Not much impresses Tamina anymore. She's been all around the world, seen almost everything possible. But here, now, staring out over the vast nature of the Digiworld, she finds that she is. It reminds her of home, a little, Hawaii's simple warmth, and quiet breezes tickling through her hair. But she has other things on her mind right now, shaking away the homesickness as she stares down at the Digimon in her arms. It's a little creature, with wide, black eyes piercing into hers, and she smiles vaguely. "So your name is... Puwamon, right?"
"Pu pu, puwa!" her partner agrees, squirming around. The others have all left, to explore or make sense of all of this and Tamina sighs, not sure how to feel about being left alone with such a young digimon and no other defenses in this odd world, but she's never been the kind to rely on others so she squares her shoulders and continues to walk forward, Puwamon babbling in her arms.
Tamina's sure steps falter, however, when she sees monstrous imprints in the ground before her, gripping Puwamon tighter. "Uh oh," she mumbles, turning to head away from the signs of life before her... just to feel her entire body freeze. She blinks. "Why- why can't I... I..." She can't move, can barely breathe. Something's drawing her in and she turns slowly to look, finding herself gawking up at a large beast with massive claws, purple emblems swirled into his white flesh, nothing more than thin membranes holding his appendages to his body. "What are you?" she chokes, trying to cling to Puwamon as she cries pitifully, obviously also feeling this pull.
He laughs, an awful kind of strength pulsing through his body, drawing her closer. "Soon you will be part of me, Digidestined. Soon all of them will be." His voice is echoing, awful, leaves her with a headache from the pure force of it. "Then I will be invincible." He licks his lips. "I can taste it," he breathes out, eyes flashing.
She tries to dig her heels in, attempts to run away, but nothing is working. Her body is unresponsive. "Please," she mumbles. "Not like... not like this..." She closes her eyes, thinking of her daughters, and shakes her head. "I can't..."
As suddenly as it'd arrived, the sensation fades away. She's frozen, but now because of herself, not because of some outside influence. When she opens her eyes, there's a shadow behind her, blocking out the sun, and the creature before her yells out in shock before there's an explosion, sending her back into something strong and muscular. She chokes as a white arm wraps around her and for a hysterical moment, she thinks she's been caught by the evil digimon, but then she's placed gently onto the ground, her knees too shaky to hold her weight so she sinks down into a kneel position, looking up.
It's another tall, white armored creature with purple wings and golden claws, but he's barely looking at her, waiting for the smoke to clear to reveal that the creature so determined to absorb Tamina is gone. As soon as this is done, he kneels by her. "Are you ok, digidestined?"
She nods, tries to wet her lips. "What was that?" she asks, strained.
"Parallelmon," he explains. "My name is Dynasmon. Thankfully I was flying overhead and observed what was happening in time to help. Are you both alright?" Puwamon headbutts Dynasmon's hand when he reaches out to stroke her and Dynasmon smiles, smoothly moving away from her. "Good partner. When you're older, you will be a very reliable line of defense for your digidestined human."
Tamina feels a little more with it now, tilting her head as she examines him. "Thank you for the help. I think we'll be ok now. I should get back to the others." She stands up and dusts her pants off, exhaling roughly as Dynasmon stands up to his full height once more.
"If you don't mind, I may follow you until I see you're safely with your group," he tells her. "No reason in taking chances, hmm?"
She exhales. Nods. "I suppose you're right." She offers him a rare smile. "Thank you again." She's about to turn and walk off when something clicks with her. "By the way, my name is Tamina. Since you've already told me yours."
He nods. Teeth flashes as he grins down at her. "Right. Nice to meet you, Tamina."
"Nice to meet you," she says, still a bit subdued from everything. "C'mon, Puwamon. Let's go tell the others what's happened. I think we're gonna need to all keep an eye out..." As she walks back towards Luke's cave, Dynasmon's shadow follows them as he flies overhead, but it doesn't worry her. In fact, it's a comfort and even Puwamon seems more relaxed as they trudge back through the sand towards where this entire mess had begun for them.
Most of the other digidestined are there, explaining their own adventures, when she arrives and, deducing that nothing of great importance is being said, interrupts. "I think we have a problem, guys."
"Oh great," Ziggler groans loudly, Owens' brows also furrowing in exasperated worry. "Now what?"
To her relief, they all fall quiet and listen to her story, Dynasmon's fading shadow in the distance confirming her words. "Crap," Owens mumbles. "That... is so, so bad."
If the look on everyone else's faces are any indication, they all agree with his simple deduction.
