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The Sacrifice of the Meek
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Anubismon closed his eyes as the twisting blaze of lightning opened its draconic maw. There was a cold and hot blast and the sound of an explosion. Anubismon opened his eyes and saw a woman with a feather cloak hovering between him and the metallic beast, AndroDramon.
"I'm hoping you're Amy…or Penguinmon or some biomerge fusion of her and Penguinmon…" gulped Anubismon as the newcomer turned her hawk-helmeted head.
"Brendan?" asked the woman. "Thank goodness, we…err I, saw the explosion and we, dang it, I got worried. This is going to take some practice, getting the pronoun thing down…"
"Fools, while you're talking syntax, I'll talk slaying you," growled AndroDramon as he raised his blade morphed arm. "Metal Dragon Strike!"
"Scatter!" shouted Anubismon as he rolled and took flight and the woman shot out of the way of the twisting electrical dragon. "Umm, Amy…."
"Call me Valkyrimon," called the woman as she glided around AndroDramon.
"Right, Valkyrimon, I guess you best call me Anubismon," shouted Brendan as he wheeled in an anti-parallel direction as Valkyrimon.
"Isn't there a better time to be doing this," grumbled Tapirmon's voice, "like after we get Mr. Mighty, Mean and Metallic in the scrap yard?"
"Right!" Anubismon called and cupped his hand forward. A golden sphere formed in his palms. He glided in front of AndroDramon, "Are you ready to go down, AndroDramon, you can't win; it's two on one now! Surrender!"
"Pah," AndroDramon crossed his arms and stared at Anubismon. "Go ahead, try it!"
"You heard him!" called Anubismon. "Amemit!" The golden sphere erupted forward slamming into AndroDramon's metallic chassis.
"Fenrir Sword!" Valkyrimon had glided behind AndroDramon and sliced forward with a large sword releasing a twisting blast of fire and ice at the back of the dragon.
The pair of attacks pressed toward one another trying to press through the metal dragon. Fire and ice roared against AndroDramon's wings as the godly powers of reformation raged into AndroDramon's chest.
"If that's all you're going to do," snarled AndroDramon. His body streaked with streaming energy. "Then you should just give up now! Metal Dragon Strike!" Ten electric dragonheads roared upward and then dove down in an arc, five roaring toward Anubismon and five screeching toward Valkyrimon. Valkyrimon was plastered against the wall of the palace behind her and Anubismon was sent spilling downward toward the street below. AndroDramon turned to Valkyrimon and lifted his blade arm, which changed its shape and turned into a canon. "I think it's rather appropriate that you go first…since ladies should always go first…Fusion…"
"Pyramid Power!" AndroDramon turned his head as three converging golden beams, filling the gaps between energy beams with holy energy. The blast of holy power slammed into side of the dragon's head. AndroDramon shook his head and growled.
"Lightning Arrow!" Valkyrimon pushed off the palace wall, firing a rain of lightning on the dragon.
"Fusion Canon!" roared AndroDramon as he pointed his loaded arm at Anubismon. AndroDramon swung around, simultaneously morphing his arm into its blade mode, "Metal Dragon Strike!" a twisting blast of lightning slammed into Valkyrimon before the heavenly digimon knew what happened.
Anubismon countered the canon blast with a streak of golden power but was still pushed backward. Valkyrimon dove out of the lightning's way and swept around next to Anubismon. The two biomerged digimon glared at AndroDramon.
"He's strong," growled Valkyrimon.
"Yes, he is," replied Anubismon as he cupped his hands and summoned another golden orb into his hands. "But we have to take him down now! Amemit!" The gold energy exploded into the silvery body of the dragon.
"Fenrir Sword!" Valkyrimon swept her sword down releasing as swirl of fire and ice around the golden trail of Anubismon's attack.
AndroDramon curled up slightly and his wings flared as he was pushed back. The dragon then lifted its head and snorted in irritation. He lifted his arm and let it retract into its canon form. "Fusion Canon!"
The stream of azure energy erupted into Valkyrimon and Anubismon. Valkyrimon and Anubismon flailed towards the earth as the sky exploded in a blue light. Valkyrimon bounced hard on the ground followed by Anubismon who was implanted in some masonry.
"This is not working," whispered Anubismon quietly. The dog god popped out of his wall and dropped to his knees.
"Steven and Kevin made this seem so easy," hissed Valkyrimon as she laid on the ground, breathing. "We've tried everything, frontal assault, combined assault, assault from different angles, simultaneous multi-vector strikes…"
"I know…" whispered Anubismon as he leaned forward to hold himself up on all fours. "Why won't he go down?"
"I'd be happy with a little sign of him getting tired," whispered Valkyrimon as she finally sat up. There was an explosion nearby followed by a second blast that was preceded by an electrical crackle. "He's tracking us down…"
"We can't stay here," hissed Anubismon as he stood and weaved to Valkyrimon, snatching her hand, "Come on!"
"What are you doing?" Valkyrimon looked at the dog god in surprise.
"We're retreating," growled Anubismon, "there is no point in fighting him when we're exhausted, let him search for us for a bit!" Anubismon gave Valkyrimon a tug and yanked her along behind him.
"Oh little victims!" called AndroDramon's voice loudly as the sound of his metallic feet clanked along the brick streets and the sound of his wings dragged against buildings, "Where are you, my little victims?"
"Don't let him get to you," hissed Anubismon. The dog god swept around a corner and ran down a street.
"I have an idea," Valkyrimon looked up, "We should go and get the others; with their help he'd stand no chance!"
"We can't," Anubismon stopped to lean against an alley wall, "If we leave him alone, he'll use the eggs and siphon them for power…"
"What do you mean?" Valkyrimon looked up in horror.
"I…helped him learn how to siphon the eggs potential energy," Brendan's voice whispered, "He…used it to make DinoRexmon, and then set the beast loose…"
"THAT WAS YOU!" screamed Valkyrimon loudly. Valkyrimon raised her sword and snarled at Anubismon. Her hand seized her sword. "You…you…" She closed her eyes, "You should have known better!"
"I know, it was stupid, no, it was moronic, I should have never ever, ever touched those eggs and letting myself do it was sacrilege, but I'm really sorry, that's why we have to stop him, so he can't continue my mistake!" Brendan's voice wavered slightly, "I'll understand, if you never forgive me, I don't deserve it…"
"Now's not the time!" Valkyrimon latched onto Anubismon's hand and yanked him into the shadows. She turned and looked into Anubismon's eyes, "Brendan, you did something very wrong, and you'll have to pay for it, that's all I can say."
"Uh oh," Anubismon growled and pointed up, "I think he's grown tired of tracking us down…" AndroDramon was hovering above the city and both of his arms were drawn up and in their canon form.
"There are eggs that survived!" yelped Valkyrimon. "We can't let…"
"FUSION CANON!" blue pulses rocketed downward from AndroDramon and exploded into the streets below.
"Keep running!" Anubismon pulled Valkyrimon behind him as they ran in front of the blasts.
"Eggs!" shouted Valkyrimon as they ran past a group of three bassinets. "Anubismon, hurry!"
The dog god swerved and with Valkyrimon ran towards the bassinets. A blue haze filled the air and the two biomerged digimon stopped as a blue, fusion explosion ripped into existence in front of them. The two digimon were tossed backward and slid across the ground. Valkyrimon crawled forward feverishly trying to rush to her feet.
"Valkyrimon, it's too late!" growled Anubismon.
"No…" Valkyrimon looked at the ash and charred shell left. Fading particles of golden light were dissolving into the air. "I won't allow it, they were innocent, we were the target, damn it!" Valkyrimon lifted her sword angrily, "It was supposed to be us! They didn't deserve this!"
The sword flashed white and a dart of light shot out and encapsulated the three fading golden lights of digital essence. The dust and ash swept up and the white light burned brightly and disappeared revealing three digi-eggs. Anubismon crept forward and looked at Valkyrimon, her sword and then the digi-eggs.
"Did…I just do…?" Valkyrimon looked at Anubismon.
"I think you did…" whispered Anubismon. He looked to Valkyrimon. "You know what that means…"
"It means…I get to use them in my experiments," AndroDramon chuckled softly. The two biomerged digimon swept around to see the metallic dragon hovering above them.
"No," Valkyrimon growled loudly, "You won't harm those eggs!"
"You won't be continuing those experiments!" shouted Anubismon as he lifted one of his arms and curled his claws forward, "Valkyrimon, you go somewhere safe with the eggs; I'll hold AndroDramon!"
"Anubismon…" replied the female as she looked at the dog god.
"Go now!" shouted Anubismon as he leapt into the sky. "Amemit!" sphere after sphere of golden energy exploded around AndroDramon as Anubismon dove and weaved around the metal dragon and Valkyrimon took up the eggs and retreated to safer ground. As the smoke settled from the strikes Anubismon drew his hands together and formed a triangle with his thumbs and pointer fingers, "Pyramid Power!" three golden lasers shot from each of the triangle's vertices and converged on AndroDramon. The dragon lifted his hand changing it into a blade and smacked the broadside of his blade against the lasers.
"You can't stand against me alone…" growled AndroDramon. "You are just prolonging the inevitable, the power of my master will cover this world in chaos with us ruling that which is left…and nothing you do can impede our will!"
"We may not be able to stop you," Anubismon growled and cupped his palms together, "but we can give you one hell of a fight! AMEMIT!" a maelstrom of godly power rocketed forward exploding into AndroDramon. The dragon groaned loudly and retreated as the golden light enveloped him. Anubismon glided backward and then turned retreating from the dragon.
It didn't take him long to locate Valkyrimon, who had taken up a position on the spire on a chapel. Anubismon alighted next to Valkyrimon.
"I have been thinking about my sword," said Valkyrimon as she held it out. "We may not be able to save the village from destruction, but we can evacuate it…"
"What do you mean?" huffed Anubismon as he looked at his counterpart.
"I could resurrect all the eggs here, and then we could take them away," replied Valkyrimon as she twirled the sword in her hand, "If we take the eggs from AndroDramon then he can't use them."
"He would see us moving them and try to stop us!" growled Anubismon loudly.
"Then we'll have to do it in shifts with one of us holding him off as the other carts the eggs off!" Valkyrimon snorted loudly as she lifted her sword, "We can't let him have the eggs at any cost!"
"But!" Anubismon started, but Valkyrimon already slashed her sword down.
The blade glowed bright white and fired down into the city. The light exploded into the ground and shot outward like a rock hitting a lake and a gold ring spread out from the beam's contact with the ground. The city glowed brightly and Anubismon shielded his eyes.
Valkyrimon gasped loudly as she poked Anubismon, "You need to see this!"
Anubismon turned and looked down. Thousands of golden balls of light floated around the buildings and hovered in the streets.
"What's going on?" Anubismon looked as one of the golden spheres flew towards him and plunged into his chest. Anubismon gasped, as he staggered back, a second and third approached and implanted themselves into the dog god.
"I have no idea…" Valkyrimon as she looked around. She growled. "Here he comes…again!" AndroDramon was slowly weaving around the gold spheres, seemingly inspecting them.
The three digi-eggs Valkyrimon had resurrected hovered in front of them. They cracked open and three baby digimon looked at them. The one on the right was a jiggling digimon with tiny round ears that topped its quivering round body that glowed with a golden energy, the second was a little golden puff with a fox-like tail, and the one on the left was a golden creature covered in smoke. The three baby digimon flew straight up to Anubismon's face and hovered there, staring at him.
"Uh…" Anubismon looked to Valkyrimon and then to the babies, "Hello…"
"Hello, guardian," said the golden puff with the fox tail, "I am Reremon," She indicated to her right, "this is Botamon, and this," she indicated to her left, "is Mokumon, we've come here as spokesmen of all those who've been resurrected and all those who have been under your protection…"
"Uh…" Anubismon looked to Valkyrimon.
"Don't look at me…" replied Valkyrimon as she looked at the three glowing digimon. "What's going on here?"
"We've come to help you fight against AndroDramon!" chirped Mokumon as he glided forward.
"What?" yelped the two biomerged digimon.
"We don't have much time, but in essence we all are willing to give up our energy to you, each and every sphere is a digimon willing to give up their energy to fight AndroDramon!" cheered Botamon. "Will you please take our power, Lord Anubismon?"
"I-I…" Anubismon flustered, "can't…can I?"
Valkyrimon snarled quietly and Anubismon looked up, "He's going to attack them!" Valkyrimon lifted her sword and shot toward AndroDramon. "Get away from them!"
Anubismon looked at the three digimon, "I can't! It would kill you, and I won't let you sacrifice yourselves…you have so much to live for…"
"If AndroDramon defeats you, we will be destroyed for his own twisted use," replied Reremon quietly. "We wish to give you the power to stop him!"
"That's what AndroDramon said to me about the other eggs…" Anubismon looked down and growled quietly, "I won't be like AndroDramon!"
"You won't be!" giggled the three babies then they looked at him seriously, "We are giving you the energy, AndroDramon stole it. We knew the consequences when we decided, and we're willing to make them, if only to stop that tyrant in his tracks…will you deny us our chance to fight back?"
Anubismon looked up. AndroDramon and Valkyrimon were crossing blades but the dragon was easily pushing the sprite back. The dragon laughed and then kneed Valkyrimon in the stomach and then morphed his other arm into a canon planting it against her chest and firing. Valkyrimon flew backward into a tall wall and fell forward.
"Do it…" growled Anubismon. "Give me everything you got!"
The three babies looked at each other and then in unison whistled loudly. The golden balls of light rose into the air and spun around. Anubismon gasped in awe as the lights dove at him.
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Valkyrimon looked up. Her body was numb in pain. Golden balls flew past and were flying towards a giant bulb of pulsing light. Valkyrimon lifted her arm slightly only to have it stepped on by a giant metallic foot.
"You'll never leave this place," growled AndroDramon's voice. "You've lost, you had lost the moment your friend resisted my power; nothing can stop me! I will be the new god of Reformation and nothing will stop me…I don't know what your friend is trying with his light show but it won't make a difference, I'll have him under my heel too."
"I wouldn't be so sure of yourself, tin can," rasped Valkyrimon quietly as she looked up.
The last balls of light rolled into the bulb. The gold light condensed until there was only a shadow of the one in the epicenter of the light. AndroDramon took a step back, freeing Valkyrimon. Amy summoned all the will she could and rolled over and started to crawl away from the dragon. She started to crawl towards the golden light. It was growing larger and larger in her view. She closed here eyes and looked up again. The light was standing in front of her. AndroDramon wasn't far behind her. She could hear his growling breath.
"Child, rest," whispered the light. A hand lowered itself down, "Let me take the burden from you…"
Amy felt layers and layers of something like clothing being peeled off of her and she felt something being pulled from her. Amy looked at her arms, they were human, she looked in front of her; Tsunomon was unconscious in front of her. Amy looked up. The light was Anubismon. He was new, and improved but still Anubismon.
Gold plated feathers were on large, shining, unfurled wings. Golden armor covered a wide chest and narrow but muscular stomach, and what had been long white robes were now golden, armored leggings. Golden armor covered the arms of the digimon in front of her. A long sword, not unlike the blade she carried as Valkyrimon, was in the digimon's right hand. A golden, hawk-shaped helmet covered the jackal-like features of the digimon.
"Anu…bismon," whispered Amy half consciously.
The digimon only nodded and then proceeded past her. Amy grasped Tsunomon silently and scooted slowly back as she watched the god digimon walked determinedly towards AndroDramon.
"Fusion Canon!" barked AndroDramon loudly as the barrel on his arm fired azure bolts into the glowing digimon, bolts that Anubismon deflected deftly with the broadside of his sword. AndroDramon growled and took a retreating step backward and let his arm morph again into a blade, "Metal Dragon…."
There was a flash of gold. Seconds later Anubismon was standing slightly behind and to one side of AndroDramon, his sword held out to his right. The blade morphed arm of the dragon dropped off of AndroDramon's body. AndroDramon only stared blankly at the area where the detached limb used to be. Wires sparked and black, viscous coolant flowed from the newly created orifice that used to be a shoulder. AndroDramon growled and turned morphing his other arm into a blade. Another flash of gold flashed past. This time the flashes left Anubismon looking down at Amy with his blade drawn forward. The metal dragon's other arm clanked to the ground as coolant spurted from the cleanly cut shoulder. AndroDramon turned and stared at Anubismon.
Anubismon turned and returned the gaze to AndroDramon. The god digimon's eyes glowed icily blue against his body's maize afterglow. The chassis of AndroDramon opened up revealing a row of missiles.
"Metal Dragon Strike!" roared AndroDramon as the missiles whistled forward. Anubismon cut across the line of projectiles. The missile dropped to the ground without detonating. AndroDramon looked at the god and then at the missiles and then back up at the god. He took a tenuous step backward, "Who…what…are you?"
Seconds ticked past. Anubismon looked coldly at AndroDramon and then took a slow step forward. He took a second step and then in a slow, cold voice he spoke. "I am divine judgment."
The metallic dragon staggered back. He opened his wings but gold flashes dropped the wings down to the ground and put Anubismon back to back with AndroDramon. The dragon let out a surprised gasp.
"Now you know how those eggs felt as they were slowly drained of their life force," said Anubismon coldly. "Don't you wish you could turn the clock back now…?"
The dragon gulped quietly and then stared down at Amy. "You haven't defeated me yet!"
The dragon rushed forward but he only got a step and a half before a golden arc sliced him longitudinally down the middle. There was a soft gurgle and a spurt of electricity and then the dragon's halves clattered to the ground. Anubismon glared down at the halves as the metallic beast melted into a reddish fluid. The fluid flowed to the other dismembered parts of the dragon, which also melted into reddish liquid. The liquid clumped together and then in little red balls lifted into the air. Anubismon growled and sliced at the spheroids and they sizzled into nothing upon contact.
After the last sphere fizzled to nothing; Anubismon released a loud sigh. The golden light sloughed off of the god. The armor disappeared and he returned to being the topless, white robed god digimon. He turned still holding the sword and he slowly dragged it over to Tsunomon. He gently touched the tip of the blade on Tsunomon's head. The small In Training digimon glowed brightly and evolved into Penguinmon.
Anubismon looked down at Amy and Penguinmon. "There is one thing I must do before my strength fails me…"
He kneeled down and lifted Amy and Penguinmon and with a laborious flap of his wings took off towards the palace. He glided around the midmost tower, slowly rising up the brickwork. He gently touched down on a large balcony and pushed open the large doors. He walked into a dark room. There were no pictures in the room, and nothing inhabited it, save a large well. Amy followed the god digimon as he moved to the stony edge of the well. Amy looked down at the innards of the well. A murky black liquid swirled around in the well. Amy looked up.
"What is that stuff?" whispered Amy as she looked at the solemn face of the god digimon.
"This represents the balance of the Digital World's data incoming data, but the forces of evil have worked to plunge the future into shivering, sunless darkness," whispered Anubismon quietly. "Stagnancy has allowed the evil data to contaminate the good data. The Data Weaver has not been cleansed in a very long time…and has been in contact with too many tainted wills."
Anubismon sighed quietly and closed his eyes. A golden light flowed through his body and he slowly lifted his arm and the energy flowed into his limb. He extended a finger and the light collected in the tip of his claw. Gently he lowered his claw into the well water. The light disappeared into the darkness and Anubismon lifted his hand out of the well.
"What did you do?" asked Amy quietly.
"Those that sacrificed themselves, have been sent to cleanse the weaver," replied Anubismon. He gasped loudly and dropped to his knees. A light swept over him and soon Brendan and Tapirmon were lying on the ground.
"Brendan!" Amy kneeled next to the boy. He was asleep. Amy looked over to Tapirmon. The little digimon was lying against the well, also deep asleep.
"They must be completely tapped," whispered Penguinmon with a deep yawn. "As a matter of fact…I'm a tad tired myself…" The blue bird leaned against the well and closed her eyes.
"We're all tired…" Amy felt her eyelids droop slightly. "Sleep, would be…" Amy dropped down next to Brendan fast asleep.
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"So…" Chaos Piedmon growled as he watched Anubismon dispatch of AndroDramon like a butcher does of a side of beef. "One is down...what a disappointment; and here I thought AndroDramon would be a feature presentation…not some preview cartoon…oh well."
The clown threw a glance behind himself. Mr. Ishida was suspended still, in a translucent, red, viscous, fluid sphere. Tendrils of the condensed fluid snapped hungrily at his chest and arms, implanting themselves feverishly into his flesh. The man made no response as the tendrils dug into the skin and routed around. A number were already attached to his forehead and the human's brow twitched in agitation as the tendrils did their job. A flurry of tendrils were stabbing into the human's chest and retracting themselves and then reinserting themselves. Each of the tendrils clasped the tag and crest that laid on his chest.
"You like that don't you?" asked the clown quietly as a mischievous grin played over his lips. "All that darkness, you thrive on the stuff, don't you?" Chaos Piedmon then lazily caste his eyes back up at the monitors and smirked. The next game was about to begin. Chaos Piedmon shivered with a smile on his face. "Let the next act take the stage."
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Well this chapter is not nearly as long, but we got one! One Chaos Master down…I don't know, I liked AndroDramon, and partially wish I could have extended his story out, but really I'm playing two to three chapters on each Chaos Master, I don't know why. It's a work in progress, I wanted Assaultmon's arc to be relatively short and that turned into the longest one so far I think.
Blue: Well sort of, I Need a Hero was the only club song I could think of. More Biomerges to come. Yes, those twelve baby digimon, I tried to make it obvious, now can you identify the three we had this chapter? I also fixed what you pointed out. This chapter probably is a little lackluster, compared to the previous ones. Or I always feel that there are only two or three truly good chapters in any of the stories I post and the others are rather lacking in comparison.
Dark Qiviut: I sent the email, and I am glad it was satisfactory. I too was aggravated by the unannounced downtime that Fanfiction had, but there is nothing that could be done, although I'd like to know what was fixed, but eh. I am not interested in how soon you review, in fact, I'm glad I was able to administer my repairs before reviews flew in. Actually I don't get worried if one or maybe two chapters don't get reviews but it is disconcerting when something like, five or six chapters don't garner reviews of any kind. This chapter has come faster than I anticipated, probably because I already had it written in my mind.
No, I had it in my mind that Jason and Janet would be attracted to each other since maybe a few chapters before Phantomon's rage. I mean, sure she called it CPR…(that comment is just kidding).
Alforce: I hope your exams are coming off ok.