Hooo! I hope everyone is having a good year so far. First chapter of the new year involves a matchup that everyone probably saw coming. One that's been long awaited. RD versus Blade. I hope you all enjoy!! RainbowDragon AKA RD belongs to  rainbowdragon And Kiya belongs to  dragonsurfer

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Clash of dragons



It was the day of the semi final rounds, and to make sure RD didn't oversleep, Fang gave him a few nudges with a gloved paw, sighing "You really should wake up..."


RD snapped awake, startled by the paw touch. "Is it time already?!? Did I sleep in?!?"


Fang sighed, waving a paw around "You have about fifteen minutes...but otherwise you're okay. Everyones already at the stadium, only reason I stayed behind is well...Nova is taking me underground, and our route follows yours."


"Er ok I'm gone then" RD immediately bolts out the door heading towards the stadium, he was hoping that he did well but he knew that the match was going to be tough


Everyone was already there, Max and Grapleomon were just having an old fashioned staring contest on the couch, before bursting into laughter, it made Blade who was standing by the arena door groan "Finally, you show up. These two despite being paired up have been nothing but giggles..."


RD blinked as he looked at the two of them, smiling himself. "Meh this may be a serious situation but there's no reason not to enjoy it. Odds are in our favor"


Blade sighed, nodding a few times "I suppose that's true. Even so, I don't know the story behind Grapleomon, but I can't imagine getting so chummy with someone I've never met."


Max waved to Grapleomon who had walked off down the hallway, he stepped over to both RD and Blade "He's part of Leo."


RD's eyes widened."You sure, and how is that possible?" He looked stunned, a developement he hadn't expected at all.


Max nodded a few times "Leo confirmed it himself. Apparently when Duke destroyed his body in the human world his three cores were flung into different parts of the digital world, save for the one in me, who was given to Smithy for me."


"Ok but then how do you plan on facing him? Have you seen how he fights?" RD started asking "That might help things"


Max nodded "I have to face him. If I can't get all three cores back together, Leo can't get his life back. As for how he fights, I spent all night in my pod with Leo in my subconcious. He gave me detailed tutoring on how to counter Grapleomon's gravitational attacks."


RD sighed, rubbing the back of his neck. "Wish my dragon spirit gave me decent advice on how to counter attacks I've had my back pressed up against the wall in several fights"


Max winced, before laughing "I only have the benefit of watching his last match...Since his fighting style is like Leo's in that form we were able to practice all night long."


Blade raised an eyeridge "Let me get this straight...If Leo right now inside you is the soul...and Grapleomon is the body, then the digiegg would be the heart wouldn't it?"


Max nodded "Something like that...I can't think of a better analogy for it."


"You know if we got all three together we could probably revive him no problem....the question is how do we do THAT?" RD asked, pondering the question himself.


Max took a deep breath "I already have an idea on how to do that. Leo is already a part of me. If I can get the other two parts of him in the same place inside of me...I could probably create a new digiegg with all three componants."


"in other words eat him, but you'd have to eat the digiegg first then win the match with Grapleomon" RD said "On the plus side you have all the ingredients now you need to mix them together.


Max nodded a few times "I need to go visit Lyle do that I can get the digiegg from Kiya. Hopefully your match will last long enough for me to get there and back."


Blade rolled his eyes at that, chuckling "I doubt our match will go as quickly as they did yesterday. So go get it done, and you better make sure you can win your match too. Leo's one of the reasons you guys came to the digital world afterall. It'd be a shame not to accomplish it."


RD nodded at this "Also I'm not sure how long our match will take but I don't like drawing matches out unnecessarily. Just get what you need and get back"


Blade chuckled a bit "we'll see how things go. Just know I might not be your usual opponant." He suddenly heard the roaring of Smithy and took a breath "I think that's our cue, he's got the crowd going."



RD blinked and nodded as he began to go to the arena, his stomach in knots.


Blade stared at RD with a smirk "Just relax. You won't be able to fight properly if you're tense." He sighed, walking into the arena as he noted all of the fans roaring their cheers "And let's try to forget past grudges and battle to our best."


RD nodded digivolving to Coredramon to get them on an even level, he remembered that Blade was quick and had special blades, he on the other hand hit hard but was also a huge target....he cursed his inability to find a more nimble form like Max did but he suddenly cursed himself for nearly falling into self-pity as he set himself


Blade nodded softly, he unhooked the swords on his waist and held them out in a defensive stance, a low growl eminating from his throat.


RD looked at the announcer booth, then at the crowd, then as his opponent, hrmm it seemed those blades were key to his opponents fighting style, if he could separate Blade from his namesake he could win, but Blade was using the blades one at a time and it wasn't like he could break them with the blades being made by Smithy after all in any case RD set up a laser.


Blade focused on the laser and growled, Swapping his Saberleomon weapon with Wargreymon, matching the laser with a great tornado.



The two cancelled each other out as RD was on top of blade, he deliberately was aiming at Blade's two short swords, if anything to separate Blade from them, the strange thing was, it was easy to cause Blade to switch up. After all firing a laser from his light powers caused blade to switch swords, if that was the case.....a plan forming RD charged straight at Blade, which was unusual for a digimon who outright admitted he liked to study his opponent before making a move.


Blade blinked, placing his Wargreymon blade into it's casing, switching out with Saberleomon, he started charging headfirst at RD, an aura enveloping the warrior dinosaur in the likeness of a Saberleomon, claws bared forward to slash at RD.


RD suddenly froze in mid-charge, for a large digimon, being able to stop on a dime like that should've been impossible. but RD did just that, sidestepped and then snatched the wargreymon blade complete with casing right off of blade before jumping back to avoid any follow up move. he then set up several light mirrors before bouncing a laser off of them, he realized instantly that the wargreymon blade was being used to counter ranged attacks while the saberleomon blade was for physical head-on assaults, the only question now was how to set the blade aside, he had a feeling he could still be hurt by the blade even though Blade didn't wield it As RD grabbed ahold of the weapon, he could suddenly feel an overwhelming presence, it was almost as if the digimon used to forge the weapon was trying to overpower him. In this moment RD would feel a portion of what Blade had endured when he first encountered Victorygreymon. The spirit within the blade almost seeming to attempt possessing him.


Blade's eyes went wide as the beam of light came charging at him, but when he opened his eyes it didn't seem to effect him, but the crest on his shoulder started glowing "Sorry to say...the crest of light protects me from light wielders..." He chuckled softly, flexing his free hand while twisting the hilt of Saberleomon. Giving it a single swipe as it sent a shockwave rippling through the arena.


RD blinked as the presence began to try to overwhelm him, if he fell due to this well, he'd be a lousy fighter indeed and Max wouldn't have remotely enough time to get the digiegg he needed to save Leo, suddenly his spirit showed up in his head chuckling. "Your opponent seems to have several ways of countering you, if he didn't have the crest you would've easily gotten him with that last barrage, points for trying though"


RD growled low "Ok thanks for the sarcasm Zeratrix but that means light based attacks are useless, even if I could master item conjuring like Chronomon showed us would it even harm him with that crest on him?"


Zeratrix smirked, or at least smirked within RD's inner world. "Actually yes, IF you mixed it in with another element, didn't you use elemental endowment already to improve your limbs, just use it in your attacks to give them an extra kick"


RD blinked as he sent his blue flames after Blade while interspacing it with light attached, this seemed to make the flames much larger than normal.


Blade caught his attention between his monologue, chuckling "You may as well hand my sword back. Left on it's own, it would overwhelm anybody." He then blinked, running from the flames and letting a low growl as some of the tail ends of the flame caught his legs. he dug his saberleomon blade into the ground, and did a summersault over the flames, aiming to land on RD's back, smirking and snatching the Wargreymon sword from his grip. "I'll be taking this." Suddenly the area around them started heating up, an indication of a nova blast as a great ball of fire came from the sword.


RD blinked but then threw up a rather large shield, the blast disappeared into it, RD looked dumbfounded, then suddenly belched up the very same nova blast "I...I just ate that thing!"


Zeratrix burst out laughing "Surprised? You eat so much that you probably could devour those blades and take on their properties, that is, if you're not above murder"


RD bristled "Jackass! You'd think I'd do that?!"


Zeratrix shook his head "Not in the least but it's something to think about, use your light and eat and redirect his attacks....don't overdo it though."

Blade's eyes went wide as he leapt over the Nova blast , he jumped off RD's back and smirked as he revealed a thin wire in his other paw, only shown when the wire touched the sunlight, as he practically lifted his Saberleomon sword out of the ground and into his handpaw with such a scrawny string.


RD readied himself as he realized that those wires would make grabbing those blades much more difficult, but in this case it didn't matter as he sent light into his tail then swung it, to his amazement his tail actually lengthened like a whip and went out to strike blade


Blade winced, while the light itself wouldn't affect him, but the tail would do some major damage. He set both blades on his waist and tried to grab RD's tail, managing to slow it down but it still left a nasty surface wound, bits of data coming from his chest "You've got plenty of power."


RD winced "Yeah but no speed" He muttered as his tail suddenly pulled him towards Blade, this was bad as it meant that adding light to his tail essentially made it like a rubber band, if someone grabbed onto it, regardless of how big or strong RD was he could be effortlessly pulled to his opponent. RD put up his light into his arms as he defended himself against a counter-strike


Blade blinked, noting the light coming from RD's arms and immediately let go of his tail, stepping to the side as he tried to swipe at RD with his bare claws.


RD blinked as he was swiped but this was almost useless against his huge hide, why in the world didn't Blade use his namesake swords? Those would've been the perfect opportunity to at the very least lop off his tail and sidestep, letting him crash to the arena floor, even with the light in his arms they hadn't increased in size in any way. What was blade up to with that? RD decided not to question it as he hopped several steps backwards, the main problem here was two-fold. First RD though on the same evolutionary level was much slower than Blade and needed his light in order to keep up with him which tired him out more quickly. Secondly Blade had protection against the light attacks that RD was used to, and the ones that Blade was vulnerable to RD didn't know how to use properly or was just finding out about them.


Blade took a deep breath, he pressed his paws together and glanced at RD "I know we promised that we'd give him time to intigrate the digiegg into his system. But I'm growing tired of this. I don't want to mutilate you." He pointed out, revealing why he didn't use his weapons in that last moment. "We can't afford to become less than we already are. I suggest digivolving to ultimate so my mind can be at ease." He got into a praying position, Claws clasped together infront of his snout with his eyes closed slightly, looking almost pained.


RD blinked, standing up straight. "I suppose I wanted to see what my limit was"


RD thought as zeratrix came up again "You actually were doing really good against him, he's just worried that the way you're going with those attacks that put you in just as much danger as himself well there's a very good chance you'll be leaving here as a digiegg if you kept it up"


RD winced knowing that Zeratrix was right, but his digivolution was just as big and bulky if not a tad more sturdy, he wanted an evolution like Max's ultimate....more like.....what was the proper word for this....oh right like Weregrowlmon and not Wargrowlmon, but he didn't think he had anything like that....did he...? He could try......don't question it just do it....something clicked as he looked upward at the sky and pointed a single claw upwards "Alright Coredramon shine digivolve toooo!" Suddenly music began playing out of nowhere, it had a very strong beat to it that made it sound like something out of a nightclub and then what looked to be a dragon DJ, skinnier, more muscular, did RD just SHRINK?!? But the digimon just smirked as he donned a pair of black shades as he announced his name "Rhythmdramon!" The digimon could only stare dumbfounded as this goofy DJ looking music-lover waved a paw in a 'bring it on' gesture.


Blade blinked, covering his eyes to protect himself from the light, but when he heard the music he turned his attention to RD, only to stare at his new form and sweatdropped, looking kind of embarressed. "Uhm...is that your new form? It's so much different than last time!"


RD simply moonwalked and posed. this got the entire crowd rolling. "Sure is different! Not that I mind....but I'm wondering....how well do you dance?" Before he could answer RD was already on top of him, he started with a 1-2 combo before sweeping Blade's legs out from under him with a handstand spinkick before using his tail to smash blade backwards, gods this digimon was FAST!


Blade barely had the opportunity to retalliate, groaning as he was slammed into the barrier that protected the crowd from the attacks, only thing that kept him from touching the ground was his quick thinking in digging his Saberleomon blade into the ground, balancing on it's hilt. "Wow...speed and power. You've managed to create a new species just like Max." He panted, leaping into the arena and using the same thread from before to pull it back with him, groaning as he rubbed his injury "Now that's what I was looking for." He clenched his teeth, and pulled both weapons out at once. "Let's finish this off!" He was about to charge forward when the ground below them started pulsing, followed by a bright light enveloping the two of them as the crest of Friendship emerged in the center of the ring "I think Zeed is awake...RD whatever happens don't let it get to you!" As he finished his sentance the two were completely enveloped in a blinding light, before they both reappeared, floating in midair in what looked to be a desolate wasteland.


RD blinked "What....what is this? I can't entertain a crowd WHEN THERE IS NO CROWD!" RD was clearly shaken, and confused.


Blade looked around, taking a deep breath "I've seen this in textbooks back in my village. I think we're in the past." He motioned for RD to follow him, floating toward a great light, as they approached it, they could see several thousand digimon, divided into two groups, one of beast type digimon and the other purely dramon and dinosaurs. Commanding each group were what looked to be ZeedGarurumon and Victorygreymon


RD blinked as he floated over "There are two groups here....heh I wouldn't mind entertaining either of them" It's obvious what RD's attitude was, yes you can fight but it's better to entertain and have fun "I get why they're grouped like this and who's leading them, but why separate them at all? Can't we get along? I bet those two groups could make beautiful music together...."


Blade sighed, shaking his head "This was the greatest war in the digital world. Before the world was divided into it's four quarters." He pointed, watching as The two sides immediately got into it


RD blinked shook his head and looked away "And why were they warring in the first place? Difference in appearance? Who was better than the other? Pointless....they might as well have been fighting over the foods they ate" RD said in disgust.


Blade nodded, sighing "It's a shame. But they were originally fighting for dominance."


Suddenly Zeedgarurumon, or rather a spirit form of himself approached them "Your textbooks are mistaken. None of us were happy with the way Yggdrasil originally laid out the digital world, so we set ourselves to rebuilding it. one group wanted it under the banner of Victorygreymon, the other under me. We wanted, to get the world creator's attention. As the world was, there would be no peace."


"You're saying that YOU had a better idea and that creating a war was the right way to do it?" RD suddenly rounded on him, this coming from what was essentially a dragon DJ who would be called airheaded at best and goofy at worst meant that he wasn't giving into the digimon's nature "Maybe there wouldn't be any peace but that is because neither of you could stand the way someone laid something out, thinking that YOU knew better! In the end how many digimon were deleted just to make this 'new world'?!? 10,000, no wait a million maybe? You can argue that none of the digimon wanted the digiworld to be mapped out the way it was but that's no excuse to get the digimon involved in war....even if they volunteered. You realize how selfish your reasons sound right? You say you wanted to 'get your creator's attention' you're mega-level digimon and your reasons are ones a baby digimon would have...."


RD threw up his claws "But what's past is past, can't say humans ever had good reasons to get into the wars they had either"


Narrowing his eyes, Zeedgarurumon looked over RD "The digital world was worse back then. Sure war might not have been the best idea, but we got the attention of Yggdrasil. Through out efforts, we were able to settle things out. Both of us going into a peace treaty in the promise that Yggdrasil would breath fresh life into our world. Would bring order to it. And he did."


Blade blinked "The four lords...So then there was no unity among the digimon. You had to guide them yourselves."


Hrmm no unity, honestly though even without that let me ask you something....again it's accusatory but still....when did this 'lack of unity' first start, did Yggdrasil separate both sets of digimon in the beginning and if so why were they so upset as to start war, if they lacked unity amongst themselves they couldn't begin a war, because they'd be fighting each other every step of the way. Conversely if there was even a little bit of unity amongst them then the war was unnecessary because the digimon would've realized that war wouldn't gain them any unity at all"

Zeedgarurumon shook his head "Yggdrasil set the world in an unfair way. We had most of the fruit and veggitation that could sustain the digital world. While the other side contained rare ores and minerals that would help construct great buildings that could shelter us. under myself and Victorygreymon we found a cause to unify our digimon types. But nobody was willing to give away the precious resources we were given. Yggdrasil never anticipated such an outrage. And never assumed digimon would evolve far enough that we could combine our forces."


"Sounds like a problem of assumptions on both ends, but in the end it sounds like it first worked out" RD said finally calming down a bit, starting to understand.


Zeed nodded in agreement, looking down at the carnage "Because Yggdrasil wouldn't do something initially...we decided that we would bring our own unity. I wanted to bring the world under the banner that friendship could make us stronger. While Victorygreymon preached that the light would keep us unified. In the end we agreed on a truce."


RD suddenly burst out laughing "Sorry sorry, it's just that, both ways are right so why argue about which way is the best one. A friend who can light the way is the best asset for unity"


Zeedgarurumon nodded, smirking. "Yeah...it was sillyness when I think back on it. In the end Yggdrasil answered our call though, splitting the digital world into 4 segments. Each dominated by a great lord. And in anticipation, Yggdrasil sealed both of us away, while our bodies have all but digitized, our will remains."


"Were you sealed away so that you wouldn't be completely depended on for unity like back in the day? On a side note how is sealing digimon away helpful for digiworld? Ugh i'm getting bored now" RD actually began dancing in place....apparently staying in one spot made him restless


Zeedgarurumon burst into laughter, watching RD dance "We were put to rest so that the world wouldn't rely on us yes...But also, because we thought there might be need of our power one day. Digimon in the past were true monsters. The digimon of the present would not have been able to survive our time. The last reason, was in case something happened to the high lords. We would be the ones to select the next in line to take up the position of ruler of each segment."


"True monsters? You mean ones that obeyed the law of the jungle to the letter like in one of the other zones we were in" RD asked, crossing his arms. "Because we were there....we fought through it no problem"


Zeedgarurumon shook his head "No I mean a world where champions had powers equivilant to the modern day mega." He replied matter of factly, as if that level of strength was not uncommon.


"Wow so there wasn't even a power limitation, so much of it, is it anything like what I can do with my power of light?" RD asked "In any case why are we being shown this? We understand you awoke, but I remember specifically saying your power wasn't for US"


Blade shook his head, crossing his arms "Victorygreymon's power had an effect along the immediate area when I woke him...We're just getting a direct feed."


Zeedgarurumon nodded "My projection is only a small portion of my power. I came to the two of you when I felt the power of Victorygreymon in the vicinity. The power of light was scarce. But some of us could use it. Everyone in the arena is likely getting the same feed. It was horrifying back in those days. I'm grateful the peace we battled for is finally here. But I regret how we've regressed."


RD blinked "Regressed? Do you mean all this fighting or the law of the jungle rules that seem to have taken precedence in part of digiworld?"


Zeedgarurumon nodded "Power is nothing in the name of peace. Our descendants have not learned from our own mistakes. And it saddens me. Oh! But I'm keeping you two from your battle aren't I..." He took a deep breath.


RD burst out laughing "It was more of a dance-off then a fight at that point" RD smirked "Though I do appreciate the small break"


Zeedgarurumon nodded a few times "regardless...I'll return you back to the arena. Forgive me. Maybe we can continue this monologue another time."


Blade nodded "We'll let Victorygreymon fill us in when we see him..." Just as he said such, they were enveloped by another white light, before they reappeared in the arena, several attendants having passed out, and thankfully, none were deleted thanks to the barrier, though that in itself seemed to have dissapeared


RD blinked "That's no good, I don't want anyone in the audience getting hurt" He groaned, noting most of the digimon having nodded off.


Blade nodded a few times "It's an after effect of his great strength." Blade blinked and watched as Kiya and SD stood at opposite ends of the ring and formed a light barrier around it.


Kiya lifted his paws up, forming a veil of light and smirked. "We already gave Max the egg...So you two can go ahead and finish this battle. Just be careful, we've never used our light this way so we don't know how powerful a barrier it will produce."


RD nodded "Excellent, shall we continue, Sonic Shockwave!" RD then let off a loud roar that as the attacks name implied made a massive shockwave in all directions


Blade smirked, nodding in agreement. "Now the barrier is solely around us." He winced, holding forward as he tried to endure the shockwave, by releasing his own with the Saberleomon blade and producing his own in counterattack


RD kept pressing on, of course he wasn't realizing this but he was overdoing it, it might've been because he enjoyed the digivolution but unlike Max's more stoic one RD's was prone more to showing off "Ok that's not working too well but let's wrap this up....Harmonic Distortion" Suddenly two different pieces of music began playing at the same time, constantly messing up and running on each other....the effect? It easily confuses and makes dizzy whoever hears it....unfortunately sometime during digivolution or when RD was fighting he forgot the one piece of equipment every DJ seems to have....over the ear headphones. Meaning HE was just as susceptible to his own attack as Blade was!


Blade roared out, grabbing over his ears and staggering a bit, he struggled to lift up his wargreymon blade, a nova blast being releasted in great force as he let loose one final roar.


RD suddenly blinked as he realized he was wide open, he used the same swallowing technique as before but when he spat it back he had a look of surprise on his face as his body gave out and the Harmonic Distortion attack stopped. He then spotted the headphones he was supposed to have, they looked cool enough, rainbow colored with a dragon stamped on each side, only they were in the middle of the arena, right where RD was when he was digivolving and had snatched up his shades. Whoops, looks like RD forgot something "Should've been wearing those" RD said as he passed out.


Blade took a few deep breaths, panting as he got on his knees before passing out as well. What watchers weren't yet out cold started cheering, though most were dumbfounded as Smithy cringed "Heh...a double knockout! this means...coming next will be the tournaments final bout!"


RD was groaning as he made one last complaint "The audience enjoyed it but getting through my mental block for a tie, and because I forgot something in the middle of the fight. Why is it always one mistake that always ruins it for me"


Zeedgarurumon's voice entered RD's conciousness, likely surprising Zeratrix himself for but a moment "you may overlook some details, but there's no doubt that you're reliable...Had I the power, I would grant you the crest of reliability. When you're at full strength again, go seek Ebonwumon...He is the keeper of the crest of Reliability." With that he left RD's conciousness, leaving him to rest.


RD passed out before de-digivolving back to dracomon and for some reason with a big smile on his face, only one last thing to say before he needed SOMEONE to cart him off to the infirmary "Good luck Max. We need a win from you now."


Inside of the waiting room, Max was rubbing his belly before smacking his fists together. "I guess it's up to me...I hope I'm up for it!"


(To be continued)