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Story 73
Moonlight Denestu Pt 8 - Moonlight Denestu
As she stared down at her opponent, the memories of her first encounter with Belphemon flooded back into Ophani's mind. It should have been an easy task. Just check out the source of darkness and see if there was anything she could do as a regular Ophanimon and one of the three (technically four) Celestials. The place in question had been that of a small settlement. The digimon there lived in peace right on the coast. It was the sort of place that most digimon dreamed to retire too once they were old enough and/or their partners passed on. That was how it was supposed to be when she got there.
Instead, she was greeted with a crater upon her arrival. Any semblance of buildings and/or digimon had been wiped away in a single attack, leaving just one figure standing in the middle of it all - Belphemon Rage Mode. Quite proud of the destruction she caused, their gazes found their way over to each other.
"Oh. They sent down a celestial. Predictable. Did you really not have anything better to do?" Belphemon Rage Mode announced and puffed her chest out. Cracking a smile, even as Ophani's lance went her way. Missing entirely, that brought with it laughter from the demon lord of wrath digimon.
"No. You have harmed too many innocent digimon. For that, you'll pay the ultimate price!" she had announced and was flushed back to present times.
"The more things change, the more they stay the same." Ogudomon announced as she attempted to kick Ophani. For the moment, the fallen angel digimon blocked it with her scythe.
"Yes. You're still a complete asshole with nothing in the way of morals or a conscience." Ophani muttered as she felt the gazes of others focus on her. When was the last time she had actually fought? Had to be against her of all digimon. Though, that had been more going through the motions - the result of events that neither mega digimon could really acknowledge or comprehend.
"At least I do shit. What do you do? Sit on your ass and watch cartoons like you're five?!" Ogudomon announced and Ophani just stared. While it was clear from the beginning that Ogudomon was scraping the bottom of the barrel when it came to insults and/or mudslinging here, she at least tried. Now, not even that seemed to be in play. Instead, it was whatever that came to the literal embodiment of evil in digimon form first.
"Says the woman who was very much planning to murder her husband and child the moment that it turned out that Emily was a hybrid." Ophani countered, taking care to keep Ogudomon away from the homes. These people didn't deserve to have their places wrecked by the demon digimon still raining down or the person responsible for making these portals appear in the first place.
"I was planning to murder everyone, you retarded slut." Ogudomon countered as she kicked Ophani. Weathering the blow, she harmlessly pushed the literal embodiment of evil in digimon form back onto the road. "Tell me something that I don't know."
Ophani looked away, her gaze coming upon Steve and company. Doing their best to follow right behind, they took the time to wave. Forcing her gaze back over to Ogudomon, an eye roll followed. Of course she would have an opinion regardless of what
"I have people who care about me." Ophani answered as Ogudomon raised her legs up. Slamming them down into her chest, all that accomplished was giving Ophani a chest massage. Not a particularly good chest massage, but still a massage nonetheless. Pushing Ogudomon away right after, that only served to incense her opponent.
"But do they? For all you know they might claim that and then say nasty things behind your back." Ogudomon countered and puffed her chest out. More than enough time for Ophani to look behind her.
"She's just trying to get you riled up. Don't listen to her." Steve announced and Ophani nodded. Turning back to Ogudomon, a deep breath escaped her lips.
Dancing Crystal!
Making a crystal appear off to the side of Ogudomon, Ophani watched her opponent get drawn in. Sadly, it wasn't enough to keep her focus on it. Shattering it with a single strike of her legs, Ogudomon even took the time to throw the remaining pieces back at her for added insult to injury.
"You know, that probably would've worked if you actually decided to take action right away. But that's asking too much of you, my archnemesis. I do all these things for you to notice me and yet you ignore my attempts. Your blood is just as much in this mess as mine is, perhaps even more!" Ogudomon announced and Ophani raised an eyebrow. While she understood the reasoning, that didn't make the claim any less stupid. At any point Ogudomon could've just stopped - regardless of her joining the fight or not. If anything, making this 'her' problem was petty and stupid. The sort of thing the literal embodiment of evil in digimon form would think up as a joke, only to go through with it.
"Could we be friends instead?" Ophani suggested as she picked up a couple of Ogudomon's legs. Pulling with all her might, she managed to get airborne. Now, it was just a matter of getting well out of range of any people, buildings and/or infrastructure. In this case, that meant space. She had always wanted to go up there, it seemed like too much time and effort. Beyond those with telescopes, the only people who could see her were those on the International Space Station. Sadly, that was out of commission. No thanks to Ogudomon. Perhaps if she could've seen it in action, maybe it would've remained up there. Ophani doubted it. She would've destroyed it all the same.
Pushing that thought out, Ophani took in one last deep breath as she and Ogudomon exited Earth's atmosphere. Now in space, the stars twinkled about. Lightyears upon lightyears away, neither fighter would come close to any of them. The portals hanging above the earth on the other hand, were very much reachable. Whether or not they would disappear upon Ogudomon's defeat, remained to be seen.
"What a stupid question! Of course not! Have you forgotten the things I've done?!" Ogudomon announced as she broke free from Ophani's grip. Somehow managing to get her looking in the fallen angel digimon's direction, she was met with a head shake.
"Of course not. I say that in the sense of getting to know each other in the sense of understanding why you did this and if there is anything we can do to create a better outcome." Ophani countered and Ogudomon rolled her eyes. Of course the hero of this fight was unwilling to dig herself even further into the hole that was very much her fight.
Catedral!
Letting forth a shockwave, Ogudomon watched her opponent get sent back. Not very far, but enough that it would be annoying.
"There is no better outcome here, Ophani! Even if you did manage to force me back into being a human, they'll just throw me into a box and leave me to rot. You are wasting your time here and just giving me more opportunities to destroy everything you love. Even this attempt to move me away from Earth is just a minor setback." Ogudomon announced, her words falling on deaf ears as Ophani pulled her arm back.
Flame Hellscythe!
Throwing her scythe forward, Ophani watched the weapon head for Ogudomon. By no means coming close, it was more than enough to close the distance here.
"Who says that an outcome requires you to live through it in that form?" Ophani answered as Ogudomon raised a couple legs up. Slamming the appendages into Ophani's own legs, the fallen angel digimon weathered the attack. "Perhaps I had some other idea that you haven't thought about before?"
Ogudomon didn't answer. She was so pissed right now. Ophani was obviously stalling for time here. Did she really think that enough time needed to pass in order for her to revert back to Belphemon Rage Mode. It was possible, but unlikely. Or perhaps she was just waiting for something to happen.
"Says the digimon who was blissfully unaware of herself repeating the same events over and over again." the literal embodiment of evil in digimon form announced as Ophani pulled her in for a hug. While not damage was done, it was clear an attempt at affection was being made. Which was the last thing Ogudomon needed right now. Did feel kind of good though. Not that she would ever admit that fact to her opponent. The other members in their little alliance would never let her live that down in the slightest. If she made it back in one piece, of course. "Let go of me!"
Ophani shook her head.
"We cannot change what has already been done, but we can change the way that things are going. So let me give you a second chance and perhaps, things can go diff-" Ophani announced, her offer cut short by Ogudomon slamming as many of her feet into the fallen angel digimon's body. A direct hit, cracks began to form across her armor. Breaking free from the hug, Ogudomon took the opportunity to grab Ophani to the best of her abilities and launch her in the direction of the moon. While Ophani didn't quite get there, she did come awfully close to touching down.
"This is just like old times, isn't it?! Remember how I kicked your ass the first time we met?" Ogudomon announced as Ophani stared back. Doing her best to stop rotating and stand upright, she felt the memories seep back in.
After throwing the lance in Belphemon Rage Mode's direction, what had followed was a long drawn-out fight of punches, chains and all sorts of ranged attacks. What parts of the city that could've been rebuilt after the initial attack had been reduced to rubble, taking with it far too many digi-eggs in the process.
"Stop this at once!" she had announced, forced to watch as Belphemon Rage Mode smashed yet another digi-egg beneath her feet. Watching the particles fly up into the sky, it took everything in her power to not lash out and destroy this part of the world even more than it already had been.
"You didn't say please." Belphemon Rage Mode taunted and went in for a kick. Try as Ophani might to hold her ground and remain upright, most of her strength had been spent just trying to contain Belphemon Rage Mode. Anything more would have to come from either within or a third party intervening in some fashion. "Though if you had, I still would've kicked your ass."
Hearing those words, something had snapped within Ophanimon's mind. Reaching out for its lance, it was instead met with a fiery scythe. Dark energy surged through their body, bringing with it an odd yet frankly complacent comfort here.
"Eliminate." the fallen angel digimon had announced and charged for Belphemon. Taking multiple swings, its opponent flew away. Just its luck. They would just follow after their opponent. When the deed was done, they move onto the ne-
'Ophanimon, you are no longer worthy of your position, effective immediately.' a voice told her and Ophanimon Falldown Mode stared upward. Before them stood a woman clad in golden
'By order I, Rasielmon and in turn Homeostasis, you are exiled to the Human World.'
And that was it. No backtalk, no counterattacks. Just a quick and swift exile to a human as broken as she was.
"Oh. Do you remember now?" Ogudomon announced, Ophani's eyes fluttered open. Ogudomon stood in front of her, more than ready to end this fight right here. Not that Ophani would allow her to do so.
"Yes." Ophani answered and met Ogudomon's gaze. It would be frighteningly easy to just give into the rage within and revert back to the digimon she had been. Instead, she would take that rage and turn it into friendship. While it may not be reciprocated, it would at least be worth a shot. "But that was in the past. We didn't know each other then, but now we can!"
Ophani digivolve too…
Upon saying that, a seafoam green cocoon of light engulfed Ophani's body. Within, Ophani watched her armor turn into ribbons. Oddly, she felt something grow out of the back of her head. Reach out with pale gray hands, she felt what could only be described as long metallic strands. Like her favorite character, Sailor Moon. Wait. Was she getting to become a sailor senshi?
'It's been too long, Ophanimon. Or would you prefer me to call you Ophani here?' a voice announced and Ophani's gaze locked onto Rasielmon. Floating in front of her, she looked unchanged from their last encounter.
"Ophani." Ophani answered as she felt some of the ribbons wrap around her chest. For now, her gaze hung to her guest. So many questions swirled about her mind. Why was Rasielmon here?
Was she about to be given her position back? No. There should be an Ophanimon in charge back at the Celestials base of operations. Unless that one too had fallen. That position was perhaps the most stressful of the three (or four, counting Rasielmon). Nor did she get to meet her successor. No, such a luxury was not given to Ophanimon who entered Falldown Mode. "Uh… why are you here?"
Rasielmon let out a chuckle, watching a white fuku with a seafoam green ribbon form on Ophani's chest.
'I am here to congratulate you on reclaiming your role as Ophanimon. Of course, that does mean I'll need to get rid of the current batch.' Rasielmon explained and Ophani raised an eyebrow, revealing twinkling scarlet red eyes. Set against seafoam green locks of metal hair, they were very much done up to resemble Sailor Moon's iconic hairstyle. The gold wings hanging from her back were a touch gaudy, but that could be looked past at the moment. 'But we can chat once Ogudomon and the Timekeeper are dealt with.'
Ophani's eyebrow remained raised as Rasielmon disappeared. Falling down a second later, her gaze came upon a seafoam green miniskirt. Just long enough that no one could look under there, but not long enough to obscure the matching knee-high heeled boots that hung underneath. Her hands meanwhile, were covered in while elbow-length gloves with thick seafoam green cuffs to finish the look off. Or at least would've finished out her look, if she hadn't noticed the wand that was floating in front of her. Shaped kind of like a miniature version of her scythe, this was likely what she would use to unleash special attacks. Gripping it tightly, what looked to be cracks formed in her cocoon.
Ophanimon: Senshi Mode!
Bursting through the cocoon, Ophani stared her opponent down.
"Oh my. You somehow look even stupider now than you did before. I didn't even think that was possible." Ogudomon taunted, her words falling on deaf ears at the moment. Instead of waiting for a response, that was the literal embodiment of evil in digimon form's cue to charge directly at her opponent.
Majesty Halation!
Unlike the attack from the anime, this variation of the move was just a single blast. Easily engulfing Ogudomon, it brought her charge to a swift end. Staring down Ophani, she watched her wand twirl about in the air.
Moonlight Kiss!
Ophani let the wand twirl about a couple more times before grabbing it. Holding it above her, seafoam green light flooded out. While normally reducing the enemy to dust, Ogudomon was instead turned back into her False Veronica form. Wedding ring still on her finger, a normal digivice appeared before her and began the descent down to the earth. A far cry from the device that appeared for Volca and Veronica, one can only wonder if a third party had purposefully interfered. But who or what exactly, remained to be seen.
For now, Ophani scooped her former opponent up and began the descent back down to earth.
"Why?" Belphemon announced and felt her body wrapped into a hug. She wanted to die right now. Not get tons of affection.
"Because you deserve a second chance to fix this mess. Not that you'll be left off the hook. Far from it, in fact." Ophani answered as they pierced through the atmosphere. "What would your daughter say if she found out her mother was dead?"
Belphemon rolled her eyes. While Ophani had a point, she wasn't really in the mood to fight the very being that just kicked her ass in two magical girl finishers. One more than what's normally required to vanquish such threats.
"Quite stupid of you to believe that I won't rep-" Belphemon started, only to watch Ophani's wand glow for just a moment. As answers went to her question, that was more than satisfactory in her book. Staring down, the buildings and people looked kind of like ants. The digivice falling with them on the other hand, had just hit terminal velocity. While it would land somewhere out of the way if no one interfered, Belphemon still took the opportunity to scoop it up. Holding it close to her chest, the demon lord of sloth digimon had a pretty good idea who it belonged to. While the thought of being partnered to a human felt like a slap on the wrist for all the crimes she commited, there was no doubt going to be a house arrest of some kind. Perhaps paying for damages and reimbursing the families of the deceased. Yeah. That sounded appropriate. For now, Belphemon pushed that thought to the back of her mind. Whatever her fate was to be, she would accept it. Far better than the alternative of death. "You can just drop me from here."
Ophani shook her head and slowed her descent. The last thing she wanted to happen was her partner accidentally getting crushed by her own careless mistake. Thankfully, Steve and company had fanned out to allow for the senshi digimon to safely land. Once Ophani had, care was taken to walk over to Lucas and hand him his wife. Staring right at Belphemon for just a second, he was met with the digivice.
"Take it." the demon lord of wrath digimon announced and watched her husband scoop the digivice up. Afterwards, her gaze shifted to Veronica. "There! Are you fucking happy now?!"
Veronica rolled her eyes.
"Not really, if I'm being honest here. I much rather have just a digi-egg to smash into pieces." Veronica announced and felt Ophani look her way. Bending down to meet the demon lord of gluttony digimon, a sigh escaped her lips. She wished there was a way easier way to explain why she chose to spare the person responsible for this mess.
'If Ophani had killed her, that's only to result in a new demon lord digimon. One who is even more likely to commit the same acts as Ogudomon did.' Chaos announced and Veronica met the white mage's gaze. 'I understand your feelings a hundred-fold. Right now, we need to be on our guard.'
Veronica snarled, her gaze falling onto the concrete. Staying there for a couple seconds, it eventually turned to Belphemon.
"I have my eye, Verri." she announced and flew in the direction of Volca. She probably would've gotten there, if not for the Timekeeper of all people appearing in the middle of the group. Up close, one could make out words carved into the bullets. Names, to be exact - 'Sora', 'Tai' and 'Joe'. A fourth bullet looked to have gone through the forehead, perhaps an attempt at a killing blow. Or at least, the asshole attempting to inflict the maximum amount of guilt on the shooter as one final fuck you to the whole thing.
"Oh good for you fuckers. You actually managed to solve the problem without killing her. I was kind of hoping you would. Make it far easier to kill you." the asshole greeted, all eyes focusing on him here. "After all, the fact that things got as far as they did cannot be overlooked. By my authority I will re-"
The timekeeper was thankfully cut off by Polly grabbing him by the head and suplexing him into the concrete. Letting out a sigh, she went for a punch to the head for good measure.
"It's bad enough when you purposefully fuck with Elena. Now you wish to fuck over the whole world because now of all times things aren't going the way that they're supposed. Good riddance to you and your friends." the monk magi announced and aquaported back over to her husband. Once there, she got a squeeze from Fatemon. Probably felt quite good
"That's quite a blunt way to put it Mrs Averunucus. But yes, I plan to reset the world once again. Perhaps this time you fuckers and in turn those stupid chosen children/digidestined might behave for once. It's not that ha-" the Timekeeper started, only for Chaos to approach. Gazes meeting, one of the dao broadswords came out. "Oh. It's you. I was wondering when you would show up. For all the events that should've prevented your existence from occurring, you still manage to appear. Now tell me, now with your hands but with your words."
Chaos opened her mouth, but no words came out.
"How rude of you!" Freya announced, any attempts at an approach swiftly cut off by Chaos. Turning back to the Timekeeper, that was his cue to go for a swing. Easily blocked, the white mage chose to hold that position. Even as the world froze and unfroze multiple times.
"Hmph. I expected better from a copy of the original. Or has your blade gone dull and your skills rusty? Don't answer that one." the Timekeeper taunted as Veronica opened fire on him. Fiery bullets shot out of her pistol, slamming right into his chest. While there were clearly chest wounds, they did little to actually stop their opponent from fighting. No, those just served to incense even more. Especially with NORA Omnimon NX flying over to take their shots as well. Letting forth their projectiles, the timekeeper almost looked to be even leaning into those attacks. Almost as if too taunt them even further. Probably didn't have to wait long to fi-
Roast of the Duck!
ChoHakkaimon slammed into the timekeeper, only managing to bounce herself off in the process. Just in time for Thetismon to let forth a toxic spray.
"Pathetic. I was actually expecting some kind of fight, but all I got was idiots. Absolute idiots. Now, where we-" the Timekeeper announced, only to find his words not quite able to
"Ultima."
Crimson droplets fall down from the white mage's mouth. An angelic word from an angel who wings I indirectly clipped, bringing with it a massive white explosion of energy. The shockwave and heat that followed was more than enough to knock most of the people around their opponent to the ground. When the light disappeared, the timekeeper was kneeling on the ground.
"Guess that's what I get for underestimating a xerox of a xerox. Toodles. If you see a different version, assume I'm dead because of you dumb fucks." the Timekeeper announced and teleported away. Looking over to Ophani, the group stared for a couple seconds. Reverting back to a regular state, her armor had given way to a more casual seafoam green dress. Short boots just poke out with the smallest of heels to boot.
"Now what?" Steve announced and everyone looked among each other. While the battle was over, there was still a long way to go. Into the great wide open, under those sk-
Narrator Switch: Harlequin to... Architect
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In a world frozen in time, a red dragon takes one last moment to look over his attire. Dressed in his finest glacial blue ballgown, that would not do for this journey.
"Are you ready to go?" his partner inquired and the dragon did his best to meet his gaze. A sky blue rabbit decorated with white clouds, the sort you would buy a newborn in order to keep them from crying. Currently sitting in a sparkly glacial blue purse, it was a far cry from the closed parasol in the dragon's left claw. Able to open up in a bell-shape, it was the perfect weapon for any wannabe princess. Even as said outfit gave way to that of a much simpler - that of a light blue jacket and pants. The sort one would wear while flying. Taking the time to collapse the parasol down, it joins the rabbit and what looks to be quite a large female body stuffed underneath him. Could it be? Whatever reason they have, there's definitely a reason for them having it. I assume.
Notes:
Thank you for sticking all the way through this massive arc. If you have the time, perhaps it would be best to go back and read through some of my older works. You know, because there's totally no way that the character shown at the end is one already met before. ;)