18

"Fate of the Sunrise"

Armageddomon roared out loudly. A great wind flies out from it in all directions, Tai had to brace himself to prevent being knocked back.

"This isn't good," Tai mutters to himself.

The monster turns towards the hero, "Destiny Destroyer!"

"Fearless Disc!" Tai creates a barrier in front of him. The giant energy collides with the shield and a massive explosion blows Tai into the sky.

Tai!

Tai quickly stops himself to flying out of control and looks at the evil digimon, who just stares back at him.
"I'm fine."
Tai tells her. "He's a lot more powerful then I thought. I'll need the others to help me take him down."

"Takato! Yamaki! We've got big trouble! Get over here quick!"

"-can bare- -ear you!" Takato's voice struggled over the static. "Wha- -ing on?"

"Armageddemon! Did you get that? Armageddemon!"

"Destiny Destroyer!"

Tai swiftly flies out of the energy's way. The demon fires off more gigantic energy blasts which Tai flies around.

"Brave Force!" Tai fires several small energy pellets around the giant monster, creating a big smoke cloud. Tai raises his hands into the air. "Solar Nova!" Tai throws a large energy ball towards the smoke.

A large explosion on impact, Tai waits until he can see the results.

"Full Scale Attack!" the demon unleashes a grand missile barrage.

"Brave Force!" Tai fires off several energy blasts to intercept the attack.

Fearless Discs! Alice creates crests of courage and shoots them towards the missiles.

The projectiles explode on contact, filling the sky with explosions and smoke.

"Can you hear me?" Tai tries again. "It's Armageddemon! Armageddemon!"

Tai listens for a response, there was nothing. Not even loud static, just silence.

"Something must be happening to the gate."

Could it be Armageddemon?

"Could be, it's not like we can just run away from it either. If we did, who knows what kind of damage that thing could do to our world."

That means we've got no choice but to stop it here and now.

"Heh, we'll be on our own."

But, as long as we're together… Alice smiles

"We can do anything!" Tai smirks.

Let's do it Tai!

Tai dives towards the creature.

"Destiny Destroyer!"

Tai skillfully flies around the energy attacks, his fist glows.

"Fire Storm!" Tai's hand lands on Armageddemon's head. "Ignition!" Fire erupts from the impact point, the giant digimon was pushed back only a step.

The demon growled, it lowers its head and knocks Tai upwards. Tai recovers and creates his Bravery Blades, he impales them into the monster's head. Armaggedemon roars in pain and shakes its head violently. Tai was tossed aside but he recovers quickly. The monster's tail slams him away. It took a little longer and a lot of distance before Tai catches himself.

"Full Scale Attack!"

Tai quickly flies back towards the monster, he flies low to the ground, aiming for the legs as he dodges around the rain of missiles. Tai ignites his hands and his swords materialize. His whole body starts to glow and his speed accelerates.

"Crimson!" Tai flies under the demon, creating a line of fire. Tai flies around, "Cross!" he creates another line of fire under the monster. The fires grow in strength and engulfs Arageddemon. The beast roars once more.

Tai turns around and watches the flames burn, "That should do it."

Armageddemon jumps into the sky, "Destiny Destroyer!"

Tai jumps away from all the energy blasts. The monster lands on the other side of the fire wall.

"Guess that was too much to hope for."

"Alice, let's try hitting it with everything we've got!"

Got it! I've been waiting to try something myself.

"Alright!" Tai charges up his arm, a small energy ball in front of it grows as more energy is put into it.

Fearless Discs! Alice creates a wall of crests around Tai. Each one of the crests holds a small energy ball that grows in size.

The firewall slowly dies down and Amageddemon walks through the flames.

Tai!

"I know!"

"Brave Force!"

Tai and Alice's crests fire a barrage of energy at the monster. The overwhelming power slows down the demon, but it doesn't stop him. The monster manages to bring his head against the attacks and charges up its mouth.

"Destiny Destroyer!"

Tai jets upwards fast as the blast destroys the crests. Alice creates another crest to follow Tai. The boy and the crest hold up huge orbs of energy.

Solar!

"Nova!" Tai and Alice throw the orbs of energy. They both hit the demon's head with a massive explosion. Tai and Alice's crest dives down both creating twin blades. Alice's crest spins while the swords light up on fire, Tai's own swords also ignites.

The two of them hack away at Armageddemon's legs, taking advantage of their small size and high speed. The monster's legs begin to weaken from the constant heat and slashing. Tai positions himself underneath the demon and charges up his hand.

"We can't defeat it by overpowering it. So, let's send it somewhere where it can't do anything."

Tai! Are you crazy? You can't-

"Blazing Fury!" Tai's fist connects with Armageddemon's underside. "INFERNO!"

A giant crest of courage emerges from the fist and unleashes a torrent of flame downwards, effectively causing the monster to rise off the ground.

Tai! TAI! TAAAAAIIIII!

"HAAAAA!" Tai himself begins to erupt fire. A few places on his clothes begin to smoke.

Tai! Alice shouted worriedly. You can't keep this up! It's too much, you body-

"It doesn't matter, we just need to get Armageddemon out of here!"

Tai unleashes stronger flames as he and the monster reach the clouds.

"Full Scale Attack!" Armageddemon's missiles fly up and around in order to aim for Tai.

"Alice!" Tai pleads for his partner to help him.

Alice is uncertain of what to do. They aren't strong enough to defeat Armageddemon by themselves, so Tai is trying to send him into space. But that means that Tai himself will be sent to space as well, and die.

"ALICE!" Tai yells for his partner.

Alice quickly snaps out of it and sends several courage crests to intercept the missiles. Small explosions surround Tai and the monster.

"Just… a little… more…!" Tai struggles in the high atmosphere to stay together. His power grows stronger, several areas on his clothes carry a small flame on them.

Tai! Your body! It's too hot! Alice shrieked.

"Thanks for the compliment but I'm a little busy at the moment!"

Wha-? Alice blushed. NO! I didn't mean it like that!

"Heh." Tai smiled.

"RAAAAAH!"

TAI!

"Now!" Tai focuses all his power into his fist. "IGINITION!" Tai punches the crest hard, it sends Amageddemon higher up like a rocket. Tai floats and watches as the fire flies off into the outer reaches of the sky.

Tai's power hasn't left him, it still surrounds the boy as the girl tries to get all the loose power under control. Tai pants hard from all the effort he put into sending Armageddemon away. He starts to put out the fires that have started all over his body. Alice has finished absorbing all the extra power back into Tai's body.

"Are you okay Alice?"

I should be asking you that. You almost burned yourself.

"I knew I could survive because you were there for me."

Ah… Alice blushes again.

"Hey look," Tai turns his head. He was staring into the sunrise.

It's the sun.

"Yeah, too bad it can't pierce these clouds of darkness though."
There's no need to worry. No matter how dark the night is, the sun will always rise and bring light to the world. It is, the Destiny of the Dawn.

"The Destiny of the Dawn huh? Wow Alice, those are some powerful words."

I guess we've both been hanging around Takato, Kazu and Terriermon for too long.

Both of them chuckle a little as Tai just hovers above the clouds. Not a care in the world.

"Takato? Yamaki?" Tai tries to get into contact with them but it's no use, there's nothing from the other side.

"I guess whatever happened to the gate will take some time for them to fix."

What are we going to do?

"We can't do anything for now," Tai lies back and just stares into the sky. "Hopefully they'll be able to fix the gate soon. Otherwise we'll have to find a place to rest."

Tai relaxes in the sky, he closes his eyes for a second and plays several random memories in his head. His first trip to the digital world, Leomon, SkullGreymon, defeating Etemon, getting everyone back together, defeating Myotismon, each of the Dark Masters, giving his goggles to Davis, defeating MaloMyotismon, saving Sora…

Tai sat up at that last thought, wondering why he would be thinking about that right now. He needs to focus on raising his power so that they have a much better chance of defeating NightmareMyotismon. He can deal with Sora later once everything has calmed down.

With the digidestined back together, fighting alongside the Tamers, and his own power, they're sure to win this time. Tai then realizes something, if NightmareMyotismon was the one that re-created the Dark Masters and freed Daemon, why hasn't he moved yet? Surely he would've felt by now that his creations have been defeated and that the darkness here has weakened.

Is Myotismon really all that powerful now? To not even budge when they defeated all the Dark Masters and Daemon? Having absorbed the Dark Ocean world must've increased his power to a whole new level. That just means they need to get stronger, a lot stronger.

"Destiny Destroyer!"

"What?" Tai looks up to be blasted in the face. Tai topples downwards before recovering. He looks up to see Amrageddemon's smoking body coming down from above.

"Destiny Destroyer!"

Tai throws a disc to intercept the attack. He charges up his arm as Alice creates and charges up several crests around him. They fire a massive barrage at the falling demon digimon.

"Full Scale Attack!"

Tai stops firing and powers up his fist as Alice continues her attack. He charges towards the monster at full speed. "Fire Storm!" Tai lands a clear blow to Armageddemon's face.

The monster continues to fall while firing a seemingly endless flow of missiles. Tai and Alice do their best to deal with them, flying around, dodging, attacking, whatever they can to avoid getting hit. Eventually the missiles stop coming, and Tai just looks as Armageddemon falls through the clouds.

"…" Tai couldn't think of anything to say. It took almost everything he had just to try and send Armageddemon into space yet it still wasn't enough. There's only one thing he can do. Tai raises his palm in front of him, aiming downwards to where Armageddemon fell through. His power creates a burning aura around him.

Tai, what are you-? Alice suddenly feels a rush of power flowing through Tai's body.

A giant crest of courage appears before the flying boy. Tai's power is growing.

Alice knew what he was doing, that same attack he used against Apocalymon, the very first attack that almost burned him. Only this time, she can feel that Tai won't stop until Armageddemon is gone for certain, even if it meant resorting to the ultimate sacrifice. All Alice could do was follow his wishes, she knew of the danger Armageddemon possesses, and there was no convincing him anyway. Alice gathered as much as Tai's power as she could to the crest Tai had created. She can feel Tai's own courage give even more power, as he was willing to risk everything here.

"Hey Alice," Tai quietly talks to his partner. "What was it that you said before? That no matter how dark the night is the sun will always pierce through the darkness. What did you call that?"

Alice was quiet for a second. In her heart she didn't want Tai to go through with this, but there was no other way… The Destiny of the Dawn.

"Thank you…"

Tai focus his power into the crest, "DESTINY… OF THE DAAAWN!"

A gigantic beam of light fires from the disc, piercing through the clouds of darkness.

Armageddemon looks up to the sky, a bright light shines through the clouds. A giant beam of energy blasts through, hitting the monster, flattening it to the ground. The demon tries to fight against it, managing to stand up against the enormous power pounding down on him.

Tai can feel the demon's rage. He senses it through his power. He needs more energy, more…

Tai's clothes begin to smoke again, his hair blows away from the gigantic beam on his hand. Alice can almost feel the heat herself, or perhaps that was from her own heart. She can feel Tai's body, warming up from unleashing vast amounts of power. Alice fears for the worst, yet she knows that he has to do this, for the sake of the world.

Tai reaches inside himself for more power, his energy beam explodes larger, pounding even more force on top of Armageddemon. Tai's own energy aura grows, his body is having trouble holding it all in. Alice does the best she could to control it, but small flames have already started to ignite all over the boy's body.

The monster can feel Tai's immense power, all his courage, everything from his heart. It's still strong enough to fight against it, almost being able to completely stand up straight. Armageddemon can feel itself begin to disintegrate, looking at one of its legs as it slowly turns into data. It knew that it won't last long.

"Destiny!" Armageddemon aims upwards, towards the center of the beam, charging everything it had left into its mouth. This sped up the disintegration, but it knew that all it needed was one powerful shot.

Tai can feel that the monster is vaporizing. He pours out more power, to make sure it doesn't come back. The flames all over him grew slightly but surely, a few have already burned through. Alice creates a small aura around the boy's skin to shield his body from the fire.

Armageddemon's charge is nearly complete, as is his body, which has almost completely dissolved except for the neck and head. "DESTROYER!" A massive blast pierces through Tai's energy beam, rising right against to the source as the last of the demon's head disintegrates into nothing.

Tai senses the blast coming for him. He pours out all the power he has to try and stop it. Alice can feel it too, Armageddemon's final attack has made it halfway through. To withstand against Tai's own attack means it's a powerful blast. The demon's attack has already made it through the clouds.

Tai sees it coming right at him, and there's nothing he can do.

A massive explosion brightens the sky, the clouds of darkness part away and disappear into space. The blinding flash covers the sky for a few seconds. It vanishes just as fast, revealing Tai's body, just barely floating, all battered, beat and his clothes burnt up in many areas. He looks down at the city below with what little strength he had left.

Japan's sky no longer shows blackness, but the light of the rising sun.

"We… did it… Alice…" Tai manages to smile before he loses to fatigue. His body begins to fall.

Tai? TAI!

Alice tries to create a disc to catch his falling body, but for some reason she can't.

Why can't I access his powers? Has he burned them all up? Or is it because he lost consciousness? I've got to wake him up somehow…

TAIIIIII!


Author: Ohhh... this does not look good at all. Tai defeats Armageddemon, but at what cost?

Also, as much as it pains me to say it, my real life is getting hectic right now (work, school, video games, etc.), so this story will have to be put on hold for a while. My greatest apologies my faithful readers.