When Izumi woke up, she was relieved to find Patamon right beside her, "Patamon? Patamon, wake up, it's Mama" she said, shaking the small Digimon slightly. Patamon groaned, opening her red eyes and standing up, "oh, what hit us?" she asked, groaning again. "The Dark Ocean" Izumi replied darkly. That caused Patamon to groan even louder than before, "why does this thing want us so bad! I mean seriously! Can't it leave us alone for, like a week or something at least before it starts invading our world and kidnapping us again! Jeez!" she muttered in frustration. Izumi smiled slightly at her daughter's rant, "you're right, too bad Dragomon wants to destroy us, huh?" she asked. She stood up, "is everyone here and okay?" she asked, looking around. Kirin stood up with Gatomon helping by pushing him, "ah, yeah, we're okay over here, just very wet" he replied, as Gatomon scowled down at her soaked fur.
"I-I'm okay, so is Cutemon" Shiro muttered, shivering. Koko held Lalamon tight, "I guess I'm okay, aside from, you know- being back here again" she replied. Hiroshi sat up, spitting out sand as he did, pulling Terriermon close, "I'm as good as I'll ever be in this place" he muttered. "Good, that just leaves-" Izumi began, before looking over at where Etsuko was kneeling, clutching Lopmon and both were shivering fiercely. 'I guess I should have expected that, not only has Etsuko never been here before, but Lopmon is a Light attributed Digimon, she would feel the Darkness and evil of this place a lot stronger that all of them, except maybe Gatomon and Patamon' Izumi thought. She stood up shakily, barley supressing shivers of her own and walked over to the brown-haired girl. She held out her hand, "hey, it's okay, we'll all get through this together, okay?" she asked.
Etsuko looked up at her with eyes wide with fear, "h-how can you stand being in this place?" she asked, voice trembling. "We can't, we just have to endure it until we can get out again" the blue-haired girl replied. Etsuko, though still trembling, grabbed the other girl's hand and let herself be pulled to her feet, "okay everyone, we stay together. No matter what happens, do not let yourself be separated from the group, understand?" Everyone made a noise of agreement, before they all began to walk through the Dark World cautiously. It was so quiet that you could hear everyone's quiet breathing and footsteps crunching in the grey sand. They also kept on the lookout for any evil Digimon Dragomon may have sent after them, or the Depraved Monk himself. Eventually they decided that it was safe enough to stop for a break.
Making a campfire, everyone sat rigidly around it, not making a sound, and jumping at every stick that snapped in the fire. Suddenly a voice called out: "Meteor Squall!" Small and large flaming rocks began raining down on the Digidestined, causing them to scatter out of the way, screaming as their campfire was demolished, leaving only a superheated crater in the sand, which was slowly turning to grey glass. Once the miniature meteor storm had ended, the children looked up at their attacker. Once the sand had settled, almost everyone gasped in horror at the sight before them. It was Wizardmon, but not the way they'd last seen him. His clothing was torn and burnt in multiple places; the skin underneath even worse. There were cuts and slashes all over his exposed body and his hair, which was usually tied into a neat ponytail at his neck was a mess. In short he looked like he'd been through hell since the last time they'd seen him.
Gatomon stepped forwards, despite Kirin's protests, "Wizardmon! What happened to you! You, *gasp*!" she cut herself off upon catching sight of the wizard Digimon's eyes. Where they were usually bright blue, now they were dull and lifeless, as though his soul had been sucked clean out of him. Tears formed in Gatomon's eyes and she brought her paws up to her mouth, "oh dear Seraphimon, what did he do to you!" she demanded. The small Champion was furious, as was her partner, "anyone who would dare to do something so horrible to anyone doesn't deserve to live!" Kirin screamed. His hatred was so strong that his Crest went from glowing Lavender to almost black. Hiroshi's eyes widened in horror as Gatomon was enveloped in darkness, "oh no! no, no, no! Kirin, Gatomon! You've gotta calm down!" he called, as the others turned to look at him, "what is it?" Izumi asked. "You've w-watched the sh-show Izumi, what ha-ha-happened when a Digidestined uses their trait in the wr-wrong way or f-forces their pater to D-Digivolve?" he asked, trembling, eyes wide. It took a moment, before the girl's eyes widened in horror as well, "no! she's Dark Digivolving?!" the blue-haired girl cried.
"Right now, Kirin is furious and his hatred is overwhelming him. Hatred, which is the opposite to kindness, is making Gatomon Digivolve" Kirin explained. Izumi placed her hand over her mouth, staring over at her friend and his Partner with wide, horror-filled eyes, "and in this place- what kind of nightmare will that create?" she muttered, as Patamon cried in her arms, "make it stop! It's not right! Make it stop, please!" she begged, tears streaming from her eyes. When the light died down the Digimon that was revealed was definitely not what should have Gatomon's Ultimate form. "That's-" Izumi whispered. "LadyDevimon" Hiroshi replied in terror.
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Lopmon stared up at the corrupted Ultimate in shock, "oh dear Seraphimon" she murmured. "What the hell is that!?" Shiro cried, terrified and confused. What had happened to Gatomon? Something had obviously gone very wrong, but what? "Dark Digivolution" Mark muttered, frozen in horror at what he was seeing. The Albino turned to look at the part Aboriginal, "what?" she asked. "Dark Digivolution is what happened when you Digivolve your partner the wrong way, force them to Digivolve or Digivolve them with Dark feelings in your heart. Kirin's Crest is Kindness, but he Digivolved Gatomon with hatred in his heart, so the Crest and Digivolution was corrupted, resulting in a Dark Digivolution instead" Mark explained. "That's LadyDevimon, the female counterpart to Devimon, only she's worse. Devimon is only a champion level Demon Digimon. Lady Devimon however is an Ultimate, right now she's stronger than all of our Digimon put together, especially considering where we are" he finished.
"So she's basically a super powerful evil Digimon?" Shiro asked. Mark gulped, "givin we're in the Dark Ocean, and LadyDevimon can absorb dark energy to get stronger, I'd say she's closer to a Mega level Digimon right now" he replied. Shiro and Cutemon shrunk back in fear at those words, "no way" Cutemon whispered.
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Kirin stared in shock at what his partner had turned into. "I-I didn't want that, I- I just wanted, to-" he collapsed to his knees, "no, Gatomon, what have I done?" he muttered. Wizardmon lifted his staff to the sky, "Electro Squall!" he cried, as a huge, powerful bolt of lightning flashed down from the sky. But LadyDevimon was no longer there, and the Lighting did nothing but blow another super-heated glass lined divot in the sand. "Stun whip!" she cried, slashing at the wizard Digimon with a whip made of lightning. Wizardmon, as injured as he was, wasn't able to dodge in time and got hit. Another gash opened in his clothes and the sent of burning flesh reach the children and Digimon, making Kirin want to throw up.
"Magical Game!" Wizardmon cried, and vanished. LadyDevimon didn't seem at all bothered though and reached out behind her, grabbing the controlled Digimon by the throat and choking him. "No! stop it!" Kirin screamed. The Fallen Angel Digimon threw Wizardmon to the ground below, but he disappeared as though he'd never been there. "Meteor Squall!" he cried again from bellow his enemy. LadyDevimon simply dodged each meteor with astounding ease. "Black Wing!" LadyDevimon exclaimed, appearing right in front of the wizard Digimon as her left hand changed shape into a long sharp spike, then impaled Wizardmon with it. Many of the children screamed as the corrupted Digimon gripped their friend by his neck, slowly squeezing. "STOP IT NOW!" Kirin screamed as loud as he could.
LadyDevimon looked down at the human boy as he ran up to where she was floating, despite the protests of the others. He panted, "Gatomon, I know you're still in there. Please, you have to stop, because this isn't you! I know this is all my fault and I'm sorry!" Kirin began to sob as he collapsed to the sand, "I'm so sorry- but if you're still in there, then please, come back to me!" he begged, locking eyes with the Fallen Angel, "please, I love you, so just come back!" he screamed. Suddenly LadyDevimon closed her eyes and deDigivolved back into Gatomon. All of a sudden two Digimon were falling out of the sky. "Falcomon!" Mark cried, "I'm on it!" he called as he flew up, caught Wizardmon on his back and Gatomon with his tallons.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief as the two unconscious Digimon were brought back to the ground. Checking over Gatomon, Kirin sighed with relief when he saw that she looked fine. Izumi walked up, "how is she?" she asked the blond boy. "Well, it's hard to tell right now, but she seems back to normal for the moment. "Izumi, should we try and get out of this world? Like we did the first time?" Koko asked. After a moment, the blue-haired girl nodded, "yeah, let's at least try you guys" she replied.
To Be Continued