Digimon: Apocalypse
Chapter 2: Into the Darkness
-Somewhere in the Digital World-
''When do you think they will wake up?'' an impatient voice whispered in the dark.
''Hopefully soon... or else he will have our heads,'' someone answered, and suddenly a flame lighted up the dark, dirty cell they were in. ''I think light stimulates them, so they might wake up.''
''Really? Great!'' A fireball flew through the room and collided with the cold, hard floor between the two sleeping humans.
One of them, the boy, jolted up from where he was and gasped as he noticed the two creatures, a little humanoid with spiky red hair, small horns and elf ears, and a... living candle?
''He's awake!'' The humanoid jumped around happily, ''about time!''
''But what about her?'' The candle looked over at the girl who was beginning to move her hands.
''First of all, WHERE AM I?! Second of all, who is she? Third of all-'' He was interrupted by the candle, who sighed.
''I'm truly glad this one is not mine,'' the candle said as he looked over at the humanoid. ''My name is Candmon, that is Flamon.''
''And YOU are Shiro, right?'' Flamon giggled as he threw forward his hand in Shiro's direction, ''and I am your partner! So let's get to it, a'ight?''
Shiro looked shocked to say the least, but before he could say anything, a loud scream penetrated their eardrums.
The girl was awake, and she started to cry. ''Wh-what are you two?! Who was that vampire looking thing, and why am I in prison?!''
Candmon jumped closer to her, but she moved away. He stopped, ''I will not come any closer, if that is what you wish, Hazel. But trust me, Flamon and I are not hostile. I am Candmon, your partner.''
''How do you know my name?'' Hazel said, as she looked skeptically from Shiro, to Candmon, to Flamon. She looked at Shiro again. Wasn't he the boy in the alley?
Vampire looking thing... Shiro thought to himself as he began to remember. ''SAYO! What happened to my sister?!'' He pulled up Flamon from the ground. ''Listen you little punk, I don't know what this game is you want us to play, but I don't want to play it!''
An ominous aura began to spread throughout the room and Shiro let go of Flamon, who fell to the ground. Out of the darkness a towering figure appeared, almost too high for the ceiling, and both Hazel and Shiro gasped simultaneously, but they were too afraid to do or say anything.
''What is your most inner desire, children? Please, tell me,'' the creature said as he grabbed them both around the neck with his big, sharp, black claws, holding them up against the wall.
''Melt Wax!'' Candmon shouted as he opened his mouth and fired shots of warm wax at the devil-looking creature, but to no avail. It had no effect and he merely kicked Candmon away, leaving him unconscious.
''Baby Salamander!'' This time, it was Flamon who fired off a flame attack against the creature, but nothing happened. As the devil still was suffocating Shiro and Hazel with his hands, he wrapped his tail around Flamon and began to slam him repeatedly against the wall.
Shiro desperately looked on as the little humanoid screamed in agony. ''STOP, YOU'RE KILLING HIM!'' He looked over at Hazel who was bleeding from her head, as she began to close her eyes.
''LUMINA FLASH!''
-The skies above the Digital World-
Free fall.
Her eyes opened as she felt the wind around her at a terrifying speed. She was falling from the sky. She could barely breathe and her eyes were watering.
So this is how it ends she thought as she held onto her rosemary bead.
As the clouds around her disappeared, she realised there was land beneath her. She had hoped that it was water, would be a more painless death.
Nearby, on a cliff, a huge white and blue wolf with a blonde-haired man on his back saw the girl in the big red dress fall as she was nearing the ground.
''Garurumon, can you make the jump?''
''Of course,'' the wolf growled as he jumped into the skies, ''hold tight, Dante!''
Dante grabbed the girl's hand, while Garurumon landed firmly on his paws.
She panted and fell to her knees, then noticed Garurumon and was completely in awe. ''A Digimon?''
Dante chuckled, ''I'm surprised. Most people nowadays don't know about Digimon.''
''Well, I am not most people.'' She brushed off the dirt she had on her clothes and tried to straighten her hair with her fingers, as she turned away from Dante.
''Who are you then?'' Dante noticed how pretty she was on a closer look, and the dress... ''Are you from the 1700's or what?''
''Rude!'' she sighed, ''but thank you, both,'' she touched Garurumon's fur and smiled, ''for saving me. My name is Adelaide Roux, and I am the princess and heir to the throne of France.''
Dante's attitude suddenly changed. ''The Roux family. You mean the assholes, murderers and frauds responsible for the destruction of the world 200 years ago? I can't believe I just saved you!'' He patted Garurumon on his back, ''we're leaving. This girl can kiss my ass.''
Adelaide grabbed Dante, ''my family had nothing to do with that! Besides,'' she looked around her, they were in a mountain area. ''Would you really leave me here to die? We're in the Digital World, are we not?''
''Remove your hands from me or you will be sorry!'' Dante pushed her away, and she looked terrified, but she was not looking at him, but behind him. Garurumon growled.
A horned monster the size of a mountain loomed before the three, as it opened its mouth and a big dark ball encapsulated them all.
''Fox Fire!'' Garurumon spewed a hot, blue, steamy blast of fire at the monster, and had noticeably taken most of the damage from the attack, bleeding from the side of his stomach. The monster's arm was burned off and something that looked like black blood flowed out from it, but it did not die or even stop attacking.
''Garurumon, you're hurt!'' Dante ran to his Digimon's assistance, as he regressed back into Strabimon in Dante's arms. He softly put him down on the ground and threw off his jacket and shirt. ''Let's go wild, you ugly monster!'' He evaded the monster's foot about to crush him and tried to get it away from Strabimon.
Another being, resembling a half-naked woman with a cape and skulls attached to her arms, claws as feet and a spiked rod in her hand slowly neared Adelaide.
''Don't come any closer!'' Adelaide didn't look scared anymore. She had her rosemary bead in her hand. ''If you do, you will be sorry.''
The being, not uttering a word suddenly vanished and appeared behind her, about to attack.
Adelaide ducked, as the spiky rod hit the ground, and she opened a little box attached to her rosemary bead, throwing it at the Digimon. ''Did you really think I was that helpless?''
Powder scattered around the womanly Digimon and she screamed as her skin began to disintegrate. The same black blood-like substance flowed out from all over her body.
Adelaide stood up and looked at the being with contempt. ''You're a shadow demon in the disguise of a Digimon. Your kind impersonated my ancestors and threw the world into the apocalypse. You're scum!'' She watched as the demon died. Then she looked over at Dante, who was trying to escape the other beast. ''Catch!'' Adelaide got eye contact with Dante and threw the rosemary bead through the air.
He looked at it, but crushed it in his hands. ''I don't need any help from the likes of you.'' His arm glowed and soon, not a trace was left of the other monster.
-In a dark forest-
''Is there anyone out there?'' The teenager was wearing nothing but underwear, and he was freezing. The forest was quiet. Too quiet. ''One minute I'm in my room, and the next I'm in a scary forest. Makes no sense logically, but...'' He stopped. ''Am I inside my computer?''
Another young man wearing battle armour stepped out from behind a tree. He pointed above them and tried to signal with his hands that the other guy should come behind the tree as well.
The boy in the underwear looked above him, and a drop of a red substance hit his cheek. It looked like a living black wing with a lot of big, staring red eyes was eating something... or someone.
The other one behind the tree pulled a sword from his sheath and leapt up at the fiendish thing, cutting it in half. ''I am Eduardo Cruz, crown prince of Spain. We are in the Digital World. Stay close. I will protect you.'' He smirked at the other boy.
''I-I'm William Stone,'' the other boy said, as he blushed. He looked away. Man, he is hot.
''Put this on.'' Eduardo gave William a bag of clothes. ''Luckily, I had this with me when it happened.''
''It happened?'' William looked confused as he changed into the clothes Eduardo had given to him. ''You said the Digital World. I've heard about it only in legends.''
''I was in my castle back in Madrid. The rebels were attacking, and-'' He coughed up a black substance. ''No... NO!'' The creature from before was trying to take over his body. Soon, his eyes turned black.
''H-hey, stay with me!'' William held onto Eduardo, but he did not know what to do.
A thousand red eyes suddenly stared at them from every corner.
''You two will never escape,'' one of them laughed maniacally, as they all came closer.
''Protect Wave!''
Someone who looked like a young girl wearing a white dress and a rabbit fur coat over her head stabbed a triple-pronged lance into the ground and a protecting force field surrounded her and the two young men.
William gasped, ''listen, I don't know what's going on exactly, but thank you so much!''
''Don't thank me yet,'' she said as the creatures were trying to destroy the force field. She hurried over to Eduardo. ''He's been infected by one of these Shademon. I will exorcise the demon from his body. Please step away.'' Her lance began to glow, and a Shademon shrieked as it was pulverised from the young man's body.
''Oh, sister. I thought you would have learned by now. You never win.'' A taller girl was stepping around outside the force field. Her face resembled the one next to William, but she was wearing a nun-like cloak and veil resembling a black cat's head. She carried a gun in each of her hands.
''Bless Fire!'' she yelled as she rapidly fired both her guns at the force field, which then shattered. She pointed the gun at the girl with the lance's head, and fired...
