READ THIS BEFORE YOU READ THE CHAPTER!!!
This is essential knowledge if you want this all to make sense – usually I email (if I can) responses to questions asked about the fic, I won't for this. In the beginning I decided that cody, Yolei and ken were non existent on this timeline. I did this coz I didn't really like them back then, I'm indifferent to them now after seeing series 2 again. Anyway, this chap deals with some issues revolving around Davis, and his choosing as a DD, so please don't pick me out for embellishing into the unknown. I changed some stuff, I know this, and I hope it doesn't detract from the enjoyment of the fic at all. Also, if anyone says I stole stuff from FF9, FFX, FF7 or devil may cry, =P, I officially disclaim any material so related to the offending articles, as you so deem appropriate to name them. However, everything else is mine, all mine, if I find evidence that you have copied me I will make your life hell as far as my possibilities as a human being can take me. I'm PO'ed, now's not the time to copy me ^_^. That said, enjoy, sorry for the demi-rant!
"That I can young one, that I can," she replied keeping up her grin.
"Well?!" Sora asked worriedly, the wait anguishing her.
"Hades is, and always has been, no fool. He is a cocky being, but he always has a contingency plan at hand. What I'm getting to here, is that although he never doubted that the spell that was cast could never be broken, he did know that it may be stopped, although even that was difficult. His plan was simple, if you're going to try and stop the spell, I will place counter measures to put an end to that."
"So you're saying this spell can't be broken…" Tai started, on what was to be a long depressing sentence, but Carbuncle interrupted him in his tracks.
"Please, you jump ahead, don't worry. What I'm saying is, the toxin that you were infected with to make the spell possible, is also a counter measure to stop the spells progression. Basically, it is, or should I say was, severing your links with Bahamut, leaving him to progress into anger and madness, thus the spell would continue."
"Oh, is he alright?" Tai asked worriedly.
"Yes, He's fine, a little unsettled though."
"So, this whole transformation is going to stop now?" Matt asked.
"Well, I'd be surprised if it didn't. You see, Hades casts deep black magic spells of the mind, if you can overcome the state of mind the spell puts you in, then you can stop it."
"More importantly, can you undo what has been done here?" Sora asked desperately.
"That's another story…" There was a collective grunt of disappointment from all in the cave, which relieved some tension, but not the way they had hoped for.
"Come on guys, we'll get through this, I'm not out of the picture yet," Tai said optimistically.
"Yeah, you're right," Matt said less depressed than before.
"But now we need a plan," Davis brought them back to a good point, this was as far as they had gotten in their planning.
"He has a point," Izzy agreed.
"I'm officially open to suggestions," Tai replied.
"If you don't mind my input, We need to find out exactly what Hades and all of his kind want here," Carbuncle suggested.
"What do you mean, I thought their interest here was disposing of Bahamut?" Izzy asked frantically.
"A cunning distraction indeed, and one that was working quite well might I add. But Alexander believes that it is indeed not what they have come here for."
"Two questions, who is Alexander, and why do we care what he believes? We have to save my brother you know, he's not just a distraction!" Kari scolded. T.K. grabbed her arm and gently squeezed it to calm her.
"You misunderstand. One thing I should have told you all by now is that our leader is Alexander, he is the oldest of the good spectres," Ramuh started.
"Yeah, and one hell of a nice guy," Veemon blurted sarcastically.
"You've met his Davis!" Catherine exclaimed. Davis grunted,
"If you can call having a sword shoved to your throat a meeting, then yes."
"In his defence, you did show a three thousand year old being very little respect," Ifrit replied.
"Enough bickering, You have to think about this logically. If indeed they have come for another reason, what better way to distract the guardians of this realm than by destroying their leader, whilst at the same time taking out one of their most powerful enemies. You see, if this is a distraction, then we are in a lot of trouble, we have absolutely no knowledge of their motivation, and so I think that that is what we must focus on," Ramuh explained.
'Kari, he's right. If the only way to break the spell is to get Hades to reverse it, then we should go with these guys. This way we'll be sure to encounter him sooner or later, and this time from a position of power," Tai said in agreement.
"I suppose you're right, as long as your in no danger now," Kari said reluctantly.
"I assure, he is in no danger. If any changes are happening I will tend to him immediately."
"So, how do we go about finding them?" Matt asked.
"It's not going to be easy, but if they are still here them there will be traces of them somewhere," Ramuh replied.
"Traces, that's it! My laptop, I built a program to trace what must be your ethereal energy," Izzy announced.
"What do you mean?" Ramuh asked.
"Well, it seems that when in our dimension your kind leaves traces of energy behind, I designed a program to read for that energy, and that way we could determine if you had been present in an area."
"That's quite interesting, I suppose that our etheric energy could leave traces," Ramuh replied.
"But the only problem is that I don't have my laptop here," Izzy responded disappointedly.
"We may not need it, perhaps we can sense this energy," Ifrit added.
"Okay, so we figure out where they've been, how do we find out where they are?" Davis asked frustratedly.
"Easy there Davis, if we know where they have been ,we'll be able to find out what they want here, and then where they are now."
"Fine, I suppose you're right, but how do we know where to start looking," Davis retorted.
"It's not going to be easy, maybe we start with the last place we know they were, test out this sensing theory," Izzy suggested.
"That would be the lake where Veemon got hurt, but I didn't sense anything there last time we were there," Ramuh commented.
"But you weren't looking for anything, and besides, Odin was right there," Joe pointed out.
"Yeah, was, till you blasted him into itty bitty, super-fried pieces," Veemon added.
"Ramuh, you got Odin!?" Carbuncle said in astonishment.
"Yeah, toasted 'em good," Ramuh chuckled. The humans and digimon alike were both interested, and a little creeped out by this sudden display of satisfaction from Ramuh.
"Okay, so who's going?" Matt asked.
"I'll go, I can get you there quickly, and I can try sensing for Odin," Ifrit said weakly.
"Ifrit, you're weak, you can't go," Carbuncle said worriedly.
"I have to go, we need to be quick now, and there's no way we can go alone. I can take Davis and Veemon with me."
"Yeah, we can handle it," Davis said confidently.
"and we can watch over him for you too," Veemon added. The duo shone a cheesy grin, standing next to each other confidently.
"they have a point, they are the only ones who can go quickly," T.K. replied.
"Yeah, even these jokers can handle it," Tai added jokingly.
"Okay, but be careful," Carbuncle reluctantly agreed.
"Let's get going then," Veemon suggested. Ifrit slowly stood up, and moved over to Davis and Veemon, Davis took his hand, and Veemon took Davis's.
"Sorry Cat, I have to go alone, Ifrit can't take you," Davis said grudgingly.
"I'm afraid so, Davis is part of me, he is immune to my flame, but you may not be," Ifrit explained.
"I… I understand, you'd best get going," Catherine replied.
"Thank you," Davis let a small grin shine through, gave her one last look, then turned to Ifrit, "Let's go." Ifrit nodded, and his flames burst up, then surrounded them both. In a flash of fire, they were gone from the cave.
"The question now is, what do we do while they're gone?" Joe asked.
"I say we kick back and relax for a while," Mimi suggested.
"As tempting as it may be, we need to think of something more than just find these guys. Like what are we going to do when we find them? Run up and say 'Hey guys, what you up to, mind changing our friend back?" Izzy said sarcastically.
"I was only saying that some of us need to take a break once in a while!" Mimi snapped back, she turned to Matt in a huff.
"You don't have to be like that Izzy, she was only trying to help. Besides, maybe Tai needs to rest, and what about Carbuncle?" Matt said angrily.
"You know I have a mouth, I can speak. Maybe I should tell you what I need, okay?" Tai snapped.
"Come on, I'm only trying to look out for you," Matt replied, having taken full offence.
"And forgive me for trying to save your skin. If both of you would just think for a change then maybe we wouldn't end up in such messes when we run into things head first," Izzy snapped.
"What are you saying, let you lead the operation? We all know I'm the leader, and what happens without me. And right now I say you all shut up!"
"What are you gonna do if I don't?"
"Maybe I should test these horns on you!"
"Shut up already, enough fighting! I can't believe you'd say that Tai!" Sora protested.
"Why, it's his fault I'm like this. Huh, him and his planning, well this wasn't part of his great plan!"
"All of you, be quiet, I feel something," Carbuncle announced.
"And why should we listen to you!?" Tai raged, but stopped soon after. He reeled back, shocked by what he had said, and been saying, "I. . . I don't know why I said that," Tai continued in shock.
"Like I said, I feel something, evil."
"What do you mean?" Joe spoke up, but they were all thinking it.
"It's him, he's here, he's doing this."
"Him?" Sora said confusedly.
"Hades," Tai grunted angrily. Soon a deep chuckle echoed throughout the cave, it's very sound ricocheted deep into their hearts, conjuring fear.
"Hmph, you seem to have found me out, right when my little game was just getting interesting." The voice was deep, and unearthing. The whole group turned to the entrance, and watched as the shadow of a figure dropped down. "You're lucky that woman is so astute, I almost had you killing them all."
"Tai?" Agumon said surely.
"Right, let's show him who he's dealing with," Tai replied. Light erupted in the cave, surrounding Agumon,
"Agumon digivolve to… Greymon!" Greymon barely fit inside the cave, they were fortunate that he was near the entrance and not the rear.
"Nova blast!" Greymon's attack was on target, but unfortunately it went straight through Hades, and exploded onto the beach outside the cave.
"A nice trick, but not exactly effective," Hades laughed again. The group were frustrated by his arrogance, especially because of the fact they knew he was right, and that there was practically nothing they could do. "Well now, how about you watch mine," Hades stepped forward now, but it didn't help them much in making out what he looked like. He was wearing a dark, hooded robe. All they could see were a pair of blood red eyes in the blackness of the head cavity. He slowly revealing his arm from the cloak and extended it, shortening the sleeve and exposing a skeletal arm. Clasped in it's palm was another spine, this one a bright shade of yellow. Ramuh quickly stepped up, readying his staff.
"Now now Ramuh, I'm a visitor, why don't you be polite and stop and listen. Petrification wind," The words echoed through the cave, and soon a fuchsia pink wind blew in the air, it surrounded Ramuh like an aura, he raised his staff at Hades,
"Judgement bo…" The aura seemed to infiltrate into Ramuh's body, and he grunted in pain. His movements slowed, and soon he had stopped completely. The only thing visibly moving was the glowing pink colour that had completely taken over his eyes.
"Oh now Carbuncle, what will you do to stop me?" Hades continued his hoarse laughter. Carbuncle sighed,
"He's right, I'm sorry, but I'm only a white mage, I can't attack him with my magic."
"Now we've got that settled, let's get down to business shall we?" Hades asked rhetorically.
"What do you want?" Tai shouted.
"My my, you'd better watch how you talk, I might have to make you a statue like him over there." Tai backed down. "In answer to your question, I do so hate it when people spoil my fun, and you've done just that. This act of the play was unfolding nicely, till he she spoke up and put an end to my little countermeasures."
"Act, play, These are people lives you're dealing with, not just some story from a book like you!" Sora raged, standing up violently.
"Watch your tongue missy, or I'll cut it off," Hades hissed.
"Sora, not now, we'll get him later," Tai advised.
"A good suggestion, up until the part you get me, for it is I who is about to get you. Oh, I have always been a bad one with words, why don't I show you," Hades gripped the spine between his thumb and index bones/fingers.
"What are you going to do now!?"
"Well, if you're going to stop my spell by, as you put it, coming to terms with the situation, then I'll have to make it so you can't. This little spell is the one that drives you insane, and renders your conscious thoughts useless. You'll be so lost in your insanity there'll be no blocking the spell, and then we all know how it ends. Now, let's get the inevitable over with," Hades glared at Tai, then tossed the spine at him.
"Thunder blast!" Raidramon's words were uttered at the very moment the spine left Hades's hand. The attack passed straight through Hades, and impacted the spine in mid flight. The dust settled from the air, and Hades twisted round violently to see who had caused the disturbance. Davis was mounted on Raidramon at the entrance to he cave, and was staring straight at Hades.
"Ha, a valiant effort, but your attack has failed. Fool, you should know by now these digimon cannot harm us at all!"
"I do. Look again," Davis said confidently. Hades twisted round violently to see that Tai was now standing looking at Hades, and not twisting violently as he had planed.
"Grah! You insolent meddler, you shall be the first to die!" Hades yelled. While Davis was distracting Hades, Carbuncle rushed to Ramuh side, bowed her head, closed her eyes, and placed her index and middle finders on her forehead and concentrated,
"Luminescing reversal," she whispered, lifting her head and opening her eyes. White light beamed though Ramuh in one end, and the pink air exited on his back side.
"Judgement bolt!" Ramuh yelled, the lightning erupted from his staff, and fast approached Hades, but he merely placed his right hand behind him,
"Sentinel shield," A translucent shield emerged and the lightning seemed to be absorbed by it.
"Old fool! I'll kill you where you stand," Hades turned to face Ramuh.
"Meteor strike!" A flaming demi-meteor entered the cave and hit Hades directly in the back, he fell hands first to the floor.
"Grah! You're prepared this time, but I won't give up, Bahamut will be ours again," Hades grunted. He raised his left hand, and twirled it round twice, smoke appeared, and surrounded him, within seconds he was gone.
Silence ensued in the cave as the smoke settled, the light surrounded Greymon, and he dedigivolved back to Agumon. He and Sora both rushed to Tai's side, while Davis leapt from Raidramon's back and made his way to Catherine. Ifrit now entered the cave, and Raidramon dedigivolved down to Veemon then he joined Davis.
"Tai, are you alright?" Sora asked, fearful for Tai's life. Tai himself was rather unnerved, and had to take a grasp on the situation for a moment.
"Yeah," He said slowly, "Thanks to Davis and Veemon."
"You guys sure did pick the right time to show up," Matt added.
"We were on our way back and saw Greymon's nova blast hit, so we knew there was trouble," Davis began explaining.
"Ramuh, I am sorry I did not finish him," Ifrit said apologetically, he sounded very sombre, as if he had failed in some way, and in his heart it was what he felt.
"Come now, you save us all, there is nothing to be sorry about," Ramuh replied, his voice was full of gratitude and pride.
"Carbuncle, are you alright?" Ifrit said worriedly, he went to her side, and placed his hand on her shoulder.
"I'm fine."
"Good, I couldn't live with myself if I'd let him do anything to you."
"Tai, I'm sorry that I couldn't protect you, I'm the one that failed," Agumon said depressingly, looking up to Tai.
"You did everything you could," Tai replied, kneeling down to his digimon.
"Yeah, it was your shot that tipped us off, if you hadn't done that we probably would have just wandered in to his trap," Veemon said cheerfully.
"Maybe, but still, there was nothing that I could do, we can't even hit them."
"Do what I did, Hades thought he had it all covered, nothing could hit the spine 'coz he was standing in the way, but I knew my attack would go right through him. So just try and use the disability to your advantage."
"I suppose you're right."
"Of course I am."
"Well it seems that everyone is okay," Izzy said, feeling he should initiate the planning session as their position was now exposed. "There are two main issues raised here. One: How did Hades find us, and two: did our sensing theory prove true?"
"I think that both your questions are answered with the same resolution. I could still sense Odin's energy, albeit weakly. Perhaps Hades has found a way to use this as a tracer, as one would hunt an animal by catching it's scent," Ifrit replied.
"If that is indeed the case, then I think we are in some trouble," Izzy responded fearfully.
"I am not too sure. If he can track us, then it would be quite a feat for him to accomplish. I think that he would have to be in a relatively close proximity to us to catch onto our 'scent'."
"Well, Then why was he near by. Perhaps our theory that this is indeed a distraction is proved true. The question now is, what are they after."
"Perhaps I can answer that," The voice was familiar to all of the humans and digimon, it was Gennai's.
"Gennai?" Izzy said confusedly. Gennai slowly strolled into the cave.
"It's good to see you all again, all of you," He said smiling. He was his younger self, and grinning profusely.
"I, I though you were dead!?" Ramuh exclaimed.
"You know Gennai!" The group said in shock.
"Of course I know Gennai, he's practically my brother."
"Then that means Gennai is a spectre," Izzy deduced.
"Astute as always, but not entirely true. Come now, all of you, we must travel to my house on server, they won't be able to detect us there."
"But how would we get there?" Tai asked.
"Hey, you're the one with the wings," Izzy said jokingly.
"No my boy, I wouldn't expect you to fly all the way to server. Step out side, onto the projector pad" One by one they exited the cave, and stepped onto the pad. Sure enough as soon as they stepped onto it they were transported to the lounge room of Gennai's house.
Once they were all inside Gennai deactivated the teleportation pad.
"So Gennai, why couldn't we have done that way back when you first asked us to come here?" Izzy asked.
"You had many things to learn on the way, The digidestined can't just take shortcuts all the time, but I'm afraid now there just is not time."
"So, I'm just curious now, could you please tell us all what exactly is going on here, how the heck do you know Ramuh, how do you know about any of this. I thought you said you were digital, just without attributes," Izzy asked frantically.
"Calm down son, I'll tell you all everything," Gennai said soothingly. They group sat on the floor, and eagerly awaited an explanation from their old friend.
"I am, as you can all guess, a spectre. Should I say, I was a spectre. It was a long time ago, well into the beginning of the spectre war. We discovered a rift into the dimensions, rather, that we had managed to create such a rift. It was decided that we should travel through the rift and defend the world on the other side, if the evil spectres found it and destroyed that dimension, then it was uncertain how it would affect ours. I volunteered for the job. It was not easy for me, I had to leave all of my allies behind, including Ramuh, we had grown to be good friends. When arriving here, the rift was closed, and I began living here as best I could. Complications arose, as I did not belong here, and the digital world's defences were activating. I went about disposing of my spectre powers, but it's hard to say how exactly this happened. It was a combination of exposure to the digital world, the digital world's defences, and my own willingness to become digital. After much time, the transferral was complete, I was as I am now. this is why I have no attributes. I didn't tell you all this, because, well, I didn't need to complicate things further, or endanger my dimension. I just continued my job of protecting this place."
"So you really haven't lied to us then," Tai concluded.
"No, But I must ask of you a favour, please help my kind in defeating our enemies. I understand that you do not have to do this, and I am leaving it up to you, but tell me now."
"Gennai, easy, we already agreed that we would defeat them," Davis announced.
"Yeah, we have to defend the digital world, and our own," Kari added.
"Excellent, then I have something to give to you all," Gennai stood up and left the room.
"Um, guys, not that I have a problem with it, but when did 'we' decide all this?" Tai asked curiously.
"Um, kinda on the way to see Mr Takenouchi." Davis replied sheepishly.
"And we're all agreed that this is the right thing to do?" Tai now posed the question to the group. The children all replied positively. "And you guys are up to it," Tai now spoke to the digimon, who responded in the same way the humans had. "Good."
"Here, this will be vital to you all, and may help to tip the scaled in our favour," Gennai announced upon re-entry to the room. He walked over to all of the kids and handed them each a coloured stone, and as he did he explained what each was. "Davis, yours is a topaz, Kari, yours is a diamond, T.K. yours is a pumice, Sora yours is a ruby, Matt you have a sapphire, Mimi yours is a moonstone, Izzy you have an amethyst, and Joe yours is an aquamarine."
(A\N: Of course all the FF9 buffs can now have a very good guess at who is related to what spectre, and yes, every digidestined has a spectre relation as you had probably guessed. Note that I did change some stones, so don't be too confident. I'll get to that later in the chapter, so don't fret too much ~_^)
"What are these, aren't they a little girlie?" Davis asked, he sounded a little disgruntled.
"I know this, it's like the ring you gave me Matt," Mimi said happily looking down at the ring on her finger.
"Each of those stones have a power dwelling inside them, and this will give your digimon the ability to fight the spectres, as long as you hold them close, and keep true to your crests."
"But how come I don't have one?" Tai asked disappointedly.
"Oh, Tai, you situation is different, you can already make contact with the spectres."
"But I can't!" Agumon said desperately.
"Come and see me later, I must speak with you alone, for now you should all rest. That includes you too Ramuh, we can talk later."
"Fine…" Tai and Agumon mumbled. They group made themselves comfortable, and began to get some rest. Davis carefully watched as one by one they drifted off to sleep, including Catherine. He slipped out of her grip, and snuck out of the room. Once in the corridor he walked more confidently, not knowing that Veemon was close behind.
[Look, this next bit is experimental, I don't know if I should include it or not, coz it means that I totally whack out the events of the show. Basically it's delving into some of the issues of my series two. Seeing as cody, ken, and yolei don't exist in this timeline, most of season two just couldn't have happened. I've purposely been really careful with all this stuff, but if I do this it mean that I have to rehash a lot of season two. I need an honest opinion here, I can just forget it.]
"So where are we going?" Veemon whispered grinning, Davis sprung round in shock, relieved to see that it was only Veemon grinning back.
"We weren't suppose to be going anywhere. I'm need to talk to Gennai, there are some questions I need answered. I suppose you can tag along." They entered Gennai's quarters, Davis knocked on the door to alert him of their presence.
"Oh, Davis, can I help you?" Gennai asked concerned, wondering what had brought his there.
"I, I have to ask you some things."
"Please, I'm happy to help."
"Why was I chosen, why am I here. I've been thinking lately, why do I belong as a digidestined. I don't have a crest, I didn't join up with the others, and I wasn't even supposed to go to summer camp. Plus I have a D-3 digivice. I was just wondering why."
"Before I answer you, I must ask you if this is really how you feel, do you really think you don't belong?"
"Well, I guess no. They all treat me as a member of the group, and I do want to help. I just wanted to know why everything is different for me."
"Good. When we examined the eight others at Highton View Terrace we found that they had something special about them no other humans had, or so we thought. Each other them had a digimon species chosen, one that naturally matched each human, and with the help of the digivices and crests we tailored and bonded them to each human specifically. When the battle with Myotismon came, all the humans in the world found out about digimon, and the digital world, and this was not a good thing. But it just so happened that when Apocalymon was destroyed, and the digital world reformatted, it had effects on your world too, and all the humans seemed to just forget, and make up their own series of events, but the digidestined had that special quality, and did not forget. But then there was you, you haven't forgotten have you?"
"No, I can remember how scared I was, we all were."
"This was troubling for us, we took the liberties to examine you, and found that you too had that special quality. So too you were chosen. There was no need to actually call you until venom Myotismon surfaced and created Arukenimon and Mummymon to plant to control spires to help him reformat, and keep the others from digivolving. It was your time to come, we called you, and led you to the digiegg of courage. Myotismon did not know such an ancient device existed, and so we knew that you could use it to make a digimon armour evolve. But we did not know which one was for you. When you lifted it and Veemon appeared, we found that you were natural partners, just like Tai and the Agumon species were natural partners. But you seemed to form the relationship and bond the others had to their digimon with out the help of a crest and digivice being attached to them during their egg stage. We were proved right, and with your help the control spired began falling, and soon even the other digidestined could digivolve to help rid the world of their presence. You know the rest of the story."
"Huh, Ifrit said the same thing, but he said Veemon and I shared the same piece of a soul or something."
"Interesting, but I suppose that would be true. That may be true for all of you. There is only one Veemon, we didn't even know such a digimon existed, that is, until you found him. But when we created, for example, Tai's Agumon, we used the information collected on him, and tailored a digivice for him, the hooked them up to Agumon's digiegg, his life force was probably used to give that Agumon life. This is of course pure speculation, but judging by how well you all get on with your partners I wouldn't be surprised. In any case, I hope I have answered your question well enough."
"Yeah, But can I ask you one more thing?"
"Alright."
"Why is it Catherine can travel to the digital world? I thought that only digidestined could get past the barrier that protects it."
"That was another unexpected scenario, you seem to be full of them," Gennai chuckled, Davis smiled slightly. "In any case, the digital world's barrier is opened by the digivices, but then the powers that protect this world analyse those that wish to be transported. It seems that your bond with Catherine is strong enough, that it treats you as one entity, basically your life force is masking hers. So even though she isn't a digidestined, and doesn't have a digimon, your wish for her to travel with you allows her to do so."
(A\N Sorry guys, I didn't really like the way that every person got a partner, and I set out from the beginning that Catherine was not a new digidestined, so she's not going to get a partner. I know this is disappointing to some, but it just wouldn't feel right to me if she had a partner. Besides, I have enough trouble including nine of them, I can't be adding to my troubles ~_^.)
"That's kinda cool, thanks Gennai."
"It is my pleasure. But what about you Veemon, any questions?"
"Well, it's just that you mentioned the crests, and I have been wondering this for a while. Because Davis doesn't really have a crest, I mean, the digieggs allow me to armour evolve, and I have the power of a champion, but what I want to know is so I even have an ultimate form?" Veemon was incredible nervous asking the question, and insecure that he had to admit that he had a weakness, almost like he was a defect digimon.
"Buddy, I didn't know you were so worried about this, you should have told me," Davis said worriedly, he knelt down to Veemon.
"I didn't want to embarrass you, make you think I was defective or something."
"Come now, don't talk like that. All digimon have an ultimate, and a mega form for that matter, it just so happens that you haven't had the power to do so yet. It takes a lot of energy to digivolve into an ultimate, that is why the crests were necessary, they harnessed the power of the attribute they represented, and gave that power to the digimon. But they were really only necessary because those were young digimon. Think about it, not all digimon have partner humans, and there are lots of ultimates walking around, it happens naturally too, but it takes time."
"But I'm young too."
"True, you haven't been out from under that digiegg for long, but your energy was trapped there for a good long time, so you just need to spent time, and when the need arrises you'll digivolve for sure."
"Really, are you sure?"
"One hundred percent."
"That's great, so what am I going to become?" Veemon asked excitedly.
"Now now, calm down. I cannot tell you that, it is best for you to find out for yourself. Look deep down inside, and you'll find the answer."
"Wow thanks!"
"Yeah, that's great to know, we'd better get some sleep though." Gennai nodded, and the two returned to the others and went to sleep. Both Veemon and Davis had troubles, excited to imagine what Veemon would become next.
The next morning brought undignifying awakening by Gennai.
"What is it now?!" Tai grunted.
"This is no time for you to be sleeping, I've left it late enough," Gennai replied urgently.
"Fine fine, just give us a minute," Matt responded disgruntled at the rude awakening. Slowly but surely everyone roused and sat up straight.
"Now, I have some important news to discuss with you all."
"More important news, what else can there be?" Joe asked in distain.
"The evil spectres are closing in on this location, I fear that they may find me, so it is time that I told you all why they are here."
"Whoa, really! You have to tell us now," Tai practically yelled.
"Easy. They have come in search of one thing, the ark."
"What, like Noah's ark?" Davis asked.
"Not at all. The ark is an immensely powerful item, and in the wrong hands it could be used for the ultimate destruction."
"Why must these thing always bring ultimate destruction, who makes them anyway?" Joe asked going off on his own tangent.
"I don't care where it's from, what does it do, and where is it now!" Izzy asked.
"It's use is decided by the holder, it can do many things. One thing is that it has the ability to increase a spectres power ten fold."
"Geez, if we could get that thing then we could use it for ourselves, we could win!" Davis said excitedly.
"No! You'll do nothing of the sort,, do you want to get yourself killed!" Gennai exclaimed. Davis backed down, "Sorry. But you must understand the nature of this device is evil. The evil ones found it in our dimension, and were going to use it to destroy our realm. We managed to reclaim it. When I volunteered to come here and shut the rift permanently it was decided there would be no better place for it, so I brought it with me. That is the reason I protect this world so vigilantly. Now, we cannot use it for ourselves, because that is considered greed, for the purposes of war, two evil intentions, and hence, the power is tainted with evil."
"So tell me, does the ark have any good uses?" Izzy asked inquisitively.
"Indeed, it created the moonstone you are holding."
"That's another thing. We know that Tai and Bahamut are related, and Davis and Ifrit are related. But seeing as you gave us all stones, do we all have spectre relations?" Sora asked.
"You most certainly do. When I learned of the digidestined, and all their attributes, I began to note similarities to our own world. You see, I found that there were so many similarities, that you were actually very well linked between the dimensions, much like you are to your digimon. When Malomyotismon appeared, and the balance between the worlds was so distorted, and rift appeared, I feared that the time that spectres would come here may come, so I went about creating the stones you now hold. I took simple objects from the real world, digitised them when I brought them here, and exposed them to the ark for a period of time. Hence I combined the three dimensions, but I didn't know how to tell which one of you would get which stone. But it seemed to happen naturally, when I examined them after the exposure to the ark, I found that they had take on a spectre's attribute, and the choice was now easy."
"So can you please tell us who we all have, I just have to know?" Mimi asked anxiously.
"Well, I have a surprise for you Mimi, you've already met yours, I believe you know Carbuncle."
"Carbuncle!" Mimi screamed.
"What is it, am I not to your liking?" Carbuncle said depressingly.
"No, you're amazing, I'm just so shocked."
"What about the rest of us?" Izzy asked excitedly.
"Well, I can only give you their names, it has been too long for me to give accurate descriptions Izzy, your relation is called Ixion. Matt has Fenrir, Sora, your is Phoenix, T.K., yours is Madeen, Kari has Valefor, and Joe, your's is Leviathan."
(A\N Told ya I would, hope you like my choices!).
"This is all so weird," Matt said sombrely.
"Gennai, I have to ask, I know I was supposed to see you last night, but don't I get a stone?" Tai asked.
"Tai, you must come with me, you too Agumon, this must take place alone." Gennai exited the room, and led the two into a separate room. It was walled in stone, and was dark, they couldn't make much out.
"Tai, if you truly want to help in the battle, it will be a great strain and responsibility on both you, and Agumon, are you sure you want this?" Gennai said seriously.
"I'm ready for it!" Tai said assertively.
"Yeah, me too, we can do anything if we work together," Agumon added.
"Than I will give you this." Tai couldn't see what Gennai was doing, but he heard metal scraping on stone, "Extend your hands." Tai did so and felt something cold on them. Slowly a small red glow radiated from the object. As more and more light became visible Tai could seen make out that what he held was a sword. It's blade was sharp, he could feel it beginning to pierce his left hand. In the base of the blade was a red stone, this was the source of the light. "Take it, hold it firmly in your hand." Tai slowly gripped the handle with his right hand. As he did the light intensified more, soon it was blinding.
"Wha.. what is this?" Tai asked in amazement.
"That is called Alestor, it has served me well, and shall do for you."
"But, why a sword?"
"When I heard of your predicament, I knew that you life was in direct danger. I took the garnet embedded it in the blade, then exposed it to a high intensity ray of the ark. It's power is immense. But you must understand, you are bound to his blade, it can be wielded only by you. But there is a down side, if the blade is corrupted by evil, so are you, so guard it well. But remember that there is more than one way to taint it with evil, this is going to test your judgement too, use it appropriately and you'll be fine, use it for wrong, and you shall be lost to evil."
"Uh, okay?" Tai said unsurely.
"Don't worry, I know you'll do fine, I trust you. Trust in yourself, and you'll be fine."
Okay people, I know I'm just a little bit late with this. Should I say, I'm very late, very very late, and I'm really really sorry. First some Christmas and New year stuff came up, and I got really demotivated, and kinda depressed, just didn't feel like doing anything at all. But after a while I decided I would force myself to feel better, so I wrote, and got it done. Updates will be back to the two week basis, probably sooner whilst I am on holiday, but no guarantees. Think of it this way, we're into the final phase of the story, yes, the end is in sight. And you all finally found out the partnerships the DD's have, which I really hope you're all happy with. I also hope it all made sense!! Thanks for reading.
