Digimon Dusk: Evolved CH2

A young teenage boy, wearing his own Crimson Phoenix uniform ran through the forest as several green vines attempted to block his path. The large spiny appendages crashed into the ground, surely causing much pain for him should they connect with their target. He ducked and jumped to avoid them, close encounters not seeming to phase the boys calm determined look that he carried on his face.

“Don’t die on me here.” A voice came from the Digivice Burst hanging at his waist, colored to match his uniform “I won’t forgive you if you go and kill yourself just to look cool.”

“Don’t you worry ‘bout me.” The boy said, ducking under a thorny vine as it went overhead, barely missing him “I havn’t let you down before now, have I?”

“Give it up kid!” The large green monster in charge of  the vines bellowed, sending more twords the child, which he dodged “Your not beating me so easily this time!”

“I beg to differ Argomon!” The boy said, stepping aside the vines as he got closer to the digimon’s body “All the past times you acted up like this, its always ended the same!”

“Not this time!” He bellowed, and threw move vines, this time pulsing with red energy at the boy. He jumped out of the way once again, now right next to the large plant digimon main body. The boy wiped his messy blonde hair out of his face, and looked up to face Argomon, a look of determination in his eyes. He whipped his digivice off of his belt, and aimed the optical lens at the back twords his opponent.

“Lucemon,” He said in a calm manner “Realize.”

Digimon Dusk: Evolved, Chapter 2

Digisoul Ignited! The Crossing of Sins!

“Thanks for the ride Mr Trailmon!” Jiro said, hopping off of the car onto the small wooden platform that was one of Native Forest’s stations, according to Hyde, the closest to their destination.

“Don’t mention it!” The worm-model trailmon responded “Always a pleasure to have a Demon Lord aboard!”

The Trailmon’s whistle blew, and pulled away, leaving the two GM’s and their digimon alone at the station, smoke fading in the distance. The two boys hopped off the platform, and continued down a little path into the forest.

“You seem cheerier then you did earlier today.” Hyde said as the pair headed into the forest. Gotten over your little nervous streak from before?”

“Eh… to be honest… Im still really nervous…” He said, gripping Phascomon a bit tighter as he slumbered “But at the same time, its exciting… ya know?”

“I suppose…” Hyde responded, putting his arms behind his head as he walked “Ive been with these guys for so long, that whole rush I get before missions seems kinda commonplace to me.”

“…How long have you been here Hyde?” Jiro couldn’t help but ask. Hyde and Impmon glanced at one another, attempting to recall exactly when they joined up with the Phoenix and officially became demon lords.

“Two years?” Impmon questioned, and Hyde shrugged, supposing the assumption to be correct.

“Eh… I guess that sounds about right…” Hyde said, folding his hands behind his head “Rather odd, feels like we’ve been part of this whole thing for way longer…”

“I suppose everyone kinda makes you feel like family, huh?” Jiro questioned.

“Eh, if you mean get they get on your nerves to the point where you wanna slap them, then yes.” Hyde said, a sweat drop falling down his head “My definition of family at least…”

Jiro chuckled lightly, not positive if Hyde was joking or not. They continued down the path, simply making conversation, not doing anything eventful really, until they heard voices, and could see a large group of cat-like creatures, crowded around one other figure. A small, plant-like digimon, a Floramon was in the center as the group of Gazimon harassed her.

“It’s a thousand bits to pass girlie!” One demanded.

“Our turf, our rules! You aint getting by unless you pay up!” Another antagonized.

“I-I was just on my way to the station…” The digimon stammered “I-Im sorry, I don’t have enough money… c-can’t pay right now…”

“Hey! You guys! Stop bothering her!” Hyde called out, the attention of the group up ahead turning to him “You don’t have the right to demand money from her! Just let her pass!”

“Ey… don’t have the right?” One of the Gazimon said smugly, walking over to Hyde, staring him in the face “Last time I checked, this here was a free country. Its rather well-known this part of the woods belongs to us. She shoulda came prepared.” The other Gazimon in the group gave a few words of agreement.

“I think you’re a bit confused by the term ‘free.’ You can’t just go around and disturb others peace just because you claim rights here. Last I checked, this was considered everyone’s forest.”

“Yah, and ‘everyone’ includes us!” The head Gazimon said, before motioning to the rest of his ‘gang‘ “Get em boys!”

The crowd of Gazimon cheered in agreement, and began to charge twords Hyde and Impmon. Jiro hadn’t said anything this whole time, simply standing behind Hyde and observing. These guys didn’t seem to get that Hyde wasn’t some random vigilante, or maybe they did, and were simply acting up as a way to assert themselves. Either way, Jiro didn’t label them as smart. Hyde motioned to Impmon, who nodded in return, holding out both of his hands, balls of flame appearing within them.

“Bada-Boom!” He exclaimed, tossing the fire twords the approaching Gazimon, which detonated and exploded on impact. The main ones who were hit were knocked backwards, very visible burns upon their fur. Others brushed off the attack, and swung their claws at Hyde and Impmon, who were quick to avoid them. The Floramon had taken this opportunity to get out of the way, and had slipped past the fighting and continued down twords the trailmon station, grateful for the help.

“Ey kid!” Hyde called to Jiro, dodging another claw as it swung twords him, Impmon firing off several more flames at the Gazimon “You gonna help us out over here?”

“Well…” Jiro responded, slightly embarrassed. He looked down at his still sleeping digimon. What exactly could he do? Distracted by his own thoughts he barely had enough time to notice the ground beneath him was displacing itself. The Gazimon had realized that he was there with Hyde. One of the cat digimon burst up from the ground, attempting to dig his claws into Jiro, but he was able to take a step back, avoiding getting sliced, but not being quick enough to avoid having Phascomon knocked out of his arms.

Momentarily, the entire battle seemed to stop. Everyone’s attention seemed to focus on the koala digimon as he flew through the air, seemingly in slow motion. He landed with a thud a few feet away from Jiro, and time seemed to stop for a moment, the air still, as all eyes lied on Phascomon. The digimon form shuddered slightly, as it began to pick itself up. Jiro became very nervous upon the realization that he had finally woken up.

“Who…” The tiny digimon demanded as it got to its feet. His voice was much deeper and demonic then when he had spoken to the boys earlier. “Who here had the balls to wake me up!” He turned around to face the group of Gazimon, revealing that his eyes were glowing a deep red. He did not look happy at all. The Gazimon, of course, were as arrogant as they had been with Hyde, and the one who knocked Phascomon stepped up, a smirk on his face, proud of his accomplishment.

“That would be me!” He said proudly, pointing a claw at himself “Aw, did I make the widdle digimon cry?”

“Eucaly Claw!” Phascomon roared angrily, his claws growing quite large as he suddenly charged at the unsuspecting Gazimon. Before the other digimon knew what was going on, he had a rending pain in his side, and gripped himself only to find out that the small digimon had left a very noticeable gash. The koala wasn’t done yet, however. He spun around, and charged back at the digimon once more, making a similar gash in his other side. Holding his wounds, the Gazimon collapsed to the ground, shivering slightly, before his body exploded into several bits of data, which floated in the air momentarily, before condensing together into a rather large egg, with several grey rings decorating its surface. Hyde and his digimon were dumbfounded. The little koala had seemed so docile earlier! He saw why Jiro thought waking him was a bad idea. Everything was silent for a moment, before Phascomon turned his head to glance at Impmon.

“Ey, you gonna help us out over here?” He asked in a tone that mimicked Hydes voice earlier. Snapping himself back into the moment, Impmon nodded, and created a pair of fireballs in his hands once again, before throwing them at some of the remaining Gazimon, and the battle began once more, Impmon continuing to singe the enemies with his fire, and Phascomon fending off Gazimon with his claws, matching them blow for blow. The digimon did their best job to keep the Gazimon from their humans, and after several minutes, they had reverted a fair portion of the attacking digimon back into eggs, but there were still many more left standing.

“This is taking too long!” Phascomon said in a rather annoyed tone, blocking one of the Gazimon’s claws with his own. He glanced back at his partner. “Hey Jiro! Evolve me!”

“E… evolve!?” Jiro responded, a bit surprised. Hyde was rather taken aback by the notion as well. The kid had said he only was with his digimon for roughly three weeks. Surely he couldn’t use digisoul yet! It had taken him several months before he could sustain a stable on his own. This newbie couldn’t possibly get it so soon!

“Did I stutter or something?” Phascomon called back, continuing to fend off the opposing digimon with his claws. “Do it!”

Much to Hyde’s amazement, Jiro gave a nod, and held out his hand, which became consumed in what seemed to be a dark blue flame. Upon closer inspection, that flame was made up of several little ones and zeros. It was data. It was digisoul.

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“Ah… this kid seems to have more to him then I first suspected!” Meg said in an amused tone, seeing Jiro ignite his digisoul on the screen she was viewing. “He hasn’t been with his digimon that long, right?”

“No, only a few weeks I believe.” Dracmon responded “To think he figured out how to do it in such a short amount of time…”

Another screen popped up next to the view of the battle, showing a genaric human figure, and what seemed to be a silhouette of Phascomon. A pair of rings extended from both the human figure and the digimon figure, and connected, glowing a pale green when they did, and then dissipated, before another two came along.

“It seems to be fairly stable as well…” Meg continued as she viewed the screen “Surely enough to hold champion stage long enough to deal with those guys…”

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“Digisoul…” Jiro said, taking out his digivice IC and holding his hand over it. Upon the IC‘s screen, a dark blue symbol appeared “Charge!”

The blue flame-like energy flowed from Jiro’s hand into the top of the digivice, lighting up the screen, and causing Phascomon to begin to glow. The koala digimon tossed the Gazimon he was brawling with off of him, as his form grew, becoming slightly taller then Jiro, his large hulking body losing its glow, revealing a rather different creature…

“Phascomon…” The digimon said, his voice seeming to echo as he did “Evolve!”

This new monster that began to appear out of the glow seemed to be a large teddy-bear, his dark purple body stitched together carelessly, one paw having three blades for claws, while the other was bare, and a steel tube connecting where his mouth should be to a stitched-on felt heart on his chest, his eyes mere stitched Xes.

“Porcupamon!” The new digimon bellowed as the glow completely faded, and his Frankenstein-like form was completely revealed. Jiro was quite taken aback by his friends new form. Yes, he had been experimenting with his digisoul for quite some time, but he failed to ever actually use it to reach his digimon’s champion phase. He never really needed to. The creature standing before him wasn’t exactly what he had expected. The other Gazimon were wary of this new digimon, and rightfully so, after what he had done as a rookie. The large teddy bear raised his blade-clawed hand and brought it down upon the Gazimon who he had thrown off himself moments before evolving. The blades cleanly cut through his body, visibly splitting it into three distinct pieces before they dispersed into data, and formed an egg as the others had. The opposing digimon, realizing that this new force was not to be taken on alone, all jumped him at once.

Jiro watched, in a surreal-like state as the cat digimon proceeded to dig their claws into his partners back, their weight causing him to hunch over as his stitches came undone, and what appeared to be stuffing started to spill out of his body. Both the humans and Impmon were thinking the same thing: The entire mob of Gazimon was on him! He was quite literally getting the stuffing kicked out of him! Why wasn’t he fighting back? Then the answer came: simultaneously, all of the Gazimon upon him cried out in pain, and ceased their attacks.

What appeared to be white thorn-like objects had just pierced through each of their bodies, straight through their guts and out their back. The cats remained there momentarily, pained expressions upon their faces, before they all exploded into a rather large cloud of data. After another couple of seconds, the data formed into several different digi-eggs, which landed onto the ground along with the other ones Porcupamon had created. Sensing that his opponents were no longer on top of him, the teddy-bear digimon got up, and the spines protruding from his back softened, revealing that they were actually stiffened stuffing. Jiro felt a bit better after realizing this. His digimon had wanted to get cut open all along. He wondered if it had hurt, as the champion didn’t seem to show any signs of fatigue. Of course, he was a giant teddy-bear and not a biological being at the moment, so he supposed pain might come differently to him. The digimon took a step twords Jiro, whos hand was still surrounded by his dark blue digisoul, looking up in awe at his partner.

“Now that that’s taken care of…” He grumbled, though he lacked a mouth, so it was hard to tell how exactly he did this “Id like to continue my na-”

“Aww…” A new voice interrupted. This one was female, and somewhat sophisticated “I wanted to bat em around a bit. You guys had to go and take down all of em, didn’t you?” All four heads turned to the source of the voice. Standing atop a tree branch was another cat-like digimon, though this one was not of the species they had just defeated. She was smaller, for starters. Roughly half the size of the Gazimon. Her fur was jet black, with a few violet stripes twords the end of her tail, and violet tufts of hair coming off the tips of her ears. Standing upright, she wore a pair of violet gloves upon her upper paws. Another voice called out behind them. Also a girls.

“So, I assume you’re the new meat we’ve been expecting?” The voice addressed Jiro. The group turned, and was faced with a human girl. She seemed to be around the age of Meg and the boys, with long, auburn hair running down her head. She was light skinned, and wore the same Crimson Phoenix uniform that the boys were wearing. “Well, I must say, rather impressive for your first time out in the field. Considering its your first time evolving your digimon, you seem to be doing very well…”

“What are you doing here?” Hyde asked accusingly, glaring at the newcomer. Jiro glanced at the boy. These two knew each other? The girl smirked and responded.

“Got sent here to take care of those guys.” She said, not swayed by Hyde’s hostile tone “I should be asking you the same question.”

Jiro didn’t dare speak. It was obvious that there was tension between these two. They were all wearing the same uniform, so it wasn’t like they were enemies… it must have been something personal that caused this behavior between them.

“We got sent here too.” He responded in a stern voice. “Looks like you’re a bit late. We handled things already. Pity.”

“Yes it is…” The digimon in the tree, BlackGatomon said “Hey Lily, what say you and I beat on these boys?” She said, clenching her fist, a few sparks of electricity flowing from it “Lightning Paw!” She cried, jumping from the branch, her electrified fist heading straight for Impmon, who took a few steps back just in time, the cats fist colliding with the ground, creating a small indent in it as it did.

“But Gatomon…” The girl, Lily, said, shrugging lightly. “You deserve more of a workout then this.”

Hyde scowled at Lily, and Impmon scowled at Gatomon. There was a fair bit of tension in the atmosphere, and Jiro could sense that. It told him to stay out of it.

“Impmon!” Hyde called, a light green digisoul flaring up in his hand as he glared at Lily. Impmon nodded, and Hyde pulled out his own digivice, and held his palm over it. “Digisoul… Charge!”

A light green symbol appeared on the screen as it lit up, Hyde bringing his hand down upon the top of the digivice, his digisoul flowing into it, causing Impmon to begin to glow, transforming in the same way Phascomon had.

“Impmon…” His voice could be heard, seeming to echo as well “Evolve!”

Like Phascomon, Impmon began to grow, wings sprouting from his back and extending outward, two tiny horns growing out of the top of his head, his tail becoming longer as what appeared to be a pitchfork appeared before him. Extending his hand, he took hold of the weapon.

“Boogeymon!” The new digimon said, the glow disappearing from his body to further reveal his appearance. His skin was red, and lined with several different black tattoos over much of his body. He twirled his pitchfork in one hand, before pointing it accusingly at the Gatomon.

“Aw… big boy is fighting back…” she said in an amused tone, and knocked her fists together, electricity flowing off of them. Jiro was rather confused. Were they seriously on the same side? Porcupamon simply watched, seemingly indifferent, though it was hard to tell, seeing as he lacked an actual face to express himself with. “Lets see just how long it takes before I smack you to the ground! Lightning Paw!”

Gatomon jumped forward, sending a fist twords Boogeymon’s face, who raised his pitchfork to defend against the attack. Gatomon’s attack collided with the fork, but balling her other hand into a fist, she dug her free electrified paw into Boogeymon’s gut, causing him to cry in pain as the wind was knocked out of him and his body was shocked. Growling angrily, the red demon digimon shoved the cat away from him with the blunt side of his weapon, and drove the pitchfork down twords Gatomon as she tumbled to the ground…

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“Well, looks like the gangs all here…” Dracmon said as he watched the events unfold “Im rather surprised that they were able to achieve champion with her there. Quite an accomplishment, is it not?”

“I suppose…” Meg said, as a screen similar to the one that had been brought up for Jiro was displayed. The rings that extended from Hyde and his digimon collided to form a dull yellow though, rather than the green that was displayed for the newcomer “Still, hes unstable. I doubt that he will be able to hold that form for very long. They’re gonna have to finish things up there quick…”

“Yes, well…” Dracmon said “For now, lets just sit back and enjoy the show. Its always interesting when these two cross…

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Meg had been right. Hyde could already feel a slight burning feeling coming from his hand where his digisoul was ignited, and could feel his heartbeat increasing. Gatomon had grabbed the outer prongs of the pitchfork before it had impaled her, and pushed it backwards so the end of the weapon hit Boogeymon in the stomach, the same place that she had wounded him earlier. He cringed, but did not let go of his weapon, and that was an issue. Gatomon, her paws still having control over one end of the pitchfork, lifted the weapon –and Boogeymon- above her head, and slammed him down on the ground.

“Aw come on Hyde!” Lily said in a mocking tone to the boy “We thought you were better then this…”

Hyde cringed at these words, and Boogeymon growled, flapping his wings to get up. Pulling his pitchfork away from Gatomon, he brought the weapon down upon the cat digimon once more, this time glowing red.

“Death Crash!” he called, the pitchfork piercing into the ground as Gatomon jumped out of the way. Electricity flowed from her paws once again as she charged back twords her target, preparing to punch him once again, before a voice interrupted.

“Will you two just SHUT UP!” It rang out. Between the two fighting digimon, Porcupamon was standing. He didn’t look very happy, though you couldn’t particularly tell because he lacked a face. Both the attacking digimon stopped where they were, their attention turning to the teddy bear. He growled angrily, and grabbed up Gatomon by the fur on her neck, bringing her to his (metaphorical) face. “Would you two mind telling me what the HELL is going on?”

Jiro was speechless at the moment. Simply watching the events as they unfolded. Lily crossed her arms and scoffed at the digimon.

“Stay outta it.” She said in a rather high-and-mighty manner “It isn’t your business to mess with our affai-“

Lily was cut off suddenly, as a beam of light flew and struck the ground before them, causing a small explosion. All six of the children were rather taken aback by this sudden development, and after a short moment of silence, another new voice spoke.

“Aw… so much hostility.” It said. From behind a tree, a teenage boy emerged, again clad in the same uniform that the current three children were wearing. He had fair blond hair, and his skin was lightly tanned, with his eyes a light shade of blue. Behind him came what seemed to be an angel, with the body of a small boy, with blond hair like his partners, and several white wings protruding from his back. His body was clothed in a white toga-like outfit, and an additional pair of wings protruded from his head. In one of his hands, he was holding a bright spear of light, presumably what had been thrown to get the groups attention. “Have you two still not gotten over yourselves?”

“Oh goodie… Its Leo.” Lily said sarcastically “Here I was thinking you were on a mission.”

“Oh, I was.” Leo said, brushing his bangs out of his hair “Not too far from here either. Seems Argomon was acting up again. We showed him some good old-fashioned discipline though. Hopefully it sticks.”

“So… I assume this is the new guy we’ve been hearing so much about?” The angel boy said, releasing his light spear, which dissipated as he let go of it. He walked over to Jiro, and leaned a bit closer to him to get a good look. “He doesn’t seem like much, but…” His eyes caught sight of Jiro’s digisoul, still ignited in his hand. He glanced back at Porcupamon, who was still holding Gatomon, and then back at the human “That fella seems to be holding champion rather well, with no negative effects on the human. You must have a rather good amount of control over your emotions to manipulate your digisoul like that…”

“So we got another Al on our hands here?” Leo questioned, walking up to Jiro as well, both the other two teens and their digimon not moving. Jiro was not sure weather or not to be flattered. It seemed a lot of talk about him was going around…

“…Al?” Jiro could not help but question to the two newcomers. Lily responded to the question.

“Albert. He’s our greed.” She said “Has a natural knack for using his digisoul like you do. He was using his ultimate stage within a rather short time period.”

“And I wouldn’t be surprised if this guy turned out the same way.” Leo continued. He held out a hand to Jiro “Names Leo. Lord of Pride, and this is my partner, Lucemon.” The angel digimon in question waved at the mention of his name. Jiro nodded to the two of them, and shook Leo’s hand. Hyde and Lily were giving Leo skeptical looks, which were rather unsettling to the Lord of Sloth. Porcupamon, who had been watching on the sidelines, snapped back into reality when Gatomon poked his arm with a claw.

“Mind putting me down now?” She questioned, and the teddy bear did as he was told, releasing the cat, who dropped to the ground. She glanced over at Hyde, seeing that he was breathing heavily, and sweating quite a bit. “If only this guy had some of that amazing emotion control we were talking about…” She said mockingly. Hyde growled, his digisoul disappearing from his hand, Boogeymon glowing before reverting back into Impmon, the two digimon returning to their partners sides. Porcupamon walked up to Jiro.

“Id like to continue my nap now.” He said in a rather annoyed tone. All of these distractions obviously getting to him. Jiro nodded, and his digisoul vanished from his hand, Porcupamon glowing, before shrinking back down into Phascomon, falling into Jiro’s arms once more, snoring contently with a rather pleased smirk on his face.

“Aw…” Lucemon said, observing the little Koala monster “Hes pretty cute when hes like that…”

“Can we get going?” Hyde grumbled, turning back to the path “Everythings taken care of here…”

“Oh, Do I sense a tone of failure in that voice?” Lily said playfully, causing Hyde to growl in an annoyed fashion. “That’s odd, I thought you would be used to it by now!”

“…Whats with those two?” Jiro couldn’t help but ask, looking to Leo for guidance.

“You cant tell?” He said, in a rather surprised tone “They-“

“Leo…” Hyde snarled in an antagonizing voice, looking back at the blonde boy, who scratched the back of his head and sweat dropped. He leaned over and whispered to Jiro.

“Ill tell ya later, kay?” He said, smirking, and headed off down the path to the trailmon station which Hyde and Lily were already going twords, Lily apparently poking fun at Hyde, though Jiro was a bit too far away to hear what was being said. He glanced down at his snoozing partner, and then back down the road at the three conversing GMs and their digimon, and couldn’t help but smirk. He felt the feeling of acceptance creep over him, and couldn’t help but think that he would somehow fit into this dysfunctional group. Returning his Digivice to his waist, he ran down the path after his new colleagues, beginning what was to be one of the most exciting years of his life…

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