EPISODE SIX:

The group sat around the remade campfire. William was recreating V-mon's splint, which had been destroyed in the last battle.

The other digimon argued quietly amongst themselves.

"They should go home. This is not their battle." Bakumon growled softly.

"This is as much their batter as it is ours." Arumon argued, growling back. "Besides, what else would you do? Send them home? They'll only worry about us."

"But we can't let them fall into danger! "

"They knew what they were getting into when they came here." Arumon snapped at the tapir. "Besides, how can we fight without our partners? They give us strength."

"Don't give me that. You know as well as we do, we can evolve even if they aren't here."

"I think Bakumon is right." Gotsumon leaned foreword. "We should send them home. Once this is over, we can return to their world, and live out their lives with them. But in order for that to happen, they have to survive."

Arumon's eyes narrowed. "But-"

"Do you truly believe Max and Ash could survive another battle like the one not an hour ago?" Bakumon looked over at his partner and the other three. "And Ivi needs medical treatment. Human treatment. Look at her hand."

Arumon sighed, knowing the honesty in what he said. "Very well. But tell me, oh great one, how are we to send them back home?"

Bakumon smiled. "With this." He nodded his head towards a small glowing spot on the ground.

"A portal?" Gotsumon walked over, and looked down at the area. He could see the human world on the other side. "Good. Let's send them home."

"What about Airis?" Ivi asked.

The digimon jumped and turned to look at their human partners.

"You're going to send us home?" Max asked sadly.

"It's for the best." Bakumon explained. "We can't have you all dieing on us, now, can we?"

"Ivi-san. I don't want you to go but… you need help for your hand. And well… I wouldn't leave Max and Ash in his care." Arumon nodded towards William.

Ivi chewed on her lip, and looked at the others.

"Well, why should I go?" William glared. "I'm not hurt."

"Because I can't concentrate whenever you are just sitting there behind me! You're useless as a Tamer!" Gotsumon grabbed William and shoved him through the portal.

The others stared at him in shock. "No… it's not what you think. I just… don't want Master to be hurt." Gotsumon looked down at the ground, feeling ashamed.

The other humans paused for a moment. "Make sure Airis gets out safe as well." Ivi gave them the order, then ushered her younger brothers through the portal. "Come back home safely." She went though the portal herself.

The redhot burning sensation, that was beginning to feel quite common to her, raced through her body again. She momentarily noticed she couldn't feel anything in her right arm, before she hit the ground. She was thankful that something soft had broken her fall.

"Entfernen Sie sich von oben genanntem ich!" (Basic translation: Get off of me!)

Ivi yelped, and struggled off of whoever she had landed on. She felt her jaw drop when she realized she had landed of William. He adjusted his goggles, then turned to glare at her. "Entlang was starren Sie an?" (what are you staring at?)

"You don't speak English?" Ivi gaped at him, not expecting this.

William stared at her. "Sie sprechen nicht Deutsches?" (You don't speak German?)

Ivi sighed, and held her head. "Ung…" She looked around briefly for her brothers till the pain hit her. She collapsed on the ground clutching her right arm. "God… damn it!" It hadn't hurt like this in the digital world.

William's eyes widened. "Hilfe! Jemand!" (Help! Someone!) He looked around wildly.

"Ivi-nee-san!" Ash and Max ran over. "William-san, can you carry Ivi?"

"Was?" He gave them a bewildered look.

"Carry!" Ash made a cradleing motion with his arms.

Realization came over William, and he carefully lifted Ivi into his arms.

"Follow us." He pointed at William, made it so that his right hand 'walked' across his left, then pointed at himself and Max.

The two younger brothers ran ahead, the Tamer following behind as close as possible, trying not to jostle Ivi to much.

He was led into a two story house. By this time Ivi had passed out, presumable from pain.

"Oh my god!" Ivi's mother was the first to notice the state of her arm. "What happened to her?"

"Wir wurden von Vamdemon angegriffen." (We were attacked by Vamdemon)

Ash, catching the gist of it, translated: "Vamdemon got her."

"That… vampire creature from the cartoon?" Their father asked.

"Nevermind what happened! We have to get her to the hospital!"

A quick drive later, in which most of William and huddled in the back seat, not used to the idea of driving on the left side of the road, they arrived at the hospital.

Ivi's father had taken over carrying his daughter and they raced into the emergency entrance must faster than if William had still been struggling to carry her.

"What happened?" The nurse stared, open mouth at the girl.

"We… we're not sure…" Ivi's mother gave the nurse a pleading look.

"Dr. Kiddo! We have a patient that needs immediate attention!"

A tall Japanese doctor ran down the hall. He had blue-black hair that fell into his eyes, behind his glasses. "Kami-sama…" He shook himself. "Lets get her into the ER." Two other nurses quickly came by with a stretcher, which Ivi's father laid her down on, as they rushed her to a room towards the back of the hall.

"Kiddo-san!" Ash quickly grabbed the doctor's pant leg. "You were one of the chosen children right?"

The doctor stared at him. "Excuse me?"

"You went into the digital world with Gomamon!" Max exclaimed, recognizing him.

"Yes, but now I need to go tend to your sister…"

"Vamdemon did it!" Ash explained everything as quickly as he could.

Jyou nodded. "Thank you for telling me." He turned and quickly made his way into the room, giving the nurses a briefing of what he had learned.

The group was guided to the waiting room. "Will she be ok?" The nurse shrugged, and left the family (and William) to sit in the room hoping that Ivi would be alright.

It was only a few minutes before Ivi awoke again, to a quiet beeping. She opened her eyes, and tried to sit up. However, she quickly discovered that one of her arms was bandaged so heavily, she doubted she'd have been able to lift it before most of it was burnt away.

Her other arm was also incapacitated, however that was because of the several needles sticking out of it. She noticed they were connected to tube. Her eyes followed the line of tubing and stared at the different liquids that were being pumped into her.

"Where am I?" She looked around. It took her a few more minutes to realize she was in the hospital. "Well, that explains the bandages… how long have I been here?"

"I hope you're not expecting yourself to answer." Ivi looked up quickly, to see the blue-haired doctor. "My name is Jyou Kiddo."

"You're Japanese right? The one with Gomamon?"

He stared at her blankly. "Why does everyone know that?"

She shrugged softly. "Lucky guess?" she suddenly found herself to tired to tell him the truth.

"Are you alright?"

"Oh my God! Arumon!" She tried to sit up again, only to find herself incapable. The soft beeping was starting to get to her. "Arumon needs my help…" She looked pleadingly up at the doctor. "Surely you understand…"

Jyou eyed her carefully, then turned on the television. It reacted with her digivice and allowed them to see the battle taking place. Vamdemon had reappeared, attacking the tired Child-level digimon.

Watching on in horror, Ivi realized that Jijimon was with Vamdemon, fighting by his side.

"A Perfect and an Ultimate against four Children?" Jyou gave the television a disgusted look.

"Two Perfects!" Gomamon appeared next to Jyou, his fin pointing at a Megadramon that was holding the injured V-mon down.

Out in the waiting room the Chosen Children stood, staring at the television. The battle raged on in silence. Max clenched his fists tightly as he watched Devidramon's fists connect with V-mon over and over, pushing him into the ground. "V-chan…"

"Bakumon!" Ash ran up to the television, watching as Vamdemon's 'Bloody Whip' lashed at him, tossing him from side to side.

Elsewhere in the world Hikari's kindergarten class was also watching the battle on their television.

In fact, humans and digimon alike, all over the human world, were watching the battle rage on. Anywhere there was a TV or computer, the world could see as the child-level digimon fought their hardest to protect both worlds.

Taichi stood outside of DATS Headquarters, Masaru, Tohma, and Yoshino with him. Their digimon gaped at the battle. "Aniki! I wanna fight!" Agumon whined to Masaru.

"I do too…"

Elsewhere Sora and Mimi were relaxing in the part, letting their children and their digimon partners play. "Sora-chan!" Piyomon fluttered infront of Sora, then landed on her lap and pointed towards the large digital billboard that rose over the trees.

"Oh my…" Mimi chewed lightly on her lip.

"Arumon!" Ivi struggled to sit up again, however Jyou moved quickly to her side to push her back down.

"I understand your concern, but you can't help her in this condition."

"I can do more there than I can here-" She was cut short by the image of Myotismon's bloody whip singeing through Arumon's body.

"Aru…" She attempted to get off of the bed again, but the doctor held her back again.

"Look, I'm sorry, but you can't help her like this!"

"The hell I can't!" she was silenced from saying anything more with a look from Jyou. He carefully pulled the needles and tubes out of her arm

"Now go help your digimon."

Gomamon gave him an odd look. "Are you sure that's ok Jyou?"

Ivi was already up and going towards the TV, her left hand holding onto her digivice tightly, pointing it up at the television.

As she watched her digimon was slowly deleting she called out: "Not yet Arumon, I'm coming."

But nothing happened. "Arumon!" She nearly threw her digivice at the screen. "Arumon! Don't die! Arumon…" She bit her lower lip and stared down at the ground. "Aru…" hot tears ran down her face.

She started when she felt a thin cord dropped around her neck. She looked down to see Jyou's grey insignia of Sincerity. "You could use this more than me right now."

"Hai… arigato… AIBOU!" She clenched her fist around the digivice and screamed for her partner as loud as she could.

Her cry was heard all over the small hospital.

She felt herself passing back into the digital world, however the burning pain that normally came with this transportation was gone. Or at least she was numb to it.

Before she was totally in the digital world she felt more data being added to her. Large white wings sprouting from her back, and thick, grey fur covering her body. Her clothing transformed into long white robes, and her hair grew and became the color of silver.

She landed in the digital world, a staff in her left claw. Looking down she saw only a skeleton where her right arm should have been. "Vamdemon… Jijimon… with the power of the other chosen children behind us. We will destroy you!" she raced foreword, staff above her head. Her aim was towards Vamdemon.

"Claw of Doom!" She turned, barely in time to block Jijimon's blow.

"Bloody Whip!" This attack she wasn't able to block.

It wasn't long before the two digimon were beating her down. She could only be thankful that V-mon, Bakumon, and Gotsumon were distracting Megadramon enough to not allow him to join in attacking her.

"Ivi-san!" Max yelled, digging his fingers against the television screen. "Ivi-nee-san!"

Instantaneously, digivices of all shapes, sizes, abilities, and purposes shined brightly. Chosen Children held their digivices towards the screens they were watching the battle on, hoping to give Ivi, now as KazeWolfmon, strength.

Instead it shattered the barrier between the real world and the digital world, allowing Max, Ash, and William pass through the portal with ease.

"Gotsumon! Get ready!" His rock-type digimon nodded. "Cardo Slash!" He deftly slid a card through his D-arc. "Warp Evolution!"

Only moments later a Triceramon stood there. His three horns were made of gold, and small silver spikes covered parts of his body.

"Bakumon!" Ash called to him. "Don't let those evil digimon get you. Evolve!"

Bakumon grinned, and evolved as well, skipping his Adult form and becoming Phantomon.

"V-chan… can you evolve? I'm sure we'll need you…" V-mon gave Max a determined nod. Using all the strength the two could muster he became Karatenmon.

"Alright… Get him!" Ash called out. Phantomon quickly followed his command and rushed at Megadramon.

"NO!" Airis screamed. While the other digimon had been evolving she had witnessed Vamdemon's defeat (KazeWolfmon had managed to land a blow with her staff that punctured his heart), but also KazeWolfmon's. She pointed, shaking at the image before them.

The Chosen Children and their digimon towards a horrific sight. When KazeWolfmon had taken her attention off of Jijimon to attack Vamdemon, the old digimon took advantage of the moment. His clawed staff was buried in the wolf digimon's skull.

"Ivi!"

In the real world Ivi's parents sat shocked, as they watched their daughter fall to the ground, blood pouring from her skull and collecting on the ground, in a puddle around her.

Ash suddenly turned and stared at Airis. "You can speak?"

Jijimon laughed, stepping over KazeWolfmon's prone body. "There's no reason for her not to be able to now. I'm not going to bother killing you all personally… you'll die soon enough as it is…"

"What?" William carefully knelt and gathered stones in his hand, ready to throw them.

"He wants to kill every human who knows about the digital world. And every digimon who knows of the humans." Airis explained quietly.

"But that's asinine!"

"And you helped him!"

"No!" Airis held her hands up in defense. "I was trying to protect the world. The key to the worlds destruction is Vamdemon…"

"So that's why you ran off…" William mused for a moment, then realized how pressing the matter had become. "Shit!"

"Kill him… and it shall end…" the turned and saw KazeWolfmon moved into a knealing position. She absorbed as much of Vamdemon's data as her strength would allow. "Kill him!" She cried out and collapsed, her body turning into data.

"Cara Cara!"

"Cricri Cricri!"

Jijimon turned quickly. "No!"

"We grant you this gift, chosen children! Save our world… and your own!" The two small white digimon touched foreheads. They collected Ivi and Arumon's data between them. Splitting the mass of data apart, the two digimon moved away from each other.

Caramon carefully formed her data into a digiegg, while Cricrimon sent his data towards the Chosen Children.

The gasped, feeling strength overcome them.

Max fell to his knees as he felt Karatenmon's data enter his body. His arms formed huge blackish wings, and feathers covered his body. Ornithmon.

Airis closed her eyes, easily welcoming Megadramon into her body, allowing them to share a soul. She felt changes take place, but couldn't keep up with them. When she opened her eyes she recognized herself as a Mugendramon.

William had a content look on his face as Triceramon's strength joined with his own. He felt large spikes sprout from his spine, and dark red scales formed from his flesh.

Ash smiled as Phantomon gave him a firm hug before entering his partner's body. He realized not a lot changed as he evolved and his partner and he became one. When the light dimmed and he could see again he yelped. He was Piemon.

Jijimon stood, surrounded by Ultimate level digimon. All very upset with the loss of their friend.

"You can do it!" Jyou called out towards the television, earning him a strange look from the nurse walking by.

"Go for it. Kick his digital ass!" Masaru called out.

"Show that little furball why they don't mess with Chosen Children!" Ruki, Takato, and Jenra watched the battle a few classrooms away from Hikari's class.

The four attacked as one, led by the strength from Chosen Children across the world, as well their own grief and anger at their friend's death Jijimon was destroyed.

They easily returned to the human world afterwards. Each of them carrying a digiegg; William carrying two. He bowed his head as he handed Arumon's egg to Ivi's crying parents.

Her funeral was held only a week later. Every Chosen Child that had seen her fight, and was in reasonable distance from the cemetery came to pay their respects.

Once almost everyone had cleared, William walked up and placed his goggles on her tombstone. "Ich dachte immer, daß ich der Führer... war, aber möglicherweise es truely Sie war, das uns führen." (I always thought I was the leader... but perhaps it was truely you who lead us.)

"Sorry I did not know you good. Your heart live in mine now." Airis bowed her head, her English held a thick Japanese accent.

"Onee-san… We'll take real good care of Arumon when she hatches. We promise." Max held tightly to Arumon's egg.

Ash stood their quietly, unable to get himself to say anything. Instead he carefully laid her Bo across her grave. "Kick some butt in heaven, Sis." He nodded, trying his best to hold back tears.

More time passed. After several months Airis fell ill and also passed. Her egg was sent to Max and Ash, asking them to keep it safe. Her parents had seen part of her enter Demidevimon's egg after she died.

The young brothers visited Ivi's grave every chance they got for months. But as time passed they began to move on from their sister's death, and even left Arumon's and Demidevimon's eggs in the back of a closet, forgotten.