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FanDisclaimer: If confused about evolution lines, refer to the Cards.
~~~~Chap. 1
Ruby rose up from her couch and looked around her living room. Antsy, she sat back down again to watch the TV.
" Monster sightings all over the world have ceased, after many of them were seen fighting. It is assumed that the strange creatures killed each other. More news later."
"Killed," She muttered, "Moukomon, why are people idiots?"
"You're human. What can you expect?"
"Oh, yeah, you're a real help." Ruby got up again and grabbed her backpack, which was small, tattered, well used, but strong.
"What in the digi-world are you doing Ruby?" Sighed the black tiger fox. She rose up and looked at me, blinking pointedly.
"I'm getting stuff."
"And.. why?" Her long ears flopped as she walked over to her and jumped on the back of the couch "You're tense, aren't you" You can feel it, can't you?"
Ruby looked at her, "So I'm not as insane as I thought. You can feel the dark cold too?"
"Yes. It's not right. Something's gonna happen soon, and It won't be good."
"Exactly. That's why I'm packing stuff." She ran to her room and grabbed a sweatshirt, along with, for some stupid reason, her glasses case. Moukomon was following her.
"What the? Why your case?"
"I dunno..." she shrugged. "A gut feeling?"
"Whatever, You're the one who needs them, not me."
After packing a few essentials, including matches and a water bottle, Ruby considered food. Her stomach was churning, and she was a bit hungry. In a few strides she was in the kitchen, and she grabbed a bag of chips.
"Salt and vinegar! yum." She offered the bag to Moukomon.
"Ech. No thanks! That crap makes my nose tickle!"
"Your Loss."
Once again, Ruby sat on my couch, and Moukomon took her place behind her on the back. Even though her heart was pounding in her chest, and that something terrible was about to happen, she was confident she'd be okay. Why? she thought to herself, Moukomon. Ruby knew she was the reason she wasn't running around screaming her head off. She reached up behind her to pat her head, and the digimon hastily licked the chip flavour off her fingers.
"Hey! I thought you didn't like salt an vinegar?"
"I lied. Actually, I just like the taste, not the chip"
Ruby shook her head in bemusement, and got up yet again to look out the window. She had that restless feeling that she got every time she was waiting for something.
Ruby watched for a moment at the birds flitting around in the trees. Their house had always attracted birds, even though we have two cats and a feline digimon.
'Digimon.. It was all so old to me now. I remember the time I first met Moukomon. It scared me half to death, to see a weird egg actually come out of my computer. When that egg hatched, a little black... Blob came out. It was tiny, and had a single, white stripe on the top, and big round blue eyes. All the thing did was roll around saying. "Kii! Kii!"
Being an animal lover, Ruby naturally took care of it, and fed it cat food. Fortunately, her cats, Zig and Zag were outside, and unaware of the potential food.
"What'chya thinking?" interrupted Moukomon.
Ruby looked at her slyly, "About when you hatched."
"Hee hee," she giggled, "When I was Kiimon?" She jumped down from her station, and purr-growled at her. "Then you fed me that awful Cat food. Yuck."
"I didn't know what you were, how was I supposed to know that you preferred what you call, 'real' food?"
"When I attacked your fridge."
"That was obvious enough"
"Yep!"
Ruby shivered, "Did you feel that?" Moukomon had previously moved out of line of sight, so she turned to face her. "Moukomon!" She was crouched on the ground, shivering from head to toe.
"Moukomon!" Ruby cried again as she jumped to her side, "Are you okay? What's wrong?"
"The… darkness… it's gonna happen now Ruby… Just like you said it would."
Ruby looked up out her window, and in the sky she could see a world. And even though she couldn't see much, she knew that it was being terrorized by something horrible. Forgetting the chips, Ruby grabbed her bag and Moukomon and she ran outside.
"We need to help!"
"Your digivice!" she shouted. It was glowing brightly.
Ruby help her arm up high, and willed the light and hope from her digivice would make it to the ransacked world.
Then she saw it. It was huge, and it was holding its arms up to the sky, with two black beams radiating from them. It was the darkness that was taking over earth. That's what Moukomon and Ruby felt. All around her, she could see people falling from the sky, as she was. Right then it occurred to her that she was falling from the sky, with her Digivice held in front of herself, and Moukomon beside. Ruby only slightly panicked.
"That's Malomyotismon!"
"What?" Ruby was only slightly preoccupied with the dilemma as to how she was going to land, if she was facing down.
"MaloMyotismon, " she repeated "he's stronger then the mega level. And he feeds on the fear of the weak. He's trying to take over both worlds! He's pure evil!"
Suddenly, Ruby was standing on solid ground. On her right a guy with short orange hair was standing. He was a bit short, but looked about Ruby's age, 15 or 16. Hovering behind him was a weird bug digimon. To her left, a tall girl with dark brown hair in a braid, and her digimon seemed to be a tall white unicorn with black stripes.
"MWHAHAHAHA!" Thundered the evil attacker, "Your meaningless little gathering of buffoons doesn't frighten me. It doesn't matter how many of you there are. You'll never defeat me!"
"Not if I can help it!" Shouted a tall boy about Ruby's age with big hair.
He thrust his digivice forward, facing MaloMyotismon. The rest of the people standing on the cliffs surrounding him followed suit. The group of kids down on the ground shouting something as well, but she couldn't hear them from her height.
"No….Raa!" The evil digimon screamed in pain as the light from the digivices cut through him.
Down near the ground, a group of small children were talking, and as they did, MaloMyotismon grew bigger, and the light stopped hurting him. "Keep talking that way and I'll rule the world!" He cackled.
Another group of people, 6, started talking back to the kids, but Ruby couldn't hear what was going on. She recognized one person, Daisuke, the vain idiot that came to North America to help get rid of all the digimon that were plaguing the world. Both Moukomon and herself didn't care for him much. The children down there seemed to brighten after a few seconds of tense conversation, and suddenly way down beyond her range of site, a light shone inside each child and it looked like each one now had a digimon partner!
Then, a giant digimon that looked like a dragon, came and pulled out a huge gun like weapon. It had huge red wings, and it flew up and shouted "GIGA CRUSHER!" at the same time, a big giant teapot shouted "Kachina BOMB" and yet another digimon, smaller this time, but equally powerful looking, flew up and swung it's arms around "Static FORCE!"
The light from all of the digvices grew brighter then they had before, and the monster choked on his own words as he disinegrated.
Ruby cheered alongside the rest at their victory. It wasn't every day you saved the world, after all. She quieted though, as she noticed a young boy trying to drag and older man. It looked like the boy was trying to get the man into the digital world, from the strange dimension he was in. The boy was pretty young, maybe 9 or 10, and wasn't able to carry a full grown, half unconcious man. The man collapsed just inches from the border. A few of the digi-destined up on the cliffs, climbed down to join the small group that was there. One included the orange hair beside Ruby. After a few moments of furious talking, a green light shone, infront of the man. A digimon appeared.
"Datirimon" Whispered Moukomon. Ruby asked no explaination.
A few seconds later the man collapsed altogether. Ruby gasped quietly. His body faded a bit, then took the form of hundreds of small white butterflies. They flew up, high into the sky, soaring up and they seemed to omit the darkness, and replace it with the natural colours of the digital world.
As she watched the butterflies, a single tear rolled down Ruby's cheek. She wasn't the only one. Many of the people around her were either staring blankly, or crying. They all knew what happened. At the same time, they all seemed to know that the butterflies were a good thing. That they'd help the Digital world.
Ruby climbed down the chasim, to join the group at the bottom, as many others around her were doing. All the digimon were all returning to their Rookie form, or their In-training, particlarly the digimon that fought. Strangly enough, rather than returning to 3 digimon, they became 6.
Daisuke moved to the front of the gathering, and waved for attention. Ruby couldn't help but roll her eyes.
"That man, who just kicked the bucket.... Um.. Iori? can you do this? You're better...." His face went red as he gave up the spotlight, and was replaced by the kid who had tried to carry the man.
"Fellow digi-destined. That man, who we know as Oikawa, was a great man, although he never knew that until now. He just died due to the effects of Malomyotismon, of whom was contolling him. As Oikawa died, he gave up his essance to the digital world. I believe that it'll be protected from any overwhelming evil in the future. Let us have a moment in his memory."
As Ruby bowed her head, she couldn't help but to think that it wasn't over that easily, it never was.
Suddenly, a great bright white light formed a path from the digital world to the real world.
"Our way home" Said the teen boy with the big brown hair.
"Taichi?" asked one of the children with their new digimon, "Do we have to go home now? Can't we stay longer?"
A girl in pink and short light brown hair replied, "Sorry, but your patents are probably worried. You go first."
"Hikari's right, go ahead, don't forget to tell your parents that you love them." Said a boy Hikari's age with short blonde hair, which was under a bucket hat.
The children nodded, and walked bravly into the beam. The boy and his Tokomon went next, followed buy Hikari and her Plotmon.
"After you Yamato, " Said Taichi, as he motioned for his blonde friend to go before him.
"Hey!" said Daisuke. "Wait for me! Come on Ken. Lets go home."
He jumped in to the portal, followed by his blue haired friend in a grey outfit. As Ruby watched the climb the gate, she felt a sudden wave of darkness. All around her, people and digimon alike were shivering. A dark shadow fell over the digidestined and company, and a black knife seemed to cut across the light. It flickered, and faded, and a bunch of digidestined going up it, stopped and floated back to the ground. Teh last one to make it past, was Daisuke, he had seen what had happened, and yelled inaudibaly for Ken. Ken looked panicked, at least from Ruby's point of view, which was understandable.
A towering figure Gazed down on us, and it glared with overwhelming hate.
"You banished me to the dark world. You FOOLS!" He cackled evily with the same menace in his voice as Malomyotismon had.
"You all foolishly sent to a place where I could build my powers. That was quite fortunate for me. Now you shall be destroyed."
Ken had backed away in fear of the digimon, and now stood almost right next to Ruby.
"Daemon...." He whispered to himself.
"Daemon?" Ruby asked him.
He turned to look at her, horror written all over his face, "We sent him to the dark ocean after he attacked Japan. He and his henchmen nearly killed many civilians. At the time we thought it was the right thing to do.... But now....."
Daemon raised his 'hands' in a effort to use some attack of the digi-destined. A great ball of blackness grew, but faltered, and dissapeared.
"Cursed World! Damn Oikawa!"
Ken gasped and turned to Ruby, "Oikawa died to purify the world! daemon doesn't have enough power to counteract it!"
All around them, the digimon were trying to digi-volve to protect us.
"Moukomon! digivolve to!" She faltered and gazed up at Ruby, fear in her eyes.
"I can't... We must've used all our power when we defeated Malomyotismon!" The other digimon soon discovered their inabiltiy to change shape. They attacked nonetheless, depstire all their parnters arguments.
"It's our duty!" Shouted Moukomon as she loped towards the enemy. Next to Ruby, Ken's Minomon was yelling in Japanese to him, "Ken-chan, I have no choice! I have to protect you!"