Me: As usual, I don't own Digimon, yadda, yadda, yadda. You know where I'm going with this.
Sora: What's wrong?
Me: Nothing. Well, something. The world's going to end.
Tai: What? (laughs) That's impossible!
Davis: We'll kick some major a** again! Right?
Me: …
Davis: …Right?
Me: …Uh…
Davis: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! I GOTTA TELL KARI HOW I FEEL AND DO-SOME OTHER STUFF WITH HER BEFORE WE DIE! (runs off)
Tai: (very pissed) DAVIS! IF YOU MEAN WHAT I THINK YOU MEAN, YOU'RE A DEAD MAN! (runs after Davis)
Me: (laughs) It's fun to get Davis scared like that!
Sora: Not as fun as it is getting Tai that mad! Hey, Tai dropped this as he left. (reads) "This contains major Taiora." What about the others?
Me: This may take longer than expected, so I decided to split it into two separate chapters before bringing them back together in Chap. VIII.
Sora: The readers may not be happy with this decision.
Me: Come on! It's Taiora! You and Tai? What more will they want?
Sora: Kari and Davis, Yolei and Davis, Kari and T.K., Matt and Mimi…
Me: I get the hint!
Digimon
The battle known as Digigeddon
Chap.VI-The Birth of PhoenixGreymon
Taichi "Tai" Kamiya was amazed at Phoenixmon's speed. She was just as fast as WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon! "I wonder if she's as fast as Omnimon is, since he's a combination of WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon!" Tai's thoughts were interrupted as Sora nipped his ear gently.
"Nice…don't stop."
"Sorry, but my teeth are getting cold." Sora joked as she snuggled close to Tai's body for warmth.
"Could you two get any closer? You might have kids if you stay like that too long!"
Tai narrowed his eyes as he saw Matt fly above their heads.
"Who's to say you don't do this stuff with Mimi?" Tai retorted calmly.
"Touché."
"Listen…" Tai had returned his attention back to Sora. "…Once we beat these evil Digimon, and save Japan and, possibly even the world, from destruction, we need to talk. About our future. It's nothing bad and we're not breaking up, it's just something I've been thinking about for quite a while."
Sora smiled with ease, but her curiosity had gotten the better of her. "What's so important that it has to wait until after we've won? Why not tell me now?"
Tai's smile faded as his brown eyes locked on Sora's crimson ones. "Because if I told you now, you wouldn't be as focused on the battle ahead as you would on the future. Trust me on this. OK?"
Sora was worried, but she tried to hide it. "Tai said it was nothing bad, and that we weren't breaking up. So why do I have this feeling that something is about to happen?"
"OK."
Matt sighed with irritation and slight anger. He felt nothing but jealousy against Tai! He tried to hide it, but couldn't. Sora was with him every day out of the year! Could Mimi be with him? No! She still lived in America until she'd earn enough money to buy an apartment here in Japan.
"Can I earn enough from what I make with the band to get Mimi that apartment? Probably not, since according to Dad, I've gotta save it for a college fund. Just don't hurt her, Tai. She means too much to me-to everyone!" Matt heard his terminal go off and pulled it out, wondering who it could be.
Boy with Knowledge: Salutations, Matt! How's the battle?
Matt smiled as he wrote back. "That Izzy, always on that computer…"
Handsome Blond Boy of Friendship: We haven't gotten there yet. Sora's still sweet-talking Tai. Who are we taking on again?
Boy with Knowledge: Let's see…Tai, Sora, and Matt: You're taking on VenomMyotismon, Puppetmon, Machinedramon, SkullMeramon, SkullGreymon, Mammothmon, Parrotmon, Diaboromon, Datamon, MetalSeadramon and BlackWarGreymon.
Handsome Blond Boy of Friendship: Whoa! That's quite a number.
Boy with Knowledge: You think you three can handle them by yourselves?
Handsome Boy of Friendship: If I didn't know we could handle it, I wouldn't be one of the DigiDestined. See you later.
Boy with Knowledge: Until later. (Boy with Knowledge has left chatroom)
Matt smiled as he put the terminal back in his pocket. He knew that they would triumph.
Tai and Sora hadn't spoken since he'd convinced her that it was better to wait until they'd won to talk. Sora's curiosity nagged at her until she absolutely, positively had to know what he'd meant.
"Why can't you tell me now?"
Tai sighed inwardly. He'd hoped she wouldn't bring it up again. "Sora, why can't you just wait-"
"I HAD TO WATCH YOU BURN AS YOU WERE SENT TO HELL FOR ME, SUFFERED AS MUCH AS YOU DID AND WHEN YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO TELL ME, YOU WANT TO WAIT?!"
Tai shuddered as he pulled Sora close and embraced her. She'd started crying, and it hurt him to know that he'd caused her that pain.
"If you truly love me, please tell me what you wanted to talk about now."
"Well, guess now's as good a time as any." "Sora, I've loved you ever since I saw you next to me when we were babies in that hospital room. My parents say I can't remember things from before I was three, but I remember that. I remember seeing small tufts of perfect reddish hair, crimson eyes as fiery as a fireplace, the gentlest of faces next to me with a smile that melted my tiny heart." Sora blushed deeply as Tai continued on with his tirade of compliments.
"And most of all, I remember when that tiny hand reached out of the cradle and grabbed mine with ease, strength and love. There was only one sad memory: when the nurse came and took you to your mother, you wouldn't let go of my hand. It took about five nurses before you let go, but you didn't go willingly. You screamed and cried all the way to your mother and even after that. About three minutes after that, I turned my head over to where you had been and saw a name: Takenouchi, Sora. I started crying when I realized you weren't coming back. That same day, I said my first word. According to my parents, my first word came out like a banshee wail…" Tai forced himself to remember exactly how he'd said it.
Flashback
They'd taken her away. The most beautiful of all God's creations, and she was gone.
Young Taichi cried hard and loud for her as he struggled to speak her name. Then as the nurses came to take him to his parents, Taichi actually spoke loud for his parents to hear.
"SORAAAAAAAAAA…"
End Flashback
"AHHHHHHH! SORA, LOOK OUT!" Tai pushed Sora downward as they barely avoided a Terra Destroyer attack from BlackWarGreymon!
"I guess we made it to the bridge." She joked as they noticed MetalSeadramon go up against MetalGarurumon.
"Apparently."
"DIGIDESTINED! You cannot escape your fate! Surrender to us now, and we'll make it quick and painless." Thundered VenomMyotismon calmly.
"Fat chance, tall, gruesome and ugly! WarGreymon?"
WarGreymon shot toward VenomMyotismon once again and prepared to take him down.
"Nova Force!!"
VenomMyotismon screamed as he felt the steel pierce his body and he disintegrated into bits of digital data.
Tai made a tally mark in the air. "One down, God only knows how many to go." He declared.
Sora shivered and nodded. "That's true."
Tai would've wrapped his jacket around her shoulders, but MetalSeadramon looked as if he was getting the better of Matt and MetalGarurumon.
"I think he needs help. Let's see what your new Mega Digimon can do, Sora!"
Sora smiled broadly as Phoenixmon appeared above MetalSeadramon.
"Crimson Flame!!"
A wall of fire appeared above Tai and Sora's heads, then transformed itself into the Crest of Love. It hurtled toward MetalSeadramon and hit him with dead-on accuracy. A minute passed. Then two. Finally, he disintegrated another minute after that.
"Sora, that was awesome!" Tai hugged Sora tightly-so tight, Sora felt as if she could burst and shower the whole world with her love to prove how much she loved Tai.
"Giga Cannon!"
WHAM! Tai and Sora were rocked as Machinedramon entered in.
"You won't win this time, DigiDestined of Courage. There are far too many of us and too few of you."
"As if! There were only five of us when we beat you before. Now that there are only 3 of us, and the fact that we all have Mega Digimon, we'll beat you with our eyes closed." Declared Tai heatedly.
"Terra Force!!"
"Metal Wolf Claw!!"
"Crimson Flame!!"
The three attacks combined burst across Machinedramon's android body. He burst into bits of data and disappeared into the skies.
"That's three."
"Matt, how many are left?" Tai demanded.
Matt looked at his terminal. "There's Puppetmon, Parrotmon, SkullMeramon, SkullGreymon, Mammothmon, Datamon, Diaboromon and BlackWarGreymon. We're not out of the woods yet."
"Of course not! It's time to play 'How to eliminate the DigiDestined!'" Puppetmon appeared on top of Parrotmon.
"Great! Just the 'Mon I didn't want to see!" growled Matt as he turned to face them.
"You took me out of the game when I was about to win. Not this time." Said Puppetmon.
Tai considered their options. There weren't many.
"Matt, back down! Sora can handle this."
"I can?"
Tai gave Sora that lopsided grin that made her knees weak. "I trust you." That said, Tai jumped off Phoenixmon and landed behind Matt. "I'll be waiting!"
Phoenixmon turned her attention to the Mega and Champion Digimon before her.
"Crimson Flame!!"
Puppetmon was made into kindling within seconds! Parrotmon was made into a big Christmas turkey! Nevertheless, both were deleted.
Tai rejoined Sora a moment after that. "Told you."
Sora beamed in her recent victory-until Tai tapped her on the shoulder. "Has this been just a little bit easy, or am I paranoid?"
"That was too easy."
That's when they heard screams coming from down below…then Matt appeared.
"Chalk up SkullGreymon, SkullMeramon and Mammothmon! That's six down."
"Digital Bomb!"
Tai and Sora turned and didn't have to avoid the attack. They knew who that was.
"DATAMON!"
"You ruined my plans before, boy, but not this time!" The Machine Digimon hovered in the air before them.
Tai saw WarGreymon coming up from behind him. He smiled.
"Right! In about ten seconds, you'll be gone again."
"I doubt that. Where is your partner, anyway-"
"Mega Claw!!"
SPRIIIIIIZZZZZ… Datamon exploded into bits of data just like the others before him.
Tai smiled with ease, until he turned and saw Sora smiling dreamily at him.
"You're amazing, Taichi Kamiya…"
Tai beamed radiance and leaned toward Sora for a kiss…
"Cable Crusher!!"
"Terra Destroyer!!"
WHAM! Phoenixmon spiraled toward the river and nearly splashed in! Sora cried out as she slipped off Phoenixmon's back.
"TAIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!"
"NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!" Tai reached out for her with all the courage he could muster and barely grabbed her hand.
"Tai…please don't let go…"
"MATT! A LITTLE HELP HERE!" yelled Tai angrily.
WarGreymon flew down and helped Sora the rest of the way back to Tai.
After comforting Sora for a few seconds, Tai saw why Matt hadn't been able to help-he'd had his hands full with BlackWarGreymon and Diaboromon.
"Matt, let's kick it up a notch."
Matt turned toward his friend and nodded.
"DIGIVOLVE!"
"WarGreymon…"
"…MetalGarurumon…"
"DNA Digivolve to…OMNIMON!!!"
Tai leaped up towards Omnimon and landed on his back. "Ready?"
"As I'll ever be."
BlackWarGreymon observed his opponent. Strong, yes. Formidable, definitely. Unbeatable, he was not. He'd seen that boy with the goggles during the entire battle. He'd protected the girl the whole time. That was his weakness.
"If I focused my attacks on the girl the whole time, the boy would waste Omnimon's energy in trying to protect her. Then I could go in for the kill."
"Terra Destroyer!!"
Tai, Sora and Matt gasped in shock. The attack headed straight for…
"SORA! OMNIMON, GET DOWN THERE!"
Omnimon moved gracefully as he took the full brunt of the attack and taking heavy damage. Diaboromon smiled as he'd recognized what happened.
"Web Wrecker!!"
Tai, Matt and Omnimon turned and saw Diaboromon's attack.
WHAM! Omnimon took definite damage from that attack.
"TAI! STOP IT! WE CAN HANDLE THESE ATTACKS!" pleaded Sora. She was near tears at the sight of Tai, Matt and Omnimon. The boys looked as battered as their DNA Digivolved Digimon.
"Tai…I don't think our Digimon can handle any more attacks like that." Warned Matt.
Tai nodded. "Still, I won't let these guys hurt Sora. I'd rather die than let that happen."
"Terra Destroyer!!"
Tai grimaced in pain as he whipped his head. Omnimon didn't even have to wait for his command.
WHAM!! A second later, Omnimon deDigivolved into WarGreymon and Gabumon.
"What the…why'd Agumon stay at Mega form while MetalGarurumon didn't?" asked Matt in shock.
"I…don't know." Tai groaned as his arm hung limply at his side. He looked worse than he felt.
"TAI!" Sora and Phoenixmon flew up to Tai and WarGreymon, Matt and Gabumon behind her.
"Don't leave me again…I couldn't live if you died now…"
"Sora…I had wanted to wait until later, but I don't think these guys are going to give us that chance." Tai groaned as he forced himself to bend on one knee. "Sora Takenouchi, since that day in the hospital, I knew I had found my soul mate. After we graduate from high school…will you marry me?" Tai felt his Crest of Courage glow with the brightest orange light. Sora was crying, that much was true…but of pure joy and love as Tai revealed her wedding ring-24 karats. Matt was equally amazed.
"Oh, Tai…yes! I will marry you!" Sora leaped up and kissed Tai with all the passion she had left.
Matt looked down at Phoenixmon. She was glowing with a deep red light surrounding her. "I think we're about to lose our DNA partners, Gabumon."
Gabumon nodded as he saw WarGreymon glow with a reddish orange light. "Mm-hmm."
"WarGreymon…"
"…Phoenixmon…"
"DNA Digivolve to…PHOENIXGREYMON!!!"
The three DigiDestined gasped in shock as they found themselves on top of one of the most powerful Mega Digimon in existence. PhoenixGreymon looked sort of like Omnimon, but wasn't a silver color. Instead, he(she, your decision on the gender) had a red-orange look and the arms were, of course, Phoenixmon and WarGreymon's heads, much like Omnimon's were WarGreymon's and MetalGarurumon's.
"AWESOME!"
"AMAZING!"
"ONE RAD DIGIMON!"
BlackWarGreymon's eyes narrowed slowly. He hadn't expected this to happen. Not at all!
Tai, Sora and Matt eyed the final Digimon they had to defeat-WarGreymon's exact opposite. With one move, PhoenixGreymon rose his left arm.
"Flames of Courage!!"
A flamethrower shot out and changed into the Crest of Courage. It soared toward BlackWarGreymon and hit its target. BlackWarGreymon screamed in pain and agony.
"Force of Love!!"
A beam of pure electricity shot out of Phoenixmon's right arm, then became the Crest of Love. Seconds later, BlackWarGreymon's scream became one of pure pain as he disintegrated.
"WE DID IT, TAI! WE WON!"
Sora pulled Tai into a deep kiss. After five minutes of "celebration", Matt finally pulled them apart.
"Shouldn't we go help Izzy? He is on his own, you know. Oh, and before I forget, congratulations!"
Tai and Sora smiled and nodded.
"Thanks. All right, PhoenixGreymon, let's go help Izzy!"
Was that heartwrenching, or what? I never knew I could type that many pages! I hope this all fits! TAIORA FOREVER!!!