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Spirits of Destiny
Chapter 37
"So…" Jun started. Tai had actually forgotten that she was still around so he was a bit surprised when he heard her voice. "How is that glorified marble gonna help us?"
Gennai turned to her. "This 'marble' as you put it, is a soulstone, not unlike the one that imprisoned Orochimon. I made a few changes to it." He glared at her, which was an interesting sight to behold.
"What's different then?" Tai asked, trying to keep the conversation going. It wouldn't do them any good to have a secret weapon if they didn't know what it did.
"I have no idea actually." Gennai said with a smile on his face.
Everyone stared at the old man. "I think it's time to take Gennai to the old folk's home." Davis whispered to Ken, who barely stifled a laugh.
Gennai either didn't hear them or ignored them and continued. "As I said, I made a few changes. In theory it could contain Orochimon but that's just a theory. I don't know if it'll really do that. It could do nothing." Gennai held his hand up to the back of his head and scratched. "I didn't really have time to test it."
"Great, so all we have is an untested weapon against an enemy that's stronger then anything we ever fought before." Matt threw his hands up.
"So what?" TK asked. "If it doesn't work we'll just destroy Orochimon the old fashioned way."
"TK's right." Kari said. "We never needed to contain an enemy before, so we'll just defeat him as any other enemy."
"That's the plan then. We try it and if it fails..." Tai said, looking up at the people around him. "We destroy Orochimon, as we normally would. Let's just hope that Gennai's crystal bal works. Less people will get hurt if we detain Orochimon instantly."
"We have to try it." Mimi said. "I don't want a repeat of our first trip to the Digital World. I don't want to lose anymore friends."
The others nodded in agreement. They had to try it.
"It's here."
A familiar voice sprung through Tai's head.
"People!" Tai said before glowing a bright silver light as he transformed into DemiSphinxmon. "It's ShowTime."
"AncientSphinxmon!" A voice yelled, in an eerily sweet way. "Come out and play!"
Orochimon was currently smashing his steel claw into Mount Infinity. He had figured that the Ancient of Darkness resided there.
The whole army of Shadow digimon was patiently waiting for orders. The digidestined weren't here yet and Orochimon would take care of AncientSphinxmon himself.
A few dots in the distance became visible and grew rather fast.
One of the eight heads on Orochimon's body turned around. The dead eyes that resided in the digimon's skull saw the specks. Myotismon, off course, saw what ever the other heads saw.
"Pathetic minions. Keep those digidestined busy. But don't destroy them." Myotismon snarled, not really believing that those words came from his mouth. But he had to let them live. Broken parts weren't very useful to add to their evergrowing body.
The steel arm dropped down on the mountain again, sending the sound of steel striking stone through the air.
Garudamon came close enough to the mountain. Her digital passengers jumped off from greater height then she had expected. As the three digimon dropped down they yelled out in unison.
DemiSphinxmon!!
BlackAgumon!!
Warp-Digivolve to…
Kinglowemon!!
Machinedramon.
Palmon digivolves to Togemon!!
Togemon digivolves to… Lilymon!!
Tai landed rather softly on the cold ground while Machinedramon created a small crater when he landed. Lilymon just flew off as soon as she digivolved.
Other digimon did the same. Tai saw the shapes of Zudomon and MetalGarurumon pop up from two glowing specks in the distance. They had spread out a bit, to surround their enemy.
The Shadow army sprang to life the moment they toughed the ground, sending projectiles flying their way.
They just dodged them, or in Machinedramon's case: took the attack head on. He was made of pure Digi-alloy so the attacks hardly scraped him.
"Move away from here!" Tai yelled like the leader he was. Garudamon nodded and flew up, taking Mimi and Sora with her.
"So, is this what the end of the world is like?" Machinedramon asked as the army of digimon rushed towards them. "Pretty much." Tai said with a broad smile as he adjusted his crown a bit. "But I expected more fire and explosions and stuff like that." Tai lifted his sword and struck down on the first digimon that came within range. It immediatly burst into digital dust. He did the same to a group that charged him.
He felt a bit guilty about doing so. But it was for the greater good. Plus they would all be reborn in the Primary Village, just like Baromon.
"So, do you do this often?" Jun asked Izzy, watching down at the battlefield from on top of their red armoured digimon.
"Once every two or three years." Izzy smiled. "It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it."
"I'm glad that I'm here with you Izzy." Jun's voice was serious for once. No sarcasm detectable in her tone.
"So am I."
"Woo-hoo!" Davis yelled out as Imperialdramon knocked away a volley of attacks heading their way. The attacks were diverted and struck down on Orochimon who yelled in pain but quickly recovered, as if nothing had happened.
"How can you be so… excited at a time like this?" Ken asked the gogglehead. "I mean, we're in serious danger now.
"What you have seemed to forget is that my middle name is Danger!" Davis laughed.
"Really?" Imperialdramon said. "But you told me it was Eleanor." The two voices continued.
Davis turned a bit gloomy as he heard Imperialdramon say that. "You were not supposed to tell anyone about that!"
"Sorry Eleanor." The fusion laughed.
"So what do you think about all of this?" TK asked his girlfriend. They were currently out of range of any enemy attacks, the fact being that they were like thirty meters above the ground. MagnaAngemon and Angewomon had to fly up here to rest for a while. Flying didn't drain their energy as much as one would think.
"I think we have a good chance to win." Kari smiled. "I had a dream, so I know."
"A dream?" TK asked confused. Kari nodded. "A dream, one in which Orochimon appeared. Off course I didn't know that that monster was Orochimon. But in that dream a warrior appeared and destroyed Orochimon." Kari allowed that information to sink in.
"I think that warrior is Tai."
"Ahh!!" Joe yelled as he fell from Zudomon. A blast of energy had hit the digimon head-on and caused Joe to trip over one of the spikes on his back.
MetalGarurumon was just on time to catch the doctor-in-training.
"Thanks for that." Joe said with a hoarse voice. "No problem man." Matt said before dropping Joe off on Zudomon again. "I'd rather not scrape you off from the rocks. To much work." Matt grinned before he and MetalGarurumon flew off again.
"Well this sucks." Yolei complained. "We're hardly helping here. Our digimon are just to weak to do any serious damage. No offence Halsemon."
"None taken." He responded, though a part of him felt insulted.
"Yolei, we are doing the best we can." Cody said as Ankylomon dropped a "Tail Hammer!" on a Shadow's head. "Remember that as long as we fight, we're helping."
"So my old friend…" Gennai started. "How do you feel?"
"Good for now. But I know it won't be long till my body collapses." Susanoomon held out his hand. "But until then my strength will be greater then before. Give me the SoulStone, so I may use it to undo my failure."
Gennai reluctantly handed it over to the warrior of nine elements. "You sure about this? Sure you won't spend your last hours with your brother?"
"Positive Gennai. If I don't do this my brother won't have a world to live in anymore." Susanoomon blinked away a tear.
"Ken has always followed his destiny. When the Ancients gave me this power they gave me this destiny as well." Susanoomon said before running off towards Orochimon.
"Good luck my friend. May the sovereigns aid you in your task." Gennai said before climbing into his Mekanorimon. If this was the possible end of the world then he wouldn't go down without a fight.
Tai watched as Gennai got involved into the fight. He was a bit surprised at the amount of control the old man had over his robotic suit. He actuall had to dodge a few of the digimon Gennai threw around.
He also saw how Susanoomon headed towards Orochimon. "Machinedramon! I'm going after Susanoomon, he might need my help." Tai yelled before following the human digimon.
"Wait for me." Machinedramon's voice boomed over the trees as he dropped a digimon he was crushing with his claw.
Stones dropped down from the mountain. Each strike from Orocimon caused a tremor to be felt throughout the entire mountain.
AncientSphinxmon had enough. Orochimon was bothering when he was trying to have a nap, like any person his age.
Evil hybrid or not, no one interrupted his nap.
A stream of darkness poured out of the mountain. Orochimon was driven back by it.
"So you finally decided to show your face AncientSphinxmon?" Lucemon's head sneered. He had waited long for this day. He remembered it like it was yesterday, that AncientSphinxmon made the final strike, the one that nearly destroyed him.
"Lucemon." The stream of darkness took on a more animalistic shape. "How nice to see you again. You look a bit different though. New haircut?"
"Laugh as much as you want. Soon you will be part of us and then the rest of the Ancients will fall victim to us." Lucemon snapped.
"You sure do love to hear yourself talk, don't you?" AncientSphinxmon joked.
"Aaarghh!" Lucemon let out some inhuman shout of frustration and slammed the metal fist into the ground, where AncientSphinxmon stood a split-second before.
"Hey it looks like AncientSphinxmon showed up as well!" Kari yelled.
"That's AncientSphinxmon?" TK asked a bit hesitantly. He had always believed that dark equalled bad, but the physical manifestation of darkness was fighting on their side. Maybe darkness wasn't so bad after all.
The final countdown has started. Will Susanoomon be able to lock Orochimon away or will chaos engulf the world as it is slowly absorbed by a bunch of digimon that played with superglue?
Wait and see.
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Beth: Damn! That's a whole lot of questions! I don't know, just wanted him to be. His name is Anubimon but it's not mentioned in this chapter. Maybe but it's fun trying to kill the digidestined. Yes. Yes but they don't talk to him often. The ancients gave him the task of guarding the key. They were experimenting so they could give Tai a new body and I like AncientSphinxmon the best, that's why. Don't know about Susanoomon's other forms.
Tai's other forms are:
Anubimon (in-training)
DemiSphinxmon (Rookie)
Lowemon (champion)
JagerLowemon (Ultimate)
KingLowemon (mega)
For the rest: just wait and see. And yes this was indeed a long review.
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