Good's Failure! Hope and Light Is Lost

Chapter Eight

Dark looked at them, not a single fiber in him caring about them. They were weak. The weak didn't have a right to live. It was the truth. What good does the world have with weaklings in it? But he had been weak once too. He received some form of help. "Whatever," he muttered to his sister.

She reached into her bag and pulled out a small ball that looked very much like a golden Ping-Pong ball. She tossed it into the darkness and a small shine lit up the area a bit, allowing the others to breathe. "You guys and girls okay?" She asked as she helped Kari to her feet. "You need to excuse me for acting like a bitch back at the real world. I was just doing and saying what Dark told me."

"It was wrong of me to call you a bitch." Kari said.

"Shall we proceed?"

"To where?" They all asked, confused. There was nothing around. Just darkness besides the light that lit up the place a bit.

Dark's sister nodded her head towards a train track where a train sat, waiting. It shocked them that a train was there. It wasn't there just a second ago and now it was. It was a rather big train to have missed. There was something funny going around and they didn't like it. They all boarded the train.

The train started to move the minute they got on.

Zoe looked out the widow to see plain darkness. She looked down, straight ahead, everywhere was dark. For all any of them new the trains tracks were build over a huge endless pit. "So, are we going to arrive at some sort of train station?"

"No."

"Would it kill you to loosen up a bit?"

Dark crossed his arms and leaned back against the train.

"Actually," his sister said. "it would."

"Oh, okay," with her question answered, Zoe sat back and didn't ask another question that buzzed around her head. Why was Dark letting his sister do all the talking for him? Did he have a problem with speaking himself?

A sudden shake caused the DDs, Tamers, and Frontiers to fall from their seats and onto the ground. Dark and his sister, who were still standing, raised an eyebrow at the fallen ground. "You guys don't really have good balance, do you?"

"What was that?" TK asked, pushing himself up to his feet. But only to go back down to the floor when the train shook again.

"DigiBirds."

"Huh?" They all said. "What in the world are those?"

"They're birdlike creatures who kill anyone who uses this train track." Dark's sister explained. She looked out the window to see a gigantic bird flying along side the train, an angry look on its face.

"What are we suppose to do?" Henry asked. "We don't have our Digimon partners with us."

"Darkmon," Dark called.

Darkmon appeared besides Dark.

"Let's play," Dark pulled open the door, stepped outside and climbed up onto the top. He pulled out the small device from his pocket. "Darkmon," Dark looked down at the doglike Digimon. "You know what to do."

With a nod of his head, Darkmon launched a Triple Flare Shot.

Inside, "Is the DigiBird part of the New Breed?" Takato asked.

Dark's sister shook her head. "No. If you were paying attention you would have noticed the small sized scar on the back of the Digimons' necks that you have fought who were of the New Breed. DigiBirds don't have the mark that is given to a New Breed. And DigiBirds aren't really Digimon. You could say they're the failed attempts to create Digimon and have ended up here."

Outside, Darkmon jumped off the train and onto the DigiBird's back. He dug his fangs into the DigiBirds neck, causing it to cry on. Darkmon pulled his head back, causing the DigiBird further pain. "Triple Flare Shot!" He launched the attack with his fangs still attached to the DigiBird.

The DigiBird cried out in pain and took a drive down while spinning around like a tornado, trying desperately to get Darkmon off its back.

Darkmon smirked and yankedhis head upwards, making the DigiBird fly upwards. Darkmon jumped back onto the train when in reach of it. "Heat Laser!" A red beam shot out from the red mark on his face and hit the DigiBird in one of its eyes. "Attack acceleration! Triple Flare Shot! Heat Laser! Triple Flare Shot! Heat Laser!" Darkmon kept firing off attacks with great speed.

Inside, everybody's jaws hit rock bottom. "I didn't know it was possible for a Digimon to attack so fast."

The DigiBird cried out in pain before it lost all ability to move from the damage it had taken and started to fall.

Dark and Darkmon went back in. "Took longer than I thought it would." Dark said to his sister as he passed her.

"DigiBirds don't turn to data like a Digimon would when dead."

They all looked at Dark's sister. "He killed it?"

"Dark kills anything he plays with."

"Does he play with you?" TK found himself asking before he could stop himself. Sure, he and Kari were just getting along for real. But he wasn't so sure he wanted things to move on between them after he had taken one glace at Dark's sister. Dark didn't scare him one bit.

She chuckled. "It depends on what you mean by 'play'."

"Are you really his sister?" Tommy asked.

"What do you think?" She asked back.

"I don't think you're really his sister," Tommy said honestly. "I wouldn't be surprised if you were actually his girlfriend." Dark looked at Tommy, Dark's sister chocked on nothing, and the others gave Tommy a shocked stare. "I'm just saying that I wouldn't be surprised if it were true."

The train ride went on and on. It didn't seem like they were getting off that train anytime soon. Their watches were all screwed up. One minute it was, oh let's say, 5:00pm, the next it was 1:62am, which was kind of a surprised since there was only sixty minutes in an hour. Dark remained quiet in a corner with Darkmon, his sister stood in another corner staring out the window at endless darkness. TK and Kari sat next to each other, Kari being asleep with her head rested on TK's shoulder. Davis sat opposite of TK and Kari, he too was asleep like Kari. Takato was going through a deck on cards. Henry was sitting two spaces away from Takato, his eyes closed but he was awake. Rika was trying to sleep but couldn't. Ryo was asleep. Takuya was playing a screwed up game that wasn't screwed up when he had first brought it. Kouji was staring out the window that was opposite of him. Zoe had taken the liberty of using his lap as a pillow. And Tommy was fast asleep.

Dark nodded at his sister. She nodded back.

She walked over to Tommy and shook him gentle. "Tommy, wake up."

Tommy groaned and rubbed his eyes as he sat up. "Huh? What's going on?"

"I suggest you hold on to your seat." With that, she walked away.

Although confused, Tommy obeyed and held on to his seat.

"TK, you better wake your girlfriend and tell her to hold on to her seat and you should to."

"She's not my girlfriend." It was a half truth half lie, but what did it matter? "Ahh, why do we need to hold on to our seats?"

"You'll see." She winked at him and proceeded to wake the others.

Dark grabbed her arm as she passed him. "Don't flirt with him, Danielle." He whispered into her ear.

"I wasn't," Danielle assured him.

Everybody was now awake and holding onto their seats. "So, what gives?" Davis asked.

"This," Danielle and Dark jumped into the air as the train went straight downwards. Danielle and Dark landed on the door headed to the front side of the train. The others, who didn't have such a strong hold, fell.  Danielle and Dark avoided the falling bodied, Danielle catching Tommy and placing him on his feet. "I told you guys to hold on."

"Well," Zoe said. "If you would have told us that this train was going to go directly downwards we would have held on tighter." Zoe looked at Tommy and then back at Danielle. "Why did you catch Tommy?"

"If I would have avoided him like I did the rest," Danielle said. "Ryo would have fallen onto me. So, I figured if I just stood still and caught Tommy since he is so much lighter it would be better."

"Oh,"

"It won't be so bad this time," With that warning, Danielle and Dark grabbed onto something and the train resumed its normal position. Everybody stumbled a bit with the new position. 

"That was rather painful still," TK said. "How do you two know all these stuff? Have you two done this before?"

Danielle shook her head. "No. Dark has a way of finding out things."

~*~*~*~*~*~

The view of the sky was rewarded by happy sighs from the passengers on board the train. "Prepare yourselves," Danielle said as she and Dark slung their bags over their shoulders. Without warning, the train disappeared and they were in midair. The DDs, Tamers, and Frontiers screamed as they headed downwards towards what looked to be a forest.

Danielle changed her direction by kicking off a tree branch and grabbing onto another branch before she could crash to the ground. Dark had landed on a high tree branch and jumped his way down from tree branch to tree branch. Darkmon has disappeared and appeared on the ground a few seconds later. The others crashed into the ground with groans and moans.

Danielle let go of the branch and landed in front of TK. "I guess I should've gave you a better warning."

"I can't believe we're still alive after dropping from that height." TK muttered as he stood and helped Kari to her feet like a good friend should. "Are you hurt?" TK asked Danielle.

"Me? Hurt? Please!" Danielle walked away from him.

"Are you hurt?" TK asked Kari.

Kari felt hurt inside. How could he ask Dark's sister first? It was plain to see that she was fine. She didn't even have dirt on her clothes like they did from landing on the ground. Did she really mean so little to TK after he had met Dark's sister? "Just fine." She turned away from him and proceeded with checking on how her other friends were doing.

"What I do?" TK asked, walking after her. "Huh?" TK stared at the Angemon above their heads.

R.J. jumped down. "Mind if I join?"

The Angemon reverted back to a Patamon and landed on R.J.'s shoulder.

"Where-how-what--" TK couldn't find the right words. Where did he come from? How did he get here? What was he doing here? The words were in his head but couldn't find their way to his mouth.

"I took one of the DigiBirds here. I stumbled upon their nesting area when I was following you. I manage to capture one and made him bring me here. DigiBirds can see in the dark so it was no prob' for me to get here."

"TK!" Patamon landed on TK's head.

"Kari!" Gatomon jumped into Kari's arms.

"Davis!" Veemon jumped onto Davis, causing them both to fall.

"Takato!" Guilmon jumped onto Takato, causing them both to fall as well.

"Henry!" Terriermon jumped onto Henry's shoulder.

"Rika." Renamon appeared besides Rika.

Cyberdramon stepped up besides Ryo.

"Don't you have a Digimon?" Kari asked Danielle.

"Must I have one?"

"No, I was just asking."

"We should get going," Danielle said. "It wouldn't surprise me if the New Breeds knew we were here. They're probably on their way to disrupt our trip to their master." Danielle shook her head as she looked at Dark. "No, offense you guys, but... Dark, why did you bother to allow them to come along when they're going to be of no help to us? The New Breeds are immune to any attacks from the DDs, as they called themselves, Tamers, and Frontiers."

"Does that mean I'll do some attack?" R.J. asked, tossing his Patamon up in the air and then catching him.

"I'm not sure," Danielle said. "I haven't seen you in action before."

Just then, I giant Digimon burst onto the scene. It looked really weird because it was part monkey, part tiger. It had blades coming up the side of its body. Its back was covered in spikes, except the part near its neck. The Digimon growled at them as he approached. "I'm Montrimon. I've been sent by my Master to destroy you."

Dark reached into his pocket and pulled out a small device, the small he had pulled out several times. "Perhaps you would consider clearing a spot consider your size." Dark said to the Digimon.

The Digimon only then realize how cramp it was because of his huge size. "Perhaps you are correct," Montrimon squirmed a bit to get into a position where he could use his attacks. "Shooting Blades!" The spikes on his sides fired out and, because of their size, cut the trees around down. "Banana Blast!" He shot out a giant banana from his mouth at a fallen tree. The tress shattered into loose data. He did the same with all the fallen trees.

"Well, R.J.," Danielle said. "Here's your chance to fight."

"Patamon changes... to Angemon!" The angel-like Digimon charged towards the Digimon that was over twice his own size.

R.J. thought for a while on what approach was best to defeat. "Angemon, don't use any of your attacks. Just use your staff to attack it." If TK's Angemon's attacks were useless his would be as well. They usually attacked with moves instead of attacking the enemy head on.

Angemon whacked Montrimon on the head and flew high into the air before Montrimon could attack him back. He flew back down and landed on the neck of Montrimon, who went berserk. Angemon parted the fur on the back of the Digimon's neck to see a small scar. Angemon whacked the scar as hard as he could. Montrimon yelled in pain as his legs gave away and he fell. Angemon flew away.

"Patamon changes... to Angemon! Angemon digivolves to... HolyAngemon!" HolyAngemon went to attack Montrimon.

Montrimon growled. The scar on his neck was all the New Breeds weak point. Their master had put in there incase they ever betrayed him. That way he could stop them easily. That R.J. kid must have read his mind and found that out. He smirked. "Looks like I have no other choice but to use the ultimate attack."

"That doesn't sound good." R.J. said.

"All of the New Breed can use this attack incase of emergency." Montrimon lied his head down on the ground and closed his eyes. "Self-destruct." He whispered. "In ten, nine..."

"What!" All but Danielle and Dark yelled in surprise.

"You've got to be kidding me." Henry said.

"Darkmon, protect." Dark ordered.

Darkmon nodded and jumped over to Danielle. A dark barrier appeared around Danielle, but not Darkmon.

"What?" Davis said.

"Darkmon has the ability to protect anybody with his barriers," Danielle explained. "He can protect as many people or things as he wants to, but Dark doesn't like to be protected. Huh? Darkmon, what gives?" A dark barrier appeared around the area.

Darkmon grumbled to her.

Dark jumped into one of the barriers and held his device to it. His device sucked up the barrier, making the barrier disappear. His device glowed black. The other barriers disappeared.

Just then, the Digimon exploded. The whole place shook as a gigantic blast erupted. R.J.'s Angemon cried in pain when the blast hit him and shattered. R.J. screamed when he saw what happened before he was hit by the blast. The others managed to get to where the trees still stood and dropped to the ground, TK's arm being caught in the blast. Takato's ear was removed by the blast. Davis leg was injured.

Dark lowered his sunglasses to get a better look at his dusty and smoky surroundings. He put them back up and walked over to where Danielle stood, unharmed, in the barrier. Darkmon stood besides her, unhurt as well. Dark's sleeve had been the only thing that was harmed by the blast. He had been endured in the whole blast but only his sleeve was missing, burnt off.

TK stood up and grabbed his arm when a sudden pain shot through it. "Argh, my arm."

"TK, are you okay?" Kari asked.

Takato was screaming in pain, his hand over his missing ear.

"R.J.," TK's eyes scanned the area. He saw R.J. lying on the ground. He rushed over to him and dropped to the ground. "R.J., wake up!" TK shook R.J.

The boy's eyes slowly opened and he groaned in pain. "I lied. I'm not really sixteen. I've always been smart." R.J. paused to cough. "Well, this sucks. The fun hasn't even begun. There's something I have to tell you about Da--" Before he could finish, he turned into loose bits of data.

"That happens here," Dark said.

"People who die here die like Digimons do," Danielle continued. "He's dead." 

To Be Continued