Chapter Seven: Kaiser
My head spun, and my vision blurred. It was dark when I awoke, and the Astral Dragon was gone. The sun had been down for sometime, and twilight had fallen. I slowly and painfully arose from the ground. My neck still hurt, from having the powerful dragon's steel-like grasp around my neck. But, I was alive, and that was what mattered. I searched the charred grounds, finding only a few meager supplies. Mostly chafed rice, and some flash burned clothes. Nothing that I could really use, except a small backpack, that was filled with healing herbs, and a flask of water.
I slung the backpack over my shoulder, it was a light design, brown and a little cumbersome, but I was soon use to its weight. I strapped both shoulder straps around my arms, and started to look for anything else. I heard a small moaning sound, my sensitive ears, detected that it was to the south of me. I ran over, and after effterestly throwing some broken, charred boards around. I found a small, shivering kitten. Its face was black, covered in the dirty soot. It had small burns on its matted fur, and it was meowing loudly.
"Poor creature….Your probably scared." I picked up the animal, holding it close to my chest; I gently stroke the cats arching back. A small rumbling sound fluttered from its small chest. I smiled, and reached around by shoulder, and pulled out a small crumbling plant. I crushed the leaves of the plant, making a fine white power. I took the flask, and poured in the white power. A small blue glow came from the water, and it had a tingling sensation to it. I trickled a little of the water into my hand, and wiped it on the burns of the animal. Slowly one by one, the burns melted away, leaving only new smooth, white skin.
I put the kitten down, and looked back up at me. It rubbed against my leg, and then walked back over to the pile it had come from. It circled once, and then lay down, its chest moved in a slow steady rhythm. "It must be tired….After such an ordeal." I thought to myself.
But, I was not tired. I was fully rested, and I had to find the Astral Dragon before he stuck again. I was ready to set out, the herbs would last me for sometime, and I could probably find some fresh fruit on the trees. So, I would be pretty much set. I had not taken my first few steps, when a loud noise came from above. It sounded like a giant "Whoosh, Whoosh, Whoosh".
I looked up into the sky, and saw a strange flying thing…It shone a bright light down on me, and it had a long body, with a giant spinning blade on its top, with another blade spinning at its tail. I remember Davis' sister calling this a…..Helicopter. I remembered Davis' sister. The way she looked at me, the way she blushed everytime I looked at her. It was…..Different.
The Helicopter landed a few yards away, and several men came out, they were yelling at me, and pointing strange things that had long barrels on them. Connected to their bodies, looked like bananas, only they were black, and long pointed metal clinders in them.
They circled around me, one of the men reached into his vest pocked and threw a rope at me, it wrapped around my wrist, and he pulled me to the ground. In a flash, two of the humans were on my back, holding me down. One of the men put some metal clasps around my wrist, and pulled me roughly up by my hair.
I didn't know what was going on! They were throwing me around, and beating me up. When I tried to get up, one of the men took out a black stick and hit me with it. He kept doing this until I was able to snap the metal clasps, and grab the stick before it hit me again. I took the stick in one hand, and with the other hand I spun my wrist into a fist, slamming it full force in the human's throat. The human spluttered out squirt of blood from his mouth, and the fell face first to the ground.
The other humans took a step back. One of them raised the barrle-maching at me, and it fired out something that stung and burned my skin. I glanced down at my arm, there was a small bruise from where the stick had bit me. I was angry, and the humans took another step back.
My eyes were aglow with power…..The white energy that I summoned for my dragon transformation was……replaced. My anger was overwhelming my judgement…I wanted nothing more than these mortals to die. I was a god! They were nothing but mutations made by us for worship!
My body erupted with the red ether power of hatred. I was levitating……And I knew what I must do, I brought about the full extent of my powers! Instead of summoning the white, pure energy, I summoned the dark evil void of the darkness.
I could feel it growing…..It started out as a mere burning deep within my chest, but the fire spread. From my heart, out to my arms, down though my legs, and out to my toes, fingers, and the tips of my brown hair. The air around me was swirling with a maelstrom of chaotic red energy.
My body released my pent up anger….The death of my friends….Kiro, Emassia…..My casting forth on this plane…..The pain caused by the Astral Dragon….It was all my source of energy.
My body broke down….It shattered and begun its Transformation. The human form was replaced with a giant, red and white dragon. Its wings were not sprouting from its back, but from its massive arms. All the way from the wrist, up to the elbows. The dragon's body was pure muscle, with a two red horns, and one coming out of the back of the head. Its claws were black, with a long muscular tail. The scales were gold, and the stomach, and throat was white. The dragon had a mustache of red spikes coming out of its chin, and the wings were blue with white swirling tattoos crisscrossing all over the wings.
The Transformation was complete…..But I couldn't control the power! The guards broke rank, and started screaming, and running. But it didn't save them, I roared once, and flew after the first two, a swing of my arm shattered their backs. The next one was thrown to the ground by a flick of my tail, I could hear his bones shatter when the connected with the ground.
The last and final one was burned to a pile of carbon molecules from a burst of my Dragon Breath. My eyes flashed a bright gold….My wings flew out, and in a explosion of red uncontrolled energy, I broke from the earth, flying back towards the city. It was coming closer, when I broke the sound barrier.
Davis yawned….He slowly flipped though the channels on his t.v. His homework could wait for a few more minutes. He wanted to see what was on first. He flipped though a few local comedies, then a shopping network. Demiveemon jumped on his lap, and grabbed at the remote. "What'ya watchin buddy!?" Davis flung his arm around, keeping the remote out of the little digimon's quick hands. "I wanna watch what I want to watch! You had too much t.v. already!" Demiveemon laughed "Your the one who's been here for 3 hours already!"
Davis smiled. "But that when all the best programs come on!"
Suddenly, a special announcement broke the laughter. A well-dressed man, behind a desk spoke in a brisk fast time. "We apologize for this interruption, but we have an important announcement. A small farm village located just 30 miles south of Tokyo, has been totally annihilated! We go to Dan Broker, with an live in-depth report, Dan?
The camera changed over, to a young man, with brown hair, and glasses. He held a microphone, and was holding the side of his head. "Well, Bill! This is totally overwhelming. The small village of Koyo has been utterly wiped out! We don't know what from, but the SWAT team that was sent here to investigate the incident, has been killed as well. It seems that from the bodies of the swat, that it would take something of great strength and power to inflict that kind of damage."
The camera changed back to Bill, "Can you tell us what kind of injuries you have seen there?"
The camera flipped back over to John, he was standing over one of the SWAT members bodies. "It was like, every bone in his body was shattered! As for the village….Well, as you can see, its totally….Gone! Its like someone dropped off a mini-necular bomb! There is nothing left, except rubble and charred body. All with having of sublimation in just a few nano-seconds!"
The camera flipped back over to Bill, "Thanks Jon, for that indept report. We now return you ba….Wait a second!" His hands flipped over a new report that someone had handed in with a flash of their hands. "We now have reports of a massive energy streak heading for the city of Kyoto!"
The t.v. signal died in a burst of static. Davis was up in a flash, looking out his slider widow, he could see a long bright red, ling moving straight at him. The line was getting brighter, and a distant rumbling sound could be heard. Demiveemon was up on Davis' shoulder. "What do we do, Davis!? It's coming right at us!"
Davis shuttered…."I don't know!" He though for a moment, then a knock sounded at the door. He ran over, and opened it with a flash. It was the whole gang, with Kari, T.K., Cody, Yoile, and Ken. Davis smiled, "Hey! What are you all doing here?" Kari hurried inside. She spoke quickly, "We need to get out of here, that thing is heading strait for this place!"
The building started to shake, and a bright red light shattered the windows…Sending glass screaming towards the digidestioned like translucent daggers. They all ran out into the hallway, before the glass embedded themselves more than three inches in the closed door.
The shuttering stopped. T.K. was the next to speak up, "It must be on the roof!" The whole gang then ran up the two flights of stairs, and opened the maintenance door to the roof. There hovering, covered in a blinding array of red light, was the Kaiser Dragon. The dragon let out a scream that sound like a human, but had a subtone of dragon's growl to it.
The whole group stood tense, their digimon stood infront, ready to digievlove if necessary. The Kaiser Dragon's wings flew out in a shimmering red light, the white tattoos glimmered in the darkness. The Dragon pealed back it thin lips, baring its sharp white teeth. It lowered its head, and growled a long low, and savagely at the group of kids. Kari looked at T.K. then back at the massive dragon…She was worried and spoke her mind to the rest of the group. "What do we do?"
Cody's face was grim. "I guess….We have no choice…but, to fight!"