Authors Note- Shorter with a decline in quality! Blame School

Digimon: Visions

Chapter 3: Civil

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." -Voltaire

"Damn it!" Sin's arm began to bleed crimson tears as he fumbled a small switch blade. He often wondered if she was doing anything right. He was supposed to be going to school anymore, or else he'd be sent under someone's care, but he wasn't able, working to try to live. He was not an idiot, though, not brutish and not like most of the people sent to juvenile hall, but alas, he knew he deserved what cruel fate he must endure.

"Master Sin" The crow-like Dismon looked to the Asian boy with an aura of concern; though his face and voice were not discriminate, "I must implore you not to do that"

"Why, Dismon? We've only just meant a few hours ago, please, allow me to continue this, I'm sure you would not understand" His dark eyes were tightly shut as another cut deepened into his skin. But then he paused as one salty liquid fell into the pool of red. His thoughts had drifted from his cause. He was not masochistic either, this hurt and he did not relish it, it was purely pain. But regardless of his reason, he could not cease his thoughts of her.

Why? Why must she plague my thoughts, I just met her not long ago. He thought in his frustration as fiddled with the blade until he enclosed it upon itself.

Elsewhere, Savaria continued to look to the ground. So many thoughts raced about her head. But most of all she worried. She worried about Sin. She worried about her aunt and uncle. She worried about what was next. She had looked into the cold pale eyes of death itself in the face of Dokugumon, and like a guardian angel, Sin swooped down and saved her. "Angel" was obviously a figurative term; she knew that, to many he was a demon himself.

"You sure you're alright?" Nekamon looked to her partner, those large doe eyes of the cat creature fixed on the girl.

"Nekamon, don't worry about me, it's nothing" She forced a smile through her cherry lips as she looked down.

A highly audible sigh came from her left and Sakura smirked as she looked to her new friend. "You like Sin" A rather blunt remark, but she had made sure Dantes was enough out of ear shot that she could say it without inciting his rage.'

"What!" Savaria's face matched her lips as her jaw dropped and she looked to the girl next to her. "I just met him! How the hell can I like him already?"

"He isn't half bad looking, and he saved your life" Aya said. "Plus, if it were me, I wouldn't have gotten between him and Dantes"

"That isn't circumstantial! I don't like him like that! I don't even know if I like him, he barely spoke to us, Chris has spoken more!" Savaria attempted to defend herself from her friends, keeping to the claim she didn't like Sin.

Mitsuko put her head over Savaria's shoulder, looking to the four boys in front of them. "Put it this way, Kilroy likes me, Ikaru likes Aya, Satorii's thirteen and likes Sakura, and Dantes is an ego maniac, out of our little group, and then we have Sin, who is gallant, good looking, just not exactly on our side, which ever side that is, that we know of"

"Satorii doesn't like me, he's like my brother" Sakura looked angrily blurted out. Satorii simply looked to the ground, hearing this; though only Savaria noticed.

"You're making this too simple, Mitsuko. I don't like him, how can I like someone I just met? I don't get crushes like that" Savaria continued to argue.

"You're taking this too seriously, Save. I'm just joking with you; if it's any consolation, I'll make Kilroy write algorithms for a food you like once we find a camp" Mitsuko's tone changed to a nicer one. They now knew that she liked him, but they'd all be silent about it.

"I'm already working on fish and chips for tonight" Kilroy was just somehow back with them now. Mitsuko looked like she saw a ghost, he wasn't there a minute ago, how did he do that?

"Where did you come from?" Mitsuko looked to him like he had five or so heads.

"In front of you. I stopped when I heard my name" The British boy looked down to his Alienware laptop as he spoke; typing in algorithms with his digivice hooked into it.

"Hey, you guys, come look at this" Dantes shouted back to the others from the front of the group. He looked back to them, smirking coyly as he watched Savaria. Then with an outstretched arm he revealed what he had found; a city. A city of digimon.

Everyone gasped as the looked down to the sprawling city streets. Digimon walked through what looked to any extent of the imagination to be a fairly modern city. They saw housing, hotels, restaurants, shops and at the center of it all, a church.

They were cautious, but did find a way down the cliff that they saw the city from. At Dantes's lead, they walked in, doors and windows slamming shut as they did. They could tell that they were not welcome here. "We don't need humans around here, go back to your own goddamn world" A group of small yellow armadillos hit them all with what seemed like rotten fruit.

The digimon scoffed at their brethren; though before any did anything, Savaria grabbed Nekamon by the shoulder and shook her head implying they should not attack. More digimon joined the others in bombarding the humans in trash and fecal matter. It was humiliating and depressing. Everyone looked down, Sakura looked like she was about to cry.

The group finally found shelter in an empty run down shack. It was painfully obvious that this was an area under the jurisdiction of the Order of Sheolmon. "We'll leave at night. I'm sorry I got you into this, everyone" Dantes sadly apologized, trying to clean himself off.

"Why didn't you let me do anything?!" Nekamon shouted coarsely to Savaria. All of the digimon seemed upset that they had to just let this happen.

Savaria had her head on her knees as she cried. "Because we were grossly out numbered. The only one of all of you we know can digivolve is Dismon, and Sin's not here, and Nekamon, though you're a champion, I don't want to see you hurt" She sobbed into her legs, ignoring the disgusting garbage covering the majority of her body.

Kilroy focused on cleaning off his computer as he also brushed the disgusting matter off of Mitsuko who had leaned on him. He had begun a new file, this time trying to make a shower. Though he did not show it, they all knew that he, like everyone, was very upset over the matter. Like Nekamon, and like Dantes, he felt helpless to help with the relentless hatred they all just felt.

For the first time; he set his laptop down and got up. He walked through the house, finding a few rooms, and a few beds. It seemed like a house in their world, only run down. The light shown through the broken ceiling like salvation.

Frustrated, he pounded a wall. Why were they chosen what was their purpose here. They weren't able to help themselves, let alone save this whole world. "Are you all right?" Agumon put a hand on his partner's side.

"Yeah, I'm just confused. I've never been without an answer, I'm a logician, but now, I am confused out of my mind. What the fuck is happening in this world? Why are we saving a world that doesn't want to be fucking saved!" Passion burned like fire in his eyes as the usually calm boy looked to his digimon.

Then from the shadows, like a ghost, stepped the boy named of irony, Sin. "So, you're just going to give up? To fall down and cry for a religion? Some logician you are. Novus Ordo Seclorum. Galileo believed in those words, and so have many others like you. Don't become the current Order beat you like this" Like a ghost, he vanished as quickly as he appeared.

Chris knew he was right. He was a logician, he didn't have room for these archaic concepts. He knew what Sin meant with those three simple Latin words. Everyone who had ever seen the back of an American one dollar bill had seen them. He balled a fist with renewed vigor as he walked down to the others.

Dantes looked to Kilroy accusingly as he removed the last large piece of garbage off of his person. He could feel it in his bones, someone or something else had entered the shack. He had to prove himself before him. Ultimon began to bark as they heard something outside. Dantes stood, signaling to the other that he would check it out. With Ultimon at his side, he inched out the door to see a large golden rhinoceros before them.

"Clear out, human" The creature said quite simply. It was obvious that the bottom of the barrel was after them; first a giant spider, and now a rhino with gold plating.

Dantes scoffed at the creature as Ultimon ran at it, opening it's jowls and preparing an Ultima Blast, but Rhinomon charged the dog, knocking it into Dantes, and the both of them into the shack.

"Damn you!" Dantes yelled, as they got up, Ultimon firing a number of small blasts from it mouth. The armored digimon simply shook it off and charged at Ultimon, it's horn beginning to glow.

"Spirit Blade!" The creature shouted as a large white energy wave hit Ultimon hard, causing the dog's blood to cover it's master.

"DIGIVOLVE ULTIMON!" He shouted as the crimson tears fell into his mouth and as the creature fell to the cold hard earth. Ultimon stood on it's four legs, quaking under it's own weight and began to glow.

"Ultimon digivolve to.... Shedimon" Fires surrounded the demonic dog as it's form changed into a larger creature, with fur the color that stained the earth and it's master, and gnashing white teeth, accented by it's black jowls. Looking like hell had overcome the creature, the second Champion appeared, even less pleasant then the last.

Rhinomon gasped as the other Saviors looked to this new creature in horror, all of them wondering if this was the fate of all of their digimon, to become something vile. Savaria clung to Nekamon as she looked in awe at this creature that stole the night's black for it's aura. Mitsuko held tight to the shirt of Kilroy as she dabbed her eyes, hoping, praying that Ridomon would be nothing like this terror. And the boy on the roof clenched his teeth with his hand on ruffling the feathers of his creature.

"Slash" Simple yet pungent, the creature ran towards Rhinomon, and tore through it with the ivory claws it wielded.

"Atomic Burst!" In a futile attempt to vanquish it's foe, the golden plated creature began to glow and ran at Shedimon, though it was only met by another attack.

"Corruption of Innocence" A blast was sent from the creatures, mouth, decimating Rhinomon and a few city streets in it's wake, until it ultimately shook the Church of Sheolmon to the ground. Dantes smiling in wake of ash and dust.

The others simply looked in shock. Had this been the same person who told Sin off for killing Dokugumon? Surely he had not forsaken himself in only a few hours. "Now you won't get to fuck with us" Dantes snarled as his digimon returned to it's rookie form.

Savaria finally stepped you, wiping her reddened eyes with her hand. "How could you?" She wept, looking to the decimation.

"How could I? HOW COULD I!? How could they! We're here to save, they wanted to kill us, to break us, to watch us die. I won't let THEM kill me!" A new aura shown to Dantes, as fires seemed to surround him and Savaria.

"They're aloud to do as they will! We cannot force people to do anything!" She wept, her tears falling to the ground.

The others tried to reach them but it seemed as if an impassable barrier separated them from the two facing in each other, Ultimon in the stance as if it's about to attack yet again. Kilroy pounded on the inexistent force in frustration.

"Can we really blame him?" Aya took devil's advocate on the situation, Hexamon hanging off of her as she looked towards Dantes.

"The hell do you mean?" Mitsuko shouted angrily to Aya.

"He feels responsible for getting us into this. He found this town, and then we attacked when we got here, he feels bad; wouldn't you?" Matt said with unusual intellect. Everyone looked stunned.

"That still doesn't excuse such ruthlessness; they're fucking living beings" Satorii shouted as Fernirmon held his shoulder tightly.

"Calm down, all of you" Kilroy had collected himself, the English boy just staring into the flames.

Everything stood still. The flames no longer licked the sky, the ash and dust no longer blew. There was only them. Dismon had seemed to stop dead even. The world swirled around them though. Everything flew about. Love. Hate. Envy. Life. Death. Deliverance. Redemption. Fallen. Everything. She fell to her knees and began to cry, find a bit of an Armadillomon that had been ripped off by Shedimon's blast.

"Did you want me let them kill us?" He snarled.

"But why kill them so ruthlessly? Why smile at the flames, why any of this, I just want to go home, it's too much" She pounded ground as she hiccupped whilst she cried.

"Forgive me. Do you want me allow us to be killed?" He questioned "This was my fault, not yours, I have to redeem myself, I can't just let us be killed for something I cause. I found town, I wouldn't be able to stand it if anything happened to anyone other than me for my indiscretions. If I could choose then this wouldn't have happened, but I can't. The needs of the many out way the needs of the few, and those that died were the few, I'm thinking about the big picture; I'm thinking about saving this world. This world needs a savior"

"So you'll force them to take it?" She shouted, looking up for once.

"I will insure that they get it. Jesus had that foresight, He decided to guilt people into being saved"

"I just don't want people to die..."

"Then you would be an idealist, and idealists are always to wrapped up in the moral implications to get anything done"

"But it's still not right to sacrifice people"

"But I'm willing to be sacrificed if it's needed to help. I know I may seem like I'm being crude and brutal, but I'm just trying to save everyone in this world" He attempted to comfort her.

"I still don't want to see anyone die"

"I don't either. I only intended to get rid of Rhinomon, but then the power was so much, he decimated more then I meant for him to"

The world had begun to move again, and Savaria noticed that she was being carried, with in the arms of Dantes. Was she just dreaming that conversation? She knew that something had happened. She knew that Shedimon had killed Rhinomon and some innocents, but then she had blacked out, after pounding the ground.

She looked around her, everyone was silently walking. Kilroy seemed the most stolid of them all, everyone with a dour expression though. Could Dantes be trusted? She didn't know, but what choice did they have right now?

Her eyes scoured the surroundings, hoping to see Sin watching them but there was nothing. She simply lay in Dantes's arms, as they continued on to a new camp.