Episode 07: The Good, the Bad, and the Mysterious

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Previously On DFX:

Nagisa had Digi-evolved and revealed her Spirit of Love, Amuletmon. The Female Warrior had fought against one of her old enemies and won in the end. The rest was quite amazed by her strength and complimented her. Instead of Worm, Angler came for assistance. The gang went to Viltis City while Nagisa and Charle took off on their own business. Takuya and the others finally reached their location, exhausted. They are greeted warmly and go to meet their old friends. Let's see what happens next.


Normal POV:

"Welcome to the Digital World, Chosen Children."

Ophanimon, Seraphimon, and Cherubimon stood at the end of the long glass table. The female Digimon gestured the group and said, "Please have a seat."

The group walked to the end of the hall and sat down on the huge white and gold leather chairs, leaving the first three seats empty. The Celestial Digimons also sat on their seats. Ophanimon snapped her fingers and platters of various fruits and food descended from above. The plates, glasses, and cutlery sets also set themselves in front of each person. Everyone smiled and gasped as the exotic cuisine landed on the table.

"We know you traveled a long way, so I took the privilege of preparing the best for your welcome. I think I overdid the preparations a little."

A little, she says. The group sweatdropped.

"Oh, you may begin eating." Just as the words came, they all jumped on the food as if they had been hungry for days. "Itadakimasu!"

"Man~! This is so delicious," Junpei moaned.

"You can say that again," Takuya said as he chewed on a chicken leg.

"The fruits are so juicy as well," Izumi praised.

"We're glad to hear so," Seraphimon spoke.

Cherubimon bowed his head, "You might take it as an apology as well. I caused you so much trouble."

"No need for that. We know you were being controlled at the time," Kouichi assured and Cherubimon smiled widely. The group ate to their fullest and soon they finished.

Tomoki sighed happily, "Thank you for the food."

"Same here," Kouji said as he wiped his mouth with a handkerchief.

A loud burp was heard and all turned to Junpei who shyly apologized.

"Now that we're full to the throat, we might as well discuss our sudden return here," Takuya said while whipping his hands on a serviette.

"Indeed we should, but I'm hoping for a certain someone to show up already," Ophanimon said. "Nagisa, please come in."

"Damn it," A voice cursed before the said came strolling inside. Nagisa stood beside the female Celestial Digimon and gingerly picked up an apple from a tray, "I'm home."

"Welcome back, dear."

"You should really stop catching me. What if I don't wanna join one of your meetings?"

"You are equally involved in this." Nagisa grimaced as she bit into her apple. She then leaned her back against Ophanimon's seat, not wanting to entirely be part of the discussion.

"So, let us begin." Ophanimon cleared her throat and began, "The reason you were all called back is that a new threat has threatened the peace of the Digital World once again. This enemy is far more powerful than your past opponents. We identified him as Barbamon who represents Greed and is a part of the Seven Great Demon Lords."

"Seven Great Demon Lords?" questioned Kouichi.

"These Digimon each represent the Seven Deadly Sins. As you know of Lucemon, he represented Pride and also was the leader."

"The others are Deamon, Beezlemon, Lilthmon, Belphemon, and Leviamon who represent Wrath, Gluttony, Lust, Sloth, and Envy in the said order," Seraphimon added.

"Also they are all Mega-level Digimon," Cherubimon continued.

"Don't tell me that these guys are here to take revenge from us for defeating Lucemon since he was their leader?" Junpei inquired nervously.

"We only found out about Barbamon. None of the others have made their appearance and hopefully won't," Nagisa said nonchalantly.

"Basically, it is yet to be confirmed," Ophanimon said.

"Is he also behind these corrupted Digimon? Like the one who attacked the Village of Flame?" Takuya asked.

"Yes. He is a greedy being who tends to make others do his dirty work in order to obtain whatever is useful to him."

"Where is he located?" Kouji questioned.

"That is something we are not sure of. The Dark Area was searched right after we found about him, but he wasn't there."

"He seems to be traveling around. Even when detected, he vanishes into thin air without a clue," Nagisa said.

"Has he demanded something?" Izumi asked next.

"Nothing. He just corrupts Digimon out of nowhere and that's that. We suspected he might be after the fractal code but sometimes these infected Digimon do nothing but cause chaos."

"Weird. From what I get, he just likes hurting people," Kouichi implied.

"Barbamon simulates the greed inside, causing the targeted Digimon to go on a rampage," Seraphimon concluded.

"Seems to me, he's doing this for fun," Junpei sighed.

"So stupid," Nagisa said as she finally glanced at the group, "He's gathering information from doing all of this. He's planning on doing something grand sooner or later. The Twisted are just mere pawns to something big."

Kouji perked his eyebrow, "Twisted?"

"That's what we call the infected Digimon. What you saw today was a third-degree Twisted, those lose their mind completely and just destroy. The first-degree know of their objective while the second-degree are confused in between what to choose: sanity or madness," Cherubimon said.

"The Digimon we fought five years back weren't this bad, though," Tomoki insinuated.

"You can compare them to the first-degree. Things have changed a lot if you can see," the Warrior of Love said.

"Yeah, they have," Takuya spoke while glaring at Nagisa. "Why not tell us about yourself?"

Nagisa glared back at him, "There's nothing to tell."

"Actually, there's a lot. Like how there's an eleventh spirit or why you live in the Digital World being a human? Plus the fact we never saw you once five years ago."

After a small pause, the girl replied, "The Red Moon."

"What?"

"I lived on the Red Moon before all of that happened five years ago. It wasn't destroyed when Lucemon was revived."

"You lived on a moon?! For how long?" Izumi questioned.

"I went there sometime before you guys were called. I stayed there until the Digital World was rebuild. End of the fucking discussion." Nagisa went out of the room without turning around.

"Watch your mouth, young lady."

SLAM!

The door shook from the force. The female Mega Digimon bowed her head, "I'm sorry. She just doesn't like talking about the past much,"

Takuya scoffed, "Figures."

Kouji leaned on his seat, "But the question of how an eleventh spirit is present-" Ophanimon cut him off by saying, "That is also a mystery at the moment. It was discovered 16 years ago if looked by your world's timespan whilst here it was supposedly hidden for many years to count. It isn't mentioned anywhere because we kept it a secret until it was studied properly. How Nagisa became its bearer is up to her to tell."

Silence fell upon the room. A few moments later, Ophanimon stood up and said, "That is all for today. You will be staying here in my castle for the time being. There are proper rooms arranged for you all. Wizardmon must be waiting for you down the staircase to escort you. We will discuss the issue of finding your remaining spirits tomorrow first thing."

"Ah yeah, I forgot to ask about that. We will have to explore the places where we found them, no?" The Flame Warrior probed.

"Yes. As I said, we will discuss this matter tomorrow. Rest up and I hope you will assist us as you did before."

"That goes without saying." The warriors stood up and bid their farewells before going back to their guide. Wizardmon let them through the halls, updating them on the way that their belongings had arrived and been taken to their respective rooms. As they wandered the castle, the group noticed various rooms and different Digimon roaming around doing their work.

They stopped at one of the corner hallways. Wizardmon gestured towards the hall and said, "Here we are."

"Finally," Kouji sighed.

"This place is much bigger than before," Tomoki murmured.

Wizrdmon led them down the hall, where four metallic doors stood facing each other. Each door had two colored stripes on them.

The Wizard Digimon stood in front of the door having blue and purple stripes, "You two." Wizardmon said pointing at Kouji and Izumi, "go to this room."

"Yay! Isn't this great, Kouji?" Izumi excitedly exclaimed as she grasped the boy's arm, who hummed.

He next pointed the door having black and yellow stripes, and then to Kouichi and Junpei, "You go there."

"Ah man." Kouichi slapped his forehead.

"What?" Junpei asked.

"I hope you are ready to control your snores," Kouichi said while Junpei fumed.

He pointed Tomoki next and guided him to the door having a green and a two-color stripe of white and yellow, "This is yours. You will be sharing it with Bokomon and Neemon."

"Got it," The Ice Warrior smiled.

Wizardmon next pointed Takuya but he just slipped into the last room, "This one is mine." Before the door slide to close, Wizardmon stopped him, "Your roommate is-"

"Whoever it is, I really don't care right now. I just wanna sleep."

Wizardmon gave the goggle-head a black stare, then stepped away and said, "Alright. I hope you will be able to deal with the consequences yourself." The others thanked the Digimon and went inside their new rooms to rest for the night.

Nagisa's POV:

Bah, I'm so fucking tired. First, I had to stay in another world for a week, then look for these heroes and bring them here, now they start annoying me with stupid questions. I'm not gonna believe one bit that they saved the Digi-World until I see them in action. If I hadn't been sent off to train, I would have seen what they are capable of.

I exhaled heavily while walking to my room. As I turned towards the corner hallway, I noticed the youngest one of the group standing outside, with the door open. He didn't see me since he was facing the floor.

"What's wrong?" I asked as I approached him. He looked up and smiled, "I was waiting for you, Kirishima-san."

I looked at him questioningly and signaled to continue. "I was just wondering whether or not Bokomon and Neemon were back yet. I'm roommating with them, you see."

"Oh, those two decided to stay at the village since a few repairs were left."

"I see." The boy looked at the floor again with a sad expression.

He must feel lonely. "I'll ask Charle to stay with you if you want."

His face lit up and asked, "R-really?"

I simply nodded. The boy thanked me and slipped inside the room, sliding the door shut.

Wait a minute... if he is staying here that means these other rooms are... Just my luck. Could this day get any worse?

I literally jinxed myself when I slid open the door to my room. I stepped inside to find the last person I wanted to see lying on my bed. My bed!

"The hell are you doing here?" I asked blankly.

Kanbara's eyes snapped open and he sat straight, "You?!"

"Let me rephrase that: What the fuck are you doing here?"

"What does it look like? I'm sleeping in my room."

"This. Is. My. Room." I said emphasizing each word.

"Don't lie."

"Why would I lie about this?! That's my bed you are lying on!"

"Oh really? Why not we check right now?!" He got up and went outside. I followed him and slid the door to reveal two red and pink stripes on it.

"You see the pink? This is my room."

"Well, you see the red? This is also my room!"

I felt the others had also stepped out to see what was going on.

"What's the commotion?" Shibuyama asked sleepily.

Minamoto snickered, "So this is what Wizardmon meant by consequences."

Kanabara and I kept arguing. "This has always been my room. How can you say I have mistaken it?"

"Cuz you don't like me at all and simply wanna annoy me!"

"How does this and that link together?"

"It fucking does!"

"How?!"

Orimoto tapped both of our shoulders and pointed towards the door. We stared at it until...

"No way..."

"You have got to be shitting me..."

We looked at each other in horror, "We're roommates?!"

"You guessed it right and language, please," Orimoto clapped her hands.

I shook my head, "T-this must be some sort of sick joke. I never agreed on having a roommate! There are plenty of rooms in this huge ass building. No way in hell am I sharing my room with you!"

He retorted back, "That isn't my problem, now is it? I was given this room and I'm not letting you take over it!"

I stepped inside the room once more, "I just did!"

SLIDE... SLAM!

Kanbara began banging on the door and yelled, "Hey! No fair. I was here first!"

"Not my problem. Go somewhere else."

The banging abruptly stopped and I heard Charle saying, "Na-chan, there aren't any more rooms available and that is why Goggle-san and the others have to share their rooms-chu."

"Yeah, right. Last I checked the rooms on the upper floor were empty."

"They have been occupied by the new guards, remember?"

Whoopdy-fucking-do.

"Even so I'm not letting this guy in. He even had the audacity to lay on my bed without permission."

The annoying voice came back, "I didn't see your name stamped on it! How was I supposed to know shit?!"

"Sleep in the hallway for all I care!"

"Why you!"

This continued for several more minutes until Charle convinced me to let the guy in. We kept glowering at each other as he walked in and took his seat on the bed opposite mine. Charle agreed on staying with Himi as I promised the kid that I would ask her to. I have to endure him during the night as well. Well, sue me.

I went to change and by the time I was out, Kanbara was sound asleep. The lights of my side of the room were still on so I noticed his side was already decorated like mine was the first time I came here. The walls were white on his side too, the bed was brown with orange bedsheets, and a study table stood on the right. the left side was occupied by a dark brown closet and bathroom door. Good thing we have different bathrooms, at least. There wasn't much interesting stuff to see except some comic books and CDs on the chest of drawers.

I slipped into my bed and stayed awake for a few moments. I had hoped to not associate with these people once we arrived here. Ophanimon sure wants me to leave my solo drive for good this time. Let's see what happens; the future isn't set in stone.

Sleep finally took over me and a world of darkness enveloped me. Hopefully, tomorrow will be a little better.

Normal POV:

As our heroes slept away their tiredness, a figure roamed outside the city of Hope under the light of the three moons.


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