Hey I hope you enjoy this chapter, although I may be maimed once you read this chapter lol. I hope everyone is enjoying the story so far and I hope to have your support throughout the rest of it. Would anyone be interested in reading a sequal to this once it was finished? Just curious. Enjoy, read and review.
Time moves so slow when you're waiting for something. Nearly two weeks now. Sora made a note of it on a calender that hung low near her desk. Two weeks and Will still hadn't woken up. Two weeks and lightmon was quickly destroying her food supply. She hoped he would wake up soon. All of his injuries had more or less healed. She was beginning to forget what the sound of his voice was like. Lightmon was currently asleep on the floor. He missed Will too. Biyomon helped keep his mind off it though. Lightmon gave away tiny things about Will. He prefered darker, damp days. He loved the beach. Such little things she hoped to learn in time. Looking out the window,she watched as the heavy wind and rain assaulted everyone it could touch. Another miserable day.
Tai stalked the streets, pulling his coat closer to him. He hated days like today. He had just come from Izzy's apartment. He and Matt had only two a few others about Adam. He wished he could tell all of the others, but it was better to keep this contained. Izzy,Matt, Tai, Davis and Ken should be able to take care of one Digidestined. Should it come to it. Agumon crept silently beside Tai,his usual blue hooded jacket hiding most of him. The pair crossed the street,deciding to take the short cut through the park home. Tai's mind wandered to Matt. He had attempted to teach him the trick for using his crest. It was taking a long time. He didn't have patience like Will did. As much as he tried,he couldn't keep his thoughts on Matt without thinking of Sora. Friendship and Love. They fit so well. So much better than Love and Courage. No matter how he looked at it. No matter how much he wished for it. He laughed, even Love and Protector looked like there was more of a chance. Will. He'd be good for taking on this guy. As the pair passed by a bench, a voice interupted his thoughts.
"Lovely day we're having isn't it?" Tai turned his head at the voice. Adam.
"What do you want?" He had to shout over the wind. Adam stood up. He looked exactly the same,except his jacket was done up.
"I want to challenge you." He said simply. Tai clenched his fists.
"What's the catch?" Tai knew better than to accept things at face value anymore.
"No catch. A fair fight." If Tai could stop him here and now, it would be one less thing to worry about.
"Fine. Agumon, you ready?" Agumon didn't even respond, simply changed to Wargreymon. Adam smiled wider than Tai thought was possible. Rain slid off the golden armour. Wargreymon didn't move. He couldn't see another Digimon.
"Slash Angemon." There. A huge sky blue blade with a golden design on it shot through the air. Raising his armoured hands, Wargreymon blocked the attack. Tai leapt out of the way, now standing across from Adam. Slash Angemon. Two large long blue blades instead of arms. Two large steel wings. His whole body was covered in silver armour. Every part of him looked as if you could get cut from just looking at him too long. The two mega level Digimon began their duel. They parried and blocked each others attack at a deadly speed. The sound of metal on metal echoed throughout the city. Another block. It was as if thunder struck everytime they came into contact. Neither David nor Tai could keep track of the movements. The two Digimon jumped back once more before running in. Another block on each side. As they hit each other,the rain seemed to shift. As if avoiding them. Wargreymon took the heavily armoured angel by surprise with a kick to it's abdomen. The force from the kick knocked the angel Digimon just behind Adam and Tai. The angel quickly recovered and got into a stance. Adam's eyes widened as the angel leapt through the air using every possible blade on it's body as it closed the distance between itself and Wargreymon. Tai had been standing under a tree the angel Digimon crossed over. Adam watched as a large part of the tree fell, after being caught in the angels attack. Tai couldn't react quick enough. Adam ran, his legs couldn't move fast enough as he leapt, pushing Tai out of the path of what must have been half the tree.
"Close one!" Adam said in a cheery voice. "Time to go Slash!" The angel looked back as Adam began to leave.
"Maybe another time Tai!" With that , Tai was left on the floor , Wargreymon standing over him.
"Did he just save me?" Tai asked in disbelief. Wargreymon growled back in his low voice.
"I prefer to call it losing in style."
The memories had jumped back even further now. His copy wasn't exactly helping him understand anything. All the memories of his father. Will sighed. His younger self ran up to the older man, always hunched over a desk, a pile of paper work scattered on it.
"I'm sorry, we can't play today. I'm working. Go play with Arnold." His father had always been too busy to play with him. Now Will was older he understood. Arnold had been his father in place of his real father. Arnold was his fathers personal assisstant. He played more than he worked. His father never once said anything bad to him. Arnold always played with Will, always kept him company.
Will smiled , watching Arnold teach him how to play a few basic notes on the piano.
"Those days were fun." He said to no one in perticular. Just before he went to the Digital world, his father had passed on. Car crash. Even then, Arnold had stayed with him. Even when he got shipped between dozens of different older relatives, Arnold followed him. Arnold followed his father not long after he returned from the Digital world. The smile disappeared from Will's face as he watched the proceedings all over again. The copy moved closer.
"You need to keep hold of that happiness. You can't keep letting that darkess shadow over you. It'll control you." Will turned to him.
"What are you saying? I'm being controlled by the darkness?" Will scoffed at the idea. The copy smiled.
"Now you're getting it!" He clicked his fingers , playing another memory. It wasn't just one memory, it was hundreds, all of them battles with Digimon.
"You enjoy the battles. Look, you smile in every one of them. The battle field is your home!" Will watched on, he had smiled in every battle.
"You have a lust for battle. You thrive on this lets you survive, but if you keep fighting, you'll be beaten one day and you'll be devoured." Will had no way to argue this point. So he asked the only reasonable question.
"Devoured by what?" The copy looked at him coldly.
"By yourself." Will nodded. He'd just have to make sure he didn't ever lose a battle.
The rain had died down a little a bit. Not much,but enough for most to venture outside again. Elegon and Momaru took the chance and began to run to the local shop. The two were now living with Lianne. They had found Elegon at the train station about to leave, trying to stow his Digimon on board. They had convinced him to stay with them whilst Will wasn't using the place. The trip to the shop was never a long one. They began to walk the short distance back slowly. The wind had eased up too. They passed a boy sitting back on a beach. He had a blue jacket with white strips and a whire under shirt. Smooth black hair brushed to the left side of his face. Navy jeans, now soaked from the rain. Elegon and Momaru walked past him at a normal pace. Something wasn't right about him. Elegon kept an eye on him as they passed him.
"Hey, you two." The boy had called out to them.
"What?" Elegon had replied almost instantly. The young man stood and walked over to them.
"That's a lot of food you have there." He said , almost jokingly. Was he going to ask for some?
"What of it?" Momaru asked, she felt something was off with him too. He was too relaxed.
"If I didn't know any better. I'd say you two were feeding Digimon." He said simply. The two froze. He knew?
"I kid. I'm a Digidestined too." He held up a Digivice as if to empahsise the point.
"My name's Syao Matsuri. I'm here to help with the assault." The two looked at him.
"Sorry , you missed it by a few days." Elegon said easily.
"With that type of time keeping I'm glad you didn't help." Momaru interjected quickly.
"Well I may as well hang about. Something always shows up!" He stated cockily. Elegon and Momaru looked at each other. He had a point.
"You've never stayed somewhere for very long." The copy clicked his fingers,showing Will hudnreds of memories of changing places, changing languages.
"You never relied on people that long." More memories of groups of people he had met and left. Always keeping a distance from them.
"Only one person has ever reached that heart of yours." His memories flashed to show a girl. Tall, tanned skin, long silky smooth black hair. Fair features. Will's heart skipped a beat at her appearance.
"You got hurt by her." Will glanced at him.
"You don't say." He wanted to be with her and she wanted to be with him. He soon had to leave and he never saw her again. They never spoke again.
"You buried that emotion ever since. Never letting it out, keeping it under lock and key." The copy turned to him.
"Almost ironic you became the Guardian of Love. Almost ironic you rescued the Digidestined of Love." Images of Sora began to fill the area around him. So many, as if there were hundreds of snap shots of her in his mind. Had he really looked at her so much? Will spun round, there were everywhere. Her smile, her eyes , her hair, the way she spoke. It was as if those things had been engraved into his very soul.
"You're afraid of her." Will spun to face his copy.
"She threatens to open that cage. Let loose the emotion you've buried." The crests of Love and Protector appeared infront of him. The two of them slowly merging into one crest. His crest sat happily behind the heart, as if guarding it.
"You need to embrace it. Embrace her." Will looked the copy dead in the eyes. His anger bubbled at the surface,no way to contain it.
"I don't care who you are. I don't care what part of me you belong to, but don't you ever use her to try and change me!" The images began to fade. All but one. The one of him when he caught her on the ship. He ignored his pain to help her. It was one of the few times he actually touched her. The copy smiled.
"It seems she's already unlocked that cage." Will scowled at him.
Yolei sang happily behind the counter. No one had come into the store. A dozen more deformed swans sat on the counter with her. However, she had a nice long phonecall with a certain mysterious older man. Her mind swam with possibilities. Oh it was oh so romantic. Leaving your number, for the person who captured your soul with just a glance. She felt sorry for him, she wasn't going to let his soul get away. She couldn't contain herself anymore and squealed. She was glad no one heard that. Her heart raced. Why couldn't tomorrow hurry up? She was going to meet him the park, rain or shine. He said he had something special planned. Oh what should she wear?
"There are only two ways to leave this place." The copy said simply. Since Will's rise in anger, the area turned to plain black again.
"What are they?" He responded almost immediatly. The copy clicked his fingers. Two doors materialised behind him. One a dark red, crest of the Protector engraved on it. The other, bright white with red bars across it.
"The door on the right." He pointed to the white one. "Leads out of this life. You can end all the duties and responsbility you have. You can simply give up and pass on." Will didn't flinch from this option.
"This door." He indicated the one with his crest. "This leads back to your life. You continue where you left off. You wake up and return to being the Guardian." Will immediatly made his way to the doors. He stopped and studied them, he could quiet so easily. He could just welcome in the darkness and end it. However, if he took the other door, he could finish everything he wanted to.
"Just one piece of advice." The copy said quietly.
"What?" Will asked. He had time to kill before choosing.
"If you continue your life. Don't give into the darkness. There's already too much in you."
"So what? You said it controls me. I'll just learn to master it." The copy smiled.
"You can't. You see, by facing your nightmares here, you've opened up a lot of cages." The copy sounded as if he didn't want to explain.
"So what?" Will was growing impatient.
"Don't let it spread too far. Otherwise, history will repeat itself." Will nodded. He walked to the doors. He had made his choice.
Sora briskly walked down the crowded corridors again for what must be the hundredth time in two weeks. She simply couldn't stay in her room anymore so she decided to visit Will again. She rounded corner after corner when she finally reached where his room was. She noticed the lack of doctors. It was almost too quiet. She turned the corner, into his room and froze. Empty. His bed was empty. The machines were gone. Anything of his was missing. The flowers she had brought had even disappeared. She went to quickly walk out of the room, but Dr. Thomas stopped her.
"Oh it's you." Sora didn't even hear her.
"Where is he!" A sad look fell on her face.
"I'm sorry but he's gone..." Sora never heard the end of the sentence. Tears formed in her eyes as she raced from the room. She pushed through the crowds, not caring for anyone in there. This wasn't what was meant to happen. He was supposed to wake up. She ran anywhere her legs could carry her. This isn't right, her mind screamed. She ran to the one person who was closer to her than anyone.