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Warning, for those of young eyes.
The Spirits of the Past
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It was so warm. Fuzziness seemed to fill his body, but he knew better. The pain was gone; he needed to know where the pain went, and why he wasn't hurting any more. He slowly opened his eyes. A white fog swirled around his face. He winced slightly at the white blur. He stood slowly and after wobbling slightly stood on his feet.
"Where am I?" he shouted loudly.
Two figures moved slowly from the mist. One was a boy, tall and lanky with gently combed, blue hair and glasses. Incomparable white robes enwrapped his body. The second figure was a woman; Jason gulped quietly. It couldn't be.
"Jason," said the woman. Her blue eyes looked him in the eyes. "It is you…"
"No…" Jason took a step back, "No, you can't be here, you just can't."
"Jason," the woman walked forward. She had soft golden robes draping from her body. She ran up to him and pulled him into a warm embrace. "It's real."
"Momma," the boy whispered softly into the woman's brown hair.
"Yes…" replied the woman quietly.
"No…you're dead," said Jason in a halfhearted retort.
"You…" the woman snuggled close. "You haven't realized yet…You're…"
"Dead?" asked the boy quietly.
The woman nodded quietly and looked at her son sadly, "but, you aren't ready yet…"
"I'm dead, there's no choice…" replied Jason coldly. He turned, "not that I'd want to go back…"
"Jason…" the woman whispered quietly. She looked to the boy with the glasses to her side and then to her son. "You have to want to live…"
"I have no reason to go back, I have wanted you back all this time, all these years, and now you are making me leave you again!" Jason's teeth gritted between the words. "Why?"
"You have a destiny to fulfill," replied the woman.
"I can't, I'm dead!" shouted Jason loudly. He spun around and looked at his mother defiantly. A shadow was forming behind her. "I don't want to go back; I want to stay here with you!"
"Jason, I know honey, I've waited a very long time to see you, too," whispered the woman, "It hurts to see you grow up and not be able to kiss you or give you hug or help you up when you fall down…but it's my place to stay and wait. You have to go back and save those you left behind."
"Left behind?" Jason looked blankly. The boy lifted his hand and a small portal form in the mist. He could see his body laying there in front of a little boy and a woman, Brendan was kneeling next to his body shaking it. "Those…two…" Marine Devimon's form loomed over them. "I can't…if I go back then I'll leave you here, I want to be with you."
"No, you won't stay here…" said the woman sadly. The shadow behind the woman started to take shape, the shape of Marine Devimon. "If you don't stop him; he'll consume your soul, you won't be able to stay…"
Two sources of light appeared behind Marine Devimon's shadow. One was large and serpentine the other was a small speck. The shadow receded slightly.
"They are buying you time but it won't last, you must make the choice now, between your wish to stay dead, with me, and your duty to those you left behind," said the woman. She looked to the boy at her side with the glasses slightly and the boy nodded quietly.
"But why can't someone else?" asked Jason. He looked up at the small portal. "I want to stay with you, can't you come with me? Dad…" The boy looked down.
"Your father loves you very much," said the woman. She put her hand on his shoulder, "He's just afraid. Afraid that you'll leave like I did, and he distanced himself from you on his terms, but he really loves you, you just have to understand he's very, very frightened. Love him in return, and you will see."
"I don't want to leave you," Jason grabbed his mother and hugged her tightly; "can't I take you with me?"
"I'll be with you," said the woman quietly. She stroked Jason's dark hair softly, a soft sob escaped her lips and a tiny droplet fell on his head, "in your heart." She pulled away from him. "I'll always be with you. You haven't much time…you have to chose. Yourself or those you left behind…"
Jason looked up at his mother. He closed his eyes. Flashes of faces appeared in his mind's eye. His father, the other digi-destined flashed by, the last was Janet. Her image slowly faded, replaced by that of the small boy from the car. The boy's small terrified eyes shimmered silently. Jason bit his lip.
"I won't let you hurt them!" shouted Jason loudly. He shook his fist heavily at the shadow that was behind his mother's form. Lavender light filtered around his fist and flashed over his body.
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Brendan shook the body of the fellow digi-destined hard. "Jason, get up!"
"I won't let you hurt them…" murmured the boy. He coughed and his eyes fluttered open. "You won't hurt them any more, Marine Devimon." The boy slowly and painfully rose to a sitting position. Brendan supported him slightly. Marine Devimon was still engaging Tapirmon and Seadramon. The sea dragon was being pummeled into the granite siding of the aqueduct by Marine Devimon's large white paws as Tapirmon was being constricted by the thin, black tentacles. "DID YOU HEAR ME, MARINE DEVIMON?"
The devil stopped what it was doing and turned. "So, you're still alive…"
"You won't hurt them," growled Jason loudly. "You will not hurt anyone! I won't let you; I'm going to protect them!"
"Your resurrection will not change anything," growled the devil.
Marine Devimon dropped Tapirmon and then flashed his black tentacles forward. The thin tendrils lashed Jason and knocked him aside with Brendan. The boy groaned and then rose up to a sitting position, and then with a concentrated effort lifted himself to his feet with a wobble.
"I said, 'You aren't going to hurt anyone again'!" shouted boy loudly. His eyes flashed and the pendant that hung on his chest glowed. A lavender stream of energy swept past the large sea devil. Marine Devimon's squid-like head turned to sea Seadramon engulfed in lavender light.
"Seadramon, Digivolve to Mega Seadramon!" the aquamarine sea dragon glowed brightly and then grew. It tripled its length, and its body glowed with a blood red color. A golden face mask covered its face and a jagged horn jutted from its forehead. Green hair whirled behind the dragons' head.
"I think I'm going to just leave things to you, big guy…" Tapirmon winced as he scrambled to the shore.
"Deep Deluge!" roared Marine Devimon as he vomited up a stream of flaming ink.
"Thunder Javelin!" roared Mega Seadramon. A stream of lightning trailed up the red sea dragon's body and exploded from its horn. The lightning shredded the ink and slammed Marine Devimon into the bridge.
The humans on the bridge fell to the ground. Brendan was the first to stand, "We can't stay here, it's too unstable…"
"Help me up," Jason winced as he struggled to his feet. Brendan was quick to hoist the other boy up and together they staggered to the stricken woman that was lying on the pavement. They carefully lifted her. Brendan swung the woman's right arm over his shoulders and Jason bared her left arm and they slowly walked forward, with her feet trailing on the ground.
Jason looked to the small boy, "Come on…we're going to get you to safety."
The three of them walked slowly towards the shore. Behind them Mega Seadramon rammed into Marine Devimon sending them completely through the bridge. The car that the woman and her son had been in was smashed as Marine Devimon's back crashed down on top of it. The boys dropped to their knees barely able to hold the woman up.
"We gotta keep going," whispered Jason.
"I know; this bridge won't take too much more…" replied Brendan as he slowly rose to his feet.
"Deep Sea Pressure!" roared Marine Devimon. Jason turned his head back as a cannonball of high pressure water vaulted at Mega Seadramon.
The sea dragon shook its head and then opened its mouth. "Mega Ice Blast!" a blast of Antarctica ripped through the air and engulfed Marine Devimon. It passed leaving an ice sculpture of the beast. Jason and Brendan reached the end of the bridge and laid the woman down gently as Mega Seadramon rushed forward, with its horn crackling with streaks of lightning. "Thunder Javelin!" The red sea dragon exploded through the iced over sea devil. The sculpture exploded into millions of shards that exploded into black energy. Mega Seadramon swirled around to Jason. "Are you ok, Jason?"
"I hurt, but I'm fine…" replied the boy with a nod.
"But we aren't," whispered Brendan as he looked up and cupped his hand over his ear, "Sirens!"
"Mega Seadramon, go, hide or do something," shouted Jason loudly.
"Tapirmon, can you get to my house from here?" asked Brendan. The little, purpled Tapirmon looked up and shook its head, "Then hide in the bushes."
Mega Seadramon glowed brightly and reverted to Motimon and dropped down onto the grass next to Jason. "Couldn't hold it anymore…" explained the pink little digimon as he held up his stubby arms.
"Go then, hide!" whispered Jason as the ghost shaped digimon bounced into the bushes.
Seconds later, black and white cars and a white and orange van screamed onto the scene. A man in a blue uniform and a group of men and women dressed in heavy jackets with small red crosses on the shoulders ran forward.
"Are you ok, kid?" asked the man in the uniform gruffly.
"Don't worry about me," shouted the boy as the men in women in jackets poked at him. He roared loudly, "I'm fine!" He wrested himself from the EMTs, "Worry about her," snapped Jason loudly as he pointed at the unconscious woman, "She's been like that since the monster attacked! We moved her a couple times to get her away from the sea devil!"
"I don't see any neck trauma or anything, she just got smacked on the head," called one of the women in the heavier jackets. "Contusions and blood, get a stretcher over here."
"The little boy doesn't seem badly hurt!" shouted a man. He kneeled next to the boy. "Come on, big guy, let's get you to the hospital so we can make your mom better."
Three female EMTs whizzed past Brendan. "I-I'm fine…" whispered Brendan as the adults wheeled around him like a herd of rushing rabbits. He sighed slightly as they ignored him and packed the woman and the boy into the van. The siren screamed again and it was gone.
The man in the uniform looked at the two boys, and then back at the bridge, which was in smoldering ruins. "What happened here?"
"Well, you know what happened at the mall this morning," started Brendan with a gulp.
"Yeah," said the officer with a look of suspicion.
"Well, it happened here too, and there was this big, black, sea devil!" said Brendan as he stretched his arms. "And then a large, red, sea dragon came and saved us!"
"Saved you?" asked the officer with an arched eyebrow.
"Yes, saved us," replied Jason with a sneer, "That's what happened."
"If you don't believe us, sir, you could look up at the video tape," Brendan pointed up to a camera on a building on the opposite side of the aqueduct. "It looks like it's at the proper angle to have picked up the fight…"
"I see," said the officer quietly. He looked back at the bridge, "Is that all?"
"Well, there was a large Doberman pinscher too, but…" started Brendan.
The officer shook his head. Jason looked up at the officer, "The devil hit the woman's car, she was unconscious and my friend and I saved her and her kid, that about sums it up."
"You look like you got hurt…" said the man quietly.
"I'm a kid, isn't that my normal condition?" returned Jason as he stood. He had bruises on his arms and cheeks; the holes in his jeans revealed that they were on his legs. "Don't worry, I'm fine, now can we go?"
"I'd really rather you let me take you to the hospital," said the officer with a gruff voice. He looked to Brendan, "If you're ok, I think you can go home, if I need anything I'll call you, you're name?"
"Umm, Brendan…" said the boy quietly. "…Heigan."
"And yours?" he looked at Jason.
"Jason McFarland," said Jason with a sigh.
Jason looked to Brendan as the cop took him by the shoulder, "Would you take care of my guest until I get back?"
"Guest?" Brendan looked at Jason with an odd look.
"Yes my," Jason's blue eyes widened, "Guest."
"Oh, sure, I'll make sure your dog gets fed before you get home!" replied Brendan with an innocent smile. Jason shot him a look. "You know Moti, your dog."
Jason closed his eyes and smiled. He looked up at the officer. "Ok, copper, take me in."
"Come on, it won't take long, maybe I'll let you hit the siren," said the man.
"Oh, joy of joys," replied Jason with a sarcastic growl.
The car started and then turned and disappeared. Brendan shook his head, "I can't believe they didn't notice me!" Motimon and Tapirmon came out of their bushes.
"Don't worry, I didn't forget about you," said Tapirmon.
"Forget who?" said Motimon. Tapirmon bopped Motimon asthe pink digimongiggled at Brendan's glare.
"Come on, I'll get you guys some cheese puffs when I get home," said Brendan as he opened his bag. The two digimon squirmed into the bag and instantly complained about the tightness. "Don't complain; it could be worse. You could go home with Amy."
"NO!" yelped the two digimon in unison.
"I thought that would keep you quiet," chuckled Brendan as he started to walk home.
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"So, two are gone…" sighed Karatenmon quietly as Tsukaimon hovered over him. "And they were relatively strong too…"
"Yes, they were destroyed," replied the lavender hamster.
"Then we have no choice," said Karatenmon quietly. "Step up our activity, leave no stone unturned."
"I will inform the others immediately," said the hamster and he glided backward and flew off.
"Tsk, tsk, commanding my minions like that," said a feline voice. Karatenmon flicked his eyes back to see two hazel orbs shining from the shadows. "That's a no-no…"
"Bastemon, the darkness shall rule all," replied the crow man quietly and turned.
"What's that supposed to mean?" growled the woman as she followed the man.
"None will get in our way…" replied the man quietly. "I shall not be stopped by anyone, the shadow must return to its night."
The feline narrowed her eyes. "You've finally lost it."
A dark cloud seemed to sweep around Karatenmon and the tengu spun around and grabbed Bastemon by the shoulders roughly. His eyes were blood red and they seemed to flare with hellfire, "Who says he had it in the first place!" growled a voice that seemed to emanate from the cloud.
"Karatenmon…" Bastemon looked up at her cohort in fear, "You're hurting me…"
"Good," growled the voice, "I want you to tantalize me with your terror, feed me with your fear, and aggravate me with your agitation."
A pair of tendrils swept around Bastemon's ears. Her eyes faltered and she squirmed against the grasp of the bird man. He chuckled softly and dug his talons in further.
"Let me go!" shouted Bastemon loudly. She closed her eyes. A cold chill ran up her spine. "LET ME GO NOW!" A slice of crimson energy lashed up cutting Karatenmon on the cheek. The raven man dropped back and the dark cloud seemed to retreat into him. Bastemon wretched her body back from her partner. "What are you?"
The raven lifted his eyes and smirked, "I am a shadow that is all you need to know."
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Two figures watched the proceeding from behind a group of crates that filled the warehouse that Karatenmon and Bastemon had made their hideout.
"It seems not all is paradise in the night," said the first figure. He was a man dressed in red robes covered in white and gold armor, with a long, pointed blue hat. A huge broad blade sword was sheathed at his side and an azure ball was hitched to his belt.
"It seems that way doesn't it," replied a smaller figure. It was nothing but a ball of a medieval knight. A leather strap covered the front and two bright blue eyes shown from under a metallic helmet. His long black arms ended in metal gauntleted hands. A pair of thin swords was sheathed at his sides, one on each side of his spherical body. "You said you found him today?"
"Yes," replied the first figure quietly. "I think I'll hold that information for a while, though. As they are; the digi-destined can not defeat Karatenmon."
"What about Bastemon?" the small, spherical knight asked.
"She's just a puppet, the real one we must worry about is the crow," whispered the man quietly. He drew his blue cloak together and walked out from the crates. He walked towards the crow man and the cat woman. "Lady Bastemon, are you injured? I thought I heard your scream."
Karatenmon swirled around on the man. "What are you doing here?"
"I came to report in, Karatenmon," replied the man with a little venom. "I came to say the south sector is clear."
Karatenmon narrowed his eyes. "I must go; I have things to attend to!" His wings flared and then flicked closed and he left Bastemon with the man.
"My, dear magical knight in ruby robes…" purred Bastemon quietly. She allowed herself to fall against the man. Her clawed finger slid down the lavender cloth that ran down the middle of the man's chest and then down past his belt and then further. The man grasped her hand before it had traveled overly far.
"Lady Bastemon, decorum is the better half of valor," said the man quietly.
"You should not tell me such lies, my knightly magician," the feline smirked quietly. "Let me take you to my, little den, and I can show you why, decorum is the worst part of everything…"
"I think I shall pass, mistress," replied the man quietly. "I was just curious as to Karatenmon's reason for attacking you…"
"He's crazy, is his reason, I think he's trying to move in on my men," grumbled the feline as she drew back and folded her arms, "and he performed so well when I met him, I had no idea he…was like that…"
"Well, he does have his secrets now; doesn't he?" replied the man quietly and turned away and then turned his head back and smirked at Bastemon. "I will re-canvas the area."
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"Those brats, those insignificant fools, I will not be thwarted!" shouted Karatenmon as he shot through the sky. A dark maelstrom of energy swirled angrily around his body. "I'm the one with all the power!" He growled angrily. He glided to a halt and lowered himself to the ground. "I shall not be stopped! They can not stop my dreams to be reunited with my other half!"
He looked around himself. He was in an alley. Boxes lined the walls of the surrounding buildings, a dumpster buzzed with insects. Something was running towards him.
"Papa is that you?" shouted the voice of a human child. Karatenmon swept around suddenly and looked down. His black eyes widened and then narrowed. The boy had dark hair, and dark eyes, and soft white skin. He wore a black shirt and a pair of black shorts.
The raven took a shocked step back. "No…you…look just like…"
"You're not Papa…" whispered the boy. The dark haired child took a step back in fear.
"Destroy it, steal its innocent soul; it will feed us," whispered a dark voice that swirled in the light miasma that twisted around the raven man.
"No…" replied Karatenmon quietly. His hands wavered over the hilts of his swords.
"What's wrong, mister?" asked the boy quietly. The child with the nearly black eyes walked forward. "Are you ok? Maybe I should get another grown up?"
Karatenmon felt the blades slide from their sheaths. The dark swirl spoke again, "I told you to kill him!"
"I-I can't…" replied Karatenmon. The image from his shattered and warped memories overlaid on the face of the child in front of him. "I…can't…."
"Do it!" the voice snarled loudly. "Take his innocent soul!"
Karatenmon felt the left sword lift slightly. He could feel the energy building in the blade. The metallic blade swept forward. The child screamed in surprise.
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Alforce: That's good to hear, Thanks for the compliments…hehe reminds me of Lucemon talking to RhodoKnightmon, "Remember, Flattery will get you everywhere…" I'll have to snag a copy of Evo, to see what you mean. Yeah Lucemon got a bit of a 'tude, but he's been crammed into those clothes for about a day now, probably didn't sleep well, and he has a human adult that is a clergyman trying to preach to him, I'd be slightly cranky too. Oh I think you'll be quite surprised if you think there is going to be an 'eighth child' (especially since there are already eight digi-destined, Kevin, Michelle, Steven, Mark, Brendan, Jason, Amy, Janet) You'll just have to be surprised I guess…I am constantly worried though that my story is too close to the original, but I try to stay true to my doctrine of same situations different motivations….though the situations are changing….
Dark Qiviut: I hope that this is a satisfactory conclusion to the cliffhanger, and I added a little something more for you again…I'm not much of a Sonic aficionado but I did review thoughts. I also up dated my profile. As to the rest of the review, thanks and… have no response to the other bits…