Rise and Fall- chapter 6

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Question: Estimate to the nearest whole number, how many words are there in this chapter all in all. If you can give the exact amount, you will receive a free pic of Scalumon!!! (What kinda present is this...???)

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The digi-destines were trying to find a way out when Nina's three digimon just found out through their mental links that Nina was still alive in a dimension called The land of the Forgotten Kings. Wick flashed a triumphant smile behind his cowl and when they explained that Nina was with Chaos Lord in the other dimension, Lars huffed. Being with one Chaos Lord is bad enough, why bother meeting another?

"Okay, now we know Nina's alive, which is good news, how are we going to get out?" Rico asked, pacing. As if on cue, a hole opened not far from them as Ronfar's face popped up from behind it.

"Yo! Thought you guys might want a clean exit!" Ronfar waved at them. Rico merely smirked.

"Okay, let's head out. We'll figure out what to do next later." The 'captain' said when Lars frowned as if something hit his head.

"...Once you head out, head for the mountains. I will wait for you there." Lars said. His voice sounded different and when E-vie looked at him, his eyes were glowing a shade of yellow instead of his green ones and after he said that, he fell unconscious.

"...Why do we have to wait for him if he's already with us?"

"Shut up, Ronfar." Rico said as he walked out through the hole in the wall, pocketing a red sphere which Firenze had left behind after the flame digimon had been defeated.

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Meanwhile, the ground was already covered in ice where Rouge and Alara were. Alara shivered slightly while Rouge was looking for the source of the ice.

"It's pretty cold and I'm getting sleepy." Alara said, looking at Rouge. Rouge smiled, chuckling to himself.

"Better not. If you fall asleep and freeze into a block of ice, then maybe I'd take a rest myself. ...The eternal type." He said, cocking his head to one side as he looked up into the sky. Alara's cheeks flushed an interesting shade of pink.

"Don't be silly! I won't let you, that's for sure!" she said, punching him playfully on the shoulder when suddenly, Rouge pulled her by the waist towards him and where she stood was an ice pillar.

"Thanks." She said briefly when all around them, an ice room was formed.

"Things are looking bad." She commented.

"Very bad." Rouge added when they heard a cheerful yet cold giggle.

"Sodina, how nice to see you." Alara said warmly, knowing the Ice Priestess would be delighted if she said it coldly. In turn, Sodina noticed the sarcasm in her voice.

"Oh and I thought you were being sarcastic." She said, forming ice spikes on the ground.

"And what did we do to deserve this?" Rouge said calmly, stuffing his hands in his pockets. Even though he looked quite normal, he was actually shivering from head to toe.

"Well, merely an order to stop your children's advance. So... I decided I should go and talk to the parents first." She said brightly, playing with some snowflakes.

"What luck, we were going to go see you. That way, we can open more gates easily." Alara said, hands on her hip.

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"Clowmon, how much farther are we going? It's getting darker here." Heather said, still following the clown down some steps.

"Don't worry Heather, he knows what to do." Clowmon said, looking for something around the walls.

"He who?" from the dim light, she saw Clowmon pointing to himself.

"He knows shadows will lead him to Daemon."

"Just hopefully he's alright."

Upstairs, Daemon was struggling to release himself from the curses which were binding him.

"And now, the final step..." Necromamon opened his palm to reveal a black ball, glowing menacingly. Daemon looked at it for a minute and recognized it for sure.

"That's a Black Gear..." he muttered under his breath. Suddenly, there was a war cry and the Viral Army was set loose on Necromamon. Coincidentally, Necromamon accidentally opened the binds as the Viral Army continued to bash him up. Daemon raised an eyebrow, wondering how the Viral Army was set loose when someone tugged him out of the castle through the back door which led them to a mountain.

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In the Sacred Sanctuary, Bolt had awakened. From his beastly form of a blue griffin, he took shape of a human. Blue hair, deep purple eyes and was quite pale. He was dressed in a blue outfit and heard the door behind him open. It was Wendiene, the Water guardian.

"What do you want?" he asked rather harshly. Wendiene looked down at the scales on her tail as if she was a guilty person and looked up at him.

"Bolt, is this really necessary...? I mean, I don't want anyone to be hurt again! Firenze is hurt badly enough and my younger sister Sodina is out to stop their advance. If you too are injured, the gates will all be opened at the Sacred Sanctuary would be free to be attacked from any directions." She said, looking into those lazy purple eyes with concerned aqua eyes. He looked away from her and turned. He took a deep breath and sighed. When he turned to face her again, he walked right past her and said something as he passed her.

"The gates won't be opened. I won't allow them to advance to your gate. Or Memoria..." he said silently as he disappeared with a crack of lightning in the corridor.

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The blizzard had stopped to a mere rain of snow and soon, not a single snowflake was present in the air as Sodina fell down to the ground, defeated. Rouge too, fell back from exhaustion. Alara caught him in time before they heard Sodina weeping tears of ice.

"...I... couldn't defend my gate... They will never forgive me..." she cried, as the ice around them slowly began to melt. She too, began to melt, her long hair growing shorter and her hands slowly turning into pools of water. Alara looked at the melting guardian and couldn't help but feel sorry for her. Sodina wailed and with a wave of her slowly but surely disappearing hands, her gate opened, taking her with it. In Sodina's place, lay a light blue sphere. She picked it up and Rouge sat up, rubbing the back of his neck.

"Remind me not to do that again..." he muttered. She gave him a faint smile as she walked towards him.

"Everything is repeating itself again... The Ice guardian perishes, as her descendants were doomed to suffer such fate." She said slowly, putting the ball inside her pocket. Rouge knew what she meant and nodded.

"But, I won't disappear this time. I know I won't." Rouge said, standing up and smiling at her. Alara was trembling, visibly upset as he wrapped his arms around her to comfort her.

"Did you realize what you put me through before...?" she cried into his shoulder. He gave a ghost of a smile and sighed,

"Yes, I knew. And I'm sorry. Very sorry."

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What're they talking about? Heheheheh... wait 'till I finish DYSR... Where right now, I am completely stumped!!!!! _

Oh well, QUIZZIE!!!!! To the closest hundreds, estimate how many words there are in this chapter. If you can give me the correct amount, you will get one pic of BlackWarGreymon but should you give me the exact amount, you will receive a pic of Scalumon along with BlackWarGreymon! (as I said, what kinda present is this...?)

HINT!!!!!!

There are four numbers in how many words there are.

Do not count the author's note or the footer.

Do not count the @@@@@ line.

There you go!

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