Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon, I do not have any rights to Digimon and I do not make any money from writing these fics.
Written for the: Revisiting The Adventure Digimon S1 Watch-A-Thon Challenge, The Anime and Manga Diversity Writing Challenge, The Testing Your Patience Challenge, The Number Sequence Challenge, The One Word Boot Camp, The If You Dare Continued Challenge, The As Much As You Can Competition, The V-Day Advent Calendar Challenge.
Prompts: One shot collection of each one shot over 1,000 words, Write 7 chapters/one shots for this story before you start posting it, Write a one shot of exactly 1,100 words, Write about the floating fish raft, blue-eyed, Fall, Rocky Mountains, Write about a character in their childhood days.
The Fish Raft
Joe closed his eyes tightly as he attempted to stay afloat in the water only to find it difficult as the harsh current threw him around like a rag doll. Fear flooded though him as his mind tried to process what had happened with the rocky mountains that they had just been on and the fall into the cold water. Flashes of his blue-eyed mother flashed before his eyes as he tried to fight to stay afloat only to let out a startled gasp when the new looking, now white and purple coloured Bukamon let out a loud strange cry that made the hairs on the back of Joe's back stand up.
"What is going on?" Joe shouted out, as he battled to stay above the water.
Instead of replying the now white Bukamon let out another strange cry only for Joe to find himself letting out a startled gasp as something touched his legs. Scales rubbed against his leg causing Joe to panic even more. He had read enough medical books and seen enough wildlife documentaries to make a pretty good guess as to what might be under the water.
'Oh no! What is below the water? We are all doomed!' Joe thought fearfully only to let out a frightened cry as more of whatever was rubbing against his legs joined the first one. 'There are more?! We are doomed! Maybe I should just give in, no...if I do then that would not be very safe and I would see the creature that is attacking us all from below!'
Another strange cry came from the new Bukamon frightening Joe even more only for him to let out a gasp for fresh air as the strange scale creatures lifted him out of the water as if they were a strange raft.
"Amazing!" Mimi said from besides him causing Joe to snap out of his fear slightly and become more alert to his surroundings.
All around him was fish, hundreds of fish of every colour. Shock, fear and amazement washed though Joe as the group of fish grew in size until all of his new friends were on the raft safely. Looking all around him Joe found the small fish swimming confidently towards the edge of the river, taking them to safety.
"Nice ride," Tai said from where he lay on his back with Agumon half on top of him. "Things just seem to get stranger and stranger around here."
'I could not agree with you more' Joe thought as he cautiously looked down at what he was fast naming the fish-raft. 'I just hope that I do not break out into hives as I am allergic to sea food.'
"Hey! Watch out!" Matt suddenly yelled, fear washed though Joe as he and the others looked behind them to where Matt was looking only to spot a familiar red bug Digimon falling off the edge of the cliff.
"Oh no!" T.K gasped out in fright as they watched the large Digimon fall from the cliff just as they had done moments before. "It is going to crush us all!"
Thinking fast Joe turned to Bukamon. "Can you do something with this fish-raft? If not we are all going to be squashed by that big bug!"
Instead of replying Bukamon raised his head and let out another cry, one similar to the others he had done earlier. Joe watched on in confusion only to let out a frightened scream as the group of rainbow coloured fish suddenly changed course and began increase in speed. There was nothing that Joe could remember from his studying that might of helped him or his friends right at that moment.
"Hang on tight T.K," Matt shouted out as everyone clinged to the fish raft for dear life.
"I know I should of never of let my mum talk me into coming to summer camp!" Joe groaned out to himself as the giant bug fell into the water, just narrowly missing them all. "I should of stayed at home where it is nice and safe!"
As the large chunk of cliff crumbled away from the rest of the cliff and followed the giant red bug Digimon in the water another large wave hit the group. Screams filled the air as the waves chucked them about like a bath toy. Fear, which was an emotion Joe knew as well as his own medical study books, hit him as the waves grew in size and the fish-raft picked up speed. Gathering up his courage Joe opened up one eye, though he was not sure when he closed it, only to let out a sigh of relief when he spotted land not too far away.
Feeling slightly braver at the sight of land close by Joe opened his other eye and turned to look at Bukamon only to find his new strange little friend happily sitting on the raft next to him. Much to Joe's surprise and confusion there was not a single bit of fear on the Digimon's face.
"What are you doing, Bukamon?" Joe shouted out as he bravely reached out and wrapped an arm around the strange creature who had done his best to protect him earlier. "Be careful! You could fall off and get hurt!"
Bukamon simply let out his strange laugh and smiled at Joe. "Relax Joe. Everything is alright, these fish are my friends."
"But aren't seals supposed to eat fish?" Joe asked nervously as he clinged with one hand onto the raft and the other one onto the different looking Bukamon.
"Not in the digital world! Besides I would never think of eating my friends!" Bukamon answered, only to confuse Joe even more, nothing was making any sense to Joe no matter what way he thought things though. "And I am not Bukamon anymore, I digi-evolved. I am called Gomamon!"
"Right, Gomamon," Joe muttered to himself as the fish began to slow down, things were becoming too crazy and strange for him to handle.
"Thanks for the help and the lift guys," Bukamon, now Gomamon, said happily as they collided with land. "You were all a great help!"
Joe opened his mouth to speak only to let out a surprised cry as he found the fish somehow pushing them onto the river bank before disappearing back under the water. He was quickly joined by the others, all of them letting out various sighs of relief.
"Aren't my friends great!" Gomamon said happily causing everyone to stare at him in shock. "We were really luck that my fish friends were having a class reunion!"
End Of One Shot.
Sorry about this, I'm no good at writing cannon or action but I thought I'd have a go :) I loved the floating fish raft too much not to.