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Spirits of Destiny
Chapter 38
"Necro Eclipse!" Twin beams of light were fired from AncientSphinxmon's eyes. They struck down on Orochimon's body, who hardly even flinched.
"Your attacks aren't as powerful as they used to be." Lucemon taunted. "Are we just too strong or are you getting old?"
He shouldn't have said that.
"Are you calling me old? YOU'RE CALLING ME OLD!! AAAAGHH!!" A fierce battlecry, immediately followed by an attack of epic proportions.
"Dark Blast!" A huge orb of darkness formed in front of AncientSphinxmon. Orochimon didn't even have time to say "Oh crap." Before he threw it at them.
"Now who's getting old?" The ancient of darkness said as the smoke cleared up.
"You." Myotismon said. "It appears that your mind doesn't function as well as it used to."
"You forgot that we can't be stopped!" Myotismon cackled.
"Oh, get over yourself." AncientSphinxmon responded. "And while you're at it, pick up some manners as well."
Myotismon decided not to respond to that. Instead he issued another attack. Steel claws flung against AncientSphinxmon's though exterior, causing only minimal damage.
"Is that it? Build from all the evil of the last eight thousand years and all you can do is scratch me?" AncientSphincxmon laughed.
"We can do so much more!" Two voices boomed over the fields of battle.
"A Thousand Nightmares!" The eight heads of Orochimon lined up, each firing dozens of blasts. The projectiles seemed to be made of concentrated miasma.
AncientSphinxmon did his best to dodge all but, as mentioned earlier, he was getting old and was only half as nimble as he used to be. Several beams struck him, most in the chest area.
The plates of steel began to show tiny cracks.
"Still think we can only scratch you?" Myotismon asked once the last beam was fired.
AncientSphinxmon didn't say anything. He was just about to launch a counter-attack when…
"Orochimon!" Susanoomon yelled. The distance between him and the eight-headed freak of nature was great, but his voice was heard crystal clear.
Tai and Machinedramon caught up with him. They moved towards him but Susanoomon held up his hand, signalling them to stay back.
"This is my fight." Was all he said before jumping up in the air.
"You can say what you want about him, but he does know how to make an exit." Tai said as Susanoomon landed and jumped again.
"I concur." Machinedramon said. Tai briefly wondered where he learned that word but banished it from his thoughts. The battle of the century was going on. He didn't have time to worry about Machinedramon's vocabulary.
Susanoomon landed on a rock between Orochimon and AncientSphinxmon. "You'd better get out of here old man."
"Old man? Who are you calling an old man?" AncientSphinxmon said, obviously insulted but at the same time relieved. He'd never admit it but another of those 'Nightmare' attacks and it would be game over for him.
AncientSphinxmon left the battleground for the safety of the side-lines. Of course there were still some Shadow digimon there (which he gladly crushed).
"It's you and me Orochimon." Susanoomon said, brandishing his sword.
"No kid, soon it'll be just us." Myotismon said obviously indicating the ever growing creature that was Orochimon.
"Keep thinking that." Susanomon said, lifting his sword up higher. His plan was to weaken Orochimon and then use Gennai's SoulStone.
He hoped it worked.
Else they stood little to no chance, unless some miracle happened.
Susanoomon leaped. He leaped like he never leaped before. Sword gleaming in the sun as he brought it down on Lucemon's head.
"Fool."
The sword was grabbed by a steel arm. It and its holder were spun around and thrown away.
Susanoomon landed rather hard on the ground but quickly managed to regain his footing and did a new attempt. This time he kept an eye on where the steel arm was so he could avoid it. It was nearly impossible to avoid the other limbs. Orochimon had like fifty other arms spread across his body.
But those could be destroyed.
A swift strike and two arms were cut off.
Only to be replaced by new ones.
"This will never work." Tai commented. "He'll be cutting arms for days. Orochimon will just keep on growing them back."
"He needs help." Machinedramon said, once again with a monotone voice. The steel dragon lifted his cannon.
A red beam of energy was launched. It struck one of the heads, which exploded but was replaced by a rather familiar one.
"Ain't that GearDevimon?" Tai smirked. "This one's mine!" He yelled, remembering his promise to Baromon.
Susanoomon saw help coming from those he forbad to help. It was his fight.
But help is always appreciated.
He saw how Tai lobbed off the head of GearDevimon and grinned as it faded away.
Susanoomon attacked once more, this time much easier given the fact that Orochimon was bombarded with energy blasts and sword-strikes.
"Pathetic." Myotismon said as he knocked Tai and Susanoomon away with his steel arm. Tai landed rather hard on the ground while Susanoomon landed on his feet. "You keep believing that you can defeat us. You cling to that hope but you all know it's a lie." Myotismon ranted.
"You all know that sooner or later you'll join us." Lucemon continued. "That the entire world will become part of us."
"Less talking." Tai said as he crawled out of the huge KingLowemon-shaped crater. "More fighting." Susanoomon continued.
"Fools." Myotismon sighed.
"A Thousand Nightmares!" He and Lucemon screamed. 'Perfect.' Susanoomon thought as he dodged the beams.
Tai had some more trouble dodging the beams then Susanoomon and as such was hit by at least twenty before Machinedramon stepped up and used his steel body to shield Tai.
"Thanks man." Tai panted. Machinedramon just nodded, ignoring the damage done by the beams. He hardly felt them but they were damaging the steel plates that build his body.
Orochimon's attacks stopped. A thousand beams of darkness, well that drained your strength. No digimon could handle an attack of such magnitude without growing a bit tired.
This was the moment that Susanoomon was waiting for. He only had a few seconds.
He pulled the SoulStone out of seemingly nowhere.
Tai, Machinedramon and all the other spectators saw what was happening in slow-motion. The orb sailed through the air, its target obvious.
It struck Orochimon in the chest.
In a flash of light it activated. The orb glowed a bright red colour before doing something…
It acted like a vacuum. That was the only way to describe it.
Slowly but surely Orochimon was pulled in.
"No!!" Lucemon yelled, having figured out what was happening. "Not again!"
"If we'll be trapped again we will take some company with us!" Myotismon laughed, mentally ordering all Shadow digimon to run towards the orb. It grew with every digimon that entered.
Tai was having some trouble staying put. The force of the orb was way to strong. Luckily Gennai didn't test this thing earlier. Else they'd be the ones trapped. He slammed his sword into the ground, using it as an anchor.
Tai watched as Shadow digimon after Shadow digimon disappeared into the orb. He felt sorry for them. He knew how it felt to do something you didn't want to do.
He never saw it coming.
Orochimon did another attack before getting sucked in. Another Thousand Nightmares was fired at them. it laughed like a maniac as they were pulled in and dissapeared from sight.
Susanoomon had moved far enough to be safe from the blasts. He saw how they all moved towards random directions. A lot of them were heading towards Tai.
They struck the ground Tai was standing on. His sword broke lose from the ground and soon the warrior of darkness was lifted into the air and pulled towards the orb.
Machinedramon did an attempt to catch Tai. He failed. He watched helplessly as Tai disappeared into the orb as well.
"No, not this time!" He yelled before following Tai.
The orb kept expanding.
And then suddenly.
It stopped. It closed up again.
It was huge by now. It was at least two times as big as Infinity Mountain.
"Taichi!" Kari yelled as Angewomon landed next to the orb. She began hitting it, trying to contact her trapped brother, but in a way she knew that he couldn't hear her.
"Gennai!" Mimi yelled at the old man. "How do you plan on getting Tai out of there? I swear if you don't get him out I'll kill you!" By now the old man was cowering.
"He can't get out." Gennai said, recovering from Mimi's attack.
"I changed it so it can't be destroyed from the inside." He continued. He saw faces of the digidestined grow even more teary.
"We can't leave him in there." Matt said. "Yeah, Tai doesn't deserve to be trapped inside this forever." TK added. TK had known from the start that this was a bad idea. In a way this had all been a huge waste of time.
Everyone fells silent for a minute.
Gennai was the first to start talking again. "But as I said: it can't be destroyed from the inside. I didn't say anything about the outside."
Tai felt like he had been hit by a truck. Twice. And then the truck driver got out of his truck and jumped on him a few times.
He did an attempt at getting up. He had a headache but stood up firmly after a few tries.
He scanned his surroundings. It was red. Everything. The walls, the floor. Red. Build up from a strange crystal like material.
The last thing Tai remembered was how he got sucked into the orb.
"Oh great, I'm inside the orb!" He yelled in frustration.
"You're not the only one." Machinedramon said. Tai hadn't noticed him yet. "Why did you jump in after me?" Tai asked as he vaguely remembered that.
"I had noting better to do." Machinedramon said. "Plus I didn't want to leave you alone with that." He pointed his trident-like arm at Orochimon, who was currently trying to fix himself up. The army of digimon was spread across the orb and seemed to have no idea what had happened to them.
"Aaaaaaaaaaghhh!" Myotismon screamed. "He did it again!"
"We'll just break out again. even if it takes us another eight-thousand years." Lucemon said, venom in his voice. "And then I'll rip that old man apart."
"Uh, you do know that Susanoomon trapped you here, right?" Tai asked, actually amused by the created confusion.
"You're here to?" Myotismon said. "Great, hell just got worse."
"At least we'll have something to destroy this time." Lucemon smirked.
"Crap." Tai sighed.
Sorry it took so long! I needed some time to decide where I was heading with this story. I had two options: 1- I wrote the version I wanted but then I couldn't write a sequel or 2- I write an other version so I can do a sequel.
I chose nr.2.
Again sorry it took so long and that it's so short.
And next chapter will be much more interesting (I hope)
By the way, can anyone spot the movie quote?
Reviews
Liah Cauthon: ain't that the Japanese name for JagerLowemon?
Beth: Ancientsphinxmon can contact him whenever he wants (usually when he's bored) and the whole trap thing is just a plot for me to create an even more evil villain (coming next chapter) Firehedgehog: that might show up some time 'hint-hint'
Coppa-Cola: don't worry, they will ;)
Vigatus: as I said the Sovereigns are on vacation and the Ancients are on their way! But they're old so it'll take a while…
Depthmon: thanks you
Martiny the one and only still: hope you're better by now. And now I'm sick. Again! damn weather in Belgium is acting strange. It's way to warm and I'm running into a heavy case of hay fever. Heat + hay fever almost dead author.
Angel of Courage and Kagami of the mirror: they will show up sooner or later
terracannon876: thank you for the compliment and English isn't my first language but it helps that Dutch (what we speak here) looks a lot like English. And it's actually AnubiSmon that's a real digimon ;)