Chapter 15 - Telamon's Reason, Takuya's Promise

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"Speech"

'Thoughts, Takuya/Telamon's Inner Voice, Memories, L.I.K. and D.I.K.'

'Telamon's Thoughts'

(I really should just drop this whole 'this means that' thing, last chapter Telamon spoke to Kouji like this, not this.)

"Remarkable...Telamon...You've managed to save them all until now." Heraldomon's voice echoed around the room and the digi-destined ('cept Kouji and Takuya -unconscious-) shivered. "I knew I chose right when I kidnaped that boy...the one with such a fire in him...that it could melt even Matamon's icy heart..."

Matamon stiffened at the comment. Heraldomon knew...Kouji had to inwardly shudder at the thought of Takuya and Matamon together, as did the others. But Telamon remained unfazed.

"But the battle...ends...here..." it sounded...like a threat...

"Ah..." Matamon's blue eyes widened in shock and fear behind his red mask. He lowered his head to stare at the hand now through his stomach. "L-lord Heraldomon..." he muttered.

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"I don't need a faggot warrior..." was the near silent, but still near deadly whisper next to his ear...and Matamon's eyes widened again as the hand was ripped ungracefully from his gut.

Zoe had her hands to her mouth, eyes wide in surprise and fear. J.P. and Tommy had gasped at the action and were still staring with wide eyes at the scene. Kouichi dropped his paintball gun and it clattered noisily to the ground in the now silent room. Kouji had grabbed Telamon's hand a moment after the hand had been stabbed into Matamon, and he was squeezing it slightly in search of comfort.

Telamon's head had snapped to the relative location of their hands when it happened. At first, he didn't know what happened, but then the smell of Matamon's blood reached his nose and his eyes narrowed to near closed. He gave Kouji's hand a slight squeeze, this boy was definitely...worthy of his 'other self.'

"Telamon...I have to wonder, truthfully..." Heraldomon spoke as he walked past Matamon (now laying on the floor) and flicked blood from his white gloves. "Why do you protect these humans?"

They all got a good look at him now, the leader of these digimon...

His hair went to the floor and was a deep blue color...like the twins hair...His eyes were the same gold that Telamon's used to be. His skin was somewhat pale, but the only way you could tell was because his face wasn't covered. His arms and legs were long, so he was tall. If he had to guess, Kouji would say Heraldomon was well over 6 foot tall.

He wore a truly black cloak, which covered the rest of his clothing perfectly. He was intimidating, just by standing there. Zoe wondered why all of their enemies (recently and excluding Baronmon) were so handsome.

"Do you like them that much?" his golden eyes traveled momentarily to Kouji and Telamon's clasped hands.

As if reading his mind, Telamon released the younger twin's hand, a glare in place on his face.

"Like them? I hate them!" he yelled angrily. The three teens in the corner gasped as the twins gave him bewildered looks. "But..." Telamon lowered his blind eyes to the floor and saw tears falling in his mind as he remembered a rainy day...

"But?" Heraldomon pushed, taking a step forward, so that he was now fully in front of Matamon's body.

"I don't...want to continue living in this lie." the fire digi began, emotion evident in his voice. "I want to remember...I...I want to live knowing it hasn't been a waste!" he raised his head, something defiant burning in black eyes. "I wanna know...what it's like to see again. I can't remember...what it was like to be human, or if I was ever one. But I know now...what I want."

Kouji noted clenched fists as the digimon continued.

"I want nothing more than this. Nothing at all!" but what was 'this'? "I want to know who this Takuya Kanbara was, who he is still...That's so much more important to me...than anything else!"

The digidestined were all staring at him in awe and (in the twins cases) understanding.

"He's awkward and loud, and he's not even that smart." Telamon continued with a little laugh. "But he managed to make even me stop...and look at what I was doing to the people around me. And that...matters to me." Telamon suddenly lifted his head, eyes, and arm.

He stared in Heraldomon's general direction, a determined look on his face, and pointed to him.

"You are no longer my 'Lord' Herladomon!" he shouted.

Silence followed. It echoed everywhere in the deep vastness of the underground base they were in. No one spoke...until...

Heraldomon's laugh broke it all. Everyone snapped back to reality and broke the gazes from Telamon, still pointing at Heraldomon, to said digimon. He was holding his face lightly with his right hand, head back as he laughed...as if someone had told a joke.

'You bastard!' Telamon thought with anger, beginning to shake as he lowered his hand and intensified his glare.

Heraldomon continued laughing until-

Splssssssshhhhhhhh...

The dark haired digi was now covered in water, caused by a rather large water balloon landing on his head. Kouji lowers his arm from throwing position, a glare on his face too.

"You bastard..." he muttered with venom dripping from every letter. Telamon inwardly smirked at the similarity of their thoughts.

Heraldomon smirked as he ripped his cloak off, revealing an entirely different outfit underneath that was completely unique...among these particular digimon...of course...

He wore white gloves with black palms and black shoes with white squiggly lines on the sides. He had on a perfectly white suit, a white rose in his right chest pocket. It clashed badly with his hair...but oh well.

"Doesn't matter if my cloak is wet, for my real outfit lies underneath!" the boisterous digimon exclaimed. "You see, my true favorite color is actually white, but all of my minions dislike bright things. So I created this cloak and with it, hid what I wore! It truly was ingenious, really."

The digidestined sweat-dropped at his change in demeanor.

"I use flower petals for my weapons, you know. They seem so harmless, but can be deadly. Fascinating. Of course, I'd never use white roses, or roses at all really. They're too pure for such a thing, you see. I can change anything into a digimon and a digimon into anything. That's how I made Telamon out of a mere human."

Twitch.

"Even if that human did have extraordinary abilities beforehand, I enhanced them amillion times over, and I could do it a million times again!"

"Shut up."

"And I-" he froze before dropping the smile and glaring at Telamon. "Excuse me?"

"I said 'Shut Up,' you idiotic bag of hot air. All you do is talk, I swear!" Telamon yelled, annoyed. Heraldomon glared harder.

Both of them got ready to fight. The twins (mainly Kouji) moved away from Telamon when he began to get unbearably hot. Heraldomon's aura was huge, yet not too big either. Neither one seemed more powerful than the other, just by their auras.

Heraldomon suddenly gasped as his aura disappeared. Telamon blinked blindly, the heat dying away quickly. Blue digicode surrounded the white-clad digimon and everyone (save Telamon, who's blind) looked to the reason why.

Matamon, still with a gaping hole in his stomach, had his hand up near Heraldomon's chest, but in the back. But it wasn't his hand going through his leader's chest...it was his red, pointy mask.

"I bet...you never knew...my mask was a poisoned weapon...huh my lord?" he smirked with a hint of a laugh.

Digicode appeared around him too, and he turned to Telamon. Everyone that could see his face (not Telamon) could now see that Matamon was actually a very beautiful person...without his mask on.

"Telamon...I'm sorry...for everything..." he whispered, and it was truthful. "Good-bye."

The digicode around both digimon unraveled and ran right into Takuya, who screamed.

And it wasn't just Telamon screaming. Takuya's voice was there too. (Think, purification of Kouichi for a somewhat visual) Digicode appeared around them as Kouji ran up, worry etched onto his face.

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"Takuya...Takuya!" Telamon yelled in fear as he felt himself being pulled away.

In Takuya's mind, it was like a whirlwind, a hurricane. Trying to rip to two souls inside completely apart, and break the few ties that kept them as one.

"Telamon?" Takuya grabbed his hand as the other was lifted away by force. "I promised...that everything would be okay! ...I promise Telamon! I promise! I won't let you go!"

Telamon smiled sadly at him, and Takuya could see tears forming in his eyes. They began to fall moments before their hands broke apart, both boys' eyes widening.

"TAKUYA!"

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To everyone outside, it was painful to hear their friend screaming. The voices seemed to break into two separate people and they saw Telamon/Takuya's form darken, like just before a purification.

The digicode began to unravel, Takuya and Telamon's screams fading as it floated into the air and vanished without a trace. Takuya, now in the air (and Takuya again), began to fall. Kouji reached out as the brunette fell into his arms, both falling with some grace to the floor.

Takuya opened his eyes, revealing them to be very unusually bright brown.

"It's so...dark..." he managed before he was out.

"Takuya? Takuya!" Kouji called as the other's yelled and ran over.

Takuya's form began glowing gold, and it grew until they could no longer see anything but the light. When it was gone, they were back in the park where they teleported from...not even the burn marks from the transport were still there...

"Let's go." Zoe said in a somewhat strong voice, motioning to Takuya, and they all knew what she meant.

Out : And there I go again! Getting rid of characters!

Onee-chan : I liked Telamon's speach...

Out : Me too. -smile- And I now know when Takuya gets all his memories back! I'll point it out too! It's next chapter though...whoo...that's the last chapter!