Fumo's back, it's funny I started this like 4 years ago, stoped it and never thought I would start again, but, look at me now. Maybe it's a new trend, going back to things. Oh well...

Chapter Six - Lani's Labor

Lani shivered in the cold, she greatly regretted not bringing her coat now.

Before her was a veritable wasteland of snow and ice. A long plain barren of trees and grass, with occasional giant rock littered the ground, covered by long plates of snowfall. In the distance a range of mountain stretched out toward her. There was an eerie, windless calm over the field.

Underneath her, she rode her Tyrannomon. Dinomon digivoled, as so Lani wouldn't have to walk in the snow and freeze to death. He held her inside his hand and held close to his heart. It warmed her a little, but a giant lizard can only provide so much warmth.

Lani was getting ancy. She didn't like waiting too long. She was an action seeking kind of girl, and a long, arduous quest for a crest was cramping her style.

Lani was a simple girl, she was a thrill seeker. To her, nothing was simpler. She looked for the excitement in life. Her life style was too fast paced for such a boring event. She was ready for some action, she was ready for a fight.

Lani grew up in a small home in Palermo, Sicily in Italy. Lani's mother died when she was young, but she had 6 older brothers and her father to raise her. Obviously, 7 men aren't the best influence for a young lady, and she grew up a tough tom-boy. She was a fighter, an athlete, and a risk taker since she was old enough to walk. She grew up very tough, after all living in a small house with two bathrooms with 7 guys does that to a person, and was afraid of nothing. Lani never took shit from anyone and never let someone belittle her for being a girl. She was an avid soccer player, had an obsession for loud rock music, and an amazing amount of fighting prowess, despite her small stature.

Five years ago, when she was 11, during the first invasion of Myotismon into the real world, she had witnessed a digimon. She was playing soccer with a couple of her brothers in an alley way next to their house, while her brothers were facing her, and she was facing them, she saw a Vermilimon ran past the entrance of the alley. Only she had seen it, her brothers thought she was just playing around. When she ran out of the alley to see if it was there, it was gone. This was during Myotismon's invasion. 2 years later, when she was 13, just a year before the fiasco with the Digimon Emperor, she was checking her e-mail, when she received a strange letter from a location called the Digital World. When she clicked on it, a digi-egg burst out of her computer, and the rest was history.

"Lani?" Tyrannomon's monstrous voice inquired, "Are you OK?"

Lani chuckled, "Yeah Tyrannomon, it takes more then a little cold to hurt me!"

"Well good, because I'm as cold as a Fridgemon. Are we even going the right way?"

Lani took the tag off from her neck and dangled it from her hand in the air. The rim on the glass plate glowed red. It pointed off over the horizon, as it always did. Lani nodded pleasantly.

Then, the tag did something new. A solid beam of red light burst forth from the tag, surprising Lani and Tyrannomon. It trusted strait toward a solitary short mountain jutting out of the plain. The laser light hit right into the side of it.

Lani grew excited, "Wow. It's pinpointed it's exact location. It must be in a cave on that mountain or something."

"Super." Tyrannomon said unexcitedly. "Then we can go back home to "la belle sichilia" and warm up."

The monstrous lizard trudged on through the snow on it's way towards the hill. Lani was so excited, she could almost smell that crest. The beam shortened with every step Tyrannomon made.

"Lani do you hear that rumbling?"

Lani was so excited she didn't notice the growing rumbling sound around her. She searched the plain for where the rumbling was emanating from.

"That's not an earthquake. Where is it coming from?" Lani inquired to no one in particular.

A couple of miles away, the cause of the rumbling could be seen. A long snowy hill was slowly, but surely rising. Snow was being shaken off by something coming up from underneath.

"Lani, I have a bad feeling." Tyrannomon said.

"Me too. You better floor it to the mountain!" Lani called back.

Tyrannomon started a flat run toward the mountain, as the hill continued to rise.

Soon shaggy fur could be seen through the snow, and a pair of large steel studded tusks as well. With one giant shake, the beast scattered the snow from it's body. It stood in full feral attitude, staring at the big red lizard ominously.

Tyrannomon and Lani screamed in unison, "Mammothmon?!"

Mammothmon roared at them angrily, and started to trudge towards them.

Lani frown, "It's protecting it's territory!"

"We better get to that crest quick!" Tyrannomon yelled, picking up speed.

Mammothmon stomped after the pair, yelling angrily. When the two arrived at the foot of the mountain, Tyrannomon placed Lani down and turned toward the Mammothmon.

Lani looked up at her dinosaur digimon partner, "What are you gonna do?"

Tyrannomon smiled as only a lizard could smile, "I'm gonna heat things up!"

"He's an Ultimate, you think you can handle him?"

"Tch, of course I can. You just find that crest. Fire Blast!" Tyrannomon yelled, loosening a grout of orange flame that soared out and hit Mammothmon right on the face.

Mammothmon yelped and shock it's head, but other then that it didn't stop.

"Go!" Tyrannomon yelled as he charged at his wooly attacker. "Super Scratch!"

Tyrannomon neared Mammothmon and unsheathed his claws. He slashed at Mammothmon's hairy face, loosening hair and flesh as his talons swept by. Mammothmon charged in close, and caught Tyrannomon under the arms with it's two tusks. Trapped, Tyrannomon tried to break free. Mammothmon lifted the dinosaur and wrenched him to the side.

Lani turned away from the battle and trudged up the side of the mountain. She lifted up her tag, and the red beam shown towards a small cave in the rock. She tripped as she bounced up rocks and landed in a small patch of fluffy snow. She cursed, but got back up and doubled her speed.

Peering into the cave, she found it dark and damp. She ran in, through snow and ice patches. The tunnel curved around, Lani stumbled through the darkness, until finally a light could be seen.

At the end of the tunnel was an extensive cavern forested with stalactites and stalagmites protruding from the hard rock surface like talons, dark ice covered everything, and the few rays of light made them shiny like black crystals. As for the light, it came from several openings in the cavern's walls where it was exposed to the outside and letting in sunlit light like shower head lets out water. The light cascaded and sloshed around the cave until everything was bathed in a dull glow.

However there was one spot that was different, it glowed a brilliant orange, and once Lani saw it, she was absolutely sure it was her crest. It was set at the top of, what looked like it had once been a tall cascade going down the rock along the walls deeper in the cave, however, now it was frozen in a beautiful, fluid sculpture. The crest was set deep within in the ice, like it was imbedded in the wall behind it. It was two lines, twisted into three sharp points like sharp teeth, and the two lines were parallel to one another, point to point. The whole hieroglyph glowed a deep orange, radiating like a neon sign.

Stopping in her place, once she reached the mouth of the cave, she smiled. There was her crest, finally, she would get it no problem, help Tyrannomon to digivolve and waste that scruffy loser, Mammothmon. Or at least, that's what she thought.