Besides the first one, which was cut due to being inappropriate for a T-rated fiction, others were just something I "finished writing but then decided not to use"


Chapter 17

Rated: M

Mercurymon's 'death'

They all went forward to see who was that who helped Piedmon. But what they saw was not what that had expected. Not in the way they had imagined.

Yuzuki covered her mouth and noise with a hand immediately after seeing that and turned her face behind. Takumi had a similar reaction, burying his face in Clockmon's torso. The others were stunned as well, though not as much as the two. It took then a bit time too calm down.

In the post of the fallen hybrid lied a shape that no ordinary child could bear watching. A body with the size of an average man was there; only it was made mainly of bones and decomposed body tissue. The bones weren't completely white. In fact, it was a bit pink in color, being wrapped by rotten muscles and exposed veins with the purplish red blood depositing on the surface of the bones. The decomposed meat was like a spider web; only they were linked with dead cells and sticky fluid that was very possibly plasma.

Up in the cranium, the eye sockets were filled with a milky colored gel; no one dared to say allow what they assume that to be. The jaws were off their supposed position, being hanged with one side to the skull and the other side detached. The thoracic cavity was even more unbearable. The lungs weren't gone, and so was the heart. Things would have looked a lot less terrible had they been gone. There were a few holes on the organs, exposing a bit inner structure that look just sick to the children.

'How can someone be that sick and twisted?' mumbled Eiji, avoiding eye contact with the remains as much as possible. The digimon hadn't seen a human remain for real, but they had all guessed from the digi-destined's reaction that it was something terrible.

Yuzuki didn't say anything. She felt sick. Her throat was burning as if he stomach acid had reached her oesophagus. She could hardly breath, either. It felt almost like the wall of her trachea had been swollen that she was experiencing asthma.

Takumi couldn't breath as well. He stuck his face tightly at the clock surface of Clockmon's body with his eyes shut tight. He could feel the tears acuminating inside the closed eyes. It hurt not letting them out, but he couldn't bear seeing that scene again so he just kept them shut anyway.

'So that's why they call them "Sentinels of dead",' muttered Amy, 'cause they're…dead.'


Chapter 21

Rated: T

Kaoru's night chat.

'You don't have to be the night guard anymore.' A voice broke through the silence Kaoru had been used to at late night. He turned around to see that it was Eiji talking to him. 'You need rest,'

'I had.' The blonde boy replied. 'But they just keep coming, every night.'

'I thought you have gotten over with it.' said the blue-haired boy. He'd heard from Yuzuki Kaoru's back story, and had assumed that with Reapermon's death the boy would be normal again.

'I don't know.' Replied Kaoru, staring at the ceiling. 'Sometimes I just think they might be with me for the rest of my life.'

'Can't you just relax in the comfort when you can?' said Eiji, a bit annoyed. They had had unexpected service, and they had been treated nicely for once, after all the traumatizing incidents. He simply couldn't understand why the younger boy couldn't let himself relax for once. He had his own concerns as well; he'd left too long and too suddenly that he'd started to worry about his family back at home, but he knew that waking up at late night was not a solution. 'At least you didn't have to share a bath with someone.' He said, attempting to lower the tension. 'The water was about to run cold in a few ten minutes and Ryosuke just jumped in without permission. You're probably asleep by then.'

He succeeded, as indicated by the giggle of the blonde boy. 'Glad I wasn't there.' He said.

'Maybe things will go wrong tomorrow, just rest now.' Eiji switched the topic back to the sleeping issue.

'I told you…'

'Maybe it's because you're too lonely to bare the nightmares.' Eiji stopped the younger boy before he could finish. 'I've heard of some authorities saying something like dreams are just some kind of sub-consciousness; I don't really know what that means, but I guess you should be able to get through your dreams, good or bad ones, they're yours, after all.'

'Is that supposed to make me feel better?' responded Kaoru with a laugh of sarcasm.

'No.' said Eiji. 'But I do think you'll feel better if you don't insist on keeping everything your own.'

Seeing that he could never win the older boy in terms of word, Kaoru surrendered, falling back on his bed though he knew exactly what would be waiting for him.


Chapter 23

Rated: T

Yuzuki's dream

There was light, a brilliant white light, all around her. Or maybe there was no light at all; just the surrounding being all white that it seemed like the entire world around her had been illuminated.

Yuzuki looked around frantically, and could saw nothing. If her brain was working properly, she should now be at the digital world, about nighttime, traveling to seek revenge for the fallen village, not in some sort of white world, with nothing but herself standing, doing nothing at all.

Another fact that had struck her was that the world seemed all the same wherever she went it seemed that she had not been moving at all, just turning around and doing all kind of movement that resembled the pattern of walking without actually getting any progress.

'Anybody here?' she tried another method to make sure that she was not yet insane. She then concluded that she was not in some kind of confined room owing to the sound that never came back to her. She started to get worried. What if everything happening here were real and this was indeed the digital world? What if Piedmon had made some kind of strike that had turned the world she knew into this whiteness, and everyone she knew into nothing?

That was when the blackness started to take over the position of the white. Like ink drips on a paper, clouds of blackness appeared from all over the corners of her eyes, invading the perfectly white world she was standing in. a moment later the world seemed no longer bright at all, and instead darkness took its place. So hardly could she see anything now that she did even really she had had her eyes closed at an unknown period of time.

Reopening them again she saw one thing a light sight of greenery, right next to her foot. Then she looked round again. Still nothing. She focused on the greenery near her foot, when she felt a sudden pain of being pulled from her back. More and more of that green stuff appeared now, and she could now made it clear that they resembled the body parts of Aruraumon. She tried to turn her head again, but couldn't do that this time. Behind her she heard the repeating noise.

'Help me.''Help me.''Help me.'

And before she could even give any apologies to the deceased, she sprung up from her disturbed slumber.


Chapter 34

Rated: T

The digital world burns.

It was quite beneficial sometimes that the Temple was concealed within a mountain, and thus had a less chance to get assaulted. Even with that, Wizardmon, partially due to his duty and partially curiosity, watched the digital as the vast amount of Chaosdramon appeared out of nowhere. Preferably he would stay out of any of this, at most watching by the side, which was what he was doing at the moment.

There was no doubt that the Chaosdramon were out for nothing but killing. The digital world itself had always seemed like a giant painted mat from an up above view, and now all it had was a little red and orange as decorations. Even in broad daylight the firelight was very clearly visible, and every once in a while there would be streams of smoke hovering across the air, hindering the sight.

But that didn't matter to Wizardmon, or the other digimon in the Temple. They had something else to take care of, and currently they hadn't faced any problem doing so. Even if they had foreseen the coming of this day, they could care less. In fact, even if they did want to help, nothing much could be done. That's why all they could do now was to protect the important property within the Temple.