Digimon: The Year of Reckoning
Chapter 13
"The Seven Deadly Sins Part 2"
Narrated by Nick
Let's review for a minute. We had all gotten our orbs. All of our digimon have digivolved to ultimate. We've come into our own powers. Brandon found a medallion. He unlocked its power and Spikemon medallion digivolved to Talonmon. Next, Genevra found half of an ancient prophecy. Now we're on the lookout for some kind of key that unlocks the gate between the real world and the digital world. And as if we didn't have enough on our plate, this chump Devilmon showed up and infected everyone except for me and Catermon with one of seven deadly sins. Weird? It was about to get even weirder.
Catermon and I stared at the pile of our friends. Each one had been surrounded by a different colored light, but now the light had subsided. I noticed Brandon's hand move slightly.
"Catermon, I think Brandon's waking up."
Sure enough, my best friend slowly arose to his feet, eyes still closed.
"Brandon, are you okay?" we asked together.
He opened his eyes. I gasped. They were shining the same yellow light that had covered him earlier.
"I'm fine."
"Oh my God, you're bleeding!" I said noticing blood literally oozing out of his left arm.
"Well what do ya know," he said, with no emotion at all, looking down, "I guess I am."
"Here, I'll help you bandage it," Catermon offered drawing near him.
"No, I'm fine. I don't need your help," he snapped.
"Brandon, you're bleeding really bad. I think you need to cover the wound," I said.
"I told you, I don't need your help."
"Brandon, just let me spin some string into a…ugh!"
Brandon had backhanded her!
"What the hell are you doing?!"
"I tried to tell her to back off. I barely feel a thing. Just leave it."
"Brandon, you just hit her! Your head must be messed up from blood loss!"
"Okay, unless you wanna end up like her, you better leave me alone."
And with that he shoved past me and walked away through the trees. I ran to Catermon and helped her up.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah. What was wrong with him? Was that one of the sins?"
"I think so. I'm guessing…pride maybe."
"Nick, if he doesn't cover the wound, he could die of blood loss."
"I know, but I can't get to him. He's convinced he doesn't need any help."
"I have an idea. Follow me."
I followed Catermon as she took the same path Brandon took. We found him sprawled on the ground, breathing heavily.
"Brandon!"
"Stay away from me!"
"So what's your plan?" I asked Catermon.
"Absorbing Thread!"
She wrapped Brandon in string, and absorbed a little bit of power, so that he couldn't fight us. Then while I held him down, she went to work wrapping his arm.
"Done."
He was still dazed, but he was out of immediate danger, so we decided to leave him there for the time being and check on the others.
When we got back things had changed. I saw Betamon sitting under a fruit tree, with a big pile of fruit beside him. He was eating it at a very speedy rate.
"Betamon you found food!" I congratulated.
I walked over and picked up one.
"Beta Slugger!"
It was knocked from my hand.
"What was that for?"
"It's my food, get your own!"
And with that he consumed the entire pile of food.
"Hungry much?" Catermon quipped.
"I need more. Get out of my way!"
His eyes flashed orange. He jumped past us and climbed another tree in search of more food. Catermon and I looked at each other.
"Gluttony," we said simultaneously.
"Nick! I've been looking all over for you."
We turned around to see Mya.
"Mya I'm so glad you're okay," Catermon said.
"Um…Catermon, can you go find me some water please. I'm parched."
"Anything for you."
Catermon left my side. I stared after her not noticing the pink gleam in Mya's eyes.
"Oh Nick, I'm so glad we're alone now. I've been meaning to show you something."
"What?"
"This."
And out of nowhere, she crossed her arms, grabbing the hem of her tube-top and began to pull it up.
"Mya what are you doing?"
"Come on big boy. I know you want me," she said in a very sexy voice.
She continued to lift her shirt, but as soon as I saw that she didn't have a bra on underneath I rushed forward to stop her, ended up tripping and taking her down with me. Now I lay on top of her and I finally see the pink in her eyes.
"Mya this isn't you. I mean normally I would jump at the chance of seeing you topless. But, I know this is just the lust talking. I can't take advantage of you."
"But I want to be taken advantage of," she whined.
Who was I to deny her of what she wanted? No! No, no, no! I couldn't do this to my friend. I got off of her and she gave me her best puppy-dog face. I wanted so badly to lay back down on top of her and take off her shirt myself, but I couldn't do that to her.
"Get up and stop acting like a slut."
The words hit her like a slap in the face. She immediately stood up and smacked me across the face. I took it like a man and just walked away.
"Crustmon!" I cheered. "Boy am I glad to see you. Things are really weird around here."
He let out a slow, drawn-our sigh.
"What's wrong with you?"
"I'm…just…so…tired," he yawned.
"Well, now's not the time. Come on, we need to find that Devilmon guy and put an end to this."
I tried to pick him up but he was like a ton of bricks. He just sat there on his ass and didn't move a muscle. He didn't even blink, giving me a perfect view of the blue light in his eyes.
"Not you too. Let me guess…sloth. Which means you're just gonna sit there and do jack-crap until the curse is broken."
He just stared forward as if in a deep sleep. He finally craned his head up towards me.
"…yeah…"
Well he wasn't gonna be much help. Suddenly out of the tree beside us dropped Betamon. He was about the size of a Sheepdog now.
"Betamon! I think you need to lay off the food."
"NO! I'm hungry. I need it. I NEED IT!"
I backed away. These people were just too weird. I ran into Catermon.
"Mya…she's different…she…"
"I know. She even came on to me," I informed.
"She…she…came on to me too!" Catermon cried.
I stumbled in shock. Can we say EW?!
"Um…okay…well, right now we need to find the others. Make sure they haven't gone insane too."
I felt a slight tugging at my pants.
"What the…?"
It was JT! He had taken something and was now running away.
"Catermon stop him!"
She shot her thread at him, wrapping it around his legs. He fell forward and four digivices fell from his hands.
"You stole our digivices?!"
"They're mine now. You can't have them!" he screamed flashing his black eyes.
"JT I'm not clowning around."
I reached down and grabbed my digivice.
"No!"
His hand turned green and his bow appeared. Mounting his arrow he shot it straight at me. I barely dodged it.
"Give it to me! I want, I want, I want!"
"JT stop being so…greedy," I realized.
While figuring out his sin, I didn't notice him swipe the digivice from my hand again.
"Hey!"
"AHH!"
"Faith! Let go of Catermon!"
"I want a digimon. It's not fair that everyone else has one. So I'm taking this one!"
"No bitch!" Catermon yelled. "Let me go! I belong to Mya!"
"Mya! She's got everything. Everything that I want. Beauty, brains, and digimon! I hate her! I'll kill her!"
Green-eyed Faith slammed Catermon down on the ground and ran off to find Mya.
"We have to stop her before her envy gets the better of her!" Catermon cried.
"Before Faith kills Mya, or before Mya comes on to Faith?" I asked.
"Not funny!" she yelled.
"Sorry, it was too easy. Is that everybody?"
"No, we haven't seen Spikemon."
"It's Rhinomon now."
We turned around to see the giant rhinoceros looming over us. His eyes were bright red.
"Rhinomon must have anger. It's the only one left," Catermon figured.
"Let's not make him mad then."
"You're the ones who attacked my master, Brandon. You will pay for hurting him!"
He pawed the ground preparing to charge us.
"Get out of the way!" I yelled.
We jumped to the side as he tore past us. He kept going smashing down trees, completely obliterating the forest.
"What are we going to do?" I asked. "Our friends are crazy and their going to end up killing each other."
"I think that was Devilmon's plan."
"Nick! Catermon! I have a bone to pick with you!" Brandon yelled.
He came at us, his arm was unbandaged, still dripping blood.
"Run!" I told Catermon.
We ran for it with Brandon right on our heels. Deeper and deeper into the forest. My legs were becoming weaker with each stride I took.
Then we reached a dead-end. A cliff. A very high cliff.
Brandon stopped in front of us.
"You know guys, I don't think that we need you on this team anymore. I am the leader, and you refused to listen to me. That demonstrates poor teamwork. Now you'll pay for disobeying me."
He lunged forward and pushed me backwards. I fell off the cliff, soon followed by Catermon.
"AHHH!" we both screamed.
Down and down we went. Getting closer and closer to the ground. And then…
…we hit! Only, it wasn't a hard hit. It was soft, like falling on pillows or…or a…net!
"Catermon, you saved us!"
"Oh, it was nothing," she blushed. "This is bad Nick. Real bad. Now that we're down here, there's no one to stop them from killing themselves or each other."
"I know Catermon. We have to get back up there somehow. Since you can't digivolve and we certainly can't climb, then we better start walking."
Will Nick and Catermon be able to get back up the cliff? Will they make it in time? Or will they come back to a graveyard?