Authors note: I apologize for the hiatus, finally I'm back.
Digimon: Visions
Chapter 21: I... Deceive...
"Men, though they look, fail to see what is well-being, what is the good in life."- Aristotle
Maybe he was looking at the bigger picture, or maybe he was that cold. Sakura just had her mind so focused on those words. How could he think that this war was just? No war is just, no battle should happen. She lamented the death of every enemy that had died at the hands of them or the Digimon, even though they more likely were trying to kill the group. The fighting was just not right.
But she knew that was being naive with the whole situation. Maybe he just came across as cold and was not that bad in truth. She did not know, nor did she really want to know. Sakura just worried about that sort of thing. She just wanted to get out of this place while they were still alive and still had time to be teenagers. She did not want this to be the only world they knew for over year even.
She looked up from the perfectly emerald grass to the pale blue skies. This area was just as beautiful as any of the churches they had scene. The area was vast and green as far the eye could see, with a serene and babbling brook cutting just through the center of the plane. It was simply too beautiful for words.
She then felt a strong touch on her shoulder and followed the hand up to the maw of Fernirmon. She leaned her cheek upon his hand as the wolf put his arm around her and asked his deep bass voice, "What's wrong, you seem like you are out of it" He simply showed his caring side. No one noticed as Satorii began to anger behind them.
"I was just thinking about the other night, when I got my crest" She took the small charm in her hand and looked to it. The crest of Love. She did not quite understand why she got this particular crest, but then again, the only way to know yourself is to examine your life from the point of another, and she never really was much of one for that sort of thing.
Fernirmon sighed, he knew that when this sort of lamentation came from her, it was due to the battle they had fought. "Just remember that if we did not fight, we would die. Pacifists are seldom right in this world, or, from my knowledge, in yours" He told her as he looked with a certain serenity in his eyes.
"God I hope you're right, Fernirmon" She said as she looked to the ground, and then back up to the group, seeing Dantes heading them.
Dantes simply looked forward, he was more then content with what was happening, he was close to Savaria, and Sin would be out of the picture soon enough. "Let's make camp here, we've been walking all day, we'll pick up later, besides, this seems to be a tranquil enough place" He said as he stopped in front of everyone. He smiled as he looked back to him, noticing how Savaria looked into his passionate blue and green eyes.
Mitsuko plopped herself down on the soft green grass as they stopped, heaving a sigh as she did. "About time, we've been here a month and I'm still far from used to this walking" She said as she pet Ridomon who sat by her side. Everyone else was soon to sit down as well, leaving only Savaria and Dantes up, with even Ultimon laying on the ground. Savaria walked up to Dantes, placing a hand upon his chest as she asked him if they could go talk for a moment, away from the others. Dantes was more then happy to oblige as they walked away from the others hand in hand.
"So, what is it you wanted to talk about?" He asked as soon as they were out of earshot of the others. How he wanted this to be a soliciting for sex. His lust was only growing in the past three weeks, but that goddamned crow never slept, and though he knew Sin and Dismon knew his lust for her, he knew Sin would never risk telling Savaria, out of fear that he would hurt her, or she would not believe him and it would cause a backlash.
Dantes held Savaria's hands within his as she looked to the ground. She bit her bottom lip as she thought about what she would say. There were so many words circling through out her mind, until she finally chose the ones that would suffice. "I wanted to talk about our relationship..." These were the words he had been waiting for, the words of safe passage into her loins. "I love you, Dantes, I need to know, do you feel that way about me?" He smiled seemingly sincere.
He put his arms around her and pulled her near to him and put his lips to her's. As they kiss, his hands began to migrate, one cradling her head, the other massaging her bra strap. He wanted to see her nude and to play with her body like a toy, but he knew that at present, the fabric of her clothing would have to suffice. He hated the anticipation of stripping her down and putting himself within her.
He finally pulled back and then planted one last kiss upon her forehead. "Of course I love you, through all of this, you've always been here for me, as someone I can go to, I may have a Digimon, but Ultimon is mute, I have you to talk to, to have and to hold. Savaria. Please, never doubt my love for you" He leaned in for a kiss again as he embraced her and they fell to the ground, rolling so that she was on top.
She threw her ebony hair back as she looked down to his dual colored eyes. "I know, Dantes, but, still, I was talking to Dismon, and he reminded me of Sin. I hadn't told you, but Sin and I had kissed and gotten close in the time when Purgatomon separated us" She confessed, not looking to his eyes as she did. Then she felt a push upon her form as Dantes rolled the two of them so he was on top of her.
"You're worrying about this too much," He spoke as he straddled her fragile hips. "Just calm down, you have me now, besides, Sin's been missing for awhile now" It was then that he noticed something bulging in her pocket of a peculiar shape. "What's this then" He said as he reached down to grab the item.
Her arm darted to his, stopping him as she bit her lower lip. "Please, don't" She said with a start. That was Sin's switchblade, she did not want there to be any chance he could get the item back and harm himself once again. Dantes simply looked to her with a crestfallen gaze, but nodded.
"Well then" He said as he got off of her hips, as to hide his vegetable love for her. "There is a reservoir spring over their" He pointed not too far off to a small body of pure blue water across the green fields. "How would you like to go swimming, you know, for a change" He looked to her with a smile as he extended an arm to help her up, continuing the facade of a gentleman.
She took his hand and let him pull her up as she looked toward the spring. She simply nodded and pulled him along behind her as she ran over to the spring. She was happy, even if everything was a lye, for now she was happy, and that was what mattered to her right now, being happy and having her health. Despite this, she was thinking more of Sin then she had been for these past couple of weeks.
She thought about their time together. She thought of him holding her as the snow and rain fell around them and he had only just saved her from IceDevimon. For the first time, in her bliss here with Dantes, she missed him. He had saved her life a number of times, and though he ultimately hurt her, she missed him. Even if he was cold and callous at times, she knew that he cared, and she knew why he acted in such a way.
Just as they nearly reached the spring, she looked over to a large sycamore tree, and she would have sworn that there he was. He was simply looking up to the sky with his long dark hair down cast. She just looked to him mesmerized for a moment, though he never looked over to her. She considered calling out his name, but as she raised her leg to move to him, she felt a tug on her arm and looked over to see Dantes, looking to her with bright and jovial eyes. She then looked back to see Sin, but there was nothing but a tree, old an withered.
"Was something wrong, Savaria?" He asked her as he released her arm to her and looked to her, slowly guiding her to the pool of water.
She looked to Dantes and let out a heavy sigh, though she would oblige and follow. "It's nothing, I just thought I saw something" He was about to speak, she assumed he wondered what she saw, so she quickly silenced his words. "Seriously, I'm fine, don't worry about anything" She faked a smile and looked to him, just trying to seem like she was genuinely happy.
"If you say so" He heaved another sigh as the duo neared the bank of the lake. He tore from his body the shirt he wore, revealing a well sculpted body with muscles and little hair to take away from the look of it. Savaria looked and then blushed, putting her face in her hands and looking away. Dantes simply wrapped his arms around her and began to lift the brim of her shirt, slowly wrinkling the cotton fabric, moving it up her creamy skin.
"Dantes..." She attempted to reject what he was doing, but she was just too in taken by the moment as his hands slid up her sides and his chest rubbed upon her back. She was blushing wildly as her eyes gazed to the pool of water beneath them; with her hair being pulled by Newton's law, falling to place as her arms did the same. She saw Dantes licking his lips in the water and her thoughts began to race, that is, until she felt his firm hands caress her body, and she melted to him again as he threw her shirt aside.
Dantes had unbuttoned her jeans was about to tare them off of her as he forced her body to dip to the water, and, with his feet stopping her shoes from following, she fell into the water, wearing naught but her underwear. He simply looked down to her, only in her underwear and seeming so lost and confused; it caused his vile grin as she breeched the surface, throwing her ebony hair back and she began to tread water. He saw no reflection in the formerly pristine waters as he undid his own pants and followed her into the drink, as he continued to seduction of Savaria Harper.
He was already fully erect as he wrapped his arms around her as they both kicked the water to stay surfaced. But as he did, he noticed Savaria began to cry. "What's the matter? He questioned, though he had a suspicion he already knew.
Savaria pushed him, but his hand grabbed her bra and, in her wet state, she lost her bra to him. "Oh God," She shouted as she looked to him. "Dantes, there's only one of me, I can't give this up so soon, I still don't know you well enough, I'm just not comfortable with this!" She shouted as she climbed out of the water, making sure to cover her chest. She was quickly gone, dressed and as far away as she could get her legs to travel.
"Damn it!" He shouted as he ran his hand through his thick blonde hair. It was then that he heard a rustling from the bushes and out skulked the dog known as Ultimon. "The hell do you want?" He beckoned the dog to answer.
And, thus, the dog answered. "You told me to keep an eye on things, those humans still hold on to hope of defeating Purgatomon" The dog spoke in a raspy voice, each word sounding like it was barked. The dog simply plodded its thick and fat paws to the ground as it looked to it's master.
Dantes let out a slight laugh and looked to Ultimon. "They may very well kill Purgatomon, but he's expendable, so worry not, losing him won't damage my cause" He slicked his hair back and left the waters of the pond, noticing a glowing in his tag. "I may kill him myself, just so they don't expect anything. I know the boy Sin already knows, and I also know that Angewomon is dead" He mentioned both such things in passing as he allowed his body to dry in the digital sun.
"So why have we yet to silence Sin yet" Ultimon said to his master, laying next to him with his canine eyes looking to the waters. He only flinched as a trout jumped before him, and he jolted to grab it, though he had barely left his post next to his master.
"Ultimon, I should have programmed you with a more strategic mind" He laughed again as he looked to waters. "I tried that before, and he survived. No, I know what use Sin has, I can exploit his being a loner. I can use what he sees as an asset against him" The boy tilted his head back as his Adam's Apple bulged from his throat and he looked to the single cloud passing over the Digital sky.
Ultimon couldn't help but snarl at the reminder that he was only a program. "So, what is the plan?" He asked his master and looked to the boy, only to get a snide smile.
Dantes looked to the Digimon and hid behind a poker faced grin. "Its simple really, we just continue to aid them, and I'll continue to try to get Savaria. And then when Sin returns, I assure you he will, I'll convince the others he left to aid the effort of Sheolmon" He said with a smile as he stood up, significantly drier now, he put his clothing back on and looked to the canine by his side.
"Why does the girl matter so?" The Digimon looked up to his master, only to get the same grin and laugh he was getting before this. He was able to deduce everything else, Dantes needed the others to trust him, and to think he might not be Sheolmon.
"I've come to believe she may be the one, she may be the Tabernamon incarnate. You damn well know I couldn't let her be out of my grasp, and if I have sex with her, hell, she'll never be leaving me"
"All of this just to become Sheolmon? Have you ever thought that you're going over board with the planning? Why not just become Sheolmon now?" Ultimon asked his master, only to be kicked in the side, whelping loudly as his master did this.
"Never! Question my methods!" Dantes shouted as he looked though eyes that seemed to be blood red in the twilight. "You were created to serve, that is what you shall do, now and forever, you are my servant. You know I cannot become Sheolmon yet, I lost the power, because of that bastard, if you don't recall, so I must attain the power once more, just as Tabernamon must, though I get to have my memories. I only wish I had been able to find out Tabernamon's identity earlier on, I can't kill her now"
Ultimon got back up onto his legs and looked to his master. "Than should we not get your crest, so you may have more of your former glory back" He received praise in the form of being scratched behind the ears; he was a dog, he did quite enjoy this form of being admonished.
"Now you're getting it, let's go grab our crest, then we'll sobbingly apologize to Savaria, acting like it was an accident, and I was not expecting sex, and just to be with her, and that I cannot control my hormones" Ultimon was mildly disturbed to know the full extent of what Dantes was willing to do, but he also knew, that it was for the good of bringing back Sheolmon, and that was necessary, to rid the digital and human worlds of any who would dare oppose his awesome power.
"Savaria, where's Dantes?" Mitsuko stood up and noticed that the girl was upset, looking to her and putting her arms around her friend. She was not sure what had happened, but she could tell that what ever it was, it had shook up Savaria pretty bad.
Aya sat upon a rock after making sure that the boys were away gathering food, it was their turn, the girls had yesterday. "Did he try to do something?" She hoped Savaria would knew what she meant. Aya didn't trust Dantes, there was just something about him that struck her as being black hearted, like he was hiding something. She strummed her fingers along the surface of the slate as she waited for Savaria to answer.
"We were... we were talking and then e came upon a pond and went for a stream, we jumped into it to the water and we were making out, he... he then.."Savaria broke into tears and her head fell upon Mitsuko's shoulder. This world, everything was taxing her unlike any of the others. She had to put up with her problems with Dantes, and then there was the fact that she still worried about Sin. She was just being bombarded with what seemed like countless problems, trying to beat her into oblivion.
"Shh...shh... It'll be alright" Mitsuko tried to comfort her friend. She knew that Sakura was better at the job of comforting others, but she was off talking with Fernirmon, Dismon and Kilroy.
Nekamon put a paw upon her partners leg and tried to comfort her as she and Mitsuko got her to sit down. "What did he do? Did he proposition you for sex?" Nekamon was quite blunt, and she did not notice that Kittenmon was behind her with her ears covered after hearing the word sex.
"Yes..." Savaria managed with a sniffle. She felt very prudish right now, but she did not care, she was not ready for a sexual relationship, she was one fifteen, it was just too soon for her. She hoisted Nekamon into her lap and began to stroke the head of her Digimon as she tried to regain her composure.
Hexamon jumped onto the head of her partner, clinging to her lavender toned hair. "Oh, not ready? Me-eh, you're a teenager, good to hold onto that" Hexamon said, with an unusual amount of sage for the rabbit-like Digimon. Aya brushed Hexamon's ears away as they flopped over her blue eyes and looked to Savaria, she had never really liked Savaria, but she, for some reason, was highly sympathetic to her. She stood so that she may walk over and give her a hug, assuring her they would not allow Dantes to violate her. They did not know, none of them knew, that he already had.
"So, Dismon, we've yet to really talk" Fernirmon looked to the crow as the human shaped wolf walked along side Sakura and Kilroy, with Dismon flying above them. They were simply walking in the fields of rolling hills. The three of them had questions for the Virus-Type Digital monster, and even more about his enigmatic partner, Sin. They were all watching the bird fly above them and waited to see what he would do.
Though they could not see his eyes, they could feel a cold gaze come from under the leather mask the Digimon wore. "What is it that you want to know?" He said with a frozen monotone. He flew down to their level, circling them every so often, as not to get too far ahead of them.
Sakura brushed her black hair behind her ear as she looked to the crow. "I was wondering what you could tell us about Sin, I mean, he may not have been anywhere near us for three solid weeks now, but, still, we were wondering if you wouldn't mind telling us what you know about him" The three were obviously unsure, exactly, of how to as the Digimon about Sin, but they needed to learn something.
"Could you be less vague" He had a cutting tone, even in his frozen tone. He was just not one for good dispositions.
"Well how about you tell us about his past" The British boy cut in right after Dismon's beak shut. He was curious to unearth something that could give them some idea of who Sin was.
Dismon stopped for a moment and landed. "I do not know much of his past, only that it has left him without the essence that you would use for self definition, he is sad. He is... depressed, as well as oppressed" Dismon said, ruffling his own feathers as he did. He knew well that Sin would not want to divulge any of his secrets.
"Dismon, what do mean by oppressed?" Kilroy asked, but before they could try to get any further answers to the newly arisen questions, Satorii came running up to them.
"Hey, Dantes found his crest!" He shouted to them. Everyone looked to the boy with a start, that usually meant that there would be a battle, based on the two precedents they had encountered. They ran back to the camp with him, all of them, that is, except for Sakura, she just tapped the bottom of her chin, what Dismon had said was vague and confusing, she wanted to find out some answers.
"So, what crest is it?" Matt said as he tore the charm from Dantes's neck. He poked the grey plate under a thin sheet of glass. He knew that he had fire, and that Sakura had love, but he wondered what this one would be. For Dantes, he thought that it could be arrogance, but that was not exactly a redeeming quality.
Dracomon looked over his partner's shoulder. "It's the crest of valor" The dragon liked creature said through its own smoky breath as he looked to the crest, which was promptly snatched by Dantes as Dracomon revealed the crest's patronage.
"That suits you well enough" Mitsuko said before she noticed Kilroy was back and ran over to him, clinging to him. She was rather indifferent about the matter, but, nonetheless, it would be good to know that they now had the power of a total of three crests. She wondered if she would be next, or who would be next.
Dantes thanked Mitsuko as he walked over to Savaria and stood over her. "Savaria..." He began as he kneeled to her. "I'm sorry, I'm only human, I just couldn't contain the urge to get that way, I'm so sorry, please, please forgive me" He produced a bouquet of roses seemingly out of nothing as he made his plea to Savaria. She simply wiped her eyes from crying all this while as Dantes moved in for a kiss.
Not to long after, the group all began to fall prey to being tired, and one by one, they fell asleep, except for Sakura, who pondered all of this. Dantes seemed to have at least two faces, and now they had a revelation that Sin was somehow oppressed. This was getting weird, but she would find out what was going on.
