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Presenting: The Gift Giver
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"Where are they?" growled Astamon as he looked at the townspeople. They shuddered slightly and looked at the ground. The demon snarled angrily and lifted his machine gun. "Don't test my patience, because it will fail."
"How should we know where the Mushroomon have gone?" replied a Sorcerymon quietly. The white wizard ventured a brief flick of his blue eyes from under his wide-brimmed hat.
"Heh, someone here sent them off," Astamon slid his gaze over the digimon. Most of them were Veggiemon and Floramon and one or two others. "This isn't a game, so don't toy with me!"
"We don't know what you mean!" shot back the Floramon in unison. "Those Mushroomon probably ran off on their own!"
"They were not on the road out of the town when I came," replied Astamon quietly. He lifted his machine gun menacingly, "That means they must have left after I arrived…Now, tell me where they are going."
"I sent them…" replied Woodmon quietly. The others looked at the plant digimon in shock. "You won't take over this town; the digi-destined will stop you!"
"My you have a lot of trust in those Mushroomon," chuckled Astamon. He turned and a wavy, clear swirl manifested itself behind the demon.
A chocolate brown digimon loomed over Astamon's head. He had long green ears that fell from under a white skull like helmet that had three horns. His arms were incredibly long and his entire body was muscular and covered with a shaggy brown fur. His hands and feet and the portions of his body not covered by fur was a deep chocolate red.
"Mah sterr…" groaned the digimon in a rumbling voice.
"Endigomon, go fetch those missing Mushroomon, I'm sure you can sniff them out," replied Astamon loudly. An evil smile played across his face. The huge muscle bound digimon nodded and twists of etherealness swept around him and he disappeared.
Astamon turned on the villagers. "Now, Woodmon, you did a very naughty thing, as a barkeep you know what happens to people that do naughty things…"
"Please, don't do it, sir!" yelped the wooden digimon as he dropped to his knees. "Plea…"
The air sang with the sound of repeated patters of oozy ammunition. The noise was quickly followed by the sound of Astamon shouting to the others to get him a sarsaparilla.
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"Now according to this message this sector has been put into upheaval by a minion of Lucemon, named Astamon," said Noriko quietly as she read the screen of the D-Terminal. "He's an Ultimate level demon digimon of some sort."
"Who sent the message?" asked Kitai quietly. He walked down the road next to Noriko.
"Omega," replied Noriko.
"The same guy that sent the message about Daemon," whispered Kitai quietly. He looked up at Patamon, who was sitting pleasantly on Kitai's head.
Noriko looked up. "Something is coming!" little plumes of dust appeared in the distance. Patamon and Armadillomon hopped in front of the two children.
Shapes appeared, three of them. They looked like purple and white mushrooms.
"Mushroomon!" yelped Patamon as the three fungi ran forward. "They are usually rude but harmless, but you don't want to be in the way of their Fungus Crusher!"
"Outta the way!" shouted the Mushroomon as they barreled past, "He's coming!"
"Who?" the children asked as the digimon ran past.
"Howling Destroyer!" rumbled a voice. A swirling blast of green slashed past the humans.
"Him!" yelped the Mushroomon. "Endigomon! He's one of Astamon's flunkies! We came from Opal Ridge to get the Chosen Ones…"
"Heh, you're lucky then," said Armadillomon, "because you just found them!"
A whispy streamer of energy curled around the digi-destined and flowed forward towards the Mushroomon. The mushrooms trembled in fear as the streamer molded and morphed into a huge chocolate brown hulk.
"Mah ster, Ahsh tah mon wants you to re turn to O pahl Ridge…" rumbled the digimon slowly. He took a plodding step forward.
"Please…" the Mushroomon backed away from the huge beast. The biggest one grimaced and lifted up a little mushroom. "Fungus Crusher!" the mushroom flew and exploded in the face of the beast.
Endigomon grunted and lifted a hammer like fist and crushed it into the ground. An explosion rolled under the soil and tossed the three Mushroomon into the air. Endigomon then spun extending his arms hitting the fungi digimon with his club like fists.
"HEY!" shouted Noriko. She shook her fist as the beast. Endigomon groaned and turned to the girl. Her hair was dark and she shifted the glasses on her face. "You leave them alone!"
"Lord Ahsh tah mon, said I need to gather the Mushroomon…" growled the beast. "I must naht…disobey my lord."
He clenched his fist and punched towards Noriko.
"Noriko!" yelped Armadillomon. "Armadillomon digivolve to Thunderballmon!" The blue ball leapt up and took the punch for the girl and bounced backward. Thunderballmon shook his head and lifted his lightning emblem fists. "You big oaf!" He leapt forward and opened his palms releasing balls of energy. "Thunder Bomber!" Endigomon roared and retreated slightly.
He opened his mouth. "Howling Destroyer!" the green stream of energy rammed Thunderballmon. The beast leapt into the air and slammed his fists down propelling Thunderballmon into the ground.
"Thunderballmon!" shouted Kitai as he ran forward. Endigomon landed in front of the boy and looked down at the blonde. Endigomon pulled back his fist and sent it crushing the ground in front of Kitai knocking the boy to the ground.
"Kitai!" Patamon flew forward. "Patamon digivolve to Pidmon!" the angel with the red sash flashed forward slamming his staff into the face of Endigomon and picked up Kitai and carried him out of harm's way. Pidmon turned quickly and flashed his palm forward. "Fire Feather!" a burst of spinning flames flew forward swamping Endigomon.
The beast growled and staggered backwards. A blue blur flew past his head and then stopped some feet above him. It was Thunderballmon. He held up his fist and a streak of lightning formed in it. "Thunder Volt!" he tossed the spear of lightning down letting the energy course over the beast.
"His eyes aren't glowing…" hissed Noriko. She looked to Kitai.
"Pidmon, is he…?" Kitai looked up at the angel.
"I think he is unconscious," said Pidmon. Thunderballmon was scrambling over the prone figure of Endigomon and nodded in agreement.
"You beat Endigomon…" The three Mushroomon looked out from behind a sparse bush.
"Yep," said Thunderballmon. The blue digimon hopped down in front of them. He looked back to Noriko.
"Is this Astamon in your village now?" asked Noriko soberly. She looked at the Mushroomon.
"Yes," yelped the digimon in unison. The largest one walked forward from the bushes, "He destroyed our chieftain, Wisemon. He said he's taking over!"
"We have to get there," said Kitai he looked up at Noriko.
"I know," Noriko fiddled with her glasses, "Right, well Pidmon can't carry us all, and travel by foot will take too long…I say we go in and show this Astamon who's really in control of the situation."
"Right!" Kitai held his D-3 up with Noriko.
"Thunderballmon!" The blue sphere leapt up and started to glow.
"Pidmon!" The angel opened his wings wide and turned into energy.
"DNA digivolve to," the two glowing digimon merged brightly. "Cyberdramon!" The black, muscular dragon dropped down and helped Kitai and Noriko on his back. He held the three Mushroomon in his arms and flapped his crimson wings.
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Things were bad. Well that was more or less an understatement. The monks were lying on the ground. The razor thin cuts had drained them of their life fluids. A panther woman was standing in the middle of the small temple entrance quietly licking her claws. She flicked her orange ear backward slightly and looked at the digi-destined. A group of the 'other' digi-destined were taking a step back.
"Who are you?" the small boy that the Chosen had gotten to know as Kin hissed.
"I am Bastemon, mistress of the moon!" returned the woman in a seductive tone. A sexy smile cut across her lips and she turned her emerald eyes on him. She walked slowly towards Kin moving her hips with soft undulations. The panther furred, puffed pants flowed with her movements and her twin tails swished slowly behind her. She stood in front of Kin and ever so lightly slid her claws under the boy's chin, "and you are?" she purred softly. The boy struggled and failed to hold back a blush. "Oh I haven't upset your innocent disposition, have I?"
"Leave him alone!" a little girl ran up. Bastemon growled and lifted her paw and snapped it at the girl.
"Mai!" a taller girl was next to Kin leaned down the red headed girl. A red mark was on the small red head's cheek where Bastemon had slapped the child.
Bastemon leaned down to Kin softly and whispered into his ear. "Come on my dear boy; let us get out of this religious shanty…" She gave Kin a soft kiss on his cheek and let her hand touch on Kin's temple. The boy's face was now glowing red.
"I-I can't…" whispered Kin weakly.
"Why not?" replied Bastemon quietly. She gently stroked the boy's hair. "Your digimon is gone, and you know why? The digi-destined took him away from you..."
"Why are we standing here doing nothing?" growled Davis as he clenched his D-3.
"I can't digivolve Davis…" whispered DemiVeemon. "I feel pooped…"
"Me too…" whimpered Minomon.
"We all are," whispered Patamon and Gatomon.
"Well we're going to do something!" shouted the three helmeted balls of raccoon essence. "Kapurimon digivolve to Hagurumon!"
Akiyama, Kazu and Kiyoko looked up and lifted their digivices. A light surrounded the three black and gold gears.
"Hagurumon digivolve to…" the three gears glowed brightly.
The right most leapt forward first. "Flamedramon!"
The middle one then growled and stormed forward, "Raidramon!"
The left most digimon then slashed forward, "Yashamon!"
Bastemon swiveled her feline ear back towards the Champions and sighed in irritation. "Fine…" She flicked her wrist up and a crimson line ran between her fingers like a ribbon that a ribbon dancer would use. "Vampire Dance!" She twirled slightly and let the ribbon fly.
The crimson line sliced cleanly into Yashamon, cutting the green chest armor he wore. The demon man leapt back looked down at his chest. Flamedramon tried to dart around the line but found it futile as it caught him around the waste. He released a suppressed yowl as his flesh was slit open.
"Thunder Blast!" Raidramon rushed forward releasing a swarm of lighting streamers that struck the woman in her toned, apricot colored stomach. The feline snarled and flicked her wrists up and released twin lines of crimson energy that whipped forward slicing Raidramon and causing the black armored dragon to howl in pain.
The woman then back flipped and rolled her palms forward. "Helter Skelter!" a small swirl of flame erupted forward as a herd of yowling and screaming fire cats. The flaming felines' claws slashed ravenously at the Yashamon, Flamedramon, and Raidramon. They grunted and cursed and snapped but the fire kittens were agile and fast and finally they turned and bit the three digimon. The bite was what did it. Raidramon, Yashamon and Flamedramon instantly turned back into their Hagurumon forms.
"Fools," hissed Bastemon. She lifted two fingers up and between them was a line of crimson energy. "Now, I'll just finish this up and then I'll take this little boy with me…"
"No!" shouted Mai. She grabbed Kin tightly and held him close to her. The boy was still mesmerized. She looked to Kin, "Please, brother, don't go with her…"
"Why would I wish to leave my goddess, Bastemon, for a little whelp like you?" asked Kin blankly. Bastemon let a cat-like smile play on her lips and then walked forward.
"This is bad," whispered Ken quietly as he passed silently behind Sora. "We need to do something."
"What?" Sora replied as she looked at Ken. "You saw what she did to those three…"
"Koushiro…do you see what I see?" asked Ken quietly as his eyes pointed to the left.
"What?" asked the red head as he peered about. "All I see are digi-destined," he gulped slightly, "some dead monks, and a laptop computer…" Koushiro blinked, "A computer…"
"And it's on too," replied Ken in a whisper.
"Doesn't matter, it isn't likely that the computer would have a portal program in it," whispered Koushiro in reply.
"Neither did Dr. Takenouchi's…when Yolei saw Black WarGreymon in Kyoto," whispered Ken.
"But Kyoto is a proven weak point in the Digital World/Human World Matrix…" hissed Koushiro.
"What are you whispering about over there?" growled Bastemon impatiently.
Koushiro looked up like a deer caught in headlights. Ken passed him and looked congenially to the digi-vampiress, "Oh nothing, just talking about baseball, soccer, you know the normal man stuff…."
"I hate spor…" started Koushiro only to get a soft elbow in the stomach from Ken. The digimon looked at Koushiro and then at Ken and then back. She narrowed her hazel eyes and snorted in annoyance and then lifted her whip. Ken walked forward, "If you would please…just wait a second…"
"Why should I?" growled Bastemon. She twisted her wrist slightly and let the crimson line slide forward and cut the stone paving in front of Ken.
"Well, I'm just saying that a thing of beauty should really be admired and well what better way is there to admire something than to take a picture of it…" replied Ken with a cunning smile. "In other words, I would like to take your picture." Bastemon grimaced at the human but her vanity soon ate any doubts she had. Ken turned slightly.
"Where are you going?" shouted the woman. She drew her long dark arms up crimson lines cut Ken off from his target, the other digi-destined.
"I need to plan on how to frame up the shot," replied Ken smoothly. He gave Bastemon another celebrity smile. "You wouldn't want poor picture choreography to make you look bad now would you?" The crimson lines retreated slightly. Ken then walked calmly up to the others.
"What the hell are you doing?" yelped Koushiro in as contained a manner as possible.
"We're can't beat her in with the conventional 'let's digivolve and smash her bits plan'. Most of the digimon here got beaten badly by Daemon, and then weakened by Lucemon, the mere fact that the Hagurumon could digivolve to their Champion levels is…amazing," whispered Ken quietly. "This little scam will push her through to the Digital World, where we won't have to deal with her, at least for a while…"
"Again, how?" whispered Koushiro. "I told you that the laptop probably doesn't have a portal program…"
"I submit to you, that since Lucemon's interference that the Digi-ports are expanding, the barrier between the worlds is now nothing more than a soap film, we may only have to give it a little pin prick for a portal to open," replied Ken. He looked back at Bastemon. The digimon was looking quite impatient. "Look, just tell Davis and the others to prepare to open a digi-port with that laptop over there, hell try and use your digivices, it worked at that camp…"
Koushiro frowned, partially because he hadn't thought of it and partially because he didn't like the way Ken was playing his cards, he was banking too much on a possibility that may or may not be true, but he nodded, after all if Koushiro had been twenty years younger, he may have been just as rushed to try out a theory, especially if it meant using it to beat a bad digimon.
Ken turned around and smiled beguilingly at Bastemon. He walked quietly up to her. He looked at her in the eyes gently. "Ma'am…if you would please, take a few steps to my left…" Bastemon looked at the young man, snorted and then shifted slightly to the left. Ken smiled, "A little more, we want to get a little more light in the shot…" Bastemon growled and took a couple of more steps and finally her body was in line with the laptop's screen. "All right…just let me step back here." Ken walked back with the group of Digi-destined. He held up his D-3, as had the others.
"What are you doing? What are those things!" growled Bastemon loudly.
"Our cameras," replied Ken with a smile, "Now I should warn you, there is one hell of a flash from these things…everyone…NOW!"
"Digi-port OPEN!" shouted the others behind Ken. At first there was nothing and then suddenly in a huge explosion of light and color the computer screen literally reached out and grabbed Bastemon tugging her into the screen, but the unthinkable happened. The screen exploded. The humans looked in surprise as Bastemon seemed to fade in and out and then finally it was like her reception had fizzled out and she simply disappeared.
"What happened?" Ken looked at Koushiro.
"I'm not really sure…" whispered the man. "It could've been any number of things, too many D-3 commands…maybe the barrier has finally snapped, and Bastemon may be trapped in some sort of limbo…or bubble universe."
"As long as she is gone," growled Yolei as she snagged her husband's ear.
"Kin…" Mai was holding the boy's hand softly. "Kin are you ok?"
"Kin?" Setsu was at his side, "Snap out of it."
Kin was in a deep daze. "Bastemon…don't go…"
"Kin, she was evil…" Setsu said quietly stroking the boy's hair.
"Don't touch me!" shouted the boy and he pulled from the two girls and ran out of the temple.
"We should go after him…" Davis said to the others. "It's too dangerous for him to be alone."
"I'll go," whispered Kari as she stood.
"We should go together," said Yolei quietly. The tan haired woman nodded slowly and stood up. Gatomon hopped up on her shoulder and the two of themran out of the temple with Yolei and Hawkmon.
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"Maverick!" plasma rained past Cyberdramon's head as the black dragon weaved in and out of the volleys from Astamon's machine gun.
"Right, his little pop gun is getting taken away, very soon!" grumbled Cyberdramon as he flicked his wings back and forth and dropped down releasing his payload or humans and digimon.
Astamon smirked slightly and walked forward. His poncho like cloak flailed slightly in the breeze. His red eyes shimmered softly.
"So, you're a destined digimon," said Astamon quietly. The demon's wings opened and he leapt to the air, "Then Lord Lucemon will love this all the more!"
Flaming pulses of energy flew at Cyberdramon as the gun rattled off rounds. The black dragon took to the sky. Astamon smirked and redirected his attacks, towards the digi-destined. Cyberdramon flew quickly in front of the humans taking the barrage of attacks in the chest and stomach.
"You cheat!" shouted Noriko loudly as Astamon continued barraging Cyberdramon in the chest.
"It's cheating to use your enemy's weakness against them?" inquired the demon as he let up on the trigger of his weapon. "My, what a strange sense of cheating you have." Astamon smiled and pushed the trigger again starting a whole new round of salvos.
"Cyberdramon!" Kitai made a move towards the dragon but the Mushroomon stepped in front of him.
"You'll get hurt!" rasped the three fungi.
"Cyberdramon you have to fight back!" shouted Kitai. Tears were flickering in his eyes, "I don't want to lose you!"
"Desolation….CLAW!" The black dragon pulled his hands together letting the spike on each of his arms cut through the dimensions. He gathered the green energy into his hands and then fired it forward. A large black and green orb exploded in front of the dragon engulfing the plasma bursts from Astamon. Cyberdramon then, with mighty flap of his crimson wings, dove forward, through the smoke. His fists were clenched and glowing with emerald energy. "Cyber Nail!" The emerald fist slammed into the demon's cheek as Cyberdramon exploded through the opposite side of the smoke screen. Astamon crashed down onto Main Street and skid across the dusty road. His oozy bounced and clatter from his hand and landed a good number of feet from the demon's body. Cyberdramon snarled softly and ripped his spiked arms through the air again, "Desolation Claw!" a dimensional void erupted around the annoying machine gun causing it to explode.
Astamon stood slowly and growled. "If you think that's the only way I can hurt you; you're wrong." He flashed open his hand. "Hell Fire!" A ball of purple flames shot forward they flames raged against Cyberdramon burning and biting the dragon as he struggled free from the attack. Cyberdramon let out a feral roar and slashed the flames from him. He looked down at the demon man his eyes glinting with that spirit of the feral hunter.
"Desolation," The glowing hunters' green energy grew exponentially and rolled softly in his hands as he let out a loud snarl, "CLAW!"
The green energy rocketed forward like a huge, emerald comet. Astamon tried to hold off the blast but it was so huge and its strength was so vast that it easily engulfed Astamon. The demon screamed as his body succumbed to the chaos of the dimensional disturbances. His lovely pin-striped suit and pants were burned and had holes in them. His grey cloak had disappeared in the blast and his hair was all mussed and burnt. His wings were in tatters. He laid there weak and unmoving.
Astamon was waiting for that death blow. He knew they would not find mercy and he would be destroyed. He closed his eyes. Suddenly there was a burning sensation in his chest. Astamon dispelled it at first as being Cyberdramon driving his claws into his thoracic cavity, but then there was a voice.
"Digivolve, digivolve and become an even more esteemed warrior of Lord Lucemon!" Astamon knew this voice. He had been under the voice's command. It was Medieval Dukemon's voice.
The burning washed over his body and Astamon felt his body grow and strengthen as his arms dispelled the lavish clothes of his previous incarnation and took on a more muscular shape. His chest expanded and revealed crimson marks on his flesh. His hands grew claws that were extended by lime green energy talons. His single pair of wings grew more muscular and split into three powerful membraned wings. His head changed and he could feel himself growing a more canine snout and elegantly curled back goat horns. His legs became more animalistic and canine but he was able to maintain bipedal motion. His arms were now attached to his torso, superficially by large claw like projections that clasped his shoulder blade and were ejected from his Humerus. He growled softly and swished his spiky tail experimentally as he looked up at Cyberdramon with his knew eyes.
"I am Belphemon!" shouted the demon as he lifted his claws up. "I come bearing gifts for you!" He let out a light chuckle and then drew his hands together and revealed their palms together. A black energy box appeared in front of him. "Gift of Darkness!" the box exploded open unleashing a tidal wave of black energy that overwhelmed Cyberdramon. The demon smiled and took to the air on his huge, black wings. He slashed the air with his lime claws cutting the air in a circle. The circle flashed and an image of a flower appeared in the circle, "Lampranthus!" the flower exploded into thousands of black petals that attached themselves to Cyberdramon.
The black dragon stood up and the petals took affect and glowed bright red and exploded all at once. Cyberdramon crashed to the ground; his flesh was smoking; one of his wings was nearly ripped in half. Belphemon chuckled softly and lifted his claws ready to make his final strike on the annoying pest.
"Wait right there Belphemon!" shouted the insolent group of Mushroomon. Their leader had a mushroom in his hand. "You want to take over this town…how about you take on us! We brought the digi-destined here! Fungus Crusher!" The mushroom exploded in the demon's face.
"If you are eager to die…" chuckled the demon loudly, "I will gladly grant you your death wish."
"No, don't do it!" Noriko shouted. "You don't stand a chance!"
"Silence human, you'll get your death wish later!" shouted Belphemon as he positioned his claws for a slash that would finish off the three Mushroomon in one fell swoop.
The Mushroomon growled and took out their mushrooms. "Fungus Crusher!" the three mushrooms flew, but they weren't alone.
"Stink Jet!" shouted several voices.
"Rain of Pollen!" shouted other voices.
"Aquarius Fill!" shouted the hushed voice of another.
"Flame Hit!" rasped another.
The attacks grew and held together and slammed into Belphemon's chest. The demon growled. He looked down. Main Street was filled with the remaining citizens of the village.
"You wish destruction, then you will all be destroyed, Lord Lucemon is not interested in the insurgents!" shouted Belphemon as he drew his claws together.
"We can't let him do this!" shouted Kitai. He looked to Noriko. "We were supposed to free these digimon not get them killed!"
"We can't let him douse their hopes," Noriko looked firmly forward. "Cyberdramon, you have to get up!"
The dragon released a grunt and lifted to his knees. Noriko narrowed her eyes. "Don't give up Cyberdramon, I know you can do it!"
"We're depending on you!" called Kitai quietly. "We know you are hurt but people are counting on us!" He looked to Noriko. "We have to give him our strength; we can't let him fight like this."
"I'm willing to try anything you're willing to try," returned Noriko. Kitai snapped his D-3 up; Noriko followed suit. The two devices glowed brightly. Two beams of light rushed forward engulfing Cyberdramon. His wings repaired themselves and his body smoothed out, but then more happened as a large bulb of power rushed forward.
"Cyberdramon, Mega Digivolve to Justimon!" A humanoid in grey metallic body armor with a twisting red scarf leapt upwards. "I am Justimon, warrior of justice; I take up the powers of the hopes of the weak and defenseless and conjoin it to the responsibility of the powerful to digivolve! I will use my Voltage Blade and Justice Kick to take down the enemies of justice!" He turned to Belphemon, "That means you dog goat."
"Gift of Darkness!" roared Belphemon in reply.
Justimon quickly snatched the humans and Mushroomon and took them to safety as he spun around and his arm became more robotic and he slammed it to the ground. "Thunder Clap!" a blast of energy erupted from the ground that pushed the Gift of Darkness into the sky. The robotic digimon then disappeared in a flurry of movement and appeared on the roof of a building holding his arms crossed over his chest; the scarves unfurled to the breeze. He then flung one arm to his side. The arm morphed into a metal appendage that unsheathed a large sparking blade.
"Lampranthus!" roared Belphemon as he cut the flower circle into the air.
"Voltage Blade!" Justimon disappeared again only to appear hovering behind Belphemon, turned away from the demon.
"You didn't even…" The demon's eyes widened. Justimon turned quickly with his scarves spinning behind him and dropped to the ground. His energy blade sheathed itself as a crimson slash appeared along Belphemon's midsection and the demon exploded into dark data.
Justimon almost instantly turned into Patamon and Armadillomon upon touching the ground.
"That….was…." Patamon started.
"Awesome," finished Armadillomon.
Noriko and Kitai blinked and then shook their heads at their two partners.
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Taichi and Yamato had rested at the edge of the bay for almost an hour. Their digimon had recouped and as they had promised they started towards where Koushiro's directions had placed the fight with Daemon. Walking from the edge of Minato district was not easy, digimon were everywhere, fortunately they were just more Vilemon and Agumon and Gabumon could make them run away with a slight blast of energy. They had reached Shiba Koen Park when they saw the first flare far off the west, almost as if it came from Shinjuku. Minutes later another flare, much closer exploded in the sky.
"What is that?" whispered Taichi quietly as he looked up at the sky. The overall darkness of the sky had now refused to let up. The magnetic interference from the Digital World had fried most watches. Telling time was almost impossible. Day and night were equal now, a dismal faded dark grey pal that seemed to fill the sky. Yamato searched his jacket pockets.
"I think I have a spy scope…" He caught Tai's look of surprise, "Well, I am an adventurer now. I need these things…"
"HA!" Tai looked up again. "There!" he pointed at a black and white flash.
Yamato pulled out the search lens. He focused slightly and then his mouth dropped. "If I told you I just saw a huge, black sphinx with gold trimming fighting a demonic angel…you wouldn't like commit me would you?"
"Why? It's not any weirder than an evil clown trying to take over the world," responded Tai quietly.
"True…" came Matt's reply. A flash exploded over them. The sphinx was indeed large. It had large golden wings and bright red eyes.
"There, Ancient Sphinxmon!" yelped a familiar voice.
Yamato looked up in surprise. "K-Kuro…"
"Papa!" shouted the voice. The large sphinx touched down long enough to let the boy slide down. Matt ran up to the child and grabbed him up in a tight hug.
"Paradise Lost!" a crimson blast exploded in the ground as the large sphinx took off again. The demonic angel flashed over their head.
"Get him!" cheered Kuro. Matt could only look at the boy. He was burnt and bruised and looked like hell but he was smiling and cheering on the gigantic winged cat like a member of some one man glee club.
"Necro Eclipse!" The sphinx opened its mouth and a sphere of green light was covered by a black shadow and ruptured forward striking the angel in the gut. The angel flew backwards and grimaced.
"I, Lucemon, will not be destroyed so easily!" shouted the angel. The statement made Tai pale.
"We can't fight Lucemon," hissed Tai loudly. "That guy, Omega, said we can't!"
"I think Kuro's friend is handling himself quite well…" replied Yamato.
"Dark Blast!" pure black flames shot forward smashing Lucemon back into the forest.
"Even so…" hissed Taichi.
"Life and Death!" a black orb and a white orb shot up from the forest.
"Necro Eclipse!" another blast fired forward as the orbs tried to engulf the sphinx but the black cat turned and dodged them.
"V Destroyer!" a huge crimson sphere with a V emblem shot up, followed by the angel. The sphinx caught the attack on the chin. The angel flew up and swept his foot to the side of the sphinx's head and the large, black, winged feline slammed into the forest. "I have to admit, Ancient Sphinxmon, you were a nice contest, but unfortunately your time is up! Life and Death!" the orb of light and the orb of darkness dropped down. The howl of Ancient Sphinxmon erupted from the trees as a faded purple/grey light gleamed through the foliage.
"No…" Kuro looked blankly at the gleaming light, "not again…please no…"
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"Northern Cross Bomber!" the business end of an anchor glowed brightly and exploded into comets that flew at DinoBeemon. The mermaid in the bay smirked as the draconic insect dodged the attacks.
"Oxygen Torpedo!" shouted a Submarimon that was on the side of the Digi-destined.
"Torpedo Attack!" shouted another voice as the water waked with the passage of two underwater torpedoes. Shark like fins cut the water following the torpedoes.
"Torpedo Ray!" a laser shot forward striking the mermaid that was in the bay. A huge Manta Ray flashed out of the water's surface and then slid back under the water.
"Thanks Tylomon, Submarimon and Mantaraymon!" shouted DinoBeemon as he turned and opened the ports on his arm guards. "Hell's Masquerade!"
The crimson ribbons shot out like blades that Mermaimon tried her hardest to block but the attack had come so fast that she had no time to turn before the beams had snapped through the middle of her back. She clasped her chest in surprise as the sharp heads of the ribbons broke through the skin. Her body melted into the bay and dispersed.
"One down…" whispered DinoBeemon.
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"Master Flame!" growled the grey Tyrannosaur as the blue flickering flame man leapt from the fire..
"Ice Phantom!" a large blue ghost shot forward grabbing Master Tyranomon. The grey dinosaur roared angrily and broke away from the frosty grip of the phantom.
"Master Flame!" retorted Master Tyranomon flaming the blue man.
"Cold Flame!" A blue fire ball railed into Master Tyranomon's face. The carnivorous digimon snapped at the fire ball and snarled angrily.
"That's it, Blue Meramon!" roared Master Tyranomon. "MASTER FLAME!" a blast of white flame engulfed the man. Suddenly there was a sizzling sound and a black vapor filled the air and dispersed in the wind.
"Let's regroup with Hiroshi!" shouted Isamu as the dinosaur marched past.
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"Black Sabbath!" nightmarish lightning flashed forward and slammed CannonBeemon into a building.
"Nitro Stinger!" CannonBeemon hovered forward. The stinger fired swirling blasts of plasma at the goat. Mephismon slapped the attack away and growled.
"Death Cloud!" a sweeping blackness was filling the air.
"I can't breathe…" hissed CannonBeemon as he started to fall to the ground.
"None can survive the Death Cloud I produce!" The goat beast laughed as he watched CannonBeemon writhe in the murky cloud.
"We're coming!" shouted the voice of DinoBeemon.
"Hold on a little longer!" roared Master Tyranomon.
CannonBeemon could only let out a tortured wheeze.
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AN: Thank you Alforce and Qiviut and no, the older digi-destined's digimon will not gain their Mega levels, except for those that had them before the beginning of the story (Tai, well Matt did but there is some slight canonicity with Diablomon Strikes Back, and Imperialdramon). The digi-core went to the children and actually it had to be sliced up and re-oriented to get the proper amount of power to allow for so much digivolution power.
Alforce: How much have you missed, you may have to go back and re-read hehe, just kidding. I liked the introduction of Valkyrimon too, having written the three new Mega digivolutions, I can say, he's the prettiest…I was originally going to have Ai say Izumi/Zoe's (from Frontier) Italian phrase, but it totally slipped my mind and so I settled for her copying her mother…I really tried to make Valkyrimon really sexy sounding, yes that blush from Ai was a blush of, oh dear I actually think my partner is hot. Just like the Datamon/Vademon relationship…hehe that still makes me giggle when I think about it…
Qiviut: Make more what? Fan fic, Evil Cliffhangers (And why was it so evil, I thought it ended rather evenly), battles? Actually I do have another Fan fic in progress but I suggest you let me finish this one before you read that one, as it kind of spoils the outcome to this one…and Lucemon…oh he really starts toying in the next chapter! Actually the next two….Is it me or does Lucemon have ADD, I was just noticing that, especially in his battle in the last chapter, Chapter 36…I know, it sounds so bad for the author to start noticing new things in their main characters this late in the game, and I make your brain work? I hope you mean you're trying to work out what happens next and not because my writing is so holey that you need to go full press to decipher it….
I can hear it, why so quick on the Cthulhumon corps! Well, Cthulhumon is gone, as is Daemon and most of Damienmon. Damienmon was defeated by Lucemon, remember…most of his energy reverted back to the True Guardian of Darkness, so whatever super, beyond their level powers the Cthulhumon Corps had, has faded, considerably, or at least that's my logic behind it…
The games begin next chapter: Smokescreen