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Digimon: Chronicles Of The Bleak Digidestined
Episode 1: Corruption
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A Digimon Fanfic by Wizardz199
Chapter 2: The dark meeting and the forlorn emotion
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Matt walked into the cave with an almost disturbing ease that many would find puzzling. Most people would be anxious if not frightened to enter a
pit such as that in fear of getting lost or losing their sanity in hearing their own breathing in the parapets of the black void in which they enter.
Matt however viewed this venture into the unknown as an opportunity. He did not know what awaited him in the depths of the pit, but he knew one thing,
that his destiny lies in the cave.
If one was to ask him what his destiny was, it would be impossible to answer, for he did not even know the answer to that question himself.
The only thing he knew was that the cave seemed to beckon him, like he was summoned to gather inside that very place. He continued to walk forward, part of
him was disturbed by this very action because he felt he lacked direction.
"Only a dumb ass would walk into a smelly old cave like this."
Matt felt like he could see onward, even though darkness surrounded him from all angles, he felt like it was slowly going away and a light was
brought before him. The light was scarce almost as if there was none, but he was still able to walk ahead and see clearly. It baffled him and somewhat
scared, almost as if he had the desire to scream, and yet, he still continued forward into the darkness of the cruel cave. The light in his mind grew
brighter and brighter as he walked deeper and deeper.
It was frigid... So very cold
Like tiny icicles digging into his skin, Matt began to rub his arms. He began to quake with both fear and a cold chill running down his spine.
He felt as though he was going to freeze right on the spot. Matt's breathing actions soon resembled smoke coming from a smokestack. Suddenly however, the
cold slowly began to fade and Matt began to walk again. He did not know the reasons behind such events, but he was grateful that he escape not one, but
two fatal events. At least in his mind the shadow of death seemed to loom over him. One can never be to careful in the digital world.
The strange thing is, any other person would have collapsed in such a cold climate. But Matt only seemed to get stronger with each step as he moved
forward into the darkness that only seemed to get lighter with each step.
A sudden confidence over swept Matt, he felt like he finally had something to grasp in his proverbial hand. He began to swiftly move forward, hoping
to meet something or someone for that matter.
Matt stopped for a moment and began to feel hopeless. He stood motionless, as the cold swept over him. He rubbed his arms yet again as he began to
feel like a walking icicle. He then felt a sense of dread sweep over him yet again like the moment before he entered this ruthless cave.
Now it was inevitable, he had no choice but to move farther into the cave or else he would sooner or later die of either freezing to death or possibly
going insane due to the terror that wells up in him.
He continued forward as thoughts swept through his mind yet again. He began to feel a forlorn emotion as he thought about Gabumon.
"Gabumon, I must have really hurt you leaving you alone like this...But...This is something I gotta do. I don't know where this will lead me to, but
I must know."
Matt began to ponder on several thoughts at hand. He began to feel overwhelmed. The thoughts drilled into his mind, violently like being pounded by
a hammer. Each thought swayed him from one emotion to another as he began to feel a sharp ringing in his mind which resulted in a heavy migraine. He began
to stagger back and forth, swaying like a vengeful pendulum off balance.
His head bobbed and he began to gnash his teeth only. Pictures flooded into his mind.
Fragments of sad memories flowed into his head like a bitter torrent.
Pictures...
He fell to the floor grasping his head as he pulled his own hair.
Fragments...
He began to moan, the kind of moan one makes when they feel as if they are experiencing stomach pains.
Memories...
"Mom...Dad...Why did you leave us? What did we do wrong?"
Tears rolled down Matt's face as emotions of pain from the past swirled back into his mind like a whirlpool. He then jumped to another thought which
caused even more pain in his heart.
"T.K. you've grown without me, you've become stronger. How could you forget me? After all we have been through together. You don't need me... I need
you...I...have nothing anymore."
Matt began to let out a plaintive cry.
He began to grab the earth beneath him. Anything. Anything to make him feel like he had some control over something, even if that meant the elements beneath
him, he continued to grasp violently like a businessman taking money from a safe, he grabbed and soon that action was followed by pounding violently into
the ground.
The pounding began to sound like a vengeful drum in his mind causing a ringing in his ears, only cause him to clench his teeth harder and harder with
each passing second. He hated it, he hated everything about his life.
"I HAVE NOTHING ANYMORE! NOTHING!"
Matt continued to pound at the ground.
"Here I am, in this cave, only get lost and find nothing! I'm such a moron!"
Matt Began to pound harder and harder. Then without any warning. The ground opened up causing a black hole to erupt forth.
Matt let out a brief scream, he then attempted to scramble away, but his efforts were in vain, as he continued to tumble and fall as he ran away from
the newly appeared hole. Suddenly he completely fell to the ground only to discover that his leg was being grabbed by a shadowy hand which proceeded from
the hole. He began to feel the blood circulation being cut off from his leg as he tried to release himself from its grip, but the creature, the thing, would
not let go.
Matt frantically screamed as the hole produced more hands to grab hold of Matt, only causing him to scream louder.
"Help! HELP ME!"
Matt dug his fingers deep into the dirt, that too soon was covered with small hands which helped his newfound enemy draw him into the pit. Matt was
then violently grabbed around the neck and face, being slowly pulled into the hole, like quicksand.
With each passing second, the fight became more futile. Matt still continued on to release himself from the grip of the monster of the pit. He fought
and continued to fight, his movements soon released themselves from the action of being sporadic, to a slower pace which resulted in him giving up and soon,
Matt....Closed....His....Eyes.... He slowly drifted downward into the pit.
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"Where did Matt go?!" T.K. squealed as tears began to tumble down his face. "Matt! MATT!" T.K. began to yell frantically despite the fact that he was
around his comrades who were just as cluess as he was.
"T.K. it makes no sense or difference whether you yell or not, Matt is not around here." Izzy said sharply toward T.K. trying to make him understand
the situation.
"I will use my laptop to track him by his digivice, I can do that if I hack into it's system, so if you just stop yelling and stay put, I can find
him." T.K. wiped his face sloppily and sat down next to Izzy. Izzy opened up his laptop and, like it was an extension of his own hand, began to enter a
hacking system and typed furiously. Joe, Mimi, and Kari, despite the fact that they have seen this side of Izzy many times before, were still amazed to see
how much the computer whiz could use his repertoire of knowledge.
One could not imagine how many times the digi-destined crew have gotten out of several messes, because of his help. The current event at hand, which
could be called a crisis was to find out where Matt was. If there was anyone who could figure that out, it would have to be Izzy.
"Prodigious! I hacked into the system!"
"That's Izzy for you, always resourceful." proclaimed Tentomon with a voice of phostumous pride.
"Really!? then we can find Matt!"
T.K. stood up in excitement and suddenly began to pace in a mixed bag of emotions which consisted of both worry, hope and of joy.
"Great Izzy, I knew you could do it!" Joe said in a sense of exclamation which was rare in his case since he was usually shy if not reclusive. Joe's
statement of praise was then followed by the voice of Gomamon who chimed in with a sense eagerness as much as his human partner.
"Joe's right, we couldn't have done it without you!"
Mimi and palmon were full of excitement too over such a little fact that Izzy was able to hack into the digivices. Then again, Izzy was never able
to do that before.
Izzy cracked a goofy grin as he continued to type furiously on his technological implement. The program which looked like scribble to the rest of the
crew, was second nature to Izzy. Mimi and Palmon too, feeling a sense of elation due to the fact that Izzy was able to hack into, what she thought was a complex
system.
"Great Izzy!Now we can find Ma-"
Mimi was then interrupted by the next voiced words of Izzy.
"That's peculiar."
"What is it Izzy?" Palmon responded back to the young digidestined questioning voice.
"I recognize that this is Matt's digivice."
"How can you tell!?" T.K. said with a sense of brazen worrisomeness. He knew that the following was not good, because he could sense it Izzy's voice.
"The crest of friendship has appeared, and apparently there is a tracking device in each digivice which is powered by the crest of each member.
But there is no indication that Matt is anywhere nearby...Or even in the digital world."
Everyone grew silent at the words that came out of Izzy's mouth. Kari and Gatomon, who remained silent most of the time, since they could not help but
wonder about Tai and Sora, whom everybody seems to have forgotten in this brief period of time. The then silent group moved their attention to T.K. who was
awfully silent even though the news that was presented was unbearably negative. He remained strong. Or so they though.
T.K.'s eyes began to twitch. The tiny boy than began to tremble a little bit at a time. Kari and the others only could watch in horror as the young lad
tried his hardest to keep from breaking down in this situation. He soon began to clench his fists together violently, and bite his lips. Everyone wanted to
help console T.K., but was afraid he might snap. He dug his teeth deeper into his bottom lip, which resulted in a few drops of blood falling to the ground.
"T.K...." Kari said with a sense of sorrow and concern in her voice, took a small step forward and tried to extend her hands toward him.
Suddenly, T.K. let out a violent cry and ran off filled with sadness and rage. Gatomon, pleaded with T.K. from a distance and followed the distraught
boy into the forest.
"T.K. wait!"
Kari, looked toward the ground and then back at the group, soon following the feline digimon in a mad sprint.
The group, which was once five, was now dwindled down to three. The other two, Joe and Mimi turned toward Izzy with a dangerously angry look on their
faces. Izzy looked at his hands, soon to follow having his eyes cupped in them.
"Oh no...What have I done?!" Izzy then wept bitterly.
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"Cold...So very cold... I feel like I am falling. Is this what death feels like?"
Matt plummeted into a downward spiral of deadly unconsciousness. His limbs twirled along with his body, swinging as if they were out of control. He
began to talk within his mind some more.
"Yes...This must be death...I see everything."
Matt began to have memories of his life run through his mind.
"T.K. I remember your first birthday, how little and happy you were to be held by mom and dad...I remember teaching you how to ride a bike, you fell
so many times and cried each and every one. I told you not to give up, and you decided to give it one last try. You were at first scared but then you
actually did it. You were so proud. Then, mom and Dad left and we were all alone."
Slowly, like gears moving through his head, his eyes began to open, what was like seconds seemed to Matt like minutes as he tried to open his eyes
but for some odd reason, it felt like his eyes were trying to prevent him from doing so, like he was being held back from something. He then made himself do
so and was startled to see that he was free-falling through the catacombs of a dark hole, falling, like a airplane on a crash landing course onto the earth.
Matt felt like a part of him wanted to scream, but he could not do so. He dropped faster and faster with each passing second, his body like a stone.
He soon noticed a faint light in the distance as he continued to free-fall into what he thought would be his doom. With each passing second, Matt had to
squint his eyes; the light became brighter and brighter and brighter. Matt felt like his eyes were about to be put out of commission, like he was about to
be blinded from the intense glare of the flashing light. He forced his eyes shut again, only to continue his fall, feeling the intense light rest upon his
eyes yet again, even while his eyelids were shut.
Matt breathed heavily and then felt a cool breeze. Like salt water winds pressing lashing against his skin, the only difference is that the wind was
more intense, like it was winter. Matt opened his eyes.
He soon noticed his surroundings, only to see before a beach-like surrounding. But this beach consisted only of two colors. A gray backdrop of a
morbid sun and a beach that was black in color following waves of the sea that were white in color. Part of Matt inside felt like he had reached death and
was going to an afterlife void of reason and purpose. He began to feel fear because of the ominous feel of the area he was in. He was in a trance like state
of confusion and almost chaotic wonder at the new world around him. The world seemed familiar but also different. He continued to fall.
He soon was coming closer to the sea and let out a scream, with the fear of drowning. Matt plummeted into the sea like mass of dark water. Only to
realize that he could breathe and that the water lacked the wetness of the water back in his world. He caressed the water-like material around him and began
to realize that it was not water but more like smoke. The matter danced and twirled around his hand and formed symbols and things only to create something
that Matt could not comprehend.
He began to feel a genuine chill scurry down his spine. He closed his eyes in anticipation for the worst and reopened them. Suddenly, the black like
world around him was swarming and congregating with digi-vices that lacked any light of any kind. And below him lay millions upon millions of digieggs.
Matt grabbed at one of the digi-vices but his ran through his fingers like water. Matt continued floating, with a sense of panic, he began to plan a way out
of this ominous yet hypnotic mess he found himself in.
He then noticed from his peripheral vision, a light that began to blink. He moved himself toward it, only to realize that it was a digi-vice. He glided
toward in the dreamlike black mass, and grabbed it viciously. He took it and it stopped blinking, yet continued to glow. It was like any other digi-vice,
yet it seemed rusted and it had a almost sinister like symbol placed upon it. There was something about it that made it seem that way, although Matt could
place a reason why as to the reason he felt this way about the digi-vice, he still continued to look at the world around him.
"What is up with all of these digi-vices? The eggs at the bottom, are also weird."
Matt twirled around his newfound world and almost felt a sense of peace because of what was now before him. Matt danced and twirled in the mass of
black energy which he found himself in. He finally felt like he could take a rest from the feelings that have been plaguing him for a while now.
He sat in a meditative state for a few moments and noticed something peculiar from the side of his eye.
"What is that?"
Matt squinted, trying to make sense of what he was looking at from afar. Matt suddenly gasped in horror as he noticed it was his digimon companion
Gabumon! floating in a face down style as if he looked dead.
"Gabumon!" Matt yelled frantically as he scurried mid-air to his digimon partner.
"Gabumon! Gabumon! speak to me, please!"
Matt shook his partner furiously in a desperate attempt to bring him back from his motionless state. Matt stared at his digimon companion.
"Is he...Dead?"
Matt felt his eyes become wet moved to tears Matt began to grab Gabumon tightly in his arms and cried plaintively. Matt dug his face in the warm
exterior of his now dead digimon companion. He asked himself the question that every human being has asked before him when one loses someone close to them.
"Why? why Gabumon? You said...You would always be their for me. Not you, not you, I'm losing you too...There seems to be no end to all of this, why
cant things ever just be simple?! You were my best friend, I wanted to be by your side always!"
Matt continued to cry until without warning he heard a voice.
"Arise my boy, for your friend is well."
Matt turned his head around spastic ally in hope to figure out were the voice was coming from. The voice sounded soothing yet somewhat somber and wise.
The voice also had a twinge of a dark overtone that felt as thought it commanded respect from whoever listened to it. Matt felt a chill sprint down his
spine, like a wicked pattern. Every second, a echo seemed to play over and over in his mind, and as each second passed, so did that wicked pattern. Like a
pulse running down his spine, chilling his soul.
The once black sea fog like matter that he was surrounded in, was gone and became a solid ground that was black and ominous. He appeared to still
have Gabumon in his arms and Gabumon still lacked consciousness. Matt heard the voice again.
"My boy, there is nothing to be afraid of in my world, for here you will see things and learn things about yourself you thought you never knew."
Matt stood up indignantly almost dropping Gabumon
"Who the hell are you? and what did you do to Gabumon!?"
"Please restrain yourself my child, I merely want to talk about your future in the digital world."
"My future in the digital world?" Matt replied with a sense of confusion.
"Yes, your future."
"Where am I? Who are you? What is this world? What is up with Gabumon?"
The voice let out a long sigh, and continued to speak in a wispy like voice that carried in the stale wind.
"You young people, always wanting all the answers to everything now. But if you must know, I will answer your most important questions in due time
only if you promise to listen and follow my commands, disobeying me will lead to disaster in this parallel world."
"Parallel world?" Mad said, trying to understand one conundrum after another.
"Yes my boy, this world lies beyond light and darkness, Hope and fear, Joy and Misery, Pleasure and Pain...Heaven and Hell... It lies between the
digital world you know, and the one some digimon can only dream of."
"You're not making any sense you piece of shit!" Matt said with a tone of indignation.
"My, my, such a temper. That is one of the reasons why you are here, you are dissatisfied with how the way you life is proceeding, and how your
destiny is manifesting itself. You want change, so you came here. Like an invisible colossus before you which others are oblivious to, yet you seem to
see. Something is not right, and you want to change that. So you entered this cave, the portal revealed itself and it led you to this time and place, I like
to call, the realm of The dark destiny. You have a temper and are angry because you have a reason to be. Something, is holding you back, restraining you
from manifesting your destiny, something is taking everything away from you that you hold dear."
Matt looked to the ground below him, the voice spoke truth. As much as he did not want to admit it, the voice was speaking the truth. Matt built up a
defense and decided to confront the voice and play him in his own game.
"Why don't you show yourself!?"
"Of course young man, where are my manners?"
Matt heard footsteps from a distance and looked in the fog that rolled ahead of him. He was able to make out an outline of the figure that walked
before him and tried to make it out, straining his eyes in the process. Matt waited what seemed like an eternity for the person to appear. The footsteps
had an ominous ring to them, it made Matt feel scared in a way, like not know what to expect within each passing second.
Then what was a shadowy figure soon manifested itself fully in front of Matt. He let out an expression of shock but could not quite grasp the
situation that he found himself in.
"Gennai!?"
Matt noticed that the man before him was Gennai, but something was different about this man, he had similarities to Gennai, but his clothing was more
tattered, it looked as though he was casted aside, like a diseased vagrant of a society.
The man was short like the Gennai Matt was familiar with and had some of the same facial features. This Gennai however seemed a little more worn out.
This Gennai also lacked the small ponytail at the top that the other Gennai had; instead, he was bald but had a beard which had black stripes but was mostly
gray. The old man was also lacking an eye which was replaced by a mechanical one which twitched and moved around like a robotic mechanism, as if it was
observing Matt. This very action made Matt feel like the eye was peering into his soul. The man's face was also scarred.
Matt stood with a somewhat reluctant pose, in hope that he would not come any closer. But then the Gennai began to speak.
"My dear boy, you are searching for something."
"How...Do you know?"
"You would not be here if you were not, this is a realm of self discovery and death. But with the prospect of death comes resurrection. Do you want
to find the answers to the questions you seek?
Matt had millions of thoughts ran through his mind at one time, He was morbidly afraid of this world and something about this man did not seem right,
yet this man also seemed familiar. Matt paused for a long moment and looked the old man straight in the eye. He then nodded with a sense of reluctance.
"Then follow me, and I will show you the truth."
Author Notes: This is the end of chapter two and I hope you enjoyed it, please leave comments, more will be along the way. Remember folks; Anime is
the way!
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Wizardz199