it. First, it caught Renamon's attention and then Agumon and Talon's. Soon all of them could feel it.

"What's that rumbling?" Renamon stood protectively by her tamer.

A Biyomon standing on some of the rubble sees something in the distance. She sees some sort of column.purple column, sucking in various loose materials on the landscape. The column went up higher than the eye could see. It appeared. endless. In moments, Biyomon realized what it was. It was. " A data stream!"

The tamers quickly realized that it was the source of the rumbling, and it was approaching at a VERY fast rate. The previously silent group of digimon were terrified of the data stream. The place was chaos in seconds. Digimon trampling each other in order to get out of the way, despite their horrible experiences here this was the only place they knew. Nothing meant more to them in the world than familiarity. No matter the cost they wanted to stay here. Yes, a data stream was not something they were about to greet. To them it meant disappearing forever. No one entered one and returned.

"Its horrible.the digimon.they're so.so.heartless!" Jeri dove into Henry's chest crying.

Leomon felt helpless not being able to help his tamer at such a time. {Its alright Jeri. You have a gentle heart. You do not deserve this, but please.be brave.} A tear, such a foreign thing, had now penetrated his stern face.

The tamers quickly followed the digimon.

The data stream was ever closer now.closer.closer.and a Gatomon is standing directly in its path!

Agumon turned around to see if anyone is to slow to keep up and spots the Gatomon. {No! What is she doing just standing there!?} Agumon's shock wore away just as Talon turned to see him run off.

"Agumon! What are you doing!? You won't make it back in time!" Then he saw what he was aiming for. "I'm not about to leave you alone!"

The other tamers were dumbfounded at his apparent moronic actions, but even Kazu, as dense as he was, knew he was chasing his Agumon. And of course, Kazu was the first to run after him. "Hey, wait!" he waved his arms frantically while running.

Guardromon wasted no time in following his fairly spontaneous tamer. "Kazu, I do not support your choice of action right now!"

Apparently, Rika and Renamon didn't hesitate to follow either.

Once there, Agumon tackled and rolled with the digimon his grasp. {What, is she crying?}

The last three tamers finally figured out what was going on finally tried to catch up.

He quickly recovered from the roll and began running towards his tamer. The data stream was to close now. Agumon jumped into Talon's arms with Gatomon and. {I have to ask her la-}

FSHHHHHHHH~

Just like that, the data stream had passed, the tamers nowhere to be found.

~Elsewhere~

The area was totally desolate except for three digimon and a human. Two mega a rookie and.Ryo.

"This power! It's. INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!" Ryo's voice echoed throughout the desolate plain.

"I knew you would like it." The calmer mega was lightly chuckling.

The rookie was silent while the mad mega was but quiet. The thing was roaring like mad. To Ryo it was music, a classical ballet that you never want to end. To anyone with a scrap of sanity it was filled with agony and incomprehensible rage. Yes, the digimon itself didn't enjoy this experience, but it had no choice or any option. It had to be a mad rampaging digimon. Nothing else would satiate its.lust. Its lust for.death.

Ryo stared wide-eyed with wonderment at Neraphimon. "Now I have the power to decimate those pathetic," he pauses before stating their title to emphasize his disgust, "tamers." He spat on the ground imagining Takato's face while he grinded the image with his foot.

Monodramon sat there staring at his tamer. {How could jealousy reduce you to this, Ryo.} He thought of Ryo's name with overbearing pity. He blankly stared into the eyes of the tamer he once knew inside and out, and saw nothing but the flames of hatred and the erratic gale of jealousy fueling it.

In moments Ryo looked up at Monodramon and slashed a digivolve card. It was mere silence between them as light flashed and Cyberdramon took his place. "Cyberdramon finish that excuse for a Metal Garurumon and load its data."

Cyberdramon made quick work of the mad Metal Garurumon after Ryo swiped a few cards. Cyberdramon did not however absorb the data. Ryo wasn't looking so he simply watched it disappear into the air. {This is wrong but I'll never leave Ryo's side for anything.}

~Some odd green place~

The tamers are sprawled along the landscape in this field, and the digimon with them.

Talon is curled in a ball embracing his Agumon and the Gatomon protectively. He opens his tightly closed eyes and feels a light gentle breeze caressing his skin. He also takes notice of the grass that seems perfect. He steadily gets up and places Agumon and Gatomon onto the ground.

Gatomon pushed herself away from Agumon and stared at her paws with steady streams flowing from her eyes. "Why am I still. here?" She fell to her knees and banged her paws against the soft fertile ground.

Agumon looked at her with pity sewn into his gaze. "What's wrong?"

Her immediate response was clawing at Agumon. He easily parried but she kept at it. She was quickly worn down. "Why did you grab me!"

Agumon was taken aback by her comment, but promptly answered. "You never would have survived should you have been by yourself." He figured it was simple enough reasoning.

Talon watched a bit intrigued at Gatomon's response to being saved.

"I didn't WANT to live after that.mistake. Our leader, a Skull Greymon, he betrayed us! It wasn't his fault but that doesn't change what happened. I don't want to 'live'." She held her other arm at the middle and stared at the grass that came up to her waist.

Talon simply sighed. {Another suicidal. They don't end.} His face went blank.

Agumon was appalled by the confession. "What's wrong with you!? You weren't given a life to throw away!"

{Ahh, the same speech he gave me.} Talon gently smiled at his Agumon.

"You were given a life to live as you want! Not to pick a way to die and wait for it."

Little to say, Gatomon was slightly shocked. Most of what she'd seen of this Agumon consisted of finding this Takato person his partner and protecting Talon.

Now Agumon's voice took a gentler tone. "I in particular, chose to live my life for others. I live for myself also but my life wouldn't mean as much as it does if I hadn't had Talon for a partner and met the other tamer. He looked over in their direction and noticed that quite a few of them were knocked out in very.uncomfortable positions, forcing a nervous chuckle out of him.

Gatomon also slightly chuckled. It brought a smile to Agumon's face.

{What happened.did that idiot have to rush into the data stream.} Rika groaned as she was getting up. She was sore all over.

Even Renamon, one of the strongest of them, found it difficult to get up.

One after the other they got up, each with their own groan of pain.

Talon looked over at the arising tamers. He had found a rock and sat on it with Agumon at his side and Gatomon a few feet away. "What took you guys so long?"

His first response was a rock thrown at his head, a gift from Rika, but he easily dodged it. The following bombardment of rocks was a bit.harder to.dodge. In moments, he was buried under a pile of rocks that looked very similar to the memorial they built not to long ago.

Despite their previous depression, they couldn't help but laugh as the only thing of Talon visible was his twitching hand.

"I guess we. overdid it?" They all laughed, feeling strange about laughing after such a horrible thing, but for some odd reason they were a bit happier.

Talon smiled even though he was buried beneath a pile of rubble. {I wish they could smile and laugh like that more often. I'm sure finding Takato wouldn't be so much of a problem if we were happier.}





A/N: I'm thinking that I have to put less in each chapter and expand what I'm writin a bit. I can't make sensible titles because to much is goin on in each chapter, but I'll try an keep it at 1500 words or above k'? I won't bother you guys to much so I'm gonna let you *takes out random hypnosis equipment* Review~~ *Puts away equipment and chuckles nervously* Bai bai