Myotismon trots slowly towards a dark alleyway, with a communicator device in hand.
"This is the place, sir?" He spoke softly into the device.
"Yes it is, Myotismon." Axeknightmon responded, sitting on a large plush chair in his lair. "We'll pay them whatever they want. We need those Divermon to stop that meddling brat and his digimon. Understood?"
"Yes sir." Myotismon chimes and stuffs the device back in his pocket. He walks into the alleyway and comes across the Divermon gang.
"What's a formal vampire like a Myotismon doing in these parts?" The head Divermon said, clearly hostile.
"To hire you all of course." Myotismon smirks. "Now listen closely…"
(Meanwhile)
It's been a day and a half on the waters and the supplies I've managed to store are running low. The once joyful faces I saw when we first took off are replaced with tired, emotionless faces. Well, except Coronamon. I think he's the one thing keeping Whispered from jumping off the boat.
"Derin, why are we even on this boat?" Guilmon asks, tilting his head to the side. I did tell Guilmon most of the story but I guess I left out the part of why we are on this boat.
"To find this pirate digimon named…" I trail off.
"Olegmon." Coronamon said smiling. Guilmon's eyes widen in excitement.
"Is he a cool pirate digimon?" Guilmon asked, looking to Coronamon.
"No." Whispered responded before Coronamon had a chance. The smile faded on Coronamon's face as he stepped on Whispered foot, causing a yowl of pain to come out of Whispered. "I'm right!" Whispered growls.
"Just because he did the right thing and you didn't all those years ago, doesn't mean you get to insult him." Coronamon says while glaring at Whispered. Whispered huffs and turned his body to the side, mumbling. Seeing Coronamon act like that was rare. Maybe talking about this Olegmon guy hit a nerve. "Yes Guilmon, Olegmon is a very cool pirate and might I add his ship, Misery, is amazing!"
"I can't believe I get to meet a pirate." Guilmon says.
"That cool pirate worked with my dad." Lalamon chimes in, but her voice is seemingly unamused. Guilmon got even more excited.
"Really?!"
"Yeah." Lalamon said. I watched the waters, looking at all the little fish that swam under the boat. While the four digimon had a more or less interesting conversation I noticed bigger shadows in the water, circling our boat.
"Um guys?" I say but my voice was overshadowed by the conversation they were having. Suddenly, a giant metal spear comes out of nowhere and goes right through the boat, almost taking me with it. "Holy crap!" I yell as we all begin freaking out. Our boat starts to sink as another spear hurls right at it, snapping out boat in half. I fall into the water and start treading water. My leg is grabbed from under the water and I'm forced back in. It takes me a few seconds to finally open my eyes and see the hoard of digimon who are trying to drown all of us. It was a bunch of white and blue fish with huge ugly lips. Each of them have webbed feet and a red oxygen tank on their backs. They each carry a spear. There seems to be over twenty of them, four of which are holding my digimon underwater, drowning them as well. In a burst of energy, I kick the digimon holding me and swim to the surface. I wail my arms in the air. "Help!" I scream hoping anyone would hear me.
Fear creeps into my entire body as the reality that we are in the middle of the ocean kicks in. Before I can scream again, I'm pulled back under the water by the ugly fish digimon. I struggle to keep conscious and I see that the others are about to give up as well. What have I done? I've pulled them all to a horrible death. Just as my vision starts to blur completely, the grip from the digimon is gone and I'm pulled up to the surface.
"Whipping Waves!" I hear a female voice yell. As my vision clears I can see all the digimon who attacked us being flown away by massive waves. After a few moments, I finally sat up. I looked at the digimon who saved us. She has light green skin with fins on her head and hips. Her two piece bathing suit was pale blue with a dark blue trim. Her helmet was like her bathing suit except it had red jewels. She turned to me and smiled.
"Are you all alright?" She asked. I look up at her and cough softly before answering.
"I'm okay." I say as I turn to see the others. Whispered coughs up water.
"Those fucking Divermon…" Whispered snarls as he sits up and helps Coronamon. Lalamon starts floating again and Guilmon sits up too.
"Thank you ma'am." I say as I bow my head in respect. She laughs softly.
"No need to call me ma'am. The name's Ranamon." She says. I finally realize we're all on a wave. It starts moving towards the north. "If it's alright with all of you, I'm taking you back to my small home island. I wanna make sure you guys can get back safe and sound." She says.
"Thank you Ranamon." I say before turning my body around to see Whispered trying to catch the fish that jump out of the water.
"I see you have some cat problems as well." Ranamon says, scooping up a fish and throwing it to Whispered, who catches it in the mouth.
"You've got a cat?" I ask. I never wondered if regular human world animals existed in the digital world before.
"No, just a grown man with cat-like tendencies. He's my boyfriend." Ranamon says. I see a small island in the distance and soon after a few more minutes we are able to step onto it.
"Dry land…finally…" Guilmon says as he rolls around in the sand.
"Me and my boyfriend save digimon lost at sea or that need help and bring them here to this island to heal them and get them back to shore." She saves as she leads us in the small cave on the island. It is dimly lit and has a few small fish like digimon inside of it, playing around. I hear heavier footsteps approaching.
"Ranamon, that you?" A cool masculine voice says. Out of the shadows comes out a large human looking digimon. He has flowing light purple hair that looks like water. His face has five stripes on it. Two for each cheek and one at the chin. He wears a tight looking white jumpsuit with yellow zippers on it. He has a water droplet symbol on both of his shoulders and feet. His toned body and handsome face really show with his green emerald eyes. "Oh, you brought more." He looks at me. "...and a human?" He asks.
"They were being attacked by Divermon. I just had to save them!" She says as she kisses the man on the cheek and flees to another room in the cave. The man looks at us. His eyes shift over to Coronamon and Whispered. Coronamon walks up to the front after being held back by Whispered.
"Hey Splashmon!" He says all happy. The man, or Splashmon, looks at Coronamon and his eyes widen.
"Apollomon?!" He questions loudly. Coronamon nods his head and Splashmon picks up Coronamon. "Damn Apollomon, you got smaller." Splashmon says and then looks over. "Wait, that must mean…"He trails off, his face in utter shock as he stares at Whispered. "Whispered..?" He asks. Whispered nods.
"Hi Splashmon…" He says in a monotone and dead voice. Splashmon picks him up and Whispered scratches at him. Every claw mark inflicted goes away within seconds. "Put me down you beauty obsessed skank!" Whispered yells and Splashmon smiles.
"Seems some things never change" He says and puts them both down. Whispered eyes Splashmon up and down and for a moment, his eyes flash with disbelief. My attention diverts to Guilmon and Lalamon who's stomachs I hear rumbling.
"Hungry?" Splashmon asks, grabbing spears and throwing them to me. I catch most of them but some fall. I scramble to get the rest. "You guys can go get fish out there." He says. "I'll come out there in a bit. I've got to speak with Ranamon." Splashmon says, waving his hand dismissively.
"Oh, right! Thanks!" I respond, giving a spear to Guilmon and Coronamon. I question myself as if I should give one to Lalamon or not. I gulp and give one to her, which she can barely hold. I give one to Whispered and we all make our way out of the cave. Though when we are all outside, Whispered puts down his spear and sneaks back in.
(With Whispered)
Whispered runs in front of Splashmon, stopping him from going into the secret room Ranamon went into.
"What do you want?" His voice was more irritated than the first encounter.
"To talk." Whispered responds back.
"Why? Wish to catch up with a "work buddy"?" Splashmon says mockingly. "I'm trying to talk with Ranamon. Get out of my way, fur-"
"You can also smooch your fish later. Now, do you really want me doing something that would even make Coronamon want to jump off a bridge?" Whispered says, baring his claws. Splashmon laughs.
"You know you can't hurt me. But fine, if you want an audience then I'll bless you with such."
"Good, now tell me. How did a guy like you even get to be known as someone who's always saving and helping people? Sure is a lot different from when you were ruling Cyber Land." Whispered asks, his claws retracting. Splashmon scowls slightly while pondering his answer. He breathes in deeply.
"Well, the one most important component would be trust." He answers.
"Trust?"
"I know I know. Quite hypocritical of me, the dark general who didn't trust anyone. But it helped a lot after everything." He sighs. "My whole life I've been on edge about everyone I met. And frankly, made my life miserable. But it was the only reflex I knew after all the betrayals I went through. The one with Axeknightmon doesn't help, but at least he's gone." Splashmon says. Whispered's lips become dry as memories of a few days flood back but he keeps listening. "When I was revived after the prison land incident I tried changing. It was hard, sure, but when I finally got the trust back of people without being hurt, it made me feel better." He smiles. "And when I met Ranamon things were even better! So yeah, trust may have its ups and downs but I guess it's about trusting the right people." Splashmon says, looking down at Whispered. "That answers your question?"
"Yes, I suppose. It kinda goes along with what Gravimon-"
"Smart mouth's alive?" Splashmon interrupts.
"The flower over there killing all the fish is his daughter." Whispered says, laughing.
"Damn, well what did Gravimon say?"
"Stuff about forgiveness."
"Those two do play along I guess. Forgiveness is a start and trust is the stuff you build after it." Splashmon says and shrugs. "I don't know. I ain't smart mouth." He chuckles. "Now let me ask you a question."
"What is it?" Whispered asks.
"What were you doing on a boat with a human?" Splashmon asks.
"Oh, it's a long story. The kid randomly showed up one day and apparently we're partners. Then we had to go on a stupid journey to this volcano with Shoutmon-"
"Shoutmon?!" Splashmon interrupts again, making Whispered mad. "The guy we fought, our king Shoutmon?" Splashmon says. Whispered kicks him in the ankle.
"Yes. We had to free Gravimon from this magic cell thing but turns out Gravimon wasn't Gravimon." Whispered says, his voice turning more angry and upset.
"Who was it?" Splashmon asks. Whispered hesitates for a moment before saying blankly.
"Axeknightmon." He looks up at Splashmon, who's face contorts with surprise and anger. He stays silent.
"Let me guess, you're trying to warn the generals and so you came looking for me?"
"Warning the generals, yes. Looking for you, no. We were going after the happy pirate."
"Olegmon? His ship returns tomorrow. I've been secretly keeping track of it."
"Weird." Whispered replies, crossing his arms. Splashmon doesn't respond to the comment.
"Well, whatever you need me for, I'll be there." Splashmon says. Whispered's eyes light up a bit.
"Oh…thanks I guess." Whispered actually smiles. "I'll tell the others." He said and walked off.
(Back to us)
I watch all the fish near us get killed by Lalamon's green nubs for hands. I see Whispered walk over to Coronamon and tell him something, making him excited.
"Derin, guess what?" Coronamon says. "Splashmon is willing to help if needed."
"Okay?" I asked, confused.
"Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you that he's another dark general. Well, was a dark general." Coronamon says. My confusion drifts away as I smile.
"That's two down then! Four more to go!" I boast out. I look over and see Splashmon and Ranamon come out of the cave. "Thank you so much!" I yell over to Splashmon who just smiles and waves it off with his hand. Ranamon looks impressed and then turns to me.
"We'll be back later. We need to do a supply run. Keep the island safe for us!" She yells over before summoning a wave to take her and Splashmon away to the mainland. I watch as their forms retreat to the waters. I turn around and see the mound of fish Lalamon and Guilmon got.
"Lalamon did most of the work." Guilmon said as he watched Lalamon try to spike more fish.
"We have more than enough, Lalamon. Come on back." I say.
"But it's fun!" Lalamon pouts but ultimately goes back over to us. I collect the spears and go into the cave to put them back where they were. While I was deep in the cave making sure I wouldn't make a mess, I hear screaming. I run back outside and see everyone running back to the cave entrance. I look further up to see the gang of those digimon Ranamon said were "Divermon".
"Derin, now may be a good time to fight back." Whispered states as him and Lalamon stay in front.
"Got it!" I say, pulling out my fusion loader. "Whispered! Lalamon! Digivolve!" I yell.
"Coronamon Whispered digivolve to…Firamon Whispered!"
"Lalamon digivolve to…Sunflowmon!" The two champion level digimon stand still as there is now a line of Divermon.
"Sunshine Beam!" Sunflowmon shouts as her petals glow, striking the enemy with the harmful rays. It's able to knock out the line of Divermon but not delete them. A whole bunch of Divermon come up from the sea and charge. Whispered and Sunflowmon do the same.
"Fira Claw!" Whispered swipes at a few Divermon. One jumps up.
"Abyss Dive!" The Divermon shouts jumping high into the air before slamming right back down into Whispered, grounding him to the sandy surface. "Striking Fish!" A few yelled, hitting Whispered with their weapons. A growl of pain ripped from his throat.
"Sunshine Gun!" Sunflowmon shouts, firing dangerous seeds at the Divermon, getting them off Whispered. "Are you alright?" She asks the black and blue lion.
"I'm fine…" He groans, getting up slowly before shaking his head. Divermons surround the two and swarm them. They hit them with everything they've got and my digimon retaliate but I realize it won't be enough.
"Get out of there!" I yell, stepping closer before Guilmon pushes me back.
"Let me help!" Guilmon demands.
"Are you crazy? You're only a rookie level digimon!" I remark. Guilmon turns to me.
"I know! But I want to repay you for giving me a chance at a new life." He yells back at me. "You're my friends now and I have to help protect you!" The red dragon starts to glow just like the other two have. My fusion loader screen glows and I look at Guilmon and sigh.
"I respect you a lot, Guilmon. Let's do this!" I hold out my fusion loader. "Guilmon! Digivolve!"
"Guilmon digivolve to…Growlmon!" He exclaims and out comes a larger dragon. He looks just like Guilmon but with sharper claws and teeth and now has spiky white hair along with two new red horns with that familiar black stripe. Growlmon runs up to the hoard of Divermon and jumps up. "Pyro Blaster!" He roars, spewing out a powerful flame attack. All the Divermon are knocked back, some farther than others. I look over to see Lalamon and Whispered worn out and dedigivolved.
"Lalamon! Whispered, return!" They glow and return back into my fusion loader. "You got this Growlmon!" I shout and Coronamon cheers along with me. Growlmon howls, knocking even more Divermon back and the rest cower. One Divermon stands up and walks in front of the others.
"We knew you were all going to give us trouble, so we got a little help!" The Divermon says with its ugly voice. Another different digimon comes out of the water. It resembles a puffer fish but it is all metal and is very sharp. It has two arms with red clothes wrapped around its wrist and has spikes on its knuckles. "Finish them off Pukumon!" The Divermon yells as Pukumon lets out an angry noise. Growlmon charges at Pukumon to try and claw at it. Pukumon rewinds its fist.
"Britain Punch!" Pukumon punches Growlmon in the chest, knocking him all the way back and he smashes into the cave. He struggles to get up and I run over to him.
"You got this Growlmon! Beat that spiky pufferfish to the abyss!" I say.
"Derin, Pukumon is a mega level digimon!" Coronamon adds.
"So?" I remark.
"Growlmon is way weaker than Pukumon! It's an unfair battle!" But as soon as Coronamon is done speaking, Growlmon charges at the fish again.
"Growl Claw!" Growlmon speaks as he tries slashing at Pukumon but is hit away.
"Needle Squall!" Pukumon fires its sharp spines from its head at Growlmon, cutting places all over his body. Pukumon then follows up with another punch, leaving Growlmon knocked back as he glows and turns back into Guilmon.
"Guilmon, return!" I yell and Guilmon goes into the fusion loader. I hold Coronamon close to me as Pukumon gets closer, readying itself to attack us. I cover Coronamon with my body, protecting him and shut my eyes. I prepare myself for the worst. After a few moments of nothing happening, I look up again to see Pukumon backing up and the Divermon trying to flee as well. A giant wave blocks them from escaping. A giant shadow is cast over the whole island. I feel another set of hands on my body as I look back to see Ranamon.
"We were told by one of the fishy digimon that something was attacking. Come on." Ranamon says as he lead us on top of the island cave where I finally see what's casting the shadow. "I told you I had cat problems." Ranamon laughs. It's this huge white mean looking tiger. It looks hideous and has huge sharp yellow teeth with dull purple stripes along its body. Its claws are the same color as its teeth. And like I said, it's huge!
"Is that?" I start.
"Yep. It's Splashmon!" Coronamon responds looking up. A light purple bubble is formed around us as Ranamon stands up straight.
"Tiger Typhoon!" Splashmon yells as he consumes the whole island in water, driving all the Divermon and the Pukumon to deletion as they are hit over and over again mercilessly. When it's over and the water becomes closely still, a figure emerges from it and it is Splashmon in his more humanoid form.
"Everyone alright?" He asks as Ranamon leads us down to the sand shore again.
"Me and Coronamon are but the other three were hurt in battle and are healing." I say, looking down towards the ground.
"It's alright. You must have put up a good fight to give us all that time to get back here." Splashmon smiles, walking closer to us. "Olegmon will be on the mainland tomorrow which should give your digimon enough healing time. Let's head inside, we'll take care of everything." He states as he leads us inside. Me and Coronamon are given small cots to sleep on and we finally get to eat all the fish that we, well Lalamon got. This was one of the most eventful days ever on our journey, but I bet one thing. It won't be the last.