"Puppetmon? This is Puppetmon?" I asked them
They were backing away in fear. "He doesn't look too tough to me. Why are you so scared of him you guys?" I started to approach this Puppetmon as he lifted his hammer. Gatomon screamed out,
"WIZARDMON! NO! GET OUT OF THE WAY!!!" She charged for me as Puppetmon's hammer was directly above his head. "PUPPET PUMMEL!" he shouted as he slammed his hammer on the ground right in front of me. All of a sudden a burst of flames appeared right before me. I braced myself as I made an X with my arms. Gatomon quickly leaped and pushed us away from Puppetmon's devastating attack as we both fell to the ground. "Are you crazy or something?" She asked me. Puppetmon lifted his hammer, as he was about to try another attack as he took aim. For some odd reason he seemed to be in a trance, as he seemed slow to react and took his time to make his move.
I then saw where he was aiming at now, "AGUMON! GET OUT OF THE WAY!"
"You don't have to tell me twice!" Agumon yelled back to me. Puppetmon attacked once again, "PUPPET PUMMEL!" Agumon jumped out of the way as he easily dodged his attack. I turned to see Gatomon, "Gatomon? Who is this guy?"
Puppetmon charged for another attack aiming at us this time. We moved out of the way as his attacked missed us. Gatomon answered back, "He's one of the four dark masters of the digital world."
"What!?! I thought you said you defeated them all?" I called back
She looked at me, "So did we, but it seems this mega doesn't want to die!"
"PUPPET PUMMEL!" We dodge his attack. I made a quick sudden turn to face Gatomon, "Mega!?! This thing is a mega level digimon?"
"Well duh! This dark master didn't actually strike fear into other digimon by the way he looks"
Agumon called out to us, "GUYS GET OUT OF THE WAY!"
We both looked in front of us to see Puppetmon about to launch an attack. We both leaped out of the way. "Well for a dark master, he's not very bright or fast when he attacks."
Agumon rushed over to check on us, "No, sure Puppetmon wasn't the smartest of the dark masters, but he wasn't this dumb or slow before. Something's definitely wrong here."
"Well when you figure this out, you can tell me later. For now lets just try and stay alive." Gatomon said to Agumon as Puppetmon turned his head towards us. He smiled a crooked little smile as he put his hammer away. "What's he doing now?" I ask both of them
"I'm not sure, maybe he's trying another attack." Gatomon answered me.
Puppetmon slowly approached us, "WIRES CHOKING!" he aimed for Gatomon as she was constricted in a ribbon. We both knelt down to try and undo the binding when again Puppetmon used his wires choking move and constricted now Agumon in his ribbon. I now was there standing alone as, both Agumon and Gatomon told me to move away. Sure enough Puppetmon was about to use his attack again. I had to act fast, but I needed more time to sort this out. I had no choice, as Puppetmon was about to use his attack on me. "Pillage of time…" I whispered as I raised my hands and placed them in front of me. My surroundings started to turn gray as the ribbon that extended from Puppetmon's hand started to come out very slowly. Everything slowed down as I remained the same speed and color, (Note, Move 3 Pillage of time, one word can sum this up and that's the word SLOW! If a user is experienced enough, s/he could actually stop time in a certain place for a brief amount of time. The amount of time the objects/settings are stayed slowed or stop depends on the caster.)
I walked up to Puppetmon's hand where the ribbon was being thrown. He was still moving, but just at an extremely slow speed. I couldn't hold the time suspension for much longer and so I used my staff and tilted his hand slightly up and quickly returned to my position, between Gatomon and Agumon. I finally let go and time reverted back to its original settings. Sure enough the ribbon that was aimed straight for me, was off as it barely missed me.
"Whew…slowing down time takes a lot of power." I thought as I grabbed both Agumon and Gatomon and ran out of there as quickly as possible. Puppetmon stood there dumbfounded to what had just happened. He finally realized what had happened as he chased after us.
I laid Gatomon and Agumon on the ground as I backed away from them. "Ok, you guys I'm going to try and weaken the binding using my staff. Try and struggle out, ok?"
They both nodded as I griped my staff. "MAGICAL GAME" a bolt of energy surged from my staff as it hit Gatomon's binding. She struggled out until she was finally free, I had however used a little more influence to strengthen my blast. I charged up my staff as I hit Agumon's binding now, weakening them. I stopped as Agumon began to struggle until Gatomon went up to him and slashed the binding off with her claw. He twisted out and shook off the binding.
"Shhhh…Listen," I told them
They both looked around to find out what I was trying to listen too. Gatomon picked it up, "someone's moving in our direction." I nodded in agreement
Agumon suddenly spoke up, "Listen you guys, I'll distract Puppetmon and you two escape while he deals with me." Gatomon looked at him giving him the are you crazy look.
Gatomon spoke up, "Agumon, you don't stand a chance against Puppetmon. What happens if his attack hits you or you get trapped in the wires choking move. We wouldn't be able to help you and you'd be good as deleted."
"Listen, I'm the leader here and I say you two get out of here. Don't worry I'll be fine, the last time I was just playing around. This time I'm serious and I won't be so easy to defeat. I am the digimon of courage, the one who defeated both Machinedramon and MetalSeadramon." Agumon stated
Gatomon looked a little angry, "But you were a mega when you defeated them, dummy!"
I saw Agumon now in a different view. He now was a true hero, he believed in his cause and was will to fight for it even if it meant pure suicide. But I knew as long as he kept that in mind, his chances of surviving would greatly increase. I grabbed Gatomon by the shoulder, "Gatomon, let him do what he wants to do for now."
She turned her head to see me, "Are you crazy? Agumon is just asking for his deletion and all you can say to object to this is, let him do what he wants…"
"Gatomon, you have to let him do this. Do you think I like the fact that he's doing this? No, but I know Agumon is doing this to protect both you and me. Plus he is the leader and we should follow what he says." I explained to Gatomon.
Agumon nodded as he replied, "Better get going!" as he ran off.
Gatomon was about to chase after him with I reached for her hand. "Hold on Gatomon."
"Let go of me Wizardmon! Agumon needs our help! I don't care that he's the so-called leader, that little yellow dino is gonna get himself killed. Like it or not he needs our help!"
I continued to hold her hand, "Please Gatomon, Agumon knows what he's doing."
She continued to struggle, but eventually she calm down as she gritted her teeth. She knew Agumon and me were right, but she didn't want to accept it. She turned to face me, "I swear if that rookie doesn't come back alive, I'll make sure personally to drop-kick his digiegg in the river if we are ever at Primary Village." She started to run in the opposite direction as now she was now dragging me.
We started to run away from the battle, at the same time Agumon rushed towards Puppetmon. We continued to run, as Gatomon had let go of my hand and I ran now along side of her. I said to her as we ran, "Hey Gatomon! We have to find a place we can hide and figure out a plan."
She nodded when it looked as if something popped in her head. She looked around the area.
"What happened you find something?" I asked her
"Hurry, turn here!" she grabbed my arm and made a sharp turn in another direction. "Where are we heading off to?" I asked her
"This way!" she only replied back as we made another turn and surprisingly fell in a cave. I looked back at the entrance. It seemed to be completely covered up by the leaves of plants. I looked at her, "How'd you know this was here? I mean through all those trees this would have been nearly impossible to find this cave."
She turned her head to me, "That's why I chose this place."
I stared at her confusedly as she started to explain, "You see, I remembered that this was Puppetmon's forest. A while back I placed something here…I wonder if it is still here."
She walked over towards the end of the cave, which wasn't that far and started to kick the dust off the floor. She then took her paw and stabbed at the ground as she began to dig through the dirt. I asked her, "What are you doing Gatomon? You looking for something?"
Then she came to halt, "Hey I found it. I thought I'd never see this old thing before."
She turned around as something dangled in her paw. I stepped closer as I got a better look to what she was talking about. I took it from her paw, "A whistle?" I gave it back to her.
"It's not just any whistle, it's probably the most valuable thing next to my friends that I have."
I was sort of confused, "How is that your most prized possession?"
She looked away as she told her story, "Well, it was a gift…from Kari. So I wouldn't forget her. Right before she left to go back to the real world, she gave me her whistle."
"Oh, Kari's your partner right?" I asked
She turned and nodded. I stared at her as a new view entered my mind. It was probably the first Gatomon had personally opened up to me. I couldn't get involve right now as I grip my staff and started to draw a plan on the floor. "Y'see over here we could surprise Puppetmon and…"
"Wizardmon…" She interrupted me as she began to talk
"Wizardmon…I have to talk to you about something." Gatomon replied
I paused; I was pretty sure on what she was about to say to me. I slowly turned my head to face her. "Yes Gatomon, what do you want to talk about?"
She began, "Your probably the only one who can really understand me. You're just like the Wizardmon I use to know, but your much more than that." Now I was certain, "He was my friend and…he was also my love. I never said anything to him because I was afraid of losing what we had already. But then that day appeared, when was killed and he'd never come back to me. I lost him before I could ever tell him how I felt."
I looked at her, "That's really nice Gatomon, but how does this have to do with me?" I said innocently
"Can't you see Wizardmon!?! I love you and I'm not about to let the same thing happen to you what it did to Wizardmon." She wrapped her arms around me as she cried on my cloths. "We'll protect each other and make sure nothing ever happens. You're not going to sacrifice yourself just to save me and leave me all alone!" she continued to cry.
I didn't know what to do. A keeper cannot make a romantic connection with their charges. It just aroused to many things, a keeper would even misuse their powers just to see and make sure their love. I've seen many like me abuse their powers and eventually become exiled. I cared for Gatomon, but I couldn't love her. There was no easy way to break this to her so I'd tried my best. I placed my one of my hands on her head and the other on her back. She continued to cry as I cleared my throat.
"Gatomon…I care for you, but…" I rustled my hand back and forth on her head and back, lightly touching her white fur across her body. Her cries seemed to die down and whispered under my breath, "I can't be in love with you…" I knew she didn't hear that as she snuggled her face on my chest. I couldn't strengthen my voice or my courage to say it again. All of a sudden her ears shot up. I asked her, "Gatomon what's wrong?"
She looked up, "It's Agumon…I can hear him, it sounds like he's in trouble, serious trouble." She broke away from my grasp and wiped her eyes, "We have to help him, that dumb dino thinks he can do this all by himself? Well too bad for him, cause he's gonna help him whether he likes it or not!"
"But Gatomon!" she grabbed my hand as we headed out of the cave and Gatomon led the way.
Meanwhile…
"C'mon! Is that all you got!?!" Agumon called back to Puppetmon
Puppetmon on the other hand, expressed no emotion. Anger towards Agumon dodging his attacks seemed to be nonexistent as he continued to fire away. He had a dull expression on his face, it was like his body was there, but there was no one upstairs. Agumon noticed this as he worked up the courage, "PEPPER BREATH!" he attacked with his fireball and hit him dead on as it singed him just a bit. Agumon felt a little proud of his efforts, "And there's plenty more from where that came from, you broken down puppet!"
"PUPPET PUMMEL!" Puppetmon once attacked Agumon and he leaped out of the way. He jerked his head, "PEPPER BREATH!" launching a double fireball against Puppetmon and landed back on his two feet. Puppetmon attacked again and this time Agumon sided stepped and charged for Puppetmon. He jumped, used his claws and pushed off from Puppetmon's head and landed behind him. He quickly turned around and attacked using his pepper breath hitting his back. Agumon smiled as Puppetmon continued to stand there unnoticed of what had happened.
"I don't think you've got an idea on how this fighting thing goes, huh?" Agumon spoke, mocking Puppetmon as he continued to stand there like a zombie. All of a sudden a metal clang sound seemed to echo through the forest. Agumon looked around to see where the sound had come from when all of a sudden he looked right in front of him as a ribbon headed straight for him. It had come so quickly he was unable to dodge the attack. He fell to the ground as the ribbon constricted his body. Agumon lifted his head to see Puppetmon still having his back turned to him with his arm pointed to him. Puppetmon turned around, "Play time's over Agumon, I've let you have your fun and now it's time to make you pay for ever trying to go against me!" It was like he had changed personalities completely. Before he was a mindless zombie and now he was ready to attack.
Agumon struggled, but it was no use as Puppetmon drew nearer to him. "You've been a bad dino, little rookie. You shouldn't have been so easy to declare you victory, now you'll pay!"
"HOLD IT RIGHT THERE! MAGICAL GAME!" I fired my blast from my staff. It caught the attention of Puppetmon as he turned around. There before him stood Gatomon and me ready for a fight. "Just what do you think you can do?" he was mocking us as Gatomon charged for him, "EAT THIS PUPPETMON! LIGHTING PAW!"
Puppetmon smiled a crooked little smile, he swung his hammer right at Gatomon as it hit her dead on and flew back hitting me as well. "Down kitty-cat, your lucky I didn't put any force in that one."
We both sat there as we managed to get back up. "You just don't know when to quit do you? Ok, now wait your turn. WIRES CHOKING!" he wrapped us both up and we fell to the ground. We were helpless to do anything. The wires tighten around us as Puppetmon turned around. "Now it's time for punishment Agumon." He raised his hammer and was about to attack. There was only one thing I could do without being caught by the others I whispered, "Echoes of time, reanimate to raise and protect, astral shield." a twinkle in my eye appeared and then a small spark appeared between Agumon and Puppetmon. All of a sudden Puppetmon attacked as the invisible shield formed, "PUPPET PUMMEL!" the shield blocked off the attack. I had to lower it; I didn't have to skill to keep the shield up any longer. "Huh? What? What's wrong with this thing?" Puppetmon looked at his hammer. "Well this time it won't fail, let's just try this one more time."
I didn't know what to do; I had to wait another five hours to gather the necessary energy to raise the astral shield once again. Gatomon called out to him, "AGUMON!!!"
I screamed within my mind, "How can this be!?! I've done everything as required; there should be no reason why this should end like this!!! Agumon is brave enough to be the leader he's proven it!!! He shouldn't die like this, before he complete his mission!!! Was it something that I did!?! TELL ME WHY IS THIS HAPPENING!?!" all of a sudden everything began to slow down before me. The attack from Puppetmon's hammer also slowed down. Everything had come to a complete halt as my eyes began to glow and a calm gentle voice spoke to me in my head. It said, "Chronos…you have done nothing wrong, keeper." It was the council, they had stopped time, "We have heard your cry, do not worry Chronos, your charge has done well in regaining his confidence. Things just have a way of working out, just have more faith Chronos. That is a lesson you will learn…" Time reverted back to its normal settings, as the attack coming from Puppetmon grew closer to Agumon.
I yelled out, "AGUMON! GET OUT OF THE WAY!!!"
It turns out Agumon managed to do so. He may not have been able to move his arms our legs, but he managed to move his body as he rolled out of the way as the attack barely missed him. "Whew, that was a little too close for comfort…" Agumon rejoiced.
"You were lucky that time…but now your luck has just ran out." Puppetmon prepared
I didn't know what to do; Agumon could roll out of the way this time as I saw him trying already to struggle out of the way, but having no such luck. Then I remembered what the council had told me, have faith. Well, this would the best time out of anytime to have a little faith in things. Puppetmon raised his hammer. All of sudden I noticed something in the sky. Everyone else had noticed it as well, even Puppetmon looked up into the sky. The sun that had shine down upon us seemed to have a dark circle covering slowly until it had completely blocked off the sun. "Hey it's an eclipse!" I yelled. Then a faint voice started to appear from above. It was unclear at first, but it got louder and louder as it seemed to get closer. I looked around to try and find out where the sound was coming from. Finally located that it was coming from above and now it was clear to what it was saying, "HOLD ON AGUMON!!! I'M COMING!!!" It appeared to be a young boy wearing a blue shirt, brown pants and what it appeared to be goggles on his head.
Agumon screamed out in excitement, "TAI!!!"
"Whoa!!!" Tai screamed as he fell down from the sky "Agumon!!! Help!!!" as a small device flashed and made a high-pitched sound. Agumon answered back, "You got it Tai!!!"
"Agumon warp digivolve too…Wargreymon!!!"
The small yellow dinosaur had made a great change. Now he was a large digimon, metal claws on both hands. A shield with a strange symbol on his back, he wore a metal mask and strange armor.
He had easily outgrown his bindings and flew above to catch the falling boy. "Thanks Wargreymon" Tai said to him. Wargreymon answered back, "Tai, you're here. I thought I'd never see you again."
"Don't worry buddy, I knew we'd see each other again. But I didn't come here alone…"
"Huh!?! Who else is here?" Wargreymon asked him
All of sudden we heard two other cries coming from the sky. Wargreymon flew up to see who it was exactly screaming. "Sora! Kari!" he flew over to them and caught them. "Don't worry I got you."
He flew to the ground carrying the three children in his arms. He set them down back on the earth and turned to face Puppetmon. Tai asked, "Hey isn't that Puppetmon?"
"That can't be Puppetmon, we destroyed him just like the other dark masters." Sora replied
"No that's him alright, for some strange reason he managed to come back." Wargreymon said
Kari rushed over to Gatomon, "Gatomon!!!"
"Kari!!! Help! I'm kind of stuck here!" Gatomon called back to her
Now her device started to flash and make a sound.
"Gatomon digivolve too…Angewomon"
I gazed upon her beauty. She was a female angel with six wings as the pink light surrounded her. A brown helmet covered her face only showing her chin and nose as her blond hair let down on her back. Now was my chance to escape without anyone noticing me. Everyone was too busy looking at everyone else as I concentrated on an image. With the image set in my mind I teleported out of my bindings and reappeared in slightly farther away from everyone. "I better just sit this one out and let them fight the battle this time." I said to myself
Puppetmon had just stood there as all this had happened, "HEY!!! You forget about me!?!"
"Well if that's Puppetmon, we're just going to beat him up once again, right Wargreymon?"
Wargreymon stepped forward in front of everyone. "You too Angewomon!" Kari replied as Angewomon flew forward as well. "Ready to do this Wargreymon?" Angewomon asked
Wargreymon nodded as they both charged for Puppetmon.
"Hmpf is this all you got?" Puppetmon replied as he raised his hammer and aimed it towards Angewomon. "PUPPET PUMMEL!" Angewomon flew out of the way as Wargreymon raised his metal claws and attempted to slash Puppetmon. The little puppet digimon jumped out of the way.
"CELESTIAL ARROW!!!" Angewomon shouted and formed a bow and arrow out of light. She launched her attack straight for him. Puppetmon hit it back with his hammer deflecting it blast. Wargreymon charged for him again as he grabbed the mega level digimon and flew in the sky as Angewomon took flight. Puppetmon struggled getting his arm free. He then used the top of his hammer and took a swing at Wargreymon's face. The attack got to Wargreymon as his grip around Puppetmon loosened. He then freed himself and jumped away from Wargreymon and now was in midair. Angewomon took aim, "CELESTIAL ARROW!!!" she attacked again.
"Your so predictable…" While in midair Puppetmon swung deflecting the blast and sent it right back at her. Angewomon managed to dodge the counterattack, but unfortunately it hurtled back towards the ground. The blast was close to the kids, as it did not hit them dead on. The blast itself hit a series of trees as the tumbled down and were about to land on them.
"NO!!!" Both Wargreymon and Angewomon shouted, "GET OUT OF THE WAY!!!" They both raced to aid Tai, Kari, and Sora from the falling debris. Guess it was time for me to take action; I was the closest to them and I was their best bet. I flew up and stopped between the falling trees the children, "MAGICAL GAME" a bolt of energy emerged from my staff destroying the tree. They both looked at me smiled as they saw what I had done.
Kari shouted, "ITS WIZARDMON!!!"
I turned to face them, "Hey yeah, it is Wizardmon!" Tai and Sora said
"Guess I have some explaining to do…" I said to them as I floated back down.
They were backing away in fear. "He doesn't look too tough to me. Why are you so scared of him you guys?" I started to approach this Puppetmon as he lifted his hammer. Gatomon screamed out,
"WIZARDMON! NO! GET OUT OF THE WAY!!!" She charged for me as Puppetmon's hammer was directly above his head. "PUPPET PUMMEL!" he shouted as he slammed his hammer on the ground right in front of me. All of a sudden a burst of flames appeared right before me. I braced myself as I made an X with my arms. Gatomon quickly leaped and pushed us away from Puppetmon's devastating attack as we both fell to the ground. "Are you crazy or something?" She asked me. Puppetmon lifted his hammer, as he was about to try another attack as he took aim. For some odd reason he seemed to be in a trance, as he seemed slow to react and took his time to make his move.
I then saw where he was aiming at now, "AGUMON! GET OUT OF THE WAY!"
"You don't have to tell me twice!" Agumon yelled back to me. Puppetmon attacked once again, "PUPPET PUMMEL!" Agumon jumped out of the way as he easily dodged his attack. I turned to see Gatomon, "Gatomon? Who is this guy?"
Puppetmon charged for another attack aiming at us this time. We moved out of the way as his attacked missed us. Gatomon answered back, "He's one of the four dark masters of the digital world."
"What!?! I thought you said you defeated them all?" I called back
She looked at me, "So did we, but it seems this mega doesn't want to die!"
"PUPPET PUMMEL!" We dodge his attack. I made a quick sudden turn to face Gatomon, "Mega!?! This thing is a mega level digimon?"
"Well duh! This dark master didn't actually strike fear into other digimon by the way he looks"
Agumon called out to us, "GUYS GET OUT OF THE WAY!"
We both looked in front of us to see Puppetmon about to launch an attack. We both leaped out of the way. "Well for a dark master, he's not very bright or fast when he attacks."
Agumon rushed over to check on us, "No, sure Puppetmon wasn't the smartest of the dark masters, but he wasn't this dumb or slow before. Something's definitely wrong here."
"Well when you figure this out, you can tell me later. For now lets just try and stay alive." Gatomon said to Agumon as Puppetmon turned his head towards us. He smiled a crooked little smile as he put his hammer away. "What's he doing now?" I ask both of them
"I'm not sure, maybe he's trying another attack." Gatomon answered me.
Puppetmon slowly approached us, "WIRES CHOKING!" he aimed for Gatomon as she was constricted in a ribbon. We both knelt down to try and undo the binding when again Puppetmon used his wires choking move and constricted now Agumon in his ribbon. I now was there standing alone as, both Agumon and Gatomon told me to move away. Sure enough Puppetmon was about to use his attack again. I had to act fast, but I needed more time to sort this out. I had no choice, as Puppetmon was about to use his attack on me. "Pillage of time…" I whispered as I raised my hands and placed them in front of me. My surroundings started to turn gray as the ribbon that extended from Puppetmon's hand started to come out very slowly. Everything slowed down as I remained the same speed and color, (Note, Move 3 Pillage of time, one word can sum this up and that's the word SLOW! If a user is experienced enough, s/he could actually stop time in a certain place for a brief amount of time. The amount of time the objects/settings are stayed slowed or stop depends on the caster.)
I walked up to Puppetmon's hand where the ribbon was being thrown. He was still moving, but just at an extremely slow speed. I couldn't hold the time suspension for much longer and so I used my staff and tilted his hand slightly up and quickly returned to my position, between Gatomon and Agumon. I finally let go and time reverted back to its original settings. Sure enough the ribbon that was aimed straight for me, was off as it barely missed me.
"Whew…slowing down time takes a lot of power." I thought as I grabbed both Agumon and Gatomon and ran out of there as quickly as possible. Puppetmon stood there dumbfounded to what had just happened. He finally realized what had happened as he chased after us.
I laid Gatomon and Agumon on the ground as I backed away from them. "Ok, you guys I'm going to try and weaken the binding using my staff. Try and struggle out, ok?"
They both nodded as I griped my staff. "MAGICAL GAME" a bolt of energy surged from my staff as it hit Gatomon's binding. She struggled out until she was finally free, I had however used a little more influence to strengthen my blast. I charged up my staff as I hit Agumon's binding now, weakening them. I stopped as Agumon began to struggle until Gatomon went up to him and slashed the binding off with her claw. He twisted out and shook off the binding.
"Shhhh…Listen," I told them
They both looked around to find out what I was trying to listen too. Gatomon picked it up, "someone's moving in our direction." I nodded in agreement
Agumon suddenly spoke up, "Listen you guys, I'll distract Puppetmon and you two escape while he deals with me." Gatomon looked at him giving him the are you crazy look.
Gatomon spoke up, "Agumon, you don't stand a chance against Puppetmon. What happens if his attack hits you or you get trapped in the wires choking move. We wouldn't be able to help you and you'd be good as deleted."
"Listen, I'm the leader here and I say you two get out of here. Don't worry I'll be fine, the last time I was just playing around. This time I'm serious and I won't be so easy to defeat. I am the digimon of courage, the one who defeated both Machinedramon and MetalSeadramon." Agumon stated
Gatomon looked a little angry, "But you were a mega when you defeated them, dummy!"
I saw Agumon now in a different view. He now was a true hero, he believed in his cause and was will to fight for it even if it meant pure suicide. But I knew as long as he kept that in mind, his chances of surviving would greatly increase. I grabbed Gatomon by the shoulder, "Gatomon, let him do what he wants to do for now."
She turned her head to see me, "Are you crazy? Agumon is just asking for his deletion and all you can say to object to this is, let him do what he wants…"
"Gatomon, you have to let him do this. Do you think I like the fact that he's doing this? No, but I know Agumon is doing this to protect both you and me. Plus he is the leader and we should follow what he says." I explained to Gatomon.
Agumon nodded as he replied, "Better get going!" as he ran off.
Gatomon was about to chase after him with I reached for her hand. "Hold on Gatomon."
"Let go of me Wizardmon! Agumon needs our help! I don't care that he's the so-called leader, that little yellow dino is gonna get himself killed. Like it or not he needs our help!"
I continued to hold her hand, "Please Gatomon, Agumon knows what he's doing."
She continued to struggle, but eventually she calm down as she gritted her teeth. She knew Agumon and me were right, but she didn't want to accept it. She turned to face me, "I swear if that rookie doesn't come back alive, I'll make sure personally to drop-kick his digiegg in the river if we are ever at Primary Village." She started to run in the opposite direction as now she was now dragging me.
We started to run away from the battle, at the same time Agumon rushed towards Puppetmon. We continued to run, as Gatomon had let go of my hand and I ran now along side of her. I said to her as we ran, "Hey Gatomon! We have to find a place we can hide and figure out a plan."
She nodded when it looked as if something popped in her head. She looked around the area.
"What happened you find something?" I asked her
"Hurry, turn here!" she grabbed my arm and made a sharp turn in another direction. "Where are we heading off to?" I asked her
"This way!" she only replied back as we made another turn and surprisingly fell in a cave. I looked back at the entrance. It seemed to be completely covered up by the leaves of plants. I looked at her, "How'd you know this was here? I mean through all those trees this would have been nearly impossible to find this cave."
She turned her head to me, "That's why I chose this place."
I stared at her confusedly as she started to explain, "You see, I remembered that this was Puppetmon's forest. A while back I placed something here…I wonder if it is still here."
She walked over towards the end of the cave, which wasn't that far and started to kick the dust off the floor. She then took her paw and stabbed at the ground as she began to dig through the dirt. I asked her, "What are you doing Gatomon? You looking for something?"
Then she came to halt, "Hey I found it. I thought I'd never see this old thing before."
She turned around as something dangled in her paw. I stepped closer as I got a better look to what she was talking about. I took it from her paw, "A whistle?" I gave it back to her.
"It's not just any whistle, it's probably the most valuable thing next to my friends that I have."
I was sort of confused, "How is that your most prized possession?"
She looked away as she told her story, "Well, it was a gift…from Kari. So I wouldn't forget her. Right before she left to go back to the real world, she gave me her whistle."
"Oh, Kari's your partner right?" I asked
She turned and nodded. I stared at her as a new view entered my mind. It was probably the first Gatomon had personally opened up to me. I couldn't get involve right now as I grip my staff and started to draw a plan on the floor. "Y'see over here we could surprise Puppetmon and…"
"Wizardmon…" She interrupted me as she began to talk
"Wizardmon…I have to talk to you about something." Gatomon replied
I paused; I was pretty sure on what she was about to say to me. I slowly turned my head to face her. "Yes Gatomon, what do you want to talk about?"
She began, "Your probably the only one who can really understand me. You're just like the Wizardmon I use to know, but your much more than that." Now I was certain, "He was my friend and…he was also my love. I never said anything to him because I was afraid of losing what we had already. But then that day appeared, when was killed and he'd never come back to me. I lost him before I could ever tell him how I felt."
I looked at her, "That's really nice Gatomon, but how does this have to do with me?" I said innocently
"Can't you see Wizardmon!?! I love you and I'm not about to let the same thing happen to you what it did to Wizardmon." She wrapped her arms around me as she cried on my cloths. "We'll protect each other and make sure nothing ever happens. You're not going to sacrifice yourself just to save me and leave me all alone!" she continued to cry.
I didn't know what to do. A keeper cannot make a romantic connection with their charges. It just aroused to many things, a keeper would even misuse their powers just to see and make sure their love. I've seen many like me abuse their powers and eventually become exiled. I cared for Gatomon, but I couldn't love her. There was no easy way to break this to her so I'd tried my best. I placed my one of my hands on her head and the other on her back. She continued to cry as I cleared my throat.
"Gatomon…I care for you, but…" I rustled my hand back and forth on her head and back, lightly touching her white fur across her body. Her cries seemed to die down and whispered under my breath, "I can't be in love with you…" I knew she didn't hear that as she snuggled her face on my chest. I couldn't strengthen my voice or my courage to say it again. All of a sudden her ears shot up. I asked her, "Gatomon what's wrong?"
She looked up, "It's Agumon…I can hear him, it sounds like he's in trouble, serious trouble." She broke away from my grasp and wiped her eyes, "We have to help him, that dumb dino thinks he can do this all by himself? Well too bad for him, cause he's gonna help him whether he likes it or not!"
"But Gatomon!" she grabbed my hand as we headed out of the cave and Gatomon led the way.
Meanwhile…
"C'mon! Is that all you got!?!" Agumon called back to Puppetmon
Puppetmon on the other hand, expressed no emotion. Anger towards Agumon dodging his attacks seemed to be nonexistent as he continued to fire away. He had a dull expression on his face, it was like his body was there, but there was no one upstairs. Agumon noticed this as he worked up the courage, "PEPPER BREATH!" he attacked with his fireball and hit him dead on as it singed him just a bit. Agumon felt a little proud of his efforts, "And there's plenty more from where that came from, you broken down puppet!"
"PUPPET PUMMEL!" Puppetmon once attacked Agumon and he leaped out of the way. He jerked his head, "PEPPER BREATH!" launching a double fireball against Puppetmon and landed back on his two feet. Puppetmon attacked again and this time Agumon sided stepped and charged for Puppetmon. He jumped, used his claws and pushed off from Puppetmon's head and landed behind him. He quickly turned around and attacked using his pepper breath hitting his back. Agumon smiled as Puppetmon continued to stand there unnoticed of what had happened.
"I don't think you've got an idea on how this fighting thing goes, huh?" Agumon spoke, mocking Puppetmon as he continued to stand there like a zombie. All of a sudden a metal clang sound seemed to echo through the forest. Agumon looked around to see where the sound had come from when all of a sudden he looked right in front of him as a ribbon headed straight for him. It had come so quickly he was unable to dodge the attack. He fell to the ground as the ribbon constricted his body. Agumon lifted his head to see Puppetmon still having his back turned to him with his arm pointed to him. Puppetmon turned around, "Play time's over Agumon, I've let you have your fun and now it's time to make you pay for ever trying to go against me!" It was like he had changed personalities completely. Before he was a mindless zombie and now he was ready to attack.
Agumon struggled, but it was no use as Puppetmon drew nearer to him. "You've been a bad dino, little rookie. You shouldn't have been so easy to declare you victory, now you'll pay!"
"HOLD IT RIGHT THERE! MAGICAL GAME!" I fired my blast from my staff. It caught the attention of Puppetmon as he turned around. There before him stood Gatomon and me ready for a fight. "Just what do you think you can do?" he was mocking us as Gatomon charged for him, "EAT THIS PUPPETMON! LIGHTING PAW!"
Puppetmon smiled a crooked little smile, he swung his hammer right at Gatomon as it hit her dead on and flew back hitting me as well. "Down kitty-cat, your lucky I didn't put any force in that one."
We both sat there as we managed to get back up. "You just don't know when to quit do you? Ok, now wait your turn. WIRES CHOKING!" he wrapped us both up and we fell to the ground. We were helpless to do anything. The wires tighten around us as Puppetmon turned around. "Now it's time for punishment Agumon." He raised his hammer and was about to attack. There was only one thing I could do without being caught by the others I whispered, "Echoes of time, reanimate to raise and protect, astral shield." a twinkle in my eye appeared and then a small spark appeared between Agumon and Puppetmon. All of a sudden Puppetmon attacked as the invisible shield formed, "PUPPET PUMMEL!" the shield blocked off the attack. I had to lower it; I didn't have to skill to keep the shield up any longer. "Huh? What? What's wrong with this thing?" Puppetmon looked at his hammer. "Well this time it won't fail, let's just try this one more time."
I didn't know what to do; I had to wait another five hours to gather the necessary energy to raise the astral shield once again. Gatomon called out to him, "AGUMON!!!"
I screamed within my mind, "How can this be!?! I've done everything as required; there should be no reason why this should end like this!!! Agumon is brave enough to be the leader he's proven it!!! He shouldn't die like this, before he complete his mission!!! Was it something that I did!?! TELL ME WHY IS THIS HAPPENING!?!" all of a sudden everything began to slow down before me. The attack from Puppetmon's hammer also slowed down. Everything had come to a complete halt as my eyes began to glow and a calm gentle voice spoke to me in my head. It said, "Chronos…you have done nothing wrong, keeper." It was the council, they had stopped time, "We have heard your cry, do not worry Chronos, your charge has done well in regaining his confidence. Things just have a way of working out, just have more faith Chronos. That is a lesson you will learn…" Time reverted back to its normal settings, as the attack coming from Puppetmon grew closer to Agumon.
I yelled out, "AGUMON! GET OUT OF THE WAY!!!"
It turns out Agumon managed to do so. He may not have been able to move his arms our legs, but he managed to move his body as he rolled out of the way as the attack barely missed him. "Whew, that was a little too close for comfort…" Agumon rejoiced.
"You were lucky that time…but now your luck has just ran out." Puppetmon prepared
I didn't know what to do; Agumon could roll out of the way this time as I saw him trying already to struggle out of the way, but having no such luck. Then I remembered what the council had told me, have faith. Well, this would the best time out of anytime to have a little faith in things. Puppetmon raised his hammer. All of sudden I noticed something in the sky. Everyone else had noticed it as well, even Puppetmon looked up into the sky. The sun that had shine down upon us seemed to have a dark circle covering slowly until it had completely blocked off the sun. "Hey it's an eclipse!" I yelled. Then a faint voice started to appear from above. It was unclear at first, but it got louder and louder as it seemed to get closer. I looked around to try and find out where the sound was coming from. Finally located that it was coming from above and now it was clear to what it was saying, "HOLD ON AGUMON!!! I'M COMING!!!" It appeared to be a young boy wearing a blue shirt, brown pants and what it appeared to be goggles on his head.
Agumon screamed out in excitement, "TAI!!!"
"Whoa!!!" Tai screamed as he fell down from the sky "Agumon!!! Help!!!" as a small device flashed and made a high-pitched sound. Agumon answered back, "You got it Tai!!!"
"Agumon warp digivolve too…Wargreymon!!!"
The small yellow dinosaur had made a great change. Now he was a large digimon, metal claws on both hands. A shield with a strange symbol on his back, he wore a metal mask and strange armor.
He had easily outgrown his bindings and flew above to catch the falling boy. "Thanks Wargreymon" Tai said to him. Wargreymon answered back, "Tai, you're here. I thought I'd never see you again."
"Don't worry buddy, I knew we'd see each other again. But I didn't come here alone…"
"Huh!?! Who else is here?" Wargreymon asked him
All of sudden we heard two other cries coming from the sky. Wargreymon flew up to see who it was exactly screaming. "Sora! Kari!" he flew over to them and caught them. "Don't worry I got you."
He flew to the ground carrying the three children in his arms. He set them down back on the earth and turned to face Puppetmon. Tai asked, "Hey isn't that Puppetmon?"
"That can't be Puppetmon, we destroyed him just like the other dark masters." Sora replied
"No that's him alright, for some strange reason he managed to come back." Wargreymon said
Kari rushed over to Gatomon, "Gatomon!!!"
"Kari!!! Help! I'm kind of stuck here!" Gatomon called back to her
Now her device started to flash and make a sound.
"Gatomon digivolve too…Angewomon"
I gazed upon her beauty. She was a female angel with six wings as the pink light surrounded her. A brown helmet covered her face only showing her chin and nose as her blond hair let down on her back. Now was my chance to escape without anyone noticing me. Everyone was too busy looking at everyone else as I concentrated on an image. With the image set in my mind I teleported out of my bindings and reappeared in slightly farther away from everyone. "I better just sit this one out and let them fight the battle this time." I said to myself
Puppetmon had just stood there as all this had happened, "HEY!!! You forget about me!?!"
"Well if that's Puppetmon, we're just going to beat him up once again, right Wargreymon?"
Wargreymon stepped forward in front of everyone. "You too Angewomon!" Kari replied as Angewomon flew forward as well. "Ready to do this Wargreymon?" Angewomon asked
Wargreymon nodded as they both charged for Puppetmon.
"Hmpf is this all you got?" Puppetmon replied as he raised his hammer and aimed it towards Angewomon. "PUPPET PUMMEL!" Angewomon flew out of the way as Wargreymon raised his metal claws and attempted to slash Puppetmon. The little puppet digimon jumped out of the way.
"CELESTIAL ARROW!!!" Angewomon shouted and formed a bow and arrow out of light. She launched her attack straight for him. Puppetmon hit it back with his hammer deflecting it blast. Wargreymon charged for him again as he grabbed the mega level digimon and flew in the sky as Angewomon took flight. Puppetmon struggled getting his arm free. He then used the top of his hammer and took a swing at Wargreymon's face. The attack got to Wargreymon as his grip around Puppetmon loosened. He then freed himself and jumped away from Wargreymon and now was in midair. Angewomon took aim, "CELESTIAL ARROW!!!" she attacked again.
"Your so predictable…" While in midair Puppetmon swung deflecting the blast and sent it right back at her. Angewomon managed to dodge the counterattack, but unfortunately it hurtled back towards the ground. The blast was close to the kids, as it did not hit them dead on. The blast itself hit a series of trees as the tumbled down and were about to land on them.
"NO!!!" Both Wargreymon and Angewomon shouted, "GET OUT OF THE WAY!!!" They both raced to aid Tai, Kari, and Sora from the falling debris. Guess it was time for me to take action; I was the closest to them and I was their best bet. I flew up and stopped between the falling trees the children, "MAGICAL GAME" a bolt of energy emerged from my staff destroying the tree. They both looked at me smiled as they saw what I had done.
Kari shouted, "ITS WIZARDMON!!!"
I turned to face them, "Hey yeah, it is Wizardmon!" Tai and Sora said
"Guess I have some explaining to do…" I said to them as I floated back down.