DISCLAIMER: I do not own Digimons. So far, I own only Chaos Specter, Chaos-AI and the Velvet Claw.
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VENGEANCE
- Chapter 05 - Unexpected Encounters -
by
Alforce Zero
"So it's a new method of digivolution," Tai commented after hearing Kari's story. She had related everything that had happened in the Digiworld, and excitedly described in detail about her experiences of digivolving together with Gatomon to become Angewomon. Tai listened and was slightly amused to see his younger sister's excitement, but he himself couldn't conceal his awe of hearing that she and Gatomon had fused together to become Angewomon.
"It's amazing, really," Gatomon chimed. "I never thought that the fusion between a human and a digimon was even possible."
Kari nodded. "Me too. It's unbelievable..." she said dreamily. "Me, an angel of light." The three of them laughed together.
"Could it be an alternate form of DNA-digivolution?" Tai asked. Both Kari and Gatomon shrugged and shook their heads. "Maybe I should ask Izzy about that later. Boy, will he be excited!" Tai then scratched his head for a while. "The only thing that is bothering me now..." he said with a note of concern in his voice."...is about that ChaosWarGreymon. What could possibly be the reason of his reluctance to finish you off, when he got the chance?"
Kari shook her head. "I don't know, Tai, but I'm sure am glad about that. I wish I could meet him to ask him directly the reason." She looked down and traced her fingers around the virtue of Light symbol on her Diginizer.
"Just be careful, okay?" Tai asked her, and Kari slowly nodded. He then got up from the chair where he was sitting and headed straight towards the door. He stopped suddenly before opening the door, and looked back at Kari.
"I was just wondering, when you were Angewomon, how did you see through the helmet?" he asked. "Didn't the helmet block your vision?"
"Oh, that," Kari replied and pondered for a while for the right answer. "I could see everything clearly, as if the helmet wasn't even there. The only difference it made was when I was about to shoot the Celestial Arrow towards Megadramon. It helped me to aim the arrow towards Megadramon's heart by using some kind of a computer simulation. The simulation showed me the best position for me to position the bow and arrow before shooting it so that it would hit the target."
"Cool," Tai commented. "Well, I'm going to take a quick shower before dinner."
"How's the soccer game turned out?" Kari inquired.
"As usual," Tai answered, and grinned. "Nobody beats me in this game... we've won by five points. We scored seven goals today; Orange Star Junior High only had two goals." There was a soccer tournament between Odaiba Junior High and other junior high-schools around them. Orange Star Junior High was located just outside the region of Odaiba.
"That's good to hear. Well, see ya during dinner," Kari waved as Tai exited from her room. She barely heard Tai said 'Later,' before he closed the door. Kari then looked at Gatomon, and saw that the little white cat was stretching herself on her bed. Gatomon told her that she would take a nap for a while, as she was quite tired. Kari then decided to help her mother preparing dinner while waiting for Tai taking his shower. She placed her Diginizer of Light inside the top drawer of her desk before strolling out from the room towards the kitchen.
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Later that night...
Kari was awakened from her sleep by a strange sound which she had not heard before. She opened her eyes slowly, and saw that Gatomon was already up, and she was looking towards the table with a look of suspicion on her face. Kari then looked around to find out where the source of the strange sound. She got up from her bed groggily and went to the light switch to turn on the lights. She walked blindly and accidentally hit the chair of her desk.
"Ouch!" she yelped, struggling to keep her voice down. If her parents or Tai had heard her, they would have thought that she was having a really bad nightmare, and would rush to her room instantly to see that she was okay. Gatomon jumped down from the bed, thinking that something was wrong. Kari placed her index finger in front of her mouth as she used her other hand to sooth the pain on her right toes, indicating for Gatomon to lower her voice if she wanted to speak. Although the room was dark, Gatomon could see everything clearly due to her excellent vision, and nodded as she went to the switch to turn on the lights.
"Thanks," Kari whispered gratefully, and squint her eyes to get used to the sudden lights. She then got up and walked towards the desk, pulled out the top drawer slowly and took out the Diginizer of Light, which was revealed to be the source of the strange sound.
"Why does it make that sound?" Gatomon asked. The Diginizer was making a slow, but clear, beeping sound similar to the alarm sounds made by some watches. Kari fiddled with the red buttons on the Diginizer, but didn't press any buttons. As far as she knew from Gennai, she had to press the first, the fourth, the second and the third buttons in that particular sequence to open a digiport whenever and wherever she would like. In order to make Gatomon digivolve, the Diginizer would recognize her voice, so she would just have to say either digivolve, Armor-digivolve, or DNA-digivolve and it would respond instantly.
Suddenly, the Diginizer flickered and fired out a small ray of lightning which instantly became a digiport gateway. Kari and Gatomon looked at each other, wondering what was happening.
"Should we go in?" Gatomon asked.
"I think I'm gonna get Tai," Kari said and got up. She walked out slowly and accidentally kicked the Kamiya's pet cat Miko. "What's with me tonight?" she asked in wonder as she patted Miko's head slowly. "Sorry, Miko." The cat hissed slowly, but then purred when Kari patted its head, and forgave Kari quickly enough. Kari then headed towards Tai's room and tapped his door slowly.
"Tai?" she whispered loudly. No answer. She tapped again three times, but still she got no answer. Kari then turned the doorknob, and was surprised to see that the door was unlocked. She walked in slowly as she didn't want to kick anything else, and tip-toed slowly towards the bed where Tai was sleeping soundly. 'He sleeps like a baby,' Kari thought silently. 'Maybe I shouldn't wake him up. He's pretty worn out from the soccer tournament.' Kari slowly walked out from Tai's room and headed back towards her own room, where Gatomon was waiting.
"Where's Tai?" she inquired when she saw that Kari was alone.
"I don't want to disturb him. He's pretty tired."
"How about we try to contact the others?" Gatomon suggested.
"Good idea." Kari took her D-Terminal and typed a brief e-mail and sent it to the other five Digidestined. She then changed her pajamas, and picked out a pair of light blue jeans, a plain white top, and wore a pink sweater on it. When they went to the Digiworld earlier that day, all of them were given the same outfits they'd worn like they used to six months ago. Gennai told them that that was about to change when all of them got the Diginizers, so Kari didn't want to take any risk. She didn't want to go into the Digiworld wearing only her pajamas!
"You're ready?" Gatomon asked impatiently while watching Kari inspected herself in front of the mirror.
Kari pinned her hair with a hair clip like she always did, and turned to look at her partner. "Ready." The two of them then walked into the digiport gateway, and instantly, the gate vanished, taking the two of them into the Digiworld.
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"Set the Velvet Claw on course to Seiryuu City."
"Acknowledged. The Velvet Claw is on course to the Eastern region of the Digiworld. Target destination is the Seiryuu sector."
"Good." Chaos Specter nodded and smiled wistfully as he stared towards Azulongmon. The sovereign of the east stared back defiantly. "If you still refuse to tell me about the prophecy, then I guess I'll have to attack your city first. Let us see whether this can make you talk." He turned back the throne to face the large viewing screen and looked around him.
The Velvet Claw, a name he had given to the flying fortress he resided, was designed to serve as spaceship, battleship, laboratory and major headquarter for himself. It was there where he stayed most of the time and planned his attacks. The Velvet Claw had the ability to travel between dimensions by opening inter-dimensional gateways, which enabled Chaos Specter to conquer one dimension after another. In a glance, the ship looked like a cross between a huge, silver spinning top and a spaceship-plus-battleship. It was equipped with state-of-the-art laser cannons, lightning cannons and all other types of weaponry. The technology was obviously much advanced compared to Earth's current technology, no Earth technologies were currently known of opening inter-dimensional gateways.
The twelve-storey fortress had the main bridge situated on its topmost floor. It was where Chaos Specter constructed the throne room and the four specially-built prisons for the Harmonious Ones. The bridge was perhaps the largest chamber in the ship, and the throne was placed at its most center point. Encircling the throne in a fifty meter radius were the main viewing screen, the four prisons and the navigational computers which dominated nearly eighty percent of the whole bridge. The throne was built on a high platform where one had to climb its fifty stairs before reaching the throne. It was where Chaos Specter mainly seated and watched his minions doing his bidding. Few digimons were permitted to stand beside his throne while others were deemed unworthy to do so. In fact, only three digimons were given that privilege, and two of them were ChaosWarGreymon and ChaosPiedmon. The third digimon was actually ChaosSeadramon, but he was an extremely gigantic sea dragon digimon he wouldn't fit himself on that platform, unlike his other two counterparts.
The second-from top floors housed Chaos Specter's personal chamber. No digimons were permitted to go there. The three consequent chambers were for his three Chaos Generals, but ChaosSeadramon's chamber was perhaps the biggest of all three chambers to accommodate him. He had to be practically teleported there as he wouldn't fit the corridors. Chambers below those floors were for Chaos Specter's minions and slaves, the engine room, the food storage chamber, the fuel chamber and at the bottommost floor was the prison cell where he imprisoned digimons that refused to follow his orders.
The computer which Chaos Specter so constantly referring to was actually a product of artificial intelligence, dubbed by him personally as Chaos-AI (pronounced as Kay-O-Sai). It was incorporated with a woman's voice, and was capable of navigating the Velvet Claw by itself without anyone piloting it. It responded to Chaos Specter's commands only, and all others were simply ignored, unless they were given specific permission by Chaos Specter himself. Chaos-AI also was equipped with an extensive knowledge about almost all species and types of digimons. Its other capabilities were yet to be known, but Chaos Specter was glad that it was he who had gained the technology, which he used to aid his aim to dominate all dimensions of the Digiworld.
"One Digidestined and a digimon detected on the East region of the Digiworld," Chaos-AI reported. It was given the command to detect any Digidestined that had come to the Digiworld.
"Only one?" Chaos Specter asked, and smiled curtly. "Show it on the viewing screen."
Chaos-AI complied, and displayed a shoulder-length, brown-haired girl wearing a pink sweater and blue jeans riding a digimon with her face covered with a mask which resembled the face of a sphinx. The digimon's body was all white, and she had a long tail with some purple stripes. Her front paws were covered with silver armor with yellowish-green paw, and she wore silver armor on her body.
"Well would you look at that? The Digidestined of Light, and her partner digimon!" Chaos Specter exclaimed with an amused tone. "Why would she be alone here at this hour? I could use this opportunity to eliminate her once and for all."
"Do you want us to go and attack her, master?" ChaosPiedmon asked.
"No. We'll leave her for now. It's Seiryuu City on the Blue Dragon Island that I'm targeting right now. We can get to the girl later." Chaos Specter then thought for a while before commanding, "Send two Ultimate digimons to attack Seiryuu City right now."
Two digimons were displayed on the screen. One of them looked like a giant grey insect, and the other digimon was relatively smaller in size, resembling a man with blue skin wearing chains on his tall and muscular body. Chaos-AI announced their particulars.
"Okuwamon, a Virus type Ultimate level digimon. His attacks are the Double Scissor Claw which is so devastating it can even cut a diamond into two; and Beetle Horn Attack, which is a beam of lightning erupting from his head."
"SkullMeramon, a Virus type Ultimate level digimon. His main attack, Heavy Metal Fire, can burn his opponents with blazing flames of inferno. SkullMeramon is also known to have the ability to control the temperature around him, effectively within a kilometer radius."
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"It's beautiful," Kari whispered, and beckoned Nefertimon to look at the sea they were passing by. The moon's silvery image and the maroon-colored sky were reflected from the sea's surface, and there was a school of Dolphmons racing each other. The digiport gateway had taken both of them right in front of Asuka City, and since they didn't know what else to do with the constantly-beeping Diginizer of Light, they'd decided for Gatomon to test out the Diginizer's power of Armor-digivolving as well. Thus, she became Nefertimon, and the two made up their mind to go to Seiryuu sector as they hadn't been there before.
Seiryuu sector and the city were located on one of the islands spread even further than the File Island from the Server continent, while Asuka sector was on the continent. In fact, the File Island itself was under the Seiryuu sector. There were a cluster of islands called the Seiryuu Archipelago, and it was rumored that there were more than a hundred islands within the archipelago. Seiryuu city was on the largest island there, and the island was called the Blue Dragon Island. In order to go to Seiryuu city, the only option they had was to fly there as they didn't have any marine digimon with them.
"We should do this more often," Nefertimon replied and looked straight ahead, immediately noticing a very familiar island. "We're passing the File Island," she informed Kari as they flew past the island. The File Island was the place where the original seven Digidestined had their adventures. Had Kari been healthy during those times, she would have joined her seven friends. As they passed the Infinity Mountain, Kari was reminded of Tai's story about Angemon's sacrifice to save the others from the wrath of Devimon, who was terrorizing the island.
For the next half-an-hour, both of them were silent as Nefertimon picked up speed and flew even faster. Kari, in the meantime, was enjoying the serenity of the night-time of the Digiworld, when suddenly both she and Nefertimon heard a faint explosion coming from the cluster of islands which began to become visible. From afar, they saw smokes coming out from a high mountain, which itself was located on the furthest and also the largest island. Which could only mean one thing, that island was the Blue Dragon Island, and it was under attack! Nefertimon flew even faster, and as they got nearer the island, more noises were heard, from the loud explosions until the cries of the digimons.
"What's happening out there?" Kari wondered out loud as Nefertimon landed both of them on the nearest island, which was relatively small compared to the other islands. The smaller island was located quite far from the Blue Dragon Island, and they were sure that they were safe there for a short while. Nefertimon de-digivolved back into Gatomon, and the two of them looked up towards the sky as they saw a black version of Birdramon flying away from the islands.
--- DIGIMON ANALYZER
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Saberdramon,
the alternate Champion form of Biyomon, and the male, black version of
Birdramon. He is larger than the latter, and his attacks are the Black Saber,
which is similar to Birdramon's Meteor Wings; and Mach Shadow, an attack which
is formed when Saberdramon fires a shadow of himself towards his opponent with
great speed and slices the opponent to oblivion!
"Cool," Kari whispered after the digitized voice of Gennai finished explaining to her about Saberdramon. "The Diginizer is now also a Digimon Analyzer." Gennai and Piximon had also incorporated the Digimon Analyzer into the Diginizers during the early stages of their creation. The analyzer came with a simulation of the digimon as well, making it more advanced than the earlier version of the analyzer which was given by Gennai to Izzy's Pineapple laptop.
"Saberdramon, retreat now!" A voice of a young boy called out from the small jungle on the island. Kari and Gatomon braced themselves as they saw the large, black firebird loomed down to them. The Saberdramon glowed brightly and instantly, he de-digivolved back into a Biyomon. A ray of thin white light shot out from Saberdramon as he changed into Biyomon, and the light headed towards the small jungle. A brown-haired, black-eyed boy not more than ten years of age stepped out from the jungle. He was dressed with a black sweater with a hood attached at the neckline, a brown cargo short and a pair of snickers. He wore grey gloves, and had his right hand extended towards the air. The light was aimed towards the boy's extended hand, and Kari finally realized that the boy was holding a D3. The light was entering the turquoise-colored D3. The boy grinned boyishly when he saw Kari and Gatomon stared at him, and walked towards them.
"You look familiar..." Kari started. She then realized that her Diginizer of Light had stopped letting out the beeping sounds. "Are you the one who called us here?" The boy nodded.
"I guess so. I was silently wishing for someone to help actually. My name's Hiroshi, and this is my partner digimon, Biyomon," the boy introduced himself, and patted his partner as the pink bird stood beside him. "You and your friends saved me and some other nineteen kids from that MaloMyotismon six months ago, remember?" The boy was in fact, Hiroshi Kosatsu, one of the children kidnapped by Oikawa, Arukenimon and Mummymon half-a-year ago. Kari nodded as she remembered when the children escaped the darkness that were overwhelming them, and believed in their dreams again. Hiroshi was the first boy who had stepped out from the Dreamworld. Later, when the children were given partner digimons and D3s, Hiroshi was given a Nyokimon.
Kari and Hiroshi shook hands. "I'm Hikari, but everyone calls me Kari," Kari introduced herself warmly. The male Biyomon and Gatomon got acquainted as well. Kari then looked around them as another explosion erupted from the Blue Dragon Island. "What happens here?"
Hiroshi shook his head. "I don't know," he answered. "I was here with Biyomon as usual for our night strolls on the Digiworld. We've been doing that ever since I received Nyokimon for my partner. Usually, the two of us would spar together to increase Nyokimon's experience. He digivolved into Yokomon a month after that, and became Biyomon after another month. He had digivolved into Saberdramon since three months ago," Hiroshi replied, and took a deep breath. "I was flying with Saberdramon earlier, intended to go to the Blue Dragon Island. We wanted to meet Azulongmon, but then a large battleship shaped like spinning top came from the sky and attacked the city within the island. Saberdramon landed me on this island while he joined forces with the other digimons of these islands to fight off the strange ship." Two Airdramons, one of them the usual Airdramon while the other one was a gold version of itself, were seen flying past the island.
"Those Airdramons have told me that the ship belonged to Chaos Specter, and that he had captured Azulongmon and the other Harmonious Ones. The ship is called the Velvet Claw," Biyomon added, and Kari was surprised to hear a male voice came out from the pink bird's mouth. His voice sounded like a boy in his early teens, and had a strange, but lovable accent which Kari hadn't heard before. All of them detected movements in the sea, and saw various water-based digimons were swimming away from the archipelago.
"Looks like they are heading to File Island to seek refuge," Gatomon commented, and looked upward towards Kari.
"We have to stop Chaos Specter," Kari said with determination. "Ready, Gatomon?" she asked, and held out her right hand. The Diginizer of Light, which was worn on her wrist, flashed brightly.
[The theme "Evo" plays in the background]
"GATOMON TRANS-DIGIVOLVE TO... ANGEWOMON!!" Trans Digivolution was a term coined by Gennai earlier before they got back to Earth. Both Kari and Gatomon then fused together and became Angewomon, as Hiroshi and Biyomon stared in awe.
"You too, Biyomon!" Hiroshi exclaimed, and held out his D3.
"BIYOMON DIGIVOLVE TO... SABERDRAMON!!"
Angewomon took off into the air first, followed by Hiroshi and Saberdramon. They flew towards the Blue Dragon Island where the Velvet Claw was attacking. The ship seemed to be attacking Seiryuu City, which was located around the highest mountain of the island. The buildings of the city were built encircling the mountain in a spiral-like manner from bottom till top, like a snake entwining its prey. On top of the mountain was a vast clearing, which stood two tall towers, and between the two towers was a building which looked like a temple. There was a wide and spacious gathering fort in front of the temple with two towers, and they saw two centaur-like digimons fighting off Okuwamon and SkullMeramon there. One of them was Centarumon, while the other was a larger, black version of him. Angewomon and Saberdramon landed just in front of the temple, and Hiroshi quickly jumped off Saberdramon and hid himself behind the temple's thick poles. The centaurs and their enemies were aware of their presence, yet they continued fighting each other.
--- DIGIMON ANALYZER
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Sagittarimon, an Armor digimon, is classified as a Vaccine. Although
an Armor-level digimon, Sagittarimon's power is almost on par with any Ultimate
level digimon and he is known as the highest ranking centaur digimons. His
weapons are arrows made of Chrome Digizoid metal called the Judgment Arrows, and
the Meteor Gallop, which consists of fireballs formed from his front legs when
he gallops to the enemies with unrivalled chivalry!
The Velvet Claw fired crimson laser beams toward one of the tower. Somebody from within the tower had deflected the laser beams, but then the ship's other cannons began to aim for the other tower as well.
"The ship's attacking Zephyr Tower!" Sagittarimon exclaimed, and aimed one of his Judgment Arrows towards one of Velvet Claw's cannons. The Judgment Arrow sore towards the sky, and was suddenly joined by an arrow of light. Both arrows hit the aimed cannon successfully, and it exploded, resulting for the Velvet Claw to cease fire momentarily. Bewildered, Sagittarimon turned around and saw Angewomon, but he didn't see Okuwamon loomed on him, trying to swipe him away Sagittarimon with his claws.
"DOUBLE SCISSOR CLAW!!"
"Look out! CELESTIAL ARROW!!" Angewomon cried and she fired another arrow towards Okuwamon, who had wanted to take the advantage of Sagittarimon's distracted state. Okuwamon managed to evade the arrow, but at the same time his plan to obliterate Sagittarimon was foiled. "Are you all right?" Angewomon inquired, her attention still fixed on Okuwamon. The massive insectoid digimon brandished all its claws, preparing for a fight, when suddenly he realized that he was unable to move. Angewomon smiled slightly as she saw that the rainbow aura radiating from her body had immobilized Okuwamon successfully, although not completely as she was feeling slightly weak.
"I'm fine. Thank you," the saggitarius answered, and looked at Okuwamon as well. "Shall we finish this together?"
"You bet."
"Okay then," Sagittarimon replied back and took two steps backwards. His front foot began to emit fire. "METEOR GALLOP!!" Sagittarimon galloped towards Okuwamon, and fireballs erupted from his burning feet and shot towards Okuwamon.
Centarumon gathered up his powers and summoned, "SOLAR RAY!!" A beam of yellow lights erupted from his helmet, aimed towards the staggering Okuwamon, and hit him at the stomach, where Sagittarimon's attacks hit him previously. Okuwamon cried out in pain, and trashed around blindly. He began to feel scared of being outclassed by four digimons.
Saberdramon, who wanted to join the party, channeled his powers to his wings, and summoned, "BLACK SABER!!" Several shots of black sword-shaped fireballs were blasted towards Okuwamon from the skies, destroying all two pairs of the large insect's wings. Okuwamon roared madly and turned around to see the attacker, making him vulnerable to Angewomon who was about to deliver the finishing blow.
"HEAVEN'S CHARMS!!" Angewomon's surroundings glowed pink as she clasped her hands together, forming a vertical ray of pink light. She then swiftly moved both hands to her sides horizontally, forming a horizontal ray of light which moved towards Okuwamon. The deadly attack, combined with the attacks launched by Sagittarimon, Centarumon and Saberdramon which had already weakened Okuwamon earlier, destroyed Okuwamon completely to data particles. Hiroshi, who was hiding behind the city's gate entrance, cheered happily and came out from his hiding, while Angewomon reverted back to Kari and Salamon.
"Salamon?" Kari asked, bewildered. Salamon looked at herself and sighed.
"I guessed we've used a lot of energy to become Angewomon today," the little puppy answered.
Distant sounds of metals clashing and shoutings attracted their attentions toward the window of Zephyr Tower. All of them suddenly realized that SkullMeramon was missing, and that there was a battle going on inside the tower.
"Saberdramon, fly up there and see what's going on," Hiroshi instructed. Saberdramon immediately flapped his wings and flew towards the window. A loud cry was heard accompanying a huge blast of fire that came out suddenly from the window, and a digimon was thrown out, crashing through the small window in the process.
The digimon was medium in height, about the height of a boy. He wore a long, purple hat with a picture depicting a skull on the front. The digimon's lower part of his face was covered with a purple cape, which also covered his neck and back. Only the eyes of the digimon were visible for them to see, but both Kari and Salamon didn't need to look closer to know that those eyes were green as emerald in color. They also knew that the digimon had blonde hair, for they recognized the digimon easily with only one quick look at him. They didn't even have to see his grey skin, light-brown baggy outfit, and the brown gloves and boots which the digimon wore to learn his identity, for every details of the digimon were all registered in their minds. Nearly four years ago, he was their savior. He sacrificed his life for them, and now, seeing that the digimon had fallen, both Kari and Salamon cried out in despair.
"Wizardmon!!"
The digimon, Wizardmon, took a quick glance towards the voices he had heard calling to him. His eyes opened wide when he saw them. "Salamon..." he whispered hoarsely."Kari..."
Meanwhile, SkullMeramon walked towards the broken walls of the Zephyr Tower and laughed madly, before jumping out from the tower. In mid-air, he thrust his long chains which circled around the fallen Wizardmon and pulled the captured digimon towards himself. "You may have defeated my comrade, but I can still get away with one consolation prize! A dear friend of yours, whom my master would be so pleased to meet with." A ray of light came out from one of the Velvet Claw's many cannons, aiming towards SkullMeramon and the captive Wizardmon. The ray of light was used to teleport SkullMeramon and Okuwamon on the Blue Dragon Island earlier.
Saberdramon realized what was going to happen. "I won't let you get away with this!" He flew towards SkullMeramon and twirled himself in mid-air, shouting, "MACH SHADOW!!!" A black, ghostly image of the already-black Saberdramon erupted from the digimon's body, and the image launched itself towards SkullMeramon while bursting itself with coal-colored inferno.
"Child's play," SkullMeramon replied, still hovering in mid-air. He released Wizardmon from his chains and tucked the wizard firmly under his left arm. His right arm maneuvered the long chains, and he launched the chains towards Saberdramon. "FLAME CHAIN!!!" Saberdramon's specter moved away from the chain with great agility and launched itself towards the beam of light which was about to hit SkullMeramon.
Saberdramon chuckled as he evaded the chains as they passed him. "Look now and you'll see." SkullMeramon looked at the specter and saw that the bird had tricked him by sending his specter to be transported by the yellow beam instead of him. The yellow beam disappeared, and SkullMeramon was fuming with anger. He thrust the chains back towards him, deliberately slamming Saberdramon in the process. The Champion digimon fell towards the grounds and reverted back to Biyomon.
"You all have messed with me for the LAST time!!" SkullMeramon screamed as he landed on the grounds with a loud thud. He threw Wizardmon away, crashing him on the walls of the Zephyr Tower, and walked towards Kari and Salamon, and Hiroshi and Biyomon. Sagittarimon and Centarumon feared for their friends' safety and galloped towards SkullMeramon together to provide protection. Unfortunately, the evil digimon lashed both of them away with his Flame Chain technique without putting much effort. "Now, I'll get to enjoy burning the four of you alive," SkullMeramon declared as he raised his chains. "FLAME...."
"Not so fast, SkullMeramon!" a voice from behind stopped SkullMeramon from launching the attack, temporarily saving the Digidestined and their weakened digimons. SkullMeramon turned back, and saw Wizardmon standing behind him, holding his staff which got a sunflower shape at its proximal end. "You have done enough damage here already. I will see to it that you will be punished for this!" Wizardmon declared, and raised his staff up high. Suddenly, winds blew from them from out of nowhere, and the sky became cloudier as black clouds suddenly appeared on the skies, replacing the clear ones. Thunders rumbled within the clouds, and lightning flared everywhere. A lightning shot towards Wizardmon's staff, sending bolts of electricity around Wizardmon. The digimon's eyes became all-white.
[The theme "Brave Heart" plays in the background]
"By the power of the guardian of the winds, Seiryuu!" Wizardmon's voice echoed the surroundings, and a lightning from the skies bolted towards him. Wizardmon's figure became silver, and he grew taller little by little, taking a more humanly figure. The figure was that of an adult muscular male, pretty much similar to the manly figure appeared while Angemon digivolved into MagnaAngemon. The staff which Wizardmon was holding upright took on a slimmer figure, and a jet of shimmering blue lights erupted from the tip of the staff. The blue lights moved around the staff in a spiral-like motion, transforming it into a sturdy, silver sword with two orifices along the blade. The holes were instantly filled in by two small crystal balls, one green and the other was white. The shimmering blue lights continued to move around the tall adult figure, slowly forming a long, purple hat with silver base. It continued down as the face of the man was still shining with silver lights, and moved down spirally as the man's garment, which was red in color, transformed around the man. Silver armors with gold intricate designs and round sapphires embedded on them attached themselves at both sides of the man's shoulders, in front of his chest, and at both sides of his thighs. The blue lights ended down toward the man's feet by forming two silver boots identical to the armors. The man spun around again, and a long, purple loincloth with gold linings appeared and placed itself along the center of the man's anterior side of the body, and a golden belt with a round jade on its middle attached itself around the man's waist, securing the long loincloth which continued upwards and disappeared under the chest and shoulder armors. Long, purple cape materialized from under the shoulder armors and flowed downwards until the man's ankle level. Lightning flared from the sword again as the silver glow on the man's face disappeared, replaced with a face which instantly recognizable as the face of a good-looking adult Wizardmon, without the stitches on the mouths. Lastly, a glowing crystal ball formed on his left hand, and the newly-digivolved Wizardmon stroke a pose by holding his sword together with both hands, pointing it towards the front, while the glimmering crystal ball hovered around him.
"I am Mystimon," the man introduced himself with a deep, yet calming voice which immediately wipe away all of Kari, Salamon, Hiroshi and Biyomon's fears at once. "With the power bestowed upon me by one of Azulongmon's Digi-Core, I am able to digivolve into my Ultimate form whenever needed," he said.
"Let's see what the Digimon Analyzer has to say about Mystimon," Kari said towards the Diginizer of Light.
--- DIGIMON ANALYZER
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Mystimon is the natural Ultimate form of Wizardmon. This Virus type
digimon is also known as the magical royal knight. His main attacks are the Core
Darts, where he would channel his powers through his sword and made a quick
slash to fire some dart-shaped fireballs from the two circular orifices on the
sword; and the Blast Fire, where he would generate fiery inferno from his
crystal ball and wield the fire with his will. Mystimon is known to possess
immense power unrivalled by most Ultimate digimons.
"That's good to hear," Hiroshi commented. All of them then focused their attention on Mystimon, who was advancing towards SkullMeramon slowly, yet full with confidence.
SkullMeramon stared at Mystimon with great dislike. "Fancy digivolution sequence, I have to admit. Nonetheless, you will still perish under my hands!" SkullMeramon jumped upward, and moved his hands upwards. Blue flames came out from his large body. "METAL...." He was about to launch his powerful Metal Fireball technique.
Mystimon was quicker, though. The crystal ball hovered in front of him and Mystimon held it with his left hand. The ball glowed and let out a small ray of fire, which whirled around Mystimon's hands.
"... FIREBALL!!" SkullMeramon yelled, and launched the attack through his mouth. The thin, laser-like attack was devastatingly powerful, and the surroundings' temperature was suddenly elevated, making all those who were around them felt like they were inside a burning stove.
Mystimon then released both his sword and his crystal ball, and performed a swift sequence of movement by positioning both his hands near his right ribs, palms facing each other and bent a little, and then thrusted both hands forward, crying out, "BLAST FIRE!!" A powerful jet of blazing inferno erupted angrily from both of Mystimon's palms, and engulfed SkullMeramon's attack within seconds before burning the evil digimon to oblivion. SkullMeramon let out a deafening, dying scream before he exploded.
All of those who were in the surroundings cheered and shouted happily as the temperature cooled down to normal. The Velvet Claw, they saw, made a quick hasty retreat, and almost knocked down four small figures flying towards the Blue Dragon Island. Kari squinted, and saw ExVeemon, Stingmon, Aquilamon and Pegasusmon approaching the island. She then heard someone calling her name, and saw Cody and Armadillomon running towards her from the gate of the temple. The four airborne digimons landed, and Davis, Ken, Yolei and T.K. jumped down as the digimons reverted back into their Rookie forms.
"Hi guys," Kari greeted them warmly. "Sorry you all have just missed the fun." The five newly-arrived Digidestined looked towards Hiroshi and Biyomon, before moving on towards Centarumon, Sagittarimon, and finally, Mystimon.
"Whoa!" Davis exclaimed in awe. "Who in the world is THAT?"
"That's Mystimon," Hiroshi supplied. "He's our hero of the day." All of the Digidestined's attentions were diverted to Hiroshi.
"And you are...?" Yolei asked and raised an eyebrow. Hiroshi then introduced himself to the others. Mystimon then reverted back to Wizardmon, and they all welcomed the newly-arrived Digidestined on the Blue Dragon Island, or to put it more accurately, on what's left on the Blue Dragon Island.
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The Digidestined then spent the whole night helping out Centarumon, Sagittarimon and the other digimons of Blue Dragon Island to clean up the mess caused by the attack of Velvet Claw, and left Wizardmon to talk with Kari and Salamon alone. T.K. had ushered the others away, saying that the three of them needed time to do some catching up.
Salamon's eyes had tears on them. She couldn't believe her eyes when she saw Wizardmon again, falling down from the window of Zephyr Tower about three hours ago. Now that Wizardmon was in front of her, she began to cry. Kari, who was hugging her decided to let her partner go, and Wizardmon picked her up and hugged her close to him. The two best friends were silent for a while, both were crying silently. Kari could even feel tears forming at her eyes, and was reminded of that fateful day when Wizardmon sacrificed himself to save Kari and Gatomon from Myotismon's attack. About a year ago, they had met the ghost of Wizardmon, who was haunting Odaiba's television station, which was the place where he died.
"How did you get here...?" Salamon inquired in a voice which was no more than a whisper. "I thought you were stuck on Earth?"
Wizardmon looked at his best friend's pair of brown eyes, and realized that he had never seen her in her Rookie form during the times when both of them were under Myotismon. Gatomon, he had remembered, was extremely tough even though Myotismon had seemed to make it a point to beat her up whenever he would like. Gatomon had told him about that earlier, about how Myotismon hated her eyes when she was Salamon. Wizardmon could now see why. The eyes were cute, and reflected innocence, goodness and kindness. Wizardmon could see that in Salamon's eyes, even in Gatomon's eyes too, when he thought back about it. There was something different about those eyes, and by studying her eyes Wizardmon knew that Gatomon was not meant to be evil. She was a good digimon, destined for something special, but he didn't know exactly what, until the times when Myotismon invaded Earth in search of the child destined to possess the Crest of Light.
"I was trapped," Wizardmon answered with a hushed tone. He was trying to calm Salamon down. "For a long time, my spirit was trapped on Odaiba. I couldn't get reconfigured because I wasn't at the Digiworld, and I couldn't get back because all the digiports were closed." He then took a deep breath. "It was when Daemon had opened a digiport at Highton View Terrace six months ago, I saw my chances to go back to the Digiworld. My spirit flew in silently before all of you opened the gateway to the World of Darkness," Wizardmon related his story to Salamon and Kari.
"Then, my spirit changed back into data particles and I got reconfigured as a digi-egg at Primary Village at File Island. Elecmon took good care of me when I hatched from the digi-egg almost a week later. It was the time when the Digiworld was a peaceful world. I was a Poyomon then, and I matured into a black version of Tokomon. All the baby digimons there, especially the white version of Tokomons, were terrified at the sight of me, saying that I would grow up to be an evil digimon. Fortunately, Elecmon didn't judge me the way I appeared, and I was grateful for him. I didn't blame the others though, a black Tokomon was indeed a very rare kind of digimon, and not likeable, too."
"Why is that?" Kari asked.
"Until now, there were only three black Tokomons ever hatched from digi-eggs. One was me. The other two grew up to be notorious digimons embracing the power of evil. They were Devimon and Myotismon." Wizardmon then wiped the tears from Salamon's eyes with his gloved index finger.
Salamon inquired, "What about you, Wizardmon?"
Wizardmon smiled to his friend. "I then digivolved into DemiDevimon, and again was further shunned by the other digimons for DemiDevimons were known for their trickery and foulness. Elecmon remained nice, though, and he trained me for a while until one day, Azulongmon appeared before us all at File Island. He told me that he had been watching me, and he wanted me to be his disciple. I was ecstatic, and immediately agreed. Under Azulongmon trainings, I had gained experience pretty fast, and matured into my current form naturally after only three months. Azulongmon then assigned me to guard Zephyr Tower. Before he went to fight Chaos Specter a few days ago, he'd left me one of his Digi-Core, which would enable me to digivolve into my Ultimate form temporarily."
About an hour later, the other Digidestined and digimons joined them. Kari filled them in with what they had missed, while Salamon and Wizardmon were talking and laughing with each other.
"It's so good to see her so happy again," Kari said to her friends, and looked back to make sure neither Salamon nor Wizardmon were listening. "I've never seen Salamon, or Gatomon, this happy until this day. Sometimes I would catch Gatomon brooding, looking out the window at the moon, but she never told me what she was thinking. Not that I don't know that she often thought about Wizardmon."
"Were they like a..." Yolei was about to ask, but Kari cut her back quickly.
"A couple? No... more like the best of friends," she said. "Gatomon saved Wizardmon from a near-death condition when she found him at the desert, and Wizardmon was indebted to her for that. They were best friends ever since... until the day Wizardmon died to save both of us. Gatomon had lost every hope to see Wizardmon again, but she kept it really well."
"Must be from all those hard trainings she'd received," T.K. commented.
A while later, Sagittarimon and Centarumon joined them. "We couldn't thank you enough for helping us out today. Without you all, Blue Dragon Island and Seiryuu City might not be able to see the light of another day ever again. Care for a brief tour before you go back to your home world?"
"The pleasure's all ours, Sagittarimon, but really it is them you have to thank to," Davis answered back, and pointed at Wizardmon and Salamon, who were both oblivious of what's going on.
"And not to forget, our new friends here," Ken continued, and patted Hiroshi's right shoulder and Biyomon's head. The two of them blushed slightly.
"It was nothing, really. I'm glad to be able to help out," Hiroshi replied sincerely. "Wait till I tell the others about this. Boy, will they be so jealous!"
"The others?" Cody asked. "You mean, Noriko and all the other children?"
Hiroshi nodded. "After the whole thing with MaloMyotismon, the four of us - I, Noriko, Keiko and Takashi became very close. We plan to form a group just like you guys," he replied cheerfully, and smiled.
"How are the others doing?" Yolei inquired. "How's their digimons?"
"Well... Noriko's Punimon had digivolved into Tsunomon just about the same time as my Nyokimon became Yokomon. Then the Tsunomon evolved into Penguinmon, and later became Swanmon when she digivolved. Keiko's SnowBotamon became Nyaromon, and later Salamon as well, but the Salamon then evolved to a massive Maildramon. Takashi's Poyomon evolved to Tokomon and later Tsukaimon. He looks just like a purple version of your Patamon," he beckoned towards T.K.'s Patamon. "The Tsukaimon then digivolved to Rinkmon," he concluded with a proud smile, as if he had delivered his first lecture on digimons.
Ken grinned back warmly, and flashed a thumb up. "It's good to hear that all of you have taken care of your partners well. We're really looking forward to meet all of you someday. Maybe all of you can help us out."
"Yeah, it'll be great. I really look forward to a Digidestined reunion someday," Hiroshi agreed, and looked at his watch. "Oh man, I'm sorry guys but I really have to go now. It's almost five in the morning, and I've got an early morning today. We're going back to Kyushu in the afternoon, to my dad's home town, and mom will be mad at me for not packing up my stuff yet." Hiroshi then shook hands with all the Digidestined and the digimons, followed by Biyomon. "Maybe I'll come back here someday to visit you guys and Seiryuu city. Really, it's been a wonderful experience." He then looked at Biyomon. "Feel up to an early morning flight, Biyomon?" he asked, and took out his D3.
"Sure!" Biyomon answered enthusiastically, and he digivolved into Saberdramon once again. Hiroshi then boarded his Champion partner and flew away. The Digidestined and the digimons all waved him as the two of them flew further and further away from the Seiryuu Archipelago.
Davis crossed his arms across his chest. "That Hiroshi... he really has all the makings to be a great Digidestined." The others couldn't agree more.
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"Looks like both of them have failed, master," ChaosPiedmon remarked after seeing Mystimon obliterated SkullMeramon.
Chaos Specter's expression was calm. Indeed, for years the Chaos Generals had been under him, not once they had seen him angry, even during the times when he had failed, or when they had failed him. He was a very patient man, and that virtue was what had gained him respect from all the evil digimons which chose to serve him. It was also the quality which made him successful in his every attempt to get everything that he wanted. Especially when there was no one to fight back.
"Those two weren't bright enough anyway," he shrugged off ChaosPiedmon's comment. "We'll get Seiryuu City next time, won't we, my dear kitty?" he said to the BlackGatomon who was curled on his lap. The BlackGatomon raised her head and stared at Chaos Specter with her green eyes, and purred softly before resuming back to her sleep. Chaos Specter smiled and stroked the cat's head gently.
ChaosWarGreymon stared at Chaos Specter and his BlackGatomon. For once, he had thought that he wasn't that evil after all for showing so much affection towards that BlackGatomon, but then he had known better that beneath the caring demeanor he had expressed towards the black cat, Chaos Specter was capable of being a ruthless conqueror anytime he wanted to be. That had been displayed so many times during those times when Chaos Specter used the Velvet Claw to travel from one dimension to another, conquering those dimensions as a mark of his presence. As he watched the two of them, ChaosWarGreymon felt a deja' vu. It was as if he had experienced something like that himself. But when? he thought silently. And where? Frustrated, he walked off again as he usually did.
"What's up with him?" ChaosSeadramon asked, feeling annoyed of ChaosWarGreymon's sudden change of behavior.
"Never mind him. We've got a bigger fish to worry for," Chaos Specter snapped. The screen flickered, and an extremely familiar digimon appeared before him. The digimon was wearing all-black; his head had two horns protruded at both sides. White eyes flashed dangerously from his masked face, and the mask covered the upper-half portion of his head, revealing white skins of his remaining lower-half portion of the face. From what Chaos Specter had seen on the screen, the digimon was wearing black leather outfit, which had an image of a white skull on his left shoulder. Large, black, tattered wings gave the digimon a look of pure evil, and the digimon flashed both of his long, thin hands which ended up as fearsome-looking claws. "I think you might be of use of me now."
The digimon's eyes glowed red. "I have a score to settle with the child called T.K., and his digimon Patamon. I will make sure to terminate both of them. You'll figure out a way to deal with the rest," he said with full determination.
Chaos Specter was slightly taken aback. Not one of his three Chaos Generals, whom all were Megas, had even dared to talk to him with that manner, yet this digimon, who was only a mere Champion, had done just that! "Fair enough," he said finally, his voice bore no traces of anger. "But, IF you don't get the job done, I will see to it that my Chaos Generals will go and destroy you themselves," he threatened slowly, indicating that he didn't approve of the digimon's rudeness.
"It will be done," the digimon simply replied, and disappeared.
to be continued....
