Hmmm. Even when I originally wrote this chapter (it was Chapter Four back then), I loved it. And I still do. And it has Roamon! For people who are confused, Roamon is supposed to be pronounced like "Rome - mon". Typing out Romemon would be weird, so I tried to call him Romon, but that was worse. So I added an 'a', because 'Roam' and 'Rome' are pronounced the same, right? Yes, very complicated. But I always end up calling him "Row - a - mon", so you can call him whatever you want.

Chapter Eleven: Ad Victoriam

The two swords clashed together like darkness and light. The echo from it rang across the crane yard, causing soft ripples in the river. Civilians all over the city looked up in surprise, wondering where the mysterious noise came from.

Another ringing sound followed as the two powerful swords collided for a second time. Musyamon jumped back, doubled the grip on his sword, and attacked Roamon once again from the side.

"Roman Sword!" Roamon swung his sword gracefully through the air, creating a long shock wave that blasted itself towards Musyamon. He wasn't expecting this, and he hastily tried to dodge it, but it tore at his right arm. Sickly-looking green blood poured from the deep wound in sickly bubbling chunks, and it piled up on the ground like muck.

"Why is his blood like that?" Sarah tugged on Celia's arm nervously. Both of them stepped back to avoid it.

"It's part of a powerful virus called Saturn EX," Musyamon explained bitterly, holding onto his arm tightly. Miraculously, the skin around the cut began to repair itself, and the injury was gone in a couple of seconds. "All of the Diabolists were given its power, and it gives them strength, and the power of regeneration. It's extremely dangerous when exposed from the body."

"Experimenting with evils such as that..." Roamon began. "You really are a monster." He swung his sword again effortlessly. Another shock wave went Musyamon's way, this time straight for his neck.

"You can't fool me twice," Musyamon cackled, and he jumped onto the top of the crane yet again. Roamon's attack went further on, and hit a crane head-on. With ease, it sliced the crane in half like a sheet of paper.

"Roamon!" Celia cried out; the split piece of the crane was falling down now, and it looked like it was going to fall on the two of them.

"No you don't!" Musyamon jumped down and blocked Roamon's way.

"Aaaaaah!" Sarah screamed. She held her hands up wildly, forgetting the DigiStar that was in her palm. Celia noticed it first. The star engraved in the center of the rock was flashing brightly again, but this time it did more than that. A beam of blue light ejected from the stone, and hit the crane. The crane stopped in mid-air, and floated five feet above them ominously with the aura of the DigiStar around it.

"What's this?" Asked Musyamon.

"We're... safe?" Sarah sighed a breath of relief, and pulled her arms down. With that gesture, the crane flew towards Musyamon. He took out his sword and prepared to stop it, but Roamon lifted his sword valiantly, and pierced Musyamon through his back while he wasn't looking. A shock wave erupted from the end of it, ripping a hole through Musyamon's entire body and turning the crane in front of it into sand.

"NOOO!" Musyamon roared. He was blasted backwards by the wave, and his eyes widened madly... Then he splashed into the river, and he was gone.

Celia, Sarah and Roamon stood there for countless moments, waiting for Musyamon to rise out of the water and attack again, but he didn't. He didn't rise again, he seemed to have disappeared completely.

"I'm tired, Celia..." Roamon yawned unexpectedly. He flashed white again, and he was back as Jamamon. He lay unconscious in the ruined crane yard, and Celia reluctantly picked him back up again.

"Let's go back to your house." Sarah murmured, looking down at the ground.

"Listen, Sarah, I'm sorry about earlier." Celia sniffed.

Sarah smiled weakly, looking at Celia directly now.

"It's fine, really. I was scared of Musyamon, and I wanted to see my parents again. I said some things that I shouldn't have... -"

"- ...No, it's fine. I think that it was better if I heard what you were really thinking."

They were silent again, thinking about the events that had just taken place. Celia was still stirred by the intense swordfight she had just witnessed, so she knew that Sarah was feeling the same way.

"Well, he's gone, isn't he?" Sarah murmured happily.

"I suppose so..." Celia glanced at the water one last time before dragging Jamamon up the road, with Sarah right behind her.

"Where is Lord Musyamon?" A mushroom Digimon asked frantically. "He's been gone all day."

"I don't know, Mushroomon!" Cried Tapirmon, who was even worse. His eyes were bloodshot and droopy, and the cloud that he floated on was thin and wispy, a sign of stress. "He didn't send a message or anything, and I can't even sense his aura anywhere. It's like he disappeared!"

"Do you think it was those kids?" Mushroomon growled, punching his two fists together.

"Enough!"

In the middle of the room, a hole began to increase in size. The floor all around it began to freeze into a crystallic ice, and a body began to slowly rise out of the hole...

The figure was tall and pale white, with two crooked devil horns and a pair of torn, demonic wings that were spread outward. Three belts were fastened around his waist, two around his leg, and three around each of his arms, which were unusually long. His hands were gigantic, with long pointy fingers. On his boot, and right across his chest, were purple bat symbols that glared at Mushroomon and Tapirmon through the darkness.

"Lord IceDevimon!" Mushroomon and Tapirmon both uttered, bowing so their faces both touched the cold, icy floor.

"The King sent me here to check up on Musyamon, and I find that he has been attacked..." IceDevimon didn't even open his mouth. The words just floated through the air like an icy breeze. "But he is still alive, I can sense his energy somewhere in the city. It is your duty to locate his whereabouts and to bring him back here, so we can return to the Digital World with the human sacrifices."

Mushroomon and Tapirmon stared at IceDevimon, speechlessly embracing their new leader.

This is my very last update until after the Christmas season! I'll be working furiously on new chapters during the entire time, however. My average is about two chapters on a good day, so I'll hopefully try to end the Christmas break with a massive update of four or five chapters. I'll see you then!