PeterN: Thanks for the reviews.
Emma/Ems – Ouch…
Theo 'Blitz' Leung – They weren't dumb comments. I like your comments and suggestions. They help me carry on writing. Dimensional rifts can be fun ^_^. I don't think they are a particularly unusual combination; there is a war for the survival of humanity going on in both.
{Death} – Do you not like Mimi by any chance?
Space Dragon – Why shouldn't I listen to my reviewers? Joe and Matt fighting was a good, no brilliant, idea so it got included. I can't make them all go Mega. Digimon episodes have only got to the first episode with the Dark Masters here in England. Only Agumon and Gabumon can Warp Digivolve so far (I don't know what the others turn into, what they look like, or what their attacks are -_-). Also none of them have Warp Digivolved at this point in the Anime. As for Portent I may submit it, probably not though. And I'm definitely not submitting it to rgmw!!! But I'm going to have to make you wait a bit longer…
Soul ManZ () – In response to your reviews to part 3, 4, and 5. I think there is something wrong with your view of Nurgle being very cute and cuddly….
Ok, I'm carrying on with the story before that train of thought causes me to become even more ill than I already am (Damn you Nurgle!)…
Immaterium (Part 8)
A pair of eyes watched them silently with bated breath.
No. You were supposed to kill each other. It raised its sword in a moment of anger before quickly lowering it again; giving away its position might be unwise for the moment. Its view fell upon TK's crest. What is that thing? That is what broke my powers. But how could something as pitiful as that defeat me; a Keeper of Secrets. I am supposed to know all secrets. Yet this escapes me. I know their innermost thoughts and desires. I set up that fight to the death by manipulating them. How could I not know of those things?
"The Daemon isn't here anymore." Izzy said as he consulted his computer. "Let's get Mimi and get out of here. We can fight better after we've recovered from this." He looked around at his friends. Matt and Joe were on the raised stone platform, bloodied and bruised from their fight. Tai and Sora were standing near each other, still in shock from seeing Matt and Joe trying to literally kill each other. TK was smiling, happy that the fight was over. Agumon and Biyomon were also standing in shock, just like Tai and Sora. Patomon was on TK's head, seemingly unperturbed at the fight now that it had passed. While Gabumon and Gomamon had collapsed to the floor, completely drained of energy, the same way Matt and Joe probably were now.
And then there was Mimi. Unconscious on the edge of the stone platform. A bruise beginning to form to the left of her mouth, a small trail of blood seeping out of it. Palmon was beside her, trying to wake her up but failing. Matt had been trying to kill Joe if he had hit her that hard.
They slowly went over to Matt and Joe, shock still slowing their responses. They were in a worse shape than Izzy had originally thought. Both were covered in blood, cuts, and bruises. Joe had a nasty gash along his forehead, while Matt was bleeding profusely from the back of his neck. They worked quickly to bandage the larger cuts up, and hoped that the smaller ones wouldn't get infected.
They went over to Mimi, the sight of Matt and Joe's injuries finally snapping them out of their shock, but not their silence. She had a faint bruise to the left of her mouth and a small trickle of blood running down from her lip. Apart from that she appeared fine, assuming they could wake her up.
Tai and Sora helped get the still unconscious Mimi to her feet while Izzy scanned his computer map for somewhere they could shelter until they recovered. A few seconds passed with only the furious tapping of keys breaking the silence.
"This way guys." Izzy said setting off towards a fairly close hill. "There's a network of caves in their according to this, and it's the closest shelter I could find."
Matt and Joe had got up by now, avoiding each other and walking in total silence. Tai and Sora looked at the other four walking away for a few moments, then set about dragging Mimi along with them.
Several hours later they arrived at a yawning cave mouth. Mimi was now awake but also walking silently not looking at either Joe or Matt. Much to the relief of the others she was walking normally, and her eyes weren't glazed over.
They went inside, none really sure how to break the silence that had enveloped them all since they left, apart from a few minutes after Mimi woke up and started complaining.
Izzy saw a small stream running through the cave. "You'd better wash those cuts. You don't want them getting infected." He said, voice booming because of the perpetual silence and the echoes of the cave.
"Yeah, I suppose you're right Izzy." Matt said getting up and going to the far side of the cavern where the stream was.
"Good idea, we've survived evil digimon, don't need infections killing us." Joe said as he followed Matt to the stream.
Matt looked at the cuts on his arms as he washed them, one was already going yellow. Great, first I go crazy and try and kill Joe. Now I'm going to lose my arm through a cut.
Joe walked up behind him. "Matt…" he whispered, not sure of how to continue. "I-I'm sorry. I don't know what came over me. I felt like I was doing the right thing, that you wanted to hurt Mimi…." He broke off realising how stupid the last part had sounded. Matt would never try to hurt any of them, except Tai now and then.
"Don't be Joe. It was my fault as well. I felt that you wanted to hurt Mimi as well. I don't know what happened. Something must have made us do that."
"The Daemon you think?"
"If it was as powerful as the one in my dre… no nightmare looked, then it most probably was." Matt responded with a solemn look on his face. "Either that or we're both going mad over Mimi." He added with a smirk before going back to washing his cuts and dried blood away.
With the most of the dried blood washed away they both looked in a lot better condition than they did ten minutes before. They walked back to the group and heard a distressed Mimi talking in-between sobs.
"…it was terrible. That thing had me building a shrine to its God. And I couldn't stop myself. I could see and feel everything I was doing, even when I saw Matt and Joe fighting. I wanted to stop tem, but couldn't do anything about where I was walking, let alone help them." Her voice had risen to an insanely high pitch and speed, making it impossible for anyone to fully hear what she was saying. She looked around at their disgusted looking faces. "You hate me for it, don't you?" She said flatly, voice more or less normal again.
"Don't say that Mimi." Matt said returning to the group along with Joe. "We don't hate you, we never could."
Mimi sniffed a bit. "Thanks Matt." Then stood up and went over to him before slapping him in the face. "That's for punching me." She said as the others sniggered a little. Mimi turned to Joe and slapped him as well. "And that's for trying to kill Matt."
Matt and Joe sat there, faces bright red through embarrassment. "Mimi. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to punch you. It wasn't my fault." Matt said.
"I'm sorry as well Mimi, we couldn't help ourselves when we were fighting. We both felt like the other wanted to hurt you" Joe added on the end then seeing Mimi's angry face added a bit more. "The Daemon manipulated us Mimi. The same as it did you."
Mimi's face fell and turned as red as Matt and Joe's. "I'm sorry you two. I shouldn't have slapped you. Now can we go to sleep? I feel tired."
"Good way to change the topic Mimi." Sora laughed. "You're right though it has been a long day for us, and probably worse for you three."
"Yeah. We can get that Daemon in the morning. We'll show it what happens to those who hurt our friends." Tai added enthusiastically. "I'll guard first, Sora can take over after me, and Izzy can do the last stint." He looked round seeing if anyone disagreed before going slightly towards the entrance with Agumon. He looked back and watched the others go to sleep before turning round and staring at the star-filled sky.
"Do you think we'll be able to beat that thing?" Agumon asked
"Of course we can. We beat Devimon and Etemon didn't we?"
"Yeah. We did. But I've never seen or heard of that thing we saw. At least we were up against enemies we knew. We know nothing about these things."
"Come on Agumon. You're the mon, you can beat it!"
"Shut up Tai, we're trying to sleep back here." Came Mimi's voice from inside the cavern. All of them fell silent and waited out their time, watching for any signs of trouble.
Tai got up and walked to Sora. "Come on, time to swap." He shook her gently to wake her up, getting only mumbles in response. He shook her a bit harder. "Come on Sora. I want to go to sleep now."
"Leave us alone." She mumbled. "Why don't you let us stay here."
Us? Stay? What's she dreaming about? Tai thought and shook her again, this time succeeding in waking her.
She opened her eyes and saw Tai staring back at her. "You didn't leave Tai." She said with a smile on her lips. A look of surprise came over her face and she wildly looked around, remembering where she was after a few seconds.
"Wha…?"
"Uh…. Nevermind Tai. It doesn't matter. I'll take over now. You and Agumon can go to sleep. Come on Biyomon. Let's leave the boys to get some sleep." She hurriedly said and darted away to the entrance leaving Tai looking at her in surprise for a few seconds before he lay down and fell asleep.
"What was that about Sora?" Biyomon asked after a while of silence had passed.
"Nothing important. Just a dream."
"Oh." Biyomon said as she lay down, feeling herself drift off to sleep.
A short while later Sora also surrendered to her tiredness, leaving the group with no one watching for danger, but someone watching them.
PeterN: Out of time to write anymore. Just time to upload this before I leave for a few hours. What is watching them? Please leave a review.