Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Digimon Dark Prophecies ❯ Out of the Frying Pan ( Chapter 2 )

 

[[[A/N]]]

This is a collaboration between two authors. We take turns writing chapters. It is now my turn [Tekai Shinji], and next will be Sintarious.

 

[[[Disclaimer]]]

I do not own Digimon, or it's characters or world. I did, however, write this.

 

Digimon Dark Prophecies

Chapter 2: Out of the Frying Pan. . .

 

"What now?" Kai asked the group of friend around him, the question bringing the air down like a wave of cold dread. "We have no idea where we are in the Digiworld, we don't know where the nearest settlement is, if there is one, and we have no food or shelter, or knowledge of how to get back home."

Ele rubbed two fingers of her free hand across her temple. If there was anything more annoying than when Kai was being himself, it was when he was actually making sense. Whenever he made sense, that usually meant bad things.

"Well, I guess the first thing to do is to find some food," Ele noted, suddenly realizing she was very hungry. "Shall we split into teams, then?" The rest of the team shrugged their agreement.

"I'll go with you, Ele," Colline said, not wanting to be stuck with 'the boys'.

"And I guess we can go us three, huh?" Andrew asked, looking at the others.

"Sure, sounds good to me," Chris said.

"Alright, then!" Kai practically yelled, giving a thumbs up to the group. "We'll meet back here in 45 minutes with whatever food you can find."

Ele rolled her eyes to the heavens. He just had to be loud and aggravating, everywhere they went, didn't he? She looked up at the crystal blue sky through the tree branches surrounding them, and saw a few clouds pass by. But they didn't look like normal clouds. She couldn't quite tell what was different about them, but something didn't look right.

"Uh, how are we gonna know where 'here' is?" Colline asked, breaking Elessa's train of thought. "I mean, it's not like there's anything special here. . .it's just a clearing." She turned around and looked through the forest, trying to see if she could spot any distinguishing features, but nothing. Everywhere looked the same to her. Just deep forest, with earthy browns and leafy greens, on all sides.

"We could light a signal fire," Andrew suggested, and began looking for suitable wood. Everyone pitched in, including the digimon, and within minutes, they had a nice sized fire burning in the middle of a stone ring, that didn't spew smoke out, but gave the team a decent sized thread of smoke to follow back to the clearing.

"Ok then, like Kai said, meet back here in 45 minutes, right?" Ele questioned the boys before they split into the woods. As a group, they all tapped fists, and yelled out, "Kick it!" The digimon tried to do this as well, but vainly failed, as most of them didn't have long enough arms. The humans laughed at the attempt, and gathered their respective digimon, heading off into the woods.

 

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"So, Kai, what do you make of this place?"

Kai, Andrew, and Chris were walking over the undergrowth, through the woods, double checking every few minutes to make sure the thread of smoke was in view. Koromon and Kokomon sat on Chris and Andrew's shoulders, watching as their partners gathered various fruits and nuts, occasionally testing a new one they came across, and passing one to the digimon, before putting the ones they liked into Kai's Naruto bag. Tokomon, however, was sleeping atop Kai's head. 'Ever the odd one,' Andrew had chuckled to Chris when Kai offered Tokomon the bed. Chris couldn't help but laugh along with him.

"What, you mean the Digiworld?" Kai responded to Andrew's question, turning his head he had cradled into his locked fingers carefully. Tokomon stirred a bit, but didn't waken.

"Yeah. I mean, what does this mean? Everything we see is digital information, from how these guys put it." Andrew pointed a finger to the Koromon on his shoulder. "But what about us? We're not digital data, we're humans." Kai nodded his head in agreement, still not jolting Tokomon from his sleep.

"I see your point," the raven-haired boy replied. "Still, look at it this way. What is a video game? Digital data, right? For all we know, we might be inside one of our games, like thi-." Kai stopped suddenly as he reached a hand down to his pocket, and noticed his gameboy wasn't there. "Where'd it go?" He asked himself. "Did I drop it somewhere?"

"What?" Chris asked the tall boy, frantically checking his pockets, still not waking Tokomon in the process.

"My Advance!" Kai exclaimed, referring to his gameboy. "It's gone! I had 78 hours put into that game, too!"

"Dude, forget it,"Andrew laughed. "What's gonna happen when the batteries in it die, anyways? It's not like you can buy more anywhere around here."

"JUDAS!" Kai yelled, pointing a finger at the brunette. "EXPLAIN YOUR TREACHERY!!!" Andrew sighed, and shrugged his shoulders, at least as much as he could with Koromon there. Kai dropped his hand back to his pockets, and began to check them feverishly again. "Huh?" he exclaimed. "What's this?"

Kai removed his hand from his right pocket, and opened it up. Laying in his palm was a dark green mechanical device. It looked something like a digital wrist watch, but there was no strap, and nothing on the display. There was a clip on the back that made it look like it was meant to be some sort of a fashion accessory.

"Heh, can we say 'wickedly cool-looking', children? When did I get this thing, anyways?" Kai asked his friends. "Do you recognize it?"

"No, but I have one, too," Chris replied, pulling out a similar device, colored navy blue, from his own pocket.

"Hey, I do too. . .What are these things?" Andrew asked, holding his own device, his a deep red, between his thumb and forefinger, holding it up to the sky. "Whatever," he said off-handedly, dropping his device into his pocket. "Look, let's just try and find some more food, and then head back to the clearing. It's been about 20 minutes, wouldn't you say?"

"Yeah, that sounds about right," Chris put in, adding his device to his own pocket. He noticed that Kai had calmed himself considerably, but was still going through his pockets with reckless abandon, his device clipped to the bottom of his jacket as it hung halfway down his torso. Chris pointed to a tree he saw behind Kai. "I say we get some fruit off there, and then head back." Andrew nodded his agreement, and tapped Kai on the shoulder.

"Yo, you comin'?"

Kai sighed, and gave up, trudging along with the other boys to the large tree.

"Hey, gimme a lift," Andrew said off-handedly to Kai, wanting to get up to the higher branches. He thought the fruits up there looked like they were in better condition.

Kai cupped his hands together, and Andrew put his foot in. With a grunt, he was lifted up high enough to grab onto a branch and haul himself up. Chris shielded the sunlight from his eyes with his hand and looked up at his friend, worry written all over his face. Andrew reached over to the nearest over-sized blueberry looking fruit, and picked it, bringing it up to his mouth to give it a taste. His eyes grew large, and he picked a few more, tossing them down to Kai and Chris.

"Try 'em, guys, they're delicious!" he yelled down.

Tentatively, Chris took a small nibble of the fruit. He had to agree with Andrew, he'd never tasted a fruit this good before! He looked over at Kai, and saw that he had wolfed the whole fruit down at once. Whether in stupidity or trust, Chris couldn't tell. It could very well be both. Kai looked up at Andrew, and wiped his mouth with the back of his arm.

"Dude, get as many of those as you can!" Kai yelled up, "Then we'll head back to the clearing to meet Ele and Colline, k?" Andrew nodded his response.

"How that Tokomon can manage to sleep through everything Kai's putting him through is beyond me," Andrew mumbled to himself, picking more fruit, and tossing them down to Kai and Chris. Kai opened his Naruto bag, and began stuffing the large blueberry fruits into it, with the rest of the fruits they had picked.

"Hey, it's not ramen, but it's food, right Uzumaki?" Kai chuckled to himself as he talked to his bag.

Once his bag was full, Kai zipped it up and slung it over his shoulder, yelling for Andrew to come back down. Andrew inched his way to the bottom branches, and prepared himself for the fall of about 6 and a half feet. Before he was able to jump, however, a creature about the size of a basketball jumped out of a hole in the tree. The thing looked like a large mechanical bug, red in color, and flew over to Andrew on small, whirring wings.

"Super Shocker!" the bug yelled out in a tinny voice, as a ball of electricity the same size as himself, appeared in his arm-like appendages, and flew towards Andrew, hurling the electric mass at him. Andrew, frozen in fear, was nearly struck by the ball of electricity, but Koromon, who had come up the tree with Andrew, threw itself in front of the blast, and was knocked to the ground below.

"Andrew!" Chris and Kai yelled in unison. Tokomon finally jolted awake, and began to look around for the source of all the noise, when he noticed the bug digimon attacking Andrew. Chris and Kai ran over to the tree, Chris picking up the fallen Koromon, and prepared to catch Andrew as he jumped. But Andrew never jumped, as he was too afraid to move. Koromon weakly looked up, and saw as the wild creature made it's way towards Andrew.

"Leave him alone, you Tentomon!" the pink creature in Chris' arms yelled up at the flying bug. Koromon began to glow with a white light, and Chris dropped him in shock. Kai's eyes were drawn to the light as well, and Andrew looked down at it too. Then he noticed the device in his pocket glowing with a similar glow. He pulled it out, and the light surrounding it and Koromon seemed to intensify.

"Koromon digivolve to....Agumon!"

The light began to dim, and vision slowly came back to the group. As the light faded from their eyes, the pink Koromon had disappeared, and in it's place stood a yellow dinosaur-looking creature in it's place.

"I said, leave him alone, bug breath!" Agumon yelled up. He reared his head back, and let out a large fireball, straight for the Tentomon. "Pepper breath!"

The fireball made contact with the Tentomon, and drew his attention away from Andrew, but didn't quite stop his flight. It turned to face the two humans on the ground, and the digimon that stood there with them.

"I see I'll have to deal with you, first!" Tentomon growled out in his high pitched voice, and flew towards the grounded group.

"Tokomon digivolve to....Patamon!"

"Kokomon digivolve to...Lopmon!"

Two flashes of bright light consumed the Tokomon on Kai's head and the Kokomon on Chris' shoulder. Twin flashes of light came from the devices on Kai's jacket and in Chri's pocket. As they faded, Tokomon was replaced by a strange looking creature, beige on top and white on bottom, that looked something like a very large guinea pig, in body composition. His ears were long and webbed, resembling wings. The Kokomon on Chris' shoulder had been exchanged for a dark colored rabbit-like creature, with ears that hung down onto Chris' shirt, and three horns sprouting from his head. The Patamon on Kai's head flew off, and up to the Tentomon's level, and Lopmon hopped down from Chris' shoulder, and up towards the tree as well.

"Boom Bubble! PAH!" Patamon yelled, letting loose a concentrated concussion of air at the Tentomon, knocking it out of the sky and onto the ground in front of Lopmon.

"Lop Twister!" Lopmon began to spin rapidly, creating a small whirlwind, which he promptly flung at the Tentomon, sending him spiraling into the air, and threw him against a tree.

Kai and Chris stood staring at the sight, mouths wide open. Patamon, Agumon, and Lopmon all began to celebrate exuberantly at their victory over the Tentomon, who was knocked out cold against the tree. Slowly, Chris turned towards Kai.

"Kai," he began. "What. . .the HELL. . .just happened?" He looked up at his friend, hoping he might have seen something he didn't that would explain the entire situation. Unfortunately, he hadn't.

"It's all Greek to me," Kai answered with a shrug.

"Uh. . .Guys? Could I get a hand down?" Andrew called from up the tree, now clinging to the limb with every intent of staying. His head whipped around, constantly looking out for other digimon threats.

"No, I think we'll leave you up there," Kai called, starting to walk away from the tree. The trio of digimon were done with their celebration, and Patamon nestled himself back on top of Kai's head, slightly heavier now, but no more bulky. The adrenaline running through his system wouldn't let him get back to sleep, but he certainly got comfortable.

"Kai! Come on!" Andrew yelled to him.

"Jeez, Andrew! Quit being such a wuss!" Kai teased. "Just jump!" He started to walk away again, laughing to himself.

"I'll help you, Andrew," Chris called up, laughing to himself at his friends misfortune.

 

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Colline and Elessa were at the clearing, sitting on a log, when the boys got there. However, Colline's Yokomon was nowhere to be seen. Instead, a large pink bird with a sort of anklet was there with them.

"Hey, how'd things go for Tweedle-Dumb and Dumber?" Ele called out teasingly to the group approaching the clearing.

"I dunno, you'd have to ask them yourselves," Kai replied with a smile.

"Pipe down, Tweedle-Dumbest," Colline joked to Kai. He clutched at his heart, and made dramatic gagging noises.

"Oh, you got me! Like a knife to the heart, you finally got me!" Kai moaned, falling to the ground.

"Right. Well, once Kai's done going off into Lala Land," Andrew said, "We've got plenty of fruits and nuts here with us. How'd you guys fare?"

Colline patted the bag she had sitting next to her. It was bulging with what looked like food as well.

"Sweet, munchies, yes!" Kai yelled, pulling himself to his feet and starting a dash for the other bag of food at the same time.

"Hold on, there, hotshot!" Ele purred to Kai, picking up the bag of food, causing him to faceplant into the ground as he grabbed for it. "Aren't you going to introduce us to your friends?" She waved her hand to the new digimon standing next to Andrew and Chris, and now floating above Kai.

"Huh?" Kai asked, oblivious to what she was saying. "Oh. Ele, Patamon. Patamon, Ele," he answered, waving his hand with no enthusiasm. "Kai, FOOD!" He dove for the bag again, only to be meet with the ground a second time as Ele moved the bag out of the way.

"And the others?"

"This is Agumon," Andrew answered, waving towards the yellow dinosaur standing beside him.

"Nice to meet you!" Agumon said with a smile.

"And this little guy here is Lopmon," Chris said, patting his partner's head. Lopmon smiled to the group.

"And this is Biyomon," Colline said to the boys, picking up the large pink bird and setting it next to her.

"So I take it you guys have some of these as well?" Kai asked, holding up his device, his face still in the dirt.

"Yeah, we have them too, but not the same colors." Ele held up her own device, showing it to be a pale blue color.

"Yeah, mine's pink!" Colline said, showing her own to the group. Sure enough, it was colored a bright pink.

"So, what are these things?" Chris asked, holding his blue device in his hand.

"I dunno, but they helped these guys change. . .I think." Andrew tossed his red device into the air and caught it.

Kai stood up from the ground, and sneaked up behind the bag of food, where Ele couldn't see him, and made a third dive for the bag of food. Ele moved the bag out of reach again, though, and Kai was met with a faceful of dirt for a third time. He stood up, and glared at Ele.

"You, madam, are the essence of true evil," he said to her, with a completely serious look on his face. He pointed to her, and yelled out 'EVIL!!!" Ele just rolled her eyes to the heavens.

"Whatever, don't you guys have a bag of food with you, too?" she pointed out. "You've wasted all this time trying to get to this bag, when you could have eaten out of that one. I couldn't stop you from eating out of your own bag."

". . . .SHOOSH YOU!" Kai yelled, pointing a finger at Ele a second time. Again, she rolled her eyes, and tossed the bag over to Kai. Kai squeed happily, and opened the bag, taking out a handful of fruits, and began to eat them, offering the rest of the bag to the other boys. They gladly accepted the offering, and tossed the bag they had picked to the girls.

"You found some different things than we did," Andrew said to the girls. "Check out the big blueberries, they're awesome!"

"Yeah, and what you went through to get 'em, too, huh Andrew?" Kai joked, elbowing him in the ribs. Ele looked up to Kai, her curiosity piqued.

"What do you mean, 'what you went through'?" She asked, one eyebrow rising to her hairline.

"Well, we were attacked," Agumon said through a mouthful of fruit from the girls' bag. He swallowed the fruit with an audible gulp. "By a Tentomon."

"Huh. We were attacked too." Biyomon piped up. "By a Tentomon as well."

"We must be in Tentomon territory, I guess," Patamon quipped, eating fruit atop Kai's head, careful not to get any juice in his hair. "We should be ok here in this clearing, though. Which is good, 'cus it looks like it's getting close to nightfall." The group looked up, and sure enough, the sun was starting to set.

"Well, I guess we can set up camp here for the night, then. . ." Ele suggested. "I mean, it's not much, but it's better than where we can get attacked by wild digimon, right?"

The group gathered more firewood, and got the fire going a bit higher, before setting out to make beds for themselves on the ground. They gathered as many leaves as they could, and set out pillows for themselves, often using bits of wood to make the pillows taller without the use of too many leaves. After they were satisfied, they ate their dinner of fruits and nuts. Kai tried cooking a few over the fire, to find that they burned rather quickly. He took a bite of one, and ended up coughing out a mouthful of ash.

"Jeez, you idiot," Colline commented. "If somethings burnt, you usually DON'T want to eat it!"

"You're just jealous 'cus you didn't think to try cooking your food, first!" Kai snapped back, a smile on his face. He stuck another nut on the end of his stick, and held it just over the tips of the flames, not burning it up this time. He took it off when he decided it was done, and took a bite, before spitting it out again.

"What's the matter?" Andrew asked. "Those nuts leave a bad taste in your mouth?" He started to laugh at his own joke. Ele and Colline rolled their eyes for what seemed like the thousandth time that day.

"Men," they said in tandem, before giggling to themselves again.

The group settled down to sleep after sundown, and quickly the throes of slumber had hold of them, dragging them into the land of dreams, most of them clinging to their partner digimon tightly. Kai found himself in the worlds largest arcade, holding a credit-card that never ran out of money. Chris was back at school, actually able to talk to people, and not afraid of large groups of people. Andrew was back home as well, on a date with a girl he'd had a crush on for a while. Colline was in the mall, on a shopping spree. And Elessa. . .Well, she didn't really have a dream. She wasn't able to get to sleep.

"Is something wrong, Ele?" Demi asked her partner.

"Why haven't you gone to sleep, mine?" Snow asked, rubbing her cheek across Ele's. Elessa sighed.

"I dunno, guys. This all bothers me," she answered the two digimon laying on either side of her bed. "I mean, why us? Why were we brought here? And what happens now?"

"I can answer that question," an ominous voice said to Ele from behind her. She bolted upright, and whipped around, to find a large Shogun-looking samurai, wielding a giant sword. Her eyes grew large and her breath became rapid as she took in the sight of him.

"Muh, what's that, mum?" Kai mumbled in his sleep. "Hot chocolate's done?"

"WAKE UP!" Elessa yelled to the posse. "NOW, GET UP!" Everyone present, human and digimon, sat upright, suddenly wide awake, and jumped to their feet, looking around for the source of the noise. Their eyes were all drawn to the 8-foot tall samurai standing at the very edge of the clearing, the fire throwing shadows along his armor, giving him a very dangerous look. He raised his sword, the tip of it bent upwards, rather unlike a traditional samurai sword where the entire blade is curved, and held it straight at the group.

"Shogun Sword!" he yelled out, the sword starting to wrap itself in flames. The fire took the form of a dragon, and flew out, aiming straight for the center of the group.

All five friends and all six digimon dove out of the way of the fire, just in time for it to blast a hole three feet wide and several feet deep in the middle of the ground. Eleven pairs of eyes shot back and forth between the hole and the source of the fire, suddenly going into combat mode.

"Pepper breath!" Agumon yelled, launching his own fire attack at the samurai. The ball of fire hit him square in the helmet, but made little difference to him. His helmet still had licks of fire clinging to the edges as he raised his sword overhead, and brought it crashing into the ground where Agumon stood just moments before. Agumon rolled to the ground with Andrew, who had pulled him out of the way.

"Spiral Twister!"

"Boom Bubble! PAH"

Biyomon and Patamon had flown upwards after the initial attack from the strange digimon, and hoped they hadn't been seen. When he had attacked Agumon, they assumed that was as good a time as any, and launched their own attacks. The concentrated air, however, did nothing more than move a few loose pieces of clothing around, and Biyomon's attack, a green spiral of energy, did little more than Agumon's Pepper Breath had done.

The digimon picked up his sword once more, and swiped across the sky, aiming for Biyomon and Patamon. Patamon had managed to get out of the way, but Biyomon had her wing tip clipped by the sword as she tried to get out of the way. She cried out in pain, and plummeted to the ground below.

"Biyomon!" Colline raced to her side, and picked up the pink bird, holding her close. She looked down at her wing, and while it didn't look serious, it certainly looked painful. The wing could still move, but there was a large red mark left on the tip, under her feathers, where the blade had nicked Biyomon's wing. Colline looked up at the large samurai digimon, and started to back away, her body shaking with fear.

"Lop Twister!" Lopmon shot a twister at the threatening digimon, but it was as ineffective as Patamon's Boom Bubble. The digimon looked over at Lopmon, and began to slowly walk towards him. Chris ran up and grabbed Lopmon, rolling with him safely in his arms, out of the digimon's way.

"What were you thinking, Lopmon?" Chris chastised his partner. You could have been killed!"

Elessa grabbed at Demi and Snow as they ran towards the digimon themselves, but missed and only got handfuls of air.

"Pooch Slam!" they cried out in unison, slamming all of their weight into the opposer. It did little to damage him, but did cause him to stop walking. He looked down at the SnowSalamon and HolySalamon in front of him, and raised a fist.

"No! Don't do it!" Elessa cried out. Kai looked up from where he was holding Patamon, and saw the two digimon about to be crushed.

"Grab on, Patamon, and hold tight!" he whispered, setting Patamon in the Naruto bag across his back. Kai ran up, and grabbed both Demi and Snow, less than a second before they were about to be crushed, as they repeatedly slammed their weight into the digimon. A dog under each arm, Kai ran both Demi and Snow to Ele, where she gladly took them, and nodded her thanks, tears starting to form in her eyes.

"So, what do we do now, Kai?" she asked him, wiping the half-formed tears away.

"Well," he replied. "To be honest, I. . .I don't know." Kai looked up at the demonic samurai standing before them, and tensed his body as the sword was picked up again.

"Shogun Sword!" A second time, flames began to circle the digimon's sword, and take the form of a dragon. A second time, the dragon shot forth. Kai and Ele closed their eyes tightly, knowing what was coming their way.

"Is this it, Kai?" Ele whispered to her friend.

"Yeah, I think so, Ele. I think so."

 

TBC

[Tekai, out]