"RUN AWAY! She's crazy!" yelled the FlareRizamon and the DemiMeramon as they ran from the fox-girl in the pink sailor fuku.
"PINK BUBBLE REVOLUTION!" shouted Senshimon as her pretty wand shot pink, star-shaped bubbles after the fleeing fire Digimon. She then whined. "Awwww... I can't even properly express my anger with these silly attacks..."
Yui smiled. "I thought they were really pretty!"
"Not helping..." Romi grumbled.
"But look, you did it!" Henry said. "See, our enemies have fled." He partly felt a bit proud of himself, finally having figured out how to use his new powers.
"But... but I'm not COOL anymore!" Romi whined.
"That's not true, you were awesome, sis!" Bimon smirked at his grown-up twin sister.
"You... you really think so?" Senshimon asked. She looked at her rod with distaste. "But... but it's PINK!"
"Does that matter?" Suzie asked. "I'm pretty sure your wife and daughter would be proud if they could see you now, Mr. Nonaka!"
Romi felt nothing but gratitude when Suzie addressed her with her true name. 'Mayumi really was a good mother to her children...' she thought. 'I just wish I could say the same about me...'
Bimon shook his head. "So sad, so sad... the heat must have gone to your head, right?" he asked Suzie. "Now she's imagining people that aren't even here. That's my SISTER you're talking with, you know? Not my FATHER!"
Suzie smirked at him. "Oh, I'm so sorry, how could I have possibly made that mistake?"
And she winked at Romi.
Afterwards, she gave her small brother a quick hug. "Good work, little bro!"
"Hey! This is just temporary, you know?" Henry frowned. "After Lucemon is defeated, you will be the smaller sibling again."
"Yeah, but until then, I will savor the moment as long as I can," Suzie grinned. She twirled around her shield and kept on walking. "Shall we?"
"Well, she is in good spirits all of a sudden..." Alice muttered.
"Digivolved, you say?" SkullMeramon frowned. "Hmmm..." He stood up from his chair and began pacing up and down on his small lava raft. "We need some other tactic to keep them away from here... I know! Don't attack them directly, make the lava erupt..." He chuckled. "In front of the inner tunnel, to be precise. And since they aren't fire-proof, like us, they won't be able to proceed."
"But sir," a DemiMeramon protested. "What about the Meramon girl that is with them? She will be able to get past the eruption..."
SkullMeramon grinned. "Yes, I know, I know..."
"What is this?" Kei frowned. "Yet another event I can't affect?"
"Yes, it seems like the leader of the Meramon has decided to block the party's progress," HolyCalumon nodded.
"Let's take a closer look..." Kei said and double-clicked the event icon on the lava square on screen. "It says here that only Yui will be able to go past that barrier..."
"Well, isn't that good news?" Eiko asked. "She can take out their leader, and all will be fine, right?"
"You think Yui would be able to beat their leader all by herself?" Kei frowned. "After all, she can use many fire attacks... which the Meramon leader will most likely be resistant against. We need some other way to bring the others past that obstacle... any suggestions?"
Eiko giggled. "Maybe they can throw one big box of ice cream at the lava, and it'll freeze and shatter."
"Not a bad idea..." Kei murmured. "But... wouldn't that be a waste of ice cream? I think I should add a special item, one that can be used to remove fire obstacles... you throw it at flames and lava, and they will freeze solid."
"That might work," Holy nodded. "So, you want to place a treasure chest behind the eruption, so Yui can bring that item to her friends?"
"No, I had... something different in mind," Kei smirked. "But, say, Eiko... aren't you worried about your sister? Are you okay with just sending her in there all by herself?"
"Aw, sis always wanted to prove that she's a tough girl... now she can prove it," Eiko said.
'Besides, if that SkullMeramon actually starts flirting with her, I will have a good laugh...' the LadyVampimon thought with a grin.
Deep below the lava, two FlareRizamon were diving. Even though they were surrounded by hot, molten rocks, they could easily hear the approaching voices of their enemies.
"Here they come!" one told his partner. "Let's heat it up!"
They both fired a stream of fire to a certain spot, until the lava began to bubble and sputter.
Romi and her teammates were in a small cavern through which another river of lava was flowing. Only a small bridge of rocks was leading through this room. Senshimon just wanted to cross the bridge, when the lava suddenly erupted into the air, blocking off the way over the bridge.
"What the...? Dang, that thing almost hit me!" she gasped.
"It doesn't seem to stop..." Turuiemon said as she peered down into the lava. "We can't go through here..."
"But we have to go this way," Gargomon insisted. "It's the only path leading to their leader... and every gamer knows that you have to beat the boss before the dungeon is complete."
"What's he babbling about?" Alice frowned.
"Long story," Henry sighed. "Still, he's got a point, we need to get through here."
"Well, in this case, I'd say you guys are lucky that you have a hot girl like me in your group!" Yui grinned as she stepped forth. "Fire like this only makes me laugh. See?" She held her right hand into the erupting lava. "Not even a burn!"
"No surprise, she's a living torch herself..." Romi muttered. "Still, do you expect to beat their leader by yourself?"
"Hey, at least let me try to find some way you guys can come after me," Yui insisted. "And if I run into any other bad guys, I can always pretend I'm on their side."
"She has a point," Alice sighed. "She's the only one who can go past here... and it would only help to know if there's something beyond here that can help us."
"Well, fine... but don't do anything reckless, you hear me?" Romi asked the Meramon girl.
"Hey, would I ever do that?" Yui giggled. "See you guys later..." And she simply stepped through the lava spout in front of them.
"I wish I could do that as well..." Bimon whined.
"I already see it..." Senshimon sighed. "We're all gonna die..."
Romi's worries were unjust, since Yui was in no real danger. The few times she ran into other fire Digimon, they believed her to be one of them.
"Hey, you know what?" one of them asked her. "I hid a small chest with digi-chips underneath that rock, so the boss wouldn't find it... I'm tricky, aren't I?"
"Heh, yeah, very tricky..." Yui chuckled.
As soon as the other Meramon had left, Yui quickly turned around the rock and took the little chest. "Idiot..." she giggled. "I could use this to buy the new CD I always wanted to have..."
Humming to herself, she continued to walk through the tunnels... until she stood in front of a metal door.
"Hmmm..." she said and read a small sign next to the door. "'No entry for evil Digimon!' Oh well, I guess they don't mean me, I'm not evil."
She opened the door and stepped through... and blinked when she saw the little Tapirmon sitting in front of her.
"Hi!" Tapirmon said and waved. "Buy something, will ya?"
"Um..." Yui raised her index finger. "How exactly did you get here?"
"Hey, a merchant goes wherever he can find customers," Tapirmon smirked.
"But... this is a lava cave, hundreds of meters beneath the surface of the earth..." Yui pointed out.
"Hey, I met you here, didn't I?" Tapirmon winked. "And you have some money with you, don't you? So, let's get down to business... You wanna buy some Snow Powder in a jar? Digitized snow, fresh from the snowy mountains in the Digital World. Just 20 digi-chips a jar. I'm telling you, just one small amount of this stuff freezes even the hottest flames... and if it doesn't, you'll get your chips back. Interested?"
Yui looked at the ice-blue jar and smiled. "Well, I might find one or two uses for it..."
Too bad she wouldn't be able to buy that CD anymore... but hey, that's the price of being a hero, right?
Shortly afterwards, Yui left the shop, carrying a fire-proof bag that was filled with all sorts of useful items. Not only did she buy Snow Powder, but also Healing Disks, Curative Herbs and Digital Potions.
"They guys will be surprised," she grinned. "Now they'll see that I'm the best addition this team ever had..."
She turned around the next corner... and bumped right into the smooth, metal chest of the Digimon that was standing there.
She looked up... and saw SkullMeramon's face above her own.
The metallic fire Digimon smiled. "My lovely lady... what a coincidence, running into you here! Let me tell you, your eyes are just beautiful by the fire..."
Yui gulped. 'Drats, what now?' she thought.
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