Chapter 13
The Fire Temple
It was getting dark and gloomy all the while Renamon and the others walked toward the next destination. The nightly winds covered them as they neared the base of a huge volcanic mountain that still was active to that very moment. Renamon knew by the look of the clouds and the wet smell that it was going to rain.
She looked at Gabumon seriously and said, "Gabumon, lets go find a cave."
Gabumon's heart fluttered when he heard this and replied, "Together? Alone?"
"What are you talking about?" said Renamon, looking at Gabumon oddly. "It's going to rain soon and you don't want to get wet do you?"
"Huh? Oh...I see. Sure!" said Gabumon, crestfallen but happy to walk next to Renamon alone.
Renamon and Gabumon walked off and left Agumon, DarkGatomon, and Roberto alone. Agumon sneaked over to DarkGatomon to go talk to her, to get closer.
"So DarkGatomon," said Agumon, "how are you?"
"Blech! Get lost!" she replied.
"What?" said Agumon, water filling up in his eye's. "You don't like me?! WAHHHH!!"
"No it's like that, it jus' like I don' care for people drooling over me, that's all," she said.
"What? I don't drool over you," said Agumon, disgusted at this comment. Then he thought about it. "Well...I'm sorry. I don't mean to do that really. Hey! I know! Maybe we could-"
"No, not with you honey, sorry," she said, putting her paws on her hips.
"So," said Agumon, "no firewood..?"
"Oh firewood!" said DarkGatomon, in relief. "I thought you meant something else. Whatever. As long as ya' don't hit on me, ya' know!?"
"All RIGHT!" said Agumon, filling with bliss.
Roberto looked at the sky. "I guess I'm staying here."
DarkGatomon waved her paw. "You can come if you want; don't be silly!"
Roberto followed them to find some wood for the night, although Agumon didn't like it. He just wanted to be alone with DarkGatomon, and only him. Agumon then thought about DarkGatomon and Roberto's friendship. 'They haven't really seen each other for a long time; maybe this is like a reunion of some kind', he thought to himself. After thinking that, he didn't mind so much.
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Gabumon looked around for a cave to sleep in just like Renamon, but he wasn't having very good luck, and neither was Renamon for that matter. Renamon was looking here and there around the mountain, hoping to find some kind cave or alcove to have everyone to sleep in. Gabumon, as he looked for some caves himself in the trees surrounding the massive volcano, grew more curious why Renamon chose him to come and not someone else like Agumon or DarkGatomon. Then he grew fond of this note, and instead of halting his tune, he continued to play it, for he loved Renamon very much, as a friend and more.
Renamon wondered why she picked him instead of someone like Agumon or DarkGatomon. Why Gabumon? She didn't understand this, nor did she understand why she was questioning her choosing. It was odd. Not to mention when ever she looked at Gabumon, to ask him a question or something, she would feel nervous and a little bashful of herself. It was unlike her. But she stopped wondering, and started to keep looking around for that cave. On this massive volcano, there had to be at least one.
"Have you found anything, Gabumon?" said Renamon, feeling as if she should give up.
"No," said Gabumon, walking over.
"There has to be something," Renamon said.
Gabumon then looked at the mountain again. He saw a huge building sticking out of the mountain. Then Gabumon noticed that it was a temple. The temple was red and looked like it was melting because of the heat waves.
"Hey look Renamon!" said Gabumon, pointing at the building.
"It's the temple!" she said, and went to go get the others.
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"I found some wood!" said Agumon, carrying a pile of wood in his arms.
"Not that kind," said Roberto. "The wood you're carrying is far too fresh. See the leaves on it? Their green, meaning that the branches still have water in them. If we burnt that it would create too much smoke and would burn little or not at all."
"Well, I'm not too good at finding wood," said Agumon, rubbing the back of his neck. "Usually I have Gabumon of find the wood and I cook. But I not much of a cooker either..."
Roberto rolled his eyes and knelt down to show what kind of wood Agumon should get. "This kind. This is the kind of wood you should get. I found these on the ground, and they're dry and brittle."
"The ground?" said Agumon. "I never thought of that."
Agumon dropped the wood and went off to find some more wood.
After Agumon left, DarkGatomon came with her batch of wood. It wasn't like Agumon's, it was a lot better; nice and dry. She saw Agumon's pile of fresh wood on the ground, and laughed.
"I hope that ain't yours, Roberto," said the black feline.
"No," Roberto replied, "it was Agumon's, but he went to get some more that is better."
"Whatever," said DarkGatomon. "Sometimes I think he's hitting on me, and then he really isn't."
Roberto looked at his friend oddly. "Do you like him or something?"
"Roberto!" said DarkGatomon. "I don't like him! Besides, he's like a dinosaur and I'm a cat. I find him an idiot anyway..."
"Sorry, DarkGatomon," said Roberto.
"Ya' better be!" said DarkGatomon, shaking a paw.
Roberto turned around and seen Renamon running toward them.
"What's wrong Renamon?" said Roberto.
"The Fire Temple," said Renamon, "it's on the mountain!"
"Really?" said Roberto. He turned to DarkGatomon. "Go find Agumon! And hurry!"
"Why do we have to go now, huh?" complained DarkGatomon. "I'm tired..."
"The faster we get to the Pixel," said Renamon, "the less of a chance that the Digi-Destined will get it."
"Fine!" said DarkGatomon with a sigh, and off she went to go find Agumon.
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"Yea!" said Agumon, talking to himself and picking up wood that has fallen from trees. "I'm going to get the best branches and impress DarkGatomon! And when she says, 'Oh! Who got these ones?', I'll say, 'Me of course!' It's perfect! Nothin' can go wrong! Hahaha!"
DarkGatomon then popped out of the bushes. There were leaves and loose sticks in her hair, which she flicked off with her paws.
"DarkGatomon!" said a surprised Agumon. "What brings you? Hey!" Agumon lifted his proud logs higher. "Look at my wood pieces! Aren't they great..?"
"Yeah, yeah, whatever," said DarkGatomon, not caring about the wood at that moment. "Look, Renamon and Gabumon found the Fire Temple. So let's hurry back, 'kay?"
Agumon looked at his precious wood collection. "But-but my wood..."
"Just drop it foo'! Let's tail it!"
"...Wood..."
* * *
After a while, everyone got together and they were ready for the fire temple.
The Fire Temple. The temple holding the Pixel of Fire, or the Pixel of love and passion or thought. The Fire Temple was a temple that sat halfway in the volcano and halfway outside, that's why it looked so hot, because it was. But that was only the outside, the inside of the temple was fine; a little hot, but not scorching. Above the temple rested an umbrella-like structure made of stone that protects the temple from lava flow, so if the volcano erupted, it wouldn't harm the temple. The structure of the temple itself was made of marble and obsidian with weird looking statues on it. Some of the statues were the Agumon digivolution chain and others were just other fire-like digimon.
Renamon and the others got up to the gate. Immense heat poured from it, so much that you barely even walk up to it. Everyone was effected by the heat in their own unique way, but Agumon wasn't effected at all.
"You go up and open it Agumon," said a sweaty and panting Gabumon. "You don't seem to be harmed by it."
"Then I shall do my best!" said Agumon determinedly.
And Agumon did try to open it. But the door was very hot, and even though the digimon was unfazed by heat around the temple, the door burnt his hand and he yelled.
"Do yo' worst ya' mean!" said DarkGatomon, as she laughed.
Agumon had tear drops forming at his eyes from the pain, "Maybe you have an idea, ya' smelly cat!!" he snapped.
"What'd ya' call me, ya' ass!"
"You heard me! AHHHH!!!" said Agumon flinging his arms around.
DarkGatomon put her arm in front of her to stop the dinosaur in his tracks. Agumon twirled his claws this way and that, but it was no use, and he gave up.
"Stop fighting!" said Renamon, angry that no one was thinking of a solution to the door problem. 'We have to find a way to get in', Renamon thought, and she thought some more and then she spoke again. "Maybe there's a puzzle around here like the Sapphire Temple?"
Gabumon looked around for one, and so did Roberto; DarkGatomon and Agumon stood there glaring at one another.
'Stupid DarkGatomon,' thought Agumon. 'I picked the best wood and she didn't even look at it! It was good looking too! Grr...'
'Stupid Agumon,' thought DarkGatomon. 'Thinkin' he can lay hits on me! That foo's goin' DOWN! One of these days...'
Roberto then looked at a statue of an Agumon wearing MetalGreymon armor.
Roberto tilted his head and said, "Odd..."
"Ah! This MetalGreymon is naked!" said Gabumon, looking at the muscle toned MetalGreymon without armor.
"I think we've found the puzzle," said Renamon.
She went over and grabbed the heavy, clunky armor, its metallic beauty shining in the fire's gaze, and put it in its right place. Renamon put the chest plate first, then the metal arm, and lastly the head piece. When Renamon finished putting the head piece on, a click was heard, as well as the sound of a chain getting reeled. Soon, the huge gates keeping the Fire Temple closed opened wide to reveal yet another gate.
"Not another one!" said Gabumon annoyed.
DarkGatomon growled, "This sucks."
The group walked into the next room. This time the room was inside and was a little bit hotter than the outside. Renamon pulled out a paper fan and waved herself with gusts of air. Gabumon looked at the room, wondering what to do. Suddenly Agumon saw someone at the corner of his eye and turned quickly to see what it was.
"Who's there!?" said Agumon to the unknown individual.
"Hey guys!"
"No! Not that voice!?" said Agumon.
And it was. It was Agumon and Gabumon's old buddy, Gatsumon. He stood there holding a spear that was on fire, and a cloak that seemed to wave without wind. He stood there with his stone gaze in happiness to se his old friends, even though Agumon nor Gabumon wanted to see him.
Gabumon turned at the sound of the voice and said, "Wha...damn it."
"He doesn't seem to be that bad, Gabumon," said Renamon. "Besides, he's the guard to the gate. I'm sure he'll open it for us."
"Yeah," said Gabumon coldly. "And then he talks about nothing, bugs you half to death, and then eats all of your food."
DarkGatomon looked at the rocky digimon and snickered, "Nerd. He's a big nerd."
"Man-o-man! I haven't seen you guys for, well, a long time!" said Gatsumon in amazement. "Wow. Well what brings you fella's here? Got lost? A tour maybe?"
"Well," said Agumon, swallowing his annoyance, "we wanted to know if the Digi-Destined have come here lately for the Pixel?"
"Oh no," reassured Gatsumon, "not at all. Not ever! They could never even touch the Pixel of Thought. Anyway, you guys want a tour? I got some stories to tell you!"
"Oh yea..." said Agumon and Gabumon sarcastically.
Gatsumon took his spear and stuck it into a hole in the gate, and the huge doors opened. The inside of the temple glowed a beautiful red color. On the walls were shadows of other digimon praying in the temple, facing away from a huge roaring fire in the middle of the room.
But out of all this, the digimon sung a song that sounded familiar to Renamon. This song almost lifted her spirits. If she was ever going to find out what this song was, she could find out now.
Renamon went over to Gatsumon and tapped him on the shoulder. The little rock digimon turned to look at the big fox who stood before him.
"Excuse me Gatsumon," said Renamon, "what is this song that they are singing?"
"We really have no idea!" said Gatsumon. "We all heard it the other day and we can't get it out of our heads. I think it's some kind of warning, but we're not sure."
Renamon nodded and understood, sort of. She listened to the song:
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Darkness and Darkness, and barely no light
It is far but so near,
Can you feel it, even at night,
But courage shall destroy all, so never fear.
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This was indeed the same song before, but with different lyrics. To Renamon, the song meant something like the Digi-Destined were coming and courage, obviously symbolizing something, was the only thing to stop them. Renamon and the others came right in time.
"They're not here," said Renamon. "So this means we can get the Pixel before Yoshiro or anybody else can!"
"Good," said Gabumon.
"You know what," said Renamon, "I think Gatsumon is fine. What is wrong with him?"
"Hey guys!?" said Gatsumon. "Boy do I have a story for you. Let's see, I think it started when you guys left. Man was that hard. I tried to find a way to get money, so I worked for the Gekomon for a while and it was very boring. I had to make sandwiches. First I would toast some bread and that was hard. Then I put the tomatoes-hey you know what? Tomatoes have seeds! I never knew that. You see, I always thought that the red outside of the tomato had, like, microscopic seeds embedded into the skin. Gabumon, it looks like you've gotten some weight there! Ha-ha. Agumon, you always look so glum..."
"Someone help me," said Agumon.
Gabumon looked at his stomach and said, "Fat?"
"Interesting..." said Renamon, with an eyebrow raised.
DarkGatomon couldn't take this rambling anymore and had to put a stop to it. "Hey" she said at first, although Gatsumon didn't look. "HEY!" Gatsumon turned and DarkGatomon continued, "Why? What is all this shit! Tomata's? The hell? What kind of crap do you have in that little stone head of yours? 'Man-o-man'? And Agumon ain't glum."
Agumon smiled, but DarkGatomon wasn't finished.
"He just dumb, eh, Agumon?"
"No!" said Agumon, angered at this comment.
"Yeah, whatever."
Gatsumon stared at DarkGatomon. He went over to Gabumon.
"What's with her?" he asked.
"Well," said Gabumon, "really, I have no idea."
Gabumon pulled out his journal to jot down his experiences in this odd mystic place.
"You still have that journal I see," said Gatsumon, reading what Gabumon was writing.
"Hey!" said Gabumon, sounding annoyed. "Stop reading over my shoulder! This is my journal; you shouldn't be reading it anyway!"
"Sorry Gabumon..." said Gatsumon. "Did you guys want to look at something else?"
Renamon knew that this would be a perfect time to ask to go into the Camber of the Pixel. But what if Gatsumon wouldn't permit it? Then they would loose the Pixel for good!
"Gatsumon," said Renamon, nicely. "Could we go to the Chamber of the Pixel? It's very important."
Gatsumon looked at her coldly.
'What does she want with the Pixel?' thought Gatsumon. 'Is she the thing the song is talking about?'
Then Gatsumon noticed Roberto.
'A human?' thought Gatsumon. 'Why are they hanging around with a menace like that? This is suspicious. I can't have them go in there.'
"I'm sorry," said Gatsumon. "I can't let you in there."
"Well, why not?" said DarkGatomon, angered at his response.
Gatsumon swallowed. He didn't want to say that he didn't trust Gabumon and Agumon's friends, but he couldn't take them in the chamber either. Then he got it!
"I-I don't have authority!" said Gatsumon shaking his head in agreement.
"We need to go in there," said Roberto. "It's important. We think the Digi-Destined will come here soon, and we want to know if the-"
"Why should you care human!?" said one of the digimon praying.
"Yeah," said another, "I thought all humans were Digi-Destined."
"They feed darkness in every corner of light. They know no feelings."
"He should be banned from the temple."
"Hey," said Agumon, getting angered, "stop it! He means no harm!"
"Yeah," agreed Gabumon, "he's our friend and an ally."
One of the digimon did a bellowing laugh.
"Yeah, he might seem like it now-"
"What is all of the racket!" said a smooth voice.
The voice came from a huge hallway, that had two big doors at the end. The doors swung open to reveal a WarGreymon that wore a gold cloak. His emerald eyes penetrated the dark that filled the hallway. As he stepped out of the dark hallway, the fire light reflected off of his armor almost heavenly and his cloak waved like a river peacefully moving against it. He stared at all of the digimon there, and he looked angry, in a peaceful sort of way.
"I will not have this disgusting noise in this temple!"
He walked over to Roberto. He stared into his eyes and Roberto did the same. Then WarGreymon put his metal claw on Roberto's shoulder and laughed.
"Ha! You see? Nicer than an angel!"
WarGreymon turned to Renamon with a serious look on his face.
"You want to gain the Pixel?"
"Yes," said Renamon.
"For it's safety?"
"Yes."
"Well then," said WarGreymon. "I will be happy to give it to you."
Suddenly Gabumon started to feel a little creeped. Chills ran through everyone's bodies. Agumon started to rub himself, he felt so cold.
"Odd feeling," said WarGreymon. "I'll take you to the chamber!"
As he turned, his cloak swung as if it was riding the wind. Renamon and the others followed the tall digimon down the hallway that he came from. WarGreymon opened the doors and what appeared was a room that was much like the one back in the Sapphire Temple before the chamber. There stood another pair of doors which had pictures of all of the fire digimon, and on top of them all was a glowing WarGreymon. Agumon liked this picture a lot, for it portrayed, in a way, himself. Agumon also felt a power filling up in him as he got closer to the chamber doors.
WarGreymon opened the chamber doors and a flash of heat came out, but it didn't hurt. In a way it felt good and full of light. In the middle sat a glowing Pixel of Fire. WarGreymon picked it up and the glow started to fade. He walked to Renamon and handed her the Pixel. Renamon went to grab the Pixel, but started to feel weak and sick-like.
"Hmm...Maybe the Pixel of Fire is not for you, Renamon" said the mega digimon.
Then WarGreymon saw Agumon standing there beaming with light. He went over to Agumon, still holding the Pixel in his hands, and started to give the Pixel of Fire to Agumon. Suddenly, the Pixel started to glow even more than before.
"This is yours, Agumon," said WarGreymon, putting the Pixel in his hands. "Use it when your in trouble and in desperate need."
"Huh?!" said Agumon, shocked to see that he was chosen to hold the Pixel of Fire. "Uh, thanks."
The doors then flew open, and a cold breeze came in. And there stood the last person Renamon, as well as the others wanted to see. It was Yoshiro.
"Well, well, what do we have here?" said Yoshiro, in a dark tone. "A couple of rats and the rat king. I believe the rats must give me the cheese they want to keep so much."
"If you want the Pixel of Fire," said Renamon, ready to fight, "then forget it!!"
"Oh my," said Yoshiro, "such tempter. You should calm down my dear."
Yoshiro then saw DarkGatomon in the corner of his eye.
"What are you doing here?"
"What? Yo' got a problem?" asked DarkGatomon.
"I just can't believe that you would join them," said Yoshiro. "I thought you hated them!"
"Enough of this crap," said DarkGatomon. "I want you to answer now or else! Why is that I can't control the shadows?"
"Why would we want to have a digimon help us?" said Yoshiro. "We knew you would join them, so we destroyed your program to do that. Now we control them. They're a big help, especially for tracking you foolish digimon."
"Don't think you can defeat light so easily!" said WarGreymon.
Yoshiro turned to the mega digimon and smirked.
"There's no way he could defeat WarGreymon!" said Agumon. "He's finished!"
"Don't be so confident, Agumon," said Gabumon cautiously.
WarGreymon clashed his metal claws together.
"Nova Force!" summoned WarGreymon.
An intense ball of heat came from the huge digimon. He tossed the flaming light ball at Yoshiro. Yoshiro pulled out his jagged sword and sliced the Nova Force in half, and in turn made it miss Yoshiro completely.
"You can't defeat me fools," said the evil creature. "I am human, and you are just data. Computers can't defeat real things! Now feel my wrath!!"
Yoshiro slid over to WarGreymon and gashed him in half, killing him instantly. Renamon and the others felt all of their spirits drop.
"We can't defeat him," said Gabumon.
"Hopeless," said Roberto.
"No," said DarkGatomon, "I worked for someone who kills like that?"
Renamon stood there. "..."
Agumon, though, felt differently. "We can't let him live. No one can do that!"
The dark one sheathed his sword and turned toward DarkGatomon.
"I'll kill you first," said Yoshiro, his eyes as dark as black, "so that you can join your parents in hell!"
"Wha? Wha' ya' talking about?"
"No one told you?" said Yoshiro. "They're gone. All of them! The whole village destroyed. The only survivor is you."
"No..."
Yoshiro then turned to Roberto.
"I'll kill you next," he said. "The Lord never liked you anyway. Might as well tell him I killed the praised Roberto."
"Stop it!" said Renamon, getting angered.
She then pulled out the Rojo Sword, glowing beautifully. She ran up and her and Yoshiro clashed.
"Time for me to Digivolve!" said Gabumon.
"Gabumon, Digivolve too......Garurumon!"
Gabumon, who was now a Garurumon, ran up to Yoshiro.
"Howling Blaster!" said Gabumon, and a huge blast of ice hit Yoshiro and knocked him over.
"You won't defeat me so easy," warned Yoshiro.
He got up and put his arm into the air.
"Spirits of Earth, hear my call. Destroy the ones who are here. I call upon-"
BANG!
Roberto shot a bullet into Yoshiro's arm and he quickly let it fall down. Yoshiro clinched his arm in pain.
"You killed them," blurted out DarkGatomon, "didn't ya'!?"
"Correct," said Yoshiro.
"Bastard!" yelled DarkGatomon. "DIE!!"
Yoshiro took out his sword and took a swing at DarkGatomon, which only nicked DarkGatomon. But that scratch hurt so much, that she laid there, not moving. Agumon watched it all happen, and was enraged by it.
"DarkGatomon! Noooo!!"
The Pixel of Fire then began to sing that song that they had heard earlier and glowed a fire red. Sparkles flew off of it and hit Agumon. Agumon then felt a surge of power and began to Digivolve.
"Agumon, Digivolve too........Greymon!!"
Agumon turned into a much larger size. He wore a skull helmet that had horns on it, and blue stripes lined his orange body. Agumon, who was now Greymon, looked at Yoshiro with rage.
"You, carrier of darkness!" said Agumon. "You have hurt more than a mind can handle! You haven't just hurt people physically, but mentally! How does it feel? Nice? It shouldn't. No one is that dark. Now you must feel the light! Nova Blast!!"
Agumon made a huge fireball and shot it at the dark menace. The fire knocked out Yoshiro and he fell down. Greymon walked over to Yoshiro and picked him up.
"For DarkGatomon," said Greymon, "and for WarGreymon. Leave and never come back to this temple."
Greymon pulled back his arm and tossed Yoshiro out one of the windows. Renamon and the others were happy and they cheered for their friend.
"Guys!" said Agumon, back to his own self and bashful. "Hey, wait? How's DarkGatomon?"
"She's fine," said Roberto, pointing over at DarkGatomon.
The saddened feline sat there, deep in her own thoughts. Agumon walked over to her to see what was wrong.
"Are you okay?" said Agumon.
"I-I can't go with you guys," said DarkGatomon, in a dead tone.
"What?" said Renamon. "Well, why?"
"I must go back," said DarkGatomon. "Back home. And I don't want to slow you guys down. So, I'll go on my own."
The cat started to get up.
"No wait!" said Agumon. "We can go, right Renamon?"
"I think we should keep going on pursuing to get the pixels," said Renamon, "but if that means we would lose one of our friends, then we shall go to her home."
DarkGatomon turned to Renamon, her yellow eyes shining.
"But," said Renamon, "we'll only go if you say your cut off from the Digi-Destined forever. So, what will it be?"
DarkGatomon turned to them with a big smile and said, "Fuck them!"
* * *
"Yoshiro, you disappoint me again."
"I am sorry My Lord."
"We shall take a new plan of action..."
"Sir?"
"Don't follow them. Go to the next temple........."
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Authors Notes
This chapter was a good one. I tried to make more description in here. The next one is going to be about DarkGatomon, so if you like her, don't miss it!
Carlas Lua
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