Okay, I STILL DO NOT OWN DIGIMON! *Pant * * pant * okay! Thank Goddramon that the disclaimer is over, and now, back to the fic.

Love: (n.) unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for others.

Anonymous- "There are two kinds of love in the world: tough love and unforgettable love…never go for the tough love. It hurts."

For my hero, have I loved thee?

By The Dragon of Courage (D.C.)

Tears of Sacrifice – The fire angel awakens; how I die and reborn.

            "Bwahhhhhhhhh!" Flamedramon cried as they leapt out of the cave with the fire tailing them. They barely made it, but instead, they were falling down, really down, in the sea.

            "AARRRGGGGHHHHHH!" Sagittarimon yelled.

            "WHY ARE WE YELLING ABOUT?" Flamedramon screamed as he released his hold.

            "CAUSE WE'RE ALL GONNA DROWN," answered Sagittarimon, "I CAN'T SWIM! AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"

            Splash! To their surprise, the water only reached to their hips. Small waves splashed over them. Then there was stunning silence. Flamedramon just stood there in a stupefied way; his head just leaned one side. Sagittarimon also stood there in a stupefied way, but his navy blue ears went red. There was more silence for five minutes. A small butterfly passed by them.

            Then at last Flamedramon burst out laughing, "Haha! You should have heard yourself. I CAN'T SWIM! Haha!"

            Sagittarimon grew red, but he tugged Flamedramon's tail in embarrassment. Flamedramon slipped off the sandbar and ferocious bubbles appeared where he fell down. When he surfaced, seaweed drooped all over his head and body, including his blade on his head. He blinked for a moment while Sagittarimon laughed his head off to see a sea monster instead of his friend.

            "So, what happens when I got the crystal?" Flamedramon asked as he dumped water out of his chest armor into a pool-like tub. They were back at the village, drenched with salt water and seaweed. Taomon quite got ticked off seeing her friends dripping all over the place, so she summoned a Tyrannomon to pick them up and then dropped at the public baths to get washed and dried.

            "I go to Gennai's house," answered Sagittarimon carefully drying his bow and arrows with a cloth.

            "Cool, I've never been there before, can I come?" Flamedramon got up; his chest armor was back in place, and unclasped his thigh armors to get rid of any unwanted mud.

            "I thought that after this, you'll return to the real world," responded Sagittarimon in surprise.

            Flamedramon clasped his armor back on and swirled water in the pool with his feet. He lied, "I wondered what his home looked like."

            Flamedramon also wanted to know how come Sagittarimon saved his life and also wanted the crystal so badly.

            Sagittarimon shook his body; spraying water all over Flamedramon and the walls, and turned to look at him, "Okay, I also have forgotten to tell you that Gennai needs to talk to you about special powers."

            Flamedramon grunted as he wiped away the mess on his body again with a clean cloth, "What do you mean 'special powers'? Why don't you ask Patamon or Gatomon or maybe the other digidestined's digimon? Why me? Did I do something powerful? No. Do I know I have special powers? No. Then, why did you ask me?" Flamedramon almost flinched on saying Gatomon's name.

            "Your temper's rising again. Gennai will tell you about it, if you keep your mouth shut about it and don't tell it to anyone, even Davis. Yes, Davis," Sagittarimon commanded as he turned his back on Flamedramon's gaping jaw and began to walk out the door of the public bath, holding the crystal Flamedramon retrieved from the cave, "I'll see you someday, but now, you must go home and never tell anyone about the crystal."

            As he walked out the door, Flamedramon tried to rush at him to ask about that crystal, but instead, Sagittarimon suddenly got deleted. He watched in horror that no one seemed to care about the digimon he never even touched got deleted. Some Greymon looked at the flying data casually and continued to presume work.

Flamedramon frantically looked for Taomon. He pulled back the flapping door and gasped out the story to her, but he didn't noticed about a young man he clearly knew as Gennai was talking to Taomon.

"Oh. Gennai, I didn't notice you," he said quietly.

"Veemon! I was looking for you. Taomon just told me about that brave fight you put up in the cave. I was impressed, but I'm afraid that I have some bad news about the special powers you have possessed."

Taomon nodded at Gennai and left. Flamedramon cocked an eye and calmed down, "What special powers?"

"Well, it seems that there are mysteries about the digital world that we have not yet discovered. Oikawa had an adventure around the digital world revealing secrets about it. He stumbled over a Gold V-Dramon, who got deleted by a Crossmon, but Gold V-Dramon suddenly reappeared as good as new and defeated the enemy. Oikawa asked him about the reappearance instead of going back to the Primary Village. The V-Dramon just simply told him that there is a legendary type of digimon who could reassemble data by them selves instead of going back to the village. He named the process asslim.

Oikawa visited the east side of the hemisphere and saw the same process done on a Depthmon. Then, he finally found Sagittarimon, who fought with Taomon to protect the village, and he did the asslim, too. Oikawa and I researched about it for six months and figured out that they were armor type digimon that was evolved from a specific legendary lucky digimon, Veemon."

"So…What?!" Flamedramon couldn't believe his eyes. Gennai continued, "We've tried to have a conference with you only, no Davis, but we've failed. Finally Oikawa saw you separated from a party he was attended to. He summoned Sagittarimon to test you about the special powers. Of course, being a stubborn Veemon attitude, he refused to let his brother be deleted by the Blossomon. Instead, he was trying to help you to have some confidence about the digimon of Light. He wants his young brother to be happy and give you more confidence about everything he can think of."

"Sag-Sagittarimon's my brother?" he said in astonishment, scratching his head. Flamedramon never remembered having a brother, since he was cooped up too long inside that hole, which the Digi-egg of Courage sat on.    

"Yes, he's been your brother since you've been born as an egg."

"Oh man! How can I get him back, though?" asked Flamedramon.

"Naw, don't worry, I'm still here. Hehe, you're so gullible," a voice said. Pieces of data started to appear all over the room. Flamedramon was surprised when a big chunk of data whizzed by his cheek. In the center of his room, a light glowed a yellow color.

Then in as blast of light, Sagittarimon emerged from it. He trotted towards him and crossed his arms. Sagittarimon turned towards Gennai and said, "Are you're sure he's the last one to asslim? He looked quite stupid to even know how to do it."

"Hey! You know, even you're my bro, doesn't mean that I can still knock some teeth out of you. If you even say 'quite', I'll do it before you could say 'stupid'. Cappesh?" Flamedramon threw another glare at him, but Sagittarimon stepped behind him and toyed with Flamedramon's ears. It tickled Flamedramon a bit, which made him twitch, and Sagittarimon told Gennai, "Do you know how much I always wanted to do that? I loved it."

Gennai's looks became serious, "Now you know your brother, but you cannot tell any one until the time's is right. I'm sorry for the reunion, but you, Sagittarimon, have to do your duty since your brother found the crystal. Flamedramon I need to talk to you about a book."

Sagittarimon groaned and left the hut, leaving Flamedramon in confusion. Gennai stepped up to him, "I believed that you are not ready to asslim, but you can be quite helpful if you can manage to read this without anyone knowing about it and the crystal you have been sent to retrieve. That crystal has many powers, some good, some destructive. This book has a prophecy about something about the powers of asslim and how it was connected to the crystal. Remember, if you can interpret this, the dangers it posses will disappear."

"And, if I can't?" asked Flamedramon taking a leather bound book with familiar markings on them.

"The legacy of the fallen angel awakens, but we do not know who is the fallen angel."

"Okay, whatever, can I go home now?"

"Yes, you may."

As Flamedramon walked out of the hut, Sagittarimon was gone. He felt a bit lonely that his brother was gone to guard a temple Oikawa know where. Then he began to travel to the northwest.

Hmmm, this looks familiar. Flamedramon looked around his environment: Trees, an unusual big ditch, uprooted trees, and a hidden cave. Wait a minute, a cave?

Flamedramon entered it. There were scorched marks all around the tunnel, which led him to a small surrounding. A small mound of sand was in the middle of the room. Large boulders were laid everywhere, but Flamedramon recognized the hole in the mound; this was where he first met Davis and the others. The scorched marks were Monochromon's fireballs and the uprooted trees he saw back at the entrance was he lifting the poor Monochromon over his shoulders and it landed with a big thud. (A/N: I watched the first episode again with the video recorder, and it was quite amusing that he lifted him in the air and trees and mountain of dust was seen in the background.)

He chuckled to himself and began to make this his thinking place to get some peace and quiet. Flamedramon lifted one of the boulders and set it as a table. He unclasped Gatomon's tail ring, and found the book, and set them on it. The settler was about to put the pouch with the crystal of love in it when he heard a scream.

It's not just any scream, it's Kari and Gatomon! Flamedramon dropped it, but it didn't break and ran out of the cave to see what the commotion was about. He ran towards the woods and into an open meadow. Flamedramon saw Kari clutching a wounded Gatomon. It made his heart ache to see them hurt.

Then he turned towards the troublemaker, and it was a big problem, a very big problem. How can Flamedramon stand against another ultimate with cannons as hands, no legs, a long tail, and dark wings he called Megadramon?

He stepped back in fear, but something told him to help them because it shows who he is. Flamedramon gulped as he pulled back his fist. I shall have no fear. What does courage mean to me if I ever back away from a fight? I'll fight until Gatomon realized that I am strong enough for my friends and I, not just her. The Veemon in me never missed a fight.

                        *~*~*~*~*~ Before it happened~*~*~*~*

Kari looked around the first place that Veemon will visit, "Are you're sure he's around here?"

She was riding on a sphinx-like digimon, named Nefertimon. She answered, "He must have been here. I can smell him. I feel so guilty about what happened at the forest. I hope he can forgive me."

Kari sighed, "I hope so. It seems that Davis is losing it. I think that his friends and Veemon's friends are losing it, also. "

As they were gliding around the cave that Flamedramon was in, a digimon behind them attacked, "Darkside Attack!"

Kari turned around and gasped, as two missiles were aim straight at her! Nefertimon dodged them both and flew away from Megadramon. It followed.

Kari looked at an open meadow and said, "We should hide for a while it seems that Megadramon wants to play hide and go seek."

Nefertimon got the hint and flew down to the ground. They hid behind some rocks and waited for the enemy to pass by, but it didn't come. Instead, there was a series of explosions as Megadramon fired missile after missile at the pile of rocks. As each rock was deleted, Kari became anxious.

At last Megadramon spoke, "Tell me, digidestined, do you really have to run away from me? I can still sense your presence. Where's the Fire Angel? Now, don't lie my friend, I can let you live, or I can let you die. It's your decision. My master needs to know where is the Fire Angel."

Kari was confused at the time being. Who in the world is a Fire Angel? It doesn't make any sense. She looked at her partner and shrugged. Then she yelled out to it, "Sorry, but I don't know what you're talking about!"

"Sorry is not the answer, digidestined, you are lying. I will give you no mercy. Darkside Attack!"

She looked behind the rock and saw the missile coming straight at the rock they were hiding. Nefertimon pounced on the rock and her back glowed, "Rosetta Stone!"

A giant stone flew out of her back and destroyed it, but the blast was more than it was anticipated. Nefertimon was flung into the air and de-digivolved into an injured Gatomon. Kari screamed and ran to catch her. She cradled Gatomon in her arms and looked angrily at Megadramon, "Why are you doing this? We've have done nothing wrong after we've defeated MaloMyotismon! Why does your master want the Fire Angel? We don't have it!"

The dragon drew closer as its cannon began to open and said, "I was commanded to do so, by my master, so speak! Where is the-?"

Its question grew short as it felt fire grow at it back. It yelped in pain and beat away the flames. Kari smiled a relief as the digimon tried to extinguish it. That was one unusual miracle. Wait a minute, fire? Is it he?

After Megadramon got rid of the flames, it flew in rage and roared, "Who dare try to destroy on an ultimate! I pity you, but I will destroy you!"

In a second a familiar digimon with flames appeared from the woods. Kari jumped in glee. She yelled in happiness, "Veemon! I have finally found you! Davis must be so worried!"

Flamedramon looked at Kari then at Megadramon. He pulled back his fist and attacked, "Knuckle Fire!"

The demon dragon managed to block it with its wings. Megadramon fired a missile, but Flamedramon jumped over it. Flamedramon smiled, "Is that the best you got?"

The dragon yelled in fury as it fired missiles at him, but Flamedramon hopped from one missile to another until he leaped towards him, flames surrounded him.

"Fire rocket!"

He punched hard at Megadramon. It screamed in pain as he managed to do some damage, but it swatted it's long tail and managed to catch him off guard! Flamedramon was then slammed against a tree and fell to his knees, breathing heavily. He back ached from being pushed around too much. Megadramon then swung his tail repeatedly at him which disabled Flamedramon from attacking and a web of cracks appeared on his blade.

Kari realized that he's going to kill himself if he fights against an ultimate. She yelled out to him, "Flamedramon! Don't do it! You're gonna kill yourself! What will Davis say if you got deleted?"

He looked at her in relaxation as Megadramon punched him with an open cannon, which made Flamedramon pinned to another tree. Flamedramon wince at more sever pains on his back. Cracks began to form on his armor. It pulled out it's right hand and it was ajar, really to destroy the small warrior. It cackled, "Any last request before you die?"

Thoughts ran through his head. Dude! Plug the cannons! Davis, I'm gonna miss you. Digidestined, I will miss you. Agumon, you have been a good friend and fighter, too. Palmon, I'm sorry that I stole Mimi's perfume. It is a joke. Patamon, you're a good friend. Sagittarimon, I pity that I might not going see you again if you're going to live in a temple. Thanks, Taomon. Thanks you guys for helping me. Gatomon…I love you.

As he thought about them, one big message hit him; cork the cannon. He mustered all his courage and power to boost up one last attack. Flamedramon aimed and fired. "Knuckle fire!"

A large fireball shot out of his left fist and it was large enough to block the cannon. Megadramon fired, too and both attacks collided, creating a large explosion! Flamedramon was flung back twenty-five yards back, but Megadramon didn't survived. Then it finally realized something about the fire dragon. That impudent little brat is the fire angel! Argh!

As the last of him was gone, Flamedramon got up and dragged his body to where Kari stood. She looked at him and began to cry. His arms and torso was bleeding severely and some of the blood was dripping from his mouth, but he didn't mind. Gatomon woke up and gasped at the sight. She thought, "Oh no! He's not going to…"

She jumped out of Kari's arms and ran to him. Flamedramon fell on his knees again and smiled reassuringly, "It's okay Gatomon, and I'm going to be fine."

Gatomon touched his right claw and said, "How are you going to be fine if you look like you're going to, you know."

He smirked, "I know that I will return. Tell Davis that he should not worry over me. Meet me back at the Primary Village, promise?"

He held out his left claw and Gatomon held out hers. Just as they touched each other's hands, pieces of data flew everywhere from his fist to his arm and body. He looked at her in her teary faced eye and said to her, "I'm going now, but I will tell you something. I think that Patamon really likes you, so go to him for a while as I reconfigure, but there is three last words that I will tell you only…I love you."

His face was gone and Gatomon began to sob. Oh! You should have told me earlier you idiot! Why have you sacrifice yourself to save me? Why, Flamedramon, why? Have I really loved thee?

She looked at Kari, whose tears were pouring from her eyes, "Lets…tell…Davis …about this. This is gonna tear his heart out."

They looked at each other and headed towards the portal to their real world. As they did Oikawa looked at the flying bits of data surrounding him. He told it, "It seems that you don't have the power to asslim, Flamedramon. Oh, okay, here's your transportation to the Primary Village."

Extra data cling to Flamedramon's data and it flew towards the village. Oikawa followed, but not noticing that a black-cloaked figure was looking at them in a looking-glass hologram. The dark figure summoned a skeleton looking digimon and asked, "Is the virus ready, SkullSatamon?"

"Yes my master, it is ready. To which digimon, I wondered? Many of them are deleted right about now, I suppose."

"To the one you have clearly wanted revenge on for destroying you."

"The goggle-headed boy's digimon?"

"Yes, he is in an armor form. Go now, and report back to me if it is done. I want no defects nor flaws on this project."

The digimon bowed to it and left. The dark cloaked figure smiled evilly, "I will get every one of you, digidestined. Starting with Veemon. Beware of the Fallen Angel's empire! All Light and Hope shall be destroyed."

SkullSatamon burst out into the laboratory he yelled at a small computer screen, "Launch the virus!"

The screen beeped and a timer appeared with a password to engage the virus. He pressed the words in and said, "Target range, 10577283."

The computer screen created a radius around a certain area. Then he commanded, "Digimon 07."

The computer spoke in a feminine voice, "Digimon 07 confirm. Name is Flamedramon. Attribute is Vaccine. It is okay to launch virus?"

He said yes and the computer went to work. Enslaved digimon caught by his master scattered as machines moved about. A large energy ball surrounded by metal rings stood in the middle of the room. Sixteen dark spires encircled the machine and they began to glow. The speaker boomed in a loud voice, "Launch to digimon 07 is in T-minus five minutes."

The metal rings began to revolve around each other and the energy ball. The dark spires linked a dark purple light from one spire to the next. The ball began to glow brightly. The computer spoke as the metal rings went faster, "Launch to digimon 07 in T-minus three minutes."

The spires glowed brightly and then the ring that was linked from tower to tower covered the energy ball and the rings in a hemisphere. The top of the sphere was sucked in by the energy ball; creating a funnel-shaped hole. The computer was deafening by the whirls and sparks of energy, but some digimon looked at the machine in awe and fear. "Launch to digimon 07 in T-minus ten seconds."

Another cloaked figure, but this one was actually invisible from view was hidden behind some rubble. It looked at a piece of device it held in it's golden claws, which looked like a crest, but it was made of gold and it has a pointy M symbol with triangle and diamond shapes. The digimon threw it as hard as it can towards the funnel. It made it inside as the computer counted down, "5, 4, 3, 2, 1…"

The cloaked figure smiled and asslim. Good luck, my brother, good luck.

The machine suddenly burst out a golden light out to everyone, including enslaved digimon. The poor captors were suddenly given hope that they will be free someday and the dark digimon who followed the Fallen Angel winced in pain and cowered at the golden light. SkullSatamon looked at the light and slammed his staff against a captured digimon, which was deleted automatically. Someone has intercepted the process!

At last, the virus that contained the crest flew out of the funnel and disappeared into the sky, marking its only target, Flamedramon.

The purple orb with navy blue sparks surrounding it reached the western hemisphere of the digital world. Flamedramon's data wandered towards the Primary Village, which was ten more miles from where he was flying now. Oikawa followed him in premonition that something's going to happen if no one cared to keep him safe.

Then the virus reached towards the data, and it let the virus in. The works began. Flamedramon's data felt something growing out of it. It shuddered and let the virus take control of Flamedramon's destination, to the Real World.

Oikawa sensed something wrong with the data. It seemed to ward away from the Primary Village and was heading towards the sky of the Digital World. He followed it as fast as possible, but its speed increased and zoomed out of the sky, even Oikawa's butterflies couldn't catch up to it. Then, in a flash, Flamedramon's data was gone!

Oikawa was troubled even more. Poor Davis, he'll become sadden more if I told him that Flamedramon never made it to the village. I knew this would happen. Oh, Gennai will be disappointed if he never read the prophecy, but I wondered what happened to Flamedramon's data anyway?

            "Hey Fladra! Over here!" cried a friend or a soccer player.

            A young boy with red eyes and dark blue hair named Fladra Rie Nidaiisha looked around his surroundings. Okay, Jimmy's blocked by Paulia, Ryishi is wide open, and some of my friends are not paying attention. Why did I have to be goalie? The heck, I'm just gonna give the ball to Ryishi, anyway.

            He kicked the ball from his goal post to his fellow friend. After Fladra kicked it, which never made it to Ryishi at all, something burst out of the sky and headed straight towards the boy!

            Fladra cried out as sharp pains grew all over his body suddenly. Before he fell down on the ground, he heard another yell not from his teammates nor from his mouth, but from the inside of him. As he passed out, most of his friends crowded around him in anxiety.

            A bystander with a large brown hair, who saw the teenagers playing soccer in interest, ran up to them and made panicked group calm. He sighed as they spread apart. Thank heaven that I passed health class. He checked Fladra's pulse. There was a strong beat. The bystander said to a friend of Fladra, "Call an ambulance."

            Two of them ran off to find a pay phone. The rest were uneasy of the bystander because he was very popular in Odaiba and their city. At last a girl said as she pulled out their soccer ball, "Can we have your autograph Tai Kamiya?"

            Tai nodded, but he looked what was in Fladra's hand and stared hard at it. In his hand were a red D-3 and a crest.

The crest of miracles to be exact.

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What does Megadramon mean Fire Angel? Why does the Veemon armor evolutions only can asslim? Who is the Fallen Angel? Is it Daemon, Beezlebumon, Dragomon, or Moon Armagemon?

Check out Chapter 4: Visitor of Hope

Okay, I got that done for now. This chapter is longer than I expected and it is also kind of screwed. Anybody who still reading this and wants to flame, well, I got a bulldozer somewhere or a fire extinguisher to erase them, so, it's pretty hopeless to give me any flamer, anyway. Merry Christmas! I'll be going to Taiwan, that is why I giving this chapter earlier. Ta Ta!

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