Chapter 1 – Old Friends, Old Enemies
Hi everyone. As you may have noticed from before, my format was... crap. So I hope you enjoy the new format from now on. I'm also sorry to say that I am having trouble coming up with a new chapter so chances are that it wont be up on Saturday as usual. I am truly and dreadfully sorry for this and please review because I'm still learning the ropes.
Six years ago , 2002
A brave warrior on a quest. A quest to find why he was put here, to complete his meaning of life. He travelled to the ends of the earth, completed the hardest of deeds and confronted the most powerful of beings. He did all of these tasks and went against his masters in order to find out and fulfil his destiny. He fought countless battles and when the day came, he completed his quest, though this came at a price. To fulfil his destiny, he sacrificed himself. All of the people who knew of him and cared for him thought he was gone forever, but that is never the case with these creatures. With digimon , their data is restored , bringing them back as digitama or are sent to the dark area. And this particular warrior is no exception.
Present day 2008 , Digital world
Anubismon stood there amazed and confused. It took six years for this data to arrive and now that it was here, he had no idea of what to do with it .He said to himself,
"How can I decide the fate of this digimon. On one hand he caused much destruction in the digital world. Some of which is beyond repair. On the other hand, he sacrificed his own life in order to save the Chosen". He pondered this for a moment until he began to manipulate the dispersed data into an oval-like shape. He took a large breath and sighed with a smile playing on the edges of his mouth.
"The dark area is for digimon who have lost redemption and are without a heart. This digimon has a heart and has committed a great selfless act. He deserves a second chance".
The particles of data condensed to form a dark grey egg with black stripes encircling it and a gold spot on the top of it. It was a digitama. He placed it on the ground and began to chant a few words quietly. Within a few seconds the digitama became more and more transparent until it completely disappeared.
"There's another one for the primary village" He said pleasantly. His happiness did not last though as he heard a loud howl of pain. "Cerberumon?" He listened for a moment and-silence.
"Cerberumon!"
As Anubismon flew to the gates of the dark area he began thinking of what could have hurt Cerberumon.
"There is no way that any physical being could have gotten through the dark areas gate and even if they did , they would still have to deal with Cerberumon who is strong enough to take on any evil digimon . I have no idea of who's strong enough to hurt him."
As he approached the gates he was confused as to what was going on. Seeping out of them was not a digimon but in fact a strange black smoke. In the middle of the smoke and completely shrouded was Cerberumon .The only signs of him in the black smoke were his "Emrald Flame" attack which shot green flames through the thick smog. As Anubismon ran up to his friend, there was something very wrong. He grabbed a hold of Cerberumon.
"My friend please tell me what is wrong!"Cerberumon struggled to reply in a constricted tone.
"Must ... defend ... too powerful!" Anubismon began to shake him, blowing away the smoke with his wings.
"What is too powerful?" The smoke began to block Cerberumons vision.
Suddenly he met Anubismon's gaze, and his expression was a fearsome one to behold. His eyes had widened- as if he were seeing the most horrific creature in existence. He snarled and stepped back in a defensive position.
"Emerald Flame!" Cerberumon shot a stream of green fire right at Anubismon which sent him flying to the ground. He got up, completely shocked at the situation.
"What is wrong with Cerberumon ? The only way to defend myself is to stop him, but how can I hurt my greatest friend? If I hurt him I could never live with myself and if I don't hurt him he will surely destroy me.
" "Emerald flame" Cerberumon shot a second stream of green fire from his mouth.
"Amulet of the ancients" Anubismon shot a beam of burning light from the crystal necklace around him which cut right through the fire and just about missed Cerberumon.
What the two didn't notice was the small crack made in the gate to the dark area from Anubismons attack. Both of them circled each other with the smoke still around them, Anubismon constantly dodging it.
Eventually Cerberumon rammed his head into Anubismons stomach. Anubismon fell against the gate, causing the crack to become slightly bigger. Anubismon pushed Cerberumon away and began to move away from the gate but as soon as he did, Cerberumon pounced against him, sending them both flying. Anubismon began thinking about the situation.
"There must be some illusion shrouding Cerberumon from me. I know he would never attack me for no reason." He noticed that the smoke was still distracting Cerberumons vision. "The smoke! That must be what causing him to act like this. If I'm going to stop him, I've got to get rid of that smoke but to do that I'll have to keep him busy."
Anubismon looked at Cerberumon , getting ready to attack again , and showed a small grin . Just as Cerberumon lunged, Anubismon stepped back, still grinning.
"Pyramid Power" A triangle of metal bars appeared in front of Cerberumon , hitting his head against it . Three other triangles appeared around him, one on each side of him, closing in until it formed a pyramid shaped cage.
Meanwhile, while Anubismon and Cerberumon were fighting in the smoke, a large fist began to pull away at the crack, widening it from the dark area inside. Eventually an entire arm began to escape which ripped open the crack like a door and a shadowed figure emerged. As he was about to sneak away he pushed the crack back in and chuckled.
"I can't have any competition. Not this time."But before he managed to close the crack fully a small creature emerged,
"Wait! What about me?" The figure picked up the creature and began to squeeze it tightly.
"You lorded over me before and you never cared for me once! Though I learned and grew stronger while you withered and grew weaker. So I ask, for what godforsaken reason should I take a measly creature like you?" The creature gulped in fear.
"I could be like a fly on the wall. Plus, even with my small size, I am deadly and can strike when the people you seek least expect it." The shadow considered a moment,
"Alright. I'll give you one more chance to prove yourself. If you succeed, you live. If you fail, you die." The little being began to grovel,
"Thank you, my liege your forgiveness is unmatched."With that they left without being noticed in the slightest.
As Anubismon finished blowing the smoke with his wings, he flew over to the gate to check if everything was alright. When he got there he noticed a large crack in the gates. Luckily, it didn't look like it had been opened and had no sign of life around it. He began to chant a few words and the gate began to seal itself.
"Cerberumon should be back to normal by now." And with that, he flew to release his friend.
Primary Village, Digital World
The dark grey digitama lay there motionless. Every few minutes it would shudder for a moment and then stop. A group of Yaamon , Bukamon and Tsunomon lay around it with curiosity . Sometimes a mischievous Yaamon would nudge it in an attempt to knock it over, though this time it didn't work. The Yaamon made to push it over a fourth time, but when it was a millimetre from the ground, it stood up straight. It began to crack horizontally when a purple light emitted from it, making the Yaamon hop back fearfully. As the crack grew larger, the complete top half of the egg snapped off. Out of the bottom half of the egg peered two round yellow eyes. Out of the egg came a small black ball with yellow eyes and small ears, similar to a bears. It was a Botamon. It looked around its surroundings, looking up to face large cubes, similar to children's blocks. Suddenly, a hand tipped it, making the Botamon jump backwards in fear. It looked up to face what looked like a red rabbit with a tail made out of peacock feathers.
"Hello, my name is Elecmon. I'm the protector of Primary village and all of its inhabitants, which I guess includes you now." The Botamon faced him, slightly confused in what he was saying . He took out a small brown bag, scraped some food out of it and held it in the palm of his hand.
"Here you go . All the baby stage digimon love this food and I hope you enjoy it just as much." The Botamon willingly took the food out of his hand, letting out a happy sound.
"You like it huh? Well get comfy because you aren't getting out until you reach the rookie level." Botamon , content with himself , went back to where his digitma was originally and went to sleep .
Odaiba middle school, Odaiba
As the bell rang, the class got out of the school grounds, ready to go home. Among them was a fifteen year old Iori. He had grown a fringe, had hair halfway down his neck and wore the school uniform. He had grey trousers, a white shirt a green blazer which was slightly too big and went down past his waist. He looked at the left side of the road to see two eight year old boys playing with a penmon. When he reached Odaiba high school he waited at the right hand side of the road, just in time to hear the bell ring. Another thing he heard was Daisuke Motomiya on one of his daily rants against a teacher.
"How could I get detention! I go asleep for one minute and I have to stay in school for another hour!"
"Daisuke, it took me five minutes to wake you up. Any longer and I would have used CPR on you and I think both of us would have found that unpleasant." Iori chuckled as he thought of Daisukes reaction from outside.
Just then Takeru Takeshi and Hikari Kamiya walked out of the school chatting. He walked over to them while leaving his bag pressed against the wall. Hikari was the first to notice him.
"Oh, heh Iori. I'm guessing you heard Daisuke?" Takeru responded
"I think all of Japan heard him." The three of them burst out laughing.
The sound of a car beep interrupted their conversation. They looked over to see Taichi in what he called his 'new car' (which was actually from 1998).
"Nice new car Taichi?" Takeru said in a sarcastic tone. Taichi responded
"Well its that kind of talk that would normally have you walking home but... Since I'm such a nice guy I'll give you a ride. Hey Iori , do you need a lift ?"
"Well I won't refuse it . Armadillomons probably begging for some food at home." Iori got inside while Taichi bragged about the car's 'special features' .
"Looks like a beauty and sounds like an orchestra. I'm telling ya, I'm one sharp businessman." Hikari just shook her head.
"Taichi , you really need to save more often ."
As the two siblings argued Iori just stared vacantly out the window. Suddenly he saw a shadowed figure in a alleyway.
" No , it can't be ." he looked out the window again to be sure but at this point , they were far past the ally .Takeru looked at him .
"You alright?" Iori shook his head,
"yeah..I think so."
Primary Village, Digital world
It was late morning. The Botamon woke up, completely shocked by what he saw. His appearance had completely changed. Now he was larger, pink, had long flat ears and had a array of sharp teeth. He bounced over to where Elecmon was watching the digimon eat the food that he had gathered. Elecmon looked down at him.
"I see you've digivolved into a Koromon."
"I still don't get how this happened." Koromon gasped. He could now talk.
"You see, when you digivolve , you grow stronger both physically and mentally . Do you remember where you were before?"
"Nope. All I can remember is that I'm here for a purpose."
"Go on over and have breakfast with the other digimon."
Koromon hopped over and dove into some food but his meal was disturbed by a large shadow swooping over them. Elecmon looked up in shock.
"Its an Airdramon ! By the looks of it it's wild and desperate for food."
It had a blue serpentine body, had red tattered wings and had a helmet that looked like the skull of a deer. Elecmon ran over to protect the digimon.
"Oh man, I haven't seen an Airdramon since the days of the Dark Emperor and the Spires." Koromon stared at him blankly.
"Huh?"
"They were tall buildings that stopped digimon digivolving."
Suddenly pictures, (memories?) swarmed into Koromons head. All he could see were images of tall, black buildings all around him.
"Get out of my head!" His eyes started glowing a bright white. He then let out a deafening roar and began to change.