Slowly consciousness dripped into focus, first was the warm breeze and smell of salt on the wind, then came the weight pressing down on his torso that felt suffocating to the small child and then with a flash the memories of his impromptu flight hit him harder than the ground had it was almost enough to make him ignore the weight in his pocket that was not there before his misadventure.
He tried to push himself up off the sand he found himself lying on but the weight on his chest was too heavy for him to move easily, looking down he saw the weight turned out to be some yellow rock, bringing a shaking arm up he tried to push it off himself and found it surprisingly plush given its weight.
With a steadying breath and with the aid of both arms he was able to dislodge the yellow blob from his chest with a quite thump as it hit the sand, waking the creature as it hit the sand with a soft thump sound.
With a startled yelp that sounded suspiciously cat-like the yellow blob hurriedly looked around before its shiny red eyes found Harry, bouncing along the sand to get closer again before starting to do what could only be described as some sort of victory dance without limbs.
"Nyaromon find Harry, yes yes Nyaromon did good!" The now identified Nyaromon exclaimed as they pranced around.
Surprised that they knew his name, after all only his teacher seemed to use his name, he was much more used to being called Boy.
"Your name is Nyaromon?" Harry asked, already warming up to the Digimon, they used his name so they can't be bad said the logic of an eight-year-old. "Where are we?" he muttered while looking around the beach for anything to tell him where they were.
"Nyaromon is Nyaromon! A Digimon!" The Digimon bounced excitedly for a moment before seeming to mull over their location. "Oh, Nyaromon knows this place, yes yes we are near Colea beach, Nyaromon likes sunbathing here!"
"Colea beach?" Harry asked confused, he knew a few beaches in his country from school but that didn't sound familiar at all or even British.
"Nice place on file island, Nyaromon knows all places!" They boasted and bounced slightly, even Harry could tell their boast was false.
Choosing not to call his new friend out on their harmless boast Harry reached into his pocket to finally find out what the weight was, grasping his hand around the object he drew it out of his pocket to get a good look.
It was an odd thing, a light blue almost white colour with an irregular shape, almost like a square with scooped out corners. Just looking at it gave him the feeling that it was extremely important to keep it safe, pocketing the item for now as his ears picked up a shout.
"Water shot!" echoed across the beach as a stream of water shot out of the shoreline and hurtled towards Nyaromon.
For a moment it seemed like time slowed down for Harry, he saw the water slowly inching towards his new friend bit by bit and his body moved without even thinking, with speed he should not possess he shot forward and pushed the now strangely lighter blob out of the way, the water glancing off his arm, leaving it an ugly red from the rough stream.
As Harry pushed Nyaromon out of the way they watched in panic as the attack hit him instead of them as they sailed through the air, landing with a thump of and impact closer to the shoreline, close enough to see what had attacked them.
It was a large crab like shape that scuttled out of the water, its claws flexing menacingly towards the in-training Digimon.
Wasting no more time Nyaromon shot forward across the sand and slammed their tail as hard as they could into the side of the crab.
The blow seemed to unsettle the crab, knocking it back a few feet, clearly not expecting the lower Digimon to fight back it snapped out with its claws attempting to bisect the Digimon, which given the size of the claw against the size of Nyaromon would likely not be that hard.
For Nyaromon though it was extremely easy to duck under the swipe and unleashed another slam with their tail into the underside of the claw, kicking the arm connected to it up.
The Crabmon growled in frustration, the prey dared to fight back against it rather than accept its death, it opened its mouth and fired a much more powerful jet of water hoping to remove the yellow blob from existence.
It was at that moment that the situation changed, as the water was about to impact with Nyaromon a surge of energy seemed to escape from as their body twisted and changed shape, they grew four limbs and their ears transformed into a floppier style while their fur lightened to a white colour, finally a golden collar seemed to materialise around their neck.
"I digivolved?" The newly digivolved Salamon questioned before pulling their focus back to the water closing in and let out an ear-splitting howl to dislodge the water from its path, sending it harmlessly splattering the sand.
Crabmon seemed to understand the threat that they now posed, aiming to end this fast they scuttled across the sand at their max speed before attempting to slam their claw down like a hammer on Salamon.
The now much more nimble Digimon easily sidestepped the swing and punched out with its forelegs, giving a little cry of "petit punch" as they hit home sending the crab back into the sea and out of range to threaten their human.
Grabbing Harry by his leg the Digimon tried to pull him inland away from the crabmon and towards safety.
If they had looked back, they would have been treated to the crabmon swimming to the surface of the ocean and going suddenly very still as a shadow grew over it. In a feat of universal bad luck for the crabmon, a gigantic shell landed on them, the force of a champion level Digimon air dropping onto them sending them spiralling to the ocean floor, if they even survived the impact.
