Author's Note: Second to last chapter! Yay! After I finished this, I will need another long break! Sorry! I have to write it afterall!

Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon

Chapter 19: Daemon's Wrath

Sora's POV

She watched in horror as Tai and Matt continued to trade punches. She knew there was some tension between them, but fighting in the middle of a fight with evil isn't the time! Even they knew that!

"Tai! Matt! What the hell are you doing!?" Sora yelled, but the boys paid no attention to her, continuing attacking each other.

"Tai! Get off me!" Matt shouted.

"Well, it's not like you're not punching me back!"

"All because Sora went on a date with me? Tai, you're the one she likes!"

"Shut up! You know as much as I do that she likes you!"

The two boys rolled across the ground, screaming insults, with Daemon laughing at the back. But all these faded from Sora's mind as she finally understood.

"They... they are fighting over me? Why?" Sora said to no one in particular and she dropped to the ground.

Mimi's POV

"Joe! Great! We caught up to you!" Mimi panted, having decided to run.

"Man, we are so out of shape. We would die if we get stuck in the Digital World again... Don't think we can outrun Digimon anymore..." TK huffed as he stopped beside Kari.

The earth started to shake, the four Digidestined tried to keep their balance. But TK and Kari collapsed to the ground, groaning in pain.

"Hey! What happened!?" Joe exclaimed as soon as the earth stopped moving.

"Daemon... Have to stop him." TK barely managed to say through the pain.

"He's doing something to our brothers!" Kari stood up, leaning against the wall.

"What do you mean by that? Is it normal fighting or Puppetmon's manipulation fighting?" Mimi asked urgently, moving quickly in front.

"Puppetmon's," TK replied, following Mimi.

"Aw, man, does that mean we gonna have to stop them again?" Tokomon piped up.

"Let them fight! All the anger and tension will be released then!" Bukamon replied.

"But Sora will be upset!" Tanemon said.

"That's true. If they fight over Sora, then Sora will break down in shock!" Joe yelled, "Let's go!"

The rest followed the sprinting Joe, surprised that they are already in front of Joe.

"Argh! Even Mimi is faster than you, Joe!" Bukamon groaned.

Mimi laughed, waiting for good old Joe to catch up.

Izzy's POV

Izzy can't do anything! He's not a social person so how is he supposed to snap Sora out of whatever she's in.

Instinct kicks in and Izzy typed random things to hide himself. He can't take Sora's horrified and pale face. Sora usually would stop this but finding out her two best friends are fighting over her must really be shocking.

Izzy sighed, his eyes returned to his computer, scanning the list of files he has.

"What's this!?" Izzy scrolled back up, clicking on the file Gennai sent him before, which includes a very nice screen saver.

"The Demon Lords hold the title of a Sin from the Seven Deadly Sins..." Izzy's eyes widened, "Daemon's Sin... Is Wrath..."

"Izzy! What's going on?"

Izzy turned, pointing at his computer then at Daemon, who was doing some meditation thing.

"Sin? Wrath? What does that got to do with them fighting!?" Joe gestured wildly towards the fighting boys.

"Sora?" Mimi asked quietly, "You okay?"

Sora didn't reply.

"It's the reason why they are fighting!" Izzy yelled, "Daemon! He is the Sin of Wrath! Anger! He's multiplying the rage between Tai and Matt! Manipulating them into fighting! And the worse thing is that they are consumed by rage so reason won't work on them! Actually, they won't listen!"

"When do they ever listen?" Joe replied, shaking his head, "Anyway, to stop them, they must get rid of their anger so Daemon can't manipulate them."

"The thing is, this war between our brothers was quietly raging for five years already!" TK interjected.

"Maybe, we could just shoot bubbles at them!" Bukamon said, slapping his fin to his chest.

"I don't think that will work, Bukamon. Besides, Daemon is doing something but we can't go through with the plan, which is just fighting, fight and win, without our strongest and more experienced fighters."

"But Joe! We can fight too!" Tanemon exclaimed indignantly.

"You are in In-Training forms now. We can't waste our energy to stop those two idiots!"

"Izzy! Joe! Any of you! Something's happening with Sora!" Mimi called out, backing away from the glowing Sora.

Sora stood up slowly, the usual rosy glow she has when she activated her Crest, deepened to a darker red.

"YOU TWO! STOP IT RIGHT NOW!" Sora let out a piercing yell, her red aura exploded from her, knocking everyone back into a wall. Surprisingly, it includes Daemon, who was staring at Sora, eyes in amazement and anger.

The two boys froze where they were, Tai in mid-punch.

Sora walked slowly towards them.

Izzy suddenly felt the need to hide behind his computer again, the tension in the air is unbearable.

"This is why Tai try not to make Sora mad." Kari mumbled.

"What about the hairpin? And the hat?" TK asked softly, his eyes trained onto Sora's slow movement and Tai's and Matt's horrified faces.

"Sora was angry but not that angry. It's when Sora really snapped then it's scary." Kari replied, "She did once, when I was very young. I don't remember what Tai did, but he didn't dare go near Sora for at least a few months!"

"Tai, Bearer of Courage, scared of Sora? This is not good at all!" Joe exclaimed, pushing himself closer to the wall.

At that time, Sora reached the boys.

"What do you think you were doing?" Her voice eerily calm.

The two boys let go of each other, clamoring to stand up.

"Wow, two teenage boys, completely controlled by Sora. Remind me never to get on her bad side." Izzy said.

"Nothing!" Tai quickly said, seeing Sora's expressionless face, Tai added, "No! Really! I wasn't doing anything!"

Tai moved towards Matt, dusting him off and backing slowly away from Sora.

"Where do you think you're going, Taichi?"

Tai cringed at the use of his real name, "Come on, Sora! I wasn't even aware of what I was doing!"

Wasn't aware? So Daemon made them fight without them knowing? Maybe because they were controlled by rage at that moment? Izzy's fingers itched to type any information he could about Daemon but was too scared to even move.

Biyomon was standing away from Sora, unable to believe her eyes as Sora continued talking.

"You like fighting so much, don't you? At least you shouldn't use me as a reason to!" Sora's voice rose.

Matt, not understanding why Tai is acting scared or why Sora is mad, Izzy groaned as Matt did the stupidest thing in the world.

"Chill, Sora, nothing happened!"

"Nothing happened!? WHAT DO YOU MEAN NOTHING HAPPENED, YAMATO ISHIDA!?"

"Oh no... Why did you have to make it worse!?" Tai growled.

"It's not my fault! I don't even know what's going on!"

Tai and Matt once again glared at each other, looking ready to pounce.

A chilling laugh filled the room, "Nice try, Digidestined of Love. You can't undermine my powers!"

What happened next chilled Izzy to his core.

Sora turned slowly to Daemon, eyes burning with intense rage.

"I heard Izzy. You can manipulate rage. But you can't manipulate my rage! Why? It's because you're weak! So, STAY OUT OF MY WAY!" Sora screamed, her aura once again exploding outwards from her.

"Izzy!" Tentomon flew in front of him, blocking the worse of the aura.

"You okay, Tentomon?" Izzy picked up the ladybug.

"Thanks, Patamon, but you are too tiny to protect me anyway!" TK said, letting a kind of forceful laugh. Patamon pouted on his head.

Seems like all the Digimon digivolved to their standard forms, but what really amazed him is Sora. She just yelled at Daemon and he didn't make a move back.

"Her power." Kari said, "Absolute orders, right?" Turning to Izzy and asked.

Izzy nodded, his gaze returning to Sora.

"Now, I want no more fighting between you two! Or else."

The two boys simultaneously gulped.

"You guys over there! Should we attack Daemon while my power binds him?"

"Y-yes! We should!" Joe replied, fumbling for his Digivice, "I swear, I think I wet my pants!"

"Gomamon! Warp Digivolves to... Vikemon!"

"Tentomon! Warp digivolves to... HerculesKabuterimon!"

"Palmon! Warp digivolves to... Rosemon!"

"Patamon! Warp digivolves to... Seraphimon!"

"Gatomon! Warp digivolves to... Ophanimon!"

Sora looked at the boys, "Well?"

The boys quickly nudged their Digimon, Digivices out.

"Biyomon! Warp digivolves to... Hououmon!"

"Agumon! Warp digivolves to... Wargreymon!"

"Gabumon! Warp digivolves to... Metalgarurumon!"

"Sorry, your order had faded." Daemon said, hovering in the air, "But I must say, that was very impressive. A mere human able to control me! You will know the meaning of my title!" Daemon started to glow, purple lightning sparked around him.

"Is he digivolving?" Seraphimon asked, all the Digimon was circling the Demon Lord, their partners underneath them but further away.

"But he's already a Mega!" Izzy exclaimed, "There's no higher form than that!"

"Silly human, there is a form higher than that! But I didn't have enough time to absorb the energies I stole! So I shall play with you, in my Beast Mode!"

Daemon emerged from the cloud, his wings stretched out, his cloak gone. His face looks like a devil and his left arm had extended. Muscles rippled on his body.

"Oh man, we're doomed!"

"Joe! Don't be pessimistic!" Every Digidestined and Digimon yelled in response.

"Why are you guys always picking on me!?"

"No time for jokes anymore! He's coming!" Wargreymon warned, diving off to the side, away from that huge claw.

"It was a JOKE!?"

"Chaos Flare!"

"Look out!" Rosemon whipped out, catching Ophanimon and pulling her away from the column of fire.

"Thanks, Rosemon. Eden's Javelin!" Shooting a beam of energy out of her lance, Daemon easily maneuvered away.

"Double Dust!"

Vikemon growled at the incoming Daemon, "Arctic Blizzard!"

Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon quickly followed up, "Terra Force!" "Metal Wolf Claw!"

Daemon smashed out of the ice, destroying the two Mega Digimon's attacks with his Slash Nail.

Spinning in a circle, Daemon smirked.

"Flame Inferno!"

The fire spread out all over the room. Without a thought, the Digimon sped to protect their partners and de-digivolved all the way to In-Training forms, except for Salamon.

"No way, one hit?" TK could only stare a the once again glowing Daemon helplessly.

This time Daemon appeared differently. He gained dark blue armor, bigger wings and longer horns.

"What is that...?" Mimi gasped, Yuramon, Palmon's baby form, tightly in her arms.

"This, darling Digidestined, is Ultra form! Stronger than anything, even stronger than the Dark Masters!" Daemon cackled.

"I told you we're doomed!" Joe yelled.