"The Arrival of SkullGreymon"
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OK, so we just escaped from Etemon, Tai got his Crest, we left the Koromon and now we're stuck in the middle of a desert that goes on for miles and we've been walking for who knows how long with sun beating down on us.
"Oh, how far do we have to walk?" Mimi whined.
"Until Etemon can't follow us anymore." Joe said.
"I don't think there is such a place." Mimi said.
"We certainly can't stop here in the middle of nowhere. For one thing, if we were attacked, there'd be no place for us to run to." Matt said.
If you were to look around our group, you would see that most of us were tired and afraid of the new dangers we're after.
It's a good thing I didn't tell my brother that Kaitoumon is planning on coming after me and V-Mon or else he'd freak out.
"Hey, come on you guys." Tai said stopping and turned to face the rest of us.
"Why'd we stop? Why's everyone so scared?" he asked.
"After all, we do have the Crest, you know." He said holding the Tag and Crest out for everyone to see.
A Crest, brother dear.
There are seven more we need to find.
"That's true, but do we really know the crest will help Agumon to digivolve?" Matt asked.
"Of course. Right, Agumon?" Tai asked his orange dino, who turned to him with a confused look.
"Listen buddy, this is your big chance. Don't let me down. You're the only one that can digivolve further, so either you try to get to the next level and save us from Etemon or I'll go and get myself a new digimon!" Tai said making my jaw drop open in shock as Agumon whimpered.
.Heck?!
Who the heck is that and what did he do with my big brother?
"Not much of a choice." Tentomon said as he fly by them.
"Arg. By the way, how are we supposed to use the Crests to digivolve again?" Tai asked.
"Well, from what we saw so far, the other digivolutions take a lot of energy, so for example, they can't digivolve if they're hungry." Izzy said making us all look back at him.
"For example, the partner of the digimon must be in some sort of danger. You know, like being under attack or something." The red head said.
"But since it's a high level of digivolving, my theory is even more energy is needed. We'll provide the food and Etemon will provide the danger." Tai said giving his partner a wink, the dino whimpering again.
We all started walking again and I couldn't help but feel like my brother was slowly starting to change into someone else.
"Hey, V-Mon." I said pausing.
"What's up, Dai?" he asked as he stopped beside me.
"If I ever start talking to you like that, please feel free to smack me." I said.
"If you say so." He said as we started walking with the others again.
"Huh? Hey, Daisuke, try and keep up with the group." Joe said as he noticed how far back my dragon and I were from the others.
After an hour or so of more walking we finally found a place that had food, so my brother decided it was time for us to stop and he was shoving food into Agumon's mouth, the dino looking close to choking.
It was kinda scary to look at.
Is this what would be considered…what is it called again….domestic abuse or something like that?
"No more!" Agumon cried over the mouth in his mouth.
"Just one more eensie bite." Tai said shoving another fruit into the dino's full mouth.
"Ready for the second course?" Tai asked making Agumon leaned back, holding his stomach.
"Oh, stop your belly aching and open wide. You gotta keep on eating. Listen, everyone's giving you their food so that you can digivolve. Isn't that right?" Tai asked the rest of us who were sitting behind them a few feet away.
"Yeah." Matt said enthusiastically.
"We didn,t even give him our food. He took it from us. Of all the nerve." Mimi said.
I'll say.
V-Mon and I haven't eaten since two days ago; we didn't eat the food Pagumon gave us.
It was a miracle that Demiveemon was able to manage the change from In-Training to Rookie when I was in danger from the Gazimon without any food.
"Well, the food won't do us any good. We still can't digivolve." Gabumon said.
"Those of us who don't work don't eat." Joe muttered.
"But I'm hungry." Tentomon whined.
"Hey, I can't hear you. I said 'is that right?!'" My brother yelled turning to us.
"That's right!" we all said, but weren't sure.
"See, that's why you've gotta try your best to protect everybody. Now come on, buddy, keep eating!" Tai ordered Agumon, who forced himself to continue eating.
"This isn't good. Agumon'll be too sick to move if he keeps this up." V-Mon said.
"I guess there's not much else we can do to help." Palmon said.
"I don't know if Agumon can take much more." Biyomon said.
"Yeah, Tai is really pushing him. Agumon's stuffed like a Thanksgiving turkey." Sora said.
"Eat up, you need that energy!" Tai yelled at his dino as he forced more food into his mouth.
"Tai's personality is taking a turn for the worst lately. I remember him being friendlier to much younger kids." Izzy said.
"Actually, now that you mention it…he was cool during soccer camp. Tai might look like he's trying to run things all by himself, but whatever crazy action he takes, he's doing it for the good of the team." Sora said.
"Mm-hmm." Izzy nodded.
"But now all this…" Sora trailed off as my brother shaved another fruit in Agumon's mouth.
"We're the only ones who can help now. So you've gotta keep eating, OK Agumon?" Tai asked.
"I can't!" Agumon whined as he fell down on his back.
"Tai's personality seems to have changed ever since he got a hold of that Crest of Courage." Sora said.
More like crest of Pride if ya ask me.
"Boy, I'm hungry. Hmm? Hey, guys!" Joe said as he pulled out his Tag, revealing it glowing a silvery color.
"My Tag is glowing!" he said standing up.
"That must mean it's reacting to something." Matt said.
"The Crest must be nearby." Izzy said.
"You think so?" Tai asked standing up, looking ready to go, pulling out his mini telescope.
"Hey, look! There's something out there. It looks like a big building or something." He said.
"That must be where my Crest is." Joe said running down the sand dunes, but he tripped over some weird black thing.
"What's a cable doing out in the middle of nowhere?" Gomamon asked as he looked at it.
We all walked over to the building that looked like a coliseum that had statues of lions and suck all around us.
"Amazing, it looks like the Roman coliseum." Izzy said.
"What's a coliseum?" Tentomon asked.
"Well, Tentomon, it's an ancient arena." Tai said as we looked around and saw a huge TV that was attached to the coliseum and when I say huge I mean huuuuuuuuuuge.
"But the ancient didn't have big screens." Mimi said.
"Or soccer goals." Sora said as we saw white lines painted on the field and two soccer nets.
"OK guys, let's go split up and look for the Crest." Tai said as Agumon fell onto his bottom.
"What's wrong?" my brother asked.
"I can't move anymore. Let me rest a little bit." Agumon said turning on his side to get some rest.
"Come on. Get up! You can do it." Tai yelled making me glare at him.
"I can't!" Agumon cried.
"Give him a rest Tai." Joe said making my brother turn to the bluenette.
"Hmm?"
"The only clue we have is my Tag. So Gomamon and I will search for the Crest. You guys relax for a while." Joe said.
"Wait, I'll go with you." Tai said as the three ran off to look for it.
"A soccer ball!" Sora cried making me perk up and turn to see that a soccer ball was rolling over to us.
"Hey, anybody up for a game?" the orange haired girl asked.
"Yeah, that sounds fun!" TK and I cheered.
"That's a great idea. The human team will play against the digimon team." Matt said.
"What on earth is 'soccer'?" Tentomon asked making me give him a shocked look.
"It's easy. You use your feet to try to get this ball into the goal. You can also use your chest and your head." Sora said as she kicked up the ball into the air and hit it with her head.
The ball bounced over to Gabumon, who went over to it eagerly.
"Here I go!" he chuckled giving it a kick, making it fly over to Biyomon and Palmon, hitting the bird over the head and then it bounced into the plant/lizard's hands.
"Oh, that's really using your head." Palmon said as Biyomon was on the ground from the hit.
"Oh, and I forgot to tell you. You can't use your hands." Sora giggled.
"Unless you're the goal keeper, then you can touch the ball with your hands." TK said.
"Yeah, you should be the goalie for your team, Palmon." Matt said.
"Here!" the lizard/plant said as she made a baseball throw, the ball landing near my brother, who ran up to it and gave a powerful kick, making it sail over the wall of the coliseum.
"I can't believe you're playing soccer at a time like this. Will you use your heads for something other than hitting the ball? The sooner Joe finds the Crest, the sooner we can leave." He said making everyone look down in slight depression as I glared at him.
Not wanting to play soccer, yelling at his friends, bulling Agumon around?
Who is this?
"Your Tag is reacting again." I heard Gomamon say as he and Joe stood at the soccer net.
"Yeah, the Crest must be around here somewhere. Huh?" he asked.
We all turned when we heard clapping and saw two white gloved hands clapping on the TV.
"Who's the king?" Etemon asked as his face appeared on the screen.
"Ahhh! He's here. Etemon's here!" Mimi cried running away, all of us following her.
"Hey, wait for me!" Agumon cried as he tried to keep up, but he tripped and fell while we were all hiding in the soccer net with Joe and Gomamon.
"Agumon!" Tai cried as he went to go help him, but the net fell down, blocking us in.
"Hey! We're trapped." Matt said.
"Goal! I sure did it. I scored a goal." Etemon said.
I hate this guy.
"The whole thing was a trap." Tai said.
"Does he really think he can trap us with this stupid net?" Tentomon asked as he rammed into the net, but was electrocuted and was knocked back into everyone, V-Mon pulling me away so we didn't get hit.
"Oh, now, listen up. You might get hurt. There's electricity running through that net. It's a shocker, I know. I really wanted to be there in person to do this myself, but I'm far too busy. You know how us rock 'n' roll legends are. Don't worry; the act substituting for me is a rare treat. Let's see if you can put your puny little hands together when you figure out who our special guest star is. Well?" Etemon asked.
"How can we know who it is?" Tai asked.
"I'm yall be surprised. Here he comes." Etemon said.
We heard the thumps and looked up in shock as we saw a Greymon walking over with a black collar around his neck and creepy red eyes that had black around them.
"It's a different Greymon!" Tai said.
"See? I knew you'd be surprised. Ah, I'm so evil. Let's get started, it's time to go. OK, here's the show." Etemon said.
Greymon snarled as he stomped on the other net across the field, roaring in anger.
"It's time to digivolve." Tai said as his digivice beeped.
"Agumon digivolve too…GREYMON!"
The two Greymon charged each other, trying to shove the other down.
Greymon rammed his head into Evil Greymon's face making him back away in pain, but then he whacked Greymon in the side with his tail.
"You can do it, Greymon!" Gabumon called.
"Don't lose to that phoney baloney!" TK yelled.
"Beat that freak!" I yelled.
Evil Greymon snalred as he charged Greymon, ramming his head into our dino and sent him flying back into our cage, being electrocuted.
"Greymon, you've got to digivolve!" Tai yelled.
"Boy, this doesn't look good." Izzy said as our dino pushed himself up, the evil dino standing over him.
"We're done for if he can't digivolve again!" Tentomon said.
"Digivolve, Greymon. You've got to." Tai said.
Greymon got up tiredly and rammed his head into Evil Greymon, trying to push him back, but Evil Greymon grabbed hold of his horns and threw him to the ground.
I covered my eyes in horror as Evil Greymon started stomping his foot down on our friend, not wanting to see horrible sight.
"What's he waiting for? Why won't he digivolve to the next level?" Tai asked.
"It's not working, Tai. The Crest isn't reacting at all. Maybe you gave him too much to eat." Izzy said.
"Maybe he can't digivolve." Matt said.
"Of course he can. Come on, Greymon. You can do it! Believe in your power and you can digivolve." Tai said.
V-Mon took my hands and moved them away from my eyes, seeing Greymon whacked his tail against Evil Greymon, making him back off.
"Way to go, Greymon!" Tai cheered.
Greymon tried to use his Nova Blast, but he choked out nothing but spit.
"He certainly doesn't have any digi-manners. At least say 'excuse me'." Mimi said.
"Am I imagining it or is he moving a lot slower than usual?" Matt asked.
"He consumed way too much, so his refluxes are sluggish." Izzy said.
"Right, Izzy." Tentomon said trying to get out of the cage, but was electrocuted.
"Not again." He groaned.
Evil Greymon was dragging Greymon around the field by his tail, our friend not even looking like he is trying to get lose.
"Get up and fight!" Tai ordered.
Evil Greymon was swinging Greymon around by his tail now then let him go and fly into the stairs of the coliseum, destroying them, making me groan and cover my eyes again.
Why is this happening?
"It's lookin' like this is gonna be over sooner than I thought." Etemon laughed.
Evil Greymon picked up our friend in a headlock and ran over to the center of the field and then did a wrestling move where he slammed him down.
"We really need help! Marching Fishes!" Gomamon cried and colorful fish started to swim out of the water that was pouring out from a fountain of these weird heads.
There was a Gazimon standing on top of the statues with fireworks in his paws, but the fish knocked him down and stole the fireworks, bringing them over to Evil Greymon as he was stomping on Greymon again.
They caught the evil dino's attention and he chased after them.
"Where did those fish come from? How could they just come out of there like that?" Joe asked.
"I don't know, but if it's not broken, don't fix it." Gomamon said.
"It's really elementary, Joe. There's probably just a dimensional drift in the water." Izzy said.
"Ditto." The seal digimon said.
"Oh." Joe said crossing his arms.
The fish then all dropped the fireworks at Evil Greymon's feet, making him yelp and try to avoid getting hit by the flames and sparks as the fish flew away.
"Thank you fish!" Sora called as they disappeared.
"Now, what are we going to do to get out of here?" Sora asked.
"We should dig a hole and tunnel our way out." The red head said as he and Matt lifted up a stone block that revealed dirt under it.
"Great idea." The blonde said as we all started helping lifting away the blocks.
"There's a black cable here too." Izzy said when we saw it in the dirt under us.
"This rock is in the way." Tentomon said staring at a stone block that had a cross symbol on it.
"My Tag. It's…its reacting again." Joe said as he held out this Tag as it was glowing the same silvery color from before.
"What if this rock…is the Crest we've been looking for?" he asked as the two Greymons were locked into a fight again.
"If this really is there Crest that goes with my Tag." Joe said as he placed his Tag onto the symbol.
"then maybe…" he trailed off as the block glowed that same silver color and it shrunk into a pendant as it slid into place in the Tag.
The ground under us opened up, making us all fall down into some underground cavern.
"It is my Crest. Yes!" Joe cheered.
"Look, a tunnel. We can get out through here." Tentomon said as we all followed him out.
We ran down the tunnel and finally made it out, hiding behind a short stone wall, watching as Evil Greymon beat our Greymon.
"Greymon, you could win if you only digivolve. GREYMON!" Tai said as he clutched his Crest.
Greymon, who was lying on the stair, looked back at Tai as he climbed up on the short wall.
"Tai, don't!" Sora said grabbing his waist.
"Don't stop me. This is my chance to make him digivolve to the next level. Please mind your own business, Sora." Tai said to the girl.
"But Tai, without a reaction from the Crest there's no way for him to digivolve." Sora said.
"I can make him do it. Watch." Tai said jumping off the wall and running toward the two fighting dinos.
I ran up to the wall, lifting myself up to watch my brother.
"Taichi Kamiya, you get your worthless carcass back here right NOW!" I yelled to him.
"What do ya think he's going to do?" Matt asked.
"The other condition for digivolving is their partner must be in danger." Izzy said.
"He wouldn't." Sora said in horror.
"The normal Tai wouldn't. But that isn't him." I said making everyone look at me.
I don't know who that is, but he isn't my brother and if he gets himself and Greymon hurt, I will never forgive him.
"Hurry up and finish him off. Use your Nova Blast." Etemon laughed as Evil Greymon started up his attack.
"STOP!" Tai yelled.
His yelling startled the evil dino so much that he turned his head to the side and sent his Nova Blast to the statue.
"I'm not afraid of a big fake like you. OK, fire breath, come and get me." The goggle head said.
Evil Greymon turned to him growling, my brother crying out in fear as the dino went to him, Greymon watching in worry as the rest of us were in a panic.
"Biyomon, you've got to help Tai." Sora said.
"You go too, Gabumon." Matt said.
"got it" the canine/lizard said.
"Biyomon digivolve too…BIRDAMON!"
"Gabumon digivolve too…GARURUMON!"
"Greymon, I believe in you." Tai called as the blue wolf and red bird were by him to protect him.
Greymon forced himself to rise up from the ground to fight and protect all of us and especially my stupid brother.
"You can do it, Greymon. Digivolve!. Tai yelled as his digivice glowed green and his Crest glowed orange before it turned pitch black.
The sky darkened as black streams of light fell down from the sky, flames swirling around them as Greymon started transform into something that would be giving me nightmares and hate my brother for a long while.
"What in the world?" Sora asked.
"What do you think that is?" Matt asked.
"Oh my. Is that what I think it is?" Tentomon said.
"What do you call that thing?" the orange haired girl asked.
"SkullGreymon. The sight of it makes other digimon tremble. He is a fully digivolved digimon who's explosive power causes him to constantly search for battle." Tentomon explained.
V-Mon glared at the skeleton digimon as he stood in front of me protectively; ready to fight if he had to.
"This could be very bad. There's been some mistake and he's digivolved into a horrible monster." Izzy said as Mimi and TK coward behind him.
SkullGreymon growled out a snarl as he towered over Evil Greymon, his green eyes looking deadly.
Evil Greymon had the right idea to run away from him, but SkullGreymon chased after him and back handed him away and he sailed right into the big screen, a shocked Etemon backing away from the screen as Evil Greymon was electrocuted from the broken TV.
SkullGreymon then fired off some weird orange rocket thing that was on his back and it destroyed the TV AND Evil Greymon.
I choked on a sob as I covered my eyes again; not believing that the sweet orange dino we were friends with was capable of something like this.
"Listen to me, SkullGreymon, if you're really the digivolved form of Greymon, then you can't hurt me!" Tai yelled.
"Tai, get outta there!" Matt yelled as SkullGreymon chased after my brother.
I pulled my hands away from my face to see what was happening and wished it wasn't.
Garurumon and Birdramon tried to protect Tai, but SkullGreymon just swatted them away like they were flies.
"Leave it to me." Tentomon said.
"Tentomon digivolve too…KABUTERIMON!"
The three Champions were ready to try and protect the rest of us as my brother made it to safety, the black cables crackling with sparks around the field.
SkullGreymon picked up the soccer net that we were trapped in and threw it at us, making us all run away to not get hit, me actually trying to stay away from my brother.
Birdramon, Garurumon and Kabuterimon used their attacks on SkullGreymon, but he just brushed them off like they were nothing and swatted the three away again.
SkullGreymon, bored with us, started going on a rampage all around the place, destroying everything in place.
He stopped in his place as black smoke wafted off of him and he glowed gold, all of us running over to him.
"I wonder what happened." Izzy yelled as we ran.
"His energy ran out." Tentomon explained as we saw the monster shrink and turn back into a worn out Koromon.
"He's Koromon again." TK said.
Tai slid down the sand dune and ran to his partner.
"Are you all right?" he asked picking him up.
"Well, yes, but…I've done some terrible, horrible things." He whimpered sadly as he saw the destruction he had done.
"I savagely attacked three of my fellow digimon." He said sdly looking close to tears.
"It wasn't your fault." Biyomon said.
"She's right." Gabumon agreed with the pink bird.
"We completely understand." Tentomon said.
"I'm sorry I didn't live up to your expectations of me, Tai." Koromon said looking down.
"It's not your fault." Matt said as he walked over.
"I know who's to blame." The blonde said as my brother stood up.
"I know, it's all my fault. I'm really, really sorry." My brother said miserably.
"I didn't mean to put it all on you, Tai." Matt said.
"It's OK; it's my fault, right, Sora?' Tai asked looking at the girl.
"You got that right." I said making everyone look at me as I glared at my brother.
"You were so stupid. The reason why Agumon became that monster is all because of you. You've been acting like a complete and total joke ever since you got that Crest and if this is what's gonna happen each time me find a Crest, then I don't even want one! I don't wanna hurt anyone, especially V-Mon and I definitely never want to be anything like YOU!" I yelled.
Everyone stared at me in shock, but I just turned away from them and started walking, V-Mon close at my side to make sure I didn't get hurt.
"Dai, that was a bad thing to say." He said.
I closed my eyes as tears of frustration, horror and heartbreak fell down my face.
"Dai?" he asked placing a hand on my shoulder.
"You don't know…what it's like…to see your hero…become…something you hate." I sobbed.
V-Mon was giving me a sympathetic look as he hugged me from behind, trying to get me to calm down, but I don't think this was going to happen.
I never felt like this before and it was tearing me apart inside and I wish it would stop.
How can I ever face my brother again after this?
TBC