Many things can be said of Kylie Pantheon, but most know she's rather quiet. Nobody's perfect of course and she has a fair share of flaws too. Exercising caution while knowing her "spurned" leman or any of his henchmen could searching after her too was not one of them.
It was 7:30 pm. She was currently holding up both a GPS and a scrying crystal. Briefly she looked up.
Hm, the weather forecast never said anything about it being a cloudy night. Let alone rain clouds… but why wasn't this storm cloud moving downwind?
Wait a minute.
Just to be safe, Kylie walked a little faster turned to a corner, it went the same direction. When she stepped through the crosswalk to her left, it went left. Wherever she went, it followed!
Frightened, Kylie ducked into a store, bought a scarf before pulling up her braid and tucking it in as she waited for the cloud to pass. Next she stepped out, furtively looking left and right before walking down one street.
But of course, a few of the streetlamps had to fizzle out causing her to yelp. She quickly covered her own mouth before warily moving away.
Only to hear footsteps. Getting closer... closer... and closer!
Kylie speed walked. Then, she began jogging which soon became a full-fledged run. Frantic, she scrunched her eyes shut and began swinging her messenger bag around at her would be pursuer.
"Hold, it, hold it!"
"Kylie, it's us!"
Wait she recognized to those voices. Kylie opened her eyes to see Matt, T.K., Yui and Haruna.
"You nearly gave me heart failure!" Kylie gasped.
At a careful look she noticed they were missing someone. "But where's Patamon? And Dana?"
The brothers with Yui and Haruna's help, explained what had happened.
When night fell, Matt intended on taking T.K. to Sangenjaya which was part of the Setagaya Ward where their mother lived. Tsunomon and Patamon were on the luggage railing.
"Did you know Matt and T.K.'s parents divorced four years ago?" Tsunomon asked.
"So even though they're brothers, Matt lives with his father and T.K. lives with his mother, huh?" Patamon noted.
Yui, Haruna and looked at each other. They didn't want to say anything regarding the topic, it might've felt intrusive.
T.K. looked at his digivice which was working like a clock, the hour read 7:07 pm. "It's late. Onii-chan."
"Hm?"
"Just leave me at the next stop."
"No, I'll take you all the way to Sangenjaya."
"It's okay."
"T.K."
"What?"
"Let me do this."
"Okay." The youngest brother agreed.
Both of them found it hard to part from each other, and Patamon seemed to sense that because he asked, "Is it really that hard to leave each other?"
"Shut up!" T.K. had become visibly upset at the question.
"T.K.!" Even Matt was stunned.
"Hey, now that wasn't very nice!" Yui said to the little boy.
"You don't have to shout at me like that!" Patamon said indignantly.
Dana tried to reason with T.K. "C'mon, he doesn't know it's sensitive subject!"
T.K. actually jumped off his seat and glared up at Patamon. "Even if you're my Digimon, you have no right to say that!"
Sure, T.K. is still a little kid and Patamon is in child stage, with more of less the mind of one – save for when he digivolves. It's a known fact that younger children can quarrel over many things, but always make up.
"Fine! I won't talk anymore!"
"Patamon!" Tsunomon gasped.
That was when the train pulled up at Shibuya station. "I'm getting off here!" Patamon flew out the doors.
"No, wait!" Dana actually leaped right out of the train to run after him.
"Dana, come back!" Haruna and Yui cried in shock. How did that just happen?
"Patamon!" Matt called. He, Yui and Haruna rushed to the doors. "T.K.! Patamon flew off!"
T.K.'s back was turned to them and he had his hands in fists. "Who cares about him…"
"The door is going to close!" Tsunomon warned.
Matt then reminded his brother. "T.K..."
"Please T.K., Dana ran after him. We have to go after them both. What if they get lost?" Haruna pleaded.
As soon as the doors started the close, T.K. rushed over to join them. They looked around but found no sign of Patamon or Dana, in the station nor in the more popular streets of Shibuya.
"Where could Patamon have gone? What was he thinking?" questioned Tsunomon.
"This happened because T.K yelled at him." Matt said bluntly.
"He deserved it!" T.K. snapped.
"Don't get mad at me."
"Onii-chan…" T.K. looked back at his brother sadly. "I'm sorry."
"You went too far when you spoke to Patamon."
"Yes, Dana got it right: He didn't know." Haruna explained calmly.
"I didn't mean to yell… because he told the truth…" T.K. admitted
They found themselves in Shibuya. People in Shibuya paid no attention to other people. Then Haruna was explaining how they'd soon ran into a pair of mischievous digimon that had arrived with Myotismon's army but were more interested in having fun than searching for the eighth child or Kylie. They ran into such a duo as tall as two children that would have caused screaming in an average no maj town while they were walking down Spain Hill.
Tsunomon digivolved to Gabumon in a protective manner.
Yui squealed. "OMG! They're adorable!"
"They're like something out of Halloween town," Haruna says with a guileless grin. "I swear if Zero's wandering here too, I'm no good for the week."
"You two work for Myotismon, don't you?" Gabumon confronted the two digimon
"There's a Shibuya lady even scarier than Myotismon chasing after us!" the Digimon who, for all the world, had the head of a lit-up Halloween pumpkin, said. What made him slightly different from a regular pumpkin was the large ax buried in the top of his head.
The group looked at them agape, while a girl's shrill cry of "Where did you go?!" came from below the hill. The two Digimon hid at the side of the road.
A college girl came running towards them, waving her bag as blood dripped down her nose. Upon closer inspection, the girl had a large nose-piercing which was where the blood was coming out of. The pumpkin Digimon must have pulled at it. Matt pointed in another direction to send her away.
"There was no time to decide whether the two Digimon could be trusted or not." Haruna said as they all started passing by some shops, "We need to find both Patamon and Dana, then we ended up trying to keep Pumpkinmon and Gotsumon out of trouble."
"But those two digimon are very mischievous…" Gabumon said then suddenly yelped.
Yui followed his gaze then shared his alarm. "AAH! That's them!"
There were the two digimon they'd mentioned. AND they were trying on the store's outfits in the display window! One resembled a plush toy Digimon with a pumpkin head that has an axe stuck in it and a torn green cape. The second was had a body made of gray rocks. It has yellow eyes and two rocks on its head that resemble bear ears. It has three fingers on each hand and three toes on each foot.
Currently they were trying out a little pink dress and a blue overalls with a white shirt and red bowtie.
"Those guys…" Matt and T.K. groaned in exasperation.
"I think this dress will look better on you!" Pumpkinmon said to Gotsumon
"I was thinking the same thing."
They switched outfits, already having left a pile of clothes off to the side.
"Pumpkinmon! Gotsumon!"
The group's arrival got their attention.
"Do you want to wear stuff, too?" asked Gotsumon.
"Oh no, that's not necesa-" Kylie tried to protest gently.
"Wear it!"
Matt now wore a too long coat, T.K. in an outfit resembling what he wore while refereeing that tug of war at the Village of Beginnings and Gabumon was now in a bear costume.
Yui looked like she was wearing Mary Poppins's white dress and hat. Haruna was in a blue yukata and Kylie in a French pre-revolutionary dress.
"You look great!" Theo mischievous digimon complimented.
"And these are supposedly two digimon that joined Myotismon's army?" Haruna questioned doubtfully.
"That are after the eight child and Kylie, the nymph's daughter?" Yui jerked a thumb at Kylie then clapped her own hand over her mouth, realizing what she just said.
"It IS you!" Gotsumon slapped his cheeks, gawking at Kylie. "Wow, you're as pretty as your mom is in the paintings!"
"Paintings!?" Kylie exclaimed in shock. Even Matt and T.K. glanced at her with deep intrigue.
"Yeah, you are the whole reason we joined Myotismon," Pumpkinmon stayed. "Everyone from our continent talked about Sirene, and have statues and other stuff that looks like her, so we figured we would meet her daughter and it would be the closest thing."
"Except for the eyes, but they seem like how a kind, beautiful nymph eyes would be," Pumpkinmon said.
"So you're not going to tell your Master about running into us?" Yui asked hesitantly.
"Nah!" Pumpkin and Gotsumon shook their heads, grinning widely.
"That doesn't sound like fun." Pumpkinmon replied.
"Yeah, then that bad lady would wanna get rid of you if sees you're with him."
The group exchanged uneasy glances. Did they mean Lady Despair?
"Well thank you, I appreciate the sentiment." Kylie smiled sheepishly.
At that moment Patamon was seen flying out the window with a harried looking Dana.
"Patamon! Dana!" T.K. called them, but the digimon and the youngest guardian didn't seem to hear.
"After them!" Matt cried.
"Right!" the others removed the outfits and hurried out.
Even Pumpkinmon and Gotsumon looked around in interest.
"Think we should we follow?"
"Yeah!"
And they ran after the group. Unfortunately, the brothers, older girls and Gabumon lost sight of their strayed friends and were now passing through a park road in disappointment.
"We lost them again…" T.K. mumbled downcast.
"Could Patamon still be mad?" Matt.
"I know him well, he's not usually this stubborn…" Gabumon said with shrug.
"You weren't kidding when you said Dana can move as fast as she wants to." T.K. commented to Kylie.
"Right now I just wish she'd let us know WHERE they are." Kylie replied.
Yui tried to cheer them up. "We're bound to run into them sooner or later."
Abruptly Pumpkinmon and Gotsumon came up to them holding ice cream.
"Come on, cheer up!" Pumpkinmon grinned.
"You'll find your friend soon." Gotsumon said.
"And have some ice cream!"
"You know I could go for some- wait a minute." Haruna had begun then paused.
Matt, T.K., Yui and Kylie seemed to share her expression. They were clearly thinking the same thing.
"Where did you get that ice cream?" Gabumon questioned uneasily.
"We stole it!" The two rascals responded cheerfully.
Haruna visibly sweat-dropped. "I was afraid of that."
Pumpkinmon licked a pumpkin spice flavored ice cream cone. Gotsumon was eating sweet potato ice cream. When the vendor came after the two thieves, the small group also had to run away since they had been spotted together with them.
They ran for a good five minutes before losing sight of the vendor in a darkened street, where they stopped to catch their breath.
"Want some?" Pumpkinmon offering the ice cream.
Matt, T.K. and the girls quickly declined. But Gabumon was eyeing the frozen treat in spite of himself. "Matt, I want ice cream too."
"Gabumon..." Matt mumbled uneasily.
"Why don't I just take that and I could help pay for a few Hagen daaz cartons...?" Kylie suggested.
A chill wind and a rumble of thunder made them stop what they were doing. They all glanced up to see a storm cloud crackling ominously.
"Was... it this cloudy when we got here?" Yui asked nervously.
Next, lightning struck the ground just a mere five feet away from them. As the smoke cleared... they gazed in fear at who was standing before them.
"Lord Myotismon!" Pumpkinmon and Gotsumon were so frightened they dropped the ice cream.
"Myotismon!" The group gasped.
Kylie froze right on the spot, this is what she'd been trying to avoid. Slowly, the vampire looked from the group, his gaze lingering on Kylie for a moment before glaring at the two shivering digimon.
"Pumpkinmon, Gotsumon." Myotismon coldly addressed his grunts.
"Y-Yes, sir?"
"You were supposed to report immediately when you discovered Sirene's heir." Myotismon said lowly.
"Eh, we didn't want to..." Gotsumon said bluntly.
"What!?" Myotismon roared.
"Wh-wh-what we mean," Pumpkinmon said nervously. "If we did tell you, what would stop that evil Lady from hurting her!?"
"My Creator is to be treated with fear and respect," Myotismon intones. "But...on this matter, we are...conflicted." He sets his eyes on Kylie, which softened on seeing the Nymph's daughter.
"But rest assured, I will ensure no harms come to you, my bride." Myotismon said with a hand reaching out to her.
"No, I can't...she's responsible for my mother's death." Kylie said with a shake of her head.
"No?" Myotismon said shocked, and more than a little angry. "Do you realize what I am offering you? The world, immortality, ecstasy..."
"Do you seriously believe SHE will allow it?" Kylie shot back worriedly. "She MADE you, Myotismon. She will surely not allow such sentiment as you being her child, stop her from doing what she wants to do to me!"
"This quest just got a lot more drama added into the mix..." Yui mumbled to Haruna awkwardly.
Matt, T.K. and Gabumon looked just as uncomfortable. By this time, the whole group knew about Kylie's romantic entanglement with Myotismon… and the grave implications that followed.
"As much as you want it, the truth is you're not free!" Kylie added sadly.
"I shall be the one deciding about my own life when the time comes!" Myotismon declared sternly then he glared down at Pumpkinmon and Gotsumon. "And what of your search for the eighth child?"
"We haven't found him yet." the two digimon responded fearfully.
"Then why aren't you stealing the Crests from these children? Redeem yourselves to me by stealing the crests, bring the nymph's heir or else!"
"That's just what we were about to do!" Without a warning, Pumpkinmon and Gotsumon spun around to the group with wicked sneers.
"Run for it!" Yui grabbed both Matt and T.K.'s wrists, pulling them to run.
Of course the older girls could've transformed just as Gabumon could've digivolved to fight, but they didn't have the heart to attack the two digimon even if they are troublemakers.
While the others were being chased, Patamon perched himself on a border wall and Dana stopped to catch her breath.
"I got so mad I left the train without thinking." He murmured.
"I got caught up in it too." Dana sat down. "But now we lost the others."
Patamon looked at her, feeling a little down in the mouth. "What could T.K. be doing right now?"
The youngest of the guardians patted him gently on his head, then they overheard a conversation between two high school girls in uniform.
"So, like, I said…"
"If you want to meet up somewhere, it should totally be in front of Hachiko's statue."
"Yeah, Hachiko's statue is totally the best place!"
In the meantime, Pumpkinmon and Gotsumon had cornered the group.
"Pumpkinmon!" T.K. shouted.
"This is as far as you go." He said.
"He cut us off from the front." observed Gabumon.
"Get back, T.K."
Gotsumon was behind them, meaning they had the group boxed in.
"Gotsumon!" Matt cried.
"This is as far as you go." He informed.
Several empty plots of land like this surfaced after Japan's bubble economy had burst. Only walls of sheet iron separated it from the building next door. Construction materials were carelessly piled up within the vacant lot, providing a place for them to sit down and rest.
Kylie and the other two girls ushered Matt and T.K. behind them and Gabumon further into the vacant T-shaped lot, flitting behind some sewer pipes that were stacked up high.
"Please, we don't want to hurt you two." Kylie said earnestly.
"Can't we just calm down and talk this over?" Haruna pleaded.
"Maybe settle it with a small harmless challenge?" Yui asked sheepishly.
But it didn't look as though they would be giving the group any other choice. They were backed up against a fence, Gabumon stared back intently ready to digivolve, the three guardians braced themselves…
Pumpkinmon and Gotsumon then dropped their menacing stares.
"Meh, I quit." Pumpkinmon sighed.
"Me too." said Gotsumon.
"Huh?" The group just stood there confused.
"Playing around in Shibuya sounds much more fun than fighting the Chosen children or the Guardians!" Pumpkinmon declared.
"That's right!" Gotsumon agreed.
"And we can't give Sirene's daughter to Myotismon, the bad lady won't let him keep her around!" Pumpkinmon added.
Gotsumon nodded. "Come hang out with us!"
"Huh?" The group blinked.
In the distance, lightning crackled sinisterly.
"Myotismon's coming!" Pumpkinmon shouted.
"You better hide!" Gotsumon urged.
The girls had paused but Matt insisted they take cover in one of the far corners where part of a brick wall kept them from sight. Yui looked up around the area. None of the no majs or any disguised magical users besides them could know of the impending danger. After all, no one so much as batted an eye when they passed with Gabumon or the mischievous duo.
It was only using a compact mirror that they're able to see what was happening. As they hid, fog had started to roll in at ground level. Myotismon approached, revealing himself from within the fog. The mask he wore over his eyes seemed to glow a brighter red, which was not completely because of the neon lights that fell upon him.
"Where are they?" Myotismon asked.
"Unfortunately, we failed to catch them." Pumpkinmon lied.
"We almost had them!" Gotsumon added.
However, the vampire glared down at them. "You… pathetic liars!"
He knew everything. They could tell so by the sound of his voice. Pumpkinmon and Gotsumon knew what was coming next.
"I have no more use for you. Grisly Wing!" As he slowly extended out his cape, a large flock of bats burst out.
Despite his appearance, Pumpkinmon was a Perfect level and his offense ability was not at all weak. "Trick or treat!"
The giant pumpkin which he summoned through strange technique had both the mass and the toughness to crush most of his enemies flat in a single blow.
Flying back in the opposite direction, the alpha bats dove into the pumpkin with their mouths wide, stopping it in its descent. The pumpkin was soon covered in bats, becoming a black mass that gradually grew smaller. The bats were eating up the entire pumpkin with their boundless appetite.
"Angry Rock!"
A rock flew at Myotismon but the vampire's eye glowed - his irises and pupils contracting briefly, and the rock stopped just centimeters from his face then exploded!
The bats flew down upon Pumpkinmon and Gotsumon. The two of them disappeared behind a black mass of writhing bats.
Matt, who had been watching the entire thing, covered T.K.'s head with his arms. He never dreamed that Myotismon would lay a hand on his subordinates like this so easily. They wouldn't make it in time to save Pumpkinmon and Gotsumon. The sound of bat wings and the screams gradually faded into quiet.
All that was left of the two digimon was a hatchet and a small rock that became data particles. The girls had covered their faces in horror and sadness when the alpha bats attacked Pumpkinmon and Gotsumon.
"I know you're there." Myotismon said as he leisurely approached their hiding place.
Kylie straightened up. "How could you?!" she'd ended up whispering.
"My Love, they are mere data, meant to serve us higher beings. They overstepped themselves, and we must see to reprimanding the servants." Myotismon said coldly.
"They weren't bad guys…" Matt muttered. Tears were falling from his eyes as he looked up. "And, you didn't have to kill them!"
Taking in Matt's feelings, the gauge of his Digivice shot up to its highest point. The bright light of evolution made Myotismon stop in his tracks.
Within seconds Gabumon digivolved to Garurumon, who pounced out of the lot and pinned Myotismon against a building. The vampire merely punched him away with his left fist.
Yui and Haruna took this chance to transform. Kylie hesitates for a moment before declaring, "I will not endanger my kingdom, my family or my friends!"
And she transforms. They flew up to fight just as Myotismon was using crimson lighting on Garurumon.
Kylie bit her lip and swallowed, once she blinked a circle of seven gold rings appeared behind her. "Seven Crowns!" Kylie chanted, and hurled her strongest attack at Myotismon. He gasped out of shock, as he was hit straight on, and seriously hurt.
"It was only for a little while… but they were our friends and you killed them!" Matt screamed. "Garurumon!"
Garurumon's entire body became wrapped in light. His shape changed in mid-air. The giant wolf turned into a werewolf wearing jeans, and he made a wide kick into the air before the light surrounding him had time to fade.
That kick was still too far away to reach its target. However, a shock-wave born out of it in the shape of a crescent moon flew towards Myotismon.
The shockwaves flew about where they stood, making silent explosions. The street lights smashed to pieces and the glass windows of buildings scattered everywhere.
The plaza in front of Shibuya station, where the Hachiko statue lay, was a famous spot for people to meet up since a very long time ago. Patamon was looking down from the trees above and Dana looking around right under him.
How were they to find the rest now? He wasn't sure if waiting here would help to find them again, but he could think of no other options.
Just then Dana sat up straight. "Patamon, look!"
They heard the sound of people murmuring. And several blocks away, there was the sound of an explosion. When Dana and Patamon turned to look in its direction, the neon lights within the city were being smashed up one after the other. Myotismon's fierce fight between WereGarurumon and three of the guardians was on the move.
"Crimson lightning!"
After leaping through the air to land on the wall of "Tokyu Hands," WereGarurumon dug his nails in and made a vertical cartwheel to avoid it. The electric whip smacked into the wall where he had once stood.
"Wolf claw!"
Myotismon, floating in the air beneath him, raised up both arms to block it. However, the force of the impact pushed him backwards into and through the wall of a building behind him.
WereGarurumon, followed by the three guardians, went through the broken part of the building after him.
"Grisly wing!"
Only to be ambushed by a swarm of bats which carried them back out. WereGarurumon used his arms and legs to shake off the bats.
"Rose Petal Storm!" Haruna cried out.
Immediately, cracks formed in the alley ground, and roses appeared to send their petals into the air, they collected onto the bats, causing them to fall helpless to the ground.
"Venus Death-Trap!" Haruna claps her hands together, and the roses turned into giant Venus fly-traps that devoured the bats.
"Bothersome, Botanist." Myotismon crosses his arms for an attack. "Nightmare..."
"STARLIGHT BEAM!" Yui calls out, and out of her hand a beam of yellow starlight nearly hits Myotismon.
"GAhh~" Myotismon dodges, but part of his arm does get singed badly.
Yui flew through the air, and in her hand forms a long, silver Lance, with a hand guard, studded with a sapphire. "Moonlight Sword!" Yui called out.
He barely had time to dodge, when Yui sliced through the air where he stood, and proceeded to stab rapidly at the Vampire. Who barely kept up to block with the palms of his hands, energized by the black blood of his mother he had consumed the previous night.
"Grisly Wing!" Myotismon out both his hands, the black smoke, and bats surging forth.
"Starlight Beam!" Yui flew back, and pointed the lance at Myotismon, which fired a powerful yellow beam of moonlight.
"FOX FIRE!" WereGarurumon opened his mouth, and howling he fired a torrent of blue flames at Myotismon.
"Vine Creeper!" Haruna cried out, and tons of green vines burst out of the ground.
They entangled around Myotismon causing his to lose his defense, and get hit by both attacks, lowering his strength.
"Be reasonable, it's best if you turn yourself in." Haruna said to him, although she kept her guard up.
"I suggest you take your own advice, Guardian!" The vampire retorted the moment he burst free from the vines.
Kylie was up next. "Winter's- oh!"
The next thing she knew, she was being held in place by several of the alpha bats against her will. "Love is slowing you down, my pet," Myotismon had cooed. "I'll make you mine if you love much more."
Neither WereGarurumon, Haruna nor Yui could dodge the red electric whip that came towards them from within the storm of bats.
"How many are there?!" Yui wailed.
Myotismon descended towards the three with a triumphant smirk. Twin red electric whips slowly fell down towards them from both hands.
Matt and T.K., looking up at them from below, were helpless. T.K. was thinking, 'If I hadn't yelled at Patamon, he'd be here right now with Dana and Pumpkinmon and Gotsumon would still be our friends here in Shibuya…and they wouldn't have been destroyed by Myotismon!'
His thoughts reached Patamon, who was flying towards their location with a transformed Dana. The gauge of T.K.'s Digivice shot up.
The people in Shibuya who had been taken aback by the neon explosions, were even further shocked when they witnessed a glittering angel accompanied by a fairy soar over their heads.
Myotismon could feel the light, the power of holy good, approaching him from behind as if by instinct. Angemon moved faster than he had expected, and it took all that Myotismon had to dodge the blow of the golden rod that came towards him.
With one strike from Angemon's staff, the crimson lightning holding down the two other fairies and the werewolf broke and vanished. Dana flew right towards where the bats were holding Kylie and sent a gust to disperse them.
"Dana, you made it!" Kylie gasped.
"Angemon?" WereGarurumon stared.
Haruna and Yui were struck momentarily speechless at the new Digimon that just showed up.
"THIS is Patamon's champion form?!" Haruna gaped.
Angemon, without letting his guard down, stood poised as he spoke to WereGarurumon and the fairies behind him. "Are you alright?" the angel digimon asked them solemnly.
"Yes, more or less." WereGarurumon replied.
Haruna and Yui could only nod speechless.
"Angemon!" T.K. cried out. His voice was happy, but with a touch of fear. He had only seen Angemon once before, and that time…
"T.K.'s feelings reached Patamon!" Matt gasped.
Myotismon sneered at the sight of the angel. "So you're the one who possesses holy powers."
Dana flew up to Angemon's side. "Let's fight him, Angemon."
Angemon nodded. "Let's do it."
If the one with holy powers has arrived, then it would not be wise to stay here long. Myotismon remembered that he still had yet to finish his supper.
The four fairies and two digimon charged, the combination of their attacks unleashed a massive explosion of light in the evening air. The powers of light and darkness collided into each other in Shibuya's skies. As the impact changed color, it expanded large enough to cover the entire city. The glaringly lit city suffered a blackout for the next three minutes.
"We'll see each other again," Myotismon had said to Kylie then addressed the others, "I shall reserve this fight for later."
He then flew away with an ominous laugh.
WereGarurumon and Angemon gently floated downwards before devolving back to child form. Instead of returning to his baby form Tsunomon, WereGarurumon had returned to Gabumon. Matt and T.K. rushed over to them while the fairies flew down to the ground.
"Patamon, are you…?" T.K. tearfully held his digimon.
Behind him, Dana reaches out to gently pat the winged hamster digimon.
"I'm alright this time." Patamon said with a tired little smile.
T.K. hugged Patamon carefully. He didn't die this time, he thought. Thank goodness.
Not long afterwards, they explained to both Dana and Patamon what had happened when they'd briefly separated from the group. Matt had called ahead to let his and T.K.'s mother to let her know they'd be home a little late.
So it was a somber trip to the station.
"Onii-chan. Over there…" T.K. suddenly pointed.
"That's the costume store where we saw Pumpkinmon and Gotsumon trying out different clothes…" Yui explained with a sad smile.
The group recalled the short time they had with the two. Yes, they were mischievous little rascals but they'd ended up sacrificing their lives attempting to protect them from Myotismon.
Pumpkinmon and Gotsumon's deaths in Shibuya remained vividly in their minds. Matt didn't think that he would ever forget that sight.
"Let's go home." Matt finally spoke up.
"Yeah." T.K. nodded somberly.
As the group walked away, two shooting stars passed through the sky.
Unknown to the eight guardians and the children being threatened by Myotismon would soon know the truth.
To be continued…