A/N: As I promised, here's the continuation of my old story "The Digital Nightmare". This chapter will contain mostly recap from the Digital Nightmare so you guys don't need to reread it in order to catch up with this story.
This story will be called the United World Arc, and the reason for this name will be revealed later.
Also, this story will use the Japanese names and terms instead of the localization ones. Here's the comparison for some of them just in case you are wondering (note that Japanese names always start from family name, then given name):
Yagami Taichi = Tai Kamiya
Ishida Yamato = Matt Ishida
Izumi Koushirou = Izzy Izumi
Kido Jyou = Joe Kido
Takaishi Takeru = T.K. Takaishi
Yagami Hikari = Kari Kamiya
Motomiya Daisuke = Davis Motomiya
Inoue Miyako = Yolei Inoue
Hida Iori = Cody Hida
Wallace = Willis
Piyomon = Biyomon
Tailmon = Gatomon
V-mon = Veemon
Armadimon = Armadillomon
Qinglongmon = Azulongmon
Ebonwumon = Xuanwumon
Huanglongmon = Fanglongmon
evolve (shinkaa) = digivolve
jogress evolution = DNA digivolve
Also, this story may contain some OOC-ness, and some (if not a lot) grammatical errors (because I come from non-English speaking country). I am very sorry for these inconveniences.
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon. They are the properties of Toei Animation. Also, there some hints in this story from Persona series, Golden Sun series, and Tales series (but not enough to be regarded as crossover). All of them are the properties of their respective owner.
At last, please consider to review this story if you like it. A word or two that tells how you feel about this story will make me happy, and even better if you can help me improve my writing by giving me some constructive critiques or suggestions.
Chapter 0 – Prologue from 'The Digital Nightmare'
It was started with a nightmare. Our blue dragon Digimon, V-mon dreamed that he was captured by an evil creature called Lord of Millennium, and then he was turned into a weapon to destroy the Digital World.
Soon, V-mon found out that his dream was about to come true, as the evil creature in his dream, Lord of Millennium, somehow managed to break the seal that the Guardians put on him 1000 years ago. He plotted to take revenge on the Guardians. To do so, he sent one of his Millennium Generals, Chimeramon, to infect V-mon with curse seal, which allowed him to take full control of V-mon. Finally, to lure the Chosen Children, and also his target to the Digital World, the Lord of Millennium used his power to increase the Dark Area's activity, resulting huge amount of dark energy emerged from the Dark Area to the Digital World.
As predicted, the Chosen Children came to the Digital World to investigate this peculiarity. In there, they were ambushed and forced to confront Chimeramon. This Chimeramon proved to be too strong for the Chosen Digimon, as he easily overpowered Paildramon, Siphymon, and Shakkoumon. Chimeramon then proceeded to place the curse seal on V-mon, and attempted to eliminate the rest of them before Qinglongmon interrupted. Qinglongmon managed to defeat Chimeramon, and thus saving them all. He, however, was a bit too late as he couldn't stop Chimeramon from infecting V-mon with the curse seal.
Soon, the Chosen Children learned that the curse seal was very difficult to be removed. The only solution available for them was to use the Light, which located at the Sol Sanctum in the Central Hemisphere. Qinglongmon used his power to transport the Chosen Children and their partners to the Central Hemisphere, only to find that the Temple of the Sun was sealed, and collecting the Four Elemental Spirits, namely Sylph, Gnome, Undine, and Salamander was the only way to break the seal.
The Chosen Children then proceed to retrieve the first Elemental Spirit, Sylph, which was located in Zephyr Tower. Venturing inside the Zephyr Tower, the Chosen Children finally met Sylph. At first, Sylph refused to trust the Chosen Children, demanding that she needed to test them to gain their trust. However, Gennai managed to convince her, saying that Qinglongmon trusted them. Even though she was still in doubt, Sylph agreed to join them.
Later, the Lord of Millennium learned that the Chosen Children needed to collect the Elemental Spirits to open the Sol Sanctum and retrieve the Light. To prevent this from happening, he ordered his Millennium Generals to ambush them near the Spirits' locations. He placed Chaosdramon in the Southern Hemisphere, where Salamander was located, Darkdramon in the Western Hemisphere, where Gnome was located, and GigaSeadramon in Northern Hemisphere, where Undine was located.
As they continued to collect the Spirits, the older Chosen decided to help them all. In Digital World, they reunited with their partners, with the exception of Yamato and Sora, as Agumon informed them all that a serpentine Digimon captured them several days ago. This news crushed them all, but they knew that mourning would not solve anything, so they prepared themselves to go to the Southern Hemisphere.
With the 'help' from Zhuqiaomon, the Chosen Children went to Southern Hemisphere. As they approached the Iris' Shrine, they were ambushed by Chaosdramon, and like Chimeramon, this Digimon was very strong. Chaosdramon easily overpowered them, and nearly defeated them. Thankfully, due to strong desire to protect her friends, Silphymon managed to reach her ultimate level, Valkyriemon. Together with Imperialdramon, although he was badly injured, they managed to defeat Chaosdramon.
The Chosen Children ventured deep into the Iris' Temple, where Salamander was located. They met Salamander, the embodiment of fire, but he refused to join them directly. In order to test their strength, Salamander challenged them in a battle. To their surprise, Salamander was more than capable to match them, as he overpowered almost all of the Chosen's partners. In a brink of defeat, Zudomon reached his ultimate level, Plesiomon. The newly evolved Plesiomon then easily defeated Salamander. Admitting his defeat, Salamander agreed to accompany the Chosen Children in their quest to retrieve the Light.
Meanwhile, in the Western Region, two Millennium Generals, Darkdramon and GigaSeadramon joined forces to capture V-mon. They planned to ambush the Chosen Children, and while they were preoccupied with one of them, the other one would strike and capture V-mon. Their plan was success, as GigaSeadramon managed to ambush them and capture V-mon, while Darkdramon held most of them. Daisuke, Ken, and Wallace managed to escape from Darkdramon and gave GigaSeadramon a chase, but were held by GigaSeadramon's henchmen. Meanwhile, GigaSeadramon was ready to deliver V-mon to the Lord of Millennium…
However, something unthinkable happened. As GigaSeadramon travelled back to Millennium Castle, Coronamon and Lunamon, who happened to work as the Guardians' spies, spotted him. They immediately recognized V-mon and proceeded to rescue him. Seeing that GigaSeadramon was in euphoria that he finally caught V-mon, they spotted a chance to outwit him and rescue V-mon. Even though they couldn't do much to harm him, but due to GigaSeadramon's carelessness, they successfully rescued V-mon.
Like the other Millennium Generals, Darkdramon was strong enough to hold his ground against the Chosen's partners. In fact, he managed to defeat most of them, leaving only Plesiomon, Valkyriemon, and Shakkoumon. Determined to protect all of them, Shakkoumon evolved into ClavisAngemon, and together with Valkyriemon, he defeated Darkdramon. As they reunited, Daisuke brought sad news that they couldn't rescue V-mon, not knowing that he was safe with Coronamon and Lunamon.
After regained consciousness, V-mon was greeted by Lunamon. At first, V-mon thought she was one of the Lord of Millennium's henchmen. After took some beating from Coronamon, who happened to be her brother, V-mon admitted that he was wrong and asked them for forgiveness. Coronamon was reluctant to forgive him, but Lunamon managed to convince him to do so. Coronamon then left the room in disgust, leaving only two of them. After some conversations, Lunamon left him to rest, and for some reasons, V-mon started to have feeling on her, quoting that she was as nice as Tailmon.
Back to Gaia's Rock, after taking a night off, the Chosen Children entered the Gaia's Rock, where Gnome was located. After tackling into some riddles, they finally reached the heart of Gaia's Rock. To their surprise, they couldn't find Gnome. Instead, they were attacked by the seven headed snake called Yamata-no-Orochi, and this legendary creature was not a pushover, as it could defeat most of the Chosen's partners. As it was about to finish them, AtlurKabuterimon evolved to his ultimate level, H-Kabuterimon. Using his new power, he managed to defeat it.
Later, the Chosen Children found out that the seven-headed snake they had just defeated was Gnome's alternate form. Gnome then offered to help them, and even more, taught Patamon how to use Reveal, as he insisted that they would need it sooner or later. Gnome then asked Patamon to destroy the Unbreakable Wall by identifying its weak point to ensure that he had learned it successfully. Patamon successfully destroyed it in his first try, which earned Gnome's praise, saying that he expected no less from the hero of the past.
The Chosen then returned to Baihumon's place. As a surprise, they found that V-mon had already waiting for them there. Apparently, Baihumon commanded Coronamon and Lunamon to bring them there so he could reunite with them as soon as possible. Baihumon revealed that Coronamon and Lunamon worked for the Guardians as spies, and that they would join the Chosen Children back to the Eastern Hemisphere, as Qinglongmon had some tasks for them. Lunamon was delighted to hear this, but Coronamon was not very pleased as he knew that his sister had a feeling on V-mon.
So, the Chosen Children returned to Eastern Hemisphere to meet Qinglongmon. There, they were greeted by Tachikawa Mimi and her partner, Palmon. Also, Mimi's friend from America, Michael and his partner, Betamon were there as well. Apparently, Qinglongmon brought them there and explained the current situation to them, and they decided to join the rest of the Chosen. With this, All Chosen Children had reunited, and they were ready to retrieve the final Elemental Spirit, Undine.
As the Chosen Children prepared themselves, Qinglongmon gave a mission to Coronamon and Lunamon to rescue Gabumon and Piyomon. Apparently, Gennai had successfully located them and he would join them for the search. Before they went, they warned the Chosen Children not to bring V-mon to the Northern Hemisphere, as GigaSeadramon would surely plan something to ambush them and capture V-mon. They explained that GigaSeadramon could be more dangerous in the Northern Hemisphere due to the nature of his type. After doing some thinking, the Chosen decided that they would take the risk and bring V-mon along with them.
Just as Coronamon and Lunamon predicted, GigaSeadramon really waited for them near the Aqua Temple. He used his stealth technique to conceal himself so that no one could detect his presence, but eventually Patamon could identify his presence using his newly learned Reveal. However, it was revealed that even though he was discovered before he could launch a sneak attack, GigaSeadramon had already planned something to capture V-mon. He immediately cast an ice spell called Absolute and froze solid V-mon before the rest of them could react. After that, he vowed to destroy the Chosen before he delivered V-mon to his master.
And again, Coronamon and Lunamon were right; in there, GigaSeadramon was indeed very powerful, especially when he fought in that kind of environment. With just one deadly water magic, Maelstrom, he wiped all the Chosen Digimon, including knocked Stingmon out of the battle immediately. So far, only Plesiomon and MegaSeadramon (Michael's partner) who could endure that magic, thanks to their high resistance to water. However, GigaSeadramon's terror had not stopped yet. This time, he whipped up a huge tsunami he called Watery Grave that could swallow everything, including the Chosen Children. As the tsunami washed them, GigaSeadramon knew that no one could survive. He had won, and with V-mon in his hand, surely his master would promote him.
Or had he? As the water level returned to normal, the Chosen Children and their partners still stood unharmed! Apparently, Undine, the embodiment of water, had enough with this. She could not stand still watching someone used water to bring calamity, while it should bring life. Undine then aided the Chosen Digimon fighting GigaSeadramon by granting them immunity to water. With Undine on their side, the Chosen Digimon finally could match GigaSeadramon's power.
As GigaSeadramon was busy dealing with the Chosen Digimon, Undine managed to rescue V-mon from his icy prison, and then healed him. She then helped the Chosen Digimon by providing many assists. Seeing that he couldn't defeat the Chosen Digimon with the constant aid from Undine, GigaSeadramon decided to play dirty by attacking the Chosen Children. Most of the Chosen Digimon were able to rescue their partners in the nick of time, but Lilymon was a bit late when she tried to rescue Mimi. She decided to take a full blow from GigaSeadramon instead.
However, before it could happen, Mimi's Digivice and crest activated the ultimate evolution. As the result, Lilymon evolved into Rosemon. Rosemon managed to stall GigaSeadramon, and after charging enough power, ClavisAngemon unleashed his strongest Zenith Gate attack, which successfully defeated GigaSeadramon for good.
Guided by Undine, the Chosen entered the Aqua Temple, where Undine joined immediately. However, before they returned to Xuanwumon, Undine insisted that at least one of the Chosen learned Arid Heat, an ancient technique that could be used to drain standing water. Seeing the technique's restriction, Undine decided that only Agumon and V-mon could learn that technique. After V-mon regained consciousness, Undine proceeded to teach them Arid Heat. Both of them learned that technique successfully, although it took Agumon twice to completely pass Undine's test, while V-mon did it in just one try.
While the Chosen had successfully completed their objective, things weren't going smoothly for Coronamon, Lunamon, and Gennai. As they travelled deep into Dark Area, where Gabumon and Piyomon were held prisoners, they encountered the Guardian of Dark Area, the Reaper. The Reaper easily overpowered them, and nearly killed them. However, before the Reaper could finish them all, Gennai sacrificed himself to save Coronamon and Lunamon, saying that the Chosen Children would need their assistance. At first, Coronamon and Lunamon protested Gennai's decision, but seeing there wasn't any other way, they reluctantly left Gennai and began seeking for the Chosen Children.
Back to the Chosen Children, as they completed their quest of gathering the four elemental spirits, they returned to the Qinglongmon's place. Before they went to the Center Hemisphere, as they took a rest, Sylph taught Armadimon the Sand technique, while Salamander taught Agumon and V-mon several fire-based magic.
Meanwhile, thanks to his new technique, Patamon started to sense something wrong, as he felt huge amount of darkness gathering somewhere in the Digital World. The same applied to Hikari. As child of light, she was more sensitive to darkness more than others. However, V-mon knew that Millenniumon was the only possible source, as he could feel his curse seal was growing faster than ever. V-mon knew that his time was not much, but he couldn't bear to tell the others, as he didn't want them losing hope. He tried to tell Qinglongmon about this, but unfortunately, the great dragon didn't take this matter seriously.
After doing some preparation, Qinglongmon sent the Chosen Children and their partners directly to the Sol Sanctum. As V-mon predicted before, Millenniumon was there to launch a sneak attack. Millenniumon proved to be too much for them. With just one devastating attack, Big Bang, Millenniumon wiped all of the Chosen Digimon, excluding V-mon, which was asked to stay back, and critically wounded the Four Spirits. Millenniumon then threatened to delete the Four Spirits with his Dimension Destroyer before V-mon intervened, saying that he would go with him, providing that the hybrid Digimon let all his friends alive. Millenniumon accepted this exchange offer, and released the Four Spirits, and then proceeded to capture V-mon.
The Four Spirits then used their remaining power to save the Chosen Digimon, who were badly injured by Millenniumon. As they took a rest, Agumon heard the conversation between the Four Spirits, which involved the appearance of Doomdramon and how they could stop it. They decided that they must help the Chosen Children as far as possible, even though they would break every rule from Huanglongmon. At first, Agumon, and later Patamon, didn't understand what the Four Spirit had planned, but it was revealed in the next morning that they planned to use every last bit of their strength not only to open the Sol Sanctum, but also awaken the power sleeping inside the Chosen Digimon.
At the beginning, the Chosen Children and their partners were reluctant to do this, but the Four Spirits kept insisting, saying that it didn't matter much if they disappeared, as long as the world could be saved. Finally, even though they still disagreed with this, they let the Four Spirits channeled their power to them, and thus unlocking their arcane power. Before they disappeared, the Four Spirits cheered them up, saying that as long as they saved the world, they would meet them again for sure.
As the Chosen saw the Four Spirits disappeared into data, from afar, they saw two familiar creatures. They were Coronamon and Lunamon. Following Gennai's last word, they decided to join forces with the Chosen Children. However, Coronamon noticed that V-mon was gone, and he questioned whether he was captured. He soon erupted in anger as he found out that V-mon was really captured by Millenniumon. He quoted that the past tragedy was about to be repeated, as it meant that Doomdramon was about to be awakened. The Chosen defended themselves, saying that even Qinglongmon didn't mention about this matter. The debate lasted until Lunamon stopped all of them. She reminded them that right now they had to put their mission into priority, rather than fighting over something that had already happened. The Chosen and Coronamon realized that Lunamon was right, and they decided to join forces and entered Sol Sanctum.
Venturing into Sol Sanctum, they saw a lot of familiar puzzles and traps made to protect the Sanctum. Thanks to the ability passed from the Four Spirits and with Ken's aid, they could solve them all until they arrived into the Hall of Sol-Luna, which technically was a dead end unless they had the right key. Much to their surprise, they met 2 V-mon, which had the same appearances and voices with their V-mon. Even worse, they held the key to advance and refused to pass it unless they defeated them in battle. The Chosen questioned why they were against them. To the Chosen's shock, they revealed that they were the replicas of the last living V-mon named V-maru. They also stated that the V-mon that the Chosen knew was also a replica, but he was perfect, unlike them, so they were cast away like trash. They swore that they would not forget this, and for them, it was better that the world was destroyed. Seeing that they could not persuade those V-mon, the Chosen didn't have any other choice than fighting.
Meanwhile, the said V-mon regained consciousness, and he was immediately greeted by his nightmare, the Lord of Millennium himself! The Lord of Millennium then proceeded to torture V-mon, hoping that eventually, V-mon would give himself up so that the Lord of Millennium could activate the Millennium Curse Seal completely. To his surprise, V-mon could endure all of them, and he still hadn't given up yet. The Lord of Millennium then decided to torture V-mon mentally by asking him about his past, as he knew that V-mon didn't know about this. He revealed that V-mon was merely a replica, a substitute for the legendary V-maru. The Lord of Millennium then taunted V-mon, saying that he was just a weapon for the Guardians to win the war, and that they didn't want to see him live freely.
This time, the Lord of Millennium succeeded to break V-mon's concentration to resist the curse seal. As V-mon started to mourn about the meaning of his existence, the Lord of Millennium began the ritual to fully activate the curse seal. As the result, the curse seal was fully activated, and V-mon fell into Lord of Millennium's control.
Back to the Sol Sanctum, the Chosen Digimon were forced to fight with the two V-mon, Sync and Ion, in their Child level (with the exception of Tailmon) because of the restriction placed in that place. Much to their surprise, even though they were in the same level, and were outnumbered, Sync and Ion could wreak havoc to them, as they had access to a lot of ancient magic and arcane techniques. Even worse, they also had access to some Mystics, which technically, were some of the strongest arcane techniques. However, determined to save V-mon as soon as possible, the Chosen Digimon managed to defeat them, earning the key to advance.
Venturing even deeper to Sol Sanctum, the Chosen Children and their partners crossed the Fiery Path. It was actually an active volcano inside the Sol Sanctum. Feeling exhausted, they decided to take a rest in a cave shielded from the heat. As they rested, Coronamon and Lunamon revealed their past to them. They revealed that even 1000 years ago, they needed help from Eternal Orb, which, basically had an ability to manipulate time and space, to subdue Millenniumon's power. They also revealed the fact that the existence of the Light itself was not confirmed yet, but judging from Sync and Ion's action, they were sure that there was really a cure for V-mon hidden deep inside Sol Sanctum.
Overcoming all the challenges, finally the Chosen Children and their partners arrived at the heart of Sol Sanctum. As if it was déjà vu all over again, they were greeted by another V-mon named Zenmaru, who introduced himself as the twin brother of V-maru. Zenmaru explained his role and apologized for his brother's behaviors toward them. Zenmaru proceeded to explain about Eternal Orb and how they could use it to cure V-mon's curse seal. Apparently, they needed Origin's help to forge Eternal Orb. Fortunately, they had already had the materials needed for Eternal Orb, and with Coronamon and Lunamon's abilities to summon Rem and Shadow, they could undo the Origin's Seal. Zenmaru then revealed his true form as Goddramon, and guided the Chosen to the Origin's Slate.
With the help of Zenmaru, Coronamon, and Lunamon, the Chosen Children could awaken the king of Spirits, Origin. Much to their surprise, Origin refused to forge the Eternal Orb for them, saying that the previous pact holder with him, Huanglongmon, betrayed their pact. Seeing the Chosen Children were confused, Zenmaru revealed the secret that was held close for over 1000 years: that their world was really in a verge of destruction due the loss of the mana source, and that the great tree must be restored in order to restore the Digital World into its glory. However, Huanglongmon failed to do that. Even more, he decided to split the Digital World into five parallel worlds in order to preserve the remaining mana. Origin pointed that as an unforgivable sin, and decided that he couldn't trust anyone else with the Eternal Orb.
Just before Origin went back to his slumber, Daisuke pointed that they didn't care whether Huanglongmon really betrayed their pact or not, all that they cared was that they could save V-mon and this Digital World. Takeru pointed that Daisuke was right, and with determination, all of the Chosen Children agreed that they loved Digital World so much that they wanted to protect it. Seeing that their feeling was sincere, Origin said that he would try to believe one more time, and then proceeded to challenge them in battle, as he needed their proof of strength. Seeing that they didn't have any other choice, the Chosen Children and their partners prepared themselves to fight Origin.
Meanwhile, the Lord of Millennium had successfully taken full control of V-mon, and with the aid of stolen Gabumon and Piyomon's data, he made V-mon dark evolving into Doomdramon. Soon, they arrived in Dragon's Gate to greet Qinglongmon. Qinglongmon was shocked as he saw that the Lord of Millennium had awakened the demon dragon, and having no other choice, he engaged Doomdramon. Much to his surprise, Doomdramon could hold his ground against him. Even worse, Doomdramon's attack could severely wound him. At the critical moment, Millenniumon appeared and together with Doomdramon, he successfully defeated and killed Qinglongmon. The Lord of Millennium seemed to be satisfied with this result, and then they took off to the remaining Quadrants to devour the other Guardians.
Back to Sol Sanctum, Origin challenged the Chosen Digimon in battle as a proof of their strength. At the beginning, Origin easily overpowered them with his outstanding weapon skill and extremely strong technique, Collapse. As the battle progressed, the Chosen Digimon managed to distract Origin, and they could cause some damage on him. Realizing that he was losing, Origin unleashed his strongest attack, Rebirth Crusader. All Chosen Digimon were caught on it, thus critically wounding them.
When the Chosen Children thought that they were done for, a miracle happened as Stingmon heard V-mon's voice. He asked Stingmon to protect his friend, and with his DNA, Stingmon managed to reach his perfect level, Dinobeemon, who looked like jogress form of XV-mon and Stingmon, but his insect part was more dominant than his dragon part. With his new power, Dinobeemon engaged Origin, and surprisingly, he could match Origin's skill and speed, and thus distracting Origin from the rest of them. Plesiomon used this chance to use his healing spell, Revitalize, to heal the rest of the Chosen Digimon, and then they joined Dinobeemon battling Origin.
Determining to defeat Origin, the Chosen Digimon used their best combination and managed to stop Origin's movement. WarGreymon then unleashed his new and strongest attack, Dual the Sun, on Origin before degenerated into Agumon. That wasn't enough to completely defeat Origin, but enough to gain Origin's trust. Origin then fused All Digimentals into Eternal Orb, and gave it to the Chosen Children, providing they would defeat the evil lurking in the Digital World, and restore it to its former glory. Zenmaru also gave them a boost which unlocked their abilities to use Mystics and finally, awakened some Angel Skills on Patamon, Tailmon, and Lopmon. With these, the Chosen Children were ready to rescue their friends and finally defeat the Lord of Millennium.
-End of Prologue-
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