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Episode 2: Tyromon's Fight

"Finny, we've been walking for hours! I'm tired!" Mack complained. As she walked her feet dragged with every step, leaving ruts in the soft dirt.

"I am too, Finny." Tyromon added in. "When are we gonna stop?"

"Whenever we come across a place for us to stay." Finny told them. He turned to face the group behind him. They all had tired looks on their faces. "Hey! I'm tired too and you don't here me complaining."

"You don't have to complain. All you have to do is stop so we can rest." Mack shot back. She was clearly irritated.

"Mack, don't yell." Torimon said, grabbing her before she close enough to Finny to attack him.

"Who made you the leader anyway?" Mack questioned him, relaxing her tense muscles a bit. Torimon let go of her partner.

"Hey, someone's got to lead." Finny responded. He shrugged his shoulders and turned away from the group. Mack gritted her teeth.

While Finny and Mack were arguing about the leader, the others just watched.

"Someone should do something." Kusamon spoke up.

"I think everyone's too afraid to." Theo told him. Kusamon shrugged. His stomach gave a loud growl signaling he was hungry.

"Well they better hurry up. I'm starving."

"Me too." Theo agreed, turning back to the argument.

"Hey, I think I recognize this area." Inagomon suddenly spoke up. Everyone, aside from Mack and Finny, turned to look at the green insectoid Digimon. "If I'm not mistaken, there's a town just up ahead."

Even Finny and Mack stopped when they heard this.

"A town?" Finny asked, looking around. "I don't see a town."

"I'll be right back." Inagomon said as she zoomed off. Seconds later she was out of sight and behind the huge, leafy trees.

"You had better hope she's right or you're going to find yourself in another tree, Goggle Head." Mack told Finny. Finny said nothing and laughed nervously. He secretly crossed his fingers for luck behind his back.

"I was right! There is a small town up ahead!" Inagomon shouted back before even coming into view. She soon landed gracefully on the ground next to Becky and caught her breath. "It's just through those trees up ahead." she pointed.

"Alright! Food!" Kusamon said as he ran ahead of the group. All the Digimon ran after him, followed closely by all their human partners.

"You lucked out this time." Mack said as she sprinted ahead of Finny.

"Uh... yeah." Finny mumbled, trying to keep up with the group. Tyromon flew up next to him.

"She don't like you much, does she?" he said. Finny shook his head.

"I guess not."

Minutes later, the group broke through the last of the trees and found themselves in front of an open, iron gate. There was a board nailed to a tree growing beside it as if it was a sign telling the town name, but nothing was written on it. Behind the gate doors was a long brick road with buildings all along the sides. No one was on the streets.

"Well, go on!" Inagomon said, shooing them all through the gate. "It's a nice place."

"But it looks so... empty." Mo said, walking through the gate doors. Kitsumon was at her side. "Do you recognize this town, Kitsumon?"

"I'm afraid not, Monica." Kitsumon replied. "I've never been here before."

As the walked along the brick road, the wind began to pick up. Mo noticed that they had completely left the forest and were now in another plains area, except this one didn't have any plant life at all. The ground beside the brick road was dusty and the wind was picking it up and swirling it around overhead. Now that they were closer, they noticed the buildings all looked like they were taken right from the Old West.

"This place is weird. Where is everybody?" Lexi asked as she looked around.

"Let's just find someplace to eat. I'm still hungry over here." Kusamon said, dragging his tail in the dust behind him. It made Kitsumon, who was walking behind him, sneeze.

"We know you're hungry. We're all hungry." Theo told his Digimon. Kusamon sighed.

"Yeah, hungry and tired." Mack said, putting emphasis on the word 'tired'. "We've been walking all evening."

"And it's starting to get dark out." Becky said, looking up at the sky. "We should find someplace to stay for the night."

"There's a hotel over there." Jesse stopped and pointed at the run down looking building. The wooden sign in front of it read "Hotel".

"It doesn't look very safe." Dokumon piped up. "We'll be safer sleeping in a dead tree in the middle of an open field."

"It's not that bad." Finny said. He led the rest of them up to the building, which they found to be pretty large once they got closer to it. Seb followed behind the group with Bochamon, who was finally getting the hang of walking without tripping.

"You're awfully quite Seb. What's up?" Bochamon asked his partner.

"Nothing. I was just... thinking." Seb stared over to the setting sun. It was turning the sky a deep shade of hot pink and orange.

"Thinking about what?" Bochamon asked while looking at the place Seb was staring at so intently. There was nothing there.

"Nothing..." Seb muttered. He walked a bit faster to catch up to the rest of the group.

Back at the front of the group, Finny, Mack and their Digimon were already at the front door.

"What you waiting for? Go inside." Mack urged Finny on. Finny tried the handle and found the door to be locked.

"It's locked." Finny stated. Mack tried too and had the same results. She instead tried pounding on the wooden door. The whole thing looked as if it would topple over at any moment.

"Hello?" Mack shouted. There was no answer. "HELLO!" she shouted louder.

"Go away!" a voice said from inside. "We don't want you here.

"Mack stopped pounding and rolled her eyes.

"Look, we just want someplace to stay for the night. Is that too much to ask?" she said back to

the voice.

"And I said we don't want any trouble. We know your type and you're nothing but bad news.

"Now leave!"

Mack gritted her teeth and was about to say something back, but Torimon grabbed her before she could.

"Why don't you leave this to someone else?" Torimon suggested. Mack was going to yell at the little griffin Digimon, but didn't have the heart to. Finny took over trying to talk.

"We have nowhere else to go for the night. We'll do what ever you want, just please give as a place to say for the night." Finny said calmly.

"Anything?" Mo said, questioning what Finny had previously promised.

"I said no!"

"But we're just a bunch of defenseless kids. We won't hurt you." Finny argued back.

"Unless you don't have any food." Kusamon added under his breath. Theo kicked him softly.

"You say you're kids?" the voice said. It seemed to have calmed down. "As in human kids?"

"Yes! We are humans!" Finny said. They were finally getting somewhere.

"You don't work on evil's side?"

"No, we just got here earlier." Finny explained. He was about to go on but he stopped when the door opened. In the doorway stood a little reptilian Digimon wearing armor. A mask over his entire head shrouded his face in shadows.

"Welcome! Please come in." he spoke, allowing them to step forward. They all filed inside and looked around. The inside was nothing like the outside. Hardwood floors and walls painted with beautiful designs surrounded them. A plush red carpet was to their left in what looked like a lobby of a four star hotel. A marble counter was situated to their right and a huge glass and gold chandelier hung above them.

"The outside of this place is very misleading." Mo said as she looked around. Kitsumon nodded her head in agreement.

"I'm sorry for all the trouble I've caused." the Digimon apologized. "Please allow me to properly introduce myself. My name is Kotemon and I'm the owner of this Digimon Hotel."

"Nice place you got here." Mack said, staring in awe. "But I don't think we can afford a fancy place like this."

"Not to worry. You can all eat and stay the night for free. Only the best we have for the Digidestined." Kotemon said.

"What did you call us?" Finny asked.

"The Digidestined of course. Your arrival has been anticipated by many throughout the entire Digital World. It is an honor to meet you."

"Anticipated by many? Why is that?" Mo asked.

"You are here to save us of course," Kotemon explained. "From the Ultimate Evil."

Mo raised an eyebrow. She was about to ask what the Ultimate Evil was but was interrupted by another door opening. A Kapurimon bounced through and stopped beside the Kotemon.

"Are these our guests?" he asked. Kotemon nodded.

"Take them to the finest rooms we have. And after, prepare the best food for them to eat tonight. They have traveled far and are in need of a good meal." Kotemon instructed.

"Right away." Kapurimon said, bounding back to the door. "Please follow me."

"Alright." Mack said. "This is great."

"You said it!" Torimon agreed.

"Food!" Kusamon's mouth watered at the mere mention of it. He licked his lips happily.

They turned and walked down a long hallway that was lined with white door with gold trim. Along the walls were lamps and recreations of famous paintings.

"You may stay in these rooms, Digidestined." Kapurimon said, pointing to six doorways, three on each side of the hall. When you are settled, come back to the lobby and I'll take you to dinner."

"Sounds good, thank you." Finny said. Kapurimon smiled and bounded away. The Digidestined each split up into pairs and took a room. Mo walked into her room, which she was sharing with Mac and Torimon.

"This place is a bit strange, don't you think?" Mo asked, sitting down on one of the white covered, queen-sized beds.

"Don't complain. We got in here for free, didn't we?" Mack said, sitting down on the other bed.

"I guess so." Mo went along. She still had a weird feeling about the whole thing in the pit of her stomach.

Later that night after they had all finished eating, the group was sound asleep in their separate rooms. Kotemon and Kapurimon were in the lobby cleaning it up a bit.

"It's good to know Azulongmon and the others have finally done something about all this." Kotemon spoke up from the desk. Kapurimon nodded in agreement.

"I knew he would do this eventually. He was just waiting for the right moment."

"I suppose only he would know." Kotemon pondered. "I just hope they're can do this huge task."

"I'm sure they'll be fine. They seem like a strong bunch." Kapurimon commented. The two Digimon went back to work and stopped talking for a second. Soon after, a flicker of the lights made them pause in their work.

"That's weird." Kapurimon spoke up. "Should I go check it out."

Kotemon was about to say yes, but something stopped him.

"Not just yet. I sense something wrong."

"Is it the-" Kapurimon didn't even need to finish. Kotemon knew what he meant.

"I'm afraid so. They know they're here." Kotemon said, facing the door. Seconds later there was a loud crack as the door was knocked right out of the frame. It fell at Kotemon's feet, revealing another Kotemon standing in the doorway. This Kotemon looked meaner though. His armor had many extra spikes and horns protruding from it and it was darker colored. Its eyes shown red instead of their usual yellow and three black claws protruded from it's sleeves on each side.

"Please excuse my sudden intrusion." the mutated Kotemon spoke in a crackly voice.

"But I have a job to do. I can't afford any interference." he jumped towards Kotemon and Kapurimon and drew his sharp, bamboo blade. "HOTHEAD!"

Tyromon, who was snoring peacefully next to his partner Finny, was woken suddenly by the crash made out in the lobby. He rolled over and tried to sit up, but got tangled in the sheets and ended up falling to the floor with a thud. This woke up Finny.

"What are you doing, Tyromon? " Finny asked groggily.

"I heard something." Tyromon said. He got up and walked to the door. "It sounded bad."

"A Digimon?" Finny asked, wiping the sleep out of his eyes.

"Maybe." Tyromon said. He opened the door and sprinted out and down the hall. Finny got up and followed the Dragon Digimon until they came to the lobby. At first, all Finny saw was the mutated Kotemon.

"What happened, Kotemon?" Finny asked. The mutated Kotemon narrowed his eyes and turned to Finny.

"Good evening, Digidestined." he said maliciously. "Please come closer."

Finny was about to step forward when the other Kotemon spoke from the side. His arms were bound behind him and so were his legs. He looked badly bruised and injured.

"Don't listen to him. He wants your blood!" the Kotemon said. Finny's eyes widened in shock.

"What?!" Finny said, not sure if he fully understood what Kotemon had said.

"Stay away from him!" Kapurimon shouted. He too was badly beaten.

"Don't listen to a word they say. Come here." the mutated Kotemon spoke. "Thunder Kote!"

"Get behind me!" Tyromon said, jumping in front of Finny and pushing him out of the way. The attack brushed Tyromon's tail tip and singed it.

"Be careful Tyromon." Finny said. Tyromon nodded and got back up and got ready to attack.

"Firecracker!" Tyromon shouted, sending out a wave of orange sparks at the mutated Kotemon. He jumped out of the way with ease.

"You have to be quicker than that." he spoke in a teasing voice. "Hothead!"

Tyromon tried to dodge the flaming sword, but Kotemon was too quick. He hit Tyromon full in the back and knocked him across the room.

"Tyromon!" Finny called after his Digimon.

"Don't move, human." the Kotemon spat. He pointed his sword at Finny and was about to call out his attack.

"Firecracker." Tyromon shouted again. The spark shower was weaker this time as Tyromon was hurt, but he did manage to delay the Kotemon's advances.

Kotemon glared at Tyromon and went back to Finny.

"It's a shame you didn't even get to spend a day in the Digital World." he said with mock sorrow. He raised his sword as crimson flames appeared on the shaft.

"No, Finny!" Tyromon shouted. Finny's Digivice went off and shot out a red light that completely engulfed Tyromon.

"Tyromon digivolve to . . . DESDRAMON!"

When the light cleared, a large blue dragon was standing where Tyromon had previously lain. He had two curling horns on the back of his head and his wings had grown nearly as big as he had. His entire body was covered with red violet stripes and white spikes.

"Don't even think about touching Finny or any of my friends!" Desdramon roared. The Kotemon to a step away from Finny and turned to face the new threat.

"Interesting." he drawled, putting his sword away.

"Coward." Desdramon grumbled. He opened his mouth and got ready to fire an attack. "FIRE FLARE!"

A burst of bright, multicolored flames shot out of his wings and showered down on the mutated Kotemon. He jumped quickly, avoiding most of the attack.

"It's time I take my leave. I must inform the master of this." Kotemon said. He jumped out the door before Desdramon could attack. Desdramon growled deep in his throat.

"What a coward. He knows I would have destroyed him." Desdramon said. He stretched his wing span to show off a bit.

"Be careful!" the nice Kotemon spoke up as the tip of Desdramon's wing brushed the tip of the glass chandelier.

"Sorry." Desdramon apologized. Finny's Digivice started glowing red again and so did Desdramon. Seconds later, he shrank back down to Tyromon.

"That was awesome!" Finny said, running up to him and giving him a big hug.

"Anything for you!" Tyromon responded, pleased to see that his partner was happy.

"What's going on?" Theo asked, walking out into the lobby. All the crashes had woken him up.

"Nothing much." Finny said. "Just some friendly bonding." he gave Tyromon another squeeze. Tyromon smiled.

"Whatever." Theo said as he turned and headed back towards the room.

"I can't thank you enough for saving us last night." the Kotemon said. Kapurimon nodded in agreement. "If there is anything you need, don't hesitate to ask."

"Hey, you already gave us food. What more could we ask for?" Kusamon said, patting his full stomach. Kapurimon smiled. Kotemon probably did too, but no one could tell.

"I will never forget what you have done for us, Digidestined. Good luck on the rest of your trip." Kotemon said. The group walked down to the road and started to leave.

"Thanks again!" Finny and Tyromon said.

"Come back and visit sometime!" Kapurimon said, bouncing happily up and down.

"We'll do our best!" Finny called back with a wave.

End Epiosde 2. Hope you liked it, please R &R!!!