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"Your partner's going to herald a grand new age, just like this one!" The Kaiser sounds so happy, so triumphant. There is so much screaming. His partner is the loudest and most shrill of them. The screaming is tears, his Patamon is howling his name until his voice is gone and all that remains is the sweetest of laughter. Then there is no more Patamon.
The angel feathers cover one half of his back, wings fluttering, smile gleaming. If you just see that, that and the majestic face, his friend is beautiful. Then he sees the rest, black wings reminding him of the screeching, howling cries of Vamdemon's bloodsuckers, broad, muscular shoulders with nails that must be poisoned. One side of the face is scarred, and the once kind blue eyes are somewhere close to ice.
The Kaiser isn't laughing. Even Airdramon has stopped roaring.
The man smiles, and the Evil Spiral sinks into his neck and fades. He turns on the Kaiser, so peaceful, and sinks into a kneeling stance. For a moment, it looks like he will pledge fealty to the overgrown idiot with the wrong kind of hair gel, and the boy smirks in anticipation.
Then Ken is punched clear across the desert, and it's not very comedic. The demon advances and Airdramon moves between them.
The man, monster, sighs. "Fine," he says. "You're first."
Takeru wants to move forward, to scream at his partner to stop, but he can't. He's stuck.
Taichi shouts but that's not enough, of course not. The serpentine dragon is lifted with a single hand. It would have been a finger if the demon could manage it. They all know that somehow. Then he's tossed, and in some absurd moment, Takeru thinks he'll crush the Kaiser with Airdramon's girth. But the dragon sails and hits a cliff. The Evil Spiral breaks and his body shrinks all the way to to a Botamon.
"Cover me," Taichi shouts, and it's snapped back to the old days where death was a real thing, when it hasn't been until now. For some reason he finds himself in motion, covering Taichi directly while his brother and Garurumon run for what was once an innocent creature.
The demon laughs and pulls back his fist.
In the ensuing violence, they retreat. For reasons that Takeru doesn't really understand, the Kaiser is taken back with them.
A/N: Well, Light, I think I answered one question. :D Hope you enjoyed!