Chapter 23

Let's continue from where we left off.

"Dagon I sense a digimon!"

Everyone turned their attention to Dorumon who was standing on top of a table with his ears and tail pointing up in alert. "A Digimon? Are you sure Dorumon?" Dagon asked concerned about this situation.

"Yeah and the energy I'm getting from him is of the Champion level!" Dorumon exclaimed.

"What's going on Dagon?" Melody asked concerned about the way these two were acting. "And what do you mean Champion Level?"

"All Digimon have different levels of power and all are hatched from Digi-eggs. When a digimon is born it's in its' baby level, then the in-training, followed by Rookie, Champion, Ultimate, and finally the Mega level. The more that a Digimon digivolves then the more powerful that they become. Dorumon is only a Rookie but he's just as strong as a Champion Level Digimon." Dagon explained to them. "Dorumon and I can handle this quickly…I hope." He whispered the last bit mostly to himself to calm himself down.

"Dagon the digimon is getting close!" Dorumon shouted in alarm. Immediately after saying this crashes and screams where heard outside the guild and everyone quickly ran to see the situation.

Outside they could see that some buildings were on fire and others were crushed, the citizens were running away, but they didn't know from what it is they are trying to escape. A roar caught their attention and to the right standing on top of the ruins of a burning home was a giant black dinosaur with red markings along its body with razor sharp claws and teeth. The spiked scales along its spine were a green colored that ran all the way down to its' tail. Its eyes were red and seemed to be interested in causing as much destruction as possible.

"What is that thing!?"

"It's destroying the town!"

Dagon grabbed his digivice and brought it close enough to himself. Immediately a green holographic screen appeared in front of him and showed the Digimons' picture on the screen. The others around him grew surprised by the device's sudden appearance and were going to question about it when Dagon spoke.

"This guy is called Darktyrannomon, a champion virus type digimon. His special attack is Fire Shot and we better watch out for his tail since he can use another attack called Iron Tail that packs quite a punch." Dagon explained to them, Melody taking charge asked Dagon what the device he has is called. "From what Dorumon told me it's called a digivice the model of it is called the Burst Loader. I messed around with it throughout the years and learned that it has a map, information, a form of communication, storage, and some other functions that seemed to be locked for some reason."

"Enough talk, let's fight!" Natsu shouted and launched himself at Darktyrannomon with and punched him on the head with a flaming fist. "Alright he got him!" Lucy exclaimed happily, but Dagon had a different reaction.

"Natsu you idiot get away from there!" Dagon shouted towards him

"Why, what's wrong Dagon?" Melody asked concerned about how Dagon looks afraid. "Natsu managed to get a hit on him didn't he?"

"You don't understand! Magic has no effect on Digimon! The most you can do is just make a wall or something to keep them trapped in place! The only magic that works on them is the support and healing kind! Natsu is in danger right now!" Dagon exclaimed in worry for his guild mate.

Shocked by this new info, they looked towards Natsu and saw that Darktyrannomon hadn't even budged at all. Natsu grew angered at this and gave him another punch on the snout, but this seemed to anger him and throw him off him. Luckily Natsu managed to land safely on the ground. Dagon was worried about what Darktyrannomon would do to the town; other members were already getting people to safety and trying to contain the fire that started. Dagon didn't have a clue about what to do in this situation now that people were counting on him to help. . Dagon could tell Darktyrannomon was stronger than any other Digimon they fought before; he didn't even know if Dorumon stood a chance against him.

"All right! It's my turn to fight! I'm going in Dagon, so don't you worry about a thing!" Dorumon said. Dagon was surprised by Dorumon; he hadn't expected this reaction from him. "I won't let him destroy our home and take away your happiness." Dorumon vowed to win and ran towards Darktyrannomon.

"No Dorumon wait!" Dagon shouted in an attempt to stop him

"Hey you dumb lizard, over here!" Dorumon shouted trying to gain his attention. "I won't let destroy our home, Dash Metal!" Dorumon launched a sphere of iron right out of his mouth towards Darktyrannomon which exploded on his face. It seemed to have an effect since it caused him to take a step back, but when the smoke cleared it looked as if barely made a dent.

"He can shoot iron out of his mouth!" Melody asked surprised by Dorumon's sudden attack.

"He's just like Gajeel!" Lucy added and Gajeel just gave his weird laugh at the thought of there being someone else that can use iron to attack.

Dorumon was firing continuously, but no matter what he did nothing seemed to work. Darktyrannomon finally had enough and launched his Iron Tail attack towards Dorumon, who was fast enough to dodge ended up being slammed right into a buildings wall.

"Dorumon!" Dagon shouted desperately while running to his side. Moving some rubble off of him Dagon saw that Dorumon was in bad shape from that attack.

"Don't worry Dagon. I'll protect all of you." Dorumon said hoarsely while getting back onto his feet. "I won't let you take away Dagon's happiness you got that!" Dagon was shocked at Dorumon had said along with everyone else. Dorumon then started charging right back towards Darktyrannomon. All everyone could do was watch as Dorumon fought uselessly against him; Dagon was shell-shocked that Dorumon was doing this all for him.

"After how I treated him these years…he still cares about me?" Dagon thought to himself with tearful eyes. "He still thinks of me as his friend and is doing all of this, withstanding all the pain from his injuries… just to make me happy?"

Dagon was brought out of his thoughts when Dorumon let out a painful scream when he collided on the ground a few feet away from him.

"Dorumon please stop!" Dagon shouted desperately. "You don't need to do this okay, especially to someone like me. After everything that I did to push you away, you still just want to make me happy? I don't deserve your kindness."

"Shut up!"

Dagon stared at him and watched as Dorumon stood back up and looked at him with angry eyes.

"You think you don't deserve kindness! Yes you do!" Dorumon yelled at Dagon while walking towards him. "You're my partner…my best friend even if you didn't accept me in the first place. Most would have moved on, but I didn't because I was waiting for you to open yourself up to everyone again. I wanted to see the real Dagon, and now that I did I was glad that I waited. We've always been together and that's never going to change you got that!" Dorumon finished while standing in front of Dagon.

"He's been waiting for me all this time." Dagon thought to himself while staring at Dorumon. "I am who I am because of him too. If he wasn't there to voice his own thoughts, or be by my side this entire time, I would have been swallowed up by my own darkness."

"You're right." Dagon said out loud so that everyone could hear him. "You have been there…waiting for me. Let's fight together to protect our home Dorumon. As partners…no as friends…together!" Dagon finished while sticking his right hand out for Dorumon.

"I've been waiting a long time for that Dagon!" Dorumon shouted happily while grabbing onto Dagon's outstretched hand with his left paw.

Suddenly Dagon's Digivice started letting out a high-pitched noise while flashing a white light. Everyone's attention turned towards said device when suddenly on Dagon's and Dorumon's intertwined hands a red flame like glow appeared covering their hands.

Startled by this they separated and saw it was just Dagon's hand covered by it and on closer inspection bits of data code could be seen inside it as well. Then as if by instinct Dagon realized what it was and how to use it.

"Dorumon I think I know what to do with this. Now are you ready to get some payback!" Dagon shouted with confidence.

"Aye Sir!" Dorumon yelled out in agreement.

Dagon grabbed his digivice and pressed his glowing palm onto the top part of it.

"DNA CHARGE!" Dagon yelled out loud while thrusting his digivice towards Dorumon who started glowing and was starting to levitate of the ground.

"Dorumon digivolve to… Dorugamon!"

After the light faded away everyone was amazed at the transformation that happened to Dorumon. Gone was the small cute dragon they knew and in its place stood a larger dragon that reached to Dagon's chest. He still had purple colored hair and had claws now, his wings on its back were now bigger letting him fly, and his foxlike tail was also longer now, and he still had his red crystal imbedded on his forehead.

Everyone was amazed at the transformation that Dorumon had gone through, none more than Dagon himself. "He did it." Dagon whispered to himself, but then broke into laughter "He finally digivolved into his champion level!"

"I won't let you destroy our HOME!" Dorugamon shouted and flew towards Darktyrannomon with quick speed allowing him to head-butt him on the snout disorientating him.

"So that's Dorumon's Champion level?" Melody questioned. Dagon turned to his digivice and saw that the screen had lit up and was displaying new data.

"Dorugamon is a carrier of the X Antibody. It is a Dragon/Beast hybrid type Digimon and is such a heavyweight that most Digimon run away just at the sight of its shadow. Although it exhibits that ferocity of a wild beast when it comes to battles, it also has the intelligence of a dragon, and is usually very docile."

Dorugamon was putting up a fight against Darktyrannomon and could be seen gaining the upper hand- err well claw in this battle. Just when Darktyrannomon was about to bite him Dorugamon quickly turned his body allowing him to slap his tail on his jaw.

"You got him Dorugamon! Finish it!" Dagon shouted.

"Nobody is going to destroy our home and get away for it. POWER METAL!" Dorugamon fired a large ball of iron from his mouth that seemed to expand when it launched towards Darktyrannomon. Darktyrannomon didn't even have a chance to blink before it came into contact.

BOOM!

An explosion occurred and everyone shielded their eyes from the debris. After it all settled they looked and saw that Darktyrannomon seemed to be getting fuzzy until he just seemed to disintegrate and turned into an egg, which then flew up into the sky where suddenly what seemed to be a portal, open up in its path making the egg fly into it and then disappear.

"What just happened to it?"

"Darktyrannomon turned back into a Digi-Egg and was then returned back into the Digital World." Dagon explained to them and quickly turned his attention to someone screaming his name. Looking in said direction could be seen a familiar digimon flying towards him with no intention of stopping.

"DAGON!" Dorugamon yelled comically with tears pouring out of his eyes.

"NO-WAIT!" Dagon shouted in despair and braced himself for the impact, which when it happened sent them tumbling to the ground.

"Did you see that, huh did you? I really showed him huh?" Dorugamon said with a huge smile. Dagon just sat up on his knees and rubbed his head with his hand causing Dorugamon to stare with surprised eyes.

"Yeah, you sure did buddy." Dagon said to him while giving him a small smile.

"I'm glad you stopped him you two." Turning they saw Master Makarov along with the rest of the guild behind him. "Not only did you defeat him, but it seems you were able to understand the kindness that was in front of you the whole time. All you needed was to reach out for it and accept it."

"Yeah, once I let that into me I understood what Dorumon was trying to get me to feel. Kindness was what I was afraid of, because just as easy as it is to make, so is it to destroy." Dagon replied, "But I'm not afraid of it anymore, this is the start of a new me, the old me that used to laugh all the time and wasn't afraid to show his feeling to the world."

"Well, I'm glad you understand that. Now only one problem remains." Master said with his head down.

"What is it?"

"I'm going to fill out so much paperwork for the damages today!" Then Master just broke down crying about the amount of jewels it'll cost to fix this place up, along with what they have to pay for re-building the guild. Everyone just laughed at his state and Dagon couldn't help but smile at all that happened today.

"It's the start of a new life for us now."

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