An Archipelago in Danger(Xros Hunt)(Nanami)(Mae)

The warm island breeze coursed through her body as Nanami brushed her hair past her face. The smile her face was evident as she looked at the ground below. "That settles it - flying's definitely the way to go!" Nanami excitedly exclaimed.

"I'm glad you like it, but I can only maintain this form for so long..." Cream responded rather calmly, though for some reason, it seemed like she wanted to say a lot more. Her voice had always exuded an air of grace and maturity, but now in her relatively new D'arcmon form, the angelic Digimon finally had a form to match the voice. The angel Digimon was carrying the little girl bridal-style while gliding through the air. It was a little embarrassing at first, but Nanami quickly got used to it. It sure as heck beat throwing up on a boat all the time!

"Eh, it's fine. You just need to keep flying for about, twenty more minutes or so..." Mocha stated, staring at a cell phone in her hands as a pair of headphones were awkwardly placed around her large Lopmon ears. She was resting casually while laying across Nanami's stomach. "The movie's almost over, and if this flight can't even last for one movie, what good are you?" Nanami felt Cream's arms grip her body a little more securely, then she suddenly felt a violent shake as the Lopmon was thrown off, plummeting towards the ground. Mocha let out a loud curse before expanding her ears like a parachute.

Nanami thought that Cream perhaps hesitated a little too long, but the D'arcmon eventually swooped down to catch the slowly descending Lopmon. "What the hell was that for, Cream!?" 

"Sorry. Must have been turbulence," Cream offered little in the form of an apology. "You should be more careful up here. I am fairly new to flying, after all." 

Mocha grumbled under her breath as put her phone away, crossed her arms, and sulked for a good while. Meanwhile, Nanami leaned out and reached out towards her partner's belt. She drew a blade from the D'arcmons scabbard and held it out. "Hey, don't do such dangerous stuff while I-" 

"Hey, Cream! How come you grow clothes and and a weapons and stuff when you Digivolve?" Nanami interrupted. "And is your sword always the exact same? And do you get a new one if it gets broken?" The D'arcmon's flying speed seemed to noticably slow down as she seemingly pondered her questions. 

"That... I don't actually know. This is the first time I've ever reached such a form, and... Hey, stop that!" Nanami started swinging the blade from side to side as Mocha began to reach out for it. 

"Hey, Cream, I have a couple ideas for an attack for when we have to fight again, so you should let me borrow your sword the next time I Digivolve!" Mocha declared while Nanami tried to keep it out of the Lopmon's reach. "Stupid Nanami, let me hold it for a little bit!"

"No! It's really heavy, and you're really small!" Nanami stated. "You're gonna drop it for sure!"  

"That's just 'cause you're really weak!" Mocha countered. "I can hold it easy, you'll see!" 

"You will not!" Nanami answered while the pair struggled around in the D'arcmon's arms. 

"Hey, both of you, knock it off! It's really hard to maintain my balance with you two..." Suddenly the blade's handle slipped out of Nanami's fingers as it dove down onto a beach below. The three of them stared at the falling blade for a second, completely dumbfounded before screaming out in a panic. 

"Th-there's no way th-that it c-could possib-bly hit someone down b-below, right?" Cream suggested in a hopeful tone. 

"Y-yeah!" Mocha confirmed. "B-but we should probably k-keep flying just in case! S-since there's no way it could p-possibly hit someone, we d-definitely don't need to go down and ch-check!" 

Nanami looked down towards the ground, managing to spot a few figures directly underneath the path of the falling blade. She was too high up to make out who it was, but there was definitely someone there! Nanami took in a deep breath and shouted out at the top of her lungs.

"HEY!!! YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY DUCK FOR COVER!!! ALSO IT'S REALLY NICE TO MEET YOU!!!"

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A familiar sounding voice shouted from above causing Kazumi, Vemmon, and Dorulumon to glance upwards and much to their surprise a sword seemed to be hurtling toward them from above. Before Kazumi could say a peep Vemmon quickly grabbed her arm and yanked her away from the falling blade with more strength than she thought the little guy possessed. For her it was as surprising as it was disorienting and when she regained her wits she caught sight of a digimon leaping for the sword as if trying to catch it in mid air.

Meanwhile Vemmon and Dorulumon had taken up defensive positions near their general with Vemmon keeping an eye on the leaping digimon while Dorulumon turned his gaze skyward looking for the cause of the falling sword. Soon what looked like a human being carried by a digimon was seen. "I see what looks like a digimon carrying a human but I can't tell what kind of digimon it is from down here."

"The voice did tell us to find cover so maybe the sword was dropped by accident." Kazumi said as she tried to see the digimon and human. Dorulumon must have had better eyesight considering how far the flying digimon was. 

"T-The voice sounded familiar though. It s-sounded like a female human." Vemmon said as he tried to place the voice while keeping his eye on the stranger near to them. Kazumi had to admit it but Vemmon was right but why couldn't they place the voice. Dorulumon said nothing about this considering Kazumi was the last human he had met in a while.

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Yoink.

The Meicrackmon caught the blade, and landed without any skin off her back, letting out a yawn before staring at the sword. "From a D'arcmon..." She noted immediately, as if these things were like...standard issue or something. The bipedal cat glanced to Nanami, Mocha, Cream, and Kazumi's partners.

"Ah. It seems fate has willed us to meet again, Hanabana Nanami, and Kurihara Kazumi." Yes, that was a voice that was definitely familiar to both of the girls. The Meicrackmon would make for the D'arcmon, and offer the blade out to her. "I believe this belongs to you."

"And for the record, my name's actually Mae." She nodded sagely towards Nanami. "...You both seem to have gotten a few friends since last time, too...How have you been? And what brings you all to a beach of all things? I just wanted to have my 9th nap of the day..." A fairly simple question!

What answer would come?

"Wait... I know you, too! That's Ran!" Nanami excitedly cried out almost immediately after Mae first spoke up. She would then reveal her real name, and she grinned. "That's a different name, but it's still easy to remember, so there'll be no problem!" She gave the Meicrackmon a thumbs-up, as if to ensure the Digimon that she wouldn't mess up her name from now on. 

"And Vemmon... and Dorulurumon... That's a little harder to say, but I'll get it right, don't you worry!" She stepped over to pat the drill wolf on shoulder. "I'll practice so much that I'll be able to say it five times... no... six times fast!" 

"It is glad to meet you, friends of Lady Nanami..." The Falcomon finally made her way over towards the group, dropping the oar by her side and resting her tired birb legs onto warm, soft beach. "Also, Lady Nanami, Lady Cream, it would seem that had forgotten to bring me along with you when you took flight... but I followed behind underneath to the best of my ability! I used my ninja training to make a raft and made my way through the ocean with all of my strength and speed!" 

"Huh? We didn't forget you! Mocha said that you didn't want to weigh us down, so you'd just catch up with us later! I figured that sounded a little silly, but you're Mu-kun, so you can do anything!" Nanami answered with a sweet smile, while the Lopmon on her shoulder looked down at the bird Digimon with a smug grin. 

"I-Indeed!" Mu-kun answered while glaring daggers at the brown bunny Digimon, and most likely considering throwing them as well. Before she could press the issue, Mae has inquired as to what everyone was doing here. 

"We're just on an adventure!" Nanami proclaimed excitedly. "We haven't been to all of these islands in this archipelican-"

"Archipelago." 

"-so we were gonna search for buried treasure!" She clenched her fists in excitement as her eyes lit up with an idea. "But if we're all together, we should go around and search for some in a big group! I've got really good eyes, so I can tell everyone if I see it! And Dorururumon can sniff out the treasure, plus with all those drills I bet he'd be able to dig it up super quick! And Ra..." She spun over the Meicrackmon. "...And Mae can come too! I bet she can catch all kinds of supervillains and falling swords! And supervillains that drop swords!" 

"I dunno... I like that nap idea, personally," Mocha commented. "I'm kinda tired from the flight. Is this what jet lag's supposed to be like?" 

"And why would you be tired...?" Cream muttered under her breath, giving her sister an ever-so-slight dirty look before quickly resuming her serene gaze. 

"But even if we don't find any treasure, we might find all sorts of cool stuff, like friendly natives, or big rock formations that look like butts!" Nanami exclaimed with a mischievous smirk, making her final offer for adventure. 

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Why was she and her partners here. That was something Kazumi didn't know but Mae had a point. The trick was how to answer the cat digimon's question. "I guess I don't know why we came out here other than the fact I've never been here before." Buried treasure? Was there treasure here? Looking at Dorulumon Kazumi asked "Dorulumon, have you been here before and is there treasure here?"

Dorulumon smiled as he said "While I've never been to this part of the archipelago before some parts have been known for treasure being buried here. Adventuring is kind of my thing, Kazumi."

"S-So what do you guys think? W-What harm would there be in a little adventure?" Vemmon asked Kazumi and Dorulumon. Both Kazumi and Dorulumon seemed fine with it and nodded their heads.

Before Kazumi could take another step a buzzing sound made her freeze as she shuddered in fear. A small swarm of Honeybeemon came flying by at high speed toward the group. Though both Vemmon and Dorulumon were ready for battle the small digimon zipped by without so much as launching an attack. Once the Honeybeemon passed by Vemmon went to Kazumi's side and patted her arm in an effort to calm her.

"Hello down there is everyone alright?" a feminine voice called out from in the air causing Vemmon and Dorulumon to look up and see a humanoid digimon with blue butterfly wings fly down and hover a few feet off the ground as if checking the strangers out.

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Going somewhere potentially dangerous for the hell of it? Grave as it may have seemed, this was a folly that all new tamers somehow fell into at one point or another. Seriously, when you can see the goddamn future, you see this exact thing happen a lot to the point where you eventually just become numb to it.

"There's no harm in adventure. The harm comes from whatever you encounter on the adventure." ...God, she was starting to sound like some sort of soccer mom, wasn't she? How repulsive. She would turn her attention to Nanami. "Perhaps. The other explanation I have off the top of my head is simply 'it holds no bearing on any potential outcomes.' As...harsh as that may sound. Still might be worth a look, though."

She looked up to the Hudiemon. "No, my nap was interrupted, I had to catch a sword, and I think I left my oven on. Also, I forgot to save my spot in this visual novel I've been reading. ...That said, nobody's harmed down here." What a nice explanation.

As Nanami listened as intently as she could to Mae and Hudiemon, something someone said definitely struck a wrong note to the little girl. Nanami turned towards Mae and grabbed her as tightly as she could with pleading eyes.

"You can't do that, Mae!" She stated as if she were about to break into tears. "It's really, really bad if you left your oven on! I met a guy at the hospital one time, Mummy-san!" Admittedly, he preferred to be called Sato-san, but Nanami had already forgotten his actual name. "His neighbor left the oven on and there was a fire, and Mummy-san spent a really long time wrapped in bandages! You have to go and turn your oven off right away!"

"L-lady Nanami... You should not worry so much about what this one says, okay?" Mu-kun tried to comfort the little girl. But her words apparently fell on deaf ears. "F-fine, then! I shall go to this one's house and personally turn off her oven, just for you, Lady Nanami! You, Mae, was it? Tell me where you live so I may infiltrate your home and disable your cooking apparatus!" It was unclear how serious the Falcomon was being, but looking at the determination in her eyes, it seemed that she had at least some intent on easing the little girl's worries.

"Idiots..." Mocha muttered under her breath, jumping from Nanami over to Cream. The D'arcmon had moved over towards Kazumi's group and the Hudiemon at this point.

"If you need assistance, then I'm sure we'll be wiling to aid you," Cream stated rather boldly. The Lopmon on her sister's shoulders just shrugged.

"Yeah, whatever. Beating down some bug that's grown too big for its digital britches sounds better than hunting for some stupid treasure..." She gave a mischievous grin as she slammed one tiny paw into her open palm. "If all we gotta do is take care of a few rookies and a big bug, then this'll be easy! I bet even the damned bird might even be useful for once!" Either Mu-kun was too busy worrying about Nanami, or the Falcomon simply didn't hear the comment, as there wasn't a feathery dagger being thrown at the back of the Lopmon's head.

The twins spectated the Hudiemon's rather unsuccessful flirtation towards the Dorulumon, and the pair simply shrugged. "I dunno about handsome..." Mocha commented. "I mean, Cream's way more handsome than some spiky fuzzball, and she's only like, one fifth as good-looking as I am..."

"That's..." The D'arcmon wasn't entirely sure whether to take that as a compliment or an insult. Knowing Mocha, it was probably both. 

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