Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ The Ressurection War ❯ Apocalypse: Light Revealed ( Chapter 26 )

This is Yuehon. Last time, Yamato Ishida and Koushiro Izumi of the Cult of Darkness attacked Lord Hiroshi and Tk. They were losing pretty badly, not even their Mega-level dragon digimon, Gigaseadramon and Goldramon could stand up against Demon and Lucemon. Then something happened to their crests, they changed! Lord Hiroshi’s Crest changed from Spirit to Fate and Tk’s changed from Friendship to Hope! With this new power, Gigaseadramon digovolved to Bukumon, and Goldramon digivolved to Seraphimon!

Meanwhile, Kimeramon attacked a helpless town. We fought him, and it looked like we were winning, until this mysterious digimon became even more mysterious, as the Devimon “portion’ of him emerged from the rest!

Oh Seven Try To Be Free

Oh Seven Try To Be Free

Oh seven try to be free

Oh seven try to be free

In a slightly strange scenery

We knew a strength that wasn't special

The dream we had someday, the voice we felt somewhere

It's not a lie that we'll take everything

Can we continue on like this, like this?

Still with the feeling of wanting to go back

Even if we cried, even if we laughed, there are things that won't change

But we believed, and we'll join our hands and walk

Oh Seven Try To Be Free

Oh Seven Try To Be Free

Oh seven try to be free

Oh seven try to be free

The mysterious feeling that resembled loneliness

Was as if drifting while confused

As if remembering, we stared into the distance

Tightly gripping onto our tiny courage

We can continue on like this, like this

Still with the feelings of wanting to return

Oh Seven Try To Be Free

Oh Seven Try To Be Free

Oh seven try to be free

Oh seven try to be free

Oh seven try to be free

Oh seven try to be free

(Seven)

APOCALYPSE: Light Revealed

Taichi frowned as he stared at Yamato and Koushiro, who were kneeling before him. “You failed to defeat your opponents? That I cannot tolerate.”

“I’m sorry master,” Koushiro said, “But Takashi’s digimon evolved into a different mega form.”

“So did Hiroshi’s,” Yamato protested.

“Enough!” Taichi shouted, “I understand that the Digidestined will soon be traveling to the Stone of the Center to download the basic program of the Digital World. If they do, they’ll be able to reinstall the Digital World and all of our plans will be for nothing. Prepare a force to stop them.”

Yamato and Koushiro nodded. “Yes sir.”

“Good, now get out.”

The two Gods of Darkness rose to their feet and walked out the door. Taichi leaned back in his throne as Sora walked in. She grinned and ran a finger over his face. She curled into a ball and jumped into his lap.

“Even you can’t help me now,” he sighed, “Those Digidestined are ruining our plans, they have almost defeated Kimeramon, but thankfully his metamorphosis has begun.”

She wrapped her hands around his neck and pulled into a playful kiss. “I will cheer you up. I will defeat Hikari Kamiya, and bring you her head!”

She leapt off of his lap and trotted out the door.

The Digidestined had all agreed to a meeting at Gennai’s house. Hiroshi and Tk had just finished explained what had happened to their digimon partners while the others were discussing Kimeramon.

“I’m telling ya!” Davis gasped, “Devimon just…came out of him! It was like that “Alien” movie…”

“Not quite, but close enough,” Yolei said, “We need to find out why that happened.” She was trying not to look at Kari.

“We’ve got more bad news,” Ryo said, “Myotismon has escaped.”

“What?” Kari gasped, “How…?”

“I’d prefer not to talk about it,” Ryo muttered.

“Well, what should we do first?” Tk asked, “Hunt down Myotismon, or those Cult of Darkness things?”

“Or Kimeramon,” Patamon added.

“I’ve got an idea,” Davis said, “Why don’t we check out that Temple of Darkness in the Forest of Shattered Light? That’s their main base, right?”

“That’s a good idea,” Kari said, “We’ll split up, half of us will go to the Temple of Darkness, the other half will try to find Myotismon or Kimeramon. All right?”

“Do we have any idea where they are?” Ken asked.

“A rumor came through our, ah, ‘usual channels,’ that Kimeramon was sighted on the other side of the Server Continent.”

Tk sighed. “Seems like as good a place as any to start.”

And so, after splitting into two groups, they journeyed to almost opposite ends of the Digital World. Kari could have easily split up Tk and Yolei, but the guilt would have overwhelmed her. So she chose: Ken, Yuehon, Derek and Cody to accompany her as she searched out Kimeramon, while Davis, Hiroshi, Yolei, Tk, Catherine and Tatum invaded the Temple of Darkness in order to discover clues about their new enemies.

Myotismon gently sat down on the rocks surrounding the oasis. He made a few gestures with his hands, and two bats appeared in a flash of light. One of the bats changed into a cup, which the second bat used to fill up with water and bring to its master. The vampire lord smiled to himself and drank the water. “This is one of the few bodies of water left in the Digital World. You should drink while you can.”

Kimeramon just growled. The vampire lord chuckled. “Do not be so afraid, my friend. Drink, please.”

The synthesized digimon nervously approached the water. He sniffed it before submerging his head. Myotismon shook his head. “I meant to drink in a civilized manner. I think I should have to teach you manners and class.”

Kimeramon pulled his head back out and stared at his ‘friend,’ water dripping from his head. He just growled.

“You can’t speak, can you?” Myotismon asked. Kimeramon just stared at him, a mindless look in his eyes. “And I believe you have a limited intelligence as well. Perhaps when you were created by the Digimon Emperor, he was not able to give you a conscious mind. Flesh is easy to manipulate, but a soul? That is so much more difficult.”

He leaned back and stared out across the desert. “Since the destruction of the Destiny Stones, the Digital World will surly die. The only way to make sure we survive, is to travel to the human world.” He closed his eyes, “Ah, I remember that world well. I could have had it, you know, I could have ruled it easily, but those damn Digidestineds stopped me, and then Gennai and those blasted Guardians banished me to beyond the dimensional barrier, but I survived! I will not allow myself to be destroyed when the Digital World dies!”

He turned to Kimeramon. “And with you, my powerful friend, with you as my weapon, I’ll find a way into the human world once more.”

The fused digimon only stared at him. “You don’t comprehended one word I’m saying, do you? Could you simply be destruction incarnate, or something…more. You seemed to be intelligent before, but now…What mystery surrounds your birth?”

He rose to his feet and approached Kimeramon. “Come, my friend. We search for the Digidestined, and a passage to Earth!”

Kari’s group had stopped for a rest near an oasis. “This is taking forever,” Ankylomon said, resting his head on the ground. “We’ve been searching forever.”

“It’s only been a few hours,” Cody clarified.

“More like six,” Yuehon said.

Cody shot her a glance. “We still haven’t found Myotismon or Kimeramon.”

“I don’t like sitting around here,” Yuehon said, rising to her feet, “Candlemon and I will scout ahead.”

“Maybe I should go with you,” Cody offered.

“No, we’re fine,” Candlemon said.

“I insist,” Cody said, following her away from the oasis. Kari looked to Ken.

“He doesn’t trust her, does he?”

Ken shook his head. “He won’t forget about everything she and Hiroshi did to us.”

Kari nodded. “Yeah, I kinda felt the same way at first, but…he really came through for us in the Dark Ocean.”

“I don’t think you’ll be able to convince him,” Ken said, “It’s going to take a lot.”

About a mile ahead of them, Yuehon had climbed to the top of a large hill in order to get a better view of the desert area. She could feel Cody’s stare on her back.

“All right, what is it?”

“I’m just keeping an eye on you, that’s all.”

“Why?” she asked, eying him, “You don’t trust me, do you?”

Cody shook his head. “No, not really. I’m sorry, but I don’t.”

She nodded, surprisingly looking hurt. “I see. The others trust us, right?”

“I’m a little more…cautious, then them. None of them have ever lost a father, like I did.”

“W…what happened to him?”

“He trusted someone he shouldn’t have. He had a friend when he was younger, and while my father became a police man, his friend went on the wrong side of the law. My father had to arrest his friend, but he convinced him that he wouldn’t be a criminal anymore. My father believed him, until he was called into a crime in progress. My father’s friend was there and ended up killing him.”

The Chinese girl gasped. “I…I’m sorry, but trust me, I am not going to hurt you.”

“I want to believe you, but…”

Before Yuehon could answer, Ken shouted to them that Gennai had contacted them on their D-terminals.

“He said that there’s a report of a dark digimon attacking remaining towns along the coast,” Ken explained.

“Myotismon or Kimeramon?”

“That’s just the thing, it’s neither. It’s someone else.”

“We’d better check it out,” Kari said.

Armadillomon digivolved to Ankylomon and Wormmon armor evolved to Searchmon. The others climbed onto the ‘carrying’ digimon as they flew across the Server Continent.

“This is so horrible,” Salamon said, staring at the dead, decaying desert, “Our home is going to be destroyed.”

“I know,” Searchmon buzzed, “But once we download the basic Digital World’s programming from the Stone of the Center, we’ll be able to reload it.”

“I just hope everything’s okay.”

The rest of the journey was traveled in silence until they approached the smoky remains of a destroyed town. “I can’t believe this!” Cody shouted, displaying a surprising display of anger, “This world is dying, and yet someone seems so eager to help it along!”

“Whoever did this couldn’t have gotten far,” Derek said, “I bet if we look, we’ll find ‘em.”

Davis’s group slowly descended through the black tree tops of the Forest of Shattered Light. Hiroshi scanned the trees. “So, this is the dark forest, huh?”

Catherine hugged herself and shivered. “Oui, I never wanted to zee t’is place again.”

“It’s strange, isn’t it?” Yolei asked, “That while the rest of the Digital World is dying, this place seems even…stronger?”

“Because in a time of despair and death,” Tatum said, “Darkness thrives.”

“How true,” Tk said, “Well, Davis, show us the way.”

They began to walk deeper into the forest. Tk and Yolei became aware that Tatum was staring at them. Finally, Yolei turned to her. “What?”

“N..nothing,” she said, “I was just thinking how cute the two of you look together.”

The purple-haired girl sighed. “You know then, huh?”

She nodded. “Kari told me.”

Yolei stared at her. “So, are things between…us, okay?”

“Yeah. I feel sorry for Kari, but if you two have feelings towards one another…”

“I feel so bad about Kari,” Yolei sighed, “I know she loves me, and I do love her, but I want a serious love, I want a family and children, and…and…”

“Kari can’t give them to you.”

“It’s ironic,” Tk said, “We both loved Kari, and she loved us, and we ended up loving each other. I can’t ignore how I feel, but I don’t ant to hurt Kari.”

“We need to talk about it,” Yolei said, “but we don’t know how.”

“She’s your friend,” Tatum smiled, “She might be hurt now, but I’m sure she’ll be happy for you.”

In front of them, Catherine, Davis, and Hiroshi had been listening. “Poor Kari,” Catherine said, “All she really wanted was love.”

“Eh, love, who needs it!” Hiroshi said.

Catherine stared at him. “Jus’ what a boy would zay!”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“You know!”

Hiroshi gave her a mischievous smile, “Better then being a dumb blond girl!”

Catherine clenched her fists together as her mouth turned into a snarl and her teeth grounded. She was about to rip out Hiroshi with her nails, but Davis grabbed her. Even though he was bigger and stronger then her, it took everything he had to hold her back. He struggled to speak, ignoring the pelts he was getting from her elbows. “I’m….not…gonna…let…you….two

n ear…each…other…again!”

Veemon called out, “Hey, we’re here.”

“Yes,” Floramon said, “This is just as I remembered it.”

“This place is…is horrible!” Yolei gasped, “I don’t think I…I ever felt like this before! This…this fear…this darkness!”

The others did not have a response as they entered through the doors and walked to the main worship room. The statue of the Dark God, now know to the Digidestined as Lord Taichi, was still standing.

“There’s no one here,” Hawkmon said.

“Good,” Hiroshi grinned, “No on to get in my way!”

They found a hallway behind the statue with doors running along both walls. They were about to start searching through each one, when Patamon’s ears shot up. “What’s wrong?” Tk asked.

“I hear something.” He jumped off of his partner’s head and flew to one of the doors. The others ran over and quietly listened. They heard a female voice on the other side.

“Yes Lord Taichi. The Bakemon report that Kimeramon and Myotismon have been seen together, near what remains of the Server Continent. Yes, we’re about to head out after them.”

“The know where Myotismon and Kimeramon are?” Yolei gasped, “We have to tell Kari.”

“No, you won’t!”

They turned around and saw Alice, Impmon, Joe and a Shakomon, a clam digimon. “You are intruders! Mimi, security alert!”

The door flew opened and Mimi and black Palmon ran outside. “Well, what have we here?” she asked.

Joe grinned. “I am the Dark God Joe Kido of Envy! And this is my partner Shakomon, digivolve!”

“Shakomon mega digivolve to Leviamon!”

“I am the Dark Goddess Alice McCoy of Gluttony, and this is my partner, Impmon, digivolve!”

“Impmon mega digivolve to Beelzemon!”

Mimi laughed in a shrill voice. “I am the Dark Goddess Mimi Tachikawa of Greed! And this is my partner, Palmon, digivolve!”

“Palmon mega digivolve to Barbamon!”

Davis’s group was trapped between the three Dark Gods. “All right,” he said, “Digivolve!”

The digimon quickly evolved to their highest forms of: Imperialdramon, Goldramon, Gigaseadramon, Megidramon, Blossumon and Silphymon. Davis and Tk used their Holy Weapons to fuse with their dragon partners, creating humanoid dragons, a perfect merging of digidestined and digimon alike. After evolving, the battle began.

Kari’s group, who had been searching for the past few hours, had arrived at another town, completely destroyed. Searchmon was just passing over the town, when a beam of energy struck his underside. He was caught in a tailspin and crashed right on top of Ankylomon.

“What happened!” Cody gasped, “Are you okay?”

“Something hit me,” Searchmon said, “Threw me out of the sky.”

Derek’s Crabmon gave a small shout. “It was probably him.”

The Digidestined turned to the horizon of the town and saw a black figure hovering over them. “It’s that Devimon!” Derek exclaimed, “The one that came out of Kimeramon!”

The Devimon glared at the group. “You…you have been following me.”

“You’re destroying the Digital World!” Cody shouted, “We can’t let you keep doing it!”

Devimon chuckled. “Then, by all means, come after me.”

Ankylomon charged into him, pounding his head into his stomach. The devil digimon was thrown backwards. Searchmon had jumped back into the air and used his “Jamming Hertz,” attack to send a bolt of violate lightning into the destroyer.

“Salamon digivolve to Gatomon!”

“Crabmon digivolve to Coelemon!”

“Candlemon digivolve to Apemon!”

“Attack him together!” Kari ordered, “Now!”

Coelemon’s sharp fossils struck Apemon’s Bone Stick, making it a spinning razor blade. Gatomon’s attack propelled the deadly weapon further, slicing into the devil digimon.

“What’s going on here?” Ken asked himself, “That was too easy.”

Devimon started laughing, then he propelled himself forward. His body was overcome with white light.

“What’s happenin’?” Derek gasped.

“He’s digivolving!” Coelemon shouted.

“Devimon digivolve to Ladydevimon!”

The newly digivolved warrior easily tore through her opponents. She grabbed Coelemon by the tail and threw him into Gatomon. Apemon attacked with his bone club again, but the devil woman was able to grab it and fling it backwards, smacking the primate digimon in the face.

Searchmon and Ankylomon appeared on both sides of her. She grinned to herself and waited for the insect to attack with his Jamming Hertz. She jumped out of the way, and the lightning smacked into the dinosaur digimon. The devil woman then grabbed Searchmon and flung him around into Ankylomon.

“That was too easy,” she grinned. “Digidestined, I’m sure we’ll meet again.” She flew away, disappearing in the sky.

“What happened?” Kari asked.

“I think we got our butts’ kicked!” Yuehon snapped.

“She’s getting away!” Ken shouted, “We’ve got to go after her!”

Searchmon used his head to mention to his back. “Jump on, and we’ll….” He trailed off as he stared at another figure who had appeared before them. It was a young woman, with red hair.

“You’re that fake Sora Takenouchi!” Derek shouted.

“I am not a fake!” she screamed, “I am the Dark Goddess Sora Takenouchi of Lust!” She smirked in a sexy smile. “And I’m here on behalf of Lord Taichi.”

“What for?” Kari asked.

She pointed at her. “To challenge you!”

“What about us?” Derek asked, “We’re chopped liver?”

“I care not for you,” she said, eyeing Kari, “Only her.”

“What if I don’t want to fight?”

She smirked and snapped her fingers. Above them, Lilithmon appeared, dropping down in front of Sora. The demon woman flashed a sexy smile, before executing her attack. She swung one of her claws, but she was too far away to cause any damage, or so the Digidestined thought. Apemon gave a scream of pain as the skin on his chest tore away, in a perfect replication of where Lilithmon’s claws would have struck.

The demon woman grinned. “Phantom Pain!”

“Apemon!” Yuehon called, “Apemon, are you okay?”

“I’ll…I’ll be fine,” he said.

Kari stared at the injured primate digimon. She turned back to Sora, an angry expression on her face. “Leave the others out of this!”

“Then fight me now!”

Kari hesitated. “We need to go after Ladydevimon.” She nodded, “Just let the others go on their way, then I’ll fight you.”

She grinned. “Fine.”

The brown-haired girl continued to stare at the red-haired girl. “All right,” she said, “Ken, you and the others go after Ladydevimon.”

“What about you and Gatomon?”

“We’ll be fine,” she said, “You need to find out what you can about Ladydevimon and her connection to Kimeramon.”

He nodded. “All right. Let’s go.”

“Good luck,” Cody said, as he and Derek rode away on Ankylomon, while Ken and Yuehon climbed onto Searchmon as he flew into the distance.

Kari stared at Sora, and could only see the Sora she remembered, the ten-year-old, dressed in a sleeveless yellow shirt and blue helmet, not the teenager in the orange trench coat and dress that would make a prostitute blush. “Why do we even have to fight?” she asked.

“Because you are our enemy,” she said, “You are trying to stop Kimeramon.”

“What exactly do you have to do with Kimeramon anyway?” Gatomon asked.

“Enough questions,” Sora barked, “We’re fighting, right now!”

“Alright Gatomon,” Kari said, “Looks like we’re not getting out of this.”

“Don’t worry Kari, I won’t let you down.” She quickly digivolved to her mega form of Holydramon. The dragon and the demon stared at one another before shooting forward.

Silphymon was thrown through the brick wall of the Temple of Darkness. He had to twist himself around in a circle in order to make himself right-side up. He stared at Kido’s Leviamon, who was snapping his massive jaw and grinning wickedly. His partner laughed manically.

“So, you’re the threat that Lord Taichi was so worried about, huh?” he asked.

Leviamon chuckled. “You don’t seem so tough to me!”

“Silphymon!” Yolei shouted, climbing out of the hole in the wall, “Silphymon, are you okay?”

The floating digimon rubbed his injured arm. “Y..yeah.”

“You won’t be for long,” Joe chuckled. “So them exactly what we can do.”

His partner quickly snapped his jaw shut, which sent a powerful blast of water at the floating bird/man digimon. He braced for the impact, but Davis/Imperialdramon leapt in the way and, with a flick of hand, sent the water attack flying into the sky.

“Thanks,” Silphymon said.

“No problem,” Davis/Imperialdramon answered, “But we’d better work together to take this guy down.”

Joe snorted. “How sweet. I wish we could use teamwork more,” he mentioned to Alice and Mimi, “But I guess I just have to accept it. I’ll destroy you for that!”

Leviamon leapt into the air and tackled Silphymon to the ground, but before Davis/Imperialdramon could help him, Leviamon grabbed his foot with his massive jaw and threw him into the ground.

By this time, the other combatants had escaped the confines of the temple and were engaged in their own battles. Gigaseadrmon and Blossumon had teamed up together to combat Mimi’s Barbamon. The strange demon digimon was surprisingly fast, and easily tore through Blossumon’s attacks, and still was able to jump out of the way before Gigaseadramon fired his Giga Sea Destroyer, directly at Blossumon. It was only through luck and skill that he was able to redirect his energy attack at that last second, sparing his partner.

Down on the ground, Mimi stood firmly as she stared at Catherine and Hiroshi. “I can’t believe that you think that you’re me!”

“I am you!” Catherine shouted, “You are ze one who iz mistaken!”

She huffed. “How can you honestly believe that? I mean, look at you, by the look of those jeans and that shirt, you should be out wrestling with the boys or something!”

She stared down at her clothes, then over at Mimi. “Well, it iz better zen dressing like zome kind of prostitute!”

Mimi smirked. “What can I say, I love money! Maybe I can lend you some for a makeover. I mean, I hate to spend money, but I can’t stand it when girls like you don’t take better care of your appearance!”

Hiroshi sighed in annoyance. “Maybe we should stop with this feminine crap and focus on the battle?”

“Shut up!” Catherine screamed at him. She then turned to Mimi and, after expulsing a stream of French obscenities, tackled the other girl to the ground. Hiroshi stared with wide eyes as the two girls viciously attacked one another.

“Wow.”

Tatum and Alice stared at one another. “So,” Tatum said, “You’re me?”

“And you’re me,” Alice said, “But, am I more of you then you are of me, or are you more of me, then I am of you?”

“But, how can that be?” Tatum asked.

“What is…simply is.”

Tk/Goldramon sighed and smiled slightly. “Let’s see, cryptic answers, yeah, the two of you are the same person all right.”

Alice mentioned over her shoulder to her demon lord partner, the gun-totting Beelzemon. “Take them down.”

He grinned. “I’m gonna enjoy this. Double Impact!”

Megidramon leapt in front of Tatum and deflected the bullets. He roared in anger and jumped forward, grabbing Beelzemon by the shoulders and threw him into the ground. Tk/Goldramon aided his teammated by attacking with his Holy Sword, slicing one of the demon’s guns in half.

“Not bad,” Beelzemon grinned, “But I’ve still got one more!” He grabbed his gun and fired at Tk/Goldramon, but the human/digimon shot higher into the sky to avoid the attack. Megidramon snuck around from behind the demon and struck him in the back.

Over on the other battlefield, Davis/Imperialdramon and Silphymon continued to fight Leviamon. The demon lord was not making it easy, as his massive jaw was long-reaching and powerful. Silphymon flew in to fire his laser at the demon’s eye, but he swung around and used his snout to slam the flying digimon into the wall of the Temple of Darkness.

“Just give it up,” Joe said, “You’ll never defeat us.”

Yolei stared at her. “Why?”

“What?” he snapped.

“Why are you doing this? What are you? What is your connection to Kimeramon?”

Mimi chuckled as she kicked Catherine in the face, sending the blond girl onto her back. She then turned to Yolei, while Gigaseadramon and Blossomon tried their best against Barbamon. “Our secrets aren’t gonna be let out that easily!”

“But why are you helping Kimeramon?” Hiroshi asked, “Oikawa told me that you’re trying to resurrect a dark god!”

Mimi chuckled. “Yes and no. The Dark God is reviving, but we are just making sure the Digital World is in the proper…conditions, for him.”

“Zen, what are you?” Catherine asked.

“I’m Mimi Tachikawa, and you’re nothing but a fake.”

“But how can that be?” Tatum asked, “If you really are the real Digidestined, why are so…evil?”

“Evil?” Alice asked, “The Digital World must be purified, it is overrun with darkness and death. Only when the Dark God returns, then will this world be as it once was. We learned that during….a period when we were….gone from both worlds.”

“You mean dead?” Tk/Goldramon asked, dodging a jab from Beelzemon, “That must be when we were born!” He growled. “What is going on? Why do you have such an interest in Kimeramon?”

Joe smirked. “Make us tell you.”

“I’ll make you all right,” Hiroshi shouted, “When I tear your skin from your body!”

Gigaseadramon sensed his partner’s anger and was filled with renewed strength. He dove at Barbamon and, before she could react, wrapped himself tightly around her. Like a real serpent, he began to squeeze. The demon lord screamed in pain.

“Barbamon!” Mimi shouted, “You cannot lose! I won’t let them take anything that belongs to me!”

“Listen to you!” Catherine shouted, “Ze ozers considered Mimi Tachikawa to be spoiled, but if those she cared about were in trouble, she would be ze first to help zem! You only care about your partner, because you t’ink zat zhe belongs to you!”

Mimi stared at her. “Shut up! I’m getting tired of your self-righteous attitude!”

Catherine ran over and punched her in the stomach. Mimi retaliated by grabbing Catherine’s hair and yanking it back with all of her might. The French girl screamed. Mimi quickly shot her arm around and grabbed Catherine’s neck in a headlock. The blond girl clawed at Mimi’s arm, but the Dark Goddess was stronger, not to mention her leather trench coat was protecting her. “Can’t…can’t breath….”

“Well, ‘sis’,” Mimi grinned, “Enjoy your next life, and don’t try to steal mine!” She laughed, then suddenly screamed. Her grip on Catherine’s neck weakened, and the French girl was able to escape. She fell to the ground, clutching her chest and panting heavily. She glanced up at her ‘double,’ only to watch as Mimi’s eyes rolled back into her head and she fell to the ground, with the Holy Trident in her back.

“I hope you don’t mind,” Hiroshi said, removing his weapon from the fallen goddess, “But you were in trouble.”

“Vous avez sauvé ma vie,” she coughed, “Thank you.”

Hiroshi nodded. He glanced to the sky, “And without the Digidestined, the digimon partner can’t last long.”

And he was correct, without Mimi, her demonic partner last a great deal of strength. Gigaseadramon and Blossumon were able to make short work of the treacherous Barbamon. The demon lord fell to the ground, landing next to her partner.

“Mimi!” Joe shouted. He growled in anger. “That’s enough! Leviamon, take them down! Kill them!”

The aquatic demon grinned in pleasure, showing his full mouth of razor-sharp teeth. Leapt into the air, his jaw opened completely, aiming for Silphymon.

“Silphymon!” Yolei shouted, “Be careful!”

The bird/man digimon executed a rhythmic dance, creating a ball of energy in his palms. “Static Force!” he screamed, sending the ball directly down Leviamon’s throat. The demon fell back onto the ground. He coughed, then burped a cloud of smoke.

“A little spicy, but nothing some water won’t cure,” he laughed.

“That was my best attack!” he shouted.

“You’re not strong enough,” Davis/Imperialdramon said, the claws on his Holy Gauntlets shinning in the darkness of the Forest of Shattered Light, “Leave it to me.” The massive cannon on his back began to glow brightly, firing a intense beam of white light at the aquatic demon. Levimon skidded back, but was still non the worse for wear.

“I’m not going down that easily!” he chuckled. He started to swing his tail, which suddenly changed into a whip-like tentacle, which smacked Davis/Imperialdramon in the head. “Cauda!”

Silphymon dove towards the demon, his body covered by light. “Astral Laser!” The light flew from his body and struck Leviamon in the side. The demon twirled to stare at him, which gave Davis/Imperialdramon a chance to stab the claws of his Holy Gauntlets deep into Leviamon’s stomach.

“No!” Joe shouted.

“Oh yes!” screamed Yolei.

Davis/Imperialdramon grinned and threw the demon into his human partner. His back-based cannon began to glow once more as it fired a column of light into both of them. “Positron Laser!”

“You’re the only one that’s left,” Tk/Goldramon said, “Just give up, tell us what we want to know.”

“I’ll nevah surrendah!” Beelzemon shouted, pointing his remaining gun directly at Tk/Goldramon and Megidramon, “And I’ll kill you two right now!” He began to fire rapidly. The two dragons split apart, but the demon still was able to get a few good hits, piercing the shoulder of Megidramon, and the left foot of Tk/Goldramon. The fused human/digimon was injured, but the pain only fueled Megidramon’s anger. He tackled Beelzemon to the ground and began to beat him mercilessly.

Down on the ground, Tatum and Alice seemed obliviously to the battle being raged around them. “How can you be me?” Tatum asked.

“I could ask you the same thing,” Alice said.

“Forget that question. Why do you have such an interest in Kimeramon? Why is he so important to you?”

“I…I cannot say,” she said, “You will discover why in due time.” She sighed, “If you survive, that is.”

Tatum frowned. “If you’re so willing to choose death over information, then so be it!” She reached into her robes and pulled out her Holy Whip. She cracked it onto the ground. It began to glow a red light. Above them, Megidramon began to glow in the same fashion. Both human and digimon were pulled together, creating a new being, a human girl wearing a red gymnast uniform, with red boots, a long tail, and a helmet in the shape of Megidramon’s face.

Tatum/Megidramon turned to Tk/Goldramon. “Let’s end this now!”

The other digidestined/digimon nodded. “Right.”

Tatum/Megidramon started swinging her whip around before her, which ignited into a ball of red flames. Tk/Goldramon, however, swung his sword above his head, which created a gold ball of flames.

“Meggido Flame!”

“Gold Flame!”

Both fire attacks slammed into Beelzemon’s stomach, sending him crashing into Alice. Both demon digimon and dark goddess remained perfectly motionless.

“I guess that’s it then,” Davis/Imperialdramon said.

“No it’s not!” Catherine gasped, “Look at ze them!”

“They..they’re dissolving!” Yolei said, “Just like when a digimon dies!”

She was correct. While the data of the demon digimon were slowly being separated, it appeared that the same thing was happening to the humans as well. Soon, all six beings were gone, dissolved into air.

“W..what are they?” Tk asked.

The Digidestined put that question out of their minds and ran back into the temple. They searched through every room for what seemed like hours before they discovered something important about their quest.

“There’s nothing here!” Hiroshi shouted, “This was a complete waste of time!”

“Well, we did learn something,” Tk said, “We know that Kimeramon and Myotismon have teamed up, or whatever you want to call it.”

“So we can kill two birds with one stone, right?” Veemon asked.

“Yeah,” Davis sighed, “Now, if we could only find them…”

Holydramon roared loudly as she flew towards Lilithmon. The dragon pulled up at the last second, smacking her tail into her opponent. The demon woman grabbed the dragon’s tail and began to swing her around before throwing her into the ground. If Holydramon was injured, she did not show it as she leapt back into battle.

Below them, Sora and Kari were engaged in a face off of their own. Both young women continued to stare at one another, even as their digimon battled above. “Stop this Sora,” Kari said, “Please. Don’t do this. There’s still time, we can save the Digital World. Just tell us about Kimeramon, tell us what you’re planning on doing!”

She just laughed. “Oh, is this were I’m supposed to renounce my ‘evil’ ways, turn to the so-called good guys? Sorry, it’s not going to happen. I serve Lord Taichi, and I always will. You…fake…you will not turn me!”

Her demonic partner felt Sora’s surge of anger, and began to use her claws to mercilessly rip across Holydramon’s fur, down to her scales. Kari looked on with worry, but breathed with relief when she saw her partner retaliate by exploding her body in light. “Apocalypse!”

“Quite an attack,” Sora said, “But it’s no use against Lilithmon.”

Kari turned back to her, a scowl on her face. “Don’t be so sure! Holydramon’s stronger then you think!”

Sora smirked. “Ah, so now you’re so eager to destroy me, huh?”

“You want it this way!” Kari protested, “We don’t have to! Please, don’t make us destroy you.”

“Don’t worry, you won’t,” Sora said, “Lilithmon, take her down!”

“Holydramon, stop her, but try not to hurt her.”

The two mega digimon stared each other down. Lilithmon was the first to strike. She jumped up and slashed Holydramon's chin with her claws. The dragon counted by bringing her tail around and smashed the demon woman into the ground.
"You're strong," she said, rising to his feet, "I'll give you that, but that alone won't save you!"
”You talk too much,” Holydramon said. She fired her Holy Flame attack, but Lilithmon blocked it with a flick of her arm. She went to once again dig her claw into the dragon’s stomach, but Holydramon appeared to be faster.
Below them, Kari shook her head fiercely. “Sora, why are you doing this? You were always the most…kind…selfless, how can you even think about doing any harm to this world?”

“Stop this,” she said, “It’s getting old.”

“Sora, don’t you remember when Datamon captured you?”

The red-headed woman hesitated, “I…I…” She fiercely shook her head, “I don’t remember anything!”

She looked to the sky. "Kill her Lilitmon!" she shouted,"Destroy her!"
"Fight her, Holydramon!" Kari said, "You've got to fight!"
Lillithmon landed on a nearby cactus. Holydramon breathed out a stream of fire, but the demon woman leapt back into the sky. The cactus was instantly destroyed.
"Stop dodging!" Holydramon shouted,"And fight me!"
"As you wish," Lilitmon said, charging forward, her claws outstretched before her. She moved with a suddenly influx of speed and finally jammed her claws through Holydramon’s stomach. "Things are about to get hot! Nazar Nail!”
Holydramon screamed in pain as a stream of fire course through her body like an electrical current. She screamed in agony as streams of fire lit up her body.
"No!" Kari shouted, "Holydramon! No! Fight her!”
"I'm...trying..." she replied.
Lilithmon smiled wickedly as she pushed her claws deeper into Holydramon's skin, which only increased the fire current coursing through her body.
Sora was laughing mercilessly as her digimon was slowly killing Kari's digimon. She was laughing so hard, that she did not notice Holydramon slowly lift her tail. She quickly wrapped it around the demon woman’s leg and slammed her into the ground.
Holydramon started breathing heavily as the pain subsided. "If you keep this up, you’re going to lose,” Kari said, “Please.”.
Sora clenched her fist. “Lilithmon, take her down, now!”
Kari clenched her own fists, letting her anger take control of her. "I guess if I want to get through to you, I’ll have to do it the hard way!" she shouted, running forward. She and Sora began to trade punches, just as their digimon were battling above them Kari brought her foot around and kicked Sora in the side, just as Holydramon whacked Lilithmon with her tail. Sora retaliated by punching Kari in the face, just as Lilithmon pounded Holydramon's nose with her claws. While Kari was recovering, Sora brought both her fists together down onto Kar's back, sending her to her knees. Lilithmon had jumped behind Holydramon and executed her Phantom Pain attack in the dragon’s back.
Kari recovered quickly and grabbed both of Sora’s hands, pulling them behind her back. “I guess if I want to convince you, I’ll have to do it the hard way! Sora, listen to me, remember when we first learned about our crests’ powers? You told me that you couldn’t have the Crest of Love, because you didn’t know what love was? But you were wrong!”

The red-headed girl blinked a few times. “I…I…I remember….No! No!”

She broke out of Kari’s grip and pointed at Lilithmon. “Kill Holydramon! Kill Kari! Kill them now!”

The demon woman screamed in anger and began to slash Holydramon repeatedly and with her outstretched claws. She attacked with such ferocity and rage that the dragon could not even defend herself before Lilithmon threw her into the ground. She landed before Kari and quickly returned to her Rookie form of Salamon.

“No!” Kari shouted. She ran over to her partner and hugged her tightly. “Salamon…Salamon!”

Her crest suddenly began to glow a bright pink. She was soon encased in void of darkness, with an unfamiliar crest hovered above him. A symbol was engraved on it, one that resembled a bright pink star. “A crest? But, what is it?” Se suddenly remembered when she was in the Dark Ocean, when the D-reaper forced her to remember her previous life’s death, and the crest that appeared when she needed it. She reached up and touched the crest, which exploded in light.

She was back in true reality, staring at the new crest in her hands. “My Crest of Courage has become the Crest of Light.” She stared at Sora, “I don’t want to do this, but you forced me to! Salamon!”

Kari’s digivice fired a beam of pink light into Salamon. The puppy digimon executed a back flip before jutting her head forward, a stream of gold energy flowing from her body.

“Salamon warp-digivolve to…”

The stream of ypink energy continued to flow until Gatomon became visible. The cat digimon turned slightly and screamed, sending another stream of pink energy forward. This time, Angewomon appeared in the stream. The angelic woman digimon turned her head to the sky as another stream of pink energy flowed into a slightly larger winged figure. A set of metal armor began to form over her body, flowing like liquid metal. Metal wings grew from her back and she formed seven small balls in his cupped hands which she shot forward.

“…Ophanimon!”

Sora smirked. “Well, just because you’ve got a new form, doesn’t mean you’re any stronger. Lilithmon!”

“Ophanimon,” Kari smiled, “You’ve got the power, now use it.”

The demon woman shot forward, spreading her claws before her. The angel woman flew to meet her, and the two exploded in battle. Lilithmon was using her claws in an attempt to rip the armor off of Ophanimon, but the angelic warrior was surprisingly good at fighting with her fists, and began to knock the devil back. Lilithmon spun around in the sky, striking Ophanimon with her legs. The angel was thrown back, but continued to stay afloat.

Sora looked down from the battle and stared at Kari. She was so determined to save this world, so courageous. It was going to be a shame to destroy her. “Lilithmon, end this!”

The devil woman smirked and the claws on her hands grew even longer. She propelled forward like a cannonball, aiming directly for Ophanimon’s heart. The angel woman remained clam and placed the palms of her hands together, creating a group of small glowing objects, which she sent forward with a small push of her hands.

“Sefirot Crystals!”

“Ophanimon!” Kari shouted.

Sora shot her gaze back at the brown-haired girl. She did not seem as worried as her cry made her seem, she actually looked…confident? Yes, she was sure she would win. As Sora stared at her face, she noticed something familiar. Her face, specifically her eyes, they were identical to….Tai.

“Lilithmon!” Sora screamed, “Stop! Stop your attack!”

If the devil woman was surprised, she did not show it. Instead, she executed a flip in the air, before landing beside her partner. Ophanimon’s crystal attack smashed into a mountain in the distance, and smoke could be seen.

Kari stared at Sora and Lilithmon. "W…why did you do that?” she asked as Ophanimon landed behind her.

Sora continued to stare at the ground before finally looking up at the brown-haired girl. “You are Tai. You really are,” she looked away, “So, what does that make Lord Taichi? What does that make me?”

“I don’t know,” Kari said, “But if you help us, we can find out, together.”

Sora hesitated then smiled, nodding. “Okay.”

“Please, tell us,” she said, “Who is Kimeramon? Why are you guys so eager to protect him?”

“We want to protect Kimeramon because of the power he has. He could destroy both the Digital World AND Earth.”

“But who is he?”

“Kimeramon is…” Suddenly, Sora began to gasp for breath. She clutched her throat, wheezing and coughing.

“Sora!” Kari shouted, “What’s wrong?”

“Look at Lilithmon!” Ophanimon exclaimed.

The devil woman appeared to be having spasms as her body twisted and turned before she fell to the ground. As for Sora, she began to shake as well, until her face twisted into a dark smile.

“Sora?” Kari questioned, slightly backing up. When the redhead began to speak, it was in a different voice.

“I’m afraid Sora was never really here,” the voice said. It was deeper, definitely a male voice, and a familiar one.

“Taichi?” Kari asked.

Sora smirked. “Yes, that’s right, I had been monitoring your battle, and now I am in completely control of this body.” She began to move her arms in a strange fashion, before bringing up her finger and shaking it, “Shame on you, little Kari, trying to turn one of my soldiers against me. “

Kari clenched her fists. “Where’s Sora?”

“Like I said, she was never here at all.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“You’ll know soon. As the time of the ascendancy is upon us, for when the Dark God returns, all of the Digital World will be ours!” Sora laughed again, before her eyes rolled into the back of her head and she collapsed onto the ground.

“Sora!” Kari shouted, running towards her. She stopped and stared wide-eyed as the Digidestined and her partner began to dissolve, like digimon losing their data at death. The brown-haired girl stared at the red-head and the demon’s data was shattered to the wind.

“What just happened?” Ophanimon asked, “Sora deleted like a digimon.”

“I…I don’t know,” Kari said, “All we’ve got is more questions, but I do know one thing, Taichi, and whoever this Dark God is, are going to pay!”

Preview:

The Digidestined, almost completely out of time, move towards the Center of the Digital World, where they hope to download the basic programming of the land. However, Myotismon and Kimeramon appear, as well as the remaining Dark Gods! Meanwhile, Ken, Cody, Yuehon, Derek and Kari continued their search for Ladydevimon? What secrets does she hold?

Next: “ Apocalypse: Heart of the Digital World” A Dark God has been reborn.