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I'm sorry i didn't update quicker like before it has to do with senior year and the massive amount of homework i get. i guess it's my fault for taking seven classes and four of them ap. I hope you enjoy this chapter. Remember Andrea's locket well it comes back...just read the chapter.

Chapter 25

Drowning in the Abyss- Stage 2 Dancing in the Shadows?

Nancy hung up her phone, she looked down at her sleeping granddaughter and asked herself if she had done the right thing. The door open and in walked her youngest son. Their blue eyes met and she saw the worried look her son was wearing.

"Are you worried about her or Matt?" Nancy asked.

"Mother something had happened to Akinai." TK said angrily. Nancy quirked an eyebrow at her baby boy. "She suddenly had trouble breathing and the doctors took her into intensive care."

"Oh TK." Nancy said wrapping her arms around her son. "TK I called Marisol." TK stiffened. "She said she's coming down here."

With Luke...

"Dan I need you to lead the group." Luke said. The group turned and looked at their leader with look of shock. "There are things I need to do alone...kind of."

"Alright, you go do whatever it is you need to do and I'll do the important stuff." Dan said. Luke nodded.

"I think from here on you'll be needing these." Lenny said handing him the crest and digivice.

"Thanks." Luke said taking off. He and his partner didn't look back at their friends as they headed towards something that they weren't sure they'd be able to get out of. "This domain is starting to be overcome by darkness and we are headed straight for the darkest part."

"Yes and then we are going to let it flow into our bodies." MetalGreymon growled.

"Yes." Luke said grimly. "The end begins now." Luke said snapping his black goggles on to his head.

At the hospital...

Her pale hand reached out toward the sleeping girl. She felt her former mother-in-law's eyes drill holes in to the back of her head. She turned around and her brown eyes met Nancy's blue ones.

"When I filed for divorce the agreement was I would get sole custody of Ayden and Matt would get sole custody of Andrea. I wasn't supposed to ever see Andrea and Matt wasn't ever supposed to see Ayden. That is unless a situation came up where we wanted to see the other child. I never thought I'd see Andrea as she lay dying." Mari said breaking eye contact with Nancy and rummaging around her purse for something. She held out the silver locket. "I thought that in the end she should be with it."

"This isn't the end." Nancy snapped.

"Open your eyes, she's not going to last." Mari said standing up and walking toward the door. "Tell Matt to call me when that time comes."

With that said she left the room.

With Luke...

Luke sat in front of the black lake taking in the darkness that was heavily present around it. He closed his eyes and took deep breaths. Next to him Agumon did the same thing. Slowly he felt himself becoming a different person.

They didn't feel it but when they opened their eyes they were in a dark world, though it did have some color to it. He looked around and saw that he was standing in front of a hotel. He felt some incredible force pull him toward the entrance. Together digimon and human pushed the deep brown oak doors open. As he stepped he couldn't help but think that the marble floor was going to shatter, cautiously he made his way to the reception desk.

"Hello, welcome to Hotel Noir how may I be of service." the receptionist said. Luke noticed that she looked like a human version of LadyDevimon and was more then a little bit creeped out.

"Uh I'm not sure why but I was compelled to come here and I'm not sure if I have reservations." Luke said his voice strong not reflecting the confusion he was feeling.

"Tell me your name and I can check for you." the lady said sweetly. He was now beyond creeped out.

"Lucas Taichi Kamiya." he said and she smiled at him.

"Well Mr. Kamiya your party is waiting for you in the ballroom." she said and he raised his eyebrows. "Head towards that archway and all the way to the end of the hall. Their you will see the doors to the ballroom."

"Thank you." Luke said sounding more then a little confused. He and Agumon made their way to the archway and down the hall. Agumon stopped causing Luke to stop and look at his partner. "Is something wrong?"

"Luke I just noticed that your close changed." the orange dinosaur said. Instead of wearing his navy blue jeans, blue and red t-shirt, black gloves, navy blue sneakers, and his goggles, he was wearing black pants and a red long sleeve button up shirt. "You look formal."

"I wonder why." Luke said continuing toward the end of the hallway.

In the ballroom...

Music and crying filled the dimly lit room. As the music continued to play the crying slowly began to stop.

"Hush little baby don't say a word,

Mama's going to buy you a mocking bird,

And if the mocking bird don't sing,

Mama's going to buy you a diamond ring,

And if that diamond ring don't shine..." she slowly stopped singing the lullaby. Automatically her fingers went to the ivory keys that she knew were the ones that begun the song she had committed to memory.

"As the time goes by and we grow old,

We start to see that wrongs are worse then years,

That's why I want my years to go by with you, my eternal love,

With my family, friends and my voice,

Because I'm worth nothing,

Because I have nothing,

If I don't have your love and company in my heart,

It's worth more than anything near or far,

Because I'm worth nothing,

Because I have nothing if I don't have your love and company in my heart,

When you're here I feel brave,

When you're here I make myself strong,

Without you I wouldn't know how to live,

My life is dark without your light,

I want to spend more time with you,

Regain the days I have lost,

Because I'm worth nothing,

Because I have nothing,

If I don't have your love and company in my heart."

The doors opened and she turned around to Luke standing in the doorway. He walked in and she stood up from the piano bench. He looked around and his eyes seemed to ask her why is it that they were in a hotel ballroom. She gave him a shrug before turning away from him.

"I'm guessing it's your welcome to the madness that is the darkness. You three are lucky, you guys get this nice place I got a road that led to nowhere." she said and even in the darkness she could feel his confusion the moment she said 'three.' She pointed to the white bassinet with a pink fleece blanket hanging out slightly. "I forgot that you haven't met our dear cousin Akinai."

Luke walked up to the basket like baby bed and placed the blanket so that it was fully inside. He looked down at the baby girl's sleeping face. She looked peaceful in her sleep and he laughed at the fact that she resembled the Kamiya's. He looked away from his cousin back to her cousin. He noticed that she too was wearing something formal. She was wearing a black dress that had a red ribbon around the waist. She had her hand extended towards him.

"I'll let you lead." she said and the room was suddenly filled with slow piano music.

"I don't understand what this will accomplish." he said walking over to her and taking her hand. "What is the baby doing here?"

"I don't know." she said as he led their dance perfectly. "Since when do you know how to dance?"

"Hannah taught me how for her cousin's big sixteenth birthday." he sighed. "I think I prefer that endless road." she 'accidentally' stepped on his foot when he said that. "That hurt!"

"Quiet or you'll wake the baby!" she snapped at him.

"Sure I have to be quiet but you can yell all you want." he whispered angrily.

"Just shut up and let the darkness seep into your skin." she said and they continued their dance. "So how's the fight going?" she asked after a while when she deemed him ready to speak.

"I don't know I left Dan in charge. How the dying thing going?" he asked.

"Oh you know it's going fine. I'm breathing through a tube and a while ago He snapped my left wrist. Yay just what I always wanted." she said sarcastically. He looked at her as if she had lost all of her sanity and she became serious. "I'm afraid that we won't stop him in time. I think I heard my mother in my room too."

"I think that would explain why you have your locket." Gabumon said from the table where he and Agumon were sitting.

"Maybe." she sighed. She looked up into Luke's brown eyes. She was pretty sure that by now her eyes had become soulless but his still looked like he had a soul considering the fact that he was absorbing so much darkness. "How do you feel?"

"Strong and like myself." he said.

"A strong soul can not change. A good heart stays pure under any circumstance." she said.

"So you have a week soul and a bad heart." he stated.

"I guess. I'm just so easy to bend." she said.

"What's going to happen when we are done here?" he asked looking over her shoulder to the table where the two digimon sat. Agumon was starting to change color.

"You have to understand that this is the only way to save the worlds at this time. Some time in the future maybe we'll be able to save the world without relying on the darkness, but since at the moment I am incapable of making the crest of friendship glow we have to do it this way." she said. She looked down at their feet as they moved in perfect sync with the music. "Agumon and Gabumon are going to have to dark digivolve to their mega forms and from there during the final stage they are going to DNA digivolve darkly."

"So we are here until that happens?" he asked.

"Yes and when it does, you'll be going back to the others with our digimon and I'll be going back to the hospital with Akinai until the time comes when I join you on the battlefield." she said and he nodded.

Later…

"BlackAgumon warp digivolve to…BlackVictoryGreymon."

"BlackGabumon warp digivolve to…DarkZ'dGarurumon."

"Well there you are Lucas." she said. The music stopped and so did their dance. He didn't let her go though. "You have to go now."

"I know but I'm going to give you an order as your leader." he said boldly. He didn't know what made him do it but he did it. He gave her a short kiss on the lips and didn't regret it even when her hand made hard contact with his cheek. He rubbed his cheek and smiled. "Don't die."

"That wasn't necessary." she snapped.

"I know I hated it to but I thought it was the right thing to do." he said and with that he and the digimon disappeared.

"A new reason to severely dislike him." she mumbled before she and the baby disappeared.

With the group…

The kids and adults watched with wide eyes as their digimon and the army of the domain went down. Suddenly a beam of energy took down some of the enemy. The group watched as two black digimon joined their fight.

"No way." Tai said.

"The variations of Gabumon and Agumon's mega forms in a dark version." Matt added.

To be continued...

next time i promise more action and less fillerness. Oh the song Andrea sings after she sings Hush Little Baby is the song Matt wrote for her, if you couldn't tell. Please review and tell me what you thought.