Return of the Tamers ch12 part1

Chapter 12: Demon Lord Beelzemon/ Gate to the Dark Area

The newly re-digivolved Demon Lord stood there for a while like a cowboy waiting for the show down to start. The Nightmare Soldiers had stalled their chase when they sensed the Demon Lord Beelzemon’s energy come out of nowhere. They knew they the biker digimon had turned against the other Demon Lords so they knew he was the enemy, but they weren’t sure how to proceed. The evil digimon had not been told what to do if they were to encounter him. Most bare expression of uncertainty the ones lower than the level of Ultimate mostly bared expression of grave fear.

This gave Guardromon the chance to escape with Lopmon and MarineAngemon he put his boosters to on full blast and rocketed forward further away from the stalled Nightmare Soldiers. He hadn’t been going at full speed before to conserve energy but now that safety was in sight he was going to gun it all the way there! It was going to tire him out faster but with the sight of the Royal Knights and two Beelzemon’s he was sure they’d be able to protect them.

“We’re almost there hold on!” Guardromon yelled so the two smaller digimon could hear him over the roar of his boosters.

“We’re okay keep going!” Lopmon said her voice urging him to keep going yet still sound soft and female like. MarineAngemon let out his typical ‘Phoo!’ that sounded determined and encouraging. Though Guardromon couldn’t see it the little pink sea angle digimon also gave him a curt nod.

Suddenly a blood thirsty roar shook through the air seeming to make the very ground tremble. The trembling could also have likely been the thunderous foots steps of the Tyrannosaurus sized SkullGreymon chasing after the trio again. The lack witted digimon didn’t care if a new digimon showed up its dull mind decided that it would just destroy it as well. For now it was focused on its current prey. If it could it’d chase the smaller digimon to the end of the digital world and back! It didn’t matter where they went or who was in the way far as SkullGreymon was concerned they were food and nothing else.

Panic spread through the tamers like wild fire. Quickly they started to yell at them to hurry up to go faster to get away from that crazed monster. As much as they pleaded they knew that Guardromon was going fast as his boosters could let him go and to their terror it seemed that SkullGreymon was picking up speed, which was surprising since it was just a living pile of bones. The ground near the tamers began to shake harder and harder as the dinosaur sized skeleton neared them.

Dukemon stared at Demon Lord Beelzemon who was still standing there were he had digivolved. The scarred digimon said he was going to save them but he was still stationary!  A low growl rumbled in Dukemon’s throat while his armored hands shook in anger. He couldn’t understand why he was still standing there! As for as he was aware DL Beelzemon lived to fight and kill so why was he waiting? He figured the Demon Lord would rush straight in and kill everything!

‘Was he lying? Does he want them to die? Is he going to turn on us?’ Dukemon’s body began to tense ready to fight off the vicious Demon Lord if he turned on them. His sharp yellow eyes narrowed, ‘I wouldn’t put it past him.’

Just before the red and white knight was about to question the Demon Lord when suddenly said Demon Lord darted from where he was and straight towards Guardromon. Surprised Dukemon withheld what he was going to say.

‘Don’t mess this up Demon Lord Beelzemon,’ Dukemon thought to himself seriously as his eyes tracked DL Beelzemon’s movement, ‘If those three get harmed, Yggdrasill help you.’

Guardromon froze in place when he thought the newly evolved Beelzemon was going to run into them. In a flash the virus biker maneuvered away from then was behind them running forward towards the SkullGreymon that was still plowing ahead. The large undead dinosaur digimon was smashing away rock formations like they were mere pebbles. Guardromon was still stunned for a moment trying to figure out what just happened. Hearing the pleas for him to keep coming over made him blink and come back to reality.

“Who was that fellow?” Guardromon asked in a knightly way as he arrived to the tamers and their group. His question was about Demon Lord Beelzemon, though Guardromon clearly wasn’t aware that the Beelzemon was a Demon Lord.

Lopmon hopped off of the robotic digimon as MarineAngemon simply flew off and over to Kenta’s shoulder where he gave his tamer an affectionate nuzzle to his cheek. The brown and pink bunny poked her small fingers together, brow furrowed in worry she says, “I got an intense sense of blood lust from his energy. His energy is dark with such intense evil. The sovereign Zhuqiaomon spoke of such evil to me and the other Devas.”

Looking up at the others, who were much taller than her in general, her dark brown eyes suddenly looked almost accusing, “He’s one of the Seven Demon Lord’s isn’t he!”

Dukemon didn’t flinch at her tone and calmly answered, “He is.” Before Lopmon could shoot back a comment he continued looking down at her sternly yet completely understanding at the same time, “I do not trust him but, we need him in order to save Terriermon and Guilmon from Barbamon. Make no mistake that I won’t hesitate to kill him if there is any evidence of him turning on us.

Lopmon was about to say something when there was a loud crack of breaking bone.  The tamers and the digimon looked back just in time to see DL Beelzemon had jumped up and kicked SkullGreymon on the upper jaw. Despite the Demon Lord’s near human stature the skeleton digimon was knocked into a rocky plateau. Rubble flew off the plateau send dirt and sand flying off with it. It took a few moments for the last of the debris to settle. The scarred Beelzemon flipped over landing on his feet with no problem despite the height he had been at moments ago.

The SkullGreymon let out a low rumbling noise that may have been its version of a pained groan. Its jaw had cracks that looked like a grid in a computer chip stretching across it some reaching over to its eye socket. The Ultimate level shifted a little before shifting its massive five clawed bone hand to push its heavy body up. A ghostly hiss came from its jaws it turned its skull to the biker Demon Lord its cold ice colored eyes burned with a desire for pay back.

“What? Ah, ruin yer meal?” DL Beelzemon asked mocking a fanged grin cut across his face feeling amused that the bigger digimon was mad at him. He wasn’t the least bit afraid as the dinosaur sized digimon began to lumber towards him, possibly still dazed from the impact of his kick. He huffed, “Sorry, well actually ah’m not, but I need these guys alive or Omegamon will terminate mah ass.” DL Beelzemon lazily pointed to the Tamers and their digimon.

“So you’ve really teamed up with the Royal Knights and the Tamers, traitor!”  A SkullSatamon said in a growling high pitched voices as it pointed accusing to the rouge Demon Lord. Some of the others murmured in agreement. When DL Beelzemon began to laugh madly at the comment the SkullSatamon making it flinch and pull back a little.

“W-what’s so funny!?” It stuttered loudly still pointing at the Demon Lord slightly. The SkullSatamon tried to keep its angry expression but it was giving into fear slowly but surely.

The Demon Lord of Gluttony grinned evilly at them, “Other than the fact yah act like turning traitor is uncommon among our kind, nothing much. Daemon tried tah kill meh so ah’m gonna kill him! Ah don’t wanna end up dead so ah teamed up with the best. End of story.” He flicked his metal clawed hands back and forth ending his answer.

Smirking with a fang poking over his lip his arm suddenly reached behind his back and in a flash one of his Berenjena shotguns was pointed at his accuser. A loud bang of a gun cut through the semi silent air and the SkullSatamon was killed. A hole was torn straight through the dark core held by its red boned ribs. The Nightmare Soldier let out a gasp before it turned to data.

“Since ah’m a traitor ah got to kill yah, though ah love killing anyway.” He said with a dark chuckle rumbling in his throat. His action, as he expected, angered the group of Nightmare Soldiers and they charged forward getting ready to attack.  His free hand snapped down to his other gun in his leg holster, “Double Impact!” Using both of his Berenjena shotguns he fired round after round of bullets at the incoming Nightmare Soldiers.

As a ShadowWereGarurumon leapt towards him the Demon Lord swerved out of the way and smacked him with his metal arm guard knocking him back. Turning he slammed his long metallic tail against the stomach of a Devimon. After the loud resounding smack was heard it was tossed back into a group of other Nightmare Soldiers, most of which yelled in protest of the Devimon crashing into them. With a mocking huff and smirk DL Beelzemon put his guns back into his holsters.

Hearing the growl of the ShadowWereGarurumon he turned and blocked a punch that had spiked brass knuckles, with his arm guards.  The lean Demon Lord ducked back and forth easily dodging the werewolf digimon’s blows which seemed to infuriate it.

“Shadow Claw!” The ShadowWereGarurumon aimed a strike down at the Beelzemon with its claws covered in dark purple shadows. The lime green eyes of the Ultimate level digimon widened when he saw that his claws had only it the hard ground.

Suddenly the werewolf buckled over in pain and let out a stuttering gasp when he saw Beelzemon’s claw rip through its stomach area. The Demon Lord had managed to jump over him when the ShadowWereGarurumon attacked just before. The blood thirsty Beelzemon wasted no time in exploiting the Nightmare Soldier’s confusion and took the chance to land a fatal blow. However, despite the wound and the fact that he was dying the ShadowWereGarurumon pulled away from the Demon Lord. Snarling threateningly the virus digimon clawed at him though landed no hits.

“Yer stubborn aren’t yah?” DL Beelzemon mocked with a grin on his pale blue face.  He knew that the digimon before him was dying it was easy to see from the data flowing from his wound and flying into the air.

Feeling that he was on his last leg the ShadowWereGarurumon spun its leg around, “Full Moon Kick!” He gasps when DL Beelzemon caught its kick his arm and held him steady. That was his last ditch effort to hit the Demon Lord.

“Heheh, what is that all yah got?  Can’t say ah expect more,” The scared Beelzemon said in a gruff voice, “Time to put yah out of yer misery.” With that the biker demon slammed his claws down into the werewolf’s kneecap shattering it. The opponent’s form not being able to take any more damage exploded into data bits.

Blinking the Demon Lord noticed the data of the digimon he killed flowing toward the entrance to the Dark Area. Data of digimon that died did usually float into the sky but this…it seemed that the data was being drawn into the Dark Area. He hummed trying to figure out why this was happening. ‘Maybe it’s just the seal making sure they’re not reborn into the rest of the digital world. Their digi-cores are condemned there…’

His blood red eyes flicked to his eye when he saw motion. Instantly he leapt back doing a back flip he landed solidly on his feet again. The giant claws of the SkullGreymon plowed into the hard earth leaving deep holes as they were pulled out. The angry undead dinosaur digimon growled annoyed its target had moved out of the way. Now steady on its skeletal feet it loomed over the much smaller Mega level. Not waiting for DL Beelzemon to strike back SkullGreymon attacked, “Curse Breath!” A flame that smelled like rotting flesh shot out of the undead digimon’s jaws and threatened to engulf the Demon Lord.

“Shouldn’t we help him?” Takato asked warily, in truth he didn’t really want anything to do with the demonic biker. He was much more comfortable with the grumpy yet friendly Beelzemon of theirs. He knew that the Demon Lord Beelzemon had done terrible things he could tell just from the fact he was a Demon Lord, but still…it was just the right thing to do pretty much. He was a good guy after all so he should do the right thing regardless, right?

Duftmon, who had switched from his Leopard form stood behind him watching DL Beelzemon fight, “He won’t need any help. He lives for fights helping him would…annoy him to say the least.” The leopard knight ending his statement with a blunt snort, the idea of aiding a Demon Lord seemed to disgust the Russet Knight.

The Tamers exchanged glances with each other, unsure how to take the answer. Rika didn’t seem to care and stood next to Renamon with her arms crossed. Beelzemon was similarly unmoved he had no interest in helping his blood thirsty ancestor. He rather sees him die than anything else. He held much contempt towards him mainly because he reminded himself of him; when he had been consumed for his desire of power after being evolved by the phoenix Sovereign. He further didn’t like someone like that near Jeri and little Tsunomon.


From the flames the skinny of form began to form showing he was still standing, three glowing red eyes narrowed. He clenched his claws and black energy sparked of the tips growing as they branched off. The attack ready the dark energy tore apart as he jumped out of the fire yelling out a growling battle cry. For a moment SkullGreymon stood in shock before it ducked to the side. It did not escape unscathed for the Demon Lord’s energy augmented claws slashed across the upper part of its skeletal arm. Being made of bone that didn’t mean much it gathered itself and turned to its persistent prey. Letting out a roar the digimon pulled its arm back then lashed out at DL Beelzemon.

An astonished gasped escaped from the skeleton Greymon when DL Beelzemon caught one of its claws. Growling it pushed its arm forward attempting to overpower the smaller digimon with shear force. DL Beelzemon chuckled as he was pushed back a bit but no further, “Heh-heh that all yah got? Ah guess its tah be expected when yer all bones and no muscle.”

Claws still empowered by dark energy he clenches his teeth together dug his claws into the giant claw he was holding onto. Twisting it roughly he pulled back and tore it off! This SkullGreymon felt and pulled back bellowing in pain. The scarred Beelzemon huffed grinning smugly at the declawed Ultimate level. He crushed the claw with his own causing it to burst into data which he managed to upload this time.

Suddenly the Demon Lord felt a sudden stinging impact on his back. Quickly regaining himself he looked over his shoulder and white furred collar. DL Beelzemon smirked, one tusk sticking out from his lip, “Heh-heh, what was that? You try’in tah hurt meh with a darkness attack?”

He turned to the group with the Devimon that had blasted him with a Death Hand attack. DL Beelzemon shook his head disappointedly then pointed at himself, “Hello, ah’m a Demon Lord for cry’in out loud!  Ah’m practically immune to them!” He grinned in a sharp toothed feral manner, “Now let meh show yah a real darkness attack, Demon Claw!”  He slashed his metal claws at the direction of the group of Nightmare Soldiers releasing the darkness energy from his claws in the shape of energy slashes. There was a chorus of screams as the attack tore through the group before they were reduced to data. Only a few were left that weren’t hit or they were majorly damaged and just hanging on.

“Ground Zero!”

Turning on his heals the Demon Lord saw the SkullGreymon fire the orange slightly organic looking missile from its spinal cord. Not waiting around to get it by the heavy duty missile DL Beelzemon darted away at high speed. Cleanly avoiding the space were the missile impacted, the blast killed a good chunk of the fools that just stood there. DL Beelzemon running fast enough that SkullGreymon wasn’t sure where he went or hit him. The large skeleton monster lumbered around swinging its head left searching for its prey, completely uncaring about the allies it had destroyed.

“Demon Claw!”

Demon Lord Beelzemon jumped to the side of a plateau kicked off it and flew over SkullGreymon. Twisting his body in mid-air he swung his other, still energy charged, claw firing off the dark energy slashes down at SkullGreymon while flying over him. The energy attack flew down at the target at high speeds tearing through SkullGreymon’s spinal column as it hit. The new missile that had been generated exploded as a result of the energy attack causing more damage to the digimon. Combined with DL Beelzemon’s attack and the explosion SkullGreymon’s skeletal body was torn about and blown to bits by the attack. Bits of bone flew all over the place turning to data as they hit the ground. Roaring its last roar the undead dinosaur fell to the ground, defeated. The impact of its giant head crashing to the ground caused an impression in the ground and threw up dirt.

Landing next to the dying digimon the Demon Lord of Gluttony grinned mockingly before looking at the rest of the troops that had gathered, “So, who’s next?” Getting no answer to his question he chuckled again his shoulders shaking from the vibrations, “No takers? Well then, ah’ll just choose.” The Demon Lord charged at the group grabbing a Bakemon and crushed it with his hand. Spotting a Devimon behind him he whipped around smacking him hard with his metal tail sending him crashing to the ground. Whipping out his guns he quickly shot the downed Devimon and a few other Nightmare Soldiers that dared to get near.

“Darkness Blast!” Instead of bullets his dual Berenjena double barrel shotguns fired out strong and fast energy blasts.  With each gun held out at his sides any enemies that the guns were pointed at were destroyed one’s lucky enough to be in the back of the group were just wounded. Not wasting time he started another attack, “Double Impact!” Quickly he fire round after round of bullets at his foes killing one after another with no end of ammo in site.  Yet another Devimon attempted to claw him apart. DL Beelzemon pistol whipped him before firing a bullet into his temple. Turning he elbowed a soldier in the chest forcing him back firing a darkness blast vanishing more than five at once.

Looking around the scarred Beelzemon saw that there weren’t many left. He huffed dully, “What that’s all they sent out? Feh, cheap bastards,” He bent his neck from side to side letting out a couple of cracks before he exhaled through his nose. Spotting some shapes drop out from the sky and sensing that all three of them were Ultimate levels he grinned interestedly titling his head to the side, “Well, well what’s dis that finally decided to drop in?”

The three digimon were all the same species. DL Beelzemon scowled, baring his sharp teeth at them, he wasn’t afraid no he particularly hated this kind of digimon. They resembled a pale skinned taller Devimon. They had large jagged red wings, long white hair, hooked golden claws and golden horned helmet with six eyes. Their upper torsos were exposed while their legs were covered with leather pants and spiked boots. An odd thing about them was a row of red orbs going up one side of their torso to a shoulder.

“What are those!?” Kenta asked out loud to the others hoping one of them would recognize the rather intimidating. The long hooked claws sent shivers up his spine and the six eyes reminded him of spiders which he wasn’t too fond of either. MarineAngemon, who he as holding tightly, glared at the digimon daring them to come closer, the sea angel didn’t like fighting but he would defend his tamer.

“I don’t know I’ve never seen a digimon like that before!” Henry said eyes widened in surprise, he was rather well versed in digimon but he’d never seen one like them before.

“They looked like tricked out Devimon.” Rika said as she looked at the Devimon like digimon. She felt a faint shiver go through her, after her encounter with IceDevimon she didn’t like thinking about any digimon from the Devimon family.

Renamon looked at her tamer knowing what she was thinking about. As much as she wanted to say something she knew her tamer would deny it. She wasn’t one to admit her fears and it was that tough personality that made Renamon chose her as her tamer.  With that personality Renamon knew she would force herself to get over her fear. The fox digimon knew she wouldn’t have to worry, if she began to openly show it then she knew it would be her time to step in. So right now it was nothing to worry about.

“I haven’t even heard or seen demon digimon like these, but judging by their energy levels their at least Ultimate levels.” Dukemon said, sounding shocked. With how long he’s been around it was very rare for Dukemon not to recognize a digimon. Even digimon from the Dark Area, after all virus digimon were born outside of the area, it was unheard of it to have a species only born or evolved in that area alone.

“Interesting…” Duftmon said with an almost purring hum, his cat-green eyes focused intently on the unknown digimon. He was determined to learn as much as he could before the fight was over. As the strategist it was imperative that he knew almost everything about the enemy so he could effectively make plans to stop them. Since they were Ultimate the threat they’d pose to him wasn’t that great but to the other soldiers in the Virus Buster army may cause a problem. What Duftmon really wanted know was their moves, their abilities, that’d show much of a danger they’d be to their forces.

He flicked his tail patiently, ‘Now Demon Lord of Gluttony be of use to me and make them use all of their power to try and take you down.’