"The Crests of Kindness and Miracles"
Here is the next chapter, I hope you all like it. This is dedicated to Kyogami since I took their suggestion for this chapter. Please enjoy and review!
Magnamon cast golden light all over the room around us, everyone staring in amazement at him.
"This is just about the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my whole life." I gasped.
"I am Magnamon, a golden armour digimon that attacks with my Magna Blaster and I look so good doing it too." He said.
Looking up at my friends I saw that the lights flowing over them made Upamon and Poromon digivolve into Armadillomon and Hawkmon.
"Hey, digi fools. You honestly think your new digimon can beat me? He couldn't even be my flashlight." Ken said making me look up to him.
"Don't you ever know when to shut up?" I asked with my hands on my hips.
"You didn't let me finish. He would make a good night light." Ken said.
The base shook as an explosion was made down below us, Magnamon's intense light show fading down so we could all see properly.
Kimeramon blasted into the base, snarling and looking ready to do some damage.
"Kimeramon!" Ken called.
The beast was heading straight up to where I was at a fast past, Wormmon bailing as fast as he could while Magnamon came over and gathered me up into his arms and we rolled over to safety.
"Dai, I'll take care of this." Magnamon said as he set me down and he turned to face Kimeramon.
"Good luck, Magnamon. And whatever happens…just come back to me." I said turning and going to get the others.
"I promise." He said before he took to the air and got into a fight with Kimeramon.
I ran out of the room and found the stairs, running up them until I spotted my friends as the base shook from the battle going on.
"Guys, wait!" I called making TK stop and turn to me.
"Run, Dai!" he called.
The base shook again and Kimeramon's arm was shoved through the wall right beside me, so I had to make a jump for it to avoid getting hit before he went after my dragon.
"We don't have that much time. We have to ditch this place before it takes a nose dive." Gatomon said.
"Sure would be nice to get the Digimon Emperor while we're here." Armadillomon said.
"Right, let's go get him!" I said.
There are a few things I want to say to him.
We all started running to catch up with Ken, where ever he was.
When we found him, he was yelling at Wormmon and kicked him up off of his leg before he whipped him.
"KEN!" I yelled making him turn to us.
"Well, if it isn't the Digidestinds. I see that you finally come to your senses and are ready to surrender to me and Kimeramon." He smirked.
"I think you've taken too many soccer balls to the head if you believe that." I said.
"And another thing; who said it was OK for you to go out and create a digimon anyway?" Yolei asked.
"Yeah, do you think you're Doctor Frankenstein or something creating a creature just for your own cruel pleasure? Kimeramon is not the monster, Ken. You are!" Cody said.
"Look at them! Are they trying to hurt you? They're not your toys for some kind of a sick game, they're alive. They're not just data in a computer. They're living creatures like you and I." TK said making Ken's eyes widen in shock.
"You're a Digidestind, too. Just like us, you have a responsibility to both worlds. Like Wormmon, he's your friend and not someone you should kick around." Kari said making him look at his partner as he looked at him with pleading eyes.
"Master?" Wormmon asked as Ken turned his back on us, head bent.
"There's only one digimon that's suitable enough for me…AND THAT'S KIMERAMON!" he yelled.
Speaking of the beast, he just destroyed the tower making it crash and explode, the flames reaching up near us and almost hit us as we covered ourselves for protection.
The base also felt like it was dropping out of the air, making us struggle to regain our balance.
"Don't feel too proud that you destroyed my home base because you're going down with it!" Ken said as he ran off, Wormmon following.
"Wait! Ken, we wanna help you! Ken, listen to me!" I called, but he didn't answer.
"Pardon me, but it is getting a little hot down here." Hawkmon said as the base shook yet again.
"Right, but do you guys have enough energy to digivolve?" Yolei asked.
"Yes, now let's leave before I'm a fried chicken." Hawkmon said.
"The heat is on, guys. Ready?" Gatomon asked as Patamon nodded.
"Yeah." Armadillomon said.
"OK, let's do it." Kari said.
"DIGI ARMOUR ENERGIZE!" Kari, TK, Yolei and Cody all cried.
"Armadillomon armour digivolve too…Digmon: the Drill of Knowledge! I used to say 'the Drill of Power!' but I think this makes me sound smarter."
"Hawkmon armour digivolve too…Halsemon: the Wings of Love!"
"Gatomon armour digivolve too…Nefertimon: the Angel of Light!"
"Patamon armour digivolve too…Pegasusmon: Flying Hope!"
Digmon used his Gold Rush to blast a hole in the base so that we could get out of the base, everyone mounting their partners as TK pulled me up on his flying horse behind him and Cody was picked up by his partner.
Magnamon and Kimeramon also decided to take the fight outside too.
"Come on everyone. Follow me!" Digmon said as he jumped out.
"I'll follow him." Pegasusmon said as he flew out.
"I'll follow you." Nerfertimon said flying out.
"I'll follow you." Halsemon said swooping out.
"Now that's what I call following orders." Digmon said as the four digimon flew off away from the falling base and fighting digimon.
I looked back over feeling worry for Magnamon and also a bit for Wormmon and Ken.
A Devidramon was on the base and took to the skies, Ken and his partner on it's head as the base finally crash landed in the sand, sending a storm of it flying up.
"Oh, the humanity." Halsemon said.
We all got down to see Magnamon send out these powerful lights at Kimeramon, making him roar in pain, but after the lights faded, he roared again still rearing to go while Magnamon was starting to slowly fall from the air.
Kimeramon reached out and grabbed him in one of his arms, squeezing the life out of him.
"MAGNAMON!" I cried out in worry.
Suddenly, he began to glow along with Wormmon, who was on top of Devidramon.
Worrmon the pushed Ken off before Devidramon took to the air and went off to where Magnamon was.
They both were taking about something, but Magnamon was refusing something.
He then sent out these rockets from his body, making Kimeramon let him go before Magnamon grabbed Wormmon and threw him down over to where we were, making me run up and catch the caterpillar
"What happened up there?" I asked.
"I tried to give Magnamon my strength, but he refused saying that he would handle it myself." He said sadly as he grunted in pain.
Oh, V, please be safe.
You promised you would come back to me.
Looking up to my dragon, he was covered in an orb of light that expanded until it reached Kimeramon, destroying him for good.
Everyone cheered as Wormmon sat up on my shoulders watching.
Magnamon started falling from the sky, making me run up to him.
"Dai, I'm sorry, but…this is it." he said.
"What? No, don't say that!" I cried as he was starting to slowly come apart.
Starting from the bottom, he was slowly turning into data.
"I promised that I would come back to you. Just believe that you want me back and it'll happen. All you have to do is believe." He said.
Tears fell down my face as he finally exploded into data, gone.
My body felt drained of energy as I fell to my hands and knees, sobbing hard.
"I'm sorry." Wormmon whimpered.
"I-It wasn't your fault. D-Don't b-blame yourself. He was brave and now he's gone." I sobbed.
Something glinted in the sand under me, making me blink back my tears in curiosity at the amethyst and gold that were in the sand.
I reached out and picked them both up, looking them over while Wormmon gasped.
"What are these things?" I asked.
"I don't know about the gold one, but that one is the Crest of Kindness. It belongs to Ken. The second one must belong to you." He said.
Wiping my tears away, I got up and walked over to where Ken was in the sand, yelling things as the others all gathered around him.
"I lost. I'm a failure. This isn't what was supposed to happen. I was flawless. My plans were supposed to work out perfectly. How'd it happen? You must have cheated somehow! That's the only possible explanation! I only have one choice left and that's just to cheat myself. I'll start over. I'll just have to re-set the Digital World!" he said hitting the ground.
"Re-set the Digital World? What're you talking about, Ken?" TK asked.
"It's simple. I'll just go home and delete all of the Digital World data off of my computer and create a new program. That way I can start a new Digital World that doesn't cheat." Ken said.
"You've completely lost your mind." I said.
"The Digital World is a completely real place, Ken. It's not just something that's programed into your computer." Yolei said.
"We tried to tell you that before, but thought we were trying to play some kind of a trick on you." TK said.
"Huh?" Ken asked.
"This isn't some kind of a video game. Ken, digimon are real and it's about time you realized what you've been doing." Cody said making the fallen Emperor look over at him in confusion.
"What?" he asked looking at the digimon.
"You've been hurting innocent creatures, Ken. You even killed one of them." Kari said sternly as she placed a comforting hand on my shoulder.
"Your digimon were all at the soccer game in the real world. I remember now. You are real. Not just computer data. I can't believe that I never figured that out." Ken said.
"And you've constantly been abusing digimon ever since you've claimed to be the Digimon Emperor." I said.
"I had no idea. What have I done? I thought my dark rings were a stroke of genius. I never realized I was causing pain. I made them work for me tirelessly without ever giving them a break and I was cruel to them beyond imagination!" Ken said with a crazed look as he dug his fingers in his hair.
"I'M A MONSTER! I can't believe what I've done!" he yelled.
"It's hard to argue with you there, Ken. You've done some pretty horrible stuff." TK said.
"The important thing is you've realized what you've done and it's not too late to make a fresh start." Kari said.
"WHAT HAVE I DONE?!" Ken cried as he threw off his gloves and got up walking away, falling down into the sand as he threw his glasses away and his entire Emperor outfit dissolved into data particles and he sobbed.
Wormmon crawled off of my shoulder and went over to his fallen partner.
"Ken, I always knew you were kind. You've returned back to your old self." He said making Ken look at him with sorrowful blue eyes.
"I'm sorry. It's too late for me." He whimpered.
"It's never too late to be sorry." Wormmon said.
"Wormmon is absolutely right, Ken." I said kneeling down in front of him.
He looked at me in surprise as one of the Crests in my hands glowed and floated over to him, making him catch it with a look of awe.
"Where'd you find those things, Daisuke?" TK asked.
"In the sand. Wormmon said that they belonged to Ken and I. Why do you ask?" I asked him.
"It looks like one of the Crests we used to have in the old days." The child of Hope said.
"You're right, TK and it has the Crest of Kindness on it." Kari said.
"But why's it coming to me?" Ken asked astonished.
"Because it belongs to you, Ken. It's the crest of Kindness." Wormmon groaned as he fought to stay awake.
"There must be some mistake. I've been anything but kind." Ken said.
"That's what Wizardmon meant when he told us that 'Kindness will release the Golden Radiance'. Ken and Daisuke must be the keys to unlocking the power." Gatomon said.
"I told you that deep inside you were kind." Wormmon said as Ken picked him up, his eyes filled with unshed tears.
"But I was so terrible. Because of me, Daisuke lost her partner." He said.
Without warning, I slapped him across the face,
Everyone was shocked, staring at me as I gave a small smile.
"You're forgiven." I said as tears fell from my eyes again.
He looked shocked at this as he touched his red cheek.
The Crest I was holding started to give off a faint glow, making us all look at it.
"The Crest of Miracles is reacting." Patamon said.
Then, light shined from up in the air making us all look up to see the baby blue light was oval shaped as it fell down towards us.
It fell into my arms, the glow fading away to reveal a baby blue egg with red stripes on it.
"What is that?" Yolei asked.
"It must be Veemon." Cody said.
"It's just like when Angemon sacrificed himself to save me. After he faded away into data, he came back and turned into a digi egg. Veemon did the same thing." TK said smiling.
A smile curved my lips as I hugged the egg, feeling the familiar presence of my little dragon inside of it and placed a kiss on it.
"He really did keep his promise." I cried.
Ken then stood up and started walking away with Wormmon in his arms, waving at us.
I stood up, watching him go.
"I wonder where he's going. I hope he'll be OK." Cody said.
"Let's just get back home." TK said.
All of us walked back to the place the portal was, Yolei opening it up and we were pulled through, landing in a pile on Izzy in the middle of the woods.
We all got up, Izzy staring at the digi egg I held curiously.
"What happened?" he asked.
"It's a long story." Kari groaned.
"We'll tell you later. Come on, let's get back to the camp grounds." TK said.
We all got up and walked to the camp, seeing Tai and Matt were sitting at a picnic table looking very stressed out and shocked and I was shocked too when I saw that my sister was with them eating pudding.
"There they are." Matt said.
"Hey, Jun, who invited you to come all the way out here?" I asked.
"Matt did!" she cheered making the two older boys exhale in exasperation.
After a while after I kept my sister busy by talking with while and the others filled Izzy, Matt and Tai in on what had happened, we were getting ready to leave.
"Hey guys! Wait for me!" Jun called as she ran over to the van.
"That was a close one." Tai groaned as he and the other two teenagers packed up the bags in the back of the van.
"Hey, would it be Ok to get a ride home with you guys? I don't wanna take the bus all by myself." Jun said.
"No, there isn't enough room. You're gonna have to take the bus. Sorry." I said sitting down next to Kari.
My sister pouted as she gripped her back pack handles.
"It's not fair!" she whined.
"Come on, kids. That's not nice. Someone take the bus with Jun." Hiroaki said as all of us looked at each other.
"That's very nice of you, sir. And I already have the perfect volunteer in mind." Jun said as Matt ran over looking nervous.
"And the absolutely perfect volunteer is TK!" he said.
"Matt, you take the bus home with Jun." Hiroaki said making his eldest son look at him in disbelief.
"I'm broke!" he said.
"There's more than enough here." Hiroaki said handing Matt some cash.
"Have fun you two." Tai sang teasingly.
"Have her home before curfew." Izzy teased.
"I'll trade for your seat." Matt tried to bribe looking desperate.
I almost stepped out to relieve him, but Jun closed the door before I could make a move and she jokingly stuck her tongue out at me.
"Don't be silly, you'll sit with me." She said making Matt shout in fear.
Really, sis, can't you take a hint?
"Come on, hunk. We better go catch the bus. It's a long ride." She said linking arms with him.
"Please, TK, I'll give you my college money!" Matt begged making me sigh as I opened up the door, grabbed my sister's arm and threw her into the seat as I stepped out and stood beside Matt.
"Just go with them. I'll take the bug with Matt. You had too much of a journey anyway." I said since she told me about the bus, our grandparents giving her a ride and ending up at the wrong camp.
"But-"Jun said before I slammed the door in her face.
"Just go." I said and the engine started as Hiroaki drove off.
Matt sighed and nearly collapsed against me in relief.
"Thank you. Man, your sister just doesn't know when to give up." He said.
"She probably would if you got a girlfriend. The last guy she liked she stalked like she does you. The only thing that made her stop was when he started dating someone." I said.
"Really?" he asked.
I nodded, then felt the egg in my arms start to move.
"What's going on?" I asked.
"I think it's about to hatch!" he said.
The egg kept moving until it stopped and then it exploded, pink smoke filling the air around us.
We both coughed until the smoke blew away to reveal a cute blue head with a tail and violet eyes.
"Veemon?" I asked stunned.
"I'm Chibomon now. I'm the baby form of Veemon. I told you I would come back to you and I would never lie to you, Dai." He said.
"That took less time than it did with Patamon. It must be that Crest of Miracles." Matt said as Chibomon cuddled up to my chest.
The two of us walked off to the bus stop and sat together as the ride back home went on, me hugging Chibomon as I fell asleep, hoping that things with Ken and Wormmon were fine.
And that all of the trouble in the Digital world was done with now.
To be continued…