Chapter 22: Digimon Legends
"Let's keep moving. I don't think these people like us too much." I looked around at the mob of Koreans who had just seen us fly from a devastated Japan.
"Can't we at least get a night's rest first?" Tentomon whined in a single breath.
"Sorry Tentomon, but we have to keep moving." Kristen kneeled down beside her partner.
"But I'm exhausted! You guys are heavier than you think you are."
"Calm down, we can go by land from here." Chris broke up the argument. "Greymon can help out, right Agumon?" He turned to his partner who looked distressed at the idea.
"I'm sorry Chris, but I'm with Tentomon this time." The lizard laughed nervously.
"Traitor…"
"Chris!" Joey yelled at him for calling Agumon a traitor. "You don't know how tiring it is to be a digimon, so lay off!"
"Please, you can't get through the day as a human without a nap." Chris blew him off and began walking.
"Chris we can't go by land anyways." Kristen pulled him back by the arm. "Ever heard of the 'Korean War'? How far do you think we'll get through North Korea before somebody realizes we don't look oriental?"
"Let's just stay here for a night." Jennifer was standing up, half-awake. "Joey's right, you guys don't know how much energy it takes to digivolve."
"Well where is a hotel?" Joey looked around. "I don't see any around here." I walked up to the crowd, which backed away when I came forward.
"Where's the nearest hotel?" They just stared at me like I was alien. "Oh come on, I'm not that scary am I?"
"There is one a kilometer down that way." A woman pointed down the road.
"Thanks. Did you all hear that?" I yelled back to everybody; they were already walking.
"Yeah James, we're all waiting on you." Chris yelled back without turning around. I ran to catch up.
"You know, it's customary to stay where you are when waiting on somebody."
"What do you mean you won't give us a room!?" Chris yelled at the clerk behind the counter. We all stood behind him in disappointment. The receptionist replied calmly.
"Sir, I'm sorry but you have no money, no ID or passport; I can't just give away rooms to strangers." I reached in my back pocket and found my wallet.
"I have some ID." I flipped it open the tri-fold and showed him my restricted license. "Do you accept American money?"
"Normally we don't, but I can get it exchanged for you." He took the money I handed him. I knew it wasn't nearly enough for the room I was getting, but he didn't know that. He handed me a keycard. "The elevators are right over there."
"Thanks." I turned around and everybody had left me behind again, already running to the elevators. "Slow down people! I'm the one with the key!"
"What kind of room did you get? Who has to sleep on the floor?" Chris spoke aloud, being obnoxious to the other people around him.
"Check out is ten o'clock tomorrow, but we will be long gone." I ignored Chris.
"Why?" Kristen looked at me, leaning against the wall beside the elevator as we waited for it.
"Because it won't be long before they realize I owe them at least another hundred dollars. We're in a deluxe suite on the eleventh floor." I put my wallet back in my back pocket, the forty dollars from it gone. "I don't want to have to use my debit card." The elevator finally reached the ground floor and we filed in after a crowd of people got out. Nobody else would get in with us, bothered by Agumon's and Tentomon's presence. We let Joey hit the button sending us to the eleventh floor after a short scuffle between him and Chris over it. We reached our floor and walked down the lavish hall.
"What room are we in?" Jennifer looked at the numbers on the doors as we walked down the hall.
"1124… right here." I stopped in front of the door and slipped the keycard in the lock on the door. The light changed to green and I turned the knob. "Christ I hate these things." The door had already locked again and I tried again.
"You're not doing it fast enough." Kristen shoved me out of the way, grabbing the card from me. She slipped it in and out and turned the knob nearly all at once, but the door didn't budge. "What? Open now!" She yanked on the doorknob and Chris pulled her away, taking his turn. He put in the key and waited until the light turned green and then pulled it out. But by the time he was turning the knob, the door had locked.
"Um… yeah let me try that again." The same thing happened.
"You are all slow. Give me that thing." Jennifer ridiculed us and took the key from Chris as he gladly stepped out of the way. "See, you put it in and quickly pull it out, wait for it to turn… red?" The light turned red instead of the usual green. "Hey!" She slammed her fist on the door and we all laughed.
"Here, let me try." Joey took the keycard from Jennifer as he wedged himself between her and the door. He put in the key, waited two seconds, and pulled it out. He turned the knob the moment he pulled it out and the door opened. "See, it isn't like it's hard." We were all stupefied as we walked in the door. When Joey finally turned around and looked at us, he laughed. "You guys should see the look on your faces!" While he laughed at us, we looked at the room.
"I don't think anybody will have to sleep on the floor." I looked around. The first room was like a large upscale living room you'd see Donald Trump or Bill Gates stay in. The lamps in the room set a soft light on the dark red couches, sitting on a polished hardwood floor. Three couches all sat around a coffee table sitting on a detailed oriental rug, facing large open windows over the city of Pusan, South Korea. To our left was an opening to a small kitchen fitted with a full size fridge, sink, stove, oven, microwave, and coffee maker. To our right was the opening to the bedroom with two beds sitting beside each other facing the open side of the room. Next to the opening to the room was a chest of drawers with a television on it. On one end of the bedroom was more windows and the other end had the doorway to the bathroom.
"James, how much do you think this REALLY costs?" Jennifer looked at me nervously. There was a knocking at the door and everybody ran into the other rooms, leaving me to answer the door. Outside a man in a formal business suit stood with the receptionist, who was a cherry red.
"Sir, I am sorry for the inconvenience, but the payment that you bestowed on us is far insufficient for this room." The man spoke with an accent and I struggled to understand him. "My associate here should have exchanged the money properly with you at the counter, but he is still new here so you will have to forgive me."
"So… what do I need to do?" I scratched the back of my head, accidentally knocking of the shades resting on top of them. I quickly bent over, picked them up, and rested them back on the top of my head.
"Well," The man pulled out a clipboard with various numbers on it, "this room costs two hundred American dollars a night; you paid us forty." I reached in my back pocket and pulled out my debit card.
"Will this work?" I showed the man the card and it reflected the light from the hallway.
"So long as it has enough money in the account."
"Hey, I didn't spend my last summer telemarketing for my dad for nothing." The two men laughed. I handed him the card.
"I'll go charge it and have room service bring it back to you." I began to say 'thanks' but he continued. "However, we have many more services here if you would be interested."
"Like what?"
"We have twenty-four hour room service, maid-service, a rental service, as well as our many facilities in the hotel." I thought about it for a moment.
"Does this room have an internet connection?" I asked the man and he quickly responded.
"Yes. If you'd like you may rent a laptop for your stay and use the connection built into the lamp on the table over there."
"Sure, sounds great. Just charge it on the card."
"Thank you. Room service will bring both momentarily." We shook hands and I closed the door.
"Okay kids, you can come out of hiding!" I walked to the couch and plopped down. Everybody came into the room.
"You sure you can afford all this?" Kristen looked at me worriedly as she sat down.
"Didn't you hear me make the bad telemarketing crack?" I asked in a sarcastic tone.
"Wait, you mean you weren't joking?"
"Seven dollars an hour; it sure beats the hell out of McDonalds." Everybody began to argue with me about my 'job' when there was a second knock at the door. I got back up and opened it. A petit woman stood holding a black laptop and my debit card. "Thank you." She smiled and nodded to me, quickly walking away.
"Jesus James! What all did you get?" Chris jumped at the sight of the laptop.
"Cool! Now we can play some videogames!" Joey began to bounce on the couch. Where he gets the energy to be hyper after fighting all day, I still don't know.
"Not really. I just got this to get in touch with Gennai. I have a few questions for him." I sat the laptop down on the coffee table. The table was attached to the ground and had a solid wooden block attaching it to the floor. The table itself was wooden, matching the rest of the room. In the center was a lamp attached to the table with a single broadband jack in it. I hooked up the laptop, opened it, and turned it on. "Now everybody watch closely. This is a prime example of global monopolization at its finest." I joked but only Kristen and Jennifer got it; Chris was a little slow and Joey was too young to understand. The Windows XP Professional logo popped up on the screen and we laughed.
"So how are we going to get in touch with Gennai? Izzy had his own program and everything. We don't have that." Chris ran around behind the love seat I sat in the center of. Jennifer and Joey had crammed in beside me while Kristen leaned behind the seat with Chris. Agumon sat on the armrest on the left side of the couch while Tentomon just hovered between Chris and Kristen.
"I'll say it again: It's amazing the shizz you learn when you're evil." I grabbed hold of the monitor with both hands and focused, but nothing happened. "Um… just a moment." I pulled out my digivice and looked. I had been able to do everything when I was evil, so now I had to learn how to do it when I was in a good mood. If anger and pain gave me dark power, maybe…
"We're waiting James." Kristen sneered. I thought to myself for a happy thought and remembered eighth grade when I won my grade's 'Student of the Year' award.
"It's cheesy but it will have to do." I thought to myself and focused. A pale, glittering light went from my gloves and the monitor glowed. The desktop disappeared and digital coding began to run across the screen. I focused harder.
"What are you doing?" Jennifer whispered in my ear.
"Shhh." In a few moments the ones and zeroes became smaller and more numerous until colors began to form. Finally, a picture blinked to life of the inside of Gennai's house; I had hacked into his computer.
"What the… Izzy? What are you doing out this late?" Gennai came running into the den from the kitchen and saw us all sitting on the couch in the hotel room on the monitor. "James? What's going on? What's happened? Where are you?"
"Whoa, slow down. We called you to ask questions, not the other way around." I tried to calm Gennai down as he tried to interrogate us.
"Well answer mine first. Where are you?" He calmed down a little and sat down in front of the computer, placing a porcelain glass cup with tea down beside it.
"Were in a hotel suite in Pusan, South Korea." Gennai thought to himself for a moment and reached over to a bookshelf that was out of our sight. He pulled out a world atlas and flipped through it, quickly finding South Korea and Pusan.
"Okay, but where are the others?" He picked up his tea and went to sip on it.
"Data; Lucemon was reconfigured from their data." Gennai dropped the glass on his lap and yelled as the boiling hot tea landed across his lap. "Damnit. How!?"
"Everybody attacked Myotismon, I killed him, Daemon found us and destroyed them, forced data into me, and reconfigured Lucemon."
"You killed Myotismon? I thought you had…" I cut him off.
"Nobody likes Myotismon, not even his associates." Gennai thought to himself for a moment, withholding a question.
"What is happening there now? What was with that rush of data that came through here earlier?" Gennai leaned back in his office chair.
"The rush of data was the United Nations fleet being hacked into and destroyed. Myotismon led an attack on Odaiba and won, but was beaten back by us and a moderately sized coalition force. We stayed in Japan for a few days until…"
"Until Daemon went there again with his full army, right?" Gennai took his turn cutting me off.
"Yeah… how'd you know?" Kristen asked Gennai from over my shoulder.
"Because that army has been sweeping across Server and devastating everything. Each time it destroys another area Daemon would take the data and forcibly use it to configure more Devimon."
"What about the other continents? You know, Driver and the Network Islands." Everybody looked at me, unaware of what I was talking about.
"Blackwargreymon wiped out the islands and has nearly finished off Driver. I'm surprised you know about them." Gennai squinted suspiciously at me, but I ignored it.
"Why haven't the digi-gods done anything to stop Daemon and all the others? Shouldn't Azulongmon and those guys be more than powerful enough to take them down?" I focused again when the screen dimmed a little. I had begun to relax.
"Well, I guess I need to tell you more about what has been happening." Gennai sighed. "The digi-gods are the six most powerful Mega level digimon that exist in the Digital World. Four represent the forces of good while two represent the forces of evil. Normally the digi-gods on our side are more than able to control the other two dark-gods. However, they are not really 'gods' as you believe in the term. They were created along with the rest of the digital world and therefore have weaknesses as well. The power of the digi-gods is directly connected to the status of the digital world. Usually the power of good is strong enough in the digital world so that the digi-gods can protect it without actually physically being there, existing only on the data level, controlling the environment."
"So what's so different now?" Chris asked after he yawned.
"I'm getting to that. If you remember, when Blackwargreymon was originally created he rampaged across the digital world destroying the Destiny Stones, stones that channeled Azulongmon's power through the planet. When they were destroyed, the power shift was finally great enough to force the digi-gods back into their physical forms. However, they were still more than powerful enough to defend themselves against Blackwargreymon."
"So why didn't they stop Malomyotismon and Daemon and all of that?" Kristen stood up and stretched before leaning back down.
"The dark forces of the digital world know that they are outnumbered, so they work in the shadows, in secret, until they are powerful enough to mount an effective offensive against the digi-gods. Most of the time the digidestined are called to the digital world and are able to defeat the dark-gods before they can gain enough power, but this time was different. The dark-gods somehow hid their power over the digital world until they were already incredibly powerful. The digi-gods were immediately torn into the physical realm to fight the dark-gods. In the short time after the defeat of Malomyotismon, Daemon had built up incredible force in the Dark Ocean, bending it to his will. Meanwhile, he left Millenniumon to handle the digi-gods until he was ready, but their plans were discovered. Millenniumon was pitted against the digi-gods in a fight that left the digital world battered and bruised. Millenniumon was finally defeated, but as a final act destroyed himself in order to incapacitate the digi-gods, leaving the digital world open to attack. This brought about the 'Lucemon Incident'."
"So… he destroyed the digi-gods?" I asked, refocusing again.
"Not quite, but almost. They are injured and in hiding."
"So how are we supposed to defeat a dark god?" Joey asked Gennai, swinging his legs off the edge of the love seat.
"That's a very good question Joey and it leads me to tell you another story." We all sighed. "As you may well know, long ago war ravaged the digital world between human-digimon and beast-digimon. They were led by two digimon who were the unwitting incarnations of Millenniumon. But this was not the original conflict of the digital world. As I said earlier, the 'digi-gods' aren't really gods, just very powerful Megas. However, before there was any other digimon, there were two that were a level beyond Mega known as Deity. All the data in the human world was focused into either one or the other or into the Digital World itself. These digimon had the power to manipulate data and reformat the digital world as data came to them. But there was a problem. The two deities were mortal enemies, with completely different views of how the Digital World should be. One believed that it should be a world of beauty and peace, and so he showered the land with the rolling fields, hills, forests, and seas that you all and I are fighting to protect. However, the other deity-digimon believed that the Digital World should remain as it was, a cold, dead rock of meaningless data, and that all of it should belong in one being: himself. Finally the two digimon broke into conflict. The fight tore the Digital World into new shapes, carving deep valleys and tall mountains. But the fighting destroyed everything that the good digimon had made. In the end, the two destroyed each other, showering their data across the Digital World. This massive amount of data took various forms. The data from the Digi-God of Light created the common digimon, the landforms, oceans, and such. The data from the Digi-God of Darkness created powerful digimon that were eager to wage war against each other, no matter what they believed. It also crated the various forces of the digital world, good and bad."
"So what does this have to do with us?" My eyes hurt and I was tired from focusing, but it had become much easier.
"The dark-gods were the two creations that took up the majority of the Dark-Deity's data. Daemon and Millenniumon are like a split form of him. However, the data from the Light-Deity was spread out evenly, unaware of the Dark-Deity's objectives from beyond the grave. The chaos from the dark-deity eventually led to the war between the humans and beasts. This finally brings me back to now." Gennai sighed painfully. "I am neither a digimon nor a human, but a program created by the data from the Digi-God of Light. We all knew when the war broke out that sooner or later, the Dark-Deity would find a way to reconfigure himself and take control of the unprotected Digital World. Therefore, we maintained a constant vigil to make sure that the dark-gods, Daemon and Millenniumon, never found out their connection, but it seems we have failed." Gennai looked down, signs of age showing in his face.
"What do you mean?"
"We believe that Millenniumon's data resides within a digiegg that Daemon either carries with him or leaves in the Dark Ocean. Daemon has somehow learned of the legends and plans to reconfigure Millenniumon using data from both your world and the Digital World. If he does this, knowing what he does now, the two could merge together and reform the Dark-Deity. Should that happen, I do not know if there will be anything we can do to stop him. Even the digivices have their limits; they can not face the powers that lie beyond Mega. This is your mission: you must stop Daemon before he revives Millenniumon. I know his army is grand, but if you band together along with the entire human and digimon race, I am positive you can stop him. You have within you all power beyond what you know. The digi-gods did not just create your digivices, but empowered them." We stared confusedly. "When you all were finally brought together at my house for the first time, they decided that their job was done and broke themselves down to empower your digivices so that you all would be able to attain powers beyond what previous digidestined have ever had. You must do your best to be what you represent. Let not fear, hate, ignorance, or despair hold back the power of your crests. For thousands of years we have spoken legends of a final major conflict, and now you represent them. The existence of existence itself lies in your hands."
It was three in the morning and I lied staring up at the ceiling. I was exhausted, but couldn't fall asleep. I turned my head and saw Jennifer lying next to me in the bed sound asleep. I was lying on top of the covers still in my clothes, unable to silence the questions running through my head. Chris, Joey, and Kristen were all shoved in the other bed, asleep as well. I got up and went back to the laptop in the living room. I turned it on and focused, quickly finding Gennai's data in the Digital World. I accessed it and then turned on Gennai's computer. I didn't change anything in Gennai's data, but just woke him up. He knew instantly it was me when he woke up and ran to his computer.
"What is it James?"
"There are still a few questions I have that I didn't want to ask in front of the others."
"I know, but did you have to come back to ask so late at night?" Gennai stretched.
"When you talk about the digi-gods empowering the digivices, you only talk about the others, right? I mean, there are only four digi-gods, not five."
"You're right."
"Then where do I get my power?" Gennai sighed, well aware that he was about to have to make another long explanation.
"Humans and Digimon are very, very different. Digimon are created from the data and equations made by computers in your world. Therefore, they usually stay fairly constant in their mood and feelings about life. However, humans are far more complex which creates problems when they are translated into data. Human thought and feeling can vary from the darkest evils to the greatest goods in a single person, such as you have shown. Without a digivice, this unstable data affects the environment of the Digital World. The digivice is simply a channeling tool. It channels the digital energy created by one's emotions into others."
"So what makes me different from the others?"
"You already know that. You weren't supposed to come. When you first came here the more extreme emotions had profound effects on the Digital World, such as the definite split between night and day that was created during fights. I realized that you would not be willing to leave such an important task and so, with the help of the digi-gods, forged another digivice. However, without a partner or spirit to channel energy into, it simply helps you control the energy and channel it within yourself, but…"
"But… what?"
"But you have figured out how to control the digivice in detail because of this self-channeling. That is how we are speaking right now, that is how you are able to use attributes, and that is how you and Kumamon destroyed Frostkawagamon. You didn't know it, but you were subconsciously channeling energy into him when you held that bazooka. That is also how you destroyed the coalition fleet." I looked down. "This brings me to a very important question." I looked back up. "When your nightmares began here I realized that something had happened in your past that was beginning to bother you. However, I never realized how much it was bothering, or how many things were bothering you. For your own safety I won't make you recall them to me now, but I have to tell you James, you need to confront your fears soon."
"I can't."
"Excuse me?"
"Whenever I think about them I lose control. That is how Myotismon turned me over so quickly and easily."
"Well you seem smart enough to control them."
"Ever heard of a 'Tragic Flaw'? Well I tend to hold tightly to my emotions."
"You have to loosen up James."
"I'd like to see you try to." I was getting frustrated and I focused a little too hard, making the lights in Gennai's house glow brighter for moment.
"Calm down. What do you mean?" I took a deep breath.
"Forgive me if I blow any bulbs in your house. My history is… well let's say chaotic. Ever since I was born my parents have been at each others throats. There have been times when I would stumble in on my dad beating the crap out of my mom. I became scared of the world; hell, I was just a little kid. Eventually Mom had another child, my little brother Justin. He quickly began to look up to me and would often run to me for help long before going to my mom or dad. Whenever he got in trouble at school, whenever he got beaten up, whenever anything went wrong, he came to me. I was the person that had to protect him because nobody else would." I began to shake a little as tears began to well up in my eyes. "Finally my parents decided to divorce, and not in a peaceful way. They shouted and ratted out on each other the hordes of things that they had done since I had been born. Both accused the other of beating them, using drugs, being an alcoholic, so on, so on, until the judge finally had enough. By the end of the day, Justin and I were in state custody."
"Now calm down James, that couldn't have been that bad." I was breathing faster now.
"The hell it wasn't. Do you have any idea what those places are like? You end up with kids who you think are going to slit your throat any second. You end up in a place where you are afraid that you are going to catch something from the shower because the white plastic tub is brown and green, and not from mold. You end up in a place where powers beyond your control try to force you away from everything you have ever known or loved."
"James calm down or I'm going to disconnect my computer and make you go to bed." Gennai tried feebly as he listened intently to my story.
"They finally tried to put us in foster homes separately. I raged against them, but to no avail. The day we were supposed to go my parents gave up the fight against each other to keep us from being separated."
"Isn't that a good thing?"
"I wasn't strong enough to protect the people I loved and I hated… I hate myself for it. I couldn't ever get over it and began to rely more and more on other things to keep myself from losing it."
"What kinds of things?" Gennai was thinking along the lines of drugs.
"Music, imaginary friends, so on. I didn't have any friends at school and my parents didn't understand my plight. I would lie to psychologists until they said I was fine and then I would go back to being depressed and facing my challenges alone. Finally it all caught up with me. One day my mom left Justin with me while she went to run errands. He was swimming in the shallow end of the pool splashing about in the blazing summer day. I was on our trampoline lying on my back lazily. I thought that he would be fine, but still kept an ear and eye on him. Eventually I fell asleep and when I woke up an hour later…" I stopped, unable to explain the actual scene. "An hour later I was living the nightmares that I had when I was with you." I was shaking violently now.
"James, I think I've heard enough for tonight."
"He always relied on me for protection and I failed him! And then I was brought to the Digital World and shown that there was more to life than it seemed. I was entrusted with the care of existence and promised myself that I wouldn't fail again. But then Myotismon came…"
"James, I want you to shut the hell up now and go to bed." I ignored Gennai's stern pleas, tears flowing down my eyes, my voice growing deeper, colder.
"I wasn't able to protect them from him either. I was failing again and it brought back so many memories. And Joey, he reminded me so much of Justin, especially when he was thrown against those damn bars…" Gennai had given up and decided to just hope that I would finish my story with my sanity intact. "But one thing kept me alive that entire time I was gone. My fears overwhelmed me and I realized what kinds of powers this world, this digivice, and this pain bestowed upon me. I didn't care what happened, as long as I could become powerful enough to change what happened that day."
"So what stopped you? Why did you give up that power?"
"Jennifer. The day I saw her I just thought she was hot but as we went on together I thought about her more and more. She helped me and I helped her. It was the thing that I really hoped for: that sooner or later I would get the courage to tell her I loved her." I was calming down now. "I hoped that I could make it through all this alive and that maybe we could at least go on a date or something. But for that, I had to protect her, as well as the others."
"Is that how you came back?" Gennai was breathing heavily, relieved that I had calmed down.
"That day when I destroyed Myotismon, Daemon went about and destroyed everybody, then went at her. I felt the same rage that I was about to fail, but, it was different. I didn't feel like I was going to fail, but that I couldn't fail. That no matter what happened to me, I would not fail. Finally I broke free of the chains and fought Daemon." I leaned back on the couch and let go of the monitor, focusing without thinking. I noticed my digivice glowed faintly. "It was so much greater than what the pain gave me. My fears were still there, but were different. They were in the background, shadowed by… something."
"Hope." Gennai finally spoke up.
"What?"
"You didn't know it, but you were feeling hope. All those years you were losing hope until you finally became Fuzenmon. But when you met Jennifer, the power of her crest revived that hope. You hoped that you would get past all of your fears, pain, sorrow, to make sure that her crest shined on forever." Gennai laughed a little, lightening the mood. "You're in love young man. Just remember that feeling you had that day. Just try to not think of your past, but hope only of the future and what it holds for you." I thought about it for a moment, finally feeling fatigue creep over me.
"Okay."
"Don't worry about what bad things may happen, but just hope that the outcome will be good, then do what you can to fulfill those hopes and dreams."
"Dreams… is that why Daemon called me the King of Nightmares?"
"Nightmares are simply the dark interpretation of dreams. Dreams and Nightmares are one in the same; they rely on each other. It just goes to show how close light and dark are." Gennai was looking off to the side spacing out a little. He shook his head and looked back at the screen. "Sorry, began to digress."
"Its okay, my mind is wandering too. I think I'm going to bed."
"Good, get some sleep. You still have a long road ahead of you." I stopped focusing and the picture of Gennai disappeared. A few moments later the Windows desktop appeared. I shut down the laptop and went to bed, still in my clothes.
"Hope… hope… I've got hope…" I whispered it over and over as I fell asleep.
"Awww… how cute. You finally said it. But how come you couldn't tell me?"
"Beat it or I'll knock the bejesus out of you."
"Hah! Hope, that's a joke. You don't love her. It's nothing but your instinctive needs…"
"Yeah, it is an instinctive need. I instinctively melt upon eye contact with her. Now scram. You can't do squat now."
"I may be weakened—I may be on the verge of silence, but you can never destroy me completely James. I'll always be here, in the back of your mind, waiting. You created me and now I'm a part of you forever."
"I'll choose who to be and when, Fuzenmon. And I choose for you to shut the hell up. I don't need you any more."
"You'll fail again, James, and when you do, I'll be there. Ready to rise again and show you true power."
"No… you won't."
I wasn't entirely right… he would show up again, many years later, but he'd never be able to trump me with power ever again.