Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Digimon: Apocalypse ❯ Book of War: Chapter 2 ( Chapter 8 )

When I first decided I wanted to be a fashion designer, everyone was shocked to say the least. I couldn’t really understand why. I didn’t think it was that big a deal. I mean, I used to help my mother design the bouquets we sold at the flower shop. I thought it would be a great idea, and I never regretted it. I loved designing clothes. College life was certainly...educating, heh…

Of course, college came with disappointing changes too. Like Taichi cutting me off from his life. Hikari tried to hide it by sending me e-mails that she wrote but sent it from his account. And suddenly, he came back into my life again, out of the blue. I wasn’t sure how to feel about it, but that, coupled with my recent…infection, almost proved too much for me to bear.

It felt like my entire life came to a stop when I heard I had BD-2. Within only a few days, I lost my entire left foot, up to my shin. I was forced to crutches. But, Taichi was right there to help me. He even brought me to Nightsun, which I knew he wasn’t happy with, but once we got here, we got involved in a war. Digitalatri wanted control of that city, but we were determined not to let that happened.

And then, during a battle with Shiokuru, the creature that looks like Koushiro, Maria and I began to display that same strange energy that Catherine, Anna, Noriko, and the others did. It was almost surreal…

I want to know what’s going on. What is that strange energy coming out of me and the others? What are those Demon Lords? I want to know! The Book of War: Chapter II

The city of Nightsun was under siege. The forces of the Digitalari had been commanded by their leader, the High Priestess Chihi Miayag, to conquer the city, which they claimed to be the ancient Ceria, the capital city of the empire that destroyed the First Chosen. Taichi and Yamato joined Yuri in defense of the city, but they were separated during the attack. Taichi and Yamato were forced to fight two of the high-ranking members of the Digitalatri army: Sam and Mummymon and Vicente and Skull Satamon.

Yamato clung tightly to his partner’s back as he leapt at Mummymon, jaws wide open. The Digitalatri soldier fired a stream of bandages that ensnared the wolf’s feet. He grinned wickedly and yanked his arm as hard as he could, throwing Garurumon X to the ground. Yamato was thrown from his back and tumbled along the ground before crashing into one of the buildings. He climbed to his feet and wobbled forward as far as he could, staring as his Mummymon used his bandages to swing Garurumon X repeatedly into the ground.

Mummymon grinned as he began to use Garurumon X like a overgrown yo-yo. He threw him into the air as hard as he could before pulling on the bandages as hard as he could, pulling him back to the ground before he punched him again and repeated the process.

“Garurumon!” he shouted. His body was shaking as he struggled to think of a solution, when a strange creature suddenly appeared in front of him, a demonic monkey creature with large, bat-like wings. Mummymon instantly stopped his assault, and both digimon and Chosen looked on in awe.

“What the hell?” Sam asked, “Who are you?”

The creature pointed his palm at Mummymon and Sam, firing a stream of intense flame into the mummy digimon, destroying the bandages that held him to Garurumon X. Another blast of the attack sent Sam and Mummymon crashing into one of the buildings.

Greymon X’s battle with Skull Satamon was not proceeding any better. The devil digimon was simply too fast from the bulky dinosaur. Greymon X wanted to attack with his fire blast, but without a clear line of shot, he could injure a soldier fighting on his side. He had no choice but to hope that Skull Satamon would become too sure of himself and stand still for a limited amount of time. He only needed a few seconds, but he knew he was not going to get it.

Taichi whispered into Greymon X’s ear. “I’ve got an idea…”

“Go, Skull Satamon,” Vicente said, “Complete our mission for Lady Miayag, destroy him now!”

The devil nodded. “As you wish, Vicente.” He charged at the dinosaur, staff brimming with energy. He leapt in the air to fire at Greymon X, but the large dinosaur did not attempt to move, so Skull Satamon aimed for his face. However, at the last second he flattened his back and Taichi slid to the ground, but the devil’s attack still fired, this time shooting harmlessly over his back. Greymon X charged forward, beneath Skull Satamon and swatted him with his tail.

“Yes!” Taichi shouted, “Now…”

Before he could finish, Skull Satamon retaliated by firing another Nail Bone attack at the dinosaur’s back. Greymon X roared in pain and fell onto his stomach.

“Damn it!” the X-Chosen swore.

Skull Satamon hovered above the fallen dinosaur and readied his staff for another energy blast. However, a mist of darkness suddenly overcame him, trapping him inside. “What the hell?”

Vicente was about to call out to him, when the devil suddenly began to scream in pain. His entire body shook violently before he fell to the ground, landing on top of his partner. Both Vicente and Skull Satamon were knocked into unconsciousness.

Taichi blinked a few times, unsure of what had just happened. He glanced around and saw a dark figure hovering in the air. It looked like a human woman dressed in a black bodysuit and purple robes, with tatter bat wings on her back. He turned to Yamato, only to find that he was staring up at a demonic monkey creature. “Who are you?” he shouted.

The woman only grinned seductively and lowered herself to the ground along with the monkey creature. Taichi and Yamato followed them down to where they landed behind two more figures dressed in capes and cowls: one in blue and one in red.

“Two more,” Yamato said, “But why did you save us?”

The two figures in capes turned to each other, then glanced back at the two X-Chosen. They reached up and removed their hoods, revealing their faces to the world. The one in blue did not surprise Taichi and Yamato. They were suspecting him to be someone that had died, and their suspicions were correct. The man in blue had the face of Daisuke Motomiya, but his curly hair was now dirty blond in color.

It was the young woman in red that caused Taichi and Yamato surprise. They knew that only two of the mysterious group were females, and after discovering that the one in green was Miyako Inoe, they were trying to think of whom the one in red could be. They were ready for any of the other female chosen that had been killed, but not the face they now saw, the face of Sora Takenouchi, only her red hair was longer and flowed around her sholders.

Taichi shook his head and rubbed his eyes. “I’m getting really confused now. There’s no way you can be Sora, because I just left her in Nightsun’s main building.”

The Sora-doppelganger just shrugged.

Yamato pointed to the Daisuke-doppelganger, then at the Sora one. “So how come everyone else is people that have died, but Sora is still alive?”

The Sora-double just smiled seductively before she, Daisuke-double and their digimon partners darted deeper into the city. Taichi and Yamato ran after them, followed by their own partners.

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Yuri, meanwhile, had been coordinating the defense of the city. The Chosen partners with Flymons and Sabirdramons were battling fiercely against the ground-based Monochromons and Golemons. The Monochromons were easy targets as none of their attacks had long-range capabilities, but the Golemons could not only throw large rocks at them, but their height made it easy for them to swing their arms at them. A Sabirdramon fired a darker version of Birdramon’s Meteor Wing attack at a Monochromon, while a Flymon shot down to strike a Golemon in the back. The large digimon swung his arms around, smacking the insect digimon into the Sabirdramon, bringing both of them into the ground.

Yuri and Kuwagamon X dodged through a large web of fire and energy. The Russian Chosen was trying to organize his soldiers when his partner was suddenly struck in the underside, sending him into a tailspin before smashing into the snow-covered ground.

Yuri leapt onto his feet, swinging his feet around. He tried to locate his opponent within the maelstrom of chaos. When he did discover who had brought him to the ground, his heart sank. Standing before him was Keiko, formally of the Ex-Dark Seed Children of the Odabia Chosen, along with her Pinocchimon partner, who was just lowering his mallet.

Yuri swore in Russian, but stood his ground, despite the power he felt coming from the young woman in front of him. “You’re Yuri, right?”

“Da,” he said, “And you’re Keiko, one of the ones that turned her back on Taichi, right? Why do you want this city so badly?”

“Lady Miayag wants it, that’s good enough for me.”

“You’re just blindly obeying orders?” he asked.

“She has given me purpose in my life,” Keiko responded, “I trust her, and if she wants this city, I will give it to her! And defeating you will put us one step forward.”

“What do we do?” Kuwagamon X asked Yuri in Russian.

“Try to survive as long as possible,” he responded back, “Until reinforcements arrive.”

Kuwagamon X nodded slowly. Even as an X-digimon, he was stronger then a regular digimon of his level, there was not a chance that he could defeat a mega digimon on his own. Pinocchimon raised his mallet and stepped forward when his face suddenly became covered with a sticky, inky substance.

Yuri and Kuwagamon X blinked a few times, comprehending what had happened. He glanced around the chaotic battlefield, but none of the digimon present could have execute such an attack.

“Over here, Mate!”

He twisted fully around and saw an octopus-digimon slithering, along with a young man and woman trudging through the snow. “You’re Yuri, right?” the man asked.

He nodded slowly. “Nice ta meet ya, the name’s Dingo.”

“Yuri,” Kuwagamon X said, “That’s an X-digimon!”

“That’s right,” Gesomon X responded, “Yamato sent for us.”

The Russian man smiled. “That’s good.” He mentioned over to Keiko and Pinocchimon, “I think we’re going to need help right now.”

The young woman spoke up. “Where’s Jyou and Yamato?”

“In the city, I think.”

“Then get with the others,” Dingo ordered.

“But…”

“Lynna, do it!”

The young woman hesitated a moment, then nodded. She and her Gizamon partner charged back through the snow.

Gesomon X slithered over to join Kuwagamon X. They stared at Pinocchimon, who was only grinning maliciously. “You don’t stand a chance you know,” he chuckled, “I’m gonna clean your clock!”

“You think we got a chance?” Gesomon X asked.

“No,” Kuwagamon said, “But maybe with our deaths others can survive.”

The squid chuckled. “I think I’m gonna like hangin’ with you.”

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When Taichi and Yamato arrived in the center of the city, they were horrified to find that Sora, Maria and the other young women were holding their digimon partners in their arms, each one barely conscious. The two doppelgangers they had been chasing had joined the last cloak wearer on the roof of one of the buildings.

“Sora, Maria,” Taichi said, running over to them, “Are you okay?”

The redhead nodded. “Yeah, but Taichi, what happened to Anna, that…that strange light! It…it came out of me and Maria! It was…was the strangest thing I ever felt! I mean, it was like winning a tennis match! It was…”

“Uh, Sora,” Maria said, mentioning to the building, “I think you want to see this…”

Sora glanced to the trio of mysterious figures. She saw that the one in blue looked like Daisuke, but her eyes bulged at the one in red. “You…you look like me!” she shouted, “How…how can…?”

The one in orange laughed and removed his own hood. This caused another loud gasp of surprise from the group. The one in orange, the leader of the others, was an exact duplicate of Taichi Yagami.

“What the hell is going on here?” Taichi exclaimed.

His double smiled proudly and bowed. “Allow me to introduce myself, I am Cahiti, the Demon King. My partner, Lucemon…”

The child-like angel floated behind him and bowed regally.

The Sora double was next. “My name is Asro, the Demon Queen. You’ve already seen my partner, Lilithmon.”

The demon woman who defeated Vicente and Skull Satamon nodded slightly from behind Sora.

The Daisuke-doppelganger crossed his arms in an annoyed fashion. “My name is Seiduka, the Demon General and Demon is my partner!”

The monkey digimon growled and threw his arms up in a rage-like yell.

Cahiti smiled broadly, “and along with the Demon Princess Amikyo, the Demon Watcher, Enk, the Demon Vizer, Shiokuru and the Demon Hunter, Karetu, we are the Demon Lords! The darkness within the Chosen’s hearts!”

“I don’t get this!” Taichi shouted, “Every other Demon Lord is someone that died, how come Sora and me…?”

“But you were dead, weren’t you, Taichi?” he asked.

“What are you talking about!”

“Ask Yamato.”

Taichi blinked for a moment, then glanced at the blond young man. “What’s he talking about?”

He hesitated for a moment. “Uh..ah…eh…um…” He shook his head and stared at the Demon Lords. “What are you doing here?”

“And what’s with that strange energy me and the others have?” Noriko demanded.

“We could tell you now,” Asro said, placing her hand around Cahiti’s shoulders, “But I think we should let them figure it out on their own, right?”

“It doesn’t fuckin’ matter to me!” Seiduka growled, “I’d like to tear them all apart!”

“Not just yet,” Cahiti said, “Even though we could easily tear the flesh from their bones, let’s give them another playmate.” He raised his arm, which began to shimmer with orange light. He threw the ball into the base of one of the buildings, where it grew into a circle so massive that the adjacent building slid into the orange hole. The Chosen watched in frightful anticipation as a pair of long, skinny black arms appeared from the swirling hole. They were soon followed by another pair of arms, this one a mismatch pair, as one arm was a skinny, skeleton one, and the other was red and pincer shaped. The four arms positioned themselves on the sides of the circle and pushed against the ground, pulling the rest of its body out of the circle and into the city of Nightsun: a body that contained a pair of hairy canine legs, an orange dinosaur body, an armored helmet over its head, two pair of wings, one red and tattered, the other white and feathery.

“Chimeramon!” the Chosen shouted.

“Prove yourselves once more, X-Chosen,” Cahiti said. He turned to this summoned beast, “Go Chimeramon, destroy them!”

The chimera digimon hovered into the air and roared with anger and power. He exhaled a blast of hot energy into the ground. While it did not strike any of the Chosen or their partners, the force of the shockwave sent them flying in all directions. Only Greymon X and Garurumon X were strong enough to remain on their feet. They instantly leapt in front of the young women, but they noticed to their horror that Maria was far on the other side of the clearing of buildings.

The Latino girl clutched Patamon tightly as she stared up at the massive Chimeramon. He glanced down at her, his massive jaw opening wide, saliva dripping from his teeth. Maria was about to scream when she suddenly felt someone’s arms grip beneath her arm pits and yanked her into the air. She twisted around and saw a familiar young woman smiling down at her.

“Mimi!” she screamed, wrapping her arms tightly around her, “Oh, I’m so glad to see you!”

“I’m glad you’re okay too!” she cried, returning the hug. Maria glanced over her shoulder and saw the back of Michael’s head. She now knew what had happened. Seconds before Chimeramon would have attacked, Seadramon X swooped down and Mimi grabbed Maria and her Patamon, hoisting them to safety.

On the ground, Chimeramon had focused Togemon X, who was marching towards him. The large cactus fired her razor-sharp needles at the synthetic digimon’s face. She was focusing on the creature’s face, that she did not notice the Skullgreymon arm swinging around. She only saw a blur of white as a feline creature shot past her, leapt into the air and struck the bone arm with enough force to send it back. She pivoted gracefully in the sky and landed on the back of a dolphin-creature as it shot past.

Taichi blinked. “Tailmon? Tylomon? That means….” He twisted around until he saw the two X-Chosen running towards him. “Jyou! Hikari!”

“Taichi!” his younger sister shouted, lightly punching him in the chest, “Don’t ever do that again! You know how worried I was about you!”

“Watch out!” Greymon X shouted. Chimeramon was heading straight for them. The large dinosaur was preparing himself to fight back the monster digimon, when a stream of black ink splattered across his face. This was followed by an ice blast from Seadramon X, which froze the ink to Chimeramon’s face, casing the massive digimon to stumble in near darkness.

Seadramon X swooped by the group, dropping his passengers, before joining the other digimon as the encircled Chimeramon. A girl draped in a wool coat with a Gizamon came charging towards them. “Yamato! Jyou!”

The blond man blinked for a moment. “Oh, hey, Lynna! What are you doing here?”

“I felt this weird…feelin’, and we came here…” she panted, “And….And Dingo…he’s…he’s helpin’ Yuri…”

“We’ve got someone here too,” Mimi said, mentioning to an older woman standing behind her, “This is Iduia. She displayed that same light that the rest of you did.”

She bowed and spoke via her mechanized voice box. ”It…is…a…pleasure…to…meet …you…”

Above them, the three Demon Lords watched with anticipation. “They’re finally all together.”

“Yes,” Cahiti said, removing the mysterious Soul Catcher device, “Now we just wait, it shouldn’t be long now…” He waved his hand at Chimeramon. The frozen ice on his face shattered instantly. The synthetic digimon roared loud enough to shake the buildings.

“All right,” Taichi said, stepping forward, “We’ve got to take care of this guy, and fast! Yuri’s not gonna last for much longer.”

Anna whimpered in worry, but Sora squeezed her hand reassuringly. “He’ll be okay, just watch.”

“I hope so,” she sighed.

Chimeramon floated forward and the X-digimon began to attack. Seadramon X led the attack, firing his ice attack at Chimeramon’s face once again, but the synthetic digimon continued to dodge out of the way. He threw his two sets of arms at the serpent, but Seadramon X was able to roll and twist out of the arms grip. With every chance he got, he fired his ice blast, hopefully injuring the creature.

Togemon X and Garurumon X charged along the bottom, striving to keep up with the massive digimon. The cactus fired bursts of her Needle Spray at Chimeramon’s Garurumon Legs, while Garurumon X propelled himself into the air and landed on the synthetic digimon’s back. Chimeramon finally was able to grab Seadramon X by his tail and swung him around, knocking in the large wolf from his back and once he released the serpent, he smashed into one of the buildings.

Greymon X stomped forward, a deep growl escaping from his mouth. “Mega Blast!” he shouted, firing his flame ball at the massive digimon. It struck his foot and he turned to him with a growl.

Tailmon X began to jump to the building roofs by jumping from window to window until she was standing on the building ledge. She waited until Chimeramon was in range, then leapt onto his back. She executed a Cat Punch on the top of his head, and using the momentum to back flip onto the back of Tylomon X as he shot past. But they did not get far as Chimeramon’s Skullgreymon arm whipped around and punched them into the ground.

“Tailmon, Tylomon!” Greymon X shouted. He fired another Mega Flame, which did strike Chimeramon in the stomach, but the synthetic digimon whipped his arms around, slamming him with all of his might, throwing the dinosaur into the ground.

The X-Chosen stared with fear and anxiousness. Behind them, the young women infected with BD-2 stared in even more fear and anxiousness. They wanted to help their friends, but they knew that if Adult digimon were having difficulty, then what hope would Child-levels have?

“They need help,” Keeya said.

“But how?” Lynna asked, “What are we gonna do?”

“If only we could evolve our partners,” Catherine said, “But zey’re all hurt from zeir fight with Shiokuru…”

“Wait a second!” Noriko gasped, “What if we gave Yamato and the others our powers?”

“What?” Lynna gasped.

“We used that power to evolve our partners, why can’t we evolve the others?”

“But how?” Sora asked, “We need to find that energy again…”

“We’ve got to try,” Noriko said, “Besides, can’t you feel like? I can. It’s like…” She mentioned to her chest, “Like its right there. It’s not as deep as you think…”

“All right,” the red head nodded, “Let’s try.” She glanced over to Maria. “Try as hard as you can, okay?”

“I will,” she nodded.

Noriko squeezed Anna’s shoulders. “Okay?”

The blind woman nodded. “Da.”

“Do you need help finding them?”

She shook her head. “Nyet. I can feel their prescience.”

“All right, girls,” Noriko said, “Find your energy, and let it out.”

Above their heads, the three Demon Lords watched with anticipation. Cahiti eagerly rubbed the Soul Catcher. “Soon…soon…”

Each young woman gripped their palms and began to focus the strange power they now felt within their being. Sora tried to focus as well, but a strong doubt kept nagging in the back of her mind. Something was wrong, but Taichi and the others needed her, so she tried to bring up the strange feeling, but she could not. She knew something was wrong.

“Um, listen…” she started, but it was already too late. Only Catherine heard her and ceased her energy generation. The other young women had already begun to display their multicolored light. They had generated so much energy that it exploded from their arms, zeroing in on the X-Chosen in front of them, striking them in the back. Maria’s brown light hit Taichi, Noriko’s black light hit Yamato, Anna’s dark blue light hit Hikari, Iduia’s gray light hit Michael, Keeya’s green light hit Mimi, and Lynna’s light blue light hit Jyou. Each one of the X-Chosen screamed out in pain and collapsed to the ground. Their backs showed no sign of injury, yet they all twisted and writhed in extreme pain.

“Oh no!” Maria screamed, “Taichi!”

“Oh shit,” Noriko swore, “Shit…shit…shit!”

The young women ran to the fallen X-Chosen, all except for Sora and Catherine. They alone had noticed that each of the energy beams that the other women had fired had mysteriously split into twain, one half striking the X-Chosen, while the other half shot into the air. The two women followed their path and clearly saw the multicolored light strike the mysterious crystal object on Cahiti’s hand. Six of the crystals soon glowed with the same rainbow of light, one crystal for each light.

“Yes!” Cahiti shouted in triumph, “Yes, the energy is mine! The power to control the basic physicality of the Digital World is mine! There is nothing that I cannot do! I am omnipotent! I am….I….” He trailed off as he noticed that only two of the crystals were glowing. “No!”

He turned his attention to Sora and Catherine. “No, Fire and Light haven’t discharged! No!”

“Sora, what’s he talking about?” Catherine asked.

“I don’t know,” the red head said, shaking her head, “It’s something about that energy…”

Cahiti pointed to the two women, “Get them! Now!”

“Oh shit,” Sora exclaimed, “Run!”

They turned around, but stopped short when they saw Demon and Seiduke standing before them. Before they even had a chance to react, Demon grabbed Sora and the unconscious Piyomon, while Seiduke grabbed Catherine and Floramon.

“Let’s get out of here!” Cahiti ordered.

Seiduke and Demon floated into the air, where they were joined by the other Demon Lords. Despite his pain, Taichi was able to lift his head. “S…S…So…ora!” he shouted.

“Taichi!” she cried, holding her hand out, “Taichi!”

“Sora!” he screamed, his head hitting the ground, “S...o...r…a…” His eyes closed and his vision was overcome by darkness.

To be continued….