PeterN: Hmm… Digimon just came out second most popular in the CITV poll, yet they replaced it with the eight most popular. Thanks for the reviews.
Theo 'Blitz' Leung – Yep, sadism is one of the specialties of Slaanesh. You like Vortex Grenades WAY too much.
Space Dragon – Not sure why it was cancelled, either they don't have the episodes yet or it isn't popular enough. Six Digimon Vs Lilymon and a Keeper of Secrets, could be an interesting battle. Glad the Prozac wasn't to heighten the Daemon's pleasure.
Emma/Ems – It's because people despise cliffhangers that I try to end on them…. Might keep some readers who want to know what happens.
Pikachumaniac – Um…. The story was never supposed to be Mimato, Mimoe, Taiora, etc…. Yeah, poor Elecmon and baby digimon, some of them are still alive though. Gomamon evolves into Zudomon… I think… I hope.
Immaterium (Part 14)
The Greater Daemon turned round as he heard the attacks called out. For a brief second it saw the massed energy fly directly towards Lillymon and two small missiles heading towards itself. It dived to the floor and grabbed its sword off the ground where it had discarded it when enslaving the human and the digimon to its will.
Not enough time. It thought as it braced itself for the incoming missile. I never should have turned my back on them. That's probably killed you now. It waited for the pain, it didn't come. It turned round; the missiles were travelling sluggishly through the ever-thickening cloud of black that surrounded Primary Village like a plague of death. It noticed the energy beams heading for Lillymon were also slowed down in the same way, crawling through at snail's pace. It shouted a mental command to Lillymon; building the temple could wait, destroying these potentially dangerous foes could not.
The attacks chugged through the black cloud; much to the dismay of the digidestined; all hopes of a surprise attack were now destroyed. They covered their eyes as the attacks erupted one by one, each leaving a hole in the black cloud that slowly started to close before their eyes. The multi-coloured ripples spread through the black cloud of data, a visual display through nine axes of space and time, the likes of which rarely seen before.
It held its sword ready in a defensive stance as it waited for the digidestined to attack. Lillymon flew to above the Greater Daemon, staying just below the cloud of data, flower cannon aimed at her friends The creature looked at its sword once more, then at the group of digimon outside the cloud; none of them were moving closer. It stared at its sword and concentrated. Slowly it melted into a small super-heated blob, steam visible in the air around it. The Greater Daemon concentrated again and the blob expanded out, taking on the shape of a large, mutated, guitar.
It played a few notes to warm up. It's been way too long since I've played you my beautiful Doom Siren. It thought as it quietly played a few melodies to get the hang of the thing again. "Practice time's over! Now for the first number in my musical repertoire is this!" It shouted out so the digidestined could hear as it started strumming the weird looking guitar. A flash of movement faster than the eye could follow and rock music blared out from the guitar. Ripples and distortions could be seen in the black cloud and the Greater Daemon watched while singing along to its own masterpiece.
Ripples in the air could be seen as the notes increased in intensity and volume, the black cloud started to pulsate with the almost invisible energy of the guitar. The ripples increased in power, and giant ripples could be seen bouncing throughout everything inside the black cloud. Building blocks exploded in a fearsome display of power as they were destroyed at the molecular level. Baby digimon started to cry and wail in pain, their own screams adding to the unholy cacophony of evil that resounded around.
In the midst of the pain the Greater Daemon stood there, playing frantically and signing as fast as it could, barely remembering the battle anymore. Lillymon floated above him, flower cannon still aimed directly at her friends, showing no sign of the music hurting her as baby digimon started to explode in a shower of blood near where Mimi was calmly going about building the altar. She was also immune to the effects of the music, blood now coating her as the digimon and eggs exploded as she tried to incorporate them into the altar.
The Greater Daemon paused for a moment, breathing in a deep breath before letting out another burst of music with re-doubled intensity and speed. Cracks appeared in the black cloud and the pulsating increased. The Greater Daemon played one final bass riff and watched with satisfaction as the cloud shattered into a billion times a billion pieces of death flying outwards.
"Get down!" Joe yelled as they all threw themselves flat to the ground. The remnants of the cloud sped over them, exploding the instant they touched anything. Joe looked up and saw the devastation the cloud had caused. Every tree in sight was blown in half, data could be seen drifting up where it had killed a digimon, and the ground was shaking as it tried to cope with the sudden change in its mass.
Waves smashed through the ground sending everything nearby soaring through the air. Joe closed his eyes tight as he felt himself lurched into the air along with everything else. Garudamon, Angemon, and Lillymon were the only three who remained for the moment.
"Wing Blade!"
"Hand of Fate!"
The two attacks screamed out at Lillymon who easily dodged the attacks, flying forward and taking the battle to them. What am I doing? She thought s she tried to stop herself. They're my friends. Why am I attacking them? I don't want to do this.
"Flower Cannon!"
The aim was true despite her conscience's best effort to make the attack miss. Garudamon stopped trying to fly and dropped straight down for a few metres, attack passing safely over her head and smashing into the ground below. Garudamon flew up and smashed into Lillymon, her thin frame went spinning through the air as she tried to fight the nauseous feeling. She felt the heat of an attack that barely missed shortly before she could regain her balance. Glazed over eyes stared at Garudamon as she aimed at her friend. There would be no way to miss at such a close range. Time slowed for Lillymon as she fought an inner battle to regain control of herself.
Palmon stared around in shock, there was nothing to see, everything was hidden by that pitch-black lack of light that pervaded everything she could sense. "Hello?" She called out, realisation that she could control her own body sinking in a few seconds later. The light started to increase and she could see her way around. A few metres to her right she saw herself, Garudamon, and Angemon. She was in her Ultimate stage and was powering up a flower cannon at near point-blank range.
"You have to overcome the Greater Daemon." A voice floated out of the semi-darkness.
"Who are you?" Palmon asked it back, not looking forward to the reply.
"I am your conscience, and this place is your mind before you ask as I know you will. You have to overcome the Greater Daemon, if you do not it shall destroy your friends and enslave you forever. I for one do not want that to happen."
"How do I defeat it?"
"I do not know. Only you can know that."
"It is right." A different voice came out of the darkness, anger and hatred obvious in its tones. "You won't be able to defeat me here though. Not if you couldn't defeat me in the real world." The Greater Daemon stepped forward, its form, both beautiful and hideous at the same time, revealing itself in the slowly increasing brightness.
It suddenly charged forward, sword raised and ready to slice Palmon in half. The surroundings instantly flooded into light, causing both Daemon and Palmon to cover their eyes. Palmon looked round; they were in a desert, a tall tower climbed up to the cloudless sky in the distance, something about it called to her and she set off towards it as fast as she could while the Greater Daemon still covered its eyes.
"You can run, but you can't hide…" It called out as it stood back and watched Palmon sprint as fast as she could towards the horizon. It quickly exchanged its sword for a Doom Siren and began playing a throbbing riff up and down the scale. Explosions littered the ground to Palmon's left as the sound waves smashed into the desert sending up plumes of choking sand. The Greater Daemon paused for a moment to peer through the obscuring sand clouds. It sighed and raised the Doom Siren high into the air, a creamy coloured wave of energy smashing into the ground at its hooves as it lowered it.
Palmon ran forward still, the explosions had stopped but this heat would stop her before she ever reached the tower. She felt a wave through the surface of the desert and paused for a moment to steady herself. Sand smashed into her with the force of a truck as the ground exploded to her right. For what seemed an eternity she endured the chaffing, eroding pain of the sand storm as she flew through the air, ending up in a crumpled pile far from the original explosion.
The Greater Daemon looked at the crumpled form in the distance with satisfaction and set off at a leisurely jog towards the incapacitated Palmon. It played a few more notes on the Doom Siren, sending more plumes of sand up from the ground near Palmon.
Palmon slowly got to her feet, body aching with pain, and vision clouded from the sand. She made out the form of the Greater Daemon rapidly approaching and started to stumble away from it. She tripped. Sand blasted into her as another storm started. She struggled to her feet. There was the Greater Daemon, towering above her.
The Greater Daemon looked down at the small figure of Palmon. It slowly raised its sword, confident that she could not win. It watched Palmon whimper pathetically as she tried to cringe away from the sword. It brought the sword down. One swift, beautiful arc of death.
The sand turned red. Blood seeped out of the two halves of the corpse. Internal organs, liquefied from the powerful blow splashed out onto the sand. A sight beautiful in its contrasting colours to the Greater Daemon. It laughed and nudged the two parts of the corpse with its hooves. The limbs twitched. The final bit of life surrendered to the atmosphere as a grey semi-liquid slurped its way out of Palmon's destroyed body.
The liquids slowly seeped through the sand and a thunderous noise could be heard in the distance. The Greater Daemon turned to face the tower. A bolt of lightning smashed into it, masonry smashing into the floor as the lightning destroyed it. Again and again. Lightning struck the tower with a vengeance. The sound increased and one final bolt of creamy coloured lightning erupted from the desert. It smashed through the tower, diffusing out of every window and hole. The Greater Daemon covered its eyes as the light threatened to blind it. It looked again when the light subsided. All that remained was a crater.
"There goes your last bastion of self-control, my sweet slave."
"Flower Cannon!"
The attack smashed into Garudamon, the beam tearing at the very essence of life that made her up. Garudamon crashed to the ground, a howl of pain escaping her lips before she fell silent upon hitting the ground. Garudamon looked up at the two flying figures, not distinguishable from each other in the blackness that was overcoming her vision. She could hear a voice, not the words, but a voice. "Don't worry Sora, I'll be fine."
"Hand of Fate!"
The beam of holy energy tore into the back of Lillymon; pain showed in her eyes, although no one could see it. She spun round to face Angemon, the digimonification of all that was good and holy. Her neutral, glazed expression gave way and turned into a harder one. One of anger and revenge.
"Lillymon. I don't want to hurt you, but you're fighting for a Daemon. You're fighting against everything we've fought for. Please, see what you're doing. Please." Angemon pleaded with her briefly before realising it was pointless. That the Greater Daemon had her too far under its power. He looked down, the others were finally staggering to their feet. The Greater Daemon. It will be up as well. Angemon spun round in time to see the flash of the sword before it cut deep into the bone of his arm. He screamed in pain as energy pulsed through the sword and into his arm, activating every pain receptor in his body.
The Greater Daemon withdrew the sword and landed on the ground, sword and claws horizontal in a defensive stance. It looked at the now standing digimon who were ready to attack.
"Giga Blaster!"
"Wolf Claw!"
"Vulcan's Hammer!"
"Horn Buster!"
The energy bursts streamed towards it, a slight movement along one of the dimensional axes that none of them even knew existed and the energy and missiles appeared to pass straight through the flickering image of the Keeper of Secrets. He dropped back as the blue werewolf ran at him, paw raised and claws outstretched for a powerful blow. It ducked down and jabbed a claw into the things stomach, blood ran down it for a few moments before the digimon instinctively withdrew and clutched at the painful wound.
"Anyone else think they can hurt me?" The Greater Daemon asked, its guard dropped now that it had seen the pathetic amount of skill these so called digidestined digimon possessed.
"Hand of Fate!"
A burning sensation spread along its back as the energy punched into it. A slight stagger forward was enough to show them that it could be harmed.
"Giga Blaster!"
"Wolf Claw!"
"Vulcan's Hammer!"
"Horn Buster!"
"Hand of Fate!"
The Greater Daemon spun round in panic as the five attacks aimed at it from different directions. Closer and closer the attacks drew, before the Greater Daemon jumped. An explosion smashed into it as the attacks collided with each other. It crashed up into the air, no control over its descent at all. It braced its arms in front of itself and prepared for the impact. The bone-jarring crash dazed it for a few moments. It groggily got to its hooves, it noticed the digimon ready to attack again, and also noticed that no one was paying attention to its human slave.
"Flower Cannon!"
The energy rained down on Angemon, pain from the sword wound having weakened him he quickly fell unconscious and de-digivolved back to Patomon. The Greater Daemon smiled and raised its sword skywards. A sweep of its four arms and a bolt of energy erupted from the ground. It hung there for a while as if uncertain what to do. The Greater Daemon motioned with its sword again and the bolt slowly moved towards the digidestined.
All of them easily dodged the bolt and got ready to attack once again. A scream interrupted them. Garudamon, now conscious from the pain was lying inside the bolt. Flickers of energy could be seen as the bolt slowly shrunk and disappeared, leaving a badly wounded Yokomon in its wake. Sora rushed to her side and cradled the unconscious Yokomon in her arms, tears welling up in her eyes. She stared at the Greater Daemon, hatred shining through her tears as they streamed freely down her face.
Tai turned to try and comfort her, but froze at what he saw. Mimi was silently approaching Sora, a pulsating cream coloured sword in her right hand. "Sora! Look out!" Tai screamed as he rushed to help her. The Greater Daemon watched Tai go to help Sora and laughed in its melodic voice. Mimi raised the sword and slashed at Sora, her aim was good considering she had never wielded a weapon. Sora looked in shock as the blade embedded itself into her leg.
The dull throbbing pain almost unnoticeable over the emotional pain that Mimi had tried to kill her. The throbbing became more persistent, insisting that Sora recognise it. She looked down; a little blood was flowing down her jeans, and another watery substance as well. The pain increased and she screamed out in anger, rage, pain, betrayal, and revenge. Her fist landed squarely on Mimi's jaw sending her reeling from the blow. Sword dropped to the ground and shattered on contact. Mimi recovered and got into a fighting stance, circling the scared Sora.
"Mimi!" Tai shouted as he reached Sora. "What are you doing?" He waited for an answer, hoped for an answer. His patience was finally rewarded when he fell to the ground having been punched in the balls by Mimi. His eyes rolled up so that only the whites could be seen, and a high-pitched whimpering noise could be faintly heard by Sora and Mimi.
The battle paused for a moment as all digimon watched the fight that Mimi was involved in. All the boys winced in sympathy as they saw Tai fall to the ground. The Keeper of Secrets laughed when it happened, she was more fun than it had thought she would be. It leant on its sword and watched the ensuing fight between Sora and its slave with rapt interest.
Both sides landed blow after blow, neither of them gave way though. Sora knew if she did Mimi would try and kill her. Mimi, on the other hand, had no choice. Mimi feinted a left jab, expecting Sora to dodge into the way of her other fist. It worked and Sora fell to the ground clutching her throat, barely able to breathe.
Joe dashed forward, a sense of survival overcoming the shock that had numbed even the digimon into inaction. His fist smashed into her jaw. An ominous crack could be heard in the silence that followed. Mimi fell backwards, eyes closed. A thud rang out as she hit the ground unconscious. Joe stood there, shocked at what he had done.
As soon as Mimi fell the Greater Daemon started attacking again. It dashed through the middle of the group, impaling WereGarurumon on its sword and slashing deep cuts in three other digimon its scythe-like arms.
"Flower Cannon!"
The beam smashed down into WereGarurumon before any of them could react. He let out a groan of pain as the energy tore him apart, before collapsing to the ground barely on the edge of consciousness. Pain flooded his senses and he de-digivolved back to Tsunomon with one final scream before falling into unconsciousness.
"Giga Blaster!"
"Vulcan's Hammer!"
"Horn Buster!"
All three attacks sliced the air as they rocketed skywards towards Lillymon, she saw the attacks close in on her, knew there wasn't time to dodge. Her form went lax as she welcomed the embrace of the final consummation of experience: deletion. Her thin frame spiralled to the right as MegaKabuterimon's attack smashed home, a ecstatic cry of pain escaping her lips for a few moments before Zudomon's attack hit and sent her spiralling in another direction. Another scream escaped as she found herself staring at the dual missiles MetalGreymon had launched. She looked at the sleek metal casing of the powerful weapons, admired the beauty of its destruction. Pain smashed through every part of her system as dual explosions lit the sky in a temporary lieu in the battle. Her vision clouded over and the pain dimmed along with her sight into the oblivion of nothingness.
The Greater Daemon turned back to the three digimon still standing in front of it. Anger flashed in its eyes as it remembered the short but powerful explosions. It stepped back from them and lowered its sword, leaving it open for attack. MegaKabuterimon needed no second chance, he flew straight for the exposed chest of the Greater Daemon, attack powering up to be released at point-blank range.
"Horn Bus…" MegaKabuterimon was smashed backwards as a powerful energy permeated inside of him. He crashed to the ground, limbs shaking like jelly, sweat pouring down his forehead. Globs of congealing skin started to peel off as he felt his nerves go numb. He saw blood spurting out of torn arteries, too deep in shock to feel the pain. He twitched one last time before stopping completely still, body, limbs, and even eyes frozen in place.
Izzy watched in horror as MegaKabuterimon fell to the ground. He turned his head and started sobbing as he saw the flesh start to disintegrate. He felt a strong hand pulling his head round to face it. He didn't want to. He was not going to see MegaKabuterimon die. The grip forced his head round, it was Joe. He looked at the spot where MegaKabuterimon had been scant seconds before. He was no longer there, just piles of rapidly rotting flesh.
The Greater Daemon laughed as the humans subconsciously went towards their now defeated friend. It felt a blast of heart near his stomach, its eyes widened in surprise as it saw the two missiles touching its delicate skin. It barely had time to realise what was happening when the missiles exploded knocking him to the floor, a creamy substance flowing out of the gaping hole. It held one claw to the wound to try and staunch the flow. It soon gave up and instead licked the quickly congealing substance from its claws.
Izzy crept towards the stinking piles of flesh along with Joe. It couldn't be true. MegaKabuterimon couldn't have died. Not so soon. His eyes caught a glimmer of foreign colour. He sprinted towards it and brushed the globule of flesh away that was covering it, surprised at how it disintegrated at the slightest touch. Underneath it he saw Motimon, unconscious and almost dead.
"Giga Blast!"
"Vulcan's Hammer!"
The two attacks smashed into the Greater Daemon's side as it tried to get off the ground. It fell face first into the stone altar as three streams of the creamy substance it seemed to be made of spurted out of the new holes. Pain mingled with pleasure as it forced itself to its feet and turned to face the two digimon. It grinned at them and planted its sword in the stone altar. "Let's see… if you can… take as good as… you give!"
A stream of white lightning rolled down from the sky and smashed into Primary Village, the deafening sounds drowning out the screams of the baby digimon as one by one the white lightning smashed into them with a power they were never supposed to endure. Cradles and baby digimon dissolved into black data that was swallowed up by the white lightning, creating a bleak grey colour to be imposed into the sheets of power. The humans and the digimon backed together as the grey sheets of rolling lightning smashed into and deleted the ground. Barely audible over the deafening noise they could hear a sweet laughter, infuriating in its pure sadism. Those that were still conscious screamed out in terror and pain as everything went white; their very atoms and data being ripped asunder.
PeterN: Hmm… I think that's the darkest part to date (although Matt's "dream" might have been darker). Anyway, hope you enjoyed that part. Please leave a review.