"Creepy happenin's goin' on, Cass," Enzo says quietly, trailing after his best friend.
"Yeah, Zo, I know," Cass sighs, keeping a sharp eye on the world around them. Seth and Alicia are missing, leaving the rest of the group on edge, expecting something bad to happen, and only growing more tense when it doesn't. He exhales and reaches out, lightly scraping his fingers through Enzo's messy hair, the wind and sand doing him absolutely no favors. Cass chuckles lowly when Enzo only grumbles but doesn't completely fall into fighting mode because of the state of his hair.
Hyokomon and Veemon are looking around, their faces pinched with worry, and Cass stops messing around, using his height to their advantage to also keep an eye out. They're still standing there, holding their breaths, waiting for something to happen, when a bird flies overhead, squawking. Enzo leaps up like he'd stepped on something sharp and Cass struggles not to laugh at him as soon as his heart stops racing too. Veemon exhales and releases an uncomfortable chuckle, Hyokomon's expression not changing in the slightest.
Cass is about to say something to his partner when he feels something against the side of his face, instinctively cringing away from it and grabbing for Enzo, pulling him away just before a silver trident stabs into the ground where he'd been standing. "Ho, shit," he chatters, eyes impossibly wide in his pale face. "The hell was that?!"
Cass shakes his head, eyes quickly scoping out the sky above them when he sees it, a red demon with purple wings, cackling down at them before throwing his trident once more. It stabs at Enzo's feet once more, Cass jerking him back roughly. "Hyokomon!"
"On it," his partner responds, lunging up into the air and digivolving into Buraimon. Not to be outdone, Veemon morphs into Magnamon and joins him, the two of them glaring at the evil digimon sneering back at them. "Boogiemon."
"You don't seem very impressed by me," the demonic creature says, pouting just a bit. "That hurts my feelings!" Lunging forward, he stabs his trident at them once more, just to miss and find himself directly between the two of them. "What the-"
Buraimon acts quickly, his swords slamming up and through, knocking Boogiemon's trident out of his hand and sending it spiraling through the air, digging into the ground and leaving a sizeable indent in the sand. Magnamon follows this by sending off sharp little missiles of light from his armor, each little pinprick of destruction leaving Boogiemon crying out in pain until his body gives up on him and he sinks to the ground, landing just a few inches away from his trident. When he reaches out desperately for it, Magnamon stomps on his hand with a dark little sneer that leaves him helpless and unable to move. "Stop," he groans, but Buraimon shuts him up quickly with one last swipe of his sword, Boogiemon quickly deleting.
"Good job," Magnamon tells him.
"You as well," Buraimon says, sheathing his swords and smirking as they walk sedately back to their partners.
Enzo exhales once they're all together again, still feeling a bit paranoid. At least it didn't happen to us. He glances over at Cass, remembering the dark cave, how it'd felt to be alone, losing strength and courage. Again...
