Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Rise of the Demon Lords ❯ A Talk of Darkness ( Chapter 3 )

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Chapter 3: A Talk of Darkness

Koichi sighs as Daisuke walks into the room quietly. Daisuke doesn't say anything to him as he walks up to Ken and sit at the corner of the bed that Mercurymon was not occupying. Koichi watches as the boy tucks a hair under Ken's ear. Ken sighs softly in his sleep.

“He looks peaceful. It's been awhile.” Daisuke spoke quietly.

“Yeah. Grandma said that Ken gets pretty bad nightmares.”

“He does. We usually have trouble getting him to go back to sleep after he gets them. There are times were Ken doesn't sleep all day until his grandmother gives him a sleeping pill to force him to.” Koichi frowned. There are better ways to getting someone to fall asleep and not dream. “Though his nightmares and panic attacks hadn't been that bad for over a month now. It's odd how he had a bad one today.”

“So this type of attack doesn't happen often?” Daisuke looks at him.

“Ken hasn't had a panic attack like this for about a month now. What happened Koichi? What happened before he had his panic attack and who is this Mercurymon?”

Koichi sighed; he was wondering when Daisuke would ask. It was only a matter of time. Koichi took a deep breath wanting to get something off his chest first. “How much did you hear?” Daisuke raised a maroon eyebrow at him.

“Almost the whole conversation. I know you have something to do with the Original Chosen that Gennai told us about. I don't understand this whole turning into a digimon thing or these Darknesses, but that doesn't matter right now. You can tell me that part later. Ken is my main concern right now. If Ken is in danger I need to know.”

“Koichi, I think you should tell him. I have a good feeling about him.” Koichi sighs at his partner.

“I have to agree with the floating lion. You should tell me whatever he wants you to tell me.” Koichi's eyes widen.

“You can see them!” Koichi covered his mouth, realizing he said that a little to loud. Daisuke's brows knitted together.

“It's not really hard to miss a floating black lion man and a walking mirror that talks in the in the dialect of the most boring writer in history.” Daisuke replied as if it should have been obvious

“Ha! Ha! Ha! I told you no likes Shakespeare!” Koichi rolled his eyes as Loweemon laughed and Mercurymon grumped under his breath about throwing him into the kennel.

“Well to start off I am one of the Warriors. My partner is a spirit laughing. My friends and I are able to transform with our partners to fight in battle. My partner has two forms. Loweemon is my partners Human Spirit, while JagerLoweemon is his Beast Spirit.”

“And this Mercurymon is the spirit on the bed?”

“Yes Mercurymon is his Human Spirit. His Beast Spirit is Sakkakumon. As of today he is Ken's partner. Mercurymon is the Warrior of Steel.” Daisuke's eyes widen at that.

“So that's who Ken's been talking too. I knew it wasn't some stupid coping mechanism.”

“It's not. Mercurymon has been leaving at night and around noon to visit Ken. Though I wasn't aware of it until today.”

“Well that explains why Ken gets all defensive when someone thinks he's talking to himself. What did Mercurymon do then? You said he helped Ken.”

“Loweemon told me that Mercurymon was able to follow Ken into his mind and was able to help with whatever fear Ken was having when we arrived.”

Daisuke frowned. “Do you know what triggered it?”

“No. When we got here Ken was shaking. He seemed scared to ring the doorbell. I didn't know what was happening until Minomon told me Ken was having a panic attack.”

Silence followed afterwards and it was quite uncomfortable. Koichi bit his lip, giving a glance to his partner. Loweemon sent him a glance of reassurance, but that was about it. Koichi looked back at Daisuke. Daisuke was staring back at him with a thoughtful expression on his face. Koichi wasn't sure if that was a good thing or not.

Daisuke gently lifted his goggles and removed them from his head. “Okay, there's nothing we can do about his panic attacks. All we can do is comfort him and wait until he calms down.” Koichi nodded. Daisuke repositions his goggles on his head. “Now then, mind telling me what this Purified and Neutral Darkness is about. I'm assuming the swirling Darkness that healed Ken is the Neutral Darkness.”

“That's right.” Koichi blinked. Daisuke was just as calm about this as his cousin was. “Darkness is an element, just like Light. This is why it's called the Neutral Darkness. It is at its purest state.”

“And what about the Purified Darkness. That is your element, right?” Koichi nods, wondering how he was going to explain this. He ultimately decided to start from the beginning.

“In order to talk about the Purified Darkness. I'm going have to explain when my friends and I were summoned to go to the Digital World. This Gennai only told a brief summary of it. However, he left out a lot of events.”

Koichi took a deep breath and started from the beginning. He told Daisuke that one day his friends got a call on their cells to go to the train station that led to the Digital World. When they got to the Digital World, he explained how his friends got their Human and Beast Spirits. Koichi mentioned the battles with the Evil Warriors sent fourth by Cherubimon. Daisuke's gave him a confused look when he mentioned that Duskmon was the Warrior of Darkness.

“I thought your partner was Loweemon, not Duskmon.” Koichi sighed; he really hated to talk about Duskmon.

“Loweemon is my partner. Before I explain Duskmon, I'm going to tell you how I came to the Digital World. You see Koji and I were separated when we were babies. We were told that our respected parent was dead. When I was eleven I learned from my dying grandmother that I had a twin brother. When I found out, I took it upon myself to find him. I did, but I lacked the courage to confront him. I looked at a distances and started to feel envious. His life was a lot better then mine. At times I thought that, why him? Why was he the one with the perfect life, while my mom is struggling, working two jobs just to support us?” Koichi felt ashamed about how he felt back than and wished he confronted him sooner. However, he wouldn't be the person he is today if it wasn't for those events.

“On the day that Ophanimon called, I followed my brother to the station. He got into the elevator with Takuya, but it closed before I got there. I decided to go down the steps to catch up with him. However, I ended up falling down the stairs and getting injured.” Daisuke gasped and looked at him in horror.

“Somehow my spirit ended up in the Digital World. Cherubimon found me and brainwashed me into hating my brother and blaming him for the suffering my mother and I was in. He gave me the Human Spirit of the Corrupted Darkness. This turned me into Duskmon. I fought against my brother and his friends and I almost destroy them to.” Daisuke had a sad look on his features, but there was something in his eyes that he could not decipher.

Koichi continued his story and talked about the things he did as Duskmon. He talked about his first encounter and how he went crazy when he and Koji fought. He talked about the time when Mercurymon trapped his friends in his beast form. He mentioned how he looked into Koji's mind and felt very conflicted. Koichi recalled how he almost killed his brother if he hadn't found the power to Fusion Evolve. Koichi explained what that was when Daisuke had a blank look on his face. When Daisuke understood Koichi continued his story up to the point when Cherubimon gave him his Beast Spirit, Velgemon, making him lose his humanity and go on a rampaged. He then told him how his brother and Takuya defeated him.

“After they defeated me I felt terrible about what happened. There were moments when I thought that why they were so nice to me and willing to trust me so quickly after all the things I did.” Daisuke frowned. Koichi was well aware how the other Chosen treated his cousin. He hated it and couldn't believe that they would judge him so harshly just because of a mistake. Sure Ken may have done some bad things, but he was being controlled by the powers of Darkness. Koichi had done far more worse things than his cousin, yet he was forgiven immediately. While his younger cousin was shunned and blamed for a good portion of his days before they finally forgave him. How he wished he were able to do something when this happened. He and Koji were on a school trip and didn't learn about this until later, but they did try to call and give him advice and reassurance.

“After that day Cherubimon decided to send a hologram version of himself to fight us. He tried to convince me to join him again. When I refused I received my D-Tector with the true spirits of Darkness. The Corrupted Spirits of Darkness was purified and returned to me. And this is why my spirits are called the Purified Darkness.”

Koichi watched Daisuke's reaction as he finished his story. Daisuke looked troubled by something. When he finally did speak Koichi became very confused.

“It's kind of like Ken when he was consumed by the Dark Spore.” Koichi never heard of the Dark Spore before or what it does. But he was surprised when the two spirits gasped.

“The Dark Spore! Are you sure?” Daisuke nodded confusedly.

“Loweemon? What's this Dark Spore? By yours and Mercurymon's reaction I have a feeling its not good.”

“Tis not.” We both turned to Mercurymon as he spoke. “The Dark Spore is one of the most powerful artifacts of Darkness thither is. The Dark Spore comes from a powerful, power hunger digimon god.”

“This digimon god was called Millenniummon.” Daisuke gasped at the name and looks wide-eyed at Loweemon and Koichi.

“I recognize that name. Ken mumbled that name a couple of times in his sleep.” Daisuke frowned worriedly. “But Ken could never remember when I ask about it.”

“Tis because of the Dark Spore's effects.” Mercurymon answered but never elaborated, since Loweemon continued.

“Millenniummon was a god and could not be destroyed. He has the powers of time and space and can manipulate it at will. The Holy Beasts saw this as a threat and were right. Millenniummon alone kidnapped the Chosen Children, forcing the Holy Beast to resummons the Legendary Tamer and the Chosen of Kindness.” Koichi and Daisuke listened intently to the story, however there was a wave of uneasiness in the air. “Unlike the Chosen the Legendary Tamer could use and train any digimon to battle. In this war he was given a blue and white D-3 and Veemon as a temporary partner.” Daisuke eyes widened as he took out his D-3, realizing it were the same one that the Tamer was given.

“Thither wast a reason for this. Veemon wast thy destined partner.” Mercurymon said as he addressed Daisuke. “However, a Jogress wast needed to defeat the god.”

Daisuke looked at him in disbelief. “But Ken is my partner!”

“You were always destined to be Ken's partner Chosen of Miracles. Your bond is stronger then that of the Tamer. However, the Legendary Tamer was supposedly this god's destined partner.” Koichi and Daisuke gasped at the same time. How could an evil digimon have a partner?

“And Ken?” Koichi asked. Why did it feel like they were opening Pandora's box?

“From what Ken toldeth me, Tamer wast a childhood friend of that him and his brother. The Tamer wast with Ken when they wast summoned to the Digital World.” Mercurymon stated. Koichi noticed a look of jealousy in Daisuke's eyes.

“During this war Millenniummon managed to divide the Digital World in half.” Koichi and Daisuke paled. “The two were separated, each on one of the halves. On Ken's half, Ken was looking for the pieces of a very special Armor Digi-egg. Unlike the one you and your friends uses, this Digi-egg, when put together, allowed them to enter Millenniummon's heart. It was this when the true battle began. In the end Wormmon and Veemon Jogress together and finally defeat Millenniummon; however this came at a cost. Millenniummon sent out the Dark Spores in hope of controlling his partner. Ken, however, pushed him out of the way and got hit instead.”

“What happened after that?” Koichi asked.

“Because of the Dark Spore Ken got very ill. If 't be true I recall correctly Ken wast ill for three weeks before returning home.”

“It is. One day while the Tamer was tending to Ken. Ken mentioned about an email with a quiz on it that was addressed to the Tamer. After the Tamer finished the quiz he was sucked into the Digital World.”

“That gent wast summoned again to participate in a ridiculous tournament. But it turned out to be a set up by the Holy Beasts.”

“This tournament was the Holy Beasts plan to train the Tamer so he can fight Millenniummon.”

“God! This guy is worse than MaloMyotismon!” Daisuke said in frustration.

“Aye. The Chosen Children wast involved and nev'r told the Tamer about it. That gent wast angry and hath felt betrayed. The only one who wast clueless wast Ken.”

“Why would Taichi and the others do that?”

“I'm afraid we do not know that answer. You would have to ask them.” Loweemon replied to a very angry Daisuke. Koichi could understand how he was feeling. He was feeling very angry himself. And usually is very kind and understand towards others. It was probably a good thing that his brother isn't here. “Anyway the Tamer faced the god again and they fought. However, there was an explosion at the castle that the two were fighting in. Sadly, the Tamer was never seen again. It is believed that he had died.”

Both Koichi's and Daisuke's faces fell. Ken lost his only friend at such a young age. Koichi wondered how Ken even handled this loss.

“It gets worse. That was also with the week that he lost his brother after a huge fight between them.” Minomon spoke from his spot on the pillow. Koichi intently felt sad for his cousin. He remembered that Ken called him that day, crying about what happen. Koichi always wondered why his aunt and uncle didn't want him there at the funeral.

“These two incidents in addition to getting pulled into the World of Darkness activated the Dark Spore.” Loweemon said sadly.

“The Dark Spore corrupts the host. It seals good memories, leaving faulty ones, and allows the entrance of Darkness.” Mercurymon said sadly.

“That explains why he thought Digimon weren't living creatures. The Dark Spore blocked his memories of the Digital World.” Daisuke said as an after thought. “But what you mean by corrupting the host?” Koichi and the two spirits stared at him. “What?”

“Do you know what the opposite of Kindness is?” Loweemon asked.

Daisuke blinked, thinking for a moment. “Well Ken's crest is Kindness. When he was the Kaiser he wasn't very nice.” Daisuke frowned. “He was mean.”

“Cruelty.” Koichi said. “From what I'm guessing the Dark Spore corrupted Ken's Crest of Kindness, making it the Crest of Cruelty when he was the Kaiser.”

Daisuke groaned at Koichi's explanation. “That explains the whole personality shift and how he really doesn't remember much of what he did now.”

Just like me, Koichi thought to himself. He remembered what it was like when he was Duskmon. He was cruel and arrogant as well. Koichi thought about how lost he was when he was in that form. His cousin must have been that way too. However, while he was taken over by a corrupted spirit, his cousin was taken over by a digimon's pesticide or at least that what it sounds like it is. Koichi glances at his cousin and wonders about the Dark Spore. The Dark Spore is still there and could still take over Ken's mind. Koichi felt bad for his younger cousin. Ken was so gentle, so kind, so sweet and innocent. It disturbed him of all the pain Ken had to endure. This Dark Spore was also something to worry about. They didn't know much about it. It was pure evil and had made Ken do some awful things. Koichi began to wonder if there was a way to get that thing out. Koichi personally wasn't sure. This seemed like something he has to talk to his brother about.