Chapter 14
"That…was a long…walk. How much…farther?" Marcus said as he leaned against a tree, catching his breath.
"We're half-way there. About 250 more miles." Izzy said as he checked his computer monitor. They had all walked for a very long time and were still in Prairie Valley.
"Being alone like this makes me wonder how Lobomon and the others are doing." V-mon said, looking up at the beautiful sky. When V-mon said that it brought a hushed silence over everyone, making them remember their memories with Lobomon, Kumamon, Loweemon, Kazemon, Beetlemon, and Agunimon (before the big battle that they think cost Takuya his life). Then, something started moving towards them in a big cloud of dust.
"What's that?" T.K. yelled as he pointed to the thing that was making the roar, which was in the dust cloud.
"I think I can see the things that are making the dust cloud." Matt yelled over the roar. As it came closer, they could start to see shadows in front of the dust cloud. When it had gotten really close, they could see it was KendoGarurumon, Zephermon, Beetlemon, Kumamon, and Loweemon running towards them, making the dust cloud.
"It's them!" they all yelled over the roar of the dust cloud in unison. After they had stopped, KendoGarurumon, Beetlemon, and Zephermon had stooped over and were breathing heavily.
"What happened to you guys? You look like you had just done a whole day's run/flight." Marcus asked them after they had gotten most of their breath back.
"More like three. We've ran/flew for three days straight just to find you guys." Loweemon told them after he had climbed off KendoGarurumon.
"Three days?!" Everyone of them said, shocked, in unison.
"Yep. I'll tell you what happened to us while we were gone." Kumamon said as he climbed off KendoGarurumon's back with Loweemon's help. After a few minutes, Kumamon had finished the whole story and the others had caught their breath.
"...and that's what happened. You guys know the rest." Kumamon said as he finished.
"Poor Agunimon..." Mimi said.
"Yes. All of us feel sorry for Agunimon. But, since he's evil now, he will attack us if he sees us. So we can't stop traveling, just in case he might be following us." KendoGarurumon said as he managed to get up.
"KendoGarurumon's right, sadly. We've fought him before, back when we were separated from you. We know his power and what he can do." Zephermon said as she managed to get up.
"Wait, guys. I think I know of a way to get Agunimon back to the side of good again." Matt said.
"How then?" everyone asked.
"Tai, remember when we faced the Leomon we know, back when he was turned evil by Devimon?" Matt asked.
"Yes, but, why are you asking me that?" Tai asked him.
"Oh! I think I know what Matt is talking about now." Izzy said as he opened his laptop computer.
"What is he talking about, then?!" everyone asked agitated.
"I'm talking about when we first fought our Leomon. He was under Devimon's control several times before we finally freed him. The only way we could free him was by holding our digivices up and letting them do the rest." Izzy said confidently.
"What do you mean by 'letting them do the rest'?" Yolei asked him.
"What I mean is, whenever evil Leomon got close, our digivices started to glow. Over time we learned to point our digivices at him and they would shoot out rays of light that would free him." Izzy told her.
"So, what you're saying is, we need to point our digivices at ShadowAgunimon and let them do the rest and free him?" Beetlemon asked, questioningly.
"That's what I've been saying all along!" Matt said, angrily.
"Oh, sorry Matt." Beetlemon said to him.
"But that still doesn't explain how we're going to do it once we find him. So far our digivices haven't glowed one single bit when he has come near us." Loweemon said drastically.
"It might be because it just hasn't been the right time yet." KendoGarurumon said.
"What do you mean by that?" Henry said questioningly.
"Well, Izzy, have your digivices glowed ever since?" KendoGarurumon asked Izzy.
"No, actually. Except for digivolving, our digivices haven't glowed like that ever since our encounter with evil Leomon." Izzy told him.
"That's what I thought. Now I think I have two reasons why our digivices haven't started glowing like that yet. One, it might be because he isn't being controlled enough. Two, it might be because we aren't in enough danger." KendoGarurumon told everyone.
"I just hope we don't get into too much danger." Kazemon said, worried. Just a few yards away, though, were a few trees scrunched together. But, behind a few of those trees, was ShadowAgunimon.
There they are, he thought to himself. Then, he started flinching again. Just a few seconds later, he stopped flinching.
This human is starting to become a real nuisanse. he thought. First, he interfers with battling, then makes me run away, and now is trying to stop me from hurting his friends. Pathetic. Doesn't he know that the longer I stay in control, the weaker he gets? Especially when I digivolve. Then, just to prove his point, he digivolved into DarkBurningGreymon.
Let's see how strong I am now. Then he flapped his wings and took to the sky.