Disclaimer:I don't own Digimon. That should be obvious by now^^;;
Whoa, how long has it been? I really need to get off my lazy, stressed-out butt and write more but with school and a website to look after, I'm too tired to do anything>_< Enough of the complaining, I know no one wants to hear it, so on with the fic!
WARNING: Yaoi (mostly, a kiss) and use of language (like mild swearing and stuff)
Note: italics=thoughts
By Cloud Ishida
"This is unbelievable." Itami sighed in irritation.
The blonde boy, wearing blue and white tights, iron armlets and anklets gleaming in sunlight. The whip retracted to his hand, flexing it back and forth in a snake-like dance. He spoke, "How would you like to die?" Digimon Kaiser, Yamato asked casually.
"Oh my god... Matt..." Taichi couldn't believe it. The boy he knew for so long, the one his feelings laid towards, wearing the clothes of evil..... "Matt! Don't..." He didn't know what to say.
"Don't what? Don't kill this bastard for killing Midori? For him relishing in her death? To have him get away for murdering seven other kids for power?!" Yamato growled in a ferocity Taichi never witnessed in his life. "He will pay... Everyone will pay." He let his whip loose to the ground, facing Itami once more, "You want this power, so fight for it."
"First that sniveling coward, then the bitch, now the bastart of a blonde. I'm growing tired of seeing worthless fools gaining such prestigious powers. And that will all end on your head." Itami charged his arm again, sprites of energy gathering for and other stream of light.
Taichi and the others watched in silence, the battle to come was about to begin. Ken couldn't believe what was happening. Yamato truely was a Kaiser, like him, and falling into the trap of vengence and power, like he did. Daisuke noticed Ken's anxiety, and placed a comforting hand on his shoulder, "Everything will turn out right," Ken stared at Daisuke, "you'll see." The false confidence of Daisuke's determination assured Ken, just a little. Taichi, however, had too many emotions spiraling through his head. How could you Matt... Iori tended the digimon's wounds.
Itami readied his cannon, "RIVER OF POWER!!!" The intense beam shrieked through the sky but Yamato dared not move an inch out of place. The beam headed straight for him, never letting up speed.
When the beam was only a couple of feet away, Yamato raised his arm and chanted, "MIND DRAIN!!!" The River of Power shattered into thousands of smaller rays, intertwinding around the young Kaiser, asorbing into a ball at his palm. "You're making it too easy." Another ball of light, this time black, formed in his other palm, and placed it inside the white light. Once the ball of light gained full size, he was ready to release it, "BLACK RIVER OF POWER!!!"
A ray of intense darkness shot from his hand, even faster than the original attack, catching Itami off guard, "What?!?!" It was too late to react. The black beam pierced through his shoulder, severing the metal cannon arm from his body. Black oil and crimson blood oozed out from the open wound, the sound of metal echoing through the air. "How... How can this happen?.." Raising his Devimon hand, he poised to strike the blonde, "That power will be mine one way or another!!" Spreading his black wings, Itami dived in rage at the smiling boy. He was successful in his tackle and knocked the blonde to the rocky ground, but the smile never left his lips, "What are you sneering about?!"
Yamato's hand shot up to Itami's neck and squeezed without mercy. Itami clenched with his one hand at the blonde's arm but couldn't remove it. Yamato slowly stood, raising the hybrid monster in the air, "You don't get it, do you? I am the Digimon Kaiser, the TRUE Digimon Kaiser. You were just a pawn, a pawn for me to gain what is rightfully mine! Midori and Ken, they were Kaisers, but played their role for me to gain my power. But you had to kill her, kill all those she cared for." With every word, Yamato tightened his grip, and Itami could feel his lungs being severed from the much needed air. "And now that I have my powers, you are of no use to me." A maniacal laugh echoed from the blonde, a crunch of bone piercing through it. Yamato threw the limp body to the ground, dusting his gloved hands on his legs. "I hoped you would have fought back more." Foot raised, he slammed down on his dead oppenent's face, and blood followed.
Armadillomon covered Iori's eyes from the gruesome sight, the rest staring in silence. Ken gasped in horror, Daisuke sheltering him in his arms. Yamato turned to the four boys and their digimon, and headed straight for them. Taichi stood his ground, trying to find words to say, "Matt.... Yamato, come back. Don't be that monster...."
"Shut up Tai." Yamato bursted out. "Are you jealous of what I've become? I finally have the power, to help others, to help myself. If I had power, I could've saved Midori, she would be alive now. But I was too weak, like I always was..." He continued to march on. "Don't think you can run my life, I've finally changed. Why do you always have to get in my way to changing myself?!" He screamed the last question out.
"Matt, you are not a killer. That power is an illusion, just leave it behind and be the true--"
Yamato was only inches away from Taichi, glaring down at the soft, brown eyes, "You're just saying that to get rid of competition."
"What?!" Taichi had no clue to what this was leading to.
"You, my rival..." Yamato sneered out. Gabumon's ears perked up, Rival?! "You have no idea how I feel. You changed, T.K. and the others changed, but I never did. I was the same jerk I always was!" Gabumon's eyes widened by those words, the exact words used before in the past. "But now, with this," The blonde raised his glowing hand, "I can be what ever I want to be. I'm not the fifth wheel anymore!"
A snap of a twig caught the Kaiser's attention. Daisuke was leading Ken away from the new enemy. The moment his eyes laid upon the had-been Kaiser, he completely forgot about the fight with Taichi and took a leap and landed right in front of the fleeing two. "Matt," Daisuke started, "don't do anything you'll regret later..."
Without warning, Yamato clasped Ken's arm, pulling the boy towards him and Daisuke losing his grip. "We have some unfinished buisness, don't we?" Before Ken could answer back, his lips were covered by the other. Taichi's heart skipped a few beats from the sight before him, If you're trying to make me jealous Matt...it's working.
"Tai," Gabumon started, "it maybe just me, but, he's acting like the old Matt..." Taichi blinked at him in confusion. "All those things he said, they were exactly what he was so depressed about three years ago, when he went his own way in the Forest of Delusion..."
"Whatever he's going through, I want his lips off of Ken." Taichi marched to the two, Yamato finally releasing his hold of Ken. Daisuke just stood in shock from the kiss out of nowhere.
Ken's face was full of shock, and Yamato just smiled back at him, "Why the face? You wanted to do it before, in your bedroom..." Ken tried to push away, feeling his cheek warming from the touch. Seeing the struggle, Daisuke ran between them, knocking Yamato and himself to the ground. "What do you think you are doing?!" Yamato puched Daisuke in the stomach, and the boy faltered back towards Ken. Yamato released his whip once more, snapping it in front of Daisuke, and drawing closer to release the pain of the whip.
"That's enough!" Taichi shouted from behind the two boys. He pulled the Daisuke and Ken behind him, waving to them to go back. "I don't know what you're trying to pull, but this isn't the Matt I know."
"Like I said, I've changed....for the better don't you think? Now, out of my way!" Yamato snapped his whip around Taichi's neck, pulling as hard as he could, "Why looking so angry? You can't be jealous of my little kiss with Ken, you don't give a crap about me anyway!" With the last word, he threw his victim across the air, landing in a thorny bush. The sharp thorns scratched and cut Taichi's skin, but he wouldn't show the pain to the blonde. "I've learned the only one you can count on, is yourself. Loneliness is the best way to keep from getting hurt..."
"That's it!!" Everyone turned to Daisuke, his digivice glowing black, "V-mon! Digimental Power Up!!!"
V-mon had little time to react, the black light already engulfing him in it's cocoon. "V-MON, DARK ARMOUR DIGIVOLVE TO... YUREIMON! THE GHOST OF FEAR!!" The pale blue digimon from before was back, ready to fight.
"All right Yureimon," Daisuke took his place beside his partner, "let's do it right this time!" Yureimon wasted no time and dashed at the surprised Kaiser, making him lose grip on his whip. Taichi coughed to catch air again, rubbing his neck of burn marks left behind by the whip. "Take him down Yureimon!!" Daisuke urged his digimon.
"SOUL CRUSHER!!!" A cloud of blue, nightmare faces on every corner flashed out of his mouth, hitting flat against Yamato. The impact threw him to the ground, his arm turning red.
"Looks like you aren't the strongest Matt!" Daisuke laughed.
Gripping his shoulder, Yamato pulled back his whip, "That's Digimon Kaiser fool..." Yamato decided to retaliate, sprinting straight on Yureimon, who was getting ready for the impact. "You can't beat me that easily--"
"MATT!!!"
The voice that stayed with Yamato through thick and thin emerged.
"Matt!" Gabumon stood right in front of him, staring with soft eyes, "You are not alone. Remember?"
"...." Yamato froze in front of him, "Don't get in the way Gabumon. I don't want to hurt you." He raised his hand to the sky, grinning at the digimon of fear, "But for him, BLACK THUNDER!!!" The sky turned into a sea of storm clouds, electricity released from his hand. Right above Yureimon, a column of lightning formed, striking down on the ghostly digimon.
A loud roar pierced through ears, Yureimon dropped to the ground in a loud thump. He could still move, but with pain in every part of his body. Daisuke rushed to his partner's side, asking questions of well-being. "I can, still fight...Daisuke." Yureimon huffed out, and he stood once again, slowly, but surely. Yamato had a bit of a surprise that the digimon could still be alive after such a hit, Those Dark Digimentals, they're stronger than I thought... Standing in front of his partner, the ghost digimon turned his head slightly, "Daisuke, get out of here while I distract him."
"Are you joking?! I'm not gonna leave you here all alone!" Daisuke yelled out. Yureimon made a small smile, glad the loyalty he had to his partner worked both ways.
"He's right..." Taichi leaned on Ken, who, with Iori, helped carry him to Daisuke's side, "...we can't do anything right now..." Taichi's clothes were torn everywhere by the thorns, Agumon winced at the pain his partner was making.
Gabumon walked out of the group, and everyone's eyes laid on him, "Go, I'll stall Matt."
"Gabumon?! He's too strong for you!" Daisuke was getting alarmed by the second.
"He won't hurt me, he didn't hurt me before. And it will be hard for just Digmon to carry all of you. You'll need Yureimon to fly you all to safety." The horned digimon faced away from the group, straight towards Yamato.
Taichi placed a hand on the digimon's shoulder, "Stay alive Gabumon, do what ever it takes..." With that, Yureimon carried Taichi and Daisuke in his arms, while Armadillomon armour digivolved to Digmon and carried Iori and Ken.
Yamato wouldn't allow them to flee so easily, and readied his hand for another thunder storm. "You won't get away---!!" His sentence was cut short by the sight of Gabumon. "Gabumon, what are you doing? Shouldn't you be trying to leave with them?" His raised hand slightly faltered, anticipating the answer from his former partner that would make him all alone in the worlds.
"I won't leave you Matt."
Yamato blinked.
"Remember, I told you. Friendship, loyalty, they are much more than words. They are real. I promised I'd stay by your side...no matter what." Gabumon extended a paw, hoping to reach Yamato.
In the corner of his mask, Yamato could see the others fading into the horizon, but he wouldn't dare go past Gabumon, his best friend. "After the path I chose, you'll still be with me?"
"I promised Matt. I never break my promises with you. You are my best friend, no matter what path you choose. I have faith in you." All was silent, Yamato let a drop of tear fall. "If you feel you need to do this Matt, do it."
Yamato dropped to his knees, letting the full power of his tears fall, "I...I didn't want to turn out like this...."
"What are we suppose to do now?..." Daisuke paced back and forth. The digimon were back to their Rookie states and the humans all worried. "Who would've thought Matt would..."
Betray us? Taichi couldn't stop thinking of him, the way he changed. How could you do this to us?.... To me... "We need to move on."
"Huh?" Iori looked up from his D-Terminal, "But, what about Matt?"
"We can't do anything about him now!" Taichi's voice thundered with fustration, "....sorry, but we can't do anything... Kari and the others need us for the moment, we'll get that over with."
Everyone nodded slowly, knowing it would be dangerous to go against Taichi's orders. Daisuke sat beside Ken, who was staring at his armlet, reflecting the sun's rays. "What is that?" Daisuke asked.
"It's the personal computer I made, when I was... the Kaiser..." He mumbled out the last words.
"Oh, what's it for?" Curiosity got he better of Daisuke.
Ken took a deep breath, remember from the past events, "I used it to get Yamato....to me..." A slight blush formed on his cheeks, and Daisuke noticed. "At that time where I attacked you before, I made Yamato blind, so that he would be easier to capture..."
Taichi's head lifted from it's saggy state, "What?!"
"Wait!.. I didn't mean to... I just... I..." Ken stuttered out, remembering the blush on Yamato's cheeks when Taichi's name was said. "It was when I was the Kaiser, I won't do it anymore..."
"Oh yes you will." All eyes were on Taichi, "How did you do it?"
"I, I altered his data sequence, what Earth would call DNA, to change him. All the data is in his crest..."
"Do you still have it with you? Matt's crest?"
Ken pulled on the string from his school uniform, and the cracked Crest of Friendship twirled in mid-air.
Taichi couldn't help but smile, "We may have a chance..." And he should have regenerated to an egg by now...
"Tai?" Daisuke started, "Would you like to share with the rest of us?"
"We should move fast.... Alright, change of plans." Their leader called for everyone to huddle close, "We'll need as much help as we can get. Daisuke, you and Ken go to Primary Village, find Wormmon and come to the ruins."
Ken's eyes widened, "What, are you talking about?..." Everyone else had the same question in mind.
"Trust me Ken, you don't need to be mourning anymore." Taichi grinned his seal of promise, and Ken responded with his own. "Iori and I will go ahead to the ruins, since Kari and the others asked for me and.... well, me." He turned to the two young destined, "I want you guys to work as fast as possible, I'll explain everything when we're all together again."
"I hope they get here soon." Miyako muttered out. "Any luck with the door?"
Takeru leaned against the door after dozen attempts to open it, "Nope, we're gonna need Tai and Matt." He caught Hikari, sitting in the corner, and walked over to the sad looking girl, "Anything wrong?"
Hikari looked up to the blonde haired boy, "Just thinking."
He sat down beside her, "About what?"
"...The digi-eggs, the Dark Digimentals."
"You and me both. Midori said an opposite crest would prevent anyone from using it but..." He switched on his D-3 to the image of the Digimental of Despair, "Who knew?"
And I got the Digimental of Deceit... "T.K., what Daisuke, said before we left... and me getting the Egg of Deceit... I need to tell you something."
Takeru met her eyes, and they were serious, "What is it? What's wrong?"
"......." Hesitation locked the words in her throat, "....I know, you two have feelings.... for me."
A slight crimson started to glow on Takeru's cheeks. "Oh...um..I..."
"But, I don't know, if I do." Takeru remained silent. "I....I played along, the flirting and stuff, with both of you and Daisuke... I was deceiving you two because..... I didn't know what I was feeling..."
"Kari..." He layed his hand on hers.
"I didn't know, if what I was feeling was out of friendship.... or love." She stared at the floor, until a gentle hand lifted her head to see the other's blue eyes. "T.K... I didn't want our friendship to be broken by mistakes..."
"To tell you the truth... I thought I already lost you to him.... I thought you wanted to be with him so....." He leaned in close, taking her in his arms, "I was losing hope, hope that I could be with you."
Hikari gripped the blonde's shirt, smiling in her own angelic way, "I guess, we both know why we got these eggs..."
"Yeah," Takeru placed a soft kiss on her forhead, "our love did us in..."
In the other side of the room, the auburn haired girl made a meloncholic smile from the site of the two angels.
"Hey guys!" Gatomon shouted, "Tai and Iori are here!"
Takeru and Hikari ran out with their digimon, while Miyako lagged behind with Hawkmon, "Why is it the pretty girls gets the cute guys while I'm not even getting a look from them?..." Hawkmon looked up at his partner in confusion, "Nevermind, let's just get to the others."
The kids and digimon reached outside to see Tai shaking hands with Centarumon and Pixiemon. Piedmon stood crossarmed, with a question that was on everyone's heads, "Where are the others?"
Takeru walked up to Taichi, "Yeah, where's Matt?" No answer came, just a painful face, "Tai?... Where's my brother?"
"Man, it'll take hours with this many eggs!" Daisuke whined.
V-mon searched up and down, looking for any sign of the egg that held Wormmon inside, "Maybe the reconfiguration isn't finished yet..."
Ken was already on the search of his partner in Primary Village, "He's got to be around here somewhere...." He turned over every egg, inspecting for any signs of his friend.
"Hey Ken, don't do that sad, mopey face thing again. We'll find him." Another of his trademark smiles, and Ken fell in calm again. Suddenly, a loud beep was heard, coming from Ken's D-3. "What's it doing?"
"It looks like it's picked up something..." A bright red dot blinked on and off, "It's pointing to...the left of us..." Without hesitation, Ken sprinted in the direction of what was hopefully to his lost partner. At the top of a tiny hill, a glow eminated from a cluster of eggs. "That, over there!"
Both reached the peak, and to the glowing green and yellow egg. "You think it's him?" Daisuke wondered aloud. And as if in answer to his question, the glowing egg began to crack, little by little.
Slowly it crumbled, revealing a green blob with a pacifier in it's mouth. The glow disappated, and a baby digimon popped out, sucking and chirping at the same time. A leaf stuck out of it's back, shading it's face from the sun, "Ken!" it squeeked out.
"Well what dya know..." V-mon knew who it was.
Ken couldn't grasp who it was at first, after all, he died in his arms. But Daisuke was far more optimistic, "Well, I think we found him, more like he led us to him." he said with a grin. Ken picked up the perky digimon, and it instantly cuddled on his chest. Ken smiled even more, tears fully flowing. "Well, at least we have one good news today." Daisuke muttered out. But his attention shifted slightly.
"Waaah----waaaaaah--------!!!"
A soft wail, a whine? No, it wasn't anything like that. But it was a cry. "Hey," Daisuke nudged V-mon while Ken was still hugging his new found partner and friend, "do you hear something?"
V-mon looked up, opening his ears to the surrounding. He too heard a voice, sounding in distress, "It sounds like...someone's crying...." Daisuke followed the continuing sound, stepping over mounds of eggs and baby digimon playing about. V-mon, being more agile, made his way through ahead, and made a discovery that seemed impossible. "Hey Daisuke! You better come here and look at this!!!"
Daisuke sprinted over, expecting trouble had invaded the village. Once he arrived to where V-mon and the source of the crying was, he nearly fell on his face in shock. It layed in it's own eggshell. "Whoa!.... It's....it's........a BABY!?!" Daisuke knelt beside it, eyes never laying off the sight, "A, HUMAN BABY?!?"
Digimon tagged with dark spirals marched and built all day long. The black control spires multiplying every minute. The Digimon Kaiser overlooked the construction, sitting on his throne of stone. Gabumon stood beside the blonde emperor, heart sagging with saddness, but hopeful at the same time. "Are you sure Matt?"
"You can't fight instinct Gabumon..." Yamato replied in a monotone, "it's like a drive in me...to build these things."
"And a drive to kill your friends?" Gabumon didn't look back at him.
"........you can't fight instinct...."
Gabumon sighed, "And is it part of your instinct to kidnap Ken?"
"That," Yamato hesitated for a moment, "...I know Ken, and Midori felt this way....this obsession."
The horned digimon looked out to the changing landscape, waiting for the battle that was destined to be.
Ken wandered to where Daisuke was, holding an energetic Leafmon in his arms, "Hey, Daisuke. Shouldn't we be go...ing..." He cut his sentence short from the unexpected surprise laying in Daisuke's arms, "A..a baby?...."
"Baby girl to be exact." Daisuke cradled the baby in his arms, attempting to soothe her crying. He wrapped her with his jacket, and the baby took quick interest in the soft, white fur collar. "I found her, in this." He pecked his head towards the large, empty broken egg.
"A digimon egg?.... Well, she seems to have taken a liking to you." Ken giggled. The baby nuzzled against Daisuke, ready to fall asleep.
With a blush on his cheeks, he called for V-mon, "Uhh, we better get going. Digivolving time V-mon... Maybe into something that won't be a bumpy ride."
Ken walked over and peered into the opening of the jacket. His smile faded a bit, "Doesn't she look, familiar to you?..." He stared at the sprouts of black hair, already growing.
"We'll figure it out once we get to the others." Daisuke stepped on Yureimon's palm, followed by Ken. "I hope nature doesn't call for her... I just washed the jacket too..."
"Matt..." Hikari grasped Takeru's hand, never expecting such bad news. "So now he's the Kaiser?" Takeru couldn't believe it. "How could this happen?...."
"And Midori dead..." Piedmon closed his eyes from the news.
Taichi held his place, trying to be the strength to the group, "Everything's going wrong now, but it'll change. We will get him back T.K. One way or another." The fire in his voice was as strong as ever, I will get you back Matt, I swear... "I hate to sound this way, but we need to move on for now. Where is this door you guys talked about?"
Pixiemon was about to lead him when Miyako offered to take Taichi there. "Tai, are you really ok with all that's happened?" Concern was in her voice. "About, Matt...cause, if you need to talk then---"
"What's there to talk about? He chose to be the Kaiser, leaving all his friends, his brother behind." Bitter words escaped his lips.
"....." Miyako didn't speak afterwards, only pointing to the door and the enigma of the relief drawings. "Only you can get in with your digivice."
As soon as she stopped talking, Taichi's digivice glowed and the doors creaked open in response. "You go back to the others, I'll be back soon." Miyako complied with the orders, and headed back. Taichi walked, slow and steady steps to the alter in the middle of the room. Despite the other pitch black room, this one was full of light from the glass ceiling above letting through the sun's rays. Stepping up to the monument in the middle of the room, another digi-egg layed, with a marking unknown to him. It was a dark, grey colour, metallic and six black wings sticking out from it's sides. Beside it, a dark pink crest rested, encased within its tag, "Looks like this was what Izzy was talking about."
Taking both artifacts, Taichi headed out the door to the group, which doubled in size from before. V-mon sat exausted, Ken holding now digivolved Wormmon and Daisuke had somethings in his arms. I guess I was right about Wormmon but, what's Daisuke... He walked towards the group, showing his treasures from the room. "Well, there was a crest in there, and another Digi-egg but..." His eyes widened by the bundle in Daisuke's arms, "Is, is that what I think it is?"
"A baby?... But, where?" Hikari smiled over the baby, still sleeping in Daisuke's arms.
"We found her in Primary Village, in an egg." Daisuke answered. He liked the attention he was getting from Hikari, but remembered she had someone else in her life. And he promised himself he wouldn't get between them.
"Primary Village?" Piedmon's attention was on fire again, "In an egg?... Could it be possible?..."
Takeru asked in puzzlement, "What are you talking about? What's possible?"
A smile began to form on the dark clown's face, "Don't you get it? All digimon can be reconfigured, all types of digimon." Confused faces were still glued to the groups heads. "Even human-type digimon..."
"You mean..." Hikari stared at the baby, "...............Midori?!"
The battlefield from the morning's fight left the land barren. Except for a limp body, composed of multiple digimon.....but it wasn't limp for any longer. The double tail twitched, fingers writhing slowly. Black wings twitched up and down. Pieces of flesh gathered together, forming the head once again. Eyes moved underneath the eyelids, and a smile creeping to its face. The hybrid monster screamed in a psychotic laugh.
Well, that was.....just weird.... I haven't wrote for so long, I feel like I'm writing a fanfic for the first time^^;; I'd like to hear what you think of it, good or bad, or if you're interested in this at all.... I hope someone is....
And those who supported this fic from the beginning, I can't thank you enough^_^