Part 12: The Nameless One.

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Celamon stood tightly against the tree. She was dazed and weakened. Her vision blurred in front of her. Every muscle in her body felt like it had been fried stretched and vulcanized. Yet still, feeling all this, she was very very happy.

The DigiDestined walked a few feet below her, right under the tree she was standing in.

She tensed and pulled her small knife from her sheath. Celamon's mind was a blank, if she thought now, she would be distracted. Celamon only had one goal, and she was going to accomplish it now.

She leaped down on the straggling DigiDestined, a small girl in a yellow shirt and pink pants. She screamed and dove out of her path. Celamon clumsily hit the ground and stumbled, even if it was for only a second.

"Damn." She thought to herself, groggily.

The others turned and started towards her. Celamon widened her mouth and blasted out a furious attack at the DigiDestined. "Hell's Toll!" she blasted.

The kids split paths, and the attack screamed by them, digging a deep trench in the soil. Agumon and Gabumon whirled at Celamon angrily, and began to glow.

=======================================Warp Digivolve ========================================

Agumon Warp Digivolve To…..

"Gabumon Warp Digivolve To….

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WARGREYMON!"

METALGARURUMON!"

======================================Warp Digivolve ======================================

The new Digimon stood briefly in front of the stunned Celamon, and then seemed to wink out of existence. Celamon caught there movements, though. WarGreymon aimed a wicked slash at her throat. Celamon moved her head back and caught WarGreymon's arm, flinging him into the nearby bush. WarGreymon went flying into the thicket, but Celamon lost her footing in the counter-attack.

MetalGarurumon took advantage of her mistake, and delivered a bone crushing head-butt to Celamon's back. She gasped and flew through the air, smashing through several trees. Celamon bounded off the ground and high into a nearby tree.

She huffed. Celamon knew their power. These were Megas. They had to be taken out of the battle quickly. Celamon drew in most of her power and hurtled it at MetalGarurumon in a hellish blast.

MetalGarurumon's eyes widened, and he tried to dodge the attack. However, the Hell's Toll was too fast, and it nailed the Metal Wolf square in the chest, blasting him several meters into the deep forest.

Celamon smiled and jumped down from the tree. She slipped slightly as she landed. Celamon shook her head. "That damn Divide took too much out of me." She lamented. "Still, I should be powerful enough to take out these goons."

Yamato stood beside Sora and confronted the small Digimon. "Who are you? What's your damage?"

"I'm with T.K-sa…sama." Celamon stuttered silently. She brought her small knife up to bare and frowned. "I've taken it upon myself to get rid of you DigiDestined, by myself."

"Fat chance!" Gomamon piped up. Edemon turned her small head towards him in surprise as he, Palmon and Tentomon began to glow.

===================================== Digivolve Into Champions ======================================

"Gomamon Digivolve to…

"Palmon Digivolve to…

"Tentomon Digivolve to…

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IKKAKUMON!"

TOGEMON!"

KABUTERIMON!"

======================================Digivolve Into Champions =====================================

The Champions attacked Celamon all together. Celamon jumped up as Togemon's powerful fist blasted the ground she was standing on. Celamon whipped her head around and ducked Kabuterimon's sizzling Electro Shocker. Celamon turned and drove her knee into Kabuterimon's back as he was whizzing by. The giant bug yelled and crashed into the ground.

Celamon turned suddenly and brought her arms to protect her. She was blasted back by several small explosions, blocking the brunt of Ikkakumon's Harpoon Torpedo. She laughed and jumped at Ikkakumon, her blade drawn. Out of no-where a searing red attack smashed her from the air and threw her back.

Celamon looked up in anger. "What the…" she started. Garudomon stood before her, powering up for another attack. Celamon frowned and flew at her.

"Blade Wing" Garudomon blasted, and the searing energy screamed through her. Celamon didn't budge, and took the attack head on. The roar of the power invaded her hearing, and she could feel the ends of her petal/hair burning up, but still it wasn't enough to down her. She blazed through the attack and went screaming towards Garudomon.

Ikkakumon saw Celamon push through the Blade Wing. Joe started towards him. "We got to finish this Ikkakumon!" he yelled.

"I got ya!" Ikkakumon answered.

======================================= Digivolve Into Ultimate ======================================

"Ikkakumon Digivolve to…

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ZUDOMON!"

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The sequence of events played themselves quickly and so smoothly you'd think it was planned. Garudomon flared her wings and took to the sky, dodging Celamon, who flew straight into WarGreymon's charging forearm.

Celamon was hit hard, but not hard enough. She skidded deep into the ground, and stood to attack with her Hell's Toll, when she heard a booming voice through the air.

"Vulcan's Hammer!" Zudomon blasted. Joe yelled something to the huge Digimon as the Digichromazoid metal Hammer came crashing down on Celamon's head.

Her last conscious thoughts were of FallenAngemon, and how it'd be better of now that she was dead.

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Dawoemon had searched the palace numerous times… and she had gotten some of her new servants to assist her in the search, but it was no use. Celamon could not be found anywhere. Dawoemon tsked slightly. She knew the little Digimon wouldn't run off, yet she couldn't for the life of her, figure out where she had disappeared too.

What amazed her most was how Takeru-sama's protector took it. Celamon was only gone for a day, but FallenAngemon acted like she had been missing for months. What was stranger was that he didn't look for her. Instead, he waited, anxiously, as if he had known where Celamon had gone.

Dawoemon pursed her lips. She was tempted to go up to him and ask, but she kinda had this habit of liking to breath, and there was no telling what that Dark Angel would do to her in the mood he was in now. She sighed, it didn't really matter. Celamon or no Celamon, her plan was still working. The Pixel Gate was almost uncovered. Now the task was the move from Sector to the Gate itself.

"So we're leaving?" T.K. smiled, upon hearing the news. "Great! I was getting bored here." He turned to his protector. " Isn't that great Fallen?"

Fallen wasn't paying any attention. T.K. frowned. "Fallen?" he repeated. FallenAngemon turned to him, startled, and started nervously.

"Uh, yes, Takeru-san. That's great news." He said silently.

"Geez, Fallen." T.K. smiled. "You're acting as if your head isn't plugged in. What is it, you worried about Celamon?"

Fallen was startled at Takeru's observance. T.K. smiled further. "Ah, don't worry." He said, patting Fallen on the arm. "I don't know where she went, but I know she'll be back. She likes anyway."

Fallen stumbled. "W…wha???"

Takeru ignored his friend. He turned to the tall plant-mon. "So when are we going?" he asked.

"Immediately, if it pleases you, Takeru-sama." Dawoemon bowed. T.K. smiled and hopped in place.

"It sure does!" he nodded enthusiastically. "Let's go! Finally, one step closer to saving the Digiworld!"

Dawoemon laughed inwardly. "One step closer to taking it as my own." She mused.

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"How much longer?" Joe groaned. They had been walking for about 2 hours now. Tai had opted not to take a break yet, feeling as though the one they were looking for was close. The others had agreed, but now they questioned their choice. They were tired, and they were carrying extra weight.

Sora turned to Joe and smiled. "Joe, we don't know where this guy lives, how would we know if we were close to him or not?"

"I dunno." Joe sighed. "Intuition. Guess? Gumption?" Gomamon laughed and Joe looked down at him. "Maybe you can smell him."

"I can't smell anything past all this sweat." Gomamon held his nose and laughed. " You guys all need a bath."

"Are you implying that I smell, Gomamon?" Mimi said heatedly. Gomamon sweated and ducked behind his DigiDestined.

Palmon sighed and patted Mimi on her back. "The truth is, we all kinda smell." She said innocently.

Mimi grimaced and pouted. "Oh… we should have stayed at Gennai's cottage longer. Maybe we could have taken a bath."

"That would have been ideal." Joe sighed again. Of course, he had reason to be a little upset. Since he was the tallest kid, he had the responsibility of dragging around Celamon's unconscious body on his back. She didn't weigh much, but he was still…concerned at what would happen if she woke up on him. Lillymon had assured his fears though, wrapping Celamon up in several of her Flower Wreaths. Joe had to trust her word in that when she did wake up, she wouldn't be able to move at all, much less attack them.

Joe still wondered why he told Zudomon to ease up at the last minute and spare her life. There was something about her, something in the way she knew T.K…something in the way she stammered. Something in him told Joe that she shouldn't die, that she could be a great help in reclaiming Takeru to the DigiDestined. The others were a bit skeptic, Koushiro was very concerned about this being a trap, but Mimi agreed with Joe. He was glad that she did, he didn't like to be alone in his decisions. The others trusted Joe enough to go along with his decision, but he was stuck having to carry Celamon along.

Taichi was walking alongside Hikari. Edemon "walked" silently between them. She kept looking up to Kari, as if to ask a question. Tai didn't like the way the small Digimon seemed to be concentrating on his sister. Hikari was under enough stress as it is. Still, Tai was glad to have Sora and Biyomon watching her.

Taichi slowed and stopped. He turned to the others. "The air smells a bit different around here." He said slowly. "Like it's been…I dunno…lived in or something."

"Tai's definitely right!" Agumon agreed. " I think we're getting real close to whoever it is Gennai wants us to see."

Sora looked down at Biyomon questioningly. "Maybe we should break for a while." She asked.

"I say, if we're close, we keep going." Yamato spoke up. Joe looked at him tiredly and slumped Celamon to the ground. Mimi sighed and fell to her behind.

"I'm tired Matt." She whined. She looked up at him seriously, her brownish-red eyes intense. "Really Matt. Just a little break, it's all I ask." Mimi pleaded.

"It certainly wouldn't hurt." Koushiro said. He sat on the ground, still looking at Yamato, ready to get up if Matt insisted. As tired as Izzy was, he knew the urgency Matt was feeling, and wouldn't deny it to him.

Yamato looked at him and the others and sighed. "Maybe a little rest." he said tiredly. He slumped to the ground and crossed his legs, relieving the heat and tension from his aching feet.

The others followed. Groans of relief and sighs wavered all around the small group. They didn't realize how tired they were. Maybe it was because they ate too much at Gennai's house.

"Why am I still alive?" a quiet voice spoke aloud. Joe jumped slightly, then relaxed and looked down at Celamon. She was still lying on the ground, but her eyes were wide opened.

Gomamon growled. "You'd better thank Joe! If it wasn't for him, I would've crushed you like a bug!"

"Hey!" Tentomon buzzed.

Gomamon grimaced. "Present Company Excepted" He added quickly.

Celamon glanced at Joe. "You kept me alive?" she said weakly.

Joe sweated a little, and scratched the back of his head. "Uh…yeah." He admitted.

Celamon sighed. "If I get the chance, I'm gonna kill you for that." she muttered.

Gomamon pounced on her. "You have no right to threaten him. Apologize or else!" he shouted.

Celamon smiled. "Or else what?" she said faintly. "You'll kill me? Please, you'd be doing me a favor."

"Oh shut-up." Hikari said suddenly. She got up and sat next to the incapacitated Digimon. "You don't mean that. You don't want to die, I don't think anyone does. You're just afraid."

Celamon turned her eyes away from her. Edemon glided near Hikari as she continued.

"Dying is no good, believe me, it's no good to anyone." Kari sighed. "There has to be something to live for, something…or someone. There has to be someone out there that'd be sad if you died."

"No." Celamon said. "There isn't." She strained her arms and legs against the flowery bonds. As weak as they seemed, the pinned her down against the ground. She was powerless.

"What about T.K.?" Hikari said. " You mentioned him. Do you know him? Maybe your friends. Wouldn't he be sad if you died?"

"The same T.K. who obliterated your Angewomon?" Celamon grinned. " I don't think he can be sighed. He's hardly like you anyway."

Yamato stood up and stormed towards her, furious. He grabbed Celamon and lifted her up, his fist clenched. "You shut-up about Angewomon…" he ground through clenched teeth, ", and you shut-up about T.K!"

"Enough." A low voice resonated through the clearing.

The Digimon stood up, but it was too late. A tall figure stood right in the middle of the group. He was tall, around 7 feet. His arms and legs were lanky. He wore a black tunic and a tattered pair of gray pants. His arms were glistening in Digichromazoid metal. His face was dark, there was no nose, and a small slit for a mouth. He had large human-like ears and wore a cowl that enveloped his face and ended in long "tail" with a metal orb on the end. His eyes burned with a certain power.

Tai couldn't figure it out…but the way this Digimon walked, talked…even looked…it's as if he were, mismatched.

He turned towards Yamato, and the boy dropped Celamon back to the ground. The Digimon nodded and turned towards the other kids. "The DigiDestined." He said simply.

Izzy was taken aback. "Y-yeah." He started. "How do you know?"

"Who else could you be?"

Izzy smiled. "Of course. Sherlock Holmes said it himself. 'Take away the impossibilities, and whatever you have left, no matter how improbable, has to be the truth.'" He stepped up to the tall Digimon. "You deduced that we were the DigiDestined. Very well, I'm going to deduce that you were the one Gennai sent us after."

"Gennai?" The other sighed. "That idiot."

"I don't know if he'd appreciate you calling him that." Mimi frowned at him.

The other laughed. "He knows he's an idiot. All the young ones are. You're idiots too. That doesn't mean you wont do well, it just means you're young."

"Young?" Taichi said doubtfully. "How old are you then?"

The other sighed. "Old enough not to be insulted by such idiotic questions." He rasped. Enough of this. Come with me, and bring the tied up idiot." He said, pointing at Celamon. She gritted her teeth and gave the tall Digimon a cold stare.

Joe picked the bonded Digimon up. Yamato began to follow the stranger, and then stopped. "Well, you know us, we're the DigiDestined. Who are you?" he asked.

The strange stopped, turned slowly towards Yamato and smiled. "I've gone by many names. Like Gennai, I had a name, not common to most battle Digimon. And yet…." He turned away. " You may call me, Allmon."

The other Digimon recognized the name instantly, and their blood all ran as cold as ice.

Next: THE TEST.

-Incognito here. Actually I wanted to go on at a better cliffhanger…but this was getting kinda long. So I'll cut this one and do more in the next one. We're deep in the second half folks. Bare with me =D. Please read and review. Oh and I'm still thinking about that Americana Digimon fic Nomigid. (That needs a better name.) I'm still thinking about whether I should do it or not, but please keep sending in ideas. Oh and thank you all the others that sent in help. See ya! -Incognito