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Chapter 6 : Hunt for Deathmon.

Dominion Realm : Digital World.

Dominimon walked over to an ornately carved chair and sat. "Now is the time to explain where you are. This is the Realm of Dominion, one of many digital worlds. I am the overseer of this world." he continued. "You however, are from, I believe, the Realm of Chaos. I am unable to be certain, since I have never visited that realm, but you have the feeling of it."

"Since I have never visited the Realm of Chaos, I am unable to help you get there. However, I have been to the Realm of light, and the digital guardian there has visited the Realm of Chaos once. If I send you there, he would almost certainly help you get back." Dominimon explained.

"However, as I said before, I would like to ask a favor first." he paused. "I would like you to defeat the demon lord Deathmon, who is killing my subjects, and disrupting the order of my domain. If you are truly from the Realm of Chaos, you should be able to absorb his data to increase your strength. I need him out of my domain, and he is too evasive for me to catch. However, he would probably allow a fellow demon lord to approach him..." Dominimon finished hesitantly.

Beelzemon considered for a second. He really didn't like loading data anymore. But than again, this was not an innocent digimon. He could still feel a strong desire to atone for the deletion of so many digimon from before, and removing a threat such as this could be just the way.

"Huh, seems like you were right, I must be from da 'Realm of Chaos', cause I can load data. I've decided dat I'll do it. Don't much like it, but I wanta' get home, and I don't much like weaklings that pick on digimon weaker than them. I'll take down this Deathmon for ya.

"Excellent. I have no real information to give you as to Deathmon's whereabouts, but I will inform my soldiers and those that I watch over that you are not dangerous to them." the angel said, bowing slightly in thanks.

"Nah, don't do that..." Beelzemon said quickly, one clawed hand rubbing his chin in thought. "If I wanna catch this guy, I'm gonna need em to come to me first. He won't do that if nobody is scared o' me. To catch da sneaky guy, I gotta be just as sneaky." He grinned toothily.

Dominimon thought for a second before speaking with a faint note of approval in his voice. "Yes, a good plan. I will do as you have asked. Should you need time to rest, there is a haven for less accepted digimon at the south range. When you have defeated Deathmon, return to me, and I will send you on to the Realm of Light." Dominimon concluded.

"No prob," Beelzemon commented as he turned to leave. "that guy won't know what hit him."

Chaos Realm : Real World.

The tamers were all on a train, heading towards Odaiba, and the portal that was there. They all had hopeful expressions on there faces, even Rika, though hers was less noticeable. One thought ran through their heads. 'Soon we will all have our partners back!' Yes, even Ryo had been caught up in the excitement, even though he was not nearly as certain of success.

'Yes, the Azulongmon from that other world is very kind, but would he risk Zhuquiaomon's wrath and Baihumon's aggression just to help us get our partners back?' he thought in the back of his mind. 'I trust he would try, but will he be able to succeed?'

"Yo, Ryo! What's got you so silent?" Kazu spoke out. "Your face may be smiling, but your eyes look like your dead!" He cracked.

Ryo sweatdropped. "Its nothing, I'm just thinking about the other digital world. It's been a while since I have been there." he lied a bit.

Rika and Takato were sitting across from each other, with henry and Susie sitting in the inside position of the train seats. "So Rika, what is the first thing you are gonna do when you get Renamon back?" Takato asked.

"Probably just talk to her. Might have her kick the so called digimon king upside the head though." she smirked at him. "What about you and Dino- boy?" she countered.

He sweatdropped. "Probably get knocked down... then licked a lot." he said while laughing a bit. "What about you and Terriermon, Henry?" he asked.

Henry thought for a second before answering. "He will probably ask me what took me so long, then get nearly crushed by Susie, then I will have to get him free." he smirked slightly.

"Yo, Gogglehead." Rika said out of the blue. "When we get our partners back, I want to have them spar. You may be stronger," she admitted ruefully, "but I'm gonna prove that I'm more skilled!" she finished her challenge.

"But I already know that you are more skilled." Takato pointed out in a confused voice. "Why would you need to prove it?"

Rika flushed just a bit, partly in anger, and partly at his praise. "Cause I said so Gogglehead!" she finished, then snarled softly in annoyance.

Takato smiled despite himself. She never changed, but he didn't mind and pretty soon all his friends would be together again.

Dominion Realm : Digital world.

Beelzemon had spent the last hour running around and chasing lower level digimon and running from the upper level ones that had come out to protect them. He was hoping that this would get back to Deathmon, and help draw him out to a potential ally.

Then he could pounce and crush the chump.

Suddenly an explosion hammered the area only a few feet off of the course he was taking with the Behemoth. Looking for the source he saw.... Cannondramon! This could be a bit of trouble. He couldn't just run, he would be hammered by the fire power then, and he couldn't delete him, or he'd be no better than that stupid Deathmon (and Dominimon probably wouldn't help him then too)... stupid Cannondramon.

This was gonna have to get a bit messy. He revved Behemoth and slipped the rear tire out and away from Cannondramon, aiming his ride straight for the massive digimon. He screamed forward as fast as Behemoth could go, and whipped his bike back and forth to keep Cannondramon from being able to hit him dead on, hopefully to keep him from hitting him at all.

It worked. Twice Dino Cannon attacks thundered past him, missing. And before a third could be launched, he was blazing past the dino's front and to its side. He drew his twin guns, ready to beat Cannondramon down, but also prepared to hold back.

"Double Impact!" 4 bullets slammed into the heavily armored section of the mega's right rear foot, causing the dino to lose his footing. This gave Beelzemon time to leap from his still moving bike and land on Cannondramon's back, before sprinting forward.

"Darkness Claw!" His claws mangled the grenade cannons on the mega's back, rendering them unusable. The demon lord continued sprinting.

Cannondramon regained his footing and started to move his body, trying to shake off the demon lord. 'Damn, come on, come on!' Beelzemon chanted mentally. He reached the base of the neck, and started up it, still sprinting.

Cannondramon's long supple neck swung around in an attempt to force Beelzemon off his neck, but was too late.

Beelzemon jumped and was above Cannondramon's head. Suddenly he was diving rather than free falling, and his foot smashed right in-between Cannondramon's eyes.

The massive dino's head slammed into the ground and bounced. He was beaten. "D...damn you..." He managed to get out.

"Heh, didn't learn your lesson from last time eh? Don't worry, I wont delete ya, after all, what kinda fun will I have without someone to beat up on, eh?" Beelzemon snickered.

Suddenly a chilling laugh was heard behind them. Beelzemon spun and had his twin guns at the ready before the noise even ended. "Who's dere?" He snapped.

A shadow oozed up out of the ground, slowly forming the shape of a demon winged form with a short tail, and three vicious looking talons on each arm. As the shadows faded, one could see it had three eyes, one on the palm of each hand, and one in the center of head.

"I am Deathmon. I was going to assist you, brethren, but it seems that you didn't need my help." The demon chuckled in its high hissing tone. "Join me my brethren, and we shall bring this world to its knees." he proclaimed.

"Hmmm... nah, your speech sucked. I figure I'll just delete ya and Dominimon will let me go home." Beelzemon countered. "Darkness Claw!" He surged forward.

Deathmon's eyes widened, and he took a defensive stance. "So be it, I will destroy you now, and on your own head be it! Eye Bl- Ugh!" Behemoth had smashed into Deathmon's back, and the stunned demon lord was only able to barely catch the clawed hands of his unexpected opponent.

Chaos Realm : Real World.

"So, how did you guys break the new to your parents?" Henry asked as they moved away from the train and towards the station exit. A round of sweatdrops followed the question, but he didn't notice.

"I just gave my dad a look and he gave up, probably cause he knows it's his fault that our digimon need to be retrieved." Henry said out a bit angrily. "Had to do a bit of team glaring with Susie to get him to let her come though.

"Uh, we were supposed to tell our parents?" Kazu sweatdropped.

"Uh, what he said..." Kenta added, with his own sweatdrop.

Takato looked a bit nervous. "I decided I would wait for the lecture when I get home, so I left a note rather than asking..." he said quietly.

"Gogglehead got it right, I just left a note for my grandmother and mom. They'll freak out, but by the time we get back they will be so happy to see me that they won't care about lecturing me anymore." she smirked slightly.

"My dad wasn't happy, he yelled a bit. But before I left to meet you he gave me some stuff he thought I might need." Ryo said while hefting a small pouch

For just a second, everyone looked a bit sad, thinking about how he or she wouldn't see their families for a while. Then, as one, they all grinned and stepped forward, ready to see their digimon again.

"Lets go!" Takato said cheerfully. He pulled out his D-ark and started tracking.

Dominion Realm : Digital World.

Back and forth the battle raged. Deathmon's size and deadly claws continually forced Beelzemon to back away, and Beelzemon's aggression forced Deathmon onto the defensive. For twenty minutes the two had been fighting full force against each other.

'Incredible.' thought Cannondramon. 'Twice Beelzemon fought me and twice he defeated me, but he never fought like this. If he had, I would be waiting to be reconfigured now!'

Cannondramon had regained his breath, but knew that both demon lords were out of his league. He might be able to blast one of them if they stood still for long enough, but how likely was tha-... he thought to soon.

Both combatants had come to a short stop. "Impressive brethren. I was wrong to judge you as my inferior. You are my equal. Perhaps we should join forces as I suggested before." Deathmon hissed out.

Beelzemon's panting turned into a grin. "What, afraid of being deleted? If you are so afraid of dyin' you shouldn't be named for death!" He sneered. He jumped and suddenly sprouted wings, and his right forearm and hand suddenly seemed to grow a large blaster onto itself.

"What is this?" Deathmon stepped back in surprise. "Hn, it doesn't matter. I will destroy you anyway! Eye Blast!" the eyes on Deathmon's hands widened and two dark beams of energy surged out towards Beelzemon.

Beelzemon swung his body to the right to both dodge the attack and bring his body in line to do what he had planned next. "Corona Blaster!" the energy projectile blasted forward with awesome force.

Deathmon jumped back as the projectile slammed into the ground where he had just been. 'Damn, he's more powerful than before!' he thought.

Beelzemon flew down to the ground ready to attack again. "I can see you didn't like that. Well here's a bigger taste! Corona Destroyer!" He drew a pentagram in the air, and channeled his power into a massive surge of deadly energy that thundered towards the other demon lord.

Deathmon reacted quickly, but not quite quickly enough to avoid being hit. He watched in fascination as Beelzemon's attack deleted his left arm, and scorched his left wing. His last second sidestep had saved him from total deletion.

He fell to his knees, right claw clutching left shoulder, where data streamed away from his weakened body. "No.... NO! I will not let it end this easy for you Beelzemon!" a visible aura of dark energy gathered around him, and his body stopped losing data.

"I cannot defeat you now, but I will destroy you some day. Dimensional Gaze!" the demon lord screamed. His primary eye widened and his pupil shrunk to a mere point of darkness. All of the dark energy surrounding him flowed upward, forming a circle.

From within the circle a pupil that matched his own formed, then expanded to reach the barrier of the circle. Now inside the circle, you could see water.

"I will return, and destroy you Beelzemon, this you can count on!" he howled before flying through the odd portal.

Beelzemon sweatdropped. "Sheesh, I hope I was never that melodramatic..."

Unknown Realm : Digital World.

Deathmon passed through the portal, and it closed behind him. He had gone from one battle, straight into another. Before him, he fellow demon lord Leviamon was in battle with two opposing mega digimon and an ultimate. He faced Gryphomon, Dynasmon, and Piximon.

Against any one, he would not have needed to interfere, but all three... "Eye Blast!" Piximon was no more than data floating on the air. As one the other two data digimon turned to face Deathmon. That was a major mistake.

"Seven Great Demon Lords!" the seven spirits of great demons crashed into the backs of the two mega digimon, horribly injuring both.

Deathmon was already prepared to act. "Eye Blast!" Gryphonmon was now particles of data in the air. But Deathmon still had Dynasmon to worry about.

"Dragon Roar!" pulses of red and blue light shot from the palms of Dynasmon's hands towards Deathmon, who was barely able to evade with his burnt wing. Fortunately he didn't have to for very long.

"Rostrum Cauda!" the two barbed tails of Leviamon struck through Dynasmon's back, ending Deathmon's immediate danger, as the knight digimon deleted.

"Speak or be destroyed interloper!" the thunderous voice of Leviamon spoke to Deathmon. "I have no need to give favors, so why did you help me?"

"I assisted you, brethren, for the purpose of destroying our mutual enemy." hissed Deathmon. "Listen well to my words, and we may yet destroy many more of them."

Leviamon considered for a moment, then nodded cautiously.

Dominion Realm : Digital World.

Beelzemon strode past Knightmon and straight into the sanctum of Dominimon's temple. "Yo, angel. I got good news an' bad news."

"I no longer sense Deathmon in my domain, so please proceed with the bad news Beelzemon." Dominimon answered gravely.

Beelzemon gritted his teeth for a second in irritation that he had to admit to failing, then spoke. "I handed Deathmon a major beatdown, but he pooled his energy and managed ta create some sorta dimensional portal. He isn't deleted, went to some sort of place with lots of water." He snarled.

Dominimon was silent for a moment. "That is dire news, however, he is no longer in my domain, and my well be in the Realm of Light, therefore it would be best of me to fulfill my promise to you now." He stated.

He waved his hand and Knightmon arrived carrying a large mirror. The knight put the mirror down in the center of the room, and exited. Dominimon proceeded to point his palm at the mirror, which started to glow softly.

"There, the gateway is prepared. You may leave at your leisure Beelzemon, with my thanks for your assistance." Dominimon said respectfully.

"Thanks angel, good luck with the ruling the world thing." Beelzemon smirked, then turned and walked through the portal.

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Rostrum Cauda: Rostrum means beak or snout, and Cauda means tail. Looking at Leviamon's picture, that was the best way for that attack to work that I could think of.

Dimensional Gaze: I made up this attack. However, it will play a very important role in this story, I promise.