PeterN: Digimon has started on TV here again ^_^ The Dark Master arc, pity I'm on my way home from school while it's playing… -_-. Thanks for the reviews, and I'm sorry to anyone who still remembers this fic about the legth of time it takes me to write one of these uselessly small sections.
Theo 'Blitz' Leung – Aww, you like Sora I take it. Pity she gets killed off a lot. Glad I frighten you though. I might cut down on killing Sora though, it would just become a running gag if it happened too many times ^_~
Emma/Ems – That wasn't really a graphic description. I can't really do a graphic description, as I don't really know what a lung floating out of half a living "corpse" looks like. Are they going to be ok? Count how many of them are dead or injured and you might get a slight indication. Mimi turned to Chaos in part 17, Slaanesh to be more specific, and you probably don't want to know what Slaanesh is.
Immaterium (Part 19)
Sora writhed, rolled, and pitched in pain. Her arms hugging her sides as she sank into the foetal position. The almost gentle tingling had suddenly ignited into an inferno of incineration. Millions of embers smashing into her prone form every second. Through tear and agony blurred eyes she caught sight of a white blur surrounding her. Moving up and down her body in time with the peaks of pain. The tears streamed faster, blurring out everything but the white glow. It stayed still for a moment before descending upon her once more. She screwed her eyes shut and let out a scream of anguish, as once again her body was hit with pain it shouldn't have been able to feel.
Suddenly the pain stopped. She slowly opened her eyes, expecting the glow to be waiting for her, taunting her into more trauma. It wasn't. She looked around, the usual darkness shone through wherever she was.
"How do you like the changes, my little pet?" The voice came out of the darkness, an edge to it Sora hadn't heard before.
"What changes? All you do is inflict more pain."
"I'm so glad the torture is working. What changes you ask. The changes to your body, of course. Maybe I should shine some light on the matter."
A barely heard humming filled the air for a few seconds, then light. Blinding. Brilliant. Blazing. Blasting her eyes like a ball of fire. Sora turned away, eyes screwed shut and hands over eyes. A faint chuckle came from the room as the creature watched the virtually helpless human. Slowly her eye's adjusted, all black disappearing from sight as the pupil shrunk too small to be seen. Finally out of the pain once more she looked at where she had heard the voice.
A silent scream of sheer terror filled her lungs.
Joe frantically glanced round as he felt the elevator shudder to a start. An endless second passed as he held his breath, head raised towards the ceiling where the lifting mechanisms where located. He finally let his breath out again as the elevator stopped and opened the doors at the next floor.
He grabbed the still unconscious Tsunomon off of the floor and sprinted out of the elevator, stopping only a few feet on the other side of the door. He suppressed a smile for a few moments then sprinted up the long flight of stairs towards Tai's apartment.
Finally he reached the right floor, dragging himself up the stairs by the handrail he stumbled off of the final step. He walked to the door, bent over with exhaustion. He pounded one fist into the bell and leant against the wall waiting for someone to open it.
"Blood's at twelve degrees. Everyone's going to schedule." The man glanced up from the monitors and looked at the two small children lying on the beds in the room. He looked at the blood flowing from their arms into the machine, and then back into their arms again.
An incessant beep grabbed everyone's attention. Several pairs of eyes stared at the monitor as it showed a massive burst of brain activity in the younger child.
"That isn't supposed to happen yet, is it?"
A woman looked at him for a moment. "Never happened to any of the others. Someone get some anaesthetic in that kid! One hour dosage."
Sora stared blankly ahead at the infinity point in the blank whiteness that surrounded of her. Part of her tried to remember what she had just seen, all of her remembered the terror at seeing whatever it was. She knew it was the sight of the creature that had terrified her to the point of insanity, but her brain refused to recall the memory.
"Come, come now human. Stop trying to remember what I look like. There'll be plenty of time for that torture later. Now is the time for you to convince your friends to join us."
Sora slowly shook her head, always keeping her eyes firmly pointed in the opposite direction from the creature. "Never!"
Unseen to Sora a grotesque smile formed on the creature. "I think I can change your mind."
Mimi walked down the busy street. The smell of pollution drifted into her nose as she passed by a stalling van. She breathed deeply and let it fill her lungs, a smile crossing her face for the umpteenth time since she had arrived back on Earth. Her mind drifted back to just before she had woken up back in her home city as she started walking down the road almost automatically, the smile getting larger the more she thought about it. She stopped by an electronics shop; a display television showed the news of the giant creature that had destroyed a town somewhere. Memories of the Daemon flashed through her mind, memories that she had not know before. She recognised it as a Greater Daemon of Khorne, the most powerful daemonic servant of the God of Blood, the Immortal archenemy of Slaanesh.
Sora's hand slowly rose to her mouth, she noted the change of her gloves, of all her clothes. Instead of her usual clothes she wore beige and white, the top had extended slightly downward and billowed out, the lower part of it ran from white through to beige, matching perfectly the colour of her pants. Her gloves, now white, cut off early so her fingers went through the perfectly sized holes.
Her hand continued to rise, one finger now curling outward from the balled fist. Slowly she put it in her mouth, teeth pressing into the soft flesh of the finger as her eyes widened in horror. Scant seconds passed while she remained frozen in that position, then blood oozed out of her hand as the finger fell with a tiny spray of crimson blood. The once attached appendage twitched once, twice, before staying still. Her hand remained next to her mouth; the dark red blood dribbling down her cheek and splashing onto the floor as it collected on her chin and eventually fell off.
Her mouth opened again and she screwed her eyes tight, waiting and dreading the pain that would come.
"I told you I could change your mind. I can control your body if you don't do this. Either way, human, I will succeed." The voice sounded again, slowly it sunk in as Sora recognised the voice. Not that of the creature, but her own voice. She stared ahead, her body refusing to move apart from her head. She looked down, the pool of red staining the blemished floor, while the finger danced in the blood of its own body.
A pain shot through her hand and she gasped in pain, her voice finally returning to her. She watched her hand, still frozen in place by her mouth. Slowly bone stretched out from the severed joint, muscle built up on it, as did flesh. In just a few seconds it grew back, still curled, as it was when it had been bitten off. She ran her tongue over her teeth reflexively, the ironic taste washing through her senses as she began to spit the blood out of her mouth, dribbling even more down her face.
A single spasm passed through her body and she could move again. Not held up by the creature her body collapsed to the floor, tears of pain adding to the mess of blood and saliva marring the floor.
Tai jumped.
Kari jumped.
The short loud pound on the door broke through their frantic thoughts like a chainsaw through wood.
Again.
The pound rang in their ears, both heads turned towards the door as the sound echoed through the apartment again. And again. And again.
Tai walked to the door, heart pounding as the television droned on in the background. Quickly he swung it open, a choke escaping his throat as he saw who was banging on the door.
"Joe!" he cried out, surprise and relief plastered over the word.
The two walked in the apartment, the gloomy atmosphere obvious to Joe in seconds. The memories of the elevator faded away as he watched the television, another news report on the giant Greater Daemon showing, the same footage being used again and again as no sane person, not even a news reporter, would try to follow it.
"…of the giant animal has sparked debate among scientists over whether an isolated geological area could have been separated from the rest of the world, allowing this creature to develop unseen for millennia, only surfacing once its isolated area was re-introduced to the rest of the planet. The earthquake near the destroyed town shortly before the creature appeared has lent some weight to this argument. Other, more hysterical people believe this creature is a projection of humanities nightmares…."
Joe stared at the screen, face devoid of all emotion and blood. "We saw that before…. It was what got Mimi…. How can we fight that thing? It destroyed an entire town." His monotone statement echoed Tai's own morbid thoughts
"We have to try. We already destroyed one of those Greater Daemons, and the other one only survived because it was holding Mimi and Lillymon. How much stronger could this one be?" Tai looked at Joe. "We have to fight it."
"We're not in the Digiworld anymore Tai. We don't have to risk getting ourselves killed. There's military forces, they can handle this easily."
"What about Mimi? Don't you care that she's been captured by that Greater Daemon? Why can't you see that we have to fight?"
"Of course I care about Mimi! If you want to fight so much take care of Tsunomon over there." Joe nodded towards the sofa where an unconscious Tsunomon lay. "And go and fight that thing!"
Tai stared at Joe as he stormed out of the apartment, another rent in the group opening itself as the door slammed shut behind Joe.
TK ran through the bleak mist, his heart pounded in his ears as he pushed himself to keep the exhausting pace. Only fear and adrenaline let him run further, the roar that was behind him sparking both off. The roar sounded again and he clasped his hands over his ears as the noise tried to deafen him. A stench shot past him nearly forcing him to gag. Each step shot pain up his legs and throughout his body, reminding him that he was still alive.
The roar sounded again and he felt heat on the back of his neck, heard the thunder of giant feet pounding into the earth. He put on an extra burst of speed. The darkness closed around the corner of his vision, the poisonous build-up of the continuous sprinting slowly destroying his body from the inside. With a stumble he crashed to the ground, the loudest roar of all shattered the air like thunder and shook the ground. He quickly curled up into a ball, the flight instinct forcing him to hide in himself.
An explosion rocked the air. His eardrums echoing the explosions as they nearly caved in from the blast. Explosion after explosion rippled through the air, barely heard by TK as he tried to bury his head in the floor. He felt moisture on his back as he kept trying to claw his way through the rock. The drops splattered down on him as thunder broke through the sky, one last mind-numbing explosion of sound. The light pattering turned into a torrential downpour as he nearly drowned in the quickly rising water.
A strong claw smashed down into his shoulder, a jolt of fear smashing through his body as he darted forward. The strong grip caught him once more, harsh noises coming from the unseen monster. The grip tightened, claws sunk into his flesh as tears streaked down his face. Too scared to look around at the monster he just imagined it, the gigantic red beast. Talons at the end of each hideously deformed arm. One talon sinking into his soft flesh as his blood seeped out onto the ground, his life slowly fading away as it ate him, savouring his very fear.
Breath came in short bursts of fire in his lungs; his shoulder ached where the talon viciously shook him, trying to tear his arm from its socket in act of sheer pain. The rain stopped abruptly and a shadow loomed over him onto the red ground below. Furnace blast after furnace blast of breath drew into his lungs as his body tried to work again. Tried and failed.
PeterN: Took WAY too long to do that I know. Looks like the group is on the verge of splitting up or being completely obliterated by a Greater Daemon here. Any one got an idea of how to get them out of this? Please leave a review.