Of Tarnished Dragons and Golden Angels
By Dickie
Disclaimer: I do not own anything in the digimon card game or anime.
Author notes: Hmm... The last chapter got a better response than I had expected, despite its brevity in comparison to the first chapter. Once again, thanks to all who reviewed and to the two who helped me develop the Demon Scorcher. =P
Oh yeah and to Ran. Heh. The grabs were influenced by Kyo and Iori's grab, choke/slam and explosion of flames. And I never really noticed that Kari's giant pink ball was similar to Athenas Psychoball. And I think you mean 'Wild Bite' instead of 'Wicked Chew'...
'Thoughts'
"Speech"
Somewhere within the Digital World, far from the prying eyes of Azulongmon and his followers of light, a realm of darkness existed.
The Dark Ocean.
A world a total opposite to the world of light. The shadows ruled this realm, with any traces of light near non existant. Within the shadowy depths of the inky waters was large dome structure, crafted from what seemed like solid darkness, radiating an unearthly feeling of negativity. Inside the domed building, various rooms were found, filled with different types of Digimon, ranging from Rookie level to Ultimate, all plotting their own intentions for what lay ahead in time.
Deep into the heart of the structure was the largest room, filled with various screens set into the walls, used for observing the world outside the Dark Ocean. Sickenly sweet screens of baby Digimon at Primary Village unnerving even some of the most hardened Digimon with the Dark Ocean, the desert wastelands of Server, and what was once Devimon's domain, File Island. In the centre of the room was a round console of sorts, with a black pool of water that seemed to give off an especially dark vibe, with various cables and wires leading off from it. At the back of the room hidden in the shadows was Dagomon, the ruler of the Dark Ocean. As the giant Digimon sat motionless in the thick shadow, the piercing glow of his red eyes being the only thing that made him visible, a smaller Digimon approached him with careful steps.
Dagomon was of only Ultimate level himself, but he knew how to draw on the power of the Dark Ocean, which was what lead him to triumph over Daemon when he arrived into the Dark Ocean courtesy of the Digidestined. Daemon had immediately assumed leadership of the Dark Ocean, much to Dagomons annoyance. Of course, Dagomon did not escape unscathed from his battle with Daemon over rulership in the Dark Ocean. A vicious battle took place, the small part of landscape of the Dark Ocean pock marked with several craters, and a near bottomless ravine carved into the ocean, with swirling black water pouring into it.
Hidden in the shadows were a variety of cables and wires, all connected up to Dagomon. His life support. The wires collected the fading data from Dagomon and channeled them through to the console in the centre of the room and then lead back and re-loaded into Dagomon. A slow process of healing, but the only process available to them.
"Umm... M-Master..."
"What," The harsh voice questioned, his glowing red eyes now directed towards the rookie.
"I th-think we discovered t-the c-candidate..."
"Show me."
"Y-yes sir."
Immediately complying with his masters request, the small Digimon turned around and snapped its fingers, other rookie level Digimon taking it as the order to input a few commands into various other systems. After a bit of rumbling, the surface of the water on the centre console flashed over, and a small object arose from within the black water. The source of the Dark Oceans power and Dagomons health.
The Digiegg of Darkness.
After a few moments, it emitted an odd glow before suddenly engulfing the room in a blinding flash, much to the annoyance of Dagomon. When the flash disappated, the Digiegg was projecting an image of nude human female above the central console.
"I take it that this is the candidate for the Digiegg of Darkness." The harsh gravelly voice rumbled, as its sharp glowing eyes remained focused ahead of it. Dagomons glowing red eyes had caught sight of something on the projection and demanded his servant to enlarge the projection. After another few beeps, the thing that had made the design clear was obvious. On the small of her back, just above her seemingly flawless rear-end was some Japanese symbols. Dagomon read the symbols clearly, the rest of the Digimon being rather ignorant. "The Demon Scorcher... interesting."
After Dagomons inspection, the holographic image was reduced back to its original size, a life size holographic image of a human female about 15 or 16 years old at a relatively normal height for most girls her age, her body obviously maturing into a gorgeous young lady. She had long jet black hair, with honey brown highlights framed around her face. Through the stray bangs of hair were a pair of sharp green eyes, the hair over her eyes adding a seemingly mysterious feel to her pretty face. Upon her chest were a pair of firm breasts or average size. Her smooth flat stomach flowed into a slim waist and curvy hips, leading into long elegant legs. Her slender, naked form was rotating at a slow revolution, her more intimate details hidden within an eerie purple and black glow.
"But sir, there are also other complications..."
The larger demon beast Digimon emitted a thunderous rumble. "Such as?"
"We've also found that there is another possible candidate..." The smaller Digimon winced as he delivered the news, fearing his masters wrath would be taken out upon his lowly rookie level.
"The other candidate master..."
Before the Digimon could announce what could possibly could've lead to its deletion, the dark Digiegg projected yet another image from its storage unit. This time a young male, nude aswell and about the same age as the girl. He had bluish, black hair about shoulder length, in a rather feminine hair style. His clear blue eyes were once filled with the negative emotions that the realm thrived on, but now shone with kindness that he had almost lost once. His form had a slight definition of lean muscle, all encased within lightly tanned skin, was also bathed in a purple and black glow.
"The Digimon Emperor..."
A teenage girl sat in her acquired seat, outside the room filled with quite possibly the most well known and respected Digidestined in the world. Two of those Digidestined, were confined to bed, although one was suffering from severe exhaustion more than anything. The attack had happened yesterday, with the media calling it the 'Digital Rift', with bits and pieces of information about the past of the Odaiba Digidestined leaking out, through sources unknown. Most likely people from their school. She was contacted by one of the Digidestined earlier in the morning and asked to come over to the hospital. She had left her number with the girls older brother, just in case something came up. And something did come up.
'Aww man... what the hell happened to those guys...?'
She had witnessed the events first hand, shocked at the sheer brutality of the first attacks and his total disregard for them afterwards. It was safe to say that she didn't sleep well that night. Most people considered knowing one of the Odaiba Destined an honour, but the person whom she found was called Davis considered those two in bed practically scum, and wanted nothing to do with them. And when he was finished he just left. Not caring, not anything.
'He was so cold... so empty...but...why?',
Her thoughts were interrupted by a female voice. She glanced sideways and found herself talking to another of the Odaiba Digidestined.
"Hey, you're the one who helped Kari and T.K. right?"
"Uh, yeah thats me."
"Umm, can I ask what your name is?"
"Yeah, its Shura. Shura Oniyaki."
She smiled dimly. "I'm Sora Takenouchi. Do you mind coming in? We'd like to know what happened, and from what Kari has managed to tell us you were with Davis yesterday."
"Davis? You mean the guy who took down that other guy and chick?" Sora nodded. "I'm assuming Kari is the chick and T.K. the guy?"
"Yeah..." Shura could tell Sora was finding it hard to believe that one of the very same people responsible for help save both the real world and the Digital World was capable of such actions.
"Lead the way."
Sora nodded again and then turned on her heel and entered the room behind her. Shura followed behind slowly, knowing that she would most certainly feel awkward and out of place in the room. As Shura entered the room, she noticed the looks of confusion and despair on the faces of the Digidestined. Glancing over towards the bed she noticed Kari sitting up in bed, just finishing off what had been served for breakfast there at the hospital. She glanced over at Shura with a dim smile upon her face. T.K. was still unconscious, lying in his bed. Shura looked around the room at the various Digidestined of Odaiba. The ones who lead the rest of the Digidestined of the world to defeat Malomyotismon. Everyone else had barely noticed her arrival into the room. Frowning slightly at their ignorance, Sora announced Shuras presence in a clear audible voice.
"Guys, this is Shura."
Tai looked up at the newcomer noted her appearance then looked back down. She was dressed in casual clothing, a pair of casual jeans, a little low slung considering the weather was hugging her hips and thighs and flaring towards the bottom, a pair of grey and red sneakers, a light blue and white jacket with the sleeves rolled up halfway, again ignoring the current state of weather and a thick black scarf wrapped around her neck.
Frowning once more, Sora began to introduce each member of the Digidestined.
"The one with the glasses is Joe, and the person next to him is Mimi." Both members greeted Shura.
"Thats Izzy with the laptop, and Cody sitting next him." Cody, remembering his manners greeted Shura whereas Izzy gave her a halfhearted "Hello," still focusing on his laptop.
"Thats Yolei and Ken-"
"'The Rocket' Ichijouji." Shura finished. Ken smiled at the mention of his old soccer nickname. "Just Ken 'll be fine."
"You already know who T.K. and Kari are." Shura nodded. "Those two are their older brothers, Matt and Tai."
Tai replied with a dismissive grunt, whereas Matt just ignored her completely. "Well, I guess that's everyone," said Sora.
"I guess you were the one with Davis," said Tai, shifting his attention from the pair of goggles in his hands. Worn by the same person who idolised him. They were so similar in some aspects, like their love for soccer and their natural ability to lead. But they were also very different in other aspects. The ability to make friends was an obvious one. Tai wasn't exactly the type who could make friends with anyone but he'd be willing to help out in what ways he could. A leader not only has to lead, but he also has to watch out for the ones he leads, and Davis did his best with that. A valuable lesson he learnt in the Digital World. But Tai at least had a group of friends who he could count on. He thought Davis did too, but he found that it was not the case. He still remembered Davis' words from his depature letter.
***...I've tried endlessly, to earn your respect but all it gained me was just more ridicule, rumours and scorn... But its just not worth it. I doubt my presence will be missed...***
"Well, then what happened?" Matt saw no point in bullshitting around and wanted Shura to get straight into it. He was always like this when it regarded the well being of his younger brother Takeru.
"You were with Davis yesterday. What happened?"
"Ok, ok jeese," said Shura, slightly annoyed at the blonde guys attitude.
"Don't mind Matt. He's just a little cranky."
"Just get on with it."
"Fine," huffed Shura. She paused momentarily to gather her thoughts. "I met Davis yesterday while I was working at the Burger Parlour a few blocks down from here. When he walked in, I sorta felt something different about him... like he was something special."
"Pff. You have no idea..." muttered Matt.
"Will you shut up and let me continue?" said Shura, glaring at Matt. Matt met her sharp green eyes with an icy blue stare of his own. After a few moments with neither side backing down, Matt finally averted his gaze and muttered, "Fine."
"Anyways, when Davis walked into the Parlour, I felt something special about him, and after getting fired for which he was indirectly responsible for, I decided to take off after him. Y'know, like a follow up to what I sensed about him. I didn't have any idea how 'special' he was until he met Kari and T.K.. It was then his seemingly calm and quiet aura about him suddenly went into overdrive when he met those two.
"Aura? What the hell are you on about? This ain't Dragonball Z."
Shura rolled her eyes, as the Matt interrupted once more. With a sigh, she decided to elaborate on what she had said. "Everyone has an aura. Y'know, a feeling about them that tells you what kind of person they are... well, to some extent."
She pointed at Tai. "He seems pretty confident, like a natural leader although something might be bugging him."
Jerking her head over to Kari, she spoke some more. "She seems like a kind enough person, willing to do alot for her friends... although something feels off..." she trailed off.
Matt snorted. "Pff. You could've gotten that out of any one of those damned magazines out there while you were waiting. There were those stupid articles written about us a couple years back."
Shura's expression darkened, and stormed over to Matt, her emerald eyes now holding some sort of ferocity within them, and looked straight into his cold blue eyes. "If I remember correctly, your mother wrote some of those stupid articles. And anyway, from what I can tell about your weak aura, you appear to be a distant and aloof asshole, but I can damn well tell you are fiercely protective of your little brother considering how damn annoying and impatient you've been you irritable, annoying son of a bitch!!"
Matt's expression was still creased with a glare of his own, directed at Shura. 'Uh oh,' thought the rest of the Digidestined. Matt was known to have quite an edge to insults, and could even reduce a ranting and raving Yolei to tears. Having grown up with a number of often annoying older siblings, Yolei was quite adept at slinging insults, which Davis was quite familiar with that particular apsect of Yolei. But her siblings were never as harsh as Matt.
The observing Digidestined were a little surprised when they a small smirk form on Matt's face as he still locked eyes with Shura. "Heh heh. I guess we can believe you..."
He sat back, seemingly satisfied that he could believe Shura and her story. "Go on," he said with a wave of his hand, settling in for the rest of the tale.
"As I was saying," said Shura, still a little ticked off but alot calmer, "He told Kari, to be blunt about it, to 'fuck off'. I repeat, 'fuck off'."
"Then what?" asked Tai. By now, all the Digidestined were listening quite intently.
"He said the same to T.K. and left. Or at least tried to, cause then Kari ran after him and thats when the shit hit the fan."
"Davish, Davish wake up!!"
The tiny blue dragon Digimon bounced up and down on his sleeping partner, waking him from his sleep. Groaning, Davis sat up in his bed, shifting the sheets off him and smothering Demiveemon.
"Shit, Demiveemon what time is it?"
"What's shit Davish?" replied Demiveemon, making his way out from underneath the thick blankets placed onto him.
"Huh? Argh... forget it Demiveemon, just tell me what time it is."
"It'sh almost 10 o'clock Davish!!"
"Ugh. Get out of here Demiveemon and go annoy Jun while I get dressed."
"Okie Davish." The energetic blue ball bounced out of the room singing his new found word along the way.
"Shit, shit shitty shit..."
Shaking his head in disbelief, Davis shut the door to his room and began to try making his bed. After a while, he decided that his bed making skills weren't getting any better with each failed attempt so he left it as it was and went off to find something to wear. He found a pair of relatively clean, dark blue pants, a grey long sleeved t-shirt and pulled them on over his boxers and singlet. After finding some clean socks, he put them on as well and went off into the kitchen in search of something to eat.
Jun noticed her younger brother strolling into the kitchen, still rubbing the sleep from his eyes.
"Morning Davis."
He grunted in reply.
"Pigs grunt Davis. People don't."
Davis let a wicked smirk creep upon his face. "Heh. What about all that grunting I heard when you were in the shower last night eh Jun? Showering with pigs yourself?"
Jun face flushed red as she scowled. She had *tried* to be quiet, and had woken up this morning in a particulary good mood, whether her nimble finger play the night before was responsible for it or not, and she was not about to let Davis spoil it for her. She watched Davis pull out a bowl from inside the cupboard and placed it on the kitchen counter before filling it with some sort of sugar loaded cereal.
"Mom and Dad are out for the day so I figured we could go Christmas shopping *little* brother." Jun smiled sweetly.
"Whatever Jun," Davis replied, from inside the fridge. He emerged with a bottle of milk in his hand and walked over to his bowl of cereal. "I have better things to do then be dragged around by you."
"Aww c'mon Dai, we hardly ever spend time together any more."
"Ever stopped to think there was a reason for that?" said Davis, making his way over to the couch with his bowl in hand to catch the last of the morning cartoons. "You couldn't stand me when we were younger. I don't think you were ever nice to be unless you got something in return. What's with the sudden change?"
"Please Dai..." Jun drawled out, reverting to the 'cutesy' voice that all females seemed to possess. Davis muttered to himself about whiny older sisters and the confusing nature of the opposite sex.
"If I agree will it get you off my back while I watch the rest of Batman?" growled Davis, tired of her incessant whining.
"Yep." grinned Jun.
"Fine," said Davis reluctantly agreeing. He just wasn't in the mood for her hassling and truth be told, he didn't actually have anything to do other than stay inside and muck around with Demiveemon. Speaking of Demiveemon, he heard the Digimons brand new song, consisting soley of a single word and slight variations as he entered the room.
"Shit shit shitty shitty shit shit..."
As the small blue creature caught sight upon his partner, he immediately greeted him in an impossibly cheerful tone. "Hi Davish!" Demiveemon waddled over to Davis and hopped over and picked himself one of the sugar loaded pieces of cereal from Davis's bowl.
"Nice song Demiveemon. Did Davis teach you that?"
"No I didn't," grumbled Davis through a mouth full of cereal, scowling at Demiveemon. The small blue creature had gotten into Jun's stash of candy and chocolate and then waltzing into the room in the middle of Pulp Fiction. The result being a sticky, chocolate smeared blue ball literally bouncing around the house, singing the word 'Fuck' at the top of his lungs.
"Yeah sure Davis, like I'd believe that."
"I think I heard it off Shouth Park," said Demiveemon, not particularly liking the way his human partner was looking at him. Before Jun could say anything, there was a swift and brief rapping on the door to their family apartment.
"Oh yeah Davis, I almost forgot to tell you," said Jun, just before opening the door.
"Jasmine is coming too!!"
The door opened to reveal a cute face with a slightly up turned nose, lush pink lips and sparkly blue eyes with light blue flecks. She was wearing a white turtleneck, with a red and white jacket over the top with both items being a size too small, with the jacket zipped up halfway, as well as a denim skirt reaching just below her knees with a split reaching half way up her thigh for ease of movement. She also had black stockings on, and a pair of pristine white sneakers, and wrapped around her neck was a red and gold scarf. Her honey gold hair cascaded freely behind her, reaching just above her bum, and was topped off with a small little wollen hat.
She spun around once and presented herself, "Ta da hun!!"
"Hey Jazz, you look great!!"
"Thanks hun, you don't look too bad yourself!!" Jasmine adjusted her skirt as she stood there. "It's just that this dress is just a little tight around the butt, y'know what I mean?"
Davis arched an eyebrow at that last remark, and glanced back from his position on the couch to see Jasmine showing the 'tight' area around her butt, with Jun looking on with a careful expression. He stifled an idignant snort.
'Yeah right, I'm sure it's tight around there so you can show off your ass,' he thought, 'Which ain't too bad...'
Glancing back, he noticed Demiveemon had already managed to consume half of his breakfast in the short time he was distracted.
"Jeese Demiveemon," groaned Davis as he picked him up by the scruff of his neck and plopped him onto the floor. "There's more cereal in the cupboard, so you can stop eating mine."
"Alright!!" he cheered as he bolted off towards the kitchen, past the two amused females.
"Oi Dai, this is Jasmine. You remember her right?"
Another grunt was his reply.
"Don't worry bout him, he's in a grunting phase."
"Aww ok."
"And don't you say anything about last night." Jun snapped before Davis could make his reply.
"Go and take a seat in the living room, I still gotta finish off making my coffee."
Nodding, Jasmine removed her shoes and padded into living room, a sweet citrus scent wafting behind her and took up a seat next to Davis. His gaze remained focused on the tv screen.
"Ya want anything?" Jun called from the kitchen.
Jasmine called back. "Nah, I'm fine, I had my breakfast before I came over."
Both Davis and Jasmine sat in silence while watching TV, until Jun came over, her cup of coffee in hand, finding herself a seat within one of the single seats.
"Hurry up Dai, we want to get going soon."
Groaning, Davis got up from his seat and placed his bowl into the kitchen sink, and dissappeared into the still dark hallway.
"Wow Jun, that brother of yours has gotten pretty cute," giggled Jasmine as she watched him walk off. Jun laughed along with her. "Don't let him hear that though, or else he'll be scowling all day."
"Hear what?"
Both girls straightened up as they saw Davis standing in the hallway, a toothbrush in his mouth and an arched eyebrow upon his face. "Don't worry, just hurry up and get ready." Jun waved her hand at him with a dismissive motion. Muttering to himself about the apparent dodginess of chicks, Davis dissappeared back into the hallway.
Ten minutes passed, and Davis finally re-emerged with his brown hair arranged in a spiked manner, and a black jacket on. Padding his side pocket to make sure he remembered his wallet, he looked on at Jun and Jasmine with an annoyed look on his face. "Well, are we going or what?"
Jasmine smiled at him, and got up off her seat on the couch and walked over to the door, where she left her shoes with Jun following suit. After Davis finally had his shoes on, he called out, "Demiveemon, watch the house okay? And try to leave some food for the rest of us, Mom ain't going shopping til Thursday!!"
"Okay Davish!! Bring me something!!"
"Yeah sure Demiveemon," Davis called back just before he shut the door to the apartment.
'Ugh... letsee if I can handle a day with these two...' he thought darkly as he trudged off after them.
Oh yeah, could someone clear up who exactly is the big ass Digimon in the Dark Ocean? I think it's Dagomon, but I'm not too sure... o_O Any clarification on the matter would be great. Oh and I forgot to mention that Shura and whatever other introduced characters that are brought in are mine alone okay?