The Covenant of Nightfall
By Kyoko Jyou
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Disclaimer: Digimon is not Mine. Happy now?
~*~
Nobody would have guessed it.
Nobody dared believe it.
But it was and nobody could deny it.
Destiny demanded fulfillment and retalliation was futile at best.
Obedience was not an option, it was the inevitable decision.
~*~
Twenty years have passed since that fated evening.
Sasuke Kido could still feel the bite of the wounds which left her scarred physically and mentally, a psychosomatic tendency triggered whenever she hears the clanging of shrine chimes or smells the scent of lavender incense as tossed by the Autumn winds of October.
She would dream about it, vividly... unspeakably clear in vision; that ill encounter at that shrine in Kyoto. She had tried for two decades to run away from the memory yet it returns to haunt her.
And haunt her it does.
Twenty Years ago, on a shrine at the very heart of Kyoto, a young woman, wife to a renowned surgeon and mother of two children, was found raped before the shrine's stone marker. No one knew who it was who attacked her. Not even she knows for sure.
Yet she was sure that whoever it was, he was not who he was supposed by everybody to be.
A sex-driven pervert? She wished.
She remembered seeing his eyes... they were so empty... yet within them seemed an expanse which stretched miles...
She could feel in him something like the fury of a Phoenix, the strenght of a Tiger, the wisdom of a Tortoise and the power of a Dragon rolled into one... his hands clawing deep unto her skin, his body pressed onto hers.
He was not a man... almost divine but not quite...
And nine months later, she gave birth to a son, thus beginning her denial that this boy came from anybody but her husband. He seemed like a Kido enough. Azure hair, slate gray eyes. He was nothing his brothers were not.
Or so she thought.
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Chapter One: Prelude- Dusk before Nightfall
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[Yucatan Peninsula, 30 miles South East of Merida, Mexico]
"Shin! Come... I have to show you something..."
Dr. Takenouchi gently brushed the dust off the pitted surface of the black stone slab before them, slowly revealing a familiar image inscribed on the surface. Shin cautiously traced his fingers across the image- that of four mythical creatures resting on the inside angles of what seems to be a simple crucifix.
The blazing Yucatan sun shone overhead, bathing the Mayan Observatory at Chichén Itzá.
The two worked carefully under the stonework dome, lit in the inside by impromptu windows carved by centuries of ruin as well as the original perforations which allowed the ancient priests to gaze unto the stars.
"It's another one..." Shin said, mildly surprised.
"That makes twelve."
Shin drew his palm top from the pockets of his jeans, promptly entering the coordinates of the stone slab.
"91º West, 21º North"
In an instant, the tiny device changed into a map interface, plotting the location of two other stone slabs. Points indicated similar findings in Mexico City (Tenochtitlán) and New Orleans (Nanchéz). Pressing a command, the points suddenly interlinked, creating a right triangle.
"Dr. Takenouchi, sir. It's another triangle as well."
"So the Americas also have one. I believe I am sensing a pattern here."
He began to recall the other locations:
Kyoto, Hong Kong, Beijing...
Cairo, Jerusalem, Mecca...
Delphi, Rome, Istanbul...
Now these three.
"Four Holy Beasts, Four Triangles..."
"And a cross..."
"What?"
"Look closely." Dr. Takenouchi promptly draws a map from his vest pocket and does a connect-the-dots bit with his pen, joining four points together. "Between these four triangles lie four arguable portals to other dimensions: The Bermuda Triangle, Thera- the rumored site of Atlantis, Tibet- the rumored site of Shangri-La and the Mariana Trench. On a globe, these four points create a cross formation deep into the center of the earth."
Shuu entered the four additional coordinates into his palmtop. "According to my records, we would create this pattern." Shuu showed the monitor to Takenouchi who was surprised at his student's lack of astonishment. He grabbed the PDA and stuck it at Shin's bespectacled face. "Shuu, don't you realize what you've just formed!?"
Shuu focused his eyes on the screen, looking carefully at the figure of a cross flanked with four right triangles.
"It's... it's..."
"You're brother's crest!"
"But... why?"
"I dunno, Shuu. But something tells me we've stumbled onto this information a little too late..."
~*~
[Somewhere]
"Azulongmon, Ebonwumon, Baihumon, Xuanwumon... my days as Supreme Arbiter to the Digital World is passing. Your consolidated power which brought forth my existance is failing slowly..."
On a seemingly endless expanse of pitch black, a man cloaked in regal black robes layed helplessly on a silver disc where four orbs of light hovered nearby before him, each one located on one of the cardinal points of the compass.
Each orb contained the sentient digi-eggs of the Digital Four... the Beasts considered most powerful in the Digital World. Each one acted as the conscious mind of their respective digimon, so placed around the weakening man, as they had been for aeons, to support his existence.
"...This is why I command you to pour now the rivers of power unto the lips of the child of the One Crest. The time of our subservience to the Overworld is over... although with it, we too must fade away..."
The four orbs glowed in what seemed to be quiet understanding.
"Your union now becomes complete. By the power you have invested upon me, I now rule that the powers four which govern the Digital Universe be now and forevermore passed unto he which by birthright is greater than the sum total of all four primal forces combined- Creation, Destruction, Order, Chaos... Let the Four Guardian Beasts and the Arbiter which speaks on their behalf be no more... and may the holder of the One Crest receive all our might... SO BE IT!"
Thunder and Lightning ripped through their abyss. The man exploded into a shattering shimmer of bright lights while the orbs dissolved into sparks which criss-crossed in all directions.
There was a greater tremor in the Digital World as there ever was... and then, silence.
~*~
Shuu and Dr. Takenouchi felt the ground quake below their feet. The Ancient Mayan Observatory seemed to crumble at its stonework foundation, moved by some invisible force.
"Sir, what's going on?"
"I don't know Shuu! This certainly ain't an Earthquake..."
"How could you tell?"
"Look..."
Dr Takenouchi pointed up at the inner wall of the stone dome. What seemed to be inscriptions formerly invisible, hidden in the shadows and untouched by the outside sun for hundreds of years were now clearly visible as a bright greenish energy pulse coursed throgh the grooves.
Like a circuit pulsing with electricity, the entire interior of the observitory dome was bathed in mysterious light, the outside sky now overcast and dark. Lightning rained from the heavens and thunder could be heard for miles.
Suddenly, the energy which coursed through the dome wall leapt into the air and converged overhead. Dr Takenouchi and Shuu could only grasp each other in fear as they watched the energy pulse swish and sizzle above them.
Then, in a powerful explosion of light, a continuous blast of pure energy rocketed skywards from where the pulses converged, piercing the overcast grey which was the sky.
~*~
"We interrupt this program for a special news bulletin"
"Panic has struck the citizens of many countries around the world after the appearance of unidentified white energy blasts over their respected national airspaces only a few minutes ago. While no one was hurt during the generation of these blasts nor on the cases when the blasts converged into groups of three and subsequently exploded, many governments consider these lights as potential threats to global security."
Jyou looked at the television, leaving his mug of scalding hot coffee too cool down a bit on the wooden bar top of his fave café place. It couldn't be another digimon attack, he thought to himself.
He picked up his mug and held it close to his lips.
To his surprise, a strange formation of concentric rings formed out of bubbles streaming from under his coffee. As he stooped down for closer inspection... something very odd happened.
A thunderous flash of bright white light exploded from within his mug, shooting straight into his face. The other café patrons ran out of fear, chased from within by glowing orbs which had materialized around the hapless glasses-wearing nerd who had what seemed to be a photographer's flash bulb shot at him at face distance.
"Uh... I'm okay... no need to worry... I'm just a bit... blind... uh... hello? Hello?"
Trying to get up, Jyou trips.
"Uhm... can anybody please help me up?"
By Kyoko Jyou
~*~
Disclaimer: Digimon is not Mine. Happy now?
~*~
Nobody would have guessed it.
Nobody dared believe it.
But it was and nobody could deny it.
Destiny demanded fulfillment and retalliation was futile at best.
Obedience was not an option, it was the inevitable decision.
~*~
Twenty years have passed since that fated evening.
Sasuke Kido could still feel the bite of the wounds which left her scarred physically and mentally, a psychosomatic tendency triggered whenever she hears the clanging of shrine chimes or smells the scent of lavender incense as tossed by the Autumn winds of October.
She would dream about it, vividly... unspeakably clear in vision; that ill encounter at that shrine in Kyoto. She had tried for two decades to run away from the memory yet it returns to haunt her.
And haunt her it does.
Twenty Years ago, on a shrine at the very heart of Kyoto, a young woman, wife to a renowned surgeon and mother of two children, was found raped before the shrine's stone marker. No one knew who it was who attacked her. Not even she knows for sure.
Yet she was sure that whoever it was, he was not who he was supposed by everybody to be.
A sex-driven pervert? She wished.
She remembered seeing his eyes... they were so empty... yet within them seemed an expanse which stretched miles...
She could feel in him something like the fury of a Phoenix, the strenght of a Tiger, the wisdom of a Tortoise and the power of a Dragon rolled into one... his hands clawing deep unto her skin, his body pressed onto hers.
He was not a man... almost divine but not quite...
And nine months later, she gave birth to a son, thus beginning her denial that this boy came from anybody but her husband. He seemed like a Kido enough. Azure hair, slate gray eyes. He was nothing his brothers were not.
Or so she thought.
~*~
Chapter One: Prelude- Dusk before Nightfall
~*~
[Yucatan Peninsula, 30 miles South East of Merida, Mexico]
"Shin! Come... I have to show you something..."
Dr. Takenouchi gently brushed the dust off the pitted surface of the black stone slab before them, slowly revealing a familiar image inscribed on the surface. Shin cautiously traced his fingers across the image- that of four mythical creatures resting on the inside angles of what seems to be a simple crucifix.
The blazing Yucatan sun shone overhead, bathing the Mayan Observatory at Chichén Itzá.
The two worked carefully under the stonework dome, lit in the inside by impromptu windows carved by centuries of ruin as well as the original perforations which allowed the ancient priests to gaze unto the stars.
"It's another one..." Shin said, mildly surprised.
"That makes twelve."
Shin drew his palm top from the pockets of his jeans, promptly entering the coordinates of the stone slab.
"91º West, 21º North"
In an instant, the tiny device changed into a map interface, plotting the location of two other stone slabs. Points indicated similar findings in Mexico City (Tenochtitlán) and New Orleans (Nanchéz). Pressing a command, the points suddenly interlinked, creating a right triangle.
"Dr. Takenouchi, sir. It's another triangle as well."
"So the Americas also have one. I believe I am sensing a pattern here."
He began to recall the other locations:
Kyoto, Hong Kong, Beijing...
Cairo, Jerusalem, Mecca...
Delphi, Rome, Istanbul...
Now these three.
"Four Holy Beasts, Four Triangles..."
"And a cross..."
"What?"
"Look closely." Dr. Takenouchi promptly draws a map from his vest pocket and does a connect-the-dots bit with his pen, joining four points together. "Between these four triangles lie four arguable portals to other dimensions: The Bermuda Triangle, Thera- the rumored site of Atlantis, Tibet- the rumored site of Shangri-La and the Mariana Trench. On a globe, these four points create a cross formation deep into the center of the earth."
Shuu entered the four additional coordinates into his palmtop. "According to my records, we would create this pattern." Shuu showed the monitor to Takenouchi who was surprised at his student's lack of astonishment. He grabbed the PDA and stuck it at Shin's bespectacled face. "Shuu, don't you realize what you've just formed!?"
Shuu focused his eyes on the screen, looking carefully at the figure of a cross flanked with four right triangles.
"It's... it's..."
"You're brother's crest!"
"But... why?"
"I dunno, Shuu. But something tells me we've stumbled onto this information a little too late..."
~*~
[Somewhere]
"Azulongmon, Ebonwumon, Baihumon, Xuanwumon... my days as Supreme Arbiter to the Digital World is passing. Your consolidated power which brought forth my existance is failing slowly..."
On a seemingly endless expanse of pitch black, a man cloaked in regal black robes layed helplessly on a silver disc where four orbs of light hovered nearby before him, each one located on one of the cardinal points of the compass.
Each orb contained the sentient digi-eggs of the Digital Four... the Beasts considered most powerful in the Digital World. Each one acted as the conscious mind of their respective digimon, so placed around the weakening man, as they had been for aeons, to support his existence.
"...This is why I command you to pour now the rivers of power unto the lips of the child of the One Crest. The time of our subservience to the Overworld is over... although with it, we too must fade away..."
The four orbs glowed in what seemed to be quiet understanding.
"Your union now becomes complete. By the power you have invested upon me, I now rule that the powers four which govern the Digital Universe be now and forevermore passed unto he which by birthright is greater than the sum total of all four primal forces combined- Creation, Destruction, Order, Chaos... Let the Four Guardian Beasts and the Arbiter which speaks on their behalf be no more... and may the holder of the One Crest receive all our might... SO BE IT!"
Thunder and Lightning ripped through their abyss. The man exploded into a shattering shimmer of bright lights while the orbs dissolved into sparks which criss-crossed in all directions.
There was a greater tremor in the Digital World as there ever was... and then, silence.
~*~
Shuu and Dr. Takenouchi felt the ground quake below their feet. The Ancient Mayan Observatory seemed to crumble at its stonework foundation, moved by some invisible force.
"Sir, what's going on?"
"I don't know Shuu! This certainly ain't an Earthquake..."
"How could you tell?"
"Look..."
Dr Takenouchi pointed up at the inner wall of the stone dome. What seemed to be inscriptions formerly invisible, hidden in the shadows and untouched by the outside sun for hundreds of years were now clearly visible as a bright greenish energy pulse coursed throgh the grooves.
Like a circuit pulsing with electricity, the entire interior of the observitory dome was bathed in mysterious light, the outside sky now overcast and dark. Lightning rained from the heavens and thunder could be heard for miles.
Suddenly, the energy which coursed through the dome wall leapt into the air and converged overhead. Dr Takenouchi and Shuu could only grasp each other in fear as they watched the energy pulse swish and sizzle above them.
Then, in a powerful explosion of light, a continuous blast of pure energy rocketed skywards from where the pulses converged, piercing the overcast grey which was the sky.
~*~
"We interrupt this program for a special news bulletin"
"Panic has struck the citizens of many countries around the world after the appearance of unidentified white energy blasts over their respected national airspaces only a few minutes ago. While no one was hurt during the generation of these blasts nor on the cases when the blasts converged into groups of three and subsequently exploded, many governments consider these lights as potential threats to global security."
Jyou looked at the television, leaving his mug of scalding hot coffee too cool down a bit on the wooden bar top of his fave café place. It couldn't be another digimon attack, he thought to himself.
He picked up his mug and held it close to his lips.
To his surprise, a strange formation of concentric rings formed out of bubbles streaming from under his coffee. As he stooped down for closer inspection... something very odd happened.
A thunderous flash of bright white light exploded from within his mug, shooting straight into his face. The other café patrons ran out of fear, chased from within by glowing orbs which had materialized around the hapless glasses-wearing nerd who had what seemed to be a photographer's flash bulb shot at him at face distance.
"Uh... I'm okay... no need to worry... I'm just a bit... blind... uh... hello? Hello?"
Trying to get up, Jyou trips.
"Uhm... can anybody please help me up?"