A/N: I know what you're thinking…it's been FOREVER since I've been on. And it's true. I don't have a good excuse…at all, which sorta sucks. I was planning on taking Dark Tamers into a different direction, but I wasn't happy with what was available, like…I'm not satisfied with any choices to fill the gap from Impmon to Beelzemon. And there was a villain that hasn't been released yet - if it's even released - and I wasn't completely sure if I should create an OC or not. If my above conundrum is fixed I might shrug and create an OC. They aren't all that difficult to create. So back to this fic. This is a sequel to my as-of-yet-unreleased-revamp-of-Dark Tamers. Some things have changed from Dark Tamers, so don't be alarmed. They're things that are planned for the revamp. The revamp is going to include a new title as it has diverted from that angle, or rather it has gained more depth. The Royal Knights have nothing to do it, as an example. This story takes place long after the events of the prequel and not long after the events of Revenge of Diaboromon. It is original Digidestined-centric but the younger ones will come into play later on.

Disclaimer: Digimon does not belong to me. I am, however, claiming the idea for this story and my OCs.

Prologue - Calamity strikes! A hard decision must be made.

Relative calmness surrounded the palace in the Dark Area. Lilithmon tapped her nails along the table of the meeting hall. Something nagged at her. It wasn't like him to go on a recon mission, she thought, let alone take this long. She glanced at her comrades. They, too, seemed restless. Daemon stood, looking out the window, searching for a sign that things were alright. The other four were amusing themselves somehow. Barbamon was reading, Belphemon was…well, sleeping, Beelzemon was polishing his guns, and Leviamon was swimming in the chamber connected to the Net Ocean. Nervous energy abounded.

"He should be back by now," Daemon stated. "All he was supposed to do was check the situation. Why he couldn't send a Devimon is beyond me, they might as well do something!"

Lilithmon couldn't help but agree but instead said, "Lucemon is fine. He probably took advantage of being out. I know I would savor the time outside the Dark Area."

"Who knows," Beelzemon grunted, "He could've neutralized the threat already. He tends to get full of himself every once in a while."

A cackle of laughter burst from the room. It startled everyone, even Belphemon shifted in restless slumber. The other Demon Lords looked at the source: Barbamon.

"Haha, oh how clever," Barbamon said, mild sarcasm in his voice. "How many Meramon does it take to burn down a forest? Apparently, it takes ten to try before realizing they were trying to burn down a coral reef!"

The others groaned. Barbamon the Wise, as he was known in some parts, was amused by poor jokes. Irony abounds…

"What was that?" Leviamon asked when he surfaced.

A slight electrical, tingly feeling passed through them all.

"I can't sense Erebusmon!"

Barbamon's amused face turned serious, "Something has happened. I sense it, too. Something bad has happened. Has Lucemon…?"

Just then, each of the Demon Lords staggered and crumpled to the floor. A sense of suffocation overcame them and their chests were bursting in pain. A white light engulfed the hall, and the pain escalated until everyone passed out.

Mt. Jiang is one of the highest mountains in the Digital World. It reaches miles into the sky. In the cave at the very top of Mt. Jiang was a woman-shaped digimon dressed in a kimono with a yellow fox mask. She smiled, for her cunning plan had worked. It was rather simple. She announced her title as Goddess to the the Digital World, and promised to annihilate the Seven Great Demon Lords as show of good faith as well as her might. It was something that she had planned to do anyway, so why not begin her deified duties by exterminating the filth?

She smiled looking out to the vast land. It was hers. No one would stop her; question her, yes, but there would be no sense in raising a battalion against her. Not after destroying the Seven Great Demon Lords. She hit the jackpot when Lucemon arrived at her front door. She expected lackeys to lurk about. Instead, the leader of her opposition spared her the trouble of tracking them down. She heard a lot about the Demon of Pride, and played coy about her announcement. They chatted about how she only meant to be a beacon of hope who were beaten and worn apart. He seemed to buy it.

She smiled at her capture within her home. Always have your home secured for possible intruders…the warning played through her mind once again. Her prey stood immobilized in the center of the room standing on a chakra-sealing circle. One thing did have the shaman digimon confused. After she recited her spell, two beings appeared inside the circle. One she recognized as the rookie form of Lucemon. The other, which confused her the most, was a blond-haired human boy wearing a black cloak. Where did the human come from? She didn't have access to a spell that would kill the Seven, so instead she opted for one that would de-digivolve them to their rookie stages along with one that would neutralize their crests of power to ensure they couldn't re-attain their mega levels. She would dispose of the powerlessness rookies afterward.

The appearance of a human was startling. When accompanied by a digimon, a human was thought to be a Digidestined. This boy was certainly not one…at least she thought he wasn't. Maybe he was not human and instead a being similar to Gennai - assistant to the Harmonious Ones.

"Lady Sakuyamon!" a voice bellowed from behind her. Startled she turned to see who it was.

An armor-clad, samurai digimon kneeled. Sakuyamon smiled, "Tactimon, you were successful?"

"Yes, m'lady," Tactimon said, standing. "The World of Darkness has been sealed using your enchantments. Two Taomon placed the seals, and Baromon and Sepikmon have stationed themselves to defend from possible intruders."

"Was there any resistance?"

"None until the very end. He must've not thought the sealing would work. But as soon as the sealing was near completion we felt tremors from him trying to break the seals with brute force. But it was too late. We won't have to worry about him helping restore the Seven Great Demon Lords. And you won't have to vie for God of this world."

Sakuyamon grinned. Things were coming along just like she expected - better, even. Now two of her threats were neutralized. The fearsome Seven, and the God of Darkness. This would certainly land her in the favor of the masses. She thought back to the boy in the circle…perhaps he was an assistant like Gennai coming to see her and accidentally warped inside the circle. Ah well, she'd apologize later to the Harmonious Ones.

"Tactimon, gather your forces and tell Zanbamon to do the same. Search all across the Digital World for the rookie forms of the Seven Great Demon Lords. Exterminate them. I would suggest beginning in villages that have recently been attacked. Look in caves, underground hideaways, and anywhere they might hide. Leviamon might be trickier to locate."

"Yes, m'lady." With that, Tactimon left Sakuyamon pondering her next moves.

Now it is time to start conversion. Get the digimon to think of her as the Light personified. Tell them she has defeated the most malicious threat to the Digital World. While it was only a minor technicality that she hasn't exactly defeated them, the rookie forms will have no way to reclaim their former power. They were as good as deleted.

Lilithmon awoke feeling very…different. She was drained, that was for sure. Something else, though, told her something was very, very wrong. Her eyes adjusted to the room and it hit her at once. She was not Lilithmon anymore. She looked at the other, and found the same result. Everyone had reverted down to their basic forms, wearing the same black robes. She nudged her partner awake.

"Mmmm, what happened?" BlackGatomon, a black cat digimon, asked. She opened her eyes, "Hayley?"

Hayley nodded, "I don't know what happened. I don't remember deciding to revert, do you?"

BlackGatomon shook her head, "It must have been from that shock we had. The pain must have done it."

"Ugh," the boy where Belphemon was grunted as he stood up. "Ah jeez, I'm so tired…"

"Hey, Don you okay?" Hayley asked.

A look of confusion struck his face from being referred to his human name, until he saw his partner Phascomon beside him. "Oh man! How did this happen?"

"We aren't sure," BlackGatomon answered. "We just gained consciousness as well."

One by one the others woke up, startled that they were in their human forms. Zach and DemiDevimon, formerly Daemon, took order.

"Guys, let's not worry about this. Sure, we haven't been like this…for a very long time, but it's going to be okay," Zach said.

"Has anyone tried turning back?" Don asked.

No one had.

"I would like to point out," Darren, formerly Barbamon, said, "that, at least on my digivice, my crest isn't lit up."

Everyone took out their black devices. Their crests were still in place upon the screen, but Darren was right. The crests weren't lit up, which meant that the crests were not active, which meant they could not return to their digimon forms.

"What do we do now?" Betamon asked, looking at his partner Scott. It was hard for the for the pair to not have their shared consciousness as Leviamon.

"Well we certainly can't allow any other digimon to see us like this. Especially not any working for us. They'd turn on us as soon as they realize our vulnerability," Kota, formerly Beelzemon said, obviously frustrated.

They all were frustrated. One big question loomed above everyone's heads.

"Who did this?" DemiDevimon asked. "Does this have anything to do with what Lucemon is doing? And why he isn't back yet?"

Bokomon, Darren's partner, nodded, "It must, along with not being able to sense Erebosmon. The World of Darkness must be sealed off."

"Well we can all agree that we're in deep trouble," Hayley said. "We have a few options…"

"Right," Zach said, "We can ask GranDracmon for assistance -"

Kota cut him off, "Are you insane? We can't do that! He'd kill us as soon as he found out!"

"But he's an ally!" Betamon said. "He helped us before we became the Seven Great Demon Lords. He knows that you guys are humans and that together we become megas."

"That's beside the point," Kota's partner, Impmon said. "Whenever he wants us to visit, he always talks about the old days, and how he wished he could rampage on the Digital World for old time's sake. You know why he doesn't? It's because we're here. We're his replacements. if he found out we weren't able to fill that roll, he would burst from his mansion and destroy us!"

Everyone was quiet. They couldn't argue the facts. GranDracmon is an ally, however he was too unpredictable to rely on. Especially now when they couldn't afford to be turned on. They were too vulnerable.

"Let's face the facts," Darren said, "Someone did this to us. Whoever it was did the same to Lucemon, so now Lance is in the same position as us. Kenneth, too. Our crests have deactivated, which means theirs probably did as well, which means they reverted back as well. Whoever did this is going to want to kill us. We pose, or rather posed, a threat. But we'll be hunted to assure that we don't rise back up. They probably assume we're contacting allies already, but as Kota pointed out, we don't really have any that we can turn to. So they will take precautions against something that we can't implement. They're ahead of us. We can't assume we can hold this force off with only six ultimate level digimon - provided we can even achieve that. There really is only one choice available."

"And what is that?" Hayley asked.

"The Digidestined," Darren said. He was dead serious, though, despite knowing the possible consequences of involving them.

Scott coughed up a faint laugh, "If only you were referring to us…"

"The Digidestined?" Zach asked.

Darren nodded, "They're the only ones who can help us. With their eight crests, they can definitely help us take on whatever threat is out there."

Zach's face was pained, "But what if they learn who we are…I mean, they know who I am."

"Yeah," DemiDevimon said, "As Daemon, we fought them in the Real World."

"We'll have to lie of course," Darren explained, "They can't know who we really are. At least, not until we stop whoever it is out there. This 'Goddess', as she calls herself poses a major threat if we don't take care of it. It reeks of the same corruption from before - when we were originally summoned to the Digital World. Whether she knows of our role in the past or not, we're the only ones aside aside from Fanglongmon and the Harmonious Ones who know the past. With us out of the picture, who will stand in the way?"

Kota nodded, "Even GranDracmon would fall if the Royal Knights organized underneath her. He's right, the Digital World would face another era of corruption and oppression in the name of peace and Light. The Digidestined wouldn't even interfere and if they did it would be too late. I agree with Darren, we have to try."

Everyone else agreed, besides Zach, who was still uneasy.

"Relax, Zach," Darren said. "We're only summoning the original eight. We won't summon the other four unless it's absolutely necessary."

"Fine," Zach said, reluctantly, acknowledging the gravity of the situation. "Let's do it. We have to be careful though, we know how sensitive the younger two are to demon-type digimon."

"We'll just have to construct our lie very carefully," Darren said.

"Or…how about we tell them the truth," Hayley offered, "At least, what the truth was when we were weak and vulnerable. Back when we were chosen as Digidestined. We were protectors of peace and balance. Sound good?"

Everyone nodded. It was time to prepare the summoning. There was little time to waste.

A/N: Yes, it is short. It's only a Prologue, though, meant to set up the rest. I hope I've grabbed your interest! For you who have read Dark Tamers, you might be a little confused. Well, even if you haven't you might be confused. All I can say is disregard Dark Tamers as a whole. I'm going to revamp it. But the theme is still the same with these characters. They aren't evil. As for why I've chosen the original eight, I personally believe they are stronger the the 02 gang. The show made the 01 guys way too weak in my opinion. Even TK and Kari, who had more experience, were the weakest on the team. The new guys will make an appearance, but not any time soon. Again, to those who read Dark Tamers, a lot has changed from names, to characteristics, to digimon, to digivolution lines. Don't expect a whole lot to remain the same from Dark Tamers. Review and post any thoughts, complaints, and whatever else. I'll try to update in a week. Updates won't we fast, but they will happen! One last not regarding Erebusmon. He is an OC of mine so don't rush to look him up. More info about him will arise in good time but if you are curious go on Wikipedia and look up Erebos. Might give you a clue or two. Until next time!