The Rise and Fall-chapter 3

To A-chan: ^_^ glad you like him. I'm starting on his plushie right now, actually... but I can't get his staff right!!

To Iniora Nackatori: Well, let's just say he emptied their emergency food supply last time. :P But otherwise... ARIGATO!!!(thanks)

To blackmage718: (still out cold) (wakes up after Rouge threw a bucket of cold water, INCLUDING the bucket itself on my head) DO YOU MIND, ROUGE!? Huh? A review? FROM BLACK!!! YAY!! Thank goodness, erm... evilness that Dae's alright! ^_^;(still soaked from water) Hee,hee,hee. just tell him he's gonna stay 'till the end of this fic. And maybe, just maybe, I MIGHT put a certain character called Heather in! ^_^

To Renagirl and Rena: Glad ur still reading. I'M STUCK WITH MY DYSR FIC!!!! Newayz, hope u enjoy THIS chapter.

To Corran: YOU HAVEN'T UPLOADED THE 6TH CHAPTER, HAVE YOU!!???!?!?!? Yeah, everything's well in the world, if not for an unlucky thanksgiving turkey named Saddam... :P

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Everyone was taking an afternoon nap while waiting for the three wizards to dispel the curse on Mistmon. Nina was all cuddled up in between Bee and Lucifer, Black sitting right next to Lucifer. Tosh was holding his Kotemon, almost cradling it, Jennifer lying down on her Renamon's lap, Raye leaning against her Kumamon(yeah, it's strong enough to hold her weight.) The twins were leaning against each other, Rico holding out his arms protectively around his younger sister. The pair, Beelzemon and VampBeelzemon(as how E-vie wants to be known as.) , were wide awake. The first to wake up was Lars, followed by E-vie as they both walked outside and sat on their respective bikes.

"Something's strange but I can't put a finger to it." Lars said, crossing his arms behind his head and leaned back, gazing up at the darkening sky. E-vie nodded. She knew what he meant and somehow, what they were feeling was... familiar. In some ways. The only thing they can tell was that it felt like its part of them.

In an abandoned castle, far away from where they were, empty gray halls were filled with a single humming voice and the sounds of heels walking on the cold, stone floor. It sounded like a she as it walked into a throne room and looked at an old chair at what seemed to be a throne. She giggled and strode across the room and plopped onto the old throne. Surprisingly, it managed to hold her weight as if it were brand new.

"Looks like our death is forbidden, Rouge..." she whispered to no one in particular and at the very same time, some small heaps of debris moved, stayed and moved some more to un-earth a Beelzemon in a coughing fit as dust flew everywhere around him. He kicked some big blocks of stone off and brushed himself, coughing yet again and shook some more dust out of his blonde hair. He sighed and out of nowhere, a black motorcycle appeared in front of him. He patted it and it made a strange wheezing-honking sound and he smiled at its response.

"So, we're not wanted in the Digi-heaven? We're back in digi- hell. Ready or not, we've got some 'haunting' to do." He said as he mounted his bike and for once, felt even more alive as he sped off into the night.

It was daybreak when Lars felt a cold gush of water get into his eyes and he sat up, yelping and rubbed his eyes as if the water was onion juice. (really, I hate chopping onions!!! _) he glared at the water witch next to him and saw her smile in a way that told him he was a sucker.

"Everyone's having breakfast. You wanna miss out on the good fish? 'Sides, it's not everyday you get to eat digi-trout. Thank Lucifer and Black for the fishing. The berries are good too. By the way, I thought I heard someone sing the song of life last night." Wyna said, turning to Lars. He had no idea what she was talking about but, what he felt last night was getting too near and too familiar he felt uncomfortable.

"I have no idea whatsoever. You go figure. By the way..."

"Mistmon's fine. He's up already in case you haven't noticed." Lars nodded slowly, trying to let the message sink in as if he didn't believe it and sure enough, Mistmon was sitting around with them, looking reluctant to eat but fine nonetheless. He seemed to have noticed Lars and smiled, his pallid face showing his features against the sunlight. Nina was right next to him, trying to stuff a fish down his throat and lamenting on how he should eat more and nearly wrestled Kumamon for the last berry. Quite an 'adventurous' and highly amusing morning.

In the afternoon, they were discussing on what to do next. They don't know who sent Daemon and they can't possibly just walk all around the world without knowing much information. Just then, Lucifer piped up about an unknown place.

"Anyone tried the Shrieking Shack?" everyone blinked at the virus digimon except Bee and Black.

"Let me get this straight; I don't think I know about this Shrieking Shack thing." Lucifer, Bee and Black exchanged glances and gave each other mental explanations before moving on to inform the rest.

"Okay, the Shrieking Shack is full of informative digimon but, the hard thing is that they don't spill the beans too easily. Besides, the whole place is a dimensional vortex. If anyone gets lost, not much chance of finding that person in the Shrieking Shack anymore and you may end up warped somewhere in the digi-world." Bee explained, picking up a stick and roughly describing it on the ground.

"Question; does the warping involve digi-hell?" Renamon asked, though it was Jennifer's question.

"This IS the digi-hell. Nobody noticed so far?" all of them turned around and saw another Beelzemon (hey, makes that a crowd of Beelzemons, right?) looking at them from his seated position. He was grinning widely at them. Kimber stood up and looked at him intently.

"Hey there Kim. Don't tell me you forgot li'l ol' me." He said, smiling.

"...Rouge? Is that you?" he nodded. Behind her, both E-vie and Lars exchanged glances. She went up to the older digimon and practically pounced on him.

"Rouge!! It IS you!!! You're back! But... I thought..." he shushed her and told her,

"We just didn't like staying cooped up so we wreaked havoc. We really made them hopping mad so they expelled us to this hell." Rouge said, standing up. He didn't change much.

"And, you must be Lucifer." He looked at Lucifer who just nodded simply. When he saw E-vie and Lars, it took him a while before he asked,

"And these two are...?" Rico looked up at him and back at Lars.

"Okay, father," he pointed up at Rouge,

"Son." He pointed back at Lars.

"Catch my drift yet? And before I forget, father, meet daughter." He said, pointing at E-vie. Rouge felt his jaw drop. The last time he had seen the two, they were still eggs and now, they're both in their Mega forms. Both were looking at him, equally surprised. Rouge straightened up and turned to the others,

"You guys were planning on going to Shrieking Shack, right? First, you have to get past a 'few' of it's 'protectors'. Anyone heard of the Elemental of the Digi-world?" all digimons nodded.

"Good. So, you need to defeat the Fire, water, ice, wind, earth, light and darkness. And... there's another elemental. It's called the memory elemental. I don't know what it does but, I might be lucky enough to help you guys. Unfortunately, I have to go and pick someone up first." Before he walked to his bike, he went over to Lars and E-vie,

"Look out for each other. Every time you defeat an Elemental, one of you lot's gonna disappear."

"Why aren't you telling the others about this?" Lars said, raising an eyebrow.

"Because... Beelzemons and ...VampBeelzemons are the only ones who wouldn't get affected. Every time one elemental is defeated, a small portion of the dimensional vortex opens. And that little has the power to suck in one person. Should someone be in there, they'd never see the light of day, ever." Rouge said before standing up and speeding off.

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FINALLY DONE!!!!

Lars: yeah, and you choose now for dad to meet us...

Oh well, gotta upload this. Next chap's spoiler!!!

Spoiler: Heather's gonna re-unite with her Daemon and they all meet up at the Fire elemental's place!!

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