Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon, big surprise. But I'm going to borrow some of the characters.
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"Koushirou, what are you doing?" Mimi asked.
It was early in the morning, just before daybreak, when Koushirou was leaning against a very large tree holding his Digivice in one hand and a thin and sharp piece of metal. The back of his Digivice was open, as Koushirou poked at the insides seemingly oblivious to what he was doing.
"I was thinking," he said, "that maybe I could find a way to expand my Digivice's tracking range."
Mimi walked over and sat down next to him, looking over his arm at the exposed insides of the device. She pretended to know what he was doing and nodded along with each of his hand movements as if to support what he was doing. "How are you going to do that?"
"Well," he said, "all of our Digivices are linked together. That's why when we are close enough to each other, they can scan the other person's device. But, I was thinking that maybe we could expand the range of our Digivices so they could find the others that might be hundreds or thousands of miles away."
Mimi nodded. "You'd need an extra power supply," she added.
"Probably," he sighed. "It was a lot easier trying to find each other in the old Digital World. We weren't as spread out as we are now."
"Plus, there's more of us now."
"Yeah. Why are you up so early?"
"Sometimes I like to get up early to watch the sunrise. I didn't think about all the trees around us. Stupid trees."
Koushirou chuckled, then asked, "Are Yamato or Sora or the Digimon awake?"
"Nope," she said moving her legs around with her hands. "It's just us."
Koushirou nodded, then closed the back of his Digivice. "There's no way I can figure out how to max the output of these things. I wish I had my computer with me, to play games with at least."
"Did you have Donkey Madness on it? I love that game," she giggled. Koushirou was refreshed by her young and positive attitude. The months of forest and nomad life had left both Koushirou and Yamato a bit dry in the personality department.
"What's the range of our Digivices?" Mimi asked.
"About a mile or two, as far as I know."
"Then it was pretty lucky that you and Matt have found any of us," she realized.
"I suppose. I wish we had D-Terminals. We might have been able to expand the range or at least email the others. I'm surprised any of us have survived without technology."
"I would really like to take a shower," she joked.
"There's technology for you."
She sighed and looked up at the sky which now turned from black to a dark shade of blue, as light in the distance brought life to the dark forest. "What will we do once we find the others?"
"Find a way to get home," he said.
"But how?"
He thought for a moment. "I'm not sure. But we are strongest as a group."
"Maybe we aren't meant to find the others. Maybe we were brought to this world to help it, like the Digital World."
"There hasn't been much evidence of that."
"What about the dark Digimon you told me about."
Koushirou paused in thought for a moment, before saying, "Well, as far as I can see, this world isn't in too much danger, other than the basic warlike nature of primitive man."
"That might be it then," she said.
"What?"
"Humanity is widespread. We might have been scattered all around this planet since the problems of this world are so widespread. Humans live all over this world. Evil Digimon didn't live all over the Digital World."
"I suppose its possible," Koushirou said. "We might actually be tampering with our own destinies."
"Don't get me wrong, I want to see the others just the same. Maybe I'm just crazy."
"We can't predict our destinies. Even if we were meant to stay scattered across the land, we still would have driven ourselves to find each other. We might save this world yet."
"Koushirou?" Mimi spoke.
"What is it?"
"How will we find Gabumon?" she said softly.
"I don't know."
She rested her head against Koushirou's shoulder, closing her eyes lazily as she breathed softly. "He'll find us." She fell asleep a few moments later, just as the sky became a bright light blue. Morning had arrived.
"Maybe he will…."
**
Some say that it is dangerous to mix love with friendship. Others may tell you that friends make the best lovers, in that they know the other in every possible way. They see each other as not only their counterparts, but as best friends. This could have been easily said about Takeru and Hikari. They met one another in their youth, and as the years progressed their friendship grew and matured into an unsurpassable love both knew existed, but never acted upon.
They had been through more than just two friends had. They faced life and death together, more than those of their brothers and friends. They were both the youngest of their group of Chosen Children, which made it easy for them to become close. Takeru had saved Hikari and Hikari and saved Takeru. They both made promises to each other, promises to protect one another, because they were linked together by destiny.
They became Chosen Children again, the experienced of the new group. They led their new friends along the way, giving them advice, and helping them to cope with their destinies. It brought them closer together. They were the holders of Hope and Light. They're hearts beat as one and they had the angels to protect them and each other.
Takeru sat quietly leaning against the table while Hikari nursed a cup of tea, moving her finger across the brim. "That's terrible posture, TK."
He rested his head on the table and smiled, watching her movements. "Does it matter?"
"You have to be a good example," she said. She took a sip of tea.
"To who?"
"Me?"
"But you are the one that's telling me to set an example."
"What does that matter?"
"Well," he said matter-of-factly, "if you needed me to set an example, then you wouldn't be the one to tell me to set one. You would already have the knowledge that you need to be good and not need the example of someone else. 'Please, Takeru, be good so that I will know how to be good even though I already know how to be good.'"
She blinked a few times, then smiled. "You're weird."
He laughed childishly. The messy blonde hair that covered his face made him seem like a boy, a young one that didn't know what the world was. Nothing was beyond the jar of cookies in the kitchen, just high enough to not be able to reach.
Hikari looked at herself in the reflection of the metal saucer to her tea. Her hair was longer then she remembered and she seemed older. What had happened to them? Takeru had grown young and innocent and cute. Hikari had become a woman. She moved a strand from her face to behind her ear, then looked back to Takeru.
He was now practically lying on the table looking up at her with the most childish eyes she had ever seen. "Why do you stare at me like that?" Hikari asked.
"Why shouldn't I? You'll be gone soon, I'll miss you."
"I've already been here for almost a month."
"I'll still miss you."
"Stop being so sappy."
He laughed that almost sounded like a giggle. "Maybe we could ask the king to extend your stay?"
"We've already extended it two weeks," she laughed. "It'd be nice though." Hikari looked out the window. The kingdom was calm and quiet that day. The arrival of spring brought clear skies and spirited people. "Maybe you could come back with me for a while."
"I don't think the queen will let me," he sulked. They hated to be away from each other, even for short periods of time. Each night when they would retire to their chambers, Takeru would have Angemon silently fly him out his window to Hikari's, where they would spend the night together talking or cuddling.
"Kari!" a voice yelled.
She stood up from the table immediately to turn around to the voice. Gatomon stood at the doorway of their chambers out of breath and panting. She leaned against the frame of the door with a look of anguish and fear in her eyes. "Illaria is under attack."
"By whom?!" she gasped.
"Invaders from the north," she said, regaining her composure. "One of our soldiers made it back here to tell us. A Metal Tyrannomon and an army of dark Knightmon are terrorizing the city." She stopped and looked as if she was trying to word even more bad news.
"What is it?"
"They, they say they are looking for the Digidestined."
**
"Testament!" Seraphimon yelled. The city lay in flames, the castle had been destroyed, and innocent people ran through the streets screaming for mercy being slain by knights with swords the size of humans. Each night wore the darkest black armor, and their faces were hidden behind their huge metal helmets. Seraphimon spread his wings wide and pointed his arms outward, creating energy from his spirit and blasted holy flames through the air. His body was a canon and he fired his soul at those who would hurt the innocent. He spun around the City Square, hitting dozens of Knightmon. They would never hurt the innocent again.
He stood in the middle of the chaos. Buildings around him came crashing down as fires consumed the whole city, towering over the innocent. He heard the screaming of children, of parents, and the elderly. A sword passed down coming towards his head, and before it could strike, Seraphimon bent down and struck the legs of the opposing force. The Knightmon fell on its back. Seraphimon picked up its sword of darkness and struck in down the center.
It was as if they were a virus, as more and more appeared, holding the heads of the people with blood staining their armor. Seraphimon spread its legs out gaining balance on the soil. His wings straightened to rigid steel.
"Seven Heavens!" The seven orbs of a higher plane ripped through the air with not a sound. Each striking a random Knightmon as they super heated the air around them. Seven dark Digimon fell to the ground. Then, another seven, followed by another seven.
"Takeru," Seraphimon's voice echoed through the air, "quickly, you must find the King and Queen."
The blonde boy nodded, jumping into one of the open arms of Angewomon. He looked desperately at Hikari who was holding tightly to her angel's other arm. Takeru admired the strength that she had, and although tears formed at her eyes, she continued to stay strong as her kingdom burned around her.
Illaria was deserted now. Those who survived the attack were hopefully far in the mountains now. And hopefully, they would not be followed by the dark and ruthless Knightmon. The ruins of the castle lay ahead at the foot of a large hill that was once decorated with evergreen trees and towering golden towers of white and yellow. The towers now fell and the trees were ablaze. At the middle of the skeleton of a palace, a black object shined. It could be seen from the far distance of where Seraphimon and Angewomon were.
They set down outside the palace. It was a horror of a beast, standing at least three stories tall made of black metal. They stood there staring at each other for several moments in silence. Like stone, the creature made no movement and looked like a giant metal sculpture. Only the sounds of roaring fires filled the ears of those who were there. The cyborg looked at them with dead eyes and long, sharp claws. He held in his metal hand, the unconscious body of the King.
"You are the ones in which I have sent to destroy," he said. His voice thundered over the crashes of the fires. Had he not been so horrible looking and terrifyingly black, the voice might have sounded heroic. It almost sounded familiar to Takeru and Hikari, but neither thought about it as they looked up helplessly to the king. "I have no use for him," he squeezed his claws together which tore through the king's body. Blood trickled down the black metal and stained the earth below. The king's shell fell to the ground with a loud thud.
"No!" Hikari screamed, as she tried to run to her surrogate father. Tears ran freely down her face and insanity took over her and her words were slurred and masked by screams. Takeru grabbed her arm and kept her from making a mistake that might kill her, and dragged her far away from what she had seen.
A rage consumed Angewomon who now glowed with white light. "How dare you come to this kingdom and end the lives of innocent people!" The light consumed her as she screamed in anger, powering up for an attack. The debris around her lifted off the ground as the air around her heated. The ground shook below her. "Heaven's Charm!" She created a purple beam of energy that blasted from her arms to the Metal Tyrannomon.
With a swipe of his right claw, the attack was diverted and hit one of the towers that had not fallen. He charged at them a swiped at Seraphimon who dodged the attack turning and using Testament. The attack was dodged again by the metal beast that was quite fast. His right arm glowed as he pointed it in the direction of Angewomon, yelling, "Nuclear Laser!"
She was hit hard and her body burned as she fell from the air hitting the ground hard. Her body was scraped and cut in several places as blood flowed from her wounds. Seraphimon used his orbs of the heaven's against Metal Tyrannomon, but no attack that the mega Digimon would even phaze the seemingly indestructible ultimate Digimon.
"He ispowered by darkness," Seraphim said, "his power is too great for either me nor Angewomon."
As Seraphimon fought Metal Tyrannomon fist to claw, Hikari ran out to Angewomon who was still laying across the ground. She shook Angewomon on the shoulders, begging for her to awake.
"Hi-Hikari," she said, coughing hard as her chest heaved from the pressure of her pains. "I'm sorry, Kari."
Hikari was still crying and unable to maintain herself or her emotions. Takeru sat by the two of them, holding both Hikari and Angewomon's hands. He looked across what was the courtyard, and in the distance, the body of the King. The sharp features of his face tightened, and he stood up with anger.
"Seraphimon!" he yelled. His Digimon pushed the killing machine far enough away to be able to look down at Takeru. The stared at one another for a fraction of a second, but in that short time Seraphimon was able to understand the request by Takeru. He spread his golden wings out as the wind and rising air of fire blew the yellow cloth that sat before his legs waved. In a moment he flew upwards, straight upwards. He never looked down, rising up higher and higher, and within seconds, Seraphimon was out of sight.
"So," the Metal Tyrannomon said. "It seems as if your knight is no match for me." He looked down viciously at Takeru and Hikari who still sat by Angewomon's tortured body. Takeru grabbed onto Hikari who sobbed uncontrollably, forcing to stand up being less than gentle. He grabbed the D-3 from her pocket and moved her arm to the air where she pointed her Digivice. She had no idea what was happening before her, as she was still too heartbroken and without awareness to understand.
A crystal from above fell towards the ground like a bolt of lighting. As it came closer, it glowed brightly as Hikari's D-3 did the same. The crystal turned to light like lightning and struck Angewomon on the chest causing her body to spasm in reflex. Not long after, Seraphimon returned, striking the Metal Tyrannomon in the back while he was not looking.
The cuts were gone from her body, and the blood returned within her. Angewomon jumped up with her wings spread as far as they would stretch as she bent her body downward. Her body shook with white light as she threw her wings down and she took to the air, her body no longer discernable from the light.
"Angewomon Digivolve to…Holy Dramon!"
As she flew through the air her body grew ten times larger and took the shape of a dragon as more wings sprouted. The holy beast posed motionless in the air still radiant from her transformation curled in an S. Her face of a dog and the fur of white and pink made her gentle looking.
"You have hurt the loved ones of who I as a guardian Digimon have sought to protect," she said. "You will not go unpunished."
The Metal Tyrannomon didn't miss a beat. The words of the big cuddly puppy of an angel did not strike fear in the gears and circuits of his body. But he underestimated his opponent, because he didn't see the fireball that came from her mouth that struck him, after she said, "Holy Flame," with a calm and gentle composure.
From behind he could feel seven blasts of energy strike his back, each hurting more than the last until his body burned. A foot kicked him in the stomach that threw him in the air, before another blast from Seraphimon's arms threw him back to the ground.
Weakly, Metal Tyrannomon stood up balancing himself on his claw. He stood up to face his enemy. Holy Dramon still floated motionlessly in the air, as the sun behind her blinded Metal Tyrannomon's eyes. The brilliance of the light blurred all of her features, and she became a silhouette in the daylight.
His ears were ringing, but he could barely hear her say, "Apocalypse," before a burning fire of heat tore through his body. There was darkness after that.
**
Holy Dramon reverted to Salamon, and Seraphimon became a small and chubby Tokomon. Hikari and Takeru held their battered partners as they stood in terror of what they saw. As the smoke and dust and fire of Holy Dramon's attack cleared, the shell of Metal Tyrannomon remained. Perhaps it was a coincidence, a very sick coincidence, and perhaps it was not what they both feared at that moment. Niether spoke a word of what they saw.
A rookie Digimon was left of Metal Tyrannomon. He was a bird, black from a virus that turned those Digimon with pure vaccine hearts to evil and tyrannical Digimon one would not only fear, but also hate. It may have looked like an eagle if its colors were not so dark. Its body was ravaged with cuts and woulds. A black feather was attached to the back of its head with a black headband. The feather was burnt on once side.
It didn't move, and neither did Takeru or Hikari. A chilling wind picked up and dust ran across the courtyard, and ina blink of an eye, a cloaked human stood before the black Hakwmon. She looked up at the four followers of good. Her body was covered head to toe with a black robe, except for a golden ribbon that circled her left arm and ran around her body. Her face could not be seen, as they were hidden behind two large spectacles that glared in the sunlight. She picked up the dark Digimon and spoke.
"You are the hunted." She had a girl's voice, no more than 14 or 15. A voice that seemed dark and deep, but underneath screamed with a high pitched wail. "From every corner of this planet, you will be hunted. The powers of darkness on this world are great, and you will not be spared. Do not get too close to those you know, for they will fall like the King and Queen and the peasants of this kingdom."
Another gust of wind, and the figure was gone.
**
Takeru hugged his queen very tightly, then stood back to take Hikari's hand that still trembled. Three days had passed, and Takeru and Hikari returned to the palace with the grim news. Those who survived the Illarian massacre were brought the Takeru's kingdom.
"Please tell us you will reconsider," the Queen begged.
Takeru shook his head. "Hikari and I are targets of enemies that were once friends. They will destroy what we love, which is why Illaria was attacked. I would not want you or any other of this kingdom to face the same fate. Each second I or my princess here puts the kingdom and its people in danger."
She tried once more, "Please, Takeru. At least take with you guardians."
He looked at her with pleading eyes. "Please, my Queen. This has been a very difficult few days. No one from this kingdom will be harmed because they sought to protect the Princess and I."
She took Takeru's hands into her own and smiled. "You have a pure heart, my son. Return to me, someday."
"Tell my brother what happened here this day, and that we will soon be united to fight our equal enemies."
She managed a nod and held his hand tightly.
Takeru nodded, then shook the hands with the advisor to the queen who could barely keep from crying, then kissed her across the cheek. Two angels of hope and light flew away into the horizon over the forests. Each held the once prince and once princess of two predominant kingdoms in a land that was day by day torn by unrest.
Authors Notes: =( kinda violent, I know. Anyways people may start to notice that I'm using both English AND Japanese names. It's not a mistake, I just like to mix. With the old Digidestined, names like Kariand TK and Matt are sorta being used as nicknames to show closeness or affection. With the Digimon, I use American names or Attacks when they sound better than the Japanese versions. Also, someone noticed the way I like to spell some of the names of the Digidestined, saying that Jyou is more accurate romanji instead of Jou. But I like the way Jou looks, haha. If you wanna get really tenchinal, Joe in Japanese would be Ji, a little Yo and maybe an added U, so basically it would be Jiyou, and that's just silly. So its all preference, as long as you can tell its Joe that's all that really matters I think. If I mean Joe and end up saying Banana, then I will be in error. That wasn't a personal attack I'm not angry at anyone.