Hey everyone :D
How is everyone doing?
For me I'm doing splendidly lol
Anyways, I know I said I wasn't going write every episode, but I felt that this one would be a great start. And a little bit of meaning, you'll see why lol
Now I know I may seem like I changed Sora's character a bit here, well…
Mostly because she does worry about Kari. I know… I know…
I know I'm seemingly making her be a bit like Tai a bit, but hey in this she sees Kari as a little sister, and well big sisters tend to be a bit protective over their younger families in this type of situation you know.
That and Sora knows that Kari is going to need a lot of support in this adventure. So yeah, hope you guys can understand that lol
Anyways with that out of the way, let the chapter begin ^^
Chapter 7: The Howl of a Wolf
Time just seemed to pass by as the group of children along with their Digimon continued to pace their way through the jungle-like forest. And to think that these bunch of kids who originally went for the summer camp experience turns into what seemed like a trial of survival in a place called the Digital world.
And quite honestly, if Kari didn't feel her Digimon partner right next to her, she honestly wouldn't have believed it herself.
"Hikari… Hikari." A called back to the younger girl,
Kari blinked, "Huh?"
"You okay?" The cat called, looking up at the young girl with worried blue eyes.
"Eh? Oh yeah I'm okay." Kari smiled.
Though Tailmon tilted her head. "You don't look so okay."
Kari was touched to know that her friend did care about her. "I'm okay Tailmon, honest… just…"
"Just what?" Another voice chimed in, making both girls turn around to see Sora looking at both of them, as the rest of the group continued their way through the path.
"Don't want you two falling behind, is something wrong Kari?" Sora asked, taking a step closer to the young brunet.
"Just a bit tired…" Kari stated, though she wasn't lying, she wasn't exactly telling the entire truth either.
"Do you want to take a rest?" The red head asked as worry flashed in her crimson hues.
"No, I'm okay, I can go on." Kari insisted already taking her first few steps in front of her.
Sora and Tailmon watched the girl as she continued forward to reach the others.
"She never want to ever think for herself…" Sora muttered under her breath.
"Why?" Tailmon questioned, earning a surprised look from the older girl.
"You heard that?"
"Kinda hard not to hear." The white cat stated pointing to her large ears.
Sora looked down right she was a cat after all... a long sigh escaped her mouth. "It's… complicated…"
Tailmon looked up at the girl and worry began to bubble in her frame. Then her blue eyes stared down at her charge. What did Sora mean it's complicated was there something wrong with Hikari?
"Hey, the rest are leaving, let's go." Sora stated softly, making the cat look up in surprise. It was when she noticed that indeed they are lagging back from the rest of them.
"So you guys can transform and stay like that?" Izzy asked his partner, moments when Sora and Tailmon managed to catch up to them.
"We certainly have the ability," Tentomon said as he hovered over.
"Really?" TK asked as he looked at Patamon, "You guys are the coolest! I wish I could transform!"
"But do you guys all stay the same size or do you get bigger?" Matt asked, staring at Tailmon before at Gabumon.
"It depends, some Digimon are small when they digivolve, others get huge." The fur wearing Digimon answered.
"How big will you get Palmon?" The pink hatted girl asked staring at the plant Digimon. Who in turn blushed at the comment.
The odd but innocent question made the rest of the children to laugh save for Joe. He was rather disappointed that they still haven't found a single human apart from them so far.
"Guys I really think we should ge-" His sentence was cut off harshly at the sound of a loud growling.
None of the children and Digimon hesitated to gander a weary look.
Right there at the left of the group, stood an imposing dinosaur looking Digimon. He stood on all fours, and his coloration is mostly white. He possessed dark metal plating on his back, along on his front part of his legs and over his head. A large metal horn prodded out of his nose. And by the sounds of his growling roars, he definitely wasn't happy...
And he looked like he got in an even sourer mood when he spotted the children.
"Who's that Digimon?" Izzy asked.
Tentomon hoovered right beside his charge. "It's a Monochromon. But don't worry about him, he's a laid back Digimon,"
However the dinosaur Digimon just wanted to prove him wrong when he roared at the kids, showing them his large set of sharp teeth.
"Uh… he doesn't look like he's really laid back to see us…" Sora added backing away.
"Yeah… it is wise to be a bit cautious with a Monochromon. They tend to get a bit miffed when they're hungry." Tentomon added sheepishly.
"Then he must be really hungry," T.K said as the Digimon approached the group impendingly, "...'cause he looks really mad!"
Mimi cringed away from the big dinosaur, "I think he wants to eat us!" she quailed.
Kari took another step away from the approaching dino, but as if their luck wanted to push it, another sound of low growl snipped behind her. She instantly turned around to see another Digimon.
The rest of the children also heard the growl and all of them turned around to look, they saw yet another Monochromon, looking just about as angry as the first. Mimi irises shrunk in fear and before long she screamed in fear.
"There's two of them!" Joe cried out.
"We're caught between a rock and two sets of teeth!" Matt quipped, panic and fear evident in his voice.
Mimi cried and scream, with a tight shut of her honey eyes she raced out of the group. "Mimi!" Palmon shouted racing after her.
The children raced hot after her trail just moments before the two Monochromon charged at each other. The large Digimon didn't even seem to either notice or care when the children ran when they just slam their horns at each other.
When they realized that they were mostly safe from the two dino Digimon, some even looked back from the slight elevated ground.
Peeking out from behind the boulder, Matt rose a brow. "Something must have set those Monochromon off."
"They're most likely fighting over territory," Tentomon explained, his compound eyes observing the battle.
"They are more than happy to have it!" Palmon said angrily, before she stared at Mimi with her jade colored eyes.
Neither of the children decide to even think of moving for a moment, so far they seemed to be safe in this little hill. That in turn did allow them to catch their breath, mostly Mimi and the younger children.
T.K took long inhales of air, he still wasn't used to all that running…
Kari stopped using her hands to support her upper body on her slouched knees. They were lucky to get out ther- Suddenly a hand touched her shoulder.
That made the girl squeak in fear. The brunet jumped, by doing so, her heel ended up snagging against a rock that remained suspiciously behind her foot. Having not reacted in time, she ended falling backwards.
"Kari!/Hikari" Two voices called out, racing over to the youngest girl in the group.
"Are you alright?" Sora asked picking the young girl up from the grassy ground.
The young girl tried to get up, but a small pulse in her ankle didn't allow her at all. By that time everyone already turned to stare at the scene between the three females.
"Are you okay?" The blue capped girl asked as her brows slanted in worry, her eyes traveled down to where the young Kamiya was holding. And almost instantly did the older girl opened her eyes in worry.
"I'm…" The brunet girl didn't finish her sentence when the pain lanced back at her.
"You're hurt." Joe said upon closer inspection.
"I'm okay… really guys." Kari tried to reason, but when she tightened her hand over the small cut that is drawn on her ankle.
"Here, let me help you." Sora said softly.
"Uh… not for nothing, but I think we should get going…" Matt said looking over to see that the two dinosaurs fighting each other. Both of them slammed into one another angrily, until finally one of the two finally managed to get an upper hand on the other, and without so much as mercy he smashed against his rival into the ground brutally.
Sending dirt debris, which a few smaller pieces of the grounded ended up flying towards them or rolling quickly.
T.K jumped away when one of them rolled dangerously close to him.
"They definitely don't need us hanging around!" Joe said as he sprinted away. No one disagreed after that.
"Come on." Sora quipped, and turned around to allow Kari to get on her back. Knowing the smaller girl was ready, Sora gave her a piggyback as she raced with the others away from the dino fight.
The shock waves from that cause the dirt debris to almost crash against TK had affected the young boy again when his foot snagged on a crevice in the ground, he yelped when he tripped over. The older blonde haired male was right beside him in an instant.
"TK! Come on!" he said as he helped the younger boy up.
"Better hurry up you guys!" Sora shouted back to them looking over her shoulder.
"Okay!" TK called back once he was steady on his feet, dashing off to keep up with everyone, "We're coming!"
The rumbling of the dinosaur fight died off when they managed to get to a sturdier place.
"Well, wasn't that fun…" Mimi stated sarcastically.
Palmon stared at her partner in shock. "I thought that was horrible…!"
"I was being sarcastic." Mimi said placing her head on her hands, while using her knees to support them, however Palmon only stared at her charge in confusion.
"Come on, everyone," Joe said as he stood straight after a few minutes to get his breath back, "We still haven't found anybody on this island... We need to keep searching"
"Look honestly… I think all of us could really use a break for once Joe…" Matt said looking at the blue haired boy.
"But shouldn't we find a safer and solid ground than here?" Izzy asked. "If anything if we camp here, chances are we might get attacked again."
The others groaned a bit, but knew that the red haired boy was more than right. If nothing else, continuing to search would get them further away from the battle with the Monochromon.
Some time has passed as they continued their way through. Though some were able to bear the extended journey, a certain girl wasn't having any more of it.
"I don't walk this much unless I'm at a mall!" Mimi whined, ignoring the random road signs that were interspersed within their trail, "-and as you can see, we're nowhere near one!" She walked over to lean on a tree, placing her forehead on her forearm.
"Mimi," Joe scolded lightly as he passed, "stop please whining. You don't think we're not tired too?"
The girl didn't say anything but not before the white seal passed right in front of her. "But my feet hurt!"
"Maybe if you take off your boots and socks you'd feel better," Gomamon said helpfully, "It's much more practical and comfortable."
A tick mark appeared on the side of Mimi's head. The strawberry blonde haired girl whirled around to face him. "I'm not walking on dirt with my bare feet!" she shouted making Palmon approach her.
"I love the feel of the dirt under my feet!" The plant Digimon told her partner, "Especially between my toes!"
Mimi paled and grimaced.
"It appears that we may be losing our light source," Izzy pointed out as he looked up at the sky, the blues and greens of the jungle-like forest slowly became pinks, oranges and reds.
"What a weird sunset," Sora said, her crimson eyes cast over her shoulder in order to see Kari who was still hugging her back. And if anything they hoped they found a place to camp soon, she doesn't know how much long she would be able to hold onto the young Kamiya, no matter how light she is…
"This whole island is weird!" Izzy exclaimed as they watched the sky, "And who knows what will come out at night."
"Wait," Tentomon said as he lifted his wings from under his back shell. "I detect water. Stay here while I check it out." The bug Digimon stated and flew off before the group can even say anything.
"Yes!" His voice called back to the kids and Digimon on the ground. "As usual, I'm right. It's a lake with fresh, clean water. And a variety of tasty fish. It's a perfect camp site!"
Mimi, who had taken the small break to sit down turned over in relief. "Maybe I can finally soak my poor, achy feet."
"Yay! We get to swim!" Gomamon shouted in glee, and not without action when he hopped in the lake's direction. However, he never moved from place when the blue haired boy grabbing his tail.
"Gomamon! You better wait and make sure it's safe first!" Joe said with real concern in his voice.
Standing before his little brother T.K, Matt turned to the others, "That's why I think we should keep walking and stop all the complaining."
"Everybody's hungry," Sora agreed, "we have to find some food."
"That is a good plan," Joe said to the other two kids, "I like that plan a lot."
Without any more debating, the kids got back to their feet and marched to the lake.
The body of water was certainly a sight to see. Sure it may have look odd, especially since there were electrical towers going through the center but the water was more than fresh and it almost glowed from its serene blue.
And as expected the seal Digimon jumped happily in the water. "I'll look for some fish to eat." He said before diving back inside the water.
"It should be safe to rest here tonight," Biyomon said huddling close to her partner.
"Yeah, I love camping outside!" Sora said with a grin as she gingerly set Kari down on a large rock.
Mimi gave a disgusted look on her face as she said, "If I won't walk in dirt, what makes you think I'll sleep on it?"
"Mimi, do you see a hotel here?" Matt asked annoyed, this girl... can't she go without complaining about anything for once?!
The girl in pink clothing looked about ready to make another complaint, but the sound of electricity arching and artificial lights turning on didn't allow her to continue.
"What's that?" Joe asked, twirling around to find the source of the noise a worried expression plastering over his face.
"It looks like a trolley car," T.K identified.
"That's odd," Izzy noted, "the lights just... came on."
Sora, standing behind Biyomon and next to Kari examined the automobile. "Well, maybe there's some real people in there."
"Let's check it out!" Joe instantly said, already running to the trolley. The other kids didn't bother even as much as disagree or to hide their happiness.
Sora once again helped Kari, but this time held her around her waist. It would make it a bit easier over her sore legs.
Each kid raced to the car.
The trolley stood in the direct center of a little island in the lake, with a stone bridge between the lake shore and the island. The trolley car itself was weird.
Its painted beige with blue stripes along it; it didn't even have wheels attached to it. Not to mention it still needed the tracks to run on, which apparently wasn't anywhere in sight.
"Maybe it can take us back home in air conditioned comfort!" Mimi puffed out as she ran inside the car.
"Mimi, wait up!" Matt called as the prissy girl managed to pull ahead of everyone. He was just behind her though, going in through the nearest door that opened automatically, the blonde haired male shouldn't have been surprised when he saw it empty.
"Totally empty," Sora said as she walked on through another entrance. Kari looked inside.
"It's clean." She stated, Izzy nodded. "No trolley car's floor is this clean."
The two had a point, the floor and the green bench seats were spotless, the windows looks liked they were freshly placed and wiped from any form of dust or smudges.
Mimi didn't care what others had to say when she sat down on one of the seats and bounced in place. "Oh, goody! These cushions are comfy!" A smile was finally back on her face, she turned over to see everyone else walk inside.
Only Sora and Kari remained outside along with their respective Digimon.
"Somethings wrong," Kari said looking at the floor of the car.
Sora nodded. "She's right, remember those weird phone booths we saw on the beach? Something just as freaky could happen here!"
Joe, sitting in the drivers chair and looking over the controls, said, "Yeah, like this suddenly moving all by itself."
Sora smiled, but her crimson eyes glanced at the seat… it looked rather comfy… "Possibly. But then again, maybe that's how we're going to get home."
Kari looked up at her sister figure. "Sora…"
The red haired girl looked back at the young girl. Sora could see that Kari was still debating whether it was really good idea or not.
Crimson eyes returned back to the lime green seats.
"But there doesn't seem to be anything that we could lose by staying here," she pointed out placing a gloved hand under her chin.
If anyth-
"Hey! Is Anyone Going to Help Me!?" A voice shouted and instantly Joe blinked in shock.
"Oh that's right, I forgot!" The bluette shouted and raced outside of the trolley and towards his partner as he hauled as much fish as he could outside of the water.
Everyone separated in different forms of scavenging well minus Kari until her ankle was a bit better despite the young girl's protest. And it wasn't long before they managed to get an assortments of fruit and fish.
Eventually Sora went to tend the young Kamiya, currently she held Kari's bare foot carefully, wrapping the white self-sticking bandage wrap around Kari's ankle.
"Feeling better?" She asked tugging the bandage wrap to rip and add the rest of the piece to the rest.
"Mmmm. Thanks Sora." Kari smiled.
Sora returned the gesture. "Now try to stay off that foot for a good while, okay?"
With that taken care of, Sora held the young girl around the waist and helped her towards the rest of the group.
Back at the lake shore, Matt and T.K had finished setting the stones around the fire pit, and Joe and Izzy had placed the sticks in the middle.
"Well, we're all set to cook dinner," Matt said, "Now all we need is the grub."
"Great," Sora said, then looked down at the fire place. "Anyone knows how to light a fire?"
The group stayed silent, that was until the pink bird hoovered slightly above the children.
"I got this." Biyomon said now just above the fire place.
"Spiral Twister!" She called out as the swirling green flames appeared out of her beak and down to the fire pit and setting the sticks into a strong blaze.
"Thanks Biyomon." The blue capped girl said with a smile. Now with the orange fire ablaze each them wondered how they were going to cook their fish.
"This is where I wish we had a microwave." T.K muttered holding his fish in his hand.
"Me too," Matt said as he came over, "because you're about to lose your fingers. Why don't you use a stick?" He offered and handed one to his younger brother.
Everyone watched Matt when he pierced the dead fish with on end of the stick and set it over the fire after he dug the wood into the ground at a slant in as the fish hung over the flames.
"I thought you said you've never went camping before Matt?" Sora wondered, mimicking the same action as the blonde haired male did.
"I did, but that doesn't mean my Dad never showed me how." He said sitting down next to his little brother behind his cooking fish.
"Really how was that?" Kari asked as she too sat down right in between Sora and Matt.
All eyes were on him after everyone skewered their own fishes and allowed them to cook when to glance at him. Even Izzy.
The preteen let out a long sigh. "Just because I never went camping; doesn't mean my Dad didn't."
Kari looked at the boy with interest. "Wow, what camp did your Dad go to?"
Matt gave another sigh, might as well… "Well Dad did go camping a bit when he was a kid. But it wasn't like when we go from school. It was more a father and son kind of camping. You see our grandfather was actually a veteran solider from war… and well he always thought it would be best to teach our dad some survival skills." A small smile appeared over his face.
"I guess Dad thought it would be a good idea for him to teach me… and well… I guess it really came in handy." Matt stated bringing a leg up as he rested his extended arm on top of his bent knee.
"Sounds like you and Dad had some fun time." T.K said a bit sadly.
Matt felt his eyebrows arch in worry. "Hey don't worry about it squirt, I'm sure that when we get home we'll have more fun memories with you too."
At that T.K smiled. "Okay." He beamed in joy.
"That's not good." Everyone turned over to Gomamon.
Matt gave him a glare. "And what is it to you!"
"No I was talking about the fish are they supposed to be that dark when cooked?"
At that all heads turned over to the cooking fish in a synchronized, slow almost comedic manner. Sure enough the fish were starting to get a dark coloration and the tips of the sticks that were being cooked on were starting to break off ember.
Everyone gasped and pulled out their rightful fishes from the fire.
"This is surprisingly good," the bug Digimon said as he and biyomon continued to chomp on a weird looking fruit.
"Delicious!" Izzy said as he chewed on his own fish.
"Matt," TK said apprehensively holding the fish in his hand, "Mom only lets me eat fish sticks."
"I won't tell her squirt," he told the younger boy, trying to get him to eat.
"I never eat with my fingers," the little boy went on to say.
"TK," Matt said, a little annoyed, "It's alright!"
"Kay," TK said with a shrug, digging into the fish, he grinned seeing how the good fish really was.
Kari stared at her own fish, a bit sad that little fish had to go. But she knew that it was only for the best, but still…
"Is something wrong Kari?" Sora asked looking over to the young girl.
"It's just that… we had plenty of fruit…"
Sora soften her expression, and before anything wrapped her arm around the young girl. "It's okay, I'm sure that this can be an exception, after all we need to have something right?" Sora tried to reason, and it did do some reasoning since the younger girl let out a tiny sigh and finally bit into her cooked fish.
A small smile appeared over the girl's face before taking another bite. Sora sighed in relief before finally relaxing and finishing her own meal.
The meal was pleasant and filling. And it allowed everyone to finally relax, and in Mimi's case, not to whine for once.
Sora after a while had gotten up, her mouth a little dry, she removed one of her gloves and took a hollow bamboo stick that she found earlier. Seeing as it would work great to be a cup began to fill it with water.
She barely filled the bamboo stick when she heard someone walk behind her.
"Hmmm," Joe intoned. Making Sora face the older preteen.
"Hey, Joe," she greeted, "What'cha lookin' at?"
"I'm trying to find out which direction we've been going, but the stars seem to be all mixed up," he told them, "I haven't been able to find the North Star anywhere."
Those words prompted Sora to look up to the darkening sky, "I've noticed that too, I don't recognize any of these constellations."
Sora placed a hand under chin. "Do you think we could be in the southern hemisphere or at least somewhere else?"
Turning around with hand on his hips, Joe said, "Yes, I suppose it's possible. That is, if we're still on earth."
Now that Sora thought about it, it may possible considering all the Digmon... but they really couldn't have transported to another planet did they?
...
The afternoon was settling in quickly and with their stomachs full for the rest of the night everyone just leaned against something. Patamon was the most noticeable seeing as he yawned opening his mouth and leaning in closer to his charge.
"Look, Patamon's tired," TK said watching the bat-like Digimon. Across from them both Palmon was leaning against Gomamon, who was sleeping with his head rested on his front flippers.
Sora inhaled deeply to prevent a yawn brimming her throat, "I think we're all getting tired here."
Izzy sat up straightly seeing the helmet wearing girl. "Wait a second. I think we should take turns standing guard."
Joe immediately agreed, "Alright, who wants to go first?"
"How about if each of us stands guard for about an hour?" Sora suggested.
"Not TK," Matt said, standing up from around the fire.
TK got up right beside him and tugged on the older boys shirt, "Hey, come on! Me too, Matt!"
"No! You're too young and you need your rest," Matt told him with a tone that cut off any further argument. Sora faced Kari just as she was about to say anything.
"I'm with Matt on that one Kari, you and TK should get some rest.
Mimi who is now standing, stretched for a moment before covering her arms and rubbing them a little. "I'm getting cold. I need a warm blanket to help me sleep?"
For some reason everyone looked at Gabumon, who stared in mild surprise. "What?"
Sora chuckled a little at the ignorance, he was the only one who was wearing something that could be considered as a coat.
Joe stood up this time. "Alright who goes first?"
"I will." Matt offered as he stood.
"I can go after." Sora added in walking close to the bluette.
The oldest of the group smiled. "How about Izzy takes over after you two, then I finish up the night?" Joe suggested, "I propose the rest of us trek back to the bus and get some shut eye."
No one argued with that plan. The slightly larger Digimon all gathered up some fresh leaves and organized it on the floor of the trolley. However the result was a couple of shifts here and there would prove some unwanted sounds for slumber.
And a certain pink hatted girl couldn't get to sleep with it.
"I can't sleep with all of you here," she whined for the umpteenth time.
"Stop complaining," Sora said rubbing her forehead with two fingers, "So it's not perfect. Just be glad we have a place to sleep." The helmet wearing girl was sitting on the bench on the other side of the car with Kari and TK.
"That's right, Mimi!" Izzy said from his place next to Mimi. Joe was just standing before the four of them with a tired smile on his face.
"Good night," he told them as he found his own place towards the front of the trolley car.
"Don't let the Monochromon bite," TK rhymed with a small smile then pulled his knees up to his chest and leaned back against the seat cushion. Patamon was laying in the seat next to him and curled up to go to sleep.
'Thanks for reminding me, TK,' Sora thought as she leaned her head back and closed her eyes.
'My feet still hurt,' Mimi grumbled mentally with a sour look.
'Why is there a trolley here?' Izzy pondered resting his head on his hands. 'Maybe it's the aliens and they knew we needed it.'
'I hope I don't get any monster cooties,' Joe's prayed before he took of his glasses and leaned back against his seat with closed eyes.
The only who hasn't tried to go to sleep easily was Kari, she did have her eyes closed, but that didn't mean her brain wasn't working on right now. She did open one eye and lifted her head up from her laying position. And saw Matt get up from his seat. So he was going to finally take his first watch.
For some reason Matt stopped. He turned to his partner and whispered.
"Gabumon?"
"Yeah?" the dino-like creature asked.
"Go over and lay down with my brother," the boy said, facing his partner completely.
"Why, Matt?"
"Because your fur is making me sweat," Matt said a little harshly, "Now go!"
"Because you want me to keep TK warm," Gabumon a knowing smirk appeared on his face.
Matt just stood up and turned away from the Digimon, "Hey, I didn't say that."
"You just don't want to admit it," the fur covered Digimon said as he hopped down off the bench to move over towards TK.
Matt took a deep breath starting to feel the cool temperature hit his arms.
Gabumon reasted on the green bench with TK and Patamon, making sure to wrap a fur covered arm over the little boy. Having feeling something warm on him TK opened his eyes slightly, and he saw Gabumon there.
"Thanks, Matt," the little boy mumbled tiredly when he saw his brother watching over him, before closing his eyes and going back to sleep.
Matt reacted quickly and quickly turned his head away, his cheeks turning a little pink from being caught.
It was when Matt finally stepped out of vehicle that the trolley lights had turned off.
Matt looked back a the trolley and sat right next to the fire that was made besides the vehicle. He brought his legs up, as his blue eyes saw the water.
~Flashback...~
"Here son, you want to do it like this."
Young innocent blue eyes stared at his father when saw his father pull up a fishing rod. The almost invisible string wiggled along with the fish that was freshly caught. Strong hand grabbed the fish, took the hook out of the mouth and placed it inside a fishing cooler.
"Wow..." A seven year old Matt said watching his father in aw when he brought the cooler close.
"See son, as long as you put your mind to it, anything can be possible." He stated ruffing his head.
"Anything?"
The older man nodded. "Yup, I mean look what they said about the moon, they finally reached it son."
The boy laughed and grinned at his father.
"One day I will travel to the moon too dad." He proclaimed pointing his thumb against his chest.
His dad laughed. "I'm sure you will, hey who knows you might discover something new along the way too my boy."
~End of Flashback...~
Who would have thought he would have discovered something new here...
The boy felt the fire grow a little weak, and thus had tossed another piece of wood that happened to be sitting besides him. He sighed and looked up, the stars really did look different from the ones he saw at home...
Without thinking much into it, he pulled out a single thing from his pocket. The only thing that he had on him besides cloths and a bit of money.
And slowly he lifted the silvery item to his lips.
...
Music.
It was music that she heard. Kari rubbed her eyes for being closed for a while. She downright couldn't get any sleep at all as the stress of being somewhere new and wondering what will happen had been affecting her.
But also another reason.
She peered around the darken trolley and still heard the gentle sound of a harmonica being played.
"Huh?" She whispered to herself being mindful of everyone else who was sleeping now. She glanced to her side to see Sora fast asleep.
Not wanting to wake her and her partner, or anyone really she tread carefully along the floor, closing her eyes slightly at the smite of pain that tingled in her ankle, but thankfully she could managed it. Kari looked down the darkened floor and carefully maneuvered so she didn't accidentally stepped on the Digimon.
She walked outside and there she manage to find the music culprit.
She didn't really think what she was doing next because the next thing she knew she was already besides the older boy.
"It's a pretty sound." The younger of the two said softly.
Matt opened his eyes slightly and turned to see the young Kamiya standing next to him.
"What are you doing here?" He asked tilted his head at her. "Shouldn't you be asleep?"
"I can't sleep..." She admitted looking a little sad. And true to her word she did not have a single aspect of her being noticeably tired.
Matt sighed leaning in slightly. "Sorry." He said wanting to put his instrument away. He picked up a stick slightly and adjusted a piece of wood that was starting to come away from the rest of the burning pile.
When suddenly one of the piece of wood had jumped.
"Watch out for the fire sparks!" He told the younger who thankfully wasn't touched by the jumping ember.
The little burning twig had managed to jump across a bit, landing a certain area. Unfortunately where the twig landed on was not a piece of the actual island.
As a result the island began to rumble, and the specific area had been a red part that began to flip about so strong that Kari had falling onto her rear.
"Hey!" Matt shouted in surprise standing up at the same time holding onto the younger girl as she tried to regain her balance.
Blue eyes scanned around and it was in moments that the waters that had been crystal clear and still like the moon started to spin into a large waterspout.
"Oh, no!" Matt cried as ground continued to shake.
"What's happening?" Kari screamed as she held on to Matt to help keep her balance.
As if in answer to the brunet's question, the waterspout grew larger and taller in the air until a giant aqua and white colored serpent-like monster revealed itself. It's red stripped and blue scales soaked from being underwater, just as it's sea green eyes glared at the two children within it's golden colored head.
The serpent roared revealing it's sharp teeth, it remained glaring and roaring at them from both pain and anger.
The island began to move violently and that alone made the other children in the trolley wake up. Mimi had ended up falling to the floor with a scream.
"What's that horrible sound?" Sora asked standing up.
"It's an earthquake!" Mimi cried as she held her head in her hands, upon seeing this Palmon stood near her protectively.
Joe was barely managing to stay on his feet as he spoke, "The trolley is starting to move! And I don't think it's taking us home!"
"It's taking us toward that sea dragon!" Izzy yelled upon seeing the large sea serpent through the windows.
"Oh no, Seadramon!" Tentomon yelped.
The lake dwelling Digimon didn't stay there for long with it turned in another direction and swam off, whether it knew or not it took the Island with it. The kids did not stay in the vehicle for long as they all reached out to see what was going on.
"We're gonna get eaten for sure," Mimi wailed with tears in her eyes.
"The land's moving!" Matt cried out, not having been quick enough to get to the bridge before it collapsed. Seadramon just kept swimming further out in the lake, pulling the island behind him.
"Hold tight, we're going for a ride!" Tailmon shouted making sure to reach her charge quickly.
"It's like we're on a monster long board!" Joe called back in fear.
"He's pulling us along by his tail!" Izzy noticed, "I don't even think he realizes we're here."
"Perhaps not," Tentomon said, "He's a bit dense. As long as he doesn't see us, we should be safe."
The moment the words left the bug's mouth, the giant sea monster slowed down.
"Don't be too sure," Biyomon remarked.
"You guys jinxed us!" Tailmon accused, quickly running next to her partner. "Now he knows we're here."
"What? I didn't do anything," Tentomon replied in slight frustration and fear moments before the red patch of ground sprung up, having not expected anything, the bug Digimon was shot up in the air.
"Guess he now knows that we're here." Tentomon stated just as he opened his wings moments before he hit the ground.
The red thing ripped away from the island and sank into the water before popping up a few seconds later, flipping around.
"Ah! That big red thing was his tail!" Mimi shrieked.
"It wasn't my fault!" Tentomon denied spontaneously again.
Seadramon didn't seem to be convinced when roared and slammed his tail against the island. This knocked the kids off their feet again, and with that distraction the sea monster dove underwater. The sea monster sure didn't let them off the hook when it collided with the island once more.
The force alone made the patch of earth slide in the water but that alone didn't make it as far when it was stopped by a couple of the electrical towers in the water. Leaving them stranded in the middle of the lake, the sea monster appeared out of the water, and boy was he mad.
Tailmon jumped. "He's going to attack!"
"Not going to happen!" Biyomon shouted. "Spiral Twister!"
Right beside the pink bird, Patamon let out a Air Shot.
The two attacks had touched the monster, but it hardly did damage, rather it only annoy him.
Palmon got closer to the large monster. "Poison Ivy!" But even her extended claws couldn't reach him at the distance she was at.
Tentomon sure didn't count himself out. "Super Shocker!"
The lightning had no effect surprisingly and Seadramon just whipped his head at the bug, forcing the beetle to dodge before he was struck.
Tailmon jumped into the air. "Lightning Claw!" Her strong legs had managed to reach the creature, and the force of her punch finally affected the monster as it was reeled back, the back of his body collided with the surface of the water and he fell propelled in the air so that she landed back on the ground with the rest of the children.
But not without a price, apparently his tail did collide back, making the island rumble again.
"AH!" The young male child cried and Matt was the first to notice.
"TK!" Matt yelled, and dove in, another body dived in with him and he saw it was their only Digimon that had some effect in water.
Seconds later the young child was on Gomamon's back.
"Gomamon! Go!" Joe called out with a small smile.
"Get out of there you three!" Tentomon told them, "It's Seadramon, he's back!"
"Gomamon, you can do it," Matt told the seal Digimon watching the white Digimon with trusting blue orbs.
Gold ones nodded and took the little boy back to the shore of the island, where Sora and Kari instantly helped them up.
"Hey!" Matt shouted at the larger monster, making sure to have it's attention and to lure him away from his little brother and particularly everyone, "Over here you overgrown water lizard!" he swam away from the island.
Unfortunately, he was successful, Seadramon noticed him and moved in to attack him.
"Matt!" Gabumon shouted and dove in after his charge. He noticed how close the water Digimon was towards the blonde haired boy.
"Petite Fire!" A stream of blue fire hit the side of Seadramon's face.
Tailmon's attack made lowered some defense on the serpant's face allow some more damage to be in effect. However it didn't last for took longer as it only made the monster even angrier.
Seadramon lifted his only appendage and flicked the dino-like Digimon into the air, Gabumon flew screaming when he landed harshly on the ground.
"Gabumon!" Tailmon shouted in worry seeing the scratch on his face upon impact.
"Gabu-!" The blonde never got to finish his sentence when something grabbed him and brought him under water.
Matt grimaced and felt the pressure of the water wrap him as badly as the tail. He tried to fight it, using his hands to push the red colored tail away from him, but it was futile because in moments the tail had wrapped completely around his body.
Blue eyes widened when he felt his ribs press painfully inside, he could have sworn he heard them creak...!
His lungs burned even as he was tugged out of the water, and even then he tried to scream, and he was successful but that only prompted the large lizard to squeeze the life out of him tighter.
It took one look at the source of the scream before younger matching blue eyes widened in horror. TK Stood on his feet instantly as tears stream down those eyes. "MATT!"
"Oh no!" Kari called, seeing the older boy get strangled, quick memories ran in Kari's head as she remembered what happened with Shellmon. His screams echoed in the lake enough to make the girl cover her hands over her mouth in fear.
"This is not good!" Tentomon said rapidly, "Seadramon may be a bubble brain, but once he finds his prey he wont let go!"
"MATT!" TK screamed, tears in his eyes,
He could see his older brother struggle against the grip of sea monster's tail, and he could have sworn that he saw his brother's face start to turn purple.
"Patamon, please help him!" TK begged the tan colored Digimon the tears running down his face desperately. "Hit him with a Air Shot!"
"Seadramon's way too big," the little Digimon said in shock, "I just don't have enough power now. Gabumon...!?" He faced the other Digimon who was barely starting to get up, and like the young green hatted boy one look was enough to get him want to take action.
"You're right, I must help!" He stated getting on his feet despite the pain that grew.
"G-Gabumon!" Matt yelled out, his air supply decreasing by the second.
"Matt! Hold on!" Gabumon yelled his red eyes widening when he saw his partner start to weaken.
And then his head dropped.
"MATT!" The Digimon screamed and dove inside the water.
~Insert Digimon: Brave Heart here~
The same loud sound that was heard when Salamon evolved buzzed out, the tune was more than loud enough for everyone to hear. A blue light grew from the endangered boy and shot down and hit Gabumon directly.
Everyone paused even the large sea monster remained absolutely still when the blue light, the glowing Digimon could feel his entire body grow with energy. The small light grew immensely making the water shine with the pure color.
"Gabumon, Digivolve to Garurumon!"
Seadramon had no time to defend itself when the swimming light suddenly leaped up and bit into it's tail. The sea monster was forced to uncurl his tail, allowing Matt freedom and fall into he water.
"Matt!" TK cried, but before anything could be done both Tailmon and Gomamon dove in, Gomamon being more adept to water got there before Matt could sink any farther into the water. And with Tailmon's strength pulled his head out of the water and aided the seal creature to pull him to the island.
It took Izzy and Joe to help the coughing and weak Matt onto the ground.
No one pushed TK out of the way to see his brother. The coughing male managed to open one eye with his gloved hand in front of his mouth. And there he had been able to see his own Digimon.
The dino-like Digimon did not look anything like his original self save for the coloration of the fur. The blue stripes over the white base were still there, though his golden horn was missing, but instead the base of skull had fur like spikes making his ears almost hard to spot looking very similar to a mane. His body was much larger than a horse and/or a bull and his body greatly resembled a wolf. His tail was similar to Tailmon's own as it was long for his body; as Gabumon he had scarlet claws at the ends of fur coat where his true hands remained hidden, now the three claws endowed all four of his paws, and his red eyes pigmented a gold instead.
Garurumon looked angry.
Seadramon finally somehow managed to get the wolf off of him by flicking his tail as strong as he could, but Garurumon didn't stay down for long even when the serpent tried to push the wolf down to bottom of the lake in hopes of drowning the wolf.
The wolf proved to be more than a skilled swimmer when it removed itself from the serpent's tail and appear at another side of the monster and quickly he jumped and latched onto the sea serpents back, biting down as hard as the strength of his jaws would provide. Seadramon did stand idly and began to thrashed around along with roaring from the pain.
Seadramon got the wolf-like creature off but not without the price of some damage, he roared and tried to bite the wolf, but his eye instantly got whacked from Garurumon's long tail. He pulled back and tried to use another approach, deciding karma was the best he used his red colored tail, but at the speed that Garurumon was swimming at the tail had brushed hardly against him.
Making sure to brush off painfully.
"Garurumon's fur is legendary!" Tentomon appeared above the children, seeing the wolf swim across the surface, "It's strong as steel! He's like a growling torpedo!"
"That's astonishing!" Izzy said, "Then he must be invincible!"
"Well, that's what I've heard anyway, we'll soon find out," Tentomon added sheepishly.
"I hope you're not exaggerating again, Tentomon, with another one of your wild fish tales," Matt grunted after regaining his breath.
"He could be," Tailmon said simply.
"But I heard about it!" Tentomon defended.
Garurumon continued to push all four of his legs in the water, the speed astonishing for one that was not made for water, he roared and charged at the serpent for an attack. Seadramon on the other hand learned his mistake. In moments he opened his mouth and let loose a freezing blast of breath at the wolf. The effect was on spot and froze water around Garurumon in place limiting his mobility.
"Oh no!" Tentomon called out as fear became evident on the kids' faces. "Seadramon used his lethal Ice Blast!"
The serpent continued to exhale his cold breath onto the wolf increasing a larger radius of ice, in a way making him an island all his own, specifically around the wolf.
Matt tried to stand on his feet. "Garurumon!" He screamed not caring for the momentary fatigue.
Gold eyes darted in his direction before back at the sea monster. He opened his own fanged mouth. "Howling Blaster!" A fire based attack, a contract of elements the blue fire shot out of Garurumon's mouth and fought against the ice breath.
That gave the wolf another opportunity and moved his muscles in a jerking motion and in turn broke the rather thick ice like a glass cup falling on the ground.
The fire proved to be much more effective and ultimately pushed back Seadramon's icy attack until the fire made contact with the sea serpent's gold colored head.
The head was no where to be seen under the fire and once it did the sea monster could no longer support itself and finally broke it's consciousness and crashed into the water.
TK threw one fist into the air, "Yeah!"
With the battle over, Garurumon quickly swam towards the island the moment he was with the shore where the children stood waiting for him he glowed blue and shrank back into his original form of Gabumon.
With the de-digivolved Digimon taking a single foot touching the hard ground of the island, the sun rose softly bringing light to the lake.
"Gabumon!" Matt cheered.
"Fine, sure a good way to keep my fur dry," the Digimon smiled. Right before he was attacked by a hug from the young male child.
"Aw, Gabumon, thanks for saving my brother!"
"Any time, little friend." Gabumon replied gently and a grin.
In short the younger sibling still looked at his older brother. "Matt, you were so awesome against that monster!"
"You think so?" Matt asked with a proud grin and a slight flush on face.
"You were the man!" Gabumon agreed.
"And you're the wolf-mon!" Matt said right back to Gabumon and the three all laughed at the small joke.
It wasn't until Joe and the rest finally stood beside the siblings.
"Okay, very funny," Joe said an important question swimming in his head. "but how are we supposed to get back?"
"Leave it to me." Gomamon stated excitedly and pretty soon-
"Marching Fishes!" In seconds about 50 if not hundreds of colorful fishes came to under Gomamon's command. Each water animal began to push the heavy rock island together. The fishes worked together were strong together because it wasn't long until they were finally back at the edge of the lake.
"Gabumon, can I use you for a pillow?" Mimi asked once they were all on solid ground.
The other children also fell to the ground, considerably without any sleep they were more than exhausted, and the biggest one wanting to sleep were Gabumon and Matt.
Sora laid down on her side, using her own hand to rest her head.
"You know," Izzy interrupted some of their attempts to get to sleep, his black eyes turning over to the tired Gabumon.
"Gabumon, why did you change back to your smaller form?" He questioned making everyone look at the red haired boy. Sora sat up at the question, noticing that the fur covered Digimon was indeed back to his smaller shape, then looked back and saw Tailmon resting against Kari, sure enough still in her cat-like evolution rather than her puppy one.
Now that in turn did keep them awake wondering the question.
"You know, yeah why did you go back, and not Tailmon?" Matt asked staring at his partner.
Gabumon looked at his arms and hands and shrugged "I dunno."
Now everyone faced the cat Digimon who gazed at each with wise blue eyes.
"And another note, why is it that only Gabumon evolved and not the rest of you guys?" Izzy pondered looking at all the other Digimon.
"There might be a pattern here." Sora added.
Kari stared at her partner, slight memories of yesterday came into play when she was captured by Shellmon. Then when Matt was taken by Seadramon. In comparison both her and Matt had been trapped.
The girl faced everyone. "You're right, Tailmon Digivolved when I was in danger. And Gabumon Digivolved when Matt was in trouble."
"That has to be the answer!" Izzy said instantly, "Our Digimon Digivolves when we're in trouble!"
"Yeah, that must be it," Sora said, but before more could be said, Mimi suddenly fell onto her shoulder soundly asleep,
Sora couldn't help but laugh a little. "Hey, watch it," she gently pushed the pink wearing girl gently off her shoulder and left the girl to sleep on the floor.
"Mmm, time to go to the mall," Mimi mumbled softly as Palmon resting her green head and arms on her waist.
"We've been here one day, and I think she's put some muscle on her," Sora said jokingly noticing the girl didn't care that she slept on the floor anymore.
"Yeah," Gabumon said, "Maybe if she puts in some effort she'll become a hard bodied machine like I am!"
"I hope she grows pink wings just like my wings," Biyomon said from her perch on a branch nearby.
"You must be kidding," Mimi mumbled once more before falling deeply asleep, her hat falling over her eyes of indication of her rest.
It didn't take long until everyone else ended falling into slumber despite the bright sun shinning above.
Joe in particular slept on his stomach with Gomamon resting against him, Izzy and Sora sleeping back to back, and most of the Digimon gather together sleeping in a group. Kari didn't even try to stay awake anymore seeing as her eye finally grew heavy, she slowly fell and her head rested on Sora's lap, the last thing she heard was Matt play his harmonica, that alone allowed her to fall into a peaceful, dreamless sleep.
Blue eyes opened softly to see his little brother getting some rest. His small head fell onto his shoulder while Gabumon did a similar way only against his side. A small smile on the youth's face, "Big bro, you're the best,"
A peaceful morning, finally given to them after yesterday, it was all they needed now.
Alright yup, this chapter... holy cow was long...
I'll tell yah...
Anyways this isn't really going to be a big thing for this story. As you guys can see I wrote the entire episode in this chapter here, I do plan to write the next episodes where everyone's Digimon evolve into one chapter, after that it will be different and the chapters may or may not be shorter. That depends how the chapter will flow.
I absolutely love Matt's character I just had to add something to it, honestly I know I added the whole "what ifs" here but I couldn't help it :)
Plus I just had to poke a little fun at the Digimon Adventure 02 ending here XP
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Anyways that's really all I have to say since there aren't any notes or so yeah that's about it.
Also I did say that there was going to be changes in the last few chapters, so yeah be wary of those.
Now that I'm done I'ma take a nap. See you guys in the next chapter :)