Dark Garudamon: The Crest of Hate

This is based on X-Men's Dark Phoenix Saga.

Part 1: The Digidestined were walking across a hot desert. Mimi was complaining about water, while Matt was saying something about her being a spoiled brat. Tai smiled at the exchange. He noticed Sora was a distance from everyone else. "What's wrong with her?" he thought. She had been acting this way for a few weeks now. They had just returned to the Digiworld after defeating VenomMyotismon and everyone was upset about how to defeat the Dark Masters. Tai was taking it the worst. He was supposed to be the leader, but he couldn't think of a plan of attack.

"Hey, Tai," Kari asked, running up to him,"Can we rest?"

"Already?" he asked, a little annoyed.

"Everyone's cranky!" she replied. Then Tai noticed how badly she was sweating.

He started to look around. "There!" he said, pointing to an oasis in the distance,"We'll stop for a rest there!" "Yeah!" Kari cried, running back to tell the others. They would have water and a camp for tonight.

Across the desert on the top of Spiral Mountain, Piedmon grumbled as he looked through his telescope. "How could such little kids, be such a big problem?" he yelled.

"Don't worry!" Puppetmon told him,"I've got a plan!"

"Oh really?" Piedmon asked, turning to face him," Well, let's here it!"

From out of the shadows, a figured stepped in. He was a humanoid digimon with the looks of a Hollywood muscle man. "This," Puppetmon said,"Is Magicmon! He has the power to create illusions!"

"Is that so?" Metalseadramon said, shooting up from his pond.

Magicmon nodded. "That is correct! My plan is this.." He held up his hand and a small image of Wargreymon appeared. "Now, the most powerful Digimon at this point is Wargreymon. His power is incredible, and sooner or later, he will become so power that he will be able to defeat even you, Piedmon!"

"I don't think so!" Piedmon glared back,"Remeber, you are only here on Puppetmon's wishes, wishes I can easily withdraw!"

Magicmon gulped. The image changed to Garudamon,"Now, this digimon, Garudamon, I believe that she has the greatest potential of them all! If we turned her against Wargreymon, he won't be able to fight back, because she is his friend and I believe their relationship may even go deeper than that!"

"How will we turn her?" Piedmon asked, interested .

The image turned to Sora. "With her! As you know, Garudamon get her power from this girl, Sora's Crest of Love! I believe that if I can manipulate her emotions I can bring her to our side! Then when her Crest changes, Garudamon will change as well, into something evil!"

Piedmon smiled. "I like it, but how will you do it?"

Magicmon returned the smile. "She is feeling different from the others. She is vulnerable because her Crest of Love is powered by her love for someone in the group, but he doesn't know it, and she doesn't know who to tell him. By using this frustrating feeling of love I hope to control her. The Digidestined are resting around an oasis in the desert. I will use my power to change Sora's perception of reality, and by doing this straight in her mind, she will begin to believe the illusion is real! And the more I create the illusions, the more my control over her will increase!"

"Excellent!" Piedmon said, now overflowing with joy," Get on it!"

Magicmon bowed. "Yes sir!"

"Hey, Tai!" Sora called. Tai ran over to her. "Yeah?'

She sutured for a moment. She had this all planed out the moment they stopped at the oasis. She would bring Tai over and finally confess how much she loves him, but she couldn't. "I...I..'m going to take a nap! Wake me before we go, okay?"

Tai nodded. "Sure!"

"He has no idea!" she thought as he ran away. Sora found a patch of shade under a palm tree. She told Tai she was going to take a nap, so she might as well pretend she was. She closed her eyes, but found everything turned quiet. She quickly opened them, thinking something happened and reality as she knew it flew out the window.

"What the?" she asked. She was sitting on a chair in an open field, looking across at the ocean. There was a colonial house behind her and a path leading to the ocean in front of her. She looked down at herself. She was wearing a long fancy dress, the kind she saw the women wear when she watched Gone with the Wind. "What's going on here?" she asked," I recognize that landscape! I'm in America! It looks like the 18 hundreds too! How can this be?"

"Is something the matter, miss?" a man called to her from behind.

She spun around and saw Magicmon standing there. "Who are you?" she demanded.

Magicmon straighten up. "You have no recollection of me? My name is Sir Jason, we..we are to be wed in the spring!"

Sora stood motion less. Memories were beaning to fill her mind. "Y-yes, yes, of course I remember you, Sir Jason!" "Wait," she thought,"No I don't! I've never met him before in my life, then why dose it seem like I love him?"

She started to move closer to him when her time trip ended. She found her self almost about to make out with a tree. "What are you doing Sora?" Tai asked, trying to suppress a giggle.

Sora shook her head. "Oh, uh, nothing! I..must have been sleepwalking!" "But was that a dream, or something else?"

Off in the distance, Magicmon watched and laughed.

to be continued...