It was something happened long ago…
In front of Plutomon was Jupitermon, whose once shinny golden armoro was now stretched and cracked; his hammers were on the floor, still flicking with the light of the very low remaining electricity. He was barely standing; instead he leaned on the wall to his right, keeping him from falling. Much as Jupitermon hated to admit, he'd lost the fight, and he couldn't imagine what would happen if he really lose.
That was why he had already prepared a backup plan.
Plutomon took a step forward, charged a sphere of energy in his hand. He could end the quarrel once and for all with Jupitermon's death, he thought, of as the situation seemed; nothing was on his way anymore.
Yet he was proven wrong right after the moment of his thought as shapes stepped out from the pinch black shadow behind Jupitermon. They were the rest eleven of the Olympos, or otherwise known as Jupitermon's reinforcement, for that moment.
The whole thing ended with Jupitermon's twisted victory. Trial was carried; the lost Plutomon was sentenced to be exiled, to the land which was considered as the main continent of the digital world, along with his power being taken and he returned to his champion form of Dobermon.
Years had passed since then, until now, he returned with what he had got from the Duke.
It had been a rough year for William.
First, the Olympos twelve that had ruled the land for ages was taken down by a group of rebels that came down from a violet light hole in the sky. The group was also consisted of twelve, led by a black digimon who called himself Plutomon. Not much had changed, actually; he still had to work hard to earn their living, which was not a common thing happened on a boy of sixteen, who should be sitting in the class room instead of working all day long as a builder.
The second thing was much more mysterious, and much more important, for it had anything to do with his own life. It happened months ago, when he accidentally discovered a special hand-held device (a fusion-loader) with his co-worker, Shoutmon, a short red dragon digimon. But the moment when William touched the device, Shoutmon's body changed, into a much taller golden being that he later leant as OmegaShoutmon.
Before he told anyone about his discovery, he was being hunted, by whom he recognized as Plutomon's fellow. In a rush, he made his journey of escape without a farewell with those he loved. He was lucky that he was accompanied by OmegaShoutmon and another boy, Preston, who was also on a run due to owning the same kind of device that William owned.
And for now, they were forced to be separated; William and OmegaShoutmon were being chased into the dark forest that surrounded the land he used to live.
"Willy, get down!" hearing his partner's warning, William ducked down into the high bushes while turned to see what happened. A glowing orange arrow jetted and shined its way through the pinch dark sky and hit a short tree. A fire was started; fortunately it didn't block William's way.
He then got up to his feet, and started running again; this was OmegaShoutmon's order, though the human never intended to leave anyone behind. Both of them knew too well that there's a great chance that they would be caught this time. Moreover, he didn't know what lay beyond the woods; it might only be another threat waiting for him. He rushed, and felt wave after wave of strong winds that were created by the movement in the fight between OmegaShoutmon and Kentaurosmon, their chaser. Both of them were twice as tell as William, so basically their huge movements would wave strong currents.
The noises of their steps and crashes were getting closer and closer to William, and it bothered the boy so much that he had to ignore his partner's words and turn to see the situation of the fight. He then saw OmegaShoutmon being thrown towards his direction; he held up his arms to cover his face from the strong air current that arose and also from the fear that OomegaShoutmon would crash on him. It seemed that fate was taking a special care of the boy that he did get into a crash; OmegaShoutmon flew over the boy's head and landed a few feet ahead from him.
Now that William was caught in between OmegaShoutmon and Kentaurosmon; it was one circumstance that OmegaShoutmon would never allow to happen, so he immediately got up and dashed towards Kentaurosmon, who was coming after the boy. Successfully he blocked the six-legged horse digimon right before he got his hand on William. The boy and his partner exchanged a look, then he took off again; OmegaShoutmon wasn't doing at all well in blocking Kentaurosmon; not much later he lost his grip on the horse and set it free to chase the boy; using all the strength he ran and caught up in front of Kentaurosmon and blocked him again. It repeated a few times until something magical happened.
A few miles ahead from William opened a glowing purple portal which its light shined straight up to the sky. From the moment, both William and OmegaShoutmon were determined to reach there, the thing that might lead to their escape.
One and a half year had passed since the battle with the royal knights.
Akio, the former leader of the digi-destined (which was not a team anymore) sat in the train along side with Metal Garurumon X. They were heading to the south part of the city, where a tournament was waiting for them the next day.
The red-haired boy peeked through the windows and watched the night view of this district. From his angle, the whole district was basically in his sight. The main part of it was a giant circular arena that looked extremely old-fashioned, like the Glatorian Arena from the bionicle 2009 series; one particular interesting feature was that the arena was lighted up by torches at night. Surrounding the arena was residents that were not much higher, and not very dense, that was why the arena could be seen from nearly every angle.
"It's kinda cool here, isn't it?" Akio mumbled, 'Modern lights and the old-fashioned fire torches being placed near; it's wired, but also cool."
"How can it be 'cool' with burning fire?" dotAgumon, who lived inside Akio's digivice, joked.
"Thought you'd gotten use to the views,' uttered Metal Garurumon, "You've been visiting here quite frequently over the last year, after all."
"None in this two months," Akio slipped out.
"Guess you miss her more than the views.' Said dotAgumon
"Yeah, yeah, you're the most correct.' Replied Akio dryly.
Soon the train arrived the finial station at the south. It was a long journey to travel from the east to the south, especially when one had to be trapped in a train, having nothing to do but chat for hours. Some people might be able to endure it, but unfortunately Akio could not, simply because he was active.
As they got off to the platform, the one that had been waiting for them- or they had been waiting to meet, was there in sight. She was Reiko, of course, the only one of the digi-destined who wasn't living in the east. Same as usual, her charming face was still the same, and so was her hairstyle, which had always been tied in a ponytail or some would consider it horsetail due to its length, and the white colour of her hairs was still as clean as usual.
"Hey," Akio greeted as he walked towards Reiko, "It's been a while."
"Yep," Reiko replied with a smile, "been missing me?"
"Kind of, sort of," Akio answered mindlessly as he looked round and found no trace of the girl's partnered digimon. "Where's HiAndromon?"
"At home, keeping guard."
After Metal Garurumon considered that they'd had enough private chat (which was actually not that privacy, due to the fact that dotAgumon was there on Akio's left arm, where he wore his digivice.), he approached to the boy and girl and interrupted their time.
"So, how've things been going?' he asked Reiko, after a long while since their last gathering.
"Kinda dull, actually," said the ponytail-girl with a bit of complaint, "same things goes on everyday. I really miss the adventure."
"Still busy handling your 'fan boys' at school?" Akio teased
"Apparently."
So the chat went on, until another interruption
"Do we really have to do an one hour talk here? At the platform, right in front of the train door where people will try to get in soon when the next train arrived?" dotAgumon pointed out.
"Yep, we'd better move along."
So on they went from the train station to Reiko's home, which was not an easily accessible place when you started from the station. Yet, it was very near the arena. They arrived there at about 11 pm, when Reiko suddenly remembered the right thing to ask.
"Have you had dinner yet?"
"Well, no." answered Akio cheerily, "got anything in stock for us?"
"Well, no." Reiko replied, using the same manner as Akio did for the irony.
"Guys," Akio announced, to the two of his fellow digimons, "we're heading into battle tomorrow with empty stomachs."
Then came only the sighs from Metal Garurumon and dotAgumon; not out of disappointment, though.
The first thing Akio and Metal Garurumon did after getting into the room was to take a seat, while Reiko walked into the kitchen straight and then started grumbling once she saw Akio's taking seat without asking.
"I try to find something for you to eat but you just behave like…" the sentence was broken by a heavy sigh.
"Like what?" the red head kidded as he walked close to Reiko, only to earn a glare from the girl. "Sorry." He immediately corrected.
Looking around while Reiko got her head deep in the shelf, Akio saw and heard no one other than Metal Garurumon in the apartment.
"Where's your dad?" asked Akio out of curiously.
"Out, working, probably won't be back in three days."
"So he left you alone?" Akio slipped out
Reiko glared at him again.
"You know, I'm eighteen, basically an adult, who is more capable of taking care of myself then you do. Besides, I've got HiAndromon."
"Speaking of him," Akio looked round again, and saw no trace of the black robotic digimon, "where is he?"
"Sleeping. He has a very regular time table." Said Reiko as she sprang out of the shelf and had the back of her head hit the nose of Akio, who was standing very close behind her.
"Ahh.." both of them uttered in pain, with Akio being the louder one, since hitting in the nose was more painful.
"You got what you deserve." Reiko whispered
Metal Garurumon watched them and laughed, though they didn't pay much attention to him.
"So what've you got for me?" asked Akio, holding his hurt nose.
The ponytail girl waved a few packs of biscuits in front of him and he took it. Reiko then turned and walked out of the kitchen.
"I'll just go take a shower and go straight to bed, take care yourself." She turned to Akio for one more time. "And don't you ever try to take a peek at me again."
"Ok." Akio suddenly found himself out of words. "Wait! How did you…"
"Guess who betrayed you?" Reiko's sound was now far away.
"Kin you little traitor." Akio whispered to himself.
The next morning, an unfamiliar and very polite voice woke Akio up. That was not Reiko, for certain, as that was man's voice. But it didn't sound like Metal Garurumon or dotAgumon. Slowly opening his eyes he found the one that stood in front of him was HiAndromon. Surprised, the red-haired boy sprang back and hit the bed; it was when he realized that he had been sleeping on the floor, but that matter didn't bother him much for now.
"Wow…" Akio uttered, "you…you talked ?!"
"Sir, I am here to wake you up under mistress's words." Stated HiAndromon
The room fell silent for a moment, while Akio had his eyes widened, with a weirdly confused look on his face.
"What seems to the problem, sir?" HiAndromon asked
"You…you never talk," Akio uttered, when Reiko entered the room.
"I'll handle here, now off you go." She told her digimon partner.
Tons of questions were asked, of course, after HiAndromon left and Metal Garurumon entered bringing Akio's digivice that contained dotAgumon.
"Ask one by one." Said Reiko, "And watch the clock, there's only an hour left before the tournament starts."
The time was of course enough, as they lived almost just right next to the arena.
"So, first, how come HiAndromon started to talk?" asked Akio hastily, he just got so much used to HiAndromon's old silence style.
The first thing out of Reiko's mouth was not answer, but question.
"Didn't Katsumi tell you?"
"Do I look not surprised?" Akio asked back
"She may just want to give you a surprise." Said Reiko after a brief moment of though, "Last time she came visit, her technician friend that came along help fixed HiAndromon's voice by the way. Anything else?"
"Why was I sleeping on the floor and I didn't realize it?"
"You should know that better than any one else." Reiko replied, crossing her arms, "I kicked you off bed, as usual. Why would you sneak on bed anyway?"
"Well you told me not to mess with you dad's room,"
The white-haired girl nodded.
"And Metal had occupied the couch," Akio continued, "so where am I gonna sleep? In the bathroom?"
"Doesn't sound bad." DotAgumon added in, and Reiko and Metal Garurumon couldn't help giggling. As for Akio, he just sighed.
"I though you two are so close that you had no problem sleeping tighter." Said Metal Garurumon, recovered from his giggling.
"We are, until Rei suddenly woke up midnight and decided to roll me or kick me off her bed."
HiAndromon walked in next.
"It's time to go, mistress."
Soon they arrived at the arena, where Reiko and Akio had to part their way.
"Guess it's time for me to move to the audience's seat." Said Reiko as she was about to leave Akio, "Good luck there."
"Thanks." Said Akio as he watched Reiko and HiAndromon vanished in the crowds
"So… let's give our best shot." Said Metal Garurumon to Akio
Then they stepped into the field and began the first battle of the tournament. It was an easy one, Metal Garurumon didn't even used his weaponries. It was followed by a several more battles, which were both ended with Metal Garurumon and Akio's victory; the opponents were tougher as more battles passed, yet the duo was never tired and kept on winning. Time flew and it was already the time for Akio to take on the finial round.
"In the next and the final round, we've got two youngest tamers participants…" As the narrative voice announced, Reiko got herself confused.
There's someone ages around Akio's? Thought she. Obviously she had put all her attention on the red head that she couldn't notice the other tamer who was as young, and as tough as Akio.
To get a better understanding, she took a look at the scoreboard, and found out that Akio's opponent was no somebody, but one of her classmate (who evidently gained no attention from her.).
"Samuru Inaba…" uttered Reiko surprisingly as she saw her classmate entering the field.
Samuru, the teen boy with seriously pointy black hair and a pair of small brown eyes, walked in with his digimon partner, the crimson armored dragon that armed with heavy weapons, Chaosdramon.
"Beat them, and we get the ticket to the championship." Akio mumbled
Once the battle started, Akio and Metal Garurumon exchanged a look before taking any action, while Chaosdramon already had his back cannons flipped out and crouched himself forward, as light could be seen in the cannons' barrels.
"Seems like we've ourselves a hasty opponent." Metal Garurumon murmured, then said to Akio, "Sure about our strategy?"
"Yeah, just get on with it." the boy replied impatiently
"Hyper Mugen Cannon!" Chaosdramon fired his cannons, but by the time, Metal Garurumon had already flown away.
The blue digimon flew along track the outer circle of the field as Chaosdramon kept turning left to track him down; Metal Garurumon then increased the output of the thrusters and went fast beyond Chaosdramon's reaction time, and then suddenly he turned and jetted straight towards Chaosdramon's side. As if using himself as a cannon ball, Metal Garurumon slammed onto the crimson dragon and knocked it off while still maintaining himself well balanced and landed. There he stood, waiting until Chaosdramon got back up.
The act was out of Akio and Metal Garurumon's pure intention of fighting fair, yet it pissed Samuru off greatly, as he believed that both sides should do their best to get the chance of participating in the championship, and it seemed like they didn't take the competition seriously.
Maddened and angered, he had Chaosdramon used another attack.
"Chaos Crusher!"
The claws on his right arm were extended, and sprayed out like an opened palm. In a sudden, all Metal Garurumon's eyes could catch was the light reflected by the claws; the next instant, his right arm was already grabbed by Chaosdramon. The saw like edges of Chaosdramon's claws made a very irritated noise when it was running through Metal Garurumon's armor. As the sound grew louder and the sparkles grew brighter, Metal Garurumon couldn't help worry about the fate of his arm despite his optimistic nature.
All he could think of was glare back to Akio, and he did so. As soon as the red head received his partner's signal, he grabbed a card and slid it along the track on his digivice to activate it.
"Cocytus Breath."
The shoulder cannon of Metal Garurumon was lowered down and aimed at Chaosdramon, then fired a beam of freezing energy at Chaosdramon. It hit the red machine's shoulder, forced him to let go of Metal Garurumon.
Once freed, Metal Garurumon began wave after wave of rapid close combat which gave Chaosdramon no chance to withhold or counter.
Come on, Metal, finish it quick. Thought Reiko as the battle started to get prolonged. Even she was just sitting among the audiences, she could feel the tension getting on her nerve. The only other thing she could think of was to wonder Akio's feeling down the field.
More minutes passed, and finally Chaosdramon was kicked onto the ground and couldn't get back up.
"Hu~sh" Akio sighed out of his relief as Metal Garurumon walked back to him.
"We did it."
"Yeah, it's kinda hard to believe." Said Akio, still excited about his achievement.
All that was left to do was to wait for the narrative voice to announce Akio and Metal Garurumon's victory. Yet, before that happened, a gleam of bright violet light that came from the center of the arena overpowered the afternoon's sunlight and almost blinded everyone.
"Purple again!" Uttered Akio, "can it be…?"
"Guess you're right." dotAgumon mumbled
As the violet light was weakened, a portal, Plutomon's, could be seen in the middle of the field. Out ran a young boy, and seconds later, a Kentaurosmon entered the arena from the portal and was chasing after the running boy.
"Oh yes, it's him again."
From the author:
So good to be back~
Because of multiple reasons, I might not be able to do a weekly update this time, but I'll try my best to keep up with the progress, so wish me luck.
New look for Akio: gipakll .deviantart .com
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And of course Reiko: gipakll .deviantart .com
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More artworks (related to this book or not, but mostly related) will be uploaded on gipakll .deviantart .com
So that sums up the announcement, thank you.