South Digimon Diaries
The story of the Digi-Destined from Argentina.
By Persona
Disclaimer: Digimon belongs to TOEI and Akiyoshi Hongo, and used without consent.
The Diaries Universe belongs to Lord Archive, and is used with consent.
All rights reserved.
SPECIAL NOTE: James and Juana, part of the Brazil Team of Digi-Destined kids are a creation by Ryan Griffin, used in this story under his authorization.
Well, with that settled, on with the story.
Chapter five: Christmas Invasion
December 25th, 2002. Julia's house.
Julia hummed to herself as she dressed up into fancier clothes than she usually wore. Today was Christmas and planned to see David again.
Julia recalled fondly the past week and a half since she first went into the Digital World and met her Digimon partner Piyomon and the other Digi-Destined of Argentina, David and his partner Candmon.
During the course of said week and a half, Julia had gone into the Digital World to visit David in an almost daily basis. She smiled remembering how, after saving her from trouble a couple more times, David relented to accept her visits and told her the safest road to reach his log house in the Digital World, to make sure that Julia would stay away from trouble more than anything.
The Digi-Destined boy still resisted Julia's visits, but she was a very persistent person. She somehow suspect that David had gotten used to Piyomon and her coming to visit Candmon and him, maybe even looked forward to them.
Julia stayed for hours at a time, talking to David about different things. Still, he kept his past experiences mostly to himself, even after all the time she spent with him. The boy was still very reluctant about talking about his past. Julia knew that David just needed time, and never pushed the matter much.
Julia shook off the frown that made it's way to her mouth. Every day that passed, Julia found herself enjoying the boy's company more and more. It got to the point where she found herself thinking about David all day long, he was the first thing in her mind when she woke up every day, and the last thing on her mind when she went to sleep every night. Every time she saw him, she felt her cheeks getting warm to the touch and a deep warm feeling all over her.
Pyocomon stood on Julia's bed, looking at her the entire time the girl was lost in her thoughts. The small Digimon finally spoke up, "So Julia, are you going to go see him today too?"
"Yes, I am." replied Julia as she was buttoning up her expensive looking white blouse, she smiled as she looked at a green envelope on her desk next to her computer. She didn't had much money since her parents considered her too young to receive an allowance, but she still had managed to get some money to buy a Christmas card for David. It wasn't much, but it came from her heart and that's what counted.
Hearing Julia's answer, Pyocomon's eyes lightened up in joy. "Does that mean that I can go see Candmon too?"
Julia giggled at Pyocomon's enthusiasm, "Of course you can. You know Pyocomon, you seem to be very happy lately every time we go see David and Candmon."
Pyocomon turned to a side, doing her best to hide the fact that she was blushing. Since her body was pink to begin with and Julia wasn't really looking at her, that was rather easy. "Yes, hum... I kind of really enjoy his company." said the small Digimon.
"To say the least." replied Julia, as she was zipping up a green skirt that reached just above her knees, then attaching her D-3 to the skirt.
In fact, every time they went to visit David, Pyocomon (which evolved to Piyomon once back in the Digital World) and Candmon always seemed to go out on a walk alone without their respective partners.
It was during their walks in which Julia felt that funny warm feeling all over her body to increase in intensity and then down again when Piyomon and Candmon came back. Julia found that very strange, but dismissed it as being just that she was alone with David that caused that to happen.
Pyocomon blushed even more at Julia's reply, glad that Julia didn't have a clue about what was really going on between her and Candmon. "So, when are we going?" asked the baby Digimon.
"In just a minute, I'll go tell Mom and Dad that I'll be out for a while, and then we can go." replied Julia, finishing to put on her socks and shoes. Then she walked out of her room and closed the door behind her.
Pyocomon watched as Julia closed the door leaving her alone in the room. Julia always told her parents that she was out at a friend's every time that she went into the Digital World to visit David, which was partially true. She just never told them that the friend's she was at lived in another world.
Julia walked into the living room of her house where both her parents were watching television.
Mrs. Martinez was a woman well in her thirties, she was still quite beautiful even after having a child. She had been a volleyball player when she was younger and it showed since she still had quite an athletic figure.
Mr. Martinez worked as an accountant in a major company, it was a full time job, but he could spend some time every week with his wife and his daughter on Sundays, or on the holidays like today. He was just a few years older than Julia's mother but not much, and he certainly didn't show it.
Julia walked up to the couch where her parents were sitting, "Hi Mom, Dad, I'm going out to..."
"Julia, look at this!" exclaimed Mrs. Martinez cutting Julia off, signaling the TV screen for her daughter to see.
To say that Julia was surprised was an understatement, on the television screen she could see several Digimon running loose in the streets.
The word 'Live' was on top of the screen as the news commentator related what was happening. "I still cannot believe what I'm seeing! Several yellow ape like creatures armed with bone clubs have appeared seemingly from nowhere, and are running on a rampage in the center of Buenos Aires, more precisely at Nine of July Avenue. Also, a strange black obelisk has appeared right next to the obelisk that commemorates Buenos Aires' foundation. This incidents present some similarity with what happened in Odaiba, Japan back in 1999, when several similar creatures known as 'Digimon' appeared there much like what is happening here, and according to our reports, in several other major cities around the world."
Julia overcame her surprise and rushed back into her room.
"Julia? What's wrong?" asked Pyocomon, seeing how her partner looked very agitated.
"Digimon!" exclaimed Julia.
That exclamation only confused Pyocomon. "Huh?"
"There are Digimon in the real world! I just saw them on TV!"
"What? How can that be?" asked the baby Digimon.
"How should I know!? But we have to do something, or many people will get hurt or even killed!"
"Julia, calm down. Panic won't help now." replied the baby Digimon.
Julia nodded, closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Now calmer, Julia looked at her Digimon again, "So what do we do?"
"Well, since I can't evolve in the real world, there's only one thing left to do." said the baby Digimon.
Julia's eyes opened wide as she understood what Pyocomon was trying to say, "You mean that..."
Pyocomon nodded, "Yes, we have to ask David to come and help us."
Julia took her D-3, stared at the small electronic device for a while, then nodded with determination and stepped towards her computer.
"Let's go Pyocomon."
Pyocomon got next to Julia as the Digi-Destined girl extended her arm holding her D-3 towards her computer's screen and called out, "Digiport open!"
A bright light from the monitor engulfed both Julia and Pyocomon and then they were gone.
David was in his log house at the Digital World with Candmon when he heard someone calling him. He recognized the voice immediately, it was Julia's voice.
David was by now used to Julia coming to visit him, in fact he kind of looked forwards to Julia's little escapades to the Digital World.
But this time seemed different, Julia sounded very agitated about something. And so he quickly came out of the log house being followed a second after by Candmon.
David saw Julia, being followed by Piyomon, running towards him, and she seemed upset about something.
"David, there you are!" Julia stopped running in front of David, breathing heavily from running all the way.
"Julia, what's wrong? Why did you came running like that?" asked David, sounding a little worried.
"David! Something incredible happened, I need your help." responded Julia.
"What happened?"
"A bunch of Digimon appeared in the real world, if we don't stop them someone will end up hurt, or even worse." answered Julia.
"What? How... in the real world?" David was surprised and confused by what Julia said.
"I don't know exactly how it happened, but it happened. Please David, I need you to come with me to the real world." Julia asked, her tone pleading.
"Now way! I'm not going back to the real world!" said David defensively.
"David, please..." Julia's eyes started to get glassy.
David turned away so he wouldn't see Julia cry. "I'm sorry, but I can't help you with this."
"David." whispered Candmon, looking up to his partner, then at Julia and Piyomon.
"David... please... I need you... I can't do this without you..." Julia said between soft cries.
David closed his eyes and his hands balled into fists, saying no to this girl was just too damn hard!
"Damn it Julia! I hate it when you cry!" David took a deep breath, and turned to look at Julia. "Do you have a laptop at home?" he asked.
Julia stopped crying and looked at David in confusion. "Huh? I think so, why?"
"I promised you that I wouldn't kill any more Digimon unless I didn't have a choice. If what you told me is true, then we're going to need a laptop to send those Digimon back to the Digital World." explained David.
Julia's face brightened up with a smile, "You mean that you'll come with me?"
David nodded, "Yeah."
"Thank you!" Julia hugged David as hard as she could.
David just stood there, too stunned to react and blushing furiously.
Nine of July Avenue. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The over twenty Hanumon that were marching trough the wide avenue destroyed everything that they saw before them.
The police had already made barriers to keep anyone from entering the battle zone, but there was little that they could do to stop then great beasts.
"There seems little that the police can do to stop the great yellow apes that have taken control of the Nine of July Avenue. Barriers and barricades have been set up, but they don't seem enough to stop the might creatures. The army is waiting by for the president's authorization, but they will only be used as the last resource." a middle age man holding a microphone and standing in front of a camera reported the situation to all the TV viewers.
At the other side of the barricade, at a nearby computer store, one of the monitors started up and a bright light came out from it.
A second latter, two kids and two Digimon were standing in the street.
The news reporter was the first one to see them. "Huh? It appears that there are some kids at the other side of the police barricade. But how did they manage to cross? And what are those strange creatures with them? Are they Digimon too?"
Back in Julia's house. Mrs. Martinez fainted when she recognized her daughter in the TV screen.
David looked around, trying to do a survey of the situation.
"Hmm, Hanumon... about thirty or forty of them. It doesn't look like they saw us" he turned to his left to look at Julia. "Open the laptop and turn it on."
Julia nodded and knelt on the floor, placing the laptop that she had brought from her house.
It wasn't her laptop, it was her father's. Prior to coming here trough a Digiport, Julia did a small stop back at her house. There she sneaked into her parent's bedroom and took the laptop from her father's briefcase. She knew that she wasn't suppose to touch the portable computer, but this was an emergency.
Meanwhile, David looked at Candmon. "Okay Candmon, ready?"
Candmon nodded, looking very determined. "Yes."
Julia turned around to look at David. "David, what exactly are you planning to do?" she asked.
"Listen, when Candmon evolves to Meramon he will make those Hanumon come this way. When they're close enough, use your D-3 and your laptop to send them back to the Digital World. We'll deal with the black obelisk afterwards. Okay?" explained David, never turning his gaze from the rampaging Hanumon.
Julia nodded, she would have liked to help him do that, but she knew that she wasn't powerful enough to enable Pyocomon to evolve.
Suddenly, Julia's laptop started to shine brightly.
"David!" Julia exclaimed, surprised.
Hearing Julia's tone of voice David turned around, and was just as surprised when he saw the shining laptop. By now it seemed like a Digiport was opening, but how could that be? Neither him nor Julia had used their D-3's to open a Digiport.
Soon the Digiport closed, and there stood two other kids and two Digimon. A boy and a girl.
The boy was rather scrawny, he had blond hair and wore glasses. Next to him was a cute looking puppy Digimon, a Plotmon.
The girl looked like a native American, light brown skin with brown hair and brown eyes. Next to her was a yellow armadillo, a Armadimon.
"What is going on here!?" exclaimed the newscaster, "two more children and two more Digimon have come out of that small laptop!"
James and Juana looked around. Yep, Perdo's Digiport worked just fine. They immediately recognized the area as being the mere center of Buenos Aires. And judging from all those Hanumon running loose and the Evil Tower next to the obelisk commemorating Buenos Aires' foundation, they were just in time.
"Who are you?" asked David, coming out of his stupor first.
Both James and Juana turned their heads when they heard someone next to them. A boy with a Candmon and a girl with a Pyocomon, surely they were the Argentina team of Digi-Destined.
"I'm James and this is Juana, we're part of the Brazil team. But this is no time for introductions, don't you think so?" said the blonde boy, pointing at the Hanumon.
Julia smiled, "I'm Julia and this is David. It's nice of you to come help us."
David grunted and turned around, "I don't need no stinking help from anyone."
"Well, that's rude." said Juana.
James smirked, "What do you mean? Are you planning on fighting all those Hanumon by yourself?"
"That's right, and don't you DARE interfere." answered David, turning his head to look at James.
"A little proud aren't we." said James, frowning at David's attitude.
"At least I'm better than a know-it-all American that couldn't make it in his country and had to take up space in the Brazil team." said David with a smirk.
David's attitude was really starting to piss James, "Why I ought to..."
"Stop this!" said Juana and Julia in unison.
"James, we're here to stop those Digimon, not to fight other Digi-Destined." said Juana to her teammate.
"David, that was very rude of you. They only came here to help. Now I think you should apologize." said Julia to her teammate.
David looked at James, then looked away and snorted out, "Sorry."
Julia looked at James and Juana, "Please excuse David... he had a rough life."
David didn't bother to answer to that, he just turned his attention back to the matter at hand. "Okay Candmon, let's take care of those Hanumon!" David took his D-3 from his belt, ready to make Candmon evolve.
"That won't work." said James flatly, knowing that the presence of an Evil Tower prevented normal evolution.
David ignored this. His D-3 started to shine with a dark purple light.
Candmon also was shining with a dark purple light. "Candmon evolve!"
When the dark purple light dissipated a tall man made out of fire where Candmon was just a moment ago.
"This is incredible! The small walking candlestick that was next to that mysterious boy has just transformed into the human torch!" said the newscaster while his cameraman filmed everything.
James and Juana were surprised to no end to this. Now wonder Candmon was able to evolve. That was no normal evolution, that was a dark evolution!
"You... your Digimon... he..." stuttered out a stunned James.
"Yes, my Digimon dark evolves. You got a problem with that?" asked David.
James shook his head, not trusting his voice right now. Juana was too stunned to say or do anything at the time.
David turned his attention back at the Hanumon. "Okay Meramon, go pummel those Hanumon!"
Meramon smirked, he was about to go fight the Hanumon when James stopped them.
"Wait!" exclaimed the boy with glasses.
David was starting to get angry at all the interruptions. "What now!?"
James ignored David's tone and explained, "See those black spiral bracelets things that the Hanumon are wearing?"
Juana sighed. "I thought we'd be done with those things after defeating
that insane Digimon."
David and Julia noticed for the first time that all the Hanumon were in fact wearing some sort of strange looking bracelet on their upper right arm.
David remembered that he had seen them before, before he met Julia for the first time. All Digimon that were wearing those things had been overly aggressive and didn't stop fighting. He didn't give it much though then, just killing them like he had done with many other troublesome Digimon in the past.
"What with them?" asked David.
"Those are Evil Spirals. Those Digimon aren't in control of their actions, they are being controlled. That means that we can't hurt them, we have to destroy the Evil Spirals without harming them." explained James.
David flinched inwardly. Another thing that he had done wrong, killing innocent Digimon that were just being controlled by those spiral things. "Okay fine, Meramon don't hurt them too badly, just make sure to destroy those black spirals things."
Meramon nodded and ran into the horde of Hanumon.
"Okay Juana, its our turn." said James.
Juana nodded.
"I told you that I don't need help!" exclaimed David.
"Too bad, we're going to help you anyway." responded James.
David turned his gaze back to Meramon, who was using his fire attacks on some Hanumon. "Fine, just stay out of my way or you'll get hurt."
James just ignored David's remark, and looked at his Digimon. "Plotmon!"
Juana also looked at her Digimon. "Armadimon."
Both Plotmon and Armadimon nodded.
"Digimental up!" James and Juana cried out at the same time.
"Armadimon armor evolve!"
"Plotmon armor evolve!"
Both Digimon started to shine, and started to change. Where Armadimon was now stood a giant yellow frog with green leaves all over. "The protector of purity, Frogmon!"
Where Plotmon stood now was a giant panther like creature made out of red fire. "The burning light of courage, Lynxmon!"
"Lynxmon!"
"Frogmon!"
"Jogress evolve!" the two Digimon called out in unison and merged into a giant tiger creature with wings. "Mihiramon!"
"This is completely surreal!" exclaimed the newscaster, "two of those Digimon had just MERGED into a bigger one that looks like some sort of flying tiger!"
"Mihiramon go!" called out James and Juana in unison.
Mihiramon took up into the air, flying towards a group of Hanumon. "Treasure Rod!" called out the flying tiger. Mihiramon's tail turned into a nun-chucks, and the Digimon used it to hit every Hanumon right on the Evil Spiral. Every time one of the dark spirals was destroyed, the Hanumon wearing it fell down unconscious.
"Great! Now to take care of that Evil Tower!" said James.
Mihiramon turned in mid air, heading for the Evil Tower.
"Treasure Rod!" again Mihiramon's tail turned into a nun-chucks, as he flew close to the Evil Tower, he hit it with his special attack.
The Evil Tower cracked, split in two, and then fell down completely destroyed.
Meramon wasn't having it so easy. First of all, he couldn't fly like Mihiramon, and had to fight the Hanumon on the ground. Second, he wasn't use to this 'fighting without hurting your opponent' thing, and so stayed mainly on the defensive.
Considering that most of the Hanumon were concentrating of the fire Digimon, that was not an easy task.
Meramon rose an arm, stopping the bone club of one of the Hanumon, punched said Hanumon on the face to stun him a little. Then jumped out of the way to dodge tow more Hanumon who tried to tackle him.
"Damn! There's too many of them!" said Meramon and he ducked to dodge yet another bone club.
Julia looked in worry as the battle took place. It was so frustrating! Meramon was doing his best, but he was definitely in trouble from the sheer number of opponents and the fact that he was trying his best not to hurt any of the Hanumon.
She was tired of always having to see how David and Meramon did all the fighting, while she and Pyocomon had to stand aside and just watch. She wanted to help, she wanted to ease David's burden.
"I want to help." Julia picked his D-3 from her skirt. "I want to help David." She held her D-3 close to her heart with both hands, and suddenly the small electronic device started to shine.
"Julia!" exclaimed Pyocomon, the baby Digimon started to shine.
Julia was surprised at this. "Pyocomon! You... you are..."
"Pyocomon evolve!" the baby Digimon turned for the first time, in the real world, into her child form. "Piyomon!"
But it didn't stop there, Piyomon started to shine again. "Piyomon evolve!"
Piyomon changed again, in its place was a giant balck bird like creature, "Sabirdramon!"
"Another Digimon has transformed!" said the newscaster, "this one looks like a gigantic black bird!"
Julia was surprised, then she smiled in happiness. "Yes! You did it! You evolved!" Then she turned to look at the fight, seeing that Meramon was in triuble from his many opponents. "Now go and help Meramon, but remember not to hurt the Hanumon!"
Sabirdramon nodded and took up into the air. "Mach Shadow!"
Flying at the speed of sound, Sabirdramon flew close to the Hanumon, shattering the Evil Spirals that they were wearing with the sonic boom of her flight, and causing them to fall down unconscious.
David looked at Julia, "Julia..."
Julia smiled, "I told you before. You are not alone anymore. Like it or not I am going to help you any way I can."
Sabirdramon made a U-turn in mid air, aiming for another pack of Hanumon, while Meramon used his Fire Punch to destroy more Evil Spirals, being careful with his aiming.
As Sabirdramon was getting ready for another Mach Shadow, the inexperienced Digimon failed to notice that one of the Hanumon was getting ready for her attack.
"Mach Shadow!" Once again Sabirdramon flew downwards towards the Hanumon. That's when one of the Hanumon got his bone club ready, and impacted Sabirdramon hard on the head as she passed, just before her speed formed another powerful sonic boom.
"Argh!" Sabirdramon screamed in pain from the hit, as she fell to the floor, rolled a few feet away from the rampaging Hanumon. When she finally stopped, she had fallen unconscious and had de-evolved back into Piyomon.
"Piyomon!" A worried Julia ran towards her fallen partner. "Julia wait! It's too dangerous!" warned David.
But Julia didn't listen, she reached Piyomon's fallen form and cradled the beaten pink bird in her arms, "Piyomon... are you okay? Please answer me!"
Just then Julia heard a heave stepping sound behind her. She turned her head to look and she saw it. It was the same Hanumon that had beaten Sabirdramon, he had his bone club held high, ready to smash Julia with it. "Aaaaaaaaaah!" Julia screamed in horror.
"JULIA! NOOOO!" David yelled as he watched. That Digimon was going to kill Julia! He couldn't let that happen, he mustn't let that happen! He would KILL that Digimon first! He would kill ALL the Digimon! ALL OF THEM!
"ARGGGGGGHHHH!!!!" David screamed to the sky, as he felt an overwhelming anger and fury that he hadn't felt in a long time. His D-3 started to shine in a dark purple light.
"Urgh!" Meramon could feel the power of David's rage flowing trough him. It was too overwhelming, it was too much to control... he couldn't control it. Meramon started to shine with a light the same tone as David's D-3.
"Meramon evolve!" Meramon grew taller and more muscular. His body turned blue, and his face got covered with a mask. "Death Meramon!"
The newscaster was watching everything in awe as the cameraman recorded it, "Whoa! Now that fire person thing has changed once more, now it looks more bigger and is blue!"
James and Juana looked at David in disbelief, then at Death Meramon.
"What... what's happening?" asked Juana out loud.
David's eyes... were scary. More than scary, they were mad. Mad with anger and rage. At that moment David was blind to anything but killing his opponents. "Death Meramon! Kill them! Kill all of them! Make them suffer!" yelled David in mad rage.
"Yargh!" Death Meramon wasn't in control of his actions, like David he was overrun by a surge of bloodlust. He leaped up from where he was standing, and fell behind the Hanumon that was about to kill Julia.
The Perfection Digimon grabbed his bone club with his left arm, and his forearm with his right arm, and then pulled his left arm down without moving his right arm.
The Hanumon's arm snapped as it bent in a way that was never meant to. The Evil Spiral was destroyed in the process, but Death Meramon didn't care. He kicked the yellow ape on the face, sending him flying a few feet. The Hanumon was knocked out almost immediately.
Julia saw how Death Meramon saved her and Piyomon, and then how it had sadistically attacked the Hanumon that was threatening her. "No.." she whispered.
She turned her head to look at David. She saw the rage and fury in his eyes. Was that how he had looked three years ago when that Dark Tyrannomon attacked the Motimon village? "No..." she whispered again, a little louder this time.
"Yes! Destroy them! Break their arms! Pull their eyeballs out of their sockets! Rip their tongues off!" David yelled, consumed completely by his rage.
Death Meramon attacked every single Hanumon that crossed his way. Bashing them hard on the head, smashing their faces against the concrete, lifting them up and then dropping them on his knee like they do on pro-wrestling. The Evil Spirals were getting destroyed in the process, but he didn't seem to care. All Death Meramon cared about was killing every opponent in sight.
"Stop... please stop this David." Julia begged in a low voice, hugging Piyomon close to her. Her eyes closed so as not to see David like this, tears streaming down her cheeks.
An Hanumon tried to hit Death Meramon from behind, but he saw him coming. Death Meramon punched it on the face, then on the stomach, as the Hanumon bent over from the pain Death Meramon hit him with his elbow at the back of his head. It was too much for the Hanumon who fell down unconscious, the Evil Spiral getting destroyed in the middle of Death Meramon's sadistic attack.
That was the last Hanumon, all of the giant yellow apes were down, unconscious and bruised, but still alive. All the Evil Spirals had been destroyed, but it wasn't enough for David.
"What are you waiting for! Kill them! Blast them into bits!" yelled David from a side.
Just when Death Meramon was about to use his special attack to destroy the Hanumon, James and Juana's Mihiramon rushed over, standing between him and the fallen Digimon. "Stop this! You won, the battle is over!" said the flying tiger.
"Stand aside!" ordered Death Meramon in a dreading voice that almost sent shivers up Mihiramon's spine.
"I'm sorry, but I can't let you kill this innocent Digimon!"
"Then DIE!" Death Meramon tried to punch Mihiramon, but the tiger flew up and away.
Mihiramon didn't want to hurt Death Meramon, but he had to stop him somehow. "Treasure Rod!" Mihiramon tried to hit Death Meramon with its special attack, but Death Meramon grabbed the nun-chuks tail before it could hit him. Holding it with both hands, Death Meramon started to spin Mihiramon around, faster and faster he went until he finally released.
Mihiramon flew at an incredible speed and then he finally crashed on the street with an incredible force. The impact was so great that it stunned Mihiramon for a little bit.
Mihiramon looked up just in time to see Death Meramon rushing towards him, ready to strike. Again the flying tiger used its wings to fly out of Death Meramon's reach.
"I really don't know what is going on right now." said the newscaster, "the blue masked human looking Digimon has finished with all the yellow apes, and is now attacking the flying tiger that not a minute ago was helping him fight!"
"What's wrong with him?" asked Juana as she watched the fight, she didn't want Mihiramon to hurt Death Meramon, but the Perfection Digimon was determined to destroy anyone and anything that dared to stand in his way.
James grabbed David by his shoulders, "David what are you doing!? We can't kill the Hanumon, they were being controlled, you know it!"
David slapped James hand's away, "Stay out of this four eyes!"
"Damn it! Come to your senses already!" James pulled his fist back, so as to punch some sense back into David.
David caught James' hand before it hit. "Big mistake." David then punched James in the face. The punch had such force that it sent James flying away from him, and falling on the floor a few feet from David.
"James!" a worried Juana rushed next to James, and knelt next to him. "James are you alright?"
James put his hand to his mouth, feeling some blood there. "He has the strength of an ox." he said flatly. The punch had been so hard that he was too stunned to even try to get up.
David didn't even care about them, he turned his attention back to Death Meramon.
Juana looked at David, then at Julia. With a determined look in her face, she stood up and jogged to where Julia was kneeling on the street.
Mihiramon jumped to a side as he tried to dodge another attack from Death Meramon, but he was too tired and slow to do it in time. Death Meramon's kick connected fully with the left side of Mihiramon's head, sending him flying to the right. Mihiramon rolled on the floor just in time to dodge Death Meramon's stomping foot. Mihiramon was sure that he couldn't keep this up much longer.
"Please, somebody, anybody, make him stop..." Julia cried softly.
"Stop crying!" said Juana.
Julia heard Juana's voice, and looked up at the Brazilian girl.
"Crying won't help matters! David listens to you, right now you are the only person that can calm him down! So what are you going to do!? Are you going to sit there and cry? Or are you going to stop him before someone gets seriously hurt!?"
Julia looked at Juana, then her face turned into a look of determination. All this time, she had been trying to help David but only made things worse. Not anymore, now was the time to do things right! It was the time to show herself why she had become a Digi-Destined!
"Take care of Piyomon please!" said Julia to Juana as she ran towards David.
Mihiramon's battered form lay on the cold street, he tried to stand up but he was too beaten up. He was barely breathing as he heard Death Mermon getting closer.
"Take that! And that! And that!" Death Meramon kicked Mihiramon on the gut over and over and over again, Mihiramon was so beaten up that couldn't even scream in pain.
After ten or so kicks, Death Meramon picked Mihiramon up by the neck, holding him up with both hands. "Say goodbye to your life." said Death Meramon as he started to strangle Mihiramon.
Mihiramon's mouth opened in a silent scream, he clawed and scratched at Death Meramon's arms but it was for naught, he could feel how his lungs were running out of air as Death Meramon's hands squeezed his neck harder and harder.
"David! Stop this! You promised you wouldn't kill anymore Digimon remember!" Julia pleaded with David, but he wouldn't listen. He just laughed as Death Meramon strangled James and Juana's Mihiramon.
"Damnit David! Come back to your senses!" Julia rose an arm, her hand open.
SLAP!
Time seemed to freeze for a minute. On one side were Julia and David. Julia had her arm extended to a side as she had just slapped David, David had his head turned to a side, his cheek with a red hand mark.
On the other side was Death Meramon, holding Mihiramon tightly by his neck with both hands.
And then was James and Juana, watching everything unfold from different angles.
Then everything started to move again.
Death Meramon's grip on Mihiramon loosened up, letting the flying tiger fall down. Death Meramon shone with a dark light, and de-evolved back into Candmon. Candmon then fell down with his eyes closed, unconscious.
Mihiramon also shone with a bright white light, as it separated into Plotmon and Armadimon once again. Both Digimon falling unconscious on the street like Candmon did just a second before.
Julia was shaking all over, she didn't know exactly why but she was. Slowly she looked up at David. "David... are you...?"
David put a hand on the cheek where Julia had slapped him, then he turned his head slowly to look at Julia's face. "Julia?"
Julia smiled, holding up tears of joy. "David! You are back with me again!"
David looked around, seeing all the Hanumon unconcious on the ground, then at Julia. "I'm... I'm sorry... I don't know what came over me... I..."
Julia cut him off with a hug, "It's okay David, it's okay..." she whispered in a soothing voice.
James had gotten up a minute ago, and by using his D-3 and Julia's laptop he sent all the Hanumon back to the Digital World where they belonged.
Juana walked over to him holding Plotmon and Armadimon in her arms. She smiled at her Jogress partner. They had done it, it had been a little difficult at the end, but everything turned out okay.
She was wondering how the other members of the Brazil team were doing when she received a message in her D-Terminal.
Juana took out the electronic device and opened to read the message, when she read it she dropped the D-Terminal. Her face bore an expression of disbelief.
"Juana? What's wrong what was the message?" asked James.
"C... Carlos is..." Juana managed to say before she started crying.
James picked up the D-Terminal to see what the message had been.
It read: 'Carlos died.'
It was signed by Carlos' brother, Perdo. More was written, but James couldn't get past the first two words.
James stood in shock and hugged Juana, letting her cry in his shoulder as another Digiport opened from the laptop, sucking the two Digi-Destined kids and their still unconscious Digimon.
Julia and David broke the hug. Julia was smiling now, but David seemed worried about something. "Julia, I..."
Julia wasn't listening, she was looking around for James and Juana. "Where did James and Juana go to?"
David noticed for the first time that indeed James and Juana weren't there anymore, the Hanumon were gone too. "Hum, I guess they went back to Brazil or something." said David.
Just then the two of them noticed that people were starting to cross the police's barricade and were running towards them.
"Hum, I think we'll better get out of here." said David, pointing to all the people coming.
Julia also saw what was happening and nodded.
Julia picked up her father's laptop and started to run as David was busy picking up the unconscious forms of Piyomon and Candmon.
Julia peeked her head out of the alleyway, and smiled as she saw the people that had been following her and David go the opposite way. They were clear.
Turning around to tell David the good news, she stopped smiling as she saw what David was doing.
David had already lay down both Piyomon and Candmon on the floor, and was now looking around the place. Touching the brick walls, the dirty street, a close by telephone post, a mailbox next to it.
"David... David what's wrong?" asked a worried Julia.
David looked around, REALLY looked around for the first time since coming back to the real world. "So long... I've been gone for so long..." he whispered as he looked around. All the time he only saw a world that was now alien to him, it had been so long since he's been here... and he had changed so much.
Julia walked closer to David, "What's wrong David? Is it because you've been away from the real world for three years?"
"Julia... I have to go back to the Digital World..." said David, half turning to look at Julia.
Julia shook her head slightly, "No... please, you don't have to go..."
"I changed too much... this is not my place anymore." continued David.
Julia wouldn't let him talk, "Is this because you don't have a home anymore? Don't worry, my house is big enough. We even have a guest bedroom. After I explain everything to my parents I'm sure that they would let you stay. Just don't go, please..." Julia could feel new tears starting to come out of her eyes.
"I don't belong here anymore, I have to go back. Please understand." David turned to get Candmon so he could leave.
Julia stopped him, "No! You can't leave! Please David, you just can't!"
"Julia..."
"NO! Please David, I... I love you."
Both od them were surprised when Julia said this.
David was surprised at hearing it, and Julia was surprised that she had finally admitted it. She couldn't deny it anymore; she loved David with all her heart. She loved David more than anything in this world. She wanted to be with him forever.
David just looked down. "I'm sorry Julia."
He walked over to where their Digimon and Julia's laptop were on the floor. He picked Candmon with one arm and opened the laptop with the other.
Taking his D-3 in one hand, he pointed it at the laptop's screen. "Digiport open." he said flatly. Then both David and Candmon were gone in a flash of light, and everything was silent again.
Julia had watched everything in silence, she hadn't been able to say anything when David left, and she couldn't say anything now.
All she could do was fall on her hands and knees, her tears falling unabashed on the street.
That's when Piyomon stirred and slowly woke up.
The pink bird Digimon had a terrible headache but was otherwise okay. She looked around and saw Julia on her hands and knees, crying.
Worried about her partner, Piyomon stood up and walked over to Julia. "Julia? What's the matter? Where are David and Candmon?" asked the Digimon.
"They left." was Julia's flat answer, and then she went back to sobbing.
To be continued...
Author's notes:
In case you were wondering, James and Juana were speaking in Portuguese, wile David and Julia were speaking in Spanish. But they can understand each other. How? Well, I have known people who spoke in Portuguese and even if I didn't know Portuguese I did understand the main idea of what they were saying. The same goes for people who speak Portuguese but do not speak Spanish.
Both languages are similar and its not very difficult to understand one another if you only speak one of them.
The evil spirals in this chapter were used by Belem's first major foe who was defeated days prior to the Christmas Invasion. The insane Digimon got them from Oikawa in exchange for setting up the evil towers in the Digital World's South American region.
And now for a little extra... PERSONA'S FUN FACTS ABOUT ARGENTINA!
Did you know that the original author of Cybersix is from Argentina?
His name is Carlos Trillo and is very well recognized both here and in Europe, especially in Italy.
Cybersix is the first show based on an Argentinean comic book to ever make it on the TV screen of another country.
Altough, they 'softened up' quite a few things in the show if we compare it with the original comic (which can only be bought over here or in Europe).
For example, when Cybersix defeats one of Jose's minions in the show they dissapear and all that is left is a vial which Cybersix drinks.
In the original comic by Carlos Trillo when Cybersix defeats one of Jose's minions, she sucks the chemical that she need to survive by biting them on the neck and licking it up from the wound. Very much like a vampire.
Or for example the relation between Cybersix and Lucas Amato. It the Comic Book they show you everything of that relation with every single detail. (And I do mean EVERYTHING)
When you come to think of it, Argentinean comic books are very similar to Japanese Manga in some ways.