Tamers: New Destined Ones

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Story Start

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"Calumon zoom, Calumon zoom zoom."

"Something told me I was going to regret this decision." Naruto murmured to himself. The voice speaking was a Digimon, a small white Digimon with small ears on top of its head with a purple rim around the tip of them. It also had large sparkly green eyes and an upside-down red triangle on its forehead with a smaller black triangle on each of the sides of the triangle. The Digimon called itself Calumon and for all intents of purposes developmentally he seemed like he was five or six years old. Either way, the eternally happy and bubbly Digimon didn't have a partner in sight and it was dangerous to leave him unattended so Naruto befriended him in a matter of speaking. That was how Naruto found himself in the custody of the Digimon keeping him busy with so-called games while he tried and figure out a solution. "Hey Calumon…how about we play hide and seek?" he asked as he glanced around the park area. This place was big enough to have enough places to keep the Digimon out of sight while giving him a few moments to himself.

A scowl appeared to be ever present on Ruki's face as they traveled through Shinjuku Central Park, one of the frequent hot spots of the emerging Digimon. She silently fueled as Naruto's dressing down replayed through her mind fueling her current course of action. Her pride bruised, she was going to prove her status as the best and have Renamon stomp Coronamon. "I'll show him." At that point, Renamon fazed in beside her. Ruki turned her head towards Renamon and narrowed her eyes at her "Any sign of him."

Renamon nodded her head before pointing down a path. "I found the Tamer deep within the restricted section of the Park on the eastern side." Frequent damage from both battles and sightings of strange animals had resulted in part of the park closed and sectioned off for a pending investigation. At this rate, the entire park would be closed down soon for a full-scale investigation as current sightings of Digimon and the incidents were being filed under a combination of mass hallucinations and bombing maniacs.

Ruki looked down that path with a smirk on her face. "About time we found them." Ruki then continued down the path while Renamon fazed out of existence. Ruki continued down the path until she caught the side of the blond. He had his eyes closed and he was leaning against a tree slightly, his hand placed on it.

"So how much longer are you just doing to stand there and gape?" Hearing this Ruki walked out from behind the tree. "Makino-san something told me you'd be the first of the three I encounter."

"Look, I don't have time to waste I'm just here to finish our battle yesterday."

"Here to prove me wrong? You're wasting your time considering all your experience is based off a card game and fighting rookies and weak champions. If you wish for a rematch you have to take to heart this one statement. Without developing a meaningful bond with your Digimon you can't hope to progress any further."

"Meaningful bond? Digimon are just data and nothing more. So are we going to fight or not?"

Naruto shook his head and turned away. "It appears you still don't understand."

"Hey!" Ruki called out only for him to disappear in a gust of wind. Dumbfounded she stood there for a few seconds before she narrowed her eyes and clenched her fist. She was going to show him. She was going to make sure Renamon grew stronger and Digivolve then she'll show that blond bastard once and for all who was the best.

As if something read her mind, the holographic compass on her digital device flickered to life pointing her in the direction of a signal. A small smirk appeared on Ruki's face 'Perfect.' She then lifted her head up and asked, "Are you ready?"

At that point, Renamon phased leaning against the tree with her arms crossed over her chest before lifting her head up towards Ruki. "Always." The signal was tracked until they reached a creature flying high above the lake. From first glance, the Digimon's appearance was rather demonic with a large outstretched snout and four crimson slanted eyes, two on each side of his slick and sharp-angled head. The draconic appearance of the creature continued on with large seraphic wings with holes in the wings. By far the creature was the largest Digimon to have come to the real world. Its long and elongated limbs were attached to crimson claws and a long elongated tail which end resembled a closed claw.

Seeing the Digimon in front of her Ruki pulls out her digivice and points it at the Digimon. A holographic image of it appears before Ruki read off the information on it, "Devidramon a Dark Dragon Digimon. Champion level. Attacks are Crimson Claw and Demonic Gale."

The Devidramon landed on the ground and trained its eyes on the duo. It was then it growled out the words, "Tamer." Ruki's eyes widened at this statement. "This is going to be fun." It murmured as the cruel smile of the Digimon showed off its rows of teeth.

"Renamon, walk over all him." She ordered.

Devidramon began flying towards Renamon at top speed as Renamon opened the battle with a Diamond Storm. Devidramon spun and angled out of the way of the blast flying in an arc as it continued his attack towards Renamon.

Ruki pulls out a card and swipes sit through her digivice. "DIGIMODIFI... Frozen Wind, activate!" Renamon immediately follows up with a frozen wind attack that manages to nail Devidramon in its side freezing his right wing. "Now's your chance, finish him off."

Renamon leaped forward as her fists and feet were engulfed in a raging inferno of blue flames after glowing in a ghostly blue light, and then leaped forward. "Power paw." She launched him into the air with a series of kicks and slices. The Devidramon landed on the ground with a solid thud.

"These so-called champions are jokes," Ruki remarked as she folded her arms. "Finish him already and absorb his data."

Renamon nodded as she raised her arms and focused on the downed Digimon. "Diamond sto…"

"Red Eyes." The Dramon type cried out as his eyes glowed and hit Renamon with a paralyzing gaze. The vixen found herself unable to move leaving her vulnerable. The Digimon then flapped his wings and took to the sky. "Demonic Gale." It began a high-speed dive as it prepared to land an attack.

Ruki pulls out a card and swipes sit through her digivice. "DIGIMODIFI... Alias, activate!"

Just in time, a clone of Renamon had appeared taking the brunt of the attack while the shockwave had sent the real Renamon spiraling back. The Dramon type circled around again as he prepared for another charge. "DIGIMODIFI... Hydro Blaster, activate!"

Renamon counters the attack with Shellmon's patent Hydro Blaster, the high-pressure jets of water launched from the fox Digimon, but to Renamon's surprise her opponent twisted out of the way of her attack and aimed his focus on Ruki.

"RUKI!" Renamon dashed as she rushed to save her partner.

"Crimson Nail!" his claws flash as he prepared to slice Ruki up.

Frozen in fear Ruki stood there until suddenly Renamon had appeared between them. Ruki could only watch as her Digimon was slashed right in front of her. For a moment Ruki was stunned into silence unable to move. That was the first time one of the Digimon tried to attack her directly. She watched as Renamon slowly hobble to her feet. Ruki's eyes widened in realization as she saw blood pooling on the ground from Renamon's wounds.

"B-Blood…but…data can't…data can't bleed…" the words left her mouth as Renamon fell forward on all fours. "No…" Naruto's words from earlier played back in her mind. "Renamon, why'd you do it?"

Renamon just looks back at her "Because you're my partner." Renamon then falls back down towards the ground as Ruki tries to catch her.

"Done already? You partnered Digimon are as predictable as I've heard. I suppose I'll take your data and move on to the next one." Devidramon spoke as he slowly made his way towards the fallen Renamon. After all one of the staples of this Digimon was his joy in tormenting his prey.

This was her fault. Renamon was going to die and it was her fault. She let her pride and arrogance blind her and now…and now. Tears threatened to fall from Ruki's eyes as it landed on Renamon.

"Ruki get away while you can."

Ruki continues to look down at Renamon while still down on her knees "No, don't go away. Please don't leave me."

Renamon replies weakly "I have to. Please go." Before slowly closing her eyes.

"Crimson Claw!" Devidramon it charged forward.

"RENAMON!"

Calumon then appears out of nowhere and walks up behind Ruki with the triangle on his forehead glowing red slightly.

"Digivolution."

Large streams of blue digital data started racing around Renamon forming what looked to be a large blue egg of swirling data. "Renamon digivolve to..." Inside the shell of data Renamon's skin was peeling off of herself revealing blue square lines covering a slightly darker blue glowing form of Renamon. Renamon's form then started to change as the new skin was placed on her new form. The blue shell of data exploded revealing a larger yellow nine-tailed fox with a yin yang symbol on her head and the tips of her nine tails and her four paws were glowing a ghostly blue. "Kyubimon!"

The light radiating from the newly born champion caused Devidramon to jump back in pain.

Back on the battleground Ruki just stairs at Kyubimon in shock "You digivolved, but how?"

Kyubimon replies without taking her eyes away from Devidramon. "It was you Ruki, You made me digivolve."

Calumon stairs up at Kyubimon while the red glow from the triangle fades away. "Game time."

Devidramon sends a toothy grin at Kyubimon. "A challenge? I'm going to enjoy ripping you apart." Once more the Digimon attacked with Crimson Nail.

Seeing this Kyubimon closes her eyes "Its payback time." She then extends her nine tails as a ghostly blue fireball appears on the tip of each tail. Kyubimon then calls out "Fox Tail Inferno!" as she fires the nine blue fireballs at the draconic nailing several spots of its body causing it to hiss out in pain.

Before the Digimon could counter and recover Kyubimon jumps up towards it as a large blue flame then engulfed Kyubimon as she cried out "Dragon Wheel!" Kyubimon then started spinning in a ball of flue flames before a dragon form off it and head straight towards Devidramon. Devidramon lets out a scream while being engulfed in the flaming blue dragon before exploding into flakes of red digital data before turning blue and being absorbed by Kyubimon. The digital field then disappeared followed by Kyubimon landing in front of Ruki before speaking up "Ruki. Now, do you understand?"

Ruki just nods her head "Yeah, at least I think I do."

Kyubimon then continued, "I couldn't Digivolve until you really cared about me, Ruki."

"It appears I was wrong about you Ruki-san, you have a heart after all." A voice lazily called from a nearby tree. The duo turned and their eyes landed on the form of Naruto rested on a tree branch as if it was a hammock. Raising his hand he acknowledges their presence.

"You…how long have you been there?" Ruki demanded with a faint growl to her voice. Her narrowed glance was met with a cheeky grin.

"I was here for a while and I was wondering if my words had gotten through to you. It looks like you were able to come to an epiphany on your own and bond with your partner." He rolled from the tree and landed on his feet with ease. He had closed the distance between them with ethereal speed as he stood before Ruki causing her to realize how tall the blond was. Her head had reached just below her chin and his disposition was different than their first encounter. "You still want that rematch?"

If Ruki was stunned by the sudden question she didn't show it. She merely adorned a familiar cocky smirk that was right at home on the face of the Ice Queen. "We'll take you and your partner on anytime." Now that Renamon could Digivolve she felt more than confident that their fight was going to play out differently.

"Tomorrow morning, this location at seven AM then I'll see you then," Naruto remarked as once more he disappeared in a swirl of wind. Things from that point on were definitely going to be interesting.