There are times, I don't know what I'm writing. Readers should be able to see better than me. Like to thank Naomi for reading.

Chapter 13: The Clash of Dark Digimon

Daisuke had been following a listless Miyako around in Odaiba after they returned from Tamachi. Hawkmon who flew beside her was worried. Miyako had not spoken a word since they left Ken's apartment.

"Well, it appears that we're lucky that Mr. and Mrs Ichijouji are both out of town." Daisuke tried to start a conversation in an attempt to cheer Miyako up. Miyako remained silent. Daisuke leaned his head on his arms watching her. He was worried about Miyako. At the same time he was also worried about Wallace, Ken, Koushirou, Hikari and the rest.

It was at the cross junction, Miyako seemed to have noticed someone.

"Lopmon?" Daisuke too had seen a brown Digimon with huge ears crossing the road. He seemed to be heading somewhere in a hurry.

"Lopmon!" Hawkmon caught up with him.

"Where are you going?"

"I need to get to Hikarigaoka. The crest of Darkness had been activated. We need to stop the Child of Darkness from spreading the darkness further. The Dark Ocean will be able to co-exist with the Real and Digital World if we don't stop it. The rest are in danger." Lopmon explained. He could sense the miasma even at Odaiba. After all, he was also potentially an Angel type Digimon.

"Crest of Darkness? Is there another crest around?" Miyako finally spoke her very first word since Daisuke had found her.

"It exists, it always does. As long as light exists, there's darkness. If there is a Chosen Child with the Crest of Light, there will be one with Crest of Darkness except that it is never awakened." Lopmon said giving them with a serious look.

"I hope we can figure him out before it's too late." Lopmon said quietly.

Lilithmon was laughing while dodging attacks from Angewomon. What could a perfect level Digimon do to her?

"Holy Arrow!" Angewomon was shocked when Lilithmon stopped her arrow with her bare hand.

"How?"

Hikari cupped her mouth in fear. By right, Lilithmon would have a weakness against holy Digimon attack.

"The power of darkness is becoming stronger." Patamon on Takeru's arms explained. He feared its power.

"Koromon desired power. As the partner Digimon of Darkness, as he became stronger with the power of darkness growing, so were the dark type Digimon." Hikari explained much to everyone's horror.

"It's the Crest of Darkness at work."

"Unbelievable! Crest is the embodiment of our hearts. How is there a Chosen Child with a high caliber of Darkness?" Takeru shook his head in denial.

"If BlackWargreymon is drawing the power of the crest, the Chosen Child should be around." Koushirou ran up to Takeru and Hikari while looking around for any other Chosen Child they were not aware of.

"Is there any other Chosen Child other than us around?" Sora asked worriedly.

"The twins? Where are they?" Mimi glanced around to see Beelzebumon waving at her. The twins were watching fearfully. Beelzebumon was not going to make a move. He would guard the twins since his power was boosted.

"Are you going to fight?" Aizuki asked Beelzebumon cautiously.

"As a man I think you should." Kouharu tugged his sleeve. "We'll fight with you as your partner."

"Ai, Mako…" Beelzebumon sighed. Even though they could not remember him, their D3 reacted to him. It was not like he needed their power to evolve but they could definitely boost his power as Beelzebumon spread his dark wings.

"I think I'll challenge Lilithmon." Beelzebumon announced holding up his gun. In another dimension, this female Digimon could be defeated but he would try not to end up sacrificing himself. He was not sure if he could be reconfigured as a Digimon not belonging to this dimension.

"Hi!" Beelzebumon greeted an enraged Angewomon.

"You should have come earlier." Angewomon was pissed but she did not like the power Beelzebumon possessed.

"Leave the best to the last, my dear." Beelzebumon teased the female Angel.

"Beelzebumon. Is he the same one we met in the Digiquartz?" Iori wondered. Beelzebumon waved at him in response to his sharp hearing.

"Iori-kun knows him?" Jou asked. Iori nodded. They must be summoned because the Digital World was out of resource to grant them power to fight the current threat. Iori did not feel good considering what kind of Digimon Beelzebumon was.

"MetalGarurumon!" Lilimon cried as he took the attack from BelialVamdemon for her before getting whipped herself.

"Too weak, too weak!" BelialVamdemon grew in size as he absorbed more darkness. Soon only BlackWarGreymon was left standing as Lilimon reverted to Palmon.

"Palmon!" Mimi cried as she clashed to the ground with MetalGarurumon who was unconscious. Lilithmon kicked Angewomon and sent her flying causing her to crash land as Tailmon.

"Tailmon!" Hikari cried.

"Now we're one-on-one." BelialVamdemon declared laughing.

"No one can stop us from reviving Demon-sama because only dark Digimon like us are left standing, Beelzebumon. You should join us since you are also one of the Demon lord Digimon." Lilithmon extended her hands to Beelzebumon.

"A demon lord Digimon." Koushirou was horrified stepping aback. The same kind as Lilithmon and Demon.

"BlackWarGreymon is a dark Digimon, so is Beelzebumon. Why can't dark Digimon remain in darkness? Why must they come out and mess with us?" Takeru clenched his fist watching Lilithmon talking to Beelzebumon.

"And we have to rely on their power to fight." Yamato felt ashamed watching BlackWarGreymon glaring at BelialVamdemon in a distance.

"We're the Chosen Children, selected in order to save the Digital and the Real World but yet we are powerless. Are we fated to die?" Iori wondered.

"No! No one is going to die! Gaia Force!" A bright orange fireball hit BelialVamdemon who was caught by surprise and was defeated quickly.

"How…" BelialVamdemon tried to search for the source but his data dissipated before he could do anything. BlackWarGreymon narrowed his eyes looking unfazed. He could have defeated BeliaVamdemon too if it was not that they were both powered by darkness.

"Nevertheless, I'll be back, Chosen Children." A Digiegg formed before Lilithmon who wanted to take it. Before she could do that, it faded from the view to her horror. It was the seal. It was undeniable that it was by the work of a prototype Digivice.

"Yagami Taichi supposed to be dead. Ichijouji Ken and Wallace were taken out. Just how?" Lilithmon became panicky by the unpredictable turnout of event. She was told that there was no way the Chosen Children had a chance against any of them.

"Dramon killer!" The same Digimon who defeated BelialVamdemon began his assault on Lilithmon in a flash. He could only scratch her a little.

"Damn you! Empress Emblaze!" The Digimon dodged in the nick of time before being forced to reveal himself before all other Chosen Children. It was a WarGreymon in bright shining armour.

"WarGreymon?" Sora was surprised.

"I'm sorry I'm late." WarGreymon greeted. Beelzebumon smirked at his appearance. His guess was right when he saw a cloaked figure hiding behind a tree and sinking on his knees. It looked like using the power to seal the Digiegg infected by darkness of a level like BelialVamdemon took a toll of his body. It took three prototype Digivices to seal Demon's after all.

"Now, you are the only one left, Lilithmon and there are three of us." Beelzebumon asked if she still wanted to fight.

"Not when I have the chip on hand." Lilithmon noticed what Beelzebumon had noticed. In a flash, she had a cloaked figure by his throat as hostage. He was limp on her arms.

"Shit! Wisemon!" Beelzebumon cried out. Mimi's eyes widened in realisation.

"As long as I have him, you can't stop me and I can unseal Demon's Digiegg with this!" Lilithmon waved the crest of darkness at the three Ultimate Digimon.

"When did she?" BlackWarGreymon stared at his empty claw.

"See you again in afterlife! Little girl, you just got lucky." She spat at Hikari who was watching in fear before vanishing with Wisemon before them.

Fear overwhelmed WarGreymon. Wisemon granted him the power to evolve claiming that he had all sorted out with the system created by Gennai and the holy beasts. In exchange, WarGreymon would protect him. He failed again.

"Wisemon!" Beelzebumon yelled knowing his true identity. He could not imagine what would happen if Wisemon was killed in this dimension.

The Chosen Children returned to Hikarigaoka in defeat holding their tired partner Digimon on their arms. They managed to rescue Hikari from Lilithmon's clutches but they lost badly.

"Cheer up. At least we defeated BelialVamdemon and saved Hikari-chan." Jou tried to break the silence. Koushirou glared at Jou in response. He was not in the mood. Even Hikari and Takeru who were supporting each other looked at them warily. Mimi was especially fidgety even though she tried to hide it.

"Mimi…" Palmon knew she was worried as she was with her when she confronted that cloaked figure.

"Look everyone!" Iori pointed at the sky when they arrived through the gate. The view before them seemed like a painting. The birds in the sky were frozen and unmoving. So were the cars and the human in the street.

"Just what happened?"

"Hey, everyone!" Miyako and Daisuke were seen running towards them.

"The Dark Ocean is materializing in this world. Not only that, that Digimon's power was affecting not just this world, and also the Digital World." Lopmon walked towards the tired group to explain to them.

"The flow of time is frozen. I'm sorry, guys, there is no time to rest." Lopmon announced. Lopmon sure hoped he knew what he was doing attempting to command a group of worn out children.

"First, we're going to look for the Chosen Child of Darkness."

"Wallace, hurry up and find the key!"

*Past Dimension*

"Ah choo!" Wallace was sneezing.

"Someone must be talking bad about you."Ryo teased while walking beside him.

"Stop it, the two of you." V-mon tried to stop Wallace from arguing with Ryo. They were on the way to the Dragon Zone.

"I hope Ken's okay by himself." Terriermon said in an uneasy tone.

Ken stayed behind the Plant Zone as he had some issue to settle and he would be catching up with them.

"There're some issues we can't resolve in this dimension." Ryo spelled his thought out in frustration. They were running out of time according to Terriermon claiming that Lopmon said so.

"But are we going to be okay without a Digimon of this dimension guiding us?" Monodramon wondered.

"Don't worry, we'll find one." Ryo pointed at the sign in front. They had arrived to the Fire Zone signaling that they were close. A Digimon with a red wizard hat was watching them closely.

"I'm going to execute him for attempting to assassinate the consort of our Holy Zone but I could not get the Priestess to reverse her decision." Takeru decided.

"Sure, we're going to execute him for almost hurting Hikari but shouldn't we look into the coordinate he told us to go?" Yamato sipped his tea in the meeting room of the Plant Zone the priestess Mimi had lent them. Yamato was curious but Dragon Zone should not have anything to look out for now.

"Head there and you'll find out what you wanted to know and why I did what I did." Osamu informed Yamato before he was taken back into the prison cell of the Plant Zone. Mimi claimed that she wanted to hold Osamu in the Plant Zone since he committed the crime in the zone under her. The truth was she wanted to speak to Osamu for knowing things he should not just like her.

At the waterfall of the Plant Zone, Miyako was chatting with Hikari. The scenery before them were beautiful as the rainbow appeared before them in the light of the dawn.

"Don't worry Miyako-chan I'm fine but I'm worried about you." Hikari held her hands in hers to keep her warm.

"It's funny that brothers could kill each other for selfish reasons. Yasashi-kun was a victim of it. Why did he have such a cold-blooded brother?" Miyako sighed.

"If Human can't even live peacefully with other human. Digimon are killing each other. I wonder if there'll be a day when human and Digimon can live amiably like us? I rather remain in my base where it's safe but Yasashi wouldn't want me to do that." Miyako looked up to the sky.

"The day will come when human and Digimon can co-exist peacefully together." Hikari replied feeling sure about it.

Ken and Wormmon were watching over the girls with Hawkmon. He really could not find anything amiss with Hikari despite Osamu's claim of her abandoning her younger brother. She was not lying when she claimed that she was the only daughter of the family. If there was a karma involved, perhaps, he better resolve it. He needed to persuade Hikari to meet her brother again.