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[Signs]

(Thoughts)

Summary: Abandoned by the others, after he made Greymon digivolve into SkullGreymon, Tai seeks a meaning to his new life. Not as a Digi destined, but as a Digimon.

Three days remains of the seven days of darkness. Myotismon and Matt face off against one another atop the vampire digimons base in an all out battle to the finish. Just a few floors below the battle sight, Tai, Kari Gatomon and Wizardmon finds themselves in a trap put together by Demidevimon, pitting them against some of the strongest of Myotismon's soldiers. And downtown, Mimi and Joe have finally found and freed Izzy and Sora from the darkness, but with so many evil digimons still lose, can they save everyone and the world from evil.

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Twist of fate

Part  XII

Day Six

Revelations in the Darkness, The Master Mind is revealed.

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Grinning as he lifted his arms up to greet the fog covered evening sky, Matt laughed out in a cold and dark way, his eyes glowing red as tendrils of darkness began to move out from his body and cover the entire rooftop with a layer of coldness and fear. Then he looked down and stared at the shocked faces around him. "Come now, aren't you going to greet your old friend and team mate?" Holding out a hand, he formed a small sphere in it and laughed as lighting crackled along the surface of it. "I must say, I had never expected for one of my old nemesis to be reborn into this world." Throwing the sphere forward with the last words, Matt laughed out loud at it tore through the air.

Tai screamed as the pure darkness smacked right into him, the fact that the evil around Matt was that powerful to his senses had prevented him from reacting sooner to the treat, and now, he could feel just how strong it was as the sphere spread out over his body, sending needles of pain through his body and dedigivolving him back to his Champion level, but with barely enough strength left to maintain it, leaving him only able to look up and stare at the boy with pain and confusion on his face. "Matt?"

Stopping his insane laugh at the weak mentioning of his name, he stared at the smoking feline like human body lying on the ground before him, he could hear and see the other digi destined digimons flying in the air around him looking for a chance to stop him, still, it didn't concern him at all what they did, they could be controlled again, all he had to do, was find their greatest fear and used it against them, just as he had before. "Well, Well, Chimon. Isn't that what you call now, Phantomon was such a good informant, he told me all about you when I turned him over to my cause." Staring up at the ghost like digimon floating in the air above him, he grinned and waved for him to come closer. "And he will still be of good help to me, as the first of my four Warlords."

Lifting up both hands as the good digimons around him and Phantomon began to power up their attacks, he laughed and sent out several streams of darkness, each of them finding their targets in a matter of seconds, sending the different digimons falling down to the ground in a heap. Lillymon and Kabuterimon glowing brightly as they landed, revealing a badly hurt Tanemon and Motimon lying on the broken rooftop, then he turned and stared at the flying Birdramon coming for a low flying attack, Mimi and Sora standing on the rooftop on the other part of the Roof top, the girl having opted to stay out of the battles way. "Two down, one to go." Blasting Birddramon as she moved up to send down the deadly Meteor attack, he grinned as a Yokomon dropped down to land in Sora's hands from only a weak blast of his dark powers. "I could get used this kind of power, he was right all along, only power will allow me to protect TK from harm."

Turning around quickly, the human boy coated in a cloud of darkness sent out a spiral on negative energy sending Gatomon and Wizardmon flying back to hammer into the side of the domelike part of the TV station, crack spreading out from their impact along with bits of glasses from the few windows who had survived the battle up until that point. "Truly, no one shall stop me from dominating the digital world once more." Face screwing up a bit, the cold blue eyes of Matt's filled with confusion as the darkness around him began to shrink and pull in on itself. "No, I have to protect TK from harm." Eyes turned rock hard again; the darkness spread out and covered more of the roof then before. "Fool, I'm too powerful to be controlled by you now, even if you try all you that can, you can't regain control of this body until I let you." Looking up, the blue eyes settled on the feline digimon looking at him from the center of the rooftop. "And I say we remove the old threat right now." Arm lifting up, the dark cloud began to move in and form another sphere of darkness.

"Vulcan's Hammer!"

Turning around at the words, Matt blinked as an arrow of pure energy tore through the side of the building and nearly through him as well, bricks and concrete raining down around him as he feel back from the shock, then he glared down at the towering digimon the street. "Right, forgot about you didn't I." Looking up, he focused on the floating ghost type digimon hovering up there. "Phantomon, attack him."

Down on the street in front of the TV Station, Zudomon gasped as Phantomon swung around to glare down at both him and partner human sitting on his back. "This is not good." Storming downward in dive-bombing fashion, the ghost type digimon swung his scythe around in a wide arch, the dark energy in the blade shooting out to hit the much large digimon in the shoulder. "Dammit, he so strong." Lifting up his hammer in a last desperate attempt to defend them all, Zudomon aimed the attack at the ghost digimon hovering in the air. "Vulcan's hammer!" Yelling out the attack, he slammed the large metal hammer down onto the ground and grinned only for a second before cursing as the beam of light shot out and missed as the ghost digimon floated out its way. Lifting his hammer for a second attempt, he screamed out as a sphere of darkness slammed into him, sending him falling over backwards to land heavily on the ground, Joe screaming the whole way, then he felt his power fade away as he was returned to his in-training state of Bukamon lying on top of a still shell shocked human boy.

On the rooftop, Matt smiled as he saw another one of his foes down for the count, then he turned back to stare at the feline/human like boy lying on the roof with a  sick smile on his face. Moving closer, he lifted up his hand and formed another sphere in its palm, his eyes and mouth taking on a mock sympathy like look. "I'm sorry, but I can't let you live, as long as one of my old enemies lives, there's a chance I could lose." 

"Hand of Fate!"

Turning around fast enough to nearly give himself a whiplash, Matt eyes shot wide up as he saw the one digimon he hadn't expected to see at all, and especially right here at the TV station. Staring up at the hovering Angemon, he barely paid any attention to the pitiful scream from Phantomon as the attack instantly deleted the ghost digimon despite it being an ultimate. "TK..."

"Matt?"

Following the voice, Matt blinked as he spotted his little brother standing before him on the rooftop, his blond hair plying in the wind as the young boy had pulled his little green hat off, the blue eyes staring right into him with fear, confusion and pity, pity at him, pity for what he had become... "NOOOOO!!!" Screaming loudly, the older blond haired boy stumbled backwards as the dark cloud around him struggled to stay in control, but finding itself pressed to do it, as the host had been shocked to the core by a simple emotion from his younger brother. "Dammit, not now!"

Dark cloud surging up, it shot forward in a cone like fashion that broke apart in two smaller cones, aiming to drive itself through both the angle type digimon and the small boy standing behind it. The black power gathering up and forming into the lethal attack that would end it all, and restore control of the older brother to it. "Die you little brat!"

Spinning around and moving fast, Angemon smashed his staff out and deflected the attack away from him and into the sky above, the cone still diving straight up and fading away as it put more and more distance between itself and the rooftop. Still in motion, Angemon turned around and punched out into thin air. "Hand of Fate!" Rushing out, the white beam smashed through the black cone like tendril and tore it apart, a loud scream echoing out over the roof from both the black cloud and the older blond haired boy at the same time.

Moving a bit forward as the attack had against him has stopped, TK stared at the blond haired boy that was his brother before him, breathing heavily, the older brother that he had looked up and respected, had dropped to his knees as the darkness pulled itself in closer around the body, the blue eyes shifting from fear and self loathing to the powerful, hateful glare from whoever had possessed him. "Matt, I know you can do it, come on Matt, you always said you were strong, stronger then anyone else, if you weren't lying, then you should be able to handle this as well." 

Eyes twitching with the power of the inner mental struggle between Matt and the darkness possessing him showed as both eyes closed from the pain and several drops of sweat began to run his forhead, around him, the cloud of Darkness became weaker and moved closer as it had to use more of it's strength to keep itself in control. Then the eyes snapped up as a loud Roar came from the Blonds mouth. "Never. I will never let you win." Spreading his arms out wide, a large black bolt of power surge out and smashed into Angemon as he dived in to protect TK from it. "I'll never let you brat's win, I've waited so long for this moment, my return to glory." Turning to glare at Tai who still hadn't passed out he gave a cruel smile and sent a small tendril of dark out to smack into him. "Not even you, the only reborn enemy of mine can defeat me this time."  Turning around, he ignored the still struggling Angemon trying to break free on the darkness holding the angel digimon trapped.

Screaming as his hold on his champion form finally gave out, Tai cursed as he was returned to his Rookie form, the Salamon like body with the wild mane of hair feeling like it had been trample by an army of Monochomon's. Forcing himself to look up, he stared into the blue eyes of the one he had hoped he could become friends with, even if he was stubborn and disagreed with everything he said or did. "Matt, snap out of it, I know you're stronger then that, are you really going to let yourself be controlled by someone who would hurt your little brother?"

Clenching both hands, Matt glared down at the much smaller form and snorted at the words before turning around to walk away. "Demidevimon!" Looking up at the covering Rookie digimon hiding in the shadows of the roof, he glared and held out a hand. "Come here, I won't hurt you, you're far to important for my plans." Turning to smile back at Tai behind him, he chuckled as the small cross between a bowling ball and a bat digimon landed on his head. "The instant I met this boy on File Island, I knew I been given a gift that couldn't be compared to anything else." Smiling as he assumed a completely non-concerned pose, Matt's eyes half closed in silent mockery at the weak state of the kids and digimons around him. "He had such a powerful anger buried inside of him, Darkness I could feed off and grow strong from, no longer would I have to be moving from one weak digimon to the other just to survive."

Pulling himself up on all fours, Tai glared at the digimon before him with nothing but pure hate, hate at the casual way he had just described an friend as a simple meal, and the arrogant manner he treated everyone around him with. "I don't care who you really are, when I get myself together, I'll kick you digital butt all the way back under the filthy rock you crawled out from!" Pulling himself up enough to stand without wobbling, he began to move forward, wanting to at least try and do something. "Come on, let him go you bastard, and come out and fight like a Digimon!"

Smiling in a sick way as he lifted his hand towards the group of kids and their digimons on the roof, Matt gathered up a larger sphere of black energy in the palm of it, several blue, green, red, purple, dots of light swirling around in the darkness. "Well then, if you won't listen to my story about the past, why don't I just show you the memories we both share from so long ago." Blasting out the power at them, Tai and the rest of the group screamed in terror as it washed over them, taking the rest of the world with it.

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Life and his senses slowly returned to the feline like digimon as the first rays of the midday sunlight broke through the many trees hiding them from the possible aerial attack from one of the many evil digimons hunting them. Stretching his body as he woke up, Tai blinked as he failed to see his sisters or anyone else of the group around, in fact, he didn't even recognize the area he was in. Lifting a hand to scratch his head in confusion, he stopped as he once again spotted the fur-covered fingers and claws he had almost grown used to seeing, the fact that he was Chimon again was puzzling at the least, since it had only been a few minutes since he had knocked back into his C-mon form.

The sound of shuffling feet caused him to turn around and drop into a defensive position, ready to attack and hurt whoever it was behind him, the desire to protect his partner growing with each micro second he was there. Blinking in confusion, he stopped the gathering of power needed for his most used attack as he saw the smiling face of a young girl standing before him, her caramel colored hair hanging down around her head in gentle waves and the brown eyes showed nothing but a love for life, even if they were shadowed by a sense of constant fear and then the face was replaced by a more older looking face with darker colored hair and eyes full of courage. "Nanami?" Stopping, Tai blinked as he struggled to remember how he knew the girl's name.

Getting pulled into a very tight hug, Tai gave up figuring it out as he now had fight in order to keep from getting all his air forced out of him as the girl continued to hold him more firmly with each second. After a second, he noticed the tears glinting in her eyes as she slowly let go and held him out from her. "I'm sorry Chimon, I'm so sorry." Tears running down her cheeks, she looked down on the ground and sighed as she completely removed her hands. "I can understand if you don't want to be my partner anymore."

Looking confused at the girl and feeling something inside of him breaking at the words from the girl, he slowly reached out a hand and wiped away the single tear falling down her cheek, looking into her eyes as she slowly lifted her head to stare at him. "Don't cry it doesn't suit you, chosen child of light and courage." Lifting up the dropped digivice from the ground, he stopped and stared t in confusion, it didn't look like anyone he had ever been near, it was more round then his and the color was just as strange, a mixture of pink and orange arrange in a pattern. Shaking his head, he held it out towards her as he smiled gently at her. "Please, for me, try again."

Sobbing at the words, Nanami looked at the digivoice and hugged her own knees close to her as she hid her face from the world by curling up into a small ball, her sobs getting quieter as time passed, but still strong enough to shake her body. Muffled and broken by the sobs, he could barely make out her voice as she spoke to him again. "But I used the Digimental of Darkness on you."

Eyes going wide at the words, Tai suddenly had a flashback of destroying a holy shrine in the middle of the forest, his sword of despair cutting through the stone walls and pillar with ease, the horrified look on Witchmon as she was cut down because she was in his way, the feeling of self loathing as he attacked his own teammates in order to kill and absorb their powers for himself. "It wasn't you, it was Witchmon fault, she lied to you about the digiegg, she had cast a spell on it to fool you."

Looking up from her fatal position on the ground, the brown haired girl stared at him with red eyes full of pain and self-hatred as she dropped her digivice back onto the ground. "You don't get it, I didn't care what happened, I just wanted to show that blond haired idiot that I could use golden digivovlving as well."

Tai shook his head and picked up the digivice one more time and stared at her as he rubbed the dirt of it, his eyes half closed as he remembered the time he caused Greymon to digivovle into Skullgreymon, and how scared he had been of making the same mistake again right after it. "Listen, you need to try again, you can't give up, don't let a small mistake like that stop you." Staring at her with pure determination in his eyes, Tai smiled as he held out the digivice and his hand. "So what if Witchmon corrupted your wish to be just as strong as the moody brat, I still believe in you, you're my partner, and don't you forget it."

Looking at her digimon partner, the brown haired girl smiled and nodded, a few tears running down her cheeks as she sat down on the ground normally and held out a small piece of fruit to her digimon partner. "Eat up, you'll need your strength if we are to defeat the last two warlords." Her words held a lot of nervousness a she stared into the darkness of the forest around them, the trees in various stages of decay and death, most of them filled with multicolored leaves. "I can't believe, the damage they have done to this place. Etemon, LadyDevimomon and Mystimon. They're all monsters, why are they hurting everyone around them?"

Swallowing the bit of fruit he had been eating, Tai stared up into midday sky, well the bits he could see for all the trees with a lot of trouble thoughts. He could remember fighting to protect his sister, but he could also remembering fighting for this girl, wanting to give his life to make her proud of him, and wishing that she would just for once, see the light inside of herself and stop doubting her destiny as a digi destined. "I don't know."

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Blinking her eyes in the sharp light, Kari frowned as it died down to leave her under a fog covered night sky, the coldness in the air around her telling her just how late it was, moving her arms and hands, she pushed herself up into a sitting position, her eyes moving across the roof to land on the rest of the group lying on the ground around them. "What happened, Tai, Gatomon, are you two okay."

Gatomon groaned as she stood up on all fours, her legs wobbling a bit as she did it, next to her Wizardmon pulled himself up to his feet as well, both of them staring at her with concern in their eyes. "Both me and Wizardmon are okay Kari, how about Chimon?" Moving slowly towards her, they looked around at the other KO'd kids lying on the ground. "Wizardmon, check on them will you, we might need their help."

Moving towards the nearest Child, Wizardmon sat down to check on the young child, a small green hat lying on the ground next to him and the blond hair dangling down around the head. Pressing a finger down onto him, the wizard type digimon frowned and began to move his hands and fingers in a complex pattern before holding both hands out with his palms out, golden light shooting out to cover the boy in warm light, his blue eyes opening up. "This one's okay, I'll check on the others as well." Moving away from TK, Wizardmon moved from one f the kids to the other one, using his power to break the curse on them.

Looking down at Chimon in Kari's arms, Gatomon frowned as the digimon refused to move or even respond to anything they did to him, even pulling on the small tail didn't get a reaction from him, but it did get Kari to look a bit sternly at her. "I don't get it, he should have been okay by now, it's like someone is preventing him from waking up." Eyes half closed at the last bit, Gatomon turned to see the other digimon's struggling up as well. "The other digimon's were not trouble by it, so why is Chimon not waking up?"

Eyes firm with determination, Kari looked at her digimon partner and moved out a hand to pat the white cat like digimon to calm both herself and Gatomon down a bit, but while her outside showed nothing but the rock firm belief that they couldn't fail, she was still a bit shaken on the inside, a few voices of doubts crying out in the background, still, as the little sister ot her brother, she couldn't show weakness, she was the Digi Destined child of Courage and Light, and if she had too, she would show them all her courage. "Don't worry, we'll find a way to help him, Wizardmon woke the others up, maybe he can do the same for Tai, at least I hope he can"

"How cute, the brat shows concern for her cursed brother!" Voice full of hate as he spoke, Myotismon slowly rose up from where he had fallen down earlier, his cape moving in the sudden wind blowing, half of his chest nothing more then a grid of green lines over a black background, eyes half closed in pain and anger, the vampire digimon glared at each of the rookie digimons and their partners, his eyes finally stopping on the champion digimon and her partner. "You two, you are the root of all my problems!" Glaring at his former servant and Kari, he held out his hands and allowed something to dangle down on a small chain. "Did you really think you could betray me and live? Besides, without this Crest of Light, your partner is worthless to you traitor."

"No!"

Screaming out in anger, Myotismon fell down a bit in the air as someone slammed into from the back, a hand moving out and tearing the Crest of Light from his grasp. "Get off me you worm." Pulling the offending digimon who had dared to attack off, he spun around and tossed him away from him in one fluid motion. Before pulling his cape in tight around him, he glared down at the digimon, recognizing him as a rather low level and very obedient soldier. "Wizardmon, you'll pay for that you traitor, right after that little kitty cat friend of yours if gone, I'll deal with you." Ripping open the cape, he held out both arms before him, the palms pointing right at Kari and Gatomo who stood frozen on the rooftop. "Grizzly wings!" At the words, a cloud of bats tore out into the air from his hands and streamed right down towards the child of light and her digimon partners, only to be stopped as a figure moved right into the path of the bats, letting out a scream of pain as they scored a direct hit.

On the roof, Kari, TK, Mimi, Sora, Joe and Izzy could only stare in muted horror as a wave of black colored bats hammered against the wizard type digimon, sending him flying out of the sky to smack down hard on the roof, his strange costume torn apart in several places on the stomach, arms and legs. "Wizardmon no!" Rushing forward, both Kari and GAtomon dropped to their knees next to him.

Landing on the roof, Myotismon glared at the scene as the last bat faded away, his eyes showing nothing but contempt towards the digimon who had gotten in the way of his attack, thus preventing him from killing off the child of light and her pet cat's. "Next time." The words dripping with cold anger as he spoke, he looked right at the dying digimon held up by shocked Kari. "Don't get in my way."

Moaning in pain, Wizardmon slowly moved in Kari's hands at the words from the ultimate virus digimon, his blue eyes wide open in pain as his head rolled over to look at Gatomon, he smiled a bit at her. "Are you... Okay?" His eyes showing no concern for himself, but a deep one for his friend and her well-being. 

Tears in her eyes, Gatomon rose t her feet and walked over to look down at her oldest and best friend in the world, grapping his hand between her gloved one, she looked up at his face. "Why... Why did you do it?" Looking closer at her friend, she nearly cried out in alarm when she saw him wince in pain at her touch.

Smiling warmly at her as the pain began to fade along with his strength to remain alive, Wizardmon lifted up his hand held between Gatomon's gloves, his eyes showing his happiness at her survival. "Because, you're my friend." opening his hand, he allowed the Crest of Light to dangle down into Gatomon's paws before he let go of the chain. "Here, you'll need this." Letting his hand and arm fall down onto the roof, he smiled at his old friend. "Thank you... for being my friend."

Rushing forward, Gatomon dropped the crest of light into Kari's hands, her paws moving out to grab a hold around the champion wizard type digimon, only to grasp air as a cloud of Data erupted up from where he had been just a second before. "Wizardmon... No... Wizardmon!!" In Kari's hand, the Crest of light glowed bright as the girl yelled out at the same time as her digimon partner, in her belt, the digivice given to her by Wizardmon started glowing as well. "Gatomon digivolve too..."

Looking down, Myotismon eyes grew wide with fear as the one thing he had battled so hard to prevent happened before he very eyes. "No!" It couldn't be. "Not her!" Fear turning to anger at the thought, Myotismon growled in the back of his throat, he shouldn't have wasted his time with gloating over the exhausted brats before.

Standing up on her hind legs, Gatomon was bathed in a bright light as he was pulled up from the ground and hovered in the air, her body growing longer and gaining a human form, the cat ears and tail melting into her body as eight feathered wings erupted from her back and a metal helmet formed around the upper part of her head. "Angewomon." Striking a pose at the last words, Angewomon moved her head to look down at the vampire digimon. "You... you will pay for crimes against all digimons and humans." the feathers on her left glove moved a bit before shototing out in a rapid pace, growing out to form a bow. "Myotismon, accept your punishment for everything you have done."

Glowing with arrogance at her words, Myotismon shook his head as he stared at the angle type digimon. "I don't have to do anything you say." Flying up to on eye level with her, he smirked as he saw the slight tremor of fear in her body. "It's my destiny to rule the digital world and cover the real world in darkness." Pointing a hand at her, he grinned. "And no one, digimons or humans, will change my mind."

Returning his coldness, Angewomon pulled her other hand back in a straight line over her glove, an arrow of light forming silently, the lenght of it glowing with the power of light. "Then I will destroy you for your crimes, Celestial Arrow!" Releasing the arrow with out a care, Angewomon followed it as it moved right towards the digimon she hated the most.

Flinging out his hand as soon as the arrow was released, Myotismon summoned up as much of his power as he dared and sent it to stop the angel digimons attack before it could hit him. "Crimson Lighting!" Feeling his attack wrap around the arrow, he pulled back on it and grinned as the arrow was pulled away from him and sent flying into the night sky behind them. "Ha, even in my weakened state, you're still not a match for me, now my former pet, it's my turn, Grizzly Wings!" Flinging both hands forward, he grinned as he felt the bats tear out and rush towards her.

Hammering out her hands, Angwomon gritted her teeth as she used her powers to form a shield before her, blocking the bats form hitting her directly, but still feeling a bit scared as the strength of the bats began to push her backwards through the air in a slight downwards angel towards Kari and Chimon. "Dammit, I won't give up."

"Hand of Fate!"

Screaming in pain, Myotismon rocked forward in the air, his cape smoking from where the attack had scored a direct hit, spinning around and stopping his attack on Angewomon, he glared down at the angel digimon standing on the roof, the wings and white clothes of it singed and torn in some places. "Angemon, you're still fighting huh, well then." Forming a red ball of glowing energy in his hand, he flung it out towards his new opponent. "You can die as well, Crimson Lighting!"

Moving as fast as he could, Angemon lifted up his staff and tried to block the attack from hitting him right on as it would destroy him if it did, cursing a bit as he felt the attack hit his staff far to hard for him, he turned his head to followed his staff as it flew out of his hands and through the air to land on the roof, clattering a bit against the cold metal, before it stopped completely. "Damn."

Smirking as he turned away, Myotismon smirk vanished as he saw that Angewomon had recovered completely, and was once again standing protectively in front of that human brat with the crest of light. "Well, looks like your only hope for help is gone." Forming another attack in his hand, he smiled as he looked at Angewomon. "Goodbye."

"Spiral Twister!"

"Electro Shocker!"

Stopping his attack, the vampire digimon turned a surprised face to stare at the two rookie digimons that had actually attacked him, his eyes wide with shock and disbelief over the very act itself. "What are you doing, an ultimate and a champion are powerless against me, yet you two, mere rookies, are trying to stop me." Voice dripping with his evil, Myotismon narrowed his eyes.

Flying closer from her place in front of a glaring Sora that was standing behind her, Biyomon stared up at the ultimate before her. "Because I won't give up, I remember hearing about you and all of your evil, despite all the things I did, you are ten times worse."

Hovering up in front of Izzy, Tentomon stared at the Vampire digimon as well, his wings buzzing in the air as he began to rise up so more and powering up another attack. "We won't give up, I'll fight as long as I can, and even if I get knocked back to my Baby stage I'll still fight you."

Stepping forward as well, Palmon stared up at the floating digimon with her arms crossed. "Yes, all of us will fight you as long as we can Myotismon, we'll never give up."

Smirking at her opponent, Angewomon stood up in her full height, power glowing from her as she moved up in the air again, to hover right before the evil digimon. "If they won't give up fighting, than neither will I." Pulling her hand back and forming another arrow of light, she smiled at Myotismon. "Celestial Arrow!" Watching as the arrow streaked fourth to miss again, she gritted her teeth in frustration. "He's too fast for me to hit him."

Looking at one another, the three rookie digimons nodded and began to move forward. Biyomon and Tentomon flew out to the sides, both of them moving without trouble as Myotismon viewed them to weak to be concerned about.

Going right, Biyomon flung around in the air and aimed for his right side. "Spiral Twister!"

On the left, Tentomon stopped as well and fired his attack as hard and with as much power as he could. "Electro Shocker!"

Growling in frustration as the two attacks caused him to lose concentration from his main opponent, Myotismon shot a quick look at the two digimons dodging out of the way as he formed two red streaks of light in his hands and struck out at them. "Get out of the way you fools."

Running up behind him, Palmon flung her arms forwards as she unleashed her attack, while it couldn't hurt him, it would at least be able to hold him still for a few seconds. "Poison Ivy!"

Behind her, Angemon stood up and grasped the intent of their plan and smiled, it was rushed and rather hopeless, but it might just work. "Hand of Fate!" Watching as his last attack scored another direct hit on the evil digimon, he cheered before his body started glowing, the angel digimon shrinking down into his rookie form Patamon, but even that didn't mean he couldn't help in that form. "Boom Bubble!"

On the ground, Kari stood up and looked at her brother lying on the roof, a wave of anger shooting through her, anger aimed at all the evil digimons, and a desire to fight them until they were beaten, no matter what it took from her. Looking up at Angewomen, Kari slowly stepped forward with clenched hands. "Don't give up Angewomen, keep fighting him, he's weak from Matt's so we have a chance." Around her neck, the crest of Courage began to glow in response to Kari's show of courage; it's orange light mingling with that of the crest of light.

In the air, Angewomon smiled as a wave of burning power rushed through her, her whole body tingling with it and sending shivers down her spine in several waves as an aura of orange light erupted around her and bathed the whole roof in a gentle glow and warmth. "Kari, the Crest of Courage made me stronger, I can do this." Pressing her hands together before her, she formed a cross of light between the palms of them. "Heavens Charm!"

Looking up as he tore free of Palmon's ivy attack before getting hit by Patamon's boom bubble, he could only stare as the glowing cross of light moved towards him to fast for him to dodge, and too late for him to launch a counter attack against it. "NOOooooo!!" Screaming out a last protest as it hit, Myotismon felt his whole body erupt with a burning and overwhelming pain before it was fianlly over. A shower of data flew out into the air as his mask fell down to land on the ground below the TV Station.

Staring at the sight of Myotismon's death and feeling drained from the short, but eventful battle it had taken to get there, Kari dropped to her knees and felt her eyes move over to look at her digimon partner hovering in the air, pride and joy shining in her eyes as she broke into a tired, but bright smile. "We did it, Myotismon's dead." Moving forward to hug Angewomon as she landed, the brown haired girl stopped as she noticed her brother lying on the ground, his eyes closed as if he was dead. "Tai?"

Looking towards the feline digimon lying on the roof, Sora took a step forward and screamed as the ground began to shake under her and the others as well. "It's falling down." Scrambling back and trying to regain her balance, Sora stare in horror as several plates began to fall down into the TV station as the Sphere like part of it gave a loud groan and moved forward a bit, at her belt, her digivice glowed in response to the danger se was in and sent a beam of light towards Biyomon.

"Biyomon digivolve too... Birddramon."

Landing on the still shaking roof, Birddramon looked at the kids around her. "Get on quickly, I'll fly you to safety." Looking over at Kari, the eyes of the huge fiery bird looked right into her brown eyes. "You too, let Angewomon carry your brother down." Taking off as the youngest girl reached over to hold on to the leg next to Sora, the bird digimon struggle to fly through the air with four humans and two digimons holding onto her legs, behind them, the round metal sphere of the TV station tumbled over and finally fell down onto the ground, a sky of smoke and dust raising into the sky from it's impact. "Hang on, it's going to be a rough landing."

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Hours later and still confused as too what had happened and how he had suddenly gotten transported to this place, Tai lifted his head to stare up a the sky above him, his eyes closed and full of confusion as the need to find and Protect Kari grew stronger then ever, competing with the instinct to help and protect the tall Girl with the mane of hair walking next to him. Shooting a look to the side, Tai closed his eyes as he could almost see himself in Nanami's place, the hairstyle was so alike, and the same level of determination was burning just as strong in those brown eyes as they did in his own.

Daring to shhot a quick look around the area, he blinked as he spotted several similarities between the group around him, and the friends he knew from back home. The blond haired boy with the Western look to him, and the same strong and independent look in the blue eyes, that boy had Matt written all over him if he had anything to say about it, and walking along at his feet, was that strange dog like digimon, the same blue eyes that Matt had, and with the same confident in them as well. "Ishimon." While it was rather low tone of voice he used, it was still enough to call the digimon's attention to him, the blue eyes trying to find out what he wanted, and then they returned to stare at the landscape around them.

A sudden cold feeling on his shoulder made his nearly jump as he was broken out of his thoughts, his heart beating enough to make him wonder if it was going to rip it way out of his chest in a very messy way. Quickly shooting a look back over his shoulder, he blinked as he watched the familiar looking flower digimon standing right behind him, the black insect eyes showing a level of fear at the way he was acting towards them. "Palmon, you scared me."

Eyes not leaving him, Palmon leaned in closer and moved a bit of his brown hair out of the way. "Are you sure you're okay, you have been acting a bit weird today." The tone of her voice scaring Tai a bit as it sounded to concerned about him, far to concerned about him, more then he cared for in fact.

A sudden weight on top of his head caused him to look up and see a small puppy like face looking back down at him as a memory of always looking out for this small digimon rushed through his mind once more. "Salamon." Smiling in a gentle way, he reached up and pattered the small digimon on the head. "Don't worry, both of you, I'm okay, just a bad dream."

Ishimon stopped walking as his eyes narrowed, his arm moving out to bloack the blond haired boy next to him from walking any futher ahead of the path they were taking. His eyes moved slowly from one side to the other as he snifffed the air. "Someone's coming." The seriousness in his tone sent the rest of the four digimons into a instant battle readiness. "I think it's one of the remaining War Lord's again."

Behind his digimon, the blond haired boy tensed and lifted pu his digivice into a ready position, just in case digivolving would really becone nessesary. His eyes moving from side to side as several small drops of sweat formed on his forehead, a show of how tensed he was at the sudden silence that had fallen over the forest around them. "Ishimon, get ready." 

"Get down!!"

It wasn't really known who had yelled out the warning, but it was enough to get all of them to make a dive for the forest floor in an instant, both humans and digimons pressing themselves into the dirt as hard as they could as a red disk shot over their head and tore through several three behind them in a rapid pace, a loud whistling sound following the disk as it moved further away from them, followed shortly after by the sound of several trees falling over with a series of loud crashes.

Pulling himself up to see what had just happened, Tai stopped as he spotted one very odd looking digimon stepping out of the damaged area in front of them, one hand holding a hot fiery looking sword, mostly due to the fact that it seemed to coated in fire from where he was. Jumping up completely with the rest of his digimon and human friends, Tai could make out the instant beeping sound filling the area as the red haired boy in the back held up their only digimon analyzer, the sound coming as it scanned the digimon before them. "It's Mystimon, be careful guys, his just as strong as Ladydevimon was."

Posing at the words combing from the boy, the tall digimon lifted up the one hand with out a fiery weapon in it and pointed at each of them as he gained a sick smile on his lips. "thanks for the intro brat, although you forgot to add in my good looks and powerful swing, now who want to the be first to die."

Moving up next to Tai, Biyomon landed on her taloned feets and glared at the ultimate digimon with cold fury in the otherwise high spirited eyes, her eyes almost glowing as she gave a hiss. "You, you're the one who destroyed the Yokomon village." Rushing towards him, she began to glow brighter then before. "I'm not going to let you get away with it. Biyomon Armor Digivolve to... Soarmon, champion of the sky." Taller and more grown up looking then the small bird like digimon she had been before, she rose up and smiled as her golden feather wings snapped out, her arms and legs covered in white pices of clothes wrapped around them, on her chest, she had a metal plate and a small skirt around her waist and upper legs, not wasting another minute, the humanoid bird digimon rushed forward and execute one heck of a drop kick right into the face of the evil digimon, getting nothing but a grunt from him as he grabbed the talon like foot of her and smashed her into the ground as hard as he could.

On his head, he could feel Salamon jump up and down onto the ground, a bright light filling the area as he did so, the tell tale sign of a digivolution already showing as the Digimental shot from her partners hand to her body. "Salamon Armor digivolve too... Grizzlymon, master of the forest." Rushing forward, the larger bear like digimon smashed both hands into the head of the evil kinght digimon and was reward with the digimon kicking him backwards for it. "Soarmon, go high, and I'll go low."

Rushing forward again, but digimons attacked at the same time, a beautiful sword with feather motifs on the blade forming in Soarmon's hand as she swung down and slashed the digimon across his shoulder with a cry of. "Golden Feather Slash!" At the same time, Grizzlymon had jumped up and pulled out one wicked looking mallet from his back, the head of it covered in a thick metal plate. "Crushing Blow!" Smoke filled the area as wave of energy from the mallet hit right on and blow up on contact with the Knight digimon with a loud boom.

Stepping out of the smoke as it began to clear out, Mystimon stared at the flying human like digimon above him and the bear like digimon holding onto the mallet with a death grip as they moved a bit backwards from him. "Is that all you brats have?" Looking from each of them to the other, he laughed and clapped his hands together, red light forming around them as he did so. "This will be easier then breaking digi eggs in primary village." Hammering his hands together suddenly he gave a cruel smile at them. "Core Dart."

Screaming loudly as a red stream of light smashed into the flying digimon above Grizzlymon, Soarmon fell from the sky in a smoking and very painful heap, smashing into Grizzlymon along the way harshly, both of them falling down onto the ground in a heap. Smoke rose from Soarmon's front side as she passed out and dedigivole back in Biyomon.

"Ishimon!"

A golden light filled the area as the doglike digimon rushed forward and jumped up into the air, a beam of light smashing into him as he did so. "Ishimon, Golden armor digivolve too... Grandmon." Breaking out of the golden light, a more taller and human looking digimon landed on the ground, a blue robe covering his body a with silver and gold colored wrist bands around his arms. Looking up, Tai blinked as he saw the simple silver mask hiding the top part of the digimon's face from the word, with only twin blue orbs showing where the eyes should have been.

Before them, Mystimon turned around and stared at the digimon with a confused look on his face, his hands losing the purple light as he took in the silent digimon before him. "No, not him... No one said anything about this." Clenching his hands, the digimon rushed forward and jumped up ready to pound his foot into the silent digimon's face. "Blast Fire!"

Looking up as Mystimon yelled out his attack, Grandmon lifted both arms up and held them together in front of him as a white glow formed in the palms of both hands. "Holy Light!" Shooting out at the words, a beam of light of light formed and smacked right into the charging Knight digimon, sending him flying backwards with a loud scream, his cape and legs covered in a myriad of smoking patches. Not even waiting until the evil digimon had landed on his good foot, Grandmon had pulled out a single piece of paper from his large sleeves and made a few complex moves with it, the words for a demon charm clearly showing on it as he stopped the movement right in front of his face with his eyes closed. "Evil Be gone." Shooting the charm forward as his eyes opened wide again, he still looked on without a care as the paper smacked into Mystimon's face and covered him in several painful looking arch's of blue lighting. "Everyone, now while my charm has weaken him."

"Spiral Twister!"

"Crushing Blow!"

"Spirit Charm!"

"Burning Aura!"

Watching the attacks moving together on the trapped digimon in perfect sync, it almost felt wrong to Tai to strike down a digimon that had no chance of defending himself, until he remembered that this digimon had attacked and deleted so many other digimons who were as defenseless as he had been just now, and with this victory, they had come a step closer to defeating the evil in the Digital World. "We did it."

Behind him Tai could feel a pair of arms grabbed him and pull him into a strong and loving hug, Smiling as he could feel his partners relief over winning the battle, he relaxed as well. "Mystimon is gone at last, I can't believe how easy he was after all." Looking back, he smiled at the brown haired girl looking down at him as she closed her eyes in relief. "Ishimon thank you."

Smiling as the red haired boy in the group stepped up next to them as he lowered the digimon analyzer with a look of relif on his own face, he smiled and turned to stare at them. "Don't forget, out digimon's have grown stronger from fighting both MarineDevimon and LadyDevimon, and Mystimon was outclassed by the golden Digimental of Belief." Pulling up his own digimon as he spoke, the red haired boy cradled the once again rookie level Salamon lovingly. "I say we head north from here, only Mephismon remains to be defeated, and then the last war lord will no longer threaten us or the digital world anymore."

Smiling at the boy as well, Tai felt his partner stand up and look around the place with a look of regret and sorrow on her face as she stared at the level of destruction their short battle had caused. Then he felt the shift of her emotions as her thoughts turned to a darker aspect and filled him with dread. "But what about Moonmilleniummon, you said yourself that he was a mega with the power of two."

The boy nodded and turned to stare out over the destruction as well, his eyes taking on a distant look of concern hidden by a level of determination as he lifted up his digivice. "We'll worry about that later, right now, we need to concentrate on defeating the present danger to us, Mephismon."

Shanking his head, Tai blinked as a sudden level of tiredness flowed over him, his eyes closing even as he fought to stay awake, wanting to hear more about the digimon they were discussing, then his thoughts flashed with the memory of Matt, Moonmilleniummon, the TV station and the battle with Myotismon, his sister needed him to protect her from danger. "Kari." Then a multicolored light show washed over him and dragged him along with it.

"I'm sorry child, but I need to show you something important, child of courage."

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Looking down at her brothers small digimon form before her, Kari held on to the wet cloth she had just taken off his forehead with a deep concern, she had spent the last hour or so trying to get him to wake up, but nothing had worked so far, and she was getting more and more desperate.

Next to her, Gatomon purred as she used some of the non battle time cleaning her glove from the battle she had been in, her thoughts alternating between concern for someone she had grown to think off a friend and the sheer desire to jump up and have Kari digivolve her back into Angewomon again, the rush of power had nearly sent her into shock, and to think that something so simple as digivolving had helped her escape from Myotismon and bring back her dreams and hopes, but mostly, her thoughts went to the friend she had lost on that day, the empty hole in her heart over the thought of never seeing or hearing him trying to cheer her up was hard on her.

Walking over to the kneeling girl, Sora stared down at the small digimon lying in Kari's lap, the eyes of it closed and the breathing comng in even and never changing pattern. "How is he?" Judging by the look from Kari, her concern for the boy turned digimon was showing clearly in it.

Sighing and returning her gaze to her brother on the ground, Kari sighed and made room for the older girl next to her, her hands dipping the cloth back into a small puddle of water before pressing as much of the fluid out of it as she cold. "He's fine, breathing and temperature is all right, but he just won't wake up." Placing the cloth carefully on the furry head of the cat like digimon, Kari removed her hands and looked up at the night sky. "It's still there."

Looking up as well, Sora watched the dark sky; the fog still clear around them, thicker then it had ever been before. "I know, Izzy said that either it means Myotismon's still out there or the one controlling Matt had somehow gained the power to control it as well."  Moving her head down, Sora reached out a hand and ruffled the fur-covered body that used to be her best friend.

Besides her, Kari turned her head and stared at Sora with a look of curiosity, her eyes seeming to somehow push their way into the heart of the child of love, sitting like that for a short minute, Kari finally spoke to the older girl. "What happened, I mean, Tai told me the story already, but I want to know your side of it."

Soar cringed at the words and seemed to fall in herself, the small flicker of light in her eyes dying out as she took a deep breath to calm down. Then she lowered her eyes to stare at her hands. "I really don't know." Moving her head to the side, her eyes took on a distant look, as if she could somehow see it all happening again, right before her. "I invited it in, that the best guess I have, I remember feeling sad because my mom didn't love me." Chocking back a sob at the word, Sora's eyes began to shine with a single tear in each of them. "I can remember, someone telling me he could take the pain away and make me forget the fact that my mother didn't care about me." Eyes flowing with tears, Sora pulled her knees up and curled into a ball on the ground, her body shaking with her grief. "I wanted to forget it, it hurt so much, and then, it didn't matter anymore, all I could think off was, hurting the world back. I remember yelling at Tai in the desert, after Skullgreymon had attacked and hurt some of our digimon friends, I remember, wanting nothing more then to be rid of him, just because he wasn't hurting like me, that he was better then me, and I hated him for it, like he most likely hates me now, I left him out there hurt and alone, with no one but Koromon to help him."

Looking at the crying red haired girl beside her, Kari lowered her head and felt her heart and spirit go out to the ease the pain of the girl beside her. Moving closer, she wrapped her arms around the girl and smiled. "Tai's not mad, he understand that t wasn't your fault, and don't worry, I'm sure your mother loves you." Continuing to hold the crying girl, Kari returned her eyes to look at Tai for a brief second. {Wake up brother, Sora needs you. I need you.}

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This was it, Tai stared straight ahead at the crystal incased Digimon hovering in the air before them, around him he could feel the power and determination from his friends and the human children, each of them powering up their crests and digivices. "Are you ready to do this Ishimon?"

The dog like, humanoid Digimon turned to give a wolfish grin at the cat like digimon, his hand moving out to grip the furred paw in a strong grip. "Never thought we would really fight together like this." Turning his head to face the digimon before him, he grinned as he held out his other arm. "No time like the present I guess." Looking back at the three othe rdigimon behidn them, he grinned in a friendly way. "Let's do this guys, and girls." The last part was added as he felt twin glares from Palmon and Biyomon burrow into his back.

Grinning at one another, the five human children pulled out a round sphere from somewhere, holding them, the looked up at the evil mega digimon floating high above them. "Okay, everyone use the power of the digi cores we got from the Digital Gods." Glowing brightly, each of the five spheres shot out a beam lighht, that curved through the air before smacking right into their digimon partners.

"Chimon Warp digivolve too...Archdramon."

"Ishimon Warp digivolve too... Warmon."

"Palmon Warp digivolve too... Rosemon."

"Biyomon Warp digivolve too... Phoenixmon."

"Salamon warp digivolve too... Magnadramon."

Grinning as he felt his body twist and turn, Tai looked up at the shocked expression on Moonmilleniumon, the only sigh of it the widening yellow eyes looked out from within the crystal. Stretching out his new body as it stopped transforming, Tai felt the muscle in his arms bulging, the tail his two legs had become twisting around at his will and the eternal fire burning in his stomach moving to be released.

"You know how to do it now."

Stopping his attack, Tai's head shot around to stare into the darkness, the outline of his trusted partner showing clearly in the distance as a weak shadow on a completely dark background. "Nanami?" Trying to move toward her, he stopped when he notied the other digimon's frozen in theur tracks. "What's going on?"

"You must help them, they need your help, the true form of the beast will awaken soon." The human outline began to twist and turn and formed into a towering dragon like digimon hovering above him. "The path of time has been changed by his evil, to defeat him, tell the angel of hope, to shoot the arrow at the one his partner loves the most."

Stepping or flying backwards, Tai stared up at the figure before him. So much like his own shape it was getting to the point where it was simply to scary to even be thinking about. "Who are you, what are you talking about."

Moving into the light, Tai stared right into the eyes of his own mega form, Archdramon. "You must protect her, like I protected my partner Nanami, you must protect your partner, Kari, she is vital to the defeat of the darkness." Moving one hand to point right at Tai, Archdramon floated closer. "I used the evil Milleniummons power to show you the thing you need to see, not the endless dream of the past he wanted to trap you in." Holding up the glowing ball as it shot out of Tai chest, reverting him back into Chimon again. Archdramon smiled as he looked down at the champion digimon before, in his hand the glowing ball faded away. "I have shown you how to do it, but the final part you must solve yourself." Moving backwards towards the darkness, Archdramon began to fade away again. "While I can't help you, I can tell you this, You can't become Archdramon again, but you will need to become a mega to defeat his evil, to do so, you must find someone compatible to yourself, and share their code, and remember, the angel of hope must shoot his arrow at the one his partner loves to win the battle."

Moving forward, Tai reached out his hand to try and reach the digimon before it fade completely away, then another dizzy spell rushed over him, dragging him along until he could faintly hear voices coming from somewhere, each of them sounding so familiar to him. "Kari, Mimi, Joe, Izzy, TK." the last one sounding closer then the others as a pleasant feeling rushed through his body. "Sora!" His eyes snapping up, Tai looked into the eyes of a shocked red haired girl.

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Opening his eyes, Matt looked up from he sat on the floor, the darkness around flowing in a greater torrent, strangely, it didn't seem to affect him or the room in anyway. On the floor around him, the glow from five computers arranged in a pentagram illuminated his face in a green light. "It's time."

Leaning against the wall across from him, Weregarurumon growled in the back of his throat as the darkness and evil in the room continued to grow ever larger, the feel of it starting to break through his own dark barriers, overpowering the darkness placed inside of him by his partner, no the one controlling his partner, the urge from it to return and become part of the dark digimon again.

Not even looking up, Matt turned his eyes to view the digimon sitting in another pentagram next to his own, the yellow eyes of it moving from side to side in terror; the wings and body were tied down by thin strings of robe to prevent him from escaping. Moving around in a wobbly way, Demidevimon stared at the human in fear. "What are you going to do to me?."

Smiling as his held both arms up over his head, Matt opened his hands and pointed his palms towards the ceilling, his eyes glowing a deep crimson clolor as the darkness surge up to gather in his hands. "You lillte one, will have the honor of becoming a part of the greatest digimon who has ever existed." Slamming his hands down, Matt eyes snapped to wards the computer before him as the lines of codes on it began to swirl around in a spiral. "Look, the gates are opening, now I will send my soul and power through the dark realm and into your body." At the last words, a pillar of evil energy crackled up from his body and spread out to flow into each of the five computer screens.

As the last of the energy left his body, Matt mouth opened in a silent scream before he fell down from his position, his arms hitting the floor with a loud thud, at the same time, the darkness began to move out from the computers around Demidevimon, hovering in the air for a short moment before shooting into the small body.

Demidevimon screamed as the collected darkness tore through his body and caused the world to blank out, leaving him trapped in the darkness inside his own mind, an endless void with no sounds, no movement or any light to break the emptiness. The feeling of being trapped in a never ending world of darkness inside of his own mind scared him more then he had ever been, even the ruthlessness and cruelty Myotismon had put him through when he failed or didn't do his job fast enough hadn't brought up the same amount of fear as the simple idea of becoming lost somewhere in darkness within this digimon had. "No!"

Grinning in a cold and evil way, a pair of yellow eyes formed before him as a towering four armed figure began to take on a more clear appearance before him, the dragon like face grinning down at him as it began to move closer, the yellow eyes filled with nothing but pure evil and contempt. "Oh yes." Opening the mouth as much as it could, the digimon roared loudly before it snapped it jaws shut around the rookie digimon. Gulping down the spirit of the rookie digimon, it laughed out loud as purple light streams began to shot out from it and piercing the darkness around them. "Yes, the feeling of my rebirth is truly a sweet one."

Opening the eyes, the body of Demidevimon glowed a bright white as a bubble formed around his body as he began to float up into the air in a slow motion. "Demidevimon warp digivovle too..." Growing rather small for a short while, the ball suddenly shot out to form a much large one that burst apart and released the towering figure that was the mega digimon of despair. "Milleniummon." Standing tall after his digivolving, Milleniummon moved his head from side to side, the going from yellow to white glowing image of a Machinedramon on his entire back moving with it, the green light still cast by the computers glowing off the twin metallic cannon's on it's back. Moving it's four arms down, the mega digimon grabbed a hold of Gabumon with one arm and the still body of Matt in the other one. The remaining two arms knocked the computer tables out of his way, clearing a path to the wall and glass windows leading outside. "Revenge at last, first the human world shall fall, and then the digital world, and from the ashes of them, a new glories one shall be born, my world." Eyes glowing with the power within him, Milleniummon bended over and grinned as the cannons on his back fired off a massive blast of white hot energy tearing through the wall. "Truly, on this worthless night, Milleniummon's Era of dominance begins anew."

TBC: Day Six: Together again under a sky of Darkness.

AN: Well, this has to be the longest chapter yet, and I must admit, despite how proud I am off it, it still seems a bit paper-thin here and there. Now that this chapter is over, I will focus on the next chapter of "Spawn of the Vampire" and "A lone Digi Destined." On the table of things to be written as well, is a rewrite of my first completed and very popular Digimon fan fic "Tai's Little Secret"

And Fruitloop Trooper, I wasn't complaining to you directly when I yelled up about a lack of reviews, I was getting frustrated with only finding 2 – 3 reviews for most of the chapters for this story.  In fact, I'm glad that you have reviewed each chapter, in fact, I'm glad that someone reviews this chapter, it gives me the push I need to write the next one, so everyone, don't hold back and leave a review. The more reviews I get, the more motivated I'll be to finish it.