Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Connections Revealed ❯ The Devas Return ( Chapter 13 )

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THE DEVAS RETURN

BY HOWLING WOLF

Digital World, Southern Quadrant…

Or perhaps we should say what's left of the Southern Quadrant. The quadrant was now barely recognizable mostly due to the over whelming damage done by the Chaos.

Zhuqiaomon looked out over the remains of his quadrant in anger. With the catalyst all the digimon in the quadrant could have become megas. The Chaos would never have been able to advance so far in the digital world, but Zhuqiaomon's plans had been for naught. The catalyst had been kidnapped, taken to Azulongmon's quadrant. And Azulongmon had still not returned the catalyst yet.

"Curse you Azulongmon! The Chaos spreads faster everyday. If his chosen can not find the catalyst then perhaps it is time I sent my devas. After all they are far more trust worthy than humans are." Said Zhuqiaomon.

Before Zhuqiaomon stood five digimon warriors most loyal to him. The sight saddened Zhuqiaomon slightly. Once his mighty devas numbered a dozen. That was before the digimon tamers, before the half-breed Gallantmon. The thought of Gallantmon caused Zhuqiaomon's anger to rise even more.

"Go my devas! Bring back the catalyst and if you should encounter Gallantmon destroy him!" Zhuqiaomon commanded.

The devas bowed and left. Zhuqiaomon paid little them little attention. His thoughts were once again focusing on the Chaos. `It can not be allowed to continue its destruction.'

Digital World, Eastern Quadrant…

* Takato's P.O.V. * *

I groaned as I opened my eyes in what felt like weeks. That was odd in itself. The other strange thing was that I was lying flat on my back. I started to sit up only to see Rika staring at me. To my mind she resembled an angel. For the first time I wondered if I might be in heaven. I quickly tossed that idea away as pain began to rack my body. Of course I didn't say anything about the pain at first, no my first words were.

"An angel, most definitely an angel."

This just earned me an even more worried look from Rika. You know I've never really seen such emotion on her face before. I kind of like it.

"Takato are you okay?" Rika asked me.

I smiled weakly at her. Am I okay? Now there's an interesting question. Considering the pain I am feeling right now the urge to say no is strong. But I don't. After all there's no point in worrying Rika any more than necessary.

* Normal P.O.V. * *

Rika frowned as Takato smiled at her. She had seen him wince when he had tried to sit up. Surely Takato didn't think that he could hide his pain from her?

"Rika I'm alright, okay?" Takato said again.

Rika looked at him totally unconvinced. "Let's just see what a second opinion has to say about that shall we? Hey Joe take a look at Takato will you?"

While Joe was examining a protesting Takato, Tai for the first time noticed that everyone in Rika's group looked like they had been through a small war. Even Davis looked more subdued than normal.

"What happened to you guys Kari?" asked Tai.

"We had a little run with Daemon before we got your email." Said Kari.

Yolei looked over at Ken worriedly. If Daemon had attacked one of their groups then he could very well attack them right where they were now. Most of the other digidestined seemed to come to the same conclusion.

"Tai perhaps we should return to the real world before anything else happens." Said Cody.

"You are going nowhere human!" a voice growled.

The digidestined looked up at a nearby cliff to see a strange looking dog digimon. Henry raised his d-arc at the new digimon.

"Hmm. Chatsuramon. Exalted Beast. Ultimate level. His attacks are Howl of the Heavens and Treasure Mallet." Henry said.

"Exalted Beast? Wasn't that what the other devas were?" asked a weary Takato.

Rika groaned. "Great. We have to deal with these guys still. What do you want dog breath?"

Chatsuramon growled angrily. "Give us back the catalyst human. We know that it was brought to this quadrant, now return it."

"Dude we can't do that even if we wanted to. Calumon was deleted by Lady Devimon." Said Davis.

Chatsuramon did not seem to be phased by this news. It was as if the deva knew something that the digidestined did not.

"Foolish human I can feel the power of the catalyst amongst you. Now return it us or suffer our wrath." He said.

The digidestined looked at each other in confusion. They truly did not know what Chatsuramon was talking about. Even Rika and Henry did not understand just what it was that the deva had revealed to them. But one person did understand. Takato closed his eyes as he thought back to when Calumon had been deleted. He had accidentally downloaded Calumon's data before it had faded away. It had been a pure reflex action. At the time Takato had never questioned why he had suddenly had the energy to digivolve to his mega form.

But now he began to wonder if perhaps it had been more than just his anger that had given him his burst of energy. `Could I have used Calumon's power back then?' wondered Takato. Standing up the goggled headed tamer slowly walked up towards Chatsuramon. Impmon watched as his friend walked over to the dog deva worry evident on his face. An identical look was on Rika's face as well.

"Why are you after Calumon anyway?" asked Takato.

"That is not any of your concern human. Now where is the catalyst?" snarled Chatsuramon.

Tai had had enough of this. He didn't know why this digimon was threatening them and he didn't really care. Agumon looked up at his partner. Tai nodded as they stepped forward.

"We can't let you have the catalyst. Calumon isn't even with us now." Said Tai.

This only angered the deva even more. How dare these humans lie to him. Not have the catalyst with, hah. Chatsuramon could feel the catalyst's power emulating from within their group. In fact the power seemed to be coming from, no it was not possible. The catalyst power was coming from that accursed half bred. Angrily Chatsuramon turned on Takato.

"What have you done to the catalyst half breed?" he demanded.

Before Takato could even answer Chatsuramon was rammed into by Wargreymon. Stepping between Chatsuramon and Takato, Wargreymon readied himself for battle.

"That is enough!" Azulongmon said.

Both digimon looked up in the sky to see the digimon sovereign flying over them. Chatsuramon merely growled at yet another interruption of his mission. The digidestined and tamers watched in awe as Azulongmon turned his attention to Takato. Takato began to sweat under Azulongmon's steady glaze. Finally Azulongmon spoke.

"So this is the tamer that has had Zhquiamon so upset. Greetings to you, young one. Hmm, I see. Digidestined please take this boy and his friends back to the real world. I wish to talk with Chatsuramon privately." Azulongmon.

"Uh sure." Tai said confused.

He wasn't the only one, but the digidestined knew better than to argue with a chance to get back to their homes. Takato wasn't really sure what was going on but he knew that whatever it was, it concerned him. Unfortunately for Takato he would have to wait before he got any answers. Since at that moment Takato's body finally gave in to all the stress it had been under. The last thing Takato heard was Rika screaming his name as the darkness claimed him.

To Be Continued…

Howling Wolf: Heh, it's getting rather interesting isn't. Takato is not going to get any peace in the real world either in the next chapter so until next time.