Hey guys, Irish here again with Chapter 2 of the story. This chapter deals with the group finding the partners of Yolei and Cody, and a little twist that could make the digidestined late for Davis. Hope you guys enjoy!
Trudging along through the treacherous forest, the rest of the group wondered what happened to Davis and Veemon. It was nothing like they'd ever seen before; a massive crater came and swallowed Davis whole, with Veemon getting knocked right into it.
The rest decided it was best to leave, since there was no way that the six of them could defeat three controlled Champion leveled digimon. They were just walking along the trail, not saying a word to each other as they tried to figure out where the two that were captured had been taken hostage. One person, however, was making things rather hard for the rest.
"How much longer...do we have to go on for?" Yolei asked as she was continuing to ache, showing signs of fatigue - which was staring to get on everyone's nerves.
"Yolei, we've just been walking for fifteen minutes, this is not bad at all," Izzy said, trying his best to calm the teenager down.
"I don't care about that! I'm tired, I'm sweating, two of our members are missing, and I just want to go home!" Yolei barked at the group in a rather malicious tone.
"Yolei, we're just walking; it can't be all that bad!" TK retorted, very upset at the new digidestined's negative attitude.
"C'mon TK," Sora decided to chime in, "she's new here and has no idea what to expect; cut her some slack, will ya?"
"Believe me, I wish I could," TK replied back as the two of them were leading the pack, "Heck, I wasn't this bad the first time being here, and I was five years younger than her!"
"He has a point you know," Patamon said, sitting on top of TK's head.
Sora sighed and looked down at her partner. Biyomon wasn't do too well either; in fact, none of the digimon were. They were all in disbelief that they couldn't help their new friend out.
"Hey, Biyo; mind flying up and seeing where we are? I have a feeling that we are not heading anywhere."
"Gotcha Sora" Biyomon replied as she went and flew up above the forest to try and scope out where they were.
"Hey, that's no fair; why does she get to have all the fun?" Tentomon griped up as he decided to join Biyomon in searching around.
"She's not really doing anything…oh, what's the point."
Instead of focusing his attention on his partner, Izzy decided to focus it to the youngest member of the group.
"How are you holding up, Cody; are you doing alright?"
The shy boy looked up and quickly gave a nod to Izzy, implying that he was fine. Seeing that he didn't want to talk, Izzy tried making small talk with Kari, who looked real distraught by the disappearance of her friend.
"Well, this isn't all that bad as I thought it would be."
"Yeah, I guess." Kari replied back quietly.
"Don't worry; she's just upset about Davis and Veemon," Gatomon said. "In fact, I'm pretty miffed myself! If I ever catch a sight of the Emperor, ohh boy he's going to wish he was never born!"
Izzy nodded in agreement to the feline digimon. He was upset as well that someone can come in and brainwash digimon like he's been doing.
The rest of the group trudged on forward until they heard someone collapse. They turn around to see Yolei, the person trudging behind everyone else, on her hands and knees trying to catch her breath.
"Oh, for the love of…" TK muttered.
"Sorry guys, just a bit tired that's all," Yolei stated, her voice real shaky.
TK couldn't help but to look at this so-called digidestined. It just baffled him that she couldn't keep up with a simple walk through the forest.
'If she can't do something as simple as this, then I don't know what she can do.'
The group was a bit startled as voices from above caught their attention.
"Guys there's this massive temple up ahead, it doesn't look like it's that far," Biyomon stated down to the rest.
"It really is not that far, just about a quarter of a mile straight ahead," Tentomon chimed in after seeing Yolei on the ground, thinking that he could give her a little motivation.
"You hear that guys, it's not that far up ahead. Let's go and see if Davis and Veemon are there."
Most agreed to TK's statement, except for Yolei, still on the ground.
"Yolei, are you okay?" TK decided to walk to the back and ask.
"No, I'm just really tired," Yolei responded weakly.
"C'mon," TK said as he lends a hand to Yolei, "It's not that far more to go. We should be done after this."
Yolei looked up and saw TK beaming with those words.
"Alright, if you say so," Yolei said as she took TK's hand and got up, reassured that they were almost at their destination.
The six humans and four digimon arrived at the foot of the temple and, looking up a colossal amount of stairs, decided to walk up to see what was inside.
"You got to be kidding me!" The rest stopped and looked at Yolei, who decided to state the obvious. "Do you not see how many stairs there are? This would take ages to climb!"
"…Or just five minutes if you start walking, I mean it's not that bad," Tentomon reassured.
"Sure, it's not bad for you; you can fly," Yolei quietly muttered.
"Yolei!"
The rest were taken aback when they heard Cody speak. Before anyone could speak up, the boy continued on.
"Believe me, you can do this. You are going to be okay. Do you hear me griping about how bad this whole adventure has been? No, you haven't, so it should be fine!"
Everyone was astounded as they heard the once shy boy speaking out to Yolei in an all-too generous manner. Yolei just sighed and decided to ascend the stairs with the rest.
When they finally reached the entrance, they didn't see a sign of Davis or Veemon anywhere. However, what did catch their eyes were two digieggs on top of an altar; one with the crest of Love on it, the other one with the crest of Knowledge.
Sora and Izzy exchanged glances and, remembering what Tai told them last night, decided to put his words into action.
"Yolei, Cody," Sora implemented to the two newcomers, "Go up to those digieggs and try to pull them out."
Both of them looked quizzically at the older female before complying and went to the digieggs as Yolei went to the one with Love and Cody to the one with Knowledge.
To their surprise, the eggs easily lifted up from the altar as two forms of digimon started to wake from their slumber.
A crimson red hawk with a belt - holding one feather in the back - strapped around his head, landed in front of Yolei.
"Greetings, my partner," he stated in a peculiar accent. "My name is Hawkmon and I have been waiting for you, my dear."
A yellow shelled armadillo landed in front of Cody.
"Oh jeez," he drawled out in a southern accent, "I was wondering who would wake me up. Howdy, the name's Armadillomon, and I'm guessing that you are my partner."
Both Yolei and Cody were taken back by this. Their own partners; they couldn't believe it with their own eyes. Their introduction, however, was cut well short as they felt the ground shake from below, as well as a growl from outside the temple.
"Oh dear, I've been waiting for this," Hawkmon said.
"Waiting for what?" Yolei asked.
"Well to fight of course; there is obviously a bad guy down there and we need to teach him a lesson," Armadillomon said, stating the obvious.
Yolei let out a small chuckle before asking, "You're joking, right? We're supposed to fight...we already tried that and we got creamed! What makes you think you guys could do any better?"
"You want to see what we can do? Just say 'Digi-Armor Energize' and get ready to be dazzled," Hawkmon implemented to his partner.
Both Yolei and Cody gave each other looks of encouragement. There is a reason for them having partners after all, but they held onto the questions that they had for later and decided to fight whatever was outside of the temple.
"Digi-Armor Energize!" Yolei and Cody both bellowed out, as they saw their respective digimon digivolve right before their eyes.
Hawkmon digivolve to…Halsemon, the Wings of Love
Yolei looked at the creature that was once Hawkmon and was amazed. Standing in his place was Halsemon, still retaining his crimson red body and standing on all fours with a pair of steel wings paired on top of his head.
Armadillomon digivolve to…Digmon, the Drill of Power
Cody couldn't believe what just took place. Standing right where Armadillomon use to be is now Digmon, a two legged beetle of some sort with drills on both of his hands and nose.
"So," Digmon decided to ask, "you guys ready?"
The group quickly exited the temple to see who the foe that caused the shaking was. It was the same controlled Drimogemon as before, scaling half of the temple and making his ascend upward towards the digidestined.
"I'll take care of this one," Digmon said. Using his Gold Rush attack on Drimogemon, it proved to be affective in taking the Champion digimon off of the temple, landing him unconscious on the ground.
"Now why do you get all of the fun?" Halsemon quickly interjected as he went flying down to the controlled beast. By using his Tempest Wing attack, Halsemon was able to get the dark ring off of the digimon, making him free from the Emperor.
"You guys did it!" TK exclaimed, vigorously surprised at how the new digimon did.
"Way to go Halsemon!" Yolei clamped up after just watching his digimon free Drimogemon.
"Oh, it was nothing…" Halsemon said before continuing. "Everyone get on, I'll take you guys down."
With nobody arguing about that statement, the group - with the exception of Digmon, who just scaled down the steps - reached the bottom to see the still unconscious Champion level digimon.
"It's unbelievable what a simple dark ring could do to a digimon," Izzy pondered aloud.
"You could say that again," Sora quickly responded.
"I wonder why Drimogemon was sent here?" Kari asked. "I mean, it's not like he was trying to distract us from…" Kari couldn't find it in her to finish that sentence.
"Davis!" Cody exclaimed, "We still need to find him and Veemon!"
"If I may…" a new voice suddenly bellowed out. The group was in shock to see Drimogemon, now conscious, speaking to them. "I overheard the Emperor was taking the two over to the canyon over to the right of the temple."
As stated, Drimogemon lifted his left paw and pointed to the right side.
"Umm…thank you, Drimogemon," TK finally stated.
"Not a problem; it's the least I could do after you guys freed me from the Emperor." With that, Drimogemon went back to the crater that he created beforehand off to the left.
"Well guys, let's go!" Yolei chimed up, still on Halsemon's back.
"She's right, let's go save Davis and Veemon!" TK stated, happy to see that Yolei was ready for more action.
As the rest returned on Halsemon's back, with Digimon choosing to burrow his way toward the canyon, they were off to find their two captured friends.
'Ooh I hope we reach you guys in time…' Kari couldn't help but to ponder.
So that was Chapter 2 everyone! I know you all may be thinking "When does he actually start?" I assure you guys that next chapter is where the real story will kick in. Until next time, this is Irish signing off!