Memory
Chapter VIII: Bait
By Salamon2
Salamon: I know you have something plannedÉ I can sense it
Salamon2: I'm already writing the rough draft version of Chapter 9
Salamon: Whoa! You're ahead of the game
Salamon2: YepÉ so are you going to say it yet?
Salamon: AlrightÉ Salamon2 doesn't own Digimon
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"MommyÉhow long until we get to Takenouchi?" asked Chibi Takevi.
"Not for some timeÉ" said Kari in response to the eight-year-old.
ÔWhy can't I just admit that I'm lost? I wish this interminable fog would end! We've been lost in here for more than a week! We're doomedÉdoomedÉ to die out hereÉ lost at sea thought Kari.
"Don't worry we'll make itÉ after allÉ we have to come to land sooner or laterÉ" said Takevi's Patamon as if he could read her mind. His statement was full of hope, and it rejuvenated hers.
"What's that?" asked Nyaromon looking out on to the water.
"I don't know, but it looks like a bigÉ whatever it isÉ"said Touchi's Tokomon, from Touchi's arms. Touchi, like his older brother, had lost his pants in the boat, and was only wearing his now large shirt over his very small body.
"It looks like a crateÉ" said Takevi innocently, and so he was.
"Should we open it Mommy?" asked Touchi looking up at her with adorable crystal blue eyes. Takevi received it as it gently knocked against the side of the boat, and he used all of his strength to lift it up into the boat, extremely tired after doing so.
"YesÉTakevi put it hereÉ" said Kari, and the crate was placed in front of Kari, and everyone gathered around the crate to see what was inside. It had some seaweed on it, but Kari removed it, and threw it out to sea, and looked for a way to open it. Kari then found a part where if she pulled hard enough it could come open, so she did, and the two rusty nails holding the lid down were pulled up and the crate could be opened, and was.
Inside lay two eggs, one very odd shaped looking with sharp points coming out here and there, it also had a symbol on it that looked very familiar, a circle with five triangles surrounding it, and a heptagon as well. The other looked like an over grown chicken's egg. It somehow looked familiar to her.
ÔIf any of the other kids ask, we'll just say our Chicken coop is on a Nuclear Waste Dump said a voice in the back of her head that didn't sound like anyone who was present, nor of anyone that she could remember.
"Who would send two digi-eggs out to sea in a crate?" asked Takevi's Patamon.
"It's not a custom that I know ofÉ" said Takechi's Patamon. Kari looked at the eggs, and pondered the same question when all of a sudden it sounded similar to a part of a Greek myth she had once read for seventh grade literature class.
ÔÉand she, and her child were put into a wooden crate and tossed off a cliff to the merciless seaÉ death would surely come to her and the babe...'
It sounded similar to part of the Myth of Perseus, who along with his mother was put in a wooden crate and thrown off the side of a cliff into the sea, ordered by the King of the land, who had heard an oracle predict that his grandson shall kill him. But what was this egg in here for? Was some Digimon afraid that the Digimon inside it would kill him or her?
Then another story came to her mind.
"...she got a papyrus basket for him, and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river. His sister stood at a distance, to see what would happen to him. The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her attendants walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to bring it. When she opened it, she saw the child..." Exodus 2:3-6
Again, who was afraid of this egg, and what was the egg next to it for?
ÔRub Gently said a voice, that sounded like Takevi's.
"Did you say something Takevi?" asked Kari to the eight year old.
"No MommyÉ" said Takevi, his Patamon in his arms, and the twin Patamon on his head.
"Touchi?" asked Kari
"NoÉ"said Touchi, his Tokomon sleeping in his arms with Nyaromon.
ÔThey hatch if you rub them gently! said the voice again. Kari didn't ask who said the words but reached out to touch the overgrown chicken's egg.
"I don't think you should do thatÉ" said Takechi's Patamon.
Kari ignored the Patamon, and picked up the egg and started rubbing it, surprisingly after thirty rubs, the shell broke, and out popped a small black Digimon.
"It's a Botamon!" exclaimed Takevi's Patamon, as if they were rare.
"Botamon is a small, friendly, playful, easily made upset, baby Digimon. They are extremely rare in this part of the Digital World, found mostly in the Kingdoms of Kaymia, and Izumi" said Takechi's Patamon.
"WowÉ"said Kari, looking at the cute baby black Digimon that she could hold in her palm. She picked it up and held him to her face, the Digimon looked curiously at her and smiled with delight.
"Bota!" said the Digimon.
"How did you know to rub the egg to get it to hatch, Mommy?" asked Touchi.
"I don't knowÉ" said Kari
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"Sire, the small craft has been found by our air brigadeÉ" said Tortosamon, bowing before SaberLeomon.
"GoodÉsend for the NavyÉ they're to go in with the air brigadeÉ"said SaberLeomon.
"But sire, by the time our Navy gets there they could beÉ" started Tortosamon.
"DOAS I SAY TORTOSAMON! OR SUFFER THE CONCEQUENCES!" shouted SaberLeomon threatening to pounce.
"Yes sireÉ yes!" cried Tortosamon as she crawled inside her shell and used her Tortosa Teleport attack to teleport to the Naval Office. When she was gone, SaberLeomon cried out in pain as a black mist came out of him and floated above him. SaberLeomon looked up to see two red eyes open up in the middle of the mist.
"I should have never made that deal with you! Now my friend is gone! And three lives that I wish not to be killed are going to be!" shouted SaberLeomon angrily at the mist.
"Didn't your mommymon tell you to be careful of who you bargain with? WarGreymon was in the way, he was softhearted and would have discovered my deal with youÉ before I made permanent connectionsÉ which I haveÉ Now go to sleep my kittenÉ"said the mist, and the Saber-Toothed Lion fell asleep immediately.
The mist moved to face the east and then said "And now HopeÉ you shall wither under my hand
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"I'm so boredÉ can't this boat go any faster Mommy?" asked Takevi, as Kari rowed, Kari didn't know why she was rowing, she just had a feeling the more distance she put between herself and the mainland, the better.
"I'm rowing as fast as I can!" said Kari exasperatedly
"OhÉokayÉ" said Takevi, who then continued his game of counting how many times Botamon could jump up and down all in a row.
"Hey! They fog's clearing up!" said Patamon from Takevi's head.
(A/N: Takechi's, I'm getting tired of saying Takechi's Patamon so the Patamon that just says Patamon from now on is Takechi's Patamon)
"Good, we'll be in Takenouchi soon!" said Takevi's Patamon from his partner's arms.
"YEAH!" cried the Digimon, and young children in the boat, Kari groaned, what was she to do? She had only excess food and the boat to sell, but what about that gift Takevi had given her the night she had left. She stopped rowing, and turned the necklace up so she could look at it. It had the same weird circle pattern on it that the other egg had on it.
"MOMMY!" cried out Takevi, and Kari looked up just in time to be snatched up by a dive bombing flying Flymon. He grabbed her, and then soared up, high into the sky, towards more Flymon.
"I've got her... the two boys can now be killed..." said Flymon to the water, and Kari saw a long snakelike Digimon below the surface.
"No!" cried out Hikari, struggling against the Flymon as he flew into the bright blue sky, away from the two boys.
"Mommy!" cried the boys, as the snake Digimon surfaced.
"That's Seadramon! He's really mean, he'll eat you right up if you get on the wrong side of him..." said Patamon.
"Patamon, can you fly up there and try and help Mommy get free from that evil Digimon?" asked Takevi to his Patamon. His Patamon looked at Takevi, as if he'd been waiting his entire life for Takevi to say it, and smiled enthusiastically, and he flew up after Flymon.
"But he can't make it... Flymon is a much faster flier..." said Patamon.
"I know... but he has too... AHH!" shouted Takevi as Seadramon rose even higher out of the water.
"Where do you think your going?" asked as he blocked Takevi's Patamon's way.
ÔYou can do it Patamon... I know you can... thought Takevi, holding onto the box with the egg in his arms so that he had something to float on if he fell out of the boat. And suddenly the egg in the box started glowing.
"Well? Where do you think your going?" asked Seadramon, blocking Patamon's way to Flymon. Patamon didn't answer, he felt a weird sensation throughout his body, as it started to glow.
"Patamon Armor Digivolve to... Pegasusmon!" shouted Patamon as he digivolved.
"Whoa..." said Takevi and Touchi.
"Through You!" shouted Pegasusmon, and he attacked and then soared after Flymon.
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"SaberLeomon'll give me the province of Cor for this!" said Flymon with glee, as he soared towards his brigade.
"Shooting Star!" shouted Pegasusmon, Flymon was so startled he dropped Kari, and Pegasusmon flew and caught her on his back.
Seadramon had been attacking the boat, and an angel flew around him attacking the water snake, Pegasusmon put Kari into the boat and joined Angemon in the fight.
ÔI can't believe Tokomon digivolved to save us' thought Touchi. ÔÉJust when Seadramon was about to swallow the whole boat Seadramon was destroyed easily, but several water Digimon were starting to come out of the fog, so before anymore Digimon could attack, Pegasusmon, with a rope tied to him pulled the boat away from danger, towards the not so far off land.
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"... next time Hope... next time..." said the mist as it vanished into the sleeping SaberLeomon.
To Be Continued...