Floramon was asking a couple of the village digimon about the stone fort
and where it could be. It turns out that some of them knew where it was as
she approached us. We had just finished up breakfast when she he told us
what she had found. Tai and Agumon had paid close attention to where
Floramon was describing. I myself also memorized what Floramon had said,
just in case we had gotten lost or something. We finished up and were
about to leave for the stone fort. Kari on the other hand was outside
seeing all the different kinds of digimon. She seemed to be enjoying
herself as Tai, Sora, and Agumon were to busy gathering information on the
place. I felt they wouldn't need my help listening to all the extra
information as I went to the near by stream.
I thought, "They already got three people/digimon paying attention. I'm
sure I'll eventually hear this from them. So I might as well just wash up
first."
I found the stream as I removed my gloves and dipped them in the cold
rushing water. Taking a handful of water I splashed it right in my face.
As the water droplets dripped from my face I continued to look at my hands.
I couldn't help, but remember the nightmare I had had. "What could it
mean?" I thought. "Was it just some dumb nightmare, or was it something
more than that. A premonition perhaps, but I've never had one of those
before. I mean I have the powers of time, but I'm not psychic or anything
like that." I dried my face with my cloak. I then removed my hat, took a
handful of water and ran my wet hand through my hair. It was actually
pretty refreshing because I wasn't so use to this hot weather. I then took
my hat and put it on and readjusted it. I turned around to see something
quickly move by and disappear.
Something was up, but I just acted like I didn't see anything. I walked
slowly back to the village to meet up with everyone else. As I walked I
looked with my eyes, not turning my head, but just adjusting them back and
forth to look for any sign of movement. And as I was about to arrive I
called out, "Are you coming or what Gatomon?"
Sure enough Gatomon stepped away from a nearby tree to reveal herself. She
ran up to catch up to me as she looked up to me. "How'd you know I was
there?"
"Simple Gatomon, I knew that all the others were still back at town. And
if you were some evil digimon, you would have attacked already. No, you
would be the only one who could move that swiftly and also be the only one
who wanted to be undetected as well." I placed my hand on the back of her
head as we walked together towards the village.
"Hmpf," Gatomon said as she walked. But soon enough she smiled as we
continued to walk. As we approached the village we had seen everyone
already outside and ready to go. Agumon walked over to us, "So there you
are. We were about to go look for you."
"Why, what's happening?" I asked him
Agumon answered back, "We've gain enough information about the stone fort
that Biyomon is being held at. It turns out they've got more guards then
we thought. One of the villagers here had actually been there once had
barely managed to get out of there."
"What'd this digimon say about the fort?" I asked him
Tai waved over to Agumon, "Hey Agumon! C'mon we got to get moving now!"
Agumon turned around and shouted back, "One minute!" and then turned to us.
"Well c'mon I'll fill you in on the details as we walk." He rushed over to
everyone else.
"So tell me, how bad can this stone fortress be?" I asked Agumon. Everyone
was already a head of us so we just picked up the pace of our walking as
Agumon filled us in on the info. He started, "Well, you know that the fort
is surrounded by all sides of water by the lake. But the digimon back at
the village told us at certain times a narrow pathway will open and
eventually close off, so we have to make this quick."
Gatomon asked, "Ok, so how many guards are there?"
Agumon explained, "Well you remembered what Floramon had said. She said
that Gekomon, Dolphmon and a couple of Divermon are the guards. But we've
found out that they've gotten a lot more since then. They've called back
Shellmon from the beach to help them out, and that's just the guards on the
outside."
"But nothing too serious that we can't handle? I mean we've got a Mega, an
Ultimate and a Champion. How hard could they be?" I asked Agumon. Before
he could answer Tai shouted to us, "Hey you guys!!! You want to pick up
the pace or what?" So either then just yelling back we started to catch up
to everyone. We ran as Agumon replied, "Well, it shouldn't be too hard,
but remember the fort entrance only appears for a couple of minutes and
then it disappears. If we run out of strength we won't be able to get off
the fort if we don't have the power to fly. We should avoid as many fights
as possible so it won't drain our strength so easily."
When we had finally caught up to Tai and the others he asked us, "So Agumon
tell you everything?"
We shook our heads as Tai replied again, "Good, so we're in and out as
quickly as possible. We figured Agumon and you two attack the fort giving
us a distraction. We sneak in and get Biyomon and we leave before the
entrance is closed."
I asked, "What happens if you get into some trouble inside the fort?"
Sora said, "That's true Tai, I mean the digimon at the village only told us
about the guards on the outside. None of them has ever been on the inside,
what if there are more guards?"
"Hmmm.that's true. None of them did say if there are guards in the fort."
Tai said
I offered a suggestion, "Why don't I come along with you. I'm sure Gatomon
and Agumon can better handle the distraction then I could."
"Hmmm.I guess that would work. You can handle it without Wizardmon right?"
Tai asked the others. Agumon replied, "Yeah we can handle a distraction."
Gatomon whispered something in my ear, "You be careful alright." She
wasn't about to let everyone know about our little secret. I whispered
back to her, "Don't worry, I'll be fine and I'll make sure nothing happens
to Tai, Sora and Kari while we're in the fort."
She smiled at the corner of her mouth; fortunately for her no one was paying attention to us. "Ok then it's settled. I'll go in and protect you if there are any guards, while Gatomon and Agumon handle our little distraction on the outside." I said to all We continued along the way that was given to us the by the villagers. We didn't really talk much, perhaps that was why Gatomon didn't choose to talk, because everyone else was in silence and she would be the center of attention if she made a sound. I knew the rules, about relationships and it's consequences. At first Gatomon was just a digimon I chose to help, now it seemed that love for me was started to rub off to me. I'm not saying I absolutely love her, I'm only realizing that I enjoy her company than anyone else. Being human myself, I should be looking for someone else. But who else was there? The children? Way to young for me, even though I wasn't too sure what my real age was, but I'm pretty sure that I was older than them, in my human form of coarse. In fact I didn't really talk to anyone else except for Prisca in the time realm, so I was kind of rusty with my interactions with other beings. For now I'll just enjoy Gatomon's company while she's around and hope it wouldn't get anymore serious. After a while of walking Tai pulled back the leaves revealing our destination. "We're here." Tai said I turned to Sora as she whispered something under her breath. I managed to hear, "Don't worry Biyomon, I'm coming to save you." I admired how she had recovered; she was willing to do everything to save her partner. With her newfound determination, I'm sure that we will succeed in rescue. But, there's always a chance that our actions will fail. Things are still in question as it could go either way. I couldn't rely that everything will be ok, so I had to be on my guard. "Ok, we should wait until the pathway to the fort is opened and we'll make our move." Agumon instructed to everyone. Sora continued, "The pathway will only be opened for thirty minutes, if we're not back by then try and look for us and we'll fly off the fort." Agumon and Gatomon shook their heads. Kari asked, "How long until it opens?" Tai answered, "Not sure, the digimon weren't very clear when. But Kari, I wanted to tell you something. I held this off until we got here." "What is it Tai?" Kari asked curiously He knelt down and put his arms on her shoulders, "Kari, I want you to stay here." She looked up, "But why Tai?" "This is too dangerous, we don't know what's in the fort." Tai said acting like the big brother he is suppose to do. Kari replied, "Tai I know your trying to protect me. But if I get attacked here, who will protect me then. Agumon and Gatomon would to be to concentrate on the distraction. And with me being here I'm a distraction to Gatomon." I approached Tai, "I think she's right Tai. Protecting her is a natural instinct for you, but with you, me and Sora here, we can protect her better then she could if she was alone." Tai sighed, he couldn't avoid what we where saying. Sora seemed to agree as well, although she didn't really say anything. I believe her stare at Tai was good enough of a reason. It was now three against one and it wasn't too hard to find out who would win. Tai sighed again, "Alright you can come along with us." Kari smiled as she looked at her big brother smiling back. Gatomon pointed forward, "You guys! The opening you were talking about, well it's opening" We all looked forward to see it was true. "Well that's our cue." Agumon replied A bright light blasted from Tai's digivice, "Here we go!" "Agumon warp digivolve to.Wargreymon!" Kari held up her digivice, "Ok your turn Gatomon." "Gatomon digivolve to.Angewomon!" They both took off as Tai yelled, "Remember try and conserve your energy!" They both nodded as they headed to the fort. Sure enough digimon guards emerged from the lake and it's surrounds. We took cover behind one of the warped trees surrounding the lake. Seadramon appeared from the lake and also a group of Dolphmon. The Seadramon stayed above while the other Dolphmon disappeared into the water readying their attack if either Angewomon or Wargreymon ever submerged into the water. Gekomon appeared from the trees around and so did Shellmon as they were ready to do battle. It was exactly as we had expected. All of a sudden five Divermon sprang out from the water. That was a little unexpected, I only thought there would be one or two. I remembered the information I had drawn from the digital world. Divermon was a sea animal type digimon, ultimate level. I hope the Gatomon and Agumon can distract the guards long enough. Angewomon made the first attack using her celestial arrow, she shoot it straight down onto the lake. The blast created a huge splash within the lake pushing some of the Dolphmon away. Soon enough the Divermon leaped for them. It was the perfect time for us to make our move. Tai, Sora, Kari and me all got up and headed for the entrance. With all the commotion we didn't exactly attract any attention. We charged continuing to let Angewomon and Wargreymon lead the attack. The fort was a massive site to see. It definitely wasn't going to be easy. We ran as fast as we could into fort where we met with an unfortunate surprise. It appeared to be a big door, a detail we had forgotten to include. "Oh great, just what we need! This just had to be our day for this to happen." Tai replied "MAGICAL GAME!" a blast of energy came from behind Tai hitting the door directly. "You were saying Tai?" I replied He turned back to face everyone and then said, "Let's go!!!" We all followed him into the dark and complex fort. We came across our first obstacle as we ran down the torch-lightened halls. Tai shouted, "Where to Sora?" The upcoming hall was split into two. We ran as she looked down at her digivice. The signal pointed to a direction she shouted, "Left!" We listen and headed straight down the left corridor. We continued to run when all of sudden a Gekomon appeared from an incoming hall. He turned to see us charging straight at him. He screamed, "AH! INTRUDERS IN THE FORT! INTRUDERS IN THE FORT! INTRUDERS." "THUNDER BALL!" creating a ball of orange energy from my hand and hurled it right at the screaming Gekomon. And we ran right pasted him as looked back and forth completely confused. Kari said, "Tai, I think they know we're hear now." "Yeah no kidding!" Tai replied as we ran. I saw Kari struggling as she was struggling to keep up with us. I went behind her and I gracefully picked her up off her feet. "Need a breather?" I said to her as I ran with her in my arms. She smiled, "Thanks, I was getting tired. No wonder Gatomon likes you." I almost stumbled after she had said that. I replied, "What!?! What makes you think she likes me?" "Wizardmon, it's kind of obvious. She's always hanging around you and also I was with you when she slept with you." Kari replied I almost stumbled again, "WHAT!?!" I said "You know last night, I saw her cuddled up in a little ball. She was sleeping right next to you." Kari said to me. Now things were beginning to make some sense. "Oh yeah, that time." Kari smiled, "Yeah, I can see why she really likes you. You're really nice and you remind me of another Wizardmon." "You know for a girl your age, you're pretty smart. But Kari you have to promise to tell no one about this." I hopped over a ledge as I continued to follow Sora. "But now's not the time to talk about this." She nodded as she looked forward. I looked as well as I heard Sora say, "We're close, just a few more corridors and we'll see Biyomon." All of a sudden we felt a deep vibration onto the stone ground. We paused as we felt it again, a slight rumble. "What's going on!?!" Sora shouted. Then we began to notice a shadow appear from an upcoming corridor. The gigantic figure finally showed itself, it was a Monochromon. It started to charge right for the children. As each time it's stomped on the ground caused a mini-quake. Tai and Sora started to look around trying to find somewhere to get away from the charge. "Tai!" Sora shouted "Um." Tai was trying to think fast what they could do. He looked ahead to see a hallway they could turn into to escape the attack. "Quick we gotta turn to that hallway!" We started to run towards the charging Monochromon. I looked at the distance from the hall and I knew for a fact we're weren't going to make it. We were in too early of the charge for them to notice, so I did whatever I could. I put down Kari and prepared to charge right at it with all of my speed, stopping Monochromon right in its tracks. "CLANK!!!" it was the sound they heard when my staff made contact with Monochromon's stone horn. They saw me holding back Monochromon with my staff. I tried to dig my feet onto the stone floor as it aided my hold back of the large beast a little bit. I shouted to them, "GO! NOW!" They saw me struggling as they just stood there. I shouted again, "GO! I'LL BE ALL RIGHT, GO AND SAVE YOUR FRIEND!!!" They didn't like it, but they obeyed and went into the next corridor. While they were away, I tried my best to hold back Monochromon. My digimon strength given to me, as Wizardmon was limited, so I could not overpower him. I was about to act with one of my time abilities when all of sudden a sharp pain form right at the back of my neck. It was a great distraction to me as Monochromon took advantage of my pain. He pushed me back, but I still held on. The pain dulled away a little, as I was about to act again when I heard it. It was a scream of a very familiar voice. The voice was unmistakably Kari's voice. I had to reach them no matter what now. "Well it's been fun, but I got to go now" I said the rampaging Monchromon. "THUNDER BALL" I sent the blast right at his eyes making sure contact. With him in his bewildered state I soon closed my eyes and got a picture of the kids in my mind. I teleported straight to where they were, hoping they would be all right. I opened my eyes, as I found myself in large room. I looked around to try and find where the children where. I heard then an unnatural and peculiar laugh echo through the hallowed out room. I looked to see Sora backed up against the wall with Kari in her arms, while Tai was struggling with an orange type monster. Kari looked to her side to see me in the room; she screamed, "WIZARDMON!!! HELP TAI!!!" I identified the on who the monster wall "Hold it right their.ETEMON!" It caught his attention as he turned to face me. I saw that Tai was still in his grasp, I couldn't attack him directly without hurting Tai. I called out to him, "Put Tai down, now!" "You talkin' to me, uh huh!" He called out to me I was about to take action when the sharp pain on the back of my neck appeared again. It was an unbearable pain that I had never experience before. I knelt down and placed one my hands on the back of my neck to try and ease the pain. Unfortunately the pain did not ease up. Sora shouted, "WIZARDMON!!! What's wrong!?!" I couldn't answer her, as I my mind was concentrated on other things. I tried to get up but, the pain just shot me right back down on my knee's. "Feeling a little weak Wizardmon, eh" Etemon had taunted me. He laughed again as I knelt down in pain. I didn't understand; this had never happened to me before. I closed my eyes to try and concentrate on something else except the pain. The moment I closed my eyes however I saw something I did not expect. It was a shadowy figure sitting upon a throne, but the whole body was in shadow and couldn't make it out. And right behind the figure was the symbol of the time realm.
I didn't understand, only members of the time realm could contain the symbol that symbol. I reopened my eyes, to still have the pain existing within me. I looked to see Tai still in the clutches of Etemon. I needed to save him, but in my current condition; could I be strong enough to rescue him. I had to try, I managed to work up the strength to get back up and face Etemon. "Oh, so your up already. Can you expect to try and take me on?" "Let him go! I won't say that again." I said, ignoring the pain. "Ok, let's see you deal with this little digimon, uh huh." He said in his funky voice. Then he took up an instrument and placed it over his neck. "What's he up to?" I thought Sora shouted to me, "Wizardmon get out of the way!" "DARK NETWORK!!!" He played his instrument and fired a blast of dark energy right at me. I couldn't concentrate enough and the blast hit me dead on. It pushed me back up against the wall, badly hurt. It wasn't something I needed right now as now I felt both pains. I had to get up to try and protect them. Kari and Sora rushed over to me, but was soon stopped by Etemon. I could provide no more help; I was in no condition to fight. But I found the will to move on when Etemon was about the grab Kari and Sora, I leaped forward and grabbed them. I struggled to try and leave, but he attacked me again and I came crashing down upon the opposite corner of the room. "All that for nothing," Etemon mocked me again. I looked up to Sora and Kari, "I'm sorry.I've failed you." Then we heard a faint voice appear coming from outside. "CELESTIAL ARROW." And a blast exploded on the roof. "It's Angewomon!" Kari shouted "Where's Wargreymon! He alright!?!" Tai shouted from Etemon's grasp. "He's dealing with the Divermon and all the other guards. I heard all the noise and so I." "DARK NETWORK!" Etemon shouted attacking Angewomon. She fell the floor, slightly hurt as she got back up. "What!?! Etemon, but we defeated you back in Puppetmon's forest. Hold on your not in your metal form?" He attacked again, "DARK NETWORK!!!" "Not much up for talk, eh?" Angewomon moved out of the way. "Fine by me." Sora shouted, "Angewomon," It got her attention, "Help Biyomon!" I hadn't noticed before, but Biyomon was above trapped within a cell. She seemed to be sleeping as she was perfectly still with her eyes closed. She flew up dodging Etemon's continuous attack and bent the bars open and retrieved the sleeping Biyomon. She sought to give back Biyomon to Sora when Etemon worked up and charged his attack. He was planning to attack both Angewomon and Sora the moment they got together. "DARK NETWORK!!!" Angewomon turned to see the upcoming attack. "Watch out Sora!" and she braced for the attack. All of a sudden as they shielded their eyes, their hopes had come true. The attack was somewhat blocked and they emerged unharmed. They were clueless to what had just happened. I caught my breath and lowered my hands. I thought, "Guess I have to wait another three hours." And I was quickly losing consciousness and I lay back against the wall for some support. After the smoke had arisen, she saw Etemon standing with his instrument. She swerved her eyes to meet with an unfortunate surprise. She saw me lying on the ground barely conscious and badly hurt. All of sudden she grit her teeth and looked at Etemon in a pissed of way. She grunted, "You did this to Wizardmon!?!" "And what if I did? You can't do anything about that, uh huh." Etemon replied She formed her bow and arrow of light. She replied, "I don't care how powered up you are. You'll pay for everything you've done! YOU WON'T WIN!!!" Etemon slightly backed away as he prepared his attack with his instrument. Finally with one last breath I lost consciousness and fell into a deep sleep.
I woke up to find myself upon a cot a blanket was placed on me. "Oh good you're awake." The voice was very familiar. I looked around to see it was Gatomon seated by me. I said, "What? What just happened? Where are we?" I was about to get up when I felt a pain in my stomach. She placed her paw at my chest, "Hold on, you're really injured right now." I looked down upon her paw and where its position was. She quickly pulled it back, "Oh sorry," I smiled, "Well that's something I don't hear from you everyday. So where are we?" She quickly returned back how she usually is, "We're back at the village." "Hold on, Sora, Tai and Kari are they.." I asked "Don't worry they're alright. We managed to get all of you out and show Etemon a thing or two. He's real sorry he ever messed with someone like me." She replied "So, I guess this time I'm the one who's doing the thanks." I said to her She smiled, the way she always smiles at me. I said to her "Well I should get some rest right now and recover my strength, I'm going to need it if we're ever going to do something like that again." I looked at her, "Aren't you going to go somewhere and talk over things with the others." "Oh they don't need me, I'll keep you company." Gatomon replied "Thanks." with that said I quickly dozed off as Gatomon remained there to watch over me.
She smiled at the corner of her mouth; fortunately for her no one was paying attention to us. "Ok then it's settled. I'll go in and protect you if there are any guards, while Gatomon and Agumon handle our little distraction on the outside." I said to all We continued along the way that was given to us the by the villagers. We didn't really talk much, perhaps that was why Gatomon didn't choose to talk, because everyone else was in silence and she would be the center of attention if she made a sound. I knew the rules, about relationships and it's consequences. At first Gatomon was just a digimon I chose to help, now it seemed that love for me was started to rub off to me. I'm not saying I absolutely love her, I'm only realizing that I enjoy her company than anyone else. Being human myself, I should be looking for someone else. But who else was there? The children? Way to young for me, even though I wasn't too sure what my real age was, but I'm pretty sure that I was older than them, in my human form of coarse. In fact I didn't really talk to anyone else except for Prisca in the time realm, so I was kind of rusty with my interactions with other beings. For now I'll just enjoy Gatomon's company while she's around and hope it wouldn't get anymore serious. After a while of walking Tai pulled back the leaves revealing our destination. "We're here." Tai said I turned to Sora as she whispered something under her breath. I managed to hear, "Don't worry Biyomon, I'm coming to save you." I admired how she had recovered; she was willing to do everything to save her partner. With her newfound determination, I'm sure that we will succeed in rescue. But, there's always a chance that our actions will fail. Things are still in question as it could go either way. I couldn't rely that everything will be ok, so I had to be on my guard. "Ok, we should wait until the pathway to the fort is opened and we'll make our move." Agumon instructed to everyone. Sora continued, "The pathway will only be opened for thirty minutes, if we're not back by then try and look for us and we'll fly off the fort." Agumon and Gatomon shook their heads. Kari asked, "How long until it opens?" Tai answered, "Not sure, the digimon weren't very clear when. But Kari, I wanted to tell you something. I held this off until we got here." "What is it Tai?" Kari asked curiously He knelt down and put his arms on her shoulders, "Kari, I want you to stay here." She looked up, "But why Tai?" "This is too dangerous, we don't know what's in the fort." Tai said acting like the big brother he is suppose to do. Kari replied, "Tai I know your trying to protect me. But if I get attacked here, who will protect me then. Agumon and Gatomon would to be to concentrate on the distraction. And with me being here I'm a distraction to Gatomon." I approached Tai, "I think she's right Tai. Protecting her is a natural instinct for you, but with you, me and Sora here, we can protect her better then she could if she was alone." Tai sighed, he couldn't avoid what we where saying. Sora seemed to agree as well, although she didn't really say anything. I believe her stare at Tai was good enough of a reason. It was now three against one and it wasn't too hard to find out who would win. Tai sighed again, "Alright you can come along with us." Kari smiled as she looked at her big brother smiling back. Gatomon pointed forward, "You guys! The opening you were talking about, well it's opening" We all looked forward to see it was true. "Well that's our cue." Agumon replied A bright light blasted from Tai's digivice, "Here we go!" "Agumon warp digivolve to.Wargreymon!" Kari held up her digivice, "Ok your turn Gatomon." "Gatomon digivolve to.Angewomon!" They both took off as Tai yelled, "Remember try and conserve your energy!" They both nodded as they headed to the fort. Sure enough digimon guards emerged from the lake and it's surrounds. We took cover behind one of the warped trees surrounding the lake. Seadramon appeared from the lake and also a group of Dolphmon. The Seadramon stayed above while the other Dolphmon disappeared into the water readying their attack if either Angewomon or Wargreymon ever submerged into the water. Gekomon appeared from the trees around and so did Shellmon as they were ready to do battle. It was exactly as we had expected. All of a sudden five Divermon sprang out from the water. That was a little unexpected, I only thought there would be one or two. I remembered the information I had drawn from the digital world. Divermon was a sea animal type digimon, ultimate level. I hope the Gatomon and Agumon can distract the guards long enough. Angewomon made the first attack using her celestial arrow, she shoot it straight down onto the lake. The blast created a huge splash within the lake pushing some of the Dolphmon away. Soon enough the Divermon leaped for them. It was the perfect time for us to make our move. Tai, Sora, Kari and me all got up and headed for the entrance. With all the commotion we didn't exactly attract any attention. We charged continuing to let Angewomon and Wargreymon lead the attack. The fort was a massive site to see. It definitely wasn't going to be easy. We ran as fast as we could into fort where we met with an unfortunate surprise. It appeared to be a big door, a detail we had forgotten to include. "Oh great, just what we need! This just had to be our day for this to happen." Tai replied "MAGICAL GAME!" a blast of energy came from behind Tai hitting the door directly. "You were saying Tai?" I replied He turned back to face everyone and then said, "Let's go!!!" We all followed him into the dark and complex fort. We came across our first obstacle as we ran down the torch-lightened halls. Tai shouted, "Where to Sora?" The upcoming hall was split into two. We ran as she looked down at her digivice. The signal pointed to a direction she shouted, "Left!" We listen and headed straight down the left corridor. We continued to run when all of sudden a Gekomon appeared from an incoming hall. He turned to see us charging straight at him. He screamed, "AH! INTRUDERS IN THE FORT! INTRUDERS IN THE FORT! INTRUDERS." "THUNDER BALL!" creating a ball of orange energy from my hand and hurled it right at the screaming Gekomon. And we ran right pasted him as looked back and forth completely confused. Kari said, "Tai, I think they know we're hear now." "Yeah no kidding!" Tai replied as we ran. I saw Kari struggling as she was struggling to keep up with us. I went behind her and I gracefully picked her up off her feet. "Need a breather?" I said to her as I ran with her in my arms. She smiled, "Thanks, I was getting tired. No wonder Gatomon likes you." I almost stumbled after she had said that. I replied, "What!?! What makes you think she likes me?" "Wizardmon, it's kind of obvious. She's always hanging around you and also I was with you when she slept with you." Kari replied I almost stumbled again, "WHAT!?!" I said "You know last night, I saw her cuddled up in a little ball. She was sleeping right next to you." Kari said to me. Now things were beginning to make some sense. "Oh yeah, that time." Kari smiled, "Yeah, I can see why she really likes you. You're really nice and you remind me of another Wizardmon." "You know for a girl your age, you're pretty smart. But Kari you have to promise to tell no one about this." I hopped over a ledge as I continued to follow Sora. "But now's not the time to talk about this." She nodded as she looked forward. I looked as well as I heard Sora say, "We're close, just a few more corridors and we'll see Biyomon." All of a sudden we felt a deep vibration onto the stone ground. We paused as we felt it again, a slight rumble. "What's going on!?!" Sora shouted. Then we began to notice a shadow appear from an upcoming corridor. The gigantic figure finally showed itself, it was a Monochromon. It started to charge right for the children. As each time it's stomped on the ground caused a mini-quake. Tai and Sora started to look around trying to find somewhere to get away from the charge. "Tai!" Sora shouted "Um." Tai was trying to think fast what they could do. He looked ahead to see a hallway they could turn into to escape the attack. "Quick we gotta turn to that hallway!" We started to run towards the charging Monochromon. I looked at the distance from the hall and I knew for a fact we're weren't going to make it. We were in too early of the charge for them to notice, so I did whatever I could. I put down Kari and prepared to charge right at it with all of my speed, stopping Monochromon right in its tracks. "CLANK!!!" it was the sound they heard when my staff made contact with Monochromon's stone horn. They saw me holding back Monochromon with my staff. I tried to dig my feet onto the stone floor as it aided my hold back of the large beast a little bit. I shouted to them, "GO! NOW!" They saw me struggling as they just stood there. I shouted again, "GO! I'LL BE ALL RIGHT, GO AND SAVE YOUR FRIEND!!!" They didn't like it, but they obeyed and went into the next corridor. While they were away, I tried my best to hold back Monochromon. My digimon strength given to me, as Wizardmon was limited, so I could not overpower him. I was about to act with one of my time abilities when all of sudden a sharp pain form right at the back of my neck. It was a great distraction to me as Monochromon took advantage of my pain. He pushed me back, but I still held on. The pain dulled away a little, as I was about to act again when I heard it. It was a scream of a very familiar voice. The voice was unmistakably Kari's voice. I had to reach them no matter what now. "Well it's been fun, but I got to go now" I said the rampaging Monchromon. "THUNDER BALL" I sent the blast right at his eyes making sure contact. With him in his bewildered state I soon closed my eyes and got a picture of the kids in my mind. I teleported straight to where they were, hoping they would be all right. I opened my eyes, as I found myself in large room. I looked around to try and find where the children where. I heard then an unnatural and peculiar laugh echo through the hallowed out room. I looked to see Sora backed up against the wall with Kari in her arms, while Tai was struggling with an orange type monster. Kari looked to her side to see me in the room; she screamed, "WIZARDMON!!! HELP TAI!!!" I identified the on who the monster wall "Hold it right their.ETEMON!" It caught his attention as he turned to face me. I saw that Tai was still in his grasp, I couldn't attack him directly without hurting Tai. I called out to him, "Put Tai down, now!" "You talkin' to me, uh huh!" He called out to me I was about to take action when the sharp pain on the back of my neck appeared again. It was an unbearable pain that I had never experience before. I knelt down and placed one my hands on the back of my neck to try and ease the pain. Unfortunately the pain did not ease up. Sora shouted, "WIZARDMON!!! What's wrong!?!" I couldn't answer her, as I my mind was concentrated on other things. I tried to get up but, the pain just shot me right back down on my knee's. "Feeling a little weak Wizardmon, eh" Etemon had taunted me. He laughed again as I knelt down in pain. I didn't understand; this had never happened to me before. I closed my eyes to try and concentrate on something else except the pain. The moment I closed my eyes however I saw something I did not expect. It was a shadowy figure sitting upon a throne, but the whole body was in shadow and couldn't make it out. And right behind the figure was the symbol of the time realm.
I didn't understand, only members of the time realm could contain the symbol that symbol. I reopened my eyes, to still have the pain existing within me. I looked to see Tai still in the clutches of Etemon. I needed to save him, but in my current condition; could I be strong enough to rescue him. I had to try, I managed to work up the strength to get back up and face Etemon. "Oh, so your up already. Can you expect to try and take me on?" "Let him go! I won't say that again." I said, ignoring the pain. "Ok, let's see you deal with this little digimon, uh huh." He said in his funky voice. Then he took up an instrument and placed it over his neck. "What's he up to?" I thought Sora shouted to me, "Wizardmon get out of the way!" "DARK NETWORK!!!" He played his instrument and fired a blast of dark energy right at me. I couldn't concentrate enough and the blast hit me dead on. It pushed me back up against the wall, badly hurt. It wasn't something I needed right now as now I felt both pains. I had to get up to try and protect them. Kari and Sora rushed over to me, but was soon stopped by Etemon. I could provide no more help; I was in no condition to fight. But I found the will to move on when Etemon was about the grab Kari and Sora, I leaped forward and grabbed them. I struggled to try and leave, but he attacked me again and I came crashing down upon the opposite corner of the room. "All that for nothing," Etemon mocked me again. I looked up to Sora and Kari, "I'm sorry.I've failed you." Then we heard a faint voice appear coming from outside. "CELESTIAL ARROW." And a blast exploded on the roof. "It's Angewomon!" Kari shouted "Where's Wargreymon! He alright!?!" Tai shouted from Etemon's grasp. "He's dealing with the Divermon and all the other guards. I heard all the noise and so I." "DARK NETWORK!" Etemon shouted attacking Angewomon. She fell the floor, slightly hurt as she got back up. "What!?! Etemon, but we defeated you back in Puppetmon's forest. Hold on your not in your metal form?" He attacked again, "DARK NETWORK!!!" "Not much up for talk, eh?" Angewomon moved out of the way. "Fine by me." Sora shouted, "Angewomon," It got her attention, "Help Biyomon!" I hadn't noticed before, but Biyomon was above trapped within a cell. She seemed to be sleeping as she was perfectly still with her eyes closed. She flew up dodging Etemon's continuous attack and bent the bars open and retrieved the sleeping Biyomon. She sought to give back Biyomon to Sora when Etemon worked up and charged his attack. He was planning to attack both Angewomon and Sora the moment they got together. "DARK NETWORK!!!" Angewomon turned to see the upcoming attack. "Watch out Sora!" and she braced for the attack. All of a sudden as they shielded their eyes, their hopes had come true. The attack was somewhat blocked and they emerged unharmed. They were clueless to what had just happened. I caught my breath and lowered my hands. I thought, "Guess I have to wait another three hours." And I was quickly losing consciousness and I lay back against the wall for some support. After the smoke had arisen, she saw Etemon standing with his instrument. She swerved her eyes to meet with an unfortunate surprise. She saw me lying on the ground barely conscious and badly hurt. All of sudden she grit her teeth and looked at Etemon in a pissed of way. She grunted, "You did this to Wizardmon!?!" "And what if I did? You can't do anything about that, uh huh." Etemon replied She formed her bow and arrow of light. She replied, "I don't care how powered up you are. You'll pay for everything you've done! YOU WON'T WIN!!!" Etemon slightly backed away as he prepared his attack with his instrument. Finally with one last breath I lost consciousness and fell into a deep sleep.
I woke up to find myself upon a cot a blanket was placed on me. "Oh good you're awake." The voice was very familiar. I looked around to see it was Gatomon seated by me. I said, "What? What just happened? Where are we?" I was about to get up when I felt a pain in my stomach. She placed her paw at my chest, "Hold on, you're really injured right now." I looked down upon her paw and where its position was. She quickly pulled it back, "Oh sorry," I smiled, "Well that's something I don't hear from you everyday. So where are we?" She quickly returned back how she usually is, "We're back at the village." "Hold on, Sora, Tai and Kari are they.." I asked "Don't worry they're alright. We managed to get all of you out and show Etemon a thing or two. He's real sorry he ever messed with someone like me." She replied "So, I guess this time I'm the one who's doing the thanks." I said to her She smiled, the way she always smiles at me. I said to her "Well I should get some rest right now and recover my strength, I'm going to need it if we're ever going to do something like that again." I looked at her, "Aren't you going to go somewhere and talk over things with the others." "Oh they don't need me, I'll keep you company." Gatomon replied "Thanks." with that said I quickly dozed off as Gatomon remained there to watch over me.