The Two Coronamons

Chapter 2

As I began walking again, the trees soon spread out more and I was met with a green checkered patterned ground with many colorful large easter eggs. Except, they weren't easter eggs. They were huge! As I walk through the colorful display of life, I hear a soft hum.

"Hm?" I say as I turn around. I see another one of those weird creatures. It was a red skunk-like creature that had nine tails, each of them having a blue tip. It had blue eyes that matched it too. I recoil back and the pain in my eye starts to hit me again. "Whoever you are...don't hurt me" I say as I keep a firm grip on my fusion loader thingy.

"Hurt ya?" The red skunk chuckled. "I wouldn't hurt a fly, well, unless it was harming the digieggs."

"Digieggs?" I say.

"Yep!" He replied. "All these colorful eggs are digieggs and hold precious life. Say, why ya here?"

"I don't know." I replied. "I wandered over here. If you want me to leave, I can." I shuffle my feet in an awkward motion.

"No need for that, friend!" He said, cheerfully. "By the way, the name is Elecmon. What's yours?"

"Derin..." I look at him and then smile softly. "Thank you for being nice."

"It's no problem. Say, what happened to your eye?"

"Oh." I freeze. "I was hit by this black cat," I said. Elecmon had a face of curiosity.

"Can you tell me what happened that led up to that?"

"Sure" I pause for a moment. "I saw this orange cat being attacked by these blue bat-like creatures. I grabbed a stick and attacked the bats and scared them off. And just as I was about to comfort the orange cat, some black cat came up to me and called me a filthy human and scratched my eye pretty badly."

"An orange cat and a black cat?" He asks.

"Yeah, why?" I say. Elecmon sighs and shakes his head while looking at the ground.

"I know who you are talking about. I am so sorry for him. He gets all defensive over Coronamon." Elecmon sighs again. Elecmon turns around "Super thunder strike!" he shouts and sends a lightning bolt into the sky that soon fades away. I fall to the ground from the sound of it. "Sorry about that, friend."

"It's alright" I say shakily and I stand back up. "If I may ask, who is Coronamon?" I say as I step closer to Elecmon.

"He is that orange cat you were telling me you saved. And the black one is Whispered. Whispered is quite..." He trails off

"Aggressive?" I say. Elecmon lets out another sigh, this one a bit more exaggerated.

"Not only aggressive but overprotective, rude, mean, and a downright nightmare to deal with. I only keep him around because he is close with Coronamon and he is a big help here at the primary village." Elecmon states.

"Overprotective?" I ask as I raise an eyebrow. Elecmon nods and turns back to look at me.

"Very. For some reason, he is very attached to Coronamon, but neither will tell me the reason. I used my thunder strike to call them over here." Just as he said, I see two little figures, one orange and one black run up to us.

"Hi Elecmon!" The orange cat shouts from a distance. So that's Coronamon, I thought to myself. And right behind him is Whispered. As they finally get to us, I look down to see Whispered's angry face and a cheerful and happy grin from Coronamon. "Oh hello there! I remember you! You saved me from those Demidevimons!" Coronamon says and puts out his fluffy paw. "The name is Coronamon! What's yours?" I shake Coronamon's hand.

"I'm-"

"A filthy human" Whispered interrupts with a scowl across his face.

'Whispered!" Elecmon shouts at him. Coronamon looks at Whispered and frowns and gives cute little kitty eyes. Whispered eyes widen a bit and then he sighs.

"I'm Whispered..." He says as he stands next to Coronamon and grabs my hand and shakes it. I can feel his sharp claws dig into my skin.

"Nice to meet the both of you. My name is Derin." I smile.

"Why do you have a fusion loader?" Whispered asks as he pulls himself and Coronamon away from me.

"Oh this? I don't know why I got it, but I did..." I trail off. I drop the fusion loader and go down to one knee. "But I mean you guys no harm whatsoever." I smile. Whispered sighs and Coronamon hugs me. Elecmon chuckles.

"That's Coronamon for ya, always wanting to hug something." Elecmon says and nudges Whispered. "Come on you three, all of you must be hungry." Elecmon says as he starts to walk off and Coronamon follows him. I start to walk but feel a sharp claw on my side.

"Listen to me now, human." Whispered says in a dangerous and rude tone. "You try to harm me, or Coro, your eye won't be the only thing in pain. I don't know why you are here nor why you have one of those disgusting fusion, but I don't want any business with it. Understand that?" he says and lets go of me to walk a bit in front of me. I freeze in place and just stare down at him. I see even more anger bubbling in his eyes. "Understand?!" he says louder.\

"I understand." I say softly and look towards the ground.

"Good, now come on. I don't want that stupid red rat on my hind anymore." Whispered jogs away from me, and after a few moments, I started walking slowly to where Elecmon had started a fire and was cooking fish. I sit down beside Coronamon and he starts making small talk with me.

"What's your favorite outdoor activity? Me and Whispered love to play hide and seek and tag in the forests!" Coronamon says cheerfully.

"I usually play games inside, but when I do go outside, it's usually on my bicycle or walking trails with my mom" I say. Coronamon tilts his head to the side.

"What's a bicycle?" He asks.

"It had two wheels and pedals. When you push the pedals they go around in a circle and make the wheels of the bicycle move. It's great and one of the only ways I get exercise." I laugh and so does Coronamon.

"I wanna try riding a bike!" He shouts gleefully.

"Maybe one day, Coronamon." Elecmon says as he gives me, Coronamon, and Whispered cooked fish. I thank Elecmon and start eating.

"This is good!" I say as I take another bite. I gobble down the entire fish as me, Elecmon, and Coronamon giggle away through the rest of the day. Though, I can feel Whispered's eyes burning into the back of my head or directly into my face. Who knew that such a small fluffy cat-like digimon could be so vile towards someone they just met?

Coronamon shows me a place to sleep and I lay down and thank him. As I start to dream again, the same place shows up. I am in a white void again and this time the image that shows up isn't blurred. The human thing or possibly a digimon I'm looking at has a pointed jawline, a mask with an X on it covering their eyes, very light skin, and weird magical flying black hair. Their ears were pointed and their smirk was quite weird.

"Ah, I finally get to see you again, Derin!" The voice says. "It's me, Gravimon. Now listen closely, I don't have much time. I see you have made friends with Coronamon and his buddy Whispered. Am I correct?"

"Well..." I pause. "Coronamon seems nice, but Whispered on the other hand is"

"Cruel? Rude? Downright aggressive?" Gravimon chimes with a sneaky grin. "That's just Whispered for ya." I hear a soft chuckle.

"How do you know?" I ask him. His grin fades away and he sighs.

"That is not for you to worry about, Derin. Now-." Static comes onto the image of Gravimon and soon he disappears again.

"Gravimon?!" I shout into the endless blank void. "Damn..." I sigh. Suddenly, I feel a bit of pain in my left shoulder. I hear my name being said and soon, I wake up to see Coronamon and it is already daytime.