Wolf: Ok, we are back! Hope you guys are ready for this!
Fey: (Slightly glares at Wolf) I think you might have rushed this.
Wolf: Sorry, but remember, Ken made us agree to get along so don't-
Fey: (Eyes go black and says in a strange voice) Don't what?
Wolf: (Shivers run down her spine) PLEASE REVIEW AND COMMENT!
"Ok, anybody got a plan?" Thomas shouted over the wind. Everyone was in some form that had a lot of speed or could fly so we could get to Koichi as soon as possible. I flew on Ken and Stingmon, Marcus and Agumon rode on Thomas, Tai and his Agumon rode on Garurumon, and similar pairs were scattered all over the group.
"We should check the towers and cellars!" Nefertimon called back. "Unless they have made alterations to the castle, then those are basically the only places that have locks and they could ensure that he wouldn't be able to get away." I remained quiet. I knew all the information she was spouting off. However, I didn't want to blurt out my past. It was something I wanted to forget. Having to go back to this place was almost the worst torture I could imagine. However, there were two reasons for me to swallow my fears and continue onward with everyone. One) Koichi needed us. Two) Gatomon was sure to be feeling the same way I was, and even if I didn't reveal who I was, I couldn't let her go through this experience alone.
"Hey." I looked over to Ken. "You Ok? You haven't said much since we figured out where Koichi is." I flashed a smile over to him.
"Oh, really? Guess I'm just getting overly worried about Koichi," I half-lied. Pain surged through me and I grabbed my chest and hunched over in Stingmon's arm. I almost felt like my heart was going to explode out of my chest. I let out a small cry in pain. WAIT! This is the longest I have ever held her off. How much longer can I last? I shook my head. No! Don't think that! You can hold her off, for sure!
"Hey, what's wrong?" I shook my head again, this time because of Ken's question. I looked back up.
"There it is!" I looked at the horrible place before me. Koichi, I don't know what's going on in there, but I will get you out of there!
We landed about a "block" away from the castle. We all knew we didn't want to attract any unnecessary attention, so we had come up with this plan almost immediately before even heading this way. Once everyone was in their normal forms, everyone started running for the castle. A short 10 minute run felt three times as long to me, but we finally made it to the gate. There, Izzy said the thing quite a few of us acknowledged.
"Where are the guards?" We all looked around, but there were no signs of anybody defending the front gate. My eyes narrowed.
"This is too easy," I said to no one in particular. I saw Ken nod out of the corner of my eye. I turned to him. "I'm going to check it out," and before anyone could stop me, I was out in the open and running through the gate. I looked around the gloomy courtyard. No digimon anywhere. "What's going on?" Suddenly a shadow appeared behind me. I bolted to the left and made it out of sight just as a digimon appeared. My eyes narrowed. It was a champion level digimon called Liamon. This digimon was rare; I had only seen this guy twice in my life, including this moment. Unfortunately, neither time was good. This guy was tough. There wouldn't be any way for us to get past him without having someone notice. I had to tell the others. There was just one problem.
He was between me and the exit.
I took a deep breath, ready to bolt at a moment's notice, and got into a stance that would allow me to run past him quickly. If I could just pass him without him noticing, then-
"HI!"
"AAAAAHHHH!" I stupidly cried, not loud enough for anyone inside the castle to hear, but loud enough for the digidestined to hear. Ken was the first one inside, followed closely by the others. I stared, confused, at the person who had gotten the drop on me. Kari gasped.
"Lizzie, what are you doing here?"
"L-Lizzie?" For a second there, I thought I was looking at a female version of Tai when he was younger! I was staring at the young girl, who looked to be around the same age as Kari. She had pink eyes and black hair, pulled back into a pony tail. Her white-and-purple bangs were gelled, so that they were surprisingly pointy, and separated from the rest of her hair by a light purple hairband and white goggles. Her clothes consisted of black shirt and jeans, as well as a light purple jacket, which only came over her chest.
I turned to Ken. "Who is Lizzie?"
Ken blinked. "Her name is Elizabeth Ruin, but most of us call her Liz. She's obviously one of us, and her partner over there is Liamon." My eyes widened.
"You're kidding me! Liamon is this girl's partner? That guy is rare!" Ken shook his head.
"That's not all. She is also a crest bearer." My jaw dropped as Ken continued. "She has the crest of Dreams. It has helped her to see things that are going to happen."
"Wow." Ken nodded. Liz smiled at Kari.
"Well, I saw that you guys would be coming back to the Digital world soon, so I wanted to surprise you, but when I got here, I saw a boy being carried this way by some strange, machine looking digimon. We thought something was up, so we came to check it out." I frowned.
"It took us almost two hours to get here. What have you been doing?" Liz smiled.
"Oh, well, I kinda got a little distracted."
"By what?" Liz looked like she was thinking hard.
"Um, let's see. There was that, and that, and-ooh, I almost forgot about that!" I looked over at Ken.
"She is also really easily distracted, if you haven't realized." I nodded.
"Anyway. We need to get in there and get Koichi out. Let's go!" Without explaining or waiting any longer, everyone burst into the castle. As planned, we split into two groups. Group one, made up of Tai, Matt, Sora, Izzy, Davis, Ken, Yolie, Takuya, Koji, Tommy, Marcus, and the appropriate partners all went to the towers, while group two, made up of the rest of us, excluding Liz, headed to the cellars. Liz, we later found out, stayed on the ground floor and started searching there for the boy.
I was in the back of the group, and I felt a chill run down my spine. I absolutely HATED being here. We passed an open cell and I couldn't help but look in. No window on the door. I was suddenly overcome with the familiar fear and ran to catch up with everyone else, accidentally running into Kari at the same time.
"Hey!" TK said, giving me a death glare.
"Sorry."
"OH!" Gatomon suddenly stopped. Everyone turned to her.
"What is it?" Kari asked, slightly worried.
"I'd forgotten about her," she said, almost sounding sad.
"Who?" Thomas asked.
"The human girl that used to live here." My gasp was drowned out by the others.
"A girl lived here?" TK asked.
She remembers I was here?!
Gatomon nodded. "Yes. I'd almost forgotten all about her. I think I was only here for about a month or so before she was rescued from this place."
"Rescued?" Zoe asked.
"Yes. She was the only being that ever escaped from here without having been turned into a digiegg, or in her case, killed. I'm not even sure how she survived, seeing as she was punished quite harshly, despite the fact that she was human. She even occasionally took on the punishment of other digimon to try and 'lessen their pain.'"
I bowed my head. "What happened to the other servants after she left?" I was met with a few glares, but I didn't care. Even if I didn't tell them, I had every right to know.
Gatomon, for some reason, decided to answer. "The servants were severely punished for not doing anything to stop her from leaving, even the ones that were not anywhere near the event." I mentally cringed. "Myotismon even sent out his stronger minions to try and find her, but thankfully she was never found." I saw a number of nods, agreeing that it was a good thing. I wanted to say something so badly, but I kept my mouth shut.
Suddenly, I felt someone move.
When I say this, I mean I felt the vibration of someone move that wasn't a member of our group. I had powers over the elements, but earth was my weakest one. Still, when I concentrate, I can feel someone move. I started focusing and determined the movement came from a closed cell to my right.
Without explaining myself, I bolted and yanked open the door. I saw a lump in the dark room that was the source of the movement.
"Koichi!" I said in relief and hurried over. I knelt down and was about to put my hand on his back when I placed my left hand on the stone floor. I felt a small static shock. I froze for a split second and said "No." I pushed myself back.
Just in time, as the boy's hand suddenly flew back, bright with electricity. I scrambled over to the door.
"Who is that?" JP asked, I think a little happy to see someone else with electrical powers. I, however, knew better. I stood at the door and stretched my arms out, blocking the way.
"Go." Everyone looked at my back. I turned green eyes bright with fear. "This guy won't hesitate to kill any one of you, so GO!"
To my surprise, the group grabbed me and pulled me along as they ran. The hair on the back of my neck started to rise.
"DUCK!" Everyone obliged without asking any questions. A bolt of electricity flew over our heads and exploded into a wall. Everyone turned to the boy. I recognized him instantly, even though it was far too dark to actually see him, I already knew who it was. "Abraham."
"Fey," Thomas said from next to me, "this might not be the best time to bring this up, but why don't you do whatever you did to get those Digivices from the Commander to get us out of here?"
"Good idea, except for one small problem. I can't do it without transferring something else that is living to our location." I felt a confused stare on me, so I explained quickly. "I can't technically teleport things, I can only trade the positions of items or people, and they have to match, meaning something living has to replace something living, and something dead or an object has to be replaced with an object."
"Too bad for you!" Abraham said, and I could "see" the evil smile on his face. He started to light the place up, about to attack, when the one thing I can say I never would have expected happened, particularly to Abraham.
He was hit from behind with someone with a block of wood and knocked out cold.
I blinked in surprise. Ok, I've seen him take on MEGA digimon, and he is taken down by a piece of wood? I looked up and tried to make out who attacked the electro-maniac.
"Are you guys all right?" I recognize that voice! I smiled in relief and happiness.
"Koichi! How-"
"I don't know how he did it, but this guy had knocked me out and pushed me into the corner of the cell. I don't think he expected me to wake up so soon, though, because he left the door wide open."
"Ok, this is just too easy, but I don't care. Let's get out of here!" Everyone agreed and we ran back out.
"Koichi!" Koji called when he saw us come into view. My eyes widened.
"History is repeating itself right now!" I said and pulled Koichi ahead. I wasn't about to let this happen again. We made it just outside the gate when we realized the trouble we were in.
There were Gizumon everywhere, and Kurata was standing in front of the army.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't Ms. Fey Black and co." Kurata raised his arm. No. The Gizumon went on the attack. They were trying to grab everyone so they could do whatever they wanted. I knew deep down what was going to happen. The digimon were going to be permanently deleted, the human partners would have their memories erased, and the legendary warriors would be examined to discover why they were able to fuse with the spirit of a digimon. And I would be poked and prodded like a lab experiment. These thoughts were too much to comprehend, but one thing put me over the top.
The first person grabbed was Koichi.
I completely lost it. I felt a large amount of darkness just suddenly overcome me. "NO! NOT AGAIN!" Suddenly what looked like barcodes surrounded me, and I felt my body change. Before they disappeared, I jumped up and aimed myself at the Gizumon carrying my friend. The barcodes vanished. "DUSKMON!" I cried out. A red sword came out of my hand, which I used to destroy the monster. I caught Koichi and immediately more barcodes appeared. This time, my form didn't change back to normal. Instead, I changed into the beast spirit of Darkness, "VELGAMON!" Koichi stared up at me, surprised. I looked back and saw everyone managing to break free and fly in the same direction I was. I turned my attention back to Koichi.
"Are you OK?"
"Y-you can control Duskmon?" If I were a human, I would have smiled.
"Of course. I mean, being me makes-" I stopped. "What did you say?" Koichi smiled.
"I said, 'You can control the spirit of Darkness," he repeated. I mentally smiled.
"Y-you remember!" He smiled and nodded. Everyone had caught up at this point. "Guys, Koichi remembers!" There was a choir of cheers. Unfortunately, the happy moment was short lived. The Gizumon were hot on our tails. I looked ahead and mentally smiled. "Guys, Digital Gate, Dead Ahead!" Everyone saw it and took aim. We all barely managed to make it through before it closed and we made it back to the real world.
"Ok, I'm going to say it. I think that was one of the shortest adventures we've ever been on!" Davis called. I looked around. We were surrounded by woods.
"Guys, I'm going to give Koichi back his spirits! This is probably the best place to do it, so here we go!" I dove down and carefully put Koichi down into a clearing. Then I landed and turned myself back into a human.
Not a second passed and my entire body exploded in pain. I crumpled onto the ground I was scratching at my chest. I was in so much pain, I couldn't register what was going on around me. I thought I felt someone pulling my hand away from my chest, so I opened my eyes and saw Ken and Koichi both hunched over me, with Stingmon standing close behind. I think they were saying something, but the pain was too much for me to understand. I think I tried to tell them to leave, but I might have just been imagining things. I didn't know what I was doing, but I think I did something else, aside from tell them to leave, but then everything went black. One final thought when through my head.
Please don't get killed.
Wolf: (Looks around) Where did she go? (Looks at audience) Um, Fey has mysteriously disappeared. I hope nothing wrong has happened. Well, that's about it. Just note that Elizabeth Ruin was not made by me. She was made by a friend of a friend. Now if you guys don't mind, I'll be hiding in the bomb shelter until Fey turns back up if anyone wants me. (Runs off, leaving a dust cloud behind)