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Digimon World Wars
Chapter 31 - The Light of the Moon
AeroVeedramon, Ultimate Level, Holy Dragon Digimon, Vaccine Type
AeroVeedramon held SkullSatamon against the building with one hand, slowly pushing the skeleton through the concrete wall.
"You... defeat me?" SkullSatamon's eyes went wide with rage, "DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH!"
AeroVeedramon growled before bringing his free arm back, "MAGNUM CRASHER!" AeroVeedramon's large fist began to glow as he smashed it into SkullSatamon, sending the skeleton crashing through the building.
SkullSatamon crashed through several walls before flying through a window and out the other side of the building. Quickly the skeleton digimon recovered and began jumping across the falling debris that had fallen out of the building with him, heading for its roof. SkullSatamon took off into the air making his way for the top of the building as a large shadow blocked the sun. AeroVeedramon flew over the top of the building and dived down towards SkullSatamon.
"V-WING BLADE!" A line of energy connected itself between the ends of AeroVeedramon's wings to the horn on his nose. SkullSatamon held his staff over his head as AeroVeedramon collided into him. SkullSatamon was thrown back into another building once again crashing through several walls and out the other side.
Negi, Musica and Sanji ran around the first building SkullSatamon had gone through, followed by Firamon and Stingmon.
"Woah, look at him go," Musica grinned as AeroVeedramon took off through the air again, flying around another building to get the drop on his opponent, "that damn skeleton is gonna get it now."
Negi stepped forward holding his digivice over his head, "Digitize, Thousand Staff!" Negi's digivice transformed into a long wooden staff, wrapped in a cloth bandage. "I'm going to back him up!"
"Huh," Musica couldn't understand why Negi needed to back up his partner. AeroVeedramon seemed to have SkullSatamon on the ropes, "Negi wait!" Negi lifted his leg over his staff and took off into the air, riding it like it was a witch's broom.
SkullSatamon landed on the ground, swiveling his head from side to side, looking for AeroVeedramon. SkullSatamon spun around as AeroVeedramon flew around the corner of a building, "BONE BLASTER!" SkullSatamon concentrated his attack into one large solid stream of electricity.
AeroVeedramon quickly concentrated energy into his mouth, "V-BREATH ARROW!" SkullSatamon and AeroVeedramon's attacks clashed in midair. Windows shattered and concrete began to crack as the stream of black lightning pushed against the spinning v-shaped heat beam. Slowly AeroVeedramon's attack began to get pushed back, "Damn it..." AeroVeedramon then saw someone fly up behind SkullSatamon riding on a flying staff, "huh Negi?"
Negi stood up on his staff as he closed in on SkullSatamon's back, "Magic Arrow, Converging Lightning!" Negi held his fist to his side, "One, Two, Three!" Three small balls of lightning surrounded Negi's hand on command and began to spin. SkullSatamon turned his head around as Negi closed in on his back, flaring his digisoul, "RAIKA HOKEN!" SkullSatamon grunted as Negi's digisoul and lightning arrow covered fist slammed into his spine, forcing him to drop his staff which stopped his attack. As the black lightning faded AeroVeedramon's attack pushed through the disappearing lightning and closed in on its target. Negi flew out of the way as AeroVeedramon's attack exploded against SkullSatamon.
Negi flew over towards his partner, still standing on his flying magic staff. SkullSatamon fell to the ground, the skeleton seemed to be unconscious.
"Did we make you laugh yet?" AeroVeedramon landed in front of Negi and stepped towards the unmoving digimon.
"Keheheheh," AeroVeedramon stopped as a dark aura began to surround SkullSatamon, "Keheheheh, keheheheh, keheheheh!"
"Not good, he really is laughing at us," AeroVeedramon stepped to the side to shield Negi from whatever might be coming their way.
"KEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH!" SkullSatamon slowly began to rise to his feet, his staff floated through the air to rejoin its master. The dark aura began to spread around SkullSatamon's body, "KILL THEM, SLICE THEM, PIERCE THEM, RIP THEM, DESTROY THEM, SLAUGHTER THEM!" The dark aura exploded, splintering the road underneath SkullSatamon's feet. "KEHEHEHEHEHEH!"
AeroVeedramon felt a shiver run down his spine, there was something not right about the power that was flowing out of SkullSatamon, "NEGI GET OUT OF -" AeroVeedramon was sent flying out of the way as SkullSatamon's staff slammed into him sending him crashing into a skyscraper.
"AEROVEEDRAMON!" Negi directed his staff towards his partner, but SkullSatamon blocked his path. Before Negi could react, SkullSatamon's hand wrapped around his neck. Negi struggled to breath as SkullSatamon slowly crushed his windpipe, continuing to laugh that evil laugh of his. Negi's staff fell to the ground and reverted back into his digivice as his mind started to go blank.
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"NEGI!" Lunamon stared at the screen, Nodoka continued to shake as she clung to her partner, "NODOKA LOOK!"
Nodoka slowly lifted her head and saw the screen which showed SkullSatamon slowly choking the life out of Negi. Nodoka felt her heart skip a beat as she watched Negi's face go pale, "No please don't!"
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"NEGI!" AeroVeedramon pulled himself out of the half wrecked building and took off into the air, "NEGI!"
"DON'T INTERFERE! BONE BLASTER!" SkullSatamon pointed his staff over his shoulder and blasted AeroVeedramon as he closed in. AeroVeedramon roared in pain as he slowly tried to push his way through the lightning and pain to save his young partner. The dark aura around SkullSatamon flickered and the power of SkullSatamon's attack increased, blasting AeroVeedramon back into the ruined building and causing it to collapse.
Stingmon, "SPIKING STRIKE!"
Firamon, "FLAME DIVE!" Stingmon and Firamon dove down on SkullSatamon, but again the dark aura spread around him, stopping their attacks in their tracks. Garurumon and Peckmon suddenly jumped out of the windows of the nearest building.
Peckmon, "SPIRAL CLAW!"
Garurumon, "FREEZE FANG!" The four champion's attacks pushed against SkullSatamon's dark aura, but were held back. The dark aura once again exploded sending the four champions crashing into the nearest building.
"GUYS!" Sanji's eyes widened as all their partner's were knocked away without SkullSatamon having to lift a finger at them. Their partners couldn't get through SkullSatamon's aura and AeroVeedramon was trapped underneath a collapsed building.
"NO NEGI!" Musica moved forward, but he'd never be able to reach them, SkullSatamon was too high up and neither he or Sanji had any projectile attacks. "SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING!"
"Keheheheh," SkullSatamon watched the light leave the small human's eyes. "Die human!" SkullSatamon tightened his grip but his hand suddenly closed on air. "WHAT!" Negi had vanished right out of SkullSatamon's hand.
Negi coughed and gasped as he felt air suddenly enter his lungs again. "Are you alright?" Negi opened his eyes to find a short figure with a pointed hat standing over him.
"Wi... Wizardmon?" The wizard digimon tipped his hat before moving towards the edge of the building they were on.
"SkullSatamon!" The skeleton digimon turned his head to see Wizardmon glaring at him, "You don't just face the destined, you face the entire force of our resistance! GUARDROMON ATTACK!" Wizardmon pointed his wand towards SkullSatamon as every Guardromon in the resistance flew up over the buildings and began to rain missiles down on the skeleton.
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"Thank goodness," Nodoka stared at the screen which showed Negi standing behind Wizardmon as the Guardromon continued their assault.
"Nodoka how can we stand here doing nothing while our friends are out there risking their lives?"
Nodoka trembled again at the idea of facing SkullSatamon. None of the others had seen what she had in their first battle with the digimon.
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(Six Days Ago)
Nodoka stood back with the other destined as their partners tried to fight against the skeleton known as SkullSatamon. Negi and Kotaro stood in front of her, their fists shaking as they watched SkullSatamon pick apart their partners.
'I've got to try to do something,' Nodoka grabbed her pink digivice and held it in both hands, "Digitize, Diarium Ejus." Nodoka's digivice turned into a book that floated in front of her, waiting for her command. "SkullSatamon!" She would read the digimon's thoughts to try and help them defeat him.
As her diary began to show the digimon's thoughts Nodoka began to tremble, there wasn't a single normal or coherent thought running through the digimon's head. The pages of her book became covered in one word, the word repeated over and over through the pages of her book, the only thing running through the digimon's head was, "Kill!" In between the words were gruesome pictures of how SkullSatamon wanted to kill each of them and their partners. One stuck out in particular, one that made Nodoka slam her book shut, it was of Lekismon covered in blood, with the skeleton's staff stabbed through her chest.
Nodoka began to shake as she watched all of their partners fire their attacks at SkullSatamon, but still no damage was done. This digimon had no reason for why it was fighting, all it wanted was to kill and cause as much pain as it could.
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(Present Day)
The last thing Nodoka remembered from that day, was SkullSatamon slamming his staff against the ground and causing a large shockwave. Nodoka had been having nightmares ever since that day, nightmares of SkullSatamon taking Lunamon away from her, while the words 'kill' covered the walls around her and began to bleed until she drowned in blood. Every night she had jumped out of bed, covered in sweat and shaking with fear, and every night Lunamon would lay next to her until she could get to sleep again.
"No Guardromon!" Nodoka turned back to the screen and saw SkullSatamon kill one of the Guardromon.
"Stop, please!"
"Nodoka, he won't stop, we have to stop him ourselves, we have to go out there!"
"I can't..."
"Yes you can! I know you're scared and I know you don't want to fight. I'm scared too... I'm afraid to fight against that digimon, but... I'm more scared of losing all of our friends and comrades."
Nodoka and Lunamon turned back to the screen as Negi brought forth his staff again and charged at SkullSatamon in rage, only to be smacked to the side and sent crashing through a window.
"Negi went out there determined to defeat SkullSatamon so you wouldn't have to face him ever again. He's out there fighting for you." Nodoka watched as SkullSatamon killed two more Guardromon, quickly loading their data.
Nodoka slowly stood up, her body continued to tremble in fear as she forced her feet to carry her out of the room and towards the lift to the city above.
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Garurumon growled in rage as SkullSatamon killed another of the Guardromon. He, Stingmon, Firamon, and Peckmon had been trying to dig AeroVeedramon out from underneath the destroyed building. "Damn it, AeroVeedramon get up! They need our help!"
The rubble began to shift as AeroVeedramon regained consciousness. The four champions jumped out of the way as the rubble exploded and AeroVeedramon lifted himself out of it. AeroVeedramon's body was covered in minor scrapes.
"Where... where's Negi?" AeroVeedramon scanned the area around him for his young partner.
"He's alright for now," Stingmon landed on AeroVeedramon's shoulder, "we have to do something, before SkullSatamon kills all the Guardromon!" AeroVeedramon spread his wings as Stingmon took off ahead of him, followed by Firamon.
"Garurumon, Peckmon, jump on!" Peckmon jumped on AeroVeedramon's shoulder where Stingmon had been just a moment ago and Garurumon jumped onto the other shoulder struggling to hold on with his paws. AeroVeedramon took off into the air, nearly throwing the two champions off of him.
Yumichika and Toshiro joined Sanji and Musica as the battle continued above them.
SkullSatamon grabbed another Guardromon, pointing his staff towards the robot's head, "BONE BLAS-"
"SPIKING STRIKE!" Stingmon stabbed the spike on his wrist against SkullSatamon's arm forcing him to let go of the Guardromon. Stingmon spun around as the Guardromon escaped and brought his leg around at SkullSatamon, quickly delivering a barrage of kicks.
SkullSatamon laughed as he blocked every kick with one hand, before catching Stingmon's foot, "SKULL HAMMER!" SkullSatamon slammed his staff into Stingmon's chest, and held Stingmon's foot still, forcing him to take all the damage from the shockwave.
"STINGMON!" Musica ran forward as he heard his partner scream in pain.
"FLAME DIVE!" Firamon slammed his burning body into SkullSatamon,forcing him to let go of Stingmon.
"STOP INTERFERING!" SkullSatamon yelled in rage as he pointed his staff at Firamon, "BONE BLASTER!" Firamon was blasted into another building as the black lightning coursed through his body again.
Stingmon fell to the ground, unable to so much as move his fingers. His body began to glow as he reverted back into Wormmon.
"Wormmon!" Musica jumped and caught his partner before he hit the ground, "Wormmon say something!"
Wormmon opened one eye, "Sorry Musica, I tried..." Wormmon's eye closed as he fell unconscious.
"Damn it!" Musica held his partner in his arms, he wasn't able to help his partner and it made him feel weak and useless. Sanji stood behind him his fists clenched as he watched SkullSatamon head for the building where his partner was.
"V-BREATH ARROW!" AeroVeedramon's attack impacted against SkullSatamon's back as he tried to close in on Firamon, knocking the skeleton into the building. "Get him guys!" Garurumon and Peckmon jumped off AeroVeedramon's back, and crashed through the window of the building running into the large hallway of the building where SkullSatamon was climbing to his feet.
"YOU JUST DON'T GET IT, I'M GONNA KILL YOU ALL!" SkullSatamon pointed his staff at the two champions.
Peckmon, "Talk all you want!"
Garurumon, "We'll never give up!"
"ELECTRO SQUALL!" Wizardmon appeared behind SkullSatamon and blasted him with a large ball of lightning, forcing him to stumble forward.
"SPIRAL CLAW!" Peckmon rushed forward, spinning his body and slamming his talons into SkullSatamon's chest, pushing the skeleton back towards the window of the building. Wizardmon and Peckmon jumped to the side as Garurumon ran forward, getting right in SkullSatamon's face.
"HOWLING BLASTER!" SkullSatamon was blasted out of the window by Garurumon's attack. As SkullSatamon fell he turned his head to see a giant blue dragon flying at him.
"V-WING BLADE!" AeroVeedramon slammed into SkullSatamon, sending him crashing into the ground.
AeroVeedramon hovered above where SkullSatamon was laying. Garurumon, Peckmon, and Wizardmon stood at the broken window of the building they were in, looking down at the skeleton.
"Not again..." AeroVeedramon growled as the same dark aura appeared around SkullSatamon again.
"That... Actually... Hurt!" SkullSatamon eyes swiveled between AeroVeedramon, to Wizardmon, Garurumon, and Peckmon who stood in the building, to the swarm of Guardromon that floated over the buildings behind AeroVeedramon.
"STAY DOWN! V-BREATH ARROW!" AeroVeedramon's attack exploded against the ground where SkullSatamon stood. AeroVeedramon stared at the smoke as he felt something touch his back.
"AEROVEEDRAMON LOOK OUT!" Negi stood in the window of a building down the street behind AeroVeedramon. AeroVeedramon yelled in pain as his entire body became covered in the black lightning, it wasn't the same as before, SkullSatamon's attacks were getting stronger. AeroVeedramon fell and his back smashed into the pavement.
Garurumon, "HOWLING BLASTER!"
Peckmon, "KUNAI WING!"
Wizardmon, "ELECTRO SQUALL!"
SkullSatamon disappeared as the attacks came at him, reappearing behind the three champions, "Bone Blaster!" Garurumon, Peckmon, and Wizardmon screamed in agony as they were blasted out of the building. The three champions smashed hard into the concrete, and Peckmon and Garurumon reverted back into their rookie forms.
Toshiro, "GABUMON!"
Yumichika, "FALCOMON!" The two rookies struggled to stand up before falling unconscious as their partners reached them. Wizardmon slowly lifted himself from the pavement, determined to continue fighting and leading the Guardromon with Andromon gone.
SkullSatamon slowly floated out of the building, hovering over AeroVeedramon who was trying to lift himself to his feet again, "Bone Blaster!" AeroVeedramon writhed in pain as SkullSatamon kept his attack up, slowly increasing the power of his attack. AeroVeedramon stopped yelling as his body began to go limp.
"STOP!" Negi reached his hand for his partner, "AEROVEEDRAMON!"
"MOON NIGHT KICK!" SkullSatamon crashed into another building as a clawed rabbit's foot suddenly slammed into the side of his head.
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Dr. Knox sat on the floor wiping blood from his lip. Duo had just punched him.
"Duo, stop!" Sonoko and Kazuha grabbed Duo's arm and held him back. "You don't understand he just doesn't want you to get hurt anymore."
"I understand that," Duo gritted his teeth, deep down he appreciated the Doc for caring about them enough to want to protect them from getting hurt anymore, but...
"Everyone is out there fighting," said Shuhei as he grabbed one crutch for himself and handed the other to Haru, "we have to fight too."
Duo pulled his arms free and walked past the Doc, "Sorry Doc, this is why I'm here though, I won't sit back while my friends are out there fighting for their lives!"
Veemon followed behind Duo as he walked out of the hospital. Kiru, Strabimon, Haru, Dorumon, Shuhei, and Impmon followed after him. Haru and Shuhei moved as fast as they could to keep up with Duo and Kiru.
"Doc, are you okay," Kazuha placed her hand on his shoulder as a single tear ran down the Doc's face.
"Those stupid kids..." The doc covered his eyes as he remembered the face of another stupid kid he hadn't been able to protect.
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"Nodoka?" Yumichika laid Falcomon down in a safe place as the young girl walked past him and Toshiro. Her legs were still shaking as she watched her partner bounce off of a building to continue her assault against SkullSatamon.
"MOON NIGHT KICK!" SkullSatamon strafed to the side letting Lekismon pass right by him. Lekismon held her moon gloves together forming a water ball, "MOON NIGHT BOMB!" Lekismon spun back around and threw the ball at the skeleton, where it exploded on impact.
SkullSatamon shook his head in annoyance as he began to feel a little sleepy. Lekismon landed back on the ground and quickly leapt back at her opponent. She formed another water ball as she closed in on SkullSatamon.
SkullSatamon glared at the rabbit digimon as she got closer. It was just one after the other, when would he get to finally see one of these humans or their pathetic partners fall dead at his feet. SkullSatamon disappeared and reappeared behind Lekismon slamming his staff into the rabbit digimon's back.
"NO LEKISMON!" Tears rolled down Nodoka's face as her partner yelled in pain, and that image she had seen in her book flashed through her mind. As Lekismon fell through the air, someone flew underneath her and caught her.
"Thanks Firamon," Lekismon stood up on the flying lion's back, both champions were in a lot of pain and struggling to keep fighting.
"GUARDROMON ATTACK!" On Wizardmon's command, missiles began to fly at SkullSatamon again.
"BONE BLASTER!" SkullSatamon pointed his staff at the oncoming missiles and destroyed them before they could reach him.
Nodoka was forced to watch as SkullSatamon flew at the group of Guardromon, blasting two more and destroying them, "No..." Nodoka closed her eyes as SkullSatamon killed another Guardromon quickly loading the digimon's data.
Lekismon, "STOP IT!" Nodoka opened her eyes as she heard her partner yell out. Firamon flew at SkullSatamon as fast as he could with Lekismon riding on his back, building energy in his forehead, as Lekismon formed another water ball, "MOON NIGHT BOMB!"
"FIRA BOMB!" The two attacks were stopped in their tracks as the dark aura around SkullSatamon suddenly appeared again.
SkullSatamon turned his head around staring at the two champions, before vanishing again.
"Damn it, where did he go this time!" Firamon turned around looking behind him, as Lekismon watched above them.
Sanji, "FIRAMON, HE'S UNDERNEATH YOU!" Firamon roared in pain as SkullSatamon's staff slammed into his stomach.
"BONE BLASTER!" Firamon and Lekismon screamed as they were once again shocked by SkullSatamon's black lightning.
Nodoka, "PLEASE STOP!" Lekismon and Firamon fell past SkullSatamon as he turned his head towards Nodoka. SkullSatamon laughed as he saw the young girl shaking in fear.
SkullSatamon's feet touched the ground as he slowly made his way towards Nodoka. "Keheheheh!" Nodoka took a step back as SkullSatamon got closer.
Musica stepped in front of Nodoka, followed by Toshiro, Yumichika, and Sanji. "YOU WANT HER, YOU'LL HAVE TO GET PASSED US!"
"Keheheheh, I INTEND TO!" SkullSatamon disappeared and reappeared in between the four boys, "SKULL HAMMER!" SkullSatamon slammed his staff against the ground, destroying the area around him with a shockwave. Sanji and Musica crashed into hard concrete and Yumichika and Toshiro crashed through the windows of another building.
"SANJI!" Firamon stood up again, and rushed at SkullSatamon. The skeleton digimon spun around and slammed his fist into the side of Firamon's head as he pounced at him.
"BONE BLASTER!" Firamon roared once more before his body reverted back into Coronamon.
"CORONAMON!" Sanji tried to stand up but collapsed to his knees, clutching his broken ribs and coughing up blood. Coronamon laid on the ground unconscious. Toshiro and Yumichika laid inside the building, they were both bleeding heavily from cuts caused by the glass window, and Musica was completely unconscious.
SkullSatamon continued his way towards Nodoka, whose body was still trembling, "Scared? Little Human! Keheheheh!" SkullSatamon lowered his staff, placing it right in Nodoka's face.
"GET AWAY FROM HER!" Negi and Lekismon charged at SkullSatamon, once again the skeleton spun around slamming Negi with his staff, shocking him with his black lightning and catching Lekismon by her neck. Negi fell flat at SkullSatamon's feet
"KEHEHEHEH!" SkullSatamon squeezed Lekismon's neck and stomped on Negi's back.
"STOP!" SkullSatamon turned his head as Nodoka moved towards him, "I'm... terrified..." tears were still running down Nodoka's cheeks. "But, not of you..." SkullSatamon's eyes flickered in anger.
'I'm afraid to fight against that digimon, but... I'm more scared of losing all of our friends and comrades.' Nodoka held her hand to her heart as she remembered Lunamon's words.
"I'm terrified that everyone I care about will die..." Nodoka's digisoul suddenly wrapped around her body, "I... just can't... let that happen!"
=PERFECT EVOLUTION=
Nodoka: Digisoul, Full Charge!
SkullSatamon was pushed off of Negi and forced to let go of Lekismon as the energy from Nodoka's digisoul came towards him.
Lekismon Digivolve to -
Crescemon
SkullSatamon quickly held his staff in front of him as a crescent-shaped blade swung at him. The two ultimate level digimon pushed against the other, trying to overpower each other.
Crescemon, Ultimate Level, Demon Man Digimon, Data Type
"Lunatic Dance!" Crescemon left an after image behind as she spun around SkullSatamon getting behind him. SkullSatamon yelled in rage as he turned around and swung his staff through another after image. Crescemon's blade slashed at SkullSatamon and he stumbled forward as part of his wing was sliced off. SkullSatamon spun around and swung his staff at Crescemon but again it was an after image.
SkullSatamon didn't want to play this game, quickly he turned his staff upside down and slammed it into the ground, "SKULL HAMMER!" The ground underneath him shattered even further under the shockwave. Nodoka felt someone grab onto her and lift her and Negi away as the shockwave came at them.
"Are you alright Nodoka," Nodoka nodded and Crescemon set her partner and Negi down, before turning back to SkullSatamon.
SkullSatamon glared at Crescemon, his anger and desire to kill everyone around him growing even greater. Crescemon held her Nuova Luna in front of her as it changed form in her hand, becoming a bowgun.
"ICE ARCHERY!" SkullSatamon took off into the air as Crescemon fired arrow after arrow of ice at him.
"I WON'T BE CAUGHT IN ICE AGAIN!"
"Is that so?" Crescemon smirked behind her mask as she saw someone back on his feet again, down the road from SkullSatamon.
"V-BREATH ARROW!"
SkullSatamon fell forward as AeroVeedramon's attack exploded against his back. As he fell he was hit with arrow after arrow until he was completely frozen in ice. SkullSatamon collapsed against the ground and the ice shattered. SkullSatamon's hand reached forward, trying to find his staff.
Wizardmon, "EVERYONE BLAST HIM! ELECTRO SQUALL!"
"GUARDIAN BARRAGE!" Missiles rained down on SkullSatamon as AeroVeedramon rose into the air again.
"DRAGON IMPULSE!" AeroVeedramon thrust his arms forward, creating a shockwave of air in the shape of a dragon, which shattered the entire road as it impacted against SkullSatamon.
Crescemon changed the ammo she used in her bowgun from the ice element to the dark element, "DARK ARCHERY!" The ground continued to cave in deeper as missiles, arrows of darkness, balls of lightning, and v-shaped heat beams impacted against SkullSatamon.
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Kiru nearly fell flat on his back as the lift they were all on began to violently shake.
Shuhei, "What the hell is going on?"
Impmon, "The whole base is shaking!" Suddenly the shaking stopped and the lift began to rise again normally.
"What if..." Haru didn't continue. Everyone was worried that all the shaking and explosions meant something bad for their friends and allies.
Finally the lift reached the top and the group ran out as fast as they could. Duo and Kiru pushed open the doors of the building they were in and stared at all the destruction around them. Nearly half the city was completely wrecked. Duo turned down the road where he could see a group of Guardromon standing.
Duo ran ahead and pushed through the crowd of Guardromon, trying to see what had happened.
"Duo!" Duo turned his head as Negi called his name. Duo turned his head to see a winged Veedramon and Nodoka along with a tall armored rabbit-like digimon.
Duo, "What happened?"
Negi stared at the large crater in front of them, "I think it's over."
Kiru, Haru, and Shuhei joined the group along with the four rookies as Negi sat down.
Haru, "How is everyone?"
"Musica, Toshiro, Sanji, Yumichika, and all their partners are in bad shape," Duo turned his head as Wizardmon walked up to them. "I've already asked the Guardromon to move them back into the base so the Doc can begin treatment."
"Negi..." Negi turned to his partner who was glaring at the large crater, "I didn't see any data rise from the crater..." Everyone's eyes went wide.
"I didn't either..." Negi tried to stand up but fell back down, "You don't think?"
AeroVeedramon and Crescemon stepped forward, eyeing the crater and readying themselves to start blasting again.
Duo and Veemon stepped up to the edge of the crater, watching for any sign of movement underneath all the rubble.
Crescemon suddenly put her hand to her head, "Do you hear that?" Duo turned his head to the digimon wondering what she could be hearing.
"I hear it..." said AeroVeedramon suddenly. The dragon digimon shook his head, "Who... who's screaming?"
Impmon, "What are you talking about, I don't hear anyone screaming."
"I hear it too..." Strabimon placed his hand to his head, as though he was suddenly suffering from a headache. Dorumon and Veemon also began to hear screaming and it was starting to hurt their heads.
Nodoka, "Crescemon what's wrong?" Crescemon suddenly fell to her knees, clutching her head.
"Make... Make it stop!"
Nodoka, "Crescemon!"
"Du... Duo!" Veemon fell to his knees as his head started to feel like it was going to burst from the terrible screaming that he could hear. There were hundreds of voices screaming in terror, in fear, some voices pleaded for someone not to kill them, some begged for someone to spare their loved ones.
"Veemon!" Duo suddenly froze as he too started to hear voices, screaming, pleading with some figure. Duo looked over at his friends, it was starting to affect Kiru, Haru, Negi, Nodoka, and Shuhei as well.
Wizardmon stumbled forward clutching his head, "Lo...look!" Wizardmon pointed to the crater where a dark black aura was beginning to leak through the rubble.
Duo held his head as the voices grew louder, it was getting worse, now he could actually see the faces of humans and digimon alike, screaming before something killed them. The digimon fell to the ground screaming in agony as their heads felt like they were going to explode.
"Keheheheheh!" Duo opened his eyes as the rocks started to shift, "Keheheheheheh, Keheheheheheh, KEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH!" SkullSatamon rose from the rocks, his body was damaged, several cracks lined his ribs and arms, with one large crack on his head. In his hand he held a strange black orb. "I can't believe I've been forced to use this... " SkullSatamon flew high into the air as the orb continued to pulsate and the dark aura swirled around him.
Duo yelled in pain as he felt like his head would soon split open from the terrible screams he could hear.
The orb SkullSatamon held in his hands was the source of the dark aura that helped to make him so strong. It held the power of all his dark deeds through the years, made into a solid object by Daemon. To these humans and their digimon the power coming off of his dark orb was torture, but to a dark digimon such as himself, it was pure euphoria.
"Shuhei!" Impmon grabbed his partner's arm trying to understand what was hurting him so bad. Impmon was the only one who wasn't affected by the dark orb. He didn't hear any screams or cries, but he did feel his anger for SkullSatamon becoming even greater as all his friends and allies laid on the ground screaming in pain.
SkullSatamon held the orb above his head, putting all his concentration into releasing its full power and finally killing everyone around him.
Shuhei screamed louder as the screams grew more intense, now he could actually see the people and digimon dying like it was happening right in front of him.
"SHUHEI!" Impmon glared at SkullSatamon, he had to get that orb away from him, "Shuhei, please... I have to digivolve!"
Shuhei felt around for his digivice, he had to at least get this done before he died from the pain in his head. Shuhei pulled his digivice out of his pocket and held it to his chest as he struggled to form his digisoul over his hand, "Di... digisoul..." Shuhei placed his hand to his digivice as his digisoul finally appeared on his hand, "Charge!"
Impmon ran forward and jumped into the air as the power from his partner's digivice surrounded him.
Impmon Digivolve to -
Devidramon
"Keheheheheh, soon... soon they will all be dead!" SkullSatamon was unaware that a large dragon was closing in on his back.
"CRIMSON CLAW!"
~To Be Continued~
Standing on the rooftops
Wait until the bombs drop
This is all we got now
Scream until your heart stops
Never gonna regret
Watching every sunset
We'll listen to your heartbeat
All the love that we found
This is all we got now, everybody scream your heart out...
Rooftops by Lostprophets
As always thank you very much for reading, and please review.
Weapons:
Negi's Thousand Staff - His main magic staff that he received from his father the Thousand Master in Negima. I didn't remember it having an actual name and after scouring through my manga collection as well as Negima info websites I still couldn't find one, so I gave it one for the sake of my story. I'm sure you could guess how I decided on the name.
Nodoka's Diarium Ejus - Hey main magic artifact from Negima, it allows her to read and see the thoughts of anyone simply by saying their name.