Digimon: Visions

Chapter 6: The Tension

"What is good?- All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power and the power itself in man.

What is bad?- All that proceeds from weakness.

What is happiness?- The feeling that power increases-that a resistance is over come"

-Friedrich Nietzsche

He puffed cigarette smoke as he thought about the recent events. That girl had the power of healing physical wounds. The gaping gashes covering his arms remained, though, and Sin did not mind. He deserved it. The pain and regret looking at them wrought, he deserved it for his sins.

Again he neglected to learn her name, but he did save her again. And he was pleased with himself for that, unlike every other step he'd made in his whole damn life. "To be damned would be a sweet release", he had told fellow inmates, alluding to killing himself. He was yet to, though. His drive to was undeniable, but he had yet act upon it.

What ever poison was in the bottle he sipped, he knew would leave him broken sore and sick, but he wanted the genie at the bottom. Alcohol's effect, the ability to give him temporary happiness. He looked to the crow that circled the afternoon sun.

A sigh into the amber brew and he laid back, placing his hand upon hiss forehead, he continued to this of her. Her ebony hair and earth colored eyes. Alabaster skin and a body as if sculpted beyond the image of Aphrodite, as if she could usurp Shekinah as Yahweh's other on beauty alone, as if she was of Mary Magdalene's blood line. The rose without thorns.

"Where will we go from here?" Mitsuko looked to her new friends, noticing how distraught Savaria was. Something was wrong, she knew it, but after everything that just happened, she'd let it be... for now.

"Not like we were going anywhere, let's just scale the mountain and see if we see anything. If we stay here Leomon or Ogremon may attack" Dantes looked up the tall peak, stroking Ultimon's back as he always did, the dog-like creature looking up as well.

"That or something else might attack, you forget, most of this world is hostile, not many of these creatures are going to welcome us with open arms. Hell, Leomon and Ogremon were on opposing sides, and they still fought us" Aya scoffed, her hand forcing her lavender hair into the winds as Hexamon rest on her opposite shoulder.

"Damn, could you be a little less fucking negative, woman" Matt yelled, his legs dangling off the side of the mountain as Dracomon rest next to him.

Mitsuko sighed as she looked to them, this was getting too common, the fighting and the tension. They'd only been here a day or so, and they were already at each other's throats. The only ones who did not fight were Satorii, Sakura and Savaria, though Satorii had flipped out when Leomon took Sakura. This world was doomed. She looked over Kilroy's shoulder as he vigorously punched the keys on his laptop, a digital map of this area taking shape.

Everyone continued to bicker, the Digimon even joining, Dracomon and Hexamon butting heads. Only thing that could make this better would be if Sin were there, so Dantes and him could try to push each other off of the damn mountain.

Mitsuko sat next to the English boy and looked out, wondering if they were going to make a move or if fighting amongst themselves was more fun. She surveyed this world. This was what their world must have been like before it became so over populated. There was a simple beauty to this world, she knew that, but it seemed like so much more as she looked out from this place.

Kilroy was being boring, he'd become to immersed in his work, so Mitsuko stood, putting her hands behind her head, cupping her red bun. She began to walk over to Savaria and Sakura, considering prodding her friend about what happened when they went into the cave to save Sakura, but then she heard Dantes yell that they were going to continue up the mountain.

With another sigh, she followed, looking to the world beneath them off of the side of the mountain. Ridomon and Kilroy walked beside her, Kilroy with his laptop out still. He was trying to help them and all, but he was still boring when he did it, he just typed away, forsaking human contact as if it were something bad and dirty. God did he piss her off. She walked over to Savaria and decided she would talk to he while they walked, since Kilroy was "busy", Matt was a pervert, Dantes was an ass-hole and Aya tended to be a bit of a bitch.

"So..." Mitsuko smirked and looked over to the American girl. "...have you made a decision on our earlier conversation about Sin?" She began her prodding covertly, so that Dantes didn't get angry, though the simple mention of the boy made his eye brow twitch.

"Mitsuko, what is your obsession with no if I do or not?" Savaria shook her head as the sun rays soaked into her dark hair. Mtisuko couldn't help but giggle at the response as she put an arm around Savaria's shoulder warmly.

"I just want to learn more about my friends, is that so wrong that you must persecute me for it?!" Mitsuko acted like she was weeping, hoping to guilt Savaria into confiding the answers to her. She hated being left out of the loop like this.

"Get off of the cross, I'll tell you when we rest again" Savaria smirked as she sighed, looking happily to her friend. Ah, fun with martyrdom.

"That's not fair, you've probably told Sakura! You're mean." Mitsuko yelled to her friend, both of them smiling as she did. Satorii and Matt both looked back to them, wondering what the hell was going on, but they relinquished no answers, as that would ruin their feminine mystery.

"Women are insane, kid, remember that" Matt sighed as he looked ahead again, hearing the girls yell some more.

"Stop filling the boy's head with your misogynistic views, you sexist pig" Aya walked up next to him, seeming like she was going to raise her hand and smack him. Her rage subsided as she simply sighed, hoping that Satorii didn't listen to a word Matt said.

"What? Women are insane. It wasn't a man who's charged with original sin, or a man who caused the ten plagues, or a man who got Jesus crucified" Matt said, trying to sound intelligent, though the gaping jaws of those around him told him something was wrong.

"First of all, a man did cause original Sin, Adam ate the apple first, second Moses and Pharaoh are why the ten plagues happened, and third, have you even read the bible, Judas had Jesus killed!" Satorii yelled at Matt, again showing that he knew more then the older boy, sighing after it.

"Eve was CHARGED with original sin, if that dumb bitch of a mom Moses had didn't put him down the river the plagues wouldn't have happened and if Jesus hadn't been sleepin' with that prostitute chick, Mary Magdalene, then Judas wouldn't have lost faith in him" Matt said, again trying to sound intelligent, though he only got a smack from Aya for it. And for the first time today, Kilroy began to yell at him.

"Though Eve is blamed with the sin, Adam caused it, and Moses' mom was looking out for him, and Judas would have thought it blasphemous if Jesus had no wife as a pious Jew, not to mention the fact that no where in the bible does it say Mary Magdalene was a prostitute, and in Gnostic scriptures, she was depicted as the person second to Jesus, and in some circles, like the Priory of Sion which Da Vinci and many other great minds were members of, she married him and mothered, his blood line, some believe they continued to today" Kilroy yelled, looking up from his laptop to yell at Matt. This seemed to fluster Dantes, who stopped and spun around to look at Kilroy.

"First off, the Church says she was a whore, and the Holy Spirit inspired the Church, second, da Vinci was a fag so he may have just wanted justification, third Jesus never had children. Also, you're a scientist, so why the hell do you give a fuck anyway!" Dantes barked, joining the argument, a chain with a crucifix flashing from within his shirt.

"Catholics. You're all so literal, I mean, come on" Sakura sighed, joining the debate. "Do you really think that everything the church says is right? The bible wasn't even faxed by God, humans wrote it."

"Don't debunk my religion when you don't even have your own, for what I can tell. Just because I'm able to find comfort in the belief that if I atone for my sins, Jesus' benevolence will grant me into providence, doesn't mean you have to be jealous since you're just sad and sorry in your world where no one can use religion for comfort" Dantes rebuked.

Sakura couldn't believe this, she looked like she was about to smack him, despite her typical acceptance of people, even if they were rude or mean. "I pity you, ya know that, you live in your world of illusions where you have this supreme benevolence who will solve all your problems if you submit to him, like some masochist, and keep a world where He will save you, though thinking that everyone else, regardless their ideals, is wrong and will burn in hell for their sins"

"And you'll be Satan's wench, since you obviously have absolutely no beliefs" He scoffed, attacking her in every possible way.

"ENOUGH, ALL OF YOU! We aren't here to bicker about the religion of our world, we're here to liberate people who are being oppressed for their beliefs" Savaria yelled at the lot of them, sick of hearing them bicker about things they may never agree on. But before the arguing fully stopped, Sakura got a very well placed smack across Dantes' face for his comments.

Where was her place in this group, Mitsuko wondered. She wasn't the voice of reason like Savaria, or the mother like Sakura, she wasn't really sure what she brought to the group. A bit of a tomboy and not always rational, she wasn't even like Matt who was a bit of a sexist asshole, but also comic relief. Not a leader in any respect, or enigmatic really, she felt alone.

"Something wrong?" Savaria broke her deep concentration, sienna hues gazing to her. She knew Savaria could tell something was up, so she didn't even try to hide it, so she waited for the others to be a bit ahead, though Sakura was still pretty near, obviously fuming over what Dantes had the audacity and lack of tact to say.

"I'm just so unsure... Where do I belong here? I'm not smart and I don't have any skills like Matt even does. I'm not even able to provide reason, like you or Aya are" Mitsuko sighed. "I know it's silly, you can disregard it all"

"You have a purpose Mitsuko, I'm sure of it" Savaria began. "I'm certain we are all here for a purpose, you, me, Matt, Kilroy, Dantes even Sin. You'll find yours I'm certain, give it some time, though"

"You're being very optimistic, you know." Mitsuko sighed looking the dirt path beneath her feet as they continued to walk on.

"Would you three hurry the hell up?" They heard Dantes yell ahead of them.

Mitsuko couldn't stand it right now. Dantes was being an ass-hole, Kilroy was being silent, and the solace she sought in Savaria was not realistic. She ran. She ran from the constant yells of them all. All these past to days were had been a tossing and at times frightening sojourn into the abyss of the unknown. She knew ahead was nothing but more of the same, but she still had to run, an inexplicable force drove her to, just to get away, if only for a little while.

"Mitsuko! Wait for me!" Ridomon flew over the humans and fellow digimon after her partner, wanting to know what was wrong with the girl.

"Should we run after her?" Dantes looked back to the others with a faux concern. He knew damn well the should, but he also knew damn well their were more important matters then the trivialities of some little girl probably on her period.

"She just needs some time to collect herself, I think that this is all a bit much for her, when we talked she was more then just a little shaken up" Savaria spoke. Dantes looked up and down her voluptuous body as she did, though be covert enough to not be like Ikaru and get himself smacked by her or Lisavkin.

"She might need us to comfort her though" The little boy who thought he was as smart as one of the older ones spoke, Dantes all but ignored his words, still disrobing Savaria through dual colored eyes.

Dantes just ignored the others as they began to debate whether to follow Mitsuko amongst themselves, simply watching Savaria as she moves, as he had been. He thought back to the night before. Glorious triumph as he groped her whilst she slept, slipping his hand beneath her shirt and her bra, light enough to make it so she would not know. He was disappointed, though, that he had not gotten to put his hand beneath her pants. Tonight was another chance, though, he could always try again. He wouldn't exactly mind smelling that ebony hair as she slept again.

He knew he had one road block, though. Sin. He held a key to her heart, he damn well could tell. But he had other methods then simple romantics to coerce her into his embrace. He knew before the end of this, he would get his chance to do Sin in, to kill the miserable wretch of a human being. Their history was longer then even Sin could know, he knew that, and eventually Sin would know why his hatred ran so thick for the boy, outside of his lust for Savaria.

Dantes looked to his side and of course there stood Ultimon, man's best friend. The Digimon would prove to be a valuable asset, and he knew how to use it. Him and the dog were quite framiliar, and he and him would serve a great partnership. He smiled as he looked to the creature, then he looked to the others.

"Have we arrived at our decision?" He asked calmly as the debating quelled to a halt.

"We'll follow her" Sakura said. But it was already to late, she need their help now.

"Holy Ground" Mitsuko read a sign post before continuing on, though she simply ignored it. Maybe it would be of the Church of Tabernamon, and she would get a chance to rest. With Ridomon at her sighed she walked on to the Holy Ground with a chill up her spine.

"We shouldn't be here Mitsuko, let's turn back and find the others" Ridomon implored her partner, though her pleas fell upon deaf ear.

"We'll be fine, Ridomon, besides, I need to get away from everyone for a little bit, I need to think to myself for the first time in fourteen years" Mitsuko smiled to her Digimon, cherry red lips forming a smile to the creature.

Ridomon wasn't comforted, but the dragon followed her partner anyway. Mitsuko cupped her bun with her hand as she rested her head upon the ball of hair. Where was she going and where would the path lead? She had none of the answers, she just knew they were out their somewhere, just not here.

"You're trespassing" A voice spoke from above as a metallic dragon jumped down, causing a crater in the ground as it did. Branded with a cross design of Sheolmon, it looked to Mitsuko, eyes flashing as it did. It advanced upon her, though Ridomon jumped between them.

"Maildramon, get away!" Ridomon shouted to the creature as it's bell rang, firing a Bell Blast at the larger digimon.

Maildramon was unfazed though, continuing it's advance. It simply called out Iron Press, jumping up and thrusting it's body on Ridomon, crushing the rookie under it. Mitsuko looked in horror as she grabbed her teal digivice from her handbag. These things had worked for Sin, Dantes, Kilroy and Satorii, and she need it to work for her.

Maildramon shifted it's weight over Ridomon's lunges, causing audible popping sounds of the dragon's ribs. Mitsuko shouted for her Digimon as the creature began to cough blood through clenched teeth. But then, Ridomon began to glow.

"Ridomon digivolve to... Shinjumon!" The Digimon grew into a black Chinese-style dragon with bright red eyes and bars of pale yellow digicode across it's body. The creature easily forced Maildramon off of it, as the knightly dragon looked to it's new foe. Mitsuko could have sworn she saw a smile though it's metal beak.

Maildramon flew into the sky and thrust towards Shinjumon, though it was by the press of a tail, knocking it into the cliff side. Maildramon easily recovered, sending a lightning javelin attack at Shinjumon, as the black dragon called in pain of the attack. The creature recovered, though, calling out "Digitosse" and sending a wave of energy at it's foe, hitting it into the ledge.

Maildramon flew up quickly, as it recovered, getting above Shinjumon and then using Iron Press again, driving the champion Digimon into the ground. Shinjumon slipped out and called out it's attack again, the wave of energy destroying the creature's wings, making it unable to fly. Even so, Maildramon called out Lightning Javelin, hitting Shinjumon a number of times in rapid succession. Recovered from the barrage of attacks, Shinjumon wrapped it's tail around it's adversary's neck, and then threw it off of the cliff in desperation from the assault.

The others had arrived to see the final moments of the attack, from the assault of Maildramon, to Shinjumon's toss. No one knew if Maildramon survived, but Shinjumon dedigivolved to Ridomon, collapsing next to Mitsuko. The girl with auburn hair wrapped her arms around Ridomon, hugging it, upset she made it fight like that.

"From now on, we stay with the others, please," Ridomon asked her partner, cracking a smile as she did.

Another one had digivolved. Purgatomon through his hand into the orb he watched them on in frustration. He needed a plan to trap them, to catch them off guard. The bishop paced in his church as he contemplated what to do. He had not expected Leomon or Maildramon to fail so easily. They were strong, but he knew they had a weakness. They did not trust each other and they would be vulnerable if they were alone in this world, Ridomon revealed that.

"If I divide them, they may be easier. I'll only have to worry about the ones called Sin, Savaria and Kilroy, but I know how to handle them" The creature smirked as it spoke to itself, stroking it's chin with a fur covered hand. He had his plan, and he knew how to execute. Just another day was all he would need to orchestrate it.

"Allomon, Kabukimon, Kangaroomon" He called upon three creatures adorned in robes as he used his powers to recreate his seer stone he had destroyed in frustration.

"Yes, father?" They all crossed themselves as if in front of a catholic priest.

"My children, I am going to need you three to go after those that the Church of Tabernamon called upon, they must be eliminated. But you must not go all at once, I need you to at least buy me time, they must not reach the top of Ararat yet. I need you to do this for the sake of the church" The leopard Digimon implored the three in front of him, blessing them with holy water as he did.

"I shall destroy them, you won't need anything else" Allomon confidently boasted.

"Don't think so hastily, brother, I shall prove you wrong" The female Kabukimon said to him, looking coarsely. Kangaroomon remained silent in meditation though.

"Alright then, please, children, defeat them" Purgatomon plead one last time before he finally dismissed them to go to make preparations. And he had his own preparations to make, incase they managed to defeat these three.

Kilroy's Theme I:

Linkin Park- Faint

I am a little bit of loneliness a little bit of disregard
Handful of complaints but I can't help the fact that everyone can see
these scars
I am what I want you to want what I want you to feel
But it's like no matter what I do, I can't convince you, to just believe
this is real
So I let go, watching you, turn your back like you always do
Face away and pretend that I'm not
But I'll be here 'cause you're all that I got

Chorus
(I can't feel the way I did before)
(Don't turn your back on me)
(I won't be ignored)
(Time won't take this damage anymore)
(Don't turn your back on me)
(I won't be ignored)

I am a little bit insecure a little unconfident
Cause you don't understand I do what I can but sometimes I don't make
sense
I am what you never wanna say but I've never had a doubt
It's like no matter what I do I can't convince you for once just to hear
me out
So I let go watching you turn your back like you always do
Face away and pretend that I'm not
But I'll be here 'cause you're all that I've got

Chorus
(I can't feel the way I did before)
(Don't turn your back on me)
(I won't be ignored)
(Time won't take this damage anymore)
(Don't turn your back on me)
(I won't be ignored)

(No)
(Hear me out now)
(You're gonna listen to me, like it or not)
(Right now)
(Hear me out now)
(You're gonna listen to me, like it or not)
(Right now)

(I can't feel the way I did before)
(Don't turn your back on me)
(I won't be ignored)

Chorus
(I can't feel the way I did before)
(Don't turn your back on me)
(I won't be ignored)
(Time won't take this damage anymore)
(Don't turn your back on me)
(I won't be ignored)

I can't feel
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored
Time won't heal
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored