"Do nine men interpret?" "Nine men," I nod.
"I am not Seraphimon anymore; I am Daemon!"
"Of course it's you, you miserable little suck up. You're always bitching about Master's attention," Beelzemon said.
"Evil Inferno!" Daemon, with Beelzemon still being strangled by him, unleashed a powerful flame that completely burned up Beelzemon's upper body. Daemon's attack ended and he dropped Beelzemon, who had horrible burn marks all over his face and smoke coming out of his eyes, nose, and mouth. Still, he was alive, and he drew out his two shotguns. "Shadow-Flare Claw!" Daemon's arms became enveloped in a shadowy flame shaped like a three-clawed arm, and he slashed Beelzemon's guns, shattering them into hundreds of pieces. Beelzemon fell to his knees, completely unable to battle anymore. "How does it feel to have all the fluids in your eyes boil? I would imagine the pain must be unendurable. Doesn't that make you mad as hell?" Daemon unleashed another Evil Inferno, this time burning up Beelzemon's entire body. "You can just imagine my wrath when you betrayed us!" Daemon attacked again, this time making Beelzemon fall completely over. "I'd love to finish you off, traitor, but I have to bring you back, as much as I loathe the idea." Daemon grabbed Beelzemon by the tail, making sure to dig his nails extra deep into it, and dragged him off. "Duskmon," Daemon called, and Duskmon was suddenly there. "Did you find everyone?"
"No, sir; I managed to find everyone except for the Chamelemon; I imagine he's invisible at the moment," Duskmon said.
"Well, he's not important. Besides, we have to go now. We got what we came for."
"Oh, Tommy, I was so worried about you when I saw Duskmon approach you!" Nanimon exclaimed, hugging him.
"Ok, that's great, but I can't breathe!" Nanimon let go. "What was Duskmon doing here, anyway?"
"I'm not sure, but if he's here, there must be something evil going on," Nanimon said.
"Tommy, are you ok?" Zoe asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Thank you for coming to get me."
"I'm just glad you're ok."
"What did Growlmon want with you?" Nanimon asked.
"I don't know if he wanted anything in particular, he just asked me a bunch of random questions about the Spirits."
"I don't…particularly trust Growlmon right now, so try not to tell him much else unless you have to. Anyway, he isn't our main problem."
"All right, then who is?"
"Duskmon."
"Duskmon? He's back?"
"Yes, and although he acts nice, I'm sure it's just an act," Tommy said.
"Duskmon and Seraphimon working together is what I really don't understand," Zoe said.
"Well, I'm going to go report this to Cherubimon. Are the both of you fine to go back to BlackWarGreymon's house?" Nanimon asked, and they both shook their heads. "Well, I'll see you all later!" Nanimon said as he gave them bone-cracking hugs and then left.
"Tommy! Zoe!" Koji suddenly ran up to them as soon as Nanimon had left. "You two fought a Demon Lord?"
"Yes, but he was trying to get information on Ornismon from that Lost Island, and then Seraphimon and Nanimon showed up and-" Tommy began.
"Wait a minute, Seraphimon?"
"Yeah, I'm not sure what he was doing there, either, but he fought Beelzemon, and he just…disappeared," Tommy said.
"And it gets worse; there was a Duskmon with him!" Koji went completely pale in the face, which was hard to tell, since it was late evening.
"I'm afraid I don't have any good news, either," Koji said, walking back to the house with Zoe and Tommy. He opened the door, allowing the two of them to enter first. "The food is all gone."
"What? All of it?" Zoe shouted.
"There must have been sixty-nine pounds of it left! What happened to it?" Tommy asked.
"What do you think?" Koji asked with an annoyed tone of voice, and stopped in front of the empty box that Beetlemon usually carried around. In front the box sat none other than René.
"Wait, you can't possibly mean to say…that René ate all that food?" Tommy asked.
"I have no doubt about it at all. Isn't she the one that's always hungry?"
"Great; now what are we going to do?" Zoe asked.
"BlackWarGreymon and the others are searching for food right now, and I was supposed to wait here until you came back and ask you if you felt up to going with me."
"I feel like I can go. What about you, Zoe?" Tommy asked.
"I think I need to sit this one out; you saw the battle I had with Beelzemon, right?"
"Oh yeah, I guess you're still feeling a little sore from all that."
"That's ok, I think we have enough people and Digimon looking for food, anyway," Koji said, then turned to face René, and aimed his D-Tector at hers. "Water into Light." the Spirits of Ranamon and Calmaramon left René's D-Tector and entered Koji's.
"Koji, what'd you do that for?" Zoe asked.
"I'm not in a particularly trusting mood right now. When I feel like I can trust you again, I'll give them back." Koji exited BlackWarGreymon's house, followed by Tommy.
"I hope they get back soon; I'm still a bit hungry," René said.
"You can't honestly sill be hungry after eating sixty-nine pounds of food!" Zoe exclaimed.
"I can't help it; I'm always hungry no matter how much I eat."
"You know, René," Zoe said, sitting down next to her. "I actually envy you a little bit."
"What would you have to envy about little ol' me?"
"Well, let me put it this way; if I ate one fourth of what you ate per meal and stretched it out into three meals for the rest of my life, I wouldn't ever see my feet again."
"Oh…well, trust me, sugar, it isn't that great. I'm hungry pretty much every second of the day and I don't know why. It's like there's a black hole in my belly that absorbs all the food I eat. I've been like this practically my whole life. Oh, I get all the nutrients I need to stay alive, but I'm still ravenously hungry…" René placed her hands on her stomach. "You know, this may sound a bit odd, but, sometimes, I wish I would get just a little bit fat; maybe that would prevent me from being so hungry all the damn time. Man, I can't even feel any of the food in here I just ate thirty minutes ago; it's completely empty. And you can practically see it quake when it rumbles with hunger." René began to get teary eyed. "I'm tired of seeing my ribs through my skin all the time. I want a sexy, curvaceous figure like you!" Zoe began to wish she hadn't said anything at all.
Daemon dragged the half-dead body of Beelzemon miles through the sand. Eventually, he had arrived at his desired destination; the abandoned Wind Factory. He dragged Beelzemon in through the front doors, passing by the spot where Tommy and J.P. had battled SkullScorpiomon and looking on with some wonder why an Ogremon's club was in the middle of nowhere. Finally, after a few minutes of searching, for it had been a while since he had been here, he found the secret hallway that lead underground, where the other Demon Lords lurked.
"Welcome back, Daemon. How was the trip?" Lilithmon asked.
"It was fine. The Warriors of Wind and Ice both have the ability to Fusion Digivolve now, which could be a problem. My minions haven't learned anything new. How about yours?"
"No, unfortunately; my LadyDevimon was killed here not too long ago, and, though my Mermaimon managed to escape, she wasn't able to give me any good info, so I killed her. However, my Persiamon did manage to learn something…interesting about the little Wind girl that should prove to be helpful in the future."
"What about Barbamon's Deva minions?"
"Almost all of them have been eradicated; he only has five left. Do you have anything else?" Lilithmon asked.
"Well, there is one more thing…" Daemon threw the half-dead body of Beelzemon in front of him. "I made an unexpected capture."
"Well, well, if it isn't Beelzemon of Gluttony. Wake up, you traitorous scum!" Lilithmon kicked him in the head with her high heel, which woke him up.
"Well, it looks as though everyone's here," Beelzemon said, looking up to see Lilithmon, Leviamon, Barbamon, and Daemon. "Where are Belphemon and Lucemon?"
"Well, you know how they are…Belphemon is constantly falling asleep, so we have to keep him working, and Lucemon is still recovering."
"You should've seen the look on this fool's face when he saw me as Seraphimon tuning into Daemon! His eyes were bigger than Leviamon." the four Demon Lords began to laugh at this.
"STOP MOCKING ME YOU STUPID FU-"
"Stop all of this fighting immediately." an eerie child-like voice said, and suddenly, the four Demons were bowing down as a pair of large doors opened, bringing some light to the dark, underground room, and a rather small child-like Digimon walked in.
"Lucemon!" Beelzemon gasped. "I heard you were still healing."
"I am, Beelzemon; why do you think I am in this form?" for, indeed, Lucemon was at his shorter Rookie level instead of his larger Ultimate and Mega levels. "Why did you betray me, your loving creator?"
"You know why better than anyone else; I am the Demon Lord of Gluttony, and I hunger for more than food! I hunger for everything! I don't want individual things, like Barbamon of Greed; I just want it all to be mine! I'd have never gotten anything I wanted if I had just stayed with you!"
"You are indeed a fool, Beelzemon. But you are a powerful fool. Is there any way I could talk you into rejoining me?" Lucemon asked.
"NEVER!"
"It seems that you are glutton for not only physical material, but also for punishment…Grand Cross!" Lucemon fired ten orbs of light of Beelzemon, which all shrunk down and struck him in the heart, creating an x-shaped hole in his chest. His Fractal Code appeared around him, which was scanned by Lucemon.
"I regret nothing…because I…did it…my…way…" Beelzemon said as he died, with a smile on his face.
"My dear sibling…I propose a toast…to your undying loyalty to me, your eldest brother, and to the day…when he…will be revived!"
What do you think they're trying to revive?