Trick or Treat?

Steve stared at the water in front of him, thinking. His old doubts about his place in the group were still in his head, but now he had something else to think about as well.

"Why on earth were Mike and Violet chosen to be separated from the group? And what happened to them before the door reappeared? Mike doesn't seem to remember anything and Violet won't tell anyone."

It was true. Mike had been walking round in a daze, as though he had only just found out his legs could move. Steve was worried about him, but he would probably be fine.

Violet, meanwhile, was spending more and more time at the back of the group, frowning to herself. John had tried to look at her wound, but she kept moving away from him, as if she was afraid of him.

The group had stopped by a huge lake that was surrounded by huge fruit trees. There was a sort of island in the middle of the lake, connected to the lakeside by a thin strip of land. Mary had pointed out that it looked just like the lake where the original digidestined had fought Seadramon, and she was right.

Bracemon looked at Steve staring at the water, then turned back to Violet, who was typing on her computer. First, a picture of her digivice popped onto the screen, followed by a picture of the digi-chip.

"What on earth is that?" said a voice behind her. She spun round and saw Mike, who was touching his wound while staring at the picture. She sighed and typed digi-chip under the picture.

His eyebrows shot up, then he said, "Violet, you know what happened to me after I left the group, don't you?"

"Maybe a bit. First, could you tell me what you remember?" Violet asked cautiously.

He sighed, ran a hand through his hair and began, "Well, I remember seeing that woman when I woke up. She had straight brown hair, brown eyes, pink boots, a sort of streamer that was pink, and a pendant round her neck. She was wearing some kind of weird suit that was like a swimming costume with a cloak attached. She was really beautiful and when I tried to stop myself going towards her, her eyes sort of glowed, and I couldn't control myself anymore. She walked into the trees and I followed.

"We had reached a clearing and her pendant started glowing black. She glowed too and when she stopped, she had become a Digimon that looked like a witch. Her pendant had become black. She had a silver wand and she pointed it at me. She yelled something that sounded like `Witch Spell` and this gold dust shot out.

"It covered me and I fell to the floor. I can't explain what happened next. I felt as though I was sleepwalking, except it seemed to be so real. I was acting like a sort of pet, if you like. I remember standing by that lady, watching you guys walking towards the mountain. She had a sort of viewing screen to watch everything. Part of me wanted to run away, to leave her, but she had me under her control.

"Then, one day, she raised her wand at me and commanded me to fall to floor, as if asleep. I could feel all the cells in my body shut down. Next thing I knew, I saw you lying on the floor next to me. That was only for a second. After that, I just fell unconscious. When I opened my eyes, I was here with all of you and Firepentmon was going crazy, because he was so glad to see me.

"But Violet, why is there a Gatomon with us? How did you get that scar on your eye? Why were you lying next to me? What happened while I was standing around like a zombie?"

Steve looked up from his thoughts at the talking couple. Firepentmon, Gatomon, Jewelmon, Snowmon, Mary and John were all sleeping. Silently, he crept towards the boy and girl, and listened.

Violet, oblivious to Steve and the now sleeping Bracemon, told Mike everything that had happened since he had wandered off. Steve's eyes widened when he heard what had happened to Violet after she had entered the mountain with Pearlmon. However, they narrowed again when Mike spoke at the end of Violet's story.

"Violet, I forgot to tell you. Remember those black balls? Well, she's the one who makes them!"

This was too much for Steve. He needed to think about what he'd heard. But when he walked away, he trod on a twig. It snapped and Mike was up at once, "Steve? What are you spying on us for?"

Steve replied," Look, I'm sorry. I just wanted to know what happened to you two. Is that a crime or something?"

Mike frowned, tensing for a fight. Suddenly, there was a scream from where the others had been sleeping. They all looked at each other. Then, with Violet scooping up Bracemon in her arms, the three children ran towards the source of the commotion.

The sight that greeted their eyes made them stop in their tracks. There was about ten human shaped Digimon surrounding the others. They had a blue hat with a skull on it on their heads and a blue cloak on their backs. On their feet, they wore brown boots with crescent moons on them and on their hands, they wore brown gloves. Their clothes seemed to be made of rags and each of them carried a stick with a gold sun on it. Every one of them had black eyes.

Bracemon stirred, opening her eyes, then leapt out of Violet's arms when she saw the Digimon, "Wizardmon: These Digimon usually like to keep to themselves, but when attacked they can defend themselves with their Magical Game faster than you can say trick or treat."

The person who was screaming had been Mary. When she saw Steve, Mike and Violet running towards the group, she calmed down. Luckily, her screaming had awakened John and all the sleeping Digimon.

Gatomon looked at the nearest Wizardmon, and Violet knew she was thinking about the Wizardmon that had saved Kari and Gatomon. He had died in the blast from Myotismon's Grisly Wing.

Then, the cat Digimon's eyes registered the black eyes and she leapt at him, "Lightning Claw!"

"Magical Game!" The Digimon responded, shooting blue energy at Gatomon, but she swerved and he missed. The digidestined's digivices began to glow.

"Snowmon digivolve to Icemon!"

"Firepentmon digivolve to Serpentmon!"

"Bracemon digivolve to Pearlmon! Pearlmon digivolve to Flakemon!"

"Jewelmon digivolve to Diamondmon!"

"Mythicmon digivolve to Phoenixomon!"

The champion Digimon smiled at the Wizardmon then attacked. Icemon froze two. Serpentmon suffocated another two. Flakemon spun round and hit one. Diamondmon shot two of them. Phoenixomon burnt two more and Gatomon knocked down the remaining one.

The familiar black balls flew into the air and disintegrated. However, this time a black portal appeared in the sky. Steve glanced at Mike and Violet, and saw that their eyes were full of fear. They knew who was coming.

Finally, the portal began to become a Digimon. One with a witch hat, black gloves and holding a silver wand. Violet hissed, "Witchmon!"

The Digimon smiled at her rage, then raised her wand, "Witch Spell!"

The familiar gold dust shot out at the champion Digimon. #Flash!# Snowmon fell against Steve. #Flash!# Jewelmon thudded next to Mary. #Flash!# Mythicmon plopped onto John's shoulder.

Mike looked around, "Hey, how come she didn't get our Digimon?"

"Because of what you are. Remember Violet? I told you to have fun digimorphing. If you can digimorph, a champion Digimon that merely belongs to you does not matter. However, if you insist." The witch Digimon waved her hand and Pearlmon and Firepentmon dropped from the sky.

She smiled again, then said, "Trick or treat?" Without waiting for an answer, she spun her wand around, "Witch Spell!" Gold dust came out of her wand and aimed at the earth. It started to crack open. It separated into two pieces and the Digimon could sense the same thing happening all over the island. It was splitting into six pieces.

With a wave of her wand, Witchmon sent all the digidestined flying. Each of them was thrown to a different piece, luckily with their Digimon.

The witch Digimon grinned, then teleported back to Infinity Mountain, the only piece with no digidestined on it, to watch the fun. Mike and Steve were on parts of Freezeland, the coldest part of Digiworld, Violet was in the Gear Savannah, Mary was at the Bakemon sanctuary, where it was time for the annual festival and John was at the ancient ruins.

She sat back and wondered if they would ever get back to Infinity Mountain..

WILL THE DIGIDESTINED GET BACK TOGETHER? AND CAN THEY DEFEAT WITCHMON? FIND OUT ON THE NEXT DIGIMON: DIGITAL MONSTERS!

Author's Note: Must.. resist.. urge.. to kill.. GAH! (Attacks annoying announcer guy) DEATH! DESTRUCTION! DESPAIR! DIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIE!!!!!!!!!! (Remembers all the stuff she has to do in this note, and leaves him alone) OK, first of all, the Gear Savannah is mentioned in a Digimon game I have, and its set on File Island, so that's where Violet's destination comes from. Digimon doesn't belong to me, neither does the world, and I'm sick of writing these. Bye!

Lady Moon