Beyond Your Destiny!


Chapter 2: The Seven Great Demon Lords

"Child of Destiny..? What was he talking about? I thought Willis is the holder of the Crest of Destiny?" Davis wondered as the video was over and only blurry black screen projected from the monitor.

"Yes, I was wondering about this too, but now I'm thinking, that they have meant something different. Then again, I have been also wondering if I am really the "true" holder of the Crest of "Destiny" for the past hours," suddenly a very familiar voice responded to Davis question.

"Huh? W-WILLIS?!" Davis exclaimed as he saw a boy leaning on the door with two cute bipedal canines by his side, Terriermon, and Lopmon.

[Willis is like Izzy, a computer expert and is very intelligent. But unlike Izzy, he knows how to flirt with the opposite gender.]

[Terriermon and Lopmon are twins, though their personality contrasting each other. While Terriermon is more outgoing and confident, Lopmon is more calm and shy.]

"Now, I understand, what the people have meant, when they say: 'Speak of the devil'," Tai sighed of this timing, `or maybe he was waiting for this moment, it looks like he was already here from the beginning.´

"When did you get yourself here?" Yolei asked. It had been a while since they last saw him and to her knowledge until recently, none of the DigiDestined in their World could've traveled to the DigiWorld as the connection was lost 2 years ago.

"Gennai also summoned me here, just a few hours earlier than you," Willis replied simple, observing the room and noticing how the atmosphere around them became really heavy, though he couldn't blame them for it.

"It was also because of this Child of Destiny thing and somehow I could contact and brought him here first before I got through to you Children," Gennai explained.

"You mention something with 'True holder of the Crest', what do you mean by that?" Izzy asked with a hint of curiously in his voice, though he was glad to see his old friend Willis again, after all, they're more or less on the same wavelength.

"Think about it, how many DigiDestined exists in our World right now?" Willis smiled as he gave them a chance to let them realize it for themselves.

"Well, the number isn't small," Tai frowned as he thought for a while, "but what does have this to do, with the number of the DigiDestined?"

"Then, do you really think, that there are so many different 'Attributes' exist for "Everyone" out there?" Willis sighed, but his visage quickly brightened as he noticed how Izzy was getting the connection.

The other DigiDestined were glancing at each other, slowly understanding what he was trying to say. He has a point, there are too many DigiDestined in their World for each of them to get an own Attributes-Crests that would be unique to them, especially the New Generation, as three of them have multiple Eggs.

"Even if you have "your" attributes that suits you the best, this doesn't exactly mean that you are the TRUE holder of that specific crest," Willis submitted his own theory to the group.

"If we think about it... Wasn't there a time, when we accidentally mixed our D-Terminals with each other? But we could still use the DigiEggs from the others," T.K. remembered, "then again, the Digieggs may have nothing to do with the Crests." (Reference from the Drama CD: [Digimon Adventure 02: The Road to Armor Evolution])

"I see, but how did you know that this boy IS the TRUE holder of the Crest of Destiny?" Matt questioned, everything just sounds strange to him.

"Well, I didn't claim that, but looking at how... they "favors" him, it could be, at least, mean that he is a holder of the 'Destiny Crest'," Willis answered, however, the choice of his word, got the Destined uncomfortable, especially Kari.

"They did confidently call him "Child of Destiny"," Izzy began to see the connections.

"Yes, but the questions are; "Why do they need him?", "Why him?", "How is he different from us?", "Is the title "Child of Destiny" that important?" Or better: "What is a Child of Destiny? Maybe it isn't even related to the crests." or "Who is this boy really?"." Willlis made up a lot of questions as he clearly got interested in all of this. At that point, Gennai was about to say something, but he stopped himself and decided to wait.

"It doesn't matter for what reason he was captured, I can't turn my eyes from this, how could they treated him like this!? This is unforgivable!" Davis glared, it's been a while that the group saw him getting this angry, but he was absolutely right and they quickly agreed with him, what Daemon and his friends have done to this boy was out of place.

"Though you can't deny that the "Child of Destiny" is something special... It would be advantageous if we can find something about this out," Willis said, not letting this subject go, while he was taking the remote controller and rewind the video to the point you can see the chained boy again, "you can clearly feel a chill on your back if you look at him, there gotta be something special about him."

The air around the DigiDestined got tense as they staring the lifeless-like body once again, they couldn't imagine what this boy had gone through, they all felt pity for him.

"Either way, we need to free him!" Tai suggested, throwing his fist to the air.

"You're right, Tai... but what can we do? Daemon is there... and if it wasn't enough, there is also 6 other Digimon with him and for some reason, my guts are telling me that they are in the same league as him," Matt frowned, he didn't mean to bring down the group motivation, but this is a fact that they can't just ignore.

"Yes, remember, we couldn't defeat Daemon, we SEALED him away because we had no other choice against him." Ken reminded them of their encounter with Daemon.

"Even so! We can't let him stay there!" Kari shouted with a loud voice that made her friends jump up from surprise, "we must definitively save him!" she continued while the tone of her voice became slightly desperate.

"Kari, calm down," Tai nervously said, even as her brother he'd never seen her acting like this, "unfortunately, Matt and Ken are right. We can't just storm in, without a plan... The only thing we know is Daemon. Who knows what the six others can do."

"They are surly, including Daemon, the 7 Great Demon Lords of the DigiWorld," Willis replied, confident with his thoughts, in the few hours as he had arrived before them, he used it to research the 7 Digimon in the video.

"The 7 Great Demon Lords?" Sora asked, unsure what to think, the word Demon alone, made her feel uncomfortable.

"The Seven Great Demon Lords are a group of Demon Lord Digimon who each represent one of the Seven deadly sins. They are individually tremendous strong!" Gennai shuddered and continued, "you know, after your fight with Daemon, 3 years ago, I was looking up for information and I found out that Daemon was a holder of this title. Today, after I showed the young Willis the video, he wasted no time and looked into this deeper, he concluded that the 6 Shadows probably are the rest of these members."

"This is really not good," Tai sighed, but he looked at the bright side, "at least, we now know something."

"That we now know who they are, make this unfortunate not better, if anything, then this situation got, even more, worse," Willis sighed as he progress to make a small introduction to the 7 Great Demon Lords, "first off, Daemon, you already met him, so we begin with him,"

"Daemon represents Jupiter and the sin of Wrath. It leads the many Devil and Fallen Angel Digimon, and like Devimon it was originally an Angel Digimon and a particularly high-ranking one. It is said that before it fell to the Dark Area and became a Demon Lord Digimon, it was, in fact, a Seraphimon. However, because it raged in fury or rebellion, against a being of goodness in the Digital World, it was deleted to the Dark Area. It has vowed to one day conquer the Digital World, in revenge against the being of goodness. Also, while it led the rebellion, and was the strongest among the Megas"

"I was wondering why he was so strong, but now it's making sense and I have also the feeling that he didn't even show us his full strength back then," Ken shuddered, "we were lucky that he underestimate us."

"A former Seraphimon..," T.K. embracing Patamon tightly, `no! Pataman will never become something like Devimon or Daemon, I will protect him!´

"Leviamon represents Mercury and the sin of Envy. Called the "Devil Beast" out of terror of the exceedingly mighty power that it possesses, it is one of the strongest monster existing in the Digital World. This extensive monster, said to possess gigantic jaws which could guzzle down even the Digital World, is reported to sleep in the depths of the Net Ocean nearest to the Dark Area, and if it is awakened it will despise any Digimon at the top and will run not away even from Angel Digimon, much less other Demon Lord Digimon."

"This doesn't sound good," Joe panicked, he can tell that those enemies they are facing now, are a lot worse than all the foes they have ever met.

"Really not good," Yolei agreed, fear was showing in her face, but who could blame her for that?

"Belphemon represents Mars and the sin of Sloth. It is said that Belphemon Sleep Mode awakens from its eternal slumber once in a thousand years. When it awakens, it regains its natural shape and changes into an incarnation of rage, and anything that enters its field of vision becomes a target for destruction. It is said that just by suffering Belphemon Rage Mode's roar, Ultimate Digimon and below will have their data disintegrated and will instantly die, and not even Mega Digimon can escape unharmed."

"What? Then how can you even defeat him?" Davis gulped, he never felt this helpless and that only from hearing the introduction of a Digimon.

"This is insane!" Mimi whispered loud enough, that all of them could hear.

"Barbamon it has the appearance of a bearded old-man and represents Saturn and the sin of Greed. It resides within the heart of the Dark Area, the den of demons, and manipulates Fallen Angel Digimon to run the whole gamut of evil. It is obsessed with all of the treasure which exists within the Network, so out of avarice, and regardless of the means, it has a cruel personality with a greed that would kill Digimon just for a piece of treasure. It is the foremost and most cunning schemer of the Seven Great Demon Lords."

"Dark Area, Net Ocean, Network...," Izzy tipping all the information he got, into his second notebook, which he brought along, he wonders what that area meant and how they had never heard any of this until now? `Wait.. If I remember correctly, back then.. didn't Etemon evolved through some power of a Dark Network...?´

"How, how can a Digimon can be so evil?" Cody tried to process all of that information.

"Beelzemon represents Venus and the sin of Gluttony. While it possesses the power to preside over the many Devil Digimon, it dares to observe a solitary existence. It is said that it could stand at the peak of the dark army, "Nightmare Soldiers", if it cared to, although it is also said that there exists a Demon Lord Digimon which surpasses even Beelzemon. It rides on the gigantic motorcycle-type machine, "Behemoth", holding its cherished shotguns, the "Berenjena". Although its personality is cruel and merciless, it is also exceedingly prideful, so it would never attack the weak."

"H-He doesn't sound that bad..?" Sora said drifting on her own thoughts, "maybe..."

"Yea, I was wondering, how they could top it anymore after all this, but this Digimon has actually a somewhat good side?" Matt was really surprised.

"Lucemon represents the Sun and the sin of Pride. It is the strongest of the group and possesses both the divine and the diabolic. It instigated a rebellion in the far-flung past, and so it was sealed in the Dark Area along with many other Demon Lord Digimon. Its power exceeds that of Megas and is said to rival that of the existence called "God" as well. It has a contradictory existence, in that one side of it loves all things, as God does, while the other is trying to destroy the whole world, as the Devil does. Hence, once it destroys this world, it intends to create a fresh new world."

"Ok, sounds like the leader of the seven," Tai gulped as he progress, "and the rival of God? I thought we knew a lot of things regarding everything with a "Digi" in a word, but now I'm getting the feeling, that we know absolutely nothing."

All the others could only agree with him, they have never heard any stories like this, this all sound like a fable of a fantasy book.

"The last, Lillithmon has the appearance of a woman and represents the Moon and the sin of Lust. It is thought that it was originally an Ophanimon, but it fell from heaven and eventually became known as the "Goddess of Darkness". It confounds its opponents with its bewitchingly lovely appearance, and it is said that those who are taken in by its temptations are invariably granted death. Its reputation as the "Goddess of Darkness" is appropriate, as it offers generosity towards vice, but only cruel outrages towards virtue." Willis finally concludes the introduction.

"I don't like her...!" Kari whispered to herself with a stern face, `it is because she was an Ophanimon? Or could it possible because she was playing with him like a puppet of hers? Wait, why am I feeling so angry...?´

"So... now knowing them and hearing those stories, make it even more impossible to save him! The chance is about 0 Percentage," Mimi sighed with a defeated look, as the majority of the group also wore a troubled look on their face.

"B-But...," Kari stuttered, something inside her wanted to scream.

Tai decided to step in, bringing both of his hands on his sister's shoulder as he noticed how uneasy she became, "don't worry, Kari! We definitively bring this boy out of there, but we need to think of a plan HOW to do that... But! We can do it! As a team, we have done so many things together, even if they are Great Demon Lords or whatever, nothing can stop us, when we fight together!"

Mimi couldn't help but smiled at Tai's confidence, feeling encouraged by him, "yes, I may have said we have about 0 Percentage, but knowing our group, we will find a way. We have always made it out, so why shouldn't we now?"

All of the other DigiDestined agreed with Tai and Mimi and either nodded or thumbs up to Kari, they were really glad how Tai can always give them their confidence back.

`Tai is always one step, no.. even two/three steps, ahead from me, a true leader, I need to pull myself together as his worthy successor!´ Davis made a determinant vow to himself.

Kari smiled in relief, she is so happy that she has so many reliable friends. Saving him wasn't out of her reach anymore.

"But to see you react like that.. Do you have any connection with this boy, Kari-chan? I mean.. Your reaction was interesting after you saw that boy on the screen, maybe you are familiar with him?" Willis asked, admitting that he had observed them while they were watching the video.

"I-I..." Kari hesitated, why didn't she just told them about her 'Dream'? It would give him an answer to his question.. well, if they would believe her, but she has the feeling that this 'Dream' is only meant to be hers, so she hesitated.

"And...?" Willis waited for her answer, her behavior was strange to him, there was no reason for her to hesitate if she knows something that could help them.

"Willis! It's not like Kari is the only one who got bewildered about this boy! We all are really shocked of his condition on this video," T.K. suddenly cut in, the other girls of the DigiDestined agree with him, but maybe also a tingle jealously shown up as Willis seems to interpret that his girlfriend gave the imprison boy special attention.

"You right... I'm sorry for pressing on you, Kari-chan," Willis apologized, still... he can clearly see that Kari was hiding something, but for now, he will let it go.

"I-It's okay...," Kari looked down, she is really thankful for T.K. but on the other hand, she feels like she is betraying him. This didn't go unnoticed by Davis, who is silently observing the situation.

"But seriously... What should we do?" Sora mumbled, "we really don't have any clues besides this video, we don't even know where they are."

"Actually, I do have something," Gennai dryly laughed, making the DigiDestined alert and looking at him confused.

"It is actually very simple," Gennai took the remote controller from Willis and switched through the channel between 7 different places, "it seems like they are already inviting us in," the group looking at the monitor as they could see 7 different castle each time in the middle somewhere in the Digital World, all of the castles looks majestically, "well, I think they were so sure about themselves, that they thought that they didn't even need to hide from us."

"Haha, those bastards," Tai glared.

"But, when did they build those?" Mimi was shocked.

"Seems like in those 2 years of our absence a lot of things had happened," Ken concluded.

"Yes, though those castles literally just appeared, in one day, since...," Gennai stopped himself talking further, `oh well I should wait till he is here.´

"Well, one problem lesser," Izzy scratched his head, "but still, I don't think we can really fight them head on and don't forgot, it's been already three years since we fought any battle."

"Damn! There gotta be something!" Davis shouted connecting his fist against the wall near him, even though Tai gave them confidence, it was still hard for them to see any winning chances.

Kari held tightly on her dress she wanted to shout, but even she knows that they all are right. They have barely a chance against them. Even though they gave her courage, but this heartbreaking feelings of losing him was killing her.

"So, It seems like your children being on a corner," a mighty voice soars outside of Gennai house, "I may have a suggestion."

"T-that was Azulongmon, wasn't it?" T.K. pointed the familiar voice out and without any warnings Kari already rushed outside of the room, soon followed by the other children and Digimon partners.

`You are finally here... Now I hope the Children can calmly handle this,´ Gennai expression turned serious, following the Destined right behind them, `it's finally time for the Children to know the changes of the Digital World. `

"Azulongmon! Can you really help us?" Kari begged for his guidance.

"Children," Azulongmon began as all the DigiDestined gathered outside, "find the 10 Legendary Warriors!"

The situation doesn't look good at all, 7 Great Demon Lord befall the DigiWorld. Do the DigiDestined really have a chance to stand against them?


-To Be Continued-


I hope I see you next time soooooon and forgive me for all the grammatical mistakes~