Quinglongmon=Azulongmon
Darkness... The deepest darkness he had ever seen.
Where was he?
Joe immediately knew that they had failed. He could see a boy held up by his neck and a claw of Phelsmon piercing the boy's chest.
Joe knew the boy would die, maybe was already dead. They had been late by a few seconds. The chance of victory slipping from their hands at the same speed that life was leaving the boy. There was nothing he could do. No Doctor could save him anymore. Joe ripped his eyes of the dying boy back to the situation at hand.
He was only a few hundred feet away, together with the other Digidesined. They all had just reentered the Dgiworld from Izzy´s room. Arriving in the usual pile of limps and complains.
But now everyone was stopped dead in their tracks. Silence drowning even the sound of MetalGarurumon´s battle.
Tai was the first to snap out of it.
"Agumon evolve!" He ordered in an agitated voice.
Agumon already ran towards Phelsmon. "Agumon warp shinka! WarGreymon!"
"Get Phelsmon off him!"
"Right!" WarGreymon took off, flying close above the ground.
Only when WarGreymon was blocked by a few Dimogemon and Digmon the others came to live as well and followed suit. Imperialdramon FighterMode, Aquilamon, Angewomon, Holyangemon, Ankylomon, Garudamon, Zudomon and Lilimon entered the battle. They had the advantage in levels, but not numbers. Also they couldn´t just delete the other Digimon. Because of that the Digidestined ended up not getting close to Phelsmon and the boy.
The Digimon created a living wall.
Joe and the other Digidesined approached as far as they dared to without hindering their partners. Only hundred feet away they stopped again. Everyone but Davis and Tai stopped.
"Wargreymon!" He heard Tai yell. "Open us a path!"
Wargreymon didn´t answer, just changed his tactic as did the others.
Joe half wondered what they could possibly gain by going themselves. Phelsmon was an ultra for goddess shake, but then again that was part of both ot their characters. Recklessness and not thinking. Joe watched them push forward only to be locked by another Digimon again, which was kicked or tackled out of their way shortly after. He had always been respected Tai for that kind of persistence but at the same time he wished for their leader to be more careful. Watching this was not good for already raw nerves.
A bone ripping scream silenced the battlefield yet again. Joe searched for the source and ended up grapping his doctor bag and taking off after Tai and Davis. This was the Digiworld. It was not impossible for someone to survive a stab through the chest. He could beat himself for not realizing that earlier.
The boy didn´t stop screaming and Joe saw him gripping the arm at his gut and struggle painfully, as if trying to get the claw out of his chest. His eyes were strangely empty and unfocused, seeing a different reality.
The situation changed after the most painful scream yet.
Joe couldn´t belive his eyes. To him it seemed now as if the boy wanted to stop the claw from leaving. The bones shone through his skin. Blood dripping from the many wounds he had endured. Dyeing the grass red.
He didn´t succeed. As the claw left him the boy became unnatural silent and still. Not moving a muscle. Or maybe he couldn´t move.
Joe noticed that Phelsmon had pulled something red out of the boy, but that wasn´t important. He wrestled with his sanity, because he saw that there was no wound whatsoever where the claw had left the body. And yet the boy seemed like dead -and maybe he was- when Phelsmon dropped him and lifted a glass container instead. A triumphant smile on his face.
Joe had left half the distance behind him, Davis and Tai even more.
"You want him?" Joe heard Phelsmon ask after he had put the red object- a flame as Joe saw now- into the glass bottle. "You can have him." He kicked the boy towards Tai and Davis, who caught him in midair.
Phelsmon no longer bothered with them.
"We are done here!" He took off into the sky. The Digmon and Drimogemon started to retreat as well, Joe realized when he crossed the field almost unhindered.
"Don´t let him get away,WarGreymon! Shoot him down!" Tai ordered angry, putting the boy slowly down at the ground before running off.
Joe heard another battle erupt above him, but he paid it no mind.
"Joe, something is wrong with him!" Davis informed him just as Joe arrived.
The boy was alive, but… Blood had colored his uniform red. His entire body was covered in scratches and open wounds. His brown eyes were glazed over starring into empty space. The boy´s breathing was irregular and short. As if gasping for air. From time to time a finger twitched, revealing the bare skin he gained from gripping too hard.
Joe immediately started checking for problems with his lungs. There were none.
Then it had to be mentally. He couldn´t do anything about that. Only hope that the boy had enough will to live left. Joe was about to start treating a wound at the shoulder when he noticed the breathing rhythm change. He halted his action. It turned to fast and short breaths. Shaking the boy´s entire body in the process.
He hyperventilated.
"Gaia Force!"
To Joe´s shame his attention was momentarily caught by WarGreymon´s attack.
The red ball of energy closed in on Phelsmon and for a second Joe thought that would be the end of him, but it wasn't. He saw Phelsmon raise the glass container against the attack.
At the same time the boy rose swaying to his feet. Joe wanted to push him back down but retreaded a few steps instead. The boy was radiating with such heat that Joe had to retread if he didn´t want to get burned.
Davis and Tai were long lost on the battlefield and no one else seemed to notice. Everyone´s attention was on Phelsmon and GaiaForce in the sky.
Just as GaiaForce made contact with it´s victim the boy started screaming again. His face showing terrible pain. Tears were streaming down from his blue eyes but evaporated before they could even reach his chin.
Joe watched frozen as the boys expression turned from pain to determination. Simultaneous the GaiaForce in the sky had died out and revealed an unharmed Phelsmon to eveyones surprise.
Joe retreated another step when the boy suddenly started burning.
He was still screaming. But it was different now. It was no longer caused by pain.
Phelsmon looked down at the boy with an amused smile. But his expression turned to shock immediately.
It quickly glanced at the glass container in his claws and then back to the boy. As if seeing a connection. Joe, too, realized something. The flame in the container was resonating with the boy. The bigger the boys flames got, the bigger the flame in the container grew.
"Stop that!" Phelsmon screamed and it shot towards them. Trident ahead like a lance ready to impale whatever crossed it´s path. WarGreymon and Imperialdramon quickly caught it far away from them in midair.
"STOP IT!" Phelsmon shouted. Joe returned his attention to the boy. Wondering what made Pheslsmon that desperate.
By now the boy was completely covered by a flaming cloak. And yet the fire did not spread to the plain. Only the boy was burning, beaming in bright orange blazes.
It was as like the flames had a will, Joe thought.
The fire grew bigger and brighter with the boy´s raising voice. As did the flame in the container.
With a new yell the container burst.
The voice overlapped with a dreadful roar as the flames covering him took form.
Joe watched in awe; two shadows were looming in the flames. Both bigger than the boy. One had the size of a tall human; the other was about WarGreymon´s high. But neither was human.
Both, the shadows and the flames disappeared when the boy´s voice finally died out.
Joe saw the boy sink to the ground with an expression of utter happiness.
Again everything was quiet.
Joe was the first to snap out of it this time. He hurried back to the boy´s side to tread the injuries.
He ignored the new battle between a running Phelsmon and Imperiadramon. The other two Mega remained to stand guard.
"Good job, everyone."
"Yeah, good job my ass," Tai mumbled out of the mountain that has come into existence in Izzy´s room." We were too late in case you forgot."
"Not quiet. He is still alive, isn´t he?"Izzy pointed out.
"That depends; does it count as alive if one starts burning at random moments?" Tai countered while he crawled out of the mountain.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, while I treated him he started to burn sometimes. Not all over, but like his arms or cheeks; he reduced half of my bandages to ashes." Joe´s voice explained from somewhere. Tai couldn´t see him from his position on the ground.
"Really?" Tai saw curiosity sparkle in Izzy´s eyes. But he caught himself.
"Yeah, that´s why we should hurry and get him out of this mountain. I don´t want to end up like the bandages." Half freed Tai searched for a bandaged body in the mountain on top of him. "There he is. Below TK. Mind pulling him out, Izzy? But be careful, he isn´t exactly in the best of states."
"Or so I heard." Izzy proceeded to untangle limps and heads with the help of some already freed others.
"Ken and Davis are following Phelsmon, did you know?" Tai asked while he was still rendered immobile on the ground.
"Yeah, Yolei send a report a few minutes ago. I don´t think it was such a good idea. Even if Imperialdramon is a Mega. But Davis won´t listen of course."
"Why? It´s not like Phelsmon could defeat him." Cody stated from the side lines. He didn´t want to be in the way.
"Phelsmon shouldn´t have been able to catch up to MetalGarurumon, either. And yet he did."
"I was wondering about that. It followed me the whole time, and then it appeared in front of us. How is that possible?" Gabumon, too, had moved to the side lines.
"Not to mention the ambush." Matt added from above Tai somewhere. "Or are you saying he had all the Digimon on standby for god knows how long?"
"I don´t know. It is really disturbing. I need to discuss this with Gennai before I can say anything.
Anyway, Cody would you mind getting my mom? We need somebody to take care of our patient."
"Shouldn´t he go to the hospital?" Cody asked.
"You´d have to ask Joe about that, but he can´t go to the hospital either way. He starts burning, right? We can´t exactly go and say: 'please take care of him, but be careful he might start burning. You need to watch him 24/7 or the hospital will get reduced to rubble.' We can´t do that."
Cody nodded and left the other Digidestined to themselves, while he went to tell Mrs. Izumi.
"So what do we do now?" Kari asked when she sat down on Izzy´s bed. Gatomon on her shoulder.
"Are you going to send us searching again?" Tai was finally able to stand up. The room was cramped with Digimon and humans.
"Yeah, we only found one. 5 are still left."
"And we don´t even get an explanation? I for my part sure would like to know what´s going on with these children. He was on fire, Izzy! He was burning like a human torch. And even more important, Phelsmon was able to withstand a full power GaiaForce." Tai remembered with a frown how Phelsmon didn´t even get a scratch.
"It can´t be helped. We don´t have time. Joe will remain here to describe exactly what has happened. Representative or not, no human should be able to survive a stab through the chest after all."
"So they are human?"Gatomon wondered." But I did hear a roar. Are you sure?"
"I heard that too!" All eyes turned to Agumon. "It was a dragon´s roar! I know it!"
"I heard two other voices." Gabumon added.
"Well, whatever it was, I will mail you after I got a clear understanding of the situation. Who wants to go first? I set the gate to the Giga House."
After a few minutes Izzy´s mother had picked the boy up and the only ones left to go were Mimi and Cody.
"Cody can go ahead. Palmon and I still have something we want to ask." Mimi gestured towards the screen.
"But we have too." Armadimon protested.
Izzy raised an eyebrow at them. "Then just ask. We don´t have time. It was already way too close for comfort this time."
Mimi and Palmon traded unsure glances. To Izzy´s surprise Armadimon and Cody did the same.
"Well, you see…",Palmon started, "in this battle it felt like something was… blocking my strength. I couldn´t move as I wanted to."
Izzy raised his second eyebrow. He looked at Armadimon.
"My movements were stopped. And I felt weak. I almost devolved."
Izzy sighed. It wasn´t unexpected, but he could hope, right?
"I wrote that in my mail, didn´t I. If the enemy gets their hands on these children we would lose our means to fight back.
That is what I was talking about. Sadly this only confirms that they indeed have earth and wood already.
See what I mean? If the enemy gets their hands on a representative even attacks like GaiaForce of the same element are completely useless.
We mustn´t let the enemy have them.
Luckily fire is save for now, which means that all fire type-digimon are free of enemy influence. So they don´t run the danger of ending up like the Digimon you fought.
The Digmon and Drimogemon were most likely controlled with the earth´s representative. If the enemy gets all of them ther would be no element left that could damage the opponent. Not even darkness."
"Wait a minute, doesn´t that mean that there are more than six?" Cody asked confused. "For each element one, right? That makes ten."
"No." Izzy shoke his head and prepared the next portal, "Earth, Water, Wood and Steal don´t have human representatives. In fact they don´t even have a physical body. And that is the reason why we assume that the enemy already has these four by the way. Without a body they couldn´t resist during the dimensional breach."
"Resist what?"
"The enemy of course. Apparently the representatives were kidnapped from their home dimension. And only the children managed to escape."
"How do you know all that?"Armadimon wondered aloud.
Izzy smiled. "Because the second the dimensional breach happened Gennai was contacted by that dimensions digital ruler. Same as Quinglongmon here. We got some information from her.
So who wants first now?" Izzy stepped aside and revealed a waste desert on the screen.
-Hours earlier-
"The signal is getting stronger!" The voice of a young man shouted.
"Keep recording the data!" Gennai was standing in a huge room with several lookalikes and shouting orders. "Henry, be careful with the identification! Harry, make sure you calculate the landing point!"
The room was oval and filled with countless technical equipment. Genais lookalikes attended to one each writing furiously notes down.
Despite the seriousness and hectic it was almost too quiet for Gennai´s taste. The whole situation did not sit well with him.
The signal they been receiving for the past hours had suddenly grown stronger and almost doubled its size. This was the climax, Gennai was sure, but he didn´t like it one bit. Whatever comes had almost made it. Gennai looked at the huge monitor that hung from the ceiling. It showed a continuously rising line. As if the line was climbing a steep mountain. Soon it would be a vertical line. Gennai guessed that then the 'visitors' would arrive.
Almost. He felt his hand getting sweaty. Almost. He swallowed his nervousness and continued to stare.
Simultaneous with the fall of the line a loud noise filled the room.
"Gennai! We have an incoming transmission!" One of his lookalikes reported, offering him a headset.
"Keep record of everything that is going on!" He ordered before listening to the transmission.
"This is….mon….Clestial….spirits….ores….stol….children….wer…." Gennai typed a few orders into a machine and pressed some buttons. Shortly afterwards the transmission was clear of noises.
"This is Ofanimon of the Clestial Digimon. The spirits of our Warriors were stolen. Six responding children have disappeared as well. Request answer." A woman´s voice kept repeating the message. After a second of consideration Gennai decided to answer. Ofanimon was an angel type Digimon after all. And one of the strongest at that.
The possibility of a fake remained however.
"This is Gennai, subordinate of Lord Quinglongmon. Lady Ofanimon, what makes you contact us?"Gennai questioned the Angel.
"Make the signal stronger." He whispered to his clone.
"I thank you very much for responding to our call, Gennai.
My name is Ofanimon and I´m one of this dimensions rulers. I fear my reason for contact is not a pleasant one. This dimensions protectors- the Legendary Warriors' spirits- have been stolen removed from here. Six Destined children have disappeared as well. We traced the signal and have reached you. I ask, is it possible that said have arrived in your dimension?"
"I am very sorry, Lady Ofanimon, but as long as our side has no way of confirming your identity I cannot answer that question." He looked for confirmation to his co-workers. "However we are working on establishing visual contact."
"….I see. Please do your best. In the meantime I shall inform you only with knowledge of our stolen spirits and children. In the wrong hands said ones pose a huge thread, but because we are not able to confirm your identity either the information shall be kept to a minimum. Is that quite all right with you?" The woman's voice didn´t waver, but Gennai thought he could hear worry buried beneath a diplomatic voice.
"It is. Please proceed."
"Very well.
Our Spirit System consists of 10 different warriors.
We suspect that six of the spirits resonated with their responding Digidestined when they were stolen and –maybe from both sides, spirits and children unintentional- summoned the children with them into the rift. Should that be the case six spirits would have united with the children, or so we believe. The other four Spirits however do not possess a physical body."
"Understood."
"The children are between 13 and 16 years old. We ask that you inform them of the situation and if possible take care of them until we have found a way to make a return possible."
"If I may ask, Lady Ofanimon, what would make someone want to steal said spirits?"
"I´m sorry, but I shall not answer that question."
"Indeed." Gennai finally answered. He had a lot to take in." I can establish a visual." Gennai´s eyes flashed to the speaker. "Then do so now." Gennai hoped to catch the other side off guard so that the had no time to prepare fakes or an illusion.
Gennai looked up at the hanging monitor. It blacked out for second before showing a beautiful female angel Digimon and two other angels in the background. Gennai recognized them immediately. They were all powerful holy angel type Digimon. He made a quick bow.
"Lady Ofanimon, Lord Cherubimon, Lord Serafimon. Please allow me to apologize for my previous rudeness."
Ofanimon smiled gently. "It matters not. We only worry about the children."
"I do not know if our information can ease my lady's worries, but we have indeed confirmed a breach in our dimension since yesterday. It reached its climax just as my lady contacted us. We, however are still not accustomed to dimensional reactions which is why we don´t know what has entered.
It was described as a 'huge existence' by a Digidestined, who felt the breach. " Gennai wondered if he should have said matter how accurate it was but a feeling, nothing scientific.
"Thank you very much. Then our children must have arrived already. A Spirit´s existence is quite 'huge' as you put. I trust they are save under Lord Quinglongmon´s rule?"
"It hurts me to disappoint you, Lady Ofanimon.
We are currently facing a crisis; an army consisting of a few hundred evil ultimate and mega level Digimon has invaded our dimension. Or so we believe. Just yesterday we have confirmed a moving stronghold-
"A moving stronghold, you say?
Oh my, please excuse my interruption."
"Yes, and the leader has been identified as a Phelsmon. We are currently in no position to guarantee your children´s safety. I am very sorry. " He lowered his gaze apologetic. He didn´t like to pass bad news to the angels. He was programmed to pay highest respect to holy Digimon and not to disappoint them.
"May I ask, as Digidestined shouldn´t the children be protected by their partners? "
"…"
"Lady Ofanimon?" The Digimon had turned around and appeared to be talking about something with her fellow angels. It wasn´t transmitted what they were talking about, but it seemed to be a heated discussion.
After a few minutes she returned her attention to Gennai.
"I would like to know, the moving stronghold -as you described it- did it happen to be as huge as an entire city? Was it shaped like horizontal hourglass colored in black?"
"So I have been told." A bad foreboding made it´s way to Gennai´s conscience. He didn´t like the underlying note in her voice.
"I see. It seems that your dimension has caught the attention of some rather cunning Digimon.
I am sorry to inform you, but Phelsmon is not the leader. It is but one out of many subordinates. The highest in command we know of is a Murmukusmon. And it too is not the leader.
What worries me however, is the fortress. It is made of a special material that has close relations with every element. There is little hope that said ones are not the culprits who stole our Spirits.
The Spirits are representatives of one element each and wield power over it. Should the spirits be fused with the fortress I dare say that it would become resistant to every element and as such invulnerable."She continued in a sad voice.
"Sadly there is more; if utilized correctly said enemy might gain control over every Digimon with said attribute.
Would you please tell me, what kind of readings did the dimensional breach produced?"
"The signal seemed to have split in seven once it entered," Gennai informed her as soon as he found out himself.
"That I feared. We suspect that one of the seven readings symbolizes four spirits without a human host. The four had no body to resist the thief with and were taken quietly."
A small smile appeared on Ofanimons lips. "The other six are most likely the children. It matters not how strong a Digimon is; during a dimension breach will power is more important than physical strength. As DigiDestined our children all have quite a strong will. There is no doubt in my mind that the children managed to escape; especially with the spirits backing them."The smile disappeared from her lips and voice.
Previously you ….. partners would protect ….." Lady Ofanimon showed no sign that she noticed the sudden static interference, but Gennai had no doubt that she hurried with the transmission; wanting to get as many information over to them as possible.
….not know what partner means in your dimension, but let me inform …. children cannot protect themselves. Even if the Spirits are with them, without a Digivice they cannot ….. but exist within the host body.
Let ….., the Spirits ….enemy possesses now are ….. of water, ear…, steel and wood. ….children ….. Spirits of fire, wind,… ,thun…., light and …... as you …. have gue…..
….. no….now ...det…. of …ation, but …ad…. -" The connection died and static replaced the three angels on the monitor.
"What to do now?" Gennai mumbled to himself. His priority had just changed to an all-out race against an evil army with possible control over about 40% of al Digimon in existence.
"Someone summarize the events and sent a report to Lord Quinglongmon!
From now on our priority is to get those children to safety, preferably to the human world!" Gennai put the headset down." Harry, do you have the locations?"
"No, our radars are being jammed. I can´t pick anything up."
"Keep trying and inform me as soon as you get something. And someone order a search of the entire Digiworld! Not one of us can be allowed to do nothing. If we lose this race our chances of victory will be annihilated!" Gennai left the room and made his way through the castle to his own personal office. He had to mail Izzy and get the Digidestined to move.
Another chapter done.
I must have twisted my brain trying to make Ofanimon speak as elegantly as possible. xd
At this rate it is only a matter of time until i won´t be able to keep up my uploading speed. I guess it is to be expected. I´ve almost caught up with my imagination, but let see how far i can go.
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