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Light on the Run
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Kevin and Michelle were walking back home. They had decided to take a short cut, or it would've been a short cut if Kevin turned the wrong way. Now it was late afternoon and they were still several blocks from the proper bus station that would get them relatively close to home. Kevin held Koromon and looked at Michelle who was still scowling because Labramon was heavy.
"I said I was sorry!" yelped the boy in response to the scowls.
"I know…" replied the girl with a frown. "Labramon, can you walk for a bit, we'll just say you're a dog…"
The canine nodded and dropped down on all fours and walked in front of the two children.
"HELP ME!" screamed a small human voice. The two children looked at each other and ran towards the scream.
"I smell digimon!" shouted Labramon as she galloped in front of the children. They followed her closely as she skidded past a store front and looked down an alley.
The sight before them was something they had not totally been prepared for. There was a small boy lying on the ground with one arm up shielding his face and the other one propping himself up. Karatenmon was grunting angrily in front of the child. His two swords were drawn, but the left sword seemed to be drawn against the right sword. He was holding the left sword back with the back of the blade of the right sword.
"Karatenmon!" shouted the two children.
"Koromon digivolve to Snow Agumon!" yelped the small pink soccer ball that Kevin held.
Karatenmon's eyes flashed up with a bright, red blaze. "The digi-destined…"
"Let's get him!" called Labramon; Snow Agumon nodded in agreement and the two Rookie digimon charged forward and tackled the crow digimon, knocking him back, with their combined weight, into the boxes that lined the alley.
Kevin and Michelle scrambled forward and pulled the small boy from the alley. They reached the edge of the alley when suddenly a dome of utter darkness rushed forward; flinging Snow Agumon, Labramon, Michelle and Kevin to the ground. Kevin looked up weakly. Karatenmon was standing, snarling and heaving heavily. His swords were brandished, one in each hand; a dark aura spun around him like a giant tornado of black flame.
"Michelle…" Kevin whispered as he crawled on his hands towards his little sister.
"So…cold…" murmured the child quietly as she curled up. "So…much hatred and fear…" Kevin drew his arms around his sister and drew her in close. Their two digimon were lying on their sides seemingly unconscious.
"I will destroy you here and now," shouted the crow digimon as he walked forward.
Michelle opened her eyes slowly. "No." The girl said quietly. Kevin pulled his sister even closer to his chest. Michelle looked at Karatenmon quietly. "Go away…" Her voice wavered gently. "Please…go away…"
The bird man slowly walked forward unheeding the girl's request. Her smirked coldly as he lifted his swords. "You shall perish and then I shall feed myself with your souls…"
"NO!" shouted Michelle loudly. The crow man stopped. Michelle was glowing softly. She looked at Karatenmon, "Do not come closer…you defiled being of darkness!" A blaze of white light shot forward.
Karatenmon screamed loudly and staggered back. The dark swirl had retreated. "Damn the light, damn it all!" shouted the voice that seemed to emanate from the raven man's chest. "I will soon plunge this world into merciless darkness and then I shall fear no one!" He staggered backward and then turned, taking flight. "I will gain my vengeance! You will rue the day!"
"Uh…what does rue mean?" asked Kevin quietly as he helped Michelle up. He looked around.
"Now is not the time for comic relief," said Michelle hollowly. Kevin looked at his sister. She was still glowing.
"Hey…what's with the light show?" asked Kevin. He suddenly looked around him. A crowd was forming. He gulped quietly, "and can you shut it off?"
"We must go, Karatenmon's power will not be suppressed for much longer," whispered Michelle in a soft, hollow voice. She stood gently and walked over to Snow Agumon and Labramon. The two digimon were sprawled out on the ground. The two of them were badly scuffed up. She put her glowing hands on the two digimon and they blinked their eyes open.
"Michelle?" whispered the small, beige hound.
"We are attracting attention…" whispered Michelle and she turned and slowly walked into the alley. Labramon and Snow Agumon looked at each other and then ran after her, much to the surprise of the people in the crowd.
Kevin looked at the accumulated adults and smiled a very innocent smile, waved and then ran as fast as he could after Michelle. He ran behind his sister and looked at her. The soft glow seemed to be receding slowly from her body.
"Michelle!" called Kevin loudly, "What's going on?"
"The shadow has awakened, all is in danger," replied the monotonous voice that came from his sister.
"What the heck are you talking about?" shouted Kevin loudly. He ran next to his sister and grabbed her jerking her around to face him.
The glow failed completely and Michelle collapsed into Kevin's arms. "I'm so afraid…" murmured the girl. "The darkness, keeps on growing. We can never defeat him like this…and…I don't know what is happening…the light…is so bright…"
Kevin looked wide eyed at Michelle, "We will beat him, we have to…"
"The darkness is so…strong," whispered Michelle. She pulled from Kevin's grasp and ran.
"MICHELLE!" shouted Kevin. The girl disappeared around the corner of the building. Kevin looked at the two digimon he was with, "Come on!"
Snow Agumon and Labramon ran after the boy quickly as he chased down his sister. Kevin swept around the corner of the alley and looked up and down the street. His sister was no where to be seen.
"Kevin…" Snow Agumon looked up at the boy.
"She can't of gotten far, let's go!" shouted Kevin loudly.
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Amy sat in the car quietly. Her mother had gone into one of the shops along the way home. After Amy got home, from the mall, her parents had quizzed her on the events and where she had went. Amy had relayed the story that Janet's grandfather had made up about getting as far from the mall as possible and relaxing their nerves with ice cream. Fortunately her parents accepted the story hook, line and sinker, and now Amy was waiting outside a fabric store as her mother popped in to get some thread.
"Uh oh…" grumbled Penguinmon.
"What?" Amy asked. A cold chill shot down her spine. She looked up. "It's a digimon isn't it?"
Penguinmon nodded quickly. "It's close, too…"
"We can't…" whispered Amy loudly. "If mother comes out as you're digivolving…"
"But…" Penguinmon looked out of her window. A man dressed in white was standing outside the car. A purple plume of puffed up from the white suit he wore. A wide brimmed, white covered his eyes, but a cold smirk played across his lips.
"No…" Penguinmon gulped as she staggered backward.
Amy's digivice instantly screamed as the man reached for the door. The girl snapped it up trying to silence the device but the digivice only screamed the more. It grew incredibly hot and Amy was forced to throw it down. The device exploded as it hit the floor of the car. A flash of unbridled light filled the car. The man outside the car started to scream loudly. The light faded slowly and slowly Amy turned to see what was happening.
The man from before had morphed into a large, white devil. A purple flame design covered his muscular chest. Huge, steer like horns extended from the sides of his head. Large, white, tattered wings unfurled from behind him. His long white arms extended into thin hands with long, white claws. Two blood red eyes gleamed hungrily from behind a white face mask.
Amy scooped up the digivice and scrambled to the driver's seat and tumbled out of the car. She was quick to open the back door to let Penguinmon out.
"Heh, heh, heh," the demon lifted off the ground without moving his wings. He pointed his finger at the car and touched it slightly. Seconds later the car was covered in an inch of ice. "I am Ice Devimon, arctic master of darkness; none can escape my Frozen Claw or my Tundra Freeze." He hovered toward Penguinmon and Amy and lowered himself to the ground. The devil easily stood as tall as a couple one story buildings. "You little kids have been a thorn in our side for far too long, I think it's time we get rid of you…" He swept his right hand out, flashing his claws open. "Goodbye."
The claws swept down.
"No!" shouted Penguinmon loudly. "Penguinmon digivolve to Saberdramon!" the black raven slammed against the claws as they slashed against the bird's chest. Saberdramon screeched loudly and then kicked forward. Ice Devimon quickly flew into the sky. The black raven turned its head to Amy, "Get the people out of here, this could get ugly." Amy nodded and quickly ran into the stores. Saberdramon flapped her wings and rushed up after Ice Devimon.
People were scattering in all directions. Amy was sweeping around looking for her mother. The crowds around her were building and pushing.
"Amy!" shouted a familiar voice. The girl whirled around. Her mother was struggling towards her. "Amy, darling!"
"Mach Shadow!" Amy looked up to see a wave of black meteors exploded into an ice shield that Ice Devimon had lifted.
"Fool," The red eyes of the demon looked down and smiled. Amy looked around her, the people were still fleeing.
"No…you monster no!" shouted Amy loudly. She turned and started to run for her mother.
"Tundra Freeze!" Ice Devimon closed his wings and then flashed them open.
Swirls of frost swept downward. Amy ran and tackled her mother pushing her behind a car. Amy shivered as the wind blew around her. A thin layer of frost covered her dress. The brown haired girl looked up at her mother. The brown haired woman was standing there, a shimmer of crystal blue covering her body. Amy stood and looked around, almost all the inhabitants of the street were frozen in the place they were standing; those that weren't frozen were unconscious on the ground.
"This…is…so familiar…" whispered Amy's mother hoarsely. She closed her eyes. "Why is this so familiar?"
"Momma?" Amy hugged the woman tightly. "Please, Momma, snap out of it!"
Suddenly, a building down the street collapsed as Saberdramon was sent flying into it. Ice Devimon hovered over the fallen raven. A cold sneer cut across his face.
"It was fun," chuckled the devil as folded his wings slightly, "but it's time to put this turkey in the deep freeze!"
"Saberdramon…" Amy looked up. A tear ran down her cheek and fell on her mother's face. "Please…no…"
Amy's chest glowed brightly and a burst of light shot forward. The light took the shape of a tear drop. Amy's mother looked up at the green tear drop hovering in the sky. As it rotated the ice melted, freeing the people. Ice Devimon sneered angrily as the tear shot down into Saberdramon.
"Saberdramon digivolve to…" Blasts of flame erupted from the building sweeping around into the bird as it rose into the sky. Large red wings unfurled. A golden, eagle's beak emerged, followed by a red mask and golden, braided hair. A muscular, crimson body emerged. A pair of arms with large hands with eagle talons clenched and punched upward, "…Garudamon!"
"Oh crappish hell," growled Ice Devimon as the large, red, eagle man hovered above him. Ice Devimon then shook his horned head and snarled, "I'm not afraid of you!"
"So…much like the last time," murmured Amy's mother quietly as she looked up at the bird creature, "but it was different, it wasn't a bird creature…"
"Ice Claw!" Ice Devimon shot forward his arm extended and his claws glistening in the failing sunlight.
The large red bird dove downward with its claws brandished. "Eagle Claw!" flames erupted around the talons and the two digimon struck each other. The ice and flames shot upward and downward and Ice Devimon was sent crashing to the ground. Garudamon opened her wings and rose slightly. She tucked her arms, wings and legs against her torso. An aura of flame surrounded the bird man. "WING BLADE!" The aura escaped Garudamon and flew upwards like a flaming phoenix, opened its wings and then dive bombed towards Ice Devimon.
"No!" shouted the ice devil. "No! Not that…anything…but ARGH!" the flames exploded around the ice beast and he melted and then evaporated into hissing water vapor.
"Ga-Ga…" Amy looked up temporarily forgetting her mother.
"I am Garudamon, master of the winds, I am the Ultimate form of Saberdramon, and I'll protect you and your family as best as I can!" replied the bird as she lowered herself to the ground. She kneeled down and very lightly tapped a single talon on Amy's head. Garudamon's head instantly snapped up and her eyes narrowed. "It's him…"
Amy looked up in the direction that Garudamon was looking. A wave of dark clouds were spinning up ferociously and cracks of black lightning sent roaring peels of thunder through the air.
"Please…no, please…" whispered Amy's mother quietly, "Please, don't hurt Penguinmon anymore…."
Amy spun around quickly. "WHAT?"
There was a crack of lightning and he was there. Large black wings unfurled; lavender armor was covering his upper torso. Puffy, cream colored pants were on his legs. His hands clasped the swords on his hips.
"Karatenmon…" growled Garudamon loudly. The large bird brandished its claws. "Eagle Claw!" Garudamon swept her claws forward releasing blades of flames.
"Fool!" A black sphere surrounded Karatenmon. The blades were sucked into the darkness. "You call those claws…your claws are nothing more than blunt fingernails, let me show you claws!" Karatenmon unsheathed his swords. "Raven BLADES!" Two sweeping arcs of darkness slammed Garudamon in the chest toppling the bird. Karatenmon sheathed the swords and then lifted his hand. The darkness pushed forward dropping onto Garudamon like a battleship. The huge bird groaned as she was pushed into the pavement.
"No…" screamed Amy's mother. Her eyes were distant and filled with tears.
"BLAST FIRE!" A river of flames shot from the rooftop of a building, slicing the darkness into oblivion. Amy and her mother looked up. A man was standing there, holding a huge broad sword. Flames were swirling around the sword. Glowing green eyes flared from under a blue, pointed but bent hat. A lavender cloak swept around the man and red robes covered his body. White, horned, armor sat on his shoulders. "Go, I'll hold him..."
Garudamon got up slowly. "Amy…Amy's mom, we have to get out of here…" The eagle man lowered his hand. Amy's mother staggered backward a little, but Amy grasped her and pushed her forward.
"Come on, mom, we don't have much time!" Amy pushed the woman into the eagle's hand. Amy scrambled on after her mother, "Go, Garudamon…"
The eagle flapped its wings.
"No!" shouted Karatenmon as he dove forward. "You won't get away!"
"Core Darts!" spit fire blasts of magma shot between Karatenmon and Garudamon, "Karatenmon, I'm your opponent now!"
"You treacherous, ingrate!" shouted Karatenmon loudly. "You let our enemy get away, you betrayed me!"
"I can't betray that which I am not aligned with," replied the man loudly. He swept his sword forward, "Blast Fire!" Amy gulped as Karatenmon dispelled the flames with a flick of his wrist. A swirling sphere of darkness bloomed outward covering everything for a block and a half radius.
"We can't let him face Karatenmon alone; it's suicide!" shouted Amy loudly. "Drop mom off, and we'll go back!"
"Amy…" the woman was crying. "Please don't…Penguinmon will get hurt again…"
"We can't let that digimon do this alone!" shouted Amy loudly at her mother. The dark haired girl gaped and covered her mouth.
The woman looked at Amy quietly. "Please…" Tears streamed down her cheeks, "be safe…"
Garudamon dropped down a few blocks from the thunderous explosions of a battle in business district. Amy closed her eyes at the sound of screaming humans in the crossfire. "Come on Garudamon…" The large bird man nodded and lifted Amy to her muscular shoulder and flapped her wings and took off, fanning her large yellow striped tail.
They flew back, towards a cloud of darkness. Between screams and shouts flashes of lavender and crimson energy snapped around the cloud. Every few seconds there would be a plume of some explosion and the cloud would billow and a chunk of a building would be ejected from the cloud barrier.
"Here it goes!" growled Garudamon as the digimon flashed her wings straight back and dove through the cloud.
The darkness encroached around Garudamon and Amy. Streams of lavender energy swiped past them. Amy shivered and held herself. It was a fog of darkness, an encircling miasma. Amy's crest glowed silently giving the lavender swirls of clouds and eerie green tint.
"Blast Fire!" a wave of flames shot in front of Garudamon.
"We have to be able to see to fight!" growled Amy as Garudamon hesitantly touched ground.
"Leave this to me!" growled Garudamon the bird stood up and turned.
The shadow of its massive wings flapped harshly. The wings swept back and forth, back and forth. The cloud swirled upward into the sky. Streams of the darkness still filtered around the ground as Amy looked around.
"There!" shouted Amy as she pointed upward. "On that building."
Garudamon looked at where Amy pointed. Two figures were standing there. One was Karatenmon. He had two swords braced against the broad sword of the new figure.
"Mystimon," whispered Garudamon quietly. "A wizard that is a master flame bender. He is much respected as a defender of the oppressed…"
"Then we need to help him against Karatenmon!" shouted Amy. The bird nodded in agreement and took flight.
"Eagle Claw!" shouted Garudamon as the large eagle sliced forward with its talons drawn. Karatenmon kicked Mystimon and then dove back slicing his swords at Garudamon. The eagle groaned and fell back.
"You like the others don't know when you should stay away," said Karatenmon as he lifted his sword above his head. "You should learn to stay down; it makes things far easier…Raven Blade!" The sword flashed down. Garudamon dropped to the ground.
"GARUDAMON!" screamed Amy loudly. Amy ran forward towards the large eagle. She stopped in mid-step. She looked down at her hands. They were covered in a dark aura. Her eyes flashed up to Karatenmon. "It…was you."
"All I can say is, Gate, gate, paragate," Karatenmon chuckled. Amy's eyes widened. "Now, don't worry your pretty little head, because it won't be there much longer!" Karatenmon swept his arm out and dove forward the glint of his sword sliced down the edge of the blade.
"Blast Fire!" Amy blinked. Flames swept past and when Amy opened her eyes a lavender cloak was surrounding her and Karatenmon was gone. Amy looked up and saw the soft face of Mystimon. She looked forward, Garudamon was gone.
"Garudamon…." Amy whimpered quietly.
"Don't worry," Mystimon whispered. "Garudamon is right here." Amy looked up; an orange ball with a forward curving horn. "Well, most of her…"
"Tsunomon…" Amy grasped the ball and hugged it.
"Come, I'll take you to your mother," said the wizard and he slowly started to walk from the battle zone.
"Where's Karatenmon?" asked Amy quietly.
"Anywhere the shadows go in the face of flames," said Mystimon quietly. "He retreated back into his darkness. Now, where did you drop your mother off?"
"We left her that way," said Amy as she pointed in her mother's general direction.
"Ok," whispered Mystimon. His feet left the ground and he slowly hovered toward in the direction that Amy was pointing.
"Umm, don't you work for Karatenmon?" asked Amy quietly, "Because you aren't any of the other's destined digimon, are you?"
"I work for Gennai," replied the wizard quietly. "And for now, that is all you need to know."
Amy could only look silently up at the wizard as they glided along.
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Kevin's mother looked angrily at the door, and then at the cooling supper on the table. She then leveled her eyes at a man across the table.
"You do know what this means?" growled the woman at the man loudly.
"No ice cream?" asked the man with a quirked grin.
"This is serious, Samuel," shouted the woman loudly. "Our kids are out there with those things!" she flashed her arm towards a window, indicated the outside.
"Don't worry, Kevin's a…" the man sighed, "Ok, you can worry, but Michelle is with him, they can't have gotten into too much trouble; you just have to have a little faith, Jeri. They probably just missed…"
Samuel stopped suddenly as the front door nearly ripped off its hinges. There stood their son heaving heavily, with bent knees; behind him was a miniature, white dinosaur trying to hold him up.
"Kevin!" yelped the woman as she ran down the stairs. She grabbed her son tightly. "What happened?"
"Michelle…" whispered Kevin quietly. "She ran away…"
Jeri pulled back slowly and looked at her son and then at the dinosaur that was standing next to him. The dinosaur slowly lifted its hand and waved slightly and then with an innocent smile, "Hi…"
She then screamed loudly. The little dinosaur jumped backwards and rolled down the flight of stairs outside. Jeri looked up; her husband was standing at the top of the stairs looking down.
"Mom…Dad…" Kevin gulped quietly. "Umm, what if I told you I was part of a special group of eight children, with Michelle, called the digi-destined…and what if I told you that the white dinosaur you just saw was my partner?"
The two adults looked at each other dumbfoundedly.
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"I grow tired of these interferences!" shouted Karatenmon as he stood in a swirling dark cloud. "I shall deploy my darkness, now! I will find him, I will not be pressed back any further!"
Karatenmon looked up and smirked as a thin metallic figure hovered from the darkness, followed by several small, monkey-like gremlins. The figure had a metallic skull for a head which was covered by a black hood. A cloak draped over his metallic shoulders and its plasma composed arms. The creature had no legs, only a glowing sphere ended its metallic spin. Its metallic hands clasped a large pickaxe, whose blades were completely made of twisting streams of energy.
"Do you wish for me to hunt down the child that threatens you?" asked the figure with a hissed whisper.
"You are the Ultimate predator of souls," Karatenmon chuckled, "go forth, find the Child of Light, and destroy her!"
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AN: Chapters may be a tad slower on the output, I have a number of things going on right now, but I'll continue with the story if I can.
Dark Qiviut: I'm glad you were surprised; I was a little worried it was a tad clichéd.
Blue: It's ok, people come and go, people get busy, it's no biggie