A/N: Thank you to San Child of the Wolves, White Hunter and ProtogirlT for your reviews, greatly appreciated as always. So here is the final part to the two part chapter. Hope everyone enjoys it, more flashbacks.
Chapter 21
Blood and Silence: Part 2
At the end of the other two halls the six were once again reunited. Everyone saw that Puppymon and Gaomon were no longer there any more.
Yukito: So those two went down the hall that held their doom?
Kiva: Apparently. I can't believe he did that though.
Victoria: He risked his life for you that is great friendship.
Robert: Let's not waste any more time, we need to find the others.
'Can we afford to lose anybody else?' Tentomon asked hovering over Robert's head. Renamon and Tentomon were the only remaining digimon and it wasn't looking good for them.
'I don't think it really matters. Just as long as we can get out in one piece the better,' Renamon replied, realizing that their fate was already sealed when they walked through the doors.
The remaining six strolled down the hall in hopes of finding something, anything. Turning the corner at the end of the hall, there appeared back stairs leading downstairs. This could be a good sign as all six ran down all at once. There were three flights that they had to clear, but in their eyes it didn't matter, it was freedom.
At the bottom of the stairs the six looked around curiously as they looked around the floor they were on. It was unclear if they were back on the main floor or not. Not wasting any more time the group made their way down the only hallway in hopes of finding something of familiarity.
As the six continued their way down the hall, laughter could be heard again echoing off the walls. The group stopped again to listen carefully.
"Eleven down; only six remain. Afraid of losing any more?" came the taunting voice of Porcelainmon.
'Okay, I am ready to rip their heads off.'
"Be smart of where you tread, not everything looks the way it is. Don't you want to find your friends?"
The voice vanished leaving the six standing there furious. Their taunting were getting annoying and the uncertainty was already getting to them.
Robert: Let's finish this, what more do they have up their sleeves?
Yukito: Let's think on this just a little more. We have already dealt with a labyrinth of stairs, disappearances behind the doors. I think their holding out for the worse here.
Robert: Why are you so scared?
Yukito: I'm worried about our safety.
Victoria: No more arguing. Let's keep going. I don't care any more about what happens. Kiva, I want you to keep going ahead of us. No matter what happens to us. I have a feel this is your time.
Kiva: As long as you are safe.
Victoria: We will be, just don't look behind you.
Yukito and Robert: Why are you sending her on her own?
Victoria: She knows more about this place and everything that has happened so far has been because of noise. Think about it, Kiva can't talk, she won't get trapped.
Yukito: Smart idea.
Robert: What about us?
Victoria: We deal with whatever comes our way.
"So, that's your little plan is it? Well, let's see how you'll deal with this!" the dark shadow growled watching the screen and watching the sign to each other. He typed on his keyboard grinning wickedly.
Further down the hall, everything began to spin around the five digidestined causing them to brace themselves from falling.
'What is going on?' Victoria asked.
'Who knows, but it can't be good.'
The walls stopped spinning giving the five the ability to take a good look around. Things were a little more different, none of the doors or corridors were in the right spot making things confusing.
Victoria could feel her heart begin to race, she hated the fact that whoever was causing these traps did not want them to go any farther.
Yukito: Any ideas?
Victoria: We split. I don't care who is behind all this. I am not being his guinea pig any more.
Robert: If that's what you think is best. Yukito, I say we go through here.
Yukito looked from Robert to Victoria and back again reading their expressions. He felt trapped in the middle; he didn't want to leave either of their sides.
Yukito: All right, let's go.
The boys ran through the door on the left leaving Victoria and Renamon alone in the corridor.
'Victoria, what are you thinking?'
'If he wants to attack us, let him. I rather see the boys and Kiva safe for as long as possible.'
Kiva ran down the long corridor not bothering to slow down. Her feet echoed in the silent house. She thought that she had made good distance between herself and the boys, Victoria and Renamon. She still couldn't understand Victoria's full reason for allowing her to leave the group. Somewhere deep inside of her she did have a feeling that there was a good reason behind it all.
'Come out, come out wherever you are,' Kiva called out tauntingly. 'You little freaks.'
She was getting fed up with this house and the residence inside. She was already at the front entrance once again. She couldn't believe that she had wandered the entire house. Kiva narrowed her eyes lividly as she turned her head in every direction trying to find a door that she hadn't been through. She knew that there was a door around somewhere.
'I'm fed up with your little games! Open these doors and let us go!' Kiva shouted mentally staring at the ceiling. She didn't know or not if someone could hear her or if she was yelling for no reason.
"I'm afraid I can't do that. You digi-brats will never escape," the dark shadow said.
Yukito, Robert and Tentomon came into a large open room with a fireplace on the far side. Nothing seemed strange about this room, but who was to say what that crazed digimon had in store for them.
Robert: Whatever you do, don't touch anything.
Yukito: You don't have to tell me twice.
'What do you suppose this room has in store for us?' Tentomon asked hovering around to get a better look at the room.
Robert: I don't want to think about it. There should be away out of here, but where?
Yukito: Try the fireplace; I'm pretty sure there should be a switch in there.
Robert: Do we truly want to be playing around with switches or mysterious things? What happens if it triggers our doom?
Yukito: If it gets us out of here faster, yes, I rather take the chances.
Yukito made his way toward the fireplace while Robert and Tentomon scanned the rest of the room. Yukito felt his heart race as he reached the fireplace. He lightly touched the stone wall feeling for any loose bricks or any buttons.
Robert and Tentomon lightly touched the wall they were at and continued to run their hands over it as they moved. Robert was determined to find a switch to get the door opened. While he scanned the walls, he kept his mind on Yukito trying to understand more of his thinking. Sure, he had the same thought capacity as he did, but he was so stubborn. Robert loved that about him, he was a rebel.
Their differences were what made them have a great relationship, but he couldn't always keep up, especially when it came to the triplets hanging with Yukito. That was something he couldn't break up, Yukito was friends with them, long before their relationship started.
Outside in the corridor, Victoria and Renamon kept their defences up preparing for any sudden surprises. Renamon refused to move too far from her partner's side afraid of a sneak attack.
'What do you suppose those digimon have in store for us?'
'You got me. But knowing those mischievous digimon it won't be good.'
'I wish they get it over with, I'm getting sick and tired of this continuous looking over the shoulder bit.'
Back in the room, Yukito gave up on the search after coming up empty handed. He stood up and looked over at Robert who was staring back at him shrugging his shoulder.
Robert: I give up; there is nothing in this room to any hints of a way out.
Yukito: Do you suppose that this was his whole idea in the first place? Trap us in a room and capture us, not giving any chance of escape?
A rumbling noise could be heard from above the boys. Yukito raised his head to investigate the noise. Cracks could be seen forming on the ceiling. He lowered his head gulping as he looked at Robert with fear in his eyes.
Yukito: We need to get out now!
Robert: What is going on?
Yukito: I believe the ceiling is about to collapse on us.
Robert: Are you serious?
Yukito nodded his head as he scrambled to find a switch of some kind to open the doors and let them out.
Pieces of debris began to fall down upon the boys causing a frantic struggle to find the hidden switch. Yukito's breathing became heavy and short as he patted the wall hoping for something.
As bigger pieces came down, Yukito's foot came in contact with something on the hearth. He accidentally put his weight on the button unaware of it being there. Nothing in the room seemed to change whatsoever and the boys were getting even more freaked.
"Yukito!" cried out Robert stretching out his arm toward his boyfriend.
"Robert!" shouted Yukito stretching out his own arm.
Tentomon let out a terrified scream as a piece of rubble was close to hitting him smashing him into the ground. In an instance blue electricity formed around the three just as the capsules came to capture them.
"Damn it!" yelled the boys in the sound proof capsules disappearing from the room.
Outside in the hallway, Victoria stopped dead in her tracks as she heard whirling noises coming the walls. Renamon turned to face her partner not aware at first of the noise.
'Tori, you okay?' Renamon asked stepping toward her.
'I hear something,' Victoria simply said.
'Where?' Renamon asked trying to get more info.
'Within the walls.'
Renamon's ears perked up as she tried to get a better listen to what her partner was hearing. This was freaking her out more than what they dealt with in the entire house.
On either side of the walls, small holes opened up revealing sharp, pointy metal spikes popping out ready to fly. Victoria's eyes widened in fear as she stared at the sharp spikes. Renamon stood in front of her in a fighting stance. If she had to take a piercing of the spikes she would just to know Victoria would be okay. In seconds the spikes came flying toward the two ready to pierce their body. Victoria let out a deafening scream as she dropped to her knees covering her head.
Renamon jumped into the air as she hands and feet became surrounded by blue fire.
"Power paw!"
The blue fire blasted toward the spikes encasing them in the intense heat. But nothing happened, the spikes weren't even affected.
Renamon stared wide eyed at the incoming spikes. This was it, her life was officially over. Just as the spikes came close to her face, glass tubes trapped them protecting them from harm and took the two out of the corridor. The spikes however were embedded into the wall where Victoria and Renamon should have been trapped.
Kiva slammed into the second door on the right of the first door that she tried revealing it led to a dead end. The new door she went through had been locked as if trying to keep her out. Before her was another dark stair well, the stairs were right in front of her.
Smirking, Kiva ran down the stairs hitting the steps with full force determined to get her hands on the digimon responsible for all of this. She didn't care if she fell down the stairs or not, this was well worth it.
Her eyes flashed with anger as she leaped over the railing leading to another landing. Above her lights flickered to life as she leaned over the railing with only four steps remaining. She knew that she wasn't going to have an easy trip to find the others but it was worth a shot.
The dark figure slammed his fist down hard on the desk cursing under his breath. The other digidestined and digimon stood in their glass tubes watching horrified at the screen where Kiva now stood at the bottom on the stairs observing her surroundings; she was anticipating the outcome of an attack.
The figure appeared to be a puppet like digimon that looked like Billie from the Saw movies. He wore a black tuxedo with a red bowtie. His face was white with red lips and a mannequin style mouth.
"Meet out master, Lord Hushmon! He thrives on the quiet, but when he gets angry, he unleashes his furry on his enemies," Porcelainmon analyzed.
Hushmon noticed her stalling and waiting for an attack, a grin formed on his face as he saw this as a great opportunity to capture her as well.
Back in the hallway, Kiva made her way toward the metal door that was only feet from her. This had to be where the digimon was hiding and where he was keeping the others hostage.
Nearing closer to the door, Kiva could hear something coming close toward her. Turning her head she saw knives flying toward her intending on killing her or at least making her scream.
Thinking quickly, she ducked in time allowing the knives to hit the wall instead. As she stood up a smirk grew on her face.
'Is that truly all you have? That is purely pathetic!'
"That little brat!" roared Hushmon. "I will make you scream!"
Kiva brushed herself off as she pulled one of the knives out of the door and held it in her hand for a moment.
'This should come in hand in the future,' she thought grimly, placing it carefully in the side of her pants.
She pushed open the door with all her might revealing yet another large room. First thing that her eyes came in contact with was the digidestined and digimon. Her eyes widened with relief at the sight of them. Opening the door more, she noticed the Porcelainmon and Shadowmon hanging around a puppet.
Hushmon glared at Kiva furiously seeing her standing in the room. He completely snapped as he sent out attack after attack toward Kiva wanting her to scream. When Kiva only stood there smirking at him, he got even more pissed off.
"Scream or speak already you worthless child!"
Kiva silently laughed at Hushmon giving him a rueful and bitter smile. 'I am mute. So it's a good thing I didn't fall for your traps, or I'd probably be dead, because unlike them,' she pointed toward the others with the same bittersweet smile. 'I can't scream for help…I can't scream and get zapped…I would end up dead. I'd be chilling with the devil in the pits of hell. But either way, they really shouldn't take their ability to speak, talk, laugh, scream, sing, yell and everything else you can do with a voice that I, as a mute can't, for granted.'
Hushmon growled furiously as he tried to zap her only to have her still standing there smirking.
"Damn it!"
"Master, it only works on those who speak. Since she can't speak, it won't work," explained one of the Porcelainmon.
Hushmon turned to her fuming. "You think I don't know that?!" Hushmon zapped her with his attack sending her into a capsule along with the others.
'Your fury will be your doom one of these days,' Kiva spat.
Hushmon glared at her ready to strike. There was a glare off between Hushmon and Kiva. It was a battle of wits, like this was going to decide right there and then who won. As the staring contest continued a blinding light shone from the floor. Everyone shielded their eyes as the light got brighter. After a second went by the harsh light disappeared leaving only a darker one.
Hushmon turned his head toward the light in horror at what was about to show up. Kiva stared in shock as she stared at the dark light. She knew something good was about to happen. Just like the others, the black light completely swarmed the room descending everyone in darkness for a short time.
An image of a leaf appeared within the darkness for a second or two before shrinking into a crest.
The other digidestined grinned wickedly seeing that Kiva now held the new power and would not be afraid of unleashing its strength.
When the crest slid easily into the tag, it sent the dark light from the room to surround Kiva momentarily before everything went back to normal.
"Do you think a mere light show is going to scare me?" Hushmon demanded.
'I wasn't thinking so much of a light show, more of a very irate digimon,' Kiva simply said calmly tilting her head toward the tubes.
"What are you talking about?"
Inside Puppymon's cage, he stood there growling as a dark light shone around him. He was not impressed being locked up in a glass cage. His teeth were barred and his eyes burned with rage. The tube was becoming foggy from his heavy breathing.
"Puppymon digivolve to…Wolfmon!"
Wolfmon's large wolf form broke through the glass tube, pieces of glass shattered over Kiva, Hushmon, Shadowmon and Porcelainmon.
"You will pay for what you have done to us!" he growled dangerously.
"Oh, I'm so scared," Hushmon replied sarcastically.
'Wolfmon, let's show his what your ultimate form can do!'
'Good idea.'
The dark light reappeared around Kiva and Wolfmon as the crest was activated. Wolfmon let out a howl as the transformation was put into effect.
"Wolfmon digivolve to…" as the dark light shone around Wolfmon, something seemed to change about him. "Okamimon!"
Okamimon was a large black wolf with two tails, making his previous form look more like a normal size wolf. His eyes were now glowing blood red making him look highly dangerous. His paws, ears and two tails were surrounded in blood, which surrounded the ground he was standing on. His fangs were also blood red and dripping blood and drool. His fur was more spiked and ruffled up, giving him a more mangy appearance. He has several blood red virus markings on his body, mainly on his back, forehead, neck, shoulders and outer thighs.
The others gasped in shock at seeing this creature; it sent shivers down their spies at seeing him standing there. Even Yumi, who didn't fear much, seemed almost petrified of him.
"Okamimon, he is one dangerous digimon. He is not a trustworthy digimon; he will rip you to shreds if you allow him. His screaming blood attack will leave you praying for death," Tentomon analyzed.
"Kiva, be careful!" screamed Yumi not caring that her screams were useless.
Kiva grinned wickedly at seeing her digimon's new form. She wasn't fully aware at how dangerous the situation was just yet.
Okamimon growled deeply, making him sound like he was from the depth of hell. More blood pooled around him with every exhale. He couldn't wait to rip into Hushmon's body.
"Porcelainmon, Shadowmon show him what you are made of!" yelled Hushmon.
The digimon flew toward Okamimon preparing to attack him in hopes of protecting their master.
"You dare send your minions to face me coward? So be it!" Okamimon roared. His voice was deep ad filled with fury. "Screaming blood!" The symbols on his body began to glow as he sent out his attack.
The blood hit four Porcelainmon causing them to scream in pain as the blood seeped through them as if it were acid. It ate away most of their faces making them look more grotesque than normal.
"Holy shit!" Yumi and Victoria breathed terrified.
Okamimon let out a booming laugh as he stomped toward the withering Porcelainmon. When he got right in front of them he lifted lone of his giant paws and slammed it down hard on them.
The digidestined and their digimon gasped in shock at what he had done. If one step could kill do that, then what else was he capable of?
"Go!"
The rest of the Porcelainmon and Shadowmon ran toward Okamimon ready to revenge their friends' death.
"Demonic snare!"
"Poison needles!"
"Blood lust!"
A blood mist formed in the air above the approaching digimon causing them to momentarily stop before completely disappearing from sight.
"It seems that you have no one to protect you any longer, prepare to meet your doom!"
Hushmon braced himself for attack concealing away any fear that he might have toward Okamimon. Okamimon himself merely laughed seeing the fear just radiate off Hushmon.
"Silent fear!"
"Storming blood!"
Hushmon easily dodged the attack before it struck him. Okamimon on the other hand laughed at his futile attempts. How pathetic did he seem? Any mere attacks just bounced off him.
While Okamimon had Hushmon distracted, Kiva made her way toward the controls and started to hit random buttons hoping for one to release the others. She kept getting frustrated at the fact that nothing seemed to work for her.
'Release button, release button, where could you be?' Kiva asked hitting different keystrokes.
Time ticked by before the sound of thudding could be heard by the tubes. Spinning around, Kiva could see the others either pushing themselves to their feet, rubbing their heads or rubbing their backs.
"Oh sweet freedom," Tora cheered.
"That didn't take you long before you started talking again," Victoria said bitterly.
"Didn't you get anything out of this experience?" asked Yumi.
Kiva ran over to the others, relief flooding over her at seeing them again, (or at least Yumi, Victoria and Yukito).
"You did it Kiva, great job!" Yumi said impressed.
"Okay, I suggest we get out of here before he decides to come after us!" Tora suggested staring at Okamimon.
Kiva: I am not leaving him. I don't care what you do, but I am staying.
"Kiva, he'll kill you," Robert said concerned.
Kiva: He's my digimon. He will not hurt me.
Kiva turned her head back toward her digimon who was shaking Hushmon in his teeth like a mere rag doll. Hushmon looked a wreck, blood dripping from his body from where Okamimon tore into him.
"How are you not terrified of him?" asked Mark.
Kiva couldn't answer that question, she was in between feeling scared out of her mind and impressed by her digimon's strength. She truly thought that this was her digimon's true form.
"I am through playing. Time for you to die!" Okamimon said, he sounded muffled with Hushmon in his jaw. He threw him into the air, jumped up himself and swatted Hushmon with all his might back to the ground.
Hushmon let out a groan as he landed hard on the ground. He could barely move. He allowed his fate to come to an end right there and then. He just gave up, although he didn't put up much of a fight in the first place.
Okamimon slammed right on top of him killing him instantly. He had no regrets for killing out of blood. At first he didn't notice the humans standing there until he head voices talking all at once. Turning his head sharply toward the group, his blood red eyes burning with the desire to kill.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" he sneered.
"Oh shit," Yumi gaped stunned.
"Run!" cried Robert pulling on Yukito's hand urging him away.
"Good idea," replied Yumi.
"I don't think so, none of you are leaving this place," Okamimon boomed.
'Okamimon, what is going on? This is not like you,' Kiva said confused still thinking that Okamimon was the actual evolved form of Puppymon and that he wouldn't harm her.
"Ha, that is too funny. You truly think I am anything like that worthless mutt? I am nothing like him. You have no idea what you are in for, none of you!"
"Kiva, what does he mean by that?" asked Victoria.
Kiva: I have no clue. I wish I knew though, it would make so much more sense.
"You know exactly what is going on," Okamimon replied referring to Kiva.
"How about you be clearer on your messages!" Victoria snapped.
Okamimon turned his head toward Victoria who was standing with her arms crossed in front of her. "Ah Victoria, the girl who has never been able to stay in one place for too long. Parents not love you that much? Why don't you mind your own business?" Okamimon shouted the last word as he swatted her away causing her to slam up against the wall on the far side.
"Victoria, NO!" yelled Renamon and Yumi.
"How dare you attack my partner!" Renamon snarled.
"Do you truly think you can go up against me? Were you not watching me take out those other digimon? What gives you the idea that you can stop me?"
Renamon growled viciously unsheathing her claws as she barred her teeth. Yumi placed her hand on the fox digimon's shoulder trying to calm her down.
"Renamon, you need to keep your cool. We can't afford to lose you as well."
"Do you always hide behind that tough exterior? Or do you truly believe you can take on anything?"
Yumi narrowed her eyes not looking at Okamimon for the moment. "I know I can take on anything!"
"Oh really? I see otherwise. Were you always blaming yourself for your father leaving? Or perhaps it was the fact that you couldn't accept the fact that he never wanted you in the first place? Or is it perhaps the problem that you are without a digimon partner and you just need to prove to yourself that you are more than capable of taking care of yourself? Even though you're not!"
Yumi shut her eyes tight trying to force the tears from stop flowing. This was a lie. All of it was a goddamn lie! Her father lover her, he even told her so. She knew that her partner was out there, he just wasn't able to get to her yet.
Okamimon laughed triumphantly, he was looking right into her soul and saw all the conflict that went on at home. None of her friends knew the true extent of her problems that went on in the secret of her house. When Yumi was at her breaking point, Okamimon swatted her with his tails into the same wall as Victoria.
"Now then, who else do we have here?" Okamimon taunted facing the group again.
'Leave them alone! This is not their fight!' Kiva demanded stepping up. Fury filled her body as she stared into Okamimon's eyes searching for the reason for attacking the others.
"Ha! You truly think I'm going to stop just because you told me too? Your completely pathetic than I thought you were. You are just as worse as those pathetic losers you call friends! You try to hide behind a tough exterior so you never have to deal with the pain, torment or the chaos. You refuse to tell your friends, thinking you are helping them that way. Not realizing all you are going is putting up more walls and pushing them away."
Kiva shook her head denying everything that Okamimon was telling her. She couldn't believe that he would remotely come out with this.
"Don't you be shaking your head at me. You know this is all true. You truly think I don't know what is going on in that mind of yours? I can read you like an open book and there is nothing you can do about it!"
"Kiva, what is he talking about?" Yukito asked.
Kiva wanted so badly to turn to face him and tell him to go get Yumi and Victoria and get out of the building. This was her fight, she needed to tend with Okamimon herself. But her body refused to cooperate, instead she stood there facing Okamimon too terrified to lose connection thinking something bad would happen.
Yukito went to tap her shoulder to get her attention thinking she was ignoring him, only to have Okamimon stop him by laughing.
"Don't think you can get to her. She is trapped within my powers."
"You can't hold her forever!"
"What exactly do you plan on doing to get her back?"
"It's not what we'll be doing, but what our digimon will be doing."
"Too funny, I can easily squash your digimon like little bugs. Trust me though, I will enjoy tearing into you as soon as I am finished with her!" Okamimon pointed toward Kiva who seemed to be in a trance of some sort fighting against Okamimon.
~Flashback~
An eleven year old Kiva stood in the kitchen of her apartment covered in scars, bruises and pieces of glass shards sticking out of her skin as she tried to protect herself from her mother's continuous throwing of the silverware. The floor was littered with broken pieces of glass.
It had been two days since the passing of her father and her mother had finally snapped taking out all of her anger on her daughter.
"This is all your fault you worthless excuse of a child! He would still be here if you didn't have to be so selfish!" her mother, Ai, screamed hysterically, throwing a glass at Kiva who ducked in time to hear it smash into the wall scattering the remains on the floor.
Kiva tried to tell her mothers she was sorry in sign language, but it only caused Ai to become more enraged.
"Why don't you talk you stupid bitch? Adrian was too gentle with you. You know what? You don't have that back up support anymore."
Another plate came whipping at Kiva's head. As she went to duck, her feet slipped on the glass lying around causing her to fall and land hard on the shards causing them to embed themselves into her.
"You could have avoided all of this if you allowed him to survive!"
~End flashback~
Kiva tried her hardest to push the thought out of her head. She could hear Okamimon laugh at finding a weakness inside of her.
"So, it was your entire fault your father died, huh? Go figure you are a worthless child. You blame yourself for his death. That you cannot deny that from me! If you had not pushed your parents to take you to the park, he still would be with you. That truck driver would not have come barrelling down the street!"
Kiva stared at him in shock as tears formed in her eyes threatening to fall freely. He had no right to say those things, especially out loud so that everyone could hear it. She fought so hard to keep it in control as she tried to go deep into Okamimon's mind to find something, anything on him. She could feel him continue to tear into her finding all the right buttons to push. He could feel her become weak as she stood there. Kiva cursed herself for not being able to do this herself. She couldn't find where to look or what she truly was looking for.
Okamimon found this both amusing and annoying all at the same time. She had no right to be scanning his mind. Furiously, he turned away from Kiva wrapping his tails around her, almost whipping her as he squeezed the breath out of her.
The others stood there terrified at the sight, they didn't want to interfere with the two of them but they needed to protect her.
Okamimon finally released his grip on her and sent her flying across the room.
"You are a worthless child, a worthless tamer. Do you truly think I wanted you as a partner?"
Kiva remained on the ground too shock and stunned at his words. He was wrong, she knew that Puppymon was in there and would never say those things to her.
The others gasped at Okamimon's actions toward Kiva. Renamon took the time to run toward her partner and friends making sure they were all right. The remaining digidestineds had to contend with Okamimon's mind torture.
"Well, now that she's out of the way it is your turn," he sneered at the digidestined.
"Don't think you can manipulate us the way you manipulated them," Yukito said outraged.
"Oh is that so? How many times do all of you rethink your actions, or think that you made the wrong decisions? You truly believe that you are all good tamers? Bah! None of you know anything. I'm surprised that your digimon aren't even dead yet! You walk in the shadows of three measly girls, all who can't even contain their emotions.
But I can see too that out of all of you, two are in a relationship. You two hide behind a mask believing that everything is going to be okay, that nothing wrong is happening in your lives. But I can see right past that, you two are completely unsure of your future together and doubt your relationship. Afraid that you can't handle the pressure anymore? Or is it that you can't see eye to eye and you want to leave each other?"
Yukito and Robert shook their heads as they grasped each others hands tightly. Their breathing became irregular as Okamimon continued to dive further into their minds. Neither one wanted to shed a tear, not wanting to give him an ounce of gratitude.
"You can't hide it from me and apparently you can't hide it from your friends any longer either."
Okamimon continued down the line diving into everyone's minds, exposing their fears, doubts and weakness to everyone around them. Tora had self-conscious of herself, completely doubting in what she could ultimately do in the long run, truly causing Okamimon to expose more about her with her parents being absentee parents, her troubles in the past with making friends and her constant need to be accepted.
Okamimon brought up Mark's fear of his parents fighting, something that he wanted to keep well hidden. Kisho knew that their parents fought, but never knew that he was sitting right there close to the fight.
James' doubts came to life that he would lose everything around him and that it would be his entire fault in the long run. He hid behind a lie that if he could act like a crazy person like he was, maybe everything would be fine.
As for Kisho, the youngest of the group and the one who seemed to be caught in the middle of two groups, seemed to be more complex then Okamimon anticipated from him.
"Ah, the youngest one. The one truly filled with weaknesses, hidden secrets and fears. You hate the fact that you have to be hiding behind your brother's shadow and be expected to follow in his footsteps. You always hated the fact that your mother prefers him over you."
"Not true Kisho!" shouted Mark.
"Silence, you both know the truth. Mark has been on the earth longer and will always be mommy's little boy. You're just second rate."
"Leave him alone. He doesn't deserve to be attacked like this! Why don't you just back off, you've won! Is that what you wanted? To make us all feel worse about ourselves?" shouted Yumi struggling to her feet blood dripping down her front.
"Is that what you think? Let me tell you something. You are wrong. None of you like to accept the fact that you hide behind a blanket of lies and take it out on those you deem below you."
"That is a down right lie!"
"Is it? You seem to be doing a lot of it. Hate the fact that your own mother won't defend you when your step-father hits you?"
"SHUT UP!" Yumi screamed. No one truly knew that secret, she never like to talk about it, even to Victoria and Kiva who had their own problems to contend with.
"You know it's true. You keep it from your friends, worried what they'll say?"
"Enough!"
"Stop lying to yourself!"
'She said enough. Yumi is right, you can't just attack someone for your own entertainment.'
"Hahahahaha! So you've come back for more have you? Wanted more abuse? Like you haven't had enough of that at home?"
'You can't break me any more than I already feel!'
'Is that what you think? You can never accept the fact that you are a complete burden to me, how could I have even chosen you as my partner? You are weak! You could never be as strong as I am! You even doubted this yourself. You even think that you are a burden to your friends, you only see yourself in the way of everyone.'
'Not true!'
'It's all up here Kiva,' Okamimon said pointing to her head. 'Daddy, daddy, I'm so sorry.' Okamimon's voice changed back into Puppymon's voice while taunting her. Kiva could feel her heart skip a few beats. She could feel it break with every word. More tears welled up in her eyes as he continued. 'He would still be here if you hadn't been so selfish in the first place! I wish it was you who had gotten hit, maybe I wouldn't be in this state!'
Kiva couldn't differentiate between what was true and what was a lie. She felt torn in all the things he was saying to her.
'It's your entire fault!'
'You're wrong! I didn't kill my father! It wasn't my fault!' Kiva yelled frustrated in her mind trying so desperately to break free from Okamimon's mind torture.
"Just keep telling yourself that, but deep down, you know I'm right. You know it's true. It IS YOUR entire fault. So no matter what you say or how much you deny it, you killed your own father!" Okamimon said gleefully watching his weakened partner crumble in his words. 'You have no idea how much I truly hate you, and that is no lie.' With Kiva completely out of it, Okamimon pinned her to the ground pressing against her like he was going to crush her. A wicked smirk spread across his face at the pleasure of destroying her. As he applied more pressure on her torso, he caught a glimpse into her mind that seemed to be well hidden from everything else. It was her Adrian, at first Okamimon thought it was just another memory he could use to his advantage until he something more.
It was late at night a full moon in the sky, Adrian was away from his home, as the moonlight cascaded down upon him, his human form soon disappeared in a transformation into that of a large black wolf. Okamimon narrowed his eyes as he looked at Kiva who struggled under his weight, it didn't take a genius to figure out that thanks to her father, Kiva would inherit the same traits later in life. He let out a growl as he lowered his head toward her. "You are not even worth crushing under my paw!" Okamimon growled swatting her away sending her sliding across the floor. "Worthless child!"
"Kiva!"
Okamimon just stood there laughing his booming laughter. He had done it, he broken the digidestined. With the rage still forming inside of him, he soon began to go on a rampage around the room they were in sending out attack after attack causing the walls to crumble around them.
"We have to get out of here!" shouted Mark getting to his feet.
"He's right, we need to move!" agreed James.
Those who were able to walk grabbed hold of their digimon and ran for the door leading to the stairs. Renamon picked up Victoria and placed her on her back and carried Kiva carefully cradling her neck and under her knees. Yumi limped all the way to the door following Renamon as close as she could. Okamimon didn't notice the absent of the digidestined until the door slammed behind Yumi.
"You dare escape me!" roared Okamimon.
"Go!"
As the digidestined ascended up the stairs to the main floor, everything began to shake around them as Okamimon got furious. With all his anger building up, he was causing the house to collapse. He ran up the stairs following after them wanting to sink his teeth into them.
Outside moments later in the rain, the group watched the house collapse within itself destroying any remnants of the traps that Hushmon set for them or the torture of Okamimon himself. Renamon set Victoria and Kiva on the ground once they were conscious again, the triplets were standing next to each other staring in shock at the sight before them. Kiva stared in disbelief that her partner had attacked her the entire time, she never thought that she would ever see that in all her life. One thing was still clear to her, no matter how much she was in shocked over it there was no where to be found. All the life in her seemed to drain away leaving only a hallow body.
She walked over to the destroyed building ignoring the protest of Yumi, Victoria and Renamon. Her eyes glazed right over as she started to lift rock after rock and throwing it to the side.
'Puppymon, can you hear me? I need you so much right now!'
No response. She feared the worse that he could actually be dead. She kept throwing rocks and debris to the side determined to find Puppymon. The others only stood there watching dumbfounded.
Yumi was the first to go over to Kiva and help out with the search. The others all gave her an are-you-kidding-me look. They couldn't believe that Yumi would even give her time to retrieve Puppymon after all the things Okamimon said about her. It still bothered them that Kiva was looking for him. She really got the down low of his torture.
Yumi began to dig through the rubble, throwing aside bits and pieces of debris getting in her way. She could tell that Kiva, although not paying attention to her, was silently grateful for the help.
Soon after Victoria and Renamon joined in on the search, not caring what Okamimon had said to them or had done. Kiva was their friend and the true Puppymon was in there somewhere. As the two got to work, Victoria turned back to see Yukito, Penguinmon, Robert and Tentomon joining in on the search, leaving behind very confused James, Mark and Tora who didn't believe Puppymon deserved a chance at redemption.
Kisho seemed to be caught within the middle between wanting to help and not wanting to anger his brother for doing something that Mark didn't believe was right.
Victoria narrowed her eyes in annoyance. "Get your asses over here! We can't do this alone!"
"Why should we bother to help search? This is the same digimon who put us through hell!" Mark snapped.
"No, the one who put us through hell was Hushmon! Okamimon just surfaced everything that we've been hiding. You have two seconds through to get your lazy, good for nothing asses over here and help us!"
The three digidestineds just stood there in shock at Victoria's authoritativeness. Kisho was now in the pile digging along side Labramon who was digging like there was no tomorrow.
After a minute of contemplating their decisions, James, Tora, Mark and their digimon joined the rest of the gang in search of Puppymon.
There were so many things that Tora wanted to say out loud to Kiva but bit her tongue not wanting to get into a confrontation, especially when dealing with rocks and bricks at her disposal.
Minutes passed by, which turned into hours, no one seemed to care any more of how long they were searching for. The pile behind them was growing higher and higher while the one in front of them got smaller and smaller.
"What would the chances of him still being here, be?" Tora asked wiping the sweat from her head.
"There's no doubt about it, he's in here somewhere," Yumi said slight monotone. She had read Kiva's quick sign language and got the hint that she was determined.
"But couldn't there be a probability of him being back as a digi-egg or worse?"
Victoria and Yumi turned their heads sharply giving her a death glare.
"Okay, okay, sorry for that suggestion."
Further and further the group got into the rubble determined to find something, anything. Kiva was still out of it not giving any sign of actual life. She was still calling out mentally for Puppymon hoping that their connection could come through.
"Hey, I think I found something!" Yumi shouted from her spot as she carefully cleared away the mess before her. Black fur appeared against the dark rubble. At first she didn't realize it was fur until she went to take it out. "I have him, oh gods, Puppymon hold on," Yumi said desperately clearing away all the debris from Puppymon. At first he looked limp and still on the ground. Yumi gasped in horror as she pulled him closer to her. His tiny black body was very light like a new puppy. She realized that he had dedigivolved all the way back to Pupmon.
Yumi stroked his fur as she kept him close, praying for a miracle to come through. As she kept it up, he started to shake almost in fear. Yumi couldn't believe her eyes, he was going to make it after all. She let out a little choke as she tried calling Kiva.
"Kiva, Kiva!"
Kiva was instantly at Yumi's side carefully taking Pupmon into her arms. He slowly opened his eyes a little staring into Kiva's eyes. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry," Pupmon mumbled over and over again. Kiva shock her head as he brought him closer to her.
'It's over, it's all over,' Kiva assured referring to the chaos that Okamimon put on all of them.
The other digidestined all backed away from Kiva, giving her space with Pupmon. No one could believe the fear that she felt with almost losing Pupmon. It was such a scary thought.
A/N: Hey, so here is the chapter at long last, two reasons it's a little late. One had to think of what exactly I was going to do with Okamimon's mind torture with everyone, I know it's kind of lame, that's all I got. Two, stupid computer died on me, thankfully I got it back. Enjoy ^^