Jarceus: Hello everyone and welcome to chapter twenty-eight of Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Digital Detective, I hope you will all enjoy.
Firesage101: ok i think you are giving trouble to Jarod. i like it. hope it will turn out alright.
Jarod: Why are you enjoying my suffering?
Jarceus: Because you make it amusing.
Jarod: I…
Takumi: He's got you there.
Jarod: I hope I skewer you in this chapter.
Last Time
"I'm… I… I can't take it anymore." Sighed Jarod as he digivolved into his human looking self, only he was covered in a thin aura of darkness
"You can't take what anymore?" Asked Takumi confused
"All of this. I'm only a teen and I'm stuck in the middle of possibly the end of the human race! Not only that, but I'm expected from my friends and digimon to help stop it! If it was just me then I might be able to handle it, but Yuuko, Yuugo, Nokia, Ami, Arata, they're also stuck with me! If I mess up the responsibility will go to them! I could never leave it to them, it's not that I don't trust them, it's that I don't want to put them under the pressure that I'm always feeling!" Ranted Jarod, his aura stared growing and becoming more prominent throughout his rant before it blocked him from sight
"Jarod?!" Shouted Takumi in concern before the aura compressed around Jarod
"Jarodmon Withered." Said Jarod's voice, only it was slightly deeper and demonic in nature, as the aura disappeared showing that Jarod's hair had turned jet black while his iris also turned black, making it seem like he was missing his pupil. His 'clothes' were cut and ripped, as if he had been in a fight with a bear or another large sharp clawed animal. He had bandages over his hands which were stained red, wether from blood or something else Takumi couldn't tell. His arms were covered in cuts while the exposed parts of his legs had patches of missing flesh, where all Takumi could see was the bone. All in all, Jarod's new form almost made Takumi puke, sadly he couldn't hold it anymore after Jarod looked at him dead in the eyes and smiled at him evilly. His teeth were sharp, sharper than knives, and some were missing showing the inside of Jarod's mouth was decayed, as if we were nothing but a corpse on the inside, making him deserving of the added title 'Withered'.
"What the hell!" Screamed Takumi as he backed away from Jarod, only for a tendril of darkness to pierce the ground in front of him
"Darkness Spearing." Said Jarod in his new voice as tendrils of darkness tried to spear Takumi through
"Gr." Grunted Takumi as he rolled out of the way just in time to dodge the tendrils before he ran passed Jarod, picking up the broken Digivice at his feet before Connect Jumping out of EDEN, not noticing the demonic smile on Jarod's face as he followed Takumi back into the real world
Now
We now tune in as Ami is searching the entirety of Nakano for Jarod and Takumi, disguised as herself
'Where are they?' She asked herself before someone bumped into her, causing both of them to fall onto the ground "Ow! What was that about?" She asked as she stared at a middle aged businessman in a navy blue suit
"Kid! Get out of here! A monster is destroying everything!" Shouted the man scared for his life before he ran away as an explosion collapsed a building next to her showing a body completely consumed by a dark energy
"Hahaha!" Laughed the figure in a dark, demonic and disfigured voice as a tendril of darkness shot at Ami, only for her to jump away just in time as the spot where she was seemed to just delete when it touched the tendril touched it
"Digivolve!" She shouted as she turned into Taomon "Thousand Spells!" She shouted as talismans shot out of her sleeves and wrapped around the figure, compacting into a time sphere before exploding, leaving small specks of darkness everywhere. As she turned to leave the specks joined up to recreate the figure who revealed himself to be Jarodmon Withered before the aura consumed him again before he fired a tendril of darkness at Ami from behind
"Move!" Shouted a voice as Yuugo tackled Ami out of the way of the tendril just in time
"Yuugo?" Asked Ami confused before she noticed Jarod still standing making her glow and change into a more human shape as she digivolved to Sakuyamon as Yuugo digivolved into Dianamon before a shadow jumped over them and struck at Jarod with whips of some kind only for tendrils of darkness to block them and pull the shadow closer revealing it to by Crusadermon before she was punched at Yuugo and Ami, who just side stepped out of the way and let Crusadermon fly into a building
"That was surprisingly pleasing." Smirked Yuugo, momentarily forgetting that Jarod was there before a tendril of darkness almost hit the back of his head "And now I'm pissed." He growled as he charged at Jarod and kicked at his head only for the darkness around him to block the attack and knock him away
"Bifrost!" Called out a voice as Kentaurosmon fired an arrow into his back, only for said arrow to be wrapped up in darkness and flung back at him as a black version of itself, forcing him to fly out of the way before being chased by the tendrils of darkness
"Crimson Light!" Shouted Gallantmon's voice as a crimson blast of energy shot at Jarod from above him only to get absorbed into the darkness and get shot back up as a black spiral of energy, hitting Gallantmon, making him fall towards the ground revealing him to be in his Crimson Mode
"Gallantmon!" Cried Ami as she rushed to the injured Royal Knight's side
"Damn. One shot and I'm already down. Gah… It's got to be at least an Ultra level digimon." Grunted Gallantmon as he watched as Jarod walked towards them, only to get sidetracked as it saw a Lopmon and a Tokomon run by, before he shot two tendrils of darkness at the two making them freeze on the spot
"NO!" Cried out four voices as Magnamon, Omnimon, Omnimon X and Omnimon Zwart jumped in the way of the attack, Omnimon X and Zwart blocking one tendril with their swords while Omnimon and Magnamon blocked the attacks with their arms, trying to push it back
"Damn it." Growled Yuugo as he watched the class and clearly saw that the Royal Knights were outmatched as more tendrils joined in on the clash pushing the Omnimon and Magnamon back
"Do you need some help?" Asked a voice as everything seemed to freeze in place
"What? Who are you?" Asked Yuugo as he looked around finding nothing
"I'm Lucemon. I can give you the power needed to take down this… demon. All you need to do is say yes." Stated the voice as a Lucemon Chaos Mode appeared in front of Yuugo, wearing a dark smile
"What power is this?" Asked Yuugo
"The power of darkness." Answered Lucemon simply as he held his hand out for Yuugo
"Then I don't want it! I've already seen what that type of power does to people!" Screamed Yuugo as he kicked Lucemon away, expecting a fight only for the fallen angel to change his smile from a dark one to a bright one as a reverted back to his Rookie form
"Good. I've had enough of people not even questioning power." Smirked Lucemon as he flew over to Yuugo and put his hand on his chest making a moon symbol appear "Now, go show him why the moon counters the sun." He stated as Yuugo glowed as time resumed.
"Amethyst Mandala!" Called out Ami as she slammed her staff into the ground causing a barrier to appear in front of the Omnimon trio and Magnamon, blocking the tendrils of darkness
"Darkness Death Drive." Said Jarod as a massive tendril of darkness shot itself at Ami at speeds she couldn't react to
"Moon Destroyer." Called out Yuugo as a crescent shaped blast of water shot itself at an equal speed to Jarod's attack and split the tendril straight down the middle making it miss Ami while the crescent went on and sliced through some of Jarod's aura, and his arm adding a slight red tint to his aura and the tendrils attacking Ami's barrier
"Hahaha…" Laughed Jarod quietly before his laughter exploded in proportion "HAHAHAHAHAHA! YES!" He laughed, saying his first intelligent word ever since he took his new form making his aura drop a little revealing his form for a split second, a split second everyone but Yuugo missed as Jarod studied his new form. Yuugo was a human again, but unlike before he had a long cloak on that covered body down to his knees, only the cloak split down the middle showing that underneath it he had a blue 'sweat shirt' with a moon on it and black 'jeans' on and he had a device on his wrists which looked like a mini blaster of some kind. His hair was black, the same black as before he turned into a digimon but his eyes had changed into a dark blue colour, like the colour of the night sky before it all fades to black, and it seemed that they also contained a star or two, but that was just an illusion. He also had on boots that seemed to taken from his Crescemon form while on his hands where gloves similar to the ones on his Lekismon form only grey with a full moon on the back.
"If it's a fight you want then… It's a fight you'll get." Stated Yuugo, getting over his shock from Jarod's short reveal before he got into a defensive pose as a moon seemed to appear behind him
"Hehehe…HAHAHA!" Laughed Jarod as he stared at Yuugo's unmoving form, a dead star seemingly appearing behind him.
Jarceus: And that is all for this chapter. I hope you all enjoyed and will stay tuned for next time.
Jarod: Soo, Yuugo copied my thing.
Ami: Pretty much, only for him he didn't have to separate himself from a dark force.
Yuugo: That is very much true.
Jarod: Ahh, by I didn't have to rely on someone else to achieve my form.
Yuuko: That is also true.
