Call of the Spirit
I don't own Digimon
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"Talking"
'Thoughts'
)-( Scene change
(----) Different point of view
(-/-/-) Flash back
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Chapter 8
He sighs as he sits up. They crash landed in the Digital World, he checks the crater next to him and finds Guilmon looking around. He sighs as he sees that the pack is still closed, he didn't know if the straps would hold but they did.
"Hey Takato!" He hears Jeri's voice. He stands up and locates Rika and Jeri getting out of their craters with the help of their partners. He then climbs into Guilmon's crater and then he helps Guilmon get out of it. He falls as Guilmon finally gets out of the crater. Then Henry helps him get out of the crater.
He looks around and spots the others. He walks over and to find out what's the matter. It turns out that Kenta brought a Digital camera. Soon they arrange themselves to have their pictures taken. After a good nine pictures, they begin to talk about their next move.
He is tempted to take out his D-Tector, but decides that if it's not beeping, then he's not close to finding the Beast Spirit. Kenta complaining about his camera not working right interrupts the talks about what their next move should be. Henry says, "Let me see." Kenta hands over the camera and Henry says, "The pictures are pixelated." "Huh?" Kazu and Kenta ask at the same time. "There fuzzy." Henry clarifies. "Check the COM device." He suggests as he puts down his pack. He takes out the device and hands it over to Henry. Henry frowns as he toys with the buttons and sighs. "I guess there's too much interference." Henry decides out loud. Henry hands the COM device over and he repacks it.
He turns to look up into the sky and stares at the bright green sphere above their head. He notices the red beams and what looks to be satellites dishes. He turns back when Jeri says, "I want to go home." He blinks and says, "We're here for a rescue mission. Calumon shouldn't be here first off and we can also confront the master of the Devas while we're at it. So we landed in a desert-like wasteland, that don't mean we should just give up." "He's right. We have a mission to carry out and just standing here isn't going to help us find Calumon one bit." Rika says. Renamon nods in agreement with her partner.
Jeri smiles and says, "Your right. I'm sorry." "It's all right. It's different to actual be here then to just sit around and talk about coming here." He says. Leomon says, "All very well and good, but where to we start?" Rika says as she points, "I think I see some satellite dishes over that way." They all turn in that direction.
He focuses in on the image and shrugs. "I don't care one way or another." He says. Guilmon agrees and he looks at each of the group's faces. They all don't seem to mind and they start off. Surprisingly, he doubts that this whole journey will be over anytime soon. They don't know a thing about this world and it's also the Deva's home turf. He also wonders what the Digimon will be like when they meet them.
It takes them a good hour of walking towards the satellite dishes. Kazu asks, "Are we there yet." He studies the rocks before them and says, "I believe we are. They look like satellite dishes, huh?" He turns and finds that all of them are staring hard at the rocks and Rika says, "They did look like satellite dishes from a distance." "I think we all made that mistake, Rika." Henry says. Renamon nods and Terriermon says, "So we wasted time coming here? At least we can safely say that Calumon isn't here." Henry says, "Terriermon!" "No, he's right. It's my fault for leading you guys here in the first place." Rika says. He says, "It's not like we have any real place to be at the moment. We'll rest for a few minutes and then continue on our way." The group brighten at his words and they look around.
He rests in the shade of one of the rocks. He checks to see what Kazu and Kenta are doing and then takes out his D-Tector. He pushes a few buttons and checks the map. He sighs as he cancels out the map and pockets the D-Tector. He then watches as Kazu and Kenta argue about which Digimon will become their partner.
"They sure have enough energy to argue." Rika says. He turns to find Rika standing to his right. He says, "They'll cut it out once we get going." Rika nods and then sits down. "Any luck?" Rika asks. He knows what she's talking about and answers, "Nope. It's not that I'm in a hurry to find it, any way. It'll be a challenge just to be able to control it once found." Rika nods in agreement with that. "So, where to next, O fearless leader?" He blinks owlishly at Rika when she called him the fearless leader. Rika rolls her eyes and he answers, "I'm thinking north." Rika nods and they remain silent until he figures they had enough time to rest.
He gets up and so do Rika, Renamon, and Guilmon. "Time to move. We're going to try north unless someone has anything against that idea?" He says. Everyone shakes their head and they soon walk away from the rock formation.
They don't find anything but some scattered rocks and barren trees. They also spotted pockets of old data. It was Kenta that asked what those pink balls were and it was Renamon that answered. He checks the time and find that they've been walking since eleven o'clock and it's now three o'clock. And yet nobody other then Guilmon complained about being hungry.
He looks to see if anyone else has noticed this, but it looks like he's the only one. "I think we'll rest and eat, ok?" He asks once they make it into a shadow of a large rock. Most of members of the group only grunt their replies and he moves towards Henry. He says in a low tone, "It's well passed lunch and yet nobody has said anything about being hungry or tired." Henry looks stunned and checks his own D-Ark and nods slowly. "That's unusual." Is all that Henry has to say on the matter. He nods and turns to help Guilmon with the straps.
"Just don't eat it all, ok boy?" He asks once he hands the pack over to Guilmon. "Ok, I'll try." His partner says. He shakes his head as Guilmon takes out three cream buns, four coconut buns, and two red bean buns. He takes the pack and closes it and makes sure that the straps are due up nice and tight.
He takes out a bag of chips and begins to eat. He shares with Henry as Henry lets him have some pretzels. He takes a sip from his water bottle and puts the remainder of the chips away. He watches as Terriermon and Guilmon chat away about little things.
He checks and notices that they've been sitting around for forty minutes. He gets up and stretches. He looks around them, hoping that they don't encounter a data stream or by a powerful Digimon. For now, he just be grateful if they don't get separated on their first day in the Digital World.
He hears someone behind him and he turns to find Leomon behind him. "You know where we are?" He asks the champion Digimon. "Not really. The Digital would is a big place though." Leomon says. He nods at that and then Leomon says, "I thought you'd like to know that you're doing great, all things considered." He grins at that and says, "Thanks, it means a lot." Leomon nods and heads back to Jeri.
They soon pack up their junk and start on their way once more. He wonders just where they're going to camp for the night. He pause and waits for Guilmon to catch up to him.
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He just blinks as the lights are turned on all of the sudden. 'Freaky.' He thinks as he watches as the line of darkness disappears over the horizon. He turns to find that other then him being up, Renamon and Leomon were as well. He decides that it's a old habit that awaken since returning this place.
He moves to wake Guilmon, as Renamon and Leomon wake their own partners. Guilmon stirs and mutters sleepily, "Five more minutes." "It's light out, boy. That means that it's breakfast time." He says and Guilmon's eyes shot open and Guilmon says, "Breakfast!" He walks over and begins to open the pack that Guilmon carries around.
He hears Rika and Jeri get up and he finishes taking out some buns for Guilmon and himself. He then closes the pack up and eats the two buns in his hands. Henry wakes and then begins the task of waking Terriermon. Soon only Kazu and Kenta were fast asleep. He's lucky that he chose a spot away from the pair. He knows that both Kazu and Kenta could snore something fierce sometimes.
After eating, Renamon decides to wake the pair of partnerless boys. Both complained at this, but nobody really listened. Kazu and Kenta don't have enough time to finish their breakfast as most members of the group were rearing to go. He checks the time and finds that it's about six in the morning.
As they go, it become apparent that Kazu and Kenta were bringing up the rear of the group. He pauses to look at them. Rika says, "I'll walk with them. This is just one of the reasons why they shouldn't be here." He shrugs and says, "Just try to be civil with them, Kazu doesn't like to be bossed around and Kenta will follow his lead." Rika looks at him and then nods. "I'll try to remember that." Rika says and both Renamon and Rika wait for Kazu and Kenta to draw closer so they can continue to walk.
He sighs and continues on his way. He easily catches up to Guilmon and Henry. Terriermon is riding on Henry's head and Jeri and Leomon were behind Henry. Just as they have been walking for over an hour, a large group of old data heads towards them from the right.
They all stop walking as the data rolls pass them. He suddenly has this bad feeling and it proves true, for behind the pink balls a large red data stream comes toward them at an alarming rate. "Run for it!" He yells out.
They all race forwards, then he stops and turns to see if Rika and them were making out. It seems that Renamon is carrying the pair by the scuffs of the shirts. They were running toward them, but he cries out, "Rika!" The data stream picks them up and they all stop to stare at the spot that the data stream picks them up at.
He just sighs and just knows that Rika will be in a horrible mood by evening. He just hopes that Renamon will be able to handle the solution between the two boys and a grumpy Rika. He sighs and Jeri asks, "Now what?" "We'll meet up with them in time." Henry answers. He nods in agreement with that statement. "I just hope that Rika doesn't hurt Kazu and Kenta too much." He says. All nod at that statement.
(----Rika----)
She feels soreness in her arms and legs. She sits up and looks around. They were in a forest and she then spots Renamon in a tree, looking around. "Are you alright?" She asks her partner. "I've been better." Renamon replies. She just nods at the statement and looks around for the two idiots. She walks right up to where they're lying and says loudly, "Get up, idiots."
They soon sit up and Kenta asks, "Where are we?" "Looks like a forest." Kazu says. She sighs and says, "We're also alone. The others didn't get picked up by that data stream, so you better listen up and listen well. You'll do as I tell you or I'll just leave you on your own without Renamon for protection, got that?" She gives them each a glare for good measure. The pair nods frightfully. "Good." She says and turns to where her partner is.
Renamon jumps down and says, "There a mountain range ahead. I think we'll find a way back to the desert there." "Hey! What wrong with sticking it out in this forest? I mean, they'll be looking for us and this place has tons of food and water! Why leave this place behind?" Kazu asks. "Cause it also means that there's many Digimon living in this forest and they might not like trespassers." She says with a straight face.
Renamon nods in agreement with her, for she just took a shot in the dark with that comment. "We better go now. Who knows what saw us land." Renamon says. They start walking, knowing that Kazu and Kenta will follow. "Did you mean that?" She asks softly. "There is most likely many Digimon in this forest. I just don't know what they'll do when they encounter us." Renamon replies. She nods slightly in acknowledgement to this statement.
After a few minutes of silence, Kazu and Kenta began talking about what kind of Digimon live around here. She just tries to ignore, but after a whole hour, she turns and snaps, "Shut up! You're alerting the whole forest to our presence! Do you want to encounter a big bad Digimon that badly?" Both look stunned and then Kazu says cockily, "O come on! We're been walking around here for a few hours! Nothings going to attack us, you were just trying to scare us, right Kenta?" Kenta says, "Right!"
She growls at the pair of them and before she says a single thing, she stares at the Digimon sneaking up behind them. "Renamon." She says simply. "On it, Rika." Renamon says as she leaps into action. She takes out her D-Ark and reads the data scan.
J-Mojyamon
Champion level Digimon
Attribute: Data
Rare animal type. Attacks are Jungle Bone and Jungle Punch.
She reclips the D-Ark to her belt lop and watches as Renamon evades the punches thrown at her. Then Renamon uses Power Punch to send the brown Digimon flying. "Jungle Bone!" The champion Digimon cries out and soon a bone is flying towards her partner.
Renamon jumps out of the path of the bone and uses Diamond Storm on the brown Digimon. The Digimon is knocked out cold and they run for it. She's not interested in having that Digimon's friends feel obligated to battle them over the deletion of their brown friend.
"I believe that proves how stupid you are. You talked so much that Renamon didn't scent that Digimon. So what are you going to do from now on?" She asks with her arms crossed and giving them a hard look. Kazu and Kenta gulp at this and glance at each other. "Um, be quiet?" Kenta asks. "That's correct. Lets go, the sooner we make it back to the group, the sooner I'll actually be able to get away from you." She says and Renamon and her start to walk towards the mountains yet again. This time either of the boys talked. She truly wonders how Takato can even be friends with them.
(----Takato----)
They found a spot to rest for the night. They haven't meet up with Rika and them yet, but he knows it's only a matter of time before the groups back together. He thought about scouting ahead, but they had two more close calls with data streams that he decided it wasn't worth it.
He kind of wished that someone brought binoculars so they could see what's ahead of them. He decided that they'd do watches, just to make sure that if any Digimon appears, they'll have fair warning. He took first, then Henry, and finally Jeri. He didn't feel like sleeping, he's worried about Rika and them. He knows it's silly, considering that Rika and Renamon make a powerful team, but they also have Kazu and Kenta, two boys that weren't taking this whole thing serious yet. They just thought that it's just some kind of adventure and a bit of a game. He wonders if when they get back, they'll have a different view about all of this.
He takes out his D-Tector and wonders when he'll encounter his Beast Spirit. He hopes that it's still in its totem form, for he truly doesn't want to hurt an innocent Digimon to make the spirit separate from the host. He'd feel even worst if he deletes the Digimon to get it.
He turns to look up at the orb in the sky. They came to the conclusion that the sphere is the real world. He smiles slightly as he turns to look at the cave where the others were resting. He pockets the D-Tector and continues to scan the plains before him. He notices pockets of old data, but nothing out of the ordinary about that.
(----Nobody's----)
The figure stands in the way of the motorcycle. The bike reeves up and charges the figure in leather. "I'm ready when you are." The Digimon says and with the grace of a cat, the Digimon steps to the side and in one single move, lands on the seat of the bike.
An armoured Digimon watches the scene below and notices the metal Digimon that came off of the bike. Soon the leather wearing Digimon is in control of the bike and the Dog Deva says, "Remember our deal, Beelzemon." "I remember, dog face. I'm just going for a test drive." The bike says and takes off.
The dog Deva looks up and notices the dragon Deva. "Follow him discreetly, Majiramon. I don't fully trust our newest allie." Caturamon says. The dragon Deva dips in his flight and flies in the direction of Beelzemon. "It's just Majiramon, Antylamon, and myself left to follow our master. How could these humans could ever delete Makuramon I'll never know." Caturamon thinks out loud. Then the dog Deva fades away.
To be continued …