"So there was no info on it at all?" Matt seemed shocked by the possibility.

"I guess it could be incomplete..."Izzy seemed equaly vexxed by the prospect. "We...its just....this has never happened before..."

"Who cares?!" Tai was unphased be the news. "We come in BAM, BOOM, we kick some dark digimon ass! It aint that hard of a concept!"

Matt, the voice of reason sighed. "C'mon Tai. That thing took ALL our digimon attacks and not only blocked them , but reversed them. Think about what other powers it may have. We cant go into this blind. This isnt like the other fights."

"They were in their rookie forms. That guy wouldnt be able to touch MetalGreymon!"

Suddenly a deep voice boomed through the forest around them. "We shall see...." A dark form stepped out of a shadow the digidestines eyes hadnt seen. Slowly the figure formed into a dark-robed figure. In his hands he held a thin metal cylinder about half a meter long. "Come now. Bring forth this vaunted opponent! Should he defeat me I will even spare you! Of course, should he fail, my masters wish shall be fulfilled and you will not live to see the next sunrise."

Tai stepped forward. "That doesnt sound like a very even bet! What if I refuse?"

The hooded head moved in a quick nod. "Then you will make this job all too boring!" A gloved hand extended and brought the cylinder parallel to the ground. Suddenly the cylinder extended to four times over, revealing itself to be the staff Darkmon had wielded at their last meeting. A light chuckle escaped the hood as he said gravely, "And you will die." His booted foot took a long stride forward.

The digidestined retreated beneath the digimons advance. Matt pushed TK behind him.. All the others edged away from the dark figure. Suddenly their digivices began to glow and the trees splintered as the digimon in their champion forms surged forward.

Wave after wave of attack blasted towards the black clad Darkmon. Chuckling again he reached back and yanked his long cloak forward into in tight circle around himself. As the rainbow of deadly energies reached him they impacted upon a dark transparent half sphere. Energy crackled as the sphere absorbed the blows raining down upon it.

Suddenly the orb vanished along with the figure inside. Within the blink of an eye though, Darkmon reappeared in the midst of the charging digimon. Togemon fell as Darkmons staff flashed in a black blur in her direction.

Suddenly the supple and whip-like as he snapped it towards Kabuterimon, wrapping it around him and using it to fling him to the ground. Next it almost returned to its normal state, but with a spike-like point on the end of it. Taking this he hurled it like a javelin sending Ikkumon to the ground in a cloud of dust. Teleporting again he retrieved his weapon and continued his methodical slaughter.

Finally only Greymon remained. His hood moved slightly towards the digimon. "Last chance." When Tai didnt move he took a step forward. Suddenly Tai cried out "GREYMON!" and in a flash of light MetalGreymon stood before him. Darkmon stood unwaveringly as MetalGreymon unleashed a horrific roar. Taking his staff, which had returned to its long thin staff form, he twirled it and said, "The away team always bats first."

MetalGreymon lashed out with his long claws, each easily twice as long as Darkmon. For the third time he vanished and reappeared right behind the claws as they dug into the earth. Then with an earsplitting scream of metal on metal he drove his staff straight into the other digimons helmet knocking him back with a horrifble crash and huge cloud of dust. Blast of flame rose from the clous, followed by cries of agony. Then all was quiet. As the dust cleared the digidestined got a glimpse into the nightmare that was Darkmon. Where MetalGreymon had stood there sat an groaning Koromon. Floating high above the pink ball was Darkmon. Turning his cloaked head towards the digidestined he simply shook his head. Once again he twirled his cloak and in a strangly magnified voice shouted, "Winds of Fire!" And in a sudden burst of flame was gone.

A small piece of paper floated down through the air, landing directly in Tai's hand. He stared horrified at the simple note scrawled there-

Return when you are worthy.

Hope that was long enough. Doubled my word count! Anyway, plz review!