Call of the Spirit

I don't own Digimon

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"Talking"

'Thoughts'

)-( Scene change

(----) Different point of view

(-/-/-) Flash back

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Chapter 14

He watches as Jeri leaves with Henry and Terriermon. He frowns at the scene. He can't help but feel that something's not quite right, but then he's upset over what's happening in the Digital World, so he dismisses the feeling.

He looks around for Impmon, but isn't surprise to find that the virus took off. He notices that Calumon is now trailing after Henry's group. He hopes that Calumon can help get Jeri out of whatever it is that's come over her. He's known Jeri for a long time and knows that this isn't normal.

Soon his parents take them to the bakery. His parents had made supper and they sit down to eat. After supper, he heads up stairs to take a bath. He also wouldn't mind getting out of his cloths, he's been wearing them since they started their journey into the Digital World and wouldn't mind some other colour skim then blue and brown. He think he has a orange shirt and a pair of black pants laying around in his drawers somewhere.

He pauses after he took off his shirt. He takes out that book with all of his information in it. He opens it up and looks through it. He soon finds the pages for Cerawmon. He reads the info and then he looks for his Fusion form, but isn't surprised when he can't find it. He shakes his head and then closes the book. He leaves it on the desk and continues to get undressed.

)-()-(

He wakes as Guilmon is shaking him. "What's wrong?" He asks sleepily. "It's here." Guilmon says. He frowns and asks, "What's here?" "The D-Reaper." Guilmon says. He blinks rapidly at this piece of information. Then he moves to sit up and then to stand. He moves towards the window and opens it. He looks around and doesn't see anything. He closes the window and leaves his room.

He finds the TV and turns it on. He soon channel surfs until he finds a channel with a picture of a large red mass. It's emerged close to the Hypnos building. He swallows as he stares at the TV. He turns and heads to the phone. He dials Rika's number, hoping that someone will answer.

"Hello?" A tired voice asks. "I know it's late, but can I speak with Rika? By the way, this is Takato." He says. He hears the phone get up down and then as whoever it is that's carrying the phone says, "Rika, Takato's on the phone for you." Theres sounds of grumbling and soon Rika says, "This had better be good, goggle head." "Find a TV and turn to station 23. You wouldn't believe what's appeared." He says. He hears Rika curse, but she moves out of her room.

Soon he hears a click as Rika turns on the TV. He begins to hear the same voice on Rika's end as on his. "O fuck." Rika says into the phone. "O fuck, sounds about right." He agrees. "You tried Henry?" Rika asks. "I don't thinks he's back yet from escorting Jeri home." He replies. They just remain silent as they both watch their TV sets.

"Now what?" Rika muses. "Don't know, but I doubt our parents will want us fighting that." He answers. "You got a point, goggle head." Rika says. "We can continue this in the morning. I'm tired and I'm sure you are too." He says. "Talk to you later then. Don't know if you'll get much sleep though." Rika says and then they both hang up the phone. He turns off the TV and heads back up stairs. He collapses onto his side of the floor. He hears Guilmon then lay down beside him. Slowly he drifts back into slumber.

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He finishes packing his stuff, including the book. He's currently wearing a green shirt with an image of some company's logo. He has on his goggles as well as a pair of blue jeans. His D-Ark is clipped onto one of the belt lops and his deck is on his belt. He looks around his room and then closes his pack. His other suitcases were resting at the top of the stairs.

He shoulders the pack and walks out of his room. He then takes the large suitcase and heads down stairs with it. His dad takes it from him and he then heads back up to grab his two smaller ones. He walks out of the bakery with them and puts one onto the street. He then loads the other into the trunk and then picks up the other one. Once it's loaded in, he closes the trunk. He heads into the back seat and the van begins to move.

His parents rented a van to take them to out of the city. The military is busy trying to deal with the D-Reaper. The whole city is being evacuated of anyone not with the military. His parents have rented a house, it'll be where they'll be living until the D-Reaper is sent packing.

He doesn't know how the D-Reaper followed them, but he knows that he'll be back. He feels certain about that, he knows that it'll take a lot, but he's willing to bet that the others will also be joining him too. He knows he'll fight this thing by using his spirits or with Guilmon, for he's not just going to sit back and let his partner and best friend fight this thing.

'The Digimon call you Chaos, D-Reaper. I have the spirits of Shifting Chaos, lets see who earns the that title, D-Reaper.' He thinks as the van enters into a busy street. He stares into the direction of Hypnos.

(----Rika----)

It's been three days since they returned. The D-Reaper is still growing and nothing the military does has any real effects on the red mass. She just knows it's a matter of time before she and the others join in. She stares out the window, in the direction of the Hypnos building. Her family hasn't had to move yet, but they might in a few days time.

"Rika?" Renamon asks. "I just can't stand doing nothing, Renamon. Not with it out there." She says. "I feel the same way, Rika. Should we go then?" Renamon asks. She thinks it over and says, "Let's do it, Renamon. Let's go."

Before she leaves gets a chance, her mother enters. "You're going out, aren't you?" Her mother asks. "Yea." She says in an uncomfortable tone. 'I know I don't want you to go. I can't stand the thought of losing you." Her mom says. "But I know you have to do this. Here, change into this." Her mom says as she hands over a T-shirt with the heart being whole. "We'll match." Her mom adds as she takes off her jacket. She smiles as she notices the shirt her mother is wearing. "Thanks mom." She says, her voice filled with emotions. "You do what you have to, honey." Her mom says.

(----Takato----)

He grins as they walk through the tunnel. He feels energized for the first time since the D-Reaper has appeared. He had just felt plain uncomfortable at the rented house with his parents. He had withdrawn into himself, for he was getting an overload of depressing feelings, mostly hopelessness and sadness. He doesn't know where those feelings were coming from, he just needed something to focus on and he founded it.

He can still feel those emotions, but he doesn't let them distract him. He reaches out to Guilmon from his side of the link and can feel Guilmon's joy and determination. He looks at Guilmon from the corner of his eye and then lets the connection slide slightly. He needs Guilmon to keeps him grounded emotionally; it was Guilmon that gave him the courage to finally come here and to snap out of the funk he had descended in.

The emotions were getting stronger as they go, but he steels himself from them. It'll take him time to dig deeper into those feelings, but that time isn't now though. He is wearing his blue hoody and his cargo pants, he feels better and more secure dressed in these cloths. He has his goggles in their usual place on his head and he can feel the weight of his D-Tector inside his pocket. His deck rests on his left side as his D-Ark hits his right leg as he walks.

They make it to the exit of the tunnel, over by the park where Guilmon makes his home. "Finally! I was getting depressed in there." Rika says as they walk out of the building. He feels the negative emotions almost flood out his scents, but then they subside leaving him feeling a bit weak, but fine. He blinks a few times and then his head clears. He gets curious looks from the others and he explains, "I've been receiving negative feelings since the D-Reaper appeared. It's been distracting." The others look concerned and Henry asks, "Are you should you can do this?" He nods at this, he could see that they're still concerned, but they trust him.

As they pass the park, they notice something funny. "Are those eyes?" Terriermon asks. "I don't know." Henry answers. Then the figures move closer to them. "What are they doing here?" He asks. "Do we care? Lets get out of here!" Rika suggests. They leave the park, they watch as the things moves up above the tree line.

They wonder around the city, avoiding the military as they do. It gets late and he suggests camping out at the school. They don't find much in the cafeteria, they find a room and they put some of the desks together so they don't have to sleep on the floor.

He can't sleep, he just felt too energized to sleep. He also thinks he can find the centre of where all this negative emotions are being sent from. He looks over at the others, he didn't want to leave, but he just needs to follow this flow of emotions. He looks out the window and he contemplates what he should do.

"Can't sleep?" Terriermon asks. He looks over at the rookie and nods. "I think I can find the focus point of all these emotions I'm receiving, Terriermon." He says to the Digimon. Terriermon moves away from the sleeping form of Henry and hops onto the closest desk. "You want to go, huh?" Terriermon asks. He nods at this, saying, "But I don't want to worry them." He glances over to the others and takes out his D-Tector. "Momentai! If you're not back when they wake up, I'll tell them where you went. So go already!" Terriermon says and he smiles as he nods.

He opens the window and he jumps out of it. He summons the data for his Beast spirit, Cerawmon. He transforms into Cerawmon effortlessly, he flaps his wings and grains high as he flyings through the night. He can fully feel the emotional current of negativity.

He notices that the military has noticed him, but weren't firing at him, which relieved him. He flies higher over the D-Reaper and his gaze is drawn to the twin towers of the Hypnos building. As he soars overhead, he spots some kind of robed being takes aim at him. He evades the attacking ball and pulls higher into the air. He notices the cord that attaches the being to the red mass below.

"It's some kind of drone." He whispers as he heads back towards the school. He finds whatever was inside the park fly towards him. He closes his wings and dives towards a spot on the ground. He even flaps his wings to help him gain speed, like a falcon. He passes the watchers without touching any of them and then suddenly opens his wings wide and shifts his weight around. He then gains height and speed, zooming quickly beyond the watchers. He finds a place to land and lands on a roof.

He breathes heavily after he lands. His wings fold up and he then slowly moves on all fours across the roof. He finds the fire escape and transforms back into his human self. He then climbs off down the fire escape. He reaches the street and starts to head back to the school.

He now knows where the focus point of the emotions and most likely the D-Reaper. He doesn't know why the D-Reaper is sending out those emotions, but he can hazarded a guess. He pulls out his D-Tector and says, "Leomon, I should have kept a better eye on her for you. I just hope we'll be able to get through to her before it's too late. This is going to be a real ugly fight; I hope I'll be able to unite the two of you." He then puts his D-Tector back into his pocket.

He wonders how Henry will take this turn of events. Though he doesn't have any real proof yet, but everything is connecting for him once he accepted that the D-Reaper is using Jeri. 'Or more acutely, Jeri's grief over mover then just Leomon's deletion.' He thinks, he just sighs and can feel the beginnings of a headache coming on.

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They watch as Yamaki and his two associates disappear into the van. The van leaves and he hopes what information he gave to the three. He hears a sigh and turns to find that it's Henry that sighed. He smiles sadly, wondering just what Henry is thinking.

"So its time for us to give it a go, huh?" Rika muses out loud. He nods at that and says, "Their only drones, so there must be some kind of brain around the Hypnos building. It might also be where we find the real Jeri." They talked it over as they had walked to the bakery, the figured that sometime when they were battling Zhqiaomon to when Shibumi appeared it is when Jeri might have been drawn to the D-Reaper. It then cloned Jeri and sent the clone to them.

Sad to say, it's most likely their fault for not keeping a better eye on her. But the true blame lies with the D-Reaper, for leading Jeri to itself. It also explains why his six scent was out of whack; he had been with the enemy and didn't realize it. He had thought that it's from the storm that messed with him, now he realizes his mistake; he just hopes his able to right it before things get any more whacked.

"Time for us to do this." He says. The others nod their agreements and they set off towards the red mass. Once they some within sight of it, they all take out a card and focus on that card to become a blue card. Soon Guilmon, Renamon, and Terriermon Digivolve into their ultimate level forms, skipping their champion forms.

WarGrowlmon takes to the air and is followed by Rapidmon and Taomon. The type of drone that tried took a shot at him are turning to face their partners. He connects up to WarGrowlmon, not enough to see things through his partner's eyes, but enough to give WarGrowlmon a power boost.

The robed drones turn to face the on slot of their partners' attacks. Rapidmon uses Rapid Fire on a pair of attack drones. Taomon uses Talisman of Light on a few. WarGrowlmon uses Atomic Blaster on the last three. As the smoke clears, they find the drones none the worst for wear. They're even more stunned when the robe drones use the same attacks that their partners used. He's not surprised to feel WarGrowlmon's injuries, but he hears Henry and Rika cry out in pain as well.

He sends out a wave of energy to help WarGrowlmon recover quickly, WarGrowlmon is the first to get up and once more WarGrowlmon attacks the robed drones, this time using his Radiation Blades. The attack hits two of the cords as the drones dodge his partner's attack. Before their eyes, they watch as two of the drones vanish into red globs. "The cords!" He says, totally shock at this discovery.

The other robed drones soon swarm around his partner; they use their blades and hooks on WarGrowlmon. Since WarGrowlmon is more built for power then agility, his partner couldn't evade the drones' attacks. He cries out at the same time as WarGrowlmon. He is sent back as his partner lands hard on the ground. He coughs and finds himself aching all over.

Rapidmon and Taomon rejoin the fight once WarGrowlmon is down. He watches as WarGrowlmon transforms into Guilmon. He smiles sadly at his partner and makes his way towards Guilmon once he gets off the ground. He can hear the cries of Rapidmon and Taomon. He also hears Henry and Rika yell out encouragements to their respective partners. He kneels down by Guilmon once he's by the rookie's side.

"You did great boy. We'll just watch for now." He says to Guilmon. Guilmon nods at that and he then sits cross-legged on the ground by Guilmon's side. He turns to watch Rapidmon and Taomon move in and out of battle. But sadly, more robed drones begin to appear and Rapidmon and Taomon begin to flag.

He doesn't feel well enough to Spirit evolve into either of his spirit forms. He watches as Taomon is thrown to the ground by one of the robed drones using WarGrowlmon's Atomic Blaster. A few minutes later, Rapidmon is thrown right into Taomon as the mage Digimon begins to get up.

Just as the drones take aim at them, they hear a familiar voice cry out, "Corona Blaster!" This attack wipes out over half of the attacking drones. He turns to find Beelzemon with a huge gun walking towards the group. Beelzemon also has black angel wings on his back; he also takes note of the fact that Beelzemon has green eyes.

"Beelzemon?" Rika asks. "It's Beelzemon Blaster Mode now." Beelzemon BM says. Once Beelzemon BM stops, the mega level Digimon once more uses his huge gun. "Corona Blaster!" The attack takes out the remaining drones. Then Beelzemon BM turns and asks, "What are you waiting for? I think a retreat is in order." He nods and says, "Thanks for the help."

He turns to look at the others and find that Rapidmon and Taomon have returned to their rookie forms. They soon leave the scene before more drones appear. As they make their way back to the school, he looks around and asks, "Where did Beelzemon run off to?"

To be continued …