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Not a soul could be heard inside the cave. There were three creatures inside the said cave, though none of them made a sound. One made no sound because he was unable to do so. Other made no sound because she was in shock. The last one made no sound because he was enjoying the situation.
The first creature was a digimon, OmegaLeopardmon to be more exact. He had an human-like shape and all of his body was covered in armour which was mostly brown with some white parts on the chest and legs. His face was covered by a helmet shaped like a leopard’s head and from the back side of the helmet, you could see a blond mane. Lastly, there was a usually pristine red cape but now it was all tattered, it was possible to see some pieces of it scattered around the ground. The enormous digimon laid unconscious on the cave’s ground. Despite his massive size OmegaLeopardmon looked small, taking in consideration the size of the cave.
The second creature was a human girl, her name was Aoi. Her hair was jet black like the night sky, it fell straight down her shoulders to the mid of her back, her eyes were dark brown and her skin fair. Aoi’s clothing was rather simple, she wore some skinny jeans with a red shirt over it. She was OmegaLeopardmon’s human partner, if her digimon looked small on the ground then she looked like she was nothing more than a small cell inside a living organism. The girl was rendered mute from shock from what had happened to her partner. Their foe had knocked him down with just a hand movement, not doing a real attack but rather knocking a mega level digimon with just the sheer force of his movement, seeing has the foe had not come with contact with the other digimon.
The third creature was a digimon, but not a normal one. He was Lucemon, a rookie digimon that just had knocked out OmegaLeopardmon. If Aoi looked like a cell then Lucemon looked like one part of a cell, he was the size of a human child. His hair was blond and his skin fair with some purple tattoos on the left side of his face, chest and arm. He had four pairs of angel-like wings, a small set on his head and three bigger ones on his back. In each of his wrists and ankles laid a big golden ring. Lucemon’s body was covered only with a white toga.
“I warned you I would not be defeated by the likes of you! A mere human and a traitor to his own kind.” Even though the voice sounded like it belonged to an eight years old child it was full of hatred. So much so a child would not be able to express it.
“Aoi…” OmegaLeopardmon’s voice was barely heard, “I...I...I’m sorry for…letting you down…” Before the digimon could finish the sentence he grunted many times, letting everyone know how much pain he was in.
“No, don’t you say that! We will be able to defeat him! I’m sure of it OmegaLeopardmon!” The raven-haired girl screamed. Tears were rolling down her face and hitting the ground. She was not in any physical pain like her partner but she was afraid, not for herself, but for him.
Lucemon let out a sarcastic laugh, “you humans can be so foolish. If I nurtured any sentiment towards you besides hatred it would be a pitty. I cannot fathom what you traitors see in this ridiculous creatures.” The rookie digimon raised his hand into the air and a spear of light formed, “now it is time you repent for your sins OmegaLeopardmon! Divine Fe…”
“Judgement of the Blade!” It was heard right before a blur passed Lucemon making him stop the attack and take a few steps back.
“Strike of the Seven Stars!” Seven orbs of light started making their way to Lucemon.
“Fire Tornado!” Pale pink flames followed the orbs way.
“Seven Lights!” A beam was shot, though instead of pink this one had the seven colours of the rainbow. As soon as all the attacks made contact with Lucemon they exploded in a cloud of smoke and dust.
Aoi knew who those attacks belonged to, “Jesmon… Seraphimon… Magnadramon… Lotusmon…” She called softly her friends’ digimon partners.
“Did you really think we would let you come all this way alone?” Akira told Aoi as soon as he got to her side.
“Although we are sorry for being so late you move really fast do you know that?” Hikaru chimed in, adjusting his glasses as soon as he stopped moving.
“After we are done with all this you’ll have to explain why you left alone!” Belle scolded Aoi, though her voice let everyone know how worried she was.
“But we are all really glad that you’re okay!” This time it was Hei who spoke in a kind voice.
“Thank you guys, without all of you OmegaLeoparmon would’ve…” She could not bring herself to finish that sentence.
“You’ll have time to thank us later!” Belle said in a more playful tone.
All the digimon went back to their tamers, staying behind them. Jesmon behind Hikaru, Seraphimon behind Akira, Magnadramon behind Belle and Lotusmon behind Hei.
“Lotusmon, help OmegaLeopardmon please,” Hei asked the digimon who had been her partner for a long while now.
“Sure Hei! Serpent’s Cure.” As soon as she said those word a bright white aura started radiating from her. When the light touched OmegaLeoparmon’s body he could feel the pain go away and his strength slowly coming back. When he felt strong enough he got up on one of his knees.
“Thank y…” Before he could finish saying his thanks, a spear of light pierced through his armour making small pieces of data come out from the wound.
“NOOOOOOOO!” There was nothing more powerful than the pain and desperation of those who had just lost their loved ones, those were just the feelings the scream embodied. Aoi ran to his partner who now was laying on his back, as the force of the spear was too much for him to bear.
Laughter was heard from within the cloud of smoke and dust, “I told you I could not be defeated by the likes of you!” The sound of wings flapping was heard and the black cloud was no more.
“How can you?” Magnadramon asked more to herself than to Lucemon, but he still replied.
“I am Lucemon, the strongest of all Angel Digimon! Not even the Holy Knights, the Olympos XII or the Four Sovereigns could defeat me even if they dared to try, much less five measly traitors like you lot.”
“OmegaLeopardmon...why?” Aoi’s voice was full of sadness. She was kneeling down beside her partner’s head. Once more tears were flowing down her face, but this time instead of hitting the ground they were hitting the digimon’s helmet.
“Aoi...it was a pleasure knowing you. Battling by your side was a great experience, but more than that I really loved spending time with you just playing around or talking. Please never lose your smile.” When he finished saying his goodbyes his whole body broke down into date and started forming a digi-egg, though something happened before the digi-egg was completely formed it transformed into a line of data which, much to Aoi and her friends’ dismay, went to Lucemon who absorbed it in an instant. So he became enveloped by of sphere of black ‘0’ and ‘1’.
“He is digivolving!” Akira and Hikaru called out in unison.
“Lotusmon, bring Aoi here please!” Hei told Lotusmon.
“Yes.” The fairy-like digimon went to Aoi and grabbed her on her own arms and brought the girl back to the group of tamers. Leaving her right beside Hei. Aoi could not muster enough strength in her legs to stand up so she just stood kneeling on the ground, her face emotionless beside the tears flowing on her face.
Now all the digimon were in front of their tamers as a line of defence ready to attack Lucemon as soon as it was needed. They were not willing to let their human partners get hurt by another digimon.
Soon the sphere went away. Where used to be an angelic figure, despite his evil intents, now stood a much more intimidating digimon. Instead of a childlike digimon, he looked more like a young adult. His short blond hair now reached his shoulders. What used to be a sweet face now was full of evil. The white toga was replaced for a black and white full bodysuit with some red on the tip of the sleeves. He was barefooted no more, now he had boots with some golden zippers. The last thing that changed in him were the wings, besides growing bigger the wings on his left side all turned into black bat-like wings.
“He jumped from rookie to ultimate!” Seraphimon informed the others.
“If the four of us couldn’t make a dent in him when he was a rookie we can’t stop him now…” Jesmon gave his own opinion on the matter.
“We still have a card up our sleeves. Lotusmon, use it !”
“Good thinking!” The fairy digimon floated across the cave until she was near enough to Lucemon. “Seven’s Fantasia.” While she was calling out the attack she raised the staff made out of rainbow-coloured flowers. That was not the attack Hei wanted Lotusmon to use, she only used it because it was supposed to make enemies lose their fighting spirit, but Lucemon only stood there bathed by the rainbow light with a wry smile on his face as he was finding some amusement in the tamers attempts to stop him. “Serpent’s Kiss!” This was the attack Hei asked for. After rising the staff with a black and a white snake the black one open its mouth and from it came one ethereal black snake, much bigger than Lotusmon herself, which made its way to Lucemon. As soon as it got there it opened its mouth and swallowed the foe, a few seconds later laughter was heard and the snake dissipated leaving Lucemon laughing and unscathed.
“How hilarious you all are.” He said.
“How can this be?!” Hei let out in a shocked tone. Serpent’s Kiss was supposed to delete the opponent's data as soon as it touched the digimon.
“I have told you many times why and how, human. Now let me show you how a deleting attack really works.” When his mouth closed a white orb of light formed on his right hand and a black one on his left hand. When they were big enough he threw them in Lotusmon direction calling the attack, “Ultimate Sacrifice.” So the fairy digimon was enveloped by a sphere that alternated between the two colours. When it finally stopped changing colours it stayed black, “Oh that’s unfortunate. That attack has a fifty per cent chance of inflicting massive damage or fifty per cent chance of deleting one’s data. Do you want to guess which one of them happened?” He mocked.
Though there was no need nor time to give an answer. A few seconds after he mocked all the tamers and their digimon the sphere disappeared and where Lotusmon used to be now there was just air. She had vanished forever with no chance of returning, just like OmegaLeopardmon. Like digimon, like tamer, they used to say, Lotusmon and OmegaLeopardmon shared similar fates, and so Hei did the same as Aoi, she cried her partner’s name in complete disbelief and fell on her knees right beside Aoi.
The remaining three digimon could not contain their anger, like their tamers they all were friends, and unlike their tamer, they all had lost two of their own, so they all charged Lucemon at the same time.
“This is promising.” He said wryly. As the three mega level digimon got close enough he put his hands on the ground and spun kicking all three of them away against the cave’s walls, all in different directions. Rendering them unconscious for a while.
“Seraphimon, no! You’ll suffer for this Lucemon!” Akira threatened.
“Magnadramon, get up and show that idiot how humans and digimon can be friends!” Belle cried out.
“Jesmon, don’t you dare giving up on me are you listening?” Hikaru told his partner trying to motivate him.
None of the digimon move nor did they make any attempt at trying to fulfil their tamers wishes and cries.
“I have not had this much fun in aeons!” Then he started spinning on himself again pointing at each digimon while singing, “Eenie...meenie..miney...mo, I choose you to go!” He stopped his finger on Magnadramon who was already trying to get up.
“Sweetie, show him how humans and digimon can work together to end stupid being like himself.”
“That is my plan, Belle!” The huge pale pink dragon told her human partner taking flight right after it.
“Do you not see how they always put themselves before digimon? Even when they are trying to motivate you, traitors!”
Instead of replying she just let out a new torrent of pale pink flames, calling the attack at the same time, “Fire Tornado.”
Unlike before Lucemon was ready to receive the attack and so, instead of being engulfed by the flames, he raised a hand until it was perfectly in line with the flames and when they hit the palm of his hand they just shot out to the sides. He had completely blocked the attack with his bare hand.
“He is so powerful…” Akira whispered incredulously.
“Indeed I am, now let me show you what else I can do,” he said disappearing. “Terrible Dance,” he called appearing behind Magnadramon, roundhouse kicking her across the cave, right beside Seraphimon who was still unconscious. “Grand…”
Before he could call out the attack he was tackled by Jesmon who threw him a few meters away.
“How about you fight with me instead? Man to man!” Jesmon teased adopting a battle position.
“As if you could best me. You can not even match me much less will you be able to best me!” Lucemon said disappearing again. He was trying to pull the same move again. Though Jesmon was also quite fast himself, maybe he could not match Lucemon’s strength but he surely could match his speed, at least he was counting on it. “Terrible Dance!” Lucemon once more tried to roundhouse kick one of his own foes but Jesmon was ready for it and dodge it with some ease, “Oh you did dodge me. This will be fun.” So he started throwing punches at an incredible speed, such was the speed that the human spectators could only see some blurred movement.
“Weltgeist!” Jesmon called out. This was not a direct attack as the others, this attack only boosted his defensive abilities, it let him meet all of Lucemon’s attacks with his own blades.
“Yeah, Jesmon! You tell him how it is done!” Akira let out in a hopeful tone.
After a few seconds of sparring Lucemon’s right foot started glowing purple, “Deadly Roll,” he said kicking Jesmon right to the ground. “As expected.” You could hear some sort of disappointment in his voice.
Jesmon tried to get up but Lucemon stepped on top of him making it impossible.
“Let me go and let me fight you! Coward!”
“We have been fighting and you already lost,” he said while grabbing Jesmon, now it was his fist that glowed purple. “Paradise Lost Punch!” And so with a powerful punch, he threw Jesmon high up following him. When the warrior digimon stopped ascending the fallen angel grabbed him and made his descent be quicker and as a result, the impact was stronger, so strong that it made Jesmon turn into data, which was promptly absorbed.
“Jesmon…”
“Now, that was fun!” Lucemon let out in a joyous tone. “You two are next,” he said turning around and pointing at Seraphimon and Magnadramon, though they were not where they used to. While Lucemon fought Jesmon they had regained their senses. “Oh, I always enjoyed hide and seek!” He teased them.
“Seek no more!” Seraphimon called. His voice was different, normally his voice was powerful but this time it had way more power to it, it had a slight echo.
“For we are not hiding!” Magnadramon joined in. Like Seraphimon her voice also changed.
Both Lucemon and the tamers looked up, with the exception of Aoi who still had an emotionless expression. What they saw was a magnificent view. Both digimon glowed and took an ethereal form. Seraphimon was indigo and Magnadramon was pale pink. The huge dragon was circling the archangel digimon while the second one had both of his hand raised forming something akin to a cup. Over them, a big sphere of light was starting to form.
“Grand Cross!” Seven orbs of fire formed in a cross shape in front of Lucemon and he threw them in the direction of the digimon who was reading an attack. Though when they were about to hit them they just disappeared. “What? How can this be?”
“You guys tell him!” Akira and Belle cried out in unison!
“Belle, I love you. I am deeply sorry to leave you like this.” Magnadramon told her trainer with tears on her eyes.
“What do you mean Magnadramon?” Belle inquired right in time to see her friend smile before turning into data that was absorbed by the sphere of light. “Noooo!”
“Akira, goodbye my friend. I hope you can find true happiness!”
“Don’t you dare Seraphimon!” But it was too late. He had turned into data and like Magnadramon he was absorbed by the sphere of light.
The last resort attack shot in the direction of Lucemon who already had a smirk on his lips and was ready to dodge the attack.
“I don’t think so!” Hei said, speaking for the first time since Lotusmon had been deleted. She grabbed her digivice which was glowing and pointed it at Lucemon. So a beam of light shot from it and grabbed on to Lucemon like a whip.
“Yeah, no way we will let you win!” Hikaru joined in on the action with his own digivice.
“For Magnadramon!”
“And Seraphimon!”
“We will not let their sacrifice be in vain!” Belle and Akira said in unison.
Aoi got up, her face emotionless but the tears had gone away. When she spoke her voice was colder than Lucemon’s. “I truly hope you rot in hell because that’s where you are going you piece of data trash!”
The five beams of light acted as chains which made Lucemon be stuck in one place.
“No, I cannot be bested by five humans and five traitors!”
So Seraphimon’s and Magnadramon’s last attempt at winning this battle hit the fallen angel and the result was an explosion of white warm light.