Sorry about the late update guys! I didn't really get a muse until recently. Anyways, I feel like this is one of my better written chapters, though maybe not the longest. Enjoy!
The sound of something hitting the floor shook me out of my restless slumber. I quickly wiped the sleep out of my eyes, and looked around in fear. With Ryan gone, the last of the digimon who could defend the city were gone as well. I noticed that there were no corrupted digimon in the room, however, there was a digiegg rocking on the floor. My digiegg. I shot out of bed and knelt down beside it, as cracks started to form in the shell, and a bright light suddenly engulfed it and I turned away. Looking back, I say the light faded and a short, white digimon was standing there. Opening hi eyes, he smiled at me.
"Hello, Alex. I'm NeoVeemon, your partner. I'm sorry it took so long to meet you," he said, while putting out his hand. I hesitantly shook it, still somewhat in shock about my partner finally hatching. However, my joy in my partner finally showing up was interrupted by an ominous rumbling throughout the city. NeoVeemon and I shot each other a worried look, and we ran outside. I saw several larger corrupted digimon slowly rising in the sky, before dissolving into data. I had never seen anything like this, and was extremely confused. NeoVeemon grabbed my shirt, and pointed towards the end of the street. I saw lots of data particles rising up from the street itself. Suddenly, the end of the street, as well as the top of several of the larger buildings in the city erupted into data. I looked in shock as the city that was my home for the past several years slowly started being erased. I looked down at NeoVeemon in shock.
"What's going on?" I asked him in shock. He shook his head at me.
"I don't really know. It looks like this city is being deleted." I looked around, confused and worried about what was happening. Suddenly, my crest yanked to the side, pointing to the center of the city, near the park. Looking at NeoVeemon, I grabbed his hand and started pulling him after me.
"Come on," I said, "let's go this way." NeoVeemon agreed and followed me. Running down the streets, avoiding holes in the road and pieces of the buildings that started to litter the streets, we made our way towards the park. I saw several corrupted digimon exploding into data as we past them, and the ominous rumbling was behind us. Chancing a quick glimpse behind me, I saw that several of the buildings were now gone, and the edge of the city was rapidly losing data as well. Staring forward again, I noticed we were almost at the park. However, instead of the normal forest of trees, open area and gym set, I saw a large building. It resembled a shine or some kind of temple. Feeling my crest tugging on my neck again, I quickly ran in, with NeoVeemon directly behind me. As soon as we both stepped into the temple, a bright light shone from the inside, and the rest of the city dissolved behind us.
"I wonder what this place is," NeoVeemon said, staring at the inside of the temple. It seemed to resemble the inside of a church. However, there were three different alters inside of it. One straight forward and the other two were on the opposite walls of the center altar. Over each one was a stained glass mural, with several symbols impressed in the glass. Looking left, I saw one symbol that represented Logan's crest of darkness, as well as several other symbols that I had not seen before, but the overall feeling of the mural to me represented the feeling of death and destruction, though it wasn't a bad feeling. Looking to the right, I saw a darkened mural, filled with symbols that meant almost nothing to me. Although the mural gave of a feeling of light and goodness, the darkness behind it prevented the mural from being as wonderful as it could be. Glancing straight again, I saw NeoVeemon had wandered up to the altar under the mural that contained Shelby's crest, as well as a few other crests that felt familiar to me. Looking at one, I felt something resonate within myself. The mural gave off a feeling of life and vitality. Looking down at my tag, I noticed my crest symbol finally appeared. Three circles within each other, as well as some lines pointing away from the largest circle. The crest of Life was mine. Walking up to NeoVeemon, I saw him staring at something above the altar. I stopped beside him, and stared as well. Floating in the air above the altar was something that resembled a sphere of light. Suddenly, the sphere moved right in front of me, and I reeled backwards. Suddenly, the light sphere glowed and a voice came from nowhere.
"Hello Child of Life. We are the embodiment of the forces of light in the digital world. We apologize for what you have experienced while living with your friends and the corrupted digimon the past few years." The sphere of light hovered closer to the altar again.
"Wait; were you the ones that placed us there?" I asked, slightly confused at what the sphere was, and what it wanted from me.
"We are not the ones who placed you there. Your own power, the Crest of Life and the Powers of Creation created that city many years before you arrived to place the corrupted digimon there. The corrupted digimon have been around for a long time, caused by impurities in digimon when their data is being recycled. They are stronger than average digimon, and were placed there to prevent destruction in the digital world. However, after the Children of Virtue gave up the powers of their crests, the corrupted digimon began crossing over to the digital world, and stronger forms of them were present." I thought back to the digimon that Logan, Ryan and Shelby all fought, as well as the light that took them away. I nodded my head in comprehension. "We want you to reinforce the powers of Virtue to prevent the trespassing of corrupted digimon, as well as the prevention of them in the future." I looked confused.
"How am I supposed to do that?" I asked, not understating what I could do. As if responding to my question, my crest started glowing, as well as the mural over the altar. A bright light filled the entire room, with the mural above showing the most light. Suddenly, I could recognize the crests Life, Memories, Dreams, Space, Time, and Creation in the mural. I looked to the mural that Logan's crest was in, and saw Darkness, Miracles, Death and Creation. And the last mural contained Courage, Friendship, Love, Knowledge, Sincerity, Reliability, Hope, Light, Kindness, Destiny and Virtue.
"Does that answer your question, Child of Life? You are like a conduit for the powers of Creation, and are able to boost the powers of those around you. In addition, your powers are responsible for the rebirth of digimon. This is a mission from us and from Fanglongmon, one of the rulers of the digital world. Will you accept it?" I looked down at NeoVeemon, who nodded his head at me. I looked back up at the sphere.
"Very well, we will do what we can to help," I said, clenching my fist. The sphere floated over to what I now knew was the Mural of Virtue, and stopped behind the altar. I walked over there, and stopped by the sphere. Under the mural was a glowing door of light. I glanced at the sphere and at NeoVeemon, before NeoVeemon and I both stepped through it. The door of light closed behind us, and the darkness swallowed us up.
Back in the temple, the sphere of light went out with a small sigh, and the light from the murals slowly went out, awaiting for the time when someone would enter again.