Gone

In the wake of destruction, smoke, and piles of pencil dust/shavings littered across the mangled school floor of ruptured wood and twisted steel. The Digimon and their Tamers hard work and struggles had proved fruitful. Using the might of their digital monsters super powers, every one of the Wizard's twisted monsters had been destroyed. Taking the power of all 3 Digivices and all 3 ultimate leveled Digimon, their work was well serviced. The battle was done, but the war wasn't.

Now the only remaining obstacle to a happy ending Halloween day was of course the Digimon Wizard himself, Marcus. Whom the tamers especially Takato were still unaware of his hidden identity. Taking a brave stand with a frown on his young face, Takato shouted towards the wicked wizard. Marcus listened with a wide grin "All right wizard boy, come out from behind your curtains. You got no more flying monkeys to hide behind so why not come out and fight like a man".

Henry sweat dropped with a baffled groan, "Flying monkeys?". Takato face faulted down, hearing the loud maniacal laughter of the clearly not intimidated Digimon Wizard. Marcus replied "Save your speeches pee wee, this is the big leagues here not some Saturday morning cartoon series. You really think just because you rotten punks got Digimon and Digivices, that makes you REAL Digidestined HA. Only a fool puts confidence in even more useless powers. You guys don't stand a chance".

Rika huffed at him with a sneer "Oh yeah what makes you think that Harry Pothead? Your monsters look more like shitty Halloween costumes then our Digimon". Marcus laughed "Don't toy with me little girl I posses REAL magic, were not talking Terriermon yanked out of hats here. I have ULTIMATE power, given to me by the all mighty Digi-Dark Star crystal. And with its negative energies empowering my now black heart, I'll send you all screaming into Hell".

"That does it I've heard enough of this jerk's blabbering mouth time for some Rapid Fire", Rapidmon said as he launched off 2 rockets. Their smiling face warheads screamed at the darkly dressed boy, who simply smiled right back. With a wave of his pencil gloved fingers, The Digimon Wizard caused them to vanish. Both rockets flashed right into a hole that was drawn in seconds by the pencils. Henry gasped "That's just impossible, he just made them vanish into thin air".

Takato frowned "Oh yeah well let's see him make this disappear, WarGrowlmon". The boy's massive mechanized dinosaur Digimon roared on command, once more opening his nuclear chest plate blasters. A raised eyebrow framed those conniving eyes of Marcus at this move. Red energy shards began to form and energize into the main thruster blaster cannons, WarGrowlmon screamed "Atomic Blasters". The Tamers and kids ducked down as the massive beam was shot forward.

A colossal energy beam searing with a blood red nuclear charge soared like a bullet from Hell, the destructive blast was heading right for The Digimon Wizard. Marcus flared his pencil/shaver fingered gloves and shouted "ERECTUS MIRRORANNICUS". Blinding flashes of light and white energies splashed like a waterfall of magic before the wizard boy. Suddenly a colossal sized mirror was formed right before his very being, the atomic blast struck and was reflected back.

WarGrowlmon screeched "GET AWAY NOW!" using his blade like arms, the Digimon hurled the kids away just seconds after the beam engulfed him. An explosion of catastrophic magnitude roared into the school hall with flames, and cinders. Flying on his super sonic jets, Rapidmon just barely managed to escape the blast. But no sooner did he turn angry eyes towards the twisted wizard down below. Marcus was already flying on newly drawn bat wings right to Rapidmon.

UGH was heard at the horrible metal crunching sound of The Wizard's hat, which magically (literally) became hard as diamond upon impact of their butting heads. With Rapidmon falling back as if in slow motion from the pain of the blow, The Digimon Wizard raised his shaver gloved hand up and chanted magic words. "CANNON BOOMSKATTA HA" he said, as a ball of black thunder sparking energy formed in the shape of a cannonball. The ball slammed into Rapidmon.

With no force or momentum to hold back the rocket racing Digimon, the cannonball forced Rapidmon to drop like a comet heading towards Earth. Supreme speed, velocity, and sky rocketing force caused the ball and Rapidmon, to explode immediately on impact. Crashing the explosive bang right on top of the already burnt out WarGrowlmon. Taomon sweated down a deep sweat of fear and worry, WarGrowlmon and Rapidmon were defeated with little effort. Now it was just her.

And with the worrying safety of the remaining kids, it looked grim she could win this ghastly battle. Taomon spoke to Rika "I want you to use your Digivices and try to find a way out of this building now, this is too dangerous". Rika protested "But Taomon we can't just leave you to this monster". Ignoring her Taomon smacked Rika's behind and pushed them to move on as fast as she could. Despite how much she hated doing it, a teary eyed Rika and the boys ran for the doors.

Since Marcus magic was breaking down due to the destruction of his monsters, and his battles engaged with the Digimon. Marcus laughed "There is NO ESCAPE from my limitless power so don't bother fighting what you cannot end", Taomon leapt at his throat. Her sleeved over claws lunging for the boy's neck, but a clever fake out vanishing trick fooled the boy. Taomon took her chance and chanted her "Thousand Spells". The Wizard laughed and immediately flipped back at Taomon.

Once the thousand magic sheets of paper flew their furious storm winds of magic towards him, Marcus simply raised his pencil shaving gloved hand as it whirred. In seconds the sharpener holes sucked up the paper talisman and shredded them like they were pencils. Taomon was baffled and the laughing Wizard took this shot, raising his other hand and firing a powerful energy blast. The massive yellow surge of energy blasted the last remaining Digimon to the ground, she squeaked in pain.

Meanwhile Takato, Henry, Rika and Jeri were using their Digivices to blast a powerful force of concentrated energy to shatter through the wall. No sooner did The Digimon Wizard land and spot the troublesome kids, Leomon roared loudly as he swung his sword at Marcus. He gasped in rage and barely leaped out of the way, crying out in pain as a scraped lined of blood appeared over his chest. Marcus flipped so he landed behind Leomon, and snarled with rage "DIE DAM YOU".

Widening his jaws as big as his human mouth could go, Leomon could only shake frozen in fear in horror at the bright light gathering into the wizard's jaws. "SCREAMORUS SHATTRA" he screamed as a colossal red/pink/yellow super electro charged ray blast fired from his jaws and slammed into Leomon. With in the blink of a colossal sized explosion that plowed through the walls like paper. The magical force field had been completely destroyed and all were outside.

Apparently The Digimon Wizard had used a powerful banshee like blast attack that used Leomon as a bullet train to plow right through the kids and the hole. Leaving all of them Marcus, Takato, Rika, Henry, Jeri, Kazu, Kenta, and even the hiding Sarah outside together. The Wizard winced and staggered on one foot, grasping his bleeding wound as he garbled "It's (huff) not (puff) over yet, no w-w-way in hell, not b-b-b-by a long shot". Henry sighed "Look pal just give it up, the fight is over.

Your hurt bad, our Digimon are exhausted, your monsters are gone, there has been enough blood shed tonight". Rika added "You lost loser accept that and get lost". Growling deeply in pain as the blood continued to soak through his dark twisted outfit, Marcus eyes filled with white rage as energy charged within the pupils. Marcus screamed in fury "Lost? LOST? You still don't get it do you? The bloodshed is just beginning HA", he hurled off his black top hat towards Takato.

Gasping he ducked down just barely missing the whirling hat, which it's sides had become sharp as a buzz saw blade. The hat sliced through a tree as it collapsed down along with 3 thin sliced hairs from Takato's brown goggled head. Suddenly the children gasped and their eyes leered at the figure hiding behind the tree, Sarah. "AHHH shit they found me" Sarah said as she squeaked her pink lips in horror, press on nails grabbing a stone. Angrily the mad woman raised it in the air hissing.

Marcus eyes widened from seeing her, still controlling the hat that was flying above her head. So high she didn't even see the top flip the hat upside down, so the top part of it could open up and reveal teeth. Sarah smirked "Looks like your own goody good hero pals already carved a worse scar then I ever could sonny, your toast. Your just dead rotting meat now you insolent little snot nosed brat. All that power just made you the freak you have always known you are Mr. Wizard.

And it's because of that freakish ass ugly mug of yours that you'll fit right in with all the other freaks in Hell, NOW DIE MARCUS", Sarah said hurling the rock. Right before the gasps of horror could fill the mouths of the gaping children, the top hat soared down at mach speed. Sarah screamed her final shriek of fear as she looked up, only to be engulfed in the hat's massive jaws. Marcus magic had made the hat into a ravenous meat eater that was eagerly devouring his ex-step mother.

Henry looked away in disgust at the muffled pleas from Sarah, watching her sexy but futile kicking long bare legs from the hat's lips before they were gobbled up. But no sooner did the hat belch its monstrous licked lips from a good meal, did the hat vanish in a burst of dead energy. A scream of ungodly pain roared from the now un-masked wizard, as his 3-d glasses were shattered off of his bleeding face. Gushes of blood spurted from his wounded left eye, a hand raised to block it off.

But neither blood nor pencil gloved hand could change the horror on Takato's face, his skin drained of color. Pale cold sweat dripping off his goggled brow at this disturbing and shocking turn of events. There right before his unblinking widened brown eyes, stood a broken bleeding boy. A boy tormented by the very same demons those pencils created. Darkness consuming his once big heart and soul, into a dark and desolated empty set of shells. There was "Marcus...my friend".

Takato's words left deaf on the others ears, while tears dripped from his sobbing eyes. It was too much to see the evil/blood drenched face of his once newest best friend, the one that he himself saved. Rika gasped loudly "I KNEW IT, YOU REALLY ARE A FREAK". Those words were the final nail in Marcus coffin. His rage exploded as he screamed out a yell so coldly inhumane and monstrously demonic, one couldn't help but try to tune it out. "DON'T CALL ME NAMES".

The words from the broken wizard screamed like a crack in the sky itself, suddenly a gush of magic wind picked Rika off her feet. She screamed her purple eyes for once widening with pure fear, she flailed her hands to Henry yelling "HELP ME". Takato pleaded to his former friend "Marcus STOP NOW, what are you doing were supposed to be best friends, what the hell are you doing to Rika?". Marcus replied coldly "I'm finishing the job once and for all, one bitch down one to go.

For far too long Takato my friend, I have spent what felt like an eternity in pain and agony. Brought on nothing but the further pressuring needles of suffering and torture from everyone around me. Both Rika and Sarah made my life the living hellish nightmare that I have become now, and I want payback. Ever since my parents died and that whore dared to call herself my guardian, I felt DEAD. There was nothing in my life, nothing at all. That was until...I met her, I met.Rika".

Despite the horror that was happening and Rika was screaming for Henry's hand to reach hers, Takato gasped and stared directly to Marcus. His mind tuned directly to the words he was preying he wasn't actually hearing from The Digimon Wizard. Marcus continued "When I first entered that private school I was friendless as usual, no one sat at lunch with me, no one looked at me, and no one talked to me. But then one day the most beautiful girl came up to me, and offer to sit and talk.

YES! That girl was Rika. Of all the heartless monsters that abused me like a voodoo doll, she was the only one kind enough to offer her cracked heart to mine. But life isn't always like TV makes it to be, one day she found a bunch of drawings I had drawn of her. Perfectly drawn of her and she slapped me. Rika called me a sick perverted FREAK and then left me. I LOVED her and now I'm gonna rip out her broken heart, and crush it right before that slut's crying eyes".

As if the whole big black world had gone in slow motion, Marcus raised his one free hand to charge up a massive blast. Seeing this Henry leapt off a tree he was climbing, in desperate dire need to block Rika from the blast as best he could . But before the charge could fly out, and before the final laugh could finish. Marcus eyes, both wounded and working bulged and turned dead white. The pupils of the twisted boy became as tiny as stars in a solar system, he choked out blood thickly.

Marcus looked down and was horrified to see and feel, Takato inside of him. Jamming his own fist and Digivice directly into the broken black heart of his best friend, via use of the open wound Leomon had made earlier. Takato and Marcus just stared mouths gaped wide open, so many questions to ask. But yet neither could find the breath to speak. Blood trickling down their hands as the white light energized into Marcus body, a dark hole opened behind him. Marcus smiled.

Marcus smiled "Takato, my dear friend, I have a riddle for you before I go".

Takato blinked "Friend but I thought wait……riddle? Go NO! What are talking about?".

Marcus chuckled "It's a riddle that at this very moment is plaguing my black heart".

Takato sobbed "NO stop, no plaguing, no black heart I you (sobs) what is it?".

Marcus answered "How do you make a monster?".

Takato shook his head "What? I don't understand…what do you mean?".

Marcus asked again "How does one make a monster Takato?".

Takato cried "Look stop I don't know, I don't get what you're talking about. We can fix you, please don't go. I don't understand".

Marcus nodded "Oh but I do…I know the answer".

Takato begged "Tell me. Please".

Marcus explained "To make a monster first you need a boy, a boy who's heart is lost in darkness. Who has nothing left to live for…a life lived alone, and died alone.

Takato blinked back tears "Second?".

Marcus frowned "Poison him with power, and hatred, make his fantasies come to life. Make it all look so appeasing, to…delude you".

Takato continued "Third?".

Marcus choked back blood and tears "Consumption, corruption of the soul, rage controls you. Powers become overwhelmingly strong, monsters form".

Takato screamed "No more!".

Marcus shouted back "FOURTH".

Takato regretfully sighed "Yes, fourth?".

Marcus growled "Don the costume your soul was burned to bare, unleash your revenge. Cause countless destruction and chaos to the ones that were your (sob) friends".

Takato pleaded "Marcus".

Marcus continued "The ones you…love".

Takato asked "And fifth?".

Marcus gulped "Power dies, battle dies, boy dies. Source of power feels betrayed, source of power hates boy, wants power back. HE wants ME back".

Takato shook his head "But what happens after that?".

Looking up as a large dark hole finally and fully manifests behind him, Marcus smiles as blood and tears drip down his face at his final words.

Marcus blinked "I don't know. But I'm going to find out. Goodbye Takato, my friend. My only friend. Tell the others I'm sorry for what I did and tell Rika. I …love her".

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! MARCUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

(end segment)

-Takato's Narration-

And that's what happened. I know you must think me mad for saying that, me a Digimon Tamer. But truth be told that's how everything happened, even Rika and Henry find my story skeptical. After that weirdo flash bio-hazard sign and that beam of dark light that engulfed Marcus, we never saw it or him again. What was even more weird is that we all magically appeared back in our beds when we woke up. The school was still a mess, Rika ended up in the trash can again (chuckle).

But other then that and a few teachers wondering what happened last night, everything seems to have gone back to normal. Sarah however was never seen after what happened last night. Not surprisingly the search for her stopped when police found out her records, turns out she really was a wicked old witch. She physically/mentally/verbally abused Marcus. And has done so to other kids. The cops couldn't explain why there was pencil shavings around the school hall.

But luckily neither of us had to tell them what it REALLY was, even better the monsters were gone as well. Yeah things seem to have gone back completely to normal. Except...for Marcus. Poor guy he was my best friend and he ended up like a wacko version of the Digimon Emperor off TV. To this day I still prey and cry every night, preying to god he'd bring Marcus back from wherever he is. I also worry about what he said. Like who gave him those powers, who is.."HE"?

Maybe I'll know someday.and somehow I have a feeling I won't like it. Happy Halloween.
THE END! (Or is it?)