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Chapter 6
An idiots pride
"Baluluna Gale!" Witchmon fired a wind blade at Koemon and Coronamon, but both digimon were able to evade it, while their partners took cover behind the cut down tree.
"Banana Shot!" Koemon's banana slammed Witchmon right on the face, angering her, but it also distracted her enough to get hit by Coronamons burning fists.
She hovered a few steps back, while putting out the little flames on her clothes, before saying:
"Kitty's gonna be first to suffer," The witch raised her clawed hand and out of nowhere another stream of water appeared, which was too fast for the fire digimon to evade.
"Coronamon! " Haruka screamed worried while her partner flew over their heads, landing behind them, only making gurgling noises.
"Dammit," Hissed Arashi, Koemon now had to fight alone and he could do nothing to help the little digimon except for, maybe...
"Don't even think about!" Koemon exclaimed while he evaded Witchmons claws, his voice determined and harsh.
"You won't put yourself in danger for me to digivolve!" Arashi had no time to be surprised about the fact that Koemon had read his mind again, so he replied:
"But it's the only way for you to..."
"Stop insulting me! What sort of digimon am I if I put my partner into danger, just because I'm afraid to lose?! It's my duty to protect you and I will give my life if I have to!"
For a moment Koemon paused, he had just slammed his sling shot onto Witchmons head and now, while his opponent was still dizzy, turned towards his partner, with a wide smile on his face.
"So take Haruka and Coronamon and run, my stupid human!"
For a moment, Arashi didn't believe what he had just heard, Koemon wanted to sacrifice himself to save them?
'I'm sorry. I'm sorry for thinking of you as a coward, I'm sorry for being one myself.' Arashi thought to himself while turning towards Haruka, who was still trying to wake up her knocked out partner.
'But...' he nearly screamed inside of his head, before he whispered towards Haruka:
"Run back to the village, get help, maybe they'll make it in time, Koemon and I are gonna hold her of."
Haruka shook her head in resistance, but Arashi put his hands and both her shoulder and said:
"Please run." Before turning away and walking back to the fight.
"Survive this, don't leave me alone in this world!" Haruka cried out to him, before she finally followed his order and ran.
"Didn't you listen, I said you should all run!" The battle had turned against Koemon, the witch had easily recoverd from the hit on her head, much faster than Coronamon normally did, and was now constantly shooting stream of water at him, but he still screamed at his partner while doin a flick-flack to evade.
"We were both wrong Koemon!" Arashi said grinning towards his partner.
"We both though of each other as cowards, but now, let us prove that we are more, we are a team, we are partners!" Arashis words caused something inside the small monkey, something that had never happend before.
A large smile, an honest smile of happiness formed on his face and a single tear ran down his cheek, before he jumped right in front his partner, still smiling and exclaiming in excitement:
"Than lets show this magical bitch who's the boss partner!"
Something inside one of Arashis pockets reacted, a light came out of it and Arashi grabbed the object, it was this thing Sho had called digivice and suddenly he knew what was to do.
He raised the digivice above his head, the light was now so strong that it blinded Witchmon and with all of his strenght he roared:
"Koemon, digivolve!"
The light now wraped around Koemon and he started to change, just like Dracomon had done.
"Koemon digivolve too... Apemon!"
The blinding light faded moments later, the little monkey had completely changed, he was now at least ten feet tall, had a yellow fur covering most of his body and dark blue skin, he looked more like an Yeti or Bigfoot on summer style than an monkey.
He also carried a large bone in his right hand and now pointed it at Witchmon, like a sword, but still with his trademark smirk on his face.
"You think you have chance against me, just because you grew a little and got some more hair, please," Witchmon now charged at her new opponent full of confidence, slashing him with her clawed hands, which got blocked by Apemons bone half-way through the swipes.
For a moment they struggled against each other, but then it got clear that Apemon had for more simple strength and forced her back, while hitting one of her claws with his weapon, bending it in an odd angle.
"You'll pay for this!" Witchmons voice was now filled with pure hate and spite against the monkey, she raised he unwounded claw and shot another high pressure stream of water at the monkey, which he evaded without any problems.
"You got no chance, go before I'll have to get serious," Apemon warned her, after he had hit Witchmon another time, but his words only enraged her and made her laugh like crazy.
"So you're one of those types who doesn't want to kill, just like those jokes from Cloud-City, too bad I don't have any problems with it!" Again she raised her claw, but not at Apemon this time, she aimed for Arashi who was still standing next to the battle zone.
Apemon charged at her, he knew that his partner wouldn't be able to evade the attack, he had only one chance.
"Mega Bone Stick!" The yellow ape hurled his bone at her with all of his strenght, just a millisecond before she could attack, and she was slammed on a tree right next to her, getting smashed between it and Apemon's weapon.
"I only kill if I have no other choice." Apemon said solemnly while watching how the lifeless corpse hit the ground and desintegrated into millions of little light particles.
"You killed it," Arashi stated as he approached his partner, shocked by what had just happened, going down on his knees right next to him.
"You killed it," He whispered, but he didn't sound like he blamed his partner for anything, he simply mumbeld this to understand what had just happend.
"I had to, she would have killed you otherwise," Apemon replied, he understood the situation and did something he had never done before, well another thing, he hugged his stupid human, who started to cry into his soft yellow fur.
"I could have died Apemon, she wanted to kill me, why?" Arashi sobbed into his friend, but the giant monkey only replied:
"I don't know Arashi, some digimon are simply evil, they try to harm and hurt others for their own entertainment, Witchmon was probably one of those,"
"Thanks," the human finally said after he was able to control himself again and stopped hugging his partner.
"You saved my life and look at you. You're far more cool than this stupid Dracomons champion level, you could easily defeat this oversized lizard." Arashi told Apemon as he looked at the champion.
Apemon smiled a little, but since he was still Koemon, he couldn't help himself but make a remark about his partners emotional situation:
"Yep, for sure. Now all we need is Haruka to think the same and everything is fine," Arashi wasn't angry about this comment, no he simply fell down into the wet grass and started to roll around, non-stop laughing, into which his partner directly joined.
"Hey are you alright, Haruka said.. what the fuck!?" The young man and his Garurumon charged towards them, obviously expecting a battle to save them, but he was only greeted by two laughing idiots.
"So your partner digivolved, thats great." Arashi and Koemon had finally stopped laughing and explained everything to him.
"Come on, hop on we'll bring you back to the village, your friends going crazy for sure," The Garurumon spoke up, Apemon devolved back to Koemon now and both of them sat down on the giant wolf digimon, right behind it's partner.
It only took them a minute to reach the village, Garurumon raced between through the forest, Koemon and Arashi had for more than once the feeling that they would for sure slam into a tree, but the wolf had no problem evading them.
"Arashi, Koemon, are you alright?!" Haruka directly charged at them the moment they had their feet on the ground again and she hugged her friend tightly.
"We were afraid that Witchmon could have hurt you," Haruka said worriedly and Arashi and Koemon were finally back to business as usual, the boy blushed like crazy and Koemon smirked behind their back.
"Koemon digivolved, I wasn't even in danger and smashed Witchmon," Arashis voice got sad again now, remembering that they had killed the digimon.
"So Witchmons dead?" Haruka mumbeld after she let go og Arashi, shocked by this information.
"Yeah, it was me killing that bitch or the bitch killing Arashi," Koemon said with his neutral look and Haruka seemed to be a little shocked by his words, until she finally understood and sighed.
"There are digimon which are pure evil, they want to kill other digimon and destroy this world.
Sometimes there is simply no other way than killing them, they won't stop simply because we scare or hurt them." Garurumon, who had listend to them, explained, but Haruka's sadness didn't disappear, she simply mumbled:
"Yeah, seems so." and went back to the carriage.
Her mood didn't lighten up for the rest of the day, she sat on the carriage, hugging the still unconscious Coronamon.
"So, do you think we can control this digivolving thing?" Arashi and Koemon were sitting in the closest thing to a restaurant this place had to offer, a giant hollow tree stamp with some tables on the inside.
A friendly Burgermon gave away free burgers and they were currently eating them, Arashi a normal burger and Koemon a special one, with bananas instead of beef, a lot of chocolate sirup instead of ketchup and with no vegetables or salad.
"Seems so, you were not in danger and I digivolved after you commanded it." The monkey replied, with his whole face covered in chocolate.
"I thought that we needed more training and at least one emergency digivolving before we could do it, but I won't complain about this." Arashi said and a smirk was visible on Koemons face, behind all the chocolate, as he replied:
"I'm simply super strong and I would never let my partner get in danger."
Arashi now also smiled and said:
"Partner? So I'm not your stupid human anymore?" It felt strange, how much this incident had changed them and their relationship, this morning Koemon had been nothing more but an annoying and sometimes funny traveling companion, not a pet but also not really a friend.
And now, he was his partner, he suddenly trusted him more than anyone or anything, it felt strange.
"Only if you act stupid." The monkey laughed and then added, joking, "Shall I give you a little kissy as a sign of love and friendship" While forming a kissing mouth with his chocolate covered face.
"Kiss that you freak!" Arashi was also laughing while saying that and threw one of pillows, that were on the chairs for comfort, into the monkey's sticky face.
"Wow, am I really that handsome?" Koemon asked as he inspected the pillow, which had now a lot of chocolate on it, which remotely looked like a face, causing both him and his partner to burst out in laughter.
The rest of the day passed by fast, he and Koemon came along perfect now and didn't even need anybody to pass the time, they laughed and made jokes, it was very relaxing.
But sadly, Haruka didn't join them, she stayed on the carriage for the whole day, taking care of her still knocked out partner.
The next day also passed by fast, just like the one before, Koemon and Arashi had fun, but Haruka was nowhere to be seen.
Then, at late night, Wizardmon finally returned, his bag filled with many different medical herbs, the second one, since he had brought back his first without anybody noticing it.
The second carriage was filled with wood and at early morning they departed back towards Cloud-City, now Arashi sat on the second carriage, since he was now considerd strong enough to guard their back, while Haruka still sat on the first.
He was alone on it, the teams who had guarded them during the past days had stayed in the meadows.
It was not comfortable on this carriage, they sat on top of large chuck of wood and their butts ached from the uncomfortable position.
"Two more days Koemon, but at least we'll be paid more now," Arashi commented and Koemon agreed, money was good and getting more money for sitting on this uncomfortable chunk of wood was alright in his standards.
Only an hour had passed since they had departed, they could still see the forests in the distance, as the earth began to shake, causing the convoy to stop.
"Is this an earthquake?" Haruka asked Wizardmon, who shook his head and only replied with a grim look, "Worse."
The wizard was right, something rose behind on of the hill, it was at least five times, if not more, taller than Apemon and it caused the earth to shake.
It looked like an moving black stone tower, with countless guns attached to it all over it's body and it directly fired one of these weapons at them.
The projectile missed them, still causing a large explosion maybe fifty yards away, while the Garurumon now charged at it and shot blue flames out of it's mouth.
"That's Rookchessmon, he's an Ultimate, you don't stand a chance against it!" Wizardmon exclaimed, fear evident in his voice, but it was already to late, the flame had done nothing to the giant digimon and it simply kicked Garurumon and its partner away.
"Koemon, are you ready?" Arashi had already pulled out his digivice, ready to fight this just like his partner, but then someone else already went to their rescue.
"Flower cannon!" The energy projectile hit Rookchessmon and made it stumbled backwards, just to get hit by several more blasts.
"It's Lilymon!" Wizardmon exclaimed and pointed into the sky and he was right.
Above them hovered a digimon, some sort of female pixie creature, with clothes made of plants, her hands fused together into some sort of cannon.
Several more shoots hitted the pixie's giant opponent, until one shoot blasted through its chest, causing it to disintigrate into the small light particles into which Witchmon had turned.
"It's dead?" Haruka mumbled, shocked by the death of an living being, but they were already greeted by somebody.
"Is everything alright?!" It was a woman, maybe one or two years older than Ellie, wearing black boots, denim jeans and fur jacket, which contrasted to her short, fiery red hair.
"I can't see any other attackers Nora, everythings quiet now." Lilymon flew towards the women, who was clearly its partner and landed right next to her.
"Thank you miss Nora, you saved our lives," Wizardmon thanked Nora, while the others were busy lifting Gabumon and his partner on the front carriage, since they were wounded and couldn't guard them anymore.
"Don't mind it, I'll escort you back to Cloud-City, more enemies could be hiding and you lost one of your guards," Nora replied and hopped on the front carriage, right next to Haruka, while Lilymon flew into the sky again, to keep a good overview of the terrain ahead.
They departed again, while Nora helped the wounded young man and Arashi now had to share his 'comfortable' place with Tsubaki and her Gabumon, not that there was much space to share.
Koemon didn't even bother to sit on the full carriage, he was now riding one of the Monochromon and Arshi gave him a look, which clearly said traitor, but the monkey didn't care about it.
"Whats wrong with your girlfriend? She's been so sad for days now," Like always Arashi blushed after somebody asked him something like this and replied, stuttering.
"Shes not my girlfriend, we're just friends." Arashi then got serious and also a little sad:
"And I think she's sad because Koemon and I killed another Digimon, she doesn't want anybody to get hurt," Tsubaki looked at him a little strange, before she asked:
"And how do you feel about this? Do you want to kill Digimon or even other people?"
A hard question and the boy needed a few moments to find an answer to this:
"No, I don't want to kill anybody, but if somebody threatens to kill me or my friends, then I'll do everything to stop then, everything." The girl seemed to be satisfied by this answer, because she started to smile again and changed the topic, well kind of:
"You know that Haruka lied just as bad as you did. Maybe you two should think about making out."
Koemon had listened all the time and agreed to the girl.
"I like the way your thinking!" The monkey laughed towards them and Arashi blushed and decided to just ignore them, he could only lose if he argued with them.
But the girl was right about one thing, Haruka was sad, he could see it from his carriage, how she hugged Coronamon tightly and simply lay in the carriage, probably thinking about what had happened on the last few days.
He tried to talk with her while they sat at fire this night, but she directly went to sleep and didn't say a word.
Haruka avoided any conversation for the rest the travel and she directly headed for the hotel, once they were back in Cloud-City, not even taking her payment.
"Ok 500 dollar for your girlfriend and 700 for you, this should be enough, right?" Wizardmon gave both payments to Arashi, since it was clear that he and Haruka were 'befriended' and Arashi was too tired and his butt ached too much to even start arguing.
Once he was back in the hotel, he gave 200 dollars from his payment to Babamon, who gave him a big kiss on his cheek, something he would really liked to delete from his and especially Koemon's memory and then went to his room.
He had never knew how exhausting it could be to sit the whole day, especially if you're not sitting comfortably.
He quickly fell asleep, but Koemon was not in the mood for sleeping, he trotted through the hotel, looking for something he could eat, while passed by Haruka's room.
The door was slightly open and, since he didn't heard any water noises he peeked into the room to see what was going on.
He saw Haruka pushing he stuff into a bag, while Coronamon sat on her bed, the fire rookie then made a question to his partner:
"Are sure you want to leave?" Haruka replied quickly, with a sad but serious voice:
"No, but there are things I need to make up in my head and Nora said she would help me. We'll be going back to the Meadow with her tomorrow morning and we'll be far away before Arashi wakes up."
Coronamon didn't seem to be satisfied by this, so he kept on asking:
"But what about the idiot and his little idiot, I thought you liked him, he'll be sad for sure, hell I'll even miss the stupid monkey a little."
Haruka stopped for a second, she seemed to be troubled by this question, before she answered:
"Yes, I like him, maybe I even got a little crush for him, but thats why I need to do this. At the moment we're only a burden to them and I really need to make up my mind before I can say anything for sure.I'll leave a short letter for him that explains everything."
Koemon now turned away, he had noticed that his partner was standing right behind him and that he heard everything.
Arashi's face was sad, but he didn't say a word, he simply nodded towards the little monkey and walked back into his room, without either Haruka or Coronamon noticing.
Just like she had said, her room was empty the next day, only a letter lay on her bed and Arashi and Koemon read it together.
Dear Arashi
I'm really sorry for leaving like this, but there are things I have to deal with and I don't want to bother you with them.
I don't hate or blame you for killing Witchmon, it was in self-defense, but still the idea of killing somebody is terrible for me.
Nora offered me the possibility to train with her, until I'm stronger and make up my mind.
Again, I'm really sorry for leaving like that, I enjoyed our time together and I like you and Koemon a lot.
Please stay safe.
-Haruka
Chapter 6
End
Alright, Chapter 6 done.
What do you guys think of it ? Koemon evovled, Harukas gone, what will poor Arashi do now ?
Well you'll se next time.
And to anybody who didn't submit a OC to this story but who is still thinking about it, I'm still open for all kind of character, but please no more additional guilds.
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