Tai angrily kicks Myotismon's mask away. "Damn it!"
Kylie actually winced. Even with all that's happened, Myotismon's death weighed deeply on her.
"We defeated Myotismon what more do they want…" growled Matt.
"This can't be!" Mimi worried. "Does that mean we'll be stuck in the fog forever?"
"E-mail." Izzy then spoke up.
Everyone turned to see him on his laptop and gathered around him. "It's from Gennai!"
"Rejoice, children!" A chibi version of Gennai cried on the screen. "I've found a hint to defeating Myotismon!"
The screen showed what looked like an old wall with strange symbols on it.
"These are prophetic inscriptions that I've found in the ancient ruins!
'First, the sky shall be darkened by the wings of many bats. 'A great multitude of people will chant the name of the Undead Digimon King. When the clock strikes the number of the Beast, the Undead Digimon King will appear revealing himself as the beast. Then the angels will let fly the arrows of hope and light at the loved ones of those they've been sent to protect, and a miracle will happen.' I wish you luck!"
Kylie was stunned. "But, Myotismon is dead..." she looks at the mask, and then at Vanessa "Isn't he?"
"While I couldn't directly interfere, I watched all your adventures in the digital world, and I saw the final battle against Devimon." The sea witch said to Kylie. "Remember what happened when he was killed?"
Kylie grasped at her throat, remembering the vial of black blood hat shattered on the ground. "There wasn't a vial..."
"You talking about how Myotismon and the others were made from Despair's blood?" Izzy asked.
"Devimon released his that shattered and Etemon... well as you know, he was sucked into a vortex. But yes, I fear that Despair fed more of her blood to Myotismon," Vanessa said. "And that has granted him much vaster powers, and Sierra will surely use her sorcery to use that to bring her son back to life."
"Onii-chan… Let's hurry find Mom and Dad, I'm worried." Kari suggested.
"Yeah."
"I'd like to see what happened to my place, too." Joe said.
"I want to change out of my pajamas." Mimi informed.
Dana tugged at her own pajama sleeve with an exasperated sigh. "Me too. Can't keep running around in my jammies."
"I need to go," Izzy said, running off. His parents were still inside their apartment.
As soon as Izzy went to retrieve his parents, Mimi rejoined them having changed her clothes while the guardians rushed to their homes for their magical equipment- save for Yui and Zaira. Whatever else was going to happen, this time they were going to be prepared. Joe was curious about how his own family was doing and went to his family's apartment. When he returned to the others, he was accompanied by his older brother Shin. Shin, currently a student doctor, had come back home after staying up all night working on his research to take an evening nap. However, ever since the family had moved to Odaiba, his bed for some reason was the top layer of the closet where all of the futons were kept. Because the sliding door was closed while he was sleeping, the Bakemon hadn't noticed him and neither had he noticed them. He had only woken up when Joe had gone home to investigate the rooms.
Around 11:12 am with no other ideas, the rest reluctantly headed towards Big Sight. Tai and Mimi's parents were there as were the Pantheon girls' parents. After the digimon did away with the straggling Bakemon in the big sight where all the adults or other prisoners were being kept. All were lying straight on their backs in different files.
Both children and six of the guardians started searching for loved ones or familiar faces amongst the sleeping people. Tai and Kari located their parents, as did Mimi and Sora found her mother. The Pantheon girls were disconcerted upon finding their parents and the loyal mansion servants among the prisoners. A shaken Theo spotted her foster mother, while Sara found her twin brother and Uncle.
Worried, they tried to awaken their loved ones but they wouldn't despite the fact that their pulses were steady. It was although they were under a very strong sleeping spell.
Yui sat down by a column, "At least we know our parents are alright."
Haruna and Zaira nodded sadly.
"Where are they?" Tai asked.
Zaira looked at her watch. "Back in Jubaan, and by my estimate... My Dad and stepmother are trying to get to Odaiba like crazy."
"My folks are probably doing the same, knowing my Dad." Yui sighed.
Haruna added. "Mine are out of the country. They went to some conference involving school, I believe it was."
"Yeech. I think I'd rather be stuck here." Tai quipped.
"The pulse is normal. If I had the equipment, I could do a brain MRI for a more in-depth examination…" Joe's oldest brother, Shin, was taking their sleeping father's pulse.
"Joe, listen…" Shin spoke up, looking at Joe who was peering worriedly into their parents' sleeping faces. "You don't have to push yourself to become a doctor."
"Hey, you'd better not be making fun of Joe or you'll be answering to me!" Pukamon cried out, poking his head out from inside Joe's bag.
"I'm not. I'm just saying that a guy like him who faints at the sight of blood might wanna reconsider being a doctor."
"Oh, then I'll have to agree."
Pukamon shifted back inside the bag again. Shin continued talking to Joe.
"You don't need to live your life the way that Dad tells you to."
"Huh? But…"
"After I pass the national exam, I won't be working at Dad's hospital."
"Is that so?"
"I'm planning on going to an isolated island that has no doctor. Dad will probably try to stop me."
"I had no idea."
"You gotta make your own decisions on where you wanna go. No doubt Shuu will do that without me having to tell him, but I figured, with you, I should give you this talk."
Shuu was the second-oldest brother between Shin and Joe. He was currently away for a summer training camp with his high school's track team. Joe didn't know how to answer Shin. Shin clapped Joe on the shoulder, then stood up and looked around. "Anyway, at this rate… We need help from the outside."
"It's my fault they're like this." Kari mumbled, looking over her parents.
"No." Kylie said to her and Gatomon, "If anyone is to blame, it's me. If I hadn't fallen in love with Myotismon... everyone else would be safe and Wizardmon would probably still be with us!"
"Kylie, listen to me." said Gatomon firmly. "Lady Despair is the one to blame. She and Myotismon are the only ones at fault. You had nothing to do with Wizardmon's death!"
Kylie looked down at her hands. She was silent for a full minute before Gatomon spoke again.
"As a sister, you must believe me." said Gatomon. "You must let go of the guilt. There was nothing you could do to stop it. But there is something you can do now. We must save both worlds. I know it's something our..." she sighed softly. "...Mother Sirene would've wanted."
"Don't worry!" Sora reassured. "They're just sleeping. Everyone will wake up soon." Shen then looked at her own sleeping mother. "Right? Mom…"
Izzy stood facing his parents in a corner of Big Sight's empty main lobby. "What did you want to talk to me about?"
His father, Masami, spoke heavily. "While we were hiding at home, your mother and I had a talk and we decided to tell you the truth. The thing is—"
He knew that this day would one day come.
"We're not your biological parents."
"…I already know."
His mother, Yoshie, wasn't surprised at all. "I knew it…"
Just before they had moved to Odaiba, Izzy had woken up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. His parents' voices could be heard through the thin crack of the open door.
"I decided to pretend that I hadn't heard it. I tried to act as if everything was the same as before… but I just couldn't do it. The more I tried, the weirder it felt… Until in the end, I became obsessed with computers… So that I could escape…"
"It's okay to be obsessed with computers!"
Izzy looked up wonderingly at Masami's sharp voice.
"Is there something wrong about that? No! It's what makes you unique." Masami's gaze changed to a reminiscent one. "Also… It's something that you share with your late father."
"My father…"
Izzy's father, who was a distant relative of Masami Izumi, was a university lecturer and genius mathematician. His wife, Izzy's mother, was an assistant professor, but despite having such a promising future, they died in a car accident almost right after Izzy was born. Around the same time, the boy that had been born to the Izumi couple had died young from illness.
When asked if they could take Izzy, it was Yoshie who had accepted first.
"To us, you are our son," she said now. "We raised you as if you were our own."
"We were planning to tell you when you were a bit older." Tears appeared in Masami's eyes. "But you already knew… It must have been so hard for you. I'm sorry."
"No. In fact, I'm very grateful that you told me the truth."
As he said this, he realized that it sounded like he was still speaking to a stranger. How did a normal child say thanks to their parents?
"Ah, I mean… T–Thanks…"
Masami smiled at him kindly. "You don't have to change."
Yoshie, too, spoke while wiping away her tears. "Yes. As long as you're happy, that's all we want for you."
As he was listening, Izzy's eyes sprung with tears and he scrunched his face. He flew into Yoshie's arms and began to cry loudly. Yoshie gently folded her arms around him, and Masami quietly embraced the both of them.
Tentomon hid behind one of the lobby's pillars, crying his eyes out. "Izzy… Cry as much as you want. Let them pamper you."
Back inside, Sora's mother suddenly sat up.
"Sora! Your mom just got up!" Piyomon alerted.
Sora spun around and hurried to her mother, who had begun chanting in a monotonous tone. "Lord Myotismon, Son of Despair… Master of the Digital world!"
"Mom, what is it? Mom!" Sora tried to get through to her mother, but it was as though she were in a trance.
Outside the rubble of what was once the Fuji TV station, Lady Despair was shown cutting her wrist, and letting her black blood dribble onto Myotismon mask's, watched by some Garthim and Demidevimon.
"Arise, my child. From my blood you were born, and my blood reborn!" Lady Despair falls out.
A red magic circle forms around the mask, and the black blood becomes transparent, like a shadow, and rises up, forming a sorta body behind the mask.
"Mooooother..." A ghostly voice spoke from the mask.
"Yes, my child! I will bring you back, so powerful that not even the angels in Heaven, or the Great Ak Could fell you!" Lady Despair declared.
"Energy, I require energy..." the shadow of Myotismon called out.
Lady Despair dubbed her wrist, healing her wound. "Clearly, he needs more than my blood..."
"Well, those brats felled a lot of our digimon," Demidevimon remanded. "That should be a good start, and then feed the sleeping humans to the master."
"Aaah!" Lady Despair reaches up to pat DemiDevimon happily. "You've made a good suggestion..."
She turns around and summons her scepter, blasting the Garthim, so they exploded, and the pieces transformed into Crystal Bats.
"Go! Go, Crystal Bats! Go with the alpha bats, and gather food for my Son!" Lady Despair commands.
And the swarm of crystal bats flew off into the air, and when they spied a fallen digimon, or even remaining Bakemon, a beam of red lightning shot out of the crystal lens, and sucked them up into the crystal. An innumerable number of the alpha bats flew out from the mask, spreading throughout Odaiba. Not all of the Digimon who had worked for Myotismon were dead. With no one to give them orders, they had hidden in places where the heroes couldn't find them.
The bats attacked them. The Digimon were consumed by the bats in a blink of an eye. The bats returned to the red mask and holding it up into the air. The mask itself also changed in size to about twenty meters. How big would the body be that corresponded to it? The mask rose even higher than the top of the Fuji TV building.
"Just a little longer before Lord Myotismon is restored and takes over this world!" Happily, he flew around the mask.
"And this time, that little snip will have no chance of swaying him no matter how much she pleads."
The first person at Big Sight to notice was Matt and T.K.'s father, Hiroaki, who was having a smoke outside.
Something red was floating above the remaining section of the Fuji TV station. It resembled Myotismon's mask, no matter how he looked at it, but the size of it was what threw him off. First the swarm of bats that were flying away after he and his sons had been attacked by the same Gizamon that captured his own coworkers, now this.
From where he stood, he couldn't see the powers of darkness that collected underneath the mask. The dim darkness gradually became more concentrated, forming a body.
All the captive people that were placed into a sleeping spell began chanting the exact same thing that Sora's mother called out before. "Lord Myotismon, Son of Despair… Master of the Digital world!"
The children and their Digimon standing by their sleeping parents, greatly disturbed by this turn of events.
"Stop that, Dad!" Tai urged.
"Mom!" Sora cried.
Mimi wailed. "Papa, Mama!"
"Ma, snap out of it!" Theo was right by her adoptive mother.
"Uncle Bernie, it's me!" Sara pleaded. "Tony, can you hear me?"
Kylie covered her ears, the words, the voices, they seemed to pierce right through her.
"Kylie...Kylie!" Dana grabs her. "Kylie, what is it?"
"I feel strange," Kylie whimpered. "Like a dark presence is overwhelming me!"
A purple light revealed the Dark Spectre Queen, who looked around in alarm. "So, it's begun..." She whispered.
"Begun?" Beth gasped, standing up from she was kneeling by her parents. "What's begun?"
"What's going on?" Hiroaki demands.
"It's strange. Physically, they're still asleep, but it's like they're all having the same dream." Joe's brother remarked.
"It's no dream," The Dark Spectre Queen said solemnly. "You feel strange, don't you, Kylie? It's your nymph blood, reacting to an overload of dark magic."
"These sleeping-wakers, they are HER doing," Kylie said in dread. "It's Despair!"
"She has the power to control people in their sleep, and invade dreams," Vanessa said with a nod. "But it's more than that. She's performing a high level dark magic ritual, one that is draining her life-force, it's so powerful. In order to bring a undead of unparalleled strength in this world."
"Um, you know… There's something about this that bothers me." Izzy spoke up, Vanessa's words rang a bell.
"The prophecy, right?" Matt guessed. " 'A great multitude of people will chant the name of the Undead Digimon King..' "
"Yes."
"The part about the bats came true, too!" informed Gabumon.
"What did you say?" Tai questioned.
"Does anyone remember the third part of the prophecy?" Sora asked.
"When the clock strikes the number of the Beast, the Undead Digimon King will appear revealing himself as the beast." Izzy repeated thoughtfully.
"What could be 'the number of the Beast'?" Tai wondered.
"Six-six-six." Matt's father said. "That's the number mentioned at the end of the New Testament."
Tai muttered, "So then they mean six seconds and six minutes past six o'clock." Tai checks his digivice clock - its 6 o'clock. "It's almost time!"
Mr. Ishida urged, "Quick, get in the van!"
By the time Tai and Matt piled into the van with most of the guardians, the mass of darkness that made up the body was visible to the eye. The body shape released a flash of light. Apparently that was the final step, because it materialized perfectly as flesh. As it stretched out its enormous bat-like wings, the gust of wind it created knocked into the Fuji TV building, smashing it entirely to pieces. There was no time to gape in amazement.
When the heroic group got closer to the giant Digimon, they were surprised once again by how huge it was. It was over 30-40 feet tall. He had become a Digimon that was of a completely different dimension from Myotismon. He has Myotismon mask– yet the blond hair had grown to his waist, but everything else is different. The torso and claws were red and black with gigantic demonic wings and pupil less yellow eyes.
"He's ghastly," Beth gasped.
"And he looks super powerful!" Theo remarked.
"It's his true form." Vanessa called out dramatically. "Gone is the handsome visage of gentlemanly behavior, now you behold him, the living manifestation of Lady Despair's black magic blood. He is...The Beast!"
Kylie grabbed her face, horrified beyond belief. "Oh Merciful Lords, and Brothers of Magic, why!?" Kylie sobbed. "Why him, why me..."
Vanessa comes over, wrapping her arms around Kylie, who buried her face in Vanessa's shoulder, sobbing almost hysterical.
"This is him, stripped of all that might have been good, so his mother can ensure he devours EVERYTHING in this dome." Vanessa said, shaking her head sadly. "And once that happens, he will regain his mind, but he will have all of our powers too."
"Even you!?" Izzy gasped in shock.
"Even me..." Vanessa nods in worry, she cups her Sampo in her hand. "And if he gets the Sampo, its unlimited magical power will make him Omnipotent."
"Kyahahaha! Lord VenomMyotismon has returned! You guys will never be able to stop him!" DemiDevimon appeared before them, sneering. "Being undead means he possesses invulnerability!"
VenomMyotismon then spoke for the first time. His voice was similar to before but deeper with a growling undertone. "Power…I need more power…what I have is not enough."
"If you want to feed, your prey is waiting for you at the Big Sight. Come along, sir, I will lead you there." DemiDevimon flew up to VenomMyotismon.
The monster grinned, "You will be my appetizer." He breathed in, mouth open wide.
DemiDevimon was sucked into his mouth as he flapped noisily to get away. "Wh-What are you doing, sir?! No! AHHHHHH!" It was over for him all too soon.
They all cringed.
"Whoa, that's not cool!" Theo grimaced.
VenomMyotismon took one step forward on a beastly leg that was covered in bristles. The earth sunk beneath his foot, shaking as though from an earthquake.
"Such a shame, he was a useful and loyal minion," A voice spoke.
Everyone spun around to see Lady Despair, sitting on a cloud of crystal bats.
"But to make an omelette, you gotta break some eggs!" Lady Despair whips out her scepter, the eyes flashed and blasted into the group.
Vanessa barely erected a shield, but everyone was still sent flying.
"I don't understand, he's data, how was she able to revive him?" Izzy asked the sea witch.
"You can thank the arcane blood of Despair," Vanessa said struggling to hold up the shield. "She's made VenomMyotismon into a living manifestation of black magic Itself, so while his data body was destroyed, his black magic blood core was still safe to be revived."
"But DemiDevimon didn't come back," T.K. points out.
"Aside from the fact that we're on Earth not the Digiworld… Angemon gave up his energy to destroy Devimon, an angel making a selfless sacrifice for love of friends? Not even Despair could withstand it, plus Kylie and the others purified the black blood when it revealed itself."
"He's headed towards the people at Big Sight!" Mr. Ishida warned about VenomMyotismon.
Was it true what DemiDevimon had said, that the humans were all fodder? Was VenomMyotismon heading for the sleeping humans at Big Sight?
"Our parents!" Theo gasped, knowing what it meant.
"We won't let him near them!" Tai steeled himself.
"Garurumon!" Matt yelled.
"I know, Matt!"
"Let's go!" Greymon roared.
After digivolving, the Perfect level Digimon began their attack. MetalGreymon's organic missiles exploded violently, while Theo's flames knocked into it. WereGarurumon leaped, using VenomMyotismon's body to climb up all the way up to his masked face. From point-blank range, he used his Moonsault Kick, its vacuum wave cutting into VenomMyotismon's forehead. But dozens of tentacles shot out from the open wound, tangling around WereGarurumon and flinging him aside.
Kylie snapped out of it, and unleashed a magical attack at Despair, blasting through the spikes, and hitting the Sorceress. But she spun her scepter in a loop, and created a wind vortex that struck Kylie and sent her flying.
"Kylie!" Beth flew over to catch her.
"And now for you both!" Lady Despair aimed her scepter and tired a powerful magical blast.
"Arctic Armor!"
And immediately a large suit of ice armor took the blast, and thou scorched it didn't melt, and slammed its fist at Despair who dodged. Vanessa was the one who conjured it.
"Someone get Angemon and Angewomon over here," Vanessa shouts. "She's weak against holy magic, and her neck is the one vulnerable spot for other attacks."
"Squealer!" Lady Despair snapped, and waved her hands to send a swarm of fire bats to rush down at Vanessa.
Vanessa spun on her one seagull foot, and a pillar of water erupted to extinguish the fire bats.
"Ahh!" Lady Despair raises her hands, as she was hit and soaked to the bone. "What was that supposed to do!?"
"Well, it worked for Dorothy." Vanessa snickered.
MetalGreymon launched another Giga Destroyer. The attack hit VenomMyotismon in the head and he fell over backwards.
"Did they get him?" Tai asked.
"Food… Food!" VenomMyotismon got back up.
Indescribable! Even with two perfects it wasn't enough. WereGarurumon and MetalGreymon urged them to warn the others at the Big Sight convention.
"We've got trouble!" Tai yelled the moment he and the rest arrived.
They stepped outside to see VenomMyotismon approaching. One shambling step at a time.
"Can't we chance moving everyone to some other place?"
"We won't make it." Shin, Joe's older brother, said begrudgingly. "There are too many people."
"We have no other choice but to defeat VenomMyotismon." Gatomon said grimly.
"I'll help you!" Patamon offered.
All the other digimon cried agreements but Gatomon shook her head.
"All of you stay here. Only Patamon needs to come with me. You need to store up energy for your next evolution."
"It's kinda sad, but Gatomon's right." Piyomon agreed. "Let's listen to her, everyone."
Mimi asked. "Why is it that when everyone evolved into Perfect, Palmon and the others became Baby-Levels yet you turned back into your Adult form?"
"We were trained in a different manner. Let's go, Patamon."
"Yeah!"
"Don't forget about us!" Yui cried.
She and the other guardians transformed at the same time that the two digimon digivolved. Mr. Ishida was driving, Izzy and his foster parents, along with T.K. and Kari followed them in the van.
"They transformed into angels this time." Mrs. Izumi commented. "And those girls turned into fairies!"
"The first two didn't transform like the guardians, they digivolved." Tentomon explained.
"What is all of this Adult-Level, Perfect-Level stuff?" Mr. Izumi asked.
"They indicate the evolution level of the Digimon. The lowest level is Baby, and from there they level up sequentially."
Izzy quickly filled his adoptive parents in about the digimon, the guardians, their powers and what their connection was to Vanessa.
VenomMyotismon walked slowly, sometimes unleashing colorful indescribable light from the eye slits near his lower abdomen. It looked like chunks that carried viscosity, and the two buildings around him that the light touched, even a little bit, corroded and crumbled.
"Wh-What destructive power!" Mr. Ishida shouted.
VenomMyotismon flourished his arms and Garudamon and MetalGreymon were swept away by a single swing. As they tumbled to the ground, they changed back into Agumon and Gabumon. They had used up all of their energy.
"I'll crush you!" VenomMyotismon attempted to crush them under his right foot.
"Holy Arrow!"
"Heaven's Knuckle!"
The two angels kept saved Agumon and Gabumon but the angelic attacks had little effects.
"This evil power is uncontrollable!" Angemon analyzed.
"We will destroy you once more!" called out Angewomon.
"You think you can destroy me again?!" The undead monster taunted.
"Stop!" Kylie screamed and flew in front of VenomMyotismon.
"Kylie, get out of there!" Sara G called out in fear, "It's not the same – er, digimon you fell in love with!"
"What?!" Mr. Ishida and Izzy's adoptive parents were bewildered.
Beth mumbled behind her hand to them, "We'll explain later."
"Please, Myotismon, Don't hurt anymore people," Kylie begged. "Why couldn't you be satisfied with my love? We could've moved far away and been happy."
Vanessa, Beth, Theo and the others looked up in surprise.
"I would've done that, but not what you were doing to Kari." Kylie makes a pleading motion. "Please, just stop this and we can go away."
"Kylie, I'm afraid..." VenomMyotismon suddenly caught her in his hand, crushing her in his grasp. "I have no more feelings for you!"
"Aaaaah!" Kylie screamed in pain.
"Kylie!" Everyone yelled.
"Foolish, Girl!" Lady Despair called up with a laugh. "You think I didn't plan for your simpering begging? I removed that part of my son that felt for you, and hid it away!"
Vanessa growled. "Sacred Jewels!" Golden balls of twinkling light that struck Sierra head on.
"Auuugh!" Lady Despair cried out in pain.
"RELEASE HER!"
The Dark Spectre Queen clapped her hands together, and immediately, an inky cloud seemed to form from beneath herself, as loud growling was heard as a massive monstrosity appeared. It had a huge head, and no limbs, aside from black too dripping tentacles, it clamped it's huge mouth onto VenomMyotismon arm, causing the beast to roar and drop Kylie.
Beth and Theo caught her, as the creature summoned by Vanessa wrapped its tentacles around VenomMyotismon, black goo posing off it to immobilize the Undead King.
Vanessa lamented wearily. "I did warn her, regrettably he's more beast than digimon now." It certainly looks as though this love story is foredoomed to remain star-crossed.
"Kylie!" Angewomon flew down to examine her 'sister'. "Is she alright?"
"She's hurt badly," Mrs. Izumi had run over to examine Kylie. "I think her ribs might be broken."
"Use your Heavens Charm," Angewomon." Vanessa called out, floating over towards them. "It will heal her, I must focus my magic on my Summon."
Angewomon clapped her hands over Kylie, causing a shower of rainbow sparkles to cover her form to heal herself.
"Will that thing destroy VenomMyotismon?" T.K. asked the Dark Spectre Queen.
"Hardly, it's just to keep him still, but his struggles while tiring him out will make my magic levels drop." She looks at the kids. "You seriously better start thinking of something, and soon."
"Look out!" Matt yells.
Angemon quickly dives in front of Dark Spectre Queen, blocking a crimson exploding skull shot by Despair.
"You won't stop me, or my child! I had one son kill that Nymph," Lady Despair seethes. "And I'll be damned if I let you fool my other from killing her daughter!"
"You are damned already," Vanessa huffed. "Thousands of years before Kylie was ever even born."
Vanessa crossed her arms over her chest, and a bright light flashes from her Sampo, temporarily blinding Despair as Vanessa flew into the Sorceress, the two going far away from the group, grappling, hands trying to force the other back, kicking and hair pulling.
"Oh yeah?" Theo challenged, "And what do think he's going do - when he does finish the job and figure out he's destroyed her too?!"
"Yeah, he'll either literally tear out his own heart from the grief or take the clichéd 'If I have to suffer then the whole world will suffer with me' routine." Zaira added coldly.
"If I get my hands on a pensieve, he won't tell her apart from a mannequin!" Lady Despair snapped.
"THAT DOES IT!" Angewomon snapped, and immediately shot an arrow at Despair.
She dodged out of the way, only to be rammed into by Vanessa, who conjured a large ice ram.
"Aghh!" Lady Despair goes flying, and hits a lamp post, bending it.
Tai and Matt ran to their digimon.
"I'm sorry, Tai… We're not strong enough…"Agumon apologized.
"Is that beast also a Perfect-Level?" Mr. Izumi asked Izzy.
"I'll look it up. VenomMyotismon. A Mega Level evolved from Myotismon. He has lost both his intelligence and sense of reason. He's in Mega level?!"
"There's an evolution level that's above Perfect?!" questioned Matt.
"Well Charmix and Digix attacks didn't do the trick either..." Dana worried. "So then one or two of us need to reach Enchantix level!"
"What does the prophecy say next?" Mr. Ishida questioned
"'the angels will let fly the arrows of hope and light at the loved ones of those they've been sent to protect, and a miracle will happen.' Angels…" Izzy recalled the last part of the prophecy. "Angemon and Angewomon. They're the angels."
"Then who are the people they protect?" Mr. Izumi inquired.
They quickly theorized that it's referring to Tai and Izzy, their siblings.
"But why would they shoot arrows at the people they love?" questioned Izzy.
"Angels… They're angels…" Mrs. Izumi explained. "In Roman mythology, Cupid shot arrows at people to fill them with love."
"Arrows that fill people with love?"
"You're going to need a lot more than that!" Vanessa called, "Prophets don't know everything!"
"Well, what do you suggest?" Matt asked.
"I'm not saying it's wrong, but perhaps I should be allowed to enchant you two, so the arrows won't harm you both," Vanessa turns to Kylie and Beth. "And since we're 'filling' loved ones with magical energy, I had a thought."
"Uh-oh..." Beth jokes as Vanessa looks at her.
"It's alright, I've come up with an idea," Vanessa gestured to her monster fighting the Undead Digimon King. "If Sierra's blood can do this, imagine what mine could do? I use it to super charge potions, and to acquire an Enchantix, you need a super charge of magic. Who's to say it can't be an outside source, MY source of magic?"
"Using the blood of a Demi-goddess and immortal Sorceress?!" Mrs. Izumi gasped. "But you constantly tap into the limitless magic of the Sampo, it could overwhelm the girls."
"Not if it was only ten drops," Vanessa promises. "And they be immediately siphoning off that powerful magic to aid in Venomyotismon destruction."
"You better make a decision quick," Tai shouts. "VenomMyotismon is breaking free of your sea monster, and I think Sierra is getting her bearings again!"
"It's a super powerful catalyst, it'll either awaken your powers, or you'll blow up the Earth ten times." Vanessa said.
"It's a chance we'll gladly take." Kylie said taking a deep breath.
"So what should we...?" Beth questioned.
Vanessa pinches Beth nose with her one hand, the fairy flails, as Vanessa holds her black scaly hand over Beth mouth, and stabs her middle fingertip with her sharp talon thumb of the same hand, and drops of bright green blood drips into Beth mouth.
"I hate to treat you like a kid, but quick is best," Vanessa said pulling away from Beth. "Who's next?"
As she asked, Beth's body crackled with power and energy.
Vanessa tilts Kylie's head back with one hand, and digs her thumb into the palm of the hand she holds over Kylie's mouth, and ten sparkling, bright green drops of blood drip into Kylie's mouth.
Naturally, the two younger children protested at the suggestion of their older siblings' request to have the angel digimon shoot an arrow at them but they were insistent especially after reassuring them of the enchantment Vanessa had just placed. Either way, they needed to believe it's what must be done.
"Plus, you'll be getting to two fairies on the third level Enchantix to help make things right!" Dana added. "A little faith and trust can go a long, long way!"
T.K. and Kari pulled out their crests.
"OK, I'll give your my light!"
"And my hope!"
Their crests shot out bright lights towards the angels, giving them arrows.
"Shoot those arrows at our brothers!" T.K. ordered. "Let's believe in miracles!"
"Let's believe…" Angemon said soberly.
Angewomon nodded. "In miracles."
Gabumon and Agumon called out to their respective partners.
"Matt, don't you dare!"
"Tai, don't risk yourself!"
"Risking myself is part of my job description, remember?" Tai reminded Agumon.
"Now let us handle this." Matt said to them in reassurance then he looked to Tai. "You scared?"
"No way!" Tai then added. "…but that would be a big fat lie."
"Actually… so am I." He then grabbed Tai's hand. "Hold on tight so I don't run away."
"That goes the same for me."
And their crests began to shine brightly.
"The Prophecy! NOO!"
Lady Despair had seen the spear of hope aimed at Matt, while the arrow of light aimed at Tai. She waves her scepter into the air, and out of the ground shoots rock hands, which clamp the two angels in their grip.
"NO!" Kylie screamed in shock.
"The Woods are empty, the house is haunted, you are now enchanted! Evil Spirits of the Earth, forbid these fairies, children and Digimon from moving!"
And at those words from Lady Despair, the ground glowed a bright red, and the various heroes were unable to move.
"I can't move a finger!" Zaira gasped in horror.
"This is serious black magic, guys!" Theo cried out.
"No! Matt, Tai!" Beth cried out as Lady Despair moves towards the two.
"Such a shame, such strapping lads." Lady Despair mocks, as she traces a finger under each of their chins. "If I had you before your school trip, I could've taken you away for corruption to become my Black Order Knights...Ah well."
Lady Despair's eyes glow bright red, as she floats away, grinning as she aims her scepter, which pulsated with pink and black energy. "And now, I condemn you to the void! Oh Ancient Spirits, hear my words, if you have pity on these mortals. Answer their prayers now, or forever hold your peace. REAPER RAGE!"
She fires a pink grim reaper phantom which charges at Matt and Tai, only to hit an invisible wall, which rippled as the spell was negated.
"WHAT!?" Lady Despair cried out with rage.
Suddenly, from the river a massive glittering wave washed over the ground, the hands melted, Angemon and Angewomon freed, they fired their attacks at Sierra, who barely dodged as the others were freed from the enchantment holding them prisoners.
And The Dark Spectre Queen appeared, her eyes glowing purple with magic.
"Wretched Hag, you've used your magic for Evil long enough," Vanessa called out, waving her hands to create glowing purple energy balls. "The Prophecy will be fulfilled! In the Name of Nemesis, bind this wicked witch!"
The orbs go flying, and turn into balls and chains, which manacle on Sierra, sending her flying, as she shrieked with fury.
"NOW, CHILDREN!" Vanessa cries out to Angemon and Angewomon. "YOUR LIVES DEPEND ON IT!"
The angel Digimon did not hesitate. The two holy powers passed through Tai and Matt without harming them and their digivices released a new light.
Meanwhile, the power boost from Vanessa's blood began to take effect in Beth and Kylie. In the very center of Beth's chest, a soft hot pink glow began accompanied by a thump, like the sound of a heartbeat. And with each beat, the pink glow grew brighter and brighter until she's enveloped in it.
In Kylie's case, she began to shine a gentle sparkling blue color.
When the bright lights had died down, the two girls had undergone their new transformation. On their backs were big colorful wings. They wore intricate robes (of distinctive colors) and on their arms were with long sparkling gloves that almost reach their shoulders and barefoot sandals that reached their calves.
At the same time, the new magical energy poured into Agumon and Gabumon.
"Agumon warp-evolve! WarGreymon!"
"Gabumon warp-evolve! MetalGarurumon!"
Agumon had digivolved into a warrior Digimon that wore armor all over his body, while Gabumon digivolved into a mechanical wolf Digimon.
Now they were ready to fight VenomMyotismon.
To be continued…