"Ikkakumon's Harpoon Torpedo"
"I know this is no day-at –the-beach, Joe, but that's no reason to be a worry-wart about it and make all your friends unhappy. Pardon the pun but chill out, only you have a problem with the cold." Gomamon said to Joe as we walked through the forest.
A part of me wanted to agree with Gomamon, 'cause, well, Joe does need to chill out more about stuff.
But considering the fact that we are now walking in the forest when it id freezing outside and it may start snowing and I just might get sick since I don't have a jacket or anything with me (stupid Mom for being right about bringing one) I'd say I can speak for almost everyone when I say we can make an exception just this once for Joe's complaining.
"Right guys? Everyone think warm." Gomamon said as Mimi, TK and I all walked close together with our digimon, shivering.
"I'm allergic to fur." Joe muttered.
V-Mon was hanging onto my shoulders as I carried him on my back, his body keeping part of mine warm when he first saw me start to shiver.
I never really got to enjoy the winter weather much because Kari and I always got sick and my parents would freak out, banning us from leaving the house to even go to school.
My sister always got it worse, but I'm just as bad and I don't wanna get sick and drag everyone down just because they have to look after me.
Yeah, I'm stubborn, but if Kari were in my situation, she would be thinking and doing the exact same thing that I'm doing right now.
"Ah, c'mon you guys, the cold isn't that terrible." Tai said with a grin while most of us (Mimi, TK, me and our digimon) all whined at that.
"Perhaps not, if you're a polar-bear or a penguin." Izzy said with a grimace since he was cold too.
"Yeah, but if it snows, we'll throw some snowballs." My brother said giving us all a wink.
Yeah, and if it does snow, the first one will be thrown by me at YOUR HEAD!
"And make snow-men!" Mimi added excitedly.
"What do you think 'Snowmon' is?" Gomamon whispered to Gabumon.
"A digimon from their planet." Gabumon whispered back.
"It's difficult to explain." Izzy said when he heard the digimon talking.
"Well, if it's edible count me in." Tentomon said.
"What is a Snowmon, Dai?" V-Mon asked me.
"It's a snowman and it's just a statue that humans make by rolling the snow into three large balls and stacking them up on each other. Then we take stones and give him a face with them and use a carrot for the nose." I said with a smile up at him.
"Sounds interesting. Did you have fun makin' them?" he asked.
I looked down and he knew what that meant.
He was starting to get really good at telling how I'm feeling just by looking at me.
"You never made one before, did ya?" he asked sadly.
"Nah. My Mom never let Kari and me outside because we got sick too much." I said.
It really sucks.
Mom even wrote the teachers a note to make sure that we stayed inside so we didn't get sick and we had to stay inside playing puzzles, working on homework, drawing and such as we watched all the other kids playing outside making snowmen, throwing snowballs at each other and sliding down slippery slopes with toboggans.
"No, the best thing about snow-balls is that you can throw them at each other. It's a fun game that we play in the winter months." Izzy said.
"You throw food?" Tentomon asked shocked.
"We could even build a snow-fort." Matt said with a challenging look at my brother.
"You'll need one." My brother said rising to the challenge.
"I bet I could beat both of you, blindfolded." Sora joined in.
"My money's on Sora!" I couldn't help but say.
"Hey wait! What about me? I'm your brother." Tai said sounding offended.
"Yes and right at the moment, I wanna see you get pelted by snowballs." I said trying not to shiver and make him worry.
Sora giggled as Matt smirked.
"I wanna build an igloo." TK suddenly said as he bounced over to my side.
"I'll help, if ya tell me what it is." Patamon offered.
"An igloo sounds scrumptious to me." Tentomon said still thinking that we were talking about food.
"Too bad they're not edible." Izzy said.
"C'mon, get serious. It'd be horrible if it started snowing right now." Joe grumbled.
"Lighten up a little, Joe; we're just trying to look on the positive side of things." Sora said trying to get him to calm down, but he wouldn't have it.
"Hey, Tai, when's it gonna snow?" TK asked in excitement.
"Probably any second now." Tai answered.
"Right on Joe's head!" Matt added jokingly.
"That'd be so funny!" TK giggled as my nose started twitching and I sneezed, a quiet, yet squeaky sneeze and froze up, hoping my brother didn't hear.
"I can't wait to see his face." Tai quipped.
Oh thank goodness, I sighed as I relaxed and sniffled.
"Ya know, if the temperature drops any lower than it is already we won't be able to camp out anymore. We'll be frozen Digi-treats." Joe said and I coulda swore I saw him glancing at me and wondered if he could see right through me and knew I was getting sick.
He's been doing that ever since my almost heat stroke.
Darn him and his braininess!
"That's right, go ahead and laugh but when your tootsies freeze, don't go cryin' to me, I'll just say 'I told you so'. It is always better to be safe than sorry, safety first." Joe said getting annoyed with everyone's laughing and joking.
We started walking again and soon enough we came to a part of the forest that was filled with freshly fallen snow and I was really cursing my luck at the moment.
"What's that white stuff?" Gomamon asked looking as though he had never seen snow before and so did all the other digimon.
"It's a field of snow! There's bound to be a ski-resort nearby!" Mimi exclaimed in her excitement.
"Great. I want hot chocolate, stat!" I said and I was serious, I really did want some.
"What's that?" V-Mon asked as he got down from my back.
"It's a sweet hot drink that people drink on cold days like this." I said.
"Oh man, this is much worse than even I thought it was!" Joe cried.
What now guys?" Sora asked nervously.
"I think we should keep going, we're not going to get anywhere just sitting here." Tai stated firmly.
"If we walk across the field in our sneakers, our toes'll go numb." Matt reminded them.
"It's impossible to continue." Joe insisted.
TK, Mimi and some of the other digimon were running around, playing in the snow.
"So what're we supposed to do, just stand here like a bunch of dorks? We either go across the field, or climb up that big mountain." Tai retorted impatiently.
"Will somebody come up with an idea already!" I yelled and then choked on my own breath and started having a coughing fit, my hands covering my mouth as I did so.
Everyone looked over to me in worry and the ones playing in the snow stopped.
"Daisuke!" Tai cried in worry as he ran to my side to check on me as my coughing came under control.
"Are you OK?" he asked picking me up and patted my back a bit as the coughing ended and I cuddled up to his chest, seeking the warmth from him.
"Yeah." I said and nodded as tears filled my eyes from my fit.
"Whoa there, wait a sec." Agumon broke in, sniffing the air.
"I think there's a weird odor in the air." He said as the others all started sniffing, but my nose was now stuffed, so I couldn't tell what they were talking about.
"I do believe he's right." Biyomon said as she sniffed.
"What could it be?" Gabumon asked.
"I dunno, but it smells like…" Tai trailed off as he also sniffed the air.
"Very familiar…" Izzy muttered.
I raised my head from my brother's shoulder and saw some weird purple smoke rising in the air from somewhere a little far off from here.
"It's steam." Biyomon murmured.
"She's right, but what's it coming from?" Matt asked.
"A big geyser!" Joe guessed enthusiastically.
"Yippie! Now I can take a bath!" Mimi cried.
"And we can get warm!" TK said.
At those words, I jumped out of my brother's arms and started running off to where the smoke was.
"Last one there's a rotten digi egg!" I laughed as I went my blue dragon close behind as the others all laughed and chased after.
We soon stopped at the place the smoke was coming from and I took in a deep breath of the hot air and felt my sinuses clear up, but sadly the geysers we were looking for were these large pools of purple looking water that was way too hot for us to take a bath in.
"Uh oh, this water's much too hot." Tai said disappointedly.
"We'd be cooked if we jumped in this." Tentomon whimpered.
"Yes, boiled." Izzy confirmed.
"Well, there go my big dreams of a nice, warm bath." Mimi groaned as she sat near one of the pools.
"It looks so inviting." Palmon chirped.
"Well it would be inviting if you were a vegetable." Matt corrected.
"What's a little dirt compared to starving, we need to find something to eat and there's nothing in sight!" Joe reminded everyone.
"Oh yes there is!" TK suddenly said with a smile.
"What're you talking about? There's nothing here but a bunch of rocks and boiling water!" Joe said.
"Lookit." TK said pointing off somewhere.
"TS, I think you've lost you've…"I trailed off when I looked over to where he was pointing and my jaw dropped.
Pinch me, I'm dreaming." I said and then saw V-Mon shrug as he then used his white claws to pinch my arm.
"OW! Dude, what the heck?" I asked looking at him as I rubbed my arm.
"But you said to." He protested.
"You did say that." Tentomon said.
"Tell me I'm not imagining this." Joe groaned with a shocked look on his face.
"YEAH! It's for real." Tai exclaimed, putting a hand on the older boys shoulder with a huge smile.
"Ah, c'mon that's ridiculous. What would a refrigerator be doing way out here?" Joe asked.
"Hey, were there's a fridge, there's grub." Matt reasoned.
"No way, that's not possible!" Joe insisted.
"We won't know until we open it." Sora concluded.
"I don't really think that's a-" Joe protested, but was cut off.
I want hot cocoa." Mimi's said.
"What's that?" Palmon inquired.
"C'mon already, let's see what's in there." Tai said as he slowly opened it up.
"Whoa, eggs!" my brother said as he opened the door fully to show the entire fridge was filled with small brown colored eggs that came from a chicken, or at least I hope they did.
"There must be a zillion of 'em." Agumon said.
"Yeah, grub on! These'll keep us all fed for a month!" Tai said happily as V-Mon, TK, Patamon and I all cheered.
"Wait a minute, you shouldn't even touch them, we don't know if they're safe for human consumption!" Joe warned them.
"Then I'll be the guinea-pig, if I turn purple you'll know they're not edible." Tai jokingly assured.
"OK, but if you die, then can I have your video games?" I asked innocently.
Tai gave me a look as Matt smirked and placed a hand on my head making me look up at him.
"Aren't you a real sweetie?" He said sarcastically.
"Yep!" I chirped happily making my brother deadpan as V-Mon snickered.
"There's more to it than that, even if they were edible they still don't belong to us. That'd make us all thieves!" Joe said looking close to having a panic attack.
"You've gotta think about stuff like that, Tai."
"Unless you're into eating rocks, we don't have too much choice." Matt said lifting his hand from my head.
"I'm sure they'd say yes if they knew we were in trouble." Sora assured the teen.
"Exactly, we'd tell 'em it's an emergency situation." Izzy agreed.
"Rationalize away." Tentomon invited.
Joe soon gave up with a sad look as everyone then started getting ready to cook our meal.
Joe was making the chop sticks, Sora was cooking and the boys were carrying over sticks and rocks that could be used as plates and set them up around a large circular stone that looked surprisingly lot like a table.
"Tres gourmet." (I can't make the accent thing one my keys work so tres is spelt wrong) Mimi said as we all sat around the table with the food ready in front of us ready to be eaten.
"Go on, dig in." Biyomon invited cheerily.
"Oh yeah, I haven't had a meal like this in a long time, my stomach's chimin'." Tai praised as he ate.
"If we had some ketchup to go with this, it would be perfect." Matt said.
"Mmm, I love ketchup and eggs." TK agreed.
"That sounds pretty gross to me." Sora remarked and I agreed by sticking out my tongue.
"What's the matter, Joe, you haven't eaten anything." Gomamon observed.
"Huh? Oh. I was just thinking that if we were able to go home ketchup wouldn't be a problem, oh well…" Joe sighed.
"Now I'm homesick, how depressing." Mimi sighed as well.
"You're right, now I wanna go home." TK said sadly making me look around at all the depressed faces and I sighed.
This isn't gonna end well.
"It's been four days since we've been here. I wonder if anyone's tried to find out where we are." Izzy pondered aloud.
"Cheer-up, tell me how you like your eggs and I'll try to do my very best." Sora said encouragingly with smile making me return it.
I love this girl.
I swear, if my brother doesn't confess and lets this girl get away, I'm gonna beat him with a stick.
"I prefer my eggs to be covered in salt and pepper but I guess it doesn't matter." Joe began.
"I like soy sauce." Tai followed.
"How 'bout salsa?" Matt asked.
"How 'bout a reality check?" Sora joked.
"I don't know, salsa sounds kinda yummy." I said tapping my chin with my chop sticks as I thought about it.
"I'll have mine with mustard and jellybeans please." Izzy said.
Tai gave a nervous, unsure laugh.
"How gross." Matt commented half-jokingly.
"Ew." I said with a laugh.
"Jellybeans, that sounds good." TK said.
"What? You're both weird. My favorite is eggs topped with maple-syrup, yummy! Sometimes I like them with cherry's on top!" Mimi said with a bright smile.
"That's weird." Sora cringed.
Man, some of us have some weird taste in food.
"But I bet it's good." TK said.
Matt, Tai and I all laughed at that, the boys sounding more nervous and freaked out though.
"What? You're making me completely lose my appetite, I just like plain eggs! I wish we could talk about something other than egg recipes." Joe said frustrated as he put his hands on his head.
"Don't be so hard on yourself, they're just having fun." Gomamon tried to calm his partner.
"C'mon, join the party." Matt encouraged.
"I think it's really too late for him, I think Joe thinks we've all gone a little crazy over these eggs." Tai joked.
"Well really, jelly-beans and cherries on eggs, that's just crazy talk." Joe huffed. "Salt and pepper's all they need. Keep it simple, that's always been my motto."
"I'm afraid Joe's just not the kind-a guy that's meant to be adaptable."
"Just what do ya mean?" Joe snapped.
"Let's face it Joe, you're kind-of a stick-in-the-mud if you get my drift." Gomamon said.
"I'm just practical!" Joe retorted.
"You're stuffy!" Gomamon joked.
"Someone has to have a head on their shoulders!"
"You wanna fight? Huh, huh, huh?" Gomamon asked playfully.
"Oh yeah? Sure!" Joe said standing up, but Matt stepped between them before they could into it.
Anyone else find it ironic that Mr. Cool's breaking up this fight?
"Hey, hey, hey! You gotta calm down." Matt said.
"I AM calm! And why'd you squeeze my arm?" Joe asked pulling out of his hold.
"You don't seem to be yourself today Joe, you're a basket-case." Matt said.
"I am just trying to be careful." Joe shot back.
"Unlike the rest of you weirdo's. I'm telling you, you're all asking for trouble!" Joe said before he then stormed off.
A little while later, Joe returned to Matt and Tai arguing again.
"Why are you making such a big deal outta this?" Tai asked.
"Because it's way too dangerous." Matt said.
"There's no place else to go, we have no choice!" Tai argued, his fists clenched.
"Before we do something foolish, we should think it over a little more!" Matt insisted, his voice rising.
"You're just a big ol' chicken!" Tai accused.
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
Can you believe they're the older brothers?
"Hey everybody, what's all the ruckus about? Why're Matt and Tai fighting?" Joe asked as he came back and the digimon all shrugged and shook their heads.
"They're debating about whether or not we should climb Infinity Mountain, which is way up over there." Izzy explained as he pointed to the huge mountain.
"That's practically up to the sky." Joe observed.
"Yup, Infinity Mountain's a doozy, that's for sure." Tentomon agreed.
"It's the perfect spot, we gotta climb up there, it's the best view of the island!" Tai shouted.
"You got-to admit, he's got a point there." Joe said thoughtfully.
"That's not how Matt sees it." Sora interjected.
"Nobody would make it up that peak; it's much too big of a gamble!" Matt argued.
"He might be right, Joe, there could be lots of evil Digimon up that peak." Biyomon said.
"Hmm…that's not good, then it wouldn't be worth the risk." Joe agreed.
"C'mon Matt, don't be a wimp, we won't get anywhere if just stand around talking." Tai was still refusing to back down.
"Put your fists down when you talk to me and stop acting like you can just bully your way into being the leader." Matt retorted icily as he turned his head away with his arms crossed.
"Stop, you guys. Chill out. Now look here, calm down, let's be sensible." Joe said trying to break them up.
"So what's your opinion about this, Joe?" Matt asked a bit demandingly.
"Huh?" Joe asked.
He walked right into that one.
"Yeah, Joe, tell us who's right, me or Matt." Tai demanded.
Umm…well, I think Tai's right about going up that peak; if we went up there we would be able to see the landscape of the island a lot better."
"See, Matt?" Tai smirked.
"Hold on, Matt brought up a real' good point about the danger, it'd be kinda dumb to lead everybody up to a place we don't know anything about. It wouldn't be safe." Joe said making Matt smirk.
Both boys sighed dejectedly at that as Joe went into thinking mode.
Ah, c'mon, let's go as far as we can up the mountain!" Tai insisted.
"That's stupid; we can't protect ourselves out there." Matt countered.
"Stop it now! You're both making me a nervous wreck; just give me a chance to think! Don't be difficult." Joe snapped.
"What? You are the most difficult person I ever met!" Matt hissed indignantly.
"Hey, I am trying to make a decision here so don't interrupt me!" Joe chastised.
"You're just a big ol' chicken, Matt!" Tai snarled at the blond.
"Tai, you better take that back." Matt warned dangerously.
"Enough already, you're giving me a headache!" Joe shouted.
"Oh, for the love if all that is good and pure in this stupid universe, SHUT UP!" I shouted in my rage making everyone turn to look at me in shock as I glared heatedly at the three boys.
"Look, you both make very good points, but just because you can't seem to agree on anything, you have no right to bring Joe into this and make the rest of us miserable. Now all of you shut up and get to cave so we can sleep and figure this all out tomorrow. For pity sake, you two are supposed to be acting all mature an' stuff for me and TK, but instead, you're acting' like a couple-a brats. And the fact that a seven year old girl is tellin, ya off, only adds to the fact that you two are being stupid." I said.
Everyone was deathly quiet after that and I just turned around in a huff and walked over to the cave we were gonna be sleeping in, V-Mon following behind me.
Everyone else soon followed and I just slept in a corner away from Matt and my brother, mad at both of them.
After the morning came, we found that Joe had went off to Infinity Mountain all by himself, so Tai, Sora and Aguon rode off on Birdramon to go find him as Matt led the rest of us up there by foot.
We heard a bunch of shouting and exploisions as we went and I was able to see Birdramon and Greymon fighting some sort of winged horse and another white furry creature that V-Mon said was Ikkakumon, Gomamon's Champion form.
It all ended soon and the horse, Unimon, flew off.
"Guess that's over." Izzy muttered.
As we walked, Matt and Gabumon stood close to me and V-Mon, the blonde giving me a cautious look, as if he was afraid I was gonna explode on him again.
I looked up at him, making him look ahead.
"Is there a problem?" I asked and I noticed that everyone else was hanging farther back from us.
"Um, well…I just wanted to…apologize for what happened last night. I didn't mean to get into with Tai like that and upset everyone like that." He said looking bashful.
"Whatever. You're forgiven. Just remember, you have TK and me that are payin' attention to you guys and if we start fighting like that in the future, it's gonna be on you and Tai." I said with a small grin making him relax a bit.
"You're kind of bipolar, you know that?" he asked.
"No, but only because I have no idea what that means." I said making him smirk as our digimon chuckled.
TBC