Chapter 20: The Jester's Facade
Alexis' Pov:
As we searched for the rouge digimon I kept having the uneasy feeling that we were being watched. Whenever I looked around, I found nothing, causing the uneasy feeling kept getting worse and worse. Over time the few landmarks that there were seemingly started to loop over and over. After five times looping around I stop. Grim around, "So you've noticed it too?" I nod, "See that Pile of pebbles, after a while I started placing them. We have been going in a loop."
An eerie laugh rings in the air causing my body to tense, "Well what do you know someone finally figured out my little trick." My digimon form a protective triangle formation around me. "Who are you?" I say keeping calm. "Who could I be?" A random pair of white gloves float in the air making some random inquisitive gestures. "Stop hiding you coward!" Grim snarls. The voice speaks in a somewhat mocking tone. "Oh that's no fun, tell you what if you can keep up with me then I will show myself.
The gloves start moving with a mind of their own making gestures as if they were running. We chase after it constantly having to increase our speed to keep the gloves in a visible range. The gloves finally stop once we reach a large arena like platform in the center of the Magma. Once we step foot on it the path behind us vanishes leaving us trapped. The voice rings out, "Congratulations you managed to keep up and make it here!"
Confetti bursts out of nowhere Piedmon appearing along with it, "Welcome to my little stage! You are my honored guests tonight!" My eyes narrow as I look at him, "You are the rouge digimon who have been attacking Tamers aren't you?" He chuckles, "Well aren't you a clever one, yes I have had many other guests but they did not fare very well." "Let me guess you lured them all here using your powers then forced them to engage in a fight that they had no chance of winning."
"Oh they had a chance. Just not a good one! Once I started playing around they couldn't keep up, they kept dropping like flies!" He says while letting out a twisted malicious laugh. "Fine then, Luna, Grim, Minerva. Crush him to dust." Piedmon chuckles, "You have more spunk than the others, this will be fun!" Grim moves faster than my eyes could perceive appearing behind Piedmon, striking quickly only to have his blade pass through the target.
Piedmon appears in the air laughing, "You are far better than I expected." Luna jumps into the air slashing at him only to have it be another trick made by Piedmon, Minerva and Grim join in trying to get a hit in but are constantly met with illusions. "What is with him we can't get a single hit in?" Minerva says on landing from another attempted strike. "I don't think that they aren't illusions, I think he is just teleporting last second with his Masks Square. That also means that he can intercept any conversations we have." I say to my team.
"Oh you are the smartest one yet, no one ever figured out my trick before!" He laughs. "Now shall I get a little bit serious?" His tone shifts to a serious one and his smile fades into a frown. "Trump Sword!" His swords vanish from his back. "Everyone watch out!" I scream at the top of my lungs, but my words come too late as the blades appear imbedding themselves into Crescemon. The blades then vanish and reappear taking another member of my team out in seconds with be unable to do a thing about it.
It happens one more time until I see my teammates, my friends lying there on the ground unmoving but still clinging to life. "Silly girl did you think you could beat me?" I clench my fists, holding back tears. "Don't worry you will live, but the others I will have to delete." He kicks Luna hard in the side. "Leave her alone!" "Or what?" He asks a bored look on his face. Once he says that my memories of the next few moments are fragmented.
All I remember is the glow of my digivice, a digimon I had not seen before, and said digimon slashing Piedmon apart turning him into data. Then the world goes black, then next thing I know I wake up in the Union City hospital. I slowly try to push myself up but a nurse pushes me down, "What happened?" The nurse looks at me, "We aren't entirely sure, your digivice started sending out a distress signal, a team of tamers went to check it out only to find you and your team passed out. And you apparently used up a great amount of Digisoul."
"Just rest for a day and you will be fine." I nod and she leaves. As I laid there I couldn't help but question what happened in Shadow Abyss. I decide not to worry about too much and get some more sleep.
Story updates:
And so this bit of the story comes to a close, from now on we will be getting back to the main plot. After all I can't let my favorite reborn villain just rot away whilst other things happen. Thank you guys so much for reading! Also if you missed it in the last chapter or skipped it for some reason I have a straw poll going on to decide if I will be incorporating music into the story, a link to it is in the last chapter. It will be open until Thursday of this week. Have a good day, week, month, year, life and I will see you next time!