Faithless By Shinka
"Oi!,
Kinsey, get the hell up or i'm gonna be late for work, Mr. Ishida'll murder
me!"
"Wha
. . . Urgh, i really despise mornings . . . Wait a second, Ishida? That's who i
was staying with before you, Matt's dad. He knows all about the digimon too, so
you'll have something to help with your arse kissing."
Nick
threw a pillow at the half asleep boy and grinned. "By god i think he's
getting it, finally learning to talk like a real person!"
K.D
threw the cushion back at him. "Well what do you expect, i read way too
many fantasy novels then hung out with a band of angels for a few years. Not as
if i can help it."
Nick
sweatdropped. "Man, your life is just too weird . . ."
K.D
shrugged and quickly got dressed, routing around under the sofa for a few
minutes, finally pulling out his coat and sitting down at the breakfast table
with his already eating friend. "So, what exactly do you do at the tv
station?"
"Well,
i work for Mr. Ishida on the news crew, so i get out and about the area a bit.
I came here about six months ago after finishing my japanese course. But how
can you speak japanese? I just realised that we've been speaking it since i met
you yesterday, and last i knew, you couldn't speak a word of it."
K.D
looked up from his toast. "I'm not actually that sure . . . I think it
must be some side effect of the uni-lingual coding i got in the digital world.
Izzy seems to agree with me, since they managed to talk to the American called
Michael fine."
Nick
looked puzzled "Izzy? Who's he?"
"His
real name's Koushiro Izumi, the digidestined's resident computer expert and
hacker."
"Ah.
Well, we better get going to work, or i am gonna be up to my eyes in
shit."
"Right
then, i just have to find tsukaimon."
A
quick search of the house found the little 'mon asleep in the bath tub, under a
pile of blankets. A few prods from Kinson's quater staff, and the black furball
was flying onto his partners head.
"I'm
up, I?m up. What we doing today then?"
"We're
going with Nick here to the TV station, nothing else to do today anyway. But,
the bath tub?"
Tsukaimon
looked defensive. "Well it looked comfy last night . . ."
K.D
sighed. "The state you were in, under the sink would have looked comfy.
Anyway, let's go, Nick's waiting for us."
The
two walked out to the car, with Nick already in the driving seat hooting the
horn madly, drawing a lot of unwanted attention. The drive to the tv station
was uneventful, except seeing the younger digidestined walking to school, and
K.D spending the whole time playing snake on Nick's mobile. Arriving, Kinson
was finally torn away from his fascinating activity and the two walked into the
station. K.D was staring up at the giant ball that was the main broadcasting
station. "That must have taken a looooong time to build."
"Uh
huh, a few years ago it had to be replaced though. Official story is a
terrorist bombing, but everyone says two monsters smashed it into a third one
that was about 70 foot tall, after decimating anything in a mile radius. I
thought it was absolute shit, but after your digimon story i'm not so
sure."
K.D
nodded. "I watched that fight in the sky, that was when myotismon was
finally beaten by Tai's generation."
Tsukaimon
looked down to his companion. "Do you think i'll ever get to mega? I'd
love to see my form."
Nick
turned round. "Why don't you know already? I thought you were born with
the knowledge of your future forms."
Tsukaimon
flew into the air. "I'm the only digimon of my type known, so there's no
past experience on my forms."
"That
must be frustrating. But anyway, where's Lily? Is she still in the digital
world?"
K.D
stopped. "In a sense. This is real hard for me to say, i know you were so
close and everything . . ."
Nick
looked worried. "She's alright isn't she? She's ok?"
Kinson
hung his head. "She's . . . she's dead. Marinedevimon hit her with a
strange attack, that not even tsukaimon recognised. She and her digimon weren't
deleted though, so they couldn't reappear at Nursery Village."
Nick
was on the floor by this stage, crying softly. K.D gave him a hand up and a
supporting shoulder and they headed to the news room. Mr.Ishida stood up as
they entered. "Nick! What's the matter? And why is Kinson with you?"
K.D
stepped forward to explain. "I'm afraid i had some very bad news for Mr.
Hitome, and he is also my friend from England who i stayed with."
"News?
Anything broadcastable?"
"A
friend who died in the digital world. I don't think it's the right thing to put
all over the world, especially after the dioboromon incident. The digital world
is almost common knowledge. But importantly, i would not want my friends
untimely death to become part of your program."
"I
suppose you're right . . . Take the day off Nick, i'll keep watch over Kinson
for you."
"Excuse
me? I can look after myself thank you very much, i did so for fifteen
years."
"I
realise that, but the fact still remains that you are sixteen and a police
officer might take you in for skipping school, they're rather strict on it over
here."
K.D
sighed in despair. "All right, but teach me how to use some of this
broadcasting equipment, your modern technology fascinates me."
And
so the day continued, Kinson once again becoming an annoying teen for the first
time in many years, until about 4 o'clock, when the schools were breaking up
for the day. Mr Ishida was just waving goodbye to the quickly disappearing
figure when Davis and co. ran up to him asking where he went. They finally
managed to catch up to him at the tower, which he had started to climb. He
stopped at the viewing place after noticing them chasing him, but T.K was a bit
distracted. "This is where Sora and Mimi beat Skullmeramon . . ."
A
new voice made them all jump. "Beat? Don't make me bloody laugh! Those two
couldn't beat a numemon if it was knocked out!"
K.D
spun round. "Skullmeramon . . . What are you doing in our world?"
The
giant figure shrugged. "Following my orders and killing you lot,
especially you cognati."
Kinson
grinned. "An ultimate as well, looks like devidamon's getting his work out
at last. Tsukaimon, you know what to do."
K.D
held up his hand and a beam of light shot from the ZERO D, engulfing tsukaimon
accompanied by the cry of: "tsukaimon digivolve to . . . DEVIDAMON!"
The
figure that appeared before them was a dark image of angemon. The wings were
black and tattered, the mask cracked, white and blue replaced with black and
red, and a long, thin, silver sword held instead of a staff. Skullmeramon threw
back his head in laughter. "A champion? Oh please, that's just stupid! At
least give me a challenge!"
Davis
jumped forward. "I'll give you a challenge you piece o. . ."
K.D
put a hand out to stop him. "No, someone died because of me once. This is
my fight, my crest is here if i need it."
"You
stupid idiot, i outta punch you for that!"
Kari
stepped forward and held Davis back. "Leave him, i'm sure he knows what
he's doing."
K.D
threw of his coat and pulled on a pair of fingerless fighting gloves, his staff
appearing in his hands. He turned to Devidamon and nodded and the two rushed
forward together, a blade clicking out of both ends of his staff. Devidamon
took to the air crossing over K.D and slashing at skullmeramon's right side,
K.D the left. The ultimate roared and held his sides, a small piece of data
falling out of each wound.
"Nice
shot, my turn now. Metal fire!"
A
stream of blue fire headed towards the five digidestined. "patamon
digivolve to . . . ANGEMON! Angel staff!"
Devidamon
rushed forward as patamon was digivolving, crying out 'Demon sword' at the same
time as angemon's attack. The fire was reflected into harmless space and the
two angels glared at each other before Devidamon rushed back into the fray.
Angemon landed in front of his tamer and the other digidestined holding his
staff protectively. Devidamon's next attack was reflected by the knuckle duster
on the chain adorned digimon, and the black angel landed next to his companion.
"TWO
champions! I'm a-quiverin in my boots!" Skullmeramon laughed again.
"Jesus . . . I was hoping for a challenge here . . . Oh well, at least
Maphesto will be pleased."
K.D's
eyes blazed and he stepped towards the giant. "MAPHESTO? WHO DARES TO TAKE
UP THAT ACCURSED NAME!"
"Hehehe.
I got him angry. Nobody took up that name, he's always had it, and he's stuck
with it."
K.D
nearly sat down from the shock. "Marinedevimon . . . but we deleted
him!"
"Yup,
and he's mightily pissed off about that. But he aint Marinedevimon this time,
he took a different path of growth."
"I
don't believe this . . . it's not possible! Lily's crest sealed him!"
"Uh
uh, wrong again. Some little trinkits called the black gears gave him power to
break his prison when they were destroyed."
"No
. . . Well i beat him before, i can do it again!"
"Oh
please, he's some where you'll never find him. Anyway, he would have done it
himself but he's not at full strength yet. He gave me the pleasure of doing it
myself. But when are you gonna unleash the 'awesome power' of saberdevidamon on
me? I was kinda looking forward to it."
K.D
spat at his feet. "We wouldn't bother wasting that much energy on
you."
Kari
was looking a bit worried. "Do you think he can take this guy out alone? I
know he's really intense and had a lot more experience that us . . . But this
guy is an ultimate, maybe angemon should help."
Angemon
suprised them all by speaking quite angrily. "Help him? Help this traitor?
I would watch him die."
T.K
turned to his partner in suprise. "Why do you say that? They've saved our
life before!"
Angemon
turned away in disgust. "That . . . that parody of me, is the reason that
the deivmon chain exists."
Cody
tore himself away from the battle and looked puzzled. "What do you
mean?"
Angemon
turned back towards them. "A long time ago, a very, very long time ago,
there was a war in the digital world. A band of angemon and magnaangemon, led
by a strangely coloured seriphimon and a red magnadramon revolted against the
holy order, led by Azulamon and a being known only as Uriel. The rebellion was
unsuccessful however, and the angemon were cast down, given the forms of the
devimon chain, the majority of their power stripped away. One special fate was
in reserve for their leader. He was turned into tsukaimon, the power still
within him but unable to be unlocked. He was also cursed never to digivolve
again. But somehow, he's managed to become a chosen digimon. Azulamon must have
thought he could redeem himself, and i know i should forgive, but he is pure
evil!"
All
five of them looked pretty shocked. Yolei was the first to speak up.
"That's . . . that's pretty deep . . ."
"I suppose that's one way of
putting it . . ." T.K said looking extremely bewildered.
On
the platform the fight had stopped again and a heated arguement was in
progress. K.D appeared extremely calm now, and devidamon was warily hovering a
few feet away from him, sword still drawn. Skullmeramon loked a little worse
for wear, a chain cleaved off his body and his face cracked. The five listened
in on the conversation again.
"Why
do you work for him? Don't you know what attrocities he commited?"
Skullmeramon
held up his arm. A black version of the ZERO D was on it, glowing softly.
"Maphesto very kindly made these copies of your friends digivice. The
power of the darkness makes us realise what fun we were missing from the old
days."
"He
still has her digivice then . . . And it also means i cannot delete you, as you
obviousley reformed . . ."
"Oh
please, would an unwilling servant do . . . THIS?"
Skullmeramon
dashed forward before anyone could blink and punched Kinson, hard. He flew
backwards off of the platform into empty space. Devidamon rushed forward and
caught him as he curved towards the ground. "Kinson! Where are you
hurt?"
"Ribs
. . think they're . . . broken" he managed to gasp out.
The
fallen angel placed him down and flew back to face the evil that did this.
"You lowly bastard. You attacked my tamer! Pay!"
Devidamon
sheathed his sword and pulled his arm back. "Fist of Freedom!"
A
beam of silver light shot out of his hand as he punched forward. The radience
cleaved right through the side of the ultimate, taking out a sizeable chunk,
and making him gasp in pain, clutching the wound.
"You
. . . I will never forget this, i will have my revenge." So saying, a
digiport opened behind him and he jumped through leaving the digidestined in
shock as to what happened to Kinson. Devidamon felw back to him and landed.
"We
have to get him to a hospital, quickly."
"Hey
. . I'll be . . . kosha . . . We got through . . . worse things than . . . this."
Angemon
stepped forward. "No need, i can help. even though i loath this turn coat,
i cannot let a human die."
"How
can you help?"
"The
unused power your friends crest is giving off will let me digivolve, magna
antidote will heal him." Angemon then digivolved to his ultimate for long
enough to administer the treatment, then reverted back to patamon.
K.D
smiled weakly and looked up at them. "So, what were you looking for me
for?"
Kari
took out her D-terminal. "We got an e-mail from Gennai, it's addressed to
you."
K.D
reached up and took the port, then opening the message. He read it out loud:
"'Kinson, i still don't know how it was possible, but Maphesto is back.
He's sent someone to kill you, so be on the look out. Get to me with the new
chosen as soon as you can, we have things to discuss.' Well that warning was a
little late, but we better get to the digital world to see what he wants. Who's
house is nearest?"
Cody
stepped forward. "Mine, let's go, my grandpa is still teaching a new
student, so we should hurry before he arrives home."
"Man,
he's talking how i used to know."
Kari
sighed. "He always did i'm afraid."
"Oh.
Well, we need to get moving to Gennai's, what he has to say is usually
important."
They
headed out in a state of dire urgency, arriving at Cody's having hardly spoken
a word on the way. They walked straight through the apartment and K.D summoned
the digi port, bringing them out of a console near Gennai's lake. T.K typed a
quick e-mail and the lake opened wide, water draining off the stone steps,
revealing Gennai's strange house. For three of the digidestined this was their
first visit to Gennai, and the parting of the waters gave them quite a shock.
Yolei turned to T.K. "So what do I call you? Takeru or Moses?"
K.D
snorted as they started walking down the steps. "Oh please, that's worse
than my jokes, and my sense of humour's on permanent vacation. Anyway, back to
business."
K.D finished saying this as they arrived at the bottom of the stairs and
he tapped on the door twice. A shuffling was heard and the door opened,
revealing the old Gennai looking up at them through squinted eyes. "Ah,
Kinson, and the others, come in."
Kari
tapped him on the shoulder. "Gennai, i thought you were young again, what
happened?"
"One
of Maphesto's little spells unfortunately, the only way to break it is the get
rid of him."
Davis
piped up. "Skullmeramon said he wasn't at full strength yet, let's get him
now!"
Kinson
looked up from the information Gennai had given him. "No chance, even if
he's only at rookie or champion, no way we'll get past these guys. He had a
team of five digimon last time as his bodygaurd. They escaped me last time, but
they've resurfaced. Here they are." K.D held up the
list."Skullsatanmon, ultimate. Wargrowlmon, ultimate. Ladydevimon, ultimate.
Skullmeramon, ultimate. And the most powerful of the five, BlackWarGreymon,
mega. He was only Irongreymon last time we fought, he must have
digivolved."
Kari grabbed the palmtop. "Here's a
picture! My god, he looks exactly like wargreymon, except for the colouring . .
."
K.D
took it back and hooked it up to the main pc. The five images appeared
together, and formed around the picture of a jagged sword. "He named these
five his death squad, and put them under the banner of his weapon, Maphesto's
Rage."
"How
do you know all this though?" Yolei queried.
"Before
we made our presence as the digidestined known, , devidamon entered the death
squad as a spy for a few days, before taking off. The information we received
gave us the leverage to get in and to lure Marinedevimon out into the open at
the right time. Many good digimon died that day, along with Lily."
"Wait,
i'm assuming that Lily is your friend who was with you." Yolei replied.
"There's something about her i've been wondering about for a while. What
did Skullmeramon mean by 'the darkness' when talking about her digivice?"
Kinson
looked up again. "Before i explain it to you, you must understand that we
were given negative crests, as the positive were needed for Tai's generation.
It was believed that because we had dark digimon, dark energy would be better,
although it corrupted us a little. Because my digimon was a parody of angemon,
i was given the negative crest of hope. Lily's digimon was a parody of
gatomon."
T.K
gasped. "So that means her crest was the opposite of light . . ."
?Which
is darkness.?
?Tis Shinka here (My god! It finally speaks!)
**thumps offending person** Uh, yeah. Well. Uriel is a biblical type angel, he
got left behind to guard the garden of Eden, if you were uncultured and didn?t know.
Hope you enjoyed this, and I?ll be writing more when I get time so ciao for
now.
