Chapter 3: The Legendary Swordsmon
It's Sunday and Mom and Dave are going out to my Uncle's house for the day. It's the perfect time to go out on patrol with Herpetomon. Once again I woke up around 6:oo, but today Herpetomon was already up. He was just standing and looking out the partially drawn window. He had an intense and deep expression on his face.
"Good morning… uh, What are you doing?" I asked.
He turned and said, "I have a good feeling about today. I don't know why, but today is going to be good."
"Oh yeah" I said "I have a good feeling about today too, my parents are leaving." I loved being alone, but hanging out with Herpetomon wasn't so bad either. "Maybe we could go out on patrol later, see if we can't find a fight somewhere."
"Yeah the fight yesterday was quite…Exhilarating." He said, looking proud at his vocabulary that he's obviously been working on. He just stood there smiling.
"Wow that's some pretty fancy terminology." I said laughing at him, but he didn't care. "Just relax for a while my parents will leave soon. After that we can do pretty much anything we want" I got up and put on some random cloths. Herpetomon adjusted his sash and cleaned his claws while we waited. Soon after I heard the cars start up and pull away.
"Okay now let's get something to eat then we can go out on patrol." I told him. He agreed and we went out to the kitchen. I quickly drew the shades and tended to the food, I made us waffles again because they're easy and fast. We ate quickly and got prepared to go out since it was pretty cold.
"Now, listen. When we go out there either we could dress you up like a human or you could jump along the rooftops following me around. Which do you prefer?"
Herpetomon replied, "Well looking at this from a battling stand point I think it would be better for me to follow you around along the roof tops."
"Okay then, just be very careful not to get caught." I instructed. I could see we were both ready to go so I went outside with Herpetomon.
"I'll be keeping an eye on you" he said before he leapt onto the roof of the next house. I just began walking along the sidewalk in the direction of Town Square. I checked my pocket and made sure the D-Gadget was on the View channel just in case we got split up some how. As I walked past all the small stores and shops my mind wondered again to the purpose of Herpetomon being in this world. I thought maybe he's here or because he was strong enough to reach the Real World, or maybe he was brought here by some mysterious force like I originally thought. I stopped into the Tedeschi's to get a Slush like I usually would. This walk continued for few hours without any turnout. I was beginning to head home; I pulled out the D-Gadget to tell Herpetomon.
"It's been a while, so I'm heading home." I told him. I could see in the D-Gadget that he was on the roof of a house a few doors back.
"Alright, I'm right behind you." I heard his voice say through the D-Gadget. I began to walk home, feeling a little disappointed at not having found a fight all day. Then at about 10:00 I felt a vibration in my pocket. The D-Gadget was rumbling, so I pulled it out.
"Herpetomon, you getting this?" I asked "A Digimon's coming through."
"Rrahh, Yeah, Hurry up and follow me." Herpetomon growled to me. He was obviously in that Alert-mode again. I began to follow him, but it was hard because I was constantly looking from him on the rooftops to checking the ground. He led me past the house, past the park, and down a street I'd never been down before. Herpetomon stopped in front of a dead end street and jumped down to the street.
"It's down there" He pointed down the street. It was very cloudy already and the shadows cast by the trees overhead only made things harder to see. We ran down the street and when we reached the end of the street the Digital field appeared just as planned. Herpetomon's glowing green eyes cut through the fog. I called out to him "Remember Herpetomon if he doesn't attack you don't attack him, Got it?"
"Yeah" He began to calm down a little bit. "I got it." I pulled out the D-Gadget to find the information on the Digimon. As the display popped up I thought "No Way".
"OK Herpetomon, this is Meramon, I've seen him before, Champion level Fire type. Be very careful, he is a champion." Deep in the field I could see the red-hot glow of Meramon's flaming flesh.
"Fireball" Meramon's call echoed down the dead end Street. He shot out several balls of flame flying towards us.
"Ok you can fight him now." I told Herpetomon jokingly.
"Good" He replied as he ran to Meramon for a strong attack. He jumped at him and was going for a punch, but Meramon blocked his attack, unfazed. Herpetomon was thrown off from the sudden impact. Once again Meramon called his attack "Fireball!" Herpetomon was unable to dodge the attack.
"Oh No, Herpetomon"
"Ahhgh" He groaned when he was hit and flung back towards me. He hit the ground in front of me with a thud. I ran to help him. I picked him up, but his eyes were closed. Then out of nowhere he opened his eyes, which were now flaring green light and ran back into the fray.
"Ahaha, back for more" Meramon taunted.
"Rraagh" Herpetomon cried. He sprang in the air and appeared to be going for the…"Lizard Claw!" He was careening towards Meramon and made a swipe with his claws. From what I could see Meramon was relatively unfazed, but Herpetomon's attack did make a small gash in Meramon's arm. I thought we had an advantage, but soon after Herpetomon's attack Meramon's wound was absorbed into his flame. "What can we do?" I thought, "Nothing's really affecting him." Meramon took a swing at Herpetomon who was swiftly circling around him. He hit Herpetomon pretty hard; he was knocked off to the side of the road, barely conscious. Meramon approached him, but Herpetomon got up and tried to swing at him again. Meramon dodged and made a great punch, Herpetomon was forced all the way over to me. We were in trouble.
"Herpetomon are you OK?" I picked his head up in my lap. Even in his condition he fought to get up and defend us. He got into a clumsy stance.
"I'm fine." Although could see that he wasn't. Meramon approached and prepared for another attack. "Fire…bahh" A red blur dashed by and seemed to attack Meramon. Meramon collapsed, he had a big gaping gash in his chest that looked like it was caused by a sword. "Wha, Who is that?" Herpetomon and I said in concert. The figure dashed by him again and destroyed him with another crushing blow. The Digimon, still shrouded by the field, was absorbing the data.
"Wait, that fighting style seemed very familiar." Herpetomon said as he was coming out of his alert-mode.
"What you know him?" I asked. He began pondering very intently.
"I'm not sure." He responded.
"Well let's follow him to see if he has a tamer, maybe he could give us some answers." I said, but Herpetomon didn't hear "Hello Herpetomon?"
"Huh, Oh yeah let's go" The Digimon had already begun to retreat, so we followed. A little ahead of the Digimon I saw a shadowed figure that was obviously his tamer.
"So who is this guy?" I asked Herpetomon as we were closing on the pair.
"If it is who I think it is, he's a fancy pants 'Legendary Hero' in the Digital World" Herpetomon explained.
"Well what's so bad about that?" I asked
"Not much, but he just bugs me is all." Herpetomon said.
"Well nonetheless we could use some help since we're both new to this partner thing." I told him as I began surveying our surroundings. "How about we end this chase, I need you to jump and kick off of that building there, that should put you directly in front of them, let me do the talking."
"No problem." He said, and sprang into action. My plan worked perfectly he ricocheted off the building and landed in front of the two. We were in a part of town I'd never seen before. Herpetomon said "Hold on you two." Then I approached from behind them.
"Hey you, you guys are partners right?" I called out. When I called to them the tamer took off his hood and said in a familiar voice, "Brendan!" I knew this to be the voice of my friend Nick. Sure enough he ran over to me and we said hi. He was his usual self; he's Caucasian, short, but compact and muscular.
"I don't believe it you're a tamer." I said while our Digimon returned to our sides.
"Yep, I'm an awesome tamer." Said Nick "Who is your Digimon?"
"Oh duh, introductions." I said "Herpetomon, this is my friend Nick, Nick this is my Digimon, Herpetomon."
"Helloooooo Herpetomon" Said Nick. "Hi" Herpetomon returned harshly, so I nudged him and gave him a look. I don't know what was causing the unnecessary hostility, but then I remembered Herpetomon hadn't really met any other humans at that point. He'd get used to it.
"Now who's this?" I asked gesturing to Nick's fierce-looking Digimon. "Well this is…" Nick began to say until Herpetomon cut him off "That is Fatomon 'The Legendary Swordsmon' He's a famous sword wielding Digimon." Herpetomon said with a groan. And he did indeed have a sword in a sheath around his waist. Fatomon is roughly Nick's height, about 5'9". His skin had a deep red tone to it and judging from his facial features I'd imagine that he's a Dragon type. His short dragonic maw jutted out of his helmet that had a grill covering his eyes. Aside from the standard-jointed legs he looked a little bit like Herpetomon, but Fatomon was a little more built. His face has a shorter and rougher looking muzzle than Herpetomon's. Fatomon wore armor all over, all of it tinted red. I admit he's pretty cool looking, but he's obviously not my favorite Digimon out there.
"Yes, I am Fatomon, protector of the good" Fatomon said gallantly
"Right, now that that's over with why don't we get out of the middle of this street. We can go back to my house, the folks are out."
"Oh, sweet" Nick said. We both knew where my house was, so we began to head back.