Re: ~~ Digimon: Reunion Begins! ~~
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Andrew was amazed, he had thought it impossible when Rei had begun to taunt him, had been searching for some hint that Lucemon was goading him on but had slowly come to realize the truth...Lucemon didn't understand. He didn't understand how someone could be faced with the power of Darkness and deny it, couldn't understand the Duality, the Triality, the Multiality off Light and Darkness. Andrew hadn't let in the Darkness, hadn't succumbed to his dark side, he hadn't accepted the Darkness from his evil double, he had transformed it so that he could find its compliment in Light. Andrew was still pure light. The nature of Fallen Nephilimon wasn't Darkness.
It was Sacrifice.
Fallen Nephilimon embodied the dark part of Light, the part that was willing to put aside all concepts of honor and majesty in order to truly accomplish what needed to be done, was willing to do whatever it took to preserve that which it loved. Fallen Nephilimon was pure Light and would give anything to save the digidestined and Rei, even sacrifice himself.
Andrew had goaded Rei right back, and when she had offered him her own Darkness, he had fought aside his body and soul's initial repulsion and had somehow been able to let her complete her plans. Andrew's body had changed into that of a Devil Digimon, one who followed Rei with reckless loyalty...but his inside was the pure Light of Andrew, a Light that was rejoicing. He could feel his connection to Rei, could feel the invisible ties of darkness that bound him to her. He could feel the fight that was going on inside of her, Lucemon letting Rei's inner most desires come out magnified and perverted in such a way that Rei could do nothing except act on them.
Andrew ignored his body's response to Lucemon's order as he was ordered to stop Naomi, ignored him grabbing her and throwing her transformed body into the ground. Instead he prepared himself for what was next, for what he had to do. He feared for what he was about to do to Rei, but prepared himself to do it anyway. Taking control of his transformed body, Andrew halted his advance on Naomi, closed his fanged mouth, and turned, rebelling against Lucemon's silent commands. He had heard Dennis' pronouncement and knew he had to act now. Twisting his mouth around the words, Andrew spoke, "Wait Dennis, do not act so hastily that you will regret your actions..."
Rei's face was filled with exultation, she had everything she could want right now: the power to make the world right, those she loved changing into things she could keep forever, and a protector who would face anyone for her, even one of his own. She gazed at Andrew as he turned and laughed happily, "Isn't it wonderful Andrew!? My power can give us everything! Can make the world right!"
His face twisting into a fanged smile, Andrew took a step forward as he replied in a growling, raspy voice, "Your power hasn't given you anything Rei...evil has given you just enough to let you fall under its control."
Rei frowned, this wasn't what she had hoped to hear from her new Dark King, "I can make everything good now Andrew! I can make sadness and hate go away!"
Andrew took another step forward, "At the expense of what Rei? Sadness and Anger are a part of the world, would you take away Happiness and Love too? Just like Darkness and Light are opposites yet compliments, so too is everything else. As much as I'd love for everyone to be happy, for everyone to love, without sadness how can we measure what matters? If I hadn't gone blind I would have never come into what I am now, without that pain I could have never grown."
Growing angry, Rei spread her wings and gestured imperiously, "You should talk, you who accepted Darkness just to increase your own power, to taste the greatness that is the power to change the world."
A harsh laugh escaped Andrew, a laugh that was at the same time derisive and sad, "Rei, you still don't understand. I CAN'T accept Darkness into me, it can't exist anymore in what I am. The willingness to do what you have to do, to sacrifice everything doesn't stem from my Darkness like it does in Elizabeth, it comes from my Light."
Rei's eyes registered suprise, even as something new came into them. When the girl spoke it was in an odd, double voice, "What are you saying? What do you think you are?"
Andrew was within ten feet of Rei now and stopped, the smile growing even larger, "I am Light, Lucemon, and you just opened yourself to me."
With that, Andrew gathered up everything he had been holding in. All his hope for the future, all his rage at what the present was, all his love for Elizabeth, Rei, and everyone else that drove him onward, as his furious rage at Lucemon for tearing apart his world, all his sadness at the lives lost so far, and all his determination to see it right. All of that he gathered inside of him and transformed into Light, transformed it into one pure desire, to drive Lucemon away from Rei. That Light he sent along the connection between him and the girl, changing the invisible tendrils of Evil into pure Light. The Light struck Rei who instantly screamed in suprise and an agonzing pain that made Andrew weep inside. Even through the screams he could hear Lucemon's voice emerging from the writhing girl, "You'll kill her boy! I am what she wants! What she needs!"
Andrew took the sadness of that statement and drove it into his attack, "You're a parasite Lucemon, you took Rei's pure desires and changed them into obsession! Get out of her!"
Andrew's eyes flared white, drowning out the blood red that they had transformed into and seeming to drive Rei into even furthur spasms. Andrew could feel something slipping in the girl, something scrabbling for a hold under the rush of Light that he hadn't been expecting from one who he had had under his control. Once again Lucemon yelled from his vessel, "What right do you have to judge this girl's fate?"
The light from his eyes mingling with the tears that began to flow, Andrew took his doubts in his ability to judge and drove them into Lucemon as well, using his resignation that it was his duty in this case to change those doubts from a weakness to a strength, "I have no right Lucemon, I do what I do not from any right I've been giving, I do it because you don't have any rights to her either! Get out!"
Lucemon was losing his grip, was holding on by one metahphysical finger to the cliff from which, after he lost his grip, he would fall under and be forced to reveal his true self to the world. In one last desperate cry he screamed from Rei's mouth, "My presence is too deep in her boy! She won't survive me leaving! You doom her!"
Andrew added to his attack his love for Rei, a love that, while not having the strength of the love between those meant for one another, was still strong enough to redouble his power, "The fate you have for her Lucemon is worse than death. Rei is strong, what I give her is the chance to choose between a life in which she can work truthfully on her dreams or the freedom to sleep in her own peace without your manipulation or perversion! Leave her!"
Lucemon tried one last time to appeal to Andrew, "You want her dead! You don't want to deal with her anymore. You hate..."
Andrew took the rage for what Lucemon was about to say and drove it like a spear of Light into that finger that was still holding on. The force of his final attack shattered his demonic exterior like a glass statue, the black shards dissapearing before hitting the ground. Fallen Nephilimon stood from the shards of the Dark King and spread his one great wing, shouting one last time, "OUT!"
Light flowed through Rei, purging, removing, severing. Andrew's eyes burned white, calling from the ground beneath him small geysers of Light that erupted around him and Rei. With a final ethereal scream, Lucemon lost his grip and fell tumbling into whatever physical form he had left to take. The Light from the ground erupted once more and dissapeared, though Andrew's eyes continued to glow faintly white. Fallen Nephilimon's scythe dug deeply into the ground as he struggled to remain upright, even as Rei, the wings that had been twisting and writhing behind her during Andrew's attack now gone, fell limply to the floor. Andrew remained Fallen Nephilimon somehow, to devolve now would mean almost instant death against Lucemon and it would be up to him to protect Rei as Elizabeth and the rest finished their duty. He could not fight for long, too much of his energy had he spent, but he could still defend those he loved, could still put his own body on the line for them. Even through his pain, Fallen Nephilimon smiled, how fitting that it had been Lucemon's own Evil Darkness that had allowed him the access he needed to rid Rei of his influence. Rei had a chance now, a chance to decide for herself is what she had turned into was what she had really wanted. If it had been then...Andrew didn't know what he would do in that case. Stumbling to stand over Rei, Andrew pleaded softly, "Please...Elizabeth, Dennis, everyone, you have to end this now. My job is done..."
