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Chapter 10: Revelation
The ground shook as a monstrous roar could be heard as Jeri's D-Arc's yellow trim turned pitch black. A furocious looking digimon the size of a person glared at the others. It was pink with red scythes for arms, and an over all fiendish look, "Master Arkadimon!" Keramon bowed with Grademon.
"Keramon, it has been a long time, I trust you are well," Arkadimon spoke with several different voices at once, "it is fitting that my two most loyal subjects are here at my unbounding."
"Yes master, of course we would be," Grademon assured, "and we brought you this group of children who dare to stand in your way, perhaps you'd like to strech a bit before going on to The Digital World and Earth."
Arkadimon chuckled at the thought as he turned to face the group, "You pose an interesting idea Grademon, I also see you brought that girl to me as my tamer, good work you two."
"Well, what level is he?" Takato asked the others in desperation.
Henry gasped at what the statistics said, "Arkadimon, a rookie level... but he can't be the one that was fighting Fanglongmon, he's too low of a level."
"Levels mean nothing to me," Arkadimon retorted as he charged the group.
"No you don't! Card Slash!" J.T. shouted as he slashed the digivolution card through.
"Impmon digivolve to... Dobermon!" the doberman growled angrily at Arkadimon who would not hault his advance.
"Out of my way, dog!" Arkadimon ordered, "Erase Sickle!" the demon slashed Dobermon out of the way and knocked him back to Impmon.
"Holy shit!" J.T. cursed as he jumped out of the way of Arkadimon with the others.
"Hault this violence!" a deep, but benevolent voice commanded. Out of the darkness of the cave, Fanglongmon appeared, a giant four legged dragon engulfed in golden scales, "you shall not harm these children as long as I am standing.
Arkadimon sneered at the notion, "Fine then, another day perhaps? Keramon, get us out of here."
"Of course master!" Keramon agreed as he created a warp gate that Arkadimon and his servants retreated into. As soon as the area was clear, J.T. rushed to his partner, Impmon, and helped him up.
"Are you okay?" J.T. asked his friends.
"Of course I am, when haven't I been?" Impmon weakly laughed, but fell to one knee.
"Oh shut up, you can't be doing stuff like that at the moment," J.T. playfully ordered.
"Are you alright children?" the giant dragon asked, "I'm glad I awakened when I did."
"Yeah, we're fine," Takato answered.
Fanglongmon looked down at Impmon and ever slightly grinned, "You are lucky Arkadimon did not delete you in one hit, you must be much stronger than the average Digimon."
"Well, brushing with death a few times helps that," Impmon grinned back, causing the dragon to chuckle.
"Come, we must warn the others," Fanglongmon ordered as he made a giant whole in the cavern that he could exit through.
"So you're the one who gave us the Gold Cards?" J.T. asked Fanglongmon as the group made their way out of the cave.
"Yes, I feared Arkadimon's freedom was imminent, but I wish I was wrong," the deity spoke, "Even as a Rookie level, he has the power to kill Champions with ease, and once he Digivolves to his fullest potential, he will be unstoppable."
"You mean D-Reaper unstoppable? Because we've handled that before," Terriermon countered.
"The D-Reaper was nothing compared to this monster, legend has it that he is one of the few that can reach the fabled, Super Ultimate level, a level that surpasses Mega," Fanglongmon grimly explained, "Once he has reached that level, all will be lost."
"It sounds like we'll need to find Omnimon to help us," Agumon gulped.
"You've spoken with Omnimon?" Fanglongmon asked.
"J.T., Takato, and their partners have, but not the rest of us," Ali answered, "How do you know him?"
"He was an old friend of mine before Arkadimon had reared his ugly head to the world," Fanglongmon reminisced, "Too bad it had to end..."
"Dear Drasil, it's him," the group hear Baihoumon gasp as they made it out of the cave.
"Fanglongmon, is it true? Has our enemy returned?" Azulongmon questioned.
"I fear my answer is a grave one," the golden dragon lowered his head.
"Then all hope is lost," Zhuqiaomon sighed, seemingly to lose all his firey spirit from before.
"What now? We can't fight something of that magnitude," Ebonwumon asked in depression.
"I've never seen them give up that easily before," Takato spoke in dismay, "Arkadimon must really be a scary opponent if even these guys are saying it's hopeless."
"It makes you wonder what chance we have," Henry sighed.
"Can we even stand a chance?" Rika replied with a question of her own.
Everyone was sitting around with a depressed look on their face, all waiting for the slaughter. Impmon looked around and even J.T. was ready to give up. Impmon's anger was boiling, and it got to the point where it finally steamed out of him, "Really!? Is this how easily you all are going to quit? We haven't even fought this guy in a proper battle before, and you're already giving up! Grow a back bone, all of you!" he shouted, "We've all faced impossible situations before, like when us from America fought Moon=Milleniumon, or when you guys fought off the D-Reaper, and mind you both could almost kill anything they wanted to."
"Yeah... he's right," J.T. suddenly brightened up with Fanglongmon, "We can do this, and if we can't, we'll sure as Hell die fighting! I don't know about you guys, but if he wants to take over our homes and families, then he'll have to face Impmon and I until we're six feet under before he can lay even a finger on our families! Now I'm not sure what the rest of you are going to do, but I'm not going to give up without a fight."
"I'm in," Takato answered.
"Me too," Henry agreed.
"I stuck around to save your ass this long, I'm not going to stop now," Val smirked.
"If he wants to harm my family, it'll be when I'm dead," Rika vowed.
"I've been by your side since the beginning, I'm not going to give up just because of some computer bug," Ali smiled.
"Well boys? You're not about to be shown up by some children, now are you?" Fanglongmon chuckled.
"If they think they can win, I'll put my faith in them," Azulongmon was the first to speak up.
"Ay, they've proven themselves before," Ebonwumon acknowledged.
"Well Zhuqiaomon? What do you say?" Baihoumon asked the elder member.
"I-I guess they're right," Zhuqiaomon admitted out of embarrassment.
"It is settled then, as long as any of us still breathe, we will never stop fighting," Impmon vowed, "And I hope you are all planning to live for a long while," at this statement everyone cheered.
"Good, now I think it is time I sent you back home," Fanglongmon spoke, "I am sure that is where Arkadimon has gone off to," when he finished, a portal appeared for all of them.
"Good luck, everyone's future lies within your hands," Azulongmon spoke as they all walked through.
The park 9:30 P.M.: two days after the disappearence of the tamers
One by one, everyone made it out of the portal and into Guilmon's old home, "Well, nothing seems different," Rika spoke softly.
"No, something's wrong, it's too quiet, nothing's making a noise," Henry noticed.
"Yeah, you're right, wouldn't a giant city like Tokyo make a lot of noise from the traffic?" Val asked the others.
"Quick, this way!" they heard a voice call out to someone else, Takato leaned over to see it was Ryo running with Cyberdramon and Beelzemon.
"Guys! Over here!" Takato called out to them, a minute later the three were inside with the others.
"So this is the other Impmon?" Impmon asked. Beelzemon stayed silent, without his usual personality.
"Ai... Mako..." he softly whispered, "They were taken while I was gone..."
Ai and Mako made their way from the older tamers and up to Beelzemon, "Beelzemon, we're here, the others made sure we were fine," Mako told him.
Beelzemon looked up to see his tamers and almost burst into tears, "But I should've stayed to guard you, I thought I never would've seen you again."
"But we're fine," Ai assured him, "But some mean Digimon took Jeri."
"That's right, and they're forcing her to be their bosse's tamer," Takato told the newcomers, "We have to go save her."
"Sorry Takato, but I'm not sure that's an option," Ryo sighed, "Well, not right now at least."
"Why not?" Rika asked.
"They turned the old HYPNOS building into a fortress, armed to the teeth with Mega level guards as far as the eye can see," Beelzemon reported, "They took over the city shortly after you appeared, they forced all the citizens into several concentration camps; everyone who didn't comply... let's just say it wasn't pretty."
"Anyone who was killed were just left where they died, there are corpses everywhere, we never stood a chance," Ryo growled as he slammed his fist into the ground, "lucky for us, everyone we knew and loved did comply are still alive, but they took Kazu, Kenta, and everyone else, we don't know what happened to their partners though."
"What about our parents?" Henry asked what the rest of the local tamers were wondering.
"My guess, one of the concentration camps, but who knows," Ryo grimly replied.
"Well, do you know where the other tamers are?" J.T. questioned.
"Yeah, they're held up at the school, it's the least defended place, and the easist to get to," Beelzemon replied.
"Well folks," Impmon stood up, "if you didn't have a reason to fight before, you sure as Hell do now."
"Hell yeah, and we're not going to stop until this asshole's dead," J.T. spoke and put his hand forward, "Well?" everyone else turned to each other then also put their hands in. "Three... two... one..."
"Yeah!" everyone cheered. Then things got serious again.
"So, what should we do first?" Ali asked.
"I'm thinking, we hit the school, and we hit it hard, there we'll take the prisoners to a place where they can lay low until this blows over, what do you guys think?" J.T. asked.
"It's a good start, but where will we hide them?" Ryo brought up a serious point. No one really had an answer to that yet, then Takato thought back to when Guilmon first became Growlmon.
"I got it! We'll hide them in the tunnel where I put Guilmon when he digivolved for the first time! It's really long and could hold a lot of people" Takato suggested.
"Great, then it's settled, we attack tomorrow," Impmon noted.
Chapter End
J.T.: Things are getting crazy
Impmon: Yeah, no telling what Arkadimon is capable of
Takato: I just hope we stand a chance
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