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reviewing Kiseki, I'm glad you like this. Okay, here goes.)
"Weight of the worlds" 13. 'Tug of war'
"NO!" Davis, Yolei and Osamu screamed. Ken panicked as he looked down upon his friends from the blue sphere. He pressed his palms against the bubble. Every part of his body shook. Granted he was only wearing a pair of silk boxer shorts, but he was not cold. No, something else was making him shake. It was the power inside of him. Bubbling and boiling inside of him, desperate to get out. Before he knew what was happening or before he could stop it, a dark blue pulse of energy burst from his hands and shattered the sphere he was in.
In Gennai's arms, the Sorceress snapped her eyes open and pushed herself to her feet. In a ripple her black dress had formed on her body and she stood tall with her hands outstretched. Ken was falling at a rapid pace and if something were not done about it soon, he would meet his end with the ground. "KEN!" Wormmon screamed.
And then he stopped. He just stopped falling. It was the Sorceress. She had stopped his fall and was guiding him back to the ground safely, and he too rippled as blue jeans and a white shirt covered his body. When Ken was safe she looked darkly up at Ebonwumon.
"Your fun is up now, my turn!" the firebird called.
"I will not let you have him!" the Sorceress said calmly and red lightning started to crackle in her hands.
"Oh really? And who is going to stop me?"
"I AM!" she yelled as she shot the lightning at the Holy Beast. He shrieked in pain as it connected with his body. Giving him no time to retaliate, she clapped her hands together making the sound of thunder. The dark clouds that had formed above the castle, started to swirl and make a tornado effect all the way to her hands and then around her body, slowing down to a black aura around her. She gave Ebonwumon one more dark look and then exploded the dark energy forth at him. He lay motionless for a few moments. The group thought that he was dead, but then he started to move and slowly got up. He took flight again and Gennai barely had time to yell for Mae to look out when one of Ebonwumon's crimson attacks hit her dead on, sending her crashing into a wall. She fell to the floor unconscious.
Ken in the mean time was having a hard time controlling the powers in his body. His head was throbbing and his hands felt like they were on fire. He felt as if his skin had insects crawling all over it and every time Yolei tried to comfort him he would freak out and shoot a ball of green flames by accident. "Get away from me Yolei! I'll hurt you!" he screamed when lightning started to form between his fingers.
"And now I will claim my prize." The huge bird growled happily. He sent down another sphere to collect the indigo haired teen. Ken tried to escape it a second time, but to no avail. He had no idea how to use his powers and when he looked down, his friends got smaller and smaller until they were out of his line of vision all together.
~~~~****~~~~
Yolei fell to her knees. She shook with tears. This was too much for her. All this in one day. Kari rested a hand on her friends' back, "Yolei, are you-"
"NO!" she screamed, "No Kari! I'm not okay! I walk in on my boyfriend, the love of my life, getting it on with Miss Evil over there. Then some freaked out digimon god almost catches him, and then he freaks out with these powers and then gets caught again! NO! I am definitely NOT okay!"
"I'm sorry Yolei." The child of Light soothed.
Yolei fell limp in Kari's arms for a moment before she got up and determinedly walked over to where the Sorceress lay. She knelt down and swung her hand back preparing to slap her, but she hesitated when her form shifted. Her hair changed to dark brown and wavy, and her dress changed to the emerald one she wore before. Yolei narrowed her eyes at Mae and brought her hand down connecting it hard against the pale flesh, and Mae awoke with a start. "That's for doing what you were doing with my man!" Yolei growled.
"Fair enough." The brunette whispered. She looked around, "Where is Ken?"
"Ken!" Davis yelled, "Has been captured by Ebonwumon!" he stormed over to the window and looked at the horizon hoping to see his friend there.
"That is not good." Mae said anxiously.
"Mae, we have to get Ken back, and soon. You know what Ebonwumon is going to do to him." Gennai turned to the window as well.
"Why? What?" Davis asked, "What will Ebonwumon do to him? He can't get the Codes now that Ken isn't the Emperor anymore. He can't turn him back can he?"
Mae shook her head, "He won't bother to turn him now, he'll just search Ken's mind for it."
"Search Ken's mind?" Yolei narrowed her eyes at the Crest Guardian.
"Yes, it is very dangerous and risky. That is why Ebonwumon did not try it to start with, but he is impatient now and will not care about the consequences." She moved to sit on the bed, "This is my fault." She whispered.
"We have to get him back." Wormmon urged.
The emerald clad woman stood up again and nodded her head as if agreeing with someone, "I have a plan. You will not like it, but for now, it is the only thing that we can do."
"What is that?" TK asked.
"The Daemon Corpse. I will assemble them and order them to attack Ebonwumon's base while we rescue Ken."
"Are you mad?" Gennai shouted, "Mae! The Daemon Corpse? How do you even know if you can control them?"
"I know I can. Just trust me Gennai."
"Wait a minute," Yolei blurted out, "I thought all of them except Daemon and were killed in the real world, which means that they weren't reconfigured."
"That is true Yolei, but I have a power, the power to create life, and I went to the real world and reconfigured them myself, that is when I was the Sorceress, it was just after I went to collect Daemon."
Gatomon looked up at the Guardian, "Mae," she whispered.
Mae bent down so Gatomon could whisper in her ear, "Do you think you could, I mean, does that mean you could reconfigure Wizardmon?"
"I'll have to see Gatomon, it has been many years since he has been gone." She looked at the sullen expression on the cat-digimon's face, "But I will try."
Gatomon smiled brightly at her, "Thank you."
"Anytime Gatomon, but first we have to make sure we have a world to reconfigure him in."
"Okay," Yolei shouted, "if we are going to do this, we should do it now!"
Mae looked to Gennai, "Well? Do you object?"
"You know how I feel, but you are right, it's the only option we have, Daemon is the only one who's power matches Ebonwumon's."
~~~~****~~~~
Ken only noticed that he had passed out when he awoke to find himself sitting in the same blinding bright white room. His body still shook with power, but that was the least of his worries. He was strapped into a silver chair and couldn't move at all.
"Oh, good." Ebonwumon smiled, "I was wandering when you were going to wake up."
"What are you doing?" Ken spat.
"Finding an alternative way to get those Codes from your brain."
Ken swallowed and narrowed his eyes at the bird. He was incredibly angry, uncontrollably even and his mind was a jumble. He was having trouble focusing on one thought at a time and this worried him immensely. He could feel himself slipping. All this was just too much for him and his brain couldn't seem to absorb it. First he lost his brother after making a horrible wish, and ended up becoming the sadistic and cruel Emperor. After all that he had done as the Emperor, he was defeated and then had to live with all the pain and guilt from that time. All that was enough, but then Mae makes him think he is loosing his mind by impersonating him and hurting his friends to teach him a lesson. After years, when he thinks his life is finally coming right, Mae comes back and tells him that he has these Codes that can destroy all the worlds in the universe, and in order for Ebonwumon to get them, he has to become the Emperor. Which he did and hurt so many people and digimon in the process. He will never forget the heartbreaking look on Yolei's face when she saw him in the arms of the Sorceress. Now, he has to live with new guilt and still the Codes will fall into Ebonwumon's claws anyway and it will be his fault. He couldn't take this anymore.
"Okay, Ken, this won't hurt at all." Ebonwumon cooed.
Ken looked up at the Holy Beast; all hate for the firebird evident on his face.
"Well, not for me, anyway." He chuckled.
All Ken felt was nauseating pain burst into his head and a loud screeching sound pulse in his ears. He yelled out in pain and shut his eyes tight, wishing, hopping, praying that he would pass out. Or black out. Or--die. But he did not get his wish. He sat through every agonizing second of the 'search' that Ebonwumon was conducting, until he had found what he was looking for. He pulled away and the pain and noise stopped. All that was left was a dull throb pumping in the blue-eyed youth.
~~~~****~~~~
In almost no time at all, Mae had assembled the Daemon Corpse in the Southern region of the Digital world. She had used a form of telepathy to call them together. However they were quite shocked to find that Mae had called them and not the Sorceress.
"What is this?" Daemon asked.
"This," Mae said curtly, "Is me asking you for your help to rescue Ken."
Daemon laughed harshly, "What makes you think that we will help you? Have you forgotten that Ken locked me away in the Dark Ocean years ago?"
"Yeah," Ladydevimon added, "we only work for the Sorceress and the Emperor, and it's apparent that they are not here."
Devimon laughed with her. TK scowled at the horrid digimon. He couldn't believe that he was seeing him again. He wanted to destroy him right there and then.
"Listen to me Daemon," Mae said calmly, then she looked up at the rest, "and all of you. I suggest you listen to me and help us unless you wish to be destroyed."
Marinedevimon cackled at her, "Oh really? You need us. You won't destroy us."
Mae placed her hands on her hips, "So does that mean you will help me?"
It was his turn to laugh, "Never!"
"That's what I thought." Mae sighed and ignited a purple flame in the palm of her hand. Then in her other hand she floated some black substance, like rubber over it.
"What are you doing?" Marinedevimon asked a worried tone in his voice.
"This." She added the black substance to the flames and on contact; the flame turned bright crimson and disappeared. In the same time, Marinedevimon shrieked with pain and disintegrated into a thousand pieces and disappeared, dead.
"You killed him." Cody gasped.
Ladydevimon said that same thing.
"I warned him." Mae sighed, "Now, who is with me?"
No protest was heard and the plan was initiated.
They reached the temple and gave each other a quick nod before they ran inside. "Now remember," Mae said quietly, "you grab Ken and run, don't worry about me."
The battle happened instantly. Mae, Daemon, Devimon and Ladydevimon entered the white room, bursting through the doors; they were ripped from their hinges. Ebonwumon only had time to turn to them when they attacked him all at once. He fell back and yelled out in surprise and pain.
The group of teenagers and digimon plus one Guardian ran in, unnoticed because of the battle going on. They caught site of Ken in the chair and rushed towards him. He was just sitting there, a blank stare on his face. It went unnoticed for the moment, as their top priority was to get him out of there. They untied him and Yolei helped Gennai put him on to Aquilamon. They turned back to see the fight going on. Mae was standing tall with her arms outstretched again and her hair was flying wildly around her. Surprisingly, the Daemon Corps was giving it their all too. 'Afraid Mae will kill them.' TK thought idly.
Ebonwumon got up and laughed hard. Mae narrowed her glowing green eyes at him, "What is so funny?"
"All this." He indicated to their battle and the marks it had left on the walls, "It is so pointless."
"How is that?" Mae bellowed.
"I already have what I want and it would seem so do you."
Mae took a step back, her jaw went slack and she gazed up at the firebird. "You have, you have the Codes?"
His red eyes flashed as she turned and ran as fast as she could to the diminished doors.
'NO!' she thought to herself, 'No, I can't let him get the last Code!'
"Don't bother Mae. I have that last Code. It was in his memory after all."
She stopped dead in her tracks and stared at him in horror, before turning and running to the doors, halfway across the room, she transported herself out. 'It is the end of everything.' She thought grimly to herself.
Ebonwumon turned to the red cloud; "You know what to do. Bring him to me so I may dispose of him."
----~~~~----
Ken: Oh this is bad.
Kaiser: Ah, chaos, you gotta love it.
Wormmon: Do we ever get to see what the rest of the scroll said?
Nic: One day.
Mae: Things are really picking up.
Nic: You should see what I have for the next chapter then!
Ken: *Reading notes* Is there no end to my torture?
Nic: No. ^-^
Ken: *-*;;;
"Weight of the worlds" 13. 'Tug of war'
"NO!" Davis, Yolei and Osamu screamed. Ken panicked as he looked down upon his friends from the blue sphere. He pressed his palms against the bubble. Every part of his body shook. Granted he was only wearing a pair of silk boxer shorts, but he was not cold. No, something else was making him shake. It was the power inside of him. Bubbling and boiling inside of him, desperate to get out. Before he knew what was happening or before he could stop it, a dark blue pulse of energy burst from his hands and shattered the sphere he was in.
In Gennai's arms, the Sorceress snapped her eyes open and pushed herself to her feet. In a ripple her black dress had formed on her body and she stood tall with her hands outstretched. Ken was falling at a rapid pace and if something were not done about it soon, he would meet his end with the ground. "KEN!" Wormmon screamed.
And then he stopped. He just stopped falling. It was the Sorceress. She had stopped his fall and was guiding him back to the ground safely, and he too rippled as blue jeans and a white shirt covered his body. When Ken was safe she looked darkly up at Ebonwumon.
"Your fun is up now, my turn!" the firebird called.
"I will not let you have him!" the Sorceress said calmly and red lightning started to crackle in her hands.
"Oh really? And who is going to stop me?"
"I AM!" she yelled as she shot the lightning at the Holy Beast. He shrieked in pain as it connected with his body. Giving him no time to retaliate, she clapped her hands together making the sound of thunder. The dark clouds that had formed above the castle, started to swirl and make a tornado effect all the way to her hands and then around her body, slowing down to a black aura around her. She gave Ebonwumon one more dark look and then exploded the dark energy forth at him. He lay motionless for a few moments. The group thought that he was dead, but then he started to move and slowly got up. He took flight again and Gennai barely had time to yell for Mae to look out when one of Ebonwumon's crimson attacks hit her dead on, sending her crashing into a wall. She fell to the floor unconscious.
Ken in the mean time was having a hard time controlling the powers in his body. His head was throbbing and his hands felt like they were on fire. He felt as if his skin had insects crawling all over it and every time Yolei tried to comfort him he would freak out and shoot a ball of green flames by accident. "Get away from me Yolei! I'll hurt you!" he screamed when lightning started to form between his fingers.
"And now I will claim my prize." The huge bird growled happily. He sent down another sphere to collect the indigo haired teen. Ken tried to escape it a second time, but to no avail. He had no idea how to use his powers and when he looked down, his friends got smaller and smaller until they were out of his line of vision all together.
~~~~****~~~~
Yolei fell to her knees. She shook with tears. This was too much for her. All this in one day. Kari rested a hand on her friends' back, "Yolei, are you-"
"NO!" she screamed, "No Kari! I'm not okay! I walk in on my boyfriend, the love of my life, getting it on with Miss Evil over there. Then some freaked out digimon god almost catches him, and then he freaks out with these powers and then gets caught again! NO! I am definitely NOT okay!"
"I'm sorry Yolei." The child of Light soothed.
Yolei fell limp in Kari's arms for a moment before she got up and determinedly walked over to where the Sorceress lay. She knelt down and swung her hand back preparing to slap her, but she hesitated when her form shifted. Her hair changed to dark brown and wavy, and her dress changed to the emerald one she wore before. Yolei narrowed her eyes at Mae and brought her hand down connecting it hard against the pale flesh, and Mae awoke with a start. "That's for doing what you were doing with my man!" Yolei growled.
"Fair enough." The brunette whispered. She looked around, "Where is Ken?"
"Ken!" Davis yelled, "Has been captured by Ebonwumon!" he stormed over to the window and looked at the horizon hoping to see his friend there.
"That is not good." Mae said anxiously.
"Mae, we have to get Ken back, and soon. You know what Ebonwumon is going to do to him." Gennai turned to the window as well.
"Why? What?" Davis asked, "What will Ebonwumon do to him? He can't get the Codes now that Ken isn't the Emperor anymore. He can't turn him back can he?"
Mae shook her head, "He won't bother to turn him now, he'll just search Ken's mind for it."
"Search Ken's mind?" Yolei narrowed her eyes at the Crest Guardian.
"Yes, it is very dangerous and risky. That is why Ebonwumon did not try it to start with, but he is impatient now and will not care about the consequences." She moved to sit on the bed, "This is my fault." She whispered.
"We have to get him back." Wormmon urged.
The emerald clad woman stood up again and nodded her head as if agreeing with someone, "I have a plan. You will not like it, but for now, it is the only thing that we can do."
"What is that?" TK asked.
"The Daemon Corpse. I will assemble them and order them to attack Ebonwumon's base while we rescue Ken."
"Are you mad?" Gennai shouted, "Mae! The Daemon Corpse? How do you even know if you can control them?"
"I know I can. Just trust me Gennai."
"Wait a minute," Yolei blurted out, "I thought all of them except Daemon and were killed in the real world, which means that they weren't reconfigured."
"That is true Yolei, but I have a power, the power to create life, and I went to the real world and reconfigured them myself, that is when I was the Sorceress, it was just after I went to collect Daemon."
Gatomon looked up at the Guardian, "Mae," she whispered.
Mae bent down so Gatomon could whisper in her ear, "Do you think you could, I mean, does that mean you could reconfigure Wizardmon?"
"I'll have to see Gatomon, it has been many years since he has been gone." She looked at the sullen expression on the cat-digimon's face, "But I will try."
Gatomon smiled brightly at her, "Thank you."
"Anytime Gatomon, but first we have to make sure we have a world to reconfigure him in."
"Okay," Yolei shouted, "if we are going to do this, we should do it now!"
Mae looked to Gennai, "Well? Do you object?"
"You know how I feel, but you are right, it's the only option we have, Daemon is the only one who's power matches Ebonwumon's."
~~~~****~~~~
Ken only noticed that he had passed out when he awoke to find himself sitting in the same blinding bright white room. His body still shook with power, but that was the least of his worries. He was strapped into a silver chair and couldn't move at all.
"Oh, good." Ebonwumon smiled, "I was wandering when you were going to wake up."
"What are you doing?" Ken spat.
"Finding an alternative way to get those Codes from your brain."
Ken swallowed and narrowed his eyes at the bird. He was incredibly angry, uncontrollably even and his mind was a jumble. He was having trouble focusing on one thought at a time and this worried him immensely. He could feel himself slipping. All this was just too much for him and his brain couldn't seem to absorb it. First he lost his brother after making a horrible wish, and ended up becoming the sadistic and cruel Emperor. After all that he had done as the Emperor, he was defeated and then had to live with all the pain and guilt from that time. All that was enough, but then Mae makes him think he is loosing his mind by impersonating him and hurting his friends to teach him a lesson. After years, when he thinks his life is finally coming right, Mae comes back and tells him that he has these Codes that can destroy all the worlds in the universe, and in order for Ebonwumon to get them, he has to become the Emperor. Which he did and hurt so many people and digimon in the process. He will never forget the heartbreaking look on Yolei's face when she saw him in the arms of the Sorceress. Now, he has to live with new guilt and still the Codes will fall into Ebonwumon's claws anyway and it will be his fault. He couldn't take this anymore.
"Okay, Ken, this won't hurt at all." Ebonwumon cooed.
Ken looked up at the Holy Beast; all hate for the firebird evident on his face.
"Well, not for me, anyway." He chuckled.
All Ken felt was nauseating pain burst into his head and a loud screeching sound pulse in his ears. He yelled out in pain and shut his eyes tight, wishing, hopping, praying that he would pass out. Or black out. Or--die. But he did not get his wish. He sat through every agonizing second of the 'search' that Ebonwumon was conducting, until he had found what he was looking for. He pulled away and the pain and noise stopped. All that was left was a dull throb pumping in the blue-eyed youth.
~~~~****~~~~
In almost no time at all, Mae had assembled the Daemon Corpse in the Southern region of the Digital world. She had used a form of telepathy to call them together. However they were quite shocked to find that Mae had called them and not the Sorceress.
"What is this?" Daemon asked.
"This," Mae said curtly, "Is me asking you for your help to rescue Ken."
Daemon laughed harshly, "What makes you think that we will help you? Have you forgotten that Ken locked me away in the Dark Ocean years ago?"
"Yeah," Ladydevimon added, "we only work for the Sorceress and the Emperor, and it's apparent that they are not here."
Devimon laughed with her. TK scowled at the horrid digimon. He couldn't believe that he was seeing him again. He wanted to destroy him right there and then.
"Listen to me Daemon," Mae said calmly, then she looked up at the rest, "and all of you. I suggest you listen to me and help us unless you wish to be destroyed."
Marinedevimon cackled at her, "Oh really? You need us. You won't destroy us."
Mae placed her hands on her hips, "So does that mean you will help me?"
It was his turn to laugh, "Never!"
"That's what I thought." Mae sighed and ignited a purple flame in the palm of her hand. Then in her other hand she floated some black substance, like rubber over it.
"What are you doing?" Marinedevimon asked a worried tone in his voice.
"This." She added the black substance to the flames and on contact; the flame turned bright crimson and disappeared. In the same time, Marinedevimon shrieked with pain and disintegrated into a thousand pieces and disappeared, dead.
"You killed him." Cody gasped.
Ladydevimon said that same thing.
"I warned him." Mae sighed, "Now, who is with me?"
No protest was heard and the plan was initiated.
They reached the temple and gave each other a quick nod before they ran inside. "Now remember," Mae said quietly, "you grab Ken and run, don't worry about me."
The battle happened instantly. Mae, Daemon, Devimon and Ladydevimon entered the white room, bursting through the doors; they were ripped from their hinges. Ebonwumon only had time to turn to them when they attacked him all at once. He fell back and yelled out in surprise and pain.
The group of teenagers and digimon plus one Guardian ran in, unnoticed because of the battle going on. They caught site of Ken in the chair and rushed towards him. He was just sitting there, a blank stare on his face. It went unnoticed for the moment, as their top priority was to get him out of there. They untied him and Yolei helped Gennai put him on to Aquilamon. They turned back to see the fight going on. Mae was standing tall with her arms outstretched again and her hair was flying wildly around her. Surprisingly, the Daemon Corps was giving it their all too. 'Afraid Mae will kill them.' TK thought idly.
Ebonwumon got up and laughed hard. Mae narrowed her glowing green eyes at him, "What is so funny?"
"All this." He indicated to their battle and the marks it had left on the walls, "It is so pointless."
"How is that?" Mae bellowed.
"I already have what I want and it would seem so do you."
Mae took a step back, her jaw went slack and she gazed up at the firebird. "You have, you have the Codes?"
His red eyes flashed as she turned and ran as fast as she could to the diminished doors.
'NO!' she thought to herself, 'No, I can't let him get the last Code!'
"Don't bother Mae. I have that last Code. It was in his memory after all."
She stopped dead in her tracks and stared at him in horror, before turning and running to the doors, halfway across the room, she transported herself out. 'It is the end of everything.' She thought grimly to herself.
Ebonwumon turned to the red cloud; "You know what to do. Bring him to me so I may dispose of him."
----~~~~----
Ken: Oh this is bad.
Kaiser: Ah, chaos, you gotta love it.
Wormmon: Do we ever get to see what the rest of the scroll said?
Nic: One day.
Mae: Things are really picking up.
Nic: You should see what I have for the next chapter then!
Ken: *Reading notes* Is there no end to my torture?
Nic: No. ^-^
Ken: *-*;;;