Chapter 10: A New Power, Xros Digivolution
"Damn that DarkKnightmon!" OmegaShoutmon yelled as he punched the bedrock Dragon Falls is situated next to, "His plan from the start was to go after Carlos!"
"Ou-sama..." Arresterdramon muttered as he held the unconscious Dorbickmon on his back. After what happened, the two had returned to Dragon Land to think of a way to plan a rescue.
"There is no telling what DarkKnightmon will do to him..." OmegaShoutmon responded as he punched the rock again, "I should have been more vigilant..."
"It wasn't your fault..." Arresterdramon tacitly told him as he sat Dorbickmon against a tree.
"Yes it is..." OmegaShoutmon responded under his breath, "As king, I owe it to him to keep him safe...we should have never split up to look for Dorbickmon..."
As the two stood there, they turned back when they heard Dorbickmon groan in pain, which signaled that he was waking up from his slumber.
"uurrrghhh..." he snarled in pain. The dragon woke up to see OmegaShoutmon and Arresterdramon looking at him.
"You..." he glanced around, "Where..."
"Dragon Falls." OmegaShoutmon bluntly interrupted him, "Now get up..."
"...hmph." Dorbickmon slowly rose to his feet, cringing the whole time due to the damage done to his body in his fight with DarkKnightmon. He glanced at his injuries, noting many burns on his body, some of which were deep enough to cause him to bleed. But it looked like he was patched up already.
"DarkKnightmon..." he groused, looking around. Dorbickmon noticed it was only Arresterdramon and OmegaShoutmon with him, and he muttered, "So you finally ditched the brat..."
OmegaShoutmon snapped when he heard Dorbickmon's comment. The king grabbed him, slammed him into the bedrock and pinned him up against it. Dorbickmon cringed in pain since OmegaShoutmon had his grip on one of Dorbickmon's injuries.
"We didn't abandon him! He risked his life to save you, you ungrateful bastard!" he yelled. Dorbickmon's body was in too much pain for him to be able to fight back.
"And you blame his death wish on me...?!" he snarled. The king tightened his grip on the drake's injury, causing him to cringe and let out a grunt of pain.
"You're damned right I do..." OmegaShoutmon gritted his teeth in anger, "I don't know what the hell your problem is, but he saved you out of the goodness in his heart! And here you are, still alive and yet you don't care at all! Why the hell can't you accept the fact that he's your partner now!?"
Dorbickmon stayed in silence as OmegaShoutmon kept him pinned to the bedrock. In Dorbickmon's condition, OmegaShoutmon could easily finish what DarkKnightmon started, and that way he wouldn't have to worry about Dorbickmon anymore. That thought circled around his mind, but he merely glared and released Dorbickmon, who could barely stand.
"Hmph...then again I'm talking to Dorbickmon the Fire-Fury. An arrogant prick who cares about no one but himself..." he harshly belittled him. OmegaShoutmon turned to walk back towards Arresterdramon.
"A digimon like you would never understand what having a human partner is like..." he muttered and gave one last sharp glare at Dorbickmon, "One day you will die cold and alone, and NO ONE, will come help you..."
The king stormed off, leaving Dorbickmon there to take care of his injuries.
"Ou-sama!" Arresterdramon followed after OmegaShoutmon. Dorbickmon sat there, watching the two leave, with a fixed glare. As the two walked off, they contemplated.
"What's our plan?" Arresterdramon asked.
"We're gonna find where DarkKnightmon took Carlos, and we're gonna break him out." the king explained.
"How do you intend to find him...?" Arresterdramon asked again.
"By finding a place that radiates the same energy as the Darkness Loader. When DarkKnightmon escaped, he dropped a small black shard that was emanating that dark aura, if I use that energy as a signal, I should be able to find where DarkKnightmon is hiding." OmegaShoutmon told him.
"Alright." Arresterdramon nodded in agreement. OmegaShoutmon took to the sky.
"I'm going on ahead, you go back to the castle and wait for me there." OmegaShoutmon told him as he soared off into the horizon. Arresterdramon watched him leave, and after being a considerable distance away, he degenerated to Gumdramon.
"There something I've got to do first..." he muttered, and ran back towards Dorbickmon, who was still sitting against the bedrock.
"Hey!" Gumdramon called out as he approached him.
"You...you're the runt who trains with Shoutmon..." Dorbickmon crudely muttered.
"I have a name, it's Gumdramon." the small dragon told him.
"Hmph...out with it, what do you want?" Dorbickmon bluntly asked.
"...why do you hate Carlos so much...?" Gumdramon responded. Dorbickmon sat there, giving Gumdramon a slight glare, and looked away.
"He's only trying to help you..."
"I don't need the help of some human..." Dorbickmon brazenly muttered. Gumdramon rolled his eyes.
"And why not?" he asked Dorbickmon, who merely ignored the question.
"Hmph, just scram kid...unless you want to get hurt..." Dorbickmon indignantly responded.. Gumdramon went over and with little energy, hit one of Dorbickmon's many injuries with his hammer.
"Guh...!" Dorbickmon grunted in pain, nearly holding the injury.
"Yeah...in your condition, a fruit would do more damage to me than you..."
Dorbickmon growled at him, yet for some reason, he hadn't tried to kill the small dragon.
"Why do you hate humans so much? Is it because you were defeated by one?" Gumdramon asked. The question filled Dorbickmon with rage.
"You...!"
"Hey, I'm not trying to be hostile towards you...it's only a question, calm down." Gumdramon explained.
"Why the hell do you even care...?" Dorbickmon snarled, annoyed by the small drake at this point.
"Call it a whim..." Gumdramon replied. Dorbickmon stayed mute, scowling at the young dragon the entire time.
"Alright, don't tell me..." Gumdramon responded, "I'm only trying to be nice..."
"...why do you even trust that runt anyway...?" Dorbickmon bluntly asked.
"Because he's my friend. He helped me, its only natural friends help each other. You two are partners now, you should be helping each other. It's not as bad as you make it out to be. Take me for example, although my partner Tagiru is away with Taiki, I still train because I want to make him proud. He helps me when I'm down, and together we are a team!"
Dorbickmon stayed in silence, looking down at the floor for a moment. Gumdramon gave a slight smirk.
"That's why...I think it's best that you hold onto it." he muttered. Dorbickmon glanced at him in confusion.
"Hold on to what?" the drake asked. Gumdramon walked up to him.
"His Xros Loader, he left it behind when DarkKnightmon apprehended him." he explained.
"You..."
"You might be evil Dorbickmon...but even you have a heart..." Gumdramon placed the Xros Loader in Dorbickmon's care and gave one last look into his eyes. The Death General looked at the small dragon.
"Maybe someday you'll understand...take care of it until then ok?" Gumdramon asked him, and walked off. Dorbickmon glanced down at the Xros Loader. He flashed back to the fight for an instant, remaining silent. The sound of the waterfall filled his eardrums as he stayed there with his gaze fixed at the device, which reflected a light when the sun hit the screen. When Gumdramon returned to the castle, Shoutmon had been waiting for him outside the castle gate.
"You're late..." the king crossed his arms.
"Sorry, I got caught up in something..." Gumdramon responded as the two walked into the throne room, "Did you find anything?"
Shoutmon nodded, "In Vampire Land, there's a dark tower I hadn't seen before. It doesn't belong to NeoVamdemon, and the shard started glowing when I approached the tower. That's got to be where he's hiding."
"Then let's go save him!" Gumdramon made a fist.
"Just one problem, there is a barrier blocking the entrance..." Shoutmon told him the bad news.
"Oh..."
"Finding a way to get past it will take some time." he responded, as he walked towards his throne.
"How long?" Gumdramon asked, glancing over at him.
"A few hours at least..." Shoutmon muttered.
"Alright..." Gumdramon looked down, and assisted Shoutmon. They pondered way to break open the barrier, all the while Gumdramon was wondering if Dorbickmon was ok. The two had left him there alone, and the injuries were too much for Dorbickmon to be moving normally by the look of it.
"Dorbickmon..." the small dragon muttered.
"Something bothering you?" Shoutmon asked as he looked at Gumdramon.
"N-no! It's nothing..." Gumdramon looked away.
"You sure?" the king asked again.
"Yes..."
"Alright then..." Shoutmon turned back to thinking of a way to get rid of the barrier. After a while of examining the tower's defenses using a map he had of the entire digital world that projected the world on it's current day, Shoutmon noticed a pattern.
"I think I found something!" he exclaimed. Gumdramon looked over.
"What is it?" he asked, as he walked over.
"Ok, around every three quarter hour there is a one minute interval in which the barrier weakens in strength, that gives us time to break through." Shoutmon explained.
"Alright, when's the next interval...?" Gumdramon asked.
"In about 40 minutes, we have to move." the king informed both of them ran out of the throne room and into the courtyard. They digivolved and started flying to Vampire Land.
Halfway there though, Arresterdramon felt his stomach start hurting.
"Ugh..." he groaned, holding his stomach.
"What's wrong...?" OmegaShoutmon asked.
"My stomach...it hurts...you go on ahead. I'll catch up..." he explained.
"You sure?" OmegaShoutmon looked at him.
"Yeah...oohgh..." Arresterdramon groaned.
"Alright...don't take too long." OmegaShoutmon responded and flew off. When he was out of view, Arresterdramon let go of his stomach and flew towards Dragon Land.
"I'm sorry for lying Ou-sama...but I've got to take care of something..." he muttered. Arriving back at Dragon Falls, he scouted the area and found Dorbickmon, who was deep in sleep, still sitting against the bedrock near the waterfall. Upon closer inspection, Arresterdramon noticed Dorbickmon breathing heavily and perspiring from his head.
Is he having a nightmare...? Arresterdramon thought. After a while, Dorbickmon abruptly jolted awake from his sleep. Arresterdramon noticed he had a look of paranoia as he wiped the sweat off his head.
"Bad dream?" he asked Dorbickmon, who turned to face him and upon sight, gave the dragon a cold look.
"You..." he growled.
"You know, it isn't very wise to sleep outside without a campfire. Dragon digimon can't exactly handle cold weather very well...unless you're a SnowAgumon..." Arresterdramon glanced over at the night sky.
"Cut the crap kid..." Dorbickmon bluntly retorted, "Now what do you want...?"
"I just came to tell you that we found DarkKnightmon's hideout. It's the tower in Vampire Land." Arresterdramon informed the drake. Dorbickmon stayed silent.
"I just thought you'd want to know, considering your partner is over there..." Arresterdramon mentioned. The Death General looked away.
"That brat isn't my partner...nor will he ever be..." Dorbickmon muttered. Arresterdramon crossed his arms.
"You really are hardheaded..." he told him. Dorbickmon growled at the digimon.
"You know, it's pretty pathetic to see you moping like this...but what do I know, I'm just a brat right...?" Arresterdramon walked up to him. The Death General still remained silent.
"I know there is some good in you, otherwise you would have never had Fanglongmon as your comrade..." Arresterdramon responded. Dorbickmon merely stayed mute.
"Give it some thought, maybe you'll come to see it isn't so bad..."
With that last sentence, Arresterdramon took flight towards Vampire Land. Dorbickmon sat there in silence, and opened his palm to look at the Xros Loader.
"That brat..." Dorbickmon watched him fly off.
Arresterdramon arrived at Vampire Land, and caught up to OmegaShoutmon, who was scouting out the area where he hypothesized DarkKnightmon would be in.
"Feeling better?" he asked Arresterdramon.
"Yeah, how close is it?" Arresterdramon responded.
"Pretty close, be prepared." OmegaShoutmon informed him.
"Right..."
They arrived at a cliff that overlooked most of Vampire Land. An abandoned, worn out tower made of gray concrete was situated in the center, guarded by a dark barrier of energy.
"Alright...let's go." OmegaShoutmon ordered. Both of them soared towards it, but were ambushed by a group of Devimon, which were demon digimon resembling a man with black wings, red eyes and bore devil like qualities, such as two black horns on the sides of their heads and an orange symbol of a bat on their chests. The digimon wore belts on its arms, left forearm, stomach and legs, as well as brown bandaged weights on its right forearm, and black boots, the right one having steel bands and the left boot having the same bat symbol the Devimon had on their chests. There was a skull tattoo on their left shoulders and right kneecaps.
"Couldn't make this easy could he...?" OmegaShoutmon told himself as he and Arresterdramon charged into battle.
"Heavy Metal Vulcan!" OmegaShoutmon yelled, firing two beams of fire at the group, chipping away the left flank.
"Prism Gallet!"Arresterdramon rammed into the side of the group, taking care of three Devimon. As they fought, the barrier weakened in power on cue.
"Ou-sama! The barrier!" Arresterdramon exclaimed.
"Damn...they're stalling for time!" OmegaShoutmon growled. As they fought, more and more Devimon arrived, and started pushing them back even further. OmegaShoutmon hit one after the other.
"If we don't get through there, then-!"
"Dragon Breath Tonic Fire!"
A burst of flame hit the barrier, creating a gap in the energy flux. Arresterdramon glanced over at the attacker.
"It's-!"
OmegaShoutmon looked over to see Dorbickmon rushing towards the barrier. He jumped up and passed through the opening as the barrier closed.
"Dorbickmon..." the king muttered, as he and Arresterdramon decided to take care of the Devimon first. Meanwhile, Dorbickmon rushed up the incessant staircase of the dark tower, as the torches on the wall next to him lit up the farther he trekked. He reached the end to find himself in a room resembling a throne room, but worn out and many parts of it destroyed, leaving many holes and cracks in the walls. The columns were the only thing keeping the entire room from collapsing; he glared at DarkKnightmon, who was sitting down on a throne.
"So, you have arrived...quite surprising..." the knight smirked.
"Grr...!"
"I see you have the boy's Xros Loader...has the guilt finally overpowered you...?"
"Shut that trap of yours!" Dorbickmon barked, "The brat has nothing to do with this!"
"Oh but he does...at least now he is a part of it..." DarkKnightmon sinisterly muttered. Dorbickmon clenched his fist in anger. Every fiber in his body wanted to crush DarkKnightmon's skull to pieces.
"And yet...you yourself never learn either...since you're not here for the boy...I assume you've returned for another imprudent attempt at revenge...what a stubborn dragon you are..."
"You...!" Dorbickmon gritted his teeth in anger.
"When will the lesson become clear...you are no match for me...you are still injured from our previous battle...and your army is no longer by your side. The odds are greatly in my favor..."
"Dorbickmon!" they heard two voices call out.
OmegaShoutmon and Arresterdramon arrived at the scene to see Dorbickmon start emanating a red aura. He gritted his teeth at DarkKnightmon.
"But then again...you were always taking orders like a dog..." the knight insulted him. Dorbickmon's face widened with anger as he gritted his teeth to the point his jaw started to bleed. In a mere instant, the anger accumulated in him exploded as he rushed at DarkKnightmon at a blinding fast speed and struck a blow causing the room to shake.
"Oh no...Dorbickmons on a rampage...!" OmegaShoutmon explained. DarkKnightmon jumped out of the smoke as Dorbickmon chased after him. He skillfully avoided Dorbickmon's deadly assault of attacks as he kept his distance form the dragon.
"Dragon Breath Tonic Fire!"
He shot out two bursts of flame which combined into one and headed straight towards DarkKnightmon, who avoided it at the last second. Dorbickmon smashed the columns to pieces in a blind rage as he chased after DarkKnightmon. The tower started to shake as each column fell.
"If Dorbickmon keeps this up, then the whole place will collapse on us!" Arresterdramon exclaimed. OmegaShoutmon ran straight at Dorbickmon and grabbed him from behind.
"Dorbickmon, calm down!" he told the drake. Dorbickmon snarled as he broke free of OmegaShoutmon's grip. The dragon quickly turned and punched OmegaShoutmon in the face.
"Gah!" the king yelled in pain. Dorbickmon followed the attack up by slamming OmegaShoutmon on the floor and pinning him down by the neck. The cannons on his chest started glowing as he snarled viciously, almost animal like, at OmegaShoutmon, who struggled to get free.
"Ou-sama!" Arresterdramon flew over to them both as quickly as possible. OmegaShoutmon prepared himself for the worst.
"Dragon Breath Tonic-!"
"DORBICKMON, STOP!"
He glanced over, as did OmegaShoutmon and Arresterdramon. DarkKnightmon smirked.
"C-carlos...?!" OmegaShoutmon muttered in astonishment. They looked at me with surprise and shock.
"Interesting..." DarkKnightmon muttered. Dorbickmon slowly regained his control as he let go of OmegaShoutmon. He rose to his feet.
"You..." he muttered. To our surprise, DarkKnightmon impaled Dorbickmon through his chest before we could react.
"Dorbickmon!" Arresterdramon cried out.
"No!" I ran over as DarkKnightmon retracted his spear and jumped away.
"You...bastard!" OmegaShoutmon got up and charged after him. Dorbickmon collapsed on the floor as small bits of data were coming out of his body.
"Dorbickmon..."
In between gasps, he looked over to me, "You...you...guh...risked your life...to save mine..."
In his hand, he had my Xros Loader, which surprised me. He glared slightly.
"Why...do something so stupid...for the likes of me...even though...I wanted you dead..." he asked. I reached into his palm, looked up at him, and showed him the Xros Loader.
"This...is why." he heard me respond. He stayed in silence as he looked at the Xros Loader, then back to me.
"Whether you accepted me or not, I was, no, I AM your partner now! I want to prove my worth to you! Which is why I refuse to let some damned freak of darkness take you away!"
Dorbickmon was surprised, "You..."
"Get up Dorbickmon! You were not one to quit when you wanted me dead! Don't let him take your life! Show that dark bastard your true strength and ferocity! A dragon's pride isn't shown through surrendering!" he heard me exclaim. Dorbickmon grunted in pain, but still kept talking despite his breathing being hindered.
" ...hmph...those words...coming from...a human's mouth...how...ironic..." he muttered.
"I won't let him win, and neither will you!"
In that moment, the Xros Loader let out a huge burst of golden energy that engulfed us both.
"What?!" DarkKnightmon exclaimed.
"It can't be..." OmegaShoutmon, along with Arresterdramon, were taken by surprised.
"...huh..?" I looked around, but saw nothing but gold energy around me, "Where...?"
The Xros Loader gave off a light from the screen. Upon looking at it, what resembled the Greek symbol Δ appeared on the screen, only it was turned on its side. The whole scene was confusing.
"What is...?"
It's time... a voice told me. It was the exact same voice that appeared when my Xros Loader was given to me.
"It's you...what do you mean...?"
With your hearts resonating...activate your new power...
"Power...? What power...?"
The power...of Xros Digivolution...
"Xros...Digivolution...?"
Digivolve...your partner... it responded as it faded away. Standing there for a moment looking into the Xros Loaders screen, a new-found confidence surged inside me.
"Alright then..." I raised the Xros Loader in the air, "Dorbickmon, Xros Shinka!"
"What?!" DarkKnightmon's eyes widened with shock.
"Xros...Shinka...?" OmegaShoutmon muttered in astonishment. As the light dissipated in the wind, Dorbickmon transformed into his most powerful form, astonishing the dark knight.
"Dorbickmon Darkness Mode?! Impossible! You need the entire Dragon Army for you to DigiXros into that form!"
"Heh..." OmegaShoutmon smirked at DarkKnightmon, "Can't you feel that energy...?"
"What...?!" the knight glared.
"He is not being powered by darkness! He's no longer Dorbickmon Darkness Mode!" OmegaShoutmon explained.
"He...is Dorbickmon Dragon Mode!" I informed the knight.
"Xros Shinka, Dorbickmon Dragon Mode!" Dorbickmon roared.
"It's power is twice that of its dark counterpart!" he heard me exclaim. DarkKnightmon regained his composure, despite this new-found power.
"Even if you did manage to achieve that form without DigiXrossing, you still won't be able to defeat me!" he exclaimed. To his astonishment, Dorbickmon appeared behind him.
"You talk with that trap of yours too much..." the dragon growled. He crashed his fist into DarkKnightmon's face, and the force crashed the knight through the left side of the tower.
"Incredible..." OmegaShoutmon was in awe of the increase in Dorbickmon's strength.
DarkKnightmon appeared out of the rubble and hovered above all of us. This event had angered him.
"I've wasted enough time with you all...if I strike you down here, then that form would have gone to waste!" the knight yelled. He raised the Darkness Loader in the air and it emanated a dark light that infused itself into his spear.
"I'll use the dark energy I've collected to destroy this place!" he exclaimed. Dorbickmon appeared in front of me as he prepared himself. The cannons on his chest started to glow.
"Die!" DarkKnightmon shot out the accumulated energy from his spear.
"Dragon Breath Tonic Fire!"
Dorbickmon shot out a burst of flame, which met DarkKnightmon's attack dead on as both forces fought against each other.
"You can do it Dorbickmon!" I exclaimed. As they fought, DarkKnightmon kept feeding more dark energy into his attack, which started pushing Dorbickmon's attack back. The dragon grunted in pain as the force started to slowly push him back. Dorbickmon stood his ground as the attack approached us. OmegaShoutmon and Arresterdramon both looked at each other, and nodded. Arresterdramon took to the skies and OmegaShoutmon ran up to where Dorbickmon was.
"Heavy Metal Vulcan!" the king shot out two beams of fire as he stood next to Dorbickmon, who merely glanced at him. The boost in energy caused DarkKnightmon's attack to start faltering.
"This...this can't be...!" the knight stammered.
"Prism Gallet!" Arresterdramon roared. DarkKnightmon was taken by surprise as he moved out of the way to avoid Arresterdramon's attack
"Now!" I yelled.
"Dragon Breath Tonic Fire!"
"Heavy Metal Vulcan!"
Both digimon roared as their attacks combined into one which hit DarkKnightmon dead on, as he yelled in pain.
"We did it!" Arresterdramon exclaimed. When the smoke faded we saw DarkKnightmon had a considerable amount of damage done to him.
"You...! You will regret this day...!" he muttered before vanishing into a portal made by his Super Dimensional Ax. As he left, the ground under us started to shake.
"C-crap!"
Dorbickmon grunted in pain as he reverted to his normal form and collapsed from fatigue.
"Hurry!" Arresterdramon exclaimed. OmegaShoutmon grabbed Dorbickmon and put him on his back while Arresterdramon grabbed me in his hands. We all fled as the tower collapsed, and made our way back towards Dragon Land.
"Think he'll be back?" Arresterdramon asked OmegaShoutmon.
"Yes...and with a stronger vengeance." the king muttered. Somewhere else however, DarkKnightmon appeared out of his portal. Holding his arm in pain, he forced himself towards a room filled with different kinds of experiments he was working on. He walked over to a specific one, which looked merely like a small black flame of data kept in a small vial. As he glanced at it, his look of anger was calmed as he regained his composure, and analyzed what has currently happened in his head.
Dorbickmon...I'm surprised you were able to achieve a power like that...but next time will be different. The darkness energy I've collected from you has already set my next plan in motion. I'll stay hidden until it is ready...and when it is...you'll pay...as your life will be taken by thine own hand! he thought to himself as he laughed evilly.
We arrived at Dorbickmon's home, where OmegaShoutmon laid him back against one of the castle walls.
"Come...let him rest..." OmegaShoutmon told us.
"Right..." I muttered. We left him there and went back to Shoutmon's Castle, where Shoutmon promptly asked to meet with me alone at night. We walked through the courtyard as we began to converse.
"You alright...?" he asked.
"Yeah..."
"What did he do to you..?" the king crossed his arms. It seemed that no matter how much effort was put into remembering what happened, everything after DarkKnightmon had locked me in that dungeon until seeing Dorbickmon about to kill OmegaShoutmon was blank.
"I remember being chained up in a dungeon, then he walked in...and the rest is a blur..."
"Oh..." he looked down.
"I remember him talking about some experiment...but I can't remember what it was..."
"...alright, get some rest, well check on Dorbickmon tomorrow..." he advised.
"Alright." I responded and walked away. After he was alone, he merely looked down, concerned.
"Carlos...little did you know...your eyes..."
He quickly nodded in disbelief, getting rid of the thought of what he saw.
"N-no! It must have been my imagination! There is no way..."
He walked towards the castle, and headed to his room up the castle stairs.
"But that won't stop me from checking to see if there is something wrong..." he uttered one last time before disappearing into the corridor's darkness. The following morning we arrived at the entrance of the cave leading to Dorbickmons home to see Fanglongmon waiting for us.
"Fanglongmon...I'm glad your alive..." he heard me tell him. His gaze was fixed on me.
"...he wishes to see you, human..." he told us, "...alone..."
I turned back to Shoutmon, who nodded slowly. He must think it isn't some sort of trap.
"Be careful..." he advised.
"I will..."
He and Gumdramon stayed behind while Fanglongmon escorted me through the cave and into the valley. Walking through the forest we arrived at a small lake hidden deep inside the many bushes and trees the valley contained. The lake glittered with the reflection of the sun, and on the left was where it shrunk back into a river which led to Dragon Falls. Dorbickmon was waiting there, overlooking the lake.
"...you wanted to see me...?" I asked him, hoping that it wouldn't cause me to regret my words. He turned around to look at me and Fanglongmon.
"You...kid..." he muttered. It was the first time he didn't call me a brat, and his voice wasn't filled with anger and hate. "You foolishly risked your life for mine...why...?"
There was a moment of silence between us, and he heard me respond, "Partly because we're partners, but the other part...is because of you..."
"Me...?" he was confused by my answer.
"Yeah...you see...I haven't been here for a week, but I saw how happy the digimon of this world are...but you...your life is horrible...it's worse than theirs...I saw how they treat you...even if you did commit all those crimes...it's unfair that you don't get a second chance...I wish to rectify that by helping you achieve a chance of a better life..."
He stayed silent, looking back to the lake. My answer must have offended him, and we were about to leave him alone when he responded.
"...you told me you wish to prove your worth..." he didn't look back at us.
"I do...if you give me a chance..."
He glanced at me, and after a while turned to Fanglongmon, who nodded and walked out. He returned a few minutes later, and on his back was an egg. He placed it down in front of me and walked back.
"It's..."
"...A Digi-Egg..." Dorbickmon interrupted me. I looked up at him, and then back to the Digi-Egg, which to my surprise, started moving. It gave off a bright flash of light, and when it faded, what was once the egg was now a small round blue Digimon with black eyes. It resembled a sort of slime. The digimon glanced up at me, and happily jumped in my arms.
"Hey little guy..."
"Ten days..." Dorbickmon told me. We looked up at him.
"Ten days from now, you report back here... and I'll give you your first test..."
"Alright..."
"...Now go." he ordered. I walked out with the digimon. Fanglongmon turned towards Dorbickmon, half surprised but with a stern face.
"...don't think too much of this..." Dorbickmon told him, "He will never be my partner, nor anything close to that...this is purely for power...and nothing else..."
Upon hearing this, Fanglongmon looked down, "...yes master..."
Exiting the valley, I ran back towards Shoutmon and Gumdramon. They were still waiting by the entrance.
"How'd it go?" Shoutmon asked.
"He's giving me a chance to prove myself!"
"H-he is?!" the astonished king exclaimed.
"Yeah, and look!" I showed them the small blue digimon Dorbickmon gave me.
"It's a Chibomon!" Gumdramon exclaimed.
"He gave you that?" Shoutmon asked again.
"Yeah, and he told me I have ten days until my first test."
"I see..." the king crossed his arms. He felt suspicion inside his gut since he knew Dorbickmon's personality.
"Well then, what's say we go back to the castle and rest up?" Gumdramon asked.
"Alright!"
Both of them digivolved, and OmegaShoutmon placed me and Chibomon on his shoulder. They took to the skies and made a course for the castle. As we made our way back there, I glanced down to see Fanglongmon running across the land. Upon my request, OmegaShoutmon flew down to him.
"Fanglongmon!" he heard me exclaim. The yellow dragon looked over.
"It's you..."
"Where are you running off to...?" OmegaShoutmon asked.
"My debt to my master has been repaid...I'm off to search the Seven Kingdoms for my own desires..." he responded.
"...will we ever see you again...? Arresterdramon asked him.
"In due time..." he responded.
"I see...well I just wanted to thank you, I know you had some influence on Dorbickmon..." I told him.
He gave me a slight smile, "...may your examination go well..."
"...goodbye for now, Fanglongmon..."
With that, we parted ways. He headed towards Vampire Land and we soared off to Shoutmon's Castle.