Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Elements of Good and Evil ❯ The Water Palace ( Chapter 4 )

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Chapter 5: The Water Palace

"Takatomon, wakey wakey."

"Mmm, huh?" Takato said tiredly.

He woke up to see a big red smiling face of a dinosaur.

"YAHHH" He said, startled. Then he remembered. "Guilmon, don't sneak up on me like that!"

"I was getting bored. There's no one to play with, since Calumon is asleep." Guilmon said sadly.

"Oh well, might as well get up. I can't get back to sleep when I've been woken up." Takato pulled of his covers and left Ryo sleeping on the bunk above him.

"Five o'clock. Man it's early." He said looking at the clock. He decided to go to the dining room to get some breakfast, not that he really needed it, being in the digital world and all. The ark was now a lot bigger then the last one. It had been made bigger, mainly because of the tight squeeze Grani, or the ark, depending on what you want to call it, was.

He got to the dining room to find someone was already up. "Good morning Takato." Kenta said. "What are you doing up so early?"

"I could ask you the same question." Takato said. "Guilmon woke me up."

"Aww, but I was boooooored." Guilmon complained.

"So you mentioned." Takato said grumpily. Then he turned his attention back to Kenta. "What about you? What are you doing up so early?"

"Bad dream," he replied. "and Kazu's snoring kept me up after that."

Takato laughed a tired laugh.

"How long till we get to this water palace." Takato asked.

"3 hours." He replied.

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3 hours later, they arrived at the front of the water palace. The palace appeared to be completely submerged underwater. They could see into the palace as they flew over it, as the walls appeared to be made of glass. They landed on the beach beside it.

"All ashore, kiddies." Kazu yelled out.

"Finally, I was getting bored." Calumon said happily.

"Calumon, stay here." Henry said.

"What? But I'm BORED." Calumon yelled.

"It's too dangerous." Henry said.

"Suzy's going." Calumon pointed out.

"She might be the one who merges with the water spirit." Henry said.

"What about Impmon? He gets to go."

"Impmon can digivolve if trouble breaks out. Your much safer here." Henry said adamantly.

Calumon's ears shrunk in disappointment.

They left the ark and began to discuss how exactly they could get into the water palace.

"Maybe the water isn't real, like that cave we were in when that data stream got us." Henry suggested.

Takato took off his goggles and dipped them into the water. When he brought them back up, they were wet. "I say that's a big no."

"Well, maybe we can transport somehow." Henry suggested

"Hey guy," Kenta began "Maybe we could.."

Rika interrupted him. "Hey Brainiac, mind telling me how you plan to do that? You gonna contact your spaceship?" she said, irritated.

"Maybe we can.." Kenta started again

"Well, at least I'm trying, Rika!" Henry said, now annoyed.

"HEY, NUMBSKULLS!" Kenta yelled out. Everyone looked at him in surprise. He was normally quiet, unless he was being silly with Kazu. "Maybe, if you can somehow find a few brain cells to bang together, then maybe, just maybe, you might think of using the DOOR!" He said angrily as he pointed towards a door in the distance.

Everyone looked at him amazed. He was never like this, and it was very strange that he was this irritated. Kenta stormed off in the direction of the door. When he got there he tried opening it. However it wouldn't budge. "Stupid door! OPEN UP!" And with that he kicked the door open and stormed inside.

Kazu chased after him. "Hey Kenta, what's up?" He asked.

"Stay out of my way Kazu!" He yelled. Kazu's expression grew hurt. Kenta sighed. "I'm sorry. I didn't get much sleep."

"No problem." He said, his cheerfulness instantly returning. "Hey, lets make up some mean names to call Rika."

Kenta smiled. "Sure."

They went off rattling names off that Rika definitely wouldn't like.

Meanwhile Rika watched this, shook her head and said "Just when you think those two are the most simple people, they suddenly get so complicated it makes your head spin."

"They definitely aren't predictable." Takato agreed "But then, that's what makes them fun to be around."

Rika looked at him skeptically. "If you say so."

"Hey dudes and dudettes, come look at this." They heard Kazu's voice call out from a distance.

They followed the voice to Kazu and Kenta. "Take a look." Kenta pointed. It was a fork in the road. "This could be a problem."

"This entire palace could be one big maze." Henry thought out loud. "It might be better if we split up. Takato, you, me Suzie, Impmon and Jeri will go down the left corridor. Rika, you, Kazu, Kenta and Ryo go down the right corridor."

"Why do I get stuck with Mr. Perfect and the dork patrol?" She said angrily.

Henry smiled. "You never know. You might learn something."

"Hey, is Henry getting a sense of humor?" Terriermon laughed. "It must be one of the signs of the apocalypse."

"Can it, rabbit." Rika growled. "Unless you want me to finish what I was going to do to you on the mountain of wind." That immediately shut Terriermon up.

They split up, and headed their separate ways, and they didn't even notice that there was a certain rookie digimon who was doing what he shouldn't by following Rika's group.

"No one's leaving me behind this time." Calumon said, determined.

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"Are you sure you going in the right direction?" Terriermon inquired.

"Of course not." Henry replied.

"Ok, just wanted to ask."

Lopmon sniffed, trying to smell anything unusual.

"Smell anything?" Jeri asked.

"Nothing, apart from Takato's old socks." She replied.

"Hey!" Takato said.

"A little crude, but it's a start." Terriermon observed.

"Oh great, another Terriermon." Henry laughed, "That's disturbing."

"Just you wait," Terriermon replied. "Soon, there shall be Terriermon wannabe's everywhere. And we shall spread across the world, bringing annoyance and frustration wherever we go! Muahahaha." Everyone looked at him strangely. "What? A digimon's gotta have ambitions you know."

"You're a weird guy, Terriermon." Takato remarked.

"Takato." Someone whispered.

"Yeah?" Takato replied.

Everyone looked at him. "Yeah what?" Henry asked.

"Didn't someone say my name?" Takato asked.

Everyone shook their head. Takato was confused. He was sure he'd heard someone whisper his name.

"Maybe Takato's starting to lose it." Terriermon remarked. "He's hearing voices."

"Knock it off, Terriermon." Jeri said.

"Takato, I am hunting you…. You cannot escape." The voice whispered again.

Takato looked around, trying to find that voice. "Man, I must be tired. I'm starting to hear things."

Jinn, however, knew differently, but he didn't tell Takato anything. It wasn't time yet.

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"Uccck, just my luck to be stuck with you three." Rika grumbled.

"I'm not exactly thrilled to pieces about being with you either, Rika." Kazu remarked.

"If you want to be in pieces, that can be arranged." Rika snarled.

"Come, give them a break, wild cat." Ryo said.

"I'll give you a break if you aren't careful." She snapped.

Ryo merely smiled.

"Well, well, well." Said an obnoxious voice.

They looked ahead at a strange digimon. He appeared to be made out of vines and weeds. He had a huge smirk on his face, and he was walking using what looked like roots. "Trouble in paradise kiddies? And here I thought you were all chummy."

"Who do you think you are?" Renamon asked.

"Your worst nightmare, lady." The digimon smirked.

"Thornmon, Mega level, Special attack: Thorn Gun

"And Bingo was his name-o." Thornmon replied.

"I hate that song!" Rika said, irritated.

"Among MANY other things." Thornmon jested.

"This guys a mega?" Ryo laughed. "He doesn't look that tough."

"Do I have a challenger? Bring it on, spikey."

"Alright then."

BIOMERGE ACTIVATE

CYBERDRAMON BIOMERGED INTO

JUSTIMON

"Now we'll see how good you are, weed." Justimon yelled his challenge.

"I'm more then you can handle, Gung ho boy." Thornmon laughed.

"JUSTICE KICK"

"Pah, VINE STRIKE"

Thornmon used vines to pick up Justimon and whirl him around his head. "Round and round the Justimon goes. Where he'll crash, nobody knows." With that he let go of Justimon and hurled him into a wall. "And now, THORN BLASTER." He fired a swarm of thorns at Justimon, making him dedigivolve.

"Let me guess, you're the dark spirit of wood, right?" Rika asked.

"Gee, aren't we the smart one." Thornmon replied sarcastically. "Now, Kenta, you and me have a score to settle."

"Thornmon, what do you think you're doing?" Said Kenta angrily. "This is not the time or the place for this and you know it."

"Ohh," Thornmon said in mock amazement. "The prophet speaks. You think your little destiny is going to hold me back?"

"My `little destiny' could rip you into digidust in a second, and so could yours as well." Kenta replied. "I wouldn't go against them if I were you."

Rika was looking at Kenta, amazed. "Kenta, what's going here?" She demanded.

"I'm not sure this is a good time to talk, Rika." He replied.

"Tough, you're going to talk now."

"Would you like to take care of the evil digimon, or would you like to be deleted." He said bluntly.

She glared at him. "This conversation isn't over, Kenta."

FIRE BIOMERGE ACTIVATE

RENAMON BIOMERGED INTO

INFERNAMON

"Now we'll see who' better, Thorn-in-my-side-mon." Infernamon yelled.

"Oh, what a witty comeback." Said Thornmon sarcastically. "You have no idea what powers I have. POWER LOCK DOWN"

His roots seemed to dig into the ground and his Thorn blasters changed shape.

"Now we'll see who's more powerful. I may not be able to move, but my power increases, and so does my firing speed. THORN MACHINE GUN."

Now he began fire hundreds of thorns at Infernamon. She jumped aside, to avoid it, but Thornmon merely turned and continued to fire. Infernamon had to keep jumping to avoid his attack, but this stopped her from launching an attack.

`Man, I can't keep this up forever.' Infernamon thought, `This guy's going to wipe the floor with me'

"KAHUNA WAVES"

"GUARDIAN BARRAGE"

Thornmon was hit with two attacks from the side. He looked over at Kazu, Kenta, Guardromon and Marineangemon. "Opps, sorry Thornmon. We slipped." Kenta said sarcastically.

He growled at the group and didn't even notice Infernamon attacking. "FIRE BOMB"

Thornmon was blasted by Infernamon's attack, and then she began attacking relentlessly with her fist of fury attack.

`Man, I'm toast unless I think of something.' Thornmon thought. Then something caught his eye. `Of course!'

He rose his gun arms "I surrender." He said. Infernamon stopped, confused. This was all he needed.

"RIKA, LOOK OUT, GET OUT OF HERE!" Kenta yelled.

"TOO LATE!" Thornmon yelled. "THORN MACHINE GUN"

He shot his attack, not at Infernamon, but at the roof itself. The roof broke and tons of water poured in. "Hope you can swim!" Thornmon yelled, cackling evilly.

"This way!" Kazu yelled. "Guardromon, get Ryo." Guardromon scooped up the unconscious tamer and digimon and followed Kazu.

The water was pouring in, and Infernamon tried to follow, but the water got her, and washed her in the other direction. Infernamon felt inhuman pain. This was worse then it should have been. The fact that she was in her fire form caused the extra pain, as fire was weak against water. She screamed as she lost consciousness.

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"Do you hear that?" Takato asked.

"More voices?" Terriermon said, skeptically.

"No, this sounds more like…" His eyes shot open. "WATER! Guilmon!"

Guilmon nodded as if he knew exactly what his tamer was thinking. They turned towards different directions and wind seemed to come out of their hands, creating a barrier. Water rushed towards them. It crashed against the barrier, but it stopped, not getting past the barrier. Sweat began to form on Takato and Guilmon's face. "We'd better move. I don't know how long we can keep this up."

They began to run, trying to find a way out. They soon realized that they were lost, and that they had no idea where they were going. All the time Takato and Guilmon lost more energy. `Man, I wish I'd slept more.' Takato thought. `I'm running out of energy fast.'

Suddenly something came through the barrier, but luckily it wasn't water. It was Infernamon.

"What happened to Wika, Hendry?" Suzie asked.

"I don't know, but we'd better get her." Henry said. "Jeri, help me carry her."

Jeri and Henry picked up the unconscious fire digimon. They started walking again.

"Takato," The mysterious voice whispered. "I'm here."

Then a metal digimon walked through the barrier. He had two metallic wings that looked like they were rocket propelled. He held a sword in his right hand, and he was covered with black armor. He had a birds face with a cruel beak, but the rest of him was human-like.

"Hello Takato, nice to finally meet you." The digimon said, sinisterly.

"Who are you?" Takato asked, straining to keep the barrier.

"The one who will destroy you." He replied.

"Aeromon, Mega level, Special attack: Wind strike." Jeri read.

"That's right, and now, Takato, you shall meet your fate at my hands."

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Kazu leaded the group through the winding corridors of the palace, although how he knew which way to go, he had no idea. He seemed to be guided by some extra sense, almost as if something or someone was telling him where to go.

Kenta followed behind, with Marineangemon floating by his shoulder and Guardromon running with an unconscious Justimon slung over his shoulder right behind him.

Kenta saw something ahead, running towards them. "What's going on?" a distressed Calumon asked. Kenta scooped up Calumon and kept on running. "What's going on?" Calumon asked again.

"Look behind us." Kenta replied. Calumon looked behind them, and saw the wall of water rushing up behind them. Calumon began to panic and Kenta had a hard time keeping the little digimon from getting loose.

Kazu turned a corner, and got by a button. "Come on, come on." He yelled. Kenta came past, and Guardromon soon after. Then Kazu pushed the button, and a door came down, sealing the water out.

"Phew, that was too close." Kazu sighed.

"I say," Guardromon said. "How did you know this place Kazu?"

"I, don't know." He replied sounding confused.

"Oh, ok." Said Guardromon, as if he had actually answered his question.

"Hey, Kenta. Why'd that weedy mega call you `the prophet'?" Kazu asked.

Kenta suddenly looked flustered, as if he didn't really want to answer. "Uh, He's a nutcase. He wouldn't know a prophet if it hit him on the head. I mean me, a prophet, really." He still sounded nervous.

"Oh, ok." Kazu said, in the same fashion as Guardromon.

Kenta sighed, relieved. He didn't want to have to answer those questions.

"Kenta, look." Marineangemon said.

The little digimon was pointing towards an open door.

The group walked through the door into a large room. There was a digimon sitting in a chair there. She didn't look too happy. She looked like one of those mermaids, but she also had a trident, and she had armor that looked like ice.

"Are you the ones that flooded my house?" She demanded crossly.

"Uh." They weren't sure how to answer that.

"Oh, you're the tamers. Its about time." She said. She looked around. "Only three? Where are the rest of you?"

"Out there." Kazu pointed towards the sealed door.

"Ah, we'd better go get them, hmm?" She suggested.

"Uh, how?" Kenta asked. "It's not exactly the best conditions out there."

"Don't you trust me?" She said, sadly.

`Girls' Both Kazu and Kenta thought.

"I heard that!" she yelled.

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"Now, Takato, prepare yourself." Aeromon said.

"Uh, can't we do this later?" Takato asked, straining to keep the water out. "I'm kind of busy right now."

"I don't think so." He gripped his sword and got in a fighting position.

"Terriermon, Lopmon, it's up to us." Henry said.

They nodded.

MATRIX DIGIVOLUTION

LOPMON MATRIX DIGIVOLVED INTO

ANTYLAMON

BIOMERGE ACTIVATE

TERRIERMON BIOMERGED INTO

MEGAGARGOMON

"Pah, this resistance will gain you nothing. You think an ultimate and a mega can stand against me." Aeromon said.

"We'll have to see, won't we?" Megagargomon said.

"Indeed, we will." Aeromon replied.

"BUNNY BLADE"

"MEGA BARRAGE"

Aeromon merely blocked these attacks with an attack of his own.

"WIND STRIKE"

He blasted the attack right back at the digimon, knocking them down.

`If Leomon were here, he'd show him.' Jeri thought, tears in her eyes.

"Now you see." Aeromon said.

It was then that Takato and Guilmon lost all their energy. The barrier dropped and the water came in. It swept away all the Tamers and digimon there, dedigvolving them, with the exception of Aeromon. Water didn't worry him. All he wanted was Takato dead. He quickly caught Takato and prepared to finish him off.

"ICE TRIDENT"

A trident appeared out of the blue and struck Aeromon away. A mermaid inside a giant bubble came and rescued Takato from the churning waters. It looked like she had rescued the others as well.

"Hey, you ok?" Kazu said.

"Yeah, but who's the fish." Imp on said rudely.

"Lets take a look." Henry said. "Mermon, mega level, Special attack: ice trident."

"That's right," She smiled. "And I'm here to take that Aeromon down."

"Hah, that's a laugh." Aeromon said, recovered from Mermon's attack. "You may have got the jump on me, but I'm far more powerful then anything you can muster."

"You know, for a guy who just got flattened, you sure do yack a lot." Mermon said, pointedly.

Aeromon growled. "We'll see about that. LIGHTNING VORTEX"

He fired a tornado at Mermon, with electrical energy surging inside it. It hit Mermon, electrocuting her. She got up, looking worse for ware.

"You can't defeat me that easily!" She yelled defiantly.

"Maybe you're right." Aeromon said. "But perhaps I can increase my odds of winning."

"Yeah, fish face." Said a sneering voice.

"Who's that?" Takato asked.

"Thornmon, an evil digimon comedian." Kazu supplied.

"That's right, and now, hope you enjoy my THORN BLASTER."

He fired at Mermon, slashing her with a volley of razor sharp thorns.

"She's getting whipped like cream!" Terriermon said.

Thornmon got side by side with Aeromon. "Lets finish these losers off."

"That's the smartest thing I've heard you say… ever." Aeromon replied.

Thornmon glared at him a bit for that one.

"Takato, you have to help her!" Jeri said.

"Wish I could, but I haven't even got enough energy to stand up." He replied.

"Now lets finish this. WIND STRIKE"

"THORN BLASTER"

The attacks intertwined and headed straight for Mermon.

`I have been defeated.' Mermon thought sadly. She prepared for her destruction. No one noticed Calumon's symbol glowing, or Calumon yelling a single word, lost in the noise of the attack.

The attacks hit, encompassing the group in explosions. "Hmm, well, that was an anticlimax." Thornmon laughed. "Guess destiny ain't as airtight as we all thought."

Suddenly the smoke cleared, showing the group, unharmed. There seemed to be an indistinct redness around them, but it quickly disappeared. "Huh, they're alive? How'd that happen?" Aeromon said, stunned. Calumon slumped in exhaustion. He didn't know why, but he was really tired.

"Quickly, I have to merge with someone." Mermon said. "And I already know who. Kazu, get hold of Guardromon's hand. NOW!" She ordered.

Kazu didn't ask questions, he just followed orders. He took hold of Guardromon's hand. Mermon began to glow and shrink. She changed into a tiny little female form made entirely out of water, with a small tail instead of legs. "I am Undine, and now, I shall merge with you. SPIRIT MERGE ACTIVATE"

With that she merged with Kazu and Guardromon. "Cool, now we get to biomerge! WATER BIOMERGE ACTIVATE." Kazu yelled out.

But, nothing happened. Aeromon smiled smugly and Thornmon started laughing like a madman.

"Hey, what gives?" Kazu asked, distressed.

"Only people who could biomerge before can do it now." Said Undine.

"Ah, man, so this was for nothing?" Kazu asked.

"Of course not, you have to say water digivolution activate." She replied.

"Ok. WIND DIGIVOLUTION ACTIVATE"

GUARDROMON DIGIVOLVED INTO

ICEANDROMON

Instead of the normal Andromon, this one appeared to be transparent almost. He had sharp icicle like spikes on his arms and legs. And instead of hands, he had a pair of machine guns, similar to Gargomon's.

"Iceandromon, Mega level, Special attack: Ice Gun." Kazu read.

"Is he any different then the others, since we didn't biomerge?" Kazu asked.

"Only a small power decrease." Undine replied.

"ICE GUN" Iceandromon fired ice crystals at the two digimon, but they both avoided it.

"You think that that will stop us?" Aeromon yelled.

"Unlike those weaklings, Quakermon and Ecliptimon, we aren't afraid to finish this fight." Thornmon added.

"Now its over!" They both yelled. They aimed their attacks and prepared to fire.

Suddenly, shadows appeared out of nowhere and two digimon appeared.

"That is," "Enough you two." They said, finishing each other's sentences. "Our master has," "Ordered you back."

"We are busy." Aeromon said irritably.

"Yeah, so get lost." Thornmon said.

"WE WERE NOT ASKING." They both said in union. They grabbed the two digimon's arms. They tried to get free, but darkness crept up them, covering them. They screamed out in pain and unspeakable agony before losing consciousness.

They then looked at the tamers. "We will," "Meet again tamers." Then they disappeared, taking the two unconscious dark spirits with them.

They stood there in shock for a few moments, in shock of what had just happened. They didn't even realize that the water had long since disappeared, ever since Mermon had rescued them. Then Rika woke up. "Uhh, what did I miss?"

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"Why would those two digimon attack them?" Ryo asked.

"And why would they beat them so easily?" Henry asked.

"How did we survive that attack that those two fired?" Jeri asked.

"Why did Thornmon call Kenta the `Prophet'?" Rika asked.

"Why does this master want us alive?" Takato asked.

They had left this encounter with more questions then answers. However some were determined to find the answers. Especially Rika. She went up to Kenta. "Well, why'd he call you that, hmm?"

Kenta got nervous again. "What was that noise, it sounded like it came from the engine room." He ran off quickly.

"Hey! We don't HAVE an engine room!" Rika yelled and started chasing him.

"Who do you think will win that race?" Ryo asked Takato.

"Do you really need to ask?" Takato replied.

"Calumon, now that you see how dangerous this is, will you please stay here next time?" Henry asked

"Are you kidding? That was THE BEST FUN EVER." The little digimon yelled.

Henry looked at him for a second, and then said. "Fine. Why not? Hey, we're all likely to die, but why not. Hey, while we're at it, lets bring the ark with us, I'm sure it gets lonely. AFTER ALL, WHY NOT!!!!!" Then he went off mumbling.

"I think Henry lost a few marbles under all that excitement." Terriermon said.

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"I've asked you here because the digital world has been completely cut off." Yamaki said to the monster makers.

"Henry, Suzie." Janyu said quietly.

"Any idea what's causing it?" Daisy asked.

"None. That's why you're here. We need to find out what's causing this, disable it and find out what's going on." Yamaki said.

"Well, lets get to work." Janyu said.

Meanwhile, two entities were watching this.

"This could be trouble. They can't get through the barrier." One of them said.

"I can handle it." Said the other.

"Are you sure? You tend to be a bit excessive. They need to be alive later on."

"I promise to keep them in an ambulatory state."

"Fine, but don't tell them anything that will interfere."

"I know how to handle a few nosy humans."

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To be continued

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