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[Signs]
(Thoughts)
Summary: Abandoned by the others, after he made Greymon digivolve into SkullGreymon, Tai seeks a meaning to his new life. Not as a Digi destined, but as a Digimon.
The grand Play can now begin. Matt and the digi destined have returned to Earth at last, with them, is the mysterious Digimon Fusionmon. In seven days, the plan long plotted out by Matt will reach its completion. And somewhere in the coming darkness, Myotismon waits with his own plans for both the normal and digital world. Standing alone against them, Tai as the digimon Chimon is faced with protecting his sister, and somehow saving the world from the darkness.
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Twist of fate
Part X
Day Three: Courage before Darkness, birth of Chinobimon
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Light dying down, Kari, Gatomon and Fusionmon blinked when a new digimon stood where Tai had before. Taller, but still feline in appearance, the bushy hair on his head had turned completely white and was pulled back into a ponytail, a pair of goggles was holding up the front bangs of his hair, leaving the large brown eyes free to glare at the digimon. Around his neck, a scarf was wrapped in a lose way, and waved behind the digimon in the air as the two arms moved into a combat ready position, blue gloves covering the hands as well as a sleeveless Chinese shirt and a pair of pants covered the rest of the body.
Roaring in both confusion and anger, Fusionmon rushed forward, intent on killing the new opponent before him. Two of his heads went out to hit the new digimon from the sides while his main one went for the front. "Lightning…"
It's words never finished as Tai rushed forward, hammering both hands into the lower part of the necks, dragging it back out of the alleyway and away from his little sister. "You won't hurt her you bastard!" Jumping back, Tai crossed his arms and felt power swell up around him as his anger and desire to protect Kari kept him going.
Regaining his stance, Fusionmon glared at the small digimon who had dared to attack him. Lighting crackled along the teeth of each head as they rushed forward to rip the enemy apart limp by limp. The first head raced past the place were Tai had been just a moment before, but the feline digimon didn't avoid the second or third head, both of them getting a good hold on the left arm and around his shoulder, the teeth sinking in deeply, causing him to scream out in pain.
Moving his head, Tai stared down at the two heads holding on to his arm and shoulder with a look of anger, then a movement made him look up and straight into the eyes of the third one as it moved to fire off a lighting bolt at close range. Clenching his free hand, he brought it back and felt power run through it, gathering up to form another attack that he could use against Fusionmon. "Flare bomb."
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Flying across the rooftops, Wizardmon stared down at the destruction that had been done to the street. And hiding out in the alleyway. Gatomon and the human girl Kari were backing up, both of them staring at the fight with a curious look on their faces. Looking down at the digivice in his hands, Wizardmon nodded and descended to talk with them. "Gatomon!"
Looking up, both the human and digimon blinked their eyes in confusion, and then they looked at the object in his hands. "A digivice." Jumping forward to look closer at it, Gatomon stared up at Wizardmon with narrowed eyes. "Did you kill the eight child?"
Wizardmon shook his head and looked at Kari with a knowing stare, than he returned to talk with his old friend. "I found it in the park, as for the eight child, I think you already know who it is." Watching the confused look on Kari's face, he shook his head. "Think back Gatomon, when we first met you told me you were looking for someone."
"I was looking for someone." Gatomon stared up at her friend with a look of pure confusion.
"Yes"
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Screaming in frustration, Fusionmon turned all three heads in the direction that Tai had jumped, lighting flying from each of them to blow up parts of the road and one unlucky car parked to close to the scene. Still trailing the white and blue blur as it moved further back down the road, two of the heads dipped down to find the first target again, the human girl that the master wanted destroyed.
"Oh no you don't" Rushing forward again, Tai pulled his arms back and hammered it into the third head as hard as he could. "Don't even think of hurting her!" jumping back to avoid the two head rushing back to grab him, Tai stared in rage at the third head as a lighting bolt shot out from it, sending him flying back down the road to crash into a wall.
More pavement crashing as it moved forward, Fusionmon spat out one bolt of lighting after another, each of them aimed as the fast blur that simply didn't want to fall down and die. Moving one head back, it focused on the new movement inside the alley. "Lighting…"
"Flare Bomb!"
Screaming loudly, the head turned to face the blur rushing past it, to stand protectively in front of the ally. Clenching both of his hands, he looked closer at the large digimon's body, grimacing as each of the heads moved to find the best attack position. Tai nodded as began to run forward, the familiar attack warming up as both of his hands were wrapped in a ball of fire. "Flare Bombs." Opening the hands, he pointed them at Fusionmon and let the attack fly.
Roaring in anger, Fusionmon moved forward to crush the fool once and for all.
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Looking up at Kari, Gatomon held up the digivice that she had gotten from Wizardmon, waiting to see if what she could remember once more was right. "You, you couldn't be. Could you."
Reaching out gently, Kari touched the digivice with the tip of her fingers, nearly jumping out of her skin as a bright white light filled the alleyway once more. Pulling her hand back, Kari stared at the feline digimon with a curious look on her face. "Who… Who are you really?"
Jumping forward, Gatomon wrapped her arms around Kari's leg. "You're my chosen partner, I've finally found you." Looking up at the human girl with eyes shimmering with tears, she smiled for the first time since coming to the digital world. "You don't know how long I've looked for you."
Taking the digivice from Gatomon, Kari stared down at the feline digimon with a warm smile on her face. "It alright, does this mean I have two partners, well I don't know if I can call my brother a partner but."
Stepping forward, wizardmon looked at Kari with emotionless eyes. "You are gatomon's partner, the light from the digivice proved it. But you still need the right crest." Holding up the false one he had been given by Myotismon, he dropped it on the ground. "This one is just a fake, it won't work with the digivice, for that we need the real one, but that is in the hands of that devil, Myotismon."
The sound of another car blowing up drew the attention away from the wizard type digimon and towards the battle taking place just a few meters away from them. "Tai! We have to help him" Staring to move towards the street she felt someone grab onto the back of her leg. "Gatomon, let go, I have to help Tai."
Gatomon looked out as well, then she shook her head as she felt her partner's discomfort. "None of us are strong enough to destroy that thing, we would only be able to annoy him a bit." Moving to look closer, she followed Chinobimon as he jumped back to avoid two heads trying to bite him in half. "He should be able to stop him, but we need to give him some time."
Behind them, Wizardmon began to walk forward, lifting his staff in front of him. "Stay back, I'll distract the monster, you get ready to get Kari out of here if it doesn't work." Calling up his power, the top of his staff began to glow a pale yellow color. "Magical Game." As the words left his mouth, a line of energy rushed out, moving through the air to impact the center head. Making it roar out in annoyance.
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Tai stared with a look of confusion when the energy attack hit home, making the center head look away from him, quickly followed by the two other ones when they saw the human child they were ordered to kill. Seeing the eyes narrowed in anger, and the lighting running along the mouth of each head, made Tai see red, running forward and acting on instinct like he had done a long time ago as Chimon, he felt the rest of his power well up in his hand, more then before, and all of it ready to be unleashed on the unprepared digimon. "Burn Blast!"
Shaking, the ground broke up as a giant steak of energy blasted away from where Tai stood and rushed at the body of Fusionmon who was moving it's heads back to face him, lighting crackling alone the mouths, only to open its eyes in shock and scream out as the attack hammered into it, and then through it, burning away the last of the strength Fusionmon had, reducing him to a shower of digital information a second later.
Dropping to his knees, Tai stared at the spot where the larger digimon had been only a minute before, feeling every muscle and part of his body protest against the overuse of power. Looking at his hands, Tai grimaced when a bright white and orange light flowed over him, leaving him weaker then he had felt in months. Sitting on the ground, he looked up as a pair of hands grabbed a hold of him and pulled him into a firm hug. "Kari?"
Walking around the girl and looking up at him, Gatomon smirked as she stared around at the damage. "No bad for a first time, but I would have defeated him a lot faster." Jumping up to sit on Kari's shoulder, she stared down at him. "Looks like we both have her as a digi destined partner, Chimon." Smiling as Kari reached down to pet her, she gave Tai a narrowed glare. "And you better not hog all her time mister."
Smiling, Tai lifted his front paw up and stared at it. Then he looked down at the rest of his body. "Great, I'm smaller then ever." Looking back at the rest of his body, Tai stared with a dull look at the tail waving back and fourth. Overall, he looked like a cross between a lion and a small poppy, his fur a nice dark shade of brown.
"And cuter!" Hugging him close, Kari ended the sentence for Tai as she saw it fit. "Come on kitty, we should find a place to hide out for now, I don't think anyone of us are up to fighting anymore today." Taking the first step, she stopped and looked down the street for a place they could go to hide at, before staring back at Wizardmon still standing in the shadows. "Are you coming with us Wizardmon, we could really use your help."
Looking from the human girl, to the hopeful look on Gatomon and the finally on the tired face of Tai, he nodded and began to walk after them, once again reminding them that. "We still need to get your crest back from Myotismon Gatomon, until then, we are still in danger."
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Staring at the towering structure of the Odaiba TV Station in the distance, Joe ran a hand through his uncombed hair, his eyes showing just how little sleep he had gotten that night. Beside him, Gomamon was snoring lightly as he had no trouble sleeping. Looking down at the empty streets, Joe cursed when he thought back on that morning.
The screams from his family as the digimon's had broken in, and trashed the place he lived. It was only the noise from the other apartments that had alerted them to the danger, after that, it had been a long and hard day, running and hiding no matter where he went, and now what.
Shaking his head, Joe pushed the feeling of helplessness away, and stared at the TV station that could barely be seen from where he stood. "Jim, I'm sorry, mom, dad try to hold out, I'll find a way to help you." Lowering his head, Joe didn't even feel the wind as it passed through his hair with a chill feeling to it. "And that's the joke of today, there's no way I could do this, I'm not hero material."
"But we have to do something."
Turning around at the voice, Joe stared at Mimi as she stood on the roof behind him, her cowboy hat handing around her neck, leaving her hair to move lightly in the wind as it started to blow again. "I don't want to lose my parents." Looking at the TV station as well, Mimi walked up to stand next to the older and taller kid. "They tried to protect me, if you hadn't showed up to help me, I would have been captured with them."
Joe nodded and tried to hide his own fear at losing his parents. {I have to stay strong, for Mimi's sake, and my own.} Looking down on the ground with a deep sigh, Joe reached out and grabbed Mimi's shoulder. "I want to save them all, but I can't do it alone." Closing his eyes and feeling Mimi tense under his hand, he took a deep breath to calm himself down. "We need the others, Matt, Sora…"
"…Izzy and TK." Looking up at the older Boy, Mimi lifted her own digivice. "But how, if what Tai told us is true, they are also evil, and hiding somewhere out there."
Joe took a deep breath of air and then looked at Mimi with the most courage filled face he could. "We'll have to find them, and free them as well."
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Matt stared out of the window once again, thought running through his head as he started at his digivice and crest. "Twice… Twice since coming to this world I have lost. First someone frees two of my warriors, and now my pet Fusionmon is gone." Clenching a hand around his crest, Matt snarled as he kicked a trashcan through the room. "At this speed the project will never be completed. I need the last bit of Data from Myotismon to make it perfect, but with only three on my side left, the game has become more difficult."
Looking up from where he sat on the ground, Gabumon followed his master with unseeing eyes, the darkness just as powerful within him as it was in Matt, making any fears or feeling he might have had mute. "Perhaps we should speed up the plan, Myotismon is not really needed, he can be replaced by any other Virus digimon once this is over."
Matt stopped and looked down at Gabumon, a cold glare forming as he watched his digimon quickly look away from him. "How right you are, but I want everything to be perfect from the start." Holding up his digivice, Matt looked back at the remaining three people with him in the room, fixing his glare on one off them. "Sora, I want you to do me a little favor."
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Staring from one kid to the other, Myotismon lifted up the small and disgusting thing in his hands. To an evil and dark digimon like him, the crest of light was the foulest thing he could think off. It stood for all the things he hated, Light, compassion. "Part of the legendary power." Moving to stare out over his new domain, his eyes narrowed to slits. "It has been eons since that power showed up in the digital world. Light with Courage, together with Hope and Friendship, defeated the legendary digimon Moon-Millenniummon."
Next to him, Demidevimon shivered as he heard the old legend, all virus digimons feared hearing about it, as it was a legend dealing with the most evil digimon of them all. "The great era, the time when the digital world had not yet found balance. Five summoned from the other world, united under one, they fought to defeat the evil digimon."
Looking at his most useless servant as he dared to interrupt him, Myotismon eyes flashed when he heard the first part of the story. Still, he shouldn't be surprised, he had told the legend over and over to himself, always keeping an eye out for some means to get that same power. "Yet, the outcome of that battle was almost destined from the start, the evil was too strong to be defeated, so they imprisoned him beyond the fire wall."
Looking at the crest again, Myotismon smirked as he turned around to face the mass of children outside the room once more. "That power was lost when the foolish digital guardians began to fear what they had helped create, the two digimons were shattered, and their powerful data hidden inside the dying human partners to ensure it would never be found again."
Looking nervously at his great master, Demidevimon hopped closer to him, but not close enough to receive a beating. "Is it possible that the power could still exist Lord Myotismon, after all, these children show the same kind of power as the ones in the legend did."
Nodding, Myotismon turned to face his servant with a look of speculation. "Yes, it might have reacted to the growing darkness in the digital world and tried to reform again." Lifting up the crest, he stared at it with unhidden anger. "And the crest of Light that the overseers of the digital world made before they died. And the only one who can tell me more about it, has been missing for years now, ever since that clown attacked and destroyed their little hideout. Piedmon knew I would throw everything away to find and kill the one it belongs too, after all, the prophecies says that the one who holds it, will the one to defeat me." Tossing the crest away with the last words, the vampire digimon turned to stare out of the windows, once again feeling doubts about everything.
Flying up from the table, Demidevimon hovered in the air for a few seconds before he moved over to sit next to his master once again. "But, why go to this world, why not just destroy the crest master?"
Looking down at the bowling ball shaped digimon, his eyes narrowed as the same question he had asked himself over and over again ran through his mind again. "Yes, why?" Lowering his eyes to face the empty street, he clenched his hands. "The reason is one I don't know. I am the one who is destined to cover the two worlds with darkness, that I know." Using his powers, he lifted the crest from the floor and pulled it back into his hand where he stared at it. "And to make sure of that, I must defeat the one who could destroy me, the digidestined of light and her digimon will not survive to challenge me."
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"You think we have a chance?"
Joe looked at Mimi as she spoke softly, then he returned to stare into the fog filled night. A grim reminder that the darkness controlling their friends wasn't the only evil thing out there, and this one had the chance to be even more dark and cruel. "I don't know, but I will try, I owe it to them all, and this is what Tai would have done."
Mimi Looked up from where she had been sitting and nodded as she remembered the strong determination she had seen in the bushy haired boy when ever they had to fight. "He would fight to the end." Standing up, Mimi lifted up her crest and stared at the small picture on it. "Sincerity, it doesn't fit me at all."
Joe turned to hold up his own and smiled. "Well, I have reliability, but I haven't really lived up to it have I." Walking over to her, Joe stared at her crest. "We need to find out what these crest mean to have a chance, so…" Looking out over the city, Joe dropped his crest back down around his neck. "I'm going to be reliable and help the others."
Mimi stared at Joe as a small smile tucked at her lips, the idea of Joe rushing into battle didn't really fit the older boy at all. "Well, I wouldn't be sincere if I told you that I didn't trust you, I just find it hard for us to stand a chance." Turning around to look out over Odaiba dark streets in the darkening air, Mimi felt a small tear roll down her cheeks. {Mum, Dad, my friends, I'll try and be strong for you, but I don't know if I can}
Unseen by both kids, a small glow formed around each of their crest as they closed their eyes, their thoughts on the danger they would be facing the next day.
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Staring out at the darkness around them, Tai stared up at the few stars that could still be seen through the dense fog with a happy smile on his face as he felt Kari move next to him. Turning his gaze down from the sky, he looked at the purring form of Gatomon. "So, you're my sister true digi destine partner digimon." Looking back at the sleeping girl with a caring look, he felt the sides of his mouth twitch at the sight of his little sister suddenly hugging Gatomon close like a teddy bear. "So do we have a agreement Gatomon, we fight together to protect Kari and defeat Myotismon."
Looking down from where she was held close to the little Girl, Gatomon smiled herself. "Yes, I want to hurt that bastard for trying to take away my dreams." Looking away from Tai, she stared at the taller digimon sitting next to the small campfire they had dared to make. "And what about you my old friend, will you help us as well?"
Looking up from his own thought, Wizardmon stared at them with a strange expression on his face. "For you Gatomon, yes, I still owe you for what you did back then." Looking back down at the fire, he pulled his cloak in tighter around him. "But we need to get the true crest from Myotismon and that won't be easy."
All three digimon nodded as they remembered the sheer power and darkness the ultimate digimon gave off whenever he was near. Looking into the fire, Tai flexed his arms as he slowly felt power return to him. "I need a little more time before I can digivolve into Chimon again. But I know this, with a group like this, we can't fail."
TBC: Day Four: Puppets of Darkness, Fighting For Friends.
AN: Oi, this was a hard one to write. A case of writers block in the middle of it didn't help anything either. As for the next chapter, it may take a little longer to be written and posted. I'm way behind on several other fics. As for this fic, I wouldn't mind to see some art for it, I know that I can draw myself, but I would like to see how you people out there sees Chimon and Chinobimon, as for Tai's Rookie form, it will be named in the next chapter.
Until then,
Dak.