~ A N G E L S F A L L I N G ~

~Chapter Two~

Nekoimon sprang again, this time for Gatomon's throat, but Gatomon
leapt swiftly to the side, and all the black cat caught was a mouthful of
white fur. Spitting it out in disgust, he sprang back into the fray.

This time, Nekoimon was ready. When Gatomon evaded his attack, he
suddenly flipped over and yowled, "Dark Claw!"

A beam of shadows shot from the end of Nekoimon's outstretched paw
and hit Gatomon right in the back, between her shoulder blades. She
crumpled, twitching on the ground.

"Gatomon! Are you all right!" Kari crept over to her side, shaking the
cat's fallen form. "Okay, Gatomon, time for you to Digivolve!"

A bright light engulfed the fallen cat, and she was hastily replaced by the
four-winged angel, indirescent light dancing behind her.

The image of Angewomon glinting in his eyes, Nekoimon braced himself
for the attack. There was a whoosh and a loud explosion as a Celestrial
Arrow buried itself and imploded the patch of grass where Nekoimon had
been just moments before with a blast of white light.

"Dark Claw!" Nekoimon countered, swinging his paw around and launching
it attack at the unsuspecting Angewoman, still surprised that the black cat
had advoided her arrow. She ducked just in time, but in doing so she had
to swing a wing over her head- right into the path of Nekoimon's attack.

"Agh!" she cried, floating lopsidedly on three wings, like a half-sunk boat.

Nekoimon grinned, showing glinting white teeth. "You're too slow," he
taunted.

"Angewomon!" Kari cried, wine-tinged eyes wide and almost brimming
with tears.

The angel made a valiant effort to recover herself, proclaiming strongly,
"Heaven's Charm!"

A wave of pink-tinged light swept its way towards the cowering cat, but
at the last possible, he pounced high up in the air, letting the attack run
its course below. Nekoimon landed with a flourish, green eyes glinting.

"Uh-oh," Tai noted. "All right, Agumon, you're up!"

"You bet! Let's declaw this kitty!" the diminuative dinosaur proclaimed
enthusiastically. A flash of light enveloped him, and replaced the small
dinosaur with the towering mass of steel and flesh known as War Grey-
mon.

"Another scratching post for me?" Nekoimon spat, bristling. He leapt to
the side as a huge armored claw buried itself into the ground by his side.
"A very /fast/ scratching post," the cat decided, arching his back in a very
cat-like guesture.

Seizing the chance of the moment, Angewomon let fly a Celestrial Arrow
into the unsuspecting cat's back. She was too close to miss. Nekoimon
let the world know that he had been hit with a loud yowl, and fragmented
into a thousand tiny pieces, like a broken china dish.

Both Angewomon and War Greymon Dedigivolved to their rookie stages,
Kari fussing over the somewhat tired Solomon.

"I'm all right, really!" Solomon insisted, but she seemed to shiver and
cower down to look smaller than she actually was.

"Solomon!" Kari felt her beloved Digimon's forehead worriedly. "You're
burning up!"

"I'm fine, Kari!" Solomon repeated, but she didn't feel that way. Her
vision wobbled, the fine lines of her world blurring and refocusing again.
She felt tired, so tired...

"Solomon!" Kari shook the small pink Digimon, but Solomon had already
passed out.