Memory Part 2: The Battle of Takeh Fields

Chapter II: On the Ferry

By Salamon2

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Salamon says "How dramatic!"

Salamon2 says "Well yeah… I'm starting to think these chapters will be around 1000 words each, maybe a little more, but these chapters will be relatively short as compared to the first part's 3000 words per chapter. Also, as to the comment Gerjomarty made, you're kind of right, and yet you're kind of wrong, you'd have to reread and analyze the last chapter a little more, it is confusing…"

Salamon says "Isn't it… I was walking in circles after reading the last chapter…"

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Toulro (TULL-ROW) shivered as the ferry moved slowly across the strait of Tarel. It carried the last of the soldiers from the Army of Takaishi, and civilian survivors from the last battle.

"Brother?" asked Toulro.

"Yes Toulro?" asked Tukruk (TUCK-RUCK), who sat next to his brother and the side of the ferry. He did not seem to be could even though it was early morning and he wore rags with many holes in them. He instead looked out over the strait with a cold glare.

"Can I sit next to you to keep warm?" asked Toulro.

"Sure Toulro…" said Tukruk, and he nodded, and the four year old curled up in a ball in the seat next to his teenage brother. Tukruk continued to look out angrily at the sea, blaming it as though it were its fault that his mother had been killed. Then Tukruk looked out to the horizon, though the sun had not risen, the eastern horizon was glowing with an orange tinge. But despite this friendly scene, Tukruk felt an uneasy feeling in the air, as though things were deceiving him. And when he saw a large horn come up from the depths of the straight, and come straight towards their boat, his feelings seemed confirmed. Before Tukruk could draw breath to warn the ferryman to speed up, the horn crashed into his side, and missed his leg by several inches. Immediately the entire ferry was turned into an uproar as water came pouring in. Suddenly a Seadramon, and several Dolphmon appeared, and at their center appeared an Ebidramon, he smiled cruelly. He was large and looked like an overgrown shrimp/lobster/dragon combination.

"Destroy the ferry..." roared the Ebidramon. Then Seadramon again charged at the ferry, puncturing it again, and causing many people to worry more, the ferry was now sinking even faster. Tukruk, grabbing Toulro, ran for the otherside, but found he couldn't abandon ship just yet do to others doing what he had planned to do, jump off of the doomed ship. The Ferryman walked by, starring at the Digimon, then at his quarters, he walked below deck and locked the door, ultimately knowing it was suicide. At this Toulro suddenly whimpered in fear.

"Brother… I'm scared!" cried out Toulro.

"So am I Toulro. So am I." said Tukruk, and as Seadramon crashed into the side, Toulro, was knocked out of his grasp and he fell into the water bellow, which wasn't as far to fall as it had been. Tukruk immediately jumped and cannonballed into the water, after him. He looked around his surroundings, the soldiers, whose armor kept them from floating, were either grabbing on to innocent civilians to keep afloat or were sinking to the murky depths below. And then he saw his younger brother, fighting to stay on the surface, and calling out his name. After which seemed to curse him, for a nearby soldier also saw him, and looked at Toulro as though he were his only lifeline. Tukruk immediately sped up his swimming, grabbed his brother, just in time to keep him from being overtaken. Unfortunately he was then grabbed by the soldier, being pushed under, trying to keep his younger brother close to him, he jabbed the man where he knew it would hurt and was relieved to find that the soldier had part way taken off his armor and was vulnerable to attack. This gave him time to escape while the soldier, gasping in pain, sunk to the dark nadirs below them all. Toulro, immediately grabbed around his brother's neck, luckily he didn't weigh too much to weight Tukruk down too much. Most of the soldiers had been driven off to the pits of the ocean, and most of the civilians now tread water to survive. They looked to the ferry to see, it was about to join the soldiers, and then they saw that land, was not that far off, only about a mile, compared to the nineteen some miles behind them, so, using the sinking ferry as a distraction, they made a quick swim for it. Tukruk managed to hold on to his brother and swim with one arm, using a stroke that most lifeguards in the real world would be quite familiar with.

"Kill all of the humans!" cried the Ebidramon, once the ferry had finally sunk, but the humans had all vanished.

"They're already dead…" said a Dolphinmon

"Well that's a good thing, it would have been hard trying to explain it to King Kuroimon if anyone was left alive. Patrol the waters, start in the disaster area and work northward, they'd most likely head for their homes…" said the Ebidramon, and the Dolphinmon obeyed their orders.

Tukruk was the last one in the line of swimmers, but he did not fall into that sense of fear where the person would look behind them constantly, instead he kept looking towards the land, his final destination. It was about almost three quarters of a mile until they came to the land, until he realized that all five feet tall or taller could walk with their head above the water, and so the rest of the way, they walked, keeping their heads as the only part of their body exposed. Hopefully they wouldn't be seen, and when they finally reached shore, they all felt quite relieved to be on solid ground again, and made a vow, never to leave it again for quite some time.

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To Be Continued…

Next Time: Memoirs of a Prisoner

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