Eternal Conflict
Amalgamation
Chapter 15: Emergence of Light, Formation of Shadow Part 2
.o0o.
Angewomon looked over at Wisemon, her eyes narrowing underneath her visor. 'I have to find someway to defeat Wisemon without killing him.' The angel thought, raising her gloved arm forward, the two feathers on the sides of it enlarging. Angemon pulled her other arm back, an arrow of light appearing in it. The angel digimon aligned the arrow with her glove's feathers, using the glove as a makeshift bow.
"What is she doing?" Jun shouted, her voice full of worry, before turning towards Hikari. "She's going to kill him!"
"She can't." Hikari said with conviction, turning her head to look at Jun. "I won't let her."
"Holy Arrow!" Angewomon shouted, letting the arrow shoot out from her hand towards Wisemon, who dodged it. The arrow exploded in a dome of pink light on the ground.
Metal Greymon looked up at the wizard digimon, his chest plate opening. "Giga …"
"Metal Greymon! Stop!" Taichi shouted.
Metal Greymon turned towards his partner. "We have to stop him before he kills someone!" Metal Greymon yelled back at his partner.
"But if you attack him with your missiles you might kill him!" Taichi retorted. Metal Greymon sighed, before he was hit with a dark red ball of magic. The perfect level digimon howled in pain before he went crashing into a damaged building. Metal Greymon then devolved back into Agumon.
Jun looked on in horror as Wisemon made another open book appear in his hands and began chanting in a demonic sounding language. The book was glowing a sickly green.
The same green light surrounded Angewomon in a bubble of energy. The angel digimon looked around the bubble, and was not liking the look and feel of the surrounding energy. She loaded another arrow of light and fired, but the arrow was just absorbed by the magic bubble that entrapped her.
"Damn it!" Takeru yelled, annoyed. 'Patamon's too exhausted, there isn't anything I can do to stop this!'
Angewomon raised both arms in front of her body, pink light glowing around them. "Heaven's Charm!" The female angel spread her arms to her sides, causing the pink light to take the shape of a cross and speed towards the green walls of magic. The pink light collided with the green magic energy, and pushed against it, before the green energy managed to dissolve the attack.
Wisemon stayed floating in the air, chanting. Yamato looked up at the dark evolved mage, when an idea came to him.
"Garurumon! Attack Wisemon!" Yamato ordered. Garurumon jumped up into the air, fire gathering around his mouth.
"Fox Fire!" Garurumon shouted, sending a burst of flame towards the perfect digimon. Wisemon shifted his attention to the incoming flames and a dark red wall of energy appeared in front of him, deflecting the flames in every direction.
The green bubble of energy around Angewomon vanished. Angewomon extended her arms in front of her body. "Heaven's Charm!" the angel shouted as she spread her arms, creating another cross of pink light, this time headed towards Wisemon's back.
Wisemon chanted as he raised his arms to create a green bubble of light around himself, which caused the pink cross to explode into many beams of pink light heading in every direction.
Garurumon landed on the ground and cursed under his breath. Angewomon flew behind the dark wizard digimon, waiting of the green bubble of energy to disappear. 'Of course, we could get lucky and he might run out of energy and devolve before that happens.' Angewomon thought sarcastically, knowing from experience that luck like that was not going to happen.
Wisemon turned his head to face Angewomon as another book appeared in his hands. He looked through it and began chanting. The green bubble of energy disappeared, but before Angewomon could fire off another attack, she was struck in the back by a black bolt of lightning.
Hikari winced as Angewomon crashed into the ground near her. Hikari ran up to her partner. "Are you alright?" Hikari asked. Angewomon nodded, before pulling herself off of the ground.
"He's strong." Angewomon commented. "And I don't want to kill him." Hikari just nodded, clutching the strange cross that appeared to her chest. Angewomon took off into the air again.
Hikari just hoped that help would arrive soon.
.o0o.
Birdramon flew through the sky, Sora holding onto her leg. At the same time, Kabuterimon was holding Koushiro, Jyou, and Gomamon in his arms, headed towards the source of destruction.
.o0o.
Wisemon continued chanting spells, which sent balls of fire and bolts of lightning at both Angewomon and Garurumon. The Angel digimon kept looking for an opening to attack as she dodged the bolts of magic, but Garurumon was as lucky as he was struck by a blast of magic and devolved to Gabumon. Yamato ran over towards his partner, and lifted him up to move him out of the way of any attacks.
"Heaven's Arrow!" Angewomon shouted as she fired off another arrow at Wisemon, this time getting lucky and nicking the dark mage digimon on the forearm. Wisemon screeched in pain and started chanting once again.
Two dense dark red balls of magic appeared in the air and sped towards Angewomon. The angel digimon shot off another pink cross of light that slammed into the balls of magic, detonating them in mid air. Angewomon then flew higher up in the air and readied another arrow of light. "Heaven's Arrow!" She shouted, firing the arrow downward at the mage digimon, deliberately holding energy back so that she wouldn't kill him.
Wisemon's arms took on a dark red glow and deflected the arrow up into the sky. Wisemon snarled and fired off another red ball of magic at the angel digimon, which knocked her through the air.
Angewomon panted, realizing that she might not be able to beat Wisemon without killing him. Angewomon looked down at the group of chosen gathered, and noticed that Jun was crying and was screaming for Wisemon to stop attacking. 'So Wisemon's energy hasn't depleted with Jun's anger. This is going to be harder than I thought.'
Patamon stirred in Takeru's arms. Takeru looked down as his digimon opened his eyes. "Did…I…get…him?" Takeru shook his head, and Patamon look up, seeing Angewomon (he'd ask about that later) was fighting against some type of mage digimon. "What…happen…ed…to…Bla…ck….War…Gre…mon?" Patamon asked weakly.
"Ran after Neo." Takeru answered bluntly.
Wisemon formed and threw a large ball of red magical energy at Angewomon, who dodged it and readied another arrow.
Wisemon vanished and appeared behind the angel digimon. The wizard raised both of his arms over his head and formed a large blast of magic, which he threw at Angewomon's back.
Angewomon turned around and sped towards Wisemon, deciding to take a different approach with fighting him. The angel digimon spun around and threw a kick to Wisemon's head, only to have her leg come in contact with a dark red barrier. Angewomon sped away and landed on the ground.
"Get out of here!" Angewomon shouted towards the chosen children and the other digimon before she flew back up into the air. 'I don't think I can stop him.'
"Mega Blaster!" Kabuterimon shouted as he fired a beam of electricity at Wisemon's back, causing the dark evolved perfect digimon to stagger. Angewomon flew up to Kabuterimon.
"Are you alright?" Kabuterimon asked.
"I'll be fine. It's Wizarmon that's having a problem." Angewomon commented dryly, while looking over towards the dark mage, who fired off another blast of energy at the two digimon. "Dodge!"
Both digimon dodged out of the way of the energy attack.
"Meteor Wing!" Birdramon cried out as she sent a storm of fire down at Wisemon. Angewomon looked over at the phoenix digimon as she flew over towards her and Kabuterimon. Kabuterimon prepared to fire off another ball of electricity as Birdramon prepared attack again.
"Don't kill him." Angewomon ordered. Both digimon nodded before firing off their attacks.
Meanwhile on the ground, Ikkakumon, Jyou, Sora, and Koushiro had arrived. "What's going on?" Sora shouted as the three chosen descended from Ikkakumon.
Taichi turned to face her. "Jun Dark Evolved Wizarmon during the battle against Neo while Hikari somehow managed to evolve Tailmon. Neo and Rei escaped, thankfully."
Koushiro had a puzzled look on his face. "What do you mean by thankfully?"
"Better an out of control Perfect than an in-control Ultimate." Takeru answered for Taichi.
"This isn't good." Jyou said gloomily.
Wisemon looked around and chanted something, sending bolts of lighting at the attacking digimon.
"Heaven's Charm!" Angewomon shouted, forming a pink cross of energy in the air.
Wisemon threw up a green bubble of magic around himself, and the cross of light slammed into the shield. Angewomon scowled in anger.
Electricity began forming around Kabuterimon's horn. "Mega Blaster!" The beetle digimon shouted, as he fired off the blast of energy.
Birdramon crossed her wings in front of her body. "Meteor Wing!" Fire spread out towards Wisemon as she spread her wings. The fire, lightning, and holy energy from the three attacks combined together and caused the bubble of energy around Wisemon to shatter.
Angewomon flew forward and seemed to perform a cartwheel in the sky, her legs going around Wisemon's neck. The angel digimon then spun around and threw Wisemon into the ground. Angewomon landed on the ground and looked at her opponent. Wisemon glowed with black light before he shrank down and became Petit Meramon. Angewomon sighed in relief before she devolved into Plotmon.
Hikari looked at the cross, and noticed that it was glowing light orange. The Zohar floated up into the air and began splitting into two lights, one light pink and the other light yellow. The two lights shot off into Hikari's D-terminal. The Child of Light grabbed it and flipped it open, noticing that two Digimentals were in it.
"We have to get out of here." Hikari said, before opening up her D-Terminal and asking Steve to take everyone to the Avalon. Jun was crying as she cradled Petit Meramon in her arms, sobbing 'I'm sorry' every few seconds. Hikari looked around at the destruction, before she and the other chosen and digimon vanished.
.o0o.
"What did you do that for?" Neo yelled. He and Rei were at the area that the portal had dropped them off at. "We had them at our mercy! Something that I distinctly remember that we don't have!"
Rei turned her head away and stared at the dark gray waves of the ocean. "Do you really believe that? Do you think that we were certain to win?" Rei asked. Neo glared at her.
"Yes. We could have killed them and weakened the chosen!" Neo shouted. He didn't understand what his younger sister was getting at.
Rei shook her head. "You saw what Angemon managed to do against Black War Greymon." Rei stated before turning to look into her brother's crimson eyes. "Not only that, but two more perfects joined the fight, one of which was someone who aimed attacks at you! The Wisemon's partner was feeding him rage that was directed at you! You would've been slaughtered!"
"Black War Greymon could have handled it." Neo stated flatly. "Now when we attack the Village of Beginnings there will be more chosen fighting against us."
"Angewomon was stronger than Angemon was. If she had managed to do the same thing against Black War Greymon, he might not have been able to dodge!" Rei shouted. 'Of course, I also didn't want him to go through with your orders.' There were still things that Rei had to think about. She sighed. "Look Oniisan, yelling at each other isn't going to solve anything. Let's just focus on getting our strength back up." Rei then turned and walked away, her black Piyomon walking behind her.
A few minutes of silence passed by. "You weren't telling the truth to Neo." Piyomon accused. There was something that seemed different about her partner, and whatever it was it seemed almost…familiar.
Rei sighed. "I could never hide anything from you, could I?" Piyomon shook her head. "Look, I have some serious doubts about Onnisan's sanity."
"He's as sane as you are." Piyomon stated blankly, and bitterly. Rei glared at the black bird digimon.
"That's exactly what I mean!" The brown haired girl exclaimed. "Up until the time near the end of that battle, I was the same as he was. I can't believe that I ever contemplated genocide!" Rei turned towards Piyomon. "Now, what exactly were are goals going through this in the first place?"
Piyomon tried to answer, saying that it was the best for the Digital World, but found that she couldn't answer her partner. Especially with the answer that she had in mind.
Rei nodded. "Exactly. I don't know when it started, but something's gone very wrong."
"What do you mean?" Piyomon asked.
"The others and I have lost sight of our mission. Our goal." Rei answered. "And I'm afraid that some of us may have lost our humanity." An image of Neo and Kairuto formed entered her head. "Not only that, but even though I know I've lost sight of the mission, and that what Onnisan and the others are doing is wrong, I still can't do anything to try and talk them out of it." Tears threatened to fall out of the girl's eyes.
Piyomon had no idea what to say. All she knew was that there was no way that she would be able to 'cheer up; her partner, a skill which she severely lacked.
.o0o.
Jun was sitting down on a chair; Petit Meramon was hooked up in a rejuvenation chamber. No matter how much that she tried, she couldn't keep from blaming herself for what had happened. The girl looked around the room, noticing more of the chambers. The rejuvenation chambers were nothing but a clear fiberglass-like box with tubes hooked up to the digimon inside it. Jun noticed that there was a table next to the chamber that her partner was hooked up in. Jun raised her hand up to look at it for a few moments, before grabbing her digivice and leaving it on the table. Jun then moved up and walked out of the door.
A few minutes later the door opened up again. Daisuke and V-mon walked through it. "Jun! Are you…" Daisuke shouted, before realizing that his sister wasn't in the room. Daisuke grabbed his digivice and looked at it, before realizing that there was another signal in the Avalon's Digimon Infirmary.
V-mon looked over towards Petit Meramon, and noticed an object sitting on the table next to it. V-mon walked over to the table and grabbed the object, which he recognized as a digivice.
"Daisuke! Look at this!" V-mon shouted. Daisuke ran over towards his partner, and realized that there was a digivice in the victory dragon's hand. Daisuke grabbed it.
"Where did you find this?" Daisuke asked.
"On the table there." V-mon answered, pointing towards the table next to Petit Meramon.
Daisuke's eyes widened as he realized what was going on. "Jun's gone!" Daisuke shouted, before running out of the infirmary, V-mon hastily following behind him.
.o0o.
Steve was showing Koushiro the Avalon's main systems, while Yuki Agumon and Tentomon watched them, the former having a bored expression on his face. Koushiro, simply put, was amazed by the large amount of computer terminals and the functions of the Avalon airship, ranging from weapons function to food production (although Koushiro thankfully didn't mention anything about security cameras and the like, and Steve didn't volunteer any information about them).
Suddenly Daisuke ran into the command center. "Steve! Jun's gone!"
This caused Steve's eyes to widen in surprise. The teenager turned around and activated many of the security cameras in the ship coming up with nothing but empty hallways (and a view of Mimi and Michael in Michael's room… which Steve quickly passed over in embarrassment).
Koushiro blushed at the image that he had witnessed. Daisuke was just about ready to pound Steve when he switched to going through the transport logs.
"Found her." Steve commented. "Transport for one person to the Fire Shrine in the Forest of Flame on Database Island."
"Then get her back up!" Daisuke ordered, shaking his head.
"I can't, she doesn't have her digivice with her." Steve said. "Someone's going to have to go down and get her."
Daisuke and V-mon ran out of the room. Steve sighed.
.o0o.
Jun looked around a noticed that the area that she had transported herself seemed to be a large palace decorated with paintings of flames on it. It was also hot, as there were many large fires burning over the entire area, and the place was devoid of all forms of vegetation.
It was certainly hot enough to be hell.
Jun looked around and then started walking away from the palace, into the forest of orange flames.
She didn't notice the man wearing fire-decorated clothes that was following her.
.o0o.
Daisuke, Miyako, Iori, Chizuru, and their digimon were in the transportation room, waiting for Steve. Hikari had already given them permission to go after Jun (although even if she didn't, Daisuke would have gone anyway). The only reason that Hikari wasn't going with them was because her partner was too tired and was resting after the battle that she had with Wisemon. All of them were dressed in their normal clothes, although their armor was available if they needed it.
Steve looked over at them from the transportation controls. "As soon as you find her, give her back her digivice and I'll get you guys back here."
Daisuke nodded, but then the door to the transporter room opened and Sora ran through it, with Piyomon flying behind her. Petit Meramon was in her arms, and he was awake. The small digimon was also worried.
"Takenouchi-san?" Iori asked in confusion.
"I'm going with you." Sora said. Chizuru blinked.
"What are you doing with Jun's digimon?" the elder off the Inoue sisters inquired.
"I'm bringing him with us." Sora answered. "He isn't going to recover if he's away from Jun."
"But he's exhausted!" Miyako shouted. "He could get seriously hurt if we bring him!"
"I'll be fine!" Petit Meramon exclaimed. "Besides, I need to see Jun."
V-mon looked at the small ball of fire. "He does look like he's fine." V-mon stated.
Miyako turned towards him. "Not you too!" the girl exclaimed.
"Let's just bring him with us." Labramon commented. "Besides, we're just going to go bring Jun back. Not only that, but the area that she went to is not controlled by the Digimon Kaiser."
"No." Daisuke said, shaking his head.
"I agree." Hawkmon said. "A baby digimon would be far too much of a risk, since we have no idea where Jun is."
"We need to get going." Daisuke said to Steve. "Even if Sora is right, a baby digimon is far too much of a risk, like Hawkmon said." Daisuke then turned towards Steve. "Send us down, but keep Petit Meramon here."
Steve shook his head. "If Sora wants to bring Petit Meramon along, you have to let her." Steve answered.
"Why is that?" Iori asked calmly, while Miyako started yelling at Steve. Daisuke just sighed.
"Sora has the most experience, is that the answer?" Daisuke asked. Steve nodded.
"Unless Taichi or Mimi came down here to tell her to keep Petit Meramon on board the ship, you're out of luck." Steve answered. Daisuke just sighed. V-mon groaned, feeling the same way as his partner did about what was happening.
"Just send us down already." Daisuke said. Steve entered the command on the keyboard, and the group of chosen vanished.
.o0o.
'It's so hot here.' Jun thought, wiping some sweat off of her head. 'Maybe I should have actually looked at the area that I decided to run off to. Then again, seeing as she was running away from her partner, where she was going didn't matter much.
After running in the forest of flames for a bit, Jun came across something that she didn't think that she would see in this area. After all, a water digimon certainly didn't belong in a forest made up entirely of fire.
The digimon that she saw happened to be a pink digimon with a large seashell on it's back. The digimon was injured, lying sideways, and a lot of its flesh looked blackened.
Jun ran over towards the digimon. She hadn't seen a digimon of this type before, but she knew from how it looked (and stories from the other chosen) that it was a Shellmon. "Are you alright?" the brunette asked, trying to figure out what the digimon's injuries were.
Shellmon's eyes looked at Jun. "Do….I…lo…ok…al..ri…" The digimon said weakly. Jun mentally slapped herself. Of course the digimon wasn't 'alright'. But still, she was having a hard time figuring out what had happened to the digimon. But then Jun noticed something. The Shellmon's wounds were burns. 'That explains the lack of blood.' Jun thought. But still, she had no way of knowing which digimon had attacked the Shellmon.
She was about to find out.
"Fire Cloud!" A voice said. Jun's eyes widened as a blast of fire struck Shellmon and burned it out of existence. Jun turned her eyes to see something that shocked her.
The digimon that killed the Shellmon looked very similar to Wizarmon, and he even had the same face as her partner. There were a few differences, namely that this digimon didn't wear a cape, his outfit was largely red with fire painted on it, and instead of a staff, this digimon had two matches, one with a red tip and the other with a blue tip. The match with a red tip was in his hand, and was pointed at the area where Shellmon had been. The match then quickly found its way pointed at Jun. This digimon was FlaWizarmon.
Jun screamed as fire began swirling around the tip of the match.
.o0o.
The group of chosen looked around the area that they had appeared in. Daisuke looked around. "Looks like Jun decided to take a trip to hell." Chizuru remarked bitterly.
V-mon wiped some sweat off of his forehead. "Couldn't you sister have chosen an area that was less hot to run to?"
"Let's stop complaining and look for Jun." Daisuke said.
Sora looked around. "We should probably spilt into two groups." She said. At Miyako's blank expression, Sora decided that she needed to explain. "If we spilt up, we increase our chances of finding Jun."
"Fine, but who's going to be part of which group?" Hawkmon asked, before Miyako got a chance to say anything. In fact, her mouth was left open for a second before she closed it. No one took notice.
"Daisuke and I will go north and see if we can find her." Sora said. "I think that our best bet would be to have the rest of you check the south of this area. Keep your D-Terminal's with you, and try checking in with us every ten minutes. After thirty minutes, if we haven't found her yet, contact Steve and see if he's managed to find her."
Miyako, Chizuru and Iori nodded. Sora turned to Daisuke, before she and Piyomon started walking away from the group. Daisuke looked over at the other. "Good luck." He said. Miyako nodded.
Daisuke and V-mon then turned around and followed after Sora and Piyomon.
.o0o.
Jun jumped to the side, the fire from FlaWizarmon's attack missing her and feeding one of the fires that the forest was made out of. The wizard digimon turned towards Jun.
"You and that Shellmon have been very foolish to wander into the Forest of Flame." FlaWizarmon said in a sinister voice, one that was laced with malicious glee. "Non fire digimon have a tendency to be, well, …immolated when they come across a Flame General." FlaWizarmon raised his open hand and small balls of blue fire gathered at his fingertips. "And when they come across me, no one cares about their screams." The blue fire then moved from FlaWizarmon's fingertips to the center of his palm. "Magic Ignition!" The fire suddenly shot out from the wizard's hand and headed straight towards Jun. The seventeen-year-old girl ducked on reflex, and the magic fireball only briefly singed the back of her shirt.
Jun once again wondered why she had randomly chosen the place where she wanted to run to. More fire came her way and Jun screamed.
.o0o.
Daisuke heard a scream and ran in the direction that he heard it. White light shot out from his digivice, and V-mon quickly evolved into XV-mon and took to the air, almost as quick as Daisuke was walking. Sora looked at Piyomon and nodded. Piyomon took to the air, and white light shot out of Sora's digivice.
"Piyomon evolve!" Piyomon shouted as her size greatly expanded and she was covered in flames. "Birdramon!" The adult level phoenix followed the frantic victory dragon.
Petit Meramon closed his eyes as Sora was forced to speed up to keep up with the others in her group. Not that Petit Meramon cared that they were going fast, as he just wanted to be reunited with his partner as soon as possibly.
"X Laser!" Daisuke heard as he came out into a clearing, a Wizarmon with a flame outfit pointing a match with flame at his sister (who had fallen on the ground and was inching away from said wizard) was clearly visible, before the X shaped beam of energy slammed into the wizard's back. Daisuke ran up to his startled sister.
"Are you okay sis?" Daisuke asked. Jun blinked and nodded. Sora followed out of the clearing. "Good." Daisuke said, before slapping his sister in the face once she stood up. Jun's eyes widened. Sora walked up to stop anything else from happening and Petit Meramon glared, anger rising at the fact that Daisuke had just hit his partner.
"Do you have any idea how worried you made me?" Daisuke shouted, causing Jun's eyes to widen. "What about Petit Meramon?" Daisuke shook his head. "Why did you run away? Didn't you say that you weren't going to let me face this alone?"
"Daisuke-kun is right Jun." Sora said. "You're needed with us."
"Fire Cloud!" FlaWizarmon shouted, pointing his match at a flying XV-mon. The burst of fire sent from the match missed the digimon completely.
"Meteor Wing!" Birdramon shouted, sending bursts of flame down at FlaWizarmon, who quickly jumped out of the way. The flames landed near the fires of the forest, causing them to increase in height.
"Stop attacking!" XV-mon shouted. "You can't do anything here!"
"Stop yelling at me and kill the guy!" Birdramon shouted back.
"Jun…" Sora began, taking a brief glance at the battle. "I know that you feel like we'd be better off without you, especially after that Dark Evolution, but that isn't true." Jun looked down at the younger girl's arms, and noticed that her digimon was there. Daisuke reached into his pocket and pulled out her digivice.
"Jun. We all need you, and we need your help." Daisuke began. "Look at the battle. Birdramon isn't doing that well, and FlaWizarmon isn't giving XV-mon a chance to fight."
XV-mon flew down towards FlaWizarmon, only to pull back up to avoid another burst of flame from the match.
Jun looked over at the battle, before grabbing the digivice out of her brother's hand. Light shot out of the digivice.
Petit Meramon jumped out of Sora's arms. "Petit Meramon evolve!" The small ball of fire suddenly evolved into his child form. "Bakumon!"
FlaWizarmon turned towards the new child digimon, and suppressed a chuckle. "Another imbecile to be wood for my flames." The fire wizard said maliciously.
Birdramon sent a burst of flame sailing into FlaWizarmon's chest. The wizard digimon staggered back. FlaWizarmon glared up at the flying phoenix in the sky. "I didn't mean you!"
Sora just looked at the wizard digimon in confusion. Jun looked over at her. "He's a little…overzealous in his racial hatred." Sora nodded.
Birdramon landed on the ground, her wings outstretched. "Too bad." She commented.
XV-mon landed on the ground behind the fire mage and thrust his arm forward at FlaWizarmon's back. FlaWizarmon quickly spun around and with a cry of "Fire Cloud!", sent out a fireball that collided with XV-mon's eye. The victory dragon howled in pain, as the fire burned the area around his eye.
"XV-mon!" Daisuke shouted, clutching his digivice, prepared to activate his armor and grab his sword at a moments notice.
Bakumon looked over towards FlaWizarmon. "Nightmare Syndrome!" The small dream digimon shouted, as a black burst of energy shot out from the elephants nose and slammed into the fire wizard. FlaWizarmon staggered back for a moment, before he clutched his head in pain.
"Make it stop!" FlaWizarmon shouted. "All the water! It sears!"
XV-mon looked at the wizard in confusion for a moment, before punching the wizard as hard as he could, knocking him into some flames, and far enough away from the group that it shouldn't matter if he lived or not. XV-mon and Birdramon then devolved into their child forms.
Daisuke ran up towards V-mon. "Are you alright?" Daisuke asked. V-mon looked up at his partner for a second, before raising his arm with a 'thumbs up' sign. Daisuke laughed, before turning towards the others. "Why don't we get out of here?" Daisuke said.
Sora and Piyomon nodded. The group then started walking off. Bakumon moved towards Jun.
"Are you alright?" he asked.
Jun shook her head in dismay. "Shouldn't I be asking you that question?" she asked.
Bakumon frowned. "I'm not the one who ran off and got nearly killed." The child digimon pointed out. Jun shook her head.
"I'm sorry, it's just that I ended up turning you into Wisemon. The way that you acted in that form, it just didn't make any sense. I got angry, and turned you into that monster, and for that, I can never forgive myself." Jun went and picked up her partner.
"You made a mistake." Bakumon pointed out. "It isn't like you're the first one to do that."
"Who actually turned their partner into an uncontrollable monster?" Jun asked sarcastically as she began following her brother and Sora.
"Taichi did." Bakumon stated. Jun blinked as she walked.
"How do you know that?" Jun asked.
Bakumon shrugged. "Tentomon told me." There was silence the rest of the trip, at least until they the other members of the team.
A large golden and white dog was standing over the body of a large humanoid insect. A horn went through his forehead, and the back of his neck was covered with pointy drill-like tuffs of fur. "Who's the cute bitch now?" The dog shouted.
Jun looked around, and noticed that Chizuru's partner was missing. The eldest of the Inoue children rubbed the back of her head in a nervous gesture. "Umm…meet Labramon's adult form. His name's Shiisamon."
.o0o.
Demon looked around the darkness. He was currently dressed in his red robes, which concealed his monstrous form from view. Not that it mattered, as he and the other Seven Demon Lords always communicated in shadow during their meetings.
Not that there were many of the Demon Lords left to have a meeting in the first place. As it was Belphemon, Demon, Lucemon, and Lilithmon were the only Demon Lords fully evolved and aware of their status. And Belphemon was still asleep and sealed by the Holy Beasts. The rest of them had been killed before the original group of chosen's corruption. 'It's ironic that a former Demon Lord now manipulates those fools.' Demon grinned at the thought of the original chosen's predicament, and of the shape-shifters current employment to Dagomon.
Those chosen didn't even realize that they were fighting for the first of the Demon Lords that they had lucked into killing.
Now that Demon thought about it, it was amazing that he had managed to survive.
"So what do you two think we should do?" Lucemon's heavenly (Demon still gagged at the fact that the leader of the Demon Lords had still failed to make his voice seem even remotely demonic) voice said.
"Vamdemon cannot be allowed to return to the Digital World." A female voice, that of Lilithmon replied. "With his current plans, he may evolve to a form that may become a threat to us."
"So what do you expect us to do?" Demon asked.
"It is obvious that we do not yet have the forces to fully interfere on our own." Lucemon said. "If we did so, we could lose, especially if the Holy Beasts think that we are a threat. We may need to support the Chosen Children in their fight, and the only person we can use for that role is you Demon."
"What do you mean?" Demon asked. "Out of the remaining of us, I am the weakest Demon Lord. I was the weakest even when we had all seven of us!"
"You are also the youngest." Lilithmon answered. "And as such, the Holy Beasts have less of a chance to notice what you are. You have very few followers. The rest of us would stick out."
Demon decided that he didn't like the plan at all.
End Chapter 15
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Author's Notes:
I'm warning every single reader now. FlaWizarmon is alive, and will have another small role later on. And the Demon Lords are not major characters in Amalgamation, which means that one of them is not going to be the final villain of this story.
And since I know that more than two people read the last chapter, I'm going to be like other author's on this site. Please review and leave some constructive criticism so that I can improve the quality of my work.