YES! YES! I'M FINALLY FINISHED! A little warning, there are some scenes with blood, but not exactly gruesome. (I don't think anyway..) I'm also thinking of putting this under a General title, instead of Action/Adventure, because some more romantic elements are going to come in and it sounds like this would fit more better under General, so you might want to watch for that just to warn ya again. Oh, yeah, to a question in one of my reviews: Gomamon is coming! Just be a little patient. Arigato! Well, now, it's late, and I need my sleep. (About 5:13 a.m.) So, read the fic and hope you enjoy!
Disclaimer: Do not own Digimon.
Notes: 'thoughts'
"talking"
Familiar:
Champions
by Hitora
"Huh?" Agumon shot up suddenly.
"What is it Agumon?" Kari asked worried.
"I don't know Kari... but, I feel really strange somehow..." After uttering these words, uneven from the unknowing, his form was swallowed up in an orange light.
"Agumon? Agumon!" Kari cried out frightened as she saw him suddenly disappear before her.
A shot of orange light ran up through the dark waters of the lake and past the surface of lake before them. Yumemon, Matt, and Tai all quickly turned to see the shining light that seem to cover the entire surrounding forests in an orange glow.
"What?! What now?!" Yumemon cried out.
"AGUMON DIGIVOLVE TO.....GREYMON!!"
The light transformed into a gigantic dinosaur that leapt to the shore behind it with a mighty rumble. It was huge and resembed a T-rex. The large digimon body's was orange with blue stripes along the sides. Its menacing teeth and claws were white and its round eyes were a red color. It wore a brown, helmet that covered half its head. The helmet had two spikes coming from the sides and a long horn at the end of its snout.
"What is that?!" Matt wondered in shock at the sudden appearence of the giant creature.
"I can't believe this! That little dino digivolved into the Champion stage!" Yumemon yelled out frustrated and surprised. "He's become Greymon.." Her words like a hissing snake.
A fiery glow rose from his mouth and bits of flames escaped between his teeth. It opened its huge mouth to reveal sparks and flames forming within. The flames began to become more tame and circled to form together in an ominous round ball. "NOVA BLAST!" It shot out the giant fireball towards the shocked Yumemon.
"Hmph," With her free hand, she easily swiped away the attack. "DO YOU THINK YOU CAN DEFEAT ME?! ONE WRONG MOVE AND YOUR POWER TO DIGIVOLVE IS BUT A MEMORY!" she threatened, gripping harder around Tai's neck. Greymon came to realize his Digidestined partner could become seriously hurt and didn't even dare to move.
'Oh no, Tai.' Matt thought worried. 'She's determined in destroying us. She probably will just kill him anyway and Greymon too.' Matt suspected worried. 'What can I do? My friend is about to get killed and there's nothing I can do!' Matt thought hopelessly. 'No! There has to be something, I won't give up on my friends! I will never give up on my friends!' Suddenly, the same kind of light that came from Tai's Digivice bursted from his own, only it was light blue.
Gabumon's senses suddenly shot up. "Matt.."
"What do you think happened to Agumon? Gabumon, what is it?" Kari asked worried to the blank gazed digimon beside her. But no sooner did she ask, did Gabumon became a form of blue light and vanished as well. "Gabumon? What's going on?" Kari whispered to herself, fearing the worse for her brother, his best friends and now their vanishing digimon.
"Huh?" A light blue came above the waters and glew its brilliance just as bright as the one before. "Gabumon?" Matt recognized.
Yumemon noticed it as well and turned around to face it. "No! Not another one!"
"GABUMON DIGIVOLVE TO...GARURUMON!!"
"Garurumon?" Matt watched as a large white-blue wolf landed to the shore opposite of Greymon. It looked like a giant grey-blue wolf with dark blue stripes over its body. It had a long, slim tail with a tuft at the end and a sort of mane coming from the sides of its head.
"HOWLING BLASTER!" He called out and a blaze of blue flame fired out from Garurumon's mouth. Yumemon quickly avoided the attack by gliding away from its path. It passed by her and into the bubble that stood behind her. Matt drew back from the bubble's outer shell as the attack collided into a burst of blue light before him. A crack shot through his ears and caught his attention. He concentrated his eyes on the bubble's round shell and saw it begin to break from Garurumon's blast, the white cracks centered on the where the blue flame had struck kept growing and growing throughout the entire structure until it finally shattered away. Matt fell away with the remains of the bubble diving straight towards the lake's waters. Garurumon leapt into the air and caught him onto his back, landing on the shore where Greymon stood.
"Urgh, huh?" Matt rose to his arms off the large blue wolf's back and realized, after the shock had faded away, that Garurumon had freed and saved him. "Whew, thanks Garurumon."
"Your welcome Matt, but I think we have a bigger problem to concentrate on now." Garurumon replied looking above at Yumemon, hovering smugly, still holding Tai captive in her locked grip. The nails imbedded in his shoulder still remained, making rivers of blood that stained the back of Tai's shirt grow more and more with each passing moment.
"Tai..!" Matt exclaimed shocked at the sight. His eyes twitched in anger and frustration as he began to feel the immense pressure and fear for his friend begin to build. 'Urgh, we have to get him out of there! But I can't let Garurumon or Greymon attack knowing I might hit Tai too..'
"Matt!!" Tai called out to him, mustering all his strength to do so. Matt quickly looked up to his friend's call. "...What are you doing?! Attack!" Tai said out to him. Matt drew back, shocked at his words.
"I can't do that! You might get in the blast too!" he yelled back.
"For-Forget about me! Attack!" Tai commanded to him.
"No! I won't do that! I won't hurt you!" Matt refused fiercely.
"MATT! You have to do this for everyone! Forget about me! GAH!" Yumemon's fingers wrapped tighter around his neck, silencing him to only a cry and gasps.
"That's enough out of you.." she hissed.
"Urghhh..." he groaned, feeling the pain begin to settle in throughout his body. His head was becoming light from the choking holds, but he couldn't faint away, not from the stinging jabs of pain that kept him latched to harsh reality.
"You are the most foolish of them all.. You're willing to risk your own life in the hopes that you might defeat me and save the others, This is a useless effort, for you all are going to be destroyed."
"NO! NEVER! I'm not afraid of you or your empty threats! I'm not afraid of losing my life if that means I can save the others!" he yelled out forcefully at her. Her face became more stern and impatient with him and the nails in his shoulder extended longer through his shoulder. Matt watched, frocing himself not to turn away. Not from the bravery Tai displayed before Yumemon and the determination he had to go on. He couldn't turn away. He couldn't help but feel uplifted by his spirit and understand why now he was called the Digidestined of Courage. Within moments of these thoughts, did a glowing orange outline of light began to eminate around Tai's form before his eyes.
"What?" Matt concentrated harder, trying to figure out just what he was seeing. 'What's that light?'
"Urgh, Matt you have to do this! Attack her! Greymon! Garurumon!" Tai called out, signaling them to launch their attacks.
"STOP!" Matt commanded strongly, quickly cutting off their attempts to build up their attacks. "Tai is our friend. I won't just let anyone hurt him like that. I won't be responsible for purposely hurting my friends!"
'Matt... That hothead, does he have to be such a good friend?' Tai thought, annoyed at Matt's refusal to follow his demands, yet he also felt admiration for him in upholding the strength of their friendship. A light blue glow seem to grow from the outline of Matt's form as he looked down on his best friend. Tai's eyes grew wide surprised at the sight, he squinted his eyes on him just to make sure he wasn't hallucinating from the pain. 'What the heck is that?'
Suddenly, that entire lake below Yumemon and Tai began to glow. Yumemon watched with narrowed eyes as the waters far beneath her feet fade away to a white light. Rays of that white light bursted out of the surface of the lake, bringing up shots of water as well. "What's this..?" she hissed. The light glew brighter and brighter below her and finally it erupted into a enormous beam of energy that surrounded and blinded her. She shrieked, totally startled from the light that whipped around her body. She used her free arm to try shield her eyes away from it. Tai realized that there was a loss of grip on his neck. He quickly gathered all his strength, everything he had left in his entire being, to grasp onto Yumemon's arm that held him, he didn't have much time. With a swift pull, he forced out the hand and claws from his body with a spray of blood exploding out, staining Yumemon's arm. A burst of pain gathered into his wound, making all the other pain from before seem to fade away. He fell away motionless with a sastisfied smile crossing his face.
"Garurumon!" Matt quickly pointed to him, making the grey-blue wolf take notice of the his falling form floating away from the wide-eyed Yumemon. Garurumon swiftly ran to the edge of the shore and quickly leapt into flight. He glided over the lake once more, catching the near lifelessTai onto his back. He easily landed on the opposite shore. "Tai!" Matt turned to face his friend, who's blood began to stain the fur red on Garurumon's back. "Tai! Are you all right?!!" he called out worried as he came beside him.
He cringed at the pain in his shoulder and opened his eyes to him with that same cocky smile. Still weak and lightheaded he asked,"So, you gonna attack now?"
Matt responded with a smile of relief and joy to see him still acting like his old self. But the tranquil moment soon faded, as Matt still remembered the situation at hand. He turned around to face Yumemon in the middle of the lake, still caught up in the lake's light. "Greymon! Garurumon!" he called out to them, telling them to go on the offensive.
"NOVA BLAST!"
"HOWLING BLASTER!"
The two attacks flew out from the Digimon's mouths heading directly at Yumemon. Unfortunately, she had managed to break free of the light's hold on her and flew above the attacks, causing them to collide into eachother in a giant explosian. Greymon and Garurumon continued to attack on, firing one Nova Blast or Howling Blaster after another. She either swiped away the attacks or dodged around them. It seemed that she was moving around forcefully, trying to avoid getting hit.
Matt lifted Tai's right arm across his shoulders and climbed off Garurumon's back, aiding him safely to stand upon the ground. "MATT! TAI!" he heard and turned towards the voices. He saw a very concerned Kari run along the shore of the lake to him with her Patamon flying beside her, followed by Gennai, Takeru, and Gatomon.
"Kari?" he said in disbelief as she rushed to stand before him. "How'd you get here?"
"Gennai had a special way through the lake." Takeru replied. "He also modified the forcefield around his house to expand throughout the entire lake to knock the Digimon around the house unconscious."
'So that was the light from the lake...' Matt realized.
"Are you all right Matt?!" Kari asked, breaking his thoughts. "I-er, we were all worried about you!"
"Um, I'm fine, but Tai needs some serious help." Matt replied, looking over at Tai's shoulder to let the others see what he was referring to. Kari let out a gasp of shock.
"Tai! What happened to you?!" she cried out running beside him to examine his shoulder more closely.
"Yumemon's what happened to me.." he mumbled, still aching from his wound. Matt settled him down to allow him to rest on the ground.
"Yumemon? What's that?" Kari asked with a confused look.
"That's what Greymon and Garurumon are fighting." Matt said.
"Greymon and Garurumon?" Kari replied with a more confused look. She followed their gazes to the battle that waged beside them. "You mean that orange dinosaur and huge wolf?" she asked, watching as the two mighty digimon launched attack after attack.
"Yeah, Agumon digivolved into Greymon and Gabumon into Garurumon." Matt explained. "And that figure they're fighting calls herself Yumemon." he said pointing to snow-white figure that flew around dodging and hitting away Greymon and Garurumon's attacks. "We don't know exactly what she is. All we do know is that she's been the one who's been attacking us. I don't know why, but she wants to destroying us, the Digidestined." Matt explained in a lowered, disturbed voice. Kari listened to every word with growing fear, while Gennai and Takeru stood by silently, sinking in all the new information.
"YOU REALLY THINK YOU CAN DEFEAT ME SO EASILY?!" she yelled out in a chiling, unyielding voice.
"Garurumon! Greymon!" Tai called out encouraging them. The digimon nodded and fired their specialized attacks at her. The flames of blue and orange flew across the bright clear sky directly at her.
"Hmph," With a couple of quick swipes with one hand, she threw the attacks away. Each attack lost its shape and faded away with the flow of her hand. A mocking smile curved across her face, "Foolish Digidestined! Do you really expect to harm me?!"
"Hm?" A twinge in her mind caught her attention and she turned towards the lakes' waters. "Well, well, I can see that you had defeated my forces... Aren't you the clever bunch?" she remarked crossly. Yumemon lifted a pale-white hand to the sky and the bodies of the enemy digimon within the depths became consumed with a white light and disappeared from the dark blue waters. Her look was more serious now, it didn't hold a smile of confidence or evil playfulness as before. Now, it was stern and dark with contempt. "Lost little children, it seems that I will allow you win this round, but rest assured, I will be the one to destroy you...." she said in a voice filled with hatred and darkness. Yumemon floated higher into the air and flew off to her retreat, suddenly disappearing from sight in a few moments.
A sense of relief settled across the Digidestined, digimon, and Gennai as Yumemon's form vanished before their eyes. Garurumon's and Greymon's forms became outlines of yellow light and shrank to become Gabumon and Agumon again. They happily ran to their respected partners, filled with sastisfaction that they had managed to drive Yumemon away.
"You did a good job Gabumon," Matt replied proudly to his digimon standing before him.
"Thank you Matt!"
"Way to go Agumon! You showed her didn't ya pal!?" Tai said, energetically congratulating the small orange dino with rubs on his head (with his good arm, of course).
"Hmph, hm, I did didn't I Tai!" he replied with laughs.
Kari placed a hand to her chest and sighed with relief. "I'm just glad everyone's still safe." she said.
"Yeah, it was a close one wasn't it?" Tai replied, slowly rising from the ground. Gripping his shoulder and finching from the shots of pain.
"Oh Tai! We better go wrap those up or they might get infected," Kari suggested, quickly coming to her brother's side and helping to walk towards the lake.
"You worry too much Kari," he said, in a very tired tone.
"Well, someone has to watch out for you don't they?" she said back with a playful smile.
"Hmph, and just my luck it had to be you.." Tai remarked sarcastically.
"Oh, be quiet." Kari replied back at him. "Aren't you suppose to be weak when you're bleeding from the shoulder?"
"What? Me? Weak?" Tai remarked.
"Show-off,"
"Hmph," Matt chuckled as he followed behind them back to the lake where the special passage had begun to appear. 'They really are brother and sister,' he thought amused as he watched the two talking back and forth as they descended the steps to the remains of Gennai's house.
Gennai walked slowly behind, but stopped in his tracks to realize that there was one that was not part of the group. He turned around and noticed Takeru and Gatomon standing silently, staring at the sky where Yumemon once was. Gennai watched them with a look that was absent of his usual smile and he stood strangely still and silent. Takeru blinked his eyes, losing the trance he was in as he noticed the mysterious old man standing by observing him. He came to face the same expression that Gennai had given him when they had first met, and once again felt the uneasiness that came from the stare. But, Gennai's expression soon changed to that of his usual smile and curled eyes. "You coming Takeru?" he called out to him.
"Um, yes. Sorry." Takeru replied shakily, still recovering from the memory of Gennai's disturbing look. He ran over to catch up with the others, looking to the ground to avoid the old man's eyes. Gatomon quickly followed, giving Gennai a suspicious glare as she passed. 'Why does he look at me like that?'
"Urghhhhh..." Yumemon moaned as she sank into her large twisted stone throne that stood under a dim circle of light in the dark, undefinable room.
"What is the matter master?" another voice asked.
"I clearly underestimated the Digidestined. I'm afraid they've developed further in their powers, and possibly revived two of their crests as well." she sighed in dismay.
"Well then, allow me to assist you master." a smooth voice called out through the darkness. A tall figure stepped into the dim light surrounding her throne. They were dressed in an outfit that resembled a clown. It consisted of a red coat that puffed out around their shoulders and frilled around his waist. It had white ruffles beyond it's sleeves and around his collar. They also wore puffy light green pants and yellow boots that were pointed at the toe. A mask that was half black and half white stood over most of their face, showing only his evil red eyes and pale chin and black lips. Their orange hair stood at an angle from their head behind that mask. Two blue ribbons streamed from his back, on which stood an X shaped arrangment of four swords. "You know that I have been anxious to use my powerful 'weapon' since their arrival in the Digiworld."
"Ah, yes. I remember Piedmon." Yumemon replied searching her memory. "Hmmm.." an evil smile formed across her face, delighted at the unknown idea brewing her mind that the clown digimon sparked. "Hmph, hm, very well Piedmon!" she consented with amusement flowing in her voice.
"I am most grateful for this honor master. I'll try not to disappoint you." he assured bowing to her before disappearing into the darkness.
"Hmph, hm. It's about time to reveal another actor into this little drama."
Disclaimer: Do not own Digimon.
Notes: 'thoughts'
"talking"
Familiar:
Champions
by Hitora
"Huh?" Agumon shot up suddenly.
"What is it Agumon?" Kari asked worried.
"I don't know Kari... but, I feel really strange somehow..." After uttering these words, uneven from the unknowing, his form was swallowed up in an orange light.
"Agumon? Agumon!" Kari cried out frightened as she saw him suddenly disappear before her.
A shot of orange light ran up through the dark waters of the lake and past the surface of lake before them. Yumemon, Matt, and Tai all quickly turned to see the shining light that seem to cover the entire surrounding forests in an orange glow.
"What?! What now?!" Yumemon cried out.
"AGUMON DIGIVOLVE TO.....GREYMON!!"
The light transformed into a gigantic dinosaur that leapt to the shore behind it with a mighty rumble. It was huge and resembed a T-rex. The large digimon body's was orange with blue stripes along the sides. Its menacing teeth and claws were white and its round eyes were a red color. It wore a brown, helmet that covered half its head. The helmet had two spikes coming from the sides and a long horn at the end of its snout.
"What is that?!" Matt wondered in shock at the sudden appearence of the giant creature.
"I can't believe this! That little dino digivolved into the Champion stage!" Yumemon yelled out frustrated and surprised. "He's become Greymon.." Her words like a hissing snake.
A fiery glow rose from his mouth and bits of flames escaped between his teeth. It opened its huge mouth to reveal sparks and flames forming within. The flames began to become more tame and circled to form together in an ominous round ball. "NOVA BLAST!" It shot out the giant fireball towards the shocked Yumemon.
"Hmph," With her free hand, she easily swiped away the attack. "DO YOU THINK YOU CAN DEFEAT ME?! ONE WRONG MOVE AND YOUR POWER TO DIGIVOLVE IS BUT A MEMORY!" she threatened, gripping harder around Tai's neck. Greymon came to realize his Digidestined partner could become seriously hurt and didn't even dare to move.
'Oh no, Tai.' Matt thought worried. 'She's determined in destroying us. She probably will just kill him anyway and Greymon too.' Matt suspected worried. 'What can I do? My friend is about to get killed and there's nothing I can do!' Matt thought hopelessly. 'No! There has to be something, I won't give up on my friends! I will never give up on my friends!' Suddenly, the same kind of light that came from Tai's Digivice bursted from his own, only it was light blue.
Gabumon's senses suddenly shot up. "Matt.."
"What do you think happened to Agumon? Gabumon, what is it?" Kari asked worried to the blank gazed digimon beside her. But no sooner did she ask, did Gabumon became a form of blue light and vanished as well. "Gabumon? What's going on?" Kari whispered to herself, fearing the worse for her brother, his best friends and now their vanishing digimon.
"Huh?" A light blue came above the waters and glew its brilliance just as bright as the one before. "Gabumon?" Matt recognized.
Yumemon noticed it as well and turned around to face it. "No! Not another one!"
"GABUMON DIGIVOLVE TO...GARURUMON!!"
"Garurumon?" Matt watched as a large white-blue wolf landed to the shore opposite of Greymon. It looked like a giant grey-blue wolf with dark blue stripes over its body. It had a long, slim tail with a tuft at the end and a sort of mane coming from the sides of its head.
"HOWLING BLASTER!" He called out and a blaze of blue flame fired out from Garurumon's mouth. Yumemon quickly avoided the attack by gliding away from its path. It passed by her and into the bubble that stood behind her. Matt drew back from the bubble's outer shell as the attack collided into a burst of blue light before him. A crack shot through his ears and caught his attention. He concentrated his eyes on the bubble's round shell and saw it begin to break from Garurumon's blast, the white cracks centered on the where the blue flame had struck kept growing and growing throughout the entire structure until it finally shattered away. Matt fell away with the remains of the bubble diving straight towards the lake's waters. Garurumon leapt into the air and caught him onto his back, landing on the shore where Greymon stood.
"Urgh, huh?" Matt rose to his arms off the large blue wolf's back and realized, after the shock had faded away, that Garurumon had freed and saved him. "Whew, thanks Garurumon."
"Your welcome Matt, but I think we have a bigger problem to concentrate on now." Garurumon replied looking above at Yumemon, hovering smugly, still holding Tai captive in her locked grip. The nails imbedded in his shoulder still remained, making rivers of blood that stained the back of Tai's shirt grow more and more with each passing moment.
"Tai..!" Matt exclaimed shocked at the sight. His eyes twitched in anger and frustration as he began to feel the immense pressure and fear for his friend begin to build. 'Urgh, we have to get him out of there! But I can't let Garurumon or Greymon attack knowing I might hit Tai too..'
"Matt!!" Tai called out to him, mustering all his strength to do so. Matt quickly looked up to his friend's call. "...What are you doing?! Attack!" Tai said out to him. Matt drew back, shocked at his words.
"I can't do that! You might get in the blast too!" he yelled back.
"For-Forget about me! Attack!" Tai commanded to him.
"No! I won't do that! I won't hurt you!" Matt refused fiercely.
"MATT! You have to do this for everyone! Forget about me! GAH!" Yumemon's fingers wrapped tighter around his neck, silencing him to only a cry and gasps.
"That's enough out of you.." she hissed.
"Urghhh..." he groaned, feeling the pain begin to settle in throughout his body. His head was becoming light from the choking holds, but he couldn't faint away, not from the stinging jabs of pain that kept him latched to harsh reality.
"You are the most foolish of them all.. You're willing to risk your own life in the hopes that you might defeat me and save the others, This is a useless effort, for you all are going to be destroyed."
"NO! NEVER! I'm not afraid of you or your empty threats! I'm not afraid of losing my life if that means I can save the others!" he yelled out forcefully at her. Her face became more stern and impatient with him and the nails in his shoulder extended longer through his shoulder. Matt watched, frocing himself not to turn away. Not from the bravery Tai displayed before Yumemon and the determination he had to go on. He couldn't turn away. He couldn't help but feel uplifted by his spirit and understand why now he was called the Digidestined of Courage. Within moments of these thoughts, did a glowing orange outline of light began to eminate around Tai's form before his eyes.
"What?" Matt concentrated harder, trying to figure out just what he was seeing. 'What's that light?'
"Urgh, Matt you have to do this! Attack her! Greymon! Garurumon!" Tai called out, signaling them to launch their attacks.
"STOP!" Matt commanded strongly, quickly cutting off their attempts to build up their attacks. "Tai is our friend. I won't just let anyone hurt him like that. I won't be responsible for purposely hurting my friends!"
'Matt... That hothead, does he have to be such a good friend?' Tai thought, annoyed at Matt's refusal to follow his demands, yet he also felt admiration for him in upholding the strength of their friendship. A light blue glow seem to grow from the outline of Matt's form as he looked down on his best friend. Tai's eyes grew wide surprised at the sight, he squinted his eyes on him just to make sure he wasn't hallucinating from the pain. 'What the heck is that?'
Suddenly, that entire lake below Yumemon and Tai began to glow. Yumemon watched with narrowed eyes as the waters far beneath her feet fade away to a white light. Rays of that white light bursted out of the surface of the lake, bringing up shots of water as well. "What's this..?" she hissed. The light glew brighter and brighter below her and finally it erupted into a enormous beam of energy that surrounded and blinded her. She shrieked, totally startled from the light that whipped around her body. She used her free arm to try shield her eyes away from it. Tai realized that there was a loss of grip on his neck. He quickly gathered all his strength, everything he had left in his entire being, to grasp onto Yumemon's arm that held him, he didn't have much time. With a swift pull, he forced out the hand and claws from his body with a spray of blood exploding out, staining Yumemon's arm. A burst of pain gathered into his wound, making all the other pain from before seem to fade away. He fell away motionless with a sastisfied smile crossing his face.
"Garurumon!" Matt quickly pointed to him, making the grey-blue wolf take notice of the his falling form floating away from the wide-eyed Yumemon. Garurumon swiftly ran to the edge of the shore and quickly leapt into flight. He glided over the lake once more, catching the near lifelessTai onto his back. He easily landed on the opposite shore. "Tai!" Matt turned to face his friend, who's blood began to stain the fur red on Garurumon's back. "Tai! Are you all right?!!" he called out worried as he came beside him.
He cringed at the pain in his shoulder and opened his eyes to him with that same cocky smile. Still weak and lightheaded he asked,"So, you gonna attack now?"
Matt responded with a smile of relief and joy to see him still acting like his old self. But the tranquil moment soon faded, as Matt still remembered the situation at hand. He turned around to face Yumemon in the middle of the lake, still caught up in the lake's light. "Greymon! Garurumon!" he called out to them, telling them to go on the offensive.
"NOVA BLAST!"
"HOWLING BLASTER!"
The two attacks flew out from the Digimon's mouths heading directly at Yumemon. Unfortunately, she had managed to break free of the light's hold on her and flew above the attacks, causing them to collide into eachother in a giant explosian. Greymon and Garurumon continued to attack on, firing one Nova Blast or Howling Blaster after another. She either swiped away the attacks or dodged around them. It seemed that she was moving around forcefully, trying to avoid getting hit.
Matt lifted Tai's right arm across his shoulders and climbed off Garurumon's back, aiding him safely to stand upon the ground. "MATT! TAI!" he heard and turned towards the voices. He saw a very concerned Kari run along the shore of the lake to him with her Patamon flying beside her, followed by Gennai, Takeru, and Gatomon.
"Kari?" he said in disbelief as she rushed to stand before him. "How'd you get here?"
"Gennai had a special way through the lake." Takeru replied. "He also modified the forcefield around his house to expand throughout the entire lake to knock the Digimon around the house unconscious."
'So that was the light from the lake...' Matt realized.
"Are you all right Matt?!" Kari asked, breaking his thoughts. "I-er, we were all worried about you!"
"Um, I'm fine, but Tai needs some serious help." Matt replied, looking over at Tai's shoulder to let the others see what he was referring to. Kari let out a gasp of shock.
"Tai! What happened to you?!" she cried out running beside him to examine his shoulder more closely.
"Yumemon's what happened to me.." he mumbled, still aching from his wound. Matt settled him down to allow him to rest on the ground.
"Yumemon? What's that?" Kari asked with a confused look.
"That's what Greymon and Garurumon are fighting." Matt said.
"Greymon and Garurumon?" Kari replied with a more confused look. She followed their gazes to the battle that waged beside them. "You mean that orange dinosaur and huge wolf?" she asked, watching as the two mighty digimon launched attack after attack.
"Yeah, Agumon digivolved into Greymon and Gabumon into Garurumon." Matt explained. "And that figure they're fighting calls herself Yumemon." he said pointing to snow-white figure that flew around dodging and hitting away Greymon and Garurumon's attacks. "We don't know exactly what she is. All we do know is that she's been the one who's been attacking us. I don't know why, but she wants to destroying us, the Digidestined." Matt explained in a lowered, disturbed voice. Kari listened to every word with growing fear, while Gennai and Takeru stood by silently, sinking in all the new information.
"YOU REALLY THINK YOU CAN DEFEAT ME SO EASILY?!" she yelled out in a chiling, unyielding voice.
"Garurumon! Greymon!" Tai called out encouraging them. The digimon nodded and fired their specialized attacks at her. The flames of blue and orange flew across the bright clear sky directly at her.
"Hmph," With a couple of quick swipes with one hand, she threw the attacks away. Each attack lost its shape and faded away with the flow of her hand. A mocking smile curved across her face, "Foolish Digidestined! Do you really expect to harm me?!"
"Hm?" A twinge in her mind caught her attention and she turned towards the lakes' waters. "Well, well, I can see that you had defeated my forces... Aren't you the clever bunch?" she remarked crossly. Yumemon lifted a pale-white hand to the sky and the bodies of the enemy digimon within the depths became consumed with a white light and disappeared from the dark blue waters. Her look was more serious now, it didn't hold a smile of confidence or evil playfulness as before. Now, it was stern and dark with contempt. "Lost little children, it seems that I will allow you win this round, but rest assured, I will be the one to destroy you...." she said in a voice filled with hatred and darkness. Yumemon floated higher into the air and flew off to her retreat, suddenly disappearing from sight in a few moments.
A sense of relief settled across the Digidestined, digimon, and Gennai as Yumemon's form vanished before their eyes. Garurumon's and Greymon's forms became outlines of yellow light and shrank to become Gabumon and Agumon again. They happily ran to their respected partners, filled with sastisfaction that they had managed to drive Yumemon away.
"You did a good job Gabumon," Matt replied proudly to his digimon standing before him.
"Thank you Matt!"
"Way to go Agumon! You showed her didn't ya pal!?" Tai said, energetically congratulating the small orange dino with rubs on his head (with his good arm, of course).
"Hmph, hm, I did didn't I Tai!" he replied with laughs.
Kari placed a hand to her chest and sighed with relief. "I'm just glad everyone's still safe." she said.
"Yeah, it was a close one wasn't it?" Tai replied, slowly rising from the ground. Gripping his shoulder and finching from the shots of pain.
"Oh Tai! We better go wrap those up or they might get infected," Kari suggested, quickly coming to her brother's side and helping to walk towards the lake.
"You worry too much Kari," he said, in a very tired tone.
"Well, someone has to watch out for you don't they?" she said back with a playful smile.
"Hmph, and just my luck it had to be you.." Tai remarked sarcastically.
"Oh, be quiet." Kari replied back at him. "Aren't you suppose to be weak when you're bleeding from the shoulder?"
"What? Me? Weak?" Tai remarked.
"Show-off,"
"Hmph," Matt chuckled as he followed behind them back to the lake where the special passage had begun to appear. 'They really are brother and sister,' he thought amused as he watched the two talking back and forth as they descended the steps to the remains of Gennai's house.
Gennai walked slowly behind, but stopped in his tracks to realize that there was one that was not part of the group. He turned around and noticed Takeru and Gatomon standing silently, staring at the sky where Yumemon once was. Gennai watched them with a look that was absent of his usual smile and he stood strangely still and silent. Takeru blinked his eyes, losing the trance he was in as he noticed the mysterious old man standing by observing him. He came to face the same expression that Gennai had given him when they had first met, and once again felt the uneasiness that came from the stare. But, Gennai's expression soon changed to that of his usual smile and curled eyes. "You coming Takeru?" he called out to him.
"Um, yes. Sorry." Takeru replied shakily, still recovering from the memory of Gennai's disturbing look. He ran over to catch up with the others, looking to the ground to avoid the old man's eyes. Gatomon quickly followed, giving Gennai a suspicious glare as she passed. 'Why does he look at me like that?'
"Urghhhhh..." Yumemon moaned as she sank into her large twisted stone throne that stood under a dim circle of light in the dark, undefinable room.
"What is the matter master?" another voice asked.
"I clearly underestimated the Digidestined. I'm afraid they've developed further in their powers, and possibly revived two of their crests as well." she sighed in dismay.
"Well then, allow me to assist you master." a smooth voice called out through the darkness. A tall figure stepped into the dim light surrounding her throne. They were dressed in an outfit that resembled a clown. It consisted of a red coat that puffed out around their shoulders and frilled around his waist. It had white ruffles beyond it's sleeves and around his collar. They also wore puffy light green pants and yellow boots that were pointed at the toe. A mask that was half black and half white stood over most of their face, showing only his evil red eyes and pale chin and black lips. Their orange hair stood at an angle from their head behind that mask. Two blue ribbons streamed from his back, on which stood an X shaped arrangment of four swords. "You know that I have been anxious to use my powerful 'weapon' since their arrival in the Digiworld."
"Ah, yes. I remember Piedmon." Yumemon replied searching her memory. "Hmmm.." an evil smile formed across her face, delighted at the unknown idea brewing her mind that the clown digimon sparked. "Hmph, hm, very well Piedmon!" she consented with amusement flowing in her voice.
"I am most grateful for this honor master. I'll try not to disappoint you." he assured bowing to her before disappearing into the darkness.
"Hmph, hm. It's about time to reveal another actor into this little drama."