LIFE AND DEATH
By milesprower06
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mp06- Hey, all! Thanks for reading this far! We're just about done! I'd like to give a huge thanks to crazyeight for his thoughts and criticism so far, which has been very constructive and helpful!
Jeri- Yeah, well, I got some constructive criticism for ya.
mp06- Go away, Jeri. You're not even in this story.
Jeri- I'll be back by the Epilogue. I'm going to get a gun. [Walks away.
Renamon- I think you're going to regret that, mp.
mp06- Whatever. On with the story!
BTW, c8, the 'telekinesis', was just explained, in a way. It was some otherworldly force that was the key to the biomerge that just took place. Hope that helped.
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Chapter 9 – Trinity
D-N-A
B-I-O-M-E-R-G-E
D-I-G-I-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N
"Guilmon…"
"Renamon…"
"Biomerge to…"
Takato felt warmth wrap around him. As it drew in closer, he felt he wasn't alone. He felt Renamon's calm focus…Guilmon's fiery zeal. He felt his own heart…a heart that not too long ago, wasn't even concerned with fighting and protecting the real world…he just wanted a close friend…a Digimon companion.
Their three spirits, despite how different they were from each other, came together in perfect harmony.
"MagnaGallantmon!"
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Henry's legs were frozen. He had caught Terriermon as he de-digivolved and fell towards the roof, and the next thing he knew, Takato had both the red and blue D-Arcs.
The 'egg' of light that had enveloped Takato sucked Guilmon and Renamon in, and then exploded, revealing a new creature. Henry's D-Arc projected its Digimon Analyzer hologram.
"MagnaGallantmon…" he read off of the hologram. Other than the name, the D-Arc provided no further information. No picture, type, or attacks. Henry lowered his Digivice and looked up at the shimmering being, slowly rising up to BlackWarGreymon.
It looked like Gallantmon…sort of. Instead of the pearly white armor the knight usually wore, it had more of a silver sheen to it. The cape was now ablaze with the colors of Sakuyamon's fire spirits: red, green, yellow, and blue. The shield had the ying yang symbol, and instead of the lance, MagnaGallantmon held Sakuyamon's shaman staff.
"A three-way Biomerge…incredible…" Henry said.
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At last, Renamon was one with her Tamer. After trying to help him over the last several months, everything had changed today. She had realized she was as much a part of this as he was – both of them talked to each other earlier today, discovering that they were fighting the same fight, and now here they were – fully aware of each other's desires, thoughts, and feelings.
She felt Takato – his heartache when Guilmon had been destroyed, his feelings for Rika as their relationship blossomed; the way he felt so lost when she died; their first steps on the road to recovery when she and him became partners. Also, on the very edge, there was a spark…just a hint, of what he used to be like when he first started out as a Tamer. His love of life…his smile…the spirit that was the real Gogglehead – the real Takato Matsuki.
She felt Guilmon – his willingness to protect Takato when he shoved his Tamer out of harm's way back in the tomb three months ago, his confusion when BlackWarGreymon revived him; and his determination to overcome the viral program and remember Takato. Renamon couldn't help but smile as she recalled all the goofy antics of the inexperienced duo; how they helped change Rika for the better. But it wasn't just them, not just her – it was all of them. Herself, Rika, Takato, Guilmon, Henry, and Terriermon – the six of them together had helped make all of them into better people.
She felt herself – her empathy when Takato lost his partner; her concern when Rika kissed him; her failure to reach the food mart in time; her determination to continue to help Takato recover – a determination so strong that she forgot her own feelings about what had transpired; her relief when she and Takato finally opened up to each other. Their thoughts and feelings were now a fierce energy between the three of them.
Renamon opened her eyes. She was in a blue data sphere – nearly identical to the one she was in when she and Rika biomerged to Sakuyamon. She looked to left – Guilmon was in a red sphere – above them, Takato stood within a gold sphere.
They knew what they had to do.
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Henry looked on as MagnaGallantmon came up to BlackWarGreymon's height, and it looked like neither wanted to draw out this battle any longer than they had to.
BlackWarGreymon charged in a fury, leading with his remaining Dramon Killer. MagnaGallantmon brought the shield up at the last second, leaning into BlackWarGreymon's charge and shoved him away.
MagnaGallantmon's staff glowed a brilliant white. It retracted into a glowing sphere in the right palm. They brought the shield forward, and held it with both hands, as the glow transferred to it.
"Final Purification!" the triple-voice of MagnaGallantmon called out. A magnificent white beam burst out of the shield, raging towards BlackWarGreymon, who tried to bring his black shield together in front of him in time.
Too late.
The beam swallowed him like a tidal wave to a sand castle. BlackWarGreymon became a silhouette in the brilliant light, and just as quickly disappeared behind the knight's attack. The beam subsided, and BlackWarGreymon was still there, phasing in and out of cohesion. Henry had seen this before when Kyubimon had been thrown off the tower during the battle with Mahiramon. But would BlackWarGreymon be able to keep himself together?
The black-armored gave out one last cry of defiance before bursting into fragments.
Then, as if someone hit the pause button, the data fragments that had been BlackWarGreymon stopped in midair, began to glow red, and came together into a crimson red sphere where BlackWarGreymon had been a split second before.
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Renamon watched, as time seemed to slow to a crawl. All within a second, BlackWarGreymon disintegrated, and his data fragments quickly gathered at a center point – a fiercely glowing red sphere, no bigger than a golf ball.
Just as fast as it had formed, the sphere dissipated, sending forward a pencil-thin crimson beam towards MagnaGallantmon at an incalculable speed.
A last ditch attack.
In the instant before it connected, Renamon saw her data sphere turn gold.
'What-'
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The sphere unleashed a small beam that ripped through MagnaGallantmon's chest plate in an instant. The attack had lasted a few milliseconds, if that, and as all traces of the sphere and BlackWarGreymon vanished; MagnaGallantmon plummeted down to the roof.
Just before the impact, the silver knight disintegrated; in its place, were three data spheres; red, blue, and gold, all which started to melt away, revealing their occupants.
Renamon and Guilmon appeared unharmed as the data spheres disappeared completely. They, and Henry, immediately laid eyes on the third part of the Biomerge.
He lay on his side, on the roof, and he wasn't moving.