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Previously . . .

Devimon raised both hands and the beds rose into the air, holding a child, a Digimon, and the child's clothes on each. They all let out cries of alarm.

"What are you doing?" Blake screamed as they circled in the air around the devastated mansion.

"Instead of me taking your lives from you, you have taken a slave from me," Devimon said. "So now I will take away the source of your power and, mark my words, you will die!"

"Leave us alone!" Becca wailed.

"You've overcome all challenges you've faced thus far," Devimon said. "But how will you fare when you're all alone? Since you gain so much strength from your friends, allow me to send you by yourselves all over the Digital world!"

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CHAPTER ELEVEN

Ritual Sacrifice

He was awoken by the sound of waves gently lapping against something. He felt himself on an uneven surface, and, trying to steady himself, slipped off the surface and felt his shoe plunge into water.

"DemiDevimon?" Cameron said.

"Here," DemiDevimon muttered. Cameron saw he was responding through a light sleep.

"DemiDevimon," Cameron said again, shaking his small purple Digimon awake.

"Huh?" DemiDevimon said, opening his eyes and shaking himself awake. "What is it?"

"Look around."

"Ah!" DemiDevimon cried, seeing their surroundings.

The two were atop the bed, which was floating, lop-sided, in the middle of a dark ocean. Dusk was already fast approaching, and a blanket of mist covered the sea.

"This is bad," DemiDevimon said.

"To put it lightly," Cameron agreed.

Cameron had noticed that they were floating in a certain direction, and as he and his Digimon partner were looking intently for an answer to their problems, a dark island materialized in the mist before them. Though the sight of land brought the hope of salvation, menace seemed to radiate from the island.

"Land!" DemiDevimon cried happily, impervious to the foreboding Cameron sensed. "We're safe!"

"Yeah," Cameron said uneasily. "Yeah, safe."

The bed floated slowly towards the island, and soon, Cameron and DemiDevimon were climbing off the bed and onto the gray shore.

Cameron shivered involuntarily, looking at the beach and tropical forest. Everything here was dark and gray, and Cameron had a sneaking suspiscion that it wasn't because it was getting late.

"Let's look around," DemiDevimon suggested.

"Yeah," Cameron agreed. "Maybe someone else landed on this island, too."

They headed off into the forest, DemiDevimon perched comfortably on Cameron's shoulder.

As they walked, the tree canopy grew thicker and everything became darker. This fact was multiplied by the fact that the sun had almost set by now.

"It's getting dark," Cameron said. "And late."

"It's okay though," DemiDevimon said, oblivious to Cameron's nervous tone. "Since we just woke up, we shouldn't need to sleep for a while. We'll be fine."

Cameron sighed, rolling his eyes. DemiDevimon was not good at picking up on subtleties.

They continued walking, Cameron's uneasiness growing, and DemiDevimon's misinterpretation continuing. Soon, they could hear someone beating a drum.

"Wonder what that is," Cameron whispered, trying to approach the source of the noise quietly. DemiDevimon finally took the hint and remained silent.

Cameron crept through the brush, seeing orange light ahead. Slinking through the forest, he came to a wall and, peeping around, was surprised by the sight.

Someone was indeed banging the drums in rhythm, and many people were dancing robotically around in a circle, wearing colored masks.

"Looks like a Halloween party or something," Cameron muttered.

"Halloween?" DemiDevimon asked cluelessly.

"It's a holiday," Cameron explained hastily and quietly.

DemiDevimon and Cameron both jumped slightly at a rustling sound behind them. Turning, they both breathed a sigh of relief. Meggy was pushing through the bush towards them, Rabbitmon following closely.

"Meggy!" Cameron breathed happily, yet still quietly.

"Hey, Cameron!" Meggy said. "We saw you about a minute ago and we've been trying to catch up without making too much noise."

"What do you think they're doing?" Cameron asked.

"Dancing," DemiDevimon commented densely.

"Maybe it's some kind of ritual?" Meggy suggested.

"Maybe," Cameron replied. "Next question: Who are they?"

"We could always ask," Meggy suggested.

"But we need to make sure we're safe," Rabbitmon interjected. "And by that, I mean we need to be able to Digivolve."

"Okay, so we need to find some food," Meggy asserted.

"Right," Rabbitmon agreed.

"Let's do it, then," Cameron said, and the four of them crept away.

DemiDevimon searched the trees, and it took only minutes to find food far enough away from the dancing Digimon. DemiDevimon knocked yellow, pear-shaped fruit down from the tree branches they grew into the waiting arms of Cameron, who set them into four piles of equal portions. After they had plenty of fruit, Cameron called DemiDevimon down and they began eating in a circle.

"So where did you land?" Meggy inquired.

"In the ocean," Cameron replied.

"Seriously?" Meggy asked, disbelieving.

"Yep," DemiDevimon piped up.

"I was freaked out for a minute when I woke up," Cameron explained. "It was really foggy and I couldn't see anything."

"So how did you make it here?"

"We just kind of floated here," Cameron replied. "But I don't like this place."

"Neither do I," Meggy agreed, looking around nervously and shivering. "It gives me the creeps."

"But it's okay," Rabbitmon put in through a mouthful of fruit. "I'm here to protect you."

"Me too," DemiDevimon assured her.

Meggy was still disquieted. "I just don't like this place. It's really menacing."

"You can say that again," Cameron responded.

"Why?" DemiDevimon wondered.

"It's an expression," Cameron explained.

"Oh," DemiDevimon said, pretending to understand.

"What do we do now?" Cameron asked, seeing that the meal was over.

"We find everyone else," Meggy said automatically.

"How do we do that?" Rabbitmon asked.

"I was thinking we should head back to Infinity Mountain," Cameron explained. "It's the highest point on the island and it's in the center. I'd bet the others are going there too."

"Good idea," Meggy commented.

"But what about the dancers?" DemiDevimon asked.

"What about them?" Cameron responded.

"Are we gonna talk to them?"

"I don't see why we should," Meggy replied this time.

"Maybe they know something about the others," DemiDevimon suggested.

"That's true," Cameron said.

"It's worth a try," Meggy shrugged.

"Alright then," Rabbitmon said. "Let's go."

"Let's be careful about it, though," Cameron directed, as Meggy and Rabbitmon began moving swiftly and silently through the dark forest.

Cameron followed behind with DemiDevimon on his shoulder. He noted how quickly and confidently Meggy and Rabbitmon moved. They weren't afraid about moving ahead towards the possible danger of the dancing people.

"Do you think this is a good idea?" Cameron whispered to DemiDevimon, voicing his foreboding.

"Yeah," DemiDevimon reassured him.

Cameron was still unsettled. If there was one thing he'd learned during his short time in the Digital World, it was that anything was possible and nothing was predictable. He wasn't going to let his guard down.

"There they are," Meggy whispered back, as the orange light became visible.

"Here we go," Cameron muttered to himself.

They peeked their heads around the bit of wall they'd been hiding behind earlier, and saw that the dancers were still there. They were still dancing, and from the looks of things, still dancing the same dance.

"What are they doing?" Meggy wondered aloud.

"It looks like some kind of ceremony, almost," Cameron observed.

"Oh, it is," a voice said behind him.

They all jumped and whipped around. One of the people was there, standing stiffly, wearing one of the masks with big eyes, wide smiling mouths, and many colors.

"You scared me," Meggy admitted, patting her heart.

The man answered with silence, the wide, unnatural smile of the mask making the four a bit edgy.

"So, what exactly is it for?" Cameron asked.

"Come and find out," the man replied strangely. He walked out from behind the wall and the two followed with their Digimon.

"Guests?" one of the dancers said, stopping to stare at the newcomers. The other dancers noticed and stopped too, staring at the four and the dancer leading them in.

They continued to follow, amidst the stares of all the dancers, the one who'd come to them until they got to the middle of the circle.

"So, what exactly is all this for?" Meggy reiterated Cameron's question from before.

The man's head lowered slightly, the mask's large smile and wide eyes unchanging. Cameron noticed that everyone else was back in a perfect circle, all with lowered heads.

"Hello?" Rabbitmon asked tenatively.

All at once, every head shot up, and every dancer rushed at the four in the middle of the circle. There was the sound of cloth ripping all around, and the masks and robes fell to the dirt. Meggy let out a scream and Cameron ran to wrap her in his arms protectively. DemiDevimon and Rabbitmon began firing attacks into the crush of monsters that had come from the dancers.

They were like sheets themselves, but with some unseeable body inside. They were small, probably only three and a half feet tall, but they flew swiftly. There were no legs or visible hands, and the cloth at the hands and abdomen was tattered and ripped. There were big, black, empty eyeholes with little circles of dull yellow light that served as soulless eyes. They had big gaping mouths with large, red, lolling tongues and rows of sharp teeth.

"They're Bakemon!" DemiDevimon cried before being tackled mercilessly by four of the monsters.

Rabbitmon was being swarmed, a large number forming a suffocating dog-pile on top of her.

"Rabbitmon!" Meggy wailed as Cameron squeezed her tightly, pulling her to the dirt with him to try and avoid the ghost-like Digimon.

The Bakemon swarmed everywhere, pulling the two children apart and lifting them into the air. They both screamed as the Bakemon carried them into the air.

"DemiDevimon!" Cameron cried as the Bakemon lifted his limp form into the air. He noticed Rabbitmon was being carried up as well.

Meggy cried out, and Cameron jerked around to see her slump in the arms of her captors, unconcious. He was about to cry out when he felt a sharp pain on the back of his head -

-

Groaning, Cameron awoke with his arms and legs spread out. He was lying on cold, hard stone. He struggled, trying to lift his arms up, but they were bound, and he found immediately after that his legs were as well.

Cameron's vision cleared from its blurry state, and he turned his head, wincing at the pain on the back of his head. He found that Meggy was lying next to him, her hands and legs spread and bound like Cameron's. She was unconcious.

"Meggy?" Cameron whispered while taking in his surroundings.

They were in an ornate building that reminded Cameron of a church. There were stained-glass windows high up near the rafters that supported the lofty ceiling. The still, musty air was cool and the room was dark. The flickering of what seemed to be fire was coming from somewhere beyond Cameron's sight. It was very faint, and Cameron assumed it was from candles.

Cameron decided to see if his partner was nearby. "DemiDevimon?" he called tenatively.

A Bakemon loomed in his sight, his gaping, toothed mouth emitting a cackle. "Your Digimon friends have been taken care of."

Cameron's eyes widened. "No! What did you do to my DemiDevimon!" He screamed as he began pulling at the restraints.

"You won't have to worry about that for very long," Bakemon replied. "You won't exist for much longer!" Another menacing cackle.

"What?" Cameron cried desperately, a trickle of sweat tracing its way down his face and tickling his cheek. "What do you mean?"

Meggy groaned from beside him, looking around. "Cameron?"

"I mean you're here to bring power to the Bakemon!" Bakemon replied.

"Huh?" Meggy said, trying to shake off the lingering dizziness from her unconsiousness.

"How do you expect us to do that?" Cameron challenged. "We'll never work with you!"

"I don't expect you to work with us!" Bakemon chuckled. "I expect you to work for us!"

"Work for you?" Meggy mumbled, catching onto what was going on.

"We won't work for you!" Cameron refused valiantly.

"You don't have a choice!" Bakemon said.

"Are they trying to use mind control or something?" Meggy whispered to Cameron, frightened.

"No, girly, you got it all wrong!" Bakemon said, his voice dripping with malice. "Your lives are going to give us Bakemon power! We performed the Ritual earlier, when you showed up. Now you're going to be our Ritual Sacrifice!"

Meggy gasped, her breath catching in her throat. Cameron paled, cold sweat pouring down his face now and making his clothes stick to him.

Bakemon laughed and floated off to join his companions, who were apparently preparing something beyond Cameron and Meggy's sight.

"What are we going to do?" Meggy cried desperately.

"I don't know," Cameron said, his thoughts turning back to the fate of their Digimon. "Just give me some time to think."

-

"Wake up, you stupid bat!" Rabbitmon screamed, giving the unconsious form of DemiDevimon another hard shove.

"Five more minutes," the Digimon mumbled unconsiously, turning in his sleep.

"Ugh!" Rabbitmon sighed.

She'd awoken to find herself in a kind of food closet. There was a tiny, high up window with bars over it. The entire room was cobblestone and cold, and there was moss growing in between the stones now. There were shelves full of jars all around the room. The large wooden door was locked, and Rabbitmon's super-sensitive ears had told her that a Bakemon was guarding it.

I can break out of here with my attack, Rabbitmon thought to herself, but the Bakemon are Champion Level Digimon and I don't think I can beat them without DemiDevimon's help.

"DemiDevimon!" Rabbitmon called again. "You dolt! Wake up!"

-

Cameron was still trying to figure things out when his and Meggy's stone tablets began to move. They lifted off the pedestals they'd been sitting on and began to rotate one hundred eighty degrees.

"What's happening?" Meggy cried frantically, and despite Cameron's calm silence, he was thinking the same thing.

After being turned arond, the tablets began to go vertical, allowing Cameron and Meggy to see what was happening.

There were candles everywhere, and Bakemon swarming all over. There was stylized stained-glass with a picture of Jesus on the cross with a halo on his head, like the kind in Catholic church renditions. In front of the glass was what looked to Cameron like a stone coffin.

"Well this is ironic," Cameron said, looking at the picture of Jesus and then at the devilish ghost Digimon and the coffin he assumed was part of the Ritual.

"The time is now!" one of the Bakemon said. "Our time has come! Power will be ours!"

"This is what happens when you live on dark, freaky islands," Meggy joked nervously.

The tablets began floating slowly towards the Bakemon, drawing out the suspense of the moment. The tablets rumbled as they made their laborious way across the room.

This is it, Cameron thought to himself. We're not gonna make it! We just don't have time, and our Digimon are nowhere to be found!

As if on cue, a single Bakemon floating back and forth in front of a thick wooden door off to the side was thrown to the far wall along with flaming remnants of the wall.

The kids and Bakemon stared, openmouthed, at the smoking remnants of the door. Meggy and Cameron's wonder changed to happiness as Rabbitmon bounded through the door, DemiDevimon flapping close behind.

"Rabbitmon!"

"DemiDevimon!"

"Rabbit Bomber!" Rabbitmon cried, shooting a red-orange fireball into the mass of Bakemon.

DemiDevimon flapped over to Meggy and Cameron and began attacking the metal harnesses preventing the kids from moving.

Bakemon flew at Rabbitmon, attacking in a swarm like they'd done before. A few Rabbit Bomber attacks flew out of the press of ghosts, and some ghosts flew out of the circle in a burst of smoke and flame, but overall the defensive attacks from Meggy's pink Digimon were prooving futile.

"Rabbitmon! Hang in there!" Meggy cried as DemiDevimon freed Cameron's right hand.

Let's hope the food we ate earlier pays off, Meggy thought. "Digivolve, Rabbitmon!"

Rabbitmon heard her partner's cries and felt the surge of power as Meggy's Digivice began to glow.

"Rabbitmon! Digivolve to . . ."

" . . . Lynxmon!"

In a burst of light, the Bakemon flew back as a large flaming Digimon appeared in Rabbitmon's place.

"Yes! She Digivolved!" Meggy cheered.

"Thermal Mane!" The fire along Lynxmon's body glowed bright, travelling up to form an energy fireball in front of her mouth, from which a stream burst. Lynxmon shot the firestream around, hitting many of the Bakemon and causing them to fall to the ground in pain.

"Good job, Lynxmon!" Meggy yelled.

"Way to go!" Cameron said.

In a flash, Lynxmon was in front of the children. "Wild Nail Rush!" she announced, slashing the restraints away in a second with seven movements of her swift, flaming claws.

Meggy fell free of her restraints onto Lynxmon's back. Cameron dropped half a foot to his feet.

The fallen Bakemon pulled themselves painfully off the ground, floating to rejoin their bretheren above the coffin. The Bakemon began flying around in an erratic pattern, coming closer and closer to the center of the group. They began to press together, forming a tight ball of Champion level ghost Digimon.

"I have no idea what's going on, but this looks bad," Cameron muttered, taking a step back.

"I'm ready!" DemiDevimon said.

"Right!" Cameron smiled, pulling up his Digivice. "Digivolve."

"DemiDevimon! Digivolve to . . ."

" . . . Vilemon!"

The child sized Digimon appeared, flapping his small wings and smiling with his sharp, crooked teeth. Vilemon rose swiftly into the air.

"Nightmare Shocker!" Vilemon cried, shooting out a yellow streak of electricity. The attack streaked into the mass of Digimon, but didn't seem to do anything.

"I think we should get out of here right now!" Lynxmon asserted.

"I agree," Meggy said.

Cameron nodded, jumping on Lynxmon's back behind Meggy.

"Go!" Meggy ordered as Lynxmon shot off. Vilemon flew behind, dodging a few rafters before coming to skim just above the floor.

There was a rumble, and Meggy and Cameron looked back as Lynxmon bounded to the doors of the long church aisle that would lead them to the outside.

"What's going on?" Cameron wondered aloud, staring in disbelief at the press of ghouls.

"This is very bad!" Meggy inferred.

A deep laugh boomed across the church as Vilemon's Nightmare Shocker shot past and decimated the doors leading to the outside world.

Suddenly, they were out in the chill of the air; a cold that bit at their skin and made them shiver even atop the warm, fiery Digimon, Lynxmon. The darkness had deepened so much that it felt as though the darkness itself was pressing against their skin.

"I hate this place!" Meggy muttered as Lynxmon continued towards the forest, which now seemed to be farther away than before. Cameron noted with nervousness the tombstones flanking the church.

There was a bell at the top of a tower on the roof of the lofty church building that, without visible cause, resounded dully, the chime striking across the gray earth and bouncing off the dead tree trunks.

"What's happening?" Meggy cried, more out of agitation than actual curiosity. The bell dully chimed again, its deep, sorrowful melody making Meggy shiver and her bones tingle.

"We're about to find out, I'm afraid," Cameron muttered, looking to the sky and watching the dully shining moon as it was covered over by the darkest clouds Cameron had ever seen.

There was the sound of wood snapping, and the kids looked back to see the doorframe of the church bending under the pressure of a massive Digimon pushing against it.

"Bakemon?" Meggy whispered in disbelief.

"No way," Cameron agreed quietly.

It was a Bakemon, but it was massive. This Bakemon wasn't able to even fit through the high, wide doorway of the church.

"I'd bet you money that the Bakemon combined to become the big guy!" Cameron thought aloud.

"That definitely makes sense," Meggy agreed. "I just hope he's not that strong!"

"Nightmare Shocker!" Vilemon cried, urgency and strain in his usually carefree voice.

Vilemon, who was now ahead of Lynxmon and the children, shot his yellow electric attack past Lynxmon to slam into the Bakemon, still pushing against the doorframe. There was no reflection of pain on the gruesome Digimon's face, but a booming roar of anger erupted from his gaping mouth.

"Go faster, Lynxmon!" Meggy urged desperately as the doorframe snapped and the enormous Bakemon literally ripped the front of the church off in his push to catch the kids. The stones crumbled and fell in a shower of dust as Bakemon shot towards the kids at terrifying, unbelievable speed.

"Run!" Cameron cried as Lynxmon hit the forest and trees began rushing past.

Vilemon dodged around trees, leading Lynxmon through in what had quickly become a horrifying high speed chase on this haunted island.

There was a sound of earth being ripped and churned and wood being broken as the massive Bakemon hit the forest at incredible speed. His power and anger fueled him, and he chased after the kids with an unstoppable determination and unbreakable focus. He didn't even bother to dodge around the trees; he simply barreled into them, either snapping them like toothpicks or uprooting them.

"He can't be stopped!" Cameron stated, feeling the hope draining out of him.

"How are we gonna beat this thing?" Meggy said, feeling hopeless as well but trying to counter-balance Cameron's statement.

Vilemon began beating his wings harder, speeding up ahead.

"Thermal Mane!" Lynxmon cried, firing another stream of fire at a line of trees in front of her.

She leapt over her own fire line as it roared to life, creating a literal firewall of protection.

"Keep going, Vilemon!" Cameron encouraged, heartened by the wall of fire.

And, suddenly, he saw Vilemon hovering up ahead, and the treeline rushed past, and they were on the shore.

"Oh, gosh, no more trees!" Meggy wailed, as Lynxmon skidded to a halt on the gray beach.

Cameron leapt off Lynxmon's back, Meggy following behind, and ran towards the sea. He could just barely see Infinity Mountain rising commandingly into the air above the grey mist and the black ocean.

There was an explosion of snaps and rips as the massive Bakemon shot out of the forest, fire streaming from his bedsheet-like body and flaming wood chips falling to the gray sand of the beach.

"Well," Cameron sighed, "it's been fun."

"Crap," Meggy snapped, her eyes darting around, looking for a way out.

"Thermal Mane!"

"Nightmare Shocker!"

The two attacks launched towards the Bakemon.

"Evil Charm!" he boomed. The attacks froze in midair, glowed with black energy, and dissipated.

"No!" Meggy screamed, stomping her foot in the sand.

"Shoot! We can't even hit this guy!" Cameron growled.

"Volcanic Strike!"

"Scissor Claw!"

Two energy slashes and a great fireball shot from the side, catching Bakemon off guard and knocking him into the forest. He fell to the ground, pushing himself back up slowly and painfully.

Kuwagamon flew over to land next to Cameron, Meggy, Lynxmon, and Vilemon. Adam leapt off his back as Blake rode in on Monochromon's back.

"Zombie Claw!" Bakemon announced, two black, clawed hands firing out of his arms and heading to attack. They hit Lynxmon and Kuwagamon.

"Volcanic Strike!" Monochromon attacked again. The fireball tore across the beach, headed straight for its target.

"Evil Charm!" Bakemon used his attack again, and Monochromon's fireball was no more.

That didn't stop Vilemon. "Nightmare Shocker!" he cried from his new location behind Bakemon. Bakemon was hit right in the center of his back by the sizzling electricity.

"Can't take the heat of the numbers!" Blake gloated.

"I'm so happy you guys showed up when you did!" Meggy said, giving Adam a hug.

"What're friends for?" Blake laughed, sidling up to them.

Bakemon's booming laugh resounded again, chilling the children and dampening the happiness of their reunion.

"He's still up after that?" Blake cried in disbelief.

"He got hit by three Champion attacks!" Adam agreed. "He should not have survived!"

"Evil Charm!" A dark sphere emitted from Bakemon, hitting all four Champion Digimon and knocking them to the ground.

"Oh, no!" Cameron cried, putting his hands up to protect himself from the dark wave that was headed for him and his friends.

"He's just too strong!" Meggy screamed.

The second before the Evil Charm attack hit the kids, they were surrounded by light. The attack was gone, and all four of them pulled their Digivices up to look at them. The golden light was emitting from them, stopping Bakemon's attack.

The four Champion Digimon ran to get between Bakemon and the kids, their strength returning with the golden light of the Digivices.

"Meggy's right!" Lynxmon cried. "Bakemon is too strong!"

Blake's eyes widened, and he looked a little closer at his Digivice.

"Guys!" he said. "Remember when Leomon came after me? My Digivice released him from Devimon's control! And just now our Digivices stopped that attack!"

"So," Cameron said, understanding where Blake was going with this, "if we use our Digivices, I'd bet we can weaken Bakemon!"

"Right!" Blake smiled.

"Great idea!" Vilemon said.

"Go get him!" Monochromon roared.

The kids ran forward, backed by their Digimon, holding their glowing Digivices ahead of them.

Bakemon's eyes widened, and a look of uncertainty crossed his face. He was made of all the darkness and hatred in the hearts of the Bakemon that had combined to become him, and this light pierced him to his soul.

There was a booming roar of indignation from Bakemon before he begin to shrink. His arms went up to cover his eyes, but still he screeched in pain.

"Wipe him out!" Blake cried.

"Volcanic Strike!"

"Nightmare Shocker!"

"Thermal Mane!"

"Scissor Claw!"

Four attacks shot across the beach, slamming into Bakemon. With an unholy roar, Bakemon exploded.

The kids let out sighs of relief as the smoke cleared.

"We did it!" Meggy cheered.

"Thanks to some intuitive thinking," Cameron said, smiling at Blake.

"What can I say?" Blake laughed with fake conceit.

"Mister modest," Adam laughed, rolling his eyes.

"So what were you planning on doing next?" Blake asked, addressing his question to Cameron and Meggy.

"We were gonna head to Infinity Mountain to look for you and the others," Meggy said.

"Wow," Blake said. "That's exactly what we were going to do."

"So let's go," Adam said. "Kuwagamon can fly us back to File Island. Then, hopefully, we can find Casey, Becca, and Rainey."

"Right," Kuwagamon agreed, stooping down to allow the others to climb on his back.

Monochromon, Lynxmon, and Vilemon DeDigivolved to Gizamon, Rabbitmon, and DemiDevimon. They, along with all their partners, climbed onto Kuwagamon's back. With a buzz of his wings, he lifted from the haunted isle and began to head through the darkness and fog towards File Island.

"We'll find the others," Blake said. "And then, we're going after Devimon!"