Chapter One: Vampirism
In a secluded castle located deep in the burnt woods, two statues stood.
One white.
One black.
Both monsters were identical, standing side by side. They were essentially devils. The white one of the two had a pink bat tattoo on its chest, the black's was red.
Slowly, their wings stretched open and flapped. Soon, the arms and limbs followed, beginning to move. Finally, the pair of devils lifted off the ground, wings flapping. Soaring out of their throne room, they flew downwards, phasing through the walls as if they were not beings at all. Arriving, at the basement, where numerous of frozen bats stood, each bat coated a different color with different names.
The white one blew and spread the cold air around the place before a ring of fire surrounded certain poles containing bats. The black one of the two had begun calling upon their slumbering servants.
"Rise, our army..." Both the devils said in unison, as if calling awake the bats. The bats whose poles were surrounded by embers awoke and as the flames engulfed them as well as the ice, they turned into different ghosts. Digimon.
"Masters, we obey your words," the Digimon chorused, bowing in thin air. Most of them looked alike, as if a white sheet of paper floating with a scary face. There were a few who had hats on them, about ten in a sea of endless hundreds.
x
An orange dinosaur Digimon stood in the lecture hall worryingly. Wearing a professor's hat and cloak, he stared at the huge flat-screen plasma television in the hall. They hadn't arrived yet. Well, at least most of them. Suddenly, a flash of light occurred and a few humans had appeared in the room accompanied by different creatures.
First was the shortest one in the room. Having recently shaved his hair, he was nearly badly but hair was growing slowly. Wearing a green jacket with loads of cool designs and a pair of jeans, he glanced at the Digimon with blue-framed glasses. Standing beside him was a brown and purple tapir that floated, the lower half of its body being just gray smoke. A holy ring was wrapped around his forefoot. Tapirmon floated near his partner, Bryan, who was waiting for the dinosaur to begin.
Beside him stood another male teenager, his black hair was a mess. His fringe had been dyed dark brown and he wore a plain red t-shirt accompanied with blue camo pants that reached his knees. Wearing a pair of school shoes with his hand drawn art on it, he stood there with his Digimon Partner, Coronamon. A bright red Digimon with dark orange chest hair, a small flame burned at his forehead and another flame served as his tail. Fists clenched together, he looked at his partner, as if ready to fight.
"Martin, can we get started?" Coronamon asked, bored.
Next to him were two boys with spiky hair. One was Chinese and his hair was rather long, fringe nearly touching the eyes. His hair was nearly a shade of brown and he wore a black Adidas jacket with some white stripes, inside a light blue shirt and to go with, dark blue long pants. Wearing sneakers, next to him was a Digimon similar to the orange dinosaur, just that he was white and without the clothes and hat. YukiAgumon stood there beside Eriol, remaining quiet compared to the other Digimon who were chattier.
The other boy had even longer, spiky hair. He was Malay and he wore a white shirt with a tie, along with a black jacket over it. Skinny jeans went with the top and he wore sneakers similar to the other boy. A mischievous mushroom Digimon stood beside him. The yellow dotted purple capped Digimon with pink gloves with white skulls painted on it and pink boots. Mushroommon tossed a miniature mushroom in the air and caught it with a grin, earning a chuckle from his partner, Azukei.
A skinny, tall male with short spiky hair stood in a collared polo shirt and beige colored shorts. Beside him was a silver colored laptop as well as slung around his shoulder was a rather bulky camera. He left the camera on the table as his Digimon, Kokuwamon, a mechanic beetle that generated small sparks of electricity at the tips of his magnet-like hands and horn, started charging up lots of electricity signaling to his partner, Spinel that he was ready for battle.
Yet another long, spiky haired male stood beside his partner. He wore a dull gray shirt and charcoal black pants. He looked rather sleepy and beside him stood a yellow armadillo, curled up in its shell, asleep. Johnson glanced at Armadimon who was pleasantly sleeping and woke him up to get him to pay attention.
Next to him stood a short, bowl-shaped like hair male with orange glasses. He wore a normal orange shirt and beige shorts, his Digimon standing in front of him. Gotsumon stood there firm, his grey exterior shining. Samuel just stood there next to his Digimon, observing the situation.
Finally, stood a girl dressed in a white blouse, accompanied with a red shawl, and a white skirt with a pink stripe around it. She had long, brown hair tied up in a ponytail, holding her blue, flip-open cell phone tight. Beside her stood a Digimon that rivaled her height, a pretty yellow fox with white claws stood there in silence, solemn.
"Ugh, why am I stuck with seven guys," the sole girl asked, arms crossed, bored.
"Maki, don't complain. There's an attack on the university, there are practically hundreds of Bakemon surrounding the place." The professor-like dinosaur quickly described the dire situation.
"Let's split up in teams and head off in different directions," said Martin rather quickly, assuming the leadership role. It was expected anyway, the class chairman was supposed to lead them anyway. Bryan had joined Martin and both headed towards the north exit of the Digimon University. Azukei and Eriol had left for the east exit seconds later and Spinel and Samuel followed suit by heading towards the west exit.
"Looks like it's you and me," Maki said rather quietly as she waited for a reply from Johnson. The male motioned for her to move and she sighed as she dashed towards the south exit. Johnson lagged behind, Armadimon struggling to keep up.
x
Digital University, North Exit
Facing a sea of Bakemon, the white-sheet ghosts stood, ready to attack. Bryan raised his white colored D3 at Tapirmon and Martin did likewise to Coronamon. Both Digimon began glowing, transforming into larger creatures.
"Tapirmon digivolve to..."
"Coronamon digivolve to..."
"Unimon!"
"Meramon!"
Tapirmon had turned into a unicorn, a red helmet worn that covered half of his face including his horn, his eyes covered by a blue visor. His yellow mane ran down his neck and his yellow tail moved gently when a wind blew across. Black wings spread out behind his back as he took off into the air, ready for battle.
"Holy Shot!" Unimon shouted as he released a yellow sphere of energy from his mouth to shoot at one of the nearby Bakemon, instantly sending him flying backwards to a few other Bakemon.
Next to Unimon stood a man totally covered in red flames. His blue eyes gazed at the pile of Bakemon that had been sent back towards the wall before charging up a fireball in his hand.
"Burning Fist!" Meramon fired his fireball at the pile of Bakemon, the Bakemon catching into flames, instantly deleting them.
"There's too many of them to fight," Unimon uttered, observing the huge number of Bakemon surrounding them. It would take them at least two attacks to kill one and the two Soulmon still stood. Both were definitely stronger than the Bakemon and seemed to be leading them.
"Isn't there any way to deal with them? Martin, come on, surely you can think of something!" Bryan said, seeing as it would take forever to kill this many Bakemon.
"We've never had to deal with such large numbers of Digimon attacking, ugh. This sucks." Meramon said in anguish, for he was used to fighting singular opponents. One on one combat was his specialty, not mobs.
"Just take care of as many as you can right now. Distract them or something, the force field surrounding the Digital University can't withstand such large numbers attacking at once.
"HELL'S HAND!" The Bakemon shouted, extending their decaying hands from underneath their cloth. Meramon instinctively hugged Martin and jumped up onto the archway of the university. Thank god Martin had the ability to withstand heat and flames of any temperature as long as he was in the Digital World, the perks of being a Digidestined. Each had their own unique ability, but they hadn't developed them much. Each Digidestined was also given a standard weapon for self defense; these were used more commonly to aid their partners.
Bryan had managed to climb on Unimon's back and the unicorn had taken flight into the air, managing to evade the nasty attack of the Bakemon. Both Bryan and Martin had activated their Digivices to release their respective weapons, shuriken and claws. Martin wore the claws over his two hands, the sharp edges attached to the gloves, giving him easy control over using them. Bryan had a few shuriken in one hand while the other was in a position where he could throw the stars.
"Spread Neigh!" Unimon shouted, thrusting his horn forward numerous times along with flapping his wings. His wings released two blades of wind and his horn released a smaller one. Repeating this action numerous times, the blades slammed into the Bakemon, deleting a few in the process of the waves. Bryan had flung a few shuriken at those who weren't deleted, however, his efforts were mainly futile as it was difficult for him to aim accurately and throw with strength while on Unimon. The decaying hands were sent at them again and Unimon flew quickly to evade them. Meramon had released Martin and jumped up into the air, tossing numerous fireballs at the Bakemon continuously.
"Magma Bomb!" He cried, as the Bakemon were hit continuously as he fired them relentlessly from his arms. A few of the Bakemon had came close to the archway Martin was standing on, however, they were no match as he used his weapons to slice a few into half, deleting them. The claws were sharp and he had great control, being a very physically active person. The number of Bakemon seemed to increase instead of decrease, as the Soulmon had called upon more from the deleted data of those Bakemon.
"Damnit, why can't they fucking go away?" Martin uttered under his breath, pissed off at the situation.
x
Digital University, East Exit
A wooden creature had stood, the opening of her arms glowing green orbs of energy. Woodmon had digivolved from Mushroommon in an attempt to sap energy out of the Bakemon to weaken their attacks. However, there were too many of them. Beside her stood a beast covered in white fur except for his hands and feet, which were similar to a human. Mojamon was the digivolution of YukiAgumon and definitely was fairing better than his counterpart.
"Bone Boomerangs!" Mojamon yelled as he tossed bones hidden in his fur at the Bakemon. Tossing them relentlessly, it was as if there was no end to the assault. Several Bakemon were deleted by the sheer strength of the attack. Azukei held up his green D3 at Woodmon, who, thankfully due to having more experience, was able to have a second champion form, which was more powerful and effective at combat than her current form.
"Woodmon, slide digivolve to..."
"Sunflowmon!"
A green beast with cactus wings and a tail which thorns grew out from now stood in the place of Woodmon. Her face was a sunflower and with her beady eyes, she gazed at her opponents, warning them to scram if they wanted to live.
"Sunshine Bazooka!" She bellowed. The petals of her head began spinning as well as her wings that currently folded and spun alongside with the petals. She fired a yellow beam from her face straight and the petals fired smaller yellow rays that were aimed at different directions. Razor sharp leaves were fired as they hit the Bakemon, sending them backwards. The smaller yellow rays had deleted the Bakemon that had been weakened from the drain attacks Woodmon had used and the huge, stronger beam and deleted a huge mass of Bakemon. Sunflowmon's wings stopped spinning and flapped them hard to propel herself even higher from the ground.
"Death Charm!" The Bakemon cried in unison, releasing different kanji words at Sunflowmon and Mojamon. Both Digimon avoided them with ease, Sunflowmon flying higher so that the charms couldn't reach her and Mojamon doing his dance technique to evade them.
"Cactus Tail!"
"Icicle Rod, Waveform!"
Sunflowmon had slung her tail forward as she fired spikes from it towards the Bakemon. Mojamon tossed a spear of ice at the Bakemon and the spear kept duplicating in mid air, sending a wave of icicle spears at the Bakemon. The coordinated mob techniques had deleted an overwhelming majority of the Bakemon left, leaving about thirty to fifty Bakemon remaining standing to guard the Soulmon. However, there appeared to be no change as the remaining Bakemon absorbed the data of those Bakemon deleted before fusing together to form a stronger, more powerful and larger Bakemon. The huge Bakemon stood there and released his Hell's Hands technique at Sunflowmon and Mojamon, which continuously chased them like no end. Once the hands had attached to their targets, they grabbed them and began sucking out the energy within them. Sunflowmon and Mojamon screamed in agony before they were tossed against the archway of the east exit of the university, leaving a huge visible bruise on their backs respectively,
"Sunshine Beam!"
"Bone Boomerang!"
Sunflowmon fired a ray of sunlight from her head and Mojamon had tossed a few boomerangs to help further damage the large Bakemon. However, the Bakemon disappeared before the attacks could hit him and soon he was behind the two.
"Ghost Chop," he cried as his decaying hands karate chopped the two from behind, sending them onto the ground, face first. Azukei and Eriol had called upon their weapons already, preparing to fight if they had to,
"Sunflowmon, take my bow and arrows, it could help you some way or the other," said Azukei as he threw his weapons at Sunflowmon. Despite it being made for their size only, the bow and arrows grew to fit Sunflowmon's size. Eriol did the same likewise and now Mojamon was carrying Eriol's two axes that transformed to fit into his grip.
"Thanks, this will help, a lot," both Digimon replied, getting ready to fire their new techniques as they prepared to strike.
"Avalanche Cutter!" Mojamon shouted, spinning around before disappearing. Bakemon had relocated himself into a new spot but Mojamon had suddenly appeared behind him, slicing him numerous times with the axes by spinning around continuously. Bakemon flinched from the onslaught and Sunflowmon prepared to fire her new technique.
"Sunshine Arrows!" She cried, firing three arrows that turned into energy like arrows from her manipulation of the sun's energy into the arrows. The arrows pierced through Bakemon into his heart before Mojamon sliced the huge Bakemon into half with the two axes, deleting the ghost. The data burst into the air as the Soulmon were now surrounded by dark patches of energy, absorbing the data of the deleted Bakemon.
"Uh oh," muttered Eriol as the Soulmon began growing.
x
Digital University, West Exit
A man covered in red robes carrying a mallet stood in his golden clock machine that had arms and legs, allowing him easier movement. He slammed the mallet lightly onto the machine as time around him stopped. Beside him stood a goblin covered in purple armor. Wielding a sledge in his arms, he was the only one beside the humans not frozen by time. He jumped into the air before swinging his sledge against the Bakemon, in a circular motion so that all the Bakemon around him would be hit by his attack.
"Snake Eye Break!" He cried, as time unfroze and all the Bakemon around him with a meter's radius were deleted by the overwhelming strength of the attack that he used to swing the sledge. Clockmon stood silently beside the goblin, who smirked.
"I'm not too shabby after all, heh," remarked the goblin, who stood there confidently.
"You couldn't have done that without Clockmon's help Grottomon," Samuel snapped back at his Digimon, who instantly shut up. Clockmon remained silent before raising his mallet again before slamming against his machine, which created a loud sonic wave that caused the Bakemon to screech in pain as the sounds filled their ears, interrupting their nervous system before they combusted into data. This technique had taken out a larger number of Bakemon as compared to Grottomon's attack, but the Digimon remained silent.
"Looks like Clockmon's doing much better than you," Spinel smirked as Grottomon turned around and glared at him for saying that. The two restless Soulmon had begun to stir though, as they absorbed the data from the deleted Bakemon. The remaining Bakemon suddenly started screaming and screeching in pain, before they combusted into data.
"Holy crap, what's happening?" Samuel and Grottomon asked in unison. Clockmon's eyes had turned into shock and Spinel was just stunned. The Soulmon absorbed the data of the Bakemon that were supposed to be alive and soon, both evolved into Phantomon. There stood two Digimon in grey robes, with a red cloak slung over and a scythe in their hands each respectively; a chain at the end of the scythe was attached to a small miniature edge of a mace. They wore a golden chain necklace with a huge eye in the middle as they glared at the Digidestined and their Digimon partners.
"They deleted their own henchmen to evolve and deal with us? Holy crap," gasped Spinel as he realized what had occurred. The Phantomon began drawing closer to Samuel and him, as well as their partners, as if they were going to kill them now.
x
"Devimon Brother, aren't out armies doing fine?"
"Most certainly IceDevimon brother, we have the team that's attacking the north entrance, the army's still intact due to the special abilities of those Soulmon to regenerate the data of deleted Digimon back to the Digimon they were."
"Not forgetting the two Soulmon who could fuse all the Bakemon together to be one huge Bakemon. Now they're the ones growing bigger."
"The other two Soulmon deleted their own Bakemon to digivolve further, merciless."
"Isn't that what we want? They'll give us more power,"
"True. Oh well, two Digidestined still aren't present in the scene."
"Devimon brother, the army attacking from overhead has already been deleted, along with the two Soulmon. The two most experienced Digidestined have long appeared."
"Aw, no fun."
x
Digital University, South Exit
A blue ball with a lightning shape object on his forehead and extended his arms. He wore white gloves and boots and a wave of electricity sparked between his hands. A purple nine tailed fox stood as orange flames engulfed the tip of her tails, which were white at the ends. Thunderballmon and Youkomon had easily defeated the Bakemon with their numerous techniques that were wide ranged.
"Thunderball!" Thunderballmon shouted as he fired a ball of electricity at both the Soulmon who were sent backwards before he sped towards the Soulmon, covered in a huge amount of electricity, striking the Soulmon.
"Homuradama!" Youkomon cried, firing flames from the tips of her nine tails, sending them at the Soulmon, where flames engulfed them, burning orange. She then jumped into the air before curling into a ball, turning into an orange flame dragon.
"Jaenryuu," she bellowed as she engulfed both the Soulmon, deleting them. Landing gracefully on the ground, Youkomon stood next to Maki, as if waiting for her command. Thunderballmon floated around Johnson, bored as they had deleted the Soulmon.
"Thunderballmon, head West. Spinel and Samuel need our help, they're being attacked by Phantomon," Maki said as she read the message on her D-Terminal.
"Got it," said Thunderballmon as he floated towards the west exit. Maki got on Youkomon before looking at Johnson, as if he was some dumb guy.
"Hello? Get on. We're going to the west exit." The girl said, rather pissed off at having to wait for the boy.
"Huh? Oh," Johnson realized, hopping on Youkomon carefully. The graceful beast smiled before giving them a small warning.
"Hang on tight," she cautioned before she leapt into the Digital University, rushing towards the west exit at her top speed. Both Digidestined hung onto the beast tight, scared they would fall off.
x
Digital University, North Exit
Meramon and Unimon stood beside each other, looking at the numerous amount of Bakemon. It was nearly impossible for them to defeat the Bakemon as they had no attacks that could take care of a large group of Digimon at once. Bryan and Martin faced the sea of Bakemon, worried as their Digimon couldn't handle this any longer.
"My, our chairman and his good friend fallen already?"
"Hello? Like, this is so boring."
"Well, it's such a rare sight, strong warriors like Unimon and Meramon defeated."
"Shut up you three, can't you three control yourselves?"
The voices came from four females who had just arrived, standing atop the archway. One was a girl with long, brown hair that reached her waistline. She wore a black sleeveless dress, accompanied with black high heels and a hairclip with a pink heart in her hair, she grinned before pouting at the other human. The other girl had shoulder length black hair; wearing the same outfit as the other girl, except it was in pure white and she wore sneakers instead of high heels. Her hairclip was a cyan teardrop and beside them stood two fairies, their Digimon partners.
The first was a bluish-green female, wearing a sky blue one piece swimsuit, along with a sky blue helmet with red orbs implanted at the sides and front. She wore blue, fingerless gloves and she smirked as she gazed at the Bakemon with her pretty red eyes. The fairy beside her had transparent butterfly wings attached to her body, her violet colored hair reaching her knees. She wore a visor over her eyes, silver gloves and shoulder guards as well as pink boots that reached up to her knees. Her outfit was completed with a pink bikini, as she stood, one hand on her hip, gazing at the crowd around her.
"Fairymon, take them down," The girl in black said, taking out her pink D3, ready to unleash her weapon.
"Help her, Ranamon," the other girl replied to the instructions given by the previous girl, taking out her purple colored D3. A crossbow appeared in her arms as she loaded an arrow before aiming it.
"What's the rush, ne Solaris?" The other girl commented, a pair of guns in her hands.
"Nothing Ryoko, aren't we supposed to help them and not chit chat?" Solaris replied, as if pissed off. Ryoko apologized before loading her guns, ready to fire them.
"Brezza Petalo," muttered Fairymon as she released ten small hurricanes from the tip of her fingers together, forcing them to combine into one huge hurricane that headed towards the Bakemon.
"Rain Stream," cried Ranamon as rain began to pour over the hurricane furiously, increasing the amount of water content. The hurricane sucked in the cloud that was raining and its velocity increased.
"Aqua Hurricane!" The two fairies shouted together as the water cyclone surrounded numerous of Bakemon, deleting them instantly with the sheer force of the attack.
"You guys finally show up," Martin said, leaning back against the archway, tired. The two girls fired arrows and bullets continuously at the Bakemon, managing to delete a few before they stopped, looking down at their class chairman. They giggled and Bryan looked at them before calling out to Unimon to attack the Bakemon quickly.
More different varieties of attacks came out on the battlefield again. Fairymon had combined her Brezza Petalo with Meramon's strongest technique, Crimson Flames, resulting in a hurricane of fire that decimated the Bakemon due to the intense heat and force. Meramon and Ranamon had combined their Burning Fist and Aqua Needle attacks together, resulting in a volley of sparks when the combination of fire and water nailed the opponent, finishing them off with jolts of electricity. Unimon had continued releasing his Spread Neigh, deleting a few more Bakemon in the process.
"We're making progress at last," Meramon said excitedly, finally at ease that they could defeat the Bakemon so quickly that the two Soulmon were unable to finish configuring the data of the deleted Bakemon so they would be reborn again. Fleeing, they floated to the away while the rest of the Bakemon were deleted.
"That's strange, where'd the Soulmon go?" Unimon asked curiously, after finally defeated the army of Bakemon.
x
Digital University, Lecture Hall
There stood the ten Digidestined, discussing the situation. Loud voices filled the room as each described the situation differently. However, there was one conclusion. The Soulmon had retreated (so had the Phantomon) suddenly, as if they were called to return to their master. Two new Digimon stood amongst the others, one a beige puppy with a holy ring around her neck as a collar and a pink clam Digimon, a green slime creature sitting in the shell, gazing around with a smile.
"We've never had something like this before, man," Bryan anguished; frustrated at the fact they took forever to defeat the army of Bakemon.
"Well… Bakemon and Soulmon were known servants of a Digimon… Speaking of him gives me the chills. After all, he is a Perfect level Digimon…"
"WHAT!?" These echoed throughout the room.
"Some of us haven't even achieved our second Champion forms!" Coronamon shouted indignantly.
"I thought we could only achieve it via the aid of crests or DNA Digivolution?" Salamon asked.
"That's what I thought too!" Syakomon continued.
"We are so dead," The three girls said together, in shock.
"No way…" Eriol said, while the others shook their heads in disbelief.
A bat flew into the lecture hall before turning into crystal, screaming out a message before bursting into data.
"Vampirism has returned…"