Lar-Lar: Disclaimer Time!!!!!
Chrystamon:You know, you scare me sometimes
Lar-Lar:thats just part of the charm bug-brain!
Chrystamon:sulks
Lar-Lar: Anywho...Gomababe and I don't own Digimon, but we do own the crest ideas and these two points to Chrystamon and Aquamon Enjoy! dances off into Sunset
Chapter two-A Slight 'Technical' Problem
Aquamon, Chrystamon, Alana and Lucy had walked on for a few hours after they had met up, both the digimon refused to tell them exactly what was happening until they stopped and rested for the night.
"It's dangerous out here at night, we have to find a safe place and then we'll tell you everything." Aquamon repeated, causing Alana to roll her eyes.
"Why do I feel like you already said that a few hundred times?" She asked. Lucy let out a laugh.
"A few hundred? Is that all? Feels like a few thousand to me." She turned to her partner who was back riding on her shoulder and glaring at her in annoyance. "But who's counting, am I right?" She added, before sighing and continuing walking in silence. Aquamon was taking it in turns to be carried and to walk, she seemed to know where she was going more than Chrystamon and was leading the way most of the time. Lucy yawned for the third time since the four of them had met up and turned to Alana who was walking on her right, for now not carrying Aquamon. "Hey Alana? How's you feeling? You tiered at all or is it just me?" Alana nodded, yawning too.
"Not to mention hungry, thirsty and confused." Lucy nodded, linking her fingers together behind her head, forcing Chrystamon to re position herself.
"Yeah, I suppose walking I better than stopping though, I hate camping and I mean I HATE it!" she thought for a moment. "Mind you, I don't really like hiking either, I'm not the most co-coordinated person in the world or the smartest come to that." She turned her head to grin at her friend. "f there is something that shouldn't said, I'll say it! something that could be tripped over, I'll trip over it!" Alana looked at her for a moment before bursting into hysterics.
"You need to be quiet guys." Aquamon hissed. "We don't want to drew any unnecessary attention to ourselves." Chrystamon nodded.
"Yeah, we don't want to have to fight unless we really need too." Lucy bit her lip.
"Yeah I know, I'm sorry guys but please, can we rest now? I need my beauty sleep plus I think my brain just ignored you and went to sleep anyway." Chrystamon and Aquamon exchanged glances.
"Please you two? We won't be any help to you if we drop dead with exhaustion." The two digimon exchanged looks again but this time they nodded in agreement with the two girls.
"Okay, we'll stop here but we'll have to take it in turns to keep watch." Lucy waved a hand at the two, she was already sitting down on a fallen tree and taking off her shoes.
"Sure, I don't mind going first as long as I can sit down and then tomorrow, you guys can explain in a little more detail, cool?" The other three nodded as Alana piled up some branched to make a fire while Aquamon went off to catch some fish. Chrystamon climbed down from her partner's shoulder and sat beside her on the fallen tree.
"So how are you liking Digi-world so far?" She asked as Alana sat down the other side of her. Lucy looked up to the sky through the trees as she thought about the question.
"Well, it's pretty out here and the weather isn't bad. Shame about the starvation, dehydration, exhaustion and giant monster really..." she smiled them to show them she had been joking so Chrystamon turned to Alana for her thoughts.
"Well its definitely nothing like Kinniel Woods that's for sure!" she replied.
Two days later, and the four friends were almost out of the forest and drawing ever closer to the desert. Aquamon had made sure they had plenty of water ready for the trip and Chrystamon had stuffed Lucy and Alana's every pocket with leaves and berries. The two digimon had explained things as far as they knew, the original digi-destined were back in Digi-world only this time, they were destined to need the help of the children of determination and calm. Chrystamon had repeated the words Gennai had given them before they had left: The Children of determination and calm will give strength, reassure and bring peace to where others cannot reach. But they had little else to go on and needed to find the others, fast.
"It's going to be pretty cool meeting up with the others, don't you think? Lucy asked as they set off that morning. Alana had to agree, she too had spoken to Koushiro 'Izzy' Izumi a few times online and wanted to meet him and the others as much as she did. "And hopefully they'll know more about what's going on here than these two do." She motioned to the digimon but they were no-where to be seen. Lucy and Alana exchanged glances. "Boy this can't be good..." Lucy mumbled. Alana was about to agree when her digi-vice started beeping louder than it ever had before. She unclipped it from her belt and started at it.
"What's going on?" she asked. He friend shrugged, pulled her own digi-vice from her pocket. "Yours too?" She asked, eyes wide. Lucy winced.
"Oh this REALLY can't be good." But her panic was saved by a bright light a little way ahead.
"Aquamon digi-volve to... Mantramon!"
"Chrystamon digi-volve to... Lepidoptermon!" A dark blue sea lion with a green main and purple wings appeared where Aquamon had been and in Chrystamon's place fluttered a purple bodied butterfly with blue and yellow wings, easily as big as with of the girls. Just as Alana was about ask what had just happened, what looked like a giant lizard jumped out of the trees, landing just a few feet away from the two of them. It's body was brown and green so it would not been seen easily in the trees and it had reddish-pink marking that looked like flowers on either side of it's head and at the end s of it's three tails. It seemed to grin at the two girls.
"So the children of determination and calm are here? The master was right and I am so glad he was, I am more than a little hungry." It licked it's lips before continuing. "It would have been better for me to have finished off the others a few days back but, orders are orders and you don't want the master upset."
"What are you talking about? We don't know anything about anything you just said!" Alana shouted, trying to keep his attention focused as their own partners crept up from behind. Lucy nodded madly.
"Yeah, she's right you know, we don't know anything about anything! Not a thing! No sir!"
"Mantra beams!" Mantramon cried.
"Sonic blast!" Soon followed and the lizard screamed out in pain.
"Whipping tails!" It called, all three of it's tails thrashing about and hitting into the two digimon. The lizard grinned, getting ready for it's final attack. "Digitalis Concealor!" and the digimon began to fade.
"Quick guys! Hit it before it disappears completely!" Lucy shouted but it was too late, the creature had gone. The girl sighed and kicked at the nearest tree in annoyance. Damn it." She muttered, before joining Alana beside their now much bigger digimon.
"You guys did great" She said, rubbing Mantramon behind her ears. Lucy smiled too.
"Yeah, of course you did."
"Indeed, the for of you worked well together." All four pairs of eyes rested on a small, bold guys glowing in a rainbow of light. The two digimon grinned.
"Gennai!" They chorused. Gennai nodded.
"In the flesh. Well, not really but I have something for you two children." He held out both hands from which fdangled tags and crests. The two girls looked at each other for a moment before holding out their own hands and as Gennai let go, the tags and crest took on solid form, glowing in the hands' of their new keepers.
A few days had passed since Izzy had tripped over the vine in the forest and grazed his arm, the small injury hadn't gotten any better as a rash
began to appear.
"Izzy quit scratching it, you'll make it worse!" Joe ordered for the twentieth time that morning.
"I can't help it, it's itching like mad!" Izzy whined, sounding surprisingly like Mimi for a moment. The group were traversing a desert that had suddenly started at the edge of the forest the group had been walking through the day before, and Izzy wasn't the only one who was whining. Tai tried to keep everyone spirits up,
"Come on guys, I'm sure there's an oasis or something we can rest at
when we find it. Just keep going." he called cheerily. Most of the others
muttered mutinously at that, but Tai didn't hear them. Izzy and Joe started
talking about how Tai could be such a slave driver at times, no one heard their conversation as they were well behind the main group with Gomamon and Tentomon.
"Well, there was this one time when we were all separated," Izzy began, "Kari got sick as we were crossing a desert sort of like this one..." he
paused as he looked around with a confused expression. Tentomon noticed
this,
"Izzy, what's the matter?" he asked worriedly, buzzing up to Izzy's eye level so he could talk to his human partner more clearly. Izzy shook
his head,
"I don't know Tento...I've just got this really weird feeling of dÈj• vu.
You know like we've already been here or something." Tentomon looked
around,
"You know Izzy, I'm getting that feeling too. This desert almost looks
exactly the same as the one that Kari got sick in after Matt defeated Puppetmon." he mused, taking in the desert's feature with his huge, green
eyes.
After a few hours of non-stop walking, the group of Digi-destined children
and their Digimon had fallen silent. Izzy had slowed down considerably and
was now lagging behind Joe, Gomamon and Tentomon,
"I don't feel so great." he muttered to himself as he struggled to
breathe properly, periodically wiping the sweat that was accumulating more
rapidly on his forehead. Gomamon looked behind him to see Izzy way behind him. He frowned lightly but decided to encourage the younger boy to speed up a bit, it wouldn't do to have someone lag too far behind.
"Come on Izzy, chop, chop!" he said brightly. Izzy looked up and gave a
weak smile and obliged, beginning to catch up with the white seal like
Digimon. Gomamon nodded in satisfaction thinking Izzy would be right behind him within a few moments. A couple of seconds later, Gomamon heard a light thump in the sand just a couple of feet from him. Gomamon and Tentomon looked around only to see Izzy lying in the sand, they waited for a couple of seconds to let the by get up...but Izzy didn't stir. "JOE!" Gomamon yelled in a panicked voice as Tentomon flew over to his partner to try and get him up. The larger group ahead heard Gomamon's cry and stopped. Tai frowned as he turned around, only to see Joe leaning over an unconscious Izzy about 3 meters away. Tai jogged over to where Joe was
tending to Izzy,
"What's going on Joe?" he asked worriedly. Joe sighed as he pushed his glasses up his nose,
"I'm not sure Tai. But what I can tell you is that Izzy need shelter,
and fast. He's got one very serious fever and his breathing seems a bit
off." Tai growled in frustration as the rest of the group joined them,
clamoring to hear what the problem was. Only Kari wasn't paying any attention as her eyes seemed to focus on something in the distance.
"Kari, what're you looking at?" TK asked innocently. Kari narrowed her
eyes,
"I'm not sure TK, I think there's something headed towards us." Tai
groaned as he heard his younger sister say this,
"Just what we need, an evil Digimon attacking when we're vulnerable to
them." Biyomon started to hover above the group,
"I don't think its evil guys, it's coming way too fast, besides your
digi-vice are going off." she noted. Tai and the others, bar Izzy of course,
looked at their digi-vice and seen two red dots blinking as the creatures
approached. Suddenly the two Digimon flew right above the Digi-destined children's heads, a huge sea lion like Digimon with wings landed a few feet away, hovering before setting itself down. The large butterfly like Digimon
landed beside it, setting a young girl of about 12 years of age down. She had
dark brown hair curled up into a bun, and two strands floated freely next to her face. She looked slightly green as she leaned against the butterfly to
regain her balance. Another young girl, roughly about 11 years old with light strawberry blond, curly hair that reached past her shoulders jumped
from the sea lion Digimon's back, grinning widely and helping the other girl
regain her dignity.
"I am never doing that again!" the older girl groaned, while the
younger one just laughed lightly,
"Come on Lucy, Lepidoptermon's landing was way better than Mantramon's, not that I'm complaining Mantramon." The Blue sea lion Digimon smiled as she reverted into a smaller sea lion Digimon that looked a lot like
Gomamon,
"No worries Alana, it was bound to be bad," the obviously female Digimon paused, "It was my first landing after all." The Digi-destined stared at the newcomers, who suddenly looked over in their direction...