Light Within Darkness Part 3
Hiermon was angry with himself. He had foolishly beaten Shinji too hard. She had escaped the cave he had left her in the night before and not returned. Which probably meant that she had control over herself again. He sharply smacked the first thing he could reach. Which happened to be Hypnosmon. She smacked into a wall and slid to the ground. "No matter." Hiermon muttered, "If Shinji does not bow to my will, she will die by either my hand or by the entire Digiworld!" He laughed insanely.
"So who was controlling you?" Izzy asked. Shinji looked up with an angry look on her face. "Hiermon." she said. "Hiermon?" Gennai asked. "I think you and I know him better as Jiomon Gennai." Shinji said, closing her eyes and lowering her head. "JIOMON?!" Gennai roared. "Who's Jiomon?" Tai asked. "A Mega digimon that's on the Council." Gennai said, clenching his hand into a very tight fist. "If he was controlling Shinji why is he on the Digimon Council?" TK asked. "Because it was all a trick." Shinji said, "Hiermon was lying to everyone. He even came up with that fake name." Gennai was enraged. "Hiermon was controlling you?" he asked, trying to keep his temper under control. "For the past month." Shinji said, "He beat me often to keep it in my head that he was my master. My life was in jeopardy. I had to accept his commands." Gennai was having an extremely hard time keeping his anger in check. He remembered that Shinji had gone off on her own a month or so ago. "Why didn't I keep watch over her?!" Gennai shouted at himself in his head. Shinji was looking at Gennai. "Gennai I know you're angry." she said, "I'm back and that's what matters to you isn't it?" Gennai nodded then he looked at the bandage around Shinji's right hand from the electrical burn. "Who gave you that burn? And those cuts?" he asked. "N-no one." Shinji stuttered. "Don't lie to me Shinji." Gennai warned, "Now how did you become injured?" Shinji held her injured hand in her other hand and sighed.
"It was Andromon and Pixiemon." she finally said. "What?!" Gennai shouted, "Both of them are part of the Council! Why would they attack you?!" "I don't know." Shinji said sadly, "They must have thought I was still under Hiermon's control." "But why didn't you explain you weren't?" Kari asked. Shinji didn't answer but held her hand just a little bit tighter. "Why didn't you explain yourself?" Gennai repeated, only softer and with the loving tone a brother speaks to his sister in. "I…" Shinji said. Tears were coming to her eyes by then. "I tried." she said with a sigh, letting the tears run down her face, "But neither of them would listen." "But…" Gennai said, "Why wouldn't they listen?" "I don't know!" Shinji half-shouted, "They wouldn't stop until I scared them off with an attack!" "Do you mean it was like someone on the Council ordered them to attack you if they saw you?" Gennai asked. Shinji nodded. "Hiermon." Gennai growled, "I have a nasty feeling that he hypnotized the others on the Council to believing that you're a traitor." Shinji knew he was right. "Then what am I going to do?" she asked, "I can't stay hiding in the shadows for the rest of my life!" "Anything we can do to help?" Tai asked. "No Tai." Gennai said, "This is something Shinji and I have to do on our own." Tai looked a little crestfallen. "Sorry that we couldn't help." Kari said. "It doesn't matter." Shinji said. "You should get going." Gennai said, "There are more evil digimon out there for you to battle." The Digi-destined thanked Gennai for his help and left. Gennai looked back at his younger sister. He walked over to her and wrapped his arms around her in a tight hug. "Sorry I wasn't there for you." he said. Shinji returned the hug. "It's OK." she said, "It wasn't your fault I met Hiermon and you weren't there."
"From now on, I'm going to make sure no one does this kind of thing to you again." Gennai said. They broke the hug and looked at each other. "Thanks big bro." Shinji said, "You're the greatest." Gennai smiled. "What do you say we find Hiermon and get rid of him once and for all?" he asked, a glint of mischief in his eyes. "Yeah!" Shinji shouted. They ran out the door but didn't really have to go far. An explosion instantly stopped their run. They looked up and saw Hypnosmon and Hiermon floating above them. "Hiermon!" Gennai shouted, drawing his sword, "You are going to pay for what you did to my sister!" Hiermon laughed. "Hypnosmon, take care off this arrogant pest." Hiermon said. The bird like digimon flew at Gennai with tremendous speed. She and Gennai soon became locked in combat. "Be careful!" Shinji called after her brother. A cold laugh came from behind her. Shinji turned around and her head was grabbed instantly. Hiermon laughed again. "You would have made a good slave." he said, "But you had to betray me. Now you will pay!" "NO I WON'T!" Shinji shouted into his hand, "BEAM CANNON!" She pointed two fingers directly at Hiermon's stomach. An orange beam of energy with a spiraling red outline shot into Hiermon's stomach. He let Shinji go and held at his stomach. Shinji leapt back and the white flame reappeared, only this time, it was surrounded with a soft blue flame. "Very good." Hiermon said in an evil growl, "You will make an excellent slave once I'm through with you." "I WON'T LET YOU TAKE CONTROL OF ME AGAIN!" Shinji shouted, the blue part of the flame becoming more intense and prominent. She rushed at Hiermon and began to kick and punch him furiously. But, much to her dismay, Hiermon was too fast and blocked the attacks.
"I see your brother isn't fairing very well either." Hiermon said with a smirk. Shinji paused long enough to look back at Gennai. Hypnosmon was using her hypnotic powers to try and send Gennai to sleep. Which was working. The moment Shinji took to look back was long enough for Hiermon to attack. He kicked her hard in the chest, sending her flying into a very thick tree, snapping it in two as she flew through it. The tree landed on top of Shinji, immobilizing her. Hiermon hovered over the stump and stood above Shinji. "Foolish child!" he shouted, raising a single finger and aiming at Shinji. Shinji looked up at her faulting brother before being shot with hundreds of small energy bursts. "SHINJI!" Gennai shouted. Hypnosmon smashed into Gennai's back, knocking him to the ground. She opened her mouth and a haunting sound came from her throat; she was singing Gennai to sleep. He tried desperately to stay awake. Even though only a Mega digimon was immune to Hypnosmon's powers, Gennai hadn't been sleeping much in the past few days and was basically exhausted. Shinji finally shoved the tree off of her and was blown back with a large energy ball, slamming hard into the ground. The impact made a very, very deep crater. Hiermon turned around and walked back to watch Hypnosmon defeat Gennai, believing Shinji was dead by then.
In reality, Shinji was slowly crawling up the steep side of the crater. She hung onto the very edge of it. She watched Hiermon walk off and slammed her fist hard into the ground. She opened her hands and suddenly snapped up into a rigidly straight kneeling position. The flame returned around her body, except for one thing. It was solid midnight-blue and changed Shinji. Her brown hair turned the same tone of blue the flame was, matching her eyes. Hiermon whirled about and his face turned slightly frightened. Shinji slowly floated out of the dent in the ground, floating past Hiermon and towards Hypnosmon and the half-asleep Gennai. The bird looked up from her song. "What do you want kid?!" Hypnosmon asked. Shinji just raised her hand in the direction of Hypnosmon. A huge blue energy ball gathered in front of her hand. "Stay away from my brother." Shinji said in a very calm voice. The energy ball shot from Shinji's hand and slammed into Hypnosmon. She screeched in pain and disappeared. Hiermon was left stunned. His henchman had been defeated with a single blast? Shinji lowered her hand and turned around, lowering to the ground. "How could you defeat Hypnosmon in one blow?!" he shouted at Shinji. "I think your question really should be how could I defeat you." Shinji said calmly. "WHAT?!" Hiermon roared. Gennai was coming out of the rather deep sleep he had been in. He looked over at the two digimon, one his sister and the other his enemy. An intense midnight-blue flame surrounded Shinji. Gennai could very easily feel Shinji's highly increased power. Hiermon rushed at Shinji and threw both a flurry of kicks and punches at her.
Shinji was blocking every single attack with unbelievable ease. She jumped back and held out both her hands before her. "NOW DIE!" she shouted. An immense energy ball formed in front of her hands, much larger than the one used on Hypnosmon. Hiermon stood his ground and crossed his arms in an x formation before him. Shinji gathered even more energy for the attack, making the ball even bigger. She finally shot the huge ball at Hiermon. It slammed into him and even though he was trying to block it, Hiermon vanished without a trace. Shinji grimaced and then fell back, passing out. Gennai finally woke up completely and ran over to Shinji. "Shinji are you all right?" he asked, kneeling down and picking her up. "I'll be OK." Shinji said, waking up, "Just lost some energy." Gennai smiled, helping Shinji stand up. The blue flame disappeared and Shinji returned to normal. Her hair turned back to dark brown, same as Gennai's and her power lowered, some energy returning to her. "How in the Digiworld did you do that?" he asked. "Do what?" Shinji asked, acting as if she had never powered up as she did a few seconds ago. "How did you gain so much power like that?" Gennai repeated. "I honestly don't know." Shinji answered, "It's just that… I was watching you about to be killed and then, I had more power than I ever had before." "Even if you have more power than ever before, we have to explain everything to the Council." Gennai said, "Let's get going."
Leomon blinked as if he was coming out of a trance. Shinji and Gennai walked into the Council room as the other digimon blinked and shook their heads slightly. "Gennai!" Pixiemon said, "Shinji!" "It's all right." Gennai said, edging slightly closer to Shinji, "Shinji and I have found out what was going on. Jiomon was controlling her and has been controlling you." "Jiomon?" Centarumon asked, "What are you getting at?" "Jiomon has been lying to all of us." Shinji said, "He is actually Hiermon. He wanted me to do his dirty work for him." "Soon then where is he?" Meramon asked. "Gone." Gennai said, "Vanished and nothing more." "Good." Leomon said. "Um… By the way." Shinji said, "You put out an order for anyone who sees me should kill me." "It'll be cleared up by tonight." Wizardmon said, "Sorry about that." "I don't mind." Shinji said with a sigh, "At least it's over."
Which it was. The Digi-destined defeated the Dark Masters, one-by-one. The children learned more about themselves during the many battles. Finally, after the threat of the Dark Masters was over, Apocalymon appeared. But the Digi-destined once again defeated their enemy to save the Digiworld. But then, the children had to leave for their homes. The digimon said a tearful goodbye and all became peaceful in the Digiworld. As peaceful as it ever actually got in the Digiworld anyway.
Disclaimer: Sorry! I forgot to put one of these in my first fic. Anyway, I don't own any of these characters, concepts, terms, etc. I made up Shinji, Gennai's attack, and a few other things too. I took the concept of Shinji's power increase from Dragonball Z so I don't really own that either. R/R please!