Greetings and salutations to everyone, and welcome to Digimon: Destiny of a Knight, the first fan fic that I ever wrote.
Just to inform everyone, this was written about three years ago. I had just never posted it and forgot that I had it on my computer.
Basically, I fixed a few problems with the story, such as spelling errors and inconsistencies, but mostly left it the same as when I had first written it. As such, I'm sorry if it's not 'up to par' with some of my other stories.
Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon. If I did, you'd probably be watching this as season six instead of reading it as a fan fic.
That being said, enjoy...
Digimon: Destiny of a Knight
Chapter 1: The Death of a Friend
The desert of the digital world is an empty place, a place few dare to travel. It possesses little water, no shelter, almost no food, and the few creatures that do live here are in a daily struggle to survive. Dueto these harsh natural features, the desert was a normally silent. Today, however, was an exception; in a small area up in the north eastern section, a young man wearing a cloak and a black bipedal dragon with a silver mask and four crimson wings were engaged in a desperate battle with a large seven-headed snake, each side attempting to claim the life of the other.
The young man jumped backwards, avoiding a large burst of flame that had been discharged from one of the serpent's seven mouths, causing him to slide over the soft sand that he had landed on. "Cyberdramon, draw his attention to the left. Once you have his attention, I'll strike him from the right" he yelled to the black dragon, which was hovering above him.
The dragon briefly nodded to his partner before darting off to the left, toward the serpent's flank. The snake's seven heads scanned the area, but before they could locate him, Cyberdramon stretched out his two upper claws. Almost immediately, they began to glow with green and white energy.
"Desolation Claw!" the dragon roared in a powerful voice. As he spoke, he pulled his hands together in front of him, pointing his claws, and the green and white energy, towards his foe. The energy began to fire off from his hand in quick yet fixed intervals, striking his enemy and exploding on contact, in a time period of less than ten seconds, the entire area was covered by a veil of smoke and sand.
At this realization, the man stopped his circling of the large snake. "Did you get him?" he yelled to his partner.
At first, the dragon was silent, giving no reply; he just stared at the dust storm he had created, pondering the point of it all. "Leon, look out!" Cyberdramon yelled suddenly, darting into the cloud of smoke.
"Inferno Blast!" hissed a loud, yet sinister voice. Immediately following was another burst of flame, this time directed at Leon.
Leon quickly followed his partner's advice and dove out of the way, the attack barely missing him. He glanced at where he had been standing and noticed the sand had turned to and oddly shaped and discolored glass; this realization did not raise his spirits. The dust had finally settled, and Leon could now see his partner darting around his adversary, firing off his desolation claw attack when he had the chance. It was clear that the serpent was angry; all seven heads were now spewing fire, each one attempting to either devour or incinerate the black dragon.
"That does it!" Leon yelled, speaking quickly but in a powerful voice.
Throwing back his cloak, the young man revealed a sword with a golden hilt and hexagonal tsuba resting in its sheath. Taking hold of the hilt, Leon pulled the sword from it's scabbard, revealing its double-edged blade. As he did so, Leon took a moment to reflect on the blade's beauty as it shimmered in the sunlight, augmenting the golden symbols that decorated the flat of the blade. As he held it in his hands, he was reminded of how he had first come to obtain the weapon, how he had begged his best friend, fellow Digidestined, and computer wiz, Derek, to help him create it, how they had tried countless programs in order to compress the data and materialize the blade, and how they had both been ecstatic when they had finally accomplished it. The sword was made of chrome digizoid, a nearly unbreakable digital alloy, and was equipped with a program that re-sharpened the blade every time it was transferred in and out of the digital world. Though the blade could not cut through everything, it was capable of inflicting considerable amounts of damage to almost any digimon. Regardless of its few flaws, Leon couldn't have been more ecstatic. He had always felt guilty about making Cyberdramon fight while he was forced to watch from the sidelines. Now he was able to fight side by side with his digimon partner, even if it did cause him to get quite a few injuries.
Leon then pulled out his digivice. "Let's see just who we're dealing with here" he said as he pressed a button on the little object. Almost immediately, a transparent screen appeared above his digivice, displaying the features of his adversary.
"Let's see here, 'Orochimon, serpent type, Ultimate level, special attacks: Inferno Blast and Snake Breath' yeah, no kidding," he said after reading off the statistics and continued where his circling of the snake. Orochimon was so distracted by Cyberdramon's constant assaults that he completely failed to notice the little human child sneaking up behind him. Suddenly, Leon's stealth-filled approach changed into a full force charge on the large multi-cranial monstrosity. He jumped into the air, raising his sword over his head as he did, and brought it down on the outer most right head, severing it from the rest of the body. The now six-headed serpent let out a roar of pain from all of its remaining mouths as the severed head crashed to the ground and exploded in a burst of data.
"HOW DARE YOU!!" one of the heads hissed loudly as another turned to face the now-falling boy, "You'll pay for that, Inferno…"
"Not so fast Orochimon," Cyberdramon yelled as he charged in at the head poised to attack his partner, his left claw glowing with green and white energy, "Cyber Nail!" The attack slashed right through the snake's attacking head, causing it to burst into data, and taking a good chunk of the body along with it. Unfortunately, this left Cyberdramon's back exposed to the center head, which was slightly different form the others, in the sense that it was black and the rest were silver.
"Inferno Blast!" the center head yelled and fired an enormous blast of flame into the dragon's back, throwing him to the desert floor.
"Oh my god, no" Leon yelled as ran at full pace toward his fallen comrade. Once there, he knelt down beside him and helping him onto his back.
"Cyberdramon, get up, please" Leon said repeatedly, tears falling from his eyes as he did, Orochimon merely watching the scene and slowly approaching to deliver the finishing blow.
"This guy… is strong," Cyberdramon finally said, gasping for breath after almost every word, "much stronger…than he…should…be. There's…something evil… happening…in…the digital…world."
"It's okay, we'll stop it once we get out of here" Leon replied, tears still running down his face.
Cyberdramon merely chuckled, which resulted in a spat of uncontrollable coughs, "No Leon, you…must…stop them..on...your...own." He said in a commanding voice.
"Wait, what do you mean?" Leon replied, not that he needed to; as of now, Cyberdramon's wings were already beginning to dissipate into data, and parts of his digital code were beginning to show throughout his body.
"I'm glad… I… had the chance… to be…your…partner, despite…your…reckless actions." The dragon moved his head in a gesture to the sword Leon was holding in his hand.
Leon couldn't say anything; he just kept crying, not realizing that Orochimon was right over them both, preparing to strike. Cyberdramon looked up into the sky, towards the sun, and opened his mouth a little, as if in surprise.
"Leon, you…were my family…and…I…will always…love…you," and with those last words said, he leapt off of the ground, lunging at Orochimon. The Snake struck at him with his center head, but he moved slightly to the left, thus dodging the head, and ramming his body into the beast's chest. He then proceeded to lift the monster off of the ground, high into the sky. The snake struggled with his grip, snapping at whatever part of the dragon's body his six heads could reach; none the less, he merely dug his claws deeper into the snake's body and held it as high into the sky as he could.
"Strike NOW!!!" he yelled as clearly and concisely as he could.
At first, nothing happened. It was as if the world had stopped; the wind had ceased, the dust had stopped blowing, even the movements and sounds of Orochimon seemed to have ceased.
"BREATH OF WYVERN!" a strong powerful voice called out, its sound reverberated across all of space, reaching to the heavens. Upon hearing this, Orochimon struggled even harder against his captor's relentless grip, as if knowing what was about to unfold. Yet, still, nothing happened. Leon searched the land and sky for the source of the voice, until he was left with only one place left unchecked, the sun.
He turned his eyes to the glowing sphere in the sky, using his left hand to cover his eyes to lessen the glare. At first nothing seemed out of the ordinary, until he noticed that part of the sun, instead of being a bright yellow, was instead shining blue and white. As it approached at immense speed, the blue and white glare took the shape of a large bipedal dragon comprised of nothing but flames. The dragon let loose a fierce roar before colliding with the squirming mass that was Orochimon and Cyberdramon, resulting in a gargantuan explosion. Both of the Ultimate level digimon were incinerated instantly.
The blast had thrown Leon backwards a few hundred feet, knocking him out and covering him with sand. Once he had regained consciousness and was able to organize his thoughts, he immediately jumpe to his feet and ran back to the site of the explosion.
"Cyberdramon!" he yelled, hoping that he had only been dreaming, hoping that he hadn't really seen his partner killed by a large flaming dragon.
His hopes were ill-met. Even as high as they were, there was still a ridiculously large crater where the explosion had occurred above. Much of the sand had turned to a clear, beautifully colored glass the likes of which he had never seen before.
"…and all it took was an innocent life," he said as if someone had commented on its beauty. It was at this time that his digivice began to react. Leon pulled it out and stared at the screen. As he did, an orange light shot forth toward the sky, and small particles of data began to be absorbed into it. He looked around at the data that was being collected, and felt Cyberdramon's presence all around him.
"Cyberdramon…" he said softly, "…I'm sorry." Once all of the data had been assimilated by the light, it retracted back into his digivice. Leon looked at the screen once again; there was a large glowing orange X on the screen and above that was a two word message, 'No Regrets'. Never, in the history of the Digital World, had the desert region seen so much water.
Well, there you have it. I hope everyone enjoyed the first chapter. More to come fairly soon. If you liked it, hated it, or have questions or comments, please don't hesitate to review!!!