Here is the last chapter to the story I started about a year ago. Wow. I updated. Hehehe...
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon, Zetsuai, X, Fushigi Yuugi, Gravitation and other great anime yet. YET. And I don't really remember how Pinocchiomon is spelled, so don't scream.
Chapter 11 by Wormmonsoul
Gennai's underwater house was a trap and the Chosen children were shortly captured and shipped to one of the remaining stadiums where the former Kaiser used to watch his blackringed digimon fight.
Taichi woke up with a headache. He was lying on something soft. He opened his eyes but it was pitch dark in where he was.
"Hello?" he quacked but was sorry immediately after when the pain burst in his temple.
A stream of sand spilled on his shoulder from above. Somebody was crying far away. A nasty feeling settled in his chest, and he thought with vengeance that it better not be Hikari's crying or somebody would suffer a long and painful death.
Anyway, where was he? How did he get here? When they went into Gennai's house by a path pointed out by Gennai a long time ago, and when they got there, it was completely empty. Suddenly, all the lights went out and there was the impression that the barrier around the house broke and the water flooded in, and they were drowning. Then, blackness and a very evil laughter.
So, it wasn't really house sinking. It was an illusion.
Now they were trapped in this place without their digimon. And as to 'they'...
Taichi felt with his hands underneath him. He was lying on top of a body. A shirt.. A boy... Long feathery hair...
"Damn, I wish I could see..."
"I do hope it's you who's groping me, Tai," came the hiss from under him.
"Yamato!!!"
"GERROFF!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"And now I can't hear as well..." Taichi rubbed his ear.
There came a collective moan all around them.
"Yamato?" Takeru said from far away. "You're here? Who's there?"
"Takeru, you're sitting on my arm," said Koushirou's voice.
"And on my ankle which is sprained, I garantee," Jyou complained.
"Ah, sorry!..."
"Where are we?" Sora asked.
"Dunno," Miyako shrugged her shoulders (probably).
"Whose was that awful scream?" Hikari asked.
"Hikari, are you all right?!" Taichi yelled.
"I'm afraid of the dark!!!" Iori said.
"Don't worry, I'm here, right by your side," Mimi answered.
"KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNN!" Daisuke bellowed. "Where are you!?"
There was a silence. More silence. Then everyone started feeling around blindly, looking for Ken who might still be unconscious, and Daisuke was crawling over everyone in panic.
"He's not here!!!" he said. "Ken's gone!!!"
Unconsciously, Taichi grabbed Yamato's shoulder and pulled the blonde closer in case he too, decides to disappear.
He can't disappear! We haven't even kissed yet! Not once! he thought.
Suddenly more sand spilled down on them and there was a squeak as somebody opened a hatch above their heads. Light streamed in the small dungeon and everyone shut their eyes in reflex.
"Well, if it isn't Chosen Children!" said the familiar voice merrily. "How easy it was to catch you! I thought they were experienced warriors, but they're just a bunch of rookies!"
"Guess who? It's Piedmon!" Koushirou swore.
"You must be wondering where your genius Child is," Piedmon went on smoothly.
Taichi opened one eye and sent him an evil glare. Daisuke leapt up intending to punch the grinning face above. "Worry not, my friends! He's reunited with his old friend Devimon at the head of the arena. Who do you think will judge the winner of the Chosen Children duel? Long live the Kaiser! BWAHAhahaha!" and Piedmon was gone leaving the hatch open, so that they could see the piece of blue sky above the arena.
"Touch him and I'll tear you apart!!!" Daisuke shouted. Hikari went to calm him down.
"How come Piedmon's alive?!" Mimi screamed. "He was destroyed long time ago!"
"I don't believe it," Koushirou shoook his head. "Somehow our enemies are back... And our digimon are gone... But it feels wrong.."
"Wait a second! He said 'Chosen Children duel'?" Sora asked in horror.
Everybody fell silent, even Daisuke.
Duel? Taichi pulled Yamato closer. I don't want to fight anyone, much less Yamato!..
"Tai, you're gonna kill me..." the blonde gasped. The soccer star let him breathe a little. Yamato ran his hand through his hair to get it in order. It was adorable!..
No time to drool! Taichi reminded himself. Yamato looked thoughtful. The rest of the Chosen Children turned to their original leader. Somebody was angry, somebody was scared...
"Tai, attention!" Hikari snapped her fingers before his eyes. "Eyes on me, not at Yamato! We have to think of something."
"Yes, they want to make us fight..." Jyou shivered. "I don't like it... I think I have a headache. Anybody wants aspirin?" and he pulled a bottle of pills out of his pocket. Iori, Sora and Taichi took one as they were suffering from headache since they had woken up.
"I'll never forgive them," Daisuke said hotly. "I'll save Ken."
"We'll help," Miyako said. "And then we'll kick their goddammed asses!"
"Language!" Mimi hissed.
"Maybe something went wrong with Digital World programme? What if a hacker got the essential data and reprogrammed it?" Koushirou was muttering to himself. "Our digivices are dead as if they are crashed. But what kind of virus could manage to crash the whole system in such a short time? We were last in Digiworld a week ago and everything was perfectly fine..."
"It's possible that someone backed up the data from the Chosen's fights and now restored it," Iori said.
"I don't get it. Who would? Who controls everything here? Who is our enemy?" Koushirou said but nobody was listening properly to him. Sora said she wanted to get out and if they didn't help her, she'll climb the walls and walk over the ceiling to get out.
"It reminds me of Black Cave!!" she cried. "I hate it!!"
"It reminds me of the Matrix!" Miyako exclaimed.
"If we stand on each other's shoulders we might reach the hole and climb out," said Jyou.
Takeru offered his back to Hikari in gentleman-like fashion.
"Hentai!" Hikari blushed and pointed to her short skirt.
"WON'T YOU SHUT UP, ALL OF YOU?!" Yamato shouted. "We're trying to save ourselves here, you know. Taichi, WHY DON'T YOU STOP HUGGING MY DAMNED ARM!" Again, everybody was silent. Then Sora said sorry for being an egoist and the group nodded in agreement.
"Okay, we'll do it this way," Taichi assumed his leader position. "Me and Yamato will try to get out of here and then we'll get you guys out too."
"Okay, but no romantic scenes, please," Hikari warned. "We have no time for that."
No wonder, Taichi sighed. There is never time for romance... He looked at his blond. He imagined how Yamato's going to climb over him to get to the hatch and it sent shivers of pleasure down his spine. His mouth was full of water.
"Okay, Yama, I'm going to lift you up," he said bravely although he was melting inside. Yamato smiled. "But a goodbye kiss?" Taichi whispered hopefully.
"I'll kiss you on the other side," Yamato whispered back.
With that promise Taichi helped him climb to his shoulders and Yamato stood up barely reaching the edge of the hatch with his fingers.
"GOD, you're heavy!!" Taichi panted.
"SHUT UP, Tai, or I'll get down and punch your lights out! NO remarks about my weight, please," Yamato grumbled. He clutched the edge and pulled himself up and out of the dungeon.
"Your turn, Tai!" Yamato said from the surface. "It's a big arena they have here. Looks like it's empty."
Jyou and Koushiro went to give Taichi a hand.
"Who said who's heavy?" Yamato asked innocently as he helped Taichi climb out. The soccer star blushed. Soon he was by Yamato's side.
Taichi's heart skipped a beat. He sensed danger immediately even before somebody evilly landed on the sand. It was Pinocchiomon.
"Lookit here, my favourite toy is back!" the wooden digimon grinned, looking at the panic-stricken Chosen Children.
"Run for it, Tai!" Hikari screamed from the dungeon. "Bring help!"
As Pinocchiomon was readying himself for an attack, Yamato grabbed Taichi's hand and sprinted away.
"Run, my darlings, run to your battle!" the digimon laughed merrily.
"Yamato, wait!" Taichi stopped him roughly in the middle of the arena. "Are you mad - they are our friends! We can't leave them deal with Pinocchiomon."
"Until they are in the dungeon, they're all right," Yamato said.
"Is that what you call Friendship?!" Taichi shouted.
"And you call fighting with Mega-level digimon empty-handed Courage?!" Yamato shouted back. "You moron!"
"Jerk!"
"And the fight... has begun!!!" sounded the speakers around the arena. Only now Yamato and Taichi realised that they were standing in the spotlight and the crowd of digimon around the arena was cheering them on.
"Oops," Taichi looked around.
Yamato got closer to Taichi, "Tai, what are we gonna do?"
"I got it!" Koushirou jumped to his feet, his eyes burning. Nobody was listening to him.
Hikari was mad with worry.
"What's happening above?! Where is my brother?!"
"Don't worry. Everything's gonna be okay, trust me," Takeru took her hand. Sora threw her arms around her.
"I'm sure they'll alright. They won't kill each other. Look, they haven't managed to do it for four years, why should they do it now?" she smiled.
"Yeah, right," Iori nodded. "In the meanwhile, let's find some way to help them."
"Hey, Taichi and Yamato are big boys now, don't they?" Jyou reassured her.
Miyako hugged Hikari who was smiling faintly now.
"Oh come on, they'll probably on their way to rescue us!" the lavender-haired girl said with confidence.
"Ah alright. I know," Hikari laughed.
"Guys," Daisuke said. "There is a hole in the wall. We can get out and help Ken. Who's with me?"
Everyone turned to him. Daisuke looked embarrassed all of a sudden.
"You won't believe it, but I was glaring at the wall and it opened up by itself," he shrugged his shoulders. "Honest!"
"BUT OF COURSE!!!" Koushirou laughed. "I told you I got it all!"
Now everybody was looking at the redhead genius with suspicion. In the meanwhile Daisuke decided to act on his words and slipped through the hole, and was gone.
"Got what?"
"It's an illusion!" Koushirou exclaimed with a smile. "That's why it all seemed so unnatural to me. And the Piedmon, when he looked into the dungeon, there was no shadow! And when we thought that Gennai's house was flooded we didn't drown! And the wall crumbles if you think really hard about it. It's just like a dream. I think it's the same in our world. Odaiba isn't really destroyed, it was just an illusion. If we weren't so scared we should have noticed its poor quality.." Koushirou beamed at his friend. "Am I a genius or what?"
"Are you sure?.."
"Hundred per cent sure! If we concentrate hard enought, like Daisuke, we can destroy this illusion," Koushiro glowed with pride. "And there is only one digimon who is capable of illusions of that sort. And that digimon knows our enemies so it's easy for him to create them!.."
Suddenly the Chosen Children found themselves suspended in air over a tropical forest.
"So, Child of Knowledge, what did you say about my perfect wonderful illusions?!!" came the angry little voice.
"Taichi," Yamato clasped his hand. "Any of your plans will do. Don't look to the right, please, but there is a horde of Tyrannomon heading our way. Very fast too."
"Okay. RUN!!!" Taichi jerked him to the left. Yamato stopped him and jerked him in the opposite direction.
"No, we're running THIS way!!" he said.
"What the hell!..."
Taichi glanced in the direction Yamato was pulling him to. Tyrannomon looked serious and very murderous and they were running straight at them. The brunet started to pull Yamato back.
"Are you mad, they're going to run right over us if we go there!" he shouted but the musician stood stubbornly rooted to his place.
"There is exit that way, you dumbass!" Yamato shouted.
"It's not exit, it's just the hole where all the digimon come from!!!" Taichi gathered Yamato in his arms and threw himself away from the path of the furious Tyrannomon. They landed on the sand.
Daisuke was walking in the darkness with determination. How could they take Ken away from him?! He'll never forgive them! More so, they made Ken become Kaiser again.. His wonderful kind friend.
"I'll save you, Ken!" he said.
"Who's going to save who?" Ken asked behind him. "Daisuke, where are you going?"
Daisuke turned in disbelief. Ken was there, perfectly safe and sound, smiling like he was cracking some big joke on his friend.
"Ken? For real?"
"Daisuke... kawaii.." Ken laughed.
"KEN!!" Daisuke sprang forward and draped around his friend's neck. "How?"
"I understood that it was an illusion when they brought me Kimeramon. He was... well... he wasn't holding together at all. And then it was very easy to use my digivice to type in the virus to destroy this programme."
"What virus?" Daisuke asked.
"Wormmon's data. He's a virus digimon," Ken grinned. "And then I met with the David Copperfield himself, the illusionist. He was very angry that I let the virus in his illusion!.."
Ken pulled the astonished boy into the tropical forest behind him.
The arena was enraged.
"Okay, do you have another plan?!" Yamato shouted furiously, looking like one of the Tyrannomon now.
Taichi wiped the sand from his face.
"There is one," he sat by Yamato's side. The horde of digimon passed them and was making a lap around the arena so that they could have another go at the boys.
"You know, when everything goes absolutely wrong, everything can only go better."
"Oh yeah?" the blond said with strong suspicion.
"I know one thing that can make it go so wrong that the destiny won't have any choice but to make it better. I mean our 'bad luck'."
Taichi threw his arms around Yamato and fixed him with a steady glance.
"Oh, you mean THAT bad luck..." Yamato licked his lips and smiled.
"Bad luck against bad luck," Taichi said. "And even if it doesn't work, at least I'll kiss you before we -"
"I like your plan..."
The digimon around them screamed. Taichi neared his lips to Yamato's.
I don't even know how he will taste, and if I like it... he thought, before...
Everything went blank and they were falling into a tropical forest from the starry sky.
Koushirou and the others landed softly in the court-yard of an old castle.
"I'm so glad to see you again, guys!!!" a pink furball flew into Sora's hands.
"PIXIEMON?!"
"Who's Pixiemon?" Miyako asked.
"You're alive again!" Takeru hugged him. "Guys, this is one of the greatest digimon alive - Pixiemon! He helped us big time when we came to Server to look for our Crests. And later..."
"Yeah!" squeaked the digimon. "Alive and kicking! I want to apologise to you for making you go through one of my challenges. I wanted merely to see if you are fit to fight for the future of the Digital World.."
Jyou clenched his fists in silent fury.
"Your CHALLENGE?! That means, Koushirou was right about your illusion! And our world too!"
"But you passed it brilliantly!" Pixiemon pointed at Ken and Daisuke who were coming up to them from the stairs. "And that guy over there destroyed one of my dimensions!"
"PIXIEMON, WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA?!!!!!!!!!!" Taichi's angry voice sounded from the sky. "At last you could have let us KISS!!!"
The Chosen Children looked up and saw Taichi and Yamato floating down from the clouds towards them.
"Better luck next time, guys," Mimi sighed.
"Garh!" Pixiemon shielded his eyes. "Don't tell me what I see is true! Yamato and TAICHI?! And I thought what the hell is wrong with my programme!! This is.. this is... This is too CUTE for words!!!" Pixiemon erupted in a squeaky laughter.
"Ah, excuse me," Iori said. "If we are finished with the challenge, could you please return us to Odaiba?"
"Not yet! You haven't washed my floor yet!" and Pixiemon pointed his stick to his very dusty very dirty castle. The Chosen Children groaned.
Meanwhile, Yamato and Taichi were still falling from the sky.
"Romantic view, isn't it?" Yamato said casually.
Taichi grabbed his shirt and pulled him against his chest.
"Very," he agreed hungrily and without further ado... the wind swept them in the whirlwind and when it released them, Taichi found his lips on top of Yamato's. Opening his lips he pressed their mouths together and kissed his blond with first love's kiss...
"What the hell you're doing to my programme!..." Pixiemon screamed but at that moment nobody could stop them.
Next moment the Chosen Children knew, they were standing in a busy Odaiba street and it was night, and there were Taichi and Yamato kissing like no tomorrow in the middle of a crowd two steps away.
Hikari pulled a straight face.
"I'm not with these two," she informed the passers-by. "I don't know them, and the brunet is not my older brother!!"
Koushirou's cellphone started to ring as he received an SMS from the Digital World from Pixiemon. There was written, "Love is a virus --;;;"
End..?
a/n Heh... Sap!!! I'm high on sugar!