A Digimon Fanfic
Written By: Haru Glory
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The War of Fates
Chapter 3: Takuya fights against Burning Greymon!
"Have you forgotten what I taught you?" Tai continued to speak as he was being choked to death by Burning Greymon, "No matter how strong you are, you are not a true warrior, not unless you learn who you really are! You are Takuya Kanbara, the Prince of the Fire Colony!"
In the deepest recesses of Burning Greymon's mind, Takuya could here everything that Tai and his father had said, or what they had talked about. But it was only in the last few words that Takuya really understood and recognized the person who was talking with him...
"Master...Tai?" Takuya thought, and as he looked up, he saw that large, claw-like hands were squeezing the life out of his sensei "What's going on? Where am I?"
Takuya then heard a growl, it puzzles him so that the growl seemed to be coming from him, not from his surroundings...
"I couldn't possibly be hungry...I just ate..." Takuya thought, "Besides if I am hungry, my stomach should be rumbling...not growling like a monster...wait a minute...!"
Takuya then began to remember something...
"The spirit...the beast spirit of flames...did I...?" Takuya wondered out loud...
Then he heard his master talking once more...
"Takuya, I know you could hear me now..." Tai muttered loud enough for Takuya could here, "You can do better than let the instincts of a digimon get the better of you...you have managed to control Agunimon – just do the same thing with Burning Greymon!"
"Intincts...?" Takuya wondered, "Does that mean...what I think it does..."
And for the first time Takuya noticed someone standing a little farther away from him. It looks almost the same as the spirit, but it has a form now – unlike before...though much smaller than it's actual size...
"You...? You can't be..." Takuya said as he noticed the silhouette of the being...
"How can I not be?" the being asked.
"But you were trapped in spirit form...you can't freely wonder about in my whole being...not unless..." Takuya said.
"Not unless what?" the being asked.
"Not unless I failed to control you..." Takuya muttered seeing the big picture.
"But you did...You did fail to control me." Chibi Burning Greymon said, "How do you think I manage to do all those things without your consent? You were just too busy thinking about something that you did not notice..."
"This is bad..." Takuya thought to himself as he established a mental barrier against Chibi Burning Greymon.
When a spirit possesses its bearer with its instincts, both the bearer and the spirit are connected – physically and mentally. It was thanks to Tai who was constantly training Takuya, that Takuya learned what he needed to do in case something like this happened...and now that it has, it took Takuya less than a milli-second to establish the mental barrier so that Chibi Burning Greymon could not infiltrate what he is thinking at the very moment.
"Master Tai and I haven't even gone through the basics of regaining the control over the spirit...I'm not even good enough in controlling a lower level human type spirit...what more could I do against a beast type?" Takuya wondered, thinking of all sorts of plan to free himself from the grip of Burning Greymon's instincts and save his master's life.
"You're good." Chibi Burning Greymon said, "...you managed to put up a barrier so fast...and without me noticing even."
"It's all thanks to my master." Takuya answered him, "So before I do anything to you, why don't you release him...he has nothing to do with anything..."
"You can't tell me what to do." The chibi monster said, "I make my own descisions, no one controls me but myself."
"Not for long." Takuya retorted trying to act confident and cool, but in reality he is still lost at what to do.
Takuya then remembered what his master once told him when he was teaching him something concerning the history of their world...
"Do you know where the spirits come from, Takuya?" Tai had asked him back then.
"No." Takuya remembered answering.
"Long ago, your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grand father helped create the path between the human world and our world...this path led to the creation of the digital world."
"Just a path...? Because of this our world is created?" Takuya asked.
"Yes. But he and his friends had to sacrifice a lot and had to go through a lot of hardships." Tai had explained, "And one of these sacrifices is giving their own lives and powers to save our world and the human world from the evil forces that tends to disrupt the harmony between the real world and our world."
"What do you mean by their lives? If great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great granpa sacrificed his life as well as the others...how come me, my dad and my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great granpa and my other great granpas live?" Takuya had asked, his curiosity getting the best of him once more back then.
"To be able to save the two worlds, they had to give up their powers." Tai explained, "They had to let go the ancient spirit, human spirit and beast spirit. They could only attain it and control it if they are strong willed, strong mind and of strong body...something that not all digimons possess."
"Then how could I control them...when the time comes?" Takuya asked.
That was when Takuya was snapped back from his thoughts as he heard his master scream in agony and his father shouting at him to regain the control over the spirit.
"The answer..." Takuya thought, "I have found it...master once said, that those spirits are only one...the spirit of my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grand father...and since my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grand father was a warrior...that means those spirits are a warrior's spirit...and to have a warrior spirit...one must be able to control it not by strength alone nor by will alone..."
"What's wrong, Takuya?" the chibi monster asked, "Aren't you going to listen to your old man and help your master?
"...and since this is a part of my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grand father...it means that this is also a part of my father thereby making it also a part of me." Takuya thought, "If that is the case, that means what is happening is also part of my desire...I hated my master for always being right about something and for lecturing me about things that make me feel like I am still a young kid..."
"Are you just going to let me constrict him?" Chibi Burning Greymon asked in a taunting manner.
"What Chibi Burning Greymon is doing is what I, myself, want to do...but fear to do...now that I think about it, I wasn't able to control Agunimon the first time I used him because I haven't realized that both me and Agunimon are one...what if...what if that is also what I am missing..." Takuya muttered, "The realization that Burning Greymon and I are one...and that what I want to do I can do...what I can do is what I decide to do..."
"What are you waiting for Takuya?" he heard Tai shout at him, "I know you have realized the answer! It is time you control IT!!!!"
With that Takuya was awakened...the real Takuya in the form of Burning Greymon. What really happened and how it really happened...no one could tell, not even Takuya's own father who went through the same thing, although he did not wish to admit it.
But since Takuya was not yet fully equipped on how to handle the beast spirit of Fire, it took only a few minutes before Burning Greymon returned back to Takuya. And when he did, it took him half of a second before he fainted from exhaustion.
"Takuya...!" the king and his master exclaimed.
"He's...sleeping...?" Tai said.
"I think we should let him...don't you?" The king asked.
"Yes, of course my lord." Tai replied, "He may not be ready to use it...but I think when he finally learns how to control it fully, he can easily beat me fair and square."
"And until he do...especially for tomorrow when he uses it to go to Ophanimon's castle, I want you to keep a close watch on him...but do not let him notice you. Help him if he really needs help and give him guidance when he needs it most...however..." Tai remembered the king instructing him as he carried Takuya towards the young prince's room, "You must not allow yourself to be seen by your apprentice...and when the time comes that he can fully control the spirit...I want you to leave him be. Do you understand that, Tai Kamiya?"
Tai remembered his response as he mused over at what the king has told him, "Yes. My lord." He remembered answering to the request of his king.
To be continued...
A/N: Okay guys sorry for the great, great, great thingy...I just had to put those many greats down . Anyways, as always I accept any kind of reviews/questions specially now that this fic's reviews are down by some count. I would really appreciate it if you guys review my work and tell me what you think of it so far. With that said, and with night falling down, this is, once again, Haru Glory, signing out!