Disclamer III: I do not own Digimon, 6 ABC News, or many things mentioned other then plot and some characters.
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Digimon: Visions
Chapter 9: Three Strokes of a Paint Brush
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"What is the most just thing? To sacrifice"- Pythagoras
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Time and time again it played in her mind like a broken record skipping endlessly. Dozens of crimson spears appearing and piercing Kabukimon straight through. Sakura shivered as she recalled the darker shade of red dripping down them. And she did nothing. She would have let that happen to Faeriemon instead. She was not fit to be here, was she?
"Hey, are you okay?" Sakura was shocked to see Dantes had sat next to her. His concern seemed full hearted enough, despite the problems the two of them had with one another.
"I'm just confused. I've always believed that it was unjust to kill, no matter the circumstance, it caused me to nearly lose Kittenmon, if Sin weren't there, she'd be dead" Sakura held her head to her knees as she spoke.
"The thought of killing as just is a matter of context. Think about Hitler, had the US and allied forces not stepped in, he would have killed thousands of innocents. It's the same with these religious fanatics who are simply attacking us for their beliefs" He sighed into the breath of Zephyrus. "I may be a devout catholic, but I would never just kill like that, it can't be justified, like our own Crusades, most of which were worse debacles than anything since John Kennedy's Bay of Pigs scandal"
"World War II is still an odd topic in our country, like Vietnam with yours, but I get your point. We have to fight, even if it means killing" Sakura still spoke into her knees.
"I can't exactly say it should be our last resort, I lost my temper when Rhinomon attacked and killed innocents, but despite the hypocrisy of my saying it, we really can't just act like death is the only resort, nor can we ignore it as one" Dantes put a hand on her shoulder and smiled, his blue and green eyes providing her some comfort. Sakura finally managed to smile, to her own surprise.
"Thank you, Dantes, I don't know how, but that really helps" She stood and looked to everyone. Even Kilroy was watching to see if she was alright as she stood up.
"Still shaken up, Sakura?" Satorii asked her as he walked over to his friend.
"I'll be alright, I just needed to be able to think about it all for a minute" She said with a smile. Satorii ran over to his friend and embraced her, happy to know she would be alright. Sakura happily embraced her long time friend, though she was surprised that the person who helped her was Dantes. She never expected for the one person she had had a problem with to help her, and he did. This world was full of surprises, and here she thought the only thing she had yet to see was a man eat his own head and God.
"Everyone ready to continue then?" Dantes asked as he looked back to everyone. They all nodded and they continued up the face of the mountain they had been on for almost two days now.
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Aya still felt awkward. She was truly the most useless member right now, since her Digimon was the only one unable to digivolve. She let out a simple sigh as they continued up the cliff. She was growing tired of this, though; being unsure if each turn held another enemy was not the life for her. Nor was the constant prods of Matt.
She never felt so lonely in her life, even though it was the first time she knew she had friends. She pondered the idea of being a soloist like Sin, and helping when she was needed, but she knew that simply leaving the others would not bring her closer to Eden; Sin was the perfect example of that notion, it did not take empathy to tell he was unhappy.
She sighed again as she followed the now completely barren path of rock and dust, the afternoon sun baking the ground and them. It was hot in this world today, and the increasing altitude was thinning the air. "You look hot, Aya" She looked back over her should to see Matt had commented on this.
"Yeah, what of it" Aya knew to keep her defense up around him, and he quickly proved her right to. She simply looked to him with scorn even before he spoke.
Matt realized he wouldn't gain any points, regardless what he said, so he decided to be an ass. "So why not take your shirt off, to loosen up a little" And with that his right cheek began to throb red from a hand print as Aya fumed while looking at him. She wore her disgust for him like a badge of honor. She simply doubled back to walk with the other girls, leaving the boys to deal with the pervert. All three of the boys sighed audibly as they looked to Matt.
"Ya know, Matt, it may not hurt you to not be an ass like that" Dantes said as he looked back to Matt. Matt looked to him with scorn.
"It's not like it's my fault. I had only meant that she looked hot, she took it wrong, so I gave her reason to have a problem with me, the bitch" The half-Asian, half-Caucasian boy scoffed to Dantes, holding his nose high and acting as if it were all Aya's fault.
"Though you're right she doesn't have to be so defensive, it's not like you haven't given her plenty of reason to be on edge, especially with someone like you who has a libido the size of Russia" Kilroy commented as he put his laptop in his back pack.
"The hell does that mean?" Matt asked with authority, looking like he was about to hit Kilroy for having to use complex euphemism for everything.
"He means you're too horny, which gives all four of them reason to hate you" Satorii said to Matt's dismay. The kid was always trying to cut him up for one thing or another, he was worse then Kilroy.
"Fuck you, all of you. Just because I appreciate the female body physically don't mean I'm evil, besides, some girls like that" He tried to defend himself.
"Well if you haven't noticed, Aya doesn't, I know Sakura doesn't, and I'm pretty sure Savaria and Mitsuko don't, besides, those girls have typically lost all self respect, and none of them have" Satorii bit back with a vengeance.
"Shut up, Statutory, you're thirteen, you still probably think girls have cooties still!" Matt shouted as he continue to fight with the three other boys.
"Don't call him that, Ikaru-cunt" Kilroy stooped to Matt's level to get his point across, since speaking intelligibly was obviously only getting him angrier.
"That's it you bastard!" Matt was about to pounce on Kilroy, but Dracomon and Fernirmon held him back and forced him to allow them to continue up the mountain with out a fight. The other three boys sighed as they looked to Matt who was all but swinging his fists as Fernirmon and Dracomon restrained him.
"That ass-hole!" Aya was now back with the other girls as she looked like she was about to jump out of her skin and attack Matt.
"Pay him no mind, Aya, he's just a jack ass who wants attention" Sakura said with her usual intellect. She put a hand on Aya's should to console her, though Aya still looked only upset.
"You're not so upset about Matt, are you Aya? What's really wrong?" Savaria looked to her with concern, hoping that she could be of some help. Aya sighed as she looked to the girl; she knew that she could not hide her true feelings from Savaria.
"I'm just wondering about Hexamon digivolving. I mean, will she become more like Faeriemon or Shedimon?" Aya sighed, she thought it was meaningless to worry about it, but she did anyway.
"I'm sure Hexamon won't be as horrific as Shedimon" Mitsuko said, trying to console her friend. Hexamon slumped within Aya's arms, she tried not to show it, but it made the Digimon feel bad.
"But no one will be as glamorous as me" Kittenmon held her head high while resting on Sakura head. Hexamon and even Nekamon and Ridomon all stuck their tongues out at the kitty. Kittenmon did the same back, and all of the girls chuckled.
"But anyway, I know she won't be like Shedimon , but I just worry if I'll be okay with her changing, I mean, I like Hexamon as she is, I'm not so sure I want her to change" Aya clung to the rabbit.
"Awe... Thanks Aya" Hexamon pretended to rub a tear from her eye, which upset Aya, causing the girl to hold the Digimon tightly, squeezing her.
"Hexamon, do you have any idea what you digivolve to?" Nekamon asked slyly, knowing the Digimon could not answer.
"You damn well know I don't, we all have multiple possibilities, LadyDevimon" Hexamon shouted back. The girls had no idea what she meant, but Savaria had to grab Nekamon so she did not attack Hexamon, so they figured it was a pretty bad insult at Nekamon's expense.
"What do you mean, multiple digivolutions?" Mitsuko looked to Hexamon curiously.
"She means that the path we digivolve is only one possible one, we can even digivolve another way if it is forced" Ridomon began to tell the girls "One notable story is of a Greymon forced to digivolve becoming the dark SkullGreymon, or when it is willing to become MetalGreymon"
"So than there's a level after Champion?" Sakura looked curious to find out about this. Kilroy had doubled back and had his laptop open, to Mitsuko's dismay, who yelled at him quite loudly.
"The levels I know of are Baby, In-Training, Rookie, Champion and Ultimate" Agumon said knowingly. He had come back with his partner, who was still getting yelled at by Mitsuko.
"Is Rookie the stable level for most of you?" Kilroy asked as he keyed this all into his computer, taking notes on the Digimon, complete with lists of the known forms and who owned them and their attacks, as well as the enemies they had faced.
"Except for Nekamon, yes, we're all rookie" Kittenmon said fluttering over to Kilroy's shoulder to look to the computer screen. The small Digimon seemed utterly fascinated by the device as letters and numbers seemed to magically appear. "Wow! That's amazing! What is it, Sakura?" Kittenmon hopped from Kilroy's shoulder to the keyboard, making letters and numbers appear on screen.
"It's a computer" Sakura picked Kittenmon up from the keyboard and apologized to Kilroy as he continued to indulge himself in typing.
"You're telling me you can instantly turn into another creature, and a computer is fascinating to you?" Mitsuko, like every other human there looked perplexed and amazed as to how data did not know what held data.
"You're making me feel stupid" Kittenmon pouted with large eyes as she looked to he humans, jumping onto Sakura's head.
"Don't worry about them, Kittenmon" Sakura said to her Digimon as she took her off of her head and held her in her arms.
Aya sighed and looked over to the others with a smile across her face. These were friends, she guessed. They weren't terribly tight, nor did they know each other very well, but they were the closest thing she had to people she would dare call friends.
She still felt alone, though. She felt alone regardless what happened between them, and she figured that she always would. She looked to the group and held in a sigh. Hexamon and Savaria showed concern, but they were still focused on Kittenmon's intellect.
he looked to the skies as they walked on, the majestic blue had been usurped by black and gray. It looked like the sky was about to break and cut and bleed onto the Earth, sacrificing itself to create new life. That was life, from death doth it come, and with out the death of one, you do not get another. Life was just an endless cycle of birth and death, vying off of each other for energy to cause their own effect, be it breathing life into an embryo, or sucking death from the elderly.
This is why Aya had become jaded to the cycle of life, it was all the same thing. Birth, Life, Death, Birth, Life Death. Constant cycle of singularity, the world of infinity. To be born, to live, to die, to be born again and be reincarnated only to die yet again in the ceaseless turmoil they walked the thin line between every day, with only one black, one white and a single shade of gray. Life in three brush stokes.
Finally, Hexamon looked to her partner with worriment in her face. "Is something wrong, Aya?" It asked her, hoping that she was alright, even though she knew that she was devastatingly wrong. This was another stroke, empathy, an cornucopia of color, it was broad and across all emotions with the ability to interpret everyone of them.
"Hexamon, would it be okay with you, if we walk away for awhile tonight after we make camp? I need to collect my thoughts" Aya held the bunny close to her as she rubbed the Digimon's soft ear while holding it with one hand.
"I guess, I mean, if you think it will help you instead of talking to Savaria or Sakura or Mitsuko alright, as long as you don't do anything self destructive" Hexamon had to make sure she was not giving her partner a time to hurt herself.
"Don't worry, Hexamon, I won't, and if I do, you can go get one of the other girls" She told her Digimon before realizing they had lagged behind.
"Were you planning on joining us, Miss Lisavkin" Matt asked with an unusually warm smile and disposition, especially for him. He waited for her, and here she thought he hated her, to give him reason to why he seemed to always hit on her.
"Erm... Sorry, a girl thing" She tried to excuse her absent mindedness as she ran toward him. Why had he stayed and not Savaira, Sakura or Mitsuko? It struck her as odd, but she didn't feel like arguing today, she wasn't in a good enough mood.
"Ah, your period" Step one, insert foot in mouth. Step two, smack. Yes, Matt got himself smacked again for his continuing chauvinistic comments. Aya hated that about him, always he had to be an idiot and reference something like that. Maybe it was just his way, but Aya wasn't as tolerant as some of the others, she took plenty off offence to his continuing onslaught of womanizing comments directed toward her, and she would have her revenge.
Matt waved his hands, noticing she had become red in the face with anger. "I was joking, not harm intended, seriously, relax" He was getting sick of getting smacked every hour on the hour, same bat minute, same bat second.
"If you want me to relax, then just go away from me, Matt Ikaru!" She shouted angrily to him, running up the mountain in her frustration with him.
Everyone looked to her as she ran past without hesitation. They all had worried expressions, even Fernirmon did; only Ultimon remained emotionless.
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Dantes looked to the height of the mountain, wondering how long it would be until she ran out of room to run. It would not be long; they were nearing the summit, and what ever awaited them at the top of the mountain. "You really can be an ass hole, Ikaru. You asked to stay behind to apologize to her, and you make her run off. You're fucking brilliant" Nonchalance oozed from Dantes voice as he spoke, inciting the anger and the malice of Matt.
"I did apologize to her, but I also..." He sighed as he paused, knowing full well that the next thing he would say was what he did wrong, "asked about her period"
"You don't ask a girl about that! That's tactless, Matt, I mean, come on, don't you have any sisters, or even your mother?" Mitsuko asked, looking to him like he was retarded.
"Yes, but I know when they have there's. I mark it on my calendar, every twenty-eight days" Matt said as if it were a normal practice, but to him, it was just a way of knowing when to leave them alone, more then anything different.
"Do you drag your knuckles when you walk?" Satorii asked smugly.
"Satorii, that was uncalled for, Matt just doesn't know how to be nice to a woman" Those words from Sakura pierced him more then anything anyone else had said since they got here, and he ran; Dracomon following behind him, he ran. To be told something that cold hurt unlike anything he could have thought of ever saying or hearing or thinking; it may have been unintentional, he did not know, but it stung.
Dantes made a grab for Matt to no luck. They had lost two of their comrades now, sexism was obviously going to be a problem here. This was why he preferred to do things to Savaria with night's protective veil, when he could play with her while she soundly slept, blissfully unaware of what he was doing. He loved the night in the Digital World.
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Aya gasped for air as she finally stopped running, holding her soft pail hands to her knees as she still held a grudge toward Matt. How could someone be that tactless? Did he have no respect for women at all to have those perverse of views on women? Was she obsessing over it? She did not care, he was an ass, regardless what the reason may be.
"I take it you'll be taking that alone time earlier then planned?" Hexamon dripped sarcasm as she asked her partner about her earlier plans. The jester walked about the ground as Aya regained her composure.
"I guess, this isn't how I planned it though, I didn't want to make a scene, I'm not some bitch who has to be the center of attention, but Matt's pissing me off" She sighed as she picked her Digimon back up and walked along the spiraling mountain path towards the summit.
"Well, put it this way, now we get to find out what's up there before the other do" Again with the sarcasm. Aya thought that Hexamon should be a comedian, but she just scowled instead of vocalizing her disdain.
"Not if I have a say in it" A lunatic voice boomed from in front of them as Aya loked ahead to see a kangaroo with a bright blue head, and boxing gloves. This was a hell of an odd creature, but Aya could tell that it wasn't here to do anything but fight her rascally rabbit.
"Let me guess, you're called something inventive, like..." Aya intentionally hesitated, holding Hexamon with one hand and tapping her chin with the other "Kangaroomon"
"WHO TOLD YOU?" The Digimon looked frantic as it bounced in circles at hearing Aya say it's name. "Was it Kabukimon or Allomon? They were always jealous because Purgatomon favored my style of torture over there's"
"I took a blind guess. What the hell is wrong with you?" Aya was taken aback by the insanity of this creature as Hexamon looked to it with utter confusion.
"I'll just be killing you now, that's all, just for some fun before I find your friends, then I'll really have fun" Kangaroomon's eyes flashed malice beneath a visor which covered them. "Hop Step Jump!" Before Hexamon could do anything to react, Kangaroomon was upon it and kicked it back, though Matt broke it's fall.
"Why are you here?" Aya shouted seeing Matt getting up off of the ground with Hexamon firmly planted on his stomach.
"Talk later, fight now" Matt said looking to Kangaroomon and taking his digivice off of his belt. It and Dracomon began to glow, but Kangaroomon punched the device from his hand.
"There'll be none of that from you" Kangaroomon balanced on his tail and tried to kick Matt, but he met the kick with one of his own, returning the blow. The two began to engage in combat, Matt using what looked to Aya like martial arts, and Kangaroomon using a style all it's own.
Matt tried to block blows but Kangaroomon was too sporadic and managed to gain an easy advantage as it attacked Matt. The boy jumped back, huffing from only a short time of combat. This enemy was too insane, he could not hold his own, and with out his digivice to call upon Draconismon, he knew that Dracomon would not be able to either.
"Hexamon, help him!" Aya shouted as he digivice began to glow on her belt and Hexamon did as well.
"Hexamon digivolve to... Sorceressmon" The creature called out as it began to change, growing and loosing much of what made it a rabbit. The ears remained, and it stayed similar to a rabbit, only gaining some features the like of a human. Wearing a long red dress, the humanoid rabbit looked to the insane Kangaroomon.
"Oh lovely!" Kangaroomon shouted, hopping as it looked to Sorceressmon. The final champion in their roster looked unenthused as it stared to it's enemy.
"Shall I?" A deep female voice emanated from Sorceressmon as she looked back to Aya.
"Please do, I can't stand his inane drabble any longer" Aya green lighted Sorceressmon to fight, and as Kangaroomon ran at her, she called out "Dark Arts" and tossed a ball of magic toward Kangaroomon, fazing the Digimon, though not defeating it.
Kangaroomon quickly recovered and jumped at Sorceressmon with renewed malice, trying to attack the Digimon, though it only got another blast from the Dark Arts attack. Kangaroomon quickly recovered and yelled out "Jumping Jab" as it leaped and rammed into Sorceressmon, cutting through an attack in the process. Sorceressmon quickly recovered and leaped back, using her rabbit feet to jump over Kangaroomon, throwing a barrage of attacks at the Digimon, one hitting it down the middle and speeding through the Digimon, killing it.
"Thank you, Sorceressmon, I don't know if I could have stood that any longer" Aya thanked her digimon as she walked back over to her partner.
"It's no problem. It was fun" The fact it was still Hexamon under the façade of a larger, more human rabbit became apparent as Aya looked to her. Aya was happy to see that her Digimon finally digivolved, and that she was not horrific.
"Aya, I'm sorry, for being an ass-hole to you" Matt said to her with genuine apology. The others finally walked onto the scene, before Aya could comment.
"Are you two okay?" Savaria ran over to them and asked, hoping her friends were okay. It was then that they all noticed Sorceressmon, who simply smiled and waved a paw to them.
"That was the little sarcastic thing?" Nekamon pointed with a claw to the creature, amazed that it came from Hexamon. This was more astounding then the change from Kittenmon to Faeriemon.
"Humph. You just don't appreciate, so you have to hate" Hexamon dedigivolved, jokingly holding anger towards Nekamon.
They continued up the mountain, a few more meters, and they came upon a large building with Hotel marked across it's face. Savaria looked like she did not want to go in, but the doors to the building swung open to them anyway, and they entered into the unknown.
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Sin too came upon the building, watching them enter from a chimney, unnoticed as he looked to the setting sun. He just down the smoke stack, holding his blade above him, followed closely by Dismon.
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In the real world, the local news began on 6 ABC, a white haired man announcing that 9 teens were missing, and that the police department's top suspect was one "Sin" Toriyama, a boy who was convicted for the murder of his parents seven years ago that week.
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Matt's Theme I:
Trapt- Head Strong
Circling
your, circling your, circling your head,
Contemplating everything
you ever said
Now I see the truth, I got doubt
A different
motive in your eyes and now I'm out
See you later
I see your
fantasy, You want to make it a reality paved in gold
See inside,
Inside of our heads (yeah)
Well now that's over
I see your
motives inside, decisions to hide
Chorus:
Back
off I'll take you on
Headstrong to take on anyone
I know that
you are wrong
Headstrong we're Headstrong
Back off I'll
take you on
Headstrong to take on anyone
I know that you are
wrong and this is not where you belong
I can't give everything
away
I won't give everything away
Verse
2:
Conclusions manifest, your first impressions got to be
your very best
I see you're full of $#!T, and that's
alright
That's how you play, I guess you'll get through every
night
Well now that's over
I see your fantasy, you want to
make it a reality paved in gold
See inside, inside of our heads
(yeah) Well now that's over
I see your motives inside, decisions
to hide
Chorus
Verse 3:
I know, I
know all about x3
I know, I know all about your motives
inside, and your decision to hide
Chorus
