Digimon: The Year of Reckoning
Chapter 14
"The Seven Deadly Sins Part 3"
Narrated by Nick
Catermon and I moved as fast as we could, trying to find a way back up the cliff. It appeared there was no way.
"Catermon, we obviously can't get up. But maybe you can. Just shoot your sticky string up and grab a hold of the ledge. Then pull yourself up."
"I'm not leaving you down here alone."
"But if you don't, then the others might wind up dead. I'll be fine by myself."
"Well…okay. But I don't like it."
"Deal with it."
"Absorbing Thread!"
The string shot upward but stopped halfway.
"What's wrong?"
"That's all. I'm outta thread. I guess without Mya and my digivice I don't pack as much punch. Not to mention I haven't eaten in awhile, and I used up a lot of thread making the net that saved our lives."
"Yeah, saved our lives, and probably signed the others death."
Suddenly out of the trees popped a Snimon.
"Oh no! It's Snimon, a praying mantis digimon that'll leave you praying after it uses its Twin Sickle attack," Catermon informed.
"What do we do? You can't digivolve without Mya and I can't use my ninja weapons because that brat JT stole my digivice."
"Twin Sickle!"
Catermon was hit! She slowly got up.
"Absorbing Thread!"
Nothing. She was empty. The Snimon began to make strange noises. From behind him came two more Snimon!
"This is hopeless," I said. "We gotta run."
Both of us ran for it through the trees, trying to get into dense forestry so they couldn't follow us.
"Twin Sickle!"
Our plan didn't work. They were easily chopping down trees left and right. I felt a sickle graze my left ear. They were getting closer!
"Catermon, this looks like the end."
"It was nice getting to know you. And getting closer during this whole fiasco."
"Right back at you kid."
"Twin Sickle!"
The ground I was standing on erupted sending Catermon and me flying. I landed in a tree. I wasn't sure where Catermon ended up.
The Snimon were getting closer. I prayed(hey, Catermon was right!) they didn't realize I was in this tree.
A twinkle of light caught my eye. Out on one of the branches. What was it? Maybe it could help us. I started to crawl towards it but…
"Twin Sickle!"
The tree exploded. I fell down to the ground only to be pelted by shrapnel of bark. My head banged against something hard. I lifted myself to a sitting position and looked down to see a medallion! It had a baby blue outer circle and the inner circle was pure white. A faint etching of an angel was on it.
The Snimon was in front of me now. He lifted his sickle and was about to bring it down, but I held out the medallion and it burst with light. A white angel flew from it and rammed into the Snimon destroying him.
His friends saw this and decided they didn't want to die today, and flew away. The angel floated back into the medallion, which I hooked around my neck.
"Ni-ni-ck…"
It was Catermon! She sounded hurt.
"Catermon! Where are you?!"
All I got was a moan. I followed the sound and found her covered in tree bark. When I pulled it away from her I found out why she was moaning. I large pointed branch had stuck right through her body.
"Catermon," I cried. "You're gonna be okay, I'll help you."
"No…Nick, go…help the others…save yourself…forget about me…"
"I won't leave you. We got into this together and we're gonna leave together."
I tried to pick her up but before I could get a hold of her…
"Good…bye…"
…She disappeared. Catermon was dead. And it was my fault. If I hadn't been so obsessed with getting that medallion I could have found her sooner and saved her. I fought back tears, but it was no use. I was alone so I decided to let it all out.
After I had cried my last tear, I noticed that Catermon's bow had been left behind. I picked it up and pocketed it. It was the least I could do for Mya after getting her digimon killed.
I walked back to the cliff and looked up. How was I going to get up? My medallion glowed. The angel exited it again and grabbed me around the waist lifting me up. When he dropped me safely back on the top of the cliff he went back into the medallion.
"Thanks."
I set off to find what kind of trouble the others had gotten into. Crustmon and Betamon were still sitting by the tree. Crustmon not moving a muscle, Betamon, now the size of a horse, was surprise surprise, still eating.
Mya was trying to come on to JT but all he wanted were her earrings. Brandon had finally bandaged his arm his self(and did a very bad job I might add). Faith was chasing after Spikemon, and every few minutes he'd turn around and chase her until poking her in the butt with his horn, then she'd chase him again.
"Guys, I need you all to come here," I ordered.
"You again!" Brandon and Spikemon yelled.
"Oh, you again," Mya said seductively.
"Hey, you took my digimon away from me!" Faith screamed.
"And you tried to take my food!" Betamon quipped.
Crustmon didn't move.
They were all running at me. Just like I wanted them. As soon as they got close enough…
…I threw the net at them. Before the angel had brought me up, I had snagged the net Catermon, rest her soul, had made. Now everyone, with the exception of Crustmon, was caught in it.
"LET US OUT!" Spikemon fumed.
"Not quite yet," I said. "Crustmon, you're first."
I held out the medallion. I was hoping the angel in it could counteract the sin that Devilmon had infected into him.
The angel flew out and soared around Crustmon before shining his light on him. Crustmon blinked and when his eyes opened they were no longer shining blue. He was cured!
"Crustmon!"
We ran at each other and embraced. It felt like it had been an eternity.
"I gotta save the others now."
I aimed my medallion at the net, but was knocked down by something. It was Devilmon!
"What do you think you're doing?"
"I'm saving my friends jackass, what does it look like I'm doing?"
"Not while I'm around you won't!"
I looked at the net. JT had dropped the digivices when he was caught! I ran over and grabbed mine.
"Crustmon digivolve to…Lobstremon!"
"Lobstremon digivolve to…Pearlmon!"
"Ninja Belt!"
Devilmon lunged forward tail raised above his head.
"Hell's Fury!"
Hundred's of little lasers shot from his tail. I expertly cartwheeled and flipped forward and backward dodging all of them. Pearlmon shielded himself with his sword.
"Pearl Katana Strike!"
Devilmon leapt into the air getting nicked in the foot.
"Arggh!"
"Devil's Horn!"
He headbutted Pearlmon, but his horn's bounced off of my digimon's tough, pearl armor. I let two ninja stars rip. One missed, the other stuck into his leg.
"No more messing around. Blazing Inferno!"
Walls of fire rose all around us. They were closing in on us!
"Pearlmon jump!"
I jumped high and flipped over the flames landing smoothly on the forest floor. But Pearlmon didn't make it. The flames enveloped him. When they subsided all that was left was a pile of ash that was really a pile of burnt sand.
"Sandmon!"
Suddenly my medallion lit up. The angel flew out and into Sandmon.
"NO!" Devil screamed. "Not Angemon!"
"Sandmon digivolve to…Crustmon!"
"Crustmon medallion digivolve to…Holymon! Angel of Hope!"
Holymon was an angel almost identical to Angemon, only in green instead of blue. And he still had large claws for hands.
"You're time is up Devilmon," Holymon warned. "Holy Claw!"
His claw began to shine white light. He lifted it up and brought it down on Devilmon knocking him away. The crystal box flew from him.
"Holymon! It's the crystal box! Destroy it!" I yelled.
"Holy Claw!"
The crystal box exploded. I looked at my friends. Their eyes changed back to normal.
"What happened? Where are we?" they all asked.
"You haven't seen the last of Devilmon!"
He sank into the ground and was gone. Holymon shrunk back into Sandmon and Angemon flew back into my medallion.
I ran over and undid the net and the others were freed without a single memory of what had happened.
"It's a long story," was my only answer.
"Hey, where's Catermon?" Mya asked.
I dreaded that question.
"Um…well, she…Mya I'm so sorry."
"What?"
I couldn't figure out how to say it, so I just pulled out Catermon's bow and handed it to Mya.
"What are you saying? Is Catermon…?"
"I'm sorry Mya. We were attacked by Snimon and…she was hit hard."
"I can't believe it."
Neither could I. Mya didn't shed one tear. What was wrong with her? Maybe she was just in shock.
She held the bow to her heart. I leaned forward and hugged her. In doing so, my medallion made contact with Catermon's bow and they both shone pink and white light.
"What the…?" everybody said.
Mya held out her hand and the bow melted and molded into an egg. A white egg with pink bows imprinted on it.
"It's Catermon!" she exclaimed. Without a hint of happiness, I noted.
"She's alive! This is so great! It's a miracle," I said.
"Sounds like you two really bonded," Brandon noticed.
"Yeah. I think I'm in love with that bug. And not like that you perv."
We had a good laugh. We had a lot to celebrate. I had a medallion, the sins had vanished, and best of all Catermon was alive. I guess things weren't as bad as they seemed.
Catermon's alive, but what if another digimon dies? Will they come back to life too? And what trick does Devilmon have in store for the digidestined next?