The Digi-Slayer

Chapter 38

"Ugh" Grunted the dragon form Kari, rubbing her scaly head with her right claw "That was unexpected"

"Indeed" Agreed Zade, picking herself up and shaking the kinks out of her body "We need a new plan"

"Zade" Kari started, pointing one of her silvery claws skywards "Look up"

Doing so, Zade saw the Digi-Slayer locking claws with Davis.

"Maybe we should help" Suggested Kari, worry forming on her armored face.

"No" Zade said softly, her sight never breaking on the battle above "We'd probably just get in the way"

"Well I'm changing" Kari began, her eye's glowing blue "I'm too slow like this, perhaps we would have more luck if we were smaller"

"You may be onto something there," Zade said, her eye's glowing red "This way he'll be the one too slow to catch us"

With a flash of white mixed with purple, the two dragonesses disappeared, but in their places where two armored women, both in identical, skin hugging armor, with the only difference where the variations in colors. Kari's armor, much like her scales, was silvery white with blue coloring around the joints and gloves, while with Zade; her armor was purple with red coloring in the same fashion as Kari's blue. The faces of both girls was the other factor that separated them, with Kari's delicate features and long, flowing hair resting on her armored shoulders, while Zade had a little less color in her face and her silvery-colored hair contrasting against the purple and red shoulder plates on which it rested.

Suddenly, both girls gasped as they saw their comrade take a double kick strait in his scaly chest, but instead of watching him fall to the ground, they were amazed to see him swing up behind and strait over the Digi-Slayer, only to bring his tail around and throw the dark dragon strait down into a cliff face.

"Yay Davis" Kari cheered as she jumped up and down.

"Who would have thought he could have thought up something so ingenious in a matter of seconds?" Zade thought to herself with a warm smile on her face "Then again, Davis never ceases to amaze me, whatever he does".

"Um, Zade?" Kari said, snapping the other girl out of her thoughts.

"Yeah?" Zade answered.

"We've lost Davis" Kari responded, pointing at the empty space in the air that once held Davis.

Zade looked at the girl with expression that almost said 'What are you nuts?' "Then we'll just go find him"

"But we need to get up from this hole" Kari said, the crater formed from their combined crashes would have been easy to get out of as dragons "And I don't think even with our power we'll be able to jump high enough"

"Then we'll just fly out" Zade said

"But we don't have wings" Argued Kari

"Not yet" Zade said, smiling at the girl.

"Huh?" Was all Kari could say.

"We've had wings before, remember when we merged, or when you merged with your digimon" Zade said.

"But those times Davis and Angewomon did the work" Kari said, looking down and tapping her fore-fingers together "I don't know how"

Zade sighed in frustration "Try and remember how having wings felt, then imagine yourself with wings, hopefully the energy we gained will do the rest of the work"

"Okay" Kari said, closing her eyes "I'll try"

The two girls stood there, Zade with a tranquil look on her face, while Kari's was scrunched up in concentration. Like a feeling of having a warm towel on her back, Zade's armor began shifting around to accommodate the wings steadily growing out of her back. As the feeling vanished, Zade looked behind to see a pair of purple dragon wings resting against her back. Zade broke her gaze on her new appendages to see how her fellow fighter was doing. Zade watched as Kari's face became redder and redder with frustration, but even though she was having a hard time, Zade saw the plates on Kari's back shift as a pair of wings slowly grew from her shoulder blades.

With a deep sigh of relief, Kari looked behind her to see her own wings.

"Yes" She exclaimed "I did it" But the look on Zade's face worried her "What?"

"Th-there not dragon wings" Zade said with a blank look on her face as she pointed to Kari's new body parts.

They were indeed not the leathery wings expected to be seen on a dragon, they were in fact covered in fluffy white feathers, some fluffing up as a gust of wind passed through them.

"Yeah, so?" Kari said, taking slight offense "It's what I imagined, not those icky scaly things".

Zade shook her head "Whatever" And with that, the two winged beauties took flight.

They two did not need to search hard for Davis, and when they did find him, they saw him in a brutal sword lock with the Digi-Slayer. As they tried to fly closer to the two duelers, the sheer energy the two emitted from this power struggle hit the girls and knocked them back a few feet. It was not until the sound of steel breaking rang throughout the land did the crackles of energy die around them, allowing the two females closer access.

"Davis" Zade yelled, looking at her boyfriend with shock on her face.

There was Davis, his one good eye open in shock; blood slowly trickled down his face before falling off his chin and hitting the already bloodstained earth below. Though there was indeed blood on his face, it was not his, fore next to him; the Digi-Slayer kneeled, his broken sword falling to the ground with the shattered blade. Davis let go of his sword, but it did not move far, as it was deeply embedded in the dark warrior's chest. As the color faded from the Digi-Slayer face, he let out a ragged breath, before smiling.

"Well done Davis" The Digi-Slayer said weakly, looking up at the stunned victor.

"I-I-I" Stuttered Davis, he never realized how killing something would affect him so much.

"There is no need for words, you are the winner" The Digi-Slayer said, his smile never fading, though it was not a smile of redemption, more of a cunning smile "A pity you won't live long enough to enjoy it"

"What?" Davis said, his brain still stunned from the new concepts it had to deal with.

"As I once told you before" The Digi-Slayer said, quickly grabbing his broken sword and ramming it to the hilt in a gap in Davis' armor "You can't kill what's already dead"

Rising to his feet as Davis fell to his knees, the Digi-Slayer stared down at his fallen foe with a disappointed look on his face. Blood slowly dribbled out of the side of Davis' mouth as he tried to grab the embedded weapon. With a snort, the Digi-Slayer delivered a swift kick to Davis' shoulder, making the blue armored fighter crumple to the sandy floor below.

"You really where fun" The dark armor-clad warrior said, before pulling out his enemy's bloody sword "A pity you were so gullible, you would ha-"

Before he could finish his insult, there was a feral scream and a flash of purple before the Digi-Slayer found himself being slammed into the same cliff face he was in before. While Zade was busy with the Digi-Slayer, Kari landed roughly next to Davis.

"Oh please let this work," Kari prayed before quickly drawing out the broken sword and placing her hands on the bleeding wound "Please"

As blood flowed between her digits, Kari felt her hands warm up dramatically and saw them glow a soft white. When the light died, Kari moved away her bloody hands to see that the wound had closed up like she imagined. Quick as a flash, Davis shot up into a sitting position before standing up.

"Davis are you alri-" But before Kari could answer, Davis had shot off in the direction of Zade.

"Zade" Davis called out, creating a pair of daggers in his hands.

As Zade saw Davis approaching at lightning fast speeds, she jumped out of the way quick enough to just barely avoid the twin blades as they sung through the air before embedding themselves into the shoulders of the Digi-Slayer.

"Heh" Laughed the Digi-Slayer, looking at the determined face of Davis "You know these can't hold me"

"Maybe" Davis said, a small smile on his face as he let go of the daggers "But I know something that will"

As Davis moved out of the way, the Digi-Slayer watched in shock as four glowing white spikes flew at him and drove themselves into the his hands and feet. Walking slowly towards the thrashing fighter, Davis grabbed onto the daggers before roughly pulling them out, blood slowly trickled down the blades.

"What's the matter?" Davis said in a mocking tone, spinning the daggers in his fingers before throwing them back into the Digi-Slayer "Not as fun when you're the one being played for is it?"

"No matter what you do," Said the Digi-Slayer, a smile forming on his lips "I will always exist, you have merely slowed me down".

"Don't be so sure" Davis laughed.

As they entered the Digi-Slayer's field of vision, Kari and Zade stopped to stand closely behind Davis, and as they each placed a hand on his shoulders, energy crackled around their arms and down Davis' right, until this energy focused and transformed itself into the shape of a brilliantly shining spear, the head extremely polished as it reflected the amused face of the Digi-Slayer.

"Don't be foolish," Laughed the dark fighter "No matter how much energy you put in that thing, you can't defeat me"

"Don't be so sure" An amused voice said.

"No" The Digi-Slayer paled as he heard the voice.

"Oh yes" Said the voice.

Davis and Kari looked at Zade; she had a small smile across her lips and her eye's burned with white energy the voice they heard was not hers, but of the forth spirit that dwelled inside her.

"This has gone on long enough" The forth spirit said, "You and I shall disappear and peace shall return to this world"

"Think of what you're doing" The Digi-Slayer said in a panicked voice "If I die, you die as well, you will cease to exist"

"Better than existing in this form, better than having the weight of your mayhem resting on my conscience, this ends now"

And with that, the forth spirit passed out of Zade, through Davis and into the glowing spear. With the entity resting with in the spear, the glow faded from the shaft to reveal ancient runes and patterns of dragons decorating its sleek, wooden frame. Letting go of their friend, Kari and Zade watched as Davis smashed the shaft into the earth. Silence reigned for the moment, before a great tremor rippled throughout the area, and as the earth near Davis and the others began to crack and split, a massive door shot out from beneath the surface. The door itself was a stunning thing; two giant torches burn green flames on either side of the steel frames, arcane symbols flashed in time like the beat of a heart, and as the doors opened, a great dark void could be seen, absolute nothingness lay beyond that door. Drawing the spear slowly out of the ground, Davis now faced his enemy, the cause of so much grief and misery in his life, he was about to end all that. His good eye flashing yellow with white-hot intensity, Davis raised the spear in an attacking manner.

"HEAVEN'S JUDGMENT" Davis yelled as he slammed the spear down, the tip and a bit of the shaft drilling into the hard surface of the Digi-Slayer's armor and then penetrating the soft flesh behind it.

Blood flew from the Digi-Slayer's lips as he looked on with terrified eyes. The spear was like nothing he had ever felt before, and before he knew it, the Digi-Slayer hung limp, his impaled body parts the only thing holding him up. Davis was not finished though. Walking so close to the Digi-Slayer that he could hear his ragged breath, Davis began to reach out to him but passed him as he dug his hands into the rock his foe hung from. Davis began to pull on the rock until the sound of cracking stone could be heard. The two girls looked on as Davis pulled away from the wall carrying the rock that held the Digi-Slayer in place.

"So long you bastard" Davis said before throwing the rock with all his might into the void that lay beyond the door "Enjoy hell"

"NOT WITHOUT YOUR GIRLFRIEND FOR COMPANY" The demonic voice of the Digi-Slayer rung throughout the area as a what appeared to be a massive hand made from shadows shot out from the door and grabbed onto Zade.

With all his energy drained from that final attack, Davis could only watch as Zade tried to pry herself from the hand's grasp. Kari couldn't even muster the strength to move anymore, all she could do was watch in horror as one of her friends was being dragged into hell.

"NOOOOO" Davis screamed as Zade was being pulled closer and closer towards the gates of hell.

Suddenly, a beam of golden light shot out from dark void behind the door and dived strait into the hand, severing the hold it had on the girl and shrinking back into the void. The golden light stayed though, but as the seconds passed, the light grew and twisted until it faded away to reveal a giant woman dressed in dark blue armor that covered sections of her body, but left her stomach exposed, eight golden wings adorned her back and in her hand she carried a golden sword.

"Th-thank you" Zade stuttered, looking up at the beautiful woman

The woman smiled, kneeling down to stoke Zade's hair with a finger "It is quite alright child, how could I have let my host die like that after you let me live?"

"You're the forth spirit?" Zade asked, grabbing onto the large digimon's hand.

"That's correct Zade" The woman grabbed Zade's tiny hand in her own "I am known as Ophanimon"

"You've been inside me all this time" Zade said, still shocked at the massive digimon.

"I am sorry" Ophanimon began, her smile fading "Because of me, that creature was allowed to roam free, it was my duty as part of the Digi-Slayer to keep the other's insanity in check, because I didn't make it in time, they were free to wreak death and destruction"

Zade kept silent, not knowing what to say after all that information. The smile returned to Ophanimon's lips as she rose and began turning towards the portal.

"Wait, you can't leave" Zade said, grabbing onto the Digimon's massive leg.

"Take care of Davis," She said, preparing to walk through the portal "He's a little slow, but at least he's a cutie"

And with that, she was gone, and as the portal closed and began slowly descending back into the earth, Zade fell to her knees, her armor vanishing as she reverted back to her normal form. Davis rushed over towards his fallen girlfriend, deactivating his own armor and reverting back into his original state.

"Are you okay?" Davis asked as he knelt beside his girlfriend and held her in his arms.

"It f-feels as th-th-though I'm not whole anymore" Zade sniffled, her once calm and collected mask vanishing to show the soft and vulnerable side of Zade.

Davis didn't have an answer for her; all he could do was hold her as she cried into his collar. As he rubbed her shoulder, Davis looked up into the night sky, with the Digi-Slayer gone, the world began slowly reverting back to normal, soon all the digimon that were destroyed by the Digi-Slayer would be reborn in the Primary Village, but that could all wait till later. As the stars above twinkled and the moon shone to illuminate the kneeling couple in the empty meadow, Davis could not help but feel at ease, the ultimate darkness that plagued this world was now gone, never to cast it's evil shadow over the planet that is the Digital World.

"Y'know" Davis thought to himself, a calm smile on his face as he soothed his girlfriend's worries "This hero thing is pretty friggin awesome"

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Well it's been a long and bendy road, but it's finally all over…….

Had you fooled there didn't I? Do not fear, still more chapters to come (Come on, you know you want to review such an awesome chapter, so do it) - Wolvie