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09. The Whole Truth Part 1
(The Ultimate Secret)

It was a tall woman with a long brown dress that looked as if it was coming from the ground and somehow was like one with the woman. She also had a very long hair, green with a little bit of brown. Her skin was dark green with lighter parts, like scratches. She was smiling. Her eyes were cat-like, cold, evil… and red. Deep red. She was holding Takuya's D-tector. Then handed it to a branch. To the kids' greatest surprise, it swallowed it to the ground.

"let me introduce myself. I am Elfmon. And you… I know who you are. You're the selected to fight next to the ten legendary warriors. "
"That's right! And we're going to make you pay for everything you've caused to the Digital World!" shouted Takuya.
"For someone who is helpless right now, you do have guts. Impressive. You know, I would think that you'd be more concerned about your friends." She grinned.
"You're talking about Tommy, aren't you?" asked Takuya.
"Yes, and not only him. But, of course, you don't really care about the girl, so..."
"Yoma... Where is she?! What have you done to her?"
shouted suddenly Kouji and jumped forward, but was topped by a bunch of plants, which captured him and made him stand still.
"Yeah, we wanna speak with her!! And with Tommy too!" added Zoe.
"oh, well, I guess no harm can come out of this..." the woman clapped her hands and a door on her side opened. Yoma stepped from behind it. Tommy was standing next to her. When they saw the team, both of them smiled.

"I'm so glad to see you." The girl made a few steps forward.
"Yoma! Tommy! Are you okay?" asked Kouichi
none of them responded. Just then the kids noticed that the other's eyes were empty.
"They're controlled!" said Kouji, still unable to move because of the plants.
"wake up!" shouted JP. Tommy and the girl just smiled.
Then faded out.
"What the... what's going on?"
Suddenly Elfmon burst into laughter. It wasn't the typical evil laughter, but a bit childish, cheerful one.
"Your expressions..." she muttered, still giggling
"they were priceless!" The woman laughed again. All of the kids looked as if a lightning hit them. Kouji was the first one to speak.
"You think that's funny?!" He tried to break free.
"I'm surprised, Kouji. I would understand your anger because of Tommy, but the girl..."
"Her name is Yoma!
"...I thought you hated her." Elfmon looked serious now.
"I didn't hate her! She was just... getting on my nerves sometimes!" Kouji blushed slightly.
"You mean, often." smirked again the woman.
"How do you know anyway?" asked Kouichi furiously.
"did you really think I had no idea of your doings all this time?" She laughed.
"Where... are... they?" asked Kouji again.
"Your friends are safe and sound. And will remain that way."
"We wanna see them!" said Zoe.
"You did."
"This time for real!!"
"You're not really in the position to give out orders, don't you think?"
"When we get back our D-tectors, we're gonna..."
"don't worry, Taki. You'll have them when you need them."
"And when's that?" muttered through teeth JP.
"Patience, kids." She clapped her hands again and the plants let Kouji down.
"Why are you doing all this?"
"All what?"
"controlling Digimon! Standing against us!"
"It's always about you, isn't it? You know... There was a time, when they used to respect me."
Elfmon turned around.
"But then you came. And all those Digimon got the impression that you're the best." She closed her fists "Especially after you defeated Cherubimon and Lucemon. But I guess that the less you help, the less they notice you."
"What are you talking about?"
"About your huge ego!" She turned around. Her eyes were opened wide in anger. All around her plants started to grow extremely fast. It was quite obvious that Elfmon had lost her temper this time. "You think you're the strongest! The smartest! The best!"
Her voice became more child-like. Here eyes were a little different. For half a second Kouichi thought that he saw Yoma's face. Just like when he saw his brother's face in Lobomon the first time they fought.

"Well, I am here to show you that I'm better! "
Elfmon took a deep breath and closed her eyes. Seems like she'd calmed down a bit. Then she looked at the group and smiled again.
'I bet it was only my imagination' thought Kouichi. 'no one else seems to have noticed.'
"you're gonna see how wrong you were by assuming that you're the best. And how wrong you were, thinking that you knew me."
"knew you? We've never seen you before!" Takuya knit his brows.
"Often things are right before us and we can't notice them, bacause we don't know how to look." said the woman.
"quit the riddles and just tell us what you mean!" shouted the boy.

Elfmon just grinned. Then she closed her eyes. Her fractal code appeared spinning around her. After it disappeared, she looked straight into Takuya's eyes. The girl still had green scars on her face - for some reason - but it was no doubt that it was no other than Yoma.

The kids froze in amazement. From everybody the most shocked seemed to be Kouji. His breathing became shallow and it seemed like he was looking right through Yoma. She, on the other hand, had an even bigger smirk on her face.
"it's you!" exclaimed Zoe.
"but how... when... why..." muttered JP.
"How, you ask. Easy. Elfmon is my spirit form. When? About a day after we arrived in the digital world. And why? Well... you know that." Her smile faded out "because you think you're better than me. You never treated me like a part of the group."
"That's not true!" shouted Takuya.
"isn't it?! Didn't Kouji argue with every word that came out of my mouth?! Didn't the rest of you ignore me?" She shouted back. "I won't bare this anymore. Besides, it was fun messing with your minds."
"but... the Flymon took you and... snap out of it! She's controlling you!" shouted Kouichi.
"I'm a good actress, aren't I?" she grinned. Then her eyes suddenly became empty and she looked just like on the cliff, when Elfmon called them to the castle. Yoma's face turned back to the evil grin and she laughed.
The kids looked at each other with amazement.
"how could she..."
"Take them underground!" She continued. Four Flymon flied in and surrounded the kids.
"come on!" said one of them.
The group moved towards the big white doors. Kouichi threw a last look back only to see how Yoma spirit evolved into Elfmon again.

'Without a D-tector…?'

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"I wanna speak to Elfmon! Now!"

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"A little late for that, don't you think?"
"let me finish."

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