A/N: So this chapter has been a pain in the ass to write for many reasons. At first, it was just being difficult. THEN my computer died and I didn't have any of my files backed up (Luckily I'd recently sent all of my stuff from this story to a friend over MSN and was able to salvage what was written so far of this chapter). THEN the computer I can use now doesn't have Microsoft Word, which makes writing a pain in the ass in general, AND I like doing wordcounts and Firefox doesn't have a word count feature for my version yet (It's in beta testing and I can't download it).

So you can all thank Shiguya Retomasi for salvaging this chapter for me.

Disclaimer: I had something really awesome to put here, but I lost it. So, uh... I don't own Digimon.

Chapter Twelve: A Wise Mentor and a Chibi

17:09DST/Unnamed jungle between Wendigo Plains and Sand Beach/The Temple of Adminmon/Roof

Kyle groaned as he began moving again. Had he been in a joking mood before being frozen, he would have said something about pitying computers that froze up. He had been in a battle mood though, so the first words out of his mouth were "Is it over?"

Gaomon, who happened to be just getting over the Prison Fist himself, mumbled "Yeah. We won." The dog digimon was rubbing his shoulder. Typically a bad sign, you weren't supposed to feel pain in a specific area after de-digivolving.

"Barely. Arkadimon digivolved shortly before my lightning bolt struck them, if it had struck any later I wouldn't have been able to hold him off." Wisemon added. He, like the other four who hadn't been frozen when the lightning struck, was rubbing his eyes with one hand while massaging his ears with the other.

"You guys got off lucky. Labramon is still having trouble hearing, and it's been over ten minutes." Felicia said.

"Huh?" Labramon asked, proving Felicia's point.

"Great," Leormon said, "We have six people who're still stiff from being frozen, and five who may as well be deaf and blind for the time being."

"Didn't catch that last bit." Wayne said.

"Exactly." Leormon replied. And so it was that Wisemon and the Digidestined sat there on top of the Temple of Adminmon for yet another hour before any of them felt up to traveling.

18:12DST/Unnamed jungle between Wendigo Plains and Sand Beach/In flight over the treetops

When everyone was up for traveling, it turned out that Wisemon was still capable of using his Eight Balls of Lust attack eleven times to carry them all out over the jungle and to Sand Beach.

As they flew, the Digidestined decided to play some Q and A with Wisemon.

"So, uh, you mentioned earlier that you 'popped into existence'." Kyle began.

"Unlike most digimon, I was not born from a digiegg, nor did I progress to this level. Instead, I simply appeared atop the temple there one day at this level."

"And you just knew stuff immediately?" Akira asked.

"Well, some things. Other things came in time. I would be reading a prophecy and suddenly come across something I didn't know about, and then I'd wonder what it was for a few minutes and then I'd just know the information as if I'd remembered something."

"Most Wisemon don't typically come into their wisdom that way." Lunamon said.

"No, they typically don't." Wisemon paused for a second. He seemed to be remembering something. As he did so, his hand pixilated briefly. No one noticed it, and he soon added, "Typically Wisemon are wise before they're Wisemon, aren't they?"

"Yes." Labramon replied slowly. Silence followed for a while before Labramon asked, "You said you knew of the Digidestined from the moment you appeared. What exactly did you know?"

"There's six humans who were called to the digital world shortly after meeting digimon partners in the real world. The partners are bonded to each other in inexplicable ways, or at least ways that are inexplicable to those without a profound understanding of the physics behind it, and one of the humans arrived either one day or almost four years before the other five. The memory isn't clear on which one for some reason, which is odd considering the extreme time difference between the two options."

"Anything else?" Wayne asked.

"Well, they've all met Shiguya, and they're supposed to eventually defeat Hadesdramon."

"And that wasn't from a prophecy?"

"That was the reason they were called to the digital world by-" Wisemon cut off here as if he had been about to say something and was suddenly incapable of saying it. "By whoever it was that called them here." He eventually finished.

"And you know of Shiguya?" Felicia asked.

"He lives just three mythic spires away from here. He used to visit me sometimes." Wisemon said.

"And, out of curiosity, why are you coming with us?"

"Going to visit Shiguya. Finished deciphering most of the prophecies, nothing better to do." After this there was silence for a while. Not much else to ask. And then, suddenly...

"Blasphemers!" The shout came from under the canopy, and it sounded as if whoever said it had been shouting it for a while. Everyone turned around to see a Tapirmon floating up through the canopy.

"What?" Wayne asked.

"Blasphemers! Trespassing in the most holy of temples!" The Tapir shouted.

"I'll deal with it." Lunamon said to the others shortly before digivolving to Lekismon. "Moon Night Kick!" Lekismon jumped out of the steel balls that had been flying her above the canopy and did a flip in the air before kicking the Tapirmon far into the jungle. The balls she had been riding on caught her as she de-digivolved into Lunamon again.

And so your author just added a couple hundred words to this chapter without accomplishing anything other than showing how kickass Lekismon is.

Later...

19:32DST/Sand Beach/Jungle Border/Mythic Spire #5

Once they got to the beach, they landed and Wisemon's spheres disappeared. It seemed relatively quiet for having a black spire. Wisemon seemed to be rather impatient. "I'll go on. You guys should be able to handle things without me for a while, right?" He asked

"Yeah, we'll be fine." Wayne said as he leaned against the spire. Also leaning on the spire with him were Jeff, Kyle, and Akira. The three nodded.

Wisemon nodded as well. "OK. See you all soon." With that, the Ultimate digimon walked off in what they assumed was the direction of the next spire. And so the night progressed. Eventually driftwood was gathered and lit for a bonfire using Coronamon's Corona Flame attack. The digidestined gathered around the fire in wait.

When they first heard the wolf howling, they dismissed it as being rather far off.

23:14DST/Sand Beach/Jungle Border/Mythic Spire #5

Felicia woke with a start when the wolf howled again. This was the fourth time so far, and once again it sounded closer. She shivered a bit before muttering "This is eerily similar to Wendigo Plains." A few minutes later, she fell asleep again.

4:32DST/Sand Beach/Jungle Border/Mystic Spire #5

The wolf hadn't howled since Felicia mentioned how similar it was to Wendigo Plains, but now she woke up to the sound of Akira screaming in pain as she was bombarded with thousands of tiny blades. Felicia looked around groggily to see everyone else looking around in confusion. Soon afterward Akira collapsed back on the sand, severely weakened, only for Lunamon to be hit and de-digivolved to Moonmon.

By this time everyone was now wide awake and staring around for the source of the danger. It wasn't long before Kyle was hit, and then Leormon, Jeff, and Gaomon. Those who were hit all collapsed on the sand, unable to get up.

Felicia glanced at Labramon, Wayne, and Coronamon."This doesn't look too good." She said before instinct told her to jump to the left. She made it out of the way just as another blast of blades shot out from where her shadow had just been. The blast came from what appeared to be another blob of shadow, with nothing to cast it. "What is that?" She asked, pointing at the blob before noting it was rushing back into her shadow. She dodged away again just in time to avoid yet another blast of blades.

"I wish I knew." Wayne replied, only for the blob to head into his shadow and strike him down. Coronamon followed soon afterwards.

"Shit."

4:34DST/The Complex/Dan and Arkadimon's room

Dan woke up in pain all over, but more specifically with a massive headache. "Fucking Wisemon. How the hell did I get back?"

"You were deleted, Hadesdramon brought your data into a digiegg and brought it back here. It only hatched a few hours ago." The voice was unmistakeably BlackAgumon's, and there seemed to be some restrained laughter involved.

"Sure. That sounds wonderful. Explains the pain." Dan sat up regardless of the pain and saw BlackAgumon standing in front of the mirror, most definitely restraining some laughter. Oddly enough, he could see none of his own reflection. "What are you laughing at?"

BlackAgumon merely stopped restraining the laughter and stepped out of the way of the mirror. Dan gazed into it, blinking a few times before it hit him. When it did, his voice contorted into a hilariously angry mask. Hilarious, because, well, we'll let Dan explain.

"I'M A FUCKING CHIBI?!"