Absolution

"Balance. The world could not exist without it. If a time ever comes when there is too much shadow the world would end."

Silverangewomon rolled her eyes and yawned. She had heard this lecture a thousand times.

When she had reconfigured the angel type digimon had learned of it and scoured the digital world to find her. They all considered her to be some kind of 'savior', because of some stupid prophesy from long before she had been born. They seemed to think it was their responsibility to make certain she did her job.

Especially Goldangemon. If he had not been a mega she would have considered trying to fight him just to get him off her back.

"Do you understand?" Goldangemon stood over her glowering with a look that clearly said he felt she was not paying nearly enough attention to him.

"What if there is too much light? Then what happens?" She asked, ignoring his question.

 "Impossible, it is impossible to have too much light."

"How can you have balance in a world where there can be too much darkness, but not too much light?"

"What a ridiculous question. Angel digimon keep balance by destroying dark digimon."

"But if there were too many angel digimon, could they kill all the dark digimon and destroy the balance?"

"Dark digimon have no place in the digital world. They have no place in the balance, they are supposed to be eliminated."

"Oh." Silverangewomon was decidedly confused. How could there be balance without even weight. "All viral digimon are evil. They do not have a place in the world. Their only purpose is to destroy the digital world. If a virus digimon were to take a partner his evil would taint the human, destroying them," he continued with his lecture.

 "That can't be true!" objected Silverangewomon.

"What?" Goldangemon turned on her in his stiff rage. She could hear Bidyangemon sniggering in the background, the class loved to see her enrage the older digimon teachers, and somehow she always managed to do it.

"Well, one of the original twelve digidestined had a virus digimon for his partner."

"Yes, and that same digidestined became the evil Kaiser who nearly conquered our world." Goldangemon said, speaking as though he were explaining something simple to a small child.

"But that wasn't his partners fault," burst in Bidyangemon. "As a matter of fact that same virus digimon made him stop being the Kaiser."

"That does not negate the fact that having a viral partner made him go evil."

"That isn't what Dameangemon said. She said that an evil digimon named Myotismon planted some kind of dark plant-thingy in his brain that made him turn evil."

"I will not tolerate having my students argue with me in class. Silverangewomon, Bidyangemon, you are dismissed. You will not return to my class for the next week."

The two gathered their things and headed for the door. Once they were safely out of the room Silverangewomon turned to Bidyangemon with a grin, "He said we couldn't come back like he was punishing us or something."

The rookie grinned back at her, "Yeah, like we're missing out on the glory that emanates from his golden body or something."

Bidyangemon looked like a flying purple seal. His eyes were pink and his chest was marked with a glowing halo insignia.

Silverangewomon was incredibly curious in nature, and her curiosity managed to get her into quite a bit of trouble. She was very interested in all the things an angel digimon should never study. Like the dark digimon.

Bidyangemon liked excitement and followed her around to see what kind of trouble she would cause, because something always happened around her. However much he liked excitement he was too prude to cause any on his own, and very often tried to make Silverangewomon stop. They were not really friends, but they were pretty close to it. "I see you have gotten into trouble again." The two rogues looked up to find Dameangemon standing over them.

"Perhaps we could put that outrageous energy you two seem to posses to work."

Of all the angel digimon she had met, Dameangemon was the only one, aside from Bidyangemon, whom Silverangewomon came close to liking. All angel digimon seemed to have a 'holy' attitude about them, which severely annoyed Silverangewomon. While Dameangemon possessed this attitude she was refreshingly unbiased about the world that existed outside Heavenly City. Unlike most angel digimon she did not blame all evil in the world on virus digimon. She had been the only one willing to speak to Silverangewomon about the dark spore.

"Bidyangemon, I want you to go to the practorum and practice making salves."

Bidyangemon groaned, he was sick of making salves. He would eventually digivolve into a healing angel type, so he received only training in medicines and, of course, the 'all viruses are evil' lectures that all angel types had to go through. He would have enjoyed learning something new.

"Silverangewomon, come with me."

Silverangewomon followed Dameangemon through the halls and streets of Heavenly City, she was of course curious to know what the older digimon had planned, but was certain it would be something boring, like learning the proper way to shine gold. She supposed she should be grateful to the angel digimon for making certain she was not destroyed this time, but she found their shiny city to be extremely dull.

Even though she herself was an angel digimon, she despised the general attitude of all angel digimon. She was different somehow. She did not know what made her different, but she sincerely hoped she would never become like the other angel digimon.

Much to her surprise Dameangemon led her through the pearl gates and out into the air. Unlike most of the cities in the digital world, Heavenly City was not located. For a city to be located, it has to stay in one place. Heavenly City was never in one place. It flew, in the air, and it was never in one place for very long.

Most digimon did not even know it existed; it was just a myth.

Even if a digimon knew it existed, it would have been nearly impossible for them to find it. Only angel digimon could find it frequently and consistently. And of course it was inhabited only by angel digimon.

Silverangewomon stretched her wings to the wind and glanced at Dameangemon. She was extremely curious now, but decided not to press her luck by asking to many questions. She did not want to spoil her treat by irritating her instructor into sending her away.

The last time she had visited the rest of the world her trip had been cut short because she had 'wondered' into a cave full of Ogremon, and had given everyone quite a scare.

They landed on the quilted ground near Primary Village. Primary Village was always full of sounds; baby digimon bounding all over the place, hungry babies crying loudly, a worried Elecmon trying to keep them all in place, and occasionally a human child trying to find his or her partner.

The first thing that Silverangewomon noticed was that it was dead silent. There was no noise. All the digimon were sitting contentedly in their cradles. Elecmon was sitting nearby holding a bottle, but none of the infants were crying for food. None of them were crying at all.

"What's wrong?"

"We don't know. As far as we can tell, there is absolutely nothing wrong. But go talk to Elecmon. Ask him about the latest hatching."

Silverangewomon did as she was told, "Elecmon, tell me about your latest hatching."

"Oh, hmm, let me see. There hasn't been a hatching in quite some time. Almost two weeks."

He babbled on, telling her about that hatching, but her mind had wondered off.

Two weeks! For as long as she could remember there had been at least one hatching per day at primary village, why had there not been any lately. She glanced around and noticed that there were as many eggs as usual, but none of them seemed even interested in hatching.

"Yeah, that's interesting," she said vacantly as she rose to return to Dameangemon. Elecmon did not even notice that she left; he was content simply to talk about the past.

"What has happened, why haven't any eggs hatched, and why isn't Elecmon worried? Last time I was hear he worried incessantly about an egg that was two hours late in hatching."

"We don't know. We have been trying to figure it out. We think it is some kind of new weapon. Come with me, it is worse in other places."

Their next stop was Metal City. Nothing seemed to be out of place. All the digimon were happy and content. But something was wrong. No work was being done. All the digimon were out lounging in the sun. Silverangewomon landed nest to a rusty Gordomon on a grassy knoll.

"Why aren't you working? The digimon of Metal City have always been industrious producing metal for the rest of the digital world."

"We don't need to. No orders have come in. We are protected and have plenty of food. We have everything we need."

As he was talking he seemed to start fading, Silverangewomon watched in horror as he slowly disappeared, leaving a spot of white mist where he had been. The ground beneath him had also vanished.

"What is that? What happened?"

"For lack of a better name, we have been calling it Absolution. The digimon are gradually becoming completely content and then they just fade away, taking part of the digital world with them. It is happening almost everywhere. Come with me and I will show you."

The two angel digimon swiftly returned to Heavenly City and entered the Observatory.

Dameangemon pointed to a map on the wall, it showed the entire digital world, exactly as it was at any given moment. Many places now showed small white holes. Dome city had almost completely vanished.

"Do you know what is causing it?"

Silverangewomon turned to find all the elders of Heavenly City crowded into the room and watching her anxiously. It was at that moment she realized none of them had an answer. None of them knew what to do, or how to fight this new threat. They were expecting her to save them. Somehow they expected her to know what to do. She turned quickly back to the map. She was as lost as they were.

She noticed that even in Heavenly City there were a few white places.

So, even this citadel is not invulnerable to this attack.

"We need your help."

It must have been hard for Goldangemon to admit that. "Even we are vulnerable to Absolution. Nothing we have tried came close to destroying it. Our attacks only made it bigger. When we are near it, we ourselves become complacent. You alone seem untouched by it-you are the only one who has seen it up close, and still been horrified at that moment. The rest of us could only see its terror at a distance."

It was at that moment she found a place on the map where there was no white. Darkforest.

"Perhaps. I will find out what is causing this. I'm leaving."

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An hour later she was on her way. She had refused to tell the others where she was going. If she could not find out from studying it what caused the Absolution, she would find out what kept it from occurring.

Of course they would try to keep her from going back to Darkforest. Myotismon had sworn to kill her.

But she had to know why there was no Absolution there.

She did not think she was a match for Myotismon, he was far more powerful, not to mention older and more experienced than she. But still she had to go; she had to find out why there was no Absolution. If she were destroyed, so be it.

It was then that she realized Bidyangemon was following her. She smiled wryly and waited for him.

"I hope you realize that it is dangerous where I am going."

"So. I'm coming anyway." He flapped his wings anxiously to keep up. "Where are you going anyway"?

"Darkforest." The comical look on his face was extremely amusing and she burst into laughter at the sight. "Laughing, how can you be laughing at a time like this? You are headed into the most dangerous place in the digital world. I can't believe anyone, even you, would willingly walk into a place like that. Does the name Myotismon ring a bell? Huh? Have you forgotten that the guy is sworn to kill you? Do you have any idea what kind of a monster he is? Don't you think you should…"

Silverangewomon laughed merrily as she set down in front of Darkforest as the sun set, Bidymon was still rattling on about the dangers.

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"Master, Master, Master." Demidevimon nearly tripped over himself as he rushed into the control room.

"I see them."

Myotismon was seated in the throne like chair of his control room. The monitor showed two strangers walking through the woods.

The smaller one was clearly terrified and presented no threat, but the other.the other was surely Silverangewomon, his prophesied doom.

Many female digimon with semi-human forms went out of their way to accentuate the grace of their human-like bodies; Silverangewomon was not one of them. Most digimon even angel digimon wore extremely tight or revealing clothing. Silverangewomon obviously had a very nice figure but she did nothing to bring attention to it. She wore a tight fitting silver bodysuit, covered by a long gauzy-white toga that seemed to fly on a wind of its own. It was pulled to her waist by a silver belt. Her wings and long hair were silver, and she had an ornate silver bow slung over one shoulder. Her feet were shod in pure white ankle boots. The monitoring devices picked up the sounds from outside and her easy laughter filled the room like water in a racing brook.

"So, she has finally returned, and at last I will cause the prophecy to be undone. Finally she will die at my hand."

A/N: Chapter two is finally up. It took long enough.

Myotismon: It doesn't make sense. Why are you bringing her back. I thought this story was about me and Angel. It is. Just wait. Thanks for all the reviews. This story is working out to be pretty serious, hope I can pull it off.

A/N: Finally got the spacing on this corrected. Sorry about that. I hope too many people didn't get headaches.