Episode 2: The Destiny of Light! Ophanimon!
Tension was high in the living room of the Izumi residence. The remaining six Chosen Children and their digimon all sat on the floor. Iori had thought it'd be a good idea to call the family of the Chosen Children who had entered the Digital World to fight the Seven Great Demon Lords, so they too sat in the room. On the love seat was Yuuko Yagami holding her head in her hands as she worried about her two children. Her husband Susumu had his arms wrapped around her in an attempt to comfort her.
Sitting in a chair brought in from the dining room was Hiroaki Ishida. He was currently trying to not be obvious as he eyes drifted over to his ex-wife, Natsuko Takaishi, who was sitting in the recliner. She appeared to be more concerned about their two sons then her ex-husband did.
On the couch was the Motomiya family. Mr. Motomiya sat on one end of the couch, trying to comfort his wife who sat in the middle. Surprisingly she seemed to be taking the news of her son being involved in such a dangerous mission pretty well. Their daughter Jun sat on the other end of the couch looking bored.
Lastly we had the Ichijouji couple seating at the table which was at the edge of the living room. Mrs. Ichijouji was crying hysterically. She had already dealt with the death of her oldest son, Osamu. She didn't want to have to deal with the death of her youngest son as well. Wrapping his arm around his wife, Mr. Ichijouji turned to the Chosen Children.
"So would one of you mind explaining exactly what is going on here?" He asked them. The Chosen Children looked at each other nervously. Right now they were wishing that the others had called their parents before leaving to explain this.
"Well," Koushiro began nervously, "Like we said this new group of enemies called the Seven Great Demon Lords has appeared in the Digital World. Taichi, Yamato, Daisuke, Ken, Takeru, and Hikari have gone into the Digital World to fight them."
"But who exactly are these Seven Great Demon Lords?" Susumu asked. He was getting rather sick of his children running off to fight these evil digimon without ever telling him or his wife anything.
"Well we're not exactly sure." Jyou told him, "but according to Gennai they are more powerful than any digimon we've ever fought before." This news only increased the worries of the parents more.
"Just what has Daisuke gotten himself into now?" Jun asked from the couch. While she didn't want to admit it, she was deeply concerned about her brother and had no idea what she would do if he were to die.
Back in the Digital World, the Chosen Children were just regaining consciousness after what had happened. Taichi blinked as he slowly sat up and looked around.
"Where am I?" He asked confused, "Am I dead?" He had no idea what had happened during the fight with the Seven Great Demon Lords. Last thing he could remember was Lucemon using his Dead or Alive attack on them and they a cloud appearing. Did that mean they had died and gone to heaven?
"Onii-chan..." Hikari said weakly as she slowly sat up. "What happened?"
"Hikari!" Taichi cried as he rushed over to his little sister's side. "I have no idea what happened or where we are now, but are you alright?"
"Yeah, I think I am." She answered and then spotted Tailmon beside her. "Tailmon!" She picked her digimon up and gave her a hug. "Are you alright? Speak to me!" Tailmon let out a groan.
"I feel like I've been hit by a truck." She said. Slowly the rest of the chosen Children and their digimon sat up with groans and confusion. None of them were really sure what had happened or where they were. There questions were soon answered as they heard a voice.
"Chosen Children, at last you are awake." The Chosen Children looked up to find the source of the very familiar voice. When they realized who it was, smiles spread across all of their faces.
"Qinglongmon!" Takeru cried out happily. "Am I glad to see you!"
"Did you save us from the Seven Great Demon Lords?" Daisuke asked.
"Yes I did." Answered Qinglongmon.
"Thanks for that, Qinglongmon, we owe you one." Taichi said and turned to Yamato who was deep in thought. "What's wrong, Yamato?"
"I'm just wondering how we can possibly beat the Seven Great Demon Lords. I mean we were beaten so easily by them just a while ago. Is there any way for us to win?" He pondered.
"I know this task seems impossible." Qinglongmon told him, "But you have seen them once and lived to tell about it. Maybe you can use that to come up with some kind of a strategy." Ken let out a gasp and pulled out the mini digimon analyzer Gennai had given him.
"That's it. Maybe now that we've got their data we can learn something about them." He skimmed though their data and gasped.
"What is it?" Daisuke asked him.
"It's Lucemon..." Ken trailed off.
"Yeah, what about Lucemon?" Takeru asked curiously.
"Do you know his weakness?" Taichi asked.
"No, he's only a perfect level digimon." Ken told them, causing them to gasp.
"But I could have sworn he was an ultimate." Agumon said in shock.
"Yeah, he defeated us in no time flat." V-mon agreed.
"Ken, are you sure that thing's not broken?" Wormmon asked his partner. Ken shook his head at the question.
"Anyways, I better e-mail Koushiro telling him what has happened and send him the data. Maybe he can come up with something." He quickly wrote the e-mail and sent it with the data.
At the mean time the rest of the Chosen Children were still trying to convince their families that everything would be OK.
"I'm telling you, I'm sure Taichi and the others will find a way to beat these Seven Great Demon Lords and they'll be back home in no time." Miyako told the worried families. Just then Koushiro's D-Terminal started beeping. He reached into his pocket and pulled it out.
"It's an e-mail from Ken." He announced.
"Ken!" cried Mrs. Ichijouji.
"What does it say?" her husband asked him. Koushiro quickly read over the message and gasped. While they weren't sure what this was about, this worried the families even more.
"Well, what does it say?" Susumu asked him. Koushiro didn't really want to tell them, but figured they wouldn't stop asking until he did.
"It says they met up with the Seven Great Demon Lords soon after arriving in the Digital World. Their digimon were quickly defeated by them and they were almost killed." Yuuko passed out into her husband's arms at this news and Mrs. Ichijouji started to cry again.
"Yuuko!" cried Susumu as he embraced his wife.
"Don't cry dear, I'm sure Ken is fine since he was able to send that message." Mr. Ichijouji comforted his wife the best he could.
"So, where are they now? Are they OK?" Natsuko asked worried about her sons. Hiroaki looked over to his ex-wife.
"You should have more faith in Yamato and Takeru, Natsuko. Yamato is practically an adult now and Takeru is fourteen. They're not little kids anymore." He told her.
"I know, but still..." Natsuko trailed off. Her family had gone through so much in the past. She didn't want anything to happen to tear them apart even more.
"Anyways Qinglongmon saved time." Koushiro continued, "They are with him right now. Ken as looked up the data of the Demon Lords and hasn't found anything useful so he's sent the data to me. He is concerned that Lucemon is only a perfect level digimon though. Just a sec..." He stood up to fetch his laptop. Once he had it he connected his D-Terminal to it to upload the data. Once that was done he displayed it to the group shocked group.
"Well those don't look like the kind of digimon I would want to face." Tentomon commented.
"Is there any way to beat them?" Sora asked. Koushiro thought for a moment.
"Maybe Takeru's and Hikari's crests hold the key... I wonder if they asked Qinglongmon about that yet. I'll remind them in a reply e-mail." As he wrote this e-mail, his parents, Masami and Yoshie Izumi arrived home.
"Koushiro, we're home!" Yoshie called out as she walked into the living room with her husband. They both looked around at all the guests they had. "You never told me I'd have company today. Should I make cookies and donuts?"
"Sorry about that mom, but new evil digimon appeared in the Digital World and we were discussing that. We don't need anything, but you can make snacks if you want to." Koushiro explained as he finished writing his e-mail and sent it.
Ken opened up the e-mail as soon as he received it. His face went fault as he read it over.
"Huh, what's wrong Ken? Surely nothing bad can be happening back in our world that's worse than what's happening here." Daisuke inquired.
"It's just that the others invited our families over to explain what was happening. Apparently my e-mail worried them even more than they already were." Ken told them. Everyone looked down at the ground.
"That's right. We were so eager to fight the Demon Lords that we forgot to tell them." Taichi said.
"Poor mom, she must be so worried about us." Hikari said.
"And I promised mom I would tell her before doing something like this again." Takeru said.
"Well anyways, Koushiro is also reminding us to ask Qinglongmon about Takeru's and Hikari's crests." Ken finished, trying to change the mood.
"Oh yeah..." Takeru turned to Qinglongmon, "Gennai told us that mine and Hikari's crests have powers we have yet to unlock, but didn't know what we needed to do to unlock these powers." Hikari turned to face the blue dragon digimon as well.
"Qinglongmon, do you know how we can unlock these powers? Gennai told us if we unlocked it that Patamon and Tailmon would be able to evolve to ultimate." She inquired from him.
"Yes, I do know." Qinglongmon told her. Everyone grew excited.
"Well don't keep us hanging, tell us!" Taichi told him.
"Well as I'm sure Gennai has told you the true power of the Crest of Hope is that of the Golden Crest of Miracles, while the true power of the Crest of Light is that of the Golden Crest of Destiny." Qinglongmon explained. The group nodded.
"Yeah, but how is that power unlocked?" Daisuke asked. Qinglongmon turned so that he was facing both Takeru and Hikari.
"Takeru, Hikari," he began, "do you two remember what I told you about hope and light three years age?" The two nodded at his question.
"Yes, you told me that light is what gave life to the world." Hikari answered back.
"And that hope meant to keep the light inside your heart lit, no matter how great the darkness." Takeru continued. Qinglongmon nodded at the two.
"Yes, it is with this that miracles and destiny can happen." He told them, "To unlock the power of the Golden Crests you need to fully understand this. I just can't tell you how to do this; you need to make it happen yourself. Just remember that where there is light, there will always be darkness. It is a never ending battle."
"Eh, but that doesn't tell them how to unlock the power!" Daisuke cried out in a mild rage, "And I think we're going to need them to unlock it if we have any hope at winning!" Takeru turned to the boy with a smile.
"Calm down, Daisuke." He told him, "I think I sort of understand what Qinglongmon is telling us." He turned back to the great digimon before them.
"So do I." Hikari agreed, "What he is saying is that miracles and destiny are just greater forms of hope and light." Qinglongmon nodded at this.
"I still don't get it..." Daisuke told them.
"Neither do I..." V-mon agreed with his partner.
"Well I guess it's a good thing we're not relying on you to make either crest glow or we'd all be doomed." Taichi commented.
"Yeah, just as long as Takeru and Hikari understand it we should be fine." Yamato agreed.
The Seven Great Demon Lords had retreated back to their shadowy hide out for the time being. Most of the demons were pretty calm about the situation. Beelzebumon on the other hand was pissed as hell.
"I can't believe Qinglongmon saved them. The nerve of him! And then we just let them get away!" He hollered and kicked a rock, smashing it with his foot. Lucemon sipped on some brandy as his comrade behaved like this.
"Calm down, Beelzebumon. Where would have been the fun of killing them right away? I think it's much more fun to slowly torture them." He said after taking a sip. The enraged demon turned to him.
"In that case let me go torture them then!" He demanded. Lilithmon let out a laugh.
"Oh please, you'll take all the fun away from the rest of us." She said and turned to Lucemon, "Allow me to face them instead."
"Alright, Lilithmon, you get to face them first." He told her. This enraged Beelzebumon further.
"What about me?" He demanded and pointed one of his guns right at Lucemon.
"Relax, Beelzebumon, you can face them after her." He told him. This was not the answer Beelzebumon was looking for.
"No! I will face them first!" With that he fired, only to have Lucemon deflect the bullet right back at him into his right arm. Grasping his arm he fell to the ground in pain.
"Seems you're in no condition to face them right now." Lucemon told him, "Lilithmon will face them first." He turned to the female demon. "Lilithmon, you may go face them any time now." With a smile Lilithmon bowed to him.
"Thank you, Lucemon." And with that she disappeared.
"Goddamn piece of shit!" Beelzebumon cursed from the ground. Lucemon turned back to him.
"Did you say something?" He asked.
"Nothing..."
Qinglongmon had left the Chosen Children and they were now walking along no particular path.
"Would you mind telling me where exactly we are going?" Takeru asked, wanting to know where they were walking to.
"I'm not sure." Taichi admitted him, "But we aren't going to save both worlds just sitting around. We need to find the Seven Great Demon Lords." Hikari nodded beside him.
"I know that, Onii-chan, but how are we going to find them?" As soon as she said this, she felt darkness approaching and turned to face where it was coming from. "Never mind, looks like they found us."
"Oh, so you noticed me? Should I be honoured?" Lilithmon asked as she appeared before them.
"Lilithmon, you guys may have won last time, but it won't happen again!" Daisuke pointed at her, "Everyone get her!" After evolving, the digimon charged at her.
"You think that will work?" Lilithmon asked as she floated in the air. "Darkness Love!" She cried and unleashed a blanket of darkness over the digimon. WarGreymon, MetalGarurumon, Imperialdramon, and HolyAngemon stopped in their tracks and began to wail in agony. Angewomon looked at them confused then turned to Lilithmon.
"What did you do to them?" She asked her angrily.
With a laugh, Lilithmon addressed her, "Seems you were the only one not affected. No matter, I doubt you're any match against your friends. Kill her!" At these words, her comrades started attacking Angewomon. She barely managed to dodge all their attacks. The Chosen Children watched on in disbelief.
"What are they doing?" Daisuke asked.
"WarGreymon, stop it!" Taichi screamed.
"MetalGarurumon, what's happened to you?" Yamato asked.
"Imperialdramon, she's not your enemy, Lilithmon is!" Ken cried. None of their cries worked and their digimon continued their attack on Angewomon.
Anger in his eyes, Takeru turned to Lilithmon. "Tell me what you have done to them!" He demanded.
With a laugh, Lilithmon answered. "It's quite simple; I've just made it so that they are in love with me and the powers of darkness." Everyone gasped. They couldn't believe that their own digimon were now working for darkness.
"You bitch!" Angewomon cried as she turned her attention to Lilithmon. "Holy Arrow!" She fired her attack off, only for her target to dodge easily.
"Stop attacking her." Lilithmon ordered, "I'll take care of her personally! Phantom Pain!" Her attack sent a wave of darkness at Angewomon who started screaming in pain when hit and fell to the ground. The Chosen Children watched in horror as Angewomon lied on the ground still screaming in pain as it appeared her body had a hard time holding together. Hikari turned to Ken.
"What did she do to her?" Hikari asked him. Not being sure, Ken took out the digimon analyzer to look up Lilithmon's data. He gasped when he figured out what happened.
"That attack..." He began, " It slowly dissipates the body of those hit by it, and they suffer from that pain as they die." Hikari let out a gasp and ran towards her digimon.
"Angewomon!" She screamed, "You can't die!" She kneeled down beside her once she reached her. Lilithmon laughed evilly at the scene.
"Give up, girl. She's as good as dead." Lilithmon told her. Hikari shook her head and turned to Lilithmon.
"No, we're not going to give up!" She told her and began glowing with her own light, "I will never let darkness triumph over light. Tailmon never gave up, even when she worked for Vamdemon. She believed in the power of fate, and so do I! As long as there is still life in us, Angewomon and I will never step aside for darkness. We went through a lot just to meet each other, and we're not going to give up. The sacrifices made will not go to waste. We will stand strong for the power of light so that it may continue to bring life to the world, for that is our destiny!" As Hikari finished this speech, her crest gave off a golden light.
"Hikari..." Angewomon said as she started to regain her strength.
"My crest..." Hikari grabbed her crest and looked at it. Its color had turned from pink to golden and the symbol of light on it had changed to look like a sideways 'S', the symbol of destiny. "I've unlocked its true powers of the Golden Crest of Destiny!" She turned back to Angewomon who had stood up.
"I can feel it, Hikari, the power of destiny. I can still fight!" She nodded at Hikari as she stepped in front of her ready to fight Lilithmon once again. Hikari nodded back.
"Let's do this, Angewomon!" She cried. Her crest let out a bright golden glow that reacted with her D-3. The white part of it turned gold and it shot a beam of energy at the Golden Crest of Destiny. The symbol of destiny burst forth towards Angewomon, who started to glow with the light of evolution.
"Angewomon Ultimate Evolve!" She cried out. Her body was covered in blue armour, only living her midriff exposed. The armour around her legs formed something like a dress. Her already long blonde hair grew some more. Her eight wings turned to solid gold and another pair of golden feather wings appeared. A blue shield lined with gold and a horse on it appeared in her left hand while a javelin with two wings on it appeared in her right. "Ophanimon!" She cried out once the evolution was complete.
Everyone's jaws were wide open when the light of evolution faded. Even though the evolution wasn't that surprising, they still had a hard time to believe they had actually witnessed it. Ken pulled the digimon analyzer back out.
"Ophanimon." He read off the analyzer, "The ultimate form of female angel digimon. She's the third highest rank of angel digimon. Her special attacks are Eden's Javelin and Sefirot Crystal."
"So you evolved. That doesn't mean you're going to win!" Lilithmon told Ophanimon. Ophanimon said nothing as she looked at the digimon of darkness before her. "What got nothing to say to that?"
"Lilithmon," Ophanimon finally said, "Don't you have any regret for the things you have done?" Lilithmon at first looked puzzled, than burst into laughter.
"Regret? Me? Don't be silly! Attack her!" With that her comrades commenced their attack on Ophanimon. Calmly, Ophanimon pointed her javelin at them.
"Eden's Javelin!" She cried as she fired a beam of light from its tip. This beam hit the controlled digimon and Lilithmon. All of them cried out in pain as a dark energy floated out of her comrades. The Chosen Children couldn't believe it. Why was Ophanimon attacking there digimon. When the light faded, the good digimon looked around in confusion.
"Huh, what happened?" WarGreymon asked, no longer being controlled by Lilithmon. Lilithmon gasped. There was no way her slaves could have been freed.
With a smile Ophanimon explained, "That attack is one that purifies. Since you Lilithmon, don't appear to be purified, it must mean you have no intent to repent your sins."
"Well of course I don't!" Lilithmon told her, "What are you going to do about it?"
"Defeat you." Ophanimon answered.
"Defeat me? We'll see about that. Nazar Nail!" She lunged at Ophanimon with her claws out stretched ready to strike. Ophanimon just held out her shield and deflected Lilithmon to the ground. She then let go of her javelin and shield into air space and started to for energy in her hands.
"Sefirot Crystal!" She cried as ten crystals shot out from her hands, striking Lilithmon. The evil digimon screamed as the attack struck, ultimately killing her. The Chosen Children cheered as they watched Lilithmon turn into data.
"Alright!" Taichi cheered, "That's one Great Demon Lord down!"
"Yeah, they aren't so tough!" Daisuke cried out.
"Alright, Ophanimon, I knew you could do it!" Hikari cried out as she ran up to her digimon. With a smile, Ophanimon turned to her and degenerated into a digimon Hikari had not seen before. It looked like a green ball with cat ears and a tail. Oddly enough it had brown eyes instead of blue one like the rest of Tailmon's forms.
"I'm Nyaromon, Hikari." Her digimon told her. Hikari smiled as she picked up her digimon.
"I guess evolving into Ophanimon really tired you out. You've never degenerated this far before." She commented as she petted her digimon's head.
"I'll get use to it." Nyaromon answered. Taichi walked over to the two.
"Congratulations. You really kicked some butt." He said, "And I just know this will be useful in beating the rest of the Demon Lords."
Patamon flew over to Takeru. "Takeru, do you think I will evolve to ultimate soon?"
"I don't know, but hopefully it will happen sooner than later." As Takeru answered Patamon, Hikari looked down at her crest and gasped.
"What is it, Hikari?" Daisuke asked in concerned.
"My crest has reverted back into the Crest of Light." Hikari answered. This caused the group to let out an "Eh?" and Ken to think.
"Maybe it needs to time to power back up again, much like our digimon after evolving." He suggested. "Anyways, I better e-mail Koushiro with this update." He wrote an e-mail and sent it.
Back at the Seven Great Demon Lord's hideout, the rest of the Demon Lords had watched Lilithmon's defeat through an orb.
"So, it seems like Lilithmon has been killed." Lucemon commented and sipped some more of his brandy.
"Heh, serves her right for marching in on my parade." Beelzebumon said, not really caring that one of his comrades was now dead. "Now it's my turn to face the Chosen Children and I won't fail like Lilithmon!"
To Be Continued...