The tamers were stunned to see the strangely coloured digimon with an ice club. Henry pulled out his digivice. "Hyougamon. Champion level digimon. Special attack: Ice Cudgel"
"It looks just like Ogremon," said Rika.
"Maybe it's his twin brother or something?" suggested Terriermon.
"This is no time jokes, Terriermon!" reprimanded his Tamer. "Look out!"
Hyougamon charged at them, raising his cudgel for a smash. They were all barely able to dodge, giving the fact that they were on ice. Monodramon tried to take Hyougamon head, being the battle-loving digimon. However, just as he was about used beat knuckle, the cold digimon dodged and smashed him into a tree with its cudgel.
"Monodramon!" cried Ryo, rushing towards his partner. The dragon like digimon seemed like a bunch of crumpled leaves. His partner knelt by its side , calling out its name. The little dragon stood up quickly only to fall flat on the cold powdery snow. "Steady, now, steady," Ryo told his digimon. But being the battle-loving monster, Monodramon was frustrated and once again charged towards the enemy.
"Digi-modify, Meramon's flame!" called out Ryo.
Monodramon let loose a burst of flames straight at the ogre. However, the enemy was able to dodge it by sliding on the ice. It them hurled it's cudgel like a boomerang at the dragon. The latter took a direct hit, having been caught off guard and slided across the ice.
Meanwhile, the fox-like digimon snuck up on the enemy, jumped up and released sharp diamond like leaves at it. Hyougamon blocked them with his weapon and proceeded to throw a huge ball of ice at point blank range. The fox digimon took a direct hit and was knocked towards the snow bank. "No! Renamon!" cried Rika. She glared at the ogre and pulled out a card from her deck.
"Digi-modify! Digivolution Plugin in S!" she said, slashing the card into her Digivice. The words 'Evolution' appeared on it.
"Renamon digivolve to...Kyuubimon."
The ninetale fox summoned will o'wisp at the end of her tails. "Fox Tail Inferno!" Hyougamon was able to deflect them with its snow barrier. "Dragon Wheel" cried Kyuubimon, turning her body into a dragon with blue flames. It would have hit had Hyougamon not dodged into last minute and landed a Ice Cudgel on her. The nine-tailed fox was on its knees as it was being battered by the blue ogre.
"Digi-modify! Digivolution Plugin S!" cried Henry.
Terriermon digivolved into Gargomon and began pummelling Hyougamon with Gargo Pellets. Using this opportunity, Rika used another modification card. "Digi-modify, Greymon: Mega flame!"
Kyuubimon launched a large red ball of flame. The ogre digimon, having taken a direct hit, seemed like it was down for the count, but when the nine-tailed fox readied was about to deliver the finishing blow, it dodged. Standing up, Hyougamon swayed from side to side before launching itself at Kyuubimon. The two digimon fought, sliding on the frozen lake, neither one giving in, until Gargomon launched bullets at the horned digimon.
"Digi-modify! Power activate!" cried Henry, slashing the card. Gargomon glowed brimming with energy and strength. The large bunny rushed towards the ogre and hounded it with a barrage of bullets. However, the icy digimon spun it's cudgel, deftly deflecting them. Then it made an alarming charge straight towards Rika. The girl tried to move but ended up tripping on her skates and falling on the ice. She braced herself for the attack when Kyuubimon appeared and took the hit. "No, Kyuubimon!"
As she hunched over her partner, the ogre lifted it's cudgel to deliver a blow.
"No, Rika!" cried Henry. "Get out of the way!" But the girl was unable to move.
"Digi-modify! Digivolution Plugin S!"
Monodramon digivolved into Strikedramon, then landed a strike claw, sending Hyougamon onto the snowy bank.
"You shouldn't have tried to harm her. Let's end this, Strikedramon!" said Ryo. "Digi-modify, Hypersonic!"
The half dragon, half man like digimon's speed increased greatly, allowing it to deliver the final blow on the ogre. As the digimon began dissipating into data, a familiar raspy voice spoke through its mouth.
"This is only just the beginning tamers. We will arise and this time the digital world will be covered in darkness. Our lord will be revived once again and no one will be able to stop him, not even you legendary tamer"
Ryo's eyes widened in shock. He glanced at the dragon-like digimon that had just reverted to its rookie form. Monodramon blinked at him, with clear golden eyes. Ryo looked perplexed and yet, something about those words made him shudder. It was like he was forgetting something...something important but couldn't understand what it was. Rika and Henry watched him stiffen, a serious look on his face and glanced at each other.
"Hey, Ryo, what did that digimon mean? Do you know?" asked Henry, snapping him out of his reverie.
Composing himself, he answered, "No...I have no idea."
"I see," said Henry. " We should have a meeting with the others and let them know what happened. Let's go."
As they were leaving, Rika's eye involuntarily fell on the hunched back of the legendary tamer. She had realized that he was lying instantly and wondered why the he had to lie. 'Is he hiding something from us? Or is he puzzled about those words as well?,' she asked herself. These thoughts were interrupted by the image of Strikedramon dealing the finishing blow. She heard a voice inside her head taunt her, 'You've truly grown weak. That was a digimon you could've have disposed of easily. But no, you let that silly bunny help you and allowed that annoying tamer's digimon to finish it off. I'm so disappointed.' There was no mistake, it was her own voice but much more emotionless and ruthless.
'Shut up! I'm not like before!' said Rika to herself while shaking her head. But was to no avail as the thought did not cease to stop going on about it. Little did Rika know that this was only the beginning of all her troubles. Just when she thought she was free from it, she heard beep on her phone and so did the other two. It was a message from Takato, asking all the tamers to meet at Guilmon's hideout by noon.
A/N: Yes, as you might have all guessed, a 'certain' digimon will also be back. Also, I just updated the chapter to make it more longer.
Special Thanks to Reihime for her review.
I purposely made it so that Ryo doesn't remember his past adventures (with 01 & 02). Will join the dots in the later chapters.
The messenger is a digimon we have all seen (take your guesses, and no it's not Icedevimon). Will do my best to post more chapters and do let me know if there are any areas I need to work on.