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BONZAI!
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"Cupimon digivolve to Lucemon!" shouted the little marshmallow angel as he immediately changed into the child-like angelic form of Lucemon. The angel turned on his heels and looked directly into the golden eyes of the oncoming attacker.
The human sized dinosaur screeched to a hard stop skidding along the dried village street. Mark was lying next a hut, face down. One of the dinosaur's Pyro Spheres had hit Mark in the back. The boy was whimpering. Lucemon hopped backwards extending his wings and hovered over next to him. The angel shot his sapphire eyes down on the child. The boy's brown hair was mixed with dirt and had spots where the ends had been singed. Lucemon grimaced at the smell of burnt hair and cloth. The child rose up on his hands and knees slowly. There was a large patch of black where the fire sphere had struck the boy in the middle of the back. It was about the size of a dessert plate or the base of a cereal bowl.
"I'm ok," murmured Mark quietly to Lucemon. "Go get him, Lucemon…"
The angel narrowed his eyes at the dinosaur. "You hurt my partner…" Lucemon's voice was low and gravely. Mark looked up at his partner. Lucemon's voice reminded the boy of Clint Eastwood. The angel took a step forward. The red and black lizard took a fearful step back. The dinosaur cringed as it took up a cowering pose. "No one, hurts my partner….No one!"
"Please…forgive me!" whimpered the dinosaur he averted his eyes from Lucemon's.
The angel's eyes turned from the smooth, clear sapphire to that of a tumultuous tempest of midnight blue. "I should slash you to little bits…" The angel leapt forward and grabbed the dinosaur by the two small leather wing ears that were attached to the sides of its head. "But I'm not, you aren't worth the energy you pathetic pile of digital code." Lucemon flung the dinosaur to one side and turned his head. Streaks of lightning struck across the angelic child's corneas "You will leave us be, or you will never see the end of this day; do you understand, Guilmon?"
The dinosaur nodded slowly. Lucemon made a sudden movement where his wings opened and his fists jerked forward. Guilmon stumbled backwards and then ran away. Lucemon smirked and then turned to Mark. The angel glided over to the child. The boy quivered slightly as he tried to stand. Lucemon caught the child around the waist.
"I sense something really bad is happening…" coughed Mark quietly. His soft blue eyes looked up at Lucemon. "They need our help…"
Lucemon laid his hand on the child's back; Lucemon felt the curled, bumpy and raw skin under the scorched and thread bare shirt Mark was wearing. Lucemon closed his eyes.
"What are you doing?" asked Mark. The child started to struggle.
"Stay still, you are damaged more than you think," returned Lucemon with his gruff cowboy growl.
Mark felt strange, numb warmth fill his back; it was some what like the feeling one had when a person went to the dentist and the doctor numbed your mouth. Lucemon sighed quietly.
"I am unable to repair the damage completely," replied Lucemon. The angel supported the boy gently. "You are just too different…"
"It's ok…" whispered Mark. The child gave a weak smile. Then his eyes changed. They grew sad, "The others…they need us!"
Lucemon nodded and lifted Mark up cradle style and leapt into the air. All twelve of his wings flapped hard against the air. They swept around the mountain and dropped down in front of the cave entrance.
"Which way?" Mark asked. The child looked up at Lucemon.
"Maybe you can track them with your digivice like Brendan…" suggested Lucemon. The angel walked forward. Mark fiddled with his digivice fervently.
"I think I have it…" whispered Mark. He held up his digivice and there were several red dots. An arrow pointed forward towards the dots. "This way I guess…."
The boy walked in the cave and Lucemon flew in quickly after.
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"Now do you see, digi-destined?" growled Assaultmon. His cannons were pulsing deep maroon. "Organic beings like you are nothing compared to the mechanical might of a digimon like I! You are nothing but rats in my granary and I now I shall finish off your pathetic, pestilent lives!"
"Why?" shouted Brendan. The others shot a look at him that was full of questions.
"Who dares question me!?" shouted Assaultmon. His yellow eyes scanned the children.
"I do!" shouted Brendan the boy stood up and walked forward. "I question your logic! You say mechanical digimon are so powerful yet look at who takes care of you!"
"I don't need those organic fools!" shouted Assaultmon. He leveled his cannon on Brendan.
"You just said that your mechanical minions would be unable to care for themselves! You are so superior yet you depend on us inferior organic things to survive," shouted Brendan. The boy took a step forward, "We don't need you to survive! It looks like your logic is flawed, Assaultmon!"
Assaultmon growled and glared at Brendan loudly. His arms shook with anger. He was prepared to fire. The cannon hummed angrily with energy.
"BONZAI!" shouted a voice from behind Assaultmon. Before anyone could realize what had happened Assaultmon was roaring in anger and swinging his arms around viciously. Brendan blinked and saw Lucemon trying to direct the blasts of the cannon. Mark was clinging to Assaultmon's head trying to cover the metal monster's eyes. There was a giant explosion and one of Assaultmon's blasts slammed into the ground. The floor of the cavern cracked loudly. Suddenly large chunks of ground disappeared into the inky blackness of the under cave. A second blast cut through the floor. This time the blast shook the rock free from the walls like a dried clumps of mud were shook from a shaking dog.
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The children screamed as they and their digimon were sent hurtling down into the heart of the mountain. Mark was surprisingly pleased with himself. He hadn't expected his plan to work; fortunately Brendan had started an argument with the metal beast. His plan to subdue Assaultmon through surprise was wonderful and Lucemon did a great job restraining the digimon's guns.
Assaultmon flung his torso forward. Mark let go, with his job done and disappeared into the darkness. Lucemon dove after the boy.
Assaultmon growled angrily and shot a couple of blasts into the darkness. He knew they had gotten away and that they had subverted his logic. He wasn't sure which he was angrier at. The digimon then chuckled. There was no way those brats could survive that drop and even if they did they'd have to deal with the beast in the lower mines. It was the beast that caused this mine to be deserted in the first place, the fire beast which lurked in the heart of the mountain.
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Kevin opened his eyes slowly. His entire body ached. His vision was blurry. He slowly blinked three times and ever so slowly the bluish green light from the fungi on the walls revealed his surroundings. He sat up slowly and held his head.
"Snow Agumon," he coughed dryly. He stood slowly. A white, clawed hand caught his vision and he ran to a small pile of rubble. He ripped the chunks of rock from the white arm. He soon revealed Snow Agumon. The digimon was hurt but not as severely as Kevin had thought.
"Kevin," whispered Snow Agumon as he opened his eyes. "I'm hungry…"
Kevin looked at the digimon and almost fell backwards at the simple statement. Snow Agumon sat up slowly and stood.
"Are you ok?" asked Kevin as he helped the digimon up.
"Yes, the water broke my fall," said the digimon. Kevin tilted his head and furrowed his brows and then realized he was sop and wet. He was standing on the edge of a giant lake.
"I wonder how the others are…." said Kevin. He looked around.
"I can smell Renamon and Labramon over there," said Snow Agumon. He pointed off to the right.
"Let's go over there, Michelle and Janet couldn't have fallen far from them," replied Kevin as he trudged out of the water and onto the smooth stone ledge that encompassed the underground lake.
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Brendan snapped awake at the feeling of someone slapping him sharply on the face. Brendan looked up. Jason, Amy, Steven and Mark were standing over them. Their digimon were to the left of them. The aquamarine glow of the mushrooms revealed their muddy faces.
"We…lived…?" asked Brendan.
"No we died and heaven is a giant, muddy, mushroom infested cave!" Jason furrowed his brow. He looked at Brendan with a bit of contempt.
"How did we make it…?" Brendan went to get on his haunches and realized he was in mud. Very watery mud but mud none the less. "Oh…"
"Yeah we're covered in it," grumbled Amy. "Penguinmon and I are just a mess!"
"At least we lived…" replied Steven. The young man looked around. "Where are the others?"
"I think I saw them fall on the far side of the lake," said Lucemon. Mark was standing next to the angel.
"Yeah I think I did too," replied Mark. The small boy wasn't nearly as dirty as the others.
"We better get to them, in case something bad has happened," said Jason as he walked slowly around to the drier rock ledge. Otamamon swam happily after the boy.
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"Janet!" Kevin ran up to the girl that was laid out on the ground. He kneeled down next to her. "Are you ok?"
"She is breathing," said Renamon. The fox walked stiffly towards Kevin. "I checked I do not believe anything is broken, this soft soil buffered the fall, thankfully."
"I have to find Michelle!" Kevin stood. The fox laid a hand softly on his shoulder. Her paw extended back to reveal an incredibly dirty but a safe Michelle and Labramon.
"Thank God!" shouted Kevin and he leapt forward and hugged his soggy sister.
"Are you ok, brother?" asked Michelle quietly. She hugged the boy gently.
"I'm fine…maybe a little pained…" whispered Kevin as he felt his back. "I just can't see how we survived…it has to be a hundred foot drop at least…" He looked up into the darkness that was above them.
"We shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth," whispered Janet. The young woman was sitting up. Her hands were crossed around her body as she softly hugged herself. "We shouldn't have survived at all, but Mark…saved us…"
"Yeah, that little guy has more guts than what I gave him credit for," Kevin gave Janet a rye smile. A wince covered his face as he felt a muscle tug angrily at his back. "All I can account for our survival is all this mud we fell into…"
"It wouldn't be enough to stop us from snapping our backs or arms or ribs," replied Janet quietly. She stood slowly and whimpered as she gently put pressure on her foot.
"You should sit; you've twisted your ankle…" Michelle ran forward. She gently led the brown haired girl in the blue jeans to a rocky ledge. "I have some wrapping….in my bag…hopefully it's not soaked…"
"Labramon…" Renamon walked up to the retriever, "we should search out some food."
"What about me?" Snow Agumon asked impatiently.
"You should stay behind to protect the humans in case something attacks us," replied the fox as she led Labramon away.
Kevin, Michelle and Janet rested on the rocky ledge. All three of them sighed. Every once in a while they would hear a flurry of splashing suggesting some one was attempting to fish.
"This really crummy," whispered Kevin. He sat on the rock ledge and dangled his feet over the muddy shoreline. The lake didn't really start until one had gotten farther from the rocky ledge than where they had landed. The water grew much darker further from the rock ledge and seemed to be much clearer. The mud part of the lake looked like some sort of silt beach that was flooded. "We're stuck down here, when we should be up there kicking Assaultmon's butt…"
"Just shut up…" growled Janet angrily. "We tried fighting Assaultmon, remember? He nearly turned us into barbequed digi-destined."
Kevin picked up a rock and threw it out over the water's surface. It skipped twice. He snatched up a second one and gently tossed it in his hand to test it for weight and then threw it out over the lake.
"We should've beaten him," growled Kevin. He narrowed his eyes. He tossed a third rock this time it splashed hard into the silty water.
There was a soft grumble from the lake. Janet and Michelle looked at Kevin angrily. The boy looked at them holding up his hands trying to be innocent. A soft crimson glow appeared from below the water's surface and then suddenly like the fluke of a whale a blast of fire shot out of the water.
"Ok…" Kevin looked at Snow Agumon. "That's not a good thing…"
A large, round, cylindrical head flashed from the water. A huge amphibious body soon followed it. It was a huge scarlet salamander. It stomped up the silt shore; slowly flames erupted from the creature's back.
"We're in trouble," yelped Snow Agumon. "That's Salamandermon! He's an amphibious digimon but he's also a fire digimon the combination of the two makes him really hard to douse!"
"Then you better digivolve!" Kevin scrambled up the ledge.
"I would if I could!" replied Snow Agumon as he joined his partner. "But I am starving…!"
"Help me, Kevin," grunted Michelle as she tried to help Janet to stand on the ledge.
Kevin ran across the ledge and put his body under Janet's right arm and let the young woman lean her weight on his and together they pulled her up the ledge.
"He's not attacking," whispered Michelle, as they reached the edge.
"He has to re-stoke his fire before he can strike, he's still too wet…" said Snow Agumon. He looked at the glowing firebrand as it made its way towards the rock ledge.
"Kevin…" Janet nudged the young man gently. "Your tag…it's glowing…"
"What?" Kevin looked down and the little emblem on the end of the necklace around his neck was glowing a bright orange. The glow filled the cavern. Up on the far wall of the cave there was another picture, just like the one on the little medallion on the end of the necklace it was an orange sun. "Could that be my crest…?"
"Right now, we don't have to worry about that!" yelped Snow Agumon as he pushed the others out of the way of a wall of fire. "Salamandermon is feeling better!"
"Back Draft!" rasped the voice of the salamander as a wave of fire roared at them.
"Little Blizzard!" yelped Snow Agumon as he sent his frost cloud against the ball of flames. The frost melted and evaporated before even contesting the attack. The blast of fire sent Snow Agumon careening into the stone walls of the cavern.
"Snow Agumon!" Kevin ran up to his partner. "You can't fight him alone..."
"We haven't much choice in the matter," replied Snow Agumon. The dinosaur stood up shakily. "Little Blizz…" Snow Agumon collapsed in Kevin's arms.
"Come on…" Michelle and Janet yelled.
Salamandermon growled loudly and opened his mouth. Throbbing orange energy pulsed in the amphibian's throat. "Heat Wave!"
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AN: Thanks muchly to Alforce his reviews were the ones that really encouraged me to continue on going with this because I had basically given up. Now to Chapter funliness or the commentary there in...sometimes I do this sometimes I don't depends on how lazy I am...hehe....
HA! Assaultmon is so tough and then he gets thwarted by a boy and a rookie, of course he'd say it was a sneak attack! If the kids thought they were safe, though, they were wrong… Salamandermon is on the loose, and everyone is still reeling from Assaultmon! I must say I like…Lucemon…he's so delightful especailly all evil child o' paradise..! I think it came across quite well the way he handled Guilmon. I just think Lucemon would be so Clint Eastwood when he gets crazy eyes…and if you've seen Frontier then you'd understand…his eyes go kind of stormy then he gets all kick bum on his enemies.
Oh and on one last note, this may be the one of the last chapters I finish within the next two weeks. I have finals to prepare for and last minute non-final tests. I have Chapter Twenty Nine done I just have to read it through and such. Usually I try to read things through three or four times before I think about posting it and I usually like to have at least one chapter buffer between what I am working on and what's posted...that way if I get in a bind I have something to post at least and then there is a lot of focused re-reading where I just read parts where I thought the dialogue sounded offor I think I can do better with the description. I know I've re-written a hole middle of a chapter before because I felt I need to reprioritze things...not to mention I forgot I sent Izzy off with another group...hehe, he and Tentomon appeared at the wrong battle...good thing I caught it before I posted it....I do that a lot like especially in stories with a lot of non-main digi-destined I pair the wrong gender with the wrong digimon....I know I'm horrible!
Oh and one more thing...I sound like Uncle from Jackie Chan Adventures, 'sighs' I noticed I had the box clicked for not accepting anonymous reviews silly me...never even checked until recently....so now I guess I am accepting anonymous reviews....that is unless they get overly rude...