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Note: Tai will be refered to as Duskmon from now.
Spirits of destiny
Chapter 26
'Tweet-tweet'
"Deadly gaze!!" Duskmon yelled as he send a ray of dark red energy towards a tree full of bird-like digimon.
"Stupid birds." Duskmon said calm as the birds left. "Jerk!" A Biyomon yelled at him.
He stood guard in front of a cave. His master was currently arguing with the creatures in the crystal deciding what to do for the time being.
'I can't believe you're actually referring to that thing as your master.' A voice in his mind said to him. Duskmon couldn't figure out where he had heard this voice before.
He deciding to ignore the voice for the time being as his master summoned him to his side.
"You called, my lord?" Duskmon nearly grovelled in front of GearDevimon.
"Duskmon! I have a task for you." GearDevimon said to his newest pet.
"Anything my lord." Duskmon said with an emotionless voice.
GearDevimon laughed at the fact that the so-called digidestined of courage, the leader of the light was now his to command.
In the Human World.
Dawn came and Kari still wasn't able to catch some sleep. She was to worried about her brother. Once again he was gone but at least they knew he was still alive. Even if he was a slave to GearDevimon. That meant he could be saved.
At least she hoped so.
But she still couldn't erase the image of Tai's corrupted form out of her mind. It scared her for some reason. Maybe just because of the huge eye or the fact that his internal organs were visible.
Or maybe because of the fact that it was Tai while it shouldn't have been.
She sighed as she got out of bed. No use staying in there if she couldn't sleep and the sun was already rising so it wouldn't take long before she stood up anyway.
Soon she was ready to face the others again. Gennai had been revived and was willing to share his findings with the other digidestined.
Salamon was rather depressed. She had promised herself to never let Tai out of her sight and she had failed to do so. But sulking at a moment like this wasn't going to help Tai. They had to think of something to rescue the eyeball.
Koromon had similar thoughts. Again his friend was gone. Again he had failed to protect him. Even with all the firepower Machinedramon possessed he wasn't able to stop GearDevimon.
He quickly hoped towards the kitchen. He couldn't afford to run out of energy, not now.
Kari checked her e-mail. A new message from Izzy told her that he expected everyone to come to the park around two o'clock in the afternoon.
"Great, now we have to wait till then before we can do anything." Salamon complained. Baromon just stayed quiet. He still didn't know how to handle this situation.
"It's not that long." Kari said as she picked the dog-like creature up.
"And Tai will be home soon." She continued, even though she doubted her own words just a little bit.
Time seemed to just crawl but eventually it was nearly two o'clock. Kari, Baromon, Salamon and Koromon left for the park. Phoenix tagged along as well, though he had no idea why they were going. He was just excited about going out again.
They arrived at the clearing in the park, even though half of it was blown up by SkullGreymon. It was visible to most bystanders but no one bothered to get across to them so they were safe.
"Okay Gennai. Talk." Kari said once she saw the old man. She wanted answers.
"Relax Kari." Izzy said to the girl. "I'll answer your questions once everyone else gets here, after all I don't want to start sounding like a broken old record, do I?" Gennai smirked.
"Fine I'll wait but the others better show up soon."
"Hey where's Tai?" Izzy asked as he looked around for their leader.
"That's just it. Tai was kidnapped." Kari said quickly.
"What?" Izzy, Tentomon and Gennai asked at the same time. "Who has him?"
"It was GearDevimon." Koromon replied. "Last night Tai suddenly changed into something else and went to him."
"Wait how do you even know that it was GearDevimon? I mean, his attack didn't have any effect." Izzy said confused.
"Apparently it did and Tai called someone 'his master' so that must have been GearDevimon that ordered Tai to go to him." Salamon pitched in.
"No, no this isn't good." Gennai held his head with his hands.
Soon the others showed up and Kari decided to start interrogating him.
"Okay Gennai, as you probably figure out: we want answers." Kari said menacingly. "What is GearDevimon and why did he have you under control?"
Gennai thought back about his time as a slave. Unlike most others he still remembered what he did as a pawn.
"GearDevimon was created because of the Black Gears, you already knew that. That change happened because of the fact that digimon are able to absorb digital data under certain circumstances. Devimon involuntarily absorbed the data when you destroyed him."
TK walked up to the old man. "So what you're saying is that we made him so?"
"I'm afraid so." Gennai said. "But don't blame yourself, Devimon was a threat to all digimon. You did the right thing to destroy him back then."
"Okay, so that's explained now. But why did he enslave you?" Joe asked as he took off his glasses to clean them.
"I'm afraid that GearDevimon is trying to free an unspeakable evil upon this world."
"Great, another evil mastermind that wants us dead." Gomamon commented.
"So what? We'll just destroy it like we always do." Matt said to the old man.
"That's the major problem. It's not just one thing." Gennai said grimly. "The cage GearDevimon is trying to unlock is filled with evil."
The digidestined gasped at this.
"Imagine this: thousands and thousands of years there have been evil digimon. Those most vile were locked into a crystal. Do you know how much destruction they could cause if they ever escaped?"
Izzy thought about something.
"What do you mean by that they were locked into a crystal?"
Gennai chuckled at the ever curious teen.
"As you know there have always been evil digimon. Most of them are just reconfigured when they are destroyed and start their life anew, be it good or evil. But sometimes creatures like Piedmon, Myotismon and likewise appear."
The digidestined nodded and shuddered as they thought back off all the evil they had defeated.
"Sometimes." Gennai continued. "There are creatures that should never see the light of the sun again. Those creatures are locked away into SoulStones."
Matt took out Tai's crystal and showed it to Gennai. "Like these? Tai told us that his soul was locked into one of these."
"That's the one. They can store incredible amounts of energy." Gennai said as he took it from Matt.
"How did you get this one?" He asked a bit confused.
"It's Tai's." Matt said simply. "I've been meaning to give it back to him since yesterday but he's not even here."
This made Mimi, Joe, Kari and their digimon cringe.
"That's another of our problems." Gennai said as he looked away from the teens.
Kari stepped up. "Tai was… he was… kidnapped…last night." She uttered.
"What?!!" All those who didn't know about that exclaimed.
"Last night he changed into something else and was pulled away from his home." Joe said. "And us."
Everyone swallowed hard at that information.
Gennai was the first to speak. "We need to return Tai to normal and fast."
"You're right but where do we start looking?" Ken asked the old man.
'Ka-boom!!'
"Let's start there." Davis said as he saw a rift opening inside of the crater. Two Shadow digimon crawled through it, followed by a smaller human-like creature.
"Just our luck, more enemies." Gabumon growled.
"Are you the humans known as the digidestined?" One of the creatures asked, almost in a polite way.
"Depends on who wants to know!" Davis yelled as the team moved into the crater.
The creature grinned, though no one was able to see him do so because of he helmet that obscured his face.
"I'll take that as a yes." Duskmon said before turning to Davis. "My master send me here to destroy you. You will no longer interfere with his plans."
"Sorry but interfering is what we do best." Davis spat back.
"Everyone ready?"
The others nodded.
Even though the Shadow Digimon were greatly outnumbered all partner digimon turned into their highest level.
Duskmon grinned. "Pathetic insects."
Garudamon and Zudomon closed in on him as the others decided to go for ShadowMetalGreymon and ShadowMetalMamemon.
"You two stay here." Kari said as she handed Koromon to Baromon. "But I want to fight." Baromon whined. "Yeah me too!" Koromon said as he tried to escape Baromon's grip. Phoenix just yawned since he didn't want to have anything to do with this.
"You can't digivolve and I want you to be our backup." Kari said before running of to the battle.
"This sucks." Baromon said as Koromon nodded.
Garudamon tried to cut Duskmon open with her sharp claws. But he was to fast. Every time she attacked one spot he had already moved to another.
"Zudomon he's to quick!" Garudamon yelled as she missed the corrupted warrior again.
"Can't help with that." He said as he did an own attempt to hit Duskmon. "I'm not much faster then you."
Another missed strike. Duskmon decided to issue an attack as he felt he had played long enough.
He pulled out his sword and landed on Garudamon's right wing. With a strike of the blunt side of his blade he struck Garudamon on the neck, knocking her out.
Zudomon couldn't believe what he saw. A small human-like champion had taken out one of the strongest ultimates he knew. AND with only one strike.
"Garudamon!!" Sora yelled as her digimon fell over and hit the ground rather hard. The redhead made her way to her partner.
"Easy." Duskmon said as he jumped off of the unconscious digimon and moved onto the next.
Zudomon wasn't exactly shaking in fear but he couldn't help but be a little bit afraid of what this creature was capable of. After all: he had only used one attack yet. And it wasn't even a special attack. Just a swipe of his blade. What more could that helmet of his be hiding?
"Vulcan's hammer!" Zudomon slammed his hammer down onto the corrupted warrior. Duskmon just moved out of the way.
"Is that it?" Duskmon said as he ran up to the ultimate. He jumped up and grabbed hold of the hair on Zudomon's arm. He used it to pull himself up and pushed himself off. In the blink of an eye he struck his sword on Zudomon's arm.
A huge gash formed on his hand as he dropped his hammer onto the ground.
"I'll get you for that!" Zudomon roared as he clenched his wounded arm.
"Zudomon!" Joe yelled at his partner. "Oh man this can't be good." He mumbled to himself. 'He already took Garudamon out and now he has disarmed Zudomon.'
Another strike and Zudomon was out cold. He dedigivolved to his in-training form and Joe quickly scooped him up.
Meanwhile Izzy, Jun, TK, Davis and Ken had already taken care of their designated digimon, ShadowMamemon. Off course they went easy on him. After all, two ultimates, a champion and a mega against one shadow digimon was overkill.
They quickly ran up to Joe and Sora. Duskmon was waiting patiently for his next opponent. He may be an evil digimon but he refused to kill these humans without giving them a chance to defend themselves.
"Joe, Sora! Are you okay?" Izzy asked as they came closer.
"We're fine but they aren't." Joe pointed at the two knocked out digimon. Sora was still trying to wake Garudamon up when a light surrounded her. She turned back into Yokomon. Sora picked her up and walked over to the new-comers.
"She's okay. I think." She said as Joe placed Bukamon down and took Yokomon from her. Joe did a quick check for any wounds or similarly. He was relieved that she had nothing, just a bump on the back of her head.
He handed the unconscious digimon back to her partner.
"What the hell happened here?" Ken asked as he kept an eye on Duskmon, who was still waiting. "And why isn't he attacking us?"
"Unlike most of us so-called 'evil digimon', I am willing to give you a chance to defend yourselves." Duskmon spoke up. Even though he stood a fair bit away from the digidestined he still understood them as if they stood right next to him.
"Okay that's good to know. Right?" Jun asked. This was her second battle so she knew what would happen but she hadn't expected to have any casualties on their side of the battle.
"I think so." Davis said. "He does seem a bit more civilised then the others. He hardly insulted us."
"Great, a dark digimon with a conscience and manners." TK snarled. He still had a rather large dislike for anything dark.
"Can we start fighting now? My master won't be pleased if I don't defeat you today."
"Oh shut up." Jun said, all doubts about their chances to win gone again. "Growlmon get him!"
A large saurian creature walked out from behind MegaKabuterimon. She hardly looked like her in-training form, except for the small wing-like ears. Joe and Sora were a bit shocked by her sudden appearence.
"Pyro Blaster!" She yelled before sending a huge fireball at Duskmon.
Duskmon didn't move and just allowed the attack to hit him.
"You see that? That's the way we handle jerks like you!" Jun screamed as the fireball impacted.
"Eh Jun? Honey? I don't think that you defeated him so easily." Izzy said as he pointed at the smoke.
"What? Of course we did, he's…" She fell silent as the smoke cleared, revealing an unscathed Duskmon standing there, with an even bigger grin then before.
"Was that it?" He asked as if nothing happened.
"Growlmon attack again!" Jun screamed as she saw the shape coming closer to them.
"MegaKabuterimon help her!" Izzy yelled at his partner.
"Horn Buster!" A blast of energy left his horn and was soaring towards the human-like creature. "Pyro Blaster!" Growlmon yelled again as she send another fireball towards Duskmon.
Again the attacks impacted.
"Each of your attacks seem to get weaker, not stronger." Duskmon taunted them as he continued to move closer to them.
Growlmon and MegaKabuterimon decided for an all-out attack. Duskmon laughed maniacally as the two digimon charged at him.
"Fools." He swung his sword in a circular fashion before striking the ground with it. A red arc of energy was launched towards the two digimon.
Jun screamed as the attack hit hers and Izzy's digimon.
The two of them were knocked into the air and dedigivolved. Izzy and Jun were able to catch them just in time.
"Anyone else?"
'Evil laugh!' Am I being too evil? Nah. Can't be
Reviews
graypheonix: I know it's a bit vicious but I've been planning this since chapter one.
GRX3m0m: I created him, since Duskmon doesn't have a rookie form
Firehedgehog: Thank you
Depthmon: Thanks
Hakumei-chan: No problem, and I like Duskmon. He's just plain evil!
Lord Pata: As I said, I've been planning to get him into the story since chapter one.
Coppa-Cola: Plot-Twists rule and thank you!
Fruitloop Trooper: 'drools' chocolate (think homer simpson style)... And no, Matt didn't give the crystal back due to stuff happening at the moment.
Martiny: I liked the fourth season, except of course the fact that there weren't any partner digimon. And don't worry to much about Tai. He'll be fine. (probably)
Vigatus: Maybe that will happen, or maybe his other side will join up with Tai and destroy the universe!! (You can decide which one sounds better)
Thanks for reading!