Drabble Collection: Digimon Adventure
-by Ajora Fravashi

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Title: Still Waters
Season: Adventure 02
Characters: None
Rating: G
Pairing: None
Words: 300
Topic: Beach
Note: If you pay really close attention to the Dark Ocean episode, you'll notice a sign in digital code. It reads "Innsmouth." I wanted to try a bit of scene description with the overly Lovecraftian references.

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Somewhere, in a plane of existence accessible to both the Digital World and the human world, yet a part of neither, lies a vast, terrible beach. To the visitor, it stretches as far as the eye can see. If one gazes upon the land, one will see the crumbling, deafeningly silent, lifeless town of Innsmouth. Sinister are its empty houses and streets, as if a fate worse than death would await the unsuspecting.

The terror that looms over this stretch of no-man's-land is not overt. It does not threaten with muscle or weapons, words or acts; it threatens with an ever present, understated blanket of lurking evil. It promises not death, but unspeakable things which makes death seem an appealing alternative. For some it promises a complete erasure of their personalities, for others it promises to twist and rot the very core of their being, and for others still it promises to bring to life their greatest fears.

The grey sands cling, slowing a visitor with its impossible weight. The dense sea air, underlined with the stink of aquatic decay, sticks to the back of one's throat and settles in the lungs. The great, unnaturally calm ocean stretches out from the beach to an unknown horizon. Grey close to the sands and darkening to blackness as the water deepens, the ocean lies in wait for victims. Its calm surface is all the more malignant in its implication of marine horrors. The few who have escaped tell of frog-like Deep Ones and their master, hidden in the depths of the ocean.

The Dark Ocean need not call to its victims. They come on their own, lured by their own darkness and alienation. When they depart, a little bit of their souls are left behind.

In the Dark Ocean, Dagomon waits dreaming.