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A/N: This is one of my...stranger fics. I was kind of out of it when I thought about it, but oh well. I like the idea. If you haven't bothered to read the summary, and if you don't notice the title's sub-title, then here it is, spelled out for you. THIS IS ABOUT GENNAI. Not about the season 01 digidestined, season 02, their love-lives, whatever. Actually, there is some on them, but still, this is about Gennai, the reclusive mentor we see about 4 times.
I would like to dedicate this to two people. Lady Maggie and Pixie_chick15 ^^ Love you guys, you're the best!
There's no such thing as a mega in this chapter, and ignore the whole 8th child thing, like, no real story about Gennai and Gatomon and stuff. Just keeping it easy to understand ^^; and sorry if the characters are a little annoying...I didn't mean for them to be! If I get at least 8 good reviews for this chapter, I'll post the next...or maybe I will if I have the urge. Who knows? ^^
DISCLAIMER: Contrary to popular belief, I don't own Digimon.
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"Hey Gennai, come check this out!" yelled Akino. He hurriedly brushed his brown hair out of his eyes, and then the bearer of the crest of Courage waved his arms impatiently as he waited for the smaller boy of Knowledge to catch up. Breuxmon followed his partner's example, waving his dinosaur-like arms rapidly. Gennai sighed and packed up his "laptop". He hadn't known what it was when it fell with him into the sand of the digiworld, but he had started to figure out some of its more basic commands. Slinging his pack onto his back, he trotted up the sand dune, Hepmon following him, to where Akino stood waiting. Panting a little, Gennai questioned, "What's up?"
Akino said nothing, but Chiri (carrier of Love) lifted her binoculars over her head and handed them to Gennai. He smiled by way of thanks, and then put them up to his eyes. Glancing around, he saw nothing but the waves of the sand in the desert, rolling to meet him but not moving an inch. Then he noticed a small blob amid the tan landscape. It was growing bigger. Gennai let the binoculars hang on his chest. The rest of the digidestined stared at him, expecting an answer. Then, simultaneously,
"Well?" prompted Akino.
"Do you know what it is?" questioned Darien.
"What could it be?" asked Ryo.
"Is it bad?" 7 year old Mikomo, child of hope, 's eyes looked troubled in their green intensity.
Mika, carrier of Sincerity, came to Gennai's rescue. "Guys, stop badgering him!" she screamed. Reverimon agreed with her partner. "Gennai'll tell us if he knows anything."
At Mika's words, Akino and Darien immediately looked chagrined, and mumbled their apologies to Gennai. Mikimo cheerfully spit out a "Sorry", and then made himself and Wizardmon comfortable in Mika, his older sister, 's lap. He playfully picked up a strand of her hair, jet-black as his own, and twirled it around his finger.
Gennai had ignored the others and picked up the binoculars again. This time the blob was clearer. He could make out a pair of blood-red wings, a human-like body...this is so familiar thought Gennai. But why? Then he remembered the dream. The one that he had almost convinced himself had not happened a week ago.
He had been standing on top of a sand dune, looking upon the mass expanse of desert that surrounded them. He was worried because they had been walking for a few days, and the desert showed no sign of ending. Rations were running alarmingly low. Gennai sighed. But as he did, the sand of the desert flew into the air, and ran together into a tunnel of sand. From the middle, emerged a scarlet head and torso. It looked vaguely like a human, the expression on its face was anything but. It made Gennai's stomach jump to his throat in fear.
The bearer of Knowledge had woken up shaking, and as real as the sweat beads on his forehead was the message he could feel imprinted in his mind. YOU WILL KNOW WHAT TO DO. Rationalizing that it was just a dream, Gennai had forgotten about it. Until now.
"AHHHHHHH!" Chiri's and Benememon piercing screams jerked Gennai from his revelation. The "blob" was now too close for comfort, and appartently the others agreed. Mikimo had buried his head into Mika's neck. Ryo, the rock of Reliability and Akino stood firm. The sinister-looking digimon approached the little group.
"Greetings digidestined. I have heard much about you."
"Seriously? We haven't heard about you. Care to enlighten us?" Damien, always the quick-toungued, shot back.
"Really, Friendship, you should learn to control that attitude of yours. Nevertheless, I will grant your request. My name is Detrimon. I am, literally to Knowledge, and figuratively to the rest of you, your worst nightmare."
The rest of the digidestined flicked their attention from Detrimon to Gennai. He tried to make his mouth work, but it didn't move. He was officially a quivering, pulsating, nervous wreck. But for some reason, he knew that his face wasn't moving. He didn't care.
"Why didn't you tell us?" whispered Chiri. She couldn't believe that Gennai had kept something like this from the digidestined, most of all her.
"I...I-" the stone crumbled a bit but then resealed itself.
"Now, now, Love, it's not Knowledge's fault. It would not have changed anything a bit."
"Not if we can help it!" screamed Breuxmon. "Breuxmon, digivolve to, Chivalmon! Chivalmon, digivolve, to, Darvalmon!" Suddenly the affable little dragon was replaced by a towering dynamo.
"Ditto!" screeched Benememon. "Benememon, divivolve, to Empathmon! Empathmon, digivolve to, Charismon!" a shining falon stood in place of the pidgeon-like digimon.
The rest of the digimon followed suit. Now it was Darvalmon (Courage), Charismon (Love), Omnimon (Friendship), Abidmon (Reliability), Sorcerormon (Hope) who still had not reached Ultimate, Tsonmon (Knowledge), and lastly, Fantasimon of Sincerity who also had not reached Ultimate stage.
Raging Inferno, Knived Whirlwind, Artic Fury, Rock Avalanche, Abrakadablast, Poison Sting, and Star Spin took no effect on the scarlet Detrimon. With a flutter of his outstretched wings, each of the Ultimates' and the Champion's attacks were flung right back at them, reverting them all to rookie. The deflection of Star Spin missed Fantasimon, but hit Mika with an explosion of light that momentarily blinded everyone.
"NOOO! MIKA!" screamed Mikomo and Fantasimon. They both rushed over to the fallen girl. She was amazingly calm for having been hit by such an attack. But her anguish was told by her taut body and the pain in her emerald eyes.
"Guys, I'll be okay. Just do your best." she forced a smile. "It's going to be alright."
"We can beat this!" yelled Mikimo, who supressed his tears while hugging his sister's head to his chest.
Detrimon laughed, a horrible twisted sound that made everyone shudder, like a thousand nails scraping on a thousand chalkboards that were each a thousand miles square a thousand times.
FANTASIMON DIGIVOLVE TO MYRIADMON!
SORCERORMON WARP-DIGIVOLVE TO MAGUSMON!
SEREIN SHOWER! screamed the formidable feminine destinedmon.
Magusmon followed up with a Charm Salvo, sending a whizzing stream of astrological signs at the scarlet digimon.
Detrimon laughed, and whipped both of the attacks right back, sending Myriadmon and Magusmon careening, and sending them back to in-training once more.
Now it looked like it was all over. Each of the digi-destined were clinging to their respective digimon, while Detrimon flew closer and executed 13 circles above their heads. Mikimo sobbed softly; Mika's life was ebbing slowly away.
"Now that I have your complete and undivided attention, I will state my demands. I have no need to destroy you; the injury of Sincerity was not intentional. However, I have no reason to keep you either, except for Knowledge. The rest of you are bargaining pieces." Detrimon was twistedly diplomatic in his statement.
"What do you want with Gennai?" demanded Akino.
"Nothing that concerns you, Courage. Now, Knowledge. I will give you a choice. Either you can stay here and work with me while you friends all go back to the real world, or I will destroy all of you." he swooped over to Chiri, and swept her up in his arms. "Perhaps Friendship shall go first?"
"Gennai, you can't go with him! If you do, then he can destroy both worlds, this one and ours!" screamed Chiri.
"I would hold that toungue, Love. SCARLET BLAST!"
Chiri fell silent, her limp neck making her head loll like a doll with a broken neck.
"Gennai...whatever you chose I, I mean, we, won't hold it against you." declared Ryo.
The rest of the digidestined silently nodded. Gennai couldn't stand it. It was logical that he would be used for evil if he fell into Detrimon's clutches, but if they tried to fight, they would lose and Earth would be doomed without any of the chosen children. He clutched his head.
"Now, now, Knowledge! Sincerity and Love aren't looking too well!"
Gennai clenched his teeth, looking at Mika and Chiri. At least leave some hope for the rest of the world, you aren't THAT brilliant... "I'll go with you, Detrimon."
An inaudible gasp rippled through the digi destined/mon.
"No, Gennai! We have no chance without you!" screamed Ami.
"We wouldn't have one with me." stated Gennai. He couldn't believe it was him, being so cold. Sure he had always been a bit aloof, but his feelings for his friends ran as deep as, well, a river? He had never been good at that kind of thing.
Detrimon's sinister face broke into a grin, if a grin could be so full of malice.
"Good choice, Knowledge." Detrimon swooped down, and picked up Gennai in his arms. Gennai flinched at the feel of the digimon's flesh; it was a strange combination of snake skin and fur, with a greasy undertone. But before he had time to make any more observations his heart fell into his stomach. He was being borne into the air, his friends were running after him...
"NO, GENNAI! COME BACK!" screamed Mikomo.
"GENNAI, MAN, I TAKE BACK WHAT I SAID! STAY!" bellowed Ryo.
A wildly scuttling Hepmon scrambled to reach Gennai. "TAKE ME WITH YOU!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!" a recently revived Chiri's scream supressed all the rest, and it was the last thing Gennai heard from his friends. They had disappeared, whether back to the real world or just because they were too far away, he didn't know.
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Gennai didn't know how long, or when, he had been asleep. When he awoke, he found himself lying in a feather soft bed. What...am I home? Then, like a brick, reality of yesterday hit him in the face and the tears that hadn't come then came now.
"Nice to see you're awake."
Gennai looked around. He saw the blood red digimon floating a few meters away from his bed. With a sinking heart, he realized Hepmon wasn't with him. It had been the first time in months he had not been with his partner, and he felt lost without the arachnoid-like digimon near him.
It was as if Detrimon was analyzing his every move. "Don't worry, Knowledge. Your little friend has been taken to Primary Village, where he will begin life again without any memories of being a digidestined digimon or you." (A/N: I know that's not how it goes, but bear with me!)
The bearer of Knowledge felt a knife being slowly depressed into his heart. Even though he usually isolated himself in general, he had never felt so alone.
"The good news is that your friends are back at Earth." said Detrimon.
Gennai nodded. At least now the world could be warned, and come up with plans to defeat Detrimon, and...himself. He shuddered at the thought.
"Now, my not-so-faithful minion, what shall we do? I cannot destroy you, and I have no wish to keep you chained like a dogmon. You may have free run of the digiworld, as long as you do not go to primary village or infinity mountain. Be off!" Then as quickly as he had come, Detrimon was gone and Gennai was sitting in a pile of sand with a pack containing food, rations, a map, and his laptop.
Gennai sat in the sand, watching the wind blow the sand. Some of it washed onto his feet, but he didn't bother to kick it off. Not until some blew into his eyes did he move, and it was to curl into a ball on his side.
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