PeterN: Thanks once again for the reviews.
{Death} – The battles will get here soon enough, there's one this section.
SpacedOutDragon – Thanks. This could just be me being slow but… what's an EM?
Emma/Ems – hehe ^_^. It's largely thanks to Bliss and the very good fics Realm Walker and Gemini Warriors (plus sequels) that this is Mimato. And I can't really kill one of them off… yet.
Immaterium (Part 6)
"Yes, but we have bigger problems than what happened while you were asleep." Gennai said. "One of these daemons has found Myotismon, and it doesn't appear to be attacking."
"No…"
"Surely they'd never team up…"
"I knew it, we're going to die."
"Shut up Joe. We'll beat them together." Matt said, a look of anger in his eyes.
"It's impossible to tell whether they are fighting or not inside the castle. But the castle is still standing and the guards are still at the gate. You must hurry, if Myotismon and the daemon go through the gate then both worlds are doomed."
Myotismon stepped up to a stone pedestal. On it was an intricately carved device with square depressions in it. In his hand he held metallic looking cards.
"The digidestined think they are so smart, but in reality I am always one step ahead of them. Now I hold all…"
A door flew off its hinges, landing several metres down the room. All eyes fell to the open doorway, and the figure silhouetted in it's opening. Filling the entire doorway was a dark, shadowed form, wings visible to the side. It stepped through, stone floor creaking beneath its heavy footsteps. Light shone upon the creatures armour; pure black beneath, and painted in blood. Skulls jeered out of it, each one different from the last.
"Can't you tell I'm busy here?" Myotismon asked
"Busy?" It repeated in a similar tone to Myotismon, mocking him. "Busy!" Anger filled its voice. Glimpses of an axe could be seen as it moved almost to fast for eyes to follow. The face turned into a feral sneer of raw power, surprising even Myotismon.
"What are you?" Myotismon asked.
"I am a Greater Daemon. Now you will open that gate so I can go through." It roared axe brandished high as a threat.
"How dare you tell me, Lord Myotismon, what to do? Crimson Lightning!" The red energy shot out and snaked towards the Greater Daemon. It looked at them with a quizzical glance before deflecting them almost lazily with its giant axe.
"I said open it!" It roared as it flew towards Myotismon, axe whirling in a frenzied arc of death towards Myotismon's head. He leaped backwards avoiding the blow and watched as the Demidramon came to life. They quickly surrounded the Greater Daemon and prepared to destroy it at Myotismon's command.
"You fool. You cannot defeat the likes of me. Especially in my own castle! Demidramon, destroy him!" The creatures lurched forwards as one.
The Greater Daemon kicked one of them in the face and swung his axe in a wide arc at two of the other's heads. Both dodged back from the axe as the one kicked in the face went sprawling out of the combat.
Three on one. This is too easy. Not enough blood either. The Greater Daemon thought as it calmly dismembered the next Demidramon, leaving it to live until it bled to death.
The remaining two looked at their fallen comrade for a fraction of a second before they too lost their limbs in a flurry of slashes from a weapon that shouldn't have harmed them.
The Greater Daemon stepped up to Myotismon. "Now open it! Before I get angry!" It roared into Myotismon's face knocking him over with the volume alone.
Myotismon meekly got to his feet and trudged to the pedestal, remarkably unscathed despite being in the middle of the short but bloody battle. He watched as the Demidramon vaporised into a black cloud of data and turned to face the pedestal with a sigh. He tossed the cards into it. "There. It will open."
There was an explosion and all heads turned to the gateway. The door was buckling from the outside of it.
The Greater Daemon stared at it in shock as the gateway exploded in an impressive display of unharnessed power. All eyes stared at the gaping crater that was where the gateway once stood.
The Greater Daemon slowly turned to face Myotismon, pure anger showing in its eyes. It's armour shone with a black light and the skulls leered faster and faster. Constantly mocking the one that was about to join them. All eyes followed the axe as it swung faster than any of them could move. A whirling sphere of destruction. It slammed into a wall, creating a new crater before moving into another wall. The Greater Daemon continued to demolish the wall for a few seconds before its eyes fell upon a slowly retreating Myotismon.
It flew up into the air, axe smashing through the ceiling into the room above. "Blood for the Blood God!" It screamed flying straight towards Myotismon, everything else stopped as all watched the reaper of death itself. Even in slow motion the axe was impossible to follow. Glimpses of metal spreading out and heading straight towards Myotismon. It hit. Clothing shredded and flesh sprayed out against the walls in an instant. Cold blood spewed out of the body as the axe disintegrated it. Blood flew across the room as the axe reached veins and arteries. A pathetic screech was heard as bone was turned into a fine powder under the onslaught of the axe. Time returned to normal as the rest of the corpse exploded into a mist of flesh, blood, and bone.
The Greater Daemon looked around, there were still creatures here, frozen in shock and fear. It flew straight upwards into, and through, the ceiling. Room after room blurred by until he passed into air. He looked down at the castle, it looked as though it would collapse any second. More blood would be spilt. Today had been a good day even if the gateway had been destroyed. He flew off into the horizon as the castle began to collapse.
Gatomon looked round at the destruction. Stone dust trickled onto her head and she looked around. The castle was collapsing! She ran through the maze of corridors and rooms as fast as she could, all the other digimon didn't seem to notice what was happening. They were all frozen solid, all except Demidevimon who was flying through the hole created by the Daemon.
The ceiling collapsed to her right. She dived to the left, narrowly avoiding several tonnes of solid rock. She got to her feet and ran again. All she could hear was her heart. Beating faster and faster with each step. Pounding away at her ribcage. Feeling as though it would explode. She wouldn't stop. She couldn't stop. She had to keep running. To stop meant deletion. Rooms collapsed behind her as she sprinted the last stretch to the entrance. Just a few more metres and she would be out. There was a rumble ahead of her and she glanced up. The entire corridor was collapsing. She looked at the entrance, just five metres away. Four metres. Three metres….
The digidestined were running towards the castle. They didn't have time to stop. There it was, just a kilometre away. A speck flew up from the castle and promptly disappeared, unnoticed by all of them.
They slowed to a walk, nearly out of energy when the got there. Then slowed to a stop when they saw what was left. The castle was a pile of rubble; there was no entrance where the entrance should be. Just a still, white tail with a golden ring on it sticking out from the rocks.
PeterN: Well there was another fight scene, made the Greater Daemon seem a little more powerful this time. (I'm still leaving it in there Emma/Ems ^_^) Please leave a review.