Disclaimer again: I don't own digimon, the quotes at the begining or the lyrics at the end, the plot, some digimon, Sin and Dantes are mine, Savaria and Nekamon have their own owner, as do all of the other character and their digimon other than Sin, Dantes and their Digimon.
Digimon: Visions
Chapter 5: Thus Spoke
"The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world"-Albert Camus
Four of the Digimon could become champions. Agumon became Greymon, Ultimon became Shedimon, Dismon became Virgilmon, and Nekamon was always Champion. Sakura looked to her Kittenmon, wondering if these creatures were simply for destruction, or if they were ultimately good. It felt odd to be wondering if these creatures were, since the jury was still out on the morality of humans.
She believed that her beliefs were "right", of course, she was human, but Sakura wondered often what was right. Maybe it was existentialistic, and humans had no built capacity either way, just that they were taught right or wrong. It's not like she believed that Jesus saved.
She'd read the Bible, but it contradicted itself, plus as far as she could see, why did God make people suffer? Why did God let innocent people die in Iraq, or why did He let her father go around drunk, passing out in some gutter?
Then she looked to Satorii, asleep with Fernirmon next to him and sighed beneath her breath. His parents worked all the time. She took on a somewhat maternal role for him, and though she loved him like a brother, she felt horrible she had to. He remained innocent, though. She envied him, in a sense, that he could be the subject of neglect for his parent to their research. He got plenty of attention when he saw them though, so she understood, she thought.
These new friends, though, were an interesting lot in her opinion. Mitsuko was tomboyish and probably the most open of them all. Aya was assertive and had a bit of an attitude to her, but Matt's misogynistic and much more hyper attitude counter-balanced that. Kilroy was so damn analytical and conservative compared to her, she admired his means, but he had such a dour attitude most of the time. Savaria and Dantes were much more introvert then the others, both a bit enigmatic, but she knew atleast Savaria was trust worthy, Dantes, he was too ruthless. Then there was that boy, Sin, they'd only ever seen him once, and he was so cut throat, he scared her.
The Digimon they were given all seemed nice atleast. Kittenmon, Nekamon and Hexamon were clingy and cuddly. Ridomon and Dracomon were both Dragons, and Agumon wasn't too shy of it. Fernirmon was dour and stolid, worse then Kilroy, and then Ultimon, she honestly was unsure Ultimon could even talk. Sin had a crow, Dismon, a frightening little bird, it had no showing face, just a beak and a body.
Sakura ran a hand through her ebony hair. It was early and everything was tranquil for the first time in this world. She stood up and silently walked into the brush, admiring this world. Her Earth was no longer like this. Japan was so urban, and she had never gotten to see much of America; just Las Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia, and they were all cities. She'd longed for this splendor for this majesty.
"Are all of your kind this stupid?" A fur covered hand was around her arm, and Sakura looked back to see a large lion-like creature. "Bait" Sakura was now missing.
"SAKURA! SAKURA!" Satorii shouted as he desperately ran around the area, Fernirmon and Kittenmon close behind him. He knew she would not leave like this, or for this long with out telling anyone, and he panicked, worried that she might have been hurt.
"Satorii, calm down, we'll find her!" Fernirmon had finally caught up to him and grabbed him tightly, despite the frail boy's struggles. The others had all followed him as well, catching up now that Fernirmon had caught him.
"Satorii, I'm worried to, she's the first friend I've made here, but running headstrong into this won't find her" Mitsuko said sympathetically, looking to the fair haired boy.
"How will we go about this though? Should Kittenomon, Ridomon and Dracomon fly up? Or would that be too noticeable?" Dantes looked through the leaves of the autumn colored trees and saw two serpentine creatures flying in the skies.
"We should probably avoid being seen so obviously, if they are of the order of Sheolmon, or if this creature that captured Sakura is, then it would be ill advised to fly, we should probably do something else to follow" Nekamon said calmly from Savaria's side. The small cat Digimon seemed overly calm, like it did not care to the extent that the others did.
"I can track it, if that's what yous need" Matt shrugged, bending to the ground, and analyzing the things around them. He also took the opportunity for his own purposes, being persistent.
"So, you have a use" Aya scoffed to the boy. Matt looked to her not amused as he examined the ground.
"This is hers, isn't it?" Matt picked up a digivice, pale blue and white, they all recognized it as Sakura's. "Something with golden-red hair got her, and it had big feet" He sited an impression in the ground, and a tuft of fur caught in the nearby brush.
"Seems to be bipedal" Kilroy examined the foot print with his computer.
"Yes, Einstein, the two prints and lack of noticeable front paws tells you that, you fucking genius" Matt said, he thought it was noticeable, but he saw how Kilroy would have seen it important, he still wanted to make something of it.
They began to follow Matt, who checked their surroundings often. It weighed heavy on Savaria's mind that her friend was captured. Sakura had been the nicest person since they arrived, she didn't deserve this. She looked to Satorii and consolingly put a hand on his shoulder, looking to him, knowing he felt sad. She couldn't truly empathize, she knew that, but she hoped through those words unspoken, he knew what she meant.
Matt let out an audible sigh as he looked through the trees to what they would be going to. From the desert, to a town, to a forest and now mountains. Fucking great. He thought as he cursed under his breath. This world had the worst God to design it like this.
"Looks like we're climbing, the trail doesn't fork off" He sighed through clenched teeth. Disdainfully, they all began to climb the mountain.
"LEOMON!" They heard a shout from close by. They had found a trail higher on the mountain and ran following it, trying to read that call. Leomon, Leo the lion, the golden-red hair, Satorii's eyes perked open as he thought about it.
"Ogremon, don't interfere!" They arrived at an alcove to see an anthropomorphic lion in pants holding out a sword to a green creature with a gaping mouth and white hair, which held a club near it's own head.
"Leomon, I don't care about you're goddamn religion, I'm just here to settle our score! Do with the humans what you will, but at the end of the day I will kill you!" Ogremon swung it's club violently as it yelled to Leomon.
"You'll need to wait, he took my friend!" Satorii shouted as Fernirmon jumped towards Leomon. Malice shined in the eyes of the young boy for the Digimon. The other Digimon wanted to help, but Fernirmon told them to stay back, since their was not enough room.
"Damned humans got here faster than I thought..." Leomon looked to the pouncing Fernirmon. "Fist of the Beast King!" He shouted as an orange blast of Leomon's head flew at the wolf Digimon, hitting to the ground.
"Stay out of this, human, it's our fight!" Ogremon shouted to Satorii and Fernirmon, wanting this to be his fight.
"Will I suffice?" Virgilmon appeared before Ogremon, long black wings spread far, it flapped them as it stayed in one place in the sky away from the ledge. The Digimon looked to Ogremon, awaiting an answer.
Fernirmon had already gotten up and engaged the taller Leomon, crossing gauntlet and sword as he tried to combat the lion. In everyway Leomon defeated Fernirmon, driving him into the face of the mountain. Satorii watched intently, hoping that he could save his friend, hoping that he could defeat Leomon.
"Fernirmon, please digivolve, we must save Sakura!" He shouted to his Digimon, holding the green and silver digivice out to Fernirmon. The electronic device began to glow, as did Fernirmon, blinding Leomon as the creature began to change.
"Fernirmon digivolve to... Celestiamon!" The digimon grew, becoming more muscular with pure white armor, a crescent moon on it's chest. On the new gauntlets were what looked like outline tear drops, and the Digimon looked to Leomon, cracking it's neck in the armor, ready to fight Leomon.
Leomon ran towards Celestiamon, the two Digimon meeting, Celestiamon hitting the lion's sword from his hands and locking hands with it, holding the Digimon off, nodding to the others to move on as Virgilmon held off Ogremon, using telekinetic ability to hold the creature from attacking Leomon or the humans.
"Your friend is in a cave" Sin appeared as the turned the next bend, leaning up against the rock wall, holding the hilt of his sword as the two serpentine dragons flew at them. "Have your Digimon who can fly stay here and the rest of you save her" He unsheathed his sword as Dracomon and Ridomon stood by his sides.
"Why should we trust you" Dantes accused Sin of being treacherous again, his trench coat flowing in the gust of the Airdramon,
"Then have someone stay behind, are you so pig-headed that you can't see that you idiot" The boy yelled as an Airdramon flew at him, Dracomon calling out "Spit Fire" as a fire ball was sent at the creature. Sin slashed it's head as he engaged it.
"I'll stay, Dantes, you all go" Savaria said to the blonde boy, telling her Digimon to go with him. Begrudgingly, Dantes nodded as him and the others ran up the mountain to the alcove Leomon protected.
Leomon kicked Celestiamon with it's powerful legs, denting it's armor as the wolf Digimon abandoned it's grapple, punching the lion. Leomon jumped back and grabbed it's sword to slash Celestiamon, who caught the sword, the blade digging into a division in it's armor, crimson blood staining the pristine white.
"Fist of the Beast King" Leomon shouted, the blast flying at Celestiamon.
"Eclipse Barrage" Celestiamon spread it's arms and amassed energy between them, forming blue balls of energy like Fernirmon's Luna Beam. He thrust his paw forward and a blast flew out at Leomon, buffeting the Digimon through it's own blast. Leomon quickly got up with cat-like quickness hurling it's self towards Celestiamon, as the wolf struck it into the mountain side
The lion jumped off of face of the mountain and at Satorii's Digimon before he impacted the wall, knocking Celestiamon down and punching him repeatedly, denting the immaculate armor. Celestiamon kicked Leomon off of it and began to exchange blow after punishing blow.
Elsewhere Ogremon called out "Pummel Whack" as the bone club smacked the masked demon into the trail. Virgilmon quickly recovered and spun around, whacking Ogremon with it's tail and then kicking the creature. Ogremon jumped on top of Virgilmon and tried to strike it, only to be met with a telekinetic blast, which hurled it into the face of the mountain.
Ogremon recovered and threw its club at Virgilmon, and though Virgilmon stopped that, he had divided it's focus and kicked the Digimon down. The two continued to attack one another as Virgilmon looked to make sure that Sin and the rookies were fairing well against the Airdramon and that Satorii and Celestiamon were handling Leomon.
Ogremon thought nothing of this as a distraction as he continued his fierce blows as Virgilmon began to only defend, using no true attacks as he was instructed.
The blood of the Airdramon covered Sin's blade as he sliced the wing off one, and Bell Blast from Ridomon took off the other. Like a general to his army, Sin called order to the Digimon as they methodically took out the first of the two Airdramon.
The second flew at Savaria who was watching as she told Dantes she would, but Sin quickly got between them, getting the blast of an Aero Blast attack from Airdramon, the orb cutting into his skin. He gasped for air as he leaned upon his blade, making sure Savaria was safe.
"You're hurt!" Savaria yelled to Sin through the confusion, holding his by the shoulders.
"I'll live" He tried to stand, but the wound was too much to bare.
"I can heal you, stay put for a second" She focused, holding her hands , a white aura surrounding her body as she transferred energy to him, healing his internal wounds, knowing that he would not bruise now. Sin kissed her hand in respect as he walked to the ledge and watched as the fight continued. He didn't see Savaria blush bright red, her beautiful brown eyes looking to her hand.
Ridomon and Dracomon looked to the cave to make sure that their partners were in, and luckily they had already gotten deep into the cave, both Digimon relieved to see that they had gotten deep into the cave. They continued to assault the second Airdramon with Spit Fire and Bell Blast, enduring the cuttings of Aero Blast. They looked to make sure Sin was breathing, trying to take the digimon out before anyone was badly hurt.
Dantes, Mitsuko, Kilroy, Matt and Aya ran deep into the cave with Agumon, Ultimon, Nekamon, Kittenmon and Hexamon, hearing the blasts and calls of attacks outside they scoured the area for Sakura. Deep within the damp cave, they tried to find her. Matt checked the ground for signs of direction in the labyrinthine chambers of the mountain side. It seemed like a hollowed volcano.
Deep within they found a bound and unconscious Sakura and Nekamon cut the bindings with her claws. Dantes picked her up as the ran through the cave, to try to return to the others. Just as they neared the exit, Celestiamon and Leomon came flying through the wall of the cave, still fighting.
They watched as Leomon lifted a stalagmite and threw it at the wolf. Celestiamon tightened it's muscles as it let the rock formation crumble upon it's chest plate. Agumon and the other looked ready to fight, but all knew that they had no place in this fight.
"Run out, now!" Celestiamon shouted to it's comrades as it prepared another Eclipse Barrage. They quickly followed orders as the blast hit Leomon, shaking the cave, trapping the lion with in, as Celestiamon quickly ran outside of the cave. Fatigued, the Digimon dedigivoled.
Virgilmon stopped biding it's self as it looked to a fatigued Ogremon and used it's telekinetic ability to throw it down the mountain, though the blow would not be enough to kill it. He could feel, though, that Ogremon would serve a purpose later on, and he should not kill it.
The Digimon flew over to the Airdramon battle as Sin jumped from Ridomon's back onto the serpent marked with a symbol of Sheolmon on it's head and stabbed the creature. Virgilmon swooped over, Sin jumping to the Digimon and the two flying off as the boy sheathed his sword. Ridomon and Dracomon flew over to Savaria and collapsed as their partners ran out to them.
Sakura awoke to see Kittenmon and Satorii looking over her. "You're alive!" the boy yelled as he hugged his friend. She brushed his hair with her hand, smiling to him as Kittenmon joined in. Everyone looked happy, even Aya, but Dantes was the exception. She noticed Dantes and Ultimon looking angrily out to the sky.
"What happened?" Sakura asked her friends, knowing only that the anthropomorphic lion had captured her.
"Fernirmon digivolved to Celestiamon, and fought Leomon, who captured you. Virgilmon fought a digimon named Ogremon to distract him, and Ridomon, Dracomon and Sin fought these two serpent dragons sent by the order of Sheolmon" Mitsuko explained in one breath.
"Airdramon was what those creature were called" Kilroy looked up from his laptop to Mitsuko. She stucked her tongue out at him, not wanting to be corrected.
"So Sin was here again?" Sakura asked, though she knew it wasn't the smartest question ever. Savaria noticeably perked up from being lost in thought at the mention of him.
"Yeah, he told us where you were and helped fight, but he killed the Airdramon" Aya said before smacking Matt again, who had gotten to close behind her. 'STOP THAT YOU PERVERT!" She yelled to him.
"Stop what!" He yelled, "We're on a mountain trail, where do you want me to go! Not exactly much room with all of us and the Digimon!" He got smacked on the other cheek, though he knew full well what he was doing. Everyone let out a collective sigh, watching the duo bicker some more.
Savaria walked away from the others, not that far away, but she needed to think for a second. Twice Sin risked his life for hers, and she knew nothing about him. He scared her and intrigued her, a powerful fighter and an enigma at the same instance. Who was he, really? She wondered as she looked to her hand.
None of the other boys showed her that kind of respect, even the girls hadn't. She pondered the question, holding her hand to her chest as she looked out to the noon sky. The silhouettes of three moons shown in the clear day's sky. Savaria looked to them as she continued to wonder about Sin's motive, as well as Dantes's. Sin and Dantes were the two people who she could not tell to any extent what they were thinking, both were so unclear.
"Who are you, Sin?" She murmured under his breath as Sakura walked up to her.
"What happened in that battle?" Sakura asked her friend, looking to her empathetically. Savaria sighed as she confided in her Sin saving her and her healing him, and then his kiss upon her hand. She sighed again, knowing that it was just like a grade school crush, knowing that she knew so little about him, and yet she had developed a crush on him. "Do you think you like him, truly?" Sakura sat upon the ledge of the cliff, petting Kittenmon in her lap, and Nekamon next to her and Savaria.
"I don't know, but please, don't tell anyone about this, it's just so personal" Savaria implored the girl and the Digimon alike. They all knew how well is would go over. Satorii ran over, asking them what was wrong, and why they both had left them.
Savaria's Theme I:
"Imaginary" by Evanescence
I linger in the doorway
Of alarm clock screaming
Monsters calling my name
Let me stay
Where the wind will whisper to me
Where the raindrops
As they're falling tell a story
In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullaby
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me
Don't say I'm out of touch
With this rampant chaos- your reality
I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge
The nightmare I built my own world to escape
In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullaby
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me
Swallowed up in the sound of my screaming
Cannot cease for the fear of silent nights
Oh how I long for the deep sleep dreaming
The goddess of imaginary light
