Chapter 8: Trouble

Back in Japan, news was spreading faster than it had in years. The little island off the coast of Tokyo had been deemed haunted. The government even made it illegal to go anywhere near the island and officials had blocked it off so no one would be tempted to come near. The government also did a search of the island to make sure no one was on it when they were blocking it off and said it was uninhabited. But they were wrong. For there were two people on that island.

Demidevimon, after making sure all the humans were gone, set about making the preparations to bring Myotismon back to life. He was almost sad to see them gone, for he loved to terrorize them.

"Oh well. There'll be plenty of that when Lord Myotismon is back in control." As he was making the preparations, exactly as his master wanted, he noticed something shimmering among the trees.

"What's that?" He thought he would just ignore it, but his curiosity got the better of him. Flying over towards the woods, the shimmering haze came more into view. It looked like a heat wave swirling through the air amongst the dense trees. The haze began to swirl rapidly and an assortment of colors mingled with it. It swirled faster and began to glow brightly. It stopped to reveal an oval of light.

"A portal?" he thought as he leaned in closer to examine. "Whatever it is, it doesn't look good. Better not to get mixed up in it." He turned around to fly back the way he had come, when a gust of strong wind came blowing out of the portal. Demidevimon fought against the wind as to not get blown away. Then the air current reversed its self and was trying to suck Demidevimon in. He flapped his wings furiously, trying not to get sucked in. But it was no use. The portal sucked him in and he went hurling through the portal.

After a few seconds, the portal spat him out and he landed on his back on a bleak sidewalk. "Why am I always the one to get into trouble?" He sat up and looked at his surroundings. He appeared to be in a small town with a lot of shops. There were humans everywhere. They walked right by him without even noticing him. He got up and took to the sky, flying above the scene.

"Must have been a digiport," he concluded. "But why am I not in the Digital World then? Where am I anyway?" As he flew outside of the little village he came across a banner that read: Welcome to New Castle. "New Castle? I don't think that's in Japan." He started to become a little worried. If this wasn't Japan, then how was he going to get back? "I hope air travel doesn't cost much here." He joked as he flew farther out into the city.

As he was flying over the town, something caught his eye. Down below in what looked like some kind of playing field, he saw a person. He thought at first it was a human, but as flew down closer to it, he realized the person was on fire! But they didn't seem to react to it. "A Meramon?" He didn't expect to see another digimon here. Meramon was running towards the building, leaving a trail of fire behind him. Demidevimon decided to follow him.

As Meramon reached the building, he began to climb up towards the roof. Demidevimon had no idea what he was doing. When Meramon reached the roof he shouted, "Roaring Fire!" Fire came out of his fists and he engulfed the roof in flames.

"What in the world is he doing?" Demidevimon asked no one in particular. He thought the behavior of this Meramon was very odd, to just be attacking a random building. The fire etched its way down the building, trying to burn the building to the ground. All of a sudden, a high pitched noise emitted from inside the building. Demidevimon flew across to the front of the building to see a bunch of kids milling out of it.

Upon hearing the noise, Meramon ran to the edge of the roof and jumped off, out of sight. Demidevimon was about to go after him, when he heard the sound of wailing sirens. A bunch of fire trucks and police cars came rushing up to the building. Humans hopped out of them and ran into the building with hoses and fire extinguishers. He watched the kids scream in terror as the building began to crumble. He was enjoying this very much. He loved to see the fear in humans.

Just then, a girl screamed and pointed to a window with a boy standing in front of it, flames behind him. The kids all began to panic. Demidevimon flew in to get a closer look, when he saw a strange looking man in a tattered wizard's costume go running into the building.

"Wizardmon?!" he said in shock. Not to long after Wizardmon went in, he saw a girl go in after him. "With a human girl?" He was quiet confused at this turn of events. He thought of going in after them, but he decided to play it safe and wait till they got out. If they got out. He hovered close to the building, waiting patiently. Or at least as patient as he could be.

A few minutes later, one of windows on the third floor shattered and he saw Wizardmon, the girl, and a little boy jump out and descend toward the ground where many people surrounded them. He lost them for a few minutes in the sea of people, but quickly found them with a woman standing next to a car. A few seconds after he found them, a man came running up with a small child. The same child Wizardmon had rescued. Then another man approached them making wild gestures at Wizardmon. Demidevimon wanted to hear the conversation, but he didn't want to get too close because he was afraid of Wizardmon seeing him.

The girl grabbed him by the arm and tried to pull him away, but Wizardmon held his ground. He turned toward the building and, raising his hands, shouted loud enough for him to hear, "Blink Breeze!" A hurricane like wind whipped through the air and whirled around the building, putting out the fire with ease. He looked back at Wizardmon and saw that he and the girl where running down the street. He decided to follow them and flew after them.

After a while, they had led him to a two story house. He saw them go inside and peered in one of the windows. He saw them going up a flight of stairs and disappearing from sight. He flew around to the back of the house and looked in one of the top windows. He saw them talking and laughing together and just having a good time.

"I wonder…," he thought. "If Wizardmon is with that girl, could she be a digidesined? And what's he doing here anyway? I thought Myotismon destroyed him." But seeing as how Demidevimon was here himself after being defeated by the digidestineds, it was possible that Wizardmon hadn't been entirely destroyed either.

As he watched them, an evil thought crept into his mind. "Myotismon said he needed a human child to complete the resurrection," he said to himself. "I think I know the perfect one." He laughed wickedly to himself and flew off into the night.