Chapter 6
Five days had passed slowly, and Yumi was sitting up, hugging her legs to her chest, with Miharumon sleeping beside her. Everyone except Tai was asleep, besides her, and she was bored. Tai took out his mini-telescope and, after a moment, said, "That's Server?" Yumi's hopes rose, and Miharumon started waking up beside her. Miharumon wasn't a water-lover, as one would say, and she was eager to get back on land, where she had no fear of drowning or getting into a very heated argument with Gomamon about whether she feared water or not. She stood up, stretching, as Whamon replied that it was indeed Server, and Tai woke everyone up.
Yumi stretched, hearing some bones groan from being cramped for so long, and Miharumon yawned, cricking her back like a dog that's just woken up from a good nights sleep. They reached Server in a matter of minutes, and everyone jumped off of Whamon and onto land. Well, everyone except Mimi, who was a bit unnerved by it. Miharumon was running around in a circle, exercising her cramped muscles, until Gomamon asked, "Chasing your tail? Did it hurt your bottom when it bit on?" Miharumon pounced on him, saying, "If I wasn't so happy about finally being here, you wouldn't be here." She got off of him, trotting happily over to Yumi as Mimi was thrown off and landed on Izzy.
Yumi chuckled lightly, and Whamon left, wishing them luck. They were supposed to head to a Koromon village, and they started walking through a desert.
Miharumon, wanting to keep her happiness of being back on dry land, didn't complain, but was thoroughly displeased, as everyone soon saw when she jumped onto a rock, mumbling something incoherent about the sand. Miharumon suddenly perked, scenting the air. She walked forward, her eyes closed as she sniffed, her ears cocked. "Yumi, the Koromon village is in that direction." Miharumon stated, and Tai used his mini-telescope and saw a forest. Everyone started running towards the forest, hoping the village was there. They soon entered the forest, and were eventually looking down at a large village. Mimi was so excited about getting a bath that she ran down.
Miharumon paused, scenting the air again. "Something's not right." She ran down after Mimi, with Palmon ahead of her, and Yumi trying to catch up from behind. Miharumon saw Mimi in front of a group of Pagumon, and her instinct was immediately untrustworthy. The Pagumon suddenly lifted Mimi and started taking her away. Miharumon snarled, running past Palmon as the others stopped to question her. Yumi didn't stop, following her partner as she ran into a hut. Suddenly, Miharumon calmed down, no longer snarling, but still had that look in her eyes that said she didn't like the Pagumon. Everyone else raced passed the pair, and ran upstairs.
The next thing Yumi heard was a scream and the sound of two people hitting the floor, hard.
That night, the Pagumon invited them to a feast, and there was plenty of food. Miharumon wasn't happy in the least. She said, "I smelled Koromon, not Pagumon. I know something's up! Pagumon are horrible pranksters!" "You're being paranoid, Miharumon. Relax and eat." Miharumon ate, but she said, after swallowing a mouthful, "Fine, I'll keep an eye on them, for now, but if they try to hurt anybody or betray us in some way, they'll feel my wrath." The Pagumon could tell from her cold glare how serious she was, and shivered in fright.
The other Digimon were trying to convince her otherwise, but to no avail. She wouldn't budge, and they only stopped when she snarled viciously, warning them that, if they were to push any farther, she wouldn't hesitate to show them her power. They just couldn't understand she was being overprotective for their sakes. She had promised Gennai long ago that she'd protect all of them, and that's what she intended to do. Poyomon ate some food, and Digivolved back into Tokomon. Miharumon smiled with pride, remembering the first day each of the Digimon had first Digivolved to their In-Training forms.
She noticed an evil glint in the Pagumon's eyes, and she growled softly, making a slight rumbling in her throat that no one noticed. The next day, Tokomon was missing. Miharumon instinctively blamed the Pagumon, but everyone else said he must have gone for a walk and gotten lost. She was unhappy that they didn't believe her, and she saw the Pagumon relished it. As she and Agumon went to search the forest, she turned to the Pagumon. "If you hurt Tokomon, consider yourselves scrap data." She growled loud enough for only the Pagumon to hear. They gave her fearful looks as she walked off.
They reached a river, and Miharumon said, "Agumon, you go search the waterfall while I go down this river. If you need me, use a Pepper Breath on the water, and I'll come as fast as I can." Agumon nodded before walking off. She only walked for a few moments before turning around and seeing steam. She turned around, running, and saw that he was behind the waterfall. She raced behind to see two Gazimon beating up Agumon. She snarled, "If you don't back off this instant you'll wish you were never hatched!" That caught the Gazimon's attention, and they recoiled when they discovered she was a Miharumon. She used a Howling Inferno, smashing one against a wall.
She snarled at the other, keeping him at bay, for now. She looked around to see Tokomon, bound, in a cage, and the Koromon from the village in cages as well. "I knew those Pagumon were up to no good!" She said, and turned to see one Gazimon use Electric Stun Blast. She dodged it, and, snarling, whipped him in the face with her tail. He fell back, and she said, "Nice try…NOT!!!" The other one jumped on her back, and she reared, yelping in pain when he grabbed her ears and pulled. She smashed him, backwards, into the wall, making him release his grip and fall off. She saw that Agumon was really beat up. If only I could have gotten here sooner, she thought.
She got an idea, and said, "Agumon, I need you to shoot a Pepper Breath at the waterfall!" The Gazimon had no idea what she was planning, but Agumon knew better than to question her. A Gazimon tried to punch him, and she pounced on him, biting into his hand. He almost smacked her with his other hand, but she moved to the side, shooting a Howling Inferno. Yumi, get here soon! She thought, I can't hold them off forever! Suddenly, Yumi and Tai appeared, and Yumi said, "Miharumon!" Miharumon smiled, wagging her tail. "Who was right?" She said smugly, and Yumi sighed, defeated, "You were." "You should listen to me more often." Suddenly, a Gazimon grabbed her by the throat, holding her against the floor, as he was about to finish her off.
"MIHARUMON!!" Yumi yelled, running towards her, and her Digivice glowed brightly before Miharumon Digivolve to Haramon. She snarled at the insignificant pest, and whipped him away with her tail, along with his partner. They both fell into the river, and Agumon looked up gratefully at Haramon, saying, "Thanks, Haramon. I never would've made it if you hadn't shown up." "What are friends for?" She questioned, smiling. T.K. got Tokomon out of his cage as everyone else freed the Koromon. Haramon heard something, and instinctively snarled. Yumi, who was beside her, saw a hologram of a Digimon come up over the trees, and she asked, "Who's that, Haramon?" "Etemon." Haramon said, never ceasing her snarling.
The Koromon were obviously in distress, as Etemon said, "I'm gonna play a little number I just wrote. It's called 'Wrecking The Whole Place'." Haramon tensed as black wires rose everywhere in the air around them, flowing with red electricity.
Everything started to fall apart, and the ceiling was about to fall on them, but Haramon stood over them, holding the rock up with her back. "Yumi, run to the room in the back with the others." Agumon and Gabumon Digivolved to Greymon and Garurumon. Greymon lifted the rocks off Haramon's back, and the ceiling stopped caving in. Etemon used Concert Crash, and Greymon and Garurumon Dedigivolved.
Haramon stood her ground, and Yumi asked, "Why didn't Haramon Dedigivolve?" Tentomon answered, "She's always been one level ahead of us. At the Rookie level, she was as strong as a Champion, and as a Champion…" "She's as strong as an Ultimate." Yumi finished. Haramon snarled angrily at Etemon's hologram, and sniffed the air. She was about to run forward, to find him, when Yumi ran out, jumping on her back. "Yumi! You're not coming!" "If you go, I go!" Yumi retorted stubbornly, and Haramon got her point. She ran into the cave as everyone ran to the back. Haramon snarled once more before a wall closed behind her, trapping everyone in the room, and she Dedigivolved.
She saw a strange symbol on the wall, and whispered, in awe, "The Crest of Courage!" It started to glow, and so did Tai's tag. The wall the symbol was etched on started to grow smaller, and eventually fitted itself into Tai's crest.
Everyone stared in awe, and Yumi thought, Well, the Crest of Courage really is what I would have expected. They looked out to see a mountain valley, and the Koromon said that it was far from their village. Miharumon ran out, saying, "I hate being cramped in close quarters with you people!" She ran around a bit before running back to Yumi, who had just stepped out of the room with the others. Yumi smiled, saying, "Well, at least I feel safer."