Chapter 33: Peaceful Afterward.
#36 of D.M.O.N.
First off, I don't own any Chars of any Digimon series or names that involved in this chapter. However I do own the chars named Al, Soul and Sarah. I apologize first hand if there are any spelling and/or grammar errors because my English is second and a little bit cranked up after not writing for two weeks at least. For those who know about Digimon series then I'm glad, and for those who don't read the previous notice at my previous chapter. Anything else, please enjoy...
Chapter 33: Peaceful Afterward.
Al slowly opened his eyes. Al cannot see anything because either the background is black and he is floating or he was in the dark space. Al tried to looked at his body and found nothing. "Where am I?" he asked feeling lost.
"You are inside your subconcious." Al heard someone answered his question. He somehow felt familiar with that voice. "That's right, I am BlackWarGreymon. You are a strange being, or should I say human."
"I take that as a compliment, BlackWarGreymon. Now, how did I get in here and how do I get out?"
"You cannot, because you were past out. Because of that I can finally see the real you instead of that empty shell."
"Even if that Agumon is an empty shell, I can still use it as myself. Did anybody tell you that it is impolite to sneak others? Show yourself."
Al sensed a dark aura slowly emits in front of him and starts forming. There stood the form of WarGreymon except most of the yellow part were black and some red parts were golden yellow including his hair. "So, this is the true form of BlackWarGreymon." Al commented. "How did you know the Destinies?"
"Last time I remembered, they were my enemies." BlackWarGreymon answered while hooking his claw on his side waist. "Now we were ally. I knew all of the Destinies, except that imp, bunnies, android, knight with pike and the men with weird tight dress."
Al giggled a little about the last part. He inhaled a bit to calm down his laughter. "Angewomon said you are the one that sacrifice himself, what does she mean?"
"Back when I was alive, there were Digimon outbreaks in human world. It all thanks to MaloMyotismon who possess a human body. I was damaged beyond recovery and thus I sacrifice myself to seal the portal so Digimons can't enter the human world freely."
"I'm sorry to hear that, Black." Al felt sorry and pitty for him.
"Don't be, I was just a puppet." BlackWarGreymon respond. Al confused by that answer and BlackWarGreymon saw it. "I'm sorry that I can't talk much because they are waiting for you."
"What do you mean?"
"You have rest enough. It is time for you to wake up." BlackWarGreymon slowly fade into darkness, and the darkness slowly change into light. Al covered his eyes spontaneously and slowly opened his eyes to adjust the light. Al looked at his surroundings and he is still in the Loop Swamp in the Game.
The one who greet him was Antylamon. "Thank the Lord you have awakened." He said it loud so everyone can hear him.
Al slowly moved into a sit position and saw that everyone is waiting for him except ShadowWolf because he is still pass out or asleep. Soul, the Wormmon, greet him second and crying. Al was confuse by these and asked. "Did I miss anything?" Everyone starts to laugh hard.
"Ya miss the celebration, kid." Impmon answer while wiping the tear. "Ya nailed the Glitch."
"We all heard the story." Terriermon greet him, "Congratulation on defeating the Glitches again."
Al smiled to him. "No, it wasn't me. It was all of us."
"But you did most of the part. You're the best." Soul responded.
Al was blushing by the praise. "Um... Thank you?" Everyone starts to laugh hard again.
"What is all the ruckus?" ShadowWolf asked and then starts yawning. "Is it morning yet?"
"Not yet, it is still midnight." Angewomon replied. ShadowWolf looked around to see that he is still inside the game.
"Aw man... Mom is so gonna kill me for this." He yelled and quickly teleported out with Gate Disk.
"I think we should go too. My mom also didn't like it when I'm on the game for so long that I passed dinner." Al and Soul teleported back to the city by using Gate Disk leaving the rest of the team to clean up the mess. Zero and GreenGuilmonX followed as well.
In the city, Al explained on how to get out of the game, simply by pressing the logged out button that was there. Soul did the exact thing and he was teleported out. Al guessed that he was teleported back to the Digivice. Al wanted to log out as well but was stop by Zero and GreenGuilmonX.
"You guys, I'm terribly sorry for getting you involved in this incident." Al said it in apologetic tone.
"Actually we did not mind. We enjoy it. Furthermore we can use this new power." Zero replied.
"But still, I can't let you two into that mess anymore. It is far too dangerous for normal humans to deal with. I almost got killed back then."
"That because you are fighting alone and that virus cheat," respond GreenGuilmonX. "And we volunteered to join the group."
"I've already told you that what we do is completely dangerous. Do you still want to join the team?" Al asked again to make sure that their minds made up. Both, Zero and GreenGuilmonX nodded confirming that their minds set. "All right then, welcome to the team officially. Zero, GreenGuilmonX."
"Aren't we already on your team?" Zero asked in confusion.
"Actually, you weren't in the team yet because I need to make sure that there are no regrets in the future. All I need is your IDs and I will send it to my guild for confirmation."
Zero and GreenGuilmonX send their IDs to Al and Al relay it to the Destinies. "There will be a short message announcing that you two are officially joined the team. For the mean time, here is my ID. That way we can communicate through messages." Al explained and then logged out from the game.
Al put down the goggle set on the table and start stretching after sitting for a long time. He looked at the clock and it was ten at night. 'Mom is so going to kill me for being so late. Still, I do need to apologize for it.' Al stood up in defeat and grabbed his Digivice where Soul is in. "Come on out, Soul." Al pointed the lens on top of his bed. Soul slowly materialized and starts yawning.
"Why do you call me out, Al?" he asked while rubbing his eye.
"Don't you want something to eat before we hit the hay?" Al asked with a smile. Soul nodded weakly. He felt tired after log into the game and suffer a Glitch's side effects. "Let's see if mom left us something to eat at the dining room." Al intends to walk to the kitchen when something hit his foot at the entrance room. Al looked down to see that there is a tray of food for him and Soul. There is also a note on the tray. Al read it quietly so Soul cannot hear what it said.
"Honey, I know that you and Soul are inside that computer game. Need I remind you that you are still an average student? Still, I am proud that you have joined the Destinies to save the world from danger. Good night Al and give my good night to Soul as well." That was wrotten on the note. 'Sorry mom, I will tell the whole stories when I have the time tomorrow.' Al took the tray, which contain two sandwiches, two apples, and two bottles of water.
"Looks like mom left us some dinner at the front door. Enjoy." Al brought the tray inside and enjoying their dinner before they went to bed.
Meanwhile inside the game, the Destinies are doing some maintenance to fix the bug. Antylamon received a mail containing new candidates from Al. "Everyone, looks like Al got some new candidates. But he needs our confirmation to recruit them." He announced.
"New candidates, is he referring those two?" Terriermon asked.
"That is highly possible." Guardromon replied in monotone voice while tapping his pad.
"Why he wants our confirmation?" Agumon asked.
"For starter, both their PC has been modified so they could evolve like Al." Monodramon replied. "Second, I can see some potentials but very incompetent. Who knows what they will do with that power. Either use for good or misuse that power."
"I agree with him." Gomamon supported.
"Relax, all of you." Angewomon disagree. "Try to have faith in him. I believe he knew the consequences by getting both of them involved in today's incident. Yet he even told the risks they will get, but they push on."
"I agree with Angewomon." Antylamon supported.
"That goes for me and Guilmon." Veemon also supported her.
"If Guilmon agreed, then I don't have much of choice, do I?" Terriermon responded. "Usually, when he's right, he's right." Impmon nodded.
"All right, we will give them a chance to prove themselves." Monodramon responded. "However, if they misuse their power, we will deal with them without Al's permission." The Destinies nodded in agreement although some of them were disagree.
On the next day at school, Al wrote the report about yesterday's incident in class and lunch break. Al submited the report to Kari once he finished it. Kari read it for a moment and smiled at him. "You have done quite well and you survived the Glitches four times. I am happy for you." She praised him for the job well done. "But I also feel sad that to achieve this glory, you almost lost your life. We would like to give you a day-off but it is impossible."
"I already know the consequences since I joined the team, so I'm getting use to it. But I do need help for explaining my mother, Ms. Kamiya." Al responded while swinging his arm sideways loosing up the stiff.
"Yolei can help you about your mother. I also wanted to give you this." Kari took out a CD case and gave it to Al. She saw a confuse look about the gift. "It is the newest patch for the game. With it, your PC can transform into different form while still in the same races and you can use Digi-armor."
"Why did they make this patch so advance?"
"That way, your altered evolution can be covered and also Veemon, Hawkmon, Armadillomon, Patamon and Gatomon will be able to evolve into their armor forms." Kari explained the question.
"Sounds interesting, I can't wait to see the effect of this patch you two speak of." A voice came from Al's backpack.
"Was that Soul?" She asked in confusion.
"No..." Al answered in sigh. "That was Black." Al took out his Digivice game and showed it to Kari. "I just found out this morning when I was preparing the bag. I asked him to remain quiet during morning untill evening, but he seems to excite about this patch."
"How is that possible?"
"Like I said before, that we have two souls in one body. When he..." Black pointed out at Al. "logged out, I possess this body so I can interact or see everything in human world. But unfortunately I can't come out from this Digivice and the only way to communicate is through other nearest Digivice which happen to have more feature compare to this junk."
"This is completely new to us. We need to check it thoroughly."
"No thanks, I don't want to end like a dissected frog."
Al and Kari smirked by that answer. "No we meant that we will scanned you to see any changes or differences from you. Still, I'm happy that you alive again, BlackWarGreymon."
"Right now, call me Black. It is much shorter than my full race name."
"That's a nice name, Black. Oh... about your two friends, tell them that they are in the team. Be warned, that we will acted immediately if they misuse their new power for their own benefits."
Al felt quite happy for additional member. "Thank you, as an acted leader for the newest Destinies, I will see to it that they will not misuse their power for their personal gained."
Al finally found Jake was sitting at the cafeteria completely annoyed. Jake told Al that he is grounded for three weeks without playing any games in either the computer or the console game because his mother confiscated the cables. Al told the good news and told him that Kari called him. Jake also received the CD but he cannot install it untill he is not grounded anymore.
At home, Al logged into the game just to tell his new partner the good news with Soul. However, he did not see the two of them anywhere in the city. Al checked the online list and neither of them logged on yet. Al tried to send the message and it was reject because the player is not online. To kill some time, they did some hunt and leveling up after knowing that the status can be upgrade because of multitimes evolution.
Al did the task for at least an hour or two because he does not want to cause any more trouble to his mother, Sarah. Al called Soul to end the hunt and logged out. He double-checks the list to see that both of them are online yet. Both of them were online all right, thus he sent the message about the good news and congrats also the conditions to be on the team. He logged out of the game after sending the message.
Al let Soul sleep inside the Digivice and he began to study and do some homeworks untill his mother arrived and spent a peacefull evening for a day.
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That's it for this chapter. Sorry the story is kinda sucks right now because it is after the battle. I do accept the critics and comments though. I thanked for those who participate with me in this journey. And lastly, I'm back...