Defender of the Destined

Defender of the Destined

Chapter 8

Enemy Revealed

Sorry for not writing in so long, but I graduated from High School and well it was a pretty hectic month and all. So the next chapter should be out soon, I hope but you never know.

I would like to dedicate this chapter to all those who suffered in New York this past month, and who are still suffering due to what happened.

I do not own Digimon or any of its rights.

Things had not been going well for the Destined, all the Digimon had Digivolved to their highest level and were easily being crushed. This Digimon, who was calling himself Diablomon, was making seem too easy to destroy them. The destined Mega's had already taken a few direct hits, and the ultimates had dedigivolved. Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon were now trying to protect all of the destined. Gargoylewomon, who was Katie's champion was also still able to provide minimal protection against this super strong evil.

"You destined have no chance to defeat me! I have the power of ten Mega's. Not even the powerful Omnimon could have defeated me, and as you can see, I have already defeated the great Imperial Dramon." Diablomon shouted as he hit the two destined megas and forced them to dedigivolve. "Goodbye you pathetic protectors of the Digital world." As he raised his hand to destroy them, he heard the roar of giant digimon. He looked up and saw a large white dragon type of Digimon changing into a humanoid form with a sword about to cut him in half. Startled, Diablomon stepped aside as the large creature flew past where he had been standing.

"I will not allow you to harm the Destined!" The new Digimon said as it turned to face the evil Digimon that had been attacking the kids.

"And who do you think you are to make such a statement to me?"

"I am Melifmon, Defender of the Destined, and your worst nightmare. So I suggest you leave while you still can." Melifmon stated with no emotion in his voice.

Diablomon didn't take his threat seriously, and attacked the new Digimon. Melifmon blocked the attack that forced him back. Two skid marks were left showing how much force had been used. He then threw another attack that hit Melifmon. With a sly smirk he turned his attention back to the Digidestined, not seeing the Melifmon using his flight engines to keep from going any further. He saw the Digidestined looking past him to see this Digimon ready to attack him. "What! Impossible, no one could have survived that attack. Oh well, looks like I'll have to finish you off the old fashioned way." Diablomon shouted as he ran towards Melifmon. To his surprise, Melifmon proved to be an excellent fighter. He seemed not to be having any difficulty fighting Diablomon hand to hand.

"Izzy, who is that?" Tai questioned.

"Dee, tell me you know who that is."
"Actually, I do, his name is Melifmon, he is an armoured Digivolved Digimon with the power of several Megas. His Dragon's Fire, Dragon's Sphere and Dragon's Sword attacks can destroy practically anything. But he shouldn't even be here, he existed even before the original destined, by that I mean Tai's group, and even then, he was thought to only be a legend." The Digital computer informed.

"You are quite the fighter, but you will not survive my HELL'S FIRE!" Diablomon shouted as the intense heat flame came towards Melifmon.

"DRAGON'S SHIELD! DRAGON'S SWORD! Melifmon countered pointing his sword as rings of fire came from the blade, but they miss. Melifmon was getting annoyed, so he resorted to the old fashioned fighting form once again. He knew that Diablomon was too fast for his attacks, so he would have to try and slow him down first. He charged Diablomon with his sword and started to fight him intensely.

The other destined were watching with interest and disbelief that they were receiving help for once. Cody then remembered something from his childhood, he had seen someone fight like this before, he just couldn't remember who. Then it hit him, it was one of the students his grandfather use to teach…

"Guy's, this is going to sound strange, but I've seen a fighter like this before." Cody stated in his serious tone.

"You know, I think your right. I think I've seen this digimon fight before, well not the Digimon, but a person who fought like the Digimon." Tai said.

"Ya, he fights like a student my grandfather use to teach, what was his name, John? No, no, it was, it was…"

"It was Shawn!" Kari shouted. She thought she knew Cody from somewhere before. "Shawn use to take Kendo at your grandfather's school. But how could this Digimon fight like Shawn?"

"Wait, didn't this Digimon say he was the Defender of the Destined? That's exactly what Shawn's crest is the Defender." Izzy pondered, completely oblivious to the fight that was about to end.

"DRAGON'S SPHERE!" Melifmon shouted as the purple sphere of pure energy hit and crushed his opponent.

"You may have defeated me, but I am the weakest of my forces, you won't be so lucky next time." He laughed as he turned to nothingness.

Melifmon heard what Izzy had said about the Defender and turned to talk to the kids. "Izzy, you're right about the crest and the title I have, and now I'll show you why." The chest cavity hissed as it began to open and part of the head lifted to reveal a human form inside.

"Shawn!" All the destined exclaimed including Davis.

"I was wondering when you were going to show up." Mimi said.

"I thought I would take care of the enemy before I introduced my armoured Digimon, Melifmon." The Digimon changed into a more familiar and smaller Digimon, Gargoylemon.

"So Shawn, tell us what happened." Kari shouted as she crushed him with a huge hug. She then let go and smacked him in the arm, "you have a lot of explaining to do mister."

All the Destined were now sitting down listening to Shawn's story.

"Well after I left you, Gennai had told me were I had to go for my test." They were all watching him with interest. "Now before I go any further, I'm going to ask not to be interrupted okay?" Everyone nodded in agreement. "Good, now as I was saying…"

"Defender, you need to go East for a day or so, that's were you'll find your test." Gennai had just told him. "I will not be able to help you, this is a test to prove yourself as the Defender."

"But Gennai, how come the others don't need to do this sort of test?"

"Because, when they defeated Devimon, and the others, they proved themselves time and again, therefore it is not needed. Since you were not around for those battles, you must take a test that proves you are worthy of being the Defender." Gennai explained.

"And if I fail?"

"You become deleted."

"Shawn, I think we should stop and eat something." Gargoylemon said. They had been walking since they had woken up and it was now reaching late afternoon.

"Uh, what? Sorry, did you say something?"

"Yes, I said we should stop, you haven't eaten all day and neither have I. If it comes to a fight, I won't be able to do anything."

"Oh, in that case, we should take a rest then." Shawn walked over to a nearby stone and sat down. What Gennai had said had really gotten to him. He knew that part of the test was to make his crest glow, but he knew that it wouldn't be as simple as that.

About an hour had gone by and Shawn and Gargoylemon were just about to continue when they heard a noise. Shawn went over to the bushes to investigate what it was, a tiny Numamon jumped out and scared him as he fell to the forest floor. He was expecting to hear the laugh of Gargoylemon, but instead heard the bone chilling laugh of evil.

"Hello Defender, I've been expecting you." The voice of the evil laughter said. "I just wanted you to see the face of the being that is going to destroy you." The evil Digimon said as it leapt at Shawn who jumped out of the way barely in time.

"Oh no you don't! Not while I'm around." Gargoylemon shouted as he jumped in with his sword trying to take the brute force of the attack. 'I have to get Shawn out of the way or he could get hurt' he thought as he continued to take the abuse of the evil Digimon.

Shawn was trying to get away from the battle so that Gargoylemon could start to attack when he heard the next thing the evil Digimon said. "After I destroy you those other children will be nothing." It laughed as it was about to attack again. Shawn had stopped dead in his tracks. If this evil wanted to try and destroy him he could deal with that, but hearing him talk about the other kids was crossing a dangerous line with him. He turned to face the evil Digimon.

"You can have them when I'm cold and dead in the ground." He said slowly.

"Well what a statement! What the hell do you think I'm going to do with you? Let you live? Of course over your dead body!" He laughed again at what Shawn had said. He was then startled at what happened next. Shawn had started to run towards him with his relic sword. The evil Digimon tried to counter, but was stopped by Gargoylemon. Shawn hit him and caused him much pain. He screamed as Shawn landed behind him and turned to strike again. "That was a lucky shot, one that you won't be able to duplicate." He tossed Gargoylemon aside like a flimsy doll and lunged for Shawn. He stopped when he saw a bright flash of light behind him. He also noticed that a necklace around Shawn's neck had also began to glow. He turned and looked at the new cyborg that was standing right behind him. The evil winced at the sight of the new Digimon, something told him that he was mere seconds from destruction. "Who-who are you?"

"I am Metalgargoylemon, my Giga-Wing attack can incinerate anything it touches. Oh and I have the power of a Mega level Digimon." He informed just as he launched his attack.

A few hours had passed and Goyomon was now just starting to feel better from the fight. "You know Shawn, I'm going to have to take it easy from now on in those fights, I used up far to much power." Goyomon noticed Shawn wasn't paying any attention. "Shawn what's the matter?"

"What? Oh I was just thinking about you Digivolving to Ultimate, that's all."

"Oh really?"

"Yes, it seems that you can already Digivolve to Ultimate with the crest, so I was thinking what would cause you to go Mega?"

"Enough motivation. CLOWN TRICK!" A Digimon shouted as the ground in front of them exploded. "Allow me to introduce myself, I am the resurrected Piedmon, the leader of the Dark Masters. There's no need to introduce my fellow actors, we will destroy you." He said with an evil laugh. "Just so you know, we watched you in your last battle, and an Ultimate with the power of a Mega is impressive, but not impressive enough. Since you're so low on energy, this will make this so much easier. Oh, and don't worry, I'll make certain that you're not cold and dead so you can watch the others suffer your fate." He started to laugh again as the other Dark Masters followed his lead.

Shawn began to get angry, he had so much hatred towards this being that only wanted to cause pain and suffering. Then he snapped. "You will never get your slimy hands on them you untalented court jester." Piedmon stopped laughing and a look of pure disgust began to appear on his face.

"What did you just call me?"

"You heard me, I will not allow you to harm them, as the Defender I swear that I will not allow you to harm them. For I am their Defender, the one who protects them from all danger." Just as Shawn finished, His sword began to glow.

Non of the Dark Masters liked what was happening, they then saw what was happening, the tiny Rookie was warp Digivolving.

Goyomon Warp Digivolve to ------------ Wargargoylemon.

"Another Wargreymon, how boring." Piedmon said.

"I am not Wargreymon, I am Wargargoylemon, the war partner Digimon of Wargreymon. My Terra Wing can stop anything that comes towards me." The new Mega said. He still looked like his former self, but now he had the same armour as Wargreymon did. "I could easily defeat you Piedmon so why don't we make this interesting, shall we?"

"You're on, although I must warn you, we are now stronger then the last time we met those pathetic Digidestined."

"If they're so pathetic, why could they defeat you so easily as they did Apocilamon?"

"They were merely lucky, it won't happen again."

"Oh really? Terra Wing." The attack hit Puppetmon who vaporised immediately. "Mind passing that one by me again?" Seeing how strong this new Mega was, Piedmon came up with the best plan he ever thought of.

"RETREAT!" He shouted as another Terra Wing flew past him and hit Metalseadramon. He didn't care that his new master might destroy him for this, but it would give them the upper hand knowing about this new Mega form, he just hoped that he could get away with the information as he saw Machinedramon explode into Digital dust.

Shawn saw the last of the Dark Masters get away just as another explosion rocked the ground. Shawn sighed in relief as he saw Wargargoylemon dedigivolve into Garmon, the in-training form of Goyomon.

"So wait a minute, are you telling me that Wargreymon has a fighting partner now?" Tai asked, interrupting Shawn's story.

"Yes Tai, we do have partner fighting Digimon. And I thought I said no interruptions."

"Sorry Shawn." Tai apologized.

"Tai, that's not what's important, Shawn just said the Dark Masters had returned." Kari said with a shutter.

"So what happened next?" Izzy asked with interest.

"Well…"

Shawn and Goyomon had started travelling again after taking a bit of a rest from the battle with the reborn Dark Masters. A few hours later, they arrived at the mouth of a cave with the Crest of the Defender engraved on its top. They went inside of the cave to explore and see what they could find. At the back of the cave, Shawn found a small pillar with an armoured Digi-egg on it. The egg looked like a small human like creature with the back being rounded with what looked like a cape. It was just sitting there and Shawn started to walk towards it. Shawn then heard a voice from out of nowhere.

"Well done Defender, you have passed your final test." The mysterious voice said.

"Um, thank you, but how do you know I have already passed the test?" Shawn inquired?

"Because you made your sword's crest glow. If you had not done that, you would not be talking to me right now." The voice explained. It almost seemed familiar.

"Say, just who exactly are you?"

"I'm sorry I can not tell you that, but you should be able to figure that out. Now, concerning this Digi-egg. It is the Digi-egg of the Defender. Its power has gone untapped since the beginning of the digital world. This is your last test, if you can remove this egg, those who are above me will trust your decisions in regards to the Destined." The voice informed.

"And what if I don't?"

"You don't want to know what will happen to you."

"Oh." Shawn said as he placed both hands on the egg, he was standing firmly on the ground ready to use all his strength to pull this egg free if he had to. He began to pull up on the egg and met some resistance, so he started to pull harder. Without any warning, the egg pulled away from the pillar and Shawn fell backwards onto the ground.

"Good, now that you have proven yourself as the Defender, you must be told that the Destined have run into a small problem…" The voice went on explaining the situation to Shawn. "You must leave now to arrive in time to save them from this evil." Shawn's expression went from concern to fear.

"If that devil touches any of them, I'm going to make wish he hadn't, for he will have to answer to the Defender." Shawn said to no one in particular. Every time he left the destined for even a little bit, someone always attacked them. 'So now all I have to do is activate this armour egg.' He thought to himself. Then he remembered the stories of the other kids and he knew what he had to do. "Digi-armour energize." He said as nothing happened. "What a time not to work." He said in frustration. Then it hit him, maybe it would activate at a higher level. Goyomon, Digivolve!"

Goyomon Digivolve to ---------------- Gargoylemon.

"Try again Shawn."

"All right, Digi armour energize."

Gargoylemon armour Digivolve to -------------- Melifmon, Defender of the Destined.