Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ The Digital Trilogy - Episode 5 - A Phoenix from the Ashes ❯ Chapter 8

Chapter 8

TK was hit hard in the head as soon as they touched the roof's surface. He had been leaning over Stingmon's left side getting ready to jump off. The butt end of a sword handle getting him hard brought him down. Stingmon skidded to a stop facing three champion digimon they were quite familiar with. With an unspoken agreement between human and digimon they digivolved before the enemy could attack. It was their only chance.

Stingmon digivolve to ... Paildramon

Gatomon digivolve to ... Angewomon

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

TK would have triggered his digivice and allow Patamon to digivolve, but his head wound was making the use of words bigger than one syllable hard. "Ah. You are one who kicked me." The girl who hit TK said. The others did recognise the girls who had been giving them trouble for the past few days. TK stood and tried to draw his guns. "Oh, now we can't have that." She said, and slashed TK hard twice across his midsection.

"TK!" Kari yelled. She began running to him. Ken and Allura flanked her and had their weapons out keeping pace. Angewomon took the chance to grab the wings of an enemy bird digimon larger than her and held them back. Paildramon and Lillymon were keeping the other two back with a steady stream of fire. Kari covered the distance as fast as her nimble legs could take her. Since the last time being fleet of foot had been an issue she had improved greatly. She pulled ahead of Allura and Ken. The leader was behind her two followers who now stood in the way. Kari jumped before hitting them, her right foot and left fist connected with the two targets sending them sprawling like bowling pins. Kari's blade came through like metal lightning and connected with the blade being held by the girl who sliced TK.

"Kari." She said.

"Heléne. No one hurts him." Kari said through gritted teeth.

"You did a better job of hurting him a few months ago with Kelryn." Kari gasped. How could she have known that? Kari responded by hitting blade against blade a few times, moving back then forward. Kari chanced a look behind her to see Allura and Ken had both been fought down by the pair, and was being held with the three rookie digimon. "And now you're just as annoying pretending you can use a blade." Heléne said. She hit Kari's sword away and slashed TK who was now standing with a gun in one hand and his bloody scalp in the other. Three gaping wounds were now plainly visible through his torn shirt.

"TK!" Patamon yelled. "Boom bubble!" Heléne dodged the blast of compressed air and pulled a bolo from between her back and backpack. One of the other girls let several bullets go at him, but they all missed. Heléne pulled her arm back and let her device fly. It wrapped around Patamon's ears sending him down like a rock over the edge of the building.

"Patamon!" TK and Kari yelled in unison. Kari stared daggers at her quarry and began breathing hard. She was filled with so much rage. Her friends were beat down again and again by these three. And now the one in front of her had hurt TK, threatened to kill her and her friends, and at probably murdered Patamon. Heléne lunged at Kari and they fought back and forth hard. Kari tried with all her might to keep matched in skill, but she tripped and fell to her back. He shoulders were over the edge of the building and her efforts to regain her balance caused the sword to fall over the edge into the night of the city below.

Ken gently nudged Allura and whispered. "Is that Aeromon?"