DISCLAIMER: Digimon isn't mine. Oh how I wish it was...
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I made a little mistake on Revelation 4-the figure in the glass tube was suppose to have PURPLE hair not silver. I must've thought of something else while writing. And I think I switched from "Tailmon" to "Gatomon"out of laziness probably (Shows how good of a writer I am). All these tests I have for school are screwing with my head _
WARNING: Once again, SHOUNEN AI! (BOYxBOY LOVE) and the warning seems to be working cause no flames.^_^ And no lemon in this (despite what the ending of ch.4 seems to lead to) but a little suggestive tidbits. After all, shounen ai's focus is on emotions. After surfing the net and reading fics a bit,(I hardly have any time reading), I can safely say, I'M THE FIRST TO WRITE KAISERxYAMATO/YAMATOxKEN/KENxYAMATO etc.!!!
I feel so special...unless there is someone out there who wrote about this couple before me...if that's the case, good for them but for me, D'OH!
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"Revelation 5: Resurrection"
By Cloud Ishida
"Izzy's e-mailed us. He says from what Tai heard from the fight with Kaiser and Matt, it seems as if the Kaiser has control of his bodily structure." Iori reported while reading off his D-Terminal. "Exactly how he's doing it, Izzy doesn't know."
"Shouldn't we be thinking of how to rescue him right now?" Daisuke inquired. Taichi nodded in agreement. "And where is Scythemon anyways?"
"Right here." The group turned around to the direction of the voice. Piedmon was relieved she didn't do anything rash. "You need me for something?"
Taichi walked towards her, remembering his harsh words to her from before, "I'm, sorry for what I've said before. I was just worried about Matt and-"
"Don't bother. You don't need to apologize for speaking the truth." She spoke with no emotion. Taichi tried to apologize again but was cut off by her glare. "I said there is no need." Focusing her attention to the Digidestined, she revealed her digi-eggs from her black digivice. "I assume Yamato's told you about these. Today's fight showed the Kaiser's slaves are gaining more power. You need more power." She laid the five digi-eggs on the ground before the children. "Take your pick."
Miyak inspected each one, "You mean, you want us to have them?"
"If you can lift them." she simply replied. Daisuke tried for the mechanical-looking digi-egg but it didn't even move a bit.
"Hold on a minute. If these are the DarkDestined's digimentals, then how are they supposed to lift it?" Taichi questioned the idea.
"The Digimental doesn't distinguish between Digi and Darkdestined." She pointed to the Armour DigiDestined. "You can try too Taichi-san. You just have to have the emotion or experience related to the digimental."
"Well, who's going first?" Daisuke hollered. Taichi took up the challenge and reached for the digi-egg with the velvet covering. With only an arm's length away from the egg, a glow from Taichi's chest repelled him backward onto Daisuke. "Ow! What the heck was that?" Daisuke asked as he tried to push off the heavy Taichi.
"Whoa Tai! Are you all right?" Agumon helped his partner up while Gabumon and Veemon picked up Daisuke.
Taichi took out from underneath his shirt the source for the attack, "My crest...it's reacting to something..."
Scythemon checked carefully over the digi-egg of Fear and no scratches were on it. "It seems that your Crest of Courage is resisting the Digimental of Fear. You should avoid it and try the other ones." With that, she turned to leave the Digidestined to their task.
"Scythemon, where are you going?" Piedmon asked with concern. She continued on in silence.
"Scythemon, if your still mad about what I said earlier-" Taichi trailed off.
She didn't answer and returned to the forest.
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I shouldn't be here... Yamato sat on the grand bed of the most beautiful bedroom he had ever seen. "This is so humiliating..." His wrist was chained to the bedpost and too short for him to even get off the bed.
"What's humiliating?" Yamato turned to the source of the voice. Ken stood over him, his mask absent from his face. His eyes were in a cold shade of blue, but something about them gave off a gentle radiance. "You look even cuter when you're my age."
Yamato almost forgot about that. Ken had turned him into the kid he was when he first came to the Digital World. "You are so dead." Yamato threatened with a deathly glare.
Ken just smiled back, "It's worth it."
The smile was threw Yamato off guard, "You are the Digimon Kaiser right? Shouldn't you be killing me or torturing me?" His voice was full of sarcasm.
"Hehe, funny." Ken leaned in closer and Yamato drew farther back, "It's not like I'm gonna bite...hard." He finished with a snicker. Hand caressing the blonde's chin, Ken started to move in for the touch of the other boy's lips. But instead of the feeling of soft skin, his face met with very stiff and white knuckles. His cheek stung from the hit and rubbed it to dispel the pain. "Ow...it shouldn't hurt this much if I took away your strength..."
Yamato continued to crack his knuckles, "Desperation brings miracles." he said with a smug look.
The door to his chambers started to open. From the small crack of opening, Wormmon crawled slowly inside, his long ears draped over his eyes. "Sorry to interrupt Master but-"
"I told you I don't want to be disturbed!" The Kaiser yelled in full force. Wormmon cringed from the sound but refused to turn back. "And what do you think you're doing covering your eyes?..."
"Oh..." Wormmon stuttered through his words, "I thought you two would be...playing..." Yamato's face steamed red.
The Kaiser rubbed his head as if he had a migraine, "Whatever, you can look...what is so important to disrupt our time together?" His gloved hand slowly reached for Yamato's but the blonde's fist waving in the air made Ken think twice.
Lifting his ears, Wormmon started to report, "The target has been found. All alone."
"Excellent!" Ken snatched his Kaiser glasses and fitted it over his face. "Now's my chance. You, keep him happy or you'll be Tyrannomon food." The Kaiser turned to his blonde prince and bowed, "We'll 'play' next time." Flipping his cape, he headed for the door.
Yamato was about to explode in frustration from the Kaiser's antics, "That's it! After I'm back to normal your ass is mine!" he shouted, waving both his fists wildly in the air.
The Kaiser peered from the corner of his eye, "I hoped that it was." Smiling, he disappeared through the door.
Yamato let his head fall limp, "He's a damn pervert..."
"He must really like you. He never smiles like that when I'm around..." Wormmon crawled beside the blonde and nestled on the warm sheets. "Anything you'll need, just ask."
"Uh, thanks... You're not like him are you?..." Wormmon just sighed from Yamato's question. Looking down on the green worm, Yamato notice lines that weren't part of the digimon's colourful markings. "Are those from...when you battled Tai and the others?" The scars were deep and from the looks of them, very recent.
Wormmon turned away from the gaze of the blue eyes. "No." The memories of the scars' origin started to flow back. The two sat in silence.
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"He's doing just fine." The Digimon Kaiser assured her from the head for AirDramon. Underneath him, Scythemon questioned Yamato's safety and had her scythe down. "So, do you agree to the terms?"
Scythemon's weary eyes were barely able to keep focus. The lack of sleep was becoming too much for her. "As long as Yamato is safe and returned safely."
"But of course. I wouldn't dream of hurting him." The Kaiser slipped out the dark spiral from his cape. "Hope you like your new bracelet."
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"How come I got stuck with the Digimental of Fear?" Daisuke whined. Miyako fiddled with her digi-egg of Doubt and Iori examined his egg of Ignorance.
"Of all the Digimentals to get, I get Despair. Kinda ironic isn't it?" Takeru stared at his digi-egg, but another thought was scratching his mind, Why do have it if I have the Crest of Hope... Hikari remained silent with her Digimental of Deceit.
"I guess only you guys can use the digi-eggs." Taichi was left empty-handed. He couldn't lift any of them and when he thought he was about to, his crest reacted violently.
"But you can always Warp-digivolve me Tai." Agumon tried to reassure his friend. Gabumon remained silent, being unable to digivolve fully without Yamato.
"Hmph, I never imagined the Digidestined being able to use the Darkdestined's power. You people are just full of surprises." Piedmon commented while leaning on a nearby tree. His wounds were limiting his movements.
A shadow cast over the children. Veemon looked up to the eclipsed sun to see he silhouette of a flying dragon. "We've got company Daisuke!"
"C'mon! Give me your best shot!" The Digimon Kaiser taunted from his abode on the dragon.
Taichi felt his blood boiling by the sight of the boy, "You bastard! Where's Matt?!" The Emperor just smiled to further aggravate Taichi. "Answer me!"
Gabumon was the next to demand his friend's whereabouts, "Tell me where he is! You better not have hurt him or you'll be sorry!"
"All right guys!" Daisuke lifted his new digi-egg, "Now's a good chance as any to test them out! Veemon!" The blue digimon quickly got to his partner's side. "Digimental power up!"
"Veemon, DarkArmour digivolve to...Yureimon! The Ghost of Fear!" His pale-blue body was transparent, only his black armour seen solid as rock.
"Hawkmon, DarkArmour digivolve to...Valkeriemon! The Archer of Doubt!" Wings sprouting from the head, the bird-woman readied her bow.
"Armadillamon, DarkArmour digivolve to...Spikemon! Bringer of Ignorance!" A giant porcupine type digimon with metal spikes readied its quills.
"Patamon, DarkArmour digivolve to...Shinimon! Harbringer of Despair!" A black-winged angel of death darkened the sky even further.
"Gatomon, DarkArmour digivolve to...Panthermon! Master of Deciet!" A figure with the head of a panther and a body of a human woman stood with blades petruding from her elbows.
"Uh, they look kinda mean..." Miyako muttered.
Daisuke took up the lead, "All right! Yureimon, go aft-!!" Daisuke jumped flat on his face away from the giant Spikemon's crashing foot. "Hey! Watch where you're go--WHOA!!" Yureimon almost ran into his partner as he readied his attack.
"SPIRIT CRUSHER!" Pure energy shot from his fists but the most suprising attack shocked all who witnessed it.
"MIND DRAIN!" Black lightning dissipated the two spirit shots. Scythemon absorbed the attack and readied her fists to strike back, "SPIRIT CRUSHER!" Unexpected by the retaliation, Yuriemon was hit head on.
"What the hell!..." Taichi and Piedmon both yelled at the same time. "Scythemon?!" Taichi demanded her attention, "What do you think you're doing?!"
She stood in front of the Kaiser; both her eyes blood red. "Scythemon, why don't you show them just how good you are." She nodded in submission to the Kaiser and jumped down from the flying dragon.
Piedmon caught sight of the sunlight reflecting off of the dark spiral on her wrist. "You didn't...Scythemon..."
Without warning, Shinimon readied his wings and moved in on the assult on the Angel of Death. Takeru was shocked when his digimon left on his own, "Shinimon! Don't attack! She's one of us!" Shinimon took no heed in his partner's words and spread his wings wide open for his attack.
"DEATH RAIN!" Hundreds of feathers shot out at the red-eyed Scythemon. She twirled her scythe to repel the attack but there were too many projectiles to hold off. The icy blades of the feathers pierced passed her face, arms and legs. Still she managed to stay standing against the five Armour digimons.
"Shinimon! What's wrong with you?! Don't attack!" Takeru yelled, but the digimon refused to listen. "What is going on... Shinimon, listen to me!!"
"You need to train your digimon better. Scythemon! Steal their souls!" The Kaiser ordered.
With one hand raised, she released her power from hell, "SOUL DRAIN!"
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He opened his eyes from the deep sleep he was in. Familiar voices echoed in his mind. That voice was calling again. The voice that invaded his dreams and his unconscious moments. But this time, he was awake; the voice had a form. "Wake up sleepy head."
"Huh..." Yamato's eyes widened by the sight of the blonde, with the same spiky hair, blue eyes, and the green turtle neck with dark blue jeans. "I must be going crazy." The double pinched his counterpart's arm. "Ow! What was that for?!"
"Well, you sure as ain't dreaming." The double responded.
Rubbing the pain, he looked at the face of himself with mouth opened, "Thanks for proving my IN-sanity."
"Hey, I told you I was coming to see you. I guessed he warmed up to you pretty fast." The double pointed to the sleeping Wormmon on Yamato's lap. "And you wonder why you got the Crest of Friendship."
Yamato stared at the tiny digimon. He didn't even notice he was cuddled with him; he was so comfortable to be with. "I don't know how this is happening but you've got some explaining to do like how you're even here in front of me Ya..Mat..."
"Just Yama is fine. Your name is my name anyways." Yama crossed his arms and paced around the giant bedroom. "If you don't know by now, I'm the Friendship that's inside you. I'm the reason why your crest glows when it does and gives you strength when you need it. Think of me as a guardian angel, or you're conscious." The double turned to his twin and only saw confusion troubling his face. "Hey, I'm just in physical form in the Digital World, as long as the crest is okay. Once you leave, I'll be back in you're head to annoy the heck out of you again." He gave a short chuckle and Yamato smiled back. But his face still sagged with confusion and sadness. "Despite what you feel, this is the right path you're taking. Don't get discouraged. You've taken Courage with you. Now you just need to acknowledge Friendship."
"Courage? What are you talking about? I wimped out of all the situations up to now." Yamato talked quiet enough to keep the green digimon asleep.
Yama smirked at him, "Who is the Keeper of Courage?"
The light bulb in Yamato's head flicked on, "Oh. I knew that." The last words he had said to Taichi echoed through his mind, "That jerk? Of all people I had to bring him?..."
Yama sat beside him, taking the other's hand in an attempt to comfort his self, "I know you're hurt by what happened. But give it time. He just didn't know how to react. After all, confessing love let alone saying you love another boy can leave anyone speechless."
"...I never expected to fall for a guy... I'm a freak for even feeling that way." Yamato clenched his fists not out of anger, but to release the frustration he always felt every time he saw the face of Taichi. "What am I gonna do?... I don't know if I can even see him face to face anymore. He doesn't....he.." Fresh tears dropped on the green digimon. Wormmon fluttered open his eyes and looked above to see the clenched eyes shedding sorrow.
"Yamato-sama? Are you all right?" Yamato opened his eyes to the concerned digimon. Wormmon moved in closer to the blonde and rubbed his head on his loose shirt, "Don't be sad. Ken wouldn't want you to cry." Yamato looked at him with watery eyes. He's been with this digimon for less than an hour and an enemy at that, but here he was, trying so hard to comfort the melancholic blonde. Yamato started to speak to his double image but he was gone. His eyes searched the room but only he and Wormmon occupied it.
Just then, the door creeped open again. The Digimon Kaiser appeared at the doorway, and the figure beside him cause Yamato to lose his breath, "Midori?!" Scythemon remained beside the Kaiser, taking a step whenever he did. Her eyes glowed red and injuries from what looked like a huge battle. "Midori, are you all right?" No response. "Damn it! What did you do to her?!" The flicker of lights on Scythemon's wrist answered his question.
"Don't worry. I wasn't the one who hurt her. Blame you're precious friends." the Kaiser explained. Yamato narrowed his eyes, causing the tears that locked on his eyes to over flow. Ken noticed immediately and rushed to the blonde's side. "What's wrong?! Are you hurt?-"
"Don't change the subject! What did you do to the others?"
Ken paid no attention to Yamato's demands and instead focused his rage on Wormmon, "I leave for one hour and you make him cry?!" He clenched his hand around the digimon's neck and threw him to the hard floor. "Why do I even bother with you?!" Reaching inside his cape, the Kaiser brought forth the weapon that made Wormmon cringe in sight of it. The Kaiser tightened and snapped the whip on the ground and readied for Wormmon's punishment.
Yamato's eyes widened as the Kaiser slammed his hand down and an unnatural snap filled the room. The cracks echoed two more times before Yamato could return from the shock, "What the hell are you doing?!!" His instincts told him to leap at the tormenter but the chain on his wrist wouldn't even let him get off a foot off the bed. "Stop it!! He didn't do anything!" The blur of the dark glove kept a constant rhythm, and the green digimon started to turn red. The unnatural markings from before started to match with the new scars. Yamato struggled with the chain, unable to bear witness the thrashing of an innocent life. "Stop it... You're going to kill him!!"
Wormmon made no attempt to move away. He stayed there, taking in the punishment he didn't ask for. The cracking whip shadowed tiny whimpers. The Kaiser said nothing and only grunts from releasing his power left his lips. The whip started to turn red and the Kaiser was ready for the final blow, "You worthless--"
A black hand clamped on the Emperor's wrist, where his hand held his prized weapon. "What?!" It was a death grip on his wrist; he was locked in a vice. His cold eyes came upon one red, the other, a light brown eye. Tears. There were tears stored, waiting to be released. Both boys were silent; Wormmon, curled up to await another hit, but relaxed when none came. His wet eyes looked up to the two figures towering over him. His master stood absolutely still, the other dark figure equally stiff as stone, but with a voice.
Scythemon squeezed so hard the Kaiser released the whip from the pain. She narrowed her eyes at him, and Yamato stared in silence. The dark spiral on her wrist was sparking with electricity. Her voice was quiet, but hard as an obsidian rock, "What do you think you're doing? How could you even lift your hand against him?..." The dark spiral erupted into a lightning rage against her arm. "He is loyal. He protected you from WarGreymon. He stayed by your side through all the abuse and you reward him by torturing him?!" She threw the arm away as if it was garbage. Kneeling down beside the bloody digimon, she lifted him gently into her arms.
Ken rubbed his sore wrist and started at his ex-slave in shock, "But, how...how did you..."
"He cares so much for you. You have someone, to protect you from your dark days, from your nightmares...from loneliness...." Tears dropped, and she rocked the digimon with such caution. Yamato was fixated on her eyes. They were back to their normal colours but it looked as if she was in a trance. A horrible dream playing over and over. "And you slap hatred in him?!" By now, the dark spiral lost its flashes of light, unable to keep Scythemon under its control. But another light took over.
The Crest of Loneliness emitted a black glow but still managed to illuminate the room. In resonance to its dark half, the Crest of Friendship around the Ken's neck burst into white light.
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The dark laboratory, filled with giant tubes and computers, hummed the music of technology. A crack echoed. Another. Another crack. The sound of glass shattering. From the broken glass tube, a humanoid figure stepped out. Drenched in the liquid that preserved his body, he turned to the sliver of light coming from the other side of the door.
A smile creeped to his face, "They're all here."
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The antipode of lights continued to clash with each other. Yamato felt his body changing from the two lights. He felt his strength coming back to him as his body began to grow to his rightful age.
But the Kaiser wasn't having such luck. "What is going on?!" he shouted. "What's happening...to..me..?!?!" He felt his head being torn apart, overloading with images that were all too familiar but distant. A purple haired boy. Another older boy with the same hair colour, wearing glasses. Playing. Slapping. Love shadowed by hate. The lifeless body. He was caged in by the white light and clutched his head in agony but the pain refused to subside. "Stop it....STOP--AAAAAHH!!!"
The scream snapped Scythemon out of her trance, "Huh- Wha, what's going on..." The black light was surrounding her, but she could see through to see the fragile body she was holding in her arms, "Wormmon?" Then the black light plunged her mind into torturous pain. Feelings kept hidden, memories she tried to forget emerged for her to live through again. The blonde she met. The day she met her protector. The day Scythemon was first born. The face of the evil, the Silver Angel that brought destruction. The teasing. Deaths. She didn't release the screams she held for so long.
Yamato had his share of the agony to deal with. Both lights encased his body, swirling violently as if they were fighting over him. He felt his heart become heavy and his head spinning out of control. Jealousy of his rival. Confusion of himself. Hate against life. Fear for his brother. The day he deflected from the others, the day he found hope in the dark cave. Memories he thought he had overcome began to spread like ripples in a pond. But there were other images he'd never seen before. Two purple-haired boy. One looked so much like the Kaiser with his glasses. Then death. Another was a girl, black hair, sitting in silence. Lonely and forgotten. He felt rage within her and a cage was the rage's home.
The figure from the glass tube stood at the doorway, smile intact. He watched as the fireworks started to dim. A wave of his hand, an invisible pressure slammed the four against the wall. The pressure was so strong the chain holding Yamato snapped like a twig. The lights disappeared and the three humans slowly recovered while Wormmon went unconscious. Yamato was the fist to get his bearings, and called on his friend, "Mi, dori...are you alright?" Scythemon rubbed her bleeding head and neck. She didn't bother to nod or answer; any movement would bring pain to her already beating head. Yamato crawled to her side, supporting her in any way he could. Lifting her to his chest, he saw Wormmon scrunched beneath her and an arm wrapped around him. She took the force of the blow for him... Gathering his two friends, his eyes wandered to the fallen Kaiser holding on to his blood drenched right arm. The blood matched the crimson that was splattered on the cracked wall. The mask was thrown from his face and now found at the feet of the attacker. Yamato saw the boy shift his eyes in front where his mask was and mumble something too soft to be heard, and fell unconscious.
"Wh--..." Yamato heard the gasp under him. He saw Midori staring with wide eyes to the doorway. Following her sight, Yamato landed on the source of Midori's alarm and held his breath.
The figure was a boy; left arm with the arm of much like Devimon's and the other made of wires and cables integrated through metal. The legs looked as if was made of wood and wrapped in scales. Two tails, one split into two whip-like blades and the other resembling a monkey, danced playfully. Fangs bared from his smile.
The hair was nostalgically purple. The eyes were painfully familiar.
Midori remembered.
"Itami......"
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What a cliffhanger huh?....Actually, not really -_- This part was pretty bad I think, hopefully the rest will be better. Things are going to turn more serious. I was told that the fics are funny, reading back I found some really stupid grammar mistakes *sweat drops* and it IS pretty funny. OMG I can write comedy that works--The world is coming to an end!!!!! Well, the humour is gonna dwindle but still there to liven the dark mood. Thanks again for reading and review away! (Don't mention all the grammar and inconsistent name uses--I'm fully aware of them and stressed enough about school to worry about that ^_~)
Ch. 6 will be out soon....hopefully.......
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I made a little mistake on Revelation 4-the figure in the glass tube was suppose to have PURPLE hair not silver. I must've thought of something else while writing. And I think I switched from "Tailmon" to "Gatomon"out of laziness probably (Shows how good of a writer I am). All these tests I have for school are screwing with my head _
WARNING: Once again, SHOUNEN AI! (BOYxBOY LOVE) and the warning seems to be working cause no flames.^_^ And no lemon in this (despite what the ending of ch.4 seems to lead to) but a little suggestive tidbits. After all, shounen ai's focus is on emotions. After surfing the net and reading fics a bit,(I hardly have any time reading), I can safely say, I'M THE FIRST TO WRITE KAISERxYAMATO/YAMATOxKEN/KENxYAMATO etc.!!!
I feel so special...unless there is someone out there who wrote about this couple before me...if that's the case, good for them but for me, D'OH!
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"Revelation 5: Resurrection"
By Cloud Ishida
"Izzy's e-mailed us. He says from what Tai heard from the fight with Kaiser and Matt, it seems as if the Kaiser has control of his bodily structure." Iori reported while reading off his D-Terminal. "Exactly how he's doing it, Izzy doesn't know."
"Shouldn't we be thinking of how to rescue him right now?" Daisuke inquired. Taichi nodded in agreement. "And where is Scythemon anyways?"
"Right here." The group turned around to the direction of the voice. Piedmon was relieved she didn't do anything rash. "You need me for something?"
Taichi walked towards her, remembering his harsh words to her from before, "I'm, sorry for what I've said before. I was just worried about Matt and-"
"Don't bother. You don't need to apologize for speaking the truth." She spoke with no emotion. Taichi tried to apologize again but was cut off by her glare. "I said there is no need." Focusing her attention to the Digidestined, she revealed her digi-eggs from her black digivice. "I assume Yamato's told you about these. Today's fight showed the Kaiser's slaves are gaining more power. You need more power." She laid the five digi-eggs on the ground before the children. "Take your pick."
Miyak inspected each one, "You mean, you want us to have them?"
"If you can lift them." she simply replied. Daisuke tried for the mechanical-looking digi-egg but it didn't even move a bit.
"Hold on a minute. If these are the DarkDestined's digimentals, then how are they supposed to lift it?" Taichi questioned the idea.
"The Digimental doesn't distinguish between Digi and Darkdestined." She pointed to the Armour DigiDestined. "You can try too Taichi-san. You just have to have the emotion or experience related to the digimental."
"Well, who's going first?" Daisuke hollered. Taichi took up the challenge and reached for the digi-egg with the velvet covering. With only an arm's length away from the egg, a glow from Taichi's chest repelled him backward onto Daisuke. "Ow! What the heck was that?" Daisuke asked as he tried to push off the heavy Taichi.
"Whoa Tai! Are you all right?" Agumon helped his partner up while Gabumon and Veemon picked up Daisuke.
Taichi took out from underneath his shirt the source for the attack, "My crest...it's reacting to something..."
Scythemon checked carefully over the digi-egg of Fear and no scratches were on it. "It seems that your Crest of Courage is resisting the Digimental of Fear. You should avoid it and try the other ones." With that, she turned to leave the Digidestined to their task.
"Scythemon, where are you going?" Piedmon asked with concern. She continued on in silence.
"Scythemon, if your still mad about what I said earlier-" Taichi trailed off.
She didn't answer and returned to the forest.
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I shouldn't be here... Yamato sat on the grand bed of the most beautiful bedroom he had ever seen. "This is so humiliating..." His wrist was chained to the bedpost and too short for him to even get off the bed.
"What's humiliating?" Yamato turned to the source of the voice. Ken stood over him, his mask absent from his face. His eyes were in a cold shade of blue, but something about them gave off a gentle radiance. "You look even cuter when you're my age."
Yamato almost forgot about that. Ken had turned him into the kid he was when he first came to the Digital World. "You are so dead." Yamato threatened with a deathly glare.
Ken just smiled back, "It's worth it."
The smile was threw Yamato off guard, "You are the Digimon Kaiser right? Shouldn't you be killing me or torturing me?" His voice was full of sarcasm.
"Hehe, funny." Ken leaned in closer and Yamato drew farther back, "It's not like I'm gonna bite...hard." He finished with a snicker. Hand caressing the blonde's chin, Ken started to move in for the touch of the other boy's lips. But instead of the feeling of soft skin, his face met with very stiff and white knuckles. His cheek stung from the hit and rubbed it to dispel the pain. "Ow...it shouldn't hurt this much if I took away your strength..."
Yamato continued to crack his knuckles, "Desperation brings miracles." he said with a smug look.
The door to his chambers started to open. From the small crack of opening, Wormmon crawled slowly inside, his long ears draped over his eyes. "Sorry to interrupt Master but-"
"I told you I don't want to be disturbed!" The Kaiser yelled in full force. Wormmon cringed from the sound but refused to turn back. "And what do you think you're doing covering your eyes?..."
"Oh..." Wormmon stuttered through his words, "I thought you two would be...playing..." Yamato's face steamed red.
The Kaiser rubbed his head as if he had a migraine, "Whatever, you can look...what is so important to disrupt our time together?" His gloved hand slowly reached for Yamato's but the blonde's fist waving in the air made Ken think twice.
Lifting his ears, Wormmon started to report, "The target has been found. All alone."
"Excellent!" Ken snatched his Kaiser glasses and fitted it over his face. "Now's my chance. You, keep him happy or you'll be Tyrannomon food." The Kaiser turned to his blonde prince and bowed, "We'll 'play' next time." Flipping his cape, he headed for the door.
Yamato was about to explode in frustration from the Kaiser's antics, "That's it! After I'm back to normal your ass is mine!" he shouted, waving both his fists wildly in the air.
The Kaiser peered from the corner of his eye, "I hoped that it was." Smiling, he disappeared through the door.
Yamato let his head fall limp, "He's a damn pervert..."
"He must really like you. He never smiles like that when I'm around..." Wormmon crawled beside the blonde and nestled on the warm sheets. "Anything you'll need, just ask."
"Uh, thanks... You're not like him are you?..." Wormmon just sighed from Yamato's question. Looking down on the green worm, Yamato notice lines that weren't part of the digimon's colourful markings. "Are those from...when you battled Tai and the others?" The scars were deep and from the looks of them, very recent.
Wormmon turned away from the gaze of the blue eyes. "No." The memories of the scars' origin started to flow back. The two sat in silence.
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"He's doing just fine." The Digimon Kaiser assured her from the head for AirDramon. Underneath him, Scythemon questioned Yamato's safety and had her scythe down. "So, do you agree to the terms?"
Scythemon's weary eyes were barely able to keep focus. The lack of sleep was becoming too much for her. "As long as Yamato is safe and returned safely."
"But of course. I wouldn't dream of hurting him." The Kaiser slipped out the dark spiral from his cape. "Hope you like your new bracelet."
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"How come I got stuck with the Digimental of Fear?" Daisuke whined. Miyako fiddled with her digi-egg of Doubt and Iori examined his egg of Ignorance.
"Of all the Digimentals to get, I get Despair. Kinda ironic isn't it?" Takeru stared at his digi-egg, but another thought was scratching his mind, Why do have it if I have the Crest of Hope... Hikari remained silent with her Digimental of Deceit.
"I guess only you guys can use the digi-eggs." Taichi was left empty-handed. He couldn't lift any of them and when he thought he was about to, his crest reacted violently.
"But you can always Warp-digivolve me Tai." Agumon tried to reassure his friend. Gabumon remained silent, being unable to digivolve fully without Yamato.
"Hmph, I never imagined the Digidestined being able to use the Darkdestined's power. You people are just full of surprises." Piedmon commented while leaning on a nearby tree. His wounds were limiting his movements.
A shadow cast over the children. Veemon looked up to the eclipsed sun to see he silhouette of a flying dragon. "We've got company Daisuke!"
"C'mon! Give me your best shot!" The Digimon Kaiser taunted from his abode on the dragon.
Taichi felt his blood boiling by the sight of the boy, "You bastard! Where's Matt?!" The Emperor just smiled to further aggravate Taichi. "Answer me!"
Gabumon was the next to demand his friend's whereabouts, "Tell me where he is! You better not have hurt him or you'll be sorry!"
"All right guys!" Daisuke lifted his new digi-egg, "Now's a good chance as any to test them out! Veemon!" The blue digimon quickly got to his partner's side. "Digimental power up!"
"Veemon, DarkArmour digivolve to...Yureimon! The Ghost of Fear!" His pale-blue body was transparent, only his black armour seen solid as rock.
"Hawkmon, DarkArmour digivolve to...Valkeriemon! The Archer of Doubt!" Wings sprouting from the head, the bird-woman readied her bow.
"Armadillamon, DarkArmour digivolve to...Spikemon! Bringer of Ignorance!" A giant porcupine type digimon with metal spikes readied its quills.
"Patamon, DarkArmour digivolve to...Shinimon! Harbringer of Despair!" A black-winged angel of death darkened the sky even further.
"Gatomon, DarkArmour digivolve to...Panthermon! Master of Deciet!" A figure with the head of a panther and a body of a human woman stood with blades petruding from her elbows.
"Uh, they look kinda mean..." Miyako muttered.
Daisuke took up the lead, "All right! Yureimon, go aft-!!" Daisuke jumped flat on his face away from the giant Spikemon's crashing foot. "Hey! Watch where you're go--WHOA!!" Yureimon almost ran into his partner as he readied his attack.
"SPIRIT CRUSHER!" Pure energy shot from his fists but the most suprising attack shocked all who witnessed it.
"MIND DRAIN!" Black lightning dissipated the two spirit shots. Scythemon absorbed the attack and readied her fists to strike back, "SPIRIT CRUSHER!" Unexpected by the retaliation, Yuriemon was hit head on.
"What the hell!..." Taichi and Piedmon both yelled at the same time. "Scythemon?!" Taichi demanded her attention, "What do you think you're doing?!"
She stood in front of the Kaiser; both her eyes blood red. "Scythemon, why don't you show them just how good you are." She nodded in submission to the Kaiser and jumped down from the flying dragon.
Piedmon caught sight of the sunlight reflecting off of the dark spiral on her wrist. "You didn't...Scythemon..."
Without warning, Shinimon readied his wings and moved in on the assult on the Angel of Death. Takeru was shocked when his digimon left on his own, "Shinimon! Don't attack! She's one of us!" Shinimon took no heed in his partner's words and spread his wings wide open for his attack.
"DEATH RAIN!" Hundreds of feathers shot out at the red-eyed Scythemon. She twirled her scythe to repel the attack but there were too many projectiles to hold off. The icy blades of the feathers pierced passed her face, arms and legs. Still she managed to stay standing against the five Armour digimons.
"Shinimon! What's wrong with you?! Don't attack!" Takeru yelled, but the digimon refused to listen. "What is going on... Shinimon, listen to me!!"
"You need to train your digimon better. Scythemon! Steal their souls!" The Kaiser ordered.
With one hand raised, she released her power from hell, "SOUL DRAIN!"
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He opened his eyes from the deep sleep he was in. Familiar voices echoed in his mind. That voice was calling again. The voice that invaded his dreams and his unconscious moments. But this time, he was awake; the voice had a form. "Wake up sleepy head."
"Huh..." Yamato's eyes widened by the sight of the blonde, with the same spiky hair, blue eyes, and the green turtle neck with dark blue jeans. "I must be going crazy." The double pinched his counterpart's arm. "Ow! What was that for?!"
"Well, you sure as ain't dreaming." The double responded.
Rubbing the pain, he looked at the face of himself with mouth opened, "Thanks for proving my IN-sanity."
"Hey, I told you I was coming to see you. I guessed he warmed up to you pretty fast." The double pointed to the sleeping Wormmon on Yamato's lap. "And you wonder why you got the Crest of Friendship."
Yamato stared at the tiny digimon. He didn't even notice he was cuddled with him; he was so comfortable to be with. "I don't know how this is happening but you've got some explaining to do like how you're even here in front of me Ya..Mat..."
"Just Yama is fine. Your name is my name anyways." Yama crossed his arms and paced around the giant bedroom. "If you don't know by now, I'm the Friendship that's inside you. I'm the reason why your crest glows when it does and gives you strength when you need it. Think of me as a guardian angel, or you're conscious." The double turned to his twin and only saw confusion troubling his face. "Hey, I'm just in physical form in the Digital World, as long as the crest is okay. Once you leave, I'll be back in you're head to annoy the heck out of you again." He gave a short chuckle and Yamato smiled back. But his face still sagged with confusion and sadness. "Despite what you feel, this is the right path you're taking. Don't get discouraged. You've taken Courage with you. Now you just need to acknowledge Friendship."
"Courage? What are you talking about? I wimped out of all the situations up to now." Yamato talked quiet enough to keep the green digimon asleep.
Yama smirked at him, "Who is the Keeper of Courage?"
The light bulb in Yamato's head flicked on, "Oh. I knew that." The last words he had said to Taichi echoed through his mind, "That jerk? Of all people I had to bring him?..."
Yama sat beside him, taking the other's hand in an attempt to comfort his self, "I know you're hurt by what happened. But give it time. He just didn't know how to react. After all, confessing love let alone saying you love another boy can leave anyone speechless."
"...I never expected to fall for a guy... I'm a freak for even feeling that way." Yamato clenched his fists not out of anger, but to release the frustration he always felt every time he saw the face of Taichi. "What am I gonna do?... I don't know if I can even see him face to face anymore. He doesn't....he.." Fresh tears dropped on the green digimon. Wormmon fluttered open his eyes and looked above to see the clenched eyes shedding sorrow.
"Yamato-sama? Are you all right?" Yamato opened his eyes to the concerned digimon. Wormmon moved in closer to the blonde and rubbed his head on his loose shirt, "Don't be sad. Ken wouldn't want you to cry." Yamato looked at him with watery eyes. He's been with this digimon for less than an hour and an enemy at that, but here he was, trying so hard to comfort the melancholic blonde. Yamato started to speak to his double image but he was gone. His eyes searched the room but only he and Wormmon occupied it.
Just then, the door creeped open again. The Digimon Kaiser appeared at the doorway, and the figure beside him cause Yamato to lose his breath, "Midori?!" Scythemon remained beside the Kaiser, taking a step whenever he did. Her eyes glowed red and injuries from what looked like a huge battle. "Midori, are you all right?" No response. "Damn it! What did you do to her?!" The flicker of lights on Scythemon's wrist answered his question.
"Don't worry. I wasn't the one who hurt her. Blame you're precious friends." the Kaiser explained. Yamato narrowed his eyes, causing the tears that locked on his eyes to over flow. Ken noticed immediately and rushed to the blonde's side. "What's wrong?! Are you hurt?-"
"Don't change the subject! What did you do to the others?"
Ken paid no attention to Yamato's demands and instead focused his rage on Wormmon, "I leave for one hour and you make him cry?!" He clenched his hand around the digimon's neck and threw him to the hard floor. "Why do I even bother with you?!" Reaching inside his cape, the Kaiser brought forth the weapon that made Wormmon cringe in sight of it. The Kaiser tightened and snapped the whip on the ground and readied for Wormmon's punishment.
Yamato's eyes widened as the Kaiser slammed his hand down and an unnatural snap filled the room. The cracks echoed two more times before Yamato could return from the shock, "What the hell are you doing?!!" His instincts told him to leap at the tormenter but the chain on his wrist wouldn't even let him get off a foot off the bed. "Stop it!! He didn't do anything!" The blur of the dark glove kept a constant rhythm, and the green digimon started to turn red. The unnatural markings from before started to match with the new scars. Yamato struggled with the chain, unable to bear witness the thrashing of an innocent life. "Stop it... You're going to kill him!!"
Wormmon made no attempt to move away. He stayed there, taking in the punishment he didn't ask for. The cracking whip shadowed tiny whimpers. The Kaiser said nothing and only grunts from releasing his power left his lips. The whip started to turn red and the Kaiser was ready for the final blow, "You worthless--"
A black hand clamped on the Emperor's wrist, where his hand held his prized weapon. "What?!" It was a death grip on his wrist; he was locked in a vice. His cold eyes came upon one red, the other, a light brown eye. Tears. There were tears stored, waiting to be released. Both boys were silent; Wormmon, curled up to await another hit, but relaxed when none came. His wet eyes looked up to the two figures towering over him. His master stood absolutely still, the other dark figure equally stiff as stone, but with a voice.
Scythemon squeezed so hard the Kaiser released the whip from the pain. She narrowed her eyes at him, and Yamato stared in silence. The dark spiral on her wrist was sparking with electricity. Her voice was quiet, but hard as an obsidian rock, "What do you think you're doing? How could you even lift your hand against him?..." The dark spiral erupted into a lightning rage against her arm. "He is loyal. He protected you from WarGreymon. He stayed by your side through all the abuse and you reward him by torturing him?!" She threw the arm away as if it was garbage. Kneeling down beside the bloody digimon, she lifted him gently into her arms.
Ken rubbed his sore wrist and started at his ex-slave in shock, "But, how...how did you..."
"He cares so much for you. You have someone, to protect you from your dark days, from your nightmares...from loneliness...." Tears dropped, and she rocked the digimon with such caution. Yamato was fixated on her eyes. They were back to their normal colours but it looked as if she was in a trance. A horrible dream playing over and over. "And you slap hatred in him?!" By now, the dark spiral lost its flashes of light, unable to keep Scythemon under its control. But another light took over.
The Crest of Loneliness emitted a black glow but still managed to illuminate the room. In resonance to its dark half, the Crest of Friendship around the Ken's neck burst into white light.
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The dark laboratory, filled with giant tubes and computers, hummed the music of technology. A crack echoed. Another. Another crack. The sound of glass shattering. From the broken glass tube, a humanoid figure stepped out. Drenched in the liquid that preserved his body, he turned to the sliver of light coming from the other side of the door.
A smile creeped to his face, "They're all here."
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The antipode of lights continued to clash with each other. Yamato felt his body changing from the two lights. He felt his strength coming back to him as his body began to grow to his rightful age.
But the Kaiser wasn't having such luck. "What is going on?!" he shouted. "What's happening...to..me..?!?!" He felt his head being torn apart, overloading with images that were all too familiar but distant. A purple haired boy. Another older boy with the same hair colour, wearing glasses. Playing. Slapping. Love shadowed by hate. The lifeless body. He was caged in by the white light and clutched his head in agony but the pain refused to subside. "Stop it....STOP--AAAAAHH!!!"
The scream snapped Scythemon out of her trance, "Huh- Wha, what's going on..." The black light was surrounding her, but she could see through to see the fragile body she was holding in her arms, "Wormmon?" Then the black light plunged her mind into torturous pain. Feelings kept hidden, memories she tried to forget emerged for her to live through again. The blonde she met. The day she met her protector. The day Scythemon was first born. The face of the evil, the Silver Angel that brought destruction. The teasing. Deaths. She didn't release the screams she held for so long.
Yamato had his share of the agony to deal with. Both lights encased his body, swirling violently as if they were fighting over him. He felt his heart become heavy and his head spinning out of control. Jealousy of his rival. Confusion of himself. Hate against life. Fear for his brother. The day he deflected from the others, the day he found hope in the dark cave. Memories he thought he had overcome began to spread like ripples in a pond. But there were other images he'd never seen before. Two purple-haired boy. One looked so much like the Kaiser with his glasses. Then death. Another was a girl, black hair, sitting in silence. Lonely and forgotten. He felt rage within her and a cage was the rage's home.
The figure from the glass tube stood at the doorway, smile intact. He watched as the fireworks started to dim. A wave of his hand, an invisible pressure slammed the four against the wall. The pressure was so strong the chain holding Yamato snapped like a twig. The lights disappeared and the three humans slowly recovered while Wormmon went unconscious. Yamato was the fist to get his bearings, and called on his friend, "Mi, dori...are you alright?" Scythemon rubbed her bleeding head and neck. She didn't bother to nod or answer; any movement would bring pain to her already beating head. Yamato crawled to her side, supporting her in any way he could. Lifting her to his chest, he saw Wormmon scrunched beneath her and an arm wrapped around him. She took the force of the blow for him... Gathering his two friends, his eyes wandered to the fallen Kaiser holding on to his blood drenched right arm. The blood matched the crimson that was splattered on the cracked wall. The mask was thrown from his face and now found at the feet of the attacker. Yamato saw the boy shift his eyes in front where his mask was and mumble something too soft to be heard, and fell unconscious.
"Wh--..." Yamato heard the gasp under him. He saw Midori staring with wide eyes to the doorway. Following her sight, Yamato landed on the source of Midori's alarm and held his breath.
The figure was a boy; left arm with the arm of much like Devimon's and the other made of wires and cables integrated through metal. The legs looked as if was made of wood and wrapped in scales. Two tails, one split into two whip-like blades and the other resembling a monkey, danced playfully. Fangs bared from his smile.
The hair was nostalgically purple. The eyes were painfully familiar.
Midori remembered.
"Itami......"
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What a cliffhanger huh?....Actually, not really -_- This part was pretty bad I think, hopefully the rest will be better. Things are going to turn more serious. I was told that the fics are funny, reading back I found some really stupid grammar mistakes *sweat drops* and it IS pretty funny. OMG I can write comedy that works--The world is coming to an end!!!!! Well, the humour is gonna dwindle but still there to liven the dark mood. Thanks again for reading and review away! (Don't mention all the grammar and inconsistent name uses--I'm fully aware of them and stressed enough about school to worry about that ^_~)
Ch. 6 will be out soon....hopefully.......