Renamon: Hello everyone. Usually Assistant would be in here getting you set up for the next chapter, but he is currently busy tending to Ronomon. Last time we meet I gave him a good wallop for spilling water on me. I now feel a little bad for hitting him so hard, but I will apologize later. Now for the technical junk, Renamon's Assistant does not own digimon or the two shows where he got the concepts of alchemy and elemental bending. Those two shows are Full Metal Alchemist and Avatar, The Last Air Bender.

(Assistant walks into the room)

Renamon: Hi

Assistant: I just came in here to tell everyone to enjoy this chapter. Now I got to get Ronomon so more ice. See ya latter Renamon.

Chapter 8

Ronomon, Renamon, and SatinRenamon, Three parts of one whole.

Ronomon, Rika/Renamon, and Yamachi could see her house now. They were only a few blocks away when Ronomon suddenly stopped. Rika, who was in control of the body right now, quickly stopped as well and asked, "What is the matter now."

Ronomon let Yamachi get down from his arms and he said, "I sense another digimon fusion near by, but this one has a strange feel to it. Rika, would you please stay here and guard Yamachi, I am going to scout around your house, make sure are access to the rouge alchemy circle isn't blocked."

Rika walk back toward the two and said, "Just be careful you, if you get hurt me and Renamon will be stuck like this, and I don't think your sister would appreciate it much either."

"Don't worry," Ronomon replied as he walked to the edge of the building, "My stealth skills are much better then my sisters, and she could hide from anyone. Now, what does that say about my skills?" After turning and giving Rika and Yamachi a confident smile and jumped into the air, disappearing into the shadow cast by a nearby billboard. After a moment of silence Rika turned to Yamachi who was just sitting there looking into the setting sun. There trek across town had taken most of the day. The sun set was unusually beautiful today as Yamachi stared into it, deep in thought.

Rika waited several minutes when she finally walked over to Yamachi and said, "How are you doing, do you want to talk about something?"

Yamachi stood there another few moments and said, "I just thought the whole digimon taming thing was for the youth, but here I am, holding a D-Power and working with my own digimon partner, it is all just so much to take in."

"Yeah, I remember when I first meet Renamon. It was hard to believe at first, but now look at use. Look at what I am willing to do if it means she can be with me here in the real world. I have made my body hers, just has she has done on several notable occasions when we become Sakuyamon."

"But what does it mean to be a tamer? I just don't know how I can be of any help to him."

"What do you mean? You already have been a huge help to him. He wouldn't have been able to defeat LadyDevimon with out your help, and with these two cards you can be even more help." Rika then pulled out of her card holster two cards, and handed them to Yamachi. Yamachi first looked down at the cards then up at Rika. She had just given him a standard digivolution card and a blue card.

Yamachi waited for several minutes and said, "But, don't you and Renamon need them."

"Don't worry about it," Rika as she turned to look at the sunset as well, "I have like ten of the standard digivolution cards and the blue cards appear when ever we need them, so just promise to return them later, and we will call our score evened. Even with that in mind, I really don't think I am in any sort of position to use them."

"Since when do I have any line of credit with you?"

Rika turned to look at him, and said with a smile, "You gained a line of credit with me when you decided to do something you have always had trouble doing, even after the D-Reaper incident. You trusted a digimon that you no reason to trust, and then you helped him to bring our digimon back, not knowing that if his intentions were to help or to harm. That proved you have changed quite a bit since the D-Reaper incident." The two looked at each other for a while, reaching a sort of understanding. Just then the sun had finished setting and the lights from the building, street lights, and ect. were lighting the night. That is when Ronomon returned with a look of worry on his face. He walked up to the two and said, "The alchemy circle is still where I placed it, but the alchemy circle has been given a bodyguard, are you familiar with Myotismon?"

"We can handle it, all it would take is a surprise attack. A quick and quite Gem Stone Maelstrom when he isn't looking." Rika said with a bit of confidence in her voice.

"Don't be so confident, the Gem Stone Maelstrom won't work on him." Ronomon said as he turned to look at Rika's house where the alchemy circle could now be seen glowing in the yard.

"Why not, it's worked before?" Yamachi said in a tone of disbelief.

"It won't work because it isn't a human/digimon infusion, but a digimon/animal infusion, and it isn't just one animal, but about 3 dozen bats. The Gem Stone Maelstrom and the Ying Yang Beam are designed only to separate a digimon from one host, not a group of hosts. I think we will have to destroy him the old fashion way, because he is not going to let us get near the alchemy circle."

"Well then," Rika said as she pressed the blue button on her D-Switch. Renamon finished the sentence by saying, "Let's go down there and drive a stake through that vampire's heart."

Ronomon nodded his head and then turned to Yamachi and asked,. "You feel like lending me a hand with this, I know I have been asking for your help a lot in the past few weeks, but are you still willing to help."

"Personally," Yamachi said as he walked up to the blue fox, "I believe it is my job as your tamer to help you, and I always do my job." With that the Ronomon grabbed him up in his arms and he and Renamon jumped down to the street level. Yamachi got down from Ronomon's arms and the three walked up toward Rika's house when they heard a strange voice in the distance yelling, "You weren't thinking about doing this without us." The group turned to see Takato and Henry running down the street behind them, looking like the trench coat mafia with their lame excuse for disguises."

Once the two caught up with the trio Henry asked, "So, why aren't you guys in disguises."

Ronomon turned to them and said, "Well we didn't really have any time to put something together, I assume you also have recently met up with a bioemerged digimon that infuses themselves into the bodies of innocent bystanders."

"What are you taking about?" Takato said scratching his head with his claw.

"Yeah," Henry added, "The only reason we're here is we saw you, Rika, and Yamachi running across the roof tops. The fact we could see you and you weren't trying to hide yourself from the public made us think something was up, looks like we thought right."

Ronomon then spent a few minutes filling the boys in all that had happened. They didn't seem all that surprised when he told them about the alchemy circle. That part of the story seemed like business as usual. They really freaked out when they heard that Yamachi had become a tamer and Ronomon was his partner. Takato said after the shock had worn off, "I thought only kids were capable of being digimon tamers."

"Apparently," Henry said, "The digimon have ages as well. Renamon can I ask you a question? How old are you?"

Renamon responded, since she was in control of Rika's body through all this, "I am the same age as Rika."

"My next question is how old you are Yamachi." Henry continued.

"I am into my mid thirties." Yamachi replied

"and I assume you are the same Ronomon." Henry said. All Ronomon did was nod in response.

Henry continued in saying, "I think the reason a kid can become tamers easier then an adult is the fact that in the digital world it is very hard for any one digimon to survive for very many years. I assume that most digimon in the digital world around Renamon's age, but my question is how did Ronomon get to be so much older then Renamon if their brother and sister. I also have been wondering how they could be brother and sister at all. I didn't think digimon had families."

"If I may," Ronomon said, interrupting Henry, "For most digimon, you are right Henry. Most digimon are related to no one, but Renamon and I are the first and only to be considered brother and sister. The way we became brother and sister is we came from the same entity. There was once a digimon called Shamon, a very powerful immunity and spell casting type. He was a master of alchemy and elemental bending. He was helping the sovereign battle a very powerful evil, and they did defeat it. The victory didn't come without a cost though. Shamon had given almost all his power to the sovereign so they could launch one final attack and defeat the great evil. He was about to break into data when the sovereign gave him a choice. They could just end his misery, or they could break his data into three pieces. Each part becoming a separate digimon, the trio of digimon considered family, the first actual digimon to have any sort of genetic relationship. Shamon thought it would be better for the digital world if he let the sovereign break his data in three. Thus the sovereign broke Shamon into three separate entities. The first entity was gifted with Shamon's amazing ability to perform alchemy and elemental bending and the lighter half of Shamon's personality. If you couldn't guess that first entity formed into me.

Ronomon continued saying, "The second entity was gifted with Shamon's less friendly personality, his amazing fighting skill, and unparalleled grace. That entity would eventually become Renamon. Something was odd though, for some reason Renamon's data would not come together to form an entity, while my data took form in a few hours. I kept track of her data for years, until the day Rika was born. On that day I was looking at the box Renamon's data was in when it began to shake. At the moment Rika was born Renamon was finally able to bring her data into a form. We traveled together for a several years, but then we got separated about a year before Rika and Renamon first became tamer and partner. We hadn't seen each other since then, that was until about a week before this whole fiasco started."

Ronomon was then turning from their spot on the corner, ready to go fight Myotismon, when he felt a strong hand on his shoulder. He turned to see Yamachi looking directly at Ronomon with a cold stare. He stood there a moment and said, "You said Shamon was broken into three entities. I know your hiding something from us, something you probably have never even told Renamon. I think we deserve to know, because I have a feeling it has something to do with this whole thing." Ronomon started too sweat. He had really slipped up and now the damage was done.

Ronomon watched as Yamachi took his hand off his shoulder. Ronomon sighed and with closed eyes began saying, "I never even told Renamon about this. I usually modified the story when telling anyone. I would tell it so Shamon was broken into two parts, not three. I guess I can't hide it any more though. The third entity formed just as quickly as I did. The sovereign were quickly on the attack again. They were attacking the newly formed third entity. Its name was SatinRenamon. She could be considered the twin sister of Renamon, but anywhere you see yellow on Renamon, replace it with black for SatinRenamon. She then shares one of my traits in the fact she wields a sword, a sword with a blade of pure obsidian, a black rock that when properly forged is a blade that is stronger then steel.

The blade is also a symbol of the state of her heart. SatinRenamon was given all the dark feelings that clouded Shamon's heart. That was actually the source of Shamon's power. His body acted like a balancing core, all of his attacks came from his ability to balance the 8 elemental forces into the powerful force of the universe, consider it the opposite of the chaos that made up the D-Reaper. The chaos the D-Reaper also contained the 8 elemental forces, but in unbalanced amounts, but when the 8 are in perfect balance one doesn't create chaos, but cosmos. There was a flaw in his technique though. In the balance of the 8 elements, light, shadow, fire, ice, water, lightning, air and earth 7 of the 8 work well together, but one works against the entire group. That is the danger of trying to summon and control Cosmos. It had a higher concentration of shadow energy then of the other 7. Shamon knew he couldn't always count on the area around him to have significant amounts of shadow element. To remedy this he kept an extremely large store of shadow element within his body. When he was split into three, Renamon and I both got a small bit of shadow element in us. My bit allows me to bend the elemental force of shadow as I bend the other 7 elements. Renamon's bit allows her to do her shadow shift. You know when she can suddenly appear and disappear from a room. Unfortunately the shadow force that Renamon and I received was only equal to 5 of the total amount of shadow Shamon kept in his body. Some of it did escape into the air, but most of what was left went into SatinRenamon's body."

Ronomon then stopped and walked up to Renamon, and began looking beep into her eyes. He then continued saying, "That was too much shadow for any one digimon to control. It quickly twisted he heart and made her a viral type digimon. If me and Renamon were considered any form of light, SatinRenamon would be considered pure shadow. She had fighting skills that are near my dear sisters just as she has mystical powers that could give me a run for my money. That is only the start though. As soon as my data took form SatinRenamon attacked me. If the sovereign digimon weren't there I probably wouldn't be standing here today. They knew our sister was to evil to let run free, but they also knew that if they destroyed her all that shadow energy that was kept in her body would be released, and the balance of the digital world would be seriously threatened. So they did the best they could. They locked her away, but I fear she has escaped and she is the one operating my alchemy circle so that it brings all these digimon to the real world.' The whole group looked as Ronomon began crying as he put he hand on Rika/Renamon's shoulder. Renamon, being in control through all of this, just lifted her hand and wiped away Ronomon's tear. Ronomon smiled slightly and said, "Sister, do you remember the day we got separated."

"Yeah," Renamon replied after a moment, "We were just minding our own business when a Greymon attacked us for no apparent reason. We just blew it off the fact the attack was unprovoked and began fighting the digimon. You had recently master control over the elemental force of fire and it was proving helpful in our fight. Every time that blow hard attacked you would just send his fire based attacks right back him or off in a harmless direction. We were very close to defeating him when he suddenly digivolved into a SkullGreymon. It all went down hill from there. He quickly lunged out at you and side swiped you with his right arm. The force of the blow threw you into a near by rock wall, knocking you out. That left me to fight him on my own. I quickly jumped into action and released my diamond storm at him. SkullGreymon just laughed in his low voice and took hold of me in his boney claw. I though I was dead right there, but I was then enclosed in darkness. When the darkness cleared I realized that you had used your, at the time, limited elemental control over shadow to trade places with me. I then watched as SkullGreymon tightened his grip and you broke into data. After that, all I could do was run, and make sure your sacrifice wasn't in vain. I wandered the digital world fighting anyone I could trying to get stronger so I could find that SkullGreymon again and destroy him, but then I meet up with Rika and my anger faded away. I never forgot about you though. I could always see your kind smile in the full moon. I just recently learned that you had pulled a trick and made it only appear that you were destoryed. All you really did was use a strange form of shadow step and moved yourself a good mile away from the battle." As Renamon said the last part she had balled her hand into a fist and had given Ronomon a slight knock to the head. It wasn't meant to hurt. Just one of those things you feel like doing to your siblings once in a while. Ronomon smiled at this and put his hand on Renamon's shoulder again.

Ronomon then said, "I have to tell you. Through out that whole fight I felt SatinRenamon's presence. I believe she was the one that helped that made Greymon attack us and help to digivolve to SkullGreymon. I think she seeks to destroy us and download our data. She must believe that doing that would allow her to gain the full power of Shamon. I was so afraid you hadn't escaped that SkullGreymon's clutches, but all that is in the past now. Right now we have two problems that require our attention. One is Myotismon and the other SatinRenamon." Renamon then nodded to her brother and the whole group finally got around to going into Rika's house, each member holding a new respect for Renamon and Ronomon.

Renamon: Well I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I've read the story up to here and must say it isn't bad.

(Ronomon walks into the room with a bag of ice on his head)

Renamon: Hi, how you feeling.

Ronomon: How do you think?

Renamon: Yeah, sorry about that.

Ronomon: Feh