Eternal Conflict:
Amalgamation
Chapter 2: Explanations and Confusion
Hikari sighed, looking around her room, and the three humans and two digimon in there. Daisuke was sitting on the far wall, Chibimon in his lap. Miyako was seated on the floor near Hikari's futon, and Iori was leaning against the door. Tailmon was curled up on the floor next to Hikari. 'This is not how I was planning on spending my afternoon.' She thought. After Miyako got her first look and a digimon, she was unresponsive for at least ten minutes. 'At least Taichi's working on the recap with the others.'
"Do you have any food?" Chibimon asked innocently. Hikari just laughed, while Miyako and Iori gaped at the small digimon.
"Didn't you just eat three thousand three hundred yen (1) worth of food?" Miyako asked, looking towards the small digimon.
"He'll grow out of that." Tailmon assured Daisuke. "Eventually. Just except him to eat even more after the 'End Of The World' type battles."
"...Maybe I should tell my parents about him." Daisuke said, shocked at how hungry Chibimon was. Iori turned towards him.
"Do you think she'll believe you Daisuke-san?" Iori asked. Daisuke shrugged.
"My parents will by that more than him being a stuffed animal." The brown haired boy said smugly.
"Do all digimon eat like that?" Miyako asked. "Kaasan and Tousan will definitely be happy if more people end up with Digimon."
"...Trust me Miyako-san. Most Digimon don't have quite as big an appetite as Chibimon." Hikari said. "Now I think I should get to the whole explanation thing."
"What exactly are Digimon?" Iori asked, still confused about the whole thing.
"Digimon is short for Digital Monster. They live in the Digital World, a world created through the networking of all the computers in the world. If something happens in the Digital World, it will affect our world." Hikari explained. "Oniichan and the other chosen usually use the term 'The Real World' when talking about Earth, but I really dislike using that term."
"Why?" Miyako asked. Hikari sighed.
"Because using the term 'The Real World' implies that the Digital World is nothing but a game." Hikari said. "That just simply isn't true. A world where you can die is very much real."
"I'm not actually certain you can die though." Tailmon remarked, causing Hikari to look over towards her.
"What do you mean?" Hikari asked, her voice oddly cold, showing the fact that Hikari knew exactly what Tailmon meant.
"Remember when we fought against Apocalymon?" Tailmon remarked. "I distinctly remember being reduced to data and then reassembling ourselves."
"...I'm still not sure about that." Hikari said, looking towards the others. "That could have just been the nature of Apocalymon's attack. Don't do anything stupid." That last sentence was delivered coldly, directed at all three of the humans that she was lecturing.
"All right, our questionable mortality aside, how are we supposed to fight?" Miyako asked.
"Our digimon partners will do the fighting for us, although they need to use our power in order to evolve in order to do so. We can refuse them this ability, making anyone or anything that dies as a result of their attacks our fault."
"Evolve?" Iori asked, confused.
"Digimon have many stages of life, which we refer to as Evolution Levels. All digimon first start out as a Digitama, before hatching into a Baby I digimon. Eventually the Baby I digimon will evolve, or change into a Baby II digimon, which is the type Chibimon is, before finally becoming a Child Level, where they end up with Attributes, like attacks, whether they are Vaccine, Data, or Virus, and the type of digimon they are. Most Child level digimon aren't really that much of a threat alone." She paused, allowing the group to absorb the information. Chibimon was apparently realizing that no one was answering him about the food, but knew this discussion was important.
"Now, here's were we come in. Using their partner's energy, a Child level digimon can evolve into an Adult digimon, where they gain a large amount of power. This is usually done when there is a reason to do so, like with a threat to the chosen's life. Tailmon is an Adult level digimon, although she's apparently lost a lot of her power. After Adult comes Perfection, which in addition to needing a chosen's energy, requires an additional source of power. The final stage of a digimon's evolution is the Ultimate level. I've only seen two of them when they evolved from a chosen's digimon, which were Onnichan's Agumon becoming War Greymon, and Yamato-san's Gabumon becoming Metal Garurumon. Apparently they fused together at one point, but I never saw that."
"Usually after the need for a chosen's energy has passed, the digimon will revert back into a lower level. The reason that this hasn't happened for Tailmon is that for some reason she evolved naturally." Hikari paused. Tailmon snorted, and no one actually made any comments about that.
"What about evolving using the Digimentals?" Daisuke asked.
"I'm still not sure exactly where that form of evolution fits. Armor digimon seem to be at the level of an adult digimon, although if Tailmon had all of her power she could have became as powerful as a perfect level digimon. (2)" Hikari answered. "Any questions?" Hikari asked.
"Who were the other chosen that you worked with? And who are their partners. " Iori asked.
"What levels did they have?" Chibimon asked.
"My brother Taichi is partnered to Agumon, who evolves into Greymon, then into Metal Greymon, and then War Greymon. Ishida Yamato with Gabumon, who evolved into Garurumon, Were Garurumon, and Metal Garurumon. Takenouchi Sora with Piyomon, who evolves into Birdramon and Garudamon. Izumi Koushiro, partnered with Tentomon, who evolves into Kabuterimon and Altur Kabuterimon. Tachikawa Mimi, who's partnered to a Palmon. That digimon evolves into Togemon and Lilymon. Kido Jyou, partnered to Gomamon, who evolves into Ikkakumon and Zudomon. You already know about me. Tailmon evolves to Angewomon or Nefertimon with the Digimental of Light. Then there was Takaishi Takeru, who's partnered with a Patamon, who evolves into Angemon and Holy Angemon." Hikari explained.
Daisuke got a confused look on his face. "Did Takashi Takeru go missing last year, along with Ichijouji Ken?" Hikari looked away from the brown haired boy.
"Yes... and for some reason, both of their parents are dead." Hikari said dismally. "But I don't know what happened with Ichijouji Ken, as he wasn't a chosen." Chibimon's stomach growled, causing Daisuke to groan.
"Armor Evolution?" a blonde haired 14-year-old boy asked. He was wearing the high school uniform that Koushiro and Taichi were wearing.
"Yes Yamato. Apparently there is a form of evolution that we can't use, but Hikari and Daisuke can." Taichi responded. Koromon was in his arms. Yamato was leaning against a tree. They, along with the five of the First Odaiba chosen that were available (Hikari was explaining things to the new chosen, and Mimi had moved to America) were seated in many positions around the park area. The brunette, Sora was seated on a bench next to Koushiro, while the blue haired Kido Jyou was standing around. Koushiro was still in his uniform, while Sora was in hers as well. Her uniform consisted of the green shirt along with a green skirt that went down to her upper thighs. Jyou was wearing a blue suit jacket over a white shirt, and white pants. He was wearing a pair of glasses.
"I'm still confused with this whole Digimon Kaiser development." Jyou said.
"I'm just worried about Piyomon." Sora said, seemingly spacing out.
"I know what you mean." Koushiro said. "And what's worse is that we can't just go on to the Digital World on our own. We need to wait for the gate to open again." Koromon looked confused.
"Why? Can't you guys just open the gate up again?" Koromon asked.
"It isn't that simple." Koushiro said. "I tried opening that gate again, yet a couldn't do so."
"And when I went to get you the portal that I went through was already open." Taichi said. Koromon's eyes blinked.
"Did you try using your digivices?" Koromon asked.
"Of course we did." Koushiro said. "The portal to the Digital World didn't appear."
"Anyway, back to what happened with Hikari-chan and Daisuke got their digimentals." Sora said. "You guys said you all heard a mysterious voice?" Taichi closed his eyes.
"Yeah, and it was weird." Taichi said. "They way that voice knew almost everything. But why did he want me to take Koromon out of the digital world?" Taichi asked.
"Maybe we can answer that question." A voice said from behind the group. All five humans turned, to come face to face with a blond haired child. A small orange digimon with bat-like wings for ears was seated on his head. It had bright blue eyes. The child himself had blue eyes as well, and was wearing some kind of armor. The armor itself consisted of a white chest plate and white pants. A white cape was on his back, although the middle of the bottom part seemed to be cut out, making it seem to be an upside down 'V' shape. The cape was fastened to the armor with two white shoulder pads. A sword was sheathed at his side, the sheath being long enough to be visible. (3)
"Takeru?" Yamato said, looking towards the young child in disbelief.
"Glad to see that you still remember me Yamato-san." Takeru said. All five of the chosen picked up on the honorific change since they last saw him, although they didn't say anything.
"Where have you been?" Taichi asked.
"I've been in the Digital World, fighting against the bastard who calls himself the Digimon Kaiser for the past year." Takeru said, his voice still eerily calm, although a trace of anger was evident in his voice.
"He's been there for a year?" Koushiro asked. "Why didn't you ask for our help?"
"Because Millenniummon's barrier around the Digital World still kept you five and Hikari from being of any help. Gennai and the Harmonious Ones allowed the portal for you guys and the three new chosen to be called at the earliest opportunity." Patamon said.
"...Who are the Harmonious Ones Takeru-kun...?" Sora asked hesitantly, almost as if she didn't know the boy standing in front of her.
"The Harmonious Ones are the Digital World's four guardian digimon." Takeru answered. "Qinglongmon guards the Eastern section of the Digital World, while Baihumon guards the Western section. Xuanwumon guards the North section, while Zhuqiaomon guards the south." The blond haired boy paused. "I've heard rumors of a fifth Harmonious One, although no one actually knows who he is."
"If you've been fighting against the Digimon Kaiser for a year, how come you didn't tell us?" Yamato asked, finally getting over his relief at seeing his brother alive. "And why haven't you won yet?"
"I didn't tell you because there was nothing you guys could've done." Takeru responded. "As to why we haven't one yet, the Kaiser has a large army. We have at the most, thirty digimon to use. And only nine of them happen to be a chosen's partner." Takeru then reached into his armor, pulling out a disk, before tossing it at Koushiro. The red haired chosen grabbed the disk in the air, slightly surprising the others present.
"This disk contains information about the current chosen that we have, along with information about the location of the Digimentals. The Digimentals of Love and the Digimentals of Knowledge are the ones that you guys should go after first. Tentomon and Piyomon should be near them." He paused. "I suggest you get the Digimentals and bring Tentomon and Piyomon to Earth as soon as possible. The Kaiser's been gaining territory at a fast rate lately." Takeru said.
"Have you told Mimi about the Kaiser?" Sora asked. "She'll be worried about Palmon."
"Mimi already knows, and is currently working alongside the New York chosen." Takeru said. "She's probably the only one of us eight besides myself who wasn't blocked by Millenniummon."
"Who is this Millenniummon that you keep referring to?" Koromon asked.
"Don't worry about that right now." Patamon said. "By the way, in order to open a portal to the Digital World, you'll need the upgraded digivice that Hikari, Daisuke, Miyako, and Iori have." Taichi stared at the blond haired chosen and the small digimon.
"How do you their names?" Taichi asked. Takeru ignored him, turning away.
"I'll contact you guys again after you get the Digimentals of Love and Knowledge." Takeru said, before moving away. He stopped. "And no, I am not the mysterious voice." He then left the area, leaving the group of Odaiba chosen behind.
Hikari sat in the main seating area of her home, Daisuke, Iori, Miyako, and Chibimon leaving after the explanation. Suddenly the door opened and Taichi walked in, Koromon in his arms. Tailmon was curled up, seemingly trying to go to sleep.
"How did it go Hikari?" Taichi asked. Hikari sighed.
"It went well enough Oniichan." Hikari said. "You?"
"It went well enough. Takeru and Patamon randomly appearing and leaving us with a large amount of questions was weird though." Koromon said. At this remark Tailmon and Hikari's eyes widened considerably.
"You found Takeru-kun!" Hikari exclaimed. "Where has he been!?"
"In the Digital World, fighting against the Digimon Kaiser for the last year." Taichi answered.
"What?" Hikari asked, confused. Taichi then relayed all that Takeru told them.
"What I don't understand is why Mimi-chan would know about the Kaiser and not tell us about it!" Taichi exclaimed.
"Takeru already told you why." Tailmon stated. "We couldn't do anything until now, so having you know about this wasn't going to do much good other than making your lives suck." Tailmon said. "Besides, he said he'd contact us again, right?"
"That's true. We also know where we are going now." Hikari said. "So I guess we shouldn't worry about it."
Taichi sighed. "So are we going to tell mom about the digimon?" he asked.
"Might as well." Koromon said. "By the way that Takeru spoke, this battle isn't going to end soon." Suddenly the apartment door opened, and Mrs. Yagami walked into the apartment and saw Tailmon and Koromon.
"End of the world again?" Mrs. Yagami said.
"Not quite Okaasan." Hikari said, confused. "Just have to stop a psychotic human dictator who somehow managed to get into the Digital World."
"Really. Shouldn't take too long." Mrs. Yagami said. "You stopped that thing messed up the world three years ago, how much trouble can one human be." And with that, Mrs. Yagami went into the kitchen. Taichi just looked over towards Hikari.
"Wasn't every non-chosen's mind of those events supposed to be suppressed?" Taichi asked. Hikari just shrugged.
The Kaiser sat at his computer terminal, frowning. His spies had just reported that Takeru was around, and gave information to the Odaiba chosen on the Digimentals location. 'I'll have to take them out now.' He thought. He already knew where they would go first, as the Digimentals of Love and Knowledge housed two digimon, and that would be where they would have to head. He grinned. 'Maybe it's time that I make a "personal" appearance.'
Hikari, along with the new chosen and Sora, were currently in Koushiro's bedroom. The two digimon walked in, and Mrs. Izumi didn't comment on them. Sora was now wearing a red shirt and blue jeans. Koushiro was wearing a green vest, blue shirt, and green pants, but different pants than his school uniform.
"I find it strange that you're mother didn't freak out when Chibimon yawned Koushiro-sempai." Miyako said, looking towards the red-haired chosen.
"Well, it would seem that the Harmonious Ones had it set up so that if any of the parents of a chosen who met a digimon four years ago during Vamdemon's invasion saw a digimon that they've actually seen before, the memories would be put back." Koushiro said. "Or something like that anyway. I don't really want to get into it now, but the Digimental of Love and the Digimental of Knowledge are heavily guarded, since they are in the same place."
"Why don't we go search for the other Digimentals then?" Daisuke asked. Tailmon stared at Koushiro, obviously wondering that as well.
"Because thanks to Takeru-kun, we now know that Miyako and Iori's digimon are in those two digimentals." Koushiro said.
"Is that why he wanted us to go after them first?" Sora asked. Iori turned towards Hikari.
"Didn't Takaishi Takeru disappear a year ago?" Iori asked.
"Yes, although he reappeared yesterday to confuse us and tell us where to go." Sora answered. "Apparently Takeru-kun's been fighting against the Kaiser for a year."
"Never mind that." Koushiro said. "Hikari-chan, would you mind opening the Digital Gate?" he asked.
"Alright." Hikari said, holding her digivice in front of the computer. A weird program came up on it. "It's open." All of the chosen moved in front of the computer, when they were dragged in a flash of light.
Hikari, Koushiro, Sora, Tailmon and V-mon, who had seemed to evolve from Chibimon during the transfer into the Digital World, landed on their feet through the portal. Daisuke, Miyako, and Iori ended up in a tangled mess of limbs. After the three new chosen brought themselves together, Miyako looked around, her eyes landing on V-Mon.
"What happened to Chibimon?" Miyako asked.
"I evolved into my child form." V-mon replied. Miyako then looked over at Iori. "You're wearing different clothes." Iori looked down at himself.
"So I am." Iori said, before turning towards Miyako. "And so are you Miyako-san." It was true. Miyako was now wearing a long sleeved blue shirt, an orange vest, red pants, white gloves, green boots, and an orange helmet. Iori was wearing a large brown jacket, and dark red pants.
"So you get new clothes here, Hikari and the others don't." Daisuke said, before turning towards Koushiro. "So where are the other two Digimentals located?" he asked.
"They should be at a temple east of here." Koushiro said. Before the group could move however, two voices called out Koushiro and Sora's names from behind them. The group turned towards the voices, to see two small digimon, who stopped in front of them.
"Tentomon!" Koushiro exclaimed, eyeing his ladybug like digimon partner. The 'ladybug' stood on two legs, and had large green bug eyes. He had a large red exoskeleton, with small black spikes coming out of the back.
"Piyomon!" Sora exclaimed, the large pink bird stopping just in front of her. Piyomon had blue at the tips of her tail feathers, and at two feathers at the top of her head. A larger feather was striped blue and pink, curling up at the end.
"It's been such a long time Sora!" Piyomon exclaimed, jumping into her partner's arms. Tentomon wasn't as affectionate with his partner.
"I'm so glad to see you Koushiro." Tentomon said.
"Believe me, so am I." Koushiro answered. Tailmon coughed. Everyone turned towards her.
"I think it would be a good idea for us to find the Digimentals and get out of here as soon as we can." Tailmon said. "We don't want to alert the Kaiser." Tailmon said. Both of the other chosen digimon agreed with her. The group then set out into the forest.
"I wonder what my digimon's going to be like." Miyako said.
"We won't know until we actually find your Digimentals." Daisuke said. Iori decided to stay silent. Tailmon's ears were twitching. Hikari noticed this.
"What's wrong?" she asked her partner.
"I don't hear anything." Tailmon said.
"That's weird." Koushiro noticed. "From the way Takeru was acting, I was under the assumption that this area would be heavily guarded."
Eventually the group made it to a large clearing, with a large temple in the center. The temple itself seemed to be made like a Mayan Pyramid, with each piece being made with smaller and smaller rectangles, leaving the top rectangle shaped. A large doorway was at around the top of the temple, which conveniently was led by stairs.
"Is this the place?" Sora asked.
"It should be." Koushiro said.
"Why don't you new guys check with your digivices?" Tentomon asked. Daisuke pulled his out, switching to the detect option.
"I see two colored lights that should be coming inside the temple." Daisuke said. "I think they might be the digimentals."
"That's good then!" Miyako said as she started climbing the stairs, but Hikari pulled her back. "What are you doing Hikari-chan!?" Miyako shouted.
"Something's wrong, this place should be guarded." Hikari said. Suddenly a black dot appeared behind the collection of dots on Daisuke's digivice. "Guys! Someone's here!"
"Very observant Motomiya Daisuke." A voice said from behind them. The entire group turned around to see someone that they probably should've expected.
Behind them was a lone teenage male. He was wearing black armor and black pants, and had a black cape similar to Takeru's. He had brown hair, styled up in a spiky style. He wore a pair of goggles with black lenses, and had a sword sheathed to his side. A Digivice similar to the new chosen, except completely black, was in his hand.
"You're the Digimon Kaiser!" Tailmon exclaimed in rage, voicing everyone's suspicions.
"Do all of you have to state the obvious?" the Kaiser asked. "I mean, the Dark Digivice gives it away, doesn't it. And the thing is, with me here, even if you destroy the Dark Tower in this region, you're not going to be able to have those to digimon evolve."
"Why are you trying to take over the Digital World!?" Koushiro shouted in rage, while Hikari and Daisuke grabbed their digivices and D-Terminals, preparing for the fight that was sure to happen.
"Why would I go into deep detail about my plans with you?" the Kaiser said, before snapping his fingers. Suddenly two digimon appeared from around the forest, and one from inside the temple.
The first was a digimon around the size of a human child. He wore a white suit, along with a white cape and a white wizards hat. A small skull pieced his cape onto his suit. He also held a staff that the top seemed to be a snowflake in his right hand.
"Wizarmon?" Hikari asked, clearly at shock at seeing the familiar digimon.
"Hikari... that isn't Wizarmon." Tailmon said, getting into a fighting stance.
The second digimon was a large three-meter demon with white skin. He had white tattered wings on his back, and his head had white horns at the top. A purple bat tattoo was on his muscular chest. Black leather belts seemed to be wrapped around his arms.
The last digimon, the one who came out from behind the group, was a large humanoid creature wearing red samurai armor. He had long black hair, and held a large katana in one hand.
"How do you like some of my minions, Socerymon, Ice Devimon, and Musyamon!?" The Kaiser asked. "And unlike that Tortomon that you guys fought yesterday, there isn't an evil ring on them. They're working for me of their own free will."
"Why would they work for someone who's trying to take over the Digital World!?" Miyako shouted.
"I don't know. And I honestly don't care." The Kaiser said. "Now my minions," the Kaiser paused, "kill them all!"
Both Koushiro and Sora tried to evolve their digimon to their adult levels, and failed.
"Damn it!" Sora shouted. The three digimon got closer to the group. Both Piyomon and Tentomon took to the air.
"Magical Fire!" Piyomon began flapping her wings as a cyclone of green energy formed around her before shooting at Socerymon. The adult level wizard digimon waved his arm and a blue energy barrier formed around him. The green fire dispelled along the barrier, doing nothing.
Tentomon faced Musyamon. "Petite Thunder!" Electricity ran around his wings and antennae, before shooting towards the samurai. The electricity hit the adult level digimon's chest plate, not harming him in the least.
"This isn't working!" Tentmon pointed out.
"Digimental Up!" Both Hikari and Daisuke shouted at the same time. Pink and Red beams coming out of their digimentals and shooting into their respective digivices, before shooting towards the digimon.
"V-mon Armor Evolve!" V-mon shouted, encased in a sphere of red energy. Eventually the energy sphere exploded, revealing V-Mon to be his armored fire dragon form once again. "Burning with Courage, Fladramon!"
"Tailmon Armor Evolve!" Tailmon shouted, encased in a sphere of pink energy. The sphere exploded, revealing Tailmon's winged sphinx form. "The Light of Smiles, Nefertimon!"
The Digimon Kaiser just laughed. "You think that your two armor digimon are going to be much help against these three digimon?
Fladramon pulled his fist back, flame gathering around his arm. "Knuckle Fire!" Fladramon thrust his arm forwards, launching three fireballs towards Ice Devimon, who dodged them easily. The ice demon inhaled.
"Zero Freeze!" Ice Devimon exhaled, sending his freezing breath, forming ice crystals, towards Fladramon, knocking him to the ground.
"Fladramon!" Daisuke exclaimed. Suddenly both Ice Devimon and Socerymon were in front of the fire elemental digimon, the former hitting him with his claws and the other blasting him with magic. Miyako and Iori looked on with horror in their faces.
Nefertimon had taken up to the sky, and was shooting off energy blast from her gauntlets jewels towards Musyamon, who just dodged and appeared on the ground next to the chosen.
"Magical Fire!"
"Petite Thunder!" Both child level digimon fired off their attacks towards the samurai's head, causing him to move back a bit. Nerfertimon's eyes began glowing pink.
Socerymon noticed this and raised his staff towards the flying sphinx. "Crystal Cloud!" the staff shot off a rainbow colored energy blast towards the flying armored digimon, knocking her to the ground.
"We're out numbered, and there's no way for us to actually get to the Digimentals!" Koushiro shouted. Meanwhile Musyamon moved towards the armored digimon of light, his sword raised high.
"Violent Dismissal!" Musyamon brought his sword down to the ground, sending a ripple of energy that tore up the ground and slammed into Nefertimon.
"I don't want to be here anymore." Miyako said dismayed. Iori nodded his head weakly behind her.
"Frost Claw!" Ice Devimon raised his arm up, a swirl of ice gathering around the arm. Fladramon noticed this and quickly dodged and got back onto his feet when Ice Devimon brought his arm down. Fladramon became covered in fire and charged towards Ice Devimon.
"Fire Rocket!" Ice Devimon dodged out of the way, sending a blast of frozen air towards the fire digimon. Fladramon went flying into a tree, which ended up being bursting into a bunch of black specks. Fladramon quickly jumped back up, putting himself in front of the two digimon and the group while Nefertimon did the same to buffer between Musyamon.
"What are we going to do here!?" Piyomon asked, firing off another attack at Socerymon, getting the same result.
"I have no idea." Koushiro said. Hikari looked towards her partner and saw her get hit with another Violent Dismissal attack.
"There has to be something that we can do to get out of this!" Daisuke shouted. "You three have gotten out of worse problems than this! You just had to!"
Fladramon sent a few fireballs towards Ice Devimon, actually managing to hit the white demon this time, sending it back, only to be blasted with another blast from Socerymon.
"Curse of Queen!" Nefertimon fired off two beams from her eyes, which Musyamon just blocked with his sword.
"Now go in for the kill!" the Kaiser order, and which the three digimon he had under his command did.
"Why are you fighting us?" Fladramon asked.
"Because we believe in what he's trying to do!" Ice Devimon said, pulling his arm back. "Frozen---"
"SILVER BLAZE!" A voice shouted from the sky, a green beam of energy hitting Ice Devimon in the chest, before two other beams knocked Musyamon and Socerymon down to the ground as well. The chosen looked up to see an orange flying horse in the sky. Said horse had golden armor on his legs and chest, in addition to his head. Golden main stuck out from the back of his head and tail. There was also a blond haired boy wearing white armor riding to horse. This horse was Pegasmon, the armor evolved form of Patamon using the Digimental of Hope.
"Takeru-kun?" Sora asked, confused. She and the rest of the group were even more confused when Takeru jumped off of Pegasmon while the horse was in flight, drawing his sword in the air and landing on the ground in front of the Kaiser, sword drawn and in perfect health.
"Go!" Takeru shouted. "Go get the digimentals." He said, directing it towards Miyako, Iori, Sora, Koushiro, and the two child level digimon. "Leave these digimon to Nerfertimon, Fladramon, and Pegasmon for now!" He then turned towards the Kaiser. "I'm ready to finish this."
"What makes you think that you can win?" the Kaiser taunted, drawing his sword, before both humans wearing armor charged at each other. Steel met steel as the two swordsmen fought, while the digimon began battling each other. Pegasmon was doing surprisingly well against Musyamon, while Nefertimon had elected to battle Socerymon. This left Ice Devimon to Fladramon.
"Let's see how you do without me being outnumbered." Fladramon said, thrusting his arm forward. "Knuckle Fire!" Three fireballs shot out of the armor digimon's arm, speeding towards Ice Devimon's chest. The ice digimon brought both of his arms together to block the fireballs, his arms becoming singed from the attack.
"You'll have to do better than that." The ice demon remarked. "Zero Freeze!" Ice Devimon blew a blast of freezing air towards Fladramon, who dodged it.
"Maybe we should get going." Koushiro said, turning towards the temple.
"You guys go. I'm staying." Hikari said.
"But Hikari-chan, you might get killed!" Miyako exclaimed. Hikari glared at her.
"I refuse to leave my partner in a battle." Hikari said. "I'll be fine." The brown haired girl remarked, looking towards the battle between Takeru and the Kaiser, both humans showing to be expert swordsmen.
"And the same goes for me." Daisuke said, looking over towards Fladramon. "Fladramon needs me here for support. I'm not leaving. You guys get the digimentals and help us."
Miyako looked towards the two chosen, seeing how both of them weren't going to move out of the battle's way. The violet haired girl did the only thing that she could think of in a situation like this.
She ran into the temple. Iori looked over at Daisuke and Hikari, before he, Sora, Koushiro, and the two child level digimon followed him.
"Still trying to stop me, eh Takaishi?" the Kaiser taunted, parrying Takeru's sword with his own.
"What makes you think I'm going to give up?" Takeru said, slashing his sword towards the Kaiser's midsection. His blow was blocked. "You murdered my mother! Right in front of me!" Takeru made another slash with his sword towards the Kaiser's chest, blocked by the older figures sword.
"Looking back, that was rude." The Kaiser said smugly, slashing at Takeru's head in a move obviously used for decapitation. Takeru moved back, his enemy's sword missing his neck by millimeters. "You've gotten better." The Kaiser remarked flatly.
Hikari was focusing on the battle between the two human's in front of her. Takeru seemed to be attacking in a full rage, while seemingly having a conversation with the Kaiser at the same time. Hikari could easily tell that it wasn't civil (both of the sword wielding children were too focused on killing each other for that), but she couldn't make out what was being said between the explosions and announcement of attacks names from the various digimon.
"FROZEN CLAW!" An attack by Ice Devimon.
"KNUCKLE FIRE!" Fladramon nullifying the ice like demon's attack. Similar situations were going on with the other digimon who were fighting against each other. Hikari looked over towards Pegasmon, to see him launch many star shaped blast of energy from his wings at Musyamon, who dodged most of them, although he was hit by a few.
It was obvious that Pegasmon was Patamon's Armor form... and the Digimental of Hope was a good probability for being used, but one question still rested in her mind.
When did Takeru get the digimental?
"I never thought this trip would turn out like this." Miyako commented dryly. Koushiro looked over at her, while walking through the temple.
"Even Hikari-chan's explanations couldn't describe this for you." Koushiro commented. Miyako nodded. The group was walking through the corridors of an area that seemed to be the inside of a temple, although they had yet to find the Digimentals.
'Of course, I'm not sure that I even want to fight.' Miyako thought. Sora looked over towards the girl.
"Are you alright?" the brown haired girl asked, concerned.
"I'll be fine... although I'm not sure if I want to help fight now. That was the most dangerous situation that I've been in my entire life." Miyako said.
"Well it's just going to be much worse." Tentomon remarked dryly. Koushiro glared at his partner, before turning towards Iori, who seemed to be lost in thought.
"What do you think about this entire situation Iori-kun." Koushiro said. Iori looked up towards Koushiro.
"I really don't know Izumi-sempai." Iori said sincerely. "Do we honestly have a choice in fighting against something that wants to destroy or take over the world if we have the power to stop it?" Miyako looked over towards him.
"Iori..." Miyako trailed off, not knowing what she was supposed to say to that.
However, the youngest member of the chosen continued. "Even if I got my digimon now, and then decided that he and I wouldn't fight... the battle would eventually come to us. And we would obviously lose."
"...That's a rather bleak way to look at things." Piyomon commented. Sora turned towards her partner, whispering as the group entered a large area, with a pedestal and two oval-like objects on it.
"That doesn't stop him from saying exactly what I was going to say." Sora said.
"What are those?" Miyako asked, looking towards the objects.
One of them seemed to be a top half of a large eggshell, it's bottom missing, with two wing like appendages coming out of its sides. A blue upside down heart symbol was on it, the left half of it filled mostly except for one small circular area, while the other half had only one part of it appear as a '9', connected to the other side. This was the Digimental of Love.
The other object was golden, with a weird symbol that seemed to be an oddly proportioned '8'. There was a small gray spike coming out of the top, although it was hard to see. This was the Digimental of Knowledge.
"Are these the Digimentals of Love and Knowledge?" Sora asked.
"I would assume so." Koushiro said, looking over towards Miyako and Iori. "It's obvious that one of these two digimentals belong to one of you," Koushiro paused. "Now the only question that remains is which one belongs to which chosen."
"Why don't we try based on gender?" Tentomon asked.
"What good would that do?" Miyako shouted. Tentomon was now flying up into the air, his wings buzzing.
"I was just thinking that since Sora had the Crest of Love, and Koushiro had the Crest of Knowledge, that the digimentals would be transferred to someone of the same gender!" Tentomon protested. "How many boys can you see as having a trait called love?" Miyako looked like she was about to strangle the bug where he was flying.
"Tentomon does have a point." Piyomon said. The group looked over towards the pink bird.
"What do you mean?" Sora asked, confused at her partners statement.
"A girl is more likely to have a trait associated with something 'Mushy', as some guys like to say." Piyomon said. "It's not that a guy couldn't have something with the trait of love, but it isn't as likely."
"But why would that bug assume that the Digimental of Knowledge would be Iori's!?" Miyako protested. "I'm the one who knows about computers and stuff like that?"
"Because both those Digimentals have digimon underneath them." Tentomon said. "Or in them. I'm not sure how that works. Since I haven't heard of a chosen with two digimon, it wouldn't make sense for Iori to be unable to use the Digimental of Knowledge if you got the Digimental of Love."
"Oh." Miyako said simply, before moving up towards the two digimentals. Iori did the same. Miyako grabbed the Digimental of Love, while Iori grabbed the Digimental of Knowledge. Both of the chosen lifted the digimentals up, causing them to move effortlessly. Two pillars of light, one red, one yellow, shot out of the area where the digimentals had previously rested.
"Wow." Piyomon said, almost dumbstruck by the sudden pillars of light. Iori and Miyako stared as a shape formed in each light, before the pillars of light vanished and two new digimon opened their eyes.
The first was a red and white-feathered bird similar to Piyomon, yet very different. The white feathers were featured around his head, while the red feathers were on the other parts of his body. A black belt was around his head like a headband, keeping a single feather pointing on top of his head. His eyes were blue and sharp black feathers were at the tips of his wings. This was Hawkmon.
The second digimon, coming out of the yellow pillar, had four legs and had a hard shell. He was almost completely yellow. He also had a tail, and two sideway 'W' shaped ears at the side of his head. His underbelly was purple, and a red diamond shaped design was on his forehead. This was Armadimon.
"Hello." Hawkmon said, looking over at Miyako. "And whom may you be?" he asked the violet haired girl.
"My names Miyako..." the violet haired girl trailed off in amazement. Meanwhile Armadimon looked over around the group.
"Let's see, humans, two digimon..." he was interrupted by a loud exclamation of "SILVER BLAZE!" followed by an explosion. "...and explosions." The small yellow child digimon sighed. "...Whose my partner?" he asked, looking around.
"I am." Iori stated, looking over at the digimon. Armadimon jumped off of the pedestal. "...What exactly are we dealing with?"
"Umm... a human calling himself the 'Digimon Kaiser' and is trying to take over the Digital World." Iori said, looking over at his partner.
Hawkmon looked over towards Miyako, who was still staring at him. "...What?" the bird asked, shocking Miyako out of her stare.
"Nothing!" Miyako exclaimed, blushing. Hawkmon stretched his wings before jumping off of the pedestal and onto the ground. "Are you ready to fight?" Hawkmon asked.
"No... I don't know how..." Miyako said. Hawkmon looked over towards his partner, a worried look on his face.
Sora looked over at the violet haired girl... "Miyako-kun..." she trailed off. "Mimi was just like you when we first became chosen."
"No she wasn't." Tentomon said. Sora, Piyomon, and Koushiro glared at the bug. "She had even less idea of what to do than Miyako does!" Tentomon protested. Koushiro sighed, before turning back towards the young girl.
"Sora-san speaks the truth Miyako-kun." Koushiro said. "We're here to help you in whatever ways that we can. Besides... you'll at least get to stay home every night." Miyako looked over at the elder boy oddly.
"Koushiro-sempai..." Miyako trailed off, before looking over at Hawkmon. "Alright... I'll do my best!" Miyako exclaimed.
"So will I." Iori said, both he and Miyako lifting up the digimentals.
"DIGIMENTAL UP!!!!"
Takeru was tiring. It was an obvious fact.
Daisuke could easily see that the blond haired Deus Ex Machina was suddenly becoming tired out. Meanwhile the Kaiser seemed to have just as much energy as he had when starting the fight.
"Knuckle Fire!" Fladramon's cry had quickly brought his attention back to his partner. Daisuke turned around, seeing Fladramon punch Ice Devimon into a tree. A bloodily gash was in the center of the demons chest. Fladramon's body also looked bashed up, obviously the result of a long battle. Flames gathered around Fladramon, completely engulfing him. Fladramon then charged towards Ice Devimon's fallen body, seemingly gliding along the ground.
"FIRE ROCKET!" Fladramon screamed, as the flames increased around him. Ice Devimon looked up towards the speeding fireball.
"Oh shit..." was the only thing that the demon said as Fladramon collided into him, causing the ice demon to be completely consumed in flame. He let out a large inhuman scream before bursting into black specks. Fladramon looked over at Ice Devimon's former location, before glowing in an orange light and reverting into a tired and battered Chibimon.
"Chibimon!" Daisuke exclaimed, running up and picking his partner before anything could happen to him. "Are you alright?"
"...Need sleep...and food." And with that, Chibimon passed out.
"Chibimon!" Daisuke yelled. Hikari looked over at the brown haired boy.
"Chibimon's fine. He just needs rest." Hikari said, anything that Daisuke could've said was stopped at hearing a human scream. Hikari and Daisuke looked over towards Takeru and the Kaiser, seeing Takeru's sword embedded in the Kaiser's chest.
"...Takeru!?" Hikari shouted as Daisuke looked like he was going to vomit. The Kaiser's form went limp as the Dark Digivice vanished. Takeru pulled out his sword, noticing that there wasn't any blood on it. There wasn't any blood coming out of the Kaiser's wounds either. Suddenly the Kaiser's form shifted into that of a black humanoid thing before bursting into black smoke.
"Damn it!" Takeru shouted, sheathing his sword. Hikari looked over towards him, obviously intent on asking what happened, before both Nefertimon and Pegasmon landed on the ground. Hikari looked around, seeing both Socerymon and Musyamon glowing with black light.
SO YOU SEEM TO THINK YOU'VE WON!!!!! A voice that sounded a lot like the Kaiser's shouted. THINK AGAIN!
The something that Hikari thought wouldn't be done happened. Both Musyamon and Socerymon's forms began to fuse together.
"Musyamon!"
"Socerymon!"
"Jogress Evolve!"
End Chapter 02(1) Three Thousand Yen is around Thirty Dollars.
(2) Hikari's wrong here. If Tailmon had her Holy Ring, she wouldn't be able to use the Digimental of Light to evolve unless she devolved into Plotmon. Hikari doesn't know this however.
(3) Takeru's outfit in this chapter is a mix of the Digimon Kaiser's design and Kratos' Judgement costume from Tales of Symphonia. If you have a Gamecube, then go play that game.
A lot of things happened in this chapter, and yes, you'll see Holsmon and Digmon next chapter. And if you have a guess as to who the Kaiser is... don't say it in a review.
And a correction to the author's notes in the last chapter... Taichi uses the honorific '-chan' for Mimi.
Next Chapter:
The group of chosen now have to fight off a perfection level digimon, with only four armor digimon and two child levels. But when help arrives from the other chosen fighting against the Digimon Kaiser, something new is revealed.