[Author's Note] Alright here's chapter 6 of Dark Mirror, there isn't really any fighting in this chapter but there is a lot of explaining so you could say this is a filler chapter. I would have had this out sooner except, well you know, with all the problems with FF.N it kinda discourages a person when their not sure if they would get their stuff up or not. Well please remember to Read & Review! Thanks.
Dark Mirror
Chapter 6
Guardian's Base, Above Grace Hill - 6:00 P.M. Tokyo Time
Day 3 of Overlords Ultimatum, 4 Days and 20 Hours Remaining.
The UN has been in an uproar since the delivery of the Overlords ultimatum and delegates have been too busy to even think about sleep. Governments around the World haven't been much better, they have been busy setting up defenses and preparing bunkers to keep their people safe. In other words, World leaders are saying that they're not going to give up their freedom with out a fight. The United States has been the only one that is acting very slowly in their preparations, at least that's what they want everyone to think. All their movements have been done with use of the cloaking fields, and they have been setting up a defensive network all across their country as well as their military instillations abroad. All cloak capable D-Series Fighters have been in constant patrol of the skies and all non-cloak capable fighters are standing by ready for launch. D-Project weapons and defensive devices are being setup in all high security areas as well as in the civilian areas and digital shield generators are being readied for deployment at strategic places around the world. At the Guardians Base however, Nathan is training in the Sim Deck with the newest addition to the Guardians with Gennai studying his techniques, while Erin is on the bridge monitoring events, Jen and Ken are at Guardian HQ coordinating efforts there and all the Digimon are still working around the base.
"Not bad Sora," Nathan said as he dodged yet another lunge of her sword, "Gennai has taught you well, but let's see how you do when there is more than just a sword for you to dodge." Nathan finished as he threw a low level electric ball right at Sora as he swung down with his sword. Sora blocked the sword with ease, just as she had done the whole time, but she reacted to slowly as the electric ball slammed right into her chest causing her to fall over with her sword sliding across the floor. "Don't worry Sora, you'll get better with..."
"WHY YOU!" Sora screamed as she nearly flew off the floor with incredible speed and pinned Nathan to the wall with her hands dangerously close to his throat. "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU FOR THAT!"
"Sora please, why are you doing this he was only testing you." Gennai pleaded as he tried to pry her hands away from Nathan's throat which was proving to be as impossible as moving a sleeping Mammothmon.
"GET AWAY FROM ME GENNAI OR YOUR NEXT!" She yelled as a red aura suddenly appeared around her and flung Gennai away and against a wall.
"This has gone on long enough!" Nathan said forcefully as Sora turned her head back to face Nathan only to find a hand in front of her that suddenly flashed a bright white. Sora's grip loosened immediately as she went down to her knees holding her head.
"What happened?" asked Sora as the last bits of her aura died away and she stood up with a look of confusion in her eyes. "The last thing I remember was our fighting and you throwing that electric ball then ... Oh my goodness it happened again didn't it."
"Yes it did," Gennai said as he walked back over holding his left shoulder where it had hit the wall, "only this time you powers manifested themselves and you were immovable by even me."
"Nathan I'm so sorry for anything I did, it just happens sometimes when something gets me really mad..." Sora stated
"And you can't control your actions and you lash out at the person responsible." Nathan finished for her as she just looked down at the ground. "How long have you had these episodes?"
"They started not long after I got my sword and dagger and had begun training with Gennai." Sora explained
Nathan pondered this before he spoke. "I see. Then it was when you received your swords that your powers were given to you. This explains your attack."
"What do you mean?" asked Sora hopefully at realizing she might finally get some answers.
"When we first received our powers we noticed a rather strange side effect. We learned that if we allowed ourselves to suffer from extreme rage we wound up becoming out of control and could quite easily kill someone with out realizing it, so we developed a way to keep our rage in check and in controlling our powers, it has worked ever since. I see we're going to have to have you study it as well, I had hoped that the powers of Love from your crest would have overpowered that side effect."
The entire room suddenly began flashing red as the normal lights dimmed and a type of alarm that someone might associate off of Star Trek started sounding.
"What going on?" asked Sora worriedly.
'Nathan we've got a problem here.' Came Erin's voice from over the ships intercom.
"What kind of problem." Nathan asked as he was already out of the room and heading for the bridge with Gennai and Sora on his heals.
'Something's coming threw our portal and I can't stop it. It's like they have all our protocols.' Came Erin's hurried reply.
"Get Starmon down there and I'll meet him there as soon as possible." responded Nathan
'Will do, Erin out.' she said as she cut the comm. link.
"I want you two to head to the bridge, I don't want you to get hurt if anything dangerous comes threw the portal." Nathan said as he addressed the two behind him.
"But we could help." protested Sora
"That may be, but Gennai is injured and we can't have your anger manifest while we deal with this and cause more destruction than what's possibly coming threw. Now go to the bridge." Nathan said closing the matter to further discussion as he took off in another direction towards the Portal Room.
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Two figures are running through a very dark forest, one, definitely human of average height with what appears to be a sword at his side, the second, much smaller and being held in the human's arms. As they run many figures appear chasing them, the figures are human, dressed in black suits with dark sunglasses too. As they keep running the first figure suddenly trips and the figure in his arms is sent flying several feet.
"Betamon!" the figure yells after his flying digimon friend as the other figures form a semicircle around them with guns drawn and a bright light is turned on showing right down on them.
"Surrender now!" spoke one of the suited men.
"Never!" the man yells as he quickly gets back up and goes over to Betamon. "Are you all right old friend?"
"Yeah, I'll be alright as soon as we get out of here." he replies to the human who we finally get a good look at. He was six feet tall wearing brown slacks and a light brown shirt, he had short blond hair and light tan eyes, with his deep tan and well developed muscles he showed that he had been in many fights, but the most noticeable feature of all was the digivice strapped to his belt.
"I'm afraid you're not going anywhere." Came a more commanding tone of voice from a man who had just stepped out from behind the others. He was younger, in his early forties, he was a little shorter than the other men and had pitch black hair and a somewhat smug grin on his face and he was the same man Tai had seen two days ago at his meeting.
"You!" the figure said in contempt.
"That is correct traitor, it is I. And I will get quite the reward from the Alliance when I bring you in and destroy that scum in your arms." The man said with added disgust when he spoke of Betamon.
"You will never hurt Betamon as long as I draw breathe and if anyone is the traitor it is you and the entire Alliance. You do not understand that digital life is just as real as organic." replied the figure.
"Enough! Get him!" He seethed as the men with guns slowly started approaching the digivice-bearing figure.
"I don't think so." the figure said with a smile finally letting his British accent show.
"Why are you smiling? There is no place that you can possibly go to." the man said almost sounding nervous at this figures sudden change in attitude.
"I can open a gate at will so there is no way that you can stop me. But I am smiling because it is time you knew who I am." the figure said as he rose to his full height in a way of confidence. "I am Sir Michael Coffey, knight of the British Crown and defender of truth and justice. I protect all things of this world and will keep doing so until the end of my days. I was chosen near the beginning of Digital Time and appointed the Guardian of the Digi-Spheres and of this world, to defend it against the powers of darkness and those who would wish to harm it. And right now that means you." Michael said as he pointed his index finger at the head of the suited men. "And now, I shall take my leave." He turns around quickly with his glowing digivice in hand. "Digi-Gate Open!" A light shot out of the ground and spread out forming what looked like a doorway, which Michael quickly ran threw. The other man finally realized what had just happened as the gate closes.
"NO! Find him! Find him now!" he yelled as his men quickly scattered as they tried to complete their orders.
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Nathan enters the Portal room to find that Starmon is already there like he instructed. He is caring what looks like a futuristic gun, in fact it is a D-10 Pistol cannon one of the weapons developed under the D-Projects. On the other end of the room the portal doors are open and the portal is glowing with energy.
"Any luck in finding out who activated the portal, or finding a way to get it closed?" Nathan asked Starmon.
"Negative Sir. Whoever set up this link is an expert, if I didn't know better I'd swear they were transmitting on Digi-Sphere frequencies." explained Starmon
"But that's impossible, we searched the Digital World top to bottom when we were woke up and we never found them. And that could only be explained by if they had expired a long time ago and were hidden away somewhere." said Nathan
"I know, that's why I said it couldn't be them." said Starmon as a beeping began on the portal console. "The signal is coming threw." Starmon took on an attack pose and Nathan leveled his gun ready to fire, you may be wondering why he's not using his sword well if he were to attack with it in the base, other than in the Sim Decks, it could cause serious damage to the base. Anyway, the portal flashed briefly and two figures came flying out of it before it shutdown and closed the doors.
"I...I don't believe it." Nathan stuttered in disbelief as Michael stands up in front of him with Betamon at his feet. "Bu...But you were..."
"Dead? Hardly. In our battle against Apocalymon I was merely severely injured, as was Betamon, it was after you were put into a deep sleep that the Protectors stepped in and banished Apocalymon to beyond the Wall of Fire and I was brought back to the Digi-Spheres and healed." replied Michael with out a waiver to his voice. The door to the Portal room opens and in walks Erin, looking nearly as shocked as Nathan, with a confused Sora and Gennai behind.
"MICHEAL!" Erin yells out in joy as she and Nathan, whose shock wore off, run up to him and gave him a big hug.
"We never thought we'd see you again." exclaimed Erin as tears streamed down her face.
"Why didn't you ever contact us, we searched the Digital world ten years ago and we never even came upon any sign that you were alive." Nathan said also in extreme joy, then he notices Sora and Gennai still standing near the doorway. "Where are my manners, Michael allow me to introduce you to Sora, the Digidestined of Love, and Gennai, one of the choosers of the digidestined."
By this time Erin has stopped crying and Michael walks over to the two strangers and bows. On his way back up he notices that the digivice on Sora's belt is a golden one. "Ah, I see it has finally happened." he says indicating her digivice.
"But how did you..." Sora started
"I knew it. I knew you would be the only other one capable of forging those sword and dagger. But why Michael, why did you do it? Why bring her into a dangerous live style like ours?" Questioned Nathan as Michael turned back around to face him.
"I did it because it was the only way to break the spell she was under. The powers of Love had been dormant inside her for so long that I knew her crest wouldn't be enough. So I first forged the Sword, but then I realized that until she learned how to use it it would be too much for her, so then I forged the Dagger. Then it was only a matter of time before the conditions were right for her digivice to transform in to the Golden Digivice." Michael explained, he knew there would be much more explaining in the future, evident by the fact that he saw Nathan was going to say something but he beat him to the punch. "Now before I say anything else we should have the whole team here and since Jennifer and Kenneth did not come with you and Erin I assume that they must be elsewhere. I will not say anything more until we are all here."
"Alright," agreed Nathan, "they should be home soon, of course with what information your telling us will probably be important I'll contact the President an have him on standby for when you will explain."
"President?" asked Michael confused.
"We had to be in collaboration with some type of politician in the Real world, and the United States President was the best choice." explained Erin with a smile.
"I see, very well we will wait for them all." said Michael as they all then left the Portal room.
Overlord's Castle, Digital World - 6:45 P.M. Tokyo Time
Overlord's Personal Chambers
Matt is sitting in a chair next to a table on the far side of the room. He is sitting with his head in his hands as he is dealing with one of his ever-increasing headaches.
"Three days. The attacks have been getting worse and more frequent. It must be the stress." he said shaking his head. "Yeah that's it. Its just stress. Once I've finished with taking over the Real World I won't have any more of these attacks." He reaches over to the table and takes a folder from it. After opening it he flips threw several pages and then stops. "What's this? An e-mail, all the other stuff on the Guardians have been old prophesies and legends and this is a recent e-mail, and to Tai and the other digidestined no less, even my little brother. Well this should be interesting."
'DIGIDESTINED ALERT!!!
All digidestined, report to Grace Hill at 8:00 am tomorrow morning. Important information about digital world activates and dark digital threats. Repeat this is a Digidestined Alert!!! Attendance is mandatory, be at Grace Hill at 8:00 am sharp.
The Digital Guardians.'
"Ha, whoever these Guardians are they've finally slipped up. They've given me an exact location of where to find them." Matt says his mood drastically changed and his face takes on an evil gleam. "Now if those morons down in computers are doing their jobs they will already have found this 'Grace Hill' and I will have them taken care of by morning." he says as he quickly leaves his chair behind and heads out of the room.
Grace Hill, Japan - 7:00 P.M.
"At least it was a fairly quiet day, right Ken?" Jen asks as they walk down the hallway of their house.
"Yes, I'm just worried about what's going to happen when next Thursday night when the clock strikes Midnight. That's when the ultimatum runs out and I'm not sure if the world will be ready for the attack." pondered Ken as they walked past the lit living room.
"I know, I mean ... Wait a minute." stated Jen as they froze in place.
"That wasn't?" asked Ken as they quickly ran back towards the living room opening.
"Michael!" they both exclaimed in unison.
Indeed there he was. Michael was sitting on the couch with Sora and Gennai on either side of him. He was recounting countless stories of many of the adventures he and the other Guardians had gone threw long ago. Kari had brought in Tai for the upcoming meeting and they were sitting on some of the chairs that had been brought into the room. Nathan and Erin were sitting in the two-recliner chairs looking quiet embarrassed due to the high praise they were getting from Michael. Needless to say when Ken and Jen shouted it caught everyone's attention. Ken and Jen stumbled into the room mouthing how's, where's and all that sort of stuff as they fumbled for chairs. Nathan and Erin relinquished their chairs to them and Nathan when back into the kitchen and brought out two others for Erin and himself. A few minutes later they had settled down enough to talk sensibility and ask non-jumbled questions.
"Where, have you been?" asked Ken still sounding somewhat in disbelief.
"Yeah, why didn't you contact us if you were alive?" put in Jen
"Please I will explain everything, but didn't you want the President to be in on this?" Michael asked as he looked to Nathan.
"I'll get him here in a minute, but he doesn't need to be here for 'family' things." Nathan said with a slight smile when he said the word 'family'.
"Very well. For where I have been, it has been the digital world, I have worked very hard to keep the fact that I was still alive a secret. From changing my appearance, to how I did things, to even speaking with out my accent so people and digimon wouldn't recognize me." Michael explained as he demonstrated his non-accented voice. "However, I could not contact you, not that I did not have the means of which to contact you but because it would have tipped off that I was still alive and my location. Now, any other information I have should be best discussed with the President in attendance."
"Alright, everyone get your chairs away from the TV." said Nathan as everyone complied and he typed several keys on the TV's control panel and the image of an elderly man appeared on the screen. The President seemed to have aged nearly ten years in the three days since the overlords attack. His hair was roughly combed, his suit showed signs of being slept in, and his eyes had large bags under them. "Mr. President, did I wake you?" asked Nathan with concern in his voice at seeing the degraded condition of someone he held great respect for.
"If I had been sleeping Jim would be here recording your entire conversation. I've been lucky to get the little sleep that I have considering everything I've had to do to get our troops ready for if there's an attack." said the President in a downcast tone.
"Ah yes I am sorry that we were unable to stop it all before but you know we had no access to the Digital world either. Anyway, I assume you have looked over the information I gave you so allow me to introduce you to our friend Michael." said Nathan beginning to steer the conversation in the right direction.
"It is an honor to meet you Sir." said Michael as he stood up and bowed.
"I see he really does stick to the old British style, I admire that." commented the President.
"Thank-you Sir. Now Nathan, how much have you told him about our past?" Michael said turning his attention to Nathan.
"He knows everything up until we were put to sleep, and any information that Tunskmon and the others gathered before they got here." explained Nathan
"Then I guess I will have to 'fill in the gap' as it were. Unfortunately it is quite a large gap, so we might as well sit down Nathan because this will take some time." Michael said as he and Nathan sat back down in their seats and Michael prepared to recant a good deal of history. "After all of you were put into the deep sleep the Protectors stepped in and continued the battle against Apocalymon, they were able to banish him back to beyond the Wall of Fire. However, they expelled a great amount of their energy when doing this and they were forced to regress back to Digi-Eggs. After our battle and after the Digi-Spheres had healed the injuries Betamon and myself had received we, as well as many other digimon, returned your base to its resting place in Mt. Legend and created the damping chambers that would keep your powers hidden. Our battle against Apocalymon issued in a time of peace for the digital world that was unprecedented, many digimon began digivolving and many new settlements were made. There was only one small problem, during the battle against Apocalymon the Temple of Light, the resting place of the Digi-Spheres, had been destroyed. So the Digi-Spheres decided it would be best if we went to the Core so they could continue to keep the balance. So we went there and stayed there for several thousand years, all threw the Digital Golden Age, the Digimon Guardians did not have a problem with it because they greatly respected what we had done. However, the Golden Age could not last forever and eventually a new evil force came and threatened destruction of the digital world. So five humans were called from the real world to deal with it."
"Wait, Gennai told us about this." stated Tai as he caught everyone's attention. "It was just before our battle with Apocalymon, he told us that there had been a group before us that had defeated an evil like Apocalymon."
"Yes, however, this was when I was still quite young and not very high in the Order of my people." said Gennai.
"Please allow me to continue, I know it was the Order that had called them to deal with the digimon. You see, by the time this occurred the knowledge of the Digi-Spheres and myself had become little more then myths and legends outside the Core. The Order did not know the truth or else they would have contacted us for help. The Digi-Spheres had taken the model of our digivices from our future but when the Order had called the children, they had just created the first prototypes of the digivice. The digivices were immensely powerful, but that power was raw power and could sometimes overexert the digimon and cause them to de-digivolve farther than normal." explained Michael
"What you say is true, I was one of the lower level researchers." stated Gennai "Those first digivices were powerful, however, by the time Tai and the others were chosen we had worked out most of the bugs."
"Yes," agreed Michael, "unlike the adventures of Tai and the others, these first children fought in the western section of the digital world, as you know this is the area currently under the protection of the Digimon Guardian Baihumon. The name of the dark digimon that emerged was Mephistomon, he may only been an Ultimate but he was extremely powerful. Even the former Guardian of Tigremon, a Mega, had difficulty with him. This was why the children were called; these first digidestined fought long and hard and were very near defeating him. You see due to the raw power of the first digivices they did not need the power of crests to digivolve to Ultimate, however, that power was so immense that if they had tried to go to Mega, it would most likely have destroyed their digimon after they ran out of power. That is why what happened next was not only unexpected but also dreadful, somehow from beyond the Wall of Fire Apocalymon infused Mephistomon with enough dark energy to cause him to digivolve to his Mega level of Gulfmon. This is where the Digi-Spheres stepped in; they created five special crests each representing an element that was linked to the five digimon. The elements were fire, ice, earth, wind, lightning the digimon they were linked to were an Agumon who was linked to Fire, a Gabumon who was linked to Ice, a Floramon who was linked to Earth, a Patamon who was linked to Wind, and a Gatomon who was linked to Lightning. These crests also acted as stabilizers to the power of the prototype digivices, they allowed for their digimon to eventually digivolve to Mega in order to stop Gulfmon."
"So you are the ones responsible for those crests." stated Gennai in more of a statement than a question.
"Yes." stated Michael
"The Order had only recently theorized about the crests for further digivolving, and we had began developing ways to harness crest power." said Gennai
"With how the Order had not yet developed the crests was how the Digi-Spheres decided to create them, that was also why the Order was forbidden to study the Elemental Crests by the current Digimon Guardians. However, the creation of those crests severely depleted the Digi-Spheres power, so the digimon of the Core created the Temple of Heroes for the Digi-Spheres to rest in, but before their power completely ran out one of them had a vision of what would happen during this time period. So, with the last bit of their energy they created another system by which people could travel to the digital world. They created the Digi-Gates; they run nearly parallel to the Digi-Ports but can only be accessed if they are given the right codes, which they uploaded into my digivice before they were finally depleted. While this had been going on in the Core, the first digidestined had been fighting Gulfmon and had just begun the final battle. All five of their digimon had achieved their Mega levels, and so they were fighting hard but Gulfmon was still winning the battle, until the Digimon Guardians stepped in. It was a long battle but the digidestined and the Guardians were finally able to defeat Gulfmon, after the battle the Digimon Guardians used their power to reinforce the Wall of Fire. However, this task used all of their energy but they said that out of their data would come new and more powerful Guardians for the digital world. An unexpected event occurred just after the Guardians left, three Digi-eggs escaped into the internet, one egg went to the digidestined Willis in America, the other two ended up in Japan and turned into the Greymon/Parrotmon incident that resulted in the Order choosing Tai and the other.
"The first new Guardian to be created was Ebonwumon, he emerged from the data of Galdoamon, and he was the one to create the first Digi-cores. Later Azulongmon and Zhuqiaomon emerged from the data of MetalSeadramon and Phoenmon and the last was Baihumon who emerged from Tigremon's data. However, before the other Guardians emerged the sentiments toward a human and five Rookie digimon residing in the Core changed. The Protectors had only achieved their Rookie levels; due to the change in attitude we left the Core. We setup a base under the Great Digital Ocean where the Protectors could work at digivolving, but since the digital world was once again at peace we created stasis chambers for Betamon and myself to rest in while we were not needed. So for many millenniums we rested, only coming out when the Protectors sensed trouble for us to deal with it. Betamon and I stayed in and out of stasis until the Dark Masters started taking over the Digital World. We knew if we tried full force against them we would have been destroyed, so we did what we could while we waited for the new digidestined to arrive. When Tai and the others arrived we helped out by dealing with some of the minor problems they would have encountered and we made sure Gennai was able to contact them on File Island after they defeated Devimon. After the defeat of the Dark Masters we were able to rest for a while, when Diaboramon began attacking the Internet we tried to stop him early but we were unable to enter the Internet. Luckily Gennai was able to take care of that by calling in the digidestined. Then the Emperor came and Betamon and I knew we would not be able to fight him successfully if we always had to travel back and forth between our base so we left it and the Protectors, who by that time had reached their Ultimate levels, and have never been back since." Michael explained.
"If you helped in the fight against the Emperor then how come we never saw you?" asked Kari
"Because we continued to fight in the background, mainly going to places and stopping him from taking them over before you were needed to come and help. It worked for a while, but we were not able to completely stop all of his conquest, that is why you never saw us Kari." said Michael
"This is all well and good, but what does this have to do with our current problem?" asked the President somewhat impatiently.
"Please Mr. President your getting ahead of me," said Michael, "after the defeat of the Emperor and the subsequent defeat of MaloMyotismon peace once again reigned over the digital world. Also many new digidestined began appearing, some even taking up residence in the digital world."
"We already know all of this, on of my great-nephews is a digidestined. I still don't see what this has to do with our problem." stated the President
"I assure you this has everything to do with our problem, both of them." said Michael in a grave tone.
"What to you mean 'both of them'? Do you mean there's something out there worse than the Overlord?" asked the President
"In a sense, I do believe there is someone that is responsible for the actions of the Overlord. However, there is another problem, have any of you ever heard of the Dublin Alliance?" Michael asked getting some confused looks.
"I believe they're a software company that has created programs for quite a few governments in Europe and Asia and a few in Africa." stated Nathan
"But none in the Americas, we have our own people for that." finished the President
"They are much more than just a software company. They were founded shortly after the defeat of MaloMyotismon and as I am sure you know they started off by creating several advanced programs for tracking data over the Internet. What you didn't know was where they got their funding; it comes from many shadow committees and shady individuals that are not the most welcome to the digimon. What the Dublin Alliance actually did was use their data tracking software to keep track of any digimon in the real world and monitor the events of the digital world. What they don't understand is the fact that Digital life is just as real as life hear on Earth and so they have no problem with their main objective. Their 'sponsors' pay them to keep digital events in check, and if it is ever apparent that events in the digital world would harm Earth they were ordered to wipe out the entire digital plane." stated Michael plainly while everyone else was in shock.
"Bu ...but that's Genocide." stated the President still in shock.
"I'm glad you see it as that Mr. President, because I will need your help to bring a stop to their actions. I have been working for the past several years sabotaging their efforts in the digital world. You see, when they began tracking data they stumbled upon the Digi-Gate system and their code breakers were able to decipher the codes, they have been setting up bases at several places across the Digital world. Luckily the Overlord does not know of their existence, if he did he would have most likely made his push for Earth much sooner." explained Michael
"I will do what I can about the Alliance, now what information do you have on the Overlord?" asked the President
"Nothing that you would not already know from the efforts of Gennai and Nathan and the other Guardians digimon. Except, that he may try attacking the networks in some way. That would be to try to weaken Earths ability to communicate and therefore coordinate a global defensive against him." said Michael
"I will see what I can do with this information the next time I speak with the UN. Thank-you." stated the President as the screen turned off.
"There's something you didn't tell the President isn't there?" asked Nathan finally getting over his earlier shock.
"There is, but I felt it was not something he would be able to deal with." stated Michael affirming Nathan's assumption. "I don't know why but ever since three years ago the Overlord has been searching for something called the Sacred Stone. I don't know what it is but he has been searching for it quite passionately so I assume it must be powerful and their for we can not allow him to posses it." Michael looked up to see the faces of Nathan, Erin, Ken, and Jen very worried, more worried than he had ever seen them. "Is something wrong?"
"Did you say Sacred Stones?" asked Erin very seriously causing Tai, Kari, Sora, and even Gennai to look at her.
"I said he was searching for something call a Sacred Stone, not stones." clarified Michael
Erin, Jen, and Ken all looked over to Nathan and they each shared a long gaze until Nathan nodded his head like they had just agreed on something.
"There's only one reason the Overlord would be searching for the Sacred Stones. He must be after the Sacred Stone of Darkness." stated Nathan catching everyone else's attention.
"You sound like you know what he's talking about." said Tai as he looked at them.
"We do, but we swore to never tell anyone about them." said Erin
"By whom?" asked Michael
"The Digi-Spheres." stated Ken
"We were told we could never tell anyone about them, not even you Michael." said Jen
"But it appears that their existence is no longer a secret." said Nathan "So I guess we might as well tell you about them. The Sacred Stones were objects created by the Digi-Spheres to aid in keeping the balance, they granted digimon, who proved their wish to help good, abilities above other digimon. The consist of the ten Stones of Power, each of them representing some force or characteristic from Earth, and the seven Elemental Stones."
"But if they were made to help protect the digital world then why would the Digi-Spheres create one that represented evil?" asked Kari
"Because there also existed the Sacred Stone of Light, a stone of Darkness was needed for they're to be a balance. The reason we knew about them was because the Digi-Spheres sent us to them to receive some of our powers, like our control of the elements." explained Nathan
"So where exactly are they, they must be quite well hidden to have never been found by accident." asked Michael
"They are quite hidden, as you all know the digital world is in a sense a shadow version of the real world and there for they are nearly identical in their outer appearance." stated Nathan, when he saw several nods he continued. "The Sacred Stones reside on an island known as Dinosaur Island, which is hidden in the area that corresponds to the Devil's Triangle on Earth. In the Digital World it is know as The Deletion Zone because no digimon that have entered it have ever come back."
"But then how did you get back?" asked Sora
"There are ten paths by which a craft or a digimon can travel it safely with out running into the intense storms that surround the island. You see, Dinosaur Island began as a sanctuary for any dinosaur digimon that had no intentions for darkness; eventually the island also became a sanctuary for any good dragon type digimon as well. Right after we had been woken up we traveled there to check up on the Stones, and we saw how much the island had changed." explained Nathan
"What do you mean by changed?" asked Michael
"A ruling counsel had been established with Azulongmon as the head. They keep the Stones under heavy guard and if they find and digimon on the island with dark intention they banish them from the island never to return." said Ken
"So what are we going to do now?" asked Tai
"Right now we are going to get some sleep, tomorrow morning we will head for the digital world to ensure the Sacred Stones' safety. Then we will search for the first digidestined, because they could be invaluable in our fight. Especially if Matt is being controlled by some other force. Tai I want you with us tomorrow, I'll contact Kari when she has to bring you here, I have to warn you it will be early." said Nathan
"Don't worry, I'll be ready no matter how early." Tai said with a reassuring smile as he and Kari left with her transporter.
"Now, let us get a little bit of rest and then we will prepare for our trip." said Nathan to the others.
Guardian Base, Above Grace Hill
6:00 A.M. Tokyo Time
"Ah Tai, I'm glad to see your awake." said Nathan as he saw Tai walk into the Launch bay of the base looking very groggy.
"When you said early I thought you meant seven or so, not waking up at five thirty in order to get ready in time to be here at six." Tai said as he got over to Nathan.
"Tai we need to get there early enough for us to get back in time for you to get to work on time, besides you should be lucky we didn't leave last night." Nathan said with a smile. "Erin how is everything?"
"Good, we're ready to go." Erin said as she flipped down from the top of the small ship they were at. "The Streaker's in perfect condition, just like we left it, now all we're waiting for are Sora, Gennai, and Michael to get here."
"Then I guess were ready to go." said Michael as all three of them entered the bay.
"We're going in that?" asked Biyomon who was flying next to Sora.
"Yes we are Biyomon, now if everyone would just get on board and take a seat we'll be going." said Nathan as he walked into the ship.
"Just one question, how are we going to get this thing to the digital world?" asked Tai
"Well we can't bring our base threw our gate from this side without setting up a gate in orbit of Earth, but we can bring a much smaller ship threw the portal that can be created with our gate." Nathan said as the large doors of the bay opened and he flew the small ship out of the base. "Erin, tell Jen to get the Gate open."
"You got it." she said as she typed several keys on the comm. panel. "Alright she's doing it."
"Everyone ready, because here we go." said Nathan as the Streaker broke the outer atmosphere and went threw the glowing circular gate on the starry background.
To Be Continued...
[Author's Note] Well I liked this chapter, but I wouldn't have written it if I didn't. If your wondering about the Devil's Triangle, the Bermuda Triangle is sometimes referred to by that name, but I'm referring to something I heard on Encounters with the Unexplained. It says that the Devil's Triangle is the exact opposite point on the globe from the Bermuda Triangle, somewhere over near China, correct me if I'm wrong but please don't chew me out if I am. As always, please R&R.