Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon: Digital Monster or any related brand and names. I created some Digimons present in this work of fiction, but I created them based on concepts present in the show and others. I am doing this for fun and do not get any profit from it, please don't sue me I got nothing anyway.
AN: The title of this fic come from my frustration that the name 'Beaver Warrior' was given to a Yu-gi-oh! card that is CLEARLY a rat(who's japanese name is 'Ruiz' or 'Louise' BTW)! Confusing the noble beaver, animal emblem of Canada with a simple RAT hurts my national pride, hence the 'Real'. Off course it's clear who's the star of this chapter. I came up with that title a LONG time ago now that I realise it...almost two years ago to be exact(isn't that some form of oxymoron?). Wow... Anyway, review replies and on with the chapter!
Lottie11: ^^; you're gonna make me blush if you keep saying that XD.
AnT: No they don't Digivolve, if it was a form of Digivolution I would have say so, trust me. It's closer to what the Tamers do with their cards, it's an upgrade. I still haven't find a suitable term like 'Digimodify' ya know. So far it's just called 'unlocking a Digi-Gear'. Otherwise I hope you like this story dude.
By: Undrave
"I'm starting to understand but I'm still not sure I want to believe that whole destiny thing." Complained Rikimi, looking down to Finmon who was walking beside her.
Rikimi, Tamao and Taki were walking out of the temple. Finmon, Kattomon and Bibamon had told them the same thing Metamon and Kaerumon told Keoki and Iaku, and it was just as confusing for them.
"Com'on, it sounds fun." Commented Taki, keeping his cool, but just barely.
" Yeah right? All I know for sure is that this ugly...Gear-thingie clashes with my wardrobe, I got nothing to go with silvery metal... I'll believe their story when I see more...proof..." Rikimi's rant was interupted when they emerged from the side of a rocky hill, exitting the temple.
"Wow...it's beautiful." Commented Tamao, who had been quiet for a while, as she saw the vast wild land spreading before them.
"Adventures here I come. So if I understand things correctly we're supposed to go find some darkness and I'm supposed to help you fight it... Sounds good too me. Let's move out" Added Taki, sounding more and more exited.
"Calm down, it could be dangerous." Pleaded Tamao to her cousin, holding both her hands up in a calming gesture.
"Yeah...Beside I don't see how those little thingies could beat anything." Replied the pinked haired girl, pointing to their three Digimon.
"Ah...If you knew more about the Digital World I could feel insulted." Commented Finmon, crossing her arms.
"Size never equals great warriors. Beside, not all Digimon are small, nor do they always stay so." Stated Kattomon, as serious as usual.
"Yeah, look at Monochromon over there, he ain't small." Added Bibamon, pointing to a large black and grey armored rhino-like creature eating short strand of grass a few feets away on the ledge.
All three kids took a step backward "ACK!"
"Don't worry, he's an harmless vegetarian." Reassured Bibamon.
And it was true. The Monochromon raised his head from his meal and just took a look at the small groups, grunting a little 'hello' before returning to his food. All three kids sighed in relief.
"That's one cool Digimon." Said Tamao, smiling slightly. "This place looks so nice...I don't see any darkness anywhere."
Kattomon shruged "Don't ask me, we are not darkness detectors, but we should always be on our guard."
"You sound so serious." Commented the girl.
"I was assigned this job, and I always take work seriously." Simply answered the violet Digimon.
"You stuffy ol' bird, there's a diference betweem serious and being a down right killjoy! Let's show 'em kids around a little." proposed Finmon "After all they're gonna be here for a while...at least until we defeat the darkness."
"What?! What do you mean we'll be stuck here? I got school, I got a LIFE! I can't be stuck here!" Complained Rikimi.
"Com'on 'Kimi, consider this a vacation." Chuckled Taki.
"This isn't a vacation it's a nightmare! We're stuck god know's where with freaky little critter, shackled and forced to do something against out will!" Replied the girl.
"Is she always this hysteric?" Asked Bibamon to his partner, keeping his voice low.
"When something's not to her liking...pretty much yeah... I think she dyes her hair and she's actually a red head." He answered with the same tone.
"It is your destiny, you can't escape it. Beside we need you and no one else for this, you're the only one who can help us do our job! Please don't be mad, we REALLY really need you." Pleaded Finmon.
"You might not like it, but the responsability has befall you, just as it befell us and we have to carry the task we were given to the end. Once the threat has passed the Digi-gears will return to their resting mode and you will be sent back to your own world." Explained Kattomon, as she perched herself on Tamao's shoulder.
The girl smiled "You're serioue but you sound very wise too. You sound like a feathery warrior."
"Com'on kiddo, we gotta find the other D-Wielders." Called Finmon, already heading down the side of the hill toward the forest.
"There's others stuck like us?" Inquired Taki, picking up his small partner.
"I believe so, I don't know how many but I know we weren't alone in this. We should find proper shelter, we only have a few hours before sundown." Explained Kattomon.
"Wha...it was morning when we left!" Commented Taki "And what about that temple?Isn't that a good shelter?"
"No... you didn't noticed but there was a lot of claw marks on the walls. I think a Kuwagamon made it his lair. Trust me, we don't want to be trespassing." Replied the bird Digimon.
"In that case I'll go back get our stuff!" Proposed the boy, rushing back to the cave he had just left behind.
It didn't take him long to return with all three of their bags, he handed the correct one to the girls and they continued on their way down. They soon reached the edge of the forest below.
"So where to go now?" Inquired Tamao, looking at Kattomon, still perched on her shoulder.
"We got a whole world to explore, I'd say we just pick a direction!" Proposed Taki, with a smile.
"You're really enjoying this don't you Yakudatsu?" Asked Rikimi, not looking back at her irritating neigbhor.
"Uh oh... she's calling me by my family name, that can't be good." Whispered Taki to Bibamon, who giggled. "Well, frankly I don't mind it at all, this will be a great experience for us all, and who can say they got the chance to save the world?" The boy explained.
"And what about our parents? Our teachers? Our friends? People will be worry sick about us... I know my parent will mobilize the national guard judt to find me! And I doubt they'll find us in virtual la-la-land!" Complained Rikimi.
"Chill out. And I believe it's Digital, not Virtual. We'll find a way back home, but we gotta save the world first! Now let's pick a direction and just go... I say this way! Onward D-Wielders!" Declared Taki, pointing in a random direction in the woods, before he took off leaving the two girls and their Digimon behind.
Tamao stood there for a second before she jogged to catch up to her cousin"Why that direction?"
"It just looks prettier."
"Your friend is quite the little philosoph, he has an interesting outlook on life." Commented Finmon, following the group with Rikimi.
"Interesting is a euphemism. Sometime it's funny but most of the time he's just annoying, I should have already accepted it but I always let him get to me." Replied the girl.
The blue Digimon sighed "I think you're just upset right now, take you're friend's advice and chill out, you can't always worry about things you can't change."
"Great now I'm stuck with two of them." Groaned the pink-haired D-Wielder.
The little group walked into the forest in silence, nobody sure what to say. The whole forest seamed to be tropical with colorful plants and trees, but luckily without the insects generally ascociated with that kind of environement. The sun was continuing it's descend and the little gang was unaware that at the same time, the other two D-Wielders were entering an abandonned church and already facing their second enemy of the day. But Iaku and Keoki are not the focus of this chapter.
"I'm getting thirsty, anyone got something to drink?" Asked Rikimi.
"No, I was planning to buy some at school." Admited Tamao.
"It was BBQ Chicken day at the cafeteria, so I didn't bring any lunch with me." Added Taki.
"Darn... me too...We gotta find some water, you guys know any place where there is any?" The girl asked the Digimons.
Finmon stopped and closed her eyes. "I can sense water when I concentrate hard enough. I feel some nearby, we just have to go forward!" She declared.
"You're more useful than I tought." Commented her partner.
Finmon rolled her eyes "Thank you for the compliment." she said sarcastically.
"Hey...there's something up ahead!" Pointed out Tamao.
Indeed there was. Up ahead the tree were thining and something could be seen reflecting sunlight. Kattomon squinted her eyes to discern more clearly.
"Hmm... it apears to be a group of vending machines." Declared the bird Digimon.
"Vending machines? PERFECT!" Cheered Rikimi, rushing passed her friends.
"WAIT! YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND!" Called Kattomon, but it was too late.
"Let's go after her before those darn Numemons gets their greasy mits on her!" Said Finmon, passing by the others as well.
"What are you waiting for? GO!" Ordered Bibamon.
Rikimi emerged into a clearing, where a handful of vending machines were standing in a semi circular shape infront of a clear stream of water. But who cares about natural clean water running in a spring when you can buy clear spring water in a BOTTLE! Rikimi quickly pulled out coins and was about to put them in one of the machine, just as her friends and the Digimons emerged into the clearing.
"NO DON'T!" Warned Finmon, but it was too late and the coin felt.
"What are you affraid of?" Asked the girl, pressing the button of her selection.
She looked down, expecting to see a bottle, but what she received was as unexpected as frightening for the young girl. A dozen of small green slug-like creature with bulbous eyes and hanging tongue fell out of the machine. Shrieking Rikimi backed away and hit the machine behind her, turning to see what she had collided with she saw more of those creatures come out!
"GET HER!" Called one of the creature.
"AAAAAH! GET AWAY! GET AWAY!" Shrieked the girl, backed against a tree.
That's when Finmon appeared in front of her partner, towering above the green things by a head "You little buggers are gonna have to go through me first!"
"With pleasure! NUMEMONS! CHARGE!" Shouted what appeared to be their leader.
More Numemons burst out of the vending machines and all rushed toward Rikimi and Finmon!
"FIN BLADE!" Called the Digimon, the fins on her arm glowing and extending slightly as she swiped at the slugs and sending two of them flying away.
Taki came from the rear and kicked one of the Numemons "Leave her alone!"
"Get him too!"
Taki was suddenly jumped by a group of Numemons, sending him to the ground.
"TAIL SLAP!" Shouted Bibamon, attacking one of the Numemon with his tail.
"RAZOR FEATHER!" Called Kattomon, flapping her wings as she swooped over the scene and shot stiff feathers at the Numemons.
The feathers spinned like shurikens and hit the small Champions right in betweem the eyes, before bouncing off their rubbery body. It didn't do much damage but it was enough to stun them for a few seconds. Meanwhile Finmon was still fighting off the main part of the Numemon group, vallantly protecting her partner. Her Fin Blade attack was sending the Numemons flying like rubber balls. Rikimi was still too scared to do anything and Taki was struggling with the Numemons trying to keep him on the ground. Kattomon swoop the scene and kept a group of Numemon busy from the sky, unleashing her Razor Feathers from time to time. Bibamon slapped one of the green Digimons away from his partner before someone clubbed two of them with a big branch.
"GET OFF HIM YOU SLIME BALL!" Ordered Tamao, panting slightly from this sudden outburst.
Taki kicked off the last Numemon and got up "Thank's cuz. May I borrow this?" He asked, pointing to the branch.
"Off course." Replied the brown haired girl.
"Sweet vengeance is mine!" Laughed Taki, bashing Numemons that came toward him.
No matter how many they would knock out, knock down, or kick away, there always seamed to be more Numemons! In fact, the ones that were stunned or knocked out recovered quickly to replaced those that were falling and in effect, the D-Wielders weren't having much success.
"TAIL SLAP! There's just too many of them!" Said Bibamon after knocking out one of them.
"In that case we should retreat! RAZOR FEATHER!" Proposed the violet bird, attacking again.
That's when Rikimi broke out of her trance "LET'S GET OUT OF HERE!" She shouted before taking off into the woods.
Finmon charged her attack and spun around to get rid of all blockage and went after her partner. Taki and Bibamon hit a few of their opponents, then Taki let the branch down to pick up his partner and he and Tamao dashed to follow Finmon and Rikimi. Kattomon delivered one last Razor Feather attack to block the path more than to hit the Numemons before she flew after her partner.
"HEY! GET BACK HERE! WE'RE NOT DONE WITH YOU! Follow them!" Ordered the Numemon Leader.
"I think they're following us!" Realised Tamao, looking back.
"Oh no! I don't want to get slimed! Let's run faster!" Pleaded Rikimi.
That's when a pink sludge pile flew by the girl's head and hit a tree up ahead. She shrieked in fear as she increased her pace.
"They've opted for range combat!" Called Bibamon, who was on his partner's shoulder, as the Numemons started pelting them with their pink projectile.
In one call Rikimi had summed up everyone's toughts about the situation."WAAAAH!!! WHY WON'T THEY LET US ALONE?!"
"Numemons are very simple minded, they just do stuff for whatever reason and never stopped until they reached a goal. We have to fight them!" Explained Kattomon.
"But we'd need more firepower! We can't do it as we are!" Commented Taki.
"Hey! That's not very optimistic of you! Com'on we can take 'em!" Added his partner.
"You're right, it's not like me to think like that... let's do it!"
With that taki stopped dead in his track and whipped around, ready to face the slimy champions as they kept firing, accuracy obviously not their biggest strength. Bibamon jumped off the boy's shoulder and landed in battle ready position.
"What are you doing you idiot?!" Asked Rikimi, stopping too.
"We gotta fight or they'll never leave us alone." He simply answered.
That's when light burst out of his pocket. Taki gasped and instinctively pulled out what was producing the light. He pulled out the key that had allowed them to unlock the 'DESTINY' door. It was shining brightly before suddenly transforming into a strange device. It was shaped like a key but with an LCD screen, buttons and an antenna. It was a yellow K-D. Taki knew instinctively what to do.
"BLAST-GEAR!" He called, slamming the key shaped device into it's hole. "UNLOCK!"
He turned the key and then aimed his hand at Bibamon, just as the Digi-Gear and K-D turned into light. The light shot forward, freeing Taki's arm and hitting Bibamon who didn't flinched.
"Blast-Gear, Battle Mode Activated." Stated a computerized female voice.
When the light dissipated, the Blast-Gear had changed into some kind of battle armor. Bibamon's yellow helmet had turned into a green millitary helmet, his little shoulder and chest were now encased in green camouflage colored armor and on his back was a large cylinder with a hole at the top. he even has little black boots on his tiny feet, and a tiny visor with a crossair in front of his left eye.
"Allright Taki! You unlocked the Blast-Gear!" Cheered Bibamon.
"Wow...so this is what we have to do?" Asked Tamao, looking at the Stealth-Gear on her arm.
"More or less." Simply answered Kattomon. "Let's see what happens now."
"Think that will be enough Bibamon?" Inquired Taki.
"I sure do!" Replied the Digimon as more sludge landed around them, the Numemons growing increasingly closer.
"Then... LET THEM HAVE IT!" Ordered the boy, pointing at the oncoming mass.
"With pleasure!" With that Bibamon landed on all four, and Taki realised the device on his back was probably a form of canon. "Get ready... LOG BARRAGE!" Shouted the beaver Digimon.
In an explosion of smoke a serie of projectile, shaped like short wood logs, was shot out of the device on Bibamon's back. The flew toward the incomming champions and then hit the ground among their rank.
One word: BOOM. The explosion raised clouds of dirt and smoke and sent the Numemons flying in all directions, hitting trees, falling in the nearby river, rolling on the ground or just dissapearing in the distance. One landed right in front of Bibamon.
"Giving up?" He asked.
"We give up!" Answered the Numemon, who turned out ot be the leader.
"Just as I tought." Commented Bibamon, as his armor turned into light and shot back to Taki.
"Wow... that was AMAZING! " The boy declared, jumping up and down.
"It was cool, but I tought you had found a way to get us rid of those things." Complained Rikimi, pointing to the Flight-Gear on her arm.
"The Digi-Gear are potent weapons, you shouldn't treat them lightly." Said Kattomon.
Suddenly one of the Numemon fell off the sky and landed in the middle of the little group, letting a little 'ow' escape his mouth before loosing consciousness.
"Ah! Serves you right you little slimey buggers!" Chuckled Rikimi, imitating Finmon's accent, making her friends laugh.
Finmon simply shook her head "You sound more like an Hawkmon than a Finmon."
"Thanks for protecting me back there... you did great." Admitted the pink haired girl.
The blue Digimon shrugged "That's what we do, we're your partner."
"I'm starting to get the whole concept better now." Added Taki, who had picked up Bibamon again.
"Maybe we should look into finding a shelter." Proposed Tamao, looking up at the darkening sky.
"Good idea!" Agreed the boy.
"And let's find something to eat I'm starving." Complained Rikimi.
To Be Continued...
AN: To quote a canadian show I like: "I think that went well." . Bonus kudos to anyone who can tell me what show I'm talking about XD. Phew, that was a major chapter, the first in wich I created new stuff since I suspended the fic almost 2 years ago!