Renaissance Chapter 17: The Final Battle: get back in that hole!, a Harry Potter + Digimon Crossover fanfic

Chapter 17

Tai stepped away from fading blue light from the computer of his old room in the real world and made his way to the kitchen where he heard the happy voices of his family enjoying dinner.

"TAI!"

Despite his desolate mood, Tai grinned as he swept his mother into a hug and lifted her off her feet. Mrs. Kamiya squealed happily and departed from her son so she could properly look him over.

"Just look at you! You're all grown up! Oh honey, look at him!" she cried. Tai's father grinned as he walked forward and clapped a hand on Tai's shoulder. Tai was almost as tall as him now.

"So what calls for the visit, son?"

Tai's smile began to fade and a haunted look replaced his features.

"What's wrong Tai?" Kari asked, stepping up to him.

"Kari," Tai began softly, "last night Gennai passed away—," Kari gasped and clamped a hand over her mouth, "We buried him by the lake that his house used to be under," she was shaking her head as tears welled in her eyes.

"Gennai?" his mother asked confusedly. She seemed very worried as she watched her daughter's small frame begin to rack with sobs, "Who is he?"

"He was like... family," Tai began, not sure how to describe him to his parents. He didn't want them to feel like he had replaced them while he was away.

"Oh," his father said blankly, "Kari, hunny, why don't you go to bed?"

Kari shook her head and extracted herself form her mother's arms.

"No, I have to tell the others," she said thickly and sniffled.

"You can tell them in the morning," Tai said, "you should go to bed now, you look tired."

Kari nodded numbly and wiped her eyes with the back of her hands, "are you staying?"

"No, I have to get back to the digital world," Tai said. The prophecy had already begun and Tai could not leave the other guardians alone if something did happen, "I have to leave now. I just thought you should know. Sorry if I ruined your meal."

"No Tai, thank you for telling us. Take care of yourself."

"You too," he smiled wanly.

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"So Kari, why'd you call us here?" Sora asked as she cuddled into Matt on the park bench. The Digidestined were all called to meet at the park that morning after receiving a grave phone call from her.

"Tai came over last night," Kari began slowly.

"Well, where is he?" Davis asked, "He can't have left already?"

"Yes. He came to give us a message," Kari took a quivering breath, "Gennai died—,"

This was immediately met with many gasps and cries of 'No'.

"—the other night in his sleep. I'm going over there today to pay my respects."

She looked at all the eyes filled with tears and disbelief.

"Me too," Yolie said strongly. Kari gave her an appreciative smile.

"And me," Sora added.

"We'll all go," Matt, said decisively, "my band practice can wait. Do you know where he's buried Kari?"

"Yes, Tai said it was by the lake where he used to live."

"Let's go to my house and we'll all leave from there," Izzy volunteered. The rest of the digidestined agreed, and they all started making their way across the park towards Izzy's place. TK stayed behind with Kari, who was walking more slowly.

"Are you all right Kari?" TK asked, putting a concerned arm around her shoulders. She sighed and slipped her arm around his waist.

"It was just so sudden, you know?"

"Yeah, it was."

"And I feel bad for Tai," she continued, "He was the closest to Gennai out of any of us, even the other guardians."

"Hmm," TK agreed, "Don't worry so much Kari, Tai's a strong person. He'll pull through for us. He always does."

0o0o0o0o

"Tai come inside!" Shiva called to the young man currently standing over the bright blue hole in the ground. The sun was setting and he had been outside since that morning. It had been a week since the death of Gennai and everyone seemed to be on edge for when the rest of the prophecy would finally play out.

Tai sighed in a frustrated manner and without breaking his concentration replied, "I'm busy."

"You've been out there all day! Hell-you've been out there all day, everyday! Give it a rest."

"Gennai wanted me to learn this so damnit, I'm gunna learn it!"

"But he didn't want you to torture yourself over it!" Shiva argued, "Let's finish the battle. Finish Moira. And then you'll have all the time you want to work on it."

"Moira isn't our enemy here, she's just a pawn. And I have to learn it now! Not only would it be advantageous for this war, but also for the war against Voldemort should Harry call on us."

Shiva growled seeming a bit peeved that he was still defending Moira.

"Fine! Work yourself to death! And damnit—I'm so fucking horney!"

Shiva screamed into the night air.

"Well don't look at me. I'm busy," Tai called back.

"Fine! I'm going to Harry's then!"

"Fine!"

Shiva turned on her heal and marched inside. Tai scowled and began focusing on making the hole spread. There was something very wrong with Shiva. She always wanted to have sex, and whenever he refused her she would become furious and run off to Potter's place where, undoubtedly, she would get what she was looking for. It did upset Tai that she would treat him so cheaply. Not to mention the fact that she would become green with jealously if he so much as looked at another girl in her presence. In Tai's anger he didn't notice the hole below him suddenly fly open in all directions.

"WOAH!" Tai cried as he plunged downward.

0o0o0o0o

"Tai...are you all right?" Angela asked the next morning.

"Yeah," he replied blandly, trying to make his cheerios chase each other with his spoon.

"Are you upset about Shiva?" she asked briskly. Tai dropped his spoon and looked at her.

"No."

"Because she didn't come back last night. What is this...the fifth time she's run off to his place?"

"I. Don't. Care." Tai ground out. And he didn't. Really.

"Um, how's your portal thing going?" Griff asked, shooting his girlfriend a shut-up-or-die look. Tai immediately brightened.

"It's amazing! I can pretty much manipulate the data on the ground anywhere in the digital world. I think I might try vertical portals next."

"Sweet," Griff replied, "think you can get it to work in the real world?"

Angela spoke before Tai could answer him.

"Well look who's decided to join us," Angela said, spotting Shiva peeking in from the doorway, "Go, on… grace us with your presence…"

Shiva bit her lip and stepped into the kitchen.

"Do you have any idea what time it is young lady?" Griff asked sternly. Angela rolled her eyes and flicked a cheerio up his nose.

"I was talking to Inu Yasha," she said lamely. She received unimpressed looks from around the table, "well, um, after Harry left."

"Shiva, what the hell is wrong with you?" Tai snapped finally.

"W-well, it's kind of, um, weird."

Tai snorted, "yeah I noticed, since you've turned into this psycho hormonal bitch the last few weeks!"

Shiva dropped her face into her hands.

"Tai follow me," she mumbled staring towards her room.

She noticed Angela and Griff getting up to follow them

"Sit!" she commanded, "this concerns Tai only."

"Alright," Tai began as soon as she closed the door, "you better have a good explanation for this because I'm getting really sick of it."

Shiva blushed rather heavily and mumbled something under her breath.

"What?" Tai asked, not catching what she was saying.

"I know what's wrong with me..." she said again.

"You mean why you want to fuck the shit out of everybody and won't let me near anyone with a vagina?"

Shiva looked away and nodded.

"Well...?"

"Inu Yasha said—I spoke with him this morning—and he said...um, he said that it was normal for me to be like this at this age."

Tai looked at her, "and why would this be normal?"

Shiva's face, if anything, became even redder.

"I'minheat" she mumbled really quickly.

"You're a what?" Tai asked, still not getting it.

"I'M IN HEAT!" Shiva yelled, "That's why I want to 'fuck the shit out of everybody' as you so eloquently put it! All female demons of half blood or more will go through this faze and pick out potential mates and won't let them near other women until she's chosen one or it's passed!"

Tai blinked, completely speechless. That was all said in one breath. The door crashed open and Griff and Angela came tumbling in.

"Um..." Griff said intelligently from his spot on the floor.

"ARRRGH" Shiva cried as she threw herself face down onto the bed. Tai moved over to her, suddenly feeling sorry for her.

"Hey, hey. It's alright," he said, lightly scratching her lower back. He knew how she loved it. Sure enough, a low rumble resounded from her chest. Who would have thought that demon's purr? "Now how long will this last?"

Shiva lifted her head out of the pillow, "For one month every year."

"Oh," Tai breathed, "and um, who are your potential mates?"

"Well you're one, obviously. And the other is Harry."

Tai remained silent.

"Does that make you mad? When I go over to Harry's?" she asked sadly.

"Not...mad," Tai answered tentatively. He wasn't sure what it made him feel. He wasn't happy about it.

"Tai!" the guardians looked up in alarm as Piximon hurtled himself into the room.

"We've got a problem, yup, yup."

"He even yup's when there's a problem," Griff muttered cynically to Angela as they all raced down hall following Piximon.

0o0o0o0o

Less than five minutes later all the guardians found themselves back on Tenbit Island. There was no snow any more, just barren, scorched land stretching as far as the horizon. All signs of life in the region were completely wiped out. The only thing recognizable in the area was the looming stronghold of Bastion Hall.

"Oh my god," Angela breathed, "what happened?"

"It looks like its time for the rest of the prophecy to take place," Tai said stiffly. The land was silent for a second longer before an earth shattering noise tore through the stillness. A long crevice appeared in the ground, only feet away from the castle, and from it raised a figure that Tai had prayed he would never see again.

"Myotismon," he breathed in disbelief.

"Who the hell is that guy?" Griff asked staring at the digimon before him.

"My sentiments exactly," Shiva added with a look of disgust. This Myotismon was as large as Malomyotismon but with a more grisly appearance. There were chains draped all over his body, mixed with black blood oozing from various cuts on his body. He still had the same mask over his face, but his blonde hair was now pitch-black.

"So you remember me young guardian of courage. I was hoping you would. It would make sucking the blood from your body all the more delightful."

Tai grimaced and said quietly to the others, "It makes sense now. As a digidestined we faced him twice before. Each time he had a different appearance."

"So what do we do first?" Griff asked, at a loss.

"Wait till he attacks first," Tai answered.

"Are you sure he's even hostile?" Angela asked, though she seemed unsure herself.

"Angela," Shiva spoke in the same hushed tones as the others, "he just said he wanted to suck Tai's blood."

Before anything more could be said, all four guardians dived in every direction as a red beam of light crashed into the ground between them.

"Alright," Tai yelled, "now we can attack."

He drew his sword from behind his back and launched into the air. He and Griff started off with a double attack with Tai throwing a stream of fire at his face and Griff crushing the earth below his feet. The vampire digimon flew to the side with alarming speed and dodged both attacks. Without missing a beat, he sent a cloud of bats in their direction. One half of the bats flew towards Tai with the intent of biting his wings. The other half flew strait at Griff. Before either party reached them however the bats were frozen in mid-flight. Shiva grinned; arms outstretched, and motioned for them to continue attacking. Angela, Tai and Griff all simultaneously fired their most powerful attacks at the virus digimon. He easily dodged every one.

"Fuck!" Griff yelled, "He's too damn fast."

"Shiva—you think you can slow him down for us?" Tai called to her. She nodded firmly and turned to face their enemy. Before she could so much as lift a hand, a large blast of cold air hit her square in the back, releasing her hold on the bats.

"Son of a—"she started, looking behind her. Moira smirked and waved haughtily. Shiva growled and bared her fangs at her. The two women simultaneously leapt at each other, clashing in mid air in a serious of kicks and punches. Tai, after barbequing the loose bats from Myotismon, seemed torn between continuing to attack their enemy and helping out Shiva.

"Tai!" Angela snapped, "Focus on him."

Tai nodded and continued to attack with the other guardians, leaving Shiva to deal with Moira.

"This is not a good week to mess with Tai in front of me," Shiva ground out, dodging around the spiked icicles that were shot at her.

"Don't you dare start with me," Moira shrieked, "This entire thing is your fault! You killed him!"

Shiva stopped fighting for a second, allowing Moira to hit her in the stomach with a powerful blast of cold air. Shiva crashed into a rock, crumbing it.

"You had to kill them all, you drove me to madness, and then you had the nerve to say your sorry!"

Shiva watched as Moira advanced on her, one fuming step after another. What the hell was she talking about?

"Alright bitch, you're rambling now," she said, looking at Moira as if she were a lunatic. Moira gave a most unladylike snarl and attacked again.

"You know exactly what I'm talking about, Amara. Drop the innocent act."

Shiva stared at her. She understood now. Moira was confusing the past with the present. She really was mad.

"Moira, I am not Amara. I'm Shiva. And he's Tai," She spoke slowly pointing to the demi-god flying around Myotismon, "you are the one killing everyone now."

Moira shook her head, either not listening or just not wanting to believe it.

"I will kill you for killing him!"

She shot five pointed icicles at the half demon which grazed her side after an attempt to dodge them. Shiva retaliated with blasting Moira away with an invisible force.

"Oh, it's on."

0o0o0o0o

Angela, Tai and Griff weren't gaining any ground with the Myotismon situation.

"Crimson lightning!" he roared. The ruby whip wound in a circle and stuck the three guardians, sending them flying in all directions. He then glanced disdainfully at his underling, fighting fiercely against the demon guardian. He had tired of her petty emotions and madness long ago—she had served her purpose.

"I have no more use for you," he sneered. He lashed the whip at her this time, narrowly missing Shiva. A sickening crack was heard throughout the austere battlefield, and Moira fell to the ground in a mass of broken bones and blood, but still alive. Shiva stared between her enemy...and her other enemy. And then shrugged. One less job for her.

Lifting herself off the ground first, Angela summoned a geyser of water to erupt right beneath Myotismon, catching him off guard. Before he could collect his composure, Griff slammed into the back of his knees, hard and fast, sending the beast crashing into the earth. Tai shot into the air, lifted his sword above his head and swung it downward. A jet of fire sliced down the middle of the virus digimon. Black blood squirted in all directions.

"Whoo!" Griff screamed enthusiastically. Angela laughed and jumped in his arms.

"Did we do it?" she asked stimulated as Griff swung her around.

A loud tearing sound shredded the brief moment of piece as everyone in the vicinity stopped and stared at the body.

"Guys," Tai said warningly. The massive body of Myotismon slowly began to pull apart. Multiple, clawed arms stretched out of the corpse, extending into three, repulsive bat creatures. Each one an immense figure of scars and sharp teeth and looking like they came strait out of hell.

"Oh," Shiva said happily, "he had a back up plan."

Two of the three beasts snapped their heads towards her, effectively shutting her up. They charged at her.

Shiva screamed and immediately turned around and jumped into one of the crevices in the ground behind her.

"Where did we go wrong with her?" Angela asked sadly. Before anyone could reply to that, the third creature leapt towards her, and was thrown off course as Griff body-checked it from the side. Angela squealed happily as if Griff just proposed to her and kissed him soundly. They were so caught up in each other that they didn't even notice the surge of wild fire shooting behind them nor the deafening, dying screech that mixed with it.

"Can you keep your damn hands off each other until after we deal with the spawns?" Tai yelled.

0o0o0o0o

Shiva grunted as she pulled herself up from her safe haven in the ground. The area above had seemed pretty quiet so she was confident that the others had taken care of the situation all ready. It wasn't that she couldn't take one of them; it was that she had seen them before. And she didn't want to see what would happen subsequently. With one final pant she pulled herself to her feet.

"I'M ALIVE!" She screamed into the air with her arms wide open. Her rejoicing was cut off by a deadly growl. No more than twenty feet away were the two creatures that had chased her down the hole in the first place. They eyed her in an aggressive manner, pools of drool hitting the ground as they bared their teeth. She knew she was in no mood to fight them at the moment.

"I WAS JUST KIDDING!" she yelled reassuringly back at them before jumping back into the crevice.

Tai watched from the side with an unimpressed look on his face. Gennai would be rolling over in his grave at the moment. And laughing his ass off at them. Just as he was planning to go help Shiva with the two spawns (she was still hiding in the crevice) a low, threatening laugh reached his ears.

"I've always wondered how a god will fare in hell," a deep voice chuckled from the torn, prone form of Myotismon. Tai gasped and opened his mouth to warn the others but was cut off as two black ropes of burning plasma shot out from the ground and tightly wrapped themselves around Tai's wings. The left wing was broken instantly. The plasma spread beneath his feet and began to devour his body, sucking him into the unknown below the earth. More binds shot up to speed up the process, wrapping around his neck and limbs, choking him.

"Tai!" Griff yelled, disentangling himself from Angela. He started towards his friend when he was thrown to the ground by one of the remaining two beasts. The fiend wasted no time in biting into his neck.

Angela screamed for him but was silenced as the other one jumped on her back. Shiva leapt out of the crevice at once after seeing her two friends struggling against Myotismon's incarnates at a clear disadvantage. Tai's cries and struggles from her left drew her attention to a scene she had vision before. His body was steadily being pulled into the endless, black oblivion beneath him, killing him along the way. She stumbled to him, falling to her knees.

"No" she cried. It happened. She remembered this and she could do nothing to stop it. But that was the problem, not the solution. She pulled her self to her feet with more determination than she ever thought she possessed. She glared hatefully at the two unnamed beasts attacking her friends and suddenly, as if her glare alone was that powerful, they stopped...and soon started to convulse. It was happening too fast to stop herself. The churning anger burned in the pit of her stomach as she watched the dying creatures writhe on the ground. Their bodies were literally imploding and all the while she couldn't help but feel something horrifyingly akin to satisfaction. Griff and Angela managed to stand at this point and watch in appall at what was happening. When the process stopped, all that was left was a pile of gory skin, the bones within ground into a fine dust. Shiva tried to steady her breathing and control herself. Angela ran up to her and began trying to get her respond, but Shiva wouldn't stop shaking. Griff, in the meantime, was throwing everything he had at the bonds from hell to free Tai, but they would only lash out at him

The body of Myotismon began to lift from the ground; the center of it hung open, leaving a gaping hole where the incarnates broke through it.

"It's time I disposed of you," he howled, allowing his voice to echo through the barren wasteland for effect, "And everything that you would hold dear."

He lifted his arm and threw one powerful attack at the castle, setting it ablaze.

"No!" Moira screamed, reaching a bloodied hand toward the fortress. Tears were streaming down her face. Tai finally pulled himself free of the black plasma in a true godlike show of strength and ran over to the woman he should have never loved. He dropped to her side and cradled her broken body.

"Taro," she coughed, spitting up blood. Her eyes gazed up at the red sky unseeingly, "...Tai...the castle...our...she—"

She began coughing more violently, covering Tai's chest with her blood. With every cough Tai felt a part of him dying. A heart-wrenching stab of pain that strongly made him want to die with her.

"She what?" he prompted, "what about the castle?"

But Moira's eyes rolled into the back of her head and she fell limp within his arms. Tai froze, ignoring the cries of anguish from his friends as Myotismon attacked them. An iron clamp of throbbing pain compressed down on his chest, squeezing him into agony. Was this what it felt like to loose a mate?

Suddenly the body in his arms began to cool. Much more than a regular dead body should. It was freezing. Tai watched in disbelief as her body began to case itself in ice. The ice spread, avoiding his body, and began sheeting the ground. It moved quickly, eventually covering all the lands in a thick layer of ice. Soon it began to work its way up Myotismon's body. The viral digimon's evil laughter was cut short as the ice held his legs fast to the ground. Soon his torso was encased as well. Then his neck, and finally his head—successfully silencing him. Tai didn't waste any time in taking advantage of this.

"Attack him now!" he roared to his comrades. They didn't need to be told twice. Outrageous blasts of fire, water, earth, and an invisible force flew to the ice cased digimon. Every element combined, slowly breaking down every part of the demon's body before all that remained was a mask. A heavy booted foot crushed it, sending it into the oblivious of the digi-afterlife as well. Griff looked up in satisfaction. His girlfriend looked more beautiful than he ever remembered, covered in blood and grime, with her scratched blue skin and webbed fan ears. Shiva stood next to her, still shaking from earlier, but also grinning like a maniac. In fact she was dancing too. Oh god—it was the booty dance. Looking away, Griff noticed Tai was not among them. After looking around, he just spotted a brown-haired youth, now human, running into the burning fortress of Bastion Hall.

0o0o0o0o

Never ending wails traveled through the burning hallways of Bastion Halls. Tai continued to follow the cries until he came to a closed door surrounded by fire. All it needed was one, hard kick and it came crashing down in an explosion of ashes and embers. In the middle of the room, with globes of fire falling around it like a hailstorm was a single crib, remarkably untouched. Tai grimly walked towards it, careful to avoid any fallen debris, and peered inside. The cries instantly stopped.

He could no longer hear the roaring inferno rushing pass his ears, nor did he feel the heat of the flames against his skin. He didn't care that the ceiling was collapsing all around him and the floor was giving away. All that mattered was that he was staring into a pair of large chocolate-brown eyes—identical to his own.

His mouth opened and closed, emitting no sound as he stared down at the infant in front of him. Ours.

0o0o0o0o

And Tai suffers the consequences of not practicing safe sex. Shame on him.

I will be off on holiday for the next week so nothing new too soon, sorry. Thanks for the reviews though! They make me happy. And if I'm happy, so are my cats. And that's all that matters.