Yo guys, Lunamon810 here. With the next chapter of Digimon: The Crest of Trust! I worked hard on this one, and I think I'm finally pleased with the length of one of my chapters. Anyway, I'm working on making a website for this right now! It'll probably be 'released' today or tomorrow, sometime soon, 'cause I just gotta make a few more pages on it. Oh, and if you'd like to see the trailer I made with actual anime clips, go on youtube and search 'Digimon: The Crest of Trust Theme' and the user is Desiree Graves. Anyway, now that I'm done with advertisement. xD Anyway the beginning is kinda boring, with all the singing and such, but I promise you this is one of the best chapters I've ever wrote. It's my favorite chapter!
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Claimer: I do own Amber & Seth.
So Amber along with the others decided to head way to the grasslands to up the villages and digging streams connecting them to water. Very soon, they were joined by none other than Yoeli and Cody. Amber explained to them what happened and explained everything they miss. Myotismon soon arrived in a carriage with Clary who was insisting to help out. Even after Myotismon insulted at the attempt to fix the villages, they still continued on. Looks like Seth has more people to persuade to come to his side. Will this ever stop?
Amber woke up the next morning, not feeling quite right. She kept her eyes closed, still laying next to Davis with her head on his chest. She was really dizzy. She forced her eyes open, to see Davis already awake once again. She lifted her head up, and swayed around a little bit, before falling straight back, her head hitting the pillow.
"You don't look like you feel too good." Davis said. "You're kind of pale. I think you should stay here today."
"But what about the grassland?" Amber asked.
"I can handle it myself." Davis said.
"You sure?"
"Yeah." he said. "Don't worry."
"Will you see if Clary can come up?" Amber asked.
"Sure." he said, patted her head, ruffled her hair a little, then walked out.
Amber closed her eyes for a minute, then stood up. She went to the bathroom and changed to a dark brown t-shirt with a crop-jacket with short sleeves. She put on a pair of black shorts, and her normal dark brown fingerless gloves. Once she brushed her hair and teeth, she was done. When she opened the bathroom door, she saw Clary and Seth in the hallway. Seth handed Clary a padded black bag.
"I know you miss Renamon, I thought maybe you could get your mind off of it with this." he said.
Clary unzipped the bag. A shiny expensive looking black camera awaited her hand inside. She slipped her hand in the strap, and smiled at Seth. "Thanks."
"No problem." he turned and saw Amber. He smiled.
"Hey sis. So you don't feel good?" he asked.
"Yeah, just feel kinda off today." Amber said.
"Well I'm sure Davis will be fine working on the Grassland today. Oh, I've gotta go, see you later." he said, then left. Clary walked in Amber's room, and closed the door behind her. Amber sat down in the desk chair, Clary on the edge of the bed.
"Did you need something?" Clary asked.
"I just wanted to talk to you. I know this has all gotta be hard for you, and hard to follow. And I bet you miss Renamon." Amber said. "I promise, when this is all over, I'll be the Amber again you knew from the orphanage, the innocent Amber. The one who's not depressed and up-tight...I don't know how to tell you...but I know what you feel...you feel..."
Amber quickly picked up her guitar. She strummed to the beat of a song she'd heard once. "She never slows down. She doesn't know why but she knows that when she's all alone, feels like it's all coming down. She won't turn around. The shadows are long and she fears if she cries that first tear, the tears will not stop raining down. So stand in the rain! Stand your ground. Stand up when it's all crashing down. You stand through the pain. You won't drown. And one day, whats lost can be found. You stand in the rain. She won't make a sound. Alone in this fight with herself and the fears whispering if she stands she'll fall down. She wants to be found. The only way out is through everything she's running from wants to give up and lie down. So stand in the rain. Stand your ground. Stand up when it's all crashing down. You stand through the pain. You won't drown. And one day, whats lost can be found. You stand in the rain. So stand in the rain. Stand your ground. Stand up when it's all crashing down. Stand through the pain. You won't drown. And one day, whats lost can be found. So stand in the rain. Stand your ground. Stand up when it's all crashing down. You stand through the pain. You won't drown. And one day, whats lost can be found. You stand in the rain."
When Amber was done, she met Clary's eyes. Clary understood her already, but singing a song from a real band just didn't seem sincere enough to Amber. She started strumming a slightly slow beat. She sang the words as they came to her. "You try to stand strong. Stand up to who do you wrong. When someone's a devil. You try to keep your heart level. It's a never ending fight. And you use up all your might. Then when you fall down to your knees. It's something that makes your heart unpleased. 'Cause don't you know. You're not alone. Don't you know. Although your heart feels blown. Just keep your faith. In your life. Your heart I'll save. Before the take away the light. That you've fought so hard to hide. Your faith feels broken. I can tell. It's the sole thing. Your heart yells. It shattered down, everywhere. When you learned life isn't fair. You don't dare put faith in anyone. 'Cause you know if you do bad is sure to come. But you'll never know the feeling, if you don't try. To fly. 'Cause you don't know. You're not alone. Don't you know. Although your heart feels blown. Just keep your faith. In your life. Your heart I'll save. Before the take away the light. That you've fought so hard to hide. Hard to hide. Hard to hide. Hard to hide. Hard to hide. No one. No faith .No help. No escape. Trapped inside. You hide. Yourself. But." She spoke the next part."You're not alone.. Don't you know. Although your heart feels blown. Just keep your faith. In your life. Your heart I'll save. Before the take away the light. That you've fought so hard to hide." she went back to singing. "'But you're not alone. I'm here now. I know we can escape somehow. Together you and me. Don't you know. You're not alone."
Clary smiled at her. "You wrote that."
Amber nodded. She smiled at Clary, then started strumming her guitar for Breakaway. "Duet?"
"Sure."
"Grew up in a small town. And when the rain would fall down. I'd just stare out my window. Dreaming of what could be. And if I'd end up happy. I would pray. (I would pray). Trying hard to reach out. But when I tried to speak out. Felt like no one could hear me. Wanted to belong here. But something felt so wrong here. So I prayed I could break away. I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly. I'll do what it takes til' I touch the sky. And I'll make a wish. Take a chance. Make a change. And breakaway. Out of the darkness and into the sun. But I won't forget all the ones that I love. I'll take a risk. Take a chance. Make a change. And breakaway. Wanna feel the warm breeze. Sleep under a palm tree. Feel the rush of the ocean. Get onboard a fast train. Travel on a jet plane, far away (I will). And breakaway. Buildings with a hundred floors. Swinging around revolving doors. Maybe I don't know where they'll take me but. Gotta keep moving on, moving on. Fly away, breakaway. I'll spread my wings. And I'll learn how to fly. Though it's not easy to tell you goodbye. I gotta take a risk. Take a chance. Make a change. And breakaway. Out of the darkness and into the sun. But I won't forget the place I come from. I gotta take a risk. Take a chance. Make a change. And breakaway, breakaway, breakaway." They sang in perfect unison. When they were done, Amber and Clary smiled at each other.
"We used to sing that all the time at the orphanage." Clary said.
"Yeah, we did." Amber said.
They were interrupted by a loud, wall-shaking rumble of thunder. Out of nowhere rain pounded down, so hard Amber couldn't see out the window. Her jaw dropped and eyes widened in horror. The digidestined were all out there, even some they didn't know where they were. Lightning struck the forest in the distance, and the trees caught fire. Amber screamed, and dropped to her knees, putting her head in her hands. She snapped up after a few seconds, grabbed Clary's wrist, and ran full speed, Clary keeping up easily.
"Seth!" she called. "Seth!"
Seth burst out of one of the rooms at the end of the hall. Amber released Clary, and ran at Seth, running straight into him, holding him tightly. She couldn't lose him again. Especially not to fire.
"It's okay Amber." he said, hugging her. "I'm okay, we're both going to be fine."
Amber gasped, ran to her room, put on a heavy black rain jacket, and ran out her room, past her brother and best friend, down the several flights of stairs, and straight out the front. She ran straight to the forest, ignoring everyone in there. She knew someone was there, something just told her. She saw them almost as soon as she was at the edge. Tazzie, Gabumon X, And Renamon. They were caught in the fast-going river in the middle of the forest. Amber held on tight to a tree with her right arm and stretched her left to Tazzie, who was being held onto by Renamon and Gabumon X.
"Tazzie! Grab my hand!" She said.
Tazzie was gripping onto a big rock for dear life. The wind blew her hair around, along with Amber's, as she squinted, looking up at Amber. She lifted her right hand to Amber, and Amber started to do her best to get them out. She slipped, but someone grabbed her from behind. Matt held her around her waist, and then Sora wrapped her hands around his waist, and pulled. Seth did the same for her, Davis the same for him. Yolei got Davis around the waist, then Izzy, then Mimi, then Clary, then Cody, Then Willis. The water was strong, but they managed to pull them out after a minute or two. Lightning struck again, setting the forest on fire on the other side of the stream. Amber whirled around and walked straight to Seth and shoved him out. "No being near fire!"
Clary and Amber helped Tazzie walk, as it looked like she sprained her ankle during all of this. They all forced theirselves back to the castle, where the digimon awaited them. Everyone was soaking wet- expecially Tazzie, Renamon, and Gabumon X. Everyone agreed to meet back in the dining room in fifteen. They all dried off and changed, unless they were digimon since they don't wear clothes. Amber changed into a t-shirt like her old one, dark brown with dark yellow sleeves, and blue jeans, and a new pair of matching dark brown leather gloves.
When Amber got down, she notably more pale. Amber And Davis walked, Amber leaning against him. Matt rushed over to her when she started to fall and caught her. Her eyes flickered back open. "Sorry." She said, then stood back up.
"You don't look too good Amb." he said as he and Davis helped her to a seat. Davis sat to her left, Matt to her right, Sora to Matt's right, then Clary to Davis's left. Renamon sat next to Clary, and across from Amber Seth sat, Izzy and Mimi to his right, Yolei and Cody to his left. Tazzie sat to Renamon's left, the Gabumon X. The other digimon sat wherever they could closest to their digidestined.
The group ate while Seth talked about what'd they do in various situations, preparing them. Apparently this storm would not blow over any time soon.
Adriane, Ken, and Demi woke up in a dimly lit room. They were shocked to find themselves untied. They heard thunder and lightning raging on outside, continuously and hard. Adriane loosely held Ken, scared of what was going on. "Ken? Where are we?"
"I don't know..." Ken said.
"Foolish kids, you're at the castle of course." Arukenimon said from behind, making all three jump.
"What do you want from us!" Demi demanded.
"For you to join our side of course!" Arukenimon said."Your little friends did. Amber, Clary, Davis, Matt, Sora, Izzy, Mimi, TK, Cody, and Yolei. All of them agreed to join us, so why not you?"
"Because we don't believe you." Demi said. "Let us talk to them."
"Very well. Mummymon."
Mummymon forced some type of handcuffs on them, and the two pushed all three of them through the large castle, to the dining room. When the door opened, everyone directed their attention to them.
"Ah, hello Armukenimon, Mummymon. And Adriane, Ken, and Demi. How may we help you?" Seth said.
"Amber?" Adriane said. "Matt? Davis? Guys what the heck is going on here! And just how do you know us?"
"I'm the human king, I know who everyone is." Seth said smilling. "Release them please, I'd like for them to join us."
After doing so, the two digimon left. Labramon, Gatsumon, and Wormmon came in a few minutes after they sat down, as they began eating, Seth and Amber explained everything, from TK being there, to whom Seth was, to how they were all 'evil' now.
"So, will you join us?" Seth asked.
The three were silent. Ken and Amber exchanged slightly pained, sad faces. They'd both been evil before, and they didn't like it.
"Not so sure I wanna go evil." Demi said.
"It's not a very good feeling for us." Ken agreed.
"Been there, done that." Adriane put in.
"I guess you should return to the dungeon then-"
"Fine." Demi said. "I'll be part of your stupid team."
Adriane sighed, and looked away from Ken. "Fine."
"I guess if she's staying, I am too." Ken agreed.
"Wonderful." Seth said smiling.
"Yes, wonderful." Amber said under her breath. "More of us are evil."
Since nobody had understood what she said, Seth looked at her. "Huh?"
"Nothing." Amber said quickly, and continued eating.
When they were done, Amber noticed Matt staring at her. She stared back. "What?"
"You're really pale." he said.
"You are." Clary agreed.
"Uh-huh." Davis said.
"Maybe you should go lay down." Seth said.
"I ain't going anywhere by myself with a storm like this going on."
"Fine, follow me." Seth said, and lead all thirty-six, including himself, into a large living-room like room. Davis made Amber lay down on the couch, but she only did so since he sat down on the right side, and she laid down so her back was on his lap and head was on the arm of the couch. He stroked her hair softly, just staring at her worriedly, along with Matt, Seth, and TK. It didn't matter to them who was blood and who wasn't, all three of them were her brother, and she didn't feel good.
"So what about the others?" Adriane asked. "They're all out there somewhere."
"Who are we missing anyway?" Mimi asked.
"Tai, Kari, Felix, Felicia, Joe..." Izzy said.
"There are a few other new digidestined too." Seth said. Amber's eyes opened, and she looked at Seth. Seth smiled at her.
"Great." she said sighing, leaning back. "How many exactly?"
"Um..." he said thinking. "Carter, Lana, Ren, Luna, and we've mentioned the others."
"Seth we need to get them here. It's dangerous out there." Amber said.
"Shall I send Etemon and the others to get them?"
"Oh yeah, 'cause you would accept help from a monkey you don't know." Amber said standing up.
"Amber, you need to relax." Matt said. "You're sick."
"I'm not sick." Amber said stubbornly. "But we're gonna have a bunch of dead kids on our hands if we don't do something. And some of those kids are your friends, Matt."
Matt was a little shocked at this, and he shut himself up. He and Seth exchanged a glance, and both nodded. They couldn't force her to relax, but they could try anyway.
"Sis, just chill." Seth said, walking forward, putting his hands on her shoulders, and lightly pushing down, guiding her to sit down again. "We'll figure this out, but you have to settle down, or else you'll make yourself even worse."
"I'm fine Seth." Amber insisted.
"Amber, if you saw yourself right now you'd think you were a Bakemon." TK said. "Just relax. All of us are going to figure out how to save the others."
Amber sighed. Davis put his arm around her, and Matt finally asked a question he'd wondered for a while now.
"When did you two become so close?" Matt asked.
Amber instantly picked up a couch pillow and threw it at Matt as a response. "Hey!"
"What? Something wrong with us?"Amber asked teasingly.
"No, I just would like to know what happened in the past week that got you two so close." Matt said, smirking.
"Yeah, it seemed to happen over-night when you two woke up that morning." Willis said.
"You don't want to know." TK said.
"TK!" Amber exclaimed. "You were...listening in?"
"I could read your thoughts and such, and I was, at the moment yes." TK said smirking.
"I'm gonna kill you." Amber said facepalming.
"TK what happened?" Matt asked.
Seth raised his eyebrows. "I'd like to know this myself actually."
Amber growled, narrowing her eyes. "Don't you dare shadow boy."
TK looked between Amber and Matt. "They-"
Amber threw her pillow at TK. "Anyway, guys we've got a bunch of digidestined thrown around everywhere here in the middle of a storm that seems to represent the essence of anger. How do we round 'em up?" Amber asked.
"Something just occured to me." TK said.
"Huh?" Amber asked.
"Patamon's out there." TK said looking out the window.
Amber froze while she stared at the window. She thought about the orange-tan digimon she'd seen at the soccer field the second day she'd lived with Matt. She couldn't stop herself from imagining it struggling to hold onto anything to keep it from blowing away and getting hurt. Amber stood up and walked to the window, her arms crossed. She still didn't feel good, but she couldn't go weak now. She had to make sure everyone was ok. The lights flickered, and Amber responded by glaring at the ceiling lights.
"We've got a lot of people to save." she said bluntly. "But we're getting nowhere just standing here."
"You're not going anywhere." Matt said sternly. "You're sick."
"I'm fine." Amber said sharply, going back to staring out the window.
"So should I send some digimon to find them?" Seth asked.
"I don't think they'd trust any random digimon." Amber said.
"Well we're at even more of a loss if any of us go out there and get lost or hurt." Clary spoke up. Amber turned her head just slightly, enough to see Clary out of the corner of her eye towards the left. She had her arms crossed. "You worse than I was when I got the flu. And worse than Luna when she got swine flu."
Amber recalled their friend Luna from the orphanage. She stared at the window, but with a disconnected look. Didn't Seth say a girl from the orphanage was here? "Seth, what were those names again?"
"Carter, Ren, Luna-"
Clary and Amber met each other's eyes, Amber pretty much looking over her shoulder, her arms now much less loose, unforming from their crossed position. Amber turned around, her back now towards the window while she and Clary stared at each other. Was it the Luna from the orphanage that made her way here?
"Luna what?" Amber asked.
"I don't know." Seth said.
Amber had that disconnected look on her face again. She had to figure out where they were.
"Seth, don't you have one of those tracker monitors or something?" Amber asked.
"Oh yeah, we could use that to figure out where they are." he nodded, and everyone followed him up the stairs and down a few hallways, into a circular room that wall was literally all screen. There were red points everywhere, each with a name above it. There was a huge cluster at a icon-version of the castle, which were all them. The screens flickered due to the storm around them.
Amber caught sight of one labeled 'Luna, which was on top of a mountain. Down at the base of the mountain were three labeled 'Carter', 'Tai', and 'Kari'. then all the screens shut off with the lights. Amber closed her eyes, and Davis put his arm around her. Matt grabbed her left hand, and his left arm was around Sora, TK right in front of him. Seth put his hand on her shoulder from behind. Renamon defensively wrapped her arms around Clary, while Gabumon X and Tazzie just stood close by each other. Izzy and Mimi held hands, Willis leaned against a screen, Terriermon and Lopmon at his feet. Ken hugged Adriane tight with Labramon and Wormmon at their feet, and Demi held Gazimon. All the digimon were by their digidestined. It almost pitch black, they could just barely see each other.
"Seth, how do we get out?" Amber said.
"The door's electronic."
Amber swallowed. She thought so.
"We're stuck in here?" Mimi said.
"It's okay Mimi." Izzy said, protectively put his arm around her.
Matt, Amber, Davis, and Seth went to the wall behind them and sat down, Izzy and Mimi sat down against a wall, Willis sat with the twin digimon against the wall, Adraine, Ken, and Demi against the circular wall as well, to the left of the door. Everyone was against the wall soon. Amber sat hugging her knees, Davis' arm around her shoulders.
Loud cracks of thunder echoed around in the background, and they felt the ground shake every once in awhile, so they assumed lightning struck several times. Amber was slightly shaking, and when she looked at Davis, she didn't know what happened. They leaned in, and they kissed. The world around her dissolved away, all she could focus on was Davis for the moment. After a few seconds they pulled away, and Amber leaned against Davis and took a deep breath. Matt had watched the entire thing with his slightly adjusted eyes, and he just turned away, not wanting to disturb her. Seth did the same.
"How long will the storm last?" Mimi asked.
"There's no telling around here." Seth said.
"What if we die in here- what if we starve or dehydrate!" Mimi exclaimed.
"It's okay Mimi," Sora said. "that won't happen."
"I'm sure Meramon or someone will break the door down before that can happen." Seth said.
"And I'm sure I could get us out somehow if it comes to that. It's not easy to do though, so we should wait." Wizardmon said.
Amber felt dizzy, really dizzy. And all the sudden, she collapsed. Her legs stretched out in front of her, she slid down, and her head rolled to the left.
"Amber!" Davis exclaimed. It was obvious she hadn't simply fell asleep.
"Amber!" Matt exclaimed right after.
"Sis!" Seth exclaimed.
"Amb!" TK said.
All four sat on their knees around her. The other digidestined stared, scared to move, not breathing too hard or anything.
"I knew she was sick." Matt said.
"She wouldn't listen." Seth said. "She just wanted to save the others."
"Did this ever happen before Seth?" TK asked.
"Once." Seth said. "After she'd slept for a week out of stress, about a three months later she passed out at school. I wasn't in the room, I was a few grades higher, but the second I heard it I convinced them to let me go home with her. She didn't wake up for a few hours, but I was talking to her while she was asleep when she woke up."
The other three nodded. The silence rang in everyone's ears, and Mimi started to whimper, and Izzy whispered to her, in an attempt to comfort her. Matt fully set back down, sighing. Sora gave him a sympathetic look. "Sorry Matt. I'm sure she's fine..." Matt just nodded.
It started to become noticeably cold in the room, with the metal-like floor and screens. Davis took off his jacket and put Amber in it when he noticed her shivering. He held her up, half hugging her. A hour or two passed with no progress on Amber or getting out. Davis let Seth hold Amber now, and now Seth held Amber by her upper back. He hugged her, letting a few tears roll out. This was his fault. She'd gotten too stressed. She wouldn't have he hadn't been putting her through all of this.
The room suddenly started getting really hot. To everyone's horror, smoke seeped through the cracks around the door as red light glowed through. Amber's eyes fluttered open while most of them stood up. Amber's eyes closed for a second, then flashed open and she jumped up. "Seth!"
"I'm right here." Seth said standing up behind her. Davis was to her right, Seth behind her, Matt and Sora to her left. Ken stood defensively in front of Adriane, who clung onto his right shoulder, her eyes burried in his shoulder, crying. Clary was quivering, Terrified Mimi started crying her eyes out into Izzy's shoulder while he hugged her tight. A tiny line of fire seeped into the room.
"Tear shot!" Lunamon said, and water hit the flame, momentarily putting it out.
"Amber?" Clary said. Amber walked over to Clary and held her by her wrist. "Is this how it ends?"
"No." Amber said shaking her head. "It can't be."
Gabumon, Gabumon X, and Lunamon took turns at putting out the flames. The couples mostly stood hugging each other, mentally denying thoughts of death. The ones without a mate just stood, trying to keep their faces straight. Wizardmon took a deep breath. "I can only teleport us one at a time."
"Take Amber first, please." Seth said.
Slowly, the others nodded in agreement. Amber's face changed into fear as she grabbed Davis' hand. "It'll be okay." he said. "I'll see you soon."
Amber wiped the tears away from her eyes and took Wizardmon's hand. She took one last look at her brothers and Clary, then Davis, then she closed her eyes as she felt the world around her disappear and reappear. They were outside, a safe distance from the castle but it was still in sight. Only a fourth of it was on fire.
"Save them Wizardmon." Amber said. "Please."
"Don't worry Amber." he said, then disappeared.
It seemed like an eternity to Amber as she waited for someone to come with Wizardmon. She held Davis' jacket tight. She was under tree, and the leaves and branches only allowed her to get a little bit wet. She thought of Wizardmon getting caught on fire before he could save anyone or himself. She knew Lucemon could teleport too. Where was he?
Over at the castle they were trying to have a fast discussion of who'd go when. They decided on Seth to go next, to keep Amber from getting tramatized. Seth looked at Matt, their eyes meeting. The only thing they wanted was Amber to be safe.
"If I don't make it out of here take good care of our sister Seth." Matt said.
"I promise." Seth said, then Wizardmon teleported them out. They appeared where Amber was, and Seth immediately pulled his sister into a big hug. Amber started full out crying while Wizardmon went back. Matt came next. Davis wanted to make sure Amber still had all of her brothers before he'd let himself go. Amber stood with one arm around each of her brothers. Next was TK. He And Matt stood side by side. Then Sora. Davis was now determined to get everyone out. Wizardmon got Yolei while Lucemon was speedy at getting all the digimon out, besides the three who insisted on staying since they had water powers. Wizardmon got Cody out, while Renamon mustered up enough of her strength to get her and Clary out. Renamon was too weak to get more then them out.
Wizardmon got Tazzie out, after her being mad about having to leave Gabumon X behind. Izzy insisted on Mimi and Palmon getting out next. Adriane insisted on Demi getting out, the two being best friends. Demi looked at Adriane before they teleported away. "Stand strong empress of peace."
"You too, rocker of determination." Adriane said smiling weakly. Wizardmon and Lucemon disappeared with Demi and Gazimon. When they returned, Ken looked at Adriane. "Your turn."
"I don't want to leave you."Adriane said as some flames sped in too quick for the digimon to tackle. They got some of it out, but some of it went in between the cracks of the monitors.
"I promise I'll be out soon." Ken said, and kissed her quickly. He pushed her at Wizardmon, who took her and Labramon from their sights. Ken, Davis, and Willis remained.
"One of us has to go at a time." Terriermon said.
"Your right." Lopmon said.
"You go sis." Terriermon said.
"But Terriremon, the flames-"
"Willis already almost lost you once." Terriermon said. "Your going first."
Wizardmon reappeared as the room was cut in half with flames. He grabbed Willis, as Lucemon did Lopmon. They quickly teleported back to the others.
"Davis is still in there." Amber said. "Is he ok?"
"The room is split in half by flames."Wizardmon said. "I don't know that it's safe to go back."
"No." Amber said. "He and Lunamon are both in there!"
Something at the bottom of the tree caught her eye. It was a box. She opened it. Something Matt recognized laid inside. Ten crests.
"Give those to the new digidestined." Wizardmon said.
Amber handed one to Clary and one to Tazzie. She put one around her neck. The put the others in Davis' jacket pocket. Hers started glowing a second later as she thought about Davis, Ken, Lunamon, Gabumon, Gabumon X, and Terriermon still trapped inside. She noticed something in the ground now. It looked like a rose split in half by a sharp rock with a twisted cross engraved on it. Wizardmon nodded at her as she looked at him and the rock. She laid her tag against it, and it transformed into a crest like her brothers. She put it in her tag and put it on. She held the tag in her hand, it's rope still around her neck. "Come on Lunamon."
On the inside of the castle, Lunamon froze when she felt weird. Flames were all over the room. "Lunamon digivolve to, Lekismon! Lekismon digivolve to, Crescemon!" Lunamon was now much taller and had big axes in her metal gloved hands. She had blue and silver armor, and Silver boots. She had a black helmet. She had crescent moons on her knees. She stomped out the flames and bashed the door and walls down, and continued to do so until she'd lead Davis, Ken, Lunamon, Gabumon, Gabumon X, and Terriermon out of the room and to the front of the castle. They didn't have to bash down the door, the fire was far behind them.
Over in the distance no one could see the door open. Adriane burst out crying again. "Ken!" Amber felt herself shaking, and she pushed past everyone and ran to the castle. No one would let anyone run after her. This was her own decision.
She was shocked when she saw the door was open. She ran on, and soon saw Davis. She ran straight into him, crying. He held her tight, both were soaked. Crescemon dedigivolved to Moonmon, who hopped into Amber's arms. All of them ran back to the tree, Amber leading them. Adriane cried harder when she saw Ken, and ran out from under the shelter of the tree as well. She hugged Ken tight, happier than she could put into words. Willis and Lopmon had to also slow their own tears when they saw their precious Terriermon. Tazzie and Matt dropped to their knees, still under the tree, and let their partner run to them, and hugged them tightly. Amber hugged Davis and Lunamon both, all three still soaking wet. Amber would never let them out of her sight now. "I thought I lost you two." she whispered softly.
"I told you, I'll always be by your side." Davis said quietly.
