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Alter stepped back, raising his shield up between himself and Marcus. The chrome digizoid shield ready to hold up. The shield was almost as long as Alter, going from the floor up to just below Alter's face, and as wide as Alter's chest, and all in all a very impressive shield, even if the design was very simple. Alter pushed forward as Marcus' fist traveled towards him, planning on slamming the two against each other, and best of all, his shield doesn't feel pain.

(You know... Valkyries are female by design.)
Hisoka jumped back, both as the shield moved towards his stomach, and as the fire flew towards them. "Oh two of you now?" He cackled as he drew a second sword, and then a third, juggling the three between his hands. "But you will need more to beat me."

Six ducked down as Chaosmon appeared behind him, the dragonic cry allowing him to react a little faster. He pivoted on the spot as he held up his hand, "One second." He said, turning his attention towards the Royal Knight. "Chaos Flare!" His hands bursting into blue flames, hurling them towards the V-Force. "Stay out of this. We can fight latter." He called out.

Ruby pressed forward, "Eden's Javelin!" She called out, driving her spear straight into the centre of the pyramid, she wouldn't back down from the first move, hoping that the armour digimon's attacks would hurt so much.

Some of Jotaro's feathers flew through the net, hitting the bug digimon all over his body. The God Bird darting to the side, just managing to avoid the net of energy, his side burning lightly from the power.

Dio couldn't stop in time, his open mouth getting hit by the mace, his teeth coming down to try and stop it, and keep as little damage as possible. His hand coming forward, aimed at the digimon's face.

Kazu gritted his teeth and pointed at Marcus before swishing his arm to his side.
"Being vigilant's got nothing to do with it!"
He looked to the three way fights around the room. This entire place was going down... So be it.
"Ignite! Digi-Soul!"
The blue sparks around Kazu conected together in an instant. Seemingly setting the boy ablaze, this way just his way though, his way of connecting with his partners.

MaloMyotismon grinned, almost gleefully. Both his opponents were pretty much locked in combat.
"Lets up the game eh!?"
The two beams he were firing thickened as they powered towards GranDracmon and MirageGaogamon.

Sakuyamon grimaced at her flame atack being pushed away
"Why are you fighting! There is no need, Amethyst Wind!"
Sakuyamon spun her staff and launched a storm of cherry blossoms down upon Piedmon and Valkyriemon, the cherry blossoms looked beautiful, but they were as sharp as swords.

UlforceVeedramon saw the compressed air attacks and raised he V-sheild. They pounded against the sheild and caused cracks to litter the energy barrier. The penultimate shot blew away the sheild and the final blast smashed him in the stomach, winding him.
"Gah... Damn it."
He held up his V-Saber defensivly, clutching his gut with his left hand. The V-Bracer was drawing in more energy, ready to reform the sheild if needed.

"My place is by Kazu's side!"
Magnamon yelled at Anubismon before he was engulfed in a barrier, a darkness began to seep within the barrier, blocking out the world.
"I-I feel weaker... Gah damn!"
As he was exposed to the darkness longer, he could feel his power sapping. As Kazu burst into flames he felt their link strengthen for a second, one second was all he needed to bust out.
"Magna-Blast!"
Magnamon's whole body erupted in a holy, purifying light. It would press an amazing amount of force against the barrier and the energy would eradicate any particles that were not of Magnamon's own, His attack attempted to blot out the darkness and shatter his confinement.

Imperialdramon took to the skys, getting out of the but Digimon's path. It began to whip the Chronomon viciously.
"Damn it... Whose side do we go for?"
For now Imperialdramon focused on both his targets. Now they were closer, and not focused on himself, he could line up a clearer shot.
"Positron Laser!"
The beam of energy tore towards the pair of giant Digimon with fury.

Kazu opened his eyes, the world had taken on a blue-ish tint as the flames around him roared. He looked over at Marcus and Alter fighting man to man. He had to keep telling himself not to join in. Not to be reckless and launch into another pointless fight. But was it so pointless? What was at stake here? The tower? Himself? His friends?
"Why the hell are we fighting anyway!?"

As the wind formed by his shield quieted, it returned to his arm. Valkyriemon took into account that Piedmon was now focused on Sakuyamon, but was unsure what to do with that fact. Has a firm disdain for the interrupter, pointed his shield at the two digimon. Wings appeared as the shield changed into a crossbow, "Aurvandil's Arrow". A bolt of lighting formed on the shield and then fired at Sakuyamon. A second one then loaded and was shot at the distracted Piedmon.

Anubimon was taken aback by the angel's change in mood. He had expected the Magnamon to come to his end, but it seemed fate would not have it be that way. He shakes his head in slight disbelief and then smiles, waiting for the Ophanimon to connect with the structure breaking around Magnamon. The impact of Ophanimon's attack and Magnamon's attack on both sides would cause the pyramid to shatter, starting at the point where Ophanimon's weapon had connected. Once done, he would life face one hand up and capture both in a pyramid trap. He would then fling his other hand up causing multiple Egyptian runes of the god Ra to appear inside and around the two digimon, "FATAL CROSS!". He then closes his hand and the runes explode within the prison.
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Marcus was right. By acknowledging Kazu, he had left himself open to Alter's attack. A cold fist of iron sank into his chest and sent him back even farther than he did on the jump back from his last attack. He fell to one knee with one hand on his chest and the other on his knee. He coughed and blood came out. "Heh, see what you made me do boy?" He was talking to Kazu but looked up at Alter to make sure that nothing else came at him. "This is what men do, we fight. We fight to assess dominance of the other, to take out threats, to show no fear to the other." He coughed once more and then attempted to stand. After standing up completely, he would ball his fist, causing the gauntlets to spark with digisoul. "Alter... heh, nevermind." He closed, his eyes for a moment and then opened them. His pupils were red now. "HERE I COME!!!" He charged in once more at the tamer and punched out with his spiked left first aimed at the boy's face and then brought the other fist out, aimed a little lower.

Feathers would bounce off the digimon's golden armor and a grin that was oozing with bug saliva would appear. As he was whipping he would see Imperialdramon above them and would redirect his attack to intercept the beam. "HORN BUSTER KAI!!!" The tendrils would twist together and turn into a beam-like projection that would take on the Positron laser. At the base of his horns, another ball of electricity would build and then fire, traveling along the length of whip to add on the the size of the attack as well as its power.

Back to his feet, Chaosmon would eject blade along with his cannon. "BANTYO BLADE!!" Lashing out with his large blade, he would fire a slashing projection that would turn into the image of a lion. Weaving around towards Ulforce in an attempt to cleave him or at least apart of the cobalt colored digimon.

MirageGaogamonRM's weapon would dissolve into dark light and would be absorbed within his gauntlets. With GranDracmon out of the way (sort of), the wolf digimon would see flames now. Being of the faster, he would dash away from the flames (left) and then cut running among side of the attack (right) until he was next to MaloMyotismon. As he ran, the light his his two fist would grow brighter. "METEOR SHACKLE!" He would unload one fist of energy into the other vampire digimon and would then proceed to do the same with his other fist with the force of the punches being the same as if he had used his lunar haken instead.

Alter only had his eyes on Marcus, grinning slightly as his fist connected with the tamer's stomach. He stood back, resting the shield's base on the ground once again. "I suppose. But I am not fighting as a man. I am fighting as a hero. And the hero fights to protect what he cares about." Alter charged forward, hiding behind his shield once again, waiting for the sound of Marcus' fist against the metal. When that moment came he would pivot his shield, bringing the bottom up towards Marcus' body.

The bats started to circle MaloMyotismon and MirageGaogamonRM, moving faster and faster as they fought it out. For a while they just circled, creating a black boundary for the two. Only a few minutes in did they make their move. "Dead Scream!" The sound of deafening. A terrible scream hitting the two digimon at the centre of the circle. The circle keeping the sound between the three digimon and those three only.

Hisoka turned in the air, managing to react to the arrow in time to save his life. "Ending Snipe." the two attacks blasting against each other, Hisoka just getting burnt, "Well, it seems you aren't half bad." He grinned, his white teeth flashing, his trump sword returning to his hand.

Ruby looked over at Magnamon like he had just stated the obvious. "Of course. I don't have a fight with you. My tamer said you can stay, and that the others have to leave. Why in Gods name would I fight you?" She asked, turning as Anubismon attacked them once again. She smiled as Magnamon saved her. "Thank you, now lets get some revenge." She charged around the shield, "Sefirot Crystal!" She called out, her hand pressed out before her, crystals appearing before her, the Sephiroth forming from them. She pushed forward, the crystals flying towards Anubismon.

Jotaro stepped back away from the dragon and bug going at it, sending his final wave of feathers at HerculesKabuterimon. He darted around to the other side, watching the feathers hit the beetle once again, most bouncing off, but a few sticking in.

((Not that your post wasn't as spectacular as it was long, but you do realize that by approaching Alter, you're putting yourself in danger of both Marcus's fist and Kazu's Digisoul... "blast," right?))

Marcus would smirk as he was about to come in contact with Alter's shield once more. He was too into the battle to even notice yet another interference, but he did, however, notice that Kazu had learned a new trick involving the usage of digimon. He would stamp one foot into the ground and then pivot towards the oncoming blast that had his and Alter's name on it. "Will you please..." He would tighten his right fist and then bring it up to punch the blast. "SHUT UP!!!" Using his own digisoul, he would counter the blast, spikes tearing through the blast and leaving him and Alter unharmed by the premature attack. "Ya know... you're really starting to get on my nerves!" Marcus would now turn his attention on Kazu and run towards him. ChaosSoul would build around his fist to form a spikeless gauntlet to cover his fist., but a burning sensation would occur this time... probably from overuse.

As he ran towards Kazu, he would launch himself into the air and then come down on the boy with his right fist.

((continuing onward))
Anubismon's previous grin would turn into a frown as it appeared that both of his opponents were targeting him now. Spheres of light would gather in both of his hands and then be flung at the on coming crystals. At the snap of his finger, the orbs would turn into 3-dimensional prisms about the size of his previous ones. These floating structures would take on the crystals and then continue to fly at the two digimon. Anubimon would take this time to start flying, assuming that they would give chase. He loved these situations. There was something about being chased that put him in a rather tricky mood.

With sword in hand, Valkyrimon would slash twice at the fox spirits, "Fenrir Sword!" The slash alone would release a howling gust that would disperse the fire fox and freeze the thunder fox. He switched back to his crossbow, but this time loaded his bird rather than a normal arrow. "LASER JAVLIN!" He would then launch a living arrow at the priest digimon. It would caw like a bird as it would soar past Piedmon and head for Sakuyamon.

With Imperialdramon out of the picture, HerculesKabuterimon would return his attention back to Chronomon, giving note at the feathers sticking inside of his shell. His horn had returned back to normal, losing its electrical state in the attack against Imperialdramon. He would then go into his other form of assault. Wings on his back would flutter rapidly, picking him up off the ground and flying higher, until he was over Chronomon. "Mega Electro Shocker!" Electricity would be generated from his entire body and then pulled into the center of his body. The friction of the charge would burn off the feathers that had stuck. He would start to constrict, pulling his body inward as well as the electricity. He would then expand and fire a massive sphere of electricity down towards Chronomon.

MirageGaogamon's second fist would take out the rain that came towards him, but it did not prepare him for the bats that were soon around him. As the screaming started, the wolf digimon would fall to his knees in pain, the sound near unbearable. Still without a desire to give up, he would charge his fist up and then punch at the ground. "Starlight Explosion!" The blast would kick up dust and debris to block and hit some of the bats, but it would also punch a hole in the ground to allow me an escape route to the lower levels.

As he fell to the ground and landed on the second flow, he would start to build energy in his chest, imagining that the bats would give way and follow him. If they did, they would come face to face with his Final Mirage Burst, with nowhere to escape. "Come and get me." He would whisper.

With sword and cannon at the ready, Chaosmon brought his sword up to parry the now aerial Ulforceveedramon, slashing upward to knock Ulforce's blade attack into the air. On the clash the tassel that were on his shoulders would lash out and attempt to entangle around the blue digimon's arms to prevent movement or e. Chaosmon would then bring his cannon in close. "DARK PROMIENCE!" With the cry of a dragon, the gigastick cannon (darkdra-arm) would release blue and green flames on the digimon's chest, past his bound arms, at point-blank range, if the digimon had not avoided his tassels. Otherwise, the flames would just carry out in front of him, burning the air around him.

Alter turned as Marcus' attention was shifted from their battle to Kazu, his own body turning towards the blue flames, expecting to be too late to block them. But Marcus had acted first, the attack blown away by the boy's attack. He darted away from the other tamer, moving closer to the girl who just appeared. "If you think I will just let my digimon get hurt so you can prance around and pretend to be a hero, then you are as foolish as your hair." He commented, "Besides, I doubt my digimon will listen to that."

Hisoka turned in the air, ignoring Sakuramon in her barrier, heading straight towards Valkyrimon, his swords held before him. "Trump Sword." He pointless called out, his sword coming down towards the digimon's neck, a second sword appearing in his free hand.

Ophanimon C rolled her eyes as Mangamon gave her a thumbs up. This digimon was a little strange. She watched as Anubismon flew away, Mangamon following behind him closely. She stood her ground, her lance returning to her hand as she got ready, waiting for a chance to fire her own attack at Anubismon.

Jotaro stared forward into the ball of electricity, his hands held before him, forming the Sacred Sun. He closed his eyes for a moment as he built up power, it would need as much as he could to completely stop this attack. As the sphere drew closer and closer, almost reaching him, his eyes burst open. "Final Cross!" Two beams of light appearing before him, crossing over each other, forming a barrier between him and the attack. The electro Shocker hit against the cross, pushing against it, Jotaro putting his power into his defence. The ball of energy burst, the edges burning around the cross, hitting Jotaro. The Time Digimon held his ground, pushing forward after the attack. Those feathers weren't meant to do damage, set up a follow up with them, or some such attack that was broken when they were destroyed. They were just feathers, but when they stuck they served as markers, finding the weakest part on a digimon. Jotaro closed in on HerculesKabuterimon, hoping the Positron Laser would distract him enough for Chronomon's attack. "Starlight Explosion!" He roared, flames exploding from his mouth, headings straights towards the marked target.

Dio's bats were torn a part as the wave of blood flew towards them, a few managing to get away, but most getting destroyed. The bats flew back together quickly. forming Dracmon. The little imp darting away before he was deleted.

Kazu heard the blade sound before he realised. In a blur his moves were ecountered. In a second there was a thud. Kazu felt a cold sensation in the center of his chest, followed by a un-fathomably hot burning around it. The burning punched through out of his back sending a small shock-wave to blow his clothes backwards slightly. Kazu's jacket floated back into place, a new hole ripped in the back of it. Kazu was confused. His aura vanished instantly, he looked down to see the spike embedded in his chest. He staggared backwards, not quite sure if what had happened was real. He went to speak, but instead of words, a red liquid bubbled and ran down his chin, splattering the floor, possibly even Marcus' clothes. Kazu dropped to his knees and looked up at the Chaotic Tamer, the Boy's pupils had shrunk to dots. Oddly there was no fear in his eyes, instead there was a sence of anger, mixed in with confusion.

Imperialdramon cheered as his cannon blast hit target however. A sudden wrenching feeling in his chest brought him to total silence. Utter despair filled the Dragonic fighter
"Kazu?"
All the energy he had left him, a torrent of arrows smashed into the side of him, sending him hurtling across the room. He didn't even try to defend himself. From the smoke Veemon emerged, battered and bruised. He landed with a thump, rolling until he was near Kazu.
"Oh no..."
He looked up to see his Tamer, bloodied and on his knees.
"Kazu!"
Veemon broke into a sprint towards his best friend, ignoring his own injuries.

Sakuyamon felt the wrenching feeling just after her block.
"Oh no..."
She was engulfed in flames from the arrow, cutting off her words. A second later she erupted from the fire-ball, smoke billowing off her armour. She ignored the other fighters and made for Kazu and Veemon, tears streaming down her mask.
"No... No!...NO!"

Magnamon was neatly dodging and weaving his way through the minuture prisims when the wrench hit him.
"What in the Digi-World!?"
He was disracted long enough to collide with Anubismon's larger prisms. He smashed into the ground. A strange feeling, like he was being drained began afflicting him.
"Oh Yggdrasil no! Kazu!"
Magnamon affected a 180 turn and bolted away from Anubismon, he could see Veemon and Sakuyamon approaching Kazu on his knees, Marcus all but standing over him. As he flew, Magnamons power faded, he shone for a moment before appearing as Chibomon, hitting the ground and bouncing toward his Tamer.

MaloMyotismon was filled with a sence of pride as Dracmon scuried away.
"Yes! I am the true Vampire Lord!"
His gloating was cut short by the wrenching feeling, like someone had grabbed his stomach and twisted it.
"It's Kazu..."
His voice dropping to such a solem tone so quickly, MaloMyotismon de-digivolved back to Myotismon. He looked to the crater and shouted down, he couldn't see the Dog-Man but he knew he'd hear.
"You and your Tamer will suffer for this pup!"
Myotismon launched himself to join the group converging around Kazu.

UlforceVeedramon couldn't react to the images blurring around him. Attempts to block ended in failure. He felt Chaosmon's presence behind him. Two powerful feelings tore at the Super Ultimate. A wrenching sensation followed by a extremely painful jab into his back.
"You don't understand! My Tamer! He's..."
An eruption sent Ulforce flying under cover of a cloud of smoke. A Demi-Veemon emerged from the smoke cloud and came to a thudding halt next to the group. He shook his head, coughing and spluttering.
"Kazu..."

Kazu's five partners converged upon him. Each could feel their powr waning, De-Digivolving to their lowest forms. They could see the blood running down his chest and the man who caused it standing almost triumphantly before him. Veemon's eyes became filled with hatred.
"I'll kill you!"
He launched himself at Marcus only to find his path blocked by an arm. Kazu's.
The boy's glasses had slipped to the end of his nose and his front was now a horribly dark colour. He shook his head to Veemon.
"Veemon... Tell everyone. I love them."
Veemon looked puzzled for a moment, that was until he saw Kazu hit a button on his Digivice.
"No! We can save yo---"
He was cut off. All of Kazu's Digimon were. They were transformed into orbs of light and transported into his Digivice and away to Sanctuary, Kazu's holding place for his partners. A blood-soaked grin spread across his face as he slumped forwards, crashing face-down on the marble floor. He saw Marcus begin to walk away. His vision darkening Kazu lashed out and grabbed the Dark Tamer's leg. He began to speak, clearly the effort was shortening whatever time he had left.
"You listen up. Don't you dare forget about me! I'll never. Ever! Fade out of existance! You remember me ok? Remember who you killed, and remember who it is who'll be back oneday..."
Kazu's grip on Marcus' leg lessened to nothing. His head bowed to the floor. No more noise came from his mouth. A pool of red was spreading from underneath him. His mind was shutting down. Everything was black.

A single, radient white feather would gracefully fall, as if from nowhere. It would arc in the breeze before eventually landing on Kazu's back, right on top of where Marcus' Chaos-Soul had punched a hole through him...
"Have no worries young one. For it is not yet time for your story to end. No for you it is just begining..."

Rebecca let out an exhausted sigh, after all that effort to take center stage nothing had come out of her grand entrance. Sometimes it was best to simply wait things out in the shadows, a philosophy like that was incomprehensible to Becca. She jumped into the air off of Omegamon's shoulder, allowing the Digimon to resume it's rookie form as she fell into the arms of a peculiar looking Pandamon. Still, it was a pain, she felt almost useless to the battle, only dodging the cross-fire instead of following any of her bold declarations. That was to be expected though, not everybody could appreciate her fine arts.

"What a sad story," She murmured to herself, listening quietly to Marcus's soliqouy. Grand lights and colorful explosions were not the solution to this problem. They were becoming an annoyance really, a hindrance to her own development. These flashy displays, these dramatic scenes, nobody appreciated them, and all they did was make her look the fool. That was alright though, if just one person could smile at her expense it would be worth it. That was the justification of all her grand mechanisms. Nobody smiled, every day in the digital world the frowns just became more numerous. What was she becoming then, what good was her smile. Pandamon dropped his tamer onto the ground. Rebecca did not bother with an elegant landing, she simply fell. The girl pulled herself off of the marble tiled floor, another tacky decorating choice. It was mostly a neutral action, as she picked herself up and walked across the floor with the same determination as ever. There was just something off about her, it was the eyes, they were unfocused and staring elsewhere.

She was walking towards Marcus, but she stopped before she could get within five steps. "You know, when you speak like that you sound like me," Rebecca began, her ever present smug-smile frozen on her face. "A bit overdramatic, proper, and a high value of self importance." Rebecca took a step back, looking over her shoulder at Alter and Kazu. "And most important of all, you've absoloutely convinced yourself that your view is the righteous one," she said, her words growing increasingly quieter, and that smug smile fading away from her face. Recently I've been having doubts, she thought, having difficulty saying those words aloud.

"This place. . . the digital world, it's supposed to be a dream right? But because of idiots like us, we've made it a nightmare!" Rebecca froze, the sudden outburst startled even herself. There was no recovering from her mistake, the only option was to negate the conversation. "I apologize for my rudeness, Marcus continue on with whatever. Your strong in your convictions, if anything I suppose that is admirable," Rebecca, backed off taking a spot within Alter's shadow. She said nothing, merely looking around at the other boys. It didn't matter either way, if she spoke, nobody would listen. Then a thought, since when did these doubtful thoughts spiral within my head.