Author's notes: After my account was deleted accidentally, I rewrote some parts of Dark Wing. There is another version, Dark Wing Type 2, that I'm writing that follows the anime more accurately. But for now, I'll focus on finishing the original Dark Wing since I want to wait and see what happens in the Japanese Tamer series. I'll upload the other chapters once I've finished double-checking them. Thanks for your patience.
Author's notes: After some consideration, I've decided to use the Japanese levels, since I'm already using the Japanese names, cards and attacks anyway. Therefore:
Digimon Levels:
Child : Rookie
Adult : Champion
Perfect : Ultimate
Ultimate: Mega
Digimon Tamers: Dark Wing
SEARCHING FOR JURI! WHO IS THE ENEMY?
Disclaimer: Digimon Tamers and related elements are registered trademarks of Toei, Bandai and their respective owners and are used without permission.
The next day...
Class was unusually quiet. It was painfully obvious even to Asanuma Nami, who usually didn't let such matters bother her. The main cause was an empty seat where a certain puppet-wearing girl normally sat. Word of Juri's kidnapping following just after reports of a dangerous lunatic dressed like a devil was enough to dampen even this class' spirits. She glanced at Takato, who sat dejected in his seat, staring at the spot Juri would usually be sitting. "Now I'M getting depressed..."
"This is just what we need..." Takato moaned. As soon as school had ended after what felt like the longest day ever, he had run all the way to the park to continue the search. However, a Digital Field had materialised soon after, and now Guilmon was battling against a large blue Digimon that had more than a passing remsemblance to the Meramon he and the others had met in the Digital World. The brown-haired boy raised his D-Ark. "Blue Meramon. Perfect. Data. Flame Digimon. Ultimate Technique: Ice Phantom, Cold Flame."
"Ice Phantom!" the Flame Digimon yelled, his fist burning with blue flame.
Guilmon leapt out of the way. "Fireball!" he cried, launching a fireball into Blue Meramon's face. Growling, Blue Meramon used another Ice Phantom, but missed again.
Takato held up his D-Ark. "Card Slash! Super Evolution Plug-In S!"
A toneless mechanised voice intoned a single word. "Evolution."
"Guilmon, evolve!!!" The now familiar feeling of evolution took hold of Guilmon, his data reforming into the massive form of..."Growmon!" Now as large as Blue Meramon, the tide seemed to turn in the Tamer Digimon's favour. "Plasma Blade!" Slashing at the Ultimate, Growmon drove him back. Then Blue Meramon smirked.
"Sucker." He pointed down at Growmon's feet. When Takato looked, he saw blue flames surrounding his friend's feet. "Cold Flame!" The flames suddenly spread, engulfing Growmon in a blazing inferno of freezing flame.
"Growmon!" screamed Takato as the Demon Dragon fell to his knees. Blue Meramon moved to finish him off when Leomon appeared.
"Fist of the Beast King!" roared the battle-scarred Adult, his fist launching his trademark technique. The attack distracted the larger Ultimate, giving Growmon time to get back on his feet. Seeing this, Blue Meramon tried to use another Cold Flame, but Growmon was ready this time.
"Cold Flame!"
"Exhaust Flame!" The two attacks connected causing an explosion that threw up clouds of dust. Blue Meramon shielded his eyes. Leomon, seeing him through the dust, charged as he called out to Growmon.
"Growmon! He's directly in front of you!" As he spoke, he leapt into the air. "Fist of the Beast King!" Blue Meramon blocked him with his arm, but that left him open as Growmon charged toward him.
"Plasma Blade!" he yelled, stabbing Blue Meramon in the chest. Pulling away, the wounded Digimon grabbed Leomon and hurled him at Growmon.
Twisting his body, Leomon struck Growmon's stomach feet first, then kicked off to knock Blue Meramon down with a powerful right hook. Meanwhile, Growmon sat down hard, winded by Leomon's kick.
"Growmon!" Takato cried, running up to him. "Are you okay?"
"Just...surprised..." Growmon got back up. "I'll take care of him, Takato!" Takato looked to see Blue Meramon kneeling, clutching his chest.
"I don't think you have to, Growmon," Leomon told him. "He's finished."
"Don't...count...on it!" Blue Meramon snarled as he began running towards the two Adults. "I'll take you with me!!!"
"Fist of the Beast King!"
"Exhaust Flame!"
"AAAARRRGHH!!!" In shower of data, Blue Meramon exploded. The data stream stayed in the air for a moment before splitting and flowing into both Leomon and Growmon.
"Great work,you two!" Takato cheered.
"I agree." Takato and the Digimon turned around to see where the voice came from. From behind a tree emerged a blond man dressed in a business suit. His eyes were hidden behind a pair of dark sunglasses. "You seem to have improved, Tamer."
"Yamaki-san..."
"I've heard one of your classmates is missing."
"Y-yeah..."
"Is it one of the Tamers who's gone missing?"
"Yeah," Takato admitted. "Katou-san."
"Ah, the girl with Leomon." Yamaki stared at the boy. "Does it have anything to do with the reports Hypnos have recieved of a 'devil-man'?"
"Devimon?" Takato asked. "It can't be...we defeated him already!"
"Is that so?" Yamaki held up a diskette and tossed it to Takato.
Surprised, Takato caught it. "This is..."
"The information on that disk may help you find her." Yamaki turned and began to walk away. "Good Luck...Tamer."
Takato watched him leave, then looked at the disk in his hand. "Yamaki-san...Thank you."
"Takato!" Ruki called from behind him. "What do you think you're doing, going it alone?!" She glared at him angrily. "We missed the fight too! Couldn't you have waited for Renamon and me?"
"Uh...uh...!"
"Hey...what's that?" Ruki asked, pointing at the disk in Takato's hand.
"Uh...Yamaki-san gave it to me," Takato explained. "He said it would help us find Katou-san!"
"Is that so?" Ruki said. "Then let's have a look!"
"Yamaki gave it to you, huh?" Lee said, inserting the disk into his computer. "There'll probably be something useful then." He began hitting keys, his fingers gliding over the keyboard with the ease that came with practice.
"You really think we can use that to find Juri?" Ruki asked, leaning on his shoulder.
Lee glanced at her. "Hypnos probably has information we don't." Lee's eyes lit up. "What's this?"
"Did you find something?" Takato asked, leaning on Lee's other shoulder.
"It looks like it..." Lee kept his eyes on the screen. "Hypnos detected a Digital being appearing in this area five days ago."
"Five days ago..." repeated Takato. "That's just before Devimon appeared!"
"So how does that help us find Juri?" Ruki asked.
Lee frowned. "It doesn't, but maybe if we investigate, we can find a clue or something."
"Then let's go!" Takato cried, standing up.
"Right!" Ruki agreed.
"Just give me a moment..."
"What's wrong, Jen?" Terriermon asked.
"My shoulders ache." The others sweatdropped.
"Can I help you?" Matsuda Mie asked as a man walked into the bakery.
"Erh," the man started. He had shaggy grey hair and wore a black trenchcoat. "What would little girls eat?"
"Little girls?" she repeated. "Well, usually our donuts are popular, or maybe some tarts?"
"Tarts, huh?" The man looked around. "Anything else?"
"Of course, you could always get some plain bread," Takato's mother advised. "My son usually gets some for his friends."
"Is that so?" the man repeated, vaguely interested.
"Oh, here he is now! Any luck, Takato?" The man turned and gave a slight start as Takato came in.
"Not yet, but we think we know where to look! I don't know what time I'll be back, Mom!" He turned to leave again adding, "Tell Katou-san's family we'll get her back soon!"
"Be careful!" Takato waved then ran out the door. "Now," His mother asked, turning to the man. "What will it be?"
"I think I'll take three loaves, please." The man spoke thoughtfully, as if preoccupied. "So," he muttered under his breath. "this is where he lives, eh?"
"Here you go."
"Thank you." He handed her some money and took the bag in a gloved hand.
"Thank you, here's your-" Mie looked up, and saw the man had vanished. "change?"
Takato met up with the other Tamers at Guilmon's bunker. "Okay," he said. "I've told my mom. She'll tell Katou-san's parents for us."
"You sure it's a good idea to get their hopes up?" Ruki fixed Takato with a stare, her hand on her hip. "What if we don't find her?"
The brown-haired boy looked back at her. "You didn't see Katou-san's father last night, Ruki." He shook his head sadly. "He looked so..so heartbroken..."
Lee placed an understanding hand on Takato's shoulder. "Don't worry, Takato. We won't let them down."
Ruki nodded. "Yeah." She gave them a confident smile. "Let's go find her!"
"Right!"
Later, the Tamers made their way through the park to the part of the city Lee had identified. The going was painfully slow, as they had to move carefully to avoid being seen. It was all Takato and the others could do to keep Leomon calm and prevent him from charging after Juri alone.
Suddenly...
"Aaah!" Guilmon yelped.
Takato immediately turned to check on his friend. "Guilmon?! What's wrong?"
The red Child level rumped his rump. "Something stung me..." he moaned.
"A mosquito?" Terriermon suggested.
"It's probably nothing," Ruki said. "Come on, we're wasting time!"
As the Tamers left, they failed to notice a dark figure watching from a nearby treetop, who smirked as the card he had thrown at Guilmon returned to his hand. Chuckling evilly, the watcher dropped from the tree and vanished.
Back at the abandoned building...
Katou Juri woke up, finding herself in a large cage. She sat up and looked around fearfully. "Wh-where am I?" Looking through the bars, the frightened girl saw a large ornamental table. She realised her D-Ark was on it, beside a number of card decks.
"Ah, awake?" asked a voice from the shadows. "Good."
"Who...?"
"Forgotten me already?" laughed the owner of the voice as he walked into her sight. "I'm hurt."
Juri's face paled as the speaker came into view. He resembled a man dressed in black, with ragged bat wings and leather straps wrapped around arms which ended in cruel-looking claws. Twin horns adorned his head and his blazing red eyes glared at her through his cowl. The part of his face not hidden under the leather mask was a pale, sickly shade of blue, and when he smiled she could see the fangs that lined his mouth. "You..." she gasped, terrified. "...no...you're dead!"
"Foolish girl, I told you Darkness would not be so easily defeated!" Devimon laughed. "And I do not make the same mistake twice!"
Reviews, comments, suggestions and criticisms (constructive or otherwise) are welcome and can be sent to Withoutmorals@antisocial.com
Author's notes: After some consideration, I've decided to use the Japanese levels, since I'm already using the Japanese names, cards and attacks anyway. Therefore:
Digimon Levels:
Child : Rookie
Adult : Champion
Perfect : Ultimate
Ultimate: Mega
Digimon Tamers: Dark Wing
SEARCHING FOR JURI! WHO IS THE ENEMY?
Disclaimer: Digimon Tamers and related elements are registered trademarks of Toei, Bandai and their respective owners and are used without permission.
The next day...
Class was unusually quiet. It was painfully obvious even to Asanuma Nami, who usually didn't let such matters bother her. The main cause was an empty seat where a certain puppet-wearing girl normally sat. Word of Juri's kidnapping following just after reports of a dangerous lunatic dressed like a devil was enough to dampen even this class' spirits. She glanced at Takato, who sat dejected in his seat, staring at the spot Juri would usually be sitting. "Now I'M getting depressed..."
"This is just what we need..." Takato moaned. As soon as school had ended after what felt like the longest day ever, he had run all the way to the park to continue the search. However, a Digital Field had materialised soon after, and now Guilmon was battling against a large blue Digimon that had more than a passing remsemblance to the Meramon he and the others had met in the Digital World. The brown-haired boy raised his D-Ark. "Blue Meramon. Perfect. Data. Flame Digimon. Ultimate Technique: Ice Phantom, Cold Flame."
"Ice Phantom!" the Flame Digimon yelled, his fist burning with blue flame.
Guilmon leapt out of the way. "Fireball!" he cried, launching a fireball into Blue Meramon's face. Growling, Blue Meramon used another Ice Phantom, but missed again.
Takato held up his D-Ark. "Card Slash! Super Evolution Plug-In S!"
A toneless mechanised voice intoned a single word. "Evolution."
"Guilmon, evolve!!!" The now familiar feeling of evolution took hold of Guilmon, his data reforming into the massive form of..."Growmon!" Now as large as Blue Meramon, the tide seemed to turn in the Tamer Digimon's favour. "Plasma Blade!" Slashing at the Ultimate, Growmon drove him back. Then Blue Meramon smirked.
"Sucker." He pointed down at Growmon's feet. When Takato looked, he saw blue flames surrounding his friend's feet. "Cold Flame!" The flames suddenly spread, engulfing Growmon in a blazing inferno of freezing flame.
"Growmon!" screamed Takato as the Demon Dragon fell to his knees. Blue Meramon moved to finish him off when Leomon appeared.
"Fist of the Beast King!" roared the battle-scarred Adult, his fist launching his trademark technique. The attack distracted the larger Ultimate, giving Growmon time to get back on his feet. Seeing this, Blue Meramon tried to use another Cold Flame, but Growmon was ready this time.
"Cold Flame!"
"Exhaust Flame!" The two attacks connected causing an explosion that threw up clouds of dust. Blue Meramon shielded his eyes. Leomon, seeing him through the dust, charged as he called out to Growmon.
"Growmon! He's directly in front of you!" As he spoke, he leapt into the air. "Fist of the Beast King!" Blue Meramon blocked him with his arm, but that left him open as Growmon charged toward him.
"Plasma Blade!" he yelled, stabbing Blue Meramon in the chest. Pulling away, the wounded Digimon grabbed Leomon and hurled him at Growmon.
Twisting his body, Leomon struck Growmon's stomach feet first, then kicked off to knock Blue Meramon down with a powerful right hook. Meanwhile, Growmon sat down hard, winded by Leomon's kick.
"Growmon!" Takato cried, running up to him. "Are you okay?"
"Just...surprised..." Growmon got back up. "I'll take care of him, Takato!" Takato looked to see Blue Meramon kneeling, clutching his chest.
"I don't think you have to, Growmon," Leomon told him. "He's finished."
"Don't...count...on it!" Blue Meramon snarled as he began running towards the two Adults. "I'll take you with me!!!"
"Fist of the Beast King!"
"Exhaust Flame!"
"AAAARRRGHH!!!" In shower of data, Blue Meramon exploded. The data stream stayed in the air for a moment before splitting and flowing into both Leomon and Growmon.
"Great work,you two!" Takato cheered.
"I agree." Takato and the Digimon turned around to see where the voice came from. From behind a tree emerged a blond man dressed in a business suit. His eyes were hidden behind a pair of dark sunglasses. "You seem to have improved, Tamer."
"Yamaki-san..."
"I've heard one of your classmates is missing."
"Y-yeah..."
"Is it one of the Tamers who's gone missing?"
"Yeah," Takato admitted. "Katou-san."
"Ah, the girl with Leomon." Yamaki stared at the boy. "Does it have anything to do with the reports Hypnos have recieved of a 'devil-man'?"
"Devimon?" Takato asked. "It can't be...we defeated him already!"
"Is that so?" Yamaki held up a diskette and tossed it to Takato.
Surprised, Takato caught it. "This is..."
"The information on that disk may help you find her." Yamaki turned and began to walk away. "Good Luck...Tamer."
Takato watched him leave, then looked at the disk in his hand. "Yamaki-san...Thank you."
"Takato!" Ruki called from behind him. "What do you think you're doing, going it alone?!" She glared at him angrily. "We missed the fight too! Couldn't you have waited for Renamon and me?"
"Uh...uh...!"
"Hey...what's that?" Ruki asked, pointing at the disk in Takato's hand.
"Uh...Yamaki-san gave it to me," Takato explained. "He said it would help us find Katou-san!"
"Is that so?" Ruki said. "Then let's have a look!"
"Yamaki gave it to you, huh?" Lee said, inserting the disk into his computer. "There'll probably be something useful then." He began hitting keys, his fingers gliding over the keyboard with the ease that came with practice.
"You really think we can use that to find Juri?" Ruki asked, leaning on his shoulder.
Lee glanced at her. "Hypnos probably has information we don't." Lee's eyes lit up. "What's this?"
"Did you find something?" Takato asked, leaning on Lee's other shoulder.
"It looks like it..." Lee kept his eyes on the screen. "Hypnos detected a Digital being appearing in this area five days ago."
"Five days ago..." repeated Takato. "That's just before Devimon appeared!"
"So how does that help us find Juri?" Ruki asked.
Lee frowned. "It doesn't, but maybe if we investigate, we can find a clue or something."
"Then let's go!" Takato cried, standing up.
"Right!" Ruki agreed.
"Just give me a moment..."
"What's wrong, Jen?" Terriermon asked.
"My shoulders ache." The others sweatdropped.
"Can I help you?" Matsuda Mie asked as a man walked into the bakery.
"Erh," the man started. He had shaggy grey hair and wore a black trenchcoat. "What would little girls eat?"
"Little girls?" she repeated. "Well, usually our donuts are popular, or maybe some tarts?"
"Tarts, huh?" The man looked around. "Anything else?"
"Of course, you could always get some plain bread," Takato's mother advised. "My son usually gets some for his friends."
"Is that so?" the man repeated, vaguely interested.
"Oh, here he is now! Any luck, Takato?" The man turned and gave a slight start as Takato came in.
"Not yet, but we think we know where to look! I don't know what time I'll be back, Mom!" He turned to leave again adding, "Tell Katou-san's family we'll get her back soon!"
"Be careful!" Takato waved then ran out the door. "Now," His mother asked, turning to the man. "What will it be?"
"I think I'll take three loaves, please." The man spoke thoughtfully, as if preoccupied. "So," he muttered under his breath. "this is where he lives, eh?"
"Here you go."
"Thank you." He handed her some money and took the bag in a gloved hand.
"Thank you, here's your-" Mie looked up, and saw the man had vanished. "change?"
Takato met up with the other Tamers at Guilmon's bunker. "Okay," he said. "I've told my mom. She'll tell Katou-san's parents for us."
"You sure it's a good idea to get their hopes up?" Ruki fixed Takato with a stare, her hand on her hip. "What if we don't find her?"
The brown-haired boy looked back at her. "You didn't see Katou-san's father last night, Ruki." He shook his head sadly. "He looked so..so heartbroken..."
Lee placed an understanding hand on Takato's shoulder. "Don't worry, Takato. We won't let them down."
Ruki nodded. "Yeah." She gave them a confident smile. "Let's go find her!"
"Right!"
Later, the Tamers made their way through the park to the part of the city Lee had identified. The going was painfully slow, as they had to move carefully to avoid being seen. It was all Takato and the others could do to keep Leomon calm and prevent him from charging after Juri alone.
Suddenly...
"Aaah!" Guilmon yelped.
Takato immediately turned to check on his friend. "Guilmon?! What's wrong?"
The red Child level rumped his rump. "Something stung me..." he moaned.
"A mosquito?" Terriermon suggested.
"It's probably nothing," Ruki said. "Come on, we're wasting time!"
As the Tamers left, they failed to notice a dark figure watching from a nearby treetop, who smirked as the card he had thrown at Guilmon returned to his hand. Chuckling evilly, the watcher dropped from the tree and vanished.
Back at the abandoned building...
Katou Juri woke up, finding herself in a large cage. She sat up and looked around fearfully. "Wh-where am I?" Looking through the bars, the frightened girl saw a large ornamental table. She realised her D-Ark was on it, beside a number of card decks.
"Ah, awake?" asked a voice from the shadows. "Good."
"Who...?"
"Forgotten me already?" laughed the owner of the voice as he walked into her sight. "I'm hurt."
Juri's face paled as the speaker came into view. He resembled a man dressed in black, with ragged bat wings and leather straps wrapped around arms which ended in cruel-looking claws. Twin horns adorned his head and his blazing red eyes glared at her through his cowl. The part of his face not hidden under the leather mask was a pale, sickly shade of blue, and when he smiled she could see the fangs that lined his mouth. "You..." she gasped, terrified. "...no...you're dead!"
"Foolish girl, I told you Darkness would not be so easily defeated!" Devimon laughed. "And I do not make the same mistake twice!"
Reviews, comments, suggestions and criticisms (constructive or otherwise) are welcome and can be sent to Withoutmorals@antisocial.com