Eternal Friendship
Part 4 - Darkness Released
By Firehedgehog
Chapter One
"What in the digital world is that?" Yolei asked her brown eyes wide in fright, after the defeat of Malomyotismon she had thought that no more danger would appear... but apparently she was wrong.
"I don't know, and I don't like it," the youngest of the second generation digidestined said, his green eyes narrowed to slits as he studied the dark swirling sky.
He had felt something like this darkness when they had faced against Malomyotismon, but this darkness was worse... it saturated the entire air.
"Where is Ken?" Kari asked running up to him, as she was running her eyes looked at the sky... it reminded her of the dark ocean world.
"Still looking for Davis," Cody answered, he was quite upset that Davis had played dead all these years.. he had thought there friendship meant trust.
'The first thing I'll do when I see him is yell at him for being an insensitive jerk, then I'll hug him and make him promise not to do such a dumb thing ever again' Cody thought, the time he had spent with Davis on their digital journey had brought the young boy to notice things about life he hadn't before... he remembered one time.
~Flashback~
Davis and Cody were sitting at the edge of the school soccer field, for once the spiky haired boy hadn't gotten detention and he didn't have to go to the digital world today. The sun shone on the features and they happily watched their digimon partners play while in there in-training forms.
Cody while watching was still troubled bout something, it was life in fact... Blackwargreymon had been alive yet why was it that he had to die so early in his life.
"Cody, tell me what's wrong," Davis suddenly said, Cody looked to the older digidestined and saw a seriousness in them. It startled him, in all his time he had always thought Davis would always be goofy.
"Why did he have to die... " he whispered, Davis looked at him sadly and whipped away Cody's tears that he hadn't even noticed falling.
"Who die?" Davis asked gently, he then hugged Cody like an older brother would... Cody often realized that Davis acted like an older brother.
"Blackwargreymon," he cried, Davis hugged him for a few minutes till Cody finally stopped crying and his eyes were red from it.
"Cody I know he died but everything dies in time, but only his body died... his soul lives on and maybe it has even been reborn already," Davis said, Cody blinked and looked at the goggled headed boy in confusion. Davis gave him a light grin and looked around, he then picked a small purple flower and held it in front of Cody.
"A flower lives by the cycle of seasons like we do of years, while a flower dies it also lives on, its life energy forms into tiny seeds so that it will be remembered the coming seasons," Davis said, Cody frowned and thought of something.
"But Blackwargreymon died, he can't leave seeds behind," he countered, Davis shook his head and smiled sadly slightly.
"But he did Cody in out hearts and minds, we are all his legacy because we are the ones he chose to protect... he won't truly die as long as we remember him for what he did for the two worlds," Davis said and then to Cody's surprise he crushed the fragile blossom in his hands, he then opened his hands and tiny petals were blown away and danced in the swirling wind
~End Flashback~
Cody still didn't understand alot about that conversation but it was near his heart, he wanted Davis back so badly.... Davis was like the older brother he had always wanted.
Chapter Two
"Davis, what is this darkness?" Ken asked the spiky haired teen beside him, Davis sighed and looked at him with deadly serious eyes.
"You'll see," was all Davis said, Ken looked at the dark sky and his eyes widened in fright at what he saw opening in the sky. At first it was black and gray lightning and then a blood red color began to swirl in its center, it began to swirl into a mess of chaotic energy.
Ken felt the hair at the back of his neck rise as a dark portal began to form in its center, he recognized that portal... it still haunted his nightmares to this day. It was the portal to the dark ocean world, he had barely escaped from that place earlier today with Kari... and now a portal was opening here in the digital world.
"He is here," Davis said with a hiss, Ken felt his heart skip a frantic beat as a figure from the past floated out of the portal eyes glowing an unholy blood red.
"Daemon," Ken whispered, the demon type digimon laughed sending chills down the blue haired teens spine.
"And the final battle begins, the winning side decides if the digital world and the real world is destroyed or if they will be peaceful till time ends," Davis said in a calm voice, Ken felt his eyebrow twitch slightly at how annoyingly calm his friend was.
"Davis, how can we stop him... we barely stopped him last time and we can't trap him in the world of darkness this time?" Ken asked the spiky haired teen, looking at Davis Ken saw that he had a slightly far away look in his eyes.
"The final battle Will decide," Davis finally said in a soft voice, he picked veemon up and motioned for Ken to pick up his own digimon.
"We better get to the others before Daemon does Ken-san, to do that I'll have to take you through a short cut," Davis said, usually Ken would of liked a short cut but he didn't like the funny gleam he saw in Davis's eyes.
"Wait," Ken said, but it was too late as Davis grabbed him and he was pulled into a place... something he could never describe, but he had a feeling if he stayed too long he would be prone to go insane.
"Don't worry, a second more and we'll be there," Davis said in a very cheerful voice a wide grin on his face, Ken gulped in his thought and hoped that he never had to take this shortcut ever again... once was enough.
Chapter three
Tai spun around when he heard a sudden scream behind him, to his surprise he saw that it was Ken. The person next to him Tai didn't reconize right away, but then he gasped when he did. He ran over to the spiky haired boy and gave him a hug friends gave, and then he slapped Davis on the back of his head.
"Don't you ever dear play dead ever again Davis, if you do I'll hurt you even more," Tai yelled angerly, Davis nodded while rubbing the back of his head slightly.
"I have a feeling I won't have to worry about playing dead Tai, they'll kill me first," Davis said pointing behind the older teen, Tai blinked and looked behind him.
The next thing he knew was that he was almost run over by Yolei, looking over at Davis he saw that the spiky haired boy was in hard hug.
"Davis, don't ever do that again," Yolei said and she began to cry into Davis's shoulder, as Tai watched Davis's body relaxed and hugged the purple haired girl gently to himself.
"I promise Lei-ai(1)," Davis said, listening to this Tai smiled slightly at the cute nickname.
'One day those two will make a cute couple (2), but only if we make sure there is a oneday' Tai thought looking at the dark sky, he only hoped that they would live through all of this.
***
Yolei hugged the taller teen to herself, she had missed him way more then she had thought possible, as if part of herself was missing. She had almost broken down when he had called her that nickname, that had been his private nickname for her... she had thought she would never hear it again.
"Yolei we have to fight again, Daemon is back," he said, with those words he brought the purple haired girl back to reality. "The the prize is the future of the real world and the digital world," he continued, she gasped.
"Why, why must there always be fighting and death," she cried again tears falling down her face, she had started to hate fighting with a passion after the so called death of Davis.
"Because evil likes to," he whispered sadly, he rubbed her back gently and did so until they heard a nasty laugh that sent chills through there bodies.
Chapter Four
Davis gulped silently as he saw Daemon floating above, he was afraid of the coming battle... not that he would ever admit it. In a way the fight would hurt him more then the others, he was connected to the digital world and whatever happened to it he would feel it.
"Daemon," he heard Tai say, looking at the others he saw there digimon taking fighting positions ready to defend there human partners.
During this he noticed that Yolei hadn't left his arms yet, a blush threatened to form when he realized that she was pushing her body closer to him.
'My she has.... what don't think like that you baka' Davis thought a huge blush on his face, with all his might he forced himself not to think about how Yolei's body felt against his own.
'Her hair smells nice, must be her perfume' he thought and he wanted to hit himself, he couldn't believe that he was thinking about that. For one thing in reality he was almost old enough to be her father, but he knew that only his soul was older then hers... his body, mind and heart were as young as hers.
'This is all I need just when I need to concentrate the most' Davis thought with a silent groan, he looked at Daemon angerly knowing that they couldn't send the digimon back to the dark world this time.
"Well humans and your pathetic digimon I see everyone is gathered, I hope you know the rules... because there is none," Daemon said, and then he laughed filling his heart with dread.
'Please let me live through this fight, I think I found another reason to keep on living' Davis thought to the kami's (3), he held Yolei closer to himself his heart beating for her alone.
***
Gennai sighed as he watched this all through the mirror, he knew that all life hung in the balance in this fight. If the digidestined lost all he knew would be gone and so would himself, he hoped with all his might that they would win.
To his happiness Davis had finally found loved, he had known that Davis had been in love before. Akane was her name from his time as Ranma and she crushed his heart without mercy, the second time was Kari but even Davis had known it wasn't meant to be.
"And friendship will find love," he whispered, he had found those words in an acient book.... he only hoped that the rest of what he had read would come true.
At first he had thought it meant Matt and Sora, but he knew now it wasn't... there was something more between these two.
TBC
Notes:
1) ai- a term of affection
2) Well I gave the couple away finally, its a Davis/Yolei couple. You mean people wouldn't let me make it a Dai/ken so i had to rewrite part three.
3) Kami- japanease world for a god
Err.. there will be battle in the next chapter, can anyone tell me Daemons digimon level and his attacks and what they do... i could use the help.