KD: Okay, time for the next chapter.

Shinya: Do I get my spirit?

KD: The story is based on all of you...but I dont know about the spirit thing...

Shinya: Aww...

KD: Dont own...start fic.

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CHAPTER 25: ESCAPE INTO THE FOREST! TOWARD THE BATTLE!!

Tomoki ollked around them, the digimon came in closer, and he didnt know what to do, then, he heard some foot steps, he turned, and he saw a large shadow coming closer, the digimon all flew up into the trees, and Tomoki grabbed Shinya into a bush, and they sat down, the fottsteps became louder, and a large digimon ran into the clearing they had been standing in, it was a robot like digimon, and he looked weak, Tomoki looked at him, and he started to run, but something was swung at him from behind, and he was forced to the ground, and a large digimon appeared, it was drumon, the digimon that held the spirits of thunder(Ch. 19).

Takuya looked around through the tree tops, he was being carried by foliamon, who was also looking through the trees, "No sign of them, Utaka?" foliamon shook his head, "We have to keep trying...!" he went down towards the ground, and landed, letting Takuya down, "What s up, Utaka?" foliamon looked at him, "We are getting near the castle...if we are seen, we will be killed." Takuya looked at him, "Right...lets go." foliamon dedigivolved, and the two boys ran into the forest, away from the castle. The turned when they heard something, and slwoed down as a shadow flew by, they ran towards it, and then, saw seraphimon running in the same direction, and decided to follow him, they ran and then, ducked behind a tree, when they saw him running towards drumon, and hold out his hands.

"Blast of Thunder!" drumon held out his mallet with both hands, and a huge wave of electricity flew at the robot digimon, "Why did you run, andromon?" he waked up to the digimon on the ground, and lifted his mallet, "Goodbye! AARr!" a bright yellow flash appeared behind him, and he bent over, dropping his mallet, he turned, and saw seraphimon behind him, "Dont think about it drumon!" drumon looked at him with rage, "Die! Seraphimon!" he lifted his mallet, "Blast of Thunder!" seraphimon pt his hands in front of him, "Strike of the Seven Stars!" the attacks met, and neither seemed to be winning, but, then, seraphimon gave an extra push, and the attacks started to proceed towards drumon, who also did, and the attacks seemed even, the andromon called at drumon, "You will never win against the powers of good!" he grabbed drumon by the shoulders, and seraphimon called to him, "Andromon! No, dont do it!" but, andromon opened his chest, and four explosions he drumons back, and the attacks rush towards him as seraphimon called out again, "STRIKE OF THE SEVEN STARS!" they hit drumon, and he fell back in an explosion, and andromon was deleted.

The smoke cleared, and drumon, badly beaten appeared, "You destroyed your own ally," he looked up into the sky, "And more go as we speak." seraphimon stared at drumon, Tommoki and Shinya looked at the sky, wwhere seraphimons castle must be, hundreds of fractal codes spun into the air, and the clouds lit up whenever one passed through, drumon spoke again, "You can destroy me, or go back to the others, and help...you either let hundreds more die, while you are fighting me...or spend your time protecting them!" what seraphimon did Tomoki did not find out, Shinya grabbed his wrist, and pulled him away, they ran towards the direction of the castle, and it seemed a long while before they stopped, soon, the ghost digimon seemed to have found them, and were following behind.

Takuya and Utaka saw Tomoki and Shinya run past them, and before Takuya could go up to them, he was pulled back by Utaka, "What are you-" Utaka covered his mouth, and a bunch of ghost digimon flew by, Utaka let go of Takuya, and ran after them, and Takuya followed, they ran through the side of the forest path so the wouldnt be seen by the digimon, and watched closly, they could just make the outlines of the ghosts since they were so far away.

Koji looked forward, and saw that the forest was clearer, he looked up, and saw the foot of the mountain, garurumon started to incline, and said to them, "We are here!" he slowed down, and when they were over the tree tops, they all got off. Izumi walked over towards Koji and Kouichi, and Junpei started to run over as well, Koji looked at them, "We need to find siremon, since Izumi still has her spirits it will be more likely that she will be able to use it...if we can figure it out." then, they all looked up after hearing a rumble, it was siremon, she flew down at them, "Children come to fight again?" Izumi ran towars her, "Thats right!" siremon laughed, "Then we fight!" Izumi looked determined, she reached for her D-Tector, "Now, gabumon ran at her, and she looked back, "Why not?" gabumon explained, "If you lose this battle, you wont be able to use the Stone, even if we obtain it, it would be useless.!" She looked at him pleadingly, "Harpies Claw!" Izumi turned, and saw that siremon was coming right at her.

"Warp digivolve! Metalgarurumon!" The wolf digimon ran at her, "Ice Wolf Claw!" siremon flew up to avoid the attack, and Izumi ran towards the others, who were climbing into a tree, wargreymon, lilymon, and drillmon appeared, "Flower Cannon!" the attack shot at siremon, and she dodged it, "Ice wolf Claw!" she dodged again, and then, afrom behind, wargreymon punched her to the ground, and lillymon metalgarurumon, and drillmon attacked at once.

Tomoki looked back as he heard a small exposion, "Seraphimon must have attacked drumon..." he said to himself, and the ghost digimon started to gain on them, Shinya stopped, and turned, and Tomoki followed him, "We have to get to that castle!" Tomoki yelled at him, "Why? We would get killed!" Shinya did not answer, and kept running, the both felt burning in thier legs, and were slowing down really fast, but, then, They hit something and all fell down, Shinya looked up, and saw Utaka getting up, and face off with the digimon, and he turned to Takuya, Tomoki backed behind Utaka and grabbed him, breathing hard, "We have to go Utaka!" but Utaka grabbed his D-Tector, "Execute! Spirit Evolution! Foliamon!" the ghosts backed up a little bit, and stared him down, "You cant beat us...we are Bakamon!" foliamon stood still, and just looked at them, "Lets go, then..." he ran at them, and they flew towards him.

Koji looked through the leaves, and saw the the smoke from the explosion cleared, and siremon flew up, she seemed very weak, "You will pay! Hmmm, luuuuuul, laaaa, hmmmm,laaa laaa..." she closed her eyes, and put her hands forward, the digimon all ran towards her to attackm war greymon created a giant ball of energy, lillymon pulled out her cannon, and metalgarurumon opened his mouth to form a beam, siremon called out, "Bubble Air Strike!" she shot out the attack, and wargreymon, metalgarurumon, and lilymon did the same, the attacks all met, and siremon seemed to have the upper hand, the bubbles that were formed popped around the digimon, damaging them, but the still held on.

The giant ball of energy was the bulk of the attack, and the two beams seemed to grow slightly larger as moments passed, and drillmon dug into the side of the mountain, when he came out, he was behind siremon, and she looked back at him, she directed one of the bubbles towards him, and he shot all his drills at her, the bubble hit him head on, and he was thrown into the forest, hitting a tree, causing it to fall down from the impact, the drills still zoomed upward, siremon focused most of her energy to her attack, so the bubles sent at the drills werent hitting dierctly, two remained, and then, one. The drillhit her in the center of the back, and she fliched, wargreymon formed a giant twister, and flew into the beams, they all we pushed towards siremon, and the twister got wide, causeing all of the power bubbles to encircle it, hitting each other, and then, the twister, elongated, and the bubbles all raced towards siremon as the beams all bacame part of the twister, and it twisted and turned, hitting siremon, who flew up, and twargreymon stopped, flipping and falling down, as the bubbles flew at their owner, he landed, as a series of small explosions sounded over head.

Foliamon jumped into the air, "Petal Gust!" many tiny leaves formed arond him in white flashes, and spun towards the bakamon, they all were thrown back by the attack, and foliamon ran at them, he jumped up, and kicked one in the face, and its fractal code flew into the sky, he then attacked several mare until there were just two left, one of them stuttered, "You c-c-cant def-feat us...w-w-we a-are the mighty ba-ba-ba" foliamon waked up to them, "Bakamon." they looked at eachother and fell to the ground bowing, "We are not worthy, we are not worthy!" foliamon turned back into Utaka, and the bakamon flew away down the forest path, and Utaka turned around, "Hows that?" they all cheered.

Koji, Kouichi, Junpei, and Izumi, were sitting in the tree, and Kouichi spoke, "Its over?" Junpei looked at him, "Of coarse! Nothing can beat us!" Izumi turned to them "...But what about...armadillomon?" they all looked in the direction he flew towards, it was towards the castle, Koji stood up on his branch, "I will go look for him...you guys have to find the other Nomad Digimon..." Kouichi got up, "I will go too." Izumi stood, "You guys cant go...you wont have anyone to protect you." Koji started to climb down, "We will be okay Izumi...just get you Soul Spirit, and destroy shadowmon and his followers." Izumi nodded, "Right. Come on Junpei!" they both ran out of the tree, towards the digimon, as a Stone dropped from the sky, Izumi ran to it, and picked it up, there was a very small fractal code around it.

She took out her D-Tector, and it started flashing wildly, the stone flew out of her hand, and at the screen of her D-Tector, and it changed shape, it was more like Koji and Takuyas now, she lifted it into the air, "I got the Soul Spirit!" the digimon went to her, "Where are the other two?" gabumon asked, Junpei looked at him, "They went to find armadillomon, but said it was to out of the way for us...whe should find the other Nomad Digimon...and shadowmon."

Koji was running through the forest, with Kouichi behind him, "Why are we running, Koji!?" Koji looked back, "I dont want them coming after us to stop us!" Kouichi caught up to him and grabbed his shoulder, "Dont worry Koji, they will understand." Koji looked at him and smiled, "I cant do this anymore..." Kouichi nodded, "I know, but its okay. When its over, you will know it was right." Koji walked forward, and Kouichi followed, his eyes became weary, and he was slow, he seemed to be fighting something, but Koji couldnt notice, he was busy in his own thoughts. They walked on, and Kouichi started to breath hard, "Koji Minamoto..." he said under his breath, "You are mine...!"

Tomoki and Shinya ran towards their brothers, "What happened guys?" Tomoki asked, "Did you digivolve and beat him?" Utaka laughed, "I didnt digivolve until after we beat him! But, I think he is still out there." Tomoki laughed, "Good job, bro!" Shinya looked at Takuya, "So, howd you do it?" Takuya smiled, "We pushed a rock that caused a land slide, and it fell on top of him." They all sat down, "We should rest here." Utaka said seriously, "We need to regain our strength...before we go look for the others." they all agreed, and decided to climb up a big tree, so they wouldnt get caught by wandering digimon. Takuya ran towards an extra large branch, Tomoki took one across from him, and Shinya took one next to him, as Utaka slept in the middle of the huge trunk.

KD: Yep...thats it.

Rika: Lots of stuff going on there...whats up with Kouichi?

KD: Yes, he is a great actor, and I would like to thank him for his great work.

Kouichi: Only he and I know why I am like this.

Rika: See ya next time on, Digimon: Digital Monsters!

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thank you.