Chapter 5: And Action
Birdramon swooped gracefully through the
night sky. That actually was the hardest part after planning - waiting. They
all had agreed to wait till the sun had set. Most of their Digimon were
flying-types and could be spotted easily at day. Izzy was quick finding Tai's
location and now they were on their way to a lonely area of the harbor. That's
where his digivice signal came from.
"You sure, they haven't found
it?" asked Cody over the wind. That was the worst possibility. If the
kidnapers had found Tais Digivice and threw it away... No, she should not think
about this. "We just have to try. After all the area makes perfect
sense" was Izzy's answer. They worried her. Kari and Izzy she meant.
Throughout the day they both weren't really quiet anymore - in fact Kari had
been more determined - but they seemed avoiding each other. Not only with
contact but with every single glance... Izzy seemed deeply into thought and
sometimes looked a little bit confused. Kari on the other hand even looked
guilty for some reason that she couldn't think of. Anyways that had to wait for
after they had rescued Tai - if they had rescued Tai.
"Ok, I think that's close
enough", Kari suddenly spoke. Sora looked down and nodded. "Yeah. You
can land here, Birdramon." So she did and all except Sora jumped of the
huge Bird Digimon.
Cody and Armadillomon walked over to the
canal leading directly to the harbor. "Do we still go with the plan?"
Nobody spoke against it. "Just remember to not attack before any
unexpected problems occur. If all goes well, there shouldn't be any", Izzy
reminded the young boy. "When has anything ever gone well?" Tentomon
throw in but was ignored. That wasn't the time for negative thoughts.
Without further words Cody held out his
Digivice. "Digi Armor Energize!"
"ARMADILLOMON ARMOR-DIGIVOLVE TO...
SUBMARIMON 'THE RELIABLE GUARDIAN OF THE SEAS'!" The next second they were in the water and quickly swimming out
of view. "Well our turn then. Good luck", Sora said and Birdramon
prepared to take of. "Try and fly some circles, we won't be that fast on
the ground", Izzy shouted up to her when she was descending.
Kari and Izzy walked in silence next to
each other. If you could fly between them, you would be able to feel the
tension in the air. Both were thinking about the same thing and both wanted to
talk about but nobody was able to begin.
Their Digimon and Agumon walked/flew a
little bit behind, giving them time to themselves. Both could tell there was
something to clear up and knew now would be the best time. Eventually both,
Kari and Izzy started to speak up. "LookIzzyKariI'maboutsorrywhatifhappendIyesterdaymisinterpretedIyou..."
they said at the same time, when stopped and looked at each other. Kari giggled
a little and Izzy just smiled. "You first", Izzy offered. Kari nodded. "I just
wanted to say that I'm sorry. I was a little bit shaken up and haven't seen
clearly. That's why I misinterpreted what you did for me and..." He held up a
hand and stopped her, shaking his head slowly. "No, Kari. You didn't
misinterpreted anything. I don't really know what I am exactly feeling for you.
Plus I don't want to take advantage of the situation. You are probably not the
most emotional stable person at the moment no offense... I just think we should
wait until this is over and then look at what we have... or could have."
Kari thought about that and couldn't find
anything to argue. She just laughed a little. "You know that was really kind of
you. Really, I think you could actually rival Ken for his crest..." Izzy joined
into the laughter and it relaxed both of them and blew the rest of the tension
away. Kari went serious again for a short time. "But you just reminded me why I
like you so much." He gave her and questioning and awaiting look. "You are
seeing everything so logical but at the same time not to strict like Cody
sometimes." He took the compliment without saying anything but it felt good
getting it - especially from Kari.
A few minutes later in now comfortable
silence they arrived at the docks. "Well, here we are. You ready for action?"
Kari announced speaking to no one in particular while looking at Izzy. He
looked back and grinned a little. "Sure. Time for the first act in today's
Shakespear Drama." Kari had to quickly clasp a hand over her mouth to not burst
out laughing loud. "Izzy... that was a good one. But I prefer the plays with a
Happy End." Izzy nodded, when spotted something or better someone. "I think we
get company."
Meanwhile up in the air Sora was watching
Kari, Izzy and the three Digimon approach their destination. Kari laughed about
something and it seemed whatever problem where had been was now solved. When
she noticed the two persons coming out of the smaller buildings facing her
friends.
"Ok, Birdramon. Now's the perfect moment.
Tai should still be in there." Sora looked at her digivice and found her
statement confirmed. "We are getting in at the back, while the others keep the
kidnapers busy."
"All right, Sora. I'm landing at the
back."
After landing right in front of the back
door of the building Birdramon de-digivolved into Biyomon and they went it. The
atmosphere wasn't the nicest but not to uncomfortable. A little bit cold and
wet, still nothing she couldn't handle. The light was dim and it was hard to
see something. Her digivice suddenly glowed red and at the end of the hall a
soft orange glow responded and Sora immediately knew it was Tai's.
Exited and not think she rushed down the
hall without really looking at her surroundings. She found Tai all tied up but
wide awake and aware of her presence. Sora just wanted to go down, hug him and
never let go. But his safety was the first priority and so got down and she and
Biyomon just wanted to begin cutting the ropes than Tai spoke. "Sora... You
shouldn't have come. It's a..." He never got to finish his sentence and
afterwards Sora couldn't remember what hit her...
The two man slowly came into view. One of
them was tall and muscular with long black hair. A sharp knife hang at his
leather belt. "Who are you and want to you want?" he said in a threatening
voice, eying the two children and the unfamiliar creatures suspiciously. "Why?
Is it a crime now to be here?" Kari answered sarcastically. Izzy signaled for
Tentomon to be ready. "Anyways, you of all people would be the last to tell us
something like that", Kari continued.
The other one growled angrily. He was a
bit smaller than his companion with short blonde hair, Izzy spotted a gun under
his jacket. "What do you want?" he repeated his companions question. With a
tone of pure ice that let him shiver Kari said: "My brother."
That was the clue for him and Izzy held up
his Digivice and immediately Tentomon was engulfed in the bright light of a
digivolution. "TENTOMON DIGIVOLVE TO... KABUTERIMON!" Whatever the two apparent
kidnapers wanted to say it was stuck in their throats as they opened their
mouths and closed them a moment later.
"Shoot!" the blonde one finally exclaimed.
"They're Digi-destined!" Izzy just want to ironically compliment him how
quickly he figured that out but was interrupted by a loud booming voice.
"EXACTLY, YOU IDIOTS!" Sora came flying through one of the windows breaking it in
the process, followed by Biyomon. Then the building exploded in a huge fireball
taking everything with it.
Kari screamed assuming her brothers death
and Izzy as well as all the Digimon just stared in shock and horror. Out of the
flames a huge figure around the size of ImperialDramons fighter form emerged.
It was completely covered in a red robe and had two thick horns sticking out of
his head. If you ever would get something near the description of the devil
this thing would fit perfectly.
The thing was holding Tai's only minor
burnt body in one clawed hand. He was awake and living. Izzy heard Kari gasping
and staring in disbelief at the creature holding her brother. "YOU!" she
practically screeched. "We sealed you! You can't be here!" Now he was clearly confused.
What was this thing? Images flooded through his mind and he remembered
something. Daemon! The dark Mega that confronted them as they came back from
their journey around the world. From what Kari and the others had told him he
was sealed in the world of darkness with no chance to return.
"Quick, Kabuterimon. You have to..." A
scream from Tai interrupted him. Daemon has tightened his grip around Tai,
choking him. "Oh no. You don't want to hurt your leader, do you?" Kari's cold
gaze had changed to an infuriated expression of rage. "What do you want with my
brother?" Daemon just laughed. "Actually what I want is already here. I told
you, you were fools sending me to Dragomon's ocean. Now I am even stronger than
before. The only thing that stands in the way of the darkness are only the
bearers of Light, Hope and Kindness. I never was interested in this human you
appointed to be your leader. But he was perfect to lure you out!"
"Do you want to say you used us!" That was
the black-haired man. Both of them were seemingly shaken up. "Humans are that
easy to control." Daemon raised his other hand and shot a stream of fire at the
two humans who quickly dived into the water but where consumed by the flames in
midair.
The group watched in sheer horror the
death of the two men. Still they didn't really felt sorry for them but were
more shocked by the brutal power and cruelness Daemon possessed. The giant
demon Digimon focused on the Digi-destined and Digimon again. "Anyways, I think
it's time for your death." Izzy instinctively stepped between Daemon and Kari
in an useless attempt of heroism.
"OXYGEN TORPEDO!" Daemon was taken by
surprise and Submarimons attack hit the claw holding Tai letting him loose his
grip through the impact. Kabuterimon and Gatomon reacted quickly. A pink light
engulfed Gatomon. "GATOMON DIGIVOLVE TO... ANGEWOMON!"
"ELECTRO SHOCKER!" The electric shot
exploded right in Daemons face blinding him for the moment while Angewomon
caught the falling Tai and landing next to Kari and Izzy. Now Daemon was the
infuriated one. "For this you will die!"
Chapter 6: Supreme Digivolution - Feelings revealed
Sora awoke from a voice calling her name.
Slowly her vision cleared and at the same time a sharp pain shot through her
body. Finally her eyes focused on the concerned face of her Digimon. Then she
spotted the huge creature in the background and shot into an upright position.
The action only caused her body to scream at her in even more pain.
"Oww..." she muttered and continued to
stare at the scene in front of her. She immediately recognized the large Demon
Digimon from their first encounter. Angewomon, MegaKabuterimon and Digmon were
desperately trying to fight it - with no obvious success. A couple of feet away
she noticed the others kneeling by the limp figure of Tai and watching the
"fight" worried.
Despite her pain and Biyomons protests
Sora pushed herself off the ground. "Help them, Biyomon. I'm okay" she assured
her and hold up her digivice. Biyomon gave her a dubious look but nodded.
"CELESTIAL ARROW!"
"HORN BUSTER!"
"GOLD RUSH!"
There were no visible signs that the
attacks had at least scratched Daemon. He just stood there and laughed at the
efforts of their Digimon. Kari was at her brothers side while Izzy looked for
his wounds. "It's not that bad, they shouldn't even leave scars in a few days",
Izzy explained then looked up as Digmon crashed into a wall and de-digivolved.
Cody, the only one really "participating" in the fight, rushed over to his
fallen companion. "Assuming that we get out alive of this", Izzy finished and
flinched visibly as MegaKabuterimon took a hard blow and crashed to the ground
near them digivolving back to Tentomon.
"WING BLADE!" Daemon was momentarily
distracted when Garudamons attack connected with his back. Angewomon followed
straight with a Heaven's Charm, again with not much effect. "CHAOS FLARE!"
shouted Daemon and struck her Digimon with a pitch black flame that threatened
to burn her. She reverted back to Gatomon and rolled over the ground to
suffocate the flames.
"We have to get out of here", came Sora's
voice from behind her. She stumbled over to them and collapsed. "And how to you
assume we do that? Our Digimon are to weak to digivolve and..." Kari started.
There was another loud crash as one of Garudamon's attacks connected with a
fireball from Daemon, the impact throwing the giant bird of balance. "We can't
run now. Even if we get away do you want Daemon running havoc in this world?"
Izzy stated.
Garudamon ducked under another attack.
"But..." Tai gritted his teeth and interrupted Sora. "He's right. That has to
end here. Agumon? You ready?" The small dino nodded. Tai's digivice began to
glow. "AGUMON WARP-DIGIVOLVE TO... WARGREYMON!" With tremendous speed
WarGreymon launched himself at Daemon transforming into a tornado. "MEGA CLAW!"
Daemon just laughed and the group watched
with shock as WarGreymon bounced harmlessly of off Daemons robe. "How is that
possible?" shouted Izzy frustrated. "CHAOS FLARE!"
"TERRA FORCE!" The two attacks collided in
midair and sent dust and energy waves everywhere. "This is pathetic. I'm tired
of this game!" He totally ignored the two Digimon attacking him and focused on
the kids at the ground. "Child of Light, you are the first one to die and the
others will follow you shortly! EVIL INFERNO!"
That was it. She would die. There was no
way she could survive that raging inferno of fire and her brother, friends and
Digimon would die in the process as well. Daemon had succeeded in his actions
and soon the world would fall to him. Kari just wished the others would somehow
survive and stop him but she had little hope for that. This Digimon was almost
invincible.
Kari felt a protective arm around her and
looked up to see Izzy. "It seems that we have no more time for exploring what
could have been..." Tears welled up in her eyes, she barely noticed the flames
coming closer, threatening to engulf them like the men before. In these last
moments all became so clear and finally she was able to understand what she
really felt for Izzy. There was no sign of TK or Davis on her mind. She had
assumed that during her last moments she would think at least of TK but that
wasn't the case.
"I love you", she whispered. And that was
the truth. She remembered his care for her, not only in the last days but at
various moments of her life before as well. And Kari knew now why she was
touched by his sincere but not to forward concern. She had simply fallen in
love with the young genius.
"And I do love you." There was no surprise
in her face. She knew he did. Not through his words a few minutes ago but all
his actions in the past. Izzy was always the shy type, so it didn't surprised
her that he had kept quiet. Now it was
so clear to her but now... it was too late.
The flames reached them. Kari closed her
eyes and so did the others. She awaited the pain... It didn't come. Instead she
felt a warmth inside that was anything she had experienced before - and that
was a lot. Somehow she felt more powerful and a serene and comforting energy
supporting her own light. Then it hit her. Kari had experienced something like
that before. At the time when she and Yolei had their first DNA Digivolution.
But this time it was not Yolei's love she felt. It was... Izzy's knowledge and
at the same time she felt his love for her too.
Slowly she opened her eyes. A pulsating
dome of swirling purple and violet energy had formed right over them. The
flames slammed effortlessly against it. Finally she looked down and saw hers
and Izzy's Digivice both glowing in bright colors that began to merge into one (the
colors). Kari heard a gasp and looked up, noticing Izzy looking down on their
Digivices.
The dome broke when the purple and violet
glows of their Digivices merged into one, twin bolts of light shot out of them
and engulfed Gatomon and Tentomon lifting them high in the air. "What..." began
Tai. "... is happening?" finished Sora. Cody just watched from his position
already guessing what was happening.
"GATOMON..."
"TENTOMON..."
"DNA WARP-DIGIVOLVE TO..."
"SCARABAEUSMON!"
--- Digi Analyzer ---
Scarabaeusmon
Level: Mega
Group: Holy Warrior Digimon
Type: Vaccine
Attack: Star Sword
Curse
of the Pharaoh
--- Digi Analyzer ---
All - Digi-destined, Digimon as well as
Daeamon - stared in awe (and fear) at the giant and massive new Digimon before
them. It was human-shaped with a armor resembling that of MegaKabuterimons and
a golden metallic vest covering his chest. Large crystal clear wings with
violet and purple markings spread from it's back more like the wings of the
mythical Pegasus than those of an angel. It had a human head with a helmet
similar to that of MagnaAngemon. In its right hand it hold a sword out of pure
energy pulsating in the same colors than the dome before. The left hand was a
giant metallic claw looking extremely dreadful.
"Wow", Tai said gasping. Kari and Izzy
just glanced at each other. They needed no words because their minds were
almost one. That must be something like WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon's
Jogress Digivolution! Izzy thought. You think it can beat
Daemon? Kari asked not really unsure. Absolutely.
In the meantime Scarabaeusmon advanced on
Daemon, who actually jerked backwards a little. WarGreymon and Garudamon
immediately were at its left and right side. They wasted no time and unleashed
their attacks.
"CURSE OF THE PHARAOH!"
"TERRA FORCE!"
"WING BLADE!"
All three attacks - Scarabaeusmon's attack
was a big sphere of colorful energy - slammed with an unbelievable impact into
the demon sending him stumbling and finally to his knees. "YOU ALL MUST HELP
NOW!" Scarabaeusmon's mixed voice boomed over the place. Without asking Kari
and Izzy lifted their Digivices, hands still joined. Tai and Sora supported
each other and stood up. Cody followed their lead and held up his Digivice.
Five bolts of digital energy shot directly into Scarabaeusmon's sword. At the
same time WarGreymon and Garudamon threw their attacks and they were absorbed
into the sword as well. Finally Scarabaeusmon brought his sword in a graceful
motion in front of its body and charged.
"STAR SWORD!" Scarabaeusmon's movement was
more a blur to them when it collided with Daemon. The pure energy sliced
through Daemon like he was nothing. Daemon screeched an inhuman sound and then
exploded in a vortex of darkness that stayed in the air for a few seconds and
then disintegrated into nothing. There was a flash of light and the victorious
Digimon de-digivolved revealing a very tired Nyaromon and Motimon.
The whole place was literally soundless
for a few moments. "Yes! We won!" Tai exclaimed finally but immediately coughed
as the pain of his injuries surfaced once again. Kari looked at Izzy, their
link was still active. You meant what you said?
Every word. That was all
Kari needed to hear. Happily she wrapped her arms around Izzy's neck and kissed
him not caring about the others. This time Izzy didn't broke the kiss. He just
gave in to the sensation of love, passion and joined souls. They both knew it
was right and they both knew that was what they had searched for a long time.
Epilogue
Kari and Izzy sat on Kari's bed in
silence. Like before no words were needed; not spoken and not through their
still remaining mind link. Both of them enjoyed the presence of the other one
while thinking on their own how such a single and emotional accident had
changed their lives completely. Izzy was somewhat scared of his own thoughts.
He was absolutely sure Kari and him were meant to be together and such thinking
at such a young age was indeed scary. But a good side of scary
he thought and smiled down at the girl in his arms.
Kari on the other hand had similar
thoughts. She knew that there would be a lot of explaining afterwards. She was
aware that a lot of boys were attracted to her and there would be a lot of
jealousy. Still Izzy was her soul mate. It had became clear in the moment their
powers had joined. Kari always believed in such things like fate and destiny,
it lay in her nature, her powers. Never before she had felt real love in that
form. Sure there was a time she really cared for TK and still did. But now she
realized that this love was more the one for a brother. Davis was a nice guy
and he had really changed to the better throughout the last crisis. Still he
never really was her type. Izzy was right for her, she knew that. His calm
personality had stabilized her sometimes uncontrollable light in a way not even
Yoleis love and sincerity had done.
Izzy reading her thoughts once again
lifted her chin and this time he was the one initiating the kiss. I
love you they send telepathically at the same time and there were no further
doubts.
Sora smiled warmly while looking at the
door of Kari's room. Tai caught her smile and nodded. "Yeah... I never saw her
that happy before", he said. At this Sora remembered the last days. "She was an
emotional wrack in the last days. I think it was Izzy alone who managed to get
through to her." Tai nodded, obviously satisfied with the development.
"I was concerned too, you know..." That
was an understatement. Sora had been scared to hell, fearing the worst for Tai.
The whole situation had made her thinking. In the last couple of months she an
Matt had become closer. They had even gone out two or three times. Why she
couldn't tell - no, she denied the truth a long time. Sora had felt lonely and
somehow rejected by Tai. All this time she had waited for him to ask her out or
something but nothing came. At some point even her patience was broken.
Looking back now she knew that it was
foolish to believe Tai wasn't interested in her. Probably he was just scared
and unsure, the highest courage can't help a person in love. She knew that
exactly and if it came to girls Tai could be just a shy guy like any other.
Sora realized now it was her fault as well, her fault for not expressing her
feelings freely.
"See, Sora", Tai interrupted the silence.
"I just wanted to say I'm sorry for being such a pain in the last weeks. I
think I was just jealous of Matt..." Stupid, Tai. Too damn noble to say
something. He had even pushed her to overcome her own fear of advancing on
Matt. And when his jealousy finally surfaced it was expressed in silent
ignorance...
Sora just couldn't take it anymore.
Silencing him she capture his lips with hers and ended any further discussions
with that.
And so the whole crisis left two very
happy couples. They had found themselves throughout a time of great fear and
the bond they were sharing now was one of great trust and love. Today there
were two new and happy couples in Odaiba. Two couples of soul mates.
THE END
Author's Notes
Well, that was my first ever English
fanfiction. I enjoyed writing it and really think all that reading was good for
something. Maybe language lessons should be based on fanfic reading... I should
better not tell this my old teachers.
Ok, there is one thing that needs an
explanation. Scarabaeusmon. First of all the name origin comes from the Latin
word Scarabaeus that means "Scarab" in English. Scarabs are the
little bugs. In the Egyptian mythology these are holy creatures. I suggest
looking it up in a book or in a search engine.
The idea for a DNA warp-digivolution is
not especially developed for this fic. I am working on a huge
Anime/Reality-Crossover (gomen, German only) and the idea of Jogress Megas were
originally designed for this fic series and it started with Scarabaeusmon (I
got the name from one of my German contacts).
That is everything so far I think. Special
thanks to Essi-chan for beta-reading this fic. Emails, constructive
positive/negative criticism, proposals, death judgments and similar things to Solarsenshi@gmx.de. Flames will be sliced
by Scarabaeusmons sword.
Thank you all for reading this tiny (for
me it is) little fic.
Ja ne, yours
Matthias
Time of Fear
By: MysticMew