PROLOGUE: Courage Isn't Always Enough

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Digimonif I did, this wouldn't be fanfiction would it? (plz don't answer this question)

A/N: First offthis is a PROLOUGE (so most real questions will be answered later, and the first real attempt I have ever given at writing fanfiction, so don't expect this to be incrediblebut PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW!!! THE POINT OF MY WRITING THIS IS TO GET BETTER AT WRITING, AND WITHOUT REVIEWS, THAT WILL NEVER HAPPENEVEN IF YOU TRULY HATE THIS FIC, PLEASE TELL ME WHY, NOT JUST A "THIS FIC SUCKS!" AND IF YOU LIKE ITFOR SOME REASONPLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU LIKE, ALTHOUGH A "THIS FIC RULES!" WOULD BE OK ^ ^

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Also this is an AU fic, and it only diverges from the show in one minor point, which I will note at the end of the chapter if you can't figure it out.

NOW THAT EVERYONE HAS HIT THE BACK BUTTONI'LL START THE FIC!

"Celestial Arrow!" yelled Angewoman as the angel Digimon sent the holy arrow flying towards her opponent, Lady Devimon. The intense battle had been raging for some time, and Altur-Kabuterrimon had already been defeated. Angewoman hoped that this attack would defeat her foe, as she was running desperately low on energy.

The attack hit home, and the Dark Digimon started deleting. She did manage to get a few words out before her data was scattered. "You may have defeated me, but I pity you, for you have yet to face Piemon, the most powerful Digimon to have ever lived, and he shall crush y--!" with that final yell of defiance against her foes, Lady Devimon died.

Angewoman promptly devolved to Tailmon, and fell into Hikari's arms, who had rushed to catch her falling feline friend. Tailmon was unconscious for the moment, but considering she had just fought the right hand Mon of the most powerful Dark Digimon the chosen knew of, Hikari wasn't very surprised. Koushiro was busy tending to his fallen friend, who was also unconscious, but in his child form.

Taichi pulled out his trusty monocular, and scanned the horizon for a sign of the last Dark Master. After a moment, he saw the dark clown slowly walking towards them. Despite the cool exterior he was putting on, Taichi was scarred out of his wits. He hoped against hope that Sora and Takaru would come back soon with help.

*About 45 minutes later*

"Agumon, warp evolve, Piemon is almost here" Taichi's saurian companion nodded and focused his thought on his Ultimate form. He felt the familiar energy course through his small reptilian body, giving him incredible power; power which he could only hope would be enough to face the worst threat his world had ever known.

Piemon had finally arrived, and politely waited while his foe evolved into a form that had some small chance of defeating him, instead of killing everyone while he had the chance. Unfortunately, he was still under the influence of Toie, so he really couldn't do anything that would obviously benefit him, especially if it would be inconvenient to the plotso by the law of inexplicable convenience to the good-guys in animehe waited

"Trump Sword!" yelled the evil clown, hurling two razor edged swords at his opponent, who easily dodged them as he flew into the air. WarGreymon sent a large ball of energy flying at Piemon, who dodged it with equal ease.

"You call that an attack?" Piemon mocked, throwing several swords at his opponent, and feeling more being created in the sheaths he wore on his back. He quickly pulled four more swords out of their sheaths and hurled them at his opponent, sending more swords behind those as they were created.

WarGreymon was very agile, and was able to dodge many of the lethal weapons hurled at him. However, even the strongest warriors sometimes fail, and, unfortunately that's what happened. The sword hit the very edge of his left shoulder. This one impact, no how small it was, would ultimately prove to be his destruction.

When the sword hit him it disrupted the spin/flip he was currently engaged in to dodge the multitudes of swords being hurled at him. The (This) disruption of this spin allowed more of the evil clown's hits to get through, hurling WarGreymon almost 15 meters, cracking his armor, and leaving a two meter crater where he slid after the "landing."

Piemon bounded to his fallen foe, two swords in each hand. He stepped on the dinosaur's head, putting over 400 pounds of weight on WarGreymon's Face.

Taichi, meanwhile, was only being prevented from rushing to his friend's side by Koushiro and Hikari, who knew he would only accomplish his own doom by rushing to his partner. Taichi, however, wouldn't be prevented from screaming at his tormentor.

Piemon was completely ignoring the helpless humans, instead concentrating completely on destroying his foe, the most powerful weapon the Chosen currently possessed, their leader's partner. He slowly, withdrew two swords and plunged them through the armor of the saurian, forcing them through and into the ground, burying the weapons to the hilt, and killing WarGreymon.

Piemon was a ruthless killer, but he was willing to let the doomed have their last moments in some semblance of dignity. Especially after that foe allowed him the fun of his first challenge in years, and might be the last real challenge he would ever face.

He stepped off his foe, and watched him first devolve to Koromon, then slowly destabilize and start to dissolve into the basic data from which he was created. During this time WarGreymon did two things, one, which he did first, was to guise on Piemon with a stare of utter pity, which Piemon assumed was caused by delirium induced by the closeness of death. Wargreymon's last act was to look at Taichi: his partner, friend, and the one comrade he could always count on. He had failed in his duty to protect him, the purpose for which he had been created. He managed to utter several last words to Taichi, which he only heard through the incredible bond which they shared.

The last words of the fallen warrior were very simple, but very powerful. "I'm sorry I have failed you Taichi-chan, I can only pray now that you will find safety, and that the others will protect you now, in this time of sorrow, and that you will find safety and happiness in your home. I leave you now with the hope that we will meet again someday, GOODBYE TAICHI!" and with that said, he stopped fighting and let the deletion overtake his battered body, and embraced the darkness of death.

"NOO! KOROMON! PIEMON YOU BASTARD, WHY DID YOU KILL HIM?!?" raved Taichi, completely ignoring the fact that it was pathetically obvious why Piemon had killed Koromon; if he hadn't, Koromon would have eventually killed him. As the broken leader of the Chosen yelled, he started to struggle against Hikari and Koushiro again, trying to rush the evil clown and kill him. Logically, of course, he didn't stand a chance against Piemon, who could probably destroy an army single-handed, but Taichi was overcome with rage, and didn't care that it would cause his own death.

"Hmm" started Piemon, mockingly, "you seem to want to see your friend again so badly I think I'll grant you wish!" as he said this, he unsheathed two swords. Two more instantly shimmered into place where they had been a second before, and Piemon prepared to deal a crippling blow to the Chosen. Piemon threw these swords directly at the chest of the struggling human, where they impaled his body seconds later, injuring him beyond any hope of future life. Especially without medical care, or so much as a strip of gauze.

This all happened within the span of a few seconds, and as the swords hit, Taichi was in the process of pushing Hikari out of the way, as massive amounts of adrenaline in his system at the moment from being enraged gave him an excellent response time. As he was diving, the weapons hit, burying themselves to the hilt in his soft flesh. As his body fell, Hikari caught him, holding her beloved brother in her arms as he choked out his final words.

"Hikari, you know I love you, and tell Mom and Dad that I love them too. And Sora, tell Sora, tell her that I l lo--" and with that almost finished, Taichi Yagami left his life, and left his friends to fight a battle they could not possibly hope to win.

As he left his body, his final sight was his sister, drenched in the blood spattering from his wounds, and flowing onto the ground. It covered her body, and she cried. She embraced her dead brother, her guardian, her friend, and she wept for his life, and for everything that he would never know. She cried for herself, for her parents, and for everyone who wouldn't be blessed with knowing the amazing person her brother was.

Piemon let her have her moment of sadness, but then he drew another sword. He spoke only one sentence, "Prepare to meet your destiny; prepare for your light to be extinguished." With those words he promised the destruction of Hikari, and the doom of yet one more chosen. As he flung those two simple weapons at Hikari, threatening to further desecrate the site of her brother's death, something happened. Something that would forever seal the fate of the Digital World

A/N 2: Ok as I promised I will now tell anyone who is still reading what he one difference between this and the show is. Before I do I want to point out that this one tiny difference did, obviously drastically change the outcome of certain battles, and majorly change the final battles of 01. The change is that PIEMON'S SWORDS REGENERATE, INSTEAD OF JUST COMING BACK TO HIM. This changes the battle because he could throw more swords before some of them hit, allowing WarGreymon to be hit sooner then expected, and die.

PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!! Were the death scenes over done?? Where some things said over and over too many times??? Was the action decent??? Please tell me what you honestly thought (and also include anything else you want to, including problems with the fic, which I would rather find out about now then after I have dedicated tons of time to this fic)

TRANSLATIONS: (not all of these were used in this chapter, but may be used later) (some of these may not be spelled right, spelling IS NOT my strong point, and spell check doesn't come with Digimon names }:

Taichi = Tai

Sora = Sora

Mimi = Mimi

Takaru = TK

Hikari = Kari

Jyou = Joe

Koushiro = Izzy

Yamato = Matt

Child = Rookie

Adult = Champion

Perfection = Ultimate

Ultimate = Mega

Piomon = Biomon

Piemon = Piemon

Mugen Dramon = Machinedramon

Pinochiomon= Puppetmon