Nothing seemed to help his anxiety, not sleep, not drugs, not even Mikemon's constant reassurance. Amok was dangerously exhausted, strung out, and completely unprepared for the day, his body ached in a thousand places, especially his brain. But Terra was all in, she stood with perfect posture on the sandy shores that Rosemon had brought them to, away from the village and it's resident digimon. The idea was to keep Leviamon away from them, and defeat him without any more destruction of the homes and families that lived there. Easier said than done.
Rosemon stared out into the ocean, semingly lost in thought, she then sighed, "I suppose the best way would be to force him to come to the surface."
"How would we do that?" Terra said.
"Yeah, it's a fucking ocean, it's miles huge." Bree responded, shaking her head.
That was potentially the longest sentence she'd said since they'd got there. Her crude choice of words almost shocked Amok, he'd expected someone shy and reserved like Dashielle to emerge out of her body. Great, he thought, two girls with attitude on this trip.
The plant digimon shuddered, then released a slithering vine towards the water. It was twitching with electricity, and hummed when it made contact with the ocean. It dove under the water and quickly swam away under the water like an eel. Rosemon held onto the other end.
"What are you doing?" Dashielle asked, Puroromon perched on his shoulder, it had a very negative and sullen looking expression on it's face. But Amok couldn't be one hundred percent sure, as it was an insect, and it's eyes looked lifeless half the time.
"Drawing him out with eletricity." Rosemon said bluntly.
The great body of water flickered and pulsed with the electric force that was entering it. The plant woman digimon remained still and calm, and her power couldn't help but be felt by those standing around her. "I can only help you so much," she said, "I barely won last time, I think the key to defeating him lies within you four. No digimon alone can do this, we need your energy."
As if on cue, there was a loud clap of thunderous noise, and a giant splash that sent charged water flying towards them. Amok was pushed to the ground, feeling painful shocks zap at his skin and almost paralyze him. He couldn't move, but saw the others take cover, or at least try to. Terra fell beside him, also being soaked with the dangerously electrified water, her eyes were cringing with pain and he couldn't bear to watch. Mustering all his strength, he reached for her across the sand and pulled her towards him.
"Move!" Amok heard Dash yell, though his voice almost drown under the sounds of battle.
"Hold onto me," he demanded Terra, he dragged himself to his feet with her still clutching to him. The shocks were still jumping down his body, but were more manageable now, his high numbing him more than ever before to the world around him. They slid clumsily across the sand, towards where the others were crouching behind a giant beach boulder, narrowly avoiding free flying bolts of eletricity that littered the air around them.
Dashielle, with a swiftness no one would expect from him, leaped from behind the shelter and took Terra away from Amok, getting her to safety first. He then grabbed Amok by the wrist and pulled him to the ground, the sand nearly choking him as it rushed into his already opened mouth.
Behind them, a fight raged on between Rosemon and the giant monster that was Leviamon. Apparently the ruse to make him leave the water worked a little too well, and he was pissed off. Rosemon sent vines towards him, tangling him and zapping him with bright lights and stabbing him with sharp thorns. The beast returned her attacks with giant bellows of lightning bolts from it's mouth, which she barely had the chance to dodge. To their horror, one of the attacks hit their mentor digimon, knocking her to the sand below.
Leviamon was now free from the vines confining him, and sauntered closer to the beach. The water seemed to seperate around him with each step, obeying him. From what Amok could make out in his confused state, the beast was like a crocodile in nature. It was huge, bigger than an earth elephant, with a long snout, and two razor sharp tails. Worst of all, it's scales were blood red in colour.
With Rosemon down, nothing stood between them and the monster but a boulder, and Amok guessed that it could blow that away with a simple sneeze. His stomach churned, and he faced the other way, his back to the cold stone, to get himself out of the situation. The green bag, his life force, was still somehow attached to him, and he clung to it desperately. He was going to die, that was the reality of it. The tiny digimon around him were no match for that thing, Mikemon would get crushed, and so would they.
But beside him, Terra still looked determined, her eyes gazed out at the fallen Rosemon, who was struggling even still to rise and fight. Terra nudged Amok slightly, "We have to help her." She said, her eyes burning with passion. The black haired boy felt his face become white and he shook his head rapidly, making himself dizzy. The exhaustion and drugs were kicking in harder than ever, the world around him was colourful and twisting, like Alice in Wonderland. He could see a warm glow surrounding Terra's body as she stared at him, but wasn't sure if it was real or imaginary.
"I can't move," he stammered back at her, "we're going to die."
"Amok!" Mikemon howled, "you need to get up and help us."
"No!" The colours were blinding, his senses were failing and he felt like he was on a merry go round. The rumbling footsteps approaching them made his whole body shake. Leviamon was so close now, so ready to destroy them all with one stomp of his giant foot.
Terra looked miserable, she rose to her feet, leaving the shelter. Agumon by her side, the orange glow covered both of them. Amok finally had the strength to look and watch, but stayed carefully hidden by the rock. Dashielle and Faith were also peeking around it to watch the fight, while Bree and her Lopmon were half ready to leap out and attack. Mikemon kept pestering Amok and wanting to join in battle, but his stomach lurched and he could only keep saying no.
The brown hair beauty dashed towards Rosemon, grabbing the plant digimon by the waist and helped her sit upright. Agumon ran towards the monsterous crocodile, shooting balls of flames from it's reptilian mouth. Leviamon swung it's large jaw at him, knocking him aside roughly, it then set out in Terra's direction, licking it's scaly lips and boasting it's enormous fangs.
She looked discouraged, but not defeated. Laying Rosemon down once more, Terra got to her feet and balled her hands into fists. Bree and Lopmon finally ran out, the long eared digimon began to spin rapidly towards Leviamon, creating a small whirlwind. She hit it on the nose, only to falter and splash into the ocean waters. Bree latched onto Terra, "We need to leave," she yelled, "it's too dangerous."
Terrra shook free of the other girls hands, and shot her a filthy look, "We can''t back down."
"Idiot," the goggle girl snapped, but looked sympathetic, in her own weird way.
Amok watched, breathless. What could he possibly do to help, he was whacked out of his mind, too high to function. And Dash and Faith seemed to share his fears, although they at least were now on their feet and ready to flee if needed. He still cowered low to the ground, holding himself to keep from shaking.
The giant crocodile digimon stomped it's foot in the sand, causing both Terra and Bree to stumble, and waking Agumon from it's daze. The tiny orange dinosaur leapt towards it's partner, and the glow around them returned. Amok shook his head, and wiped his eyes to make sure it was a real event that he was witnessing, not some vivid hallucination. Then to his horror, the same eery light surrounded Bree as well, but this time it was a light, barely noticeable lavender colour, nowhere near as intense as Terra's.
"Do you see it?" He sputtered at Fath and Dash, who nodded, dumbstruck at his side.
"They're glowing," Faith muttered, "fucked up."
Agumon then took on a weird form, it started to contort and mutate. Terra didn't seem to notice, but Bree jumped in suprise a little. Lopmon finally rejoined her, soaked and battered from the previous strike against Leviamon, wringing out her long ears. She stared at the other mon in awe. Meanwhile, the lizard digimon continued to grow, lumpy at first, but then shot up to the same height as Leviamon. It's head grew longer, and a giant snout appeared under a brown skull with horns, it's teeth shot out like daggers, it's claws grew longer and sharper, and it bellowed out a giant roar when the process was finished.
Terra now looked miniscule beside her partner, who she still hadn't looked at since it's transformation. She kept her focus on Leviamon, staring directly into it's eyes. Her savage strength caused the glow around her to whip and blow the sand out from beneath her feet. "You can't win," she said sternly, patting her new digimon on the leg, she barely came up to it's knee, "me and Agumon will defeat you." The dinosaur growled lowly.
Bree and Lopmon backed away slowly, closer to the others. Amok got the sense that they would only get in the way if they tried to help, but Mikemon pulled at his shirt, "She'll die if we don't help, please Amok, I can digivolve too."
But he shook his head, and snapped, "No. I can't help them."
"You can!" Mikemon yelled, pointing to the glow around them, it was dark blue and kept fading in and out. Amok hadn't even noticed it until that point, and yet he still backed away, "Please make me digivolve."
"I can't." Amok insisted.
Agumon finally struck out at Leviamon, clamping it's now huge jaws around it's neck and flailing around. The crocodile lashed with it's tails, as blood spurted from the bites and stained the ground below. The noise was intense, ear shattering, but Terra stayed in with the action, running to avoid being hit by the feuding monsters.
The dinosaur digimon released the other, sending it flying into the dirt on it's side. It's tails flew in every direction and it's long purple tongue tangled in itself. Agumon's head tilted back, it's mouth bulged as if holding a large amount of air, and then he released the pent up energy, a fireball, at Leviamon. It consumed it in flame, and it let out a loud screeching whistle, it's tails still thrashing. Terra fist pumped in excitement, and the smile on her face made Amok snap back into reality. She was truly happy.
Leviamon recovered, now charred and missing some of it's teeth, and snapped at Agumon, catching his leg and pulling him to his back. They wrestled around furiously, causing the ground to rumble and shake, sand blowing everywhere. Rosemon crawled towards Amok, arm outstretched, and once more Dash was the one to run ahead and pull her to safety, if you could call it safety. They were all sitting ducks, watching a fight that no one but Terra had the courage to fight in.
Not one of them expected to see the worst scenario possible happen, however, and Amok could do nothing but sit there, in terror. The first sight was the long, razor sharp red tail flying from the fight, winding it's way around Agumon and finding the beauty's completely exposed mid-section. It was lightning fast, and devastating, pinning her to the ground and ripping a gaping hole into her stomach. Then the tail withdrew, leaving her crumpled on the ground, her blood seeping out around her.
"Fuck!" Bree fell over, just missing being torn up by the tail as well.
Nobody spoke, nobody else moved, but Amok darted onto the scene, somehow finding the will to move once more. He dropped beside her, his vision still dark and twisted, making even her beautiful face seem distant and two dimensional. "Terra," he stammered, "I don't know what to do."
By this time, Agumon had caught sight of what had happened, and the power radiating from him was stronger than ever. The orange glow enveloped him and the crocodile monster, and he seemed to be gaining the advantage. His partner was down, and his anger was sending him into a rampage, he ripped violently at Leviamon, gashing it's neck open, tearing at it's eyes and blinding it. It didn't stand a chance, and Agumon ended it's life with one concentrated flame at point black, engulfing it in red, searing hot hell.
Leviamon fell to the ground, now just a mess of burnt scales and blood. And Agumon shrunk close to the ground, melting into a single, yellow spotted egg in the sand.
Terra coughed, blood running down her chin, "did he win?"
"Yeah." Amok answered, squeezing her tightly.
"I knew we would." Were her final words, her grey eyes became blank and lifeless, her blood ran between Amok's fingers and coated his lap. He couldn't comprehend what was happening, didn't want to accept it as real. His head was swirling around in the sky, he had to be dreaming, or hallucinating, but no. Life was being shoved down his throat, harsh facts of how fragile one human girl can truly be. Her courage meant nothing, it all went down with one whip of a weapon-like tail.
"I love you," Amok whispered lightly, "come back."
But she wasn't coming back, not for anyone or anything.