The Crest of The Heavens
By ArchangelUK

I don't own digimon full stop, and that's the bottom line, because AAUK said so!

Tai: Everyone's was tired of all the fighting so we stopped off in some caves for a few days, doing patrols and dealing with any of Nemisomon's dark digimon whenever we bumped into them. Everyone's getting on great now, even Jarret and Davis who seems to have grown up a bit much to all of our collective reliefs! Yolei, TK and Jarret went on patrol and found that Nemisomon has begun construction on a black dome, though we aren't quite sure what for yet. Soon aftert they got back the cave was rocked by explosions, we got out alright only to be confronted by Nemisomon and a dozen Minotaurmon! Here we go again...

Chapter 9: Revenging Angel

"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

"Blast Rings!"

"Flower Ring!"

"Vulcan's Hammer!"

"Hand of Fate!"

"V-Lazer!"

"Tail Hammer!"

The battle was joined, the twelve Minotaurmon were strong - stronger than they should be. Each one of the chosen digimon were pitted against one in combat, ordinarily this would pose no problem but everyone was drained and ultimate was as far as anyone could go. Agumon could barely make it beyond champion he was so weak. How on Earth, after her exurtions recently, Palmon was able to still digivolve to Lillymon was a mystery to all. The DigiDestined cheered their partners on as they battled, the thirteenth though stood apart from them in the centre of the carnarge. Nemisomon and Jarret stared each other down.

"You look weak." The ultimate observed.

"Appearances can be deceptive."

"Your not as... bright as you used to be. What happened to your fancy gold glow?"

Jarret was indeed not glowing as brightly as he was when he first arrived. The golden shine that radiated from his clothing was now replaced by a colour closer to ochre than gold or even yellow. Jarret shrugged, trying to hide his own worry at his rapidly vanishing powers.

"It's at the cleaners."

"Cute Jarry, very cute."

Nemisomon looked at his hand and extended those long yellow claws, in his palm a dark sphere of energy began to grow. Jarret's eyes glowed white and he began to form a similar globe of light infront of him.

"You really think you can win?"

"It doesn't matter if I win."

"Oh?" Nemisomon was surprised, "Why is that?"

"It doesn't matter if I win. It only matters that they win."

Nemisomon growled, his lips curled in rage, a sneer rippling across his features. He brought his hand up, the hand that contained that vile energy ball and flung it with all his might towards Jarret.

"Fatal Darkness!"

"Eternal Light!"

The two spheres of light and darkness crashed into each other in a huge explosion, throwing Nemisomon and Jarret back away from each other.

Amid the dust and debry the two stood again both rather uneasy on their feet. The blast had dazed them both slightly, as from out of the shadows around Nemiosomon a dozen figures came charging towards the twelve chosen Digimon.

Angewomon deftly twisted to send her Minotaurmon sprawling into the dust, but somehow it rolled and managed to launch itself backwards through the air at her. She gasped and then grunted as the large horned creature struck her in the centre of the chest, they both fell down with an audible thud.

Stingmon and MetalGreymon had teamed up to deal with their foes and were pushing both back with powerful blows, eventually a Minotaurmon got a heavy blow in and the already drained orange dinosaur dedigivolved back into Agumon. Stingmon looked at his worsening odds and gulped, he took up an attack posture as the two dark digimon slowly marched towards him. Agumon made it back to Tai who tried to stop him from apologising.

"It's alright Agumon, we all know you were tired from before."

"But what about Stingmon?"

"He'll be okay." Ken came up and patted Agumon on the head.

"I wouldn't be so sure about that Ken, look." Davis pointed to Stingmon who was now being pummeled by the two Minotaurs. "Leave him alone ya big bullies!" The flame jacketed boy yelled, getting little response from pair who continued their assault.

"Flower Cannon!"

Lillymon's blast was easily dodged by the Minotaurmon, who used it's powerful punch to start a landslide of rock. Lillymon squealed and dived out of the way as a sizable slab of limestone crushed the spot where she'd been. She looked down at her front which was covered in brown dust and then up towards the bull which leered at her, she glared intently at it.

"Do you know how long it takes to get dirt out of this?" She screamed and charged at the digimon who nervously stood his ground. Lillymon wound up and punched the evil Minotaurmon right between it's bulging eyes sending it carrering over the rocks. Mimi and the others cheered and Lillymon grinned at them before turning around and holding her hand under her armpit.

"Owwwwwwwwwwwww."

The others battled away, the somewhat unusual tagteam of ExVeemon and Angemon were tackling 4 Minotaurmon the extra two having come from Stingmon. Now as Wormmon he lay in Ken's arms battered and bruised, Ken looked down at him with the upmost concern.

"Ken?"

"Yes Wormmon?" The digimon glanced up through tears of pain.

"Next time the Digital World needs our help can we pretend we're not in?"

Jarret was flung backwards by Nemisomon, who laughed as the youth bounced across the sandy terrain. He came to a stop and groaned as he tried to get up, Jarret's face was cut and a small dribble of blood was meandering down the side of his face. Nemisomon walked calmly towards Jarret, and stood over him.

"Are you ready to die now boy?"

"You know....you...should really learn not to underestimate me." There was a flare of gold and Jarret launched a fist of power up into Nemisomon's face sending him sprawling to the ground.

Angewomon gritted her teeth as the Minotaurmon prepared to launch another powerful punch at her. "I've had just about enough of you." She concentrating, pulling in her holy energy and focusing it. Then she extended her arms and announced - "Heaven's Charm!" A pink cross of energy struck the digimon dead centre and it dissolved into data. Relieved Angewomon, stood up straight and went to go and help the underseige WereGarurumon but before she could something slammed into her back. It was Jarret, who had been thrown backwards straight into her. Both angel and human groaned from their positions on the floor.

"Puny insect." Nemisomon muttered then caught sight of the fallen Angewomon who lay crumpled beside Jarret. "Well, it looks as though I'll be able to kill two birds with one stone." He raised both arms above his head and the clouds began to grow dark, in contrast Nemisomon's eyes began to grow brighter. The cloud began to flow to his hands and he moulded them into a ball, purple electricity crackled between his hand and the air grew cold. Jarret tried to get up, then to try and push Angewomon away but he wasn't strong enough, he looked up to see the panic stricken faces of the other DigiDestined as they rushed over towards him. Jarret locked eyes with Tai and shook his head plaintively.

"Stop." Tai said and the others regretfully did so, "He doesn't want us to try and help him."

"We have to!" Kari insisted, "We need to save Angewomon and Jarret."

"And who'll save us?" Matt replied, they looked over and saw Jarret looking at them. "He knows we'll only get killed ourselves."

"What about the other digimon?"

"They're all tied up with the Minotaurmon!" All the remaining Ultimates and Champions were still locked in combat, Kari was beside herself as Nemisomon prepared to destroy her friends.

"Angewomon!"

Still in mid-battle Angemon heard her cry and wheeled round, he saw the fallen figures of Kari's partner and Jarret on the floor and Nemisomon standing over them.

"Angewomon? NO!"

Beneath his helmet his eyes went wide with dread and a feeling of intense rage and determination came over him. His staff so often his tool of destruction glowed brighter than he had ever seen it do before.

"Rarrrrgggghhhhhh!"

With one swift motion he swung the white hot rod and it smashed right through the two Minotaurmon he was fighting, deleting them instantly. He didn't even pause for breath launching himself towards Nemisomon the white glow around him becoming even more powerful. At the same time TK's digivice began to beep frantically and also began to glow.

"I am victorious!" Nemisomon announced as he wound up to hurl his fatal projectile. "I am Nemisomon, and you have - huh?"

Then all anyone could here was, "ANGEMON DIGIVOLVE TO...."

And before Nemisomon could say any more a purple blade exploded through the front of it's chest, Nemisomon looked down at the sword blade surprised and MagnaAngemon's helmeted face appeared over his shoulder. Nemisomon's arms went limp, the attack already dissipated. MagnaAngemon clenched his teeth as he pushed the blade in further, deeper, grunting with effort, again and again until it was all the way through. Yellow ichore splatted the ground by Jarret's feet as Nemisomon's menacing eyes rolled back into his head. The angel removed his sword and the already dissolving body of Nemisomon slumped to the ground falling partly over Jarret's legs. He kicked the body away as Yolei and Cody tried to help him up, even in death Nemisomon wore a disturbing grin. Angemon helped Angewomon to her feet before the pair both dedigivolved back to Patamon and Gatomon.

Despite her feline instincts, the digimon was decidedly un-catlike in balance so she went onto all fours to compensate. Patamon looked as though he had done that one lap too many and was gasping for air, the others who had beaten off all the Minotaurmon also had returned to their rookie forms.

Cody looked around the valley at the destruction they had all caused. "We won?" He asked surprised, Matt looked down at the small boy.

"Yeah, I guess we did." There was a pause.

"YAHOOOOOOO!" A wild cheer erupted from the kids, and they began dancing about in joy swinging each other round, pists pumping the air in celebration.

Jarret leant heavily against Izzy and Joe blood still slowly oozed from the gash on his face, he smiled a dazzling smile and gave a very long sigh.

"I don't believe it." He finally said, "He's actually gone."

"And your still here." Mimi pointed out, "No fading or rippling."

"Or falling through people. Yes, but that doesn't mean to say I was successful." Jarret said, suddenly thoughtful. "I'll shall have to go and see Azulongmon again, I -"

Beep....Beeep...Beeeeeep...BEEEEEEEP....

"What was that?" Joe asked, the noise brought the celebrations to an abrupt halt.

BEEEEEEEP....BEEEEEEEEEP....BEEP-BEEP-BEEP...

"Hey it's coming from Jarret's digivice." Izzy pointed to the elder boy's belt, Jarret removed his arms from Joe and Izzy's shoulders and cautiously removed the chrome D3. He lifted it to his eyes, scanning the data that was rapidly scrolling up the screen, all colour seemed to drain from his face and his eyes became paniced.

"What is it?" Joe asked shaking his shoulder, Jarret didn't respond but shook his head in disbelief.

BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BEEEEEEP-BEEEEEP....

"No...No it can't be! It can't...NO!" Jarret glanced over at a cloud of darkness that had formed near where Nemisomon had died, they all followed Jarret's glance and saw the cloud. But it wasn't water vapour, it was data. Digital data.

"Jarret! What is it?"

Jarret scrambled away from the cloud and made to throw his D3 as far away as he could, but a bolt of purple lightning exploded from the data cloud striking him between the shoulder blades.

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHH!" He screamed and all that could be heard was the crackle of electricity, an agonising scream and the continuous menacing noise of the digivice in his hand.

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!

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