Recap: (Bokomon) Gracious! The children and I had just escaped from the most horrible thing from the never-to-be-told legend; Princess Ananse, daughter of Manyu!
We also found out that Davis is the reincarnation of a martyr and the one to stop her terrible reign. Not only that, but Naomi is our long lost, dearest Princess Sakuramon!
When we narrowly escaped her grasp, losing Wizardmon in the process, we ended up on an island, the Island of Lost Digimon, where the Human and Beast Digimon are torn in war!
Oh where's Orinismon when you need him?
Arc 2: Chapter 10 part 2
(This took a LOT of writing. So Enjoy!)
~Digital~
The fall of night loomed dangerously. The words of war brewed. The city of the Human Digimon shone in fluorescent lights.
"My friends," D'Arcmon boomed from a greatly tall stand. A rally of all the Human Digimon surrounded her. "The time has come to defend the peace!" The Human Digimon cheered. "We can no longer stand by and let the Beast Digimon attack our people. I was hoping this day would never come, but I am afraid we are left with no choice. It is with the deepest regret that I must tell you…as of now…we go to battle against the Beast Digimon!"
She raised her staff up as the crowd below her erupted in cheers. Davis, Veemon, Takuya and JP slipped through the crowd of applauding Digimon, chanting, "Destroy the Beasts! Destroy the Beasts!"
"I don't know if it's gonna be possible to stop this thing now." Davis said, looking down a bit depressed.
"Don't say that." Takuya frowned.
"I can't help it. There's always something bad coming."
"Just make sure they're ready." Dinohyumon was saying to his troops.
"Yes sir." One of them obeyed.
As the troops moved out, Dinohyumon spotted the boys, interested in the leader of the Legendary Warriors. "Takuya!" He called, catching the boys' curiosity. He made his way over to them. "And that of Agunimon. I would be honoured if you'd fight by my side."
Davis glowered and was going to open his mouth to heatedly argue when he spotted Lori shooting an arrow with a rope attached from a window, making a line for Kotemon, Penguinmon, Atsuko and the Baby Digimon to slide down to escape.
"Tommy?" JP breathed.
"Be quiet." Takuya hissed, nudging him in the side.
"Hmm?" Dinohyumon noticed the odd behaviour yet he was totally oblivious of what was happening behind his back!
"Uh, he said 'tomorrow'. JP's real lazy that way." The Warrior of Flame covered up. The boys and blue Digimon chuckled nervously.
"That makes two of us." Davis added, rubbing his neck. Tommy pressed his finger against his lips to say 'hush', Lily covered her mouth to caged vivacious squeals and giggles, and Lori nodded her head at Davis, handling her bow in her hand. Davis winked at them for their brilliant plan.
"Before we talk about that, I have to ask you something." Takuya pulled Dinohyumon aside to distract him, allowing Davis, Veemon and JP to take the chance to slowly sneak away. "I was wondering about Darcmon. I heard that she was a descendant of AncientGreymon. Is that true? Because if she is…"
The home of the Beast Digimon was humbler than the city for the Human Digimon. The dead of night with no light but the stars and moonlight were calming for them. The Beast Digimon waited for their leader, who was gone for a long time…
The war machine of their home strolled in, indicating the return of their leader. It passed Grizzlymon and Bearmon's hut, where the kids were. The Warrior of Light stared at the machine as it came passed.
"Hippogriffomon is here!" Moosemon cried, alerting his fellow beasts. They waited in silence for Hippogriffomon to speak.
He opened his beak with tears. "I had hoped this day would never come…But we must defend the peace. We can no longer forgive what they have done to our people!" Koji frowned. "The Human Digimon must be punished for their crimes. Today will be our day of justice!"
His followers roared and cheered. "We will show them no mercy!"
Koji turned away with disgust. His older brother wasn't with him, saying he has something to do…He knew what he meant.
"Koji."
"Brother?" Bearmon said as everyone looked up from their sad acts to stare at Grizzlymon, who was looking at Koji.
"You carry the Spirit of Lobomon. Hippogriffomon is also a descendent of AncientGarurumon. Will you help him?"
Koji turned away. "I don't think so."
"But why?" Grizzlymon asked.
"Because this isn't my fight. In fact, I think the whole thing is just wrong." But when he looked down, he saw Davis, Veemon and JP down below the hut, the Warrior of Thunder and the blue Digimon pressing his finger against their lips to keep their mischievous snickers in. The Child of Courage, Friendship and Miracles waved his hands up to his neck. Koji pushed himself up, smirking. "On second thought, it might be fun."
"Come here!" Grizzlymon attacked Koji in a bear-hug while the boy's friends were appalled and started to protest his decision.
"Koji, are you nuts?!" Charisse gaped.
"How could you even think about helping them? This fighting has got to stop!" Zoe shouted.
"You do this and I'll never speak to you again!" Sadie hissed, shaking a fist at him.
"Everything is gonna be alright, Sadie. I know what I'm doing." Koji promised, sending a wink to her from Grizzlymon's furry chest. He looked up at the bear. "Ok, so don't you fill me on your battle plan?"
"Great." Grizzlymon carried him inside. "Our leaders are expecting…"
Sadie blinked her pretty aquamarine eyes in confusion. But that confusion was washed away by anger and she stalked after him into the hut. "Listen here, you bastard! Don't you walk away from- Hey! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?" Koji suddenly threw her over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes, taking her outside. "MINAMOTO!" He set her down and walked back inside. "KOJI, YOU ARE NOT DOING THIS!" Ignoring her angry screams, he slammed and locked the door in her face.
"That's the way to tell her, Koji." Grizzlymon complimented behind the door, making Sadie boil over and violently banged on the door.
"Chill, psycho." A whisper told her, stopping her slams to make her turn and find Davis and JP on the steps.
"JP?" Charisse asked.
"Davis?" Zoe wondered.
"Shh!" JP hushed. "We got us a plan."
The Human Digimon matched into battle. Takuya, standing beside Dinohyumon, watched the army move into battle.
"Together…we will be unstoppable!" Dinohyumon said to Takuya proudly.
Takuya grumbled and looked away. The only reason he was doing this is to keep Dinohyumon from his brother Kotemon. He was strictly against war, especially the immoral fighting.
For Koji, he was feeling the same way as Takuya. He stared at the army of Beast Digimon, watching a scowl. I'm gonna be in the dog house for this…
"You there! Man your station!" Grizzlymon barked. He came over to Koji, putting his paw on him. "You ready-"
"Hey!" Koji snapped, pushing his paw off. "Paws off!" Grizzlymon frowned and Koji slumped his shoulder apologetically. "I'm sorry. I always get jumpy before a battle."
Grizzlymon sighed hoarsely as he and Koji looked at the battle scene. "I know. I go through the same thing."
The baby Digimon squealed and chattered as Davis and the other kids descended down the stairs into the ruins.
"Hello?" Zoe called, making the baby Digimon look up.
"Bearmon?" Kotemon called. Penguinmon glanced up as well.
"Kotemon!" Bearmon cried happily, secretly blushing. "What are you doing here?"
"Davis, JP, Tommy, Lori, Lily and Veemon helped me escaped." Kotemon explained. "We have a plan. Look!" He picked up a stone, one of the broken pieces scattered on the ground and blew on it, making it glow blue.
"Yep." JP picked up a stone too. "We figured out a way to stop the fighting."
"Yeah. Tell them, guys." Davis said.
Lori, Tommy and Lily examined the mural of Onrismon. Tommy explained the plan. "This is a picture of Ornismon, the first protector of this island, right?"
"All we have to do is fill in the missing Digicode to wake him up and he'll stop the fighting." Lily finished.
"Return the DigiCode to the wings of the wings." Davis quoted, holding up a glowing piece of stone. "That's what Naomi said. Let's get cracking."
"You're talking like Anya, Daisuke-kun." Lori pointed out.
The kids and Digimon went to work on piecing the mural together. The Baby Digimon passed pieces to another by the mouths and eventually passed it on to Biyomon who passed it to Zoe. Davis, Veemon, Sadie, JP and Charisse dusted for pieces loaded with Digicode and Kotemon, Penguinmon, and Atsuko carried the piles up to Tommy, Lori, Lily and Bearmon to fill in the spaces.
"We have problems!" Bokomon alerted, hurrying down the steps. Descending after him was the rest of the Digimon.
"What?" Charisse asked worriedly.
"The battle has officially begun!" Kangamon cried.
"And it's really close by!" Neemon wailed.
"Oh no!" Zoe gasped.
"We're too late!" Lily cried.
While everyone else was panicking, Davis stared at the mural. An egg-shaped hole in the wall with wings…Where have he seen that before?
SMACK!
"Davis, how you be spacing out on a time like this?!" Sadie screamed in his ear.
"GUYS!" Davis yelled more loudly than Sadie, getting everyone's attention. He pointed at the egg engraving on the wall. "Look. Does this look familiar to you?"
Kotemon's eyes under his mask grew slightly big. "That looks just like the pendant on D'Arcmom's staff…"
Bearmon leaned his head in. "…And HippoGriffomon's necklace."
Davis stroked his chin thoughtfully. "I wonder if there's a connection."
"Keep it down!" Bokomon barked, squinting at the writings on the mural. "I need to concentrate!"
"Oh dear," Narramon moped. "The inscriptions are too difficult to understand! It dated back to 3000 years ago!"
Unknown to them, a couple descended down the stairs, the young man keeping his arm securely around the girl's slim waist…
Then Davis caught sight of deep-pink hair and shouted. "Naomi!"
"Koichi!" Tommy, JP and Zoe cried at the Koji twin.
Immediately Koichi's arm unwrapped from Naomi's waist, returning to his stoic behaviour towards her. The girl blinked a tear.
"Where were you guys?" Zoe asked.
Neither answered. Koichi kept it to himself and Naomi stared at the mural. In Naomi's head, her mind worked the same as a supercomputer, all with a blue Digital program scanning the difficult Digi-hieroglyphs. She narrated the translated out loud.
"For the ultimate power, if you wish to be heard,
Return the DigiCode to the wings of the bird.
Fill this code with anger and fear,
And I shall once again appear."
Everyone reacted in shock.
"Anger and fear?" Bearmon whimpered.
"Are you sure?" Penguinmon questioned, quivering with fear, not wanting it to be true.
"Ornismon is supposed to be a protector." Lori probed.
"He sounds nasty to me." Charisse commented.
"Ah!" Naomi shrieked as a memory sparked in her head, bringing her to her knees
She was kneeling on polished marble in front of the Celestial Digimon. Cherubimon rose, beaming with pride.
"My daughter…It is with great honour that I and my fellow Celestial rulers appoint you as guardian of the Island of Lost Digimon."
She bowed her head honourably low. "I oath I would keep the peace among the Human and Beast Digimon, to keep Ornismon forever under lock…"
"Under lock…" Naomi muttered, coming back to reality. Davis and Sadie were guarding her sides. The strawberry-blonde casted a glare over her shoulder to Koichi, knowing what was going between them. Naomi rubbed her head, recalling what she learned. "That's the whole reason why I ruled The Lost Island. I was supposed to make sure it stays that way to avoid fear and hatred from releasing him!"
To say the least, her friends were shocked.
"Why?" Davis uttered in disbelief.
"Ornismon was never a protector. The Celestial Digimon granted me that responsibility to keep him hidden forever."
"Why didn't you tell us?!" Bokomon shrieked at his foster son, frantically flapping his short arms.
"We don't remember, Papamon!" Patamon rapidly explained. Salamon nodded. Cherubimon…well…he was an egg. "It was a really long time ago!"
"This war is started on purpose. Someone is trying to relieve him." Lori realized.
"And we're helping!" Atsuko yelped.
Davis's face hardened, his brown eyes narrowed. "I wonder if D'Arcmon and HippoGriffomon know about this…" As strong-minded as he always was, he darted off out of the cave.
"Davis, wait!" Veemon called after him, running after him.
"Hold up, kid!" Agumon followed the pair, along with Gabumon.
"Daisuke-kun!" Lori tried to follow, but Naomi stopped her.
"Lori, stay here with the Digimon!" Naomi told her before running off with her friends, leaving the little kids, Digimon, and Digi-eggs behind.
Davis went on running set on reaching the battlefield until he reached the edge of the ruins, overlooking the battlefield. Davis couldn't believe what was happening down there. The Digimon of the opposing sides were fighting so wildly, so mindlessly full of hate and anger. The war machine tanks released explosions all over the field, adding more horror to the war.
"This is awful." Gabumon admitted once she, Veemon and Agumon finally caught up to the boy.
"At this rate, Ornismon would defiantly be relieved." Agumon said.
"Damn, as if Manyu wasn't the only reborn monster I have to deal with." Davis dryly commented.
"Don't forget Kinu." Veemon added.
Davis shivered. "How could I not? I need to get to Takuya and Koji. They need to know this."
"I know a shortcut." Agumon said, waving his clawed hand at a direction and gesturing the others to follow with his other hand. "This way!"
If they had gone the other way or even stayed longer, they would have seen a speck of light, the small sound of whistling, followed by powerful rushing as Locomon and a Farukonmon cannoned out of the portal the speck had created.
"All off the Locomon Express!" An athletic babe announced. She and the group of Tamers and their Digimon took the great leap off Locomon just before it disappeared into another vortex.
When Helena landed, Jack run over to Anya, showing her a high-tech device she couldn't help but marvel over, where several red dots beeped on the screen.
"Anya! I'm getting a reading." Jack said. "Davis is not alone."
"He must've found more DigiDestineds." Anya theorized. She smiled at Jack. "Good work. Davis would be proud."
Then Guilmon started sniffing the air and ran off to wherever the scent he caught was coming from.
"Guilmon!" Takato shouted, chasing after his dinosaur.
"Takato!" Henry called, him and everyone else following the gogglehead into a woodsy area. When they caught up to Takato and Guilmon, they found the pair staring through trees at a beastly creature's silhouette.
"What was that?" Kenta asked, feeling scared. This was way more intense than last time he was involved with Digimon, even when he visited the DigiWorld.
"Bigfootmon?" Sumitra guessed. Amaya had her camera out.
"Shh!" Renamon hushed, targeting her eyes on the mysterious creature.
Pushing the leaves aside, Takato's soft brown eyes saw a white griffon with a necklace standing alone.
"Hippogriffomon!" Ryo and Dakota spoke in unison. They gave a glance to each other.
"Quiet." Renamon firmly told. "Don't let him know we're here."
Why? The question was answered when Hippogriffomon, believing he was alone, spun around, changing into a completely different Digimon, a womanly creature in red and gold tribal cloths and ran off.
"Wow!" Takato gasped.
"He changed into D'Arcmon!" Kazu gaped.
"Slide Evolution." Rika said, sounding a little breathless.
"Hey you!"
The Tamers turned and looked up to see 5 human kids around their age.
"How did you lot get here?" The stocky boy asked, looking bewildered.
Takato stepped forward. "We got a message from Davis."
Naomi spotted Anya and Annalise, the tallest girls out of all of them. Davis mentioned two high school girls from his team. "Anya and Annalise? You're part of Davis's team, are you?"
"Yeah!" Annalise sprung forward. "Where is he?"
"I'm afraid we lost him." Naomi admitted. Annalise wailed at this.
"We saw a Hippogriffomon slide-evolved to D'Arcmon. It was amazing!" Kenta marvelled.
His little slip made the Frontier gang gasped.
"SAY WHAT!" JP and Charisse shrieked together.
"I recorded it." Amaya held out her camcorder camera. "See."
Koichi's intense azure eyes narrowed, watching Hippogriffomon transformed into D'Arcmon. "Davis was right. D'Arcmon and Hippogriffomon are involved."
"They're the same Digimon!" Sadie snarled. She was furious! They were played like fools by him! Or her? ...or whatever!
"What are you talking about?" Rika demanded.
"What is Davis caught up in? I thought we're fighting Kinu." Quartz questioned.
"We'll explain the situation on the way. Come on!" JP took the position as leader for this situation and led the Tamers and Davis's teammates off.
Takato pulled Jeri aside, giving her Suzie and Lopmon. "Jeri, take Calumon and Suzie."
Jeri frowned and turned her back on him. "You want me to leave because I don't have a partner."
Her words cut into him. "I don't want you hurt."
Luckily Alice came to his recuse, appearing beside Jeri, taking her hand comfortingly. "I don't have a partner either. You're not alone."
Jeri smiled at her. "Thanks Alice." She looked at Takato, who was blushing. She smiled at him. "Okay. I'll stay behind."
Takato gave her a shaking thumbs-up and left.
It doesn't matter to Davis if the fighting was rowdier up close. He trashed through, swinging his katana to fend off Digimon, Beast and Human, it doesn't matter to him. They were fighting a meaningless war. He was single-minded on getting to Takuya and Koji.
The samurai in him broke out and he fought his way through. Veemon, Agumon and Gabumon aided him by his side, clawing their ways through and protecting him. Unlike the savage Digimon, they had brains.
Unfortunately, Agumon and Gabumon got separated from Davis and Veemon, and eventually pain was getting the Bearer of three crests.
On the Human side, Takuya looked over the fighting in the ruins. The main figures of the Human Digimon committee talked among themselves, preparing for war.
"Any sign of D'Arcmon, sir?" A pretty Lilamon asked, her voice sweet and clear as a bell.
"Not yet." Dinohyumon answered.
"She's been disappearing a lot." Crescemon mentioned.
"No matter." Dinohyumon said. "If she does not return soon, Agunimon will lead us."
Takuya overheard everything and he wasn't pleased with it. I can't go through with this… He bent his knees and sprinted off into a run, away from Dinohyumon and the Human Digimon.
"Wait, Takuya!" Dinohyumon yelled.
Missiles shot out everywhere, hitting the battlefield of the Human Digimonand causing explosions, turning the Digimon into Digi-eggs. "It's an ambush!"
Out in the battle, Takuya saw a maroon head wearing goggle. "Davis…" He started to forcefully trash through the crowd. "Out of my way!"
As the battle went on, D'Arcmon sensed the auras of fear and anger from her stand on top of the tower, smirking menacingly as she gripped her staff, bringing it. The dark figure, her partner in succeeding her plan, smirked evilly.
The fighting ended up in the ruins. When Yasyamon wiped out a big portion of Beast Digimon, Grizzlymon growled furiously, aching to tear Yasyamon apart.
"You can stop all this! Why don't you do something?" Koji demanded angrily.
"Unless you're trying to help us, keep your opinions to yourself!" Grizzlymon roared at Koji.
The Warrior of Light leaned his face right into Grizzlymon's, pushing the Beast backwards while shouting. "YEAH? Well here's an opinion! If any more of your people getting hurt, it's your fault!"
Grizzlymon growled dangerously and shoved the boy away. "Out of my way!"
Koji glared at the fleeing Digimon, until he heard a shout of his name. He turned around and saw a Beast Rookie running towards him. "Gabumon?"
"Koji! There's something you have to know. Davis-"
Koji cut her off. "Davis? Where is he?" He took out his D-Tector, gripping it. "I have…to be there…for my friends…" Unknowingly, he stroked Gabumon's head, making her purr.
Meanwhile, Agumon found the Warrior of Flame observing the fighting in horror. "Takuya! There you are! Davis is looking everywhere for you!"
"Then where is he?" Takuya looked around frantically for the maroon head.
"Somewhere in…here." Agumon gestured to the savage battle.
Takuya winced. "That's comforting!" He thought of his friend, someone he had so much in common with, in all this wildness and danger. Takuya narrowed his burning eyes. "I gotta have courage…" His gloved hand touched Agumon's clawed hand.
"NO!" Takuya and Kojisimultaneously screamed. Their D-Tectors released beams of their representative element, fire for Takuya and light for Koji.
The war tanks shot cannons up to the sky and came whistling down. The fireworks hit the ground, causing an huge explosion of bright light all over the island.
~Spirit Evolution~
Takuya and Koji held out their left hands, watching the Fractal Code formed around it in a ring. The boys swiped their D-Tectors through it, scanning the data.
"Execute!" They shouted together. After finishing the scan, the ring of data twirled around them and their clothes dissolved. "Beast Spirit Evolution!"
Takuya's body was engulfed in hot flames as a mask and armour appeared, fusing onto his body. Takuya took a breath of fire as the flames died down, revealing his new form. He chomped his razor-sharp teeth, blinking one sky-blue eye.
Wings out, he flew down onto his platform and flapped his wings, unleashing fire from his limbs as he flexed. "BURNINGGREYMON!"
He was now a dragon, a powerful one at that, with an extremely strong body wearing a tight black suit with bulky, crimson armour on top like originally as Agunimon. White accents and gold trimmed plates were on his chest, shoulders, arms and legs, with gold kneecaps. White plates were locked on his thighs, with his Spirit symbol in gold on the front. Horns with a gold stripe around it protruded out from his shoulder blades and huge gold blasters on his arms. He also had a long tail in red with gold rims circling it all the way and white claw-like feet and hands. His helmet was white with horns, one on the front and two on the sides, streaked in red and bearing a golden mouth. On his back was a pair of strong, feathery orange wings.
Koji was wrapped in strips of blue data. His body was blue and glitching, while armour fused onto his body. His new form came to light and he gave a roar, jumping down to his platform and roared thundery. "KENDOGARURUMON!"
He was a more wolf-like Digimon than Lobomon, standing on all fours. He was entirely covered in white armour with gleaming flaxen-yellow edges and light-purple stripes. A curved flaxen spike protruded from his chest, along with flaxen trim, flaxen spikes on his shoulder blades, grey skate-like straps on each of his feet and sharp flaxen blades on his back.
~Spirit Evolution~
That wasn't the only Digivolution processing.
~Digital~
"Agumon…Digivolve to…GREYMON!"
Agumon changed. He was bigger than before, a ferocious-looking T-Rex with big, angry red eyes, blue jagged marks all over his amber-orange body, a brown horned helmet covering the upper half of his head and fangs showing from his jaws.
"Gabumon…Digivolve to…GARURUMON!"
Gabumon transformed into a more beastly Digimon. She was a wolf on all four paws, which had fuchsia nails and she looked very threatening by how great her teeth were. She was covered in bluish-white and silver fur with navy blue scratch-like stripes like her pelt, a wild mane, a twisted blue/navy tail, and animalistic amber eyes.
~Digital~
KendoGarurumon blinked at the Garurumon. "What the?"
"We both want to stop the fighting. We're partners." The she-wolf answered calmly.
"We're partners, Takuya, to the end!" Greymon hollered.
BurningGreymon took it in, widening his eye in awe. "Partners? Like Davis and Veemon? Wait…" His awe changed to fear when he saw a young boy lying down, hurt, and a blue Digimon kneeling next to him. "DAVIS!"
The Beast Spirit of Flame swooped down, gathering the Child of Miracles and his partner up into his arm.
Davis squint his eyes, opening tired brown eyes. "That ambush took a lot out of me...Takuya…Listen-"
"Easy, Davis," BurningGreymon soothed, letting him rest. "You're too tired to say anything."
"But-" However, BurningGreymon cut him off by flying off, carrying Davis and Veemon with him, Greymon following him.
"Move it!" KendoGarurumon shouted as he and Garurumon fought through the mass of Digimon in their way. He tried to call to his ally. "Takuya!"
"Hey! Can't you see we're busy?" Garurumon snapped at a Beast Digimon before slamming it away. "Now get out of our way!"
"Koji! It's getting worse! This has to stop!" BurningGreymon flew over the army of Human Digimon, stopping in front of the war tank, where Dinohyumon stood in shock and anger.
"What're you doing?" Dinohyumon yelled.
"What you should be!" Greymon answered for his partner.
Dinohyumon watched BurningGreymon flew off, and then he growled. "Stop him! Take him down!"
However, BurningGreymon, after setting Davis and Veemon down, grabbed the war machine and with all of his strength and determination, pulled it away from the battle. D'Arcmon and the Human Digimon stared at what he was doing in surprise, staying still and not fighting.
But D'Arcmon took over her surprise with anger. "Why are you standing there? It is your duty to destroy all those who oppose us!"
"Says who?" Davis sneered, glaring at her, hard.
As the battle continued, Grizzlymon was yelling desperately. "HippoGriffomon, where are you? How could you leave us like this? We need you!"
That got Darcmon's attention. She frowned and disappeared from sight.
"Man!" was the first word that came out of Takato's mouth when he saw the vicious fighting. "This is bad!"
"This is why I don't agree with fighting." Henry frowned, folding his arms.
"How do we know who he is?" Ryo asked.
"I met him, so I'll keep an eye out for him." Jack said, climbing onto Beelzemon's motorcycle.
"Don't forget Annalise and I." Anya told him, wagging her finger.
"And me, JP, Koichi, Sadie and Naomi." Zoe put in.
"We should split up and find Davis." Annalise ordered. "Tamers, Warriors, V-Hearts, go!"
The three groups divided, heading into the war in search for their friend. Beelzemon drove off and Helena flew off with Anya. Annalise, Quartz, Dakota and Echohawk ran in head-first.
Except for Kazu, Kenta and the new girls, Sumitra and Amaya, the Tamers begin their Digivolution.
With the words 'DIGIVOLUTION' flashing on their D-Arcs and with a digital background in their representative colours, the D-Arcs released waves.
Balls of light formed around their Digimon, their skins peeled off, revealing a body of data. The spheres the Digimon were in formed into a regular egg.
"Guilmon…Digivolve to..." Guilmon was now bigger than before, a ferocious-looking T-Rex with big, angry light-yellow eyes and a white mane. "GROWLMON!"
Terriermon grew to a bigger size into a huge cream rabbit with green on his longer-than-before ears and half of his face. His hands were replaced by bulky gun gauntlets. He wore baggy blue jeans and a brown bandolier across his big chest. "GARGOMON!"
Renamon transformed into a four-legged standing kitsune* with red/white cords around her white-maned neck, with gold bells at the tips and white diamonds dangling from it. Yin-Yang symbols on her legs and mystical flames flaring around her paws and tail tips of her nine tails. "KYUBIMON!"
Monodramon skipped going Champion and went for Ultimate level. He changed into a dragon-like Cyborg Digimon clad in special light-black armour with silver spikes from his forearms, shiny grey armour on his shoulders, a helmet head made in the same grey armour, and dark-red vampire-like wings. "CYBERDRAMON!"
"Wow…" The girls awed.
"Impressive, right?" Kazu smirked cockily yet friendly also. His Guardromon had Sumire lying on his head.
"See one Digivolution, you see them all." The BlackGatomon coolly scoffed.
"Aw Sumire!" Sumitra whined.
"You do know this isn't a game, right?" Kenta anxiously asked. His MarineAngemon sat on top of Wolf's head.
"We know." Amaya smiled, turning to him and smiling through camera lens.
The Warriors barely thought of Digivolving when Naomi broke down. Being in this fighting and hearing the cries of "Defend the peace!", she ran out, wanting to stop it.
"There is no peace in a war!" She cried. But her plea was ignored.
"NAOMI!"
Something tackled her before rouge Digimon did. Falling flat on her back, she blinked up to the Labrador Dog-like Digimon on her, covered in golden-creamy fur with pink loopy ears, a smooth pink tail ending in a perfect curl, gold nails and pink markings under its ruby eyes. "Labramon?"
Then Sadie was pounced on and threw down by a Digimon that was as big as Guilmon.
"Get off me!" Sadie lashed at the Digimon.
But the Digimon had her down with a foot on her chest and strangely, it laughed gleefully! It looked like a cross between a wolf and a dragon with a white-tipped tail of a fox's, with purple fur, big white feet and small white hands, a white muzzle, black claws, lively amber eyes, a small pair of wings on its back and a ruby red gem embedded in its forehead.
"I'm been waiting for you, Charisse." A bee-like Digimon flew into Charisse's arms and snuggled in. It had a yellow/brown-striped body with six arms/legs with brown stingers, four dark-grey wings, silver horns on its lower half, long blue antennas and bright spring-green eyes. The Digimon buzzed patiently against Charisse's chest. "Patience pays off after all."
The Pure Spirit of Earth rose her head up. "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
Zoe looked down at Biyomon. "Are you…" She trailed off when Biyomon nodded with a happy smile.
"Our…partners?" JP choked, picking up the Digimon in front of him. The Digimon looked like a metal bug covered with dark-grey metal plates with tasers for hands, feet and on his head. Red stripes were on his little arms and red button eyes gleamed innocently child-like at JP. Right away he knew it was a Kokuwamon.
"You need us to strength your bond with your Spirits." said Koichi's partner, a yellowy-golden-coated lion cub with a red tuft of hair on his head, aqua-blue eyes swirling with deep emotions Koichi has, a cream tailtip, strong paws with sharp grey claws and wearing a golden Holy Ring with an emerald pendant around his neck.
"Really?" Koichi questioned, eye-to-eye with his new partner, sharing intense emotions.
A missile was shot towards the area nearby the kids, the explosion almost causing them to lose their footing.
JP took a breath of relief. "Whoa, that was a close one."
Koichi narrowed his eyes. "Then let's even the odds."
"Way ahead of you." Zoe beamed.
"Labramon, get your girl out of here!" Liollmon shouted.
Labramon hurried Naomi away as the three Legendary Warriors and two Pure Spirits did their Digivolution.
~Spirit Evolution~
Just like Takuya and Koji did, the others held out their left hands and watched the ring of Fractal Code formed around it. They swiped their D-Tectors through it, scanning the data.
"Execute!" They shouted together. After finishing the scan, the ring of data twirled around them and their clothes dissolved. "Beast Spirit Evolution!"
Their bodies engulfed in their signature element and colour as armour fused onto their bodies. After they transformed, each of them struck a pose.
Koichi gave a roar in his new form as he jumped down to his platform. "JAGERLOWEEMON!"
Like his brother, he had changed into a Digimon closer to his representative animal, which was a lion. He was entirely adorned in rich dark-brown armour, trimmed with gold. Gold designs were on plates of his armour and thick-layered mane, red round jewels embedded on his knees, underside and head, and cannons stuck out from his from legs and shoulders.
Zoe flew down to her platform in twirls and circles. Once she landed, a vortex of pink feathers engulfed her for a moment, opening her wings and hands once she was free. "ZEPHYRMON!"
She transformed into a strikingly beautiful Digimon like Kazemon, but completely different. She had a womanly appearance, a body that was tanned to an olive glow, much slimmer and leaner than before. Her sharp eyes were revealed to be a piercing, light sky-blue and her mature face graced black stripes. Her hair was actually light-blue feathers resembling a short bod with wings light-blue wings growing out of her head. A pair of wings was in her back, with brown feathers paling into gold. Her hands and feet both had three long claws. Like Kazemom, she wore revealing armoured pink lingerie-like attire, consisting of pink bikini-panties, tall pink boots connected to the top by pink straps on her long legs, a pink top that showed off her flat abdomen and rose up to cover her mouth and pink detached sleeves. She also had a long black scarf around her neck, metallic pads on her knees and shoulders, and long metallic gloves extending up her arm, with her Spirit symbol embedded on the purple soft-edged pentagons on her hands.
With the help of steam from his jet-feet, JP flew down and showed off his cannons, cracking with electricity. "METALKABUTERIMON!"
He changed but not too much, basically Beetlemon appeared more of a stag beetle and a tank. His armour was the same bulky blue, only it covered most of his body like a tank with orange on the sides of his abdomen, the gold edges were now plates on his bottom half which had the tracks of a tank, and his chest was covered in yellow. The horn on his head from his helmet, which had fins at each side, was now a large cannon instead, and also had two cannons for arms
Sadie jumped down on her platform, landing on all fours, crouched down like an animal, and then leaped up, grabbing the air and straightened up to calmly pose with her new body turned to the side. "TAMAMON!"
She had transformed into a taller, slender fox creature with a wild personality reflecting in her light-green eyes, which became slit-like with thicker, longer eyelashes. Her violet hair became wavier, like a wild mane down to her waist with a few braids, with her bigger-than-before fox ears peeking out, with a dangling diamond-shaped emerald earring with a steel boarder pierced on her left ear. Her lavender fur was more thick and luxurious with a tuff of fluffy fur upon her chest, her tail spilt into three luxurious tails, and her tattooed whiskers changed to dark-purple tribal-like facepaint and she had steel pills on her eyebrows. She was dressed in a light-magenta toga-like dress that reached up to her face and covered her mouth over darker-magenta armour, both showed off her midriff, and emerald-studded bracelets on her wrists and ankles. Emerald-green, elbow-length gloves with a light-green border at the triangular top which has her Spirit symbols on them, a steel tiara with a diamond-shaped emerald with a steel boarder and her Spirit symbol in the middle on her forehead and two sheaths, holding steel swords, around her waist.
Charisse landed on her platform at a slow but steady flight down. When she landed, she took slightly quicker spins, and opened her wings out, positioning her body with her hips dipped to the side, one arm extended down her leg and the hand of the other arm turned back and placed on her hip. "AFRIQUEENBEEMON!"
She had changed into a fuller, curvier and more powerful woman than before with sandy-tanned skin. Her maroon hair cut extremely skin-short and a maroon stripe is painted across her cool dark brown-greyish eyes. She gained two more bee wings that are much larger with bolder black streaks. She wore a nude-coloured, swimsuit-like one-piece with a deep plunging V-neck, edged with fringe trim and a sexy lowcut back that shows just the right amount of sandy skin of her voluptuous, curvaceous body. A long green silky scarf tied around her head, with a honeycomb pattern in different shades of green, along with bangles made of stone bearing her Spirit symbol in the centres on her wrists and barefooted ankles, stone medallion earrings, and long light-brown gloves with stingers on the front like claws. She wielded a stone mallet as choice of weapon.
~Spirit Evolution~
Amaya recorded what was the most amazing sequence the Tamers have ever seen. "Awesome!"
~Digital~
"Liollmon…Digivolve to…LIAMON!"
Koichi's Liollmon grew into a golden-orange lion with two tails and a rich-brown mane with the bottom section tied by colourful beads.
"Biyomon…Digivolve to…BIRDRAMON!"
Zoe's Biyomon changed to a 'Giant Bird Digimon' who greatly resembles a Phoenix. Her body and giant wings were burning with warm flames in colours of red, orange, amber and yellow.
"Kokuwamon…Digivolve to…KUWAGAMON!"
JP's Kokuwamon changed into a large, red beetle, with black markings on his large forehead, clear bug wings, teal ribcages showing, and huge, terrible jaws.
"Dorumon…Digivolve to…DORUGAMON!"
Sadie's Dorumon grew bigger and gained a darker purple furcoat with light-purple zigzag stripes, larger wings with the same fur, long curled red claws on his bigger white feet and hands part of his longer arms, and his eye went a lighter shade, glinting threateningly.
"FanBeemon…Digivolve to…WASPMON"
Charisse's FanBeemon transformed into a wasp Digimon coated in pale-gold with black stripes and a tiny torso dipping to a large laser cannon for a lower half of a bee's body.
~Digital~
"Look out!"
"Arm Bomber!" Quartz the Antylamon hardened her body to the level of Chrome Digizoid by liberating all of the energy within and then unleashed a mighty blow at the Digimon threatening Davis and Veemon.
"DAVIS!"
Davis barely turn when he was thrown down as Annalise tackled him as if she was playing football, hugging him tightly but also tenderly, unlike the last time where she was desperate. This time, Davis hugged her back with a smile, a relieved one.
"Flaxen Headbust!" Helena gathered energy onto her helmet and charged towards the feuding Beast and Human Digimon, ramming them down with her head to clear the way to Davis and Annalise.
"Davis!" Anya got off and joined in the hug, wrapping her arms around them.
Davis broke the hug. "It's great to see you, but-"
Anya held up her hand. "If this is about the truth about Orinismon and this bloody war, we know."
"But get this!" Annalise jumped in. "Hippogriffomon and D'Arcmon are the same Digimon!"
"What!?"
"He or she has being fooling both sides in order to somehow fuel anger and fear to relieve Orinismon." Anya described.
Davis growled. "We have to get this out!"
Instantaneously, Davis and Anya joined hands since they were both extremely determined in personality. They ran off, with Veemon and leaving Annalise with Quartz, got onto Helena and flew off.
"Wing Spears!" Helena suddenly swopped down, wiping her wing and fired white feather-like spears.
"Hold on." Quartz warned as Annalise held onto her back, arms securely locked around her. "Bunny Blades!" The Antylmon spun on her axis like a tornado, cutting any Digimon surrounding her with her Treasure Axes, also making Annalise squeal in delight and fun.
Hippogriffomon appeared and he was getting annoyed with the children's interference. "Don't just stand there! Destroy them all!"
"We'll get ambushed again." Grizzlymon warned. "HippoGriffomo, stop them!" But the head Beast chuckled evilly, not giving a single care for his followers.
"Oh sure, now he wants to stop." Tamamon remarked, rolling her wild eyes.
"Now we do it my way. Electron Cannon!" MetalKabuterimon fired a powerful electric blast from his horn up to the sky, creating thunder.
"Let me help. Stone Slam!" AfriQueenBeemon slammed her stone mallet down, creating an earthquake.
Tamamon took a deep breath and yelled as loud she could. "STOOOP!"
With the scream, thunder storm and earthquake combined, it was like a natural disaster.
"What was that?" Hippogriffomon gasped.
"JP." BurningGreymon spoke, knowing what caused the thunder.
KendoGarurumon knew it was his secret 'girlfriend' who screamed. "Sadie…."
Naomi looked up from her hiding place with Labramon. "AfriQueenBeemon."
Up in the sky, Davis looked down. "About time."
Everyone stopped fighting and looked up at the top of the mountain where the three Legendary Warriors, two Pure Spirits, (all five in Beast form), and five Champion-Level Digimon were standing.
"Listen up!" JagerLoweemon yelled. "We've all been deceived!"
"This Digimon war was planned!" Zephyrmon yelled as she waved her hand, making Hippogriffomon go rigid, his eyes grew.
"Hippogriffomon started this war on purpose." AfriQueenBeemon revealed, keeping a calm attitude. "And that's not all."
"He's also D'Arcmon!" Tamamon roared, making the Digimon react in shock.
"It's true!" Henry cried from Gargomon's back. His fellow Tamers joined in.
"We saw the transformation before our eyes!" Takato called, on Growlmon's shoulder.
"We got it on tape!" Amaya held up her camera.
"They are lying!" HippoGriffomon protested. Davis rolled his eyes.
"That's impossible! What proof do you have?" Grizzlymon inquired.
"I got one." Davis hopped off Helena as she brought down to Hippogriffomon. The Bearer of three crests pointed a finger of his yellow-gloved hand at the leader of Beasts' neck. "Just look at HippoGriffomon's necklace."
"It's identical to the wings on Darcmon's staff." MetalKabuterimon clarified.
"That can't be!" Dinohyumon yelled, beyond stunned.
"Good idea. Dinohyumon, where is Darcmon?" BurningGreymon asked.
"I…I don't know." The lizard shamefully admitted.
Davis ran to the edge, overlooking the surviving population of the Island. "Have any of you notice that right after D'Arcmon gave her speech, she disappeared and Hippogriffomon had his? Have you even suspected that they keep disappearing? Ever saw them together in any way?"
"'For the ultimate power, return the DigiCode to the wings of the bird. Fill it with anger and fear and I shall once again appear!'" Zephyrmon recited the prophecy to the population.
Davis revealed more secrets. "Hippogriffomon aka D'Arcmon started this war to gain anger and fear to relieve Ornismon, but for bad reasons."
"Ornismon isn't a great protector. He's a terrible destroyer!" Veemon cried.
"You caused all of this because you wanted to revive Ornismon?" KendoGururumon snapped.
"A worthy cause, I'd say." Grizzlymon growled, turning to glare at the Digimon who he gave his loyalty to.
"How can you justify destroying innocent lives?" BurningGreymon accused angrily. "What kind of monster are you anyway?"
Hippogriffomon smirked. "A smarter one than you. HippoGriffomon…Slide Evolution…D'ARCMON!" Jumping up, he spun around, turning into the womanly Digimon right in front of the Digimon he/she deceived.
"We've been fighting for a lie!" Grizzlymon yelled in outrage.
"D'Arcmon betrayed us all." Dinohyumon shouted with wide eyes.
"Why would you do this?" Annalise demanded from the crowd, where everyone was asking for reasons and shouting in uncontrollable outrage.
"Ultimate power!" D'Arcmon confessed with no shame. "With Ornismon, I will rule the Digital World! Thanks for your help and your DigiCode!" She raised her staff high, giving off a wave of light. "Now, let your anger and fear fill his wings!"
"No, she's stealing our DigiCode!"
Realization dawned upon Davis as the Digi-eggs of the island hovered up into the air and sucked into eye-blinding vortexes and into D'Arcmon's staff. "The anger and fear in the Digimon…"
"Very soon, my power will be unimaginable. You should know the history of your new Queen. In ancient times, Ornismon was an evil Digimon whose thirst for power was endless. He destroyed everything in his path. AncientGreymon and AncientGarurumon defeated him and sealed him away within this island. When I first came here, I discovered the secret of Ornismon's legendary power and dedicated my life to reviving him and taking over the Digital World."
Davis turned to her, hands on hips, glaring hard. "And let me guess? You knew Kotemon and Bearmon are friends and that meant that fighting could stop through friendship. You had help in manipulating both sides again to meet things worse than ever."
D'Arcmon stared at him, eyes wide then narrowed. "She was right. You are a clever one."
"Isn't he?"
Davis froze. Veemon shivered. A sylphlike girl with skin dark as the night stepped out of the shadows.
"Kinu!" Davis snarled.
"Yes, it is me." She arrogantly gloated. Her red eyes dangerously glinted. "Delighted to see me, Davis?"
Davis snorted. "Yeah right! I soo happy to see you, Ananse!"
"You mean…?" Boarmon trailed off since she was shocked.
"That's Ananse?! Daughter of Manyu!?" Lilamon shrieked.
"So many have suffered because of your selfish greed!" Grizzlymon barked.
Dinohyumon couldn't believe this betrayal. "D'Arcmon, how could you have done something like that? You promised peace and we would be safe."
Kinu shrugged, smirking with mock. "Some promises are meant to be broken." She waved her hand. "D'Arcmon. Carry on."
D'Arcmon nodded with a smirk. Her staff shot out a wave of the DigiCode. The island shook violently as red cords came from the earth.
"What's happening?" BurningGreymon asked.
"Hello?" Jeri called as she, Alice, Suzie and Lopmon entered the cave. The kids inside looked up at the newcomers.
"Who are you?" Lori asked.
"We're Jeri, Alice, Suzie and Lopmon," Jeri answered. "DigiDestineds like you."
Calumon flew in, landing on Tommy's big orange hat. The boy yelped a bit but then he smiled at the cute Digimon.
"CUTE!" Lily squealed.
"Calumon!" Bokomon gasped, immediately looking through his book. "He can power Digivolutions!"
The cave suddenly shook as the strange red cords created a cage around the island.
"I cannot stay hidden throughout this." Lori expressed.
"Right!" Tommy nodded.
Taking a glance at his scared best friend and best friend's sister (and secret crush), Bearmon bravely stepped up to Tommy. "I wanna help."
He and Tommy shared a stare of bravery, triggering something in Tommy's D-Tector and inside Bearmon.
~Spirit Evolution~
Tommy held out his left hand, watching, with a board smile, the Fractal Code formed around it in a ring. Then he swiped his D-Tectors through it, scanning the data.
"Execute!" He shouted. After finishing the scan, the ring of data twirled around him and his clothes dissolved. "Beast Spirit Evolution!"
He screamed as his little body was engulfed in a blizzard while armour fused onto his body. He turned his new face to view, behind a mist of white.
He jumped down onto his platform with axes falling after him. He and his axes landed with a thud and he pulled his weapons out of his platform, swiping them across, leaving a white streak. "KORIKAKUMON!"
He was a white-furred bear, but he was nothing like Kumamon. He was bigger, more bear-like, like he's the abominable snowman. Brown pads were on his shoulders and stomach. He had long white dreadlocks with orange ties at the ends. His face was brown with his black Spirit symbol on his forehead and tealish-blue eyes. His hands and feet were brown and huge.
~Spirit Evolution~
Calumon tapped Lopmon on the head, crying, "Shining Digivolution!"
~Digital~
"Coronamon…Digivolve to…FIRAMON!"
"Bearmon…Digivolve to…GRIZZLYMON"
"Lopmon…Digivolve to…PRAIRIEMON!"
Lopmon changed from a bunny to a light-brown prairie dog with silver eyes, a creamy-yellow muzzle, feet and paws, which had silver gauntlets with long and sharp red claws, and long, floppy silver rabbit ears.
~Digital~
Jeri and Alice were amazed by Tommy's different Evolution. "Wow!"
"Bunny!" Suzie cooed, seeing her new Digimon.
"Tommy! I Digivolve!"
"Bearmon! I mean, Grizzlymon!" Narramon called. "If you could Digivolve by just talking to Tommy while you two were sharing bravery, then that means you're partners!"
Hearing the news, Korikakumon and Grizzlymon grinned at each other.
"Let's go, partner!" Grizzlymon roared, adorning a jolly tone unlike his brother's harshness.
On the outside of the ruins, it wasn't good.
The ear-splitting screech of a predator bird filled the air as the monster everyone fear burst out from the earth. Everyone watched it fly in horror.
"Ornismon!" BurningGreymon gasped.
"He's alive!" Dakota cried.
"No way!" Takato checked for information Ornismon in his D-Arc. "Ornismon: An ancient Digimon that went extinct in the distant past. Boasting a size beyond imagination, it is called the "Ruler of the Skies". Its personality is ferocious, and it is said that it will frequently assault other Digimon, even though they are huge. Its special attack Cosmic Ray is to fire a dazzling laser beam."
Ryo whistled low at the facts. "Man. Not even I want to tango with that birdie."
"Who's up for fried chicken?" MetalKabuterimon joked as he and his fellow Legendary Warriors, two Pure Spirits and their partners headed towards the bird.
"Ornismon, come to me. It's time to take our place in history and destroy them all!" D'Arcmon yelled as Ornismon flew near her and taking Kinu's hand, she took to the air, the green gem on her head glowing. Taking her place on the bird's head, she suddenly transformed into a demonic male Digimon. "The Digital World is ours! I control Ornismon and now I shall control all of you!"
"You don't control me!" BurningGreymon yelled as he swooped in.
"Let's stop this loser!" Lobomon yelled.
Kinu smirked with wicked delight as Ornismon caused destruction on the island, overwhelming the forces of both the Human and Beast sides.
"Protect yourselves, take cover!" Dinohyumon yelled, having no choice.
"Retreat!" Grizzlymon yelled just as desperate.
"Davis!" Jack shouted once he spotted the maroon-headed boy and his blue lizard jumping down from the mountain. His Beelzemon drove up to them and Jack pulled him and Veemon onto Beelzemon's motorcycle.
"Jack!" Davis grinned, gripping hands with the ex-evil boy. "Great to finally meet ya in person! Nice goggles!"
Jack embarrassedly blushed at the compliment. Beelzemon drove them into the ruins, driving as if he's in a motorcycle show. He evaded the disasters occurring easily and made it to the cave where the little girls and Digimon were. Bokomon and Narramon were frantically flicking through their books for any information on the traitor's true form.
"D'Arcmon is actually Murmukusmon. He can disguise himself to be any Digimon he wants." Narramon clarified.
"Mur-what?" Neemon and Kangamon asked.
"Murmukusmon, you ninnies!" Bokomon snapped. "An evil Digimon thought to be extinct!"
"Oh no!" the baby Digimon and the human girls cried.
Jack gulped. "If he's supposed to be extinct, then that is one scary fossil."
Davis stared down the hole. The Legendary Warriors weren't having any luck against the terrible bird. The Pyro Barrage from the Warrior of Flame had no effect on Ornismon. The twin Warriors of Light and Darkness's Lupine Laser and Ebony Blast missed the fast Ornismon by a mile. The Warrior of Ice summoned his axes for Avalanche Axes but Murmukusmon stopped it. Then the Pure Spirit of Steel and her playfully-smiling Dorugamon got right in front of Murmukusmon's face, giving him a glare for his troubles and used her Steel Strike on him, where she wildly attacked him with her made-of-steel swords, but he grabbed her and threw her away as the Warriors of Thunder and Wind tried to hit him with Bolo Thunder and Hurricane Gale. Their partners tried to help them, but like their humans, they failed against Ornismon. The Pure Spirit of Earth, with her Waspmon, tried to use her Storm of Rock, using rocks to cobbler Ornismon, but it didn't work.
The Tamers' Digimon were unsuccessful also. Growlmon launched his Pyro Blaster at Ornismon but the result was that he got hit instead. Kyubimon's Fox Tail Inferno was powerful, but not powerful enough. Gargomon's Gargo Pellets had no effect. Cyberdramon used Desolation Claw to delete his opponent's digital structure, but couldn't. Dakota's Garudamon used Wing Blade and got thrown away. Guardromon fired his Guardian Barrage, however he missed. MarineAngemon had to encase himself and the Tamers in a large bubble to protect them from harm. Prairiemon Hare's Ear didn't work. The new girls' BlackGatomon and BlackGabumon used Lightning Paw and Tsuno Kougeki also, but again, nothing affected the bird.
Even Lori's Firamon was no match for Ornismon.
"I have enough of this." Murmukusmon gathered pink light in his mouth, forming an orb and blasted it at the determined Digimon, sending them a few feet away.
Sweat dripped down from Davis's forehead. "This isn't working. The stupid birdbrain is too powerful!"
The 'stupid birdbrain' suddenly burst out of the hole, Murmukusmon standing on the head of the large bird. "No matter how hard you try, it won't wor-AHH!"
Suddenly his face winced in pain. He cringed, his body falling. Behind him was Kinu smirking, her poisonous hand jabbed in his back. Swiftly she snatched his pendant from him
"What are you doing?!" Murmukusmon choked. His body dissolved into Digital Partials. "We had a deal! In exchange of your help of relieving Ornismon, I would help you regenerate your father! You cannot betray me!"
Kinu hovered her lips close to his ear to dangerously whisper, "I'm not betraying you. It's just the way how you'll be regenerating my father." Just as she pulled out her hand out of his back, Murmukusmon burst into Fractal Code, sucked into the Pendant. Kinu, holding the pendant, raised her hand up, striking a pose of wickedness. "Now Ornismon is mine to control!"
Under the command of his new master, Ornismon gave a cry, blasting his dazzling laser beam at the kids.
"Noo!" Kotemon ran forward and let himself got hit instead of his friends and sister. Upon impact, he switched his Rookie body for a Digi-egg.
"No…" Tears actually fell from Davis's eyes. "Kotemon…"
Sadden and horrified, everyone cried his name out as his Digi-egg fell; the Legendary Warriors, the Pure Spirits, their partners, the Tamers, their partners, his brother Dinohyumon, his sister Penguinmon, even Grizzlymon.
Kotemon's best friend and Tommy's partner, Grizzlymon, backed away, distressed over the loss of his best friend, fighting back tears. "No…My friend..." He threw his head back as he roared. "NO! KOTEMON!"
"You monster!" Henry yelled at Kinu, who just smirked.
Kotemon's distressed sister looked down the hole from the edge. Lily came over to her, placing her hand on the Penguin's back. "I'm sorry about your brother, Penguinmon."
Penguinmon looked up, teary-eyed. She opened her wings and wrapped them around the little girl in a hug, crying in her returned hug. The exchange triggered Lily's D-Tector and in Penguinmon.
~Spirit Evolution~
Lily held her left hand out, her excitable big eyes watching the ring of data spun around her fingers. And then she swiped the ring of data with her D-Tector.
"Execute!" She cried. After finishing the scan, the ring of data twirled around him and his clothes dissolved. "Beast Spirit Evolution!"
She screamed piercing as her small body was engulfed in swirls of water while dresses attached themselves on her body. She turned her new face around, bubbles floating around.
She floated down to her platform, landing elegantly, her dresses drifted in the air and ruffled about, appearing like ocean waves. "EMPRESSMON!"
Unlike her human Spirit, she was a sophisticated young woman with penguin features instead. She had her icy-blue hair very long, only cut at the sides of her white face in a layered fashion. Her face was painted pink blush, pink eyeshadow on her sea-green eyes, and fuchsia lipstick. Her body was hunched under a Jūnihitoe* in 12 shades of blue, fastened with a fuchsia-pink obi with a fin-like bow at the back of her waist, yet she has an air of elegance. Underneath, she had a white dress-like swimsuit with a white lace-like pattern on the chest with pink buttons, white getas, and a pink trident-like tiara on her head.
~Spirit Evolution~
~Digital~
"Penguinmon…Digivolve to…DOLPHMON!"
Penguinmon changed from a penguin into a soft-blue dolphin with a white underbelly and muzzle, a red stripe on her snout, green eyes, light-blue stripes on her back, fins, extra fins on her back and tail, and a smiling mouth with teeth.
~Digital~
"Geronimo!" Dolphmon cried as she swooped down, glaring at the Digimon responsible for her brother's demise. "This is for my brother…Dolphin Kick!"
She slapped her tail at Ornismon's face, forcing his face to the side.
"Dragon Tsunami!" Empressmon summoned the water of the island's lakes and rivers, creating a tsunami and brought it down on Ornismon.
Although the bird stayed undefeated, everyone laughed at the way the bird's feathers were dripping in water and Kinu was soaked head to toe with a scowl.
"Alright, Lily!" Davis cheered, pumping his fist. That was the first successful move they against Ornismon!
"Celebrate while you can…You won't be alive for long!" Electro mocked from his place in Kinu's arms.
"I really hate that bug." Veemon grumbled.
Down below, Naomi ran out from her hiding spot to catch Kotemon's egg before it could be an omelette. She ran with her arms out, caught the egg but tripped in the process, making her skid on her side. Naomi winced as she struggled to move. Her wounds sizzled and stung. The injuries reminded her of Davis's in Yoyogi Park.
"Naomi!" Labramon dashed to her side, starting licking her wounds.
Naomi weakly smiled under her bushy hair, undone from her pigtails. She glanced at the egg, perfectly safe under her arm. Then she glowered at the monster. And Ornismon.
She stumbled onto her feet, near fainting with arms locked around the egg. But she stayed strong, staring hard and stern at the Princess of Nightmares.
"Kinu!" She called, catching the evil princess's attention, as well as everyone else's. "Come down here. Now!" She called so sternly and firm. Kinu smirked, but had Ornismon swooped down to her. Naomi showed no fear as she faced them. "I'm warning you, stop this ruthlessness now."
Kinu cruelly laughed from her place on Ornismon's head. "Stop sounding like you run the place, princess. You're powerless to stop me."
But Naomi did not back down. "I may not have my Spirit. Or remember what I did as Sakuramon…But I know I care about the Digimon just as strongly as I do now. I do not care if I am foolish to go against you as a human girl. I won't let Kotemon's sacrifice be in vain and I will not let the day pass without justice!"
{Cue Naomi's Theme Song: Let It Grow (Celebrate the World) by Ester Dean}
Suddenly, when she made her declaration, her chest glowed with the kanji symbol for 'Wood'. Kinu flinched from the light and Ornismon flew away. Kotemon's Digi-egg dissolved into partials and twirled around her.
Plant a seed inside the Earth
Just one way to know it's worth
When we celebrate the world
Celebrate the world
Come on and
Celebrate the world
Celebrate the world
The essence of Kotemon sucked into the ground, sprouting a small plant from a seed within the earth, and then grew into a tree with the top of an unopened blossom. When the blossom bloomed, it showed a figurine painted with gold and cyan-blue, with a dog with a blossom on it.
All you gotta do
All you gotta do is live your life
Be true, live your life, be true
And never be afraid, never be afraid to grow, grow
Grow, grow…
Curious, Naomi took out her glowing D-Tector. She looked at the figurine in the flower, catching the image of her past life in its place. Knowing what she must do, she pointed her D-Tector at the figure and pulled it in by a streak of light. On the Tector's screen, the symbol for 'Wood' that was on her chest shown up.
She smiled, holding her D-Tector to her chest. "Thank you, Kotemon…"
It don't matter how you got it
It's yours now, don't you hide it
Let it grow
Let it grow
~Spirit Evolution~
Her Spirit Evolution was performed differently, like Koichi's. She moved like she was dancing, gracefully waving her arms above her head and brought her left arm down with her hand out, a ring of Fractal Code formed around her fingers. With her right arm, she held it up and took her D-tector as it appeared out of light sparkles, and brought it down to scan the Fractal Code.
"Execute!" She yelled. She completed scanning the Fractal Code and the ring of data twirled around her, her clothes vanished. "Spirit Evolution!"
Flower petals spun around her as her body turned black, buzzing with a second layer of blue Data and cyan-blue strips of fabric wrapped themselves on her.
Finished, she turned her beautiful new face to the side, overlooking her shoulder coyly, curtained by a golden veil, which happened to be her new hair.
She glided down to her platform, landing perfectly on her feet and swirled around in an elegant dance spin, spinning fast yet steady, and then stopped with her leg out. She swiped the air twice with the two gold Gunbai fans in her hands, and then settled them and her arms by her sides.
"SAKURAMON!"
~Spirit Evolution~
Let the love inside you show it
Just one way to know you're worth it
Let it grow
Let it grow
~Digital~
"Labramon…Digivolve to…CERBERUMON!"
Labramon transformed into a large, yellow-eyed black hound with a short grey mane with long sideburns tied with purple wraps, sharp metallic claws on hers paws and also protruding from her wrists and ankles, dog heads on her shoulders, and a red jaw on her mouth, where she looked like a big bad wolf with sharp teeth.
~Digital~
Just believe and you're almost there
Use your heart to show you care
Come on and celebrate the world
Celebrate the world
Come on and
Celebrate the world
Yeah
Everyone on the entire island, DigiDestined and Digimon, stared down at the bottom of the hole with mixtures of surprised emotions at Naomi in her Spirit form.
"Whoa!" Takato and his Tamers awed. Even Rika was impressed.
"Pwetty!" Suzie cooed.
JagerLoweemon had his jaw open and eyes varied at the size of soccer balls.
"Golly gosh!" Anya gasped. "How picturesque!"
"Beautiful is too simple for ya?" Annalise joked.
"Well, I'm at a very high height on a flying bird and cannot get a closer look so 'Picturesque' seems appropriate."
"That's Naomi's Spirit?" BurningGreymon questioned, bewildered.
Beelzemon wolf-whistled. "Hubba, hubba!"
"Beelzemon!" Jack scolded.
"It cannot be!" Dinohyumon gasped.
"The Princess!" Grizzlymon gasped also.
"She's here! She's finally here!" Narramon cried as she happily ran in circles with Kangamon, Neemon, and the Baby Digimon.
Bokomon cried tears of joy as he looked down at her. "She's more beautiful than I imaged!"
All you gotta do
All you gotta do is live your life
Be true, live your life, be true
And never be afraid, never be afraid to grow, grow
Grow, grow
"Kotemon relieved someone better!" Zephyrmon yelled happily.
"Princess Sakuramon!" Empressmon and Dolphmon squealed.
"His essence relieved her Spirit. It must've been lost since Naomi's departure." Garurumon theorised.
JagerLoweemon said nothing, just gawking at Princess Sakuramon. KendoLobomon chuckled at his brother's display.
"Grizzlymon, get over here." Korikukamon said to his partner.
The bear-like Digimon was too busy mourning to realize what his friend's sacrifice did. "Leave me alone." He looked up, seeing his partner coming towards him. "What is it? Hey, cut it out!" Korikukamon started pushing him over to the edge, making see the Pure Spirit down below in golden glory, and making him smile. He realized, "Kotemon's a hero. He revived the Princess and now we have all the Warriors." He threw his head back to road boomingly, crying tears of happiness. "Hail Kotemon!"
"Hail Kotemon!" Everyone cheered.
It don't matter how you got it
It's yours now, don't you hide it
Let it grow
Let it grow
Princess Sakuramon, the Princess of Digimon and the Pure Spirit of Wood, was a beautiful creature, with golden fur and a tall and slim figure. She had wide and big, shoulder-length, light-golden cherry blossom petals as hair, light-pink/golden blossoms on top of her head, appearing as a shimmering veil, along with a long light-golden petal for a tail and long blossoms as dog ears. Her lovely face was painted in traditional geisha make-up with white facepaint, just baring her cute pink nose, thick black eyeliner along her clear, pupil-less cyan-blue eyes, plump cherry-pink lips and a rosy blush. She was dressed in a cyan bodysuit with the top part in a kimono-style with her Spirit symbol upon her chest as a mark, furisode sleeves with a delicate pink blossom-flowing-in-the-breeze pattern, a gold Obi sash under her chest and tied into a bow in the back, a pink blossom on the left side of her sash, and the bottom part had long pants with wide legs and ends that resembles flower petals with darker-cyan rims. Golden-furred footpads peeked out wearing golden geta. In her hands, she wielded two gold Gunbai fans with cyan blossoms and creamy-white ribbons tied around the handle.
She raised her hand. "Hail Kotemon!" Her voice was crystal-clear and kind yet powerful enough to be heard.
The island's remaining natives erupted into cheers and cries.
Let the love inside you show it
Just one way to know you're worth it
Let it grow
Let it grow
The celebration ended the moment Princess Sakuramon brought her hand down. The cheers immediately stopped. An air of intenseness floated.
The Princess raised her head up to Ornismon and Kinu riding him. Sakuramon glared at the two for causing harm to her people.
She bent her legs and sprinted off into a dash, her Cerberumon running at her side. She jumped up as she shouted, "Leaf Fan Spin!"
She spun around rapidly while at the same time, holding her fans above her head and spinning them rapidly too. She struck Ornismon in the face with her Leaf Fan Spin and got away before he could strike her.
"Sakura Bloom!" She thrust her arms out, gathering golden specks of energy and launched a great beam at Ornismon, successfully causing the bird to cry in pain.
It's your turn now
To show your worth now
Open up your heart and let it grow
It's your turn now
To showyour worth now
Open up your heart and let it grow
Kinu growled angrily. This wasn't part of her plan. She grabbed a fistful of Ornismon's feathers on his neck and yanked it hard. Ornismon threw his up, roaring, flying up. Kinu held out her Digivice. It blinked a light and a black and violet portal swirled in front of her.
"Oh no! She's getting away!" The Digimon cried.
"Not if I have any say about it." Sakuramon stated sternly. "Sakuramon…Slide Evolution…DOMESTICMON!"
She changed into her Beast Spirit, a slender humanoid dog standing on her four legs. She resembled a Spanador, a cocker spaniel/Labrador mix. She had a light-golden curly mane and sleek golden fur. Her cyan eyes had pupils. Her ears were big dog ears with curls and peek out from under her mane, and her tail was dog-like, sleek and full furred and curled inwards at the tip like Seasarmon's tail. She also had a deep-cyan-blue amour with gold petal-like details all over her body except for her paws, tail, face and ears. Two gold-bordered blue gem blossoms with her Spirit symbol in the centre on each side of her head.
It don't matter how you got it
(It don't matter)
It's yours now, don't you hide it
(Show it now)
Let it grow
Let it grow
"Leaf Tornado!" She summoned leaves as her gems flickered, launching them at Ornismon and slashing him.
"Haven's Rise!" She leapt forward, her gems glowing, unleashing great bright energy from the ground in the style of trees at Ornismon, bringing him down.
"Sakura Jab!" Then she released greater energy from her gems, firing them and released bursts.
Let the love inside you show it
Just one way to know you're worth it
Let it grow
Let it grow
Ornismon tried to blast his attack at her, but she evaded him with ease, grace and elegant.
Kinu had enough so she stood up, using her Asp Bandage to entrapped Domesticmon's throat, choking her to distract her, in pull her in and deliver a Poisonous Jab to a pressure point on the dog, paralyzing her and let her fell. Cerberumon lunged at her, but Kinu paralyze her too. She took the chance to escape to her portal and disappear with Ornismon.
* Kitsune means 'Fox' in Japanese and is also is a mythical shapeshifting demon in Japanese folklore. Sadie's spirits are based on foxes and kitsune.
* Jūnihitoe is an Empress Kimono consisting of 12 layers of robes, worn by Japanese empresses.