The Powers Within: Protection of Mist

by Creedogmon

edited by Godeerc VanDrey

Category: Digimon

Genre: General Fantasy

Rating: PG

Language: English

Summery: The story of how Christopher gets his power by learning his destiny.

A/N: Okay, I know these are kind of short, but I have lengthened them from the original posting, so I believe they're much better. I would never have added onto them if Godeerc hadn't coerced me into believing that they were too brief. I also worked with the names and titles a little bit, so if you remember the old version, (well, I might ask you how) it has changed a little bit.


Chapter 1: Protection of Mist

I blink, then again, and again. Everything starts to come into focus. I am surprised by a sudden pressure upon my stomach. I tilt my head forward, half-expecting to relive the first meeting of Tai and Koromon. Pleasantly surprised, I find it is only Virginia, again showing me her new yellow "toy." I scoot up to a sitting position, sliding her into my lap, and then hugging her. "Okay, Esperanza, where's Katmondu?" not expecting an answer.

Speak of the devil; he moseys in front of me, plops down, and rolls in the dirt beneath us, and meows indignantly. I can't help but laugh; he's such a stupid cat. I scratch his chin and he tilts his head back in mild ecstasy. But my humor soon fades, realizing we are in some strange world. I shake my head thinking to myself, Great; I am in some Digimon episode. And my passion for the show is fading.

I feel Virginia pulling at my leg. "Mama," she babbles. I sigh sadly, I knew this was going to happen. "Mommy's not here. I'm baby-sitting for a while, so she'll be here later." I hope.

To my dismay, I see her face scrunch up. "Mama," she says before starting to cry. I pick her up, despite her resistance, and put her against my shoulder. "Virginia, please, I don't know when Mommy will be back, but for right now, I'm all you got. I love you as much as Mommy does. I promise." I look down to her; she's still weeping, but quietly. I kiss her head and whisper, "I'm sorry,"

I sigh, as I began to cry softly, too. I feel Virginia shifting in my arms, and bring her in front of me. She, still having tears in her eyes, put her hand on my cheeks, touching a tear. She looks at it and then to me, with a face of innocence. I can't help but smile, as does she. She squirms and I set her down. She starts giggling, fully recovered from her depression, and pulls herself up. Before I know it, she's wandered around me and scurried in to the tall grass.

I grab Virginia's baby bag as well as my backpack and walk into the parted grass, grabbing by cat under the arms as I pass. Shifting him to a position similar to holding a baby, I follow both the pressed-down grass and Virginia's high giggling voice. I start to wonder to myself why there are no Digimon, especially DigiDestined Digimon. Where is my Digimon partner? The giggling mysteriously ceases.

"Virginia!" I call. Following her footsteps in the grass. I find her standing. As I come up to her, I see her eyes, now in wonderment. I look ahead to see what she's staring at.

Before me, in a clearing closed off by trees is a large, round table. Relying on my memory of Digimon episodes, a skill I never thought I'd use, I remember that the Digital Barrier has a tendency to bring blur the line between wilderness and Earthly civilization.

"Jyooz," Virginia mumbles. I see why. Upon the table is a sipping cup of apple juice, her favorite. Don't you love irony? There's also a hamburger, a milk shake, and a plate of cat food that Katmondu has already found. I hand her the bottle without thinking. Hey, Tai and the gang were never poisoned by coincidentally placed food. She finished with the juice by the time I'm finished with my milk shake. She's feeling at her diaper. Uh-oh, I think. I have a couple of diapers, but no place to change her. And with her rate of change (No time for jokes), I'll run out soon. How did the DigiDestined go for months? T.K. was already eight; that's how. To my side is a changing table. Now that I think about it, it was there before. I change her diaper and set her down. She runs around the table. I reach under the table and take several extra diapers. I go to eat the hamburger. I'm not that hungry, but I have a feeling, with these two, I might be running on empty soon. Thank goodness for alcohol-based hand sanitizer. The smell of alcohol sends Katmondu flying. In his world, the smell of alcohol equals the removal of a tick from his neck. My little Esperanza of course goes chasing after him. I grab the hamburger while I follow their voices. She goes quiet again. I nearly faint when I see why.

Monochromon I think. Sure enough, about a dozen dinosaur-like creatures are growling and scuffing their feet on a small clearing before me.

'So, Caretaker, how can you take care of the infant now?' a strange voice calls.

I turn my head abruptly in different directions. "Who are you? Where are you?" I call, desperately trying to hide my fear. Hearing voices is bad.

'Why does it matter? If you don't know, I can get them.'

This voice seems to come from another direction. "Get who?" I say, still turning my head. This time, a voice comes from just above my head.

'Protection from you? That's crazy. I could get them both, and you're worthless to stop me.'

"Them both? You leave Virginia and my cat alone."

'Make me.'

I am alarmed by a large growl. Turning my head bewilderedly, I finally look ahead, where my heart skips a beat. I grab my digivice, wondering what help it is to me. Before me, holding Virginia in his arm, is a strange creature. Standing erect, somewhat humanoid, looking similar to a Monochromon is what I guess to be a digimon.

"Allow me to introduce myself, I am SapioMonochromon. And this is the last day for all of you."

"No," I say weakly, under my breath.

He flings out his arm, letting go of Virginia, but grabbing her in his claw. Under his foot is an alive, but struggling Katmondu. He grins evilly, "So Caretaker, it seems you have failed in protecting those who you love. Do you really love them?" With that, he holds Virginia above his head, who has long since been crying, and throws her.

Time seems to slow down. Virginia is flying through the air, toward a large tree. My eyes turn to Katmondu, who is under SapioMonochromon's foot, who has turned his attention to crushing him. I tremble and must be turning ghostly pale. I clench my hands, feeling the digivice in my left hand. "No, no," I say to myself, "NO!" I almost scream closing my eyes, and turn to at a futile attempt to save at least Virginia.

My digivice explodes with light, stopping me. I look toward it, shielding my eyes from the light. Something floats from the screen. A small tab. It turns toward me. I don't get to see it when it shoots forward. Loosing sight of it, I look ahead, amazed. Virginia is floating in the air, suspended, but falling every so slowly. Katmondu is nearly motionless under the foot of SapioMonochromon, who is also as motionless. I lean down, feeling incredible resistance from my body, making me move as slowly, to grab a vine on the ground. I do my best to fling it forward, but my arms feel like they're filled with lead. The vine moves every so slowly, but I find the extra time gives me to ability to make slight adjustments so that it hits SapioMonochromon just right. It wraps itself around his leg, and I pull, my heavy arms pushing back, but he begins to fall back and Katmondu starts to lurch forward, in extreme slow motion.

While I'm not moving with super speed, I am very much viewing it like that. I feel something enter my body, or, more like it, emerge from within it. I see a large sea-green dome overcome me, rolling in like a fog. I start to speak, not thinking up the words, but saying what comes to me. "You were wrong, SapioMonochromon. I am the Caretaker, strong and true. And I will protect those who I care for. But, in defense for them, I shall have no mercy. You are evil, and do not deserve to be so strong." My voice is soft, smooth, and highly audible.

I feel an aquamarine-colored light overcome me and leaving me wearing a full-length, sea-blue robe, hooded. I push the hood off my head, exposing the long, curved locks of hair encircling my face. I run forward, still held back by my body's inertia, but it's significantly less. I scoot Katmondu up and leap forward, catching Virginia, who hasn't fallen but a few feet. I slowly ascend into the air and grab onto a tree branch, which takes me into the thick foliage. There, I leave Virginia and Katmondu in somewhat of a cradle of branches. I jump down, twisting my body to miss the branches as I fall. Time is still moving slowly, but not quite as slowly.

As I exit the foliage, I push myself forward to land on the neck of a charging Monochromon, who undoubtably hasn't had the time to notice that I'm gone. His head bucks back and he dedigitalizes from under my feet. Several more are making their slow progress toward me. I look back and forth; getting used to the amount of force it seems to make movements. I reach for a stick on the ground, and holding it ready to attack. I can only imagine what is looks like to someone in regular time.

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Christopher looks on in pain at SapioMonochromon holding the young child in one hand and the cat under his foot. But as his digivice comes alight, he suddenly acts very strangely. A brief glowing around his body leaves him in robes. With quick, direct motions, he grabs a vine from the ground and flings the end forward, his hand making subtle movements which direct the vine to wrap around SapioMonochromon's leg and landing him on the ground. Meanwhile, he has already sprinted forward, agilely scooping up his cat and picking the child from midair as he disappears for a few seconds, when he lands directly on the neck of a charging Monochromon. A split second later, he has a branch in one hand, which he uses to attack two Monochromon with preternatural skill.

SapioMonochromon screams and begins to breathe fire at Christopher, who tumbles into the narrow row of trees. The rapid heating causes an explosion, clearing a pathway overlooking a bluff, where Christopher stands in ready position.

The Monochromon charge, but the crashing of waves causes a blinding mist, and several dinosaur-like cries indicate the Monochromons' sudden descent into the ocean.

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The sea-blue aura once again engulfed me. A golden glow lights near my chest, and a necklace appears. The tab, my Crest, appears again and inserts itself into the tag necklace resting against my chest. Sharply but softly, I audibly speak, "Protection of Mist."

The waning mist all around me suddenly congeals into small pellets, which fly forward and pierce the shells of the remaining Monochromon, who dedigitalize on impact. SapioMonochromon runs forward at me. Judging the best I can, I move at the last moment possible. He's too quick. He quickly turns and opens his mouth to breathe fire again, but another crashing wave absorbs the heat, and he begins to cough. He looks forward, his eyes wide, realizing the precariousness of his situation. As a larger wave fills the area with mist, I allow the water droplets to lunge forward at him, pushing him farther toward the edge of the bluff, before he falls off. He lands hard on the rocks below, dedigitalizing on painful impact.

Feeling weak, I remove Virginia and Katmondu from the tree. We land safely on the ground, but I finally faint after letting Virginia and Katmondu out of my arms.

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I awake feeling something pulling at my hair. I open my eyes. It is night. The sky is clear and full of glowing stars and an almost full moon. Virginia is sitting on my chest, playing with my hair. I grab her small hands, push them away, and see something that catches my eyes. A lock of my hair is a different color. I scooped up Virginia and walk up to a stream. The moonlight reflects against the water and I see my reflection for an instant. I push up my bangs. Underneath, I have a widow's peak, which was not there before, aquamarine colored. But what really catch my eye are my eyes. On each eye, right above the pupil, there is a blue curve across my brown irises.

Virginia crawls into my lap and touches my face, right in front of my eye. I saw her pull her hand back, rub her fingers together, and look at them with a confused expression. I looked at her hand. It's moist. As I let go, I see more condensation on her wrist. I rub my arms against each other. They are wet. My skin… is giving off moisture.

I touch my shirt. It feels dry. I reached under it; it is wet. I notice something. I feel something against my chest, moving. I look down and there is nothing there, but I realize that I can sense Virginia's presence in my lap. I close my eyes. I can almost make out her movements as the misty pressure against me conforms to her shape.

A meow comes from behind me. As a test, I don't turn around. Using my aura, I try to guess his position. I close my eyes and wait for him to near. I scoop up at something I can't see, but catch my cat. "Meow," he says again. I sigh and giggle softy. I look at Katmondu, then at Virginia. I will have to take care of them, for as long as necessary.

I am the Caretaker.

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A/N: Well, understand that this is my second time to write them. I'm surprised by how easy they are to work with. Anyway, a big thank-you to Godeerc for his editing.

GV: You switched tenses in the middle of the goshdarn story. You used "your" instead of "you're."

CV: Yeah, yeah, evil mistake, I know. I hate that one. I will most certainly never make that sin again.

(Sonriso) - Well, then I'll never do the pun sin again. But that doesn't stop me from saying anything corny… So the lady says, "That's not a dork, that's Creedogmon…" Yeah, I don't get it either. How do I still have a job?