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Humon?

-Chapter 13-

-Last time-

Izzy was the first to recover as he sat up with a groan, only to freeze as he came face to face with Centarumon's arm cannon. "Any last words?" The centaur digimon asked in a cruel tone as he yellow energy started building. Izzy just remained silent his life flashing before, silently praying for a miracle as he stared at his impending doom.

"Diamond Storm!" Several glowing white crystals suddenly embedded themselves into Centarumon's back, making him scream out in pain. His screaming increased as the black gear lodged into his back sprang free and disintegrated, before the half man half horse digimon collapsed to the ground with a groan.

Blinking in shock at the sudden save, Izzy slowly turned his head towards the source of the crystals to see Naruto weakly sitting up with Mimi's help, his arm extended in the digimon's direction before it fell to the ground with a thud.

"Can't even close my eyes for five damn minutes around here without something going wrong, can I?"

-And now-

Naruto groaned lightly as Mimi helped him onto his feet and over to Izzy who still lay on the ground in shock. "You alright there Izzy?" The injured blonde asked, getting Izzy to snap out of his daze. Scrambling up to his feet, and a fair distance away from the unconscious centaur digimon, Izzy struggled to calm his rapidly beating heart as he took several deep breaths.

"Y-yeah, I'm f-fine, p-physically at least." Izzy stuttered out as he shakily dusted himself off.

"Good, cause I pretty sure I'm about to…" Naruto glowed brightly and shrunk down to his chibi form, much to Mimi's relief. "…shrink." He finished as Mimi scooped him up into her arms and rewrapped the now loose bandages. "By the way, where's Tentomon and Palmon?" Naruto asked.

"Over here, ow," Palmon called out from a small crater as she and Tentomon limped over, covered in small burns and bruises. "Ouch! I'm pretty sure my bruises have bruises though." The plant digimon grumbled as she gently rubbed a particularly nasty bruise on her leafy arm.

"Ugh, what… what happened?" Everyone jumped at Centarumon's voice as said digimon slowly got to his feet while holding his head. "What am I doing out here?" He asked, looking around in confusion.

"Please tell me you're a good digimon now," Mimi begged, she really didn't feel like going through even more life and death situations today, two was enough for her thank you very much.

"Wha…" Centarumon groggily looked towards them, "What are you talking…" He trailed off as his eye centered on the small blue item clipped to Mimi's dress. "That device! Where did you get that?!" He demanded suddenly as he quickly rose to his feet, causing them to back away just as fast.

"This thing," Mimi said disdainfully as she grasped the thing with her still blood covered hand. "Fell out of the sky while we were at summer camp." 'and been nothing but trouble ever since.' She finished mentally.

"You know what they are?" Izzy asked getting a nod.

"Yes I have seen it before,"

-Que Convenient Transition-

The group was now back inside the ruins, standing inside a large open room before an alter like stone platform. On the far wall was a carving shaped just like the front of the devices Izzy and Mimi were currently holding. "Well, that is certainly familiar." Izzy stated.

"It is the mystical symbol of the digivice, these ruins are their temple and I am their guardian." Centarumon explained, "They are the preservers of the light and the last line of defense against the darkness that threatens existence."

"More like destroyer of my peace of mind," Mimi grumbled softly, drawing concerned looks from Naruto, Palmon, and Izzy. Naruto was just about to ask her what was bothering her, when a loud growling cut him off.

Turning to the source, the kids, their digimon, and Naruto tensed at the sight of Leomon standing in front of the only way in or out of the room with a blank faced snarl. "Leomon? What are you doing here?" Centarumon asked, looking between the tensed children and the humanoid lion with confusion.

"Must destroy the children." Leomon said emotionlessly, drawing his sword in a reverse grip and slowly marching forward.

"What insanity are you speaking of Leomon? These children are the possessors of the digivices." Centarumon demanded, moving in between the group and Leomon as the lion digimon quickly closed the distance between them.

"I must destroy the children, and you will not stop me. Fist of the Beast King!" Punching the air, a transparent orange lion head flew from Leomon's fist and straight at the centaur digimon who quickly dodged.

"Solar Ray!" Centarumon retaliated by blasting Leomon in the chest point blank, sending him skidding back several feet. "Now how about we stop this craziness before one of us gets serio-" "Fist of the Beast King!"

Centarumon was cut off when Leomon moved twice as fast as he normally could and slammed a glowing fist into the stunned digimon before he could react. The centaur digimon was sent flying into the wall, sinking several inches into the hard stone before falling to the ground with a groan, out like a light.

"Destroy the children… destroy the children…" Leomon chanted as he steadily approached the trapped children.

'This is bad, this is very bad… Tentomon and Palmon are too tired to digivolve and Naruto's in no condition to fight.' Izzy thought in dread as they slowly backed away, bumping into the wall after just a few steps.

'OW! Shit! OW! Shit! OW! SHIT!' Naruto thought as he tried to force himself to digivolve, only to end up cringing as intense pain flashed through his chest.

'Oh god, please somebody help us!' Mimi prayed as she held Naruto tightly to her chest, her whole body trembling violently in terror. "Why won't you just leave us alone?!" Mimi demanded, the only response she got being Leomon speeding up his little mantra as he got steadily closer. Acting desperately, Mimi grabbed the closest thing she could, that being the digivice on her dress, and lobbed it straight at Leomon's head with all of her strength.

"Must destroy the- GRAH!" Leomon was about to repeat his usual phrase when the digivice struck his chest and started giving off an intense light, making the lion digimon violently recoil.

"Whoa! It stopped him in his tracks!" Izzy yelled in surprise and relief, acting fast and quickly pointed his own digivice at Leomon as it too gave off an intense light.

"GAAAH!" Lemon howled in agony as the combined lights shined on him. Attempting to keep approaching, he recoiled as the lights got more intense, before he eventually turned tail and ran away.

"That… was surprisingly easy," Naruto said as Mimi retrieved her digivice. Based on his past history of all things battle related, Mizuki, Wave mission, Chunnin Exams, Sasuke's retrieval mission, and every fight since he'd got here, he honestly expected that to end a whole lot worse than this. Man, now that he thought about it, his luck really sucked when it came to fights.

"Yeah, well let's just be grateful for small favors." Izzy said, falling to the floor with a sigh as the adrenaline wore off.

"Amen to that," Mimi agreed as she plopped down next to him. A few minutes later, Centarumon woke up and lead them back to the entrance. When they got there, Izzy went straight to where his laptop was sitting and got back to work trying to translate what the ruins said.

Normally, Mimi would have told him off for wasting time when they should be trying to find the others, but right now all she wanted to do was close her eyes and get some more sleep. But before she did that, there was one last thing that was bothering her.

Walking over to where the black gear was sticking out of the ground, Mimi glared at the infernal hunk of dark metal as she pointed her digivice at it. With a flare of light, the gear was shattered into pieces and everyone was almost knocked off their feet as the ground suddenly shook.

"What the hell was that?" Naruto asked, not getting an answer as everyone focused on the broken gear as it started sparking rapidly. Before their eyes the broken sections seemed to meld back together perfectly with a final crackle of electricity before the gear started spinning again, only this time in the opposite direction. At the same time, the island shook again, this time managing to knock everybody but Centarumon off of their feet.

"Afm thfj? (and that?)" Naruto's muffled voice said from underneath Mimi.

-Old Batman Transition with Chibinarutomon's face-

"The island has completely reversed it's momentum," Izzy said with astonishment as he, Mimi with Naruto in her arms still, Palmon, and Tentomon stood at the edge of the island, watching the other island continue pass by them. Centarumon wasn't with them as he had to continue guarding the ruins. "It must be because you smashed that black gear," He mused.

"I honestly don't care about that," Mimi said, rubbing one of her slightly bagged eyes tiredly. "I just want to get some uninterrupted sleep already. I'm kind of jealous of Naruto right now." She admitted, looking down at the mini blonde in her arms as he snoozed away, purring happily as she gently scratched behind his ears.

"Ugh, your about to be even more jealous of him in about five seconds," Palmon groaned as she palmed her face. Mimi was confused at what she meant, for exactly five seconds till a familiar voice reached her ears.

"Duh, I knew you'd be back! Now are you ready to take me on that date now!" Sukamon yelled from the other island, Chumon flailing around from his gold poop looking friend hopping along at full speed just to keep up with the moving island.

A sweatdrop running down the side of her head, Mimi slowly backed away from the edge with a nervous expression, before swiftly hiding behind a nearby tree, leaving only her head poking out. "Palmon, what is the perverted poop guy talking about?" She asked.

"He asked you out like a dozen times while you were zoning out, I guess he took your complete silence as a yes." Palmon said, also sweatdropping at the sight.

Sukamon continued to chase after them or about five minutes or so before he finally reached the end of the island and was slowly shrinking into the distance. "Duh, oh come on sweetie! I know your there! At least blow me a kiss before you go!" He called out in one last attempt.

"Ugh fine, here you go!" Mimi yelled back as she and Palmon gave the digimon an eyelid pull taunt. "Nyaaaaah!"

"Ah come on! Do it like you mean it..." His voice faded out as they got out of hearing range.

"Now that that's over with, time to sleep." Mimi stated as she walked over to the closest patch of soft ground, plopped herself down, and almost instantly drifted off into slumber. Izzy didn't bother to argue, as it was getting dark again already and he was rather tired. Instead of going straight to sleep himself though, he helped Palmon and Tentomon collect palm fronds to make some makeshift beds and blankets first. When they finished, they carefully moved Mimi onto one without waking her or Naruto up, then finally settled in for the night themselves.

-End Chap- WAIT! almost forgot-

-Hilltop-

"Well, that was entertaining," Kitsunemon said in an amused tone, lowering a pair of binoculars from his eyes, leaning back into a fancy looking hammock while sipping from a fruity coconut drink.

"Ah, now this is the life. No annoying ningen around to seal me again, great entertainment, and by the Juubi have I been missing out having actual taste buds." He took another long draught from his drink to emphasize that last part. "I'm actually almost grateful towards that annoying brat, almost."

Indeed if it wasn't for his previous jailer, he would not be enjoying any of these delightful little privileges he now had. That was of the only reasons he hadn't just outright murdered the little bastard yet, plus as he said before that brat and his little friends made for some great entertainment to pass the time. 'Especially that little drama with one of those odd disks that morning, oh the horrified look on that useless girl I'd intentionally traumatized was quite delightful.'

Just made him feel all tingly inside that did.

He was taken from his little mental ramble when he realized his drink was empty. "Hmmm, need to find myself a good servant soon," He mumbled to himself as he glanced back down to the now sleeping group, then down to his empty drink, and finally to the pile of empty coconuts and fruit peels with a frown. "Oh well, I doubt I'll miss anything important in the next five minutes anyway." With that he lazily got up from his spot and wandered off to go get some more snacks.

Didn't wanna end up getting the munchies while in the middle of watching his favorite new show after all.

-Now End Chapter-

AN: I apologize again for not updating Interloper of Time yet, but I've been having a bit (read: A lot) of trouble remembering how I wrote the chapter exactly, and what I do rewrite I'm just not satisfied with. I will try to get it back on schedule by this weekend but until then hope you enjoyed this early chapter of Humon? instead. Thank you for reading and please review.