Children of the Legend
By: Kari Minamoto
Author's Note: Forgive my lack of commitment and updates! I've been swamped with work since about January on. Right after midyears it was straight into finals. Yuck! Then there were SATs, ACTS, and AP tests. (Baseball and the Red Sox are also back and the Sox are in first in the AL East Yay! That makes my day great!) Next year won't be any better with college applications and two AP classes! My updates will continue to be, well, random. I don't want to post slop. I had to reread most of CotL since it's been so long. That's sad. It's been so long I bet I've lost half of my readers as a result. Happy belated Independence Day! I'll stop and let you read the long awaited chapter 18 of CotL.
Disclaimer: Don't own digimon, Fruits Basket, Cardcaptor Sakura, Naruto, or any other anime/manga or anything copyrighted.
Chapter 18- Elements, Crests, and Television
Zoe froze, afraid to even turn around recognizing the voice. It sent a shiver up her spine.
"What's tha' mata suga, don't ya remeba' little ol' me," the voice said and then laughed an evil laugh.
Zoe took a breath and turned around, determined to not let shock or fear register on her face. What Zoe saw in front of her she could not understand. Standing in front of her was a normal woman. Her pale skin and blue hair were an uncommon site but never unheard of. She also had on a floor length coat of aquamarine. Zoe could not understand. The woman had to be Ranamon. The voice gave it away.
"Puzzled lil' buttafly," the woman said when the confusion showed itself on her face.
"Let me explain. My boss thought tha' it wouldn't be good if Iattracted a lot of attention therefore he did this. Ya'all see me like this. It's an illusion cham he placed on me. No one sees me for who I am til I let um," Ranamon said while looking snub. "Now how should I destroy ya, ya pesky brat."
Ranamon seemed locked in thought, therefore Zoe took advantage of it and did the only thing her brain could register to do: Run.
As Zoe took off she thought to herself There is no way I can fight her in this crowded area as she looked at the thongs of people surrounding her.
Zoe could hear Ranamon chasing her and knew she had to keep up her pace and find a safe place to transform. The two continued to run. Zoe shouted a Sorry here and there and Ranamon barged through anyone in her path. Zoe spotted an alleyway and figured it was the best place for the transformation. She hurried down the alleyway while shouting:
EXECUTE: SPIRT EVOLUTION!
KAZEMON!
As soon as she transformed Kazemon took to the sky. Looking down she easily spotted Ranamon's blue head. Kazemon landed on the roof and watched what the warrior of water was doing. In the blink of an eye, Ranamon had revealed her true form. The one the Chosen knew all to well. She was like a sprite, cute but completely evil.
A few of the people nearby screamed in shock but Ranamon did not hear them. Her only target was Kazemon who was currently above her.
"Ya lil' brat! Get down here now!" Ranamon screamed at the butterfly feet above her head while looking around for some water and spied a fountain where two boys were playing. "Draining Rain!"
The attack drained half the fountain, scaring the two boys and hit Kazemon head on. She started plummeting toward the ground.
By now most of the people on the street were watching with gaping mouths or running for cover.
"I can't fail! It was one attack, and there is no way I am going to loose to her!" Kazemon thought to herself.
KAZEMON SLIDE EVOLUTION!
ZEPHYRMON!
Where the butterfly creature once stood there was now a woman with blue hair and what looked like wings sprouting from it. Her body was encased in metal but exposed her stomach in the same way a midriff would. Her hands became as sharp as claws. The most impressive feature was the hawk-like wings protruding from her back.
The new figure looked stronger and more impressive than the previous one. She broke her fall and looked at Ranamon, fire-like determination showed in her face.
It was time to battle with no turning back.
One of the people left gaping at the site was Izzy. After the meeting he had decided to go for a walk to clear his head and prepare for an all-nighter of digimon research. He could not believe his eyes.
He had heard the stories from other digidestined of digimon appearing in real world but he could not believe it. In front of him were two digimon fighting with each other.
As the butterfly digimon was falling to the ground Izzy decided he should take pictures of the digimon to research later on. He took out his cell phone and quickly snapped a few pictures of the two digimon hoping to find data on them later. Just as he snapped another picture the butterfly she was engulfed in streams of what had to be data. What appeared was a beautiful hybrid of a bird and a woman.
Izzy could barely believe his eyes, how was the digimon able to evolve? He did not see any digisestined around. He knew they would probably want to blend in but there was no way to disguise the tension every digidestined showed when his or her partner was in danger.
The new digimon looked more determined than the former, or it might have been the more imposing appearance. Another thing that Izzy had noticed was that the digimon had said slide evolution but he was also able to get the names of the digimon: Zephyrmon and Kazemon.
"Hurricane Gale!" Zephyrmon shouted at her opponent.
The blue one attempted to dodge but had no luck. The attack ended up grazing her. If the blue digimon could have turned red, she would have been the color of a tomato at the point.
"How dare anyone touch me!" she cried and started to throw a tantrum like the scared five year old standing next to Izzy.
The digimon quickly looked around and Izzy knew he was doomed the second her eyes landed on him.
Zephyrmon knew there would be trouble the second Ranamon locked eyes on a person in the crowd. Before she could react Ranamon grabbed a red haired man from the crowd.
"Hey!" she screamed, "Leave innocent people out of this!"
Ranamon only looked at her, an evil gleam in her eye, "What if I don' want tah suga?" she taunted.
"That isn't an option! This shouldn't involve people who have nothing to do with this!" Zephyrmon attempted to reason.
Ranamon only laughed.
RANAMON SLIDE EVOLUTION!
CALMARAMON!
The man was now wrapped in one of her many tentacles. At her appearance many people gasped. She now looked like a very overgrown purple squid with to many glowing yellow eyes that seemed to watch everyone and everything. Of her tentacles two were much larger than the others.
One woman in the crowd whispered in a horrified voice, "She's cruel and hideous."
Calmaramon apparently heard this comment and turned a violent shade of red.
"Ya' say that about me an' think ya can get away wit it!" she screamed almost throwing the red-haired man against the wall of a nearby building.
Calmaramon made a mad dash for the woman who was now paralyzed in fear until she felt like she had been punched in the back with the force of a cannonball.
In her blind rage she had not heard Zephyrmon release her attack. Calmaramon was a raging bull and nothing was going to stop her.
"Plasma Pods!" Zephyrmon screamed taking a frontal attack to the overgrown squid. Immediately after releasing the attack she grabbed the woman and brought her to the safely to a roof of a building with a strong foundation.
"Thank you so much!" the woman said before the digimon took flight again.
"You're welcome," she replied and returned to the fight hoping that the man was alright.
Mimi stood on a roof that the digimon had put her on. She wasn't sure how she got there except that she had insulted the fish digimon (which she kept telling herself was one of the most hideous digimon that she had ever seen) and she had flown off the handle.
She looked over the edge of the roof and realized that the man that was currently being held captured was Izzy!
"Izzy," she thought, "Please be alright."
"Why me! Why me!" Izzy thought to himself since the digimon currently had such a strong hold on him that it was almost impossible to breath. He was relieved that Mimi was now safe. At first in all the confusion, he had not even realized that it was her.
The digimon, Zephrmon, was back.
"What do you want me to do for you to release him?" Zephyrmon asked in a no nonsense tone.
"What's tha matta suga, no smart comment for lil' ol' me this time?" the squid said tauntingly. "Give me ya name and I'll let 'im go."
The bird digimon did not look impressed with this idea.
"What for, it's Zephyrmon, I would think that even someone with your small brain would remember that?" Zephyrmon told her.
Calmaramon looked incensed. Apparently she had a very short temper and was a total hot head even though she ruled over water.
"Ya know what I mean by name suga'," Calmaramon repled trying to suppress anger and appear cool but failing miserably.
"What does she mean?" Izzy thought to himself "Name? She gave it to her, unless there is something that I'm missing."
Zephyrmon was tired of this game. Apparently Calmaramon did not know her name in human form and was trying to obtain it for whatever reason.
"What do you want it for?" Zephyrmon fired back.
"For my master," she replied.
Zephyrmon knew the decision now, "There's no way you're getting it! Hurricane Gale!"
The attack hit Calmaramon and did little damage. As a result she only squeezed the man more.
"Acid Ink" she cried trying to hit Zephyrmon and then realized it would be better to aim at the innocent people who were still nearby knowing that Zephyrmon would never let them be hurt by her.
She was right. Zephyrmon dived and made it in time to knock the ink away, but as a result she took some of the attack burning areas that were not protected by the metal armor. She was in pain. No one could see her mouth but the moans and the way her eyes looked told all.
"Looks like ya have two choices: give me ya name and ya an' this guy live or ya both die," she said with relish.
"There is no way I'll give up, I have to protect this city, its people and my friends," Zephyrmon said with sincerity.
All of a sudden a bright green light engulfed her. Once the light ebbed away a little but still left an aura around her, she looked perfectly fit for battle.
"Plasma Pods!" she shouted and it hit Calmaramon and knocked her into the building across the street.
When Calmaramon hit the building her grip on the man came loose, dropping him to the ground with a couple scratches but no much else.
"Titanic Tempest!" she screamed and began the attack, however, just as in the many times she had attempted the attack in the past, she began to fly out of control.
"Zephyrmon! I'll find it, an' when I do ya'll die!" Calmaramon screamed as she flew into the air and disappeared and the star-filled night sky.
Zephyrmon stared as the angry digimon vanished from sight, at the same time, so did the green aura that had previously been surrounding her. A couple seconds later she too disappeared into the night sky away from the view of on-lookers.
"Why does she want my name?" Zephyrmon thought to herself as she landed a deserted street and dedigivolved. "Whatever it is it can't be good."
She started for home.
Mimi was staring at the place the digimon had previously been fighting which now looked like a bomb had exploded in the area, to Izzy who was now surrounded by people asking him questions, and then to her crest which had stopped glowing the same moment that the digimon had stopped.
"What happened?" she thought to herself while being amused at Izzy in the spotlight.
"I don't know what happened or what's going on!" Izzy screamed at the camera men in his face trying to push his way out of the crows of people surrounding him.
"Are you sure?" one man asked shoving a microphone in his face.
"What about the creature, what was the experience like?" a woman asked who was even more in his face than the man.
"I swear I don't know," Izzy said while slowing making his way out of the crowd.
Once he was free he looked back and saw cameras rolling over the wreckage and journalists filming live reports. He just sighed. They media would never understand or believe him. The adventures of his childhood were seen as a myth, a legend, or a story to tell children before bed and nothing more. What puzzled him more was that the squid, Calmaramon, wanted the other digimon's name. She gave it to her, Zephyrmon, so why was she still asking for a name?
"Izzy!" a voice screamed and began to come towards him.
He spun around and saw Mimi sprinting toward him in the same cloths from earlier, the crest in her hand. Before he could even respond Mimi continued.
"Why did it glow?" she half questioned half screamed. "It glowed on that other digimon! She wasn't Palamon!"
Izzy was not sure how to respond to this. The crest working on another digimon, how?
"Truthfully Mimi, I have no idea. We had better talk to Gennai," Izzy said while sighing knowing it was going to be a longer night then he previously thought.
Calmaramon was now back in the form of Ranamon in her master's hideout. She worried about reporting to him hoping he would not destroy her for failing.
Ranamon stepped tentatively into his study and looked almost in fear at the form in front of her. He was sitting on his chair that looked like a throne, acting as if he was king. She went only halfway to him and knelt down.
"I failed, I didn' get her name," Ranamon said, failure could be heard in her voice.
"You might have failed getting her name but I now have a good idea of what this digimon who beat you looked like," Myotismon said looking at the image that was still in his globe although it was now somewhat fuzzy.
He had sent Demidevimon with a small charm to watch the fight, thus giving him images of it.
"That is the warrior of wind correct, she has almost as much strength as you and you are the warrior of water," Myotismon said harshly.
"Yes master," she replied almost afraid of the fact that she had not been punished.
"What worries me more is the green light, it is like that of the Crest of Sincerity, but how it is back! It was destroyed years ago! You are dismissed!" he roared and turned away.
At this Ranamon bowed out amazed she got off without punishment. She began walking down the hallway when she ran into Mercurymon. She saw his mirrors reflecting the little light in the area before she saw his tall green form.
"What happened to thee," he asked her.
Ranamon replied with annoyance, "He was more worried abou' a lil' green light over the lil' brats."
At that she stormed off to go cool her head in the pool.
Zoe walked into her house exhausted. It had been a tiring day to say the least. She took her shoes off at the door and her mother came to greet her. She had blonde hair that was shoulder length and ocean blue eyes. She was still dressed in a navy blue suit from work with an apron on and apparently cooking dinner.
"How was your day? Is your friend okay?" she asked with concern.
"He'll be alright and I'm exhausted," Zoe replied her face confirming both fatigue and relief.
"Alright, dinner will be ready in a few minutes," she said and left.
Zoe went up the green carpeted stairs to her room which was pink and purple with butterfly patterns. Her mother thought she was too old for it but Zoe loved it. There was no way to explain how tired she was or why she was so exhausted.
While thinking about the homework she still had to do her clear purple rang. It was under a shirt that had been tossed aside a couple days ago. After digging the phone out she answered it.
"Hello, Zoe speaking," Zoe said while laying back down on her bed.
"Z!" a voice that was undeniably Takuya screamed in his ear. "What happened on your way home!"
Zoe was puzzled for a moment not knowing it was a rhetorical question. Why would he care?
"I ended up in a fight with Ranamon, and you know how we get along," she replied calmly.
"What! That explains the T.V.! Turn it on now!" the goggle boy screamed at her again.
Zoe was slightly annoyed. She knew that the damage would be on T.V., it had been before. To make him happy she did as he asked while biting her tongue and a comment.
She reached for the remote on her bedside table and hit the on button. When she saw it she thought it was a joke, but it was not.
"What!" she screamed dropping the phone.
"Is everything alright up there?" her mother yelled from the kitchen.
"Fine!" Zoe yelled back knowing it was compete lie.
She was on the news, fighting with Ranamon or Calmaramon, depending on the picture they were showing. Apparently someone in the crowd had snapped a million pictures with a camera phone.
"You want to tell me now?" Takuya said his hyper personality fading a little.
Zoe sighed in defeat and began to worry if this was going to hurt their chances of operating in the secret manner they had been practicing.
To be continued…
Alright I have not updated forever. I APOLOGIZE TO THE WORLD! I just had to say that, it is part of my Fruits Basket obsession. Anyways I still have four books and a study guide to go for summer break work. Also I am on vacation for the last two weeks of July and beginning of August. I am going to try to update once more before then. Also I have begun production on my Fruits Basket fic: Cry of the Cat which I have not put up yet. This chapter is not great and the fight scene was awful. A special thanks to Light's Blue Blossom, bluemoonlightgirl, Kouji-wolf, and Evide for reviewing What If? Part II Koichi's POV.
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