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 seventh day of darkness is here, but can the Digi Destined really defeat the monster know as Milleniummon or does he have any extra tricks up his sleeves. And while the DD's are fighting the battle for earth, what's happening to the Digital World?
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Twist of fate
Part XII
Day Seven: Together again under a sky of Darkness
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The streets of Odaiba found themselves under attack by a force they hadn't been built to handle, moving past the large, somewhat damaged buildings, creating large holes in the pavement as he moved rapidly through the main parts of the area, Millenniummon roared in triumph as another Bakemon patrol found themselves face to face with the evil digimon.
In his first right hand, Matt was still out of it, the transfer of the evil energy and the spirit form of Millenniumon possessing him for so long had taken a toll on his system and left him with more problems then before, but despite all that, it was a good thing that he was too hurt to wake up, if he had, he would have been the first witness to the second part of the grand plan.
Cries of pain filled the air as the Bakemons met with a quick end, the dark waves of energy tearing through the bodies and reducing them to nothing more then digital dust floating around in the wind, then the data began to float upwards, to merge with the towering Mega digimon as the cold hearted laughter filled the whole place once more.
Lowering his eyes to stare around the street, the mega digimon felt the small stirring of the human boy in his hand, and the still slumbering power inside of him. But it still wasn't time to drain that power, he needed more digital energy to complete his grand plan, and for now, the only way to get the desire amount he needed, was to attack and destroy all the digimon's in the area. Thankfully, Myotismon, incompetent as he had been, had provided him with the right amount of the. His head turning, he stared into the distance and right at the towering structure of the convention centre. "Soon, the worlds will be rebuilt, in my image." Rounding the corner, he allowed a small chuckle to escape his mouth as another group of Bakemon's screamed as they came face to face with their end.
Moving away after his snack, Millenniumon trampled a few cars and knocked over a streetlight as he continued to move in the direction of the conference centre, his eyes glowing at the thought of the digimons guarding it and the number of human prisoners inside of it, he had no real use for the humans help prisoner, draining them of their weak and useless energy wouldn't even give him a single fraction of the power he needed, but they could be used for something completely different.
In the distance, the building holding the families of the digidestined began to be visible, and in front of it, a large group of digimons having a quick huddle. "Yes, why seek out the pray, when you can have it come to you instead." Eyes narrowing, he lowered down and pointed his cannons at the digimons, eyes glowing with malice as they powered up. "Ultimate Fusion!"
The Digimons never knew what hit them, the few champions and rookie digimons in the group, blasting part in a shower of digital information and power in an instant, the more powerful digimons turning to face the attacker as he stepped out to stream the digimons data. "Who are you?"
Laughing as the last bit of data entered him, Millenniummon lowered his head to stare at the digimons before him. "Millenniommon, the one who will rule it all." Bright lights flared from his back as the cannons fired over and over again, the screams of the digimons rising into the air, then it was all over, the digimons who had show a small bit of intelligence had run off when the first shots had been fired, and the rest when the first digimons had been streamed by the power-hungry digimon.
Staring at the building in front of him, Millenniummon laughed to the heaves as he used one hand to smash the walls to rubble, his shadow falling over the humans still held prisoner inside of it, his cold eyes moving over each of them in a non caring way, taking a delight in the screams of pure terror and fear coming from the inferior creatures. "The bait has been laid, now all I need to do is wait for the trap to spring."
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{You know how to do it}
"I know how to do it."
Ignoring the fiery haired girl holding him, Tai groggily sat up on all fours, following the inner voice showing him just what he had to do in order to win, the power flowing to him from an unknown source. "I can do it." Jumping off the girl and soaring into the air, the power of a digivolution slammed into him, driving him along the path he had to take. "C-mon, digivolves too... Chimon." Landing on his feet, Tai spun around and stared at the shocked faces of Sora and Kari as she dropped the wet cloth in her hands at the sight of her brother erupting with bright orange light. "Chimon, digivolves too, Chinobimon." Towering up over the two girls, Tai's ultimate form lowered his head and shot a piercing look at their digivices. "I need... More data." Lifting up a hand, Chinobimon took a step forward.
Backing up at the strange power-hungry sound in her big brother voice, Kari felt Soar grab her and make a break for it. Behind them, Gatomon had woken and seeing what was going on, had jumped through the air to land protectively in front of her partner a cry of battle coming from her mouth as she soared past Chinobimon, only to let out a yell of pain as she was simply swatted away by him and right into the ground with a thud, her eyes opening as she tried to stand up, her strength leaving her as she saw Chinobimon powering up a burn blast. "Tai! Stop it!" Regretting yelling a second later, Kari and Sora screamed again as Tai returned his attention to them, instead of making sure Gatomon was no longer a treat.
The yell from the two girls drew in the attention from the other digi destined still discussing a possible way to free Matt from the evil, their digimon partners waking up at the sudden noise that eripted. "What's going on?" Taking charge for the second time since going to the digital world, Joe rushed forward to get the two girls back to safety. "What's wrong with him."
Izzy, turning away for the group, snapped open his laptop and stared at the readings. "Not good, he at the ultimate level again." Reading further down at the rather useful changes his darker side had made to it, he blinked as he spotted the power readings he got from the tall, Chinese warrior like digimon. "That can't be... It's like there's two entities inside that digimon."
Standing behind the two boys, Mimi felt a bit of fear running through her, the sight of the digimon who was her friend turn against them, sent painful memories of the times on File Island back to the surface, and the many good digimons who would simply turn to evil at the drop of hat, and all thanks to a black gear, the only difference this time, was the fact that there was no black gears, no evil digimon to blame it on and the only treat left was. "Matt, could he have done this?"
Looking back over his shoulder at her, Izzy eyes narrowed as he thought about it. "If he could control us, he might also be able to control others, but why should he." Looking back at Chinobimon, he stood up and lifted his digivice. "No matter what the problem is with Tai, we have to make sure he doesn't hurt us until I have finished my analysis of the data." Looking at his digimon, he gave a small smile. "Try not to hurt him okay."
Buzzing loudly at the words, Tentomon looked at his partner. "Hurt him, what if he hurts me." Holding up his claws he pointed at the digimon still walking towards the two girls. "I'm not up to getting swatted like a simple fly and." Seeing the look on his partners face, he nodded and flew forward. "I'll try Izzy..." Then a pillar of light shot out of the sky and hit him. "Tentomon Digivolve too..." The small red insect digimon blasted out of the light in his much large and blue form. "Kabuterimon!"
Looking down at the seal like digimon, Joe lifted up his digivice, a look of determination back on his face, and a bit of regret having to fight one of their own again. "You too Gomamon."
Nodding, the seal digimon glowed a bright white as the pillar of light shot down from the sky and hit him. "Gomamon, digivolve too." The light blasted apart and left the much larger form of. "Ikkakumon!" Behind. Stomping forward, the sea animal type digimon lowered his head and pointed his horn and the warrior type digimon. "Harpoon torpedo!"
Chinobimon stopped advancing at the cry and turned around in time to get blasted away from Kari and Sora by Ikkakumon's attack, twisting around in the air as he flew backwards, he glared down at the one preventing him from getting what he needed. "Flare Bombs!" The less powerful one of his attacks hot out and aimed right towards the digimon who had attacked him.
Spotting the attack, Kabuterimon flew down from his vantage point in the sky and fired off his own attack. "Electro shocker!" Screaming through the air, the massive electric attack smacked into the twin fire blasts and blew up in a shower of smoke and fire, sending a shockwave of hot air out over the area, covering the ground from view. "Tai stop it, we don't want to hurt you."
Then the smoke exploded in one place as Chinobimon jumped out of it, his aim taking him right up towards Kabuterimon, his hands glowing with power. "Flare Bombs!" Letting lose with the attacks as he reached the maximum height of his jump, Chinobimon turned his attention away from his flying opponent and prepared for fighting his way towards someone who had what he need. "I can do it, I know I can, Milleniummmon must be stopped."
Smacking into the ground, Tentomon groaned loudly as he struggle up again, the attack had really hurt, and despite having a lot of combat training and taking a beating from various digimons it still hadn't been enough to keep him from dedigivolving, and now, he was a rookie, and a rookie was simply no match for an ultimate. "Izzy, look out!"
Turning around at the cry, the red haired boy stared in the direction of the cry, behind him, he felt both Joe and Mimi tense up, then he saw the one thing he hadn't thought he would ever fear. "Tai?" Then he looked back towards the source of the earlier cry. "Tentomon, are you okay?"
Backing away, Mimi stared up at the shadow moving towards them. "Forget Tentomon, you should be more worried about us." She cried as she backed away, her hand moving down to grab her bag and digivice, hoping that they could protect her. "Palmon!"
Stepping out of the fading dust, Chinobimon looked down at the three children covering before him, then he lifted up an hand, ready to reach down and strip them of their power and data. "Get away from them." Spinning around, he met a large red boxing glove as it smacked into him, sending him flying backwards through the air, and right into the ground. "Mimi, are you okay?"
Looking up from she had been hiding behind Joe and Izzy, Mimi grinned as she spotted her digimon partner in her champion form, the cactus like digimon smiling down at her. "Togomon!"
"Tai stop it!"
Turning away, the three humans and one digimon stared in mute horror as Chinobimon reached down and grabbed his own sister off the ground, her weight no problem for the powerful ultimate. "You have it, give it to me." The words were low, but could be heard by all of them as the digimon lifted up his free hand and began to reach down for the two digivices at her belt. "I need it."
Screaming out for help, Kari managed to get her right hand free, as her brother was busier trying to get one of the digivices away from her. "Sora... Gatomon... Someone help me" Looking up with eyes full of tears, Kari grabbed her brother digivice from her belt in a desperate attempt. "Stop it!!!"
Bright light erupted at the young girls cry, Forcing Chinobimon to step away from her, his hand opening and dropping her to the ground as he stumbled backwards, a burning feeling spreading throughout his whole body. On the ground, Sora had rushed forward and grabbed Kari as she fell down, giving a loud cry of pain as they both tumbled to the ground in a heap, then she turned to see a sight she wouldn't forget right away.
Hovering in the air before them Tai's digivice spun around to face them slowly as it glowed with a bright orange color, at Kari's belt, the digivice of light did the same as it slowly lifted up into the air, streams of light shooting from it into the digivice of courage, who in turn shot out streams of orange light then she noticed her own digivice lifting up into the air to hovered there with the other two, beams of red light coming from hers. "What's going on?" She never did find out who of them had asked it, for at the moment the three streams of light slammed together into a burning ball of golden light that shot into the crests of Courage around Kari's neck, the resulting blast of golden light coming from the crest blinding all of them.
"Chinobimon digivolve too..." Light exploding out to form a pillar around him, Chinobimon stood up tall and ready as his body once again changed. Spinning around, his face took on a more animal like form then the human one it had had, his ears grew a bit bigger as his eyes took on a bright crimson color. The messy brown hair shot out to reach the middle of his back, turning into a flaming red color, his arms grew bigger around the wrist as the hand twisted and lose the fourth and fifth finger, the Chinese shirt he had been wearing bust apart as his chest gained a bigger muscle mass, the lose fabric flowed down his body as it broke to form a large tiger like tail, and two metal gloves on his hands and two metal ankle braces around his lower legs. Each of the gloves shimmered before three metallic claws formed on them. "Archchimon."
Landing on his feet, Archchimon lowered his arms to his side, his eyes staring into the air, a feeling on endless power coming from him as he turned to stare into the dark city district. "He's close, I can feel it." Then he jumped off from the ground and landed a good distance away from the still shocked digi destined, before he began to run towards the conference centre as fast as he could.
Izzy blinked before he gripped his laptop and held it up to the large digimon running away form them, his eyes narrowing in concentration as his finger flew over the keypads, punching in the correct command for the digital scan program he had created while under the influence of the darkness. "Got it." His cry caused the still shocked group to turn and stare at him as he looked up with a trouble expression on his face. "This is bad, Tai just digivolved into his Mega form, Archchimon."
Kari blinked as she heard those words. "Mega form?" Then she looked down at the digivices on the ground, seeing Tai's glow with an image of the crest of courage on it.
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"Mega Form?"
Tai glared at the digimon before him as he struggled to get free of the white stuff holding him back. "What the heck do you mean we're in an mega form, and just who are you anyway?" Eyes nearly glowing with anger as he yelled, Tai grinned darkly as he saw the dragon like digimon shrink back from him. "Well?"
Coughing a bit to regain what shred of dignity he had left, the large dragon like digimon moved closer to the struggling human, well as close as he could get since half of his body was trapped in the same white stuff as the boy. "Taichi." The word caused the boy to stop struggling and turn his head to stare at the digimon again. "I think, it's time we talked some more." Eyes taking on a distant and hurt look, the digimon head lowered itself to stare directly into Tai's, brown eye locking onto brown eyes of the same color. "We are currently stuck in a big problem, you see, I am Archdramon, the former mega form of Chimon."
Tai stopped struggling and turned a surprised look up at the tall digimon above him, his mouth opening and closing much like a fish on land did. Then he seemed to snap out of it and return to glaring death at the tall digimon. "What do you mean, I thought I was Chimon, some freakish accident caused digimon."
Arcgdramon coughed a bit more at the words and suddenly looked away from the goggle wearing boy in a hurry, his eyes showing a rather large bit of discomfort at the outburst from the brown haired boy. "Well, it wasn't as much an accident, as a clever ploy by me to save your life from that mad monkey." Going straight from a trouble look to a rather smug one, Archdramon raised his head up high. "After my heroic and legendary victory over that vile Moonmilleniummon, I kinda thought that I would get to relax, you know bask in the glory of my greatest battle ever." Eyes shinning with pride, Archdramon smug smile showed off every single one of his sharp teeth at once.
Tai felt a frown form on his head as he stared at the dragon like digimon, trying to figure out just where he had seen and heard that kind of attitude before, cause it was really bugging him right about now, not to mention the white stuff round his arms and legs was really starting to creep him out as well, not that he'd admit it to this... this... "Just get to the point will you!"
Archdramon blinked and once again coughed before returning to his story, his eyes showing just the tiniest hint of embarrassment over his arrogant behaviour. "Long story short, due to a rather large amount of damage to the digital world caused by me and Warmon in the last part of the battle, the newly formed four digimon gods and the order of the guardians, decided to remove the chance of anyone ever reaching our forms again." A sad note crept into his voice at the end of the sentence, as the brown eyes took on a distant look. "With their powers, the evolutional path for both me and Ishimon were forever sealed, but... but both me and Ishimon was still around, and so was the chance of us ever returning to our mega forms"
Tai shook his head as the memory of facing four large shadow covered digimons floated through his mind, the fear of hearing the decision to seal off his evolutional path forever still burning through fresh in his mind, even if he knew he had never really lived through it himself. "Gennai, he was a member of the guardian order, he must have know form the start." The words held a dark edge to them as Tai looked at the dragon type digimon. "He knew from the start."
Archdramon snorted as he looked own at his captive listener with eyes full of sudden understanding as to the anger burning in Tai, the same anger flowing through him as well, over the harsh punishment handed out to the saviours of the digital world. "Gennai, a common name within the growing order, they had no powers on their own, so they often worked for the digimons who would protect them." Voice showing a bit of hate, Archdramon clenched his hands inside the white stuff. "Do you want to know why I am inside of you?" At Tai's nod, Archdramon recalled the final hour of his former life. "Nanami, my partner, was hurt badly in the final battle. Her body was healing under the care and protection of the Order, I was standing beside her, as I always had, waiting for her to wake up, when I heard Ishimon enter, along with the blasted guardians, they had blocked his powers, and before I knew, mine as well, said we were to big a threat and therefore had to be removed to protect everything."
Tai felt his whole body glow with anger at the words of the digimon next to him, the very idea that the gentle and caring Gennai could come from an order that would turn on their own saviors and heroes like that. "Wait, what about the other ones, Palmon, Biyomon and Salamon, why weren't they punished as well? Their evolution forms are still around."
Archdramon sighed as he closed his eyes. "They, didn't caused the damage to the digital world, it was me and Ishimon, when we combined our attacks, we blew the body of Moonmilleniummon into the central power core of his castle, the resulting explosion destroyed so much, I can still see the burning forests for my eyes, the darkening sky and the powerful earthquake that tore through the digital world, worse, the evil digimon's power of time and space, went out of control and warped everything. Land masses were mixed together, time began to go extremely fast, and the darkness spread from just one digimon to the whole world, it was weak at that time, but it would become stronger with time."
Tai blinked at the recount of the destruction, and then narrowed his eyes. "Yeah, but that was an accident, it didn't give them any right to delete you or Ishimon."
Archdramon opened his eyes and looked out into the air, not focusing on anything. "They didn't delete us."
Tai stopped his angry rent and looked up in confusion. "What?"
Smiling in a sick way, Archdramon shifted the part of his body that was free from the white stuff. "They couldn't destroy us, not without killing our partners as well." Eyes closing at yet another painful memory, the large digimon sighed before he spoke again. "They did something far worse."
Tai felt himself go cold at the words, several questions forming in his mind as he began to think over it. Just how had he become Chimon in the first place, if this Archdramon was to be believed, he had turned him into Chimon to protect him from Etemon. But how could that happen, there had been no one but him and Agumon when they battled Etemon. And how did the Digimon know so much of the stuff he had been remembering lately, things he had never seen or been a part of.
Glowing a bright white, Archdramon sudden shrunk down, his eyes never leaving Tai's as he took on a much smaller, but very familiar appearance, the multi colored hair falling down over the same brown eyes and brown furred body, the clawed fingers and blue pants. "Tai, I am a part of you, the guardians, they speeded up Nanami's healing by breaking me up into my digital information and hiding me inside of her, my power healed her faster then she or the guardians could."
Shaking his head, Tai closed his eyes, a painful shock travelling through him. "It can't be." Opening them, he stared into the brown eyes and found himself staring at his own face in the reflection of the iris. "But mum, she's... No… I don't believe it!" The last part was yelled out loudly as Tai struggled to get free.
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Landing on the ground, Archchimon stared at the large open space between him and his target, his eyes moving to stare at the shadow towering up over the rubble. "Milleniummon." despite the long distance between them, he saw the evil digimon turn around to stare at him with the same all knowing look in his eyes. "It's time... to end it."
Smiling as he turned completely around to face his opponent, Millenniummon grinned as he lifted up both of his lower arms, showing just what he was holding in them to the digimon before him. "Yes, it is time to end this, this battle and all the others, has taken far too much of my time."
Grinning as he began to move forward, Archchimon calmly stepped over the broken cars and small holes in the pavement, his eyes never moving away from the digimon before him. "Too much of your time, funny to hear that from a digimon like you, the master of time and space itself." Clenching his hands, Archchimon face turned serious as the claws lit up with energy. "Let the kid and the Gabumon go, and I might show you some mercy and give you a quick death."
Eyes glowing red with anger at the words, Milleniummon roared loudly as he stepped forward, his eyes still glowing and he began to lower himself down forward, the cannons on his back lit up with fresh power. "Mercy, it's you who should be asking for that, once I have destroyed you, I shall destroy the other brats and finally, I shall reconfigure the realities as I see fit."
Mouth taking on a cold sneer, Archchimon lifted up his claws into a battle position, his tail moving from side to side as he prepared to strike out at his old foe. "You are mistake once again, you see, I am not that weakling you knew in the past, nor am I that blasted Hybrid merge that was born in the desert. I am the total amount of both of them, I know your fighting style and attacks, I know your limits and weaknesses, and I will delete you, old one, for I do not fear you!" Jumping forward at the last bit, Archchimon roared loudly as he jumped off a car wreck and shot up into the air. "Now Die, Fist of Judgement!!"
Eyes glowing dark red, Milleniummon roar shattered the few remaining windows around them as he saw the opening attack heading right towards him. "Insolent weakling, I shall enjoy this battle, as I will enjoy streaming your data as you die, Ultimate Fusion!!" Firing off his two cannons at the incoming attack, Millenniumon charged to the left, trying to think off what to do next.
In the centre of the battle field, everything was covered by a bright white light as the two attacks smacked into one another, a shockwave sending the nearest piles of rubble and car wrecks flying while a small mushroom shaped cloud of smoke and fire rose up into the star filled night air.
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Staring around in shock, Tai blinked as he felt the whole place shake around him as a gust of hot air moved through the area, ruffling his hair and caused him to sweat a little. "What was that?" Yelling out loud, Tai turned to stare at newly revealed Chimon for an answer to his question.
Looking back at him with the same curious expression, the small digimon blinked and then looked up at the darkness above them, following the white stuff as sit faded away somewhere above them. "Your guess is as good as mine, but personally, I think he's going up against Milleniummon."
Looking at the digimon beside him, Tai struggled to understand everything he had just been told within the last five minutes, the fact that he was some human digimon hybrid from birth still sending a shiver down his back, more then the fact that he was trapped in his own mind did. "What, but... what about Matt, and the others, just where did this guy come from?"
Looking at Tai with an tired expression, Chimon sighed loudly and then closed his eyes as if trying to escape from something that only he could see, and had no intention of doing. "From both of us, look at us, we're two sides of the same coin, you are what we would be had we been a complete human, I am what we would have been if we had been a complete digimon, the one in control now, is a complete mixture of both of us." Seeing the shock on Tai's face, he knew it had been the same on his own when he had first figured it out. "He holds all of our memories, and my will to fight to the darkness to the bitter end and you courage to never give up no matter what the odds are."
"He's..." Tai stared as he looked up at the darkness above him, eyes going distant as he tried to see what this new personality was doing with his body at the moment. "He's... fighting without a care for anyone around him." Voice shaking as he spoke, Tai struggled to escape from the single-minded thoughts reaching him from the mental link. "He... wants to defeat Milleniummon no matter what it takes."
Smirking in an empty kind of way, Chimon looked at Tai with a hopeless expression on his face. "He fights like that... because he has no one to protect... nothing besides defeating our enemy that gives his life meaning." Looking at Tai, he gave a small grin free from any positive emotion. "I had Nanami to protect and look after... You have Kari... Who does he have to protect but himself?"
Tai looked with a face filled with a sudden look of pity. "No one."
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Slashing out with his claws, Archchimon roared in frustration as the arm he had aimed for moved out of the way a bit too fast, sending the beast man type digimon flying through the air with a wide open back, something that the dark mega took advantage off as the other arm and hand smacked into him from the back, propelling him into a piece of the road sticking up in the air. "Dammit!"
Looking down at the digimon before him, Milleniummon chuckled as he lifted up an arms and smacked it down with all of his strength, taking a dark joy in feeling the asphalt and dirt shatter beneath his fist. "Well, looks like the battle is over, and here I was hoping you could at least put up a decent fight." Pulling back his hand, he blinked as he failed to see any sigh of his foe. "What!"
"Claws of The Beast!"
Screaming in pain and shock as he moved back, the dark mega turned to stare at the shadow landing on the road with a hateful glare, on the side of his head, three red gashes slowly began to bleed slightly. "You... you have dared to hurt me. A reborn god!!!" Roaring out the last bit, Milleniummon's eyes glowed red as several waves of darkness shot out from around him, throwing both the digimon and all the rubble from the battle into the air.
Spinning around and rebounding off a road piece in mid air, Archchimon grinned as his claws glowed with his power once more, his eyes twinkling with mocking laughter as he made is way back to the dark mega. "Yes, and I'll do more then hurt you, I'll destroy you forever!"
"I think not!" Milleniumon roared out as the cannons on his back flashing into life and sent out two spheres of glowing energy that tore right into his attacking foe earning him a scream of pain as the beast man type digimon went flying backwards. "You see now, even with all of your hard work, the battle to regain your strength, you still can't beat me." Hand smacking down harshly on the pavement, dark laughter filled the air as another scream of pain rose up to the sky.
"Hand of Fate!"
The attack slashed through the air and impacted him right in the side of his head; causing him to lose sight of the digimon he hated the most. Instead, he found himself focusing on the angel digimon hovering right before him in the air. "The angel brat!" The words were hissed out as his eyes turned to stare behind the digimon. "The rest of the brats, excellent, it wouldn't be fun without an audience here to witness my rise to glory."
Hovering down to land next to Archchimon, Angemon reached out a hand and felt it grabbed by the mega digimon in a less then gentle way as the claws dug into his arms as he felt himself nearly pulled down by the other digimon. "What happened Tai, what caused you to go on the rampage back there?"
Pushing Angemon away as soon as he had gotten up, Archchimon panted as he began to walk forward, his eyes never leaving Millenniumon's large frame. "I don't care what it take, I will defeat you no matter what." Slipping into a stance, he began to hard process of powering up his claws for another attack.
Lifting Matt up over his head, Milleniummon grinned at the Digimon panting before him, the sight of the human brats and their digimon growing bigger in the distance telling him it was time to pull out a last trick from his sleeve. "Truly, you are my greatest foe, but this little game ends now." Clenching his hand, the mega digimon began to laugh as two DNA shaped blue light streams flowed out of Matt's body and down the arm holding him up. "Can you stand up to the total sum of an reborn God? Well Archchimon?" Laughing out loud as the last strand off light flowed into him, Milleniumon opened his hand and simply dropped the boy onto the ground with no care if he died or not. "Milleniummon Digivovle too..."
Staring in shock, Archchimon blinked when a white and blue blur flew in between him and the digivolving mega digimon, following it shortly, he spotted Angemon grabbing the human boy and caring him off to safety. Then he returned to stare forward as an evil laughter erupted from the light, higher pitched and sounding like two persons laughing at the same the same time, he grimaced as he spotted the familiar shape emerge from the light. "NO!!!"
"...Moonmilleniummon." Yelling out in two voices at the same time, the new mega digimon looked down at the group before him, his eyes staring at each of the human children with nothing less that a dark amusement on his face as he spotted the shocked and hopeless expression on each of their faces, the light from a few fires glinting off the semi transparent, finely cut crystal encasing him completely. "Now... my era has finally started once more." Slowly moving upwards into the sky, his laughter filled the sky, as it seemed to crack and twist with each second that passed as long lines began to form over it, each of them boarded by an line of complete darkness. "Yes, the barrier is falling as I predicted, with more and more darkness flooding the digital world the two worlds become closer as balance is lost." Moving faster, the dark digimon grinned as it felt the gate back to his home opening up before him. "And it is from the digital world, that my plan shall finally be completed at last, behold you ignorant digmons and humans, as a new era begins, my era."
Standing on the ground below, Archchimon eyes turned distant as he dropped down onto his knees, a yellow glow spreading ovver him as he began to shrink into a much small form. "I failed... to complete my mission." As the light died, a small digimon, nothing more then a 5 year old child sized cat like humaniod with big brown eyes and cat ears looked up into the sky, eyes glowing as Tai once again regained control of his body, his mind struggling to understand what had happened. "Kari!!"
"Tai!"
The cry was echoed by several voices as the Digi Destined arrived on the scene. Their digimon fully evolved or as high as they dared to go were landing on the ground. TK, and Joe breaking off from the group to rush Angemon who was placing Matt on the ground, while Sora dn Kari ran towards Tai in his Chimon form. "What happened?"
"That's what we want to know."
Looking up from his place on the ground, Tai spotted his mum and dad walking out of the ruined building, severla other people trailing behind them. "Mum... Nanami." The words were breathed out as he felt someone push the last bit into his mouth. "You're okay."
"Matt... TK what are you doing here?"
"Sora, are you okay?"
"Mimi, my little princess, what are you doing out here, with those monsters?"
"Joe, explain this?"
"Kari... Tai... start telling us just what is going on here?"
Looking at one another, the kids felt themselves hesitate as they were faced with the questions of their parents and several strangers who had gathered around the group as well. "It's kinda of a long story." Sora offered as she looked around the parents present there, and the strangers who were growing in numbers around them. "It all started back at summer camp..."
Drifting away from the crown listing to the Digi Destined telling the story, Nanami Yagami and her husband Hiro Yagami stared down at the girl and digimons before them, a very stern look on their face as they scanned for anyone nearby. "Tai, I can't believe you didn't tell us about this?" Nanami stared as she settled down on a piece of road, her eyes never leaving the face of the cat man like digimon. "I'm your mother, you should tell me about things like this." Looking back as a slight cough came from her husband, she grinned. "And your father as well."
Stepping forward and slipping down on his knees, Hiro gazed into his son's eyes, looking for anything that showed that he was still human and not completely this monster standing before him. "Tai, tell me, can this... be fixed?" Waving a hand at his son, his voice shook a bit as he saw the sudden sad look filling those brown orbs. "Tell me please."
Crossing her arms, as she looked from her daughter to her son, Nanami blew a lock of hair out of her eyes, vowing to find a mirror and fix it before anyone else noticed it was coming out of the ponytail. "I would much rather want to know why you look like my digimon partner?"
Everything around then halted at that simple sentence, Tai, Kari and Gatomon's eyes turned to stare at her in confusion. Next to Nanami, Hiro stood up and brushed off a bit of dirt from his pants. "Dear, I thought we agreed not to mention it again, after the way it hurt you to leave."
"You're Digi destined!" Kari cried out as she pointed at them with a shaking finger. "But, I thought that." Turning to stare at Tai and Gatomon for an explanation, she halted as she saw Tai's eyes twinkle in a sudden show of affection. "Tai, What's wrong with you now?"
"Nanami!"
"Chimon!"
The elder woman and digimon embraced as the two humans and single digimon felt even more puzzled then ever. "Now I'm completely lost as well." Gatomon mumbled as she began to lick her paw and staring at the group before her.
Kari nodded as she sat down on a road piece. "Yeah, things just keep getting weirder by the minute." Looking at her brother purring loudly as his eyes were rubbed, she felt like smacking a hand over her face from embarrassment. "Tai, what are you doing?"
"I'm not Tai." The simple comment had Kari nearly fall down in shock as the digimon form of her brother turned around to look at her with big eyes full of happiness. "I'm Chimon."
"Chimon?" It was as much a statement as it was a question, but by the way the digimon smiled at her, she knew things had become too much of a mess for her to try and figure out, the only thing she could hope for was an" Explain this, where my brother, what happened back there, and where do you know my mother from?"
The digimon grinned a bit at her as he sat down next to her mother, his tail moving around in a strange way showing just how amused he was by it all. "I guess I should." Looking up at his partner, he grinned when he felt her rub his tail. "A long time ago, I was hatched from my egg in the Digital World to be the partner of your mother, Nanami." Letting it sink in before he continued, Chimon stared up at Hiro with a question look, asking permission from him to tell the rest of the stuff about the group he had been a part off and how it affected the rest of the family, seeing no attempt to stop him, he smiled and continued. "There were others with her, A overeager kid with a Salamon, a girl with a Palmon one more with a Biyomon, and a brat with a digimon know as Ishimon, together with them, we battled a group know either as the war lords or dark lords." Eyes growing hard at the words, Chimon felt his tail stiffen and his ears point backwards from his anger at the memory. "But the worst one was MoonMilleniummon, he had the power to control time and space itself, and he used it to cause massive destruction in the past, present and future of the Digital World, after a series of long and hard battles, we finally managed to defeat the Dark Lords and remove their influence, but then our main enemy showed up and attacked us." Voice turning bitter as he spoke, Chimon dug his claws into the ground to get rid of his anger. "We lost the battle and had to run away from him. Later while recovering in a hiding place, we were contacted by someone calling themselves the guardian order of the digital world, they told us that a group of powerful digimons who had just appeared would lend us the power to help us."
Nanami and Hiro's eyes had turned a bit dark at the story and both of them were busy looking into the group standing nearby listing to the other Digi Destined tell the story of what had happened to them, and why they were fighting together with a bunch of monsters. "It's been so long, but we all got over it, and grew up hoping to forget about the destruction we had seen and betrayal we felt in the end." Her eyes growing hard, she looked back at them. "I always wonder just how much the other truly remember of the adventure.
Looking up at her mother, Kari gave a small grin as she thought of her mother fighting evil in the digital world, something, which looked completely, ridicules in her fantasy, but no doubt had been an adventure like the one she was facing. "Who were the others, and what happened to them?"
Smiling as he looked over at the group, Hiro placed a hand on her shoulder. "Can't you guess, I was one of the few kids who saw the battle between them and Moonmilleniumon that day at the school science fair when I first met your mother, and many years later, I married your mother and we had you and Tai. I'm not a digi destined in the sense that I have a digivice or a digimon to fight with, but I know about the place since I saw it clearly at my school all those years ago, in fact, everyone who been to the digital world is somehow connected to an event relating to, or a descendant of someone who has been to the digital world."
Looking at the people, Kari began to see some of the strange looks directed at the digimon by the people standing there. "You mean, our parents were the first chosen ones?" Voice full of puzzement, she turned to see her mother grin at her, but with a hint of sadness. "What is it?"
"Our group, despite sticking together, suffered a loss years back as the one we relied on for knowledge died." Eyes turning distant as she remembered, a few tears escape her eyes and fell to the ground. "After that that, our group slowly drifted apart, afraid of what another loss like that would feel like." Eyes glowing with a bit of distant happiness as she remembered, Nanami turned to face the group. "But I still remember spoiled Yuko, insecure Emiko, sweet little Isei and loud mouthed Masao, we were the best of friends from time to time, and constantly arguing between us at other times."
Kari nodded as she looked down at the Chimon, the eyes of the digimon seeming to be clouded for a few seconds before he began to look around in a confused state. "Tai, you're back?"
The digimon nodded as he stepped away from his mother and looked around the place. "Yes, but I think we should talk with the other ones now, something doesn't feel right."
Looking over at the adults gathered around the kids, Kari nodded and then blinked. "Hey, where's Sora and Izzy?"
"They left." TK mumbled as he walked closer to them, giving a friendly wave to the parents of his new friends. "They wanted to find out more about the land in the sky." Looking from Kari to the digimon form of Tai, he gave a small grin. "But that not really why I came over here." Stepping a bit to the side, TK pulled an older version of him forward. "Matt wanted to talk with you Tai."
The blond haired boy stared down at Tai with eyes that looked so old and tired it had the human turned digimon feel scared as he looked back into them. "Matt." Around him, he was dimply a where of his parents and sister leaving them alone to talk.
"Tai." The blond haired boy started as he continued to stare down at the digimon, not quiet believing that this was the same boy he had been arguing and fighting with so many times in the past. "I... I..."
Feeling rather awkward and suddenly scared over what the blond haired boy was trying to say, Tai looked up as he felt a pair of eyes look at him with curiosity, Gabumon were staring at him from a distance as well, the digimon hovering just out of hearing range of them. Returning to stare a Matt, he noticed the blond haired boy was still having trouble putting words on what he wanted to say. "I know Matt, I know."
"You don't know anything." The cry shocked Tai as he saw matt grumble in on himself as he dropped to his knees, tears of pain and regret leaving those blue eyes that was normally so full of confidence and inner strength. "I tried to get you killed Tai, I forced you out into a desert where you could have been killed and almost where." Pointing at the digimon before him, Matt choked down a few words before he continued. "Look at you, you're a digimon for crying out loud, and it's all my fault."
"No." The word cut through the sounds around them and had both Tai and Matt look at the digimon standing nearby. "It was not your fault Matt, it was Moonmilleniummon who did it to you, he used your fear for TK to get control of you, you have done nothing wrong." Gabumon said as he stepped down to stand next to Matt, one arm moving up to gently hold him. "Trust me, you did what everyone else would have done in your place."
"He's right." Tai added as he looked over at Matt, his eyes showing just how much he could feel the other boy's pain. "If it had been me in your place I would have fallen for it as well, I want to protect Kari as well, no matter what I have to do." Looking at the brown haired girl talking with her digimon near the group breaking up, Tai felt himself wondering if he truly would have done the same if had been him in Matt's place, and felt himself smile when he knew he would, he truly wanted to protect Kari, and if he had been offered the power to keep her safe from everything, he too would have accepted it. "I would have done the same thing without considering it at all."
Giving a small smile at Tai, Matt shook his head. "But I still hurt you, and caused so much pain to the others."
"Get over it Matt." Tai nearly yelled at the boy as he grabbed his should. "I forgive you, the others will forgive you and your own digimon forgives you, what more do you want?" Eyes nearly blazing with his words, Tai turned to look up at the sky. "Right now, we should focus on getting back at the one who's responsible for it all."
"Gabumon?"
The digimon nodded in response to Matt hidden question, his eyes never leaving Matt for even one second. "He's right you know, you can't keep beating yourself up for this, you got to get out there and prove that you're not the same one who was controlled." Smiling as he stepped back, Gabumon looked his partner over. "Besides, as Tai said, everyone else would have done the same in your place."
"Well Matt?" Tai asked as he held out a hand towards the boy, a question look in his eyes. "Shall we work together on pounding that jerk for what he did to us?"
Nodding as he grabbed the hand, Matt gave a real smile for the first time since Tai had met him. "Yes, I want to get back at him, for tricking me and using my trust like that."
Gabumon beamed, as he looked form one of them to the other one. "That the spirit Matt, now come on, I think Sora and Izzy has returned."
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"It getting more and more dangerous here" Sora said, as she looked around the group of kids growing around her. "Garudamon had to save a plane from crashing and then Kuwagamon showed up from the land in the sky, but nothing we did could hurt him."
Izzy eyes closed as he listens to the words around him. "It just proves that the worlds are growing closer to one another, right now all the digital gates are opening all around the world to reduce the strain on the dimensional barrier, that land up there, is the digital world."
Tai grimaced as he looked up at it, seeing the wide spread green lands and oceans before him. "But why, is it because of the evil unleashed by Moonmilleniummon?"
"No." Shaking his head, Izzy looked back up at the digital world above them. "My guess is that the digital world is in more trouble now then when we left." Lookinga round at each of them, he sighed. "It's just been a few days here, but up there several years if not decades have passed since we left."
Matt looked up at the sky as he stood next to them, his eyes still showing a lot of tiredness. "And Evil has been growing ever since we left." The question echoed silently among the group around them. "I still feel him you know, and it makes me angry to know that I was just used like that."
Gathering in a small group near the centre of the open plaza, Tai, Kari, Sora, Mimi, Matt, TK, Joe and Izzy looked at one another each of them seeing the same level of confidence in each other. "So, we agree them Izzy said with out bothering to ask the question on that was on everyone minds
Tai, Kari, Matt, Sora, Joe, Mimi, Izzy and TK stared up into the sky, the digital world spread out over it, the world showing itself as the barrier between the two realms began to break down bit by bit, signalling the day where Moonmilleniummon's would unleash his true horror on both of the worlds. "There's nothing to think about, we have to go back." Matt stated as he looked down at the kids and digimons around him, the pain of losing Ishimon's data clear on his face. "We need to go back, Milleniummon mustn't complete his plan, if he do we will all suffer in an endless nightmare."
Tai nodded as he stood next to Matt, his cat like features showing a deep rage over the crimes the dark mega had no doubt brought on the Digital World in their absence. "I agree with Matt, we have to stop him once and for all."
Sora held up a fist to show that she agreed with them as well. "Yeah, and show the digimons that we're not the evil ones, but rather the ones here to help them." A glow formed around her digivice as she spoke, the light leaving a small trail after that grew as it went shooting up into the sky.
Mimi stepped forward and looked around the group with slightly concerned eyes. "Also, our parents and friends have always been there for u in the pasts, now it's time we did something for them."
"And show that we are able to do this." TK added in a he lifted up his digivice, and pointed it at the sky as it too began to glow.
Joe smiled as he adjusted his first aid bag around his shoulder and pushed up his glasses. "I don't really know, but as long as you're all willing to fight, then I guess I am as well."
Izzy smiled as he strapped his laptop back into hits place on his back, his eyes looking around at each of them. "We may not make it back, but at least we'll get a chance to prove that we won't go down quietly." Holding out his digivice to join the others as it began to glow, he smiled at them.
"And most of all." Tai and Matt said at the same time. "We're going there to finish the battle once and for all." A line of blue and orange joined in the rainbow pillar around them as the last two digivices began to glow.
"Take care kids."
Looking back at the words, the eight children smiled as they saw the confident look from each of their parents and several of the strangers around them. "We will." The words were spoken by all of them as they began to move up into the sky, first a bit slowly, then in a much, much faster manner.
TBC: World of Darkness part 1.
Level stats for Tai's digimon forms.
C-mon.
Level: Rookie.
Kind: Animal.
Type: Data.
Attacks: Pepper Paw / Puppy Bark.
Chimon,
Level: Champion.
Kind: Animal.
Type: Data.
Attacks: Flare Claw / Burning Aura.
Chinobimon.
Level: Ultimate.
Kind: Beast Man.
Type: Vaccine.
Attacks: Flare Bombs / Burn Blast.
Archchimon.
Level: Mega.
Kind: Warrior.
Type: Vaccine.
Attacks: Fist of Judgement / Claws of The Beast / Nova Force.
Before anyone sends a death threat, I know that Tai was shown a mega form in the past, but as I said, that one can't be reached by him any longer, so he was forced to somehow find data from someone else and form it into a new one.
AN: Happy Holidays everyone, also to those of you who don't celebrate them. Well, the story is finally getting somewhere right? Tell em what you think of this chapter which wraps up teh seven days of darkness arc, I sincerely hope it lived up to your expectations of it
As for the story itself, I hope to be able to finsh it in the new year and everything looks like it will be since I'm still going strong and throwing out a chanpter almost every one and half month.
Anyway, See ya all in the new year with an update for "Spawn of The Vampire."