So here's chapter two. Please this is a sequel so if you haven't already read Digimon Adventure: The Next Generation before going any further. I hope you guys like the chapter its undergone several rewrites over the past couple of days.
Chapter Two: The Blue Light of Friendship
Lenny's arms tightened around her waist as Garurumon picked up speed. He glanced over his shoulder to see how Stingmon was doing against Cyberdramon. His partner wasn't faring well against the ultimate level digimon. Andrea whispered something that he didn't catch into Garurumon's ear and the digimon stopped.
"We can't stop they're gaining on us." Lenny said in a panicked tone.
"Stingmon needs help." Andrea said hopping off of her digimon partner. She looked up at Lenny, her ice blue eyes serious. "He can't hold him off by himself and Dan's not here so you guys can DNA digivolve. They can keep them off of us while we run."
Nodding he jumped off of the wolf-like digimon. Garurumon gave Andrea a toothy grin before running off to join Stingmon. The blond-haired girl watched her partner disappear into the trees and tried not to think that maybe two champions weren't enough to hold back their enemy. She shook her head remembering that Garurumon was slightly stronger than champion level thanks to what they went through three years ago.
"He'll be fine." Lenny said reassuringly.
"I know." Andrea mumbled looking her friend in the eyes. "I just hope it doesn't come to the point where he'll have no choice but to digivolve to DarkWereGarurumon."
"Hopefully the others get here before that becomes a necessity." Lenny said knowing that despite the fact that Gabumon would forever be able to digivolve darkly Andrea didn't want to rely on the darkness within them anymore. Pushing her forward he said, "Come on lets go."
Luke had really hoped that Lenny and Andrea could keep Cyberdramon and his friends away from the tunnel. At the realization that the furthest both of their digimon could digivolve was to the champion level he sent Dan, Zoey, and Hannah to help them. All this could have been avoided had he sent someone else in the beginning but the blond-haired girl had volunteered immediately after he told the group where they were going. He hadn't missed the brief flicker of fear in her eyes when he told them that they were checking out a disturbance at the gates of the Digital Underworld.
"What do you think is down there?" Luke asked Ian. He wanted to know what could possibly be locked behind the gates that would have Andrea scared, she didn't scare easily.
"I don't know, dad's never mentioned the Digital Underworld before now." The redhead replied. "Whatever it is, it can't be good."
Placing his sunglasses on his head Luke said, "We better be prepared for anything then." He looked over at Maya, Shelly, and JT. "Have Gatomon, Patamon, and Palmon digivolve. We have to be prepared in case we're attacked."
The three nodded and looked down at their partners. After the three of them were at ultimate level they continued following the old train tracks. Ian pulled out his tablet and stared at the map of the Underground, they were almost to their destination.
"Did you guys feel that?" Maya asked as they passed through a large archway.
"I did." Luke said.
"Me too." Johnny said looking back at the archway.
"Feel what?" JT asked arching an eyebrow questioningly at the three of them.
"The bone-chilling cold." Maya answered.
"I've only felt that once before." Luke said remembering the time he had let the darkness devour him. Suddenly he understood why Andrea hadn't wanted to come with them, they were headed into the darkest place in the digital world, the darkness would have taken her. "Blondie knows what's down there."
"What do you mean Luke?" Sara asked gripping his forearm tightly.
"She knows what's locked behind the gates and didn't tell us, she was too scared because whatever is down there is worse than the Nightmare King." Luke said surprised that he'd gotten all of that out of the brief moment he had seen fear pool into those sky blue eyes.
"Fist of the Beast King!"
The attack knocked the enemies in their way aside. Andrea stopped running and searched the trees for their ally. She knew he was Judai's digimon partner and therefore one of them. He had yet to reveal himself as the digimon of loyalty and join their group because he feared that he wouldn't be forgiven for what he did when he was under the Nightmare King's control.
"Hey you overgrown housecat there's no need to hide from us." She said looking in the direction she knew he was hiding in.
"Charming as ever Andrea." Leomon said stepping out from behind the trees.
Beside her Lenny tensed. She grabbed his hand and said, "He's good now, he's one of us." Lenny nodded but kept his eyes narrowed at the lion. "What are you doing here?"
"Lucemon has awakened." Leomon responded. Andrea's grip on Lenny's hand tightened as Leomon's words sunk in and panic started to take over. "He's still locked behind the gate but it won't be long before his digidestined finds a way to free him."
"He has a partner?" Andrea asked noticing that Lenny was drawing circles on the back of her hand with his thumb.
"No, he's chosen children, much like Azulongmon chose you, to defend him and the Digital Underworld." Leomon said.
"The Digital World has an Underworld?" Dan asked stepping out of the trees with Zoey and Hannah in tow.
Choosing to ignore the fact that her brother and Andrea were holding hands Zoey asked, "Are you saying that there are evil digidestined?"
"Yes to both of your questions." Leomon said.
"Who locked Lucemon away?" Hannah asked.
"The ancient warriors defeated him and the three angels put him in an eternal slumber." Leomon answered.
"What a knowledgeable kitty." A deep voice said teasingly. A boy with pitch-black hair and steely grey eyes stepped out of the shadows. Leomon stepped in front of the small group, his stance defensive. "Don't worry digidestined, I'll be merciful and grant your digimon a swift end." With a snap of his fingers a vicious looking three-headed dog appeared beside him. "Cerberumon go help Cyberdramon rip their digimon to shreds."
"Yes Yuichi." Cerberumon growled.
Standing behind the wrought iron gates was Jun who Luke now recognized as their principal's problem son, a girl he was sure he'd seen around school, and a boy he recognized from his math class. Jun said something to the girl, she nodded and looked over her shoulder at the digimon Luke assumed was her partner. At the sight of the fallen angel digimon Angewomon growled.
"Long time no see Blondie." LadyDevimon sneered.
Angewomon started forward but MagnaAngemon caught her wrist before she could go far. "She's taunting you."
"I want to wipe that smirk off of her face." Angewomon growled.
"She'll wipe the floor with you Angel." MagnaAngemon's head snapped up at the sound of the new voice. Standing next to LadyDevimon was another fallen angel digimon. "What's the matter?"
"NeoDevimon." Ian said looking at the description on his tablet.
"What's the digimon behind him?" Shelly asked pointing to the dragon-like digimon behind NeoDevimon.
"Devidramon." Ian answered quickly counting how many there were. He looked at Luke. "Any ideas?"
"Just one." Luke said unclipping his digivice and gripping it tightly in his hand. "We fight."
"They want to fight Junichi." The girl said in a sultry tone that made both Maya and Shelly want to gag. "What do you say we take this fight to the surface? See if Yuichi hasn't finished with their friends."
Jun nodded and with a flick of his wrist they were no longer standing in the Underworld but in the clearing that the others were in. Luke automatically found Hannah and then Andrea who was trying to rouse an unconscious Garurumon. Those who weren't already digivolved did and joined the fight. Somehow Andrea managed to wake her partner and he joined SaberLeomon in the fight against Cerberumon. Luke didn't have time to ask what in the world Leomon was doing there when Beelzemon, Sunflowmon, and Wingdramon came into the clearing.
With the three new arrivals the tide of the battle turned in favor of the digidestined. Luke wished that Garurumon could digivolve further than champion that way they could DNA digivolve again and win this easily. Only because Garurumon wasn't able to hold on anymore Andrea allowed the dark digivolution. DarkWereGarurumon, Beelzemon, and SaberLeomon easily subdued Cerberumon.
"Still relying on the dark to save you Goldilocks." Jun said looking over at Cyberdramon who was squaring off with Paildramon. "You'd be better off as one of us than one of them."
Andrea pretended not to be bothered by his comment and followed his gaze. It was settled not on Paildramon but shifting between Lenny and Cyberdramon. She didn't think about what would happen to her, her only thought was that she couldn't allow Lenny to get hurt. Before Lenny could realize what she was doing she pushed him out of the way. The attack intended for him never hit her, instead it collided with one of MetalGreymon's giga missiles. She looked over at Luke who gave her a tight grin and a thumb's up, she nodded in appreciation.
"What were you thinking?" Lenny asked.
"That I couldn't let you get hurt." Andrea said sitting up. "Friends look after one another and after realizing that you would have done the same there wasn't any other choice."
"You're stu—" Lenny started but at the faint blue glow coming from underneath her red and grey plaid shirt stopped mid-word. "Your crest its glowing."
"Huh?" Andrea said looking down at her chest. Her eyes widened to the size of saucers when she saw the blue glow intensify. "A small amount of kindness can turn into the truest of friendships. Friendship ensures that there is always someone there no matter the circumstance." Andrea whispered, she heard it echo in the voices of Beelzemon, SaberLeomon, and DarkWereGarurumon.
Every eye in the clearing was fixed on the blue glow coming from the crest they never thought would glow. Slowly they shifted their gazes to DarkWereGarurumon, he turned back into Gabumon.
"Gabumon Digivolve to...Garurumon."
"Garurumon digivolve to...WereGarurumon."
The digidestined stared in awe at Gabumon's true final form. He flashed them a confident toothy grin before kicking NeoDevimon into an oncoming Cyberdramon. With renewed effort the digidestined's digimon fought back knocking away the enemy digimon until only LadyDevimon, NeoDevimon, Cyberdramon, and Cerberumon were left. With one powerful kick WereGarurumon knocked Cyberdramon back into his in-training form.
"We should go back and find the others." the green-haired boy said to Jun.
"Reizo's right." the girl with the long curly black hair said. She gripped Jun's arm. "We're only at half strength without the others and now all of their digimon can digivolve to ultimate." She glared at Andrea and Luke. "Soon those two will be able to go mega and then they'll DNA digivolve, we have to find a way to let Him out before then."
"I get it Asami." Jun said. He looked at the digidestined, particularly at the blonde he was so fond of and said, "We'll meet again and the outcome will be different." With a flick of his wrist all of them disappeared from the clearing.
"So now Gabumon can digivolve to ultimate." Izzy said as the kids finished telling him of what happened on their trip to the digital world. He looked to Andrea who was sitting in front of the couch with a sleeping Tsunomom on her lap. "This is good."
"If Lucemon is released we're so screwed." Andrea said.
Lenny nudged her side with the tip of his boot. She looked up at him. "We'll just have to do everything in our power to keep them from releasing him."
"It won't be easy but we can do it." Luke said and everybody nodded in agreement. "We'll do whatever we have to in order to keep the digital world safe, we're the digidestined its our job."
Andrea didn't want to mention that they've never faced someone like Lucemon. Eventually she'd have to tell them the stories but right now she wouldn't say anything that would crush their fighting spirit.
"School's going to suck tomorrow." Dan said stretching his arms above his head.
Izzy laughed at the cumulative groan the teenagers let out.
To be continued...
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