Digimon Infinity: Soul combination.
Chapter 1The awakening of the soul
"Falling down a void. I was in a dream once, or at least, I think it was one. Everything was pure black. I was alone with my thoughts, but I had nothing on my mind as clouds of mist formed in this dark void. It felt like an eternity, until a platform of light set me off to a journey I could never return from…"
A young man descending head first into emptiness opened his eyes. His mind was full of doubts, but nothing coherent enough to put into words. Eventually, he slowed down onto a circular platform. He had no recollection or memory at the time, he was standing there in his purest form. Instinctively, he observed his surroundings, only to see nothing.
The young man wore his usual clothes, a ragged pair of jeans that had tears in them, it was surrounding by chains, out of his pockets came wide orange straps. He wore pretty basic brown shoes, there were no laces or anything, they were attached to his feet above his ankles as if they were sucking his feet. Aside from that, he had orange socks on.
He wore an orange tank-top underneath a deep-blue jacket with red detailing and zippers. On his orange tank-top was a dark blue sun design and inside said sun design was a red outline of a sun about to be devoured by a dragon. He wore a not-so-big sky-blue scarf around his neck, on top of the scarf were goggles. His jacket had one long sleeve on his left arm, but the sleeve on his right arm was torn off. A red marking of a dragon that was all over his arm could be seen. Orange fabric were in parts wrapped around certain areas of his right arm.
He had brown hair, some his bangs were long and went straight to his neck, some strands of his hair were orange, the back of his hair spiked backwards, it almost looked like it froze on a rollercoaster. His eyes were orange, but faintly had other colors mixed within his iris.
Words were transmitted to him, he could see them floating around, but he needn't read them, they were sent to his mind, without a voice.
"Young man, welcome to the realm of souls. As of now, nothing seems to exist, but that is merely as far as you can see. Let me guide you to your souls, where your deepest questions sleep, and where your decisions shall forge your true nature. Your time to mature, has come. Take your first step to adulthood.
The young man had no fear, he looked slightly puzzled by the words send to him, but didn't see the need to question it, it felt natural for some reason. Three roads were generated before him. More words transferred to his mind, asking him, "Which path do you seek? The left will lead you to the sky, perhaps even space if you are willing to take risks. The middle path leaves you on the ground as you walk the earth, keeping to yourself. Mayhap you shall find advancement of utility and civility. Or take the road to beneath the surface, be aware, monsters exist in there, and you could become one yourself."
Without even hesitating, the adolescent moved. He didn't think hard at all, he simply chose the left path nonchalantly.
"So…You are willing to risk your life. Is it for greatness? To protect others? Could it be, it seemed the most exciting to you? Whatever it may be, your later decisions will be reflected in your soul, remember that.", Words passed by him as he arrived at another circular platform.
Below him were mist-like clouds. As soon as he moved to the middle of a new blue platform he was on. The blue platform had an art piece of the sky, with a flock of birds heading for the sun, and a dragon descending from the clouds.
As he moved in the middle, figures of men and women appeared near around the circle.
"What do you think of your fellow men and women?"
"There are five humans here, all live different lives and have different morals. How shall you judge them?"
The man in front of you is absolutely perfect. He is able to do everything. His intelligence led him to become a doctor. Yet, he was an athlete as well, his strength was astounding.
When he comes to you and brags how he has won something, how will you react?"
"Congratulate him? sneer at him? Ignore him? Challenge him? Get along him and think nothing of it?"? With those suggestions behind him, the boy walked up to the man and said, "I will surpass you. In my own way."
"The person to your right is a girl who is kind to everyone but herself. She takes many things seriously. Can act both sweet and cold depending on the situation. She is out to help and correct everyone, but doesn't speak up for herself if someone is unkind to her. She doesn't help herself, and is stuck with people that don't treat her well. She never dares take a step into a new direction out of her own will.", was what was told to the young man.
"How would you treat her? Kindly? Or do you perhaps dislike her? Would you help her? Or Ignore her?"
With those questions, the young men choice none of those options. With a friendly smile, he told her, "Learn to do whatever you want. Say what you want, do what you want."
"Motivating her. That is your choice."
"The boy to your left is kind of a loser. His luck is the worst. He has no friends. He keeps to himself. He doesn't enjoy much. However, he is willing to help others, not as a hero, but as some passer-by who had nothing to do. He is rather smart and goes along with someone else's flow when he is not alone."
"Would you befriend him? Or would you stay away from him? Does his presence creep you out? Or do you think him interesting? Or do you simple not care?"
The young man didn't even care about those questions. He simply gave the guy a friendly greeting and told him to join him whenever he feels like.
"Alight. The woman in the back next to a boy, she is one who uses others. She tricks, she deceives, she plays a character to entice others. Once one becomes useless to her, she will lose interest and make sure the other person can't contact her. Upon ending deeper relations, she makes sure one gets destroyed so she gets raised up."
The young man looked back to see a woman with a smile, he noticed a shadow looming over her face.
"How would you interact with her? Would you be tricked by her too? Would her looks deprive you of all reason? Would you hate her? Would you not mind her being like that?", the young man didn't give it any thought. He just looked away with a disappointed expression and walked to another young man next to her.
"Not interested in that type of person"
"The final young man you are looking at, is someone with a heart that is evil. He has a cruel personality. He enjoys seeing others in distress, perhaps he even feels delighted to see others in pain. For his own goals, he sees no issue in getting rid, or even killing any man in his way.", were words written in the air.
The young man was hard to describe. It was like his eyes, hair, and clothes were shrouded in darkness. Only his evil grin could be described.
As he stared at the vile young man as if everything around him disappeared. He moved in front of him whilst letters were written next to the young man's head.
"What would you do, facing him? Attack him? Wait until he attacks, to make it self-defense? Or do you perhaps not care what he does or what happens around you? Do you hate him? Or could it be…Do you admire him? You could also be as dark as him after all. Wat will you do or say to him?"
He who had been questioned, looked at the young man with a defeated face, only being able to ask, "…Why?"
"So, you question him? You want to know why he is like that? Why he does what he does? Alright. it has been noted. The connections you'll get will be written in your soul… Choose. One person, you want to be friends with. And…One person. You'll never cross paths with."
So the words told him.
He went over to someone who looked the same age as him, that guy who kept to himself.
"You choose to be friends with him? He, who prefers to be alone?"
The young man nodded.
"Very well. Now. Throw one off the platform, so you may never meet them. It could be a rival you are afraid of. It could be a dangerous enemy. Or someone you just hate."
The young man chose no one. He stood in the middle, not moving.
"You choose none? No hate, fear, or any other feeling will make you want to distance yourself from another person? Very well. I shall allow it…"
When he read those words, the platform underneath him shatters. He fell into an abyss, for a few seconds, he looked scared.
"Now…Pick your element…If you don't…You may not wake ever again…"
Were words he could read as flames, thunder, wind, earth, metal, ice, light, plants, and a dark energy fell his way. The light of fire reflected in his eyes, he reached his hand out, it seemed like he instantly got to the fire. Without hesitation, he grabbed hold of the flames. The blazing fire transferred over to his entire body, with a burst of fire following that, the dark void lit up in a huge fire that erased all other elements.
The young man was floating slowly as a burning aura surrounded him. The fire was blown away as he landed on yet another platform. This platform had an art piece of a beautiful forest with pretty rivers and a great mountain behind it, but it also had another half with a factory near an active volcano shrouded in dark clouds.
"You chose the flames of courage. Now. Pick a weapon."
The young man looked confused as weapons started to come out of the ground.
A sword, , a gun, a whip, a trident, a pair of bracelets, an axe, a staff. A bow, and a book appeared in front of him.
He put more thought into this one. He almost wanted to go for the bracelets, but a single moment of doubt led his eyes to the sword. To his eyes it pulsated, then, he felt the heat of fire around him. In the end, he picked up the sword. Before he knew it, a long stairway to another platform was formed.
"You chose the sword. You want to be a warrior. You may want to rise to the top, in an honorable way."
After taking the blade, the young man moved further. He ran over the white lit stairway unto another platform. This one had an art piece of various creatures fighting amongst themselves.
Once he stood in the middle, he heard a grumbling sound.
With wide eyes, he looked over at his rear, on the edge of the platform behind him, stood a dinosaur. All around the platform were different creatures.
A beast. An insect. A robot. A living plant. A fish. A bird. An angelic being. A demon.
These were the monsters that were all around the platform.
"Many believe that their soul is linked to a certain animal. However, for you, it is these creatures in which your soul is inscribed. Which one do you think belongs to you?"
The young man calmed down. They weren't moving just yet. He walked over to the dinosaur. At first, it appeared fierce to him. But upon coming closer, he noticed that its eyes were round and gave him the feeling that it wasn't hostile at all. As he came closer, he could hear it make noises, but they almost rather felt…Cute. As he reached the dinosaur, it lowered its head to the young man.
He gave it a pat on the head, the dinosaur closed its eyes enjoying his affection. As the young man smiled at it in satisfaction, words around him read as such, "Indeed. This dinosaur best reflects your soul. However, one always has a natural enemy."
Once he read that, he turned around. Some big wolf-like creature charged at him.
His heart raised, his face looked strained, but he grabbed the sword and moved forward regardless.
His movement was stiff, but in spite of that, he delivered one great strike. With his sword swing, flames burst out and created two walls of fire as the wolf creature was cut in half.
"You fought it. You did not even think of using the creature to fight for you. You jumped in yourself in order to protect a dinosaur, which is way more powerful. Yes. Your soul has been truly realized."
The words surrounded the man, he calmed down, wanting to read more.
"You are a boy who wants to reach the top. One who prefers to get along with anyone, even if you don't like them. You aren't afraid to berate them either. If it is for another, you will give your everything. This is your soul as of now. However, you may not realize it yourself. Your soul will grow with you. As you understand this, it will grow stronger."
The words suddenly had shaken a bit as it read, "But be warned Your soul is still fluctuating. It grows as you do. Your decisions will change you, and your experiences will shape your soul otherwise than what it may naturally. Be unwise, and your soul will darken forever." These were the last words he read before he fell off a breaking platform, swallowed by darkness.
He opened his eyes, but quickly closed it as a light beaming from his window hurt his eyes. Cautiously, he slowly opened them again as his blurry vision was starting to focus. He woke up on his bed to the right wall of his messy room. He instantly sat straight up and stretched. Afterwards, he looked around his room, ignoring all of the snack packaging and items on the ground and empty cans on his shelf and pc desk.
"A dream? What was that…? Eh…I already don't remember how it went.", he said to himself.
He rose and revved himself up as he looked at a mirror attached to a door of his wardrobe, "Alright, Taishimu, get your act together! The fact that I had a weird dream must be because I am late! Did you hear an alarm? No? BECAUSE YOU SLEPT THROUGH IT AGAIN DUMBASS! So, let's go!"
Name: Kinka Taishimu. His name is often shortened to, "Taimu"
Age: 16
Height: 169 CM
Occupation: High School Student.
Suddenly, Taimu felt a pulse. In his head, a mental image of an egg pounding like a heart entered his mind, but it was gone in the blink of an eye.
"…What was that?", buffoonish, he looked around in his room. The image went too fast to register in his mind, he just ignored it and just brushed his teeth.
"Hi. My name is Kinka Taishimu, but most just call me Taimu. I am often mocked as that guy with dreams too big to reach. Like I live in my own little world. Hey, it is not my fault you guys are just too weak minded you don't do what you want! Well, not that I really hate them for it or anything.", he thought to himself as he was preparing to head out.
"After all, I am a weird one. Recently, I feel lost. Like I don't know who I am. I want to be the best, doesn't matter at what, as long as it is something. But I don't have any close friends, and my parents haven't been back in years. Some guy or girl comes around to take care of my family's home, usually when I am at school. So, I am all alone and unmotivated in this house. Without any guidance, how would I know how to behave? And that's why I just do what I want!"
After thinking all that, he grabbed his bag and headed outside.
"I've started writing a journal so that I can look back and remember what I was thinking before I really lose myself. It's kind of funny. These thoughts are what I am going to write down anyway, why am I thinking about this now?"
As he ran outside, he saw all these tall buildings surrounding his home. Most had screens on them. They showed large creatures roaming otherworldly areas, or they show other people doing things.
"Tyranomon! Hit him straight on!", these words stopped Taimu from running.
He shifted his view to two boys on the road with what looked like one big holographic field between them.
"Digimon…", he said as he watched a red dinosaur with a pretty bulky head shoot a flaming shot at another monster that had the appearance of a black bomb with arms and legs and the facial features of some old dude.
"Crap!", the boy with the dinosaur noticed it used one half of its body to take the blow.
"Good, Bombernanimon! Now! Slide to the side and blow him up!", the other boy shouted.
Whilst it defended itself with its right arm and side, he turned slightly as he let a bomb explode behind himself to get to Tyranomon, giving it no way to respond.
"Old-man explosion punch!", despite damaging itself, Bombernanimon knocked Tyranomon far back with an explosion.
"Many have a digivice and have these monsters fight each other in these digital fields. They get recovered instantly in the digivice, and there is no damage done to the area. It has basically become a famous sport.", Taimu thought to himself.
Each of the boys had two more Digimon. Alongside Bombarnanimon was a Digimon that looked like a pirate captain, with a big golden hook-arm. and an oversized musket on his left arm.
"Captain Cannon!", it said as it fired a cannonball from its musket.
Next to it was Revolmon, A Digimon with a cowboy costume whose face is covered in shadow with yellow glowing eyes being the only visible thing of his face. Aside from that, his torso is a revolver, and he held two other revolvers in his hands.
"Justice Bullet!", it said as it fired a giant bullet from his torso.
Tyranomon got barraged by these attacks, however, its tamer had a counterattack ready.
"Destruction Grenade!", could be heard as two flying missiles nearly hit Revolmon and Hookmon. Out of the smoke near Tyranomon came a bulky bronze machine Digimon, Guardromon. It easily took some attacks for Tyranomon.
"Snipe fang!", A shadow appeared behind Bombernanimon, biting it. Bombernanimon noticed it too late, to stop it, but did seem to have an opportunity to counter it. The Digimon covered in dark flames saw it coming and pushed its mouth back before hitting Bombernanimon further away from it.
"DarkLizardmon! Use the mist to escape!", so his tamer said.
"Dark Pain!", it said as it created symbols of mist, but instead of using electric attacks like usual, it used it as a cover to escape.
The fight they were having was quite intense. Taimu often looked at these and knew these two were experienced players.
Both of them felt driven into a corner. They held out their digivices.
"Guardromon, Darklizardmon, Convert!"
"Hookmon, Revolmon, Convert!"
Both of them were yelling, "Data Transfer!", as their called out digimon turned to data and entered their digivices. Later, they were shot out like beams at their own Digimon.
Their Digimon absorbed the data and were changing shape.
"Tyranomon, Evolution!", Tyranomon changed into a white dinosaur with metallic body parts, his body was surrounded by a bunch of cables. He also had gotten huge.
"MetalTyranomon!", he called out its name.
"Bombernanimon, Evolution!", he said as he got a bit smaller. His main body was smaller than his rather large metal limbs. His left arm was a cannon, and his right arm had a red glove with metal claws on them. He had a metal helmet over his red body and wore metallic boots.
"Metalmamemon!", was the name it called out.
"Of course, they can do that too! Only three Digimon can exit the digivice at once. Two of them can be temporarily used as data for one to make him evolve. Digimon have evolution stages, Baby, Child, Adult, Perfect, Ultimate. Going up a stage gives them great strength, new abilities, stronger artillery, and in some cases, greater intelligence. They can also devolve, even by choice. That is why no one hesitates to just evolve them using data conversion.", Taimu noted to himself.
Metalmamemon had to dodge a bunch of moving lasers coming from MetalTyranomon, after its swift evasion, it fired its cannon right in front of the cyborg-dinosaur. As smoke was cleared away, it was revealed Metaltyranomon had blocked it with one claw, and he quickly thrust his other claw forward at Metalmamemon. In return, Metamamemon had decided to use its own claw to create one powerful clash.
After watching it intensely, another mental image of that egg pulsating came into his head, this time, a crack was visible.
He wanted to think about it, but as the gears in his mind spun, he just realized he was going to be even later for school. Not really in a panic, but with high tension, he ran further to his school.
"It's the year, 2030. Eight years ago, mankind discovered a whole other world bordering ours. It was a digital world. Its connection was through our devices and its networks. The digital world was home to Digital monsters, Digimon. Some were feral, but a lot were no less intelligent and civil than humans. War, allegiances, friendship, exploration, invasion, on both sides, many things had happened. But now we are here. Many kids enter the digital world through some guide and get their own Digimon to tame and take care for.
Some adults are into it too. Relations between Digimon and humans have been rather well. Though, there are many, especially adults, who think it's a worldwide faux. They think Digimon are no more than programs and that this "Digital World", is just a VR game. Not everyone is blessed with Digimon, however. I am among those that do not have a Digimon and have never been to that world. Honestly, I have even started to believe myself that it is a faux.", were things I had written in my journal.
"What is with these images anyway? It's starting to hurt my head. That egg. Didn't I just dream about it? What is going to happen?", he kept thinking as he continued to run.
He suddenly heard shouting over on the other side of the street. He stopped to look over, someone was collapsed on the floor.
"What happened?!" "This man just got stabbed!"
Those were things he heard from people nearby him.
"A stabber? Well, I'll be. Now I have to be careful while I run. Hopefully I either run into him and knock him out, or just don't meet him at all.", Taimu thought before he prepared to run.
He wanted to run, but as he moved one centimeter forward, his head began to pound in pain. He grunted, holding his head in his hands, the mental image of the egg having shattered appeared in his mind.
As the image left his head, the pain was gone, as if it never happened. With a bit of sweat dropping from his head, he looked confused at the ground. He regained a calm posture and said, "Why is this happening? I would think that the dream is real then but…I don't get what is going on at all"
After tunning further and further, he heard a voice, "Jump. Back."
Even though he had a confused face, he did as the voice said. In the next moment, some dart passed by him and hit a pole.
"That would've hit me! What was that?!", Taimu said out loud as he looked to his left, he saw a man in a blue coat, his face was covered and his head was concealed by a thick hat.
After seeing his oddly shaped dead eyes, he ran into an alleyway.
"Hey wait!", Taimu shouted, but was stopped as some kind of black blob-ish creature flew by him. He turned to his right to try and follow it, in the next moment, a loud bang went over his right ear. The next thing he heard was something crashing into the ground behind him.
He saw a dud of a shell behind him, anxiously, he looked at it thinking, "Again? I was so close to being hit by something."
He heard a cute noise as he saw this black blob creature move over the ground. It vanished and reappeared on repeat. It seemed to be heading for the same alleyway.
"Why is it that it's going the same way where I wanted to go? Whatever, it might want to help me.", Taimu thought before moving forward.
Into the alleyway, he chased after that man.
"This town is often known for its huge networks of Alleyways. It's like a maze. Buildings were built here without any hint of organization. A lot of them don't even get used, ever.", Taimu thought as he heard the sound of someone's feet.
The black creature appeared in front of him again and moved into one path that led to a dead end.
Taimu took it as a hint and followed it. That man awaited him at the dead end. He turned around and gave him a cold glare. He stuck his hand out.
"Are you the stabber?! What the hell do you want from me!", Taimu asked him.
The man didn't respond, he just shot out three darts, the middle one going straight at Taimu, the other two were just going to hit the walls of buildings next to them.
"Count to one, then act like you're grabbing something right in front of you.", A voice instructed Taimu again.
He did as it said and managed to catch a dart that was about to pierce his heart.
"Again, I was saved. But honestly…I can handle this guy. These darts don't move that fast. I am just your average high schooler, but I can definitely punch a bastard.", Taimu thought before throwing the dart away.
He cracked his knuckles, and with a grin, he moved forward.
A ghastly voice came from that man, "So…You can resist me…Kekeke…"
"You can't creep me out!" Taimu said as he jumped over some more darts that were shot at him.
Even though darts were repeatedly flung a him, Taimu eluded them whilst he advanced with no drop in his speed.
"Are you…Human?", Taimu ignored his question and gave him a heavy swing of his fist straight into the face knocking him against the wall.
"I am just your average high schooler! That happens to be good at fighting people! Since it is the only thing I am good at, I am trying to excel at it and reach the top! Get that! You stabber!"
A gloomy aura came from the man as he stood up, his hoody fell from his head, revealing a face whose eyes were purely white with no pupils, his mouth was open and salivating.
Taimu's face displaced a sense of disgust, but he instinctively pushed onwards and threw another punch, however, it was stopped after he saw a transparent light-blue foot with two red claws for toes and a smaller red spike on the back of the heal thrust out of the man's body, its claws dug into Taimu's fist.
Not even thinking of the blood droplets dropping on the floor, Taimu looked taken aback as he saw this claw that came out of nothing stop him. The man looked into his eyes and said, "Evil Whisper.", as his eyes turned yellow with an animal-like eye. Nothing else happened.
"Doesn't work…What are…You?", he barely managed to utter those words.
"Bat flutter!", he said as a bunch of bats flew at Taimu. Taimu flinched at first, but after he noticed it didn't hurt, he had a hunch something was up, he something sparkle through the stream of bats and leaned his body to his right, a dart flew past him. Taimu threw another punch at him, but another claw stopped that fist.
This seemed to be calculated, for he kicked the man in the gut a second after. The grip on Taimu's hands weakened, even then, he continued to hit the man in the side with a swing of his other leg. The man was shoved against a wall. The man acted like it didn't pain him at all. Taimu jumped in the air to perform a dropkick, suddenly the man's forehead turned dark blue and had a skull mark on it. It was like his head hardened to the point that Taimu's kick was completely negated. The man shoved him against a wall with a push from his head.
Taimu's back was close to being shattered, but he had to quickly recover, for the old man dashed at him and turned his hands into the same blue claw as he thrusted it at him. Taimu quickly got up and jumped away, the man's claw dug into the wall instead.
Taimu's heart was pounding, he couldn't even get his thoughts straight, despite that, he ran forward and attempted to slug him once more.
Suddenly, with tiny blue wings, he jumped over his fist, he couldn't get too high, but he was at just the right altitude to simply kick Taimu in the jaw.
It was a weak kick that only made Taimu recoil as he slid backwards. After the man dropped down, Taimu calmed himself. He took a breath, after that, he had an intense gaze at the man. He shouted as he ran at him.
"Picodevil Claw!", the man said as two claws came from his body, stabbing themselves into Taimu's shoulder, however, that was what he had planned. He kept up the charge at the man, pushed him into the wall, holding him against it with his arms within his grasps. Even though his shoulders were bleeding, Taimu bore with the plain as he had the man immobile.
As things seemed to turn up, some darts appeared out of nowhere around Taimu.
"Hey. You… That thing that I keep seeing over and over again. You, who hatched out of that egg in my mind. Yeah, that's you, right? I don't know who you are. But if you are on my side…", Taimu spoke in his mind.
"THEN COME OUT AND FIGHT THIS GUY WITH ME!", Taimu yelled as an orb of light flew next to his shoulder. It turned onto a creature as it said, "Evolution! Koromon!"
"Acid Bubbles!", the round pink creature shot acidic bubbles at the man, causing him to drop to the floor out of pain. The claws and darts faded away. Taimu jumped back with the creature to garner some distance. Taimu looked at the creature and said, "Koromon…But. Isn't that a Digimon?!"
Name: Kormon
Evolution Stage: baby II/In-training.
Type: Lesser
Attribute: Data
Element: None
Field: Virus Busters
Min Weight: 10g
Koromon is a baby level Digimon with a pink round blob for a body that had two tail-like things on his head going over his back. It had red eyes and some of his teeth stuck out despite its mouth being closed.
Taimu didn't have the attention to ask more, for he heard some odd wailing, giving him the idea to look at the man who had a dark aura come from his body. Electricity was charged into the dark aura that begun to take shape.
"Man, man, man. I thought I could use this human to evolve, but who would've thought he'd be so useless he couldn't even help me fight some boy with an in-training Digimon.", a voice came from the shadowy figure.
At last, it was revealed. A bat-like Digimon appeared before Taimu and Koromon.
Name: PicoDevimon/ Demidevimon.
Evolution stage: Child/Rookie
Type: Small Devil
Attribute: Virus.
Element: Darkness
Species: Darkness
Field: Nightmare Soldiers.
Min Weight: 8g
Picodevimon is a Rookie Digimon that had a round body with big light-blue feet with red claws. From above his head, was a leather-like texture with stitching and a skull mark on his forehead. He looked similar to a bat. From his sides came big dark-blue wings that was the same color of its leather. Its big eyes were yellow. He often had a malicious grin on its light-blue skinned face.
"Another Digimon. How can he be in the real world?! Digimon are made of data, that can't possibly take form in reality! Even if you belief they are real!", Taimu said.
"He possessed that man.", Taimu was silent as he stared at Koromon who just spoke.
"Picodevimon had possessed that man's soul ang gained energy from him. Even though you stopped him, he has taken enough energy to materialize in the real world as a flesh and blood being.", Koromon elaborated.
"Kekekekeke! It's fine. I can still kill you kids and spent some time in a nice place before evolving and taking every treasure humanity can give.", Picodevimon said as he cackled.
"He has been affected by the sin of Greed.", Koromon stated.
"Man, who cares about that! I don't know what is happening, but I will take you down, stupid bat!", Taimu told him.
"S-stupid bat! I'll have you know, I am a devil that will evolve into a great Digimon!", Picodevimon replied.
"Yeah?! Well you are about as intimidating as a kitten drifting on a log!", Taimu said to that.
"W-WHY YOU FILTHY HUMAN! PICO DARTS! ", After screaming angrily, Picodevimon summoned three darts from his feet and shot them at Taimu.
They were faster than last time, since it was unexpected, Taimu couldn't avoid them. Koromon jumped in front of him and took the hit.
After tuning back and shouting his name, Taimu ran at Picodevimon aggravated. He tried to hit him, but to no one's surprise, Picodevimon easily dodged his swing. He swiftly flew next to Taimu's face before shouting, "Bat Flutter", and slapping him in the face with his wing.
For Taimu, it felt like getting his by a plastic shovel.
"Kekeke. Now that I am outside that useless meatbag, I can grind you with ease!", Picodevimon stated before thrusting a claw Taimu's way. He was knocked back a little however by Koromon body slamming into him. Not that it was super effective or anything, after one back-roll, Picodevimon recovered and cackled before bragging, "As expected of myself. I took no real damage from that! KAKAKAKAKA!"
Picodevimon flew over to Taimu. Koromon tried to stop him with a bubble-like attack shouting, "Bubbles!", but Picodevimon simply blocked it with one wing whilst going forwards.
"Picodevi Claw!", he shouted as he attempted to kick Taimu, however, Koromon jumped in front of him. As a result, Koromoj got knocked far away past Taimu's neck. Taimu's heart sank a he saw Koromon take the hit for him and flew onto the ground in pain, unable to move.
Taimu furiously tried to punch and kick Picodevimon, but to no avail. Picodevimon ended up flying higher into the air as he cackled.
"Pico Darts!", he shouted as he summoned more darts. His gaze met Taimu's, as Taimu prepared for the attack. After his eyes moved away from Taimu, Taimu figured he was going to aim elsewhere.
With fear, Taimu turned around and looked at Koromon. He shouted his name before diving above him. Taimu took three darts in his back and grunted in plain.
"Kekeke!", the small devil laughed as Taimu was nearly dropping onto Koromon.
"You took all three and are still conscious? I have heard humans with Digimon gain tough bodies, but I am still impressed nonetheless. KEKEKEKE, NOT THAT IT MATTERS!", it gloated.
"Why…Did you do that…Taimu?", Koromon asked with a weak voice.
Taimu took a breath. While enduring the pain, he smiled at Koromon and said. "Isn't it the right thing, to save another? Human or not? Besides, you did the same for me.'
Koromon looked at him with saddened eyes as he said, "Taimu. We are the same. It is my duty to defend you. You defending me doesn't do a thing."
"That doesn't matter. I don't care. I see you hurt, so I want to help you. You don't deserve that…", Taimu's words dumfounded Koromon.
Taimu petted Koromon and said, "Stay with me. When I call out to you, I know you will save me as well."
Picodevimon saw that Koromon was gone as Taimu stood up. He looked puzzled, but laughed right after. He went down and mocked Taimu, "Kekeke! Is that what they call a bleeding heart?! What are you going to do without a Digimon!"
Taimu turned to face the small devil, unamused.
"If you wanted to die, you should've just said so!", Picodevimon said before charging at him.
Losing all evasion, Picodevimon got hit into the air by an upper kick from Taimu.
"WHAT?!", Picodevimon shouted as Taimu watched him with intense eyes.
Scared, Picodevimon looked at him thinking, "A mere human kicked me?! And it hurts?!"
"Picodevimon… I won't let you hurt another person. I will take you down, right here!", Taimu shouted, provoking him.
"Catch me if you can, Piece of Meat! PICO DARTS!", Picodevimon went down as he said that, he then shouted whilst shooting darts at Taimu. Taimu marched forward, avoiding the darts.
"Wh-wha?! How?! How can he move after being hit by three darts?!", Picodevimon thought.
Picodevimon froze in fear as Taimu suddenly leaped over to him with his fist pulled back, about to be thrown. Picodevimon noticed a small flame burst over his arm before he threw it. Some kind of holographic looking image of a yellow arm with a claw cloaked Taimu's fist as he slugged Picodevimon further back.
Picodevimon's fluttering wings sounded was in rhythm with a fast heart beat as he stared at Taimu. He was on fire.
"It's time. We won't get hit again! Come out, Koromon!", As Taimu shouted that, the flames around his body flew into the air and created a small explosion.
"Koromon! Evolution!"
In a digital image, Koromon spun around until he was set aflame. A thick spinning flame covered him entirely, after a few second, a yellow clawed arm came from the fire, dispersing the flames. Pieces of Koromon tore apart and flew like paper as two legs with big feet were thrust down. His red eyed turned green before his upper part grew and formed a head like a dinosaur's. As his form was complete, he said, "Agumon!"
Name: Agumon.
Level: Child/Rookie
Type: Reptile
Species: Dragon
Attribute: Vaccine
Element: Fire
Field: Dragon's Roar
Min Weight: 15g
Agumon was a tiny yellow dinosaur Digimon that was tall enough to barely reach Taimu's chest. He had sharp claws, and whilst his legs were short, his feet were quite large. His teeth were similar to Koromon.
Picodevimon leaned forward as his eyes almost moved from their holes shouting, "Oh no! Another Child level Digimon?! Where did you come from!"
Agumon jumped at the tiny devil and held his arms in the air before swinging them in a cros shape at him shouting, "Sharp Claws!"
Picodevimon was flung back. After he recovered, he looked in pain, added with irritation. He flew straight at Agumon, or it seemed like it, for in the next second, Agumon's claw swipe missed as Picodevimon flew around him at the last second.
"KEKEKEKE! If I hit your human, you can't do anything.", He said as he prepared a few darts.
"Agumon…", Taimu said like he gave a command.
Agumon opened his mouth, which seemed lit up.
"Trippe Baby Flame!", Agumon shouted as he moved around while firing three small fireballs out of his mouth. Due to his movement, they curved around and neared Picodevimon.
Picodevimon turned around from the light that illuminated on his back. The second he saw them, he squirmed around trying to dodge them.
"Well then! I will just NOT fight him straight on!", Picodevimon told himself.
He used the smoke from the fire to quickly move behind Taimu. He was just above him, where Agumon could see him.
"Now I got you, filthy meat bag!", Picodevimon said as he was about to stab Taimu with his claw. Taimu swung his right arm back at him with his fist.
With Picodevimon stunned, he wondered, "How did he even see me?!", and just as those thoughts passed, he was kicked into the air.
He spent a bit of time to properly collect himself to fly in the air with stability, in that time however, he was set up to get hit by another attack.
"Baby Flame!", Agumon shouted as he shot a bigger fire ball from his mouth, creating an explosion as it hit Picodevimon. He was falling down, looking like he was down for the count, but then he just opened up his eye, and with anger, he flew at Agumon as he threw three darts at him.
Agumon simply deflected them with his claw. Picodevimon didn't stop, he actually was very quick to use his next skill, "Bat Flutter", to hit Agumon with a stream of bats, robbing him from his vision. Picodevimon hid himself in the bats, he was trying to do a sneak attack upon Agumon this time. Taimu saw him within two of the bats, about to do a sweep against Agumon with his claws.
But Agumon ducked under it, thanks to that, Picodevimon went over him and got slightly disoriented as he awkwardly flew forward.
"What? Do…Do they have shared eyesight or something?! Damn it!", Picodevimon thought.
He just dodged a claw swipe from Agumon by quickly getting up in the air, however, flying so fast in a short period of time proved to be tiresome, for he didn't dodge the next attack.
Taimu jumped near him to his surprise, and with no chance of failure, Taimu swung his fist straight into Picodevimon's face, plunging him against the ground.
"How can a punch from a human…Hurt so much?!", Picodevimon wondered as he hardly picked himself up from the ground. As he looked at Agumon, he realized he was too late.
Agumon's heard was turning red as he held a lot of fire in his mouth.
"Agumon, Finish it!", Taimu said before Agumon unleashed a burst of fire whilst shouting, "Baby Burner!" The flames enveloped Picodevimon, disintegrating him into data.
"Taishimu…Hold your phone out.", Agumon said.
He looked confused at his Digimon, but in the end, did as he was told anyway.
The fleeting data from Picodevimon was absorbed into his phone.
"What is this? Do I have him now, or something?", Taimu asked.
"A Digimon is made of data. Normally, once one dies, they return to a digi-egg. However, there is no physical data in this world. They can only manifest here with a natural energy that human have.", Agumon told him.
"But how does it turn to data then?", Taimu asked.
"You can change their physical appearance, but what is truly inside them doesn't change. However, with no data or coding in this world, they can only disappear into the air until they return to nothing. They basically turn into a signal. Phones and Digivices are made to absorb them. Their Data inside a Digivice can return to a network, which eventually leads them to go back to the digital world and turn into an egg.", Agumon explained.
"I see. So, he used that man to get a physical form?", Taimu asked.
"Yes. But not exactly. Humans have the capability to feed their emotions and bio-energy to Digimon, which can not only grant them a physical form, but also evolve them to a higher stage.", Agumon said.
"Okay…Well. I think I get all of that but…", As Taimu was speaking, he took some distance from Agumon and looked him straight in the eye.
"…Who are you, Agumon?"
"…I am you.", Agumon replied.
TO BE CONTINUED...
