Altered Reverberations

Chapter 10

Clash of the Tamers

Deva looked at the symbol on her hand. It was Hazards symbol. "Won't Ebemon figure this out?" Deva asked as the two had paused for lunch.

Hazard shook his head, "No. He'll think it's just my way of Claiming you as my own."

"Well, in a way haven't you?" Deva asked.

Hazard raised his eyebrow to her, and his tail beat on the ground. "Depends on how you look at it, I suppose." He said.

Deva could tell this was troubling Hazard. It troubled her too. If Hazard always knew where she was and what she was feeling, how could she ever get to hang out with Joe? Originally she had planned to capture him and his digimon so he could become like her so they could be together. However, she was free from Ebemon, and she couldn't doom anybody else to the same fate as she almost had and Hazard does have.

Hazard let out a sigh as he turned up towards the clouds. He had to admit, the east quadrant was a lot more calm and relaxed compared to the South. Just the whole environment was different. He really enjoyed it. "Hey Deva?" he asked.

"Yeah Hazard?"

"When we meet Kitsune, I don't want you to fight." Hazard told her, "I want you to get far enough away that I won't be tempted to use you in the fight either."

Deva looked up at him. She understood why, "You want to give Kitsune a chance." She said.

Hazard nodded, "Yeah... I do." he said solemnly.

"Henry's pretty smart." Deva told him.

"Huh?"

"I said Henry's pretty smart." she said.

"What do you mean?" Hazard asked.

"Well, think about it. He wrote up a program that would bind us to Ebemon, but not control us. Ebemon can only tell us to do broad things, but he wouldn't want you to let Kitsune escape. He wouldn't want you to free me from the bind he has on me."

"Well, I didn't exactly remove that one. He can still control you through me." Hazard told her.

"Twue, but you don't have to use me to help you. I could run off right now even, and things wouldn't change." Deva told him.

Hazard shook his head, "We can't do that, he'll be suspicious enough as it is."

Deva nodded, "I guess I'll just help you fight Kitsune."

"What?" Hazard said confused.

"Think about it. If we both go back empty handed, he'll still get suspicious, besides, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't mind letting Kitsune being bound to you." Deva said cunningly.

Hazards tail beat on the ground subconsciously, "What's your point?" Hazard asked cautiously.

"Come on." Deva told him, "I know how you and Rika flirted before you started going out with Jeri, and how you and Renamon were mates on top of that. You can't tell me that hasn't affected you." Deva said folding her arms.

"Oh." Hazard said, "And I suppose you know this from personal experience?" He teased.

Deva blushed red and subconsciously touched the back of her dress shirt where she had sown a pocket. It held the letter to Jyou. She turned away her face, "That's none of your business."

Hazard saw her touch the letter, and decided to drop the subject... for now at least. Just until he could get a hold of that letter. The same one she was writing when he barged in on her. He couldn't wait to tease her about it.

Something bothered him though. Deva mentioned Jeri. For all the days they had been captured, no one had mentioned anything about the human life before... now it made him to start to wonder.

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Anubismon looked up, wondering what digimon he would have to judge this time. Slightly surprised that he was required to do the weighing for a digimon. He had gotten some help recently from all of the dead Deva's. He had to admit, he had given them a bit longer punishment then they should have, as it should have fallen upon Zhuqiaomon, but he had spoken to the great phoenix about it. So now he could relax and catch up on some of his other duties as the Deva's took care of all of the sentencing.

As of now, he had only to judge one digimon, and that was a Mammothmon using an insanity plea. Anubismon laughed at the digimon. It wasn't insanity, it was pride, but he did take the small oddity in Mammothmon's Core into account. Other then that it was nice not having to deal with all the annoying whine's of a lot of the digimon.

He had just gotten ready to go talk to Zhuqiaomon about the missing tamers and what to do if one of their digimon happened up in the Dark Zone. As since current events had changed, the old contract of what to do with them was void, so he wanted to fix that. He sat back and looked at the Digimon that appeared.

"Cursing the Dark ZONE!" Anubismon said in disgust and surprise.

There the digimon stood before him. He knew this digimon, he was a sly talker and a digimon he had been waiting to judge for a long time. "Glad to see you here... Rinkmon."

The Armor Digimon gulped. He had only met the immortal digimon once before, and it wasn't pleasant. He had to spend over 700 years in the void. "Yess... of course oh Great Anubismon." He said, fear feathered the terror in his voice, while still trying to suck up.

Anubismon glared, and Rinkmon flinched, he started feeling really uncomfortable. "It's been awhile since I've done a public Judging. It'll boost the moral of the digimon here." he said.

Piedmon was surprised when he suddenly appeared in the judging arena. "Well, looks like we get to see a judging. Interesting." he said. He looked around, and saw a huge congregation of Vilemon. He laughed when he saw them. The stupid fools. He looked around again, and saw Puppetmon behind and too the left of him in the stands in the Colosseum. It had always boggled Piedmon, why Anubismon would have a coliseum for the public Judging's instead of something more Egyptian.

He looked around to see some other familiar faces, Myotismon was here, along with Lucemon. There was also a Mystimon, Boltmon and Karatemon that he could tell had only been here for a little bit as they were extremely confused about what was happening.

Something was bothering him though. There were some digimon missing here that he couldn't figure out. Next to Apocaylmon stood GranDracmon and Diaboramon, so they weren't it. He did notice that Armageddonmon was not among their Ranks. That wasn't it though. There should have been some people here who weren't. Then he figured it out.

LadyDevimon was missing. Not only that, but so was Machinedramon. "Well well." He said to himself, "Looks like the rumors really are true. MetalSeadramon got off easy eh? I hope he's really letting The Dark Zone loose up there." He said. Out of all the Dark Masters other then himself, MetalSeadramon was the only one he actually feared in any what way or form. He was actually fairly thankful when the Digi-destined wiped him from the planet.

Anubismon stood up in the middle of the Colosseum. He didn't want to make this one a big deal, he just had to much to do. "For those of you who have only been to the Dark Zone recently, this is what you call a public Judging. This is not done very often, but when a digimon becomes so despicable that even the one's who reside in the dark zone hate him. It becomes the Ultimate humiliation." He said.

"Now stand before me and be judged!" He said. Rinkmon appeared in front of the crowd. Right off the top, there was a lot of booing.

GranDracmon looked at him and laughed, "So... being a Lord in the Dark Zone, we three get to ask you questions for your judgment. My first question... oh great Rinkmon." He mocked, "Is how did you manage to end up here. Which Vigilante finally got you. Tell us so that we may Celebrate his name you low life Raper."

"You should be lucky you're in the Dark Zone now." Rinkmon shot at him, "Even you would have fallen to this creature."

The Digimon all laughed, and Anubismon let them. Humiliation was a far greater torture to Rinkmon then he could ever lay on him. "It was a Renamon."

The digimon laughed even harder at Rinkmon, "But this was no ordinary Renamon!" he roared at them.

"This was a demon of Digimon's. The Kyuubi is back! The Kitsune has come to slay Azulongmon. She knows the great Demon dragon and is probably in alliance with him. She asked me questions under the disguise of being a Renamon about Azulongmon. She plans to do what none of you could ever do, and she'll succeed."

Diablomon chuckled, "Do what we never could eh? I managed to be within seconds of destroying the digi-destined."

"And then you took on the form of Armageddonmon to try and make up for your lack of power and got wasted." Anubismon commented. Still, whatever Rinkmon had seen, this wasn't a time to brush off things like this. Besides the fact that this was going much better then he had thought. Rinkmon was being humiliated, the digimon got a time to relax. He was going to enjoy slamming them back down after this.

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Kitsune smelled the air. She knew what Hazard was waiting for, he was allowing her to choose the place of battle. She knew that she didn't have time to figure out a good place, so her best odds where to get into the woods, away from people and where she could use the trees as cover.

Kitsune made her move, and then she could here Hazards feet pounding on the ground, he wasn't be stealthy at all. Then again, she knew exactly right were he was by smell, so there was no need to be stealthy. She moved quickly, zigzagging a bit, but he didn't seem to fall for it. The chase lasted mere seconds, and they were already two miles from there starting point. Luckily sound doesn't work the same here as it does in the real world. Kitsune thought.

She continued running, slower now though, as she had to dodge past the trees, which were getting thicker as they moved deeper into the forest. She finally arrived at the spot, and knelt down on the ground. Hazard arrived at the edge of the clearing a split second later. She leaned down and took a long drink of the water. It was fresh, cool and relaxing, she let herself enjoy the water. She stood up.

"Been a few days Hazard." Kitsune told him.

"Don't even try it Kitsune." Hazard told her front up, her back to him, "I must say, I'll give you some credit, but you made it way to obvious." Kitsune's eyes grew in fear. He knew exactly what she was going to do. "Shadow meld into my shadow and hit me a strong hard blow on the back. Even with my speed boosted up by the Hazard, I still wouldn't be able to stop that kind of an attack."

Kitsune's eyes saddened, she had thought this through so carefully, and yet, he had already figured out her plan.

Hazard let his eyes fall on her back, and little lower to her tail, rear end and legs. He took a careful look at his surroundings. Kitsune was standing next to a pool of water that was filled by a waterfall. The water was fairly deep, as it flowed into an underground river. It was a small clearing around the pool, surrounded by deep forest red wood trees. The water fall came from a forty foot high cliff, and the sun shown right over it, casting a deep shadow on him and the trees. It was exactly the kind of place that Kitsune needed to use all of her advantages. She wasn't taking any chances with him.

Kitsune hands came in front of her in a familiar form. "Digi-Modify!" Kitsune cried, "Hyper speed activate!"

Kitsune disappeared to appear in the air behind Hazard, going for a kick to his head. She reappeared in front of him and let her fist slam into his stomach area, which was countered by his own fist. She appeared to left of him, her elbow going for his side. Blocked again she appeared low and behind him, sweeping her feet under him. Hazard back flipped over her attack, "COMBUSTION BLASTER!" he cried, releasing his attack at her.

Kitsune was just barely able to move away before the attack slammed into the ground, decimating it.

Kitsune glared, breathing hard, going that speed was really taking a lot out of her. She did notice that the attack was weaker then his rookie one. She stood up and he came back into the clearing from the woods. They stood ten feet apart.

"Not tired already?" Hazard teased, "I sure hope your a better mate then you are a fighter." Kitsune breathed hard as her tail split into nine.

"You activated two pieces of Hazard again." Kitsune said, realization entered her voice, "Unlike before where you had Strength and Speed activated, now you have Speed and Intelligence."

"I'm not moving fast enough to block your attacks. That's why it's been so hard to counter my counter." Hazard told her.

"You already know where I'm going to attack, and so you've blocked my attack even before it's made." Kitsune said.

"Figured it out now."

Kitsune ran at him, "I just have to attack were your not expecting it."

"And that'll be exactly where I'll block." Hazard said fiercely.

Kitsune appeared under him, and instead of swiping his feet out from under him, she shot her feet up to try and catch him in the jaw. He moved back to dodge it. She appeared above him and lashed out with her nine tails. He caught one with his hands and threw her into a tree. She disappeared again and tried to scissor kick his head. He ducked, and spun, "DRAGON SLASH!" he cried as the blade on his arm just barely missed her.

She landed on the ground, a few feet away from him. By Ebowumon's Forest that was close. She swore in her head, He's just toying with me. No matter what I do, he'll know exactly how to counter it even before I do it. She looked at him, Funny, it's hard to believe that innocent Guilmon and Gogglehead could become such great fighters, not working together, but in all honesty being together. She thought. She moved to him and attacked again, being again repelled How can I beat him. I can't get through his defense, and I'm getting more tired by the second. I need to end this now!" She thought as he repelled yet another to attacks, sending her into the air. She looked down, and the goggles on his head, really stood out. Of course. Kitsune thought. He' knows Renamon and Rika. He doesn't know me. She thought.

She dropped down in front of him. Hazard was prepared for her attack, but he wasn't prepared as her Mouth clasped his and she kissed him. His first thought was, Oh, mon... Rika's going to kill me.

Kitsune saw that she got him as she enjoyed the kiss, the only thing in the battle that had taken more then a second. She slowly raised her arms to his stomach as she let her tongue dance inside his. Her gloves let loose so that her hands could no longer be seen. She drew away from the kiss, almost regretting that she has too. She glances at Hazard, and grins as she sees him in a daze, "Million Spell." Kitsune muttered.

Hazard was thrown back several feet as the wave after wave of attack hit him. He finally gained his balance after the last of the waves hit him, only to have his face smashed by the end of a large paintbrush. Kitsune wielded the weapon like a staff towards the injured Hazard. She drew a symbol in the air, "Talisman of the In-Yo!" she cried. The attack slammed into Hazard sending him flying into a tree. He fell slumped on the ground.

Kitsune sighed, and held herself up with her Paintbrush. Hazard was drained of energy and could hardly move, "I guess you are as good at mating as you are in battle." he grinned.

Kitsune looked over at him and laughed. "I guess were more digimon then we thought." She said as she licked the data that had flown from Hazards mouth into her during there kiss.

Hazard grinned and got up, then collapsed on the ground. Kitsune walked over to him. She raised her staff and started to draw a symbol in the air, "Talisman of the..." Her attack was stopped as Deva appeared in front of Hazard, her bunny blades glowing deadly. "I won't allow you to hurt Hazard anymore!"

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Betamon X: Well, this is our longest chapter so far. We hope you like it.

Gomamon: Sorry we didn't get to the adventures, but don't worry, we have a real treat for you when we do.

Anyways, hope you liked it and thanks for those of you who review... and sorry about the wait on this one, I haven't been in a very digital mood lately... I should watch X evolution again.

Betamon X: Yeah... That movie puts none Digimon fans into a Digital mood. Lol

Sincerely,

Frozen Twins

Betamon X

Gomamon

P.S. I have been harping again and again and again on my Beta for Dragon's Echo's. I have another two and half chapters written for it, but he just won't get it to me, and it's really been making me madder then Tentomon with his tree disturbed.