Rise and Fall – chapter 11.
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A/N:
[]-thoughts.
'...'- mental link.
The pulsing energy kept on leaking, as if it would never cease and just then, Lars drew a fist back and punched the Gate. There was silence as the energy wave slowly dissipated. Lars was panting slightly, his fist still in contact with the Gate. Silence hung in the air for a few more minutes before the Gate burst open, light flooding the forest. And that was when Lars smiled.
"Yeah! So my theory was right after all!" Lars pumped a fist in the air, laughing and E-vie, who knew exactly what he was thinking, giggled to herself.
"What the heck did he think about anyway?" Wyna queried the female biker. She smiled at the witch and said,
"Well, while we were still in the graveyard, Bee said something about our dark Modes so, he thought that they were from the Sanctuary before. If he could just trigger that dark Mode of his, he could open the Gate. And, he was right."
Everyone picked themselves off of the ground and started into the Gate, waiting if the Sanctuary was still in one piece. However, dark energy was still pulsing all around them.
Neo Crimson opened his eyes slowly.
[Has it gone?] he calmed himself, and after making sure the magic surge wasn't there anymore, he reached to his side where his knife was and at the slight sound, he sat up, grabbed the first victim he could and held his dagger towards the creature's neck. His eyes widened. It was wolf-like, but human at the same time. Those eyes, hair and face were of the human girl he met earlier.
"...Who are you?" he was trying to confirm for himself and the demi-human in front of him sighed,
"Nina, this is the second time we met, how are you? How long has it been? Oh, just about 5 minutes. I can't believe you've forgotten!!!" she opened a palm, almost as if she was going to summon a weapon of some sort and... slapped the poor Crimson. He rolled backwards twice from the impact, landing in a sitting position with one hand over his still throbbing cheek where the slap had stung.
"Ow...! Why you...!! I'm gonna-"he was just about to slash her in half when Lucifer came into view.
"Hey guys, we're going to the Gate. You coming?" Neo reluctantly put his sword down and growled. He stood up and went after Chaos Lord, who was well ahead of them.
"...Hey Nina, did you..."
'Do 'it' to him?' Nina turned bright red and started whacking poor Lucifer's head numerous times, causing the little wolf to have bumps all over his head.
"Why you... PERVERT!" Then she stomped off. Lucifer rolled about on the ground, clutching his head.
"Oh...! By the name of the Digi-world!!! I've never felt this much pain!!! Oh!!! The Pain!!!"
Later, they were on their way to the Gate. Neo closed his eyes and in a flash, he saw both Crescent and Memoria. Shaking his head, he growled to himself.
[What's wrong with me!? God! I can't take this! Where is Zedomon anyway...!? Hopefully he's alright...] Then he stopped. He was getting irritated by the way Nina was keeping an extremely close eye on him and she bumped into him. He let out an exasperated sigh, somehow managing to make Lucifer and Chaos Lord disappear from view and he said,
"You don't have to concern yourself over my own personal health." He turned to her, where she took a step back and pouted.
[Oh, no you don't. You ain't gonna try and give me that little 'puppy-dog eyed treatment! And I'm sure as hell I want an explanation out of you!] he noted to himself he wouldn't fall for it and it worked.
"But it's boring just wandering aimlessly through the forest..." he frowned. He was mad, very mad. He didn't like the thought of people worried about him and he didn't like it one bit. He didn't need anyone to worry about him. He didn't need anyone to help him. Above all that, he didn't like the idea of having people into his personal emotions or conditions.
Feeling his anger go well over him, he grabbed the half-demon by the neck and snarled in her face,
"Look, I am fine! Having a half human little brat eyeing me constantly is only going to cause your death once MoonMachinedramon is defeated!"
[I'm not going to let you get involved in this...]
She glared at him coldly. He could feel her gaze pierce through him and he didn't like it one bit.
"Yeah? Well, who's going to take care of you once you start screaming your heart out and fall over just like just now?" Neo gritted his teeth.
"I have no reason to answer you!" Before he could actually blink, she slapped him across the face, making his grip loosen and rammed him into a tree before attempting to cut off his air supply by choking him. He winced slightly, the sting of the slap still present and making his cheek turn slightly red.
"It's my turn to lecture you. I'm honestly to the point where I don't care how much of a cute demon you are, you're hurting because of something in the past so, being a nosy little Halfling I was... or am now... I intend to do something about it. And I mean, now." She dropped him, where he regained his balance and turned to him,
"Now, we've got a gate to open and a stepfather to trash."
Neo blinked. He stood completely and I mean, COMPLETELY still for at least 10 seconds to let the information sink in and suddenly yelled,
"STEPFATHER!? Are you saying that Elrond, is your stepfather!?" Nina didn't answer, only walking towards the other two mons who were waiting for her and before she could take a step closer to them, Neo stood in her way.
"Answer me."
"Or what?" Nina looked up at him angrily.
"Or I'll do exactly what you did to me just now, except include my weapon, as a good reason for you to answer me." Neo patted his dagger by his side. Nina huffed.
"You don't have the guts. Besides, you'll need my help to defeat MoonMachinedramon." Call it being honest to his bet, Neo did exactly what Nina did to him and was tempted to kill her right then and there where he growled,
"I think we can do just fine with one less fighter..." Nina, who was at a height disadvantage, was choking and with a swift kick, had Neo's dagger flying off into a tree and soon, both were trying to pin each other down on the ground in a seemingly life or death struggle.
For a moment, Neo pinned Nina down and attempted to punch her straight in between the eyes. Fortunately, she dodged just in time, looking sideways just to see where her head was, turned to dust. With the opportunity of having Neo's fist still underground, she kicked him off her and attempted to pounce on him. Suddenly, she realized she was hanging in mid-air when a gust of wind hit her.
Nina, with her eyes suddenly as wide as saucers, looked around at who could have done the binding spell on her and looked down, where the rest of the group had just came out of the gate. She pouted.
"No fair!!! I was supposed to spook YOU guys!! Not you doing it to me!!!"
The rest gaped at her, recognizing Nina's voice from her wolf-like appearance.
"NINA!?!?!?!"
Crescent fell flat on her back, panting heavily. Blood smeared her lips, where she had thrown some out earlier and slowly sat up, crouching. Still panting, she looked up. Memoria was dead. With a weak triumphant smile, she stood up.
Memoria was impaled in several parts of her body, namely her heart and having black needles sticking out of her neck in every direction, making it look as if she was wearing a collar of some sort and some were on her arms and legs. She was tied up with magic on a black pillar, where she was halfway embedded into it. Slowly, the still human-like body of hers was crystallizing, turning into an ornament for the pillar.
Crescent healed herself, knowing for sure more guards were going to stop her. She walked past the pillar and glanced at Memoria. She wasn't moving, nor breathing. With a glare, Crescent turned towards the throne. A huge condor statue was embedded onto it.
"...Finally. The Demon Summoning should be in place now." Crescent looked out of the window, which was a few feet away from her and saw thundering black clouds. She didn't feel too happy about this. The Demon Summoning Spell was going to weaken her powers the stronger the spell gets and now, her magic was slowly fading away.
She felt something go past her and shuddered slightly. Then, footsteps could be heard behind her.
"Well done, Crescent... Bring MoonMachinedramon here, now." A voice growled to her. Not minding to turn and see the person, she took a deep breath and bent her head.
"Yes, Master Elrond."
"Yes, this is Nina, the one and only." Lucifer said, stepping out of the bushes he had been hiding in, pulling some twigs and leaves out of his fur. Lars took one look at Lucifer and jumped.
"Who the hell are you!?" Nina's Chaos Lord, which had white armor, stepped up to Lucifer and both mons clasped hands, as if arm wrestling, Chaos Lord said,
"Lucifer," Lucifer raised an eyebrow.
"Chaos Lord."
While the two... uhm... three brothers had a little mental conversation to themselves, Nina was getting irritated, still 'tied up' in midair as if a target for a circus knife-throwing act. She then screamed out loud,
"Hello!! Just in case nobody noticed, would somebody PLEASE unbind me from this stupid wind spell already!?" she wriggled in the spell's bind, still not getting herself anywhere.
Neo Crimson, who had picked himself off of the ground and dusted himself off, smiled and said,
"I'd like to know who put you in that spell to begin with." He teased. He walked over to her and pushed her side lightly, making her twist in mid-air ala puppet.
"Ah yes, you're easier to keep at bay this way." He chuckled. Nina fumed.
"Oh, thanks a lot Neo! As soon as I get down, you're going head-first into that stupid tree over there!!" Then, she shifted her glare to a pair of magicians at the side, who were either giggling or chuckling at her.
"Wick, Wyna! One of you two had better un-cast this spell!!"
"Sorry, it wasn't us." Wyna shrugged, smiling. Nina blinked at her a couple of times.
"Then whoever did this better undo it now!!!!" She continued to 'pull' at her binds.
"No, don't. You do it yourself, Nina." Lucifer said, pointing at the magic pattern formed behind her. The rest looked at him as if he went nuts or something.
"Are you kidding me!? I don't know how to undo a darned spell!" she countered.
"Yes you do. Now, relax. Clear your mind and I'll guide you through." Nina did as she was told, although she had sighed exasperatedly in protest earlier. Before she could even say the first syllable of Lucifer's name, she had landed hard on her rear.
"Ow!" She cried, rubbing her sore rear. Then, a small green ball floated over her head, almost laughing. If it wasn't because of the tiny bead eyes it had, Nina would have called it a ghost.
"Oh yeah, laugh it up Wind Sprite! I'm still a novice at these stuff so if you would kindly point out at whoever had me hanging just now!" The little ball seemed to sigh for a second then floated around a certain someone. He growled and swiped at the poor little sprite,
"Hey, back nat!" one good swipe with the back of your hand and it went off flying. Nina blinked as the voice had rang a bell louder than the looks.
"Lars!!!??"
"Yeah, what!?" Nina noted that his helmet and third eye had gone missing and his clothes were slightly different.
Nina pouted cutely, her cat-like ears drooping slightly and folding her arms across her chest and said,
"Great... And I thought I got surprises for you guys... Spoiler!!" She made a face at Lars, who in turn frowned at her in an annoyed manner. Neo, who felt like he was left out, suddenly piped up,
"Wait a minute, wait a minute... Since you were able to open the Gate... Do you happen to be one of the two VanGuards?" Lars, in his so-called 'VanGuard' form, turned to Chaos Lord. Chaos Lord shrugged, leaving Lars to turn back to the Noble.
"What the heck's a VanGuard?" Wick looked upwards into the sky and his jaw dropped. There was a huge hole in the sky. It had a diameter big enough to swallow up half of the File Island.
"Oh... My..." Wick couldn't finish his sentence. Before he knew it, everything turned black. He knew he wasn't unconscious, he wasn't passing out. The 'Summoning of Demons' has begun.
Crescent stood in the middle of the room, doing a ritual of some sort. There were several separate magic circles scattered on the floor around her and she was standing in a particularly ancient rune circle. A digimon barged in, looking flustered and stopped to catch his breath. He looked at Crescent once and asked, in a somewhat stupid tone,
"What are you doing?" Crescent opened her eyes, glaring at the bishop digimon.
"I'm making tea." She said calmly. The bishop laughed.
"Very funny, Crescent but if I may say something, we don't need any of the ancestral titans you're summoning."
"Oh, I think we will, and I think they would gladly help me dispose of you if you don't get out now before I lose my concentration as you can see how many of them I'm summoning...!" she said through gritted teeth and the bishop instantly shut up.
"Yeah, a swarm..."
"OUT!!!!" Crescent bellowed, using a bit of her strength to shut the door in his face. Huffing, she calmed herself and started reciting a spell. The rune she stood on shone black as well as the others. Soon, dark figures emerged from the runes and as they were gaining shape, Crescent decided to give them life.
"...Oorma-sa-he-bi... SAHO!!!" The creatures' heads suddenly snapped up, slitted red eyes opened wide as they all roared, letting the world know that they were alive once again. Crescent smiled as they all tried to break free from the rune, which automatically paralyzes them upon movement.
"Be patient, my pets... Your time will come." Just then, one of the titans caught her eyes. It was trying as hard as it could to break free from its binds and in the blink of an eye, the rest were trying to do the same. Crescent frowned and resuming her former position, she increased the amount of magic in the runes, causing the titans to calm down. Crescent narrowed her eyes at them.
"...The war begins now..." as she gained control of the titans, she released them, allowing them to search for any intruders.
"Soon, very soon, my time will come..." she muttered under her breath, feeling a cold sweat run down her neck.
Wick opened his eyes and looked around. It was pitch black. He looked down at himself. Somehow, he had digivolved into Necromamon. What was happening? Where was he?
"...This could be the 'Demon Summoning'..." It was a forbidden magic that would allow the user to summon demons from different times at the cost of absorbing all types of magical sources, good or bad. He walked a space ahead of him and was thrown back by a lightning barrier.
"This definitely isn't good... I must find Rico and the others!!" He stood up and took his sword. He stuck it in the barrier and undid it, enabling him to go to a different area, where everything was so cold, he would freeze to death. Just like him, there was an ice barrier. He undid that too and found himself in a frozen canyon. There was a frozen lake and above it, a similarly frozen waterfall.
Wick gathered his cloak around him, chanting a fire spell to keep him warm but unfortunately, it didn't last long.
'Come on... Think! This is either Wyna or Renamon...' due to the cold, he couldn't think straight. Instead, he fell to his knees, thanks to the blizzard around him. In the frozen lake, he saw something shining faintly.
"Thank the digi-world for this..." he said slowly and tried calling out to it.
'Renamon... get up...!' After a couple of tries, it still made no attempt to move and this got Wick frustrated. With the little bit of energy he had that the blizzard didn't blow away, he pounded the thick ice with his fist.
"Come ON!!! ...You're... the only one who can... get us out of this... place..." he said, before collapsing on his side. Just as he said that, the light glowed a bit brighter and actually moved a bit closer to him.
Who is in the ice? Renamon or Wyna? Will Wick survive?
Yoo!!! Sorry for the late update, I've got a big exam coming and yeah, I tried finishing this with as less distraction as possible. I didn't die. I was plainly hibernating... :P
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Chapter 12 preview:-
"Neo, you and your friends are my last hope of defending us. Make the best of it...!" Zedomon grunted as the titan in front of him dug its claw deeper in his chest. Neo's eyes widened and he could've sworn he himself was crying.
"No, I'll stay and fight with you!!!" he insisted. He couldn't lose Zedomon. They were like brothers but unfortunately, the Deva shook his head.
"Go... And Neo, you've grown up..." Those were Zedomon's final words. He smiled at the Crimson one last time before picking him up with one arm and flung him past the closing doors of the throne room.
End of preview
:P I know, I'm evil. Heh, can't blame a girl for liking this bit...
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Whoo! 11! Lucky number!!
Iniora: Hopefully this is alright...
Blackmage: Hey, I really think you'd be depressed reading the final chapter so, prepare yourself!!!
PLEASE REVIEW!!!!
A/N:
[]-thoughts.
'...'- mental link.
The pulsing energy kept on leaking, as if it would never cease and just then, Lars drew a fist back and punched the Gate. There was silence as the energy wave slowly dissipated. Lars was panting slightly, his fist still in contact with the Gate. Silence hung in the air for a few more minutes before the Gate burst open, light flooding the forest. And that was when Lars smiled.
"Yeah! So my theory was right after all!" Lars pumped a fist in the air, laughing and E-vie, who knew exactly what he was thinking, giggled to herself.
"What the heck did he think about anyway?" Wyna queried the female biker. She smiled at the witch and said,
"Well, while we were still in the graveyard, Bee said something about our dark Modes so, he thought that they were from the Sanctuary before. If he could just trigger that dark Mode of his, he could open the Gate. And, he was right."
Everyone picked themselves off of the ground and started into the Gate, waiting if the Sanctuary was still in one piece. However, dark energy was still pulsing all around them.
Neo Crimson opened his eyes slowly.
[Has it gone?] he calmed himself, and after making sure the magic surge wasn't there anymore, he reached to his side where his knife was and at the slight sound, he sat up, grabbed the first victim he could and held his dagger towards the creature's neck. His eyes widened. It was wolf-like, but human at the same time. Those eyes, hair and face were of the human girl he met earlier.
"...Who are you?" he was trying to confirm for himself and the demi-human in front of him sighed,
"Nina, this is the second time we met, how are you? How long has it been? Oh, just about 5 minutes. I can't believe you've forgotten!!!" she opened a palm, almost as if she was going to summon a weapon of some sort and... slapped the poor Crimson. He rolled backwards twice from the impact, landing in a sitting position with one hand over his still throbbing cheek where the slap had stung.
"Ow...! Why you...!! I'm gonna-"he was just about to slash her in half when Lucifer came into view.
"Hey guys, we're going to the Gate. You coming?" Neo reluctantly put his sword down and growled. He stood up and went after Chaos Lord, who was well ahead of them.
"...Hey Nina, did you..."
'Do 'it' to him?' Nina turned bright red and started whacking poor Lucifer's head numerous times, causing the little wolf to have bumps all over his head.
"Why you... PERVERT!" Then she stomped off. Lucifer rolled about on the ground, clutching his head.
"Oh...! By the name of the Digi-world!!! I've never felt this much pain!!! Oh!!! The Pain!!!"
Later, they were on their way to the Gate. Neo closed his eyes and in a flash, he saw both Crescent and Memoria. Shaking his head, he growled to himself.
[What's wrong with me!? God! I can't take this! Where is Zedomon anyway...!? Hopefully he's alright...] Then he stopped. He was getting irritated by the way Nina was keeping an extremely close eye on him and she bumped into him. He let out an exasperated sigh, somehow managing to make Lucifer and Chaos Lord disappear from view and he said,
"You don't have to concern yourself over my own personal health." He turned to her, where she took a step back and pouted.
[Oh, no you don't. You ain't gonna try and give me that little 'puppy-dog eyed treatment! And I'm sure as hell I want an explanation out of you!] he noted to himself he wouldn't fall for it and it worked.
"But it's boring just wandering aimlessly through the forest..." he frowned. He was mad, very mad. He didn't like the thought of people worried about him and he didn't like it one bit. He didn't need anyone to worry about him. He didn't need anyone to help him. Above all that, he didn't like the idea of having people into his personal emotions or conditions.
Feeling his anger go well over him, he grabbed the half-demon by the neck and snarled in her face,
"Look, I am fine! Having a half human little brat eyeing me constantly is only going to cause your death once MoonMachinedramon is defeated!"
[I'm not going to let you get involved in this...]
She glared at him coldly. He could feel her gaze pierce through him and he didn't like it one bit.
"Yeah? Well, who's going to take care of you once you start screaming your heart out and fall over just like just now?" Neo gritted his teeth.
"I have no reason to answer you!" Before he could actually blink, she slapped him across the face, making his grip loosen and rammed him into a tree before attempting to cut off his air supply by choking him. He winced slightly, the sting of the slap still present and making his cheek turn slightly red.
"It's my turn to lecture you. I'm honestly to the point where I don't care how much of a cute demon you are, you're hurting because of something in the past so, being a nosy little Halfling I was... or am now... I intend to do something about it. And I mean, now." She dropped him, where he regained his balance and turned to him,
"Now, we've got a gate to open and a stepfather to trash."
Neo blinked. He stood completely and I mean, COMPLETELY still for at least 10 seconds to let the information sink in and suddenly yelled,
"STEPFATHER!? Are you saying that Elrond, is your stepfather!?" Nina didn't answer, only walking towards the other two mons who were waiting for her and before she could take a step closer to them, Neo stood in her way.
"Answer me."
"Or what?" Nina looked up at him angrily.
"Or I'll do exactly what you did to me just now, except include my weapon, as a good reason for you to answer me." Neo patted his dagger by his side. Nina huffed.
"You don't have the guts. Besides, you'll need my help to defeat MoonMachinedramon." Call it being honest to his bet, Neo did exactly what Nina did to him and was tempted to kill her right then and there where he growled,
"I think we can do just fine with one less fighter..." Nina, who was at a height disadvantage, was choking and with a swift kick, had Neo's dagger flying off into a tree and soon, both were trying to pin each other down on the ground in a seemingly life or death struggle.
For a moment, Neo pinned Nina down and attempted to punch her straight in between the eyes. Fortunately, she dodged just in time, looking sideways just to see where her head was, turned to dust. With the opportunity of having Neo's fist still underground, she kicked him off her and attempted to pounce on him. Suddenly, she realized she was hanging in mid-air when a gust of wind hit her.
Nina, with her eyes suddenly as wide as saucers, looked around at who could have done the binding spell on her and looked down, where the rest of the group had just came out of the gate. She pouted.
"No fair!!! I was supposed to spook YOU guys!! Not you doing it to me!!!"
The rest gaped at her, recognizing Nina's voice from her wolf-like appearance.
"NINA!?!?!?!"
Crescent fell flat on her back, panting heavily. Blood smeared her lips, where she had thrown some out earlier and slowly sat up, crouching. Still panting, she looked up. Memoria was dead. With a weak triumphant smile, she stood up.
Memoria was impaled in several parts of her body, namely her heart and having black needles sticking out of her neck in every direction, making it look as if she was wearing a collar of some sort and some were on her arms and legs. She was tied up with magic on a black pillar, where she was halfway embedded into it. Slowly, the still human-like body of hers was crystallizing, turning into an ornament for the pillar.
Crescent healed herself, knowing for sure more guards were going to stop her. She walked past the pillar and glanced at Memoria. She wasn't moving, nor breathing. With a glare, Crescent turned towards the throne. A huge condor statue was embedded onto it.
"...Finally. The Demon Summoning should be in place now." Crescent looked out of the window, which was a few feet away from her and saw thundering black clouds. She didn't feel too happy about this. The Demon Summoning Spell was going to weaken her powers the stronger the spell gets and now, her magic was slowly fading away.
She felt something go past her and shuddered slightly. Then, footsteps could be heard behind her.
"Well done, Crescent... Bring MoonMachinedramon here, now." A voice growled to her. Not minding to turn and see the person, she took a deep breath and bent her head.
"Yes, Master Elrond."
"Yes, this is Nina, the one and only." Lucifer said, stepping out of the bushes he had been hiding in, pulling some twigs and leaves out of his fur. Lars took one look at Lucifer and jumped.
"Who the hell are you!?" Nina's Chaos Lord, which had white armor, stepped up to Lucifer and both mons clasped hands, as if arm wrestling, Chaos Lord said,
"Lucifer," Lucifer raised an eyebrow.
"Chaos Lord."
While the two... uhm... three brothers had a little mental conversation to themselves, Nina was getting irritated, still 'tied up' in midair as if a target for a circus knife-throwing act. She then screamed out loud,
"Hello!! Just in case nobody noticed, would somebody PLEASE unbind me from this stupid wind spell already!?" she wriggled in the spell's bind, still not getting herself anywhere.
Neo Crimson, who had picked himself off of the ground and dusted himself off, smiled and said,
"I'd like to know who put you in that spell to begin with." He teased. He walked over to her and pushed her side lightly, making her twist in mid-air ala puppet.
"Ah yes, you're easier to keep at bay this way." He chuckled. Nina fumed.
"Oh, thanks a lot Neo! As soon as I get down, you're going head-first into that stupid tree over there!!" Then, she shifted her glare to a pair of magicians at the side, who were either giggling or chuckling at her.
"Wick, Wyna! One of you two had better un-cast this spell!!"
"Sorry, it wasn't us." Wyna shrugged, smiling. Nina blinked at her a couple of times.
"Then whoever did this better undo it now!!!!" She continued to 'pull' at her binds.
"No, don't. You do it yourself, Nina." Lucifer said, pointing at the magic pattern formed behind her. The rest looked at him as if he went nuts or something.
"Are you kidding me!? I don't know how to undo a darned spell!" she countered.
"Yes you do. Now, relax. Clear your mind and I'll guide you through." Nina did as she was told, although she had sighed exasperatedly in protest earlier. Before she could even say the first syllable of Lucifer's name, she had landed hard on her rear.
"Ow!" She cried, rubbing her sore rear. Then, a small green ball floated over her head, almost laughing. If it wasn't because of the tiny bead eyes it had, Nina would have called it a ghost.
"Oh yeah, laugh it up Wind Sprite! I'm still a novice at these stuff so if you would kindly point out at whoever had me hanging just now!" The little ball seemed to sigh for a second then floated around a certain someone. He growled and swiped at the poor little sprite,
"Hey, back nat!" one good swipe with the back of your hand and it went off flying. Nina blinked as the voice had rang a bell louder than the looks.
"Lars!!!??"
"Yeah, what!?" Nina noted that his helmet and third eye had gone missing and his clothes were slightly different.
Nina pouted cutely, her cat-like ears drooping slightly and folding her arms across her chest and said,
"Great... And I thought I got surprises for you guys... Spoiler!!" She made a face at Lars, who in turn frowned at her in an annoyed manner. Neo, who felt like he was left out, suddenly piped up,
"Wait a minute, wait a minute... Since you were able to open the Gate... Do you happen to be one of the two VanGuards?" Lars, in his so-called 'VanGuard' form, turned to Chaos Lord. Chaos Lord shrugged, leaving Lars to turn back to the Noble.
"What the heck's a VanGuard?" Wick looked upwards into the sky and his jaw dropped. There was a huge hole in the sky. It had a diameter big enough to swallow up half of the File Island.
"Oh... My..." Wick couldn't finish his sentence. Before he knew it, everything turned black. He knew he wasn't unconscious, he wasn't passing out. The 'Summoning of Demons' has begun.
Crescent stood in the middle of the room, doing a ritual of some sort. There were several separate magic circles scattered on the floor around her and she was standing in a particularly ancient rune circle. A digimon barged in, looking flustered and stopped to catch his breath. He looked at Crescent once and asked, in a somewhat stupid tone,
"What are you doing?" Crescent opened her eyes, glaring at the bishop digimon.
"I'm making tea." She said calmly. The bishop laughed.
"Very funny, Crescent but if I may say something, we don't need any of the ancestral titans you're summoning."
"Oh, I think we will, and I think they would gladly help me dispose of you if you don't get out now before I lose my concentration as you can see how many of them I'm summoning...!" she said through gritted teeth and the bishop instantly shut up.
"Yeah, a swarm..."
"OUT!!!!" Crescent bellowed, using a bit of her strength to shut the door in his face. Huffing, she calmed herself and started reciting a spell. The rune she stood on shone black as well as the others. Soon, dark figures emerged from the runes and as they were gaining shape, Crescent decided to give them life.
"...Oorma-sa-he-bi... SAHO!!!" The creatures' heads suddenly snapped up, slitted red eyes opened wide as they all roared, letting the world know that they were alive once again. Crescent smiled as they all tried to break free from the rune, which automatically paralyzes them upon movement.
"Be patient, my pets... Your time will come." Just then, one of the titans caught her eyes. It was trying as hard as it could to break free from its binds and in the blink of an eye, the rest were trying to do the same. Crescent frowned and resuming her former position, she increased the amount of magic in the runes, causing the titans to calm down. Crescent narrowed her eyes at them.
"...The war begins now..." as she gained control of the titans, she released them, allowing them to search for any intruders.
"Soon, very soon, my time will come..." she muttered under her breath, feeling a cold sweat run down her neck.
Wick opened his eyes and looked around. It was pitch black. He looked down at himself. Somehow, he had digivolved into Necromamon. What was happening? Where was he?
"...This could be the 'Demon Summoning'..." It was a forbidden magic that would allow the user to summon demons from different times at the cost of absorbing all types of magical sources, good or bad. He walked a space ahead of him and was thrown back by a lightning barrier.
"This definitely isn't good... I must find Rico and the others!!" He stood up and took his sword. He stuck it in the barrier and undid it, enabling him to go to a different area, where everything was so cold, he would freeze to death. Just like him, there was an ice barrier. He undid that too and found himself in a frozen canyon. There was a frozen lake and above it, a similarly frozen waterfall.
Wick gathered his cloak around him, chanting a fire spell to keep him warm but unfortunately, it didn't last long.
'Come on... Think! This is either Wyna or Renamon...' due to the cold, he couldn't think straight. Instead, he fell to his knees, thanks to the blizzard around him. In the frozen lake, he saw something shining faintly.
"Thank the digi-world for this..." he said slowly and tried calling out to it.
'Renamon... get up...!' After a couple of tries, it still made no attempt to move and this got Wick frustrated. With the little bit of energy he had that the blizzard didn't blow away, he pounded the thick ice with his fist.
"Come ON!!! ...You're... the only one who can... get us out of this... place..." he said, before collapsing on his side. Just as he said that, the light glowed a bit brighter and actually moved a bit closer to him.
Who is in the ice? Renamon or Wyna? Will Wick survive?
Yoo!!! Sorry for the late update, I've got a big exam coming and yeah, I tried finishing this with as less distraction as possible. I didn't die. I was plainly hibernating... :P
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Chapter 12 preview:-
"Neo, you and your friends are my last hope of defending us. Make the best of it...!" Zedomon grunted as the titan in front of him dug its claw deeper in his chest. Neo's eyes widened and he could've sworn he himself was crying.
"No, I'll stay and fight with you!!!" he insisted. He couldn't lose Zedomon. They were like brothers but unfortunately, the Deva shook his head.
"Go... And Neo, you've grown up..." Those were Zedomon's final words. He smiled at the Crimson one last time before picking him up with one arm and flung him past the closing doors of the throne room.
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:P I know, I'm evil. Heh, can't blame a girl for liking this bit...
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