"Seasick and Tired"
Here is the next chapter. Sorry for taking so long. Please enjoy and review!
Pixiemon had just sent us off in the invisible sphere and I had a terrible feeling he was gone now.
"Oh, it doesn't seem right just leaving him there." Kari sighed with DemiMeramon in her arms.
There was an explosion back at the coliseum that made us jump.
"Remember, he wanted it this way." Tai said.
After a while, we stopped and got out of the orb, walking off to find a way to get to the place we needed to be to defeat the Dark Masters.
"Look, the fog's finally clearing." Tai said.
"Great, now we can clearly see that we're lost." Joe said.
"It's more productive to think of ourselves than our way, Joe." Izzy said.
"Yeah, I feel better already." Matt scoffed.
"All I know is I'm getting pretty hungry." TK said as he held Patamon.
"And I'm getting cold." Kari said.
"But everybody's OK, right? Besides being hungry and cold and lost." Tai said as he and Matt stood in front of the rest of us as we all sat down, Kaitoumon holding me and V-Mon in his lap.
"Don't forget frightened, tired and upset about Pixemon." Sora added in as she held Yokomon.
Don't forget annoyed and frustrated.
I hate clowns and puppets now.
"Otherwise, we're fine." Matt said as he turned to look out at the ocean.
Is it just me or does this beach look kind of familiar?
"I have a feeling we've been here before." Izzy said.
Thank you Mr. Smart Guy.
I knew I wasn't going crazy.
Of course, this coming from the girl who heals people and has visions may be a bit ironic.
"Wait a minute, look." Izzy said.
"What?" everyone asked.
"Those smashed up phone booths." the red head pointed over to the rubble that was on the side of the beach.
"You don't think that they could be the same ones, do you?" Sora asked.
Yes, yes I do.
"Of course. I can't believe it. This whole time we thought we were making all this progress, but now it looks like we've been traveling in one big circle." Tai said.
We all got up and started walking off down the beach.
"So we've been going around in one big circle, huh?" Matt asked.
"Makes the whole thing seem kind of pointless, huh?" he asked.
"Hold on, maybe that's it. Maybe the pointlessness of it is the whole point." Sora said.
"Say what?" Agumon asked as he and Gabumon fell to the ground to rest.
"Thanks for the philosophy, that's a big help." Tai said.
The sound of someone crying for help made us all look off to see that someone was out in the ocean trying to stay above.
"Look, over there. Someone's drowning." Mimi cried.
Am I the only one getting a bad feeling?
"Somebody's gotta do something." Kari said.
"Everybody's too tired. They'll drown themselves." TK said sadly.
"OK, then in that case, we'll have to go." Kari said as she started running to the water with TK behind her.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Kaitoumon called as he flew over and picked the two up.
"Wait right there, kiddies. You're big brothers wouldn't want ya to get hurt and Princess would worry too much about you. Stay here and I'll go." He said as he set them down and flew off.
DemiMeramon settled down on Kari's head as we all watched the hybrid fly off to see who was drowning.
All of a sudden, the splashing was increased as the person rose up and it was an old friend of ours.
"A sea monster!" Kari cried.
"You can say that again. That's Shellmon and he's not here to play water polo." Tai said.
Shellmon blasted Kaitoumon back from the water that came out of his head, sending him back into the ocean.
"Oh no, Kaitoumon!" Gatomon called.
"We may be exhausted, but we just can't sit here. We've gotta help." Agumon said.
"No. leave to us, you'll need your digi strength." Motimon said as the In-Trainings started to digivolve.
"Bukamon digivolve to…GOMAMON!"
"Tanemon digivolve to…PALMON!"
"Motimon digivolve to…TENTOMON!"
"Yokomon digivolve to…BIYOMON!"
The flying and swimming Rookies all went off to fight Shellmon while Palmon used her Poison Ivy to tie up the sea monster as Kaitoumon popped up out of the water.
Biyomon then used her Spiral Twister as Tentomon used his Super Shocker that made Shellmon swim away.
Kaitoumon flew up and then sent out a blast of purple lasers at him, making Shellmon retreat down into the water.
Tentomon and Biyomon then fell down into the water, exhausted, but Gomamon used his Marching Fishes to bring them back to shore where they were taken by their partners.
"I know they're all dead tired and they may not feel like it at the moment, but I think today proved that our digimon are getting stronger and stronger." Tai said.
"That'd be great, but what makes you think so?" Kari asked.
"I remember the last time we took on Shellmon. Agumon had to digivolve into Greymon before we could finally beat him. And even then it was close. But this time they beat him easily without Greymon." Tai smiled.
"Yeah, but don't forget, Tai, they ganged up on him. It was five against one." Agumon said.
"Yeah, but they didn't have to digivolve as far to do it." Tai said.
"But Kaitoumon is a Champion level." V-Mon pointed out.
"I still say it means the others are stronger than ever." Tai said.
"But maybe Shellmon's just weaker than he was." The child of Light said.
"How come everyone's being a downer all of a sudden? I'm trying to be positive here." Tai said.
"Besides, I still can't get out of my mind the thing that Pixiemon said to me back then. I think he meant we had to get stronger and that's just what's happening." Tai said.
"I think it's stronger mentally and spiritually." DemiMeramon whispered to V-Mon, Kaitoumon and I.
He has a good point.
"Yeah, maybe Tai's right." Sora smiled.
"I feel stronger." Biyomon said.
"Come to think of it, you are looking kind of buff." Matt said as he pet Gabumon.
"Thank you very much. That's a compliment, right?" Gabumon asked.
"Do I look stronger to you, Izzy?" Tentomon asked as he buzzed over to him.
"I don't know. Make a muscle." The redhead said making Tentomon fall to the ground.
"I wanna be buff." He whined.
"Do I look different, TK?" Patamon asked as he was held by his partner.
"Yeah, you look buffed out to the max." the child of Hope said.
"Kari?" Gatomon asked.
"Well, to be honest, you don't look any different to me, but give it time, Gatomon. You'll catch up to the rest." Kari said to her cat, whose ears flopped down.
"If you say so." She said sadly.
"Come to think of it, your coat's looking glossier." Agumon said.
"Really, you think?" Gatomon asked eagerly making everyone laugh.
"Do we look any different?" DemiMeramon asked me as he, Kaitoumon and V-Mon crowded around me.
I hummed as I looked each of them over and yes they did change.
"DemiMeramon's looks healthier and so does Kai. V, you look kind of buff too." I said poking my dragon's arm.
"Thank you." He said as he started flexing and showing off the bugles in his arms as everyone laughed at him showing off.
"Did it get brighter all of a sudden or is it just Tai's sunny disposition?" Matt asked as the fog lifted and the sun shined down on us.
"Sunny what?" I asked.
"Forget it, Princess." Kaitoumon smiled as he patted my head.
"Maybe it's like a mirage." Tai said as we all looked around.
"Huh? Was that shack there before?" Matt asked as we saw the wooden shack that looked kind of like a surf shop to me.
It had some swimming and diving stuff there.
"Maybe somebody moved in while we were gone." TK said.
"Mmm. Something smells suspiciously like food." The child of Sincerity said as she sniffed at the air.
"Let's take it easy, everyone. Remember, we're in the Digital World where not everything is as it appears to be." Izzy warned.
"Looks may be deceiving, but smells; that's something else and I definitely smell grilling hamburgers." Tentomon said.
"See? It's a snack bar. Burgers, soda, ice cream, pizza!" he cried as everyone started visualizing food and drinks.
"Are you guys really gonna fall for this again? Remember the mansion where we thought the food and stuff was real? It was all a track by Devimon and you mean to tell me you're gonna fall for it again?" I asked in disbelief.
"Mirage or not, I'll take my chances. Gang way!" Tai cried as he led everyone over to the shack, everyone cheering and laughing happily.
V-Mon, Kaitoumon, DemiMeramon and I stood where we were watching them all go.
"You see now why I think you'd make a better leader than your thick headed brother?" Kaitoumon asked.
The four of us watched as they entered the shack, but as soon as they did, a sand storm started up and they were blocked inside by the huge mound of sand.
"What happened?" V-Mon asked.
"Oh no. It must be Scorpiomon, one of MetalSeadramon's followers. He has dominion over sand." DemiMeramon said nervously.
"Oh, great. Is the metal head around here?" I asked looking around with cautious eyes.
Just as I asked that, Kaitoumon grabbed me, my dragon and the In-Training and flew over to the trees, hiding with us there as a beige colored critter that was really big dug himself out of the sand.
MetalSeadramon then swooped in from the skies chuckling as he did so.
"Well done, Scorpiomon. These Digidestinds aren't so difficult after all. Here's your reward." The Mega said.
He dropped these clams down around Scorpiomon.
"Oh, clams. Thank you, thank you, Boss. I just love clams. I just can't get enough of them." He said gratefully as he cracked a clam open with his tail and then ate up the meat inside.
He then tossed an empty clam over to us, hitting V-Mon in the head and he yelped at the impact.
DemiMeramon caught the shell and shushed him.
"What was that?" MetalSeadramon asked making the four of us tense up.
Oh, we're dead.
"What is it, Boss? You want some?" Scorpiomon asked.
"Quiet! I thought I heard something." MetalSeadramon said.
V-Mon had his hand over DemiMeramon's mouth, while the flamer did the same to the dragon while Kaitoumon held me close to his chest and kept to the shadows as he hid us with his black floor sweeping coat.
"I didn't hear anything." Scorpiomon said as he gobbled up his food.
"Well, now to finish them off." MetalSeadramon said as he headed off to the shack.
While he was doing that, Kaitoumon flew off with the three of us so we could regroup and attack.
"Come back here!" Scorpiomon cried.
"Ah, he spotted us!" DemiMeramon cried.
"Hang on." Kaitoumon said as he sped off faster as the scorpion chased after us, huffing and puffing as he did so.
"We need to stay in the air. This place is our safest bet." The hybrid said.
"Huh, what's he doing?" V-Mon asked as he pointed down to the sand where Scorpiomon dived down into.
"He must be preparing an attack." DemiMeramon said.
"Oh great. Now what?" I asked.
Kaitoumon swooped down to a small pound where there were clams, V-Mon and DemiMeramon drooling at the sight.
"Let's get you guys some food. I'm starving." Kaitoumon said.
"Oh, finally!" V-Mon cheered as we were all set down and the digimon started gulping down the meat inside of the clams.
I laughed a bit at how eager they were to be getting something to eat and then looked up into the sky to check if MetalSeadramon was there and then looked to the sand in case Scorpiomon came back.
"These are just so good." V-Mon said.
"I love seafood." DemiMeramon said.
They both tossed their empty clams away and the sound of them hitting something hard sounded.
It must be a boulder or something.
"Get your mitts off my clams!" Scorpiomon said making us turn to see him in the water and he had been the one hit by the empty shells.
I held DemiMeramon while V-Mon and Kaitoumon stood in front of us protectively.
My digivice then beeped and glowed as my dragon was covered in the same light.
"V-Mon digivolve to…XV-MON!"
Scorpiomon used his Scorpio Storm, which was a sand storm that came out of his mouth, but XV-Mon jumped up and nailed him right in the mouth with his fist.
Kaitoumon then flew up and used his Stabbing Spike on him, but the stupid critter's hard shell protected him.
Scorpiomon then whacked XV-Mon with his tail, then grabbed Kaitoumon and threw him into the water.
"I HATE THE WATER!" he yelled as he went under.
"This isn't good. If only I was still Wizardmon, I could help." DemiMeramon whimpered.
"We can help. Both of us can lead him away so XV-Mon and Kaitoumon can get back up. Go get his attention." I said.
"Yes, Princess." He said as he flew up.
Oh no, now he's calling me that?
DemiMeramon used his Hot Tackle to get Scorpiomon's attention and he looked over to us just as the flamer spat a mini fireball in his right eye.
"Ah! You're gonna regret that." Scorpiomon said.
"Awesome job, Wiz." I praised as DemiMeramon flew over to me.
"We should run." He said.
I nodded and then we both took off, the sound of the scorpion calling after us and whining about running making it known that he was following us.
"Leave them alone!" XV-Mon yelled as he flew in with Kaitoumon.
"Digivolve, V!" I called as my Crest glowed and digivice turned gold.
"XV-Mon digivolve to…V-DRAGOMON!"
"Let's get him, V-Dragomon." Kaitoumon said as the two swooped down.
Scorpiomon used his Tail Blade, but V-Dragomon sliced through it with his sword while Kaitoumon flew in and blasted at Scorpiomon with his beams of purple light.
V-Dragomon and Kaitoumon then flew down and both delivered powerful roundhouse kicks to Scorpiomon, sending him over onto his back in pain.
"You guys are awesome!" I cheered.
"Truly stupendous." DemiMeramon nodded.
The angel and hybrid both flew over.
"Let's go save the others." V-Dragomon said after he ripped off his sleeves.
"What was the point in that?" Kaitoumon asked.
"They were kind of restricting." My angel shrugged.
He then scooped me up and we flew off, Kaitoumon dragging Scorpiomon with us.
When we got back to the shack, we saw MetalSeadramon was breathing fire out of his mouth.
"Is he gonna burn the place down?" I asked in worry.
"Not if we have any say in it." Kaitoumon said as he kicked a large hole in the back of the shack and revealed all of our friends inside.
"Rise and shine." He called.
"Tai, we need to move quickly." DemiMeramon said as he hovered over my dazed brother as he was just waking up.
Everyone was covered in sand and were just waking up.
"Everyone get up before we're all fired to a crisp!" I yelled as the group all started moving.
V-Dragomon, DemiMeramon, Kaitoumon and I were helping the others all stand and run out of the shack just as the place was set on fire.
"Everyone hang on and keep moving. We're almost there." My brother said as he hung onto Kari and TK as he helped them out.
Scorpiomon was left in the flames as we all ran off to safety.
We all watched behind the trees as Scorpiomon jumped out of the shack, crying in pain and then dived into the water just as the shack was completely burnt down.
MetalSeadramon was in a fit of rage as he picked up Scorpiomon and dropped him down into the sand, then took off.
That was a little mean.
"They're gone." TK said as we came out of hiding.
"Whoo. That was a close one." Sora exhaled in relief.
"But we came out of it OK, that's what counts." Tai said.
"I hate to tell you this, everything's not OK." Mimi said.
"Huh?" Tai asked as he jumped up.
"Mimi's right." Joe said.
"What did I tell you guys? Did I miss something?" Tai asked.
"The digimon still may not be strong enough." Joe said.
"He's right. It took DemiMeramon, V-Dragomon and Kaitoumon to take out Scorpiomon." I pointed out.
"Frankly, I don't see how they stand a chance against a fully digivolved monster like MetalSeadramon." Joe said.
"You could be right. Maybe Pixiemon meant something else when he said we were missing something. Whatever the secret is, we've got to find it if we ever hope to save the world." The child of Courage said.
"Yes and the sooner the better." Tentomon said.
The waves in the ocean then started to grow bigger as something started to rise up making us all cry out in fear of who it could be this time.
Be someone good we know, be someone good we know, please be someone good we know.
"It's MetalSeadramon again!" Tai said as the snake appeared laughing.
DARN IT!
"Let's go, V-Dragomon. The rest of you get out of here." Kaitoumon said as he went off for the attack.
"Got it." my angel nodded as he flew off.
"Gomamon, let's do it." Joe said.
"Right." Gomamon nodded.
Soon enough, he was Zudomon and we were swimming off away from MetalSeadramon as the hybrid and angel fought with him, leading him onto land as we escaped by sea.
"Does he see us?" Mimi asked.
"I don't know and I don't wanna find out." Tai said.
"Pathetic little fools. You think you can escape me by sea?" the snake called.
"I think it's safe to say he's seen us." Tai said.
Thanks a lot for stating the obvious, Big Bro.
"Oh, faster, Zudomon. We need speed." Tentomon cried as MetalSeadramonw as gaining on us as V-Dragomon and Kaitoumon rushed to keep up.
"Yeah, stop dog paddling." Tai said as we all looked back at the water snake.
"Tonight you sleep with the fishes." MetalSeadramon said.
V-Dragomon and Kaitoumon both attacked him with their blades, making him pause and turn to them.
"And as for you two." He said as he lifted up his tail and gave them a hard whack that sent them flying.
"Kai! V!" I called.
They were both falling over to us and they glowed as they began to shrink, so I ran up to catch them both as they were back to being V-Mon and a black and red version of Gatomon with gold eyes and he was taller with more muscle on him and had a red leather collar with tiny metal spikes on it.
"What happened to Kaitoumon?" Matt asked.
"The fighting must have drained him of his power too much. He's back to his Rookie stage, Nekomon." Gatomon said.
"Are you two OK?" I asked holding the dragon and black cat.
"I'll take a cheese burger with a chocolate milkshake." V-Mon groaned.
"I'll have what he's having." Nekomon moaned.
MetalSeadramon the dived down into the water making us all tense up in worry as we looked out to see where he could pop up.
"Uh oh." Tai said.
"Is he gone?" the child of Reliability asked.
"I don't think so." Mimi whined.
"I can't stand this waiting." Sora said.
"I bet he's right below us." Matt whispered and got shushed by my brother.
"Knock it off." He said.
We were all silent as we watched the waves gently roll over, everyone waiting in anticipation for the stupid snake to make his move.
The sight of his horn bursting out of the water made us practically jump out our skins.
"Whoa, he's gonna ram us." Tai said.
Just as he said that, MetalSeadramon rammed into Zudomon and sent us all flying off as the Ultimate was knocked over.
We all struggled to stay above the surface, DemiMeramon trying to pull Kari and I to keep us up while Zudomon went to fight MetalSeadramon.
Sadly, he got blasted with River of Power and was sent back over to Joe as he turned back into Gomamon.
"Never send a Rookie to do a Mega's work." MetalSeadramon chuckled darkly.
To be continued…