Digimon: Visions
Chapter 13: Wolf
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"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sakura awoke to see Fernirmon looking off a cliff. She wondered what he was looking at, but made no action to do anything or talk to him. She was in pain from the fall still. She could tell that she felt it more then Fernirmon, but she also knew he would never show his pain.
"One of you is finally awake" Fernirmon said in its typical monotone. He then looked over to her and extended his hand, pulling her up.
"What happened? Did that new Virgilmon defeat Purgatomon?" She warily stood on her feet and looked to the Digimon.
"No, Purgatomon transported us from the first circle of the Digital World to the second and was too much for Virgilmon, even a Digimon as strong as Virgilmon would stand no chance against Purgatomon" The Digimon helped her to stand. She looked over to Satorii and Kittenmon. Both of them were laying still, though noticeably breathing. She worried if they would be okay.
"What did you mean by 'Circle'?" She asked, looking curiously to the Digimon.
"The Digital World is divided into nine circles, the deeper you get, the larger it is, and the Order of Sheolmon's power increases the further down you go, or so I've heard" The wolf looked out at the water, the light reflecting brilliantly off of it.
"So this is the second, and Nekamon had said that she found a portal to our world in the Ninth circle" Sakura slowly sat on the cliff, making sure it was safe before she did. She was one to be somewhat cautious, unlike Mitsuko or Aya.
"Nekamon lied. I have heard there is a portal to your world on the fourth, and that it basically will be as if the two worlds collided if you pass through it, with your world acting as the fifth and possibly sixth circle" The Digimon continued to confuse her, despite speaking rather plainly.
"So that means our world is an extension of the Digital World, instead of vice-versa?" She looked up to him, blocking the sun from her eyes with one hand.
"No, what it means is that the portal makes it seems so, not necessarily true, not necessarily false" Sakura still did not understand.
"How do you know all of this?" She asked him while brushing her hand through her long black hair.
"I am well traveled" She did not like the answer, but she would not pry. Maybe she should not trust him, even though she well knew that she had to, especially since he was Satorii's partner.
"What do you think we should do after Satorii and Kittenmon stir?" Sakura asked Fernirmon, looking back to them as she did.
"The most important thing is to find the other saviors. We should find them and then find and defeat Purgatomon" Fernirmon said, looking deep into the sea.
"I don't want to fight, Fernirmon, I'm not a savior, I'm a conscientious objector" She pulled her knees to her chest as the wind began to pick up.
"Don't be a coward, this world is depending on you, please, we need you to save us" Fernirmon actually showed emotion in its dull eyes.
"I don't want to be depended on, I'm a human, I can't do anything, I'm not special in anyway, I'm just another useless forgotten child" She looked to the green blades of grass, dropping her hands to the ground.
"That's not true, Kittenmon needs you as her partner, and your practically a mother to Satorii, you don't give yourself enough credit" Fernirmon retorted as he put a hand upon her shoulder. Sakura could not help but feel awkward, something seemed wrong about this.
Satorii had awoken through it all, walking over to them and saw them conversing. "What happened, where is everyone?" The boy asked, looking to the two of them, as well as around the area. No one was there, just him, Sakura, Fernirmon and Kittenmon.
"We don't know" Sakura got up and put her arm around him sympathetically, looking to him with her maternal gaze. "How are you feeling, Satorii?" She held him close to her as Fernirmon looked on, watching closely as they did this, though also attentive to their surroundings.
Satorii looked to Sakura affectionately "I'm all right, just a little shaken up, that thing that Virgilmon fought was a bit horrific" Satorii looked to the sharp blades a grass beneath his Addidas sneakers. "Fernirmon, Sakura, when will this all be over and we can go home?" He rested his head upon Sakura's arm, making sure he did not touch her chest.
"Soon, I hope" These words exited Sakura's lips and seemed to incite anger in Fernirmon. She knew why, he wanted them to help save their world, but she still did not think she could do it. She held her head to Satorii's, still trying give him some solace.
"Our world needs you, please, do not wish to leave us so soon" This was one of those rare times where Fernirmon made perfect sense. Sakura admired that quality in the anthropomorphic creature, he was able to be so duty bound, she only ever devoted herself to helping Satorii, and that was not enough to her.
"Sin, Kilroy, Matt and Dantes can do that" Satorii spoke. This upset Sakura, not anything to do with the notion of any fighting, but that he only mentioned men. She had tried to teach Satorii to treat men and women as equals, but that did not show right now, but she would not make anything of it.
"But what of the rest of us, we Digimon want to fight to defend our beliefs. Unlike your Jesus, there is evidence of our religious figures, look no further then yourselves" The Digimon put its furred paw onto Sakura's shoulder, looking down to the two humans as it towered over them.
"Fernirmon, we are not fighters though, what do you expect us to do?" Sakura retorted, leaving Satorii and his partner and looking down to the beach at the bottom a cliff, the water reflecting in her eyes as salt water hit the dry land of her cheek.
"We need you, to help us Digivolve" Kittenmon had woken up and her cream-colored fur rubbed against her partners cheek as the secretion from the girl's eyes hit her cheek instead.
"How do we help with that?" Satorii asked, looking to his Digimon.
"I'm not fully sure, I believe that only humans can wield the Digivice, which holds in it the catalyst for us to enhance our power, also I believe that it is connected to human mind, look at the Digivolution of Ultimon to Shedimon, that was directly connected to Dantes, and now that is the path he doth take" This was all theory, and the Digimon knew little if any made sense, but he continued with his speech.
Sakura disliked this theory. She did not want to see any sort of repeat of that horrific change. She looked to the two Digimon that were with them, wondering if her or Satorii's anger could change them like that. She wondered if either Digimon had the capacity for evil; she did not trust Fernirmon like she did Kittenmon, but she knew he was plenty good.
She walked over to the cliff and sighed, sitting and letting her feet dangle off of the edge. She wondered where they should go from here, but they were wandering aimlessly no matter what. She took out her Digivice, leaning her head upon the device. Why had she been chosen, and why had Satorii been? She did not think that this selection process made any sense. Three of them were Japanese and living in Japan, one was British, one had only recently moved back to the States, and the other four all were living in the U.S..
"Wait, Fernirmon, I know where we are!" Kittenmon shouted as she looked above the nearby tropical forest, flying down to the others.
"So then where are we?" The wolf asked her, folding his arms over his chest as he did.
"There is a temple near by; it's where I was selected to be one of the Saviors' Digimon. I think that it may have something in it" The Digimon flew over to the human, circling around Sakura's head. As she did, a long white tentacle tore up to them and grabbed Sakura's leg.
Before she began to fall, Fernirmon quickly hurried over and grabbed her, stopping the tentacle from taking her. "You have a bad habit of being captured" For the first time; Sakura heard Fernirmon joke. He tried to pull her up but fissures began to form in the ground beneath them. Satorii pulled Fernirmon in an attempt to get him up, but slowly the ground gave way under the pressure.
Sakura's Digivice began to glow from in her pocket. "Kittenmon Digivolve to . . . Faeriemon!" The form of the Digimon changed, and the woman appeared again. She fired upon the tentacle, trying to stop it from taking them down.
"Faeriemon, fire at the source, I'll get the saviors out of danger and then I'll come down to help!" Fernirmon shouted to the other Digimon, still struggling to save Sakura.
"Right!" Faeriemon prepared an arrow and let it fly toward the Digimon. Blood spurt from the waters and a large white squid appeared. "Gessomon! It must be feeding time" Faeriemon began to fire a flurry of more and more arrows, trying to get it off of Sakura.
"I'll rip its arm off!" Fernirmon shouted as Satorii's Digivice began to glow. "Fernirmon Digivolve to... Celestiamon" The Digimon became larger and grabbed the tentacle below where it had Sakura, managing to rip it off of Gessomon's body as black blood dripped from the tentacle.
"Celestiamon, fire an Eclipse Barrage into my Multi Arrow!" Faeriemon shouted as she fired a stream of arrows at the creature. Celestiamon quickly did as she had asked, and used Eclipse Barrage on multi arrow and drove it into Gessommon, killing the squid.
Faeriemon heaved a heavy sigh, looked up to them and smiled. "Seems like that is over, let's go to the temple" She flew back up, and she and Celestiamon reverted to their rookie forms, but as Sakura and Fernirmon began to walk off, the step of his paw broke a fissure, and it began to fall through.
"Sakura!" The wolf twisted back and grabbed her wrist saving her again. As he pulled her up, he spoke again. "That's three times now. I am keeping a tally"
"That will probably get longer by the end of this sojourn" Sakura looked to Fernirmon. Kittenmon and Satorii looked to them with blank stares, obviously missing something here. They all simply continued into the forest at Kittenmon's leed.
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They finally arrived through the brush to see a temple. It had been devastated by ware, obviously due to attacks from the order of Sheolmon. Kittenmon rubbed her fur along the steps, familiar with the surroundings obviously.
"Something is kept here, I remember, I just don't remember what" Kittenmon said as it entered the temple. Fernirmon simply sighed audibly and looked to her.
"That helps, what if it's something that could be useful" Fernirmon said to the cat creature.
"It's information; that I know" Kittenmon jumped onto Fernirmon's head and laid there.
"So then we look for anything that may be some sort of information, like scrolls or encoding on the walls" Satorii said, looking to Kittenmon on his partner's head.
"Right then, let's see, Kittenmon, did this place have a library?" Sakura asked her partner as she took her off of Fernirmon's head, coddling the creature in her arms.
"Yes, but it was too important it was kept hidden, incase something like this happened" Kittenmon's voice tailed as it looked around at the wreckage of its former stomping grounds. Sakura held her near, feeling bad for the Digimon; it was apparent that Fernirmon was right, and they had lost a lot.
"Let's try and find that information" Satorii broke the silence as he began to walk through dusty pews, looking in Bibles for loose pages. They all began to search corners of the chapel. Sakura began to search statues and Kittenmon behind paintings, but Fernirmon seemed to be looking around, as if it would just pop up.
Sakura continued to examine the statue, but then she realized what it was a statue of. It was no mere statue of some other creature they had not seen, but it was far too familiar. It was Savaria. Just like the picture in the hotel, it was Savaria. She gasped and stepped back, nearly falling into a pew as she did, azure hues transfixed on the statue. It was her, but it was not, something was different about the statue and even the painting.
"Fernirmon, Kittenmon," She shouted. "Who is this a statue of?" They walked over to see what she was yelling about as her finger was pointed at the statue, with her hand covering her mouth, and her eyes wider then her jaw. They examined the statue, but it was Satorii who saw who it was.
"Savaria!" He said, touching the statue.
"How is it possible? What is she?" Sakura and Kittenmon looked to one another, keeping quiet to their promise to Savaria as they heard these words from Fernirmon's lips.
"We'll have to wait and see, but until we know more, we should keep quiet about this" Satorii spoke as he noticed something in her hand. He took it from her grip, and it was a scroll with Digicode on it.
Kittenmon sat on Satorii's shoulder and began to read. "Find the crest to attain a new level, saviors, but first find the tags, in the central temple of the second circle. There you shall find the way to the Third Circle, and the crests, your tags shall find you them" She read from the scroll.
"A new level? Ultimate? Like Purgatomon?" Satorii said, still holding the scroll.
"I'd assume, that is the next level of Digivolution" Fernirmon said as he looked to the statue again, continuing to examine it.
"We should got to try to find the others, maybe these things will help us somehow" Sakura looked to her Digivice as she wondered if she could somehow use it to find her friends.
"Try pressing the buttons, instead of abusing it" Fernirmon critiqued Sakura's method of trying to find out what it was. She did, and a few red dots appeared on a holographic map of the circle. She examined it.
"Let's get tracking" Kittenmon said as they headed out of the temple. They all took one last look around, still wondering what the statue was there for, and how Savaria was connected to this world. It was all so much to take in as Satorii pocketed the scroll.
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As they walked out, looking back into the temple one last time, Satorii turned to see down the barrel of what looked like a canon, falling back to the others. "What in the?" He stammered as grabbed onto Sakura and Fernirmon
"Centarumon, why are you here?" Fernirmon asked as he looked to the half horse mutant in front of them which pointed its gun like arm at them.
"Aren't you on our side, Centarumon, don't your people still have an agreement with the Church of Tabernamon?" Kittenmon asked, but the mutant centaur did not answer.
The centaur finally spoke in a deep monotone, it's single eye staring coarsely to them. "Give me the scroll" It commanded them, charging a shot with in the canon of its arm as it looked to them through a cloud of malice.
"Who orders you, Centarumon?" Fernirmon entered a fighting stance, looking to the Digimon. Sakura and Satorii looked in horror as the Digimon had their stand off.
"Give me the God Damned scroll" Centarumon spoke again, sounding agitated. They were unwavering In not even considering giving him the scroll.
"Are you fallen, Centarumon?" Kittenmon had Digivolved into Faeriemon through the commotion, looking angrily to Centarumon through her large green eyes.
"I have not fallen, I have risen" He fired at Faeriemon, but a new digivolved Celestiamon knocked the blast away and looked enraged toward Centarumon. The two humans looked to the fighting Digimon with their hearts filled with concern for the creatures.
"Centarumon, don't make me kill you" Celestiamon threatened as he looked toward the centaur. The wolf simply waited for my to react, wondering if he would have to kill the Digimon he once called friend.
"Celestiamon, Faeriemon, both of you knew me in your rookie forms, join me, don't fight against me, Purgatomon has told me that we will be saved if we convert, and that the end is upon us" Centarumon tried to coax them to his side "Kill these children, and I'm sure all of your sins shall be absolved"
Faeriemon and Celestiamon both looked to the humans. Celestiamon only laid his eyes on Sakura, and was already enraged. He jumped Centarumon and pinned him to the ground. "Please, Centarumon, reconsider, don't make me kill you!" He shouted, putting his hands around the mutated creatures neck.
"You'll have to kill me, but Sheolmon shall grant me into heaven, so all your effort to hurt me will be for naught" Something was weird about Centarumon, he seemed insane, and as if he wanted to die.
"I'm sorry, Centarumon Iscariot" Both Digimon dedigivolved as they looked away from Centarumon's corpse. Fernirmon looked to his hands in his personal hatred. He knew he had to do it, though the humans had not seen what he was capable of, he knew had he not done that, they would have stood little chance unless they put so much effort into it. Fernirmon felt like chopping off his hands though.
They followed the signal on Satorii's Digivice, with him leading. Kittenmon rested on his shoulder, and Celestiamon was in the back of the group, with Sakura looking to him. She leaned on his arm, her hair and soft skin brushing on his fur. "I'm sure you did what you had to"
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"Brena" A Perfect Circle
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My reflection
Wraps and pulls me under
healing waters to be
Bathed in Brena
Guides me
Safely in
Worlds I've never been to
Heal me
Heal me
My dear Brena
So vulnerable
But it's alright
Heal me Heal me
My dear Brena
Show me lonely and
Show me openings
To lead me closer to you
My dear Brena
(Feeling so) vulnerable
But it's alright
Opening to... heal...
Opening to... heal...
Heal..
Heal..
Heal...
Heal me
