Chapter 13: Cruel Fate
WarGreymon and LordDevimon began to charge at each other in the air. Their metal plated bodies shining in the sun, they broke through the clouds of smoke rising from the crater. WarGreymon flew above LordDevimon and stretched his arms into the air. "Nova Force!" WarGreymon began to spin with his claws pointing forward.
LordDevimon gave no sign of fearing WarGreymon's attack. He collided with WarGreymon, ripping at him with his claws as he did so. The metal armor on WarGreymon chimed as LordDevimon's claws struck it, but held. Unable to break through WarGreymon's armor, LordDevimon devised another plan. He grabbed WarGreymon by one of his arms and threw him to the ground. WarGreymon smashed into the crater as LordDevimon placed himself directly above him. "Your foolishness ends here!"
Tai shouted, "WarGreymon! Get up!"
WarGreymon began to get to his feet, but it was too late. LordDevimon crushed WarGreymon with a huge ball of energy. The ball broke into electrical ropes and wrapped around WarGreymon, making it impossible to escape. He struggled to escape the grip, but it only caused them to hold on tighter and send shocks through his body. He fell to the ground in a tired mass.
LordDevimon laughed at WarGreymon's efforts to break free, "The harder you try, the harder it will be to escape!"
Clive stood up from the other side of the crater. His cloths had been torn from the explosion, and his body was covered with cuts. Beside him, Kraymon appeared with similar injuries. Clive heaved with each breath and struggled to walk. "Such power..." Clive mumbled to his friend, "We cannot hope to stop them alone."
Kraymon kept pace with Clive and sighed, "Then we shall join the others?" He shivered as he tried to keep his weakened body up-right.
Clive closed his eyes in pain as he hopped over a large stone, "No, but we will help them." He pulled out an object that resembled a digivice and turned to his friend, "It's time to show them what we're made of! We have no tag or crest. Or even a digivice for that matter, but we do not need them."
Kraymon began to glow as Clive fed pride and hope into him, "Clive, this feeling I'm getting from you..." The glow became brighter and tugged on his limbs. "It hurts!"
Clive stood tall, "Do not worry, Kraymon. Just believe in yourself! Kraymon, digivolve!"
Kraymon raised into the air and glowed brighter, like the North star shining in the night to guide lost souls. He lifted his arms in acceptance. The stars from the cosmos seemed to move towards him. Strands of light entered his glowing body, feeding him energy. "Kraymon warp digivolve to... WarDevidramon!"
Kari spun around as an energy burst blasted around them, "Look! Over there!"
Everyone turned and saw a Devidramon looking figure rush towards them, "Oh no! He's back for more!" Joe shouted.
WarDevidramon appeared through the smoke and revealed his silver armor. His arms were covered by metal dragon heads and his chest boasted a more powerful cannon. WarDevidramon zipped past the Digidestined and rammed LordDevimon in the back. LordDevimon crashed into some rocks.
LordDevimon brushed them off and stood up, "Hitting someone in the back? I thought you Digidestined were above that!"
Clive had finally reached the other Digidestined. He held his right arm tightly to fight the pain, and was breathing heavily. "Where you're going you'll have bigger things to worry about! WarDevidramon, take him down!"
WarDevidramon opened his dragon arms, "Twin dragon force!" Flames in the shape of dragons flew out of his arms and at LordDevimon. They twisted around each other and roared as they seeked their target. One of them broke off and flew towards WarGreymon, who still struggled to get loose. The other, crashed in LordDevimon, but was unable to move the large demon or even burn him.
Tai watched as the dragon engulfed WarGreymon in flames, "No! WarGreymon!" He grabbed Clive by the shoulders and shook him as if he wanted to shake him apart like some rag doll. "What do you think you're doing!?"
Sora pointed as the flames died down, "Look! He's free!"
"What?" Tai let go of Clive and saw WarGreymon rise out of the flames, free from the ropes that had restrained him.
WarGreymon flew up beside WarDevidramon, "Thank you for saving me."
WarDevidramon nodded, "Come, we must take this one together."
WarDevidramon charged at LordDevimon at full speed. WarGreymon kept pace a few steps behind. LordDevimon avoided WarDevidramon's punch, but ran into WarGreymon's kick by doing so. He fell to his knees and pushed his stomach were it had been hit. Keeping watch on the shadows surrounding him, he prepared his attack. As WarDevidramon's shadow fell above him, LordDevimon vanished. WarDevidramon crashed into the ground face forward. LordDevimon re-appeared behind WarGreymon and pressed his claws into his back. As WarGreymon strained, LordDevimon dug deeper and began to pull the energy from WarGreymon's bones.
WarGreymon spun around to slap LordDevimon with his claw, but found nothing there but smoke. He spun around again to see where LordDevimon had gone, but found nothing. "He's gone."
WarDevidramon got up and looked around the smoke covered crater. He squinted his red eyes, "Are you sure?"
WarGreymon looked again, "He does not appear to be here."
The wind around the digimon and Digidestined began to settle, and the smoke cleared. The children looked around as the sun shined over them. Tai pulled out his telescope and looked around, "I don't see LordDevimon anywhere."
Joe clapped his hands together, "That's a good thing! Guess we showed him!"
Matt and the others laughed, "Yeah, I guess you're right!"
The smoke suddenly became thicker, and the ground rumbled. A loud voice echoed from WarGreymon's body, "Guess again!"
Matt stopped laughing, "What?"
WarGreymon fell to the ground, grabbing at his chest. He coughed as he gasped for air. Tai ran to him, "What's wrong, WarGreymon?"
WarGreymon grabbed his head and screamed furiously in pain. Red light began to shoot out of the cracks in his armor. He threw himself around as the pain increased. Smoke began to boil out of his skin.
Mimi fell to her knees and covered her mouth, "What's happening to him?"
Sora also covered her mouth, "Is LordDevimon hurting him?"
Tai stared as WarGreymon flailed around in pain. Tears fell from his eyes as he watched his friend helplessly fall to his knees. WarGreymon groaned, "He's ripping me apart!"
LordDevimon's arm ripped out of WarGreymon's chest as the final words came out of his mouth. Blood splashed out and washed onto the ground. Another claw burst from WarGreymon's ribs. LordDevimon exploded out of WarGreymon's body, drenched in blood. WarGreymon's body blew into pieces, leaving no piece larger than a CD. His flesh and blood exploded and rained over File Island as the demon sealed his fate.
Tai screamed as he saw his friend explode into a pile of gore, "Nooooo!" Armor clanged as pieces collided together. The remains of WarGreymon were scattered around the entire crater.
LordDevimon laughed, coldly, as the pieces of Wargreymon floated to the ground. Blood dripped down his black and grey body."Still wish to defy me?"
The Digidestined all stayed frozen like statues. They gasped as the pieces of WarGreymon's body fell to the ground. Their eyes wide like oceans of tears.
LordDevimon pulled his arms back to attack the children. He laughed with every passing moment, never letting go of his joy of the pain and suffering he caused. "Don't worry. He was the lucky one!" He flapped his arms forward, "Devil's Fire!" Flames shot out of LordDevimon's arms in waves and crashed on the ground near the Digidestined.
Rocks and Smoke spat out of the ground and choked the throats of the children. They coughed and gasped as more and more smoke entered their lungs. Izzy covered his mouth and waved the others to move, "We better get out of here!"
Matt wiped some rocks from his hair and shouted, "Everyone run for it!"
The Digidestined ran through the smoke as waves of fire raged over them. Unable to see, they tripped as they came to the edge of the crater. The waves of flames collected into a large fiery mass and shot at the Digidestined. It cleared the smoke around it and covered the island with a red glow.
Kari covered her eyes, "It's going to get us!"
TK and Tai hugged her. Tai whispered into her ear, "Don't worry. We'll make it through."
WarDevidramon appeared before the children and blocked the fireball. Flames shot out in all directions, but didn't reach the children. Sora got up, "This isn't going to do us any good! We can't beat him this way, so we should try to escape."
"But how? Half of this island is a black crater! Not much to hide in!" Matt shouted.
"I..." Sora tried to search for an answer, but couldn't think of any option. "I don't know."
WarDevidramon fell back and almost crushed the Digidestined as LordDevimon jumped onto him. LordDevimon and WarDevidramon struggled in a tug-of-war like battle. "All that is left is you." LordDevimon sprang off of WarDevidramon's chest and spread his wings in the sky. "You will soon end up like your friend!" He spread his arms and swung them forward, "Devil's fire!"
WarDevidramon quickly got up and deflected the flames from the children behind him. He began to get pushed back as the flames got more intense and LordDevimon threw them faster.
Clive slowly walked to his friend, "We can't win. WarDevidramon, we better retreat for now." He looked back at the people behind him. "They can come with us for now."
WarDevidramon nodded and pushed his dragon arms into the ground. "Earthly Becon!" The ground began to shake violently as the words echoed. The crater cracked open and revealed a river of lava beneath it. Spikes shot out of the ground and tried to hit LordDevimon.
LordDevimon dodged as each spike grew out of the ground and swung at him. As they grew larger and twirled around him he realized it was nothing more than a trap. He quickly tried to break through one of the spikes. The body of rock didn't budge, and only gave off a few specks of dust as LordDevimon struck it.
The children cheered as the Earth trapped LordDevimon in a rock formed tower. WarDevidramon pulled his arms out of the ground and the shaking stopped. WarDevidramon de-digivolved into a pink ball. Clive ran up to it and picked it up, "Good work, Koramon."
Everyone gasped. Sora pointed at the ball in Clive's arms, "Koramon? You were given a Koramon?"
Clive nodded, "Yes, I was given a Koramon like Tai was."
Tai dropped to the ground. He looked at the pieces of gold metal and flesh on the ground. "WarGreymon."
Matt touched Tai's shoulder, "Don't worry. He'll come back."
Tai pulled away from Matt, "And how do we know that?"
"Chill out! He'll be back, just like Patamon returned to TK."
Tears ran down Tai's face, "That was different. Angemon wasn't torn to pieces!"
Mimi covered her eyes, "I don't want to see you two fighting again."
Joe comforted Mimi, "She's right. You two should act your age!"
"Look!" Sora pointed at the shredded remains of WarGreymon. The pieces were disappearing like Whamon had. They floated into the sky, but instead of flying away they formed little blue balls of light.
Tai cheered with joyful tears in his eyes, "Yeah! He's going to turn back into a digi egg!"
Izzy smiled, "Prodigious!"
The balls of light danced in the air and joined together into a ball the size of a human head. Everyone cheered as the final balls joined the larger mass. Tai opened his arms to catch the egg but felt no such thing. They all watched as the ball of light shot away from them. Tai ran after it, "No! Come back!"
The ball of light accelerated and disappeared in the distance. Tai dropped to his knees. Sora ran to him and hugged him, "It'll be alright."
Clive walked to where the two were sitting, "We better go." He turned his head to the stone tower. It was beginning to shake as LordDevimon continued to beat it from within. They got up and began to leave.
The three joined the others and they all walked into the forest. Tai had stopped crying for his fallen friend, but couldn't let go of the fact that the egg didn't appear.
LordDevimon roared as he broke free from the stone prison he was placed in. He searched for the children, but couldn't find them. "They must have gone into the forest! You can run, but you cannot escape!" LordDevimon flew over the island, "It's only a matter of time before you come out!" LordDevimon stopped as he heard a sword being pulled from a sheath, "Myn..."
Myn stood with his sword in his hand. He stared with fiery eyes as LordDevimon landed in front of him. They were ready to destroy each other in battle. In a fit of rage, Myn began to charge.