Lurking in the Darkness
I wrote another BATIM Digimon AU drabble from @yunisverse‘s Digimon AU! Figured writing a story with Norman and how he met the group!
I hope you enjoy!!!
The tamers were still asleep at their campsite along with their Digimon. As they slept Fleecemon’s ears twitched her sleep waking her up. The rookie Digimon looked around the campsite wondering who was lurking in the shadows. Fleecemon spotted something reflect off in the distance, she slowly walked off from the campsite to get a closer look, but saw no one there.
“Hello.” She whispered. While, the Digimon wanted to call out louder she didn’t want to wake the rest of the crew up. Fleecemon sighed and walked back to camp and fell back asleep. As she slept footsteps walked towards the campsite to get a closer look on the team.
The Digimon titled his head seeing the group asleep. He stepped back a bit before…
SNAP
Bendymon eyes opened as he shot up awake looking around the campsite at who was sneaking around. The demon Digimon growled looking around the camp to see who was spying.
“Alright who’s sneakin around here!” Bendymon yelled.
Henry woke up and went over to his friend’s Digimon wondering what was wrong. It wasn’t Henry who woke up; Wally, Susie, Sammy, DemiBorismon and Fleecemon woke up as well.
“Bendymon, what’s wrong?” Henry asked.
“There’s someone here!” Bendymon shouted.
“Who?!” Sammy shouted coming by the Digimon and his friend.
“I don’t know?! But someone is lurking here! Come on out, you coward!” Bendymon yelled.
Everyone turned and looked around them to see who was lurking around the woods at this time of night. They saw no one or heard no one in sight. Henry turned to his Digimon, now breathing heavily, but calming down. “What did you see Bendymon?” Henry asked.
Bendymon took one more deep breath before he explained. “I…I didn’t see anything. All I did was wake up to someone walking around here, then a branch snapped and that’s it.” He recounted.
Sammy thought and looked around to see if there were any clues left behind. Luckily, the leader didn’t have to look far as there were footprints around the campsite. “Guys! We got prints!” Sammy yelled. The group went over to Sammy and saw large round paw prints around the campsite.
“And look!” Susie pointed out. “The prints seem to lead a trail!”
Wally and DemiBorismon got up and saluted. “Say no more! I’ll follow it!” Wally exclaimed. Wally and his partner then followed the paw prints out of the woods. Not for long, they followed the prints back to the campsite. “We found it!” Wally shouted scaring the crew off their feet.
“WALLY!” The group yelled. Wally and DemiBorismon gulped knowing they’re in trouble.
After a while of yelling the group found where the prints was going now, and it led them far away from the camp. Henry and Sammy were using their flashlights scanning the Digiworld woods of anything. Susie and Wally followed behind, with Fleecemon holding on to her partner tightly. Susie gave a smile petting her Digimon.
“Don’t worry Fleecemon. I’m right here.” Susie whispered. Fleecemon smiled and held on to her partner tight smiling that she will be all right.
DemiBorismon too comfort Fleecemon. He put his paw on her shoulder, “Relax Fleecemon, it’s probably the Butcher Gang pulling a prank on us.” DemiBorismon said.
Fleecemon smiled, “maybe your right.” She replied. As the group continued their walk they frozen in place when they heard rustling nearby. Fleecemon squeaked hiding behind Susie, shivering in fear over what was lurking. DemiBorismon and Bendymon were ready to attack.
“Ready buddy?” Bendymon asked.
DemiBorismon punched the palm of his hand with his fist. “So ready!” He growled.
“One.”
“Two.”
“Three!” Bendymon and DemiBorismon ran and pounced in the bushes. A young boy’s scream was heard along side a wiring scream. Henry’s team ran into the bushes to see Bendymon holding a young boy with glasses down, while DemiBorismon held a camera like Digimon by its legs.
Susie, Sammy and Wally stood in shock over recognizing the boy. “Norman?” Susie asked. She was surprised it was one of her friends that were stalking around rather then the evil Digimon trio, the Butcher Gang.
The boy, Norman looked up at Susie and the group. “Susie?” He asked. Norman got Bendymon off him, before brushing himself off. Sammy glared and pulled the boy by his shirt collar.
“Alright, Polk! Start talking! What are you doing sneaking around here?” Sammy yelled as he asked Norman questions.
“I’m not looking for any trouble. Filmmon here said that three Digimon were bothering him and I followed him.” Norman explained.
“Filmmon?” Henry asked. He, Susie and Wally looked down to see the camera Digimon get off of DemiBorismon to walk towards Henry’s friends. Filmmon made a wiring noise, “Hello.” He replied in a static voice.
Henry and his friends smiled waving to the little Digimon. “Hello.”
Wally kneeled down and pets the Digimon. Filmmon smiled and enjoyed the pets he received. “You know he’s pretty cute.” He commented.
Norman smiled. “Thank you.” He replied. Sammy sighed, rolling his eyes before dropping Norman to the ground. “Gee, thanks Sammy.” He replied in an unenthusiastic tone.
Sammy smiled. “You’re welcome!” He replied.
The group took Norman back to the campsite to explain more on why he was here. “Filmmon told me three other Digimon told him to look for you three, and report back to them.” Norman explained.
Sammy nodded, “Okay.”
“Who were these three Digimon?” Wally asked.
“Well one was a giant Champion leveled one, one looked funny and the other was a spider.” Norman described.
“The Butcher Gang.” Henry, Susie and Wally gasped together. The three knew that instead of being jokers, The Butcher Gang was a bigger threat then they thought.
Norman stood up when he heard the group’s name. “Yeah them!” He yelled. Susie groaned hoping that those three buffoons would never bother them after their last encounter.
Henry went silent before looking at his friends. “So now what?” He asked.
“Easy.” Sammy started. “We make camp somewhere else while you, Susie and Wally take on the Butcher Gang.”
“What about Norman?” Wally asked.
Sammy shrugged, but didn’t respond. Rolling her eyes, Susie put a hand on Sammy’s shoulder. “We need to bring him along with us. You don’t have a Digimon and having four Digimon is better then three.” Susie explained.
Sammy knew Susie was right, out of all of them he didn’t have a Digimon. Though Sammy wasn’t sure if Norman should join with them. What if, The Butcher Gang follows them and catches them. Though, he didn’t want to leave Norman alone in the Digiworld either.
“You have a point Susie, but.”
Susie put a finger over his lips. “No buts, he’s coming!” Sammy glared before giving a sigh.
“Fine.”
















