Shinjuku Heights Hotel

West Shinjuku, Tokyo


The events of the past hours hardly seem real to Shinji, its like some sort of dream that he awoke from expecting to be real. But, this is real, what he is holding in his hand is real. Kouji is real. Shinji's train of thought is broken as Yamaki's cell phone rings behind him.

"What is it?" asks Yamaki, a grim look on his face.

"Sir, I've been trying to contact you ever since you left! We've got a really powerful wild one trying to bio-emerge all over the city!" says Reily, nearly yelling over the phone.

"What?! Why haven't you deleted it with Yuggoth?" he yells.

"It destroyed Yuggoth every time we attempted to delete it!" replies Reily. Yamaki grits his teeth in anger.

"I'm on way back, call me if something happens," orders Yamaki, hanging up on her.

"What's wrong?" asks Shinji. Yamaki tries to hide his anger..and his worry.

"There's something wrong, I need to get back to work," he replies, Shinji immediately understands. His father has worked for the government ever since he was born, whenever he said 'something is wrong, I have to go', it was usually serious.

"Shinji, I want you to stay here. If anything happens, I'll call and tell you what to do," says Yamaki, putting on his sunglasses and rushing towards the door, "Do you understand?"

"Yes, Yamaki-san," he replies as Yamaki quickly leaves. A few seconds later, the D-Arc begins to go crazy, its small screen flashing and an arrow pointing southeast appears on it.

Kouji... thinks Shinji. Forgetting what Yamaki had just told him, Shinji quickly changes from his sweat pants to jeans and grabs his shoes. Running towards the door, he stops and grabs his card case from the bag before leaving, heading in the direction the arrow is pointing.

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Yamaki takes off his sunglasses and runs his hand through his blonde hair as the elevator slowly heads back down to the first floor. He hadn't expected an emergency like this, and he especially didn't want Shinji running out into the middle of it. Unlike those kids, he'd seen real combat; he'd seen people die. This isn't much different in his eyes, the enemy has just changed from humans to digimon, and he is going to stop them before they become a threat to the human race. It is up to him..

His cell phone rings again, Yamaki takes it out of his coat and answers.

"It's bio-emerging again!" yells Reily, Yamaki can hear the desperation in her voice.

"Where is it?" asks Yamaki, cursing himself for ever leaving the building.

"The Shinjuku Heights Hotel...its right on top of you!" yells Reily, just as the elevator comes to a grinding halt, throwing Yamaki off of his feet. As he sits up, he realizes that the temperature just took a nosedive; he can see his breath. He stands up...then sees a face coming out of the wall! Yamaki jumps back to the opposite end, terrified at the sight. Its white like a ghost, its features like a demon. Its eyes as red as blood.

"What the hell?!" says Yamaki, slowly moving his hand toward his coat...toward his handgun. The monster passes through the wall, some of it still unseen under the floor, and floats up to his face.

"I am the fallen angel. I shall never die. My time has come and I will be the perfect warrior once again. Darkness shall fall over all and the Earth will plummet into the everlasting ice age," says the white demon. Yamaki can feel the grip of his gun.

"DIE!" screams Yamaki, quickly pointing his gun and firing three shots into the monster. But nothing happens; the bullets pass through and hit the wall behind it. The monster sneers at him, then grabs his throat with its left hand and lifts him off the ground.

"I am IceDevimon, the fallen angel of ice and death, I shall NEVER DIE!" screams the monster, manifesting a blade of ice in its right hand and stabbing it into Yamaki's abdomen.

"AAHH!!" screams Yamaki, falling to the ground, clutching his stomach. Weakly, Yamaki opens his eyes and sees...nothing. IceDevimon is gone, as if he was never there. He looks at himself and sees that the ice blade is gone; the wound has vanished. His shirt isn't even torn.

Was it a hallucination? What just happened? thinks Yamaki, standing up, still clutching his stomach. Its then he realizes the elevator has started moving again, and the temperature is normal also. Yamaki puts his gun back in its holster in his jacket as the elevator doors open.

I must stop IceDevimon before it successfully bio-emerges...or else someone might die! he thinks, running through the hotel lobby and onto the street.

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West Shinjuku Park, Tokyo

Kouji rubs his chest for probably the hundredth time in the last few minutes since his encounter with IceDevimon. When it attacked him, thrusting its hand through him.

I should be dead, what happened? he thinks, trying to forget the pain. The pain…that was definitely real, no doubt about it. He'd felt that monster's hand go through him; he'd felt the kick. But, it's as if the encounter had never happened. It couldn't have been an hallucination, Renamon had seen IceDevimon too, and he does have the bruise from where he hit the lightpole.

"Kouji," says Renamon, her hands in the pockets of the trenchcoat she is wearing.

"Hm?" he replies, still deep in thought, not realizing that she'd stopped walking behind him.

"I have to tell you something," she says, looking up at the crescent moon. Kouji stops and looks at her.

"What is it?" asks Kouji. Renamon looks back at him, her face both grim and worried at the same time.

"It's about IceDevimon. Not too long ago, he abducted my Tamer and tried to make her his Tamer. But she refused, and he was killed by Guilmon," explains Renamon.

"Guilmon?" he asks.

"The partner of Takato Matsuda. Guilmon killed IceDevimon and absorbed his data," she replies.

"Wait…then how did this just happen?! Unless..." says Kouji, suddenly realizing what Renamon is trying to say, "...his data has corrupted Guilmon." Renamon nods her head, then takes off the trenchcoat.

"I'm not cold anymore, thanks," she says, handing it to Kouji. Kouji gives her a confused look as she walks past him.

"Where are you going?" asks Kouji.

"I'm going to Guilmon. If IceDevimon has corrupted his data, I will have to destroy him," replies Renamon.

"What? That's too dangerous, I'm coming with you!" says Kouji. Renamon stops and looks back at him.

"No! That is exactly why I don't want you to get involved! You know what he could do to you, I'm not going to take that chance that he'll do it again…and that you'll really get hurt!" replies Renamon, holding back tears, as she turns and runs off into the dark.

"I don't care what you say, I'm coming with you!" yells Kouji, quickly putting on his trenchcoat and running after her.

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Impmon quietly walks into the room, his eyes fixed on Guilmon. He isn't the smartest digimon in the world, but he knows that those wings weren't there last time he saw him!

"What is this?" he whispers, slowly reaching toward one of the tattered, white wings. Before he even touches it, though, Guilmon's eyes snap open.

"AAHH!" screams Impmon, falling backwards in surprise as the fireball he'd been using to light the room goes out. Guilmon stands up and stretches his new wings, then looks at Impmon...with glowing red eyes.

"Hey, man, what happened to you? You don't look so good," says Impmon, trying not to freak out. Guilmon just smiles at him.

"Oh, so you're giving me the silent treatment, eh? Well, you seem very busy, so I'd better go now..." says Impmon getting back on his feet. He never gets to finish his sentence, as Guilmon suddenly leaps at him and jabs at Impmon's throat, catching it between two of his claws and lifts the shorter digimon into the air.

"Ah yes, you will do nicely," says Guilmon, in a deep chilling voice much unlike his own. Impmon struggles to free himself, squirming in his grip.

"Hey! What do you think you're doing?! Put me down!" yells Impmon, futilely trying to release Guilmon's grip on his throat. Guilmon just grins some more, the look on his face like that of a psychotic, and gently squeezes.

"Silence, fool. You will be my servant now, or else you will die," says Guilmon, watching as the purple digimon gasps for breath. In one swift move, Guilmon spins around and tosses Impmon at the far wall of his den, watching as he slides off and hits the floor.

"Kneel before me, or else you will feel pain much worse than that," hisses Guilmon, still speaking in that chillingly deep voice. Impmon has no alternative, he kneels before Guilmon and bows his head.

"I am yours to command," he mutters, disgusted with himself. The fiend that had once been Guilmon smirks; the time has come for his revenge.

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West Shinjuku, Tokyo

Takato looks up at the ceiling from his bed. He'd been that way for a while now, ever since he'd come home.

I can't believe I left Guilmon. What was I thinking? I should be there now. What will he think if he wakes up and I'm not there? I must be the worst tamer ever, he thinks. Suddenly, his D-Arc starts beeping and flashing wildly.

"Huh? A digimon! Just great, now what am I supposed to do, Guilmon is sick! Henry and Rika will be there, I guess I can try to help," says Takato, putting on his shoes and running out of his bedroom door.

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Henry puts down the book he'd been reading and stares at Terriermon as he plays Grand Theft Auto 2 on his computer.

"Hey, you're not too bad at that," he says, watching as Terriermon blasts a SWAT team van with a bazooka.

"HAHAHAHA!! You'll never take me alive!" yells Terriermon, laughing like a lunatic as he blasts a few more cops. Suddenly, Henry's D-Arc begins flashing wildly.

"Terriermon, we've got to go," says Henry, throwing the book to the side and grabbing his shoes.

"Right," he replies, jumping on Henry's head as he runs out the door.

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Rika finally lies down in her bed, exhausted. After her encounter with IceDevimon's ghost, she'd gone in her room and started reorganizing her cards. It was just a way to keep herself busy and her mind off it, she is too afraid to leave her room.

Listen to me, she thinks, Me, Rika Nonaka, afraid? Please… Suddenly, her D-Arc starts to go crazy on the table next to her. Rika doesn't even think about it. She gets up, gets dressed, grabs her stuff and leaves. It is time to fight.

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Yamaki speeds past the park as he head for his office, he must find a way to stop IceDevimon. His cell phone rings again.

"Reily, update," he says, making a sharp left turn.

"Sir, it's successfully bio-emerged!" yells Reily.

"Crap! Where is it?" asks Yamaki.

"West Shinjuku Park," she replies. Yamaki does a complete 180, dodges another car and heads back the way he came. He is going to stop that monster himself.

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And that is chapter four! I hope you like this chapter, I almost didn't get to posting it. I'll start working on chapter five as soon as I can, until then, R&R!