Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Elements of Good and Evil ❯ The Mountain of Winds ( Chapter 2 )

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Chapter 3: The mountain of winds

Kazu slowly guided the ark towards an empty space to land. This ark, unlike other earlier types had a manual control option, and out of all the tamers, Kazu was the best pilot. "Who's the best pilot in the ENTIRE digital world? Kazu!!" He chanted.

They were now in the land of the four sovereigns. They walked through Azulongmon's gate, and into his palace.

They had only been in Zhuqiaomon's palace before, and at that time they had been distracted by the small fact that Zhuqiaomon wanted to kill them. As they entered they were amazed at how big Azulongmon's palace was, after all, Azulongmon is quite a bit bigger then Zhuqiaomon.

Sitting (or floating, as the case may be) in the center was Azulongmon, a very wise and powerful sovereign digimon. "Welcome Tamers, I have been expecting you." He said in his echoing voice. This struck the tamers as surprising. They hadn't told the sovereigns they were coming. "Uh, Azulongmon, how did you know we were coming?" Henry asked. "I heard of the blocking device that sealed the digital world off from the real world," Azulongmon replied "I knew that it would only be activated after you arrived. It wasn't built to keep people out, it was built to keep you in."

"You know who built it?" Takato asked.

"Yes, I do."

"Does it have anything to do with Shadowmon?"

Now it was Azulongmon's turn to look surprised.

"You have met him."

"Oh, yeah, he was a really great guy." Terriermon answered sarcastically.

"Terriermon, shush." Renamon said.

"SHUSH, WHY I OUTTA…." Terriermon was silenced as Henry put his hand over his mouth.

"I had expected the enemy to send some lower ranked lackeys," Azulongmon said, confused. "If he sent Shadowmon, he must be more concerned. He must know more then what I know."

"You mean there's someone more powerful then shadow boy!" Rika asked, amazed. "He wiped us out!"

"I'm afraid so." He replied. "And there are others that are equally powerful. The reason he's so powerful is that he draws his power from a dark spirit. There are 8 dark spirits in all, and each is as powerful as Shadowmon."

Henry thought about this. "If you call them dark spirits, doesn't that mean there are light spirits as well?"

"Very perceptive. Yes, there are 8 light spirits. They are the center of the powers of all digimon, each control a different element, fire, water, wind, earth, moon, wood, light and darkness. The dark spirits use the exact same elements, only they use them for evil. Shadowmon was the dark guardian of darkness."

"Where did these spirits come from? How come we haven't seen any before?" Henry inquired.

"The dark spirits were banished, long ago. Once, before we sovereigns existed, both light and dark spirits roamed the digital world. The light spirits created and the dark spirits destroyed. This kept the balance of the digital world intact. However, the dark spirits soon grew power hungry and tried to destroy the light spirits. This was foolish, as nothing could destroy spirits, not even other spirits. So the digignomes created a prison of sorts and sent the dark spirits there, to stop the digital world being completely destroyed. However, the dark spirits were brought back by some `ultimate evil'. And as for the light spirits, they resided in us, the four sovereigns. However, after the digital world was nearly destroyed, we realized that our power was not enough, so we took the spirits and re-configured them into mega level digimon."

"Why don't the digignomes just send back the spirits to the prison world?"

"The `ultimate evil' turned them into mega digimon as well, so that the digignomes couldn't send them back. You have already met one of these digimon."

Ryo had been quiet during this meeting, but a question was in his mind, a question that had been there since the fight with Shadowmon. "Why did he want to fight me in particular?"

Azulongmon shook his head. "I don't know. The spirits know things that I do not. Perhaps Shadowmon views you as a threat to him. The only thing I can think that you can do is to talk to the light spirits. They may be able to help you. The nearest one is the wind spirit."

"Where is he?" Takato asked.

"He lives on the highest mountain in the digital world, the mountain of winds. If you intend to go there, be careful. Expect one of the dark spirits to try and stop you."

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They soon arrived at the mountain of winds. Azulongmon hadn't been exaggerating when he said it was the biggest mountain in the digital world. It stretched right up into the sky.

"Oh, man, look how high that thing is." Kenta said, awestruck.

Kazu was looking at the ark's screen. "The winds on that mountain are to powerful to fly up there. We'll have to walk up."

They landed at the foot of the mountain and began walking up a long and steep path, while gale force winds blew all around them, threatening to blow them off the mountain. "How are we going to get all the way up there with all this wind?" Jeri asked, her hair blowing in her face."

"Stay close to the side of the mountain, so we don't get blown around so much." Henry suggested. They walked as close to the side of the mountain as they could.

They walked for a few hours without much trouble, until…

"AHHH." Jeri was being strangled by… the mountainside.

Out of an ordinary piece of the cliff side, hands were now around Jeri's neck.

"Renamon." Rika called.

"Diamond storm" Renamon sent a flurry of diamonds at the cliffs hands. And in the place of the rock side was a blob shaped digimon.

Rika read the info on her D-arc. "Deceptimon, champion level, is able to turn into any inanimate object."

Renamon got into a fighting stance and attacked. "Diamond storm"

Deceptimon jumped off the wall, avoiding Renamon's attack. It then launched at Renamon, circling her neck, and tightened, starting to chock her, before turning itself into chrome digizoid (The strongest metal in the digi world, if you didn't know).

"Renamon!" Rika called out, fear in her voice.

"Uhh, can't get it off." Renamon strained.

"How are we gonna get it off?" Henry thought.

Renamon began flickering, looking like she was about to be deleted.

Suddenly, Takato had an idea. "Ryo, biomerge quickly."

"What for… ohh" Ryo realizing Takato's idea.

BIOMERGE ACTIVATE

CYBERDRAMON BIOMERGED INTO

JUSTIMON

"Trinity Arm" Justimon used his trinity arm on the Deceptimon, cutting it off Renamon and with a "Justice kick", he destroyed the digimon.

"Phew." Henry sighed in relief. "Hey Takato, how'd you think of that?"

Takato looked confused when he answered, "I really don't know. It was just…. there."

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It was now night, and the tamers were resting in a cave they had found.

"Better get some sleep, we've still got a big climb tomorrow." Henry said as he tried to get to sleep.

Soon, everyone was asleep with peaceful dreams.

Well, almost everyone.

"Takato, where are we." Guilmon asked his tamer in his dream.

"I don't know Guilmon." Takato was looking up at a giant fortress. He looked up at a large flying base. A single giant helicopter rotor in the middle held it up. Then, from the base, a giant tornado took off into the sky, and it headed like a worm straight towards them. It went right over them blowing up a lot of sand.

When the dust cleared, both digimon and tamer realized they were somewhere else. They saw two unknown digimon fighting. Takato could tell that they were both his enemy, but each was a different kind of enemy. Before he could figure it out, one of the digimon was knocked out and the other prepared to strike it down. But the moment before it was over, a flash of light blinded Takato and Guilmon. They heard malicious feminine laughter. Takato didn't know who was laughing but he knew it was evil and he hated that laugh, more than he ever though he could hate something. Then he saw a crescent moon shape spinning, turning white and black on each spin.

Finally he saw a winged figure standing on a carved rock. Then he realized that the figure was human, yet not a human. An angel. The carved stone was a gravestone. Even though he couldn't see the figure on the gravestone, he knew one thing for certain. It was a tamer. He couldn't tell if it was a boy, or girl, or even himself, but he knew what this meant. Either him, or one of his friends was going to die.

He woke up in a cold sweat. It wasn't that the dream was scary as it was realistic. He looked around. It was still dark and everyone else was asleep. Well, almost everyone. "Takatomon." He looked at Guilmon, who had woken up at the same time. "That was a weird dream, wasn't it?" Takato wasn't surprised, even though he knew he should have been. "Yeah, it certainly was. Let's go get some air." "Okey dokey."

As they stood outside, a blur seemed to make them disappear. In their place, were two blob digimon. They looked like Deceptimon, only they were bigger. They began transforming. Once they were finished they looked like.. Takato and Guilmon. "Ready?" asked the Takato copy. "Lets go." Said the Guilmon Copy. They entered the cave and went to sleep; now the infiltration was complete.

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As for the real duo, they were unconscious, knocked out from a hard hit. When they regained consciousness, they saw they weren't on the ground anymore. They looked up and saw what looked like a female angel carrying him. But she wasn't like any angel either of them had ever seen before. Something seemed off. "Are you the guardian of wind?" Takato asked. "No." She replied. "Are you a good guy?" Now she laughed before answering. "No." Takato eyes were now wide open in shock, but not because of her answer, but because of her laugh. It was the same evil laugh from his dream. "Now, I hope you've sorted out your will, cause your gonna need it." With that, she let the two go. They were now falling towards their death, on the mountainside far below. "Well, guess this is it Guilmon." Takato shouted as fell. "It's been fun." Guilmon replied. As they finally hit, darkness overcame them.

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In the morning the tamers continued up the mountain. Takato had been unusually quiet. Once they were up a bit higher Takato finally spoke. "Hey Jeri."

"Yeah Takato?" she replied.

"Can I talk with you alone for a minute alone."

"Okay."

Rika wondered what that was about, so she decided to follow and "observe" them.

Once they reached an isolated area, Jeri asked, "what did you want to talk about?"

Takato merely replied, "this." With that, he grabbed her neck and began to strangle her. She tried to move back, but `Takato' lifted her off the ground.

"Takato, please…" she tried to say, as she chocked.

Takato merely sneered at this. "Poor little Jeri, no-one to help you. Where's Leomon to help you? Oh yes, you let him die."

"NO"

"Yes."

Suddenly a new voice said, "Let go of her, you jerk!"

`Takato' let go of and turned around to look at an enraged Rika Nonaka. "Ah yes, the digimon queen." He said sarcastically.

He ran at her and kicked her right in her stomach. It made her double over and forced her back. `Where did he get so strong?' She thought. "Renamon." Renamon appeared like she always does. "Yes, Rika?" she asked. "Scan him." Rika replied. Renamon looked a bit surprised at this but she scanned him anyway.

"Mimicmon, ultimate level, digivolved form of Deceptimon, special attack; mimic; turns him into any living form."

"Well, that explains a lot." Rika said. "What did you do to Takato?"

"Looks like you found out my little secret. Oh well, Matsuki would already be dead by now." Mimicmon smirked. "My mistress would have assured that."

"Takato, dead?" Rika said, stunned. Then she got angry. "You're going to pay for that."

"I wouldn't be so sure. Brother, come on out." Out of hiding came `Guilmon'.

"Oh no," Rika replied sarcastically. "You've got a dinosaur clone too. I'm not afraid of Guilmon. After all I can digivolve and you can't."

Then Mimicmon laughed. "What makes you think I can't digivolve? Allow me to demonstrate."

BIOMERGE ACTIVATE

GUILMON BIOMERGED INTO

GALLANTMON

"I think your chances of winning are getting smaller." `Galantmon' laughed.

"We'll see about that." Rika replied

BIOMERGE ACTIVATE

RENAMON BIOMERGE INTO

SAKUYAMON

"Now we will get vengeance on you, imposter" Sakuyamon said defiantly.

"I think your forgetting one small detail, Nonaka." With that `Galantmon' began to glow

GALLANTMON MODE CHANGED INTO

GALANTMON CRIMSON MODE

"Now you chances are zip." He smiled.

"Invincible sword"

He hit Sakuyamon, making her crash to the ground. She managed to get up but looked like she wouldn't last much longer. "Spirit strike"

`Galantmon CM' dodged the attack easily.

"Quo Vadis"

This attack hit Sakuyamon full on, making her de-digivolve.

"All too easy." He said. "I was hoping for something better from the digimon queen. Oh well." With that he raised his sword, ready to destroy Rika and Renamon.

Suddenly something very large and fast blew past, nearly bowling over `Galantmon CM.' "What the?" He looked up and saw a huge bird digimon. He moved back in fear. "You!"

Rika checked her D-power "Eaglemon, Mega level, special attack: Wing Strike"

"What can one mega do against the Galantmon copy?" Renamon wondered.

"Wing Strike"

With that single attack, `Galantmon CM' dedigivolved into `Takato' and `Guilmon.'

Then Eaglemon flew down and dropped something from his talons. An unconscious Takato and Guilmon. (A/N You didn't really think I'd kill off anyone, did ya? Well, not yet anyway : ) )

By now, the others had run over here and saw two battered Takatos and Guilmons, and an equally battered Rika and Renamon, a giant eagle and a coughing Jeri.

"Rika, what's going on here?" Henry asked.

"I was about to ask him." Rika referred to the eagle digimon.

"I suppose introduction's are in order." The eagle said. "I am Eaglemon, the guardian of wind."

"Hey, you're the one we came to find." Henry remarked.

Jeri who had stopped coughing asked, "What happened to Takato?"

Eaglemon eyes grew hard as he recalled what happened.

FLASHBACK

"Hmm, what's that?" Eaglemon said, as he woke up from his sleep. He flew out and saw a dark spirit carrying Takato and Guilmon.

He flew towards her, but knew he wouldn't get there in time. He heard her shout out. "Now, I hope you've sorted out your will, cause your gonna need it." With that, she dropped the two. Eaglemon followed them at full speed. They were only an inch away when he grabbed the two with his talons. They still hit, but they were relatively unhurt, apart from the fact they were unconscious. With that he flew to where the other tamers were.

END FLASHBACK

Takato began to mumble. "No, I won't let you do it. NOOO."

"What's wrong with Takato?" Rika asked.

"He's dreaming." Eaglemon said. "He seems to be reliving a vision."

"A vision?" Henry asked.

"More like a prophecy. He seemed to have had it last night before he was abducted. It's very confusing."

"You can see what he's seeing? Freaky." Kazu remarked.

"Most of what he's seeing isn't exactly good news, especially the last part. He sees something that I have known for a while." But whatever it was he wasn't telling.

"But who was the dark spirit that took Takato?" Henry asked.

Suddenly several beams of light struck Eaglemon. He was blasted back into a cliff side. "Uh, you!"

"Me." The mysterious figure said. It looked like a female angel, but there were a few differences. She had an evil looking expression on her face, and in place of hands, she had razor sharp claws.

"Illusiamon, Mega level, a destructive angel digimon, Special attack: Light Barrage." Henry read.

"Beware, she is the dark spirit of light." Eaglemon cautioned.

"Isn't that a contradiction?" Henry asked.

Eaglemon laughed a bit at that. "You'd better get use to it. Nothing here runs by normal rules."

Illusiamon looked over at the unconscious Takato and Guilmon. At the moment she looked at them they both woke up. "You!" Takato exclaimed.

"Don't you people get tired of saying that?" She said, annoyed.

"Mistress, please, help us."

Illusimon looked down at the two Mimicmon. "Of course I'll help you," With that, she shouted "Light Barrage" and deleted the two digimon. "To an early grave." With that she absorbed the Mimicmon's data. "Hmm, tasty."

Everyone was shocked at this. "She absorbed the data of two of her own team!" Jeri said, shocked.

"They were useless to me, except in death." She said, unaffected.

"Why do you constantly try to beat destiny, Illusiamon?" Eaglemon asked. "You know that no-one is supposed to die yet."

"You, my master and all the other elements can persevere for this destiny, if you wish," She smiled "but I refuse to let my life be controlled by any power."

"That kind of talk could be considered mutinous by your master," Eaglemon said.

"He wont kill me. His destiny needs me, so I'm safe to do as I please."

"You are still being controlled by destiny. The only way to change destiny is to know your destiny, and you have had no visions or prophesies."

Now Illusiamon got annoyed. "I am not controlled by anyone, and I'll prove it by killing the tamers and their digimon."

"Light barrage"

Eaglemon was hit by dozens of beams of light. When the dust cleared, it was obvious that Eaglemon couldn't fight anymore.

`Tamers, listen up. I need a distraction.' Eaglemon said telepathically. `All of you, digivolve to your highest form and draw her away. Takato, stay here, I'll need your help.'

"Right." Rika said, as she started to get up. But her legs collapsed under her. Her fight had exhausted her. "Stay down, Rika." Renamon said, also to tired to get up.

All the digimon digivolved to either ultimate or mega. "Hey, ugly, over here." Mega Gargomon yelled. "Ugly!" Illusiamon shrieked "UGLY!!!" She immediately began pursuit of Mega Gargomon, who was flying towards the mountain path.

"Now what?" Takato asked.

"I must go back to my natural form" Eaglemon replied.

He began to glow, and then he turned into data and began to reconfigure himself. Takato looked on, expecting something big and impressive.

It wasn't what he got.

Jinn's natural form turned out to be a little blue bunny rabbit, with baggy yellow pants and orange hair.

"That's it? That's your powerful natural form." Rika scoffed "What are you gonna do, hop on Illusiamon?"

Jinn glared at her for a second, then got down to business. "Okay, Takato, Guilmon, hold hands. Don't ask why, just do it."

Takato and Guilmon were a bit confused, but they did as Jinn asked.

Jinn began to glow again. "Spirit Merge activate!"

Then Takato and Guilmon began to glow. Then Jinn floated above their heads and then a beam of light came down on the three. Then Jinn was gone.

"Ah, Jinn, where are you?" Takato asked

`Right here.' Said a voice in his head.

Both Guilmon and Takato were quite startled. "Where?" they both asked.

`I'm in your head, silly. Now, you want to help your friends, right? Then just say "wind biomerge activate." Better hurry up'

"Uh, right."

(A/N I'm going to describe this the first time so if you see anything in brackets, it's what's happening.)

WIND BIOMERGE ACTIVATE

GUILMON BIOMERGED INTO

(The two are surrounded by a tornado and an image of Jinn appears in front of it)

DRAGOONMON

As the wind cleared, it showed a strange digimon. It had Takato's face, but it had a golden helmet that looks like Guilmon's head. He was covered in golden armor, including his long red tail. He had a spear with two wing shaped blades on each side of the top, as well as two red wings on his back.

"Dragoonmon, Mega level, a flying knight digimon, Special attack: Wind spear." Rika read.

"Time to help the others." Dragoonmon said. But instead of two voices speaking, this time, Jinn's voice was also saying it.

With that he flew off towards the battle.

"Was that really Takato?" Jeri asked.

Rika didn't know how to answer that.

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Meanwhile, the other tamers were getting beaten up. Marine Angemon, Lopmon and Guardromon were already out of the battle. Ryo and Henry were the only two still fighting. They were also getting beaten. "Mega Barrage" "Light Barrage" Illusiamon's attack destroyed Mega Gargomon's attack and hit him, dedigivolving him. "Oh man." Ryo said. "Now what do I do?"

Suddenly, Illusiamon stopped, and looked up. What she saw stunned her. "Uh oh."

Ryo looked up and saw what looked like a small dragon. This dragon landed and said "Illusiamon, it's time to fight who can actually beat you."

"You cannot defeat me, Dragoonmon. No-one can!" Illusiamon said defiantly.

"We shall see." Dragoonmon said.

"Tornado blast"

Dragoonmon fired a tornado at her, which caught her and threw her at a cliff face.

"You cannot defeat me that easily. Light barrage"

Dragoonmon jumped to avoid her attack, and flew high up.

"Thunder strike"

A bolt of lightning hit her, sending her flying, looking very scorched.

"Now, to finish this. WIND SPEAR"

He flew, full speed at Illusiamon with his spear ready to strike. However, Illusiamon managed to dodge his attack. "You may have won this round, but I will be back Matsuki, and then, I'll make you wish you'd never been born." With that she flew off at the speed of light.

Dragoonmon flew down to the others and dedigivolved. "Hey guys." Takato said cheerfully.

All the others looked like their eyes were about to pop out. "W-what happened. How did you beat her?" Henry asked, amazed.

"Because of me." Jinn said. "I helped him digivolve."

"Who are you?" Terriermon asked.

"The spirit of wind of course." He replied

"We'd better get back to Rika and Jeri. Rika would kill us if we forgot her." Takato said.

"Ah, age has brought you wisdom, grasshopper." Terriermon joked.

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"Took you long enough." Rika said irritated.

Jinn jumped out of Takato's head. "You're starting to annoy me." He said.

"What you gonna do about it, bunny boy." Rika said, also irritated.

Jinn closed his eyes, began to float and summoned a wind that surrounded him

"Uh, wait, don't, I didn't mean it!" Rika said, now rather scared.

"Too late." Jinn said.

With that he throwed the wind at her.

"NOOO!" She yelled as the wind hit her. But when the wind left, she found she wasn't hurt. In fact all her injuries had gone.

"Muahaha, healing winds, heals any injuries, it looks like an attack, so I can pull pranks on people." Jinn laughed

"I like him" Terriermon said, also laughing/

Now Rika was in a rage. "You are going down, bunny!"

She made a grab for him, but he jumped back into Takato's head. She began to advance slowly on Takato. "Why are you angry at me, I didn't do that." Takato said, anxiously.

"But the one who did it is in your head, so I think I'll beat it till he comes out." Rika said angrily.

Takato took his cue and began to run. "Come back here!" Rika yelled.

`Takato, say "Fly." Don't ask why, just do it' Jinn said.

"Fly" Takato said. Wing grew out of his back, and he began to fly.

"COME DOWN HERE THIS INSTANT!!!" Rika yelled.

All through this Terriermon had been laughing his head off. "Looks like Takato's head is really in the clouds now." He laughed.

Rika then looked at him. "Well, if I can't have one bunny, I'll settle for another."

"Uh oh" Terriermon said. Henry said, "Terriermon, running might be a good idea." And that he did, all the way down the mountain, with Rika in pursuit.

"What took so long." Asked Impmon who had been recovering in the arc.

"Yay, Rika." Said Calumon as Rika arrived.

Soon, everyone had arrived. "Hey Jinn. Do you know where we should go next?" Henry asked.

"Yes," he replied "We must see the fire spirit, in the magma volcano. He's in some caves, inside it"

"We have to go INSIDE a volcano!" said Henry shocked.

"Hope you packed warm." He smiled.

"Hey, what did you mean when you said that none of us was meant to die YET?"

Takato answered "One of us is going to die on this journey."

"WHAT?" Everyone exclaimed.

"Its true." Jinn said sadly. "And that's only if we win."

TO BE CONTINUED

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Sorry that took so long to update. I hope you like it. If you do, please review. And I also would like constructive criticism, but not flames. If you think my story stinks, then tell me why.