Hey everyone :D
Yes I am back
Now good news since I was rather lazy I decided to follow the English version on this episode. Reason why?
I dunno XD
But yeah, that's how I'm going to deal with it. There will be some Japanese hints in here. But for the most part it's mostly on the English version.
(with some of my own personal changes in the Dialogue as well)
~But yeah that's about it, here the next chapter guys :D
Chapter 6: Feline's Intuition
The light was bright, bright enough for everyone to shield their eyes. Kari had already stopped running at this time when she managed to catch the sight of her partner. To her surprise the little cat had a bright pink ray of light on she wasn't alone as the other Digimon themselves had a ray of light shinning on them as well of different colors of sorts.
But they didn't stand still as they suddenly spoke out.
"Nyaromon, Digivolve to... Salamon!" The cat had changed completely into a puppy. Her yellow and purple color transformed into a pale peach with long ears and little clawless paws; ornamented with a craved golden ring around her neck. And her once rich ruby eyes transformed into a crystal blue, innocent but brimming with confidence.
"Yokomon, Digivolve to... Biyomon!" The young plant shouted as the bright red light around her glowed and instantly her little form. She grew, turning into what looked like a large pink bird with red claws at the ends of it's wings. The blue flower that Yokomon had disappeared, and blue striped were on the ends of the feathers on it's head and tail feathers. It had a curly feather coming out of the top of her forehead that was striped blue and pink, and a metal cuff on her left talon.
"Motimon, Digivolve too... Tentomon!" The little mochi shaped jellyfish creature grew into what seemed to be some kind of mix of a ladybug and red beetle. He had big green compound eyes, and two sets of arms, the fore most set ending in grey claws.
"Tsunomon, Digivolve to... Gabumon!" Tsunomon changed dramatically when he grew into a dinosaur-like Digimon of a light yellow color, with a big blue spot on his stomach, marked with purple in it. He still had a horn, but now it's gold. He was wearing a blue and purple striped fur over his head, covering his back and arms armed with three red claws to each hand.
"Tokomon, Digivolve to... Patamon!" Tokomon didn't change as drastically as the others, but he grew a few inches, and retained his general piglet shape, but now mostly half a tannish-orange color. Those bright blue eyes replaced those beady dark pools, and his ears transforming in bat wings.
"Bukamon, Digivolve to... Gomamon!" Bukamon's orange tuft of hair turned into a mohawk. His flippers grew outwards, and grew three black claws each and two more flippers came out of his sides in the back, also clawed. His once grey body blanched to white marked with purple designs, and his blue eyes changed into amber.
"Tanemon, Digivolve to... Palmon!" Tanemon still had her green coloration, but grew much taller. She now had two arms, ending in long forest green claws, and legs that looked like tree roots. A tail grew out of the base of her spine, and the top of her head bloomed a magenta flower.
As if Kuwagamon sincerely contained a conscious mind, he roared at the grown Digimon. However neither Digimon nor children responded this time, while the Digimon regained courage, the children only marveled at the changes to their new friends.
"What in the...?" Sora breathed, "Look at them! What's happened to the little guys?"
"They're... bigger!?" Joe said in shock.
"Let's get him guys!" Salamon shouted and raced towards the large stag beetle.
With multiple battle cries, the older Digimon unleashed their attacks upon Kuwagamon. But even with all seven of them, in their new forms, it didn't change the battle's favor to the larger Digimon as swatted them all away from him.
But that alone wasn't going to stop them from trying. All seven of them got right back up in battle stances.
"Alright then, you asked for it," Biyomon said, with a frown on her pink face.
In response, the big beetle began to beet his wings to take off into the air again, but Palmon interfered with that plan.
"Poison Ivy!" the three long claws on each of her hands grew out like vines, turning purple as they did so, and wrapped around Kuwagamon's legs and kept him close to the ground.
Salamon jumped high into the air. "Puppy Howling" The attack alone had paralyzed the large Digimon as it dropped back to the ground. But before it had a chance to recover from the single attack, both Patamon and Tentomon flew within range.
"Air Shot!" Patamon sucked in as much air as it could before he released a bubble of condensed air that forced Kuwagamon's head down harshly.
"Super Shocker!" Red and white electricity arched off of Tentomon's wings and staggered the bug. Gomamon took the initiative to slide forward and knock it's left leg out from under it. There was a small crush after that making the large red beetle roared in pain from both the attack and pain under it's knee area.
"Petite Fire!" Gabumon shouted as a stream of blue flame flew out of his mouth. Biyomon zipped right besides Gabumon still flying in the air.
"Spiral Twister!" Biyomon screamed as she formed spiraling green flames from out of her beak, instantly combining it with Gabumon's blue fire.
The three attacks together, with the three burning energy based attacks eventually, ignited Kuwagamon's outer shell. He threw his head up, roaring louder than ever, as the flames grew bigger.
"Now!" Salamon said, "All together!"
The seven of them mustered every last bit of energy they had and aimed it at the large adult Digimon. Every attack they directed hit Kuwagamon on his chest, making the already big fire larger. The force this time was powerful enough to make the giant angry bug to fall backward into the jungle. Completely hidden from everyone's sight.
"Wow," Matt breathed, as all the kids stood there, mouths agape with shock.
"They made vaporware out of him..." Izzy intoned.
"Amazing!" Sora said as the Digimon ran back towards their partners with pride on their faces.
Kari was the first to make contact with her partner, as the soft little puppy jumped into the girl's arms.
"Told you we could do it Hikari!" Salamon smiled.
A smile worked its way across Kari's face as he ran forward to meet her Digimon, "Nyaromon!"
The puppy smiled almost playfully. "I'm Salamon now."
But nonetheless the young girl hugged her partner.
The other kids also met their Digimon halfway as they greeted their rightful Digimon with hugs of their own.
"How about that Super Shocker?" Tentomon asked as he hovered before Izzy, "Pretty wizard, huh?" Izzy just gave him a thumbs up and a big smile.
"Sora you were the one who said that if worked together we wouldn't be able to defeat him didn't you?" The pink bird joked. But Sora didn't care as she continued to hug her new friend.
"Well I guess I was wrong wasn't I?" Sora said finally letting go of Biyomon.
However, a loud sound occurred right in front of children and Digimon cutting their victory short when Kuwagamon showed it's burnt face. And boy was he angry!
Sora gasped in shock when she noticed that the bug was coming at them, and Kari is right in front of the larger Digimon.
"Kari! Watch Out!" She shouted to Salamon and Kari.
Pink brown eyes gaped in shock upon seeing the shadow of the larger Digimon in front of her. The two girls had to jump in order to dodge the giant beetle's razor sharp pincers as it drilled into the ground.
"Guess we celebrated too soon," Joe quipped nervously as the fear that possessed him a while ago returned.
Kari raced over and quickly returned back with Sora and Biyomon as she hugged onto Salamon to her chest.
"We can't stay here we have t-" But Salamon never got the chance to finish that sentence when Kuwagmon had arched his pincers at an angle, making large cracks form in the ground, moving outwards from Kuwagamon's claws. The outcropped cliff that all of them stood on began to shake violently.
The children could do nothing but scream as the large chunk of rock broke loose from the land.
"Sora!" Kari screamed as she instantly lost her footing fell down below. Sora screamed and did try to reach, but the girl now remained at a far distance.
Biyomon instantly grabbed onto her partner and tried to flap her wings to elevate her and her partner, but she was still new to this larger body and never having flew before in her life she wasn't able to keep them both from falling.
Tentomon and Patamon had pretty much the same idea, grabbing on to Izzy and TK respectively, but they were facing the same problem as the pink bird. Apart from never flying before in their new bodies, their charges were just too big to keep in flight. And eventually their wings gave out, and the three children resumed falling with the others.
Palmon did try using a different method to save herself and Mimi. She lashed out with her Poison Ivy vine, as she held onto Mimi with one arm and used her free arm's vines on another outcropping of the cliff. The rock cliff the plant Digimon latched onto came loose spontaneously. So now not only did they have to find a safe landing they also had to avoid the falling debris for the children to have to dodge mid fall.
The screams of the seven children and their Digimon echoed in the air. It seemed as if, no mater what they tried and with their best efforts the outcome would come out dangerously drastic.
Of the group of children, Joe and Gomamon were the first to hit the water. Joe began to kick about, grunting and crying out for help, Gomamon felt himself get slightly relieved that he was now in water, but he still had his charge and the others to worry about. He lifted his head and screamed.
"Marching Fishes!" The seal digimon cried out. And instantly his call brought forth a thick school of multicolored fish. They bubbled up from the water underneath Gomamon, spreading outward to lift Joe out of the water as well. The school kept growing as the chosen children and their Digimon fell one by one onto the surprisingly soft bed of fish.
"What the...?" Izzy started looking at the rainbow colors of the marine animals supporting them.
"Whoa," Joe commented looking at his partner incredulously. "You saved us, Gomamon!"
"Not yet!" Commented Matt seeing the large rock starting to fall downwards.
Above them they heard an increasingly familiar roar. Turning their eyes skyward the children and Digimon alike saw Kuwagamon standing at the edge of what remained of the cliff. However he didn't have much luck like the children when the rock beneath him broke apart and he too fell into the river.
"What?" Matt spoke incredulously as he saw the monster, "Hey, look out!" he warned the rest.
Gomamon didn't waste a single moment, "Marching Fishes!"
At his order, the school of fish picked up their pace and swam away from the landing zone, moments before the remains of the cliff and a furious Kuwagamon smashed into the river. Thankfully the living raft already had swam far enough before the wave even had a chance to cause the slightest of ripples to them.
By the time the children had made it to solid ground each just fell onto the floor. Even Mimi, muttering how she was happy to just see land again. Not even being mindful of the sand staining her dress.
No one complained as they just sat down. That was really enough action for one day honestly.
After a few deep breaths, Matt sat down more normally staring at the others, namely his younger brother. "I knew we'd be okay," false confidence dripping slightly in his voice, "I wasn't worried."
"What was that?" Joe asked staring at the seal Digimon, "A floating fish market?"
"Lucky for us those fish were having a school reunion!" Gomamon said with a chuckle.
"Hmm?" That had the oldest boys eyes widening in fright at the danger they had been in.
Gomamon laughed, "I'm kidding! Those fish are good friends of mine, and I just asked them for a lift."
The blue haired thirteen year old let go of a breath as he sat up, fixing his glasses back into their normal position, baring a thankful smile to Gomamon, "And all these years I thought I was allergic to seafood. Thank you, um," Joe blinked, scratching the side of his head, "I guess it's not Bukamon anymore?"
"Gomamon now," He told the older boy with a large smile on his face.
"Gomamon, huh?"
"And I guess you're not Tokomon anymore either, huh?" TK asked as he inspected with wing eared, tan creature his new friend had become.
"Mm-mm," the creature acknowledged, "Now I'm Patamon."
"It's all because we Digivolved."
This prompted Sora to look over at the pink bird she'd hugged earlier for saving her's and Kari's life from the giant insect. He stood up, thinking over that word.
"Digivolved?" She questioned.
Izzy decided to make not of his observations so far, Tentomon hovering in the air behind him, "So 'Digivolving' is what happens when they advance to the next level and become more powerful than before."
"That's right!" Tentomon said, "All of us Digivolve. I went from Motimon to Tentomon."
"So, you were Nyaromon?" Kari asked to the cream colored puppy in her arms. The creature nodded.
"I turned into Salamon," she said with a kind smile.
"I Digivolved from Yokomon to Biyomon." The large pink bird advised looking at the short red haired girl.
"First, I was Tsunomon, now I'm Gabumon," The fur covered Digimon commented as he took one step next to Matt.
Gesturing to herself, the living plant next to the still crouching Mimi said, "And I changed from Tanemon to Palmon."
Kari took one glace at the puppy before at the others; A wave of nostalgia washed over her. Images of Koromon appeared in her head and a larger Digimon... She remembered a large green-
"Kari are you okay?" A sudden voice made the girl blink and turn around. Only to see kind crimson eyes.
"Eh? Oh yeah, I'm okay Sora." The young girl said with a small smile. though that didn't stop the older girl from standing close to the young Kamiya. Sora scanned every inch of the young girl, and to her relief besides a few dirt stains here and there, there was absolutely nothing wrong with her thankfully.
"So when you Digivolved you certainly got way bigger. Does this mean you're something different now? Or are you still Digimon?" Matt asked grasping the attention of the two girls.
"Digimon," Gomamon said proudly, "But for that I needed your help, Joe!" He turned his attention to the bluette make the older boy stutter in shock
"Me? For what?!"
"You see, Digivolving is a very difficult process," the pink bird explained, "In order for our evolution to be successful, we had to share with your energy." This had captured all the kids attentions, their new friends needed their power? But how?
"Really?" Kari asked looking down at the soft puppy.
"I guess you guys don't run on batteries," Sora commented as she leaned down to look at Biyomon.
"Sure don't!" Biyomon said with her eyes curved upward in a smile.
Izzy turned to Tentomon, a good question on his lips, "But how do you access my energy?"
Tentomon shrugged, "Even we don't know everything." Izzy sighed at that response, looks like he's going to have to do more research on this matter.
Palmon spun in place, an overjoyed squeal in her throat, then turned to Mimi, "Thank you for my magical powers!"
Mimi sighed, her cheek resting her hand as she crouched down next to the plant Digimon with the jade eyes, "This whole thing makes my head spin."
TK was walking around Patamon about this time, "So I help you change. That's so cool!"
"Yep," Patamon said with a confidant smile, "Sure is!"
Joe had turned from Gomamon though, his arms crossed and his eyes closed, "My folks warned me about strangers."
"I'm not a stranger, Joe. I'm your friend for life," Gomamon said, a touch hurt at the rejected friendship.
"This is all great, but, come on, what are we gonna do?" Matt cut to the important matter, namely on... just how are they going to survive in this world?
"If only there was a payphone nearby," Joe suggested, getting everyone to look at him, "We could call the police, or the fire department... or my mother."
"But we don't even know where we are," Sora pointed out. "Though I guess we can say we know where we started," she continued, looking up at something behind the group, "Up there on that mountain." She pointed at the tall mountain that they had first woken up on in.
Matt took one look at the monstrous climb they'd have to do, and shook his head, "I say we forget about going back and explore around here."
"I'm not exploring anywhere," Joe insisted, crossing his arms again, "I say we stay right where we are."
"Yeah, let's wait for that giant bug to come get us," Matt poked a loophole in Joe's indication, "We need to find a road to get us away from here!"
Izzy nodded to Matt's idea, "Matt's right," he said, before looking to the sky with a heavy sigh, "But without a compass we don't even know which way is north."
"Wait, I do!" Tentomon piped in.
"Well, which way is it?" Izzy snapped his head in the direction of the red beetle Digimon a small glimmer of hope in his black eyes.
"It's the opposite of south." Everyone sighed at the bug's answer.
So in conclusion they all ended up walking, and pretty soon everyone felt their legs and feet starting to ache as they continued to walk down the path. But either way there didn't seem to be another solution in finding something that they should do.
Joe sighed as he adjusted his long shorts, "I shouldn't have worn these pants. They ride up when I do a lot of walking."
"You know," Sora began, "If we could get back to where we were, we might find some clues as to why we're here in this place."
Mimi craned her attention at Sora with wide eyes. "Wait. Are there more monsters around like that big flying beetle?"
"Yes, indeedy!" Palmon answered with a grin walking besides her charge.
"Ick!" The pampered girl whined. "I hate it here..."
"Those monsters don't scare me," Matt said, trying to lift the girl's spirit.
Kari turned to Nyaromon, "Are there humans here?"
"Humans?" The Puppy asked, "Others like you?"
"Mm-hm," the young girl nodded, a hopeful smile on her face.
"You're the first ever, There's never been anything but Digimon here Hikari." Well that just drained any hope of finding help here...
"So, you're all Digimon," Izzy said after a moment of thought, "And these monsters are all Digimon too?"
"It's creepy, and dangerous," Sora said, still standing next to the youngest female. "And what happens when it gets dark?"
"Who says it ever gets dark here?" Matt asked, earning a look from Izzy.
"That phenomenon would be unnatural," The intelligent boy said with his arms crossed as he pondered.
"You call this natural?" Joe asked in surprise.
Kari looked from Joe and Izzy to the Digimon all around them, "Maybe it is." That caused everyone to stare at the young brunet. "The Digimon could just be natural to this place, you know. You know like cats and dogs live with us in Odaiba." she turned to look at Salamon in her arms.
That alone made everyone wonder.
"Well we might as well keep going, there's nothing much we can do just by standing here." Matt stated coolly, as he continued to walk forward with Gabumon and his younger brother behind him.
With no other options really everyone else continued there way in that general direction. And it continued that way until something caught everyone's attention. Well the humans of the group at least.
There was a faint sound at the distance it sounded like...
"Am I the only one, or do I hear waves?" Joe asked looking in front of him.
"No, I hear it too." Mimi commented looking at the bluette.
But there was no doubt about it right there the crashing sounds of waves were strong and moving. All pairs of eyes glanced at each other before racing out of the forest area.
The look on the seal's face priceless as he sniffed the air. "Ah, nothing like the smell of the ocean."
Though it did seem confusing as to what happening.
"The ocean?" Matt all but yelped, he was more that sure that the last time he checked they were nowhere near the ocean at camp.
But then again, they aren't at camp now are they...
"Ha ha!" Gomamon called out, "Everybody in the water!"
"Let's build a giant sand castle!" TK exclaimed turning over to Kari with excitement. Despite their current situation, the girl couldn't help it when it came to playing in the sand, so obviously she agreed.
"Aw, and I forgot to bring my pink bathing suit," Mimi complained placing both hands on her hips.
"Race you there, Biyomon," Sora said getting ready to run off in the sandy area.
"Wait a minute!" Matt called out, getting them all to stop, "Look!" Everyone quieted down for a moment and they heard a very distinct ringing, "What's that?"
"A phone-booth?" Izzy said after seeing the metal rectangular booths all lined up near the water. One of them ringing insistently on the spot.
"Either that or we're all hearing things," Sora said with a dubious look on her face when she regained her original posture.
Deciding to risk it, the kids ran towards the ringing booths.
"I told you!" Joe yelled out from the back of the group upon reaching the closest one to the group, "All we needed was a phone! We're saved!"
They all raced forward, Sora, the most physically fit at the moment, was at the front of the group, and was able to reach the door and open it, but as she did the ringing finally ceased.
"Why'd it stop ringing, Sora?" Biyomon asked, looking from the green payphone to the short haired girl.
"Wrong number?" The girl guessed as the others stood behind her.
"Well, that's bizarre," Sora said, a hand on her hips and she looked at the payphone.
"My theory is aliens," Izzy said, "They could have set these phone booths out as a trap."
"If we can find a place that delivers, let's order pizza," Matt joked.
"Whatever you get, no anchovies for me," Mimi told him.
"The question is," Sora said in focusing on the topic, "What are these doing on the beach?"
"So people can call their parents for a ride home," Joe explained, though by the confused look on his face, it was almost obviously that even he didn't seem so sure of his answer.
"Parents?" Gomamon questioned, drawing the eyes of the children, "What exactly is a 'Parents'?"
Joe looked at the little digital seal monster with wide eyes. "That's it, I'm outta here."
Standing at the first booth still, Sora picked up the black phone that remained before her. "Alright, let's try to call home."
"I'm calling daddy!" Mimi exclaimed, racing towards the next phone booth.
"I'm hooking up to the internet," Izzy said matter of factly.
"I'm calling collect," Matt said as he walked by.
"Hey, guys! Wait for me, come on!" Joe walked up to one of the booths.
Kari stared at the booths, something didn't seem right about them...
"Hikari?" The puppy called out making the girl look at her.
"Yes Salamon?"
"Aren't you going to try and call?"
At the, Kari didn't answer, though... she stared at Sora watching her dial a number. The young brunet wouldn't be honest if she said she didn't want to use the phone to call her family.
She only wondered how Tai is doing right now...
Just then, Sora just dripped the phone back at the cradle.
"What happened?" Kari asked looking up at the red haired girl, but by the sadden look on the older's face, already gave enough of an answer for the brunet. "No good?"
"It just told me that no telephones are working in my area." She sighed. Both girls looked over towards the rest, seeing as they still tried to work the phones.
Kari looked down, well it was really just a hopeless try...
Sora blinked seeing the downcast face over the young girl. "Hey, don't be like that. I'm sure there's always next time." Sora tried to encourage, but the young girl still looked down to the floor.
Footsteps occurred behind the two and both girls saw Matt with hands in his pockets and an annoyed look on his face. His brothers and Digimon's with him.
"Any luck?" She asked as he approached.
"No." The blonde grumbled.
Some time has passed and one by one the rest of the children just regained back and sat away from the water's edge, the only one that continued to stay on the phone of the group's persistent councilor.
"Okay," he mumbled to himself, "maybe this one."
"If you'd like to leave a message, press one now," Joe's shoulder's slumped at that, "If you'd like to leave a finger print, press two now. Fifteen dollars for the next three minutes." But he still wasn't willing to give up. He pressed down on the button in the cradle to hang up, then tried the next number.
"Kay, next one!"
"Out of curiosity," Izzy spoke, "Does Joe always behave like this?"
"Seems like it." Muttered Matt, his blue gaze over the oldest boy of the entire group.
"No matter what number, or how many times he dials, those phones aren't gonna work," T.K commented with a small shake of his head at the poor delusional counselor.
"Well," Kari started, getting back up and dusting off his back side, "Since we can't do anything with the phones, do you think that maybe there is a boat around here or something."
"Don't think so. And even if we did find one, I think we should stay here in case someone might call us," He explained rationally.
Sora stared at the older boy, "That's more of an 'if' Matt, how do we know if someone will call us?"
Matt ignored the question, "I'm gonna stay here for a little while and see if anyone calls. Besides, Everyone could use a little rest."
That made the red haired girl blink. Sora has always been in sports since she was a kid, especially in soccer, all that running around whether she be in the school's girl's soccer team or just playing any games with Tai has always made her run and be on her toes almost non-stop. She was used to running and walking for a long periods of time. But as for the others?
She turned over to the group, seeing Mimi, TK, Kari, and all their Digimon, were wiped out. They were actually groaning with the effort it took to stay sitting up at this point.
"And I'm getting pretty hungry, too," Izzy decided placing a hand on his stomach.
"I guess we all need a break." The girl commented sitting right next to Biyomon on the sand.
"Does anybody else have any food? I think all I've got is," she reached for the nap sack, but paused for a moment when she felt her wrist touch an unfamiliar lump at her waist. "Huh?"
She unhooked it from her pink belt and held it in her range of sight, seeing the tamagotchi-like item in her hand. "It's that gadget that fell out of the sky at camp."
That made everyone now notice their own as each unclip them from either their bags or waist and hold it up, Matt stared at his almost intently. "I forgot all about these weird gizmos."
"If anyone's got a pink one, I'll trade ya." Mimi said as she looked at the one before her. Seeing the faint green screen in the small electronic.
"What are they anyways?" TK wondered staring at his, noticing the light touch of yellow in the screen.
"We wouldn't have them if they weren't important," Matt decided.
Holding his before head, Izzy inspected it, pressing the buttons, but getting nothing to happen not even the purple screen would turn on or anything. "I think mine has dead batteries. Though if I could take mine apart..." Izzy began, but trailed off when his stomach growled again for food the young boy had to stop when his hand returned back to his stomach area. "Um, that is, after I get something to eat. I'm really famished."
Sora nodded, hooking her device back on her belt then reaching into her pink nap sack, "Well, all I've got are my emergency supplies. It's got a first aid kit, a few bandages and some medicine, but that's about all I've got." She held out the items and sure enough that the small first aid kit was there.
Izzy set down his travel bag and unfolded his computer, "I have my trusty lap top computer and a digital camera. Oh, and I've also got a small cell phone too." Everyone stared at the smart kid, "Of course, not one of them has worked since we got here."
"I can't believe you dragged all that computer stuff to summer camp," Matt smirked. "You sure you didn't go to the wrong camp?"
Izzy gave a very light frown, "And what do you have?"
"Sorry," Matt said, gloved hands in his pockets, "but I don't have anything to eat either."
"Hey!" TK said to his big brother, "Look at what I got!"
"Hmm?" Matt turned to his little brother; Kari too peered at him curiously.
"Check it out," TK pulled the green pack off his shoulders and set it down before opening the flap to show different kinds of junk food and candy boxes.
"Wow! Look at all those goodies!" Mimi exclaimed, "Why don't you be a good little boy and share those treats with dear, sweet Mimi?"
TK just grinned, "Aw, you don't have to be so nice, Mimi, I'm happy to share, you're the best. Isn't she cute?" He turned to his older brother with an innocent grin.
"Forget it," Matt said, not really appreciating the idea of his little brothers attempt to set him up with a girlfriend again. How many times has this happen...? Three times now?
"What about you Kari?" T.K asked turning to her. Now all eyes were on her, making the girl turn a bit pink.
"Well..." She placed her hands in her pockets searching around, for a moment she didn't find anything but when she checked her right pocket there was a small lump there.
'What the?' Her hand clasp it and brought it out. When she uncurled her fingers around the item she saw what looked like a flashlight, but upon closer inspection it was actually a small telescope, her brother's in fact.
"Tai's telescope..." She said sadly. It got silent rather fast, Sora placed a hand on top of Kari's own, making pinkish-brown eyes face crimson. A reassuring look remained on the red head's face before turning over to last girl.
"Mimi, what have you got in that big bag?" Sora asked the other girl with a joking expression, "Some hair brushes and make-up?"
"Uh, well, this is my dad's emergency kit, but let me see..." Mimi started and opened the flap on her bag she dug inside and settled out item after item making the entire group stare at her in shock, "Here's a compass, cooking fuel, flashlight, one of those knives with all the things, and some other stuff."
The group, Digimon included, let out a collective, "Whoa."
"Why didn't you tell us you had a compass back when we needed one?" Matt asked a little indignantly.
Mimi just smiled innocently, "I thought it'd be kinda fun to see how far we can get without one. Besides, it's broken."
Matt stared at everything that was displayed mostly what Mimi pulled out of her bag, "Well, so much for our way out of here."
"Although," Matt said, "We could use the fuel to make a signal fire."
"That's true," Sora agreed, but sent a glare at the faulty telephone booths, "Or we could barbecue some telephones."
Looking over his shoulder, T.K grinned at the irony, "Oh boy, check out the Joe. See, he's trying to call the telephone repairman because the telephones don't work. Problem is- Look!" T.K instantly cut himself off once he saw what Joe was carrying, "Joe's got the emergency food!"
"Huh?"
"What? No way!" Izzy said hope in his eyes.
"Joe! Hey, Joe, look! You've got all the food!" Matt called over to the oldest one of the bunch.
Joe whipped around at the group angrily, "Hey! Don't you know it's rude to interrupt someone when they're on the telephone!?"
"But that bag-" Izzy began.
"This?" Joe asked, "I just brought it to give to Mimi. Today was her day to carry the bag!"
"Think he likes ya," Palmon said to the girl with pink hat.
"No way," Mimi brushed away that claim with a half lidded gaze.
Joe pulled the strap of the bag off his shoulder, and ran over, holding it before him for Mimi to take, "Mimi, you have got to stop thinking of yourself and do something for someone else for once. Take a little responsibility," Joe scolded.
"But that bag's too heavy for me," The strawberry blonde hair girl complained.
"Listen, you never hear me complaining," Joe told her.
"Guys," Sora rushed forward to stop the argument, "the most important thing now is that we have some food to eat," she smiled, "so let's sit down and have some lunch."
Kari agreed with a grin and a nod of her head, "Uh-huh!"
The blue haired male placed the bag in the middle as he pulled out a white cloth and set all of the ornaments of food in center. Packets of freeze-dried food along with plenty of water bottles two cans of cooking fuel and small bags of thin biscuits remained in the center.
Joe scratched his head, his dark eyes staring at the emergency food supply, multiple scenarios in his head as to how to ration the food.
"Okay, let's figure this out. There's eight people in the group, times three days," he said so everyone could follow along, "times three meals a day, that comes to..."
"Seventy two meals," Izzy said helpfully.
"Uh, right. So split evenly between us, we have, uh..." Joe trailed off again.
"Enough food for three days," Izzy finished for him again the math calculations easily done in his head.
"Right! Oh, exactly, I guess you knew that," Joe stated sheepishly.
"But guys," Sora said, bringing forth a small detail, "When you count in the Digimon, we only have enough for about... half an hour."
"Oh, that's right..." Joe sighed out, reaching up to scratch the back of his head again as he tried to figure out a way to make the food last longer.
"Not a problem at all," Gabumon said with a smile, "We Digimon hunt and forage for ourselves."
"Really?" Sora asked, while the other kids stared at their partners confused.
"No need to include us in your calculations," Tentomon told them proudly.
"You sure, Biyomon," Sora asked her partner.
"Oh, absolutely," the bird Digimon said, "We can fend for ourselves."
That brought Joe's spirits back up, "Alright! Now that that's taken care of, let's go ahead and divide this between the eight people here."
Kari saw her portion of food sliding her direction, Sora gave her a smile before reaching for her own. Kari blinked before realizing that in her share of food had a bag of thin biscuits. At the corner of her eye she saw her puppy Digimon sit right next to her.
"Do you want some?" Kari asked facing the blue eyed Digimon.
"Are you sure Hikari?" She asked staring at the human girl with a mixed expression.
"I'm fine, besides I don't eat that much." Kari insisted opening the bag and handing it over to the pale Digimon. Salamon stared inside the bag and it's contents. Kari placed a few on a napkin and pushed it to the puppy. Who she accepted and took one of the square shaped biscuits.
"Mmmm, this is great." Salamon said happily before taking another one of her morsels.
"Kari what are you doing? The food is for us." Joe said facing the young girl, making everyone stare at the two. The smaller girl look in surprise at the older boy. "Oh... I..."
Noticing the girl's discomfort Sora faced their councilor. "Cut her some slack Joe." She defended.
Joe sighed before returning back to his rationing. "This is just not working..."
The sun continued to shine warmly down at the beach, giving it a picnic-like feeling as the children gulped down their shares of food. The Digimon remained by their partner's side, watching them curiously, Salamon finished the last of her biscuits watched the young girl almost intently. "You full Hikari?"
Kari placed her food down, seeing as no more remained inside it. "Mmm. You?"
Salamon nodded as she moved closed to her charge, resting her head on the girl's lap; and to everyone's eyes she looked absolutely adorable.
With the humans already done they started to put away their own finished lunches away and leaning back.
"Maybe not the best lunch, but it was something." Mimi commented, crossing her legs as she sat down.
'Well at least she isn't complaining anymore.' Sora mussed using her arms to support her. Though she wasn't that far off when she said the food did taste a bit bland. But hey it's food, she wasn't going to complain about it. Speaking of which...
The red haired girl faced the young Kamiya. "You feeling okay Kari?"
The brown haired girl faced Sora at the question. "Yeah, I'm good." The girl smiled brightly. "Just happy that w-"
Being right next to the two girls, Biyomon suddenly stood up and whirled around.
"Hmm," she intoned with a large frown on her face as she glared towards the phone booths.
"Now what's the matter?" Sora asked noticing her partner's actions.
"Trouble," the bird said shortly.
And surprisingly enough the deep sound of a rumbling growl emerged in the air. Causing everyone on the beach to turn around, and as if to make it more obvious, giant geysers of water began spraying out of the sand right under the payphones. And with such a force darted every single one of the booths into the air. But they didn't stay for too long when each booth came crashing down to the ground leaving them in ruins.
Neither one of the kids remained still, they charged with action and quickly got up from their picnic spot and ran, leaving behind their luggage.
"W-What is going on!?" Matt screeched, but as if his words triggered a button, the sand began to rise a large bulge underneath the sand. Kari felt her Digimon jump onto her shoulder when the bulge transformed into a twister for a moment before the sand cleared away to show a colossal, grey spiked shell.
"What's that?!" Izzy called out. Tentomon was only too happy to reply.
"Shellmon!"
"What's a Shellmon!?"
"Something that gets mad for no reason!" Tentomon explained, stating only what this creature acted on so far.
Finally after some moment something emerged out of the shell; a mass of pink flesh and little green protrusions that formed as hair displayed in it's full glory. And might as well add ugly...
Shellmon roared at them angrily, using his large arms to approach them.
"Attacked by two digital monsters in the same day," Joe moaned, "And doesn't Shellmon know I'm allergic to shellfish?!" Shaking that thought off Joe called out to the rest of the group, "Everybody! Up here!"
Shellmon wasn't going to let them climb their way out, so he decided to spray the guy down with water from the top of his head, that in turn knocked Joe onto his rump.
"Joe!" Gomamon called from the sea before Shellmon aimed his water based projectile at the white seal.
With those two taken care of, he turned his attention to the rest of the trespassers. He noticed the small rookie Digimon standing before the humans. With Salamon in the lead, a determined and furious look on her face.
"Digimon, attack!" She cried and raced towards the large Digimon.
"Right!" Gabumon, Palmon and the others called back before rushing forward. Though Shellmon didn't even have a shred of fear of their confrontation.
"You can do it, Gabumon!" Matt called while Sora and Mimi helped Joe to his feet.
"Petite Fire-!" A small blue stream of fire sputtered out after just a few feet, but it never made it far enough to reach the water based Digimon. "Huh?"
Biyomon flew right up next to try her luck, "Spiral Twister-!" The spiraling green flames took form for a second, but just as quickly as they appeared they disappeared. "Wha-?"
"Super Shocker-!" Tentomon quickly did the same, however like the previous two he wasn't able to even make it past his own arm.
"What's happening to them?" Izzy cried out.
"They look like they've lost their powers," Matt said, realization coming hard on him.
The Shellmon just seemed to laugh at their actions. He lowered his head down to shoot at them-
"Puppy Howling!" Salmon shouted as the purple waves of her vocal attack darted at the shell beast and collide with his head. The force alone had brought his head back, and due to her ability he remained dazed from her paralyzing effect.
However he did recover quickly and released his massive hydro pump of water out of his head and at the closest Digimon. It knocked Biyomon clean out of the air, before the water based attack slammed into Salamon and Gabumon back, then it struck Tentomon.
"Salamon!" Kari called out, worried for her friend. However the puppy wasn't going to prove herself done, and with that she jumped right back into the battle.
"Air Shot-!" Patamon called flapping close near the larger Digimon but the condensed air didn't pressurized hard enough, so when it made it out of his mouth, only a burp like effect formed before him. "What?" But then suddenly the bat like Digimon was swatted away by one of those green tentacles that acted like Shellmon's hair.
"Poison Ivy-!" Palmon held her claws up for the stretch but they didn't even so much as edge out. The Pink hermit crab lowered his head at the plant Digimon. Palmon caught sight of his angry face as she back up. But not quick enough as Shellmon swat her away with his head.
"Everyone!" Slamon shouted, but the low growl the larger Digimon forced her to look away from her companions and back at the overgrown hermit crab. She raced towards him, letting out another one of her paralyzing bark. It hit the large Digimon. A small grin on her face as she quicken her pace.
"Sledge Crash!" She shouted as her entire body was covered in purplish-pink fumes and raced at the water Digimon in full speed. Not expected the attack, the momentarily dazed Digimon instantly felt the force on it's body as it was pushed and rolled a bit to his side.
"Salamon!" Kari shouted in worry.
"Why is only Salamon able to attack?" Izzy asked, as he crouched down next to the rookie insect.
"We're just too hungry," the beetle moaned as the red haired boy held him up.
"Wha?"
"Gabumon!" Matt said, his voice thick with worry.
"I don't have any strength," the fur wearing Digimon struggled.
"That's it!" Sora said as she scooped up Biyomon in her arms, "Salamon is the only one who had anything to eat."
"Now I see," Izzy said.
"Then the other Digimon don't have enough strength left to fight!" Matt concluded at the same time.
Kari raced near her Digimon.
"Salamon, be careful, he's too dangerous!" Kari said instantly tending when the puppy struggled to stand up. Looks like she took a backlash at using her most powerful attack.
"We're the only ones who can fight Hikari!" She stated looking at her charge with big courage blue eyes. "We can't stop now!"
"Salamon..." Kari whispered, but she faced away for only a moment when the water-based Digimon returned back. A weird sense of Déjà Vu returned to her at the mere sight of the larger creature.
"Kari Look OUT!" A voice screamed, but before the brown haired girl could do anything something wrapped around her middle.
"HIKARI!" Salamon shouted instantly standing on her four paws.
"Puppy How-" The attack never went through when something landed hard on her.
Shellmon felt a wave of satisfaction when he held these two under captivity, and his stare when to the rest, but he didn't waste a single moment when he brought down his head and shot his massive powerful water attack upon each. The force pushed each of the humans and rookie Digimon at the wall. Each of which gave out a loud scream of pain.
"Oh No!" Kari screamed as tears welled in her eyes. She caught sight of Sora who remained on the floor, struggling to get back up. She could feel the Digimon lower his head again, Kari tried to warn them but a sharp tightening around her entire body stopped her immediately.
"AAAAaaaaahhh!" The young girl screamed in pain at the tighten pressure around her torso.
"K-Kari!" Sora screamed as tears burned in her eyes. "N-NO!"
"HIKARI!" Salamon cried, struggling to worm her way out, but the monster kept his hold on her, she could hear her charge now grunt in pain. And worst of all she Couldn't Move To Help Her!
Painful tears weld in her shut eyes. "Hikari! Hikari!"
She could hear her charge struggling.
"HIKARI!" And finally she let the tears out.
~Insert Digimon: Brave Heart here~
A loud sound buzzed out, calling in a new tune loud enough for everyone to hear. But it didn't last as long when a bright pink light shot from the strangling girl.
Salamon felt every part of her body instantly gain a new yet familiar energy wield up in her small body. And just like what happened in the cliff the energy grew and it wasn't long before her puppy-shaped body glowed in a bright pink.
"What's... goin' on!?" Sora questioned staring at the hermit crab's hand as she struggled to get up.
"Salamon, Digivolve to... Tailmon!"
Shellmon stared down at his hand, but to his shock suddenly something lifted hand. And before anyone knew it, the bright pink light that glowed in his hand shot up and struck him in the face.
The blow was powerful enough to knock him onto his back. The sound of a girl screaming came clear into the air, Kari felt the bounds on her loosen and come off completely, but now she was flying through the air. But within moments something soft caught her.
Air blew into her face, and the next thing the young girl knew she was back to the sandy ground on her knees.
"Wha... What just-" Kari blinked multiple times, finding herself fine, but even so...-
"Are you alright Hikari?" A sudden warm voice asked.
The brown haired girl blinked, and like that what looked like a white cat appeared before her. Since Kari was on her knees the white cat reached just the top of her head.
Kari blinked multiple times once again, seeing the new Digimon in front of her.
The white cat stood on her hind feet like a person, she bore a long purple striped tail that ended in purple feather-shaped tendrils that matched with the two feathers at the ends of her long ears. The only form of clothing she had were the chartreuse colored gloves with orange tiger stripes, armed with 3 sharp obsidian claws. And the small familiar golden carved ring closed to the end of her tail.
The small girl glanced at the rich blue eyes. And there, she already knew who the cat was.
"Salamon...?"
"Call me Tailmon." The cat smiled.
The sound of something shifting in the sand across from them caught the two girl's attention. Tailmon instantly moved herself in front of Kari.
"Well, well... back for more?" Tailmon smirked as she turned to properly face the shellfish.
Kari said nothing as she remained there staring at her friend. It happened again, she already transformed twice...!
Between the two adult Digimon, it was now a stand off. But it only lasted for a few moments. Shellmon rushed forward to crush Tailmon just like the rest of the other puny Digimon rookies. But the cat was quick, she instantly grabbed a hold of her charge and with a perfect flip she moved right out of the way.
Kari felt her body flip and jump in different places, but it was quick because the next moment she was solid on the floor again.
"Take care of her." Tailmon mentioned, turning to the blue hat girl.
Sora blinked, but in that split moment the cat was gone and returned back to the original battle.
Sora saw as the cat now land right in front of Shellmon, with the feline now taking care of the large shellfish, she turned her attention back at the young girl.
"Kari are you alright?" Sora asked instantly crouching down to her level. Crimson eyes scanning in every aspect of the girl's body.
"I'm okay." Kari answered, she half-expected the older girl to hug her. And she did, thankfully nothing hurt so she was able to return the hug to Sora.
At the corner of her blue eyes Tailmon saw her charge with the rest of the children. Knowing she was in a safe distance she returned to the battle, watching the ugly Digimon in front of her. And clearly he is mad.
This will make things easier.
Shellmon caught sight of the little feline once again. When the water Digimon reached down to swat the cat, he missed as the white cat already had jumped out of the way.
He tossed and turn to find her, where di-
"Looking for me?" The voice questioned. Almost in an echo.
Shellmon turned and scanned around, but he didn't see her.
"Up here." Tailmon indicated, lifting and stomping her bottom right paw down on his head. Shellmon roared in anger and bucked his head up, but the cat was already off before he tried.
"Well... I'm not much of a fan for Shellfish, but might as well." Tailmon continued, while she stood perfectly balanced on top of the ruble that still remained of the crashed phone booths.
Shellmon roared in fury, how dare this little pest insult him like that! He lowered his head and shot the strongest amount of water he could at the cat. So strong that it pushed half of the phone booths into the ocean. And when he finally did stop the water, a satisfied smirk appeared on his dark pink face. That will teach that littl-
A pounding force landed directly on the top of his head brought his entire body to the sand. Pain radiated throughout his head, but it
didn't end there as more blows shot at his unprotected skin.
"Neko Kick!" Tailmon shouted multiple times as she continued to slam her food down onto the monster's body. Each time he would get thrown back or slammed against the floor or wall. Either way, she was too quick for him to even respond back.
When she was certain that he stopped moving, she finally jumped right before him. Her deep blue eyes glancing at the body of the pink hermit crab. No... he's still awake.
"Ready for the last blow?" Tailmon smirked, causing Shellmon to look at her in shock.
"This one is for Hurting My Partner!" The cat shouted and rapidly she jumped from the ground and curled her gloved paw into a fist. "Lightning Claw!"
She let out her most powerful attack on the water-based Digimon, hitting him squarely on the forehead. The force of the attack was more than enough to knock the larger Digimon onto his back, and knock him unconscious on the spot.
All the children watched in aw at the sight, seeing as the white cat emerge victorious from the battle. But most of all Kari stared at her partner with tearful eyes. And before she could even stop herself she raced towards the cat.
"Tailmon!"
"Hikari?" Tailmon started looking at her charge. She didn't expected the hug when the girl reached her. As she stood there still, not really entirely sure what to do, but within moments of thinking she returned the hug.
"Are you okay?" The brunet questioned when she pulled away from the white cat.
"Yeah... I'm okay, I'm glad you are." Tailmon smiled, earning one from Kari. And the moment was sweet until when Tailmon stared back at the unconscious Shellmon.
"We should leave before that oversize mollusk decides to wake from his catnap." The little feline explained, loud enough for the others to hear.
This prompted relieved nods from the rest of the children. No one wasted a moment to pack up and leave the beach.
When they finally settled in a more quieter and safer place did the children finally take a break and set up a temporary picnic.
Tailmon sat beside her companions as she held onto her food and chewed it. All of the Digimon smiled happily as they filled their tummies. This alone, they would have the energy to fight this time.
"You want some more, just say so," Sora happily told the Digimon while she knelt next to them.
Standing behind her Matt and Izzy pondered into the previous battle. "With Shellmon around that beach and knocked into next week. I'd say we stay away from any oceans until then."
"Good idea," Matt gave.
"In that case, we should go deeper into the forest," Joe said, having finally given up on the phone, "'cause if anyone's looking for us, that's right where they'll go!"
"Joe," Sora started as she stood up, "We fell down a cliff and floated down a river to get here. It's gonna be a really big job to get back."
"And we could run into Kuwagamon," Mimi protested from her place on the ground.
"Now, listen," Izzy began, "Logically speaking, if there are telephones here, there must be people to use them. So, I think it makes good sense to try and find those people."
"That makes sense?" Joe queried.
"It certainly does," Sora insisted.
Joe only grumbled, but listened to what everyone had to say.
"Anywhere you wanna go, I'll go, Hikari!" Tailmon said happily.
"Thanks Tailmon" The young Kamiya said with a happy expression.
"And Let the monsters beware," Matt said, Joe nodding.
"Mm-hmm, well, my plan is to avoid all monsters. Yep. That's my plan." The blue haired boy said.
"Okay!" Sora said, after they all picked up any supplies that was previously laid out, "Here we go!" She stated with Kari and her Digimon besides her. As all the children followed right behind them.
May have been one heck of a day at camp, but thankfully it turned out all right.
So far...
Yup, definitely much longer than the last chapters XD
Anyways I did say I was going to add some dialogue to it, and the chapter were going to be longer. Hopefully this sounds okay.
Now I'm more than certain most of you guys must have been expecting the name Gatomon to be here huh? Well I was going to, but I felt like Tailmon suited her better, (and no not because it's her Japanese name) Well have you seen how long her tail is? Not to mention her tail ring, that's were the half her power comes from, otherwise she wouldn't be anymore stronger than her rookie form.
So yeah, Tailmon is gunna be her name here. So yeah...
Well that's all folks, see you in the next chapter :D