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A New Quest: Search for the Crest
When last we left everyone…they found Centarumon, went back to the ruins and all touched their pillars. After the light show the centaur digimon translated the writing and described the prophecies. Jason went off alone to think but Pixie followed him and ended up kissing him…when she left Jay showed up…how is he in the right place at the right time?
Savannah stretched, she had volunteered to take the last watch so Lauren could sleep in the tent and so the "guys" didn't get overly tired. She surveyed the campsite.
In the tent the six beings were sleeping soundly, Centarumon was lying down on his horse body, arms crossed. Jay and Washimon were both snoring the same volume and pitch. They both had a large bubble emerging from their nostril. Michael was sleeping soundlessly while his partner was in a meditative trance beside him. Jay and Washimon were both snoring the same volume and pitch. They both had a large bubble emerging from their nostril. This left two remaining. She glanced to each side of Jay, Jason was sleeping on the ground, using a log to prop his head, while Pixie was slumbering in Jason's sleeping bag. Savannah didn't know why Jay had insisted on separating the two but he must've had his reasons. Now the campsite began to stir. First Centarumon stood up and began to stretch. Then he began to glance around his surroundings. He looked up at a pillar to gauge the approximate height of the temple that once stood here. He sighed. Jason was up next, as usual. He greeted the members of the group that were up and about and went about his early morning activities.
Eventually each digidestined woke and soon the campsite was filled with the clamor of early morning activities, from food patrol, to cooking duty, to even cleaning up. Centarumon's gaze remained fixated on the pillars as the humans worked. He could sense that there was something about them that still remained hidden.
"Goggled one," he said calmly. "I believe that there is something on top of this pillar. Perhaps you could reach it."
Jason put down his bag and approached the centaur. "Where?" He asked.
"On each of the pillar tops…there seems to be some sort of carvings," Centarumon said pointing.
"Ok gimme a boost," Jason said as he approached his pillar. Centarumon let him stand on his back as he looked at the picture. "It looks like some sort of box…or card…that I'd use in a computer…it has some strange markings...It looks like one of the figures that was inscribed on each column before we touched them all."
"I surmise that the other pillars have similar markings," Jay said.
"It looks like it," Jason called from his vantage point as Centarumon moved him around the columns.
"Does the center pillar have an sort of additional inscriptions?" Michael asked.
"Um…I can't see anything…Centarumon can we get closer?" Jason said as he tried to see from his perch. The four legged "stool" moved closer to the second pillar. Now Jason was able to see a carving on the very top of the circular column. "It looks like the others," Jason informed them. "But it seems that there's an arrow rather than a symbol…it seems to point that way." He finished that thought pointing the way towards the port city. In doing this he lost his balance and fell off centaur.
"I guess we could stop in at the town," Sarah said.
"Maybe pick up some supplies," Savannah said.
"And introduce Lauren," Pixie added.
"Well let's go to wherever you guys are talking about," Lauren said in a confident tone.
"Well if that's settled…Centarumon…thank you for everything but we really should be going," Jason said.
"I understand," Centarumon said. "If you ever need help my friends just call."
The chosen said their goodbyes to the prophet that they'd just recently met and trudged through the forest.
As soon as they got out of hearing distance, "They'll never call," Centarumon said. "I'll just be left alone here…"
OK back to the hero's. They were walking when Michael popped a question to the youngest member of the group.
"Lauren…I've gotta know," Michael began. "How exactly did you get to the digital world?"
"Well…" Lauren took in a deep breath. "It all started…well a couple days ago. I was in my house that's close to Niagara Falls…but I was sick. I'm usually sick and get over it in a day or so but this was different…this was worse…my parents kept talking of pneumonia." She paused.
"You can stop now if you want," Pixie informed her.
Lauren shook her head. "No I'll keep going. Anyway, I was sick…and it didn't look like I'd get better…but I knew…I knew that I'd get well. After it happened…this blue watch appeared. It seemed that my confidence caused the watch to come to me. Then I decided to go and watch the falls, and when I got out the door, I remembered the watch. I put it on and the next thing I knew, I was in a forest with giant creatures."
"I'm not that big anymore," Dazemon complained from her arms.
The young girl looked at the form in her arms, "OH DAZEMON I WAS SO WORRIED ABOUT YOU! DON'T YOU EVER SCARE ME LIKE THAT AGAIN!"
"Well…at least we know why she wasn't there in the first place," Meddie stated.
It was close to nighttime. The group slowly approached the town. The tall apartment complex stood out of the forest.
They entered the quaint port and see...fireworks?
"They must be celebrating the defeat of Echomon," Sarah mused.
"Well we should be in the spotlight," Jay said.
When they found the source of the show they were surprised to see not a celebration of Echomon's demise, or of the return of the "missing" digimon. The entire town was gathered at the…grand opening of a mall?
"A MALL?" The three male individuals and male digimon exclaim.
"A MALL!!!!!!!!" The girls (and girl digimon) exclaim, dragging the skeptics behind them. They pushed their way to the front of the crowd to see the doors sealed by a red ribbon.
Wizardmon was on stage; there was also a second figure, a bipedal feline, with a sword, though he was dressed in a suit.
"I would like to thank the owner, Leomon, for contributing this fine Digital Mall to our fine port," Wizardmon began, and then he attacked the ribbon causing it to evaporate. "And now I proclaim this mall to be open."
"SHOPPING!! SHOPPING!!" The girls said dragging the boys in tow.
They stop to see the mayor talking with the other three digimon that were controlled by the carrier bat.
"HIYA WIZARDMON," Meddie said.
"Sorry we had to fight you guys…" Sarah said. Michael, Savannah, and Jason all looked down at the ground. They were embarrassed.
Wizardmon jumped at the sound of the teens, but when he turned he smiled. "Ah kids," He looks at Lauren. "I see we have one more…but no matter…I would like to thank you for ridding our quaint port of the disease."
"As a reward," Leomon said approaching. "I'm going to give you anything you desire in the mall as a reward."
Before everyone's eyes could light up, Jason spoke up, "we only need necessities, camping supplies, canteens…"
"And some new clothes," Savannah interjected. "These old ones are starting to smell."
"Very well just send me the bill," Leomon told them as he developed a sweat drop.
Thus the Digidestined raced into the mall dragging the less avid shoppers behind them. They entered a store called the Digigap. Inside the teens were shocked at the variety of selection. There were various sizes of clothes, from fresh, to in-training, to rookie, to champion and even some sizes above that. More astonishing was the fact that there were human sizes as well…in fact almost a third of the store was made for humans…it was as if some non-digimon creatures had been in this world before.
"COME ON LETS GO SHOP!!" Pixie said dragging the goggle neck. Lauren followed close behind them, she couldn't explain it but she felt some sort of bond between herself and these two.
"Lets go Jay!" Sarah and Savannah said simultaneously as they dragged him into the store.
Michael just sweatdropped and walked alongside Medusa. The two teens walked in silence side-by-side. Michael and Medusa shopped side by side, each giving his or her own opinions about the clothes that their companion picks out.
Michael picked out some red shorts. "I think they'll look great on you Michael," Medusa assures him. She also tells him to grab some t-shirts too, as well as some jeans. He also picks up a red pair of swim trunks.
He advises her to stick with her color of burgundy; she picked out a couple of shirts, one tank-top one t-shirt. And shorts. She also got a burgundy swimsuit.
They finished picking out their individual desires and they walked to the checkout together.
Back to the clothes, Jay was once again caught between two rocks and a hard place. Sarah and Savannah were trying to shop for Jay, picking out their respective favorite colors.
"Put this on Jay," Sarah said holding up a purple shirt.
"No, try this on, this'll look better on you," Savannah said thrusting an orange shirt in front of his face.
"If I say I'll get them both would you leave me to my shopping?" Jay asked desperately.
The girls nodded. Jay sighed in despair as he grabbed both shirts and walked towards the green clothes. Aside from the two shirts he picked up a green muscle shirt as well as a couple of pairs of green shorts. He also grabbed a pair of green trunks.
Savannah, after giving Jay the shirt she picked out, decided to return to the orange clothes. Here she picked out an orange t-shirt, an orange tank top, and several pairs of shorts. She also got an orange swimsuit.
Sarah too went towards the section that housed clothes that were in her favorite color. Here she found a purple tank top, t-shirt, as well as some shorts.
When these three finish they too go to the check out. Which left three remaining shoppers. Pixie was trying to find a pink cowboy hat for Jason to wear…but she wasn't having any luck. She settled for a black and pink baseball cap and she stuck it on his head.
"There that's better," Pixie said as she walked back towards the pink clothes.
Jason sweatdropped as he looked towards some white muscle shirts, he figured that those would be the perfect things to wear on a long hike so he picked one out along with some black shorts. He already had some spare clothes in his bag but he couldn't keep wearing the same clothes all the time.
He looked towards the two girls that were still shopping, Pixie had already picked out a new tank top and she also settled for a pink t-shirt as well. In her other hand, she held some jean shorts.
Lauren was having a bit more problems; the main thing was that she couldn't reach some of the clothes that she wanted to try on…no matter how hard she tried one shirt always remained out of reach.
Upon seeing this Jason made his way over to her and picked her up by her waist. She yelped in surprise but then realized that she could now reach her shirt so she grabbed it.
"Thanks," she said and she turned to see who helped her. She was surprised to see Jason standing there.
"It's what I'm here for," Jason replied as he grabbed her items and put them with his own.
Everyone met at the register and gave their items to the clerk, a small gray rabbit.
"Put it on Wizardmon's bill please," Medusa said as she collected her plastic bag.
Suddenly the mall began to fog. The chosen ones all, upon breathing the fog began to cough.
The rest of the Digidestined along with their partners walked out of the store and down the hall. Sarah stopped in front of a music store and demanded that they go in. She raced in and grabbed a Linkin Park CD. Michael and Jay ran in after her and forced the CD out of her hand.
"Remember Sarah only the necessities," Jay said. "Right Michael?"
Michael was busy looking at the next store. It was filled with various model airplanes. He released Sarah's shoulder. He raced into the store. With her restraint reduced, Sarah ran into a nearby store. It appeared to be some sort of arcade. Pretty soon all of the teens went into various stores save Jason, Pixie and Lauren. The latter two were being held in place by a firm grip from the former in case they too ran.
"I don't know about them but we should go get some camping supplies," Jason said straining against the potential strength of the shopping crazed girls.
"Fine," Pixie said dejectedly. Her face lightened, "I know lets buy everyone pink sleeping bags!!!!!!!!"
Jason fell flat on his face. "Lets just buy everyone a sleeping bag the same color as his or her watch," he said. "And we should buy a bigger tent too."
The three walked towards a camping store and picked out all of the sleeping bags and the bigger tent.
"Not everything will fit in your bag Jason," Lauren informed him.
"Hm…pick up a couple more bags, we can fit everything in around four," Jason said.
The two girls return with three bags, two with shoulder straps, and the third an even bigger backpack then Jason's.
Jason once again demonstrated his amazing packing abilities…but these bags were somehow special. They shrunk all the contents and created more room. Jason paid no heed, he just packed two sleeping bags in each bag, and the clothes also fit inside each bag. With their companions separated, the trio took the liberty of choosing whose stuff went where… As it turned out, Michael and Jay's belongings were placed inside the backpack. Pixie and Meddie would share one bag while Sarah and Savannah would share the other. That left Lauren's belongings to fit inside Jason's backpack.
"Now lets find the others," Jason said after the packing was complete.
They carried the bags around the mall until they spotted Jay and Washimon wolfing down pizza at the food court.
"Jay what are you doing?" Jason demanded. "We're ready to go."
Jay had a blank look in his eye as if he were in some sort of trance. His partner didn't look much better.
"Helloo," Lauren said waving her hand in front of the teenager.
There was no response.
"Jay," Jason said…He began shaking him.
"Leave him be… He sssseemss to be contented," a voice rumbled.
"Who said that?" Pixie demanded looking around furiously.
The trio looked around but saw nothing. Then Jason looked at the roof and began to wobble around until he fell down.
"Jason what's the matter?" Pixie asked as she knelt beside him.
"The room is spinning," Jason replied as he shook his head trying to clear it.
Lauren looked up and could see why the teen was dizzy there was a serpentine digimon with coloring that would cause some sort of vertigo effect. It appeared to have limbs and wings, hinting a dragon…but its body was shrouded in a dark cloud.
"What are you?" she demanded. "Why are you doing this?"
"My name is of no importanssssce," the dragon said. "My missssion isss to make ssssure you do not leave this plasssce."
Jason was regaining his composure as he fumbled to put his goggles over his eyes. He pointed his watch at the creature and was fed information about the creature.
"Better not look at Mindramon straight on, he'll give you one doozy of a dizzy spell, lets see special attacks Wishful Thinking and Psychic Flame," Jason informed his companions." Jason informed his companions. "It's at the champion level."
"WISSSHFUL THINKING," The dragon digimon hissed.
The mist coming from his mouth wafted towards the three teenagers. They coughed but otherwise no effect was noted.
"That was it?" Pixie asked.
"What isss wrong with you children?" Mindramon demanded. "It'sss asss if you have no desssires."
"I can't speak for my friends here," Jason told the digimon. "But I know my wants…and what I want right now is to be home and the only way to do that is to cure the infected digimon, and defeat the remaining carriers. That means that we go through you."
"I think not," The strangely colored dragon replied. "Psychic Flame." Suddenly the three rookie digimon began jumping around.
"What's wrong?" Lauren asked their partners.
"Can't you see the inferno?" Dazemon asked as he jumped again.
"It burns," Coyomon said.
"How can we get through that onslaught?" Kakumon mused.
"Look guys whatever you're seeing it isn't real." Pixie assured them.
"It's real to us," Kakumon complained.
"I have an idea," Jason informed the group. "Digivolve!"
"Coyomon digivolve to…" Coyomon stated. A bright light hit him and changed him to his champion form. "…Pumamon."
"Kakumon digivolve to…" Kakumon said. A pink light hit her and she too became a champion. "…Garosumon."
"Dazemon digivolve to…" Dazemon cried as a blue light enveloped him. He remained tetrapedal but sprouted two wings. His size grew as he became the same proportions as the other two. The light faded and the coloring from before remained the same, but there were golden stripes, like those of tigers, on the sides of his body. "…Daizetmon."
"Now try to put out the fire," Jason commanded.
"Earth Pounce," Pumamon stated. The shockwave went through the mental flames but had no effect on them.
"It didn't work," Garosumon complained.
"Daizetmon," Lauren said. "Please trust me and put your paw in the flames."
"I won't do it," the tiger complained. "It's too hot."
"Daizetmon, have I steered you wrong before?" Lauren asked.
"No…but you've hardly ever steered me at all," he said.
"Just do it," she urged.
Daizetmon then welled up all of his courage and tentatively placed his front paw into the flames. When it emerged it did not have a scratch on it.
"The flames aren't real," Garosumon stated.
Before the two other champions could strike the dragon, Daizetmon flew through the wall of flames.
"You must not have much more defense than these mind tricks," He announced. "Shadow Claw."
The claw was fed blue energy as it punctured the chest of the mind-altering dragon. It fell on the table where Jay and Washimon were still oblivious to the battle. Without looking Jay sunk his teeth into the dragon's tail, who then let out a howl in pain. Then its data broke up and was no more.
Jay blinked as he looked around his surroundings. He could see Sarah emerging from an arcade and could hear how she scored the highest on duck hunt. Next he saw Savannah emerge from a store entitled, "Digi Bros.: Sporting Goods." Michael came from a hobby shop, and Meddie, a Hot Topic. They all converged at the food court noting that several digimon had grown to the champion level.
"What's up?" Jay asked.
Jason and those unaffected by the strange mist filled those entranced members of the team in on the occurrences.
"So why weren't Lauren and Pixie affected?" Medusa questioned.
"I know," Jay realized. "Well at least why Pixie wasn't affected."
"Why's that?" Michael asked.
"Because Pinky wanted to be with Ol' Gogglehead," Jay informed them.
Pixie's face turned the same color as her hat. "Shut up Jay." She commanded as she hit him with the back of her hand.
"Didn't even feel it," Jay gloated. "No matter what you do I won't flinch…I've endured much worse than anything you could dish out." Just then one of the signs in the food court glowed as well as Jay's watch. The sign was Wantons R Us. Jay unclipped his watch from its place by his right pocket and held it up.
The W from the sign flew from its position and began to spin. It spun so much that when it finished, it appeared to be mounted on some rectangle, like a computer chip would be. After it finished changing, it twirled around Jay and then finally entered his watch in a blast of green light.
When the glow finally stopped Jay looked down at the object in his hands, it had changed somewhat. Instead of being merely the clock it now had two buttons on the sides. One was marked "Analyze"…The other "Map".
"Whoa," Jay let out. "Analyze must mean digimon analysis…but what does map mean?"
He pushed that button and a small map was projected from his watch with seven markers. There was also an eighth with a green W. In the distance many other symbols, like those that were observed at the temple were visible.
"I guess we follow this to the other symbols," Meddie hypothesized.
"If that's the case then we go that way," Michael said pointing.
"Fine, but here." Jason said, tossing packs to Michael and Savannah. He and Pixie already had theirs.
"This is all of your stuff," Pixie explained. "Now lets go that way." She began walking in the direction of Michael's indication. The rest soon followed.
Well that's the next chapter, review please…or…I'll…recite lame Simpson quotes to you.
Ok so it isn't a good threat but I'm out of ideas. And I apologize for two things, first for the lateness of the chapter, and second for not giving Pixie any recognition for the website. Now two stories are in the Fan Fiction section so go read 'em.
I've done enough ranting so until next time.
*claps and disappears*
A New Quest: Search for the Crest
When last we left everyone…they found Centarumon, went back to the ruins and all touched their pillars. After the light show the centaur digimon translated the writing and described the prophecies. Jason went off alone to think but Pixie followed him and ended up kissing him…when she left Jay showed up…how is he in the right place at the right time?
Savannah stretched, she had volunteered to take the last watch so Lauren could sleep in the tent and so the "guys" didn't get overly tired. She surveyed the campsite.
In the tent the six beings were sleeping soundly, Centarumon was lying down on his horse body, arms crossed. Jay and Washimon were both snoring the same volume and pitch. They both had a large bubble emerging from their nostril. Michael was sleeping soundlessly while his partner was in a meditative trance beside him. Jay and Washimon were both snoring the same volume and pitch. They both had a large bubble emerging from their nostril. This left two remaining. She glanced to each side of Jay, Jason was sleeping on the ground, using a log to prop his head, while Pixie was slumbering in Jason's sleeping bag. Savannah didn't know why Jay had insisted on separating the two but he must've had his reasons. Now the campsite began to stir. First Centarumon stood up and began to stretch. Then he began to glance around his surroundings. He looked up at a pillar to gauge the approximate height of the temple that once stood here. He sighed. Jason was up next, as usual. He greeted the members of the group that were up and about and went about his early morning activities.
Eventually each digidestined woke and soon the campsite was filled with the clamor of early morning activities, from food patrol, to cooking duty, to even cleaning up. Centarumon's gaze remained fixated on the pillars as the humans worked. He could sense that there was something about them that still remained hidden.
"Goggled one," he said calmly. "I believe that there is something on top of this pillar. Perhaps you could reach it."
Jason put down his bag and approached the centaur. "Where?" He asked.
"On each of the pillar tops…there seems to be some sort of carvings," Centarumon said pointing.
"Ok gimme a boost," Jason said as he approached his pillar. Centarumon let him stand on his back as he looked at the picture. "It looks like some sort of box…or card…that I'd use in a computer…it has some strange markings...It looks like one of the figures that was inscribed on each column before we touched them all."
"I surmise that the other pillars have similar markings," Jay said.
"It looks like it," Jason called from his vantage point as Centarumon moved him around the columns.
"Does the center pillar have an sort of additional inscriptions?" Michael asked.
"Um…I can't see anything…Centarumon can we get closer?" Jason said as he tried to see from his perch. The four legged "stool" moved closer to the second pillar. Now Jason was able to see a carving on the very top of the circular column. "It looks like the others," Jason informed them. "But it seems that there's an arrow rather than a symbol…it seems to point that way." He finished that thought pointing the way towards the port city. In doing this he lost his balance and fell off centaur.
"I guess we could stop in at the town," Sarah said.
"Maybe pick up some supplies," Savannah said.
"And introduce Lauren," Pixie added.
"Well let's go to wherever you guys are talking about," Lauren said in a confident tone.
"Well if that's settled…Centarumon…thank you for everything but we really should be going," Jason said.
"I understand," Centarumon said. "If you ever need help my friends just call."
The chosen said their goodbyes to the prophet that they'd just recently met and trudged through the forest.
As soon as they got out of hearing distance, "They'll never call," Centarumon said. "I'll just be left alone here…"
OK back to the hero's. They were walking when Michael popped a question to the youngest member of the group.
"Lauren…I've gotta know," Michael began. "How exactly did you get to the digital world?"
"Well…" Lauren took in a deep breath. "It all started…well a couple days ago. I was in my house that's close to Niagara Falls…but I was sick. I'm usually sick and get over it in a day or so but this was different…this was worse…my parents kept talking of pneumonia." She paused.
"You can stop now if you want," Pixie informed her.
Lauren shook her head. "No I'll keep going. Anyway, I was sick…and it didn't look like I'd get better…but I knew…I knew that I'd get well. After it happened…this blue watch appeared. It seemed that my confidence caused the watch to come to me. Then I decided to go and watch the falls, and when I got out the door, I remembered the watch. I put it on and the next thing I knew, I was in a forest with giant creatures."
"I'm not that big anymore," Dazemon complained from her arms.
The young girl looked at the form in her arms, "OH DAZEMON I WAS SO WORRIED ABOUT YOU! DON'T YOU EVER SCARE ME LIKE THAT AGAIN!"
"Well…at least we know why she wasn't there in the first place," Meddie stated.
It was close to nighttime. The group slowly approached the town. The tall apartment complex stood out of the forest.
They entered the quaint port and see...fireworks?
"They must be celebrating the defeat of Echomon," Sarah mused.
"Well we should be in the spotlight," Jay said.
When they found the source of the show they were surprised to see not a celebration of Echomon's demise, or of the return of the "missing" digimon. The entire town was gathered at the…grand opening of a mall?
"A MALL?" The three male individuals and male digimon exclaim.
"A MALL!!!!!!!!" The girls (and girl digimon) exclaim, dragging the skeptics behind them. They pushed their way to the front of the crowd to see the doors sealed by a red ribbon.
Wizardmon was on stage; there was also a second figure, a bipedal feline, with a sword, though he was dressed in a suit.
"I would like to thank the owner, Leomon, for contributing this fine Digital Mall to our fine port," Wizardmon began, and then he attacked the ribbon causing it to evaporate. "And now I proclaim this mall to be open."
"SHOPPING!! SHOPPING!!" The girls said dragging the boys in tow.
They stop to see the mayor talking with the other three digimon that were controlled by the carrier bat.
"HIYA WIZARDMON," Meddie said.
"Sorry we had to fight you guys…" Sarah said. Michael, Savannah, and Jason all looked down at the ground. They were embarrassed.
Wizardmon jumped at the sound of the teens, but when he turned he smiled. "Ah kids," He looks at Lauren. "I see we have one more…but no matter…I would like to thank you for ridding our quaint port of the disease."
"As a reward," Leomon said approaching. "I'm going to give you anything you desire in the mall as a reward."
Before everyone's eyes could light up, Jason spoke up, "we only need necessities, camping supplies, canteens…"
"And some new clothes," Savannah interjected. "These old ones are starting to smell."
"Very well just send me the bill," Leomon told them as he developed a sweat drop.
Thus the Digidestined raced into the mall dragging the less avid shoppers behind them. They entered a store called the Digigap. Inside the teens were shocked at the variety of selection. There were various sizes of clothes, from fresh, to in-training, to rookie, to champion and even some sizes above that. More astonishing was the fact that there were human sizes as well…in fact almost a third of the store was made for humans…it was as if some non-digimon creatures had been in this world before.
"COME ON LETS GO SHOP!!" Pixie said dragging the goggle neck. Lauren followed close behind them, she couldn't explain it but she felt some sort of bond between herself and these two.
"Lets go Jay!" Sarah and Savannah said simultaneously as they dragged him into the store.
Michael just sweatdropped and walked alongside Medusa. The two teens walked in silence side-by-side. Michael and Medusa shopped side by side, each giving his or her own opinions about the clothes that their companion picks out.
Michael picked out some red shorts. "I think they'll look great on you Michael," Medusa assures him. She also tells him to grab some t-shirts too, as well as some jeans. He also picks up a red pair of swim trunks.
He advises her to stick with her color of burgundy; she picked out a couple of shirts, one tank-top one t-shirt. And shorts. She also got a burgundy swimsuit.
They finished picking out their individual desires and they walked to the checkout together.
Back to the clothes, Jay was once again caught between two rocks and a hard place. Sarah and Savannah were trying to shop for Jay, picking out their respective favorite colors.
"Put this on Jay," Sarah said holding up a purple shirt.
"No, try this on, this'll look better on you," Savannah said thrusting an orange shirt in front of his face.
"If I say I'll get them both would you leave me to my shopping?" Jay asked desperately.
The girls nodded. Jay sighed in despair as he grabbed both shirts and walked towards the green clothes. Aside from the two shirts he picked up a green muscle shirt as well as a couple of pairs of green shorts. He also grabbed a pair of green trunks.
Savannah, after giving Jay the shirt she picked out, decided to return to the orange clothes. Here she picked out an orange t-shirt, an orange tank top, and several pairs of shorts. She also got an orange swimsuit.
Sarah too went towards the section that housed clothes that were in her favorite color. Here she found a purple tank top, t-shirt, as well as some shorts.
When these three finish they too go to the check out. Which left three remaining shoppers. Pixie was trying to find a pink cowboy hat for Jason to wear…but she wasn't having any luck. She settled for a black and pink baseball cap and she stuck it on his head.
"There that's better," Pixie said as she walked back towards the pink clothes.
Jason sweatdropped as he looked towards some white muscle shirts, he figured that those would be the perfect things to wear on a long hike so he picked one out along with some black shorts. He already had some spare clothes in his bag but he couldn't keep wearing the same clothes all the time.
He looked towards the two girls that were still shopping, Pixie had already picked out a new tank top and she also settled for a pink t-shirt as well. In her other hand, she held some jean shorts.
Lauren was having a bit more problems; the main thing was that she couldn't reach some of the clothes that she wanted to try on…no matter how hard she tried one shirt always remained out of reach.
Upon seeing this Jason made his way over to her and picked her up by her waist. She yelped in surprise but then realized that she could now reach her shirt so she grabbed it.
"Thanks," she said and she turned to see who helped her. She was surprised to see Jason standing there.
"It's what I'm here for," Jason replied as he grabbed her items and put them with his own.
Everyone met at the register and gave their items to the clerk, a small gray rabbit.
"Put it on Wizardmon's bill please," Medusa said as she collected her plastic bag.
Suddenly the mall began to fog. The chosen ones all, upon breathing the fog began to cough.
The rest of the Digidestined along with their partners walked out of the store and down the hall. Sarah stopped in front of a music store and demanded that they go in. She raced in and grabbed a Linkin Park CD. Michael and Jay ran in after her and forced the CD out of her hand.
"Remember Sarah only the necessities," Jay said. "Right Michael?"
Michael was busy looking at the next store. It was filled with various model airplanes. He released Sarah's shoulder. He raced into the store. With her restraint reduced, Sarah ran into a nearby store. It appeared to be some sort of arcade. Pretty soon all of the teens went into various stores save Jason, Pixie and Lauren. The latter two were being held in place by a firm grip from the former in case they too ran.
"I don't know about them but we should go get some camping supplies," Jason said straining against the potential strength of the shopping crazed girls.
"Fine," Pixie said dejectedly. Her face lightened, "I know lets buy everyone pink sleeping bags!!!!!!!!"
Jason fell flat on his face. "Lets just buy everyone a sleeping bag the same color as his or her watch," he said. "And we should buy a bigger tent too."
The three walked towards a camping store and picked out all of the sleeping bags and the bigger tent.
"Not everything will fit in your bag Jason," Lauren informed him.
"Hm…pick up a couple more bags, we can fit everything in around four," Jason said.
The two girls return with three bags, two with shoulder straps, and the third an even bigger backpack then Jason's.
Jason once again demonstrated his amazing packing abilities…but these bags were somehow special. They shrunk all the contents and created more room. Jason paid no heed, he just packed two sleeping bags in each bag, and the clothes also fit inside each bag. With their companions separated, the trio took the liberty of choosing whose stuff went where… As it turned out, Michael and Jay's belongings were placed inside the backpack. Pixie and Meddie would share one bag while Sarah and Savannah would share the other. That left Lauren's belongings to fit inside Jason's backpack.
"Now lets find the others," Jason said after the packing was complete.
They carried the bags around the mall until they spotted Jay and Washimon wolfing down pizza at the food court.
"Jay what are you doing?" Jason demanded. "We're ready to go."
Jay had a blank look in his eye as if he were in some sort of trance. His partner didn't look much better.
"Helloo," Lauren said waving her hand in front of the teenager.
There was no response.
"Jay," Jason said…He began shaking him.
"Leave him be… He sssseemss to be contented," a voice rumbled.
"Who said that?" Pixie demanded looking around furiously.
The trio looked around but saw nothing. Then Jason looked at the roof and began to wobble around until he fell down.
"Jason what's the matter?" Pixie asked as she knelt beside him.
"The room is spinning," Jason replied as he shook his head trying to clear it.
Lauren looked up and could see why the teen was dizzy there was a serpentine digimon with coloring that would cause some sort of vertigo effect. It appeared to have limbs and wings, hinting a dragon…but its body was shrouded in a dark cloud.
"What are you?" she demanded. "Why are you doing this?"
"My name is of no importanssssce," the dragon said. "My missssion isss to make ssssure you do not leave this plasssce."
Jason was regaining his composure as he fumbled to put his goggles over his eyes. He pointed his watch at the creature and was fed information about the creature.
"Better not look at Mindramon straight on, he'll give you one doozy of a dizzy spell, lets see special attacks Wishful Thinking and Psychic Flame," Jason informed his companions." Jason informed his companions. "It's at the champion level."
"WISSSHFUL THINKING," The dragon digimon hissed.
The mist coming from his mouth wafted towards the three teenagers. They coughed but otherwise no effect was noted.
"That was it?" Pixie asked.
"What isss wrong with you children?" Mindramon demanded. "It'sss asss if you have no desssires."
"I can't speak for my friends here," Jason told the digimon. "But I know my wants…and what I want right now is to be home and the only way to do that is to cure the infected digimon, and defeat the remaining carriers. That means that we go through you."
"I think not," The strangely colored dragon replied. "Psychic Flame." Suddenly the three rookie digimon began jumping around.
"What's wrong?" Lauren asked their partners.
"Can't you see the inferno?" Dazemon asked as he jumped again.
"It burns," Coyomon said.
"How can we get through that onslaught?" Kakumon mused.
"Look guys whatever you're seeing it isn't real." Pixie assured them.
"It's real to us," Kakumon complained.
"I have an idea," Jason informed the group. "Digivolve!"
"Coyomon digivolve to…" Coyomon stated. A bright light hit him and changed him to his champion form. "…Pumamon."
"Kakumon digivolve to…" Kakumon said. A pink light hit her and she too became a champion. "…Garosumon."
"Dazemon digivolve to…" Dazemon cried as a blue light enveloped him. He remained tetrapedal but sprouted two wings. His size grew as he became the same proportions as the other two. The light faded and the coloring from before remained the same, but there were golden stripes, like those of tigers, on the sides of his body. "…Daizetmon."
"Now try to put out the fire," Jason commanded.
"Earth Pounce," Pumamon stated. The shockwave went through the mental flames but had no effect on them.
"It didn't work," Garosumon complained.
"Daizetmon," Lauren said. "Please trust me and put your paw in the flames."
"I won't do it," the tiger complained. "It's too hot."
"Daizetmon, have I steered you wrong before?" Lauren asked.
"No…but you've hardly ever steered me at all," he said.
"Just do it," she urged.
Daizetmon then welled up all of his courage and tentatively placed his front paw into the flames. When it emerged it did not have a scratch on it.
"The flames aren't real," Garosumon stated.
Before the two other champions could strike the dragon, Daizetmon flew through the wall of flames.
"You must not have much more defense than these mind tricks," He announced. "Shadow Claw."
The claw was fed blue energy as it punctured the chest of the mind-altering dragon. It fell on the table where Jay and Washimon were still oblivious to the battle. Without looking Jay sunk his teeth into the dragon's tail, who then let out a howl in pain. Then its data broke up and was no more.
Jay blinked as he looked around his surroundings. He could see Sarah emerging from an arcade and could hear how she scored the highest on duck hunt. Next he saw Savannah emerge from a store entitled, "Digi Bros.: Sporting Goods." Michael came from a hobby shop, and Meddie, a Hot Topic. They all converged at the food court noting that several digimon had grown to the champion level.
"What's up?" Jay asked.
Jason and those unaffected by the strange mist filled those entranced members of the team in on the occurrences.
"So why weren't Lauren and Pixie affected?" Medusa questioned.
"I know," Jay realized. "Well at least why Pixie wasn't affected."
"Why's that?" Michael asked.
"Because Pinky wanted to be with Ol' Gogglehead," Jay informed them.
Pixie's face turned the same color as her hat. "Shut up Jay." She commanded as she hit him with the back of her hand.
"Didn't even feel it," Jay gloated. "No matter what you do I won't flinch…I've endured much worse than anything you could dish out." Just then one of the signs in the food court glowed as well as Jay's watch. The sign was Wantons R Us. Jay unclipped his watch from its place by his right pocket and held it up.
The W from the sign flew from its position and began to spin. It spun so much that when it finished, it appeared to be mounted on some rectangle, like a computer chip would be. After it finished changing, it twirled around Jay and then finally entered his watch in a blast of green light.
When the glow finally stopped Jay looked down at the object in his hands, it had changed somewhat. Instead of being merely the clock it now had two buttons on the sides. One was marked "Analyze"…The other "Map".
"Whoa," Jay let out. "Analyze must mean digimon analysis…but what does map mean?"
He pushed that button and a small map was projected from his watch with seven markers. There was also an eighth with a green W. In the distance many other symbols, like those that were observed at the temple were visible.
"I guess we follow this to the other symbols," Meddie hypothesized.
"If that's the case then we go that way," Michael said pointing.
"Fine, but here." Jason said, tossing packs to Michael and Savannah. He and Pixie already had theirs.
"This is all of your stuff," Pixie explained. "Now lets go that way." She began walking in the direction of Michael's indication. The rest soon followed.
Well that's the next chapter, review please…or…I'll…recite lame Simpson quotes to you.
Ok so it isn't a good threat but I'm out of ideas. And I apologize for two things, first for the lateness of the chapter, and second for not giving Pixie any recognition for the website. Now two stories are in the Fan Fiction section so go read 'em.
I've done enough ranting so until next time.
*claps and disappears*