8

Reunited

Reunited

A familiar vampire stands beside a water fountain in the center of the village square. Another figure about have his height wears a royal purple cloak that covers the face. On the front of her cloak is a silver bat that extends shoulder to shoulder like the vampire next to her. The cloak stops at the tips of the figures boots which start at knee length. The figure sits cross-legged. Many digimon have surrounded them unpleased with their arrival.

"Who are you to come to our village?!" asks the leader.

"My name is Myotismon and I'm looking for an army," he says boldly.

"What kind of army is it?" asks a Meramon curiously.

"Are you tired of being abused or used by your human? Are you tired of being treated as pets tools for their amusement." Many digimon listen intently and curiously as he continues. "Imagine a world where everything is in harmony where humans and digimon are treated as equals instead of tools. Join my army and this will all be possible."

"How can this be made possible? Who will organize it? Who will be in charge of this?"

"My plan with my partner Night Angel will rule both worlds where I will be king to keep order," he says boldly to all the shocked digimon.

"I've heard enough!" hollers a few Kiwimon, Mushroomon, and Cherrymon.

"We don't want your kind here!" screams more digimon.

"Wait, he has a point," says a Blossomon and Deramon. "We shouldn't be treated like toys for their amusement. Myotismon smiles seeing the few that agree will him.

"Lord Myotismon, I wish to join your army," Floramon says stepping up.

"Those who want to join follow me!" Myotismon says. Night Angel counts the ones decide to join. "Redvegiemon, Vegiemon, Mekanorimon, Tankmon, Warumonzaemon, and Monzaemon start to like up."

"I like the idea, but I don't like the idea of you being king. Aren't you Myotismon a vicious vampire who's desire is to take over both worlds."

"Distrust me if you wish, but those who aren't with me are against you"

"But he will give you time to think it over," Night Angel says in a calm small voice. "You have your chance to change your mind."

"I refuse to believe that you have changed Myotismon!" Woodmon say and some of his friends attack.

"Crimson Lightning!" Myotismon defends himself and destroys them in one swoop of the hand. "Anyone else wants to defy me!"

"You, you just destroyed them without remorse."

"What did you expect him to do just stand there and let them attack him," cries Ogremon, "He has the right to defend himself." This starts an argument that results in a battle that splits the small village. Night Angel watches in silence unmoving. Soon the fighting escalated reaching its climax with Myotismon in it as well. The village falls to graveyard silent. Did you have to eliminate so many?" she asks wearily in a soft childish voice anger and power never reside in her voice.

"Don't worry, they will return in Primary Village. I trust you can increase the power of my army, my dear.

"Anything for you, my Master." They round up the digimon that's left and start to leave. "The digimon from the other five villages are already ready for exception when we get back home."

"Very good, Night Angel. I've taught you well," he says pleased with his servant. "They'll all learn to submit sooner or later." Night Angel stands her cloak covers her boots down to her ankles. Myotismon watches her closely as she finds and picks up a digiegg. "Collecting eggs again."

"I guess you can say that," she says taking the egg with her as they fly off for Myotismon's castle.

"What's the problem they're having in the Digital World now?" Matt asks listening to Gabumon.

"They say Myotismon's recruiting an army and it's growing."

"An army, huh?" Matt looks over at his hamburger and hands half to Gabumon. "This isn't good especially with these new digimon here making a ruckus and attacking people. A giant explosion and the sound of shattering glass interrupt their meal. There are creams as people jump up. Some run out making it out safely while others stay inside trapped.

"Where's the princess?" asks Knightmon as he comes pounding in. He spots a mother and her child and grabs the little girl.

"Please don't hurt my baby!"

"Mommy!" The child starts to cry.

"Put her down!" Matt says getting his attention.

"Who dares interfere with me," he bellows releasing the child. "My search for the princess is of no concern to you. Unless you can, tell me where she is."

"Princess…?"

"Her birthmark is the symbol that joins her to the Demon Family of digimon."

~~~~~Flash~~~~~

"The princess wishes to see her father," he said with Sophia still in his mouth, "and I will grant her request."

"Princess huh?" Where did he get that crazy idea from? He decided to play along.

~~~~~Flash~~~~~

"Gabumon."

"Yes, Matt?"

"Sophia had a birthmark right?"

"Yes, but it only showed up at certain times especially when she's upset."

"I thought so." He steps in once again. "Hey freak! We don't have your princess here."

"You know where the princess is. Take me to her. The master wishes to see her."

"We don't have your princess, and even if we did, we wouldn't hand her over to some overgrown tin can, like you!" Davis says walking in with X Veemon.

"I will keep searching until I find our beloved princess," Knightmon says boldly looking at him unpleased. He takes out his sword and charges.

"Get him X Veemon!"

"If you are hiding her, I suggest you give her back." The two continue to fight until Shinpimon comes.

"Come Knightmon, it's obvious she's not here," she says without remorse. "We will look elsewhere since the vampire isn't here."

"Yes, my lady."

"Hey, where are you going? The fight's not over!"

"It is if my lady says so," he says in a gentlemanlike voice before leaving with Shinpimon.

"Hey! That's rude. Next time, learn some manners!"

"Davis!"

"Hey Matt, what's going on?" Davis asks seeing him for the first time.

"We have a problem, Myotismon's on the move in the Digital world. He's building an army definitely a present for us."

*****

Myotismon is watching Night Angel feed the newly hatched digimon. It digivolves almost immediately. A pinged of jealously stabs him as she hugs the baby digimon before putting it down. It starts to roam the floor. He watches the little digimon with hatred.

"You'll always be my first pick, Myotismon," Night Angel says noticing his jealousy. He blushes for the first time and quickly turns away making her laugh. "You know I prefer vampires."

"And what's that suppose to mean?" he asks turning to the bookshelf.

"That you're jealous," she says laughing. He scowls coldly picking a particular book off the shelf. She stands up watching him. She goes to the table next to the bookshelf and places a box on it. She opens it letting the smell of brownie attack the room.

"When did you make those?"

"This morning but I wanted to wait until we got back…," she says softly. "It took longer then expected. They're not warm anymore."

"Humm…" He walks over seeing the expression on her face and how despondent she got. "Weather warm or cold, your brownies are always the best in both worlds." She looks up startled feeling him wrap his arms around her like he did when she was a baby scared or sad. Her hood falls off revealing her startled face and long silky black hair that matched her chocolate skin and eyes. His purple lips kiss her forehead revealing her birthmark before taking a brownie. Taking his book, he sits down and starts to read. "Now take your little pet outside and get some rest for tomorrow."

"Yes my lord," she says softly. She runs up to him and hugs him back kissing him on the cheek. After releasing him, she grabs the pig like digimon off the floor and evacuates the room leaving him to himself.

That mark belongs to the Demon Family of digimon. He continues to read more. But why would Deamon want the child…? To find his dark spores or for another reason.

~~~~~Flash~~~~~

Finding Sophia unconscious, he laid her under the tree to let her rest. Ladydevimon stood next to him watching. He looked unpleased when he didn't see Devimon. SkullSatamon instead leaped down from a nearby tree. Myotismon looked over. Devimon finally showed himself.

"Here is the one who kidnapped the catalyst," Devimon said eagerly.

"Hand over the princess and maybe the master will spare you," SkullSatamon said boldly.

~~~~~Flash~~~~~

"Princess…" He closes the book letting it confirm his first fear and theory of the origin of Sophia. He finished off his brownie and stands. He's going to come for her eventually."

*****

"An army?" Ken looks down thinking. "How large is it?"

"We don't know," says Izzy. "I'm sure many have joined considering his tactics. He's probably using their humans as hostages no doubt."

"But, what about our other problem?" Palmon asks suddenly, "Those digimon that are looking for their princess aren't just going to go away. We have to think of a way to stop them."

"They're looking for Sophia," Matt says flatly. They all turn to him.

"How do you know that, Matt?" Cody and Tai ask together curiously. The others wait for his answer.

"Remember when Gabumon digivolved without me, and I talked to him. Do you remember what he said?"

~~~~~Flash~~~~~

"The princess wishes to see her father," he said with Sophia still in his mouth, "and I will grant her request."

"Princess huh?" Where did he get that crazy idea from? He decided to play along.

~~~~~Flash~~~~~

Everyone looks around in silence.

"Princess, but how would Sophia be connected to those digimon?" Cody wonders out loud.

"Maybe she's like me," Mimi says softly. "The Gekomon call me Princess Mimi."

"No, I think it's more then that," Izzy says softly thinking, "I've also heard some call her catalyst as well."

"So, they want to use her like Myotismon," Sora says drearily. "Poor girl."

"It's that birthmark of hers." Everyone turns their attention to Izzy. "She can make any digimon she wants to digivolve."

"Really?" Cody exclaims surprised, "That's amazing, but I can see how anyone can use that to their advantage."

"That's just horrible!" Yolei protests, "Using her like she's some kind of tool. We need to find her and bring her home before anything can happen to her."

"But the problem is finding Myotismon to get her back," Joe says uneasily.

*****

A girl with green dark eyes and long black hair enters the empty village. She looks around and becomes disturbed.

"Where is everyone?" asks the girl's digimon. "Veronica?" He looks up at her. Her light blue shirt and blue jeans blow in the heavy wind that passes by making her sneakers kick up dust as she checks out a nearby house.

"I don't know Leormon," she says softly going in the empty house. "I could have sworn there were digimon here." She steps out a bit distraught. "I don't understand how this can happen."

"So you noticed it too." Veronica looks up to see a guy with reddish brown hair and light brown eyes. His green shirt and blue pants match his sneakers. "Hi, my name is Darius Kendo, and this is my digimon Dorumon."

"My name is Veronica Sanders and this is Leormon. We were visiting a fellow friend. Frigimon was supposed to meet us today. We were hoping to get him to live with us since his partner died."

"I see…" Darius says taking one last look around. "This isn't the only village that have been hit like this."

"What?"

"The last few had some survivors, but many villages have been hit like this. We don't know who this guy is, but whoever he is, he has to be stopped."

*****

Night Angel walks through the corridor of Myotismon's castle. She passes through the area where the digimon are being held for screening to see if they're suitable for Myotismon's army. She stops. Looking around, she surveys the different types, size, and level of the digimon.

This is good… very good. His army's almost complete. A Gedramon slides in the room as she leaves. She makes her way to the kitchen where Bakemon, Vegiemon, Redvegiemon, Gekomon, and Kiwimon are making lunch. "Pizza sounds good," she says calmly, "Sausage and pepperoni with cinnamon sticks and vanilla ice cream with raisons."

"Coming right up, Night Angel. Just be seated and it'll be ready in a few minutes."

"Thank you; I'll be waiting," she says and leaves the kitchen. She enters a room with a long iron Victorian table. The entire room is filled with the same style of as the table. Decorative side tables and paintings line the walls. Candles decorate the table along with a blood red table cloth that runs down the center. She sits down at the head of the table and removes the rest of her hair out of her cloak. Her brownie eyes look up hearing someone enter the room. "Kiwimon, is that you?"

"No my princess," a deep voice says making her freeze.

"What…? What did you call me?" she asks, "You should address me as Night Angel." Her voice comes out cold but calm. Gedramon finally shows himself. "This room is off limits to digimon like you. You should return to the corridor with the other digimon." Her calm stature soon starts to diminish as he wraps around her chair letting the rest of his body flow along the table.

"I've been searching for you, princess," he says his head next to hers.

"I told you! My name is Night Angel!" she says losing her temper though a bit of fear resides in it. "You are to return to your quarters with the other digimon." Gedramon's eyes burn into hers showing her he wasn't going anywhere.

"You must come with me."

"Me…? Who are you to force me to go anywhere with you?!" she says boldly through clinched teeth clearly frightened and beginning to shake.

"The master commands that I bring you, my princess," Gedramon say even more boldly then she, "And I will do as my master commands."

"I told you! I'm no princess!" she yells again, "My name's Night Angel." She squirms in her seat and manages to slip out of the chair making a dash for the door. Gedramon quickly moves in her way and surrounds her. "STAY BACK!" she warns.

~~~~~Flash~~~~~

He's going to come for me later, and he said that I'll be useful. The same feeling of dread from before came. I... I don't like the sound of that, but what really gets me is that his voice sounded so... so familiar. I don't know who he is, but I know he was going to come back for me. It could be today. It could be tomorrow, but all I know is that I feel safe with Myotismon around.

~~~~~Flash~~~~~

"You're coming with me princess. The master's growing impatient." Terror strikes her.

"No! STAND BACK! EVIL INFERNO!" A volleyball sized fireball escapes her hands. The attack blinds and surprises him. She takes this chance to escape. Kiwimon catches her running from the dinning room.

"Night Angel, are you ok?" She's blasted back by Gedramon who zooms by her.

I need your help right now Myotismon. She bursts in his study where she last saw him. "Myotismon, help me please. There's a Gedramon after me. He says he's going to take me away," she cries closing the door.

"Sophia." She freezes hearing a different voice than Myotismon's.

"Who are you? And where's Myotismon?" She shakes scooting away from Wizardmon. He was the same size of Myotismon. "How did you get in here?" she asks confused and frightened.

"He's resting for a while." She backs up from him as he moves closer.

"Now Sophia relax, I'm not here to hurt you," he says in his normal soft, kind voice.

"Stay away from me!" she says terrified tears in her eyes as she hugs the walls. "Go away! I refuse to leave! I want to be with Myotismon!" She raises her hand and shoots a baseball sized fireball at him. He blocks the attack startled and surprised. She dashes from the room.

"Sophia, Sophia wait!"

"Myotismon! Where are you? I need you now!" She continues down the hall her eyes now fixated on Myotismon's personal room.

"There's no escape from me princess." She's stopped before she could touch the doorknob. Gedramon's eyes glow before entering the hallway.

"LEAVE ME ALONE!" she cries again, "EVIL INFERNO!"

"Guilty Wing!" His attack engulfs hers. She raises her hands to shield herself as her birthmark protects her from the remnants of the attack. "Giga Byte Wing!" The barrier continues to hold as she backs up.

I have to get out of here. "Evil Inferno!" She fires again with her barrier up, but Gedramon just knocks the attack away with his tail.

"Guilty Wing!" His attack pumbles her shield weakening it.

"I REFUSE TO GO WITH YOU! NOW, GO AWAY!"

"Thunder Ball!" A fireball flies over her head as her shield breaks. She drops from exhaustion.

"Who dare interferes!" Gedramon calls coldly.

"I do," Wizardmon says holding his staff. "My duty is to protect my partner."

Partner…? But… Myotismon's my partner. Who's he…?

"Guilty Wing!"

"Vision of Terror!" Wizardmon gathers up the weakened, weary, frightened girl and flies off to safety.

"You won't get away so easily next time princess because I won't be alone. The master will be with me." His words make Night Angel shake violently.

"No please… don't take me away from him… Myotismon," she whispers softly now safe in her bed. "I… I want to stay."

"Sophia."

"Huh, ummmh…?" She slowly starts to stir as she turns over in bed. Her strength starts to return. "Myotismon…?" She becomes fully awake as she realizes Myotismon isn't in the room. Her eyes grow wide seeing Wizardmon. "NO!" She quickly moves away from him. "Don't take me away, please; I don't want to leave."

"Now, now Sophia. I'm not here to take you anywhere," he says softly, "I'm here to make sure my partner's well."

"I thought Myotismon was my partner."

"He is as well as me. Like your stepfather Willis, you have two digimon partners, but unlike him, you chose Myotismon of your own accord. He wasn't just given to you like I was." She curls in a ball as he sits next to her.

"He promised he wouldn't leave me," she says softly.

"He hasn't left," Wizardmon says softly. "We just switched places for a while."

"Switched places? What do you mean?"

"Myotismon and I fused to save you from Devimon."

"Devimon…? That name sounds familiar." She shivers. "I remember him. He's after me too," she says softly, "Why is everyone after me, Wizardmon? I, I don't understand."

"Don't worry, Sophia," he says softly sitting next to her. "You'll get the rest of your memories back soon." She looks up at him as he lifts her chin to see his face better. He removes his hat and shows him her face. "You don't have to be afraid of me. I won't hurt you or take you away if you want to stay here. I won't force you." Wizardmon smiles at her and hands her a necklace with two crests engraved on it. Kindness and light are separated with one side white and purple. The purple mixes into the red and black on the other side of her digivice.

*****

"If you think you can do better then me then prove it. You can use this army."

"Are you sure?" Night Angel asks overjoyed, "You can trust me to use this army properly, Myotismon?"

"You're more then ready."

"Thank you lord Myotismon," Night Angel says getting her troops mobilized for her next mission leaving Myotismon to himself to contemplate his next plan. He watches her leave. An unpleasant look crosses his face remembering his earliest encounter with the digidestined.

"They flock like locusts to devour my plans of domination."

~~~~FLASH~~~~

"Crimson Lightning!" A red bolt shattered the glass of the nearby houses. Sophia dropped to the ground drained almost unable to move. "I suggest you leave Sophia alone unless you want to deal with me," Myotismon said looking at him angrily. "Whatever your plans are with her, I'm here to change them."

He redirected the paths of the attacks back at the digidestined attacks destroying some houses. "AHH!!" A loud crash of lightning streamed across the sky signaling another attack. He watched them dedigivolve. Seeing Myotismon, they ask about Sophia, and he just scoffed at them enjoying every moment of their misery.

"I would finish you off, but I have unfinished business to attend to. You're not worth my time," Myotismon said keeping an eye on Night Angel as she moves in the shadows. She pushed herself up slowly obviously weak. She gasped seeing Myotismon standing over her. She backed up into the tree frightened.

She cringed as he reached out and touched her head. "Please… Myotismon forgive me. They overpowered me." He ignored her pleas at first unpleased.

"Did you forget that I have Sophia?" Myotismon said smugly knowing that he has the advantage. "I'm surprised it took you this long to look for her."

"Give her back, Myotismon!" Ken said through clinched teeth. He just smiled at Ken making him angry.

"You of all people should be happy for her. She found her place in life here with me. You can ask her yourself she just loves it here."

~~~~~Flash~~~~~

"They're getting closer to finding her." He scowls, "and her memories are starting to cause me trouble."

~~~~~Flash~~~~~

"If you think you can do better, then prove it to me." She did what I said and used her army well and soon captured many places for me. The longer she does her job, however, the more she reminds me of Ken. Her caring heart doesn't change though, and many digimon flock to her or give in because of it willingly becoming Myotismon's henchmen.

After that fight they go to the digital world. They fight Myotismon a few times and lose.

The new digidestined arrive with their digimon. They met up with Night Angel and try and stop her, and they have a much difficulty with her. They fight me few times and lose after they defeat Night Angel. Seeing them Night Angel, regains some memories when she sees Ken. She asked Myotismon about her memories and he tells her not to worry about them.

"It's better to forget such frivolous things, Night Angel. The digidestined are our enemies."

"…? Enemies?" She watched him walk away. If they're our enemy then, they must be destroyed.

~~~~~Flash~~~~~

Suddenly, a Bakemon comes in his study. For a moment, he's indifferent until he realizes the digimon has arrived to disturb him about Night Angel. He becomes weary hearing the news of his army. Sophia has taken his army to fight the digidestined. Angrily, he leaves the room. "She'd better be ok." He flies off.