Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ South Digimon Diaries ❯ Battle Test, Part 2 ( Chapter 8 )

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South Digimon Diaries

The story of the Digi-Destined from Argentina.

By Persona

Disclaimer: Digimon belongs to TOEI and Akiyoshi Hongo, and used without

consent.

The Diaries Universe belongs to Lord Archive, and is used with consent.

Okay now, on with the story.

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Last chapter...

The Betamon started to shake with fear, "It's... it's HIM!"

The Betamon ran into their houses.

Candmon and Piyomon both turned to look at the Betamon. "What do you mean?"

"Panjamon is coming! It always starts to snow when he comes!" said the elder

Betamon before he too took cover in his own house.

Candmon and Piyomon turned to look at David and Julia, who were watching to

snow fall in awe.

"David! Julia! He's coming! Panjamon is coming!" yelled Candmon.

Heavy steps could be heard on the snow. And they were getting closer.

And now...

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Chapter eight: Battle Test, part 2

David reached the two Digimon first.

He looked at Candmon, who nodded with determination and then the two of them

walked towards the stepping sounds.

Julia reached Piyomon a second later. "David, what are you going to do?"

asked the girl.

"Hide behind one of the houses." replied David without turning to look at

her, "I'll deal with him."

"But I want to help!" replied Julia.

"If you want to help, then stay out of this for now." answered David. "Now

go, it's better if he thinks I'm alone."

Julia sighed, she knew David was right. The only battle she had had since

she became a Digi-Destined was the Christmas Invasion. David had more

experience and knew what to do. And he was right, that Digimon didn't know

that they were here, better for him to think David was alone.

Besides, she knew she could always cut in and help him.

So, she and Piyomon ran to one of the huts and hid behind it, peeking from

time to time to see how David talked with that humanoid looking white lion

Digimon.

David and Panjamon met in the very center of the village. By now the snow

was falling nonstop.

David and Candmon looked up at Panjamon defiantly.

Panjamon looked down at them and smirked.

"Well, well, well. What do we have here?" asked Panjamon with a mocking

smirk, "Who might you be?"

David and Candmon gave Panjamon a smirk of their own, "What's the matter?"

asked David, "never saw a Digi-Destined and his Digimon before?"

Panjamon raised an eyebrow at this. Then he noticed that David had a Candmon

with him, and that his clothes were all black. Putting two and two together,

he realized who he was talking to. "Well, I'll be. I never though I'll met

the Digi-Destroyer."

David smiled, at times like this his 'fame' came in handy. This Panjamon

knew who he was, and therefore he would think it twice before attacking. It

gave him an edge, and if he was smart enough, he should be able to take

advantage of it.

"You were bound to meet with me as soon as you started making trouble here."

replied David.

"I see." replied the white Digimon. "So, what are you going to do?"

David smiled knowingly, "Well, usually I would just cut to the fight,

torture you for a while and then killing you in the most disgusting and

painful way I could think of. But I'm in a good mood, so I'll let you go

with a warning if you promise that you'll never show your face in here ever

again."

Panjamon frowned and threw a punch at David. But he was expecting it, so he

jumped to a side and away from the evil Digimon.

Panjamon took out his sword with his right hand and held it in a firm grip.

"Once I defeat you, I'll be known as the Digimon that killed the

Digi-Destroyer. I'll be feared so much that nobody else would dare to fight

me! Prepare to die!"

David stood up and held his D-3 in his right hand. He knew this was going to

happen sooner or later. Every time an evil Digimon found out who he was tow

things were bound to happen.

He either ran away, not trusting his abilities to be enough to defeat the

Digi-Destroyer. Or he just fought him to kill him, wanting to make a name

for himself by killing him.

"Candmon! Now!" yelled David as his D-3 started to shine with a dark purple

light.

"Candmon evolve!"

Candmon was surrounded whit the same purple light that came from David's

D-3. When it was over, in his place stood a tall humanoid looking Digimon

made out of fire.

"Meramon! Fire Punch!" Meramon yelled and threw a fireball from his extended

fist towards Panjamon.

Panjamon jumped out of the way and turned to look at Meramon. He used his

sword to hit him, but Meramon was too quick and he jumped away a few feet.

"Fire Punch!" another fireball went straight towards Panjamon.

"Ice Beast Fist!" Panjamon yelled as a freezing attack was thrown from his

extended fist.

The two special attacks impacted into each other and disappeared into a

cloud of steam.

David growled inwardly. He knew Meramon was stronger than that. That Fire

Punch should have destroyed Panjamon's Ice Beast Fist and keep on going.

What happened then?

Then he noticed that little puddles of melted snow that were forming right

below Meramon's feet, the snow covering the houses... Meramon had to over

exert his powers in order to use his attacks. This freezing landscape gave

Panjamon an advantage!

Meramon noticed this too, but never stopped grinning with confidence. "Well,

it seems that our powers are about even." he said to Panjamon.

"It appears so." replied Panjamon; he too was grinning with confidence.

Meramon raised his fist close to his head, in a classic boxing position.

"So, how about we end this the old fashioned way?"

Panjamon grinned and gripped his sword with both hands in front of him.

"Fine by me." he replied calmly.

Meramon studied his opponent. He had had many battles and then some since he

met David; he knew how to fight. And he knew when someone didn't know how to

fight.

Judging by the way this Panjamon was holding his sword, it was clear that he

was more used to fight with his Ice Beast Fist special attack.

He must have accepted his terms for this fight for two reasons. One was,

simply, that he knew he was right. Their powers were even and would just

keep neutralizing each other.

The second must be because he though that having a sword gave him an

advantage over a bare handed Meramon.

Boy was he ever wrong if he though that.

The only thing that he and David had to do since they became a team was

staying alive. That just consisted on fighting every Digimon that threatened

them, and find food and water to eat and drink.

That gave them plenty of free time for training.

Boxing, Catch and every bits and pieces that David had learned in the real

world by watching sport events or action movies.

If you add to all of that all the fights that Meramon and David had over the

years... well, you get the idea.

Panjamon made the first move. He stabbed to Meramon's head, but he simply

retreated to dodge it, after that Panjamon took a wide slash at Meramon's

side, but the fire Digimon dodged him the same way.

That last move left Panjamon open for an attack, and Meramon took advantage

of it. He threw a jab to Panjamon's face, which was fast enough to make

Panjamon drop his sword and stun him, leaving him open for another attack.

Meramon followed with two hooks to Panjamon's chin, one with his right arm

and one with his left arm, and then ended the little combo with an uppercut.

That last punch threw Panjamon away a few feet, making him fall on his back

on the snow covered ground.

Meramon walked over to him and looked down with a smirk. "Had enough?"

Panjamon opened his eyes and looked up at Meramon. "I must admit that I am

surprised. You fight very well, but there's something you didn't take in

consideration..." Panjamon's right hand clenched into a fist, grabbing snow

and gravel in the process, "I fight dirty!" Panjamon exclaimed and threw his

handful of snow and gravel to Meramon's face.

"ARRGH!" The move caught Meramon by surprise, and he didn't manage to dodge

it in time. He placed his hands on his eyes and took a few steps back.

"Meramon!" yelled a worried David from a side.

"I can't see!" exclaimed Meramon as he tried to open his eyes. The snow had

melted as soon as it touched him, but the gravel didn't and it had been

enough to temporarily blind him.

"Okay, let's continue this." Panjamon smiled evilly as he stood up.

"Meramon, to your right!" yelled David.

Even with David's warning a blind Meramon could only throw a wild punch to

the approaching Panjamon. The white lion Digimon dodged it very easily and

punched Meramon before he had a chance to throw another punch.

"HA HA HA! Take that! And that!" yelled Panjamon as he punched Meramon in

the head, stomach and side, "What's the matter? Why don't you fight back?"

again and again Panjamon punched Meramon, and the fire Digimon couldn't do

anything to stop him.

"Ice Beast Fist!" using his special attack at VERY close range, Panjamon

impacted Meramon in the very center of his chest.

The effects were immediate. Meramon was turned into an ice statue.

"MERAMON! NOO!" an enraged David, seeing what Panjamon did to Meramon, ran

towards the white lion Digimon and tacked him to the ground with a rugby

move.

Panjamon was surprised at the boy's strength; he had actually managed to

make him hit the ground!

"Get away you worthless idiot!" Panjamon kicked David away with his right

leg, the kick connected with David's stomach, taking all the air out of him

and sending him flying towards one of the bigger houses of the Betamon

village.

The Betamon that were currently in that house ran out as they saw how David

was flying towards it. David crashed with the house full force, breaking a

hole trough one of the walls and falling inside.

"And stay down! Ice Beast Fist!" Panjamon used his special attack on the

house, freezing it over.

The frozen up house couldn't stand to the weight of the newly formed ice,

and collapsed on itself, burying David under a pile of ice and rubble.

"DAVID!" Julia and Piyomon had watched the whole fight from their hiding

spot, but they couldn't stay hidden anymore.

Both of them ran out and towards Panjamon. As she ran, Julia's D-3 started

to shine with a white light.

"Piyomon evolve!"

Piyomon was surrounded by the same bright light, and then turned into a

giant bird with black feathers.

"Sabirdramon!"

Panjamon turned his head as he heard them come closer. He was surprised to

see another Digi-Destined kid with a Digimon.

"I'll never forgive what you have done to David!" Julia yelled, with tears

in her eyes from both anger and despair. "Get him Sabirdramon!" she added.

"Match Shadow!" using Panjamon's surprise as an opening, Sabirdramon flew at

top speed towards the white lion Digimon.

Panjamon placed his hands on his ears as Sabirdramon created a sonic boom.

The big black bird Digimon made a U-turn in mid air, getting ready to do

another attack on Panjamon.

But Sabirdramon was very inexperienced when it came to a fight, and it

showed.

She made the U-turn too slowly, more than enough time for Panjamon to

recover and stop her with a sucker punch on the side of her head as she was

flying low towards him.

Sabirdramon fell on the ground, slid a few feet on the snow and finally

stopped. Then she turned back into Piyomon.

"Piyomon!" Julia ran towards her fallen partner, who slowly managed to stand

up, too beaten to even fly. Julia knelt next to Piyomon, looking worriedly

at the pink bird, "Piyomon, are you alright?

Piyomon rubbed her head where Panjamon had punched her, "Yes, I think so."

"I don't know who you are, but I'm going to kill you too!" Panjamon picked

up his sword from where it lay on the ground, and slowly started to walk

towards Julia and Piyomon.

Julia and Piyomon turned their heads to watch in horror how Panjamon was

getting closer and closer, his sword held firmly in his right hand.

"STOP RIGHT THERE!"

Julia, Piyomon and Panjamon turned to look where that yell had come from.

David was standing in the middle of all the rubble and chunks of ice that

were once a house and that had buried him alive just a minute ago.

He was unharmed, and was holding a very big boulder over his head. It was a

very impressive site all by itself, but the expression of anger in David's

face made it all more scarier.

"The fight's with me you worthless chunk of data!" yelled David, as he

dropped the huge boulder on the ground, it fell with a loud thud.

"D-David..." Julia was both amazed at what she just saw, and happy that

David was okay.

Panjamon was also surprised, and a bit scared, to see David come out of

there. "How... it can't be..."

"Surprised?" asked David with a mocking smirk as he stared daggers into

Panjamon. "Well don't be, you are in front of the toughest fullback to ever

play in the youth teams of SIC." As he made that statement, David picked up

one of the chunks of ice that were around him. It was the size of his head

and looked heavy, but he picked it up with just his right hand. Then,

holding it with both hands, he started to bench press the chunk of ice. In

just a few seconds, cracks were starting to form on it and then it broke

down into dozens of smaller pieces.

Julia couldn't believe what she just saw. How could anyone be so strong!? It

was true that David had been a rugby player at the same sport club where she

played, but still... no even Federico MZË‡ndez was that strong! (Notes about

this last comment at the end of the chapter)

Panjamon stared a little longer at David in awe, but the he shook it off and

smirked in confidence. "It doesn't matter how strong you are, you are still

a human and I'm a Digimon, without that Meramon to help you I'll beat you in

no time."

David smirked; "Who said Meramon can't help me?" he pointed to a side where

Meramon's frozen figure stood.

Panjamon turned his head to look, and his eyes opened wide in surprise. The

ice covering Meramon was melting! Faster and faster with every passing

moment. Soon cracks started to form on the ice surface, and finally in

exploded into tiny pieces, as Meramon was free.

"You think that a little ice was really going to stop me?" asked the fire

Digimon with a superior smirk.

The next thing happened in a blur.

Meramon rushed over to Panjamon so fast that the ice Digimon couldn't even

start to use his Ice Beast Fist on the fire Digimon. Then Meramon started to

hit Panjamon with a quick blur of short, fast, but very strong punches.

Again and again he hit the white lion humanoid, making him retreat as he

punched his head, stomach and sides. Finally, Meramon picked up Panjamon by

the neck with both hands, and started to strangle him.

Having dropped his sword from the blur of punches from Meramon, Panjamon

could do nothing but hit Meramon's arms in an attempt to get free. But it

was useless, he slowly started to feel how his lungs weren't able to get

oxygen, and his vision was getting black and blurry.

David crossed his arms over his chest and walked over to Meramon and

Panjamon. "You should have escaped when I gave you the chance."

"David, wait! Don't kill him!"

David and Meramon turned their heads to see a crying Julia holding a hurt

Piyomon in her arms.

"Julia? How can you say that? Didn't you see what happened? He tried to kill

me; he tried to kill YOU! He has been terrorizing the Betamon in this

village... and you still want him to live?" said David, uncrossing his arms

and turning fully to see her.

"I know... I know... but... but nobody deserves to die! Nobody has the right

to take a life! What he did might be wrong, but nobody has the right to kill

him!" Julia replied, tears now running down her cheeks. "Please David!

Please, don't kill him!"

David clenched his hands into fists. He knew that he couldn't let him live.

That if he did, then he would just do the same things someplace else.

But he also hated to see Julia cry. It was like she had this power over him,

he couldn't say no to her.

"Meramon... release him." ordered David.

Meramon looked at David for a second in question, then nodded and released

his grip on Panjamon's neck.

Panjamon feel on his hands and knees, coughing and rubbing his sore neck.

Meramon turned back into Candmon as he and David walked away from him. "Go

away and don't ever come back." said the Digi-Destined kid without even

turning his head to look at Panjamon.

Panjamon looked at David walk away; his back turned to him, his Meramon

having turned back to Candmon.

He was an idiot for letting him live, in one quick movement; Panjamon

grabbed his sword from the ground and ran towards David.

Julia saw this and tried to warn David, "David, look out!"

David turned around just in time to see how Panjamon's sword stabbed him on

his right shoulder.

"DAVID!" Julia screamed in terror at seeing how David was stabbed by

Panjamon.

"You son of a bitch!" Candmon yelled, immediately evolving into Meramon as a

purple light engulfed him. Meramon tackled Panjamon to the ground, making

the ice Digimon fall face first with him on top of Panjamon.

Before Panjamon could get up or even turn around, Meramon grabbed both of

his arms, and placed his right foot on the middle of his backside, stepping

strongly. Then he started to pull on both of Panjamon's arms. Panjamon's

mouth opened wide as if to scream, but no sound came out. Meramon kept

pulling with both arms and pressing harder with his foot, until he heard a

loud crack, signaling that Panjamon's spine had split in two.

Meramon let go of Panjamon's arms as the ice Digimon fell limp on the ground

and exploded into data. As soon as he died, it stopped snowing and the

clouds covering the sun dissipated.

"David!" Julia ran towards the still figure of David, Panjamon's sword was

still impaled on his side, and amazingly he was still standing.

As soon as Panjamon died, Meramon turned back into Candmon and rushed over

to David. Soon the fire Digimon was next to his partner, along with Julia

and Piyomon.

"David! Oh my god! David!" Julia was too stunned; too horrified by what just

happened to do anything. She didn't even dare to touch David, worrying that

she might hurt him even more. The tip of the sword was sticking out from the

back of his shoulder!

David looked down at the sword. Grabbing it with his left hand, he pulled it

out completely. When the sword fell on the ground it deleted into data, just

like Panjamon did just a moment ago.

David fell on his knees and placed a hand on the wound, then looked at his

blood-covered hand.

"That... hurt..." it was the last thing David said, after that he closed his

eyes and fell unconscious on the ground.

To be continued...

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Author Notes:

How did Candmon evolve after David was stabbed?

When David saw Panjamon coming to stab him, there was a moment where he was

thinking about how to defend himself. Of course that he never got time to

dodge the attack, but that though alone was enough to give power to Candmon

to evolve to Meramon for long enough to take out Panjamon.

Who's Federico MZË‡ndez?

Federico MZË‡ndez is a player of the national ruby team of Argentina, know in

the entire world as The Pumas. Before that he played in Argentina's youth

team, where he was world champion at the youth tournament in Treviso, Italy,

in 1990. He played for The Pumas in the World cup of 1991. He played in

clubs in South Africa, England and France. He's probably one of the biggest

and strongest players that play for the Pumas ever (and I mean it, the guy

is HUGE).

Why would Julia, a hockey player, know about a rugby player?

The most popular sport in Argentina has always been football (or soccer as

its called in the US), but even then, there are several towns and cities

where people like better ANOTHER sport instead of soccer.

For example, Bahia Blanca is a rather small city that has been unofficially

declared by everyone as THE national capital of basketball. The best

basketball players in Argentina's sport history were born there. (In fact

Manu Ginobili [of the San Antonio Spurs] is from Bahia Blanca.)

San Isidro is one of those towns. The most poplar sport there is rugby, so

it's normal for a girl like Julia to know about stuff like that, even if her

favorite sport is field hockey.

How come David is so strong?

Well, if you read Lord Archive's story (War Diaries), more specifically,

Entry 18. You probably guessed it by now. But I'll say it anyway: Yes,

David, being a Digi-Destined, has the same power as Iori. He's VERY strong,

unnaturally so.

I hope this cleared things up.

Persona

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And now... PERSONA'S FUN FACTS ABOUT ARGENTINA!

The place, Mexico D.F., Mexico.

The date, June 22, 1986.

The event, the FIFA World Cup of soccer.

The national teams of England and Argentina were playing for a place in the

semifinals of, probably, the most important sporting event worldwide.

Diego Maradona, captain of Argentina, receives a seemingly harmless pass

just behind the line that marks the middle of the field.

Two English players had him covered... or so they though.

Maradona steps on the ball, turning on himself, and running the opposite

way, then turning again on a quarter, dodging the two players and running

forwards and towards the goal.

He started to run, always towards the English goal, when another player

tries to stop him. But he dodges him.

Another one comes, and he dodges him too.

Six players try to stop him in total... all of them failed.

Maradona is now in the area, ball secure at his feet the only thing between

him and the goal is the English goalie. And he dodges him too!

Just touching the ball lightly with his left foot (he was left-handed) the

ball goes slowly and surely into the goal.

He has done it. He has dodged six English players, plus the goalie, running

the 60 meters from where he was to the goal in just ten seconds. The most

incredible ten seconds in soccer history.

That goal, his second one against England in that game, is still considered

by everyone, Argentinean or not, as THE best goal to EVER be scored in ANY

soccer match.