A Shot in the Dark
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"Soul Cry!" The Soulmon flew forward. Their mouths open sending out dark ribbons that snagged around the Lucemon controlled digimon. The digimons' crimson eyes stopped glowing and then resumed glowing deep blue.
"Lord Daemon…" growled the group of digimon, mostly Rookies and small Champions.
The demon lord chuckled darkly. He looked to the sky. Cthulhumon was sloshing around in the bay. Daemon growled and turned to his generals.
"We will take over this sector of the city, then we shall spread out," said the demon lord. "Do not go beyond the border of Chiyoda-ku, until the order is given!" Daemon looked to the east and saw the lush greenery that seemed to pop up quite unexpectedly in the expanse of city. He could see the top of the white, imperial palace, "You, Soulmon, we shall go east, I have a few things to settle…"
"Don't get greedy, Daemon," Damienmon stepped out of the shadows, "You have better things to do than fill your ego…"
"If we can take the Imperial House…" Daemon growled.
"Dear boy, your mind is a couple of eras late, the Imperial family now is nothing more than a figure head, the true power lies in the Diet," said Damienmon quietly. He lifted his fingers up. "Now, I suggest you forget about sitting on a throne or eating in the Imperial dining room and get on with taking over this district." Damienmon faded back into the shadows.
"LadyDevimon, send out a task force of Soulmon, capture as many of Lucemon's forces as you can and give them a little lesson in who they should follow," said Daemon quietly.
"I will make sure the Soulmon give them the proper influence," said LadyDevimon and she took off with a group of Soulmon.
"Skull Satamon, go terrify some humans, you're good at that," chuckled Daemon. Skull Satamon laughed heartily and flew off with a group of Sharmanmon running behind him. Daemon then turned to Marine Devimon. "You will have the very prestigious job of scouting out Shinjuku district." The large devil squid nodded and lumbered off.
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"Desperado Blaster!" the machine guns swung around to Paildramon's hips and he gripped the sides of the guns and fired blasts of plasma at the approaching Vilemon.
"Howling Blaster!" Garurumon leapt forward next to the dragon.
A group of Vilemon bounced off the suspension wires of Rainbow Bridge and tumbled into the water.
"Sub Zero Ice Punch!" a line of Frigimon blocked the bridge. A swirl of frozen wind shot around the humans.
"Brr, I hate the cold!" shouted Davis as he backed up a bit.
"We claim this bridge in the name of Lord Lucemon!" growled the Frigimon. Their eyes glowed bright red.
"There are too many to fight!" growled Matt as Vilemon clambered over the suspension wires of the bridge firing black bolts of lightning at the two digi-destined digimon.
"Harpoon Torpedo!" seven green missiles arced through the air and exploded into the bridge, dislodging the Vilemon and knocking the Frigimon to the ground.
"Oh great just what I need, a bill to rebuild the Rainbow Bridge!" shouted the familiar voice of Joe Kido.
"Sorry, Joe," grumbled Ikkakumon. The large white, furry walrus glided out from under the bridge. "But it there wasn't much of a choice."
"Joe!" shouted Matt as he hailed the man on the walrus's head. "What are you doing here?"
"Well," Joe shouted in reply. "We were clearing out the digimon at the mouth of the bay when this huge digimon dropped out of the sky…He was…well…"
"We ran away," growled Ikkakumon.
"We didn't run away!" shouted Joe. "I told you, we made a strategic retreat! It was a Mega digimon after all!"
"A Mega digimon?" Matt sighed. He didn't like it. "Was it under Lucemon's control?"
"I don't think so, it didn't have glowing eyes," replied Ikkakumon. The large walrus grumbled slightly. "We have trouble here he comes…" growled the digimon as a large lumbering beast sloshed into the bay. The large form slightly shrouded in an unnatural dusk fog. Garurumon de-digivolved to Gabumon.
"Are we ready?" asked Gabumon.
"Ready as we can be," replied Matt. He held out his digivice.
"Gabumon warp Digivolve to Metal Garurumon!" Gabumon flashed four times the last flash revealing the large, blue and gold metal of the Mega digimon.
Paildramon then snatched up Ken and Davis and prompted Matt to climb onto his back. The dragon then glided down to Ikkakumon.
He dropped off the humans and turned to Ikkakumon. "Take them to the mainland, the water may get a little choppy."
"Right," said Ikkakumon as he turned. Ken and Davis slid down the back of Ikkakumon and held up their digivices.
"Paildramon Mega Digivolve to Imperialdramon!" Paildramon grew larger. His wings grew into large crimson ones and his blue and black armored body became strong and wide and adorned with golden claws, linings, and blades.
Metal Garurumon flew forward with Imperialdramon in tow.
"I hope I can keep up with you young ducks," growled Metal Garurumon.
"I'm sure you still have that old spunk in you," chuckled Imperialdramon.
"Old? I'm not old, just out of practice!" growled Metal Garurumon.
The large squid like beast reared up at them as they flew into engagement range. It lifted a large gnarled trident.
"Ancient Trident Crush!" blasts of cerulean lightning filled the darkening skies.
Imperialdramon and Metal Garurumon spiraled backwards evading the blasts as the digimon swung its trident again.
"I don't know about you, but I think we should really think about getting that oversized fork out of his hand," growled Imperialdramon as he glided next to Metal Garurumon.
"I was thinking the same thing," growled Metal Garurumon. The missile ports on the metal digimon's armor opened. "Let's try it! Metal Wolf Claw!" the missiles exploded into fields of ice over the digimon's body.
"My turn!" growled Imperialdramon as he charged the cannon on its back. "Positron Laser!" the dart of energy slashed into the mountainous digimon's hand.
"Fools!" the digimon exploded from the attacks enraged, "I Cthulhumon, will not be destroyed by such insignificance. I will not be stopped by you, I will gain my light!"
"Light?" growled Imperialdramon as he flew forward.
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"Did that thing just say that it will gain its light?" shouted Davis as Ikkakumon glided over the water's surface.
"What could it mean?" asked Matt quietly.
"I have a guess," growled Davis. His eyes narrowed, "She starts with an 'H' and ends in an 'I' and she has two goggle heads protecting her! Get him Imperialdramon!"
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"So, how is everyone?" asked Izzy quietly.
"I never realized WaruMonzaemon was so tough," grumbled Tentomon as he munched on an apple.
"He grew powerful after we started attacking him," said the right most of three Hagurumon. "It's like his skin thickened."
"It's quite possible that WaruMonzaemon's true Ultimate level was expressed through its ability to defend against us," said Izzy quietly. He looked at the others. "We must be very careful…" Izzy's D-terminal beeped softly and lifted it. "No…"
"What is it Izzy?" Sora moved in closer. She looked over his shoulder and read the message.
"Who's Daemon?" asked Akiyama.
"A very bad digimon," whispered Sora. She looked at Izzy, "That can't be we sealed him in the Dark Ocean…"
"There was something Damienmon had said…" whispered Izzy quietly. "Something about being the creator of every dark digimon we've faced."
"Kuro…" Sora looked at her hands. "He wouldn't, he couldn't…"
"As Damienmon, we don't know the limits of his power," whispered Izzy. He stood up quietly and looked back at everyone, "Eat as much as you can, we're going to need to be as ready as we can be against Daemon."
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Elecmon was tending to his eggs when he smelled an unfamiliar smell. He growled softly and ran out towards the epicenter of The Primary Village. The red rodent skidded to a stop. An old decrepit being was hovering over two newly hatched digimon. One was a Botamon and the other a small Punimon.
"Hey you; get away from my babies!" shouted the red digimon. "Get away, you touch them and I will not stop from hurting you!"
The old creature stooped down balancing on an old gnarled cane.
"Fine, be that way! Super Thunder Strike!" blasts of lightning shot forward from the red rodent but the old man was more spry than he looked and he leapt back snapping his cane up and striking the lightning back at the rodent. The red rodent skittered backwards. The man turned to the two babies and lowered down to them opening his hand.
The Botamon flashed into Koromon and then into a black Agumon and then from there was a huge blast of gold. Black arm guards rose up. A dragon like head with short curved horns reared back. Black armor and a grey chest plate covered the dark dragon man. Black WarGreymon blinked his eyes. The old man then turned to the Punimon. The digimon flashed up to Tsunomon and then Elecmon from there it turned to Leomon and then in a large blast of golden radiance a large red and yellow striped saber-toothed tiger stepped forward. The old man then opened a large satchel and walked out to a group of four digi-eggs that were placed in the exact epicenter of the village. One was a pure blue with streaks of faded blue lightning over the surface; one was black with hunter green leaves imprinted on its surface. The third was white with purple stripes and the last was red and bathed in flame. The old man gathered the four eggs.
"No, not those!" yelped Elecmon as he staggered forward.
"Black WarGreymon," grumbled the old man. The black Mega stepped between Elecmon and the old man.
"You may be strong but I will not let you take those eggs!" growled Elecmon. "If I have to I will die to protect those eggs. Super Thunder Strike!" bolts of lightning bounced meaninglessly off the chest plate of Black WarGreymon. Elecmon growled and rushed forward to leap around the black dragon man. Black WarGreymon swept in front of the red rodent and slapped the rat down.
"Down, Black WarGreymon," growled the old man. He stood. He pointed his cane forward. "Let us be gone, we have work to do, you two most of all," The old man walked forward. "You must intercept Lucemon's knights even Lucemon himself. The Human World is too unstable, if Lucemon comes now, he will snap it like a twig. Go now, they are heading towards the Digi-port in the east sector. It is near the city of Marinaville."
"Why should I listen you old man," growled Black WarGreymon.
"Because you owe me," grumbled the old man quietly. "You owe Omega, yes, yes you do…" With that the old man lifted his cane and disappeared in a rainbow.
"Owe him?" growled Black WarGreymon.
"He brought you back from the edge of non-existence, you owe him a debt of gratitude," said the tiger quietly and he jumped forward. "Lift me! And go to Marinaville I think I know the way."
Black WarGreymon growled and lifted the tiger and started to fly. "SaberLeomon you need to lose weight…"
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TK and Cody were pulling back. They were going to rejoin Sora and the others. Cody blinked.
"Look, a human is outside…" Cody pointed to a black robed figure was wandering through the streets.
"Mmm," TK narrowed his eyes. He cupped his hands over his mouth, "Kuro!"
The figure looked up in surprise and then narrowed its glowing red eyes. "Digi-destined…you have not been lucky tonight."
"Umm, did we miss something?" asked Shakkoumon as it glided backwards defensively.
"That's Damienmon," growled TK. He clenched his fists. "He took over my nephew's body…now he's just a destructive monster…"
"Dear, dear, such animosity for your nephew," chuckled the figure as he walked softly up the street towards the humans.
"Stay back," warned Shakkoumon. The digimon's eyes glowed soft crimson.
"Well, what an unruly little kettle you are," growled the boy. His eyes shimmering blood red in the early night. Suddenly the child disappeared into a wave of darkness and appeared on Shakkoumon's head. He slammed his palms down on the clay man's head.
"What are you doing?" growled Shakkoumon. He felt something burning in his throat. Suddenly Shakkoumon's trembled, "I'm a little tea pot, short and stout…" Shakkoumon was bobbing up and down. He curled his left arm putting his hand on his hip and then curled his right arm lifting his hand up like he was serving a tray of food. He pivoted left, "This is my handle," Shakkoumon pivoted right, "And this is my spout, when I get all steamed up then I shout!" Shakkoumon fell to his right. "Tip me over and pour me out…" whimpered Shakkoumon as Damienmon leapt from the fallen clay warrior. He landed not facing the humans. Shakkoumon de-digivolved to Tokomon and Upamon.
"What have you done!" shouted Cody. Damienmon didn't turn. His cloak wafted silently as a dark wind swept around him. The child's red eyes glistened in the night as he slowly turned his head.
"I would think a judicious mind like yours could discern the facts of this case," replied Damienmon quietly. The creature's body turned and a bead of darkness enveloped his pointer finger.
"Shock Shout!" yelped Upamon as he leapt upwards releasing a burst of energy.
"Bubble Blow!" Tokomon matched his partner's response.
"Shadow Conquer!" there was two bursts of energy that shot from the fingertip of Damienmon that struck Upamon and Tokomon. The two digimon caterwauled backwards and ricochetted off a building. TK and Cody ran over to the two stricken digimon. Poyomon laid in a heap on top of Tsubumon.
"Are you guys ok?" TK cradled Poyomon in his arms. Cody held Tsubumon gently and looked up at Damienmon. His green eyes sparkled in anger.
"Awe, did the wittle In Twainings go boom?" asked Damienmon most derogatorily. He flicked his hand up, a trailing stream of darkness following his fingernails.
"We have to run," whispered Cody. He gave TK a side long look.
"It would be no use, he moves like lightning, we wouldn't get a few feet before he'd strike us down," returned TK quietly.
"So we sit here and get killed?" shot Cody's reply.
"Good point…" TK furrowed his brow. "Cody, take Poyomon…"
"TK, you can't be thinking…" Cody started to protest.
"I'm Kuro's uncle maybe I can get to him; I can't give up hope…" TK said under his breath. He stepped forward towards the young man. "Kuro, it's me, Uncle Takeru…"
"Heh, pathetic human," growled Damienmon he flicked his wrist downwards releasing the whip of darkness into TK's chest. The man growled feeling the dark energy seep into his torso.
"TK!" yelped Poyomon but Cody held him firm.
"Cody, go…" growled TK as he took another step forward. He looked straight into Damienmon's eyes, "Kuro, you can't let him do this to you. You can't let him destroy everything good in your life, you have to get up and fight!"
"Fool, he knows his place," growled Damienmon as he slashed forward again with the tendril of shadow. This time the tendril knocked TK backwards and sent him sprawling on the ground. "Kuro knows he can not fight me, he knows you are too weak to stop me, so he is being smart and letting me do all the work!"
"No, he isn't!" growled TK quietly. "Don't give up Kuro, fight with everything you have, don't let him take you over!" A green light shimmered around Takeru; it was a soft emerald light. The light reached out towards Damienmon. "Kuro, give him hell."
Damienmon felt the boy. He growled. He looked down. The digivice on his side was glowing lavender. He looked at his chest the crest was also activated.
"What is this!" shouted Damienmon.
"It's an eviction notice you imposter!" shouted Kuro's voice in the back of Damienmon's head. "Get out of my body!" Damienmon wretched backwards as the human's soul ripped from the dark tendrils holding him.
"That light, it is weakening my hold," growled Damienmon. He lifted his hand, "I will just have to destroy it!" He strained but the powers he commanded were failing him and refused to manifest themselves. He growled softly and dropped back as Takeru drew in closer. "I must get away…"
"Coward!" Kuro's voice escaped Damienmon's lips. "Uncle Takeru, you can't let him get away, don't leave me!" The boy's eyes kept flickering between the human's eyes and the crimson glow of Damienmon.
"Fool!" roared Damienmon as he clenched his right fist and he felt his left hand reach for TK. Damienmon slapped his hand away from the glowing Chosen one and grabbed it by the arm. "You will never be allowed to rise up again!" He hauled his arm up and bit it hard. Kuro's screamed as the blood trickled from under Damienmon's teeth.
"Fight back!" shouted Takeru. He ran forward but Damienmon leveled a strong right cross on the glowing man but Damienmon growled as he looked at his knuckles. They were burnt from the contact with the human. Damienmon felt something strike his gut and he looked down to see his left hand ramming itself into his abdomen.
"NO MORE!" roared the demon boy and a black fire swept around his body. Damienmon staggered backwards and stumbled against a lamp post. He was breathing hard.
"Kuro, we almost have him…keep going," Takeru was standing. "Push him down. Push him into the crest, lock him away!"
"The child is mine," growled Damienmon. He pushed himself up on his feet. The unearthly glow of the human of hope was still blocking his powers. "And you have failed…" He took a staggering step towards the shadows of an alley.
"Get back here!" shouted Takeru as he ran after the demon. Takeru tackled Damienmon. "You aren't going anywhere except where you came from!" shouted the man as he turned the demon.
"You pathetic fool," Damienmon wheezed as the contact between him and the holy light of Hope was pressed closer. "You cannot destroy me, the Harmonious Ones could not finish me off; do you think your pathetic attempts shall stop me!?"
Takeru lifted his fist and punched Damienmon. The demon roared as the burning fist struck his cheek. "Let him go!"
"There are times for talk, and times for fighting," chuckled Damienmon quietly. "You need to learn which time is the right for each…" Takeru looked down at Damienmon and sneered. "Fortunately I feel this is a good time for both, SOULMON!" the ghost seemed to appear from nowhere and grabbed Takeru from behind but they wailed in pain as they dragged the man from the demon. The ghostly beasts with the bent witch hats glided forward and helped Damienmon up. "You humans always think you're so important, yet the truth is you're nothing but ants; ants that should've been squashed eons ago."
"Kuro, you have to fight him!" shouted TK. He lurched forward but the Soulmon held him fast.
"Oh don't worry, Unckie TK," whispered a mimicked voice of Kuro. "He'll be just fine." Damienmon laughed and then flicked his wrist up. "Do with him what you will or can!"
"Necro…" The hat wearing souls stopped in mid strike as a bright light shot up from the digivice on Damienmon's side.
"In any way, I will stop you," growled Kuro's voice. "I will break the rules of time and space, will break any friendship, end any love, douse anyone's hope, destroy the courageous, be ultimately subversive, and be impure, I will darken the worlds if it means I can confound you, if it means stopping you I will be the cruelest and most malevolent being ever…But I will stop you!" The light swirled in the air. It formed into a large oval and then burst open. Punimon appeared and then morphed not once but twice into a glowing form of Psychemon and then. Kuro's voice growled. "Get them…"
The figure nodded, "Psychemon digivolve to Shadramon! Prepare to feel the wrath of the night!" The Soulmon broke away from Takeru and stumbled back from the fiery moth. Its claws burned and it punched forward, "Flare Buster!"
"What the hell?" Takeru looked up in shock. Shadramon shot forward slashing through the ranks of ghosts.
"Damienmon destroyed Dominimon and though he doesn't like to admit it; he loaded the angel's energy, but Dominimon loaded Psychemon's data as well, it was just a matter of finding the code…" growled Kuro's voice.
"You're victory won't last long!" growled Damienmon's voice. He lifted his claws and prepared to disembowel himself, "I'll destroy your body and it will reject your soul, but before you die I'll transfer myself to one of these minions!"
"No you don't!" Shadramon shot down and punched Damienmon in the face knocking the demon backwards, "Sorry, Kuro, I hope that didn't hurt too much…"
"We'll live through pain…" growled Kuro. He looked down at his hands, "Now…get out of my BODY!"
"NEVER!" spat Damienmon. He growled. "Soulmon, do something! Stop that confounded radiance!"
The ghosts shrieked and launched towards Takeru. Shadramon shot forward.
"Necro Magic!" roared the hoard firing blasts of black lightning at the human. Takeru fell. The light faded. Shadramon swung around and shredded the ghosts mercilessly and then turned on Damienmon. The large moth warrior's hands were burning. His eyes were gleaming.
"Darkness, can not destroy darkness," said Damienmon. The demon chuckled softly and grasped the crest hanging over his chest. "I am darkness. I will crush you like the maggot you are. I defeated Metal Garurumon and Dominimon like they were but specks of dust, do you think you have much of a chance?"
"Kuro's alive in you, and that is all the chance I need," growled Shadramon. He narrowed his eyes.
"But will you destroy your precious partner to get rid of me?" asked the demon quietly.
"If it has to be done, then it has to be done," replied Shadramon. The moth dragon creature stepped forward.
"You would reject your vow to protect your partner?" asked an intrigued Damienmon quietly.
"He's not rejecting it," growled Kuro through tight lips and gritted teeth as Damienmon tried to silence the human soul. "He knows I would rather be dead than to be trapped inside you! I hadn't realized you were feeding off my fear of death until after you entered the Digital World, but now that I do, you have nothing left to feed on, I have the power to destroy you, even if it means destroying myself!" the crest bloomed into a ball of darkness.
"Shadramon digivolve to…Karatenmon!" the crow swordsmen flew forward. His swords were thrust forward, "Raven Blades!"
"Fool," growled Damienmon as he felt his powers returning. "Shadow Conquer!" there was a blast of black lightning as Karatenmon swept around wheeling between the bolts of shadow.
"Ballistic Feather!" feathery missiles fired forward slamming Damienmon's burnt body backwards against a wall.
The beast child growled and his eyes flashed red. "This time you won't come back!" He held his hands forward, "Shadow of the New Moon!" A blast of blackness washed forward like a tidal wave.
"No!" shouted Kuro's voice angrily. The bird man flew upwards and looked down at Damienmon.
"Such a sloppy attack for a demon of such finesse," called the corvid swordsmen as he weaved from behind a crumbling building. "Try this on for size, Enlightenment!" the blades of swords glowed blood red and then flashed forward as whips. Damienmon growled and back flipped side jumped and sometimes plain old blocked the strikes.
"I will not be brought down…" Damienmon's voice shouted.
"Yeah, yeah, by and insignificant twerp like me," finished Kuro's voice. Now get down in that crest!" shouted the boy. Damienmon's body slumped slightly and he growled.
"I will not be imprisoned again!" Damienmon pulled hard at his cloak and disappeared into the darkness.
"Kuro, no!" shouted Karatenmon as he reached out towards the boy.
"Heh, heh, you shall not defeat me that easily," growled the voice of demon. It seemed to permeate from every shadow. "I think I'll just test out master Kuro's claim that he is ready to do anything. How does this feel!"
Kuro's voice released a tortured scream. "You won't stop me…I will escape your grasp!"
"We'll see, my boy, we'll see," Damienmon's laughter faded to nothing.
"Kuro…" gasped Takeru.
"He got away again," growled Karatenmon. The crow sheathed his swords and lifted the man up. "We must get back to the others. You are too vulnerable without your partner to protect you."
Takeru looked up and the bird lifted him cradle style and lifted off the ground with a massive flap of his wings.
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AN: Kuro FIGHTS BACK! Exciting to see Damienmon beating himself up…hehe, and Takeru doing some kick bum…thanks to you that have reviewed, and please don't forget to continue reviewing….