VENGEANCE
Chapter 26 – A Date to Remember
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Back in the Velvet Claw, Chaos Specter had already cleaned himself up from his previous scuffle at the demolished Protocol Ruins.
"Chaos AI, launch the global scanner now. Target: Kimeramon and a viral MetalGreymon, previously Chaos Wargreymon."
"Affirmative. Launching global scanner now . . ."
The young raven-haired man waited in anticipation as the large main screen flickered. Some beeping noises generated from the integrated computers within the throne room, echoing over the otherwise empty chamber.
"Scanning completed. Generating visual . . ."
Images of Kimeramon and MetalGreymon appeared over the screen. Chaos Specter noted that the two of them were taking flight, soaring over the cloudless blue sky. He saw that the two strayed Ultimate digimon were currently over a desert area.
"Give me their location."
"Subjects are located over the desert regions of the eastern quadrant of East Sector."
"Name known events that had happened on the place," Chaos Specter instructed. "Scan all battle footages available in the database."
"Command affirmed. Initiating scanning all available footages . . . Scanning completed. Subjects are currently at the deserts where the battle between the Digidestined and a Mega digimon identified as Milleniumon had taken place, approximately three years, five months, seven weeks, and three days ago."
A brief snicker came from the young man. "You don't have to be that detailed. But excellent, now that I've known those two's locations it will be easy for me to capture them again. Chaos AI, what is the status of the Digiranium Rings?"
"All Digiranium Rings are in full capacity."
"Good," Chaos Specter smiled wickedly. "Even the four mighty Harmonious Ones can't withstand the weakening effect of my Digiranium Rings. What are the odds of two mere Ultimates resisting them as well? Launch them to seize Kimeramon and MetalGreymon immediately."
"Command affirmed. The Digiranium Rings have been launched. Target: Kimeramon and MetalGreymon. Location: Desert Plains, Eastern Quadrant, East Sector."
Satisfied, Chaos Specter leaned his back onto the cushiony throne. His eyes then fell on an empty maroon velvet cushion on the throne's right side. The overlord frowned; he had expected to see his favorite pet, Catrina, to be sleeping there as she always did. It was surprising to see that she wasn't there.
"Chaos AI, do you happen to know where Catrina is?" he asked the integrated computer.
"Affirmative. Catrina has taken off earlier to the East Sector, on a small establishment belonged to a Digitamamon. Earlier the sensors have detected the presence of two targeted Digidestined over there. Catrina has decided to initiate a battle with the Digidestined to win them over for you, and she has also brought along an Asuramon from the Chaos Force."
Chaos Specter was immediately intrigued. "She must have been so bored to be left out on her own. . ." he said thoughtfully. "This is interesting. She has never been in a battle with the Digidestined before. It's smart of her to bring Asuramon along to back her up. I wonder how she is faring."
"Show me visual."
"Affirmative." The screen flickered, and showed the current battle between Catrina and Asuramon against Dinobeemon.
For the first few minutes, Dinobeemon seemed to be gaining the upper hand against Catrina and Asuramon. His speed flustered them, and his ability to produce clones of himself baffled them even more. Not to mention that Dinobeemon had been alternating the uses of his Hell Masquerade attack with his Irritant Buzz, confusing and disorienting both enemies at the same time.
Two of Dinobeemon's copies hovered around Catrina and Asuramon, and each produced the Moon Shooter attack. Showered by rains of poisonous needles, both Catrina and Asuramon were weakened a great deal. In previous battles, using the Moon Shooter technique could easily devolve Stingmon back into Wormmon, but luckily with the power boost he had as Dinobeemon, he was able to retain the Ultimate level AND cause harm on the enemies at the same time.
To defend himself, Asuramon once again crossed his arms over his torso. In the meantime, while letting out a meowish scream, Catrina jumped away to safety and powered up to launch her de-digivolution attack.
"Helter Skelter!"
As the dark energy coming from Catrina's attack engulfed Dinobeemon, the insectoid warrior tried his best to protect himself by positioning his clones in front of him. The clones all were besieged by Catrina's dark attack and exploded into data bytes, but to everyone's surprise it didn't produce the desired effect towards the real Dinobeemon. Momentarily the dark energy surrounded Dinobeemon harmlessly before dissipating into wisps of air.
"I don't believe it!" Catrina shouted. "You should be reduced to your pathetic Rookie level by my attack! What trickery is this, rrrooww?"
Dinobeemon smirked upon seeing his female enemy being flustered. "There's no trickery. Apparently, your attack only works on digimon who digivolved the normal way. This is the Transdigivolution we're talking about!"
Catrina seethed in rage and backed off. "Asuramon, finish him!"
"As you wish, mistress," the black deity grunted with an evil sneer. He had recovered enough of his power to battle again. Catrina then retreated to a safe distance and watched the battle ensuing between Dinobeemon and Asuramon.
Asuramon began the attack by producing several jets of fire from his palms and surrounded Dinobeemon with them.
Dinobeemon then took into the air, planning to use his ranged attack to defeat Asuramon. Thus, he began by unleashing his hypersonic wave attack to disorientate his opponent. "Irritant Buzz!"
Asuramon immediately powered up his four fists again to generate a counter attack. "Fire Fist of Shiva!"
However the speed of sound prevailed against the fiery attack and Asuramon immediately dropped to his knees, clutching on his ears with all four hands in a vain attempt to block out the intense buzzing sounds. The intensely high-pitched sounds resulted from Dinobeemon was seemingly piercing to Asuramon's eardrum, causing the deity digimon to lose his balance as well as not being able to attack. Dinobeemon launched the attack again, and this time blasted Asuramon directly on his chest with a concentrated amount of Irritant Buzz again. As a result, Asuramon tumbled on the ground as the result of the sheer force of the attack.
"Darn it, rrrooww! Get up, Asuramon!" Catrina yelled.
Dinobeemon hovered within a safe distance from his already unmoving fallen opponent. Using his enhanced vision, Dinobeemon inspected Asuramon's condition from afar and detected no signs of movement coming from him. He then turned away slightly from Asuramon and focused his eyes on the gaping Catrina.
"You've lost, Catwoman. Take him away back to wherever you came from. I don't want to kill him."
He then turned away and hovered slowly towards his friends.
Catrina however, remained unnaturally calm and didn't reply to Dinobeemon's order. She watched with glee as Dinobeemon turned away from her and the fallen Asuramon, mainly focusing her attention to the digimon she'd brought with her. A thin smile formed from behind the purple transparent veil she was wearing.
"You'd better watch your back, Dinobeemon," she murmured, and her smile widened sinisterly.
Dinobeemon however, thanks to his enhanced hearing, had caught what Catrina was saying to herself. This baffled him momentarily, but Dinobeemon immediately shrugged it off as Catrina not willing to admit defeat. However, when he saw the expressions of his friend, a bad omen dawned to him. He saw their faces contorted with fear, and Yolei was pointing towards him with a frightened look. Her index finger was moving back and forth between Dinobeemon and the empty space beside him.
"Something's coming from behind us, Ken," Wormmon warned gravely within his mind.
Hearing the warning, Dinobeemon quickly spun around.
Unfortunately for him, he was too late in doing that, as four flaring fists zoomed towards him.
Dinobeemon found himself being pounded brutally and repeatedly by Asuramon, with no way to defend himself as two of Asuramon's hands were grabbed on his own hands, while the other two were punching and beating his head and torso repeatedly. He wriggled to break free from Asuramon's forceful grabbing, but it only made Asuramon tightened his grip on Dinobeemon's body.
His vision began to blur, and the last thing he saw was a flash of bright red light coming from his back before he limped to unconsciousness.
Yolei couldn't believe it when she saw Asuramon getting up swiftly without being detected by Dinobeemon. She tried letting out a scream to warn Dinobeemon, but somehow no voice escaped her mouth. She was too panicked and overwhelmed that her voice, for once, had failed her. She then resorted to pointing desperately towards Asuramon, who was getting nearer to Dinobeemon.
Unfortunately, she was too late, because just as Dinobeemon was about to take notice of her warns and turned around, Asuramon had grabbed him with a pair of hands while using another set of arms to deliver powerful blows to the insectoid warrior.
"No! Ken!" she croaked, finally.
She closed her eyes in despair upon seeing Dinobeemon being pounded mercilessly by the black deity digimon. She really wanted to do something, but Hawkmon was still weak. Suddenly, she felt a slight nudge on her leg, and saw her partner.
"Hawkmon?"
"Yolei, I'm willing to fight Asuramon again if you want me to. Rest assured that Dinobeemon will be saved."
Yolei's eyes shined slightly. "But Hawkmon, you're . . . in no condition to fight Asuramon. He's too strong for you."
Hawkmon shook his head. "I'm the least worried about that. What I do care now is that Dinobeemon is in grave danger. If this doesn't stop, then I'm afraid both Ken and Wormmon will be . . ."
"Don't say it!" Yolei cut in quickly, and her brown eyes moistened. She felt herself lost at words again.
"Then allow me to go there and save Dinobeemon. I need you to digivolve me." There was a confident note in the avis digimon's voice. It was obvious that Hawkmon was too determined to be persuaded otherwise.
Yolei was torn in decision. She wanted desperately to help Dinobeemon, but she saw that Hawkmon was still injured and weakened. The little hawk digimon was bruised, and he was limping. How could he go to take on someone like Asuramon, and survive the battle? Letting Hawkmon go to save Dinobeemon was like sending him to his doom.
"I can't," she said, a tear trickled down from one of her eyes, which she wiped quickly with her sleeve. "You'll be killed, Hawkmon! And I won't be able to forgive myself if I let that happen to you. I care about you!"
Hawkmon's face lit up instantly upon the sincere comment from his partner. "I am . . . honored, Yolei. Truly I am. But, I know you care about Ken too. Throughout the whole time I have spent with you, I can see that Ken is special for you. I know for sure, that if Ken is gone then you'll be crushed. It is my duty to protect you from having to experience that kind of feeling. I am willing to make you happy, at all cost, my partner. Let me go there now and save Dinobeemon now."
Yolei knelt down and hugged her partner fiercely. "Do you really think that I would let you walk to your doom just like that? I don't want to lose you Hawkmon! I saw how hard it was for Ken to accept Wormmon's death last year . . . There's got to be another way! I don't want to lose any of you. I love all of you so much; I'd rather have myself lost to that Asuramon!"
Suddenly, as if answering to Yolei's desperation her Diginizer of Love erupted with soothing red lights. The lights engulfed both Yolei and Hawkmon together, giving out its warmth to both of them.
"I guess there is only one way left now," Hawkmon said, realizing what was happening. "Do you feel it, Yolei?"
"I think I do," Yolei replied with slight hesitation, and released Hawkmon from her grasp and watched the red lights around her with awe.
"I feel energized," Hawkmon noted. "This is it! We're going to . . ."
:: Transdigivolution ::
Before Hawkmon could finish, he was turned into a brilliant mote of red light and launched towards the sky. Feeling raw power coursing through his body, Hawkmon knew what was going to happen, and let out a confident call of power into the air.
"Hawkmon, Digivolve to . . ."
"Hawkmon! That means I'm gonna become a GUYYYYYY!!!!" Yolei screamed, as her body changed into a similar, yet with a human shape, mote of red light.
The two lights coalesced together in the air and resulted in a brilliant flash of red light over the clear blue sky. When the lights had dissipated, both motes were nowhere to be seen.
Instead, a new humanoid figure appeared, surrounded by reddish-pink aura around it.
The digimon looked like a cross-breed between a human and an eagle. From waist-down, separated only by a grey belt with a red jewel encrusted in the middle, was a pair of shapely feminine legs covered with brown feathers of an eagle down towards the knee. Below the knee, the digimon's legs were shelled by hard yellow skin which extended all the way to the toes, and bore the shape of an eagle's legs. Two, larger toes extended to the front and a smaller one towards the back – and all toes ended up with grey talons. From the back of the waist, brown tail feathers grew all the way down to the heels.
Above the narrow waist was a slightly muscular, yet still feminine, lithe body covered with a skin-tight suit over the equally white feathers that were covering the whole upper portion of the digimon's body. A metallic plate with black-grey straps covered the digimon's apparently budding chest, with steel shoulder pads adorning the digimon's shoulders. White feathers with red tips protruded out from the forearms, and down the forearms the humanoid hands seemed to be larger than normal, and sharp pink nails adorned the five fingers of the digimon. The digimon's head was perhaps the most humane of all, with the lower portion of the face revealed a fair skin and a mouth. Long, messy, reddish brown hair escaped from the red helmet worn on the head. Under the helmet, the digimon's eyes were covered by a metallic visor with long-extended white ear-shaped extensions with purple feathers growing out on the ends.
This new digimon was a familiar one, but there was something which was evidently different about it. However, the name remained the same.
" . . . SYLPHIMON!"
By using the power of Transdigivolution, Yolei and Hawkmon had merged together and formed . . . a feminine Ultimate level digimon that bore so much resemblance to the Silphymon resulted from the DNA Digivolution between Aquilamon and Gatomon.
And the name was slightly different too, in way of pronouncing and spelling.
Sylphimon was about to inspect her new features when she suddenly heard a moan blaring in her mind.
"AAAAAHH!"
"Hawkmon? We did it! We've become Sylphimon!"
"Oh goodie . . . You know, I was actually expecting a MALE version of me, not THIS!"
"Hey! It's not so bad! Besides, I kinda like this form. A form like Angewomon is too girly for my taste, but Sylphimon is definitely cool."
"Easy for you to say, Yolei. I can't imagine how Veemon, Patamon, Wormmon and Armadillomon would look at me now when they saw me in, in . . . THIS form!"
"Oh . . . okay. I take it that you don't like Sylphimon?"
"No, I . . . I thought I was going to become Silphymon. I thought YOU are going to be the one who would snap, upon being Silphymon! But . . ."
"But what?"
" . . . I guess it isn't too important a matter now. Truth be told, digimon are not actually divided into genders, despite their features."
"Really? I think Sylphimon is a female . . . but you, Aquilamon, Shurimon and Halsemon are definitely MALE!"
"Now see here, I think we might want to save YOUR BOYFRIEND and his PARTNER from impending doom now, right? We'll have this talk later."
"Amazing!" Noriko exclaimed, upon seeing Yolei and Hawkmon merged together into Sylphimon.
"She's beautiful!" Keiko added, admiring Sylphimon's looks from afar.
"All my life, I've never seen anything like this," Digitamamon breathed in awe. "I can use this fantastic event to promote my diner!"
Both girls were momentarily surprised to hear the Ultimate digimon's reaction. "DIGITAMAMON!"
Catrina watched with glee as Asuramon finally tossed Dinobeemon on the ground. The insectoid warrior was barely conscious after receiving heavy blows from the strong Vaccine. He then drifted into unconsciousness.
"Pity," Asuramon grunted. "I was hoping for a good fight. But never mind, the task is done."
"Good work, Asuramon," Catrina said, smiling. "That's one Digidestined down for the master. Rrrooww, finish him now, Asuramon!"
"With pleasure, mistress," Asuramon responded, and raised all his hands up. Raging flames erupted, and Asuramon began to call on his special technique, this time channeling all his power to deliver a final blow towards the fallen Dinobeemon.
"Fire Fist . . ."
However he was interrupted when a glaringly pink energy ball rammed into his face, causing him to lose his footings. Asuramon was thrown nearly ten feet away and crashed onto the ground near where Catrina was standing.
"What?" Catrina gasped, as she saw an impressive bird-woman digimon appearing. "Who are you, rrrooww?"
The newcomer smirked. "You can call me . . . Sylphimon! And don't you dare harm my friend anymore."
Hearing the voice, Catrina came into realization. "I get it. The girl and the bird, right?"
"That's right, kitty-cat," Sylphimon said smoothly. "And now, we are one!"
"Hey what do you know? You rhymed, Yolei."
Catrina fumed upon the seemingly insult coming from Sylphimon. "Can't you even call me by the right name? That insect friend of yours kept calling me Catwoman, and now you with that kitty-cat thing."
"Oh, stop your whining," Sylphimon cut in. "I'll call you whatever I want now. Let's see, how about P.C.?"
"Pretty crazy?" Hawkmon supplied, from within Sylphimon's mind. She could even hear the little hawk digimon snickering.
"Huh?" Catrina asked, confused. "What's that?"
"It's 'Plain Cat' . . . and it suits you," Sylphimon answered. "Because you're just some dumb cat and a somebody's pet. Hah! I know a certain cat digimon who's far smarter, cuter and more adept in fighting than you. And to top it off, she's definitely an ANGEL."
"Why you!" Catrina screamed. "I'll show you! Vampire Dance!"
She spun herself once, emitting out orange-colored aura from her body. Hordes of orange bats surrounded with dark energy erupted from the aura, and Catrina skillfully directed all the bats towards her enemy in the same manner a Myotismon or a LadyDevimon would have done.
Sylphimon saw the incoming attack, and began calling on her own special technique as well. Pink aura began surrounding her, and she raised herself towards the sky before zooming straight into the incoming bats. The bats burned away into data bytes upon contact with the pink aura, and Sylphimon was unharmed.
"Dual Sonic!"
Sylphimon then spread her arms wide and released a pink duplicate of herself, made out of the pink aura surrounding her earlier, towards Catrina. On its way towards the targeted opponent, Sylphimon's duplicate burned away the remaining bats that were hovering around Catrina with ease before it rammed full-force against her.
Catrina however managed to remain standing, despite the heavy blow. But it did leave her disoriented momentarily, which was enough for Sylphimon to deliver yet another attack. And this time, it was personal and up-close as Catrina was about to discover painfully herself.
SLLLAAAPP!
"OWWW! Why you!" SLLAAPP!
"This is . . ." SLLAAPP ". . . what you'll get . . ." SLLAAPP ". . . for messing with . . ." SLLAAPP ". . . MY FIRST DATE!!" SLAAAPP!!
"AAIIIEE! Why you rotten nymph!" SLLAAAPP! "RROOOWW!!"
Similar to the way Angewomon and LadyDevimon had fought each other, Sylphimon, out of anger of Catrina, had pursued the same method of fighting. She had launched herself full-force towards Catrina and delivered slaps onto the catwoman's face with her strong palms.
Catrina was infuriated by this, and unwittingly responded in the same manner.
The two female digimon continued to fight in this manner for a while, drawing confusion from the spectators around them.
"I dare not cross their path," Digitamamon gulped.
"She rocks," both Noriko and Keiko commented at the same time.
"Go Sylphimon!!" Penguinmon and Salamon cheered excitedly.
Asuramon had gotten up from the sneak attack he'd received from Sylphimon earlier. He saw the vicious cat fight happening between his mistress and the newcomer, Sylphimon, and shuddered upon the sight. Backing off to a safe distance, he used whatever time he had to recuperate.
In the meantime, Dinobeemon also had come round, awoken by the sounds of the commotion which was currently happening. Staggering slightly, he stood up and flexed all his dragon-like muscles, and saw the reason of the noises. He gaped slightly upon seeing Catrina and an unknown, yet familiar, digimon exchanging slaps, punches, and kicks. They were also seen pulling each other's hairs and clawing their sharp nails onto each other.
"Wow, is that Silphymon? That means Yolei and Hawkmon . . ." he said, and sweatdropped.
The fight happening between the 'Silphymon' and the Bastemon was definitely amusing, while a little gory at the same time, judging by how much both fighting sides were injured.
"I don't see Yolei and Hawkmon anywhere," Wormmon said, as Dinobeemon scanned his surroundings. "That digimon . . . looks like Silphymon to me. A girlish version of Silphymon, to put in words correctly. I wonder who he, or she, is."
Dinobeemon chuckled, and launched the Digimon Analyzer to get to know of the new digimon in front of him.
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Name : Sylphimon
Attribute : Data
Level : Ultimate
Type : Warrior
Specialty : Flying, Speed
Attacks : Top Gun, Dual Sonic, Blast Rings, Grand Horn
Power Level : 72
The Transdigivolution between the Digidestined of Love and her partner results into a feminine derivative of Silphymon. This digimon possesses an unrivalled speed and is an adept fighter, employing the power and grace of the wind.
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"And combined with Yolei's temper the result could be way too DEADLY!" Wormmon laughed. "Oh, poor Hawkmon! He becomes a girl-mon!"
Dinobeemon shook his head slightly. "Hush, Wormmon. Remember Jewelbeemon?"
"I rest my case . . ."
"This ends now, kitty-cat!" Sylphimon cried, and the extensions of her visor glowed. Earlier facing backward, they were raised upwards and pointed towards the front before turning into sturdy white horns.
"Grand Horn!" She screamed, and rammed her head straight onto Catrina's chest.
The force that accompanied the attack caused Catrina to choke out blood. She was hurled backwards and crashed onto a tree in the process. However to Sylphimon's surprise, the lady-cat merely got up back and smirked.
"I'll teach you to play me for a fool, Sylphimon!" She hissed, and spread her arms wide. Black aura surrounded her, and she underwent a transformation. Earlier there was a beautiful cat goddess, now all Sylphimon could see was a huge dark panther with faint black spots on her coat.
"RRROOWW!" Catrina roared; her voice too had changed from the sugary-sweet tone into that of a fierce lioness's roar. She leapt into the air gracefully and landed on her feet just a few feet away from Sylphimon. "RRROOWW!"
"Eww, a black cat. It's supposed to bring bad luck," Sylphimon said distastefully. "To you, of course, because you're still going down."
"RRROOOWWW!!"
Sylphimon shook her head. "Do all that roaring really necessary?"
"Need a hand?" suddenly Dinobeemon appeared on her side. "Nice form, Yolei."
"Thanks Ken, and no, I don't need a hand to fight this pathetic cat," Sylphimon groaned. "Besides, this fight between me and her is personal, and you are hurt. Go and rest, and do me a favor will you. Keep an eye on that Asuramon for me. I don't wanna have him interfering when his annoying mistress broke a nail or something."
Dinobeemon raised both hands upwards and backed away slightly. "Whatever you say, Yolei."
As Dinobeemon flew away, Catrina took the opportunity to attack the distracted Sylphimon. However the swift warrior saw this, and leapt into the air. Grinning, Sylphimon pulled her right leg backwards, and launched a powerful kick directly on Catrina's head directly on the forehead. Little did she know that she had just sealed her victory by launching the simple attack.
Catrina was thrown backward again, and sprawled onto the ground. She unwittingly reverted back to her humanly shape, and felt weak all over her limbs. Her vision obscured, Catrina also felt a splitting headache which rendered her defenseless. She rubbed her forehead, feeling slightly dazed. Then she realized that Sylphimon had just delivered a strong kick on her head while – her weak place – while in her cat form.
"Aww . . . little poor kitty hurts her little head," Sylphimon said sarcastically. Then her tone became grim as she added, "Go away now, catwoman, before I change my mind."
The defeated Bastemon shot her foe a death glare. "I really hate you, you know that? No one's ever done this to ME before!"
"Oh boo hoo! That's just too bad!" Sylphimon retorted.
Catrina narrowed her large blue eyes. "This isn't over yet Sylphimon. I'll be back someday, mark my words, rrrooww. I'll get you for this. Asuramon!"
From his safe distance, Asuramon quickly got up upon being called by his mistress.
"Finish them, AT ALL COST! Either that or don't ever come back! Rrrooww!" With the command delivered, Catrina snapped her finger and disappeared in a wave of dark purple lights.
"Come back here, you fraidy-cat!" Sylphimon shouted, punching the air furiously with her large fists disdainfully. "I'm not done with you yet!"
"We'll get her next time, Yolei," Hawkmon said soothingly.
Sylphimon moaned frustratingly in response. "Oh darn it, I almost had her!"
Asuramon saw his chance was thinning, with having two Ultimate digimon against him. Dinobeemon was strong enough an opponent, but now with the fiery Sylphimon against him as well, the deity digimon was slightly shaken.
Nevertheless, he was already given a command and was determined to see it done.
Seeing Sylphimon as a bigger threat, Asuramon decided to take her on first. He powered up his fists and began attacking the unsuspecting sylph digimon, who was currently lamenting her loss of a chance to defeat his mistress.
"Fire Fist of Shiva!"
Grinning evilly, Asuramon watched as his flames set off towards Sylphimon. Should the sylph remain in her position; the fire would catch up to her and burn her to ashes. He could already imagine his mistress's glee when she heard of his victory against Sylphimon.
Unfortunately for him, this was not meant to be when somebody had unexpectedly intercepted the attack.
"GAAAHH! That insect!" he screamed, without even looking at the interceptor. Then he got a good look on the one who had taken on the blast and groaned. "Stupid egg."
Dinobeemon felt his heart nearly skipping a beat when Asuramon's flames were about to catch on the unsuspecting Sylphimon, and quickly jumped to try and stop the attack. However he was too much drained of his energy from the earlier scuffle with Asuramon, and it cost him his quick speed.
It was lucky for Sylphimon that Digitamamon also had thought of rescuing her, by jumping in her way. The flames engulfed the Ultimate digimon, and all those who were around screamed in shock. There was no way Digitamamon could have survived the intense fire.
Sylphimon was quickly alerted upon the sudden blazing heat erupting around her, and turned around just in time to see Digitamamon being burnt by Asuramon's fire. She yelped in horror, and quickly jumped on reflex into the air to avoid the fire.
"Digitamamon?" she called. "Are you alright?"
No answer came, and when the flames subdued all Sylphimon saw was a black, oval shaped form of Digitamamon, laying there motionless. His legs and the hole which showed his face weren't there; only a burnt eggshell remained.
"You sneak! Look at what you've done to Digitamamon!" Sylphimon shouted angrily. She quickly gathered the elemental energy around her in both hands, and formed a pink fireball. Her hands glowed with pink energy as well as the fireball she was forming grew larger.
"Top Gun!"
Sylphimon directed her right hand forward, in Asuramon's direction and thrust it in his direction. It blasted Asuramon directly on the chest and sent him staggering backwards. But Asuramon was undaunted; he rushed forward again to attack Sylphimon again. However he was again intercepted, this time by the one and only Dinobeemon.
"Irritant Buzz!"
Another attack hit him onto the chest again, but seeing the determined looks Asuramon's three faces had Dinobeemon knew his attack won't suffice. Unleashing a glowing purple blade on his dorsal wrist armor, he cried out,
"Spiking Strike!"
And then, he struck his blade into one of Asuramon's four upper limbs.
Asuramon gasped as the arm struck by Dinobeemon's attack convulsed involuntarily. Dinobeemon withdrew his blade and observed with grim satisfaction as data particles began to be extracted out from the injured limb.
The deity was infuriated for having lost an arm. One hand, of his upper pairs, was gone, leaving him looking really odd with only unbalanced three arms left. However far was he from giving up as he prepared another attack, ignoring the piercing pain he was experiencing at the moment.
"GAAAHH!! Fire Fist . . ."
"Dual Sonic!" A rush of pink energy slammed onto Asuramon's remaining single upper arm, which was conveniently raised at the moment. It was instantly deleted after being engulfed by the pink energy.
Dinobeemon turned around and saw Sylphimon hovering behind him, her face set.
"I'm really getting tired of him, Ken," she said. "What do you think? Is Asuramon beyond saving, or is there still hope for him to be spared?"
"Looks like he's here on free will," Dinobeemon noted. "And he's a menace to everyone here. Just look at what he'd done to Digitamamon."
"That attack was meant for ME," Sylphimon pointed out dismally. "You're right. Asuramon's evil. He needs to be deleted. Kari has done it, TK has done it . . . and, so can I . . ."
"On a count of three," Dinobeemon said, and energized his wrist armor. "One."
"Two." Sylphimon generated a pink fireball with one hand.
"Three! Moon Shooter!"
"Top Gun!" Rather than releasing the fireball, Sylphimon's attack had a new twist. The fireball on her hand then released a powerful pink laser ray towards Asuramon, combining with Dinobeemon's purple ray of needle attacks to make one joint attack.
The joint attack was too much for Asuramon to handle, and with a deafening scream the black deity digimon was finally deleted.
Sylphimon sighed. She, or rather, Yolei, had once a hard time killing digimon. It still affected her to just delete a digimon, even though the digimon was blatantly evil. During the fight with a LadyDevimon from the Daemon Corp the previous year, she had hesitated to let Silphymon in doing so. However when LadyDevimon attempted to harm Yolei, Silphymon had stepped in and destroyed her with one final blast.
"You okay?" Dinobeemon asked, concerned.
"I think so . . ." Sylphimon replied back. "I feel like the Terminator, or something. But I'm okay."
"Glad to hear it," Dinobeemon nodded. "I mean the part when you said you're okay."
Sylphimon grinned. "Sure."
To everyone's relief, Digitamamon was pretty much unharmed thanks to his hard-as-diamond shell. He had awoken to find himself being surrounded by the four Digidestined, four destined digimon, Veggiemon and Tapirmon.
"Well, what are you looking for?" he demanded.
Yolei and Ken snickered. "You've been out cold for nearly a couple of hours now, Digitamamon."
A dawn of comprehension filled Digitamamon. "That long?"
"Yeah," Yolei replied. "And . . . I really want to thank you for stepping in line of Asuramon's attack for us back there, Digitamamon. You saved our lives."
"Oh well, your welcome," Digitamamon replied gruffly. "You OWE me for this, y'know?"
Yolei sweatdropped. "You want me to work here?"
Digitamamon's yellow eyes narrowed, giving himself a grinning-like expression. "No freebies, you know it."
"But Digitamamon," Hawkmon cut in. "This event will definitely boost up your business. Think about it; words will get around of you, the manager, being the hero of the day for saving a girl's life from a bad digimon."
Yolei frowned, but Ken immediately caught up to what Hawkmon was doing.
"That's right! Everyone will want to see the heroic Digitamamon now," he added, to which Hawkmon nodded approvingly.
"Reporters will flood over to get exclusive interviews from you," Wormmon supplied.
"Your restaurant will be promoted to all over the Digital World," Noriko said.
"You'll be famous!" Keiko exclaimed, giggling.
"I'll be sure to call on my relatives to interview for the position of chefs for future diner chains," Veggiemon said, unexpectedly.
"Yeah, all Tapirmon love waiting tables!" Tapirmon chirped.
"You'll have lots of money in no time," Salamon said.
"You'll be featured in the DIGIMON magazine for sure, as the Digital World's most famous entrepreneur," Penguinmon said, earning odd looks from all those who present.
All, except Digitamamon, who had a dreamy look on his blackened inner shell.
"Oh shucks," he said bashfully. "You really think so?"
"Sure we do," Hawkmon said.
"Well, in that case, forget the thing about working here, you girls. I don't wanna make a bad impression for forcing un-paying customers laboring themselves in my diner! Off you go!"
"Oh, thanks Digitamamon!" Yolei exclaimed brightly.
Noriko and Keiko shook their heads slightly. "We'll still be coming here though, Digitamamon. We love it here, and we'll work here in exchange of the knowledge we'll get from you and Veggiemon."
"Sure. But for now, let's close up the establishment. We'll have the rest of the day off!" Digitamamon said happily.
The Ultimate digimon then shooed all of them out from the diner and bid them farewell pleasantly.
"Let's go home," Ken said, smiling.
"You two wanna come with us?" Yolei offered the two younger girls. "We can open Digi-Ports virtually anywhere, without the need of using computers."
"Sure!" both Noriko and Keiko said.
"Digi-Port open!" Yolei exclaimed and pressed the right button on her Diginizer. A red gate of light opened in front of them instantly.
All of them then went through the portal, and ended up at the park where Ken and Yolei had met up earlier. After that, the younger girls politely said their goodbyes and went home with their de-digivolved partner digimon, who were in their In-Training forms once they had stepped out from the portals.
"Not bad for our first date," Yolei murmured, as the young girls disappeared from sight.
"Yeah . . . unforgettable, if you ask me," Ken replied. "It's the day you and Hawkmon Transdigivolve into Sylphimon!"
Wormmon snickered. "Tell me Hawkmon, how does it feel to become Sylphimon?"
"The same feeling you felt when you were Dinobeemon!" Hawkmon snapped back, and Wormmon laughed hysterically.
"Be quiet, Wormmon," Ken admonished, but a slight smile formed on his face as well. Yolei rolled her eyes good-naturedly.
"Wait till the others find out about this! Ooh, I can't wait to hear Veemon and Armadillomon's responses!" Wormmon giggled.
"Why you!" Hawkmon roared, and tackled the caterpillar digimon. The two digimon then chased each other around the empty park, Wormmon still laughing, and Hawkmon chasing and yelling like mad.
Both Yolei and Ken shook their heads. Then, Ken saw an unoccupied swing nearby, and beckoned it to Yolei.
"I'm too old for that," Yolei said, clicking her tongue in distaste.
"Oh come on, you're not THAT old!" Ken laughed, and pulled Yolei gently towards the swing. "It'll be fun! You sit, and I push the swing. It's a classic way of dating."
Yolei smiled, and blushed. "A classic way for kids to date . . . but oh well; who says we're grown up anyway?"
"That's the spirit," Ken replied, grinning, and motioned for Yolei to sit on the black leather swing. He then grasped on the metal chains that held the leather seats and cried, "On your mark, get set, GO!"
The two Digidestined then enjoyed the rest of the quiet afternoon there, enjoying each other's company and watching their partners' antics against each other. Both Yolei and Ken were content; despite having to deal with digimon on the day when they were going out together for the first time ever, their first date was indeed a memorable one after all.
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Author's Note:
This chapter is supposedly for the one year anniversary "Vengeance" has been online on , but a bad case of fever pushed it a couple of days forward. Sylphimon is obviously based on Silphymon, with the spelling being closer to its word origin "sylph". In order to differentiate Silphymon and Sylphimon, I have chosen to use the Japanese attack names for Sylphimon.
Quinton Notwen – Thanks for the review. Actually, the power levels for the digimon are a concept I've adapted from a different anime. And your input for the Transdigivolution between Yolei and Hawkmon are indeed hilarious, but not the way I have in mind.
Digi Fan, Lodis Lord – Thanks for reviewing; I hope you'll enjoy this chapter.
J.D. Guy – Thank you for the most heartwarming review . . . I was going to update with this chapter until I saw another review coming for the previous chapter. Throughout the whole year I was writing this (has it really been one year?) I constantly try to find ways to improve myself. The early chapters were done with so little experience; and actually before this fic was posted there WAS another earlier version of Vengeance. It had ten chapters done, but I doubted anyone had the chance to read it just yet as I've taken them down after realizing that it was going nowhere. I still keep the fic, which somehow reminded me of howI was back then. That's why I have started revamping some of the earlier chapters, beginning with the prologue.
Anyway, as to your review: it was much easier to set up Ken and Yolei for a slightly romantic deviation from the usual action-adventure genre this fic has, as we all know how they will end up in future. It's my first time toying with the romance genre so hopefully it'll turn out OK. Your last question about Chaos Specter having any family or friends, I have to say that this IS a very good question. Actually, it's a plot point of why he is who he is now . . . so I guess we'll have to wait and see. I'll be exploring Chaos Specter's history in much later parts of both Vengeance and my other fic, Legends of the Digidestined.
