(A/N: Okay, this may not be the third day, but honestly, I lost track of
when I last updated. So I'm gonna do this tonight. The thing says I updated
on the 8th, but that's impossible, as I was not on the net that night.
Anyway, thanks so much for the reviews! Sylvyr Elf, I have read Gaia Lao's
story and it rocked, so if it seems familiar, I can promise you it's not
intentional, could have been sub-conscious, (I just know I relate to it,
'cause those feelings make me go all 'grrr'). See that's how my writing
kinda works, I just type sometimes and go with it. So sorry Gaia, if it
seems like I stole stuff, I really didn't mean to. (For those of you, who
haven't read her stuff read it!) Oh yeah, this is for Hikari no Kousotsu
thanks for reviewing. Woo hoo the half way mark!)
"Weight of the worlds" 10. 'An old enemy'
The D-Reaper entered the large throne room of Ebonwumon's palace. The stone walls were decorated with lamps of fire and crimson drapes with golden birds dancing across them. The huge phoenix was not sitting on a throne, but was looking deep into a pool of water. He approached carefully. "Master, what is it that you see?"
Ebonwumon lifted his great crimson head and regarded the red cloud, "I see that Mae will be no problem to work with. She will give us the first Code. It is the boy that will give us trouble. I did not foresee that he would be so, stubborn. He knows what I am after and knows that I will do away with him if I get what I want. I will have to find another way to extract the Codes from him."
"But you will do it?"
"If I have to dig my claws into his brain to get them, I will."
~~~~****~~~~
"That didn't take too long." Veemon said as he dedigivolved from Flamedramon.
"Yeah, those Control Spires aren't so tough, and nor are those two who put it up." Armadillomon said with a slight grin.
"Don't count your chickens." TK warned him.
"Aww, come on TC, don't be such a kill joy." Davis added as he gave a weak smile to Armadillomon.
"You should really take his advice." An oily voice said.
They all turned to see the Emperor standing upon an Airdramon. He grinned down on them. Cody's face was etched with fury. Yolei looked away to hide the tears in her eyes. Davis frowned hard at him. TK did the same and Kari just looked sorry for him.
"Ken!" Davis shouted.
"I am NOT Ken you fool!" he glowered at the teen. "You should know that we are two very different entities."
"We can help you!" TK shouted.
The violet glasses fell on the blond. An evil grin crept across his lips. "I do believe you owe me a re-match. I was told to remind you where we left off?" he pulled out his prized possession, his whip and snapped it as he jumped down off the Airdramon.
"I don't want to fight you." TK whispered.
"Funny, that's not how you felt last time. Be a sport Takaishi. I have a surprise for you."
"Leave him alone!" Patamon yelled.
The indigo haired youth threw back his head to laugh at the orange digimon. As he brought it down again, his eyes held an evil glare to them and he wore an insane grin. Before anyone could see it, he threw a scarlet sphere of energy at the flying creature, sending him crying to the ground.
"Patamon!" TK yelled and as he picked him up, he turned to the Emperor to scowl at him.
Cody's eyes flashed with rage, "How did you do that?"
Ken ignored him, and continued to lunge at TK. They both went down, but obviously Ken had the upper hand. A hand that was crackling green lightning between his fingers and bringing it dangerously close to the blonds' throat.
"So this is how you get your kicks now is it? Torture?" TK ground out, while trying to fight Ken off.
Davis and Veemon lunged to push Ken off TK, but the Emperor shot out a large ball of purple fire, which singed the top of Davis' head.
Cody's jaw dropped, "Where did he get the powers?"
Ken turned to the youngest Digidestined, while he sat upon TK's chest to keep him down, "Ah, the Sorceress helped me out in that department."
"So that's it Ken? You bend to her will and she gives you power in exchange?" Kari asked, quite innocently.
"NO!" he screamed, "That is NOT how it works."
"Oh really?" Yolei said, seething, "That's how it looks to me."
"This does not concern you." He stepped off the keeper of Hope and regarded the whole group. "We will rule this world, and you cannot stop us."
"You wanna bet?" Gatomon yelled.
"No you don't understand. It is impossible for you to physically beat us. We are far too powerful for you. Nothing can stop us. Not even Ebonwumon." He grinned.
"Ebonwumon wants the Codes from you and then he is going to kill you!" Yolei whispered, "Don't you see, you are being used again. You're just a pawn."
"That maybe. But Ebonwumon is not going to get those Codes from me without a fight."
"And I will be right there fighting next to you." A seductive voice rang out. The Sorceress stepped out into the open clearing of the forest. Her hands were resting on her hips as she stood next to the Emperor.
When the gazes of the Digidestined rose above the two, they turned to acknowledge Daemon. They turned back and smiled to the teenagers and their digimon. "Ah, yes a little something I picked up today." Mae giggled.
"NO!" Yolei yelled, "You released him! How could you?"
"Quiet girl!" the Sorceress growled.
"Be warned Digi-fools," Ken began, "the Digital world is ours. Don't bother trying to fight us, you WILL lose."
"Oh yeah?" Cody barked.
"Oh yeah." Mae mocked. She glanced at TK; "We have Devimon, Ladydevimon, Daemon here, just to name a few."
TK narrowed his eyes at the two and before he could scream at them, they vanished, along with Daemon.
~~~~****~~~~
"What is the plan?"
Mae turned around to study the expression on the Emperor's face. "You are angry."
His brows knitted together, "What do you- No I'm not."
"Yes you are. You wanted to play with them some more."
"That's not it at all." He pushed past her forcefully to exit the control room, but she grabbed his arm and yanked him close to her.
"Then what?"
"You haven't told me what is going on."
They were very close now, and the anger that was surrounding Ken, had shifted to something else. To angst and then, slowly to desire.
"I'm sorry. I'll inform you as to what goes on from now on." She smiled invitingly to him, and suddenly he found himself kissing her. He pulled away and she giggled, mocking him.
"What is this? What spell have you put on me?" he demanded.
"Spell? You think this is my doing?" she shook her head, "No, this is fate. A dark prophecy."
"Prophecy?"
She pressed her lips together and nodded. "Darkness will cover all the worlds, and we will rule them."
"No, you will rule them. Let's face it, you are the one here with power, why do you need me?"
She smiled softly at him, "You have power Emperor, you just don't know it yet. I will teach you. And you have the most important thing in all the worlds."
"What's that?"
"The Codes."
He pushed away from her and stood in front of one of the monitors, "What exactly are these Codes that everyone keeps talking about?"
She released a long sigh and sat down on her throne, "Centuries ago, when I feared that I would be taken away from power, I inscribed a bunch of digital data on to devices called Dark Spores. My Crest, Mae's Crest, the Crest of Kindness was the only Crest that was unprotected by the Holy Beasts. All of them refused to have anything to do with it, once they learned that it had a flaw in it. So in time, I corrupted it. I discovered things about the Holy Beasts and the worlds they protected, and how they protected it. They each carried a set of Codes in their DNA, where they could open gateways to different worlds when they pleased. Of course, most of them never did, there was no need for it. However, the only worlds they could not break into and out of was limbo and the Dark Ocean. They did not have those Codes. I made it my business to find those Codes. And I did, after years of research. Of course that was before I was banished.
"Anyway, I took those Codes and made them apart of my Crest. The Crest of Cruelty. I also put it on the Spores. You have one of those Spores and only when you are the Emperor and carry the Crest of Cruelty, can you fully use the Codes. They are not numbers and digits, but inscriptions, now made apart of your DNA. With the wave of your hand, you could open the Dark Ocean. When you were Ken, you were able to tap into some of that power within you, it took a lot out of you didn't it?"
"Yes." He paused, "But, if you have the Codes, why doesn't Ebonwumon just get them from you?"
She closed her eyes and looked away, "Unfortunately, when my powers were striped in the Dark Ocean, the Codes were stripped along with them, I only hold one Code in my memory, the rest are in you. In your mind."
"I see." He looked to the window, "So what is the plan?"
"It's getting late, I shall tell you in the morning."
~~~~****~~~~
"I want to go home." Yolei mumbled.
Kari put an arm around her friends' shoulders, "Okay, I think that would be best."
"What?" Cody yelled, "We can't go, we have to stop what's going on!"
"We can't do it in one night Cody." Armadillomon stated, "I think it would be best if everyone got some rest and-"
"No! We have to stay here and-"
"Armadillomon is right Cody." Gennai said as he appeared in front of the group. "Azulongmon and I will be searching for the scroll, in the mean time there is nothing you can do."
"There must be something Gennai." TK begged.
"To be honest, there is nothing. You see, the Sorceress is just too powerful. When I was young, she had just being defeated and was on trial. I learned that she was even more powerful than the Holy Beasts. There is nothing you can do."
"Gennai?" Hawkmon started, "Then how, may I asked, did she get defeated?"
The Guardian heaved a deep sigh; "I stopped her."
"How?" Davis questioned.
"With--love."
"Then why can't you do that again?" Yolei asked sniffing.
"It's not that simple anymore. Well I don't think so anyway. She loved me before she became the Sorceress, and I was able to bring her back, but after she was banished for so long, and then came back, we both discovered that we had changed a lot. I had grown and so had she. We argue a lot and often don't see eye to eye. Our love for each other is not as strong as it once was."
An awkward silence fell over the group; this was very personal information they had received from someone that they hardly knew. Sure Gennai was their Guardian, but they hadn't really spent much time with him before.
"You should really go." Gennai eventually said.
"Are you sure?" Kari asked.
He nodded, "It's getting late, and your parents will wonder where you are."
"Okay."
~~~~****~~~~
"Master?"
Ebonwumon turned to the D-Reaper, "Yes?"
"How do you know the Sorceress will give you the Code?"
"Because like both you and I, she wants darkness and power."
"So why doesn't she just convince the Emperor to give you the Codes?"
"He is too smart for that. That's why the prophecy works so well. He will surrender to her whether he wants to or not and then the Spore and the Crests will merge and become one, causing the first wave of Darkness to flood the worlds, leaving all barriers weak. That's when I no longer need the Emperor and that's when I will torture him for the information I want."
----~~~~----
Ken: This is all very complicated.
Nic: Tell me about it. I'm the one who has to keep track of everything.
Kaiser: I'm glad I'm just a muse.
Wormmon: What happened to me in this story?
Nic: You appear in the next chapter. It's a long way for you to make all across the forest you know.
Osamu: I see I wasn't in this chapter.
Nic: No, I told you, your moment comes later.
Sorceress: When is something really interesting going to happen?
Mae: Soon.
Nic: Yeah what she said!
Ken: Oh, yeah, when Gennai said, 'When I was young-' you mean how young?
Nic: Not a boy or anything, I mean, when he had just been created. I'll explain. When Mae, Gennai and the other Guardians were created, they were not children who grew up, but looked just like they do now. Gennai is younger than Mae is; (she was created just hours after the Digital world). Gennai was created a few years before Mae crossed over to the Dark side for the first time. Everyone clear on that now?
All: Uhuh.
"Weight of the worlds" 10. 'An old enemy'
The D-Reaper entered the large throne room of Ebonwumon's palace. The stone walls were decorated with lamps of fire and crimson drapes with golden birds dancing across them. The huge phoenix was not sitting on a throne, but was looking deep into a pool of water. He approached carefully. "Master, what is it that you see?"
Ebonwumon lifted his great crimson head and regarded the red cloud, "I see that Mae will be no problem to work with. She will give us the first Code. It is the boy that will give us trouble. I did not foresee that he would be so, stubborn. He knows what I am after and knows that I will do away with him if I get what I want. I will have to find another way to extract the Codes from him."
"But you will do it?"
"If I have to dig my claws into his brain to get them, I will."
~~~~****~~~~
"That didn't take too long." Veemon said as he dedigivolved from Flamedramon.
"Yeah, those Control Spires aren't so tough, and nor are those two who put it up." Armadillomon said with a slight grin.
"Don't count your chickens." TK warned him.
"Aww, come on TC, don't be such a kill joy." Davis added as he gave a weak smile to Armadillomon.
"You should really take his advice." An oily voice said.
They all turned to see the Emperor standing upon an Airdramon. He grinned down on them. Cody's face was etched with fury. Yolei looked away to hide the tears in her eyes. Davis frowned hard at him. TK did the same and Kari just looked sorry for him.
"Ken!" Davis shouted.
"I am NOT Ken you fool!" he glowered at the teen. "You should know that we are two very different entities."
"We can help you!" TK shouted.
The violet glasses fell on the blond. An evil grin crept across his lips. "I do believe you owe me a re-match. I was told to remind you where we left off?" he pulled out his prized possession, his whip and snapped it as he jumped down off the Airdramon.
"I don't want to fight you." TK whispered.
"Funny, that's not how you felt last time. Be a sport Takaishi. I have a surprise for you."
"Leave him alone!" Patamon yelled.
The indigo haired youth threw back his head to laugh at the orange digimon. As he brought it down again, his eyes held an evil glare to them and he wore an insane grin. Before anyone could see it, he threw a scarlet sphere of energy at the flying creature, sending him crying to the ground.
"Patamon!" TK yelled and as he picked him up, he turned to the Emperor to scowl at him.
Cody's eyes flashed with rage, "How did you do that?"
Ken ignored him, and continued to lunge at TK. They both went down, but obviously Ken had the upper hand. A hand that was crackling green lightning between his fingers and bringing it dangerously close to the blonds' throat.
"So this is how you get your kicks now is it? Torture?" TK ground out, while trying to fight Ken off.
Davis and Veemon lunged to push Ken off TK, but the Emperor shot out a large ball of purple fire, which singed the top of Davis' head.
Cody's jaw dropped, "Where did he get the powers?"
Ken turned to the youngest Digidestined, while he sat upon TK's chest to keep him down, "Ah, the Sorceress helped me out in that department."
"So that's it Ken? You bend to her will and she gives you power in exchange?" Kari asked, quite innocently.
"NO!" he screamed, "That is NOT how it works."
"Oh really?" Yolei said, seething, "That's how it looks to me."
"This does not concern you." He stepped off the keeper of Hope and regarded the whole group. "We will rule this world, and you cannot stop us."
"You wanna bet?" Gatomon yelled.
"No you don't understand. It is impossible for you to physically beat us. We are far too powerful for you. Nothing can stop us. Not even Ebonwumon." He grinned.
"Ebonwumon wants the Codes from you and then he is going to kill you!" Yolei whispered, "Don't you see, you are being used again. You're just a pawn."
"That maybe. But Ebonwumon is not going to get those Codes from me without a fight."
"And I will be right there fighting next to you." A seductive voice rang out. The Sorceress stepped out into the open clearing of the forest. Her hands were resting on her hips as she stood next to the Emperor.
When the gazes of the Digidestined rose above the two, they turned to acknowledge Daemon. They turned back and smiled to the teenagers and their digimon. "Ah, yes a little something I picked up today." Mae giggled.
"NO!" Yolei yelled, "You released him! How could you?"
"Quiet girl!" the Sorceress growled.
"Be warned Digi-fools," Ken began, "the Digital world is ours. Don't bother trying to fight us, you WILL lose."
"Oh yeah?" Cody barked.
"Oh yeah." Mae mocked. She glanced at TK; "We have Devimon, Ladydevimon, Daemon here, just to name a few."
TK narrowed his eyes at the two and before he could scream at them, they vanished, along with Daemon.
~~~~****~~~~
"What is the plan?"
Mae turned around to study the expression on the Emperor's face. "You are angry."
His brows knitted together, "What do you- No I'm not."
"Yes you are. You wanted to play with them some more."
"That's not it at all." He pushed past her forcefully to exit the control room, but she grabbed his arm and yanked him close to her.
"Then what?"
"You haven't told me what is going on."
They were very close now, and the anger that was surrounding Ken, had shifted to something else. To angst and then, slowly to desire.
"I'm sorry. I'll inform you as to what goes on from now on." She smiled invitingly to him, and suddenly he found himself kissing her. He pulled away and she giggled, mocking him.
"What is this? What spell have you put on me?" he demanded.
"Spell? You think this is my doing?" she shook her head, "No, this is fate. A dark prophecy."
"Prophecy?"
She pressed her lips together and nodded. "Darkness will cover all the worlds, and we will rule them."
"No, you will rule them. Let's face it, you are the one here with power, why do you need me?"
She smiled softly at him, "You have power Emperor, you just don't know it yet. I will teach you. And you have the most important thing in all the worlds."
"What's that?"
"The Codes."
He pushed away from her and stood in front of one of the monitors, "What exactly are these Codes that everyone keeps talking about?"
She released a long sigh and sat down on her throne, "Centuries ago, when I feared that I would be taken away from power, I inscribed a bunch of digital data on to devices called Dark Spores. My Crest, Mae's Crest, the Crest of Kindness was the only Crest that was unprotected by the Holy Beasts. All of them refused to have anything to do with it, once they learned that it had a flaw in it. So in time, I corrupted it. I discovered things about the Holy Beasts and the worlds they protected, and how they protected it. They each carried a set of Codes in their DNA, where they could open gateways to different worlds when they pleased. Of course, most of them never did, there was no need for it. However, the only worlds they could not break into and out of was limbo and the Dark Ocean. They did not have those Codes. I made it my business to find those Codes. And I did, after years of research. Of course that was before I was banished.
"Anyway, I took those Codes and made them apart of my Crest. The Crest of Cruelty. I also put it on the Spores. You have one of those Spores and only when you are the Emperor and carry the Crest of Cruelty, can you fully use the Codes. They are not numbers and digits, but inscriptions, now made apart of your DNA. With the wave of your hand, you could open the Dark Ocean. When you were Ken, you were able to tap into some of that power within you, it took a lot out of you didn't it?"
"Yes." He paused, "But, if you have the Codes, why doesn't Ebonwumon just get them from you?"
She closed her eyes and looked away, "Unfortunately, when my powers were striped in the Dark Ocean, the Codes were stripped along with them, I only hold one Code in my memory, the rest are in you. In your mind."
"I see." He looked to the window, "So what is the plan?"
"It's getting late, I shall tell you in the morning."
~~~~****~~~~
"I want to go home." Yolei mumbled.
Kari put an arm around her friends' shoulders, "Okay, I think that would be best."
"What?" Cody yelled, "We can't go, we have to stop what's going on!"
"We can't do it in one night Cody." Armadillomon stated, "I think it would be best if everyone got some rest and-"
"No! We have to stay here and-"
"Armadillomon is right Cody." Gennai said as he appeared in front of the group. "Azulongmon and I will be searching for the scroll, in the mean time there is nothing you can do."
"There must be something Gennai." TK begged.
"To be honest, there is nothing. You see, the Sorceress is just too powerful. When I was young, she had just being defeated and was on trial. I learned that she was even more powerful than the Holy Beasts. There is nothing you can do."
"Gennai?" Hawkmon started, "Then how, may I asked, did she get defeated?"
The Guardian heaved a deep sigh; "I stopped her."
"How?" Davis questioned.
"With--love."
"Then why can't you do that again?" Yolei asked sniffing.
"It's not that simple anymore. Well I don't think so anyway. She loved me before she became the Sorceress, and I was able to bring her back, but after she was banished for so long, and then came back, we both discovered that we had changed a lot. I had grown and so had she. We argue a lot and often don't see eye to eye. Our love for each other is not as strong as it once was."
An awkward silence fell over the group; this was very personal information they had received from someone that they hardly knew. Sure Gennai was their Guardian, but they hadn't really spent much time with him before.
"You should really go." Gennai eventually said.
"Are you sure?" Kari asked.
He nodded, "It's getting late, and your parents will wonder where you are."
"Okay."
~~~~****~~~~
"Master?"
Ebonwumon turned to the D-Reaper, "Yes?"
"How do you know the Sorceress will give you the Code?"
"Because like both you and I, she wants darkness and power."
"So why doesn't she just convince the Emperor to give you the Codes?"
"He is too smart for that. That's why the prophecy works so well. He will surrender to her whether he wants to or not and then the Spore and the Crests will merge and become one, causing the first wave of Darkness to flood the worlds, leaving all barriers weak. That's when I no longer need the Emperor and that's when I will torture him for the information I want."
----~~~~----
Ken: This is all very complicated.
Nic: Tell me about it. I'm the one who has to keep track of everything.
Kaiser: I'm glad I'm just a muse.
Wormmon: What happened to me in this story?
Nic: You appear in the next chapter. It's a long way for you to make all across the forest you know.
Osamu: I see I wasn't in this chapter.
Nic: No, I told you, your moment comes later.
Sorceress: When is something really interesting going to happen?
Mae: Soon.
Nic: Yeah what she said!
Ken: Oh, yeah, when Gennai said, 'When I was young-' you mean how young?
Nic: Not a boy or anything, I mean, when he had just been created. I'll explain. When Mae, Gennai and the other Guardians were created, they were not children who grew up, but looked just like they do now. Gennai is younger than Mae is; (she was created just hours after the Digital world). Gennai was created a few years before Mae crossed over to the Dark side for the first time. Everyone clear on that now?
All: Uhuh.