"Where am I?" Amaya inquired at the darkness that surrounded her.
"You are deep inside your own mind child." a familiar female voice told her calmly as the darkness went from pitch black to sky blue with red and yellow balls of light floating around them.
"Who are you?" Amaya asked the woman who sat in the middle of the area.
"I think you can answer that question yourself." the woman informed Amaya as she motioned for her to come closer.
The woman was sitting with her legs crossed and her hands pressed together, like she was praying, in front of where her heart should be. Her face held a friendly smile as a bushy red and silver fox tail swished across the floor behind her. Her yellow cat slit eyes held kindness as her silver ears twitched ever so slightly as Amaya approached her.
Her short red hair was barely an inch above her shoulders and a small blue feather held in her hair by a small crescent moon danced in the slight breeze that had suddenly started blowing. A small V shaped headband laid on the floor next to two silver cuff bracelets and a pair of dark blue heeled boots. It was then that Amaya notice those items were missing from the woman before her and that the woman had thick black lines that spiraled all the way down to her ankles which had a thick black ring that went all the way around her them.
Her feet were that of a human as well, but they had three crescent moons tattooed on them, like the points of a triangle that someone forgot to put the lines to. Her toenails were of the same black color as her claws and her wrists and arms had the same thick line like marks on them.
"Kitsunamon?" Amaya inquired as she sat down on her knees in front of the woman.
"Yes Amaya, it is I. I apologize for taking over your mind, but I had to apologize to Sorcerymon for all that I put him and Seraphimon through." Kitsunamon apologized with a slight bow of the head.
"How is it possible for us to talk like this? How can you talk to me? I thought you were just a spirit that I used to help the others!" Amaya inquired as her voice rose to a panicky level.
"Calm down child, I am just a spirit, but we are connected for you are the one I chose to use my spirit. It was no accident; you and I are the same in some ways.
We both rebel against others when they demand something from us, but we will go along with it when we have no other solution." Kitsunamon stated calmly as she held her hands out to Amaya with her palms up.
Amaya examined her hands and for the first time she noticed a crescent moon was tattooed in the center on her palms. She hesitantly placed her hands into Kitsunamon's hands and felt the warmth of her skin against her cold skin.
"Were you actually banished to the moons?" Amaya inquired as she thought back to what Sorcerymon had yelled at her.
"I was banished, because I refused to leave, but even after Seraphimon's banishment I stayed and helped the warriors to the best of my ability." Kitsunamon informed her with a sad smile and cloudy eyes.
"What happened to you?" Amaya inquired as the room started to dissolve like a depixelating picture.
"Amaya!"
"Our time is up. We will speak again." Kitsunamon told Amaya as she disappeared and everything went pitch black once again.
"Amaya! Amaya, please! Wake up!" Tommy cried in Amaya's ear which caused her to stir slightly.
"Tommy, crying isn't helping." Zoe tried to calm him down, but that only caused him to cry harder.
Tommy was sitting next to Amaya's right side as she was laying on her back in the middle of the floor. Zoe was sitting next to Bokomon and Neemon up against the wall to Amaya's left side. J.P. was also on Amaya's right side, but instead of being right next to her he was in the corner closest to the front of the Trailmon.
Tommy was shaking Amaya by her arm which caused her open one eye, close it and then re-open both eyes. She sat up slowly and placed her head in her hands as Tommy held onto her forearm.
"Hey, are you alright?" J.P. inquired which caused Amaya to glance back at him from the corner of her eye.
"Amaya?" Tommy called in a half sob which caused her to turn her attention back to the smaller boy.
"I'm fine, just got a headache." Amaya informed them as she patted the top of Tommy head.
"It's surprising that you aren't hurt with the way you went limp and hit the floor." Zoe informed Amaya after she gave her a look over from her spot.
"Yes, you are very lucky that you didn't lose your strength before you got onto the Trailmon." Bokomon informed her only for Amaya to give him a bewildered look.
Bokomon had a blue digiegg in his pink waist band and was rubbing the top of it as if he were pregnant. Amaya's eye twitched involuntarily as she took Tommy into her arms and lap. She rested her chin on top of the younger boys head as he hiccupped and tried to stop himself from crying.
The Trailmon jerked rather suddenly which caused Amaya to go sliding towards the open back area of the Trailmon. J.P. caught her by the back of her shirt and pulled her next to him against the wall with strength that Amaya didn't know the older boy had.
"Hold on guys! It's getting rough again!" Takuya shouted back to them as the Trailmon ride went from a smooth calm to something like riding on a rocky road.
"No dip Sherlock!" Amaya shouted back at him as she tightened her hold on Tommy and pushed herself against the wall.
"Mama's gotcha, mama's gotcha..." Bokomon repeated over and over to the digiegg with his eyes closed.
"You can't be serious! Bokomon you're a boy for crying out loud! How the hell can you be the mother to it!?" Amaya snapped at Bokomon who was annoying the hell out of her with his constant chanting.
The ride smoothed out just as Amaya snapped at Bokomon which caused him to open his eyes. Bokomon and the others let out screams of panic at the sight of the Trailmon having no rails under him.
Amaya's jaw dropped at the fact that the Trailmon was sailing through the air as Tommy pulled himself as close as possible to her. The Trailmon landed on the rails and as he did Amaya came up off of the floor, from the impact, only to hit it again.
"End of the line, and all is fine." the Trailmon told them as he pulled into a small station and rolled to a stop.
Kouji and Takuya were the first ones off of the Trailmon, seeing as they only had to jump from his sides and down onto the track or platform. Bokomon and Neemon practically fell out of the Trailmon, seeing as they had scrambled to get off the moment it stopped. Zoe followed after them at a slower pace while J.P. got up from his spot on the floor.
"Need a hand?" an innocent question that caught Amaya completely off guard and caused her to stare at J.P.'s open hand like a deer caught in the headlights of a car.
"Amaya?" Tommy called to her while shaking her shoulders lightly, but she didn't move.
"J.P. you broke Amaya!" Tommy shouted which caused the older boy to face plant.
"Would you three hurry up already!?" Kouji snapped rather impatiently from the small stations platform.
Kouji's snippy demand snapped Amaya out of her deer in the headlights trance instantly. She let Tommy go and without even looking up at J.P. she placed her hand in his and let him pull her to her feet. Tommy had ran and jumped off of the Trailmon as soon as he climbed out of Amaya's lap and left her alone with J.P.
Amaya jerked her hand out of his as soon as she was on her feet and walked away from him. J.P. looked rather disheartened by her actions and slowly followed after her.
"Thanks J.P." Amaya thanked him quietly before she stepped onto the platform which brought a smile back to the older boys face.
"No problem!" J.P. told her plainly as they both joined the rest of the group.
"What were you two doing? J.P. trying to steal ya away from Kouji I see." Takuya joked as he slung his arm around Amaya who blinked at the ground a few times.
"Baka! You perverted Jaki!" Amaya snapped as her fist came up from her side and hit him square in the jaw with lightning fast speed.
"Ow! Can't you take a joke!?" Takuya questioned while holding his jaw and glaring at the girl beside him.
"Can't you quit acting like a total idiot and be mature?" Amaya asked calmly as she crossed her arms and turned her nose up at him.
"Happy trail to ya!" the Trailmon interrupted as he started heading back home backwards.
"Bye!" everyone called after him all at once while waving good-bye to him.
"That's pretty scary, he's gonna go backwards all the way home." Tommy stated as they watched the Trailmon disappear.
"Let's go!" Takuya and Kouji stated in unison which caused them to exchange glances with one another before they lead the others down the tunnel the small Trailmon station was in.
Takuya and Kouji were leading everyone while running side by side with Zoe and Tommy right behind them. Amaya and J.P. were behind Zoe and Tommy and Bokomon and Neemon were right behind them. They were all running as fast as they could through the cave like tunnel except for Amaya who was having a hard time coordinating her feet.
J.P. caught her by the arm when she tripped for about the fifth time to keep her from hitting the ground which got him a nod of thanks as Amaya let him lead her.
"Hey everybody, there's an opening up ahead!" Takuya stated as a bright white light could be seen just a few yards ahead.
"Let's just hope it gets us outside." Kouji replied as he glanced back at the others to make sure no one had gotten lost or left behind.
"Yeah!" Takuya agreed just moments before they ran through the opening the light was coming from.
"This doesn't look like outside to me, does this look like outside to you?" J.P. inquired as they all stood rather disappointed on a ledge.
"Well duh! It's an underground cavern!" Zoe replied sarcastically to J.P. as Amaya took her arm out of the older boys grasp.
"Where's the exit!?" Takuya inquired as they looked out at the closed in, but spacious area ahead, below and above them.
"There must be one somewhere." Kouji informed Takuya before they both ran down the slope like wall of the ledge they had all been standing on.
"Hey, wait for me! If Grumblemon finds us down here, we'll be in big trouble!" Tommy cried as he, Bokomon and Neemon ran after Takuya and Kouji like there was no tomorrow.
"Let him find us! I'm not afraid of that stupid runt!" J.P. stated boldly which caused Amaya to give him a confused look.
"Wow, are you trying to impress me with a show of courage J.P.?" Zoe questioned in astonishment which caused Amaya to face plant at the blonde's actions.
"I'm not trying to show anything! Give me a break, will ya!? Grumblemon stole your spirit and I wanna get it back. It's as simple as that!" J.P. snapped at Zoe which made Amaya wonder what had happened when she blacked out.
"I'm uh..." Zoe couldn't reply for she was at a loss for words and Amaya was watching them in bewilderment.
"Maybe we should just turn back and fight him and get this over with!" J.P. continued with his little rant as Zoe gave him a rather shocked stare.
"Do you really mean that?" Zoe inquired calmly as Amaya looked between them before she rolled her eyes at them.
"Yeah, you better believe it." J.P. stated with the utmost confidence.
"Well, it's your funeral." Zoe stated calmly as she closed her eyes and placed her cheek in her hand.
"Can I change my mind?" J.P. whined which caused Amaya to face plant once again before she glared at the two of them.
"Would you two be so kind as to help out around here!?" Amaya snapped at the two as she walked down the ledge's slope with a glare set on the ground.
"What's her problem?" J.P. inquired with confusion clear in his voice.
"Hey Amaya! Wait up, I wanna talk to you!" Zoe shouted as she ran after the ravenette and made all the boys turn their attention to the two girls.
"What do you want Zoe?" Amaya questioned hiding the venom in her voice by her soft tone.
"Are you still mad at Kouji?" Zoe inquired as they both walked across the cavern.
"What makes you think I'm mad with him?" Amaya asked as they both started tapping the wall hoping to hear a hollow sound.
"You did take off in a hurry when he snapped at you." Zoe pointed out quietly seeing as they were closer to the boys now than they had been.
"I wasn't thinking when I ran off. I'm not mad at him." Amaya informed Zoe as she found the wall more interesting than the girl beside her.
"Why are you avoiding him then?" Zoe inquired which caused Amaya to stop tapping the wall.
"I'm not avoiding him. Can't I not want to be near him at some point?" Amaya snapped as she started hitting the wall a little bit harder than before.
"Normally, but you two are normally joined at the hip all the time." Zoe informed Amaya who punched the wall.
"Zoe, go bug someone else. The 'don't hit a girl rule' doesn't apply when the other person is a girl too!" Amaya snapped as she turned an icy glare towards the blonde.
Zoe laughed out of her own nervousness before she went to another area and started checking the walls for a hidden way out. Amaya huffed to calm herself before she went back to tapping the walls. She glanced around the cavern; trying to figure out where everyone was at when she noticed Kouji wasn't very far from her with Takuya a little farther away than Kouji.
She glared slightly at Kouji before she pushed herself away from the wall and walked farther out into the center of the cavern. She stopped by a large hole that was filled to the brim with water and just stood there looking up at the cavern ceiling, waiting for the others to start yelling at her or each other.
"Doesn't seem to be any give at all, these walls are made out of solid rock." Kouji stated the obvious to Takuya after he had tapped the wall with his fist a couple of times.
"Yeah, this stupid cave is a dead end! Beans!" Takuya shouted in response and frustration as he shook his fist at the wall with a scowl on his face.
"Guess we gotta go back." Tommy added as he looked up at J.P. who was standing beside him.
"That's what I was saying!" J.P. shouted in frustration as he propped his fists up on his waist.
"I wonder if we passed an exit somewhere back in the tunnels. It's worth a try!" Zoe shouted from higher up which caused Amaya to turn her attention to the blonde in annoyance.
"If we go back, we'll be running right back into our enemy's arms. We have no idea where they are and I for one have no idea who they are!?" Amaya snapped aloud as the water beside her began to rise up slightly in an arch.
In an instant, water spouted in a straight line at both J.P. and Tommy who didn't have a chance to move at all. The water had hit J.P. and Tommy with enough force to slam them both back into the wall they were standing in front of. Amaya looked at the water with wide eyes and with a dropped jaw before in reseeded and left Tommy and J.P. looking rather beat up.
"Tommy!" everyone shouted in worry as Amaya stood there in shock at what had just happened.
"I don't feel so good J.P." Tommy told the older boy weakly as he leaned against the wall letting it support him completely.
"Oh geez, are you alright little man?" J.P. question with genuine worry as he placed his hand on Tommy's chest.
"Hey, how come nobody yelled out my name?" J.P. inquired as he helped Tommy sit up before he screamed in fear.
"Mama Mia!" Zoe shouted in awe as the water shot straight up towards the cavern ceiling.
"Definitely..." Takuya gawked as Amaya backed away from the water with slow and careful steps.
"Not good." Kouji finished for Takuya as everyone stood unmoving except for Amaya.
The water burst into droplets which landed back in the large hole that made up the hole of water and left a large whale like digimon in its place. The top of the digimon was of a brown color whereas the underside of the digimon was of a blue color and he had three silver wire like tubes running down both sides of his body. He was screaming as if in agony when he appeared and was showing off his spaced out teeth and large mouth as he flopped back down into the hole.
"What's Whamon doing down here? He lives in the ocean." Bokomon questioned and stated as he held onto the digiegg he possessed.
"Who is Whamon?" Zoe inquired as she turned her attention to Bokomon instead of the large whale digimon.
"He's a whale digimon and he seems to be quite out of his element." Bokomon informed Zoe as Whamon dove back into the water and came back up screaming.
"I can't stand it anymore! Do you hear me!? I can't stand it!" Whamon cried as he thrashed from side to side in the large hole of water that was barely big enough for him to fit in.
"He's ordinarily a gentle digimon; something must really be upsetting him." Bokomon continued with his explanation on Whamon as the digimon continued to thrash around.
"I wanna go home! I wanna go home! I wanna go home!" Whamon cried over and over while he thrashed around and soaked Amaya at the same time.
"We gotta stop him!" Kouji snapped at Takuya as Whamon's thrashing about was getting worse.
"Um...alright, I'm ready to go when you are!" Takuya stated with confidence after hesitating a bit.
Takuya spirit evolved to Agunimon while Kouji spirit evolved to Lobomon and they both sprang into action. They both jumped onto Whamon's back, and they both almost got thrown off due to the digimon's constant thrashing.
"Alright big guy, just calm down." Lobomon told the digimon in an almost demanding way as the digimon splashed Amaya with water once again while he was thrashing.
"Yeah, what's the matter?" Agunimon questioned which caused Whamon to rear back and come down in the water once again while thoroughly soaking Amaya to the bone.
"Leave me alone!" Whamon cried as Amaya glared at him, her crystal blues eyes going a darker blue than normal.
Amaya flipped her d-tector in her hand before she spirit evolved and planted her feet firmly on the ground. Whamon continued to thrash around, but instead of it just being a panicked thrashing he was now trying to throw Lobomon and Agunimon off. Kitsunamon place her right hand over her heart and let her tears of the moon circle that single wrist which caused the silver tear drops to turn a bright yellow.
Her eyes closed as she held her right hand out in front of her which caused a yellow dome to surround Whamon, Lobomon and Agunimon. Lobomon and Agunimon looked up at the bright yellow dome in surprise as Whamon began to settle down. Agunimon and Lobomon both jumped off of Whamon's back as his thrashing around stopped completely.
They both came up on either side of Kitsunamon as the dome started to disappear. Her hand dropped back to her side and her legs gave out from under her, but she never hit the ground. The rest of the group joined the three of them as Lobomon and Agunimon held Kitsunamon by each of her arms to keep her from falling to the ground.
"You seem to be feeling a little bit better now Whamon. Can you tell us why you were so upset?" Zoe inquired while glancing at Kitsunamon in worry.
"Ooh, I hate this place. I just want to go home; the ocean. Until very recently I was swimming, happy and free under the sea not a care in the world. Then one day I saw this delicious looking glowing plant; I couldn't help myself I decided to take a little nibble. Oh they were good. Next thing I knew I was stuck in this place with no way out." Whamon cried in despair as Kitsunamon glared at him.
"Here we go again." Agunimon moaned in annoyance as Kitsunamon gave him a blank look.
"No we don't, cause I can't use tears of the moons again right now." Kitsunamon informed the warrior of fire as she jerked her arm out of his grasp.
"You don't have to be such a big cry baby." Lobomon growled as he tightened his hold on Kitsunamon's arm as she tried to jerk away from him.
"He's sure losing a lot of water, is that normal?" Neemon asked Bokomon, who had both his hands placed on the top of the blue digiegg.
"No idea." Bokomon told Neemon calmly as he looked up at Kitsunamon and Lobomon.
"Let go." Kitsunamon hissed in a whisper as she tried to pry Lobomon's hand from her arm.
"What's wrong with you?" Lobomon growled back in the same hushed tone while keeping a firm grip on Kitsunamon.
"This is embarrassing, does he really think all that blubbering is gonna help him." J.P. stated snappily oblivious to Lobomon and Kitsunamon's bickering as he almost doubled completely over in pain.
"You're my problem, now let go!" Kitsunamon hissed in a low, but sharp tone as she finally freed herself from Lobomon's grasp.
"Hey, are you ok J.P.?" Tommy inquired the older boy with worry as he tried to hold the larger boy up.
"I'll be fine once I get this pain to go away." J.P. assured Tommy as he held his ribs tightly while Kitsunamon landed on her knees on the ground.
"And...and it's all my fault, that you guys got hurt, I'm sorrrry" Whamon wailed while Agunimon snickered at Kitsunamon who was glaring directly at Whamon as she sat back on her legs which were folded underneath her.
"You're forgiven alright!" J.P. snapped at Whamon out of annoyance and pain.
"Well, at least you have some company now. We're stuck here too. Maybe with your help we can figure out a way to escape." Zoe told Whamon calmly which caused the large digimon to stop crying all together.
"Huh?" Whamon inquired confused by Zoe's words.
"She's saying, if you want to get outta here, we'll help you if you help us." Kitsunamon informed the gawking digimon as Lobomon pulled her back up onto her feet.
"OK!" Whamon shouted happily before his shout turned into a cry of fear and pain.
"WHAMON!" everyone cried in unison as shock, fear, and worry could be heard.
The ground had started shaking right after Whamon's cry of happiness and it caused everyone to almost fall on their faces. The water Whamon was in started to disappear like someone had pulled the plug on a swimming pool. Whamon was left completely visible and lying on his side as the hole dried up completely.
"Now that is not normal!" Bokomon shouted in pure shock at the sight of Whamon.
"No, it's perfectly normal Bokomon." Kitsunamon snapped sarcastically as Grumblemon burrowed out of the ground right next the Whamon's belly.
"Grumblemon!" everyone shouted in surprise at the earth warrior's appearance.
"Nowhere hide now." Grumblemon laughed. "Me find you, me so glad we see each other again only this time me steal your spirits good." Grumblemon yelled at them which caused Kitsunamon to look up at the ceiling.
'This is one digimon that has learned nothing!' Kitsunamon shouted internally.
"You're an annoying little gnome, you know that?" Lobomon snapped at Grumblemon in annoyance while still holding onto Kitsunamon's arm.
"Yeah! What he said. Oh and by the way you're not stealing anything from anyone ever again. We're not afraid of you anymore, Grumblemon!" Agunimon snapped at Grumblemon with confidence.
"Na na na ne ne ne Grumblemon, you will be." Grumblemon mocked as he took a small green bottle from his vest and opened it.
"Lookie, look." he told them as pink dust poured from the bottle and spread around the cavern like a sheet.
The pink dust disappeared as soon as it touched the floor and roof of the cavern. Once the dust disappeared orange three ring circles appeared and Golemon appeared out of those circles. There were so many Golemon's that no one could count them and that seemed to bring joy to Grumblemon.
"You may taken Gigasmon spirit, but me have other powers! You no can beat me, earth spirits be mine! Me first to find you, so Mercurymon and others no will have you now!
It too late for them! Meet my new friends." Grumblemon laughed as the last Golemon appeared and rose under his feet which caused him to be standing on its shoulders.
"Get them!" he shouted which caused Agunimon and Lobomon to take to the offensive.
"Let's turn these rocks into pebbles!" Agunimon told Lobomon who let go of Kitsunamon as both he and Agunimon sprang into action.
Agunimon used his full body pyro tornado to start off with and it destroyed four of the very many Golemon. Lobomon used his Lobo kendo and sliced through the Golemon as he dove through a group of them, which destroyed them. Kitsunamon used her lunar star attack to destroy a few of the Golemon and landed roughly on the ground when she ducked under another Golemon's fist.
Kitsunamon's ears twitched slightly as Lobomon's howling laser passed between them, hitting and destroying the Golemon behind her before she could blink. She found Lobomon back by her side in an instant as she pushed herself onto her feet and swayed slightly before she shook it off.
While Lobomon, Agunimon and Kitsunamon were fighting, J.P. was standing in front of Tommy and Zoe with Bokomon and Neemon to his right and was backing them away from the Golemon in a protective manner.
"Excuse me gentlemen! We could use some assistance over here!" Bokomon cried out as they were being backed into a corner.
"Be right there!" Agunimon called to him as he took off in their direction.
"We're on the way." Lobomon called as he too ran towards the others.
Two hands on what looked to be rope shot straight by Kitsunamon who blinked in confusion. One of the hands grabbed Agunimon by the back of the neck and almost completely encircled his neck to the point of choking him while the other did the same to Lobomon. Kitsunamon started to summon her scythe, but before she could both Lobomon and Agunimon were jerked past her and back closer to the owner of the two hands on rope.
"Attention is the best medicine, right?" a goofy sounding voice questioned as Kitsunamon glanced behind her.
Standing on the ledge where they had all entered the cavern was a light brown digimon with dark brown markings. He looked to be a wooden robot made up of wood and rope and his eyes were just beady little dot under a plate like disk which formed his head. (I cannot describe Arbormon people! He's a freaking brown robot thing of wood!) Kitsunamon found herself between a rock and a hard place, because she didn't know whether to help Lobomon and Agunimon or help J.P. and the others.
"Hey! Let go!" J.P. shouted at Arbormon and charged forward slightly and almost doubled over in pain.
"No, you can't fight in this condition." Zoe cried out with concern as she and Tommy ran up beside J.P.
"She's right. The best thing we can do now is hide!" Bokomon exclaimed as Kitsunamon slid in front of J.P. and the others.
"Hey, good hiding, you're invisible!" Neemon exclaimed as he looked at the vacant spot where Bokomon once stood.
"Over here brainiac." Bokomon snapped from behind some near, but far away rocks.
"Wow, you're pretty fast too!" Neemon stated in surprise with very wide eyes.
"You meat head, the only reason I'm hiding is because I have to protect Seraphimon's egg!" Bokomon snapped back at Neemon who had a doubtful face (I call the look Neemon's rape face :x).
"I refuse to just hide and give up!" J.P. stated defiantly through gritted teeth.
"J.P., you're too badly hurt right now, Agunimon, Lobomon, and Kitsunamon will think of something. We have to trust them." Tommy told J.P. trying to persuade the older boy not to fight at all.
'They trust me!?' Kitsunamon shouted internally in shock as her body went numb.
The robot digimon was punching the living crap out of Lobomon and Agunimon while telling them to dance. Kitsunamon hissed at the digimon as she stood in front of the others just waiting for Grumblemon to make a move. It felt like a freeze scene of a movie since none of the Golemon were advancing, but Kitsunamon didn't want to chance leaving the others in fear that the Golemon would choose that moment to attack. Her hands were in fists by her side and they were shaking with her inner fury as she wished she had some way out of this situation.
"Do you two have any suggestions? We're running out of time here." Kitsunamon inquired through gritted teeth as her hands started to glow.
"We're going to fight. We have to in order for us all to get out of here." J.P. told her boldly as both Agunimon and Lobomon's fractal code became visible.
"Then I'll buy a little time. Lunar fan!" Kitsunamon told both boys as she charged forward and let the light around her hands take the form of a small circular fan.
Her fan spun through the air and almost hit the robot digimon who recoiled slightly at the sudden intrusion as the fan spun off towards Grumblemon. Grumblemon ducked under the fan as it went over his head and came back to float above Kitsunamon's hand. J.P. and Tommy both spirit evolved to Beetlemon and Kumamon and joined Kitsunamon, who was in the middle of the Golemon army.
Kitsunamon flung her fan again as she summoned her scythe and attacked the Golemon in front of her. Beetlemon used his thunder fist while Kumamon used his blizzard blaster which destroyed the Golemon they hit. Kitsunamon's fan disappeared before it came back to her as she hit her knees, panting harshly.
"Kitsunamon, what's wrong!?" Kumamon asked in worry as he destroyed the Golemon that were around her with his crystal breeze.
"I still haven't...fully recovered...from the castle and...tears of the moons." Kitsunamon panted as Beetlemon destroyed the last of the Golemon.
Beetlemon turned his attention to Grumblemon and the Golemon he was perched on and powered up another one of his thunder fist attacks. He jumped forward, but was stopped and thrown backwards in midair by Golemon's sulfur plume attack. Beetlemon hit the ground and changed back to J.P. who lay sprawled out on the ground in pain.
Grumblemon shouted something to his robot companion who replied by slide evolving into his beast spirit form. The robot digimon now looked like some sort of lizard flower hybrid with his head looking like some sort of burnt flower while his body was that of a wooden lizard. Kitsunamon forced herself into moving in front of J.P. as Grumblemon jumped up in the air and came down at them with his hammer.
Grumblemon never got swing his hammer downward for he was hit from behind by a concentrated stream of water which blasted him into the wall. Kitsunamon's eyes widened at the sight of Whamon floating in midair as a blue and yellow spirit floated in front of him.
"No way!" Kumamon shouted in surprise as Kitsunamon moved to J.P.'s side.
"Whamon! I can't believe it. A beast spirit." J.P. stated having pulled himself up into a kneeling position.
"Looks like the beast of thunder's been found." Kitsunamon whispered lightly to J.P. who gave her a slight nod.
"No fair, that spirit mine!" Grumblemon snapped as he pulled his nose out of the wall.
"Oh, so that's what it was. It did taste a little gamey for a plant." Whamon stated in surprise at what he had eaten.
"You can't have spirit. It's mine, mine, mine." Grumblemon shouted as he jumped for the spirit.
"Not today! It's my turn to play." J.P. snapped as he pulled his d-tector from his pocket.
The spirit went into J.P.'s d-tector just as Kitsunamon caught Grumblemon on the handle of her scythe and slammed him into the ground. J.P. beast spirit evolved instantly and started shooting the ceiling of the cavern up. J.P.'s beast spirit was a large nave blue with yellow marking tank, cannon and beetle mixed digimon.
"Ah! Zoe, Tommy, take cover now!" Kitsunamon snapped as rocks fell from the ceiling which caused her to scramble out of the way.
"Run for your life!" Bokomon cried in fear as he lead Zoe, Neemon, and Tommy to a safer place at a dead run.
"That is not a spirit we needed to find right now!" Kitsunamon shouted as MetalKabuterimon, J.P. in beast spirit form, shot another attack at the ceiling.
He caused the ceiling above the flower slash lizard digimon to collapse completely as Agunimon and Lobomon ran for cover. MetalKabuterimon snapped back to his sense when Grumblemon decided to call him friend which got him told off very quickly. MetalKabuterimon used his electron cannon to destroy Grumblemon and slide evolved back to Beetlemon to take Grumblemon's spirit.
With Grumblemon defeated Zoe's spirit went back to her and J.P. completely de-evolved from Beetlemon. Zoe and Tommy ran to J.P.'s side as Kitsunamon de-evolved to Amaya who found herself sitting on the ground a good ways away from the others. Amaya had barely gotten on her feet when she noticed Kouji and Takuya running their way.
"RUN!" Takuya shouted at the top of his lungs which caught the others attention. "Didn't ya hear me!" he shouted again as the ceiling began to turn to fractal code.
Takuya and Kouji had barely gotten next to everyone else with Amaya close behind them when the cavern ceiling collapsed under the pressure of water from above. They were all plunged into complete darkness in a matter of seconds, but strangely enough Amaya never felt the impact of the water at all.
"Did we die?" Tommy inquired from somewhere close to Amaya.
"Uh, I don't think so." Zoe replied unsure of her own answer.
"Smells like something did." J.P. complained loudly as whatever they were in started to open and light started to pour through jagged cracks.
"It's the ocean!" Tommy exclaimed as the thing that they were in opened completely and all they could see was crystal blue sea water.
"It's Whamon!" everyone cried in unison except for Amaya whose eye twitched in disgust.
"I don't know how you saved us, but thank you!" Bokomon thanked gleefully as Amaya sat Indian style on the digimon's tongue.
"Yeah and welcome home Whamon!" Zoe chirped happy that they could keep their promise to the large digimon.
"Oh, I'm the one who should be thanking you without your help; I might have been stuck in that cave forever. Hold on everybody we should be reaching the island shortly." Whamon informed them which only confused most of them.
"Um Island?" Takuya inquired just as a small land form came into view.
"While we wait for Whamon to swim all the way over there, who wants to answer some questions for me?" Amaya inquired with her arms crossed and a completely serious look on her face.
"Whatcha wanna know Amaya?" Tommy inquired as he sat down in front of her, almost mimicking her sitting style.
"Who was that digimon that attacked you two?" Amaya inquired looking directly up at Takuya and Kouji.
"That was Arbormon, the warrior of wood, there's also Mercurymon, warrior of metal and Renamon, warrior of water that we have to look out for." Takuya informed her as he sat down next to Tommy.
"We're a warrior short. We've got fire, wind, ice, thunder, light, metal, earth, wood and water, so where's the other warrior?" Amaya inquired which caught Bokomon by surprise.
"There's been no sign of any other warrior so far, so I don't think we will have to worry about it." Bokomon informed her and noticed she was giving him a weird look.
"May I ask why you are looking at me like that?" he inquired nervously.
"That digiegg, you called it Seraphimon's digiegg earlier. Who exactly is that? He wasn't the digimon that got his attack reflected back at him. Was he?" Amaya inquired as she thought back to the castle.
"Yes, Seraphimon was the celestial digimon you ended up standing behind." Bokomon informed her as she turned her eyes upward.
"Amaya?" Tommy inquired as she seemed to quit moving all together.
"I still feel drained." Amaya stated calmly as she flopped backwards on Whamon's tongue.
"Ewe Amaya!" Zoe protested Amaya actions which caused the ravenette to roll her eyes.
"Ewe Zoe!" Amaya mimicked which caused the blonde to glare as the others laughed at the two of them.