Power of the Crests

by Celestra

((Old work)) The Power of the Crests by Debbie (Dai-chan), only re-written to include my OC's (WITH PERMISSION, THOUGH!) Two completely new chapters for Cat and Kate, by the way.

11. Power of the Crests: Secrets of Sky

Power of the Crests: Part Ten:

Secret of Sky

By Celestra (Les)?

Yahoo! I'm original! In a weird sort of way ... But I'm still original! Why, you may ask? Because everybody should know that the original Power of the Crests saga belongs to Debbie and I kinda copied it, but it was MY version with many alternations. Well, if you've read part nine, you'll know about Cat, Kate and Davis, but if you don't, read it. BUT, I've made parts nine (half), ten and eleven to fit some new characters. You don't have to read or review this, but if you'd like to know what the heck I'm talking about, I advise you to read and review. Don't kill me, but this stars a newbie. *Magic Midget kills her anyways* Dammit, Magic Midget!

" Walking. We've been doing that all day. We are well away from Banshemon's mansion. Sanimon is destroyed. May I ask WHY we aren't resting for just TWO minutes?"

" Calm down, Cat. You know we will rest. You're just saying that because you and Davis don't have very much energy." Elanna replied back teasingly to Cat. Cat privately agreed, because it was true. She and Davis had suffered the most from their encounter with Sanimon. But she had a comforting thought. TK had retrieved his power, Davis had discovered his, and hopefully she and Kate wouldn't be too far behind.

Trying to walk faster, Cat dragged her feet." Cat, stop fooling. Evil digimon may be following us." Joe's voice floated from behind her.

" Who's fooling?" Sighing about how nutty girls were, Joe walked ahead, Gomamon shuffling behind.

" Guys, we don't have much time. Metalseadramon is probably planning his next move, and here we are, dragging are feet." Tai glared at Cat."

" Tai, we really are tired. We need rest, or we won't be able to fight." Matt glanced at Tai before sitting down, his back against one of the many trees in the forest they were walking in. " So now you're the leader, are you?" Tai clenched his fists." No, but I have the right to rest if I'm tired."

Before Tai said a word, Elanna stepped in between, Raimon watching." Please, Tai, don't start a fight."

" He's the one fighting."

" No, Tai, you are. You're just restless from those cages. You're bored and you're starting a fight. Now finish it. Stop it, I mean."

Deep down, Tai knew it to be true. He was restless from being locked up like some wild animal. He slid down and lay there, on the dirt where he landed. Cat slid down beside him, grateful. She lay, watching the clouds, while Foximon remained alert, watching for anything that might want to hurt the resting kids.

Izzy sat down, his back to a tree, and he started typing." So, whadaya researching, Izzy?" Kate looked over his shoulder. "Information," He replied. " What kind?" " Well, I think I've found something about the Dark Masters."

" What, Izzy?" Tentomon's shrill voice rang through the afternoon air." Well, it says here that Metalseadramon can charm young digimon into doing his bidding. Sorta like the touch of evil Devimon had." TK shuddered all over at that. Matt got up and comfortingly put his hand on his shoulder." Anyway, the most common way of doing this is by becoming the opposite sex of the digimon he wishes to charm."

" He can do that?" Davis cut in, looking at the small group huddling around the slightly annoyed Izzy.

" Apparently. Anyways, he'll charm that digimon, make it stronger, let it ware out its usefulness and leave it near some of the remaining strong digimon." " But that legend makes absolutely no sense! What's the point of it?" Kate was getting impatient. * ^_^ * " Don't ask me. I'm just reporting it."

" It's stupid," Veemon agreed.

Author's Note: That prophecy thing has nothing to do with the story; I just put it there to make it sound interesting, which it is not. It has got nothing to do with what comes later. It's just there, okay? It's my fic so I can put stupid information in if I want!

A scratching noise was heard." Wazzat?" Matt appeared worried, placing himself in front of TK. " Oh, you sissies, I'm just exercising my claws," Lasdamon said, choking back laughter at the now embarrassed looking Matt. " Don't you know that cats need to exercise their claws to keep them sharp?" Cat was doubled over, already knowing the answer to the scratching noise." No, since I don't own a cat, unlike you." But he too was chuckling.

Sora and Mimi , who had been silent the whole time, were pointing over to their far left, making choking noises in their throats. " What is it?" Tai asked." RUN!" Looking, he saw what it was. A hairy digimon with long claws and fangs were staring at the Digidestined, loathing delight written all over it's face.

" Lukogumon," Foximon regarded disgustedly." He is rather fond of eating, and if you don't have food for him, you become it." " Not this time," he said with a deep roaring voice." I must capture just one. The Keeper. You." He lunged at Cat with a sort of battle cry emitting from his throat.

" The Keeper? Me?" Cat murmured as she ducked out of the way. " Digimon, digivolve!" Agumon cried.

(" Foximon, digivolve into Werewomon!")

A female werewolf stood where the orange fox had been.

(" Lasdamon, digivolve into Shugamon!")

A pure white wolf stood, glowering in silent rage.

" Boomerang Blade!" Werewomon flung her sword blade, and in mid air, it took the shape of a boomerang. Flying toward Lukogumon, the blade made a whistling noise. Lukogumon growled, then his eyes glowed a sickening green color; the blade halted and began to fly the opposite way, toward Werewomon. She ducked and retrieved the sword.

" Cat, get behind me," Davis hissed softly in her ear. She meekly obeyed, not wanting to get in the way of Shugamon clawing at the hairy digimon." Wolves' Spirits," She howled, and around her, spirits floated and groaned. She softly howled, and all at once, the wolves' spirits charged toward their target, Lukogumon. His eyes glowed again, and the spirits disappeared.

Turning on his spot, Lukogumon made his way toward Cat and Davis, who remained in front of her." Move it, Slayer. You are not involved." " I am involved if Cat is the Keeper, and if the Keeper is what you've come for." " Slayer, if you don't move, you will be destroyed regardless whether Metalseadramon has commanded me to destroy only the Keeper."

The other Digidestined could only watch the brave deed Davis was doing. However, he slunk to the ground with his hands in his head, the full loss of his energy blowing upon him." If the Slayer wishes to be destroyed, so be it. Tornado Strike." A whirling column of air appeared, sucking air and everything in its path. Horror stricken, the other Digidestined desperately tried to snatch on to tree trunks.

" Ah!"

Sora's grip let go; she was holding on by one hand." Gotcha!" There was Tai, holding her hand until she managed to get a better grip.

Davis seemed to be trying to summon his power, but he couldn't. Not even an aura to protect him and the others. Gasping, after he finally managed to stand, he fell to his knees again." Davis, you all right?" Cat bent over him in concern. " I'm just . . . so tired."

Seeing his chance to attack them, Lukogumon attacked." Laser Beam," Two sickly green lasers shot out of his eyes. Swiftly, a cloud flew in front of Cat and Davis, blocking the swift attack.

" Wha-?" Lukogumon looked horrified." Though this may be the time, not now for her!" A lightning bolt flashed in an instant, striking the un-aware digimon; and he disappeared in a smoky black cloud. The tornado disappeared, and Werewomon and Shugamon de-digivolved back into Foximon and Lasdamon.

Palmon glanced at Cat, and she was surprised to see her eyes in a glazed sort of look, the kind of look when you want to control something. TK, who had apparently also seen the way she was staring at the place Lukogumon was standing, before the lightning bolt struck him.

" Cat, did you do that? Is that your power?"

Cat lost her glazed look, and she gazed down to the young boy." I don't know. I wished that something would protect us, and that cloud did. I wished we could defeat him without leaving any disgusting corpse, and that lightning bolt did."

"Cool." Davis stood up and walked to her, a flashy grin on his face. Veemon followed his partner, wanting to guard him in case Lukogumon came back and surprise-attacked them.

" Do you think that sky and its dominants are your power? Will we get our powers back?" Tai asked, winking at Elanna, who didn't think that what he meant was very funny, as when he got his power, it had almost been the death of him. The wink seemed painful, though.

" It's possible," Raimon said brightly, for she had much respect for Elanna when she had her power.

" I wouldn't want to, I didn't want it to happen the first time," Elanna said.

"I, for one, would not like to experience that again," Matt said, as Gabumon nodded in his agreement.

" Nor would I," Joe said, wincing at when he had almost lost the trust of his friends.

" It was rather unpleasant," Izzy said, also wincing.

" My friends are important, and he made me forget how so!" Mimi looked upset at a thought.

" Well, I didn't particularly enjoy it," Sora said," That horrible dream!" Biyomon didn't seem to need reminding.

" It had its good parts," Tai said defensively. Yet, he still paled about it, and he knew he did not enjoy it as much as he said he did.

" I agree," Davis, said, which wasn't such a surprise; he nearly agreed on every thing with Tai, his idol. But still, it was remarkable on how they thought the same.

Most of the digimon agreed with their partners. Cat didn't think having a power was so bad, in fact; it was downright cool. But then, she realized, remembering what Elanna had told her, that she would have to become what her crest represented.

Her crest, she thought, was pretty neat. The highly polished brass tag had a screen that protected her crest. The crest, which was hued bright magenta, had a sort of spacey design, so she thought. It had two skinny ovals that were crossed over, and a small circle in the small space the ovals left. That was the symbol of the Crest of Life. The true meaning of her Crest of Life, Gennai had told her, was in a way, being brave or courageous in a special way. If there was an attack or something, she could give her life up to save the others. But he had also told her that if she wished hard enough before she died, her spirit would come back, and then her body. ("Maybe,") she thought, ("Maybe it's not true.")

She didn't want her crest; she didn't want to have a power over that of the Digidestineds'; but she decided to take it in order to help Foximon digivolve into the ultimate form, Unicormon. It was the only way to stop a creepy, spidery digimon from squashing a whole bus of people in the real world in his desperation to find and destroy the Digidestined. Of course, she had revealed that she was one of the Digidestined, but she wasn't captured; she managed to escape.

A black flash suddenly leapt in front of Cat, who was still musing about her crest. Surprised at what she saw, she forgot what she was musing upon and gasped. A black cat stood there, completely black except for the eyes. Normally, Cat wouldn't care too much, cats were always jumping out at her, but this one looked so remarkably like the one she had at home, she couldn't help but make a sound. Even the eyes were the same, and no two cats could have the same eyes of Caza. Caza's left eye was a vivid emerald green, but the right eye was a brilliant golden shade.

The Cat mewed in a melodic voice that was so like Caza's that Cat gasped again. Kate, Elanna and TK (who had the best hearing) looked up at her quiet gasps and they too gaped at the cat that was now prowling the ground near Gabumon, Gomamon, Raimon, Patamon and Biyomon, and she seemed to sniff with dainty disdain. She passed right by Veemon, Tentomon, Agumon and Palmon, and her eyes seemed to glower at Lasdamon and Foximon and she hissed. Lasdamon hissed back, Foximon glared at her with her sapphire eyes.

" Caza is in the Digital World?" Davis looked stupefied, seeing his sister's cat. Cat was nothing less of paralyzed as she watched the circling cat that was so alike to her own.

Tai and Matt, however, chose not to trust the animal, and they showed it greatly on their faces. For a moment, they looked like twins, and they agreed with each other, a rare event. Cat wasn't sure why, but she felt that she could trust it up to a point; she had the instincts of a detective, and her cat, or a cat so much like her own that it seemed to be cloned, shouldn't just turn up in a place like the Digital World.

The cat suddenly leapt into her lap and started mewing loudly. But the thing is, Cat understood what it said. A look of amazement passed on her face when the cat mewed at her, it was telling her a poem that she said would be useful, it came from a prophecy. Whether she could trust the cat or not, it might do good to hear what it had to say, anyway, she thought.

The cat spoke into Cat's ear,

"Follow the chain of growls

To a foreboding place,

Where the lives of many end,

All you need is air, sun and cloud

To cure the death of slumber within."

Not knowing why Cat had such a look of amazement on her face, but seeing the cat mewing in her ear, Patamon blurted," Are you physic enough to talk with cats?"

" I don't know. This cat, I can understand what it says. It's not saying anything worth hearing, it seems," she added.

Cat stared at the cat. As soon as it had finished speaking to her, its personality seemed to alter. It jumped into the air and started hissing and clawing at the air, its razor sharp claws out. Its flailing claw scratched Cat along her face, leaving a thin streak of blood across it. The cat jumped out of her lap, and with one final hiss at Lasdamon and a glowering look at Foximon, the cat raced off to the jungle.

* * *

" Has everything been prepared, my servant?"

"Yes, Lord Metalseadramon."

" The growling?"

" Yes. My throat is prepared."

" Is the house ready?"

" Waiting for her to trap the Keeper, not to mention chowing down."

" You told her the verses, I'm sure."

" Yes, Lord and Master."

" The form of a cat was sure to get the Keeper interested, especially since you can hide in bushes."

" Yes, Metalseadramon."

In the jungle, the coiling golden form of seadramon was speaking about preparations. The cat that looked so remarkably like Caza was helping him prepare it. The plan. Metalseadramon grinned maliciously, thinking about his plan and what would happen to those scrawny Digidestined. The Keeper and they would be gone forever if his plan succeeded, but if it didn't, he would have only one more chance to destroy them, using the Fighter.

* * *

The cat crept silently through the bushes, obeying Metalseadramon's orders. Why he used her, she thought, was un-known. She sniffed the air, and smelling the stench of the children, she sneered. She wished to impress Metalseadramon for the sake of him being her master, and to impress the one who enrolled her with him. She rather did not like Cat, for her power was surprisingly conquering, seemingly, among some others. Her ability to converse with cats was perfectly natural; she was most like them. And again, the whole weather was her power. She would be rather glad when she would be destroyed.

Smelling the stench of the Digidestined strongest here, she uttered a guttural growl, and waited for the response she knew would come from Cat

* * *

Cat stiffened. She had heard a growl. Perhaps the cat was going to attack? Or maybe say something else? She stood silently on the spot, listening with her psyche and her ears, ignoring the others. She heard it again. ("Is it beckoning me?") She listened, seeming to be the only one able to hear the growls. She heard it a third time, seeming to say, " Come, Keeper."("Keeper? Keeper of what?)")

" What's wrong, Cat?" Foximon said in light concern.

"Don't you hear it?"

"Hear what?" TK's innocent curiosity seemed to begin to work.

"The growling."

"What growling? Are you playing some sort of game with yourself? Cause that's not a good thing." Matt smirked.

The growl changed, seeming more guttural and uttering message-like growls, like a telegraph of some sort.

" It's – it's telling me to follow it. Ahead . . . "

"This is spooky," Elanna and TK said simultaneously, both creeping towards their brothers.

"Come on . . . I know it's leading me this way for a reason . . . " Cat murmured, seeming tranced by the low growling. Almost hesitantly, she led the group towards the East, at her right.

The cat emerged from the bushes, smirking, as she scooted southwards. "That was surprisingly easy . . . ''

* * *

Cat led the Digidestined forward, determined although her heart pumped like mad. What if I'm leading them into a trap? I'll never forgive myself if someone gets hurt. She was disturbed, mentally, she thought, that she was talking to cats, but this was the Digiworld, and many things weren't as they appeared.

"Cat, stop." Sora's voice floated from behind her, somewhere.

"Why? Are you tired? Do you want to rest?"

"No, but I think you should stop looking at your shoes and look ahead."

Cat gazed up, and stopped dead. In front of her was a huge, shadowy-blue antique mansion, resembling the one in which the Temple of the Digidestined and the Circle of Crests stood. The pane-less windows had no glass, and it looked tumbled-down, for some of the roof slates were near destruction.

"Did we just go around in one huge circle?" Tai asked, disbelieving.

"I doubt it," Joe said, unconsciously raising his hand to shield his eyes from the sun as he gazed upwards at the roof. "Looks old."

"There's something I don't like about that mansion," Kate muttered, thrusting her yellow-gloved hands into her pocket, her blackish brown eyes unusually hard. "I don't like the look of it."

Cat privately agreed.

"Do you think we should go in?" Gomamon asked, clinging onto Joe's leg so that he would have a free ride.

" I believe . . . that the growls wanted us to head in there . . . " Cat murmured, glancing around the faces of the Digidestined.

Matt narrowed his eyes. "I'm staying away from shadowy-blue antique mansions from now on. Banshemon and Sanimon were just plain creepy."

"But there must be a reason for it to be here, and for the growls to lead us here," Izzy stated.

"("To follow the chains of the growls to a foreboding place") . . . Guys, do you think that this place is foreboding?"

"Definitely," was Matt's immediate answer.

"For once, I've gotta agree with Matt." Tai said.

"That's a first," Biyomon teased.

"(" Where many lives will end . . . sun, cloud and air is all that you need to cure the sleep within. . . ") Guys, I don't think we should go in there."

"Why?"

"Something about the poem the cat told me . . . It said to follow the growling to a foreboding place, but lives will end there unless there is sun, cloud and air . . . which there is none. I don't want lives to end, and there's no sun, cloud or air here."

"It's just a stupid poem."

"Yeah, but I followed the growling here and it's foreboding, and I don't want the next part to come true . . . that many lives will end."

"But the growling led you here for a reason, and the reason is more then likely to go in, rather then stare at it from out here and make bland comments." Tentomon speculated.

"Fine, but don't say . . . something to do with this later," Cat said, at loss of words. Boldly, the group walked in nervously (in Cat's case) not knowing what they'd find, be it a cute cuddly bunny or a ferocious digimon.

They tried to creep in quietly, but unfortunately, the door squeaked loudly. Cat felt sure that some digimon would hear it and attack. None did, however. She breathed in and stoutly looked around, agreeing with Matt about staying away from shadowy-blue antique mansions.

"Hey, over here!" Patamon called in his childish voice that seemed to echo in the carven-like room in which they stood. The thing in which why he called them was a huge, elegantly rolling staircase, which, unusually enough, was polished chestnut wood. The group gaped, and they ventured forward onto the curling staircase as one person.

(" Keeper . . . Keeper . . . Life . . . blood . . . ")

"Stop it!" Cat screamed.

"Stop what?" Elanna asked, puzzled at her friend's outburst.

"The voices . . . They keep calling for the Keeper . . . And they want life and blood . . . "

"You think they're ghosts like in Banshemon's mansion?" TK asked.

"Don't say that." Matt said briskly.

Cat didn't like it in the mansion; she didn't even know the reason why she was there. She remembered Elanna and TK telling her about Matt's situation in the mansion, which they had been . . . Matt hadn't told her about it, he was afraid. She felt like she was the Keeper, but she didn't know why.

Suddenly, with a yelp of surprise, Tai and Agumon disappeared, seeming right through the floor.

"Tai?" Joe stepped forward, Gomamon with him, both unnerved by their friends' disappearances. "What the-" Joe fell through, perhaps the same spot. The others crept away from the spot in which they disappeared, unnerved.

"Tai?! Joe?! Agumon?! Gomamon?!" Sora shouted.

"It's best to look around for them throughout the house; and we should split up," Izzy said, sounding logical as always.

Elanna, unnerved by the disappearance of her brother, crept closer to Matt and held on his arm, shaking. "Where are they? How did they disappear?" She sounded and appeared nervous. She crept as close as she possibly could to Matt without squishing him. She grabbed his arm harder, still shaking.

"Elanna, you're shaking like a leaf," Matt said.

"I don't want to disappear!"

"Don't worry. Guys, I don't think we should split up. If one group disappears, the other one won't be able to help them."

"Hmm, that is a better idea," regarded Lasdamon, looking up at her unusually hard-looking human friend, Kate.

"Alright then, lets go downstairs!" TK said, unusually bold, as he grasped his brother's other hand, his hand still being held by Elanna.

"I still don't like this," Elanna muttered, looking darkly at Sora for no reason.

"Don't worry, Elanna, we'll find them," Sora said, seeing her glare and guessing she was worried under her dark look.

With a yelp, Mimi and Palmon disappeared.

"Mimi!" Davis called. "Palmon!"

"This is getting weird! Where'd they go, and how did they disappear so quickly?" Kate asked. No one replied.

The group left the scene of three disappearances and went down to the basement. Cat seemed as worried and frightened as Elanna, but she seemed to mask it.

"I knew no good would come from shadow-blue antique mansions!" Matt grumbled.

As they walked downstairs, more trouble occurred. Sora, seeming to step on some sort of trick step, disappeared without a sound. Biyomon seemed to be magnetized to her somehow, because she was flying yet she was brought along the fall with Sora. Cat jumped back with a gasp, feeling around for Davis and Veemon, yet finding no one. She gazed around the small group with worry as best she could in the dark, but she couldn't find him. The reality hitting upon her, she realized another friend was gone.

"Davis! Sora! Where are you?!"

"I don't like this!" TK yelled; his voice slightly muffled because he had buried his face in Matt's shirt.

Going downward, they found a wall where another room or something should've been, acknowledging them that the others weren't there.

"Matt, I really don't like this!" Elanna wailed.

"Let's get the heck upstairs before we disappear in another trick step or something!" Izzy shouted.

Gasping, the group raced back upstairs, where they were met by another unpleasant surprise.

"Izzy?!" Cat yelled, not seeing the red-head or his digimon. Gasping, she started to race back down the stairs, but Foximon blocked her.

"No, Cat. We have to go together or we'll soon lose everyone."

"Right," she breathed, at her wits' end. Gabumon used his attack to light up the stairs, allowing her to see that Izzy and Tentomon weren't on the staircase; they had disappeared.

"This disappearing is going too fast," Raimon said.

"Maybe they're upstairs?" TK said hopefully.

"C'mon, we're gonna see," was Kate's response.

Hearts pounding in beat to their shoes on the stairs, they raced up, hoping to find their friends safe and sound so they could leave that creepy mansion.

Cat suddenly looked around, sure that she would see nothing there, and Kate and Lasdamon that were behind her a minute ago were now gone.

"No!" she suddenly screamed. "They're gonna die because of the stupid poem thing!"

"Relax, Kate," Elanna soothed, though she was worried herself.

Reaching the top, they gazed around, each one with suspicion alive in their eyes. Unexpectedly, a short scream rang out.

"Hey!" TK screamed, disappearing as though he were Houdini, which he wasn't.

"TK!" Matt yelled in anguish. "That does it, now I'm mad." And he looked mad; his eyes melted into steel and his fists were clenched so hard that Cat strongly suspected that if his gloves were off, his knuckles would be white. He grasped very hard onto Elanna, not letting go. "I'm not going to let you disappear. You're all I have left . . . "

He spoke too soon, for Cat blinked and he wasn't there.

"MATT!" Elanna screamed, then she fell to her knees, whimpering. Cat stood by her. "It's only me and you," she said simply. Elanna raised her face to her, and her face changed to one of surprise as she and Raimon disappeared.

"No! What's happening?" Cat shouted blindly. "Why is this happening? Cause we're the Digidestined?" She punched her fist with the other hand. I'm really pissed off. Where are my friends? Are they . . . are they dead?" she was disbelieving at that; she knew it wasn't true. She hoped there were some sun, air and wind nearby because she felt she needed it to save her friends . . .

Unexpected, she heard derisive chuckle, a derisive chuckle that seemed to laugh with evilness. She stood up, terrified that the taunting, chuckling voice could be hurting her friends. She ran into the room, hearing the voice as it continued to laugh in an evilly taunting voice.

"So, the Keeper is here. How I have longed to meet you."

"Who are you?"

"I am what you'll see."

A figure stepped from within the dark shadows, a figure so horrifying that Cat nearly screamed. From the darkness, two sickly green-brown tentacles drew and withdrew, several feet long and rather thick. A black robed figure emerged with them, and Cat could see it was a human woman's body. The face was very pale, almost completely white, with burning red eyes that dripped with venom. Two long fangs leered out of her mouth as she gazed at Cat with loathing delight. The figure had long black hair.

When she had completely stepped out from the shadows, she said in her piercing, dangerous voice, "I am Vamprimon."

Cat looked down to Foximon who had trotted beside her. " Yes, that is Vamprimon, who is a sort of vampire of sorts you don't want to know." She glared at the larger digimon.

"What have you done with my friends? It was you who made them disappear, wasn't it?!"

Vamprimon licked her lips and sighed. "Yes, Keeper, it was I. Your friends are there." She carelessly waved her hand to the shadows that she had stepped from. The shadows suddenly brightened, and it showed the Digidestined and their digimon lying on the ground. But they were all so pale.

On the end of the brightened shadows, lay Davis. He was in one of his uncomfortable sleeping positions with his mouth wide open. Veemon lay next to him. Beside him lay Sora, her hat tossed to one side. Biyomon looked like the bird nest she was supposed to sleep in; her feathers were tangled horribly. Beside Sora lay Izzy, who's knowledge remained in his face even in his sleep as he clutched his beloved laptop close to him. Tentomon's gossamer wings were spread out.

Next to Izzy lay Kate, who still looked hardened, even in her sleep. (Cat supposed they were sleeping) Lasdamon looked like any cat who was asleep. Beside Kate lay Joe, his head resting on his medic bag and his glasses to one side. Gomamon was curled up like a puppy next to him. Lying beside Joe was Mimi her head resting on the ground and her arms hugging her makeup bag. Palmon lay near, the petals on her head covering her closed eyes.

Next to Mimi was Tai, his goggles clouding his eyes, and his hair seemed to be his pillow. Agumon was curled into a loose ball, looking exhausted. Next to him was TK, looking like an innocent, angelic boy in his sleep, his golden hair delicately covering his face. Patamon lay next to him, his ear-wings covering his body like a blanket. Beside him lay Matt, one of his arms seemed to be spread over his brother in a protective gesture. Gabumon lay near; luckily his fur his fur was still on him ^_^. Next to Matt lay Elanna, their arms still clutching each other in the fright of them disappearing. Raimon lay, her paws hidden by her snout.

"What have you done to them? Why are they like that?" Cat yelled, taking in their pale faces and limp forms. "Are they dead?"

"No, foolish Keeper, they are but in a stupor."

"But what did you do?"

"I drank enough life blood to stupefy them."

"Life blood? What is life blood?"

"Life blood is the blood that will keep your pitiful friends alive. Here, I'll show you."

She disappeared, but appeared again near Foximon, and she sunk her fangs deep into her shoulder.

"Foximon!" The orange fox collapsed on the spot, seeming stupefied like the rest.

Vamprimon slowly took her fangs out of the fox digimon's shoulder, and a silvery liquid dripped down her chin. 'This is life blood. I took enough to . . . let her join your friends."

"You monster!"

"Digital monster, actually."

"Like I care!" All her life, Cat hadn't been angry, and when she was, it was slight and it didn't last for long. But the very thought of that creepy vampire-like digimon hurting her friends made her want to walk up t her and really hurt her.

"Why are you doing this?"

"Why? I am hungry, that is why. You let your guard down, Keeper, so they came to me."

"Why am I the Keeper? Keeper of what? This 'Keeper' thing was starting to get really confusing, at least more confusing then before.

"You are the Keeper of Life, who guards the life of others and keeps others from taking their life blood. But you failed. Your friends are mine. I will drink their life blood dry and you know what happens when the life blood dries up? The person dies." And with that, she stalked off towards the sleeping Digidestined, headong for Tai. "Starting with the Master of Courage."

Cat was closer with Tai then with some of the others, and she was scared, scared for the lives of her friends, who would die at her hand if she didn't do something. She had a plan, but there was a dark side to it.

"Wait!" She called. "Why not have a deal?"

"Deal?" Vamprimon turned, then shrugged. "Or lets not and say we did."

"Wait!" She called again. "How about – how about you have my life blood instead?"

"Why would I want your life blood when I have a buffet waiting? Not to mention, I will get their hidden powers after they are destroyed, and I can destroy you properly, a Keeper's Honor Death."

"You said you longed to have met me, you must've wanted to drink my life blood too. If you want to destroy me, you must want my power as well."

"I can't resist a bargain; life blood so delicious, and a great power as well. You're not going to run away though, are you?"

"Keeper's honor. If you have some honor, Vamprimon, you'll agree."

"Vamprimon's Honor." With that, she turned away from the lying Digidestined and headed towards Cat, complete joy on her voice. Reaching forward, she touched Cat's cheek with a scratchy finger. Cat shuddered. Seeing this, a wide grin spread over Vamprimon's face. She turned to sink her fangs into Cat's neck . . .

Before a great silver cloud swiftly flew in front of her, blocking her vision, and her fangs, from Cat.

"So, your power. I thin I'll get an easy meal." She turned at a run towards the other Digideestined, when another cloud and Cat's voice stopped her.

Cat's voice was surprisingly cool," Vamprimon, the Keeper of Life will keep life safe from anyone who tries to drink it. That's what you told me. I am the Keeper, and I will stop you. Any power challenging the Digidestined as long as they're pure will be defeated. I am Cat, the Keeper, and I will destroy you! Secrets of Sky!" She screamed with the very courage of her soul.

Cat glowed in the colors of a sunset, swiftly changing into magenta and back again. Lightning flashed, and thunder roared, a tornado hissed shrilly, spinning, as waters poured from all sides. A bubble protected Cat and the other Digidestined as the waters washed and poured from the sky. Then, masses of air blew, some wind and some not, and the sun seemed to descend in the room itself. Clouds swifly flew around her, and they burst towards Vamprimon, changing into cloudy needles. Vamprimon was heard shrieking in pain and terror, and was seen fading into particles of black, and then into nothingness.

Cat's energy was leaving her fast, but there was still something she needed to do; perhaps if she didn't, it would be too late. Glowing again with her aura, she chanted the words that just came into her brain, " The Keeper of Life calls upon the Secrets of Sky to heal the deathly slumber of the Digidestined. Secrets of Sky, descend and heal!" Several clouds descended from the sky at Cat's chanting words and enveloped a Digidestined and their separate Digidestined. The clouds glowed with a misty magenta light, and they abruptly disappeared, leaving the Digidestined and their digimon healed.

Just as Cat almost fainted from loss of energy, her own cloud enveloped her and glowed with its misty magenta light and healed her as well. Then, at the same time, all the clouds burst through the hole in the ceiling that battle had made.

"Cat!" TK ran to her a hugged her around the waist, his way of thanking her for saving him. She embraced him back, and on a sudden idea, TK looked up at her. "Hey, Cat, there is a strand of magenta in your hair.

Cat let go of him and grasped some of her hair, and she saw that she had indeed a strand of pretty magenta in her hair that mingled nicely and went with her outfit. One by one, the Digidestined came up and congratulated and thanked her in their own way. Foximon looked up to her, and she seemed to have a sort of admiration in her sapphire-colored eyes. When everyone had thanked and congratulated her, and when they were outside, Cat silently called on her power, and she brought some raindrops and winds to cool her and the group's thoughts as they welcomed them to erase their present thoughts.

Cat smiled and said, "I am the Keeper!"

TO BE CONTINUED!

Yay! I liked it! *still gets killed by Magic Midget* Dammit, Magic Midget!