Chapter 42 – Chaos
Meiko's partner Koromon devoured the apple in a whole piece and chewed on it for a while. He sat next to his partner and looked around. He was still quite exhausted by his "first" digivolution to the ultimate-level and the use of OC Generics. In the meantime, however, he has successfully digivolved to his in-training level.
Next to the black-haired was Tai, who looked at the fire in the middle. Matt sat across from him while Agumon and Gabumon were already asleep. Davis sighed resignedly and looked at Veemon, who had made himself comfortable in his lap, while Dorumon himself dozed in front of him. Meanwhile, Akira stroked over the fur of Wanyamon, who slept in her lap.
The small group was currently in the digital world because they wanted to put an end to King Drasil's madness. Actually, everyone was supposed to come with them into the digital world, but if the god appeared in the other world, it would be defenceless, which is why only certain humans went into the digital world. Now, a good three hours after the departure, the group had made themself comfortable.
"Dorumon..." began Tai.
The purple dragon sluggishly opened an eye and stared at him. Then he straightened up and yawned extensively.
"There's something that's been occupying me for a while." the brown-haired man continued.
"And that would be?"
"Why didn't King Drasil attack us earlier?"
"What do you mean by that?"
"When we were in the digital world for the first time... It could have attacked us because our partners couldn't digivolve to their ultimate-level at the time." Matt explained instead of his friend.
"King Drasil used to be concerned about the safety of the digital world and the inhabitants of it..." Dorumon sighed: "But one day it changed abruptly... why, I don't know."
"That would mean... that King Drasil accepted us until it changed." Davis concluded.
"Yes. That's the way it is." the purple dragon confirmed.
"But why had it changed?" asked Koromon.
"Good question..." Meiko said, and eventually sighed.
"A god who has gone mad." Akira said thoughtfully, brushing her hand over Wanyamon's fur.
"How strong is King Drasil?" was Matt's question.
"I don't know." Dorumon replied depressed.
"You're the one who should always stop him." replied the pink digimon, devouring another apple.
"It's my job... but King Drasil sees me as a traitor at the moment, because I am against him." the purple dragon sighed: "Normally I just have to talk to King Drasil so that he can see his mistakes... But since I had supported it, it assumed that it had not made a mistake. Now I have betrayed King Drasil, so it won't listen to me anymore."
"But you should try." Davis encouraged him: "Talking helps... Otherwise Ken would still be the Digimon Emperor and enslave the Digimon with black rings and dark spirals."
The red-brown-haired man smiled mischievously and leaned against the wall, his eyes closed.
"There's something I want to tell you." Akira suddenly began.
"We already know you're Sera's daughter." Davis said, reopening his eyelids.
Wanyamon's partner shook her head. She shook her partner, who immediately looked at her angrily. Akira laid him on the floor and pulled her legs towards her chest. Meanwhile, Tai rose up and woke u Agumon and Gabumon. When everyone was awake, Sera's daughter sighed.
"The reason I'm telling it now is because of my kidnapping by Crusadermon. I had a lot of time to think..." she looked into the distance: "One of the things was that when I come back, I'll tell you why I am who I am."
Matt swallowed something because he knew exactly what she meant.
"Is that okay for you?" he asked her with a thoughtful expression on his face.
"You know what's going on with her?" was Meiko's surprised question.
"She told me shortly after our argument and before we met Quetzalmon..." the blonde-haired man replied.
"Sera and Shin..." she began to say: "They once had a child... Mika, was her name. She had been diagnosed with leukaemia, which led to my... Mother and Shin were looking for a donor. I was eligible and they wanted to take the bone marrow from me... But I was scared because of a trauma I had then I was younger. So I ran and stayed away from home for a whole week. When I came back, I learned that my sister had died."
"Akira..." said the brown-haired man, and stood up and wanted to go to her.
The human in question shook her head and sighed heavily before continuing:
"It was entirely my fault that Mika had died. As a result, I changed so much that I recognized me anymore."
"Akira." Wanyamon said, hopping into her lap.
"I don't think even this bone marrow donation could have changed anything." Koromon said.
"He's right." Agumon said: "I don't know what leukaemia or a bone marrow donation is... However-"
"Even if your sister got the bone donation, she would have died shortly after. I am certain." Gabumon concluded.
Meiko straightened up and sat down next to Akira with her partner in her arms. Then she put a hand on her shoulder and smiled cheerfully at her.
"Hey. It's bad what happened to your sister and I can understand that you're making accusations because maybe the donation could have saved her life." Veemon said.
"Veemon!" Davis exasperated, giving him a head nut: "We're trying to cheer her up, not the opposite!"
"So should he tell her that her decision was right?" asked Dorumon: "You all say it nicely that Akira ran away and this Mika died as a result."
"Stop arguing!" Wanyamon told her: "It's hard for Akira to talk about it. She struggles with her self-reproach. And the only things you do are talking nicely or leaving her alone with her accusations! It's just inappropriate as we're looking for King Drasil, but you should support her! Each property influences others to reach the next form!"
"Wanyamon..." Akira's eyes widened with his honest words and she lifted him up before she pressed him and muttered: "Thank you."
The others remained silent and thought carefully through the words of the in-training digimon.
"I'd have a short question." Tai began: "Why are you telling us now and not the others?"
"Because I trust you more." Akira replied.
The group then remained silent again, while a thunderstorm was announced in front of the cave. Several raindrops fell from the sky to the earth and within a few seconds a soft-sounding noise could be heard.
After the night was over, the group continued their search for Yggdrasil. Or rather they tried, because Yggdrasil was constantly changing the digital world. A few minutes ago, the group was still on a steppe. After that, the surroundings suddenly changed to a beach. Now they were in a forest and walked through the scrub.
"A quick question, Dorumon." Wanyamon began: "Where is King Drasil?"
"You don't know?" the purple dragon looked at him.
"Ten thousand years of sleep." the in-training digimon replied simply: "All my memories have been greatly blurred due to several reboots of the digital world."
"Yggdrasil itself is in a digital space that can only be reached through the forest of origin..."
"And how can we reach this forest?" asked Davis.
"Not at all." Gabumon replied.
"King Drasil is constantly changing the digital world so that we don't reach this forest." Koromon explained.
"And why are we in the digital world?" was Matt's question.
"King Drasil is not perfect. At some point it will make a mistake and we will end up in the forest of origin." Dorumon said.
"And how long will it take?" asked Akira, irritated.
She was slowly tired of wandering through the digital world without any clue.
"We can't really assess that." Agumon said.
"That means we could walk through the digital world for a good day." Tai concluded.
"Basically yes." Meiko said, sighing.
Suddenly the area changed and everyone slipped down a slope. They landed on the ground with a dull impact.
"Ow..." the yellow dinosaur moaned.
"Have you caught our fall again?" the brown-haired man asked.
"Y-yes..."
"It's even more awkward at the rookie level." complained Hackmon, who was back to his rookie level when he slipped: "Meiko. Please go down from me."
"Sorry." the black-haired woman stood up.
"Are you okay, Akira?" was Wanyamon's question, who was the only digimon who didn't land underneath of someone.
Nevertheless, he hit the ground with his face. By now, however, he had stood up again and was now shaking his little body.
"Yes." she confirmed: "Something is under me."
"I caught your fall." said Dorumon, who was lying under the young woman.
Veemon also moaned.
"D-Davis!" he quipped: "You're heavy!"
"What did you say?!" he said angrily.
"It was like a year ago when we fled from those infected digimon..." Matt recalled after he got up.
"King Drasil changed the digital world at the time so that different Digimon could attack us." Gabumon said.
"We should definitely move on." Tai said, moving.
The others followed him tacitly. But both Hackmon and Veemon moaned, as their partners had landed very unfavourably on them.
"First a forest, then a savannah, then another forest, a swamp, then again a savannah, a steppe, for the third time a forest, a mountain, a beach, again a forest, a hill and now again a steppe. I can't do more!" protested Davis after a while: "The digital world is constantly changing!"
"We have already explained why this happens..." Veemon sighed: "King Drasil is constantly changing the digital world."
"At least we know where we are." Agumon said, smiling a little.
"And where?" asked Akira.
"Near Primary Village." Tai explained, pointing to a giant cube.
"Primary Village?" the red-brown-haired man repeated.
"That's where Digimon are reborn. I guess Veemon and the others were also born there after they died." Dorumon said in a somewhat uncertain voice.
He remembered controlling the blue dragon, Wormmon, Armadillomon, and Hawkmon, and had them fight the DigiDestined, even though they didn't want to.
"Maybe Elecmon can help us." Gabumon said: "He's a Royal Knight after all. Maybe he has an idea of how we get to the forest of origin."
"Elecmon is a Royal Knight?" Matt replied thoughtfully.
He didn't like the idea that way. The guardian of the city had always been a very friendly Digimon. Imagining him as a Royal Knight was difficult for the blond-haired man to imagine.
As the group approached Primary Village, something began to growl.
"Was that your stomach, Meiko?" was Hackmon's question, while an uneasy feeling grew in him.
"No. My stomach would never growl so loudly." she replied, unsure, biting her lower lip.
Shortly after the purple dragon's ears heard the growl, his entire body tensed. He began to growl slightly and gritted his teeth. Veemon, who dismissed the growl as a stomach-churning, slightly patted Dorumon's head and smiled at him afterwards. He passed him and the group, because he was very curious about the said village. Suddenly, a sword wrapped in flames slammed down on him. Just like that, the blue dragon could jump to the side and dodge the weapon.
"Hackmon warp-digivolve to-" just as he wanted to wrap himself in a light, Dorumon bit him in the tail, which stopped his digivolution.
"Don't waste your energy, Hackmon." the purple dragon instructed him.
"Ow..." he moaned.
The attacker jumped backwards and growled again.
"A Dorbickmon..." Wanyamon noted: "They're pretty rare."
"Dorbickmon are pretty aggressive." Gabumon said, darkly recalling that he had known a Dorbickmon.
"And pugnacious." Agumon added.
"Hey!" complained Dorbickmon: "I'm not pugnacious and aggressive! You are just invaders who want to attack Primary Village!"
"Why should we do this?" asked Tai.
"What do I know. I don't care, okay?!" he placed his sword in front of his body.
Dorumon only narrowed his eyes, but wanted to wait and see.
"Okay, lizard... I don't know what your problem is..." Wanyamon growled: "But if you don't let us pass us, we'll take you down. And on the hard way. Don't joke around with the Royal Knights, got it?"
"Royal Knights... Like Craniamon, who had attacked the village?" Dorbickmon was ready to attack.
The purple dragon listened to the names of the Royal Knight.
"Craniamon attacked Primary Village?" asked Dorumon, astonished: "Did King Drasil command him to do so?"
"Yes..." the dragon man narrowed his eyes.
"That King Drasil would go that far." Alphamon's rookie level raved angrily, before taking a deep breath: "Dorbickmon. Could you please let us to Elecmon? We need his help."
"And what if you want to attack the village?!"
"We're not going to attack the city, Dorbickmon." Akira said.
"Prove it to me." Dorbickmon demanded: "Prove to me that you will not attack the village. Then I will let you go."
"Dorbickmon!" shouted another voice.
The DigiDestined, their partners and the dragon man looked up and saw a red-scaled dragon, which landed a little later next to the latter.
"Examon." Agumon and Gabumon said, and went to the giant dragon.
"Hm?" Examon had to think briefly before it came to him and he bent down to the two: "Ah. Omnimon... Nice to see you again... Although... Shouldn't I address you by your names instead of calling you Omnimon?"
"That would be nice." Gabumon said.
"Thank you for coming!" the yellow dinosaur rejoiced: "Could you please tell this Dorbickmon that we will not attack Primary Village?"
"Sorry..." Examon looked at the group with indistinct eyes: "But since Craniamon attacked the village, we haven't let anyone in."
"But we need Duftmon's help!" the reptile digimon replied sharply: "We have to go into the forest of origin."
"What do you want there?" Dorbickmon asked incredulously: "Look at the fog?"
"No. We can't say it." Dorumon said.
"However, King Drasil wants to prevent this." Tai continued.
"Why we've been everywhere! Except in the sea." Davis said, his arms entwined in front of his chest.
"We notice these changes all the time," the dragon man raved: "If it's really King Drasil, then I'll help you. The baby-digimon get really excited about this and I don't want the red fur ball to snort at me."
"Red fur ball?" asked Hackmon.
"He means Elecmon..." the dragon smiled a little: "The two can't stand each other. But back to the subject. How do you want to get into the forest of origin?"
"Dorbickmon can affect the ley lines, or am I wrong?" said Veemon.
"Yes... And?" said Dorbickmon.
"We could make use of this by influencing the ley lines, Dorbickmon, so that we can go into this forest. Once we're there, King Drasil won't get us out." Dorumon said.
"It looks like a plan!" said Davis: "Well! What are we waiting for?"
"Do you even know what ley lines are?" the dragon man asked him.
"No, do we even have time for that?"
"Actually not." Tai replied.
"Ley lines are actually energy streams below the digital world. They influence the boundary between this and other worlds, including yours." said the purple dragon: "The ley lines bundle at a point in the digital world, that is, where the entrance to King Drasil's digital intermediate dimension is located, which is why even he is unable to control the entire forest."
"I don't understand anything anymore..." the red-brown-haired man laughed dryly too.
"I don't either." Akira replied.
"You don't have to." said Dorbickmon, taking a deep breath: "As soon as I smash my sword into the ground and try to control the ley lines, you have to hurry. It costs me a lot of power to influence ley lines at all... I'll give you about ten minutes. Until then, you must have found the forest of origin. Otherwise..."
He didn't need to say any more.
"I would suggest that we all reach our highest level and then we fly." Hackmon suggested: "That should make us faster."
"Good idea." Veemon agreed: "Davis!"
"Good. DigiMental of Mircale, up!" Davis excalled the said DigiMental.
"Veemon armor-digivolved to... Magnamon, Warrior of Miracles!"
"Ready, Gabumon?" asked Agumon.
"Yes." replied the reptile digimon: "Gabumon warp-digivolve to... MetalGarurumon!"
"Agumon warp-digivolve to... WarGreymon!"
"MetalGarurumon..."
"WarGreymon..."
"DNA digivolution to..." they both shouted, before fusing: "Omnimon!"
"Hackmon warp-digivolve to... Jesmon!"
"Dorumon warp-digivolve to... Alphamon!"
"Okay!" Tai said euphorically, slapping his left fist into the right palm of his hand: "Then let's look for this forest!"
The DigiDestined and their partners left the two dragon digimon and rushed away. Examon followed them with his eyes, while Dorbickmon knelt down and put his forehead on the sheath of the sword. He exhaled and closed his eyes to concentrate better. After less than six minutes, the dragon man collapsed and breathed heavily in and out.
"Dorbickmon!" the dragon shouted in concern for his friend.
He laughed only as he rose and pulled the sword out of the ground.
"Damn... Thought that I... could hold out… longer..." he panted, leaning against his sword, which he used as a support.
"Is everything okay?"
"Yeah…"
"Rest." he instructed him, "Shall I take you back to the cave?"
"Yes. Don't feel like arguing with fur ball."
Fog as far as the eye could see. You couldn't even see your hand in front of your eyes. Jesmon had wrapped himself in his cape and pulled his hood over his eyes. Even with the aviator glasses he wore up to his ultimate-level, he couldn't see anything. Near him flew Magnamon, who had narrowed his eyes while Alphamon flew in front of the whole group. Shortly after him, Omnimon followed. Dynasmon was the last. Although his right wing was completely healed, it still hurt. The ultimate-level of Wanyamon therefore had to fly slower than the others and fell further and further behind.
"Where do you stay?" the dragon man asked him: "You fall back."
"I know..." Dynasmon sighed, hitting his wings vigorously as he gritted his teeth.
With each movement, the purple wing hurt. Akira, who rode on his left shoulder and held on to his horn with the help of her hand, looked anxiously into his face.
"Don't make such a face, Akira." her partner asked.
"I know." she smiled at him: "You don't like it when you're worried."
Dynasmon nodded to her and hit her wings vigorously.
"Woah... The fog is dense." groaned Davis, who sat on Alphamon's right shoulder plate, as his partner couldn't carry him.
"This is for security," the black knight explained: "So that no one can easily reach the entrance to the digital space. But I know the way, so it won't be a problem for me."
"R-really?" Meiko, who rode on Alphamon's other shoulder plate for the same reason, didn't sound quite so convinced.
"Trust him!" exclaimed Matt: "He's no longer in control of Piedmon's sphere."
"Yeah. If he behaves strangely, we will tear him apart and patch him up again." Magnamon assured her.
Both Tai and Davis and Jesmon had to start laughing because the choice of words was not the best.
"And why are you laughing now?" was the golden knight's question.
"Your choice of words was just weird." his partner said.
"Yes, yes. Just laugh." Magnamon grumbled.
"Hey. Don't have such a short mind."
Davis' partner digimon narrowed his eyes
"Oh-oh." Omnimon muttered, as he knew what was coming next.
"I'm not short!" the golden knight raved.
"What's wrong with you all the sudden?" his partner asked, astonished.
"He's only sensitive in terms of size." Alphamon said.
"I am not!" cried Magnamon, flying past the black knight: "At least I'm not as small as Gankoomon!"
With his name, Jesmon tensed and he stopped abruptly, so that Dynasmon almost flew into him. All the Royal Knights stopped and turned to the Dragon Man.
"Jesmon?" Meiko asked him cautiously.
"Is..." her partner began, but had to swallow: "Is Master Gankoomon still alive?"
"Probably." Alphamon replied, sighing heavily: "He was still alive when I betrayed King Drasil."
"Will we meet him?"
"Probably."
"You keep saying probably, Alphamon... So we may not see Master Gankoomon."
"You don't want to fight him, do you?" said Matt.
"I... Master Gankoomon was a part of my last life... However..."
"But?" repeated Meiko.
"I don't know how I'm going to react when we meet him. I don't know if I have the strength to fight him at all."
"You don't have to fight him, Jesmon..." Tai replied.
The group remained silent a bit until Alphamon got moving again. The other Royal Knights followed him. Eventually, the fog cleared and the group reached a clearing with a meter-high tree.
"I can't remember there being a tree." Magnamon said.
"I don't either." the black knight replied, landing.
Alphamon narrowed his eyes, while the others landed as well.
"I don't like the whole situation." said Omnimon, who had landed next to his black counterpart.
"I don't like it either... It's almost like..."
"A trap." Matt concluded the sentence.
"So King Drasil is already waiting for us." Akira concluded.
"Probably." Dynasmon raved.
"What are we doing now?" asked Davis.
"We're going to have to fall into the trap." Magnamon replied.
"Isn't that... careless?" was Meiko's question.
"Yeah... But do we have any other choice?" asked Tai: "We have to go to King Drasil."
The black knight took a few steps before his eyes widened and he saw a bright energy stubble. He jumped back, so the bullet narrowly missed him. Then he bent down and grabbed the two people from his shoulder plates and put them on the floor before he bent down.
Wanyamon's ultimate-level himself handed his claw to his partner, who climbed on top of it before sliding his hand to the ground. Akira jumped down and looked at him tacitly before looking forward. Several Knightmons appeared, led by a human-like digimon with a white coat that hung loosely from the shoulders. Jesmon narrowed his eyes and clenched his golden claws when he saw the digimon.
"Master Gankoomon..." he quipped.
His voice was accompanied by eyes that showed a mixture of sadness and pain.
"Jesmon..." Gankoomon replied: "Last time you weren't at your ultimate-level."
"Yes." the dragon man exhaled deeply: "So you support King Drasil?"
"Exactly. But I accept the path you have taken, even though it is wrong."
"The path is not wrong, Master!" cried Jesmon.
"I'm not going to show mercy because you used to be my student."
The dragon man gritted his teeth and wrestled with himself for a few seconds before rushing on his former master with his blades drawn.
"However, you are still as careless as you were then, Jesmon."
From Gankoomon's shoulder, a yellow figure raced toward Jesmon. The Knightmon also prepared to attack the group.
"Don't get involved in the fight with me and Jesmon!" the man commanded: "Just attack the others."
Jesmon summoned Por, Atho and René, who attacked the energetic being of Gankoomon. When the four figures were involved in a smaller battle, the dragon man rushed to his master and wanted to put him down with his right arm blade at the same moment. The man slammed his arm to the side, made a spin around his own axis and kicked his opponent firmly in the stomach. Jesmon was thrown several meters back and landed with his back on the ground.
Meanwhile, Alphamon summoned his OwRyuken sword, turning his spikes on the metal parts on his back into long, golden flights, while Omnimon pulled the Grey blade.
"Tai, Matt." the fused Digimon said to his partners: "We're going to make our way to this tree."
"And that means?" asked Tai.
"We're going to ride Omnimon again and hit a path to this tree with him and the others." Matt said.
Dynasmon went to Omnimon's side and spoke sharply:
"No. We will only help you reach the tree. You have to fight King Drasil alone."
"Why?" was the black knight's question, looking over his shoulder at Wanyamon's ultimate-level: "King Drasil is strong. We need to work together to defeat him."
"The Knightmon will follow us, which will make the fight against King Drasil even harder." said Magnamon, who then killed an approaching Knightmon.
"Jesmon and the others have already guessed that this is going to happen here, so we decided that only you go. The rest stays here and fights the Knightmon." Akira said.
"Good." Tai looked up to the fused Digimon and nodded.
He nodded back before leaning down and hoisting his two partners on his shoulders. Omnimon took a deep breath and got ready.
"If Knightmon get in your way, don't hesitate to kill them, Omnimon. Our goal is this tree." Alphamon said.
"Understood. On three."
"Good. One..."
"Two..."
"Three!" they both shouted.
Dynasmon flapped his wings and raced behind the two. Eventually, he jumped up and flew over the two before landing again and killing a Knightmon with his claw. Another one was defeated with a green laser. Meanwhile, Magnamon fired several torpedoes at two Knight Digimons, which stood in Omnimon and Alphamon's way. The black knight and his white counterpart rushed past Wanyamon's mega-level.
As the two made their way, eventually reached their goal and disappeared from the battlefield, Jesmon continued to fight his former champion.
"Jishin! Kaminari! Kaji! Oyaji! " Gankoomon screamed, before his energetic creature flew towards the dragon man.
He blocked the attack with ease, while the man grinned. He raced to his former students and, while still busy with the energetic being, slapped him in the stomach, so that he bent forward and his eyes widened.
"Your side was wide open, Jesmon." Gankoomon said.
Jesmon himself did not answer him, but tried to hurl him away with his tail blade. The man who had already suspected this movement jumped into the air and landed on the blade while he gave his former student another punch, this time in the chest.
The dragon man bent forward and collapsed to the ground. There he stayed and did not move. Gankoomon was sure Jesmon had lost consciousness and devoted himself to his former student's partner, who, along with Davis and Akira, was on the edge of the battlefield. It was a miracle that none of the Knightmon had attacked the three humans... But that would change now. As the man walked away from Jesmon and walked towards the three, the dragon man jeered:
"Stop... I won't allow... that you attack... Meiko..."
Por, Atho and René appeared and placed themselves in front of his partner and their friends before creating a sign. Slowly, Gankoomon turned back to his former pupil and punched his fist in his back.
"Gah!" the dragon man shouted.
"Jesmon!" cried the black-haired woman, wanting to leave the protective field of the three energetic beings.
One of the beings briefly separated from the others and stood in front of Meiko. He drove them back to the others before flying back to the other two.
/You... are sentient?/, she noted astonished.
"So, so... You give up the protection of Por, Atho and René?" the man asked: "I don't know if that was clever or stupid."
"Clever." said the dragon man, rising up.
"Why do you think so?"
"Meiko... I have made a promise to someone that I will protect her at any cost."
"Then you're stupid!" he cried, trying to slap his fist in Jesmon's chest.
He caught his fist with the wide side of his tail blade.
"Why am I stupid? Didn't you once teach me to protect those who are important to me? Meiko is important to me, my friends are important to me... you are important to me."
"Why are we fighting each other?"
"Because you don't give me a choice. King Drasil's path is wrong. The digital world... it can only exist with the human's world. As soon as the human's world ceases to exist, the digital world will suffer the same fate!"
"Did you know that from the Homeostasis?"
"Yes." he admitted.
"So you believe the Homeostasis, a creature that no one has ever seen before, rather than me?"
"Of course not! But you have to admit that King Drasil's path is wrong!"
"Then let me ask you this. Why do you support the Homeostasis?"
"The Homeostasis..." he had to think longer.
Why had he supported or did support the Homeostasis?
"You can't answer me." Gankoomon concluded: "Then it's pointless to talk to you."
The man prepared the next attack.
"It isn't pointless!" cried Jesmon: "Master... The reason I followed the Homeostasis... King Drasil only watched when Alphamon and Omnimon were so divided that they fought each other. And with them we too! Through our dispute, someone attacked us and killed everyone except me, Alphamon, Dynasmon and Magnamon. The latter two were badly wounded and they had to rest for a long time... I and Alphamon, on the other hand, we were so devastated that we couldn't continue. We wondered how this could have happened in the first place. We wanted to know this from King Drasil... But it didn't answer us."
Gankoomon's facial features became very serious and he seemed to think about the words for a while. He remembered how UlforceVeedramon and even Craniamon ultimately doubted King Drasil's path... and he had doubted once, but then his lord spoke to him and gave him a satisfactory answer. So why didn't the god give Jesmon and Alphamon the answer they so desperately needed?
"Instead..." the dragon man continued: "Instead, the Homeostasis answered us. It said that King Drasil could not intervene... Then I decided to join it and act as its messenger... Alphamon, on the other hand, just wanted to be alone. What I didn't know at the time was that he met the Homeostasis alone and they agreed to something. Alphamon became Gennai without me knowing anything about it. Time passed... I saw the first DigiDestined from a distance... I saw everything the Dark Masters did... I was always lonely. Alone. I cursed myself... I kept wondering. Why? Why did I survive? At some point, the Homeostasis offered me that I would become the partner of a human. It would have found a human for me... Meiko Mochizuki was this human. But then King Drasil created Meicoomon, who one day would destroy the human's world... That's why the Homeostasis sent her to Meiko... Nothing happened for a while until at some point King Drasil began his plan to destroy the human world. I fought Alphamon, I fought Meicoomon. I saw Meiko suffer... And again I wondered... Did that even make sense? After Meicoomon died, I went to Gennai. When I met him, he revealed himself as Alphamon. My last hope fell apart and I let him kill me. I was reborn and ended up with Meiko... From then on, I was so happy."
"Jesmon..." Meiko said when she heard the whole story.
Her partner looked at her and nodded at her. Then he looked with serious eyes again at his former master.
"You have now learned my reason why I no longer follow King Drasil..." Jesmon said: "The one who freed me from my loneliness and grief was Meiko. I would never betray her."
Gankoomon smiled at the dragon man.
"You may be one of them. But I can now understand your decision... I'm not going to stand in your way anymore... But I will not help you either. It's your path, Jesmon. It's stony and tough. You are no longer the Digimon who wanted to become a Royal Knight. You're a Royal Knight who found his path." he said, turning around: "We're guaranteed to see each other again, Jesmon, Meiko."
He started running. A few Knightmon stood in his way, but he stretched them down with ease before disappearing between the trees. The dragon man looked after him, but then noticed a Knightmon approaching him. Jesmon wanted to attack it, but suddenly the big tree exploded in the clearing, followed by a pressure wave that killed all the Knightmon, while the dragon man was thrown to the ground. Dynasmon and Magnamon also hit into the ground and were left lying. Por, Atho and René successfully protected the three humans before they flew to Jesmon completely exhausted and then disappeared. Akira, Meiko and Davis took the chance and rushed to their partner digimon, who a short time later returned to their in-training levels. Then they noticed like a figure shaped like a crystal, disappeared into a distortion.
"What... was that?" asked Sera's daughter.
"No idea..." the red-brown-haired man quipped.
"It looked very weird..." the black-haired woman said, before seeing Tai and Matt: "Tai! Matt!"
She ran towards them with Koromon in her arms. Next to them were a Koromon, which was Agumon's in-training level, Tsunomon and a digimon with a purple coat and a white muzzle. The brown-haired man sat up and looked beside him to his partner.
"What happened?" Meiko asked him anxiously.
"We took on King Drasil... We fought it, but then it unleashed an explosion. Alphamon and Omnimon were fortunate to protect us..." he explained.
Davis and Akira eventually ran to them.
"The... what you saw there... was Yggdrasil..." explained the purple Digimon with a beeping voice.
"And you are?" was Davis' question.
"You don't recognize me? This is me... Alphamon... That's just my... in-training level... Dorimon!"
"And the huge crystal thing there? What was that?" Akira asked him.
"That was King Drasil's 7D6 form." Dorimon explained: "It's just fleeing into your world."
"What?!" all humans shouted.
"Y-yes..." he confirmed.
"Then we have to go there!" urged Sera's daughter.
"And how?" Matt asked: "Our digimon are completely exhausted."
"Damn." Tai cursed.
"What are we doing now?" asked Meiko uncertainly.
"We have to wait." the brown-haired man replied.
"But we can't wait!" cried Davis with a sly exclaimed.
"Davis..." DemiVeemon moaned: "We... can't… do… anything..."
"We have to wait... until we... are strong… enough again... " Meiko's partner said.
"Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn!" the red-brown-haired gritted his teeth.
The group had to stay in the digital world. And their friends would certainly have no chance against King Drasil.
