VENTURING THROUGH THE DARK

Tony was walking around the downtown of Odaiba, there was a crowd of people around him, but for some reason he couldn't see their faces, only blank faceless and hairless heads. Tony felt stepping on liquid and then he looked down at the street, finding water that reached the middle of his ankles. "What the heck?" Tony heard the sound of a wave crashing and he looked back to find a Tsunami wave hitting the town, the boy gasped and he started to run away. As the wave slowly came closer to him he noticed that he crowd was still behaving as if everything was normal. "What is wrong with these people? Aren't they seeing this tsunami?!" Tony questioned aloud as he kept running but in the end if was futile for the wave reached him, Tony opened his mouth releasing a stream of air bubbles in a matter of seconds his world became black.

When Tony woke up, he found himself in a beach, the boy coughed sea water and he tried to get up but he fell on his four limbs, Tony looked up and saw the sky, that cast a gray, gloomy twilight over the land. He couldn't tell if it was day or night, and the only sound that could be heard was that of the waves crashing against the beach. Tony got up and he looked back at the beach, it was gray and lifeless like everything else in that strange world. "But...Where am I? How did I even get here?" Tony looked around the place, he saw something that resembled a village. "Maybe I can find help there." Tony started to walk to the village. As Tony walked, the smell of the salt air of the almost black ocean became mixed with the smell of dead fish. The odor was so overpowering that Tony wanted to turn back at that instant, but he couldn't. That village could be his only hope of leaving this place.

The stench fish kept getting stronger as Tony moved forward, and soon he arrived at the village, that looked abandoned even from a distance. He could not tell exactly how much time had passed, but before it seemed that no one lived there in a long time. The whole place seemed to have been abandoned for years. The paint on all the buildings had peeled away, and there were very few roofs that were completely intact. Most had either completely caved in or just had a few holes in them. Most of the buildings that he passed were two story houses with boarded up windows on the second story. The entire town had a look of complete decay, which was made more prominent by the fishy odor. Yet Tony couldn't help but feel that there was still life. Even though the village seemed abandoned, Tony felt that there was something watching him.

Then he heard a creaking sound, Tony turned to his back and he saw a horde of crimson hooded humanoids leaving the houses. Tony couldn't see their faces, only their bright red eyes. "Finally, a sign of life." Tony walked towards the crowd of hooded people. "Hey, guys! Excuse me, but...Do you know where am I? And how I get out of here?" Tony's questions were in vain as the hooded crowd seemed to ignore him. "*hmpf* Jerks." Tony growled.

He was about to leave but he noticed that the people were walking towards a specific direction. For some unknown reason, Tony decided to follow the crowd. Tony didn't know for how long they walked, but eventually they arrived at a cliff above a sharp looking sea reef. The crowd of hooded people formed a circle around something and they hold each other's hands while chanting something in an unknown language. Tony cocked an eyebrow and he pushed the people away, and he saw something that he wasn't prepared for. He saw Kari, tied against a rock altar, near her was a horned humanoid Digimon that wore a hooded crimson mantle, and he had purple bat like wings; but what shocked Tony the most was that Beelzemon was there, a two-handed ax near him. "Now, young Beelzemon." Said the hooded Digimon. "Fulfill your task, and start the Apocalypse!" Beelzemon smirked sadistically and then he grabbed the ax.

Tony's eyes widened in horror and he ran towards the Beelzemon. "Beelzemon, what are you doing?!" The boy screamed, but as with the hooded crowd of cultists, Beelzemon wasn't hearing him. "Beelzemon, stop it! Please Beelzemon, you can't do this. Beelzemon can't you hear me? It is me Tony, your friend!" Beelzemon laughed like a maniac, Kari twitched and squirmed in her bindings.

Tony heard strange sounds in the water, the boy crawled to near the cliff's edge, he saw bizarre movements on the sea, and then a monstrously big hand made of tentacles moved out of the water and grabbed onto the cliff, and then another hand hold onto the cliff and some kind of creature started to rise out of the sea, at same time as a city built with a non-euclidean geometry rose from the sea behind it. The monster was a thing incredibly huge, almost mountainous. The creature was roughly humanoid with an octopus head and a pair of bat-like wings on its back. The general outline of its shape, combined with its red glowing eyes made the creature the most terrifying and alien thing Tony has ever seen. Then Tony heard the sound of a blade cutting through flesh, followed by a blood-chilling scream.

Tony woke up screaming Beelzemon's name, sweat covering his temple. He looked around as he panted, thankfully he was at his bedroom, the whole ordeal was merely a nightmare, a terrible nightmare, but nevertheless a nightmare only. Right? Tony heard frantic steps outside of his room, and then Impmon entered the room. "What is the matter Tony? Are you okay?" The purple Digimon asked concerned.

"Yes *pant*, I am okay *pant* it was only a nightmare." Tony said.

"Are you sure?" Impmon said, to which Tony nodded. "Okay, Okay. I'll go downstairs and prepare the Breakfast okay?" Impmon said and he left the room.

Tony sighed and he laid down on his bed. Three days, three days have passed since Argomon's attack on Odaiba. The principal of his school has given the students a week off. "It is the third Nightmare in a row, what the heck is happening to me? Am I getting crazy?" He turned to the nightstand besides his bed that had a book on top of it. He took the book and read its cover "The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft". "And what that last nightmare was all about?"

MEANWHILE AT THE FORTRESS OF THE HORDE OF DARKNESS

Astamon was on top of a chandelier, listening to BlackWarGremon and BlackMetalGarurumon having a conversation with ChaosGallantmon and DarkKnightmon. "And then Argomon noticed this little boy, crying near his dead mother. And guess what happened, he took the kid and then gut him like a fish!" BlackWarGremon said and he laughed a long with the others, ChaosGallantmon was the only one who remained silent.

"It was hysterical! The way that kid dropped like a piece of meat was unbelievable, I've never seen something so funny in my entire life!" BlackMetalGarurumon laughed.

Astamon snorted. "Disgusting, all of them. If I didn't need their assistance, I would get rid of them." He thought.

"Don't get angry at them, they are simply talking about their likings. Still, what they do should matter nothing to us." A voice said in Astamon's head. "I suppose you are going to proceed with your plan soon."

Astamon smiled. "It'll be done yes, but only at the right time, my master." Astamon said, formally crossing his legs. "Only at the right time."

AT SAME TIME AT THE DIGITAL WORLD

In the middle of the forest, a duo of Drimogemons, a Raremon and a Woodmon were running through a forest while an unknown flying attacker was shooting explosive fireballs at them. Out of sudden, the Raremon tripped on a root and then he was incinerated by a fireball.

"Hey, over here!" The trio turned their heads to the side and they saw cave, they entered it and inside they found an Apemon, a Blossomon and Yanmamon.

"What are you doing here?" One of the Drimogemons said.

"Argomon wants to know what is happening, the entire regiment in this area was disappearing from the radar!" Blossomon said.

"We were patrolling the area when out of sudden the Deva Sandiramon came out of the skies with an army, they were massacring us!" The Drimogemon said.

Then Woodmon continued speaking. "And then...Zhuqiaomon came in and everything went down hill."

"Zhuqiaomon? He is here?" The Apemon asked.

"Sonic Zephyr!" The roof of the cave was destroyed in a gust of wind, the four Digimons looked up and they saw a huge bird like Digimon. The bird was red, with four red eyes and eight wings, some of the feathers on the wings were yellow and were arranged in a flame-like design. Instead of tail feathers, the Digimon had a lizard like tail, and six orbs of red light floated the tip of his tail, while another six floated near his neck. On his back was something that looked like a jet engine. "Yes, I am here, and even closer than what you expected, butcher! Phoenix Fire!" Zhuqiaomon breathed a stream of fire that incinerated all the other Digimons, with exception of Yanmamon that flew away.

Zhuqiaomon looked as Yanmamon escaped, he hmpfed in disdain before landing. "Lord Zhuqiaomon!" The bird like Digimon looked to the side and he saw a Digimon that resembled a red version of Angemon flying to his direction.

"What is it Piddomon?" Zhuqiaomon asked.

"Lord Sandiramon sent me to inform that most of Argomon's forces in the area were destroyed. A few survivors were captured so he wants to know what to do with them." Piddomon said.

"No prisoners!" Zhuqiaomon roared. "We'll leave only after all of that butcher Argomon's soldiers in the area are nothing but ashes!"

SOME TIME LATER IN THE TREE FORTRESS

A loud and rage-filled roar was heard throughout the fortress. The source was from the throne room, and the one who roared was Argomon, that took his Leaf Blade and he used it to cut nearly all the machinery in the room to vent his frustration. "Are you sure that you saw Zhuqiaomon?" Argomon said to Yanmamon.

"I am sure, there is no other Digimon that could cause all that damage, sir." Yanmamon said.

"We must gather and send a rescue team as soon as possible, there might be survivors!" GranKuwagamon said.

"I am afraid this will be in vain. They slaughtered everyone, not a single trooper was spared." Yanmamon said.

HerculesKabuterimon, GranKuwagamon, TigerVespamon and GrandisKuwagamon widened their eyes in shock; Gorillamon, Kurata and "Alpha" sported a blank expression; and Argomon was still burning of rage. "Damn! DAMN! DAMN! That is what I get for following your advices V! And to top of it that idiot disappeared!" Argomon thought, and he gritted his teeth as he kept thinking about the situation. "The situation is dire, to say the least. In one side I have the Royal Knights and their troops, on other I have this accursed Horde of Darkness that is simply causing random mayhem! And I also have not being able to locate HiAndromon and his resistance. And now I have The Devas and The Sovereigns interfering! It is just like that old saying, the best defense is a good attack." And then Argomon turned to his allies. "GrandisKuwagamon, send a message to all the garrisons to cancel their former orders and relocate to defend the territory under our control. Gorillamon! Kurata! Take all the prisoners we have and convert them into Gizumons. Alpha, once Kurata and Gorillamon are done converting all the prisoners, send three fourths of the Gizumon to the battlefield, the remaining Gizumon must stay here and guard the Tree Fortress. TigerVespamon, send all the black-ops squads out on the battlefield and try to discover whatever you can on our enemies." Argomon made a dismissing gesture and TigerVespamon and the others left the room.

GranKuwagamon and HerculesKabuterimon were walking through a tunnel. "So, what do you think about this whole situation?" GranKuwagamon said.

"The whole situation is fragile, one little mistake and the whole thing will collapse on itself." HerculesKabuterimon said. "Worst is that Lord Argomon didn't consider that the Tree Fortress could be located and attacked. The best thing he could do was order a total evacuation from here."

"Evacuate? And where would we go?" GranKuwagamon said.

"To our hive, to the middle of the forest, it doesn't matter. With our army split all over the Digital World, stay here is the worst decision possible." HerculesKabuterimon said.

"And even with all this instability Lord Argomon won't stop with his goal." GranKuwagamon said, crossing his arms. "Even with this massive disaster he won't give up. This iron will is both his greatest strength and his doom."

Back in the throne room, Argomon was with a black and gold robotic humanoid Digimon, with a horned skull like head, a cannon in his left arm and a sickle blade replacing his right hand. "Hey, Argomon. With all this mess you forgot to gave my orders."

"Oh, yes. You are right Reapermon, I forgot you." Argomon said. "I suppose you heard about the DigiDestined, didn't you?"

"Yes, I know about them. Those are the kids have been giving you a big trouble, right?" Reapermon said.

"That is right." Argomon said, he put his arms in his back. "Some days ago I attacked their home town to deliver them an ultimatum, they should not interfere or I would retaliate. I want you to go to Odaiba and keep an eye on them, just to make sure that they won't try anything against me."

"Should they try anything, what must I do?" Reapermon asked.

"Kill them! Kill all of them and bring their Digimon to me." Argomon said.

"As you wish, I won't disappoint you." Repearmon said.

"I hope not." Argomon growled as he crossed his arms. "I already was disappointed by a bounty hunter before you. The traitorous fool escaped the well deserved punishment with his life, should you fail with me, you won't be so lucky. Understood?"

Reapermon gulped. "I...Understand, sir."

AT SAME TIME

Impmon was preparing waffles while whistling the theme music of The Transformers. "Tony was acting weird upstairs. Nah! It must be nothing, I still have some terrible nightmares." Impmon thought as he put the waffles in two plates, and then he filled two cups with orange juice. "At least he recovered his strength, he looked terribly weakened after we split up from the Biomerge..." A sudden thought made Impmon freeze in his place. "Wait a sec, what if it was the Biomerge that weakened Tony? This means that I was absorbing his life force?!"

"Hey buddy, are you okay?" Impmon jumped while shrieking of surprise when Tony spoke to him.

"Anthony...! What the heck...?! You know you can't sneak behind like this! What if I suffered a heart attack?! What would you do?!" Impmon said.

"I would simply go after another partner, I am pretty sure that Kari would let me borrow Gatomon." Tony joked.

"Oh, No! Hell, No! If anything happens to me, you can get anyone, but, that filthy cat shaped slime ball, understood?!" Impmon said.

"Dully noted." Tony said. He and Impmon sat down and started to eat their breakfast. "Hey Impmon, where is my mother?"

"They were having some problems at the laboratory, so they called her to help them." Impmon replied, they continued to eat in total silence until the purple Digimon cut the silence by making a question. "What was your nightmare about? You looked rather scared."

Tony breathed in deeply and he stood silent for a few seconds before speaking, as he kept narrating about the nightmare, Impmon's expression changed to one of shock and disbelief, and he started to sweat of nervousness. "Uh? Impmon are you okay?"

"No, I am not okay." Impmon answered, he stood quiet while analyzing the situation. "This is just great, that stupid Biomerge did more than simply absorb Tony's life force, it also gave some sort of mental link between me and Tony." He then jumped off his chair. "Come on, follow me."

"What?"

"Just follow me, Tony." Impmon repeated. "I have something to show you." Impmon and Tony climbed the stairs to Impmon's room, the Digimon opened and crossed door and Tony followed him. The boy saw something he wasn't prepared for.

The walls of the room had all sorts of symbols painted in red, most looked demonic, there were also multiple sevens, also painted in red. Tony also looked near Impmon's bed, there were many books near them, he quickly glanced at the covers "Demonology All Over The World", "The Seven Deadly Sins" "Premonition and other Paranormal Phenomena". Then Tony also found red diary, whose cover read "Nightmare Journal". He started to read the last entry in in diary, it was the same nightmare Tony had last night. "Impmon...Since when this is happening?"

"Since the first week that I came to live here. You see, I have these nightmares. Horrible nightmares, most of them depict apocalyptic events. Things that end up causing everyone's death...Your death." Impmon said and he chuckled darkly. "And some of these nightmares show me as one of the cataclysm's causers or simply committing despicable things to your friends, like the nightmare we shared last night." Impmon sat down.

"Why didn't you tell me about it?" Tony asked and he sat near Impmon.

"I felt that I could take care of it alone...That I needed to take care of it alone...Considering all the facts, it is highly possible that those nightmares are visions of the future..." Impmon said, and his eyes started to tear up. "I wanted to keep you safe, and then I discover that my stupid Biomerge almost killed you and now you are having the same horrifying dreams that I have..." Impmon lost the self control and he started to cry. "What kind of friend I am? I put my best friend in danger!"

Tony couldn't stand see that and he leaned forwards and hugged Impmon. "Calm down Impmon, please calm down. This is not your fault."

"It is my fault! Can't you understand it?!" Impmon screamed.

"No, it is not your fault, there is no way you could possibly know that. I know who you are, you are not a bad person." Tony said as he held Impmon, and then the boy sighed. "Look I don't know what is happening, but we'll solve this, together."

Impmon stopped crying and he smiled. "Thank you, buddy."

"There is no need to thank me, Impmon. I am your friend. Friends are supposed to help each other."

SOME HOURS LATER

Tony and Impmon had went to sleep. Pretty much most of the people in Odaiba were sleeping. All the personal in the Tree Fortress were sleeping as well. On top of a castle tower was Astamon, holding under his right arm a black hardback book. "Now, let's put this show on the road." Astamon opened the book, its page were yellow and old with strange red symbols and images drawn on them. Astamon started to read aloud a spell in a strange and unholy language. As he kept speaking the spell, black whirling portals materialized above the DigiDestined, Argomon, Reapermon, GranKuwagamon, Kurata, who dozed off in the lab, and TigerVespamon.

The soft sound emitted by the expanding portal caused their targets to wake up. "What the fu-...?!" Hands made of energy extended out of the portal and grabbed and started to pull Argomon. "No! NO! You can't take me go back there! I won't go back there!"

"Somebody! Help me!" HerculesKabuterimon rushed to GranKuwagamon's room after hearing him screaming, he burst through the door to find GranKuwagamon being dragged through a portal by a hand holding him by the neck. HerculesKabuterimon grabbed his partner's foot and tried to pull him away, and then other three sets of arms slid out of the portals and grabbed HerculesKabuterimon.

Repearmon kept cutting the arms that were going out of the portal until two arms grabbed his sickle blade and one grabbed him by his face and other got a hold of his left wrist. Kurata tried to run out of his lab, only for six arms grab him, the "Alpha" and other Gizumons entered the place after hearing Kurata's screams and they ends up being grabbed as well. About eight pairs of hands slid out of the portal and they completely immobilized TigerVespamon, while other arms grabbed other Digimons that had come to help him. The Digimon partners of the DigiDestined rushed to assist their partners, but they ended up being grabbed as well.

Eventually after an agonizingly struggle, all the individuals were dragged through the portals. Astamon smiled slightly and he closed the book. "Now, to phase 2." He said and then he disappeared in a burst of purple flames.

SOMEWHERE ELSE

Thunder lightning roared in the dark sky and stroke the ground. That was a sight familiar to Cerberusmon. The wolf like Digimon walked around the barren wasteland, until a subtle sound caught his attention. He looked up and saw black portals materializing in the sky above and then the portals shot purple fiery meteors. Cerberusmon looked wide-eyed as the meteors crashed on the land. Deciding that he had seeing enough, Cerberusmon rushed towards the meteors that were closest to him.

MEANWHILE

TigerVespamon groaned and he rubbed his face, he raised and looked around, as his vision became less blurred he could see his location. That place was a barren and dry land, with only dead trees and bushes scattered, the sky was perpetually dark, bleak and cloudy with lightnings striking throughout the realm and a full moon in the middle of the sky. As TigerVespamon looked around he could see many black iron crosses embedded into the ground as well as many tombstones, and numerous buildings, structures, castles and ruins built with dark gray stone.

"I can't believe it. I am not supposed to be here." TigerVespamon looked above his right shoulder and he saw Argomon, Reapermon and other of his allies. But there was something wrong with Argomon. He looked terrified, like a little child left in the dark.

"Lord Argomon, where are we?" TigerVespamon asked.

"This is...Ugh...The Dark Area." Argomon said. TigerVespamon, Repearmon, GranKuwagamon, HerculesKabuterimon and the the other Digimons widened their eyes in horror, Kurata, the "Alpha" and the Gizumons were stoic as if they didn't understand what Argomon was talking about. Argomon turned to Kurata and the Gizumons before speaking. "Can't you understand?! We are doomed! There is no escape from here!" Argomon shouted, he then curled up while hugging his legs. "He'll find us. And he'll torture us into madness!"

"Lord Argomon. Calm down." TigerVespamon said, shaking Argomon by his shoulders.

"Geez. I never saw Lord Argomon this nervous." A Snimon whispered to GranKuwagamon.

The group then heard something similar to steps behind them. "Gizumons, I want you to run a full scan over this place." Kurata ordered. "If you discover a Digimon I want to be informed at once."

"This won't be possible, Doctor." The "Alpha" said. "I am detecting the energy signatures of many Digimons, but I can't lock on their location. There is a heavy electromagnetic interference hindering our devices.

"He is right. Not even my compass is working." Reapermon said, showing then a compass, the pointer was spinning inside the compass non-stop.

Then a loud roar cut through the air, startling the group. TigerVespamon drew his swords. "We'll be easy targets if we stay here!" GranKuwagamon said. "We are sitting ducks!"

"We have to find a higher ground." HerculesKabuterimon said.

"You go find a safer place. Alpha and Kurata, take the Gizumons and see if you can find anyone here, they might know how to get us out. Reapermon and I will scout around to see if we can find any hostiles." TigerVespamon said and he threw a wrist communicator to HerculesKabuterimon. "Send me your position every 5 minutes, and protect Lord Argomon with your lives."

"Yes, sir." HerculesKabuterimon said and he put the communicator in his wrist. TigerVespamon flashed yellow and he then turned into a beam of yellow light and he flew away, Reapermon whistled and he summoned a demonic bike in burst of flames and he rode it to follow TigerVespamon. The "Alpha" put Kurata on top of its head and it then flew away with the other Gizumons behind.

"We are doomed. We are doomed. We are doomed. We are doomed." Argomon whined non-stop.

"Come on sir. Get up, we are get through this." GranKuwagamon said and he put Argomon on his shoulders, before the group started to walk away.

Hidden behind a large rock were Davis, Yolei, Cody, Ken and their Digimon partners. "Geez, that was close. They almost saw me." Veemon said.

"What are we gonna do? We are stranded in this place." Yolei said.

"Argomon is now a wrecked and terrified version of his normal-self. This could give us some advantage." Ken said.

Then a net was thrown and trapped the group. BlackWarGreymon landed near them and he then put the net in his shoulders. "Oh. It is so cute to see you planning. Too bad it won't assist you." He then flew away, while laughing madly.

AT SAME TIME

Impmon got up and he looked around the desolated place that was the Dark Area and snorted. "Toto. I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." He muttered to himself.

"I thought the same." Tony said as he walked towards Impmon. "Are we in the Digital World?"

"I've traveling around Digital World for as far as I can remember. And I've never seeing a place like this in the Digital World." Impmon said. They then heard roars and explosions. Impmon and Tony ran around and from a hill they could see TK, Kari, Patamon and Gatomon being pursued by a DarkLizardmon, a Digimon who resembled a dinosaur made of black flames, and two DarkTyrannomons. "Those two are your friends. Should we save them?" Impmon said.

"Impmon!" Tony shouted.

"Okay fine. Take the Digivice and let's kick some dino butt." But before anything could be done a black quadrupedal being jumping over them and rushing towards TK and the others.

"Dark Flare!"

"Fire Blast!" The DarkLizardmon and the tow DarkTyrannomons breathed fire balls at the kids and their Digimon partners.

"Hellfire!" A red fireball came flying and destroyed the others. Cerberusmon stood between the dinosaur Digimons and their targets.

"Cerberusmon?" DarkLizardmon said with a slightly fearful tone.

"You are way too close of my territory. You have only a few seconds to get away from my sight." Cerberusmon snarled.

One of the DarkTyrannomons snorted in disdain. "Who do you think you are to give us orders?! Your master is gone, and you have no authority over...!" Cerberusmon leaped and slashed the DarkTyrannomon in the throat.

The DarkTyrannomon choked as the blood gushed out and he fell to his knees before dissolving in data dust. "Does anyone else have an objection?!" The remaining DarkTyrannomon and the DarkLizardmon were shaking slightly before they ran away screaming. Cerberusmon snorted and he then quickly walked towards Kari and TK with his fang teeth clenched, making the two teens fall down on their backsides.

"Hey! What do you think you are doing!" Patamon said as he and Gatomon stood in front of TK and Kari.

Cerberusmon rolled his eyes in annoyance and he then smacked the Rookie-level Digimons away with a backhand slap. He looked at TK and Kari and he roared furiously. "Human scum. Even here I am not safe from you!" Cerberusmon said and he stood in front of Kari and TK, only a few inches away from them. "Why did come here? Are you looking for revenge for my attack against the human boy? I can assure you, even if I fall I'll take some of you with me!" Cerberusmon said while narrowing his eyes. "I know you are there purple demon. Show yourself." Impmon and Tony looked at each other before they jumped down the hill and they landed a few meters away from Cerberusmon. "Are you going to prevent me from attacking your friends?"

"Nah! Go ahead and eat those two." Impmon said. "Once you are done, if there is any space left in your stomach, please eat the cat like blob as well."

"IMPMON!"

"What? I am just giving a suggestion." Impmon said shamelessly.

Tony sighed angrily and he facepalmed. "Why do you always have to act like a jerk?"

Impmon gave Tony an insolent smirk before answering. "It is part of my charm."

Cerberusmon rolled his eyes in annoyance before walking away, Kari got up and she walked towards the wolf like Digimon. "Kari, where are you going?" Gatomon said as she went towards Kari, TK and Patamon followed the girls with Tony going as well and Impmon following begrudgingly.

"I wanted to thank you for saving our lives." Kari said to Cerberusmon.

The wolf Digimon snarled aggressively. "I had no intention of saving you, human. That was an accident. And you should stay away from me before I cause another "accident", on you this time."

"Hey, what about you stop with the hostility and answer some questions? Like for example, what is this place?" Impmon said.

Cerberusmon stopped walking and he turned to the group. "You don't know where you are? This is the Dark Area. This is a whole dimension made entirely of darkness, it is a hell. But it is my home." Cerberusmon replied. "How did you get here?"

Impmon shrugged. "I wish I knew. There was a black portal with some weird hands trying to abduct Tony, I was trying to help Tony when I was grabbed and abducted as well."

"What? The same thing happened with TK and me." Patamon said.

"And with me and Kari." Gatomon said.

"Any idea of who or what could have done this?" Kari said.

"No." Cerberusmon said he then turned his back to the teens and their Digimon partners. "The things they told. It sounds like something out of the Umbra Tomes." He turned to them and sighed. "I am so going to regret this." He grumbled to himself. "You are not safe here. It'll be better if I bring you to my home. You will be safe there." The wolf like Digimon said. "Follow me, and be fast."

MEANWHILE

BlackWarGreymon flew above a dead and decayed forest while carrying the net. "Are you comfortable?!" He mockingly asked to the kids and the Digimons in the net. The Dark Dragon laughed sadistically as he crossed the forest and entered an old and decayed castle forest through a window. He climbed a set of stairs into a room with a large table. "They are here, Astamon." BlackWarGreymon said as he shamelessly threw the net in the ground before leaving through the same window he entered.

"Oh. I so happy you guys are here!" Astamon cheerfully said, he was sat on the far side of the table. "Come on, take a seat! I cooked some delicious Lasagnas. I skipped dinner and went to dessert, that is why I am eating this slice of apple pie."

The DigiDestined and their Digimons looked wide-eyed. "Is this some kind of joke?" Hawkmon said.

"You probably poisoned the food." Davis said, narrowing his eyes.

"I didn't poison it guys, really. Come here." Astamon said as he used telekinesis to make the kids and the Digimon sit on the chairs. "Seriously, why do you think that I would bother to poison food I put so much work into?"

"We saw you with BlackWarGreymon." Davis said.

"Oh, so you got a bad first impression of BlackWarGreymon, right? Well, I guess I would be mad if someone tried to kill. But you have to understand, even if we are in the same group, I am different from my soldiers. You see I told BlackWarGreymon to get you guys. And he then asked if he could gut you and strangle you with your intestines. I told him to don't do it, and you know why? Because I absolutely hate child murderers." Astamon said, he got up and stood with a window behind him. "What am I trying to say is that I am not neither a bad person or your enemy. All I want is your help."

"Help in doing what?" Wormmon asked as he ate his lasagna. "What?" He asked to the to others who were dumfounded at him, Astamon was smirking slightly at one of them eating his lasagna.

Astamon turned his back to his "guests" and his expression turned more serious. "Things will get a lot worse in the following days. Argomon attracted the attention of both the Sovereigns' and the Royal Knights' forces. Even now as I speak, they ravage the surface of the Digital World with war."

"And why should we help you when we should be helping I don't know, the Royal Knights or the Sovereigns?" Yolei asked.

"They might look like the good guys. But you should know that neither Light or Darkness are strictly good or evil. They are merely the two complementary halves that are needed for the universe to stay in balance. Take for an example, the original BlackWarGreymon, a Digimon born of pure Darkness and despite all the damage he caused, he ended up sacrificing himself to save the Digital World." Astamon replied. "Let me tell a story about the first years of the Digital World's existence. Yggdrasil, the God who created the Digimons and the Digital World dreamed of making the world he created a world of peace, order and light. But to create this paradise, though, he planed to erase the free will of the Digimons, he wanted to make a dictatorship in the Digital World in order to fulfill his objectives, with the Royal Knights enforcing his will. In this case, the ends clearly didn't justify the means at all. Things stood like this for some decades until, without apparent reason, a glitch formed in the Digital World, Yggdrasil tried to erase the glitch, all he did was making it all worse, the glitch eventually caused the union of two Digimons, the result of such union was Millenniummon the God of Chaos." Astamon narrated. "One could theorize that the universe created Millenniumon to exist as a polar opposite to Yggdrasil. Millenniummon's mere awakening warped a third of the Digital World. Yggdrasil split apart this warped portion from the Digital World, thus creating the place where you are, the Dark Area."

"Dark Area, uh? So this is the place we are in. But why does this name sound so familiar?" Ken thought.

"You speak about all of this as if you had witnessed all of it." Cody commented.

Astamon then turned to kids and the Digimons and sat on the window's opening. "I far older than I look, boy." Astamon commented with a smirk. "Anyway, beyond creating the Dark Area, Millenniummon's existence caused to awake in the Digimons the free will and the personality that they were lacking. That is why the Horde of Darkness was created, our work is to spread Millenniummon's philosophy and to bring our lord back to the material plane." Astamon said.

Davis crossed his arms and closed an eye. "And why should we trust you?"

"Let's be honest here. Look at your options. Who are you going to help? The butcher Argomon? Or the extremists Royal Knights and Yggdrasil?" Astamon said and then the castle trembled and sounds of shots and explosions were heard outside.

Then a Gizumon-AT burst through the window. "The individuals known as DigiDestined were located in the Dark Area. Sending coordinates and data to the other Gizumon unities. Preparing for exterminate..." Astamon casually kicked it out and then killed it with a few rounds of his machine gun.

The teens and their Digimons stood near the hole, and they saw six Gizumons attacking the fortress. "Gizumons? What are they doing here?!" Armadillomon questioned.

"Damn it! I knew I was forgetting to tell something. I brought Argomon and some of his guys here." Astamon said, putting the machine gun in his back and he grabbing a black hardback book.

"Wait, what? Why did you bring him at same time with us?! Are you mad?!" Hawkmon said.

"Answer to the first question: This is all part of my plan, plus Argomon became a wrecked and cowardly version of his normal-self when he came here, if you can call that guy "normal" by any standards. Answer to the second question: You are not the first people to call me mad. Hmm... I am sensing a pattern." Astamon put his index finger and thumb in his chin and thoughtfully looked at the ceiling, something exploded outside the castle. "But, anyway. I better get to a sage place before any of you get killed." Astamon said and he pushed his "guests" out of the room, outside they found DarkKnightmon. "We are having trouble with some Gizumon pests outside. Could please take all the troops and take care of them?"

"Take all the three of us?" DarkKnightmon asked.

"There are only three of you?!" The DigiDestined and their Digimons asked in panic.

"Where is BlackWarGreymon?" Astamon asked. DarkKnightmon merely shrugged and shook his head in a negative way. "Okay, then take BlackMetalGarurumon and ChaosGallantmon and destroy care of the Gizumons." Astamon pressed a button in the wall and opened a secret passage, they walked down a set of stairs and they arrived at the dead forest.

Astamon opened the book and started to look through the book's pages. "We don't have time for reading!" Yolei said.

"This is the most convenient time for reading." Astamon answered. They tried to read what was in the book until Astamon covered their vision with his wings. "The Umbra Tome is not a simple book that everyone can read! Its content can drive the weak-minded and unprepared insane." He scolded. "Aha! Here is the spell!" Astamon started to tell the spell in an ancient and unknown language, a disc made of black electricity appeared under their feet and then they were enveloped by a black orb of electricity that then took the form of a black bird that flew away.

One of the Gizumons noticed the giant energy bird flying away. "Unidentified Flying Object made of energy detected. Locking on energy signature. Sending data to other Gizumon Unities."

"Data received." The "Alpha" said.

"You must start to pursuit of this object at once!" Kurata ordered.

"Affirmative. Resuming pursuit. Sending coordinates." The Gizumon-AT said and he flew away to pursue the bird from a safe distance.

MEANWHILE

Cerberusmon guided Tony, Impmon, TK, Patamon, Kari and Gatomon inside a huge castle with a circular stained glass adorning the front of it, it looked old but not tally ruined. Cerberusmon opened the massive ebony gates with a light shoulder tackle. "I liked the way you cleaned the place." Patamon said. Cerberusmon growled aggressively. "No, seriously. This is surprisingly cleaned considering that you are the only one here."

Cerberusmon around the entrance hall. The place had a line of knight armors in each side along with the tapestries in the walls with the designs showing different individuals and scenes. "I look at these walls and still the memories of my comrades haunt me." Cerberusmon said nostalgically looked at the stained glass that depicted a winged being with a centaur like body.

"This place is something more than your home, isn't it?" Tony asked.

"You are right, human. This is the Headquarters of the great Kowloon Corps." Cerberusmon answered. "After the birth of Millenniummon and the creation of the Horde of Darkness, the Digital World was put in a violent war called the Great Chaos. It was a violent period. Many factions split from the Horde, all trying to either take over or destroy the Digital World. It was hopeless until my lord GranDracmon appeared in the Digital World and decided to put an end to the conflict, he alone gathered an army of Digimons under the name of the Kowloon Corps. In the end we helped the forces of the God Creator Yggdrasil end the mayhem and decided to stay here in the Dark Area to watch over the Digimons who were imprisoned here."

Impmon cocked an eyebrow. "So you were sided with the good guys, right?"

"'Sided' with the good guys?" Cerberusmon said with a sardonic tone. "We were on our own side! The Royal Knights, the Sovereigns, the Horde, Argomon, the Seven Demon Lords, none of them were our allies." Cerberusmon answered. "Come with me. You must meet my Lord, GranDracmon." He pressed a button in the wall, and a large elevator appeared for the others' surprise.

"Whoa. Pretty neat." TK commented.

"I am glad you approved it, human." Cerberusmon said bitterly and he entered the elevator. "Are you coming or not?!" The group entered the elevator that went down, they didn't notice when two Digimons that entered the main lobby through the gate.

"There must be another way to where they are going." Said one of the Digimons, he touched the stone wall, he ended up scanning the walls and he ended up pulling a candlestick revealing a secret stairway.

They then arrived at some sort of mausoleum there were six Digi-Eggs encased inside crystal coffins. In the farther wall of the mausoleum was a dried and hollow corpse of a winged creature with a centaur like body with two dragon like heads, hollow and empty eye sockets, a mouth with sharp teeth, a crown with three spikes, two horns in the back of its head, and faint remains of long blond hair; the corpse was tied by chains with several silver spears with crosses on the top of them stabbed in its body. "Ladies, gentlemen. That is my Lord, GranDracmon."

"W-what happened to him?" Patamon asked.

Cerberusmon glanced at the human teens and he growled before speaking. "My Lord GranDracmon once foresaw that the Digital World would face a terrible threat, a human who would try and enslave the Digimons. A human who arrogantly would take the name of Digimon Emperor. GranDracmon decided to take the most drastic measures to save the Digital World, exterminating your species."

"*Hmpf* How touching." TK ironically muttered to himself.

"Yggdrasil and his accursed allies however didn't want this to happen. They attacked us, killed my comrades, reverting them to Digi-Eggs and left my Lord in this state."

"But what kind of Digimon is he anyway? Why didn't GranDracmon turn into a Digi-Egg after he was killed?" Gatomon asked.

Cerberusmon growled angrily at the cat like Digimon. "I never told you that GranDracmon was a Digimon. Besides, who said that he was killed?!"

"Wait? What?! Are telling me that thing is alive?!" Impmon said.

"That 'thing' is my Leader, and my best friend." Cerberusmon snarled dangerously.

"Oh, he is your best friend? Isn't that cute, TigerVespamon?" Said a voice from a stair in the far part of the mausoleum. In front of the stairs were Reapermon and TigerVespamon, the former on top of a demonic flaming motorcycle. "So guys, isn't that precious? We were scouting for hostiles when we had the luck to find you. Here is how we should deal with you. My bee buddy here will cut off your limbs and I'll burn you alive." Reapermon said as he got up from his motorcycle that dematerialized in a burst of flames. "And as a bonus, I'll get this mutt's hide to use as a carpet."

"Do what you wish. My quarrel is against Beelzemon, and I will have him killed today. No matter who I have to hurt." TigerVespamon said as he drew his sword.

Impmon narrowed his eyes. "Tony!"

"I know!" Tony took his DigiVice, that shot a black beam of light in the shape of a crow at Impmon.

"Impmon Warp Digivolves To...! Beelzemon!" The Demon Digimon took his shotguns and he grinned sadistically. "You are going to have me killed today? It is time I put you in your place, insect." Beelzemon said, aiming his weapons at TigerVespamon and Reapermon, the two Mega-Level Digimons assumed fighting position with the later laughing psychotically. The three stood their staring each other until Beelzemon grinned slightly before holstering his guns and appearing right in front of Reapermon and TigerVespamon and made them fly through the ceiling and into the lobby hall with a kick. Cerberusmon growled and he quickly glanced behind him before discretely jumping through the hole in the ceiling and he broke out the castle through a window.

TigerVespamon grinned and he materialized small curved blades between his fingers. "Cyber Sting!" TigerVespamon threw the blades at Beelzemon that quickly shot them down after drawing one of his shotguns.

Reapermon dashed and tried to slash Beelzemon with his scythe blade, but the Demon Digimon held the cyborg Digimon's arm. Reapermon chuckled and he aimed his arm cannon at Beelzemon's face. "Bone Duster!" Reapermon shot a powerful stream that launched Beelzemon, making him break through a pillar. Reapermon laughed maniacally. "Burn! Burn to ashes!"

Reapermon stopped laughing though after seeing a small purple light inside the flames, the light was from Beelzemon's third eye in his forehead, he then unleashed a Shockwave and the flames around him became purple. "Now isn't that interesting? I discovered a new ability." Beelzemon said, he then transferred all the purple flames to his right palm. "Hellfire Inferno!" Beelzemon threw a purple fireball at Repearmon, the resulting explosion was enough to engulf both Repearmon and TigerVespamon and destroy the front part of the castle.

BlackWarGreymon was flying outside, when he then noticed the burst of purple flames and he dived to see what was happening. Beelzemon looked with wide eyes at TigerVespamon and Reapermon, they both were severely wounded, and as if they were about to faint. "*Whistle* I knew that I was strong. But not that much."

"I think that it must be the air. This place does wonders to people."

Beelzemon scowled angrily. "I know this voice!"

BlackWarGreymon came down and tried to kick Beelzemon in the face, but the later jumped back. "I am happy to see you here, boy. It has been so long since we last saw each other."

"I fear I can't say I am happy for seeing you, BlackWarGreymon. The least I can say is that I am amuse for seeing you. Because now I can finally put an end to you!"

"Oh, ho ho. I don't think so, boy. Black Tornado!" BlackWarGreymon spun at high speed and hit Beelzemon, they both crashed through the ground and back to the mausoleum.

Now Beelzemon was seeing red. "Darkness Claws!" He tried to slash BlackWarGreymon with his claws, but the attack was defended by BlackWarGreymon's arm armor. The Dark Dragon Digimon then felt a gun being pressed against his stomach. "Double Impact!" Beelzemon shot a dozen of energy bullets, opening a gash wound in BlackWarGreymon's stomach, and spraying blood around the ground. Beelzemon looked at a corner and he saw Tony with TK, Patamon, Kari and Gatomon. "Hey, where is Cerberusmon?!"

"You should be more concerned with you!" BlackWarGreymon angrily shouted and knelt Beelzemon in the stomach and punched him in the face.

"Beelzemon, we have to Biomerge!" Tony said causing Beelzemon to wide his eyes and sweat cold slightly.

"The-there is no need for that! I can beat this bozo!" Beelzemon said, he tried to use his Darkness Claw to cut BlackWarGreymon's throat, but he missed and then got kicked in the head.

"It is obvious you need help!" TK said, he and Kari took their DigiVices and shot white beams of light at Patamon and Gatomon.

"Patamon Digivolves To...! Angemon!"

"Gatomon Digivolves To...! Angewomon!"

BlackWarGreymon laughed, he pressed his arm against Beelzemon's throat to choke him and pushed him against the wall. "You want to have a piece of me? Bring it!" But before Angemon and Angewomon could start fighting, a dry hissing sound echoed through the room.

All the residents inside there turned to see there turned to see that the dried and rotting remains of GranDracmon had moved, the chains tying it up were broken. The monster leaned down and started to lick the pool of blood formed by BlackWarGreymon's wound, the spears pierced in its body wiggled with each move of its head.

BlackWarGreymon unconsciously released the coughing Beelzemon, before starting to painfully tremble, his wide and terrified eyes not looking away from the nightmarish scene happening. "No...This can't be happening!"

"My Lord." Ceberusmon, in his Jinrou Mode, reappeared and he jumped inside the mausoleum, carrying one of the DarkTyrannomon from early, who was tied, in one hand and a silver chalice inlaid with rubies. "You finally have awaken."

GranDracmon lifted his head with a faint red glow in his empty eye-sockets and blood dripping from his lips. He eerily stared at Cerberusmon before reaching out and petting the werewolf like Digimon in the head. "Cerberusmon... My old friend."

"You must feed to recover your strength." Cerberusmon said, throwing the tied DarkTyrannomon in front of the dead-looking GranDracmon. BlackWarGreymon, and the others were looking terrified at what could happen. "The King of Vampires, must rise again."

GranDracmon grabbed and lifted the DarkTyrannomon by the shoulder and then bit him in the neck with enough strength to break it, and he started to drink the blood gushing out of the wound. GranDracmon started to shoot crimson red lightning, that generated a loud screeching sound that sounded like screams, into the room, and his body slowly regenerated. DarkTyrannomon's eyes sockets became empty and hollow and he became sickeningly slim and he turned into data dust.

GranDracmon smirked, he was totally regenerated. He had long blonde hair, red eyes, a mouth filled with sharp teeth, a blue bat like collar in his neck, a blue triple-pointed mask, two horns in the back of his head, red bandages in his arms and huge bat wings in his back; rather than legs, he had a lion's body in place his lower body with two dragon like heads and all his body was covered in brown fur. "I'm back. GranDracmon is back!" BlackWarGreymon tried to climb his way out, GranDracmon's hands and eyes started to glow red and he pulled BlackWarGreymon towards him with telekinesis. "What are you doing here? Your existence means that Astamon is still around, uh? Where is he?" GranDracmon said, BlackWarGreymon didn't answer, he simply stood quiet with a terrified look in his eyes. GranDracmon laughed, and he then touched BlackWarGreymon in the chest with his index finger. "Get out of my house...Now." GranDracmon shot a powerful red energy blast from his finger, launching BlackWarGreymon miles away and setting him on fire.

"We have to get out of here!" Beelzemon, Angemon and Angewomon took Tony, TK and Kari and they rushed out of the mausoleum as fast as they could.

Cerberusmon gave the chalice to GranDracmon that inserted it in a pin in the ground and he looked at the crystal coffins with the Digi-Eggs. "My dear friends, dear sister, my legion. I was reborn, and once again I need your help. Rise my Army of Undead, and serve your master once again." GranDracmon bit through the veins in his wrist and the put the blood in the chalice. "Gaiomon, Kuzuhamon, Merukimon, Spinomon, WaruSeadramon, SkullBaluchimon. Rise From Your Graves!" The blood in the chalice was absorbed by the pin and bright red lines flowed through the castle. The coffins' lids exploded in fragments and said Digimons emerged out of them.

Outside the castle, the black bird that was created by Astamon's magic was flying at high speed while successfully evading the attacks from the Gizumons. "Hey, watch where you are flying with this thing!" Hawkmon said.

"I am trying to save your lives!" Astamon said. "We are getting closer to our destination! I'm sure there will be no more surpriiiii..." Astamon and the DigiDestined and their Digimons stood jaw-dropped as they saw a giant castle floating many miles away from the ground, with a red beam of light being shot out of its bottom.

Tony, Kari, TK and their Digimons were about to leave through the gate, until they noticed the castle that was floating high above the ground. "Now isn't that just great?!" Tony said sardonically.

"How are we going to get out? It is not like we should simply jump." TK said.

"Please Angewomon, be my guest to try this theory." A grinning Beelzemon said.

"Why you!" Angewomon lashed out at Beelzemon and started to strangle him.

"Well, since I found your friends. I guess it is time for me to send you home." Astamon said and he undid the black bird causing the DigiDestined and their Digimons to drop towards the ground, all the while screaming. "Oops. I almost forgot to teleport them." Astamon said and he took the Umbra Tome. "I'll end up going to get someone killed." Astamon chuckled and read a spell that teleported them all the DigiDestined and their partner Digimons back to where they were before. "Now let's see, The Gizumons are coming, GranDracmon will come out of the castle. Then, yeah. Everything is going accord to plan." Astamon turned to Kurata and the Gizumons and he happily waved to them before ironically bowing and disappearing in a burst of flames.

"What just happened?! Where is he?!" Kurata questioned, as he looked around.

And then a voice answered the questions. "An answer to the what: He has teleported. Now about the where: he went to his palace."

Kurata and the Gizumons looked around the area, the scientist was moving more frantically. "What is this voice? It sounded as if it was everywhere."

"The Gizumon unities can't lock on a specific target. Too much interference being generated by the castle. Can't discover the voice's origin. The sound-waves were too disperse. They were being generated from multiple locations." The "Alpha" said.

"If you can't lock on my position." The voice said. Kurata turned his attention to the side and he saw the gigantic shape of GranDracmon staying less than a few inches away from him, his eyes having an eerie red glow. "Here I am." GranDracmon quickly grabbed Kurata with both hands and he then shot red lightnings from his fingertips, paralyzing the Gizumons and causing them to drop off the sky. GranDracmon laughed at the terrified Kurata. "Now let's see what secrets you have." His head decreased in size to the size of a human head, and then he extended his neck like a snake and jammed his fangs through the man's neck. As he drank the blood he could see the memories flashing in front of his eyes. GranDracmon moved his head to face Kurata, the smirk had disappeared from his face. His face showed no emotion, except for his eyes, that had a cold fury burning in them. "You dare to mutate innocent Digimons into these abominations." GranDracmon said with his voice being barely a whisper, his arms and hands turning into tentacles and his body decreasing in size to be more proportional to the head, his lower lion like body was replaced by a serpent tail and the skin of his face melted and his head became more skeletal with a protruding jaw and three horns pointing forwards. "It seems that you require, discipline." GranDracmon let out a blood-chilling and echoing shriek as he lashed out at the screaming Kurata.

The Gizumons were drenched with Kurata's blood as they witnessed the attack. All they could see was GranDracmon dropping Kurata's remains and roaring to the skies before they and their allies were teleported back to the Tree Fortress by Astamon's spell.

HALF HOUR LATER

Astamon entered a totally black room with numerous Black Spire like towers a blue crystal floating in the middle, a floating platform brought Astamon to the top of one tower, the crystal start to shoot purple lightning and then a two-headed dragon made of purple energy, the spiritual being known as Moon=Millenniummon, appeared inside it. "I hope you know what you are doing, Astamon. I expected more from my second in command, because of your nonsensical actions, the Kowloon Corps, one our greatest enemies, has return!"

Astamon grinned slightly at Moon=Millenniummon's angry commentary. "Nonsensical you say? My lord, this shows that you don't know me at all. What I did today was anything but nonsensical."

"Uh? What do you mean?" Moon=Millenniummon questioned.

"I wanted to bring GranDracmon and the Kowloon Corps back. Here is what will happen, the creation rate of Argomon's Gizumons will be halted now that Dr Kurata, one of the major characters of Project Gizu, was killed. GranDracmon, the only being that Argomon fears, has returned and can be added to his long list of enemies, so Argomon will become desperate to have more troops, and to get more Gizumon he'll have to do this." Astamon shook a file of papers in front of Moon=Millenniummon.

"What is this?"

"It is a file concerning a certain "Project: Kimeramon"." Astamon replied. "My spy, the vampire Digimon simply known as V has given me this file, apparently the good Doctor planned to create artificially altered Kimeramons that would naturally create the Digi-Eggs of the Gizumons. Once Argomon starts cloning the Kimeramons in mass, he'll unconsciously assist us. It'll be easy to get a Kimeramon and a Machinedramon to help restore your physical form."

"Now I see what you are up to. But what about the DigiDestined?"

"I've told them the truth, if they'll believe and help us I don't know. Nevertheless, they'll focus on their main enemy."

"Argomon."

"Argomon, should we stay out of their way, of course. This will force him to split his army even more, the pressure will make him act more recklessly."

Moon=Millenniummon close his two left eyes. "There are many factors you are ignoring. Factors that are out of your control, factors that could hinder your plan."

The smirking Astamon shamelessly shrugged. "Should something happen it will merely be a matter of adapting my strategy."

"Merely adapt your strategy? I trust you know what you are doing."

"Please my lord. Rest your mind and await, nothing will go wrong."

MEANWHILE

GranDracmon opened his mouth and shot a long tongue out and he grabbed and ate the remains of Dr Kurata. He returned to this normal form and flew away, Cerberusmon could take care of the formalities. He kept flying for some time until he looked down and noticed something unusual. He landed and he looked to a humanoid Digimon wearing a black vampire cloak, the Digimon's form was completely shrouded in shadows, showing only a blue bat like mask, his totally red eyes and blonde hair. "Lord GranDracmon, I was eagerly awaiting for your resurrection." The Digimon said, and he knelt in respect.

GranDracmon cocked an eyebrow. "Why were you so eager, servant of Argomon and Astamon?"

"Uh? How do you know that?" The Digimon asked.

GranDracmon pocked the other Digimon's forehead. "I have telepathy, kid. So please, answer my question. And be honest, I'll know if you are lying." The King of Vampires crossed his arms.

"I admit I did served Argomon and Astamon, but only to get more information about their plans. My only desire is to serve you my lord." The Digimon said.

GranDracmon tapped his chin and he mumbled. "I've read his mind, he is indeed telling the truth, however there is a part of his mind that I can't read. He is up to something." GranDracmon smirked subtly. "Okay, you convinced me. Now please, it may take some time for me to trust you. Why don't we start with you telling me your name?"

The Digimon grabbed his cloak and ripped it to shreds, revealing his true form. He had a skinny body with navy blue armor, slim long arms that ended with white claws, four red eyes in his chest along with a fanged open mouth, round armor in his shoulders with curved white spikes, white spikes in his elbow and knees, a blue bat like mask that had shown the white pale skin around his mouth, and bat like wings in his back. "The ones close to me call me V. My real name though is NeoMyotismon. And I do believe that we can help each other."

TO BE CONTINUE

Author's notes: Here I another chapter. I have some mixed opinions about this chapter is one, but I think it is okay in the overall, this was a really important chapter because here was introduced GranDracmon, one of the most important characters of this fanfic, with emphasis on introduced, I know that I didn't show that much of his personality, or of the other characters introduced, this will happen in the net chapters. As always, review after reading and tell what I did right and what I did wrong, I see you later! :)