~~ Digimon: Reunion Begins! ~~

[classy_cat18]

Hotaru Tajiri
Clinging onto hope
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"Hotaru...he's...he's dead," Naomi said softly while on the verge of tears.

"No! He has a pulse! We can still save him!" I continued to push on Flamon's chest and breathe into his mouth, hoping against hope that he would come back to us. Finally he coughed and slowly opened his eyes.

"Is Rei okay?" he asked me weakly.

I had an urge to shake him and yell, "Don't scare us like that again!" Instead, I hugged him tightly and glanced at Rei. She was curled up in the rubble and crying. "Go talk to her, Flamon."

Flamon slowly nodded and carefully stumbled over to Rei. He said something inaudible to her but then she pushed him away. "DON'T TOUCH ME!" she screamed. She got to her feet and ran from us as fast as she could.

I stood up with every intent to run after her but Naomi grabbed my arm and shook her head. "No, Hotaru. She needs some time to think. We'll only make it worse." Then she gasped and started to cry. "That's what my parents said when Imani ran away."

"Flamon, please go after her," I pleaded. Flamon didn't hesitate as he sprinted in the direction that Rei headed. I rubbed my forehead and sniffed, trying to hold back tears. "What am I going to do?"

[Bulbasaur4]

[color=royalblue]

Elizabeth
.: Darkness | F :.

Elizabeth's form had changed during their duration in the tunnel. It was almost a strange feeling... for she had focused earlier on changing back into her human self, but was unable. Then... in the midst of their turmoil, she suddenly had done it and at one of the most inopportune of times. Still... the feeling of turning into Fenrirmon was rather eerie. It was as if she was some thing else... she was him, Fenrirmon- like the child of the norse god himself. Feelings, urges, understandings that she never comprehended before had awakened to her... and now her mind felt as if it was expanding in knowledge.

Watching Rei run off, Elizabeth merely shook her head as she glanced to the others. Flamon had run off after her... and everyone knew that this was something to be left alone between the two. However, Elizabeth bit her lip... realizing that soon the time would come when she no longer could fend off the inevitable. Withdrawing a sigh, she glanced towards Gav, Hotaru and Naomi a bit.
"We... we can't stop pretending this forever..." She whispered, which caused Hotaru to raise a brow in alarm.
"what do you mean?"
Andrew looked up at Elizabeth wearily as well, and she slowly withdrew a sigh.
"This... this thing with Rei. You know... well... eventually... " Elizabeth couldn't find the words, and yet deep inside she knew that it didn't matter. Whatever she said... it would not be accepted. No one wanted to think about the fact that Rei was not herself and that she indeed was harboring the danger that could be the end of all of them. No one wanted to think about it... especially now.
"We should find Dennis." Elizabeth suddenly spat out. "You guys can stay here and wait for Rei. I'll... scout ahead..."

With that, Elizabeth simply hurried off- not paying much heed if anyone said anything about it. She some how doubted that anyone would protest, unless it was Andrew. Elizabeth had felt that way for a while however... felt that no one really had connected with her or really wanted to. The only one that had helped her... that actually showed a bit of kindness had been Andrew. Sadly, Elizabeth realized that it was because he was the digidestined of Light... he was the only one who could stand her darkness. Everyone else... they had a bit of light in them too... but... perhaps it wasn't enough.
"It isn't..." Elizabeth confirmed to herself, stopping before an alleyway as she realized she had been running the entire time and now she was a bit out of breath.

Opening her digivice, she saw that Dennis's signature was now corrupted. It appeared on the digivice but in several locations... and it seemed that some one- most likely Shadow - was interfering with it.
"Damn it all..." Elizabeth swore, glancing about as she pondered on what to do. Walking through several alleyways- towards several of the dotted locations, she spent a great deal of time meandering through the city. Every location seemed to turn up wrong... but of course, she hadn't gone to all of them so there always was a bit of hope in her mind that she could find Dennis.

It wasn't until she heard a growl that Elizabeth's attention was diverted. Whirling about, Elizabeth's eyes focused upon a large digimon before her. It stood proud and tall... taking the form of a large winged horse with bits of armour covering it. Wings seemed to also sprout from its head, and in any other circumstance Elizabeth would have believed the digimon to be good. However... the fact that the digimon was entirely black and had glowing eyes of crimson told her otherwise. It reared up and gave a shrill-like cry of almost entirely bloodlust.

There are many of us out there... the darkness has surrounded our souls and destroyed any being of ourselves. It is what caused us to change and inevitabley corrupted us... [color=royalblue]

The words of her guide rose in Elizabeth's mind as she backed away from the rearing digimon. A part of her felt the need to cry out for her digispirit... but for some reason she suddenly resolved herself. Narrowing her eyes and standing firm, she stood straight and didn't budge away from the digimon. Instead... she held up her hands and began mumbling to herself. She closed her eyes for a moment... and when she reopened them she no longer saw like a normal human being would. Everything was warped... the streets no longer existed, the buildings no longer appeared... all she saw was the shadow of the digimon before her. She saw what the digimon used to be... saw the human that was forced to destroy itself and take form of a corrupted digimon. Shadows danced around the form of Pegasusmon... so that it was that digimon, but the data was corrupted to become an almost shadow-like replacement.

Elizabeth's digivice began to glow as she walked forward and simply reached out to the fire-like darkness that flickered around the digimon. within an instance, suddenly her digivice gave a shrill-like cry and the darkness seemed to be absorbed with in it. Elizabeth blinked again and this time she returned to her normal vision, seeing the black pegasus-like digimon before her but this time the digimon's eyes had returned to an icy blue state. It was at that moment, that she collapsed to her knees for a moment. Clutching her chest, she winced as she felt an unsettling feeling arise deep within her abdomen. Gritting her teeth and 'sucking it up', Elizabeth rose to her feet once more and looked up at the digimon.
"I... I... I am free..." The digimon stated, looking down at Elizabeth. "Was it you who took away the darkness?" Elizabeth gave a nod, but frowned slightly as she shook her head.
"The darkness from your soul has been taken away... but I am afraid your current form will not change." The digimon nodded, as if he already unstood that fact as he glanced around.
"I can... can sense that there are others like me. Those that have the darkness and those that have been freed... am I correct?"
Elizabeth gave a nod, and the digimon snorted with a slight approval. "Then there still is hope..." He trailed off, before folding his wings and lowering his head so that he was more at an eye-level with Elizabeth. "How can I repay your kindness?"

Elizabeth seemed lost in thought for a second, before she came to an idea. "Actually... when you were within the darkness, did you hear of the name 'Shadow'?" Pegasusmon thought for a second before giving a severe nod.
"Yes... the name rings a bell. I believe I saw him when I was amongst a horrible place of alter- where many humans were not altered into digimon, but simply had their souls sacrificed to a different being. The place was a dreadful place... it reeked of the remains of Lucemon's essence." Elizabeth gave a soft smile as she clasped her hands together.
"I have friends... we need to go to that place. Can you show us the way?"
Pegasusmon nodded.
"Great, I'll lead you to my friends and then if you could simply bring us to that place... then I will be in your debt."



[ Elizabeth will arrive on/with Pegasusmon and then I thought that would help us get to Dennis. Just remember that this is a corrupted form of Pegasusmon... so he's all black.]

[Roy Karrde]

[color=pink] Rei Takinowa
[color=pink]~*~*~*~*~ A Monster ~*~*~*~*~

[color=pink]How could I do that, I was a monster, I was horrible, I really was becoming Lucemon. I ran through the streets of Tri-Angel, the shops a blur as I ran, it hurt to ran, it hurt to move. All I wanted to do was curl up into a ball in sob, and have mom and dad there to comfort me. So many strange things were happening to my body, both natural and un-natural that I started to wonder if I was still me. Tears streaked down my cheeks, dripping down unfettered as I turned into a alley, placing my hand against the wall to gasp for breath.

It was the first time that I got a look of my surroundings, the shops in the area had closed, their doors and windows barred, the interior lights off. Most of the heavy traffic of the day had moved out of the street or the drunks were frequenting the late night bar. All of this released an aura of that I was up way past my bedtime. With my back against the wall I sunk down, allowing myself a breather to rest my weary blood stained legs. “Master are you okay?” A voice asked from the darkness of the alley. I turned my head to look at the feminine voice to see a girl about my age, dressed in pig tails and rags emerge, her eyes were a deep black with the flash of a long bloody tail swinging behind her.

My body was too tired to run, I could barely move, and putting up any sort of a fight was out of the option. “I’m not your master.” I replied, my voice low and soft as I curled up against the wall, trying to warm myself in the cold that seemed to creep in. “I’m not Lucemon.” I added trying to convince myself more than her.

The monster seemed to shrug at this, moving around to sit next to me, taking a few seconds to maneuver her tail around so that it allowed her to sit next to the wall. She took a glancing look at me and then turned to look across the alley at the same wall I was watching intensely. “You have a special part to play here master, one that will shape both worlds for years to come.” She replied, her tone relaxed and steady. “Why do you deny your fate?”

I shot her a hard stare; one full of hatred and pure madness, the softness on her face seemed to relax as if she knew she was speaking the truth. “I’m not your master, my name is Rei.” I retorted, not knowing how or what to say to fight back the other things she said.

The girl seemed to not in acknowledgement followed by a long silence between the two of us. “Do you ever miss your family?” I asked, allowing the silence to finally end in a question.

The girl, no the devil digimon turned to look at me for a second, her eyes tracing over my body before finally replying. “Sometimes, when I get flashes of what I used to be.” Tears began to well up in her eyes, almost as if something unseen, something buried was being risen for the first time in a long time. “Late at night, I can feel the memories almost within my reach, and they get snatched away again.”

I gave her a glance, finding tears of pain and sorrow streaking down her face. Reaching out with with my hand I touched her’s softly. “There is a rumor, of a digidestined that can save all of us, it floats among us Devil Digimon, some think of it as a plague and try to kill those that spread the rumor.” She finally spoke before rising, her eyes looking me over. I tried to search my mind, trying to figure out who would be the one that could save the Devil Digimon, yet I kept drawing a blank. “I-I want..I” She spoke, her eyes looking almost human for a second before she clutched her head in agony.

With one swift turn she apologized and ran off into the darkness of the night, leaving me alone again. She was just like me, some one that had been cursed, some one that was in pain and just wanted to go home. “Rei, Rei.” A familiar voice broke my train of thought. Turning I saw Flamon in the alley, sweat and tears running down his face as he approached me slowly, almost unsure if I would lash out again.

“Flamon?” I whispered, rising to my feet, he looked at me, a hand held out as if he were trying to keep me from running away again. With a burst of strength and speed, I rushed toward him, falling on my knees as I reached him, my arms rushing around his waste as I smothered my head into his stomach. A deep sob ran past my lips, as my body shook and all of the stress of the day came running out.

Flamon’s fingers found my hair and slowly began to run through it as I let out a sobbing cry for what seemed like eternity. After what could seem like a millennia I rose to my feet on shaky legs. Flamon wrapped his arms around me, providing support as we walked out of the alley. Through my tear stained eyes I glanced around at the hotels all around us. “I don’t want to go back, not now, I want to stay with you for the night.” I whimpered if Flamon was surprised, he clearly didn’t show it in his posture. Instead he continued to help me along, taking me to a unknown location.

[Hatake Kakashi]

Toni (she's baaaaaaaaack!)
Currently: Stalking Sean
Music: Seans heartbeat.
Mood: Sinister
(LIVEJOURNAL LIVEJOURNAL LOL)
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My boots hummed softly as I streaked across the sky. The poor kid thought he was being noble by offering to find a place to sleep. Too bad for him all he was gonna find would be his own permanent sleeping place.
"I guess this is why I was chosen."
My lips smirked beneath the helmet, as I cracked my neck. Thanks to Rei's "adjustment", it always felt like it was asleep. The fact my blood didn't run anymore surely wasn't helping.
"Ok we're far enough away," I called down, as I quickly dropped, hovering gently to make sure the earth was undisturbed by my landing. I wanted no signs of my arrival.
"T-Toni!" Sean gasped, tears welling up. He threw his arms around and and laughed, "Oh god...I was so scared. I swore I saw a flash or somethin' above me."
I nodded slowly, patting his head. This was too easy...
"But once I heard your voice...even beneath the metal, and all that...heh, take off the armor Tonya, you're too damn bulky to hug."
"I'm still pretty bulky underneith." I blushed. Wait, how can I blush? How did I even KNOW to blush...? I guess my capillaries and emotions weren't as dead as I thought.
"Still...I'd rather hug the muscle then the metal," he laughed. Daron was the only other person to ever compliment my strength...
Dammit! Why did that little brat come to mind! This was getting to difficult. These damn feelings were beginning to end my bloodlust!

"Sean..." I spoke softly, taking off the helmet and kissing his forehead. I must admit, the extra foot of height was nice. He looked up hopefully.
"I was always a strong girl...I never needed the armor to do this..."
Seans eyes went wide as the shocking realization came to him. I wasn't hugging anymore, I was snapping him. He struggled and fought as I squeezed. But where's the fun in that? I threw him back.
"You...twisted little bitch."
The swallow materialized as he took his stance.
"Nonono...let's not use weapons."
He grinned, and the swallow was replaced by a device. The D-Sense."
"Fine! You asked for it!"
I donned my helmet, the grinning hidden by the shadows.

"EXECUTE! SPIRIT EVOLUTION!"
His body was enveloped in wind before it finally sinched together to form a bird-like form. His body shrank a bit as the bands formed around his head and leg.
"Now we're even!"
Now it was my turn to grin. He began to flap his wings, a hard gust of wind whipping up.
"Hm. I actually have to try. First mistake."
My thrusters kicked in, and I began to slowly overtake his wind. But much to my dismay, he just flapped harder.
"Oh, dammit! The hell with your winds!" I grumbled, and held up my hand.
"Repulsor blasts work in quite a fantastic way! It pushes you AWAY from the beams point of impact, effectively repeling you while chasing you at the same time! Now, if you took any biology or physics classes, that which begins to move on the human body doesn't ALWAYS move WITH the body." I grinned and aimed for his left wing. Scanners began to beep and hum, trying to track the weakpoint, or failing that, the best time to fire.

His wing opened wide, I released the shot, and the sickening snap stopped his flapping.
"Pathetic." I grumbled. He reverted to his human form, the arm still broken. I pulled him up by the dislocated limb and smiled. "Now then. I'm going to give you 30 minutes to run from me."
His eyes went wide as I dropped him. As he turned, I aimed by palms at his ankles.
"Did I say run? I mean crawl...with one arm." I grinned as the twin beams snapped his ankles, leaving him all-but crippled on the floor.
"Wh-what do you want from me?" He winced, trying to pull himself away with one arm.
"FROM you? Nothing but a death rattle."
I grinned and pulled my helmet off, so he could see my face. Then, I pulled my foot back, and smiled. "But I'm gonna have fun beating the hell out of you."
I kicked his ribcage hard, leaving him groaning and writhing in pain.
"Oh you big baby." I grabbed his good arm, snapping it with one quick twist. Another scream, and I smirked, "Fine fine...I'll give you a death fitting of...well...me."
I smiled and forced my free hand out, his body and head moving independently, and dropped the corpse to the ground. A shiver ran down my spine, and I nearly gasped at my horrific deed.

"Wh-what...have I done...?" I gasped. His blood stained the gold of my armor. My mind raced as I tried to comprehend it, until a scanner blinked inside my helmet. I replaced it on my head and my emotions once again drained like dirty water from a sink. My lips curled as I set my sights on the location of the beeping.
"Hello there, Rei..." I laughed gently, taking off once more.

[classy_cat18]

Flamon
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"Here we go," I said to Rei as we stopped in front of a small building. "It's not as fancy as the hotels but this inn will take us in for free tonight. What's better is that few know it's here."

"Will we be safe here?" Rei asked me, her voice a little weak from exhaustion.

"I'll protect you," I assured her. That got a smile from her.

I led her in and sat her down on a bench. The Digimon at the front desk looked down at me. "Back again? I thought I told you we don't take in the homeless," he growled.

"But this girl is exhausted and she has nowhere to go! Just one night and we'll be out of your hair."

The Digimon took a good look at Rei and noticed that she was checking her D-Sense. His eyes widened and his jaw dropped. "Is she...a Digidestined?" I nodded. "Of course she can stay! You're both welcome here!" He handed me a key and watched us walk up the stairs to our room.

The room was small but cozy. A comfortable bed lay near the door. I managed to lift Rei and set her on it. "Thanks, Flamon," she told me as she lay down. I spotted a chair and grabbed a spare blanket, prepared to sleep on it. She sat up and held out an arm as if she was reaching for me. "Where are you going?"

I swallowed hard as my heart sped up. It was extremely hard to explain when I was looking right at her. "I...was going...to sleep...in the chair. The bed's...too small...for both of us."

She gave a little smile. "I hope you can sleep in it." She lay back down and was asleep before I knew it. I curled up in the chair and was soon sleeping as well.

[Roy Karrde]

[color=pink] Rei Takinowa
[color=pink]~*~*~*~*~ Asleep ~*~*~*~*~

[color=pink]Sweat dripped down my body, rolling off in sheets as I tossed and turned in the bed. It was just before sunrise and the room felt deathly cold. “Flamon.” I mumbled, rolling my head over onto the soaked pillow. My eyes fluttered awake, opening from the darkness I had woken up to, into the darkness of the room. "Flamon.” I moaned again, sitting up in the bed. Where was I? Wait, the hotel. Memories began to filter back into my brain as I staggered out of bed. Using the wall as my guide I walked into the bathroom, dropping my clothes onto the floor and climbing into the shower.

With a twist of the nozzle, water began to pour out of the showerhead and soak my sweat-drenched body. “What time is it?” I mumbled, half awake and aware of my surroundings. Reaching down I plucked the soap out of the soap dish and began to run it over my chest, only to find a thick amount of hair there. Hair? I swung open the shower curtains and threw on the light. In the mirror was a girl with long thick black hair that fell to her butt, deep red fur that covered her chest and thighs like a bikini, deep green eyes, and long pointy ears. Two small sharp fangs poking out of her lips, and a deep red tail swishing behind her, her body a deep tan color. Nevertheless to say I screamed my lungs out at the sight of her.

Flamon burst into the room, deep in stride and coming to a halt right in front of me. He blinked once, and then twice in shock. “Rei?” He asked in disbelief. The memory of the day before flashed through my head, the fortune teller who I wished that I could be more like Flamon, that I could be strong and not weak to Lucemon. “Is that you?” He added, his mouth hanging open in shock. I quickly wrapped the shower curtain around my body to hide any nudity and nodded softly.

From the looks of Flamon’s face a million questions were running through his head. At the same time I was trying to get used to my new appendages, claws? And a tail? The tail was easy to control, swishing it back and forth felt like raising a toe. “How did?” He finally asked, I gave him a short shrug and noticed that my clothes had changed, like in a Digievolution. Instead of the Chinese dress I now just had a red skirt matching the color of Flamon’s pants.

The two of us just stood and looked at eachother for a few seconds before a voice broke our silence. “Rei, I know you are in there.” A voice screamed, the wall in the room outside of the bathroom exploding into shards and debris. The Digivice on my skirt on the floor beeped and registered a new Digimon in the room, Ironmon. “You killed me Rei, now I am going to pay you the same respect.” The voice shouted in anger.

My knees quickly began to shake as I sank down in the tub, the wall that held the mirror and vanity on it began to shake and quiver, in the blink of an eye it was thrown away and Ironmon stepped in. “Keep away from her.” Flamon growled, stepping inbetween me and the hunking mad Digimon. Ironmon gave him a side ways glance, and with one hand threw him through the door and into the wall in the next room. With her other hand she tore back the shower curtain and looked down upon me, smiling.

“You look different, little girl, but looks wont fool me.” She grinned, picking me up by the neck with one hand. Air was quickly leaving my lungs with his iron grip, all I could do was kick and thrash about in a futile effort to let me go. Dark spots began to threaten my eyes as I started to slip into unconsciousness.

“Hey! Why don’t you pick on some one your own size.” A familiar voice rang out, in the last moments of consciousness I could see Gav standing heroically in the mess that was once a wall, his Digimon at his side. “Now let her go.” His eyes narrowed in anger.

“Gav..” I whispered before finally succumbing to unconsciousness.

[Ultimate Charizard]

Fine....cant ignore an opening like that lol

Gav
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"Drop her, NOW!" i warned the new intruder. My digivice told me all i needed to know about it. Clawdramon stood at my side after digivolving and was now growling threateningly.
"Ironmon?" i said with a snigger "Wow, thats original". It threw Rei into a wall and moved to square off against me. Moving close and glaring down at me. Refusing to back down i glared right back up.
"Why dont you get out of my way human. Your even more pathetic than him" it pointed at Flamon and swung its fist back at my head when it turned. I managed to raise my hand, powerfists already active and caught the blow. "Sorry, its not gonna be that easy". It grunted and swung its other arm too fast and gut punched me into the far wall. Clawdramon was on it before i hit and they rolled on the Ground a moment before Ironmon jetted out into the open air and Clawdramon stood to face it. Both Digimon fired and Repulsor blasts were met by Storm Cannons with neither making any ground on the other.
Both Flamon, and What i assumed was Rei moved over to me. Helping me out of the wall and positioning Clwadramon between us and Ironmon.
Clawdramon stopped firing as did its opponent and they glared at each other in a face off.
"Your move Tinmon!" growled Clawdramon.

[Toxicity]

Daron Wakami ~ L'enfant de l'Océan
There is something weird I wouldn't believe
I'm losing grip on my lifetime
I don't understand this wave I'm in
Wrong place, no money, just responsibilities

I could feel my ears slightly twitch at the sound of an explosion within the building...somewhere in on of these rooms of the inn. Groaning lightly, I wondered what could've caused this. Perhaps there was a Digimon following Lucemon's orders to harm one of us Chosen Children? Quickly materializing my weapon, a dark blue and silver trident, I dashed down the hallway quickly, wondering what was going on. In the distance, I saw Gav enter what I assumed was the source of the explosion, and after I followed.

My jaw lightly dropped at the metallic beast before my eyes, my D-Sense telling me that it was dubbed Ironmon. Unoriginal, yes, but the name sounded somehow familiar. After Clawdramon spoke to the robotic Digimon, I looked ahead, from behind Gav, Flamon, and who I was assuming was Rei, and somehow, it recognized me. I could feel my heart flutter as I stepped forward to Gav's side. Even though I had no companion, much less a spirit digivolution, I was ready to take on this demonic machine with as much might as I could have.

"You..." Ironmon spoke, lifting a finger and pointing it towards me. Was this really Tonya in her spirit form? "You didn't even try to defend me. That makes you a selfish brat. There's nothing wrong in your life. You're...you're just another emo kid!" I felt offended, rage building up in my heart quickly as I further clenched the shaft of my trident. I wasn't going to take shit from anybody...not even somebody who woud insult me directly, let alone physically dead.

"And you know what, Tonya?" I said, casually holding the trident at my side for a moment with one hand, black and wild red hairs slightly flying in front of my face. I didn't care if she was a Digimon now; somebody who would insult me for no apparent reason didn't deserve respect. "Who said you weren't slightly angsty? You've lied so much about your life that it seems you believe yourself. You know what? You're a liar and a hypocrite." I slightly "oohed" under my breath. I must definitely have Tourette's Syndrome or something of the like. At this, Toni, or Tonya, growled slightly. Maybe I was just a fool for even trying to defend myself, especially without much to combat her with.

Turning to Gav, I nodded, mouthing out "Feel free to attack her now. I'll help." This was definitely going to take much of the night and morning, were we to survive this.

[kalad1]

Dennis Loray
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I woke in a bed, thinking to myself Whoa, Deja Vu looking around, I noticed I was in a hosptal bed, the others must have taken me here. Noticing my Digivice right next to me, I grabbed it. There was a problem with going after Shadow, and that was his loyal lapdog, AndroLadyDevimon, that mechanical monstrosity would need to be taken care of. That thought in mind, I stood up, brandishing my Digivice, and declaring, "Spirit Evolution!"

And I stood there, once again taking the form of Redeemed Schwartzmon when I heard the door burst open, Naomi was standing there. I decided to cut her off before he tried to stop me, "Don't try to stop me, I need to take care of a certain problem."

I then stepped back and began concentrating, and felt Naomi grab onto me just as I declared "Rune Shift!" and my teleport was thrown off-course.

Suddenly, we were in the middle of a forest, and I turned to face her, stating, "Thanks, now we need to find out where the heck we are."

[classy_cat18]

Naomi Watts
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"Dammit...why do I even bother?" I muttered to myself as I left my room to check on Dennis. Hotaru and Flamedramon had gone out in search of Rei along with just about everyone else. Someone had to make sure the guy hadn't gone and got himself killed while the rest of us was sleeping!

I froze outside the door to his room as I heard the words "spirit evolution". Damn! He's at it again! I burst into the room to find Redeemed Schwartzmon about to head into more trouble.

"Don't try to stop me. I need to take care of a certain problem," he told me before I could say anything.

Not without me! I ran and grabbed his arm just as he shouted "Rune Shift". I must've thrown him off because we landed in the middle of a forest. I merely looked up at him and shrugged.

"Thanks, now we need to find out where the heck we are," he said in an extremely irritated voice.

That did it. I grabbed his cape and yanked it so I could get his attention. "Listen here, you ungrateful, stubborn bastard! I can't see how anyone would want to foolishly go out, by yourself, while you're injured, into battle! You'll get yourself killed for sure! Before you say anything, you're not the only one that gets pissed! I'm pissed by the fact that you're unaware of the people that care about you! Like Hotaru and Rei! They would fall to pieces if something were to happen to you!"

I stopped yelling long enough for me to check my D-Sense. "Seems like we're in a place called Morikaze Forest. I suggest that you take me along because I doubt you will win this fight by yourself."

[kalad1]

Dennis Loray
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I mentally frowned at Naomi, listening to her tirade. I waited for her to finish, to her credit looking up our location before replying, "Now YOU listen, we have limited time, we do not have the luxury of waiting to heal up for every fight like some damn video game! This is, despite how much I wish it were otherwise, a war. We have limited time, especially if my suspicions are correct. Also, don't get on me about getting myself killed, I know how to pick fights, and if you hadn't interfered, I would be on my way to taking care of an opponent who wouldn't try to destroy me, because the damn psychotic robot is programmed to not kill me!"

She began to open her mouth again, obviously to yell at me further, but I continued before she could, "Yes, they'd miss me, but they understand sacrifice, at least, Hotaru definitely does. She knows how to go on, to continue forward despite the fact that she knows someone she cares about is likely to die! She did it last time when I bought time for the others to take down Lucemon, and I nearly DID die. That's why I fight, so that others may live! Not for vengeance, not for some damn idiotic hatred, but for the hope of others. That's something worth putting everything on the line for! Don't bitch at me until you understand that."

I turned, finding a good rock to sit on, commenting to Naomi, "You'd best sit down, it'll be a while 'till I've got this place down well enough to shift us back. And before you ask why I'm not returning to human, this form DOES heal faster."

[Bulbasaur4]

[color=royalblue]
Ooooooooooooooooookaaaaaaaaaay....

I did NOT see a post about bringing Dennis to a hospital bed or anything. I thought the tunnel collapsed on us and we barely managed to get out. Then Rei ran away. Flamon went after Rei and we had not officially found Dennis (since our means to get to him was blocked?). Then I thought were were in a street... or outside...

But then of course Ryan's post jumped ahead a day so we need to catch up. *sigh* I'll just make a post soon about how Elizabeth going off to find Dennis didn't exist or something. ;_; So much leaping.

[Roy Karrde]

I'm so sorry Kalah. You're right though I think there was a mix up on who found Dennis and not. I appologise about that. As for jumping forward, it is still nighttime, just a few hours ahead of when we were in the tunnel. If the tunnel part happened between 10 to Midnight, then this is around 3 am.

[Dr.McNinja]

If you want to include me in that post Bulbasaur, go ahead, Andrew needs to pop up somewhere and until I know where everyone is I can't really post since he needs someone to guide him still.)

[Bulbasaur4]

[color=royalblue][ Since I have no idea, I’m just going to let everyone else post their own thing. I’m going to say that when she returns… no one is there. You all can decide where your character ran off to and hopefully the gaps with Dennis and such can then be filled. ]

Elizabeth
.: Darkness | F :.

It was late and Elizabeth felt slightly tired as she and the dark version of Pegasusmon landed upon the spot where she thought everyone would be. Slipping off his back, Elizabeth glanced around to see that nothing was there- no one was. Shadows danced upon the street where lights illuminated, foreshadowing perhaps events that would later reappear as déjà vu. No one was here… they had all left.
“… perhaps I… I took too long.” Elizabeth said softly, lowering her head so that she looked at the ground. She felt a gripping wave of sadness overtake her as she clenched her eyes shut, feeling tears swell from beneath the lids. A burning sensation rose within her throat as she felt the overwhelming urge to cry, but she didn’t. She wouldn’t cry… she wasn’t a baby, she wasn’t a weakling. She was strong- she had to be strong in order to survive. Like a lone wolf without a pack… she had to be tough enough on her own. Yet… why did it tear her apart to come back and see that no one was there?
“I… I just took too long… they had other things to do. Probably went off to find Rei…” Elizabeth’s voice trailed off as she talked to herself. Her eyes were still closed and her right fist was clenched tightly around her digivice. However, as soon as she opened her eyes a single tear streamed down her cheek. Clenching her teeth, suddenly Elizabeth threw her digivice with all the force she could muster. The contraption flew across the air and swiftly hit the wall of a nearby building, ricocheting off the wall and clattering somewhere upon the ground in the shadows.
“I hate this! I hate all of this…” Elizabeth shouted, dropping to her knees so that the impact of the concrete skinned into her flesh. She breathed heavily as she felt her nails dig into her palms and the burning sensation within her throat continued to rise. There were so many emotions… anger, sadness, confusion- they all seemed to rise within her. She could hear the clatter of hooves behind her, and slowly she turned to see Pegasusmon standing behind her.
“Do not hate Elizabeth… hate is the very seed of the darkness. If you allow it to consume you, then the darkness will consume you too.”
Elizabeth sighed, looking at the ground. “But I am the darkness Pegasusmon…”

“Elizabeth?” Suddenly a voice caused Elizabeth’s head to turn, and there within the shadows stepped forth a shaky Andrew. She saw within one of his hands her digivice, and he held it as if he were certain it was important but yet he had no idea why he had found it where he had.
“Andrew?” Elizabeth practically whispered, her eyes looking at him with hurt confusion. What was he doing here?


[ Hope that was a good opening for you. ]

[Dr.McNinja]

Andrew smiled, "How far do you think I could go by myself, everyone was so focused on Dennis that they forgot I was blind...at least in my human form."

Elizabeth looked aghast, "And they just left you?!"

Andrew made his way over to Elizabeth, one hand on the wall of the building he was leaning against, "I didn't exactly speak up either, you were still missing and I figured you'd come back here. Thought you wouldn't be too keen on finding that everyone had left."

Elizabeth didn't say anything, that feeling had been evident enough by her reaction when she had arrived. Andrew, finally arriving next to the young woman, held out her digivice in her general direction, "And by the way, your friend here is right. You -are- the Darkness, meaning that you control it, not the other way around. Remember that, the day the Darkness starts controling you can blame it for your problems."

Silence hung heavy for a moment. Then, with a decicive motion, Andrew reached out and grasped Elizabeth's hand. Raising it up, he placed her Digivice in it and closed the fingers around it. His hand lingered for a second, his fingers moving slightly. Elizabeth stood still, a confused look on her face before she realized that Andrew was trying to get a mental picture of her hand. Releasing Elizabeth, Andrew reached up to adjust his blindfold, "I don't want to start forgetting what people are like. I don't want to have to forget what the people I care about look like."

[Roy Karrde]

[color=pink] Rei Takinowa
[color=pink]~*~*~*~*~ Paralyzed in Fear ~*~*~*~*~

[color=pink]The two new arrivals had distracted her, but was she, could she be Tonya? The one that had died just a night before? She wanted to kill me for what I did to her. Gav’s eyes focused on me, looking directly at me before turning away. Did he want me to run away? To get out of here? “Feel free to attack her now. I’ll help.” Daron spoke to Gav.

He nodded in response and went straight in for the attack. Using Clawdramon to slash straight into Ironmon to which she easily parried. My legs felt like dead weights, moving toward Flamon’s crumpled body took forever, longer than forever. “Flamon can you wake up?” I nudged his unconscious body. He moaned a response, blood dripping down a gash in his head. “Flamon, I can’t carry you.” Truth be told I found out I could carry him, his body felt lighter, or my body felt stronger than it ever had been.

“Look out!” Gav screamed out, I turned in time to be met with a wave of heat and plaster shards rushing into my face. Ironmon had been sent flying into the last bit of the bathroom wall, which had crumpled around him. The monster quickly rose again and took one look at me.

“Where do you think you are going?” She sneered rising to her feet, wiping a smear of blood from her arm. My mouth went dry, my legs shaky as I tried to find a suitable answer. His hands decided to strike first, rushing forward to grab my head. Muscles reacted before thought and I dodged to my left, using Flamon’s weight to quicken my fall. His hand rushed past my face, scratching it and opening a five-inch long gash down my cheek.

Gav’s feet immediately stepped into view, Clawdramon and him separating myself from Ironmon. “Rei get out of here.” He barked, his face dripping with the sweat of battle. I tucked my tail between my legs and did not even dare argue with him.

With Flamon’s weight pressed against my side, blood running down my face. The two of us set out into the night of the dusty streets. Behind us Ironmon roared in frustration, obviously turning up her attack now that her prey had left. “What’s happening?” Flamon mumbled, his eyes were glazed over in fear as we stumbled down the street.

I opened my mouth to respond but closed it again. All of this was my fault, Tonya’s death, what ever happens to Gav and Daron, all because I couldn’t control the monster in my body. The weight began to become more and more oppressive with each step, yet at the same time each step in a unknown direction sent a jolt of warmth into my body.

“Rei..everything hurts.” Flamon whimpered as we rounded another street. I let out a cough and dropped Flamon to the ground, my hands holding my body against a wall to the store. “It hurts.” He wimpered again, tears streaking down his cheeks while curling up into a ball on the ground.

I would agree with him but a warm liquid filled my throat, I opened my mouth and gagged sending a rush of warm bile spilling out of my throat. The worst part about being a Digimon right now was the heightened sense of smell; it made the odor even more pungent. With a wipe of my mouth I dropped to the ground beside Flamon. Something inside me told me that the warmth was close, and getting even closer. “Flamon?” A voice yelled out, repeating his name over and over again as the voice got closer.

I opened my eyes and rolled onto my side to see Elizabeth run up, followed by Andrew. “He’s hurt, Gav and Duron are at a hotel battling, Ironmon, a way back there.” I mumbled, raising my head ever so slightly to meet them. The two, no make that three regarded me with a strange look. My eyes traveled to the newcomer to see a Pegasusmon that just exuded darkness, waves after waves of comforting darkness.

Elizabeth scooped up Flamon in her arms before climbing on Pegasusmon apparently to ride back into battle. “Is there any where we can take you miss?” Andrew asked. Miss? Who did he think I was? “Do you have a home? A family?”

My anger began to rise, as did my exhaustion. “It’s me.” I began to say when I was cut off, the sound of pounding feet and panting breath filled the air, as Hotaru ran up, soaked in exhaustion and sweat.

“I couldn’t find her, she didn’t, and oh god what if something happened.” Aunt Hotaru panted, her face looking as worried as ever. “We have to go find her, now.” She grabbed Andrew, shaking him with her last ounce of strength.

A small laugh escaped my lips. “I’m right here.” I giggled my tail wagging back and forth, the two looked at me in shock as the shop close to us exploded. Clawdramon rolled out of the explosion, looking exhausted and battle warn. I couldn’t believe it, the battle must have traveled miles to get here, or they could have retreated after I left. Could we battle the unstoppable Ironmon? Or continue to retreat?

[classy_cat18]

Hotaru Tajiri
Very shocked
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

I gasped and stared at the Digimon that called herself Rei. I knew it was her but how did she end up looking like that? I ignored the fight, of the oncoming danger that I knew that I had to face. My bottom jaw quivered before I finally talked. "Rei...how..."

"I think it was this thing I wished on," Rei explained. "I got it from a strange Digimon. My wish came true!"

I swallowed hard and put on a stern expression. It was time to be serious. "You shouldn't accept things from strangers. Didn't your mom tell you that?" She opened her mouth to argue but I stopped her. "We'll discuss this later. Right now I have an opponent to fight." I brought out my D-Sense and yelled, "Spirit Evolution!"

I felt myself undergo the usual changes. When it was finished, I faced Ironmon and held my staff in front of me in both paws. "You will not lay your hands on Rei," I growled.

"We'll see about that," Ironmon said with an evil grin. She put her arms together and prepared for attack.

I knew I wouldn't be able to fight and protect Rei and Flamon at the same time so I called for my ace in the hole. "Flamedramon!" I cried out. He jumped down from a nearby building. "Take Rei and Flamon to somewhere safe!"

"But..." Flamedramon and Rei said together.

"No buts. Rei, you may not even be able to digivolve now so I just want you to go somewhere safe and stay with Flamedramon."

"There is nowhere safe for you and your little friend to go," Ironmon told Rei as Flamedramon ran off with Rei and Flamon.

"You should no longer worry about her. You're facing me now," I said as I twirled my staff in my hand.

Naomi Watts
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

I sat under a tree a good distance away from Dennis/R. Schwartzmon as he tried to get our bearings. I was frustrated. Frustrated because I felt like an idiot. But that didn't change the fact that Dennis shouldn't have tried to go off on his own! I knew now that LadyAndroDevimon wouldn't hurt him and that I would probably just be in his way. But what about booby traps? He wouldn't be able to face, say, an army of Devil Digimon! I wouldn't have put it past Shadow to do that.

I glanced at Dennis/R. Schwartzmon and wiped away an unexpected tear. He thought he was so tough and so brave by sacrificing his life for the others. Who did he think he was? No one in the real world acted like that anymore! It didn't bring anything but pain! Pain to yourself and others! Didn't the guy have family and friends back in the real world? Wouldn't they be hurt?

Then it came to me. It didn't matter whether he lived or not. The world would keep on spinning. It didn't revolve around him or me, for that matter. I would have to accept it whether I liked it or not.

"Naomi!" Dennis/R. Schwartzmon called out. "I'm ready."

I walked over to him. "I thought about what you said," I told him.

"And...?"

"I still think you're an idiot for trying to go alone." Then I smirked. "But I understand the whole chilvary deal so I'll just sit back and let you handle LadyAndroDevimon or whatever her name is."

[Dr.McNinja]

Andrew was tired, tireder than he could ever remember being. Raising his hand in front of his unseeing eyes, he tried to bring to life the fractal code that would allow him to join in this battle. Though he could not see the faint twirls of color that quickly faded, he knew within that he didn't have the strength to digivolve again after having expended so much energy holding up the building from before. Sighing, he pocketed his digivice and instead drew his pistols, his left from the holsted near his right shoulder, the right from the one on his left hip. Their blades glinting softly in the light from the moon that hovered above. Sighing, he realized that he was still going to be little help, his mental sense had dissapeared upon his de-evolution and with not even a day's experience with his blindness he would be more of a danger than a help. Subdued he began to put his guns away until he felt a hand on his and voice speaking into his ear, "I'll help you."

Andrew's brow lowered, the voice was different, changed somewhat, but the tone itself was oh so familiar. Whispering, he replied, "Rei? Is that you?"

A soft laugh confirmed his suspicion, quickly cutting off as Rei continued, "I can be your eyes for now, I can help you this time!"

Andrew paused for a moment, he trusted Rei completely but if in the middle of battle Lucemon suddenly resurfaced, he would be helpless so close to her. Forcefully shoving those thoughts aside, he nodded in Rei's general direction. He trusted Rei, and he knew that if he showed his feelings of uneasiness that the girl would be crushed. Raising his pistols he pointed them in the direction from which the sounds of battle were echoing from, "Whenever you're ready Rei."

[Bulbasaur4]

[color=royalblue]
Elizabeth
.: Darkness | F :.


Elizabeth watched as Flamedramon grabbed Rei and Flamon from her own grasp, and then bounded off. She then watched Hotaru go off... and saw Andrew standing there, perhaps mentally thinking about what he was going to do. Thinking to herself softly... Elizabeth remembered seeing Clawmon being thrown through a building, and she knew that if they were battling Ironmon... that they would need to battle together.
"I'll be back Andrew." Elizabeth said, nodding to Pegasusmon who gave a slight knicker and then rose into the air swiftly. Within barely a few seconds the two of them had caught up to Flamedramon.
"Wait!" Elizabeth cried, which caused Flamedramon to stop, still tucking Flamon and the newly-changed Rei beneath his arms. Rei was throwing a bit of a fit, not wanting to run away but wanting to help.
"What is it?" Flamedramon said, eyeing her suspiciously. He perhaps remembered the first time Elizabeth spoke about hearing the devil digimon voices.
" Let them go. They both want to help and they both want to fight... and well, it is wrong to just assume they cannot fight. If one wants to follow their heart, then that is what they should do and nothing should stand in its way."
Flamedramon stood there silently until he spoke, "But they could get hurt."
"All of us could get hurt. Rei knows that, Flamon knows that... everyone does. The key is that everyone stays together and that we fight together. Splitting up is the root of division and makes us only weaker, not stronger. If they want to fight, then we should let them. Do not make their decisions for them."

Flamedramon slowly nodded and then sat Rei and Flamon down. The two of them seemed to have a new found energy as Rei ran up and surprisingly gave Elizabeth a sudden hug in her new form.
"Thank you Elizabeth..." Rei said happily, as Elizabeth awkwardly patted Rei's head.
"Okay, let's go. We have to hurry back." Elizabeth confirmed, swiftly grabbing the two of them and aiding them on Pegasusmon's back. She soon joined them and the three of them flew off upon Pegasusmon. As they rode, Elizabeth turned to look at Rei.
"In this upcoming battle... Andrew will need eyes. While he might still be able to digitize himself, incase anything goes wrong and her reverts back to himself... he'll need eyes to look out for him. I won't be able to be those eyes in my new form... but will you do it for me this time Rei?"
Rei seemed to listen eagerly and then give a nod. Elizabeth smiled and then turned back to look as Pegasusmon landed upon the ground.
"Good."

With that, Elizabeth leapt off Pegasusmon's back and aided Flamon and Rei down. Rei swiftly scampered over to Andrew, as he materialized his pistols. Flamon then ran off after Rei and Elizabeth was left watching the three. She withdrew a sigh... the memory of Andrew placing the digivice in her hands....


"I don't want to start forgetting what people are like. I don't want to have to forget what the people I care about look like." Andrew had said, slowly taking his hand away as the digivice was left with her. Elizabeth narrowed her eyes as she felt the need for tears to rush up to her face again, but she withdrew a breath to subside them. She knew what his words meant... but she began to wonder, did they mean more? It seemed as if Andrew was always there for her... and he was so kind, yet he was kind to everyone. Was it just in his nature... or perhaps?
" Thank you Andrew. I guess I some times get lost in all the darkness... but I am thankful to have a beacon of light to guide me through it."


"Pegasusmon, thank you for all your help. You've done more than enough... you should go back to the others. They'll be happy to know I removed the darkness from you."
Pegasusmon gave a slight bow and nodded.
" Thank you for your help as well, Digidestined of Darkness." With that, Pegasusmon opened his wings and swiftly took to the air, vanishing into the dark.
"Spirit..." Elizabeth whispered, before feeling her body suddenly surge with energy as glowing data seemed to surround her body. Swiftly she began to change, her from growing to the large and dominant size of Fenrirmon. His metallic wings swiftly flapped as his thick black fur shinned in a few of the glowing lamp's light. His metallic components upon his legs and the gauntlets upon his forelegs shined as well. Letting loose a growl, Fenrirmon's violet gaze looked to Rei, Andrew and Flamon as they began to run off into battle. Swiftly, Fenrirmon followed and flew above them, like a guardian of darkness shadowing their moves.

[Roy Karrde]

[color=pink] Rei Takinowa
[color=pink]~*~*~*~*~ Running into battle ~*~*~*~*~

[color=pink]With a running battle cry we charged into battle. Andrew firing in the directions that I told him as we tracked Ironmon. Hotaru rushing and tending to a very hurt Gav, and Daron who seemed to have been hurt from their recent scuffle. And of course there was Elizabeth, gliding across buildings as gracefully as possible, for a second I just had to stop and watch in awe at the sight of her. How magnificent and beautiful she looked as she leapt after Ironmon. Silently I wished that I could have even a tenth of the grace that she had.

“To your left.” I screamed, a devil digimon leaping into the air. Andrew turned firing his pistols wildly, catching the monster in the hip, and shoulder. The wounds sent the monster spinning out of control, landing just inches away from us on it’s side. The monster staggered to his feet, turned and limped to the ever-growing crowd that began to ensnare us from all different angles. “Andrew…” I whimpered realizing we were horribly outnumbered.

“Just tell me what direction to shoot.” He shot back, his pistols waving wildly in the air in preparation for the next target.

The noose began to close around us, a ever growing sea of Devil Digimon that must have numbered in the thousands approached from all streets, closing in to trap us while we had our attention focused on Ironmon. “There everywhere.” I whispered, darkness flowing through the area like a tidal wave. For the moment I just closed my eyes taking it all in, enjoying it. Loving the sensation, the fear, the dread, it felt absolutely wonderful to me.

No it felt even beyond wonderful, like uncontrollable joy. “Rei snap out of it.” Andrew yelled, getting the attention of Elizabeth who had currently pounced on Ironmon and was ripping her limb from limb.

I took a step toward the devil digimon, every step feeling more and more enjoyable. “It feels so good.” I moaned, my eyes glazing over in joy. I wanted more of it; I wanted more of this feeling. I wanted all of their agony, and to just relish in it.

A sharp pain smacked my face, sending me face first into the dirt. I turned and looked up, with blood running down the side of my face and mixing with my long wild hair. “Get a hold of yourself.” Andrew breathed, gasping in breath from frustration and worry. “Hotaru will kill me if anything happens to you.” He added helping me to my feet.

I nodded, silently thanking him for bringing me back to sanity. The Devil Digimon continued to advance, clawing and snapping as they came ever closer. “Elizabeth, we could use some help.” He yelled out, as both Andrew and I advanced closer to Ironmon, retreating as far back as possible with out coming in contact of the fight going on between Ironmon and Elizabeth.

Elizabeth in turn growled in response, rolling around on the ground with Ironmon, a flurry of Iron and Claws attacking each other. “Hotaru.” I whimpered, rushing to her side and clinging onto her waste. Only seconds remained before thousands of monsters crashed down upon us. There was nothing we could do, they would wipe us out in seconds.

I opened my mouth to apologies for everything when a loud roar filled the air. This wasn’t the type of roar that was created from a animal or monster, this was the one of metal hitting metal, steel hitting steel. On the northeast street one of the large skyscrapers began to sway, and then with one last sway to the left it collapsed. Falling completely onto it’s side and crushing the hundreds of Devil Digimon underneath it. In the blink of a eye all of those Devil Digimon were dead, wiped out and destroyed. All of those lives were gone. “C’mon” A familiar voice yelled.

Through the smoke stood the one girl that I had met just a few hours earlier. The one that was a Devil Digimon and trying to fight what she was. Her body was mutilated beyond belief now; large rows of spikes ran down her back, her bloody tail swishing back and forth. Her skin covered and deep patches of scales, and one eye was already reptilian like in nature. “C’mon master, come with me or they will destroy you.” She offered, waving her hand toward us.

[kalad1]

Dennis
________________________________________________

I nodded to Naomi, holding out my arm for her to hold onto and concentrated, if I just focused I could find her... THERE! I opened my eyes, declaring "Rune Shift!" For the briefest of moments, nothingness surrounded us, and we appeared over what was essentially a battlefield, in the middle of Tri Angel city. I glanced around, and spotted some of the others, setting Naomi down.

"Go help the others!" I stated, floating off, she had to be here somewhere around here...

"Target located, Redeemed Schwartzmon, Classification, Subdue." I heard behind me, I didn't bother to turn around, I just declared, "Rune Shift!" and teleported back a good twenty feet. "Bring it on you overgrown tin can."

I inwardly smiled, I might just be able to keep up with her...

(Not my longest work, but I'm running on fumes here, sorry.)

[Bulbasaur4]

[color=royalblue]Elizabeth
.: Darkness | F :.



Fenrirmon was within the fray with Ironmon and both of us were sparring with our full attention upon eachother. Closing my eyes, suddenly a loud growl emitted from Fenrirmon's throat as he glanced over to Rei, Andrew and the others. They had to get away... rebalance and assess our dealings with Ironmon.
"Eclipse Chaos!" Fenrirmon roared, his violet eyes glowing against the darkness of the night as his silver metallic markings began to glow with the same vigor. Suddenly the strange, encantation-like marks seemed to gain a purple aura and the aura became a live as it seemed to crawl out from FEnrirmon's body. The little purple aura markings soon grew to become beasts themselves, five glowing purple beasts with solidifying forms. The forms seemed to take mini semi-rounded versions of non-detailed dogs, being made out of the aura from fEnrirmon. Swiftly they all leapt at Ironmon... attacking him and causing Ironmon to fall over once again.

After several minutes, Ironmon rose to his feet and staggered, obviously weakened from battling so many numbers against him. Hotaru then joined Fenrirmon's side, and the two of them attacked Ironmon together. After several scuttling minutes, Ironmon was forced to flee.


Turning back the others, Fenrirmon saw as a devil digimon swiftly seemed to wipe out tons of the others.
No! I was hoping to free myself from Ironmon so I could try to save them... The Elizabeth inside Fenrirmon thought, suddenly feeling a wave of sadness overcome her.
Noooo!

Fenrirmon suddenly let out a howl- a piercing howl the echoed into the night and seemed to cast an overall gloom of sadness to anyone who heard. A melody that grew heavy upon the heart...
What have you done... Elizabeth's deep voice in the form of Fenrirmon seemed to bellow as she landed near the others. Tears seemed to stream down her wolfish face as she lifted her muzzle-lips to almost form a snarl, but she was not growling. She was crying... tears dripping down along with an almost mournful wolfish whimper, filled with a deep growl.
They were just like you used to be... and you killed them. They had souls... you should have just run away from the beginning! Elizabeth roared, feeling the fur along her neckline bristle.

Her eyes wildly looked about... was any of them alive? Her eyes scanned some more, until she saw that a group of them were alive. Five bodies, trembling slightly as they struggled to rise in their devil forms- having been injured. Feeling a resolute growl, Fenrirmon closed his eyes.
"Moon's Guidance!" He roared, and suddenly rays of the moon seemed to magnify and change color, the same color as Fenrirmon's eyes. The rays landed upon the five hurt figures, and it became fairly obvious that the rays were adding energy... they were healing.
"Elizabeth what are you doing?!" Hotaru cried out as the others prepared to run away.
Andrew seemed to nod to the air, "Elizabeth... there is no need to be in your Spirit state anymore either. Come with us and hurry." He coaxed, but Fenrirmon shook its head.

Go and I will stay. I must confront these five souls and aid them myself... besides Andrew.. Her deep voice seemed to soften, ... I have lost my ability to change back at a simple will.

With that, Elizabeth walked towards the five figures who now were watching her with void expressions.


[If you leave, Elizabeth stays. If you stay, Elizabeth will be confronting the devil digimon much like she did to the devil form of Pegasusmon. ]

[Dr.McNinja]

Andrew heard Elizabeth's words. He could hear Fenrirmon walking toward the fallen Devils. His mouth turned downwards in a frown indicating a torn spirit, one that was standing on the beginning of a path from which there may be no return. Hands dropping to his side, pistols still held in a loose grip, Andrew spoke to the air, "Flamon, protect Rei for me while I'm gone."

He could hear the young girl beginning to protest. With a quick chopping motion he cut her off, "No Rei! You can't risk walking in this darkness, its temptations could be too much. Get out of here, find the rest of the destined, and we'll meet up with you when we can. This city isn't safe anymore...I can't stay with both of you."

Not waiting to listen to the young girl's response, he didn't know if he could stand having to decide again who to follow, Andrew began to slowly march forward, stumbling over rubble tha blocked his way yet somehow remaining on his feet. As he walked, he could feel the darkness covering the city pulling at him, beckoning him to accept its transformations and rebirth into a greater, more terrible being. Softly, Andrew's digivice began to glow, its light soon spreading over his entire body. Sighing softly, the darkness had receded somewhat, driven off to the edge of the light that surrounded him, Andrew called out to Fenrirmon, "Elizabeth! Wait!"

Blindly, Andrew reached out his arms, feeling in front of him for Fenrirmon's fur. Finding it, he relaxed, this was Elizabeth's confrontation, but at least he could lend her some of his strength...in return for what he would need from her to continue fighting off the encoraching darkness.

(Andrew's getting torn between his need to see everyone safe....excellent!)

(EDIT: Changed the end a bit, Bulba made it clear this was Elizabeth's thing so I didn't want Andrew taking up her attention for now)

[classy_cat18]

Naomi Watts
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

I didn't hesitate in running from the eventual fight between R. Schwartzmon and LadyAndroDevimon. I searched the streets for my friends and eventually came across Flamon and Polarmon running towards me as well as another Flamon, this one female. We met in the middle of the street. "Where were you?" Hotaru asked me.

"I went to check up on Dennis and ended up taking a little trip," I replied sarcastically. "Where's Andrew and Elizabeth? And Daron?"

"I don't know where Daron is but Andrew and Elizabeth are taking care of the Devil Digimon. We were almost finished but one of the Devil Digimon wiped out most of the others." She noticed that I was staring at the new Digimon. "That's Rei. She took something from a strange Digimon and now she's like this for a day."

I did a double take. "Rei? Wow, you don't look bad. I'm going to go see what the commotion's all about. Where can I meet you?"

"There's a park outside of the city. Meet us there."

I nodded and ran in the direction they were running from. I found the place in ruins. Fenrirmon and Andrew were facing a hideous Devil Digimon. But there was something about its eyes. They were a soft brown...just like...

"Imani? Imani, is that you?" I heard myself speak, even though I didn't exactly mean to ask it.

The Devil Digimon turned its head to me and spoke in my sister's voice. "Na...o...mi. Save...me..."

Boy, making good posts is difficult these days.

[Bulbasaur4]

[color=royalblue]Elizabeth
.: Darkness | F :.


Fenrirmon let out a low rumbling of acceptance as he felt Andrew’s hand grip upon the lower section of his hindleg. His violet eyes did not mind the touch of light, but his focused attention was upon the five ragged figures of the devil digimon. Taking a slow step forward- so much that Andrew could follow, Fenrirmon lowered his head and gazed at the five digimon at their own eye level.
Waves of darkness were emitting from the scene now… clashing darkness- the strange sickening aura of the tainted darkness, and the warm and calling sensation of the true darkness. Lucemon’s wrath had extended his great arms around the digital world and had tainted the souls of so many humans. These five were not going to be those victims anymore…
At least… not their souls… Elizabeth’s mind though from deep within the body of Fenrirmon.
Yet, the calling sensation was still within the devil digimon. Even though Elizabeth knew what they were and was within her Spirit form… she still sensed the calling. The longing urgency that the trapped souls emitted even from their blanketed dark state was easily heard within her own soul. She knew that they wanted her to either join them… or to save them. To in one way, become a part of them so that she was at least with them.
No more… Fenrirmon’s low growl emitted into the air.
Andrew… do not be afraid… do not be afraid of the darkness… Elizabeth’s voice seemed to traverse outwards, touching Andrew’s own heart as Fenrirmon took a few more steps forward.
Then, the devil digimon lurched forward.

Like staggering zombies, the devil digimon walked forward and all five of them surrounded Fenrirmon and Andrew. Swiftly following the motion, they almost crashed themselves from all sides into Fenrirmon’s body, missing Andrew’s. Their claws and tails seemed to wrap around Fenrirmon, as he gave out a strangled growl-like cry of pain and determination. They were all touching him now… the devil digimon of darkness. He could feel their souls within the suffocating aura of tainted darkness, and Fenrirmon knew that he could remove it. Closing his eyes and accepting the darkness, slowly his markings began to emit a brighter glow of violet-flashed silver. The glow then seemed to suddenly burst out between the gaps of the devil digimon’s body as it illuminated the pitch black sky. An explosion of violet aura surrounded all seven of them… and the darkness that covered their souls was forced off of them. Of course, such a darkness could not be unbridled… but it had to be contained. With almost a force of attraction to rival magnetic pull, the darkness was swiftly sucked into the markings of Fenrirmon and inevitabley into Fenrirmon himself.
When the act was over, the devil digimon simply released their hold on Fenrirmon and staggered backwards several feet. Such an act was a huge rush or a huge surge of some thing which Fenrirmon and Elizabeth’s spirit could not handle, and swiftly a brilliant flash of white seemed to surround Fenrirmon’s body as it dematerialized and Elizabeth simply remained.

She was upon her feet looking ragged, dirtied and tired as she breathed heavily with Andrew now clutching the sleeve of her shirt. Elizabeth looked to him for a moment, giving a smile as she placed her opposite hand over his before she fell to her knees. Bracing herself with the other hand, she looked up to see the five devil digimon.
However, they were not devil digimon… but they were freed souls. While their forms still remained darkened, their souls were released. They were now themselves and not bound to any fate but their own… and if anyone was to think them hideous before, they were now beautiful creatures of darkness. Their bad attributes had become good in the eyes of all. A release from the tainted…

“Elizabeth… are you okay?” Andrew asked, a rash amount of concern within his voice. Elizabeth watched silently as the five dark digimon looked at her silently and then gave a nod. They understood what had happened and no words were needed to tell them where to go. Swiftly and silently they exited into the night.
“I… I think so…” Elizabeth said with a pant in her voice, slowly staggering back up onto her feet. “I took away their darkness… but… it was… so… much…”

As if on cue however, another devil digimon suddenly was upon the scene. It landed right before Andrew and Elizabeth, narrowing its eyes with a calm look of anger within them. It prepared to attack, however it hesitated… feeling the new demanding aura that now seemed to snake around Elizabeth’s body with an unseeing eye. Elizabeth’s sharp violet gaze eyed the devil digimon… and once again she felt it calling to her. Before anything could happen however, suddenly Naomi appeared upon the scene. Elizabeth looked wearily at Naomi, and watched as Naomi’s eyes widened and stared at the devil digimon. There was recognition in those pretty eyes of hers… and Elizabeth could tell that she knew the devil digimon’s true name. Naomi called to it and then the devil digimon turned, looking straight at her and asking her to save it.
Tears seemed to flush Naomi’s eyes as a look of fear and helplessness seemed to rise within her gaze.

It didn’t take Elizabeth a second to know what to do. Naomi knew the true identity of this devil digimon… and Elizabeth had the power to return her soul.
“She… she won’t be the same…” Elizabeth whispered, taking a step forward to the devil digimon as she continued to focus upon walking and upon the devil digimon itself- no, Imani. “She’ll look this way… but … s-she’ll be free. S-she’ll be beautiful in her own way… and her soul… her life… i-it will be free…” Elizabeth said with a panting breath, looking at Naomi. Elizabeth had no energy left… no will to fight much any longer, but she had to do this. She didn’t know why she was so compelled… didn’t know why she wanted to help those whom she barely knew. Yet… it felt right to Elizabeth. Naomi was hurting because this Imani was hurting… and that was a needless pain. It was an injustice that had to be pushed back upon a better path.
Turning to look at Andrew, Elizabeth watched him stand- facing the way he heard her.
“I’m sorry Andrew… I don’t believe I can be your eyes for a while…”

With that, Elizabeth turned her gaze to look at Naomi and them she simply nodded and gave a smile. Reaching out, she swiftly grasped an arm of Imani’s devil digimon form and closed her eyes. Instantly and surprisingly with great speed, a violet aura flooded from her hand and seemed to encompass Imani’s form. With a great cry of pain and yet a great cry of accomplishment, Elizabeth seemed to channel her own energy so that the tainted darkness was purged into a firey aura form from Imani’s body. It then rose into the air and then seemed to plunge deep into Elizabeth. Elizabeth released her grasp upon Imani’s form and fell backwards upon the ground and the brilliant display of glow soon faded.

Opening her eyes, Elizabeth could see the night sky begin to blur. Creeping edges of black began to slip over her vision as the sound of her own heartbeat began to flood her ears. A swirling motion… a sense of spinning… and Elizabeth’s defeated body swept into the unconscious realm.

[Dr.McNinja]

"Elizabeth!"

Andrew had felt the flowing darkness, and had understood Elizabeth's words, enough that he had some sense of what she had done both to the devil digimon and herself. His amazement at the revelation that they could free the devil digimon instead of destroying them caused him to miss the sound of Elizabeth's fall to the broken ground, only realizing several seconds later what exactly he had heard. Crouching next to her fallen form, the muscles of his face pulled so that, even without his visible eyes, deep concern could clearly be seen. Fumbling blindly, the youth found Elizabeth's neck and felt for her pulse. Finding it to be strong, she seemed to merely be unconscious, he slumped in relief. They were still surrounded by darkness, and he was still too weak to transform and fight them an exit, but at least they were both still alive. That would have to do.


(Short one, not much else to focus on I suppose)

[Roy Karrde]

[color=pink] Rei Takinowa
[color=pink]~*~*~*~*~ Walking ~*~*~*~*~

[color=pink]I clung to Hotaru’s side as we walked; it had been hours since we left the city, hours since we had seen Elizabeth and Andrew. “Where are we going?” Someone spoke up. We all had been in a bit of a daze for a while, just following some random direction as the sun rose.

Even my tail seemed to be depressed, barely even wagging as we walked. “The Digivice should tell us where the next temple is.” Someone else said. Yeah, he’s right the digivice would tell us where to go next. Following everyone else I brought out my own Digivice and ignited the three-dimensional map. Morikaze was the next town, which was quickly pointed out by the group.

But there was something different in the corner of the Digivice. It was a bit of text that scrolled by in a language that seemed different; it didn’t even seem human, more like the language of Digimon. There was also something dark about the text, as if it were written by Lucemon’s own finger. The text warned about how close the city was to Lucemon’s core, how it was the original place of the Devil Digimon. The town was a haven of evil, filled with it than anywhere else.

I looked up and opened my mouth to warn the group, but to my own surprise nothing came out, it was almost as if I was being restrained from telling them, like I didn’t want to tell them. Maybe I didn’t want to tell them, if we defeated Lucemon I would go back home and all the people here that paid attention to me here would be gone. I would be back to where I was off to the side while everyone focused on Midori and Roy. Yet here, if they became Devil Digimon, they would stay with me forever.

Hotaru could be here with her boyfriend and stay with me, and Flamon would be with me forever. My hand turned off the digivice and a smile arose across my face. “Lets go to Morikaze!” I jumped up and grabbed Hotaru’s hand.

I was leading them into a trap; they would forgive me once they realized we could be together forever. They would forgive me.

[classy_cat18]

Hotaru Tajiri
Wandering
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We came to a forest and entered it, knowing that the next temple was in there. It was too quiet for a forest; we didn't even hear the wind blow. I didn't think I could've been able to stand staying there long. I looked down at Rei who was still clinging to me. I was still upset for what she had done in Tri Angel City but I knew that she had just curious. "Aunt Hotaru?" Rei said quietly. "Is something wrong?"

I shook my head. "Just a little tired." I looked back at Naomi and smiled. It took a while for her and her sister to catch up but they were alright now. Imani, despite her looks, looked so happy to see her big sister. And Naomi was relieved that her sister was found and safe.

We arrived at Morikaze and were surprised to see the state of the village. First of all, it looked more than a town than a college. Trees still grew besides the roads and between buildings. But it looked rundown and abandoned. Also, everyone looked shady. They were giving us hard looks as we walked past. I walked up to a Togemon and asked for directions to the temple. "Leave me alone before I hurt you," he told me.

"That was rude," Naomi muttered. "Let's go find the temple before someone beats us up and takes our money."

[Dr.McNinja]

(OOC: Just to keep things moving a bit)

Andrew opened his eyes and froze. Something in the back of his mind was itching, trying to tell him something. Ah yes, opening his eyes must have meant he had fallen asleep...or passed out...probably not the best idea considering the circumstances. Alarmed, the youth scrambled to his feet, holding his arms out and spinning frantically. To his suprise, they were both still alive (obviously) and even more bizzare seemed to be encircled by a dome of some sort that Andrew's stumbling hands wandered into. Shimmering translucent light, which Andrew could not see, formed the dome which he could feel was about ten feet in diameter. On the outside he could feel the darkness and Devil Digimon still churning like some black tide, but they seemed unable to defeat the dome that protected the two digidestined. Removing his digivice from his pocket, Andrew felt heat radiating from it and could he have seen would have noticed the symbol of light burning brightly on its screen. His powers must have regenerated and when his fatigued mind has shut down, must have reacted instinctivly to protect him and Elizabeth. His fluttering stomach calming a bit, Andrew returned to Elizabeth's side and began to shake her softly, hearing the rustle of her clothes against the broken ground as he did, "Elizabeth? We need to get out of here...now. I don't know how long we'll be safe here and I need you to guide us somewhere safe."

Andrew paused from his shaking of the young woman for a moment. His words struck him.

I need you...

He couldn't recall ever having said those words before, not in the context he just had. It had always been others that had needed him, others who needed to be protected from things they could not fight alone. Now it was him who was needy, him who had to reach out to others for help. Oddly enough, it did not feel like a weakness as he had always thought it would, it felt....right. He could help others...and others could help him. Something that had been gnawing in his soul suddenly ceased to exist, and some measure of relief came from the waves of pressure that had been beating at it much like the waves of darkness that continued to beat at his shield. Andrew spoke softly once more, "Elizabeth, I need you."

[Bulbasaur4]

Elizabeth

.: Darkness | F :.


"... I need you." Elizabeth's eyes slowly opened as she let a fumbling moan escape her lips. Her entire body ached as she struggled to rise upwards, but sitting up she saw Andrew's blind gaze upon her. Her was knelt beside her, and around them was a dome of glowing light. Beyond the dome, Elizabeth could see darkened figures of devil digimon and those of Lucemon's corrupt nature. Withdrawing a deep breath, Elizabeth slowly rose to her feet and gently grabbed Andrew and helped him up as well. She felt incredibely weak... at least, physically she felt fatigued. However... she grabbed her digivice and looked at it. It was glowing... resonating as it were, with a dark and almost enigmatic aura of deep purple. It felt... powerful yet the power that it contained also seemed dangerous.


The more Devil Digimon you release... the more the darkness you will become.

The voice echoed in her mind as she looked to Andrew. There was no way she could free all these devil digimon... simply no way. Gazing down at her digivice, she saw the purple aura still seemed to consume it however upon the screen was a location. The location of the next city... where Rei and the others were heading.
"Rei and the others are heading there... " Elizabeth mumured, seeing how there was a warning flashing. Elizabeth looked at the digivice further and saw that it was close to where Lucemon had originally been sealed. Narrowing her eyes, Elizabeth felt a bit of anger swell within her.
"Not only does it seem that Naomi and Imani abandoned us with out fail... but it also seems that Rei is leading the others to the heart of Lucemon's evil."
Anger consumed Elizabeth as she felt herself shake and look to Andrew.

"I'm sure there was a good reason Naomi and her sister left..." Andrew said quietly, but Elizabeth swiftly walked to him and clasped her hands around his shoulders.
"Listen to me Andrew... I know you want to see the good in everyone, however I cannot ignore these signs. Naomi left and Rei is leading everyone into Lucemon's grasp... now, I know that there is good in everyone and that if they are the digidestined, like us, then they must be primarily good. However, Lucemon's evil has spread far and wide and... well, it is affecting all of us. We must end this now... and I fear the only way to end this, is to fight back against the darkness with all of us."

Elizabeth released her clasp upon Andrew, and closed her eyes. "We have to head to the center of the darkness. I have heard from... well, sources, that this next city is where the devil digimon originated. I have to go there... and I have to free some of the devil digimon there. Once I do that... well..."
Elizabeth whirled about, "Nevermind."
Once I do that... well... I'll transform and probably be lost forever. However... it will grant me the power to stop Lucemon once and for all. To help this world... to get everyone back to the original world. That is what everyone wants... right? Besides... then they can all stop pretending to care when their actions clearly sho-
"Elizabeth?" Andrew said, causing Elizabeth to turn around to gaze at him.
"Yes?"

Andrew suddenly wrapped his arms around Elizabeth and hugged her. Elizabeth's eyes widened for a second, but slowly she felt herself release a bit of tension- a sigh of sorts.
"Elizabeth, what are you worried about?" Andrew asked, and Elizabeth gazed sadly to the side.
"Nothing worth bringing up now... at least, not now. I will eventually... however, will you promise me some thing?"
Andrew seemed to nod.
"Promise me that... no matter what happens to me... that, well... I'll be me. You can trust me, always, okay?"
Andrew loosened his hug and seemed to 'look' at where Elizabeth's eyes should be, even though he couldn't see.
"I promise." He said without further questions, which caused Elizabeth to smile.
"Thank you... now let's go to that next city."

Elizabeth grabbed Andrew's hand and they ran. Ran towards the next city... Elizabeth holding her digivice in one hand and repelling a few of the digimon as they ran. She didn't want to transform ... at least not yet. She had to wait... until the time was right.

But that time was ever looming...

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[Roy Karrde]

[color=pink] Rei Takinowa
[color=pink]~*~*~*~*~ Watching ~*~*~*~*~

[color=pink]My hand slid down the glass surface of the tube that held Hotaru. She was floating in there, asleep and surrounded in green liquid. The white robe draped over my body as I walked back and forth in the room that held all of the Digidestined except for Elizabeth and Andrew. None of them had put up a fight, the Devil Digimon struck with out notice; shocking them and knocking each of them clear out before any thing could be done. “They will be okay?” I asked, turning to a Devil Digimon who’s lower body was a snake, the scales slowly creeping up his torso as he became more and more corrupted.

The snake digimon nodded, shifting his tail around several test tubes, and monitors. “Within a day the changes will begin, two days after that it will be permanent.” He slithered, mixing chemicals. I turned and gave one look at the tube before leaving the room.

It had been a few hours since the attack; the temple which still contained the last two spirits was now being used as the central palace for Devil Digimon. My wings flared out and I came to sit on the chair that the Devil digimon provided me as a throne. Hotaru would thank me for this eventually; she would thank me and hug me for changing her. We would stay here forever, never having to deal with Earth or it’s troubles again. And we would rule this world.

A hologram appeared in front of my throne, projected from my digivice which I had prepared for when Elizabeth arrived. The two were on their way, making there way through the city. “Let them come.” I turned the eyes watching in the shadows. “Once they see what I have done here, they will thank me too.” I smiled to myself. Soon everyone would be happy, we would be one happy family. And they would all love me and thank me.

[classy_cat18]

Hotaru Tajiri
Shocked
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

I opened my eyes to a green scene. I was floating in some kind of green liquid that I could breathe in. I was so tired I could barely move a muscle yet I managed to lift an arm and touch the glass in front of me. A tube. Trapped in a tube. Who could've done this?

Rei...

She was looking at me while the Devil Digimon surrounded us. They didn't attack her. In fact, she smiled at them while they knocked us out. It was final. She had been taken over by Lucemon. The thought of it was enough to make me cry.

Rei...

I had to get out. My legs kicked out with the little energy that I had. I banged my fists against the glass. It took a few tries for me to get the glass to cracking. A Devil Digimon with the lower body of a snake slithered in the room and panicked at the sight of my escaping. Before I could get out, he pressed a button on a machine. Electricity snaked through the green liquid and shocked me. The last thing I saw before blacking out again was Rei with a white robe and a pair of wings on her back.

[Dr.McNinja]

Andrew suddenly stopped, his abruptness tearing his hand away from Elizabeth who stumbled to a stop several yards away. Feeling her curious gaze on him, Andrew spoke quietly, "Rei....no!"

Elizabeth turned, waving her digivice at a Devil Digimon who had strayed to close, driving the being back. Returning her gaze to Andrew she questioned, "Andrew? What's wrong?"

Andrew hands had come up to his head, holding it as if some massive headache was threatening to tear it apart, "She's letting Lucemon take her, he's using her desires to make it think it's her idea."

Elizabeth's brow furrowed, "How do you know this?"

His hands suddenly dropping, Andrew bowed his head, "Because...she wants me to go with her...and the Light in me won't let me refuse."

With the force of a hurrcaine, a whirlwind of the darkest black descended upon Andrew, its howls like the screams of the damned. Only visible through the gaps in the whirling maelstrom, Andrew continued to face Elizabeth, "You're going to have to be the light Elizabeth, even in your Darkness...you're the only one who can show this world the way back...this world needs you just as much as I do and my Light isn't the one that will guide and protect this time."

As the whirlwind contracted, drawing around Andrew like some twisted cloak, a flash of silver reflected off the scattered light still present in the city. The soft ring of the object hitting the ground, a perfect note resonating through the very core of the world, seem to trigger the final collapse of the dark twisted around Andrew, the digidestined and the dark power vanishing in an instant.

Silence came then, and darkness descended. In the end there were only two pinpricks of existence left in the ruine city, one of Darkness so pure that it somehow banished the inferior dark around it, and one tiny silver light give off by the tiny wing that lay at Elizabth's feet.

[Bulbasaur4]

When you see the "*", that is just a little note where I imagine the music from the Avatar playing. it is only about a minute long, but it sounds really cool. To listen to a small blurb of it, go here:
http://www.angelfire.com/vamp/darksp...ean_Spirit.mp3



Elizabeth
.: Darkness | F :.


Elizabeth watched, dumbfounded as she saw the tainted darkness swirl around Andrew and then suddenly vanished with him. Silence was all that remained when everything was over… and Elizabeth was left standing in the darkness for a few deafening minutes. She felt numb… numb to almost any thought but the thought that she was alone. Utterly alone this time, because all of them were within Lucemon’s darkness. She continued to stare seemingly no where before a noise behind her shook her senses. Whirling about she saw one of the devil digimon try to reach out to her again and she swiftly shined her digivice upon the creature, causing it to shrink back. Andrew’s words once again came to her mind, and she felt tears well up in her eyes. Shaking her head however, she suppressed her emotions and withdrew a deepening breath. She had to reserve her emotions and her passion for the upcoming fight.
“Andrew…” Elizabeth said slowly, kneeling down to the silver wing. Gently she let her hands take it, and she recognized it as the connecting piece to Rei’s necklace. She bowed slightly and placed the piece within her pocket. Biting her lip, Elizabeth realized that it was finally the time. The time that had been foretold by the freed human-turned digimon had said about. She could feel the darkness- not her darkness, but the darkness of the other digimon which she had freed- churning inside of her, and she knew that it would only be a matter of time. A swift matter of time… for suddenly a darkened figure seemed to flutter above her. Elizabeth quickly recoiled as she held up her digivice, but this time the figure did not go away. Instead it landed fairly close to her, and Elizabeth instantly recognized that it was not a devil digimon… it was the dark Pegasusmon.
“What are you doing here?” Elizabeth asked bewildered as he walked over to her, lowering his head to greet her as she patted his forehead.
“They sent me here to help you. They wanted me to tell you that they would be there when the time came. They would help you in return for what you did for them…”
Elizabeth nodded, “I just don’t know… I’ve taken in so much darkness… I don’t know if I can do it anymore. It hurts…” Pegasusmon snorted in reply, giving a slight waver of his head.
“They said one more.”
“Just one?”
“Yes.”
Elizabeth withdrew a deep breath and then nodded slightly. “Let’s go.” With that, she clambered on top of Pegasusmon’s back. With a spread of his wings, they took off into the air.

The world flew by Elizabeth below, and it wasn’t long before their destination was clearly visible. Looking at her digivice, Elizabeth saw the location where everyone was being kept- yet it looked unusual. Rei’s dot was now disfigured… and the others were different too. Worry spread over Elizabeth’s face as she urged Pegasusmon to hurry, and he zoomed lower towards the ground.
The two of them landed before the last temple, and Elizabeth’s face widened with shock to see devil digimon crawling along the outside of the temple like the plague. The temple itself looked different than what Elizabeth thought it originally looked like. It was dark and decayed, looking as sinister as the tainted darkness which held its sickening aura upon the area.
“I will be waiting for the others outside. You however, must go inside.” Pegasusmon informed Elizabeth as she clambered off.
“What about the devil digimon?” She asked, and Pegasusmon gave a wry smile. “I’ll be fine. I used to be one of them, remember?” Elizabeth gave a nod, and withdrew a deep breath. She could feel the adrenaline suddenly rush through her body as she prepared to do some thing that she never dreamed she’d ever do. However, the silver wing in her pocket… it reminded her why she was doing it.

Running into the temple, Elizabeth held her digivice at the devil digimon to ward them away. However, the darkness was extremely thick upon these parts and the digivice had a slightly more difficult time getting the devil digimon to back away. Refusing to hurt them, Elizabeth dodged their attempts to grab her as she ran down an extremely long corridor before suddenly entering a huge, massive dome-shaped room. Elizabeth’s eyes widened as she gasped, seeing the room illuminated by the green glow of all the digidestined. They were all trapped in green liquid… in some sort of device that Elizabeth didn’t want to think about what it was doing to them. Her eyes traced over Hotaru, whose glass cage seemed cracked as if there was a struggle. Naomi… Dennis … -Andrew! Elizabeth saw Andrew now floating in the same liquid, a pained expression upon his face although he didn’t seem conscious. There were others against the wall however… those that were not digidestined- Flamon, Flamedramon… they were chained against the wall.
Then Elizabeth saw Rei. She was staring straight at Elizabeth, sitting upon a throne with a slight smile upon her face. However she looked different… wings were grown from her back and she had a sinister glow which Elizabeth could feel radiating off of her. Snaking about was a snake-like digimon of darkness… a devil digimon that reeked of the tainted glow of darkness as well. Elizabeth knew that it was only a matter of time before Lucemon completely took over Rei.
“Elizabeth! You’re here!” Rei said happily, clapping her hands together as if she was so excited to see her. “I’m glad… you can join them. Then we all can be together.” She said happily, but her smile seemed tweaked…
“We can all be together once we free this digital world. Back in the real world.” Elizabeth said firmly, taking a step forward but Rei shook her head.
“No… we can’t. Everyone in the real world will go away and I’ll go back to just being a little girl. Everyone will go away. Everyone will be sad because of it… but this way… we can stay here. We can all be happy.”
“No!” Elizabeth shouted, clenching her fist. “Only Lucemon will be happy! That isn’t you talking Rei… that’s the darkness of Lucemon inside of you. He’s trying to use you to get rid of the Digidestined. That way he can take over the digital world…”
Rei’s face twisted into confusion, “But he didn’t get you yet.” Her voice ended in a darkened tone, as if something within her was agitated at that fact.
“It’s because Lucemon’s darkness is tainted… he makes the darkness evil. The true form of darkness is not evil, but merely the balance of light. Pure darkness is purity just like light is. It is what has protected me… my darkness is stronger!” With that, Elizabeth suddenly twirled her hands and swiftly two double-sided daggers materialized in her hands. She dashed over to the contraptions which held the digidestined, and swiftly she cut the large tubes that fueled the goo and the wires that ran to them. She cut everything connecting the contraptions… and swiftly with each slice the goo began to gush out, draining away as the digidestined floating within the goo began to resurface. The snake-like devil digimon tried to lash out at Elizabeth, but she swiftly held up her digivice to repel him while throwing her dagger which deeply imbedded itself into the snake-like digimon’s abdomen. He hissed in pain and retreated, while Elizabeth came around from behind the contraption and stared straight at Rei as the other digidestineds came to.
Swiftly Rei’s face almost seemed to transform into an angry barrage of words as her voice seemed lost for a moment, as if Lucemon himself took over.
“Fool! You have my darkness inside of you! You took it away from those pathetic devil digimon that I created… you took their darkness to free them, but now it is inside of you!”
Elizabeth bit her lip as Rei-no, Lucemon’s lips curled upwards into a smile.
“You’re right. However, your darkness is intermixed with mine. Your darkness will fuel my new power… while my darkness will tame it.”
Rei’s eyes glared in anger as she looked at the slowly awakening digidestined, and it seemed as if she was changing. It seemed as if Lucemon was completely trying to take over now… trying to channel his energy and spirit through the little girl so that he could destroy- so that he could win. Lucemon let out a roar-like yell as he glared down straight at Elizabeth, infuriated.
“What new power! You’re powerless to stop me!”
“Watch me!” Elizabeth yelled, suddenly running over to the snake devil digimon and touching him with the palm of her hand. Almost instantly he emitted a purple aura which seemed to twist its way out of his body as he let out a scream. The aura swiftly seemed to plunge deep into Elizabeth’s torso, releasing the darkness of Lucemon from him. However, Elizabeth had no time to see his reaction to being freed…

*Elizabeth instead gave a sharp cry as she felt the darkness rebel inside of her. Swiftly her body began to glow and it released a blinding flash of white light which filled the room like a beacon. Rei extended her arms to block the light from her eyes while giving a slight cry of pain from the light, as Elizabeth seemed to be completely engulfed within it.
So… it is time for me. I don’t… I don’t understand why I am doing this. Why am I turning into this for them? For this world?
Swiftly her body seemed to transform into Fenrirmon, her body becoming the massive and intimidating wolven creature. However, as soon as Elizabeth became Fenrirmon, suddenly a high-pitched scream seemed to emit from her digivice which was still glowing with its own purple aura. Data erupted from Fenrirmon’s torso and seemed to swarm all around him as changes began to form.
They left me… Naomi left Andrew and I with her sister without even checking to see if we were okay. When I went looking for Dennis they simply left me behind without telling me. They have shown me they only care for themselves… only themselves and their close loved ones. Just like everyone else in the real world – only themselves…
The data swarmed around Fenrirmon’s head, causing a silver metallic armor to form around his head as chains grew from the headpiece and formed a metallic plate-like neckpiece with sharp spikes protruding from it. Data then began to swarm around his feet as similar armor materialized above all of his paws, having spikes protruding from the front of the armor as elaborate markings of violet glowed upon the armor.
Yet, I care for them. No one in the real world gave me at least a bit of interaction… a bit of small friendship. Through those small bits of friendship, Rei- the little girl, she didn’t abandon me. She’s just a little girl… she’s just as lost and confused as I was when I was her age. When my parents were gone… when everything happened… Rei, come back…
Data then caused Fenrirmon’s metallic wings to grow and change shape. They no longer were smooth metallic wings, but large draconic-like wings with sharp metallic knife-like feathers, each glowing with a small violet symbol upon them. Surrounding Fenrirmon’s hindlegs and lower back was more armor, curved and sharpened around the edges to give a similar feel to the entirety of all of his changes. His tail shifted slightly so that it no longer was a wolven tail but a dragon-like tail, forking at the end as it was decorated with many spine-like spikes.
I’ll fight for them. I’ll fight for Rei. I’ll fight for this world… if it gives us a chance to go back to the real world. That’ll give Rei a chance to be a normal little girl, not confused and alone like I was. So she won’t become like me.
Fenrirmon was no more, but now it seemed as if he had become Guardafenrirmon. His violet eyes still held their piercing glare as he let loose a howl and the light seemed to vanish from the room, yet the glinting armor around Guardafenrirmon still emitted a violet glow from the markings. Rei-turned-Lucemon gazed bitterly at Guardafenrirmon, as he let loose a small snarl of a growl.
Andrew… I’ll fight for him most. The one who actually helped me… who tried to understand me… who actually gave me a chance- no, a reason to care for someone. To love someone.
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Lucemon, you might as well purge yourself from the little girl. Let her go and fight me with your true self. Try to stop me as I destroy this temple and with it, your darkness. Guardafenrirmon growled…



[ I have another surprise in store, but I figure the battle will last a while so I can at least save it for my next post. ^_^ It doesn’t really affect anyone… except the poor devil digimon who get a chance to taste some freedom fighters! Lol I hope I played evil Rei alright Roy ]

[Dr.McNinja]

Andrew floated in his tube, feeling the evil darkness creeping into his soul, transforming his very core. Elizabeth had cut off the source of the evil, but what had already entered him still remained. In his dreams, Andrew fought against a vaguely human shaped being, one that took on his face and features, one that called him to succumb to the evil and become a Devil.

Andrew ran from his dark double, fleeing through his mental corridors, slamming shut imaginary doors only to hear them burst apart behind him. He ran until he came to a wall, an insurmountable tower of mental force that held him as surely as the thick glass walls of his tube held his physical body. He was too afraid to turn, to afraid to face himself and see the fate that awaited him. The fact that he had his vision once again, at least in the dream, escaped him for the moment.

Then the light came.

Just like in the Temple of Light and Darkness, the light surrounded and uplifted Andrew, kept him safe from his evil duplicate for the brief moments. Once again the voice that had spoken to him, the voice of the Light Spirit, resonated in his mind, "Why do you turn from the Darkness?"

Andrew fumbled for a response, tearing through his fear scattered brain for some answer, "Light is what I am! It will put me out!"

A soft sparkle of light flew across Andrew's mind, a divine laugh, "You're lady friend seems to undestand it much better than you do young one, you're not Darkness antithesis, you're it's compliment."

"Its...compliment? That means..."

"Indeed it does."

The light released Andrew and, almost instantly, the youth turned to face his dark self which had drawn as close as it had dared to the light. Reaching out hands that were bent and twisted like claws, the evil being reached for Andrew, reached for his essence so that it might take hold and begin to grow.

Andrew reached it first.

One hand, palm open, touched the demon's chest and almost instantly it began to warp and twist as though in agonizing pain. Watching with a determined face, Andrew spoke to it, "Light and Darkness are meant to coexist, are meant to work together. That's what the floor of the Temple meant, that's why Elizabeth and I work so well together, that's why the digidestined are made up of so many opposites, because together they make something so much stronger. I'll take your Darkness, you can keep the rest."

Exploding into seemingly nothing more than a cloud of dust, Andrew's evil twin vanished, leaving the digidestined alone. He stood that way for a minute, chest heaving as he felt his soul opening up to what he had just let into it. Then a smile grew on Andrew's face and his eyes began to glow a deep, blood red. In a low voice he spoke, "Everyone has a dark side...it's just a matter of how you use it."

He could feel the Light's approval.

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Red light began to shine behind Andrew's blindfold, even as the newly transformed Elizabeth began to approach Rei/Lucemon. The fluid in Andrew's tube began to boil, furiously churning until Andrew's body was hidden behind the bubbling broth. Light began to flood the tube from its center, turning it into a shining column that quivered and shook with trapped energy. In the center of the light, a bead of darkness appeared, hovering still for an eternal second before erupting outwards with all the force of Andrew's desire. The tube didn't shatter, it just disintigrated to nothingness. With a loud splash, the liquid that had once been in it poured to the ground along with a soaked cloth blindfold, revealing Andrew holding his Digivice in his left hand, facing its screen toward the two opponents. His eyes, or at least what remained of them, gazed sightlessly at the scene in front of them. The screen of the digivice burned with power. Andrew spoke, "You can only add so much Light before you can't even tell things are getting brighter...it takes some Darkness to show the true majesty of the Light."

Fractal code erupted around Andrew's upraised had, pouring around the digivice and activating it instantly. Andrew's voice rang out, "Beast Spirit of Light! Spirit Evolution!"

The code enfolded Andrew and twisted around him like a second skin. It took but a second and, with a burst of power and light, the code erupted to reveal Andrew once again. Black hair flowed down his body, twisting around the long, flared black coat that covered most of the well muscled body that lay underneath. A single black wing curled around his left shoulder, the right wing a bloody stump with a few white feathers still connected. Black gloved hands gripped the haft of a wickedly curved scythe, the blade engraved with a feathered motif. Glowing red eyes gazed serenely from a face and would have completed the air of menacing terror was it not for the look of gentleness in them and on the rest of the well formed facade. Fallen Nephilimon twirled his scythe experimentally before pointing it at Rei/Lucemon and speaking with a voice that constantly morphed in tone and tenor, "Get out of my friend."

A dark look overcame Rei, the confused yet determined girl replaced by something far more sinister, "You think you can make me?"

Fallen Nephilimon simply nodded, "Yes, even if it takes all the life left in me.", letting go of the scythe with his right arm, the angelic digmon made a sweeping gesture toward the rest of the tubes, "They can complete our destiny should Elizabeth or I fall, their strength burns just as brightly."

The hand returned to the scythe and Fallen Nephilimon waited, waited to hear what fate decided for him.

[Ultimate Charizard]

Suppose i should get involved before this whole thing ends without me. Also hope you dont mind i alter things just a little Kalah...dont want freeing just yet.

Gav
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The feeling was wierd, weightless but with a pressure exerted all over the body. Almost like being...underwater.
My eyes flew open and i surveyed the green tinted scene before me. Two Digimon were facing down against what i presumed was Rei. It seemed that my Tank was on the other side of the room to the rest, they were all coming around as theyre tanks were already broken.
The larger of the two Digimon looked kinda like Fenrirmon, perhaps a higher Digivolution which meant it was Elizabeth. The second was easier to recognise, Andrews human form clearly the template for his Digivolutions.
I pushed at the Glass tube keeping me prisoner though it gave no sign of breaking. The fact that i was breathing in this fluid with no Breathing equipment didnt cross my mind as i pushed harder, wanting to help but realising i couldnt do much without Felomon. I scanned the room and my heart sank as there was no sign of him.
I had noticed that some of the others were different. Theyre bodies changed but only slightly and my eyes went wide as i checked my own body. This must be the Devil Digimon process. I sighed in relief, realising i hadnt been changed which immediately made me wonder why. The Celestials had often told me that being a Digidestined protected me from certain harms, but if so why were the others changing? It took a moment staring at Elizabeth and Andrew in their evolved forms to realise. It must be the Spirit Digivolutions. Theyre bodies are already capable of, and already have become Digimon. This machine must be perverting that somehow.
I found my digivice on my belt, surprised they had left me with it and used it first to find out that Felomon was still alive, and somewhere in this complex, then to confirm the identities of the two digimon. Though spirit digimon dont follow the same level structure as most digimon It seems they had both attained a level similar to Ultimate.
I hoped it would be enough.

[Dr.McNinja]

(OOC: Just a note, Andrew's Beast Spirit isn't very animalistic because the "beast" part of it is more his acceptance of the dark side of Light. Just thought I'd mention that. And yeah Charizard, it is hard to tell with Spirit Evolutions on the old scale, specially when in the show they seemed to fluctuate as well...)

[Roy Karrde]

[color=pink] Rei Lucemon
[color=pink]~*~*~*~*~ Angry ~*~*~*~*~

[color=pink]How dare the two? How dare they appose me, don’t they know that I was doing this for the best of them? Darkness welled up inside me, warmth stronger than anything I had ever felt before. And I embraced this warmth, letting it fill my body as the fur on my arms burned away. As it changed my eyes to one white and one black, as it spread over my wings completing them. The monster that is Elizabeth roared and charged at me, it’s claws outstretched. I held out my hand as if to stop her as she leaped into the air.

At the same time a black skull formed in my palm and leapt into Elizabeth, the skull using the darkness she had in her to bring about the memories, the horror of all the devil digimon that she had freed. The beast roared and fell to the side, clutching its head. My eyes slowly shifted to Andrew. His scythe swinging around in a defensive motion. My hands reached out in the direction of the fallen Snake Devil Digimon, the body instantly glowed and shrank, darkness whipping around it as it became a complete snake and curled around my hand. With a flick of my wrist the snake straightened and became a complete staff, complete with a sharp bottom, and a snakehead at the top.

“You abandoned me Andrew.” I taunted, the two of us moving in a circle, he shook off the taunt with a grin, his scythe swinging forward, a quick step back and the blade passed easily out of reach of me. “You crushed my heart, Lucemon fed on that, if it wasn’t for you we wouldn’t be here right now.”

Andrew paused for a brief second before continuing his movement, the circle bringing him around to Elizabeth who he bent down to touch. “It will be okay.” He whispered to her, stroking her fur. Elizabeth moaned a response, her claws digging into her own skull. The effects of the spell would be wearing off soon, I couldn’t afford to fight both of them. “I’m going to free you from this Rei.” Andrew said with determination as he rose again.

“Free me?” I spat, lunging forward. Andrew brought his scythe around to cut my path off, dropping to my knees I bypassed the blade and came up on the other side of it, my staff whipping in an attack motion that would bring the blade tail of it across Andrew’s chest. “You made me.” I whispered, bringing the blade in to the tip of his chin.

A bead of sweat dripped down Andrew’s face, I knew I couldn’t stay there for long, any second he would regain his senses and jerk his scythe back to cut me in two. “You’re using the darkness.” I inhaled, “You realized that using the light was never enough.” I grinned, dropping flat onto the floor as the blade missed my head by near inches.

Whipping the staff around I aimed to cut his legs out from underneath him. Andrew was quick enough and jumped out of the way, this gave me enough time to roll backwards and come up in a crouching position. “I embraced my own dark side, I decided to work with it.” Andrew retorted swinging his own blade in a defensive motion. I turned and caught the image of Gav struggling in his tube, within minutes he would be free. I couldn’t take on both of them.

“Your own darkside?” I spat, racing toward Andrew. “Your own dark side likes the danger, likes the power and aches for more.” I explained, dropping and dodging a left attack from the scythe. “It likes what I have become and wants to join me.” I added, rolling forward to avoid another swing.

“And deep down, you embraced your own dark side because you knew you were going to lose.” I ended, coming up and batting the scythe out of his hands as I knocked him down to the ground.

Andrew let out a gasp as I climbed on top of him, sending my staff to curl back around my arm as I touched Andrew’s cheek. “My poor Andrew, all you see is Darkness.” My hand stroked his cheek, touching his eyes. “Well now the darkness finally sees you.” I whispered bringing my lips down.

It was a brief touch at first, Andrew’s jaw held tightly and refused to return the kiss as a brief spark of darkness passed from my lips into his. I leaned in and kissed again, his arms came up to throw me off of him but the current of darkness continued, one spark would turn someone into a devil digimon, but Andrew, Andrew was being bathed in darkness. His arms that were meant to throw me off suddenly wrapped around my waist. His mouth opened as did mine as the kiss became more personal, more romantic. Underneath my hands I could feel his muscles swell, his face push out as it took the contours of a lion, claws pushing through and breaking the skin of his fingers, hair lengthening into a furry mane.

I gazed into his glowing red eyes as the red dimmed and the eyes of a animal were replaced in them. I slowly broke the kiss, rising and moving off of him as Andrew rose with me. “You will be my partner, the king of this world, and I shall be your queen.” I intertwined my fingers with his and prepared for what ever was going to befall us next.


{Mc Ninja and I had a discussion about this before, and don't change him back just yet}

[classy_cat18]

Naomi Watts

I finally woke up to the sounds of battle. Oh man, what did I miss now? The first thing I noticed was the fact that I was floating in a tube of green liquid. The second thing? My new tail. Great, I'm turning into a Digimon. This has to be the highlight of my day.

But now was not the time to be thinking sarcastic thoughts. There was something I had to do. Rei was in the room but she looked like a whole new person. And a lion-like Digimon was by her side. Elizabeth -- at least I thought it was Elizabeth -- was down for the count. My hand went to my side and grabbed the digivice. I banged my feet and hands on the glass, slowly breaking it. By the time Rei noticed it, I was on my hands and knees on the floor.

"Naomi, get back in the tube. You're not done yet," Rei/Lucemon said sweetly.

I slowly got to my feet. "I suppose you're the reason I'm turning into a cat," I said to her, showing her my tail.

"Yes, and you look so cute with it!"

I glared at her. "That's it, girl! You have gone too far! What will Hotaru and Andrew say about this?"

She turned to the lion Digimon beside her. "Andrew, what do you say about this?" she asked him.

My jaw dropped. "Andrew?" I dropped to my knees. "What did she do to you?" He stared down at me. I had to do something to snap him to his senses. "Listen man, I'm sorry. Sorry for leaving you behind in the last city. I was just thinking of myself and Naomi. I just wished I could do something." I looked at Elizabeth. "Same to you. I don't want you to think that I'm a selfish brat or anything. I hope that you can forgive me."

"Is there anything else you'd like to say?" Rei asked impatiently.

"Yeah. Spirit Evolution!" I changed into Safarimon and laughed. "You're going down, Lucemon! I just need some help." I smashed into Hotaru's and Dennis's tubes and freed them from their glass prison. They fell to the ground, still unconscious. I was about to go from Daron's when Andrew stopped me by grabbing my tail and dragging me away. "No, Andrew. You can fight this! Just think of what you've been through to get this far!"