Digimon: Visions

Chapter 19: I... Fight...

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"The limits of my language are the limits of my word"- Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Matt looked to the sky and sighed. It had been twenty days since they arrived at this circle and Sin left for his own reasons, and they spent most of it hiking, just trying to find these crest. He felt like something was up, why would Purgatomon ease up on them? He just looked to the sky as he pondered this conundrum. If they were the chosen, why was Purgatomon ignoring them? Was he after Sin? It was unlike him to wonder so much, so, heaving a sigh, Matt tried to purge these thoughts from his mind.

As he tried to redirect his thoughts he felt the touch of the lavender haired girl he had grown a crush on. Their relationship had been changing over these past few weeks as they knew the month turned to January and they missed Christmas and any other celebrations in their world. The two of them talked more, and he really like it when they did. "You okay?" She spoke as she looked to him through hues of azure blue.

"Yeah, I'm just thinking" He kicked a stone as Dracomon told him they were falling behind the others. He would be able to catch up, so he did not really care.

"Now you know that I'm not going to let you just stop there" She was right. Hexamon was asleep on her head, and Dracomon was running ahead of them to bridge the gap between them and the rest of the group so Matt felt safe to confide in her. It felt weird, to be able to confide in someone, or to do much of anything like that really. He never was one for introspection, he could never give it enough attention.

"It's January now in our world, I think, and we're missing everything that's happening, hell, I want to know if the Eagles are in the Super Bowl, I want to know what my family is doing. I just want to get home, I do like it here, don't get me wrong, but we're missing everything that we once cared about" He sighed as he finished, speeding up a bit to slowly close the gap between them and the others.

"Well, hopefully it won't be that much longer, the thing is, I wonder if we'll all still be in contact, I mean, it's rather obvious that Savaria and Dantes will still talk, they've become close in the absence of Sin, and then there's Sakura and Satorii, they're like brother and sister and Kilroy and Mitsuko keep getting closer" They both thought back to these past few weeks.

Dantes was romancing Savaria and establishing himself in the group, acting nicer and just generally better then he had been. Savaria still had her episodes and she worried about Sin, but that was it, she was still pretty much the same; Aya would yell at her for crying over Sin, since he didn't even seem to like the group. Sakura was like a mother to everyone, not just Satorii, she would cook and tell everyone to get some sleep and she was just level headed, as always. Satorii was still untalkative, but he was more talkative, innocent, naive and still acting superior to Matt. Kilroy was just keeping his logs of everything that happened, he would not change for the apocalypse. Then Mitsuko, who is still trying to get Kilroy's attention, is doing more, she's asserting herself and just trying to keep things organized, somewhat at least

"You two coming?" Kilroy had fallen back a bit to tell the duo that they were lagging behind. Neither of them seemed to care, but nonetheless, they did hasten they're step to keep in time with the rest of the group. They both just looked to each other with subtle understanding in their gazes.

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"We've been searching for almost three weeks and haven't seen any hint of these stupid crest things, do we even know if we're going the right way?" Mitusko implored to Dantes. Everyone was obviously tired of walking. They had been in this world for about a month and they were beginning to wain on one another. They were noticing each others vices, although none were as extreme as the missing Sin's.

"How the hell do I know?" The blonde boy looked back to her with his dual colored stare. He simply sighed as he spoke, this was getting tedious and the food selection was limited at best, and combined with unrelenting attacks from Purgatomon's henchmen, though they had not seen much any sign of Leomon or Veedramon.

Savaria looked to Dantes with an upset gave as she tilted her had to the side. Everyone could tell that she had a control over him, he just was probably too proud to admit it. "I'm sure we'll find something soon, we can't have been walking around in circles for this long" She noted as she ran ahead to scout a little. Dantes reached out to stop her but missed. Nekamon followed her partner as Dantes sighed and ran a hand through his elongated hair from the weeks that had passed.

"You would think she would have learned not to do that after the incident with Dokugumon" Ridomon said with sarcasm on it's tone. Mitsuko just looked to the Digimon with a scowl.

"Or maybe that's why she did it" Dismon said while flying about the group. That was when he and Sin first met the rest of the group. Dantes just stared to him with a disgusted gaze. He then called to Ultimon and ran to follow Savaria.

"And then there were six" Matt spoke with a wry tone. The others just looked to him before running after Savaria and Dantes.

"Don't, Matt, don't" Sakura just shook her head as she informed him that he was out of line before continuing ahead with Kittenmon and Fernirmon. Once again, though, Matt and Aya were behind the rest of the group.

"They seriously worry too much" Matt kicked a stone as the two of them followed slower then everyone else. Aya just looked to him, though he did not know why. "Do I have something on me?" He asked as she continued to gaze at his chest.

"Idiot, pull out your tag, it's glowing, maybe it means something" She smacked him on the back of the head as she told him what to do. The tag was a brilliant red color as he looked to the twisting piece of metal. This was it, they finally had a lead on where to go.

"Let's go tell the others" Dracomon groaned as he ran ahead, knowing that this was finally what they were looking for. The humans followed Dracomon as they ran up to see the other humans being held at gun and arrow point by a group of creatures that looked like Centaurs, though some were half bull and some had helmets with a single red eye.

"The hell is going on?" Matt shouted as another one of the creatures knocked him in the back, forcing them into a small, condensed group with the others. They were all held close, but none closer then Matt who had an arrow less than a centimeter from his neck, he could not even gulp with out risking his life.

"There are only eight, where the hell is the ninth!" A larger one of the half bull digimon stepped up, shouting to his comrades. He held one of the one eyed ones by the neck as he yelled at him to find out where the last one of the humans was.

"What do you want with us?" In one of the rare times when he spoke, Satorii asked the leader of the centaur Digimon his question. He was simply smacked to the ground as Fernirmon looked angrily to the Digimon and Sakura tended to the boy.

"What I want is the crests and your heads, so that my master will be happy" He informed the group as he touched the point of his arrow with a bare finger, watching a small droplet of blood form on the finger. The creature smeared his own blood on the arrow before looking to the humans again.

"I take it you work for Purgatomon as just another pawn?" Dantes asked as he stared to the creature angrily. All of the Digimon looked ready to fight, but there were at least a hundred of the creatures around them.

"I'm no pawn, I'm one of his general, and I shall get the pleasure of killing you" The creature mockingly looked to them as he began to laugh. "We take them to the castle and kill them at sun up, strip them of all personal possessions and give me one of the female humans, I want to examine one of them before I kill them" Dantes first looked to Savaria, Fernirmon first to Sakura, Kilroy first to Mitsuko and Matt just grabbed ahold of Aya, unwilling to let some freak of a Digimon take her.

The centaurs pushed them along as Kilroy analyzed them on his computer. "The ones with one eye and guns are called Centarumon, which is rather fitting, and the bullish ones are called Sagittarimon" He said as he shut down his laptop.

"That's good to know, now, can we kill them?" Matt asked quite simply as the Centarumon pushed them along again.

"We're out numbered, we would need a miracle to be able to kill them all, we'll wait and see" Dantes said before being pushed to the ground. A Sagittarimon lifted him by the shirt as it prepared to stab him with an arrow.

"No!" Savaria yelled before being shoved herself. Sakura and Aya quickly ran over to her to help her up before an arrow went straight through the Sagittarimon which held Dantes.

"I said they will be killed at sunrise, if anyone tries any different, I shall kill them, now, you shall place the purple haired girl in my chambers and the other seven in cells as we make preparations and call Purgatomon to witness the execution. The rest of the creatures bowed to their leader as they continued to force the humans and Digimon onwards into a large castle.

"That bastard" Matt mumbled as he looked around himself to the his comrades and the Digimon. The Centarumon separated and took Aya as the Sagittarimon lead the rest of them to jail cells in the depth of the tombs of the building. All he wanted to do right now was save Aya and get the hell out of this place.

Each of them was taken individual and stripped of their clothes and possessions before being thrown into jail cells with their clothes back on, but the pockets town through. The boys were in one with their partner Digimon, and the girls in another with their partners.

"I'll kill that fucking bull bastard!" Matt shouted as he began to punch a wall after returning his clothes to his person. This practice was really hurting him more then anyone else, but he still continued it as if religiously.

Dantes grabbed Matt's hand and stopped him from punching the wall. "Doing that until your hands are broken and bleeding won't bring Aya back, we'll have to find somehow to take action, but we also have to remember that we are out numbered, there are hundreds of Centarumon and Sagittarimon in this castle and seventeen of us total, and even if Sin were here I for some reason doubt Virgilmon, even in his unbound form, would change the out come of the fight" Dantes held onto Matt's arm so that he could not do anything, the two just gazing to one another.

"We'll beat the spread, even if we don't have Sin, we can beat the spread" Matt said smirking. He simply looked to Dracomon and then to the rest of the group he was imprisoned with.

"How do you intend to do that?" Satorii was always there to put him down, and now was no different as the youngest member sat on a mold encrusted bed as he looked to a drip in the ceiling covered in a green algae-like substance.

"Do you always have to be such a fucking pessimist, statutory?" Matt asked looking to the boy and exciting his ire. The two just looked to one another in silent anger.

"Regardless, we have no plan or anything the like" Fernirmon got between his partner and the American boy.

"We can't just jump out and attack, they'd find us out and crush us" Kilroy said while leaning on the wall which Matt had been punching. The British boy simply looked out the bars to an empty jail cell, wondering if Mitsuko and the girls were all right.

"But if we just sit back and wait we'll die" Agumon gave them the painful reminder as they looked out a window down the hall to the pale moon. This could be there last night on either world.

"So then we divided ourselves, say Statutory and Kilroy save the girls with Dismon, their Digimon hold off the Centarumon and Sagitrarimon and Dantes and I take our Digimon and save Aya" Matt said hitting his hand with a balled fist.

"You actually think that would work? And also, stop calling me Statutory" Satorii yelled at Matt as he got up. The young boy simply stared to Matt as he waited for a reply.

Matt just looked to him with a scowl. "I'd rather play with a Lego then listen to you. One Lego" Matt said while looked to the bars of the prison. The Digimon had already tried each of their respective attacks on them, but nothing seemed to work to destroy the metal bars.

Kilroy walked up next to Matt and ran a hand along the bars. "We'll have to hurry an break through the walls instead. I am unfamiliar with this metal, but I can tell that it shall not be destroyed by ordinary means" He smiled to Matt and held up his right thumb. Matt simply smiled at the thought of seeing one of his plans come into fruition.

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"Damn it" Mitsuko paced quickly as she walked back and forth in the cell. "Poor Aya, we ought to do something other then just sit in a damn jail cell" She mourned their friend's plight, not knowing what would happen to her.

"Don't worry, I'm sure Dantes and Matt have thought of something" Savaria tried as hard as she could to crack a smile, but her own worriment did show through her attempted expression. The girl simply brushed her dark hair behind her ears as she pet the Digimon she held upon her lap in worriment.

"But that could make things worse, we all know the Matt and Aya have extreme feelings for one another, so what are we to do if Matt acts rashly and without judgement? I love the guy, but he's far from the smartest of the lot of us" Sakura sighed as she rest her head upon the stone wall, just letting the fact that she wanted to help Aya show. Kittenmon crawled over her partners face but the Japanese girl mostly just ignored the light-footed kitten's steps across her face.

"Are you alright Savaria?" Nekamon looked up to her partner, noticing a disturbance in her demeanor. The girl just looked different somehow, though her expression had not changed and she was still the same old Savaria. Something was just different about her. Then it became apparent that she was different as her head tilted back and her hair fell lower and she began to speak in tongues.

"Uh-oh, she's gone insane again" Hexamon, who had been thrown in with the girls, noted. This was the first time that she noticeably radiated a white aura around her. Nekamon jumped from her partner as she stood and walked forward to the prison bar. They, like the boys, had tried every attack at their disposal to destroy them to no avail until now, when Savaria simply swung her hand and cut through them.

"Savaria, are you all right?" Ridomon looked to the girl from Mitsuko's side and as all of the Digimon and the two humans grabbed out to stop her as two Sagittarimon came running for her bows raised and arrows pulled back, ready to fire. Just as the fired, Savaria raised her hand and a wave of white energy cut through the two Digimon under Sheolmon's order.

The Digimon and girls began to call out to her as did Kilroy and Satorii who were quickly hurrying with Dismon flying with them to the girls. But nothing stopped Savaria. It was as if something had possessed her, turning her into this godly being which tore through her opposition. Centarumon flocked to them as Ridomon and Kitten changed to their champion forms of Shinjumon and Faeriemon after Kilroy tossed the girls the digivices they had lifted from a guard.

The Digimon began to fire their attacks at the enemy, with Nekamon even joining the fray of the fire as they fought. The Digimon picked the Centarumon and Sagittarimon off, one by one, though it was not quick enough, slowly the Digimon began to move upon them, but that was when an apparent miracle occurred as Savaria grabbed onto Sin's partner and the light that surrounded her engulfed the Digimon, causing him the strength to Digivolve into Virgilmon Unbound, though she fell passed out, with Sakura cradling her as the four Digimon finally began to make a stand.

From the right, Celestiamon began to blast through the waves which ran at his partner, and from the left, Greymon roasted the bulls and horsemen. They finally began to take the upper hand as they all met up again. All that remained was to weed out the last of the Centatumon and Sagittarimon and to defeat their leader, but that was mostly to be left up to Matt and Dantes with their partner Digimon.

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"What do you want with me?" Aya looked to the lead Sagittarimon as she sat on a pillow, only wearing her bra and panties. As the beast looked back to her she pulled the pillow in front of herself and tried to cover her form from his prying eyes.

"I want to find out more about you humans. I want to figure out what makes you tick, what gives you pleasure, what gives you pain, what makes you so damn special" The creature's four legs moved in tandem as he walked near to her, forcing her to let his hand intrude on to her delicate Franco-Russian form.

"But why do you work for Purgatomon?" She asked as she tried to move away from the groping of the beast, slipping under his body, only to gag when she saw the huge flopping male unit beneath his body. She quickly squirmed from under the beast, though only to end up in his grasp again. She did not want this, why could this thing not take Savaria like all of their other enemies? She just wanted to get away and for this all to be over and to be in Matt's arms, although he was typically far from a gentleman.

"I don't work for Purgatomon, I work for Sheolmon, he is just the intercessor between my God and I" He rapped his hands around the fragile body, licking his chops as he looked to her form. Aya looked disgusted as she struggled with the smiling creature to leave his grasp. All she was doing, though, was tiring herself out. She began to cry, realizing what this creature could do to her.

She just choked on her words as she tried to continue to question him. "But why do you fight like this, and what do the crests mean to you?" She struggled to ask her questions though she did manage to. The bull smiled as it could, looking to her and laughing in its deep bass tone.

He knew she would be dead in a few hours, so he figured that if he explained it, the knowledge would be naught to her. Sagittarimon threw her to a padded pillow as he began to relay his minimal knowledge on the Crests to Aya. "The crests enhance the power of their possessor based upon their patronage, for example, I possess the Crest of Fire, and I've placed it with in the mask of one of my strongest soldiers, who I only use as a trump card due to his power, and with how your friends are proving, they may have to fight him. I wouldn't expect much of if I do release him, he can kill them simply by willing it"

"You're wrong you know, I can take any of your soldiers" Aya was beaming with delight as she looked to the doorway into Sagittarimon's chambers, where she saw Matt and Draconismon behind him and Dantes, who was accompanied by Shedimon. Matt tossed Aya her clothes and then looked to Sagittarimon.

"Matt!" Aya shouted in glee, dressing and waiting to get out of this place, and this may be her ticket out.

"You're a fool, boy, as we speak, my soldiers are advancing upon your friends and will capture them in no time, so then, as I'm sure you can tell, I won't wait for Purgatomon to kill you" The bull laughed as his four legs moved him to Matt. The boy just looked to the Digimon, unaffected by his threats, he still had the smirk that he always had plastered on his face.

Matt began to walk a little, bypassing Sagittarimon and walking along the marble tile of the chamber, over to the pile of pillows where Aya was dressing. "How about this proposition," He began, "I fight this super soldier, no one interferes, and it's simply to the death, if I win, we leave and you can't do anything to stop us, if you win, you get to kill us" Dantes, Aya and the Digimon all looked to him dumbstruck. He was out of his mind, they had yet to see him fight, and no one was that sure of him, or very confident in him at all, but they really had no choice, he had already spoken for them.

One of Sagittarimon's hooves came down hard onto the tile as he heard Matt speak, crushing it underfoot. Sagittarimon quickly grabbed Aya and ran to the end of the room where Dantes and the two Champions were he placed her there and just looked to Matt smirking. "Did you really think it would be any one but myself? Did you really think I would trust anyone with such a power. I scoff at you. Your arrogance be what kills you" The bull threatened as the two stared at each other.

Matt sized up his opponent as the bull swung a punch at him, though the boy flowed with it and was easily able to escape getting hit. Sagittarimon bucked as he tried to grab at Matt, and though he did capture him into his large sweaty hands, Matt was able to easily to use this to his advantage, loosening his arms and running up the chest of the bull until he kicked him in the jaw, causing the bull to spit his own blood. Sagittarimon mooed angrily as he charged at Matt while he was still in mid air, knocking him back into the wall behind them with a fire surrounding his form. Matt looked up from the ground as Sagittarimon came charging again, the boy just simply rolled out of the way and then jumped up and kicked the Digimon in the throat. Sagittarimon gasped for a breath as he felt the blow punch into his trachea. The creature looked to Matt as he gasped for air; there was something about this human that was different, how else could one human manage to be besting him at all.

"Are you just going to quit?" Matt coaxed the creature on, despite better judgement's disagreement. He did not care to discern between the two as with a passion unbound he looked to Sagittarimon and then waited to see how he moved. The bullish centaur bucked as it finally recaptured its breath, it ran at Matt on to be met by one of it's own arrows which it had to have dropped with in the battle, or that Matt must have grabbed. None the less, it felt the pain of one of its own weapons pierce the leathery skin of its chest.

As its blood fell to the ground, Sagittarimon looked to Matt. "How are you able to do this? You're a simple human, you're supposed to be frail and weak!" He shouted, only to be mocked by a smirk from the boy. Sagittarimon swung one of its muscular fists, though it only punched into the wall, with the human still smirking with his head slightly tilted so he could avoid the blow.

"You've got a bad temper, you know that?" Normally, Matt would be calling the kettle black, but right now, he was calm, like whenever he fought, he was completely fine and in control of his emotions. His words had only managed to irk his foe, but he did not mind, so far, the Digimon had failed to land any good blows, save for one. He really felt he head nothing to fear from this creature. He knew he was wrong, but he had yet to well contest him. It was then that Sagittarimon managed a good blow, going to punch him from his right, but using his hooves to plow into the gut of the boy. Matt coughed blood as he looked to Sagittarimon, no longer cool, he had lost his composure and a fire surrounded him.

He ran over to the bars separating him and the other, wiping the blood from his chin as he ran. He grabbed one of the bars and with an unhuman strength, pulled it from the gate, then turning to Sagittarimon, evening the odds of their battle completely. He swung the bar smacked Sagittarimon, blocking a fist as he did, only to be met in the side by the other fist. Matt used the opportunity to strike the under belly of the Digimon, and then striking his legs before rolling away, causing the massive creature to collapse. Weak kneed, Sagittarimon managed to rise from the ashes, using on arrow to cut the cheek of Matt before aiming lower and scarring his side and arm. Matt flinched seeing the blood, but then he wacked Sagittarimon in the side legs, causing another collapse, and giving him the opportunity needed to strike the vulnerable throat of the Digimon, collapsing his wing pipe.

Matt leaned upon the bar as the bars were blasted open by Draconismon and the entire group ran in, with the champion Digimon retrogressing to the rookie phase. "Matt..." Aya took the battered boy in her arms and looked to him, brushing his bangs from his face, "You're such a damn fool, why the hell did you do that?" She wiped tears from her eyes, she had nearly lost him for the second time, both times in defense of her.

"You said it yourself, I'm a damn fool" That was his excuse as he looked to the lavender haired girl. That warranted the slap he received, he would agree to that, though it was only slightly insult to injury. Everyone else just looked on as his tag began to glow and from the body of the fallen Sagittarimon, the Crest of Fire was pulled, and it levitated into Matt's tag.

"So, we've found our first one" Dantes commented as he stroked the back of his partner Digimon. The others simply looked to him and nodded. No one was that talkative after the hole ordeal.

Savaria walked up to Matt and placed her hands over him. "I'm going to try to heal you, bare with me if it's not that good, I'm sorry if I mess up" She commented as her body was enveloped in a pale light, as was Matt's and she managed to heal his wounds, all but the one on his cheek healing before she ran out of energy. Kilroy looked to Sakura as this happened in a silent discussion, both knowing what the other would say, having seen Savaria heal as well as cause Dismon to digivolve sans Sin.

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Echo by Trapt

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Chorus:
Close my eyes
Let the whole thing pass me by
There is no time
To waste asking why
I'll run away with you by my side
I'll run away with you by my side
I need to let go, let go, let go, let go of this pride,
(Asking why)
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I think about your face
And how I fall into your eyes
The outline that I trace
Around the one that I call mine
Time that called for space
Unclear where you drew the line
I don't need to solve this case
And I don't need to look behind
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Chorus
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Do I expect to change, the past I hold inside,
with all the words I say,
repeating over in my mind,
somethings you can't erase, no matter how hard you try,
an exit to escape is all there is left to find.
Close my eyes
Let the whole thing pass me by
There is no time
To waste asking why
I'll run away with you by my side
I'll run away with you by my side
I need to let go, let go, let go, let go of this pride,
Until this echo, echo, echo, echo in my mind
Until this echo, echo, echo, echo can subside
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(I know I always loved you)
(I know I always loved you)
(I know I always loved you)
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So I close my eyes
Let the whole thing pass me by
There is no time
To waste asking why
I'll run away with you by my side
I'll run away with you by my side
I need to let go, let go, let go, let go of this pride,
Until this echo, echo, echo, echo in my mind
Until this echo, echo, echo, echo can subside