Chapter 20: Joyeaux
Return Shift: Brendan Mehu –Present, second day in The Digital world-
There was a moment of shock and awe about what had just happened. We all knew Matt would get a partner sooner or later. I just never expected it to be Codamon. Matt got up and stood next to Codamon, it was the happiest I'd seen him since we came to the Digital world. We all walked over to see how they were.
"So, I guess you guys are hitched now huh?" said K. I chuckled, whether it was a joke or not.
"Yeah, I guess so." Matt said looking at Codamon.
"That's great though, now we'll be an even stronger force. So, we've got Kayla and Gotsumon, Nick and Fatomon, Matt and Codamon, and Herpetomon and I, Awesome. Tamers and partners doing it for themselves." I said enthusiastically. As Enthusiastic as it sounded, I, as well as the rest of the group was very tired from the fight and the walk.
"Well, that's great, but I say we stay here for the night." Said Nick.
"Yeah, good idea." Said Codamon.
"Fine, we'll stay here for tonight then go until we reach that city tomorrow." I said. The darkness hadn't come around yet so we decided to just sit around until it did. K, Gotsumon, Herpetomon and I were sitting by the same tree. Across the path Fatomon was leaning on a tree and Nick, Matt, and Codamon were sitting around it. The path was long on either side of us; I could barely make out the end. However in the distance I could make out a very faint spike reaching into the sky, I took this to be Hub Tower.
"Man, it's so weird not having to eat anything." Matt said.
"You get used to it." Fatomon said.
"Yeah, sure, but it's still weird." Matt said.
"Yes, very odd!" I yelled unnecessarily across to them. K laughed.
"Oh, that reminds me, what do you think of these crests?" I asked everyone.
"I like them." Herpetomon said.
"I know you like them, I was asking my fellow tamers." I said and stuck my tongue out at him.
"Pretty cool, you know I'd get strength." Nick said. He turned and hit Fatomon in the leg. Those two have a weird relationship.
"Right. I think so too, but I don't see why I got Sincerity, I don't do too much to help out." Kayla said.
"Well, with crests it doesn't matter how much you help out, it has to do with the person that you are. I haven't known you for that long, but you seem like a pretty sincere girl." Codamon said. K blushed a little.
"I'm happy with mine. I think I'm pretty joyous, right?" I said.
"Yeah, you are." Nick said.
"Well, kind of." Said Kayla, Herpetomon was nodding with her.
"Whaddya mean?" I asked
"Well sometimes you get so serious, and angry. You aren't very happy then, but most of the time you are." She said.
"Right." I assumed she was talking about my fight with Nick, and maybe some other things. I assumed this had to do with Herpetomon's 'dark side' and mine I decided to wait until we reached the sovereign to ask about the alert-mode problem. Just then the darkness swept past.
"Damn, I'll never get used to that." Matt said.
"Well, time for…bed." I said. I sat next to Herpetomon and we leaned on each others shoulders. K sat with Gotsumon in her lap. Matt laid back and rested his head on Codamon's back. And Nick sat back to back with Fatomon.
"Good night Herpetomon, good night Kayla, good night Gotsumon, good night Nick, good night Fatomon, good night---" I began to whisper out loud to everyone.
"Shut up and go to sleep!" K said.
"Aww man." I said. Some chuckled, or maybe it was snoring.
I was the first one up in the morning. I opened my eyes and peeked around. It was still dark, but I could feel the morning would be coming on soon. I decided to get up, but Herpetomon was sleeping on my shoulder. I moved his head so it was resting on the tree instead and I got up.
"Couldn't sleep?" Herpetomon said. I turned around and he was already wide awake.
"What's with you?" I said. "Have you been up that whole time?"
"Yeah, I've just been :yawn: resting my eyes." He said.
"Well whatever. Isn't this awesome? We're here, living my dream." I said.
"Yeah, I know. I still can't wait to see, or, be my Ultimate. And I can't wait to ask the sovereign all of our questions." Herpetomon said. Suddenly the wave of light swept across the land, banishing the darkness.
"Well, time to go." I said. I went around waking up those who weren't aroused by the impromptu sunlight. Some resisted, but most woke up easily.
"Ok, come on, let's get moving." I said. I was full of energy so I led the rest of the group. Kayla kept complaining that her neck hurt, among other things. I couldn't blame her, I'm sure we were all aching from sleeping outside. Not to mention the fight yesterday.
"Codamon how much longer do you think until we reach the city?" Matt asked his partner.
"Not much farther I think, I had to come down this way to get you and it seems like we're very close." He responded.
"I think I can see it actually." I said. As we turned with a bend in the forest I could spot the tower again and in front of it I could make out tall buildings, a real city.
"Hey Codamon, will the Sovereign be at the Hub Tower?" Herpetomon asked.
"I'm not sure. They may be too busy to come to Mainland and assist. We'll have to wait and see. Why" Codamon said.
"We have some questions for them." I said butting in.
"Well, fair enough." Codamon said. We were finally nearing the city. In it I saw some real city bustling, but it was strange seeing a city full of Digimon. All of us except Fatomon and Codamon, who'd obviously been here before, were surprised at the sheer size of the city. It seems like the forest literally ended at the city. We took one step and we were in the forest and on the next step we were on a sidewalk. There were roads all around, but no cars. The only machinery I could see was some kind of train up ahead. The buildings were all quite large and looked like skyscrapers, but I noticed they weren't as large as ones in the real-world. Before we'd taken 3 steps out of the forest Codamon already had a fan-club of little Digimon fan-boys following him around. They asked about his missions and what he was doing in the city, but Codamon said that he couldn't tell them.
"Alright, I'm sorry, but we have work to do, goodbye." Codamon said and began walking away. His fans watched with total admiration when Codamon left.
"Hey, when are we going to have a fan-club?" Nick asked.
"When we save the world, Ok? Only people who save the world get fan-clubs." I said and laughed at myself. We walked by food stands with Digimon calling
"Fresh fruit here." I just didn't know why they were selling fruit if you don't need to eat in the Digital world. Well, you don't need to eat, but why not, right? We also passed stored with various and accessories and things for Digimon, it was kind of funny. I recognized so many Digimon, I saw a Palmon, a group of Biyomon walking around, and even an Angemon or two. It was a totally new experience for me, for all of the humans. I was really enjoying it. We came to a big 4-way intersection, but still I saw no cars. There was the tower straight ahead. Suddenly on the skyscraper to the right of us I saw a bolt of darkness strike. It was a sudden bolt of dark energy that hit the building. Some of the Digimon ran, some stayed to see what would happen. When the darkness cleared we could see a large, dark form attached to the building. It looked like some kind of beast Digimon, wolf-like, only I couldn't tell whether it was flesh or something else. It looked like its body was purely made up of dark energy.
"What is that thing?" I asked Codamon.
"I don't know, I've never seen anything like that before." Codamon said. The other Digimon agreed. The Beast Digimon then began running down the building towards some Digimon who were running away at the bottom. Then, from it's miasma body it grew two sharp tentacle-like appendages that grew down like scythes and destroyed about 9 Digimon easily. The Beast was now standing on the ground.
"I don't know who he is, but any Digimon who could just do something like that must be with Alice-M." Kayla said. I was speechless, he came like a reaper and destroyed innocence. I wouldn't stand for it. I took out my D-Gadget.
"His name is Ruhemon." I said "Ultimate level, wait, what, His attribute is unknown. This is no normal Digimon." The beast had turned to us and began to head for us slowly. Some of the Digimon who decided to stay were about to charge him when Codamon yelled "Stop!"
"Please, leave now, this does not concern you and we don't need anyone else getting hurt, please go, we'll handle this." Codamon said. The Digimon though for a while, and then followed Codamon's order and retreated. Leaving the 8 of us and him.
"Herpetomon Go!" I yelled. I hadn't noticed it, but Herpetomon was savagely alert this time, it probably had something to do with this unknown Digimon, Ruhemon. While Herpetomon was running up to Ruhemon, Fatomon, Codamon, and Gotsumon were all sent out also. Herpetomon reached Ruhemon and began slashing at I to no avail. Fatomon came also, but the slashing of his sword did nothing, it phased through the monster. Same with Gotsumon, his punches did nothing.
"Stop, now!" Codamon said. Ruhemon disregarded him and continued to approach us. Codamon began flipping up his arsenal while the other Digimon retreated.
"Laser Dynamo!" Codamon called and began unloading on Ruhemon. Ruhemon stopped moving, but the laser shots were travelling right through him. Codamon looked distressed. Ruhemon began growing new scythe like arms. He slashed one at Codamon, the blade phased through his, but we could still feel the impact of it. The Dark scythe had gone through him, but it still harmed him. Codamon's attack stopped and he fell to his side. Then Ruhemon began bolting around like he had come originally. He bolted behind Fatomon first. "Fatomon!." I yelled, too late, he began to turn around, but he was already hit. The same scythe attack as before. Fatomon crumpled to the ground. The Ruhemon darted behind Gotsumon who saw the attack coming. Gotsumon Jumped away when Ruhemon came behind him, but he had anticipated this before Ruhemon even stopped he had darted in front of Gotsumon, swung his scythe and Gotsumon simply fell to the ground. Next Ruhemon went for Herpetomon. Herpetomon had covered his hands in his green miasma for his "Lizard Claw" attack. Ruhemon's scythe came for him, but Herpetomon put his hands in front of the swing. Somehow Herpetomon had stopped his attack. Herpetomon hadn't been struck like the others, but he was still knocked back from the force of the attack. The others had run to their Digimon who were all unconscious.
"I'm sorry, I should've had you Digivolve." Nick said to Fatomon. K was carrying Gotsumon and Matt was tending to Codamon. I went up to Herpetomon and helped him up.
"Looks like it's just you and me again." I said, putting my hand on his shoulder, "Let's do this." Herpetomon growled in response.
: Digivolution Activate:
"Herpetomon Digivolve too…!"
"Skymon."
Skymon stomped on the ground while Ruhemon paused. Ruhemon went for another slash, but Skymon covered his hands in his miasma and the attack was deflected. This time Skymon only flinched a little. Ruhemon retracted his scythe arms and Skymon jumped into the air and called "Lizard Claw!" The green beam came down on top of Ruhemon and crushed him into the ground. Skymon landed and Ruhemon's darkness had dissipated into small clouds of dark energy. Suddenly these small clouds came together and began reforming Ruhemon.
"Oh come on, this is hopeless." Nick said.
"No! Nothing is hopeless!" I said. Ruhemon had fully reformed and was standing in front of Skymon who had his hands covered in green to protect himself. Then Ruhemon teleported away. None of us saw where. Suddenly beneath Skymon a pool of darkness was created. It began to swallow him up. Slowly.
"Skymon, what's going on? Can you move?" I asked.
"No, he's got me." Skymon said, his eyes still glowing. Suddenly, above where Skymon was now sinking a new portal was opened and Skymon's legs were sticking out of it. Something was wrong with the picture. Ruhemon had just opened a new dimension or something.
"What the fuck?" Matt said looking over. Skymon was sinking into the ground and coming out of this portal at the same time. Once he had completely come out of the portal he fell to the ground, Ruhemon must have used the scythe on him many times in this other dimension. Meanwhile Ruhemon himself suddenly appeared in front of us. I ran to Skymon's side. He wasn't moving, his eyes were closed
"N, n, no, it cannot end this way. Skymon, please get up, we need you." I said He struggled to get up. Slowly he made progress. He rose until he was standing upright.
"Skymon…" I said.
"I feel it." He said. I noticed my D-Gadget was rumbling. I took it out and looked at the screen, the icon of my crest, the crest of joy was glowing.
"Oh, I understand. No, this is no problem for us." I said smiling. "Things look grim, but we are going to win this fight and that's all there is to it. Just keep smiling!" I yelled. Suddenly the D-Gadget shone brilliantly.
"That's it, The joy!"
:Digivolution activate:
"Skymon Digivolve too…!"
Skymon jumped in the air and began rotating horizontally. His pants were stripped off and were replaced with strong silver armor. Up his body he also attained a silver breastplate for his chest. His shoulders became more muscular and armor covered his arms as well. His feet were left outside the armor, but they had become larger as well to accommodate for all of the new armor. And once again he gained another finger, giving him as many as a human has. Lastly a great silver pole appeared in front of him when he put out his hand and grabbed it a white light traced up the pole and reached it's head, then the light curved off the top and began taking the shape of a lance. When the light had returned to the pole the new digimon was holding a full size lance as his weapon.
"ArmorSkymon!" He said! Herpetomon's ultimate, ArmorSkymon landed in front of us with a crash. He stood tall with his lance at his side. Ruhemon hesitated.
"Nice, our first ultimate." Nick said with Fatomon who'd recovered enough to sit up.
"He's so shiny, he's like, bling." K said smiling.
"That's good, keep up the joy!" I said laughing. ArmorSkymon took the first action. He raised up his lance and then pounded the bottom of it on the ground, shaking it up and causing Ruhemon to fall. Then ArmorSkymon lifted up his lance and called "Green Lancet!" The head of his lance became covered in the same green miasma as with his previous forms. He brought the lance into both his hands and charged at Ruhemon. The green lance left a shadow in its trail. Then ArmorSkymon brought the lance down on Ruhemon . The blade cut right through him and crashed into the ground on the other side. Ruhemon's split halves stumbled around for a moment and then, even after being split by the new weapon he began to come together again. ArmorSkymon draw his lance out of the ground and stood strong once again. Ruhemon recovered and created four scythes this time. He ran at ArmorSkymon with full force. ArmorSkymon continued to stand strong. Then Ruhemon brought down his scythes upon ArmorSkymon'' armor. There was no affect. Ruhemon's scythes had fallen to pieces when they clashed with his armor.
"Heh, ChromeDigizoid." ArmorSkymon said smiling menacingly down at him." Ruhemon back off from him for a few steps. Without warning he bolted again, behind Nick, Kayla, and their incapacitated Digimon. He quickly drew a scythe and slashed, only to have his scythes broken again by clashing with ArmorSkymon's lance.
"Yeah, that's ChromeDigizoid too." ArmorSkymon said, his eyes flaring green. Ruhemon sneered at ArmorSkymon and then began sinking into a pool of his own darkness, he was retreating, but we weren't in much condition to destroy him, not yet. Even ArmorSkymon was beginning to kneel down. Once Ruhemon disappeared we could finally relax about it.
"Well what was that all about?" Nick said.
"I don't know, we've never heard of a Digimon like that before." Codamon said.
"Yes, something was very wrong with that thing. I think we should just get to the Tower." I said. "Is everyone Ok?" Codamon was beginning to stand again, Fatomon was leaning on Nick's shoulder, and K was still holding Gotsumon. "Good." I said and began walking. I remembered that ArmorSkymon couldn't go back to being Herpetomon for now so I took advantage and made him carry me. I sat in his right hand and we slowly made our way up to the edge of the city. At the edge of the city we found that there was a hole dug at the perimeter of the tower. That is to say, a large circle dug in the ground around the Tower. The tower itself was very large, but looked more like a citadel. It had some kind of elevator at the bottom and at the top there was some kind of platform. In front of the elevator an Elecmon slept. We approached. The Elecmon woke up and saw us all.
"Oh, Hello Codamon, these are the ones?" He said
"Yes, this is them." Codamon answered.
"Alright, go ahead." The Elecmon said. He stepped aside and allowed us in.
The elevator was a large pad at the bottom of the tower. We were barely able to fit. Once we were in Elecmon hit a switch and were sent up to the platform.