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Chapter 7.
"Every time evil is defeated totally a new stronger evil will arise to take its place, right? The Digital world is a prime example of that, take a look at the 2nd waves battles.
An extra strong Champion, then an Ultimate, then an Super strong Ultimate, then a Mega, then Four more Megas all of which got stronger and stronger as time went on and then finally an amalgam of all of them.
The good-guys got stronger because evil made the same mistake over and over again, they always have and they most likely always will. They sent out progressively harder and harder minions to kill the DD's, and so making us stronger and stronger as we work our way to the finial battle. The same thing works with evil winning, a callow youth, a lovely daughter, an estranged son. Something is always left behind that seems small but will work is way to greatness and destroy the evil. Books, movies and old tales are full of this, but they always have good winning in the end, this you and I both know is impossible.
"Nature abhors a vacuum, and is always trying to reach a balance. But in our case there is only so much more power that evil could have gotten, and with the loss of the two most powerful evil digimon and how strong those of us on the good side have gotten, that balance is at hand.
We are all on a spectrum, light and dark, good and evil, law and chaos. Black and White. Within that simple fact the reason why it is impossible for good to truly win becomes apparent. Without evil good no longer has a purpose, self preservation will make sure that some evil remains. A vicious circle in the real world. Here, though, there is a ceiling on power, we have it, and evil wants it. So now the balance has been met, we shall fight on equal terms now, a fair fight if you will, or at lest that is what it will turn into.
"But here is the kicker, the crests are not pure. Courage is not always a virtue nor is friendship. Love can make people do evil things, and being too sincere can cause scars that will never heal. The search for knowledge can cause the searcher more harm then good if it becomes an obsession. Being reliable is a grate thing provided that your reliable in doing something as opposed to nothing, or something incorrectly.
"Hope and light are the two that have the best chance of being pure, but they have opposites that are both drastic and powerful. Besides hope can move mountains or destroy peoples and light can force one out of hiding or cut like a razor when used correctly.
"Kindness can be used against you, and leaves you open to attack or can be shown to those to do not deserve it. And honor is similar to love, men will die for it, or fight for it weather the cause they fight for is just or even worth that sacrifice.
"And finally comes destiny. Are you destined to be grate or small, good or evil? To what side does it flow? Willis has two digimon, one is good, one went evil, is this a sign is he truly with us or will his crest bring us pain as it did him?"
"And what of usss oh wise one?" the little green snake asked his partner, "what of faith, how pray tell is that not pure besides the two the wield it?"
"The fault in faith is in what that faith is put into, whom one holds allegiance to when it is all said and done. I hold to God yet you are a demon an odd contrast no?
"What we, you and I and all of them are going to be fighting is going to be the dark side of humanity, be it with weapons, or digimon there will be death and with death comes renewal or revenge, but the balance will ether be forever or be forever broken by this last grate war and when we fight we may well be forced to look into the mirror and fight what we see staring back at us."
"All right, but if we can fall to the opposition because we are not pure, can't we bring them to our side for it standsss to reason that they could not be pure evil." Travis nodded his assent to his partner's words before heading out to patrol, he was of course alone both because he was the only one who could take it and because he preferred to be that way, he just prayed the others would be all right.
*******
As the boy and his snake walked away, four pairs of eyes watched him through a glass ball.
"He knows too much." A voice stated.
"And that snake of his is almost as bad." A second voice added.
"We should eliminate them now before they become a problem, he is alone the others would never know." a third said.
"No, he has lived here longer then some types of digimon have even existed, the others would know something happened to him that was out of the ordinary, besides look at his crest, it is black and dead and yet he uses it, he might well be the key we need.
"Besides he all but stated that he and the destiny brat are all but neural partes we might be able to offer him something to help us against his so called friends." The forth said, his voice was smooth as silk but had the undertone of command, "the first stage is done, they are called. Now... let the games begin." And with that the room faded away leaving only the laughter of the forth voice to let the world know it was ever there.
*******
It had been three days since the duel and subsequent splitting up of the DD's into "hunting parties". Nothing had been seen or felt out of the ordinary and some were beginning to think that this was nothing more then a wild goose chase.
Tai was asking himself for perhaps the millionth time why he hadn't fought this, the forced proximity to Sora was driving him mad. Their had been a few close calls, nothing more then they could handle though. Having a mega and an ultimate with you comes in handy sometimes. The worst part, though, was that they had fallen back into old habits.
They had been best friends for years and rarely had to talk to get their point across. He fell more in love with her as the days grew on, he really couldn't help himself, he had loved her for as long as he could remember, he had just never realized it until Datamon had kidnapped her and it had been all his fault. He had lost himself when that happened, getting her back was the only thing that mattered, She had been why Graymon had digivolved, he was not about to loose her again right after getting her back and he didn't care how strong Eatamon had become.
She had made him become the man he was today because he loved her and didn't want to loose her. And he had ended up losing her anyway, to his other best friend no less. It hurt, oh god how it hurt, but she was happy and who was he to stand in the way of her happiness for his own selfish feelings? And now he was stuck with her out in the middle of nowhere, just him and her and their digimon, and even that was getting on his poor frayed nerves.
Agumon and Biyomon seemed to have grown attached to each other somewhere along the way, Tai silently cursed his digimon partner for having the courage to do something he had known he had wanted to do for years, something he himself could never do, "Holder of courage my ass." he muttered to himself.
"What was that Tai?" Sora asked, "I missed it."
"Oh nothing," he answered quickly, "nothing at all..." God this was killing him, he could shout his love for her from the tallest mountain, he knew that, but to ask the question, to risk her rejecting him... that he wasn't strong enough to face. He had to end this, he was the leader of the original, no scratch that, 2nd wave of destined and they had the most numbers, he should lead and damn it he would just to get away from Sora before he did something that he would regret for the rest of his life. 'Damn it when did I become such a cowered?' He reached for his digivice and that is when the fog rolled in.
*******
Sora was sure she was loosing her mind. Talking to yourself was the first sign of that right? She had been having conversations with herself for some time but having them talk back, and argue with you on top of it couldn't be a good sign. It had all started on the second day.
She and Tai were scouting out their rather large slice of the digital world when their new D3's had acted up, signaling the presence of another destined. So they of course had run after the signal only to be confronted with a rather pissed off SkullGraymon. MetalGraymon and Garudamon had battled it, forcing it back. Only it seemed to know what she and Tai were to the digimon facing off against it and had tried to attack her.
Tai had thrown her out of the way, barely avoiding being killed in the explosion from that red fish that the viral type digimon had fired. As it turned out that attacking her was the last mistake the fool ever made, WarGraymon made sure of that. It had been the first time Sora had ever seen a ultimate got to mega and judging from the look on Tai's face it was the first time that he had ether.
Why did he have to be so damned protective?! She had worked for years telling herself that he never cared for her, that she was fine with out him, never needed him in the first place.
(Ya, right girl. You never saw that look in his eyes every time you're with Mat? Oh and lest we forget when he found...)
'SHUT UP!' she yelled at that little voice in head. The damned thing had come out of nowhere. The first time she had tried to tell herself that he didn't care sense that incident and something odd had happened, there had been silence when an affirmative answer had always been there before. Nothing but silence.
So of coarse she had asked again 'RIGHT?' and this time this new little nagging voice had come back with a resounding (NO!) It then proceeded to try and blow everything she had ever used to make herself fall out of love with Tai out of the water and into a picture of him so hopelessly in love with her that his lack of hurt and anger over her dating Mat was him simply letting her go so she would be happy.
"How much bull is that?" she muttered under her breath at about the same time Tai mumbled something. "What was that Tai? I missed it."
"Oh, nothing," He said "nothing at all."
She glanced up at him and could tell he was lying. Something was bothering him, he should know better then to lie to her by now, she new him too well. She was going to press but saw that he was deep in thought. 'Probably trying to figure out how to get rid of me.'
(Of course he is, wouldn't you be trying to get away from the girl you love if she was with your best friend and you couldn't touch her or kiss her or even really hug her with out feeling guilty?) came that voice again.
'HE DOSEN'T LOVE ME!' Sora screamed at the top of her mental voice at that damned, persistent, nagging thing.
(What makes you so sure honey?)
'He didn't fight for me! He didn't yell at Mat, or ask me why, or yell at me, or even cry damn it! Not so much as one tear! Losing me wasn't even worth one tear from the great Tai, he doesn't love me and he never did!'
(Who are you trying to convince me or yourself? Besides how can you say that he never loved you, what about the e-mail?) Sora's hand unconsciously flew to her hair where Tai's hair clip from all those years ago was. She had worn it almost everyday sense Mat had told her he liked to see her hair and not a hat all the time, she hadn't even realized that she had been using it and her breath caught. That was when she realized she was surrounded with fog, with no Tai or her digimon in sight.
Chapter 7.
"Every time evil is defeated totally a new stronger evil will arise to take its place, right? The Digital world is a prime example of that, take a look at the 2nd waves battles.
An extra strong Champion, then an Ultimate, then an Super strong Ultimate, then a Mega, then Four more Megas all of which got stronger and stronger as time went on and then finally an amalgam of all of them.
The good-guys got stronger because evil made the same mistake over and over again, they always have and they most likely always will. They sent out progressively harder and harder minions to kill the DD's, and so making us stronger and stronger as we work our way to the finial battle. The same thing works with evil winning, a callow youth, a lovely daughter, an estranged son. Something is always left behind that seems small but will work is way to greatness and destroy the evil. Books, movies and old tales are full of this, but they always have good winning in the end, this you and I both know is impossible.
"Nature abhors a vacuum, and is always trying to reach a balance. But in our case there is only so much more power that evil could have gotten, and with the loss of the two most powerful evil digimon and how strong those of us on the good side have gotten, that balance is at hand.
We are all on a spectrum, light and dark, good and evil, law and chaos. Black and White. Within that simple fact the reason why it is impossible for good to truly win becomes apparent. Without evil good no longer has a purpose, self preservation will make sure that some evil remains. A vicious circle in the real world. Here, though, there is a ceiling on power, we have it, and evil wants it. So now the balance has been met, we shall fight on equal terms now, a fair fight if you will, or at lest that is what it will turn into.
"But here is the kicker, the crests are not pure. Courage is not always a virtue nor is friendship. Love can make people do evil things, and being too sincere can cause scars that will never heal. The search for knowledge can cause the searcher more harm then good if it becomes an obsession. Being reliable is a grate thing provided that your reliable in doing something as opposed to nothing, or something incorrectly.
"Hope and light are the two that have the best chance of being pure, but they have opposites that are both drastic and powerful. Besides hope can move mountains or destroy peoples and light can force one out of hiding or cut like a razor when used correctly.
"Kindness can be used against you, and leaves you open to attack or can be shown to those to do not deserve it. And honor is similar to love, men will die for it, or fight for it weather the cause they fight for is just or even worth that sacrifice.
"And finally comes destiny. Are you destined to be grate or small, good or evil? To what side does it flow? Willis has two digimon, one is good, one went evil, is this a sign is he truly with us or will his crest bring us pain as it did him?"
"And what of usss oh wise one?" the little green snake asked his partner, "what of faith, how pray tell is that not pure besides the two the wield it?"
"The fault in faith is in what that faith is put into, whom one holds allegiance to when it is all said and done. I hold to God yet you are a demon an odd contrast no?
"What we, you and I and all of them are going to be fighting is going to be the dark side of humanity, be it with weapons, or digimon there will be death and with death comes renewal or revenge, but the balance will ether be forever or be forever broken by this last grate war and when we fight we may well be forced to look into the mirror and fight what we see staring back at us."
"All right, but if we can fall to the opposition because we are not pure, can't we bring them to our side for it standsss to reason that they could not be pure evil." Travis nodded his assent to his partner's words before heading out to patrol, he was of course alone both because he was the only one who could take it and because he preferred to be that way, he just prayed the others would be all right.
*******
As the boy and his snake walked away, four pairs of eyes watched him through a glass ball.
"He knows too much." A voice stated.
"And that snake of his is almost as bad." A second voice added.
"We should eliminate them now before they become a problem, he is alone the others would never know." a third said.
"No, he has lived here longer then some types of digimon have even existed, the others would know something happened to him that was out of the ordinary, besides look at his crest, it is black and dead and yet he uses it, he might well be the key we need.
"Besides he all but stated that he and the destiny brat are all but neural partes we might be able to offer him something to help us against his so called friends." The forth said, his voice was smooth as silk but had the undertone of command, "the first stage is done, they are called. Now... let the games begin." And with that the room faded away leaving only the laughter of the forth voice to let the world know it was ever there.
*******
It had been three days since the duel and subsequent splitting up of the DD's into "hunting parties". Nothing had been seen or felt out of the ordinary and some were beginning to think that this was nothing more then a wild goose chase.
Tai was asking himself for perhaps the millionth time why he hadn't fought this, the forced proximity to Sora was driving him mad. Their had been a few close calls, nothing more then they could handle though. Having a mega and an ultimate with you comes in handy sometimes. The worst part, though, was that they had fallen back into old habits.
They had been best friends for years and rarely had to talk to get their point across. He fell more in love with her as the days grew on, he really couldn't help himself, he had loved her for as long as he could remember, he had just never realized it until Datamon had kidnapped her and it had been all his fault. He had lost himself when that happened, getting her back was the only thing that mattered, She had been why Graymon had digivolved, he was not about to loose her again right after getting her back and he didn't care how strong Eatamon had become.
She had made him become the man he was today because he loved her and didn't want to loose her. And he had ended up losing her anyway, to his other best friend no less. It hurt, oh god how it hurt, but she was happy and who was he to stand in the way of her happiness for his own selfish feelings? And now he was stuck with her out in the middle of nowhere, just him and her and their digimon, and even that was getting on his poor frayed nerves.
Agumon and Biyomon seemed to have grown attached to each other somewhere along the way, Tai silently cursed his digimon partner for having the courage to do something he had known he had wanted to do for years, something he himself could never do, "Holder of courage my ass." he muttered to himself.
"What was that Tai?" Sora asked, "I missed it."
"Oh nothing," he answered quickly, "nothing at all..." God this was killing him, he could shout his love for her from the tallest mountain, he knew that, but to ask the question, to risk her rejecting him... that he wasn't strong enough to face. He had to end this, he was the leader of the original, no scratch that, 2nd wave of destined and they had the most numbers, he should lead and damn it he would just to get away from Sora before he did something that he would regret for the rest of his life. 'Damn it when did I become such a cowered?' He reached for his digivice and that is when the fog rolled in.
*******
Sora was sure she was loosing her mind. Talking to yourself was the first sign of that right? She had been having conversations with herself for some time but having them talk back, and argue with you on top of it couldn't be a good sign. It had all started on the second day.
She and Tai were scouting out their rather large slice of the digital world when their new D3's had acted up, signaling the presence of another destined. So they of course had run after the signal only to be confronted with a rather pissed off SkullGraymon. MetalGraymon and Garudamon had battled it, forcing it back. Only it seemed to know what she and Tai were to the digimon facing off against it and had tried to attack her.
Tai had thrown her out of the way, barely avoiding being killed in the explosion from that red fish that the viral type digimon had fired. As it turned out that attacking her was the last mistake the fool ever made, WarGraymon made sure of that. It had been the first time Sora had ever seen a ultimate got to mega and judging from the look on Tai's face it was the first time that he had ether.
Why did he have to be so damned protective?! She had worked for years telling herself that he never cared for her, that she was fine with out him, never needed him in the first place.
(Ya, right girl. You never saw that look in his eyes every time you're with Mat? Oh and lest we forget when he found...)
'SHUT UP!' she yelled at that little voice in head. The damned thing had come out of nowhere. The first time she had tried to tell herself that he didn't care sense that incident and something odd had happened, there had been silence when an affirmative answer had always been there before. Nothing but silence.
So of coarse she had asked again 'RIGHT?' and this time this new little nagging voice had come back with a resounding (NO!) It then proceeded to try and blow everything she had ever used to make herself fall out of love with Tai out of the water and into a picture of him so hopelessly in love with her that his lack of hurt and anger over her dating Mat was him simply letting her go so she would be happy.
"How much bull is that?" she muttered under her breath at about the same time Tai mumbled something. "What was that Tai? I missed it."
"Oh, nothing," He said "nothing at all."
She glanced up at him and could tell he was lying. Something was bothering him, he should know better then to lie to her by now, she new him too well. She was going to press but saw that he was deep in thought. 'Probably trying to figure out how to get rid of me.'
(Of course he is, wouldn't you be trying to get away from the girl you love if she was with your best friend and you couldn't touch her or kiss her or even really hug her with out feeling guilty?) came that voice again.
'HE DOSEN'T LOVE ME!' Sora screamed at the top of her mental voice at that damned, persistent, nagging thing.
(What makes you so sure honey?)
'He didn't fight for me! He didn't yell at Mat, or ask me why, or yell at me, or even cry damn it! Not so much as one tear! Losing me wasn't even worth one tear from the great Tai, he doesn't love me and he never did!'
(Who are you trying to convince me or yourself? Besides how can you say that he never loved you, what about the e-mail?) Sora's hand unconsciously flew to her hair where Tai's hair clip from all those years ago was. She had worn it almost everyday sense Mat had told her he liked to see her hair and not a hat all the time, she hadn't even realized that she had been using it and her breath caught. That was when she realized she was surrounded with fog, with no Tai or her digimon in sight.