The Crest of The Heavens
By ArchangelUK

I do not own Digimon, hence I write fanfiction in a dark house, devoid of heat and lacking in retail value.

Davis: I can't believe it's already been a year, since me and the guys defeated MaloMiyotismon with our digimon. Things are really starting to change here in the real world as everyone comes to terms with the existance of digimon and the Digital World, Ken's moved schools to Odaiba High, the original DigiDestined are all excelling in their chosen careers. Things are finally at peace the only thing that's worrying me a bit is Kari seems a bit off at the moment, T.S has noticed it too and is really concerned about her. He says that if she feels somethings wrong then it might be bad news for all of us! Don't know what he means by that exactly but whatever happens we'll be there together, but now it's celebration time! I just hope Yolei's bringing enough food for me and Veemon...

Chapter 2: Arrivals

"On the day there is 13 a choice is made, a path is taken, and that path shall lead 13 to light and 1 to shadow."
- The Prophecy of The Thirteenth DigiDestined

Davis and Yolei threw themselves to the ground as the blast whistled over their heads. "Who the hell is that?" Davis shouted.

"I don't know, but he doesn't seem to like us." Matt replied, he and Tai were both dragging Sora, (despite the fact that she was quite capable of running on her own,) to safety. Tai looked at Matt who shot a glance back, despite the strength of their friendship things between them were still a little sore...

It was the first aniversary of the day Yolei, Davis, Ken, Cody, Kari and TK had finally defeated Miyotismon once and for all. Things were going well, with all the twelve digidestined meeting their digimon partner. Or rather those who were not with them at the time, and they had begun to eat an extremely large picnic made jointly by Sora, Yolei and Ken. Although Ken had been there just to be with Yolei and Davis, as he had pointed out, had made the noodles.

Things were going swimingly until a large dark cloud had blotted out what had been a beautiful blue sky and a large digimon had appeared and hurled an attack at them. The digidestined had never seen such a digimon, clearly an ultimate, he was nerely twenty-four feet tall. Huge. He was human-ish in appearence but had features that would remind you of Paildramon and BlackWarGreymon, he was not a mix and match digimon like Chimeramon but there was also elements that just seemed to be familiar.

"Dark Venom!" The digimon boomed, and another blast of power ingulfed the discarded picnic, obliterating sandwiches, rice cakes and noodles.

"Oh..." Yolei and Sora groaned.

"Hey!" Davis yelled, "I made those!" He made to get up but Joe grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and hauled him down again.

"Are you crazy - or did wearing Tai's goggles cut of the blood supply to your brain?"

"But, I-"

"Oh, shut up!" The older boy exclaimed, causing Veemon to tug on Davis' leg.

"You know that only Ken and TK brought their D3's so let them deal with it."

"Dark Venom!"

"Hand of Fate!" Angemon called and the two attacks obliterated each other. TK stood in front of the rock the others were sheltering behind with Ken, Kari and Gatomon. Kari stood behind TK, whilst Gatomon tugged at her foot trying to get her to move back.

"Kari there isn't any need for you to be out here get behind the rock to safety." She said, tugging even more frantically.

"No, I'm staying here."

"Kari..." The voice was TK's, "Please, go shelter behind the rock with the others."

I can't concentrate on the battle if I have to worry whether you're safe, his mind added. Kari looked at him and nodded sadly she moved from behind TK and sought shelter in the rocks. A she went past, Ken gently grabbed her wrist, she looked around confused, Ken smiled and whispered to her

"Don't worry, he'll be fine." She blushed a bit, and went to say something but Gatomon had finally lost patience and leapt up grabbing Kari's shoulder and almost throwing her behind the rocks.

"Spiking strike!"

"Dark Venom!" the attack hit Stingmon, knocking him backwards and straight into Angemon, they landed on the ground groaning and de-digivolved back to Wormmon and Patamon.

"Oh..." Patamon moaned, TK and Ken ran over to gather their digimon

The digimon began to walk slowly towards TK and Ken, each footstep made the ground shake.

"Someone do something!" Sora pleaded,

"We can't take him on." Palmon replied

"We wouldn't last five seconds." Armadillomon moaned in his typical southern drawl.

"That's it." Tai said, "We'll do something, try it Agumon - distract him."

"Pepper breath!" The little digimon unleashed a ball of flame at the ultimate, but with little effect - he wasn't even phased by it, and actually backhanded it towards Ken and Wormmon. They leapt to safety as the spot they had been only an instant before was set aflame.

"Oops." Agumon turned to Tai, "I guess we'll have to think of something else.

"You guessed right, well you might want to think about doing something soon. He's going after them!" Mimi wailed, as the digimon resumed his movement towards Ken. He loomed over the former digimon emporer and raised his right arm, Wormmon and Ken were frozen to the spot as a ball of blue flame appeared in it's hand. It was about to anihilate the boy when it was struck in the back by a blast of powerful air.

"Boom Bubble!"

"Arrgh." It groaned, more in surprise than in pain. Patamon was up again, but not for long - that one attack used up most of his already depleated energy and he collapsed back into TK's arms. He and TK had been trying to buy Ken some time, but all it had done was to change his target, it spun around and leveled an accusing finger at Patamon's partner.

"You!" The digimon screamed, pointing at TK. "YOU!" he bellowed, "The keeper of hope - you think that you can defeat anyone don't you." The eyes were yellow and slitted, it had been the first time the digimon had spoken save for it's attacks; the voice was low and menacing but at a volume that smashed into your ears and vereberated through your brain. It radiated darrkness and hatred, all directed at the boy in the cream coloured hat who stood his ground nervously.

What is it? What does it want with us? How does it know who I am?

"We haven't failed yet." TK finally yelled back, his arms cradling an exhausted Patamon, "Who are you?"

"I..." He seemed to grow in size,

"I..." Looming over both of them,

"I...AM NEMISOMON! And you, keeper of hope, the 'angel' of light and all the rest of your pathetic digidestined will die. But firstly and most specifically, you." He brought both hands up and a large ball of black cloud began to form, whirling faster and faster as it grew.

"Fatal Darkness!" Nemisomon drew his arms back and threw the ball at Patamon and TK.

"Eternal Light!"

A huge ball of yellow ingulfed Nemisomon's attack before it could reach the pair, everyone turned around in surprise to see a youth standing on the crest of the hill adjacent to where the digidestined were.

"It can't be..." Nemisomon muttered.

"Oh it is."

"Jarret? Is that you, how nice of you to pay me a visit." Nemisomon narrowed his eyes and the claws on the back of his hands seemed to extend.

"I'm not here for pleasantries. I'm here to stop you, I know what you were trying to do." The youth began to walk down the small hill, he was about eighteen years old and at least six foot tall, what was the most striking thing about him was that his clothes were all gold, and shone brightly. "You think you are strong enough to face me Nemisomon?" The youth questioned, "Do you think you have a chance?" The digimon laughed loudly causing the ground to shake violently, but the youth didn't seem to move.

"Well, maybe not now Jarret but let us see how you fare in time. Your powers are not unlimited and they are drained every minuted of every hour. I will bide my time and we shall see who is strong enough in the end."

"We shall, and we will all be ready."

"So Jarret, it begins." With that Nemisomon snapped his fingers and disappeared in a cloud of black smoke, leaving twelve digidestined and one gold clad youth choking on plumes of dust.

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