Chapter 9, here we go, just for the record, there was a blatantly obvious little bit of a cross-over there, more of that will follow, and I intent to have a large amount of fun in the next 15, 20 chapters, all leading up to when I have a massive cross-over, but until then, we have 2 love-triangles to entertain us, maybe a love square, but who knows, I don't, its my evil alter-ego who's writing this fic, so ask her, and for those of you who did find that hint, don't tell anyone, I want the Newbies to figure this out for themselves.
Oh and for the record, Yes!, I have an female evil alter-ego.
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There was an awkward silence, the sort that you would expect really, the café was empty, mainly because it was 6 o'clock in the evening, when most people were at home, maybe it was because there was so many people in fancy dress, so fancy it actually looked realistic.
Wizardmon sighed,
"Why don't they say anything?" he thought, projecting it in Witchmon's general direction,
"No Idea!" came the reply, as she took a sip from her tea, something she had become ever so attached too since coming to the human world, she would have too take some back to the digital world with her.
The Three humans, Alex, Courtnie, and the newly introduce, Alice, and one cat-digimon, Gatomon, curled up and being used as a hot water-bottle, were completely silence, between the gentle sipping of various hot drinks, for some reason the weather in January was being a bit … weird, first rain, then calm, now it was beginning to hit freezing point.
"So………" Alex said, trailing off as both girls looked up at him, before looking back down at their drinks, before he joined them, staring at his hot chocolate, waiting for something to break the tediousness. It was kind of weird, it was like having some sort of rare disease, then suddenly meeting someone with just that same disease and realising, "HEY YOU'RE NOT ALONE, THERE ARE OTHERS!!!!!".
Gatomon blinked, observing the witch-like digimon with her blue eyes, a million questions, and a million thoughts, running through her head, all at once, who were these two?, were they like them? Or were they different?, how did she know Wizardmon? And lots more, she glanced up at her partners, noting the expression of mild discontent on her face.
"Ooooh, someone looks jeeaalous!" she drawled, whispering quietly, just out of hearing of the other four, her partners eyes flashed dangerously, her voice was under very rigid control
"You .. can .. talk" Courtnie replied between clenched teeth, it was starting to seem that both Digimon AND Partner were now perhaps just a little jealous.
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The room was dim, lit by a single dim bulb, a dank place really, slightly stingy and maybe a little old-fashioned, but it suited its purposes, after all, who would suspect a place like this, the computer screen flickered once before it blazed into life, the video footage was from a CCTV camera, grainy and in black-and-white, probably a personal system, the display revealed a café-front, its blinds obscuring most of the patrons from view.
"Is everything in preparation"
The voice was scrambled and distorted in the aged speakers, although the intent in it was completely clear, the man sitting at the screen adjusted his position, leaning in closer,
"That would depend upon whether or not I have received my …payment"
He cracked a smile, these government types never liked to pay in advanced, well for a job with this much potential, he DEFINATLY wanted at least something in advanced, there was a silent winking light which flickered in one corner of the screen, he had received his payment, in full.
"So who is it you want getting rid of?" he asked, leaning back in the chair and drumming two fingers against his knee.
"We would prefer to have the boy intact this time, we don't want a pile of loose body parts, we want them alive and as quickly as possible."
The light flicked from green to red, signalling that the conversation was over, he gave the computer screen a quick flick, turning it off, before springing up from his chair and stretching, it was good to be young, especially with another million in his Swiss bank-account, a few more jobs like this and he could probably retire at the age of 40, maybe a nice villa in Italy, he glanced out of the window at the near torrential rain, Italy would be much nicer than South America, more sun and a lot less rain.
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Alex coughed, more to break the silence then anything else,
"Wizardmon?" he thought, as loud as he could, trying to catch the wizard-digimon's attention,
"What?" came the silent reply,
"Is it just me or are things here just a little … tense" Alex thought, tense was perhaps a slight understatement, more like a silent, vicious, dead-lock between the two girls, and the two female digimon, which probably could have been cut with a knife, if not something thinner.
"There's defiantly something going on between them" Wizardmon replied, taking another sip of his drink,
"Although I'm not sure what it could be" he finished, outing his drink back down on the table.
"Agreed, it must be one of those girl things" Alex thought, imitating his partner, taking another drink of his hot chocolate, now almost completely oblivious to the tension between the four girls, and the conversation going on between the human ones, he was too busy thinking, he would catch to odd, "oh really" from either one or the other, and was just about to comment on something when there was a sudden rumble from outside, and at that point, Alex groaned, not another digimon!
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Dynasmon strained against the thick chains that held him, feeling them beginning to give even more now, soon he would be free, and he would repay these humans tenfold what they had done to him, he grunted, leaning all of his weight upon one side, feeling the chain budge a tiny bit more, so close, so close.
Then there was a flickering, just out of the corner of his eye, his head jerked up, his voice was almost a growl.
"Who's there, show yourself" he demanded, straining at the chains even more, then he stopped, as a chill began to descend.
"You must have sharp eyes in order to detect y presence, Royal Knight" the voice was harshly feminine, and the venom in those last two words was unmissable, Dynasmon blinked as a dark mist began to form about his in the room, coalescing into a figure.
You could probably mistake her for human, although you would defiantly have to look at least twice. She had long lustrous black hair which was kept up onto her head by a strange golden hair-piece, she was wearing what appeared to be black armor, with a gold trim and she had long purple robe-like sleeves, with the same metallic gauntlets, behind her, what appeared to be black wings, six of them in total, her eyes were black as well, fitting in with the rest of the colour scheme.
At this, Dynasmon, bravest of most of the Royal Knights visibly recoiled in fear, now more concerned about preserving his own data then escaping.
The voice was harsh, yet at the same time carried notes of beauty and loveliness and lust, with an overture of longing and slight undertones of malice.
"Why Dynasmon, it really has been so long" she said, running one almost human hand along on of his armoured cheeks, her black nails clinking against the armor as the Royal Knight recoiled again.
"Such a shame" she almost seemed to add, as if it were no more than an afterthought, black energy beginning to worm its way up one long pale arm to gather into her palm.
"that I can't have your data for myself" she finished as the last few tendrils of energy surged up her arm an into her palm and the look of fear on Dynasmon's face seemed to grow even more.
"And why is that!?" he asked, which perhaps just a tad more bravado then necessary, his fear now in complete show, the small, wiry mouth of the female digimon curled itself into a small smile, revealing two almost vampiric teeth.
"Why Dynasmon, because someone else is going to be needing it very soon" she said, almost sweetly, before plunging one black-clad hand into, the golden orb in his chest, emerging from the other side with the sound of an egg breaking.
The Royal Knight probably gave the closest thing to a scream as was digitally possible, its horrible sound echoing off the wall as he exploded into hundreds of thousands of points of life, scattering themselves about the room, as each point scatted, falling to the earth like stars, they began to turn black, the smile continued as the figure behind it began to fade into the black mist that she had arrived as, slipping out of view as a klaxon began to sound in the background, at least they had a good sense to timing.
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BOOM!
It was soft, almost muted, as if somehow it did not want to disturb the peace and the quiet, but then that all changed as the temperature suddenly dropped, there was the sound of shattering glass as bottles exploded as their content inside expanded until the bottle itself burst, the windows of the small café iced over in seconds and ice particles began to form on eyebrows.
"Wwwwwwhy is it soooooo ccccccccold" came someone's voice as the light bulb above them exploded, showering them with yet more glass and ice, all of a sudden there was a huge rush for the door, 5 pairs of feet and a quartet of paws.
The door opened, letting in a sudden, chilling gale of frozen air as 6 heads peered out of the door as hundreds of thousands of snowflakes began to very slowly descend, there was a sudden Achoo!, followed by a small chorus of 'Bless You's' as Gatomon sneezed loudly, shattering the stunned silence.
"They said it was going to be cold, but not THIS cold!" Alice said, pulling the hood of her jacket up and shivering, the others nodded in agreement, some was defiantly not right.
"Well, well, well, what to we have here" the voice was like, being dragged across a surface to produce that insanely high and yet deep pitch, there was also malice, lots and lots of malice, and towards the end, a hint of curiosity, the voice came from all around them, an echo? or something else.
There was a sudden flickering in the snow, as it began to snow harder and harder, until the weather was almost blizzard like, then it suddenly stopped, as quick as it had started as a figure walked out of the snow.
He was tall, and his skin was as white as the snow itself, on his chest there was a red symbol that seemed to shimmer in the snowy conditions, behind him were the faint outlines of a pair of wings, white against white and his eyes were a deep, crimson red and appeared to glow with a life as cold as ice.
There was a growling sound, and Courtnie was shocked to find that it was Gatomon, her tail erect, and her clawed gloves digging into the snow, she genuine looked angry, although that same expression was shared by the other two more human digimon, Anger.
"Ice Devimon" the words sounded as if they had come out between Gatomon's clenched fangs, the demonic figure gave a small laugh, which caused a shiver to run up the spines of everyone who heard it.
"So you have heard of me have you?, well that is … intriguing to say the least" the figure said, one clawed hand suddenly appeared out of the snow, almost absent-mindedly crushing a car flat as the demonic ice Digimon shifted his position.
The 3 digimon glanced at their partners, who nodded, there was a slight pause as all three of them pulled out their digi-vices
"Ready?"
"Ready!"
"Then lets roll"
There was a gentle surge as beneath their woollen gloves there was that familiar coloured glow, as the marks glowed bright, Blue for Alex, Red for Courtnie and Yellow for Alice. And the screens on the digivice's flashed green as they slashed them across the marks, as the light engulfed their hands in three bright rings, as their partners were each surrounded by a ball of light
-Scanning …-
Scanning …-
Scanning …
-Scanning Completed, Crest of Hope Identified-
-Scanning Completed, Crest of Love Identified-
-Scanning Completed, Crest of Light Identified-
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-DIGIVOLUTION ACTIVATED!-
The Three rings surrounding their hands flew off and span towards the sphere of light that contained their partner, the light of Digivolution.
"Wizardmon, Digivolve too … Sorcerymon"
"Gatomon, Digivolve too … Swanmon"
"Witchmon, Digivolve too … Wiccamon"
As the balls vanished, fading away as quickly as they had come, the three spent a moment just to look at each other … changes, to which Witchmon first gave a snort, then descended into a fit of the gigles.
"Pmfp, y,y,y,you're a,a,a,a SWAN!" was all she could managed to say between laughs, which left the Bird digimon staring daggers at her, leaving Sorcerymon observing the changes to Witchmon.
She was a little taller now, and the red robes she had been formerly wearing were now dyed to orange, her broomstick had vanished and was now replaced with a polished black cane with a sliver top. Her eyes had also changed to an icy blue and she wore a tall Top hat with a black stripe running around it near the base that was the same fruit-colour as her clothes. She caught his looking her up and down and winked at him.
"Quit leering Wizzy"
Sorcerymon felt his face go scarlet, however the effect on Swanmon was indescribable, and she was about to launch into a very un-ladylike tirade when a very annoyed voice interrupted.
"EXCUSE ME" a very icy voice said "THIS IS BORING, CAN WE FIGHT NOW???"
The three digimon turned, Ice Devimon was sprawled out on the road in the snow, leaving on one hand, his elbow casually planted in a car windscreen, his white feet up behind him, it looked and would have been extremely comical except for the circumstances.
Swanmon glared at Wiccanmon, stretching her long neck up until her beak pressed against her nose and the silvery helmet that encased her head pressed against the Wiccan's forehead.
"We'll finish this later" she said, so quietly that her beak didn't seem to move, then she gave a light flick of her head and swivelled in back into its normal position. She gave her wings a small flick and there was the sound of several vertebrae cracking in her shoulders, causing Sorcery to wince slightly.
"Now I feel like fighting." She said, feeling the need to take her anger out on something.
"FIIIIIIINALLY" the Fallen Angel digimon gave a sigh of relief as he stood up, towering over the three digimon by several feet, before he cracked his knuckles, causing several icicles to crack and fall into the snow.
He hardly seemed to move, either that or he moved to fast it was impossible to see, all Swanmon knew was that a massive white hand suddenly picked him up and flung him down the road, through a shop window, meaning she ended up, half-in and half-out of a television, groaning as he tried to extricate himself from the plastic box with great difficulty.
The two girls looked at each other, and then scattered as a massive fist made of snow blasted through where they had just been standing. The snowfall began to increase, until it was so hard to see the hand in front of your face, the three Digi-destined retreated into a shop on the other side of the road, which was another café, this one was also empty. Or it was until something vaguely resembling a massive ball of orange snow smashed through the window, a hairs breath from Alex's nose, the snow rapidly vanished as it melted into a puddle, Wiccamon's eye burned, literally, with a flick of her cane the snow blocking the window literally blasted out of the way a fireball burst from the cane tip, before she stomped out of the café, leaving several scorch marks where her boots had touched the tiles. They looked at each other, shivering slightly until Alex broke the silence again.
"I think we need to find another place to hide"
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"Flaming Nova"
Another fireball shot from the tip of her cane, this one green, as it fired out into the snow, missing the target completely as the shadow in the snow seemed to shimmer before in vanished. She swore, and ducked as a wave of ice-blue energy shot over her head a collided with a car, causing it to freeze over in seconds, she swore again, before firing off another fireball in the general direction of where the shot had come from.
She jumped back as another wave of ice-blue energy tore up the snow in front of her, slamming into the shop across the road. She took another step back, and suddenly swung her cane around, its silver tip beginning to glow flicker red, directly in Sorcerymon's face. Lowering the weapon she acknowledge him with a brief nod,
"Seen anything?"
"No, but that bastad sure is quick"
"Wiccanmon, mind your language"
"What!, its not like anyone else can hear us"
"Its just a point of etiquette"
"Oh shut-"
She broke off suddenly, sending anther fireball hurtling out into the snow, which obviously hit something combustible, because it was followed by a small explosion, sending pieces of molten metal, plastic, ice and snow flying in all direction.
"We need to do something about this damned snow, I can't see a thing"
"We could try-" A series of image flashed between the two magicians, Wiccanmon gave a nasty little grin.
"Perfect!"
"I knew you'd like it" Sorcerymon finished smugly
Both Magicians raised their weapons, crossing them in front of them, taking their free hand, they placed that on the others weapon. At first it was very small, a tiny heat wave, just enough heat to start things off, then it grew, faster, hotter, it began to spread outwards, carving a solid circle in the snow and ice beneath their feet. In a few moment, they were surround by a solid red barrier of pure heat, suddenly their was a hissing sound, like water touching a fire as a massive white hand smashed into it, then withdrawing with a yowl of pain.
Ice Devimon clutched at his injured and melting hand, before stuffing it into the snow to cool it, he looked up, his red eyes glared and narrowing. Then they widened as the two magicians attacked.
"Flaming Nova"
"Icicle Barrage"
The ice froze him instantly, imprisoned with a thin coating of liquefied water, he was helpless as the scorching hot flames smashed through his chest. With a final, desperate shriek he collapsed back into the ground. He began to melt, his features beginning to dissolve into a strange grey slush, as he vanished, his head raised itself up in a last gasp.
"For … for the Sev-Seven D-Demons"
Then he exploded in a massive cloud of data.
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Alex gave Swanmon's long neck a sharp yank, and it popped free of the plastic casing, she straightened her neck feathers with one wing as she suddenly faded back into Gatomon, paws, claws and not a feather insight as the magicians materialised out of the calming snow, the same thing having happened to them.
"It certainly does feel a little bit weird, doesn't it Whizzie"
"I thought I asked you to stop calling me that"
"You did"
"Then why continue"
"I like it, it sounds like someone I would make friends with, Whiiiiizzzzzzzz-eeeeee"
Wizardmon flushed slightly as he stopped just before the shattered remains of the door, everyone appeared to be okay for the moment. Alex dusted the glass off of the front of his jacket.
"Now … I think we might want to get out of here before someone-" he cut off suddenly as he spotted something else as well
"oh crap!"
Both girls looked at him sharply,
"Hey watched you langua-" then they noticed as well.
Framed in the snow, standing directly behind the two magician digiom was an old woman.
She was at least a half a head taller then Alex, with deep brown eyes, her hair was tied up in a bun behind her and was heavily streaked with grey, although the receeding brown was only just noticeable. She was heavily clad in winter-gear and her hands were laden with shopping bags, but her face was a picture of the utmost fury.
"You Three" she said quietly, yet very, VERY dangerously, pointing at the Three of them as if they had just … well … trashed several building.
"Your coming with ME!" she said in a tone that brooked very little room to argue at all.
Sheepishly, Alex, Nina and Courtnie extricated themselves from the wreckage of the Television shop and waked over too her, Wizardmon opened his mouth to object but he was met by a heavily gloved finger.
"Don't you say a single thing Wizardmon"
That statement got the jaws dropping, then Alex tried to speak.
"uhh … but …Mrs. Takaishi … how do you know abou-"
She shut him up by calmly dumping her shopping in his arms and stomping off into the snow.
"Well come along what are you waiting for, it's a long walk!"
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The walk was a slow one, not that they had any trouble keeping up with her, it was just that she kept mumbling to herself, bits and pieces of garbled rantings.
"Honestly these youngsters these day, trashing an entire street, not like the good ol' days oh no, back in our day we had to-"
"What IS she going on about" Courtnie whispered
"No idea" Alex replied "But I think she might hav-"
"Coming along sonny Jim we don't have all day, up the stairs, up the stair hurry up now" she said loudly, shooing the 6 of them up the stairs.
Several moments of running up stairs later Alex could feel his heart beginning to sink, was the old bat actually going to turn them in, TO THEIR PARENTS … that wasn't good at all.
He was surprised then, when she turned of a floor early, so she was taking them to her own house, but why would they go there? What possible reason could she have for wanting them in her flat.
As she fumbled for the key, Alex felt Wizardmon gently touch his mind.
"What now?"
"… lets wait and see what she wants … although I have no idea what that is … it might do us some good to get told off … maybe?"
"Whatever you say"
She twisted the key in the lock, opening the door, there was a sudden blast of warmth as heat flowed out of the door.
"Quick, Quick get in your letting in the cold don't dally there on the doorstep!" she snapped at them, cleaning their shoes on the mat they went in side.
She scurried in behind them and locked the door, grabbing Alex tightly by the arm, she dragged him through into the Kitchen and made him dump her shoppng on the counter-top.
"You lot sit yourselves down in the living room, and I'll be with you in a sec." she said sternly, before turning to Alex
"Now help me put the shopping away"
Then there was the sound of the door opening and closing again, followed by a familiar voice.
"Kari, I'm ho-"
Mr. Takashi took one step into the space between the Kitchen and Living Room, and froze as he eyes scanned the assembled guests.
"Kari, whats goin-"
"Hush TK, I'll explain in a minute"
That was all Alex heard as she shooed him out of the Kitchen with a Tray of mugs of tea.
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After about 10 minutes of waiting, Mr. Takashi walked into the room, he looked … older then Alex remembered, his hair seemed to have lost a little more of its blonde completion and his face seemed more wizened then usual. He sat down in his armchair by the fireplace and said nothing for several minutes, just gazing into the flames. Alex lets his eyes revolve around the room, it was neatly laid out, with a fireplace and several ornaments of various cats dotted on the top, near the grate of the fireplace was a small stone carving of a cat wearing gloves, and the other looked like some sort of chubby lizard with a massive pair of ears, one of them seemed familiar to his somehow, but he couldn't quite think where…
Then Mr. Takashi stood up, and walked over to one of the wall, he lifted one of the painting off of the wall to reveal a small safe, he paused for a moment, tapping a finger against the metal before he swizzled the dial, murmuring to himself
"1 … 9 ….1 … 1" he muttered, and with a quiet click it swung open.
Everyone's eyes were now riveted on him, he pulled … something from inside, before closing it again and giving the dial a spin and replacing the paint, then he resumed his seat.
The was a sound from the doorway, Mrs. Takashi made a small coughing noise, her eyes wide.
"T.K … do you really think that's wise … especially with" he eyes seemed to flicker towards Wizardmon, before returning to catch his gaze.
Mr Takashi nodded "She's tougher then she looks Kari, we both know that"
Then in a single movement he tossed what looked like a pink cellphone across the room to her, she snatched in out of the air with surprising dexterity. Alex caught a glimpse of a similar green one in his own had and his breath froze, was that a-
Then the question answered itself as both T.K and Kari raised their old Digivices to their mouths
"Guys … its time to wake up!"
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My apologies to all my fans, I have been suffering from writers block .. but guess what, Siranzan is now back in the game, so what did you think of it … I think it might have been a bit rushed … but next chapter is going to be so …. Cool, just you wait.
Siranzan – proud to be back
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