A/N: Written for the Digimon Flash Bingo, #586 – gungnir, and for the Becoming the Tamer King challenge, Steamy Jungle task (write anything that's part of a series). Also wound up triggering a series. Luckily, it's the first in half the board so crossing fingers we won't have too many more of those. (I've got enough ideas without my flash pieces wanting to be bigger, lol).
Imperfect Grey
side-story
Prelude to Legacies
It was Lucemon who held that legacy: of combining the powers of light and darkness and mastering a world of balance. But he hadn't found the balance. Instead, the imbalance of those two opposing powers had eventually devoured his mind and left him with the sword of light clinging to the shadows of his soul. And when the ZERO-ARMS cut him down and that sword, it spiralled into the data stream and emerged to equip a new knight, a knight that was yet to achieve the state in which it could receive that sword.
But he did thereafter, and the blutgang became his to wield when he transcended the Ultimate form, along with the legacy it told.
And in his other hand was the gungnir whose tale and legacy were murkier things in the history of their world. But the lance spoke the same: it begged for balance, it searched for it. A different sort of balance perhaps, between chaos and peace. Perhaps Chronomon was like Lucemon in that aspect: had strove for an unachievable balance and wound up falling into the tides of grey. When Chronomon's rule had come and gone, no-one really knew. Some wondered if he'd ruled at all but he was in the book of the Chosen and thus he must have existed, must have been fought.
He only held the lance of light of that predecessor. Just like he held the sword in the other hand. Blutgang and gungnir. Two swords of light. Two wielders who'd fought for the balance but had drowned in the imperfect grey instead. He was the successor of both of them with their weapons –
And yet not, because both were bodiless swords, bodiless weapons – cutting and piercing, but his fists did not truly close over them.
He fought for the world. He fought for justice. But at the moment he didn't truly fight for balance.