Hey guys, here are the families that I will be using in this fanfic, again:

KAMIYA family - Tai (39), Sora (39), Daniel (15), Lucy (12)

ISHIDA family - Matt (39), Catherine (37), Naomi (15), Brandon (14)

KIDO family - Joe (40), Elizabeth (40), Maria (16)

TAKAISHI family - T.K. (36), Kari (36), Rebecca (11), Alexander (7)

WASHINGTON family - Mimi (38), Michael (38), Lily (14), Holly (7)

IZUMI family - Izzy (38), Jane (37), Katie (15), Devon (2)

ICHIJOUJI family - Ken (37), Yolei (37), Ryan (14), Amelia (5)

MOTOMIYA family - Davis (37), Anna (38), Nathan (15)

HIDO family - Cody (34), Caitlin (32), Connor (12)

Also, now that all of the Digidestined and their partners have been revealed, I will put a list of them at the beginning of each chapter, along with the colour of their Digivice.

Daniel and Coronamon ::: Orange D-Beacon

Lucy and Hyokomon ::: Red D-Beacon

Naomi and Lunamon ::: Violet D-Beacon

Brandon and Kamemon ::: Blue D-Beacon

Maria and Betamon ::: Green D-Beacon

Rebecca and ClearAgumon ::: Indigo D-Beacon

Lily and Elecmon ::: Yellow D-Beacon

Katie and FanBeemon ::: Gold D-Beacon

Ryan and Commandramon ::: Black D-Beacon

Nathan and Monodramon ::: Silver D-Beacon

Connor and Hagurumon ::: Brown D-Beacon

Now...on with the story!

Chapter 12: A Living Nightmare

Matt Ishida grimaced as he heard the voice boom through the town. He then said, "I would recognise that haunting voice anywhere."

Rebecca pulled on the blond man's arm and asked, "Who is it then Uncle Matt?"

Matt looked around the group, trying to find the source of the voice, "Its Devimon."

Daniel frowned before posing the question, "The same one who we fought outside the Temple of Light?"

Devimon's voice now spoke, answering the boy's question, "Yes, but this time, I will not be caught off guard. This time, Daniel son of Taichi, you shall be destroyed!"

Almost instantly, the large devil like Digimon appeared high in the sky, looking down on the Digidestined. He then bellowed loudly in anger before he swept down towards the humans and their Digimon. As he flew closer to the ground, he extended his claws of darkness and reached for the Digimon.

Matt cried instinctively, "Watch out, don't let him touch you!"

Everyone did as he said and dived out of the way of the swooping Devimon, but both Firamon and Centarumon were particularly lucky as the devil-like Digimon's black claws only narrowly missed them.

After having rolled out of the way, Naomi looked to her father and asked, "What happens if he touches us?"

Matt sighed and wiped the sweat from his brow, "He infects people with darkness through touch, so he is able to control anyone by coming into contact with them."

Devimon laughed insanely once more before saying, "How well remembered Digidestined. Do you remember how I once controlled your friend Leomon? Well, stay still and the same can happen to all of you!"

However, Gabumon stepped forward and stared at the once again hovering Devimon. He snapped, "And what makes you think I'll let you do that, Devimon. We've fought you before and if I remember rightly, you didn't defeat us then."

Devimon shrugged his dark, black shoulders and replied, "Well how brave of you Gabumon, but I think your memory must be deserting you."

He outstretched his wings and roared, "Was it you that defeated me? No, it was that blasted Angemon!"

Devimon though then composed himself and refolded his wings before saying calmly, "And I can't see him anywhere…can you?"

Gabumon growled, "Perhaps not, but I have fought much more powerful Digimon than you Devimon and emerged as the victor."

Devimon chuckled evilly, which sent a shiver down everyone's spine. He then sneered, "As MetalGarurumon? Maybe. Even as WereGarurumon you may have had a chance. But, I have defeated you as Garurumon once before, so what sort of a hope do you have that you can delete me whilst you are in your pitiful rookie form Gabumon?"

Gabumon growled again, but he knew what Devimon said made sense. Matt however was fed up with listening to the demented and sadistic Devil Digimon talking. Matt remembered the look of anguish on his little brother's face when Angemon sacrificed himself to defeat Devimon and he snapped, "Enough of this talking! Gabumon, attack!"

Gabumon nodded and aimed upwards at the hovering Digimon before yelling, "Blue Blaster!"

He fired a thin stream of blue, ice-like flames from his mouth straight at Devimon. However, the evil Digimon simple laughed and held his hand in the way, causing the flames to evaporate into thin air.

Gabumon gasped and Matt swore quietly under his breath. Devimon then yawned as he outstretched the same hand and simply stated, "Death Hand."

A blast of dark energy erupted from the open palm and struck the ground next to Gabumon, creating a small explosion and throwing the Rookie level Digimon off of his feet. Matt threw himself in the way of his friend and cried, "I've got you Gabumon." before he used his body to cushion Gabumon, stopping him from crashing into a nearby building.

After seeing this happen, Daniel clenched his teeth angrily and shouted, "I've had enough of this. You may be able to take on a single rookie, but let's see how you fare with four Champions! You ready guys?"

In unison, Firamon, Lekismon, Centarumon and Gwappamon cried, "Ready!"

Brandon then turned behind him, where Rebecca was watching events unfold nervously alongside ClearAgumon. Behind them were the huge group of Baby Digimon they had saved from earlier and they were all cowering in fear of Devimon. Brandon bent over and whispered, "Becca, I need you to do something for us."

The younger girl frowned and asked, "What is it Brandon?"

"You need to take all of the Baby Digimon to safety, okay? Whatever happens, we can't let Devimon hurt them."

Rebecca paused and thought about this, but ClearAgumon spoke up instead, "Don't worry; we'll get them out of harm's way."

Brandon smiled, "Good, now getting going! We'll get you when we've beaten Devimon, understood?"

Rebecca didn't hesitate this time and just nodded silently before quietly ushering the Baby Digimon out of the Primary Village and the large group of young Digimon and the young human girl left Brandon, Daniel, Lily, Naomi, Matt, Gwappamon, Firamon, Centarumon, Lekismon and Gabumon alone with Devimon.

Centarumon then stepped forward and aimed his arm cannon cautiously at Devimon, prompting Lily to call, "Be careful Centarumon, don't underestimate him!"

Centarumon bowed his head respectfully before speaking, "Don't worry Lily, I will be careful."

He then took aim more purposefully and roared, "Let's see if you can handle my Solar Ray!"

A beam of powerful yellow energy erupted from the cannon that doubled as Centarumon's right arm. It travelled quickly but Devimon contorted his body easily to avoid the attack.

Then, the other Champions began to fire their own attacks at the evil Digimon who simply avoided them all without now uttering a word or retaliating with his own attacks.

The Digidestined all looked on in shock as Devimon grinned. The devil like Digimon then screamed in a nightmarish fashion, forcing all of the humans to cover their ears with their hands and the Digimon to wince.

When he stopped, a couple of seconds later, he said rather quietly, "My turn."

He closed his eyes then span in the same place he was hovering. As the seconds passed and the Digidestined watched him do so, Devimon got quicker and quicker until all they could see was a large black blur.

Then, suddenly, the black blur vanished into thin air and Devimon was gone. There was a collective gasp in response from the children and their Digimon all maintained their battle stances, as they were unsure about what had just happened.

Lily was the first person to speak, "Has he...gone?"

Firamon growled, "I doubt it, he doesn't seem like the type to leave, just like that."

Matt nodded, "Firamon's right, unfortunately."

Lekismon then said, "Well, if that's the case, everyone keep your guard up."

All the Digimon nodded firmly before Daniel said, "Thing is, I just don't understand where Devimon could have got..."

But before Daniel could finish his sentence, he yelped as one of Devimon's black hands appeared behind him. It came silently out of the ground and grasped Daniel by the leg, taking the boy by surprise.

Firamon instantly roared, "No, Daniel!" but could do nothing as Devimon's voice reverberated around the Village.

His invisible mouth screamed, "Touch of Evil!" and Daniel's whole body began to shake uncontrollably as a result.

Firamon leapt at the hand and shouted, "Fira Claw!" His front legs became cloaked in intense flames, but the attack was useless as Firamon ended up pouncing on thin air as the hand retreated amazingly back into the ground.

Firamon was clearly confused at how the hand had managed to disappear so quickly and avoid his attack, but Naomi did not think about this as she went over to Daniel who was now lying flat on his back on the floor, but continuing to shake violently.

She knelt beside him and grabbed both of his shoulders as to stop him from shaking. She said, "Daniel, snap out of it!"

To her surprise, Daniel did indeed stop shaking. He lay still on the ground for a brief moment, almost in a sleep-like stance. But suddenly, he jerked forward, lifting his head right off of the ground and centimetres away from Naomi's face.

Naomi flinched at this and shifted back a little, but she was stopped by Daniel as he thrust out his left arm and grasped her neck with his hand.

He squeezed tightly and the girl managed to whisper, "Daniel!" as the boy continued to crush her throat with his grip. He lifted her up high into the air as he rose to his feet, causing the rest of the group to gasp.

Lily cried, "Daniel, what are you doing? Let her go!"

Lekismon grimaced, "He's under some sort of spell thanks to Devimon." The Champion level Digimon clearly wanted to free her human partner, but she could see no way to do that without harming Daniel.

Firamon cried out in anguish, "That Devimon is such a coward! He knows that we won't hurt Daniel, even if he is under his control. Instead of playing these despicable tricks, he should come and fight me like a...mon!"

As they all watched the colour drain from Naomi's face and listen to Lily's repetitive cries of, "Someone help! Someone do something!" Brandon snapped.

He balled his hands into fists before the usually calm and chilled out teenager charged at the older boy who was continuing to throttle his sister. He muttered, "That's enough. If anyone's going to bully my sister, it's me!"

He used his shoulder to hit Daniel with initially, knocking the boy off balance. This loosened his grip on Naomi's neck, allowing her to breathe slightly. Then, he delivered a powerful punch with his right hand to Daniel's midriff, causing him to double over and release his hold on Naomi completely.

She fell to the ground in a heap, with a bright red mark on her neck. Lily quickly rushed over to her and picked her up before bringing her away from the fighting boys.

Brandon then put both of his hands on the top of Daniel's head, which was now in line with the blond boy's waist. He then forced it down at the same time as he brought his right leg upwards.

Daniel's face smashed into Brandon's knee at a fairly high speed and as a result, Daniel's head travelled backwards and he landed on his back on the floor.

It was clear that Brandon had bloodied Daniel's nose slightly, but the young Ishida could not let him hurt his sister or anyone else whilst he was under Devimon's dark spell.

He quickly jumped on the prone boy as he used his legs to pin Daniel's arms to the floor. The controlled Daniel was trying hard to free himself from Brandon's weight, which was now pressing down on him, but he was unsuccessful.

The others watched all this unfold in amazement. None of them expected this seriously brave and heroic act from Brandon, especially Naomi. Gabumon however was worried that either of the boys might get hurt badly and he said to Matt, "Should we help and restrain them before either one gets hurt?"

Matt slowly shook his head and replied, "There's no need Gabumon. Brandon's doing what he thinks needs to be done. I think we've got to learn that although we can still help Brandon, Gwappamon and the others, they've got to make the majority of the decisions for themselves, like we did many years ago. Okay?"

Gabumon nodded. He knew what Matt was saying was the truth and although it would be hard to get used to, they had to step aside sooner or later.

Then, suddenly, Devimon's hand appeared behind the quarrelling pair and reached for Brandon now. Gwappamon however saw this and before Devimon could touch Brandon, he shouted, "There's no way I'll let you have Brandon, Devimon!"

He used his extendible arms to reach out and hold the hand. He tried hard and succeeded in holding back the black hand, but Devimon's voice once again boomed through the Primary Village, "Well, if I can't have your pathetic human, you worthless Digimon, I guess I'll settle for you! Touch of Evil."

Gwappamon's stretchy arms slowly retracted before he too began to shake for a moment. The hand of Devimon disappeared back into the ground as Gwappamon stopped shaking and began to growl and advance menacingly towards the closest of the other Digimon, Centarumon.

Brandon gasped after seeing this happen and he said quietly, almost in disbelief, "Gwappamon? Not you too..."

This distraction was exactly what Daniel needed. He managed to flip Brandon off of him and onto his back, before getting up and reversing the situation.

It was now Daniel who was pinning Brandon down but this time, Daniel was not holding back and he was unloading some hefty punches to Brandon's face.

Naomi yelled after seeing this, but Lily held her back along with Matt and Gabumon, stopping her from going to help her younger brother. Lily said, "No Naomi, it's too dangerous!"

This was because Naomi and the others were on one side of the clearing and Daniel and Brandon were still fighting on the other side, but in between them were the Digimon. Centarumon, Firamon and Lekismon had now surrounded Gwappamon who was slowly turning on the spot, glaring at his fellow Champion Digimon.

Centarumon then said calmly, "Please Gwappamon, control yourself, we don't want to fight you."

Firamon snarled, "We need to be fighting Devimon, not each other!"

Gwappamon however said nothing and he continued to stare angrily at the others.

Lekismon sighed, "What do we do now guys? Attack?"

Before anyone could reply, Gwappamon made his move. He said, "Gwappa Punch!"

He quickly extended his arms in Lekismon's direction and caught her off guard. He managed to knock her to the ground with a solid, single punch before he quickly swept Firamon and Centarumon off of their four legs with his long, extendable arms.

Gwappamon then sprinted over to Lekismon, before she or either Firamon or Centarumon could get to their feet. He took one of his very sharp CDs and held it to his throat before through him, Devimon's voice could be heard, "Don't move, either of you. If you try to get up, I'll delete her without hesitation."

Firamon growled with anger and Centarumon mumbled under his breath, but the pair were clearly angry and frustrated at the situation they found themselves in.

Then, suddenly, out of thin air Devimon appeared high in the sky. His wings were outstretched but he wasn't moving and he was laughing hysterically, obviously at the situation the Digidestined found themselves in.

Lekismon was at the mercy of Gwappamon, who was being controlled by Devimon and both Firamon and Centarumon were powerless. Brandon was currently pinned to the floor by Daniel who too was being controlled by Devimon, and was receiving heavy punches to different parts of his body. Finally, Lily, Naomi, Matt and Gabumon were watching on helplessly at the events that were unravelling before their very eyes.

Devimon continued to howl with laughter before saying, "How easy this has all turned out to be! Who knew the Digidestined could be manipulated and defeated this easily?"

(Meanwhile, in the forest outside the Primary Village...)

"Hey you guys, wait for us!" Rebecca called as she couldn't help but watch as the baby Digimon were quicker at running than either her or ClearAgumon.

They had put a small but suitable distance between them and the Primary Village before suddenly, all of the young Digimon disappeared after coming into contact with the trees.

Rebecca gasped as only she and ClearAgumon were left, visibly, in that part of the forest. They called out for the baby Digimon, and after a minute, they received a reply.

One of the Digimon, much to Rebecca's surprise, jumped out of a nearby tree and said, "Don't worry; we're only hiding in the trees!"

Rebecca frowned, "Hiding in the trees? What are you on about?"

ClearAgumon sighed before taking Rebecca's hand and saying, "Come on Rebecca, let me show you what they mean."

The pair strode forward and walked straight into the nearest tree. Rebecca gasped as she instantly realised the tree was hollow and all around, there were strange markings on the walls.

Before she had a chance to ask, ClearAgumon said, "It's computer code, Rebecca. Don't ask me what it means though; I don't think anyone knows really."

Rebecca and ClearAgumon then walked from tree to tree, checking on the baby Digimon. When they had checked on them all and they were all happy, she sat down outside a tree and alongside her partner.

"Do you reckon they're alright, ClearAgumon?" Rebecca asked.

ClearAgumon sighed, "I'm sure they'll be fine Rebecca, but Devimon is a powerful Digimon."

Rebecca took this in for a little while before standing up and slowly clenching her fists, "ClearAgumon, I want to go back and fight."

The Digimon frowned, "Go back and fight? What about Brandon and the others, they said they'd send for us when they needed us."

Rebecca turned to face her partner and argued, "But what if they can't physically come for us? They could be fighting a losing battle ClearAgumon, and I don't want to just be sitting around and doing nothing if that's the case!"

ClearAgumon stared into Rebecca's eyes for a moment and smiled. She was being deadly serious and all of a sudden, it felt proud of her, "Okay Rebecca, I agree! Let's go back to the Primary Village."

So then, the pair told all the baby Digimon that they just needed to check something out, and they'd be back shortly, before they set out back in the direction of the Primary Village.

(Back by the Primary Village...)

When they arrived a short while later, they both stayed quiet and peered their heads round the entrance of the Primary Village to see the horrible scene that Devimon had caused.

They arrived just as he reappeared and began to laugh hysterically. The situation that Brandon and the others found themselves in caused Rebecca to gasp with horror, but ClearAgumon was on hand to keep her quiet.

She turned to her partner and whispered as Devimon spoke, "We have to do something, quickly!"

ClearAgumon replied quietly, "I know, I know, but what?"

Rebecca took out her D-Beacon and held it tightly, "I just don't know ClearAgumon, but I really don't want my friends to get hurt!"

As she closed her eyes and wished this, the D-Beacon began to glow and give out an amazingly bright light, which began to engulf ClearAgumon.

She gasped, "ClearAgumon, what's happening to you?"

The Digimon replied, "I feel quite funny. It's like I'm getting...stronger."

Suddenly, the Digimon shot high into the air and yelled, "ClearAgumon digivolve to..."

When Devimon had finished mocking the Digidestined, he suddenly fell quiet after he saw, just outside the entrance to the village, a Digimon rise to the skies.

He and all the others, including the controlled Daniel and Gwappamon then turned to face this Digimon as it cried, "ClearAgumon digivolve to...D'Arcmon."

Lily gasped, "ClearAgumon...digivolving...that must mean..."

Suddenly, a human girl burst through the entrance and ran to their sides. Naomi finished Lily's sentence by shouting, "Rebecca!" before they all briefly hugged the girl.

Rebecca reassured them all that the baby Digimon were safe before ClearAgumon's new form was clear to observe.

D'Arcmon was a tall woman in a very skimpy gold plate mail-like outfit with four large yellowish wings. She was armed with a sharp sword holstered at her back, in addition to the small dagger she held at her side in her left hand. In her right hand, she wielded a brown and gold staff and a red scarf was wrapped around the digimon's face. Finally, she wore a gold mask that only obscured the top half of her face.

Even after the light of the D-Beacon had subsided, D'Arcmon seemed to give off a holy ambience from its angel like looks that clearly scared Devimon.

He hissed as he saw D'Arcmon slowly float in his direction with her holy staff outstretched, "Why, a creature of the light, how original! Do you think you really have a chance of defeating me?"

D'Arcmon's eyes locked with Devimon's and she then spoke with clear authority, "Silence, being of darkness. Watch Devimon, as I undo your evil work."

D'Arcmon then closed her eyes as she held her staff skyward. Suddenly, from the top of it, a beam of light appeared. D'Arcmon then aimed it towards Daniel and then Gwappamon, breaking them from Devimon's evil control.

Daniel shook his head after this and exclaimed, "Brandon? What am I doing?"

Brandon smiled as Daniel climbed off of him and Brandon wiped the blood from his face, "It doesn't matter now Daniel, you were just being controlled by Devimon."

Gwappamon also frowned after pulling the sharp CD away from Lekismon's neck, "Lekismon? What have I done to you?"

Lekismon shook her head as Gwappamon stepped away from her and pulled her to her feet, "You have done nothing Gwappamon, this is Devimon's doing."

Gwappamon and Daniel slowly nodded but they both made mental notes to ask the others what had happened exactly at a later point.

Devimon laughed at D'Arcmon and mocked her by saying, "Do you really think I care that you have freed them from my attack? They were a bit of fun for me, but now you shall feel my wrath. Death Hand!"

Rebecca winced as she saw a blast of dark energy fly towards her partner. She turned away and hugged the nearby Matt, wishing the battle could be over already.

D'Arcmon however was a lot less worried about the attack. She summoned another beam of light from her staff, which struck Devimon's attack and made it disappear with ease.

Devimon's eyes widened as he saw this and he could only watch as in the blink of an eye, D'Arcmon dropped her staff and before it could hit the floor, she flew seamlessly through the air.

As she reached Devimon, the staff was still a couple of metres above the ground. She then took out the sword that she had secured to her back. Then wielding both her sword and dagger dangerously, she cried, "Baptême d'Amour!" which preceded a smooth succession of slashes with her swords.

Then, as her staff finally hit the ground, so did Devimon. D'Arcmon floated down to Devimon who was now lying face down on the ground, with D'Arcmon's attacks obviously doing significant damage to the evil Digimon.

D'Arcmon was now standing over the devil like Digimon and she said, "I'm sorry Devimon, but justice must come to all those who cause pain and suffering in the world." She then sheathed her dagger and held her sword in both hands before plunging it right into Devimon's back.

This caused him to break up and sure enough, Devimon finally disintegrated into his basic data. D'Arcmon sighed and glowed white briefly before turning back to his rookie form.

Rebecca sprinted over to ClearAgumon and hugged her partner whilst all the other Digimon and humans were clearly relieved and cheered amongst themselves.

Gwappamon, Centarumon, Lekismon and Firamon all de-digivolved back into Kamemon, Elecmon, Lunamon and Coronamon, before it was explained to Daniel and Kamemon what had happened since they couldn't remember anything after being touched by Devimon's attack.

Gabumon then thanked everyone for coming after he sent for them and apologizing for the stress he had ended up putting them through.

Matt said his goodbyes to his partner, before promising that the two would meet up soon and hopefully without the evil Digimon to worry about as well.

Finally, Gabumon reassured the teens and their Digimon that he could retrieve the baby Digimon from their hiding places in the forest and that they should return home and rest.

They agreed to this, however they all promised that the next day, they would all visit the Digital World to help start the rebuilding process that the Primary Village needed after Devimon, Ogremon and the Goblimon had left their mark on it.

It was up to Rebecca then, to use her own indigo D-Beacon and to say, "Digi-port, open!" which allowed her to create the portal which the Digidestined all quickly used to return home for what they believed was a well-deserved rest.

Hey guys and girls, I hope you enjoyed that chapter. A lot of fighting in that chapter, which was fun to write (especially the bit between Brandon and Daniel as well)! In addition, another Digimon has digivolved, which is always good to see!

Please review and let me know what you all think because your opinions are incredibly important to me as a writer. It would also be much appreciated if you could tell anyone else you know who likes these kind of fanfics about 'Digimon Adventure: Inheritance' because the more people who read it, the merrier!

But for now, this is cavaner...signing out!