In the villains' hideout, DemiDevimon had just brought news to his Master and creator.
"What? Garudamon and the Keeper of the Heart have been sighted?" Myotismon was stunned.
Demidevimon nodded once. "Yes. It's reported that the Guardians and the Chosen Children have returned to this world."
"Oh lovely!" Lady Despair hissed, and came up to DemiDevimon and pats him on the top of the head. "And I suppose Sirene's Heir was there?"
DemiDevimon gulped and nods, causing Lady Despair to frown slight red glow in her eyes, and she turns around to face her child.
"Well, I don't want you getting distracted," Lady Despair points her finger with the silver talon like finger casing on it. "Well will find this 8th child and be done with them and THEN we can discuss what to do with that half nymph."
Myotismon's lip curled, but nods at his mother. When he turns away, Lady Despair waves DemiDevimon over to whisper.
"Keep an eye out for Sirene's Heir, I want to be notified the SECOND she's seen and not a word to Myotismon," Lady Despair points her scepter at DemiDevimon. "Is that clear?"
DemiDevimon nods with a gulp, and Lady Despair smiles and strokes his head affectionately before walking away into the shadows.
As of this moment the heroic group was standing in front of Line No. 12, the Toei Oedo Line. There they were discussing the possibility of where exactly the eighth child might be.
"Yes. If that's not just a coincidence, then we should assume that the ninth child has also moved."
"So, could he be in Odaiba just like us?" Tai asked.
"That's our most likely possibility."
"I want to go home!" Mimi declared.
"Alright! Anyway, let's head to Odaiba first!"
"Yeah, let's all head home for today. We're all tired, and we can't let our families worry about us if they get the news first about the camp being cancelled." Beth suggested.
"We'll put off deciding what to do and how to search for the eighth child tomorrow," agreed Sora.
They entered the station, looking at the rail maps and purchase screens.
"Let's see... the fastest way to get to Odaiba…" Joe muttered.
"I can't tell because there are so many routes available." Mimi shrugged.
"Think you can still get a ride back to Azabu-Juban?" Haruna asked Zaira.
"I'll catch the next subway train to get there."
"Please wait just a minute." Izzy had been doing some calculations on his laptop. "The fastest way to get there is… Okay, if we take the Toei No. 12 Line from here to Nakano-sakaue, transfer to the Marunochi and Ginza Lines and leave from Shimbashi, the Yurikamome route will take us to Odaiba."
"Okay then. In any case, let's get to Nakano-sakaue first." Tai was at the electronic register getting tickets.
Koromon hopped onto the counter next to him. "Hey, Tai! What's that?"
"A ticket. This is what we use to ride the subway."
"Subway?" Palmon questioned.
"What's that?" Patamon asked.
"Shhhh! Please, don't talk too much in front of other people. This place is different from your world. If anyone catches you talking, they'll raise an uproar!" Joe shushed them.
"They got a point and who knows how the Japanese ministry will react if word got out." added Yui.
"Listen, while you're here, you need to pretend to be stuffed animals. You can't move around, okay? I know it'll be tough, but bear with it." Sora instructed.
"Okay, I understand. I won't talk or move. It's much easier to be carried around by Sora anyway." Pyokomon happily squirmed a little in Sora's arms.
"I just said not to move!"
The group walked up to the rail waiting for the train.
"Is this a cave?" Koromon wondered.
"It's a weird cave." Tsunomon observed.
"Hey, be quiet!" Matt scolded.
"The train is arriving on time. Please stay behind the white line." The train dispatcher announced.
"Wh-What's that sound?" Koromon asked.
"Is that a Digimon's voice?" Tsunomon added.
The sound of an approaching train got their attention.
"It must be one of Myotismon's minions!"
Tai and Matt couldn't hold on to them as they easily hopped right out of their arms down to the rail!
The two boys shouted the names of their respective digimon in fear. It was a terrifying moment but fortunately the two little creatures were unharmed.
Afterwards, they all quickly boards the train before something else happened. But of course, that was just the first of the more troublesome incidents that same day. Once in the train, a mother and her baby sat down in the seat Sora had offered and that was fine, except the baby had gotten interested in Pyokomon. Or to be more precise, in the little yellow vines on her head which he'd begun to yank, the mom tried to get the baby to stop, but the continuous tugging had caused poor Pyokomon to cry out: "That hurts! Stop pulling me!"
Well, the good news was that baby didn't even cry in response, he only let go while staring what only be described as utter astonishment. The bad news is the reaction had gotten the attention of every passenger on the train. Thinking fast, Sora pretends that she was just using ventriloquism to make the 'doll' talk. This impresses the people, and a boy begins asking his father for his own 'Pyokomon doll'. Sora tells the boy's father where to buy one and he and the boy leave at the next stop, as most of the passengers follow them. Everyone falls asleep, not having slept properly in a while and when they awaken, it was already around midday, and that they'd missed the stop they were going to transfer at. Unfortunately, Patamon was going to wake them up but Palmon reminded him that they were supposed to stay quiet, so he didn't say anything.
"What now? Do we go back to our stop?" Joe questioned Izzy.
"No. I'm certain we transfer to the Marunochi line from here." the younger boy replied.
"Alright, everyone stay together." Kylie instructed the children.
"Hey, Tai? I'm really hungry…" Koromon muttered.
"Me, too…"
"So am I." Tsunomon and Palmon chimed in.
"Well, I'm hungry too. Just hang on for a few more minutes." Tai replied.
"I want to eat a hamburger." Mimi moaned.
Some of them stopped, already thinking about the food they hadn't eaten since they were in the Digiworld.
"I feel like I haven't eaten that in a while." Matt said.
"Don't remind me, I could go for some chili fries myself." Theo groaned.
"Or cheesy nachos with a good cup of pumpkin juice." Dana admitted.
Back with Joe, Izzy, Kylie, Sara G and Zaira, they were calculating on the best way to get to Odaiba. However by the time they reached the station's south entrance, they realized the others were nowhere in sight. What's more the digivice didn't seem to be responding right.
Then as they were walking out, a lady had been giving out free wrapped samples that were either food or candy and Gomamon bite one right out of her hand! Naturally, the lady had shrieked in fright.
"It's just a toy! It's a toy!" Joe yelped even as he and the rest ran out of there.
They'd reached the crosswalk outside and Joe spots the rest of the group though a window in a tall building, in a fast food place.
"So that's where they were!" He exclaimed.
They walk past two men holding a large painting of the Fuji TV building. As they crossed, Zaira had looked back briefly to see a very large man in a trench coat and hat. That was fishy.
"What's the matter?" Sara G asked her.
"Thought I saw something." The semi-goth replied.
Turns out, the rest of the group had gotten hungry and couldn't resist the temptation to eat fast food. Unfortunately most of the kids had no money left for transport. Izzy then notices his Digivice is working again, and guesses it probably only works from close distances on Earth.
After eating, the kids decide that they should attempt hitch-hiking home – an idea the eight girls had highly disapproved of. Tai tries to stop a car first with no luck. Joe and Izzy were next, which amuses the others, and they stop a taxi. The driver then realizes the kids don't have any money and leaves. Matt tried next, but he appears to be too embarrassed to accept a ride from a pretty lady.
Haruna threw up her hands and shook her head in disbelief, "This is ridiculous!"
"Hitchhiking? Scuse the tone, and what I'm about to say next, but... Are you all insane?!" Beth was aggravated. "That's one of many ways of how kids go missing!"
Mimi gave her sidelong glance, "Then why can't you just call your family or something to pick us up as an emergency?"
The problem was that Zaira's family was out of the house for the day as was Haruna's. Sara and Tony's uncle was working that day and the line was occupied.
"And our chauffeur has the week off, our family figured we'd still be at camp." Dana shrugged.
"And no, apparating is not an option." Sara G. then added flatly, already answering the question on the kids' minds. "I don't know what could happen but usually if a no maj sees something magical they shouldn't have, they get their memories modified."
"Oh, I guess you have a better idea?!" Tai demanded.
"Listen up." Zaira said sternly, "You already spent your change on food but half the girls and we didn't. I say we all catch a bus to Odaiba, we pay for the fare and we drop you off close to your homes. How does that sound?"
Tai now looked sheepish, he hadn't thought of that. "Well, when you put it that way…"
The children all agreed.
Sara G looked out at the street. "If I recall, the usual bus stops right at this section. We better be quick, this one makes limited stops and fortunately for us, it ends up in Odaiba."
"Here we are," Zaira walked up the steps with Sara G and Yui, expecting the others to follow them on.
Tai, Matt, T.K. and Joe climbed onboard.
Unfortunately at that moment, Kylie had turned and gasped. "Wizardmon!"
"What's the matter?" Haruna questioned the moment Kylie ducked behind some bushes, pulling Mimi and Izzy with her.
"There's one of them out there!" was Kylie's alarmed reply.
In effect, a four foot tall humanoid wearing a dark blue hat and torn cape was holding balloons, passing by with a line of children following. Something glowed pink in its hands, this made the figure stop, look down in surprise at whatever was glowing, then start to turn around…
Beth yelped, then she and the other guardians bundled together.
"Let no harm to us come through," Beth recited a new spell. "Just for a few moments, quickly shield us from their view!"
Luckily, the spell worked creating a brief shimmering curtain that hid them from that digimon's view just long enough for it to leave. The second group sighed with relief but it didn't last long… …for the bus with three of the guardians and the four boys left without them!
They could see their alarmed faces staring at them right through one of the windows. They were saying something but none of them could hear a word.
"You think we can still catch them?" Mimi asked.
"We're just gonna have to be fast enough to find out!" Theo answered.
They managed a couple blocks on foot (and with Theo's shortcuts) before reaching Kachidoki Bridge. Fortunately the bus stopped, allowing the four boys and the three of the guardians stuck on it to run back to their friends.
"I thought it would never stop." Yui groaned.
Joe slumped over. "Me either."
"So now how do we get to Odaiba?" Mimi asked.
"We'll figure something out…"
Just then something pink glowed briefly from under the bridge. This got their attention briefly. What was causing it?
Dana leaned over. "Weird, that looks like the same kinda glow we saw whenever a crest-"
At that moment the bridge began to shake. The resulting movement, causes Izzy to slip and fall towards the water. As he is falling towards the water, Motimon digivolve to Tentomon just in time to save him. However, swimming in the water below is one of Myotismon's sea henchmen, Gesomon, a giant squid-like monster.
"He's a Mollusk-type Adult-Level Virus Digimon! His special attack, Deadly Shade, paralyzes his enemies!"
"Leave the marine Digimon to me!" Gomamon declared as he jumped into the water.
"Gomamon, digivolve to… IKKAKUMON!"
"This one's right in my element!" Sara G yelled.
Yui got ready. "Don't forget me!"
In a flash of teal and yellow sparks, the two teenage girls transformed and flew down to assist Ikkakumon. The ensuing battle had drawn quite the multitude of people.
"Another beast appeared!"
"Look up there!"
"Are they monsters? No way!"
"But those two look like a fairies!"
"Get the camera! Hurry!"
In almost no time at all, Ikkakumon, Yui and Sara G made short work of Gesomon. Taking advantage of the situation, the heroic group escaped the area. As of right now, Joe, Sora and Mimi were riding Ikkakumon back while the others were on logs with the guardians. Yui and Sara G were flying alongside Ikkakumon conversing with him.
"We kind of drew a big crowd back there." Matt said.
"It couldn't be helped. Everything will be forgotten tomorrow, you'll see." Tai said cheerfully.
Izzy and Tentomon exchanged calm glances.
"Well, we'll drop you all off to close to your homes in Odaiba before we do the same." Sara G chimed in.
"Sounds good to me." T.K. grinned.
"Everyone ready?" Joe cheered, "Towards Odaiba!"
Finally they were all headed home. But completely unaware that they've been spotted.
"Found them!" Demidevimon smirked. "I'll tell Lord Myotismon straightaway!"
That same afternoon, Demidevimon gave his report to Myotismon via tele-communication device. Fortunately, Lady Despair had left for her lab and would return in the evening.
"What did you say?" Myotismon demanded, sitting up straight in his coffin. "They've defeated both Mammotmon and Gesomon?"
"Yes. The troops that Gatomon brought with her are all useless! To tell the truth, they only bring trouble!" Demidevimon said, chuckling.
"What are you laughing at?!"
"N-Nothing at all, sir!"
"What's important is both the Eighth child and Sirene's daughter, keep searching! Find them!" Myotismon ordered.
"Y-Yes, sir! Understood!"
True to their words, the guardians stayed with the kids long enough for them to reach their respective homes.
Tai and Matt lived in the condos that were located by going across the street and turning right from here. The only ones left standing there were Matt, holding Tsunomon in his arms, and T.K., with Patamon on his head. Hearing his brother call for him, Matt began to walk back to him. Even if he went back home now, his father wouldn't be there at this time. The Pantheon sisters agreed to walk them to the Yurikamome heading for Shinbashi.
The two brothers' father worked at a TV station and was often home late. The two boys had dinner for themselves. As Matt was accustomed to cooking, he used leftovers in the fridge to make pasta. Patamon gave a secret nod. Both he and Tsunomon were riding on their laps, pretending to be stuffed animals.
After the divorce, their mother and T.K. moved to Sangenjaya. Since T.K. was supposed to have slept the night at summer camp, their mother was most likely working late that day. However, Matt thought, it was probably for the best that T.K. go home too. Being in the Digital World meant that T.K. hadn't seen their mother in over half a year. He didn't speak of it, but he must be wanting to see her soon. Regardless, he shouldn't be made to go home on his own. That was why Matt was accompanying him to Sangenjaya.
Someone was watching the Yurikamome. Wizardmon knew that two of the Chosen Children were on the Yurikamome. But instead of showing any interest in pursuing them, he disappeared into the night's darkness.
Sora's house was empty by the time Theo dropped her off.
"I forgot. She said that she'd be back home late because she has a class today. We didn't even need you to come through the window, Piyomon. For flower-arranging. They put flowers together all pretty-like. She teaches that."
Perhaps it was better this way for the moment. Besides, what would her mother say if she was suddenly face-to-face with a Digimon?
There was something Sora wanted to say to her mother before any of that, anyway. She didn't know how to put it into the right words, but for a start, she wanted to tell her, "Thank you."
Yui left Mimi at the younger girls' literal front door.
"The food you make is so delicious, Mommy!" Mimi said happily, as she ate the kimchi fried rice topped with strawberries and whipped cream.
Mimi's mother Satoe smiled as she held out a dish. While Mimi had been unable to endure many things in the Digital World, the reason she had the least complaints in the group when it came to food there was because this was how she normally ate.
"Okay, thank y–"
"What's wrong? Are you full?"
"Okay, if that's what you want to do, Mimi."
If she saw Mimi, who returned to her room with a heaping plate of food, feeding a creature that looked like a plant bulb with eyes and a mouth, she probably would not have been very surprised either.
"This is so tasty! Mimi, your mommy is a cooking genius!"
Because Mimi's room was overflowing with dolls, the plant bulb chewing on a piece of ham — Palmon, did not look so out of place.
After all of that effort to make it back home, would she have to go back to that world again? Would she have to fight again? Mimi grew slightly depressed. She almost wished magic COULD solve all their problems.
Joe had convinced Haruna to let him walk the rest of the way, seeing as the Time bureau wasn't too far either.
While they had been traveling those months in the Digital World, Joe's secret worry had been his school studies. Since he was the only sixth grader of the group, and no one else was considering taking an entrance exam to a private middle school, he couldn't discuss it with anyone else. It was a big problem for him. No, forget studying in fact, he had given up convinced that the day of his exam had already passed.
"I can still make it in time. Thank goodness."
He couldn't just forget about it, it's very important to him. "My dad is a doctor, and my brothers are working hard to become doctors too. My brothers are amazing. Not only do they have good grades, but Shin was always chosen as president of the student council, and Shou is also good at athletics. He even made it to the nationals on the track team once. But…"
"This is more important right now. We have to find the eighth child somehow. Are you getting sleepy?"
Even as he spoke, Joe realized that he was also pretty tired. Until now, as he lay on his bed, he had never thought of how comfortable his sheets felt.
"It's been a really long day," he whispered, as he immediately fell into a deep sleep.
"Cell phone communications are down in all areas throughout Tokyo, followed by blocked reception of TV and radio waves. There is a high suspicion that someone is using illegal radio waves to jam electrical communication systems. The first of such phenomena to be found occurred earlier this afternoon, in the Nerima district near Hikarigaoka–"
"So? Did you find something?"
"Nothing yet, sir. The scope is just too big. I thought it was only Nerima at first, but it's extended north to Saitama, south to Shinagawa, and east to Ginza, and west to Ogikubo."
Matt's father, Hiroaki Ishida, hung up without waiting to hear an answer. Grabbing his cigarettes and a lighter, he headed for the smoking area. When this new office building for the TV station was built in Odaiba, the one thing that troubled him most was that he was no longer allowed to smoke at his desk.
The electromagnetic interference (EMI) that had begun in Nerima had grown in range as time passed. Or would it be more accurate to say that it had scattered? It was as if vehicles carrying a device that messed up radio waves had spread out in different directions from Nerima towards other parts of the city all at once. The problem was that no one could find those so-called vehicles. There had even been reports of traffic lights being on the fritz. Uncovering where those vehicles were or who the culprit was, before the police or other TV stations caught them, was his top challenge at the moment. Unfortunately, time passed without him grabbing any form of a clue.
He had no way of knowing that creatures called Digimon were the cause of that EMI… or even that his own sons were involved.
By the sound of the front door opening, Kari knew that Tai had returned home. The little girl and Vanessa had been conversing for hours until the parents had returned.
She heard their mother's voice calling out from the living room. As Tai listened to her voice, he quietly shoved Koromon into his room. Looking at Kari who was inside with an expression that said 'Look after him,' he turned nonchalantly to face their mother who had come walking out of the living room.
That was as far as he got when his smile crumpled. He hadn't seen his mother in over half a year. So she was taken by surprise when he suddenly hugged her tight.
None of them knew that Miko, the family cat, had discovered the eighth digivice that rightfully belonged to Kari and consequently dropped it from the balcony. As a result of trying to recover it, the digivice ends up further and further from its intended destination and alerts one of Myotismon's monstrous grunts.
Sara G dropped Izzy off at the corner to his home after exchanging a few emails and other electronic information. They would need it, especially if the Chosen children needed to contact the Guardians without magic.
And as a person who lived with someone that wasn't a biological parent per say, he could relate in some way to Kylie, Theo and now Sara with her twin brother.
Izzy took off the laptop book bag he was carrying and entered his room. As she watched his back, his adoptive mother felt that, yes, something had definitely changed. She heard the sound of a key turning in the lock.
And so, the other girls had returned to their homes in time for dinner. All three Pantheon sisters had greeted the mansion's staff, at least were those still in Kibou Manor even if it was summertime.
The pets and almost every wild stray beast the Pantheon family had taken in to help or rehabilitate had given the sisters quite a warm welcome...
Kylie entered her own room after greeting Achilles and the rest of the pack. She dropped off her things on the bed then walked into the bathroom and prepare for a shower. However she hadn't even turned the knob when drops began dripping.
Suddenly, drops let out a laugh, a shimmering, echoing laugh. Then a sufficient puddle moved in front of an alarmed Kylie, then the familiar form of the Dark Spectre Queen appeared. Not that Kylie ever met her in person, but she saw pictures of her, and they seemed to do her faithful. She was decked in a gold, shimmering dress, wearing silver jade bracelets, and a red ruby necklace, her Sampo, around her neck. In her hair were blue pearls, and a sea flower.
"Well, so glad to see you back in the mortal realm, Dearest One." Vanessa proclaimed, and made a dipping curtsy. "As you may, or may not know, I am the Dark Spectre Queen of the Ocean. And it is my pleasure to introduce myself to you, Sirene's heir. Kylie Pantheon."
"I am… my lady, how do you know me?" Kylie asked uncertainly.
"Oh, Darling Girl, I knew your mother well, Lovely Nymph." Vanessa said as she reached out her scaly hand, and Kylie took it so Vanessa pulled her close. The Sea Witch patted and stroked the back of Kylie's hand in a loving manner.
"I met your mother over 40,000 years ago as mortals here reckon time," Vanessa explained. "And during that time, I was not as...visually appealing as I am now. But Sirene, blessed lady, she didn't care and came to visit me, befriending me. And I in turn taught her some of my secrets, and she never betrayed my trust. I wanted to be with her in the digital world, but I am bound to the Earth, and I would not survive the trip." Vanessa frowned sadly. "I learned of your mother's death too late, if I had learned sooner, I could've used the blood of the one who killed her to bring her back to life. But fifty years is the limit for that ritual, and she is gone from us forever, in body..."
"Kylie, who you talking to...?" Beth and Dana had stepped in, having heard their voices.
"Uhm, hi...?" Beth greeted.
Dana waved brightly.
"My Ladies, allow me to introduce myself," Vanessa does a curtsy, showing off her seagull feet and scaly arms. "You stand before the Enchantress of the Seven Seas, the Belle of the Swell, the Dame of the Deep and the Queen of the Cove, The Dark Spectre Queen is my common title. I am known by the name 'Vanessa.' Among friends."
Vanessa smiled, waving a scaly hand at the girls. "Dana and Beth, right? Forgive me, I know your names because I've been keeping an eye on Kylie for a long time."
"Yeah, good to know." Beth nods, "You're actually one of the first immortals to actually speak to us since we began as Ethereal Guardians of the Veil three years ago."
"Yeah, we already met the wizarding brothers, and Lords Ak, Bo and Kern." Dana nodded blithely.
"Well, I'm not technically an immortal," Vanessa places a scaly hand on her chest, ruby encrusted silver bangles jingling on her wrist. "I have no heart in my body, I hid it elsewhere, so nothing can kill me. This body you see before you is filled with light magic to counteract the dark magic that corrupts my body, as such I have more...leeway in how I spend my time."
She holds up a scaled, taloned finger. "Which reminds me..."
Around eight pm, the Goodman twins had logged in to communicate with Izzy as they'd agreed that afternoon. Sara G sat in the computer chair with the screen facing her and Tony. Both wore a headset for communication through the webcam.
With Tentomon napping beside his computer desk, Izzy had opened his laptop and turned it on before turning to his laptop.
"They should be present in about three…two… one… Here we are!"
"Hey Izzy, can you hear me?" Sara G asked.
"Can you even see us?" Tony's voice came through.
"As a matter of fact, yes I can!"
Sharing newfound knowledge from Earth was one thing but the world of magic was something still new to Izzy and the other Chosen children. No matter how illogical it may be, as with almost all children, magic and everything found in its world is (or at least, for some of the children once more became) an irresistible subject for them.
"Mr. Gennai added a lot of different programs, I'm just starting to try them out… Let's see." Izzy moved his mouse to one program 'Kankan'.
He clicked on it and a Frigimon, a Monzaemon, and a Numemon in dresses doing the 'Cancan'.
"That was weird." Tony remarked, through the head set.
"Th-That's it?" Izzy cringed as he closed it. "Then how about this…?"
He next clicked on 'Balloon' which turned out to be a Chuumon inflating a balloon before it exploded. Izzy put his face in his hand in disbelief. "This won't help."
"Well those two were a bust." Sara G shook her head.
Izzy clicked on the third program called 'Radar' and got a map of the Tokyo bay. "It's a map of Tokyo!"
"So then what's that blinking red dot right by the Rainbow Bridge?" Tony questioned.
Curious, Izzy clicked on it and it zoomed in with a much closer map.
"There's trouble! An unidentified Digimon has landed on Shibaura!" A small version of Gennai was waving its arms at the low right side corner of the laptop screen.
Of course both sides first instinct was to inform the others. But as Izzy and the Goodman twins found out: they were all sleeping or occupied with something else.
Tentomon stirred. "Is something wrong?"
"An unknown Digimon has surface on Shibaura. I've tried contacting Tai and the others, but everyone is sleeping…"
"They're all tired from what happened earlier this afternoon." Tentomon guessed.
"Never mind that Izzy, we got to get there before there's any casualties!" Sara G cried.
"She's right! No matter who our opponent is, I'm sure we can handle them alone!"
Izzy nodded, he and the twins agreed to meet at the docks as soon as possible. He dressed Tentomon in a rain poncho so as not to draw suspicion then they snuck out the window to the streets where Izzy waved down a taxi. They got in and told the driver to go to Shibaura.
In Shibaura, the Kamiya family cat Miko had recovered the digivice in the truck, he'd gotten stuck in. However, the truck had been picked up and dropped on its side causing the doors to open. Miko took the digivice in his mouth and saw it was because of a greyish blue sludge-like monster with metal and wires on its body.
As the poor cat fled Raremon, all of this was watched by Lady Despair, who sensed the 'tag copy' activating in the presence of Kari's digivice.
"What is that slime-wad doing!?" Lady Despair proclaimed, looking into the surface of Mercurymon's mirror face. "YOU STUPID PIECE OF NASAL-DRIP! THAT'S A CAT!" She slaps her forehead. "UGH! Where did DemiDevimon and Gatomon find these fools!?"
"Well, power was more of the idea then 'brains' when your son asked for them, My Lady." Mercurymon pipes up.
"Remind me to get someone else for recruitment in the future," Lady Despair huffed.
In the meantime, both the Goodman twins and Izzy arrived at the docks of Shibaura in time to see Raremon fast approaching the gates.
"Yecch! It looks like something out that crawled out from the Grossology department!" Tony gagged.
"Wh-Who is that?" Tentomon questioned.
Izzy gave the analysis. "It's called Raremon! An Adult-Level Undead Digimon who failed trying to reinforce its decaying body with metal! Its special attack is Hedoro!"
None of them saw Miko run past their legs, then the digivice had started to beep.
"The eighth child is around here!" Izzy cried, looking at his digivice.
"He's very valuable! If we lose him now, we won't know when we'll find him next!" Tentomon tossed off the rain poncho.
"We'll fight off Raremon!" Sara G urged taking fairy form, "You and Tony look for the eighth chosen child!"
"Is that all right with you?" Izzy asked them uncertainly.
"We have no other choice!"
Tony had looked hesitant but agreed. "Alright."
"Okay then! I'm counting on you!"
"Tentomon digivolve to… KABUTERIMON!"
The twins were taken aback as the red insect became an enormous blue, skeletal rhinoceros beetle. Sara G recovered fast and flew up into the air.
Izzy and Tony watched Izzy's digivice attentively with the signal getting further away before vanishing and reappearing again.
"It disappeared." Izzy muttered. "No… it's moving! This way!"
"Geez, what'd this kid have for breakfast? Jet fuel?" Tony snarked, he and Izzy were trying to catch up.
They're completely unaware that they're merely following a lost digivice or that DemiDevimon was the warehouse section as well. "Where is he?" the bat digimon questioned looking left to right.
Raremon had dove into the bay with Kabuterimon and Sara G patrolling from up above the water. However that meant they had no idea where Raremon was hiding.
Without warning, the moving sludge beast hurled its toxic spew at Kabuterimon, causing the insect to fall into the water.
"Kabuterimon, hang on!" Sara G cried, diving right into the waters.
Miko the cat kept on running with the Digivice in mouth only to run into a stray dog. When it growled, Miko yowled and ran off, dropping the digivice. The dog sniffed it once before giving off a confused whine and leaving. Once it did, a raven picked up the digivice and flew away. Thus, Izzy and Tony arrived a split second too late.
"The child should be around here…" Izzy was saying.
Uncertainly, Tony looked around for any clues. "No footprints, no nothing! Where'd he go? And how do you know if it's a he?"
"You!" DemiDevimon had just arrived.
Tony frowned suspiciously. "Who're you?!"
Izzy gasped. "That's one of Myotismon's minions!"
Demidevimon sneered deviously. "And it looks like my lucky night, I get to waste two meddlers and bring back a crest!"
Tony had picked up an old pipe and took a swing at the bat creature. "Get lost, doofus!"
"Demi darts!"
Tony ducked out of the way where the darts hit some crates.
"Look out, if any of the darts hit you, it'll be fatal!" Izzy warned.
"WHAT?!" Tony's eyes grew wide.
Raremon dragged Kabuterimon down into the depths, the insect flailing, and desperately trying to break free and swim to the surface. But it seemed impossible and he would drown.
Whoosh.
Suddenly, a powerful current hit the Raremon, causing him to release the insect, and hundreds of seaweed tendrils shot forth, and entangled the creature.
Through the murky bay waters, Sara G had her head in a bubble and as she approached, she moved her palms in a circular motion, her hands were shining a glimmering ocean blue.
Kabuterimon was encased in a large bubble, which caused him to take a breath of relief, and fresh air, as he was lifted to the surface. There a giant sized woman, wearing a blue colored Greek toga dress grabbed the bubble with her scaly, malformed hand. It was the Dark Spectre Queen of the Ocean.
"My, my, isn't the bay dirty enough without more sludge?" The Sea Witch giggled. "One more thing."
Sara G found herself pulled upwards and staring a surprise at their newest ally/potential friend.
The large bubble was popped to free Kabuterimon. Raremon suddenly emerged out of the water, and fired a blast of sludge at both Sara G and at Vanessa. However, the attack hit an invisible wall that rippled as the sludge dissipated and the Sorceress made a twirling motion with her index finger.
Immediately, a whirlpool formed under the creature, which swirls and sucked it down, down into the water. And shot the creature up into the air, Sara and Kabuterimon firing simultaneous attacks, which destroyed the evil digimon.
"Marvelous work, friends!" The Dark Spectre Queen clapped, laughing in her giant voice. "But...where's Izzy? And Sara wasn't your brother with you?"
Izzy and Tony, meanwhile, had fallen afoul of DemiDevimon, who proceeded to hurl his darts at the boys, which impaled an outline around their bodies causing them to yelp.
"Now, I'll get rid of you and get accolades from My Lady and Lord Myotismon!" Demidevimon proclaimed.
"Oh really!?"
A large shadow hovered over DemiDevimon, who looked up and gasped in horror as a massive hand was over him now, and the giant hand of the Sea Witch plucks him out of the air with two fingers.
"Now, is this any way to act when you're a guest in this world, little Imp?" Vanessa said in mocking tone.
"Let Go! My Lady will get you for harming one of her servants!" DemiDevimon yelled.
"Oh, well, you can put that right out of your head, because I haven't an inclination to fear that sinister strumpet!" Vanessa laughed, and flicked Demidevimon into the air.
"You got lucky, but this doesn't change a thing!" The bat digimon snapped before flying away.
Izzy watched in awe, as the Sorceress shrunk down to normal size as she strolled over to the young boy.
"I dare say we're strangers," Vanessa said. "Young Izzy Izumi, I'm the Dark Spectre Queen of the Sea, Vanessa. Ah, and you must be Sara's brother, Tony."
Tony smiled placing his hands in his pockets while Izzy could only nod in amazement. First fairies, dark creatures and now a sea witch? This was turning out to be quite the summer of discoveries.
"We're here!" The Pantheon sisters in fairy form showed up a little late.
"What'd we miss?"
"A fight with a very nasty digimon that looked like something out of a B-movie!" Sara cried as she and Kabuterimon flew over.
Now most of us are here… Vanessa flicked one of her hands forward. An object shoots out of the bay, and into her palm, and the group looks at it.
"Beth, doesn't that look familiar?" Dana asked.
"It looks like a tag and crest like the others!" Beth gasped in shock.
"Hmmm… It's a crude copy, which seems to be in tuned to your life-force girls, and that of the Chosen Children." Vanessa yelps as red sparks shoot out of the tag and crest, and when it hits the ground it melts.
"What was that?" Izzy asked in shock.
"A fail-safe...someone clearly doesn't want me to use that tag to trace the flow of magic back to its creator," Vanessa said. "Be warned children, you aren't just dealing with malicious Digimon. A woman of evil and vicious manner is out there with magic strong enough to set the sky on fire, of split the Earth in half."
"Reporting live from Shibaura!"
Already a television news crew was on the scene in front of the wrecked dance club: Club Poseidon. Although several were injured, there were thankfully no deaths.
"We have yet to confirm the appearance of the monsters or these fairies! Do they even exist? Huh?" The reporter paused, noticing his craw had been gesturing something. "Wait! Look at that!"
The camera moved up to the right catching a glimpse of Kabuterimon and four smaller flying, glowing figures returning to Odaiba.
The group had already bid Vanessa goodnight and Kabuterimon was flying with Izzy and Tony on his back as they were talking.
"It's too bad we couldn't find the eighth chosen child." admitted Kabuterimon.
"But at least knowing that they around here, and not in Hikarigaoka, is a great find!" Izzy replied. "Tai's guess was correct! We need to let the others know about this first thing tomorrow!"
"You're right." Kabuterimon agreed.
"Let's all meet up at the park a couple blocks from the apartment around… eight thirty or so?" Beth suggested.
"Of course!" Izzy nods.
"We'll meet you there!" Tony set his watch.
"Check!" Sara G agrees.
Demidevimon gave his report through the bat shaped mirror to Sierra and Myotismon.
"I'm sorry, but when I thought I found the child, it was reacting to the holder of the crest of knowledge." Demidevimon reports.
"Impossible! My mother's magic is unrelenting, how could the copy crest fail!?" Myotismon wondered.
"No!" Lady Despair covered her face in dismay. "That Sea witch, she must've found he child first, and is now protecting them with her sorcery, unless the true tag is placed near the child. We can't find them with the copies!"
"But the good news is I know what area Sirene's heir resides."
Demidevimon then explained that the Pantheon sisters were last seen close to Odaiba. Myotismon tensed, stealing a brief glance at his creator.
Lady Despair sighed. "Good work, unfortunately with all their protective enchantments there's no means of locating WHERE EXACTLY they live. But need I suggest we move a little closer shall we say?"
"I see." Myotismon acknowledged. "Then we all have no more business here."
Now the trick was to get her to come where they want her. Myotismon's carriage and his army begun to move out in direction of their new hideout.
To be continued…