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Ever got into a scrape with a friend? Fighting over something that torn a hole in your relationship? Wondering if the fight was truly worth it? Could that torn relationship ever be repair? Digimon Ghost Game! Friendship Scrapes!
There in the eerie forest surroundings was a young french girl who apoeared to be the same age as Ruli and Mei. She seem to be a proper well behaved girl. However it seemed that she was also a "Dark Mist" child since numeral digits spiral around her arms. Beside her were the six Carbunmon from earlier. The ones that they left in Mei care till they gave her to that girl.
Could that have been this child in disguise? Could this all have been a trap set up by this child?
Mei could feel the betrayal by the young kittens that she had given so much love? She fed them! Brushed them! Cuddling each one with as much love as she could give! This is how they repay her?! BY BACKSTABBING HER TO BE REVEALED AS ENEMIES?!
Mei felt sick.
"So did you sent the case to us?" Ruli asked. Trying to calm Mei before she could hurt anyone yet.
"Oui. We did. Partly to assist our dear friend Xiquemon" She gestured to the bird Digimon who bowed to the girls. "As well as to tell our story. How the six of us got involved with the "Dark Mist" and more about N.E.S.T. goals. Koi seemed to think that you all can help us. I hope our stories can help you see that our side of what N.E.S.T did to us" Marianne smiled at them
"Six?" Mei raised a brow. It seem that she wasn't referring to the other five kids.
"Oh my deepest apologizes. We haven't introduced ourselves have we! Merci à tous de nous présenter. We share a body but we each have one mind. It was because of their tests on us. Though I think we should beon with introductions." The white cat ornament on the hat the girl wore had turned into a red color.
"My name is Firosa Lavigne! I am the fiery girl who believes that all should be treated with equal respect. I get angry whenever I see someone who was treated unfairly, or has recieved a cruel punishment! I was orginally a lost spirit who passed away from someone trying to stop me for standing up my town. I was forced into this body fifty years ago. I may seem like a short temper girl but I don't blow my lid without a goid reason!" Firosa stated angrily but then smiled. "Though I tend to sit back and let the others take over. Once you get to know me, Know that I am just a nice girl who is determined to fight for what is right!"
The oranment then changed into a silverish bell like color which even made a soft ring sound.
"Greetings my fellow females. I am known as soul number two, otherwise known as Loane Lavigne. I am know as the brains of the six of us. I am the one who brings up strategies and plans. Fifty years ago, I was an apprentice for a brilliant alchemist who raised me as his own daughter. My life was cut short by an accidental fire. Instead of my soul going to heaven like most should according to cultural beliefs. My soul remained earthbound to the area where I died. A few men in white coats came years later. They somehow contained my soul in a strange crystal. Then I woke up in this body. Firosa is good company despite her being loud mouth. I am usually the one who find solutions to those infernal tests that we were forced to participate. We were often tasks to deal with creatures made completely out of data. Even though we weren't fated to do so. We aren't "Chosen" like the two of you" Loane explained. She seemed uneasy about talking about this.
Problem painful. Genius or not, Loane was a kid.
"They were trying to made their own "Digi Destinies"?! I thought that that could not be forced? Why would they do such a thing?" Mei asked, greatly shocked.
Her detective friend informed her about old records about humans and digimon fighting evils side by side together. It was clear that this was not the first time that digimon had came to earth. Could N.E.S.T have tried to make a team to prepare to face the next wave of digimon that cluld threatened humanity?
The oranment turned a cyan color. The facial expression on Loane face changed. "Because it's the nature of humanity. Once they witness something, they stop at nothing to make their own version of it. Refusing to live it up to fate"
The girl sighed a bit then looked a bit annoyed. "Name's Bernadette Lavigne. Though I like to called Berna. I am the kind of girl who wants to run around the forests! Explore new places! Jump to a challenge like the heroes in books! To think the one time my dad decided to take me on his latest delievery run, we get in the path of an unexpected landslide. Though like Loane and Firosa, my soul was contained and then we got in this body. Not that I complain" She shrugged. "Then accept me for me! A girl itching for adventure!"
"So you're saying that N.E.S.T tried to make their own team of "Digi Destinies"? Though Angoramon told me that partnerships can't be forced. How could they have given you digimon that you weren't compatible with?" Ruli couldn't believe this. N.E.S.T tried to be fate changers?!
The ornament turned blue. The girl seemed to have a softer voice than Bernadette. She seem kind like the others but had more of a take charge kind of aura around her.
"Oh that the only part I think they left to fate. You see the Carbunmon around us are actually our destined digimon partners. They were with me when I woke up in N.E.S.T lab. It's kind of fuzzy how I got there. Summer camp was all I could recall. Kidnapped, hmmm maybe. I think they found us by tracking our digimon signatures. Not that it's their fault!" The girl put her hands infront of the digimon behind her. "None pf us ever blamed them. I swear! All of "Dark Mist" kids never blamed our friends for anything that happened. Those mean scientists are to blame! Those needles! The tests! The fights! It was an endless cycle thst we longed to be free from. It only got worse once they found traces of those "Things" from the Digital world. It went they first made the mist. Oh! I'm Fleur Lavigne by the way. I am the main mind. The primary in a way. Though I strongly believe that we all should hold equal control. It's why we are each explaining to you what happened" She rubbed the bsck of her head nervously before gulping. "Okay Narcisse, your turn"
"Six minds ,one body. They must have DID" Angoramon had read about this. Never before did he ever thought that he witness it first hand.
"Correct..." The girl yawned. This time, the cat ornament on her head was green. "It seemed like a search team sent to the digital world found something with strange p....properties...it seem...t..to..have a unique....effect on digimon.....mostly....impacted their behavior...." The girl seem to doze off. Looking like she was exchausted.
The girls were unsure if they should wake her up or not. They wanted to know more. It seemed like they were finally getting some anwsers. Yet either one of them wanted to wake up the sleeping child before them.
Her sleeping face looked adorable.
Xiquemon softly nudged her. That seem to be all Narcisse needed to wake up. She rubbed her eyes a few times before continuing what she was going to say.
"They found out that it could give us kids unique abilities too. Though it had to be forced into our bloodstream. It altered our DNA to make us part data. Can't....say that we...were willing to.... They had to strap us down on the tables as they give us several needles in our limbs. Those needles might as well have been the most pain we ever had to go through. I hate pain....I actually died in my sleep....I think...I need...a nap...Marianne can explain...the rest..." She slowly started to drift back to sleep. "Name.....Narcisse....Lavigne..."
Something from the Digital World that effected Digimon Behavior? What could have the properties to do so?
Shiramon listen in as well. She seem familiar to what Narcisse Lavigne talking about the "strange properties". HE had mention something similar to her during her first being created. HE stated that he could have used a sample from digimon history in her creation. Though after review the sample, HE dismissed the idea because of the unpredictable effects it would have on the Sin Code Digimon. Stating that the risks would comprise the mission he entrusted to her.
Her memories of those days had grown blurry though. Since being reborn, the images were much harder to recall. What could it be? The object with the risks.
"My name is Marianne Lavigne. I am the one who brings order to the group. The mature responsible type. I died from an illness. I mainly take over whenever a topic is too difficult for the others to discuss. We were a unique case, it appears that the five souls of ours wrre stored away on crystal like containers till Fleur wasinjected with us. A kind soul she is. Allowing us to take her last name. Treating us as equals while we share this one body. Just a kind soul that only sees us as sisters. Not just different people trapped in one body. If only N.E.S.T was not the readon we had come together. Giving us the abilities of the mist. Powersinked to each of our Carbunmon. aTelling us it was for the sake of humanity, but what about our humanity. Teaining exercises to ready us for missions. Studying of a world we may not ever go to. Having to been given responsibilities that were not meant for us to be carry. To be forced to hurt creatures who were most like confused by the new world they had entered, our home. We never ask for this....Then came the day the new director gabe us "Dark Mist" kids an order we did not expect. They ordered us to break all ties with each other. To severe our connections. To destory our bonds. Though Koi stopped them. It's only every year this month were we seek those like us to help set us free. To reveal our suffering" Marianne dried a few tears from her eyes.
"Return every year for only this month? Why? Are you all Hologram ghosts?" Ruli asks, drying her tears from listening.
Mei even shed a few tears. It always pained her to hear about what abuse kids go through in their lives. A reason why she hated the news of today. There was too much violence in the world nowadays. Kids were dying everyday from issues that could easily be avoided. It really want to make her pinch something out of anger because of it.
"Is that what you call them now?" Fleur asked. "We been calling them "Digital Phantoms. Though I guess holograms are more common these days"
"It is a charming name" The white Carbunmon nodded. Withthe other five agreeing with her.
"Though it seems digimon and human bonds aren't what they use to be huh?" Bernadette took over. Her eyes locked onto Shiramon and Mei. "You two really are disconnected huh?"
"What do you mean?" Shiramon growls. She did not take kindly to what the girls were implying.
"Well it's only natural to encounter dangers. Facing them and surviving helps not only the human partner grow as a person, but it also helps the digimon grow too. Helps eliminates doubt in the partnership and further strengthens the trust. Seems like Mei and Shiramon here lack that. Shiramon doubts herself and only considers herself a burden to the team. Believing that they are much better off without her. Mei tends to keep to herself yet at least she is making small steps to trting to be more social, yet yoy still are so secretive" Losne began while Narcisse took over to finish.
"It takes one small scrape to auesrion if the two of you are a great team. The Carbunmon were senr to see if the digimon could handle feeling left out. To not let their mind be overcome with doubt about the relationships they held with their human partners. Seems like we were mistaken about how strong you thought of your friendship" Mei eyes widen at the words.
Could her bond with Shiramon truly be disconnected by how they bern acting lately? Shiramon felt that she had failed as a partner and began to doubt herself after their fight? Had she caused the outbursts? To only open her eyes to the pain that Shiramon had concealed all this time, so thst she wouldn't worry the others? Had she failed Shira instead of Shira failing her?
"What role do you play in all of this Xiquemon?" Angoramon asked the bird digimon who had remained silent the entire time that the girls had been talking.
"I am aiding the "Witches of the Mist" for they are the only ones who can reunite me with my dear sister. Only the bloodline of the witch can release my soul. Only these young ladies are the last of that bloodline" Xiquemon explained.
Sister? Witch? That seemed to be just like the story Mei had told Ruli about in the cafe. Somewhere down the line, the boy soul must have entered or became one with a digimon. So the story was true after all. Though if the boy wanted to be set free then it meant that his sister had already passed on. Waiting for him in heaven. Though as long as he was trapped in Xiquemon body, he may never be able to free. If anything happens to a digimon, they die and become a digi egg. Losing all the memories that that had of that life.
The "Witches of the Mist" must hsve a method of releasing him. Otherwise, he would not be helping the descendants of the Witch of Mischief. It would not make any sense if that was not the case. That only meant that they needed Xiquemon soul freed before they could face the girls.
"A promise is a promise" Firosa looked at Xiquemon. "Ready to join her?"
"More than anything" He nodded.
Firosa smiled as she chanted a spell in french. Soon An orb of mystical light emerged from Xiquemon body and flew to the stars. There they could all see the spirit of the body who twirl a young girl in his arms. His sister who had been waiting for him the entire time. The boy spirit looked down at Firosa and mouthed the words "Thank you" before disappearing in the stars.
"Bye Hans" Fleur waved goodbye.
The Xiquemon looked around before flying off. Making bird like noises as his body vanished within the sky.
Shiramon then got her kunai out. She was set on defeating the girls. It was because of their dumb test that she allowed herself to be overcome by doubt. To release those dark thoughts that she sore never to be known. To break off her connection with Mei.
"Looks like poochie here wants to fight! Let's go then!" Bernadette was itching for the fight anyway.
"NO ONE CALLS ME POOCHIE!" Shiramon had never like or will ever be called that nickname.
Bad things tended to happen if anyone dared call her that. Kiyo got his arm broken because he was teasing Shiramon with Jellymon.
The cyan colored Carbunmon jumped on Bernadette shoulder and the two casted a wind spiral like tornado to push Shiramon into a tree.
"Petit Tornado!" Ruli and Angoramon tried to counterattack with a tornado of their own.
"Dagues d'Eau" Fleur and the blue Carbunmon glew in perfect unison as they unleashed an attack of sharp concentrations of water that hit like daggers.
It seems that they were fighting at an ultimate level despite the six digimon being In training. It must have been what the file had been telling them about. That each girl had a unique connection to their Carbunmon which allowed them their own form of elemental magic.
Quite fitting for descendants of witches. Casting spells with the aid of their familiars as it were written in fantasy books.
Ruli and Angoramon wasted no time to digivolve.Ruli VR bracelet meter filled up once.
"Angoramon digivolve to......Symbareangoramon!"
"Evolution huh? Must be nice" Fleur praised but never swayed her focus from the battle.
"Can't you all do it?" Mei asked. Trying to buy time to form a stragety.
"Well we all had to give something up to get magic. Thus it seemed only logical to give up digivolution" Loane answered as she trapped Ruli and Symbareangoramon in a metal net like spell.
This was bad. They were out numbered and out skilled. With Ruli and Symbareangoramon out of the fight, it meant that the fight was left to Shiramon and Mei.
Though it seemed like Shiramon chose to handle the fight solo. Using her speedy reflexs while attacking with her kunai.
Mei could only watch. Unsure if she should join in and help Shiramon. It seem like Shiramon didn't need her help. Did Shiramon honestly need her?
Her thoughts were interrupted as she her Shiramon scream. It seem like Firosa landed a fire attack that Shiramon took directly in the chest. She was struggling to move, let alone get up. Firosa and the red Carbunmon seem ready to deliever the final blow.
"Douche étoile de feu" The attack seem ready to delete Shiramon then and there.
Shiramon closed her eyes, ready to accept her fate. A fitting end to a digimon who was nothing but a burden towards her friends. A failure as a digimon partner. A monster for a friend.
However the attack never made contact. Instead it seemed that the attack never happed at all.
"MEI!" Ruli and Symbareangoramon voices made her come to the realization.
Once Shiramon opened her eyes, she sall that Mei had shielded her with her own body. Her chest had scorched marks from the flames of the attack. She looked ready to wince in pain through bare teeth.
"Why did you protect the one who no longer wishes to be your partner?" Marianne asked.
"She may have doubts about being my partner but I never in my life have doubted her! She always puts others instead of worrying about herself! Despite ever danger she may have put me through, she does her hardest to keep me safe. Of course we all will be in near death situations, digimon can be a danger. Ask Hiro! He musy have had how many near deaths and it was before ever meeting us! I am not the best at teamwork. I tend to go off on my own and exclude information from the others. I had believed that every hardship I would face could be handled alone. Though I was wrong. Shiramon rwached out to me and helped me realize how blind I had become! That I have the right to thaw this icey heart that I held on to many years! MAYBE SHE THINK SHE IS A MONSTER WHO IS UNWORTHY TO BE MY PARTNER BUT SHE WILL NEVER STOP BEING THE BEST FRIEND I EVER HAD!!" Mei would never abandoned Shiramon. Even if Shiramon abandoned her.
"Mei......" Shiramon teared up. "Yeah...I can't leave you. We still neef to face more challenges and grow....I want to take the first step in the two of us reconnecting!!"
Just as those words werw spoken. Mei VR bracelet lit up and it beared a new symbol.
"They have reconnected their partnership. It is not as it was before though it has return...This is troubling but I still welcome it" Loane smiled.
It seems that Mei and Shiramon have broken the first true hurdle in their growth as partners.
Mei smiled as an attack came to mind. She had truly missed this feeling! "Sync Clones!"
Four clones appeared out from data. Two went to free Ruli and Symbareangoramon. The other two went to handle the Carbunmon.
While observing how the girls fight, it seemed that only one can cast a spell at a time. Meaning that attacks from multi foes at once would overwhelm them. It was the kind of foght that Mei and Shiramon could take advantage of with their skills and abilities.
"Not good!" Fleur had a hard defending from the clones attacks. All she could do was block.
"Let.....me...try..." Narcisse and the green Carbunmon took over for the fight. "Vignes du Sommeil!" The attack was heading for Mei and Shiramon.
Though they are always two moves ahead.
"Mass Fog!" Each clone concealed themselves in a thick fog that shielded them from the spell effect.
"Hiding will not protect you! Aura aveuglante !!" Marianna summon a blinding light from with her body.
The attack dispel tge fog but there were no clones or Mei.
"KUNAI STORM!" Kunai hit the Carbunmon at all directions.
The girls device shattered upon their partners defeat.
"Looks like we lost..." Fleur body began to faint away.
"At least we go together.." Firosa shed a single tear as she was ready to be freed from this plane.
"We....can...finally...rest...now...." Narcisse yawned. She was ready for her final sleep.
"I am honored that we share these years with you ladies" Loane humbly accepted their defeat.
"Not the way I expected to go out but it sure was a wild adventure!" Bernadette grined. Seeming at peace that this was her last journey.
"It seems to be our final farewell. Mei and Shiramon never forget that there are always scrapes in friendships. Not all have to be broken by doubt and regret. Work hard to strengthen your bond and overcome such obstacles. Merci pour tout. Puissiez-vous libérer le reste d'entre nous bientôt." With that the girls and their Carbunmons disappeared
Shiramon and Mei would never forget this lesson. It would be their first stepping stone to rebuilding a better and stronger bond.
Three down, Five to go.
What will there next encounter be? What more shall they discover about the "Dark Mist"? Find out soon!
