The first battle!! :3
Chapter 9: The Sorrow of Darkness
Henry opened his eyes weakly, laying flat on the floor with Serph standing in front of him, growling into the swirl of darkness. Henry stood up, slowly, feeling horrible and wanting to fall. They stood on top of a large platform, in the middle of nowhere. Darkness just surrounded the area, swirls of them, black, dark red, and dark purple. The atmosphere was depressing, and lonesome.
"Where are we..." Henry asked softly. Looking around for AncientSphinxmon. They were all alone on the platform, standing there, in the middle. The platform, had trees, grass, caves, boulders, and hills. The moon stood above the center, shining brightly down upon them.
"We are, where I call, the dimension of darkness..." AncientSphinxmon walked out of a dark bubble, swirling up from the ground. Serph growled ferociously at him, standing his ground, protecting Henry. "Isn't it beautiful..."
There was a long silence between the three, not a word was spoken. The moon stood there, watching the tension raise. AncientSphinxmon stared at the two calmly, while Serph glared at AncientSphinxmon, waiting, watching for a single chance to attack. The silence soon ended.
"Dark Blast!" AncientSphinxmon shouted, blowing a huge orb at them. Serph pushed Henry down to the ground as he jumped out of the way. "Necro Eclipse!" AncientSphinxmon shouted, firing at Serph. Serph was running around AncientSphinxmon, looking for the perfect chance to attack, but Serph underestimated AncientSphinxmon. "Necro Eclipse!" Shooting a few inches ahead of Serph, Serph ran into the blast and was thrown to the ground. Standing tall, AncientSphinxmon took his paw and thrust it down against Serph's rib cage. "Do you feel the pain?!" His eyes were blood-shot, pushing it harder and harder down against Serph's rib cage. Sending out screams of pain, Henry ran towards AncientSphinxmon. Jumping as high as he could, he came down like a meteor, slamming his fist into AncientSphinxmon's face, causing him to move away from Serph.
Henry's knuckle began to bleed, along with the blood, there was the digi-soul. Henry's face was dark, but you could see his angry, exerting out of his body like the heat from an active volcano. A sense of darkness was taking control. AncientSphinxmon made a small smile as Serph got up and stood besides Henry.
"Well, looks like I've done my job..." AncientSphinxmon laughed. "Now time to continue our fight...Necro Eclipse!"
Serph jumped out of the way, but Henry didn't. "HENRY!" Serph shouted, jumping back, but it was too late, the blast collided into Henry like a speeding bullet. But than something happened, the attack went into two directions. Henry's bleeding fist was deflecting the attack. "What the...?" Serph asked softly. Something had happened to Henry, and by the looks of it, AncientSphinxmon was pleased. "YOU! Critical Strike!" Jumping into the air, and crashing down against the ground, missing. AncientSphinxmon disappeared before he got hit and than reappeared behind Henry.
"The sweet sorrow of darkness has invaded this boy's mind...He is under the control of the darkness now..." AncientSphinxmon said softly. Henry just stood there, like a puppet, waiting for a command of some sort. "All those painful memories of his life, how he was alone, how he was sad, have all come back, rushing into him, like a sponge absorbing water. Just wait until he can't take it anymore, see what happens than..." AncientSphinxmon laughed. "But for the time being, let's go...Dark Blast!"
Serph disgusted of what AncientSphinxmon just said, jumped into the air, crashing down in front of Henry. "Wake Up! Snap out of it!" Serph shouted in front of him, crashing him into the ground. "Fight it!"
"He won't listen to you...The darkness that had invaded is in control. You are just a distance voice, that is canceled out of the screams." AncientSphinxmon said calmly. "Henry, be a good boy and attack this digimon..."
"Henry wouldn't do that." Serph snapped. "Henry wouldn't hurt his digimon partner without a fight." As soon as he said that, Henry's fist collided into Serph's face. Being pushed back a couple of inches away, Henry came running back at him. Henry's eyes were black, empty, and filled with sorrow. "Wh..." Before he could even say one word, Henry came towards him again with his fist. "Snap out of it!" Serph shouted as he was in the air. Henry jumped and punched Serph in the chin. Serph crashed to the ground, as for Henry, he landed on his two feet. Tears flooded his eyes, and for an instant, Henry was back to normal, and than reverted back, ceasing the falling tears.
"The darkness that lives in all of us, rages to find a way out, rages to find a way to control. Like a virus, trying to dominate the human and digital world." AncientSphinxmon boomed, his voice was loud and angry. Black clouds swirled above him, as if they were dark memories, coming back from the past. "Let it bathe you, and ease you soul, than let it control you."
Serph fell to the ground, as if a huge weight has been placed on top of him. His life seemed to be drained from him, happiness, and his courage seemed to be drained from his body. The only thing that was there, the only emotion there was sorrow.
Henry stood there, fighting inside, like how Serph was fighting. Falling to the ground, Henry couldn't handle the suspense was killing him. On his hands and knees, his left eye was normal, his right eye was pure black. Than something happened, Henry fell to the ground, blood slatting in front of him from his right eye, falling backwards onto the ground. He placed his hand over his right eye and he felt a warm liquid running down his hand and when he moved it, it was a pile of it, running down his hand, forming a puddle beneath his hand. Henry was fighting it, fighting the sorrow, until he broke free, but there was a side effect. Since he was within the darkness so long, he had to give up a price. He was now blind, blind in his right eye.
"Serph!" Henry shouted, running towards him, tripping over a large rock, falling to the ground in front of Serph. "Don't lose yourself..." A puddle of blood was now forming underneath of him. From his right eye and his right knuckle.
Serph's eyes went into shock, forcing himself off, and shaking off the sorrow, he was fully back, unlike Henry. Flat on the ground, just laying there, as if he was unconscious. "HENRY!" Serph shouted out of anger. "Time to end this battle..." He glared at AncientSphinxmon.
"The worlds I never thought you would say..." AncientSphinxmon gave a little smirk. "Necro Eclipse!"
"Critical Strike!" Serph shouted, jumping into the air, charging down at AncientSphinxmon. Direct hit! AncientSphinxmon couldn't run away as fast as the strike. "Thunder of the Kings!" His mane was charged up with electricity, that flew everywhere.
"Dark Blast!" AncientSphinxmon shouted, shooting a dark orb at Serph. Serph jumped into the air and brought AncientSphinxmon to the ground, zapping AncientSphinxmon. "Ah!" AncientSphinxmon shouted, ash was on him from the thunder zapping him.
"Critical Strike!" Serph shouted, slamming his claw into AncientSphinxmon's chest. There was a cracking sound, as if AncientSphinxmon's rib cage was being crushed.
Letting out a short screech of terror, he broke free from Serph's grip, growling a bit. "Dark Blast!" AncientSphinxmon shouted, shooting the dark orb, at Serph. The attack came straight on, directly hitting Serph.
"No!" Serph shouted. "Critical Strike!" Slashing the orb, slashing it in half, the attack was canceled. "Time to end this!" Serph charged at AncientSphinxmon, but before he could manage to hit him, AncientSphinxmon disappeared from sight.
"Let's finish this battle next time...Right now, I have something else to do..." AncientSphinxmon's voice laughed. His voice was in the distance, echoing from a farther distance.
"Coward!" Serph shouted out, but AncientSphinxmon couldn't hear him. "Dammit..." Serph said softly. The arena seemed to stop moving and than swirled. Becoming a blur, they seemed to disappeared. There was a blinding light, and there stood, a statue of AncientSphinxmon. It cease glowing, black and than blew up into millions of pieces. A voice than spoke softly.
"AncientSphinxmon was defeated..." It was the voice of the mysterious voice, it was the Great Master, it was the sweet voice from before. "AncientSphinxmon's data shall transfer to you digivice as of now..." A strand of data flowed from the broke statue and clashed with the digivice.
Serph confused of what had happened, looked at Henry. He was knocked out cold, there wasn't a pile of blood anymore, but his clothes were stained with it. His eyes were closed and his right fist was clenched. There wasn't any bandages, but it looked like everyone was healed.
Something is really wrong... Serph thought to himself. Something is really wrong...Alice, Jenny, I hope you don't end up like Henry...
End of Chapter 9