Hi. It's been a long time since I updated but this is the next chapter.
Chapter 9: Battle of Innocence
*****Jeri's POV*****
Jeri sat down around the fire Agumon had started. No one was actually cold, but the people who had used the potions needed warmth to make them work, so all nine of them sat down. Tommy had complained saying that the heat wouldn't actually help him and would do more damage them anything else, but Takuya had pushed him into down and the boy was too tired to get back up again.
Cody seemed was the youngest to the group and had fought the weakest of the devas, but Jeri couldn't blame him. His digimon went up to Champion, but he held a good fight as his opponent was ultimate. Tommy had gone up against Mihiramon and he was hard, as you couldn't make him stay in one place, his tactic had been good to freeze everything making it hard for the tiger deva. Suzie had been against Sandiramon and she was obviously good. When Takato had fought him it took all three champions to beat him, but Sandiramon didn't really have a chance against superfast Antylamon, the rabbit was already fast without a modify card. Zoe had fought Majiramon, who was really old but you couldn't judge a book by its cover. She had once thought a child wouldn't hurt them and it turned out to be Makuramon, and he took Calumon. Jeri was happy when she heard that Izzy beat him, and that Tentomon got his Mega level, it meant that they would have a better chance of winning, and that Tentomon could help more. Cubbymon had also digivolved to Leomon, for which she was happy. She just hoped he wouldn't die again, but she doubted Impmon would do that again. Ken had fought against the rooster who had destroyed there fun outing during school, although it was fun to see the teachers face when he got scared of Guilmon. Alice had fought the Ox so Jeri wondered what memories that brought back, she had heard that Alice had spent most of her life so far in the digital world so it was probably an experience to meet another deva apart from Lopmon. Last was Mimi, the girl came back wet from what she had heard and Zoe had dried her off.
Everyone else apart from a few was talking about little things, it had been a while since an attack and that was what they had all been waiting for.
Duskmon had thought it best if he left, and no one had stopped him. The warriors seemed to hate him and then some, so Jeri wondered if they hated Lucemon or Duskmon more.
"I'm done." Zoe called and elegantly got up and walked away. She was the first and it wasn't long before everyone started to copy her idea. The last people who were left were Tommy, Cody and Shinya who came over after a while. The digiegg was by his side.
*****Ai's POV*****
Ai sat down a little away from everyone else, it was only a matter of time before her little brother same to find her and these moments were the little moments she had to have to herself.
She had always looked after her brother even though she was only older by a couple of minutes, but it was those minutes that she liked to shove in her brother's face. Nothing ever came of it but it was the fact that she was older.
Ai didn't know what to do, she wanted to leave her and go somewhere safe where she would not have the threat of someone coming to kill every minute of however long they were here. But she also wanted to stay to have a chance at defeating someone, that didn't include when a digimon came close and then got scared of Impmon and back away.
She thought about going back to where the Demon Lords were, thought they could all stay there then they wouldn't get hurt. They could all go, but she had noticed slight changes in her brother's behaviour and she knew what it meant. Mako didn't want to leave and that meant leaving him if she wanted to leave.
She didn't understand what games the Demon Lords were playing. Setting the digidestined up against the old digimon only made them stronger, like Izzy so the other three were obviously going to follow suit. The tamers had been given back the digiegg of Leomon and Dobermon had returned adding to their numbers. Lastly the warriors were already powerful, but four of them had the ability to fusion evolve, which they didn't have before. Then they also got Shinya, who apparently has the digiegg of Seraphimon.
'So all in all the Demon Lords are pretty much screwed.' She thought.
Ai looked as Mako started to play with the digimon, he obviously liked it with everyone else, but why would he want to stay?
*****Kouichi's POV*****
The warrior of darkness looked around the room he was sitting in. there seemed to be everything that he would ever need; food, games, people to talk to. But something was still missing.
"It's called friends and family." The voice said in his mind.
"When I took over your body I didn't want the special offer of a free conscience." He said back.
"If you don't like it leave my body." Kouichi said back.
"Quiet, I don't want you to talk and give me the whole holier then thou act."
"No one said I was going to, but do you actually like it here?"
Duskmon thought about it. There were ten other digimon apart from him he knew about two of them, but he wasn't going to talk to them. He didn't talk to them when he was able to back home, so why would he talk to them here.
This place didn't even feel like home. Thinking back to the digital world as home gave him a strange feeling like that wasn't here he was meant to be. Like there was some other place that held a better life for him.
He didn't know when he started thinking about earth but when he started he couldn't seem to stop. It brought him a feeling that he had never felt. He had always thought the digital world was his home, but when he was there it never felt like he was there.
He could see Kouichi's home, his friends, his school and the things he done for fun. Duskmon didn't really know what to think. It seemed all magical and something that he couldn't ever really have. Something that also happened to a different person or mon. something that was always a little out of reach no matter how far he stretched.
"You could have it. You know how you felt when you beat Mercurimon for them."
"Didn't I tell you to be quiet already?"
"I'm you conscience, you have no control over me. You could help them. Leave here and just cross the wall."
"I can't they won't let me come back, they hate me."
"And how can you change that?"
"Why are we even discussing this? I'm staying were I am needed and right now it is here."
***** Ryo's POV*****
Ryo had spent the past however long talking to Hopmon. It had been a little hard as the digimon wouldn't stop talking and wanted to go and play all the time, but when Ryo finally got him to shut up Hopmon told him the story.
Apparently Millenniummon only took a part of Monodramon, he part with his own data, so the rest of the data was left. As no one claimed the data it reconfigured back into a being. But there wasn't enough data for a whole life, so Hopmon didn't start out as a digiegg but as an in-training.
Hopmon still had all of the memories just minus the ones prior to the incident as he called it. Seeing as he didn't know what the incident was. But Ryo knew.
***** Kazu's POV*****
"Come on. Give it back I won fair." Kazu begged Jeri. When Kenta had asked him if he won or lost the bet he finally clicked on and that was why he was following Jeri begging for the digi modify card.
"Don't you two ever stop begging?" Rika said when they walked past her. She was sitting with Alice and Zoe. Rika apparently thought Zoe a friend since the Kari, Yolei incidents and when Zoe saved their lives by not letting them suffocate.
"I'm not begging." Kenta defended, but even Kazu saw it was weak.
"I mean if it not for card, it's autograph, if not that it's homework. There will be a time when you will be begging for jobs." She said ignoring Kenta.
"I would suggest being a Kissogram but you two would probably suck, and who'd actually want to kiss you. Willing." Alice said.
"Ouch." Zoe said. "That low. What are you asking for?" Kazu instantly thought of her as the good one in the group. She was also pretty, even in digimon form. But he wasn't going to say that out loud, especially after the Ranamon thing.
"I won a bet, so I should get a digi modify card but Jeri won't hand it over." He said to them.
"Why?"
"She says I need to say the magic phrase."
"Can I have it please?" Zoe asked venturing a guess.
"No."
"Then what? That your brain smaller then any other part of your body?" Alice asked and the other three girls started laughing.
"Not that either."
"What then, hurry up or you'll be sorry." Rika threatened.
"She said I had to say that and I quote 'adventure is crap and I am a total doofus who can't understand the right moment to say things.'" Kazu answered.
"What's adventure?" Zoe asked.
"You know we watch the programs about the digidestined on TV." Jeri started and Zoe nodded. "Well the program is called adventure."
"Do you hate it or something?" Zoe asked.
"No. it's just that Kazu loves it so I wanted him deny it completely."
"That is harsh. But great thinking at the same time." Zoe said and the two girls high fived each other.
"Can I have it now?" Kazu asked.
"Did you say the magic phrase?" Jeri asked.
"Yes." He answered.
"Did he?" Jeri asked the other girls. Rika looked dismissive, and Alice shrugged. Zoe said he did technically.
"You're defending him?" Kenta asked.
"Why not? I mean it's kind of dread that everyone treats him like second class just because he's losing a few parts of his brain."
"You know you just helped him but cussed him at he same time." Rika said and Zoe just smiled.
"Someone needs to help the less fortune. Anyways I better go. Takuya looks like he's about to strangle Koji." Zoe said and walked off after straightening her skirt.
"Was she still being rude?" Kenta asked.
"Yup. Here." Jeri said holding out the digi-modify card.
Kazu took it and walked off, with Kenta.
*****Zoe's POV*****
"Just stop!" she said separating the two boys.
"He started it." they said at exactly the same time.
"Sit." She said and made the two boys sit beside her so they looked at everyone else. "Why are you fighting?"
"He stole my phone, and I loved that phone, it had really cool pictures." Takuya said like he wanted to hit Koji.
"Don't over react. You got a better phone after that anyway. And I kept your memory card, which your pictures."
"You can't put a memory card in an I-phone." He said back.
"Well then put the memory card in another phone."
"I haven't got another phone."
"Well look at it this way, you can't ever lose the card like you lost your phone." Takuya went to hit Koji but hit Zoe instead.
"That hurt." She said rubbing her arm.
"Sorry." Takuya said and went to touch it.
"Stop that. Your making it burn." She said slapping his hand away.
"How is he making it burn, doesn't he normally have his powers under control." Koji said. "There getting out of control, which means he needs to fight to keep it under control."
"But there no one here to fight." Zoe said.
"The next digimon that comes."
"Wait." Takuya cutted in. "can't there be another explanation. Not that I don't want to fight but what if it's someone really powerful that I can't beat."
"What ever happened to our fearless leader?" Koji joked.
"It doesn't matter." Zoe started. "What if I'm just more sensitive to his power? I mean I haven't really been with him since she got Ranamon's spirit. Ice, wind and water were the three most susceptible to the flame spirit so maybe I just need to learn to control it."
"That would mean that you and Takuya can have no physical contact until you can do that."
"Can't I just beat up a digimon instead?" Takuya wined.
"Maybe, but I still need to control the spirit. Don't want to wet someone when their meant to be drying."
"But why would you need to control it at all. It will obviously go back to the digital world once we leave this place."
"But I want to. Duskmon has Mercurimon spirit, so if he wants to be can learn how to use it."
"Making it harder for us to fight him." Koji muttered.
"Why don't you think we can help him?" Takuya asked.
"What?" Koji said back.
"You heard, and don't lie. I know we can help him. We did it before so this time should be a snap."
*****Alice's POV*****
Alice sat down after leaving Rika. Hopmon had pulled Ryo and the two of them started a card contest. It was so obvious that Rika was going to win; Ryo would let her as it wasn't a real tournament, but then as well she would know and he would lose all hope he ever had.
"What are you thinking about?" Henry asked. She didn't want to say Rika and Ryo as it would probably sound kind of stalkerish and she didn't want Henry to get the wrong impression.
"What would you say to Suzie getting a boyfriend?" she asked, as it was the first thing she saw.
"Who did you have in mind." He asked, and she guessed he was just building up for a definite no.
"Tommy. Look." She pointed to where they were sitting.
"They aren't even talking."
"I know, but look. They keep looking at each other when they think the other isn't looking. It's cute."
"Cute, since when do you say cute." He asked. Holding both her hand to he ground, so she had to look into his eyes. 'their so gorgeous," she thought but then shook her head.
"It's the air and lack of food. Makes me act different."
"Better get us back to normal then, can't have you acting like a retard."
"Hey!" she said taking her hands away. She didn't understand why she suddenly felt sleepy but she ended up sleeping on Henry's shoulder and he seemed to be asleep to.
*****Shinya's POV******
Shinya sat with Tommy, Suzie and Cody around the fire. They had been talking about little things, but he noticed that Tommy and Suzie never really talked about much together and they refused to look at each other.
He mouthed why to Cody, who walked over to the new addition and explained that they used to talk to each other, and then when they came out of Sakkakumon, they refused to talk to each other. He had barely got them to sit down together.
"You don't think they like each other do you?" Shinya whispered and Cody nodded.
"Seriously?" Shinya asked.
"Something happened that made them really awkward with each other. Don't ask how I know but I used to see Yolei always like this, then Kari, Sora and Mimi. They always become really shy whenever their next to someone that they like."
"Interesting." Shinya said.
"Why?"
"Because now I have great blackmail material."
"Do you ever wonder what life would be like if we didn't come here?" Suzie asked randomly.
"Better." Ai answered, her and her brother had walked up to the group while they he and Cody were talking.
"I don't think so." Tommy said. "I mean, we wouldn't have met the people we met. Good and bad." He looked at Suzie a bit but when she caught his gaze, it held for a second before they both started staring into the fire like it was a life line.
Shinya arm began to burn and he pulled his sleeve up. He tattoo on his right arm was shining gold and so was the digiegg. He pulled it close to him and then a gold light surrounded the fire and everyone around it.
Suzie, Tommy, Him, Cody, Ai, Mako and the digiegg were left awake while everyone else fell asleep. It looked peaceful but since he'd been here, he'd seen Duskmon who was Kouichi brutally murder someone and that made the fact that they were sleeping a little scary. None of them could do anything, expect Tommy.
"Why are you awake?" a child like voice called out.
"Quiet it means we have only a little work to do." Another voice said. It sounded older and more in charge.
The gold bubble came away and the two digimon were in view of six of them.
"Puppetmon, Mega level, Attack: Puppet Pummel, Flying Cross cutter." Suzie said from looking at her D-power. She gulped at the Mega word. Shinya saw Tommy stiffen.
"Piedmon, Mega level, Attack: Trump sword, Down trick, Final speed." Ai said.
"Were screwed." Cody said.
"Got that right. Can't wait until I get to play." Puppetmon said.
"I know you, didn't you want to play with TK until MetalGarurumon beat you." Suzie said pointing.
"He did not beat me. I just wasn't ready and he took advantage." The digimon defended. "Do I know you?" He asked. Suzie shook her head, and he looked away.
"And you tried to make everyone key chains, until Angemon digivolved and you got sucked away." Mako said.
"Who are you meant to be?" Piedmon asked.
"Mako. No point asking who you are."
"Maybe, why would you want to know the name of the digimon that will kill you?"
"You wish."
"Puppet Pummel." Puppetmon attack and none of them were ready. Suzie and Ai fell near the fire and Cody and Mako flew to the wall were no one was sleeping fortunately. Shinya fell onto the ground and thought he was about to lose vision. Tommy looked less effected but still looked bad.
*****Suzie's POV*****
'I know this is sort of off topic, but do you know who powerful a warrior looks just before they transform. They get this light around them and if you look really closely you can see tiny bits of their element. Take Tommy for example, just before he transformed there was a silver light around him, and there was little bits of ice around him. It looks very cool and Tommy looks very cool. Not that I was looking very closely.' She said to herself.
"Execute, Beast spirit evolution…Korrikumon."
"How… How. None of you are allowed to have the ability to beat us. You were all meant to be asleep." Puppetmon whined.
"Stop that." Piedmon reprimanded. "He's only ultimate level so you can take him if you want."
"Yeah, course I can. Did you ever doubt me?"
"Don't get cocky either."
"Puppet Pummel." The attack hit Korrikumon and he fell onto the floor with a thud.
"Avalanche Arrow." A number of arrow hit Puppetmon but the digimon still stood and looked like nothing had happened.
"Flying Cross Cutter." Suzie looked as the two sticks from the digimon's back hit Korrikumon.
The two digimon exchanged attacks but Korrikumon seemed to have been getting the most damage. Suzie watched from the sidelines as Tommy was beaten up until be laid on the floor, back in human form.
She could see that Shinya sitting against a wall with his eyes closed. Cody and Mako was there too, they tried to wake him up, but Suzie couldn't see why. He wasn't going to help and there wasn't much he could do either, his digiegg had still not hatched. Ai was struggling against Suzie grip.
"Let me go." Ai said loud enough for Suzie to know she was angry but quiet enough that the two digimon would not hear.
"What is wrong with you?" she whispered back.
"I can't stay here. Everyone's getting beaten and all we do is sit around."
"No one's dying."
"That's not what I said. I said beaten as in used like rag dolls, food for the wolves, a plaything." She broke of Suzie's grip then and ran towards Behemoth. "I'm going and don't even try stopping me." She sat on the seat and held onto the handlebars. "Mako you coming?" she asked her little brother.
"You have got to be kidding." The younger twin said back, with a smile breaking his face.
"Afraid not, little brother. So what's your answer?"
"No." he said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Wasn't it you that was all for the idea before."
"Before was then, this is now."
"Your loss. Don't say I didn't ask you?"
"What about Impmon? You going to just leave him like this." He said and pointed to the small purple digimon sleeping near Renamon.
"I'll send the bike back when I get there. Don't fret." She said and kicked the brake off and then she was in the sky, going to somewhere Suzie didn't know.
"What is she talking about?" Cody asked the boy next to him.
Mako didn't answer as then a heartbreaking sound came from Tommy. He laid still, almost dead, with his back to her. The only way you knew she wasn't was the fact that his hand shoulders would shake quickly and then air would come out of his mouth, it would condense quickly and the air would come out looking like snowflakes. It was magical in a weird and twisted way.
Suzie couldn't move and when she looked down she saw her hands and feet were kept down by layers of ice. The same seemed to have happened to Cody and Mako, but Shinya had none. 'Maybe since he's out of it, he won't need it.' she thought.
"See you little boy." Puppetmon said and took out one of the sticks. One end looked sharper then the other and Suzie thought it was to stake Tommy but it wasn't. Puppet took it and turned Tommy over so Suzie could see his face.
It was looked bad, really bad. His right eye had black and there was a cut along left cheek. His baseball bat had fallen off his head and his hair was a mess that went in all directions. He looked her straight in the eye and she saw that he'd nearly told himself that die. It was a look which said he was sorry it had to come to this. 'Please make him be ok.' She thought.
"Someone should end his pain, and I being so nice will end the pain." Puppetmon said and raised the stick again. It came down but hit a hand in black armour instead. Tommy eyes went wide at seeing his apparent saviour and everyone knew he didn't like it.
"Don't look at me with those judgy little eyes. I'm here to help you so take it." Duskmon said to Tommy, and then he turned to Puppetmon. "Hi there." He said and then threw the stick which fell onto the floor near Suzie.
"Execute…Fusion evolution, Raihimon."
Raihimon looked at Tommy. "No thank you. I save your life and the best you can do is stare. I know that I've become more powerful then you thought but you can at least be happy about it"
"Be happy you can kill me." Tommy said venomously.
"No. Be happy I can help as I have more power. The power you did not have before so we can actually beat them. I said I'd help and that's what I intend to do."
"Stop talking. Trump Sword." Piedmon said and the attack hit Raihimon as he didn't expect it.
"This is on. Blazing Spear." Raihimon's attack hit the dark master which such precision that Piedmon fell onto his bottom. Suzie had to keep in her laugh.
The two mega level digimon fought and they were both equally strong, although it looked like Raihimon had the upper hand. He was younger as Kouichi was only sixteen and Piedmon was much older. They were also from different dimensions and Raihimon knew about Piedmon but Piedmon didn't know about the warrior of darkness.
"May the darkness destroy you dark master. Factual codes digitize." Raihimon said and reverted back to human form.
"That was so much fun." Kouichi said happily.
"Fun? Your still Duskmon inside, do not sugar-coat it." Tommy said back.
"Maybe, but I belong here and not with the villains as you call them."
"Why?"
"I'll only say this once, so don't expect me to say it again. I think that I belong with you people, however pathetic, more then I belong with them." He finished gesturing to a far away wall.
"Ok." Mako said, and everyone faced him. "Impmon used to be evil but now he isn't so shouldn't Duskmon be given that chance as well."
"I guess." Suzie said slowly understanding the angle.
"you cannot be serious." Tommy said.
"Don't knock the idea until you try it. Never knock it might end up helping you more then you know."
"Since when did you sprout such deep nonsense." He said smiling.
"I talk some deep stuff. Just not that, Lopmon told me it once." From the corner of her eye she saw the stick moving a little. "Tommy." She said and tried to move away before it hit her while it moved but the ice kept her in place. She pointed her head towards it instead.
"Flying Cross Cutter." Puppetmon said and the stick flew past her. she moved as much as she could so luckily it didn't touch her.
"I've got this." Tommy said.
"Want a boost." Kouichi joked.
"Keep it." Tommy said and around him everything in a 6 centimetres radius of him turned to ice then the power went into him, leaving the circle just as it was before. "Execute…Fusion evolution, Daipenmon." In Tommy place stood the cutest penguin Suzie had ever seen.
"Blue Hawaii death." Daipenmon said and Puppetmon went back a couple of steps.
*****Time passed*****
"Factual code digitize." Daipenmon said and when Puppetmon was gone, Daipenmon changed back to Tommy.
"Excuse me." Cody said.
"Right." Tommy said and the ice around them vanished.
"How do we get back to normal?"
"Make Shinya hold he egg again, that's what caused us to stay awake the last time." Mako said.
"How do we do that? If you haven't noticed he's out cold." Suzie said.
"we could bring the egg to him." Tommy said.
"Then it's got to be touched by someone pure, not tainted by darkness or anything else like liking someone or killing someone yourself." Kouichi said. Mako, Tommy and Suzie looked at the floor.
"Me then." Cody volunteered since he was going to have to do it anyway. He picked up the egg and then placed Shinya's hand on top. The room went under a similar golden bubble as it had before.
Suzie looked around and saw everyone slowly waking up. They stretched and yawned and acted just like they did when they woke up, which included some digimon asking for food and others were jumping up and down.
"What happened?" Sora asked sleepily.
"Never mind that, what's he doing here?" JP said pointing at Kouichi who smiled back.
"Forget all your little issues. The main one is WHERE THE HELL IS BEHEMOTH!" Impmon shouted.
"Shut up. Forget about your stupid bike. Where's Ai?" Rika asked.
"All will be explained, just sit down and be quiet." Kouichi said nicely. It freaked Suzie out. Everyone started talking at once and started to get up. "I said sit and be quiet." He shouted with authority. Suddenly everyone was back onto the floor and Kouichi said a smile on him.
Finished =)
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