Vietvn: -Sigh- oh goodness me, i finally hav the time to update. I'm sorry if it took too long than usual but i had so many tests and still have plenty more next week so I'll try my best to get the chapters in. The only reason that I don't add all the chapters i wrote all at once is because i wanna give ppl a chance to review on each chapter so yea, gotta be patient. Again I thank Hibiki-chan for reviewing my story Sorry if this is boring but yea, its part of the series lol.

Hope you enjoy this chapter

Chapter Ten: Mysteries and Traps

Amiko's POV

We walked on for who knows how long, all the way it was silent. After about half an hour of walking, we were confronted by three seperate tunnels. Takuya was looking at each one with a confused face.

" Which one do we take? " asked Zoe.

" That's the problem, I don't know. " replied Takuya.

" We could do eeny meeny miny moe. " suggested Tommy.

" Number between 1-3? " asked Zoe.

" Draw it out of a hat? "

" We don't have a hat --' " As they continue to bicker on about what they should do, I glanced off towards the tunnels. They all looked the same to me but where they lead to differs. I skimmed over the tunnels until I landed on the far right one, inside of it I could faintly see a blue light emitting from it. I started to walk over to it slowly, no one seems to notice since they were all too busy deciding on what to do. I was sort of in a trance while following the orb of light, willing to keep it in my eye sight. A quarter of a way into the tunnel, I heard someone calling my name.

" Amiko! " I kept walking but at a slow pace so the person could catch up to me. I felt a hand grab my shoulder and I turn around to see Kouichi(A/N: Haha, sorry not Kouji this time XD)

" Where are you going? " he asked, I glanced back towards the light and he looked at it with a surprised look.

" C'mon. " I said and he and I ran forward ahead of everyone.

" HEY GUYS! WAIT UP! " I could hear Takuya shouting. I kept on running until I reached a dead end. I didn't get it at all and was glancing around all over the place. I heard the rest of others had caught up to us and were also dissapointed that they reached a dead end.

" Great, we follow a ghost ball and it leads us to a dead end. " said JP sarcastically as he begin to turn around and leave but bumped into a wall instead. He stumbled back confused at the sight of the wall being there.

" What the...? "

" That wasn't there before! " exclaimed Kouji. Takuya went up to it and touched it to make sure it wasn't some sort of an illusion. Zoe was starting to get worried, worry that there was no way out whatseover. And I couldn't blame her since I was feeling the same, I looked around all over the place but couldn't find anything at all! No secret passageway, no riddles to solve, nothing! We were trapped.

" Hey I know! " exclaimed Takuya, " Why don't we all digivolve and bust this wall down so we can get out. " Everyone brightened up with hope of this idea as Takuya began to spirit evolve but as soon as he shouted, ' Agunimon ' he turned back to his normal self again.

" Hey! What happened!? "

" You de-digivolve when you were about to digivolve to Agunimon. " said Zoe, now worry and fear were in her eyes again. There was absolutely no way out.

' None that you can see... ' rang an eerie voice inside of my head, I looked around confused as to who would hack into my mind and tell me that but there is no one and I couldn't sense anyone either. I went over the side wall to feel for any button or lever to open up a passageway but didn't find any. As I traced my hand over the wall, I felt something bumpy. I retraced it back and began to clear away the dirt that was covering it. I brushed it away and I saw more insciptions in the wall in an ancient language with many different symbols and patterns.

" Guys, I found something. " I called over to the others. They stopped what they were doing and started to head towards me, I stepped back to see all of the inscription. It was beautiful and looked very old, there was a symbol that went just above my forehead. It looked like a cartoon version of Angewomon but the only thing visible was her four wings, in the middle of it all was a heart shaped symbol and on the bottom of it were letters, I think.

" Bokomon, what does it say? " asked Tommy.

" It says... " Bokomon squinted his eyes a bit before reading, " Bloodstained hands, dyed crimson red. Though his blood remains unshed. Only her blood can beat his broken heart. "

" What does is that suppose to mean? " asked Zoe, " It sounds so tragic. " I also put that into thought, ' What could that sentence possibly mean? Ok, so ' his ' must be the legendary warrior that fell in love with Angewomon. So like the gypsy said before, this all revolved around me somehow...' I bit my thumb down a bit, it was a habit of mine that I do when I need to think hard. It started to hurt a bit but that made a light click in my head.

' Wait! There was a mention of ' her blood ' and if I'm connected to Angewomon then maybe... ' I bit my thumb down harder. I could feel the blood starting to seep through the cut and I started to wince a bit. Zoe must've have noticed since she was standing beside me as I bit my thumb down.

" Amiko! What are you doing?! " she asked alerted by the sight of blood. Everyone turned to me and stared at me like I was insane but I didn't care though, I removed my thumb away from my mouth and started to gently dab the blood on the small symbol with the heart on it. Once the entire symbol was covered in blood, it started to change into a blue light that stretched throughout the whole patterened wall. Once the whole wall was lit up, the wall started to slide to the ground below us with a slight rumble. The wall soon completely dissappeared under the ground and another passageway was revealed.

I started to suck on my thumb where the cut was since it started to sting a bit. Takuya and the others observed the tunnel with a wide eyed expression and with slightly open mouths.

" NIce work. " complimented Takuya.

" Thanks. " I manage to reply.

" Well, who wants to go down the creepy tunnel first? " asked JP.

" Way to put it. " said Zoe sarcastically as she followed Takuya down the tunnel, soon followed by everyone else. Again, me and Kouji were walking in the back as usual, and as usual, neither of us made eye contact or said a word to each other. My thumb stopped bleeding a while ago and now I didn't have anything to do. I was walking absent-mindedly until I was brough back to reality by a soft hand touching my chin and making me turn towards Kouji. I looked into his sapphire eyes and couldn't help but try to hold back a blush that was creeping up my cheeks. I felt his thumb rumb slightly against the corner of my mouch before he took his hand away gently again. I almost felt sad that it ended shortly, like i wanted it to last longer remember, keyword: ALMOST.

" You had blood there. " He said barely above a whisper.

" Um..Thank you. " I replied while turning away slightly to prevent him from seeing my blush. I couldn't help it, I bet the girls go crazy about him at his school. He's like prince charming himself, ok that was a cheesy line but oh well. I was spared from the moment of awkwardness by Takuya who called back to us to keep up. We did but just when we were about to walk again, the wall next to us came lunging out and almost crashed into us. Kouji had tackled me to the floor to avoid being crushed by the moving wall.

" You ok? " He asked as he helped me up, I nodded hastly and quickly pulled him into a run since the wall next to us again had lunged out too. We all took off on a run as all the walls we pass by started to come out and try and squish us. As the farther we ran, the more dangerous the traps are, I had to save Zoe who fell down a hole! I don't know how long we ran for but I bet it was the longest run in my life. We dodged flying knives, more walls, the occassional hole in the floor with the spikes at the bottom and a few pendulam of doom. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a giant boulder.

And speak of the devil, a low rumble was heard beneath the ground below us and when we turned towards the direction we were running to, a huge giagantic form started to storm right towards us. The closer it got, the more we could see that it was an actual boulder! Each one of us panicked for just a second before attaching ourselves to the wall so we could let the boulder go by us. Once it went by, everything was silent and we all breathed a sigh of relief that our obstacle course was finished, that is until I heard a slight whizzing sound in the air and it was growing louder as it came to me.

" Amiko! Look out! " I heard Takuya and the others shout. I didn't have time to think but my legs gave away from the exhaustion and I slumped to the ground. When I looked up, there was an arrow that embedded the wall above me where my head used to be. Another sigh of relief, I myself also sighed in relief since now I could finally sit down and not worry about anything that is going to come out and try and kill me. I finally noticed a hand outstretched in front of me and looked up to see Kouji offering a hand to help me up. I gladly excepted and let him pull me up, the others were probably exhausted too since they were still trying to catch their breath. When everyone was calm, we started to walk again. It was not long before we reach two huge stone doors with more inscriptions in ancient language on them along with a few designs too.

" What lies beyond this door is what will decide your fate, whether you die or survive. " read Bokomon.

" So, how do we get in? " asked Tommy.

" What I'm wondering is who invented all this metaphor nonsense. " said JP as he kicked the door with his foot. There was yet another rumble on the ground and everyone tried to steady themselves.

" JP!! YOU'RE SO-...! " Everyone was about to shout, ' stupid ' when the two doors began to open automatically.

" Smart? " I asked, looking confused.

" I can't believe that happened twice. " muttered Kouji. Everyone took a glance inside of the room where we saw...

Cliffie! What do you think they saw? A big giant monster? Something? lol, well feel free to guess when you review. Plz give me some feedbacks!