BioCalumon giggled as he looked down at the shiny circlet in his hands. "The power of the Seven Demon Lords... in my hands!" he grinned.
"A few of the crystals still have to be filled... and they will never be a match to me, once I regain all of my own powers... but for the beginning, they will do nicely."
He clutched the Virus Circlet to his small body and sighed. "I can feel the energy surging through it..." he whispered. "How I long for such power... and now, I am nothing but a shadow of my former self... reduced to this pitiful copy of an even more pitiful Digimon..."
He closed his eyes. "But they'll see... they'll all see! My plan will work... the crystals of the Virus Circlet will be filled... and I will regain the second half of my body."
He growled angrily when he thought of HolyCalumon. "Who is she kidding?" he grumbled. "Her body is composed os my own data, that's true... but I never had a good half. I've been evil, from the very beginning, and I'm damn proud of it! This impostor has to be some other sort of being who stole my data from me... creating this 'HolyCalumon' to assist the plant-girl. I don't know who it is yet, but that won't matter... soon, I will be all-powerful again..."
He put the Virus Circlet around his neck. "Well, at least I can use the rules of the RPG Maker to change this 'game' to my advantage. All right, back to business, then... what should I do next? Whose life can I ruin...? Ah, yes, I know..."
A pair of strong dragon wings was carrying their owner through the air. With powerful wing beats, the female dragon circled around a tall skyscraper.
"Don't fall back now, son!" Fafnimon shouted. "Try to glide on the wings, instead of fighting against them."
Spyromon wheezed as he came flapping after his mother. "Give me a break, Mom..." he panted. "It's not like I had these wings for a long time..."
"Oh, now you're complaining?" Fafnimon smirked. "If I remember correctly, it was you who asked me to give you some flying lessons."
"Yeah, but back then I would have never thought that you would DRILL me like this."
"No pain, no gain," she shrugged. "Now don't dawdle, we still haven't reached the top."
Spyromon gaped when he followed his mother's gesture. "Up... up there?" he stuttered. "You're not serious, are you?"
"Come on, I'm just getting started!" the green-scaled dragoness smirked. "Or do you want me to tell your partners that their Tamer can't even fly up one little house?"
"One little house, she says..." Spyromon grumbled. But still, when he imagined the amused faces of Monodramon and Minidramon, laughing at his predicament, he decided that he might still have some strength left. "All right, but after that, we're flying back home, okay?"
"No way!" Fafnimon grinned. "I'm having way too much fun! And it's your own fault, you know? Back when you just left the Digital World like that, I didn't even get the chance to say goodbye. Your father was able to enjoy you the last few months... now it's my turn! I'm gonna make a flying ace out of you, Ryo... the best flyer the Digital World has ever seen!"
"Please, somebody save me..." the purple-scaled dragon-boy groaned.
Fafnimon flew a wide loop around her son's struggling form, then she flew ahead again and smirked down at him in amusement.
Unlike Taomon, Compsomon, Sheperdmon and Leomon, she had never been a Champion of the Digital World... but she was famous for being one of the most skilled aerial dancers and sky-divers. She was also a natural fighter, and if anyone believed otherwise, Fafnimon was more than ready to prove him wrong by showing him her sharp claws and teeth.
Back when the Digital World was still young, Ryo's father, Shun Akiyama, had been a lawyer working for a huge corporation. One day, he had the unpleasant job of reminding Janyu and his team about some overdue debts they still owed his clients. When he entered the room, they had just activated an experimental portal leading to the Digital World... and Ryo's father stepped right in. When he opened his eyes, he was in the Digital World.
To make a long story short, he met Fafnimon there, and even though they both needed some time, they fell in love. And after the Digital World and Japan formed their alliance, they stayed in contact. Mr. Akiyama returned to Tokyo, and continued to work as a lawyer, since he still was bound by contract to his clients.
After Fafnimon found out that she was pregnant - pretty unusual for a Digimon - she traveled to the human world, where she found Shun. He was overjoyed to see her, even more when she told him he was going to be a father.
After Ryo was born, Shun bought a huge apartment for the whole family. But Fafnimon was soon suffering from homesickness and told her husband she was going to return to the Digital World. Shun was distressed, but he didn't stop her.
When Ryo was older, he found out for the first time that his mother was a Digimon. He learned it after he had become fascinated by the Digimon card game and his rivalry with Rika had already begun. Afterwards, he tried everything possible to reach the Digital World... and that's how his own adventures started.
Nobody really knew what happened, only that one day, he arrived at his mother's home, with an Ultimate Digimon partner called Cyberdramon in tow. Fafnimon welcomed her son, and he stayed there for a long time... until Takato and his friends arrived in the Digital World, searching for Calumon. After helping them, he decided to follow them back home. He took Cyberdramon along with him, who turned into a small Rookie named Monodramon.
Back home, his father scolded him, even though he was glad to hear that his son finally had met his mother. Soon after the incident with D-Reaper, Fafnimon came back to the human world. Now that travel between both worlds was not a problem anymore, she decided to stay... after all, she could still go back home when she was getting homesick again.
She got a job at an advertising company and used her flying abilities to deliver brochures and other advertising material, and used her smokey fire breath to write advertising slogans in the sky. She rented a small apartment close to the company, since the distance between her family's apartment and the company building was pretty big, and she didn't want to fly all that way day after day. But at the weekends, she always came to visit her husband and son.
But now, ever since the explosion in the old apartment Ryo and his Dad shared, they were staying with his mother... and after finding out that her son had the ability to digivolve, she was more than thrilled. Even more when he asked her for some flying lessons... although he now wished he hadn't asked her.
When Spyromon landed on top of the skyscraper (the tallest building in the area), his mother was sitting on the edge of the building, letting her legs dangle and smirking at her son in amusement.
"There you are," she said. "I started to wonder if I had to report you missing..."
"Very funny, Mom..." Ryo panted and sat down on the roof. He couldn't move another inch. "Say, when you learned how to fly... did you have to do the same stuff?"
"Of course not!" Fafnimon grinned. "My Rookie form didn't have any wings... I learned how to fly by digivolving."
"That's it?" Spyromon gasped. "That's how you became one of the Digital World's best flyers?"
"Of course not, silly!" his mother snickered. "Flying up a building like this is something I had to master, if I wanted to beat everybody at the great sky race."
"But I don't want to be a sky racer," Spyromon protested, trying to catch his breath. "So why... are you making me do this?"
Fafnimon winked at her son. "Because... it was fun!"
Spyromon groaned. He really should have seen that coming.
"But, joking aside... just take a look!" She smiled. "Isn't that great?"
Ryo got back to his feet and walked over to her. Fafnimon made a wide gesture across the city. "Seeing the world from above... that's what flying is all about! We have a gift that allows us to see this, Ryo! I always come here at the evening, to see Tokyo from above... and I wanted you to see this as well."
Ryo had to admit, the view was breathtaking. And while flying certainly was fun, he never realized that seeing the world from above could be so... exhilarating!
Suddenly, he saw something in the corner of his eyes. He turned around... and blinked when he saw a young boy with angel wings standing in front of him.
"Where did you come from?" he asked.
"What is it, dear?" Fafnimon asked. She turned around as well. "You... you are one of those angel kids I heard about in the news, aren't you?" she asked.
"I'm a TinyAngemon in the service of Lucemon," the boy smiled.
Spyromon frowned. "Lucemon..."
Fafnimon gasped. "Lucemon? The Demon Lord of Pride?" She glared at the Angel Rookie. "You are serving evil, boy! Don't think I wouldn't fight you because you are a child."
She flexed her claws. "In the Digital World... I would have attacked you right away. But here, we are in the human world... so what do you want?"
The TinyAngemon looked at the wild draco-woman in confusion. "Is she always like this?" he asked Spyromon.
"Um, pretty much..." Spyromon admitted.
"Ryo, what are you doing?" his mother hissed. "He's serving Lucemon, he said so himself... and just look at his clothes and wings. That's what Lucemon's own Rookie form looks like... or so I've heard."
"Mom, you really should learn not to shoot first and ask questions later..." Ryo frowned. He then approached the boy. "Hi there, what's your name?"
The angel kid smiled. "Keisuke."
"Keisuke, tell me the truth... are you just playing around or are you really in Lucemon's service?"
"No, it's true," Keisuke grinned. "I'm one of Ai's followers."
Spyromon frowned. That name sounded familiar. "Ai?"
"She also goes by Lucemon," Keisuke explained. "She's really cool. She wants to help everybody and stuff... and we're helping her."
"By doing what?" Spyromon asked.
Keisuke pointed at his golden wand. "See this? I can use this to turn anyone into whatever I want. I can make people happy by doing this."
"I'm afraid I can't quite follow you..." Ryo muttered.
"Here, I'll show ya..." Keisuke said, turning around to face Fafnimon. He raised his wand. "Your Mom is always so edgy... how about I make her as young as you so you can play better? If you want, I can make her younger than you, your choice..."
Fafnimon gasped. She knew what these kids were capable of, having heard it on the news... she certainly didn't want to be a girl as young as her own son again. Or even younger...
"I haven't planned to go back to In-Training again, thank you very much!" she murmured.
"Oh, don't worry!" Keisuke smiled. "I can always ask Manami or one of the other girls, and you will like it in no time."
Spyromon snatched the golden wand out of the little boy's hands. "Give me that!" he angrily growled.
"Hey, give it back!" Keisuke whined and reached for his wand. "That's mine!"
"You shouldn't play with a dangerous toy like that," Spyromon stated and held the wand high in the air, out of Keisuke's reach.
The angel boy hopped up and tried to get his wand back. "No fair! It's mine! Mine! Oh, wait..." He grinned. "I have wings." He started flapping them and rose up into the air.
Spyromon quickly put the wand under the leather belt he was wearing around his waist. "You're really asking for it, kid..." he grumbled. "You've had your fun, but nobody touches my mother!"
"You're a bad boy!" Keisuke shouted. "Ai told me to punish all bad boys." He raised his index finger and a small ball of light appeared on its tip. He grasped the shining ball and threw it just like a a pitcher at baseball.
"HEAVENLY PITCH!" he shouted.
Spyromon blinked at the weird attack. He just lashed out with his tail... and the shimmering ball was hit back, again, just like a baseball. It flew high into the air... and disappeared in the clouds.
Fafnimon smirked. "I'd say that was a home run."
Spyromon grabbed Keisuke's arms and pressed the angel boy down to the ground. Keisuke wildly flailed around with his legs and wings.
"Lemme go! Lemme go! I'm gonna tell Ai!"
"When all Ai has to offer are little runts like you, I'm not too scared," Spyromon said. He put the golden wand to the ground and used his belt to tie up Keisuke's arms.
"Don't try to fly away, I can catch up with you in no time," Fafnimon warned the angel boy. "Now you're gonna come with us and tell us just what the heck you kids are up to."
"I didn't do anything! I was good, I swear! I only wanted to help!"
"Tell that to your kindergarten teacher," Spyromon grumbled.
Below them, perched on a window sill, BioCalumon had spied on them.
"Damn that boy!" he grumbled. "That didn't quite work out as I planned... The boy didn't suffer, and on top of that, they captured one of Ai's little brats..."
He sighed. "Ah, what the heck... the little tykes among her ranks are multiplying by the hour, and even the almighty Hybrid Tamers won't be able to stand up against a whole army of them." He snickered. "Chaos will reign, and when Ai is doing just what I want her to do, I will be able to reach my goals..."
He looked at the Virus Circlet around his neck. "Only one fragment of virus data is missing..." he mumbled. "If I only knew where to find that damned cat..."
The BlackGatomon posed in front of the huge marble statue. "C'mon, Yamaki! Make another photo!"
Yamaki smiled and took another photo of his female girlfriend, who was standing in front of the famous creation of the Italian Renaissance sculptor Michelangelo. "I'm starting to believe you like having nude men on your pictures, Riley!"
"You are such a Philistine, dear!" Riley huffed. "Michelangelo's David is one of the greatest masterpieces of the Renaissance... alone this piece of art makes staying in Florence worthwhile."
Her white-furred sister giggled. "I just think Yamaki is jealous... he can't stand the idea of having you standing this close to another man... especially a nude man."
Riley grinned like a predator. "Well, how about you take my picture and he can pose next to me... also in the nude!"
Yamaki chuckled meekly. "I think I pass..."
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