Mukuro: So… the battle against Ren reaches its end point. And the winner is…

Disclaimer: I do not own digimon, and that goes for the action figures, videogames, cards, and everything else.

Digimon: Dawn of the Shadow

Chapter 22: The Climax, Part 2

"What's going on?!" Sakura shouted, running towards the fight.

"Poor little bunny…" The Harpymon said, each of them scratching at the Lunamon.

"Hey, get away you monsters!" Sakura shouted, waving the Harpymon away.

"Poor little human! It's time to die!" The leader of the Harpymon shouted, diving at Sakura, clutching the Lunamon.

"Harpymon, please! Go away!" A voice shouted.

"What?" Sakura said, turning around.

"Hello, Sakura!" A voice said.

"Who?" Sakura asked, turning around.

"Hi, you're Sakura, right?" The green haired girl asked.

"Yeah! Who are you?"

"I'm Lauren, and these are my partners Floramon and Gulmon" Lauren said, smiling.

"Partner?" Sakura asked.

"Yeah, isn't that your partner?" Lauren asked.

"Actually, I don't have a partner…"

"I see…" Lauren said, smiling sadly. "I remember when I didn't have a partner… and I was helped out…" The look in her eyes suddenly changed.

"Alright! We'll help you find your partner!" Lauren said. Suddenly, a diginome appeared out of the sky.

"Hello, Sakura." The diginome said.

"What do you want?" Sakura asked.

"I came here to give you this." The diginome said, dropping down a pastel pink digivice before disappearing.

"What's this?" Sakura asked.

"That's a digivice! That means your partner is around here somewhere!" Lauren said, looking around.

"Um, Lauren?" Sakura asked.

"Your partner should be around here somewhere!" Lauren said, looking around.

"Um, Lauren?"

"Where are you?!" Lauren asked, looking around.

"LAUREN!" Sakura shouted.

"Yes?" Lauren asked.

"Would she count as my partner?" Sakura asked, holding up Lunamon.

"Yeah, I guess." Lauren said.

"So, you're my partner, Lunamon!" Sakura said, holding up Lunamon.

"I guess so." Lunamon said.

"EEEEK!" Sakura shouted.

"So, Riyo, it's time for me to show you my strongest move." Ren said.

"I wonder if that's really safe." Ari said, pulling everyone behind a rock.

"Probably not." Kai said.

"Thunder Force!" Raikyomon shouted, charging his body full of white lightning.

"Hey… Raikyomon… are you… alright…?" Ren asked, panting.

"Yeah… but this move… is always difficult for me to use…" Raikyomon said, panting.

"Hey, Ren, what's going on?" I asked.

"Go…" Ren said.

Raikyomon charged straight at Panthemon, undodgeably almost at the speed of light.

"Shadow Wave!" Panthemon shouted, blasting out a blast of dark aura out of its body.

When Raikyomon struck the dark aura, it began denting it, creating flashes of black and white energy in the sky.

"Hey, look at that!" Lauren said, pointing at the colliding white and black energies.

"Wow! Fireworks!" Sakura said, pointing into the air.

"Let's head that way!" Lauren said.

A deafening explosion wracked throughout the air, blasting both digimon to the ground.

"Rubimon!" I shouted, running over to my de-digivolving digimon.

"Raimon… quick… get… up…" Ren said, before falling unconscious.

"Hey, wake up." I said, pushing against him.

"Wake up Ren!" Jami shouted.

"You guys aren't doing it right." Ari said.

"Huh? What do you mean?" Jami asked.

"Here, this is how you wake someone up." Ari said, picking Ren up.

"HEY REN! THIS ISN'T NAP TIME! WAKY-WAKY!" Ari shouted, shaking Ren back and forth.

"Huh?" Ren said, blinking a little. "Oh, Ari. Your face is good at waking people up-"

"What was that?" Ari said, smiling.

"Oh, nothing." Ren said.

"So, Ren. Did I meet your expectations?" I asked.

"Hm… I'd have to say, you did incredibly well. You met my expectations perfectly." Ren said, remaining expressionless.

To be honest, you completely surpassed my expectations. Ren thought, smiling. He then turned on his heel and picked up Raimon.

"Well Riyo, I hate to fight and run, but right now I can sense that two people are getting in way over there heads." Ren said, walking away.

"Hey, aren't we going to travel together, Ren?" Kai shouted.

"I'll be there for the final fight, and I might help with some other stuff, but right now I really need to get going." Ren said over his shoulder. And he walked away without another word.

"Hey, the lights stopped!" Sakura said, looking up.

"Well, let's see what's going on!" Lauren said. The two of them began running towards the stream, when suddenly they ran past another person.

"Well, hello there, Sakura." The man said as the two ran past.

"Hey, isn't that…" Sakura said, stopping.

"Isn't that who?" Lauren asked.

"You! You did this!" Sakura shouted.

"Oh? Did I?" John asked.

"You did! I am going to hit you!" Lauren said, punching John.

"Okay, fine, have it your way…" John said, smirking.

When Sakura's fist connected with Johns face, it recoiled back.

"What the hell?!" Sakura shouted, clutching her bleeding hand.

"You foolish girl… you can't hurt me with a weak attack like that." John said, grinning. He then pointed to the side of his face, which was made of pure steel.

"Are you… a digimon?" Lauren asked.

"You could say that…" John said, smiling.

"Can't we just be friends?" Lauren asked, walking up to him.

"Well, since you asked so nicely, no." John said, punching her.

"Ow, that hurt…" Lauren said, rubbing her face.

"Ah, I remember you, Lauren. You're that girl from the forest, right?" John said, smiling.

"I also remember… that you… are afraid of snakes." John said, and his body shifted and melded into a snake. Said snake began crawling towards Lauren, hissing.

"Ah! S-snake…" Lauren said, fainting.

"Hey, Lunamon, do you know any killer moves?" Sakura asked.

"Killer moves?" Lunamon asked.

"Yeah, like ?" Sakura asked.

"Um, I don't know what you said, but I will try an attack." Lunamon said.

"Tear Shot!" Lunamon said, charging her antenna with energy, and shot a blast of water towards John.

The water burst on contact, and did next to nothing to him, except knock him away from Lauren.

"So, girl… you really are being an annoyance." John said. Suddenly, the snake began growing and stretching into a humongous giant.

"Oh my god…" Sakura said, looking up.

"Hey now, that's no way to treat a lady." A voice said, and the giant turned around to see Ren standing there smirking.

Mukuro: So, the end of the climax is almost upon us. How will Ren fare against this shapeshifter?

Sakura: 4'7", 12 years old. She knows nothing about digimon, but has a happy personality anyway.