" Hoshi, what are you doing?!" Micheal shouted as he herds the painful scream of scar Gatomon and the other Digimon.
" she must suffer for her betrayal!
Hoshi replied back in a deep voice.
Micheal had no idea what was happening, the only other time he had noticed something like that is when Atsuko was possessed by the Digimon entity of hatred.
Micheal looked down on the floor and saw his crest of fear and D-3.
He dove down and grabbed Both.
" Hoshi, I'm so sorry I have to do this!"
He activated his crest of fear, he then saw a look of great fear in his sisters face, she screamed and then passed out.
Micheal caught Hoshi before she hit the ground but then he herds a hard thud as scar Gatomon hit the floor!
Micheal gently put his younger sister. Back into the bed while he went over to his Digimon partner.
She opened her eyes and looked at him, she then spoke weakly.
" Mike, what...happened?"
" sssshhhhh, don't worry, everything ok, you just get some rest with Hoshi while I check on something."
Micheal tiptoed out of the room to find his other two partners Veemon and Patamon had been in so much pain that they digivolved to Demi-veemon and tokomon.
Michael smiled and picked up his sleeping partners and put them back in bed with Hoshi, after checking on everyone else, they had told him that they woke up to find their Digimon partner screaming in pain then passing out.
After this Michael went to his room to find his little sister curled up in bed with all three of his partners around her.
He smiled then took one of the pillows and decided to sleep on the carpet.
/ / / /
Meicoomon looked out from the bushes in front of Lady devimon's old temple .
Her master had told her to free the older digidestened, no matter what the cost.
Meicoomon may not have been the smallest digimon but she made up for that in stealth and strength.
Puppetmon was guarding the front entrance, so she had to find another way in.
She then noticed a smaller entrance on the right side of the temple she quickly sprinted into a while puppet digimon wasn't looking .
She slipped down the entrance immediately felt something wet, apparently this is where in the past lady devimon's minions had used as a sewer.
Meicoomon wanted to vomit but she didn't have time, she jumped up and scaled the pipes, she crawled through another minor opening and entered through the vents till she finally found her way to the hostage room .
Most of the older digidestened were tied up with there spouses except for Joe and Tk who were single parents.
She came out of the vent and quickly gave the signal to be quiet but this did not really apply since all the parents mouths were duck tapped .
She quickly cut the ropes binding them and undid the duck tape.
"Uhh, thank god, who-" Kari was interrupted by Meicoomon giving her the quiet signal.
She gestured for the parents to follow her the way she came .
As they left the temple Meicoomon led them into the woods.
They followed her until she stopped in front of a small tv.
"My master has requested that I rescue you since that part is over I humbly ask you to go through this portal and wait for my master to meet with you
" This will only be good enough to get you to my masters domicile, unfortunately once you cross over you cannot cross back till you get your real ones back ."
" Are you crazy, I'm not going anywhere till I find my daughter and son! "
Sora put her hand on her husband's shoulder to calm him down, he did so when he saw the look in his wife's eyes .
" sir, I assure you, your children are in good hands, you will see them again before the day is over."
(Kaito's Cantina)
Michael and the others had left there digimon to rest in there rooms .
"Hey, where's my food !?" An angry digimon yelled.
" In case you haven't noticed jerk were a little backed up at the moment, you get it when you get it !" Michael yelled.
" What did you say human slime ?!"
" I said you'll get it when you get it!"
Michael went back in the kitchen with koji, Cody Jr and hideki.
" Hey yami, bring this to table 4." Cody Jr said.
Yami brought the food to the shouting digimon from before, she tried to get the next order the angry digimon grabbed her wrist .
" you took to long, bring me more!" Let go of me, if you want more food then you gotta buy more!" Yami said to him but he only tightened his grip.
" hey, the lady said let go, buddy." Wilhelm said appearing behind the digimon.
The digimon let go but got up to show he was huge.
" what did you say runt?"
30 minutes later yami was getting an ice pack for Wilhelm who was nursing a black eye.
"Does this help?" Yami asked.
" a little, look at what that guy did, my glasses are broken, these are prescription, my dad's gonna kill me! "
"Hey, what are you guys doing, I'm not paying you to sit around, get back out there and help gizamon !"
" but my brother can't see without his glasses, but I can help." Hideki said.
" your a little kid, you bust tables, you kid with the three stooges hair cut, go help gizamon ."
" me?" Cody Jr said .
" yes Moe howerd, get out there."
Kaito left the kitchen.
" Hey koji, I'll be right back, I'm just gonna go check on hoshi." Michael walked up the steps to find hoshi had just woken up.
" morning onii-chan." Hoshi said.
" morning, are you ok ?" Michael asked.
" of course I am, why wouldn't I be?"
She looked out and smiled at the bright shiny day .
" it's a beautiful day isn't it onii-chan?"
" Mike c'mon, I need help ! "
" Hoshi, for today why don't you just take care of the digimon today, I gotta go back and help in the kitchen."
He ran back down stairs, as the digimon started to wake up.
Michael was running back to the kitchen when he herd a voice say to him.
" Is she all right ?"
" what ?"
" I said is your sister all right ?"
Michael noticed the voice came from a humanoid digimon with bright yellow eyes and silver hair. He reminded Micheal of the pig people from the twilight zon. The digimon was smoking from a hooka pipe .
Michael recognized the digimon, he had been a regular customer for the past few days, Michael didn't know the digimon's particular species, all he had known about him is that he called himself Jericho.
" ya, she's fine, why?" Michael asked.
" just trying to be friendly." Jericho smiled after saying this and continued to smoke on his hooka.
Michael always felt something dark when Jericho was around and how did he know hoshi was unwell or that she was his sister ? Michael couldn't ask anything else because koji pulled him back into the kitchen .
Jericho smiled as this happened, with Micheal out of the way he could do what he was paid for .
( flashback)
Aruamon had his back tuned to Jericho.
" You'll find a set of children within the small city in the desert, once you find them spend a few days studying them especially the leader Michael once you have observed their weaknesses I want you to immediately destroy one of the most precious boy ."
Aruamon pulled out a small photo of hoshi izumi.
" What I've heard about you is true and I'm sure you can understand what I want you to do with her ."
( end of flashback)
Jericho put down his pipe and walked into the crowd of the Cantina, he then found his way to the employee living quarters and walked up the satires .
Jericho's particular species of digimon fed off the life energy of other beings, Jericho himself had taken the life force of nearly every digimon species but he had never had a human's life energy before and before he could feel it from here, it was a strong one, he would enjoy this.
He opened the door slightly and saw the izumi girl was with all the other children's digimon but that didn't worry Jericho, they were weak now and would give him little resistance .
He opened the door and she noticed him.
" who are you ?" Hoshi asked him.
" I'm Jericho what's your name?"
Hoshi didn't answer while the digimon got in front of her.
" my Daddy and mommy told me that I shouldn't talk to strangers ."
" beat it keep!" Scar gatomon said.
Jericho's face began to change, two long tentacles came out of his cheeks, they grew longer and trapped hoshi, Jericho bent his head back to show 10 rows of jagged sharp teeth .
The tentacles brought her closer to his open mouth.
Scar gatomon grabbed Michael's crest of fear and slammed her paw on his D-3 , she could feel the power of fear speeding through her veins .
Scar gatomon Dark digivolve to lady devimon!
Michael and the others herd the commotion from down satires and ran up to find lady devimon cutting off Jericho's tentacles!
Jericho made a similar sound a pitiful animal makes when it's in pain.
Jericho then looked at the group and attempted to grab Michael but before he could lady devimon grabbed Jericho by the head and attempted to crush his skull with her strength but before she could Jericho looked at yami and shot one of his razor teeth at her, the tooth hit her over her hart!
"Yami!" Wilhelm & koji said.
Wilhelm caught her and noticed that she was begging to bleed profusely.
Meanwhile Jericho used this opportunity to shoot another of his teeth at lady devimon's left eye!
Jericho then jumped out the window and into the crowded streets .
" where's the town doctor?!" Koji yelled.
" there's no doctor here, she was killed three weeks ago in this bar."
Michael helped his sister up and picked up scar gatomon.
"This is gonna hurt."
Michael pulled the tooth from her eye.
"Oww!"
" I know we're we can take yami, everyone follow me...you too kaito." Everyone followed Michael to the back room were they found Kaito's tv.
" Kaito, what's going on?" Gizamon asked.
Michael got out his D-3 and opened the portal.
" Everyone go through, get yami in first!"
Wilhelm carried yami through portal then the rest of the kids and there digimon partners went through except Kaito.
" I said everyone Kaito, that means you and gizamon!"
" I'm not going anywhere , look I feel bad for yami but I can't leave my bar. "
"Kaito, you've been selfish your whole life, for once your gonna do the right thing for yourself and for the digital world and help us." Michael said.
Kaito looked angrily at Michael.
"Were do you get off calling me selfish, my mom and I grew up in poverty while you grew up spoiled and well fed, Mr son of the second richest guy in Japan?"
Kaito replied.
" amazing, your as selfish as your mother."
"How dare you, my mother was the most selfless, kind women there ever was, besides how would you know about her?"
" follow me and ill tell you."
Michael went through the portal .
Gizamon and Kaito looked at each other for a moment then crossed over.
The portal closed and Kaito looked in amazement at the enormous castle, Kaito saw they were in an area filled with lava and molten rock .
" Mike, were are we ?" Cody Jr asked .
" my home away from home, I guess I'd say, take yami to the upper entrance, that's were the medical bay is ."
Cody Jr , koji and wilhelm took yami and scar gatomon to the medical bay while Micheal gestured for Atsuko , Kaito and hideki to follow him.
Hideki looked up at the base of the castle to see the symbol of fear carved into it .
" Hey Mike this place looks familiar ?" Hideki said.
" It should it's an almost exact copy of Darth Vader's castle on mustafar but I can't take all the credit Andromon helped me design and build it but I have one more surprise I want to show all of you."
As they entered the castle entrance they saw there parents waiting for them.
Hoshi jumped down from her brothers back and ran to her parents.
" mommy , daddy !" She ran into her parents arms .
" Are you pleased master?"
Kaito recognized the voice and turned around to see Meicoomon.
He looked back at Micheal and finally started to put things together .
To be continued