Disclaimer: The idea for this fic came mostly from the game series Legacy
of Kain so I have to acknowledge the inspiration, as well as the fact that
I own neither Digimon nor Legacy of Kain nor any of the characters within.
Also the Phoenix Gate is a creation of disney used in the series Gargoyles.
Authors Note: Things to keep in mind about this timeline 1) The battle with Diaboramon never occurred so Taichi and Yamato never achieved Jogress 2) Ken never became the digimon emperor 3) All known digidestined are under the rule of Tai and the other crest bearers 4) Ken does have the crest of kindness however it is not active.5) The digi-egg of kindness did not become the digi-egg of miracles and is with Ken ________________________________________________________________________
The gate swept the two boys into a dark room. The light from the gate offered them1 a brief view of their surroundings before it closed.
" How are we supposed to find our way around here if we can't see?" As Davis spoke large torches ignited along the walls of the room bathing it in rich orange light. As the boys looked around them they saw that the temple had no doors or entrances that they could see; the room was a large hall, longer than it was wide with high walls forming a curved ceiling. All over the wall there were images and inscriptions, pictures that depicted the four digital Gods as well as the digidestined digimon in their strongest forms. Davis saw that his digimon was there as well also the newly formed Paildramon and some others he didn't recognize. Various battles were depicted, most were from the war with the Dark masters and their servants. He saw MetalGarurumon squaring off against Puppetmon, he also saw the battle that WarGreymon had won against Metalseadramon. Those battles had given Tai and the others the power needed to rule the world they had sought to save; the irony was not lost on Davis. Two of the pictures were odd however; several times winged figures appeared. Davis saw that there were three distinct figures, one appeared in the battle against Devimon and another appeared in the battle against Myotismon, the last one seemed to be the evolved form of one of the other two and it was facing Piedmon.
" Whoa! I remember Tai talking about tat last battle, he said that Wargreymon had fought alone until Metalgarururmon came but even then they almost lost."
" Did he say how they won Davis?" V-mon asked his partner.
" No, when I asked he got really defensive and told me it was 'none of my concern'" Davis replied not taking his eyes off of the wall. " Ken, what do you make of all this?" Ken however did not reply, his eyes had never left the sight at the end of the large hall, it was a pyre burning with a huge flame, a huge black flame. It was the digital oracle, corrupted to its core by the actions of the digidestined and their power hungry leader. It was a symbol of everything that was wrong in both the digital and real worlds and the oddest thing about it was that there were people inside of it, two of them.
"Davis, look" Ken directed the gaze of his cinnamon haired companion toward the black flame then he motioned for the boy to follow him as they went to investigate. " Wormmon, V-mon, keep your guards up we don't know what those things are, they might be dangerous." As they approached the two figures became clearer, one was a girl with red eyes and brown hair, she appeared to be about eight years old and there was a whistle around her neck. The other was a boy who was also around eight years old, he resembled Matt, Tai's second in command, and he was dressed in green from head to toe including a bright green hat that resembled a helmet. Both children were sitting and speaking to each other completely unaware of the approaching boys, it was the girl who noticed them first.
" TK look, we have guests" The boy looked up as she addressed Davis and Ken, " I can't remember the last time we had guests." Her companion looked both boys over and his crystal blue eyes narrowed as they saw the goggles on Davis' head; they were exact duplicates of Tai's and they bore the emblem of courage to show Davis' rank.
" Kari, look at the mark he works for that coward you once called brother," TK's voice was scathing and bore with its tone a hatred so strong it was almost palpable. Kari looked at the goggles and her eyes became hard and cold, they seemed out of place on the small girl's face.
" You're right," she spat all the kindness gone from her voice. "What do you want here? I don't suppose my brother has recovered his senses, if he had he would have come in person instead of sending one of his pathetic lapdogs." A bitter laugh escaped the throat of the small child as she glared at the two boys, it was Davis who first spoke up.
" I am not Tai's lapdog you little brat, he tried to kill me out of jealousy and his empire is killing both worlds. My friend and I want him dead more than anything and we were told you could help us." Davis turned his head with a self-confident jerk, " but I fail to see how a pair preschool poltergeists could help us against the strongest of the digidestined." He regretted his words instantly as the entire chamber came to life, the flames reached to the ceiling and the two children were gone, replaced by towering angels horrifying in their brilliance and fury. The two beings had ten wings that shone in a rainbow of colors, their hair grew down to their backs and their eyes burned with their anger. They each had donned robes of blinding white and they spoke with the sound of a thousand crashing waves. The female angel spoke first her voice crushing the boys remaining courage.
" Ignorant boy! Tai was never the strongest. We were! We alone could face the foes that left his digimon broken in the dust. He betrayed us when we actually had need of him, and left me, his own sister, to die while trying to bear the burden he was too weak to take up. If you truly wish to defeat my brother you will need our help, or you will fail." The being's voice caused the very walls to shake and tremble.
" Tai holds great power as does my own brother." The second angel said, his voice just as loud but with less malice than angel/Kari's had carried. " However, the bulk of our strength came from the group as a whole; we always won because we fought together. Now, the original group has scattered, no longer able to stand each others company, they rule there separate areas of the digital world alone. You could overcome them, with our help, one by one. Are you prepared to wage war on those you once served?"
Davis and Ken were both dumbstruck at the awesome display of power, but the young goggle head was the first to speak up.
" Tai betrayed both of us and he is crushing both worlds, I will give my life to stop him."
" Me too," V-mon said, speaking for the first time.
" That goes for both of us" Ken said speaking for his partner. As he finished speaking both of the angels became children again as the room returned to it's former appearance.
TK spoke this time, his tone was soothing and calm, "You must excuse us, we have had far too much time to sit here and brood, and our tempers are a bit short on the subject of our past.
We will help you on your journey; however if we are to help we will need your digieggs. "
" What for?" Davis found his voice again, "How do we know you're not gonna use them against us or something?"
"I think we can trust them Davis," Ken, said calmly as he pulled out his D-Terminal. "Besides what choice do we have? I'm sure they could take them if they really wanted."
"Actually we are unable to manipulate physical matter outside of this chamber," Kari informed the indigo haired boy as he placed the flower shaped egg of kindness on the floor. Davis soon followed suite bringing out both of his digi-eggs and setting them down. Soon the digi-eggs of Courage, Friendship, and Kindness, were laid before the altar. Kari said something inaudible to TK and as if on cue the eggs started to glow. The light quickly became unbearable as it engulfed the entire room. Davis placed his goggles over his eyes and even then he had keep his eyes closed to the glare. ' the lenses on my goggles are supposed to be polarized how can the light be so bright?' Davis thought as the light slowly retreated and his sight slowly returned.
When Davis was able to see again he was once again dumbstruck as he stared at the four figures where the eggs once were. Now instead of two eight-year- old children, there were two kids his age, one was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen, the other was a boy who resembled Matt. At their feet were two digimon, a Patamon and a Gatomon. It seemed that the children of hope and light were once again part of the world of the living.
The girl was wearing yellow jeans, and a pink blouse with a yellow jean vest over it. The whistle that had been around her neck was replaced with a crystal eight pointed star attached to a silver chain. The boy was in dark green pants and a black shirt with black boots. Instead of the helmet he now had a headband the same color as his pants, his hair seemed longer and he was now the tallest one in the room. Davis was staring at the girl with his jaw hanging, he finally composed himself enough to speak.
" K-K-Ka-Kari? '" He laboriously stammered out, " Is that you? I mean you look great, for a dead girl. How did you bring yourself back to life?" Davis asked, his eyes never leaving the girl.
" We're not alive Davis," Kari said calmly as she tried not to be unsettled by his attentions. " We used the power of the eggs to give ourselves a temporary physical form. This takes a lot of energy however, and we will have to be in a spiritual form outside of this temple unless we are needed to fight."
" Damn it." Tk swore as the other three turned to look at him." I just realized, we won't be able to get our digimon to ultimate like this, it would take more energy than we could possibly summon to power an Ultimate and hold physical shape."
Kari bit her lip, " well what do you suggest we do? Both of are fairly strong as champions but we can't hope to beat Tai without the Ultimate level. We need a stronger power source, maybe we should look for one before facing any of the others"
"No," it was Davis who spoke up now. " If Tai realizes we're still alive then he'll have all of the others on guard, we'll go after Mimi first she's the weakest so you shouldn't need your Ultimate forms."
"But what good will that do?" Ken questioned his companion. Ken was the more intelligent of the two but Tai had personally trained Davis in tactical planning, Ken had essentially been an assassin and wasn't as quick at formulating plans. Davis gave him an "it's so simple" look as he explained. " If we get Mimi first than we will have two crests hers and yours, with two of them we can enter the old citadel." He turned toward Tk and Kari, " The old citadel can only be entered by using two crests, Tai never trusted any of the others in there alone, there is supposed to be a strong power source inside. If we can get in may be we can get it." The others nodded in approval, Kari gave Davis a sweet smile.
" Well my brother isn't completely useless," she said walking over to Davis she gave him a small peck on the cheek. " He taught you well." As Davis seemed to float in a mild euphoria Kari picked up Gatomon and faced the group. " It seems that we are heading to Mimi's 'Garden of Illusions ' let's get going, everyone join hands." They formed a circle Davis making sure to be on one side of Kari, the brunette then closed her eyes and spoke loudly. " Des le Gratis Muri Tempe et Inter Valnia" In a burst of light they found themselves in the daylight on a large hill.
"What was that?" Ken asked, startled by the sudden change in scenery.
" That was the phoenix gate, it was once a magical artifact that could transport one to any place or time, the item was lost in the time stream. Now its spell can only access places where there is a high temporal resonance. Mimi's palace lies to the east, we have about a two day walk so I suggest we get started" __________________________________________________________________
A/N: Well chapter two was short and sweet, now I have to figure out how to develop Kari and TK's characters. (I realize that they are very OOC but I didn't think they would keep their innocence after being abandoned by their most trusted loved ones). Kari and Tk have essentially been a part of the Digital Oracle and therefore have been using its powers to monitor some of the events in the digital world. If anyone at all reads this I hope you will R&R. Next Time: The new team goes after the "Mistress of the Forest" Mimi but first they must fight their way through the cursed woods surrounding her fortress. They are going to have to work for the crest of Sincerity, but are they ready to face off against a more experienced digidestined?
Authors Note: Things to keep in mind about this timeline 1) The battle with Diaboramon never occurred so Taichi and Yamato never achieved Jogress 2) Ken never became the digimon emperor 3) All known digidestined are under the rule of Tai and the other crest bearers 4) Ken does have the crest of kindness however it is not active.5) The digi-egg of kindness did not become the digi-egg of miracles and is with Ken ________________________________________________________________________
The gate swept the two boys into a dark room. The light from the gate offered them1 a brief view of their surroundings before it closed.
" How are we supposed to find our way around here if we can't see?" As Davis spoke large torches ignited along the walls of the room bathing it in rich orange light. As the boys looked around them they saw that the temple had no doors or entrances that they could see; the room was a large hall, longer than it was wide with high walls forming a curved ceiling. All over the wall there were images and inscriptions, pictures that depicted the four digital Gods as well as the digidestined digimon in their strongest forms. Davis saw that his digimon was there as well also the newly formed Paildramon and some others he didn't recognize. Various battles were depicted, most were from the war with the Dark masters and their servants. He saw MetalGarurumon squaring off against Puppetmon, he also saw the battle that WarGreymon had won against Metalseadramon. Those battles had given Tai and the others the power needed to rule the world they had sought to save; the irony was not lost on Davis. Two of the pictures were odd however; several times winged figures appeared. Davis saw that there were three distinct figures, one appeared in the battle against Devimon and another appeared in the battle against Myotismon, the last one seemed to be the evolved form of one of the other two and it was facing Piedmon.
" Whoa! I remember Tai talking about tat last battle, he said that Wargreymon had fought alone until Metalgarururmon came but even then they almost lost."
" Did he say how they won Davis?" V-mon asked his partner.
" No, when I asked he got really defensive and told me it was 'none of my concern'" Davis replied not taking his eyes off of the wall. " Ken, what do you make of all this?" Ken however did not reply, his eyes had never left the sight at the end of the large hall, it was a pyre burning with a huge flame, a huge black flame. It was the digital oracle, corrupted to its core by the actions of the digidestined and their power hungry leader. It was a symbol of everything that was wrong in both the digital and real worlds and the oddest thing about it was that there were people inside of it, two of them.
"Davis, look" Ken directed the gaze of his cinnamon haired companion toward the black flame then he motioned for the boy to follow him as they went to investigate. " Wormmon, V-mon, keep your guards up we don't know what those things are, they might be dangerous." As they approached the two figures became clearer, one was a girl with red eyes and brown hair, she appeared to be about eight years old and there was a whistle around her neck. The other was a boy who was also around eight years old, he resembled Matt, Tai's second in command, and he was dressed in green from head to toe including a bright green hat that resembled a helmet. Both children were sitting and speaking to each other completely unaware of the approaching boys, it was the girl who noticed them first.
" TK look, we have guests" The boy looked up as she addressed Davis and Ken, " I can't remember the last time we had guests." Her companion looked both boys over and his crystal blue eyes narrowed as they saw the goggles on Davis' head; they were exact duplicates of Tai's and they bore the emblem of courage to show Davis' rank.
" Kari, look at the mark he works for that coward you once called brother," TK's voice was scathing and bore with its tone a hatred so strong it was almost palpable. Kari looked at the goggles and her eyes became hard and cold, they seemed out of place on the small girl's face.
" You're right," she spat all the kindness gone from her voice. "What do you want here? I don't suppose my brother has recovered his senses, if he had he would have come in person instead of sending one of his pathetic lapdogs." A bitter laugh escaped the throat of the small child as she glared at the two boys, it was Davis who first spoke up.
" I am not Tai's lapdog you little brat, he tried to kill me out of jealousy and his empire is killing both worlds. My friend and I want him dead more than anything and we were told you could help us." Davis turned his head with a self-confident jerk, " but I fail to see how a pair preschool poltergeists could help us against the strongest of the digidestined." He regretted his words instantly as the entire chamber came to life, the flames reached to the ceiling and the two children were gone, replaced by towering angels horrifying in their brilliance and fury. The two beings had ten wings that shone in a rainbow of colors, their hair grew down to their backs and their eyes burned with their anger. They each had donned robes of blinding white and they spoke with the sound of a thousand crashing waves. The female angel spoke first her voice crushing the boys remaining courage.
" Ignorant boy! Tai was never the strongest. We were! We alone could face the foes that left his digimon broken in the dust. He betrayed us when we actually had need of him, and left me, his own sister, to die while trying to bear the burden he was too weak to take up. If you truly wish to defeat my brother you will need our help, or you will fail." The being's voice caused the very walls to shake and tremble.
" Tai holds great power as does my own brother." The second angel said, his voice just as loud but with less malice than angel/Kari's had carried. " However, the bulk of our strength came from the group as a whole; we always won because we fought together. Now, the original group has scattered, no longer able to stand each others company, they rule there separate areas of the digital world alone. You could overcome them, with our help, one by one. Are you prepared to wage war on those you once served?"
Davis and Ken were both dumbstruck at the awesome display of power, but the young goggle head was the first to speak up.
" Tai betrayed both of us and he is crushing both worlds, I will give my life to stop him."
" Me too," V-mon said, speaking for the first time.
" That goes for both of us" Ken said speaking for his partner. As he finished speaking both of the angels became children again as the room returned to it's former appearance.
TK spoke this time, his tone was soothing and calm, "You must excuse us, we have had far too much time to sit here and brood, and our tempers are a bit short on the subject of our past.
We will help you on your journey; however if we are to help we will need your digieggs. "
" What for?" Davis found his voice again, "How do we know you're not gonna use them against us or something?"
"I think we can trust them Davis," Ken, said calmly as he pulled out his D-Terminal. "Besides what choice do we have? I'm sure they could take them if they really wanted."
"Actually we are unable to manipulate physical matter outside of this chamber," Kari informed the indigo haired boy as he placed the flower shaped egg of kindness on the floor. Davis soon followed suite bringing out both of his digi-eggs and setting them down. Soon the digi-eggs of Courage, Friendship, and Kindness, were laid before the altar. Kari said something inaudible to TK and as if on cue the eggs started to glow. The light quickly became unbearable as it engulfed the entire room. Davis placed his goggles over his eyes and even then he had keep his eyes closed to the glare. ' the lenses on my goggles are supposed to be polarized how can the light be so bright?' Davis thought as the light slowly retreated and his sight slowly returned.
When Davis was able to see again he was once again dumbstruck as he stared at the four figures where the eggs once were. Now instead of two eight-year- old children, there were two kids his age, one was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen, the other was a boy who resembled Matt. At their feet were two digimon, a Patamon and a Gatomon. It seemed that the children of hope and light were once again part of the world of the living.
The girl was wearing yellow jeans, and a pink blouse with a yellow jean vest over it. The whistle that had been around her neck was replaced with a crystal eight pointed star attached to a silver chain. The boy was in dark green pants and a black shirt with black boots. Instead of the helmet he now had a headband the same color as his pants, his hair seemed longer and he was now the tallest one in the room. Davis was staring at the girl with his jaw hanging, he finally composed himself enough to speak.
" K-K-Ka-Kari? '" He laboriously stammered out, " Is that you? I mean you look great, for a dead girl. How did you bring yourself back to life?" Davis asked, his eyes never leaving the girl.
" We're not alive Davis," Kari said calmly as she tried not to be unsettled by his attentions. " We used the power of the eggs to give ourselves a temporary physical form. This takes a lot of energy however, and we will have to be in a spiritual form outside of this temple unless we are needed to fight."
" Damn it." Tk swore as the other three turned to look at him." I just realized, we won't be able to get our digimon to ultimate like this, it would take more energy than we could possibly summon to power an Ultimate and hold physical shape."
Kari bit her lip, " well what do you suggest we do? Both of are fairly strong as champions but we can't hope to beat Tai without the Ultimate level. We need a stronger power source, maybe we should look for one before facing any of the others"
"No," it was Davis who spoke up now. " If Tai realizes we're still alive then he'll have all of the others on guard, we'll go after Mimi first she's the weakest so you shouldn't need your Ultimate forms."
"But what good will that do?" Ken questioned his companion. Ken was the more intelligent of the two but Tai had personally trained Davis in tactical planning, Ken had essentially been an assassin and wasn't as quick at formulating plans. Davis gave him an "it's so simple" look as he explained. " If we get Mimi first than we will have two crests hers and yours, with two of them we can enter the old citadel." He turned toward Tk and Kari, " The old citadel can only be entered by using two crests, Tai never trusted any of the others in there alone, there is supposed to be a strong power source inside. If we can get in may be we can get it." The others nodded in approval, Kari gave Davis a sweet smile.
" Well my brother isn't completely useless," she said walking over to Davis she gave him a small peck on the cheek. " He taught you well." As Davis seemed to float in a mild euphoria Kari picked up Gatomon and faced the group. " It seems that we are heading to Mimi's 'Garden of Illusions ' let's get going, everyone join hands." They formed a circle Davis making sure to be on one side of Kari, the brunette then closed her eyes and spoke loudly. " Des le Gratis Muri Tempe et Inter Valnia" In a burst of light they found themselves in the daylight on a large hill.
"What was that?" Ken asked, startled by the sudden change in scenery.
" That was the phoenix gate, it was once a magical artifact that could transport one to any place or time, the item was lost in the time stream. Now its spell can only access places where there is a high temporal resonance. Mimi's palace lies to the east, we have about a two day walk so I suggest we get started" __________________________________________________________________
A/N: Well chapter two was short and sweet, now I have to figure out how to develop Kari and TK's characters. (I realize that they are very OOC but I didn't think they would keep their innocence after being abandoned by their most trusted loved ones). Kari and Tk have essentially been a part of the Digital Oracle and therefore have been using its powers to monitor some of the events in the digital world. If anyone at all reads this I hope you will R&R. Next Time: The new team goes after the "Mistress of the Forest" Mimi but first they must fight their way through the cursed woods surrounding her fortress. They are going to have to work for the crest of Sincerity, but are they ready to face off against a more experienced digidestined?