Chapter 5
Answers of Truth
Kari and the others hastened their pace. The sight of T.K. crying was enough to make them feel more than a little agitated. When they had reached him, they saw that he was drying his eyes and that he looked like he was fairly finished, although his eyes did look slightly bloodshot.
"T.K., what's wrong?" Lorriette asked, arriving first.
"The others will tell you, I just need a few minutes to sort through some things on my own."
"Okay, if you say so," she started to turn to leave, but flung back around momentarily, "What do you mean by others?"
"Oh, the other digidestined came to check on us, they're back in the garden." As Kari, Celestialmon, and Gatomon arrived, Lorriette started to peek around the corner of the castle, only to come face to face with, or should I say elbows to face with, Cody.
The boy was slightly startled for a few moments, but managed to pull himself together. He then bowed and introduced himself.
"My name is Lorriette," the girl said shyly.
"Oh, hey Cody!" Kari called, as she joined them, "I see you've met Lorriette. Tell me, what's up with T.K.?"
"Oh, well, I'm not sure if I'm the one who should be telling you this, but the Roachmon brothers showed up to attack that new Sovereign. What's his name again?"
"Well, its name is Celestialmon. It just digivolved from DemiCelestialmon a few minutes ago," Lorriette informed him.
"Oh, thank you," he bowed again, "Anyway, T.K. asked them who they were working for and they told him that Devimon had sent them."
"Devimon?" Kari said, slightly bewildered.
"Yeah, if you ask me, I say that they're lying."
"No wonder T.K. was crying!"
"Wait, who's this Devimon guy?"
"He was our first enemy. Back in the days before I came to the digital world. The only one who was able to defeat him was Angemon, Patamon's champion form, but he sacrificed himself in the process." Kari explained.
"Then, why is Patamon still here?"
"Oh, I forgot you didn't know about that. You see, when digimon die, they come back as digieggs. In a sense, they're immortal. Unfortunately, I guess that counts for evil digimon too. I had never thought about it before, I'm really hoping that Cody's right, and those too are lying." She said this with a shudder.
"Let us go question them then," Celestialmon said, with an heir of a ruler.
They rounded the corner and went to where Angemon was still holding the two bugs. Celestialmon floated to the two and nodded to Angemon to let the pair go. With a strange will, it was able to keep them immobile. They stood there, staring at the translucent Sovereign.
"Do you know," it said in a slow, terrifying voice, "that I have the power to make any being, digital of organic, tell the truth?"
"You do?" the digimon said simultaneously.
Celestialmon nodded and breathed out an attack. "Answers of Truth, now tell me, who sent you here? Was it Devimon, as you said before, or another, as I suspect?"
The pair of digimon looked as if they were in a stupor. In a duet they replied, "Oh my lord and master, we have been sent far, from the land beyond the Blue Valley. The one who has sent us is not Devimon, as was told before, but a new master of deception. The one who wishes to send you to your downfall, Demisemon."
Celestialmon, with a look of hatred in its eyes, asked another question, "Is Demisemon in its rookie form?"
"Yes."
"Did it do anything to you to make you obey it?"
"It has put a curse on us."
"It will be removed. You will come out of your stupor as I count backwards. Five, four, three, two," he paused. The sound of footsteps, and then heavy panting came from behind them.
"W-wait, I want, I want to ask them a question," T.K. said, still trying to catch his breath.
"Go ahead," Celestialmon said.
"Do you mean," T.K. asked the stupefied digimon, "that Devimon isn't involved at all?"
"No, there is a Devimon, but not the one you have destroyed. He and a Ladydevimon are Demisemon's protectors," they answered in a chorus.
With a heavy sigh of relief, T.K. asked another question, "Is anyone else involved?"
"As a matter of fact, there is."
"Who?" T.K. and Celestialmon asked at the same time.
Meanwhile, the four other Sovereigns had started making their way toward the center.
Answers of Truth
Kari and the others hastened their pace. The sight of T.K. crying was enough to make them feel more than a little agitated. When they had reached him, they saw that he was drying his eyes and that he looked like he was fairly finished, although his eyes did look slightly bloodshot.
"T.K., what's wrong?" Lorriette asked, arriving first.
"The others will tell you, I just need a few minutes to sort through some things on my own."
"Okay, if you say so," she started to turn to leave, but flung back around momentarily, "What do you mean by others?"
"Oh, the other digidestined came to check on us, they're back in the garden." As Kari, Celestialmon, and Gatomon arrived, Lorriette started to peek around the corner of the castle, only to come face to face with, or should I say elbows to face with, Cody.
The boy was slightly startled for a few moments, but managed to pull himself together. He then bowed and introduced himself.
"My name is Lorriette," the girl said shyly.
"Oh, hey Cody!" Kari called, as she joined them, "I see you've met Lorriette. Tell me, what's up with T.K.?"
"Oh, well, I'm not sure if I'm the one who should be telling you this, but the Roachmon brothers showed up to attack that new Sovereign. What's his name again?"
"Well, its name is Celestialmon. It just digivolved from DemiCelestialmon a few minutes ago," Lorriette informed him.
"Oh, thank you," he bowed again, "Anyway, T.K. asked them who they were working for and they told him that Devimon had sent them."
"Devimon?" Kari said, slightly bewildered.
"Yeah, if you ask me, I say that they're lying."
"No wonder T.K. was crying!"
"Wait, who's this Devimon guy?"
"He was our first enemy. Back in the days before I came to the digital world. The only one who was able to defeat him was Angemon, Patamon's champion form, but he sacrificed himself in the process." Kari explained.
"Then, why is Patamon still here?"
"Oh, I forgot you didn't know about that. You see, when digimon die, they come back as digieggs. In a sense, they're immortal. Unfortunately, I guess that counts for evil digimon too. I had never thought about it before, I'm really hoping that Cody's right, and those too are lying." She said this with a shudder.
"Let us go question them then," Celestialmon said, with an heir of a ruler.
They rounded the corner and went to where Angemon was still holding the two bugs. Celestialmon floated to the two and nodded to Angemon to let the pair go. With a strange will, it was able to keep them immobile. They stood there, staring at the translucent Sovereign.
"Do you know," it said in a slow, terrifying voice, "that I have the power to make any being, digital of organic, tell the truth?"
"You do?" the digimon said simultaneously.
Celestialmon nodded and breathed out an attack. "Answers of Truth, now tell me, who sent you here? Was it Devimon, as you said before, or another, as I suspect?"
The pair of digimon looked as if they were in a stupor. In a duet they replied, "Oh my lord and master, we have been sent far, from the land beyond the Blue Valley. The one who has sent us is not Devimon, as was told before, but a new master of deception. The one who wishes to send you to your downfall, Demisemon."
Celestialmon, with a look of hatred in its eyes, asked another question, "Is Demisemon in its rookie form?"
"Yes."
"Did it do anything to you to make you obey it?"
"It has put a curse on us."
"It will be removed. You will come out of your stupor as I count backwards. Five, four, three, two," he paused. The sound of footsteps, and then heavy panting came from behind them.
"W-wait, I want, I want to ask them a question," T.K. said, still trying to catch his breath.
"Go ahead," Celestialmon said.
"Do you mean," T.K. asked the stupefied digimon, "that Devimon isn't involved at all?"
"No, there is a Devimon, but not the one you have destroyed. He and a Ladydevimon are Demisemon's protectors," they answered in a chorus.
With a heavy sigh of relief, T.K. asked another question, "Is anyone else involved?"
"As a matter of fact, there is."
"Who?" T.K. and Celestialmon asked at the same time.
Meanwhile, the four other Sovereigns had started making their way toward the center.