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Benjiro and Renjiro made their way trekking through the fields and woods with their digimon partners peacefully enough. Renjiro even spoke to the bashful DemiMeramon who remained stuck by his side, but only briefly.
"So," he said to the little creature suddenly, after a while of silence. "You're like... a fireball then?"
DemiMeramon looked up, slightly shocked at the sudden question from his partner, he nodded. "Yup, that's me," he sighed slightly, "the freaky fireball."
Renjiro scowled, "What's so freaky?" he asked sharply.
"Well..." DemiMeramon ventured, "I'm hardly cute."
Renjiro snorted. "Cute is overrated. You're fine."
It was not said warmly or with any overt care, but to DemiMeramon it was enough to show that on some level his partner approved of him, causing his eyes to shine happily.
"Thanks," he whispered as he tried to hide his delight, his stitched up mouth curling rebelliously to form a rare smile. His flames also gave him away as they turned a slightly pinkish hue for a moment, blushing.
"Don't mention it." Renjiro dismissed quickly, beginning to feel slightly uncomfortable.
The silence resumed.
Meanwhile Benjiro and Bukamon chatted away with ease.
"So Bukamon, tell me, this is a whole other world right? The digital world?"
Bukamon nodded enthusiastically. "You betcha!"
"And we're here to save it?" Benjiro's eyes sparkled at the idea of such an epic adventure.
Bukamon nodded even more until Benjiro was afraid his head might drop off. "Yep! You see we're the digidestined. Jijimon-sama will explain it all Benjiro, don't you worry."
"Just call me Benji," he grinned.
"Oh okay." He considered this idea seriously for a few minutes. "In that case you can call me Buka. Benji and Buka - the dream team!"
Benjiro laughed and scooped the little seal up into his arms. "Yeah, that's us."
Bukamon squealed with delight as Benjiro swung him around over his head. Then he was brought down to rest on the boy's chest, which after a whole day of searching and hiking and climbing he was very grateful for.
"Hmmmmm," he sighed with contentment as he snuggled into Benjiro's neck.
Benjiro smiled softly as he stroked Bukamon's scraggly hair. He'd always begged his parents for a pet and now he'd got far more than he'd bargained for in this little creature. A talking seal with a mohican - brilliant or what?!
Suddenly there was a noise in the bushes to their left, a scraping and growling. Like some sort of rabid dog scuffling around, angry and ready to attack. They all froze and Bukamon immediately jumped to the ground, alert, taking a protective stance in front of his partner.
Out came an angry digimon, which looked ridiculously like a mushroom. It had a purple shroom with small yellow circles on it and two arms and two legs, both of which looked muscular and wiry for such a small digimon. On its hands it wore bright neon pink gloves with a skull and cross bones patterned onto them, a warning that this fungus was potentially lethal. On its feet it wore the same bright pink boots.
Its eyes were unnaturally white.
Bukamon and DemiMeramon took one look at the eyes, grabbed their partners and fled.
But the mushroom digimon was not as slow as he seemed and was quickly able to catch up with them.
"Mushroom Mash!" he shouted angrily.
The attack headed straight for Renjiro, who paled and froze, but DemiMeramon threw himself out in front of him and took the blow instead, yelping slightly.
"Baka!" - Idiot - Renjiro cried as he saw his new friend take the hit. He ran over to him full of concern.
DemiMeramon got up, slightly dazed but without a scratch, and Renjiro was more relieved than he would care to admit.
"Not baka," DemiMeramon corrected weakly, "Friend."
Renjiro didn't know what to say to that so he just stood there in silence.
"You have no business here," a shrill voice suddenly piped up, causing everyone to turn back to the mushroom digimon. "Get out of my forest!"
"Who the hell are you?" Renjiro asked angrily.
"Mushroomon, and this is my woodland area so leave now." His white eyes stared at the four trespassers soullessly.
Benjiro shivered as he looked into the eyes. "What's wrong with him?" he whispered to Bukamon.
"Evil has invaded his soul..." Bukamon whispered back.
"We're just passing through Mushroomon," DemiMeramon said, attempting to end this diplomatically.
They all hoped that they could get away with this and be on their way, and they might have done. But Mushroomon began to cry silently, one tear drop after another, white, milky, gloopy tears flowing from his eyes. The white was slowly replaced with black and his expression quickly dropped as his mouth formed one straight, determined line.
Bring them to me. They are my prize. A voice in his head demanded.
Mushroomon nodded and turned to them with an almost hungry expression.
"You're all mine digidestined" he snarled.
Bring them to me. Dead or alive.
"Yes Master, Your will is my command."
"H-his eyes..." Renjiro stuttered as the tears flowed down the digimon's face, "what happened to his eyes?!"
"He's lost." DemiMeramon said, before he dragged Renjiro away from the possessed digimon as fast as he could, Benjiro and Bukamon following close behind. "He's been claimed."
Renjiro had a thousand more questions, but knew that now just wasn't the time. He simply gulped and allowed himself to be dragged to safety by his digimon.
"Fungus Cruncher!" They heard him yell behind them.
Then Renjiro heard his twin yelp in pain and he whirled round, running back to him before his brain had even had chance to properly catch up with events.
"Benji!" He yelled, his eyes wide with fear as the image before him of his twin knocked to the ground reached his brain.
Benjiro had been hit by the attack and was on the floor, momentarily paralysed by the pain. Bukamon was standing protectively in front of him, determination etched across his face. He actually seems serious for once, Renjiro thought approvingly. Deadly serious.
Renjiro reached his twin and tended to him while their digimon both stood in front of them fiercely, matching Mushroomon shot for shot.
"Mushroom Mash!"
"Bubble Blow!" Shot back Bukamon.
"Fireball!" Yelled DemiMeramon.
Mushroomon's attack hit Bukamon and both the in training digimon's attacks hit their target spot on. Bukamon was slightly injured but carried on fighting and the two of them began to wear the rookie digimon down bit by bit.
"Bubble Blow!"
"Fireball!"
"Yeah!" shouted Benjiro, cheering the digimon on as enthusiastically as he could manage without causing spasms of pain around his injury. "Show that vegetable how you do it!"
Its a fungus... Renjiro sweatdropped slightly.
Meanwhile Bukamon had turned to grin at his partner, lapping up his encouragement, when he was hit another time with Mushroomon's "Mushroom Mash!"
Bukamon was sent flying this time, and heavily weakened.
"Buka!" cried Benjiro, concerned and desperate to get up and help his digimon, but failing miserably in his attempts to even crawl.
Renjiro restrained him and became torn between wanting to run over and help the brave Bukamon and needing to stick by his brother so he could protect him if needed.
Bukamon struggled to get up too, but found that he hadn't got the strength. He groaned in frustration as he collapsed back to the ground. He didn't give up though, he was a persistent little seal and he kept trying, but he just hadn't got the energy inside him to get back up and fight.
DemiMeramon was left to fend for himself in the battle and do his best to protect everyone else alone.
"Fireball!" he yelled as he rained down attack after attack against the rookie digimon.
Unfortunately Mushroomon was quicker than he looked and he was able to dodge the attacks easily. Only one or two hit him and DemiMeramon was quickly beginning to get exhausted.
Mushroomon smiled, his black eyes boring into them as he attacked DemiMeramon once more. "Fungus Cruncher!"
DemiMeramon was sent flying and was now also too injured to get back up to fight.
Renjiro, I will protect you. I will find a way... He gritted his teeth and forced himself to get back up shakily.
He faced Mushroomon fiercely and shouted his attack, "Fireball!"
It hit Mushroomon directly and shocked him slightly, but none of their attacks had had much effect and this one was no different. It surprised him, nothing more.
Bukamon watched DemiMeramon and frowned, he drew on his last reserves of strength and stood up as well.
"Bubble Blow!" He shouted as his attack also hit Mushroomon head on.
Mushroomon shook off both attacks and grinned.
"I thought I had beaten you, but I was wrong. You can't last much longer though, you must have realised by now that you are merely entertainment?" He smirked and it was then that he decided to change tactics, aiming instead for the two teenagers.
"Fungus Cruncher!" he howled.
Bukamon and DemiMeramon watched in horror, they had to do something to protect their partners. This couldn't be allowed to happen.
Benji!
Renjiro!
NOO!
They acted without thinking, their only concern being to protect the twins at all costs. They both jumped up and threw themselves in the way of the attack, taking the blows meant for their partners.
But they didn't feel a thing.
At that moment there was a glow so bright that it engulfed them and revitalised their energy to full. Even more than full, in fact, it tipped them to overflowing. So much so that they cried out as they light consumed them.
The boys watched in awe as this happened and as they saw the glowing they noticed that each of their devices also glowed; Renjiro's with a pure white light and Benjiro's with a dark light. Their digimon were consumed by these lights and all they could do was stare as their partners cried out and began to change.
"Bukamon evolved to... Gomamon!"
"DemiMeramon evolved to... DemiDevimon!"
When the light had dimmed they could make out two figures that were no longer the familiar figures of Bukamon and DemiMeramon.
The first was a seal type creature with white fur and purple markings around his eyes and on his paws. He was physically bigger than Bukamon but had a far shorter mohican. His eyes were clear green and he had long claws which were black and very sharp. In fact although he looked adorable and sweet, on closer inspection it was clear you did not want to mess with this rookie level digimon.
Benjiro gasped.
The second digimon was a bat type digimon, with long, thick wings and a black mask over his face. He had large, cheery yellow eyes and long talons with three sharp red claws at the end. A skull and cross bones decorated his forehead and he wore a casual smirk on his face as he assessed the scene before him.
Renjiro just stared.
"DemiMeramon?" Renjiro asked uncertainly.
"Nope kiddo," DemiMeramon's shy voice had been replaced with a confident and laid back manner of speech in this new bat-like creature. "DemiDevimon, at your service."
"And y-you Buka?" Benjiro stammered slightly.
"I'm Gomamon now Benji. We just evolved to rookie level which means we're faster, stronger and better now!"
Benjiro looked at Renjiro in confusion and Renjiro raised an eyebrow in return.
DemiDevimon... A devil? Renjiro thought in disbelief. Hmmm figures.
Mushroomon hesitated, these digimon could evolve mid-battle?! What was going on here?
He trembled slightly as they turned on him, angry looks on their faces. And no wonder.
Destroy them. Bring them to me. That is my will.
"Yes master," said Mushroomon, all fear suddenly wiped from his face. "Your will is my command."
DemiDevimon and Gomamon exchanged glances.
"Let's do this," Gomamon said cheerfully.
"Gladly," smiled DemiDevimon darkly.
"Claw Attack!" Gomamon shouted.
"Demi Dart!" DemiDevimon cried.
They had aimed well and their attacks hit the unfortunate Mushroomon in the same place.
Mushroomon didn't even feel what hit him, his destruction was immediate.
His eyes wept black tears and he fell to the ground, limp and lifeless.
They had defeated him.
Gomamon walked tentatively over to the fallen digimon and sighed, using his claws to carefully shut the digimon's eyes closed to hide them. It was the eyes which haunted you.
Benjiro struggled over too, supported by Renjiro and followed by DemiDevimon.
All were silent. What could you say?
Benjiro knelt down and whispered, "It wasn't his fault was it?"
"No," Gomamon looked away from the lifeless body sadly. "He was possessed."
Renjiro knelt on the other side and began to wipe away the mess of black and white tears. "It looked so wrong..." He said sadly.
"It always does." said DemiDevimon, his usually mischievous eyes now sombre.
Then the two digimon bowed their heads and mumbled "Moishe" under their breath.
After a respectful pause the four left, headed for Jijimon-sama and their destiny. But now they were unsure of what they would find, this had drove into them the actual reality of what it would mean to save the world.
And it wasn't pleasant.
Foolish minions,
Such incompetent beings
They surround myself
But I will still be victorious
I cannot loose
For I am Omega, the end.
And for this world my judgement has arrived.
Weep all you creatures, weep your tears of fear
For soon you shall weep your very souls and it shall be I who control you.
For I am Omega, the end
And I come to destroy.
Heya guys, how was that?
I'm happy cause I'm enjoying writing this
I'm getting into my fanfics a bit more...
At the moment I'm really focussing on this fic and my more popular one Forever Friends, such contrasts yet I might tie 'em together a little... or not, I dunno! I just love writing them both! I've found two fics I can be really creative with and it's great.
Plus its summer yay!
Enjoy summertime everyone...
Much lovee from mee xXx