After more than a month of not updating I present to you the next chapter to this story. Just to tell you ahead of time, this chapter might be a little confusing so bare with me. Hope you like this chapter and before I go, I have to mention that I don't own digimon.

Chapter 11:
Facing Inner Demons

Flashback...
"Darkness Reflection." Shooting out of his shield was this huge white beam and when it was halfway to the air it began to spread across the whole battlefield like a blanket. None of us could figure out what this was suppose to do but we wouldn't have long to think about it since we all got consumed by the white dome of energy and the last thing that was heard was Reflectmon's sadistic laughter.

Henry's POV...

When I was sure that whatever was that attack that Reflectmon sent out was gone I opened my eyes and was surprised at what I was seeing. Instead of being in the barren wasteland that we were fighting I was in a vas void of emptiness. "What kind of place is this?"

Looking around I saw that I was the only one around. Even Palamon was no where in sight. "I sure hope that the others are doing okay." Not wanting to just stand around I began to walk around in a attempt to figure out what was going on. For the next ten minutes I walked around but no matter where I went all I saw was emptiness.

"Now isn't this amusing." spoke some unknown voice that sounded like it was coming from everywhere. "It almost seems like you actually care about your friends." "Who was that and what did you mean by what you said?" Nothing happen at first but without warning an image of a person appeared in front of me.

When the image became clearer I was shocked to see that the image looked exactly like me. "It should be easy to understand." answered my double with a dark tone in his voice. "All through this adventure you have not shown any kind of friendship. The only person that you have shown concern for was Samantha and that was only because you felt sorry for her."

"You're wrong about that." I shot back. "It's true that she needed comfort but I didn't do it because I was sorry for her. I did it because I- its not the point why I did it, I would have done the same thing to the others if they went through the same thing. I care for all of my friends and would do anything that I was needed to do so that they would be happy because they would do the same thing for me." "But have you looked at things for the long run? You know you can't always be there for them."

"I already knew that. As we all grow up we will begin to do are own things and go our separate ways. But despite how much things change I will always be there for them if necessary." After saying what I wanted to say my double suddenly disappeared and in its place appeared some kind of gateway and for some reason I felt like this was the way that I should go. Making up my mind I walked into the gateway were it closed on its own after I walked through it.

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Brad's POV...

Looking around the only thing that I could see besides darkness was my mirror image. "What a surprise this is. Is little Brad Kido scared?" "I-I'm n-n-not scared." I answered but it was easy to tell that I was a bit afraid. "Oh that was very convincing. You are nothing more than a scaredy cat." I tried to say some kind of comeback but I couldn't get a word out. "Look at you, we just started talking and already you're unable to say anything. That proves my point that you have no backbone." "What do you mean?"

"I'm saying that you are a wimpy coward who if needed wouldn't help someone if their life depended on it." "I am most certainly no coward." "Now if that was true then what was the deal when you and your friends were being attacked by those group of Shibomon? I don't remember you doing anything to help fight them off. Lets also not forget when you didn't help with the fight against LadyDevimon."

"Okay, first off I was told to not get involved in the fight against the Shibomon and about the fight with LadyDevimon, I did help in the fighting but I was knocked out in the start of it." Showing no fear I looked the straight in the eyes of my image. "I may not be as tough as David, Davis and Jerry but it doesn't mean that I am any less important to the team. Each one of us has their own part to do for the team. I may not be certain what my precise role is but I will still do what I need to do what is needed to be done to help the ones that I care about."

With those words my double vanished and when he left a white gateway opened up. I was afraid at first but remembering what I had said a few minutes ago I walked into the gateway. When I did I could see nothing else but a blinding white light that forced me to cover my eyes.

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Terry's POV...

Emptiness. That was all I could see from any direction I looked. "I surely hope that the others are doing better than me." Just when I was about to go look around a weird glow appeared behind me. Turning around I came face to face with myself. Or to be more precise, a version of myself. "Like they would care what you think." said the image from out of the blue. "What do you mean by that?"

"It means exactly like it sounds. You always get involved in other peoples' business even if it doesn't concern you or they telling you to not get involved. Take for example when you continue to butt into David and Jennifer's relationship."

For a while I didn't say anything as I allowed what 'myself' had said. "....Okay, maybe I do at times involve myself in things that I probably shouldn't. But sometimes you have to if you want things to get done. I'll admit that I shouldn't always stick my nose in David's and Jennifer's business or whatever kind of relationship that they may have. However, I will not stop getting involve in stopping anyone who is trying to cause harm to the ones that I care about."

Just as fast as my double appeared it disappeared. When it did a white gateway appeared and not seeing that their wasn't anything to stop me I went into the portal hoping that it would take me to where I wanted to go.

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Sam's POV...

"I don't know what this place is." I said to myself as I looked at my surroundings. "I just hope that the others are doing okay." "Now why would you care about them if they are okay or not?" questioned a unknown but familiar voice. "Of course I care. Why wouldn't I be?" In a flash a figure that looked exactly liked me appeared. "Because you don't care about anyone but yourself. After all you are a shadow image of your father."

With a snap of his fingers a video screen appeared and started to show me with some kind of outfit that had a cape and shades. Throughout the video, I saw myself doing cruel and heinous things to digimon and people that I knew.

"No, I am not in anyway like that." "You say that now but you know the old saying. Like father, like son." "That doesn't mean anything. My father may have done some awful things early on in his life but he was able to repent for what he did. But if I do turn out to be like my father it will be the one that I have looked up to all my life and I would be proud to turn out like he has." Once I finished saying that both my mirror image and the video screen vanished and were replaced by a white gateway. Seeing no harm I walked in and watched as it close behind me.

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Michael's POV...

"Aren't you surprised to see me?" asked my duplicate. "What in the world are you?" Going around him I checked him over from head to toe. "Their has to be some logical explanation to what is going on here." "That is exactly like you Michael. Always looking for the logical meaning to everything." "That is because everything has a logical explanation, all anyone has to do is look for it." "In most cases that would be true but when you can't find an explanation you say it couldn't be possible." "Just what are you getting at?"

"I am saying that you continuing to clutch onto logic as some sort of life preserver. When you aren't able to deal with something that is considered illogical you pretend as though it doesn't exists." "I may look for the logical side of things because if given time anything can be figured out. But that does not mean that I will deny something if it is called illogical. I might prefer to have things logical but I am willing to agree that maybe that their are things out in the world that are hard to explain."

With that said a gateway surfaced where my duplicate had disappeared. "I know that their has to be a good explanation to what just happen but all I care about is getting out of this place as soon as possible." I uttered to myself as I went into the gateway.

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Andrew's POV...

"Where is everybody?" I asked myself as I looked at where I was. "It looks like I am the only one here." "If you ask me, they are probably glad that you're not with them." Before I could ask who said that an image of myself appeared in front of me. "No one wants to be around you since you are a annoying brat." said 'myself' to answer the question that I was about to ask. "You're wrong. My brother and friends don't mind me being around them."

"Its no use lying to yourself. It's clear that if your brother wanted to really see you he would have went looking for you. Instead he went on his way to face the enemy. Do you need any more proof? Then lets mention that the only reason that Jerry and Annie were traveling with you is because they had the misfortune of being stuck with you. Face it, you will only wined up all alone."

For a while I didn't say a word as I stood there and let everything come together. "Is that all you have to say? If so you might as well stop now." By the look that was on my twin's face I saw that he was shocked at what I said.

"I have known that sooner or later I would have to lookout for myself since the others won't be able to do that forever. I'm growing up and I am learning to protect myself. My brother has notice this and that is why he didn't go searching for me. Because he knew that the most important thing to do was to save our parents."

Apparently having nothing to respond to what I said my twin faded away and was replaced with a gateway. "That was sure interesting but I believe that it is time for me to leave." Walking straight into the gateway I knew that whatever it would lead I would be ready to deal with what was on the other side.

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Jerry's POV...

"Now where in the hell am I?" Looking around at where I was standing in I could only see complete emptiness. "Who cares, I just want to get out of here as soon as possible." All of a sudden a strange laughter that seemingly was coming from everywhere could be heard.

"Just as I thought." voiced the owner of the laughter. "Who said that? Show yourself." "As you wish." Out of thin air a figure appeared and it looked exactly like me.

"Weird!? This is some crazy shit going on here. But at least whoever you are at least has a good look going. Any ways, I would love to chat but I have more important things to deal with at the moment." Turning around I began to walk away until the figure started to speak. "That is just like you. Not bothering to stop and hear what you need to hear."

Peering over my shoulder I saw that the figure wasn't bluffing. "Now you have gotten my attention." I said as I walked back to him. "Okay then, tell me what I need to hear."

"You don't care." "Don't care!? Don't care about what?" "Anyone. You don't care about anyone but yourself." "Uh excuse me, but you're wrong about that. I mean, I do care about my family and friends." "Stop trying to pretend you don't know what I am talking about. One of the main reasons that you wanted to do this who rescue mission is because you knew that their would be some fighting involved." "Of course I knew that. It doesn't take much to figure out that I would have to fight if we wanted to save our parents."

"But that isn't the reason why you wanted to fight. You wanted to fight because you enjoy fighting. It gives you a rush that you can't help but want more of it. Try to deny it all you want but you want to fight because you simply want to."

"Okay, I will admit that I love to fight. But when you say that I love to fight because it gives me a rush you were wrong. The reason that I fight is because I want to protect those who can't protect themselves and also to protect the ones that I care about. Such as my family, my digimon and my friends. You may look like me but clearly you don't know anything about me."

As soon as I said that the figure faded away and in its place was a gateway. "I said it once and I will say it again, this is some crazy shit going on here. But hey, who said that this place was normal from the start?" "Not looking back I marched myself into the gateway and waiting to what was up ahead.

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Melissa's POV...

In this vas opening of emptiness I could see nothing as far as I could see. "Where is everybody? More to the point, where am I?" "What's the matter? Is little Melissa afraid?" "Of course not." I said as I looked side to side for where that voice came from. Turning around I came face to face with myself, or to be more precise a likeness of me.

"Who are you and why do you believe that I am scared?" "I'm just an image that represents that tiny voice in your head telling you what you don't want to hear." "If that's so what would you be trying to tell me?"

"Trying to tell you that you are nothing more than a pitiful little girl who has to rely on others since she can't do anything herself. Haven't you already forgotten when you needed Jonathan's help to stop LadyDevimon?" "You lie. I don't always depend on other people." "Don't try to kid yourself. All throughout your life when their was something you couldn't handle you relied on your parents, your brother, your digimon or your friends to help you."

"Fine then, I will admit that their has been times when I looked towards others for help but not all the time. Sometimes my family and friends come to me if they need help. Besides, asking for help isn't a sign of weakness but showing that I am willing to admit that their are some things that I can't do alone and need help from the ones I trust."

Finally getting that off my chest I looked on as my likeness started to go away and in its place was a gateway. Not wanting to stand around any longer in this place I decided to go through the gateway and hope that whatever was on the other side would be better than the place that I was leaving.

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Jonathan's POV...

Since I was able to get over from the blinding light of Reflectmon's attack I saw that their was absolutely nothing around in the place that I was some how taken to. "For someone who represents friendship you don't show it." said some voice that couldn't be identified since I was unable to figure out where it was coming from. "Now what is that suppose to mean?" I yelled.

Out of nowhere a figure that looked just like me appeared. "It should be easy to understand. You have never shown any kind of friendship during this entire adventure." "That's not true. If what you said was true then I wouldn't have been here helping my friends." My remark seemingly amused the figure as he let out a dark chuckle.

"Friends you say? Wasn't it you that took a nap and allowed Brad to go on his own despite the possibility of danger?" "Alright, I did do that. I wasn't really thinking at the moment. But that doesn't prove your point. As soon as he was in trouble I went to check out what was going on. Friendships don't always run as smoothly as you hope they do. At some point you may do something that could be consider a foolish but you can't put behind you then you never had a real friendship in the first place."

With those words said, the figure started to fade away and taking its place was a gateway. For a while I didn't know whether or not that I wanted to go through the gateway. But after getting some kind of feeling I settled on going through it and wondering if the others would be on the other side.

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Alice's POV...

"Same old Alice. Always the same." "What? Where did that voice come from?" "It came from me." said the voice and seconds later an identical figure of myself showed up. "This is so weird." I mumbled to myself. "What did you mean by 'same old Alice'." "I was just stating that despite all the changes that have been happening you are still the same person with the same views on life."

"That is absolute nonsense." "Oh really now? You always think that given time any problem can be resolved. However, when their is a problem that can't be solved by talking you try to deny it since it may prove that your ways might be wrong." "That's not true. I was able to convince Sam that he couldn't be as bad as his father once was."

Despite coming up with a good remark my 'twin' gave me a wicked grin. "But have you forgotten that he only realized it after you got yourself hurt by Kimeramon?" "You might see it that way but before I went into the battle I saw that Sam was on the verge of coming to his senses and what happened to me just cleared it up for him." "But what if it hadn't worked?"

"Then I would of tried something else. Just because I prefer to use my original ways doesn't mean I won't use something new if it means that it will help me or my friends in doing what is right." With obviously nothing more to say my 'twin' vanished into thin air and seconds later a gateway showed up.

"I'll take a wild guess here and say that this would be the way out of here." Stepping into the gateway I thought to myself maybe that in some small way that figure was right. But as the old saying goes, nothing is for certain.

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Davis K.'s POV...

"Do you actually consider yourself as an individual? That you are actually one of a kind?" questioned my double. "What are you talking about?" "Don't you see? How can you be yourself if you are trying to imitate someone?" "I have no idea what you're talking about." "Is that so? Then let me spell it out for you. You are nothing more than a second rate copy of Davis Motomiya and a poor one at that."

"That's nonsense. I am in no way trying to copy my uncle." "You are mistaken. Just look at what has happen recently. You are always trying to be the big hero, always trying to save everyone and you even tried to become the leader when his son was gone. Having his name is even more proof of what I am saying. You are nothing more than a Davis Motomiya wannabe."

"I don't consider those things as being proof of me being a copy. All that shows is me trying to do what I felt was right and willing to do what was needed to do to accomplish it. That is something that I learned from not only my uncle but my father as well. They have shown me that when needed you do what you believe it right. So get out of my way so I can do so."

With that said, a gateway appeared in the spot that my double stood. As I inspected it I wondered what would the others do if they were in this situation. That when it hit me that I couldn't do that because they weren't in my situation. I had to decide this on my own and I came to my decision as I stepped into the gateway which close behind me.

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Annie's POV...

Complete darkness. That was all that I could see in the place that I was in. I had no idea where I was, how I got here and I started to have the feeling that their was something watching me. "What do we have here? Is little Annie going to cry now?" taunted someone that I couldn't see.

"Where did that voice come from?" As if to answer my question, the one who spoke showed itself and when I got a good look at who it was I saw that the person looked just like me.

"You are such a crybaby. Its no wonder that everyone thinks that you are a bother to them." "What are you talking about?" "It should be easy to understand. No one likes to be around you since all you do is wine and complain. For example, you complained so much that you made Jerry explode in anger because he couldn't take your constant wining." "So, I was tired from all the walking that we did the whole day and it wasn't just me, Andrew was complaining just as-" Before I could continue the figure interrupted. "Their is need to make excuses."

"I wasn't trying to make excuses. I'll agree that I cry too much and become a bother sometimes but what do you expect, I am only five years old after all. It'll be a while until I get more mature but I am getting there. The others know this as well, that is why they understand and are able to bear with it because when I get older I will be able to deal with things on my own."

With a deep sigh I relaxed as I watched as the figure begin to vanish from view but was shocked when a gateway suddenly appeared in its place. For a while I thought that this was some kind of trap but seeing as though it was seemingly the only way to get out of this place I figured to take my chances as I went into it and allowed it to close after I went in.

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Jennifer's POV...

"I hope the others are doing better than I am and that we are able to meet up with one another." "Now what's this?" bellowed someone's voice. "Haven't you figured it out yet?" Listening more closely I realized that the voice was coming from behind. Turning quickly around I came face to face with a version of myself. "What do you mean haven't figured out what?" I asked once I got over my sudden surprise. "Isn't it obvious? None of your friends care about you." "Of course they care about me."

"If that was true they apparently don't care enough to come and help you." "That has to be because something most of happen to them." "Then what about David?" That question really caught me off guard. "D-D-David!? What about him?"

"Don't pretend you don't know. It is easy to tell that you have strong feelings for him and if he had similar feelings for you wouldn't he be here to save you?" "T-th-the reason why he isn't here is b-be-" As I tried to come up with a reply, the vision of 'myself' continued.

"It is because he doesn't care for you like everyone else. Face facts Jennifer, no cares whether you live or die." When the figure said that I started to slowly believe that what it was saying was true. But from the back of my mind I remembered something that happen not so long ago.

Flashback... (From Chapter 5)

Nothing was said between us for a while as I allowed what I just said to sink in. "Your right Jennifer. My father is a great man but I shouldn't let that decide on how I make decisions." What he did next really surprised me. Reaching over he placed a hand on top of the hand that I had on his shoulder. "Thank you Jennifer. I really appreciate what you said."

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"....You almost had me there." "What are you babbling on about?" "For a while I actually believed in what you were saying but I see clearly that all of my friends care for me." "But can you say the same for David Motomiya?" "I think out of all my friends I feel that David is the person that I have a strong connection with. Whether that is just as friends or something more I don't know. All I know is that I care deeply for my friends as they do for me."

Suddenly, a gateway had replaced the image of me and having a feeling that this was the way out I went in. As I watched the gateway close behind me I wondered to myself to what was that figure trying to accomplish. In the end it doesn't matter since it couldn't fulfill its task. But in a strange twist of fate it allowed me to realized that I have to sort out these feelings that I have for David and to figure them out soon.

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Samantha's POV...

"Now where in the two words did that evil Reflectmon send me to?" I asked myself as I took in the complete emptiness that I was in. Before I could even take two steps, a flash of light appeared in front of me and when the light started to go away a person that was like a mirror image of me came into view.

"You calling someone evil is like the pot calling the kettle black." said the image. "What are you jabbering on about?" "Sorry about that, I was just saying what you have been thinking of for some time." "Oh really and what would that be?"

"Only that you are pretending to be on the side of the good guys but in reality you are as evil as anyone you have fought." "No....that's not true." "Then how would you explain when you attacked Henry and Michael?" "That wasn't all my fault. I was being controlled by Datamon."

"A likely story. Deep down you know that I speak the truth." "You're wrong. At a time I believed that. But thanks to Henry and some needed thinking I realized that I am no more evil than him or my family."

Seemingly out of nowhere, the image of myself vanished and was replaced by some kind of gateway. I didn't know if this was suppose to be a good thing or a bad thing. But finally deciding that their wasn't any sign of danger I walked in and didn't look back as it closed itself.

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David's POV...

Nothingness. That was all I could see. Their wasn't another living thing around besides me. At least, that what I thought because seemingly appearing out of thin air something that looked just like me showed up. "What in the world? Who are you?" Apparently whoever this person was didn't seem to be the least bit concern.

"Isn't it obvious? I'm you or at least a part of you." "What do you mean?" "I represent what you refuse to believe." "If that is true then what are you trying to get at?" "Do you actually believe that you can be as good as your father?" questioned the figure.

"Your father was a hero and a savior. But you....you are nothing more than a pale substitute to the original." "That's not true. I'm just as good as my father is." "Oh really? Well, lets list all the things that has happen then. First you let your parents to get taken away, argued with your friends, caused all of you to be separated and lets not forget that you almost got your good friend Jennifer killed. Is their anything else that you want me to mention?"

"Those weren't all my fault. Their was no way that I could do to stop them." "Just face it David. You are nothing more than a boy who without his father around to tell him how to do things he is nothing more than a waste of space."

"That is where you're wrong." "What!?" "I'll agree that I won't be a good leader and hero like my father has been but I am okay with that since I am suppose to do things in my own way. I have made plenty of mistakes but it allows me to learn from my mistakes and become a better leader and a better person. Now if you don't have anything else to say I suggest that you leave me alone."

As fast as it appeared, the figure vanished. But that wasn't the only thing that happen as the whole area began to dissolve away and when it was gone a blinding flash of light developed everything. When I was finally able to see again I saw that I was back on the battlefield that I was fighting Reflectmon. I also saw that I wasn't the only one as everyone else were here as well with their digimon at the rookie level.

Turning my attention over to Reflectmon I saw that he was in complete shock. "This is impossible. Their is no way that you could of possibly broken my Darkness Reflection spell." "Well I guess it is possible since we were able to do it. Now I think it is time for us to put an end to this along with you."

Amazingly the back of my right hand started to glow again and I wasn't the only one that it was happening to. Each one of my friends had different colored symbols appearing on their hands. While this was going on each one of our digimon were glowing in the same color as the symbols on our hands. For me, I had a clue in what was going on and seemingly so did some of the others.

"Veemon, digivolve to....Ex-Veemon. Ex-Veemon, digivolve to....AeroVeedramon."

"Agumon, digivolve to....Greymon. Greymon, digivolve to....MetalGreymon."

"BlackAgumon, digivolve to....BlackGreymon. BlackGreymon, digivolve to....SkullGreymon."

"Gabumon, digivolve to....Garurumon. Garurumon, digivolve to....WereGarurumon."

"Gatomon, digivolve to....Angewomon."

"Biyomon, digivolve to....Birdramon. Birdramon, digivolve to....Garudamon."

"Hawkmon, digivolve to....Aquilamon. Aquilamon, digivolve to....Silphymon." The ultimate form of Jennifer's digimon looked like a combination of Aquilamon and Gatomon with the lower part of its body being like a bird and the upper body looking like a cat human. The final touch was that covering his eyes were a gray visor.

"Palamon, digivolve to....Togamon. Togamon, digivolve to....Lilymon."

"Patamon, digivolve to....Angemon. Angemon, digivolve to....MagnaAngemon." Angemon's new ultimate form was a tougher version of his previous form. He now had eight gold wing on his back with the top two folded over his shoulder and the bottom two were wrapped around his waist. Covering his head was a long light purple helmet with a small gray cross in the front. On his left arm was a shield and on his right forearm was a energy dagger.

"Tentomon, digivolve to....Kabuterimon. Kabuterimon, digivolve to....MegaKabuterimon." He looked much like his champion form except he resembled more of a red beetle with a green type of jewel on his back.

"Gomamon, digivolve to....Ikkakumon. Ikkakumon, digivolve to....Zudomon." Zudmon was covered in grayish blue skin expect for his head, forearms and the lower part of his legs which were covered in orange fur. On his back was a huge turtle like shell that had three curved spikes in the center. A jagged horn was on his forehead and in his hand was a giant hammer.

"Wormon, digivolve to....Stingmon. Stingmon, digivolve to....Kawagamon."

"Armadillomon, digivolve to....Ankylomon. Ankylomon, digivolve to....Knightmon." No longer on four legs he was now covered in a suit of armor with a huge shield strapped to his back with a large sword by his side.

"Floramon, digivolve to....Kiwimon. Kiwimon, digivolve to....Parrotmon." Parrotmon resembled a very large green parrot with the exception of a small gray helmet on his forehead with two feathers on top.

"Salamon, digivolve to....BlackGatomon. BlackGatomon, digivolve to....LadyShadowmon." The new digimon was similar to Angewomon except that she was wearing a light blue leather outfit with Annie's symbol on the right leg and the lower back on it. On here back were two black raven like wings. Her skin color was a grayish white and had dirty blonde hair that went down past the shoulders.

Once seeing that he was now up against fifteen ultimates, Reflectmon was in complete fright. Turning around he looked towards the castle. "Oh please master, assist me in defeating these trespassers." For almost a minute nothing happen. "Well, I guess your master doesn't care about what- " Before I could finish the front gates of the castle opened. Nothing could be seen until some figures were seen walking out of the shadows and once we got a good look at who they were we were speechless.

Coming out of the shadows were all of our parents and along with their digimon. For what seemed like an eternity nothing was said as all of us kids had a stare off with our parents. I don't know why but I had a bad feeling that something wasn't right with this picture.

My suspicion was confirmed as when I saw Annie running over to our mother. When I noticed that our mother had an evil smirk on her face I knew something wasn't right. Moving quickly I ran over and pulled her way in the nick of time because where Annie was standing a second ago became a crater since one of the parents' digimon fired a energy attack.

"What is going on? Why did you guys do that?" None of them said anything for a while until the silence was broken with my father laughing but not in his usual way. Instead it was more like a evil and sinister laught. "You fools. It is time to put an end to you and we shall be the ones to do so."

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Man, this has to be the longest chapter I have ever written for this story. I hope that you enjoyed it and please send me reviews on what you thought about it. Next time I hope to have the next chapter out sooner but no promises. Also, before I have to say that I have also put up a new chapter to 'The Wanderer'. So if you are interested go read that one.