Chapter 5: The Queen of The Nile and The Star of Hope

It was a glorious, radiant morning. The sun was streaking its fancy purples, fluffy pinks, dark oranges, bloodstained red, and creamy yellows across the sky. Nicole was outside her house, rubbing her purring Gatomon, with a troubled look in her dark eyes.
"What's the matter?" Gatomon asked, licking her fur.
"It's just that I don't know if I can do it… I don't think I'm strong enough to handle this… And you know I'm the only one with Ardash who haven't been able to gat you a DigiMental…" Nicole said.
"You are strong enough!! You can do anything!! And I don't care if I do Digivolve as long as I have you!!" Gatomon said, and rubbed her body against Nicole, trying to comfort her, and as the DT rang, she continued:
"Mail from Uki, we have to join the gang in Uki's house, Matt has gone to a friends, let's go!!"
"Thanks for what you said about me!! That really made my day better!!" Nicole said
"Anytime!!" Gatomon said, and they took off.
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"Hey, Patamon… You ever thought that me and Nicole are the only ones who haven't found their DigiMentals…" Ardash asked his Digimon, as Matt walked out of their door and left to Tai's house.
"Yeah, so?" Patamon said
"Don't you think that its because of me that you haven't had the chance to Digivolve…" Ardash said gloomily.
"No!! I think you are the best partner a Digimon could have, and I wouldn't trade you for anything!!" Patamon reassured him
"Thanks!!" Ardash said with enthusiasm, and they left for Uki's house, Patamon perched on Ardash's head.
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"Drat! Those pesky kids are in my territory again!!" Daphne shouted, as she paced around her private quarters in her secret base in the Digiworld.
"I'll show them!!" Daphne said, and punched a code in her computer but nothing happened, so Wormmon wrote another thing which made the computer beep, and turn on.
"I… did… not... ask… for your help!!" Daphne shouted, and lashed at Wormmon with her new, leather whip.
"I'm sorry…" Wormmon whispered, tears rolling down her cheeks…
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"Door to the Digiworld, open!!" Ardash shouted, and Uki's computer sucked everyone into the Digital World.
The kids and their Digimon had appeared in a sandy dessert, with huge pyramids and sphinxes everywhere, and a river cutting through it. The beautiful, tall palms swayed as the wind pushed them softly. It was all so peaceful, that the kids thought they were in a far away, enchanted land. A dreamy look came into their eyes…
"Heelllooo!! Digiworld to kids!!" Patamon shouted, and waved his tiny paw in front of Ardash, and the kids suddenly focused.
"Weird…" Nicolas said
"What a beautiful place!! It looks like Ancient Egypt, all we need is a queen like Cleopatra or Nefertiti!!" Nicole exclaimed, her eyes shining.
Suddenly, Veemon saw a red flash in the entrance of the biggest pyramid. The next second, it vanished.
"Hey, I think I saw something coming out of that pyramid!!" Veemon shouted, and they all went there to investigate.
There was a maze of tunnels so the kids divided themselves. Ardash/Patamon, Nicole/Gatomon, and Megan/Hawkmon all went in one direction, while Nicolas/Veemon, and Uki/Armadillomon went the other. There were chambers filled with sarcophaguses, and snake pits filled with poisonous, yellow-eyed snakes.
At last, Ardash and his group reached the place. It was a solid gold chamber filled with radiant gold, delicate and exquisite jewellery. The kids gaped in awe, as the shining gold blinded them. But suddenly they snapped into their senses, as a control spire came into view.
"Ready Hawkmon?" Megan said
"Ready!" Hawkmon affirmed.
"Digivolve!!" Megan shouted and as the red light covered her, Hawkmon Digivolved to Halsemon.
"Go!!" Megan shouted, and just as Halsemon was going to attack the tower, an orange beam brought her down.
"What happened?!" Nicole exclaimed.
Suddenly, from behind the tower came six centaur like Digimon with an orange and purple spotted body. They also had something that looked like a deteriorated, metal right, hand. On the left hand, they had a big metallic claw with a chain coming out of it. They had shoulder pads, and a grey, roman, helmet, covering their faces. They also had an orange tail, which swayed like e real flame, and dark, shiny hooves. Then, they surrounded the small group.
"What are those?" Ardash cried
"Their Centarumon!!" Gatomon shouted
"We're trapped…" Patamon moaned
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Meanwhile, the other group was busy facing their problems. A group of five Centarumon were chasing them. Veemon and Armadillomon had Digivolved, but it seemed impossible to beat them.
"Gold Rush!!" Digmon shouted, and the six drills flew at the Centarumon, but they quickly evaded the drills with a quick leap.
"Solar Ray!!" The Centarumon shouted, and an orange beam came out of their right hand, throwing the two Digimon back and crashing them against a wall. As the dust of the broken wall settled, a secret chamber appeared, and there was pink and green flash coming from under the lid of the sarcophagus.
Suddenly, the wall on the other side of the chamber burst open, and out of it came the rest of the kids with their Digimon, and six Centarumon close behind.
"There's a DigiMental here!!" Uki shouted and pointed to the sarcophagus.
The kids ran out of the chamber because the Centarumon were shooting at them, but Nicole and Ardash stood where they were, a their faces set on the sarcophagus.
"I'm not leaving without it!! Patamon/Gatomon, this is for you!!" Nicole and Ardash chorused, and they jumped at the sarcophagus, ripped of the lid, and took the two DigiMentals out.
The one that Nicole took out was a metallic one that looked like a pair of small wings wrapped over two feet, and at the top was a small yellow patch that looked like hair and a small Egyptian like snake on it.
The one Ardash got was golden, and had two mini wings exactly like Patamon's, a patch of pale yellow hair, and a pale, yellow insignia shaped like a sun like Nicolas's, and a crown shaped insignia on it.
"Ardash got the DigiMental of Hope, and Nicole the one of Light!!" Gatomon said
Just as the Centarumon were going to shoot the two kids, they cried:
"Digivolve!!"
Then, Patamon was surrounded in a green light, Gatomon in a pink one, and they shouted:
"Patamon/Gatomon, Armor Digivolve to: Pegasusmon/Nefertimon!!"
When the green light had vanished, Patamon had turned into a big light brown, horse like Digimon, with a white belly, pale golden wings, a golden armour on his chest with the insignia on it, a weird helmet covering his face, golden boots from his knees down and tiny golden wings at the top of them, a pale yellow tail which split into three ways at the end, and a bristle like, golden mane.
When the pink light faded, Gatomon had turned into a Digimon that looked like a white horse with a pair of white, heavenly wings, Gatomon's tail only longer, her back legs ended in big, fuchsia nails. She also had shoulder pads, an armour plate covering her chest, a golden collar, silver boots from her knees down on her front legs encrusted with a red ruby and strange insignias all over, and ending in two, Gatomon's paw-like gloves only bigger, and a metallic face that looked like an Egyptian mask with a gold border on her chin, a golden snake sticking out of her forehead, and the pale hair of the DigiMental on her head, and two, cat-like ears.
"My Egyptian Queen…" Nicole whispered
"My Star of Hope…" Ardash whispered
The Centarumon were now aiming carefully, and just as they were going to blast Ardash and Nicole, Pegasusmon and Nefertimon lifted their partners onto their backs.
Ardash and Nicole loved the sensation of flying. The exhilaration as the wind tossed their hair back, and the feeling of leaving the world below, where everything was wrong and controlled by evil and there weren't many happy endings.
*But that's reality…* Ardash thought
*There's no escaping evil…* Nicole thought
*I know I can't leave reality forever… but I know that…* Ardash thought
*I know that I have to go back…but I know that…* Nicole thought
"I have to try and make this world better, not for me, but for everyone!!" They both shouted.
"Let's go back!!" Nicole told Nefertimon.
"Whatever she wants, the Digi-Queen won't get it without a fight!!" Ardash told Pegasusmon, and they headed back towards the control spire in the pyramid. The Centarumon started shooting again, but Nefertimon and Pegasusmon easily evaded them and made their way to the control spire.
"Star Shower!!" Pegasusmon shouted
"Rosetta Stone!!" Nefertimon shouted
Pegasusmon's hair turned needle-pointed, and a bunch shot at the control tower while Nefertitimon's collar turned pink, and a pink beam came out of her back from which a Rosetta like stone came out and flew at the evil tower.
Both attacks were more than enough to make the tower collapse, and so it did. When it fell, the Centarumon blinked in surprise, and ran away.
When the kids reunited with the group, they told them what had happened.
"Cool!!" Uki said
"We have to go back, its getting late!!" Nicolas shouted, and they returned to their world, tired, but happy.
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"I can't believe those kids risked their necks for their Digimon…" Daphne said, from her house, she had returned from her hide-out in the Digiworld.
"What am I saying, they were stupid, that's it!!" Daphne said
*They risked their lives because they loved their Digimon, and their Digimon loved them. Just like I love you…* Wormmon thought