Ayyyyy! It's the Digital Knight of Heroes, but you can call me Knight. So knowing the part Sayo has in Cyber Sleuth and there's a character in this world that appeared in that game aside from Sayo, I've got an explanation for that when the time comes but today, there's some interesting content featuring Taiyo and Ryan, a lot of it character development and establishing other things, with all that said let's begin chapter 8.
Taiyo:
"It's been awhile Ryan." I walked down an empty street with him.
"I've been busy." We walked into a 24-hour Cafė and got a few drinks. "I'd say we've both got some tough competition tomorrow."
"Be careful, don't try going to Ultimate, you remember what happened to Stingmon."
He took a big swig from his drink and stayed silent for a moment. "Unfortunately yes..."
7 months earlier:
It wasn't all that long ago, but I remember it as if it had just happened, at the time we'd been out of the Academy for a year and a half. We'd taken a job we shouldn't have. We were fighting a Leomon that had taken over a forest. It had started to rain.
"Dammit! Stingmon, get up! Stingmon! I command you to digivolve!"
"The both of you are pathetic, to think the
Union would let you come after me. I'll allow you the honor of a quick demise. Fist of the Beast King!" As he prepared to fire the attack Stingmon forced himself to stand.
"Stingmon digivolve!" Angemon and I watched as Stingmon glowed an eerie purple color.
"Graaaaah! Stingmon, digivolve to..." I remember even Leomon standing in horror as we watched him transform. He was huge, towering well over the treetops, and was much more insectoid. "Okuwamon!" He looked down on Leomon and hissed. He slashed with his claws, almost immediately turning Leomon into an egg.
I had a bad feeling. "Angemon, get us out of here." As Angemon grabbed us to take us away, Okuwamon turned and roared at us. It made a few attempts to attack us but we were too high, thankfully Angemon was the only of the two who could fly in such heavy rain. He hissed and went on to destroying the nearby forest.
"Wha... what have I done?" Angemon thankfully had an answer for it.
"He dark-digivolved, Stingmon's and your negative emotions overflowed, turning him into a darker form and until he degenerates he won't be able to control himself." After a few more minutes of rampage we watched Okuwamon return to his In-training form, Minomon and fell to the ground. We circled down and as soon as we landed, Ryan rushed to his side.
"M-Minomon? Speak to me!" Minomon opened his eyes, his voice very weak.
"I'm okay... I don't want to do that again." That was the first and only time I've seen Ryan cry. He was tough as nails when we were still fresh into the academy, but this... this broke him.
Present day:
"Since then I've been cautious around Beast Digimon, I'm afraid of even ones that are tamed for fear they might go through the same dark-digivolution that Wormmon did."
"You were fine against Grizzlymon today."
"Not even. Did you notice how fast I had Wormmon ready? How I only attacked Monochromon or how I made Stingmon stay away from Grizzlymon?"
"I thought you were leading it into Veedramon's attack range."
"It was a little bit of both, if something happened that triggered a panicked memory, we could have lost or, worse."
"Oh. Speaking of that battle, why chose Maria of all people?" Of all people in Eclipse city, why her? She seemed, random.
"Maria? Same reason you chose yours."
"Pretty sure David doesn't have a second sibling."
"No! Do you know who the current Chief of the Eclipse Wings is?"
"I just moved here from the Light Fang a couple weeks ago so, no." I was wondering where Ryan went after all that time, he moved here too. Though, it didn't really seem that great.
"That'd be Kain. Maria would be his daughter." Wow. I really need to learn more about where I'm living. Ryan reached for his tablet.
"Don't worry about it, I've got the bill this time." He smiled for the first time all day.
"Thanks." He pushed in his chair and made his way home. I sighed when I saw how much his drinks cost, paid up and left soon after.
When I finally got to bed Patamon did the thing he always did, get right up on my pillows. I threw him off and he flew down to my feet. Tomorrow was going to be, something.
The Next Day:
"Hey, David?" I nudged him in the shoulder.
"Yeah?
"Do I need to worry about you holding back on your sister?"
"I would try to kill her until about a year and a half ago." He stood and stretched.
"Okay so I'll take that as a no." We made our way onto the arena. The siblings starred off. Lunamon stood next to Alice and Coronamon next to David. Everyone in the stadium knew how much this meant, today marked 21 years since Koh and Sayo's amazing battle in the Normal tournament.
The announcer cleared his throat. "If our combatants are ready, let the battle begin!"
We all pulled our digivices and our digimon began to digivolve.
"Coronamon, digivolve to, Firamon!" He became a red lion with wings and bellowed a fearsome roar.
"Lunamon digivolve to, Lekismon!"
"Angemon!"
"GeoGreymon!" Hmm. So that Agumon had access to alternate digivolution routes? No matter. Firamon and Lekismon were the first to advance and as they came close at extreme speeds, Lekismon made a sweeping kick and Firamon a slash with his claws.
"Angemon, Holy Arrow!" He made a spear of light and threw it at Lekismon who narrowly avoided it. That was the first time something had avoided the attack with us letting it. Lekismon quickly backed away from Firamon and moved next to GeoGreymon.
"GeoGreymon! Burst Fire!" His mouth and stomach started to glow red. This was going to be heavy. I gave Angemon the signal to counter.
"Hand of Fate!" Smoke went everywhere where the attacks hit and I wafted it away from me. There was no movement for a few seconds.
"Horn Impulse!" Charging through the smoke was GeoGreymon, his head lowered, and heading straight for Angemon.
"Back off!" My partner flew back and fired off a few attacks with that Behemoth still charging at him. Firamon was in the air and angling itself to GeoGreymon.
"Flame Dive!" He cloaked himself in fire and hit GeoGreymon like a meteor, then we saw what was riding on its back.
"Lekismon! Attack!" Alice's Digimon held a bow and arrows of ice.
"Tear Arrow." I could barely hear Lekismon's voice. A pair of arrows headed right for our Digimon, Firamon burned the one aimed at him, but Angemon wasn't so lucky. As soon as it hit he started freezing over and hit the ground, still in the block of ice. This was all on which sibling would win.
"Brother."
"Sister."
"You know only one of us is winning."
"Of course. You know I'm winning this right?" Those were trigger words right there, he was clearly going for a direct insult.
"You wish." This was about to get violent.
"Fine then. Firamon, let's finish this."
"Sounds good to me." Firamon ignited himself again.
"Lekismon."
"You got it." She created a spear of ice in her hand. The two rushed at each other but both rolled at the last second to avoid the other's attack then turned to each other.
"Holy Cross!" Firamon's paw glowed gold and it's counterpart's purple.
"Dark Crusher!" Between the two, Lekismon was the faster one, but that was no match for the sheer power of Firamon, who sent Lekismon flying. I slumped to the ground.
"That was too close David!" I let out all my frustration and stress into that, clearly startling him. He scratched the back of his hair and smiled.
"Sorry, but then, I've always had admiration for the dramatic, so that felt like a necessity in this situation." I pulled an item from my inventory and threw it in his face. "Ow!"
"You idiot! You could have cost us everything!" He apologized again and went into the lobby through the telepad. I followed and saw his parents there talking to the both of them, they gestured me to come over and I smiled. Maybe... this would be a good place to be.
Ryan:
The halftime performances and announcements started and the entire group, including myself, met up to talk about the last match.
"How could you lose Alice?! I put good money on you and my brother!" Cassidy was pissed, though in the short time I've known these people, the first people aside from Taiyo that I've been friends with, she was like that a lot.
"Can't really talk though," I said to her, "you lost in the first round. Oh, and I'll take those 500 bits in any form."
"First my sister was a con artist and now a gambler, that's pretty bad. Now I remember you saying you were better than me not too long ago?" The twins were bickering again and the others turned their attention to us.
"You two have got some tough competition," said David.
"Well no shit Sherlock." Maria pulled her hood down as she said it, covering her head down to her eyes.
"Who's Sherlock?"
"I don't know, just heard my mother say it in her sleep." Scott seemed focused on her hood as she finished talking.
"You've been wearing that for a few days now, and you never wear jackets is there something going on?" That seemed to hit the panic button.
"N-no reason, not at all, I wear a hood all the time! What made you come to that conclusion?!"
"Wait what?" We were all thinking it, she made no sense right now, in a panic she turned around to leave and headbutted me my mistake. She stumbled to the ground and her hood fell off, showing her medium length hair. Odd thing was, it was normally a very dark brown, today, it was Green.
"Wait... why... is your hair," stammered Cassidy, both herself and her brother attracted to this from their fight. Maria sighed and stood up.
"Fine, I normally dye my hair to look more like my dad's. This is... my natural color, on my mother's side." We all seemed to realize this at that moment, her mother's hair was green in every appearance she ever made.
"There's nothing to be ashamed of, my hair is purple," said Alice, "though I do question how it's possible..." She dazed off now.
"Why now of all times to go back to green?"
"It wasn't my decision. My parents are having a baby soon and claim to not want anything potentially hazardous around."
"Poison's effective even on adults," said Alice. We all stared at her.
"How would you know," I asked.
"It was the one time I tried getting payback for all those times David was mean to me."
"When was this?"
"Remember when Dad had food poisoning? I accidentally put it in the wrong soup bowl." We were all silent until I said something.
"Just gonna say it now, you guys are weird."
"Oh I have to agree with you there," said Taiyo. The halftime ceremonies had come to a close on the screen and Maria's father, Kain, announced five minutes until the next bout.
"Hey Greenie, we better go," I had to get that one in, even Wormmon laughed, and he's the most, well, I'm not sure how to describe him.
Maria smacked the back of my head as we left. I may have tried looking calm, but I could feel my heart pounding violently in my chest, knowing what we were up against. We stepped onto the telepad and into the arena.
"Our combatants are ready," said Kain over the speakers, "let the battle begin!" I was the first to pull my digivice.
"Digisoul charge!"
"Wormmon, digivolve to, Stingmon!" I watched Veemon was changing to a much slimmer form than Veedramon that had wings.
"ExVeemon!"
"Kanbei, how soon do you think this'll be over?"
"Soon enough." Hanbei pulled his Digivice and Thundermon began to digivolve right off the bat.
"Let's go. Stingmon!" The purple blade came from his arm and he stabbed Datamon as soon as he emerged from the light of Digivolution. He backed off for ExVeemon.
"V-laser!" He fired a concussive blast from the markings on his chest at Datamon. The two then rushed to start beating on the Ultimate, a cheap but surprisingly effective tactic.
"Get off me Vermin! Plug Bomb!" The blast caught all three Digimon and Kanbei sighed.
"Clearly you are incapable of dealing with them alone. Fine. Bakemon, Digisoul charge!"
"Bakemon digivolve to, Phantomon!" Phantomon swung the scythe it held in its hand sending our Digimon sprawling, and helped Datamon up.
"You lose here." I was consumed with dread at the thought of losing, my heart was pounding harder than ever, though I realised that it felt as though there were two hearts beating in my chest. The screens of our Digivices lit up reading 'DNA Digivolution'.
"Stingmon!" He glowed green and flew it to the air.
"ExVeemon! He did the same, glowing bright blue.
"DNA Digivolve to," Their voices combined into one, "DinoBeemon!" It was a chimera of Insect and Dragon, it let off a fearsome roar and flew into battle. One thought ran in my mind, had they Dark Digivolved?
"W-what is that thing?" Alice was certainly worried.
"That's DinoBeemon," said Taiyo, "that's a fusion of ExVeemon and Stingmon, Ultimate level Digimon, highly dangerous."
"But how did...?"
"Maria and Ryan must have both been in synch and wished for more power, but Ryan might not like this at all."
"Why?!" Alice started to have panic in her voice.
"There was a certain incident a while back where Stingmon Dark-Digivolved and lost control. While this isn't Dark Digivolution, the two Digimon will have trouble controlling the feral nature of DinoBeemon."
Ryan:
What just... no, I need to fight on! "DinoBeemon!"
He didn't bother listen to me. "Dragon Stinger!" Arrows of light flowed towards Datamin and Phantomon at blinding speeds with the impacts resulting in massive explosions. Maria and I tried to get him to calm down but he wouldn't listen.
"Dreadscythe!" Phantomon slashed DinoBeemon, who remained still after taking the hit. We saw shadowy copies of DinoBeemon surround Phantomon.
"Hell Masquerade!" Each copy rushed at the Digimon they surrounded, it was brutal, relentless, terrifying to watch. Phantomon went from Ultimate to In-Training form, Pagumon. Datamon tried attacking DinoBeemon, but was swatted away like nothing, degenerating to Kokuwamon.
Dinobeemon let off one last roar, the fight bell went off and it split back into our own Digimon, except in their In-Training forms. I heard the crowd cheer, likely to not understanding what just happened, but kept on cheering. I noticed Minomon was asleep. I yawned and felt it was about time I did the same. My recent days weren't going well at all.
Chapter 8 is done, whoop, whoop! So like I said, multiple Digivolution routes, so those of you pissed about no GeoGreymon and ExVeemon, there. No Q's this time. Remember to follow, favorite, and let your friend know about this, it really shows your support, making me want to put out more content for you. I've been the Digital Knight of Heroes, and I'll see you all next time.