Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon, Sonic, or anything else used in this story (Except Gear and Frost, so far)
Chapter 8: Fire in My Eyes
Hours have passed since the attack from both M-15 and The Ghost Mech; the abandoned amusement park known as Hang Castle was now quiet. The lights have gone out and the destroyed robots were thrown into the basement. Izumi lay in her bed, unable to sleep. She stared at the ceiling for about the eighteenth time since they all had gone to sleep. She finally got bored of the ceiling and veered her vision towards Roki's sleeping body. She could hear her breathe from across the room. On the floor she noticed Roki's black T-shirt and denim skirt. Her pair of black sneakers was set under the bed. She could see the strap of the blue-headed girl's violet bra with the strap on her right arm slipping down. The blonde couldn't help but smile.
She turned her head again to see Yume on the nightstand asleep, which was unusual for a nocturnal bird. Feeling she couldn't sleep, she got out of her bed. She grabbed her purple and white stripped shirt and her skirt and put them on. She made her way out of the room door, trying not to wake both Roki and Yume and ran downstairs to the ballroom. She noticed a figure sitting on one of the chairs throwing something into the air. She looked more closely and noticed that it was Takuya. He wasn't wearing his red jacket as he normally did, but he still had his yellow shirt on. She stood at the entrance for a minute, a bit nervous to talk to him since their recent fight against The Ghost Mech.
She then mustered up her courage and started to slowly walk towards Takuya, accidentally hitting a chair with her bare feet and startling Takuya. Almost like second nature, he got up and held his D-Tector, ready for a fight, but let his guard down when he saw it was Izumi.
"Getting used to that thing now are you?" Izumi asked in a rather sly tone, which was unusual for her
"Yeah. Considering we had three run-ins with four machines, I don't want to end up getting either being killed or seriously injured." The brunette stated with a chuckle that quickly died.
"I know. I'm guessing you couldn't sleep like I did?" The blond asked nervously.
"Yeah. Seeing Tommy injured like that made me realize that we can't all can fight and get out without a scratch." Takuya's tone started to turn a bit of a sad tone. He looked out the window as the moon started to set and the sky was turning from black to black with some streaks of orange-red.
"Is Tommy okay? He seemed pretty banged up from the last machine, huh?" Izumi asked with concern.
"Yeah. He's okay. He woke up not too long ago. He's probably asleep by now." Takuya stated.
The sun was starting to rise. They heard footsteps coming down from the main stairway. Gear walked towards the two and gave them a bow. Her hair seemed rather wild than normal and her armor wasn't polished.
"Good morning. Emerl wanted me to bring you outside. Tommy will be with you within the hour." She advised to the two as she walked out of the ballroom. The two shrugged it off and got upstairs to get ready for the day.
The morning had arrived and the group was up and about. Takuya, Izumi, and Tommy had Spirit Evolved to their respective forms as Emerl requested. Roki and Koji were asleep on a tree near the mansion and J.P was picking berries off of bushes. He tried some of the berries to see if they were good enough. He took a berry with green and white stripes and tasted it. To him, it tasted rather sweet. He felt his stomach hurt and ended up throwing up. Apparently it made him sick.
"Oh man. I'm starting hate this place." J.P groaned as he vomited his stomach contents yet again.
Sonic drew his sword, Hogosha and charged at Emerl, who just had no stance, whatsoever. As Sonic tried to slash him, the robot kept dodging with ease. He finally took the edge and punched Sonic directly in the stomach, making him drop his sword, and kicked him away.
"Come on. The real Sonic can do better. He was faster than you, slowpoke." Emerl taunted. Sonic grew angry and gritted his teeth. He ran at Emerl and suddenly became a ball. He was spinning at speeds he could do first thing. He gained a blue blur and rammed Emerl, knocking him to the ground. Sonic got back up and felt really dizzy.
"Whoa…that was a rush." The blue hedgehog said in a dazed tone as he fell to the ground, the world spinning around him.
"That was amazing." Emerl said with a tone of impression. "After only one day of having this spirit. You learned Sonic's Spindash, one of Sonic's most prestigious attacks."
"Hooray…" Sonic stated as he put his hand up, which soon dropped to the floor and he was reverted back into Takuya.
Amy was the next to be trained. This time Gear took Emerl's place. She turned into her rocket for as Amy searched for a card. As Gear shot at Amy she put the spell in her gauntlet.
"Spell #2: Celestial Shield!" Amy surround herself in a giant shield made of pure light. Gear collided with the shield and was forced away. She turned back into her normal form and knelt on the ground, with various scratches and bruises.
Koji had enough of the training with the three and walked away from the area. Roki noticed him leaving and followed him. Koji stopped in the middle of the forest and turned back to see the Blue headed teen.
"Why don't you go back and watch the others?" He asked her with his normal unemotional tone.
"I just want to know where you are going, seeing as we don't know this…" Roki said but was interrupted.
"If you do want to know, I'm gonna find a Spirit of my own. I don't want to fucking watch in the sidelines while those three idiots get their asses kicked." He continued walking off, but Roki kept following him. "Stay the fuck with them. I'll be back."
"I'm staying with you Koji. You could end up dead." Roki said in a sad tone.
Koji said nothing and continued walking off.
They somehow arrived at a village. It was rather small and looked deserted. The two of them thought of checking it. They walked to the village and noticed the walls of the houses were stained with blood and some of the fires weren't put out.
"This is horrible." Roki said as she looked at the horror of the village. "Who would do such a thing?"
As if on cue, a howl was heard, freezing them in their tracks. On the top of the highest house was a wolf standing on its two back feet. The wolf had snow-white fur with piercing yellow eyes and fangs stained with blood. He had a fairly large sword strapped to his back and carried a skull on his right hand. He jumped from the house to in front of the two and sniffed them.
"Ahh. Looks like we've got some fresh meat." He said in a rather deep and menacing voice. "The boy, looks rather bony, but probably chewy. The girl however, I may have some fun with you before I eat you." He had a sly laugh as he rammed Koji into the wall, breaking it from the impact and grabbed Roki. He jumped to the air and landed on the top building again. He turned Roki upside down and held her by her leg. The teen was feeling really cold by the frosty wolf's cold touch, making her shiver and turn pale. She kept holding down her skirt in order for it not to let gravity get the better of it.
Koji, still a bit stunned from the tackle he just received moments ago, noticed the wolf holding Roki upside down. He then felt a bit of rage as he threw a rock at the wolf, hitting him directly in the left eye. The now blinded ice wolf snarled and let Roki down. He opened his mouth as a white ball started to form. He roared as a giant beam of ice was fired at Koji, who managed to roll away in time, but his left arm froze from the cold air. He still felt the freezing sensation from the blast, even though he dodged it. He noticed the damage and a giant ice pillar were formed where he once stood.
"Holy shit. A second more and I would be done for." The long-haired adolescent said in complete shock.
"You're gonna pay for that, you little brat." The wolf stated. "No one can beat Frost, the snow wolf."
Tails was doing his part of his training. He looked at his gun glove and took it off. He had a normal hand under the glove, but he never felt it when the glove changed forms.
"You can use the gun glove to change into a single or two handed weapon of your choice with just your mind." Emerl advised with some sights of intelligence.
The two-tailed fox thought of the first gun he could think of. The glove then started to shake and formed into a pump-action shotgun. He held it in his hands and cocked it.
"Wow. This is just great. I can think of a gun and it becomes it." The fox stated as he thought of a machine gun. Seconds later, the shotgun became an MP40.
"It's called the data chip, Tommy." Emerl started. "It has the data on every weapons known throughout the universe. Just think it and it'll become it."
Takuya started to drift to sleep as he looked at the sky and noticed the giant ice pillar that barely got higher than the trees.
"Hey Emerl. What that over there?" The brunette asked pointing at the icy pillar.
"My word. Why, I've never seen it before." Emerl said as he noticed Koji and Roki were missing. "Looks like we'll have to investigate."
Everyone agreed to the offer and made their way to the pillar, to find the village covered in ice with Koji holding his left arm, which had been frozen from the hand to his elbow and Roki on the ground unconscious. Frost was laughing at the work he's done. He then felt a stinging pain in his stomach. He found a bullet hole there. He looked forwards and noticed Tails holding the MP40 and snarled.
"I knew they would be here." Frost stated with some icy venom in his voice. "So be it."
He surrounded his hand in ice and threw it directly at Tails, only for it to be blocked by Sonic's sword. The sub-zero wolf was displeased of Sonic being there, but also anxious to fight.
"Very well then. Why don't we just take off the kid gloves." Frost stated as he pushed his hands up. A giant ice shard was over Sonic's head. He pulled his hand down as it crashed right on him, incapacitating him. Amy took a card out of the pocket and put it in her gauntlet.
"Spell #7 Diamond Storm!": She yelled as tiny diamonds formed around her and targeted Frost. Each one of them flew at him at break-neck speed, but he drew his blade in time to block all of the diamonds.
"Ha! No one can stop…" Before Frost could finish, he was hit in the face by a small blue ball rolling at high speed. The blue ball made its way to the ground and turned back into Sonic. The icy canine had enough and inhaled greatly. He roared at everyone, causing them to move away from him, but also, turning them into icicles. Koji and Roki were currently the only ones that didn't turn into ice. He ran into one of the houses. It was rather cramped and still had a fire. Frost broke through the house and extended his claws. He was about to stab the long-haired teen in the throat, but stopped centimeters before the claw tip touched his throat. He looked at the fire and noticed a small red orb. He retracted his claws and walked towards the orb in a trance-like state. He put his hand in the fire, ignoring the pain he was receiving from the burning wood and coal. He got his hands out of the fire and smiled as he looked at his hand.
The red orb was in his hands. It was rather small, but Koji could sense the power coming out of it. He had to get it somehow. He looked around the area and noticed a piece of wood. It was broken off from the house and the front end was hammered to a shard of metal. He grabbed makeshift staff and slashed the leg of Frost, making him howl in pain.
He jumped into the air and plucked the orb out of the wolf's hand. As he landed, he felt his body surge with energy. Fire started to surround him as his cell phone in his jacket pocket turned into a D-Tector, colored white and blue. It floated into the air as he grabbed it. The orb made its way into the D-Tector.
"Spirit of fire recognized. Spirit Evolution…Activated." The D-Tector announced as a bright light surrounded Koji. Frost looked away from the intense brightness. When it died down, a red Echidna took Koji's place. He had a pair of metal knuckles with 2 spikes on each knuckle. He had a white crescent shaped birthmark on his chest and wore yellow sneakers with green socks. Heat was radiating off of him. Frost could feel himself become warmer.
"Well, Knuckles came to play, now." Frost stated as he put up his fists, like a boxer. "Well, then, twerp, show me what you've got."