Untitled WARNING: MATT FANS DO NOT READ!!! Actually you can, but I said that because of the way he is acting in the beginning of this series.

Disclaimer: I do not own digimon or its characters or any anime what-so-ever.

This is a science fiction story that includes Greece cultures and costumes, things like that. This was a time when two best friends become the worst of enemies because one's father had thought the other, as more or his son than the son his wife had bore. Jealousy washes over this character and betrayal and violence occur. During this time, a love begins, a love so powerful it defies the meaning of love...but blooming at the wrong place in time.

This fic may contain some violence during the future, please be forewarned.





The True Battle I






Through the deep black sky, nothing was visible except for the thin crescent line of the moon. Taichi Yagami marveled at the beauty of it.

"Taichi! My brother, how are you?" a familiar manly voice said behind Taichi. Taichi looked at the young man smiling. His dusty blonde hair could be seen in the darkness, but as a dark brown. His cerulean eyes were sparkling, showing its brightness in the moonlight. The boy was handsome, a catch for young maidens who would fall madly in love with his beautiful face. This boy was Taichi's best friend. His confidant.

"I am fine Yamato...just looking at the moon," Taichi said, smiling softly as he turned back to his moon-gazing.

"Isn't it magnificent? My father said a man in the Far Lands was captivating the moon in a tube that can see astronomy even closer. It is called a telescope. Strange peice of equipment but facinating," Yamato said, looking up at the moon as well.

"What is it you wanted my friend?"

"Oh yes, my father wants to talk to us both...after...your battle," Yamato said, looking at his friend sadly. Taichi nodded. He was sent off to battle the people of Delphi, Greece. They have declared war after some stupid men corraled in their villages, destroying property. They were hung but the people of Delphi were enraged and wanted to get back at them. He had told everyone he was sent off to be in the war, but for the truth of the matter, Taichi had spoke to the emperor, Yamato's father, privately, volunteering to be in the war.

"Okay," Taichi said. Yamato patted Taichi's back and left the room. Taichi looked after him.

"Tomorrow will be a long day..." he said softly





"Get your equipment men! They are gathering at Fort Athens. We found that they have a surprise attack on us...soldiers? We will surprise them," Taichi said, grinning at his crew. He put a map down on the table and explained where the men of Delphi were going to attack them at.

"We fight to the death men...fight to the death," Taichi said, coldly.

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"ATTACK!!!" Taichi yelled. The men attacked the surprised Delphi men, scaring them before they could even react. There were swords and yelling everywhere.

A man came at Taichi, nearly slicing his head off, but Taichi had ducked and sliced the man through his ribs. There was a painful scream and the whinning of a horse. The battle was brutal, dead men, torched bodies, disembowelments...it was horrible.

Out of nowhere came another guard, wearing his mask. Taichi held his sword to the guard's staring straight into his eyes through the eye slits in the mask. Taichi's stare was so intense...he could almost see that...that man was...a young girl. Taichi stared at the soft brown hairs sticking out of the mask from below. This was a girl fighting.

"I will avenge my father's kingdom!" she yelled. Taichi ducked and ran through the fighting men, lashing the sword at Delphian guards that came after him as he ran.

When he stopped, he looked at his surroundings;he noticed that the girl was not following him. He looked at the site...vast fighting men, killing each other for their land...Taichi studied them, his heart pounding sickly in his chest. He began fighting as well.

The war lasted for almost a month, excluding more than 10,000 men in both Taichi's army and the Delphi men's army. But...all ended well...for Taichi and his men. They had won the battle.

Today was the last day, and there were few if no men alive in the Delphi army. They held the surviving men prisoner in their kingdom, and hung the ones that had tried to escape or attack them. Taichi looked at the dead bodies everywhere. They had blanketed the ground, and the blood flowed like rivers throughout the vast piling of dead men. It was a horrible sight.

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"Taichi! Father is calling us!" Yamato said.

He will announce to my best friend...that I shall be the new emperor when he passes on, Yamato thought, smiling as he expectantly stared at Taichi's exhausted self.

"Please...tell him I shall come tomorrow...I always keep my promise to the emperor," Taichi answered drowsily, under the covers. Yamato sighed and pulled Taichi out of his bed.

"Taichi, my father wants you there now! If he wants to speak to us both, it must be important."

"All right," Taichi said.

The two walked into the quiet empty halls of the palace to Emperor Ishida's quarters. They both bowed with respect to him as he sat in the throne.

"Get up boys, oh Taichi, I am so glad you have made it out of the war surviving. You are the best warrior in all of Greece...to me. I treasure your life as I treasured mine," said the old man.

Taichi bowed in thanks. "Thank you my lord," he said. He had noticed the emperor saying the word treasure as if it were going to be a thing of the past.

"Please, please...you are like a son to me, and I want you to act like it!" he said ecstatically. Taichi smiled. "I know you are both wondering why I called the both of you here," he said.

"Yes father we are," Yamato said. Taichi smiled at his friend, he looked extremely happy.

"Then I shall tell you. I have both called you here because...well, I am an old man and I want you two to be the first to know who will be the new emperor. I have treasured my time--" he was saying, but was interrupted by Taichi.

"Please sire, do not say that. You will live longe--"

"No Taichi, I thank you for your kindness, but...I am very old, and am dying of an unknown virus in my body. I have ruled this kingdom for enough of my day, and now I am passing it to one of you." The emperor smiled at Yamato. Yamato's eyes were sparkling brightly at his father. Suddenly he turned to Taichi.

"You will be the new emperor if you would like to take my spot," he said to Taichi. The smile on Yamato's face disappeared almost immediately. "My son...I am so--"

"Why not I father?" Yamato asked. The old emperor looked sympathetically into his son's eyes.

"You are just...not fit to be a emperor my son. Just remember I love you, but this is not the place in which you belong."

Taichi stared at Yamato. "My lord, I have not decided whether I want to take this position. I am not sure I even want it..." Taichi said.

"This is an honor Taichi! You will rule my kingdom! You are a great ruler and this small kingdom will flourish with your power. Please Taichi," he begged. Taichi looked at the emperor and at Yamato.

"Sire...I will think about this. I-I.....Yamato please," Taichi said, staring into Yamato's eyes. Yamato backed away against the door. He quickly ran out, without turning back.

"My son! Please! I did not mean to hurt you..." the emperor said standing up, before he started coughing. Taichi gently sat him back down.

"Yamato will be a good emperor sire," Taichi said.

"No...I have seen the way he is Taichi, he is a good child, but not a good man. Yamato means everything to me...but he is not a emperor. You are though, my son. You are. You are also like a son to me, but you are a warrior, a leader. You will make this empire grow, that is why I am choosing you for this spot."

Taichi felt horrible for Yamato, but...the emperor was giving him a chance to be the leader of an entire kingdom. The emperor was a wise man, he knew what he chose when he wanted to choose it. He had chosen Taichi.

"I will think about it sire. I will tell you when my mind has been made up and when I speak to Yamato." With that, Taichi bowed and began walking out the door. He stopped and looked at the emperor, giving him a fatherly hug. Then he smiled at Emepror Ishida and walked out.

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The room was silent. Everyone was asleep. Yamato crept into his father's bedroom. He can still hear the praying of his father. A flickering light devoured the room with little lighting, but it was enough to see what was in the room.

"Father?" Yamato said, meekly.

"Oh, Yamato! Dear...I thought you weren't speaking to me." His father got up and hugged his son. Yamato closed his eyes, letting tears fall from them. He hugged his father back.

"Why couldn't you choose me? Do you love Taichi as a son more than you love me?" Yamato asked. His father shook his head.

"No, I love you more. You are my blood, and you are my son. But I am afraid--"

"Father! How can you say that? You are giving the greatest gift to a boy your merely found in the streets! You cared for him more than you cared for me! Why do you love him more? What have I done to make you love him more?"

"Yamato--"

"No...father, please tell me everything will be all right, and that you will not crown him emperor...please just love me like a son..." Yamato said, hugging his father tightly.

"I do..."

When his father had started to get sleepy, Yamato gently laid him on his bed, taking the pillow from behind him. His heart beat quickly as he stared at his helpless father, lying in his, now, deathbed. Yamato pushed the pillow over his face, drowning out the screams, the struggling...the fearful facial features of his dying father...now all gone.

His hand went limp.

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"He died from natural causes," a doctor said the next morning. Taichi stared suspiciously at the body of the dead man. He touched his face.

Something was wrong.

"You are sure about that?" he asked.

"Yes, I am definitely."

"Just listen to the doctor Taichi," Yamato said kindly. Taichi stared into his friend's cold eyes. Something had happened to Yamato. The caring, warm Yamato that Taichi had known...was gone. It was as if he had just disappeared.

"No, Yamato, he was murd--" Taichi started.

"No, I said listen to the doctor. I am now the new emperor, bow to me," Yamato said to Taichi. Taichi's face was twisted in a growl. How he be so cold about the situation.

"Yamato--"

"Bow to the emperor!" a guard said.

"Yamato! You gotta listen to me--"

"Guards? Seize him!" Yamato said coldly as he gave Taichi an icy look. It was incredibly uncomfortable...the stare was so dark and cruel. Not the same friendly look he always got from Yamato...where was the old Yamato? Taichi felt a pang of betrayal.

He suddenly punched the guard and kicked the other one who held his arm. They came at him once again and grabbed his arms. Attacking him with the back of their swords and hitting his face and stomach. Yamato waltzed out of the room to look at the beaten Taichi.

"That is what you get for not bowing to your new king."

"Oh sire?" a man said, interrupting their moment of hatred.

"What!?" Yamato asked.

"The princess of Delphi is here with us. She wanted to join in the fight, so she came in and dressed as a Delphi warrior and fought us. She is very much alive and extremely powerful. Also it is much easier, because you have said that you wanted a wife, well you've got a wife right here," the guard said.

"Bring her out," Yamato said. He snared at Taichi. "And bring him to the forest. Hang him for disobeying me."

"Yamato! Please Y-I thought we were friends! You said we'd be friends as long as we--"

"Shut up you damn betrayer! All this time father had always enjoyed you--" he looked around him and cleared his throat. "Just take him away, I do not want to have to deal with him."

"YAMATO!!!" Taichi called. The guards tied him ad knocked him out, bringing him onto a horse and riding away.

Yamato stared after them, pain and cruelty bestowed in himself. He felt horrible, but he was angry...

Through the halls, a woman was heard shouting and kicking and punching. Yamato looked in that direction. The guards had brought out a young woman. They dumped her on the ground in front of Yamato. The girl glared at Yamato and growled at him.

"Well, I see you are here princess," Yamato said, circling the girl. She continued to glare. Suddenly, she spat on his shoes. Yamato just laughed. "My dear, we will not hurt you here...only if you become my wife."

"I would rather eat a thousand dead men than be your whore," the girl said, scornfully. Yamato sat in front of her and slapped her face. She stared at him.

"Princess Sora..that is your name am I correct?" Yamato asked.

"What do you care?"

"I care because, I want to know the name of my future wife."

Sora stared at him. "What will you do if I don't marry you?"

"I will let my ferocious guards take care of you," Yamato said. The guards behind them laughed, deviously. Sora stared at them disgustedly. His guards were ferocious, horrible humans.

She looked down at the ground and nodded. "I will be your wife," she said softly, but regretfully. Yamato smiled and stood up, pulling Sora with him.

"Clean her up, I don't want my fianceé looking like she came from a garbage can."

Sora stared after him, without even struggling as the guards took her to the maids in the house.

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When Taichi had awoken, he looked at his surroundings, it was filled with trees. He stared to stretch, but his arms wouldn't come apart. He then began to remember...Yamato.

The guards stopped the horses and took Taichi down. Taichi stared at them and nodded.

"Do you have any last requests Yagami?" a guard asked.

"Akikazu, you fought with me...now you are killing me..." Taichi said laughing. "It is ironic," he continued, stopping his laughter. He stared at Akikazu. Akikazu looked back, his face hiding his remorse and sorrow.

"Is that all?" he asked.

"No, I want a warrior's death please, if you may. Do not hang me," Taichi asked. Akikazu nodded.

He motioned Taichi to kneel down facing his back to him. Akikazu held a sword to him and let it down against his back--





A/N: Please review. There is no romance in this one, but I promise you , the next will have one. Remember, this is a Taiora.