Digimon: The Year of Reckoning
Chapter 12
"The Seven Deadly Sins Part 1"
Narrated by Nick
After processing the info on the key, we continued through the forest, in search of it and more medallions. I had a feeling that we'd need more than just Talonmon if we wanted any chance of defeating Darkmon.
"Nick, will you carry me?" Sandmon pleaded, putting on his best puppy-dog face.
"Sure pal."
I picked up the pile of sand gingerly, not wanting to drop any of him.
"Do you think I'll ever medallion digivolve?"
"Of course you will," I said. "You'll be the toughest one out there."
He smiled and hopped from my hands to go and brag to the other digimon.
Suddenly a bush moved. I looked closer, but nothing was there. Probably my imagination.
"Did anyone else see that?" Mya asked.
"See what?"
"Something moved up in that tree."
"Well I just saw something move in these bushes. Or at least I thought I did."
Everybody stopped to look around. Brandon pulled out his sword just in case.
"Shama!"
Not these guys again. One jumped at JT but Brandon chopped him in half with a swing of his sword.
More and more leapt from the bushes, trees, everywhere. There were too many to count.
"Sandmon, let's kick it up a notch."
"Sandmon digivolve to…Crustmon!"
"Ninja Belt!" I called.
I pulled out my ninja stars and flung them at the Shamamon, taking three down but not out.
"Shaman Hammer!"
The little ankle biters were smacking my legs. There were too many. My legs buckled.
"I'll help you Nick!" Crustmon yelled.
"Crustmon digivolve to…Lobstremon!"
With his large claw he knocked away most of the Shamamon at my feet, but the ones he missed were now whacking my head. Talk about a headache.
"Tidal Twister!"
I may have gotten soaked, but at least the Shamamon attacking me were destroyed.
Meanwhile I looked to see Seadramon and Rhinomon attacking a swarm of Shamamon, while MetalButtramon was taking care of a few herself.
"Wing Scythe!"
The metal insect swooped down using her metallic wings to slice through the Shamamon.
"Spike Missile!"
"Ice Blast!"
The remaining Shamamon were either impaled or frozen. The battle was over.
"Well that was a nice workout," I joked.
The others didn't find it too funny. They were way too serious about these fights. It's all fun and games.
Our digimon returned to rookie.
"Wow, Catermon, you didn't go to in-training," Mya said astonished.
"I guess I didn't use up a lot of energy during the battle."
That made sense.
"We should probably start moving again," Brandon said.
We all took a step forward and then…UP! Up and up we went. Faith and Mya screamed. Brandon grunted as JT fell on him. I yelled obscenities. And when it was all over, we were hanging several feet off the ground in a big net.
"What the…" I started.
"So glad you could join me. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Devilmon."
I saw him down on the ground. The size of a muskrat, but he looked exactly like the devil. Horns, tail, evil grin, red, everything. Mya let out a muffled scream. I looked over to see her hand over her mouth, eyes wide as saucers.
"Mya, what's wrong? Do you know this guy?" I asked.
She continued to stare at Devilmon before turning her gaze on me. She slowly shook her head. I didn't buy it. She wasn't telling us something.
"You're probably wondering why I've captured you. Well, it's simple. I found a new toy and I was hoping to try it out on you."
He snapped his fingers and a crystal box appeared in front of him.
"What is that thing?" Spikemon asked.
"So glad you asked," Devilmon continued. "This is the beginning of the end. The end of you."
He laughed long and hard.
"Let's get the show started. How about a countdown? 10," he said.
"Crustmon, try cutting out of this net with your claws," I ordered.
"9."
"I'm trying, but it might take awhile."
"8."
"We don't have much time," JT hurried.
"7."
"We have to get away," Mya insisted.
"6."
"What do you mean?"
"5."
"I just…have a feeling."
"4."
"I just don't think he can be trusted."
"3."
"I've almost got it," Crustmon announced.
"2."
"There," I said, "we have a hole."
"1."
Being the closest I slipped through it. Luckily I was on the other side of the tree, so Devilmon didn't see me. I looked up to see Catermon fall just as…
"0."
He opened the crystal box. I saw that the inside consisted of 7 balls of light. They shot from the box flinging themselves around the trees. They finally came back to where we were and all of them flew into the net, each one hitting someone different.
The net exploded in light. Everyone fell to the ground. They were all surrounded by a different color of light. Brandon was yellow, Spikemon was red, Faith was green, JT was black, Mya was fuchsia, Crustmon was blue, and Betamon was orange.
"What's happening to them?" I asked.
"I don't know, but it doesn't look good," Catermon answered.
"Ha-ha-ha! It worked, it really worked!" Devilmon crowed.
"What did you do to them?!" I demanded.
"Hey! How did you two get out of there? Oh well, I could only use seven anyway. And now I get the pleasure of seeing your friends defy and possibly attack you."
"Tell us what you did asshole!" Catermon threatened.
"Well, well, well. You kiss your mother with that mouth?"
"Just answer the question," I said.
"Fine. I infected your friends with the seven deadly sins, one per person/digimon."
"Seven deadly sins?"
"Yes. Pride, anger, envy, greed, lust, sloth, and gluttony. Those balls of light will bring out the worst of these qualities in your friends, driving themselves and each other to extinction."
"Who do you think you are? You just come here out of the blue and start infecting people with sin and death and you're just so calm and unemotional about it. What's your deal?"
"I told you, I'm Devilmon. I need not explain my motives to you, but to shut you up, I will plainly state that this is all fun and games for me. I enjoy watching others suffer. And if you want to know about suffering, why don't you ask your friend Mya."
"You leave Mya out of this!" Catermon and I yelled.
"Well as fun as getting insulted and yelled at is, I must leave and let your friends get on with killing each other. Too-da-loo!"
And with that final statement he vanished. So that was it?
I looked at my friends. The light had disappeared, but they were still lying on the ground. After listening to Devilmon's antics, I was almost afraid for them to wake up.
"What are we going to do Nick?"
"I don't know Catermon. But I do know I'm not gonna let that creep Devilmon get what he wants. We'll just have to try and get these sins out of our friends."
"Yeah. And, we don't even know if they worked," she said hopefully. "I mean Devilmon said they were new, so he's never used them before. They might be broken."
"Yeah, maybe your right."
Boy was she wrong.
How will the infected kids/digimon act when they awaken? Is Devilmon right? Will they bring death to one another? Or is Devilmon just some tiny, impotent Nazi with a bug up his butt the size of an emu?