Ok, so this chapter didn't really turn out as expected... and revealed way more then I had planned... again...

At this rate I don't even know how this is going to work out anymore...

I used wiki as an additional source this time since it had the more commonly used disruption for an attack but I combined it with the divided description to try to make it make more sense since I didn't understand it.

Anyways, I hope you enjoy this chapter, and thanks for reading my story up till now.


In an unknown place...

"Hm... Odd... This place seems to be becoming strangely just the tiniest bit more stifling today... It's almost as if there is a force trying harder to oppose me... It feels almost like them... But it can't possibly be them... Unless..." The voice trailed off at the suggestion before braking into maniacal, insane, laughter.


It was late and everyone was sleeping except for Koji, who was thinking about stuff, and J.P. and Takuya who were still up talking

That is until Tommy started tossing and turning in his sleep.

Zoe woke up to see what was going on, Neemon fell out of the tree he was sleeping in and Bokomon woke up to tell him to keep it down.

The four warriors gathered around Tommy, who had stood up and was holding a smoking stick, muttering something like "I won't forgive you."

They tried to tell him to cut it out as he held the stick like it was a weapon, but instead he through the stick aside and spirit evolved to Kumamon and started attacking them with his "Cristal Freeze" attack.

They were all started and ran to get out of the way.

At one point a tree fell over and nearly hit Zoe but Takuya managed to think fast and knock her out of the way.

J.P. decided he wanted to digivolve but the others were against it saying there must be another way.

Just then there was a high pitched scream followed by an intense light.

"What?" Zoe gasped as they turned to the light to see that Kiry, who was somehow still sleeping through all of this had been hit on her injured leg by one of Kumamon's stray attacks and her face was contorted in pain.

The light was now originating from Tobucatmon supprisingly, as he yelled out "Tobucatmon digivolve to... SkullBaluchimon!"

"SkullBaluchimon!? Oh dear, this is not good! Not good at all!" Bokomon cried in panicked recognition, as the light retreated to reveal a rather intimidating giant four legged beast made up of blue bones with big, bright red eyes. Just the sight of the creature sent chills down everyone's spines.

"Wow... What the hell is that thing? It sure doesn't look very friendly..." J.P. trembled.

"That's cause it isn't." Bokomon said, also trembling.

"It would seem that Tobucatmon has somehow digivolved to Skullbaluchimon of all the bad luck. Skullbaluchimon is an undead type, ultimate level digimon. He formed from fake fossil data and real fossil data, making him the biggest land animal. Because he has neither feelings nor intellect, he'll continue to attack the enemy continuously attack the opponent till escape becomes impossible! His "grave bone" tramples his opponent, burying them underground. But what ever you do, make sure you don't get hit by his attack "Deadly Fear!" It imprisons his opponent in his cold black vapors and chases them eternally until they die!" He declared.

"What!? Damn I hope he doesn't see me as his enemy..." J.P. trembled.

"I'm not too sure about you guys, but I definitely don't like the way he's looking at Tommy!" Takuya declared alerting the others to that very thing.

Kumamon and SkullBaluchimon were glaring at each other, SkullBaluchimon looked a ready to charge while Kumamon also seemed ready to fight.

"Damn. If they fight each other like this one of them will definitely end up dead." Koji cursed.

"No way! We can't just let them kill each other!" Zoe exclaimed.

"Guess we really will have to spirit evolve." Takuya grunted, not liking the idea of fighting his friends one bit.

"And what? Do the job ourselves? What if we only hurt them more?!" J.P. demanded.

"I don't think that will be necessary..." Koji said, thinking about it carefully.

"Huh?" They all turned to look at him in confusion.

"It's only a theory, but I think some of the digimon's evolutions are probably maintained though Kiry's consciousness. Right now she's dead tired since she's barely slept since we got to the digital world, the only thing currently making her maintain some degree of consciousness is the pain from the ice against her injured leg. If we were to remove the ice she would fall back unconscious and the digivolutiotion should reverse." Koji explained.

"Why would Kiry's consciousness have anything to do with the digimon digivolving?" J.P. questioned almost as though out of spite.

"Just something she told me before." Koji shrugged, brushing the question off.

"He's right." A new voice cut in.

They turned to see Dorumon and the others were up as well.

"When I de-digivolved last time it was at the exact moment Kiry lost consciousness." Dorumon put forth.

"So then if I could just melt the ice with my fire, then we could focus on figuring out what's wrong with Tommy!" Takuya declared.

"Except it won't be that easy." Zoe interjected.

"Huh?" Takuya asked, wondering what she ment.

"She's right Takuya, if you use enough fire to burn it all in one go, you could burn her and just make her injuries worse, possibly putting her in even more pain and simultaneously throwing all hope of rectifying the situation out the window." Bokomon explained.

"Aw-man... Then what am I supposed to do?" Takuya asked.

"You'll have to melt the ice slowly while we try to keep those two from killing each other or us in the meantime." Koji said, arms crossed, face serious.

Takuya didn't seem to like the plan much but reluctantly agreed anyway, seeing that it was their best bet and the fastest way to melt the ice.

"Execute! Spirit evolution!" They all cried out.

"Kazemon!" Zoe, who now looked like a purple butterfly girl or something, cried.

"Beetlemon!" J.P. now a big yellow and blue beetle, shouted.

"Lobomon!" Koji, now a large wolf guy, yelled.

"Agunimon!" Takuya, now with long blond hair and orange armor, roared.

Agunimon ran over to Kiry wile the other three went to run interference in the fight.

Skullbaluchimon had charged at Kumamon but the little bear digimon froze the ground and he slipped and ended up running into several trees then turned around to try again.

Kumamon however was now proceeding to change much of the forest floor to ice.

It was of little use now though as Skullbaluchimon only slamed his feet down harder now to crush the ice and came again.

"Grave bone!" He snarled as he leapt toward Kumamon.

Lobomon countered the attack with his "Lobo Kendo" move.

But that left his back open to Kumamon's "Blizzard Blaster" attack.

Kazemon however pushed him and the attack away with her "hurricane wave" attack.

Skullbaluchimon was not happy with being pushed back and snarled as he charged again.

He and Kumamon both now aming for their group.

They were jumping around to dodge Kumamon's attacks wile at the same time trying to fending off Skullbaluchimon's attacks and charges.

They were starting to get really tired and worn out when Skullbaluchimon cried out "Deadly Fear!"

"Shit!" Lobomon cursed as they all turned to face him.

But just as the attack started to appear he began to glow and was soon replaced with the form of a small unconscious grey dog or cat or whatever with miniature air plain wings.

"Alright! Taky did it!" Beetlemon cheered.

"It's not over yet." Lobomon warned.

"That's right, We still have to figure out what's wrong with Tommy!" Kazemon agreed.

"Oh yeah..." Beetlemon remembered dejectedly as they all had to dodge an incoming attack.

"Hey guys!" Agunimon called as be joined his friends.

"Hey, good going there Takuya." Kazemon said, grateful they had at least one less problem to deal with.

"Yeah, but there's something else too. I'm almost certain I saw something darting by on my way back here." Agunimon said.

He cast a glance at Lobomon as be said that who nodded in understanding.

Taking out one of his swords and pointing it upwards, Lobomon shouted, "Ancient spirit of light!" as his sword became a large pillar of light and lit up the forest.

"There he is!" Agunimon declared as he spotted what he was looking for and darted off after it.

When he returned he seemed to have a pretty good idea what was wrong with Tommy.

He told him that he was only having a nightmare and it wasn't real then he took down the Bakumon that had been controlling him and scanned his fractal code, turning him back to a good digimon.

Then Tommy turned back to normal though he didn't remember anything that had happened.

Everyone went back to the camp, taking Tobucatmon with them.


"Oh yeah, you said Kiry told you something that made you think her consciousness might be connected to these guys digivolving, so what did she tell you anyways?" Takuya asked Koji as they neared the camp.

Koji considered the question for a bit before he sighed and responded honestly, "regarding her, she was actually more reluctant to join up with you all then you might think, you really shouldn't push for answers she's not looking to give."

"And she's fine talking to you?" Takuya asked, raising an eyebrow.

Koji just shrugged before walking on ahead.

When they returned Bakumon put the others to sleep as Koji watched.

Then suddenly his D-tector said

"Your beast spirit is ready but you have some growing up to do first."

"Wait, Koji." Someone said just as he was about to leave.

Turning he saw that it was actually Kiry, she looked exhausted and was barely awake though.

"Yeah?" He asked, his hands in his pockets.

In his mind he cursed a bit. He'd sort of been banking on that she'd be out for at least a day or two. He realized that if she could wake up she would probably want to get away from the others even if she was the type that wasn't crazy enough to follow him in her condition.

But the look in her eyes was serious and dark, though still tired.

He tried to brace himself for whatever she would say, though with her, he really couldn't imagine what it might be.

In hindsight, he wasn't prepared at all for what she said next.

"Be careful. I think he's near. That guy from before, Grumblemon, I mean." She warned.

Koji stared at her in surprise before his eyebrows scrunched up.

"What makes you think that?" He asked in confusion.

"I told you. I don't like that guy, there's something dark about him..." She trailed off.

He massaged his eyes before looking at her again.

"Will you stay with the others?" Koji asked her, it wasn't so much a question as an exasperated plea.

She frowned.

"They're not going ask you things." He assured, making her raise a brow.

"I told them you were more reluctant to join them then I was." Koji explained with a shrug.

Kiry let out a long sigh before nodding.

"As long as they don't decide to do anything stupid." She reluctantly agreed.

Koji nodded before turning to leave, as he did so she noticed two small figures following after him before she once again closed her tired eyes.


When she reluctantly opened them again she saw the others were making a racket because Koji had taken off and Bokomon and Neemon had gone after them.

Apparently, Koji had decided to leave a note for them that had pissed them off. She wasn't really sure why he even bothered. He really was too much, that guy...

She closed her eyes again as she silently listened to their conversation.

"Well at least Koji can take care of himself. What about Bokomon and Neemon? Think Koji's going to care what happens to them? Come on. We're going after them." Takuya declared and the others cheered in agreement.

'Well, this definitely qualify as doing something stupid...' She thought to herself, flatly.

"If that's what you want then just leave me behind here." She interjected as she reopened her eyes.

"What? But why?" Zoe asked, surprised by the outburst.

Kiry rolled her eyes.

"In case you hadn't noticed, my current state isn't of much good. Besides, I have a bad feeling... I'm staying right here." Kiry said resolutely.

"What? But you can't even move on your own right now..." Tommy frowned.

"Exactly." Kiry nodded.

"What the-? Seriously? She makes less sense then Koji!" J.P. declared, running his hands through his hair.

"Well, like it or not, we're not just going to leave you here." Takuya declared, stepping towards her.

"Kyokyomon!" She commanded, head down, eyes shadowed.

"Metal Straw!" The little digimon shouted as it expanded it's body and spit iron prickles at him which he quickly jumped back to dodge.

"Hey! Are you crazy? What's the big idea!" J.P. demanded, upset that his friend had been attacked.

"I said I'm staying. I don't particularly care for your opinion on the matter." Kiry said, glaring at them. She didn't have anything against them, but she was tired as hell and didn't have the strength to be worrying about getting in anyone's way; and besides, she really didn't want to go anywhere near that Grumblemon guy or whatever it was that was in the area right now. More over, if it was anything like Grumblemon, then extra baggage would be the last thing they needed right now.

"You can't be serious!" Zoe cried, but the look on Kiry's face made it clear that she was just that.

"Damn. She is crazy! And here I thought Koji was bad!" J.P. cried.

"Are you sure you'll be fine on your own?" Takuya asked, worriedly.

"I should be able to manage. I've got the other digimon with me." She shrugged, dropping her glare as she brushed him off.

"Fine. But we're coming back after we get Koji and the others." Takuya relented with a sigh.

"Fine by me." Kiry nodded.

Then, just as they were leaving she shouted, "Be careful! Koji probably ran into some serious trouble already!" She warned.

"Got it!" Takuya yelled back with a cocky smile, except that he really didn't get it and Kiry knew it. She wondered for a bit if she should have elaborated in spite of herself but soon found her eyelids gaining heaviness as she drifted off for a wile again.


Suddenly, Kiry's eyes snapped Open, and her heart was racing as it threatened to jump out of her chest.

She found herself surrounded by darkness and the digimon were nowhere to be seen.

There was a deep laughter that sounded far too familiar for her liking and the dread she'd felt from Grumblemon's presence was nothing compared to now. Now that familiar, dark feeling was like an ever present force weighing down on her, though something inside her told her this still was not the source.

She tried to the best of her ability to force herself to calm down enough to judge her situation.

Something about her body felt wrong... The weight..? No, not quite... Something else... More disoriented yet easier to control, but more then that.

'That's it!' She realized.

She felt like hell before but now she felt only a lingering mental exhaustion, that shouldn't be possible. Where ever she was she wasn't really there. It was like she was dreaming, but this felt much too real to be a dream.

No. It's not that it felt real, it was real. Somehow she'd come to a strange place without actually going there, like a disembodied spirit.

"It's been a long time Kiry." The voice that had been laughing said as some of the darkness parted to reveal a large black rabbit like creature.

Upon seeing the creature Kiry felt an entirely different wave of dread she could not explain rise up within her.

"This can't be..." She heard her voice say on impulse, though she could not understand why she said it.

The large rabbit smirked slyly.

"Do you recognize me Kiry?" He asked, circling her with the grin still on his face.

"I-I don't know... Who are you..?" She trembled out, her mind had largely stopped working a moment ago as she felt her previous sense of dread rise when he smirked.

"Come now Kiry, it's me, Cherubimon." He said knowingly as his smirk widened.

She vaugly recognized the name as one everyone said had been spreading evil through out the digital world and one she had found vaugly framiliar too.

Clutching at her head as it began to hurt, Kiry chocked out, "Wha-What do you want?" grinding her teeth from the pain in her head as she said it.

His grin widdened again as he came right up to her face so that she had to lean back a little and said, "your memory."

Suddenly, Kiry's real eyes snapped open as she nearly jumped out of her skin from all the chills running down her spine.

Figuring it might take her mind off it to focus on finding the others she called the digimon over and started to get up.

Leaning on the tree for support she stood and with the help of Dorumon and Tobucatmon, she made her way in the direction the others had headed.

She arrived just in time to see Koji working with a Gotsumon to get his beast spirit.

He couldn't control it but he still managed to defeat Gigasmon.

She smirked when she saw Gotsumon catch Koji's hand and help him up.

When the others turned around they were supprised to see her standing there, which Koji rose an eyebrow at since she had said she'd stick with them, but she only shrugged in response.


As they walked through the forest the others took it upon themselves to tell her what had happened.

Koji was carrying her on his back to minimize how much she'd slow them down by.

"So what happened to make you change your mind about coming with us anyways?" Takuya wondered.

They all watch as Kiry suddenly turned pale and stiffened at the question. She had actually been trying to forget about that.

"Nothing in particular." She quickly muttered in response.

"You sure? Cause your reaction sure doesn't make seem like nothing." J.P. pointed out, only to shut up instantly when she sent him a glare with the promise of death if he said another word on the subject.

"A-anyway, we should hurry and get Zoe's spirit back!" J.P. declared, in a hurry to change the subject in order to redeem himself to avoid a slow and painful death.

Kiry rolled her eyes as J.P. made a big fuss about getting Zoe's spirit back.

"Your just saying that to act cool so she'll like you." Kiry accused.

"I am not! Can I help it if I'm just a naturally caring guy?" J.P. declared, turning all red before trying to look cool again.

"Caring as the billionaire that makes a show of donating a million bucks to a orphanage then walks outside through the back ally and kicks a stray cat that approaches him maybe." She waggered, raising an eyebrow.

"J.P. isn't that bad..." Tommy weakly defended.

"Hey, if you put it like that it makes it sound like I really am!" J.P. complained.

"Well, you do tend to act that way sometimes..." Takuya sheepishly admitted.

"What? Not you too Takuya! Well I'll show you I'm sincere when I get Zoe's spirit back!" J.P. declared.

"We still have to get to the forest terminal though and Grumblemon's more then we can handle." Koji pointed out.

"We can't just leave things as they are though!" J.P. argued.

"Calm down guys it's no big deal! Let's just go to the forest terminal!" Zoe cut in.

Just then Bokomon cleared his throat.

"If I may, perhaps we should seek out a fortune teller regarding our next move." Bokomon suggested.

"A fortune teller?" They all asked.

"Yes, I know of a very reliable fortune teller." Bokumon explained.


When they reached the fortune telling town they couldn't stop looking around at all the stange "fortune tellers."

Although for Kiry, she simply couldn't stop looking at all the digimon.

It was the first time she's seen so many digimon in one place. Seeing so many at once she felt several tugs of familiarity pulling at her mind, individually they hadn't had much impact but all at once like this they became hard to miss and she had to hold her head from the pain.

"Are you ok Kiry?" Zoe, who was supporting her as they walked through town, asked, eyebrows furrowed in concern for the other girl.

"I'm fine, It's just a small headake." She assured her with a small, forced smile. One which Koji didn't fail to miss.

"Do you want to step out of town for a bit?" He asked her, raising an eyebrow.

She shook her head.

"I'm fine, really. This one isn't like before." She insisted.

Zoe raised an eyebrow at that.

"This happened before?" She asked.

"Just once or twice." Kiry smiled sheepishly, still not comfortable with sharing.

Zoe hmm'd, but relented deciding not to push the subject, at least not until the girl was feeling better.

Realizing this and recognizing that she'd probably have to tell the girl later, Kiry let out a sigh, making Zoe smile as the silent agreement was formed.

Zoe might not be as sharp as Koji or knowledgeable as Bokomon but she was still more observant then the others, Kiry would have to remember that.

Without realizing it, Kiry smiled a little.

Despite all she'd inharited from her parents, her mother's gift for making friends had not been among it. Most kids were turned off by at the least one of her interest, though it was hardly surprising. After everyone's memories were lost and her remaining friends became distant she rarely even spoke to people. Her grand parents, who took care of her, often didn't know what to say around her apart from things along the lines of "how was your day?" or "what would you like to eat?" it'd just become too hard between grief over her parents dissapearince and her own memory loss.

It had been nice talking to Koji but something about the idea of being able to talk to another girl suddenly seemed nice. Maybe it was the fact she didn't seem to demand answers to her questions right away like she'd thought she would when they first met that changed her opinion? Or was she herself starting to change? The latter seemed unlikely, but maybe she could learn to?

She thought about it a little. She did sometimes feel like there was a time when she was more carefree back when her parents were around, she didn't remember it, but she silently wondered if it was possible that she could be like that again.

Shaking my her head she decided to leave it up to time to tell as they followed after Bokomon.

He lead them to a Shamanmon who gave them a really strange prediction, especially Tommy and Takuya.

He was interrupted by an earthquake though and everyone ran out side to see Grumblemon and a Golemon emerge from the ground.


Sorry again but I'll be ending this chapter here since it's already so long and I've sort of revealed a lot more then planed in it already.

That, and I want to put a little more thought into what I'm gonna do for the next part.

Hope you enjoyed the chapter, and please review and tell me what you think.

Advice regarding how to handle the fighting parts in the future would also be appreciated.

I'd also like to hear other's thoughts on the story's progression and anything you think it might be good for me to try doing differently.

Thanks again for reading.