Chapter 8: Devimon Strikes Back
After battling all through the night, everyone was more than slightly
sleepy. They all trudged back to the tent with Saintmon flying alongside
them. T.K yawned loudly. "I never stay up this late. Even when my mum's
out." He said drowsily. Kari nodded in agreement. Saintmon decided to take
guard, since everyone else was so tired. Kari put the golden crest around
her neck and slipped inside her red sleeping bag to rest.
******
I was defeated. With all my power, defeated by the three smallest children!
Cerin thought as he brought his hand down onto his wooden, black-painted
computer desk, making a loud banging noise. Well, not time to give up yet.
Cerin pressed a green button on his computer. "ImperialDevimon." He said.
The screen flickered and then the picture of a huge cloaked demon came into
view. "You called Cerin?" The giant digimon asked. "Time to destroy the
children, starting with the three youngest." I-Devimon nodded.
******
T.K woke some time during the day, and walked outside. Saintmon
appeared to have digivolved back to Gatomon and Patamon, who did not
notice him. If it weren't for the giant statue at the top, this
scenery might actually be beautiful, T.K thought. He looked
around. The entire mountain was covered in trees and grass, some
digimon flying about and jumping through the trees. He walked over to
a nearby river and splashed some water on his face, yawning. The sun
was still around the middle of the deep blue sky. T.K sat down on the
soft grass. "I'm to little to be fighting teenagers and giant bad
digimon." T.K complained to the river. As if in response, a shiny
silver head poked out of the water.
"Aah!" T.K shouted in surprise. "No need to be alarmed, it's
Coelamon." The little head said. T.K looked at him suspiciously. "How
do I know you aren't one of Cerin's little pets?" He asked. Coelamon
nodded his head. "It is wise not to trust just anyone. But I assure
you I'm on your side." The digimon in the river replied. The little
child nodded, looking into the fish digimon's eyes and seeing that his
words were the truth.
"Hey T.K, who you talking to out there?" A voice who T.K instantly
recognised as Kari's entered the conversation. T.K turned around.
"Kari? What are you doing up so early?" He asked. The brown-haired
girl yawned. "I heard you shout, so I came out to investigate." She
explained. The Purity crest dangling around Kari's neck gave off a
golden light that seemed more natural than sunlight to T.K.
"Coelamon, meet Kari, my best friend. Kari, meet this little fish
digimon guy called Coelamon. It popped up when I was sitting by the
river." T.K introduced the two of them to each other. Coelamon nodded
it's metallic head. "Nice to meet you, Chosen one." The fish digimon
greeted Kari, causing both T.K and Kari to whirl around. "How do you
know I'm the Chosen?" Kari asked.
"Easy, only the Chosen can wear that crest." Coelamon pulled a clawed
hand out of the water to point at it. Both digidestined children
relaxed their suspicion. "Sorry, we have been slightly jumpy since the
battle with Cerin and Merla last night. We've only had about 6 hours
sleep." T.K said, yawning for the effect. Coelamon nodded. It swam
around in a circle a bit then popped it's head out. "If you need me,
just blow your whistle, and I'll come swimming." It said, then went
splashing off down the river.
"I'm sleepy. Let's go back to the tent and get some rest. We'll need
it, considering the way things have been going." Kari yawned, trudging
off down the path from the river, illuminating the area. T.K followed
after her.
The next morning....
"Aah, that was a good sleep." Tristan said, stretching as he walked out
of the tent. Wyvermon hovered out behind him. Tristan took a a seat
against a nearby tree. Tristan's digimon flew over and perched on his
head. "What's the matter Tristan, you seem to be worried about
something." The little digimon asked. "Ah.... Nothing." Tristan
replied, sighing.
Gatomon emerged from the tent, rubbing her eyes with her paw. "Good
morning." The little digimon said. "Hi Gatomon." Tristan greeted the
little cat. T.K and Kari emerged from the tent, then Patamon
followed. "Ah good, everyone's here." Tristan said, running over to his
bag and taking out a little camera. "What's that for?" T.K asked. "I
want a picture of you two and your digimon, standing over by that
tree." Tristan said. Everyone almost fell over at this news. "A
picture? Why a picture? Why now?" T.K asked.
T.K and Kari went over and stood by the tree, their digimon following.
"Ok, now smile." Tristan said, and proceeded to take the photo. Everyone
rushed over to see it. "Sorry this camera isn't Polaroid." Tristan explained.
"So what do we do now?" Kari asked. "I suggest we get a move on up the
mountain. It's no use just sitting here." Tristan suggested. Everyone
complained a little at this, then agreed. They put the tent away and started
back on the long trudge up the mountain.
About two hours later....
"Let's stop for a bit, I need to rest a bit. I'm not used to cross-country
flying." Wyvermon said, hopping over to a nearby tree. Tristan nodded, sitting
down to rest. The rest of the digimon and humans followed. "So why are we
going up this high, high mountain anyway?" Patamon asked quizzically.
"We need to find out what Cerin is up to. Besides, we could use the exercise."
T.K replied. Kari sat down next to another tree with Gatomon and started
to rub her arms. "Gee it's freezing. I didn't even pack a jumper when we all
came to Izzy's house." She complained.
Kari looked up suddenly. "Did you guys here that?" She asked
worriedly. "What did you hear?" T.K asked, learning to trust Kari's
ways of hearing and predicting. "It sounds like... Wizardmon!" Kari
shouted in alarm. Everyone looked to where she was facing. Above the
top of the statue a battle was raging. The winning opponent appeared
to be a huge horned humanoid skeleton, cloaked in a crimson
cloak. "Devil's Flame!" The alarmed digidestined heard the shout of the
Mega digimon from up the top of the mountain. The skeletal digimon
opened his arms and a black flame shot out, incinerating the other.
Squinting hard, Gatomon managed to make out the ragged form of her long-lost
friend, Wizardmon. His blue hat was in tatters, while his staff with the
golden spiked orb on the end appeared to have lost it's energy. The short
digimon was barely conscious, just managing to float in the air with the
remainder of his power. "Patamon! Digivolve and then we'll DNA!" Gatomon
instructed. "Patamon, digivolve too ---- Angemon!" The angel floated up
above Gatomon. Kari held out her Purity crest to the two digimon. "Gatomon!"
"Angemon!" "DNA digivolve too ---- Saintmon!" The white robed holy warrior
stood hovering above the children.
"Saintmon! Help Wizardmon!" Kari instructed. Saintmon nodded. "Light
Restoration!" Saintmon shouted out the name of it's attack as Saintmon
fired a golden beam from it's hand. "Just in time!" The newly
recovered form of Wizardmon said. He dodged a black flame from the
other digimon's hand. "Magical Game!" Wizardmon's staff fired a bolt
of lightning, which was cut off by the Mega digimon. "Ha! I am
ImperialDevimon, reborn after that puny angel defeated me. Let's see
if you can take me on now!" I-Devimon boasted.
"Hope's Blade!" Saintmon shouted, taking splinters of bone off I-Devimon's
left leg as it flew by. "They need help." T.K said, though everyone else
appeared to recognise this. "Kari, hold out the crest of Purity to Wizardmon!"
Wyvermon instructed. Kari did as she was told and held out the crest, which
shot a ray of golden light out to the little digimon, then flying to Saintmon,
Wyvermon and finally the three digidestined. T.K felt a strange tingling
sensation as the Purity light touched him.
"Wyvermon, warp digivolve too ...."
"Saintmon, digivolve too ...."
"Wizardmon, digivolve too ...."
The three children watched in wonder, witnessing the amazing change the
ray had effected in their friends. "What? Impossible!" ImperialDevimon
shouted, his eyes stinging from the light.
"Azulongmon!"
"Gabrielmon!"
"Sorcerermon!"
"That's Azulongmon. The
guardian of the east side of the digital world. I doubt that this new
Devimon can take him on." Tristan said, remembering the digital
analyser information. T.K pointed to the adult human sized angel above
him. His digivolution had transformed the white robe into a golden
silk one, glittering in the light from Kari's crest and the slowly
fading sun. Part of the robe had given way to a pair of the purest
white wings. The sword appeared to have disappeared, and now golden
leg plates ran up the angel's legs, disappearing into his
robes. "He's Gabrielmon. Just about everything he wears is made from
golden digichromozoid, the hardest metal known to digimon." T.K
explained.
"Last but not least, that digimon over there is Sorcerermon, Ultimate
form of Wizardmon. His Ultimate Energy attack renders most digimon a
lifeless heap." Kari explained. Wizardmon appeared to have lost his
blue outfit, replaced with his Ultimate form's golden striped white
cloak. Purple half-cones seemed to come from just past his elbows on
every side of his arms, which continued down about 5 inches past his
hands. He wore a purple outfit with white plate armour over the top.
The popular hat still rested on his head, however it had lost the skull
picture and turned purple. Sorcerermon had a new staff, which had a red
handle topped with a statue of a golden angel.
"I can defeat you newly digivolved forms as well!" I-Devimon shouted,
clearly not as confident. Kari felt the power of Purity rush through her
as a golden orb surrounded the three humans, lifting them up level with the
battle. "Fire Lightning!" I-Devimon shouted, firing twisting streams of fire
at the three of them. "Blue Lightning!" The wingless dragon Azulongmon shouted
as a streak of blue fired from his scales, deflecting the would-be attack.
"Pure Rejection!" Gabrielmon shouted. He glowed golden, the entire mountain
obeying and turning the same colour. "Wh... What's he doing?" T.K asked in
wonder as he watched from Kari's glowing orb.
Kari grinned to herself. She knew what was going to happen. The rapidly
advancing light reached the fleeing ImperialDevimon. He screamed an inhumane
scream, then in his place the form of an injured MagnaAngemon appeared.
"Thank you digidestined..." The being whispered as it trailed off into
nothingness. Still the light advanced, surrounding the entire of File Island.
"Hey Kari, what's going on?" Kari suddenly became aware of the small boy
next to her. "The golden light is basically telling the evil stuff around
to push off, just leaving the good stuff behind. Gabrielmon's ultimate attack."
The Chosen child explained. T.K nodded.
******
"Hey! What's with all the light!" Tai said in annoyance, squinting to make out
one foot in front of him. They heard a last dying scream as the returned
Myotismon dissolved. "You.. will... pay.. for.. this... Digidestined!" The
last dying words out of Myotismon's mouth threatened. Then he was ripped away.
"I feel so powerful Tai!" Wargreymon announced. MetalGarurumon appeared to
feel the same as well. Garudamon was shining, reflecting the power from the
wave of Light, Hope and Life.
******
"Wow! Look at the dazzling pretty lights!" Mimi exclaimed. The horde of
Dark Tyrannomon following the three children stopped their unneeded rampage
through the desert. The blackness disappeared and shattered away, leaving
a rather confused group of Tyrannomon, who ran off into the distance. "Well
it certainly does have good side-effects. It isn't any old light, normal light
this bright would blind us." Izzy said. "Hopefully it won't make me sneeze."
Joe said his usual complaining comment.
******
The golden light outside the orb holding the three nine year olds
reached the Machinedramon statue, and swivelled back. On top there
appeared Merla and Cerin with their digimon, each holding out their
crests to create a black shield around the
statue. "I.. don't... know.. how... much.. longer... I.. can... keep.. this..
up... Cerin..." Merla said, sweat running down her face from the
exertion of keeping the shield up. "Then don't! If we cannot protect
the statue then just protect yourself!" Cerin snapped at her, the
shield around the statue disintegrating and forming around him. The
two evil children flew upwards in their black orbs, out of the golden
light and through a shining door in the sky above Mt. Digital.
The golden light surrounding File Island faded, leaving it shimmering,
clean and free of evil. The Machinedramon statue was no more, where it
was stood a much smaller statue of Kari, holding the golden crest in
one hand. None could see this however, since the three children and their
partners had all floated to the ground and fallen asleep the moment
the golden light disappeared. Kari's crest glowed briefly, calling
into existence a orange blanket that settled down onto the six of
them. The hard ground and rough vegetation had been replaced by a much
softer layout of grass and dirt.
It seemed to Gennai, watching down from above, that the golden light
had reprogrammed not just the digimon, but File Island itself. "But
why would Gabrielmon exert power like that? It wasn't as if the
children were even in that greater danger up in Kari's orb." Gennai
questioned to the air. A exhausted Wizardmon lay a few feet off from
the digidestined and the other digimon. He lifted his head weakly for
a moment and smiled. "I think I could get used to this new File
Island." Wizardmon said humorously, then fell into a deep
sleep.
Gennai stared in horror as he noticed the reason for using
the power. The return of Devimon had caused the Black Gears to
return. Infinity Mountain had split apart, and thousands of the
demonic gears were flying out of the island and disintegrating.
"Ah well. Time to be going." Gennai said to himself, flying off towards
Server.
****
"Kari! Kari!"
That voice.... there something wrong with it... Kari thought.
"Come on Kari! We have to get out of here! ImperialDevimon is coming!"
Is that... T.K? She pondered.
Kari's eyes snapped open. She looked around to find herself lying on the
uncomfortable mountain with T.K standing over her. Far off Sorcerermon
was battling with ImperialDevimon and appeared to be losing.
Upon seeing Kari awake, T.K grabbed her hand and pulled the brown-haired
girl to her feet. "We have to go while Sorcerermon holds off I-Devimon!"
T.K repeated. Something wasn't right here... Kari found herself thinking.
"T.K? There's something strange... I can't quite put my finger on it..."
Kari said. Then she looked into his eyes. The normally perfectly innocent
blue eyes were replaced by green, maniacal eyes that counteracted T.K's normal
selflessness. Kari stared on in horror as T.K attempted to get her to move.
"I see. So the Chosen is as intelligent as they say." T.K said, grimacing
a little as she recognised him for his true form. "So, you finally guessed
it did you? Looks like you know the true owner of this body's reactions would
be different." Destruction/T.K said, teasing her.
"But wait a minute, this is only a dream, isn't it. So you cannot hurt me."
Kari said bravely. "I may not be able to physically hurt you, but what's
stopping me feeding you images from your past that you would rather have
forgotten? You will be afraid to sleep after the first few nights of this."
Destruction threatened at her. Then she let out a scream no-one except her
and Destruction could hear as images of past nightmares and experiences
she had forgotten passed through her.
****
"No.. I won't let you! You can't destroy them!" Kari twisted and turned in her
sleep, her face devoid of colour. T.K sat up, alarmed. "Kari?" The small child
asked, alarmed. Gatomon woke up from her rather comfortable position at Kari's
feet, moving suddenly to avoid being kicked by Kari, who was thrashing around
in her sleep. Gatomon's ears pricked up in alarm. "What's wrong with her?"
The cat digimon asked, concerned for her human partner. The other human
shook his head, looking at the sleeping Patamon above him in a tree.
T.K gently shook Kari, attempting to calm her down. She relaxed her
thrashing around a little but still did not wake up, mumbling
fearfully in her sleep. T.K touched the crest around her neck, then
backed away as a searing pain grew up his hand. "YOUWCH! That thing
knows how to burn!" T.K said, shaking his hand around. Gatomon walked
over to Kari's head. "Come on Kari, wake up, your having a nightmare."
The little digimon said gently. T.K tightened his grip on the other
child's arm and Kari finally stopped having the nightmare.
T.K and Gatomon lay back down to rest for another hour or so. "Poor Kari,
she had to be the Chosen child. I'd hate it if I had to have nightmares
every night." T.K said sympathetically. Gatomon was already asleep, however,
so T.K followed Kari's digimon's example.