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Chapter 7: Stranger Danger
"TUSK CRUSHER" Mammothmon charged towards Shantelle. Shantelle ran back to the wall. Mammothmon was just a few meters away from her when she screamed. WHAM. The cavern shook as Mammothmon hit the wall.
Hikaru turned away from the sight. He didn't want to see Shantelle being slaughtered.
"Heh heh heh … Hah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha." Hikaru looked at the strange boy to see that he was laughing like crazy.
"What the… You just murdered her and you're laughing about it! What kind of monster are you?" Hikaru yelled at the boy.
"Cool down she's all right. Just see for yourself." the boy said to Hikaru. Hikaru turned and looked at where Shantelle was. All he saw was Mammothmon. Then Mammothmon dedigivolved into Apemon. Now Hikaru clearly saw Shantelle standing in front of the wall. On either side of her were holes in the wall from where Mammothmon's tusks hit it. She was perfectly safe in between the tusks. "Now you guys leave this girl alone or next time I wont make Mammothmon miss." The boy kneeled down to Kasume and untied her. "You're safe now. There's no need to worry."
Kasume stared at the boy. She was too confused to respond. When she first saw him she was paralyzed with fear. He reminded her of the gothic kids at her high school that always wore black and white makeup and wore black clothes with chains and devil signs and smoked behind the dumpsters, but now she was getting the feeling that he was sort of … okay. He came here to save her although she didn't really need to be saved.
"How are you? Are you okay?" the boy asked her.
Kasume stared at him for a few seconds. "I'm okay." Was all that she thought to say to him.
"You two leave now or I'll have Apemon mangle you!" He yelled at Hikaru and Shantelle.
"Wait a minute! Don't make them leave." Kasume said.
"What's up now? Why do you want them to stay here? They aren't good people." The boy said to Kasume.
Kasume looked at him and said. "They can stay. Hikaru isn't a bad person."
"Hey what about me? I'm not a bad person." Shantelle interrupted.
"He was only trying to keep me safe." Kasume continued. "I was doing something stupid and he was trying to stop me from doing it before I got hurt. And Shantelle … um … helped?"
"Hey are you trying to say I'm not a good person or sincerely trying to help you." Everyone ignored Shantelle as she threw a fit.
"What could you have been doing that they needed top tie you up to stop you?" The boy asked Kasume.
"This jerk kidnapped our friend and I was trying to go save him by myself." Kasume told him.
"Then we have only one choice. We're going to go save your friend. Don't worry about a thing. Do you have any idea who the kidnapper is or where he is." The boy asked Kasume.
"His name is Akamaru and he owns a digivice shop in the village. " Kasume told him.
"Okay what kind of digimon do you guys have. I need to know so that I can come up with a strategy." the boy asked them.
"We don't have any digimon." Hikaru said to him.
"That may be a problem. But I think me and Apemon here can handle it. Do you know what digimon he has?" He asked them.
"He has an otomamon, a Megakabuterimon, and many, many kabuterimon." Kasume answered.
His mouth dropped and he stared into space "That may be a problem. We have one ultimate level digimon and he has an ultimate, many champions and a rookie. No doubt that the otomamon can digivolve to a higher level. We might not be able to do it at all." the boy told her with a hopeless tone in his voice.
"Have some hope. anyways, it isn't even your responsibility to save him." Kasume said. "By the way guys, which of you got the symbol of hope and which got sincerity?" She asked Hikaru and Shantelle.
"I got hope." Hikaru said.
"That is a little hard to believe." Kasume said doubtingly.
"Whoa, why is it hard to believe that I got the hope symbol." Hikaru asked Kasume.
"It's not that I don't believe that you could get hope, its just that if you got hope then Shantelle got sincerity. Heh heh heh" Kasume said giggling.
"I see your point." Hikaru said
"Hey whats that supposed to mean ya jackass?" Shantelle yelled at them.
The gothic boy just watched as they talked about symbols and sincerity and hope. "What are you guys talking about? What are these symbols?" He asked them.
Kasume went up to him and started telling him about how they found the symbols on he wall and then she told him about how her symbol turned into a digiegg. She brought the egg out and handed it to him.
The boy looked at it. It was ice blue and had a strange symbol on it. Suddenly he gasped in surprise. "That is the crest of intelligence. That must mean you're a digidestined!" He dropped the egg on the floor and backed away from it in fear.
"What is wrong with us being digidestined." Kasume asked.
"It's nothing! But after we save your friend I will have to leave." Was his response.
"Why?"
"I cant tell you why. Just don't tell anyone else that you are digidestined." The boy said. His tone became very serious when he said, "If you do, people will come after you! Get stronger and get some allies, quickly!"
"But why?" Kasume asked.
"Don't ask me again, and I'll tell you how to hatch the egg."
"I already know. We have to ask Centarumon. So instead just answer the question. Why will you have to leave and why cant we tell anyone that we're digidestined?"
"you cant ask Centarumon." the boy told her, "He's dead,"
"Wait a minute," Hikaru cut in. "Leomon told us that he was reborn in primary village. So when we go to primary village then we can ask him."
The boy got a smirk on his face. "So you know Leomon. Great dude isn't he. Tell me, how did Centarumon die?"
"Akamaru sent his digimon after us and Centarumon died during that battle." Kasume said to him.
"Then he will never come back. If he was killed by a tamer then his digimon would have absorbed Centarumon's data. Therefore he cant be reborn because his data is gone. So how about it? You want me to tell you how to hatch the egg."
"What is your name anyways? You haven't told us yet." Kasume asked.
"Neither have you. I don't know your name yet. The only one I know is Hikaru's name." The boy said.
"My name is Kasume, and she is Shantelle" Kasume said as she pointed to Shantelle.
"Okay then, my name is Kirk. So what about my offer you want me to help you hatch your digiegg or not?"
"Sure." Kasume said to him.
"That's great Kasume! Now I'll tell you how to hatch the digiegg. The digiegg has the crest of intelligence on it, right? All you have to do is prove yourself worthy of that crest. Do something that shows that you are intelligent enough to have that crest." Kirk told Kasume.
"Okay, but how do I do that?" Kasume asked him.
"I don't know. Maybe you could make a strategy that would help me get through Akamaru's forces. That would take some intelligence to do." He said to her.
Kasume thought about it and said, "I think that might work." She tried to come up with a strategy. It took her a while but she eventually had a plan. She got Kirk, Hikaru and Shantelle together and told them her plan.
Kasume's plan was that Kirk would go to Akamaru's digivice shop and pretend to be a customer. He would then ask for a special item that Akamaru would have to go around back to get. While Akamaru is back finding the item, the rest of them would sneak around and find Ryu taking Apemon with them. If they got into trouble then they would call Kirk and he would get Apemon to digivolve into Mammothmon and they would do their best to fight.
Her plan was pretty simple but it might work. She thought of other possibilities but she couldn't find a different one that worked. They decided that the plan was good enough.
As they started leaving the cave Kasume's digiegg started glowing a blue light. Everyone stared at it as it hatched. Inside the digiegg was pure darkness. Kasume looked inside and saw a faint glowing outline. It was small and shaped like a bad circle. It started changing shape to an even slightly larger shape that was too hard to identify. The glow got brighter and then it changed shape again. Then something started coming out of the digiegg. It was Kasume's digimon. It was a large candle about four feet tall. It had a face on the candle and on the flame.
"I'm Candlemon and you must be Kasume." the digimon said to her
"Wow! This is amasing1 so you're my personal digimon partner. Oh, this is so exciting. What kind of attacks do you do?" Kasume asked Candlemon.
"See. I told you this would work. Lets see what he's got. How about a quick spar?" Kirk asked her. He pushed a button on his digivice and Apemon dedigivolved into Tapirmon.
"We don't have time for this! We have to save Ryu first." Kasume yelled at him.
"Well then lets hurry your asses up" Shantelle yelled at them both.
They all hurried out of the cave and, using their digivice maps, quickly got to the village. Once there they found their way to Akamaru's shop and were relieved to find that Akamaru was in there. Kirk walked into the shop and looked around to find something that Akamaru didn't have there but before he could find it Akamaru went upstairs and Otomamon stopped him and said "Sorry customer but we're closed right now. Come again tomorrow." before Kirk could protest otomamon started pushing him out of the shop.
When otomamon pushed Kirk out, Candlemon was waiting outside. Kasume came out of hiding and yelled "ATTACK CANDLEMON!" "MELTED WAX" Candlemon went towards otomamon and spit globs of melted wax at him. The wax dried instantly and bound otomamon. The rest of the kids came out of hiding and ran past otomamon, into the shop.
"He's upstairs" Kirk yelled to them. They started running towards the stairs but before they got close to it … "STUN BUBBLE" Otomamon had gotten free and shot his attack at Kasume who was closest to the stairs. It hit her and she fell down unconscious. "Leave this to us! TAPIRMON DIGIVOLVE TO APEMON!" Kirk had pulled out his digivice and deck of cards, chose a blue card and swiped it through his digivice. Tapirmon suddenly changed shape into Apemon. "ATTACK APEMON!" Apemon held his bone club and then chucked it at otomamon. It hit otomamon and knocked him out of the building.
While they were preoccupied with the battle, twenty Tentomon had snuck into the room. "SUPER SHOCKER" all of the struck Apemon at the same time. He fell over and dedigivolved into Tapirmon. "Damn it! I cant take all by myself! Kasume get up!" Kirk yelled. Kasume slowly regained consciousness from both Kirks yelling and Candlemon dripping hot wax on her.
"AHHH! HOT! HOT! HOT!" The wax that fell from Candlemon gave her an small burn.
"Digivolve him!" Kirk yelled to her.
"I don't know how!" Kasume told him.
'darn it! She can't digivolve her digimon and Tapirmon's too weak to digivolve. Maybe if I give her one of my Blue Cards? No, that wont work. Her digimon just hatched. It would need a lot more experience until it can digivolve to champion level. Hmmmm how did it hatch at the rookie level. Digieggs always hatch at the baby level or occasionally at the in-training level but never rookie level. There is something special about the digimon of the digidestined. They are stronger than other digimon. Maybe if she uses enough power up cards then Candlemon will be just as strong as a champion.' "Kasume use some power up-cards on Candlemon!" Kirk yelled to her.
"I don't have any power-up cards! I don't even know what they are!"
Kirks mouth dropped when he heard this. "Geez! How can you live in the digital world and not know these things? Take my cards!" Kirk tied a rubber band around his deck and threw it to Kasume. "Pull out a card that will power up the digimon and swipe it through your digivice like a credit card!"
She caught the deck and looked at the cards. She saw one that looked good and swiped it. "DIGI-MODIFY - METAL ATTACK ACTIVATE" Suddenly Candlemon started changing. He became solid metal. Even its flame was metal. "Now attack them!" "METAL FLAME BOMBER!" Candlemon shot a metal flame at the Tentomon. It hit one of them and the ball broke into several smaller metal flames which hit other Tentomon. Seven of the ones that got hit broke into small white lights which were absorbed by Candlemon. Candlemon changed back to normal and even more Tentomon appeared. Now there were at least thirty of them.
'Darn! It wore off too soon. What do we do now? That was my strongest power-up card. What a minute!' Kirk thought for a minute and then remembered a special card he had. He reached into his pocket and pulled out something that looked like a leather credit card holder. He opened it up. There were six cards, all were holographic. He pulled one out that read POWER OPTION DIGIVOLVE. ULTRA DIGIVOLVE 'This is it! This card digivolves any digimon to the next level regardless of experience or anything else. Darn it! This card is one time use and very expensive.' Kirk yelled to Kasume. "Kasume! Take this modify card and use it to digivolve Candlemon!"
Kirk threw the card to Kasume. She caught it and swiped it through her digivice. "DIGI-MODIFY - ULTRA DIGIVOLVE ACTIVATE" "Candlemon Digivolve to Wizardmon"
Candlemon digivolved into a digimon that look human except that it had gray skin and was wearing a dark purple wizards cloak and a wizards hat that had a skull on it. He also had a staff in his hands that had a tip shaped like a sun.
"Whoa, that is one awesome digimon." Hikaru said. "Seems more like something Goth man would have over there. What are we doing back here with Tapirmon, Shantelle? Why aren't we going to go save Ryu like the plan says?"
"Tapirmon's too weak to fight if we get attacked and Akamaru is up there, probably with some more digimon. We need to stay by the protection which would be Kasume and Wizardmon. Anything else would be suicide in a place like this." Shantelle said to Hikaru. "Lets just stay back and let them take care of things."
"This is awesome! Wizardmon attack them!" Kasume ordered.
"MAGICAL GAME" Wizardmon split into many clones of himself. They surrounded the Tentomon and all yelled. "THUNDER BLASTER!" All of them shot a beam from their staffs. Only one of the Tentomon got hurt although all of the attacks hit one of them. The Wizardmon clones rotated around the Tentomon very fast and attacked again. "THUNDER BLASTER!" Again they all shot beams the Tentomon and only one was hurt. This continued until all of the Tentomon were hit. Then all of the Wizardmon came back into one Wizardmon. He went in front of all of them and did one more attack "THUNDER BLASTER" The attack killed all of the Tentomon. Wizardmon then absorbed all of their data. "Yay! My first battle and I defeated all of them. Go Wizardmon! Go Wizardmon!" Wizardmon celebrated his victory and said. "Now on with whatever we were doing here."
"That is great. You defeated all of them by yourself Wizardmon! Thanks for the cards Kirk." Kasume said as she handed the deck back to Kirk. "That last one was awesome. We should use that one again, right Wizardmon." Kirk pulled the ULTRA DIGIVOLVE card out of the deck where Kasume had put it. The card was now pure white without anything on it.
Kirk said to Kasume "This card was a one time use card and very rare. I doubt that we ever will see another. The card is that rare."
"Oh, I'm so sorry. I wouldn't have used that card if I knew how valuable it was."
"It's okay. I told you to use it. Now lets go before… Shit! Otomamon's gone. Probably blabbed. We got to find Ryu quickly. I'll stay with Tapirmon here. You three go upstairs. And hurry before Wizardmon dedigivolves."
"Okay lets go." Kasume said. She, Hikaru, and Shantelle rushed towards the stairs.
"AGGGGGHHHHHH!" They heard screams coming from upstairs and then black light started pouring out of the room. They ran up the stair and into the room that the screams came from.