Author's Notes
Here is the next chapter in my story.
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN DIGIMON OR ANY CHARACTERS IN THIS CHAPTER. Apart from Adam, Lenora, Felisha, Mira, Avamorimon and Cerutoidmon.
Please read, review and rate.
Hiroaki opened his eyes and found himself looking at the sky. He sat up and looked around. He was in a field close to a small village.
He looked beside him and saw the sleeping form of Psychemon. He nudged Psychemon.
"What happened?" Psychemon yawned.
"Kari did something to us." Hiroaki rubbed his head. "Come on. Let's see if that village can help us find the others."
They arrived to the village which was built with twigs and straw. There were no digimon around anywhere. The village looked like there should have been digimon everywhere.
"Hello?" Hiroaki called. "Anyone around?"
Psychemon turned around. He saw a figure disappear behind a house. He ran after the figure, Hiroaki following behind.
"Wait! We won't hurt you!" Psychemon called. Psychemon chased the figure into an alleyway. Psychemon stopped and gathered his breath. "Please, we just want to talk."
The digimon turned around. It was a small green caterpillar-like digimon. "Don't hurt me."
"I won't hurt you." Psychemon repeated.
Hiroaki reached the alleyway and saw the digimon. "DoKunemon?"
DoKunemon looked at Hiroaki. "You're a human?"
Hiroaki stepped forward. "Yes, I am."
"Can you help me?"
"With what?" Hiroaki asked.
"My village was raided by some Gotsumon." DoKunemon explained. "They took away the villagers."
Hiroaki looked around. "That goes without saying." He muttered. "Do you know where they were taken?" he asked aloud.
"There's an underground cave to the east of here." DoKunemon said. "I saw the Gotsumon going that way."
"Don't worry." Hiroaki said. "We'll find them."
Hiroaki and Psychemon left the village and headed east, towards the underground cave. Psychemon looked up at his old friend. "Hiroaki, what's wrong?"
Hiroaki looked down. "Nothing's wrong."
"It may have been several years since we've seen each other, but I can easily tell when something's bothering you." Hiroaki looked at his digimon. "You still have the same scowl when you're worried."
"I don't have a scowl." Hiroaki said. Psychemon smiled, it was just like old times.
An hour later and Hiroaki was getting restless. "Where is this underground cave anyway?"
"Underground?"
Hiroaki stopped in his tracks. "I'm an idiot."
"No you're not." Psychemon said.
Hiroaki nodded. "I am. We're looking in the wrong place."
"What do you mean?"
"It's an underground cave." Hiroaki repeated. "We need to look underground."
Psychemon nodded, understanding what he said. "Coloured Sparkle."
Psychemon fired his multi-coloured flame at their feet, destroying the ground. They fell down through the ground and into a tunnel.
Hiroaki sat up, rubbing his back. "I'm too old for this."
"Where are we?" Psychemon asked.
"You're the one who knows more about this world. You tell me where we are." Hiroaki pushed himself to his feet.
"We barely left our lairs apart from when we all went to Piedmon's lair for our bi-monthly meetings." Psychemon said.
"Which way should we go?" Hiroaki asked.
Psychemon sniffed the air. "I think I can smell Avamorimon." Psychemon walked in one direction.
Hiroaki followed his digimon, trying to keep up with him. "Slow down Psychemon!"
"Hiroaki?" asked a voice.
Hiroaki stopped. "Felisha? Are you alright?"
"I guess so." Came the reply.
Hiroaki and Psychemon saw a figure walking towards them. Coming from the shadows, Avamorimon was in front of a little girl.
Hiroaki looked down. "Avamorimon?"
Avamorimon raised a wing. "Felisha is right here."
Hiroaki looked at the girl. She looked to be around TK's age. She had a bobcat haircut, blue jeans, black boots and a red, short-sleeved T-Shirt.
"Felisha?" Hiroaki asked.
"Hiroaki." The little girl nodded.
"What happened?" Psychemon asked.
"I don't know." Felisha told them. "I woke up in this tunnel after that light Kari surrounded us with disappeared. I'm trying to find my way out of this place and Avamorimon noticed that I was getting younger."
"More precisely," Avamorimon interrupted. "You stopped de-aging when you reached the age you were when you first went to the digital world."
"So that means I'm going to get younger?" Hiroaki asked. "Actually, my back does seem to be getting better."
"And you've lost a few wrinkles." Psychemon observed.
Hiroaki looked at his digimon. "I do not have wrinkles!"
"Not anymore." Felisha muttered.
"Come on kid. Let's find our way out of here." Hiroaki teased. Felisha scowled.
Hiroaki found that his walking was getting easier with every few steps he took. He looked at his hands and saw them shrink slightly, turning into younger hands.
"What is going on around here?" he asked, his voice changing slightly.
"We're reverting to our youth." Felisha said.
"I can see that." Hiroaki snapped. "I mean, why are we de-aging?"
"I don't know." Felisha replied.
"Maybe it's something to do with this digital world." Avamorimon thought.
"How so?" Felisha asked.
"Maybe some part of you is wanting to be young again whilst you're here." Avamorimon explained. "You know, to help everyone else, you wanted to be able to help, and for that to happen, you had to be young. So the digital world made you young."
"So that means that Mira, Adam and Lenora may be de-aging also?" Psychemon asked.
"Probably." Avamorimon said. "I'm just going with guesswork here."
Felisha stopped suddenly, looking around.
"Felisha?" Hiroaki asked.
"Did you hear that?"
"Hear what?" Avamorimon asked.
Felisha stepped forward. "I don't know. It sounded like water."
"Come on." Hiroaki instructed, now resembling how Matt looked when he first entered the digital world except instead of a green vest, he was wearing a thin long-sleeved brown T-Shirt.
Felisha turned around. "I heard the water sound again."
"I heard something too." Psychemon said. "It sounded like it was coming closer."
Hiroaki closed his eyes and stopped. "There's underground water torrents in this world aren't there?"
"Yes, why?" Psychemon asked.
"Rushing water in an underground tunnel." Hiroaki sighed. "We're in trouble."
As if on cue, a torrent of water rushed down the tunnel, instantly washing away the two digidestined.
A static sound filled the air. "Hiroaki? Can you hear me?"
Hiroaki used his strength and picked up his digivice. "Mira?"
"Grab your digimon! Both of you!" Mira called.
"Why?" he called.
"Just do it!" Mira commanded.
Hiroaki looked at Felisha and nodded. They grabbed their digimon. "Ok Mira! Whatever you're planning, go ahead!" Hiroaki and Felisha closed their eyes.
They felt something wrap tightly around them and pull them quickly out of the water. They opened their eyes and saw a RedVegiemon smiling at them.
"RedVegiemon?" Felisha asked.
RedVegiemon glowed yellow and de-digivolved back into Cerutoidmon. "Mira, you might want to see this."
"Where is she?" Hiroaki asked.
"Right here." Sighed a voice.
They looked at a tree to see a little girl walk from behind it. She had a blue skirt with a large white frill along the bottom. She wore a pink cardigan over a white T-Shirt. Her hair was tied in a ponytail with the bobble pushing her hair up and letting the rest fall slightly.
"Mira?" Hiroaki asked.
"I hate this dress." Mira pouted.
Hiroaki smiled. "I've heard of reliving childhood but this is getting ridiculous."
Psychemon looked at Hiroaki. "What about the Gotsumon?"
"Oh yeah." Hiroaki remembered. "I don't think Gotsumon would live in a tunnel where water would randomly rush through."
"What do you mean?" Felisha asked.
"A DoKunemon told us that his village was raided by some Gotsumon." Hiroaki answered.
"The twig village?" Mira asked. Hiroaki nodded. "It was a Gotsumon who told us about a DoKunemon scaring everyone away."
Felisha sighed. "Why do we always hear two different stories?"
"Have you done anything yet Mira?" a gravelly voice asked.
Everyone looked around to see a rock creature with yellow eyes. Mira shook her head. "Not yet Gotsumon."
"You couldn't even get rid of a rookie level digimon?" asked a voice.
Hiroaki and Psychemon looked up in the tree to see DoKunemon looking down on the scene. Hiroaki backed away as DoKunemon jumped down and landed on Gotsumon's head.
Both DoKunemon and Gotsumon glowed yellow. "What's going on?" Mira asked cautiously.
First came the gravelly, "Gotsumon!"
Then came the sly voice, "DoKunemon!"
"Don't tell me." Hiroaki sighed.
In unison, they called, "DNA Digivolve to…SandYanmamon!"
Flying in place, was a large grey insect looking like a dragonfly. Mira hid behind Hiroaki. "I hate bugs."
"Mira, Cerutoidmon is a bug." Felisha said. "And roughly the same size as well!"
"Desert Storm!" SandYanmamon called, unleashing a sandstorm.
Everyone covered their eyes. Hiroaki squinted through the sand. "We have to do something. Psychemon!"
Psychemon nodded and glowed yellow. "Psychemon digivolve to…Tyrannomon!"
Tyrannomon arched his body and blocked everyone else from the storm. He used his tail and managed to hit SandYanmamon and stop the attack.
Mira and Felisha held their digivices. They looked at their digimon who jumped in front of them.
"Avamorimon digivolve to…Kokatorimon!"
"Cerutoidmon digivolve to…RedVegiemon!"
"You can't stop me." SandYanmamon said. "You don't have the power alone to stop me!"
"Who said anything about alone?" RedVegiemon sneered. "Rotten Rainballs!"
"Feather Sword!" Kokatorimon screeched.
SandYanmamon flew into the air and dodged the attacks. Tyrannomon grabbed SandYanmamon as he flew past his hands.
"Let me go." SandYanmamon demanded.
Tyrannomon growled and stared at the insect digimon in his hand. "You're done for." Tyrannomon squeezed as tightly as he could. SandYanmamon gasped and fell unconscious. He threw SandYanmamon to the floor, hard. He opened his mouth and breathed out a long stream of fire.
"That's enough!" Hiroaki called, ten seconds later.
Everyone watched the burnt body of SandYanmamon glow white and turn into a digi-egg. The egg sunk into the ground instantly.
"What is the deal with that?" Mira asked.
"Maybe they're going to where the eggs hatch." Psychemon said.
"Forget that for now." Hiroaki inputted. "We need to find Lenora and Adam and find out the exact reason about why we're teenagers again. It may be because of the Digital World but it would be nice to know why."
Mira took out her digivice. "I'm getting a faint reading about one of the others."
"Then let's go." Hiroaki said. "Tyrannomon, are you up to it?"
"Climb on." Tyrannomon said.
RedVegiemon and Kokatorimon de-digivolved and joined everyone on Tyrannomon.
Tyrannomon followed Mira's directions and they arrived at a small white village. Mira nodded. "The reading is definitely coming from this village."
Everyone climbed off Tyrannomon and he de-digivolved. They slowly approached the village and looked around.
The houses were now clearly huts. They were large enough for Hiroaki, the tallest, to go through the doorway without ducking, unlike his adult self.
"Adam! Lenora!" Hiroaki called.
"Tsukaimon! SnowAgumon!" Felisha added.
A bolt of lightning hit the ground by the groups feet. They looked around to find the source.
"State your business in our village!" boomed a voice.
They looked atop a hut to see a familiar digimon. Hiroaki stepped forward. "Wizardmon. We mean you no harm."
"I am Sorcerymon." The digimon corrected.
"Sorry." Hiroaki apologised.
"What is your business?" Sorcerymon repeated.
"We believe there may be a human in your village." Felisha explained.
"What do you know about the human?" Sorcerymon jumped down.
"We're human." Mira said.
"So you are." Sorcerymon nodded. "Follow me."
The small group followed Sorcerymon to the largest hut in the village. Sorcerymon stopped short of the door and turned around.
"Now I must warn you before you enter the building." Sorcerymon started.
"Warn us?" Mira asked.
"Our scout found a body and brought them back here so our best healers could help them." Sorcerymon explained. "They're trying their best but it is a slow process."
"Can we see them?" Felisha asked.
Sorcerymon nodded and opened the door. He led them down the only staircase in the hut into a much larger room.
Several Sorcerymon and Wizardmon were surrounding a stone table. The three humans instantly ran ahead.
"Hey, are you alright?" Mira called.
They pushed past the Wizardmon and Sorcerymon, to see the unconscious form of SnowAgumon, clutching Adam's digivice.
Hiroaki looked around. "Was there a human with this digimon?"
"I didn't see one." One Wizardmon stood forward. "SnowAgumon was badly beaten on the floor, murmuring about keeping someone safe."
"Adam." Felisha whispered.
"We have to go and find someone." Hiroaki said. "Where did you find SnowAgumon?"
"I'll take you there." The Wizardmon scout offered.
"Thank you." Hiroaki smiled. "Mira, will you stay here for when he wakes up?"
Mira nodded. "Of course."
"Thank you. Come on Felisha." Hiroaki said before they left the underground room.
Ten minutes later, SnowAgumon stirred. "He's waking up."
Mira and Cerutoidmon rushed to the table. SnowAgumon opened his eyes. "Adam?"
"SnowAgumon, what happened?" Mira asked, taking Adam's digivice and putting it in a pocket on her cardigan.
SnowAgumon turned his head. "We were ambushed by a swarm of Flymon. I couldn't do anything."
"It's ok." Mira soothed. "Where's Adam?"
"I think they took him away." SnowAgumon answered, pushing himself up.
"You've got to rest." Mira slowly settled him back down.
"I can't." SnowAgumon argued. "Adam needs me. Besides, the Flymon are too organised. There's someone else."
"Then they're in real trouble." Mira gasped.
Hiroaki, Felisha and Wizardmon returned to the field SnowAgumon was found in.
"This is where SnowAgumon was found?" Hiroaki asked.
"Yes, he was found in this area." Wizardmon confirmed.
"Good." Hiroaki said. "There has to be something here to tell us where Adam is."
"Like what?" Wizardmon asked.
"Something like this!" Felisha called.
Hiroaki looked over and saw a long brown thick stick. He knelt down and looked at it. "It looks like a stinger."
"It is." Avamorimon said. "It's from a Flymon."
"So, what happened to Adam?" Felisha asked.
A low buzzing filled the air. Everyone suddenly prepared themselves. They looked around but saw nothing.
"Where are they?" Psychemon asked.
"You guys better digivolve." Felisha advised.
"Brown Stinger!" called a voice.
Several stingers flew through the air and surrounded the small group, cutting off their escape. They looked up and saw yellow flying insect digimon looking down at them.
"Flymon!" called Hiroaki.
"Take them to the mistress." One Flymon ordered.
"You're not taking us anywhere!" Wizardmon called. "Magical Game!"
Wizardmon threw a ball of green energy. The Flymon separated and the ball flew past them.
"Heat Twister!" Avamorimon called.
A twister of intense flames erupted from Avamorimon's flapping wings. One Flymon dived down, through the flames and scooped up the yellow bird. Felisha ran to help her digimon but lost her footing, allowing a Flymon to pick her up.
Hiroaki jumped and grabbed Felisha's ankle. He tried to make himself heavier but a second Flymon grabbed Hiroaki.
"Put me down you overgrown insect!" Hiroaki ordered.
Two more Flymon picked up Wizardmon and Psychemon and carried them away. They struggled against their captors.
"Where are you taking us anyway?" Wizardmon asked.
"We are looking for the digidestined our leader requires." A Flymon answered.
They approached a large tree. A wooden structure was revealing itself the closer they got. Two large blue insect digimon stood guard at the doorway.
"BlueMegaKabuterimon, we have brought more digidestined." The Flymon announced.
The BlueMegaKabuterimon stepped aside and the Flymon buzzed through the door. They let their prisoners go, dropping them on the woven floor. They looked up to the raised chair.
One Flymon moved forward. "Mistress, we have brought you more digidestined to evaluate."
"Thank you Flymon." The mysterious woman nodded.
"Who are you?" Felisha asked, standing up.
"Dear sweet child, I am your salvation in this world." She replied.
"You didn't happen to see another human did you?" Hiroaki asked.
"I'm sorry, no other humans have passed through here." The woman told him.
"But these guys were talking about how you were searching for a digidestined." Hiroaki told her.
The woman stood up and walked down. Her long grey hair falling to her knees, covered by her long red dress. She looked at Hiroaki and Felisha and seemed to be looking for something particular. "Nope. These two digidestined are not the ones I'm looking for."
"And who are you looking for?" Hiroaki questioned.
"That is none of your business."
"Then what happened to our other friend?" Felisha asked.
"I don't know what you're talking about."
Felisha put her hands on her hips. "Listen lady, don't give us that. I can tell when someone is lying, and right now, your dress is burning up."
"I grow bored with you. Snimon!" she called.
The green insect digimon with sickles for claws flew into the room. "Mistress, what is your wish?"
"Take these children and put them with the other." She ordered.
"Yes mistress Arukenimon." Snimon said, raising his sickles to round-up the 'guests'.
Forcing them into a cage of sticks, Hiroaki and Felisha fell to the ground. The door closed and Snimon chuckled as he walked away.
Hiroaki pushed himself off the ground. "When we get out of here…"
"What can we do?" Felisha asked. "We're stuck in this cage." Avamorimon and Psychemon fired their attacks at the bars. "Guys, just give it up. Nothing's going to break those bars."
"But they're wooden, they should be able to break." Hiroaki sighed. He walked to the bars and kicked them.
"Don't bother Hiro." Moaned a voice.
Hiroaki looked around and saw another cage. A large head of blonde hair shone through the small ray of light peaking in through the roof.
"Adam?"
"Yes guys, it's me." Adam replied. "Well, younger me anyway."
Adam was now wearing a torn blue T-Shirt. His left sleeve was long while his other sleeve was ripped. He had knee high socks and black slip-on trainers and a pair of black material shorts.
"Shame." Felisha said. "I liked the suit."
"I did too." Adam sighed.
"Forget that." Hiroaki snapped. "How are we going to get out of here?"
SnowAgumon led Mira and Cerutoidmon to the clearing.
Mira instantly saw the stingers. She walked over. "Yep. Definitely Flymon."
Cerutoidmon flew into the air. "I think I can see something over there."
"Come on, we're going over there." Mira said, leading the two digimon towards the largest tree.
"SnowAgumon, did the Flymon give any hints about who their leader is?" Mira asked.
"I don't think so." SnowAgumon recalled. "They just wanted to take Adam to their leader. Actually, I think they mentioned their mistress wanted digidestined."
"Any idea why?"
"Sorry Mira. It happened so fast."
"Don't worry about it. We'll rescue them." Mira smiled.
"How? We need a flying digimon and none of our digivolution routes have flying digimon." Cerutoidmon asked.
"WaruSeadramon can float." Mira said.
"But I can't digivolve without Adam." SnowAgumon sighed.
"We'll find a way." Mira soothed.
Mira sat down on the ground and looked to the sky. She looked at the clouds, trying to find some inspiration in the shapes.
She looked at her digivice as it began to beep and vibrate. A symbol flashed on the screen. It resembled a plus sign with a dot in the middle.
"Mira Kahn." Came a female voice. "We cannot keep this link open long. When you are reunited, tell the digidestined we are all working to identify the true evil of the world. But first, head north-east to the largest tree. When you arrive, we will try our best to get you to his location."
"Wait, who are you?" Mira asked.
"We are friends." The voice answered. "Please Mira, hurry."
The symbol disappeared and Mira's digivice returned calmed down. She looked to the two digimon. Despite Cerutoidmon's lack of expressionless face, she knew what he wanted to do, as did SnowAgumon.
"Come on guys." Mira said, walking north-east.
Five minutes later, Cerutoidmon pointed to a tree. "That tree seems to be the largest in this area."
Mira looked at the tree. "Is that a moustache?"
The tree opened its yellow eyes. "What do you want?"
"It is our understanding that Flymon are gathering somewhere in this forest." Mira answered.
"Why do you care about them?"
"They took some friends of ours." Mira answered. "Please, can you help us Cherrymon?"
"If you're talking about other humans, they were taken into the forest fortress." Cherrymon explained. "Let the forest take you there."
"What does that mean?" Cerutoidmon asked.
"Listen to the forest." Cherrymon explained. "It shall tell you where to go." Cherrymon moved to the side. "Follow this path. Tree four lies."
Mira nodded and led the two digimon down the path. They quickly came to a fork. Both paths seemed to be identical.
"Which way shall we go?" Mira asked. SnowAgumon walked to the left. "Why should we go this way?"
"Cherrymon said to listen to the forest." He replied. "The only branch on that tree is pointing this way."
Mira looked the other way. She picked up a nearby stone and threw it down the other path. The stone landed on the ground.
"Nothing happened." Mira said, before a giant set of jaws suddenly snapped up and disappeared back underground. "Never mind."
She quickly caught up to her digimon and they followed the path until they reached the fourth tree. "Wait guys." Mira said. "Didn't Cherrymon warn us about the fourth tree?"
"He said to listen to the forest." SnowAgumon said, following the direction of the branch. Cerutoidmon followed the snow dinosaur digimon down the path.
"Guys, wait!" Mira called, as the two digimon suddenly began to sink. "You're in quicksand. The more you struggle, the quicker you sink."
"So, how do we get out?" Cerutoidmon asked, trying to fly out.
Mira looked around, trying to find something, anything, to help the digimon out. She was starting to panic when a bright light shone from behind her.
"Stand clear Mira!" called a familiar voice.
Mira stood aside as a Phantomon zoomed past and hovered above the digimon. He held his scythe out to the digimon, who promptly grabbed it.
Phantomon began to move back to Mira. Phantomon grabbed the chain at the end of his scythe and threw it to Mira. Mira grabbed the chain and pulled.
She lost her footing slightly, placing her feet at the edge of the quicksand. She felt herself be pulled towards the centre. "Help!"
She felt a small pair of hands grab her waist and pull her out. Phantomon, Mira and the assistant pulled the two digimon out of the quicksand.
Mira turned around to see a girl shorter than her, wearing a pair of green shorts and a baggy white hoodie, small black 'dress' shoes and a round sun-hat.
"You took your time Lenora." Mira sighed. "Come on, Adam and the others need our help."
Mira rushed down the other path, closely followed by SnowAgumon and Cerutoidmon. Lenora looked at her ghostly digimon and they followed the retreating forms.
They followed the path and found their way to a tree much larger than the others. "I wonder if this is the tree." Mira asked.
"I'll see." Phantomon offered.
He floated up to the platform and saw the BlueMegaKabuterimon. He approached them. "Excuse me, do you have any humans in here?"
"What's it to you?" one asked.
Phantomon's eyes narrowed. "That's what I thought."
He waved his scythe as a signal and Lenora clutched her digivice. Phantomon glowed yellow and de-digivolved to Tsukaimon. He then glowed yellow yet again.
"Tsukaimon warp digivolve to…Piedmon!"
Piedmon landed on the wooden platform and then jumped in the air. "Trump Sword!"
Piedmon's swords hit BlueMegaKabuterimon and pushed them back into the hut. He looked down at the ground. "Hurry up guys. I'm going to need some help."
Mira looked at her digimon. Cerutoidmon nodded and glowed yellow. "Cerutoidmon warp digivolve to…Puppetmon!"
Puppetmon jumped into the air and joined Piedmon in the hut. He looked around and saw a BlueMegaKabuterimon push himself up and ready an attack. Puppetmon hit the digimon with his hammer, destroying the insect digimon.
Mira, Lenora and SnowAgumon climbed the tree to help their friends. When they reached the top, Piedmon and Puppetmon were in defensive positions, with only a woman in a red dress standing strong.
"You must never attack a lady." The woman said.
"When we see a lady, we'll let you know." Piedmon sneered.
"What's going on here?" Mira asked.
"Two true women have just shown up." Puppetmon teased. "Find the others. We'll hold her off."
"Who is she?" Lenora asked.
"We don't know, just find the others for a little help." Piedmon insisted.
SnowAgumon and the girls cautiously walked away and found a staircase. They ran down and saw two cages.
"Hiroaki? Felisha? Adam?" Lenora asked.
The children in the cages smiled. "It's about time you guys got here. Try and get us out of here." Hiroaki ordered.
Mira gave Adam his digivice and SnowAgumon glowed yellow. "SnowAgumon warp digivolve to…MetalSeadramon!"
MetalSeadramon coiled around the cage trapping Adam and squeezed gently. The cage began to creak.
"A little tighter MetalSeadramon." Adam encouraged.
The metallic serpent squeezed more and the cage broke apart. MetalSeadramon instantly coiled around the other cage, breaking it.
"Avamorimon warp digivolve to…Devitamamon!"
Devitamamon jumped on MetalSeadramon and the two digimon sped away to help Piedmon and Puppetmon.
Psychemon walked forward two steps before Hiroaki pulled him back. "Stop Psychemon. Your digivolved forms are way too big to use in here."
"What about MetalSeadramon?" Psychemon moaned.
"He can coil his body." Mira answered. "He can only just get away with being in here."
Screams of pain drew everyone attention and they ran to the source. The mega level digimon were badly beaten and barely able to stand.
The woman in the red dress was standing strong, her bare arms folded with a pair of purple gloves resting on her elbows.
"Is this really the best you have to offer?" she asked.
"Who are you lady?" Piedmon asked.
The woman began to laugh. She outstretched her arms and she began to transform. Her gloves dissolved as her arms grew. Six long legs grew out of her body and her waist grew into a ball shape. Two horns grew out of her head and she lost her glasses to reveal red eyes.
"I am Arukenimon." The spider-woman replied. "No-one here is whom I am after."
Arukenimon jumped outside. Psychemon jumped out after her and glowed yellow. "Psychemon warp digivolve to…Machinedramon."
Arukenimon looked up and screamed as she saw Machinedramon falling towards her. She jumped out of the way to be hit by Machinedramon's tail.
Arukenimon pushed herself on her feet. "I only want the emperor."
"Emperor?" Machinedramon asked.
"The digimon emperor." Arukenimon repeated.
"I remember something about the digimon emperor." Hiroaki interrupted, jumping off MetalSeadramon, joined by the others.
"What?" Adam asked, choosing to stay on MetalSeadramon.
"Something Matt said." Hiroaki tried to remember.
"Remember quickly." Piedmon said, jumping into the air.
Arukenimon looked at Piedmon. She raised her arms, aiming at the clown digimon. "Spider Thread!"
"Trump Sword!"
Piedmon's swords cut the thread and struck Arukenimon. Devitamamon shot his 'Laser Eyes' attack with Puppetmon adding extra strength from his 'Puppet Pummel'.
Hiroaki snapped his fingers. "That's it. Matt told me that the digimon emperor was Ken!"
"Ichijouji?" Lenora asked. "I read about him last year."
"How do you know about him?" Arukenimon asked.
"He's famous." Felisha said.
"And to think my son's friends with him." Hiroaki said.
Arukenimon looked at the boy. "Your son?"
Hiroaki looked at Arukenimon. "Wait a minute. Why are we talking?"
MetalSeadramon coiled around Arukenimon, lifting her in the air with his tail. "Stop! Don't destroy me!"
"Give me a good reason." MetalSeadramon sneered.
"The digidestined you are with." Arukenimon said. "Their eyes betray their true age. They were recently returned to their youth. Were they not?"
"What if we were?" Mira asked.
"I can take you to some wise digimon." She said.
"First things first." Felisha said. "What did you do with Wizardmon?"
"He attacked me and I defended myself." Arukenimon said. "He was no match."
"Where are these wise digimon?" Piedmon asked.
"Follow me."
Arukenimon led the group of ten for five minutes to a hut. She changed back into her human form and entered the hut.
"Shamanmon, Baronmon, Sepikmon." Arukenimon said. "I require your assistance."
The humans entered the hut to see a brown skinned Goburimon, a monkey digimon wearing a large wooden mask and a digimon with a headdress and large teeth sat around a table with a crystal ball.
"It is not you who needs the help." Baronmon retorted. "It is the children who are older than they appear."
"They suddenly found themselves young." Sepikmon added.
"And now, they require answers as to why they are young." Shamanmon finished.
"They're good." Mira said.
"I'll believe more when I see it." Hiroaki whispered.
"Father of Friendship and Hope, be silent." Shamanmon bellowed. "We know why you are young."
"So go on then, tell us." Adam said.
MetalSeadramon held his head near the hut, as did Machinedramon, the two being too large to be inside the hut. Piedmon, Puppetmon and Devitamamon all stood just inside the doorway.
"Why are we young again?" Felisha asked.
"For the choice you have to make." Sepikmon told them.
"The one choice that will change your future forever." Baronmon finished.
"What choice is that?" Mira asked.
"We cannot see." Baronmon sighed.
"But there is one thing we can tell you." Sepikmon added.
"Both answers will lead to tragedy." Shamanmon finished. "It's just a matter of how many losses."
"Losses?" Hiroaki asked.
"Our power is dimming for now." Shamanmon said, regretfully. "I'm sorry."
"It doesn't matter. Thank you for your time." Adam smiled.
Everyone gathered outside. They sat in a circle and decided to talk about things.
"So we have to decide the best action to take?" Felisha asked.
"And what is the best action?"
"I don't know Mira." Lenora replied. "I just don't think I'm going to like it."
"I don't think any of us will like the outcome." Adam sighed.
"I just wish I knew what the choice is going to be." Hiroaki said, laying down. "It's going to change our future."
"What are you guys going to do?" Arukenimon startled them.
"I don't know." Hiroaki sighed. "I'm going to propose a truce."
"What do you mean?" Lenora asked.
"Arukenimon, we'll spare you and help you to find Ken if you do the same for us." Hiroaki said. "We want to reunite with the digidestined also."
"They're here? In this world?" Arukenimon asked, surprised.
"Yes. Please help us." Mira pleaded.
Author's Notes
Ok guys, my poll has now closed and the next chapter will focus on the top five winners. However, since there are only six winners, I will include all six. Consider it a sign of affection for all you lovely readers out there.
For those of you who may be wondering about the descriptions of the younger version of the original digidestined (Hiroaki, Adam, Felisha, Lenora and Mira), I am using the silhouette's as shown on Digimon Season 1 episode 53.