I don't Own Digimon
Lesson's Learned
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Steven growled quietly as he pulled on the ropes that bound his hands to a chair. "Stupid food was drugged…I knew it…" He had just awoken, and had found himself tied to a chair; he wasn't sure how long he'd been out though. He turned his head to see Ryuudamon tied up next to him. "Ryuudamon…"
"I believe it was the third turkey he had that did him in," Flamedramon chuckled. He was standing to the left of Steven with his arms crossed over his chest. A cloaked figure was behind him. A cowl covered the figure's face, but a pair of black wings was folded behind him. Flamedramon turned to the figure, "so will this take long?"
"I have to start the proper chants," the cloaked being said quietly and it turned away.
Steven looked around himself. The small candles around Steven didn't seem to truly pierce the darkness beyond giving an approximate idea of where they were. They were in a cave, a large cave. It was relatively dry and warm in the cavern but there was a breeze. Steven squinted into the darkness. A huge object was curled up in the shadows. He couldn't make it out but it covered the floor of the cavern.
The cloaked figure was now resting in front of Steven and Ryuudamon. He was chanting slowly under his breath. "Gate, gate paaragate paarasamgate bodhi svaahaa," The cloaked being's low droning voice rolled on. He was repeating the same chant over and over again, "Gate, gate, paaragate paarasamgate bodhi svaahaa." The space in front of the creature warped slightly. The cloaked figure slowly slid a blade from the side of his robes. He gently stabbed the warp in the air drawing little circles in the air and little marks. "Gate, gate paaragate paarasamgate bodhi svaahaa."
Steven started to pull at his bindings, but they were too tightly bond and the knots were too stable to loosen. He felt tightness in his chest. Steven looked down at his hands; they were covered in a dark aura. He growled and pulled harder at his bindings.
"Gate, gate paaragate paarasamgate bodhi svaaahaa," droned the cloaked being as it turned its sword in the air.
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Amy stumbled over rocks as they climbed up the trail. Penguinmon hopped behind her. Amy grunted as she helped the penguin over a taller than usual stone. "I hope we get there in time."
"You're not the only one!" yelped Penguinmon as the digimon ran behind her. "The cave should be up here…" Amy stopped in her tracks. Penguinmon almost crashed through her legs. The penguin looked up, "What's wrong?"
"Look," the girl pointed upwards at the group of Hagurumon and Guilmon standing around the opening of a large cave.
"What do we do now?" asked Penguinmon quietly. She looked over at the groups of digimon.
"I think I know…" said Amy. She balled up her fist and pursed her lips and stomped forward.
"Amy!" hissed Penguinmon as the girl crunched towards the digimon.
"Halt who goes there?" shouted one of the Hagurumon. The black and gold gear hovered forward.
"I, Queen Amy!" shouted Amy loudly as she stomped forward. Penguinmon giggled as the digimon nearly keeled over at the sight of the girl. She started to push forward. "Let me pass!"
"I don't think Flamedramon wants us…" a Guilmon lifted its hand.
"AND WHO HAS THE POWER HERE? QUEEN…I SAID 'QUEEN' AMY or some no name digimon, like Flamedramon?" Amy narrowed her eyes. The Guilmon, in fact, all the digimon shrunk back from the death glare that was flying forward in waves.
"Maybe he won't notice…" shuddered Hagurumon as his gears clanked as he shivered.
"Come on, Penguinmon," shouted Amy as she started to walk towards the cave.
The blue penguin ran forward and next to Amy. "That was rather impressive."
Amy blushed, "Yeah it was, wasn't it?" Amy walked to the edge of the cave and stopped. "I wonder if it's too late…"
"Let's just stick with it and go, we won't know till we get there," said Penguinmon and walked forward into the cave.
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Lucemon started a fire quietly. He periodically looked up to make sure Michelle hadn't wandered off. Labramon was lying next to the golden haired girl. The girl's digivice and crest were now on the other side of the small camp they had made.
Labramon had three times tried to give the girl the small objects and each time the child tried to throw the objects away. Lucemon had finally persuaded the retriever to wait until later to give the crest and digivice back to the girl.
Lucemon sighed softly. He looked up and saw Labramon's head on Michelle's lap. The girl's hand slowly lifted and laid itself upon the retriever's head. The small fingers slowly started to massage the canine's head. Lucemon watched intently on his side of the fire. His head was laying on his arm which was draped over one of his knees. The girl's fingers rubbed over the canine's head several times before a sort of seizure came over the hand. Lucemon looked up to see the girl's eyes closed and wincing as if she were in great pain. Michelle lifted her hand and clenched it before and punched it into the ground. The girl then shifted his position to push the dog away from her. She curled up into a sitting fetal position and leaned against the tree that was behind her.
Labramon looked up at the girl with large, sad eyes and then slowly crawled off towards Lucemon. The canine looked up at the angel, "Isn't there anything you can do?"
"I don't think so, she's just very, very sad right now," whispered Lucemon quietly. "I don't sense anything else around her but a very large amount of sadness."
"Can't we cheer her up?" whispered Labramon as she looked over at her partner.
"It's not the kind of sadness that can be 'cheered up' it needs to work its way out," replied Lucemon quietly. "I'm afraid, that whoever was taunting you two in the castle was trying to feed that sadness, and I have to admit, they were very successful."
"I wish we could try something, anything," whispered Labramon quietly.
"I think we're doing enough by just being here, and not rejecting her," said Lucemon quietly. "No matter how hard she tries to push us away, we need to stick by her side, ok?"
The canine nodded slowly. "Are you scared?"
"Scared?" asked Lucemon quietly. The canine nodded. Lucemon looked up into the sky, "I'm scared of many things, but right now, the thing I am most afraid of, is that Mark is somewhere in the Digital World, possibly alone, the second thing I am afraid of is that we will be attacked. I'm guessing you will be unable to digivolve with Michelle as she is, and without Mark I will not be able to defend you as well…"
"Can't you just whip out that 'super power smiteth thee' thing you did in the castle?" asked Labramon. The canine looked up at the angel, her eyes glowed a soft almond in the fire light.
"No, Kage has retreated back to the shadows per my request," said Lucemon quietly.
"Kage, that's what Ornyxmon called you at the Missionary," said Labramon. The angel nodded slowly, "What's it mean?"
"Shade, shadow, your other side, that's what the human's define it as," whispered Lucemon quietly. "Kage is my other side, my shadow; he's part of me…"
"I don't understand," Labramon shook her head in confusion, "Other side, shadow? Is your shadow capable of coming off?"
"No, as I have told you, I am a very different digimon, I am two beings living in one," replied Lucemon quietly. He looked down; Labramon was looking up in confusion. "It may be easier if I told you some history first…"
"You mean how you tried to take over the Human and Digital Worlds?" asked Labramon.
"No, no, I don't believe so," whispered the angel quietly. "I'm not comfortable with that subject. No I mean I wish to tell you how the Digital World began…the first time."
"I don't think I've ever heard this story…" whispered Labramon.
"Well, I'm a little sketchy because I've been reborn once or twice since it has happened, and after the reformat, my memories have really been scrambled, Kage though, he remembers, reformation doesn't seem to affect him as much, so when I'm in contact with him, it helps me bolster my own memories, it's a bit of a blessing and a curse because I'm not able to choose what memories are bolstered," Lucemon looked down and sighed and then looked up. "In the beginning, before the Digital World was a world of any sort, there were twelve Founders. They each personified a virtue. The two most powerful were named Kyoui and Hiun. They gave up their powers to the Digital World to give it physical form, and to form the bridge between this world and the world of dreams where the flow of the Digital World's magic comes. Before their departure from the known realms though, they anointed two new leaders of the remaining ten Founders. The Founder, Hikari, and the Founder, Kurayami, were to assume the role of leaders of the other eight, as they were the next in true power to the great sacrificial ones."
"Man, this is already complicated," whispered Labramon. She looked up at Lucemon.
The angel smiled and then furrowed his brow, "I fear that it gets far more complicated as things go along." He sighed and then picked up a stick and reached out to poke the fire, "Hikari and Kurayami divided the remaining eight Founders amongst themselves; Hikari took on the Founders, Dokyou, Ravu, Chishiki and Yuubou. Kurayami took Kouyuu, Tonkou, Shunin and Kankou. All was fine and good, and the Founders quickly set to work within their teams to build up the populace of the Digital World. Unfortunately a great sadness swept over the digimon, since the Founders were incorporeal, the digimon could not see their creators to thank them. Great woe filled the world. Rebellion struck out and infighting. The Founders soon were in a position of great distress as their creations destroyed one another."
"Oh my, I hope things got better," whispered Labramon quietly. Lucemon looked at the canine, who was enthralled with the tale and lifted an eyebrow at the silliness of the statement.
"Yes things got better," said Lucemon quietly with a bemused smirk. "Much better; at least for a while, but you'll have to wait to hear what comes next, I should go find something to eat for us; you stay here and watch Michelle, don't let her run away."
The canine nodded quietly and as Lucemon took flight the canine walked over to Michelle and gently nuzzled the girl who was now fast asleep.
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"Gate, gate paaragate paarasamgate bodhi svaahaa," hummed a voice ahead of them. Amy was running through the cave, scuffing her shoes and scratching her arms against the rocks. The scraps were bleeding; she could feel little lines of blood trail down her arm.
A light glowed ahead. It made Amy run faster, much to the protests of Penguinmon; but the bird kept up with the girl. She exploded through the entrance into a huge cavern chamber. Flamedramon turned as the panting girl skidded to a stop. Her skirt was torn in places and her blouse was dirty. Her hair was a mess.
"What the heck are you doing?" shouted Amy loudly. She stomped towards Steven, but the dragon appeared in front of her. "Get out of my way you overgrown…overgrown…skink!"
Flamedramon looked down at Amy unmoving, "I am doing as you told me, I took up the prisoners to transfer their souls to Majiramon; you told me not to bother you further with the details…"
"Oh for crying out loud, that didn't mean I didn't want to know when you were going to do it!" retorted Amy loudly.
"Wait a second!" shouted Steven loudly. "You gave me up to these guys!"
"It wasn't my intention for them to use you, you weren't supposed to be in any danger!" yelled Amy in reply. "It was just supposed to scare you witless!"
"Oh yeah, well you know what, your plan is working, except I think this," he waved his arms which were bound and covered in a dark aura, "is supposed to be the point where you stop it!"
"I'm working on it!" growled Amy she took a step forward but Flamedramon put his hand up and pushed Amy back. "OI! Let me through!"
"I can't do that," grumbled Flamedramon.
"I'm the queen here, and I told you to push off, now do it!" shouted Amy. Amy looked up angrily at the red and blue dragon.
"Your work as queen is over, you fulfilled your role as Digital Matriarch, we have the soul we need, your presence is not needed nor wanted," returned Flamedramon bluntly.
"I SAID GET OUT OF MY WAY!" shouted Amy loudly. She pushed forward but Flamedramon lifted up the girl and tossed the girl back.
"Leave this place now, or else!" growled Flamedramon. He narrowed his eyes. "You gave the human up, his soul is ours to use."
"He's my friend and I'm not letting you steal his soul!" shouted Amy. She stood up. "Now step aside or I'll get very nasty on your tail…"
"Friend? You'd sell your friend's soul to us?" Flamedramon tilted his head, "You call that friendship."
"It wasn't meant to go this far, I was angry, and vengeful and immature, I'm sorry, dang it I'm sorry; if I didn't care do you think I'd walk all the way up here, make up some way of getting through the guards outside and then crawl through that dirty, muck filled, moldy cave to get here?" Amy shouted loudly and she stepped forward, walking angrily towards Steven. Flamedramon appeared in front of her and pushed her back.
"I am sorry, you can't do that!" Flamedramon growled angrily. He lifted his fists.
"Well, I'm doing it anyways, bucko!" shouted Amy as she walked forward. Flamedramon's fists started to burn. Amy kept walking forward, "I'm not going to just let you take my friend's soul!"
"Then I'll just have to incinerate you," growled Flamedramon. He pulled his arms back. "Fire…"
"No, Amy, get back!" yelped Steven as he pulled at his bindings. He saw Penguinmon running forward but the aquatic bird was never going to make in time.
"I'm not letting you down this time," Amy looked at Steven. The fist started to move forward. Amy looked up as the crimson heat rushed toward her.
Suddenly a huge ivory claw slammed in front of Amy and crushed Flamedramon down. Amy looked up. Black feathers filled her vision.
"Hi," said the huge black raven phoenix.
"You digivolved," whispered Amy.
"Yes, I did, but we have more important things to worry about, go get Steven and Ryuudamon," called the bird. Amy nodded and ran forward.
"Fire Knuckle!" Saberdramon yowled as her foot was covered in flames and the huge bird took flight. Flamedramon, though looking slightly crumpled, wasn't looking too bad for being stepped on by a giant bird. Flames erupted from the dragon's armor and the leapt towards Saberdramon, "Fire Rocket!" The dragon crashed into Saberdramon's chest. The large bird slammed its beak down crashing the hard body part against the dragon's head.
Saberdramon then took to the air, as best as she could, the cavern was huge but it only allowed restricted flight. The bird drew its wings together and then whipped them open, "Mach Shadow!" black plasma fell on Flamedramon like a dark hail.
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Amy blocked out the screeches and explosions of the fight behind her and she blocked out the constant hum of 'Gate, gate paaragate paarasamgate bodhi svaahaa' from the cloaked figure. She walked up to Steven and looked at the bindings. He was tied down by rope and it was knotted. Amy gulped.
"What is it?" Steven looked up.
"I never was good at getting knots out…" whispered Amy.
Steven looked down. "Right, then we have to think of something else." He looked up. "I know, grab Ryuudamon's helmet, use the blade and cut me free!"
"Right," Amy ran over to the lizard and grasped the helmet drawing it from the lizard's head. The little black armored dragon murmured in its sleep and then opened an eye.
"It was drugged wasn't it?" whispered Ryuudamon to Amy quietly.
"Uh… sure," Amy shrugged and ran back to Steven. She frantically slid the blade of the helmet over the bindings.
"OI, be careful, I'd like to leave with my arms intact!" shouted Steven.
"Don't yell at me, or you'll lose more than your arms!" shouted Amy in return. She freed one of Steven's hands. The black aura was spreading and was now covering his right, upper torso. "It's spreading…"
"I know, but we can deal with that when I'm free…" Steven said with mustered patience. His left torso was quickly being consumed by the darkness.
"Gate, gate paaragate paarasamgate bodhi svaahaa, dekakeru kon," the figure pushed his sword forward. A snaking white thing was gliding towards them.
"Crap, hurry, I think he's finishing up…" Steven wiggled. He was pulling as Amy was cutting.
"Will you stop…" Amy looked at Steven and then down at her chest. The white thing was exiting her chest. It held an orb. The white thing had a very eel-like look to it save for small wasp-like legs that held the orb.
"Go now to your new vessel," called the cloaked figure. The insect eel sifted around Amy and flew up to the massive hulk that was lying in the shadows. There was a bright light and the earlier breeze Steven had felt came in hot, humid, gusts.
"Amy…" he looked up at her. Her eyes were empty. She held the helmet weakly and then slumped forward. "AMY!"
"Don't waste your breath, child, the girl's soul is in a new body now," said the cloaked figure quietly.
"GIVE IT BACK!" shouted Steven. He grabbed Ryuudamon's helmet and cut his other hand free from the bindings. He gently maneuvered Amy into a sitting position on the ground. "Do it NOW!"
"I can't, the soul has been transferred, and the seals on a new vessel are very powerful…you'd have to destroy the new body to liberate the soul," said the figure. The large mass started to move behind him. "Not that you'll get that far. I'm sure Majiramon will be most hungry when he awakens."
"Fire Knuckle!" Penguinmon bounced past Steven's line of sight. The bird was bruised and burned.
"I'm sorry, without Amy…I couldn't hold it any longer…" whimpered the bird. Flamedramon dropped down and looked up.
"Lord Majiramon!" cheered Flamedramon. "Are you ok my lord?"
"I am hungry, I need food," growled a deep gravely voice as the mass seemed to grow taller, easily reaching the roof. Steven looked up and could make out a strange dragon-like head with moose-like antlers. Its body was long, thin and serpentine with two long thin arms coming from a purple vest that was wrapped around the beast's torso. A long moustache came down from each side of the snout and its eyes glinted in the fire light. "Awe, offerings…" The eyes looked down at Steven and Amy. "So small though...they'll have to do…"
"NO!" shouted Ryuudamon as the small dragon squirmed in his chair. "Helmet Return!" the helmet flew from Steven's hand. "Steven! I need your help!"
Steven reached into his pockets and pulled his digivice up. "Right, here you go!"
"Ryuudamon digivolve to Ginryuumon!" the dragon exploded from his bindings and looked up as the quadruped, armored digimon, Ginryuumon. "Battle Rod Break!" a spear of light flashed upwards cracking against Majiramon's jaw. The huge dragon snickered and turned its eyes to the black armored dragon.
"Another little morsel," mused the serpentine beast.
Steven rushed to pull the knots from his feet but he was finding difficulty undoing them. He growled in frustration. He had to get free so he could get Amy out of here, she was defenseless. She took a bullet for him, she may have not done it intentionally but she still had put herself in a dangerous position, even after he'd acted like a jackass, and caused this whole debacle. She'd gone a little overboard, but really he couldn't have expected much less, she had been very angry and given her personality he should have known better. It was part of being another's friend, you had to know when enough was enough, when you'd pushed too far; he'd pushed too far, and he should've known better. Now he was in a position to protect her, and he wasn't going to let some petty pissiness on either side get in the way of that.
"Here, I may not be able to fight, but I can help!" Steven jerked back as Penguinmon leapt forward slicing the rope with a blade of ice.
"Thanks, Penguinmon," Steven lifted Amy up, gently putting her over his shoulder, "I've got to get her somewhere safe."
"Armor Piercing Blade!" energy blades plinked off the vest of Majiramon as the large dragon put a green hand forward lifting Ginryuumon up. "Put me down, you wanna be purse!"
"Ginryuumon!" Steven turned and watched Majiramon toss the armored dragon against a cavern wall. He put Amy against a rock and left Penguinmon back to at least get in the way if someone came for her. Steven marched forward he looked from Flamedramon to the cloaked figure to the looming frame of Majiramon. "You guys have messed with my friends enough!"
"Friends?" chuckled the cloaked figure, "The one that sold your soul and a glutton that facilitated your capture?"
"We may not always see eye to eye, and we may make mistakes; big mistakes sometimes, but they are still my friends, and by God you guys didn't have any right to steal her soul, or hurt anyone else!" shouted Steven. He growled angrily and looked at the three opponents. Ginryuumon staggered forward. Steven clenched his fists, "You guys don't scare me, and you don't scare, Ginryuumon, and you didn't scare Amy! My friends are people I am courageous for, and I won't let you take them…"
Flamedramon leapt in front of Steven and lifted him off the ground. "You speak very proudly, but you speak in vain, Lord Majiramon will eat you one by one…"
"Over my dead body," growled Steven. His chest started to glow. The small pendant hidden under his shirt sparkled icy blue. "I'll fight you if it means protecting my friends; I'll fight you myself…."
"You don't have to do that!" Ginryuumon's neck straightened and he stood higher on his haunches, "I'm not letting you down."
"Ice Prism!" a shard of ice slammed into Flamedramon's gut and the dragon dropped Steven. The boy looked back. The penguin smiled smugly. "I'll put a cheap shot or two in, too!"
"See, we're not going to let you walk over us, as long as we're together, nothing can stop us!" Steven pulled the pendent from his shirt. It burned with a blue blaze.
"Ginryuumon digivolve to HishaRyuumon!" The quadruped Ginryuumon glowed with a golden light. His body elongated and soon matched Majiramon in height. Flame-shaped, blade-like horns swept up from the dragon's temple. Its snout was like that of a gar. Short catfish barbs sprouted from his nose. Bony, cream-colored dorsal fins shot from its black back. Armored legs sprouted from the lower areas of the snaking body, armored arms sprouted from its snaky torso. The hands held an orb. The right hand held an orange orb, the left hand held a green orb. The dragon's undercarriage was a deep crimson color. The dragon curled around in a circle and then rammed Majiramon slamming him through the cavern wall with a head butt.
The larger, green dragon growled as he was pushed through the rock and into open air. The antlered dragon roared and flew upwards and Steven could see that Majiramon had four, scaly, green legs as well as his arms. The two dragons hovered looking at each other.
"I'm going to put you to an end," growled Flamedramon loudly. He took a step closer to Steven.
Steven took a step back. A green flash exploded in front of Steven. "Seiryuujin!" The boy closed his eyes and then opened them to find Flamedramon halved and turning to dust. A large, green blade was pulsing from HishaRyuumon's green orb. The red and black dragon's eyes flashed a soft crimson, "I don't think you will be hurting my friends." The dragon turned its head to Majiramon, "You will give up the girl's soul, or I will take it from you."
Steven looked around and soon noticed the cloaked figure was gone. Steven growled softly, "Coward…"
Outside of the cave, in the sky, a battle was raging between two giant dragons.
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Lucemon returned quietly carrying an armful of roots and berries. He sat down quietly next to Michelle and put the vegetation down.
"I was lucky," said Lucemon with a little cheerfulness, "I found some lentils, which should give us some nice nutrition."
"We're going to eat them raw?" Labramon asked quietly.
"We haven't much choice, I don't have a basin to boil them in, and I don't know how to cook them otherwise," said Lucemon quietly. "Eat up and I'll continue my story."
Labramon nodded and offered some food to Michelle who laboriously took up the food and chewed slowly.
"I think you were at the point of the digimon fighting," said Labramon quietly.
The angel nodded slightly and smiled, "Yes, well anyways as I said, the Founders were dismayed at the violence, of course it wasn't the world shattering violence that would come, because at the time there were only Rookie and Champion digimon, but none the less the Founders were dismayed." Lucemon looked at the fire picked up a berry and ate it. "Most of the fights came because the differing types of digimon wanted control of Primary Village to control who got reformatted and who survived to Rookie form. After many years of fighting, the two main groups, the Data digimon and the Viral digimon had pretty much weeded out the Vaccines whose appeasement had only bought them enough time to escape the island and get to the Continent of Server. It was at this point that the Founders made a decision, in order to stop the fighting between Viral and Data digimon who were fighting over whether the Founders with Hikari were stronger than the Founders who were with Kurayami. Their decision was a digimon, a shining example of the power of darkness and of light. They would combine the primordial powers of Light and Darkness creating one digimon. The problem was, the primordial powers of Light and Darkness weren't exactly stable when squeezed into a small vessel so two vessels were made. One was Kage, the shadow, the shade, the other side, the other vessel was Kougen the light source, but that still made two digimon, so they fused the two beings into a single shell, and made a being known as Lucemon…"
Labramon looked up in surprise, "You're the…the...same as…?"
"I am made of his data, but I am as different from him as you are from the digimon data that made you, you don't remember, those times, unfortunately, I am not allowed such a convenience, the primordial strength in me remains and reminds me of what I once was," Lucemon sighed softly and looked down. "I was made to bring peace and herald a new age of harmony in the Digital World. For many years that did happen, but unfortunately nothing lasts forever…"
"What happened?" asked Labramon in a hushed voice.
"Fighting, but not amongst digimon, but amongst the Founders," Lucemon replied coolly. "Kurayami, looked down upon the Digital World and saw that his digimon, the Viral digimon and some of the more, shadowy Vaccine digimon were being mistreated, He demanded that there be reparations, that I do something, seeing as I was to be the mediator between the Founders and the Digital World's physical existence. The rest of the council wished to remain out of physical struggles. Over the years Kurayami grew more hostile, more angered. Eventually he started giving his digimon more power, digivolving them to Ultimates and Megas. It wasn't long before the others turned and did the same to the other digimon. I, though, was left alone; I was to be the reminder of hope and purity of before, soon though I too was corrupted. I wanted more power, if only to protect the world that was my jewel. Kage and I feared the more powerful digimon; we were becoming impotent against attacks. It took the assistance of three Ultimate level digimon, as well as my taxing my power to its limits just to seal an evil digimon, named Daemon into the Caves of Tomorrow. It was then that the Gospel of the Fallen Angel came to me, I did not know it had been created by Kurayami, but it promised me more power, so I used it…and I became exceptionally more powerful…"
"Yeah, you were tough after you got the power of the Gospel," whispered Labramon as she rubbed her arm were a blast from the battle still itched every once in a while.
"That, was not me, that was a virus…" grumbled Lucemon.
"Yeah, that Kage guy, he was awakened right?" said Labramon.
"No, Boogeymon made a virus, in hopes of taking me over, a third being of its own right, if he had known more of my true self he could have been more efficient by merely awakening Kage," whispered Lucemon as he looked at his hands. "Instead the virus stunted my power, Kage was awakened, but he had to fight the virus back to keep control, something he did not quite do…if what you faced on File Island had been my true digivolution from the Gospel; you would not have survived, your power would have been a mosquito in a hurricane…"
"Oh…" Labramon whispered as she looked up at the sky. "What happened? After you took up the Gospel in the early times?"
"I digivolved, and started a campaign to destroy all the other digimon, I figured it was the digimon that had caused this, and since I am supposed to be the best of both worlds, then I would destroy all that was created before and remake it, in my image," said Lucemon painfully. "It didn't work, a number of digimon rose up against me, and took the Gospel before I could use it to its full effect, and then beat me down until I could not fight any more. The Founders then locked me in a temple, until I was freed by two digimon…the rest you know from the mural…" Lucemon looked at the ground. "But that was in the past, Kage is not in control, and I hope to fix things for the better."
Labramon walked up to the angel and hugged him. "Such pain for someone that should not have had to have seen it…"
Lucemon's eyelids drooped halfway down and he let out a sigh. "I know, but we all have our cross to bear."
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Steven stood on the edge of the opening that HishaRyuumon had made when he pushed Majiramon out of the cave. His red and black dragon was trading blows with the giant green beast in the ivory moonlight. Mostly punches and head butts were being traded. HishaRyuumon crashed into Majiramon's stomach and Majiramon slammed his clawed fists into HishaRyuumon's back. The black and red dragon recoiled back.
Majiramon opened his mouth, "Flaming Arrowheads!" spears of fire shot from the dragon's mouth. The spears pummeled HishaRyuumon's head and body. Majiramon glided in and slammed its fist into HishaRyuumon's chin. The large red and black dragon flew back crashing into the mountain shaking the cave slightly.
"Juuouguruma!" a spinning spiral of energy shot up from where Hisharyuumon crashed. The spiral of red and green energy caught Majiramon in the stomach causing the massive green dragon to bow forward. HishaRyuumon erupted forward and slammed his two, orb-filled fists against Majiramon's temples. Steven's eyes widened as he realized what was going to happen and turned just as HishaRyuumon shouted, "Seiryuujin!" There was a sickening sound between slice and gloop. Steven shuddered and slowly turned only to regret it and dropped to his knees as the bread, from earlier, looked for the closest exit. A crimson blade and an emerald blade were jutting out from Majiramon's skull. Majiramon was still writhing as his body's nervous system released the last shocked escape of neurotransmitters. Finally the body started to melt away as digi-dust. A small sphere sat in the core of the green dragon. HishaRyuumon lifted one of his orbs to the sphere and it slid in. HishaRyuumon turned and then fired the small sphere towards Amy. The sphere stopped short of ramming the girl's body and slowly melded into the girl's frame.
"Amy?" whispered Penguinmon. The girl opened her eyes.
"Steven, gotta get him out of the…" Amy looked up and saw HishaRyuumon and Steven. "What happened?"
"You got your soul sucked," shouted Steven. He was walking towards Penguinmon and Amy. "And then Ginryuumon digivolved and we got your soul back."
"Why…I didn't deserve it, after I treated you so…" Amy looked down.
"Badly? Don't worry, I won't say I deserved it, but I wasn't exactly nice to you either, but I still think you're my friend," Steven was now in front of the girl he held out his hand. "Come on, I'm sure the villagers aren't going to like the fact we just put their lord out of commission."
"How are we going to go anywhere without them catching us?" asked Amy suspiciously.
Steven turned his head to look at HishaRyuumon, "Something tells me that, HishaRyuumon will have enough room for us…"
The dragon glided forward and after helping Penguinmon, then Amy on, Steven got on. The dragon pulled back and glided into the sky.
"I'm really sorry…" whispered Amy quietly to Steven.
"Don't worry, it's the past now, if you dwell on it, it will attract vultures," said Steven quietly. "Just forget it happened, you came to save me, I saved you. We're even…"
"But you wouldn't have needed saving if I…" Amy started but Steven gave her a cold look.
"You don't know that, no one does, so just don't say it," Steven turned around and that was all that was said on the subject. Steven looked down as his digivice started to beep. "Someone's close! Go left HishaRyuumon!"
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AN:
Ok lot to talk about this chapter!
A: The story that Lucemon tells, is probably not the canonical tale, but since there is no real, Genesis of the Digital World, I'm going with mine, it's mine MWAHAHAHA…though if someone anyone wants to use it, I doubt it, they can, though I may, emphasize may, be doing a pre-prequel….yeah I'm stuck on this timeline….Umm HishaRyuumon's attacks are the Japanese ones, if you want to look up the translation of them, go to Shining Celebi's digi-encyclopedia.
The Founders are the Guardians ie, the glowy thing that takes over Kari…
The names…
Kyoui – Miracles
Hiun – Fate
Hikari- Light (duh)
Dokyou- Courage/Bravery
Ravu - Love
Chishiki- Knowledge
Yuubou- Hope
Kurayami- Darkness
Kouyuu- Friendship
Tonkou- Sincerity
Shunin- Reliability
Kankou- Kindness
As to 'Gate, Gate paaragate paarasamgate bodhi svaahaa' that is an actual Sanskrit Buddhist mantra, which means… Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone utterly beyond, Enlightenment hail, I thought it fit since we were taking a soul.
Now to the reviewers, I know I'm going over it's getting yadda yaddaish
Dark Qiviut: Well how do you like this, she at least had her soul stolen, and got all dirty and was you know forced to eat her words and got thrown around. And don't worry about your outburst. It was kind of cool, in fact everytime I read it, it made me smile, it's quite a compliment to a writer when they can get their audience to get so invested in a character that the reader actually spazzes… As to my review of Snodin, I think that if you go to mediaminer's forum, there is a poll that asks what's the biggest pet peeve that readers have, and not separating dialogue into different paragraphs is right up there with incestuous yaoi with an OC (usually a long lost brother of the main character) and a canon character where the canon character has an already established non-yaoi relationship.
I was only showing him the examples, I used his own work and I showed him what it looked like, and what it would look like after reformatting it. It may have seemed harsh, but surprisingly there are several people that do not learn this in school, and it is something you have to learn, the other less noticeable grammar things can wait for a pedantic person, I know I mess up on grammar and punctuation that's why I don't mention it as much, but dialogue, rarely do I miss paragraphing dialogue. No hard feelings though, ok? After you said that about Kari, hehe, I thought about having Kage suggest the same thing with Michelle, but it just didn't work. I don't like Kari that much either, as character development goes, she's a bit of a character cardboard box, not all that exciting
Alforce: I hope I explained some things, I sent you an email to see if I could pinpoint the confusion, but you either didn't get it or something, but I hope this helped. It's not so much a uniting, more of a Nonaggression Pact, Kage won't try to take over, Kougen promises to give Kage some freedom after the digi-destined have done their job.