Call of the Spirit
I don't own Digimon
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"Talking"
'Thoughts'
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(----) Different point of view
(-/-/-) Flash back
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Chapter 11
They woke to find some glowing beings chirping at them. She blinks and stretches. She gets up and one of the beings takes her hand and leads her outside. She is confused as to what's so important as she finds herself outside the house.
"Rika!" Calumon's voice cries and a blur of white launches itself from the ground and at her. She carries Calumon and hugs the little guy. "How did you escape from that dog?" She asks. Calumon stares into her face with his great green eyes and says, "That mean Digimon got struck by this beam of light and I then searched around for someone to play with, but only these guys were happy to see me." "You know, we're happy to see you too, Calumon." She informs Calumon. "Really?" Calumon asks. "Really." Jeri says.
Calumon and her turn to find Jeri, Leomon, and Renamon standing at the door. Calumon jumps from her arms and into the air. Jeri picks Calumon out of the air and gives the white Digimon a hug. They then walk inside the house once more. 'One objective down.' She thinks as they begin to wake the others to show them that Calumon is with them once more.
(----Takato----)
He grins as Terriermon dances out of Henry's reach. After their encounter with Beelzemon, he landed on the rocky part of the beach after a good two hours of flying. He transforms back into normal form. They then went about foraging for food and fresh water.
They slept on the tallest rock without them any of them doing watch duty. As to why Terriermon is dancing around is cause Terriermon has the COM device. It seems that it picked up a clear signal when Terriermon was playing with it. "Terriermon! Can I please have it? I want to E-mail Yamaki to tell him that we're fine." Henry says. Terriermon stops and looks sheepish at Henry. "I just wanted you to say please." Terriermon say as he give the COM device to Henry.
He then says, "Momentai, Terriermon." Terriermon sends him a glare and then cracks a smile. He grins and they turn to watch Henry work the COM device. "Any reply?" He asks after a few minutes. Henry sighs and says, "We lost the signal, but I did get a message through." Henry then repacks the COM device in his pack.
He looks out at the ocean and asks, "You think a staircase is around here somewhere?" Henry shoulders his pack and says, "Who knows? For all we know, it's underwater." Terriermon make a face as he says, "But I don't need a bath!" He shares a glance with Henry as Henry says, "I don't know it having a bath every six months is healthy, Terriermon." Terriermon huffs and turns his back on Henry.
He sighs and looks away. "Guilmon." He says softly. "I'm sure that Guilmon's fine, Takato. I mean, Rika's with the group, right? Also need I remind you that we're the ones that Beelzemon are after right now?" Terriermon says. He nods at that and says, "So, how do we shake him off our trail?" Nobody answers that.
"We might want to be moving as we think about this. I mean, what if Beelzemon finds us just standing around here thinking?" Terriermon asks suddenly. "He's right Takato. We should be moving on." Henry says as he picks up his partner from the ground. "You're both right. Lets go." He says. "What? No divine guidance?" Terriermon jokes. He turns and blinks at Terriermon. "Terriermon!" Henry says. "No, he's right. It's just being here, it confuses me. This whole place just feels so alien to me that I haven't felt comfortable with feeling my way around, but I think I can try to pinpoint Guilmon, even if he's on a different plane then us." He says and closes his eyes to help kept him from getting distracted.
He finds himself in a colourful mist with the colours red, yellow, blue, and black flowing through it. He calms himself down and listens for his heartbeat. He concentrates on the sound and then searches for it beyond him. The rainbow mist disappears and he hears Guilmon's heart beat. He then slowly moves away, trying to remember the path as he goes. He nods before he opens his eyes.
"We need to head into the ocean. It'll help us get to the others." He says as he pins towards the water. "You're kidding? Right?" Terriermon asks. He shakes his head and says, "Just trust me on this, the way out of here is out there, at the bottom of the ocean." Henry then asks, "How do we breath under water? It's not like we have any diving equipment on us."
He looks thoughtful and a thought occurred to him. "Maybe if we think we can, we will. I mean, think about it, when we think we need to eat, we feel hungry, right?" He says out loud. "You think it'll work?" Henry asks doubtfully. "You never know unless you try." Terriermon says and then tries to whisper to Henry, "I knock him out and you tie him up." "I heard that, you know." He says dryly. Terriermon chuckles nervously and Henry nods slowly. "Let's try that, I don't think Beelzemon will think of following us." Henry says and that decides it as they begin towards the water. He just hopes that they'll find it in time. Something is stirring and he doubts it'll be anything good.
(----Rika----)
It's been two days since Calumon found them and they found themselves back on the desert wasteland plane and surprisingly, Ryo is still with them. She also just wishes that Ryo just left, but she didn't want to be left alone with just Jeri having a partner. As much as she hates to admit it, Ryo's help against Beelzemon is desperately needed. They haven't had a run in with the mega, but that either means that he's after Takato, Henry, and Terriermon. She just hopes for their sakes that they founded Takato's beast spirit.
Ryo is leading them to another plane so they're not that easy to find. She just hopes they find it soon, for she doesn't feel comfortable with the tracks they're leaving as they walk. Ok, maybe she's being oversensitive about this, but that doesn't make it any less true.
"What's that?" Jeri asks as she points at what seems to be a top of some large tree. "That's will take us to a swamp area. It's a good thing that the Digital World doesn't have bugs or the swamp will be crawling with them by the millions!" Ryo informs them. She doesn't say a thing as they draw close to the top of the tree.
They watch as Ryo show them how it's done. They slowly make from branch to branch. Some of them move more gracefully then others, like her partner. Renamon was leaping from branch to branch as she goes.
It takes them an hour to climb down off the tall tree. They all wait for Kenta to jump down. "Come on, Kenta! You're holding up the group!" Kazu yells at Kenta. "Ok, here I go!" Kenta says and closes his eyes as he leaps off. Leomon catches Kenta and puts him gently on the ground.
"Thanks Leomon." Kenta says and Leomon nods his head slightly in acknowledgement. "You, that's really odd." Ryo says. "What?" She asks. "I don't hear the songs of the Gekomon. They're usually singing up a storm by now." Ryo replies. Cyberdramon growls in agreement with Ryo.
They then start walking through the swamp. After a good thirty minutes, they find an Andromon lying by a lake. They races over and Jeri asks, "What could have done this to him? He's all beat up!" "Who knows, lets find some place to patch him up, ok?" Ryo says and motions Cyberdramon to pick up the android Digimon.
"Is that smoke coming from over there?" Kazu asks as he points at the cloud of smoke appearing over a patch of trees. They soon find a factory. Cyberdramon lays the ultimate level Digimon on the ground and a Gekomon approaches them. "What do you want?" The elder Gekomon asks. "We need help with this Andromon we found. He's hurt pretty badly." Jeri says. "No way! It's his own fault that he's like this!" The elder Gekomon shouts, waving his crane at Andromon. "What did he ever do to you?" Kazu asks. "Yea!" Kenta echoes. The elder Gekomon says, "I'm only telling this story once and that's it, so listen carefully…"
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She looks up at the lid, trying to figure out how she got into this container. After they listened to the story, they received a few data packets from the Gekomon and they left. Ryo and Cyberdramon decided to talk things over with the Gekomon, so Leomon picked up Andromon and they moved away from the factory.
It surprised her when Kazu volunteered to fetch the water. Kenta went to get firewood for the fire to help boil the water. They had also borrowed a pot to boil the data packets in. Then Kazu stayed by Andromon's side and even poured the water over the android's wounds. After the third time, Andromon transforms into Guardromon. After a few minutes, Guardromon woke up and they introduced themselves to the Digimon.
Soon Guardromon takes off as Ryo and Cyberdramon arrived. They founded the crazy Digimon throwing a large bolder into the lake and sending out a challenge to Orochimon to show and fight. Sadly, the eight-headed snake appears and after Cyberdramon and Leomon attack the snake, it backs off, though it stared at Jeri before leaving.
They were fast asleep when Orochimon kidnapped Jeri. They then thought up a plan. They didn't know where the island that is Orochimon's base is located, but they bet that the Gekomon knew though. They had Guardromon stand in front of the caravan that is leaving the factory. One thing leaded to another and she founds herself getting inpatient with this plan.
"Why are we doing this again?" She asks softly. "To take Orochimon by surprise so he doesn't have time to use Jeri as a hostage." Renamon whispers softly. "Shh, quiet! I think we're almost there." Ryo says softly. Cyberdramon moves the lid a tiny bit and they hear the container's wheels scrap the ground and then squeak.
"We brought more shakes, O snakey one." The elder Gekomon says. "Now!" Leomon roars as he breaks the container. Cyberdramon follows soon after; they left Guilmon at the factory, for they didn't have enough room for the red Dino. Cyberdramon takes to the air as Leomon grabs Jeri to move her away. "Desolation Claw!" Cyberdramon growls out, the attack hits one of Orochimon's metal heads. Guardromon uses Guardian Barrage to take out another head made out of metal.
Renamon stays back, just in case Cyberdramon and Leomon's attacks fail and Orochimon goes after the humans of the group. Cyberdramon takes out yet another metal head and all Orochimon does is laugh. "What's so funny?" Kazu asks cluelessly. "Fools! Those were only simulations!" Orochimon says. Before their eyes, the heads recompiles. "I think we need to get that one that's not metal." Jeri says.
"Cyberdramon! Go for the middle head!" Ryo orders his partner. "Desolation Claw!" Cyberdramon roars and charges towards the organic head. One of the metal heads shoot forward and rams Cyberdramon out of the air. "I think we need to change tactics, Ryo." She informs the so-called 'Digimon King.' "Got any bright ideas, Rika?" Ryo asks. Before she could reply, they turn to see Jeri says, "Digimodify! LadyDevimon's Darkness Wave activate!" They turn to find Leomon glow black and his eyes change colour to glowing red. "Darkness Wave!" Leomon shouts and from Leomon's mouth, the attack shoots out and hits the only head that's not made out of metal.
Soon Orochimon's data floats away and they all congratulate Jeri and Leomon. They all turn to see a ball of light hover in front of Kazu. It turns out to be a Digivice. "This means that Guardromon's my partner! O man!" Kazu says and hugs the large hunk of metal that is his partner. "Now I'm the only one without a partner!" Kenta shouts out. They all laugh and then she asks, "How are we going to get back to the factory?" That stopped many in their tracks as they consider this.
(----Takato----)
They were resting in a cave filled with water. He can't believe that his idea turned out to be true. They've been searching around the ocean bottom for the last four days. They were getting close though, he can just feel it. It also helps that these strange Digi Gnome, as Terriermon calls them, appear some times to lead them a few meters in the right direction before disappearing.
He also has been checking in on where Guilmon and the others are and found that they're on the move. He didn't know if they've had an encounter with Beelzemon yet, but he doubts that. Beelzemon knows that they're in this area and the mega most likely doesn't know where the rest of the group is, so it's more then likely that Beelzemon will be searching around for Henry, Terriermon, and him.
His musings end as Henry's left eye opens and closes for about six minutes. Then in watches as Henry makes a tremendous effort to force his eyes to stay open. Though this took a few tries before Henry finally doesn't have to force them open and get up off the ground. "Morning, Henry." He says, grinning. Henry yawns, "Morning, 'kato." Henry stretches his arms and head back. Henry then stands up off the floor and walks to the cave entrance. Henry looks out and asks, "How long has it been daylight?" He checks his D-Ark and says, "For about forty minutes." Henry relaxes and then asks, "Can't sleep?" "I woke up about fifteen minutes before daylight appeared." He answers.
They then pick up their packs and Henry wakes Terriermon. Terriermon murmurs unintelligent things as the Digimon clings to Henry's shoulder. They then start floating and they start to swimming. It takes time, but they find some kind of cave. He pauses in front of it and then says, "This is it. Lets go." Henry follows him into the cave.
They see some Otamamon as they enter. He scans the cave as they move slowly into the cave. Then something shatters a rock. They look up and find a Divermon aiming a harpoon at them. "Hey! Wait, we haven't done anything!" He cries as he holds up his hands. The Divermon pauses and turns to look at the Otamamon, the little blue Digimon nod in agreement with what he says. "Sorry, it's just, I'm very protective of my friends." The Divermon says as he lowers his harpoon. "It's alright. I think we understand why you're so protective of your friends. Tell us though; you know how to go to another world from here? One that's not made out of water?" Henry asks.
"A world not made of water? That's crazy talk! But I think I know a way to leave this world. Follow me!" Divermon says and he leads them to some kind of pipe. "I've seen Digimon enter this and not return. I think this is what you're looking for." Divermon says. "Thanks, Divermon. Ready Henry?" He asks. Henry and Terriermon then enter the pipe just after him.
They travel through the pipe and they soon begin to see through the pipe to this large bubble with what looks to be a library. They aim for the building and they enter the building. They move through hall with tons and tons of books resting on the bookshelves. They also spot smoke like Digimon lighting the spaces between the shelves.
They in time find some closed doors. Henry and him look at each other and then he moves forward to open the doors. When they enter into the room, one of the first things they noticed was this large Digivice hovering in the room. They all just stare at the ghost figure resting at the desk at the front. The ghost stirs as they draw near; the ghost moves his hat and looks at them sleepily. "It's been a while since I've meant anyone solid." The ghost says. He blinks at the ghost and asks, "What are you? You look like a human, but your transparent." This time the ghost blinks and says, "I'm human. So what are you two boys doing here in this dream?" The ghost asks.
Henry takes over after a minute of silence. "I'm Henry Wong and this is my partner, Terriermon." Henry says, and before Henry could continue the ghost man says, "Henry, you say? Then you must be Tao's son. I'm Shibumi, a old friend of your father." "What's that large D-Power doing here?" Henry asks. Just then a group of Digi Gnomes appears and some circle around Henry and him, one Digi Gnome circle around Shibumi before joining the other two over by Henry and Takato. "It's an Ark…"
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They stand inside the ark shape ship on their way to find their friends. He kind of likes this way of traveling then on foot, though. They all had a lot to think about, for their encounter with Henry's dad's friend really made them think. Odd as it seems, he never laid eyes on a blue card until he summoned it to have Growlmon Digivolve into WarGrowlmon to battle the tiger Deva. He also showed Shibumi his D-Tector, only to learn that Shibumi didn't have a clue why it stores data of his fallen foes.
He didn't say anything about the spirits that are stored inside of the D-Tector or about knowing what it can do. He still couldn't see why the Digi Gnomes made his spirits of Shifting Chaos and Guilmon real, or had to have they made two separate Digivices instead of a single Digivice. But then they now have a better idea how they became Tamers, he just hopes that none of them will lose their Digital partner. He knows he couldn't bear to be without Guilmon or his spirits. They were a part of him as different ways. Guilmon his best friend and the spirits were there to help him protect those he cares about.
To be continued …