ok, so here is the new chapter. I kinda lost my inspiration these days and this chapter didn't come out as interesting as I wanted it to be. Oh well, it happens to everyone. Anyways, I hope you'll enjoy it. If you do, please leave a review, thank you.
Next morning the kids had a breakfast prepared by the Burgermon father, finally having the chance to taste his fames hamburgers, then they catcher the first Trailmon to continue their journey towards the Rose Morning Star.
They all talked as they sat around in the wagon until Takuya turned to look out the window.
"Oh, wow, check it out. The Rose Morning Star's gotta be close now." He said, everyone taking his example and looked out the window at the road ahead as the Trailmon entered a small bridge.
"Yeah." Laughed JP.
"Fantastico, but it's mid-day. Are the clouds supposed to be that dark?" Zoe asked looking at the Darkened sky.
"It's called the Continent of Darkness, it has to stay up to its name right?" Said Nayna.
In a short while, Nayna got up and went on another wagon where she lied on the seats and left her mind float but soon enough she fell asleep.
With the others, Koji broke his train of thoughts and turned from the window. Looking around.
"Where's Nayna?"
"She left this wagon some time ago..." Said Zoe.
Koji frowned and left too. He had to pass a few wagons too finally arrive at the one Nayna was in. Seeing her sleeping form, the frown on his face disappeared and was replaced by a small smile. He went and sat beside her.
After a few minutes she woke up. Feeling his presence, she quickly turned to him.
"Slept well?" He asked looking out the window.
"What are you doing here?" She asked ignoring his question.
"Came to see what were you doing here alone." He answered without looking at her.
"Right...Look, I know you are angry with me. I get it... I don't return...the feelings and I was harsh, but-"
"I'm not angry for that." He said shortly.
"What?" Asked Nayna confused. "Then why-"
"Because you are lying."
"That again..." She mumbled with a sigh. "What am I lying about?" She asked rolling her eyes.
"You're lying to yourself." He said simply, still without looking at her.
"Really? And how would you know that? Because you can 'read' me?" She said in an amused tone even though she was getting angry. "So somehow, you know me better than I know myself. Right. This talk makes no sense." She said getting up going towards the door only for him to grab both of her wrists and pinning her against the wall as he looked at her, cold oceans into molten lava pools.
"Look at me and say it. Say it that you don't have feelings for me." He said coldly.
She looked into his eyes for a moment before she opened her mouth."
"I don't."
"Say it."
"I don't have feelings." She said simply staring calmly at him.
Looking into her eyes, for a short second his gaze traveled to her lips then pulled away from her.
Suddenly, the Trailmon screeched to an abrupt stop, throwing Koji against Nayna pushing her once again against the wall, his body flush against hers, both letting out a gasp of surprise.
"Sorry." He whispered looking down at her as he pushed himself away.
"It's...It's ok..." She said looking away.
"We should go."
"Yeah..."
Even so, their bodies didn't move, the two remaining in their place for a few more seconds before returned to the others.
"Alright, who's the nimrod who slammed on the brakes?" JP asked annoyed.
"That would be me, Blue Boy. End of the line." Trailmon said and everyone looked out the window seeing that they weren't even close to the island. They were still in the middle of the tracks in the ocean.
"That can't be right. We're in the middle of nowhere." Zoe said.
"It looks like the tracks don't stop for miles." Koji said.
"How observant of you. Look, if I say it's the end of the line, it's the end of the line. Get out, get lost. "Trailmon said.
"Koji, how did you ever race with this guy?" JP asked.
"You can't do this! We have digi-rail passes." Zoe said.
"Yeah, yeah. Write it down, you'll sell millions. Look, you wanna go, then go. I ain't stoppin ya." Trailmon said as he opened his hatch, lifting his seats and toss the kids off and onto the ground.
"I wanna wish ya the best of luck. You're gonna need it." The Trailmon said as he back away on the track as fast as he could, leaving them stranded there.
"I have to admit, I've been dumped before, but never like this." JP whined as everyone else got up.
"So everyone in one piece?" Takuya asked.
"Yeah." Tommy said.
"Aren't there any normal Trailmon?" Zoe asked.
"I think I popped a waistband." Neemon said still laying in the ground.
"Bokomon?" Takuya asked.
"Welcome to the Dark Gate." The white digimon said with a nervous frown. "That temple like structure behind you is the Dark Gate. Through it lies...the Continent of Darkness." Bokomon said as they looked at the said structure spotting the mark of the Warrior of Darkness.
Upon seeing the symbol, Nayna frowned.
"We most probably will meet here the last one. The thing is...I don't think they are ready for it. The Dark element can be extremely powerful in a place like this, where clearly there is no light. I am afraid that they will turn out wrong..." She thought as she stared at it then at the others.
"Why do I get the feeling that's not a good thing?" JP asked.
"Is it as bad as it sounds?" Zoe asked.
"I wish I could tell you, but to be honest, I have no idea what awaits us there. It's an eerie land shrouded in utter darkness, but the dangers it holds are as legendary as its mysteries." Bokomon said.
"There's gotta be something written in the book about it." JP said.
"Well, let's take a look, shall we? Continent of Darkness, chapter 12." Said the white digimon opening the book to show the pages but they were completely black with no words at all.
"Whoa, it's pitch black." Said Takuya looking at it.
"How come?" Tommy asked.
"It appears that there's really no first-hand information on this place. Many a brave digimon have ventured within, but it seems none of them has ever returned to tell of its secrets. Only the foolhardy would dare enter the Continent of Darkness. We'll have to find another route to the Rose Morning Star." He said.
"But the shortest route is straight ahead. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, right?" Takuya asked making the Bokomon look freaked out and Nayna frown.
"Uh, I think we should take a vote." JP said.
"Agreed." Bokomon whined.
"You know, when all of us work as a team, we've overcome some pretty tough stuff, so what's the point in backing off here and giving up." Takuya said.
"Yeah and if something major happens we'll just Spirit Evolve." JP said.
"There isn't any trouble that we can't handle." Tommy said.
"Exactly, we're the Six Legendary Warriors who stopped Grumblemon and that guy was no pushover." Zoe said.
"You guys know I'm in." Koji said.
"Don't jump with your heads straight ahead. Especially in a place like this." Said Nayna getting everyone's attention. "You guys can be in a big disadvantage here. Don't take anything lightly here. Darkness might not be always evil but sure is extremely strong, especially in the hands of a knowing wielder."
They all looked at her a bit confused and some of them scared too.
"I get it why you are scared, you don't have a spirit and stuff, but don't worry, we are here and we'll protect you." Said Takuya as he turned towards the gate once again, as they all did and started to walk towards it.
Seeing them passing the gate, Nayna let out a sigh mumbling under her breath as she followed.
They walked into the dark forest, following the Trailmon tracks and trying to ignore the creepy shapes of the trees and the things their imagination was creating.
Nayna looked around in wonder before a small smirk appeared on her face.
"This looks like Crow." She thought amused.
"I'm wondering, do you think digimon can somehow end up being ghosts?" Tommy asked with a nervous frown.
"What kind of talk is that? Next you'll start telling ghost stories." Zoe said scared.
"It was a dark and stormy night...luckily there was this terrific guy there waiting to come to your rescue." JP joked.
"Tell us when you find that guy..." Said Nayna bored.
Suddenly the wind blew through the branches of the trees creating screech like noise. Looking up at the trees, Zoe, Tommy, Bokomon and Neemon got scared and turned, clinging to the closest body they could grab: Tommy to Takuya, Bokomon and Neemon to JP's legs and Zoe to Koji.
"Getting scared of your own element?" Said Nayna trying to sound amused but aggravation was evident in her voice.
Hearing her voice, Zoe opened her eyes and realized who she was holding onto and quickly took a step back revealing a stiff Koji.
"Sorry about that." She said looking back at him.
"No problem." He said relaxing as they started to walk again and look away from the blonde, only for his eyes to fall on Nayna who quickly turned her head so he wouldn't catch her staring.
Seeing this he raised a confused brow looking at her then, with a smirk approached her, walking along side her.
"Was that jealousy that I heard in your voice?" He asked in a hushed voice, only for her to hear.
"Sure." She said in the same hushed voice as she rolled her eyes.
"But why would there be if you have no feelings for me?" He whispered back amused.
"You're right. I don't have feeling." She responded beginning to get irritated.
"H-Hey guys. Something's glowing." Tommy said pointing to some green lights up ahead of the tracks.
"Fireflies?" JP asked.
"Don't think so. They're still" Said Nayna looking at them.
"Maybe there's a town up ahead." Koji said.
"Come on, let's check it out." Takuya said and they all started to walk off down to where the glowing orbs were.
They stopped when they saw that the light appeared to be from the ground in the form of glowing moss.
"Oh, look at that." Takuya gasped.
"That moss is actually glowing. Wonder if it's safe to touch." Koji said as JP bent down and picked up some of it.
"Let's see. Sure is. We can use it to light our way." The Warrior of Thunder chuckled.
"Best way to test out something that looks radioactive. Bend down and pick it up with you bare hands. Great idea, JP." Said Nayna rubbing her forehead.
"Hey, what were we supposed to do? Pull out a Radiation Detection or something?" The chubby guy said glaring at the white haired.
"Since you can pull all that chocolate out of your pockets, I was thinking you could have space for something else too."
"Come on you two." Said Takuya.
"She started it."
"Very mature." Said Nayna looking at him bored.
As they all got some moss to lighten their path, they started to walk again.
"This stuff works great." Tommy said.
"Look, it's a cave." JP pointed out as they saw one that was carved into the mountain wall.
"It's almost too perfect, like it was dug out by someone." Zoe said.
"Sure is." Said Nayna.
"Or dug out by something." Tommy said.
"Hey, anybody in there?!" Takuya called inside, his voice echoing.
"I guess not." Zoe said when Bokomon started wailing, making them look over to him.
"Bokomon, what is it?"Takuya asked.
"I feel like this place is a ghost cavern filled with evil, ectoplasmic digi-spirits. I knew I should have stayed behind, but did I listen to myself? Noooo." He said trembling as he was covering his head from whatever danger he was imagining.
Suddenly Nayna turned to some trees, a second later, they heard rustling from that direction, all turning towards it.
"Did you guys see that?" Tommy asked.
"Who's there? Show yourself!" Takuya demanded.
"Who's there? Show yourself." A childish voice repeated.
'What are ya, a parrot?" JP yelled.
"What are ya, a parrot?" The voice repeated, a few more doing the same.
"Knock it off!" Tommy called.
"Knock it off." The repeat came again.
"They'll mock us till we all go insane! We're doomed! Doomed I tell you!" He whined still curled up.
"Oh, please hold me before I smack him..." Said Nayna irritated by the white digimon.
"Hey, I know. Beetle battle better in butter!" Zoe cried having it repeated.
"Just as I thought." The blonde smirked making everyone look at her confused.
"That's great. Ya wanna clue us in?" Takuya asked.
"They're repeating what we say, so let's confuse them with tongue twisters." Zoe said as they all shared a look.
"OoooK. Six sick bricks might bring back a snack!" The goggle head said only to having it repeated.
"Peter Piper picked and picked a peck of pickled peppers." Tommy said having it repeated.
"Toy boat, toy boat, toy boat...ugh!" JP said tripping up on the tongue twister, the voices repeating it perfectly.
"What is exactly the use of this? As you could hear, they can repeat perfectly everything. What we DO need is to SEE" Said Nayna.
"Right." Said Koji running forwards and throwing some of his moss in the trees where the voices were coming from, revealing the creatures that were parroting them.
"My goodness. Those creatures are Pipismon. The mutant digimon whose power is greatest in the dark. They can reflect sound back exactly as it's heard." Bokomon said as the bat digimon flew out of the trees and into the cave where they hung upside down by the ceiling. "For cave dwelling digimon, they're really rather gentle. Even if they are a bit scary looking." Bokomon said.
"Well, just between us, I think they're kind of cute." Zoe said making the Pipismon repeat her words with a smile.
"I'm amazed to find peaceful digimon in such a dark place." Bokomon said.
"So, I guess it turns out you're glad you came. You just learned something. If you hadn't have come, you'd never known. It's good you took a risk." Takuya said to the digimon..
"|If you're not sure about something, there's really only one way to find out and that's to take a risk and go experience it for yourself." Koji said.
"Well, bless my buttons. You're right." Bokomon said.
"Why don't you write it down in the book? You'll be the first digimon to chronicle the Continent of Darkness. You'll be famous." Takuya said.
"Sure and since you're writing about digimon, maybe you can write about us. The true adventures of the Legendary Warriors. You can say how I controlled my Beast Spirit." Zoe smiled.
"I'd like to be mentioned. You can write about my cool hat." Tommy grinned.
"And mention how fearless I am." JP said.
"I thought you wanted him to tell real facts." Said Nayna but suddenly turned back towards the trees. "You can discuss this later. Something's coming."
A tree then fell to the ground, sending up a cloud of dust around them.
"Your journey's about to be cut short, small fry." Someone said.
"Yeah, says who?" Takuya yelled.
"Take a guess."Said the Warrior of Wood when he jumped over the fallen tree.
"Oh, not Arbormon again." Bokomon whined.
"Good guess." Arbormon laughed as he jumped up into the air, using his Power Pummel, hitting all of the Pipismon and taking their data.
"Oh, yeah. Feel the power, baby. That's good." He said.
"No way." Tommy gasped.
"That was an appetizer; you kids are the main course." Arbormon said as he evolved to Petaldramon. roaring as he charged at them, making the kids run out of the way.
As the others digivolved and fought Petaldramon, Nayna could feel a presence close by, watching them from the shadows.
Her eyes scanned the treeline searching for anyone who was spying on them.
"Definitely a dark type...Could it be the last warrior?" She thought sneaking off towards the place she felt the presence from.