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Chapter 4: Leomon to the rescue
Ryu looked at his device. The courage symbol was on its screen. On Kasume's device was the symbol of intelligence. "What do we do now?" asked Ryu. Kasume stared at her device for a while and started pushing buttons. "What are you doing?"
"I'm trying to get that map to come back up. Maybe there's something else in this cave besides these other two symbols that we need" Kasume responded
"What the hell are you talking about? There's nothing we need here. At least I don't think there is. All we should try to do is find a way out of this jungle and hope we don't run into a digimon like the one we saw earlier before we passed out."
Kasume finally got the map to show up. In the center were two blue dots and two purple dots. In the bottom right corner were many white and yellow dots. In the top left corner, there were two blue dots and many yellow dots above. All of those were moving toward the bottom right. "There is something coming this way and I think that there is a village to the southeast of us not too far. I think we should head that way now."
"Hmmm, ya got a good point. We wouldn't want to run into whatever is coming this way! But it is starting to get dark and we already made a fire. We shouldn't go there until morning." KRACCCKKK… "What the hells going on out there! We keep hearing thunder but it isn't raining and there's no lightning! Just thunder. Hmmm. What's going on here?" Ryu thought about it for a while. Why would there be thunder but not lightning.
"I'm going to go outside real quick, Ryu." Kasume told him, "I'll be back soon. Don't come after me. I will come back this time. I promise." Kasume started leaving the cave. 'Hmm, should I tell him about the digidestined or not,' Kasume thought. Once outside the cave she left and went south toward the village. She got to the village in a few minutes and walked in as if she had been there before. She navigated her way through the village perfectly and got to a shop that sold digivices. "Okay, Akamaru. I've traveled through the cave of destiny and got the symbol like you told me. Now what do I need to do. Kasume asked the storeowner.
Akamaru, the storeowner said. "I can't believe it! You really are a digidestined. Now that you have the symbol, you just need to find the other digidestined and help them get their symbols. Oh, and I analyzed your digivice. With that map, the blue dots are digidestined. The yellow are digimon and the white are humans. I still don't know exactly what purple is for sure, because it keeps signaling different, unrelated things but I think they are important. Let me see that digivice for a moment." Akamaru took the digivice and activated the map. "It seems that one other digidestined is already at the cave. The other two are a ways off but I sent my otomamon off there a while ago to search for people so I'll contact your digivice when they get to the village. All you have to do now is go to the one in the cave and clue him in on his destiny. After I contact you, I want you to bring the other digidestined to the cave. Now hurry up before the other guy leaves the cave."
Kasume took back her digivice and left the village. Outside the village border there was something happening. A herd of gray triceratops like digimon was attacking. Other humans were there. She recognized them as the guards from before "Monochromon." the digivice identified the digimon who were attacking the humans. A battle was underway between the tamers and the Monochromon. Kasume ran as fast as she could away from the battle. A monochromon saw her and started chasing her. She ran faster and faster but he was too fast for her to escape. She tripped over root on her way into the jungle. It was all over. Would this be the way Kasume was supposed to die?
"Kasume," Ryu yelled as he ran toward her. He wasn't fast enough to reach her before that monochromon did. He picked up a stick and threw it as hard and as fast as he could at the digimon. "CRAP! I'm definitely gonna pay for that later" the stick Ryu threw was just a little too low and instead of hitting the digimon he hit Kasume square on the forehead. Blood trickled down her forehead as she spewed a stream of curses at Ryu. Now he felt like just throwing another stick at her, hoping that she would get amnesia. Though that wouldn't help any because the monochromon was about to get her.
"FIST OF THE BEAST KING." a loud voice came out of the jungle and following the voice was a large incorporeal lion head that hit strait into the monochromon. When it hit the digimon, he went flying out of the jungle back to the village. "SOLAR RAY." a beam of energy hit the monochromon from outside the jungle. The monochromon disappeared into tiny bits of light that disappeared into the air.
From out of the jungle, a muscular bipedal lion walked toward Ryu and Kasume. "Leomon," And from the other direction came a one eyed, centaur-like digimon, "Centarumon," "darn it we're cornered!" said Ryu. The two digimon walked closer to the kids.
"What are the digidestined doing alone out here without their digimon?" Leomon asked Ryu. Ryu did nothing but stare at the lion.
Kraccckkk. Ryu heard the sound again. He looked at Kasume. She didn't seem to notice the sound. Kraccckkk. The sound was getting closer. Kraccckkk why didn't anyone else notice? "ELECTRO SHOCKER," KRACCCKKK. A ball of lightning came strait toward Kasume.
"KASUME GET DOWN," Ryu leapt at Kasume and knocked her away as the attack hit him in the back of his leg. "AHHHHHHHH," Ryu fell to the ground totally unconscious.
Kasume got up off the ground and looked at Ryu. His leg was bleeding heavily. If Ryu hadn't pushed her, she would have died. Ryu was writhing in pain. A tear escaped Kasume's eye as she watched him.
"ELECTRO SHOCKER" KRACCCKKK. Another attack came at her. "FIST OF THE BEAST KING," Leomon's attack hit the ball of lightning and both disappeared.
"SOLAR RAY." Centarumon used his attack to clear away parts of the jungle. When he cleared enough, everyone could see a large blue bug with a thick skull and a huge horn. "Kabuterimon". "What are you doing kabuterimon? Do you know who this is?" Centarumon asked him
"Kabuterimon, I order you to attack that digidestined child." a boy could be seen on top of the insect digimon but it was impossible to see who he was from their angle. The boy pulled a device and a deck of cards out of his pocket. He picked a blue card and swiped it through the device. "Kabuterimon, digivolve!" The kabuterimon he was standing on transformed into an even larger red beetle. "Now Megakabuterimon, ATTACK!" the digimon flew down and with one swipe of his claw, he blew away Centarumon.
"Stop fiend. I will not let you harm these children." Leomon jumped out of the way of Megakabuterimon's claw and then onto it's back. "Take this, FIST OF THE BEAST KING." his attack hit the boy and knocked him to the ground. The boy's digivice fell out of his hand and landed by Ryu's arm. Ryu grabbed it and looked at it. He put the digivice in his pocket as it could help him somehow. Now that its tamer was unconscious, Megakabuterimon dedigivolved back to a small red bug digimon. "Tentomon" Tentomon scurried off as fast as he could into the jungle.
Leomon leapt off the Megakabuterimon before it dedigivolved and lunged at the tamer. The boy got up and took off into the jungle before Leomon reached him. Leomon chased after him but soon lost his trail. He came back to check on the digidestined. "That demon has escaped but I believe he will be back. You must hide in the village until I return. No matter what anyone tells you, DO NOT leave this village. It may be a while so trust no one except me, Centarumon and each other." Leomon reached into a pocket and pulled out some money. He handed it to Kasume. "Take this money and use it to heal this one and buy the two of you some food. Now go!" Leomon rushed off in the direction that Centarumon was thrown.
"Ryu, are you okay?" Ryu tried to stand but couldn't bring himself up. Kasume picked him up and started dragging him toward the village. When they came close enough they saw that there were fires everywhere and the Meramon where torching the remaining monochromon. There were more tamers there with white dinosaur digimon that were putting out fires with ice attacks. "Snowagumon." The kids entered the village and Kasume brought Ryu to a medic. The medic put Ryu's leg in a cast that he wasn't allowed to take off for two weeks. Afterwards Kasume and Ryu found a hotel.
"Ryu, I need to tell you something." Kasume said, "You may have figured this out already but, we are digidestined and we can't go home until we save this world. And in order to do that we need digimon of our own."
"How do you know all of this Kasume?" Ryu asked her.
"well, when I first left you I came all the way to this village. When I came here, I met a guy named Akamaru. He was interested in these devices we found. He said they're called digivice. He told me that he made digivices for a living but the one I had was like none he had ever seen before. He examined it and discovered the map and some other stuff that his digivices didn't have. Than after a little more poking around with it, he discovered a message in a different language. He deciphered some of it that says that I am a digidestined child and I had to complete three tasks to get my digimon. The first task was to get the symbol that was at the cave wall. He copied down the message and continued to translate it after I went to do the first task. That was when you found me. Then we found those symbols that came off the wall into our digivices. Then I left you again to meet Akamaru. He told me that to do the next task all of the digidestined needed to complete the first. He showed me how to use the map and then told me that his otomamon was searching for the other digidestined. He said he'd contact me when he found the other digidestined kids so I could help them find the symbols. Then I left to go back to you, that digimon charged after me and you saved me." Kasume told Ryu how to use the map on the digivice.
"So our digivices are different than normal ones?" Ryu pulled out the attacker's digivice and showed it to Kasume. "That guy who attacked us dropped it. Maybe your friend Akamaru could find, maybe an identification number on it that could tell us who it belongs to. Then we know who our attacker was and we could track him down once we get our digimon. I wonder what kind of digimon we will get! I'd probably get something super strong, like musclemon so that I could save everyone."
"Hee hee, musclemon? You have to be kidding me! That isn't even a real digimon. Anyways what makes you think you'll be saving people? If you tried to save someone again it'll probably kill you."
"So now I guess we just wait for Akamaru to find the other digidestined. Well I've had a very crappy day! Goodnight Kasume"
"Goodnight Ryu" Kasume replied.
The next morning they left the hotel and headed for Akamaru's shop.