Crest of Imagination

by Boyzilla


Chapter 7: Castle of Ice

Crest of Imagination

Chapter 7: Castle of Ice

Daniel Marris finally realized the full scope of their responsibility, and the dangers present with it. Being chosen by a crest did not mean happy go lucky fun, but dangerous business that can correlate with potential death. In fact, right now, he was thinking he was going to die at the icy claws of Icedevimon. The digimon held him up by the throat, his friends, and the ponies, looked up helplessly as Icedevimon squeezed the life at of him.

Not to mention, Guilmon, Charmander, Rainbow Dash, Twilight Sparkle, and Applejack were now ice sculptures for this creep.

Oh, you're probably wondering how this came to be.

Well...

One hour earlier...

The chosen ones of the Crest of Imagination trekked through the ice-encased stairs alongside the Mane Six. All the while trying to formulize a plan of action against the newly introduced threat of Icedevimon. The first plan that came into thought was a simple, but efficient, strategy. Guilmon and Charmander would distract him with their fire attacks while Twilight conjured a spell of immobility. Once immobile, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Daniel would swoop in and deal as much damage as possible.

Once the digimon broke through the spell, they would retreat within a safe distance, and Guilmon with Charmander would launch their fire attacks once again while Icedevimon tried to recover from his beating. This would ensure his deletion, and also the self-repair of the Breach for Articuno to return, saving the Princesses and all of Canterlot.

It's a good plan in theory, now they only had to put it in practice.

Daniel slammed his fist against his open palm, "I can't wait to knock him off his icy throne and unto his royal butt."

"Hay yeah!" Rainbow Dash agreed, "Brohoof, Daniel!"

The two did a modified version of the brofist, the rest rolling their eyes at the silliness of it all.

Twilight didn't agree, "This is not a game, this is serious!" She exclaimed.

Alyssa twiddled with her fingers, "Maybe Twilight's right, we should be more careful."

Madison waved her off, "Nah, we're fine! Our plan is the best! Right Charmander?"

"Char, charmander!" The fire red Pokémon replied happily.

"Everything will be okay." Ryan answered, "There is twelve of us and only one of him, we got numbers and smarts!" The child exclaimed.

Twilight flushed as the compliment, but quickly replied, "Even then, we don't fully understand what Icedevimon is capable of."

"Woah!" Applejack yelled as she nearly slipped on the ice.

"Careful, the ice is slippery." Fluttershy said as she held on to Applejack to prevent her fall.

"Thanks, I'll be more cautious." Applejack responded.

"Look," Daniel started, "His name is Icedevimon, so it's safe to assume he has ice related abilities. Just avoid being frozen and we're good."

Guilmon laughed, "See? No problems! Let's get going!" The digimon exclaimed.

"Ugh, can't you all open your eyes and see how serious this is!?" Twilight shouted in vain.

Twilight had a hoof pat her on the back, "Don't worry Twilight, they'll soon sparkle with understanding." Pinkie Pie stated.

Twilight narrowed her eyes, "Ha ha, very funny Pinkie."

"I sure hope not! Sparkly vampires suck!" Ryan commented.

Alyssa turned to him, "No they don't, they're fantastic! So, dreamy..."

Daniel groaned, "Stupid books, stupid movies..."

"Boys are just jealous." Alyssa muttered.

"What are we talking about?" Guilmon questioned in confusion.

"Nothing," Both Daniel and Alyssa answered.

The Digidestined of Imagination, alongside the Bearers of Harmony, finally reached the top of the icy staircase. After a quiet session of walking through the artic hallways. The group managed to enter the esteemed throne room of Canterlot. They stood at the entrance, glancing around and spotting both Alicorn princesses as ice sculptures, seemingly at the midst of battle.

"Princess!" Twilight yelled in concern as she rushed toward them.

"Where's Articuno?" Madison questioned, her Charmander standing by her side.

"Zero Freeze!" Two small blue beams came rushing down at Twilight's position.

"Twilight! Watch out!" Everyone, and pony, screamed.

Twilight looked up just to see herself get frozen solid into a icicle. A blue flash surrounding her body as the digital attack encased her being and trapped her within solidified water.

Icedevimon came floating down in a proud and majestic matter, laughing evilly, "Hahahaha, that was too easy! Now to deal with the rest of you!"

Madison pointed Icedevimon, "Charmander, use flamethrower!"

The orange-tinted lizard ran up, and opened his mouth, a line of flame bursting outward, traveling across the throne room toward the white-colored Devimon. The virus-type digimon made a smug smirk, his eyes glowing a blue hue before he launched his Zero Freeze attack once again. The flamethrower and Zero Freeze impacted mid-air, created a gust of steam.

"Charmander!" Madison yelled out as she struggled to see through the newly generated fog.

"Chaaaaaar!" The Pokémon yelled out in pain.

"Frost Claw!"

The fire-type Pokémon was sent flying outward, before skidding along the harsh icy floors. His flaming tail limp on the floor, before two more beams shot outward and impacted the fainted Pokémon, encasing all of it except for its tail.

"Charmander, no! Return!" Madison shouted in concern as she pointed her pokeball toward her partner, the red beam reaching for the Pokémon, but failing, retracting back within the pokeball. "I can't recall him!"

"Applejack, let's get this creep!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed, flying at the enemy digimon with great speed and velocity.

"Right behind ya!" Applejack agreed as she ran toward Icedevimon.

"Fools, you do not understand you're futile endeavors!" The villain shouted, opening his left claw and thrust it forward, stretching all the ways toward Rainbow Dash. "Frost Claw!"

The rainbow Pegasus dodged it, but the momentum from her flight was lost and she spun out of control. Crashing into Applejack blow, the two now in a pile of bodies. Icedevimon eyes glowed blue before shooting a light blue beam at the two ponies.

"Zero Freeze!" He shouted as his attack froze the two ponies solid.

Ryan and Madison clutched on the transformed Daniel's pants, Alyssa and Guilmon close by, the latter who growled menacingly at the Icedevimon while standing protectively in front of his human friends. Fluttershy, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie stood helplessly as their friends became popsicle sticks one by one.

Icedevimon floated down, and then landed upon the throne. He stepped forward, slowly, and purposely dramatically, toward the ponies and the Digidestined of Imagination.

Guilmon roared at him, his mouth generating a ball of fire that he spit at him, "Pyro Sphere!" He shouted his attack's name.

The ball of fire shot forward, but the champion level digimon merely tilted to the side. The pyro sphere flying right past him, and through a glass pane.

"Pyro Sphere! Pyro Sphere! Pyro Sphere!"

Again and again, Guilmon valiantly, but fruitlessly, fired his main technique at the evil digital monster. Who began to get annoyed at Alyssa's digimon partner and ompted to get rid of him in the quickest way.

"Zero Freeze."

Guilmon became Frozen Guilmon.

"Guilmon!" Alyssa shouted in worry, her legs shaking with fear.

Daniel stood protectively in front of young friends, he was the only one left who had any sort of formidable abilities to defeat Icedevimon. He raised his white gloved fist at the villain, his glowing green eyes glaring at him.

"Oh, the little human is glaring at me. I'm so afraid." Icedevimon mocked,

"Be afraid to this!" Daniel shouted as he lifted off, his legs becoming a ghostly tail as he charged toward the bad guy.

Icedevimon laughed at him, "Pitiful child, you do not understand how helpless you are," the digimon flew into the air, before hovering a few feet. His wings suddenly began to flap violently as sharp icicles formed in front of him and shot toward the ghost boy.

"Avalanche!" Icedevimon yelled his attacks name.

Daniel stopped abruptly, his tail becoming legs once more. He braced himself, closing his eyes as he focused on the feeling of intangibility. It worked, the sharp icicles past right through him, impacting the ground and crushing the ice field.

"It's like a ice version of poison sting!" Madison yelled, "Be careful Daniel!" She exclaimed to the older boy.

"You can win Daniel!" Ryan cheered, "Good guys always win!" He said with hope.

Daniel turned back tangible, and pointed toward the villain in a mocking way, "Ha! You missed! And I thought I had horrible aim!"

"'We'll see about that! Avalanche!" Icedevimon yelled once more, his attack firing outward.

Daniel smirked, and started to fly toward the virus digimon, turning intangible as he flew. 'Wow, I'm getting the hang of this!' he thought to himself.

The halfa approached Icedevimon, and turned tangible just in time to lay a fistful of enhanced strength into the digimon's face. A direct hit made Daniel's smile widen as he lift his other fist and hit Icedevimon's chest. The champion level digimon staggered backward from the power behind the blows. But soon recovered quickly, and struck Daniel with a Frost Claw attack.

"Gak!" Daniel clutched his stomach in pain, before he was gripped tightly by the throat and lifted up. The fourteen year old boy reached for his neck, trying to pry Icedevimon's claws off of him. The villain squeezed tighter, getting a weakened sound from Daniel as two white rings of energy appeared around his midsection, and transformed him back into his human form.

And here he was.


'I'm going to die... Why? Why didn't I listen?'

Daniel thought these words as he struggled against Icedevimon, he felt like his lungs were getting burnt alive due to his need to breath. He had to think of something, even if it was getting increasingly difficult to think as seconds go by. Daniel closed his eyes, and used whatever concentration he had left to turn himself intangible.

He did, and managed to get a quick breather as he fell to the ground, before Icedevimon's other arm held in at choke point as the digimon had landed as well.

'God d***it,' Daniel swore in his mind, trying to kick the digimon, but his human strength failed in comparison to his ghost form's own.

"And now, child, you will die."

"Leave Daniel alone!" cried out the voice of an eight year old, Ryan Chukareth began to beat his clenched fist against the legs of Icedevimon.

Daniel Marris looked to his young friend, managing to choke out, "R-R-Ry-an, run!"

Ryan shook his head, tears dropping down on to the frozen ground, "No, I can save you! I don't want to see you die!"

Icedevimon kicked the child away from him, laughing, "Wait your turn, boy! I will enjoy killing all four of you 'Digidestined' slowly."

The devil digital being tightened his grip, getting a broken scream of pain from Daniel, "How does it feel? To have your life slowly slip away? It feels invigorating does it not?" Icedevimon said with a overconfident smug grin.

Ryan slammed a fist into the back of Icedevimon's knee, surprisingly causing the digimon to trip. Daniel used this opputunity to slipped out of his grasp and roll away. Stopping just beside the frozen statue that made Rainbow Dash, strugging to get air into his lungs. Daniel looked up toward Ryan, his eyes widening in shock.

Ryan's hands were glowing a bright light blue aura of magic, the child screamed as he thrust forward his hands and out came a spray of cold wind. Icedevimon dodged it barely, but his right wing was frozen in ice.

"Impossible! How can a mere human do this to me?" He shouted, shocked beyond belief. Icedevimon looked down toward Ryan, his eyes narrowing on a small tag hanging around his neck, a tag that glowed dimly. "Your Crest glows, how? How can you make it glow this early! This cannot be, you four should not be able to let the Crest of Imagination glow so soon!" The villain yelled in defiance.

Ryan's eyes widened, as his hands brought up his Crest piece to his face, the tag and Crest glowing dimly before it fell back to its dormant state. "It glowed? What's so special about it glowing?" The eight year old questioned out loud.

Alyssa shouted to Ryan, "Get out of there Ryan! He's coming after you!"

"Run Ryan, run!" Madison screamed to her friend.

Icedevimon roared in rage at the boy, "I'll kill you! You might be the first to make it glow, but you'll also be the last!"

Ryan turned to flee, running as fast as his little legs could carry him. Rarity decided enough was enough, and abanded her ladylike attitude to save a friend. Using her telekinetic magic, she started throwing chunks of hard ice at the evil digimon.

"Take this you uncouth villain! Nopony harms a child!" Rarity shouted in anger, Pinkie Pie joining in as she started to throw ice cubes at Icedevimon.

"Yeah! What she said!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed as she threw the cubes.

Icedevimon grew annoyed at being pelted by small ice cubes, he hoveed in the air, "You want to see ice? Here, Avalanche-"

*SLAM!*

Icedevimon went flying, falling and skidding along the frozen ground because of a gloved white fist slamming straight into his side. The person responsible, Daniel Marris, now Daniel Phantom. Having recollected his breath, and in his Ghost form once more, he would let nobody harm his friends.

"Don't you dare lay a single claw on Ryan!" Daniel shouted, "As his babysitter, I am responsible for him." He commented.

"Daniel!" Ryan shouted in embarrassment, "That was only for two years!"

"Yet it was how both Alyssa and I met you and Madison." Daniel replied, waving his finger to make his point.

"Uh guys, bad guy first, talk later!" Madison stated as they all got together.

"Right," Daniel nodded, "Can you do that ice spray again, Ryan?" he asked.

Ryan nodded, "Sure can, I think... " He faced the direction of Icedevimon, focusing on the strange feeling of energy within him, then his hands glowed with light blue, "So cool... Take this, my super mega-"

"Just do it already!" Madison yelled.

"Party pooper... Ice Spray attack!" Ryan shouted as a spray of blue rushed outward to Icedevimon.

"Zero Freeze!" Icedevimon retaliated.

"Now!" Daniel shouted as he flew from an arc toward the digimon, who was occupied with countering Ryan's newest attack.

Daniel flew at him, and slammed his fist into the frozen wing that the digimon had. Icedevimon screamed in agony as his wing exploded into data particles, his back side oozing with digital code as he struggled to strike at Daniel.

"Why you!"

Daniel flew back, "Enjoy the ice age!"

"Wha- Nooooooo!" Icedevimon shouted as Ryan's attack, no longer being held back by the Zero Freeze, collided with his whole being. Freezing his body over as he screamed in anguish. Daniel slammed a hard punch into the frozen statue's center mass, causing the digimon to explode into data.

"We did it!" Pinkie cheered.

Fluttershy, who had hidden behind the battle, came out of hiding, "Is it over?"

Rarity nodded, "It is dear, we won."

Without warning, a blue bird of majestic beauty flew into the throne room. It looked at them all before screeching loudly in aggression, a charged beam powering up in its beak before...

Articuno disappeared, hazing out of existence as the breach repaired itself.

"That was too close for comfort," Alyssa commented, her friends and the ponies nodding in agreement.

The ice started to shine brightly, then started disappearing in a show of teal colored sparkles in a incredibly fast rate. The ice statues that contained their friends and partners melted and dissipated into nothing, dropping them, including the Princesses, on to the ground safely.

"It's like that one movie," Madison said, "Pokémon something, two thousand?" she questioned her knowledge.

"Guilmon! You're okay!" Alyssa said, hugging her digimon partner for dear life.

"Yep! Can't keep me down Alyssa!" Guilmon stated as he patted the eleven year old's back in comfort.

Madison went up to her charmander, patting its head, "You did great Charmander, return and rest, you deserve it," She said, returning her Pokémon into the pokeball.

The Mane six joined back together, along with the Princesses, in a celebration of happiness and tears of joy. The four human friends and their partners went up to the Princesses and Mane six with happy grins on their faces. But there happened to be one question on Ryan's mind that he just had to ask.

"Princesses," Ryan said, catching everyone's attention, "I don't understand, if the Crest of Imagination is broken into pieces like it is now, it can't work right?"

Princess Celestia looked thoughtful, but answered, "Child, what happened?"

"During the battle with the bad guy," Ryan started to explain, "I got really upset that Icedevimon was hurting Daniel so much, and I just had to find a way to save him! I knew from Twilight that I had Pony magic, so I thought I can punch him with it!" He said, "And it worked! Then I wanted to use unicorn magic, something with ice to show him how it feels, and then I shot a ice spray out of my hands, that were glowing with a magic aura!"

Daniel then said, "During that, his crest was glowing a tiny bit, not like bright, but dimly."

Luna answered them, "From what I understand, this Crest of Imagination piece that Ryan has seems to have responded to his emotions and thoughts, then made him be able to accomplish them."

Celestia nodded, "I assumed just as much," she looked to the Digidestined, "I'm afraid not even I know everything about the Crest's true capabilities. It is possible, that the Crest of Imagination has just as much power as a regular crest when split into four for each of you. But together, with your friendship, it can grow and give power like never before."

Guilmon tilted his head, "So, friendship is power?"

Pinkie Pie giggled, "Ah, I love wall breaks..."

"We'll discuss this later, in the meantime you can stay in Canterlot. I'm sure it's much more enjoyable without being frozen solid." Celestia joked.

Twilight grinned, "I can give you the tour, follow me!" She said happily, skipping toward the doors.

The rest of the Mane six followed, and the Digidestined of Imagination shrugged and walked toward the bearer of Magic. But they knew, that the time for fun and games can only last so long, Icedevimon is proof that the situation is serious. Death is real. And they can no longer ignore it.