Me: It's finally time, the tenth chapter has finally been born today
Guilmon: Took him long enough :P
Me: Yeah, I'm aware of that
Guilmon: It's taken long enough, START THE FIC!
Me: Okay, okay, relax; don't chase me up the tree again
Guilmon: (Shoots me a look)
( ) Action (In the non fiction areas only)
"So you're leaving?" Ryou asked Jake.
"I have to" Jake sighed, "You guys are my friends, but I created this monster"
"How so?" Takato who was standing nearby asked.
"I'm the one who made Derek mad enough to rampage the digital world" Jake looked down at the ground, "I made this monster, and now I'm going to do the honorable thing, I'm going to go raise an army of new teimas and unleash them upon him"
"That's honorable?" Takato laughed, "It sounds more to me like you're trying to put a dangerous enemy out of commission"
"Exactly" Jake winked.
"Ready yet Jakemon?" Giruie whined from the deck of the ark.
"Aye" Jake laughed, "Learn at least some pirate little brother, and on the Digital zephyr seas it's Jay"
"Aye aye Jaymon" Giruie giggled and bounced across the deck.
"Why the change of style again?" Takato asked pulling himself up the rope and onto the ark.
"Because" Jake/Jay laughed, "I need to keep a low profile from Derek, you think he'll let me just get away with this if he knew it was actually me traveling the skies?"
"True" Takato grinned, "Good thinking"
"Yes, it is..HEY" Jay yelled out, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING UP THERE!"
"I'm coming with you bro" Takato smiled innocently.
"The heck you are" Jay growled softly, "This is MY monster, not yours, I have to deal with him on my own"
"Who says?" Takato asked.
"Says me" Jay jumped onto the ship, "Now git off"
"Nope" Takato laughed, "I'm coming along, don't try to be the lone ranger on this, nobody is"
"This is true" Jay blinked, "Fine, you can come along, welcome aboard"
"Right" Takato grinned and stole a hat from the floor.
"Takato?" Jay laughed, "NEVER wear a pirate hat again!"
"But I look good" Takato whined, "And hey, who's the older one here!"
"You are" Jay grinned, "But I'm the captain"
"True" Takato laughed.
"Sounds like you're already getting along" Ryou laughed too, "Well, off you go, peace you two, erm, four"
"We'll come back when we've raised a strong army" Jay waved, "Bye"
"Bye" Takato waved too.
"Bye Bye" the two Guilmon waved as well as the ship took off for the skies.
The plot was simple; Jay planned to stop Derek from using the power of the jewels he was slowly acquiring from the different temples, while the ground crew went to stop him, Jay would make an army to stop him from the skies. Later that day after dinner Jay was nostalgic, and began to remember while lying back in his chair, how he found the ark.
"What's this thing?" Jake asked pointing at the old ark in the back of the base.
"That?" Takato laughed, tackling Guilmon to the ground next to them said, "Is an old vessel we found, not like Grani, but still an ark all the same"
"I see" Jake smiled, "Why doesn't it fly?"
"No power" Takato blinked, "It needs it's power source fixed"
"What's it run on?" Jake asked.
"Who knows" Takato grinned, "Now common, our team that was tracking your friend should be back here by now"
"Alright" Jake smiled and walked with Takato to the meeting room where the others were congregating waiting to hear from Rika and Ryou, who had just returned from tracking Derek, Vic was in the hospital wing from an injured leg sustained from escaping the dark fortress a few weeks before.
"So what's the word?" We asked them as they returned.
"He's going after the temples, like we thought" Ryou replied bluntly.
"Did you get anything?" Jake asked.
"Yes" Rika replied tossing him a ruby shard, "This is a fragment from the pyre jewel, you and Takato are both pyro lovers, you keep it"
"Okay" Jake replied catching the jewel shard and putting it into his jacket, "Why is it in shards?"
"Time for a history lesson" Takato smirked.
"The jewels are found in temples around the digital world" Rika explained, "When they are all brought into one final temple with no jewel of its own, the bonds between this world and the real world shatter, after each jewel is collected or so, one should bring them since just putting them all there at once would cause results that even those who are evil would not want"
"Like what?" Addie asked.
"Bet you're loving her talking eh Jake?" Takato teased.
"Yeaahhh" Jake blushed and seemed to drool over Rika, while Takato had turned a drooling eye of sorts on Juri.
"ARE YOU TWO GOGGLEHEADS PAYING ATTENTION!" Rika asked slapping them both across the face.
"YEAH, ARE YOU!" Ruki yelled slapping the two again.
"Ow" Jake rubbed his cheek, "Why do they always do that in sets?"
"Because it causes us more pain" Takato rubbed his jaw and shut up like Jake, listening to Rika.
"Now, as I said, this activation of all jewels at once, would cause both worlds to just explode, so even an evil being wouldn't desire this, nobody to rule over, and they'd die too, so they take them one or two at a time"
"How many are there?" Hayden, a new tamer asked.
"Many" Rika responded, "Nobody has ever found all of them, so nobody really fully knows, but I'd guess there are about sixty-five temples in all, and then the main temple"
"So sixty-six" Jessica or Jess, another new tamer replied.
"Yes" Rika smiled, "Anyhow, the ruby is in shards because it is the final gate, the one that has to be used at the last, so as a last ditch effort to stop the merging of the worlds, the ancients.."
"Destroyed the ruby to protect the two worlds!" Jake laughed.
"Yes, good job gogglehead, here's a caramel" Rika mocked with a playful grin"
"Okay" Jake blushed and went outside. Later on that night he and Takato were sitting outside holding the jewel.
"Just think" Jake replied looking into its depths, if this were to fall into Derek's hands"
"No kidding" Takato replied, "Disastrous"
"It's pretty" Giruie replied staring into the depths, apparently transfixed by it's beauty.
"Yah" Girumon replied, "Pretty"
"Hey!" Giruie shouted, "I saw it first!"
"No, I DID" Girumon shouted back and got into a wrestling match with each other, knocking the jewel from Jake's hand.
"Wah!" Jake shouted as the crystal fragment bonked against the ark's side and fell to the deck, they'd been sitting on the side the whole time. This caused the ark to start glowing.
"Let's just share it" Giruie whimpered.
"I concur" Girumon whined.
"I thought things felt funny up here" Jake and Takato muttered at the same time.
"So this is the power source" Ryou laughed from below, "Congradulations you two, you are now the proud owners of your own ark"
"Radical" Jake laughed and put the stone into the now obvious pedestal in the power core.
"Awsome" Takato laughed, "Hear that you two?"
"YAY" The two Girumon sang out.
"That was so interesting a night" Jay laughed, breaking out of his stupor, "I'll never forget it"
"Me either" Takato laughed sitting on the edge of the ship.
"I wanna steer" The two Girumon sang and moved the wheel, causing Takato to pitch overboard and hang onto a rope while Jay pulled him up.
"Mommy" Takato gulped.
"Relax, your safe bro" Jay laughed.
"I know" Takato smiled and got to his feet, "That wasn't funny guys"
"Sorry" The two Girumon hung their heads, genuinely sad they'd almost seriously injured Takato and hurt a friendship.
"Actually, it was pretty funny" Takato laughed.
"YAY" The two Girumon cheered happy that Takato and Jay weren't upset with them.
"Then to the cabins we go" Jay smiled, "I'll keep first watch, then Giruie, then Girumon, then you"
"Alright" Takato smiled too.
"And tomorrow we hit the first mini-tamer city in the digital world" Jay chuckled, "Port digirailus"
"Woooo!" Takato cheered.
"Glad you're happy about it" Jake blinked.
"Gotta be happy, landing at the city means that we're succeeding in our quest" Takato smiled.
"Oooh" Giruie replied in awe, "He's gotcha there Jaymon"
"Yeah, he does" Girumon added laughing.
"Ok, ok, I'll admit it, it's a good thing" Jay grinned, "Duly noted Takato"
"You're the most insane brother I've ever had" Takato blinked.
"I'm the ONLY brother you've ever had" Jay stared.
"Aww, don't rub it in" Takato frowned.
"I know, I'm teasing" Jay smiled giving Takato a noogie, "Although I agree, I think I went too far on that joke, sorry"
"It's alright" Takato replied making a face.
"Ahh, we should go to bed" Jay smiled.
"Okay, goodnight" Takato smiled back, "Cya in the morning"
"You too" Jay replied, "BOTH of you"
"Yeah" Girumon smiled and waved, "G'night!"
"Goodnight!" Giruie replied.
Everyone went off to their cushy beds for the night, well as cushy as a bed can be on a giant pirate-looking ship that flies in the skies, and prepared to go on the watch, which was since there were few wild ones in this area, pretty uneventful, there were a few confrontations that were easily silenced by some quick thinking and magic of the ruby shard, allowing them to land in Digirailus the very next morning.
"Wow" Takato murmured from the mast, "It's..beautiful!"
"Yep" Jay blinked, "It is, common bro, let's go figure out who we can recruit in this city!"
"WOOOO" Takato laughed, "LET'S DOOO THIS"
"THAT'S MY LINE" Jay stared shocked.
"Betta catch me then oh' captain sir" Takato grinned mockingly.
"I swear" Jay blinked, "YOU are picking up WAAAAY too many bad habits from me"
"YEP" Takato replied and jumped over the ship after it had docked, running off and laughing as he went.
"You are soooo toast bro" Jay shouted and ran after him laughing too, with their digimon following close behind.
Me: Well, interesting chapter
Guilmon: A bit self-centered, but good
Me: , self-centered, that's true
Guilmon: Then why is it?
Me: Because that's the way it happened and I felt since I'd caused Derek to go wild on the digital world, I should correct the mess myself as punishment, Takato decided to come along for the ride, but I stayed captain solely because it was my mission originally and yeah…I didn't want to burden them with something that they shouldn't have had to deal with on their own, other than that, I agree, Takato should have been captain before me…..HEY!
Guilmon: What? (Innocently)
Me: What's with the questions?
Guilmon: I'm a baby digimon at the age where baby digimon go through the "why" phase
Me: Oh x.x, how long are you gonna be there?
Guilmon: Give or take, about fifteen years
Me: Figures xD