Digimon Frontier Deluxe

Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon. It is owned by...Toei, Namco-Bandai and I think Nick. Wait, why does Nickelodeon have Digimon?! They...Oh, forget it. They have Power Rangers.

Yusei: Welcome back to a new chapter of Digimon Frontier Deluxe. The group decides to split up and cover more ground for their amulets.

Takeshi: So to this effect, Kouichi, Kouji and Chiaki head to the Continent of Darkness while the others go for the Continent of Earth. This chapter covers Kouichi's adventure.

Chapter 13: The Brothers' Grim Adventure

As the others leave the tower, the Warrior of Metal Teruo looks over the map. He stares at the last four markers, and that one marker that's moving. "This may be a problem."

"What's up?" Takuya asks looking over at him. He's still in pain from being gripped by Deathmon.

"The next one from here is in the Continent of Earth," he tells him as everyone turns to listen. "But the Demon Lords know what we're up to, right?" Takuya looks down in shame. "If we go to the earth amulet, we'll risk them finding the darkness amulet since it's in their territory."

"We can go to the Continent of Darkness first then," says Chiaki.

"I thought of that, but they'd notice a large group threading in the darkness and would come after us. They still overpower us."

Kouichi cups his chin and thinks. "I have an idea."

"What is it?" Everyone turns to Kouichi, including his brother Kouji.

"I'm the only one who needs to retrieve the darkness amulet right? I suggest I go and grab it, and then regroup back in the Continent of Earth," Kouichi suggests.

"What? We can't risk you going alone!" Takuya says frantic.

"Of course not; two people will come with me, other than Teppei of course." Kouichi crosses his arms together over his chest. "Good plan huh?"

"Alright then, that I can work with." Takuya gives a hand over to Kouichi. "Alright, we'll go with your idea. But who's going?"

"I'll go," Kouji says as he stands by his brother.

"I-I'll go too." Chiaki joins in as well.

"We'll leave out tomorrow morning."

With their plan set out, the DigiDestined take the rest of the day to recover from their battle against the Demon Lord Lilithmon. At night, as everyone sleeps, Takuya remains awake on his shift outside. The wind outside blows in a whistle inside the building they're in.

He yawns. "I feel so tired."

"You should." He looks to the side and sees Zoe sitting next to him on his left. "You better get to sleep; your turn is almost over."

"I'm fine." Takuya picks up a pebble and throws it. It skips across the ocean before him. "Look, I'm sorry about what happened."

"Why are you apologizing?" She chuckles a bit. "Lilithmon seduced you with her power."

"Yeah, but it was me she was after, and it caused you guys so much trouble," he bows his head into his legs. "I can't believe I fell for her charm, and fought for her. I feel so pathetic."

"It's okay, Takuya. We knew you were controlled. We believe in you. I do." She then pauses and clasps her mouth.

"R-Right..." He bites at his bottom lip, before finally calming down. "So, how are you holding up on this? We're halfway to reaching our goal, and bringing peace to the Digital World. I know it feels a bit stressful."

"It is, but I'm glad I went through with this ordeal..." Zoe looks up at the skies, seeing the three moons together. "Before all this I was always alone and ignored. Nobody liked me for being different and I felt bad. But ever since coming to this world and becoming a Digimon I've been able to become stronger, and not just in fighting but inside; I've been able to understand more about myself and the feelings of others. I also got to make so many friends like you and the others Takuya, and all types of Digimon. Sure we got into battles, but there were happy and fun times too, and when we leave I know I won't be alone. I guess you can say, it's because of coming to this world that I like myself now."

"Well, I really like who you are now too Zoe," he says, so suddenly and without thinking that when he does his face lights up like a tomato.

"R-Really?" Zoe quickly turns to him, her face also flushed crimson.

"W-Well, I..." He sputters a bit before turning away. The wind blows by as he tries to keep quiet.

Zoe looks away as well, holding onto her fast beating heart. Just the thing he said about her is making the girl feel dizzy. 'Takuya... He really meant it, didn't he? Then...' She traces her fingers along the sand, a feeling in her throat as if she's been holding her breath in forever. She glances back at him, noticing he's lying still. 'Did he mean it, and he's too scared to talk to me now?' Biting at her bottom lip, she eventually turns around, saying, "Takuya, I want to say..." She pauses again when she gets closer, and hears snoring. Going to his face she sees he's sleeping.

'You gotta be kidding me...' She could tell he's faking sleep; his breathing is too fast to be normal. "Oh well... I'll ask again later." She leans down and places a quick kiss to his exposed cheek. "Sleep tight."

She heads inside to grab something, but as she does Takuya opens his eyes and touches the place he was kissed. "Zoe..." He then groans inward. 'Oh, why did I do that?! I could have said something, anything! I could have listened to what she said! I could have confessed! But NOOOO! I had to fall asleep! How lame am I?!'

Kouichi yawns as he watches Zoe leave with a blanket. He sighs and goes back to sleep.

The next day, the DigiDestined and Bokomon-tachi wake up and prepare for their departure. Teruo transforms into Sephirotmon and absorbs the others inside of him, save the twins and Chiaki. "Good luck in there guys. Try not to get caught."

"Don't worry. Just focus on the Earth Amulet and we'll handle our mission." Kouji takes out his D-Scanner, and transforms into Garmmon. Kouichi and Chiaki get on his back, and he rides along the Trailmon rails further inland. Sephirotmon flies through the skies along the coast.

Garmmon travels through the world, until coming to the Dark Gate. "We're here."

Kouichi and Chiaki dismount him, and Kouji returns to himself albeit tired. "We'll have to make this quick; I'm worn out from driving."

"Okay. We'll try to avoid them." Kouichi turns to Chiaki, who nods, and they head in through the gate. Kouji follows after, clutching hold of his D-Scanner.

Kouichi looks down at his D-Scanner, checking the marker for where to go. "Let's see... The Rose Morning Star is that way," he points to the star in the skies northwest of their position, "and the marker is leading to the forest, so we should head there."

"Finally, a lucky break," says Kouji as he sighs.

They head east, turning away from the star. As they do, they notice Daemon flying from the castle. Kouichi would rather not go there even if Daemon had left; it brings bad memories of his time as Duskmon. Kouichi refocuses on the task at hand, which comes to a halt when the signal disappears. "The signal's gone again."

"Well, now we're just walking blindly," Kouji grumbles as he looks around.

'Look out behind you.'

"Huh?" Kouichi turns around and sees something coming at him. "Look out!" Everyone gets down, and avoids a blast of energy that strikes the side of a cave. They pick themselves up, and see it's Gaioumon. He sharpens his swords with one another and steps down. "You again?"

"Hello children." Gaioumon kicks down a tree, uprooting it and sending it towards them. Chiaki pulls the boys away. "It's just you three? Not enough."

"We're all you got, so suck it up." Kouji stands first, raising his D-Scanner.

"You're the monster who killed Angemon... I'll make you pay!" Chiaki takes out hers.

"Double Spirit Evolution!" Kouji and Kouichi transform into BeoWolfmon and Rhihimon, before charging and attacking Gaioumon.

He raises his katanas and blocks their strikes, before kicking them both in the stomach and slashing them away with a spin. "Still weaker than all knows, but at least you're capable now. Rinkazan!"

"Rot Kreuz!" Rhihimon blocks using his cross shield.

"Licht Angriff!" BeoWolfmon fires at him, his laser and missiles impacting him hard. But he stands up easily and focuses his eyes on them. "Still standing..."

Gaioumon sharpens his swords with the other, before combining them. He then draws an arrow and releases it. But to their surprise it passes by them. Rhihimon dashes towards Chiaki and takes the hit. "Kouichi! Chiaki!"

"An opening!" Gaioumon charges at BeoWolfmon, pinning him to the ground with his swords scissored over his throat.

"Kouichi, I'm sorry," Chiaki says with grief.

He quickly turns around to Kouji, shocked to see the position he's in. "Kouji!"

"Turn back to your human forms, and drop your spirits." Rhihimon grits his teeth angrily. Left with no option he reverts to Kouichi.

"I never would have thought you'd turn out to be someone like this."

"Did you really think I would put my honor before my duty?" asks Gaioumon before laughing. "It's one thing to use others to make yourself stronger. But it's different when I fight under the orders of my leader; even if I have to swallow my pride, it's my duty to follow their commands, and they want you dead before you find the other amulets."

'So they do know...' Kouji realizes.

"Chaos Shot!" Gaioumon gets blown away by a powerful hit. Free, BeoWolfmon fires Licht Angriff to send him further away.

"That was close..." The kids look to their right, where the attack came from. There stands a knight in dark blue and gray armor. A dragon head is used for its helmet and it possesses a dark blue cape. It wields a lance and a giant shield, the latter of which has DigiLetters written in a circle along it.

"Who are you?" asks BeoWolfmon.

"It doesn't matter. Come with me, or never find the amulet." That's when they realize that they need to trust this new person.

"Let's go!" BeoWolfmon picks up Chiaki, and they head after the knight. Before they could move further, he looks back to see an attack coming their way. With no option he steps by his friends and takes the blow, but the resulting explosion blows away the others too.

Kouji hits the ground, having reverted to human and passed out. Kouichi recovers first, and looks in horror at Chiaki and Kouji having Digicode surrounding them. "What? Chiaki!"

"So, humans do have data..." The knight grabs the kids and flies away with them.

Gaioumon looks on as they disappear. "They got away... No matter. Devidramon!" A Devimon based dragon flies down from above. "Track them down."

The knight lands before a cave, and brings them inside to a living room setting. The Digimon lays them on carpeted floors, where it's shown their data has returned to them. Kouichi looks over at the knight, and though he's curious about why he didn't reveal any data, the mission is important. "Excuse me, who are you again?"

"It is rude to ask of another's name in such a manner. You should offer yourself your name in response," says the Digimon. After a brief pause she says, "I am Chaos Dukemon."

Digimon Analyzer

Chaos Dukemon

Ultimate Level

Dark Knight Digimon

Virus

Chaos Dukemon, a chaotic version of the Holy Knight of the Royal Knights that has awoken to its virus instincts, Dukemon. The Digital Hazard inside of its species has awoken a wave of terror to become either a demon dragon or an evil knight. Its special attacks releases a brutal barrage assault from its spear Balmung, Demon's Distaster, and unleashing dark, corrosive magic from the shield Gorgon, Judecca Prison!

'But, in the end you...' He puts it aside and says, "I'm Kouichi. Thank you for saving us."

"It's fine; offering help should come before asking for help." Chaos Dukemon sits in a seat, returning her weapons inside her armor.

"Will they be okay?"

"It's unknown. Human data isn't something we know about, so we can't be certain of what will happen. But, as their data hasn't been scanned their safety is assured." Kouichi looks over at his brother and friend worried. "The same thing applies to humans here it seems. Still, it's weird that the same hasn't happened to you. Maybe it's connected to how you came to the world."

"W-What?" 'Does this person know how I came to the Digital World?'

"I know what you're here for."

"Yes, the Amulet of Darkness." As he speaks, Chiaki begins to come to unbeknownst to them.

"Then allow me to tell you I will not give it to you now, not when you're unable to control your darkness," she tells him.

"W-What?! My darkness?"

"You hold an evil inside of you bound to come to surface. Should you take hold of the power of the amulet you'll only let it control you."

"But we need it to save the Digital World-"

"I know!" Chaos Dukemon grabs Kouichi by his collar. "But I'd rather you don't let Duskmon take over first."

"Duskmon?" They look over to Chiaki, who has fully woken. "Who's Duskmon?"

"Chiaki? You're okay?" asks Kouichi out of relief.

Chaos Dukemon releases Kouichi and glares at her. She then asks, "Haven't told them about the curse left by Ogudomon, have you?"

"Who?" That's definitely a name Kouichi and Chiaki haven't heard before.

"Nevermind. I'll set you up to handle your darkness, and then you'll be ready." Chaos Dukemon grabs him and takes the boy further into the cave. "You two wait there and prepare for any unwanted company."

"Uh, wait!" shouts Chiaki, but they're too far in. She sighs and sits back. 'What's Duskmon?'

Inside the cave further down, the light of Chaos Dukemon's abode disappears, leaving them in darkness. She stops, and drops Kouichi. "Where am I? And why can I see?"

"Darkness. Here is where you'll face your inner most evil." Chaos Dukemon raises her shield. "Gorgon – Dark Hazard!" The Digital Hazard on her armor glows bright purple in the dark, and charges her shield with it. It fires at Kouichi, who shouts out in pain. He screams as the evil of the knight's shield exposes a black vulture around him. "Come out to the surface, Duskmon!"

The vulture flies out of Kouichi, and lands before him. It shifts in the dark to take form of Kouichi, albeit a palette swap version. This new Kouichi with white soulless eyes and pitch black skin stands, smiling while staring at his other self. Chaos Dukemon steps back to give them room. "Hello, Kouichi."

"Who are you?"

"I am the darkness in your heart, the evil sin of the Super Demon Lord that spawned the other seven, Duskmon." Kouichi takes in a deep breath. "Nervous, are you? Not many people can stare the devil in the eye without running scared."

"I'm not scared, least of all you." Duskmon takes out a pink and black D-Scanner, to his surprise. "A D-Scanner?"

"I'll expose your bluff. Spirit Evolution!" Data surrounds the fake Kouichi, turning him into Duskmon.

"To overcome the darkness in your heart you must defeat him. Only then will you be ready to receive the Amulet of Darkness," Chaos Dukemon tells him.

"Is that so... I'll take you down for good." Kouichi takes out his D-Scanner and evolves into Loweemon. He then summons his spear and shield while Duskmon summons the Blut Evolution swords.

Back with Chiaki, Kouji begins to wake up. "Are you okay?"

"Ugh. Yeah, thanks," he says as he recovers. "What happened? Where's Kouichi?"

"Kouichi went with that Digimon. She said she would give him the power to properly control the darkness inside of him," she explains, sounding worried about him.

'The darkness inside of him? Does she mean-'

"Neh, Kouji," Chiaki begins, having a lack of courage in her, "who's Duskmon?" He gasps. "You do know, don't you?"

Kouji pauses, attempting to try and explain what she wants to know. "I can't say."

"Kouji, please open up and quit the loner routine," she tells him in a begging voice. "I want to know more about Kouichi and understand him like everyone here, but I know he won't tell me. So that leaves you."

He lifts an eyebrow and stares at her. "Do you like him?"

Chiaki blushes and looks away. "N-No I don't! I'm just worried, like a good friend would be!"

'Just like Zoe's worried about Takuya all the time...' Putting two and two together, Kouji sighs. It's not for him to say either, but it's something he has to tell no matter what. "Duskmon. He was an evil Digimon who fought against us before we met you and your friends. He was the human Spirit of Darkness, ridiculously powerful, and Cherubimon's best subordinate. Even worse, he was Kouichi."

Chiaki backs up in shock. "How can that be?"

"Kouichi didn't come to the Digital World the same as us. When he came he was found by Cherubimon, and he manipulated the pain in his heart to turn him into Duskmon. We came to the Continent of Darkness before, and fought against him. He almost killed us, and it took me and Takuya working together to set him free. On our way out of the continent he converted the spirits to their current form."

"Then, why did that Digimon say that he had to fight Duskmon?" Kouji stands up and walks towards the opening further into the cave. "Wait, Kouji-"

They both pause when they hear footsteps entering into the cave. Kouji looks back and sees Gaioumon with Devidramon chained walking in. "What a cozy abode."

"Gaioumon!"

"Sick 'em!" Devidramon charges towards them.

"Spirit Evolution!" Both of them transform into their human spirits and defend themselves against the black dragon.

"Ewig Schlaf!" Loweemon charges forward to attack Duskmon, who blocks using his swords. The force of the attack sends him back a few steps however.

"Fool. Don't think your attacks are stronger within the darkness without expecting the same from me. Eroberung Storm!" Duskmon releases his attack throughout the area, forcing Loweemon to block each strike with his Shokuzai no Tate. "Geist Abend!"

He continues to block, and is blown into a wall. "Geist Abend!"

"Endlich Meteor!" He counters using a powerful stream of darkness, causing an explosion. Duskmon however moves in through the darkness and slashes at his left leg.

"You're slow too." Duskmon kicks him in the face, planting him further in the rocks. Loweemon fires Endlich Meteor at a closer range, blowing the evil warrior backwards.

"Am I too slow now?" Loweemon prepares himself. "Don't think you have a chance; we're inside a cave. You can't use your Beast form to its fullest length here."

"Maybe, but there's another way around it." Darkness wraps around the warrior. "Double Spirit Evolution!" To Kouichi's surprise, the evil warrior transforms into a brand new form. This time, he's a two headed skeletal snake-like Digimon. Along the length of the snake are eyes colored like the rainbow that stare into the lion warrior's, and at the tip of its tail a gatling gun. "Geismon!"

"What? But how could you-"

"When Ophanimon gave you the power to fuse your spirits together, I gained that power too." Geismon slithers quickly to Loweemon's side, who dodges his fangs. "Geist Giftzahne!" Geismon opens both mouths and fires his fangs in the form of shuriken.

Loweemon raises his shield to block, but they circle around him and strike the warrior from behind. He falls to his knees, and Geismon laughs. "That's it. Slide Evolution!" Loweemon tries to transform, but finds himself unable to. "What?"

"The harder Duskmon fights, the more he saps energy from you," Chaos Dukemon explains. "Your power at the moment is all that's needed to defeat him."

"How? He has the power of two spirits!"

"It won't matter. The only thing that's holding you back is your heart." Loweemon pushes himself up and stares at the evil snake.

"My heart is holding it back..." Kouichi steps aside and strikes Geismon in the intersection of the necks. Geismon snarls in pain as it slithers back. "That's right... I've been holding myself back ever since I saw Duskmon again. I was afraid to become Duskmon, to fall to the hatred in my heart, and turn on my friends again. But no more! I won't let this happen again; as the Warrior of Darkness, I won't succumb to hatred and resentment!"

Geismon roars as it becomes surrounded by a rainbow aura. "Don't fool yourself! You can't escape your past; you and I are alike!"

"I can never be like you know." Loweemon's lance illuminates dark fumes. "I may have been bitter before, but I'm not so petty to hold onto anger. I don't need resentment to live!"

Geismon slithers in to attack Loweemon, who grabs the right head with his bare hands and slams the snake into the ground. "Endlich Meteor!" He then blows him further into the ground towards the wall.

"Blut Cannon!" Geismon fires from his gatling tail to attack Loweemon, who raises his shield and intercepts. He then walks forward, his lance still brimming with energy.

"This is the end. Schwarz Stahl Leistungsschalter!" Loweemon dashes forward at high speed, raising his lance with both hands. The afterimage of a lion follows him as he pierces through Geismon. The two headed snake roars in pain, its data exposed for Kouichi. "Goodbye, my evil side. Darkness won't be a force that simply destroys. Digicode, scan!"

Kouichi scans the data, and Duskmon's body fades away inside his D-Scanner. The data leaves out of the device and enters his body. "W-What?"

"It is done. You are now ready to receive the Amulet of Dark-" Chaos Dukemon stops when she hears noise coming from her room. "Intruders!"

"Kouji!" Kouichi heads to the tunnel, his eyes easily seeing into the dark.

BeoWolfmon and Ranamon make it out of the cave, and turn their eyes to face Gaioumon exiting. "Licht Angrif!"

"Rain Stream!" Ranamon summons pouring water down on him, while BeoWolfmon fires his laser and missiles.

"Rinkazan!" Gaioumon dashes forward, despite the downpour, and slashes through them. His attack devastates Ranamon and returns her to Chiaki, exposing her DigiCode.

"No, Chiaki!"

"You shall be first!" He raises his hand to steal her data, but BeoWolfmon smacks him aside.

"Chiaki, are you okay?" he asks her.

"Y-Yeah, I'm fine." She says this, but her bleeding side tells a different story. "I'll take care of this; stop him until they come back."

"Okay." Kouji turns his eyes back to Gaioumon. "I will stop you." Gaioumon snaps his fingers, and Devidramon comes down to claw at him. "Get back you ugly dragon!"

But it's pointless; the mindless beast continues to fight at him, while Gaioumon gathers energy up above him. "Gaia Reactor!" He then unleashes his attack upon them, blowing away Devidramon and BeoWolfmon.

"Kouji!" Chiaki yells.

The warrior reverts to his human self while the dragon turns into an egg. "You asshole!"

"Now, to finish you off!" Gaioumon brims in an orange aura.

"Stop!" He turns behind him to see Kouichi running towards him. "Double Spirit Evolution! Rhihimon!"

"It won't matter how many of you come to stop me. I will slaughter everyone in the name of Daemon!" Gaioumon charges towards Rhihimon, and upon clashing their attacks release a force of wind. "Rinkazan!"

Rhihimon watches his movements, and steps in using his lance to block his move; he does this by locking his lance under his wrists. "What?!"

"Your moves are predictable in the darkness." Rhihimon leans back and kicks the dragon man in the air. Once there Rhihimon fires Schwarz Lehrsatz at him, blowing off parts of his armor.

"Kouichi..." Kouji looks on in amazement at seeing how powerful his brother is.

Rhihimon flies in and grabs Gaioumon by his horns, flying in the air high. He then drops the weakened samurai from the greatest height, before circling around to his face. "Schwarz Stahl Leistungsschalter!" Using his strongest technique, the black lion warrior strikes Gaioumon in his chest and sends him flying across the continent.

Rhihimon then lands by the others, devolving to Kouichi. He falls on his behind, tired from all the fighting he's done today. "That was pretty rough..."

"Kouichi!" Chiaki walks over to him in a limp, still holding her bleeding spot. "You've grown so much stronger."

"Yeah, thanks Chiaki," he says, though his back hurts considerably. The damage he took from Duskmon still lingers.

"Well done Warrior of Darkness," says Chaos Dukemon as she approaches him, "or should I say, Kouichi?"

"Kouichi's fine." The twin of darkness stands back up, giving a smile. Chiaki blushes seeing it, as it's the very first she's seen from him.

Kouji approaches his twin and pats him on the shoulder. "Good job, brother."

"Thanks." It warms his heart hearing his brother thank him. He now begins to see how accepted Kouji is of him. Turning his eyes to Chaos Dukemon, he asks, "Where is the amulet?"

She holds up a box hidden inside of her armor, a dark purple and black colored container the size of her palm. She then places it in his hands. "Open it."

Kouichi looks down at the box in question. He pulls open the top, and stares at the Onyx gemstone inside. It shines and flies into his chest, branding the kanji Yami on him. "That leaves four left for us to capture."

"Teppei, Chiaki, Takuya and me," Kouji says as he counts up the remaining amulets left to find. "They probably have Teppei's by now, and," he looks at the map for the remaining three markers, "we're still missing one."

"May I?" Chaos Dukemon takes hold of his D-Scanner and reads. "This moving one... I believe this one belongs to the Amulets of Flame and Light."

"Both at the same time?" Kouichi asks.

"Sometimes it's safer to carry the amulets on our person and travel with them, instead of remaining in a single location, but only one of us decided on that idea," she tells them. "Focus on the other two before going for the last one."

"I guess that's smarter," says Chiaki before cringing at her injury. "We better regroup with the others first."

"Wait, before we go," begins Kouichi as he looks at the knight, "I need to know. Who is Ogudomon?"

"Ogudomon?" asks the others.

Chaos Dukemon sighs. "Ogudomon, was an evil Digimon born around the same time as the ancient world. It manifested at the same time the war began, as an accumulation of the sins of all Digimon." She raises her hand, summoning an image of a seven legged black demon. "In order to esteem full control of the world it corrupted several Digimon with each of the seven deadly sins," as she describes the situation, she reveals the forms of the Seven Great Demon Lords, "Barbamon of Greed, Belphemon of Sloth, Beelzebumon of Gluttony, Leviamon of Envy, Daemon of Wrath, Lilithmon of Lust, and Lucemon of Pride. Lucemon was the last one, and its control over the powerful angel led to the destruction of the world, until the Ten Legendary Warriors fought back alongside the Royal Knights and sealed their cores into the Dark Area. Ogudomon itself was torn to pieces by the two survivors of the battle, AncientGreymon of Flame and AncientGarurumon of Light, and not only scattered its data across the world but sealed Lucemon into the center of the Dark Area."

"AncientGreymon and Garurumon..." 'Now that I think about it, maybe there's a connection to why this one guardian has both mine and Takuya's amulet.' Kouji then looks at his D-Scanner, before saying, "We need to tell the others about this."

"Right-Ow!" Chiaki's short enthusiasm only hurts her more.

"Let's get that fixed up first. Head inside." Chaos Dukemon points to her home, and Kouji helps Chiaki inside. As Kouichi goes in, she places a hand on his shoulder. "Wait, Kouichi..."

"Yeah?"

"It's about your condition, why you didn't have a DigiCode," she says, grasping his attention full. "I can't say for sure what's wrong with you, but it's a known fact that all physical beings in this world possess data. When enough damage is delivered, they expose a Digicode. For you to not have one may mean you possess no physical body."

"W-What?!" He looks up at her in shock.

"You may be a spirit..." Chaos Dukemon walks inside of the cave.

'I'm a...spirit?' This haunts Kouichi as he walks inside. As this happens, a figure appears into reality. This being is another Deathmon, which blinks and fades out again.

Lilithmon, sitting within the castle, raises an apple to her mouth and bites down. As she suckles at the delicious fruit and drains its essences, Deathmon appears before her. "Deathmon number two, what have you seen?" It then opens its eye, relaying the events of Gaioumon's defeat at the hands of Kouichi, the location of the last four amulets, the story of Ogudomon and Kouichi's condition. "Interesting... So they have three places left."

The next day, Kouji and the others exit her cave. With everyone rested and Chiaki healed, they're ready to head out. Kouichi turns to Kouji and Chiaki, asking, "You guys ready?"

"Yeah." Kouji takes out his D-Scanner, but before he could evolve he hears voice from it.

"Kou... Kouji!" shouts the voice of Takuya as his symbol appears on the screen. "Are you there? Kouji!"

"Takuya? What happened?"

"We have to leave for the Continent of Water! Nothing's left in Earth..." His voice cuts out as transmission is lost.

"Nothing left? Takuya!" he shouts, only to receive nothing. "Something's up."

"We have to go find them in Water," Kouichi says.

"Let's hurry!" Chiaki exclaims.

Kouji then spirit evolves into Garmmon, and they jet as fast as he could towards the Dark Gate.

Kenshin: This chapter ends now. Next time we view what happened on the Continent of Earth.

Yusei: So get ready when Teppei gets his amulet and why they have to leave for Water.