Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ The Digital Trilogy - Episode 5 - A Phoenix from the Ashes ❯ Chapter 3

Chapter 3

Night. All Ken could see was the night. He heard TK's breath behind and to his right. His breath was quick and shallow. Ken felt better knowing TK was as scared as him. Wormmon shifted uncomfortably on Ken's back and shuddered. Ken stopped creeping up the grass-covered hill for a moment, and he heard Allura's breath, also quick and shallow, to his left. They were three people and three digimon that were going to try and stop a three-on-three or a four-on-four fight. They knew they didn't have the strength to confront the group directly, they had to hit the humans. They crested the hill.

Palmon had to hold the leaves of her hair down to keep the pink from being seen. They looked over the edge to the small valley below. Four digimon, all variations of birds were on the ground defending their human partners from attacks of two dinosaurs, and a lion-style digimon. Ken and TK quickly saw that the three ground digimon and their partners were some of the girls that hit them earlier.

"Where's the guy that hit us?" Ken asked TK.

"That might be him." TK said. Ken followed his gaze and saw Allura being silenced by Palmon. They discovered a body nearly three feet from her. In the blackness they missed it.

"That's him." Ken said. He took a few steps over. "Eleven wounds. They all look like sword slashes." Ken picked up a piece of the shattered digivice and flicked it away. "Who did it you think?"

"Them." Allura said pointing down into the valley. All three girls were no in front of their digimon. The four defending birds were now at rookie level, and two of them were out cold. All three were holding English broad swords. They watched as these three otherwise very good looking ladies made lunch-meat of their opponents.

"It's Robin Hood's little sister and her merry maids on crack." TK said. Ken snickered a bit but didn't laugh, he was looking at Allura who was near hysteria and nausea watching the bloodbath.

"Why are Russian girls using English swords in Japan?" Ken asked.

"It's a global world we live in." TK replied. TK put his hand on Allura shoulders, who was now leaning foreword with her head between her knees. "It's alright, nothing we haven't seen before."

"Doesn't mean I have to like it." She said. TK felt sympathetic. Ken was more minding for the strategy.

"We have to follow them. See if we can find out anything." He said. They saw the girls walking slowly out of the valley to the field beyond.

"They didn't kill the digimon." TK said.

"What are you talking about?" Ken said. "When the human dies, so does the digimon."

"Yeah, but no D-Power. They obviously didn't want or need it." TK's words opened Ken's eyes. These were not normal enemies they were following.

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They followed the girls through the field though out the night. They fell back as far as they could, relying on Patamon's vision as a flyer to keep their quarry in sight. He said that they were moving back and forth, changing direction constantly to either avoid someone, or evade someone. Patamon landed on TK's head to make another report.

"They keep moving. It's making my head spin." Patamon said.

"It's ok. I'll make it up to you when we get home." TK said. Patamon took a few more breaths and took back into the air. He was only up a few seconds when he came back.

"I can't see them anymore." He said in a panic.

"Don't worry," Ken said. "They can't be that far." As if on cue Ken heard the familiar sound of electrical arcing and the sphere of light of a digivolution came into view in front of him. He also heard it twice more, behind him to his left and right. "Surrounded." He said, coldly.

"Thank you, Pip." One of the girls said cresting a hill.

"What?" Ken asked.

"Someone we used to know with a passion for stating the obvious." She said. "Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Heléne, and I will be the one responsible for spilling your blood on the ground."

"Chalk up 'French name' to their international list." TK said in a whisper. He saw that the girls had them surrounded in a perfect triangle, and they were all on the summit of a hill, with TK, Ken and Allura with their digimon in the low space between them. The Tyranomon bent down close glaring at Wormmon who was shivering in fear. All of a sudden, his fear melted and he looked confident.

"Sticky net!" He yelled firing a net of the white silk into the red dinosaur's face. He jumped strait up and digivolved.

Wormmon digivolve to ... Stingmon digivolve to ... Paildramon

Paildramon blew shots at all three champion digimon. They weren't hurt or defeated, just stunned for enough time to get the others to digivolve.

Patamon digivolve to ... Angemon digivolve to ... Magnaangemon

Palmon digivolve to ... Togemon digivolve to ... Lillymon

All three got out around their enemies creating a third circle around the whole show. They tried to subdue the girls' digimon into reverting to the rookie forms, but the fight was going no where fast.

"What's going on?" Ken asked. "It's three ultimates on three champions! The fight should be over before it started."

"Oh silly boy." A girl said. "You seem to be assuming we have normal digimon." Ken whipped around and felt a massive sting on his left cheek. She and slashed him with her sword. And closer and she'd have taken off his head; but Ken knew she had the skill and had only hit him as much as she wanted. He heard Allura screech near him and saw her fall. She was gripping the back of her right calve, trying without much luck to staunch the flow of blood.

"See honey. When I sez sit, you sit." The girl said, this one with an American southern accent. All six looked up when they heard Lillymon scream, she fell the ground reverting to Palmon on the way. She wasn't dead, but badly off. Ken and TK looked at each other and subtly nodded. They quickly took their digivices and fired the beam of light at each other, signalling a DNA digivolve.

Paildramon, Magnaangemon DNA digivolve to ...

Before they could finish the last girl had slashed TK arm making him drop the digivice, and attacks from all three enemy digimon stopped the other two from merging. They were in yet another no-way-out situation. And in all the glory of Hollywood-style timing, the salvation came.

"Celestial Arrow!" The brilliant white light of Angewomon's arrow cut through the crowd at just the right angle to severely injure the three girls, without even touching the three cornered Guardians.

The enemy digimon would have loved to stay and rip Angewomon and Kari apart, but they had to get their humans to safety, as their own lives depended on it. "Thought you guys might need a hand." Kari said. The two digimon still in the sky above them reverted and came back to the ground by their friends.

"Just in time." Allura said. "But who's watching Azuma?"

"He'll be fine for an hour or so. You guys needed me." Kari said. She, Ken, and TK helped Allura back to civilisation, a warm bath and some bandages.