So, I've had a story bounce around my mind for a while now and decided to write it before I completely forget about it.
Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon.
0th Chapter: After the End
Kill. Hunt. Destroy in the name of the King.
The white dragon sniffed the dead ground, catching the scent of his prey. His red cape blew in the arid wind.
"Did you find him?" The digimon's mentor asked. The black armored digimon crossed his arms as his white coat blew in the wind; he stood as tall as the empty buildings surrounding him. He waited for the answer.
"Yes, Sir Gankoomon. I just caught their scent." The dragon, Huckmon, replied.
He charged into the wasteland, and his mentor followed. They pasted the empty land, the skeleton buildings stuck out ominously from the sands. They walked on white stones and sticks that came apart when they stepped on them.
They stopped outside of a large building. The doors had long been decimated, and the windows already dust. "Come out in the name of King Drasil." Gankoomon ordered. A laugh echoed from the dead building. "I have orders as a Royal Knight for your immediate execution." The Royal Knight continued. "Come in peace, and I will make your deaths as painless as possible."
The laughter echoed again. "You have brought this on yourself!" Gankoomon roared, his coat flying from the digimon's fury. His protégée moved away a few feet. "By taking that form, you betray our name. By protecting that thing, you betray our King! Death is the only honor you can reclaim."
Another chorus of laughter emerged. This one cold and mocking. "Honor? Your honor DIED along with the humans whose bones you mindlessly step over!" A shadow appeared in one of the window openings. The figure trained his arm on the Royal Knight.
"Move away Huckmon." Gankoomon ordered. The caped dragon quickly ran a fair distance from his mentor.
GARURU CANNON!
The figure in the window roared out the attack. Instantly the arm flashed as a blue laser charged out at the warrior. Gankoomon scowled.
TEKKEN SEISAI!
The Royal Knight yelled out his attack in the same loud tone as he punched the laser with his fist. Oddly enough, the attack scattered the beam in different directions, and the Knight came out of the attack unharmed.
"Is that all you've got?" Gankoomon chuckled. The figure suddenly crashed out of the building and flew through the air. It crashed on Huckmon, holding the rookie hostage at the tip of his blade. "You dirty rat." The Royal Knight growled.
In the fading sunlight in the barren sky, the opposing digimon glared viciously at Gankoomon. He returned with his own stare back at the other digimon's cold eyes. The white and gold shining armor glistened in the sunlight, as opposed to his dark armor. "Let him go, this is between the two of us, Omnimon." Gankoomon said slowly.
Omnimon chuckled darkly as Huckmon struggled under his large foot. "It's Omnimon X now. I didn't think you've forgotten already." The knight said bitterly.
"No." Gankoomon's voice sounded just as cold. "I just didn't want to believe that you would join forces with it. This is between you and me."
"I would guess so." Omnimon X said. The knight kicked the rookie away from the building and charged at the other digimon. He retracted his sword and cannon, both were pointless against this foe.
The two digimon exchanged blows, neither one of them could find the opportunity to activate one of their special moves.
BABY FLAME!
Huckmon had managed to sneak over to the building, and sent out a wave of fire that soon engulfed the building in flames. Gankoomon growled when he noticed that Omnimon X paid no notice to the fire, gave no worries to the thing that caused him to leave the Knights, to leave the King.
"Shouldn't you be worried for that thing?" Gankoomon taunted as he tried to hit the other knight. A floating dragon of energy emerged from over his shoulders also threw a punch at Omnimon X.
Omnimon X never looked away from the other mega, but his eyes showed no worry as he guarded against the attacks. "I think you should worry about your own charge."
"What?"
The fire was collected by a figure flying in the sky. The gathered flames formed a great fireball, and the shimmering figure threw it down on the rookie before it vanished like a ghost.
The Royal Knight looked over at the white dragon for a moment. A moment which Omnimon X quickly took advantage of. From his orange draconic hand, the sword appeared, gleaming in the dying sunlight. Gankoomon screamed in pain as the sword pierced through his armor and in rage as Huckmon dissolved away into the fire.
"I'll get you!" The dark armored knight said. "I'll come back and GET YOU!"
"No, you won't." The white armored knight retorted grimly.
ALL DELETE!
A destructive blue light erupted from the Grey Sword, ripping apart the other knight into bits of data. The data dissolved away from the light, flying far and scattering away, making sure they couldn't reform back into an egg.
Omnimon X sighed with relief, any regret he would have had from his actions had long been eaten by his resolve. He turned to the charred building and retracted his blade once again. "So ends the reign of the once great Royal Knights." He turned to the charred building. "Are you alright?" He asked with concern to the creature inside.
"I'm fine." Replied a voice. A hooded figure walked out of the ruin. "Did you get 'im?"
"Yes, thanks to that distraction." Omnimon X said.
"A Royal Knight taking advantage of a moment of weakness? How dishonorable." The hooded figure said, mocking Gankoomon's speech earlier.
Omnimon X scoffed in amusement. "Come on, this place is useless." He said, motioning to the crumbling building.
The figure climbed onto the digimon's shoulder. "I know. We're almost there too. I can feel it."
Later the two took refuge in the ruins of another building. This one used to be an apartment complex. Omnimon X stood outside while the hooded figure looked through the abandoned home searching for anything useful.
"I found some food." He said to his companion, tossing the digimon some cans through the window. The figure sighed and removed his hood, revealing a human face. "To think someone lived here before… that." The boy said softly. He wasn't any older than fifteen, his brown hair slicked back with a headband to hold it in place.
He opened one of the cans he found, the label long torn away, and took a bite. The boy instantly gagged it out. "I think this is dog food." He choked.
"It is still food." The knight chuckled.
"No, I'm not eating it."
"Come on."
"No."
"Fine, I think I got some fruit in this can. Care for some?"
The boy sighed as he trashed the can of dog food and picked some food from his companion. "Hey Omni, what do you think we'll find there?" He asked, fiddling with a trinket on his neck.
Omnimon X sighed, the same conversation. "It'd better be worth all this trouble." The Knight replied.
The next day, the boy and digimon flew to another area. The boy sighed as they passed large piles of bones, long stripped of flesh from the harsh environment. These were common sights, and the boy couldn't help but feel grim when they passed one or two or twenty.
Eventually, they flew past a broken bridge and into a large island. "This is the place." Omnimon X said. The Knight stood on top of a weathered metal ball. "Be ready, the Devourers will be after us the moment we cross through the gate. Don't do anything stupid."
The boy gave chuckle laced with worries and gripped tightly onto the Royal Knight's cape. Feeling that his friend was ready, Omnimon X raised his draconic left hand, his Grey Sword fully extended. He swung down the blade, cutting out a rift between this world and the Digital World.
The digimon stormed through the gate before it could close. The Digital World was a cold and desolate place. Darkness reigned with only cubic squares formed any distinguishable markings. Rocks and debris floated in the dead world. From the darkness, the boy could see a shadow turning its head their way. He could hear the shadows hissing in anticipation for their meal.
Digicore. Whispered the first beast.
First came one or two of the winged beasts, all whispering the same word, then the numbers doubled, tripled, massing together to capture the scarce source of prey. Their call for the knight's digicore bellowed through the empty space.
The boy could feel the red demons drawing closer, their metallic masks splattered with long dried blood, their great wings flying in a crazed pursuit fueled by their lust of data. Omnimon X turned and faced the gluttonous dragons, the Devourers of Life, the DexDoruGreymon.
GARURU CANNON!
Blue energy ripped through the line of dragons. Hundreds fell, dissolving into data, lost to the void of the Digital World. Thousands more appeared to easily replace the fallen. Omnimon X growled and continued flying across the darkness. Another moment and he would have been overwhelmed.
The boy released one of his hands from the Knight's cape and reached past his cloak and grabbed a memory stick from a case on his belt. He quickly brought it up to a device on his wrist and inserted it. The device flashed with light as a ghostly figure appeared out of the screen. The metallic wolf shimmered when it got overrun by the draconic digimon. Moments later a column of ice appeared between the human and digimon, freezing any dragon close to the attack.
The swarm still erupted from around the wall of ice, some following the moving prey, a number devouring the ice and their frozen companions.
Another shadow loomed in front of them; the core of what was once a large mountain. Near the mountain, the DexDoruGreymon ceased their hunt and flew away in annoyance.
The human and digimon sighed with relief when they saw their pursuers flying away. "Whatever's in here must be important if the Devourers can't come close." The boy inferred.
They found an opening for the mountain and entered into a cavern large enough to fit the knight digimon. Black Gears lie dormant on the cave walls, as dead as the world outside. "What is this place?" The boy asked, the pouch on his belt shuddered. The inner cave was dark, but the glowing stones on the Royal Knight's body emitted enough light for them to see where to go.
Omnimon X looked at the walls with contempt. "Relics from an old legend." He sighed, tracing his hand along the wall of gears.
The pair walked further into the cave until they reached found that the trail split into three different paths. "Where too?" Omnimon X asked, his green eyes staring cautiously at each entrance.
The boy looked at each entrance carefully. He started to move towards the middle entrance, but hesitated. Instead he turned his eyes to the segment of the tunnel that they were in. He noticed that there was a small gear hidden away between the larger ones. His hand twitched closer to the tiny gear when the tunnel resonated with a deep voice.
DI-GI-CORE! The great voice bellowed. Omnimon X involuntarily shuddered.
"Dexmon." He groaned. "Whatever you are doing, hurry it up."
The boy nodded and touched the gear. The black gears roared to life as the walls opened up, revealing another tunnel. Another roar bellowed across the tunnel; the pair quickly entered the path.
They powered through another tunnel of gears, they could see a light coming from the end of the path. The boy heard Omnimon X releasing his cannon, just in case. As they advanced, the light grew harsher and blinding until they passed out of the cavern.
Omnimon X gasped, the boy's eyes widened. A girl stood in the middle of the cave, her clothes decorated with the blue stones that formed on the bodies of X-Antibody digimon. Her hands and legs were bound by the black gears. She looked sixteen, seventeen at most. The girl remained in her frozen state, unmoving, unknowing, not even noticing the arrival of the pair.
"Do you think she's human?" The boy asked. He hasn't seen another human being ever since… that day.
He looked at the Royal Knight, who unsheathed the Grey Sword. Another cry echoed across the tunnels, this time the mountain shook violently. "Well, we could wait for the Great Devourer gets us, or we can find out." The Knight raised his draconic arm and skillfully cut away the gears.
The pieces tumbled to the floor, shattering into dark oblivion. The girl shuddered to life. The boy and the digimon saw lines of data and code swirling in her luminous blue eyes. She blinked and stood upright, face to face with the boy.
He felt uncomfortable when she stroked his oily hair with her small cold fingers. "Human?" She whispered. "Are you the last one?" The boy uttered a sad yes. "I see." The girl said knowingly, touching his face, smiling softly as he shivered from the contact.
Dexmon bellowed his wish for Digicores once more as he continued to thrash at the mountain. The girl listened to the sound and sighed. "So this is the legacy of King Drasil." She listened to the roars again. "How far the great dragon has fallen." She sighed.
"Who are you?" The boy whispered, entranced by the luminous girl.
The girl smiled. "I am Norn." She said simply.
Omnimon X gasped and immediately bowed on one knee. "Do not bow to me, dear knight." The girl said. "You will not be of any help unless you stand proudly on both feet." The knight digimon quickly stood up again.
The boy flinched as he remembered some of the conversations that he had with his partner, tales told to pass the time in silence, tales of a being that rival the great beings. A reminder of the king before his descent into madness.
Another shake knocked the boy down to his knees. Norn crouched down beside him. "If you had a chance to change what happened to this world, to prevent all the sorrows that descended on both of our worlds, would you take it? Even at the cost of your life?"
The boy froze, his eyes held a spark of hope. "I would." Anything was better than the constant running.
It ceiling crashed apart and Dexmon appeared above them. Its body emitted a sickly green light under its purple armor. Fearsome silver and red claws ripped open the mountain of gears. The digimon looked down on then with hungry eyes.
Omnimon X sprung up and blasted it a few times with his Garuru Cannon attack. The demonic dragon easily shook off the attacks.
"Let's get started." Norn said as she plucked out a strand of the boy's hair. She began to say a chant that the boy couldn't hear. The sounds of the battle behind him resonated loudly across the cave. He felt something tightening over his body. Dexmon lifted the screaming boy into the air. He fruitlessly struggled in the dragon's grip.
"TAIKO!" Omnimon X roared.
GREY SWORD!
A crescent of light struck the larger digimon in the shoulder, cutting off the digimon's arm. Norn finished her chant, and a shining blue light enveloped the boy and the arm, causing both to vanish once the light subsided.
Dexmon roared in annoyance as it lunged at Omnimon X and Norn. The digimon grabbed the girl and cut into the dimensional barrier, escaping to the human world.
The Royal Knight sighed with relief as Dexmon roared angrily behind him. "Where did Taiko go?" He asked the girl. She smiled knowingly and looked up to the scarred skyline, where the sunlight broke through the cloud cover.
"In a place where he can create the greatest change." Norn smiled.
AN: So, Main Characters will come out next time, thanks for reading.