Ronald still doesn't own digimon. But I do own this! 'holds out an apple'
Beyond Humanity
Chapter 10
Joe and Gomamon were currently in another scary/crazy room.
"You know, this place keeps getting creepier and creepier." Joe said as he looked up. "I mean, chairs and desks aren't supposed to be on the ceiling, right?"
"Well Joe, you're right about that." Gomamon said, rolling his eyes in the process.
"That's what I thought. I mean…" Joe stopped talking around that point when he figured that he and Gomamon were all alone.
Kari, TK and their digimon were gone.
"Tai and Matt are going to kill me."
"It was nice knowing ya!" Gomamon piped up. "The same, now let's get looking before I end up as Unagi sushi." (If I remember correctly that's eel sushi.)
"Let's hope you don't taste great with rice." Gomamon winked, which scared the hell out of Joe.
They quickly exited through the door they came in, which was a bit hard, seeing the fact that the classroom was upside down.
Joe had to lift Gomamon up to get him past the frame.
Once outside the room the world turned back to normal. Or as normal as this world could be.
"Let's see." Joe said as he thought about where he could have left the two kids.
"There was the room with the scary twins that told us to come play with them... for ever… and ever." He pointed at the door to the left. "That's the one with the melting walls." He pointed to a blood red door.
"What was that one again?" Joe said to himself as he looked at the door right ahead of him.
"The one with that creepy girl that crawled out of the TV." Gomamon helped.
"Oh right."
It was weird. The school-like building had quickly traded places for a hallway like structure. The school was still there though, but it was as if it was just a small part of something greater.
"But where did we see them last?" Joe asked himself again.
"No idea."
Meanwhile with Izzy and Matt.
"Promise me Izzy, that we'll never, ever talk about that again." Matt was currently standing before a door, pushing against it to keep it closed. From within the room sounds were heard. Something along the lines of this.
"Yosh, your flames of youth are burning brightly!" (Who knows who this is?)
Matt pulled a hammer, nails and a few wooden boards out of nowhere and nailed the door shut.
"Okay…" Izzy started. "Moving on to the next one."
Matt cringed as he said that. The strain was becoming to much for his mind to handle.
"Come on Matt, you can do it." Gabumon reassured him. "I know you can."
Matt just nodded weakly.
Gabumon opened the next door while Matt gathered up any courage he had left.
"Tai, is that you?" Mimi asked. She had arrived in this damn cave an hour or so ago. It was freezing in there, since she had no way of making fire. But it did protect her and Palmon from the elements.
Around this time Tai was thinking something among the lines of 'Oh crap.' It was all over. There was no way he'd be able to hide his new arm, much less his tail.
Mimi squinted her eyes, trying to use what little moonlight there was to make out who the new comer was. But all she saw was a huge hairdo. And a tail.
"Yeah it's me Mimi." Tai sighed. "So you started to change as well? Damn, now I'm the only human left." Mimi said with a cheerful tone in her voice. "So what do you look like?"
"Mimi, please don't be scared of me. Please…" Tai said.
"Scared? Why should I be-
She stopped talking at that moment, as Tai stepped into the moonlight, revealing to her what he was becoming.
"Oh dear." Palmon suddenly said.
"So this is why you asked me that question at the beach, right?" Mimi said, unable to pull her eyes away from Tai's milk white skeletal arm.
Tai nodded weakly, waiting for Mimi reaction.
It wasn't really what he was expecting.
Mimi threw herself at him and did an attempt to crush his bones with a hug.
"Mimi?" Tai asked, looking at her cinnamon coloured hair.
"You poor thing." Mimi said as she let go off him again. "You know that you're skin over bone?" She joked as she felt how skinny he was.
Tai let out a chuckle. At least one of the humans wasn't afraid of him.
In another place one of the humans actually was afraid off him. Or more precise: his clone.
"What's the matter Sora? Scared of little old Tai?" The clone mocked. But Sora wasn't scared of him. No, she was just shocked that someone was able to infiltrate their group so easily.
"It doesn't matter. Lord Puppetmon ordered me to kill you and kill you I shall do." The puppet said casually, as if he was discussing a soccer match with her.
"I'd like to see you try." Sora said, eyes flaring as a flame ignited in her left hand. "Ah, so the birdy has claws as well?" Not-Tai mocked again. "To bad it won't work on me."
With that said his chest burst open, revealing wooden gears on the inside and a nifty build-in bazooka.
"Wow, didn't see that coming!" Biyomon said as she scrambled to get out of the way of the weapon.
A small projectile, about the size of a tennis ball, was fired at Sora. Agumon pushed her out of the way and the flames on her hands died out.
"He's mine." Agumon growled as the shell hit the wall behind them and exploded. "No one impersonates my best friend!" Agumon started to glow a deep silver colour as he forced his energy through his body.
Not-Tai should realize by now that he was screwed.
Back with Mimi, Palmon and Tai.
"Aahh!" Tai fell to his knees, clutching his head in pain. His digivice was screaming as he felt the change being forced upon him again but it had never hurt as much before.
"Are you okay?" Mimi asked. "No, off course you're not okay but…" She had absolutely no idea what to do right now. Where was Joe when you needed him?
Flash
We see Joe and Gomamon running from a whole bunch of killer frogs. Yes, that's what it says. You red it correctly.
Flash
Tai felt his skin dissolving on his head, exposing the bone underneath it. This was the part that he feared the most, the loss of his face.
He wasn't obsessed with his looks or anything but people tended to recognize people by their face, not their skull.
Tai would have screamed more if it weren't for two arms wrapping around him again.
Mimi held him close for two reasons. One, she hoped that the gesture might take his mind of the changes that his body underwent. Two, this way she stayed out of reach of his tail, that was currently flailing around aimlessly. She'd rather not get skewered on it.
The pain stopped again. Tai was afraid. He didn't want to see what had happened to his face.
"Mimi? His voice sounded raspy from his screams. "How…how bad is it?"
Mimi looked up. For some reason Tai was standing higher then she was now. She figured that he must have grown a bit, like Joe, Matt, Sora and Izzy did.
She saw his face. She then tried to look away but found that she couldn't tear her eyes from the sight.
Tai's head was a full skull now. With hair.
Around that point Mimi fainted.
Back with Izzy and Matt.
"Pitiful and puny humans! I will crush you now!" This time Matt, Izzy and their digimon chose the right door.
No spandex-clad wrestlers behind this one, no this was a true monster!
It was an old man holding a paint brush…
"How you going to that?" Izzy asked.
"I have no idea. Yet!" The old man yelled back. He didn't really seem like a major threat. Unless you call that old grey robe he was wearing a threat to fashion.
Then said man pulled out a jar of ink and a scroll. He began to draw something on it.
"What is he doing?" Matt asked. "He's drawing something." Tentomon said. "That's proof that he's the big cheese here. Everything we saw here was Otoroshimon's creation. So we need to stop him before…"
A black and red Chinese dragon suddenly burst from the paper the old man was holding.
"That happens…" Tentomon continued his sentence.
"Less talk, more battle!" Gabumon yelled out as he dodged a swipe of the dragons claws.
"Gabumon warp digivolves to… MetalGarurumon!"
"Oh right… Tentomon digivolves to…Kabuterimon!"
"Kabuterimon digivolves to MegaKabuterimon!"
The light quickly faded, revealing the huge beetle that was MegaKabuterimon and MetalGarurumon standing next to their partners.
"Izzy! You take care of the dragon!" Izzy nodded before flying off towards the dragon, with MegaKabuterimon behind him.
And so an awesome battle between insect and reptile began.
MegaKabuterimon did his signature move, in a hope to end this battle quickly. To bad for him was the fact that he was rather slow and the dragon agile.
The serpent easily dodged it and send the beetle flying with a whack of his thin yet strong tail.
MegaKabuterimon growled and launched another attack. "Horn Buster!" He yelled put before launching himself towards his target.
Again the dragon dodged and this time he latched onto MegaKabuterimon's left side, somewhere between his left arms. This was actually the part where the ultimate digimon was waiting for.
He grabbed the head of the dragon, that was still trying to sink its teeth into his flesh, with one arm and struck it with his free arms.
Soon enough the dragon let go and slumped to the shadowy floor.
"Who da man?" MegaKabuterimon started. "I'm da…
He was cut short as the dragon rose up again and knocked him down. Izzy, who was currently still flying around, saw this happening. He was sure that his digimon partner had defeated the dragon, yet it stood up again.
Around that time Izzy noticed the scroll the old man had been drawing with. It was glowing and it was lying directly underneath him. Izzy buzzed off to pick it up.
He shrugged as he looked at it. "Hope this works." He tore the paper in two.
The dragon just turned back to the ink it was created from.
"I totally owned him." MegaKabuterimon said as he wiped the ink away.
"Sure you did." Izzy said, rolling his eyes, which was a very weird thing to see.
Meanwhile MetalGarurumon and Matt were facing the old man, who had drawn a wrestling ring.
Matt jumped into it, praying to whatever god there was listening that Grand Papillon wouldn't appear and smite him with his mighty muscles of justice.
"So you think you can beat me?" A voice sounded from one corner of the ring. The old man stood there, his face covered by shadows that had seemingly appeared out of nowhere.
"Off course we can old man!" Matt yelled at him.
"Old man? I am no mere old man…" The man stepped out of the shadows.
"I am the GREAT QUESTION!"
Matt's jaw fell to the ground. The man now wore a weird mask with a question mark sticking out of it.
Matt picked his jaw up again. "Okay, that's it. You're going down!" With that Matt charged the old man, who easily dodged him and his attacks.
"You have much to learn." Great question said and punched Matt in the stomach, sending him flying against one of the poles in the corner.
Matt quickly scrambled to his feet and attacked again, only this time he slashed his hands forward, sending eight red blades flying towards his opponent.
Grand Question didn't see this coming and barely dodged the attack. It did, however, cut his left shoulder.
"Not bad! But is your soul the soul of a warrior?!" Great Question asked.
"I don't care about that! I just want to get put of here and find my little brother!" With that said Matt launched another barrage off animal-like attacks on the old man. He didn't bother to dodge them for some reason.
Great Question was send flying and landed hard on the ground outside of the ring.
"You did it!" MetalGarurumon yelled out, waving a little flag with Matt's head on it. To this day no one knows where he got it.
"Where the hell were you?" Matt asked, trying to rebuild his cool guy attitude. "Getting popcorn." MetalGarurumon answered. Matt had a 'tick' above his eye as he said that.
"Anyway, since you defeated the manifestation of Otorochimon we're free to go." Izzy said, before another fight could break loose.
"Yes, and I'll let you out soon." The old man had gotten back on his feet and now stood next to Matt.
"Aah!" Matt had thought he was down and out but there he stood again.
"Before you go, I want you to take this." The old man, also known as Otoroshimon, took off the mask.
He held it out to Matt. "Take it. It's yours. YOU are the Great Question now."
"Eh…" Matt didn't know what to say. "Just take it so we can get out of here." Izzy whispered.
"Thanks, I guess." Matt said as he took the mask.
"Use its power to protect your loved ones." Otoroshimon said. Matt just stared at him and then at the mask.
"Not that I'm complaining but why aren't you trying to destroy us?" Gabumon, who just dedigivolved, asked. "Aren't you working for Puppetmon?"
"Not really. He just thinks that but I don't know about the others. And I didn't destroy you I didn't want toand because I haven't had this much fun in years!" Otoroshimon laughed. "Serious, the memories of him screaming like a little girl will amuse me for years."
The four of them sweatdropped.
"Plus there's the fact that he…" He pointed to Tentomon. "… Reminds me off my nephew."
Before anyone could say anything else the world melted away and the four digital beings were thrown back into the real digital world.
"Now that was weird." Gabumon said.
"This is even weirder." Matt said, pointing at the mask he was still holding.
"Hey, check out the painting." Izzy suddenly said. The three others gathered around to see what had happened to it.
Where the frightful image of Tai once stood, stood now a half wolf half man, wearing a bunch of rags that once was Matt's outfit and a mask. He reached towards the heavens as he stood with one foot upon his fallen foes.
"Okay, to much, let's go." Matt said as he made his way towards the door.
"You know, that guy reminded me off my uncle." Tentomon said as he flew after Matt and Gabumon. Izzy then did his best not to slap his airborne friend.
And now, a new champion is born. By the way, I don't own the Great Question. He belongs to the people who own Shadow Hearts. Oh and I changed the way he looks a bit because else he's to scary.
So now Matt is the Great Question, because if you defeat the GQ you become the GQ. By the way, the GQ mask holds great power as it doubles your speed and strength (or something like that) but Matt won't use it often.
Also: A new chapter! Oh man, you can't believe how much writer's block I've suffered from. I rewrote this chapter ten fing times! And I'm still not really glad with it.
Oh well.
I still have a bit of block but the next chapter of Spirits of Ages will be up somewhere next week. Oh, and check out my new story, it's a cross-over between digimon and naruto
Important! I need help on Mimi's form!
you can chosebetween: -Lilymon hybrid
-Female Myotismon (thanks for the idea genbo :)
-Something else (say what and i'll think about it)
Reviews!
Doodle-chan: actually it was Silent hill, so you're the closest to it. You can pick your price: either a cyber cookie or a one-shot (which you can chose what it's about!)
Genbo: I know it's creepy. But one of the other scenes with him is even more creepy. Trust me on this one. Never look up the 'man festival' it's horrible and killed of my brains cells. My IQ dropped two points when I watched it.
Depthmon: skull but he will keep his hair. Because I like skeletons with hair. Yes I am nuts.
Beth: thrust me, he's scary as hell. If you don't believe me, look up the man festival scenes but I already warned you about them. Oh, and I didn't answer them because I was hurrying to get the chapter online and didn't have much time. And sorry it took so long this time.
Super garurumon: That way I don't get sued and yes, thank god for fanfiction, where we normal people can annoy the hell out of our favourite characters.
Takari4ever3012: No your not, it was a rather hard one actually, because no one of my generation knows the awesomeness of that game. It's called Silent Hill and it caused me a lot of mental problems because I first played it when I was eight. Nah, not that bad actually but still...
anyway, R&R people!