I turned around to see Wargreymon and Angewomon floating above. "Don't
worry about your little friends here. I'll get them out of here and
protect them!!!"
"You're not going anywhere!!!" Puppetmon jumped in front of the kids.
I rushed over to the other side. "You're not going to harm them, I won't allow that!" I rose my hand charged it up and launched my attack, "THUNDER BALL,"
I attempted that the attack would confuse him or at least give me the time to get the children out of here and into the forest.
"Don't make me laugh!" Puppetmon said as the attack drew closer to him. He swung his wooden hammer, actually shattering my attack as it burst into tiny pieces. I backed away holding my hands out and back shielding the children as best as I could. Puppetmon started to approach me as I gritted my teeth. I knew that I had to protect them at all cost; it was something I couldn't understand all to well. Something that just told me to protect them even if I would interfere with destiny. Puppetmon lifted his hammer over his head. All of sudden a shout came from behind, "CELESTIAL ARROW!"
A surge of light came from behind us, hitting him dead on. Then from the side, Wargreymon tackled the midget digimon and he went flying.
"Quick Wizardmon, get Kari out of here!" Angewomon said
"We'll kept this dark master busy just protect Tai and Sora." Wargreymon replied
Puppetmon leaped back and started to charge Wargreymon. Angewomon took aim with her bow and arrow. I knew they'd be fine and so I grabbed Kari's hand and signaled Tai and Sora, "Hurry follow me!" I took one last look at them as I screamed, "Don't worry!!! I promise they won't get hurt!"
Tai and Sora took my hint as I started to run into the forest and they followed along.
"Good the children are safe." Angewomon said as she looked behind her shoulder
"Ok now we can really fight this time and we won't have to worry about them. As long as Wizardmon is with them, they'll be safe." Wargreymon replied
The both flew up leaving the grounded Puppetmon all alone on the terrain. "Play time's over Puppetmon, we're threw playing your game." Wargreymon shouted to him
"Let's see you try and take on this!" Angewomon said as she placed her hands in front of her, holding them together. All of sudden an eerie pink glow started to form on her hands. At the same time Wargreymon raised his two claws in the air. They both exclaimed their attacks, "HEAVEN'S CHARM!!!" "TERRA FORCE!!!"
Meanwhile…
I was running into the forest dodging tree branches as I tried to think of a good place we could hid out until the battle was over. Kari continued to look at me as we ran together. Tai and Sora was behind me as they too stared at me. I stopped and looked around the place. "I think we should head over here. I believe that's where it was…"
"Hold on!" Tai replied as he and Sora caught up to me. "Just one second, we first have to find some shelter so we won't be spotted." I explained.
I remembered what direction the cave Gatomon had showed me before was. I called out, "Ok we should head over here, and it's not far." I grabbed Kari's hand again and began to run. Tai caught his breath and began to run in chase after me as he grabbed Sora's hand. Tai and Sora ran after me, they couldn't quite keep up with me as I took a sharp turn around a couple of trees. "Hey wait up!!!" Tai shouted as he ran after me. He turned the corner to see that Kari and I had completely disappeared. Sora replied, "Tai, where did they go?"
"I don't know Sora, could we have gotten lost" Tai replied as they walk slowly forward. All of sudden a hand appeared out of nowhere grabbing Sora's other hand. She screamed as Tai held on to her, "SORA!!!" as they were pulled to the side.
"Hold on don't be scared it's only me." I said to them.
They looked to there side to see Kari and me standing before them. "Arg! Don't surprise us like that, you almost gave me a heart attack!" Tai replied, "And slow down next time, we couldn't keep up with you."
"Heh, yeah I guess I should have slowed down. This cave is kind of hidden away; I'm surprised I found it again. I mean Gatomon only showed this to me once." I replied
Tai caught his breath fully now that we can rest now and wait it out. Sora and Kari seemed to look at me, they just seemed to surprised and somewhat glad to see me. "What? Did I do something?"
"Are you really um…uh?" Kari started
"Are you trying to say Wizardmon?" I asked her, "Yes my name, Wizardmon."
She approached me as she extended her hand and lightly touched my face. She then pulled away some of my black hair to see my brown eyes staring straight back at her. I was at first uneasy with her physical contact, but then I soon became at eased and was comforted by her touch. It seemed to have a sense of kindness and light each time she moved her fingers across my face. I raised my hand to grab hers and slowly lowered it away. "I assume you're Kari, right?"
She nodded as I turned around, "From what I've heard you two are Tai and Sora."
"Yeah, that's right," Sora, replied as now they were all stared at me now.
"I know what you're thinking. I had a little episode with Agumon and Gatomon before, so I should know what you all are thinking right now." I said to them as I cleared my throat, "You are all thinking is he the same Wizardmon that we knew? Well sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not."
Kari seemed to lower her head as she stared at the ground depressed. "Sorry to have break that to you, but it's the truth. But that doesn't mean I'm not you friend or that I'm not as kind as he was."
Tai spoke up, "Well, then who are you?"
"Well, what more do you want to know about me except that my name's Wizardmon? I was just away when all you guys were here the first time, that's all. If you want to know what I've been doing lately I can gladly tell you that." I replied
Kari sat down, as she was eager to hear what I was about to say. "But before I begin can I ask you guys a question or two about yourselves?"
"Ok, I suppose we owe that to you considering you're the one who's been answering everything to us." Sora said
I then sat down as the rest of them followed my lead; "Y'see Gatomon and Agumon gave out little hints on the fact that you guys weren't coming back any time soon. I just want to know how'd you cross dimensions and end up here?" I asked them
"Well, we can't really explain that as much as you can." Tai said, "I guess it started when Izzy, our computer friend was checking out things on his laptop when he said he stumbled upon a gate to the digital world. After he confirmed it was an open gate he immediately called all of us."
I had a question on hand, "So you don't know how the gate suddenly opened. It just appeared out of no where and you just decided to use it?"
"If it meant we can see our friends again, we were willing to take it." Sora replied
I thought on hand, "Hmmm…a portal that can cross dimensions suddenly appeared. I figure the high council had a hand in this little incident. Either that or my faith had just been really high this day."
"Oh, continue, I was just thinking about something," I said to them
Tai replied, "Well what else do you want to know about?"
I thought about it until I finally asked, "One thing is how'd you managed to pin point us so well. I mean the digital world is a huge place, you chances of just dropping in on us on you first try are very rare."
He removed a small light blue device from his belt and held it up, "See this thing, it's our digivice. All of the digidestined have this thing. It helps our digimon digivolve along with our crest; it can also locate others if we ever got separated. For some strange reason a couple of us had a signal to where our digimon was. Kari and me had signals that Gatomon and Agumon where here. Sora over here couldn't pick up Biyomon's so she decided to come along with us."
"I see," I said back to him
Sora spoke up now, "By the way Wizardmon," I looked over to Sora as she began to speak,
"Have you spotted a cute little pink bird that has a metal ring on one of legs."
"I'm sorry Sora, but I haven't. Since the time I decided to travel with Agumon and Gatomon, we have seen no bird digimon that you have described."
She wrapped her arms around her body as she stared at the ground.
Tai crept up to her and place his arm around her shoulder, "Don't worry Sora, we'll find her and I'm sure she's fine, just you wait and see."
"Thanks Tai," She said back as she looked over to Tai
They seemed to have their little silent moment together as they completely ignored Kari and me. To interrupt their moment Kari said, "So Wizardmon, aren't you going to tell us what've you been doing since you started to travel with Agumon and Gatomon?"
They lost eye contact as they now adjusted their eyes back on me. I replied, "Well, this is kind of a long story to tell, you sure you want to hear what happened from me. I mean wouldn't it be better if you heard this from you digimon?"
Tai said, "Well, there busy right now. And we still have to wait this out until there done. So yeah."
"Well I guess I should start when I first saw them with Shellmon…" I began to recollect
Out of nowhere a loud explosion sounded off. I sounded slightly close, closer than it should be. "Hold that thought, I want to find out what's happening. I want you to stay here." I got up
"But if our digimon are in trouble shouldn't we be there to…" Tai began
I interrupted, "No, it's too dangerous if you come with me. Besides I promised Angewomon and Wargreymon that you won't get hurt. And that's a promise I attend to keep."
I left the safety of cave to venture back to where I left Angewomon and Wargreymon. Back at the cave however, Tai got up and started to head for the entrance. Sora replied, "Tai, what are you doing?"
"I'm going to go back to Wargreymon, he needs my help." Tai replied
Kari said back, "But Wizardmon told us to stay here and I think he's got a point."
"Well, he doesn't know us too well. We've been in a lot more trouble than this and I don't see why we can't get into some trouble now." Tai explained
"Tai, during those times we didn't really have a choice. If we do go there what do you hope to do? You know as I do that you might get in the way of the battle." Sora said to Tai "We have to make sure to our digimon that were safe and sound so that they won't have to worry about us."
Kari started to think about something before she spoke up, "But didn't Wizardmon say that we'd be safe as long as we're with him. So don't we have to follow him so we can be protected?"
"Good point Kari so lets go and follow Wizardmon!" Tai said finally finding a point to go onward.
Sora shrugged her shoulders, " *Sigh* I give up, lets just go."
Sora took Kari's hand and they all began to walk out of the cave into the bright sunlight.
Meanwhile…
"I don't get this! Puppetmon's is a Mega level digimon, but he was never this tough!" Wargreymon said as he levitated up in the sky. Angewomon floated besides him, "This doesn't make any sense, how could he have be able to dodge both of our attacks. It doesn't even look like he's broken a sweat and he's waiting for us to make the next move."
"Well that's just fine with me. If he wants more I'd be happy to give him more!" Wargreymon replied
"Hold on Wargreymon, we need a plan. If he was caught by your attack, there's no way he could withstand the attack. He'd be at least be down and we can attack him together." Angewomon said
Wargreymon said back, "Good plan, but we still need to hit him."
"Hold on what's he doing now." Angewomon pointed at the ground at Puppetmon. It seemed that he was running at something. He continued to build up speed when a tree was clearly visible to be in his way. "What's he up to?" Angewomon said
Puppetmon ran at full force as he reached the tree. He extended his foot forward as it hit the tree causing the tree to fall backwards projecting him off it. He headed in midair to another tree and did the same exact thing. He was gaining altitude and was now pretty close to Angewomon and Wargreymon. "Hurry we have to get out of the way!" Wargreymon replied as Puppetmon leaped from another. They both separated as Puppetmon leaped forward now at the same altitude of Wargreymon and Angewomon. Wargreymon shouted to Angewomon, "LOOK OUT!!!"
Puppetmon was headed in her direction. She floated there as she formed her bow. She pulled the bowstring back forming the arrow of light. She shouted, "CELESTIAL ARROW," and she was about to fire when Puppetmon extended his hands forward, "WIRES CHOKING!!!" and before Angewomon let go the wires constricted her leaving her an easy target for Puppetmon's assault. Puppetmon grabbed on to her as they began to fall down to the ground. He lifted his hammer, jumped off from Angewomon and hit her directly causing her to fall quicker. She slammed down onto the ground as she still felt the aftereffects of the hit from Puppetmon. She struggled to maintain her form, but the pain she felt was more than she could bear right now, as she dedigivolved and returned back her rookie form, Salamon. The wires of coarse were too enlarged for her as she lay there on the ground, hurt.
"NO!!! SALAMON!!!" Wargreymon shouted down below
Puppetmon landed on the ground safely as he started to approach injured Salmon. Wargreymon began to rush at full force to aid his fallen ally. Puppetmon lifted his hammer, ready to make the final attack that would end Salamon. "NO!!!" Wargreymon shouted
It caught the attention of Puppetmon as his eyes adjusted looking behind him to see how close he was to him. Quickly he reverted them back to see his prey before him. Surprisingly Salamon was nowhere to be found. "Huh!?! Where'd that little rookie go off to now?"
I floated there in midair as I saw the confused Puppetmon dumbfounded to where Salamon had escaped off. I looked down in my arms as I saw a small, injured, and tired Salmon. I cradled her in my arms as she managed to open her eyes a little bit. She saw the imaged of me once again as she mutter my name, "Wizardmon…" she snuggled her head on my chest.
I called out to Wargreymon, "Don't worry Wargreymon! I've got her!"
He looked up to see me holding Salamon in my arms; he let out a good sigh.
"I'm going to get out of here, so you give it your all!" I shouted back to him
"You act like I'm giving you guys a choice if you can leave or not!!!" Puppetmon screamed to us
He began to charge for a tree. Wargreymon knew what his next move was going to be so he informed us, "Wizardmon, get out of here now! Take Salamon with you, I'll be able to handle this!"
I began to head back into the forest to return back to the cave. With Salamon in my arms I looked down when I saw some movement within the forest. I took a closer look to see a group of three walking to where Wargreymon was. "Oh great, what else can go wrong now?" I thought when I made my way to the three figures. I screamed down, "What are you kids doing here!!! I thought I told you to wait back at the cave and stay there!!!"
They looked up, "What!?! And miss all the action going on!" Tai screamed back
I slapped my forehead, letting out a sigh. I reached to where they were as Kari saw who was in my arms. She rushed over and I gently placed Salamon in her arms. "She took a direct hit from Puppetmon's hammer. I managed to get her out of there before he could finish the job."
"That does it, we're not going to let Puppetmon hurt anymore of our friends." Tai pronounced
I held out my hand, "Hold on there, what do you think you can accomplish if you're there?"
"Err…" He grunted. "That's what I thought," I replied to him, "Listen I know that you want to protect your friends, so do I. But we can't just run in their fist flying and expect to be of some help to Wargreymon. We have to plan this thing out, first." I said to him
Sora walked over to him and rested her hand on his shoulder, "Wizardmon's right, we have to think about this first." Tai calmed down as he finally gave in.
"Alright! What are we going to do?" Tai replied to us
I smiled as I started to inspire them with a simple plan as I drew it on the ground.
Meanwhile…
Wargreymon continued the fight. He was pretty tired, it seemed that Puppetmon managed to dodge his attacks. "Ok, either I've just been getting lazy ever since we fought Apocalymon or Puppetmon has just gotten really good ever since the last time we saw each other."
He couldn't just levitate there as Puppetmon continued to launch himself in the air. Using his terra force on him could be related to trying to shoot a bullet between a fly's wings. He just seemed to dodge his attack every time. It would be only a matter of time when he'd start to tire down and Puppetmon would eventually get lucky. He saw him project himself once again using his wires choking move once again. Wargreymon slashed the wires in two as Puppetmon fell to the ground. It didn't even seem that he was getting tired at all. Wargreymon breathed heavily, he was losing energy and strength each time he would have to dodge or use his terra force. He charged up for his next terra force as he held his arms in the air.
Puppetmon anticipated his attack as he began to watch Wargreymon very closely. Before Wargreymon could let loose his attack a noise came from the bushes. The two mega-level digimon looked to see where the noise was coming from. It turned out that Tai was standing within the forest as he waved his hands and called out, "HEY PUPPETMON!!! WHAT ARE YOU DEAF!?!"
Wargreymon shouted, "NO!!! TAI, GET OUT OF HERE!!!"
But Tai continued to provoke Puppetmon, "YEAH I'M TALKING TO YOU! WHAT!?! ARE YOU TOO MUCH OF CHICKEN TO COME OVER HERE!!!"
Puppetmon on the other hand closed his eyes gripping his hammer harshly. He was getting steamed and ticked off one what Tai was saying to him. "ARE YOU MAKING FUN OF ME!?!"
"OH GIVE THE DARK MASTER A PRIZE, HE'S FIGURED IT OUT!" Tai called out
Puppetmon opened his eyes wide open to see his pissed off look on his face. "YOU'RE GONNA WISH YOU NEVER EVEN HEARD OF ME!!!" He shouted as he looked over to him. Then Tai suddenly made a slight hand movement. It was a signal as he pointed to Puppetmon to look behind him. Puppetmon figured it out as he made a swift turn around, only to see a golden sun-like figure in his face. I said to him, "Hello," I charged my staff, "Goodbye…MAGICAL GAME!" I fired my bolt of energy directly at his face.
"AHHH!!! MY EYES!!!" Puppetmon screamed as he dropped his hammer and put his hands to his face. The blinding effect of my attack seemed to have distracted him. I screamed to Wargreymon, "NOW WARGREYMON FINISH HIM OFF!!!"
Wargreymon lifted his hands in the air to form a golden ball of light, "TERRA FORCE!!!"
I leaped out of the way as I flew away from where Puppetmon was. The blast headed straight for Puppetmon as he was still holding his eyes. He suddenly rubbed his eyes as his vision started to come back. It was a little blurry at first until he finally looked up to see the attack straight at him. He froze as he just watched the attack come straight at him. The blast made contact with the ground, causing an explosion. We heard Puppetmon's scream of pain until it could be heard no more. He was completely obliterated by Wargreymon's attack.
When the smoke cleared we saw a semi deep crater formed from the attack. I flew over to look down upon the crevice to see the deformed Puppetmon lying there. He let out a puff of smoke before he exploded into tiny bits of data. Wargreymon floated back down on the ground as he dedigivolved back into his in-training form Koromon. "Tai! Tai!" he bounced up and down.
Tai rushed over to pick up his tiny little digimon. "You were great!" Tai replied as he looked at his partner in his eye. "Well couldn't have done it without some help." Koromon said
Sora and Kari appeared from the forest, Salmon was in Kari's arms. Salmon was no longer unconscious, but she was still pretty hurt and tired. They approached Tai and Koromon as I floated back down to them. Gatomon looked over to where she was to talk to Koromon, "Well I guess you didn't too bad, after all."
Koromon smiled as he saw Salamon held close in Kari's arms. "Look who's talking? So you finally up after that attack." Koromon replied to Salmon
"Very funny Koromon, so what are we going to now?" She looked up to Kari
"I don't know?" Kari replied back to the small digimon
I spoke up; "Might I suggest something?" everyone now turned their heads to face me. "Well, before you had arrived here, me Gatomon and Agumon found a couple of statues of digimon not far from here. After that we were on a conveyer belt on our way to Puppetmon."
"So, what do a couple of digimon statues have to do with anything?" Tai asked
Koromon said, "Well Tai, they were statues of Deramon and Floramon. Y'know the two digimon who were supposed to guard Puppetmon's mansion. And before we arrived to meet Puppetmon we heard noises coming from both statues."
"So you think that there's something about those two digimon that can help us?" Kari asked
"Well it is a lead, so I think we should follow up on it." I said to everyone, "Here, I believe I remembered where the two statues where." I started to make tracks as I walked back into the forest. They all began to follow up behind me as I lead the way. Right now, I was the strongest leveled digimon within their group. Salamon only being a rookie and Koromon an in-training digimon, if we got attacked I would have to defend everyone. I said to them, "So, your going to be in those forms for how long?" I was kind of anxious to when they would be able to fight once again. I couldn't be the one to defend everyone; I wasn't even supposed to be here so I couldn't interfere too much. Koromon answered back, "Well it will depend on how long it will take us to recover."
"Yeah, when we get back our strength we'll be able to digivolve into our normal forms." Salamon added. I asked again, "And that would take approximately how long?"
"Oh about five or six hours, but my bud here could recover pretty fast." Tai said
I thought, "five or six hours, that's kind of long. Well at least my astral shield would gain enough energy to reform again. So we got a little bit of insurance on our hand." I said to the group, "Well it should be around here, I remember these settings."
They all started to look around the place trying to find something that would just stick out. Salamon was the first to recognize the two odd figures in one direction. She said, "Look over there!"
We all turned to face where Salamon had pointed out. "Good eyes Salamon" Kari complemented her small rookie digimon as we walked over to the two statues. They sat there completely untouched as they were frozen in there positions. "Whoa, this seems to crafted to be fake." Sora replied as she examined the statues of Deramon and Floramon. They put their heads to the statue of Deramon. Sure enough they heard the noises that we had heard earlier. I had a hunch, "You guys, I think you should back away from the two statues."
They looked at me as I lifted my staff in the air. They understood on what I was about to do, as they backed away. "MAGICAL GAME" I shot my blast at the two statues as the serge of energy hit them both. After I felt it was enough power enforced upon the two statues I stopped. I saw the two statues, as they remained in tacked. "Guess that didn't do much help" I said as I put my hand on the back of my head. Suddenly a crack formed on the statue of Deramon and then a crack formed on Floramon. "Oh no, I must have used to much power. They're breaking apart!" I exclaimed
"You're not going anywhere!!!" Puppetmon jumped in front of the kids.
I rushed over to the other side. "You're not going to harm them, I won't allow that!" I rose my hand charged it up and launched my attack, "THUNDER BALL,"
I attempted that the attack would confuse him or at least give me the time to get the children out of here and into the forest.
"Don't make me laugh!" Puppetmon said as the attack drew closer to him. He swung his wooden hammer, actually shattering my attack as it burst into tiny pieces. I backed away holding my hands out and back shielding the children as best as I could. Puppetmon started to approach me as I gritted my teeth. I knew that I had to protect them at all cost; it was something I couldn't understand all to well. Something that just told me to protect them even if I would interfere with destiny. Puppetmon lifted his hammer over his head. All of sudden a shout came from behind, "CELESTIAL ARROW!"
A surge of light came from behind us, hitting him dead on. Then from the side, Wargreymon tackled the midget digimon and he went flying.
"Quick Wizardmon, get Kari out of here!" Angewomon said
"We'll kept this dark master busy just protect Tai and Sora." Wargreymon replied
Puppetmon leaped back and started to charge Wargreymon. Angewomon took aim with her bow and arrow. I knew they'd be fine and so I grabbed Kari's hand and signaled Tai and Sora, "Hurry follow me!" I took one last look at them as I screamed, "Don't worry!!! I promise they won't get hurt!"
Tai and Sora took my hint as I started to run into the forest and they followed along.
"Good the children are safe." Angewomon said as she looked behind her shoulder
"Ok now we can really fight this time and we won't have to worry about them. As long as Wizardmon is with them, they'll be safe." Wargreymon replied
The both flew up leaving the grounded Puppetmon all alone on the terrain. "Play time's over Puppetmon, we're threw playing your game." Wargreymon shouted to him
"Let's see you try and take on this!" Angewomon said as she placed her hands in front of her, holding them together. All of sudden an eerie pink glow started to form on her hands. At the same time Wargreymon raised his two claws in the air. They both exclaimed their attacks, "HEAVEN'S CHARM!!!" "TERRA FORCE!!!"
Meanwhile…
I was running into the forest dodging tree branches as I tried to think of a good place we could hid out until the battle was over. Kari continued to look at me as we ran together. Tai and Sora was behind me as they too stared at me. I stopped and looked around the place. "I think we should head over here. I believe that's where it was…"
"Hold on!" Tai replied as he and Sora caught up to me. "Just one second, we first have to find some shelter so we won't be spotted." I explained.
I remembered what direction the cave Gatomon had showed me before was. I called out, "Ok we should head over here, and it's not far." I grabbed Kari's hand again and began to run. Tai caught his breath and began to run in chase after me as he grabbed Sora's hand. Tai and Sora ran after me, they couldn't quite keep up with me as I took a sharp turn around a couple of trees. "Hey wait up!!!" Tai shouted as he ran after me. He turned the corner to see that Kari and I had completely disappeared. Sora replied, "Tai, where did they go?"
"I don't know Sora, could we have gotten lost" Tai replied as they walk slowly forward. All of sudden a hand appeared out of nowhere grabbing Sora's other hand. She screamed as Tai held on to her, "SORA!!!" as they were pulled to the side.
"Hold on don't be scared it's only me." I said to them.
They looked to there side to see Kari and me standing before them. "Arg! Don't surprise us like that, you almost gave me a heart attack!" Tai replied, "And slow down next time, we couldn't keep up with you."
"Heh, yeah I guess I should have slowed down. This cave is kind of hidden away; I'm surprised I found it again. I mean Gatomon only showed this to me once." I replied
Tai caught his breath fully now that we can rest now and wait it out. Sora and Kari seemed to look at me, they just seemed to surprised and somewhat glad to see me. "What? Did I do something?"
"Are you really um…uh?" Kari started
"Are you trying to say Wizardmon?" I asked her, "Yes my name, Wizardmon."
She approached me as she extended her hand and lightly touched my face. She then pulled away some of my black hair to see my brown eyes staring straight back at her. I was at first uneasy with her physical contact, but then I soon became at eased and was comforted by her touch. It seemed to have a sense of kindness and light each time she moved her fingers across my face. I raised my hand to grab hers and slowly lowered it away. "I assume you're Kari, right?"
She nodded as I turned around, "From what I've heard you two are Tai and Sora."
"Yeah, that's right," Sora, replied as now they were all stared at me now.
"I know what you're thinking. I had a little episode with Agumon and Gatomon before, so I should know what you all are thinking right now." I said to them as I cleared my throat, "You are all thinking is he the same Wizardmon that we knew? Well sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not."
Kari seemed to lower her head as she stared at the ground depressed. "Sorry to have break that to you, but it's the truth. But that doesn't mean I'm not you friend or that I'm not as kind as he was."
Tai spoke up, "Well, then who are you?"
"Well, what more do you want to know about me except that my name's Wizardmon? I was just away when all you guys were here the first time, that's all. If you want to know what I've been doing lately I can gladly tell you that." I replied
Kari sat down, as she was eager to hear what I was about to say. "But before I begin can I ask you guys a question or two about yourselves?"
"Ok, I suppose we owe that to you considering you're the one who's been answering everything to us." Sora said
I then sat down as the rest of them followed my lead; "Y'see Gatomon and Agumon gave out little hints on the fact that you guys weren't coming back any time soon. I just want to know how'd you cross dimensions and end up here?" I asked them
"Well, we can't really explain that as much as you can." Tai said, "I guess it started when Izzy, our computer friend was checking out things on his laptop when he said he stumbled upon a gate to the digital world. After he confirmed it was an open gate he immediately called all of us."
I had a question on hand, "So you don't know how the gate suddenly opened. It just appeared out of no where and you just decided to use it?"
"If it meant we can see our friends again, we were willing to take it." Sora replied
I thought on hand, "Hmmm…a portal that can cross dimensions suddenly appeared. I figure the high council had a hand in this little incident. Either that or my faith had just been really high this day."
"Oh, continue, I was just thinking about something," I said to them
Tai replied, "Well what else do you want to know about?"
I thought about it until I finally asked, "One thing is how'd you managed to pin point us so well. I mean the digital world is a huge place, you chances of just dropping in on us on you first try are very rare."
He removed a small light blue device from his belt and held it up, "See this thing, it's our digivice. All of the digidestined have this thing. It helps our digimon digivolve along with our crest; it can also locate others if we ever got separated. For some strange reason a couple of us had a signal to where our digimon was. Kari and me had signals that Gatomon and Agumon where here. Sora over here couldn't pick up Biyomon's so she decided to come along with us."
"I see," I said back to him
Sora spoke up now, "By the way Wizardmon," I looked over to Sora as she began to speak,
"Have you spotted a cute little pink bird that has a metal ring on one of legs."
"I'm sorry Sora, but I haven't. Since the time I decided to travel with Agumon and Gatomon, we have seen no bird digimon that you have described."
She wrapped her arms around her body as she stared at the ground.
Tai crept up to her and place his arm around her shoulder, "Don't worry Sora, we'll find her and I'm sure she's fine, just you wait and see."
"Thanks Tai," She said back as she looked over to Tai
They seemed to have their little silent moment together as they completely ignored Kari and me. To interrupt their moment Kari said, "So Wizardmon, aren't you going to tell us what've you been doing since you started to travel with Agumon and Gatomon?"
They lost eye contact as they now adjusted their eyes back on me. I replied, "Well, this is kind of a long story to tell, you sure you want to hear what happened from me. I mean wouldn't it be better if you heard this from you digimon?"
Tai said, "Well, there busy right now. And we still have to wait this out until there done. So yeah."
"Well I guess I should start when I first saw them with Shellmon…" I began to recollect
Out of nowhere a loud explosion sounded off. I sounded slightly close, closer than it should be. "Hold that thought, I want to find out what's happening. I want you to stay here." I got up
"But if our digimon are in trouble shouldn't we be there to…" Tai began
I interrupted, "No, it's too dangerous if you come with me. Besides I promised Angewomon and Wargreymon that you won't get hurt. And that's a promise I attend to keep."
I left the safety of cave to venture back to where I left Angewomon and Wargreymon. Back at the cave however, Tai got up and started to head for the entrance. Sora replied, "Tai, what are you doing?"
"I'm going to go back to Wargreymon, he needs my help." Tai replied
Kari said back, "But Wizardmon told us to stay here and I think he's got a point."
"Well, he doesn't know us too well. We've been in a lot more trouble than this and I don't see why we can't get into some trouble now." Tai explained
"Tai, during those times we didn't really have a choice. If we do go there what do you hope to do? You know as I do that you might get in the way of the battle." Sora said to Tai "We have to make sure to our digimon that were safe and sound so that they won't have to worry about us."
Kari started to think about something before she spoke up, "But didn't Wizardmon say that we'd be safe as long as we're with him. So don't we have to follow him so we can be protected?"
"Good point Kari so lets go and follow Wizardmon!" Tai said finally finding a point to go onward.
Sora shrugged her shoulders, " *Sigh* I give up, lets just go."
Sora took Kari's hand and they all began to walk out of the cave into the bright sunlight.
Meanwhile…
"I don't get this! Puppetmon's is a Mega level digimon, but he was never this tough!" Wargreymon said as he levitated up in the sky. Angewomon floated besides him, "This doesn't make any sense, how could he have be able to dodge both of our attacks. It doesn't even look like he's broken a sweat and he's waiting for us to make the next move."
"Well that's just fine with me. If he wants more I'd be happy to give him more!" Wargreymon replied
"Hold on Wargreymon, we need a plan. If he was caught by your attack, there's no way he could withstand the attack. He'd be at least be down and we can attack him together." Angewomon said
Wargreymon said back, "Good plan, but we still need to hit him."
"Hold on what's he doing now." Angewomon pointed at the ground at Puppetmon. It seemed that he was running at something. He continued to build up speed when a tree was clearly visible to be in his way. "What's he up to?" Angewomon said
Puppetmon ran at full force as he reached the tree. He extended his foot forward as it hit the tree causing the tree to fall backwards projecting him off it. He headed in midair to another tree and did the same exact thing. He was gaining altitude and was now pretty close to Angewomon and Wargreymon. "Hurry we have to get out of the way!" Wargreymon replied as Puppetmon leaped from another. They both separated as Puppetmon leaped forward now at the same altitude of Wargreymon and Angewomon. Wargreymon shouted to Angewomon, "LOOK OUT!!!"
Puppetmon was headed in her direction. She floated there as she formed her bow. She pulled the bowstring back forming the arrow of light. She shouted, "CELESTIAL ARROW," and she was about to fire when Puppetmon extended his hands forward, "WIRES CHOKING!!!" and before Angewomon let go the wires constricted her leaving her an easy target for Puppetmon's assault. Puppetmon grabbed on to her as they began to fall down to the ground. He lifted his hammer, jumped off from Angewomon and hit her directly causing her to fall quicker. She slammed down onto the ground as she still felt the aftereffects of the hit from Puppetmon. She struggled to maintain her form, but the pain she felt was more than she could bear right now, as she dedigivolved and returned back her rookie form, Salamon. The wires of coarse were too enlarged for her as she lay there on the ground, hurt.
"NO!!! SALAMON!!!" Wargreymon shouted down below
Puppetmon landed on the ground safely as he started to approach injured Salmon. Wargreymon began to rush at full force to aid his fallen ally. Puppetmon lifted his hammer, ready to make the final attack that would end Salamon. "NO!!!" Wargreymon shouted
It caught the attention of Puppetmon as his eyes adjusted looking behind him to see how close he was to him. Quickly he reverted them back to see his prey before him. Surprisingly Salamon was nowhere to be found. "Huh!?! Where'd that little rookie go off to now?"
I floated there in midair as I saw the confused Puppetmon dumbfounded to where Salamon had escaped off. I looked down in my arms as I saw a small, injured, and tired Salmon. I cradled her in my arms as she managed to open her eyes a little bit. She saw the imaged of me once again as she mutter my name, "Wizardmon…" she snuggled her head on my chest.
I called out to Wargreymon, "Don't worry Wargreymon! I've got her!"
He looked up to see me holding Salamon in my arms; he let out a good sigh.
"I'm going to get out of here, so you give it your all!" I shouted back to him
"You act like I'm giving you guys a choice if you can leave or not!!!" Puppetmon screamed to us
He began to charge for a tree. Wargreymon knew what his next move was going to be so he informed us, "Wizardmon, get out of here now! Take Salamon with you, I'll be able to handle this!"
I began to head back into the forest to return back to the cave. With Salamon in my arms I looked down when I saw some movement within the forest. I took a closer look to see a group of three walking to where Wargreymon was. "Oh great, what else can go wrong now?" I thought when I made my way to the three figures. I screamed down, "What are you kids doing here!!! I thought I told you to wait back at the cave and stay there!!!"
They looked up, "What!?! And miss all the action going on!" Tai screamed back
I slapped my forehead, letting out a sigh. I reached to where they were as Kari saw who was in my arms. She rushed over and I gently placed Salamon in her arms. "She took a direct hit from Puppetmon's hammer. I managed to get her out of there before he could finish the job."
"That does it, we're not going to let Puppetmon hurt anymore of our friends." Tai pronounced
I held out my hand, "Hold on there, what do you think you can accomplish if you're there?"
"Err…" He grunted. "That's what I thought," I replied to him, "Listen I know that you want to protect your friends, so do I. But we can't just run in their fist flying and expect to be of some help to Wargreymon. We have to plan this thing out, first." I said to him
Sora walked over to him and rested her hand on his shoulder, "Wizardmon's right, we have to think about this first." Tai calmed down as he finally gave in.
"Alright! What are we going to do?" Tai replied to us
I smiled as I started to inspire them with a simple plan as I drew it on the ground.
Meanwhile…
Wargreymon continued the fight. He was pretty tired, it seemed that Puppetmon managed to dodge his attacks. "Ok, either I've just been getting lazy ever since we fought Apocalymon or Puppetmon has just gotten really good ever since the last time we saw each other."
He couldn't just levitate there as Puppetmon continued to launch himself in the air. Using his terra force on him could be related to trying to shoot a bullet between a fly's wings. He just seemed to dodge his attack every time. It would be only a matter of time when he'd start to tire down and Puppetmon would eventually get lucky. He saw him project himself once again using his wires choking move once again. Wargreymon slashed the wires in two as Puppetmon fell to the ground. It didn't even seem that he was getting tired at all. Wargreymon breathed heavily, he was losing energy and strength each time he would have to dodge or use his terra force. He charged up for his next terra force as he held his arms in the air.
Puppetmon anticipated his attack as he began to watch Wargreymon very closely. Before Wargreymon could let loose his attack a noise came from the bushes. The two mega-level digimon looked to see where the noise was coming from. It turned out that Tai was standing within the forest as he waved his hands and called out, "HEY PUPPETMON!!! WHAT ARE YOU DEAF!?!"
Wargreymon shouted, "NO!!! TAI, GET OUT OF HERE!!!"
But Tai continued to provoke Puppetmon, "YEAH I'M TALKING TO YOU! WHAT!?! ARE YOU TOO MUCH OF CHICKEN TO COME OVER HERE!!!"
Puppetmon on the other hand closed his eyes gripping his hammer harshly. He was getting steamed and ticked off one what Tai was saying to him. "ARE YOU MAKING FUN OF ME!?!"
"OH GIVE THE DARK MASTER A PRIZE, HE'S FIGURED IT OUT!" Tai called out
Puppetmon opened his eyes wide open to see his pissed off look on his face. "YOU'RE GONNA WISH YOU NEVER EVEN HEARD OF ME!!!" He shouted as he looked over to him. Then Tai suddenly made a slight hand movement. It was a signal as he pointed to Puppetmon to look behind him. Puppetmon figured it out as he made a swift turn around, only to see a golden sun-like figure in his face. I said to him, "Hello," I charged my staff, "Goodbye…MAGICAL GAME!" I fired my bolt of energy directly at his face.
"AHHH!!! MY EYES!!!" Puppetmon screamed as he dropped his hammer and put his hands to his face. The blinding effect of my attack seemed to have distracted him. I screamed to Wargreymon, "NOW WARGREYMON FINISH HIM OFF!!!"
Wargreymon lifted his hands in the air to form a golden ball of light, "TERRA FORCE!!!"
I leaped out of the way as I flew away from where Puppetmon was. The blast headed straight for Puppetmon as he was still holding his eyes. He suddenly rubbed his eyes as his vision started to come back. It was a little blurry at first until he finally looked up to see the attack straight at him. He froze as he just watched the attack come straight at him. The blast made contact with the ground, causing an explosion. We heard Puppetmon's scream of pain until it could be heard no more. He was completely obliterated by Wargreymon's attack.
When the smoke cleared we saw a semi deep crater formed from the attack. I flew over to look down upon the crevice to see the deformed Puppetmon lying there. He let out a puff of smoke before he exploded into tiny bits of data. Wargreymon floated back down on the ground as he dedigivolved back into his in-training form Koromon. "Tai! Tai!" he bounced up and down.
Tai rushed over to pick up his tiny little digimon. "You were great!" Tai replied as he looked at his partner in his eye. "Well couldn't have done it without some help." Koromon said
Sora and Kari appeared from the forest, Salmon was in Kari's arms. Salmon was no longer unconscious, but she was still pretty hurt and tired. They approached Tai and Koromon as I floated back down to them. Gatomon looked over to where she was to talk to Koromon, "Well I guess you didn't too bad, after all."
Koromon smiled as he saw Salamon held close in Kari's arms. "Look who's talking? So you finally up after that attack." Koromon replied to Salmon
"Very funny Koromon, so what are we going to now?" She looked up to Kari
"I don't know?" Kari replied back to the small digimon
I spoke up; "Might I suggest something?" everyone now turned their heads to face me. "Well, before you had arrived here, me Gatomon and Agumon found a couple of statues of digimon not far from here. After that we were on a conveyer belt on our way to Puppetmon."
"So, what do a couple of digimon statues have to do with anything?" Tai asked
Koromon said, "Well Tai, they were statues of Deramon and Floramon. Y'know the two digimon who were supposed to guard Puppetmon's mansion. And before we arrived to meet Puppetmon we heard noises coming from both statues."
"So you think that there's something about those two digimon that can help us?" Kari asked
"Well it is a lead, so I think we should follow up on it." I said to everyone, "Here, I believe I remembered where the two statues where." I started to make tracks as I walked back into the forest. They all began to follow up behind me as I lead the way. Right now, I was the strongest leveled digimon within their group. Salamon only being a rookie and Koromon an in-training digimon, if we got attacked I would have to defend everyone. I said to them, "So, your going to be in those forms for how long?" I was kind of anxious to when they would be able to fight once again. I couldn't be the one to defend everyone; I wasn't even supposed to be here so I couldn't interfere too much. Koromon answered back, "Well it will depend on how long it will take us to recover."
"Yeah, when we get back our strength we'll be able to digivolve into our normal forms." Salamon added. I asked again, "And that would take approximately how long?"
"Oh about five or six hours, but my bud here could recover pretty fast." Tai said
I thought, "five or six hours, that's kind of long. Well at least my astral shield would gain enough energy to reform again. So we got a little bit of insurance on our hand." I said to the group, "Well it should be around here, I remember these settings."
They all started to look around the place trying to find something that would just stick out. Salamon was the first to recognize the two odd figures in one direction. She said, "Look over there!"
We all turned to face where Salamon had pointed out. "Good eyes Salamon" Kari complemented her small rookie digimon as we walked over to the two statues. They sat there completely untouched as they were frozen in there positions. "Whoa, this seems to crafted to be fake." Sora replied as she examined the statues of Deramon and Floramon. They put their heads to the statue of Deramon. Sure enough they heard the noises that we had heard earlier. I had a hunch, "You guys, I think you should back away from the two statues."
They looked at me as I lifted my staff in the air. They understood on what I was about to do, as they backed away. "MAGICAL GAME" I shot my blast at the two statues as the serge of energy hit them both. After I felt it was enough power enforced upon the two statues I stopped. I saw the two statues, as they remained in tacked. "Guess that didn't do much help" I said as I put my hand on the back of my head. Suddenly a crack formed on the statue of Deramon and then a crack formed on Floramon. "Oh no, I must have used to much power. They're breaking apart!" I exclaimed