Posted on: September 24th, 2008
Fc: Please don't kill me! Why? You'll see soon enough.
Taming the Frontier
His Dark Assistants
Takuya felt his heart-rate soar into over drive. The murderous glint in Duskmon's crimson eyes was intimidating. He barely registered Ryo digivolving Monodramon to Cyberdramon in the background. The air felt thinner, making Takuya struggle for air, and hard to focus. His large green eyes locked with deadly red. Then something occurred to him. This was a fight to the finish now. Only one warrior would live to see another day.
Ryo had his cell phone in hand, texting the message "SOS" to Takato, Rika, and Henry. He hoped they would get the message and come soon… or there wouldn't be much left to save. Ryo never really felt threatened by a single Digimon before… the other Tamers weren't kidding when they said this guy was out for blood. Even Cyberdramon seemed uneasy about Duskmon. They both knew this was going to be a fight for their lives.
Duskmon raised a long crooked red blade from his skull like hand. Takuya, Guilmon, and Cyberdramon tensed, waiting for the strike. The strike never came. There was a low rumbling sound and a great terrible Digimon emerged from the trees.
The creature was huge and skeletal, the body consisted of nothing more than pearly white bones. The beast had fish shaped missiles on its back and looked around its rib cage. Its great maw was hanging open, the eyes cold and unemotional. It gave a deafening, bellow. Ryo pulled out his D-Power, and paled when the ghastly Digimon's data came up.
Kouji glanced at him, as Ryo cleared his throat. "That's SkullGreymon. Ultimate level…" Kouji didn't hear the rest as the SkullGreymon launched itself at the group. It raised its talons to strike its opponents. The five leapt in different directions; Monodramon, Ryo, and Guilmon dove to the right; Kouji and Takuya to the left. SkullGreymon paused and went after Ryo, leaving Kouji and Takuya to face the Warrior of Darkness alone.
Takuya gulped. He backed away from the dark warrior, trembling. Kouji watched Takuya, gripping his D-Power tightly. It never occurred to him that Takuya was afraid of Duskmon, let alone terrified. Takuya never backed down in a fight, which would often cause the others problems. This was a new side to Takuya. His fear, his weaknesses showed through. Kouji wasn't sure what to do.
Duskmon on the other hand knew exactly what to do, "Slide evolution!" Duskmon digivolved into his skeletal bird beast form, "Velgemon!"
Kouji cringed, this was bad. He heard shouts and turned to see Henry, Rika, Takato, Gargomon and Kyubimon joining Ryo, Cyberdramon and Guilmon (who was now digivolving to Growlmon). Velgemon clearly anticipated their arrival, for another SkullGreymon burst through the trees, tying up the back up.
Kouji returned his attention to the Dark warrior who was circling above them. He dove at the pair, "Dark Vortex!" He shot a spiraling violet and orange beam at Takuya, who just barely dodged the attack.
Velgemon swooped in closer, and began to trace a large circle in the ground around Kouji. Kouji's eyes widened as he scrambled to get out of the ring. Takuya seemed to appear out of nowhere, and knocked Kouji out of the circle. Kouji looked back to see Takuya being trapped within the ring, as a dark dome closed around him.
The dome turned dark red and pulsed before disappearing, leaving a crater in its wake. Kouji was blasted away from the crater when it disappeared. Ryo pulled away from the SkullGreymon he was fighting, and ran over. He surveyed the scene, and helped Kouji up.
Kouji pulled from Ryo's grasp and ran to the edge of the crater. His deep blue eyes scanned the ground, searching for Takuya. Ryo came up next to him and put his hand on Kouji's shoulder. His expression was grim. Kouji glanced up at him. He pulled away from Ryo and descended down the slope.
He has to be here… He can't be gone… He can't be gone… Kouji spotted a patch of bright orange fur. Takuya. Kouji's heart skipped a beat, Takuya survived! Kouji ran across the base of the crater, dropping to his knees beside Takuya.
His body was in bad shape, cuts and bruises now adorned his chest and arms. His left eye was bruised and there was a deep gash over his right eye. His body was curled in a protective manner, though it didn't seem to help any. Kouji hesitated; Takuya wasn't breathing.
"Takuya?" Kouji extended his hand towards Takuya's face. His fingers brushed across Takuya's face, feeling the cool skin. Kouji gasped and pulled the battered Takuya into his arms. Warm tears formed in Kouji's eyes as the horrible truth began to sink in. He didn't make it.
The Warrior of Flame was gone.
Ryo slide down after the warrior of light, keeping his eye on the sky, watching for Velgemon. Ryo hurried to Kouji's side and realized what had happened. Ryo put his hand on Kouji's shoulder again, "We can't stay here. We have to regroup." Ryo urged, trying to spark the boy into action.
Kouji looked up at Ryo, his dark eyes full of sorrow. Ryo took hold of Kouji's hand and pulled him up. "We have to go! Now! Before Velgemon attacks again!" Ryo tugged on Kouji's arm.
"I almost died…He saved me…" Kouji murmured, completely oblivious of his surroundings. He just stood there, trying to absorb the horrible event. Ryo tugged more and began to drag Kouji away, leaving Takuya's lifeless body behind.
"Come on Kouji! Snap out of it!" Ryo shook Kouji by his shoulders, finally breaking the boy from his daze like state.
Ryo began to pull Kouji along and up the slope, and hopefully to safety. Kouji pulled away from Ryo, "We have to go back!"
Ryo gave him a look like the boy had lost it, "Are you insane!?" he half shouted. Kouji frowned and shook his head.
"I'm not leaving Takuya. He's my best friend, I won't leave him behind."
Ryo gritted his teeth and tried to word his response delicately. "Kouji, if we don't fall back, we'll lose more friends than just Takuya. He'd want you to run."
Kouji snorted, "No. He'd stand and fight."
"Kouji, Listen to me. He's dead. There's nothing we can do for him. We have to get out of here if we want to live!" Ryo began to climb the wall, looking back to see if Kouji was following.
Kouji hesitated, but reluctantly, followed Ryo. They joined the others, who were still fighting the SkullGreymon. Velgemon was nowhere in sight.
"Fall Back!" Someone shouted over the chaos. The tamers and Digimon took off into the woods, hoping to lose the SkullGreymon. It was a rough run but the SkullGreymon were slowed by the trees, and eventually their roars became distant.
They broke through the trees into a clearing, panting but safe. Or so they thought. Velgemon appeared and trapped the large group against the trees. Loud roars echoed from behind them, indicating that the SkullGreymon were catching up.
Tamers and Digimon alike glared up at their adversary, and formed a protective circle. It had all been a trap. Velgemon was planning to wipe out his problems in one fell strike. The two SkullGreymon burst forth from the trees, further trapping the Tamers. This was bad. There wasn't a way to get out of this situation…
A deafening shrieking roar came from the forest behind the Tamers, and SkullGreymon. Had Velgemon brought another accomplice? The Tamers ducked low to the ground as a stream of flames ripped overhead, slamming into the SkullGreymon. The dark Digimon were stunned, and destroyed.
There was a streak of Red, orange and gold; like fire bursting from the dark trees. It flew over the Tamers and Digimon and slammed into Velgemon. It happened so fast. Velgemon was knocked out of the sky and to the ground. He dedigivolved back to Duskmon.
The Tamers looked up to see their savoir. A large dragon like Digimon was suspended midair. He had bright orange feathered wings, was clad brilliant crimson armor, and had long talons on his feet and shorter but sharper talons on his hands. Kouji gasped. It wasn't possible but here he was.
"It's BurningGreymon…"
Whoa.. Didn't see that coming... Will the Tamers win? You'll just have to wait and see on the next Taming the Frontier.
Fc: -hides-