Waffles! [Kath||Mai]

Any other description of Ela’s home right now would be inaccurate. The place was a total mess!

It seemed like someone had been looking for something desperately. Whether they had found it or not, it was probably impossible to know right now. At least the Terriermon had been able to find a single book and hand it to Maia. Would it come useful for the group, eventually?

While the trio assessed the damage caused by whoever had been here, a sound coming from the entrance of the small building would reach them. Steps. Something was coming their way. However, they couldn’t see who was coming from their current position. These were slow, firm steps, seemingly coming from something fairly tall.

Sooner than later, the three of them would realize this was not the only reason why they seemed to be far from alone inside this abode. Out of seemingly nowhere, they would start hearing… music. The tune –a piece of gloomy, tense music- seemed to be coming from a door located at the northeast side of the room, a door that Ela knew led to her bedroom. Wings buzzing could also be heard.

Then, a voice.

“Are you sure you saw her enter? You better have not made me turn on my music for nothing!” A loud, female voice echoed from the other side of the door. It had a quite energetic tone and it wasn’t too different from the one of a hyped young girl.

“Q-quiet!” A male voice replied this time. It sounded a lot more mature than the first one. “I didn’t tell you to turn on any music. We were supposed to take her by surprise.”

If, by this point, either of the occupants of Ela’s living area decided to open the door to her bedroom, they would find two Butterflamons arguing. If they didn’t feel like finding out what was inside, the insects would open the door eventually anyways.

“S-she's right there!” Quite shocked, the female flying bug blinked, looking at Ela and pretty much ignoring Maia and Kuu. “Where the hell have you been!? We’ve been looking for you all over town!” She flew forward, pushing her face a lot closer to the Terriermon, kind of examining if this was really her. It would be then where the group would be able to tell the music they were hearing was… coming from this digimon’s wings.

At his overexcited sister’s attitude, the male Butterflamon let out a sigh. “Please excuse her, Dra. Ela. We’ve been waiting for you for quite a while and she’s gotten… impatient.” Silence invaded the room. Although the attitude of these two didn’t seem actually aggressive right now, the environment was definitely tense. They wanted something from Ela, and that much was obvious.

It was only then when the most pumped of the pair noticed Maia and Kuu. The Butterflamon turned her head, her eyes widening while she stared at the human and her digimon. Again, she got uncomfortably close to the pair. “Who are YOU?” She asked, quirking an eyebrow.

“Lea. Can you behave?” The male said, still keeping his distance from the group. Quickly, he tried to get back on topic, looking at the scientist again. “I’m sorry about the mess. This wasn’t me. I would never do such a thing.” He explained before clearing his throat, his wings still buzzing. “But you have to understand you have info that we need. Since you weren't coming back, we tried to find answers by ourselves.” The Butterflamon admitted, his eyes trailing down to look at the items laying all over the place.

“I tried reading the books and looking for info!” Lea declared, flying back from Maia and Kuu’s face. “But… All of that stuff is too complicated for me to understand.” She noted, folding her arms and wrinkling her mouth. “Even Leo couldn’t decipher any of the stuff that you wrote!” Her eyes went towards Ela now.

“That is true.” A sigh accompanied Leo’s words. “That’s why we need you to come with us, doctor. We need you in order to achieve our goal.”

The perpetuity of this tense environment would probably tell the trio things weren’t going well. These two had destroyed Ela’s home, and now they wanted her to come with them. What were they looking for, exactly? What was going on?

Leo’s voice broke the silence again. After letting out another sigh, the insect seemed to state a painful fact. “… We didn’t expect you to bring company, though.” He admitted, closing his eyes. It was then when Ela’s huge ears would be able to catch something. The music coming from Lea’s wings had managed to eclipse another sound. The tune had made this sound disappear completely from everyone’s radar for minutes, and the Terriermon would only be able to catch it now that it was quite close.

But… what was it? It would take the bunny one more second to actually be able to tell. One more sentence from Leo would fill the short gap.

“We need you Dra. Ela. But we can’t let them get out of here alive.”

It would be then when the scientist got the chance to realize.

The steps! The ones that were coming from the entrance!

Behind Mai and Kuu, a giant figure stood tall. It was at least twice the size of the human. And it was about to slam down a huge wooden sword covered in green energy against the pair.

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Although this could probably be inferred by how the rest of the conversation had gone, these insects didn’t seem to care a lot about Ela, much less they had any idea of her being trapped somewhere. They only wanted the information she could give them. The scientific knowledge she could provide and a proper interpretation of the papers she had written herself about the subject that interested them.

They also didn’t seem interested in formal introductions or anything else. Maybe because they were sure these two were going to be dead in a moment? Maybe. The thing was that, even if neither of the Butterflamon had stated their names, from their interactions between one another the trio would know they were facing Lea and Leo. And then… someone else.

Maia made the right choice. Anything else but digivolving would have had terrible consequences for the pair, considering how fast that swing had been. It was as the barrier broken than the scientist and her friends would be able to get a proper look of the creature after them.

It was a Yaksamon.

And, naturally, he didn’t care about destroying Ela’s house a little (or a lot) more. However, he did seem perplexed at the form acquired by Maia and Kuu just now.

“P-Princess!?” Lea, who was also shocked, exclaimed, her eyes wide open. All of the enemies inside the room just observed the fox priest.

Just in time, Leo seemed to bring some sense into the crew. “Don’t be stupid. That is a Sakuyamon. We know Alissa is in the Human World!” And that was right. They did. Why would the princess come here, to the kingdom where she knew she had almost been killed last time?

Immediately, all of the adversaries got in motion again. “Come here, you!” Lea abruptly buzzed towards Ela, trying to grab the sneaky bunny!

Meanwhile? Leo’s gauntlets started moving, spinning around their axis. In a matter of seconds, a burst of fireballs was being shot at Maia’s new form, while the Yaksamon was launching new blows in order to neutralize her. Of course, with so many enemies inside a living room, all attacking at once, chaos was to be unfolded.

Lea was trying to get Ela, no matter where she went. “Just. Stop. Moving!” It was just a Terriermon in a labcoat, come on! If she managed to hit a single blow on her, they would be taken her unconscious ass in a moment. Meanwhile, the Butterflamon’s wings had started playing a more aggressive, bad-situation tune. At any moment, all of their enemies were making sure to block out any exit and stopping them from breaking out any wall or window to get out.

If the trio managed to keep themselves alive or uncaptured for the next thirty seconds (whether this caused terrible damage to Ela’s house or not), an escape door would open. Well, more like… a window.

That big window in the living room, the one that illuminated the whole area? Well, a powerful gust of wind would absolutely destroy that, sending pieces of glass and wood flying everywhere. The fact that both the Yaksamon and the ButterFlamons were shocked at this event probably meant they hadn’t planned it.

On the other side of the hole that had been caused by the relentless wind, a Swanmon flew. “Come on, Doctor! Over here!”

This was not just a random savior, though. No. Ela probably knew who this digimon was. She was one of the assistants that worked for Alissa; the princess of the Hana Kingdom. Yes! The kingdom they were in right now. Yes! where Ela had lived for years before getting trapped inside that cave and having her house destroyed by these psychos!

Naturally, they had never interacted. However, it was likely the science bunny had seen her on TV or different demonstrations or events where the princess had been present. Yes, both she and a Pucchiemon were always by her side.

What was she doing here, though!?

It didn’t matter now! This was someone Ela more or less knew and had opened a way out!

Whether Mai and her team wanted to fight or run, they needed to be outside of Ela’s house for that.

Immediately, both Leo and Lea went to try and block the exit. Maia would need to pull a good maneuver to go past them!

In due time, the group could assess whether having an enemy that played its own music was a good thing or not. There was no way of denying it kept the environment musically accurate though. As soon as the rules of the game changed due to this Swanmon showing up, Lea started playing a different tune, one that was definitely more aggressive and denoted the start of a face-off.

Maia and Kuu, merged as a single Sakuyamon, would find kicking Leo quite easy. The digimon reflexes and resistance were fitting for an Adult-level digimon, which resulted in him being jutted right into a wall, inherently destroying Ela’s house a little more. A question would probably arise then... Wouldn't a kick from a Super Mega be enough to disintegrate an adult into a million bits of data? How had he managed to stay in one piece after such an attack? No. It was worse than that! Leo was already standing up after some seconds! But... how!?

In any case! with Leo being taken out, a gap had opened, one that was only made relatively bigger as the Yaksamon flickered too to appear behind Sakuyamon, ready to strike another vicious blow with his sword.

In order to take advantage of the Miko targeting another enemy, the swordsman had broken the defensive formation that protected the exit opened by the Swanmon. This had left a quite big gap for anyone to escape through that hole… assuming they could withstand the upcoming blow, that is.

For this, the Swanmon would make sure to help somehow. Flinging her wings aggressively, she created a stream of wind that traveled straight against Lea. “Come on! Get over here! They'll keep standing up!” The bird rushed the pair to get out of the house immediately. Around the area where the Sakuyamon was standing before going into the offensive, pieces of cherry blossoms started to materialize out of thin air. “Quick! They’re calling for reinforcements!” She warned.

Lea, on her side, managed to withstand the vicious wind current, trying to fly against it to the best of her capabilities, while the group’s rescuer kept fluttering those wings aggressively. “Getting…. Into… our business like that…. How rude, Assistant to the Princess!”

The path was clear and open for the pair to make their escape. Lea was battling a current of wind and Leo had been taken out of the equation momentarily with that kick. Could they fend Yaksamon off and make it out?