Digimon: Elemental Mages

by BridgitKiido

Disclaimer: Digimon isn't mine. Got it? Good.

Nine Lives

"Why do we have to take a break every ten minutes?" Bridgit complained, collapsing on the soft earth for the fifth time that day.

"Because," Tan stated in an aggravated tone as he sat down as well, "Rhenna's tired and needs to stop for a couple minutes. So stop complaining."

Bobby muttered, "Yeah, like she needs to rest her legs after riding on that giant vine of hers. Yeesh, she should try walking once in a while." Rhenna glared at him from her resting place, silently implying that if he didn't shut his mouth, he would suffer the wrath of a thousand razor-sharp flying leaves. He, in turn looked back over towards Rhenna, silently implying himself that if she dared to do that, her leaves would be frozen solid and hurled back in her direction.

The digimon were mostly trying to ignore the fact that their partners were silently arguing, focusing their thoughts mostly on sleeping, as well as protecting the egg.

Kima, in fact, was the only mage who was in semi-high spirits at this time. She was sitting by a large tree, her tiger-eye gem and the Eaglemon elder's headband in her hands, one on top of the other. She was half asleep, thinking about how good it had felt to fly – even if it had caused her to be almost pecked to death wrongly. Oh well, she mused silently. I wonder what it would feel like to be a little cat like C – she flinched unconsciously. No, I can't try that yet. I can't control my powers yet. What if I can't turn back this time? I need some way to focus them – something that will help me to turn back into myself.

The next thing she knew, Kima's hands were feeling quite warm. She opened one eye, and then opened both in surprise at what she saw. Her tigereye gemglowed brightly before splitting in half and revealing a small chain oftiny gems within. The chainfloated up into the air, and hovered there slightly beforeweaving itself into the headband that the Eaglemon had given her.Then, suddenly,the glowing just suddenly stopped, and the band of knitted yarn was now dotted with tiny pieces of her tiger-eye that made it look almost just like a small tiara. Kima stared at it in awe for a couple seconds.

She didn't have much time to dwell on this fact, however, because from up in the sky came a loud screech, similar to the one that she heard when she first arrived in the digital world. A large bird flew low over the group, its shadow covering the sun completely for a few seconds before passing by. Kima became greatly startled, and Bridgitand the twins woke up at this noise, although the rest of them hardly noticed.

And trouble it was. What landed on the earth nearby was a very large Eaglemon, its talons sharp and its eyes with a menacing look in their eyes. It looked sharply over toward Kima, and said (with a male voice), "You have something that I want."

Bridgit immediately sprang up and placed herself right in between the bird and her sister, saying, "What could Kima have that you could possibly want?" Kima huddled by the tree, clutching the headpiece for dear life.

The Eaglemon stated plainly yet darkly, "She stole my data. The least she can do in return is give me the elder's headdress."

Bridgit now removed her diamond from her pocket, thinking, so this must be the traitorous one that they were talking about. Aloud, she stated, "The elder gave her that – and she's not about to give it to you. And if you try to force her, I'll make sure you fail!"

"So be it," the Eaglemon traitor stated. He then flew up into the air and spread his wings wide, crying "Feather Storm!" as, well, a storm of feathers (A/N: sorry, couldn't figure out a better way to describe that) rained down upon Bridgit and her sister.

Bridgit held out her diamond and conjured a white shield to protect the two of them, but after only a few rounds the shield broke, leaving no protection. Bridgit screamed, being hit by the majority of the attack. She fell to the ground and clutched her ankle, which was causing the majority of her pain. Jennie and Bunimon ran quickly over to her to try and heal her wounds.

Eaglemon landed right in front of Kima and crept slowly toward her. "Now there is nothing stopping me from getting what I want," he said triumphantly.

Crystamon ran over to Kima, who was huddled in a tight ball, and urged her, "Kima, you have to use your powers! You have to defend yourself. Otherwise that thing will take the headband – and your crystal with it!"

She knows… Kima thought for a second wonderingly, and then she stated in a frightened tone, "But what if that happens again? What if I can't turn back again?"

Crystamon butted her head into Kima's face. "Worry about that later! Right now, you have to transform! If it makes you more comfortable, don't do Eaglemon again. Just do something!"

Kima then reached her arms out in back of her and grabbed the tree so that she could pull herself up to her feet. She put the headband around her neck and pulled it up to cross her forehead, saying, "Alright, I'll do it. Just, promise to help me change back if I have trouble, okay?"

Crystamon smiled and nodded, "I promise." And as Kima smiled with confidence, the little cat-like digimon and the headband both began to glow bright orange, the tiny tiger-eye pieces shining the brightest of all.

U L T I M A T E D I G I V O L U T I O N

"Crystamon digivolve to…" the little cat cried as she completely transformed from a cat into a beautiful warrior maiden. (Yeah, sort of like Gatomon to Angewomon.) She gained bright golden full-body armor, as well as beautiful silvery hair that flowed down to reach her knees although tied in multiple places to create a long, thick pony-tail. Around her neck appeared a long, bright pearl necklace of cerulean which sparkled in the light, and in her hand appeared a quarterstaff of golden wood… "Chatmon!"

E N D U L T I M A T E D I G I V O L U T I O N

"Wow…" Kima said in awe as she saw what Crystamon had become. What had been the little white cat-like digimon was now a beautiful woman-like creature, although she kept a pair of cat-like ears and a tail. Her armor shone in the sunlight, as did her hair, but what really stood out was her staff and necklace, which shone almost with light of their own.

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Chatmon (pronounced the French way – SHAH-mon)

Level: Ultimate (hence the new digivolution banner)

Abilities: Spirit Slash, Ages Charm

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Kima took a deep breath, and then closed her eyes and concentrated. Her headband glowed once again, and this time, so did she. Her form then changed slowly until she had completely transformed, once again into Eaglemon. She took off into the sky, and the traitorous one did as well. Chatmon, meanwhile, stayed on the ground, watching and waiting for an opportunity.

"Mountain Screech!" Kima cried as she opened her mouth (now a beak) and a sonic blast came out of it and flew towards the traitorous one, who flew higher to dodge it.

The traitorous one retaliated with another "Feather Storm!" which flew towards Kima, who turned to the right and dodged.

John, from the ground, said, "Neither one's landing any hits. Is there any way Kima can win?"

Bridgit said quietly from where she sat, "Probably. I'm just not sure why my shield didn't hold up." She winced slightly as Jennie accidentally touched a hurting spot the wrong way as she helped Bunimon wrap the Pink Ribbon.

Kima and the traitor continued to attack and dodge without hitting their targets. Finally, Chatmon leapt into action by leaping (sorry for the pun) into the air, surprisingly seeming to stay afloat. She removed her pearls from her neck and, while holding them in front of her, spread them out in a circle. They began to glow brightly, forming a pattern with three small circles within the big circle, and as the warrior cried "Ages Charm!" small circular lights flew from the pearls and surrounded the traitorous one in the same pattern. He screeched, but it was no use – he was frozen in place.

Kima smiled inside, although her Eaglemon form did not really have the ability to show it.

Chatmon was in no way finished, however. She concentrated once again, and her staff began to glow brightly as well. She let go of her beads to grasp the staff with both hands and twirled it around once, creating long trails following the paths of its ends. She let go with her left hand and slashed it toward the traitor, saying, "Spirit Slash!"

And it would probably have done more damage than it did, if the traitorous one hadn't broken the Ages Charm at the last second and flown away, just getting hit in the tail. As he flew away, he said, "I'll be back to get you for this – make no mistake about that."

As Bridgit and the twins watched the traitor fly away, Chatmon and Kima landed on the ground. Chatmon glowed yellow and shrunk down to Crystamon. Kima took a deep breath once again, and then after a couple seconds began to glow slightly. She then reverted back to her normal, human form. She opened her eyes and looked quickly at her hands to make sure she was herself again, and then grabbed Crystamon and hugged her tightly, crying happily, "I did it! I did it! I changed back! Yey! Yey!"

Crystamon, while being hugged, managed to squeak out, "Kima…you're…squishing…me…I…can't…breathe…"

Tan, Rhen, and Bobby then woke up (finally) and got up. Bridgit noticed and said sarcastically, "Good morning, sunshines. How were your naps?"

Tan said in an annoyed tone, "Fine. What'd we miss?"

John replied, "Oh, nothing. Just the Eaglemon traitor showed up and tried to kill Kima, but she mastered her powers and Crystamon digivolved to the next level. Personally, I wasn't sure there was one past champion…"

Bobby was now annoyed. "Great. Thanks a lot, Rhenna. Because you asked for a rest stop, we missed all the action." Rhenna sent a couple vines in his direction, which he easily shooed away with some ice.

Bridgit, meanwhile, was thinking to herself, that's all well and good, but why were my powers so weak?

Why were Bridgit's powers so weak? If Eaglemon returns, will he be beaten or victorious? Find out next chapter!

Author's note: Yey, I'm officially done with the already written stuff! (And if anyone says anything about the other chapter that was up on AnimeAdmirers, I'll just let you know now that I'm completely redoing that section.) Now it should take a lot longer for me to update though, so please read, review, and don't kill me because I don't update for a while! (I need to make sure I didn't do something bad in some of my previous chapters though...)