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Chapter 8
What Happens to Humans
Tessa and Ryan dragged Cheruben a few meters more, before letting him go, hoping he would stand. Cheruben just fell to the ground and got half way up.
"He 's gone…", Cheruben mumbled in a mixed tone of blame and hopelessness. Nether Tessa or Ryan could hear his mumble.
"Get up, Cheruben. We need to get going", Tessa told him, in the hope he would continue. Cheruben just shook his head, then saying, "What's the point? Henry 's done for in there…" Tessa was alarmed by his words, never would he had done that.
"What are you saying? The only stinken' reason, that you two fallowed me, was to save that friend of yours!", Ryan shouted angered by Cheruben's giving up.
"It's point less. If we go in there, Henry will just die for no reason…like pokyupamon…", Cheruben still murdered in the hopeless tone.
"Just stop blaming your self, kid! So what if pokyupamon died? He did it to save us."
"I don't even deserve to be saved!" , Cheruben yelled. "I'm useless, powerless, and a murder…", he said softer.
"That is no reason to give up! Your saving a friend. Does that sound like some one bad to you?", Ryan continued to try.
"No…"
"And, what if he waiting for us to save him in there? If we don't try, he might DIE!" Cheruben spoke no word, as if he could not speak. Ryan continued , "We need to give him a chance to live! Do you think giving up is going to help him?"
"No."
"Well, if we are going to help him, you need to stop blaming yourself and get going!" Cheruben looked at Ryan's eyes but looked away because of its hopeful gleam.
"Look, we should leave. A digimon might hear us soon if we don't.", Tessa advised.
"See? The longer you wine, the more likely we'll die! Do you actually want to see us die?" Ryan said as his last try. Some thing in side Cheruben awoken; the meaning to move on.
"Your right,", Cheruben said getting up," I've been wasting time blaming myself when I never should have. Lets go." They all moved on ward to the dark tower. Three beings had died to save him, and Cheruben wasn't about to let it slip to five.
They walked on, but the forest all looked the same, dark, evil, and quite devoided of life. They might as well been lost, they couldn't even tell if they had been going strait. This was primly because fog, it got darker and darker as they went on, as if the fog was getting denser.
Ryan then tripped over a branch, and he fell into some mud. Tessa and Cheruben laughed at the sight of seeing Ryan covered in mud but Ryan was not amused.
"Ha ha, I don't find this very funny.", Ryan said whipping the mud off of his DATS uniform.
"That's not what we think.", Tessa said giggling. Ryan rolled his eyes at her.
"Lets just go on.", Ryan said walking off. Tessa and Cheruben fallowed him in to the fog. They walked for a while more, but then came across some thing familiar. It was the mud puddle Ryan fell into, they knew it for it still had his imprint in the mud.
"Ok, now I don't find it funny.", Cheruben said.
"Ah! Don't you know what this means? We have gone in circles!", Ryan said angered by the silly mistake.
"Um, how is that even possible? We were going strait the whole time.", Tessa pointed out.
"Great, now we can't get out here.", Ryan said sarcastically while sitting down on a log. Suddenly voices were coming near them. They hid behind a bush and peaked to see what was coming by. It was two darkrizamons, dragging some girl behind them.
"It's good that we finally caught a human.", One said happily. The other rolled his eye and said, "Yeah, but we didn't get her digimon. Do you know what happened to the digimon that let a digimon partner get away last time." The first darkrizamon quivered then said, "Oh yeah. That digimon got put into the pain crystal cave for a month."
"I don't even know why the boss want us to steal the digimon partners too. They have no real purpose to him any way.", the second darkrizamon told the other. They started to get further from Cheruben, Tessa, and Ryan, so they fallowed them from behind, keeping out of sight. The two digimon continued talking.
"But I though he was going to create an army out of them though.", the first darkrizamon said to the other.
"He is, but I have no clue how he'll make them, it would be difficult to control that many humans and their partners.", the second one said.
"Well we'll see soon enough. He has almost enough of them to begin the war." Tessa, Ryan, and Cheruben were shock at what they had heard, who ever was collecting human they were doing it to begin a war. Agent who and why though was still a mystery, and they would soon find out.
They continued sneaking behind the unawhere darkrizamon and found the place they were searching for, the dark tower. It was a huge black tower, surrounded by a mote. The tower had no specific features to say of but it was in a rectangular shape with a dome at its top, a draw bridge, and seemed to have been not made out of bricks. The tower shined gravely even when no light shone.
The draw bridge dropped down and the two darkrizamon entered, still dragging the girl behind them. The Bridge then slowly rose and closed shut.
"Um, how are we going to get inside?", Cheruben asked waning some one to come up with a plan.
"Let me think.", Ryan said starting to think hard. A cart pulled by a zanbamon approached the tower. Tessa grabbed a big branch and stuck it out in front zanbamon, causing him to trip. Luckily, it wasn't going very fast nor did it seem to see them. While zanbamon got up, they climbed into the cart it was pulling and pulled the mat on it over them. The cart was full of a bunch of potatoes, most likely for the prisoners and digimon inside the castle. The zanbamon then got up and continued to trot to the tower's draw bridge. It then called up to the tower, "I'm delivering the food his majesty wanted.
"Good, it's you, zanbamon. The master has been waiting for your arrival.", a voice call from the top of the draw bridge. The bridge then lowered to then ground in front of zanbamon. Zanbamon then trotted across the bridge to the other side.
"Drop off those potatoes in the pantry and go to the master immediately.", the digimon told him.
"I will. Tell him I'll be there soon.", zanbamon told it trotting off. They stayed in the cart and waited till they were sure no digimon were in sight. They simply rolled out of the cart when they thought the time was right. The halls in the tower were huge, and a dull gray, and like the out side of it, there was no detail at all. They ran down the opposite direction zanbamon was going in but soon came to where the hall split four different directions.
"Now which way do we go?", Cheruben asked.
"Lets go…this way.", Tessa said picking the hall to the left of them.
"I have a better idea.", Ryan said taking out an old compass from his pocket.
"How is that going to help? It only points North and South.", Tessa questioned about his solution.
"I doesn't ever since it broke. However, it does help me find things I'm looking for some times."
"Really? Like what?", Cheruben asked.
"One time, I was looking for my science homework in my room and used this to find it.", Ryan explained. "That way!", Ryan pointed down the hall way Tessa had suggested.
"Well, it did point in the same direction…", Tessa explained.
"Guess it's better than nothing.", Cheruben said as they began walking down the chosen path. As they went through the hall, they passed some doors, but dare not open them, not wanting any thing to prevent them from continuing. Oddly enough, Ryan's compass didn't point to any of these doors, just forward. They were coming near a split in the hall, voices were heard and shadows were seen. Ryan's compass turned to a near by door, but Cheruben had already push them through the same door before Ryan could tell anyone. Cheruben cracked the door open to see two darkrizamons walk by. They didn't seem to have noticed them at all. When Cheruben turned around, he saw a lot of different digimon and hybrid-rookies in cages, no humans at all.
The room itself was very long, practically full of cages and almost all of them had more than one digimon in it. In the room's very center was an odd machine, with various buttons and knobs and had a tall rod at the top with an orb at its peak. The machine also had a chamber on it, that's door was made of a thick ,yet still translucent, glass.
"What is this for?", Cheruben asked staring at the device.
"Nothing good, that's all I know.", Ryan said walking up to him.
"Maybe, one of these digimon can tell us.", Tessa suggested as she came behind them.
"We should.", Cheruben said turning to her.
The door began to creak open. Quickly, they hid themselves behind a cage full of digimon. The digimon did not talk to them or do any thing to them, they just watched as the same two darkrizamon ,Ryan, Tessa, and Cheruben fallowed to this horrid place, still dragging the girl they had with them before. A datamon fallowed them and told them, "Put the girl into the trance-data-er" Doing as they were told, the two darkrizamons put the girl in to the machine's chamber and closed its door tight.
"You two are lucky the 'event' is tonight, or you'd be in the pain crystal cave right now.", datamon said in a robot-like manner.
"Yeah, we're just lucky…", one of the darkrizamons said to it. Datamon came over to the trance-data-er and floated up to its control panel then started to press numerous buttons. Some lights flicked on and off on the device, then, some how, the girl was lifted into mid-air.
"What is taking so long?", the other darkrizamon growled.
"Be patient! The machine takes a while to check her DNA for this.", datamon told it. An odd noise came from the trance-data-er and datamon turned back to it. "Ah, seem like it has matched up her DNA with one of the spirits.", datamon pointed out tapping other buttons. Cheruben, Tessa, and Ryan weren't sure what they were doing to the girl, nor did they knew much about what the three digimon were discussing. What ever the three were talking about wasn't good for them.
Alarms went off on the machine, and a small figure was lowered towards the girl. The figure began to glow, and the girl shouted, "Spirit evolution!", and she began to glow too. Datamon pressed a button and the figure was pulled away from the girl and she began to scream in agony. The girl's glow faded but she didn't look like her self any more, she now had and a small pink dress, had pointed ears, aqua colored markings on her face, pink lensed goggles hanged about her head, purple long hair, small butterfly-like wings on her back, and white gloves, with even smaller fairy-like wings on them. The chamber's door opened and she collapsed on to the ground out side of it.
"Put her in a cage and lets go. The event is about to begin.", datamon commanded them. The two tossed her in to a cage and left fallowing datamon.
"That device…turns humans in to hybrids.", Cheruben stated as they came out of hiding.
"If they did that to her, they must have done it to Henry too.", Tessa said disappointed.
"Well that's helpful. which one is he?", Ryan asked in a reluctant voice about the up coming task.
"Hey! You guys!", a familiar voice called out from near by. The three turned to see the voice's owner was a flamon inside a near by cage.
"H-Henry?", Tessa stuttered.
"Yeah…that machine did this to me. They knew you guys were coming for me ether way.", Henry said stating the obvious.
"At least you don't look bad.", Cheruben joked.
"As much as that humored me, I would like to get out of here.", Henry asked.
"Right, I'll go find the keys.", Ryan told them looking for the keys to Henry's cage. While Ryan began to look, another voice call, "Tessa!", happily. Tessa and Cheruben turned around to see that a DORUmon had called to them from across the room.
"DORUmon!", Tessa said happily running to her. Tessa hugged the furry dino from between the bars and said to her, "I'm glad to see you, but why are you here?"
"I lead him to witchmon and was captured.", DORUmon said pointing to Cheruben.
"He told me that.", Tessa said grinning at DORUmon. DORUmon turned around to a digimon hidden in the shadows and spoke to it saying, "Tanner, your sister 's here!"
"Tanner?", Tessa called questioning DORUmon's words.
"I know, DORUmon. I'm not coming out.", Tanner called back to his partner.
"Why not?", Tessa asked him.
"Trust me, Tessa. You don't want to see me like this."
"Yes, I do. I don't care what they have done too you, I just want to see you."
No word came from Tanner.
"Please, I though you were dead, Tanner.", Tessa insisted. Knowing his sister wasn't going to give up, he finally gave in. Tanner stepped in to the light, revealing they had turned him into a strabimon.
"See? I look horrible…", Tanner said somberly as he looked away from his sister.
"At least you're a live, and that's all that matters to me now.", Tessa said though the bars. A silence came over them for a moment. "How are you a live? DATS sent me a letter saying you were dead.", she asked him.
"I don't really know myself. One second, I was stuck by this lighting bolt, by an insane cherubimon, and the next I was in this cage a digimon.", Tanner tried to explained to her.
"Strange…", Cheruben said, "Maybe the machine pull in human data and assembles it into data that makes them digimon-like."
"If that's the case, then maybe it's reversible.", Ryan said running back with the keys.
"Maybe… but experimenting wouldn't be a good idea though.", Cheruben said watching Ryan unlock the cage Henry was in. Every digimon inside rushed out of it, including Henry.
"Finally!", Henry said as Ryan headed to the cage Tanner and DORUmon were in. He unlocked the cage and headed over to a different cage as the digimon walked out of the one he just opened.
"What are we going to do now?", Tessa asked Cheruben.
"We are going to fight back.", Cheruben spoke in a confident voice.
Ooh, a clif hanger! This WILL be good...
