The Power of Darkness
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Lucemon growled as he applied the disinfectant to the wound. He narrowed his eyes. How could he let his weaker side win out? His eyes flashed.
"I couldn't let you destroy him," said a small voice. "He was unconscious…"
"He was ripe for the killing," growled Lucemon to himself. He clenched his fist. "You were always weak; I don't know why I put up with you…"
"You don't mean that, Kage…" whimpered the voice. "You need me; one can't exist without the other…that's what the founders said..."
"I can't believe I need something as pathetic as you," growled Lucemon quietly. He turned and looked in the mirror. There was phantom of a boy almost identical to Lucemon standing behind the angel. The only thing different was the markings. The phantom boy lacked the dark shadow markings on his face, chest and arms that Lucemon had. Lucemon gritted his teeth, "Kougen, your meddling could've gotten me killed. Do you not understand that they wish to destroy us that they wish to usurp our plans for utopia!?"
"Your plans for utopia," replied the phantom boy. "I wish we didn't have to destroy…why do we have to destroy, Kage? Why can't we just teach and pray and meditate…?"
"Fool, didn't we try that!?" growled Lucemon. He turned from the mirror. "You saw the results…The Dark Masters, The Digimon Emperor, MaloMyotismon, Daemon! Do you call that harmony, do you call that utopia! Now the humans are disrupting the balance even more!"
"But they were at peace until our interference," said the voice of the phantom boy, Kougen. "Please, Kage, stop the killing…please…"
"You know I can't, if I stop now they will destroy us…" said Lucemon quietly. He narrowed his eyes, "No, utopia will be achieved, even if it means the destruction of every being I come in contact with…"
"I can't let you…" whispered the voice of the phantom voice.
"Oh just go to sleep already," growled Lucemon and he closed his eyes. A dark purple aura swept over him and the phantom boy disappeared from mirror as his head lowered. Lucemon turned to the mirror. A firm look was reflected to him, "Kougen doesn't understand, those defiled beings have no place in our paradise…"
"Lord Lucemon," called a voice from behind the angel. The angel started.
"What have I told you about coming into my room without knocking, Akatorimon?" asked the angel. The boy turned quickly on the large red shaded chicken.
"To, to…" The chicken cowered back from the angel, "to knock first…."
"And?" Lucemon took a step forward.
"But, but this is important!" whimpered the chicken.
"What is it?" growled Lucemon.
"Lord Holy A-Angemon, he, is confronting a group of the Chosen Ones in the Human World…" said the chicken. "Jewel Beemon took over Vineburg…as well…in case you wished to know…"
Lucemon's eyes changed a bit. He smirked. "Then things are progressing…" Akatorimon sighed in relief. Lucemon smiled, "You did a good job gathering that information, Akatorimon."
"Thank you, my lord," Akatorimon bowed slightly. "I will…be going…"
"Before you go…" Lucemon walked up closer to the chicken. "Let me give you something…" The chicken turned and Lucemon placed his hand on the bird's chest. "Divine Feat!" The bird looked in shock as the skin to skin transfer of destructive energy ripped through its digital cells and slashed its body into dust. Lucemon smirked happily, "I warned you about coming into my room without knocking." The angel walked out of the room laughing.
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"Boom Bubble!" Patamon dove between the Kokuwamon trying to knock the metallic insects to the ground.
"Diamond Shell!" Armadillomon leapt into the air then rolled up trying to strike the flying bug robots.
"Stun Shock!" hummed a group of the metal bugs sending out whips of lightning towards the two digimon.
"Allergy Shower!" Floramon held up her arms and released a blast of yellow pollen. "This way!" shouted the flower as she led the children and their digimon from alley and into another building.
"They know we're here," whispered Noriko. She looked at Kitai. She knew that TK would be very disappointed if she let the boy get hurt. It was her duty to keep the child safe.
"Shadow Sickle!" growled a new voice. A purple blade sliced through the wall revealing two large green mantises.
"Snimon!" yelped Floramon. "We're dead…"
"Kitai…" Noriko stood in front of the child. "You have to get out; I'll keep these guys busy…"
"Armadillomon digivolve to Thunderballmon!" The grey armadillo transformed into the little blue ball with a lightning bolt forehead. "Thunder Bomber!" Thunderballmon threw several orbs of energy at the mantises and then leapt back pushing Noriko in the opposite direction as they exploded into the insects.
"There's an exit this way!" Floramon led the kids out the main exit into the street.
A swarm of Kokuwamon and, now, Snimon was gathering in the sky. Noriko just looked up in amazement.
"There…is no escape…" whispered Noriko. "It's hopeless…"
"My dad says there is no such thing as 'hopeless'!" said Kitai. He looked up at the sky.
"Stun Shock!" hummed one of the metallic bugs and a blast of lightning shot in front of Kitai.
"Kitai!" Noriko dove and pushed the boy out of the way.
"Patamon digivolve to, Pidmon!" the brown hamster glowed and grew into a red sashed angel. The angel turned and struck its staff down, "Fire Feather!" a glowing red orb shot forward towards the enemy digimon. It drew in close and then exploded into thousands of feathers that flew every where exploding into digimon that came in contact with them.
The digimon scattered as the attack incapacitated many. Some dropped out of the sky some escaped before they were struck down. Some dove low and continued the fight.
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"Mistress Jewel Beemon!" called a Kunemon. The wriggling worm hopped up next to the female wasp warrior in her jewel encrusted armor. "The Digi-destined…."
"I am not blind," said Jewel Beemon snappishly.
"What will we do?" asked the worm quietly. Jewel Beemon turned and snatched up her staff.
"We will have a little talk with them," said the woman with a little sneer in her voice.
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"We have to go…" hissed Floramon. Noriko turned and looked back at the flower.
"Why? We're kind of stuck right now…" returned Noriko.
"Jewel Beemon will be here soon to see how things are going…" whimpered Floramon. The lizard wrung its petal hands. "We'll get captured like the rest…"
"Look, if you want to go, I suggest you go to the prison, and find Palmon," said Noriko. The Floramon looked up in fear. Noriko sighed, "Look, as soon as we have Palmon we can think of a retreat plan, but we are going to get this city free, I don't care how long it takes…"
The flower lizard looked up and nodded. Floramon turned and ran down an alley disappearing into the fray.
"Shadow Sickle!" A Snimon's scythes slammed down on Pidmon's staff.
"Thunder Bolt!" Thunderballmon leapt up and punched the Snimon in face, sending the mantis backwards.
"Spike Buster!" thousands of emeralds shot down. Thunderballmon went spiraling downward as the gemstones exploded into him.
Pidmon spun his staff trying to form a barrier against the gems but the jewels exploded against him sending him dropping to the ground.
"Pidmon!" Kitai ran forward.
"I'm ok, stay back!" called the angel as he launched into the air.
Noriko was holding Thunderballmon in her arms. "Are you ok?"
"Stunned and a little achy but ok!" said the blue ball. He hopped up and looked into the sky and leapt up propelling himself off of the walls of the buildings that were on either side of the street. He was heading for the female wasp like warrior in bejeweled armor. "Thunder Bomber!" Thunderballmon unleashed his energy orb attack on the woman.
"Shot Claw!" The woman clenched her claws and slashed them into the balls of energy nullifying them.
"Pid Speed!" Pidmon disappeared into a flash of light that sliced through the air towards the woman.
"Fool!" growled the woman and she slammed her staff up. Pidmon reappeared. The staff had caught the angel right under the chin. Pidmon arched backwards and started to fall again.
"I gotcha!" shouted Thunderballmon as the blue ball leapt up and caught the angel. Unfortunately the angel was a good deal larger than the ball and this unforeseen imbalance in size made Thunderballmon uneven and the two digimon fell awkwardly with Pidmon dropping on top of Thunderballmon.
"She's kicking our butts," said Kitai to Noriko.
The girl held up her digivice. A small holographic image floated above the screen. Noriko gasped and read the information, "She's Jewel Beemon an Ultimate digimon, her attacks Spike Buster and Shot Claw are hard as diamonds!"
Pidmon rose to his feet and looked up at the insect. She was jade colored and rubies were implanted in her armor.
"Let's get her," growled Thunderballmon. The little ball hopped up on Pidmon's shoulder. Pidmon shot upwards. Thunderballmon propelled himself from Pidmon and punched his fist forward, "Thunder Bolt!"
"Ha! You think that's going to stop me?" laughed Jewel Beemon as the lightning was taken up by the armor of the female insect warrior. She drew her staff forward, "Thunder Spike Buster!" the jeweled attack was completely and totally charged with Thunderballmon's energy and struck the two incoming digimon sending them spiraling backwards to the ground.
Pidmon caught himself and turned and flew upwards. He opened his hand and unleashed a wave of flaming feathers, "Fire Feather!" Jewel Beemon growled as she was swamped by the feathers.
"Ingrate!" Jewel Beemon slashed forward with her claws and then dove down. "You're going down! Shot Claw!" The female raked her jewel encrusted gauntlet across Pidmon's chest. The angel dropped to the ground next to Thunderballmon and together they de-digivolved to Patamon and Armadillomon. A group of Kokuwamon appeared behind them.
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"Soul Banish!" Lord Holy Angemon pointed the tip of his sword at the TK, Yolei and Kari. A pulse of rose light shot forward. The humans leapt back but even as the pulse passed its shockwave felt like a punch to the stomach against the four of them. Their digimon were sent reeling backwards like tumbleweeds. "You tried to impede the will of Lord Lucemon; such an act is antagonistic to the balance of the Digital World. It is my duty to stop that from happening!"
"Then why are you in the Human World!?" shouted Yolei with anger boiling in her voice. "You overgrown feather duster you're in the wrong world you idiot!"
"YOLEI!" shouted Kari. "It's bad enough he's not mad at us and trying to kill us, do you really need to make him determined to silence us!?"
"Lord Lucemon wishes to bring balance to both worlds," called the angel. He pointed his sword at them again. "Soul Banish!"
"Boom Bubble!" yelped Patamon sending an ineffectual puff of gas at the swirling pulse of pure angelic energy.
"Run!" shouted TK as he dove behind a car. The blast struck the street in front of the vehicle and for a second TK was scared to death the car would roll on top of him. Fortunately the car was an older model and heavy enough to keep it from being too far off the ground. When the dust cleared TK darted for the street. The others had already started without him.
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"Digi-matrix reconfigured," announced the sage as he pressed a button, "We have a port to the closest computer to your partner, Psychemon."
"I can't wait…Kuro has not seen me in a long time…" said the fur coated creature. "Not since I was Tsunomon…"
"Well, get ready for a reunion," said the sage. "Digi-port, open!" The portal flashed and then fizzled out. The sage looked puzzled. "Must be a particle transceiver…"
"Gennai, do you think Kuro will like me?" asked Psychemon. The sage disappeared behind the consul of the portal command system.
"Of course, don't be silly, Kuro will find you to be the best of the best and that's what matters…" said the sage with a lilt of preoccupation.
"Ok," said the digimon quietly. The sage hopped up again and smiled.
"Open Sesame!" chuckled Gennai as the portal opened up nice and wide. "After you, Psychemon." The digimon nodded and took a step through. Swirls of light and digital code swam past his head but it abruptly stopped as Psychemon felt his large, canine like feet touch down.
The furred creature moved and Gennai came in after him. Psychemon turned. "Gennai this is Matt's house…"
Gennai's eyes narrowed. "Yes, they must not have evacuated." The sage walked past the digimon. He turned around. They must have landed in a study. Gennai reached out for the door and opened it. Gennai cupped his hand around his mouth, "Ollie, Ollie, Oxen free…."
Before Psychemon or Gennai could respond a large pan dropped down on the sage's head instantly flooring the man. A woman stood over the sage and looked in fear at Psychemon.
"How'd you get in here…?" growled the woman.
"S-Sora…Gennai and I used the digi-port," replied Psychemon with a bit of worry.
"Who are you?" shouted the woman.
"I'm…Psychemon," replied the digimon.
"You look like an albino Gabumon…" growled the woman. She lifted her pan. "So why are you here…?"
"To give Kuro his tag and crest," mumbled Gennai into the floor. "Psychemon is Kuro's Tsunomon…"
Sora blanched. She looked down at the man she'd leveled. "Ge-Gennai?"
"Yes…" replied the man to the floor.
"I'm sorry…." Sora staggered backwards and dropped the pan which landed on Gennai's hand resulting in a muffled whimper of pain.
"It is ok…" The man hopped up and looked at the woman. He flexed the fingers of his hand that was assaulted by the cook ware and seeing that they were fine turned his attention to the woman in front of him. "I should not have been so blunt in my search…" The man's eyes narrowed, "Where is Kuro?"
"He's this way, we're in the living room," said Sora as she led the man and the digimon further into the house.
"Who was it?" shouted a woman's voice.
"Umm…" Sora pushed Gennai and Psychemon into the living room, "some unexpected guests…."
"Hello," said Gennai with a sheepish smile.
"KURO!" shouted Psychemon and he leapt up and hugged the boy that was sitting on the couch. He wore black clothing. He had a surprised look on his face. "It's me, Tsunomon!"
The boy looked scared at first then seemed to ease up a little and let the creature hug him.
"What the…" the woman in the living room looked at the creature.
"Ayame, this is Kuro's digimon partner…" said Sora with an overly giddy laugh.
Gennai swept forward and stood in front of the boy, Kuro. The boy had dark hair and dark eyes. His clothes were dark and his face was impersonal. He wasn't much younger than what Gennai remember Matt to be when he first saw the Chosen Child of Friendship.
Gennai reached into his robes and produced a tag and a crest. The crest and tag gave off a poisonous purple light that reached out for the boy. Gennai watched intently as the psuedopods of darkness searched out the child's digivice, when they found it the digivice gave a horrible screech like someone was running it over with a truck.
"What the hell is that noise!" shouted the woman.
"Ayame…it's his digivice!" shouted Sora, but she gave Gennai a confused look. Sora didn't remember her digivice reacting like that.
"It's the Crest of Darkness!" shouted Gennai. The man released the tag and crest and it floated up and put itself around Kuro's neck. "It's a crest that is unlike the others; it is easily activated, and can be very dangerous in the wrong hands…" The crest settled around Kuro's neck and the digivice stopped screaming. Gennai turned and kneeled in front of Kuro. "You must be able to control your anger, and fears, Kuro. If you do not, the crest will react…"
"I know…" said Kuro. He'd heard about Tai's Skull Greymon incident. "And the digimon will dark digivolve." The child said with a little less than the acceptable amount of enthusiasm.
"No," said Gennai quietly. "No, much more dangerous than that…if you don't control your passions the crest will absorb you…"
"What do you mean absorb?" Sora moved towards Gennai. "If that thing's dangerous to my baby then you get it the hell off of him…"
"I can not…" said Gennai.
"Then I will!" shouted Sora. She grabbed at the tag and crest necklace but a dark aura shot out and slapped her hands.
"The crest has chosen its…next child," said Gennai. "None can remove it save the child…"
Suddenly Kuro's digivice chirped. The boy snatched up the device and looked at it. "Three Digi-destined coming this way! Fast!"
A taxi blurred past the window of the living room. A white blur with wings was following closely behind.
"Was that?" Sora started.
"That was not, Magna Angemon…" said Gennai. He narrowed his eyes, "We have to help them!" He turned his eyes to Kuro. "Go, I doubt they could defeat Lord Holy Angemon on their own, but you may have a chance…" The boy looked up a bit of fear filled his heart and the crest started to shine with a muddy gold. Kuro seized up a bit.
The boy stood and ran out of the house with Psychemon. Gennai chased after him as did Sora. Ayame only sat there a blank stare filling her eyes.
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AN: The Crest of Darkness idea is not new I know…but I hope I can follow it up good enough to make it compelling. This chapter is a little lighter in tone, but soon enough we'll get a bit more heavy…the next few chapters are the ones that have warranted the rating upage!