Depthmon crawled out and changed to Growmon in a series of changes. He slathered mud on himself so he blended in. Lynxmon changed to Kyuubimon and did the same. The boys then covered themselves with mud. And at last they all headed in the direction Devimon was last seen. Unimon came back.
"The village was devastated as was forest, but no one was hurt really bad, I showed them a secret cave they could stay in, the reason no one was hurt was two of them managed to evolve and fend him off so the others could run away. Their outside the wall and are trying to find away in." Rei told Unimon that Devimon had stolen the last digimental, so the tree still couldn't heal fully. Unimon told them of a stone circle where Devimon stayed, so the egg would be there. He pointed the way and then flew off to the other side of the wall to help the others through it. "When we get through, we'll attack devimon and then you boys can creep in while your Digimon wait till the land is healed and he is weak."
Devimon looked at the egg and held his hand over it. He lowered it ever so slowly, until he touched it, it gave a very small sting but he was able to hold it. He grinned and held it closer. He paced around the circle and started to plan his next attack. Then he noticed smoke coming from the wall and flew off to investigate.
That's when the boys crept inside the circle and looked around, it was flat and bare, no egg or any place to hide it. They ran around a bit looking, and then realized he must have taken it with him to the wall. The Digimon carried the boys back to the wall, where a battle on the other side raged.
When they reached the wall, they couldn't see who was there, but they did hear the muffled cries. So they set to work breaking through the wall. "Demon Fireball!" the thorns were set ablaze. "Plasma Blade!" after a while a square of throns were cut through and two digimon tumbled in. Unimon and Devimon flew over the top. Growmon whispered to the boys, before he and Kyuubimon left, "That's Redveggiemon evolved from Mushroomon, and Akatrimon, evolved from Penmon, good luck!"
"Red Bird Kick!" Akatrimon leapt into the air and knocked Devimon to the ground. "Rotten Rainballs!" "Aerial Attack!" The two attacks pummeled him further, and the egg rolled away from him. Rei dove for it, but Devimon was faster and a clawed hand closed around it and pulled it closer. Rei shouted "E=Mc squared! The hypotenuse of a triangle squared is equal to the sum of both legs of the triangle squared!" he yelled more things like that and the egg glowed, as it absorbed the knowledge. "I made my own computer!" Rei yelled that last statement with all the knowledge he possessed and the digimental of knowledge glowed brilliantly and Devimon had to throw it away from him and he clutched his hand, now burned and sizzling. Rei picked it up and ran to the tree, Shini following.
"Aerial Attack!" "Death Claw!" Devimon took his good hand and batted away the energy ball and grabbed Unimon around the neck and squeezed. "Ivy Club!" "Scar Red Eye!" Redveggiemon's spiked club arms smashed Devimon's arm and he released Unimon, but flew into the air, out of the way of the eye beam. "Razor Wing!" The shots blinded the three Digimon as Devimon flew fast towards the boys, just now ascending the tree to get to the top branch. Just as He reached it, Rei stuck on the last egg and the new light seeped through the tree. In the trunk the four lights met and seeped out through the roots and spread out all over the glen. Life was restored and Devimon cringed.
Unimon flew in and dove to a ditch, he skimmed the water and Depthmon hoped on. The surprise attack had begun. Swanmon did a loop-de-loop and slammed Devimon spinning into the air. Then Unimon flew circles around him as Depthmon dropped Bubble Bombs. Then he jumped off Unimon and dove into the new sparkling river, and Union set down on the ground. Devimon hovered, trying not to move and hit any of the many bombs. Out of the new blue sky, Akatrimon came and jumped on his head, and landed on the ground. Devimon slammed into all the bombs and they exploded loudly, and a steaming Devimon fell to the ground. And looked up at all the Digimon surrounding him.
"Aerial Attack!" "Scar Red Eye!" "Rotten Rainballs!" "White Marie!" "Bubble Bomb!" After the smoke cleared, a big empty hole was in the ground. Unimon, Redveggiemon, and Akatrimon slumped to the ground as the two armors went to Rookie. Rena and Guil ran and brought them some cool nutritious river water and the champions looked a bit better. The tree sprouted new branches and leaves and grew taller than ever before, and at the bottom of the trunk, the bark parted and reveled an underground passage way. Rei and Shini looked at each other and jumped inside. They slid down a long chute and landed on a bed of old leaves. A flash lit up the chute and Valkyrimon fell on top of them.
"Weee, I always like doing that," he brushed himself off. "I couldn't think of any test of hope, so I had a friend make a Hope-o-meter. Just put these on," he clapped his hands and in flashed helmets that looked like virtual games headsets, and were connected to two orbs. The orbs were clear and hovered in the air, and Shini and Rei put on the headsets. "The orbs will become more red as they find more memories of times you used hope. They will begin their inspection, now!" A spark traveled from each of the orbs and entered the heads of the boys. They entered a passive state and felt little daps in their head as thousands of memories were opened up and examined, and then closed. The Digimon watched as little sparks went back to the orb and started to tint it red.
*Flash, into Rei*
No, no, no, yes, *flash* a boy crouched over a small twitching bird, wet from tears, no, no, no, no, no, yes! *flash* a boy on a mans shoulder looking at a booth of candy as it swiftly passes by, no, no, no . . .
*Flash, into Shini*
perfect! *flash* a boy with his runny nose pressed up against a glas window looking at all the toys, not caring about the wind and snow, no, no, wait yes, *flash* a boy sitting on the edge of his seat with a man waving flags and screaming at men far below running around with a ball, no, no, no . . .
Valkyrimon watched more and more sparks go into the orb and both became a nice red. Finally the large spark left the headsets and returned to the orb. One ended up redder than the other. He clapped his hands and all but the orbs vanished. Shini and Rei woke up from their passive state. "Shini is the winner because he used the most hope!" Rei slumped. "You know the drill, here are your choices: Sheepmon, Sagittarimon, Pegasusmon, Bullmon, Goatmon, and Moosemon." Shini thought a minute, then remembered that he and Rei had both agreed that the system of choosing the Digimon that had the most similar physical characteristics of their own rookie Digimon was the best choice. He looked a Rena and immediately noticed her white neck and the little feather like fur around it. He also noticed how Pegasusmon's mane and tail was similar to it. "Pegasusmon, cause of the similar fur. But their all so cool I wish I could have them all!"
"Very well, whenever Renamon armor digivolves with the digimental of hope, she'll turn to Pegasusmon. You all have strange senses of style. Tata for now!" A flash off light took Valkyrimon away and the four out side in front of the tree. There the three champions had recuperated and were standing proudly. The four eggs on the tree came back to Rei and Shini, and they put them away. The head of Valkyrimon came back and said, "Don't try to transport from temple to temple, because you don't have enough generators. Wait till your done collecting. Bye!" the head disappeared. Rei blushed and walked away.
Back in the village,
The Penmon and Mushroomon had came out after news came that the glen had healed, and had started rebuilding the village. A small Digimon yelled "Look every one, there back! It's Unimon, Redveggiemon, Akatrimon, Flybeemon, oh, and Pegasusmon!" The village cheered and all the Digimon resumed rebuilding the village, finally the two armors flew away, yelling their goodbyes and thanks.
Elsewhere,
Valkyrimon flashed into a field of flowers, one of them stood up and both Digimon took flight. "You know Lillymon, you are far nicer than Angewomon, she ditched me on our first meeting. Never saw again though, back to you."
Even more elsewhere,
Anteiramon crept into the glen, and looked for Devimon, he stopped and sniffed, and peered down the hole. With a wave of a hand the invisible energy particles became a light purple. Must have been deleted a while a go, he said with a frown. Then he adjusted his belt and sucked in all the energy. Then he crept out and away on a Airdramon.
Rei looked at the map and pointed out that each trip would become shorter and shorter as they moved down the spiral. The Digimon had turned to rookie form and were walking beside them. And they were walking in a really dark forest. "So we don't have far to go till we get to the next ahhhhh!" "An 'aaaahh?'" said Shini. "What's an aahhhhhhhhhhh!" The Digimon ran after them, "Aaaahhhhhhh!"
They had all fallen down a deep slope, sliding and colliding into each other and other things until the hit the bottom of a deep cave. It was really dark then. Rei looked up and judged it impossible to get out. "Rena could digivolve to Kyuubimon and her fire would give some light." But Rena warned them off creepy Digimon, and that it was better to walk around using scent. Rei agreed and they groped around blindly in the dark, heading deeper and deeper into the cave.
"Ugh, what does you scent tell you of that disgusting smell!" Shini said as he covered his nose. "Wait," sadi Guil "I'm picking up a more promising scent, hold on to me!" Rei held onto his tail and Shini to Rei's shoulder and Rena held onto Shini's hand. They all heard a commotion behind them. "Pick it up Guil," yelled Rena, "we're about to have company!" They all ran.
"Poop throw!" "POOP!" "Poop throw!" Many little laughed maniacally and the four could hear and feel poop being throw all over and they heard the things coming closer now. They ran faster and heard more of the things come from a tunnel that just joined them. The collected mass swept into them and carried them off. Rei, Shini, Rena and Guil bopped along on a sea of slimy creatures.
"Oh, these are Numemon, they stink but don't tell them that," said Rena and she got a few whacks from the Numemon. "The master will be pleased, oh yes yes" all the Numemon muttered and chattered excitedly about the master. The Numemon eventually reached a dimly lit chamber and dumped them there while they back off. A little Digimon floated down.
"I'm Tapirmon the Numemon master, even though I am rookie like they are. They think I'm a champion cause I destroy all the nightmares and viruses here," Shini looked a bit surprised. "How can I help you?" asked Tapirmon.
"Well," started Rei "we were looking for the next digimental temple when we fell down a slippery slope and ended up here."
"Oh, you must want to go to the sacred mine. All great and small ground Digimon came there at one time in their life. It's kind of a long way from here." Two Numemon came over carrying a map. Rei noticed it was of underground tunnels and he jacked in his D-3 and overlaid the surface map.
"We are here," Rei pointed, "And the sacred mine is here. But according to the underground map we would have to travel all this way." Rei traced a long squiggly arc. "What you Digimon never thought to make the ground way the most efficient."
"Well it was believed that the makers of the mine followed a great HerculesKabuterimon to the mineral site. Then all other Digimon thought it was a privalege to follow the footsteps of," stammered Tapirmon.
"Well we are not all other Digimon, and we have to get to this mine quick, so let's make a task force and have mons dig! Of course we'll help," said Rei with force.
"Well don't be so bossy about it, we'll dig but I don't know why you want to go there now that it's clothed in darkness." Said Tapirmon.
"Evil has taken over, must be one of those Digimon." Muttered Rei.
"No, it has really turned black, as in no light, and it sucks in light so that can never be any light. No one can get in since they cant see." explained Tapirmon.
"Great, at least we know what to expect. Well, let's get digging!" said Rei and turned to the map to see where to dig.
"Well, um there is a slightly mean Digimon around here that can dig very fast and efficiently, we can go and convince him to dig for you." said Tapirmon.
"Good, I'll go with them to the Digimon, and Rei'll stay here. Let's move!" Ten Numemon came in a carried Rena, Shini, and Tapirmon away to the mysterious Digimon. Rei stayed and studied the map.
The three reached a cove opening quickly. The Numemon dumped them off there, and left. Shini and the two Digimon walked down the lighted tunnel when a loud rumbling was heard and a large mole Digimon erupted from the ground.
"I'm Drimogemon and you really annoy me, Tapirmon, what do these guys want."
"Well they want you to um, well, dig a passage from the cavern to the mine." Tapirmon muttered nervously.
"Haha! I'm no fool, to go into that light-sucking reptile's new territory! You're wastin' your time," Tapirmon was about to protest, as was Shini, but Rena held up a hand and sultered up to Drimogemon.
"Oh, if that's how you feel about it," Rena said in a baby voice "I'd do it my self, but when I heard of such a big," she wrapped her arms around him and looked into his eye, "strong, manly Digimon like you I knew he would be so kind as to do it for me." She fluttered her eyes. Drimogemon blushed and climbed out. They all sat on top of him as he lumbered back to the chamber. Once there Rei pointed out the section of the wall to start digging in. He was surrounded by many Numemon with pick-axes and shovels.
"DRILL SPIN!" Drimogemon lowered his head and tore into the wall, Numemon swarmed in and carried off excess dirt. Guil turned into Depthmon and shoveled away dirt along side Drimogemon, and bubble bombed rocks when it became necessary. Rena remained in rookie form and helped the Numemon. Shini wandered over to where Rei and Tapirmon were talking, Tapirmon was giving a lecture.
"The old mine became sacred because of the jewels that were found there glowed and reflected all light. Some even called it a Light mine."
"Maybe that's the virtue of the temple. Any way I cant wait till we till we get through, I wish we knew more of the Digimon there." Rei turned to the map and charted their progress. "Only a day's more digging to go, we should all get some sleep for an early start tomorrow." At last all the Numemon, and Tapirmon and Drimogemon settled down and slept, as did Shini and Rei.
A morning, or so said the Numemon, everyone got up and set back to work, even Renamon who digivolved to Kyuubimon and Shini and Rei who grabbed a shovel. Tapirmon recruited ten Numemon to run around and give everybody drinks and food as they worked. And finally, Rei announced that they were only five feet away from the mine. Depthmon laced the wall with bubble bombs and was about to set them off when Rei shouted for them to stop. "If that Digimon sucks up light, then we need to block off the passage so that de doesn't stretch his territory to the cavern!" There were mutterings going on everywhere and all the Numemon left the digging. After a while they all came back with wood and hammer and nails and they fashioned a sort of door in the tunnel. Then everyone but Drimogemon, Shini, Rei and their Digimon went out the door and took cover behind it. Then they formed a battle plan,
"Ok, Lynxmon has the best sense of smell but all her fire could get sucked up, Pegasusmon could smell him, but his attacks could get sucked up. That leaves Swanmon with a mediocre nose. We cant afford to lose the edge of having non-armor Digimon. except Drimogemon who knows everything about the mine." said Shini. "I got it!" exclaimed Rei, "If we throw bubble bombs every where, little ones, we can use the sound of an explosion to locate him and aim our attacks there. After an initial attack we can use the new data to find out how to create non-suckable light." Shini choked down a laugh. But then Drimogemon used Drill spin and they were inside the pitch-black mines.
Depthmon crawled around quickly, covering the ground with mines all around the newly formed tunnel. He then crawled back. They could all hear a growling sound as something came to investigate. It came closer and closer and an explosion was heard. The Digimon whipped towards the sound and fired, "White Marie!" "Sargasso Drag! Now he's tied up, and probably cant move, we should continue firing at that area. Bubble Bomb!"
"Dread Fire!" A heat wave rolled towards them and Drimogemon was smashed back into the wall by a large dark red fire cloud. Another one hit the ground where Depthmon was just standing, another hit Swanmon fair and square. The boys and Digimon decided it was time to retreat. They ran behind the door and closed it quickly. Then they blasted the ceiling so many rocks and dirt clumps fell in front of it, making it impossible to open. They ran all the way back to the cannon.
"I think *pant*" said Rei "That we forgot *pant* that any creature that sucks in light *pant* can obviously see in the dark," he caught his breath "He obviously set off a bomb away from him and got us fixing on that spot while he ambushed us from elsewhere. We need to find out how to make light, pronto."
Drimogemon slumped down half asleep and the two others reverted to Rookie form. The four discussed the problem. "Well I think that digimentals can solve a lot of problems, but we just have to find out how to use them." Said Shini.
"Remember when I showed my knowledge and the egg glowed so Devimon couldn't hold it? I think we can utilize that somehow, but the Digimon would be all over us once we get in, so the eggs have to glow before we enter the mine. I don't know how long the eggs would glow if we just shout examples of the virtues." Rei shrugged.
"Maybe a physichal manifestation of the virtue attched to the egg can make it glow for as long as the thing is on it. Than we can set down the eggs to light up the mine." Said Shini.
"But four little eggs won't light it all up. Hey, didn't Tapirmon tell us that the jewels reflected all light? Numemon, can you get me a map of the mine itself?" Two Numemon scurried off at Rei's order. They came back with a scroll and spread it out for him. "Here," he pointed "A single bonfire was set here and these six jewels reflected the light all around and then into a chandelier type of thing which doubled the effect all over. But it appears that our tunnel," the Numemon brought over the map of the underground tunnels, "is a bit far away from there, so we have to make a wild dash for it. Now all we have to do is find things that symbolize our eggs." Rei and Shini dug in their pockets. Rei immediately took off his wrist computer and wrapped it around his egg of knowledge. It glowed brilliantly. Shini took a chain watch and wrapped it around his egg of love, "My grandfather gave it to me be fore he died. And I think these two will do the trick." The eggs glowed as bright as a fire. "Now all we have to do is get to that spot in the mine, and hope that he cant suck the light of the eggs." The egg of hope glowed. "Well, now we have three eggs, lets go!"
Drimogemon carried the boys and Depthmon to the door, followed by Pegasusmon. When they reached it they got off and Drimogemon used his drill spin to clear away the dirt. Then when the door could be opened, they all took a deep breath and reviewed the plan and plunged in. Shini jumped on Pegasusmon and followed Drimogemon. But suddenly explosions hit Drimogemon. "Ah, shoot! I forgot about the bombs, get rid of them Depthmon!" he ordered the bombs to roll away and explode, but everyone still heard the growling of the evil Digimon. The light from the eggs showed Shini the remnants of charred wood and he swooped down on Pegasusmon and dumped the eggs there. The light from the eggs concentrated on the jewel, and the beam of light shot all over the room, from jewel to jewel and finally to the chandelier thing. The entire cavern was lit up.
All the Digimon spun around and go there first look at their enemy. It was a large lizard like creature with metal claws and mask, and was clothed in flames of darkness. "Curses! I'm DarkLizamon and I will tear you limb from limb. Dread Fire!" The plumage of black-red fire raced to Pegasusmon, but he dodged it. "Star Shower!" said Pegasusmon rained stars on him. DarkLizamon covered his face with his arms and then flung himself at Pegasusmon. He couldn't get on, but he managed to swipe and claw him. "That's enough, Sargasso Drag!" Depthmon threw weeds at him and trapped him completely. DarkLizamon merely crouched down and gritted his teeth; his flames suddenly grew larger and burned off the weeds. He threw himself at Depthmon.
"Bone Crusher!" Drimogemon charge at DarkLizamon and threw him against the wall with a toss of the head. "Drill Spin!" he moved in to impale him, but DarkLizamon was too fast. "Snipe Claw!" he slashed Drimogemon's face and he reeled back, DarkLizamon leapfrogged over him and dread fired Depthmon. Depthmon rolled a bomb at him like a bowling ball, then jumped out of the way off his flames. DarkLizamon was blasted into the air. Pegasusmon gave him a great big slam. And he fell fast into, unfortunately for him, the three eggs. He gave a horribly loud and painful scream as the eggs just burned right through him, and he was deleted. There was a flash.
"Well don't think that since it worked this time it will work the next. Evil Digimon know what to stay away from. This was just an accident." Valkyrimon had appeared and tapped his foot. He ushered the boys into the min opening, where he was standing. The boys shrugged and went in. "I'm am not very good at making tests, but I have a little friend here who can sense the most light in a person." He clapped his hands in appeared Gatomon, "Hi, I'm Gatomon and I'll be the one to see who's the most light. Or in simpler terms, represents justice more." Gatomon walked around the two and looked into each of their eyes. To Shini she said, "You know what is right and wrong but you don't always carry out swift and just punishment, where as you" she looked at Rei "Recognize injustice immediately and carry out punishment and protect the weak. Bet you didn't know a lot of people look up to you." She smiled as Rei twitched. "These people are too easy to read," Gatomon said to Valkyrimon "you could've done this by yourself, I believe I'm done here." He waved her away in disgust. "Well that was no fun at all, but she certainly knows the kind of people who use light well. You may be no Kari, but I award you with the digimental of light, your choices are: Seahomon, Quatlmon, Nefertimon, Harpymon, Manbomon, and Gargomon." Rei noticed Gargomon looked the most like a dragon type and choose that one. "That's nice, now whenever Guilmon armor digivolves with the digimental of light he will turn into Gargomon. I need to lie down." Valkyrimon flew up and blasted through the very top of the mine cavern. All of a sudden Tapirmon and the Numemon burst in through the door and all congratulated the boys. The Nunemon gave them their eggs and lit a new fire to light up the mines. Guil evolved to Gargomon and Rei jumped on and they and Shini and Pegasusmon waved their goodbyes and flew out of the hole Valkyrimon made in the ceiling. When they reached the surface, it took a while for their eye to adjust and see that ny Digimon could fall in and terrorize the happy miners. But Gargomon had a solution "White Statue!" white marble appeared and slowly but surely formed a little dome with a locked door over the hole. Then the four flew off to find shelter.
Valkyrimon however was very grumpy and was sleeping when he heard Diaboromon flash in next to him. He got up and said "I hope that you learn from DarkLizamon and stay away from those eggs!" Diaboromon just smiled.
Anteiramon had just dropped off another mon and came back to feed off DarkLizamon, but he was chased out of the cave by thousands of Numemon throwing poop. Anteiramon ran out and decided they were not worth his time.
"The village was devastated as was forest, but no one was hurt really bad, I showed them a secret cave they could stay in, the reason no one was hurt was two of them managed to evolve and fend him off so the others could run away. Their outside the wall and are trying to find away in." Rei told Unimon that Devimon had stolen the last digimental, so the tree still couldn't heal fully. Unimon told them of a stone circle where Devimon stayed, so the egg would be there. He pointed the way and then flew off to the other side of the wall to help the others through it. "When we get through, we'll attack devimon and then you boys can creep in while your Digimon wait till the land is healed and he is weak."
Devimon looked at the egg and held his hand over it. He lowered it ever so slowly, until he touched it, it gave a very small sting but he was able to hold it. He grinned and held it closer. He paced around the circle and started to plan his next attack. Then he noticed smoke coming from the wall and flew off to investigate.
That's when the boys crept inside the circle and looked around, it was flat and bare, no egg or any place to hide it. They ran around a bit looking, and then realized he must have taken it with him to the wall. The Digimon carried the boys back to the wall, where a battle on the other side raged.
When they reached the wall, they couldn't see who was there, but they did hear the muffled cries. So they set to work breaking through the wall. "Demon Fireball!" the thorns were set ablaze. "Plasma Blade!" after a while a square of throns were cut through and two digimon tumbled in. Unimon and Devimon flew over the top. Growmon whispered to the boys, before he and Kyuubimon left, "That's Redveggiemon evolved from Mushroomon, and Akatrimon, evolved from Penmon, good luck!"
"Red Bird Kick!" Akatrimon leapt into the air and knocked Devimon to the ground. "Rotten Rainballs!" "Aerial Attack!" The two attacks pummeled him further, and the egg rolled away from him. Rei dove for it, but Devimon was faster and a clawed hand closed around it and pulled it closer. Rei shouted "E=Mc squared! The hypotenuse of a triangle squared is equal to the sum of both legs of the triangle squared!" he yelled more things like that and the egg glowed, as it absorbed the knowledge. "I made my own computer!" Rei yelled that last statement with all the knowledge he possessed and the digimental of knowledge glowed brilliantly and Devimon had to throw it away from him and he clutched his hand, now burned and sizzling. Rei picked it up and ran to the tree, Shini following.
"Aerial Attack!" "Death Claw!" Devimon took his good hand and batted away the energy ball and grabbed Unimon around the neck and squeezed. "Ivy Club!" "Scar Red Eye!" Redveggiemon's spiked club arms smashed Devimon's arm and he released Unimon, but flew into the air, out of the way of the eye beam. "Razor Wing!" The shots blinded the three Digimon as Devimon flew fast towards the boys, just now ascending the tree to get to the top branch. Just as He reached it, Rei stuck on the last egg and the new light seeped through the tree. In the trunk the four lights met and seeped out through the roots and spread out all over the glen. Life was restored and Devimon cringed.
Unimon flew in and dove to a ditch, he skimmed the water and Depthmon hoped on. The surprise attack had begun. Swanmon did a loop-de-loop and slammed Devimon spinning into the air. Then Unimon flew circles around him as Depthmon dropped Bubble Bombs. Then he jumped off Unimon and dove into the new sparkling river, and Union set down on the ground. Devimon hovered, trying not to move and hit any of the many bombs. Out of the new blue sky, Akatrimon came and jumped on his head, and landed on the ground. Devimon slammed into all the bombs and they exploded loudly, and a steaming Devimon fell to the ground. And looked up at all the Digimon surrounding him.
"Aerial Attack!" "Scar Red Eye!" "Rotten Rainballs!" "White Marie!" "Bubble Bomb!" After the smoke cleared, a big empty hole was in the ground. Unimon, Redveggiemon, and Akatrimon slumped to the ground as the two armors went to Rookie. Rena and Guil ran and brought them some cool nutritious river water and the champions looked a bit better. The tree sprouted new branches and leaves and grew taller than ever before, and at the bottom of the trunk, the bark parted and reveled an underground passage way. Rei and Shini looked at each other and jumped inside. They slid down a long chute and landed on a bed of old leaves. A flash lit up the chute and Valkyrimon fell on top of them.
"Weee, I always like doing that," he brushed himself off. "I couldn't think of any test of hope, so I had a friend make a Hope-o-meter. Just put these on," he clapped his hands and in flashed helmets that looked like virtual games headsets, and were connected to two orbs. The orbs were clear and hovered in the air, and Shini and Rei put on the headsets. "The orbs will become more red as they find more memories of times you used hope. They will begin their inspection, now!" A spark traveled from each of the orbs and entered the heads of the boys. They entered a passive state and felt little daps in their head as thousands of memories were opened up and examined, and then closed. The Digimon watched as little sparks went back to the orb and started to tint it red.
*Flash, into Rei*
No, no, no, yes, *flash* a boy crouched over a small twitching bird, wet from tears, no, no, no, no, no, yes! *flash* a boy on a mans shoulder looking at a booth of candy as it swiftly passes by, no, no, no . . .
*Flash, into Shini*
perfect! *flash* a boy with his runny nose pressed up against a glas window looking at all the toys, not caring about the wind and snow, no, no, wait yes, *flash* a boy sitting on the edge of his seat with a man waving flags and screaming at men far below running around with a ball, no, no, no . . .
Valkyrimon watched more and more sparks go into the orb and both became a nice red. Finally the large spark left the headsets and returned to the orb. One ended up redder than the other. He clapped his hands and all but the orbs vanished. Shini and Rei woke up from their passive state. "Shini is the winner because he used the most hope!" Rei slumped. "You know the drill, here are your choices: Sheepmon, Sagittarimon, Pegasusmon, Bullmon, Goatmon, and Moosemon." Shini thought a minute, then remembered that he and Rei had both agreed that the system of choosing the Digimon that had the most similar physical characteristics of their own rookie Digimon was the best choice. He looked a Rena and immediately noticed her white neck and the little feather like fur around it. He also noticed how Pegasusmon's mane and tail was similar to it. "Pegasusmon, cause of the similar fur. But their all so cool I wish I could have them all!"
"Very well, whenever Renamon armor digivolves with the digimental of hope, she'll turn to Pegasusmon. You all have strange senses of style. Tata for now!" A flash off light took Valkyrimon away and the four out side in front of the tree. There the three champions had recuperated and were standing proudly. The four eggs on the tree came back to Rei and Shini, and they put them away. The head of Valkyrimon came back and said, "Don't try to transport from temple to temple, because you don't have enough generators. Wait till your done collecting. Bye!" the head disappeared. Rei blushed and walked away.
Back in the village,
The Penmon and Mushroomon had came out after news came that the glen had healed, and had started rebuilding the village. A small Digimon yelled "Look every one, there back! It's Unimon, Redveggiemon, Akatrimon, Flybeemon, oh, and Pegasusmon!" The village cheered and all the Digimon resumed rebuilding the village, finally the two armors flew away, yelling their goodbyes and thanks.
Elsewhere,
Valkyrimon flashed into a field of flowers, one of them stood up and both Digimon took flight. "You know Lillymon, you are far nicer than Angewomon, she ditched me on our first meeting. Never saw again though, back to you."
Even more elsewhere,
Anteiramon crept into the glen, and looked for Devimon, he stopped and sniffed, and peered down the hole. With a wave of a hand the invisible energy particles became a light purple. Must have been deleted a while a go, he said with a frown. Then he adjusted his belt and sucked in all the energy. Then he crept out and away on a Airdramon.
Rei looked at the map and pointed out that each trip would become shorter and shorter as they moved down the spiral. The Digimon had turned to rookie form and were walking beside them. And they were walking in a really dark forest. "So we don't have far to go till we get to the next ahhhhh!" "An 'aaaahh?'" said Shini. "What's an aahhhhhhhhhhh!" The Digimon ran after them, "Aaaahhhhhhh!"
They had all fallen down a deep slope, sliding and colliding into each other and other things until the hit the bottom of a deep cave. It was really dark then. Rei looked up and judged it impossible to get out. "Rena could digivolve to Kyuubimon and her fire would give some light." But Rena warned them off creepy Digimon, and that it was better to walk around using scent. Rei agreed and they groped around blindly in the dark, heading deeper and deeper into the cave.
"Ugh, what does you scent tell you of that disgusting smell!" Shini said as he covered his nose. "Wait," sadi Guil "I'm picking up a more promising scent, hold on to me!" Rei held onto his tail and Shini to Rei's shoulder and Rena held onto Shini's hand. They all heard a commotion behind them. "Pick it up Guil," yelled Rena, "we're about to have company!" They all ran.
"Poop throw!" "POOP!" "Poop throw!" Many little laughed maniacally and the four could hear and feel poop being throw all over and they heard the things coming closer now. They ran faster and heard more of the things come from a tunnel that just joined them. The collected mass swept into them and carried them off. Rei, Shini, Rena and Guil bopped along on a sea of slimy creatures.
"Oh, these are Numemon, they stink but don't tell them that," said Rena and she got a few whacks from the Numemon. "The master will be pleased, oh yes yes" all the Numemon muttered and chattered excitedly about the master. The Numemon eventually reached a dimly lit chamber and dumped them there while they back off. A little Digimon floated down.
"I'm Tapirmon the Numemon master, even though I am rookie like they are. They think I'm a champion cause I destroy all the nightmares and viruses here," Shini looked a bit surprised. "How can I help you?" asked Tapirmon.
"Well," started Rei "we were looking for the next digimental temple when we fell down a slippery slope and ended up here."
"Oh, you must want to go to the sacred mine. All great and small ground Digimon came there at one time in their life. It's kind of a long way from here." Two Numemon came over carrying a map. Rei noticed it was of underground tunnels and he jacked in his D-3 and overlaid the surface map.
"We are here," Rei pointed, "And the sacred mine is here. But according to the underground map we would have to travel all this way." Rei traced a long squiggly arc. "What you Digimon never thought to make the ground way the most efficient."
"Well it was believed that the makers of the mine followed a great HerculesKabuterimon to the mineral site. Then all other Digimon thought it was a privalege to follow the footsteps of," stammered Tapirmon.
"Well we are not all other Digimon, and we have to get to this mine quick, so let's make a task force and have mons dig! Of course we'll help," said Rei with force.
"Well don't be so bossy about it, we'll dig but I don't know why you want to go there now that it's clothed in darkness." Said Tapirmon.
"Evil has taken over, must be one of those Digimon." Muttered Rei.
"No, it has really turned black, as in no light, and it sucks in light so that can never be any light. No one can get in since they cant see." explained Tapirmon.
"Great, at least we know what to expect. Well, let's get digging!" said Rei and turned to the map to see where to dig.
"Well, um there is a slightly mean Digimon around here that can dig very fast and efficiently, we can go and convince him to dig for you." said Tapirmon.
"Good, I'll go with them to the Digimon, and Rei'll stay here. Let's move!" Ten Numemon came in a carried Rena, Shini, and Tapirmon away to the mysterious Digimon. Rei stayed and studied the map.
The three reached a cove opening quickly. The Numemon dumped them off there, and left. Shini and the two Digimon walked down the lighted tunnel when a loud rumbling was heard and a large mole Digimon erupted from the ground.
"I'm Drimogemon and you really annoy me, Tapirmon, what do these guys want."
"Well they want you to um, well, dig a passage from the cavern to the mine." Tapirmon muttered nervously.
"Haha! I'm no fool, to go into that light-sucking reptile's new territory! You're wastin' your time," Tapirmon was about to protest, as was Shini, but Rena held up a hand and sultered up to Drimogemon.
"Oh, if that's how you feel about it," Rena said in a baby voice "I'd do it my self, but when I heard of such a big," she wrapped her arms around him and looked into his eye, "strong, manly Digimon like you I knew he would be so kind as to do it for me." She fluttered her eyes. Drimogemon blushed and climbed out. They all sat on top of him as he lumbered back to the chamber. Once there Rei pointed out the section of the wall to start digging in. He was surrounded by many Numemon with pick-axes and shovels.
"DRILL SPIN!" Drimogemon lowered his head and tore into the wall, Numemon swarmed in and carried off excess dirt. Guil turned into Depthmon and shoveled away dirt along side Drimogemon, and bubble bombed rocks when it became necessary. Rena remained in rookie form and helped the Numemon. Shini wandered over to where Rei and Tapirmon were talking, Tapirmon was giving a lecture.
"The old mine became sacred because of the jewels that were found there glowed and reflected all light. Some even called it a Light mine."
"Maybe that's the virtue of the temple. Any way I cant wait till we till we get through, I wish we knew more of the Digimon there." Rei turned to the map and charted their progress. "Only a day's more digging to go, we should all get some sleep for an early start tomorrow." At last all the Numemon, and Tapirmon and Drimogemon settled down and slept, as did Shini and Rei.
A morning, or so said the Numemon, everyone got up and set back to work, even Renamon who digivolved to Kyuubimon and Shini and Rei who grabbed a shovel. Tapirmon recruited ten Numemon to run around and give everybody drinks and food as they worked. And finally, Rei announced that they were only five feet away from the mine. Depthmon laced the wall with bubble bombs and was about to set them off when Rei shouted for them to stop. "If that Digimon sucks up light, then we need to block off the passage so that de doesn't stretch his territory to the cavern!" There were mutterings going on everywhere and all the Numemon left the digging. After a while they all came back with wood and hammer and nails and they fashioned a sort of door in the tunnel. Then everyone but Drimogemon, Shini, Rei and their Digimon went out the door and took cover behind it. Then they formed a battle plan,
"Ok, Lynxmon has the best sense of smell but all her fire could get sucked up, Pegasusmon could smell him, but his attacks could get sucked up. That leaves Swanmon with a mediocre nose. We cant afford to lose the edge of having non-armor Digimon. except Drimogemon who knows everything about the mine." said Shini. "I got it!" exclaimed Rei, "If we throw bubble bombs every where, little ones, we can use the sound of an explosion to locate him and aim our attacks there. After an initial attack we can use the new data to find out how to create non-suckable light." Shini choked down a laugh. But then Drimogemon used Drill spin and they were inside the pitch-black mines.
Depthmon crawled around quickly, covering the ground with mines all around the newly formed tunnel. He then crawled back. They could all hear a growling sound as something came to investigate. It came closer and closer and an explosion was heard. The Digimon whipped towards the sound and fired, "White Marie!" "Sargasso Drag! Now he's tied up, and probably cant move, we should continue firing at that area. Bubble Bomb!"
"Dread Fire!" A heat wave rolled towards them and Drimogemon was smashed back into the wall by a large dark red fire cloud. Another one hit the ground where Depthmon was just standing, another hit Swanmon fair and square. The boys and Digimon decided it was time to retreat. They ran behind the door and closed it quickly. Then they blasted the ceiling so many rocks and dirt clumps fell in front of it, making it impossible to open. They ran all the way back to the cannon.
"I think *pant*" said Rei "That we forgot *pant* that any creature that sucks in light *pant* can obviously see in the dark," he caught his breath "He obviously set off a bomb away from him and got us fixing on that spot while he ambushed us from elsewhere. We need to find out how to make light, pronto."
Drimogemon slumped down half asleep and the two others reverted to Rookie form. The four discussed the problem. "Well I think that digimentals can solve a lot of problems, but we just have to find out how to use them." Said Shini.
"Remember when I showed my knowledge and the egg glowed so Devimon couldn't hold it? I think we can utilize that somehow, but the Digimon would be all over us once we get in, so the eggs have to glow before we enter the mine. I don't know how long the eggs would glow if we just shout examples of the virtues." Rei shrugged.
"Maybe a physichal manifestation of the virtue attched to the egg can make it glow for as long as the thing is on it. Than we can set down the eggs to light up the mine." Said Shini.
"But four little eggs won't light it all up. Hey, didn't Tapirmon tell us that the jewels reflected all light? Numemon, can you get me a map of the mine itself?" Two Numemon scurried off at Rei's order. They came back with a scroll and spread it out for him. "Here," he pointed "A single bonfire was set here and these six jewels reflected the light all around and then into a chandelier type of thing which doubled the effect all over. But it appears that our tunnel," the Numemon brought over the map of the underground tunnels, "is a bit far away from there, so we have to make a wild dash for it. Now all we have to do is find things that symbolize our eggs." Rei and Shini dug in their pockets. Rei immediately took off his wrist computer and wrapped it around his egg of knowledge. It glowed brilliantly. Shini took a chain watch and wrapped it around his egg of love, "My grandfather gave it to me be fore he died. And I think these two will do the trick." The eggs glowed as bright as a fire. "Now all we have to do is get to that spot in the mine, and hope that he cant suck the light of the eggs." The egg of hope glowed. "Well, now we have three eggs, lets go!"
Drimogemon carried the boys and Depthmon to the door, followed by Pegasusmon. When they reached it they got off and Drimogemon used his drill spin to clear away the dirt. Then when the door could be opened, they all took a deep breath and reviewed the plan and plunged in. Shini jumped on Pegasusmon and followed Drimogemon. But suddenly explosions hit Drimogemon. "Ah, shoot! I forgot about the bombs, get rid of them Depthmon!" he ordered the bombs to roll away and explode, but everyone still heard the growling of the evil Digimon. The light from the eggs showed Shini the remnants of charred wood and he swooped down on Pegasusmon and dumped the eggs there. The light from the eggs concentrated on the jewel, and the beam of light shot all over the room, from jewel to jewel and finally to the chandelier thing. The entire cavern was lit up.
All the Digimon spun around and go there first look at their enemy. It was a large lizard like creature with metal claws and mask, and was clothed in flames of darkness. "Curses! I'm DarkLizamon and I will tear you limb from limb. Dread Fire!" The plumage of black-red fire raced to Pegasusmon, but he dodged it. "Star Shower!" said Pegasusmon rained stars on him. DarkLizamon covered his face with his arms and then flung himself at Pegasusmon. He couldn't get on, but he managed to swipe and claw him. "That's enough, Sargasso Drag!" Depthmon threw weeds at him and trapped him completely. DarkLizamon merely crouched down and gritted his teeth; his flames suddenly grew larger and burned off the weeds. He threw himself at Depthmon.
"Bone Crusher!" Drimogemon charge at DarkLizamon and threw him against the wall with a toss of the head. "Drill Spin!" he moved in to impale him, but DarkLizamon was too fast. "Snipe Claw!" he slashed Drimogemon's face and he reeled back, DarkLizamon leapfrogged over him and dread fired Depthmon. Depthmon rolled a bomb at him like a bowling ball, then jumped out of the way off his flames. DarkLizamon was blasted into the air. Pegasusmon gave him a great big slam. And he fell fast into, unfortunately for him, the three eggs. He gave a horribly loud and painful scream as the eggs just burned right through him, and he was deleted. There was a flash.
"Well don't think that since it worked this time it will work the next. Evil Digimon know what to stay away from. This was just an accident." Valkyrimon had appeared and tapped his foot. He ushered the boys into the min opening, where he was standing. The boys shrugged and went in. "I'm am not very good at making tests, but I have a little friend here who can sense the most light in a person." He clapped his hands in appeared Gatomon, "Hi, I'm Gatomon and I'll be the one to see who's the most light. Or in simpler terms, represents justice more." Gatomon walked around the two and looked into each of their eyes. To Shini she said, "You know what is right and wrong but you don't always carry out swift and just punishment, where as you" she looked at Rei "Recognize injustice immediately and carry out punishment and protect the weak. Bet you didn't know a lot of people look up to you." She smiled as Rei twitched. "These people are too easy to read," Gatomon said to Valkyrimon "you could've done this by yourself, I believe I'm done here." He waved her away in disgust. "Well that was no fun at all, but she certainly knows the kind of people who use light well. You may be no Kari, but I award you with the digimental of light, your choices are: Seahomon, Quatlmon, Nefertimon, Harpymon, Manbomon, and Gargomon." Rei noticed Gargomon looked the most like a dragon type and choose that one. "That's nice, now whenever Guilmon armor digivolves with the digimental of light he will turn into Gargomon. I need to lie down." Valkyrimon flew up and blasted through the very top of the mine cavern. All of a sudden Tapirmon and the Numemon burst in through the door and all congratulated the boys. The Nunemon gave them their eggs and lit a new fire to light up the mines. Guil evolved to Gargomon and Rei jumped on and they and Shini and Pegasusmon waved their goodbyes and flew out of the hole Valkyrimon made in the ceiling. When they reached the surface, it took a while for their eye to adjust and see that ny Digimon could fall in and terrorize the happy miners. But Gargomon had a solution "White Statue!" white marble appeared and slowly but surely formed a little dome with a locked door over the hole. Then the four flew off to find shelter.
Valkyrimon however was very grumpy and was sleeping when he heard Diaboromon flash in next to him. He got up and said "I hope that you learn from DarkLizamon and stay away from those eggs!" Diaboromon just smiled.
Anteiramon had just dropped off another mon and came back to feed off DarkLizamon, but he was chased out of the cave by thousands of Numemon throwing poop. Anteiramon ran out and decided they were not worth his time.