higuchimon | [fanfic] Regrets

Title: Regrets
Characters: Piemon, Vamdemon
Word Count: 224||Status: One-shot
Genre: General||Rated: PG-13
Challenge: Digimon Flash Bingo; prompt #672, "Daddy, I have had to kill you./You died before I had time" Sylvia Plath
Summary: Piemon has a small regret. Just a small one.

Really, it wasn’t that much of a problem. Just a small annoyance; a wish that events could’ve fallen out differently. Perhaps if they had, he wouldn’t have these Chosen Children as minor – very minor, he would finish them all soon – thorns in his side. At the least, he would’ve had more competent help to finish them off with.

For Vamdemon had been very competent indeed, and only by the thinnest of margins had he been defeated. He’d taken the chance to claim Ultimate status and only an Ultimate could defeat another Ultimate. When he’d kept himself where he belonged, on the Perfect level, very few had given him so much as a moment’s worry, save for that Angewomon.

Piemon knew that he himself could’ve defeated her easily enough. That would’ve given them everything they needed in order to win.

In due course, he likely would’ve had to destroy Vamdemon himself, though. The vampire thirsted after power as much as he did blood, and sooner or later, he would’ve made an attempt on Piemon’s own life. That wasn’t acceptable.

He regretted Vamdemon’s death and the loss of all of that power. But only because with the vampire at his side, he could’ve disposed of the Chosen and established his unquestioned rule over two worlds.

He regretted Vamdemon’s death only because he hadn’t done it himself.

The End