CHAPTER FOUR

"Come on now." Angemon said, ushering them toward the door. "My colleagues need to speak with you again."

The DigiDestined, still reeling with the reconnection to their spirits, shakily followed him.

'This is all going so fast! Could we just, I dunno, stop and talk this through?" J.P complained, rubbing his head.

"Why, that's where we're going now. If you would just be patient." Angemon said.

Zoey scoffed at the larger boy.

"Yeah, really J.P." Then she gave him a small smile to show she was joking. She then attempted to roll her eyes, but gasped and leaned heavily on Kouchi when a sharp stinging shot through her brain.

"What's wrong?" Takuya practically screamed in her face. Zoey winced and pressed two fingers to her temple.

"Nothing. Just shut up."

They were silent.

After going along several halls and up to flights of stairs, Zoey was practically being carried in between Kouchi and Koji, who had their arms around her waist while her own arms wound around the back of their necks. Tommy was once again holding Terriermon, who they had run into in the hall. J.P and Takuya followed behind the twins and Zoey, worry radiating from them in waves. Angemon didn't seem to notice.

They finally reached a small wooden door and Angemon pushed it open, ducking,literally, under the low arch into a modest cabin-like room.

Angewomon, who was sitting at a round table, stood up and smiled in greeting.

"Ah, I assume you have merged once more with your spirits."

"Yeah!" J.P said enthusiasticly, then seeing the amused looks the two Celestial Digimon gave each other, he blushed and grumbled something under his breath.

The six humans examined the room. It was indeed cabin-like, though the walls expanded farther out then they had expected. The walls were paneled with what seemed to be wood, but the floor was the same polished marble of the halls. To the left there was a large fire place completely taking up the space of one of the walls. In the hearth a green fire burned from the ground with no wood under to sustain it.

"Floo powder?" Takuya muttered to J.P, who snorted at some private joke the others didn't understand.

Other then the fire place there was little decoration or furniture except for the round table that had three chairs equally placed around it. To the right though, the floor seemed to be a carpet kind of material, and Antylamon was in the center kneeling, head bent.

"Antylamon," Angewomon said gently. "The DigiDestined are back."

First, his ears twitched, then Antylamon's head slowly looked up. His eyes swept over the DigiDestined as he stood, then landed on Tommy and froze. He walked over, face blank and stopped beside Angewomon, eyes still fixed on Tommy.

"Hello again." He said softly.

"Hey!" Takuya said back cheerfully. Tommy, nervous under the rabbit's gaze, fled behind Koji and Kouchi who were still supporting Zoey. Watching Tommy flee, the other boys seemed to remember Zoey.

"Oh yeah," Takuya said, suddenly worrying again. "Zoey's-"

"AH!" J.P shrieked abruptly. "ZOEY! Takuya how dare you forget about her!"

"Me? YOU forgot about her while I probably worried away six years of my life!"

"HA! If you worried away six, I've worried at least twenty!"

"Oh, twenty? I've worried so much my hair is going to turn gray and I'll die tomorrow!"

"Pfft, your hair was already gray and no one cares if you die Taki."

"I told you not to call me that! Arrg!" Takuya launched himself at the older boy and they rolled off wrestling.

"Guys!" Tommy yelled, chasing after them.

Koji rolled his eyes.

"Not to be rude, but could she have one of those chairs?" Kouchi asked politely.

"Of course!" Angewomon quickly pulled out one of the chairs and the twin brothers carefully lowered Zoey onto it.

Zoey moaned and slumped forward, head in her hands. Angewomon jabbed a finger at Angemon.

"I suspected something like this would happen, but noooo, we had to merge them now!"

"Whoa, wait, you knew something in the merging would affect Zoey?" Koji accused the two angels, figures itching to grab his D-Tector.

"No,No! Of course, I didn't know exactly what would happen..." Angemon protested.

"Tell. Me. What's. Wrong. With. Her." He snarled.

"Koji, calm down." Kouchi said, laying a hand on his brothers shoulder. Angemon gave them a embarrassed look.

"Well, remember how we said Lilestamon had been able to contact Kazumon?"

"What about it?" Terriermon asked seeming interested.

Angemon looked startled, as though he hadn't realized Terriermon was there.

"Uh, well, I assume Lilestamon is trying to contact Kazumon now, because this is the general time every week she does, and since Zoey and Kazumon are technically one now, Lilestamon is pulling at the Spirit side of Zoey, assuming that it's simply Kazumon. Do you follow?"

Zoey looked up at Angemon seeming scared. "So," She winced, "That's why my head...feels..like, really bad?" Angemon nodded sheepishly.

"Uhg!" Angewomon exclaimed. "I didn't think you could be so stupid Angemon!"

Kouchi looked at Angewomon strangely.

"But you knew this was going to happen. You must have agreed to it in the..uh..Meeting Room."

"No!" Angewomon protested forcefully. "I didn't agree at all, but I was overruled by these two!" Antylamon turned a forceful gaze on her.

"She may be in a bit of pain now, yes." He said softly. "But if we had waited, Lilestamon may have assumed the DigiDestined were not coming. We have decided, after all, that she was the one who contacted them in the first place."

"Oh, and she would have assumed that if we had waited another day?"

"Yes. As you know, Kazumon had been able to receive messages from Lilestamon, but never actually send them. And if Lilestamon could contact Earth, she must know our times are different. If more then a day passed, it would mean about an hour in the human world. That would seem to be too long to make a decision. Anyway, even though she contacted you on the terminal, she might have assumed you decided to turn back or were injured or killed. Since Kazumon wouldn't have been able to send her a message back, Lilestamon would have no way of knowing you had arrived here safely. But now, on the other hand, she can probably sense Zoey's spirit, now bonded with Kazumon. Soon, she will abandon attempts at contacting Kazumon, and instead speak to you, Zoey. Or maybe she is already trying. I do not know. Kazumon was in a lot of pain when she was first contacted too."

"But...But If she's going to contact me, then why does it...oh!" Zoey suddenly gasped in pain and shock, both hands wrapping around her head as she swayed slightly in the chair. Koji abandoned glaring at Angemon and Antylamon to kneel next to the chair and steady her.

"You okay?" He asked softly.

"No. No no no no." She moaned back

"Wait so..." Takuya said seeming to have abandoned fighting with J.P. "This is all Lilestamon's fault? I thought she was good!"

Angemon sighed. "Haven't you been listening? She's just trying to communicate."

Takuya turned to J.P, seeming to have made up with him.

"I feel like we're in an ET remake or something."

J.P nodded.

"Hey Angewomon?" Tommy asked, walking up to her. "How come Lilestamon can't just contact us through our D-Tectors? She did back at the Terminal."

Angewomon looked disturbed. "I don't know, young warrior..."

Zoey suddenly let out a scream, her her body arching as her head flung backwards her eyes opened wider then seeming possible and her mouth dropped. Her scream cut off but she didn't move. Then suddenly her head tilted down, eyes glowing blue.

"Zoey?" Koji asked in shock, standing up and moving away. Zoey's mouth moved soundlessly for a moment, then words came.

"You came! You came! You're here. I knew you wouldn't turn back but... I couldn't sense you at all!"

The humans stared in shock at Zoey; It wasn't her voice. It was a woman's voice, light and airy. Musical even. And very enthusiastic. The humans and Celestial Digimon stared at her.

"Oh..I know this must be shocking for you...I'm sorry such dramatic measures had to be taken."

"Hey!" Tommy yelled running up to Zoey. "Why couldn't you just use our D-Tectors, huh? Why'd you have to hurt Zoey!"

Zoey still sat staring straight ahead, and didn't respond. Takuya moved forward and pulled Tommy back.

"Well," The voice coming from Zoey said. "you're probably wondering why I had to contact you through your friend." J.P and Kouchi shared a look that clearly asked, Can she hear us?

"Well, the thing is, after you left the terminal where I first contacted you, your aura's completely disappeared. I didn't know what to think; Usually that only happened when ones fractal code is erased, but even then it appears again around their Digi-Egg. But, DigiDestined, yours simply vanished with out a trace!"

The five boys looked at each other. A heavy cloud seemed to hang down on the room. Suddenly, the door cracked open again, and every head snapped to it.

Neemon sauntered in, chewing what seemed to be a carrot.

"Hi, what'd I miss?" They stared at him a moment then shook there heads and focused again on Zoey.

"So, here I was, worrying you'd died or worse turned back, when suddenly, BAM! Your aura's and the Spirits, who'd I'd been keeping tabs on, were suddenly together! So then I knew you had at least reached the castle. I wanted to contact your D-Tectors, but when I tried, I couldn't get through! I wasted enough energy on attempting that, and so I decided to just try and contact the Kazumon side of Zoey. When that didn't work, I contacted Zoey herself and now I'm speaking through her to you!"

"She seems kind of..happy for a Digimon." Koji muttered to Kouchi. The later shrugged.

"Ahem. Now in all seriousness, I must tell you about Lilithmon."

There seemed to be a dramatic pause, and the Celestial Digimon leaned in closer in anticipation.

"She's insane!" Zoey yelled in Lilestamon's voice. Every person in the room sweat dropped.

"No but really! Now, for a few hours, she's just been randomly blowing up stuff floating around the moons! Oh, and, uh, speaking of moons, remember how she kinda Digitized everything on the third moon? I think she's trying to destroy it completely now!"

(AN:I don't know the moon names, so I'm just referring to them as numbers.)

The Celestial Digimon stared at Zoey.

"But...But that's impossible!" Angemon said to Angewomon.

"She shouldn't be that powerful yet!" Angewomon said back in shock. The DigiDestined starred at them then looked back at Zoey.

"I told you before that she was just Digitizing everything but...I think she's absorbing some of the power, and just sending off enough Fractal Code so keep us from getting suspicious!"

Antylamon's mouth dropped. "Im...Impossible! We have kept track of the ruined data! We have tracked, sensed and seen a substantial amount to cover all the affected area's!" He shot forward hands gripping Zoey. "How is that reasonable at all? How!"

"Hey!" Koji exclaimed angrily. "Get away from her before I make you." Kouchi raised an eyebrow at Koji's protectiveness.

"Antylamon! Let go of the child!" Angemon said in a gruff voice. He too looked like he wanted to jump at some one in frustration, hands clenched. Antylamon stepped back shaking his head.

"She must be misinformed."

Angewomon nodded in agreement to the rabbit-like digimon.

"She must."

"Oh yeah!" Zoey/Lilestamon suddenly exclaimed. "Also, if possible, could the DigiDestined come meet with me? You don't have to, and I under stand if you don't, but I would wish to discuss the situation with you one on one. I don't think I'll be able to contact your D-Tectors, so for now this is goodbye! Oh, and you should probably be wary of...eeek! Ohmygosh!"

The rooms occupants stared as Lilestamon cut her self off, then Zoey's eyes stopped glowing and her head fell forward. She sat straight for a moment then slowly swayed to the side.

"Zoey!" J.P and Takuya screeched, both jumping forward and ramming into each other. They proceeded to argue, so the twins leap to her side instead. Koji caught her and Kouchi immediately checked her pulse like Koji had done in the woods.

"Zoey?" Koji muttered, shaking her slightly. She let out a groan in response.

"Why," She asked in a whisper, eyes beginning to flicker open, their natural color back. "Do I keep passing out today?"

END OF CHAPTER FOUR

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