I'm just a poor boy from Belgium. Maybe someday I'll own the rights to Digimon and make this entire fanfiction into a movie. But untill then: I don't own anything you recognize.
Spirits of Destiny
Chapter 36
"So where do you think he'll go first?" Tai looked up at Gennai. In order to leave the other edge of the world he had to dedigivolve so he could travel on one of the flying digimon.
And he was NOT amused by the change.
He wasn't used to becoming a mega level so when he tried to dedigivolve he turned into something other then DemiSphinxmon.
"I believe that Orochimon will go after AncientSphinxmon first. He's the closest and the weakest of the ten." Gennai couldn't help but smile at the in-training digimon.
"That makes sense." Tai said. "Gennai, stop staring at me like that."
"How can you not stare at something as cute as yourself?" Mimi asked as she picked him up and held him close. Tai did look rather cute. He was a big ball of black fluff with little feet sticking out under him. Two puppy-dog ears stood straight up on his head.
"I am not cute! I am a ferocious, bad-ass warrior of darkness!" Tai yelled as he flailed his little paws in a desperate attempt to get away from Mimi (even though he liked her holding him like this)
"Sure you are." Sora laughed.
"I am!" Tai argued.
"Everybody shut up or else I'll throw you off!" Garudamon yelled up at her passengers.
"Sorry!" Sora yelled back, still stifling her laugh.
"Can't wait to get back to being Lowemon. I hate this body. I can't even walk properly now and I'm even smaller then when I'm DemiSphinxmon." Tai complained.
"I like you better this way. Much cuter then when you're KingLowemon." Mimi said, still with that smile on her face.
Unwillingly Tai fell asleep in Mimi's arms. The soft rocking from travelling on Garudamon combined with the fatigue caused by his digivolution to mega were to much for him.
Once again he was in the plains of his dreams.
'Damnit! Even in my dreams I'm a pipsqueak!' Tai cursed, not really paying attention to what was happening around him.
'You look cute though.'
'Not you to.' Tai groaned as a copy of his champion form came near.
'Seriously, I don't have time to be chatting with you. Myotismon, Orochimon or whatever he calls himself has broken free and is heading to File Island.' Tai said to his other side.
'Myotismon broke free? Was Lucemon with him?' His other side looked rather worried about this news.
'Sort of. They combined into something new. Hey! How do you know about Lucemon? Even I didn't know that he was locked in there. '
'Oops… Shouldn't have said that.'
'Who are you? Really. And don't give me that 'Digimon-side' crap.' Tai growled as fiercely as he could, which wasn't very fierce at all.
'Oh well, the fun's over.' His other side sighed.
'You know how I told you that I'm a part of you?' Tai nodded. 'Well I'm part of your digimon side. And your digimon side was provided by...' He allowed Tai to finish that sentence.
The gears in Tai's head began working overtime.
'AncientSphinxmon?' Tai said hesitantly. His digimon side nodded and faded way, only to return again in the shape of AncientSphinxmon.
'So that's why his voice was so familiar.' Tai murmured. 'So all this time you, AncientSphinxmon, have been spying on me?'
'Not spying, more sending you in the correct direction. Aiding you with what I know. That kind of stuff. You are my son after all.'
'No, not really. And to think that you didn't like me.' Tai smirked. 'But now that you're here I might as well warn you. Orochimon, that's what it calls himself now, is coming to File Island. He wants you.'
'Orochimon?' AncientSphinxmon looked away.
'I always knew this day would come.' The ancient of darkness sighed. 'In a way I'm relieved.'
'So what? You're glad he's coming for you?' Tai said, eying the image of AncientSphinxmon weirdly.
'No, it's just that all this time I feared that Lucemon would escape. Maybe now he can be destroyed for good.'
'We'll try.' Tai said. 'Inform me when Orochimon arrives, okay?'
AncientSphinxmon nodded.
'Just one question though. I know you saved my life and stuff but why do you talk to me in my head?' Tai knew that question sounded weird but he just had to know.
'Tai.' He started. 'I'm an eons old digimon who hasn't done anything fun in like ten-thousand years.'
That explained a lot.
'Good answer but I'm still mad about what you nearly did to my sister.' Tai growled again, making AncientSphinxmon burst out into laughter.
"So how long have you been here?" Ken asked his brother. He had no idea what else to ask him. Actually he had a million questions but he didn't know how to ask them. The idea that his brother was even alive was still foreign to him.
"About ten-thousand years." Susanoomon said calmly.
Davis, Ken, Matt and Gabumon nearly dropped down, ANIME STYLE! The same for Imperialdramon. Luckily he was able to pull himself back up before they crashed into the ocean.
"Serious? How is that even possible?" Ken asked, clearly amazed by the fact that his brother was over ten-thousand years old.
"Simple: you know how the digital timeline was only recently synchronized with the human timeline?"
Matt nodded. "That happened after we saved the digital world the first time."
"Yes, that's when. But I picked up Ken's digi-thingy before that happened. It blasted me with enough digital energy so that when I died I would end up in the digital world." Susanoomon said.
"Gennai found me hanging around here and gave me a new purpose. Which I failed completely." Susanoomon said darkly.
"Question! Why didn't you just go on to whatever is after this world? Why stick around?" Davis asked. "I mean, Tai nearly went to the afterlife after the incident with GearDevimon."
"Honestly: I don't know why I stayed. Maybe I had a higher purpose to serve. Or maybe I just wanted to see my little brother again." Susanoomon said before grabbing Ken into a hold and gave him a noogie.
"Ahh! Quit it! You're scrambling my brain!" Ken laughed as he tried to push his brother away, which as nearly impossible seeing the fact that his digital sibling held the power of nine elements.
Soon all airborne digimon arrived at File Island.
"What happened here?" Mimi asked as she got off from Garudamon, still holding a sleeping Tai. "I have a suspicion that it had something to do with our new nemisis." BlackAgumon said as he jumped off as well. He had picked up that word somewhere and deemed it appropriate for Orochimon.
The digidestined stared at the barren wasteland that once was File Island. The forest, mountains and everything were still there but seemed…empty.
There wasn't a bird around. No rookie digimon competing each other to see which one was stronger. No gentle Monochromons that tried to eat them.
Nothing.
Just this feeling of emptiness that lingered around.
"This is awful." Kari said as she and Angewomon landed.
"That's the only way to describe this." Angewomon shuddered. Her former master had done this. She would make him pay for this.
"So now what?" Joe asked. "We have absolutely no idea of where to start looking for Orochimon. Hell, AncientSphinxmon might have been found already."
"Orochimon hasn't found him yet." Tai said as he woke up in time to hear Joe.
"How do you know?" BlackAgumon asked curiously.
"You know how I told you about that voice in my head?" Tai responded, though a bit embarrassed that he was currently talking about voices that weren't supposed to be there.
"You mentioned it once or twice." BlackAgumon said as he thought about it.
"That voice is AncientSphinxmon." Tai continued. "Apparently he had nothing better to do then talk to me inside my own head."
"That AncientSphinxmon for ya. Never really liked face to face conversations. If I remember correctly we still haven't finished that game of e-mail chess." Gennai said with a weak smile on his face.
"E-mail chess?" Davis asked. "That means that they play chess by sending each other mails of the turn they make. Those can last months." Everyone turned to Izzy. "What? I've done that a few times to."
"Enough about board games. There's an evil digimon-absorbing eight-headed chicken rip-off on the loose." Matt said, pulling everyone back to the problem. "What are we gonna do about it?"
"Simple." Tai started. "We wait till he arrives at AncientSphinxmon's place and then I'll kick his ass."
"What're you gonna do? Cuddle him to death?" Matt asked as he looked at Tai's tiny form.
"If that'll destroy him, then yes. I will cuddle him to death." Tai said seriously but had trouble keeping a straight face.
"Okay, enough laughing with Tai's new form." Kari started. "We need a plan for attack. We can't just rush in and try to kill Orochimon."
"She's right. We can't expect to just barge in and kill him. I mean he's made up from every evil digimon we've ever faced and more." Joe said, rather calmly but nervous as hell.
"I might know what to do about Orochimon." Gennai said as he reached into his pocket. "This could help us." He held up a red crystal.
Damn filler. I detest filler but I couldn't do anything to progress the story with out it. And the whole 'AncientSphinxmonTai's digimon side' thing was planned for a long time but I had no idea how to fit it in.
Reviews
Graypheonix: the sovereigns are 'thinks…' on vacation! Yes that's why they cant help 'shifty eyes'
Lord Pata: didn't know that. Looked him up and I like my version better ;)
Martiny the one and only still: I don't know about a sequel yet. We'll see what happens.
DigiGirl96: I picked Orochimon because of his connection to Susanoomon.
And since most people thought immediately about Orochimaru: his name was picked from a legend. Orochi was an eight-headed dragon that demanded a human sacrifice every year. The hero (Susa-no-o) fed him barrels of liquor and got Orochi drunk and killed him. Happy ending!
And I'm glad that so many people like my evil combination of every evil that roamed the earth.
R&R peoples!