A/N: The last chapter didn't get many reviews... PLEASE REVIEW THIS!!! IT'S REALLY HARD TO KEEP ON WRITING WITHOUT ANY ENCOURAGEMENT FOR ME!!! And thanks to the few ones that did review the last chapter! I luv 'em ^_^!
And I'm so sorry. This isn't the last chapter, like I promised in chapter fourteen. I had to split this chapter in two cuz it got *too* long.
Anyway... Here's: The Meaning Of Friendship: Chapter fifteen! (yay!)
"Knimon?" Sora yelled with rage. "Then it was you who infected Matt!"
"True, little human, true." Knimon chuckled evilly.
"Oh, if I just could get out of here I'd-" Trasdomon started but was cut off.
"I haven't seen you in a long time, my friend. Don't think you will be able to save the Chosen Children from the prophecy. You're still trapped inside of the cave!" The virus-type said looking at Trasdomon who was standing as near the cave's opening as he could.
"What prophecy?" Sora wondered.
"Haven't you heard about it?" Knimon said in a teasing tone. "Then I'll tell you! What is it really that is binding the Digidestineds together? Friendship! You'd be dead without your precious bearer of the crest of friendship! You wouldn't last a day if the friendship between you died! And guess what? It won't be long until he does!"
"Never!" Tai shouted. "Go MetalGreymon!"
"Yeah, shut his mouth, Garudamon!" Sora followed.
"Mega Claw!" MetalGreymon growled, but Knimon dodged it.
"Razor Fist!" He screamed as four metallic blades came shooting out from between his knuckles.
MetalGreymon managed to duck it and the razor-sharp items dove deeply into the ground.
"Giga Blaster!"
The dark, sinister Digimon blocked the fireball sending it towards the cave instead. When it hit the ground by the opening, a big hole was made.
"Look!" Tai said, and four rusty, but probably still very sharp, knife blades flew up. They spun around a second in the air before they dissolved into small pieces of data.
"Wing Blade!" a strong voice then called from above.
A big firebird hit Knimon in the back head, sending him down to the ground and leaving him unconscious.
"Cool!" Tai yelled.
"Good job, Garudamon!" Sora said to her Digipartner.
"Look! I'm outside!" They suddenly heard a happy voice cheer. "The sun! The sun! Ah, the sun!" Trasdomon continued to joyfully yell before stopping abruptly.
"Friendship! I-I can heal him now!" And with that, the white clad Digimon dashed back into the cave, only to come out again in a few seconds, carrying the motionless body of Matt.
He carefully laid the boy in the green grass on the ground.
"Maybe you could get the other Digidestineds out too?" Trasdomon asked.
Garudamon simply put a hand into the hole, and then pulled it out again, holding the still sleeping humans. After that, she did the same with the Digimon.
Trasdomon bent down beside Matt and as he shouted "Healing Beam!" the blue sky seemed to lighten up. The sun swelled up, and then sent a lightning like ray of shining light into the Digimon's open hand. The sunbeam shaped itself like a glove around the hand and Trasdomon slowly, as if not wanting the glow to fade, put it on Matt's chest. The light around his hand spread over Matt's chest, then wrapped itself around his entire body.
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Darkness... Cold... Alone...
It had been long since Sora had left. Matt still couldn't feel his body except for some occasions. But all he was able to feel then was an intense screaming pain. He didn't know what it was that caused it. He was so tired.
Suddenly, something made him feel his body once again. At first Matt thought it was another pain seizure, but no pain came. But there was warmth... It felt good...
His azure eyes slowly fluttered open. There was a powerful white light around him. Surprised by it's strength, he closed his eyes again.
When Matt finally opened them for a second time, he saw some kind of Digimon beside him. He realized that the warm light that had woken him up was coming from its hand. The Digimon beamed happily at Matt when he saw that he was awake.
The blond boy inhaled deeply, still very tired, but not feeling so bad any longer.
Then he saw someone else. Sora!
The redheaded girl was gazing at him joyfully, but he could still see that she was worried about him. It looked like if she was glowing in some strange way...
He wasn't sure, because he was still a little dizzy.
Matt turned his head a bit to the right and saw a familiar face with big brown hair. Weirdly enough, Tai seemed to glow too, but in another colour. Tai smiled his ordinary goofy grin and Matt smirked weakly at his best friend.
He saw that both Tai and Sora's lips were moving, but he didn't hear any sounds escaping them. He peered confusedly at the white clad Digimon and saw that it was saying something to his friends.
'Where's Tk and the others...? And Gabumon?' Matt thought drowsily. He opened his mouth to speak, but his throat was too dry and no words came out.
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Sora gazed dreamily into Matt's eyes. She hadn't realized how much she had really missed them.
Matt first looked at her, and then he turned his head towards Tai.
"Hi, Matt! We was really worried about you for a while!" Tai said cheerfully.
Matt got a puzzled face.
"Matt, can you hear us?" Sora asked. Matt just gave her the same confused expression he'd given Tai.
"The Healing Beam is blocking out all the sounds. Friendship won't be able to hear you until he's fully cured." Trasdomon explained.
"Oh." Tai and Sora said at the same time. Both were a little disappointed with not being able to talk to Matt, but after all, the most important thing right now, was to get him better.
"NO!" There was a loud roaring scream. "YOU WILL NEVER CURE THE CHILD OF FRIENDSHIP!!! NEVER!"
Tai, Sora, their Digimon and Trasdomon swung around. It was Knimon!
The huge darkish beast raised a hand.
"CHILLY INFECTION!" He aimed the attack directly at Matt. A flashing grey circle was thrown around the defenceless boy. When it connected with the ground, the earth seemed to crack up and sent both other humans and the Digimon flying a few metres back.
Sora groggily opened her eyes and gasped. The pale silvery circle was still surrounding Matt. It swiftly grew smaller and tightened itself around his body, then increasingly disappeared.
When it was all gone, there was still a frail white light over the blond boy.
"The Healing Beam took most of the damage, but it won't be able to protect Friendship if Knimon attacks again!" Trasdomon shouted. The string-puppet looking Digimon got on its feets and darted over to the boy.
He seemed to be weaker already, and looked like if he was having a hard time trying to keep his blue eyes open.
"You can't help the guardian of Friendship. You were weak already before you tried to heal him so you can't fight, you pathetic loser." Knimon hissed at Trasdomon. "If you surrender right now, I will spare your life. The Digidestined dies either way."
Trasdomon just stood there, looking confused.
"As you wish." The larger creature said simply. "CHILLY INFECTION!" Another grey lightning like circle was launched.
The vaccine-type opened his mouth and eyes wide, and then threw himself in front of Matt's motionless body, taking the full blow.
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Knimon... The monster that had infected him in the first place...
Matt saw the Digimon's lips move, but just as before, when his friends had spoken to him, he couldn't hear a thing.
Knimon raised his hands. A large powerful beam was shot directly at him. It changed into a flashing circle, surrounding him, choking him. When the attack connected with the ground, it looked like it blew up and the explosion sent his friends and the strange new Digimon flying backwards.
But the grey circle was still there when the dust disappeared. It tightened itself around Matt's body and sent shivers down his spine.
The warm sunny light that new puppet like creature had created, grew fainter, as if it had been damaged too.
Tired...
Matt felt how his eyelids started to close.
'No!' he thought angrily, forcing them to open again.
Suddenly the strange doll like Digimon he had seen before rushed to his side.
Now when the white light had weakened he could hear some of the sounds around him, but they were somehow isolated, like if they were coming from far away.
Knimon was talking again. Matt couldn't tell exactly what he said, but it appeared like he was speaking to the Digimon Matt didn't know.
The mysterious Digimon didn't answer. And if he already had, Matt hadn't heard him.
Knimon said something short with a shrug. Then he swiftly lifted his hands and made a sound, which to Matt, seemed to be a roar.
The defenceless boy knew what was coming. He inhaled deeply and shut his eyes tightly, thinking that this was probably the last breath he would ever take.
Matt heard a distant bang, but to his surprise, he exhaled just as if nothing had happened. 'What?' he thought, puzzled.
Matt uncertainly opened his azure eyes. There was some sort of glimmering dust, dissolving above his limp body. As the dust disappeared, the white warming light around him did too.
The blond turned his head to the right. Nothing. He then looked to the left. He saw his friends and their Digimon a couple of metres from him. But there wasn't a trace of the other white clad creature.
Matt suddenly realized what that dust had been. But why? Why had the Digimon done that for him?
"Matt!" Sora cried as she picked herself up and ran towards the feeble looking boy.
Matt could see Tai behind her. He was staring at the last digital dust when it finally disappeared completely. Then, the brown haired boy turned his gaze to his best friend.
"You okay, man?" he asked, concerned.
Matt nodded weakly and swallowed. He felt Sora's hand on his own and opened his mouth to speak. But all he got out was a strange wheeze, and he swallowed again.
"Shh, don't try to speak." Sora said softly.
"I think he needs water..." Tai started, but stopped as the three digidestineds heard a loud malevolent laugh.
"Poor fool! Didn't he understand that I was way too powerful for him?" Knimon hollered. "And don't you understand that I'm too powerful for you too?" He witlessly fixed his eyes on the children and let another laugh escape his thin lips.
"You're not more powerful than our Digimon, you walking, oversized bed of nails!" Tai shouted, feeling both rage and fear of his own build up inside of him. Metalgreymon launched himself on the stronger Mega, but before they made any contact...
"Metalgreymon digivolve to... WARGREYMON!"
The huge Dinosaur's metal-horn bore itself into Knimon's stomach (which was one of the few places on his body that didn't have razor-sharp knifes sticking out), and sent him flying backwards, with Wargreymon still on top.
After that, Garudamon threw an attack towards the virus-type, which hit him in one of his legs.
Sora ran forward to see how their Digimon was doing better.
Tai was almost ready to jump at Knimon, trying to beat him the worst he could by himself, when he was distracted by a sudden glow of pale blue.
Confused, he turned around to seen Matt with a frightened expression on his face, reaching out a hand and trying to get to where he and Sora was standing.
The glow was coming from small spot under his green turtleneck, where the blond boy had his crest of friendship hanging.
In less than a second, the faint glow had changed in to a piercingly intense shine.
Both Tai and Sora knew what was happening and shielded their eyes from the light.
The light seemed to create a large ball around Matt's body. The ball grew bigger and bigger as the luminosity grew stronger.
Matt gasped as he felt the new and welcomed strength. His muscles were tensing when he inhaled greedily and made an effort to stand up. It had been a long time since he last did so, so he swayed unsteadily for a moment but then quickly regained his balance.
Sora beamed happily when he saw Matt. She peered through the harshly bright blue light and ran towards him, totally forgetting about Knimon.
They called out each other's names and Sora hugged him closely and almost violently. Matt would have lost his balance if he hadn't wrapped his arms around her too, but he didn't really mind anyway.
All Sora could think of was the bliss of being held close to the one she loved.
The pale glow sent a ray of light towards Gabumon. It connected and the Digimon was for a second surrounded by it too. He then drowsily opened his eyes.
"Matt!" He cried, surprised. "I thought you were a goner! I'm so happy you're alive!" Gabumon continued. The dog/lizard trotted forward to embrace his digipartner, but then unexpectedly stopped.
"Gabumon digivolve to... Garurumon!" he shouted. Garurumon stood there, looking as if he had been struck by lightning and then howled:
"Garurumon digivolve to Weregarurumon!"
"What's going on?" Matt asked no one in particular. The crest-light had 'calmed down' and he had a similar aura of brightness around his body as the other two awake Digidestineds.
"The same thing happened with our Digimon. They just keep on digivol-" Tai said but was cut off.
"Argh, Razor Fist!" The fierce darkish virus-type known as Knimon screamed.
The razors flew right towards the kids but before they hit anything, Weregarurumon, Metalgreymon and Garudamon jumped before them. Metalgreymon, who had been in the front, dedigivolved back into Agumon, but then rapidly got enough energy from Tai's crest-light to become an Ultimate once again.
"They'll never make it alone! We need to wake up the others!!!" Sora shouted and dodged a dusty rock that came flying through the air when Knimon, with no trouble, had blocked an attack.
"I'll try to!" Tai answered. The brown-haired boy hurried over to the still motionless kids and Digimon. He had no idea how to get them out of the odd trance, so he tried the first thing that popped up in his head. Shake and yell at them.
Tai first got to Mimi. He grabbed her shoulder and shook her violently, not caring about the fact that she hated to be woken up that way.
"MIIIIMIII!" Waaaake up!!!" Tai continued shaking the pink clad girl. After a few moments, the orange glow of Tai got to her crest and she began to stir.
"Yesss..." Tai said quietly. Mimi's light brown eyes fluttered open and she looked up on Tai, feeling her cheeks go a little red. She smiled an awkward smile that made Tai blush slightly too.
"Thanks Tai..." Mimi said. Then, a green light unexpectedly shot up from her crest. She gasped from the surprise, but after maybe a minute, the radiance wore off, leaving a lime coloured glow around her body.
"Wha-" She started, but before she had a chance to finish, Tai had cut her off by telling her that he needed help with waking the others up.
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"Garuru Kick!" The werewolf-looking Digimon growled at the same time Garudamon threw her attack at Knimon. The two Ultimate's attacks hit their target perfectly, but didn't cause any hurt.
Then there was the sound of Palmon, who just woke up, digivolving into Togemon. The Digimon threw herself into the battle almost immediately and Cactus Sprayed Knimon. Her attack was in vain though, but:
"Togemon digivolve to Lilymon!"
The elf-looking Digimon gave the others a quick and confused glance. She was just about to say something as Tentomon and Gomamon cut her off by Digivolving to their champion forms. That meant that Tai and Mimi had been able to wake Izzy and Joe up.
"Matt!" Tk cried happily. "I almost didn't think you'd wake up!" the younger blonde beamed and threw himself into his brother's arms. In the exact moment he did so, the yellow bright light from his crest engulfed him and Patamon's eyes snapped open.
"I didn't think I'd wake up either, squirt." Matt admitted, giving Tai and Sora a grateful glance.
Soon everybody, including the Digimon, was awake and ready to fight.
Knimon stretched his fingers, making them crack noisily.
"Ha! I didn't think that I would be the one to wipe the chosen children off the face of earth!" he screamed. Another shout almost immediately followed that.
"Dark Dagger!" Knimon held up his right hand in the air. The humans and their Digimon saw how the muscles in the virus-Digimon entire body tensed painfully and a black swirling cloud formed above him. Out of the cloud a sharply pointed, oblong object came.
"What!?" Mimi shrieked.
"I believe it's his strongest attack. He doesn't use it that often, because it-"
Izzy started, typing the fastest he could on his laptop, but then looked up from the screen right in time to move.
Knimon had thrown the dark item towards him and the others. Though puffing badly, Knimon's aim had been true and the digidestineds were lucky to not have been hit.
"You *pant* can't run forever *pant*, humans! And your *pant* Digimon *pant* can't hurt me!"
"It weakens him!" Joe finished Izzy's sentence.
"Don't think you'll get away from me!" Knimon roared. He once again created one of those oblong objects and threw it towards Joe and Izzy. It narrowly missed, but was enough to make Ikkakumon and Kabuterimon digivolve into Zudomon and MegaKabuterimon. They attacked, but Knimon staggered out of the way, already preparing a new Dark Dagger.
He held it up in the air, but just when Izzy and Joe thought he would launch it at them, he unexpectedly turned around, throwing it directly at Kari.
Tai's eyes widened and he gasped. Before he even had a clue what he was doing himself he had run to his little sister, now standing protectively in front of her.
Tai squeezed his chocolate eyes shut and held his breath.
Then he felt his crest getting hot against his skin under the t-shirt. Tai opened his eyes. The world seemed to be in slow motion.
The sharply pointed object of Knimon still came shooting through the air towards him and when he turned around slightly, Kari also stood there. Her mouth open in a silent gasp, her eyes big in fear and shock. To the left of him he saw Metalrgreymon desperately trying to get to him.
The tag and crest around Tai's neck were vibrating, almost shaking. The hotness of them was starting to burn and he quickly grabbed the crest and held it up, so that it wouldn't leave a burning mark in his skin.
As he did so, a blinding orange light shot out of Wargreymon.
"Metalgreymon warp digivolve to... Wargreymon!" shouted the dinosaur looking creature's dark growling voice.
The yellow metal-covered Digimon quickly got to his digidestined, shoving him and his little sister out of the way.
Finally, the world seemed to go at regular speed again.
Tai hit the ground hard, an inch from Kari. He instantly rolled over and looked behind him just as the Dark Dagger smashed into the dusty forest floor.
Knimon laughed but couldn't hide the fact that he actually was exhausted. He tried to say something but all that came out was a raspy wheeze. So instead of speaking, he raised his arms, creating a new Dark Dagger. He sent it against the spot where Matt, Sora and Tk were.
The three of them threw themselves out of the way in different directions, sighing with relief when they saw that no one had been hurt afterwards.
Knimon was tiring quickly. His breaths were sharp and painful and he was swaying when he tried to stand up straight.
"He's getting weaker!" Tai shouted as if the other digidestineds and Digimon hadn't noticed. "Get him, Wargreymon!"
Joe, Izzy and Mimi nodded towards their Digimon and the three Ultimates attacked immediately.
Zudomon and Megakabuterimon hit Knimon together and Lilymon tried to tie a chain of flowers around his neck as she shouted "Flower Cannon!"
But though Knimon was worn out, he torn the flowers into shreds and blocked the hammer- and electric shock attack.
"Razor fist!" Knimon raised his hands and sharp knifes were shot out of his knuckles.
Two of them hit Zudomon and Megakabuterimon, causing them to dedigvolve back into Gomamon and Motimon. Knimon easily grabbed Lilymon in the air and threw her to the hard forest floor.
"Tanemon!" Mimi screeched and rushed to her partner's side.
Tai cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted:
"Wargreymon, you have to fight! You're the only mega!" He hoped that Wargreymon could hear him for he had flown up in the sky, preparing to launch an
"Weregarurumon", Matt yelled, "You have to digivolve!"
With that, the werewolf Digimon howled and his body started to glow in a blue
light.
"Weregarurumon digivolve to... Metalgarurumon!"
That loud bellow seemed to startle Knimon, who spun around, his small blackish eyes searching for the source of it. That gave Wargreymon an opening.
"Nova Force!"
Knimon was caught completely off guard and the attack hit him hard in the back. His breaths were dangerously sharp now and he peered heatedly at his assailant.
Then he lifted is hands and a new swirling cloud appeared that gave Knimon another Dark Dagger.
"Metal Wolf Claw!" Metalgarurumon growled and hit Knimon.
Knimon was knocked to the ground but still held the Dark Dagger desperately in his hand.
"Nova-" Wargreymon began but was cut off by an immense pain the stomach. He looked down, almost surprised, and saw a pointed object sticking out of his abdomen. He lifted his gaze a bit and saw Knimons sneering face. The energy drained from his body and he dedigivolved back into Koromon.
"Foolish digi-" Knimon began with a mocking voice, but just as he had cut off Wargreymon, Metalgarurumon cut off him by slamming his entire body against the dark virus-type.
Knimon stumbled to the ground, Metalgarurumon on his chest, the metal covered wolf's dangerous jaws trying to sink their teeth into Knimon's throat.
But Knimon was considerably bigger than Metalgarurumon and easily tossed him aside.
The humans watched the fierce battle fearfully, wondering what would happen.
Metalgarurumon was sent flying through the air when Knimon hit him with a "Razor Fist!"
Sora jumped out of the way as Matt's digipartner landed and a cloud of dust blew up from the ground.
The sudden adrenalin rush made her heart beet fast and hard like a drum. She swung around to see if Metalgarurumon was okay. As she did, a glimpse of golden blond hair caught her eye.
Matt was running towards Metalgarurumon but just as if he felt her gaze, he stopped, looking her straight in the eyes.
Sora could feel herself daze away. 'This isn't the right time for this', a little squeaky voice whispered in the back of her head. But she didn't care. It felt like if the red crest-light pulsated with warmth and safety- but there was one thing missing.
Matt.
Sora could see him. He was walking calmly to her, his azure eyes still locked firmly with her own reddish brown ones.
She suddenly realized that she was moving closer to him. She hadn't noticed that she was walking too. But she was and Sora felt a tingling sensation over her skin grow and grow the closer she got to Matt. She smiled and closed her eyes when she felt his hands cupping around her cheeks.
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"Matt? Matt!" Tk pulled his older brother's green shirt. "Matt, do you even listen to me?"
But Matt didn't seem to hear and Tk reluctantly let go of his clothing.
"What is he dong?" Joe asked nobody in particular as he dodged a rock that Knimon had thrown at Metalgarurumon and ran up beside Tk.
"I have no idea." Izzy, who had followed Joe, stated and scratched his head.
Matt seemed to be in some sort of 'trace' and the blue glow that still surrounded him increased that look. But it didn't appear as if he tried to resist it though. He dazedly moved forward, closer to Sora, who looked like if she was in the same sort of trace with a distant smile tugging the corners of lips.
Sora started to make her way towards Matt too and soon they were in each other's arms, eyes still locked.
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Matt gently cupped his hands around Sora's cheeks. None of the two seemed to notice how the light around their bodies united in a warm lilac colour when they touched.
It was like the air around them vibrated and everything but being near to each other faded in importance.
Matt felt how Sora wrapped her arms around his waist and he slowly moved his face closer to her. She tilted her head a bit to the side and a very gentle kiss was planted on her lips. Then second and a third one. The sweet butterfly kisses sent shivers down both Matt and Sora's spines but Sora let her hands travel from the blond boy's waist and up to his head where she used them to hold him still.
The kiss went deeper and Sora felt Matt's tongue play with her lips.
She opened them and let him explore every inch of her mouth as she did the same to him.
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"Um... Joe, what are my brother and Sora doing?" Tk asked looking with big, surprised eyes at the couple.
Joe didn't answer though. He simply turned away, and awkward blush creeping to his cheeks.
"Wow, prodigious! Look at that!" Izzy exclaimed and started tying on his pineapple laptop.
"Izzy!" Joe blushed into an even deeper shade of red.
"No, not *that*. The crest-lights! They are changing!"
Joe finally turned around again and saw that Izzy was right. The blue and red shines were fusing together into a nearly pulsating lilac, glowing around the two as if they were one.
Izzy, Joe and Tk simply stood there for a moment, not really knowing what to say or do until a shout caught their attention.
"Metal Wolf Claw!"
The three humans spun around only to see how Knimon staggered out of the way and the attack hitting nothing.
"Patamon! Digivolve, now!" Tk cried and the little Digimon shut his eyes, concentrating.
"You too, Gatomon!" Kari followed.
"Patamon digivolve to..."
"Gatomon digivolve to..."
"Angemon!"
"Angewomon!"
The two Digimon flew up high in the sky but was interrupted by two shouts.
"No! We can handle it." Matt and Sora yelled at the same time. They were standing hand in hand on the ground, looking up on Angemon and Angewomon.
The two angels gave Tk and Kari a hesitant glance and Tk and Kari (and the other humans and Digimon) stared questioningly on Sora and Matt.
"We can." Matt said.
"Promise", Sora filled in. "Just get out of here now."
There was something in their voices that made the other digidestined obey.
Angemon swooped down, taking Tk, Joe, Izzy and their worn out Digimon with him as he flew away from the combat zone and Angewomon picked up Kari, Mimi, Tanemon, Koromon and a highly protesting Tai.
"Good luck." She called before she followed Angemon.
"Ha! They're giving up *pant* already? I was just *pant* getting started."
Knimon chuckled, trying to hide the fact that he truly was exhausted.
Metalgarurumon growled and Garudamon, who hadn't gotten the chance to attack for some time glared daggers at Knimon.
"Dark Dagger!" Knimon swiftly threw the Dark Dagger towards Garudamon. She cried out in pain when it hit her in the chest, causing her to digivolve all the way back to her in training form, Yokomon, just as Wargreymon had had to do when he had got hit.
The little pink Digimon gazed up apologetically at Sora, but the girl only mouthed "It's alright", to her. Yokomon got behind the two humans, peeking out through their legs. Sora once again turned her attention to the two mega Digimon.
Matt and Sora held up their crests.
"Metalgarurumon", they yelled, "Digivolve!"
A great flash of light engulfed Metalgarurumon.
"Metalgarurumon digivolve to..."
His body grew bigger and a pair of strong wings, flaming with a purple fire, grew out of his back. His back-feet grew larger and he got up on two legs, stomping in the ground. As the ears on his head developed into something that looked like oversized, pointed cat-ears, he banged his fists together and when the hands opened again, they revealed huge sharp claws.
"GARURUDAMON!" he roared.
"Huh!?" Knimon sinister and beady little eyes went wide with surprise.
"Icy Blaze!" Garurudamon lifted his wings and waved strongly in the air. The wind that hit Knimon brought snow and ice with it and Knimon was soon trapped in a prison of cold. But then Garurudamon's flaming wings started to glow and an inferno of blazing fire was shot at the frozen form of Knimon. The ice around the virus-type melted quickly and the hot flames burned his skin. As soon as Knimon came to his senses, he screamed out in pain and ache.
Knimon stumbled away from the firestorm and weakly raised his hands over his head.
"Dark", he panted, "Dagger..." he half-heartedly threw the attack towards Garurudamon but missed the target gravely, being to tired to even aim.
"Icy blaze", Garurudamon replied. Knimon wailed pathetically.
"I... Won't... Give up!" Knimon roared when he at last was freed from the ice by the burning flames. By the way he said it, Garurudamon, Sora and Matt knew that he was deadly serious.
Garurudamon gazed questioningly at the humans. Matt and Sora's azure and cinnamon eyes met and they knew what they had to do. They looked up at Garurudamon and nodded slightly, wrapping their arms around each other and pressing their bodies as close together as they could get.
Garurudamon hesitated for a second but then turned around to face Knimon, who had succeeded with getting on his feet, again. Garurudamon sighed almost sorrowfully before drawing a deep breath.
"Final Blow." he said. The moment after, a great pounding force was unleashed. The ground cracked up, revealing hot, flowing lava underneath it and 'force' cupped itself over the area, creating something like a great bowl over their heads. The air changed. But no one could tell if it went hot or freezing. Both humans and Digimon got a hard time breathing and they gasped miserably for oxygen.
Black dots swirled over Matt's vision and he fell to his knees, his lungs and chest cramping and working furiously to supply him with air, in vain.
Sora sat down beside him, tears drawing to her eyes, and stroked his soft golden hair. He looked up and lifted his hand, faintly tracing the outlines of her lips before his eyes dazed over and his body went limp and unmoving.
Sora's lower lip trembled but there was too little air for her to even get out a sob. She laid Matt in her lap, hugging him weakly with the little strength she had left. Then everything went black.
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And I'm so sorry. This isn't the last chapter, like I promised in chapter fourteen. I had to split this chapter in two cuz it got *too* long.
Anyway... Here's: The Meaning Of Friendship: Chapter fifteen! (yay!)
"Knimon?" Sora yelled with rage. "Then it was you who infected Matt!"
"True, little human, true." Knimon chuckled evilly.
"Oh, if I just could get out of here I'd-" Trasdomon started but was cut off.
"I haven't seen you in a long time, my friend. Don't think you will be able to save the Chosen Children from the prophecy. You're still trapped inside of the cave!" The virus-type said looking at Trasdomon who was standing as near the cave's opening as he could.
"What prophecy?" Sora wondered.
"Haven't you heard about it?" Knimon said in a teasing tone. "Then I'll tell you! What is it really that is binding the Digidestineds together? Friendship! You'd be dead without your precious bearer of the crest of friendship! You wouldn't last a day if the friendship between you died! And guess what? It won't be long until he does!"
"Never!" Tai shouted. "Go MetalGreymon!"
"Yeah, shut his mouth, Garudamon!" Sora followed.
"Mega Claw!" MetalGreymon growled, but Knimon dodged it.
"Razor Fist!" He screamed as four metallic blades came shooting out from between his knuckles.
MetalGreymon managed to duck it and the razor-sharp items dove deeply into the ground.
"Giga Blaster!"
The dark, sinister Digimon blocked the fireball sending it towards the cave instead. When it hit the ground by the opening, a big hole was made.
"Look!" Tai said, and four rusty, but probably still very sharp, knife blades flew up. They spun around a second in the air before they dissolved into small pieces of data.
"Wing Blade!" a strong voice then called from above.
A big firebird hit Knimon in the back head, sending him down to the ground and leaving him unconscious.
"Cool!" Tai yelled.
"Good job, Garudamon!" Sora said to her Digipartner.
"Look! I'm outside!" They suddenly heard a happy voice cheer. "The sun! The sun! Ah, the sun!" Trasdomon continued to joyfully yell before stopping abruptly.
"Friendship! I-I can heal him now!" And with that, the white clad Digimon dashed back into the cave, only to come out again in a few seconds, carrying the motionless body of Matt.
He carefully laid the boy in the green grass on the ground.
"Maybe you could get the other Digidestineds out too?" Trasdomon asked.
Garudamon simply put a hand into the hole, and then pulled it out again, holding the still sleeping humans. After that, she did the same with the Digimon.
Trasdomon bent down beside Matt and as he shouted "Healing Beam!" the blue sky seemed to lighten up. The sun swelled up, and then sent a lightning like ray of shining light into the Digimon's open hand. The sunbeam shaped itself like a glove around the hand and Trasdomon slowly, as if not wanting the glow to fade, put it on Matt's chest. The light around his hand spread over Matt's chest, then wrapped itself around his entire body.
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Darkness... Cold... Alone...
It had been long since Sora had left. Matt still couldn't feel his body except for some occasions. But all he was able to feel then was an intense screaming pain. He didn't know what it was that caused it. He was so tired.
Suddenly, something made him feel his body once again. At first Matt thought it was another pain seizure, but no pain came. But there was warmth... It felt good...
His azure eyes slowly fluttered open. There was a powerful white light around him. Surprised by it's strength, he closed his eyes again.
When Matt finally opened them for a second time, he saw some kind of Digimon beside him. He realized that the warm light that had woken him up was coming from its hand. The Digimon beamed happily at Matt when he saw that he was awake.
The blond boy inhaled deeply, still very tired, but not feeling so bad any longer.
Then he saw someone else. Sora!
The redheaded girl was gazing at him joyfully, but he could still see that she was worried about him. It looked like if she was glowing in some strange way...
He wasn't sure, because he was still a little dizzy.
Matt turned his head a bit to the right and saw a familiar face with big brown hair. Weirdly enough, Tai seemed to glow too, but in another colour. Tai smiled his ordinary goofy grin and Matt smirked weakly at his best friend.
He saw that both Tai and Sora's lips were moving, but he didn't hear any sounds escaping them. He peered confusedly at the white clad Digimon and saw that it was saying something to his friends.
'Where's Tk and the others...? And Gabumon?' Matt thought drowsily. He opened his mouth to speak, but his throat was too dry and no words came out.
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Sora gazed dreamily into Matt's eyes. She hadn't realized how much she had really missed them.
Matt first looked at her, and then he turned his head towards Tai.
"Hi, Matt! We was really worried about you for a while!" Tai said cheerfully.
Matt got a puzzled face.
"Matt, can you hear us?" Sora asked. Matt just gave her the same confused expression he'd given Tai.
"The Healing Beam is blocking out all the sounds. Friendship won't be able to hear you until he's fully cured." Trasdomon explained.
"Oh." Tai and Sora said at the same time. Both were a little disappointed with not being able to talk to Matt, but after all, the most important thing right now, was to get him better.
"NO!" There was a loud roaring scream. "YOU WILL NEVER CURE THE CHILD OF FRIENDSHIP!!! NEVER!"
Tai, Sora, their Digimon and Trasdomon swung around. It was Knimon!
The huge darkish beast raised a hand.
"CHILLY INFECTION!" He aimed the attack directly at Matt. A flashing grey circle was thrown around the defenceless boy. When it connected with the ground, the earth seemed to crack up and sent both other humans and the Digimon flying a few metres back.
Sora groggily opened her eyes and gasped. The pale silvery circle was still surrounding Matt. It swiftly grew smaller and tightened itself around his body, then increasingly disappeared.
When it was all gone, there was still a frail white light over the blond boy.
"The Healing Beam took most of the damage, but it won't be able to protect Friendship if Knimon attacks again!" Trasdomon shouted. The string-puppet looking Digimon got on its feets and darted over to the boy.
He seemed to be weaker already, and looked like if he was having a hard time trying to keep his blue eyes open.
"You can't help the guardian of Friendship. You were weak already before you tried to heal him so you can't fight, you pathetic loser." Knimon hissed at Trasdomon. "If you surrender right now, I will spare your life. The Digidestined dies either way."
Trasdomon just stood there, looking confused.
"As you wish." The larger creature said simply. "CHILLY INFECTION!" Another grey lightning like circle was launched.
The vaccine-type opened his mouth and eyes wide, and then threw himself in front of Matt's motionless body, taking the full blow.
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Knimon... The monster that had infected him in the first place...
Matt saw the Digimon's lips move, but just as before, when his friends had spoken to him, he couldn't hear a thing.
Knimon raised his hands. A large powerful beam was shot directly at him. It changed into a flashing circle, surrounding him, choking him. When the attack connected with the ground, it looked like it blew up and the explosion sent his friends and the strange new Digimon flying backwards.
But the grey circle was still there when the dust disappeared. It tightened itself around Matt's body and sent shivers down his spine.
The warm sunny light that new puppet like creature had created, grew fainter, as if it had been damaged too.
Tired...
Matt felt how his eyelids started to close.
'No!' he thought angrily, forcing them to open again.
Suddenly the strange doll like Digimon he had seen before rushed to his side.
Now when the white light had weakened he could hear some of the sounds around him, but they were somehow isolated, like if they were coming from far away.
Knimon was talking again. Matt couldn't tell exactly what he said, but it appeared like he was speaking to the Digimon Matt didn't know.
The mysterious Digimon didn't answer. And if he already had, Matt hadn't heard him.
Knimon said something short with a shrug. Then he swiftly lifted his hands and made a sound, which to Matt, seemed to be a roar.
The defenceless boy knew what was coming. He inhaled deeply and shut his eyes tightly, thinking that this was probably the last breath he would ever take.
Matt heard a distant bang, but to his surprise, he exhaled just as if nothing had happened. 'What?' he thought, puzzled.
Matt uncertainly opened his azure eyes. There was some sort of glimmering dust, dissolving above his limp body. As the dust disappeared, the white warming light around him did too.
The blond turned his head to the right. Nothing. He then looked to the left. He saw his friends and their Digimon a couple of metres from him. But there wasn't a trace of the other white clad creature.
Matt suddenly realized what that dust had been. But why? Why had the Digimon done that for him?
"Matt!" Sora cried as she picked herself up and ran towards the feeble looking boy.
Matt could see Tai behind her. He was staring at the last digital dust when it finally disappeared completely. Then, the brown haired boy turned his gaze to his best friend.
"You okay, man?" he asked, concerned.
Matt nodded weakly and swallowed. He felt Sora's hand on his own and opened his mouth to speak. But all he got out was a strange wheeze, and he swallowed again.
"Shh, don't try to speak." Sora said softly.
"I think he needs water..." Tai started, but stopped as the three digidestineds heard a loud malevolent laugh.
"Poor fool! Didn't he understand that I was way too powerful for him?" Knimon hollered. "And don't you understand that I'm too powerful for you too?" He witlessly fixed his eyes on the children and let another laugh escape his thin lips.
"You're not more powerful than our Digimon, you walking, oversized bed of nails!" Tai shouted, feeling both rage and fear of his own build up inside of him. Metalgreymon launched himself on the stronger Mega, but before they made any contact...
"Metalgreymon digivolve to... WARGREYMON!"
The huge Dinosaur's metal-horn bore itself into Knimon's stomach (which was one of the few places on his body that didn't have razor-sharp knifes sticking out), and sent him flying backwards, with Wargreymon still on top.
After that, Garudamon threw an attack towards the virus-type, which hit him in one of his legs.
Sora ran forward to see how their Digimon was doing better.
Tai was almost ready to jump at Knimon, trying to beat him the worst he could by himself, when he was distracted by a sudden glow of pale blue.
Confused, he turned around to seen Matt with a frightened expression on his face, reaching out a hand and trying to get to where he and Sora was standing.
The glow was coming from small spot under his green turtleneck, where the blond boy had his crest of friendship hanging.
In less than a second, the faint glow had changed in to a piercingly intense shine.
Both Tai and Sora knew what was happening and shielded their eyes from the light.
The light seemed to create a large ball around Matt's body. The ball grew bigger and bigger as the luminosity grew stronger.
Matt gasped as he felt the new and welcomed strength. His muscles were tensing when he inhaled greedily and made an effort to stand up. It had been a long time since he last did so, so he swayed unsteadily for a moment but then quickly regained his balance.
Sora beamed happily when he saw Matt. She peered through the harshly bright blue light and ran towards him, totally forgetting about Knimon.
They called out each other's names and Sora hugged him closely and almost violently. Matt would have lost his balance if he hadn't wrapped his arms around her too, but he didn't really mind anyway.
All Sora could think of was the bliss of being held close to the one she loved.
The pale glow sent a ray of light towards Gabumon. It connected and the Digimon was for a second surrounded by it too. He then drowsily opened his eyes.
"Matt!" He cried, surprised. "I thought you were a goner! I'm so happy you're alive!" Gabumon continued. The dog/lizard trotted forward to embrace his digipartner, but then unexpectedly stopped.
"Gabumon digivolve to... Garurumon!" he shouted. Garurumon stood there, looking as if he had been struck by lightning and then howled:
"Garurumon digivolve to Weregarurumon!"
"What's going on?" Matt asked no one in particular. The crest-light had 'calmed down' and he had a similar aura of brightness around his body as the other two awake Digidestineds.
"The same thing happened with our Digimon. They just keep on digivol-" Tai said but was cut off.
"Argh, Razor Fist!" The fierce darkish virus-type known as Knimon screamed.
The razors flew right towards the kids but before they hit anything, Weregarurumon, Metalgreymon and Garudamon jumped before them. Metalgreymon, who had been in the front, dedigivolved back into Agumon, but then rapidly got enough energy from Tai's crest-light to become an Ultimate once again.
"They'll never make it alone! We need to wake up the others!!!" Sora shouted and dodged a dusty rock that came flying through the air when Knimon, with no trouble, had blocked an attack.
"I'll try to!" Tai answered. The brown-haired boy hurried over to the still motionless kids and Digimon. He had no idea how to get them out of the odd trance, so he tried the first thing that popped up in his head. Shake and yell at them.
Tai first got to Mimi. He grabbed her shoulder and shook her violently, not caring about the fact that she hated to be woken up that way.
"MIIIIMIII!" Waaaake up!!!" Tai continued shaking the pink clad girl. After a few moments, the orange glow of Tai got to her crest and she began to stir.
"Yesss..." Tai said quietly. Mimi's light brown eyes fluttered open and she looked up on Tai, feeling her cheeks go a little red. She smiled an awkward smile that made Tai blush slightly too.
"Thanks Tai..." Mimi said. Then, a green light unexpectedly shot up from her crest. She gasped from the surprise, but after maybe a minute, the radiance wore off, leaving a lime coloured glow around her body.
"Wha-" She started, but before she had a chance to finish, Tai had cut her off by telling her that he needed help with waking the others up.
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"Garuru Kick!" The werewolf-looking Digimon growled at the same time Garudamon threw her attack at Knimon. The two Ultimate's attacks hit their target perfectly, but didn't cause any hurt.
Then there was the sound of Palmon, who just woke up, digivolving into Togemon. The Digimon threw herself into the battle almost immediately and Cactus Sprayed Knimon. Her attack was in vain though, but:
"Togemon digivolve to Lilymon!"
The elf-looking Digimon gave the others a quick and confused glance. She was just about to say something as Tentomon and Gomamon cut her off by Digivolving to their champion forms. That meant that Tai and Mimi had been able to wake Izzy and Joe up.
"Matt!" Tk cried happily. "I almost didn't think you'd wake up!" the younger blonde beamed and threw himself into his brother's arms. In the exact moment he did so, the yellow bright light from his crest engulfed him and Patamon's eyes snapped open.
"I didn't think I'd wake up either, squirt." Matt admitted, giving Tai and Sora a grateful glance.
Soon everybody, including the Digimon, was awake and ready to fight.
Knimon stretched his fingers, making them crack noisily.
"Ha! I didn't think that I would be the one to wipe the chosen children off the face of earth!" he screamed. Another shout almost immediately followed that.
"Dark Dagger!" Knimon held up his right hand in the air. The humans and their Digimon saw how the muscles in the virus-Digimon entire body tensed painfully and a black swirling cloud formed above him. Out of the cloud a sharply pointed, oblong object came.
"What!?" Mimi shrieked.
"I believe it's his strongest attack. He doesn't use it that often, because it-"
Izzy started, typing the fastest he could on his laptop, but then looked up from the screen right in time to move.
Knimon had thrown the dark item towards him and the others. Though puffing badly, Knimon's aim had been true and the digidestineds were lucky to not have been hit.
"You *pant* can't run forever *pant*, humans! And your *pant* Digimon *pant* can't hurt me!"
"It weakens him!" Joe finished Izzy's sentence.
"Don't think you'll get away from me!" Knimon roared. He once again created one of those oblong objects and threw it towards Joe and Izzy. It narrowly missed, but was enough to make Ikkakumon and Kabuterimon digivolve into Zudomon and MegaKabuterimon. They attacked, but Knimon staggered out of the way, already preparing a new Dark Dagger.
He held it up in the air, but just when Izzy and Joe thought he would launch it at them, he unexpectedly turned around, throwing it directly at Kari.
Tai's eyes widened and he gasped. Before he even had a clue what he was doing himself he had run to his little sister, now standing protectively in front of her.
Tai squeezed his chocolate eyes shut and held his breath.
Then he felt his crest getting hot against his skin under the t-shirt. Tai opened his eyes. The world seemed to be in slow motion.
The sharply pointed object of Knimon still came shooting through the air towards him and when he turned around slightly, Kari also stood there. Her mouth open in a silent gasp, her eyes big in fear and shock. To the left of him he saw Metalrgreymon desperately trying to get to him.
The tag and crest around Tai's neck were vibrating, almost shaking. The hotness of them was starting to burn and he quickly grabbed the crest and held it up, so that it wouldn't leave a burning mark in his skin.
As he did so, a blinding orange light shot out of Wargreymon.
"Metalgreymon warp digivolve to... Wargreymon!" shouted the dinosaur looking creature's dark growling voice.
The yellow metal-covered Digimon quickly got to his digidestined, shoving him and his little sister out of the way.
Finally, the world seemed to go at regular speed again.
Tai hit the ground hard, an inch from Kari. He instantly rolled over and looked behind him just as the Dark Dagger smashed into the dusty forest floor.
Knimon laughed but couldn't hide the fact that he actually was exhausted. He tried to say something but all that came out was a raspy wheeze. So instead of speaking, he raised his arms, creating a new Dark Dagger. He sent it against the spot where Matt, Sora and Tk were.
The three of them threw themselves out of the way in different directions, sighing with relief when they saw that no one had been hurt afterwards.
Knimon was tiring quickly. His breaths were sharp and painful and he was swaying when he tried to stand up straight.
"He's getting weaker!" Tai shouted as if the other digidestineds and Digimon hadn't noticed. "Get him, Wargreymon!"
Joe, Izzy and Mimi nodded towards their Digimon and the three Ultimates attacked immediately.
Zudomon and Megakabuterimon hit Knimon together and Lilymon tried to tie a chain of flowers around his neck as she shouted "Flower Cannon!"
But though Knimon was worn out, he torn the flowers into shreds and blocked the hammer- and electric shock attack.
"Razor fist!" Knimon raised his hands and sharp knifes were shot out of his knuckles.
Two of them hit Zudomon and Megakabuterimon, causing them to dedigvolve back into Gomamon and Motimon. Knimon easily grabbed Lilymon in the air and threw her to the hard forest floor.
"Tanemon!" Mimi screeched and rushed to her partner's side.
Tai cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted:
"Wargreymon, you have to fight! You're the only mega!" He hoped that Wargreymon could hear him for he had flown up in the sky, preparing to launch an
"Weregarurumon", Matt yelled, "You have to digivolve!"
With that, the werewolf Digimon howled and his body started to glow in a blue
light.
"Weregarurumon digivolve to... Metalgarurumon!"
That loud bellow seemed to startle Knimon, who spun around, his small blackish eyes searching for the source of it. That gave Wargreymon an opening.
"Nova Force!"
Knimon was caught completely off guard and the attack hit him hard in the back. His breaths were dangerously sharp now and he peered heatedly at his assailant.
Then he lifted is hands and a new swirling cloud appeared that gave Knimon another Dark Dagger.
"Metal Wolf Claw!" Metalgarurumon growled and hit Knimon.
Knimon was knocked to the ground but still held the Dark Dagger desperately in his hand.
"Nova-" Wargreymon began but was cut off by an immense pain the stomach. He looked down, almost surprised, and saw a pointed object sticking out of his abdomen. He lifted his gaze a bit and saw Knimons sneering face. The energy drained from his body and he dedigivolved back into Koromon.
"Foolish digi-" Knimon began with a mocking voice, but just as he had cut off Wargreymon, Metalgarurumon cut off him by slamming his entire body against the dark virus-type.
Knimon stumbled to the ground, Metalgarurumon on his chest, the metal covered wolf's dangerous jaws trying to sink their teeth into Knimon's throat.
But Knimon was considerably bigger than Metalgarurumon and easily tossed him aside.
The humans watched the fierce battle fearfully, wondering what would happen.
Metalgarurumon was sent flying through the air when Knimon hit him with a "Razor Fist!"
Sora jumped out of the way as Matt's digipartner landed and a cloud of dust blew up from the ground.
The sudden adrenalin rush made her heart beet fast and hard like a drum. She swung around to see if Metalgarurumon was okay. As she did, a glimpse of golden blond hair caught her eye.
Matt was running towards Metalgarurumon but just as if he felt her gaze, he stopped, looking her straight in the eyes.
Sora could feel herself daze away. 'This isn't the right time for this', a little squeaky voice whispered in the back of her head. But she didn't care. It felt like if the red crest-light pulsated with warmth and safety- but there was one thing missing.
Matt.
Sora could see him. He was walking calmly to her, his azure eyes still locked firmly with her own reddish brown ones.
She suddenly realized that she was moving closer to him. She hadn't noticed that she was walking too. But she was and Sora felt a tingling sensation over her skin grow and grow the closer she got to Matt. She smiled and closed her eyes when she felt his hands cupping around her cheeks.
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"Matt? Matt!" Tk pulled his older brother's green shirt. "Matt, do you even listen to me?"
But Matt didn't seem to hear and Tk reluctantly let go of his clothing.
"What is he dong?" Joe asked nobody in particular as he dodged a rock that Knimon had thrown at Metalgarurumon and ran up beside Tk.
"I have no idea." Izzy, who had followed Joe, stated and scratched his head.
Matt seemed to be in some sort of 'trace' and the blue glow that still surrounded him increased that look. But it didn't appear as if he tried to resist it though. He dazedly moved forward, closer to Sora, who looked like if she was in the same sort of trace with a distant smile tugging the corners of lips.
Sora started to make her way towards Matt too and soon they were in each other's arms, eyes still locked.
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Matt gently cupped his hands around Sora's cheeks. None of the two seemed to notice how the light around their bodies united in a warm lilac colour when they touched.
It was like the air around them vibrated and everything but being near to each other faded in importance.
Matt felt how Sora wrapped her arms around his waist and he slowly moved his face closer to her. She tilted her head a bit to the side and a very gentle kiss was planted on her lips. Then second and a third one. The sweet butterfly kisses sent shivers down both Matt and Sora's spines but Sora let her hands travel from the blond boy's waist and up to his head where she used them to hold him still.
The kiss went deeper and Sora felt Matt's tongue play with her lips.
She opened them and let him explore every inch of her mouth as she did the same to him.
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"Um... Joe, what are my brother and Sora doing?" Tk asked looking with big, surprised eyes at the couple.
Joe didn't answer though. He simply turned away, and awkward blush creeping to his cheeks.
"Wow, prodigious! Look at that!" Izzy exclaimed and started tying on his pineapple laptop.
"Izzy!" Joe blushed into an even deeper shade of red.
"No, not *that*. The crest-lights! They are changing!"
Joe finally turned around again and saw that Izzy was right. The blue and red shines were fusing together into a nearly pulsating lilac, glowing around the two as if they were one.
Izzy, Joe and Tk simply stood there for a moment, not really knowing what to say or do until a shout caught their attention.
"Metal Wolf Claw!"
The three humans spun around only to see how Knimon staggered out of the way and the attack hitting nothing.
"Patamon! Digivolve, now!" Tk cried and the little Digimon shut his eyes, concentrating.
"You too, Gatomon!" Kari followed.
"Patamon digivolve to..."
"Gatomon digivolve to..."
"Angemon!"
"Angewomon!"
The two Digimon flew up high in the sky but was interrupted by two shouts.
"No! We can handle it." Matt and Sora yelled at the same time. They were standing hand in hand on the ground, looking up on Angemon and Angewomon.
The two angels gave Tk and Kari a hesitant glance and Tk and Kari (and the other humans and Digimon) stared questioningly on Sora and Matt.
"We can." Matt said.
"Promise", Sora filled in. "Just get out of here now."
There was something in their voices that made the other digidestined obey.
Angemon swooped down, taking Tk, Joe, Izzy and their worn out Digimon with him as he flew away from the combat zone and Angewomon picked up Kari, Mimi, Tanemon, Koromon and a highly protesting Tai.
"Good luck." She called before she followed Angemon.
"Ha! They're giving up *pant* already? I was just *pant* getting started."
Knimon chuckled, trying to hide the fact that he truly was exhausted.
Metalgarurumon growled and Garudamon, who hadn't gotten the chance to attack for some time glared daggers at Knimon.
"Dark Dagger!" Knimon swiftly threw the Dark Dagger towards Garudamon. She cried out in pain when it hit her in the chest, causing her to digivolve all the way back to her in training form, Yokomon, just as Wargreymon had had to do when he had got hit.
The little pink Digimon gazed up apologetically at Sora, but the girl only mouthed "It's alright", to her. Yokomon got behind the two humans, peeking out through their legs. Sora once again turned her attention to the two mega Digimon.
Matt and Sora held up their crests.
"Metalgarurumon", they yelled, "Digivolve!"
A great flash of light engulfed Metalgarurumon.
"Metalgarurumon digivolve to..."
His body grew bigger and a pair of strong wings, flaming with a purple fire, grew out of his back. His back-feet grew larger and he got up on two legs, stomping in the ground. As the ears on his head developed into something that looked like oversized, pointed cat-ears, he banged his fists together and when the hands opened again, they revealed huge sharp claws.
"GARURUDAMON!" he roared.
"Huh!?" Knimon sinister and beady little eyes went wide with surprise.
"Icy Blaze!" Garurudamon lifted his wings and waved strongly in the air. The wind that hit Knimon brought snow and ice with it and Knimon was soon trapped in a prison of cold. But then Garurudamon's flaming wings started to glow and an inferno of blazing fire was shot at the frozen form of Knimon. The ice around the virus-type melted quickly and the hot flames burned his skin. As soon as Knimon came to his senses, he screamed out in pain and ache.
Knimon stumbled away from the firestorm and weakly raised his hands over his head.
"Dark", he panted, "Dagger..." he half-heartedly threw the attack towards Garurudamon but missed the target gravely, being to tired to even aim.
"Icy blaze", Garurudamon replied. Knimon wailed pathetically.
"I... Won't... Give up!" Knimon roared when he at last was freed from the ice by the burning flames. By the way he said it, Garurudamon, Sora and Matt knew that he was deadly serious.
Garurudamon gazed questioningly at the humans. Matt and Sora's azure and cinnamon eyes met and they knew what they had to do. They looked up at Garurudamon and nodded slightly, wrapping their arms around each other and pressing their bodies as close together as they could get.
Garurudamon hesitated for a second but then turned around to face Knimon, who had succeeded with getting on his feet, again. Garurudamon sighed almost sorrowfully before drawing a deep breath.
"Final Blow." he said. The moment after, a great pounding force was unleashed. The ground cracked up, revealing hot, flowing lava underneath it and 'force' cupped itself over the area, creating something like a great bowl over their heads. The air changed. But no one could tell if it went hot or freezing. Both humans and Digimon got a hard time breathing and they gasped miserably for oxygen.
Black dots swirled over Matt's vision and he fell to his knees, his lungs and chest cramping and working furiously to supply him with air, in vain.
Sora sat down beside him, tears drawing to her eyes, and stroked his soft golden hair. He looked up and lifted his hand, faintly tracing the outlines of her lips before his eyes dazed over and his body went limp and unmoving.
Sora's lower lip trembled but there was too little air for her to even get out a sob. She laid Matt in her lap, hugging him weakly with the little strength she had left. Then everything went black.
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