What's wrong with me...? Why...was I crying? Of course, Worm-chan was horribly hurt...but why...
Why was I crying?
Part III DEATH
Chiisu had used Ryou's cell phone to call his father. He had come to drive them to a place Ryou called 'home' in the Genjitsu. It was hard to get Ken to stand, let alone drag him out to the car. He was still sniffling, crying, but Chii's father didn't ask about the blood all over him. Instead, he asked Ryou,
"Where to?" Chii got in the front with his dad, and Ryou sat in back with Ken,
"...away from the city, of course..." he gave him directions to his Genjitsu home, and they started the long, long drive.
Ken sat, holding his knees and not looking at anyone. Chii suddenly blurted,
"Hey, where's Worm-chan?!" Chii's dad looked confused, but kept driving. Ryou coolly responded,
"I sent him back to the Dejitaru to be incubated and healed. He'll be fine. Angemon is a miracle-worker in this type of thing..." 'Or at least I hope he is...'
Chii became silent once more, and Ryou noticed Ken, still crying, but quieter.
"Don't worry, Ken...Wormmon'll be fine..." Ken was still shaking also. Ryou put an arm on his shoulder,
"It's alright...you don't have to be scared...it'll all be okay..."
"...promise..." Ken muttered quietly, only Ryou heard him.
"...I can't do that..."
"Promise me..." Ryou hesitated,
"...fine..I promise, It'll all be okay."
Chii nodded and looked back at them, "Yep! We're all together and we won't be defeated by anyone! 'Cause we're the Digimon Gaurdians!"
"The what?" Ryou asked. Ken returned to his quiet sobbing. Chii nodded with a little smile,
"Yah, I named us that, 'cause we're the one's who're gonna save the Dejitaru from Millenniumon!" Chii's dad asked quietly,
"Chii-kun...may I ask what you're talking about?"
"Uh..." Everyone in the car hesitated.
"Is it...some sort of game?" Chii glanced at Ryou, Ryou glanced at Ken, who had suddenly came up to say-calmly-,
"Yes. Y-Yes, Kimura-san, it's a game."
Ryou and Chii glanced at him and each other again, and the three of them nodded weakly.
"Ken...Worm-chan'll be alright. That I can promise..."
"Everything else, Ryou...?"
"Everything....?"
"...That...we'll defeat Millenniumon, save the Dejitaru, and defeat the Fighters...?"
Ryou didn't respond. "Right here, Kimura-san." They had reached their destination. It was the countryside, and where they had stopped was a cabin-like house. This was Ryou's home in the Genjitsu, where he stayed if he ever had to come to the World.
"Kimura-san, please come back in a day or two..." Ryou said to Chii's father, "...we shall call you when we need you."
He nodded, and drove back into Tokyo, which was about two hundred miles away.
Ken could barely stand, so the other two helped him inside.
"He should really get some rest..." Ryou then noticed Ken's hair, as he trudged into one of the bedrooms. It was sticking up on end, on it's own.
"Ken...? What's with your hair?!" Chii must've noticed too. Ken glanced at them both for a second,
"..." he was silent, then muttered, "...I'm...tired..."
"Ken-chan..." Ryou walked up to him, "...we'd...better clean you up a bit, though..." Ken glanced at Chii, who nodded with a look of 'uh huh!' then looked at his clothes; torn up and filled with blood, both his and the digimons'.
"...Alright," he muttered again, changing his course of trudging to the bathroom. Ryou tried to grab his arm to help him, but Ken recoiled in pain, "Ow! Don't touch me!"
"Sorry...I didn't know your arm hurt..."
Ken closed his eyes and slammed the door behind him.
"Will you be okay?" Chii asked.
"Yahhh! Now shut up!" His voice was loud, but still a bit shaky from the incident.
Ken opened his eyes slowly. Had he even been asleep? He shook his head and looked around. It wasn't the cabin. Wh….he thought…Where am I…?
It was a vast, colorless beach. Everything was dark, everything was cold, desolate, alone. Beside the beach was, unsurprisingly, an endless, dark ocean. It stretched farther than Ken could see.
He stepped into the water. It was weird, he began to hear voices…was it the back of his mind?
Was it Osamu? The voices sounded evil, maniacal. Ken suddenly looked at his digivice, and glared at it. He then had an idea…
Water filled his lungs, and he opened his eyes. Dark, but he knew he was in water, for sure. He tried to scream, but couldn't. He felt a hand tug on his hair and pull him up...
"AH!" He gasped for air, and when his vision returned, he saw Chii and Ryou.
"Thought you couldn't..." Ken then had a fit of screaming,
"GOD! WHY CAN'T I HAVE ANY PEACE ANYMORE?!"
"We're just worried about ya. We can't help it," Chii laughed a bit and Ken sank lower,
"...please, go away."
"Why? We're all guys here!"
"Go away."
"But..."
"NOW!"
Osamu copied his brother's idea of sneaking out that night. He felt a little awkward, especially after what his brother had said. The words were burned into his mind's eye: I WISH YOU'D JUST DISAPPEAR! He sighed and figured he should talk to the smartest person he knew. He figured adults he knew were idiots, so he went to see Shirubi at the Kyoto Hospital. She was intelligent enough, he figured, to help him out with his inner problems. He took a step outside into the cold, desolate, silent-but noisy night.
When he arrived at the hospital, he felt even more awkward. Who knew why? Osamu was a strange child, and very intelligent, although, he had severed himself from everyone else. Solitude was the way he liked it, but if he liked Shirubi with him, that meant he wouldn't like solitude… He hated to contradict himself so many times in just a few minutes as he took hesitant steps inside.
Inside, Osamu found that the hospital was in a state of panic. An inmate was actually holding a lighter and some gasoline. The doctors had their drugs in syringes and no other weaponry. He shook his head, even as the man threw the gasoline tank and then the lighter, screaming,
"LUCIFER WILL REIGN SUPREME!"
There was a sudden blast of flame. The fire spread quickly, it got into the electrical wiring of the hospital.
"Oh, God...!" Osamu thought, suddenly feeling the impulse to run in instead of out, "..Shirubi!"
It spread very, very fast. The entire place was trying to be evacuated, but Shirubi was nowhere to be found. He tried to locate where she would be. Running into a hallway, he saw a strange sight.
Shirubi stared wide eyed at the flames. She looked...scared. She backed slowly away, but then started to walk forward, into the flames.
"Sh-SHIRUBI-CHAN!" He screamed, clutching her arm and running as fast as his physical being would let him. She kept staring back into the flames, seeing the smirking children turn away from her and disappear into the flames.
"Bye..." she spoke, as if in a trance.
Osamu stopped by the entrance and concocted a sort of plan. He dragged her by a nearby tree and ducked down.
"Here," he stated, pulling off his sweater and handing it to her, "wear this."
"W...Why?"
"They'll be looking for you," he pointed to her white uniform, from the hospital.
"Oh..." she hesitantly took the sweater and the two ran off...
Ryou and Chii sat on opposite sides of the table, Ryou clicking away at his laptop computer and Chii staring at him, drinking hot cocoa. It seemed tranquil...but they all knew much was going on at that precise moment. Still, it was quiet. Nice...
"Hey, Ryou-san..."
"Mm?"
"...what's up with...Ken's hair...?"
"His hair?"
"Yah...it got all spiky...and-well, weird..."
"Something about that scene wasn't right..."
"Huh? Well...except the hair..."
"And wings."
"And wings..."
"And drills."
"Drills...SHUT UP! JUST TELL ME WHAT THE F..." Chii covered his mouth, "Sorry, but can you tell me what the heck was going on?" Ryou was hesitant,
"...To be honest...I only have a slight idea..."
"What?!"
"Hello?" Wormmon's voice chirped through the computer, "Do I have access?"
"Alright, Worm-chan, retaining access...now. You have been cleared for access."
". . " Chii had no idea (thus, the weird Blinkey face ) .
Suddenly, something emerged from the computer...Worm-chan!
"Worm-chan!" Ken came running out of the bathroom, wearing one of Ryou's pajama outfits, if you're wondering.
"Ken-chan, I told you he'd be alright," Ryou said, but then noticed Ken crying again. His hair was wet, so it was flat against his head. He hugged the little digimon tight,
"Worm-chan..." He was crying again.
"Ken-chan..."
"I...was so worried that..." his sobs interrupted his words, and Ken was unable to speak.
"Maybe you all should just go to bed..." Ryou smiled and the rest of them smiled back. Smiling. It almost seemed to be a foreign concept nowadays. Everything had a tone of darkness all over it, constant death, suffering, crying, pain...
But out of the darkness was light, a smile during the time of misery and pain...
After the fire scare, Shirubi and Osamu had escaped to a great place: a resturaunt. Shirubi was hesitant about going in, being the fact she WAS an escaped inmate of the local (but now defunct) mental hospital. However, Osamu convinced her to at least have some water and have a good discussion with him. She came in and the two sat down.
"Shirubi...?"
"Hmm...?" She questioned, fingering Osa's sweater with her nail-bitten fingers.
"...Uh..." he didn't know quite how to begin. Even with his vast vocabulary, Osamu Ichijouji was at a complete loss for words. Maybe he was tired. Maybe he ?
"Osaaaa-chan..." Shirubi was out of the hospital and hanging out with Osamu, who was rather quiet. Shi kept on interrogating him,
"What's wrong? You look...worried..." Osa-chan glanced at her across the table. They were eating out, and it was a quiet, beautiful night. The atmosphere was happy, in both the city of Tokyo and the café.
"My brother...he...he's missing."
"Uh oh...when'd you last see him?" It was weird, since they were the only two under the age of 15 in the café, and it was rather late, around two in the morning. Obviously, Osa-chan was able to leave whenever he pleased, or something... He took of his glasses and closed his eyes,
"Just...a little while ago...but I'm getting worried..." Shi muttered,
"Osa-chan...hearing what you've told me, I'm sure he'll be okay. Besides, perhaps he's just sleeping over at a friend's house." He opened his eyes and stared, glasses still off,
"Ken?! Making friends THIS quick?" Shi laughed a bit with a nod. Osamu shook his head and the two ate their early, early breakfast. Shi suddenly stopped eating...she looked frightened.
"What...?"
Back at Ryou's cabin...
"Worm-chan...?" No response from the sleeping digimon. "Worm-CHAN?!" It was almost a yell, but the little green bug finally awoke,
"Whaaat...!? I was having the nicest dream..."
"I just had a weird one...in fact..." Ken closed his eyes and thought a moment, "...a lot of weird stuff has been happening..."
"Ken-chan?"
"...I mean, back home, I had just a typical, average life. Sure, my brother got on my nerves and my parents think I'm insane...but then I get to Japan...and all Hell pretty much breaks loose..." He glanced at his two lasers, digivice, and torn-up, blood-stained jacket on the other side of the room, his backpack next to the items, "...this...this can't be..."
"Speaking off odd happenings..." The bug lit the room with the flip of a switch on the nearby lamp, "...you looked different."
"Excuse me?" The bug nodded,
"Yah...your hair...and your eyes..."
"My..." he questioned, "...my eyes?" Once again, Wormmon replied with a nod,
"Hai...you looked..." He hesitated and glanced at Ken, "...insane."
"What?!"
"...Like...you would've done anything at that moment...to completely beat Mummymon to dust..."
"I was angry..." Ken's eyes filled with tears, "...You were hurt."
"That doesn't give you reason to go crazy!"
"I WASN'T GOING CRAZY!" He screamed, his voice having that...different tone to it, "...I was..." it returned to normal, "...scared...you were hurt...he deserved to feel the same pain."
"Ken-chan...I think we both need some sleep...it's been a weird adventure thus far..." Ken muttered as the bug turned off the lamp,
"And it's only gonna get weirder..."
"JANISUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU?!" The girl assassin looked up from her wire-soldering work to see a whining, crying Mummymon, holding his bandaged right eye,
"THAT DAMN KID!! HE SHOT MY EYE!" Janis merely didn't respond. She just kept soldering.
"JANISU! ARE YOU LISTENING?!"
"Hai-hai. Sure, I am." She was wiring Senjo, the top-secret hacker system for the Chaos Fighters. She was one of the developers of the system. "I'm surprised you're dumb enough to confront one such as him."
"Ex-CUSE me!?" She sighed again,
"That 'Ken Miraki', or whatever his name is, is certainly one with a power to be thought about. How the hell he pulled out an Angel Ring on us, who knows. But it looks like this takes strategy," she tossed the iron to the whining digimon and turned to walk out, "...and I'm gonna go think for awhile."
Mummymon muttered something angrily and began to wire. Another Chaos Fighter digimon walked up to him,
"Man...she's always saying 'she has to think'. WHAT'S HER FREAKING DEAL?!"
Mummymon hesitated, "I don't know..."
Everyone at the cabin was asleep, with an exception of Ryou. He had traveled back to the Dejitaru through his laptop. He needed to find something...
"Here it is..." He muttered, arriving to a large, castle-like building. This was the Dejitaru's History Library, guarded by a winged beast digimon named Nefertimon, and a little white digimon named Bokomon resided in the library, for he knew about nearly every story of the Dejitaru's past.
"Ah, Ryou Akiyama," Boko stated with a smile, "so nice to see you again." Ryou was less happy, for he was too focused,
"Boko-chan, I came to look for something." The little digimon nodded, taking a book out of the carry-pack around his waist, "Alright, what're you looking for in particular?" Ryou glanced around at the others in the library, so he found the need to whisper, "I'm looking for anything on Machina." Bokomon nearly fell over in shock and question,
"WHAAT?!" "Shhh!!!" Luckily, no one had really noticed. Boko was talking nervously,
"M-Machina...? W-Why do y-ou need tha-t?" Ryou tried to calm him down,
"Look, I can't tell you much...but I just really need to read up on it. Something...happened..." Boko was calmed down, but still nervous,
"Well, Machina probably has nothing to do with it..."
"Perhaps it has everything to do with it," Ryou stated, looking as if he was about to threaten to strangle the digimon, "Now I need a book!" He hesitated, then flipped madly in his book,
"Ah, here we go. Dictionary, 112th Level, 3rd to the right, old text..."
"I can barely read old text!" "Too bad, Akiyama, it's the one of the only books we..." "What?!" "Well...heh...oops...'kay, there is indeed another book...but it's a bit old..." "I...don't...care!" Boko was now whispering,
"Alright...I have it. I'll come with you to find the other book...then I'll hand it to you."
"Agreed." There was a giant, wooden, winding staricase that went to the higher levels of books, and there were about 150 levels. It was rather high up, but Ryou and Boko weren't afraid. Fortunately, he eventually found the book, and Boko nonchalantly handed him the other book. Both were old, and you could notice it by first glance. They were also heavy, moreso than normal books. Still, they were history books, and they were what Ryou needed.
He waved 'syao' to Bokomon and the library, and headed back to the cabin before his 'friends' had woken up.
"Lezzsee..." Ryou nodded, glancing at all the books together, "It seems...Machina isn't a type of engergy after all... I'll be damned...It's..." his heart suddenly stopped. His words glanced over the page and stared agape at it:
During the Pre-Wartime Period, the Organization known as CHAO-Fi (Chaos Fighters' Organization) conducted a project known as the Amethyst Project. Not much detail is known about this project.
There was then Project Excellence, toying with the human mind.
There was then the Pre-Angelus Project, more widely known as the "Deus ex Machina"project. "Machina" is Latin for "God from Machine". In older times, this was a statement given to...(Ryou couldn't read this)...redeeming the world, maintaining order, and above all...
Destruction.
Ryou stared. It was all coming together. Ken, the wings, the guns, the summoning, the odd voices in his head...
An ongoing project. No one knows of its existance at the time of this writing.
'Wait a sec...' Ryou pondered, 'This isn't an old book at all! Then...why was Boko trying so hard to keep it a secret...?'
The CHAO-Fi "Deus Ex Machina" project is a way to emulate the Divine Machine of ancient times...
Deus ex Machina is a killing machine, created for one purpose: to serve Chaos and become a vessel of...
Ryou stared long and hard, then threw the book against the wall.
"It...It can't be true!" He screamed, "IT CAN'T! IT JUST CAN'T!"
"What's all this yelling about?" Worm-chan whispered from the stariway, "Keep yelling, you'll wake us all."
"Gomenasai."
'Dammit, Boko...'
"Shi?" She had stopped eating and was completely still, "Are...are you okay?" She opened her eyes, shivered, then smiled,
"Yah...yah, I'm fine! ..."
"Sure?" She nodded.
"Just a bit of worry myself...I should go..." She got up to leave, but Osa-chan grabbed her hand,
"Don't go. Like you said, won't it be okay?" Hesitate,
"I...guess..." She sat back down with a smile and the two began to eat again. "By the way..." she added, "...why do you want me around so bad?"
"Oiii Janis!" She sighed with exhaustion,
"What is it, Mummymon?!" She questioned with a slight tone of anger.
"Think of that plan yet?"
"How could I in 5 minutes?!"
"Oh..."
"But I do have a bit of a..."
"Janisu-chan?" Both turned to see Arachnimon, standing angrily behind them, "What're you two talking about?"
"Nothing."
"Really?" She took out her staff and aimed it at Janis, "I think you two are plotting something..."
"Nothing against you," she coolly responded with a shrug, Mummymon nodding vigorously after. "It's a plan to get rid of that kid. Y'know, the one your boyfriend here lost against..."
"HE'S NOT MY BOYFRIEND!!"
"I DIDN'T LOSE!"
"Heh, the Boss thinks different," she sighed with a turn to walk away, but the two Fighters took out their weapons, "Please. WHY should I fight you two? I'm a lot stronger than both of you, so why would you try?"
She strode away,
"Can I ever get any privacy anymore?" Little did she know, Arachni was coming in to attack. She pulled her arm back, summoning a sphere of flame and shot it straight into Janis' back...
Shi stopped eating again, but this time started coughing.
"Not this again," Osa-chan sighed, but when she fell out of her chair, he was worried. Very worried.
"Shi-chan?!" No answer but coughing. "SHI-CHAN?!" Something was odd, her eyes were dilated and she was coughing up blood...
Janis quickly unsheathed her blade, and a fight began.
'That's so weird...' Arachni thought during the battle, 'How...How did she take that...without getting hurt?!'
Shirubi was coughing untcontrollably, and Osa had no idea of what to do.
"Shi!! Shi! Say something! What's wrong!?" Shi slowly lifted her head off of the floor and spoke quietly,
"I...I...I--need...to go..."
"Wha...what?!" She stood up shakily, and began walking in a zombie-esque way.
"S...she needs me..." Her eyes were darkened, her voice was blank. Osamu did nothing but stare. He sulked in his seat and raised his arm,
"Check please."
The next day was a bit less...hectic.
"Alright, so are we going or not?!" Ken screeched, slamming his fists on the table. Ryou rolled his eyes,
"Well...y'see, we're gonna separate..."
"WHAAT?!" Chii and Ken hollered, and Worm-chan continued,
"Yah, Ryou-san explained to me last night that the Chaos Legions' Gates are separated throughout the Genjitsu. Thus, we must split up in order to get in."
"Get in?" The bug nodded,
"Haii. It has very high security, so it will be tough to find each Gate. Still, I think the answer lies in a certain train in a certain station..." he handed a slip of paper to Ken, "...so we're trusting you to go alone."
"WHA-?! ME?! WHY ME?!"
"Well, Chii-chan has to get back to school, I need to check back in with the Rebels for an emergency meeting of sorts, so that leaves you..."
"Besides," Worm-chan added, "It'll be less conspicuous if one person goes instead of a group." Ken was about to retaliate, but instead grabbed the sheet and strode out.
May I add, they were no longer in the cabin. Chii's father had come and brought them back to Tokyo, where-using Ryou's laptop, had excaped to Deji. A bit confusing, since Ken had to go back to the Genji...ah whatever.
"Okay." Ken had arrived, guns attached to his belt along with his digivice, at a train station in a city he had never heard of, and couldn't remember name of. It was a giant blue building, and trains were coming and going every two minutes or so.
"Alright...the 9 Train..." he walked into the structure, and there were about fifty trains, all of them labeled with letters, double letters, or a few with numbers. Confusing. Even moreso with about two hundred people.
"Oh boy...no wonder Ryou said to leave early...it leaves at 5, and it's..." he stared at the clock on the wall and nearly shrieked, "FOUR THIRTY-FIVE?!" He glanced around nervously, and began to run, once again, like a maniac.
'Maybe I should ask...' He shook his head, 'Nah, if these are Chaos Fighters, they wouldn't help me...'
He stopped running and sighed. Well, maybe it'd work.
"HELLO?!" He screeched to the ceiling, loud enough for basically the whole building to hear, "CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHERE THE NINE TRAIN IS?!" They all, everyone in the building, stared blankly. Ken laughed nervously,
"Please?"
Everything returned to normal, and Ken was once more lost. That is, until...
"Hey!" He turned, eyes welling up with tears, to see a girl with blue hair. She had a pair of metal goggles tied around her neck, and-strangely enough--red eyes. 'Wait a sec...' Ken thought a moment, and it clicked,
"Janis?!" She smiled with a nod,
"Yep." Ken was confused, so he did what came naturally; he drew his guns. Janis backed away a bit slowly,
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold it, kid!" Ken clenched his fists,
"Why does everybody have to call me THAT?!" Janis hesitated,
"Alright, what do ya wanna be called, then?" He hesitated,
"K-I mean..." More hesitation. Thinking he shouldn't use his real name, the next thing crossed his mind, "Miraki. Yah, call me Miraki." She stared blankly,
"Miraki? Sounds more like a last name to me..." Janis shrugged, "Whatever, c'mon..." she turned to walk.
"Where're you going?!"
"You wanna get to the 9 Train, ne?" He hesitated,
"Ah-yah! Yah, I do."
"Then follow me..." she began walking, and he hesitantly followed. She muttered, "...Kid."
"Insanity."
"Sanity."
"Football."
"Kick."
"Kick."
"Somebody."
"Hit."
"On."
Ryou and Chiisu, bored out of their minds, were playing a game of sorts: Ryou would say something, and Chii would say the first word that came to mind. Sure, it seemed like mild psychology, but still, it passed the time.
"Ken."
"Insane."
"Ryou."
"Jerk."
Ryou suddenly screamed, "WHAT?! JERK?!!?!"
"You said say the first thing that popped into my head!" He scowled, and continued,
"A-...School."
"Insert curse word."
"Just one word."
"You said say the first thing that came into my mind."
"SHUT UP!"
"MAKE ME!"
"Grrr..."
"Cat."
Ryou smiled, his eye twitching in anger. But still, the two continued.
"Worm-chan."
"Useless." The bug left the room silently and started to hit his head on a nearby wall.
"Dejitaru."
"Weird."
"Genjitsu."
"Weirder."
"Janis."
"Haven't seen her, all I know is that she sounds cute." Ryou glared,
"Alright, we're stopping this NOW!"
"Whyyy?!"
"Because I'm really beginning to hate it!"
"Why?"
"Just...because!"
"You like Janis?"
"NO!"
"Why?"
Ryou hesitated, "Well, she's an assassin who is trained to kill and it's my job to..."
"Still," Chii muttered.
Ryou glared again, "D-Don't you have something you need to do?!"
"School's out for today. I have nothin' else to do." Ryou kept glaring,
"Please...just do something!"
"...uh, 'kay...my turn then."
"What?!"
"Ken."
"Weird."
"Chiisu."
"Idiot."
Chii nearly fell over in anger, but he kept on.
"Cyberdramon."
"Friend."
"Janisu."
"Villain." Ryou hesitated.
Chii laughed a bit, and the two were silent. Then Chii spoke once more,
"Janis..."
"SHUT UP!"
"This is the train," Janis muttered, approaching one of the many trains. "Well? Getting on? It leaves in 15 minutes."
Ken was confused, "...why's you...lead me here?"
"Felt like it," Janis sighed with a shrug. All of a sudden, though, a massive explosion shook the place.
"What was--!" Janis was interrupted by the emergency intercom,
"I'm sorry, but all of the departing and arriving trains will be postponed until a giant monster outside has evacuated the premises. Please remain calm-," of course, no one did so. It was all a panic scene, people running around screaming and whatnot.
"So these aren't Fighters?" Ken asked. Janis stared blankly,
"You really think we'd all be here? There's just a train that leads through the Gate. A train, meaning one, and nobody really goes through it anymore..."
"Oh..."
"Still works, I'll explain later!" She began running, and Ken soon followed, hollering,
"WAIT UP, JANIS!"
"What's THAT?!" Ken screamed. The two were on the roof of the station, staring down a giant digimon. Well, actually two. One was a giant cactus with boxing gloves ("what?" Ken muttered blankly) and the other was a ghost, reaper-like demon with a scythe. "Janis...how do we-huh?! Where'd you...AHHH!" The giant cactus was suddenly straight in front of him, aiming a puch straight for him. Oh boy.
"AAAH!!!!"
"SHOOT, YOU MORON!" Janis screamed from a higher ledge. She was standing on a nearby building's roof. Ken did as said, grabbing his guns,
"Alright---!!" He fired straight at the cactus...nothing. Just blue laser shots reflecting off the spikes.
"Miraki! Those spikes!"
"Spikes..." Ken muttered, "..Spikes...? How do I...?" He immediately dodged a strike from one of the monster's large hands, and thought, "How do I get the spikes out...?"
'Can't help 'ya, Kid...' She thought, quickly putting the metal rimmed goggles around her eyes and unsheathing her blade, Sakura. The demon's scythe cut down on it's speed since it was so heavy, so Janis let him strike, and she'd backflip around him and strike from behind. 'Damn it, doesn't he know about Data Rewrite?! AH! Stupid--!' She struck the digimon with her blade and went back to her ledge.
"HEY! MIRAKI!" She got his attention from dodging the cactus' punches, "CHECK THIS OUT!"
She straightened her goggles with her index finger and grinned. She jumped high, Ken's vision was blurred by the sunlight shining down from above. He strained his eyes to see. She came down with her giant, metal-rimmed, quartz blade right into the digimon with the scythe, straight through.
"Whoa..." he sighed, being able to see the last part, the two half-pieces of the digimon falling to the ground. Janis used her blade to absorb the data. Green blood dripped from the blade as she smiled.
Back to Ken's problems.
"AHH!" He nearly fell off the roof of the station, but he still managed to stay on.
"MIRAKI-KUN! DO-YOU-KNOW-HOW-TO-REWRITE-DATA?!"
"DO I WHAAAAAAAAT?!" Janis sighed with exasperation and sat on her ledge,
"You're on your own. I don't work with amateurs."
"JANIS-AAAAH!" He was thrown back by a successful punch by the giant punching cactus. Every bone in his body hurt.
"Ow..." He felt like crying, but would it have really done any good? No. Even so, tears did well up in his eyes. Anger, not fear or sadness. Not even pain, anymore anyway.
"I have an idea..." He muttered, standing up unsteadily and raising his left arm. From it, the Angel Ring folded, metal first, then the crystal pieces, finally the halo. He aimed it at the cactus.
"Play time's OVER!" The crystals aimed at the beast, and the halo began to glow.
"There we go..." Janis smiled, making sure she still had her goggles on.
"DATA REWRITE!" The light extended from the Ring, straight into the cactus. The light seemed to penetrate the digimon, straight into it and manipulating it. The towering beast wiggled and began to lose it's spikes throughout it's body. It's limbs began to evaporate. Unfortunately, Ken couldn't see what was happening, for he was blinded by the excruciatingly blinding light. Janis merely stared blankly, for obviously the goggles were doing their job.
"Looks like I gotta handle the rest of this..." She lifted her blade once more...
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" The light ceased, and the blade came straight thorugh the beast's head.
Ken could see it this time. She had that effect again. Whether it was the sun reflecting off of her, or the blade piercing through the head of the digimon, the blood splattering everywhere including the two humans, she looked...almost heavenly. Maybe it wasn't even a question of almost.
For that one moment, even if it didn't last very long, it was...perfect. She had executed the cactus with extreme precision and speed, along with grace and style. Amazing...oddly enough, Ken could just stare once more, like at their first meeting.
Janis. There was something about this assassin that was certainly...something...
After the weirdness had worn off, Janis spoke with Ken near the train, getting ready to leave.
"You couldn't see, ne?" Ken nodded. "Yah, you can be blinded if you keep doing that with your eyes unprotected, so...here." She handed him a pair of glasses, yellow-rimmed with purple-tinted lenses. "They're yours. I've grown attached to these," she pointed to the goggles tied around her neck once more. Ken was confused,
"Why're you...?"
"I know-helping you. I just think that you're an amateur, but you have the potential to be quite a formidable opponent...so I might as well teach you the basics."
"Arigatou..."
"Don't you dare say 'thank you' to me...!"
Ken was about to reply, but refrained. The train soon came in.
"C'mon. Let's just get on..."
"Wait a sec, how'd you know that I wanted to go..."
"Why else would you be here?!"
"Good point..."
Janis sighed, "You're hopeless." Thus, the two boarded the gray metal train.
The train ride was normal until...
Janis had instructed him to use his digivice to get through the Gate to the Chaos Legion, as Janis explained was called La Maison de Saint Marie. He did so, but it was weird. The train was glowing, bright lights were everywhere. In fact, if she hadn't told him to put on those glasses, he'd probably be blind. Leave it at that.
"Janis! WHAT'S GOING ON?!"
"We're just passing through the Gate," she muttered, holding her black device in her hand. The others on the train evaporated, and soon it was just Janis and Ken. And the blinding lights.
"JANIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS!" He screamed, and everything was blank.
"That's it!" Chiisu got up and walked outside (remember, he and Ryou are in the Dejitaru!).
"Where're you goin'?!" Ryou asked.
"I can't wait, I wanna meet this Janis Sukaraki girl!"
"But-!"
"G'bye! "
"Ch-CHI-KUN!" Chiisu had ran out of the building, and currently running nowhere, just away from the site.
"CHIISU!!"
"Fiine," he muttered as Ryou and Cyberdra came up (Cyber had just come into the scene) breathless, "you can come."
"Rrr...but you can't really get anywhere without a way to get through the Gates...and you'll need a partner..."
"Partner?!" Chii began to jump around happily, "WEEEE! I GET A PARTNER!!"
"Okay...we'll need to get to Primary Village, then you can chose one as your Partner..."
"YAY!"
"But it'll be a baby." Chiisu immediately stopped looking happy and looked at him with a wide-eyed expression,
"...what?"
"Y'see, Ken needed a Digimon like Wormmon (who was standing by Chii at this moment) because he needed him. Well, the two needed each other. Ain't that right, Worm-chan?" The bug was silent,
"..L-Let's not talk about it...please..." Chii was confused as Ryou continued,
"Anyway, since you're new to this...you should have a friend who's new to this, too."
"So...it'll...be...like..." he hesitated, then began jumping again, "...a game!"
"Game?" Ryou glanced at the other two Digimon with a mix of confusion and embarrassment. Chii nodded, a wide smile imprinted on his face,
"Mm-hmm! Like those games where you take care of monsters, then you raise them to battle other monsters! A lot like Poke'mon, but I hate that, so...but there are other games! Like Monster Rancher and..."
"SHUT UP!" Ryou screamed, the two monsters remaining silent with somewhat humiliation. "L-Look, Primary Village is just over there..."
"Awww...that's too far..."
"TOUGH LUCK! Ever hear the expression 'easy things usually aren't worth doing'?!"
"No..."
"WELL 'YA JUST DID! C'mon!" Ryou stomped in the direction of the town, the two Digimon following silently. Chiisu hesitantly began walking then, and they were on their way.
Primary Village was quite a big place, but it's inhabitants were little, as Ryou had said-little baby Digimon. Chii almost threw up at their unbelievable cuteness, but he managed not to. He jumped around once more,
"Really, Ryou?! One of these guys can be my Partner?!" Ryou nodded, a vague smile on his face. Chii glanced around the field, various buildings, baby toys, and cradles strewn about. Little blob-like creatures hopped around, parading in rainbows of colors. Chii was overwhelmed,
"Ryo-Ryou-san, could 'ya please help me pick one out...?" Suddenly, a white ball-like creature with little wing-like ears (like on Janisu's helmet) hopped across his path,
"HEY! Who're you?!" Chii glanced at Ryou, who then whispered,
"Well, tell him your name!"
"M-My name's Kimura Chiisu...I'm looking for a Partner Digimon to help find my friend and Janis Sukaraki, the--..." The little Digimon suddenly jumped back a bit,
"JANIS SUKARAKI?! THE MOONLIGHT ASSASSIN?!" His screech was followed by a nod from Chiisu, and the other babies cowering in fear.
"What?"
"Janisu..." one little Digimon muttered, this time a red one with three little horns, "...is highly feared by all in the Dejitaru..."
Chii then began to yell,
"Hey! But that's just what she wants! You can't just give in...you can't...be afraid!" The little white Digimon standing in front of him looked hesitant while Chii continued,
"I promise that...my friends, like Ryou, Worm-chan, and Cyberdra-chan, and I will defeat this Assassin, and there'll be no more fear then, ne?!" They all glanced at each other. One other Digimon spoke up,
"What about Millenniumon and the Fighters?" There were nods among the group. Chiisu merely scoffed,
"Them, too! We'll defeat anyone who stands in our way! Now, WHO'S WITH ME?!" They all hesitated, but the little white Digimon nodded,
"I will."
"Arigatou. " Chii smiled, "So, what's your name?"
"My name's Upamon."
"Upa...Upa-chan, can I call you that?" Upa-chan nodded. Chii turned to Ryou and the other Digimon,
"Alright! Let's get going!"
"Where?"
"Doi! The Chaos Legion!"
Thus, the group left Primary Village, in hopes of finding Ken, Janis, and Millenniumon.
"I...Itaiimy head...huh? Where...?" Ken glanced around, not knowing where he was. It was a dark beach of sorts...the sky was dark gray, the water reflecting it. There was no light. All there was...was darkness.
"Hello?" He asked, his words disappearing into the shadows. 'Is this the Chaos Legion...?' He glanced around, "Janis? JANIS?!" She was nowhere in sight. "Oh, man...this ain't good..." He fell to the sandy ground, unable to think if what to do. "Huh? What's that?" He took his glasses off in effort to see it. A bright light was shining from the middle of the ocean in front of him. "Light?" In a place like this? It was a straight beam, shooting directly into the sky. It was a calm, but brilliant light...
He wanted to step forward, but found the water to feel...not quite like water...It felt more like...what a shadow would feel like, if it were a liquid. Still, he wanted to find out what was shining deep within the depths, so he kept walking, into the water. It was so weird...
It reached a depth eventually where he couldn't walk; he had to swim. However, he wasn't scared. He was too focused on finding out what was glowing in such a place. Ken found it even harder to swim in the shadow-water, it was more dense than regular water. Down, down, down...it was getting darker and darker, he couldn't see it...
But then, he could.
Again, Osamu Ichijouji strode about the street, alone. His immense lonliness was becoming a little too much. He figured he had to talk to Shirubi about it or he'd kill himself. He sighed. Osamu kicked at a rock that crossed his path. The rock tapped a pair of shoes in front of him. He looked up slightly, seeing two big, red eyes staring at him deviously.
"So...you're Osamu Ichijouji. I'm not impressed."
Soon, as he had found, "it" wasn't an "it"...it was a "she". A girl. She looked unconscious, but how she could breathe in such a place like this...well, he figured that's how she passed out, being stuck down there...
How long had she been down there? Was she even alive?
Those questions were completely out of his head at that moment. Something was different, in this scene of the sleeping, shining girl and him.
He couldn't see anything but white and her outline, but something was...different...about that...aside the fact she was glowing...
Suddenly, there was an earthquake-like shake.
"What the-?!" A giant creature emerged from the depths below, right out of the sands. Ken was about to panic, but all he did was grab the girl by her arm,
"C'MON! WAKE UP!" She had no response. Thus, he was self-obliged to swim back to the surface, the girl dragging behind him. Back on the shore...
"Hey! Are you alright!?" Through the erupting chaos, she was still shining with the holy, ominous light, though he could see her now. Whether or not she was wearing anything, he could barely tell. She seemed like an angel, or some holy being...perfect...
"Ah..." Ken stared then, wide-eyed, at what then emerged from the water. A gigantic, dinosaur-like being, much bigger than SkullGreymon and MetalGreymon combined. It was the largest, most massive thing Ken had ever seen in his life. The black dinosaur had metal covering all over it's back, spikes and claws of pure, dark titanium. The massive being stared at him, it's blood-filled teeth turning into a slight grin. All Ken could do was stare back, scared out of his mind. He didn't even dare to move, for the beast, in one clean, minor swipe, could kill him with ease. The dark water reflected him and Ken, and that's all it was. Ken, the shining girl, and this monster.
He was afraid. Afraid of the truth. The truth? The truth was...this was the most powerful, most feared being in the Dejitaru Sekai...one of the main reasons Ken was brought to that World...
Millenniumon. This was Millenniumon.