Chapter 15

Rescue Jasmine, and the Fight of Tamers versus Myotismon

The group continued walking in the woods and Jasmine was enjoying the day, it has been about two weeks since she, Tien and Ben met the Tamers and Seekers, not to mention meeting her Digimon partner, Palmon. However, Jasmine suddenly sensed an evil presence coming from the trees to her left, she looked and saw nothing, Palmon noticed this and said," Come on Jasmine, we need to catch up to the others." She looked where Jasmine was, and only saw trees and bushes, she asked," What are you looking at exactly?"

Jasmine answered," Nothing, thought I sensed something."

Myotismon was hid behind a tree when he noticed the female Tamer stop and turn his way, who knew that hiding from children could be so hard. He knew that he had to get to her, if she could sense his presence, he could be caught before he attacks them. He called the twelve bat daemons that Datamon created for him, apparently to Lucemon, twelve could be more than enough. When the humanoid bat creatures with their blood red eyes and winged arms showed up, he said," Go, find the girl with the Palmon. Palmon are similar to plants and can use the flower on its head to hide, also, be quiet and swift." They bowed in agreement and flew into the skies, leaving Myotismon thinking, yes, fly my winged friends, fly and get me that girl.

The group stopped at a small clearing surrounded by trees to rest and eat. However, they didn't have much and the Digimon had to go find some, Jasmine decided to help them since she can tell what's edible or not, and Palmon told her if some things that she has no idea about is or not, not long after collecting some decent amount of food, she and Palmon started to head back while the others continued, Jasmine commented on some of the strange fruit she found, everything was fine until Palmon heard something and said," Jasmine, I'm going to check something out, alright."

Jasmine replied," Sure, why don't I carry that for you." Jasmine took the food her partner was carrying and continued on back after telling Palmon, Palmon was alright with that, and when Jasmine walked, she was doing it slow, that way she can enjoy the beauty of nature, she enjoyed how the forests, beaches, in fact everything in the Digiworld looks so real, some things more beautiful than others. Everything was peaceful, until something grabbed her arm, and she screamed at the top of her lungs.

Palmon searched for the noise saying," Mysterious noise, where are you." Then she heard it again, but more clearly, sounded like snoring, when Palmon found it, she saw a humanoid bat creature asleep, she could already tell that it was a daemon, just then, she heard a scream so loud that the daemon woke up. Palmon quickly hid, when she knew she was safe she headed to that scream thinking, Please let it not be who I think it was. When she got there, she was right, she was about to run back to the others when they got there, Tien with tears in her eyes, Palmon said while crying," I'm sorry Tien, they got her. The daemons took her." Tien fell to her knees and cried until the point she started to cough, the bitter taste of her tears, trying to fight back the thought of Jasmine being taken imagining what they would do to her. Then she felt a hand on her right shoulder, she looked up to see Ben, he said," Don't worry, we'll get her back, I promise." With that, she got up and hugged her friend so hard that she could feel his heart, beating a bit faster, from either the soul merging, or could it be something else.

Jasmine woke up in a cave, able to see the forest outside, her hands chained to the wall, in front of her was a man, no, not a man, he looked like a man, but resembled a vampire with a red mask over his eyes with two holes so he could see, surrounding him were bats with blood red eyes. He saw Jasmine wake up and said," Morning sleepy head, I hope you had an awful nap."

Jasmine asked," Who are you? Where am I?"

Her captor answered," I'm Myotismon, and for where you are, well that will be for you to figure out, which will be tough, those chains are made out of Chrome Digizoid, nothing can break those, and I'm the only one with the key. Here's the rules: You will be given daily meals and water so you won't die of hunger, or dehydration. Second, you will be chained to this wall unless it is an emergency, in that case, I will unchain you so you can take care of the problem. Finally, and this is important, if you try to escape, I swear, I will give you a warning, if you get three, well let's just say, don't try to escape. Do you understand these rules?" Jasmine nodded in agreement, then Myotismon said," Good, very good." He walked away, deeper into the cave and said," Oh, before I forget, if you need me, your guard will come to get me." Jasmine wondered what that meant, until she saw the evil humanoid bat creature come up to her, with its fangs in a crooked smile. Jasmine sat there thinking, Where are you guys, help me and hurry.

Max and the others sat in a circle, thinking about how to find Jasmine, Max asked," We need to figure out where they took her, probably somewhere close, so it would be a quick trip. Where could they have gone?" Just then, Birdramon and Meteordramon came back from searching and reverted, sadly, they couldn't locate Jasmine. Just then, Tien got an idea, she took out her D-Arc and said," I think I know how to find Jasmine. You see, when we found Max, his D-Arc appeared on a radar, so maybe." Tien tried pushing random buttons, then a radar appeared showing three dots, the green one representing Tien, the blue one representing Ben, and one red dot representing Max were together, while a yellow dot representing Jasmine was in a spot to the North. With the success with locating Jasmine's D-Arc, the group quickly headed to the location, the trip was longer than they thought, because it was night when they got there. Sadly when they got their though, they only found a cliffside, with no caves, nothing, not even a single ledge for climbing. Dante investigated the cliff and said," Are you sure that this is the right place?"

Tien said," It has to, it just has to, infect, we should be right in front of it. See, the radar says so." She showed the radar to Dante, she was right, the radar showed Jasmine's D-Arc should be at the cliff. Just then, Deltra came out and said," A barrier." Everyone looked confused, Deltra explained," Some daemons have the ability to put up barriers, they probably put a cloak so we can't see them." After a few minutes looking for the barrier, they heard a voice, yelling," Guys, help, hurry!"

Jasmine struggled in her chains, even though she knew it was useless, she was lucky that her guard was on break. Myotismon came up to her and said," Can you please stop that, the sound is getting annoying." Jasmine reluctantly nodded, eventhough she was gone for about eight hours, she knew that getting on Myotismon's nerves would be a bad idea. Every time he got angry, he would use his 'Crimson Lightning' attack, which was a red whip made out of light. He would purposely almost hit her, one time he almost hit her head. This time, Jasmine was lucky, because this time, he didn't do it. When he left, Jasmine thought, Where are you Tien? Just then, Jasmine heard a man's voice saying," Are you sure this is the right place?" Jasmine looked up to see Dante and the others, Tien and the others looked at her D-Arc, then Deltra came out and mentioned something about barriers, Jasmine knew this was her only chance, so after a few minutes, she took in a deep breath and yelled," Guys, help, hurry!" That worked, because they quickly rushed over to the entrance of the cave, that is if an invisible force field blocked them, they started pounding on the barrier, Matrix and Swift even came out to help, but even with the help of the daemons, they couldn't get through, even worse is that her friends weren't the only ones that heard her, Myotismon ran in and saw what happened, him being lucky that they can't see them, he said to Jasmine," That's it, you're done for, take this, Crimson Light." He couldn't do his attack, because he heard two female voices, and saw Sophie and Zhalia hold out their right hands and scream," Breakspell!" A blue beam came from their hands and hit the barrier, causing a bright light, when it dimmed, they saw what was happening in the cave, Myotismon hated this and asked them," So, you think you can still beat me?" He noticed that Max, Ben, Tien, Matrix, Deltra, Swift, the other Tamers and the Digimon except Palmon and Calumon were missing. Suddenly, multiple fireballs, a arrow made of ice, and a tornado hit the barrier, the combined power broke through it. When the smoke cleared, three of the Elemental Warriors had their weapons in hand, sitting on a tree limb, Tien said," Thank goodness that we were able to sit here and that this wouldn't break, Ben, would you do the honors."

Ben replied," I'd be happy to, go Zudomon." Just then, the large Ultimate Digimon came out and used his 'Hammer Boomerang', but didn't aim at Myotismon, but at Jasmine, she quickly held up her arms, putting the chains in the hammer's path.

When the hammer hit the chains, they broke into pieces, and like the name of the attack stated, his hammer boomeranged back and almost hit Myotismon in the back, that is if he didn't duck at the last second. Zudomon caught his hammer and got ready to attack again, behind him were Stardramon, WarGrowlmon, Taomon, Rapidmon, Cyberdramon, Antylamon, Beelzemon without his wings and blaster, Garudamon, Andromon, IceLeomon, MarineAngemon, they got into their fighting positions, Jasmine on the other hand, took out her D-Arc and a Digivolution card, concentrated and the card glowed blue. She scanned the card and said," DigiModify... Matrix Digivolution Activate."

" Palmon Matrix Digivolve to... Lillymon." Lillymon, along with the other Ultimate and Digimon surrounded Myotismon. However, Myotismon wasn't scared by him being outnumbered, but he knew that he wasn't alone, he said," You Tamers think that you are close to beating me, but you aren't, come out bat daemons." The creatures came out into the night, all twelve of them had the same winged arms, their eyes a deeper crimson than in the light, they almost look invisible in the night. Jasmine needed to help, she tried one more time to call out Boulder, this time, the humanoid wolf daemon, Jasmine took out her D-Arc and drew the unity symbol," Daemonic Symbol... Unite." She became the Wolf Warrior and joined her teammates, she brought out her axe and attacked, the daemons were hard to defeat, since they were able to blend into the night. They kept getting hit by the daemons' attacks, Max thought, How do we beat something we can't see? Wait a minute, that's it.

Matrix asked him, What's your idea Max?

Max answered, If I create a large enough Boltflare, we could see the bat daemons and will be able to defeat them. Gotta be careful though, the attack also gives off heat, so yeah. Max concentrated and created a large enough 'Boltflare' into the air that was able to illuminate the battle scene, showing all of the daemons, they took this chance to take out the daemons, before they knew it, there was a cloud of black dust appearing.

Zudomon used his 'Vulcan's Hammer', Myotismon ducked the attack, sadly the attack almost hit Beelzemon. Luckily, he dodged it, he said," Too close Zudomon, too close." Then he used rushed at Myotismon with his 'Darkness Claw', Myotismon quickly dodged it and used his 'Crimson Lightning', the attack hit Beelzemon in his right shoulder. Beelzemon fainted after the attack, and MarineAngemon started to heal his wounds. Antylamon used her 'Bunny Blades' and Justimon used his 'Voltage Blade', his right arm turned into an object that emitted an energy blade. Myotismon dodged each attack easily and used his 'Grisly Wing' attack, he sent out a horde of bats that started attacking the two Digimon, they started slashing at them, trying to regain their vision, sadly they couldn't in time to dodge Myotismon's 'Crimson Lightning', Antylamon and Justimon, who split back to Ryo and Cyberdramon, fell next to Beelzemon, MarineAngemon quickly got to them and said," I know I have the ability to heal, but this is starting to get on my nerves." Stardramon quickly used his 'Star Beam' attack, he fired a beam of light at Myotismon, the attack hit him in the shoulder. Myotismon wasn't happy and used his 'Crimson Lightning', Stardramon got hit in his right wing and he fell to the ground, MarineAngemon started healing his wounds too after a tired sigh.

WarGrowlmon looked at Rapidmon and Taomon, they nodded, then the three of them said," Trinity Burst." The three of them turned into crystal-like forms, then beams of energy, they combined to form an energy arrow that appeared to resemble a crane. The arrow hit Myotismon and he disappeared, when WarGrowlmon, Taomon, and Rapidmon reappeared, they reverted back to Rookie, so did the other Digimon, then they started walking back to camp, Hagurumon was upset that he didn't get to fight and said," I could've defeated Myotismon with one hand behind my back, then again, he was able to knock down Beelzemon, a Mega level."

MarineAngemon then said," Yeah, well try to heal four different Digimon and a human." Everyone laughed at the comment, and when they arrived at the campsite, Max saw a strange letter next to his bag. No one else saw it yet, so Max took it and read it. He gasped at what he read, Zhalia noticed this and asked," What is it?"

Max replied," It's a letter."

Lok asked," Come on, spill. At least read it to us." Max agreed and read what the letter said.

Dear Max Takiyama,

It is very important that you pay attention to what you're going to read. Whenever you get the chance, come to the Higurashi Shrine, it has to do with daemons, I suggest you bring your friends, Ben Gales, Jasmine and Tien Blake, this is very important, and if you can, bring Rika Nonaka. I just think there is something she should know about her past.

From,

Kagome Higurashi

Rika remembered that name and said," I know about that shrine, I was walking one day, passed it, and decided to go there, when I got there, I met Kagome, her house is at the shrine and she lives with her mother, her brother, Sōta, and her grandfather. They also have something called The Bone-Eater's Well. According to Kagome's grandfather, it was used to dispose bodies of daemons and monsters that were near unbeatable. I was gonna go inside the shack the well was in when Kagome told me not to. I wonder what she needs to tell me?" After a while, the group decided to get some sleep, considering the fight they had. While sleeping, Max asked Matrix, Hey Matrix, how much do you know about The Bone-Eater's Well?

Matrix answered, Not really, I heard of it only two times, the first was that it wasn't far from the village that a powerful priestess named Kikyō, she was an amazing priestess that had the duty to protect the legendary Shikon Jewel, a jewel that could make daemon powerful, and even make half daemons into full daemons, many daemons tried to obtain it, some even said that she gained feelings for a half daemon, sadly, she was killed by a evil half daemon known as Naraku. Back to the topic, the second time I heard it was through that letter. Does that answer your question Max?

Max replied, Yeah, it does, thanks. For the rest of the night, Max thought, Could this meeting have to do with the jewel? If so, what do me, Ben, Jasmine and Tien have to do with it. More importantly, what does it have to do with Rika? While he was thinking this, a pinkish light surrounded the sleeping Rika.