Chapter 51!
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Let's get on with the show.
Chapter 51: A Woman's Fight! LadyDevimon!
Digital World. R-Day+10. Afternoon.
P.O.V. – Mimi Tachikawa
The past week has actually gone pretty well. After we mourned for Leomon's death, we headed on our way to the Village of Beginnings. Though Ogremon kept telling us that the place was essentially dead, I wanted to at least see for myself before we'd move on from there. Along the way, we managed to find some allies and they were old friends of ours from File Island. We ran into Yukidarumon, Meramon, and Raptordramon, though we didn't know who he was until he mentioned that Ross and Guilmon had freed him from a Black Gear the day Guilmon first evolved into Growmon. We were beginning to march up a hill where we could see a city nearby us. I kinda wanted to check it out, but the village wasn't that way so we were going to have to ignore it. Good thing too, we felt a large earthquake before seeing the whole city receded away from Spiral Mountain.
"The city is disappearing!" I observed.
"Taichi and the others must have beaten another Dark Master." Jou said.
"Agumon and the others sure are working hard!" Gomamon believed.
"That makes three down, right? Now there's only one more left." Palmon informed.
"That would be Piemon." Ogremon told us.
"He's right. Mugendramon was the controller of the cities, so Piemon would be the final Dark Master." Raptordramon sighed, as if he was worried about what was coming.
"The last Dark Master who controls the darkness…" Meramon looked over the hill behind us.
"I've heard that he's the strongest of the Dark Masters." Yukidarumon recounted the rumors he heard.
"All right. In any case, we should gather more people before we meet up again with Taichi." Jou explained the plan as he marched up the hill. The rest of us followed close behind.
"Hey!" Ogremon turned to Yukidarumon as we walked up the hill. "Stay back!" I guess being so close to the snow Digimon was making him cold. "You're too cold!" I was right. However, as he picked up speed, he almost walked into Meramon. "Ah! You're too hot! Man, what is wrong with you guys?!" Maybe he should walk next to Raptordramon, he'd be just right. I panted as I tried to keep up pace but all this walking over hills and mountains has just exhausted all of my energy, though I think I'm doing better in terms of stamina than I was when I first arrived into the Digimon world. My exhaustion had caught up with me and I sat on my knees.
"I'm tired… I can't walk anymore… I'm sleepy… and I'm hungry!" I moaned.
"The princ- I mean, Mimi is hungry, ribbit." Gekomon quickly caught his words about calling me Princess.
"Wait right here, tama. We'll come back with food soon, tama!" Otamamon explained.
"I didn't say that because I wanted you to serve me!" I didn't want these guys following my every word again like last time. The last thing we need is for my Crest not to shine again, which apparently can happen considering what went on with Yamato during that fight with Kiwimon.
"We know, ribbit! Don't worry about it, ribbit!"
"We just want to make ourselves useful, tama. Wait right here, tama." They both walked into the bushes to try to find me some food.
"Hey, I'll come with you!" Yukidarumon followed them.
"Everyone is being really nice, don't you think?" I asked Palmon.
"That's because they all like you, Mimi. Right?" She questioned the others. The others could only stare before Ogremon, Meramon, and Raptordramon turned their heads away and rubbed the back of theirs nervously.
"Uh, I think I'll take a nap." "Me, too." "I should probably stand guard."
"Jou." Gomamon got Jou's attention. "Your face is red." Jou's eyes widened in embarrassment.
"Wh-What are you talking about?! You must be seeing things!" He yelled. Both Palmon and I laughed at that.
"Mimi! Sorry for the wait, ribbit!" After a few hours of resting, Gekomon, Otamamon and Yukidarumon returned and brought with them a whole feast of food!
"Wow!" I cried in amazement as I picked up a whole liter of soda. "You even brought soda! Oh, it's not cold."
"Give that to me." I handed it to Yukidarumon. He clutched it to his chest before handing it back. "Here you go." He made it cold immediately!
"Sizzling!" Meramon was holding some fish that he fried. "Come get them while they're still hot!"
"Hey, you guys are good to have around!" Ogremon admitted.
P.O.V. – Jou Kido
"Jou. You don't have to force yourself to become a doctor."
"But Dad wants me to be one…"
"Dad has his own opinions. You've got to find your path on your own." I quickly woke up after dreaming about being in Big Sight during Vamdemon's invasion and talking with Shin.
"Just a dream…" I said to myself. I looked over to see everyone asleep after we had our meal. I got up and walked over to where Ogremon was standing guard. "Um, Ogremon? Are you on watch duty? We can switch."
"Me, switch with you?" He questioned. "You sure you can handle it?" I got upset with that suggestion.
"Hey, even someone like me can keep watch!"
"Really? Okay, it's all yours." He walked away where he soon planed on falling asleep like the others. I stared out towards the valley this hill overlooked.
"Find my own path by myself, huh?" I said to myself again. My thoughts turned to Yamato's words about him finding his own path as well. "Yamato… Were you able to find it? Your own path…"
Spiral Mountain Peak, Digital World. R-Day+11. Morning.
P.O.V. – Ross McGlathery
We arrived close to the peak of Spiral Mountain late last night and took refuge in a cave with Andromon standing guard. With his resistance against Mugendramon ended, he decided to come with us to deal with the final Dark Master, which was quite welcomed. We woke up fairly early but it was hard to tell what time it was due to it being dark and cloudy all the time here. It's like how I would imagine the skies of Mordor described by Tolkien. We walked out of the cave and helped Hikari make a grave for the Numemon. We all said a few words before most of us went up a small hill while Hikari and Takeru were still praying for the Numemon. It was actually a bit of a strange ceremony. Hikari was having a Christian style funeral while Takeru was preforming a Shinto style one. Either way through, those Numemon deserved last rites.
"Numemon-san. I will never forget what you've done for us." Hikari prayed.
"We'll do our best so you can be reborn safely in the Village of Beginnings." Takeru added. Andromon informed us that the Village of Beginnings was destroyed by the Dark Masters and that if we want any of our friends who were killed to be revived, we'd have to destroy Piemon and restore the Digital World for that to happen.
"Amen." Hikari finished.
"Where are we?" Taichi questioned as we finished getting over the hill.
"Hey, look!" Sora pointed ahead. Across a long rocky valley was a dome like structure in the middle of the valley.
"I think we've found Piemon's lair." I said.
"No doubt about that." agreed Koushiro.
P.O.V. – Third Person
Piemon chuckled as he viewed the Chosen Children through his telescope in his observatory.
"How delightful to see the Chosen Children come this far." Piemon laughed. "I should give them a nice reward for their efforts."
"Piemon-sama." A female voice called out from the darkness. "Please allow me to undertake that role."
"Try not to be rude. Give them the highest standard of our hospitality."
"As you wish!" The sound of the voice's laughter filled the halls of the castle.
P.O.V. – Jou Kido
"Okay! We've slept well and we've eaten our fill… Let's move on with renewed energy!" Mimi excitedly proclaimed.
"Thank goodness! Mimi is cheerful again!" Palmon was relieved to see Mimi refreshed. At least she's doing better than me. I kept solemnly walking along with the others but my mind was somewhere else.
"Jou, what's wrong? You look pretty serious." Gomamon asked, clearly he could tell that something was wrong with me.
"O-Oh, no… It's nothing…" Everyone stopped ahead of me and Mimi's mood quickly darkened.
"What… is this place?" She questioned. Ahead looked to be a place that had a bunch of large children's blocks, but they were all torn up and grayed, just like all the plant life around us.
"This is the Village of Beginnings as it is now." Ogremon told us. The whole place looked like utter hell. I never actually saw the village as I was with Sora when we were separated by Devimon, but I could tell this was all wrong.
We walked along a field that was filled with Digieggs but they were all grayed as well and probably dead.
"How terrible… Even the Digieggs…" Mimi was appalled at the travesty the Dark Masters committed. The quietness of the area was suddenly interrupted by the sound of a familiar instrument. I stopped and looked over to the west. "What's wrong, Jou-senpai?"
"Just now, I thought I heard-" The sound returned again, and I could tell that was instrument was none other than a harmonica! "I knew it!" I started running towards the sound of it.
"Hey, Jou!" Gomamon chased after me.
"Could that have been…?" Mimi thought.
"Yamato's…" Palmon believed.
"Let's go!" The girls along with the others quickly followed me.
P.O.V. – Sora Takenouchi
"All set." Koushiro alerted as he plugged in some cords into his laptop that were also connected to Andromon.
"What are you doing, Koushiro?" inquired Guilmon.
"Well, take a look. Whenever you are ready, Andromon."
"Understood." He said. Andromon spread his arms out across the ground and soon the screen showed a whole wire frame map of Spiral Mountain.
"Wow…" Koromon was impressed.
"That's Spiral Mountain." Piyomon observed.
"Yes. Nothing less from Koushiro-han." Tentomon was proud of his human partner.
"And the place we are located right now… is up here." Koushiro said as a red dot blipped on the map at the top of the mountain.
"Hey, that's-" Taichi pointed out.
"We're all the way at the top." exclaimed Hikari.
"Well, remember what Chuumon said?" Ross asked.
"Yeah, he said the Dark Masters live on top of Spiral Mountain." Takeru recalled.
"Then… What we're seeing over there is…" I looked back at the dome.
"Their base." Taichi finished my sentence. "Ross, Koushiro, looks like you guys were right."
Suddenly, we heard a rapid beeping noise coming from the computer and it probably wasn't good.
"Someone's here." Andromon informed. "Be careful." Laughter soon rang out across the valley and this black creature flew above us. This Digimon looked human in nature though she had red eyes, two torn up wings and was wearing leather across her body that had been stitched together. She also had some sort of smaller creature with one arm attached to the leather on her neck. She actually looked like Angewomon if she fell.
"Welcome, you adorable little boys!" She said. Okay, I don't think any of the guys were expecting to be hit on when we woke up this morning. Both me and Hikari had very angry looks on our faces as we did not appreciate her hitting on our friends.
"I don't think I like that Digimon." I growled.
"She looks like a bitch." Hikari sneered. We all quickly turned our attention to her upon hearing those words. Taichi looked back to Ross with his eyebrow raised.
"I can't help it if she wants to watch R-15 and R-18 movies with us!" Ross tried to defend.
"She is one of the Nightmare Soldiers. LadyDevimon." Andromon told us.
"You must be tired, you poor things." She taunted. "Why don't you lie down and rest… for eternity!" Koromon hopped right at her.
"Koromon!" Taichi called out.
"Koromon, evolve! AGUMON! Baby Flame!" The attack did nothing to that witch. She simply swiped him with her red clawed hand and sent him falling back to the ground.
"Agumon!" Taichi ran over to him.
"Patamon, evolve! ANGEMON!" "Piyomon, evolve! BIRDRAMON!" "Guilmon, evolve! GROWMON!" "Tentomon, evolve! KABUTERIMON!" "Tailmon, super-evolve! ANGEWOMON!" All four flying Digimon took to the skies and surrounded LadyDevimon while Growmon awaited on the ground.
"I'll take good care of all of you." LadyDevimon laughed. "Darkness Wave!" She launched a wave of bats similar to Vamdemon at all our Digimon.
Her attack blew back all of our flying Digimon who grunted in pain from the powerful wave.
"Spiral Sword!" "Exhaust Flame!" Both Andromon and Growmon launched their attacks but she merely swung her arm and destroyed both projectiles.
"Mega Blaster!" "Meteor Wing!" Once again, the same result. She just laughed at deflecting the attacks.
"You think those attacks are enough against me?"
"Heaven's Knuckle!" Now, if memory shows, Holy attacks against a creature of darkness like her would do some serious harm to her. That's probably the reason why she flew out of the way of the attack.
"Holy Arrow!" LadyDevimon turned and moved but the arrow grazed her side and she winced in pain. She growled and charged right at Angewomon and struck her with her claw hand.
"Okay, I'm joining them-" Agumon tried to run forward but Taichi stopped him.
"Wait, not yet! You stay back, Agumon!"
"Why, Taichi? I can take her down in an instant at my Ultimate-Level!"
"Koushiro, can you look up her data?"
"O-Okay. LadyDevimon. A female Fallen Angel Digimon. She's a Perfect-Level. Her special attack, Darkness Wave, unleashes a countless number of bats that destroy her opponents." Koushiro explained.
"A Perfect-Level…" Taichi muttered. "All right. Sora and Takeru, I want you to go with Birdramon and Angemon to find Yamato and the others and bring them back." Huh? He wants us to leave now?
"But they're fighting right now." I tried to argue as the fighting continued to rage above.
"No. The rest of our Digimon should be able to take her down. And if the situation calls for it, we always have WarGreymon as our trump card."
"I'm a trump card!" Agumon proudly chuckled.
"What's important to keep in mind that, if this place really is their base, then we're coming closer to facing the last Dark Master.
"Piemon." Koushiro said with disgust.
"Yeah. He should be there. We don't know when he'll show up, and that's a problem. What we do know, though, is that he's incredibly strong."
Our memories were probably thinking back to when we first encountered Piemon and how he utterly crushed WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon.
"So before Piemon shows up, you want us to bring Onii-chan and the others here, right?" Takeru figured it out.
"It is exactly as Taichi-san says. I'm surprised that he has thought that far ahead!" Koushiro admitted his surprise.
"Yeah, thinking ahead and planning a strategy. That's something we've been rarely using ever since we first arrived at File Island." Ross reminded.
"Taichi…" I muttered to him.
"It's just like soccer." He continued. "I figured it out after Yamato, Mimi-chan, and Jou left… Just fighting with reckless abandon like I'd used to isn't enough. We can't allow ourselves to make any more sacrifices." Those words really hit something with me.
"Taichi…" I smiled. He had become a true leader now and the one we all knew he could be.
"Holy Arrow!" LadyDevimon avoided another attack and laughed at the Ultimate-Level angel. "Leave this to me!" She shouted to Angemon and Birdramon. Angemon nodded.
"We're counting on you!" The two of them flew back towards us. However, while Angewomon was distracted, LadyDevimon kicked her in the back of the head and sent her crashing into some rocks.
"Now you're in for it!" Angewomon angrily told the witch. The two started throwing some punches while Angemon picked up Takeru and I hoped onto one of Birdramon's talons as we flew away to find the others.
"Those words you've just said, Taichi… I'll be sure to pass them along to Yamato-kun, Mimi-chan, and Jou-senpai!" I promised.
"Okay! Hurry!"
P.O.V. – Mimi Tachikawa
We ran towards the harmonica sounds down by the river but to our disappointment, it wasn't Yamato playing but rather the Village of Beginning's caretaker, Elecmon.
"It was you." Jou said to him as the Digimon stopped playing. "I was so sure it was someone else…"
"Now that the Village of Beginnings is in shambles, I've lost my purpose in life." He depressingly sighed. "Say. How are Takeru and Patamon doing? Are they well?"
"Y-Yeah, they are."
"We're just working separately from them for now." Palmon told him.
"I see. That's good to hear." Elecmon looked relieved to hear that. Ross and Guilmon were also with Takeru and Patamon the day they arrived in the village but he probably knew that the older pair could take care of themselves. I felt sorry that Elecmon had practically lost everything and decided that we should allow him to come with us.
"Hey." I walked up. "Why don't you come with us?" His attention quickly turned back towards us. "The village won't turn back to normal until we beat the Dark Masters, right? Neither will the Digieggs."
"We're gathering up comrades for that purpose." added Palmon.
"B-Beat the Dark Masters?" Elecmon questioned with his eyes widened by surprise. "That's a pretty amazing thing you're thinking about!"
"We're not just thinking about it! We've already begun to oppose them!" Jou countered.
"Takeru and Patamon are fighting, too!" Gomamon explained. Elecmon's ears drooped upon hearing that.
"Takeru and Patamon, too?" He turned his head and looked to be in deep thought. "I see! Then I can't lose face to them! I'm coming along!" I giggle upon hearing that. That didn't take much convincing. "You guys look like you need all the help you can get, anyway." Ross and Takeru did mention that he had a bit of an ego, which Ogremon took some offence to that.
"Say that again?"
"By the way, that harmonica you're holding…" Jou pointed to the instrument.
"This?" He walked up with the harmonica in his hands. "I found it lying on the beach here."
"You found it? Can I take a look?" He took it out of Elecmon's hands and looked closely at it. "It does belong to Yamato!"
"Then he must be around here!" I guessed. I turned and looked across the wide river. "But… Up ahead is…"
"Maybe he swam." Gomamon theorized.
"Now that you mention it… I saw a swan boat leaving from here last night." Our eyes widened upon hearing Elecmon saying that. "I thought it was one of the Nightmare Soldiers fooling around, though."
"A swan boat?" I questioned.
"That clinches it! It must have been Yamato!" Jou shouted.
Everything went quite after that as nobody said a word for a whole minute. Jou was just staring towards the other side of the river.
"Hey, Mimi-kun." He finally said something.
"What?"
"We've gathered a lot of friends who will help us, so… you'll be okay without having me and Gomamon around, right?"
"What do you mean? Are you going somewhere, Jou-senpai?" Was he planning on leaving me?
"I'm… going after Yamato."
"Then we should all go together!" I augured.
"No. Only Gomamon and I will go."
"Why?!"
"Everyone should take their own path."
"Our own path?" What does he mean by that?
"Your path is to find more Digimon who will join us. Taichi's path, along with the others, is to continue the fight- But no, we can't let them keep it up alone. I have to fight as well. But… I'm not that strong, and there's no way Gomamon will become his Ultimate-Level. So, that made me think the two of us will only drag the others down if we stayed with them. But there must be something out there that only I can do. I'm sure Yamato grew aware of that, too. That's why I'm going after him!" He then put his hand on the back of his head. "Er, so, that's what I had in mind, but… do you think it's a good idea?"
"Of course it is!" Gomamon answered. "It's what you decided, Jou!"
"Jou-senpai…" I tried to convince him to stay but Ogremon walked next to me, interrupting what I was about to say.
"Let him go. He may not look like it, but the guy's got plenty of backbone." I had to smile upon hearing that. He was right. Jou has certainly come a long way since we all first met him. He would've turned tail and run a while back but now… he was determined to go along with this and I shouldn't stop him.
"Yeah…" I conceded.
P.O.V. – Ross McGlathery
"Darkness Wave!" LadyDevimon threw out another one of her attacks that Angewomon tried hard to hold back. This fight with this witch has been dragged out for a while now. LadyDevimon used the bats as a distraction and appeared behind Angewomon before swinging her around by her hair. "Come on, come on, come on!" She taunted. Okay, she needs help now, and it looks like I wasn't the only one to think that.
"Growmon, super-evolve! MEGALOGROWMON!" "Kabuterimon, super-evolve! ATLURKABUTERIMON!" Both Digimon flew towards the women before LadyDevimon let go and sent Angewomon flying into AtlurKabuterimon's arms.
"Are you okay?" He asked.
"Let me go!" Angewomon yelled. "It's on now, bitch!" She charged forward and slapped LadyDevimon in the face.
"What's it to you?!" She responded back with a slap as well, oh my goodness, it's devolved to this.
"U-Um…" Taichi didn't know what to say.
"I'm pretty sure Dad wouldn't allow me to see this." I said.
"Women are pretty scary when they're angry…" Koushiro watched nervously.
"Don't lose to her! Get her! Take her down!" Hikari yelled as she pumped her fists like she was a cheerleader. Boy, she's energized today.
"Don't get full of yourself!" LadyDevimon threw a hard slap that sent Angewomon straight to the rocky ground below. "I've got you now!" Her claw hand morphed into a spear that she planned to impale her with. "Darkness Spear!" Thankfully, AtlurKabuterimon flew in and the spear snapped on his shell. She shouted in pain before she turned to see MegaloGrowmon behind her.
"Atomic Blaster!" The shot exploded right in LadyDevimon's face, temporarily disorienting her.
"Hey, time out! Get out of my way right now!" Angewomon roared at AtlurKabuterimon.
"Oh, sorry." He got out of the way and Angewomon flew back in the air once more.
"Playtime is over. Prepare yourself!"
"Whatever! Darkness-"
"Heaven's Charm!" The energy cross flew right towards the fallen angel and hit her causing her to scream as disintegrated.
"P-Piemon-sama...!"
"All right!" Hikari cheered as our Digimon flew back to us and devolved back to their lower forms.
"Koushiro-han. You don't see any marks on my back, do you?" Tentomon asked.
"Someone's coming." Taichi alerted.
"Eh?" We all said as we turned to see someone walking slowly towards our position from the dome. I walked up to Taichi as he pulled out his telescope.
"It's that who I think it is?" I asked.
"It is. It's Piemon." Great, didn't think we'd get much in a reprieve.
"The last Dark Master." said Koushiro.
"All right. Go get him, Agumon." Taichi gave the word.
"Okay, Taichi! Agumon, warp-evolve! WARGREYMON!" WarGreymon stood close to us and held his ground.
"Be careful. He's tough!"
"What's the plan, Taichi?" I inquired.
"We hold him off as long as we can. Give Sora and Takeru the time they need to find Yamato and the others and bring them back." Well, Piemon is taking his time. It might be a half-hour before he even reaches us at his rate. I just hope we can do as Taichi suggests and delay that jester.
The only question was, would the others get to us in time…?
And that was Chapter 51.
That fight... boy, the only thing that plays in my head these days is that episode of Billy and Mandy with that mermaid fight and Frank Welker's singing.
"Catfight! Under the sea! I've got two fine ladies fighting over me!"
Now if you'll excuse me, Alton Brown is back with Good Eats on the Cooking Channel and then I'm gonna watch a playthrough of my favorite Call of Duty game, Call of Duty 2: Big Red One, so see ya next time.
"Push the button, Frank."
