Chapter 11
Matt stretched his arms above his head, inhaling a deep breath of winter fresh air. He found himself once again on Tenbit Island. Of course this time the circumstances were much less precarious.
"Oh how this brings back memories, wouldn't you say Gabumon? Of course, you were naked for half the experience..."
Everyone's gaze was drawn to Gabumon's affronted form.
"Matt! I was saving you, remember?" Gabumon cried out with a faint blush creeping across his muzzle.
"Gabumon was naked? Why would he be naked?" Patamon asked naively.
"Some digimon do that for fun you know. They're called nudists." Said Hawkmon with a knowledgeable air.
"Gabumon! You're a nudisht? Cool! So am I!" Veemon exclaimed while spreading his arms out to prove the lack of clothes.
By this time Gabumon was beet red form embarrassment and put tomatoes to shame. Everyone was laughing by now at the digimons' behavior. Sora decided to take over from here before Gabumon would have to suffer any more torment.
"That's enough you guys. We're on a mission and this is not time to be fooling around. Save that for when we have the prophecy."
"Spoilsport." Matt mumbled into her ear. Sora playfully swatted at his arm that had snaked around her waist.
"She's right. I think it's best if we change to our more appropriate forms." Griff said logically, gaining favorable nods from his fellow guardians. Excited and anxious murmurs broke from the group at the prospect of seeing what beings their friends- or family in Kari's case- would turn into. Izzy was practically skipping.
"This is by far the most fascinating thing that will ever occur in my entire life. I wonder what attributes you guys have and if this affects your personal qualities in any way. What if we were to cross breed you guys-" A sharp slap to the back of the head abruptly stopped him from continuing, courtesy of Yolie.
"Izzy, no matter what specie they are, you will not treat them like an experiment. I forbid you to cross breed anything but the bacteria in your mouth." She said tartly. Izzy gave her a bitter look and seemed as if he were thinking of a comeback to say to that remark. Retorts were never his strong point.
Tai, Shiva, Griff, and Angela decided now would be the best time to transform themselves before Izzy earned himself another headlock. Simultaneously they lifted their right hands and pressed the lighter button on their rings.
The digidestined staggered back as cyclones of fire, water, stone, and silver erupted from the ground. The wonder of different elements rising in such a manner left them speechless. In a few seconds they had died down to reveal their not-so-human friends standing before them in their true natures. At first, the only sound that could be heard was the frantic typing of Izzy on his laptop and the howling, bitter wind of Tenbit Island. Tai bit his lip nervously as his fears of being rejected by his friends grew steadily with their silence. He caught his sister's eye and attempted to smile. Kari promptly fainted.
"Kari!" T.K. cried as he rushed to her side. Tai hurried over as well and dropped to his knees by her side.
"Glad she took that well."
"Shut up Shiva." Tai automatically responded. He placed a hand on Kari's cheek.
"Tai..." Kari said dazedly. Tai tightened his hold on her hand.
"Yes, it's me."
Kari squinted her eyes for a moment before focusing them on him.
"Tai- C-can... I ... can I pet your wings?"
Everyone surrounding her sweat dropped. T.K. helped a slightly shaky Kari stand to her feet as they backed up.
"Now that she mentioned it..." Mimi trailed off, looking slightly embarrassed.
Tai stood to his full height and crossed his arms over his bare chest. He eyed the anxious girls suspiciously, ruffling his feathers.
"Fine-"
"Yes!" The females screamed. They rushed over to the startled young man and instantly began gushing over the supple, pallid feathers. Shiva cackled at the slightly horrified look on his face. She knew what too much wing petting led to...
"Is this real?" Davis asked, popping up out of nowhere and lifting her tail. Shiva snatched it out his grasp.
"Yes." She said darkly.
Davis seemed unfazed by her demonic presence, unlike most other digidestined, who seemed too intimidated by her to speak to her. The fact that Davis was willing to befriend her no matter how she looked made her smile.
"FANGS!" he yelled excitedly and reached into her mouth to touch them.
"Don't yell by my ears, damn it! They're sensitive!"
"Your eyes are so cool..."
Shiva began to wonder if anything could get through this kid's head. He seemed to have an acute case of A.D.D.
"Sweet arm!" Matt said to Griff looking enviously at the gleaming appendage. Griff grinned cheekily at him.
"Just wait till you see it in action," he quipped.
"Yea? So you think you could take on Tai for me? He seems to be getting all the attention at the moment, especially from my girlfriend." Matt said good-naturedly. The pair looked on laughing as the females assaulted Tai.
"O-ok girls. Petting time is up. Pleeeeeeaaaaase stop." Tai whimpered as he steadily backed up from the onslaught.
"But your feathers are so soft." Mimi cooed softly.
"Yea, and white," Yolie added.
"And pretty." Said Kari.
"Are you angel Tai?" Sora asked. She pouted as Tai snatched the last feather from her grasp and put a descent distance between him and the girls.
"I'm a God, damn it; not some pansy little angel." He huffed.
"Ooooooooh! A GOD!" Mimi squealed in awe.
"Demi-god!" Shiva yelled across the premises.
"Shut up!" Tai yelled back.
Meanwhile, Angela was undergoing an interrogation of the worst kind.
"Can you breath under water? Do those scales what any magical attributes? Is your hearing enhanced with those ears? Are you able to feel anything when you transform from human to nymph? Do Canadian nymphs have different diets then other nymphs of the world? Are there any other nymphs of the world?"
Angela became instantly dizzy with the constant questioning and had to beckon Yolie over to stop him before she did something she would regret. Izzy soon found himself in yet another headlock from the forceful girl and it took both T.K. and Ken to pry her off him.
"Alright you guys, I think it's time we get this prophesy. I have an exam on eyeballs tomorrow I have to study for."
"You have an exam on balls?"
"EYEballs!"
"Oh- is that code for testicles?"
"NO!"
"Shiva, behave. Joe, ignore her." Tai commanded while walking toward the looming castle in the distance. The group followed him dutifully.
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The assorted crowd waited patiently for Shiva to hop down from her perch on the towering castle wall. Upon her landing she explained what they were up against.
"Well, I just saw Moira walk inside surrounded by her personal gorillamon so you digidestined be careful getting that prophecy. We got a couple hundred devidramon guarding the outer castle vicinity. We'll take care of them. "
Tai smiled, relieved, "Oh, good, there's only a couple hundred of them."
Angela gave him an incredulous look. "What's got you so optimistic?"
"Nothing, I just felt like saying that."
"Ugg. Whatever. So what's the happening here?"
Tai put his game face on. The one that was all too familiar with the digidestined.
"Alright guys, here's the plan. Us guardians will do an all out attack and try to take as many out as possible with the first blow. That should provide enough of a distraction for you guys to slip in. Try to avoid getting caught by Moira herself but I'm sure you'll have no problems with the gorillamon. We'll find you guys once we've taken care of the outer guard. Agreed?"
"AGREED!" everyone chorused back.
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Guarding an isolated castle in the middle of an artic island and ruled over by a temperamental bitch wasn't an ideal lifestyle. Of course, suddenly getting thrown back by an explosion and loosing half your guards while on duty wasn't either. The platoon leader of the devidramon leapt to the air in fury as four figures swept down upon his digimon and began attacking. Puffs of smoke blew out of his nostrils. There was no way in hell he'd stand for this. Unbeknown to him, a larger, motley group ran behind him and through the castle doors.
"Hey! I think we just took out at least half of them!" Shiva yelled to her comrades as she swiped the throat of a charging devidramon with her deadly claws.
"Yea- but that was all of our most powerful attacks combined; our energy's going to be a little low. Take it easy from here on will ya?"
"This comes from the guy wielding a handheld bonfire." Griff muttered loud enough for Tai to hear. Tai playfully swung his sword over Griff's head, causing the cyborg to yelp and duck.
"Hey boys! You're missing out on all the action!" Angela's voice rang out. Indeed the girls were already pounding devidramon after devidramon while the two men of the team bantered childishly. Shots of energy beams rained down on the girls from the beast's mouths. Angela busied herself with neutralizing their attacks with rays of water while Shiva would pounce upon the distracted digimon and tear through them with her claws and daggers.
"Hey, they are getting all the action..." Griff reasoned looking slightly put out. But at that moment the gleaming sun reflected off the shimmering scales covering Angela's torso. Griff's eyes seemed to linger up there for longer than necessary. Then they were drawn downwards to the smooth, toned leg that was exposed from the sarong tied to her slim waist.
"Perhaps we should join them instead of just staring at them..." Tai trailed, his gaze following Griff's.
"Yea..."
Neither moved.
Out of the corner of her eye, Angela noticed two devidramon closing in on her from each side. Of course before she saw this, she heard it with her advantageously fanned ears. Lifting her arms at a ninety-degree angle, a lilac-blue mist was shot into the air and surrounded her. The devidramon dove blindly into the cloud towards the nymph. When the mist settled the ashen-haired girl remained standing while the devidramon were nowhere in sight.
Shiva was thrown into the jagged wall of the castle as the tail of a devidramon caught her in the side. The devidramon charged at the young woman while she was shaking the disorientation from her head. Seconds before the deadly fangs were to catch their prey, Shiva leapt into the air and clear over the digimon. Unable to stop quickly enough, the devidramon collided head on into the wall and fell unconscious. Shiva swished her tail haughtily.
"Gotta be faster than that hunny."
Tai was suddenly aware of how tight those leather black clothes were on Shiva. There was also a definite sway to her hips that she displayed during intervals between each brawl. From the distance, Tai noticed Angela say something to Shiva after killing another devidramon. Shiva smiled, revealing her fangs.
"Dude-"
"Yea?"
"Do you ever wonder... what it would be like to kiss someone with fangs?"
Griff tore his eyes form the girls and looked at Tai incredulously.
"You mean you haven't kissed Shiva in her demon form yet?"
"Nope," Tai admitted, "But now that I think about it, it would be kind of... uh..."
"Kinky?"
"Yea..."
The pair then went back to their silent admiring.
Shiva paused amidst a couple undeleted bodies of devidramon to wipe the sweat from her brow. She found it a little unsettling how it was taking them twice as long to kill all the guards. She knew something was wrong. The area seemed to be lacking... stupidity. That's when Shiva discovered the problem.
"Angela?"
Angela sent a beam of water through the chest of a devidramon with a wave of her hand, "yea?"
"Where are the guys?"
Abandoning their fight, the two females turned in spite of themselves and searched for the rest of their team. And then they spotted them, a good fifty meters off in the distance- doing absolutely nothing for the cause.
Angela rolled her eyes, "The audacity of it all."
Shiva cupped her hands around her mouth and shouted, "Hey shit-for- brains! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?"
Tai and Griff just stood there for a moment, blinking. Then Griff cupped his hands around his mouth in the same manner as Shiva and yelled back, "WE'VE BEEN DISTRACTED!"
Angela and Shiva shared a look before searching the grounds for any signs of a distraction.
Angela looked at the two baffled. She replied, "WHAT'S DISTRACTING YOU?"
Tai had to shake the naughty thoughts from his head before answering.
"YOU'RE LEGS... SHIVA'S BREASTS... THE GENERAL LACK OF CLOTHES..."
A vein popped out on Shiva's head as she clenched her fists in frustration. Why must they be such guys? Of course she got no support from Angela, whose red blush contrasted sharply with her pale blue skin. Shiva sighed, knowing it was up to her to slap some sense into the men since Angela was too busy giggling.
"GET YOU'RE LAZY, SEX-DRIVEN, CHAUVINISTIC ASSES OUT HERE AND HELP US!"
The boys remained stationary. When Shiva yelled she had leaned forward...showing off more cleavage...
"START FIGHTING OR SO HELP ME I'LL—I'LL SHAVE YOUR LEGS IN YOUR SLEEP!"
Tai raised an eyebrow.
"AND THEN SOME!"
That got Tai moving.
"Come on Griff, let's finish these guys before I loose the fire power on my sword."
"Yes- and then I will have wild, hot, human sex with Angela."
Tai just shook his head, "Ya know if someone had said that a couple months ago..."
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The digidestined approached the grand double doors that led to the interior of the fortress. Upon entrance, Matt took command of the now leaderless group.
"Alright guys, we need to find the prophecy as quickly as possible before we run into Moira."
"I think we should have our digimon digivolve to their champion levels before we go any further." Izzy said while whipping out his handy- dandy laptop.
"Alright guys! You heard the man!" Davis said to the digimon.
Tentomon digivolve too... Kabuterimon
Palmon digivolve too... Togemon
Gabumon digivolve too... Garurumon
Biyomon digivolve too... Birdramon
Gomamon digivolve too... Ikakumon
"DIGI-ARMOR ENERGIZE!" The newer digidestined shouted.
Veemon armor digivolve too... Flamdramon
Gatomon armor digivolve too... Nefertimon
Patamon armor digivolve too... Pegasusmon
Armadillomon armor digivolve too... Digmon
Hawkmon armor digivolve too... Halsemon
Wormmon armor digivolve too... Stingmon
Thankfully the hall was big enough for the enlarged digimon to fit comfortably in.
"So do we split up now? So we can find the prophecy faster." Yolie asked.
"Dude- what do you think Izzy is for?" Davis said rolling his eyes.
"Don't call me a dude!"
"Don't tell me what I can't call you!"
"-Huh?"
Izzy of course, by that time, was already tracking to location of the prophesy on his computer.
"I'm not sure how I should take that." Izzy said offhandedly. After hitting a few more keys he exclaimed, "Prodigious!"
"You found it?"
"No"
"'WHAT?"
"Just kidding. It's in a room to our left. The door should be covered in runes."
Mimi, who was leaning against a particularly rough part of he wall, turned to find rune-covered door they needed.
"Well," she said, catching the attention of the others, "that was a little too easy."
"Who cares? Let's just get that prophecy and get out!"
Davis pushed the large oak doors open and forcefully strode into the room.
"ENERGY CANNON!"
"FIRE ROCKET!"
Davis blinked unthinkingly at the cloud of smoke in front of his face where Flamdramon had canceled the attack of a gorillamon.
Looking up at his digimon Davis said, "Thanks Flamedramon!"
Flamedramon kept his eyes on the scene before him while he answered, "Anytime Davis."
An uncountable number of gorillamon launched their attack at the intruders. The destined digimon sprang into action with blocking and countering the attacks to protect their partners. While the fighting resumed, a soft, blue glow emitted from the midst of the digimon.
"THERE!" Sora yelled to those behind her, "The prophecy is there! It's glowing! We've got to get to the center of the room."
"Alright guys," Matt called up to their fighting digimon, "clear a path for us- we'll get the prophecy, you take care of the gorillamon!"
"You got it Matt," Garurumon growled. He jumped in front of the digidestined; now facing a particularly nasty looking group of gorillamon.
"Howling Blaster!" The icy flames knocked quite a few of the gorillamon down- only to have more replace them.
"HEY!" Garurumon yelled to his comrades, "I need a little help here!"
Nefertimon, Halsemon and Stingmon raced to his aid leaving the rest of the destined digimon to fend off the surrounding gorillamon.
"Let's combine our attacks" Garurumon ordered. The three other digimon nodded.
"ROSETTA STONE!"
"TEMPESTWIND!"
"SPIKNG STRIKE!"
"HOWLING BLASTER!"
The impeding gorillamon were deleted, leaving a clear path ahead. Before them was a table with its surface sending off a faint glow. The digidestined made a break for it; dodging debris and attacks along the way. Matt, Sora, Davis, Ken and T.K.- being the most athletic- were in the lead with Izzy and Yolie bringing up the rear. Ken was the first to reach the glowing table (he wasn't known as the rocket for nothing) and turned to face the rest of the group. However, his relief at reaching the table unharmed was short lived. A pair of gorillamon appeared to have slipped past the defense of their digimon and began to close in on the group from behind.
"IZZY! YOLIE! BEHIND YOU!" He bellowed, hoping to catch the attention of some of their digimon as well. Izzy and Yolie turned and watched in horror as the two gorillamon charged at them... before being swallowed up by the ground.
The entire group of digidestined sweat dropped.
Digmon popped up from the ground, his nose and hands still spinning from his recent attack, "I got your back! You just worry about that prophesy."
"Thanks Digmon!" Cody yelled back at his digimon. He had reached the table by this time as well. A few seconds later the last of the digidestined arrived.
The table had a round, gritty, stone surface that went well with the theme of the castle. Placed on the center of it, giving off the faint glow that helped them locate it, was a square stone tablet covered in strange engravings.
"Looks more like one of the Ten Commandments." Kari mumbled, as she lifted the slab. The second her hands touched the stone tablet a piercing, bright light filled the room, momentarily blinding the digidestined. The only thing that could be heard was the screams of the gorillamon as they were deleted. Finally the light dimmed and all that was left in he room was a team of truly bewildered digidestined and their digimon.
Palmon blinked at her outstretched arm where she once held the neck of a gorillamon. She looked dazedly over at Ikakumon who appeared just as confused as she. He met her gaze and just shrugged. If it's not broken don't fix it, he thought.
The hall was once again silent after the digimon dedigivolved to their rookie forms.
"Finally, we can relax." Joe sighed as he picked up Gomamon from the ground. Of course in saying this, he wasn't expecting any other presence in the room besides him and the other digidestined.
"Careful, you might jinx yourself." A somewhat familiar voice growled in his ear.
"GAAHHH!" Joe jumped behind the nearest person, which happened to be Mimi.
Shiva barked out a loud laugh as the digidestined looked at her in annoyance.
"Go easy on him Sheeves, I think I remember him telling me he was allergic to an increased heart rate."
Everyone did a 180 to see Griff leaning against one of the pearl columns.
"So, I see you've taken care of the devidramon?" Ken smirked.
"And you seem to have found the prophecy," Angela grinned as she announced her presence while Tai stood a couple feet behind her, "Well done."
Yolie stepped forward, holding the prophesy out to Angela. The prophecy had now lost is ethereal glow and the runes on it could be seen quite clearly. Angela groaned.
"What's wrong hun?" Griff asked while he rubbed her back with his more human hand.
"It's in digirunes," she explained.
Cody looked worried, "And no one can decipher them?"
"Dude- I bet Izzy can figure it out on hid laptop, right man?" Davis said with confidence.
Izzy just shook his head, "I don't have that program loaded onto my computer yet. These are a new type of runes I suppose."
"They are," Tai said, "Professoramon has just started teaching them to us, but I'm afraid we don't know enough to decipher them on our own."
"Don't worry about it Tai. When we get back to Gennai's I'll just get the program from him and we'll decipher it there," Izzy replied.
Shiva looked down at the stone tablet in Angela's hand. One particular rune caught her eye.
"Hey! This one means despair!" She pointed to the rune.
"No- that's darkness."
"Nu-huh. That's definitely despair."
"Darkness!"
"Despair!"
"Darkness!"
"Despair!"
"Dark-"
Angela was interrupted by the click of a gun. Everyone looked up to find themselves surrounded by gorillamon; all spears and guns were trained at the group.
"Damn it, why the hell didn't I sense them?" Shiva asked, dropping to a fighting stance.
"Because you're human. We all are." Angela replied shakily. The guardians glanced down only to find, to their horror, they were indeed human. They all began jabbing the light button on their ring. Nothing happened. The gorillamon grabbed hold of their arms to prevent them from escaping. The tired in-training digimon were thrown into cages and could only watch helplessly as Moira's henchmen captured their friends.
"Damn it. She must have set up wards here. They were probably activated by a certain word or something." Griff growled as he struggled fruitlessly against the three gorillamon trying to hold him.
"I bet it was that rune we said out loud. Which would be despair-"
"-It's darkness-"
"Enough!" Tai silenced the two. His frustration was building at being led into a trap like this. How could he break through the wards, get the digidestined back to their homes safely, get the digimon free form their cages, and escape with the prophecy all at once? Just as a plan started to prepare itself in his mind, he felt an unpleasant jolt in the pit of his stomach.
"Oh, Shit"
Suddenly the room temperature dropped to an ominous cold.
"What's wrong Tai?" Matt asked. He was eyeing a spear held dangerously close to his head.
"Moira..." Tai mumbled with a far off look in his eyes.
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GAAHHH! I'm such a dumass. I know, I know- I take too long with these things. Oh well. Thanks for the reviews!
Matt stretched his arms above his head, inhaling a deep breath of winter fresh air. He found himself once again on Tenbit Island. Of course this time the circumstances were much less precarious.
"Oh how this brings back memories, wouldn't you say Gabumon? Of course, you were naked for half the experience..."
Everyone's gaze was drawn to Gabumon's affronted form.
"Matt! I was saving you, remember?" Gabumon cried out with a faint blush creeping across his muzzle.
"Gabumon was naked? Why would he be naked?" Patamon asked naively.
"Some digimon do that for fun you know. They're called nudists." Said Hawkmon with a knowledgeable air.
"Gabumon! You're a nudisht? Cool! So am I!" Veemon exclaimed while spreading his arms out to prove the lack of clothes.
By this time Gabumon was beet red form embarrassment and put tomatoes to shame. Everyone was laughing by now at the digimons' behavior. Sora decided to take over from here before Gabumon would have to suffer any more torment.
"That's enough you guys. We're on a mission and this is not time to be fooling around. Save that for when we have the prophecy."
"Spoilsport." Matt mumbled into her ear. Sora playfully swatted at his arm that had snaked around her waist.
"She's right. I think it's best if we change to our more appropriate forms." Griff said logically, gaining favorable nods from his fellow guardians. Excited and anxious murmurs broke from the group at the prospect of seeing what beings their friends- or family in Kari's case- would turn into. Izzy was practically skipping.
"This is by far the most fascinating thing that will ever occur in my entire life. I wonder what attributes you guys have and if this affects your personal qualities in any way. What if we were to cross breed you guys-" A sharp slap to the back of the head abruptly stopped him from continuing, courtesy of Yolie.
"Izzy, no matter what specie they are, you will not treat them like an experiment. I forbid you to cross breed anything but the bacteria in your mouth." She said tartly. Izzy gave her a bitter look and seemed as if he were thinking of a comeback to say to that remark. Retorts were never his strong point.
Tai, Shiva, Griff, and Angela decided now would be the best time to transform themselves before Izzy earned himself another headlock. Simultaneously they lifted their right hands and pressed the lighter button on their rings.
The digidestined staggered back as cyclones of fire, water, stone, and silver erupted from the ground. The wonder of different elements rising in such a manner left them speechless. In a few seconds they had died down to reveal their not-so-human friends standing before them in their true natures. At first, the only sound that could be heard was the frantic typing of Izzy on his laptop and the howling, bitter wind of Tenbit Island. Tai bit his lip nervously as his fears of being rejected by his friends grew steadily with their silence. He caught his sister's eye and attempted to smile. Kari promptly fainted.
"Kari!" T.K. cried as he rushed to her side. Tai hurried over as well and dropped to his knees by her side.
"Glad she took that well."
"Shut up Shiva." Tai automatically responded. He placed a hand on Kari's cheek.
"Tai..." Kari said dazedly. Tai tightened his hold on her hand.
"Yes, it's me."
Kari squinted her eyes for a moment before focusing them on him.
"Tai- C-can... I ... can I pet your wings?"
Everyone surrounding her sweat dropped. T.K. helped a slightly shaky Kari stand to her feet as they backed up.
"Now that she mentioned it..." Mimi trailed off, looking slightly embarrassed.
Tai stood to his full height and crossed his arms over his bare chest. He eyed the anxious girls suspiciously, ruffling his feathers.
"Fine-"
"Yes!" The females screamed. They rushed over to the startled young man and instantly began gushing over the supple, pallid feathers. Shiva cackled at the slightly horrified look on his face. She knew what too much wing petting led to...
"Is this real?" Davis asked, popping up out of nowhere and lifting her tail. Shiva snatched it out his grasp.
"Yes." She said darkly.
Davis seemed unfazed by her demonic presence, unlike most other digidestined, who seemed too intimidated by her to speak to her. The fact that Davis was willing to befriend her no matter how she looked made her smile.
"FANGS!" he yelled excitedly and reached into her mouth to touch them.
"Don't yell by my ears, damn it! They're sensitive!"
"Your eyes are so cool..."
Shiva began to wonder if anything could get through this kid's head. He seemed to have an acute case of A.D.D.
"Sweet arm!" Matt said to Griff looking enviously at the gleaming appendage. Griff grinned cheekily at him.
"Just wait till you see it in action," he quipped.
"Yea? So you think you could take on Tai for me? He seems to be getting all the attention at the moment, especially from my girlfriend." Matt said good-naturedly. The pair looked on laughing as the females assaulted Tai.
"O-ok girls. Petting time is up. Pleeeeeeaaaaase stop." Tai whimpered as he steadily backed up from the onslaught.
"But your feathers are so soft." Mimi cooed softly.
"Yea, and white," Yolie added.
"And pretty." Said Kari.
"Are you angel Tai?" Sora asked. She pouted as Tai snatched the last feather from her grasp and put a descent distance between him and the girls.
"I'm a God, damn it; not some pansy little angel." He huffed.
"Ooooooooh! A GOD!" Mimi squealed in awe.
"Demi-god!" Shiva yelled across the premises.
"Shut up!" Tai yelled back.
Meanwhile, Angela was undergoing an interrogation of the worst kind.
"Can you breath under water? Do those scales what any magical attributes? Is your hearing enhanced with those ears? Are you able to feel anything when you transform from human to nymph? Do Canadian nymphs have different diets then other nymphs of the world? Are there any other nymphs of the world?"
Angela became instantly dizzy with the constant questioning and had to beckon Yolie over to stop him before she did something she would regret. Izzy soon found himself in yet another headlock from the forceful girl and it took both T.K. and Ken to pry her off him.
"Alright you guys, I think it's time we get this prophesy. I have an exam on eyeballs tomorrow I have to study for."
"You have an exam on balls?"
"EYEballs!"
"Oh- is that code for testicles?"
"NO!"
"Shiva, behave. Joe, ignore her." Tai commanded while walking toward the looming castle in the distance. The group followed him dutifully.
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The assorted crowd waited patiently for Shiva to hop down from her perch on the towering castle wall. Upon her landing she explained what they were up against.
"Well, I just saw Moira walk inside surrounded by her personal gorillamon so you digidestined be careful getting that prophecy. We got a couple hundred devidramon guarding the outer castle vicinity. We'll take care of them. "
Tai smiled, relieved, "Oh, good, there's only a couple hundred of them."
Angela gave him an incredulous look. "What's got you so optimistic?"
"Nothing, I just felt like saying that."
"Ugg. Whatever. So what's the happening here?"
Tai put his game face on. The one that was all too familiar with the digidestined.
"Alright guys, here's the plan. Us guardians will do an all out attack and try to take as many out as possible with the first blow. That should provide enough of a distraction for you guys to slip in. Try to avoid getting caught by Moira herself but I'm sure you'll have no problems with the gorillamon. We'll find you guys once we've taken care of the outer guard. Agreed?"
"AGREED!" everyone chorused back.
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Guarding an isolated castle in the middle of an artic island and ruled over by a temperamental bitch wasn't an ideal lifestyle. Of course, suddenly getting thrown back by an explosion and loosing half your guards while on duty wasn't either. The platoon leader of the devidramon leapt to the air in fury as four figures swept down upon his digimon and began attacking. Puffs of smoke blew out of his nostrils. There was no way in hell he'd stand for this. Unbeknown to him, a larger, motley group ran behind him and through the castle doors.
"Hey! I think we just took out at least half of them!" Shiva yelled to her comrades as she swiped the throat of a charging devidramon with her deadly claws.
"Yea- but that was all of our most powerful attacks combined; our energy's going to be a little low. Take it easy from here on will ya?"
"This comes from the guy wielding a handheld bonfire." Griff muttered loud enough for Tai to hear. Tai playfully swung his sword over Griff's head, causing the cyborg to yelp and duck.
"Hey boys! You're missing out on all the action!" Angela's voice rang out. Indeed the girls were already pounding devidramon after devidramon while the two men of the team bantered childishly. Shots of energy beams rained down on the girls from the beast's mouths. Angela busied herself with neutralizing their attacks with rays of water while Shiva would pounce upon the distracted digimon and tear through them with her claws and daggers.
"Hey, they are getting all the action..." Griff reasoned looking slightly put out. But at that moment the gleaming sun reflected off the shimmering scales covering Angela's torso. Griff's eyes seemed to linger up there for longer than necessary. Then they were drawn downwards to the smooth, toned leg that was exposed from the sarong tied to her slim waist.
"Perhaps we should join them instead of just staring at them..." Tai trailed, his gaze following Griff's.
"Yea..."
Neither moved.
Out of the corner of her eye, Angela noticed two devidramon closing in on her from each side. Of course before she saw this, she heard it with her advantageously fanned ears. Lifting her arms at a ninety-degree angle, a lilac-blue mist was shot into the air and surrounded her. The devidramon dove blindly into the cloud towards the nymph. When the mist settled the ashen-haired girl remained standing while the devidramon were nowhere in sight.
Shiva was thrown into the jagged wall of the castle as the tail of a devidramon caught her in the side. The devidramon charged at the young woman while she was shaking the disorientation from her head. Seconds before the deadly fangs were to catch their prey, Shiva leapt into the air and clear over the digimon. Unable to stop quickly enough, the devidramon collided head on into the wall and fell unconscious. Shiva swished her tail haughtily.
"Gotta be faster than that hunny."
Tai was suddenly aware of how tight those leather black clothes were on Shiva. There was also a definite sway to her hips that she displayed during intervals between each brawl. From the distance, Tai noticed Angela say something to Shiva after killing another devidramon. Shiva smiled, revealing her fangs.
"Dude-"
"Yea?"
"Do you ever wonder... what it would be like to kiss someone with fangs?"
Griff tore his eyes form the girls and looked at Tai incredulously.
"You mean you haven't kissed Shiva in her demon form yet?"
"Nope," Tai admitted, "But now that I think about it, it would be kind of... uh..."
"Kinky?"
"Yea..."
The pair then went back to their silent admiring.
Shiva paused amidst a couple undeleted bodies of devidramon to wipe the sweat from her brow. She found it a little unsettling how it was taking them twice as long to kill all the guards. She knew something was wrong. The area seemed to be lacking... stupidity. That's when Shiva discovered the problem.
"Angela?"
Angela sent a beam of water through the chest of a devidramon with a wave of her hand, "yea?"
"Where are the guys?"
Abandoning their fight, the two females turned in spite of themselves and searched for the rest of their team. And then they spotted them, a good fifty meters off in the distance- doing absolutely nothing for the cause.
Angela rolled her eyes, "The audacity of it all."
Shiva cupped her hands around her mouth and shouted, "Hey shit-for- brains! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?"
Tai and Griff just stood there for a moment, blinking. Then Griff cupped his hands around his mouth in the same manner as Shiva and yelled back, "WE'VE BEEN DISTRACTED!"
Angela and Shiva shared a look before searching the grounds for any signs of a distraction.
Angela looked at the two baffled. She replied, "WHAT'S DISTRACTING YOU?"
Tai had to shake the naughty thoughts from his head before answering.
"YOU'RE LEGS... SHIVA'S BREASTS... THE GENERAL LACK OF CLOTHES..."
A vein popped out on Shiva's head as she clenched her fists in frustration. Why must they be such guys? Of course she got no support from Angela, whose red blush contrasted sharply with her pale blue skin. Shiva sighed, knowing it was up to her to slap some sense into the men since Angela was too busy giggling.
"GET YOU'RE LAZY, SEX-DRIVEN, CHAUVINISTIC ASSES OUT HERE AND HELP US!"
The boys remained stationary. When Shiva yelled she had leaned forward...showing off more cleavage...
"START FIGHTING OR SO HELP ME I'LL—I'LL SHAVE YOUR LEGS IN YOUR SLEEP!"
Tai raised an eyebrow.
"AND THEN SOME!"
That got Tai moving.
"Come on Griff, let's finish these guys before I loose the fire power on my sword."
"Yes- and then I will have wild, hot, human sex with Angela."
Tai just shook his head, "Ya know if someone had said that a couple months ago..."
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The digidestined approached the grand double doors that led to the interior of the fortress. Upon entrance, Matt took command of the now leaderless group.
"Alright guys, we need to find the prophecy as quickly as possible before we run into Moira."
"I think we should have our digimon digivolve to their champion levels before we go any further." Izzy said while whipping out his handy- dandy laptop.
"Alright guys! You heard the man!" Davis said to the digimon.
Tentomon digivolve too... Kabuterimon
Palmon digivolve too... Togemon
Gabumon digivolve too... Garurumon
Biyomon digivolve too... Birdramon
Gomamon digivolve too... Ikakumon
"DIGI-ARMOR ENERGIZE!" The newer digidestined shouted.
Veemon armor digivolve too... Flamdramon
Gatomon armor digivolve too... Nefertimon
Patamon armor digivolve too... Pegasusmon
Armadillomon armor digivolve too... Digmon
Hawkmon armor digivolve too... Halsemon
Wormmon armor digivolve too... Stingmon
Thankfully the hall was big enough for the enlarged digimon to fit comfortably in.
"So do we split up now? So we can find the prophecy faster." Yolie asked.
"Dude- what do you think Izzy is for?" Davis said rolling his eyes.
"Don't call me a dude!"
"Don't tell me what I can't call you!"
"-Huh?"
Izzy of course, by that time, was already tracking to location of the prophesy on his computer.
"I'm not sure how I should take that." Izzy said offhandedly. After hitting a few more keys he exclaimed, "Prodigious!"
"You found it?"
"No"
"'WHAT?"
"Just kidding. It's in a room to our left. The door should be covered in runes."
Mimi, who was leaning against a particularly rough part of he wall, turned to find rune-covered door they needed.
"Well," she said, catching the attention of the others, "that was a little too easy."
"Who cares? Let's just get that prophecy and get out!"
Davis pushed the large oak doors open and forcefully strode into the room.
"ENERGY CANNON!"
"FIRE ROCKET!"
Davis blinked unthinkingly at the cloud of smoke in front of his face where Flamdramon had canceled the attack of a gorillamon.
Looking up at his digimon Davis said, "Thanks Flamedramon!"
Flamedramon kept his eyes on the scene before him while he answered, "Anytime Davis."
An uncountable number of gorillamon launched their attack at the intruders. The destined digimon sprang into action with blocking and countering the attacks to protect their partners. While the fighting resumed, a soft, blue glow emitted from the midst of the digimon.
"THERE!" Sora yelled to those behind her, "The prophecy is there! It's glowing! We've got to get to the center of the room."
"Alright guys," Matt called up to their fighting digimon, "clear a path for us- we'll get the prophecy, you take care of the gorillamon!"
"You got it Matt," Garurumon growled. He jumped in front of the digidestined; now facing a particularly nasty looking group of gorillamon.
"Howling Blaster!" The icy flames knocked quite a few of the gorillamon down- only to have more replace them.
"HEY!" Garurumon yelled to his comrades, "I need a little help here!"
Nefertimon, Halsemon and Stingmon raced to his aid leaving the rest of the destined digimon to fend off the surrounding gorillamon.
"Let's combine our attacks" Garurumon ordered. The three other digimon nodded.
"ROSETTA STONE!"
"TEMPESTWIND!"
"SPIKNG STRIKE!"
"HOWLING BLASTER!"
The impeding gorillamon were deleted, leaving a clear path ahead. Before them was a table with its surface sending off a faint glow. The digidestined made a break for it; dodging debris and attacks along the way. Matt, Sora, Davis, Ken and T.K.- being the most athletic- were in the lead with Izzy and Yolie bringing up the rear. Ken was the first to reach the glowing table (he wasn't known as the rocket for nothing) and turned to face the rest of the group. However, his relief at reaching the table unharmed was short lived. A pair of gorillamon appeared to have slipped past the defense of their digimon and began to close in on the group from behind.
"IZZY! YOLIE! BEHIND YOU!" He bellowed, hoping to catch the attention of some of their digimon as well. Izzy and Yolie turned and watched in horror as the two gorillamon charged at them... before being swallowed up by the ground.
The entire group of digidestined sweat dropped.
Digmon popped up from the ground, his nose and hands still spinning from his recent attack, "I got your back! You just worry about that prophesy."
"Thanks Digmon!" Cody yelled back at his digimon. He had reached the table by this time as well. A few seconds later the last of the digidestined arrived.
The table had a round, gritty, stone surface that went well with the theme of the castle. Placed on the center of it, giving off the faint glow that helped them locate it, was a square stone tablet covered in strange engravings.
"Looks more like one of the Ten Commandments." Kari mumbled, as she lifted the slab. The second her hands touched the stone tablet a piercing, bright light filled the room, momentarily blinding the digidestined. The only thing that could be heard was the screams of the gorillamon as they were deleted. Finally the light dimmed and all that was left in he room was a team of truly bewildered digidestined and their digimon.
Palmon blinked at her outstretched arm where she once held the neck of a gorillamon. She looked dazedly over at Ikakumon who appeared just as confused as she. He met her gaze and just shrugged. If it's not broken don't fix it, he thought.
The hall was once again silent after the digimon dedigivolved to their rookie forms.
"Finally, we can relax." Joe sighed as he picked up Gomamon from the ground. Of course in saying this, he wasn't expecting any other presence in the room besides him and the other digidestined.
"Careful, you might jinx yourself." A somewhat familiar voice growled in his ear.
"GAAHHH!" Joe jumped behind the nearest person, which happened to be Mimi.
Shiva barked out a loud laugh as the digidestined looked at her in annoyance.
"Go easy on him Sheeves, I think I remember him telling me he was allergic to an increased heart rate."
Everyone did a 180 to see Griff leaning against one of the pearl columns.
"So, I see you've taken care of the devidramon?" Ken smirked.
"And you seem to have found the prophecy," Angela grinned as she announced her presence while Tai stood a couple feet behind her, "Well done."
Yolie stepped forward, holding the prophesy out to Angela. The prophecy had now lost is ethereal glow and the runes on it could be seen quite clearly. Angela groaned.
"What's wrong hun?" Griff asked while he rubbed her back with his more human hand.
"It's in digirunes," she explained.
Cody looked worried, "And no one can decipher them?"
"Dude- I bet Izzy can figure it out on hid laptop, right man?" Davis said with confidence.
Izzy just shook his head, "I don't have that program loaded onto my computer yet. These are a new type of runes I suppose."
"They are," Tai said, "Professoramon has just started teaching them to us, but I'm afraid we don't know enough to decipher them on our own."
"Don't worry about it Tai. When we get back to Gennai's I'll just get the program from him and we'll decipher it there," Izzy replied.
Shiva looked down at the stone tablet in Angela's hand. One particular rune caught her eye.
"Hey! This one means despair!" She pointed to the rune.
"No- that's darkness."
"Nu-huh. That's definitely despair."
"Darkness!"
"Despair!"
"Darkness!"
"Despair!"
"Dark-"
Angela was interrupted by the click of a gun. Everyone looked up to find themselves surrounded by gorillamon; all spears and guns were trained at the group.
"Damn it, why the hell didn't I sense them?" Shiva asked, dropping to a fighting stance.
"Because you're human. We all are." Angela replied shakily. The guardians glanced down only to find, to their horror, they were indeed human. They all began jabbing the light button on their ring. Nothing happened. The gorillamon grabbed hold of their arms to prevent them from escaping. The tired in-training digimon were thrown into cages and could only watch helplessly as Moira's henchmen captured their friends.
"Damn it. She must have set up wards here. They were probably activated by a certain word or something." Griff growled as he struggled fruitlessly against the three gorillamon trying to hold him.
"I bet it was that rune we said out loud. Which would be despair-"
"-It's darkness-"
"Enough!" Tai silenced the two. His frustration was building at being led into a trap like this. How could he break through the wards, get the digidestined back to their homes safely, get the digimon free form their cages, and escape with the prophecy all at once? Just as a plan started to prepare itself in his mind, he felt an unpleasant jolt in the pit of his stomach.
"Oh, Shit"
Suddenly the room temperature dropped to an ominous cold.
"What's wrong Tai?" Matt asked. He was eyeing a spear held dangerously close to his head.
"Moira..." Tai mumbled with a far off look in his eyes.
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GAAHHH! I'm such a dumass. I know, I know- I take too long with these things. Oh well. Thanks for the reviews!