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The Secret of the Silver Cross
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By Kyoko_Jyou
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Author's Note: Thanks for all the great reviews guys! This fic's for you! Domou Arigatou Reviewers!
Disclaimer: Digimon ain't mine. Now, if I can only live to reconcile with that fact...
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[Kyoko_Jyou returns in his old director's chair, waiting for the next muse applicant to come. Suddenly a young woman on an rose-blanketed enchanted floating mattress drifts into the scene... K.J. quickly notices...]
K.J.: And who might you be?
[the woman hands him a resume]
K.J.: Rosaminda De Los Flores Con Llamado y Quezo de Bola... And your qualifications?"
[He looks at here seductive blue eyes which seem to point at the resume]
K.J.: Muse of Gothic Romances about Castles in Spain... hmm, I think this will work. Hmm... do you have experience writing Anime?
[Rosaminda stares at him blankly.]
K.J.: I said, if you have any Anime musing experience.
[Again, a blank stare]
K.J.: Uhh... can't you hear me?
Rosaminda: Wat ees Animee?
K.J.: Beg pardon?
Rosaminda: Dis Animee. Wat ees eet?
K.J.: Sorry, I won't be able to understand a word you'd be saying. You won't understand a word I'd say either. I'd love to tutor you sometime, though. Call me! Buh Bye! NEXT!!! (Gives Rosaminda's mattress a push and lets it float out the stage, causing it to go out the door and into the busy street).
K.J.: Sorry 'bout that!
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Chapter Four: Immaculate Flesh, Accursed Blood
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On our last chapter, Jyou goes one step closer into discovering the truth about his identity... but accepting something so drastic might be a tad too hard for our geeky protagonist... although erupting tensions with Koushiro's moves on Mimi sure does help. Meanwhile, the digiteam is joined by a mysterious female character who stopped Daisuke from entering an enigmatic cathedral at the nick of time. Back on Earth, Shin and Jun do stuff.
Will Jyou finally accept the babylmon's notions about him being their Dark Overlord? Will Mimi fall for Koushiro now that Jyou is out of the picture? Who is Enigmon and what does she want? Why did she stop Daisuke from entering 'this Sepulchre'? Where are the answers to the questions I asked on the end of Episode 2? And does Shin and Jun play any part in this story other than filler material? The answers to that (probably) here on TSOTSCIV!
Oh, and another thing. I tried to explain the entire 'origin of the digimon world' below so it gets slow and kinda text-booky. Bear with me. It's worth going through once.
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"No!" Jyou yelled, facing away from the Koumi images shown by the babylmon. "You want me for your hideous, evil, unholy, unspeakable plots don't you? Well I'm not buying it!"
"Evil?" answered the babylmon beside him. "Hideous? Sure. Unholy? Possibly. Unspeakable? Damn straight! But Evil? Evil?" He looked at Jyou closely. "There is no such thing as evil, Jyou. It's all a matter of perspective. No one claims to do evil. Even he whom we call evil claims that he to do good, won't he? But good for whom? Ah... good for whom indeed... Do you believe that you are doing good by doing what is good for your so-called-friends? But they wrong you, as we have told you. They wrong you. If they are against you, they are not doing good, are they. They are doing evil against you!"
"Stop it... you're confusing me!"
"They are the evil ones, Jyou. From where you stand, they are the ones who are wrong. You are not the weak little twit they impose you to be! You are Juddeca, Prince of Damnations, Ruler of the Abyss. It is time you correct this grave injustice, master. There is no Evil. Only the space for the good of One..."
"STOP IT DAMMIT!!!" Jyou broke into tears, kneeling on the floor under the glow of the video orb. He cannot take it anymore. "I don't understand. I... I... don't want to be... I never wanted to be... who I am... what I was... but... but... this is just... too..."
"Embrace your true path, Jyou. They have denied it from you for too long. For once... do something for your own good..."
Jyou looked into the orb... his friends continue their search...
He could almost feel them getting closer...
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The Digidestined and their digimon walked long and far through the great Babylosian wasteland until they reached the edge of a great, dark forest. From afar, they could see a black column of stone rocket upward to the sky, a strangely familiar edifice if there ever was one...
"Hey, look! It's a Dark Spire! Look, guys, a dark spire!" Ken pointed, strangely enthusiastic. Everybody looks at him strangely. "What? It is a dark spire, isn't it?"
"No..." Enigmon replied. "That's not a dark spire. That's a Shadow Monolith."
"A what?"
"A Shadow Monolith. Like a Dark Spire, it controls the monsters in the area and affects the digivolution of your digimon... although in this case, instead of stopping you from having them digivolve, it causes them to digivolve into their Nega stages instead."
"Don't you mean 'Mega'?"
"No. I said 'Nega'... as in, their alternate Dark Evolutions."
"Oh, like the time my Agumon turned into Skull Greymon!"
"Precisely. Except this time, it is safe here. The Nega-stage Digimon will not go against you. You will be able to control them."
"Why?"
"Dunno. It's what it sez on the operating manual." Enigmon then tosses them a thick handbook. The title read 'A Complete Moron's Handbook on Shadow Monolith Assembly, Operation, Maintenance, and Repair'. "Maybe it's just to control the monsters around and the 'Nega' thing was just a pleasant extra."
"All right, dy'a here that, Agumon? You can be Skull Greymon without the fear you'd blow us up!"
Agumon smiled at Tai and nodded.
Soon, they walked further into the darkness of the forest, avoiding the watching eyes of the monstrous baboon-type babylmon hanging around in the foliage.
Mimi was beginning to feel the toll of the long walk.
"Is something the matter?" Koushiro asked, concerned deeply.
"My feet are killing me!" She replied softly (well, as softly as she could, anyway).
Koushiro tried to support her, pressing his body against hers.
The sound of hearts beating was almost audible from a mile away...
"Just hold on, Mimi..."
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"Koushiro... KOUSHIRO YOU F*CKIN' SONOFAB*TCH!" Jyou yelled as he clawed himself back up. "Okay, Mr. Bigshot babylmons! Tell me everything that's coming to me! Tell me who I am! I don't care anymore..."
"As you wish, master..."
With a snap of the high druid babylmon's finger, the orb was gone and in it's place was a leather bound tome which floated gently in midair.
"Prove to me that I am Juddeca!"
The entire council of babylmon fell to their knees, their cowls touching the cold black marble floor.
The high druid babylmon touched his hand. "You believe you are not smart, do you not? Then answer me this. Who was the other man beside the executioner who guilotined Marie Antoinette?"
"Easy. His name was Jean Jaques De Courbrigande, age thirty-five and four months, likes cheddar but not motzerella, had twins, one died of polio the other from a grog house fight at the age of nineteen... Uh... Did I just say that?"
"Yes."
"Was I correct?"
"Well, except for the part about the cheeses. He's into gouda."
"Woohoo! In your face, Koushiro!"
"And now... the ultimate proof of your heritage... the human book of Damnations..."
Suddenly, as if by a strong gust of wind, the book swung open, revealing the weathered pages of the ancient tome, a thick cloud of dust filled the air, causing the boy to sneeze uncontrollaly.
Jyou then propped himself closer and, by instinct, inspected the book.
"Cuxo... Meignornim... Judeya... Zartortoffa... Hey, this is written in gibberish!"
"Not gibberish, Jyou. Look closer. Clear your mind... and remember..."
Jyou gave it another glance...
To his surprise, the words started to make sense!
He began to read out loud, following with his finger as he spoke...
"Aeons and aeons and aeons ago... the World of Man was plagued by the maligning presence of monsters who reeked havoc within and throughout his domain. There were abominations... and sea serpents... and beasts... and malevolent spirits of all kinds... For centuries the world was de facto ruled by the Prince of these Creatures, known to them and us as Juddeca, Overlord of Darkness... That's me, right?"
"Uh-huh."
Jyou continued. "Since the dawn of civilization, mankind has waged war against Juddeca and his minions. At times of great peril, humanity was protected by warriors... chosen for their virtues and skills. These warriors... known only as the 'destined'... are gifted in controlling powerful creatures of yore such as angels and dragons in their battles against the Dark One. That's still me, right?"
"Yes, yes."
Jyou continued. "But it was only in the time of the Great Crusades that true power over the Dark One was achieved. After decades upon decades hence, a weapon was finally created by mortal man with the potential to destroy the immortal enemy... the Argent Crucifix."
Jyou then paused to look at the diagram below the context. Drawn was an ornate looking cross, much like the ones worn by the druid babylmons. The only difference was the presence of a strange inscription where the two perpendicular bars met.
It was the simple cross-shape of his own crest. The crest of Reliability.
"Forged from the purest silver in the fires of a consecrated furnace, seven-hundred seventy-seven monks invoked all the power of the Divine Arts to create the great relic. Only this consecrating faith would wield enough power to bind the Dark One once and for all...
Taken into battle as regalia, it was used to trap monsters in parchment. One by one, then by the thousands, the creatures were bound in tomes and books and scrolls and manuscript until only two were left. Juddeca himself and the greatest of his minions: Leviathan, the Primordial Serpent of Chaos.
The power of the Argent Crucifix matched with Juddeca's own dark force. The wielder of the weapon, the hero Bartholomeus Izchulde, fought earnestly to trap Juddeca and his slay his minion- for it was a fact that Judecca could never be killed... You say I'm immortal?"
"Yes, you are."
"And I was afraid to die all this time. Oh, that's pretty upflifting. Okay, back to the tome...
In the end, Judecca was driven into the Tome of the Great Abyss while the Leviathan was driven back to the sea where it was never heard of again. Time passed and stories about mythical beasts were forgotten, their spirits hidden away in the secret catacombs under the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris... until that day..."
Jyou flipped the enormous page. He sneezed at the dust released.
"Centuries after the Great Entrapment, in the age of the Cold War, mankind sought to create secret weapons against his own kind... even going as far as to release the creatures he had so fervently tried to bind in the first place. Thus, the great power of the time- the United States of America- fabricated an initiative seeking to control this age-old power, using the help of his new found computer technology. Thus... man created the Digital World..."
Jyou paused dramatically.
"At first, he was able to create neutrally behaving subjects, using the power of the Shadow Monoliths he had made in the World of the Entrapped creatures. These subjects, called Data Digimon, were followed by the creation of Digimon who were subservient to humanity. These were called 'Vaccines'. Yet some of the entrapped ones, led by a weakened Juddeca, resisted enslavement. Those who were captured became Virus Digimon. Those who survived became the Babylmon. As for Juddeca..."
He looked at the blank page below. It was seemingly coated in dust. He puffed at the page... revealing a printed photograph below.
It was a picture of his father.
"Dad?" He whispered, then continuing to read. "He disappeared from the land of the babylmon to take on a human form. That's me, right? I'm Judecca's human form! But... but how?"
"Read on."
"Okay...
After the cold war, the United States withheld funding for the project. It was left in the hands of a few scientists who were instantly overwhelmed by the rising power of the Virus Digimon. To safeguard the Digital World of their creation, the return of the 'destined' became an inevitable. Yet it is still by the decision of fate that a child becomes a 'digidestined'. This is why control over the selection process was a natural next step... Henceforth, Project Destiny was born."
Jyou looked at his father from the picture once more. The caption said 'Kido Matsurimoto, Project Destiny Head, Team 17'.
"Project Destiny plotted to control the selection of digidestined by cloning other digidestined and enhancing their genes to fit the crest that would be assigned to them. After almost a decade of labor, a clone was made of a newly discovered digidestined. His name... was Ichijouchi Osamu..." He looked at the druid. "I'm Osamu's Clone?"
"Not exactly, Jyou..."
"After the 'digidestiny gene', as they called it, was extracted from Osamu, they engineered the new gene to match that of a newly programmed crest. This crest- the Crest of Eternities- was special because it contained the power of the one relic capable of binding all evil... the Argent Crucifix. The digimon programmed for this crest would be none other than Leviamon, Leviathan's digimon form. Levelled down, it's traveling (rookie) form was called Gomamon."
Gomamon's picture was on the bottom of the page, sticking it's tounge out. For goodness sakes, he can't even behave in a file photo!
"The prepared DNA was spliced into that of the project head and was fertilized into the egg of his wife Yukiko. The child was born several months later." Jyou paused, looking at the picture of his mother printed on the book. "Yet something went terribly wrong. Upon early stages of conception, the child, called the Juxtaposit Y-Chromosome Operating Unit or JYOU for short, was infected by a fatal disease which killed it. With it's soul gone, Juddeca took the chance to pour into the child's lifeless body, inhabitting it. Taking control of the young body... Judecca had not anticipated that a child's mind would be able to suppress his own will. Thus, his identity was lost in the child's memory, made worse by the fact that the cloning technique caused the child's body to suffer multitudes of health problems." He paused. "I... died?"
"No. It was the child's soul in your body. You are immortal, master."
Jyou continued. "Using this fact, Project Destiny tried everything to keep the truth from the child, suppressing his physical and emotional development as much as possible. Cultivating on cowardliness and cautiousness, they tried ardently to keep him from remembering Judecca... yet since his DNA had the mark of a digidestined, he was fated to become one. This was why they also suppressed the power of the Crest of Eternities, lowering it's power as far down as possible until it became the Crest of Reliability. His digimon was sentenced never to become Leviamon, retarding it's evolution into a Marine Angemon, it's type only a remnant of the Holy Power within the Crest of Eternities."
"That, Jyou... is the truth."
"No... it can't be. I... I... can't be Judecca! For all my life, I was Jyou! Forget Koushiro... this ones too big for me to understand... No!"
"You know, this story goes on. Do you want to here it?"
"No..."
"Well I'll tell you anyway. You know the Ichijouchi boy? You know how he really died? He really died from scientific studies done on him by Project Destiny. They were studying him on how to take you down!"
"NO!!!"
"And the Izumi couple? You know how they really died? Not by a car crash! No, not by that. Not at all. They had a child... a digidestined. The Project knew. They wanted him to create a new clone. They'd rather die. They did."
"NO! I WON'T HERE THIS! DAMNIT IT'S NOT TRUE!!!"
Jyou's eyes burned with fierce hatred.
"IT WAS ALL DONE TO STOP YOU, JYOU. NOW WHO IS EVIL? WHO IS EVIL!?"
"NOOOO!!!"
Jyou fell into the marble, his tears pooling on the floor.
"Imagine. You are now a greater Juddeca than you were ages ago. You control your bane, now nothing may stop you... now all you have to do is embrace who you are..."
"Never..."
"Never? Maybe you should watch this..."
The video orb appears once more...
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"Mimi, I wanted to tell you this for a very long time..." Koushiro said, his lumbering arms around Mimi's petite neck.
"What is it..."
"Well..."
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Jyou stared angrily on the screen. He was mad... furious, even...
"Who are you?" The high druid babylmon asked.
"I... I... am Jyou Kido, a digidestined..."
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"I love you..." Koushiro said.
Mimi could only look at him with sincere awe.
"But..." She could not look away.
"Don't think of him. I'm here. I'll always be..."
"But..."
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"Now... WHO ARE YOU?"" the druid asked again."
"I... I... am Jyou Kido, a... a... a digidestined!!!" Jyou tried to say, swallowing his anger.
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With a sudden swipe... Koushiro swept Mimi over and with a gesture of great passion, kissed her on her supple red lips...
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"One last time... now... WHO ARE YOU!!!?"
Jyou, searing with great anger, torment and rage, dispersed every ounce of fear from his heart. With an inhuman voice, he boomed like thunder... "I am Juddeca... Prince of Damnations!"
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Thunder and Lightning criss-crossed the heavens on all three worlds.
A sudden sense of fear filled every heart in exsistence.
Something bad was about to happen.
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Koushiro and Mimi broke from their kiss with Mimi punching him flat in the face.
"Wha?"
"You PERVERT! I told you once and I'll tell you again, I LIKE SOMEONE ELSE!!!"
"Okey-dokey." Koushiro replied, then turning back to brood.
"No offense meant..." Mimi whispered, realizing what she had just done.
"None taken."
Too bad Jyou wasn't there to see it.
If there was still a Jyou to see it...
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Meanwhile.
"Shin..."
"Jun..."
Two voices in the darkness. Formless, faceless, united as one body.
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Hew, longest TSOTSC chap ever!
Well, on the next episode of The Secret of the Silver Cross, Jyou finally takes on his powers as Juddeca by summoning the Unholy Beasts.
Will Jyou still exist after this transformation or will the persona we know as Jyou forever vanish in the guise of the Prince of Condemnations? How will his knowledge of Koushiro's parent's death affect his anger. How about Osamu's? How about Mimi? Who exactly was Mimi referring about 'somebody else'. Where did Enigmon get the Shadow Monolith manual? And what is Shin and Jun doing in the dark? Do I have to raise the rating of this pic into an NC17!?
Answers to this and more on the next episode... err... chapter!
Read and Review!
And Pax Vobiscum, everybody!
Oh, and one last thing.
Is it legal for me to hold little fanfic contests here in fanfiction.net?
I mean, can I ask, like, people to write stuff then the best one gets a fanfiction request? I'm making a Jyou shrine and I wanted to collect Fanfic, so I thought it would be best if I hold it with a Compo.
The Secret of the Silver Cross
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By Kyoko_Jyou
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Author's Note: Thanks for all the great reviews guys! This fic's for you! Domou Arigatou Reviewers!
Disclaimer: Digimon ain't mine. Now, if I can only live to reconcile with that fact...
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[Kyoko_Jyou returns in his old director's chair, waiting for the next muse applicant to come. Suddenly a young woman on an rose-blanketed enchanted floating mattress drifts into the scene... K.J. quickly notices...]
K.J.: And who might you be?
[the woman hands him a resume]
K.J.: Rosaminda De Los Flores Con Llamado y Quezo de Bola... And your qualifications?"
[He looks at here seductive blue eyes which seem to point at the resume]
K.J.: Muse of Gothic Romances about Castles in Spain... hmm, I think this will work. Hmm... do you have experience writing Anime?
[Rosaminda stares at him blankly.]
K.J.: I said, if you have any Anime musing experience.
[Again, a blank stare]
K.J.: Uhh... can't you hear me?
Rosaminda: Wat ees Animee?
K.J.: Beg pardon?
Rosaminda: Dis Animee. Wat ees eet?
K.J.: Sorry, I won't be able to understand a word you'd be saying. You won't understand a word I'd say either. I'd love to tutor you sometime, though. Call me! Buh Bye! NEXT!!! (Gives Rosaminda's mattress a push and lets it float out the stage, causing it to go out the door and into the busy street).
K.J.: Sorry 'bout that!
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Chapter Four: Immaculate Flesh, Accursed Blood
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On our last chapter, Jyou goes one step closer into discovering the truth about his identity... but accepting something so drastic might be a tad too hard for our geeky protagonist... although erupting tensions with Koushiro's moves on Mimi sure does help. Meanwhile, the digiteam is joined by a mysterious female character who stopped Daisuke from entering an enigmatic cathedral at the nick of time. Back on Earth, Shin and Jun do stuff.
Will Jyou finally accept the babylmon's notions about him being their Dark Overlord? Will Mimi fall for Koushiro now that Jyou is out of the picture? Who is Enigmon and what does she want? Why did she stop Daisuke from entering 'this Sepulchre'? Where are the answers to the questions I asked on the end of Episode 2? And does Shin and Jun play any part in this story other than filler material? The answers to that (probably) here on TSOTSCIV!
Oh, and another thing. I tried to explain the entire 'origin of the digimon world' below so it gets slow and kinda text-booky. Bear with me. It's worth going through once.
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"No!" Jyou yelled, facing away from the Koumi images shown by the babylmon. "You want me for your hideous, evil, unholy, unspeakable plots don't you? Well I'm not buying it!"
"Evil?" answered the babylmon beside him. "Hideous? Sure. Unholy? Possibly. Unspeakable? Damn straight! But Evil? Evil?" He looked at Jyou closely. "There is no such thing as evil, Jyou. It's all a matter of perspective. No one claims to do evil. Even he whom we call evil claims that he to do good, won't he? But good for whom? Ah... good for whom indeed... Do you believe that you are doing good by doing what is good for your so-called-friends? But they wrong you, as we have told you. They wrong you. If they are against you, they are not doing good, are they. They are doing evil against you!"
"Stop it... you're confusing me!"
"They are the evil ones, Jyou. From where you stand, they are the ones who are wrong. You are not the weak little twit they impose you to be! You are Juddeca, Prince of Damnations, Ruler of the Abyss. It is time you correct this grave injustice, master. There is no Evil. Only the space for the good of One..."
"STOP IT DAMMIT!!!" Jyou broke into tears, kneeling on the floor under the glow of the video orb. He cannot take it anymore. "I don't understand. I... I... don't want to be... I never wanted to be... who I am... what I was... but... but... this is just... too..."
"Embrace your true path, Jyou. They have denied it from you for too long. For once... do something for your own good..."
Jyou looked into the orb... his friends continue their search...
He could almost feel them getting closer...
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The Digidestined and their digimon walked long and far through the great Babylosian wasteland until they reached the edge of a great, dark forest. From afar, they could see a black column of stone rocket upward to the sky, a strangely familiar edifice if there ever was one...
"Hey, look! It's a Dark Spire! Look, guys, a dark spire!" Ken pointed, strangely enthusiastic. Everybody looks at him strangely. "What? It is a dark spire, isn't it?"
"No..." Enigmon replied. "That's not a dark spire. That's a Shadow Monolith."
"A what?"
"A Shadow Monolith. Like a Dark Spire, it controls the monsters in the area and affects the digivolution of your digimon... although in this case, instead of stopping you from having them digivolve, it causes them to digivolve into their Nega stages instead."
"Don't you mean 'Mega'?"
"No. I said 'Nega'... as in, their alternate Dark Evolutions."
"Oh, like the time my Agumon turned into Skull Greymon!"
"Precisely. Except this time, it is safe here. The Nega-stage Digimon will not go against you. You will be able to control them."
"Why?"
"Dunno. It's what it sez on the operating manual." Enigmon then tosses them a thick handbook. The title read 'A Complete Moron's Handbook on Shadow Monolith Assembly, Operation, Maintenance, and Repair'. "Maybe it's just to control the monsters around and the 'Nega' thing was just a pleasant extra."
"All right, dy'a here that, Agumon? You can be Skull Greymon without the fear you'd blow us up!"
Agumon smiled at Tai and nodded.
Soon, they walked further into the darkness of the forest, avoiding the watching eyes of the monstrous baboon-type babylmon hanging around in the foliage.
Mimi was beginning to feel the toll of the long walk.
"Is something the matter?" Koushiro asked, concerned deeply.
"My feet are killing me!" She replied softly (well, as softly as she could, anyway).
Koushiro tried to support her, pressing his body against hers.
The sound of hearts beating was almost audible from a mile away...
"Just hold on, Mimi..."
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"Koushiro... KOUSHIRO YOU F*CKIN' SONOFAB*TCH!" Jyou yelled as he clawed himself back up. "Okay, Mr. Bigshot babylmons! Tell me everything that's coming to me! Tell me who I am! I don't care anymore..."
"As you wish, master..."
With a snap of the high druid babylmon's finger, the orb was gone and in it's place was a leather bound tome which floated gently in midair.
"Prove to me that I am Juddeca!"
The entire council of babylmon fell to their knees, their cowls touching the cold black marble floor.
The high druid babylmon touched his hand. "You believe you are not smart, do you not? Then answer me this. Who was the other man beside the executioner who guilotined Marie Antoinette?"
"Easy. His name was Jean Jaques De Courbrigande, age thirty-five and four months, likes cheddar but not motzerella, had twins, one died of polio the other from a grog house fight at the age of nineteen... Uh... Did I just say that?"
"Yes."
"Was I correct?"
"Well, except for the part about the cheeses. He's into gouda."
"Woohoo! In your face, Koushiro!"
"And now... the ultimate proof of your heritage... the human book of Damnations..."
Suddenly, as if by a strong gust of wind, the book swung open, revealing the weathered pages of the ancient tome, a thick cloud of dust filled the air, causing the boy to sneeze uncontrollaly.
Jyou then propped himself closer and, by instinct, inspected the book.
"Cuxo... Meignornim... Judeya... Zartortoffa... Hey, this is written in gibberish!"
"Not gibberish, Jyou. Look closer. Clear your mind... and remember..."
Jyou gave it another glance...
To his surprise, the words started to make sense!
He began to read out loud, following with his finger as he spoke...
"Aeons and aeons and aeons ago... the World of Man was plagued by the maligning presence of monsters who reeked havoc within and throughout his domain. There were abominations... and sea serpents... and beasts... and malevolent spirits of all kinds... For centuries the world was de facto ruled by the Prince of these Creatures, known to them and us as Juddeca, Overlord of Darkness... That's me, right?"
"Uh-huh."
Jyou continued. "Since the dawn of civilization, mankind has waged war against Juddeca and his minions. At times of great peril, humanity was protected by warriors... chosen for their virtues and skills. These warriors... known only as the 'destined'... are gifted in controlling powerful creatures of yore such as angels and dragons in their battles against the Dark One. That's still me, right?"
"Yes, yes."
Jyou continued. "But it was only in the time of the Great Crusades that true power over the Dark One was achieved. After decades upon decades hence, a weapon was finally created by mortal man with the potential to destroy the immortal enemy... the Argent Crucifix."
Jyou then paused to look at the diagram below the context. Drawn was an ornate looking cross, much like the ones worn by the druid babylmons. The only difference was the presence of a strange inscription where the two perpendicular bars met.
It was the simple cross-shape of his own crest. The crest of Reliability.
"Forged from the purest silver in the fires of a consecrated furnace, seven-hundred seventy-seven monks invoked all the power of the Divine Arts to create the great relic. Only this consecrating faith would wield enough power to bind the Dark One once and for all...
Taken into battle as regalia, it was used to trap monsters in parchment. One by one, then by the thousands, the creatures were bound in tomes and books and scrolls and manuscript until only two were left. Juddeca himself and the greatest of his minions: Leviathan, the Primordial Serpent of Chaos.
The power of the Argent Crucifix matched with Juddeca's own dark force. The wielder of the weapon, the hero Bartholomeus Izchulde, fought earnestly to trap Juddeca and his slay his minion- for it was a fact that Judecca could never be killed... You say I'm immortal?"
"Yes, you are."
"And I was afraid to die all this time. Oh, that's pretty upflifting. Okay, back to the tome...
In the end, Judecca was driven into the Tome of the Great Abyss while the Leviathan was driven back to the sea where it was never heard of again. Time passed and stories about mythical beasts were forgotten, their spirits hidden away in the secret catacombs under the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris... until that day..."
Jyou flipped the enormous page. He sneezed at the dust released.
"Centuries after the Great Entrapment, in the age of the Cold War, mankind sought to create secret weapons against his own kind... even going as far as to release the creatures he had so fervently tried to bind in the first place. Thus, the great power of the time- the United States of America- fabricated an initiative seeking to control this age-old power, using the help of his new found computer technology. Thus... man created the Digital World..."
Jyou paused dramatically.
"At first, he was able to create neutrally behaving subjects, using the power of the Shadow Monoliths he had made in the World of the Entrapped creatures. These subjects, called Data Digimon, were followed by the creation of Digimon who were subservient to humanity. These were called 'Vaccines'. Yet some of the entrapped ones, led by a weakened Juddeca, resisted enslavement. Those who were captured became Virus Digimon. Those who survived became the Babylmon. As for Juddeca..."
He looked at the blank page below. It was seemingly coated in dust. He puffed at the page... revealing a printed photograph below.
It was a picture of his father.
"Dad?" He whispered, then continuing to read. "He disappeared from the land of the babylmon to take on a human form. That's me, right? I'm Judecca's human form! But... but how?"
"Read on."
"Okay...
After the cold war, the United States withheld funding for the project. It was left in the hands of a few scientists who were instantly overwhelmed by the rising power of the Virus Digimon. To safeguard the Digital World of their creation, the return of the 'destined' became an inevitable. Yet it is still by the decision of fate that a child becomes a 'digidestined'. This is why control over the selection process was a natural next step... Henceforth, Project Destiny was born."
Jyou looked at his father from the picture once more. The caption said 'Kido Matsurimoto, Project Destiny Head, Team 17'.
"Project Destiny plotted to control the selection of digidestined by cloning other digidestined and enhancing their genes to fit the crest that would be assigned to them. After almost a decade of labor, a clone was made of a newly discovered digidestined. His name... was Ichijouchi Osamu..." He looked at the druid. "I'm Osamu's Clone?"
"Not exactly, Jyou..."
"After the 'digidestiny gene', as they called it, was extracted from Osamu, they engineered the new gene to match that of a newly programmed crest. This crest- the Crest of Eternities- was special because it contained the power of the one relic capable of binding all evil... the Argent Crucifix. The digimon programmed for this crest would be none other than Leviamon, Leviathan's digimon form. Levelled down, it's traveling (rookie) form was called Gomamon."
Gomamon's picture was on the bottom of the page, sticking it's tounge out. For goodness sakes, he can't even behave in a file photo!
"The prepared DNA was spliced into that of the project head and was fertilized into the egg of his wife Yukiko. The child was born several months later." Jyou paused, looking at the picture of his mother printed on the book. "Yet something went terribly wrong. Upon early stages of conception, the child, called the Juxtaposit Y-Chromosome Operating Unit or JYOU for short, was infected by a fatal disease which killed it. With it's soul gone, Juddeca took the chance to pour into the child's lifeless body, inhabitting it. Taking control of the young body... Judecca had not anticipated that a child's mind would be able to suppress his own will. Thus, his identity was lost in the child's memory, made worse by the fact that the cloning technique caused the child's body to suffer multitudes of health problems." He paused. "I... died?"
"No. It was the child's soul in your body. You are immortal, master."
Jyou continued. "Using this fact, Project Destiny tried everything to keep the truth from the child, suppressing his physical and emotional development as much as possible. Cultivating on cowardliness and cautiousness, they tried ardently to keep him from remembering Judecca... yet since his DNA had the mark of a digidestined, he was fated to become one. This was why they also suppressed the power of the Crest of Eternities, lowering it's power as far down as possible until it became the Crest of Reliability. His digimon was sentenced never to become Leviamon, retarding it's evolution into a Marine Angemon, it's type only a remnant of the Holy Power within the Crest of Eternities."
"That, Jyou... is the truth."
"No... it can't be. I... I... can't be Judecca! For all my life, I was Jyou! Forget Koushiro... this ones too big for me to understand... No!"
"You know, this story goes on. Do you want to here it?"
"No..."
"Well I'll tell you anyway. You know the Ichijouchi boy? You know how he really died? He really died from scientific studies done on him by Project Destiny. They were studying him on how to take you down!"
"NO!!!"
"And the Izumi couple? You know how they really died? Not by a car crash! No, not by that. Not at all. They had a child... a digidestined. The Project knew. They wanted him to create a new clone. They'd rather die. They did."
"NO! I WON'T HERE THIS! DAMNIT IT'S NOT TRUE!!!"
Jyou's eyes burned with fierce hatred.
"IT WAS ALL DONE TO STOP YOU, JYOU. NOW WHO IS EVIL? WHO IS EVIL!?"
"NOOOO!!!"
Jyou fell into the marble, his tears pooling on the floor.
"Imagine. You are now a greater Juddeca than you were ages ago. You control your bane, now nothing may stop you... now all you have to do is embrace who you are..."
"Never..."
"Never? Maybe you should watch this..."
The video orb appears once more...
~*~
"Mimi, I wanted to tell you this for a very long time..." Koushiro said, his lumbering arms around Mimi's petite neck.
"What is it..."
"Well..."
~*~
Jyou stared angrily on the screen. He was mad... furious, even...
"Who are you?" The high druid babylmon asked.
"I... I... am Jyou Kido, a digidestined..."
~*~
"I love you..." Koushiro said.
Mimi could only look at him with sincere awe.
"But..." She could not look away.
"Don't think of him. I'm here. I'll always be..."
"But..."
~*~
"Now... WHO ARE YOU?"" the druid asked again."
"I... I... am Jyou Kido, a... a... a digidestined!!!" Jyou tried to say, swallowing his anger.
~*~
With a sudden swipe... Koushiro swept Mimi over and with a gesture of great passion, kissed her on her supple red lips...
~*~
"One last time... now... WHO ARE YOU!!!?"
Jyou, searing with great anger, torment and rage, dispersed every ounce of fear from his heart. With an inhuman voice, he boomed like thunder... "I am Juddeca... Prince of Damnations!"
~*~
Thunder and Lightning criss-crossed the heavens on all three worlds.
A sudden sense of fear filled every heart in exsistence.
Something bad was about to happen.
~*~
Koushiro and Mimi broke from their kiss with Mimi punching him flat in the face.
"Wha?"
"You PERVERT! I told you once and I'll tell you again, I LIKE SOMEONE ELSE!!!"
"Okey-dokey." Koushiro replied, then turning back to brood.
"No offense meant..." Mimi whispered, realizing what she had just done.
"None taken."
Too bad Jyou wasn't there to see it.
If there was still a Jyou to see it...
~*~
Meanwhile.
"Shin..."
"Jun..."
Two voices in the darkness. Formless, faceless, united as one body.
~*~
Hew, longest TSOTSC chap ever!
Well, on the next episode of The Secret of the Silver Cross, Jyou finally takes on his powers as Juddeca by summoning the Unholy Beasts.
Will Jyou still exist after this transformation or will the persona we know as Jyou forever vanish in the guise of the Prince of Condemnations? How will his knowledge of Koushiro's parent's death affect his anger. How about Osamu's? How about Mimi? Who exactly was Mimi referring about 'somebody else'. Where did Enigmon get the Shadow Monolith manual? And what is Shin and Jun doing in the dark? Do I have to raise the rating of this pic into an NC17!?
Answers to this and more on the next episode... err... chapter!
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And Pax Vobiscum, everybody!
Oh, and one last thing.
Is it legal for me to hold little fanfic contests here in fanfiction.net?
I mean, can I ask, like, people to write stuff then the best one gets a fanfiction request? I'm making a Jyou shrine and I wanted to collect Fanfic, so I thought it would be best if I hold it with a Compo.