Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ London Diaries - Journey into Adventure ❯ Impossible Goal ( Chapter 2 )

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London Diaries - Journey into Adventure

Entry 2 - Impossible Goal

By: Lord Archive

The concept of Digimon is copy write of Toei Animation Inc. and Akiyoshi Hongo. The characters in this story, however, are the property of Lord Archive.

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Seven children were taken from their safe beds and were transported into a whole different world known as the Digital World. There they met some strange creatures, but don't know what they should do next.

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Seven children uncertainly stood in a clearing surrounded by several strange-looking creatures. The most notable of them being a blue dragon known as V-Dramon and an orange Tyrannosaurus Rex with a horned mask named Greymon.

"It's introduction time!" chirped a girl with black hair and brown eyes wearing a white silk shirt, maroon silk pants, and a red silk sash. "I'm Melissa Pilot, age ten."

The strange aquatic looking light green creature with blue stripes and large red fin standing next to her added, "And I'm Modoki Betamon."

A blond-haired boy with gray eyes with a decently built body, dressed as a Scotsman complete with kilt, shrugged. "That's probably a good idea. I'm Chuck MacArthur, age twelve."

A light brown puppy hopped into Chuck's arms. "I'm Plotmon."

"How did you grow?" Chuck questioned.

"I evolved because you needed me to," Plotmon replied.

Chuck wasn't sure what else to ask. He looked over at the others. "Well, why don't you guys introduce yourselves too?"

"You just want to know if the 'princess' is the same age as you," commented a boy with blond hair, blue eyes, and thin build who was dressed in black woolen clothes, looking a lot like a medieval thief in his best outfit. "I'm Freddy. You don't need to know more than that."

The 'princess', a golden short-haired girl with sea-blue eyes, huffed and folded her arms. She was wearing an elegant pink and white frilly dress that used ties to stay in place rather than zippers or buttons. "I'm Susan Lords."

"I'm Goblimon," added a green humanoid-looking creature with a club. "I'm Freddy's partner."

A brown head with a horn on top pouted. "I'm Tsunomon, Susan's partner.... I think."

"Why didn't you evolve?" Chuck questioned.

"I need Susan's help, but I didn't get any," Tsunomon replied.

"What?" Susan questioned. "I don't know what I'm supposed to do."

"None of us do," a slender girl with shoulder length brown hair and gray eyes told her. She wore leather traveling boots, brown woolen pants, a thick white shirt, and a cross on a necklace. "I'm Teresa."

"I'm Tapirmon," a miniature elephant with a metallic mask and smoke for hind legs said.

A boy with an average build and brown hair and eyes who was wearing brown traveling boots, brown woolen pants, and a brown leather vest over an off-white wool shirt that hung loosely open in the front grinned as he announced, "Henry, the best football player at our school."

"What do you mean 'our school?'" Susan questioned. "I go to an all-girl's private school."

"Besides you and Melissa, we all go to Chestnut," replied Chuck.

"Actually, I'll be attending school there in January," Melissa corrected. "I just moved."

"I'm George," added the small boy who looked like he was the youngest, but was actually older than a couple of the others. He had raven black hair, dark brown eyes and was dressed like a bard of old, wearing bright green silk pants, red silk shirt, and red and green shoes.

"Kokuwamon," added the metallic insect that seemed to be made out of a couple different appliances.

"Do any of you know your way around here?" Chuck asked the digimon.

They all shook their heads.

"We all were placed here to wait for you," Plotmon explained.

"How did you get here?" Chuck asked.

"Don't know." Plotmon shrugged. "I vaguely remember being at a strange place, then I was here."

"That won't help us much," Henry commented. "What should we do? Wait for one of the big guys to wake up?"

"What else can we do?" Chuck returned.

"How about get away from them while we can," Susan replied. "I don't want to be attacked again."

"Greymon is safe now," Tapirmon told her. "I removed the nightmare that was controlling him."

The orange dinosaur stirred with the mention of his name. He groggily sat up. "Where am I?" He then blinked in confusion noticing strange creatures and young digimon around him. "What's going on?"

Chuck frowned. "That's what we were hoping you'd be able to tell us."

Greymon scratched his chin. "Last thing I remember was Lady Devimon grabbing me."

"Who is this 'Lady Devimon?'" Susan demanded.

"She's a dark digimon, with fantastic powers," Greymon explained. "I don't know her beyond that save she doesn't let anything get in her way."

"Do you know where she is?" Chuck questioned.

"She attacked me at the Digital Stonehenge," Greymon replied. "I think it's not too far from here."

"I guess that's where we have to go," Chuck commented.

"Why would we go there?" Susan cried out. She waved her hand vigorously toward Greymon. "He said she was evil and powerful. We should be AVOIDING her!"

A crashing in the nearby trees signaled that V-Dramon had awoken, snapping tree branches as he sat up. "Can you keep it down?"

Chuck kept his attention on Susan. "We were called here for a reason. And I'll bet it's to defeat Lady Devimon."

Susan stomped her feet. "This isn't 'Final Fantasy' or some other stupid role-playing game!"

"Maybe not," Henry commented. "But why else do you think we were all brought here? What reason can you possible think of?"

"That I'm holding her for ransom," Freddy quipped with a smirk.

Susan slapped him.

"If you can fight him, why can't you fight with me?" Tsunomon questioned.

Susan clenched her fists. "I'm not fighting!"

"Could have fooled me," retorted Freddy, massaging his cheek.

Susan glared daggers.

"This is all very confusing," Greymon commented.

"Um, what's going on?" V-Dramon asked.

"I think that's what they're trying to decide," Tapirmon replied.

"We need a plan of what to do," Chuck said firmly. "We have two options. We can go find and talk to Jijimon and see if he knows anything. V-Dramon told me he's a bit of a hermit and not overly friendly. Or we can face Lady Devimon. If we were brought here to defeat her, then we'd be able to go home quicker if we go straight to her."

"Who's closer?" Teressa questioned.

"Jijimon's hut is about eight hours walk that way," V-Dramon pointed.

"Eight hours?!" cried a few of the kids in protest.

"And Digital Stonehenge?" Chuck asked.

V-Dramon's claw moved a little to the left. "Four hours that way."

"Isn't there something else we can do?" Susan questioned.

"Know of anyone else who can help us get home?" Chuck questioned the two large lizards.

V-Dramon shook his head.

"You might get help from Jijimon, but I doubt you'd get any from Lady Devimon," Greymon answered. "There's also Lillymon, but she's more of a chemist. She doesn't know much about travel."

"Looks like we're shafted," Freddy commented. "Might as well see the Lady first. It is along the way."

Susan waved her arms frantically. "What are we going to do if she tries to kill us?"

"Kill her first," Henry replied.

"You can't!" protested V-Dramon.

Greymon scowled. "And why not? She is evil."

"That's no reason to kill her," V-Dramon fought weakly.

"Are you all with me?" Chuck questioned.

"No." Susan shook her head.

"Me neither," V-Dramon added.

"I'll take you to Lady Devimon. I wouldn't mind helping to get rid of her," Greymon voiced.

The other children and digimon voiced their vote to follow Chuck.

"You want to stay back with big blue?" Henry asked Susan.

Susan looked at the dragon, and at the others. She swallowed nervously. "Well, there's safety in numbers."

V-Dramon huffed. "I won't go."

Chuck patted the dragon's claw. "Thanks for helping me before. Hope to see you again."

V-Dramon merely turned around and sulked into the forest.

"What's wrong with him?" Melissa questioned.

"I think he likes Lady Devimon," Chuck replied.

Greymon made a disgruntled sound.

Henry shrugged. "Well, let's get going. I want to sleep in my own bed tonight."

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"How much longer will it be?" Susan whined, as she sat on Greymon's back with all the girls and their digimon.

"We've only been walking for an hour," Greymon retorted, annoyed. "It'll be several hours at the pace you strange digimon walk."

"We're not digimon," Melissa corrected hotly. "We're humans."

"Whatever," Greymon replied shortly.

"Lovely group we got here, Chucky," Henry commented. "We'll probably kill each other before anything else gets us."

Chuck just groaned.

"Shell Needle Rain!"

The girls gripped Greymon tightly as the boys ran around chaotically, all praying the blades raining from the sky would miss them.

A hollow chuckle echoed as a green and brown Stegosaurus approached them with metallic fins. "You won't stop Lady Devimon."

"Stop her from doing what?" Susan called out.

The Stegosaurus blinked and then laughed. "You don't even know. How pathetically stupid. Die! Guillotine Wheel!" He reared his body back and moved himself into a weird arc. The center row of blades launch from his back as a circular disk and were somehow instantly replaced.

Greymon crashed onto his side, causing the girls to fall off, as he dodged the lethal blade.

"Lady Devimon should've never invested the energy to try to control someone weak like you, Greymon," the Stegosaurus snarled.

"At least I'd never willingly be her lap dog, Stegomon," Greymon growled. He moved to stand up.

"Way to slow. Shell Needle Rain!" Stegomon fired all of his metallic blades at his opponents.

Greymon howled in pain as a few sank into his flesh. "You'll pay for that! Mega Flame!"

Stegomon whipped around and disrupted the Greymon's fireball with his tail.

"We've got to help him!" Chuck called out.

"How?" Melissa questioned.

"Distract Stegomon," Plotmon replied, before letting out an ear-splitting screech of, "Puppy Howling!"

"Nightmare Syndrome!" Tapirmon added, sending a black cloud from her nose.

"Stun Shock!" Kokuwamon brought his hands together and then quickly pulled them apart in an arc that fired off a stream of electricity.

Stegomon cringed at the loud noise assaulting his ears, then having a cold chill run across his spine, followed by the shock of electricity surging through him.

"Mega Flame!" Greymon cried out, following their attack with his own fireball.

Stegomon barreled forward, Greymon's attack catching him in the rear. He cried out in pain from his injuries as he tried to squash the children and their digimon.

Susan let out a shrilled scream as she fell back when Stegomon's mouth came way too close to bite her.

"Tsunomon evolve!" The brown head with a horn finally glowed, signaling evolution. Her form changed into a multi-colored purple and green single-horned lizard wearing a silver fur coat and dark blue stripes that seemed to change color as she moved. "Psychemon!"

Stegomon noticed and turned to bite her.

Psychemon panicked. The jaws were close enough that she could smell his horrid breath. "Gaudy Horn!" A brilliant multi-colored light flashed from her horn.

Stegomon staggered back. "I'm blind!"

"Wrong." Greymon kicked Stegomon in the side to get him on his side. "Mega Flame!" the orange dinosaur then called out, firing his attack at Stegomon's unprotected under-belly. "You're dead."

Stegomon instantly broke apart as black particles shot into the air.

"Whoa! Brutal!" Henry commented.

"What happened to him?" Susan questioned, still sitting on the ground where she had fallen.

"He died," Greymon replied simply.

Chuck frowned. "Did you have to kill him?"

"What?" Greymon questioned. "He was trying to kill us."

"He's got a point," Henry voiced.

"Let's not kill unless we're sure it's necessary," Freddy commented.

"No arguments from me," Melissa added.

"Looks like Lady Devimon thinks we're her enemy," Chuck commented.

"Yes. She must fear you if she sent Stegomon to kill you," Greymon commented. "He was her best digimon."

"How many others does she have working for her?" Henry questioned.

"Two others that I know of, Lynxmon and Woodmon," Greymon replied.

"Will we have to kill them, too?" Susan questioned.

"Unless you want to be burned alive or staked, yes," Greymon retorted.

"I'm here for you," Psychemon told her.

Susan gave her a weak smile.

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"How much longer?" Susan shifted uncomfortably as she walked.

"We've still got a long way to go," Greymon replied as he moved with a slight limp. They weren't really moving any slower than they were before, but now the dinosaur could only move as fast as the children could walk.

Susan looked around. "Isn't there someplace we can stop at?"

"Do you see a place?" Freddy shot at her. "We're in the middle of the fucking woods."

"But where are we supposed to go to the bathroom?!" Susan whined, but then shut up and blushed realizing what she said.

"There's plenty of natural toilets," Freddy waved towards the deeper part of the forest they were in.

"Really? Where? What do they look like?" Susan questioned.

Chuck sighed. "Freddy means you'll have to go behind a tree."

Susan stared in disbelief. "I have to go outside?"

"Do you see an 'inside' anywhere?!" Freddy yelled at her. "Of course you have to take a shit 'outside.'"

Susan huffed. "You don't have to be so vulgar."

Chuck massaged his forehead. "Let's take a break here and see if we can find some food."

"I don't...." Susan trailed off as Freddy glared at her.

"Know of anything that might be edible?" Henry asked Greymon.

Greymon pointed at a nearby tree. "Those fruits should be good."

"Yay! Food!" Tsukaimon took off and disappeared into the tree.

"Try saving some for us!" Henry yelled at his partner.

"Hurry up if you want any!" was Tsukaimon's reply.

Chuck noticed Susan standing strangely. "Just go the bathroom behind a tree that way." He pointed. "Us boys will use the trees on this side."

Susan glared at Freddy. "If you peek, I'll kill you slowly." She then marched off away from the group.

"You already started," Freddy sniped. He then looked at Chuck. "Let's make this a quick stop. The sooner I get away from 'princess' the happier I'll be." He stomped in the exact opposite direction Susan had gone.

"What's with them?" Teressa questioned.

"Susan's hating being attracted to Freddy, and he simply hates her," George replied.

"How do you figure that?" Melissa asked. "You're too young to think about girls."

"I'm older that Henry," George replied.

Melissa blinked.

"He's actually older than me too," Teressa admitted. "He's just a late bloomer."

"Whatever," George huffed.

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Greymon tensed as they all exited the forest and walked onto a large field.

"Something up?" Henry asked.

"Digital Stonehenge is just ahead of us. If Lady Devimon is there, she'll see us coming long before we can get there," Greymon replied.

Freddy shrugged. "Can't be helped."

"Help?" a voice growled. "I don't think you'll be getting any of that."

They all turned and saw a giant cat whose body was literally on fire.

"That would be Lynxmon," Chuck ventured.

"Branch Drain!" Wooden spikes shot out from a nearby tree, piercing Greymon's chest.

"And that would be Woodmon," added Plotmon.

"Masters of obvious here," Freddy griped. "Take him down."

"With pleasure." Goblimon flashed a toothy grin as he reared back his club and smashed the wooden spikes that Woodmon was using to drain Greymon's strength.

Greymon staggered back and fell on his ass. "M-Mega Flame." He fired his attack weakly.

Woodmon easily dodged it. "Don't look so well. Say goodbye. Woody Smash!" The walking tree's arm extended, smashing through Greymon's chest.

The children stared in horror as Greymon exploded into data.

"He... He's dead," Susan said unemotionally.

"Get him!" Henry pointed at Woodmon.

"I don't think so." Lynxmon jumped into the fray, and batted Tsukaimon out of the sky with his claw. He smirked standing in the middle of his opponents. "So nice to be grouped around me like this. Thermal Mane!" The cat seemed to explode as the fire on his body erupted scorching everything meters around him.

The children moaned in pain while their digimon tried to get up.

"This was too easy," Lynxmon sneered.

"I think we should play with our food, don't you?" Woodmon voiced.

Modoki Betamon growled angrily. "Aqua Tower!" A blast of water erupted right in Lynxmon's face.

Lynxmon's mane flared as he growled angrily.

"Watch the fire," Woodmon commented, having nearly gotten burned.

"Think I'll have some 'fun' with you, little girl," Lynxmon hissed, ignoring his partner.

Psychemon touched the top of her horn, and Tapirmon touched her snout in response. The children and digimon noticed this and covered their faces.

"Gaudy Horn!" Psychemon cried out, bathing the area in bright light.

"Nightmare Syndrome! Nightmare Syndrome!" Tapirmon followed the attack quickly by instilling a little fear into their opponents.

Lynxmon howled as he shook his head to regain his senses. "You'll pay for this!" His fiery mane's flames burned with even more intensely.

"Now!" Henry called out, pointing at Woodmon.

Goblimon and Tsukaimon immediately tackled the wooden digimon, causing him to fall on Lynxmon.

"No!" was all Woodmon could cry before his body caught fire and then exploded into data.

"Clever," Lynxmon growled angrily. "But you won't kill me so easily."

Melissa looked up as she finished whispering into Modoki Betamon's ear and Kokuwamon. She then nodded. "Now!"

"Aqua Tower!" "Stun Shock!" The two digimon fired their attacks in unison at Lynxmon's head. When the high pressure water struck electricity and flames, it exploded, blowing off Lynxmon's head before he deleted.

"What the fuck was that?" Henry cursed.

"Ever see what happens when a lightning bolt strikes salt water?" Melissa commented with a grin. "It doesn't conduct, it explodes. And Modoki's attack uses salt water."

"That's something you won't see on science shows," Henry commented dryly.

Chuck nodded to himself gravely. "We've still got Lady Devimon to deal with. Let's take care of her and hope that's how we're supposed to go home."

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The sun was setting as the children made it to the foot of what looked like Stonehenge, but the placement of stones were off. A woman's icy voice could be heard chanting from the center of the stone circle. Black clouds formed from thin air and the sky quickly turn pitch black.

"Safe bet we found Lady Devimon," Henry commented.

Chuck nodded. "Get ready, guys. We'll probably have to fight her."

"I doubt she'll turn good just because we ask her too," Freddy commented sarcastically.

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Author's Notes:

Coming Soon:
Chapter 3 - Confrontation
The children must face the reason why they are in the Digital World.

Thanks to my pre-readers for going over this, particularly Jeremy Mullin and Andree Garrison.

Football:
Whenever I mention 'football' in London Dairies or with any of my stories dealing with the Odaiba group for that matter, I'm referring to a game played with a white and black ball, known to most Americans as soccer. The United States is the oddball country to call football, soccer. If I was to refer to the game Americans know as football, played with brown oval shaped ball, that's American football.

Electricity and Salt Water:
When lightning strikes at sea, the water explodes. Koushiro applied that particular tactic when he had Kabuterimon send a blast at the sea water in Tokyo bay to take out Raremon during Vamdemon's invasion. There must be a sufficient amount of electricity to cause the chemical reaction that results in salt water exploding, though.