Revolt
#10 of Breathless
A/N: Again, hello and welcome to the tenth installment of Breathless. As you can see this isn't the last chapter--since I can tell you that the last chapter will be called Breathless--and well this isn't the first. Enough of that stupidity, in here, this chapter, this will be the longest, and most straightforward chapter of them all. I know this because of what has gone down till now, and what will happen. Enjoy the long bloody battles. ^_~ ========================================================================================== The sun rose slowly, behind the rain clouds. Though it became dawn, the sky looked as though it would not let the light through. But everyone inside of the compound knew it was time. All had been up all night, practicing, getting used to their new allies, and even extending their endurance. And even before they were getting ready to leave, they had a feast--well a feast of what they had left--to mark the last day of hiding. "This may be our last battle..." Kakashi was pretty blunt with that fact, "So...eat up and stand ground! Today, they feast as kings, and tonight, they'll eat like rats!" He called all to order, as they stood behind him, nodding in appreciation. "Aye! Let's roll!" Veemon's voice was happier than it was the night before. Now, he knew that he had his lover's hands within his, so close they could almost touch. "Kyuu...I'll soon be there...." As they donned their gear, and the Chosen Ones got themselves psyched up. Trainers stood by their digimon, and Veemon stood at the head. He was going to go with Matt and Takato up to face Naruto and Sasuke. 'Both are always close by,' Hinata had told them, '..and as so, they will be together up there, in that flying fortress.' That was all Veemon needed to know, to willingly accept going up with the two. "Now... remember your part. Hinata and Temari, stay together with Mikoto. If Sakura uses her Digivolution, then let Mikoto take charge. Shikamaru, stay with Gaara and myself and get those five up there. We need to make this perfect if we want to take Him down." Kakashi was just going over their orders, and all agreed. And once more, Veemon ran ahead, this time to just shoot open the door--the door to the most decisive battle any of them had to fight--and let in the rain that was falling from the sky. Growling, he moved forward, slinking into the rain to nod the others to go by. All exited the compound, and stared forward, before each grimaced. A mixed thought of 'at least we don't need to hunt her down' and 'what a disgusting end' came to each one as they stared towards the lone tree in front of the Hokage Cliff. Hanging from the bottom most limb was a body, and not just any body. It was the body of one of the six ninja that had gone out the prior night to get food, and never came back. His intestines had been ripped out, and wrapped tightly around his neck, keeping a 'hangman's noose' around him, even though by the shape of the neck, it hadn't been needed. Blood dripped down in the rain, washing over each and every part of the body that had been skewered--skin was flaking off, the lungs were easily shown with a large incision up the stomach, while any traces of the lower organs seemed to be missing in action. "So glad....you could all make it." From atop the limb, Sakura stared out at the group, her face in a sickened grin. "Welcome to Hell..." She made an advancement towards the group, and Temari immediately struck back with her wind, motioning for the others to run off. The pink haired ninja had been thrown off just by the suddenness of attack instead of defense, that she hadn't noticed the others leaving. She growled--a part of her that could be drawn from the Digital DNA in her system--and flared back up, her chakra thinning out, and going under the most precise control. "Bitch..." She fished into her bag, to grab a kunai, but had to dodge a running forward hit. Hinata's Byakuugan was already up, ready to find each pinpoint of the other woman's body to touch. "Die..." She shot out four kunai, before jumping up, doing hand seals quickly. "Hurry, Temari...Strike her!" Temari did just that with her slicing wind, aiming it at the tree and at Sakura--though as it hit her, Sakura disappeared leaving a tree trunk to get hit. The others swung around, as they jumped back from a kick. All three girls heard about what would happen if just one kick or one punch would hit, and each wanted none of that. Hinata concentrated, and slammed forward with her hand, letting the Hyuuga Gentle Fist style work at her advantage, getting in a few hits, before she attempted to do her 100 Palms technique. By that time, the very defensive Sakura had kicked on the ground, and let it splinter below her as she jumped up. Hinata, in the middle of her attack, had been knocked backwards by the splintering, getting pieces of rocks shot into her body. She screamed out loudly, and that scream was enough for Temari to rush up with her steel fan, using it at the movement forward while doing her summoning jutsu. Sakura, always ready for anything, kicked at the tree to knock it down towards the Sand Sibling, destroying any type of attack from that. The only two 'standing' foes against the pink haired shinobi, were Tailmon and her trainer Mikoto. "We still have yet to finish our fight!" And both sides faced each other, their digivices out quickly. "Spirit Evolution!" "Biomerge Evolution!" The bright light from both evolutions had shined up into the sky, letting the other group see what was about to happen. ========================================================================================== Kakashi sighed to himself, still running ahead towards the flying castle. "Gaara, get us up there!" Gaara had been way ahead of the silver haired shinobi, summoning up small mounds of sand to rise up with everyone on one of them. Takato and Guilmon, Henry and Terriormon, Matt and Gabumon, Shikamaru and Kakashi, and finally Gaara and Veemon--the blue digimon didn't like being brought up with the Sand Sibling next to him, but it was his only chance to really get up there and find his lover and trainer. The five mounds hovered in front of what seemed to be a destroyed wall, and their carriers had jumped off towards it. "Alright...Stay close, who knows what might happen!" They all nodded, rushing together in groups of two to make sure they would have a 'buddy' system, one already chosen before this all. Veemon constantly looked around at the large castle walls as they entered inside, watching the various drapes flap in the wind. Leading the group was actually the blue digimon and his sand counterpart, each one wanting to get deeper inside, so that they could solve this problem of theirs and finish this today. Sliding only lightly into another antechamber, the group stopped only to peer around. There were two roads, two roads that meant for them to break up or go down the same one. They decided only to split up partially, letting Veemon, Gaara, Takato, Guilmon, and Shikamaru be one trek, and the other be Henry, Terriormon, Matt, Gabumon, and Kakashi. Agreeing on coming back after two hundred paces, they set off. Running forward with heads up high, the two groups followed their respective corridors down until they actually met up once more, being in the largest antechamber they had ever stumble into before. It was an open glade, letting the rain trail down upon their already soaked bodies. Thunder roared, while lightning streaked, lighting up the two faces standing upon a guard tower. Both sets of eyes stared down, one of green, the other of onyx. "Hey dobe..." "Eh, teme?" "Seems we have some visitors..." Sasuke's arm was around Naruto's waist, keeping them close. Both chuckled, before Sasuke dipped Naruto and kissed him, not only on the lips, but down to his neck--suckling lightly. "And they seemed to have interrupted our fun..." "Then we need to fix that, so we can have more time together." "Aye." Bringing Naruto back up to kiss him once more on the lips, the raven-haired shinobi let go of his blond. "Rasengan!" Holding his hand behind him, the blond started to summon his age old technique, one that was just as devastating as... "Chidori!" Sasuke's right arm started to crackle with lightning energy. Both ninja held their techniques up in the air, before they jumped down, aiming both at whomever would be there. Veemon was just staring up, staring right past the attacks, to see the two that had kissed, the two shared something more than they should have. And inside the little blue digimon's head, something just snapped.
- * * His eyes stared at the blue ones next to him. "Hey Vee..." The voice was soft and sweet, "Remember our first kiss?" Veemon couldn't help but chuckle at the fox next to him. "Of course... You freaked out when you fell... but I told you to not leave..." "Why was that?" "Because even that early, Kyuu, I fell...for you. And it doesn't matter now, does it?" Kyuumon's tail flicked a bit, before he shook his head. "No. It does matter." The tail caressed Veemon's stomach like it had so long before, and it made the digimon smile, "It does matter, because...I fell for you back then as well... I longed for your kiss once more..." The fox leaned over, with the dragon leaning just as much for both to touch, a kiss to remember always. * * * More images, other than that memory of the forest, with them alone, came to Veemon's head. Each one was of a different touch, different laugh, different emotion. And each one, had the fox right next to him, enjoying it. Down to teaching attacks, to making love in the bed of their trainer, to even laying out in the snow. All of that was so perfect, so paradise-like that it was the life he wanted to have, the one that he didn't want to give up to anyone. And this anyone included the raven-haired ninja with a lightning attack against him. Ready to stand his ground, Veemon had to be pulled away by Kakashi, as the other spread apart, each one ready to attack the two ninja down in the ground zero of their attacks. "LET ME GO!" He squirmed, wanting to get away from the silver-haired ninja. "I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING!" "No you don't...You want to see what would happen if I hadn't done this?" He lifted up the digimon, and turned him to face the ground shattered and crumbling from what had just transpired. "See? If that was you, you'd be dead." "I DON'T CARE! I WANT TO FIGHT THAT NINJA! AND GET BACK MY KYUU!" Kakashi sighed, and shook his head. His eyes went to both Matt and Takato. "You think you two can buy us some time?" Both smirked at Kakashi, and nodded. "This is what I've been waiting for." Takato was extremely pleased, especially as he pulled out his own digivice, "Ready Matt? We can do what we were training for." Matt nodded back, and pulled out his own, staring at the two ninja before them. Sasuke grinned, Naruto smirked; both were experts together when fighting--being on the same team had helped that to happen. "You think we're letting you get by, Kakashi?" Sasuke gruff voice held all the arrogance in the world. Kakashi just shrugged, and began to run to the exit of the large antichamber. Scanning their hands quickly, all four let out their evolutions; Cerberusmon, Beogrowlmon, Razimon, and Blackneokitsumon all came from spiraling data. Blackneokitsumon started for the door to block the rest of the group from leaving, but Cerberusmon was quick to shoot at the top of the arch when all six had made it through the doorway. "Sorry, Naruto...It's us you fight, not them." Growling at the wolf hybrid, the fox spun around and started to open his mouth, ready to shoot them down. Cerberusmon jumped back onto Beogrowlmon, his guns aimed at the two. "Matt...Are you sure?" "As sure as I can be... Let's beat these bastards and show them what being a Digidestined truly means!" Razimon chuckled, holding up his sword. "Hah, being friends to the end. How sweet. Come on, dobe, let's finish them and go to hunt the others." "Alright, teme." ========================================================================================== Dodging through the various corridors and hallways, making sure that the rubble didn't stop their movements, the group of five now went deeper into the castle, towards the thrown room. They knew that this was where the leader of this gang was. But as they went around, and moved down a right wing, the left wing started to fill up with ninja, controlled ninja for the opposition. Looking behind them, Kakashi and Shikamaru fell back, letting Gaara take point. "Gaara...get them to the center of the castle. We'll hold them off." Nodding to his leader, the Sand Sibling pushed the other three quickly. "Ready Shikamaru?" The lazy ninja sighed. "As much as I'll ever be." Both held a hand sign--Kakashi only after he raised up his hitae-ate to let his Sharingan show itself. The gang of ninja running after the group halted in front of the two ninja, their own kunai drawn. "Then let's show them what the Konoha Resistance means." Kakashi was already quickly pulling through his tricks, ready to halt the ninja as much as he can. Two against a hundred might have seemed one-sided, but both ninja were past Jounin level, ready to slice through anything in their way. ========================================================================================== Henry looked back, watching the two look like they got run over by the group, though they had seen a large shot of water, before the rubble blocked the way once more behind them. "Look ahead, Henry. We can't be surprised by any groups...We're still a bit of ways away from the central chamber." Gaara's words were correct. They had some labyrinth ahead of them, one that would be very difficult to go through hadn't they been buddied up together. Veemon soon took point once more, rushing way ahead of Gaara and Henry, wanting to deal a hard blow to Ken, the man that had taken Kyuu away from him and subjected him to what...he didn't even want to think of that. His soft growls were enough for him to drown out the shouts he heard all around; digimon and ninja, both controlled by the same man. "Stupid bastard." He muttered under his breath. If Henry and Gaara could hear his utterance, they would agree with his name calling. This man was responsible for a lot of deaths in this area, and who knew how many worlds he had destroyed. The three behind the blue digimon stayed close to him, speeding up to wind through more older caverns. It seemed that the further they went into the castle, the more ancient it became. But none of them would word what they thought was behind the walls, nor what would happen if they failed. At last, they came to a large set of double doors. It almost seemed -too- big to be of normal workings. All stayed quiet to catch their breath, and went to touch the doors, but as they almost got out into whatever chamber this led to, loud snarls came from behind them. They all turned to see digimon crawling up the hallways: Agumons, Biyomons, Tentomons, and others. Henry looked down at Terriormon and smiled. "You ready for your part?" "Yeah Henry. Let's do it!" They both looked at Gaara and Veemon, who nodded. "We'll close the doors behind us, so just stall them as much as you can." Henry and Terriormon both nodded to Gaara's orders, and stared back at each other. In a bright flash of light, Gargomon appeared, his guns all faced to the horde of digimon behind them. "HURRY!" Pushing open the great doors, Veemon and Gaara slipped into the larger room, and began to push the doors closed. Henry helped with Veemon, letting the doors slip easily back into their original state. Both couldn't rest for long, or even feel any calmness, as a voice behind them made them turn slowly. "So, you both are the last ones?" Ken was sitting in the larger than life thrown, staring out the window to watch the rain fall from the sky, and lightning flash through its small window frame. "And I thought they would send the strongest ones of their party to face me." Held up by his hand was the small crystal that used to be Naruto's, swinging back and forth. "Pathetic..." ========================================================================================== Cerberusmon jumped into the air, spinning around to start shooting three round blasts at Razimon, whom began to spin his sword to deflect them. "Nice try, but it'll take more than that to even beat us." Smirking down at the snake hybrid, Cerberusmon flipped his guns from around his shoulders. "Silver Cartridge! Ice Breaker!" Finding a new attack better than the old ones, the wolf hybrid shot down two bullets, each one hitting the spinning sword, and Razimon in the shoulder--freezing immediately on contact. Beogrowlmon chuckled as well, opening his mouth to the fox hybrid, "Sonic Stripper!" Howling and growling to Blackneokitsumon, echoed waves hit the fox digimon, knocking him to the side. His attention was turned back to Razimon, as he shot a Giga Breath down at the Ice, wanting to do the most damage. Cerberusmon followed up with two more Silver Cartridges. The snake hybrid howled in pain from both hits, staggering back. Though, as the pain began to ebb, he stared at Naruto. "Tri-Edge!" He split into three, each holding its sword up high. Blackneokitsumon smirked at the attack, and charged up his own. "Terra Blaster!" His mouth opened up wide, a black orb forming from the energy around the controlled blond. Razimon ran forward with his two clones, and jumped up to Cerberusmon, each one slashing forward, until himself was left, lunging forward with his serrated blade. Blackneokitsumon's attack shot towards Beogrowlmon, hitting him square in the chest. Not only did it hurt, but it sent electricity through the large dinosaur's whole body. Howling again in pain, he shot back a Giga Blast, hitting something, as dust came up. Though, what he hit had only been the ground, as the fox jumped towards the dinosaur, and bit him on the arm with his armored fangs. Cerberusmon had a cut in his side from the lunge, and attacks, himself moving only to avoid a deathblow. His guns moved around, "Gold Cartridge! Triple Bang!" Shooting a large triple blast from both shotguns he had, he pushed Razimon back, hitting him harder than he had been hit from the snake hybrid. It just seemed, as they attacked each other, one would never get the better of the other, as stronger and stronger attacks were unleashed--parts of the castle coming apart in the drenching rain, slicking up and adding more danger to the area they were in. ========================================================================================== A large sword hit against Tymemon's chest, pushing her back. Both Hinata and Temari were left to just watch the battle, both being hurt seriously by the falling tree. They saw sparks fly with each movement of both digimon, neither one of them give up much ground to the other. "Archangel's Wrath!" Stabbing the large sword into the ground, Angetailmon let the black obelisks shoot up to knock the dragon hybrid back. "Just die already!" She mumbled, seeing that the attacks had only angered Tymemon. "Dragon's Flight!" Spinning around, she turned into a large blazing dragon, blasting towards the angel digimon. She was dodged, and slashed into the large mountain, creating a large crater. Wincing at the large attack against their monument, both female ninja moved away from the battle, letting Mikoto take over totally. They did not want to, though they understood, in this state, the only way to stop Sakura, was to face her with the same strength. Spinning her sword out of the ground, Angetailmon stared over at Tymemon. She held her paws in the air, and drew back with the sword, creating an aura bow with the large sword being the arrow. "Angel Strike!" Releasing the string, the sword went flying towards the dragon hybrid at high speeds, and almost hit her in the chest, if it weren't for her metallic claws grabbing the bladed edge. Mumbling an oath under her breath, Tymemon let the sword drop. Not only did it cut into her armor, it burned to the touch. "..." Leaving her words aside, she jumped towards the angel digimon, slashing with her claws to send back the wound. But with each swipe, Angetailmon had jumped backwards, letting it just slice at air. Before, Sakura's strength was decent, but now, from the strength she had witnessed not only in regular battles, but even now in this one, she knew that it would be devastating if she got hit with one attack. So, in retaliation, Tymemon stopped her assaults and stood back, before punching the ground, "Dragon's Claw!" From beneath the angel, a large dragon hand made completely of a red aura. She let it squeeze the life out of Angetailmon. Just watching the angel hybrid struggle for dear life, made Tymemon smirk. ========================================================================================== Just giving a lackluster care to the two in the room, Ken groaned to himself--still not moving from the thrown. "You really are stupid.... Rushing into my castle and believing you could destroy all that I've worked for. Hah." He finally rose from his seat, pulling the necklace back into his hand. Slowly, he tied it around his own neck, and stared directly at Veemon. "I bet you want this back... Try and get it from me." Veemon went to run at Ken, but sand stopped him from moving. "You'll only get in the way. Let me deal with him." The sand from Gaara's gourd began to spill out onto the floor. He could hear something being said by the blue digimon, but tuned it out as he faced the final of the four. "I'm your enemy, so fight me." Shrugging, Ken pulled out his digivice. "Be my guest..." He slid it against his hand, and let the dragon part of himself wrap around his body. "Spirit Evolution!" Balthasmon once again appeared, his black scales shining in the dim light of the room. The Sand Sibling was barely taken aback by the large creature. He knew his duty, and he'd bring it out. "Sand Coffin!" Holding his hand out to let the sand stir up around the dragon, so he could encase him, and kill him like he had done to so many before. The sand did surround Balthasmon, but when it was squeezing--or attempting to squeeze--the life out of the dragon, it failed. Those scales were almost bullet-proof. Balthasmon only chuckled at Gaara's futile attack. He swung his body around, letting it break free of the sand trap, as well as slam right into Gaara, or so he thought. Always like before, the sand shot up to soften the blow to Gaara, even as he slammed into the wall. His left eye twitched ever so slightly as he shot three sand shurikens towards the dragon, only to have them hit the tail as it came up to slam down on the Sand Sibling, who barely dodged out of the way with a Sand Clone. Angry at the dragon for being so big and buff, Gaara summoned up his sand to take over the whole room, slipping it into the cracks of the ground and stone. He hadn't let the dragon know of his attack, even after the fist came shooting at his body. Quick hand seals summoned up his ultimate defense, letting the fist hit stone and sand ground together in a perfect mix. Snickering down at the ninja, Balthasmon opened his mouth to shoot down black flames, melting almost anything and everything. If either of them knew of Itachi's fire, they could make the connection of both being almost exactly the same. As more and more sand slipped through those cracks and mixed itself with the grains all around, Gaara kept toying with the dragon, letting him think that the small attacks were all that he had. That is, until he halted another fist with the same defense. "Desert Burial!" Immediately, the ground started to shake, as sand piled up, eating out the large cavernous room's floor. It began to devour the large black dragon, sucking him down into its depths. Veemon only stared, and watched as more and more of Balthasmon disappeared from view, until the whole digimon was no longer above the ground. Almost panting, Gaara lessened his stature, letting the sands take the last breaths of air from the digimon. But, even as his 'victory' was short lived, the dragon dove up from the sands, flying with his enormous wings. Gaara just stared, knowing he had no more strength left, with all of it being poured into that final attack. Seeing an opening finally to attack the Sand Sibling, the dragon dove down, wanting to use his momentum and speed against the ninja. But, he was driven away by a large fire ball. "Armor Evolution...Flamedramon." Staring into those black orbs that the dragon had held for his eyes, Flamedramon squinted. "I won't let you hurt another person! Fire Rocket!" His whole body became a large flame as he flew towards Balthasmon, hitting him over and over with his attack, noticing that he was taking away a lot of strength of the behemoth dragon. ========================================================================================== The rain made his sweat disappear, only a bit, as Cerberusmon stared down at the two digimon attacking his friend. He was trying to catch his breath, and tune out the constant bleeding from his side. In his head, he knew if he didn't stop this soon, all four of them, or at least him and Takato would both be killed, not beaten but killed. "Platinum Cartridges! Explosive Blast!" Shooting down two large bullets, Cerberusmon let the explosion drive away the two opponents attacking his ally. Jumping down and flipping to ease his fall, the wolf digimon fell upon the dinosaur. "Hey Takato...We need to end this.." He placed a paw over the cut in his side, "Before we die...." "I was thinking the same thing...But how?" "Didn't Veemon say something about a weakness." Beogrowlmon shifted his whole body, letting his tail knock back the two advancing digimon. He began to think. "WAIT! Yeah...He said something about Dark Rings..." "Dark Rings..." Shooting another stray bullet at Razimon, he let the snake hybrid jump around, "...I...I remember that Naruto had one around his neck when he first attacked me and Gabumon..." Both Cerberusmon and Beogrowlmon stared at Blackneokitsumon. They saw the blackness surrounding his neck, like a piece of his armor. It hit them both as hard as the tackle that the fox digimon gave to the wolf digimon, knocking the breath out of him as he stepped on the hybrid's stomach. "GET IT..." Nodding to his partner, Beogrowlmon slashed forward with his claws, only to get them caught up on the blade from Razimon. "Nice try.." The blackness that had been around Sasuke's arm before, still stood in his digimon form, on his right arm was a black band. Pushing down with his claws, the dinosaur howled out once more, "Sonic Stripper!" The echo was aimed at the Dark Ring, and connected totally, though only started to crack the band. Pushed back by the loud sound, Razimon left his partner to try and kill Cerberusmon, but watched as those claws dipped lower again. "Giga Slash!" Slashing with the set of claws, Beogrowlmon targeted the large Dark Ring around Naruto's neck, wanting to end this fight once and for all. It hit, and shattered the piece of metal, making Blackneokitsumon step back and start to de-digivolve. With the air returning to his lungs, Cerberusmon gasped, before aiming his own guns at the Dark Ring still around Razimon's neck. "Gold Cartridges! Triple Bang!" The perfectly aimed shots found themselves spiraling towards Razimon, who couldn't really dodge away from the last attack that had hit him. Again, the piece of black metal shattered, Razimon holding his head as he de-digivolved as well. Being alone, in the rain and debris of the castle, both dinosaur and wolf hybrids felt themselves lack the strength that they had prior. The battle had taken a lot out of them as well, and both went back to their human and digimon counterparts. Yet, the four of them were still standing, while Naruto and Sasuke were on the ground, out cold. Behind his eyelids, Naruto's eyes went back to their blue color, the blackness in the card he once owned disappearing with the Dark Ring. "Finally..." Both humans said at the same time, their bodies leaning against some rubble. They were glad for the rain now, it started to ease them, even though one was still bleeding badly--Matt--from the wound that had come from Razimon not too long ago. But their relief was short lived as the castle began to shake violently--not from the wind around them, or even the thunderstorm above them, but from something more sinister, something that tore even at their souls. ========================================================================================== Tymemon growled as Angetailmon broke out of the attack a third time. Each and every time it took the angel's soul to even try to break free from something as devastating as that. Though, this time she was more ready for the next attack. "Rain of Blades!" Opening her hands up to the pouring rain above them, Angetailmon summoned smaller blades like her own to rain down upon the dragon hybrid. Each strike was as bad as the last, and Tymemon couldn't help but scream out as the blades cut into her armor and down to her skin. Blood had been running down from both, parts of them had been cut up by both sets of bladed weapons they held. Only now, more blood seemed to be coming from Sakura's end, the redness in the ground beneath them traveled towards the two ninja in hiding. Both winced at the attacks. They were more destructive than even their own. And yet, it seemed that both could withstand something that dangerous and still live on to talk about it. Their eyes were drawn to Tymemon mostly, seeing as she was the one that was now screaming in agony, and they just watched her stare at the ground, as if in disbelief of what was going on. But she wasn't totally in disbelief. She was more angry than anything else, because of the fact that the woman before had trumped most of the things she was throwing at her. This time, though, she would win once more. She was the strongest of the two, and she totally knew that. Pulling back on her right arm, giving the two hidden ninja an eye to it--just enough for them to see the black metal around the arm--Tymemon struck forward once more, "Dragon Talons!" It blazed with fire as it slammed right into Angetailmon's stomach, making blood be coughed up in penance. "Finally..." Though she had once again won, she felt herself drained, even when watching the angel hybrid devolve into Mikoto and Tailmon. Gathering her breath, she readied another attack, one that would finish the two below her off. "Slicing Winds!" "Byakuugan!" Two shouts, the only warning Tymemon really had as two major attacks went to that charging right arm. The winds started to crack the metal, and the 'gentle fist' hit right at its weakest point, letting it totally shatter and disappear from the dragon hybrid. Roaring out in pain, Sakura felt her body drain of what was left, a light surrounding herself as she devolved back into her human self to collapse on the wet and blood red ground. Both Hinata and Temari ran over to both of them, Hinata ready to use her Healing jutsu on all three of them first, to make sure they wouldn't die. And as both gave life back to the three, their eyes drifted up towards the castle overhead. They could see it shake violently, and drop debris down to the town, destroying it even more. "What the..." ========================================================================================== Veemon hadn't really noticed the ground or walls shake as he ran again into Balthasmon. He was still Flamedramon, though he could feel the strenght begin to leave him. This was what he wanted it to end like; Ken winning over all of them. But he really couldn't help it that the dragon had more endurance than him, especially since he wasn't even up to par with the strength value, being only an Armor Evolution and not a Biomerge Evolution or even a Spirit Evolution. The dragon smirked down at Veemon, watching him hit a few more times before the light of his egg went back into the digivice he carried. Wrapping his tail around the falling blue digimon, he began to squeeze hard, an attempt to kill the last remaining digimon who could even defeat him. Wincing in pain, Veemon stared up at the dragon through one eye. "W-why are you d-doing this? Y-you're a h-human...s-so why?" Balthasmon could only snicker at the weak Veemon. "Why? Because all of you are just pawns in my way to be the greatest human ever! I cannot let you, any of you, live... You've worn out your welcome, and I've already taken what I needed from the likes of you." Squeezing harder than before, the dragon wanted to silence the blue digimon once and for all--and then go towards the rest of them to kill them all, leaving no one to even stand in his way. But even as he was squeezing, he hadn't realized that the blue crystal around his neck was still there on him, even swaying in the wind from the window. The last of his strength being drained from him, Veemon stared up at the crystal, and had more visions of him and Naruto together. He remembered the first kiss again, and how great that felt. He even remembered the first night they were together. At first it was awkward but it became a natural thing for him--he even didn't care when he found out that Naruto was human and not digimon. All he wanted from him was the same love he had gotten when Naruto was Kyuumon. Watching Agumon and Tai that night gave him even more wanton to be closer to his trainer, and here and now, this Ken, this Balthasmon wanted to end it all. "Kyuu..." He whispered, feeling the blackness start to take over his vision, hoping to all hell that he would get some response from the blond idiot he called his lover. And as that word left his lips, the blue crystal shined brighter than before, blinding the dragon digimon enough to let him drop Veemon. Falling slowly to the floor, Veemon felt the white glow around him softly placing him down as if to make sure he wasn't hurt. He stared still up at the bright crystal shining, his mind going back to the last time he saw Naruto. 'I'll still be here....I'll never leave your side...' "KYUU!" Around him, data began to shine just as bright as the crystal hovering above him. Blinking at the data, Veemon took a moment to realize what was going on, and just as he let it sink in, his hand went to the digivice on the ground next to him. He swiped it against his hand, and let the evoltuion take over his body. "BIOMERGE EVOLUTION!" Again, he felt that strength he had felt only once before, when he was in the same body as Naruto. But he could feel the absence of the blond this time. It made him feel like only half his heart was here, but he couldn't let that deter him. Finally, it was his turn to take control of all this, and finish what had been started almost seven months ago! "TASOMON!" The blue fur was once again around his body, along with the large shuriken on his back. The crystal earrings hung low from his ears that twitched, along with his body feeling like it was just like an old suit. Opening up his blue eyes, Tasomon stared at the dragon, who seemed not so tough anymore. Letting the tails behind him flick, the wolf hybrid jumped up to slash at the 'bullet-proof' scales. Gaara could only watch in awe as he saw a new Biomerge. Although he had watched Matt, Takato, and Mikoto merge with their partners, he never saw this one. A large blue wolf, one that had a mission--it could easily be seen in those blue eyes. And Veemon had gone passed the other three in the evolution, himself only being there as he let the new body take him over. "Starlight Shot!" His whole body spun around, the shuriken flying off his back to go into a single paw. Throwing it at the dragon, he watched as it spiraled up and around Balthasmon, going all the way up to the neck, and crystal necklace. As it sliced off the cord keeping it around the dragon's neck, Tasomon grabbed it as it fell. Growling out in pain and frustration, Balthasmon felt the heightened pain from the spiraled shot to his body. It burned even more than it pained him. And that wasn't something he wanted to deal with now. Opening his mouth once more, he shot out black fire down to fry the blue wolf. But, before he could even hit the wolf hybrid, a large red sword was formed, slashing away the flames with ease. Jumping back to the wall, Tasomon kicked himself back to Balthasmon and began to slash. "Twilight Saber!" Glowing even more red, from the fury he held against the creature before him, he let his attacks go all around the chest of the dragon--whom hadn't expected this much pain from a simple attack. Tasomon landed on the ground, keeping the sword in his hand just in case the dragon had something else up his sleeve, but he didn't. In the bright light that had given Tasomon his strength, the dragon was encased in the same, de-digivolving back to his human form to fall to his knees. Bleeding from cuts to his chest, Ken clenched the ground, feeling his blood drip down. "H-How can a stupid blue dragon stop me..." Anger raged through his body, anger that he had never felt before in his life. "WHY YOU!" Pushing himself up to run towards Tasomon, Ken grabbed the red sword, forcing it back onto the wolf digimon. "DIE!" They fought for only a fraction of a second, before Tasomon thrusted Ken back onto the floor, and back to his knees. "WHY!? I DID EVERYTHING RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" His scream finally broke both Tasomon and Gaara out of their stupor to let them notice the shaking of the room. Ken had felt it too, and the only answer he could come up with in his mind was that they destroyed whatever let this castle hang in the sky. Not so much crying, Ken was whimpering. Everything had fallen apart right when he was about to release the Obsidian Princess, the one he wished to take for himself and rule upon all worlds. And yet, this foul creature, this DIGIMON had beaten him, a genius, and man with so much intelligence he could have created his own network--and he had done that in the digital world. Jumping back to Gaara, Tasomon lifted him up, ready to give them both time enough to escape. Though, as they stood there, watching Ken, the whole roof above them was torn off completely. Heavy attacked by the rain above them, they stared at the large black portal in the sky, the vortex that had begun sucking anything and everything not tethered down. Pieces of buildings, of trees, and even dead bodies that were stuck in both were sucked towards the center, disappearing in the mass. They stared, not only in horror, but fear, watching things become destroyed just by touching the black vortex. And in front of it, crimson eyes were the only thing seen. Multiple shots of crimson lined around a figure just staring back, before a chain shot down from one of them to touch Ken, wrapping tightly around him. "Yesssss....Give me more pain. MORE AGONY!" The chain seemed to be drawing something red from the Digimon Keiser, sucking away something more than just magic or anything else. Ken was now crying, his anger being pulled through the chain, his agony and wrath disappearing just as fast. And when all was said and done, Ken fell to the side, just staring out his eyes wondering what had happened to him--like a drone of his own Dark Ring. The chain slithered back up into the sky, as the vortex grew even larger. Those eyes stared down at Tasomon, looking straight into his soul. This was bad, and he knew it. But he couldn't move a muscle; staring right into those eyes gave him too much fear to do anything. Gaara saw that, and decided to make the digimon move. He used a small amount of sand and let it cut into the wolf hybrid as a shuriken. That gave Tasomon enough pain to shift his whole body, and rush towards the door. Slashing at it with one hand, he opened the way to the edge of the castle--seeing Henry and Terriormon leaning against the wall with the digimon all around with their Dark Rings taken away. "WE NEED TO GO!" Staring slightly at the wolf, Henry was about to ask why, but he saw Gaara already getting to his own feet to try and get away from whatever was behind that door. Reluctantly, they all ran to gather each other up, running back into Kakashi and Shikamaru, the lazy nin caring to a wound on the Sharingan user. They followed too, until they got to the large common ground where the largest battle between the Digidestined had happened. They saw Ken nursing his own wound, as the others rested--save for Naruto and Sasuke, who both were still blacked out. "You...can't escape." The voice came again, booming like before, as its shadow hovered so largely above them all. "You've lost...Chosen Ones...." Tasomon whimpered, he didn't like this and he just wanted his Naruto. Rushing over to the blond, he began to shake him. "KYUU! KYUU! PLEASE WAKE UP! I NEED YOU!" But his words fell upon deaf ears, Matt and Takato both had tried that numerous times while the castle was shaking, just to get out of here. But now it seemed that there would be no escape, not even from the large portal in the sky as it sucked up more and more debris from the destroyed castle--leaving the Digidestined there covered in rain, trying to nurse themselves back up to proper strength to try and retaliate. ========================================================================================== Temari winced, she helped get Mikoto and her digimon up, only to see Hinata was failing miserably to get Sakura up. "We need to get to them..." She whispered, "Before whatever -that- black thing is destroys them." The shy ninja nodded, though she couldn't figure out how to get up there. It wouldn't have helped though, because even on that promenade, those up there lacked the strength to even summon up more attacks, especially Tasomon as he held himself up against the wall, only staring at the blue crystal in his hand. "Kyuu...please...we need you..." ========================================================================================== End Note: And this is where I say it should end. Previously, like five chapters ago or so, when I did the Soundtrack, I called this chapter 'Breaking Point' for obvious reasons. Yet, now that I look at it, and see what has happened over these past nine chapters and this one, I realize that the name even goes much further than just showing how they finish the revolt, as it goes towards the final boss, the final creature to go against.