Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon.
Author's Note: Well, there's a weird little twist in this chapter, yet fitting somehow...actually, it's just twisted. Where do I get these ideas?! Sorry if the digimon's names's are screwed up. I'm not used to the 02 digimon yet.
WARNING!!!: Shounen ai!!! Which means boyXboy love. Nothing physical you naughty little boys and girls. ^_^ The twist kinda makes it shounen ai yet not...confusing...you be the judge. I can't tell anymore without giving the story away. If you don't like shounen ai anywayz, you should leave to save me some flames.
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"Revelation 2: Lost Friend"
By Cloud Ishida
Ken held a bag of ice on his bruised cheek from the fight with Taichi. He let his guard down too often and felt he was too soft on the older boy. He wanted Taichi to pay for attacking him, making him shed his own blood. And in his hand, he held his ticket to victory and revenge. The cracked pendent reflected a broken image of his face, without his glasses. "They'll pay..."
"Ken, are you feeling better?" Wormmon shyly asked. Normally, Ken would be furious at him for using his human name but this time, he let it slide. The green digimon crawled to his master's lap and nuzzled against his stomach. Ken didn't know how to react by the show of affection. The pendent dimly glowed.
He felt a bit different since the encounter with Scythemon. Her thoughts about Wormmon had a ring of truth to them. When WarGreymon attacked him, Wormmon had armour digivolved to Dragoonmon out of anger. Anger of WarGreymon attacking Ken. He let his free hand pet the purring digimon's head and the pendent in his hand started to illuminate ever a bit more. An alarm went off in his throne room and the screens filled with the images of a blonde human and a very simple-clothed child. "He's here! Perfect..." The Kaiser forgot all about his digimon and stood up too quickly for Wormmon to jump off in time. The digimon rolled to the ground and rubbed his bruised head. "Now is the perfect time to test my theory..." The pendent lost its glow.
He held it towards the close-up image of his victim, "Yamato Ishida. The Keeper of Friendship...the one who almost became a Kaiser..." The pendent dropped and let it hung in mid-air while the string was held between his gloved fingers, sparkling in the dim lights, "...the Crest of Friendship..."
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"It's alright Iori. You don't have to stay with me." Yamato reasoned with the child but he refused to budge.
"I can't leave you alone here. The Kaiser might attack, and Takeru would have my neck if something should happen to you." The small boy crossed his arms in a pose telling the blonde his defiance. Yamato gave up on his pleas and let him follow on his journey. Armadillomon followed patiently behind his partner. Few moments of silence passed until Iori broke the ice, "What are you looking for? Shouldn't we have brought the others with us?"
"No. It's better if they didn't come...and it's not 'what' but 'who..." Yamato corrected.
Iori turned stiff, "'Who'? Just...who are you looking for?..." Iori had an idea of who the blonde's target was.
Yamato didn't know how to answer such a simple question, "Um...an old...friend. I guess you can call her that..."
'Her'? So it must be that human digimon... Iori hesitated whether to say what he knows or not. He promised Taichi he wouldn't tell but he wouldn't lie either. "What does she look like?"
The blonde thought about that, "Well...long black hair, brown eyes..." Then he remembered the giant bloody scythe and piercing black and blue clothing. "You would know when you see her...I have to find her..."
Iori caught the sadness in his eyes but at the same time, happiness sparkled in delight. Maybe I should tell him...If he wants to see her so bad... "Matt." The blonde turned around to meet his gaze. "You should know something."
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The room was filled with giant glass tubes, each housing unknown concoctions and wriggling materials. The Kaiser walked pass his latest creation; a gloved hand tapping gently on the glass, "Sleep well my pet..." The object in the glass tube twitched in response. The Kaiser moved on to the end of a smoke filled laboratory, "Ahh, now the fun begins." There was nothing spectacular about this section of the room. Only a giant screen and a computer the size of a truck waited in silence for its master. The Kaiser revealed the tag with the crest still intact and placed it in of the slots.
Suddenly, the giant screen came to life and a series of ones and zeros rolling across the screen. "First to test it out." He planned for the perfect way to find out if his theory was right.
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"This is where you saw her?" They arrived at the Sanctary Island with the smell of burnt trees still hanging in the air. "How am I suppose to find her when I don't even have a clue where to begin?" Yamato kicked at loosed gravel and ash at the battlefield of earlier that day.
"Well, the only way I know is this. Armadillamon, armour digivolve." Iori readied his D-3 and let the magic happen. "Digimental, power up!"
"ARMADILLOMON, ARMOUR DIGIVOLVE TO...DIGMON! The Drills of Knowledge!"
"Blow up that boulder!" Digmon sprayed his Gold Rush attack and shattered the rock in a loud explosion. Instantly, the drill digimon de-evolved back to his Rookie form and waited.
They didn't have to wait long. A dark glowing figure leaped in giant bounds to reach their site. The glow faded upon landing and the black clothed girl appeared again. "Who's invading ag...you?!" Scythemon remembered the shy little boy from the morning attack. "I'm assuming you made such a racket to call me?"
Iori nodded, "Yes. A friend of mine wanted to see you and this was the only method I could think of to get your attention."
She smiled at his strategy, "You remebered I attack any agressors. Nice work. Now, who's your friend?" Iori simply pointed to the older boy and she recognized him instantly, "Yamato?!"
The blonde smiled at the sight of his friend, "It's been a long time."
"I'll wait over there with Armadillomon." Iori had an idea they wanted to be alone and Yamato thanked him for it.
After such a long time, he had no idea what to say. She changed a lot; signs of age beyond her years carved her face. Her eyes had large bags underneath, and her whole body sagged in depression. "How have you been?...Is everything all right?"
Scythemon was too tired to hold a smile for too long, "...tired. I'm just tired." Her voice was monotone with no feeling left to give. She sat down on a broken tree stump and Yamato leaned on it beside her. He didn't like how she answered his simple question. It didn't seem as if she wasn't tired just physically. Her long black hair stopped its continuous flow from three years ago. Her red eye sparkled while her brown eye faded and her shoulders slumped even when she stood. Her scars were still there, looking as if they had no had time to heal. "I've been working a lot that's all. How have you been? Junior high?"
Yamato smirked, "Yeah, although my grades would tell me otherwise." He turned to the girl, her head slumped with eyes closed. "Midori..."
"Hmph...I haven't been called that for a long time. Scythemon would be better."
"Well you call me Yamato and no one, not even my dad calls me that. And since your the only one allowed to use it, there should be something only for me." His grin made her smirk through her weary lips.
"Touche. Not to be rude but, is there a reason you came?" She went right to the point and Yamato felt a bit disappointed by it.
"I just wanted to see you. I had a feeling three years ago you would want to stay." His voice was meloncholic with past sadness.
Scythemon opened her eyes, "Did Taichi tell you I was here?"
Yamato's eyes perked up, "Taichi? He was here? Iori never mentioned that..." How could he not tell me?...Tai... "Iori told me where you were. And about that battle. Has the Kaiser always attacked you?"
"Almost everyday. He is stubborn. Piedmon and I have a hard time holding him back more and more..." Her eyes slowly closed out the sunlight and rested her head in her hands. Yamato caught her massaging her eyes and knew she was very tired indeed. "Apparently, he found out about this island's secret."
"What do you mean?..."
Scythemon removed her digivice. An old model, a kind of mixture with the Yamato's and the D-3's. It was cracked from age and turned pitch black, matching with her clothes. She pressed a button and an oval object materialized out of thin air. Instantly he recognized what it was. She grabbed the digi-egg out of the air and placed it in front of the blonde, "This, I assume you know, is a digi-egg. The Digimental of Doubt."
His eyes widened at the botanical egg with a with a wooden cross with strings attached on the back. "Does this mean..."
"Apparently, the Kaiser knows about them, and uncovered this island's secret. This island is a treasure trove of Digimentals. The Darkdestined's crests." With more buttons pressed, four more appeared. "I was able to find five, and the Kaiser had one of his own...Asato's..." The name flickered past memories with sad endings. Yamato remebered them as if they happened yesterday. "With the Digimental of Hate, Dragoonmon, as Wormmon called himself, defeated WarGreymon with one attack. An Armour digimon as strong as a Mega...maybe even more..."
Yamato examined each one. The Digimental of Fear had a soft velvat exterior with a black strip that looked strangely like sunglasses. The one with the rigid Crest of Ignorance was metallic all over with wires and bolts adorning it. The digi-egg of Deceit was scaly, with a metal protector over the top half with a horn-blade much like the egg of Courage. Finally, the egg of Despair looked exactly like the Digimental of Hope, but glazed in black. "If he gets hold of all these..."
"He'd have the most powerful of digimons under his control." She said calmly.
The blonde looked up at her worn-out face, "Is that why you've been protecting this place?"
She smiled slightly, not out of happiness but rather cynically, "A Virus protecting the entire world...that's something the Benign Virus Piedmon will do. I'm still the enemy of Vaccine and Data, but I don't intend to take on the world and whatever goes on in that cruel world, I don't care." Yamato looked shocked by her statedment. "Don't give me that look. At first, I protected this place since it was my territory. But slowly, it turned into a sanctuary for those who wished to escape the control of the Kaiser." Scythemon leaned on her scythe and stood up, still slouching her shoulders, "I promised them they won't get hurt by him, that I'd protect them. For two and a half years I have. I'm living my duty to guard whoever is in my sanctuary seeking protection. And a promise is a promise..." Her last words left an image of regret in Yamato's mind. "But the digimon are trying. Someone by the name of Gennai is making a rebellion."
The digi-eggs returned to their homes in the black, worn-out digivice. Yamato stood up and stepped in front of her. One hand rested on her scythe-holding hand, the other on her dangling arm, "What about you? You look terrible...are you happy here? Like this...?"
She lifted her eyes to meet his blue gaze, but stopped at a silver shine from his neck, "You kept it?..." Her voice held surprise. He lifted the stone pendent, with the Chinese character for Friendship on it. The gift Yamato had given her but gave up.
"Of course I did. I hoped someday, I could return it back to you..." He started to take off the necklace when a black glove stopped his hands.
"Don't bother. It doesn't suit me." Smiling gently, she took out her black tag and crest, "I prefer this." The Crest of Loneliness glittered from the sun's rays and, most likely, from her inner sorrow. "You better go. I have to keep patrol and you'll be in danger if he shows up."
Yamato knew she meant the Kaiser. It was as if she thought more of that psycho-maniac than him. "I'll stay a bit. You can't protect the whole island alone forever. You're putting too much responsibiliy on yourself..."
"Don't even start with that!" Scythemon snapped back, "I know it's not but someone has to do it. If these damn digimon won't fight for themselves then who will?" She was frustrated with them, he could tell. That was when he noticed he never saw any digimon when he met her execpt Amadillomon playing with Iori. "Just get going. Please." Scythemon leaped into the air, not waiting for Yamato's response. She disappeared into the horizon before Yamato could open his mouth.
"Midori...what's wrong?..." As soon as those words left, a sharp pain in his headmade him wince. He clutched his head tightly, trying to squeeze out the pain. Iori noticed from the distance and ran to him instantly. The pain spread throughout his body and held his hands against his body.
"Matt, what's wrong? Are you hurt?" He knelt beside the blonde but saw no wounds on him. Yamato eased his grip as the pain started to subside.
"I'm alright..." Iori noticed something different in his voice. It seemed...higher?... "Matt, are you sure? You sound a bit weird..."
Yamato blinked at him, the pain finally gone. "What are yo..." He clutched his mouth. It did sound different... He stood up and his body felt different too. But he resolved he would worry about that later. Midori was his primary concern right now. Yamato looked down to the stone pendent from his neck and stared hard. His eyes grew wide as two things caught his attention. He widened his collar and looked down his shirt. The pendent drop around his neck as Yamato shocked by what he saw. "WHAT THE F***?!"
Iori learned some very colourful four letter words that day.
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"IT WORKS!" The Kaiser exclaimed with pleasure at the blondes use of words. The screens that held Yamato's image (still looking down his shirt) proved his theory. Wormmon danced in joy of seeing his master happy. "And he's even close to Scythemon...two birds with one stone. Now all I need to do is to make this computer portable." The computer screen was still filled with ones and zeros that never seemed to end. He slipped on the Crest of Friendship and started working on the next stage of his master plan.
His next thoughts slipped to Scythemon, 'Midori' huh?...the other would be Kaiser...
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Yamato was pacing back and forth in the school computer room. He wrapped his hands tightly around his body and hoped this was all a dream...a very sick dream. "This can't be happening...it's impossible isn't it?" he asked a nervous Iori.
The boy didn't know how to answer. It should be down-right impossible but it happened.
Yamato was now a girl.
"Matt, maybe we should tell the others..."
"And let them see me with THESE?!" The blonde pointed to his chest and blushed a deep red at the same time. "They'll laugh at me or worse..." He thought about his band, his father...What about Tai?...He'll get a kick out of this...
"How about Izzy?" Iori suggested. That made sense to Yamato; he was the smart one after all who got the kids out in a lot of tight situations. He just hoped his brain won't fail him now.
"Alright. But don't tell him yet. Just bring him here or else he won't believe us."
"I'm on my way." Iori scurried to the door with his digimon in tow.
Yamato never dared to step out of the classroom. He made sure the door was locked tight and continued his pacing again. How could have this happened?! Nothing weird happened today..well nothing weird for the Digiworld anyway...I just talked with Midori... He stopped in his tracks with the thought of that name. Midori...I'm sorry...
"Hello is anyone there?"
Yamato jumped from the voice. TAI?! He stayed quiet, hoping the invader would give up and leave. The door knob started to twist and turn.
"Locked?...That's weird. Is anyone in there? Iori? Matt?"
How did he know I was here?... His hand slipped on the desk he was leaning on and knocked down a cup of pencils. Taichi heard the rattling and started to yell, "I heard that! If you won't open it, I'll bust the door down!" Yamato raced for the door, in an effort to prevent Taichi's plan from happening. Through the glass, Taichi noticed the figure's sillouette. He recognized the hair style instantly, "Matt! I know your in there!" Then the banging on the door began. Taichi was trying to knock the door down and wouldn't give up. "I need to talk to you Matt! Open up!" Taichi took one last leap at the door and it finally crashed open. But Taichi lost his balance and landed right on top of the flinched Yamato. "I knew you were in here!" Taichi said triumphantly.
"Whatever Tai, just get off of me!" He pushed him off but Taichi's hand landed at the most uncomfortable place on the blonde's chest.
Taichi's eyes widened as Yamato blushed at the prediciment. Taichi nearly jumped off while Yamato sat up slowly, still blushing like crazy. The wild, brown-haired boy started to studder in shock, "Did I...wha...are they...Oh my god..." This continued on for a good five minutes and Yamato finally explained.
"I don't know how but it happened. Iori's off to get Izzy." Yamato stayed a distance away from Taichi, embarressed by the situation. From the corner of his eye, he could still see the other boy staring at him with mouth opened. "Stop staring! I'm uncomfortable as it is!"
That brought Taichi out of his trance, "Huh? Sorry...I mean...I don't know what to say..." His voice changed too...
"If you want to laugh, fine. Just don't do it in front of my face!" Arms crossed, Yamato felt ashamed of what had happened to him. Of all the people to see, why did Taichi have to know?
"I'd never laugh at you to hurt you."
Yamato's arms loosened and turned to meet the boy's eyes, "Huh?..."
Taichi walked up to him slowly, "You look pretty as a girl." The blonde's crimson cheeks returned. Taichi was right in front of him, and noticed he had to look down a bit to meet the blue eyes, "And it looks like you grew shorter. I'm finally taller than you!" Taichi laughed at that and Yamato smiled with him. "That's better." He commented. "Don't be so depressed. We'll find a way to reverse...whatever that happened."
"...thanks." Yamato felt relieved. Taichi hadn't been this sweet since...well, ever. Maybe it wasn't so bad after all... "How did you know I was here?"
"Your band told me you were headed for Iori's and his parents said he left with you...Was there trouble in the Digiworld?"
"....Tai, why didn't you tell me she was there?" Yamato stared at him intently and Taichi understood who the blonde meant. "You knew I waited a long time to know what happened to her!"
He hesitated to answer but said what he felt earlier that day, "I just didn't want her to hurt you like that again." He closed his eyes, remembering those last few days with Midori. "I was looking for you about that."
Yamato understood what he was trying to say and glad he cared that much. "You don't have to protect me from her. I know her..." At least I think I do...
"You met her didn't you?"
"...yeah. Iori helped me find Midori."
Taichi smirked, "When that boy gets back I gotta teach him the meaning of the word 'secret'."
They heard footsteps coming from the hallway and a suprised Koushiro with Iori. "What happened with the door?" asked the small boy.
"And what's the big emergency to call me so late?" Koushiro yawned out.
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I'm weird aren't I? It just came out this way. Comments? I'm thinking I'll get flames for this. Thanks for reading everyone. I'm glad you like the series. More Kaiser in the next chapter. *drool* *_*
See ya^_^
Author's Note: Well, there's a weird little twist in this chapter, yet fitting somehow...actually, it's just twisted. Where do I get these ideas?! Sorry if the digimon's names's are screwed up. I'm not used to the 02 digimon yet.
WARNING!!!: Shounen ai!!! Which means boyXboy love. Nothing physical you naughty little boys and girls. ^_^ The twist kinda makes it shounen ai yet not...confusing...you be the judge. I can't tell anymore without giving the story away. If you don't like shounen ai anywayz, you should leave to save me some flames.
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"Revelation 2: Lost Friend"
By Cloud Ishida
Ken held a bag of ice on his bruised cheek from the fight with Taichi. He let his guard down too often and felt he was too soft on the older boy. He wanted Taichi to pay for attacking him, making him shed his own blood. And in his hand, he held his ticket to victory and revenge. The cracked pendent reflected a broken image of his face, without his glasses. "They'll pay..."
"Ken, are you feeling better?" Wormmon shyly asked. Normally, Ken would be furious at him for using his human name but this time, he let it slide. The green digimon crawled to his master's lap and nuzzled against his stomach. Ken didn't know how to react by the show of affection. The pendent dimly glowed.
He felt a bit different since the encounter with Scythemon. Her thoughts about Wormmon had a ring of truth to them. When WarGreymon attacked him, Wormmon had armour digivolved to Dragoonmon out of anger. Anger of WarGreymon attacking Ken. He let his free hand pet the purring digimon's head and the pendent in his hand started to illuminate ever a bit more. An alarm went off in his throne room and the screens filled with the images of a blonde human and a very simple-clothed child. "He's here! Perfect..." The Kaiser forgot all about his digimon and stood up too quickly for Wormmon to jump off in time. The digimon rolled to the ground and rubbed his bruised head. "Now is the perfect time to test my theory..." The pendent lost its glow.
He held it towards the close-up image of his victim, "Yamato Ishida. The Keeper of Friendship...the one who almost became a Kaiser..." The pendent dropped and let it hung in mid-air while the string was held between his gloved fingers, sparkling in the dim lights, "...the Crest of Friendship..."
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"It's alright Iori. You don't have to stay with me." Yamato reasoned with the child but he refused to budge.
"I can't leave you alone here. The Kaiser might attack, and Takeru would have my neck if something should happen to you." The small boy crossed his arms in a pose telling the blonde his defiance. Yamato gave up on his pleas and let him follow on his journey. Armadillomon followed patiently behind his partner. Few moments of silence passed until Iori broke the ice, "What are you looking for? Shouldn't we have brought the others with us?"
"No. It's better if they didn't come...and it's not 'what' but 'who..." Yamato corrected.
Iori turned stiff, "'Who'? Just...who are you looking for?..." Iori had an idea of who the blonde's target was.
Yamato didn't know how to answer such a simple question, "Um...an old...friend. I guess you can call her that..."
'Her'? So it must be that human digimon... Iori hesitated whether to say what he knows or not. He promised Taichi he wouldn't tell but he wouldn't lie either. "What does she look like?"
The blonde thought about that, "Well...long black hair, brown eyes..." Then he remembered the giant bloody scythe and piercing black and blue clothing. "You would know when you see her...I have to find her..."
Iori caught the sadness in his eyes but at the same time, happiness sparkled in delight. Maybe I should tell him...If he wants to see her so bad... "Matt." The blonde turned around to meet his gaze. "You should know something."
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The room was filled with giant glass tubes, each housing unknown concoctions and wriggling materials. The Kaiser walked pass his latest creation; a gloved hand tapping gently on the glass, "Sleep well my pet..." The object in the glass tube twitched in response. The Kaiser moved on to the end of a smoke filled laboratory, "Ahh, now the fun begins." There was nothing spectacular about this section of the room. Only a giant screen and a computer the size of a truck waited in silence for its master. The Kaiser revealed the tag with the crest still intact and placed it in of the slots.
Suddenly, the giant screen came to life and a series of ones and zeros rolling across the screen. "First to test it out." He planned for the perfect way to find out if his theory was right.
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"This is where you saw her?" They arrived at the Sanctary Island with the smell of burnt trees still hanging in the air. "How am I suppose to find her when I don't even have a clue where to begin?" Yamato kicked at loosed gravel and ash at the battlefield of earlier that day.
"Well, the only way I know is this. Armadillamon, armour digivolve." Iori readied his D-3 and let the magic happen. "Digimental, power up!"
"ARMADILLOMON, ARMOUR DIGIVOLVE TO...DIGMON! The Drills of Knowledge!"
"Blow up that boulder!" Digmon sprayed his Gold Rush attack and shattered the rock in a loud explosion. Instantly, the drill digimon de-evolved back to his Rookie form and waited.
They didn't have to wait long. A dark glowing figure leaped in giant bounds to reach their site. The glow faded upon landing and the black clothed girl appeared again. "Who's invading ag...you?!" Scythemon remembered the shy little boy from the morning attack. "I'm assuming you made such a racket to call me?"
Iori nodded, "Yes. A friend of mine wanted to see you and this was the only method I could think of to get your attention."
She smiled at his strategy, "You remebered I attack any agressors. Nice work. Now, who's your friend?" Iori simply pointed to the older boy and she recognized him instantly, "Yamato?!"
The blonde smiled at the sight of his friend, "It's been a long time."
"I'll wait over there with Armadillomon." Iori had an idea they wanted to be alone and Yamato thanked him for it.
After such a long time, he had no idea what to say. She changed a lot; signs of age beyond her years carved her face. Her eyes had large bags underneath, and her whole body sagged in depression. "How have you been?...Is everything all right?"
Scythemon was too tired to hold a smile for too long, "...tired. I'm just tired." Her voice was monotone with no feeling left to give. She sat down on a broken tree stump and Yamato leaned on it beside her. He didn't like how she answered his simple question. It didn't seem as if she wasn't tired just physically. Her long black hair stopped its continuous flow from three years ago. Her red eye sparkled while her brown eye faded and her shoulders slumped even when she stood. Her scars were still there, looking as if they had no had time to heal. "I've been working a lot that's all. How have you been? Junior high?"
Yamato smirked, "Yeah, although my grades would tell me otherwise." He turned to the girl, her head slumped with eyes closed. "Midori..."
"Hmph...I haven't been called that for a long time. Scythemon would be better."
"Well you call me Yamato and no one, not even my dad calls me that. And since your the only one allowed to use it, there should be something only for me." His grin made her smirk through her weary lips.
"Touche. Not to be rude but, is there a reason you came?" She went right to the point and Yamato felt a bit disappointed by it.
"I just wanted to see you. I had a feeling three years ago you would want to stay." His voice was meloncholic with past sadness.
Scythemon opened her eyes, "Did Taichi tell you I was here?"
Yamato's eyes perked up, "Taichi? He was here? Iori never mentioned that..." How could he not tell me?...Tai... "Iori told me where you were. And about that battle. Has the Kaiser always attacked you?"
"Almost everyday. He is stubborn. Piedmon and I have a hard time holding him back more and more..." Her eyes slowly closed out the sunlight and rested her head in her hands. Yamato caught her massaging her eyes and knew she was very tired indeed. "Apparently, he found out about this island's secret."
"What do you mean?..."
Scythemon removed her digivice. An old model, a kind of mixture with the Yamato's and the D-3's. It was cracked from age and turned pitch black, matching with her clothes. She pressed a button and an oval object materialized out of thin air. Instantly he recognized what it was. She grabbed the digi-egg out of the air and placed it in front of the blonde, "This, I assume you know, is a digi-egg. The Digimental of Doubt."
His eyes widened at the botanical egg with a with a wooden cross with strings attached on the back. "Does this mean..."
"Apparently, the Kaiser knows about them, and uncovered this island's secret. This island is a treasure trove of Digimentals. The Darkdestined's crests." With more buttons pressed, four more appeared. "I was able to find five, and the Kaiser had one of his own...Asato's..." The name flickered past memories with sad endings. Yamato remebered them as if they happened yesterday. "With the Digimental of Hate, Dragoonmon, as Wormmon called himself, defeated WarGreymon with one attack. An Armour digimon as strong as a Mega...maybe even more..."
Yamato examined each one. The Digimental of Fear had a soft velvat exterior with a black strip that looked strangely like sunglasses. The one with the rigid Crest of Ignorance was metallic all over with wires and bolts adorning it. The digi-egg of Deceit was scaly, with a metal protector over the top half with a horn-blade much like the egg of Courage. Finally, the egg of Despair looked exactly like the Digimental of Hope, but glazed in black. "If he gets hold of all these..."
"He'd have the most powerful of digimons under his control." She said calmly.
The blonde looked up at her worn-out face, "Is that why you've been protecting this place?"
She smiled slightly, not out of happiness but rather cynically, "A Virus protecting the entire world...that's something the Benign Virus Piedmon will do. I'm still the enemy of Vaccine and Data, but I don't intend to take on the world and whatever goes on in that cruel world, I don't care." Yamato looked shocked by her statedment. "Don't give me that look. At first, I protected this place since it was my territory. But slowly, it turned into a sanctuary for those who wished to escape the control of the Kaiser." Scythemon leaned on her scythe and stood up, still slouching her shoulders, "I promised them they won't get hurt by him, that I'd protect them. For two and a half years I have. I'm living my duty to guard whoever is in my sanctuary seeking protection. And a promise is a promise..." Her last words left an image of regret in Yamato's mind. "But the digimon are trying. Someone by the name of Gennai is making a rebellion."
The digi-eggs returned to their homes in the black, worn-out digivice. Yamato stood up and stepped in front of her. One hand rested on her scythe-holding hand, the other on her dangling arm, "What about you? You look terrible...are you happy here? Like this...?"
She lifted her eyes to meet his blue gaze, but stopped at a silver shine from his neck, "You kept it?..." Her voice held surprise. He lifted the stone pendent, with the Chinese character for Friendship on it. The gift Yamato had given her but gave up.
"Of course I did. I hoped someday, I could return it back to you..." He started to take off the necklace when a black glove stopped his hands.
"Don't bother. It doesn't suit me." Smiling gently, she took out her black tag and crest, "I prefer this." The Crest of Loneliness glittered from the sun's rays and, most likely, from her inner sorrow. "You better go. I have to keep patrol and you'll be in danger if he shows up."
Yamato knew she meant the Kaiser. It was as if she thought more of that psycho-maniac than him. "I'll stay a bit. You can't protect the whole island alone forever. You're putting too much responsibiliy on yourself..."
"Don't even start with that!" Scythemon snapped back, "I know it's not but someone has to do it. If these damn digimon won't fight for themselves then who will?" She was frustrated with them, he could tell. That was when he noticed he never saw any digimon when he met her execpt Amadillomon playing with Iori. "Just get going. Please." Scythemon leaped into the air, not waiting for Yamato's response. She disappeared into the horizon before Yamato could open his mouth.
"Midori...what's wrong?..." As soon as those words left, a sharp pain in his headmade him wince. He clutched his head tightly, trying to squeeze out the pain. Iori noticed from the distance and ran to him instantly. The pain spread throughout his body and held his hands against his body.
"Matt, what's wrong? Are you hurt?" He knelt beside the blonde but saw no wounds on him. Yamato eased his grip as the pain started to subside.
"I'm alright..." Iori noticed something different in his voice. It seemed...higher?... "Matt, are you sure? You sound a bit weird..."
Yamato blinked at him, the pain finally gone. "What are yo..." He clutched his mouth. It did sound different... He stood up and his body felt different too. But he resolved he would worry about that later. Midori was his primary concern right now. Yamato looked down to the stone pendent from his neck and stared hard. His eyes grew wide as two things caught his attention. He widened his collar and looked down his shirt. The pendent drop around his neck as Yamato shocked by what he saw. "WHAT THE F***?!"
Iori learned some very colourful four letter words that day.
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"IT WORKS!" The Kaiser exclaimed with pleasure at the blondes use of words. The screens that held Yamato's image (still looking down his shirt) proved his theory. Wormmon danced in joy of seeing his master happy. "And he's even close to Scythemon...two birds with one stone. Now all I need to do is to make this computer portable." The computer screen was still filled with ones and zeros that never seemed to end. He slipped on the Crest of Friendship and started working on the next stage of his master plan.
His next thoughts slipped to Scythemon, 'Midori' huh?...the other would be Kaiser...
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Yamato was pacing back and forth in the school computer room. He wrapped his hands tightly around his body and hoped this was all a dream...a very sick dream. "This can't be happening...it's impossible isn't it?" he asked a nervous Iori.
The boy didn't know how to answer. It should be down-right impossible but it happened.
Yamato was now a girl.
"Matt, maybe we should tell the others..."
"And let them see me with THESE?!" The blonde pointed to his chest and blushed a deep red at the same time. "They'll laugh at me or worse..." He thought about his band, his father...What about Tai?...He'll get a kick out of this...
"How about Izzy?" Iori suggested. That made sense to Yamato; he was the smart one after all who got the kids out in a lot of tight situations. He just hoped his brain won't fail him now.
"Alright. But don't tell him yet. Just bring him here or else he won't believe us."
"I'm on my way." Iori scurried to the door with his digimon in tow.
Yamato never dared to step out of the classroom. He made sure the door was locked tight and continued his pacing again. How could have this happened?! Nothing weird happened today..well nothing weird for the Digiworld anyway...I just talked with Midori... He stopped in his tracks with the thought of that name. Midori...I'm sorry...
"Hello is anyone there?"
Yamato jumped from the voice. TAI?! He stayed quiet, hoping the invader would give up and leave. The door knob started to twist and turn.
"Locked?...That's weird. Is anyone in there? Iori? Matt?"
How did he know I was here?... His hand slipped on the desk he was leaning on and knocked down a cup of pencils. Taichi heard the rattling and started to yell, "I heard that! If you won't open it, I'll bust the door down!" Yamato raced for the door, in an effort to prevent Taichi's plan from happening. Through the glass, Taichi noticed the figure's sillouette. He recognized the hair style instantly, "Matt! I know your in there!" Then the banging on the door began. Taichi was trying to knock the door down and wouldn't give up. "I need to talk to you Matt! Open up!" Taichi took one last leap at the door and it finally crashed open. But Taichi lost his balance and landed right on top of the flinched Yamato. "I knew you were in here!" Taichi said triumphantly.
"Whatever Tai, just get off of me!" He pushed him off but Taichi's hand landed at the most uncomfortable place on the blonde's chest.
Taichi's eyes widened as Yamato blushed at the prediciment. Taichi nearly jumped off while Yamato sat up slowly, still blushing like crazy. The wild, brown-haired boy started to studder in shock, "Did I...wha...are they...Oh my god..." This continued on for a good five minutes and Yamato finally explained.
"I don't know how but it happened. Iori's off to get Izzy." Yamato stayed a distance away from Taichi, embarressed by the situation. From the corner of his eye, he could still see the other boy staring at him with mouth opened. "Stop staring! I'm uncomfortable as it is!"
That brought Taichi out of his trance, "Huh? Sorry...I mean...I don't know what to say..." His voice changed too...
"If you want to laugh, fine. Just don't do it in front of my face!" Arms crossed, Yamato felt ashamed of what had happened to him. Of all the people to see, why did Taichi have to know?
"I'd never laugh at you to hurt you."
Yamato's arms loosened and turned to meet the boy's eyes, "Huh?..."
Taichi walked up to him slowly, "You look pretty as a girl." The blonde's crimson cheeks returned. Taichi was right in front of him, and noticed he had to look down a bit to meet the blue eyes, "And it looks like you grew shorter. I'm finally taller than you!" Taichi laughed at that and Yamato smiled with him. "That's better." He commented. "Don't be so depressed. We'll find a way to reverse...whatever that happened."
"...thanks." Yamato felt relieved. Taichi hadn't been this sweet since...well, ever. Maybe it wasn't so bad after all... "How did you know I was here?"
"Your band told me you were headed for Iori's and his parents said he left with you...Was there trouble in the Digiworld?"
"....Tai, why didn't you tell me she was there?" Yamato stared at him intently and Taichi understood who the blonde meant. "You knew I waited a long time to know what happened to her!"
He hesitated to answer but said what he felt earlier that day, "I just didn't want her to hurt you like that again." He closed his eyes, remembering those last few days with Midori. "I was looking for you about that."
Yamato understood what he was trying to say and glad he cared that much. "You don't have to protect me from her. I know her..." At least I think I do...
"You met her didn't you?"
"...yeah. Iori helped me find Midori."
Taichi smirked, "When that boy gets back I gotta teach him the meaning of the word 'secret'."
They heard footsteps coming from the hallway and a suprised Koushiro with Iori. "What happened with the door?" asked the small boy.
"And what's the big emergency to call me so late?" Koushiro yawned out.
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I'm weird aren't I? It just came out this way. Comments? I'm thinking I'll get flames for this. Thanks for reading everyone. I'm glad you like the series. More Kaiser in the next chapter. *drool* *_*
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