Before I start the chapter I wanna take some time to explain some things like why I gave Noah three digimon and how it works.
First I originally intended for him to have one partner, but when I found Darkdramon and by extension the connection Choasmon I had a huge brainstorm. You see all the partners' final forms embody the crest of darkness. I am basing this darkness on the yin in Chinese philosophy.
Darkdramon is the darkness itself and all the power it has. The potential it has to destroy and/or protect. Even the choice to destroy isn't inherently evil if used correctly. An excellent example would be destroying the dark masters. It is all a matter of it is being used.
Now Bancholeomon is the very will of darkness, it's intent to do what it believes is right even if it means fighting against forces greater than it. The justice that it believes in gives it the shape that connects it with the light yang. Yin and Yang are only both good if they are balanced, and any imbalance leads to evil.
Onto Valdurmon, this connection is the one I was the proudest of. You see in the yin and yang symbols each has a seed of the other in them. Valdurmon is meant to be that seed, made by the darkness itself. Officially the bird Mega's light nullifies all evil and eradicates it. Now the darkness, like all elements, is not inherently evil or good it just exists, but when a will is added by living beings only then does it become either. So Valdurmon is the darkness' weapon against the corruption of evil by purging or destroy it.
Finally, Sleipmon comes to embody the darkness' acceptance and willingness to connect with others. In most stories, people wielding special light magic to fight the bad guys are hard to come by, but darkness magic-wielding grunts are all over the place. More often than not Darkness is more accepting than light leading malevolent beings to corrupt it into an evil power. This can be applied to literally everything, example a book meant to teach others used to bash a person's head in. The darkness is just a force that always tries to connect with people.
Now moving on to the reason he was able to gain multiple partners. You see the darkness seems to have a strange effect on digivices. When Ken dipped his digivice into the dark ocean it gained the ability to digivolve digimon other than his partner and open gates to anywhere in the digital world. Noah being the holder of the crest of darkness which he received originally from the dark ocean inherently has that power.
That brings up how Noah got to the digital world in the first place. If you read the title Noah arrived by accident. When the DigiDestined were brought to the digital world the barrier between our worlds was so weak that it created a butterfly effect. It dragged Noah who was in Oregon on vacation into the digital world's dark ocean. By accepting a dark copy of himself made by the ocean, he received the crest of darkness. Noah was shortly saved and taken to the digital world by a digivice sent to him. It will be shown in flashbacks or mini-chapters don't worry.
Sorry if some of these explanations sound too cheesy or too long. Please leave a review they help motivate me to write and improve on my skills.
(3rd POV)
[Play-All My Best Friends are Metal Heads]
We open the scene in a teenager's bedroom not so different from any other. The room held many things from several art pieces that hanged on the wall to a desk with a stationary computer. However, the thing that stood out the most was the still sleeping boy with black hair in his bed.
Almost immediately the alarm clock on his nightstand blared. The boy stretches out his hand to silence the alarm. He rises from his bed letting loose a yawn as he stretched his arms while sitting on the edge of his bed. His dark brown eyes open for a moment before rubs the sand for them as he walks away from the bed.
We jump cut to the bathroom the same boy is brushing his teeth. In the background, a little boy the age of four with dark orange hair and baby blue eyes is running past the door still dressed in his pajamas. The teenager however ignores this and continues to brush his teeth.
Next are the two boys sitting at a table with a man and woman eating breakfast. The man is lean with dark brown hair and deep blue eyes he is drinking his coffee. The woman has a more muscular physique compared to the man with reddish-brown hair tied in a ponytail and the same brown eyes as the teenage boy. She is reading the newspaper before looking over the younger child wiping the food dripping on his chin.
The dark-haired teenager is walking out the front door of his home. As he walks around he greets several people he passes. After some time he arrives at the local park and continues his stroll there. Climbing to the top of a hill the boy takes a short break and then proceeds to lay down on the grass staring as clouds pass.
[Song End]
The boy's leisure time is cut short by the ringing coming from his pocket. Quickly he gets up and grabs a ringing gold device from his right pocket. He had received a message on his D-Terminal. Quickly the teens scroll through to find the new message that said.
"SIR SOMETHING STRANGE IS ON THE MOVE IN THE DIGITAL. WE HAVE NO SOLID INTEL AS TO WHAT IS GOING ON, BUT THE DIGIMON SEEM TO BE GOING CRAZY. WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT BEFORE ANY FURTHER RECONNAISSANCE CAN BE DONE TO ASSESS THE THREAT POTENTIAL."
The boy's eyes widen in surprise, shock and worry were written plainly on his face. Without so much as a word, the boy takes off running into the nearby forest. He trying his best to get as far away from any people as possible. After a couple of minutes, the boy stops and looks trying to spot if anyone was nearby.
When he was finished double-checking the area was secure the teen takes out his D-Terminal. Placing the open D-Terminal on the ground the boy takes a step back from the device. Pulling another item from his pocket he holds up a black and white D-3 digivice. He flashes his digivice at the D-Terminal causing both devices to light up.
Immediately following the light a portal in front of the D-Terminal. Picking up the device the boy hurried through the portal. As the boy made it across the portal it closed behind him leaving behind an empty forest that seemed to get darker by the second.
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Next, we see the teen he has just arrived in a dense forest that made the previous location look like a garden. Once the portal fully closed behind him the teen looks at his surroundings and notices that no one was around. Taking out his digivice he activates the radar feature and a virtual map appears on the screen. The map shows one black that signified the boy and three white dots that appeared close by.
Holding the map up begins walking towards the location of the white dots. After walking for five minutes the teen reaches the outskirts of the forest near the border that was less dense with plant life. Taking another look at the map assured the teen this was the right location. Suddenly a voice rang out from the top of the tree.
"Noah!"
Upon the tree was stout green and brown bird with prominent red tipped black feathers that acted as eyebrows for the creature. The bird gracefully glides down from the branch he was standing on to the boy in question who calls out in turn with a smile on his face.
"Falcomon."
The now named Falcomon proceeds to hug the young man despite barely reaching his waist. Noah happily returns the gesture hugging the bird Digimon. After breaking the hug the teen looks around asking the falcon.
"Where are Commandramon and Liollmon?"
As if the universe answered him the Digimon in question appeared on their own. A small lion with a red tuft of hair on its head and necklace around its neck emerges from the same tree that Falcomon did. It proceeded to jump down from the high tree while landing on its feet. The feline walks towards the two smiling at the human.
"Good to see you again my friend."
Noah bends down to scratch the cat Digimon's head. Liollmon greatly appreciate the pampering despite how short it lasted. Then rustling came from a blue bush directly next to the tree that draws everyone's attention. A blue lizard wearing black and blue camouflage armor emerged from the bush still covered in some leaves. The commando reptile stood in an attention holding his assault rifle in one hand and saluting with the other.
"SIR, COMMANDRAMON REPORTING FOR DUTY, SIR!"
The teen looks on shaking his head in disappointment. Walking towards the dragonic Digimon with a mirthful smile on his face, Noah says lecturing him.
"No no no, none of that! You come here and bring it in."
Commandramon looked on conflicted, he didn't move from his spot for several seconds before immediately breaking. The Digimon runs tackling the human in an embrace that nearly toppled the teen over. Crying tears of joy the large rookie hugged Noah crying out happily.
"SIR!"
The teen happily returns the hug laughing joyfully all the while. Liollmon and Falcomon walk towards the two, watching and laughing in amusement. After being separated twice the Digimon were happy to be reunited with their partner. They bask in this serene moment for a little while.
After the touching reunion was done, the Digimon begin to lead the way as Noah followed them curiously. However, if one would look more closely you would notice the three Digimon were extremely on edge. Commandramon stood front and center with his firearm at the ready. Both Liollmon and Falcomon stayed very close to Noah constantly looking around for the first sign of danger. As they walked along the teen begins to ask them some questions.
"So what is so serious that it has you all hiding out and waiting for me?"
The blue dragonic Digimon continues to look forward to leading the way while maintaining constant vigilance. Commandramon keeps his composure speaking calmly to his human partner.
"Sir, we encountered several civilians a few weeks ago who reported that some Digimon has gone off the deep end. When we looked into this bizarre situation we ended up finding more and more similar cases popping up all over."
Falcomon chimes in, the unease in his voice was alarming.
"After our last search, we realized that most of the Digimon were champion level. Simply put if we encountered more than one of them we would be outmatched."
The Digimon pauses taking the time to jump over along in the path. After getting over the log Falcomon takes his time to looks around for any sign of danger. Taking that as his queue Liollmon continues off from where the falcon left.
"Upon reaching that conclusion, we knew we needed your help and fast. So we sent the message and we waited for you to arrive. However, Commandramon told us we needed to hide out until then."
As soon as he had finished the story Commandramon turned towards Liollmon huffing mad. Glaring and pointing at the lion Digimon in indignation the commando says.
"Hey securing a location and avoiding drawing attention until reinforcements arrive was the most tactical option available!"
The feline Digimon not bothered by Commandramon's outburst merely shrugs at the declaration.
"I'm not complaining I got a pretty good rest in while were in that tree."
However, this statement only serves to irritates Commandramon even further. The Digimon flailing his arms in the air beings to berate the feline Digimon once again.
"You were supposed to be assisting Falcomon on the lookout duty! Not to nap, you disobedient house cat!"
Commandramon continues to scold Liollmon who just did seem to care one bit and only seemed to stoke the fire. For a while it looked like this would go on forever. Sighing in annoyance Noah steps in to quell this little spat.
"Alright, that's enough we don't need this right now."
Even after being told that Commandramon found it hard to let go. So he merely folded his arms and turned away huffing, and began walking slightly ahead of everyone else. Liollmon remained impassive and continued as nothing had happened. Noah could only sigh once again and turned to Falcomon questioning the bird Digimon.
"Where exactly are we going?"
The Digimon pointed ahead and said with the utmost composure.
"While I was on the lookout I managed to spot some sort of commotion from afar, sounds of trees breaking as smoke rose from near this exact area. This happened a short while ago so we might be able to catch up with the Digimon responsible."
Nodding in approval Noah says nothing more as they continue walking. Slowly the tree began to fade as they reached the edge of the forest. Something, however, was amiss, many trees had been broken and in some cases burned.
The group then stumbled upon what looked to be the outskirts of small village with homes on the ground and in the trees. However, the village looked like it had seen better days. Many of the homes had were broken down and burnt like the trees they saw before entering. They quickly looked around trying to find any survivors. The look of horror on their faces quickly turned stern the more they saw.
They hurried towards the center of the village with the sole intent to help. As they draw closer to the center of the village the amount of damage that hit became more clear. More than anything the Digimon and human knew whatever caused wasn't acting alone. Noah alarmed by the destruction says to his Digimon with a tone stern as a drill sergeant.
"When we get there I want us in groups of two to search for survivors, but don't go making any noise. Whatever caused this might still be around and we don't need it getting the jump on us."
The Digimon each nod as they continue running. Upon reaching the village Liollmon and Falcomon separate from Commandramon and Noah to locate any. The two groups searched high and low with no success. Until Commandramon and Noah heard weak groaning from beneath a collapsed hut.
Noah waved at the Digimon, motioning for them to come over to that spot. Quickly everyone rushed over and began to dig carefully until they freed the person below. Under was a grey ape with golden fur that had seen better days, his whole body covered in scorch marks and burns. Taking out his digivice Noah scanned the injured Digimon read aloud the description.
"Hanumon champion level, his attacks are Dohatsuten and Maen Moubakuken."
They all looked at the Digimon with pity. Carefully Commandramon and Noah pick him up and lean him against the nearest tree. As Noah took at the Hanumon's injures the Digimon stood to watch and grimaced again at the state of the area. Falcomon was the first to speak up.
"Whatever could have happened here?! From the looks of this place, many more Hanumon had to be living here. So why was it so easily destroyed."
Commandramon lowering his gun says with a matter-of-fact attitude after quickly analyzing all the damage done and breaks it down for the whole group.
"We could be dealing with anything from a large group of champions pillaging villages to an ultimate level Digimon bent on destruction and anything in between. Mega-level Digimon would have flattened the entire area not bust it up."
The lion Digimon nods in agreement as the falcon Digimon looks on downheartedly. They are brought out of thought by a loud grunt coming from behind them.
"Uuugh!"
Turning around the Digimon see Noah taking a step back from the awakening Hanumon. Quickly they move closer to the ape Digimon but giving him some room. Breathing heavily the Hanumon tiredly asks.
"W-who are you and where is everyone?!"
Noah raises his hands showing he meant no harm. He places his hands and motions to his friends.
"My name is Noah and these are my partners. I'm sorry but you are the only one we found."
The Hanumon looks on devastated, completely shattered by the news. Heartbreak in his voice the apeman closing his eyes weakly says.
"N-no!"
Noah moves in carrying the medical supplies from Commandramon. He begins to apply the cream to the burnt areas of his body. As he does do the human asks gently trying not to upset the Digimon.
"Hanumon while we treat your wounds, would you please tell us what happened here?"
The Digimon's face flashed in fear for a second before he calmed down. Taking a deep breath Hanumon began to tell his tale.
"A week ago one of our Hanumon brothers went missing and we searched endlessly for him. The following days we sent out search party after search party. When they finally managed to find him however he was strangely glowing purple and out of nowhere attacked them."
This brought about several reactions in the group. Noah looks on saddened, Falcomon looks shocked, Liollmon narrowed his eyes, and Commandramon shouts in anger.
"He attacked them?!"
The injured Hanumon with great effort nods his head slowly.
"Y-yes and they were forced to fight back. Shortly after they were able to knock him unconscious and drag him back to the village, but they had been unable to avoid injury. We tried to figure what was wrong, but not too long after the search party that returned with him began to act out."
The ape-man says with sorrow and remorse in his voice.
"They were howling in pain as they clutched their heads in pain. We tried to help them but by then they too had lost their sanity and started to attack everyone in sight. We couldn't bring ourselves to hurt our own and thus fell to them."
By the ape, Digimon was in tears sobbing in sorrow as he finished the story.
"I-in the end I was of the last of us to face them. I was only spared thanks to being trapped under the rubble and-(Harsh coughing)"
Hanumon began to coughing uncontrollably and reopening his wounds startling everyone present. Commandramon shouts in worry.
"Hanumon!"
Noah reacts instinctively trying to help to brace the wound making sure they don't open further. The Digimon's eyes looked tired and dreary, it was obvious that his time had come.
"(Coughing) It,(Soft coughing) it seems that this is my end."
The Digimon looks at the human directly in the eyes. His voice is broken as the ape-man pleads to Noah a heavy request.
"P-please s-stop them, for our sake and especially theirs."
Noah takes a second to digest the request as his team looks on disheartened by the event. Slowly The human takes Hanumon's hand and meets his gaze.
"We will I promise."
With that, the ape-man was at peace. His calm demeanor was almost too peaceful. Despite it being hard to watch no one turned away. Smiling for the first time since meeting the group, Hanumon looks at each one of them before landing on Noah and says.
"T-thank you!"
With that, the Hanumon disperses into particles that floated away. The group took a minute to mourn for not just him but all the other Digimon that died here. Falcomon was the first to break the silence commenting on the events that had happened.
"To be driven so mad and attack your friends, to kill them. A horrible fate that I wouldn't wish that on anyone, even my worst enemies."
Commandramon steeling his nerves stands up and says grimly.
"What these Hanumon went through was a tragedy, one that must not be repeated."
Still, knelling Noah looks at his hand before he clenches it into a fist as he closes his eyes. Once he opens his eyes Noah says solemnly.
"Commandramon is right, after all, I still have a promise to keep."
Liollmon ear twitches as he begins to sniff the air. The lion Digimon wasted no time looking in the opposite direction at the trees. His body tenses as he glares and takes up a battle stance.
"Well, we won't have to look far."
Turning around to where Liollmon was facing the group found themselves faced with a single Hanumon emerged from the trees with more following. What surprised them was that it looked drastically different than the Hanumon before. Its eyes were blank and its normally golden due was colored a sickly purple. While snarling at the four and the others baring their fangs like rabid animals, deadly purple energy oozes from their bodies.
Noah picks himself up and directly faces the oncoming beast Digimon. His partners quickly rush to his side keeping their gaze on the enemy. The human takes a small breath as he pulled out his digivice. Not wasting a second Noah asks the three Digimon with the utmost seriousness.
"Ready?"
The Digimon immediately hummed in response not looking from the Hanumon horde. The Hanumon roar and charge forward towards them. Commandramon, Falcomon, and Liollmon respond immediately running to intercept them. The D-3 shined brightly as Noah shoved it forward at his Digimon who glow just as bright. The first to shine was Commandramon who before everyone's eyes changes.
"Commandramon digivolve to..."
In the blue reptilian digimon's place stood a tall dark armored figure. His eyes were cybernetic melded with the armor he wore that had two blades attached to his shoulders and one on his tail. In his right hand, he held a combat knife in a reverse grip.
"Sealsdramon!"
Now his turn, the lion cub quickly begins his change.
"Liollmon digivolve to..."
He transformed into a muscular lion-man covered in scars. His fur orange and mane having grown turned yellow as did the new tip of fur on his tail. He wore black pants with yellow cords and several black belts all over his body. The lion-man was adorned with jewelry ranging from a simple ring on its ear to the necklace around his neck that changes into a red tribal type.
"Leomon!"
Falcomon was the final Digimon to evolve.
"Falcomon digivolve to..."
His transformation was that of a large armored bird with reddish-brown feathers, that resemble spike hair, on his head and the upper part of his wings which carry blades. The light golden feather on his torso and wings. Finally, a light green feather on the lower half of his body stopping at the armored claws on his feet.
"Diatrymon!"
With that, the battle had begun. Leomon and Sealsdramon both start the fight parrying their blades against the incoming Hanumon clubs. Sealsdramon analyzing his enemies' weak points begins to take advantage of their blind rage and proceeds to disarm the nearest Hanumon and judo throws him at another. He then proceeds to move in towards them at blinding speed and stabs the two.
"Death Ambush!"
With that, the two Hanumon falls instantly and the military Digimon moves on to the next enemy. Meanwhile, Diatrymon holds the line preventing the Hanumon from attacking Noah. They try firing off their metallic hair at the human but the ancient bird blocks it using his sturdy armor. As the hair bounces of his body Diatrymon, directly aiming at his attackers, opens his mouth and fires off a ballistic air blast.
"Blast Shot!"
With that, all incoming poisonous needles fired by the Hanumon were scattered by the short stream of air. As quickly as it was fired the blast reached the ape-men and quickly decimated them. Diatrymon let out a huff of aggression as he turned to meet the next oncoming beast-man Digimon.
Leomon was standing his ground allowing the savage Hanumon to come to him. Any time they would try to strike him he always countered their blows, regardless of their numbers. One Hanumon, in particular, tried to jump him as he was preoccupied with two of its allies. It looked like Leomon was done for until he knocks the two away and jumps into the air. Holding his blade in reverse and jumps past the Hanumon slashing and ending him in the process.
When the lion-man landed he was greeted by one of the two Hanumon from before who tried to attack him with a flaming fist. Leomon merely steps to the side dodging the blow and pulls back his fist. His fist now glowing in energy proceeds to collide with the Hanumon's chest.
"Fist of the Beast King!"
The Hanumon quickly faded as an energy blast in the shape of a lion's head exiting out his back. It didn't there however the blast continued forward consuming several more Hanumon. Leomon for the first time since the battle began slowly walked towards his next opponent.
By the end, nearly all the Hanumon were gone and the human and partners were no worse for wear having slain over a dozen of the ape-men. Only one last Hanumon remained, the off-color ape was putting up a good fight. It was handling both blade-wielding Digimon working in tandem but was slowly being overwhelmed. The beast roared in anger and pain as it was slashed all over by the lion-man and dragonic Digimon.
In what seemed like a last-ditch effort the Hanumon leaped into the air and towards Noah. The beast-man was trying to target what he considers the weakest members in a suicide attack. Diatrymon was not having it however as charged at the savage intercepting him in the air ramming the ape covered in a tempestuous wind.
"Mega Dash Impact!"
This succeed in knock the Hanumon back into the ground and far away from Noah. By the time Hanumon got up, Leomon and Sealsdramon had already arrived standing beside Diatrymon who landed feet away from it. The beast roared in anger as his fist burned in raging flames. It would seem like it planned to go out fighting. This only got a sigh out of Noah who somberly says staring directly at it.
"For what it's worth, I am truly sorry."
Whether the Digimon understood the words said or not was unclear. It still proceeded to savagely fire its attack that begins to fly towards them. Leomon once again pulling his backfires his Fist of the Beast King. The two forces clash for dominance until Daitrymon goes and fires an enormous sound wave from his mouth.
"Destruction Roar!"
The combined attacks gradually overpowering the fireball. It then instantly makes its way towards the ape who was trying to escape however failing to do so. A massive impact occurred destroying many of the trees remaining. Dust began to settle as the damage became more apparent to the Digimon and human.
Lowering his head in respect for the fallen Noah looks on sullen. However, this moment was nearly ruined because even after all that the Hunamon had yet to perish. The ape-man stood behind a tree. While it did survive it was heavily injured.
The beast insanely rushed back in towards the human but didn't get far. Because as soon as it stepped out from behind the tree its life had ended. It didn't even have any time to register the pain of the killing stroke. Sealsdramon stood behind it having speed past it slicing the Hanumon at the neck, chopped off its head.
After the deed was done Sealsdramon said nothing and slowly walked back to the rest of the group. Everyone there said nothing merely taking time to mourn. They were not proud of what they did, but it had to be done. So Noah and his Digimon merely stood there for what seemed like an eternity before moving on.
As they left what was left of a peaceful village Noah looked back for a second. The conviction in his eyes was almost blinding. His thoughts clear to everyone they would find what caused this catastrophe and they would stop it. With that, they went on leaving behind them the memory of a village long gone.
Hope you all like this chapter. It was meant to give you a little insight into the characters and their group dynamics. This whole scene is meant to be a driving point for Noah, this tragedy motivates him on his mission. Next chapter we will get to the 02 kids and their interactions with Noah and his partners.
Comments, as I said before, really do help push out these chapters faster. It might end up taking a while to write otherwise. So until then stay safe and have a nice day.